Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #340 - Millions To be EVICTED In Two Days, Biden Inflation Crisis Gets WORSE w/Jack Posobiec

Episode Date: July 29, 2021

Tim and Lydia host friend, journalist, and commentator Jack Posobiec to break down the looming crisis of the eviction moratorium expiring, Google's authoritarian measures and tracking, the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants being released into the US, the loss of standing in the Olympics, and the response to holding an opinion on Simone Biles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In just about two days, the moratorium on evictions will be over. And every single landlord in this country who has tenants who aren't paying is going to be filing for eviction and suing for back rent because now they can. See, a lot of people don't seem to understand how the economy works. They have this thing in their mind where they think, or this perspective, every landlord must own a million buildings, Every movie must be a Hollywood blockbuster. Every musician must be a celebrity rock star, not realizing that the overwhelming majority of this country is small businesses, artists who don't make that much money, musicians who don't make that much money, small shops that do baked goods or hardware stores, and landlords

who own maybe one or two buildings. maybe a landlord owns a three flat. They live on the top and they rent out the next two. Well, for the past year, people have been able to live for free. Some stories are kind of horrifying that even though people were getting unemployment checks, this beautiful COVID unemployment benefit equivalent to about $15, $16 an hour, they were like, why pay if I don't have to? And now what? They'll get evicted, but they'll keep all that money, right? There are a lot of people who probably couldn't pay

their rent. And so they weren't able to. Well, now there is going to be like a switch being flicked. If nothing changes right now and the moratorium expires, we are going to see all of the eviction notices go out on the first, very likely. And then by the end of the month, you are going to see millions of people homeless unless the government intervenes, which they might because Bill de Blasio was talking about buying up these buildings. Now that the property value collapsed, add to this Bidenflation. Joe Biden's inflation crisis. That's right. Real hourly wages have decreased by 1.7% due to Biden's inflation. So I don't want to be overly pessimistic, man, but I guess to everybody who voted for Donald Trump and said, do not vote for Biden, he'll tank the economy.

He'll take away American energy independence. Gas prices will skyrocket. Y'all can say I told you so like 57 times. So we'll talk about all that. We're hanging out with Jack Posobiec. What's going on, man? What's going on, Tim? How are you? Bad. The AC'll talk about all that. We're hanging out with Jack Posobiec. What's going on, man? What's going on, Tim? How are you? Bad.

The AC broke. The AC broke. But we've got some temporary units up. It's pretty good. This chair, though, is a little, I don't know. Do you guys get new chairs? Yeah, a little bit. Well, you know, there used to be these really,

these chairs used to have these really bad supports on them, and we took them off. Now there's no supports on them. There's nothing. Yeah, I usually lean forward anyway, but, you know, people, I guess, will will lean back and they'll be like, oof. Yeah, I like to lean back. I like to lean back a little bit.

Yeah, you need something. So you had some kind of support for this. I'm doing bad because the AC broke. You're doing bad because you got no lumbar support. So it's a grumpy show. It's a grumpy show today. It's a grumpy show. Man, it doesn't need to be.

But we're doing the new build for the new studio. And my assumption about what's happening. Is that what that is downstairs? The heat? No, no. That one, like the room with the tools and the various implements of destruction. And so because they're redoing the ceiling, we're hanging the table from the roof and a bunch of other things that are going on down there. It's basically the drywall's been taken down.

It's exposed a bit. I'm assuming that the AC is just pouring outside. It's just going straight outside. It's useless now because that room is exposed, which wasn't supposed to happen. It was supposed to be closed off, but I guess they didn't close it off. So now the entire second floor of this house

was like 84 degrees, which means this room, which is the third floor of the house, it was 95 in here. Is that how bad it was when it came in? It was 95. Wow. Because we were in Phoenix earlier this week for the Trump speech with Turning Point.

And we thought it was going to be really bad, but then it ended up actually being monsoon season, I guess, when we went out. And it was rainy and cloudy, and it was like, this is perfect. It was actually kind of cold for people. There's no humidity, right? Well, yeah. I mean, it's a desert. So for us, I was like, this is nice.

No, out here, I mean, it's a tall building as it is, and plus it was 95 outside. So naturally, the higher parts of the house are going to get super hot. I came upstairs, and I was like, man, it's 78 degrees downstairs. We have a geothermal system, so it's usually super cool. But it's all just spraying outside, I guess i guess yeah as you come up through the house it's like there's a thermal layer that you cross and then you go above that and then reminds me of how in like uh in like submarine warfare they talk about like the thermal barrack layer a lot oh yeah and then uh when we move the studio down it's going down one floor and then over to the side so one

of the reasons for was it's really hard to keep the then over to the side so one of the reasons for it was it's really hard to keep the studio cold you can probably hear the ac going people who are listening so we're like we should move this down because into a shadier bigger room because this made no sense i don't know i ain't making this drive without an ac i need this is in my rider this was in my rider specifically we did we did we did get you only the brown m&ms though we took out all the other ones the bowls right there. Look, look. I'm saying is they taste differently.

Y'all say that different M&M's all taste the same. No, you're wrong. I'm here to tell you you're completely wrong. Do you know what that story was about? This, like, trope of the musicians who were like, I want M&M's. Was it Winged World 2? Is that what the joke was? Yeah, like the joke is.

But it's actually really brilliant. It actually started because I can't remember which band it was maybe bon jovi or something they had this big contract about doing shows and i guess what happened maybe it wasn't bon jovi but this band was playing and there was like a stage collapse or something so they put in the because it was done wrong he said here's our contract here's what were our requirements here's the weight capacity and they didn't do it right and there was like a collapse and so they would put in the middle of the contract in a random spot. There must be a bowl of M&Ms with all of like, you know, the brown M&Ms removed.

And it must be sitting in our dressing room. And the idea was to see if they'd read the whole contract. Exactly. If they overlooked this and they didn't take care of the stupidest thing, we don't know what they didn't take care of. And we're not going to risk injury. That's actually pretty smart. It's very smart. Yeah, it's a cool story anyway.

But let's talk about some craziness. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian is sick today. So filling in for Ian is no one. That's right. Ian's gone. Go to Team Cast. Just give me a pair of glasses and the orb, and I'll play Ian's part. Graffling.

Graffling. Graffling. Graffling. Graffling. We should create a scene that's just an inverted. You sitting in the same spot, but we'll invert invert the image and then you can put glasses on and it'll be like what say you Ian and then press the button and then it just flips and you're like wow

and piracy isn't theft once we convert the economy to be a graphene production graphene based economy based economy then we can create the graphene based life forms I think Ian has called for a graphene based economy economy. Based economy. Then we can create the graphene-based life forms. I think Ian has called for a graphene-based economy, to be completely honest.

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Millions in the US face eviction as moratorium nears end. They say Levita Harvey is well aware of the federal moratorium on evictions ending Saturday. The Las Vegas mother of two teenagers lost both of her jobs during the COVID pandemic and has been unable to pay her $900 per month rent. I'm terrified. Job offers are coming in, but they're coming in very slowly. It's the hardest thing to see in the world when you know that you're a single mother and you have no one to turn to. You'll be homeless. Harvey has been approved for more than $9,000 in federal rent help through a local program, but the money hasn't come through yet. More than 8,000 other renters in Nevada's Clark County are still waiting for approval.

You know, I'm sure there's a lot of people who lost their jobs during covid don't have any savings and won't be able to pay rent but i'm also wondering why these people weren't getting unemployment and with the if the with the massive job openings and the major labor shortage i'm not sure i believe all of these people were like oh i'm going to going to be evicted. Couldn't pay. You just said that was Clark County, Nevada, right? Yes. Right. So I was actually in Clark County, Nevada for I went to the UFC fight. I went to the Rogan Chappelle show, the comedy show, and, you know, just walking around the different hotels and everything.

There's a massive worker shortage out there right now. They could not find people for these jobs. So funny enough is you remember there was that whole controversy about like, oh, when Trump walked in, was everybody chanting USA, USA, or were they booing? Which was it, et cetera. So everybody was asking me, which was it? I said, well, you know, funny enough, I was actually outside of the arena when that happened because my brother and I were waiting in line to get some food from the concessions but each one of the concessions because there's so few workers only had like two people working per stand meanwhile the entire place is completely sold out 26,000 30,000 people so just imagine how long that is for you're waiting like 30 40 minutes for so you know I've got the order for like we have eight of us out. It was Will Chamberlain's thing. And we went and we actually hear, as we're waiting in line, we hear the USA, USA.

And we're like, oh, what's that? And my brother goes, I think that's for Trump. And I was like, no, I don't know. I was like, no, man, it wouldn't be that loud for Trump. It would be something else. And then we go in and, you know, we see the red tie. Oh, yeah, it is trump yeah um but you know going back it was the issue was that they could not find people to work those jobs the snack stands selling drinks etc etc and so you

have lines and lines of people and then we started talking to the uber drivers and we were talking to just other people in the hotels and they said look we we would love for people to come work with us we're offering more money. We're offering more benefits. Even some hotels are doing signing bonuses, right? Signing bonuses for just working the floor out there because that's how bad they're hard up for workers right now. So when some people are saying, oh, there's only so many job offers out there, I'm like, what's your aperture for those kind of jobs?

You drive a few miles from here and you'll see a Wendy's with a big old sign saying, open interviews. They have signs saying, like, $1,000 bonus. I'm not saying a single mother should go work at Wendy's. I'm saying there are a ton of jobs that are desperate, and the ones you can see outright are just all over the streets. Not only that, but we ordered pizza the other day. It was great.

Papa John, he actually autographed a pizza box for us. That's awesome. I don't think he was trying to autograph it. I think he was just testing the marker to see if it worked. He was like, let me see if this marker works. And he just signs it. And I'm like, we got to sign pizza box. I'm keeping it.

Wait, but was it a Papa John's pizza? Yes. Yes. But there's a thing on it that says we need drivers. It's like they stuck this to the box. Like, drivers are needed in your area. And he autographed over it. So now we have to leave it on.

But anyway, it's a great reminder that a lot of what we see in the immediate is what affects us. Fast food restaurants. We see that. We know they're hurting. Local diner. Okay, that's a little bit better, right? You've got waitstaff. They make better tips, right?

They're not making minimum wage or anything like that. They're doing a little bit better. They're also short-staffed. Then you move up and you start noticing that there's a total labor shortage across the board. There's no truckers. For a variety of reasons, there's been a bunch of stories about this. Some have said it's because it's viewed as like an old man job. But now we're learning that there's a labor shortage in agriculture.

You know what that means. Food. Food. That's right. And so people think like, oh, who... I hear it from these DSA young people who have no idea how the economy works. Like I said, they think... These people think

that movies means Hollywood. They don't realize that the movie industry is actually massive. There's movies you'll never hear of, you've never seen that make money for these businesses. You know, I have friends who do TV production and you'll never hear of anything they do because it's a local market so they do commercials they do short films and it's all local market stuff that you're never going to hear of unless you live in the area right they're not on imdb right and everything

else well there's shortages for all that so anyway i digress right we'll jump back to the labor shortage because we're i want to talk about this moratorium stuff. People aren't came out. And I know we haven't teed this up. We were just talking about it. What was the news that came out of the Fed today? Oh, they're going to keep the interest rates low? They are going to extend low interest rates. They're acting like nothing's happening. Right. Acting like nothing's happening. So understand, understand this and coming to it from an economic populist model, right?

This is all being done by design. They want those people to feel the pain. They want the landowners to feel the pain, the landlords, right? The small landlords. They want those landlords to sell. It's not so conspiratorial. And then the great reset. Because here's what's going to happen, right?

Who are they going to sell to? BlackRock. BlackRock, Black blackstone and where are they going to get the money from that boom the fed right so they're going to walk right in get the loans for it and they're going to say hey we're you know there's hey look at all of these properties that just came up because these small-time landlords because that's the thing most landlords in this country aren't it's it's like you said it's like one guy owns a building. Maybe he has two buildings, right, a couple. And then they're putting a few together. They can't handle an entire year of not collecting. Right. It's $9,000 for one person.

But what happens when that's every person, every tenant in your entire building, every unit isn't paying? What people need to realize, okay, you could be in your late 30s. You're a millennial. You finally saved up to buy a nice house and it's uh in an area it's not the best area but it's okay it's a couple hundred grand you put you know you saved up 10 grand you were able to pay a down payment plus closing costs you're getting in and then you have a tragic loss in the family you find out that you know your great uncle has passed and lo and behold he's's left you a house. It's a windfall, but you can't really do much with it, right?

This happens, and then you say, okay, well, how about I get a rental management company to take care of it or I rent it out? And by the way, before you go down that road, that is how generational wealth is generally passed on. Exactly. Traditionally in the United States, it's through real estate, right? Someone either has a family estate or there's one house and then that's passed on and that's the wealth that's built up that's then transferred to the next generation. This is why they define it that way. And that's exactly why I bring it up. So you end up through tragedy inheriting this home. Now you're a landlord.

Now the left says you're the problem. You're the bourgeois. They assume that you're a landlord now the left says you're the problem you're the bourgeois they assume that you're some fat cat wall street guy no it's somebody who was like earned generational wealth or received generational wealth what happens now you have somebody living in that property for a year who never paid rent but you got to pay taxes you got to pay insurance you got to fix the property i have a friend so you sell i have a friend you're gonna you're gonna sell to wall street you're still the highest You're going to sell to the highest bidder. Wall Street.

You're going to sell to the highest bidder. I have a friend who, maybe like 30 minutes from here, who was in this very same situation, but he had a guy who just refused to pay, just straight up refused to pay, and refused to even apply for any kind of government support for this thing and just said, I'm not leaving. I'm squatting in this property. What are you going to do? And my friend didn't even plan to tell the story. He spent almost 18 months. The guy's still there. He can't get rid of him. So this guy is just squatting in the property. And now he's still on the hook, my friend, because he's the owner. He's still on the hook for insurance. He's on the hook for utilities.

He's on the hook for taxes, everything else that you have to pay for on the hook, my friend, because he's the owner. He's still on the hook for insurance. He's on the hook for utilities. He's on the hook for taxes, everything else, right, that you have to pay for owning the house, including maintenance, right? He could still be sued for not maintaining the place by the guy who's essentially now a squatter on his property. And there's nothing he can do. The state won't get involved. The local police won't get involved. And the guy straight up is like, he won't even talk to him anymore at this point. The reason I want to highlight that side of this conflict or of this crisis is because people assume that all the landlords are ultra rich. And so pointing that out, it's not the case.

Yeah, my buddy's like not. I mean, look, he owns his properties right now. He has one property that he has that was his old house. And then he was able to get another place for his family and then make that a rent. Like, that was it. So I will say, however, these people still are doing a lot better than a lot of the people who are going to be evicted, which is the bigger portion of that crisis. So I can only – I don't think it's going to happen.

You don't think the evictions? I don't think the evictions. I don't think there's going to be massive evictions. Well – I think the government's going to come in. Well, hold on. And they're going to stop it. Why would the government come in? They are going to come in because they get they get to be the saviors now. No, no. But I mean, like, what will happen where the government will say, oh, we're going to have to come in and bail

people out? It'll be that moratorium. It'll be that point where they say we're too many people for from again, this is Joe Biden's party. This is AOC's party. They're going to say, what are we going to do? We can't have any jobs. You have to help us. You have to come in for us. They need the problem first, right? So here's what will happen. Right now.

So this story is like the start of the drumbeat. Right. But the government's not going to be able to come in and do a bailout or assert power unless there's a crisis. And the moratorium is currently in effect. They could right now come out and say we're extending the moratorium for another six months. You know, the unemployment payments are going till September 6th. They could do that. Maybe. I mean, we've got a couple of days. Maybe they'll say, you know, it was an emergency. We're going to extend the moratorium because the Delta variant, all that stuff. And then all of the,

you know, smaller business landlords will groan. Or they'll let it expire. 10 million or so, however many millions, eviction notices will go out. Notices go out. And then there's a major uproar in the press. People start freaking out saying, I have nowhere to go. I have no job. I have no money. The unemployment isn't enough.

I can't afford rent. The rent is skyrocketing because of inflation. What do I do? And the government says says we're going to bail everybody out the reason i wanted to highlight the landlords because i don't want to i don't want to i wanted to highlight the the poor working class people who are being evicted because they're probably a substantial portion but the reason i don't even want to say that either because i don't want to make it out like i'm against it they're being used as political pawns

in the system i mean they're just being screwed over. They're being put in this position on purpose by people who want more power and more control. But perhaps, I don't know that it's, I have any evidence to suggest there's a grand conspiracy other than conjecture and the Great Reset. And yeah, people stand to make a lot of money. But look, the regular working class people had their businesses destroyed, their jobs were stripped from them. And that is, first and foremost, I think the biggest problem,

the people being screwed over. And we're hearing that more lockdowns are coming. Right. But here's why I think it's important to highlight landlords. The reason why I wanted to explain that landlords are not all multi-millionaire fat cats with a bunch of buildings

is that when they're forced to sell because they can't deal with a bunch of tenants who don't pay and they got to pay all these things they can't afford and they sell to Wall Street firms who use Fed money to buy the stuff. And then when all of these firms, depending on how much they actually own, say to the government, all of these evictions, how are we going to do this? The government says, we will bail you out and the government will write the check to pay all the back rent back to these firms who bought these evictions. How are we going to do this? The government says, we will bail you out. And the government will write the check to pay all the back rent back to these firms who bought up the houses, who could afford to eat the costs. Right. So it's almost like you've got a reverse big short

in this sense, right? It's like a reverse big short. So instead of it being Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on the back end, now you've got Wall Street coming in on the front, scooping up all of this stuff, the low interest rates or how they're getting the money from the Fed directly. And so now you cut out the middleman completely. And it's just the government and Wall Street. And you're the one, by the way, you as the tenant, eventually you're going to be on the hook for that. Or the people who have their rents that go up and up and up, you're still going to be on the hook. By the way, it's just that your landlords are going to be the ones kicked out. You're going to be the ones stuck paying higher rents. Now, who knows what's going to happen as to the actual, if there's

mortgages for this property, how much of that's getting paid. You and the American taxpayer is the one that's ultimately on the hook for all of it. I told you how I got denied a mortgage for a house, right? Did I tell you that? I tweeted about it. I think I saw your tweet, but I didn't get the whole story. Yeah, I'll say it straight up. You know, I wasn't going to make it. Because you're not white, right?

Probably. Yes. But I would never, I don't know. But it was Navy Federal, and they sent false credit information. Oh, I love my Navy. Love my Navy. Yeah. They sent me false credit.

They sent a false credit letter that had wrong information. It accused me of having delinquent accounts, which is just absolutely false, fictitious. It said my credit rating was relatively low, which is just absurd. And they used that to justify denying me a loan. And I thought that was really, really weird because it wasn't just that. It was the three months where they kept changing the agents on us. It felt like they were trying to get me not to buy. And I was like, what is going on?

Just are we doing this or not? Right. Because they don't want to sell to individuals anymore. Yeah. So I'm not saying I can prove any intent. But man, it was just so weird. Take it back, right? If you're a large institution, whether you're a bank or a credit union, why would you want to sell to an individual? Why would you want to deal with all the potential problems of selling to an individual when you know that waiting in the wings are these massive Wall Street institutions with the backing of federal money?

Maybe, but... I'm just talking incentives. I'm just talking incentives. I think maybe, but I could very easily guarantee the loan was extremely low risk for them. It's just they, for some reason, jammed me up, made it impossible to do. And I bring it up because it felt like they were trying to stop me from buying property. At a time when we're hearing about all this news where these firms are buying up property we're facing this major eviction this is this major more this this eviction crisis and i think it's possible we see a bailout that allows the government to own houses and apartments when they buy that when they bail out these big companies 100 they're going to own how much of these companies and then we're going to be slowly moving towards government owned apartments and housing. So you know what, man,

you know, it's going to happen in 2030. You will own nothing and you will be happy. This is, this is Russian serfs. This is, by the way, this is, you know, Russian serfs in the past Chinese citizens today, by the way, are like this. This is the system in China. You can't buy property. You do not own property in China. The most most you can do i think is a 99 year lease right from the government owns all in fact the word uh communism in mandarin public property ism it's literally the word for communism is public property in china that it's completely defined by public property. Now, of course, we're not calling it public property. We're saying it's owned by a private firm that's backed by a federal money.

That's totally not the same thing as public property, not at all. I think Andreas – Completely different. He put on this documentary earlier. I don't know what it was, but I go downstairs around like – He puts on some weird documentary. Yeah, it was a weird one. I think it was German. It was DW.

And it was like a guy and he went to China and they were showing him the social credit score infrastructure right it was creepy like a camera watching

someone jaywalk and stuff like that oh with the with the facial recognition yes kind of like your thing pops up yeah

I mean we're only a couple steps away from that oh no no no we're there we are completely there so what happens I'm passively watching I was playing Lode Runner

on the arcade and then I'm listening to this. And the guy's like, wow, this social credit score is great. And they're like, that's right, because now these people are less inclined to commit crimes, and crime is going down. We like social credit score. Wait, wait, wait. Crime in China is extremely low, right? It literally is a police state.

So, yeah, if you want crime to be super low in your country, have a police state. Right, right. It's not really a thing the transition in the documentary was hilarious because then he goes to i went to talk with google who is increasingly incredibly private and you can you can't get any information out of them and they refuse to do an interview when we tried facebook and they're also private and locked down And he talks about how Google's devices, all these phones and everything, their microphones are always on. Yes.

Always. Because there's the wake-up phrase, right? You can say, you know, what's the phrase for Google? I don't know. I'm not going to say it because people's phones on the show will. Yeah, so you say that in the word, and then it turns on. But that means the microphone has to be on the whole time. That means the microphone is picking up ambient noise.

Now, it doesn't necessarily mean they're recording the words you say in the conversations you're having. But they mentioned that Google does track sounds like car horns and just other ambient effects where they can I'm talking about, where you can it can identify ambient noises for you. Well, like, let's say you have your headphones in and hey, there's a car horn, but you wouldn't know this will pop up on the screen. There's a car horn or pop up. I'm 100 percent. Or there's there's a train coming or there's a dog is barking. Right. It will tell you what that ambient noise is

as you're listening to your headphones. So as you're listening to TimCast IRL, it'll tell you what's going on around you. What I found fascinating about this was that they contrasted the Chinese police state and social credit system with the secrecy of Google and Facebook. And it's like... No contrast. Right. What's the difference?

We've outsourced censorship and authoritarianism to private corporations to do an end run. So this is what this is what I've been getting at in human events. And I started with a piece that I put out on the Fourth of July, funny enough, but actually purposely, I knew it'd be running on the Fourth of July, where they said, you know, write something about freedom. And I said, I'm going to write about how we're losing it and why we're losing it and what's happening. Right. And from my perspective, it's really quite simple. I call it the axis of the elites between the 1% of the U S and the CCP, which if you do the numbers, it's like 1% in China is the 90 million members of the party.

It's about 1%. It's like just under, right. It's actually a little bit less. It's like 0.7. And so the, if you go back to the 90s or even the 80s right they said well we'll let hong kong go back to communist china because hong kong is so capitalist and they believe in the free market and it's totally run by the banks right and it's all about free trade and this will infect the rest of china and will make china more liberalized well that didn't work and then then Tiananmen Square happens, right? And everything. And so they say, well, we just need to let China into... So think about it. What was the West's response to Tiananmen Square? Was it, we're going to isolate them, we're going to work against the regime, we're going to put sanctions? No.

Double down. It was, we're going to double down. We were told by the free traders, we need to let China into the system. We need to let them into the system we need to let them into the world trade organization so 1999 10 years after tiananmen square that happens antifa was completely against it at the time so all along we're told battle in seattle battle seattle right so all along we're told bring china in and they will become more democratic and they will have an open society they will stop being so closed and so authoritarian. The exact opposite, and this is my thesis,

the exact opposite happened. That we became more authoritarian as our elites became more familiarized and had more visibility into their system and how their system works. The Democratic Party is learning quite well from the Chinese Communist Party. So when I worked in the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and then I worked for an American consulting firm in Shanghai as well, we would have this we would have congressional delegations and government delegations. People would come in to Shanghai and there was this museum over there. It was called the Municipal Planning Museum.

It's kind of this innocuous name. But when all of these people would come in, these dignitaries and functionaries from the U.S. government would come in, and they'd take them to this municipal building and the museum, they'd talk about what their plans were. So high-speed rail was a big one. So the high-speed rail of Shanghai was one of the first that China ever got. It actually doesn't even go all the way downtown to Shanghai, but it goes from the airport. I got to ride it a couple times. But then you ask the question, what about all the people that live in the path of the high-speed rail? And they said, they're gone. They don't live there anymore, right? You know, they're out, you know. Or

what about all of these old, and Shanghai used to have these great, this old architectural style called the Shirkuman. And it was these stone apartments with like courtyard around a courtyard so it was like shared families would all live together and then they'd all share the courtyard and that was sort of like this big communal atmosphere where they lived okay all of those would just get wiped out um i don't think any of them are really preserved there's like one or two where they've been sort of updated into like nightclubs and bars but none of the actual actual cool architecture or historical features of Shanghai have been preserved at all because they've been wiped out. Do people own them?

Do people want to preserve them? Who cares? Get rid of it. And so as all of these dignitaries would come in and all these US officials, American officials, and there's Europeans all over the place as well, they would say, wow, your model is amazing. This is incredible. How do we bring this back home, right?

And they started to say, well, we have all these issues. We have to be careful because we don't have this public ownership like you do here, so we can't just lease things. But if we could somehow get people out of ownership of their property, and if we could just move things around so that we could become more powerful, not only in terms of the censorship and the authoritarianism online, that's like a sideshow compared to what they're doing in the ownership. If they can reduce the ownership class to just themselves and just really this gentry, then you don't have to worry about everyone else because

you can shuffle them around whenever you've got some big project and what happened throughout the entire last year with the lockdowns which they say may be coming back how many was like a hundred thousand businesses or something small businesses destroyed when we talk about people losing their jobs it doesn't just mean that jeff bezos gets to fly his uh interestingly shaped spaceship around overhead while laughing at all of us from down below and he and he even has the gall the absolute gall of this guy to say i just like to thank all of the amazon employees when you're not when you're when you've done taking your uh trash can break to use the bathroom uh or use your bottle to go to the bathroom no no no i'm not. I was like, not that direct. No, it was not direct.

He said, I'd like to thank all the employees and the customers of Amazon for paying for my joyride in space on my interestingly shaped spaceship. And I was like, man. Rubbing in your face. Right. Part of me is like, I want there to be a space program and I want it to be good, right?

And I think that is better. But at the same time um you look at the guy running it and you know shout out to the guys who ran the expanse right and that whole tv show and book series and even though i think the plot is kind of silly um the the setup that they have where they just kind of move the poor people into the asteroid belt have you have you seen it yeah yeah to do like the mining out there and it's really still all the rich people just kind of control everything from like the moon and mars i'm like you guys just nailed it like you just nailed it you know what it's going to be like what what i've been watching happen over the past few uh maybe 10 years there used to be direct

upward mobility almost like you could imagine upward mobility as a stair set not everybody would want to climb the top of the stairs it's like this used to be a huge republican talking point right right but you could if you worked hard I once, during the hurricane It was a sandy in New York I had to climb 35 flights of stairs Because there was a generator On the roof that needed to be shut down

Because the storm could cause a surge And they were really worried So we had to climb all the way up I'm like, if you work hard enough, you can succeed But now, it's not, what's happening over the past few years is upward mobility is becoming an inverted rock climbing wall. So most people, even of determination are like, I can't climb that thing. But some people who strive really, really hard and break themselves, they can get really good

at this and then make it up that inverted rock climbing wall what's happening is the path towards upward mobility is becoming a very very narrow bridge where very few will be able to cross it it'll still exist to a certain degree but when the left talks about you know the american dream being dead i'm like well it's the democrats that are destroying it what's left of it so business ownership is being destroyed home ownership is being destroyed the american dream was never that you'd get out get a loan100,000, go to college, and then get a high-paying job. The American dream was you could come from the gutter, work really hard, and then start your own corner store and have a living and be independent. You used to be able to, if you go back just to the 1980s, you used to be able to buy a home with three years of the median wage, of the median salary. Three years median salary right three years

median salary and you've you've purchased your your you know it's a starter home not like you know nothing palatial but nothing opulent but you've you've got a place where you can live and you're surviving this is why you're starting to hear more populists take up this message of we shouldn't uh jd vanscott you know he's got a lot of hate for saying this but he said you should be able to support a family on a single income. Right. And they said, well, they say, he said, oh, that's sexist. He's like, I didn't say anything about whose income. I didn't even say which part of the family or anything. I just said, you should be able to do that because in within living memory, we used to be able to do that in the United States. And I think this is why, you know, there's always that

sort of like boomer millennial debate that goes on about, oh, you guys had it so hard, but you guys screwed up, et cetera, et cetera. And I think there actually is, though, such a generational difference between the baby boomer generation and then the economy as millennials were getting into the workforce in 2007, 2008, because everything had changed where it was actually like they were speaking different languages completely across the other. Well, just go in there and hand them your resume and give the manager a firm handshake and tell them you want a job. It's like that, that, you know, and then he'll give you a job for the rest of your life. It doesn't it doesn't exist anymore. I think it does. I do. But the boomers raised the millennials and they raised a generation of entitled entitled people so uh look i got a job

at a non-profit that required a college degree i didn't have a college degree i'm high school dropout but i went in with firm handshake and i talked my way into the job because i had the skill the talent the ability and the drive what do i see with with millennials they spent 22 22 years in institutionalized learning facilities. They've never had a real job. They come out and then they're like, tell me what to do. I don't know. Don't get me wrong. I am not

necessarily saying I'm a millennial apologist, but I'm also trying to make myself an impartial observer of the whole thing. Certainly, baby boomers have played their part. And millennials clearly are the most neurotic, absolutely neurotic, self-centered generation we've seen in a very, very long time. But I do think the economics of the time played a huge role in that.

Definitely. I think if you look at – there's an interesting phenomenon where they show boomers still hold a disproportionate amount of wealth even as they age out of time. Yeah, yeah. I've seen that. And millennials have almost none. Right. I also think that's – And so by like 2040 or so, that's when we think that a lot of that wealth is going to be transferring down. But at that point –

Will it? Well, right. And that's – I mean you look at things like – I think by that point it'll be seized by the government. It'll probably go or or it'll be reverse mortgaged out because you'll have people saying, well, I want the money now. Why should I? It's my it's my money. I put in this. I put the equity in this house. Why couldn't I have it now? Why should I leave this for my kids? What did they do to earn this thing? I mean, you look at how we've broken down the traditional roles of, you know, how a family gains its generational wealth about how we support the next generation how we support previous generations by the way right we don't you know we don't live with our grandparents anymore we don't have them in the home right

we shuttle them off somewhere and even the grandparents they'll say uh there was who is it there's somebody on twitter who was saying this uh you know recently and they kind of got hit on i forget if it was new york times or what i'm going to screw it up but it was like um why should we spend time helping out our kids with you know with our grandkids why we could be doing arts and crafts and pursuing other things and this is actually better for us in our in our age and you know why should we be teaching the further generations our wisdom and our health. It's like we want to go out to the next, we can't go see ZZ Top because we're just

lost. You know, I look at what's going on in China and I have to wonder if anything being said by the American elites is true. They're like, oh, climate change. Oh, geez. Hey, how's that beachfront property just bought Obama? Pretty good. Am I supposed to believe this guy cares about rising water levels when he buys beachfront property? Am I supposed to believe these people when they're buying investment property in Miami Beach?

They're telling me all these things are going to happen. You make it really hard to believe when you don't lead by example. much about BLM and all of the social justice issues while their companies are in Africa using child labor to go into the cobalt mines and build everything out for our electric cars, for our cell phones and everything else, which, by the way, now is being done predominantly by China and Chinese firms. But Jack, why? Why are you complaining? They're helping you.

You're an American. You know, you know what? You know what's happening let me pull up this story and i'll break down for you that's right we can't do the entire thing in sarcasm no no no but this is this is legit right no no we have to like bring it down at some point we got the story from timcast.com 50 000 migrants released into the u.s by border patrol just 13 show up to an ice office a new report from axios is shedding more light on the chaos quickly unfolding at the u.s mexico border 180 plus k 188 000 a million so far maybe a million

point two so far this year of illegal immigrants coming into the country now think that we've tracked that we've tracked but think about this will those people be able to get special covid unemployment benefits are they getting the benefits are they getting vaccinated are we i mean you go through the entire list of all the things are they going to be able to apply for free money from the government they're not they're not the ones that especially the ones that are being tracked they're not going to get coveted unemployment benefits right so they're going to have to work or do something for money right now there's a major labor shortage so it seems like biden sweating bullets because he's not a deal with the labor shortage, decides to just import a bunch of people to take those jobs. But what ends up happening?

Not the first time that Clark County, Nevada has hired. But take a look at what the result is going to be. I have long said this. Many conservatives have mentioned this as well, that the Democrats are creating a surf class, that they bring in illegal immigrants who are forced to live in the shadows and get paid under the table. And then Americans don't have to do the jobs that nobody wants. You know, they say that all the time. But these illegal immigrants, they do the job nobody wants. And I hear people say, but I wanted my job.

Well, what's happening now? Americans lose their jobs, but the government gives them free money. Now you've got tons of americans who don't have to work and don't want to work then you get tons of illegal immigrants it's either work or sink or swim so they're creating the surf class who's going to have to fill these roles and do the hard work that nobody wants to do so so say the democrats which by the way this also exists in china um it's just that it's in a way that a lot of people don't understand. Because it's with North Koreans.

Not just that. North Koreans and people and provincials. So there is a system in China called the Hukou system. And what this is, they got it from the Soviet Union. It was a Stalinist idea. It's an internal passport system. So you know how you have a state driver's license here in the U.S.? So imagine if you've got a Virginia driver's license.

Well, that unless you had a specific stamp, you couldn't get a job in New York City. You couldn't live there. You couldn't work there because you don't have because you're Virginia. Right. So if you're if you're tagged for Virginia, you can't go to New York. You can't go to Chicago, et cetera, unless you get special permission. And now could you just go and get a job and live in the shadows? Yeah, sure.

But then you're going to be out of the system. And so when I was in Shanghai, this would happen all the time. The population of Shanghai, there are so many, they call them internal migrants, right? Think of that, right? Internal migrants.

And they live in this sort of ring on the outskirts of Shanghai for the most part because the housing situation just isn't really that, there's not much oversight of it out there it's not very well regulated and so what they do is they come into the city they work they do the construction jobs and they go back at the end so if you actually measure the population of Shanghai it differs by over a million people whether you do it during a day or at night and that's true for a lot of cities in the United States not to that degree, like to a million.

But it is substantial. But they wouldn't be considered illegal workers that are out of the system. Do you know what cities like San Francisco and New York do? It costs five bucks or more to come in when you cross the tunnel of the bridge. But leaving is free. Right, exactly. So what happens in San Francisco? We used to say that in Philadelphia because we didn't want the people from New Jersey

coming in. Yeah, you charge them to come in. Yeah, because you had to charge them to come in. Free to leave. Yeah, we're building a surf class. It's obvious. It's predictable. And that's the joke I make when I'm like, oh, but we're Americans.

We're great, right? There is a great microcosm of this that everyone in the country can go look at. And everyone can see the difference between the statements and what's actually happening on the ground. And that city is called Washington, D.C. Right. And when I'm talking about D.C. in this sense, don't look at D.C. from the take the federal government out of it. Right. Just look at Mayor Bowser and the policies of the gentrification

of Washington, D.C., who's being kicked out, the families that are being sent out, the businesses that are coming in, the landlords that are coming in, the massive companies that are coming in, right? There are families that have lived in D.C. for 40 years, 50 years. They are all being kicked out to PG County, Maryland. all everyone who's coming in are these like millennials and dc hill staffers and lobbyists and all that money that's coming in and bowser knows this by the way she absolutely knows exactly what she's doing she knows exactly who she's catered to and she will paint black lives matter up and down the street in front of the white house when trump is in there.

But when he's gone, what happens? It gets paved over and she goes and she's kicking families out of the city by policy. And when Cuba Libre was painted in front of the, I believe it was the Cuban embassy building, they came and got rid of that immediately. Right. Yeah. The messaging is only there when, you know, you're anti-Trump, right? You know what I love about these Capitol hearings is that they're literally crying. Like Kinzinger cried. That dude is a sociopath. Because those tears are not real. That dude was faking it, I will tell you that, in my opinion.

Why? We had 60 Secret Service agents injured at the insurrection at the White House last year. What was it, a guard tower, Secret service tower was set on fire? On fire. St. John's Church? Set on fire? Is that what it's called? St. John's?

St. John's, yeah. Insurrection. They were trying to breach the White House. 60 secret service agents injured. Remember, they laughed. 150 police. They laughed at Trump for being evacuated. That's right.

To the presidential bunker. Because of their insurrection. And it was like a joke. The president was evacuated and the media left and mocked Trump and they called him bunker boy and they posted photos. And now Kinzinger's crying? Spare me. You know, imagine if that were Biden and Harris sent to the bunker, then I mean, these J6

hearings would be what they're trying to do. And I know you're in Ukraine when it happened. They're trying to turn January 6 into an American version of the Maidan revolution there. So this is essentially what that was, a color revolution that happened in Ukraine. This is pretty widely accepted that that was a color revolution. It was the president Yanukovych. Yanukovych. Right. And he was out the next day.

The very next day was when the vote euro my dan uh was took a long time i'm the day after the shooting right right right right yeah so you have this this big build up and then you have the one sort of uh you know you could say the denouement right you know your your huge you know climax and then boom after that conflict moment happens, then you have the political change that you wanted all along. You exploit that and exploit the narrative surrounding it to get the political solution you wanted from the start. So you destabilize and you spend as much time destabilizing as possible. You have that moment and then you use that moment and you milk it for all it's worth. Yeah, of course.

The problem is they're really bad at it. You know, you mentioned how they go to China, and they're like, wow, we want this stuff. Yeah, but they're really bad at it. I mean, you've got a lot of willing participants, a lot of really dumb people who don't read the news, who just – like, you know, I hear these stories about people posting comments on our videos and the people who work here saying, do you really fall for this right-wing conspiracy stuff? It's like, what? What are you talking about? Do you have any – okay, name one thing.

What science? What story? What are you concerned about? Because I think we strive to fact-check, and it's so funny that people actually just don't read the news but assume they know the truth. They just fall in line. They're the ones who want their own property. That means they watch TV. No. When people say, oh i trust the science it's i don't think that's what your tv said i don't think they watch tv i think they watch facebook memes i said no it's facebook

memes all day yeah and i see a guy and he's posting a meme and it's like duh there's bread in the store and a hungry guy outside just give him the bread and i'm like what i mean like sure there are circumstances where we can just give the homeless guy some bread. But, like, that's not even a fleshed-out idea. Like, what are you even talking about? They come up with these half-brained ideas. I saw someone, this prominent leftist, tweeted, with all the money that Jeff Bezos wasted, we could have ended homelessness overnight. And I'm like, no, you can't.

Do you know anything about homelessness? No, that's actually not true. This is a perfect example that I can cite because I actually worked for a homeless shelter. I know for a fact money never solves the problem. There are homeless shelters in Los Angeles that are completely empty. Flush with cash. And homeless people say, F you, I'm not going in your building. You can't solve it.

You can write them a check. They'll go spend it. Have you gone through D.C. lately at all? No. There are homeless camps throughout the city get worse with this they're calling it they're calling them bouservilles right so this they're bouservilles and it's it's almost under for mayor bowser so it's almost on like every tunnel every when i was still with one american news i would drive up under the capital and then you'd go through the tunnel so that entire area under there it's it's all homeless camps now. To the north side of the Capitol, there's a huge emplacement.

It's almost like it's getting to the point where there's any point where there's public space, with the exception of the National Mall, right? They're not on the National Mall because there's lots of rules and regulations to the National Mall. But pretty much everywhere else that there's public space, there are homeless camps throughout Washington, D.C. I don't even know if people realize that, by the way. No, no, but it's happening everywhere. And this is the dynamic that I was just talking about, because people are getting kicked out of D.C. There's so much, so many of these new policies are coming in, so people can't afford the

houses that they lived in 40, 50 years. And rather than take a new place or move, they say, fine, I'm just going to pop a tent. Right. I hear it's happening in cities all over the country, not just D.C., not just L.A., but I hear cities in even red states and stuff. Right, so L.A., the last time I was there, I said, oh, this is like a year ago, and I wanted to take Tanya to this one boutique that she really likes, and she likes their dresses and their designer.

So I said, oh, let's see if they're open. And they're actually closed on Sundays, but I had actually set up like a special thing for her, but I told her, I said, Oh, we'll look in the window. So we're walking down and I say, and everywhere it's, it's tents and home with sense. And I said, are we in skid row? And I'm like, cause I'm not, I'm not an LA guy. Right. And I texted my buddy. I said, am I in skid row? And he's a, you understand Jack,

like there is no skid row anymore, right? It's the city, the whole city now. And then we actually were talking to the boutique owner, and she was like, we have to leave the city. We can't even open up anymore. You know what, man? It's really interesting. YouTube rolled out this thing called Super Thanks. Super Thanks. And I got a notification saying, congratulations, you have been accepted to Super Thanks. And I got a notification saying, congratulations, you have been accepted to super thanks. And I'm like, what is it? It's basically people can comment on your videos.

I have so many jokes that I can't say right now. But it's like super chat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But for YouTube. So what's the difference between super chat and super thanks? Live and not live. Okay. So if I put up a video that's not live, someone can basically pay to have their comment appear high above in the comments.

Oh, okay, okay. So like if you're doing like a daily i was i was thinking about this and i was like so people are getting money from the government and then they're choosing it to get to choosing to give it to people who make videos on the internet is this the future of the economy is this what they're going for like like some kind of a government funded attention economy for the sake of an economy like well you got to do something i guess we have to distract the people somehow you'll look at reddit you get awards like not you get you don't get paid for just giving reddit money but it's so weird someone will post something on reddit they'll be like today my dog farted and then they'll have like three thousand dollars in awards and i'm like what are you spending this money on i feel like

we're heading in this direction where there's a lot of human psychology behind that, by the way. Oh, for sure. There's a ton. No, I just think, you know, I remember Greta Thunberg. She was like, these fairy tales about infinite economic growth. And I'm like, do you see what's happening with the digital economy? Your Greta is better than your Obama. My Greta?

Well, I'll actually do Obama at some point. That's pretty good Greta. I'm not trying to do a good Greta, mind you. I'm trying to be somewhat of a jerk in the way impersonator but uh i thought it like if i was listening right now i almost thought that she walked into the room oh yeah i was like tim what the credit why are you wearing a beanie we we in order to have a functioning economy while reducing greenhouse emissions and try if you want a great reset then people will own things but what are they going to own they're going to own like the forest leather boots of agility with like plus three agility in there enchanted for plus ten armor or whatever.

I'm sorry. That's an armor kit, not enchantment. They're going to have digital products and video games. And they're going to be proud of their non-physical assets that they can brag about. They're going to play video games all day. And they're going to do very little work. Now, part of me says this transition kind of needs to happen to a a certain degree because what happens to all the mcdonald's fast food workers you know they lose their jobs it feels very much so like the the establishment

we're 10 years away from mcdonald's being fully automated you're right and i think we're a month away from mcdonald's going full kiosks yeah because everyone no one's working anymore so it's about time i mentioned that wendy's where they're like please come work here guys kiosks now instead of being like oh no no it'll work here just put up a key there's a um and and i gotta i gotta say this just because it's where we're going right uh my heart everybody knows i'm a i'm a longtime supporter of the wawa nation love my wawa you know sheets okay whatever but wawa well that's my heart that's my heart there's a wawa that just opened or it's going to be open i think in um in northern new jersey where it's there's no inside right so it's just out you drive up to a kiosk or you have your

app and then you tell them what you want and then you drive up to the drive-thru and a hand hands it to you and then you drive off and that's-thru, and a hand hands it to you, and then you drive off. And that's it. That's the future, man. That's the future right there. I was just watching Stargate SG-1, the episode where they go to that planet with the dome. The atmosphere is destroyed. Everyone's got the link in their brain.

All right. I actually remember that, yeah. Yes. It was just on today. For those that don't know what Stargate SG-1 is, don't worry. I'm going to explain the concept to you. Basically, all of these people live in a dying society. They were in a city that used to have 100,000 people, and there is an atmospheric dome that keeps them safe from pollutants outside.

They wear something called a link. Wasn't the dome, like, failing or something? Yeah. So they wear something called a link, which connects their brains to the Internet, and they know everything because the link just downloads information. But what they didn't know was it was also erasing information. Right. So what was happening was the city was failing, their shield was failing, and the toxic atmosphere was basically getting closer and closer.

But every time it would shrink and somebody would die, the link would erase their memory of what had happened. That doesn't sound like anything that's going on right now. Not even close. Not necessarily. But I bring it up just because, you know, of where we're moving with digital economy,

the way we're moving to that Black Mirror episode where nobody leaves their room. You know that Black Mirror episode where their room has TV screens and they watch American Idol, but their character is in the audience instead of them?

Right, right, right. All of these dystopian ideas. I mean, that's pretty much... You know that's what WWF or WWE is doing now. Your image appears in the audience from like a TV screen yeah you haven't seen that no yeah that's real so instead of the crowd it's like a zoom crowd and everyone's literally the black mirror episode and it's and it's live right so it's a live image of that it was either them or ufc or charlie booker was his

name is the guy who did that what's i think so so. And then you're in the crowd, and it's your live reaction to what's going on, but you're not actually there. And the performers can't actually see that. That's all green-screened in. Say the line, Jack, the one you tweet all the time. You know what I'm talking about. Do you know which one? Which one?

I say a lot. Get out of the cities. Get out of cities get out of cities well let's use you for crime that's usually for that's usually for like you know someone is blown up something or someone's going crazy and we got we got chickens in the incubator get out of cities but it's actually honestly like seriously folks if you there's that book right there's that that talks about like you know about escape from the city. And if you have no idea how to live outside of a city,

if you've been living out of convenience stores and Starbucks and fast food and restaurants your entire life, and you have no clue how to just have a house and run it and grow your own food and have a couple of animals or something. There's a few books out there. And you can go as far as you want. But they're actually pretty good. grow your own food and have a couple of animals or something. Like there's a, there's a few books out there that actually, and you can go as far as you want. Right. Um, but they're actually pretty good. We're trying to get the chickens to,

to brood because they were getting four eggs per day now. And the chickens just leave them. And I'm like, okay, so we actually were at a point where one chicken had like six or seven eggs. Didn't care. And I'm like, if you want to raise chickens,

man, it's not that easy. Maybe they're still a little uncomfortable. Like I am in this chair. Oh man. You know? Yeah. I can get a little if you want to raise chickens, man, it's not that easy. Maybe they're just a little uncomfortable like I am in this chair. Oh, man. Yeah, it can get a little rough. Our chairs are missing that special something. You took the cushions out of it or something? Sorry.

They were not that great at cushions, I guess. People didn't like them. Whatever. But anyway, farming and taking care of yourself, it's not easy. And so I think this nightmare dystopia stuff, either people fall in line and live these really awful cubicle lives where they get out, but that means you move to the suburbs, you move to the rural areas.

Escape the cube farms. You got to learn how to take care of yourself. There's a point I was going to make earlier when you were talking about the worker shortage that's going on right now. Because I think that, you know, we were talking a little bit more about your sort of like entry-level jobs or your service economy type jobs but what i think there's also another layer to all of this that not a lot of people are talking about is that a lot of people just had a year off right or a year where they were kind of working from home so a year off um well one guy Well, one guy for CNN was taking care of business.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, he was working hard. Working hard. Tubing. Yep. He was, again, a lot of jokes.

Working hard. Yeah, a lot of jokes that would get me. Anyway, continue. Just going through my material. Let's see if we can cancel first. And I think, though, I really do think there were a lot of people who had that year off from their lives. And it was almost like they had a year to kind of check into their lives in a sense,

right? A year off from their work life, but able to check into their personal life and say, you know what? If I'm driving an hour commute to work, that's two hours a day. Plus I'm working in a cubicle for eight hours a day. That's 10 hours of my day where I'm not with my personal life, my family, what's going on. That's the majority of my day. Right. And you know, and then you're sleeping however many hours or you're not sleeping enough, even though you should be. And you thought I was going to do my pillow plug there. But I think there's probably a lot of people who looked at that and said you

know what i want to make a change absolutely why why am i doing this why am i living this way well for some company that would just replace me if i dropped dead tomorrow absolutely the world economic forum uh proudly put up a video saying a microsoft survey found 40 41 30 30 000 people found 41 were planning on quitting their jobs or moving, changing careers. That's great. I think that's great. I actually think that's great. I think that's healthy.

Not so much. Not so much. What do you think? It's 50-50. Let me ask you a question, Jack. How many people do you know play guitar? I know a lot of people play guitar. How many people do you know of those who play the guitar?

How many of them are good at playing guitar? A handful. A handful. So what do we know? Half a dozen. Half a dozen. And how many people do you know who play guitar? Like, could you... So we get a good sense of the ratio.

Maybe like 40, 50. 40 or 50 people, and about, would you say half a dozen? Half a dozen. Are good at playing. Okay, of the people who aren't good, how many of them do you think would quit their job if they had money from the government to try and make careers playing guitar a lot of them right probably a lot of them yeah so you know i had a

hey hey i'm a creator right i had a friend who was like by the way if you're if you are in any place and you're calling an actual musician or creator, just leave. Just go out. I was arguing about UBI, and my friend was like, if people are getting a universal basic income, it'll be like ancient Rome, man. People will be free to explore. Well, this is in The Expanse as well, by the way, right? Right. You know that, right?

No, no. What is it? They get into it in the books more than the TV series of The Expanse, but there actually is a UBI on Earth in The Expanse. And I think I see where you're going. Well, so what I said was, this is the line I use exactly to debunk the idea that UBI creates this utopia. I was like, if everybody was given the opportunity just to pursue passion, I asked them, how many people do you know play the guitar? How many of them are bad at guitar? How many of those people would try to become rock stars if they had money sitting around?

The problem is not everybody is actually good at what they want to do. So you got to find out what you are good at and make the best of it. Yeah, this actually is. So it kind of runs into a lot of the pop psychology that's out there of like, you know, follow your dreams. Mike Rowe says don't follow your dreams. Does he actually say that? I'm pretty sure Mike Rowe said don't – or something like don't follow your passions. Yeah, find your passion, right?

Find your passion. He said something like follow your talent. Exactly. Find your talent, follow your talent. Right. That is where – like my brother and I, right? Just perfect example. He is straight up natural

athlete like he's the kind of guy where you can give him a sport um whatever it is literally whatever sport within 10 minutes he's got it down like he can play at a basic level and if he puts more time into it like he'll be an all-star like he just like for me like i could practice and i can train and i can get to like an average, but he just has the natural genetics and everything else to just be amazing at anything he does when it comes to that. Whereas for me, okay, I could spend all this time practicing, but I'm not going to get to that level. You might like playing football, but you're not good enough to be a pro. Right. Some people try.

And so this idea of UBI... I think the average person wouldn't even last a single down in an actual football game. Let me tell you something. You know what happened during the lockdown? You go to Best Buy. And so we're doing the show. We need equipment, right? We have a show with a million subscribers on one channel.

And I go to Best Buy like we need to pick up some stream decks. And this is the switcher we use for the cameras. They're sold out. And I said, okay, well,er we use for the cameras. They're sold out. And I said, okay, well, do you have any capture cards? We're sold out. Why? Because everyone decided they wanted to be a streamer. You know what really, really annoys the crap out of me?

Is pop career, right? Is the idea of like, oh, man, it was like when I was a kid, I was like, I want to be a rock star. I'm like, no, you don't. You want to be famous and you want easy money. You don't want to work and you don't want to do anything. But these are some of the hardest jobs. I've had so many people in my life.

I had one person hit me up years ago like, I really want to do what you do and report and make these videos. And I said, I'll tell you what. Come hang out in New York. Hang out with my friends. We'll get you set up. And then within a week, they were like, man, this sucks. I don't want to do this. This is hard.

Oh, what did you want? I just wanted to like travel. You know what they do now? They bought a van and they drive around in it. I'm like, yeah, you didn't want to do the hard work of reporting from conflict zones. You just wanted to like sit in front of a lake. Right. Well, go ahead and do it.

Get your van and go live down by the river. Hey, man, no beef. But everybody just wants free money. That's what they really want. They don't want to work. Have you ever seen that subreddit? By the way, I'm all for downsizing. If people are into that.

Oh, absolutely. I think that's amazing. I know that's like a new trend that's going on. And I think that people are using this sort of like digital nomadism combined with just, hey, let's buy an RV and just live wherever we want to live, right? That's great. And I totally support that. Have you seen the subreddit anti-work? No. It's literally a popular subreddit. It's because, you know totally support that. Have you seen the subreddit AntiWork? No.

It's literally a popular subreddit. It's because, you know, I got to tell you. I haven't been going on Reddit as much. My Reddit hours are down. We are raising generation after generation of lazy and titled people. So I don't want to work. Work is wrong. Work is bad.

Work is awesome. Work is great. I go out every day. I wake up in the morning and I do my – I read the news. I'm reading the news nonstop. After I record my first segment in the morning, you know what I do? I go right to the chicken coop. I let the chickens out.

I make sure – I spray down a little. The chickens are dirty birds. And then I check for the eggs and then I go to the garden. And the garden, we're basically decommissioning because we're going to be cementing it over and moving it. But I'll take whatever vegetables we have left, which is basically a little bit of cherry tomatoes. I the garden, we're basically decommissioning because we're going to be cementing it over and moving it. But I'll take whatever vegetables we have left, which is basically a little bit of cherry tomatoes. I do work, work, work, work.

And that way I can have breakfast. I can have good, healthy breakfast. Work is fun. There's a lot of people who are like, work sucks because they view work as like a menial minimum wage job. But your work is supposed to be something that you are passionate about to an extent. I say to an extent in that

you should feel accomplished in solving problems. You should feel accomplished in getting something done. You may not be able to follow your passion, but every job I've had, there's got to be a goal-oriented accomplishment, and I think a lot of businesses probably suck at doing that, but this idea that people are, they think work shouldn't exist, I'll tell you what. I've got an opportunity for you.

There's two options if you don't want to work. The first, beautiful beaches, coconuts as far as the eye can see, an uninhabited island in the Caribbean. We'll put you there, and you can not work all day and night. See how it works out for you. And if that doesn't work out for you, I'll tell you what. I've got a place we can bring you. You're going to get three hot meals per day. You're going to have a nice little room all to yourself, no cost.

Medical expenses all taken care of. And it's called prison. Yep. How's your back? How's your – I got this. So I don't know if you could see, but I brought this. I found this pillow just now, totally, that was here.

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You see, in this house, we have the communist OurPillow pillow which i see you aren't even using well it's for everybody so i can't claim it oh right because it's not yours it is ours it's ours it is ours the cats are laughing because they are you know what's funny is that i i genuinely thought that uh david hogg's pillow company was going to be called our pillowow because he kept saying Our Pillow. Yeah, he did keep saying that. But he meant it literally in the sense of like his pillow company, like him and his friend, when he said Our he was referring to them. What did they end up calling it?

Good Pillow. And then nothing happened. He kept saying he wanted to find like a socialist factory or something. And it didn't exist. And then he was saying, I just want to get a socialist pro-union factory. Why is it so hard to do in the United States of America?

And then he couldn't figure it out. Because you voted for the Democrats. And meanwhile, Mike Lindell is over there just kind of like, hey, our pillows are still available. You can buy them right now. He's like, we got the sheets made from Giza, Egypt, and they're the best. I bought a bunch of towels recently because we needed towels for the house for guests and stuff. So I bought a bunch of towels and promo code POSO. Yeah, boy. Super cheap.

They actually, I think it was $49.99 for the set. Cheap is the wrong word. Inexpensive. Inexpensive, yeah. Very comfortable. I actually posted a promo code just for the towels the other day. No, it was the sheets. It was for the sheets this morning.

I think they're both going for 49. The diesel sheets. Yeah, check it out because I don't want to get screwed up on that. But somebody actually said, they're like, are you sure that's right? Because I think that's too low. And I'm like, they send me the numbers to post, right? I just posted. So you know the Freedom Phone?

Sure. Right. You have a promo code with them, right? I do, yeah. Yeah, and I saw you at Eric on the other night. We had him on. And one of the big criticisms is that the Freedom Phone? Sure. Right? You have a promo code with them, right? I do, yeah. Yeah, and I saw you at Eric on the other night. We had him on. And one of the big criticisms is that the Freedom Phone... Oh, he got lit up.

I know, it's hilarious. He got lit up when that came out. For those that aren't familiar, the Freedom Phone is... This guy made a phone company that has a bunch of censored apps on it. And the goal is to make it uncensorable. What that really means is it's a more free speech-oriented phone. The services on it will, he says, not censor you.

Which by the way, guys, you know, I mean, Eric doesn't, this isn't a money grab, right? He does not need, you know, to do this. But they complained that it was a Chinese phone. And they were all laughing like, oh, it's just a Chinese phone.

You mean like all phones? What's he supposed to do? Is he supposed to start a phone factory in america i mean he could that's i think he actually was able to find one in hong kong he found what yeah he said he found it wasn't there wasn't mainland and then and then he mentioned there's another factory and i was like he was like we have this one we have umidigi who in hong kong and there's another factory that does the surplus orders like what's it called and he's like i can't say the name and i was like why not he's like it's an asian word i can't say i was like oh you literally can't say the name oh like not that

he was restricted from saying it oh he should he should have called me well he said he's gonna put it up so everyone can see what it is because he's not trying to like he just like can't say it yeah um but anyway it was funny to see the media complaining what's funny because emoji that's not a that's not a chinese word i don't know what that is oh it's a corporate word sounds it actually sounds more Korean. They complain that his phone, they mock him for having a Chinese phone. What do these people think is happening? As they type on their Googles and their Androids.

Right, right, right, right. Everything is. These factories don't exist in this country. Lenovo. And so you get David Hogg, and he's like, we're going to make a good pillow. It's going to be called Good Pillow, and we're going to find a good, strong American factory with a good union. And I'm like, good luck, dude. I was trying.

So I did the graphic novel a couple years ago. We did the Agent Pozo graphic novel, and we wanted to do it. It was great. We did three figures with it. It was awesome. Ton of support. Actually, there's a Comic-Con going on right now. It's going to be next week in Temple,xas and i can't go which sucks there are like 27 000 people coming with um because we've

now signed with um iconic comics and so they're running it so like they put they put agent poso for all the press who has to go so all and this is like like mainstream um like video game and comic press are all going and all the press badges have the agent poso as the logo yeah so they have like 300 press badges and it's all agent poso on it it's awesome and but i can't go because i'm i'm booked for it's actually my cousin's wedding on like the same day and i literally can't go and i'm so bummed um but it's going to be very very trolling but but but to go back one of the pieces of merch that i wanted to have with this whole thing was i said hey let's do like remember the old gi joes like the really old merch that i wanted to have with this whole thing was i said hey let's do like remember the old gi joes like the really old ones that didn't have like the articulated arms it was

just or the elbows and everything it was just like like the old star wars figures like it was just like one solid piece like it's like one solid piece and then the arms and legs would move and that's it so i was like there's got to be a company out there that does like retro action figures right and i want to get that does retro action figures. And I want to get a retro action figure agent post. So do one of me. And then my wife was in it. My son was in it.

And I told everybody beforehand, I said, I don't want any of this stuff made in China. I want all the stuff made in the USA. I don't want to be like, there was another conservative who was doing an apparel line that ended up getting made in China. And she got in a lot of trouble with that. And I was like, I don't want to be like, there was another conservative who was doing an apparel line that ended up getting made in China and she got in a lot of trouble with that. And I was like, I don't want to be her. So they were like, dude, and my business partner came back to me. He was like, dude,

you're not getting an action figure made in the United States. And I was like, that's BS, man. I'm going to find one. I'm going to go on. I'm going to go. I spent like two weeks trying to find any action figure because you'd think that there'd be a huge market for like 80s action figures, retro.

Hey, like let me 3D print one of like me and my buddies and little action figures. Nothing. Doesn't exist. All China. I bet you could easily hire a bad guitar player for the common serenade you though. Precisely.

Yeah, easily. The people. So by the way, if anyone out there is handy with the 3D printing and can do that at scale economically, hit me up because I'd still do it. So it sounds like I should just buy one? Yeah, exactly. It seems like America is in this illusory state. People seem to think that it's still this, you know, was it the shining city on the hill?

We don't have factories anymore. We don't have jobs anymore. We don't make stuff anymore. We complain a lot. When you talk about America standing on the international stage with all the controversy about the Olympics and the Olympic team right now, and not even to get into any one of the specifics, but you look at when I was a kid, we had the dream team. You remember that in 1992? That was the first year they allowed professionals to play on the Olympic team.

Because I think the US had gotten spanked by the Soviets the year before or two years before or something. And they were like, all right. I guess the Olympics before, because they'd still be Soviet Union then. They said, all right, we're going to allow professionals. And then you had like Jordan and Scottie Pippen

and Charles Barkley and Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing, et cetera. Like they're all that Larry Bird and they're, they're all there on one team. Right. And they just dominate the most dominant team ever put together. Right. But then you look at Magic Johnson was on the team and then you go and you just look at the caliber of like Olympic athletes and it's just kind of, it's, it's get woke, go

broke, man. In our standing in the work and, and and this this woke stuff doesn't fly on the international stage so here in the united states you have to kind of make this performative you know agreement this adherence logan paul of course he bends the knee to you know kendyism crtism and you sort of have to it's like in china where you have to say oh yeah i support the ccp whether you do or not right you have to say it because that is your theory of the state well our the theory of our state now has almost because so it used to be that uh i can remember within living memory that if somebody botched i think it was lady gaga like botched the the national anthem

at something and she was ridiculed for it right i mean it was a huge deal now it's considered positive and laudatory to ridicule the national anthem and to protest it. Well, let's talk. On the international stage, you can see the decline of America as a nation. Simone Biles? Simone Biles. I mean, so I don't know Simone Biles. I don't know her story.

I'm sure she has one. I'm a Catholic. I pray for her the same way I pray for Biles. I don't know her story. I'm sure she has one. I'm a Catholic. I pray for her the same way I pray for everybody else. I think she actually is Catholic. I might be wrong about that, but I think she is. She dropped out. Well, I think she got pulled out. The issue for me, did she pull or did she get dropped?

She took herself out. Yeah. I thought she took herself out. And now she's out completely, I guess. And so the issue for me, though, is why is it as a society now? I'm told. Right. Right.

And I pray for her. I pray for Simone Biles. But at the same time, I'm not going to go to my son and say that you should make your role model. She's Catholic. She is Catholic. Right. I thought I was right. But I think she wore a medal, a miraculous medal at one point.

That's how I knew. um my brother put to something and i'm not going to go to my son and say hey let's celebrate someone for not accomplishing that's where we've been going for a long time with the um honor roll mention the participation trophies that kind of thing so uh simone biles man uh she's best of the best. I mean, she's incredible. She landed, I guess, in qualifier. They got mad because she did that double Yurchenko, whatever it was called. I'm not a gymnastics person. Well, the idea was that she had surpassed the previous skill level, and they didn't even have a skill level for the defeat that she attempted.

So she wouldn't gain – she would get her name in the book for like a maneuver or whatever and so she's doing really really well but she flubbed a few moves then because of her mental health pulled out. That is an indication of the failure of our culture that you would have an Olympic

athlete having those mental issues like not getting I mean proper training isn't just your your your body it's your mind and your body and so a breakdown of an athlete is a failure across the board it's it's right i mean i take this as an indictment of the entire social strata yeah that put her into that position that puts us all into this position and then we celebrate it right you look at the response of the actual story here isn't simone biles the actual story is that if you were a journalist in sports today and you said something

that went against the grain and said that you you disagreed with that decision or that you don't celebrate what happened you would lose your job you know you would lose your job in america today i'm sick of the hive mind, man. If you went against the hive, you're done. Charlie Kirk, he was recording his podcast, and he said that Simone Biles gave a gift or something to the Russians, something like that. I think, yeah, the Russians got the gold medal, I believe. And then I see a bunch of these posts where everyone's like,

Charlie's so dumb, like Phil DeFranco comes out and like, Charlie's a dick. And I'm like, shut up, dude. Phil, listen, you don't know anything about Charlie, okay? He's a guy with an opinion. All this is is people with no opinions who don't actually care and have any thoughts of their own wading into stupid drama. Let me tell you something. If somebody wants to opine on Simone Biles, who is like the cream of the crop, the best of the best in the Olympics, and she bails out for mental health issues and they have a negative view of that, I say, interesting.

Am I going to make a video where I'm like, oh, that Charlie Kirk? Who cares? Charlie Kirk's a commentator. Opining on opinions is the stupidest thing ever. But out of the woodwork comes every stupid person who's like, I've got nothing better to say but then to just rag on a guy who had an opinion about a thing, which is totally irrelevant to the Olympics and the conversation. Right, but that hive mind provoked response is actually quite useful for us because it is

revealing to us in its response to defend itself we are seeing the contours of the hive mind in and of itself i just you know i i despise nps. It's just, you know, I just think the conformists who don't read, who don't learn, who don't think, who just say, tell me what to do.

I've never been, I've never been favored that. I grew up, when I was younger, I wouldn't say that I was like, you know, the punks get mad when I'm like,

oh, I listen to punk music. No, you didn't name a band. I'm like, shut up. Name a band. The virus or whatever. Hanging out with a bunch of people who played a bunch of crazy punk music and the main thing was we were anti-establishment, we were skateboard whatever, hanging out with a bunch of people who played a bunch of crazy punk music.

And the main thing was we were anti-establishment. We were skateboarders. We were running from cops and security guards. And we said, the system is broken. We don't care. Your rules are stupid. Screw your conformity. And now what we have are these people on the left who still think they're punk rock.

They're as anti-punk rock as you can get. Charlie Kirk is trending on Twitter. And I look at it. I'm like, why? Why do these people get. Charlie Kirk is trending on Twitter. And I look at it, I'm like, why? Why do these people care about Charlie Kirk? They don't. What they care about is virtue signaling. Letting everybody know, I'm cool.

I'm part of the tribe too. So I'm going to talk about this guy that's not relevant to the Olympics. It's a waste of my time. If I want to bring up something about Simone Biles, I don't even think I'm relevant to the conversation. If people want to listen to what I have to say about it, they can, but she's the center focus of this.

I think it's really bad that we're celebrating. There was a news article where it's like... Why is it in today's society we want to celebrate mental health as if that is something in itself which should be

celebrated rather than achievement for achievement's sake. Because we are losing our mental health. It used to be that we had our mental health. We were resilient. We were mature. We could deal with crises and hardship. And we could do it with a straight face. The opposite of mental disorder is mental resilience.

You were in the Navy. You were in a submarine, right? I would spend some time in a submarine, yeah. Have you ever been on a naval vessel during a crisis? Training. Well, yeah, I guess you could say I've been in some heightened situations on a naval vessel. You ever see a general just start, like, breaking down, saying, I'm going to leave the battle because of my mental health. This is not something I can be dealing with right now.

That's honorable, General. Good for you. You don't see that on Twitter every day now with these generals. Oh, yeah, I know. Mark Milley, man. That guy lost his mind. Mark Milley, this guy Pat Donahoe who said, you're being a shill for Putin if you say I'm asking about Putin. He, by the way, set his account to private today. These guys

can't handle a Twitter war. How could they actually ever handle a real war could you imagine taking one of these you know i think i said this last time i was on here but the and i i do this to to make a point the u.s navy would not be prepared to defend taiwan in a scenario if china wanted to take it tomorrow. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They would lose. They would lose. And imagine what that would do to the American psyche overnight to lose in a state-on-state conflict like that, a near-peer competitor. They'd cheer for it.

Where you'd have half the country. Well, you'd have to have the country cheering for it. But think of the American right. And think of the conservative Americans. And even think of a lot of just sort of the kind of normie Americansie americans out there you're sort of like hey i'm just kind of going through life and doing my thing america's the best etc right when you're told you are not the best and you understand that your system is no i i don't i think the average person won't care i think the average democrat will be like hey it's none of our business good for china and

they would cheer it on and they would say you, it's actually a good thing that China has reclaimed Taiwan because, you know, we shouldn't be meddling in their affairs. All of a sudden becoming anti-war in that regard. You would see regular people. Let me be clear. I don't want to go to war with China. No, no, no. I really don't.

But you would see regular people say, oh, I've had too many conversations with regular people when I lived in New York. You know, people who don't pay attention to politics. Let me write regular people. Politically uninitiated. And I'll be like, so that Obama, one of the first things he did when he got into office was he bombed a Pakistani village killing like 23 women and children. And they go, oh. I'm like, do you care?

No. Well, here's the difference. Here's what I think is different is that it's not about to the average american it wouldn't be about taiwan it would be about america clearly and definitively losing a war yeah but which is something that if china goes you know you look at a lot of wars like 1812 did the u.s really win that you know not so much everybody claims you know they claim that the claim the u.s has never lost a war but how tenable is that at this point right regular? Regular people. Here's what I think would happen. China will move to take Taiwan. They'll go from the air.

They'll take out any opposition on the ground. They'll beach the island. And they'll take it over. And it'll be big breaking news. And then the left will claim to have some expertise. All these stupid Twitter people who don't actually read and see Facebook memes will be like, well, here's what I think about Taiwan. I don't care what you think about Taiwan. And then regular people are going to be like,

huh. And then something will happen. Their computers will double in cost or triple in cost or just become unavailable completely. Because what does Taiwan have? Chips. All your microchips, your semiconductors, your transistors, that entire industry, right? And by the way, I wish this wasn't the situation. I wish that a lot of that was

onshore to the United States united states but again by policy since the 1990s we've been offshoring all this stuff san diego by the way san diego was the birthplace of this industry and all of it was shipped overseas to taiwan and korea yep right all of this was this country has been extracted dylan radigan said it a long time ago, maybe not in the same context, but a similar context. The country has been extracted. You know what I think happened? I think 2008 was a wake-up call

for a lot of people, a lot of Democrats. You know, look, you look at Bernie Sanders in 2008 and he's like, we need a border barrier. Open borders are a bad thing. You see Hillary Clinton and Pelosi and Biden,

they're all like, we must build a border barrier. Illegal immigration is bad. And then the economic collapse happened and they said, well, we just hit an iceberg. I'm going to try and steal as much silverware as possible before I get build a border barrier. Illegal immigration is bad. And then the economic collapse happened, and they said, well, we just hit an iceberg. I'm going to try and steal as much silverware as possible before I get on a life raft. Right.

And so the idea of the Obama administration, and they're quite open about this. If you actually look at what the national security advisors and the deputy national security advisors, Ben Rhodes, et cetera, have actually said in their own writings. They said, since the United States is in what we're, what we're putting it into as a managed decline, right? We know that we are going to need help from our peers in other regions of the world to be able to enforce things. So why should we be the ones who are enforcing international norms, international laws? Maybe China can help us out. Maybe, maybe we can pass off some of this responsibility to China when it comes to the Asia. There's a life raft for everybody, in my opinion. And I'm not going to tell you what to do with your money, take financial advice from somebody else, but I think it's Bitcoin. Right. So again, we've been put on this path by policy, right? That's clear.

We don't have to be on it, right? We can get off of it. We can right the ship. This has all gone on within the last 30 years. That's not that much time. We can actually make these decisions. righting the ship or staying on this path towards managed decline and serfdom and the rise of a new peasant slave class of the underlings, right? The under society, right? So you have an over society that's pushing for all these things to happen. They are stateless. They are multinational.

They are tied in with the CCP. They're tied in with everything else. And they want you to be the consumer, right? Your job is to consume. You are like if you watch WALL-E, right? You're the guy who's sitting there and you're in your chair and you don't even have a MyPillow. And you're hooked up to the machine. What an existence.

You're tweeting. And there's actually this great – that's why they don't talk about WALL-E that much anymore because I think it was too real. And a lot of Christian symbolism in there. Eve, and it's like an arc, right, of humanity. Where there's this joke as WALL-E's going around, everyone's in a blue suit, but he turns them into red when they become activated. And then there's this running gag, like, wait, we have a pool? Right. And they kind of realize that their screens go off, and they realize instead of just trending, and they're just commenting.

It's Facebook, right? So they're all just commenting on like the minutia of day-to-day life. They have no bones? Yeah, they have no bones. And they have like slushies that are, you know, ordered to their cart whenever they need it. And then suddenly they start realizing like, hey, we're in outer space. Like this is pretty cool. And we have a pool.

We're on a nice ship. We can talk to each other. You know why I don't think WALL-E would happen? In one aspect, everyone being- We'd never be able to make a ship that works? No, no, no, no, no. There's a physiological addiction to athletics, to sports and to exercise. So while certainly a lot of people get addicted-

Well, for some people, maybe. For sure. But the idea that every single person would be overweight just floating around in chairs, there's a lot of people who would get that hit, that dopamine, that runner's high. Maybe those people refuse to get on the ship. Yeah, I guess. No, we'll just die here on Earth or something. We're just going to die here

with the trash piles, man. The trash piles. You're not going to take us out. You know what? That was me filling in for Ian for a minute there. Let me tell you, I think... Graphene. I think... Graphene. First we get to graphene, okay? Is that how you think Ian sounds? I don't know. I'm just kind of doing a character at that point.

He's like, dude, graphene. He's not that bad. He's probably watching. He's like, Jack! I don't sound like that. You know what, man? Here's my prediction. I've been saying this for a while. Vaccines will be mandatory, in my opinion. It's going to be like this.

I think everyone knows that's coming from the military, right? i'm saying i'm not even like breaking i'm saying everyone you know why here's what'll happen in maybe 20 years you'll go to the dmv you're getting your license updated or whatever or you're getting your id for the first time and they'll go uh i need a birth certificate so security card i need your vaccination card and a bill with your address on it and they'll go oh yep i got it all right here i'll go okay and then i'll type it i'm like here's your id it'll be a part of the process like normal like we saw that photo of the airport is that is that a real photo you see that where it's like and that was my buddy john detroit who worked on um we were a ton of film projects together and he said it wasn't his photo but someone had sent it to him he's canadian um so i haven't i haven't fact-checkeded but it shows he said that it was a separate airport line coming into canada so canadian customs line

one for vaccinated one for unvaccinated yeah de blasio said the voluntary phase is over i mean this reminds me of uh gattaca remember the valids and the invalids oh i haven't seen it moving a long time oh that's everything but i bring this bring this up because to paint a picture of this future where Americans don't make stuff. Americans are like Wally, but not like floating around in hover chairs when they don't have hover chairs. But they're mostly going to do nothing. They're becoming more and more obese. They don't work. They get free money from the government.

It is a managed decline. Giving people this money is – You know Tesla said this in the 1920s. What, managed decline? money you know tesla said this in the 1920s what managed to climb no he said that we that um we will reach a point with materialism where the average person lives as if they're in a b colony he predicted bugman i think the unemployment benefits are them lowering down people into economic collapse they're they're trying to hold you back from from you know going nuts as the economy implodes while they shuffle off overseas their assets and resources oh yeah and they buy a bitcoin and things like that and then you're sitting here going like well i'm

getting my money and then one day rug gets pulled out from under you and you are a surf that's where i think we're going you were talking about the chickens but everybody needs to pay attention where are your eggs right what basket do you have your eggs in right we talk about our nest egg we talk about all these different things that we have planned for us right start thinking about that now right start thinking about that your 20s max out your 20s as much as possible absolutely as much as possible when whenever someone comes to me and I just did the um I was at the Turning Point, the student event they had in Tampa and with all the controversy, Brandy,

and people would come over, they said, what advice would you give if we're just getting started? And these are like high school kids saying this. I say, just max out. You are in right now.

You are at the time of your life. Do not rest in, don't keep it in neutral. You need to be pedal at the time of your life. Do not rest in. Don't keep it in neutral. You need to be pedal to the metal through your teenage years, through your 20s, and then figure out where you're going to go. So that by the time you're in your 30s, you're just grinding. Your 30s should all be about just grinding, grinding. And then at that point, you can start to slow down. Do you use Instagram a bit?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm on the gram. Do you like adventure content, hiking, travel stuff at all? Sure. So there's three kinds of videos that I watch. There's three kinds of things recommended to me. Typically, political comics. Mostly adventure content.

Oh, you mean like when you hit the search thing? Yeah. And action sports, scootering, blading, snowboarding, skateboarding. And you know what I'm just so sick of?

Avicii the Knights. You ever hear that song? No. Go on Instagram, search for like- But I probably have, I just don't know the name of it. If you get recommended these videos,

the reels of like- Yeah, in reels. Hiking and skydiving and parachuting, I swear like, what's it? Nine out of ten videos uses that song. And it's just so corny. But you know what?

It really bums me out because it shows you just how generic everyone is. Right. They're like, everybody thinks they're this beautiful, unique snowflake. And you know the phrase snowflake? You know where it comes from? Fight Club? That's the line. We all thought we were these beautiful. our parents said we were unique snowflakes.

We're not. You thought you were going to be a rock star. You're not. These people make these videos that are all just so generic. And man, is it depressing to see everybody just cranking out generic, same old, same old stuff. It's all the same stuff. It's all the same. We don't make stuff anymore, man.

We don't make stuff. That's what NPCs is. I'm going to make stuff. I got a 3D printer. It's not creative. We're going to make weird stuff. It is more every... It's like every movie now is stuck in rerun mode.

Every time I go to watch a movie, I feel like I've seen this. We went to see the new M. Night Shyamalan movie. Oh, man. Where they're on the beach. It's got old. Yeah. And it just like... It was awful.

It actually wasn't that bad. I'd give it a B. Oh, okay. Hey, I'm surprised. And I hated Glass, his last one. I absolutely hated that hated that i like that one i didn't like it at all i just i thought i felt it ruined the the legacy of unbroken i liked it um or unbreakable and unbreakable was good though is it's a best superhero movie ever made right um the the only thing with with the film though is like i just felt like i'd seen it before like i felt it was like going through the motions and

it was like predictable yeah you kind of know going into it that hey it's a beach where everybody gets old really fast the movie and that's it that's the whole movie and you know no spoiler alerts but like there's this is another question like there isn't even any big like it's just the characters go through the movie like you just that's it there's no reveal uh i mean do you want like no whatever well people can see it but i'm just saying that walking out of it i was like okay i don't feel like i got anything out of that movie that i didn't see in the trailer versus like i then went and saw, I was on a flight back home from Phoenix and I was watching the Forever Purge.

And, you know, say what you want about, you know, those Purge movies. And they're all insane, right? They're all crazy. But like, you don't know how it's going to end. Right. You have never, you have no clue what's going to happen.

That's why they make so many of them, I guess. Right, exactly. Well, let's go to Super Chats. All right. See what the people at the Super Chat, if you haven't already, give us those Super Chats and smash that like button.

And apparently now- CCP Delinda Est. CCP Delinda Est. What? What is that? CCP must take down the CCP. Oh, okay. In Latin.

There's a Super Thanks. Now, I guess you can Super Thank us. Wait, I thought you said it was only the- I don't know if it's only, but I think it's basically Super Chat for regular videos. Okay. So you can leave a comment, but pay, and it appears at the top whatever it's it's super comments i guess amazing thanks but uh i guess people you know you know what they're going to do i think people are going to advertise on videos they're going to go onto a video that's got a lot of views and they're

going to start outbidding each other for the top spot and they're going to be promoting their brand i'm going to have my pillow promos on all of you after this tim i hope you know well i'll tell you this if you they'll be paying for themselves and you made more i would gladly accept the humble pillow merchants comments that i am but a humble pillow merchant all right let's see we got so this is the most comfortable episode i've ever done oh look at this guy going for the lumbar support i have to be honest these are These are great chairs. Oh, wow. That's actually really good. So this is the supreme firmness on this one. Oh, really? Yeah, because actually Tanya got us

a bunch of them. And so she did like a random... MyPillow. So there's different firmness levels you can get. But this is key, by the way. And I am going to say this. And you have to put your MyPillows through one cycle in the dryer really when you first purchase them there is a little card that says you need to do this really and it kind of it activates the

interlocking foam on the inside otherwise they're kind of and like i get all these comments every once in a while maybe like 10 they'll say oh man it's all this is so limp this is the worst sack full of peanuts you know what's going on it's all, this is so limp. This is the worst pillow. It's a bar-lap sack full of pack of peanuts. It's a sack full of pack of peanuts. You know, what's going on? It's like, did you throw out the little card that said, guys, put it through the dryer. Just one time. Not even like 15 minutes is enough.

It doesn't even need to be the full 45 or whatever. Just to clarify for everybody, these chairs actually did come with these like lumbar support things that were not that good. The chairs are great. These are great chairs by Boston, but everybody basically was like, I don't need this thing in my back.

So you end up... Actually, with the pillow, this is quite nice. I'm not going to lie. This is actually pretty sweet. We'll steal it from you and we'll keep it. No way, man.

This is mine. We'll write posts on it. I'll fight you for it. All right, let's see what we got here. Jacqueline Pierce says, Hi, Tim. I sent an email earlier to see if you're hiring an archivist.

Please hire me. I don't know what an archivist would do. So I think an archivist is like someone who's kind of they're archiving you they're archiving the show the story oh i see it's almost like someone's writing a daily journal in real time for you i don't know if that's if we need that but that would be kind of cool to have like a library of content and stuff like that right so it's like something that like you know one day when all of this is over, the whole story of... We don't need an archivist, but we need fact-checkers.

We need a fact-checker slash frame-checker. So this is somebody who's going to go through a story and then be like, hey... I think frame-checker is important. Right, because that's one thing the media doesn't do. They don't fact check anymore either. So, but frame checking is important because, you know, someone could write, well, I guess you get the point. If you say that the Republicans are trying to pass a voter suppression bill, that's framing. Right.

When I was actually. My favorite one of these of all time, I forget who it was, but somebody wrote, they wrote, controversial University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson. And someone was like, wait a minute. Why is he controversial? But not even that is, there's no position called the controversial professor at the University of Toronto Psychology Department. It's just professor. So why did you add that?

So adding that word is a framing device. So yeah, we need a frame and fact checker, but I'll look at the resumes over at Jobs. You can email jobs at timcast.com. Conti123 says, Tim, can you look into California banning gaming PCs due to its high power usage? The fridge uses more power than a PC. Yeah, I heard that.

I saw the headline as well. I think it's Bitcoin. You think they're linking them? Elizabeth Warren came out and she was like there's a bunch of shadowy coders we're gonna have control of the money no that's not true it's open source they're going after the gamers now they're going after the gamers gaming pcs are used for right money yeah so they're gonna try and shut it all down the i'll say this you know and i know there's people that i know peteriel is like not big on Bitcoin. But I think there's a lot. I think the establishment is is freaked out about Bitcoin.

Absolutely. I don't think I actually disagree with Peter Thiel on that one. I don't think Bitcoin is a Chinese plot or anything like that. I actually think that it is something right. And this, by the way, people get confused. They say, like, well, is it a good store of value? It's not about being – it's not an investment. You can't think of it that way. It is a currency that is separate from the federal system.

Yeah. Call it whatever you want. It's a system of value in whatever capacity. Right. It's a system of value. People look at it as investment property. Okay, yeah. It goes up and it goes down, but that's not the way to think about it.

I don't think Peter Thiel is paying attention all that much because if he was, I – Well, because up until a couple of months ago, China was like super into Bitcoin and they were using oil rigs. I mean I'm talking about the culture war and what's happening with kids and critical race applied principles. Like the dude could snap his fingers and create a functioning news outlet. He nukes Gawker and there's – And now Gawker is back. Well, yeah, but it's a skin suit worn by other – but they're going to be as creepyes Gawker and there's... And now Gawker's back. Well, yeah, but it's a skin suit worn by other... But they're

going to be as creepy as Gawker was anyway. It's a skin suit like the new Star Wars and the new He-Man. Peter Thiel, he's the guy, man. He went after Gawker. He was like, we're not going to play this fake news game. He could snap his fingers and

create ten independent news outlets that did real journalism. Peter, let's do it, man. What do you think? Look, you know, I'll be honest. It's not so easy to do. So he could figuratively snap his fingers and then he has the resources and the wealth to do it. And he does know people who could do it. But I'm surprised when I see very prominent and wealthy individuals who are critical of the media ecosystem and do

nothing to fund it. There's a handful of people I can name right now. Well, to fund an alternate ecosystem. Yeah. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To donate to, to contribute to, to invest in. I'm not going to pretend it's an easy thing to do. So even though I'm kind of like, they could do it, well, you know, they would need to find someone they trusted. But there's a lot of really wealthy people that absolutely could be like, I want to see real journalism get done. What can we do? And then just ask somebody, hey, look into some people. Let me know who you like. But not only that, some of these high-profile personalities promote journalists they do like and trust.

I'm like, well, then fund them. Give them money to hire people and expand their operations. You know what? I'll tell you this. Fortunately for us, we launched this website, TimCast.com. Got so many people to sign up and make sure you become a member that I was flabbergasted. I couldn't believe it. I think – well, I'll spare the details in a certain regard.

I'll say this. We gained so many members instantly that I was like, I guess we're launching a company from this. Because otherwise I wouldn't know what to do with the memberships. I'm not just going to do bonus segments and then have this capital. And I was like,

no, we're going to hire journalists, man. We're going to take these resources and put it to incredible use. What am I going to buy? Do I need my own massive gym or like, I don't know, theme park or spaceship? No. If I was going to buy something.

Yes. And someone said you can buy a Ferrari or you can buy a year of good journals. I'm like, oh, did you see the good journalism, dude? Was it Virgin, I think, was saying that the the the price was like less than a ferrari to fly on it oh to fly into space or whatever yeah oh but it's only like a couple they're doing rocket planes it was only like a couple of minutes so i was like right i don't know if i'd pay that much for just a couple minutes i'm pretty sure virgin is doing rocket planes where the plane goes up gets real close and then rocket thrusts into orbit and then comes back down that's right

all right let's see what we got nicholas lipsipset says, on your video of evictions, a former friend of mine lived with me for college in a house my family owned. He moved to another city, refused to pay rent, and bought a new car. Screwed us out of 3K+.

Yikes. David Kachanowicz says, in honor of Ian, insert the Federal Reserve comment here. That's right, everybody. Pour out a super chat for Ian. He is sick today. Making too much bread. Not the Rona, though. That's right, everybody. Pour out a super chat for Ian. He is sick today. Making too much bread.

Not the Rona, though. Just so everybody knows. Not the Rona. Not the Rona. I Sir Toast says, oh, it's just Sir Toast. Fourth super chat. Net revenue five minutes before the show starts. Someone knocked on my door offering the COVID jab.

They are going door to door in MN now. Time for me to move. Really? You gotta move. You just You're not going to move. You just tell them to move. Offering it or like offering you a chance to sign up for it? I don't know. I think – have you seen the video from North Carolina?

They're administering the vaccine on the porch. Wow. Did you see that video of the Army guys walking to 7-Eleven and giving the vaccine to a guy working there? I'm like, dude, this is – Optics. Optics, right. Google announced that they're going to mandate vaccines for their employees. Right. I'm like, dude, this is optics. I so ticks. Right. Google announced that they're going to mandate vaccines for their employees.

Right. I said, I wonder what will happen if people refuse. I wonder how many people refuse and quit. Cameron Kasky says there'll be a bunch of job openings for people who aren't stupid. And I was like, and there's gonna be a lot of people who can't get the vaccine and then don't, you know, lose their jobs. And then, of course, cue the childish lack of wisdom response from many people, including Cameron. You mean to tell me you're saying there will be no medical exemptions? I just child friend.

What do you think a medical exemption is? Do they think that you can walk up and say, I hereby assert a medical exemption? They say, OK, you can come on in. No, they're going to be like, okay, here's our list of exemptions. And many of the things won't be covered because exemptions don't cover everything. If they did, people would just all claim it. So what will happen? There are some medications that can cause, say, severe tendinitis.

They might say, we're not going to exempt you from this medication because of the side effects. You might say, well, I have an underlying health condition that I could get this, but I'm concerned about the risk, so I'm going to choose not to. Well, there was that girl at BYU who had the, what do you call it, Gillies-Bowers syndrome, and she's like, I can't take it. They've told me that this is, you know, one of the main side effects. But if you can't take it, that is understood with medical exemptions. What if you might, what if it's a woman who might be pregnant?

And so they say, you must get the vaccine. Do you have any underlying health conditions that will prevent you from getting the vaccine? No, but I might be pregnant. Or what it will take it back. They're trying to get pregnant. Right. And the doctors, my understanding of advised, okay it back. They're trying to get pregnant. Right. And the doctors, my understanding of advised, okay, well then you shouldn't get it.

Right. So now they're like, I think trying is not as good of an example as maybe because she doesn't know. And now they say, you have no choice, not, you have no confirmed pregnancy. So you're not exempt. Okay.

Well, I might be, my doctor says I shouldn't take it if I am, but we don't know for sure just yet. So they're going to say, I'm going to choose not to get it. Well, then you can leave. Bye. You lost your job. There are so many people, by the way, who get out of deployments in the military by doing that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, I think I'm pregnant. What if you're a cancer survivor? What if you're a cancer survivor? What if you're a cancer survivor? The official medical policy on cancer survivors, as per the CDC, which I pulled up previously, is that you need to get clearance from your doctor specifically because they typically advise against many vaccines for cancer survivors. They say there are serious risks for those who are immunocompromised from cancer treatments. The doctor might say the risk's low enough that I think you'll be okay to do it, so you don't have the underlying condition, but you choose not to because of potential risk. Okay, you lose your job.

Right. So this gets into a, and by the way, those doctors, right? They're going to err on the side of that because if they know that this is the side that the insurance company's on, and this is the side that the employer's on and that the government's on, they're going to go with that because they know then well i can't be sued because i was

following the guidance right so now you've got doctors and this is a huge problem in the medical community because you've got doctors that are following guidance and percentages and statistics rather than patients understanding what's going on with that biological life form that's sitting in front of them and what their specific situation might be people's doctors are but it's the it's the greater culture of celebrities pushing the stuff and the mandates but uh let's we'll move on we got uh james burns says it wasn't bon jovi it was deaf leopard with green m&ms oh there you go deaf leopard and green m&ms you're pretty close well i don't i don't know all right let's see you have stocky civic i hope i'm pronouncing your name right hey tim i'm a trucker and from my experience freight rates went way up an increase of 40 since 2019 the reason

there's a shortage of drivers is because older ones retire and starting pay in the industry struggles to compete with unemployment. Wow. This is them gutting the system, but letting everyone down slowly so they don't freak out when the system is gutted. It's frogs in a pot, man. All right, let's see. Kunti Dominguez says, I work for a bank, and we are now reaching out to individuals who can be evicted out as early as September 1st, and the number is

very large love the show wow man wow all right knight says i joined timecast.com this past week i do not know how to join the after show on the website i am watching with my iphone do i need to be on pc maybe it's time you're on time this is like this is like when um what's that the mockbusters when uh the asylum puts out like you out like there's the Avengers and then they'll put out a thing called Super Avengers, right? And it's like right next – it's the Walmart brand, Tim Pool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So on the homepage, if you're logged in, you will see the latest two members' podcasts. And then if you click Members Only, then you'll see a list of all of the members

only show you can also click the search and search for a name and find all the members only segments we have because i think like we have two with like you know colonel uh lieutenant colonel allen west we've got uh a couple with a bunch of different people that have been on the show multiple times all right let's see i actually got it i i am i'm i'm now a member of the uh whatever it's called and so i've been using it it's quite fun actually rampton says adrian curry is trolling the chat again lol good we're glad we're glad uh she was a blast we had her on the show everybody loves you adrian thank you for for hanging out turk longwell says tim you'll be doing an underground pirate internet show in 2030 you'll move around a lot, but don't worry. Patriots will be everywhere.

I don't know, man. I might just be in a van down by the river by 2030. Yeah, with a ham radio. Or I will own nothing and I will be happy. You will be so happy. I will be so happy. I mean, you know, the thing is for me is... Give you a shot for that too. I'm fairly minimalist. Like, I don't need things to be happy.

I like, you know, chilling down by the river. That is something where, you know, I read a story recently about this family who was you know dad wasn't struggling with alcoholism you know in like their 30s they had a couple of kids and they quit their jobs they both had nine to fives cubicle jobs quit that bought bought a bus renovated the entire thing from youtube videos. Like no, neither of them had any background in like work around the house or anything like that. You watch YouTube videos,

renovated the whole thing, got freelance jobs. And now they just drive around the country with their kids. And it's all about spending time together. It's about making memories. It's about living for your family. And I just thought, man,

that that's, that's a better life and that by the way you want to quote by the way i would say this to all like the you know the dsa types and my antifa friends and everything else you want to fight the system that's how you fight the system get some chickens that's fighting the system stop funding wall street taxes and big in the in the war just check out out. Literally, just check out. Dozer Man says, I know this is off subject, but here in central Florida, we didn't have a love bug season. I saw one or two love bugs, but very strange to have them all over the place. Could it be the apocalypse is happening?

Maybe the cicadas ate them. Yeah, maybe the cicadas. Did the cicadas in Florida? I don't know. Yeah. No, that was up here. Yeah, I think Brudex was northern. I don't know if it was southern. But maybe some people brought them down when they were fleeing the lockdowns. Yeah. No, that was up here. Yeah, I think Brudex was northern. I don't know if it was southern. But maybe some people brought them down when they were fleeing the lockdowns.

Yeah. LG Elucard says, Tim, if you want to understand the future that awaits America under the Democrats, watch the movie The Perfect Dictatorship. Mind will be blown. Haven't seen that. Interesting. But it's not just Democrats.

And people need to understand that. That there are a ton of establishment Republicans, many of them brought off by Wall Street, many of them have been bought off by Silicon Valley, right? They are going along to get along with all of this. You saw this in the Trump administration when there were people who said, we just need a better deal with China. We just, we can't not have a deal with China. We just need to find better terms and, you know, et cetera, et cetera. And then, and then Trump would say, wow, I mean, if you guys are all and you know etc etc give them more and then and then trump would say wow i mean if you guys are all you know for this okay we'll we'll go for that but i i wish he had just

gone with his instincts on that because you heard him on the campaign trail and they made fun of him by the way right they made fun of trump for calling out china so much yep all right seven fd says hey tim and poso i live uh close by la jolla, Texas, next to the river. Our illegal admin traffics aliens into the country. A lot of us are tired and people are freaking out. If it ain't cartels, it's this mess. Crazy. Jason Green. Huge business, by the way. Cartel, the human trafficking,

huge business. And then when they get to Portie, bring them back. Right. And then they gotta pay again. That's right. Money, money, money. Jason Green says, please invite Kurt Schlichter on to talk about Kelly Turnbull series, Prophetic. Heard about them last week and haven't been able to put down the series. His books are starting to come true. God help us all.

I'm pretty sure we've had Kurt on the show, right? We have. We'll have him back soon. Yeah, absolutely. Kurt's hilarious. My favorite thing about Kurt Schlichter is that he's always on. I've never talked to him in a situation where he hasn't been on. Even if it's just me and him on the phone, he's always i've never talked to him in a situation where he hasn't been on right like he's even if it's just me and him on the phone like he's coking and joking as just as hilarious as

you'd think you would be at literally all times really now says read in greta voice how dare you vasht 1985 says wawa sucks sheets for the win uh the only thing true about sheets is its name yeah i was gonna say i mean look we have all over the place, and I ordered food from them, which is a funny thing to do from a gas station, and I'm not going to do it again because its name stood true. Yep. Sheetz gives you the... I'm not trying to be mean, you know, like a lot of people like them, but... All right. Amanda says, Poso 2024.

Oh, there you go. We'll see. We'll see. Oxwagon says, hello from South Africa. Today, while I was buying groceries, I had to listen to the leader of our fastest growing political party at a hate rally outside yelling about how he's going to teach white people some manners. It's like Weimar, Germany. Sad. Yikes.

I mean, that's that's the critical race theory in action country right there. David Burleson says Ian is sick from sniffing all that graphene He's been hoarding Just imagine like Ian he's got like black graphene All over his nose and his eyes are like Bloodshot and he's like Oh so you saw him He walked out of his room The experiment was a failure

No no he was like seeing the future man Number 27 will be a success DMT times 300 Alright Green James says, do you think that state convention is a possibility? If so, would you support it? What do you think is the best course of action that everyday citizens can take to preserve our Bill of Rights?

A state convention, I think it's possible, and I would support it. What are we, two states away from a state convention or something like that? You need 38 states, I think. I mean, here's the thing, though. You're not going to have a – you can have your state convention, but you're not going to get any traction without a meaningful percentage of the elites on your side, right? You can have your convention and write up whatever you want, but it's not going to get any traction because you're still thinking – Well, state convention bypasses federal government, doesn't it?

It does. But keep in mind that you're still thinking, you're still in the mode of thinking that like elected representatives are the ones who are making the decisions. Right. They're just not. So, I mean, you can, you know, this is what I say to, you know, my wayward libertarian friends that you say, oh, it's the state, it's the state. It is, but the state isn't just the state, right? That's why I talk about this concept of the overstate where they're, you say, oh, it's the state, it's the state. It is, but the state isn't just the state, right?

That's why I talk about this concept of the overstate, where the politicians are not the ones who are necessarily making these decisions. Media, banks. Yeah, you have to put it all together. People like Ed Buck. All the various nodes of power. The greatest issue that's not talked about is the fact that Ed Buck was a known secret. This is one of those open

secrets in the hollywood area about seth mcfarland years and years right and nobody said anything because he made donations to all the right people and so he was out praying actually praying on these people who were at risk uh for years kills two of. And then finally, the community has enough of a response to actually do something about Ed Buck. The real situation isn't necessarily what he did. It's the fact that people enabled him to do it. Yeah. All right, let's see.

Steven Booty says, I'm a landlord in New Jersey. Got lucky this past year as my tenants didn't lose their jobs and kept paying. Can only imagine if they stopped. Yeah, I'd imagine. Wow. I mean, that can't be too many people in that boat. All right.

Let's see. Ian Hall says, on point of order, Samsung is made in Vietnam, not China. Thank you. There you go. Josiah Padula says, Eric hasn't put the name of the second factory on his site after saying he'd do so immediately. Not to mention the site has lots of remnant text buttons from some sort of site builder template that hasn't been removed yet. Well, that's good criticism. I pushed him on it when he was like, I'm not going to say the name.

I'm like, are you kidding? Like, I guess he was saying he couldn't say the name because maybe he can't really pronounce the name and didn't know what it was. He should have known what it was he should have known what it was otherwise and he shouldn't have brought it up i guess because now people want to know what the name of the factory is and i think it's uh not good that he did not put it on his website he was going to do that so eric if you're listening get that up on your website and let people know where your phones are being made because people don't want you know bunk garbage checking their phones two-bit user says tim remember the deep space nine episode

about the sanctuary sanctuary districts in 2024 and the bell riots all homeless were put in walled cities was that where uh which one was that did you remember that one that they go back in time or something i forget if they went back in time or they were just discussing it but this this was a huge you did it this was a huge deal though in not in not just Deep Space Nine lore, but sort of like the entire Star Trek. And I'm totally not a Trekker, but I've seen various shows of it. But I know the Bell Riots and that 2024 is a huge part of how the new world was created in the Star Trek verse. Yeah. Yeah, the cops were given drugs, you know, the SWAT cops.

All right, let's see. Mr. Obvious says, Our defeats in the Olympics are a perfect example of what happens when unqualified diversity hires are chosen over merit. Maybe Simone Biles is like the best of the best. I wouldn't, yeah, I wouldn't say that about Simone Biles. Yeah, she's like legit the best. No, she legit is the best.

She's doing tricks beyond the skill level of the gymnastics team. I think she has like five different feats. There's like the Biles on Bean, the Biles on the mat, the Biles 2. The Biles 2. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just think that we're getting to this point where people are celebrating her bowing out. Instead of saying, we respect you and we hope you get better it's a shame we didn't win right it's a shame but you know we we wish you the best we pray for you

as a human being but you know like again you think you're just in a different category now yeah jack daw says i'm a truck driver if If these local businesses reach $30 an hour or more, I'm done driving. One less truck delivering. Could you imagine? We had John Schnatter on the show, Papa John. In the member segment, he mentioned that there's a pizzeria, he knows, where they're paying $35 an hour to the cooks to make the pizzas. $35 an hour to make pizzas.

Where's that? I think he said in New York. Sign up. Because if he doesn't, that's what he had to pay. That was the market rate because people are getting free money. Wow. What people don't understand

is that time is money, right? Is he still on a couple stores himself? I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't think, I joked about him opening his own franchise and he was like, well, you know.

But, he should. He totally should. Time is money, right? No, he should do, by the way, do you remember a couple times ago when I was on,

we were talking about those pizza huts, like the original, like nostalgia restaurants. Oh, the buildings that are abandoned? Yeah, he should do, by the way, do you remember a couple times ago when I was on, we were talking about those pizza huts, like the original, like, nostalgia restaurants? Oh, the buildings that are abandoned? Yeah, he should do, like, he should open, like, a nostalgia pizzeria where, don't call it Pizza Hut or whatever, but you can have, like, you walk in and it's the 90s. There's, like, 90s TV, you know what I mean? I'm going to start my own pizza place called Papa Tim's. Papa Tim's. And we're going to have garlic sauce and pepperoncinis and yeah but the point is you when you walk in it's like there's

like a 90s tv playing and you can change the channels but it's all like pre-loaded yeah it's all uhf and maybe a remote oh yeah and it's 90s and there's 90s music and there's like an old school jukebox that's a good idea i'm telling you so so the idea so i i i saw the story about blockbuster where they created a section of the store there'll be a movie rental section no no the second of the store that was a 90s living room and they had like a pizza box and like a soda and chips and it was all the old style graphics of pepsi 64 there was a tv no i think it was like i don't think that's 64 but it was snes yeah yeah and so you could come in and they ubered out it come in and they Ubered it out for like three nights. So you could have a nostalgic 90s.

And I was like, what if you created a like- No, do that, but a chain. Right, right, right. So my idea was to do five rooms, a 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. Okay, so in each room is a different era. And the TVs are preloaded with- I mean, this is what every 50s diner is, right? So you just do that, but with different decades.

But it would be cool to, yeah, right. So here's your 80s, here's your 70s, your 60s, and then you can rent whichever one for the night. You'd have to stock up on, like, 90s Mountain Dew and Pepsi or whatever. You would, yeah. Yeah, all the crazy, and people go in there, and the TVs are UHF with the antennas. And then you'd have, like, one of the guys walk out and move the antenna,

and then the TV is like you know static. So you know the Smashing Pumpkins song 1979? Yeah. So I think somebody tweeted recently that that came out in 1995. Right. So the equivalent today would be

a song called 2005. Yeah dude. Yeah. I should do a, I'll do a cover of 1979 called 2005 and I'll sing about it what it was like in 2005. Exactly.

And then, yeah, we'll just do a cover. My buddy and I, who does some writing on the side with me, we were talking about doing like, I don't know, graphic novel or movie script,

but call it like the summer of 99. Yeah. Danny says, Tim, not sure, not sure if you saw what happened to crowder but the straight-up death wishings he's gotten has blown my mind never knew the hatred people have in their hearts all because of someone who doesn't agree with the establishment yes i did see what would happen with crowder i wish him a speedy recovery and the prayers up for crowder yeah absolutely man and and these these these tweets may just these people are sick just understand no understand understand like this pathology right they would put you all in gulags yes if they could you just give them the word and

they will listen to the j6 hearings listen to the things they're saying listen to the comments this isn't a right trump is gone so now who's the target you are the target we'll talk about this for the bonus you were the target we'll get into that yeah but that because the insurrection from the left the response to crowder is just a another example that if you i say this in tourism are you paying attention to yet are you paying attention yet jeffrey said to rush limbaugh when he died. Look what they said about him. Jeffrey Pfaff says, Peter Thiel is funding and working with Rumble, Tim.

Yes, that is true. That is true. Right on. I think J.D. Vance put some money in that as well. We upload to Rumble and use their infrastructure as well. And good for Peter Thiel. I wasn't trying to drag him saying he wasn't doing anything. I'm just saying journalism is different from just Rumble.

So it's good that he is funding stuff, my respect. And my respect for everything he went through with Gawker. I mean, you put out the things Gawker did, man. If Gawker existed today in its previous state. Yeah, I hope people don't think that we were getting on a deal or any of that. Gawker would be called far Right if it published the things it published back then. They were outing gay men. And black

and it's just gross stuff. And like doxing for just the thrill of doxing. It was ridiculous. People have this they're trying to nostalgize it. And the new version is supposed to be like we're the better parts of

Gawker no you're trash you've always been trash you belong on the ash heap of history along with communism and all the ugly communists all right rhythmic riot says people who keep mentioning Yuri Bezmenov need to know what warnings about communism go back much further watch the 1958

speech from Robert Welch who lays out the steps on how to destroy the free world. All communism is supported by ugly people because communism is based in envy. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. There's a prominent YouTuber I was hanging out with years and years ago, and one of the things I had mentioned was that when you

go to... They'll never admit it, by the way. When you go to the DNC, you notice that most of the people there are like frumpy, short, squeaky voices. And you go to the RNC and you'll see a lot of taller, chiseled guys and busty women. And it actually is true. Multiple studies have found that attractive people tend to be more conservative.

And it makes perfect sense if you agree with leftist ideology, the idea of privilege. That people who are attractive have it easier in life. They have privileges, so thus they think they don't need collective support. Beauty privilege is a thing, but at the same time looks maxing is also a thing. The funny thing is

we pointed that out on this show and even cited, I think, three different studies, and the Young Turks made fun of my appearance for it, which was the weirdest thing ever, and kind of a self-owned because they don't realize that I'm not a conservative, and so they're like, he's so dumb, and look how ugly he is. I'm like, I know, but I'm kind of a liberal. It because they don't realize that i'm not a conservative and so they're like he's so dumb and like look how ugly is i'm like i know but i'm kind of a liberal so it wouldn't

surprise me that jank is a communist i mean i think jank is just a corporatist at this point yeah yeah total total corporatist uh that's that's his mo and that's why he finds himself this really weird position where he has so many former employees who are speaking truth to power and he's not and i think he's's jealous about it, to be honest. All right, let's see. Because remember, the actual people leading the movement, so people, when I said that on Twitter the other day, they were like, what about young Stalin?

Young Stalin was a pretty good-looking man. I said, well, look what communism did to him, number one. But number two, the actual leaders don't actually believe in any of this stuff. Of course, he was in the Soviet Union, he stole power and murdered people. They just want to be in power, right? We're talking about the rubes. We're talking about all of you that are following them. actually believe in any of this stuff right they just want to be in power right it's all we're talking about the rubes we're talking about all of you that are following tricks the he tricked the ugly people who do you think went into the gulags first oh yeah all the male models right all right yokosoma says my org created a new email district distribution list that seems to include

all 500 employees except me third time i recently complained complained about their critical CRT indoctrination. I said I'd be looking for an attorney if they continue. Ooh, interesting. All right, let's see. We'll do one more. Samuel J. Weber says, name it Papa Pools. So the nickname is Pee-Pees. All right, Pee-Pees Pizza.

Papa Pools Pizza. Pee-Pee-Pee. Three P's. There you go. Pee-Pee-Pee. Three P. My friends, if you haven't already, give that like button a little tap. Subscribe to this channel and become a member at TimCast.com.

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