Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #357 - Most Americans Now Find Biden Incompetent Says Poll w/Chris Karr

Episode Date: August 24, 2021

Tim, Ian, and Lydia join coworker and executive editor of Timcast.com Chris Karr to break down the majority of Americans no longer believing Biden is a competent president (and not liking Kamala much more), Gavin Newsom's potential recall, an LA Times columnist flabbergasted that her outreach to the 'latinxs' was not successful (at all), and a New York judges who are making the choice between jail and vaccination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In what may be a shocking poll to each and every one of you, the majority of Americans now believe that Joe Biden is not competent. I know. Calm down. I hope you are sitting down for this one because there's more. Another poll found that Kamala Harris was also not competent. This has been a tough day for all of us. I mean, we've been, you know, Ian was crying when he found out. I wasn't polled, which was the worst part. He's coming in.

All I wanted for Christmas. I don't think anybody should be surprised by this polling, considering everything that's happening. Look, he's not answering questions about Afghanistan. He's muttering and sputtering. He's not giving, like, he's doing he's he's done a few of these you know press uh uh events but there was one instance where i guess he got asked a question and then he went wait i thought the question was supposed to uh anyway like the journalist agreed to a question like it was all pre-planned but then they threw him a curveball and he was like

and everyone's joking like well that journalist is never getting invited again. Yeah. Because Joe Biden can't handle spontaneous questions. Do you guys remember when he was like, oh, they're going to get mad at me for answering questions. So yeah, we have this talk about,

we have a lot to talk about. Um, the FDA has approved the Pfizer vaccine. There's a lot to talk about there because as much as for a lot of people, they're probably excited to hear there's, you know, they were waiting for FDA approval. It just,

it means we're going to see a lot more vaccine mandates which i think absolutely crossed the line and this is where things start getting creepy and weird and then we got the recall election recall gavin newsom and larry elder who has been smeared as the black face of white supremacy because of course as you know we live in a dave chappelle sketch so uh this should be fun. So joining us today is Chris Carr, executive editor for TimCast.com. Yeah, absolutely. It's a thrill to be here. It's super exciting. I love being here.

I mean, I don't know what else to say. I'm a bit of an oddball. I'm an introvert. I'm a writer, so I'm going to work on speaking. Right on. But yeah, so prior to that, I was a news reporter in Southern California for the Epoch Times. So I'm used to California shenanigans. I was talking to Sarah Patch earlier. I said I'm a bit desensitized to the insanity coming out of California,

but I look forward to talking about that, among other things. Thanks for having me. Yeah, absolutely. And for those that are wondering, executive editor means he makes sure the website's working and all the news articles are going up. So we decided, you know, like, let's promote some of what we're doing here, man. We got Chris's great, helping make sure all the news articles are going up on time. If you go to TimCast.com, you can check all that stuff out. And we are expanding and building and hiring more journalists. And it's all new. It's all new.

So we're getting there. But we got stuff coming. We got Ian. What up? Hey, is it confirmed that it's called Epoch Times and not Epic Times? Both pronunciations are correct. I say Epoch because I'm from Appalachia. So that's, you know, just naturally where my accent goes.

And now you're back. Yeah. Welcome home. Happy to be back. Yeah. Right on. Right on. All right.

Well, there you go. Good to be here. Thanks, Tim. Yeah. I guess we're doing the vlog more and more. Production's been ramping up. And we just got the music equipment for the new studio. The latest vlog, Ian jamming out.

People are loving it. I can hear it when we do a jam night the next day. My voice is like... Fried? Yeah, yeah. Stretched. We're trying really hard to get these live events ready to go, so we might just have to just try and duct tape some kind of live event together because we've been...

We can do it now. Yeah, we'll talk about it afterwards because we've been trying to do it for months and we've been jammed up with red tape and lack of duct tape so maybe we just make it happen right we moved a bunch of instruments into the green room so we had a bunch in the garage kind of out with the three printer equipment but it was really a lot of stuff in a little room so it's hard to jam out there and get really humid so last night we moved everything down to the studio you the green room, and it was really... It's a nice chill spot, so we could have like 20 or 30 people chilling down there and listening. That's always been the

plan, is like mix it up, but there's bureaucratic stuff holding us up, so I think we just got to figure it out. But we will. We got Lydia pressing all the buttons. I am indeed pressing all the buttons. I'm really excited to be sitting in a room full of all my coworkers. It's going to be a great time. I'm looking forward to what Chris has to say. We're having fun talking before the show. Yes, that's right. Also, head over to TimCast.com, become aworkers. It's going to be a great time. I'm looking forward to what Chris has to say. We're having fun talking before the show.

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and our expansion to hire more and more journalists. So check that out now. Let's get in. Oh, wait. Smash the like button. Subscribe. Share the show. out now let's get it oh wait smash the like button subscribe share the show now let's get into that story from timcast.com majority of americans no longer believe that biden is competent do you know you know if it wasn't on timcast.com i'd almost assume this article was fake news you know why it implies that at some point people did believe joe biden was competent right so now they

don't this is the one thing well you know what it is is that people live in the media so when the media is saying biden's great everyone's like okay and now that he's botching afghanistan and the media is criticizing him now the people who don't pay attention are all of a sudden shocked to realize but he's doing bad and isn't it funny how these polls track with the mainstream media narrative? They say, according to a new poll from CDS, 51% believe that Biden is not a competent commander in chief. Well, 49% believe that he is. I'd like to meet at least one of these 49%. Who are these people that, after everything we've seen, the pollsters also found that 52% of likely voters do not feel the president has been focused. I just – who is this 48 percent that has heard the man speak and heard the word true and anonashabada pressure and decided that that was focused?

I know those people. They're my family. They're my friends. There's tons of people. Oh, I know. I mean, that's true. And I don't think you could throttle them into reality. I really don't.

Yeah. You know? And that's really sad. And it's unfortunate for me because it's cost me friendships. It's cost me a lot. But those 49% of people do exist. And I don't think that they're necessarily willing to wake up to what's actually happening. Yeah.

It's safe. Yeah. We've got these baby chicks. Okay. Yeah, it's safe. Yeah. We've got these baby chicks, okay? We had, I think, 14 eggs, and we're not good at what we're doing, so most of them didn't make it. But three of them did, and they're actually pretty spunky and strong. And they are scared to leave their little brooder box. It's safe.

It's warm. Now, one of them, though, is always, like, peeking out. You know, and there's one one that one that's brave. And that's that's what this reminds me of. The two of the three, they're like scared and they're just like, I don't want to leave. It's warm and safe. Don't make me go. I don't want to go in the real world.

And I look at them and I'm like, they would have voted for Joe Biden. It's easy. You know, it's you don't got to think. It's like, you know, we hear from these YouTubers like you don't got got to think you just go to the website and it's all done for you here's where it gets here's where uh well this is interesting the cbs poll was conducted as afghanistan fell to the taliban and 53 percent disagreed with the way that the troops were withdrawn 70 percent said the removal of troops could have been handled better along with 55 percent who said some troops could have stayed according to Breitbart News. Now, the sad part is, we'll go to the bottom.

There's a couple of things here. Rasmussen found that 55% of voters believe Harris is not qualified to assume the duties of the presidency, including 47% who said she is not qualified at all. Jeez. That's harsh. But 43% of likely voters believe she is ready to be the president way down from 49 back in April. A couple interesting things. Civics shows Joe Biden's job approval by state. In almost every single state, Joe Biden is underwater with disapproval.

It is California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Hawaii, Oregon, Illinois, Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Washington that have a positive view of Joe Biden. Yeah. Basically blue states. Of course. Count on it. The craziest thing about all this, I suppose, is it's independent voters are driving all of this. Republicans hate Biden and Democrats love Biden. And that's not changing.

But independent voters are shifting away. 57% disapprove of Joe Biden. So I don't know what this means. I mean, maybe we'll get a 25th Amendment. I'm really shaken with his behavior in the last couple weeks. It's nice to see the polls like this catching up. I don't know. Did you catch how many people were polled or if it was like a nationwide poll?

Well, civics is 91 514 responses but that's over a couple years um i don't know i can pull up the cbs one though i when this afghanistan thing went down i don't know if it was intentional and they're like you're gonna make us pull out fine we'll show you what a pullout looks like here suck it or if it was just biden was so is such a poor military commander he's the commander-in-chief of the u.s armed forces he's such a poor military commander. He's the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces. He's such a poor military commander that he just didn't understand tactics. Like you leave air support in while you move people out on the ground. It could have been a three-month process moving people out.

He had all year. And they rushed it. He knew. So it's 2,142 adults with a margin of error of plus 2.3%. 2,000, that's a big sample. I got like a pang of fear thinking, what if this stupid Chinese boogeyman, the CCP, but like if there was some sort of like coordinated invasion right now with Biden at the helm, if he really doesn't, isn't a good commander, and then we have to fight a war,

we lose because the commander misappropriates. The first days are the most, you know, vulnerable moments in a war. You know, I think this people that were saying that Afghanistan is revealed. The emperor has no clothes. And, you know, what's crazy to me is this realization, because I've actually even though I know Joe Biden's kind of like, you know, not all with it. I still felt like, you know, not all with it, I still felt like, you know, people say like, oh, who's Biden's handler? Who's really pulling the strings? Oh, it's going to be Kamala. And you see Afghanistan, it's like, dude, they're legit following Biden.

And so when Biden mutters, stutters and stammers and falls asleep, they just sit there. Like, I genuinely thought there were people like picking up the slack for biden after all this i it's like people were mia like where was kamala she wasn't speaking now you've got this video where she's walking out and the reporter's like i want to ask you about if you know the people and she's like no and people are like why why is she laughing she laughs at really weird times she's a weird person yeah yeah i don't know man i think that biden did have people picking up the slack for him and i'm afraid that the people who are doing that for joe were people like mark milley people who are focused on things like white rage no instead of what it would have been like to pull out properly i think mark milley is is an example of the fact that biden's just

sleeping and they probably walk in the oval office he's like and then mark milley's like yes you know no one's gonna fire fire me now because Biden's asleep. He can't do it unless he wakes up. Maybe. Yeah. How do we have these people? Woke generals, chaos. It's the end of the American empire.

I forget which commentator I listened to mention this, but you just see Joe Biden. You see him walking away from these press conferences. You see him walk him up to the podium. This is not the face of a healthy democracy. It just I mean, it's, it's painful to watch. It really is. And I feel those pangs that you're talking about when I see him speak. And at a certain point, it's not even funny.

You know, I mean, like some people still just kind of want to pile on to him and make fun of him. And it's not funny. It feels like he is genuinely struggling to put together a sentence, to put together a perspective, and to lead the nation. How is it only now? I guess I made the point people were following the media, but only now these independent voters are like, hmm, maybe this 78-year-old guy who can't talk well there's something wrong with him. That's what I was going to ask you. What do you think it was? Was it the straw that broke the camel's back essentially it was it afghanistan

or was it just like this was the final thing the latest thing that's really just made people kind of see what's happening this is what's scary about it is that it's whatever cnn tells them yeah you know and and cnn's like biden's great and they're like okay and now afghanistan like cnn wants war war is good for the bottom line for all these media companies now they're like, okay. And now Afghanistan, like CNN wants war. War is good for the bottom line for all these media companies. Now they're like, oh, he really messed this one up. And now regular people are like, CNN said he messed it up. So he did. There you go.

The funny thing is he hasn't lost, the civics poll shows Biden hasn't lost a single percentage point from Democrats since the fall of Kabul till today. Like, I just, it's it's it's it's a cult i wish i could say it surprised me honestly but it doesn't and it is a cult yeah yeah i see that here's here's the thing about trump trump was giving a speech and he told everyone to go get the vaccine and they booed him yeah and i'm i'm laughing like oh geez but that doesn't that prove it's not a cult? Yes. Even Trump's most dire supporters are like, no, Trump. You're wrong. To me, that says a lot.

And I think that shows that Trump is the avatar for that working class anger. These people are not blindly following Trump. A lot of them are. Yeah, a lot of them are. But to boo him when he said that, there's... Based. Yeah. They said, no, Trump is not the NLBL, but Biden?

People just say, go Biden. Sam Harris tweeted something. You guys know Sam Harris? Yeah. And he was like, unlike the Trump supporters that blindly just defend Trump, I'm going to criticize Joe Biden. It's like, oh, you're so brave. You and CNN criticizing Joe Biden. Wow.

For once. That's really unfortunate about Sam Harris. I really think that he's one of the public intellectuals who got broken in some sense during the lockdown. I think, I think something like triggered in his brain and he hasn't recovered in some sense because used to, I would be able to listen to him and I would hear coherent thoughts even when I disagreed. But lately he's just been on some sort of bandwagon that doesn't even follow up with a lot of the stuff he used to claim.

What happened to people? I know. I know. Yeah. I've got a story about that, actually. And this is – it really hit home with me because, like, my best friend of 15 years. We've been best friends for a really long time. And I sent him a text message.

I was like, did you see the key to NYC situation? The vaccine passed. Yeah. And, well well he's a chicago guy you know blue pill all the way lori lightfoot supporter you know still still still um and uh he so i i told him about the key to nyc program i was like you saw this right he's like yeah yeah it's great oh sorry sorry that's what he said he said this is this is effing great and i was just like this is fascism he said i i don't care if it is i said, this is, this is effing great. And I was just like, this is fascism. He said,

I don't care if it is. I love it. This is exactly what needs to happen. There need, these mandates need to be in place and people need to follow in line or not. And I said, I didn't realize that you were a fascist. I hadn't,

I hadn't realized you became radicalized. Yeah. And he said, Chris, we're going to have to disagree on this. And I said, no, no,

no, no, no, we're not disagreeing. You're disagreeing with the definition of fascism. Yeah. And he goes do you want to still be friends or are you going to let this go it's a simple question

i got its answer i mean but but it's not just on the screw off i don't know i haven't heard from him since and i didn't message him back actually i did message him i said that sounds exactly like something a fascist would say but but but. But these kind of derangement fits happen on personal levels, and they also happen in these kind of national displays, like on Twitter. And I see more and more of that, and it's really disturbing to me. I love this reference I used, the Galaxy Quest one. You guys have seen Galaxy Quest? Yeah, oh yeah.

Tim Allen. Yeah, totally. Tony Shalhoub's character is just like laughing. They're TV actors on a spaceship. They're going to die, and he's just like, I guess we're going to die, whatever. Yeah, totally. Tony Shalhoub's character is just like laughing. They're TV actors on a spaceship. They're going to die. And he's just like, I guess we're going to die. Whatever. He's laughing.

That's kind of how I feel about everything. Not to like downplay it, but people often say like, how did Nazi Germany get to the point to violate Godwin's law? Right. How did Nazi Germany get to that point? It's like, you're sitting here right now. Like, New York is mandating identification and proof of vaccination to enter a restaurant. It's like, I get it. If you're concerned about your health and there's a medication, it's FDA approved. Hey, congratulations.

You can go to a doctor. You can figure it out for yourself. But for the city to be like, fire all of your disabled employees. Like, we've certainly crossed the line here and what's funny is like you saw you mentioned about your friend they're cheering for it yeah they're they're they're they love it that crazy they feel like their tribe is winning it right i mean isn't isn't there some sort of like very basic tribal element to this yeah yeah man but what but but there's no i guess these people don't understand that they're not they're not in the the actual tribe of elitism those that run the systems and are locking everything down will throw them into the gutter at a moment's notice but so they're just standing

there gloating saying haha i'm in the winning team and'm like, I don't care who's... Leave me alone. You can go... I feel like I'm watching a hockey game and they're just playing really aggressive and I'm not playing the game. And I'm like, just get away from me. And they're trying to throw me into the rink to play. And I'm like, no. And now they're throwing stuff at the stands

and I'm like, why are you throwing stuff at me? I got nothing to do with your game, dude. Would you fight to protect people that hated you? That's a good question. I guess there's a lot of nuance in that question, though. I don't know how to answer it. Like, if you're destined to be a villain, even if you protect the people?

If there was, like, some... If there was, like, an Antifa guy and he was, like, yelling and cussing at me and then, like, you know, he was like walking away and a car was speeding at him full speed, I'd probably try and save him. That's the G.I. Joe in you. Well, it's just like the dude,

you're allowed to hate me, man. You know, like if the guy's not being violent, if he was violent towards me, I'd probably run away. I'd probably be like, nah, I'm not going to get anywhere near this guy. It's not a good idea. But if there was like someone who was like,

I hate you, you're dumb. And then I saw a car coming, I'd be like, look out. And I'd try and save him. So there's a difference between being violent towards you and hating you, I suppose. That's where there's some nuance there. Yeah, if they're like throwing rocks at me,

I'd just be like, no, I'm not going anywhere near that guy. What about you, Ian? Based on your question, what would you do? Yeah, I would. Pretty thankless. Also, I wonder like if you're preserving like low intelligence humans

that just eat and reproduce and eat and reproduce and then starve out the system, if you're actually doing a disservice to the species. I don't know. It's weird. You're asking dangerous questions. Right. It's very ethical. And what's the genetic – what's that? Eugenics.

Yeah, eugenics. It's a very eugenic way to look at should they live or should they die? But that's basically what governments do and you know i'll tell you this for a fact that these these uh powerful interests have asked themselves these questions no no no doubt about it because uh when we had alex jones here i asked him that question on the show what if the the all of this stuff about the end you know the end and overpopulation is true and we as humans are just yeast in a bottle consuming all the resources and farting ourselves to death? And he said – he's like, I ask myself that question all the time, but how do you answer it? It's a legitimate question.

The problem is – I can't remember exactly what he said, but he was like, you know, you got to defend freedom and liberty. We, no individual person is going to be smart enough to steer the ship properly. And we can rely on human nature, which has always found solutions through ingenuity and invention. Or we can just hand it off some despot authoritarian who we know through history has always oppressed, murdered and punished. It's tough, man. It, you know, cause we were at what, like 8 billion people. There's like insect populations punished. It's tough, man. Because we're at, what, like 8 billion people? There's insect populations declining. There's dead zones in the ocean. And the point you brought up is actually brought up by a lot of people.

There's a lot of conspiracy theory people write about how the elites view humans as useless eaters. They don't contribute anything. They don't do anything. They just consume, make waste, and reproduce. And so there's some very difficult questions in that.

How many people do you know, and everyone probably does, who do nothing? Literally nothing. Or they work a job that's just like not beneficial. Borderline, vestigial,

yeah, like insurance. Well, people make a good point about insurance brokers for like big corporations when have specialty contracts, that I understand. But there are probably a lot of jobs that don't do anything for the system at all. Probably tons of them that are just like, well, you've got to have a job, I guess. Right. Banking. Banking's weird.

That's weird. Maybe we're advancing to the point where we can say that i think banking makes sense i think central banking has corrupted the whole process that's a different thing yeah the profit motive of banking is pretty weird yeah i understand not wanting to get screwed on your loan so you charge you know a little bit of interest but to try and get rich off of extracting value from from the system without contributing anything to that system right so i always complain about people who you know or i should say i complain about how the off of extracting value from the system without contributing anything to that system. So I always complain about people who – or I should say I complain about how the government is printing a lot of money and giving it to people so they're able to buy stuff, take

food and resources from the system without putting anything in. And that creates a trade imbalance, a production imbalance, which eventually causes collapse. But we see that with a lot of people in financial jobs. They make bets. They extract from financial jobs. They they make bets. They extract from the system. They don't do anything. But that's that's that's that's I want to I want to stay on what you what you asked, Ian, because that's let's let's let's just take a few minutes and get philosophical real quick before we jump over to the California stuff. What do you do if that's true, Ian?

What do you do if you have seven billion people who don't contribute anything? They eat and they pollute and they destroy. Jeez, dude. seven billion people who don't contribute anything they eat and they pollute and they destroy geez dude you have to build a system that allows for that behavior without so that solves the problem with taking into account the the the the unchangeable human problem which is that we're wild animal consumers destructors uh so you build a system where it's okay to be destructive and consumers. You need massive expansion capability. You need unlimited access or relatively unlimited access to resources like food. Is it possible? Yeah, it just takes a lot of redesigning of the system.

We need fusion power. We need magnetic transportation. We need to be able to zing from place to place. That's what I'm talking about. If you look at history the crises we've always faced have been solved by technology and the authoritarians who are always screaming at the problems have always just mass murdered people so if i'm going to sit here and be like what should we do i'd be like invent stuff you know engineering uh scientific research and development not handing over the reins of government to crackpot despots,

people like in the Democratic Party and the neocons, formerly of the Republican Party, because they'll just burn it down. It's faster and easier, I guess. And if you come out independently and say, I want to burn it down, then the system seeks you out as like a danger and will incarcerate or destroy you,'ve found too so there's either you join

them and then give up and that's you lose or you try and you just give up on your own and then you lose because you look like you're messing with their version of how to destroy the situation or how to you know you can't be the famous one doing it that's too dangerous for the power structure so they'll

I think the only way is to help the people, is to give them a chance. Yeah, I think we've got to rely on development. You're talking about helping people, like people that are in need. Like people that can't help themselves, that aren't critical thinkers,

that are draining on the system, having seven kids. It's kind of like just a fictitious idea of people in my head. No, no, it's not fictitious at all. But I don't think the seven kids is the issue. I think just a fictitious idea of people in my head. No, no, it's not fictitious at all. I don't think the seven kids is the issue. I think it's that I know tons of people who sit around doing literally nothing.

They go out, they eat, they party, and they go home and they don't do anything and their jobs are like menial. And I have no issue with their life choices and the life they live and what they choose to live because I'm not going to sit here and decide what is or isn't more important in anyone's life right like oh you relaxing and doing garbage work is well that's how they choose to live their life but certainly there's a

mathematical equation that at a certain point you're like we have 50 billion people on the planet's about to implode or something like that you know what i mean or maybe it's not maybe it's not true maybe we'll never get to that point maybe it's just tunnels but maybe it's just fear-mongering so that people give up control to lazy people who don't want to work. You know what I see when I see these ultra wealthy people? Laziness. Now, I know it sounds contradictory, right? And it's often like a leftist trope. But the reason why a lot of the powerful elites, I'm not saying every single one, want power is they don't want to do anything.

It's like, because there's no point at which you have money that you can just stop and relax. Never. It never happens. And so there are people who are like,

how can I just get to that point where me and my friends don't have to do anything anymore? Authoritarianism. Slaves. Yeah, just, if you have supreme power over people, then you truly can relax

and not have to work. I don't think that you then you truly can relax and not have to work i don't think that you can ever actually really relax and not have to work though i mean they you might have that perception you might think that's possible but ultimately you're going to find you have a purposeless life and at once once you sense that either consciously or unconsciously you're going to start to act out and probably lash out at people around you but what about there's so many i guess actually yeah i guess you're right probably start to act out and probably lash out at people around you. But what about, there's so many, I guess, actually, yeah, I guess you're right. Probably, maybe the issue is this. There's a lot of people with purposeless lives, and we've talked about this before,

and that's why you're seeing the rise of wokeness. Right. People in power with purposeless lives. Yes. That's interesting. Yeah. Well, I mean, this goes back to an anecdote from Jordan Peterson when he was working with somebody in his clinical practice, and he was just like, well, what do you want to do

with your life? He's like, well, I just want to relax on the beach and drink margaritas all day. And he was just like, that's you want to do with your life he's like well i just want to relax on the beach and you know drink margaritas all day and he was just like that's not a plan that's not even a poster you know i mean like i mean it sounds so great in theory but in practice it does not work out not just for the person themselves but for the people that surround them you know their family their friends their acquaintances you know it spins out of control at some point this is this is the craziest thing about the anti-work subreddit have you guys ever seen this no no r slash anti-work subreddit. Have you guys ever seen this? No. R slash anti-work. What?

It's crazy how they view work. It's like, do you just want to melt into a chair and cease to exist? Work is life. And I don't mean like working at McDonald's. I mean like your goals, your passion, your mission. It's all you doing work. People don't understand this. There's no distinction between, in the long run,

work and hobby or leisure. If you wake up every day and you work really hard on skateboarding, that work can pay off. It's just mind-blowing to me that people are like, I don't want to work. What are you going to do all day? Eat food. You could be a competitive eater.

Congratulations. i don't understand like what you're doing is work yeah yeah work is a scientific i'm looking up the actual scientific definition of it right now but i believe it's just the uh the transition of energy into power uh the production of power through what is it in joules you can measure work in joules i believe what i'm saying is this is work i'm producing work to move this back and forth the question is do you enjoy the work you're doing you can sit still and you're still working so do you if you don't if you like what you're doing it doesn't feel exhausting work doesn't have to be negative and exhausting can be super fun that's the key i think you're always going to be working on something even if it's just sitting

there trying to stay sane. I think we've got a bunch of elites who basically believe what you just said to start off this little bit, that there's a lot of people who just eat and don't do anything and they're a problem. And so they're like, let's just strip the system down. They're not creative enough to be like, how do we fix this? How do we solve for this problem?

They're just like, eradicate the problem. Yeah. That's dangerous, man. I will say the remote work now from the lockdowns is a good thing. You know why? Yeah. Parents are going to be with their kids. Oh, I love it.

Before it was like, your kids are being raised by the state. That's a problem. Now with remote work, we saw there's a bunch of funny videos that have emerged. There was that guy who was appearing on a news program, and his kid walks in, and he's like, oh, it's my kid. And then what happened to a woman too and i'm like that's good they're seeing the cameras the kids are going to learn they're going to understand the work their parents right there with them i think that's going to have a profoundly positive impact we um in 2010 11 i started working on minds co-founded minds with bill and we didn't have an office we

just worked from home and it was the best it best. For me, I worked in the restaurant industry for a decade or whatever, 15 years. So Bill was like, I want to get an office. I want to just do the official, stereotypical, let's start a tech company. Let's get an office. We'll have it. And I'm like, dude, it sucks. To the commute, blows. So we did.

We got an office. It sucked. And the commuting sucked. It cost me like 50 bucks a day in commuting time sometimes. Yeah, it drains your time. And then we got rid of it. No more office. You don't need an office, especially a social network doesn't need an office right now.

We get to do Slack meetings. You're literally a social network. I think you have the internal technology to communicate with each other. You just do not need an office. You're almost incentivized not to, to cut so much cost. Is it sustainable, though? Like, what kind of economy are we going to have left if all of our manufacturing goes to China and then all Americans do is run blogs?

Right, because if the power goes out and everyone's in their house in different parts of the country, the workday is over. Like, I don't know what the backup for that is. If you're in an office, at least you can keep working because you're in the room together. I guess your cell phone still works. Yeah. You might be able to pull it off with solar panels. Well, if your phone's charged, you can still talk to people. But the question I'm saying is we don't make stuff anymore.

If people are working remote, the service economy is going to get hit. That's going to be massive. Like if we're working remotely, we don't need to go to local cafes anymore so everybody goes to one office building and then for lunch they all go down to little restaurants down you know downstairs but if we're all working remote you're eating at home so this is actually one of the contributors to the food shortages that we've been seeing is that with the lockdowns and people not working they were cooking more so they were buying base ingredients from supermarkets and the shelves were depleted and so then there was was a big surge in orders, but people also weren't working anymore. So that means nobody was making the stuff.

But anyway, so it's a big contributing factor when people aren't leaving. So all these restaurants, one by one, are going to start falling. I think people don't realize that it's falling apart to the extent that it is. I think like these regular people who for some reason think Biden's competent, man, they're holding on. And it's, you know what? I'm confident they're going to have a long fall. But that's not my problem.

Well, it might be because we're all in this together. Right. It's not just him that's going to be doing the fall. He's the commander of the strongest military Earth has ever seen that we know of. And he's like flubbing his words, mixing up North and South. Korea doesn't. And Libya and Syria. Dude, it's, I don't know.

I've never been in a war, but sometimes I put my head in my mind in the place of someone that isn't being invaded, like a farmer. And once it happens, it's done. everything is changed in a moment and it doesn't there's no warning like i mean you might get a warning but back in the day they didn't get a warning people just ride up and then they're there like when the power goes out then you'll start to wonder like oh yeah did i i should have called my mom two days ago or all the things you should have done should have voted for trump should have got that extra bottle of water. Should have bought that ammo. Should have, should have, should have.

And it's like, dude. Yeah, yeah, that's big news too that Biden apparently banned imports of Russian ammo. Why? Yikes. I don't know. This is economic. What the heck?

And you know, it was funny because we got a bunch of super chats from people and they were like, get ammo now. Biden just banned Russian imports. And I look at my phone and it's Luke and he's like, get ammo now. I'm like, Luke, when are you getting here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. it's Luke and he's like, get M.O. now. I'm like, Luke, when are you getting here?

Let's talk about what's going on in California, though. This is funny. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our... What's... Okay. Who was the guy who wrote the story about the clown comes out from behind the stage and tries to warn the audience there's a fire?

Some philosopher. Kierkegaard. Here's the story. First, Larry Elder brushes off LA Times column that called him the black face of white supremacy. Clayton Bigsby, the Dave Chappelle sketch, is not real.

These people are insane. But this is a really good example of the Kierkegaard story, I think it's Kierkegaard. Of the clown. He comes out from backstage where a fire has broken out. And he starts frantically waving to the audience. There's a fire in the back. Everyone get out.

And they all start laughing. Laughing with joy. And the clown gets frustrated and tries desperately to tell them. But the more energetic he gets to warn about the fire that's actually burning on the theater, the more they laugh. And then he says, Kierkegaard says, I says i imagine that's you know how the world will end you know that people you know what i forgot exactly what he said but the people are going to be laughing not realizing what's going on around them when when okay look larry elder might win this one

and i think that would be amazing he's a libertarian guy he's he's smart fella and they're pulling out every stop imaginable to try and block Larry Elder from winning in California. Now, here's what you need to understand. Gavin Newsom will get recalled if people vote to recall. If they don't vote for him. I could be wrong about this, but my understanding is if you walk in and say recall and walk out, he gets recalled. You don't need necessarily to vote for someone to replace him. Yeah.

That's exactly right. Get rid of him. Well, you lived under Newsom, right? Yeah, I did. How was that? I mean, I kind of lived in a renegade county. Orange County isn't quite like L.A. or San Diego. It's certainly not like San Francisco.

So Orange County has a long history of fighting back against sort of big metropolises like L.A. I mean, Orange County used to be a part of L.A. And then there was a big fight and then they broke off and they were just like, we don't we don't want to have what you guys are doing in L.A. So I had that benefit. So but at the same time, I mean, yeah, the lockdown was crazy. I mean, it was it was total and it was complete and everybody had to wear masks. I mean, I'll never forget the first time I encountered one of my friends on the sidewalk, and she goes, the CDC said we can take our masks off. It was the first time I'd seen her without a mask on. Wow.

Such a sweet lady. But, you know, I mean, I was just like, really? You need the CDC to tell you that outside when there's, you know, it's 72 degrees every day and you can enjoy, you know, the air and everything? So, I mean, but yeah, that's the mentality out there. But based on you living under them, you think, the air and everything. So, I mean, but yeah, that's the mentality out there. But based on you living under him, you think recall, yeah? I talked to some political strategists that have, that

not only have been working California politics for decades, but they are actually actively working with some of the people that are hoping to replace Newsom as governor. Republicans? Oh yeah, yeah, Republicans. Yeah, pretty much all of them. And this was probably four months ago.

And they said, do not misunderstand this. Gavin Newsom will not lose. He will not be recalled. He will not be replaced, period. But this is back when there was just a bunch of kind of half-recognizable clown names. They were throwing their hat. There was one guy that was going around California with a bear. You remember this?

No. Oh, yeah. He did, like, a couple speeches with a bear, but the bear wasn't even a California bear, so that was really embarrassing. That was the worst of it, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And the bear was like, you know. Wrong kind of bear. The bear was, like, you know, licking itself while he was trying to give a speech.

It was, you know. That's great. I'd love to see that. So when you see stuff like that, you're just like, okay. I mean, but the political strategists that I talked to would say things like, no, no, you have to understand that Gavin Newsom, and they spoke off the record, of course. They didn't want me to print what they said. They said, Newsom is such a ruthless, conniving politician that he is absolutely not going to let anybody take over for him as governor. Larry Elder is changing that.

And you can see that he's changing that by the total derangement that you're seeing on the LA Times. I mean, I saw a collage the other day. It was like six titles. They're just like flinging every piece of pasta that they possibly can at the wall to see what sticks on this guy. And it's not working because Larry Elder makes sense. He's the same guy. I know, but like who in their right mind would call a black man the face of white supremacy? What is wrong with these people?

I don't know. They're sick. They're sick. Sometimes I feel like the clown running out on the stage and going, and everyone's just laughing. I'm like, yeah. I wonder about that because I try and have levity in my life and

be kind of a jokester and not take things too seriously, but I wonder if a result of that is that people aren't going to take me seriously when i'm screaming about the fall the danger that we're looking at i don't know let me let me let me read a little bit uh read a little bit of this they say uh the la times published a column on friday titled larry elder is the black face of white supremacy. You've been warned. Oh, which accuses the Republican of using overly simplistic arguments that whitewash the complex problems that come along with being black in America. L.A. Times columnist Erica D. Smith said Elder uses taunting and toddler like name calling of his ideological enemies before belittling the gubernatorial candidate with her own insults.

Quote, I've learned that it's often best just to ignore people like Elder. People who are, as my dad used to say, skinfolk, but not kinfolk. She wrote before attempting to insult Elder as a Trump fanboy, dangerous, a troll, and implied he doesn't understand critical race theory. His candidacy feels personal, like an insult to blackness, the Times columnist wrote. Fox News host Sean Hannity called the column disgusting and invited Elder to respond to it directly. Quote, I am genuinely friend to friend. Sorry that you have to go through something as evil, horrific and racist as that, Hannity said. However, Elder, who leads the pack

of Republican candidates looking to replace California Governor Gavin Newsom, wasn't surprised. Quote, I anticipated that would happen. This is why a lot of people don't go into politics, because of the politics of personal destruction. This is not the first time the L.A. Times has attacked me. There is another writer who all but called me a black David Duke. Elder continued, wow, they're scared to death. That is definitely true. Look at his libs of TikTok.

Hold this up. This is great. Let's pull this up. I love them. They're terrified of Larry Elder. All of these Oh, come on. Are you going to give me the business? I can't pull up the photo anymore. I don't think it's going to let me. Okay, well, we can read some of it. Larry Elder, the black face of white supremacy. Larry

Elder talks a lot. Too bad you can't believe anything he says. Larry Elder bashes the media, offers no solutions, remind you of an ex-president. Oh, wow. I see. How many people in California are like, ooh, that's good. You know, I do like Trump. What is this?

Oh, yes. State officials open investigation into whether Larry Elder failed to disclose income sources. Convenient. Jeez. If Larry Elder is elected, life will get harder for black and Latino Californians. Amazing. That's my other favorite one right there. That's a good one.

Yeah. They're really scared of this guy. He's leading the pack. Yeah, he is. And this was not supposed to happen. That's what's so funny is that, like, it was just guaranteed that this recall effort wouldn't work. They are branding it so hard as right-wing Republican. It's a right-wing recall.

Vote no on the Republican recall. I mean, they are so desperate to right-wing Republican. It's a right-wing recall. Vote no on the Republican recall. I mean, they are so desperate to brand it that way, and people just still aren't having it. I know Democrats in California that died in the wool Democrats, voted for Biden. They'd vote for him again. They said, I'm still voting yes on a recall. I don't care. Oh, yeah.

Do you think the recall is going to go through? I do. Really? I do. It's neck and neck, though, isn't it? I really want to be white-pilled on this. I really do. It's going to happen. Yeah. Got't it? I really want to be white-pilled on this. I really do. I mean, I...

It's going to happen. Yeah. Got to believe. Are you going to say something? So, yeah. Did you see the interview that Gavin Newsom gave where he was, like, maniacal? He looked like, what's his name, Bateman? Yeah, yeah.

When he was mayor of San Francisco? Yeah. Yeah. That was great. That was great. The reporter keeps trying to ask him, like, logical questions about all the problems that he's caused. And he just...

He's cackling and he... Problems. He cuts off the first question from the reporter, he's caused and he just he's he's cackling and he he's he cuts off the first uh question from the reporter i believe and he just like starts naming like numbers and stuff total patrick bateman yeah yeah yeah american psycho he owns it he owns the american psycho yeah yeah he does well you know when i saw him defying his own covid mandates i was like despot get him out yeah so i've seen the polling but it's i i gotta say i guess i'm not entirely surprised that some democrats democrats are like get rid of the guy now here's where it gets really funny from newsweek well it's from newsweek but it's quoting 538 nate silver calls democratic strategy to leave newsom recall candidate line blank self-destructive if newsom gets recalled the democrats have offered up no one is that

is that what's going on so the only option you have as a republican so larry elder is going to win wow i hadn't even thought about that scenario that's crazy well so here's what they say 538 founder nate silver said monday the strategy california democrats are pursuing heading into next month's gubernatorial recall election is self-destructive, as sitting Governor Gavin Newsom faces the possibility that he could be voted out of office. The Democratic Party is encouraging Californians to vote against removing Newsom from office, but to refrain from selecting amongst the 46 replacement candidates who appear in the recall ballot. Okay, so there have got to be some Democrats.

Newsom's campaign has made similar recommendations in recent weeks. On Monday, Silver responded to a tweet posted by a political reporter who suggested the strategy was self-interested. It's self-destructive more than self-interested. Pretty decent chance Newsom gets recalled. Democrats could potentially keep the seat if they urged their voters to consolidate behind an alternative Democrat, but instead they're telling them not to vote on the replacement. Dude, Larry Elder for governor is going to be so amazing. That would be amazing. I want to see that in California.

Yeah, you know? Because you've heard what he's going to do when, he keeps saying when he becomes governor, is that he's just going to issue all these executive orders to basically cancel out a lot of these Democrat policies that have gone through these super majorities unchecked that have basically bankrupted the whole state,

cost so much homelessness, people can't afford to live. You know, I mean, and he's just going to put a stop to all those policies in day one, according to him. You know, but we'll see. I think he'd do it. He would do it. I don't know how effective it would be. Yeah, that's the big risk, right? When Trump got into office, he made the mistake of thinking he could pull the trigger.

And then we see clearly he was obstructed across the board. So there's a lot of work to be done. The tendrils of the corruption run deep. And we have a medium-sized animal trap next to our chicken coop because we have a fox that lurks around. And we don't want him to get in the chickens, right? So we set this trap up. Well, over time, the grass and everything grew up into it and now have locked it in place. It grew all around it, and now you just, like, rip it out.

See, that's what happens with these super majorities. This is what happens in D.C. The swamp grows deep. The roots get in there thick, and then it's really hard to pull it out. So Larry Elder could get in, but is he going to be able to effectively weed? Another metaphor is like if you get black mold toxicity, if you breathe it in, what happens is the mold goes into your system, and then it diffuses evenly throughout your entire system. So you just have small particles of mold in your entire system. It's really hard to clean out, similar of how politics can corrupt and influence a society. It's not just

something we can pull out. It's permeated the entire system and needs to be purged slowly with the right medicine. I want to make sure I understand that. Are you calling Larry Elder the black mold of white supremacy? Yes, the black mold of white supremacy. Okay, got it. No, you're saying the corruption

is infecting your body and you can't get it out. The corruption is the black mold of white supremacy. That is good, too, because if it spreads around your house, you could scrub the room where you see it but not realize there's tiny particles already moved somewhere else that grow again, and it's really weaning it out.

My friends, I have a white pill. White pill means optimism? Yes. Optimism, despite all indications that your optimism is crazy. Yeah. That's how I interpret it. Gandalf fighting the, what was that demon that he fought on the bridge? Balrog.

The Balrog? Yeah. He took the white pill. I think that's why he came back as the white wizard. I wonder if that's where the reference stems from. Interesting. No, probably not. It's just because like dark and light.

Yeah, makes sense. Which is funny because it goes back to just night and day. During the day, it's warm. You're safe. You can see. At night, it's dark and the predators are lurking. You can't see them. So humans associated the two.

Anyway, anyway. I have good news for you. I think that it is likely we will see Gavin Newsom be recalled. And when that happens,ry elder is likely to win and i have uh one bit of evidence to back that come up now this is definitive proof you need only see i'm building up suspense here once you see what i'm about to show you everyone's probably saying there's like i i don't believe it there's no no, no. Once you see this, you're going to bet he won. Larry Elder won. Alright, you guys ready? Yes.

We have this tweet from Jean Guerrero. She is a columnist for the LA Times. She said, get ready for this one, Democratic outreach to Latino voters on the California recall election is not working. I've been speaking to young Latinxes and almost

none of them have any idea what's going on this is really really bad almost none of the ones i've spoken to have any idea what's going on um okay so let me let me break down for you why i think this is good news if this lady from the la times goes to a young latino person and calls them a latinx they're gonna be like this lady's crazy they probably have no idea what she's talking about we got we got some new uh staffers here at the house and you know they don't know who aoc is they don't know who brett kavanaugh is and i'm like those are good things you know i'm not trying to tell you who they are we were just talking about you know the state of

politics and they're like we don't we don't know my great great do your job everything's great you don't gotta worry about these people regular people don't know what latinx is and so this shows you something powerful the democratic establishment is absolutely psychotic there are people in the la times going like the latinxes aren't voting for us and the people are like i don't know what that is so if they're going to start making phone calls i'm looking for to speak with the are you latinx latinx latinx is it latinx is latinx that's just because that's the hardcore in me i don't know but you know like because the s at the end like latinx oh it's latinx s yeah there's an s at the end s at the end latinx is latinx is it can't be latinx is

imagine someone you know calling you for all the people who are out there like who are like i'm sure the people who watch this show they've heard these words before but imagine your mom or your grandma like they're latino and they get a call i'm like hi are you a latinx latinx they're gonna be like what is that that means what is the genderless latin someone of latin it's so insane. How would you do that in French? Oh, they haven't got that far yet. They don't have to worry about the French voters. Just wait.

Just wait. French voters. Well, there's northern Maine. Okay. The northernmost point of Maine is French. French American. Then you've got the Nolans. How do you de-gender French?

No idea. You could say L-E-A. Le. Licks. So it's like a cross between la and le. No, it's just say le, L-E-A, le. Licks. So it's like a cross between la and le. No, it's just licks. L-X.

L-X. Le. The X is silent, so it's le. Yeah. Wait, the L is silent? The X would be soft, so it'd be like le.

We are silly people. All the romance languages are gendered. Right. They're all gendered, right? Yeah. Italian, yeah, yeah, right? Yeah. Italian. Yeah, yeah.

Spanish and French for sure. Portuguese. German? It's German? That's German. It's not a language, but yeah. These people did not think this through. They didn't think this through at all.

But think about this. This means that the Democratic establishment is isolated in this bubble where regular people are not. And although regular people, default liberals will vote Democrat, they're not looking at this the same way the establishment is. So when the LA Times comes out and screams, Larry Elder is the black face of white supremacy, regular people go, who?

I'm still saying that. Tell me about this guy. Hopefully I'll meet him soon or get to talk to him. Larry Elder? Yeah. Yeah, he's great. Is he cool? I should look into it. I haven't said much about it. Cause I really don't know. He's really sharp. Yeah.

He, he actually had a, a TV program that he did a few times a week at the Epoch times. So I'm, I'm pretty familiar with him. Cause you know, I saw him a couple of times and you know, I'm,

I'm, I've watched his stuff and he's very big on Thomas soul. You know, the, the economist, he, I think he was a mentor to him. He's very big on um instead

of pointing at something like systemic racism for our problems in the back in the black community he'll point out the fact that you know a large portion of the black community doesn't have fathers in the home you know so he has some traditional conservative values but at least they're sane you know i mean he's not out there you know saying latinx is drunk Dr. Seuss. He actually says things that are grounded and are reasonable, even if you disagree with him. Larry Elder would make a really interesting

addition to the California government. I think, aside from that, getting a change in California, just for once. It's like, I'll put it this way. California is like if someone kept using a toilet without flushing, and it's just a mess.

Ew. And Larry Elder will be the flush. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like he's going to be the person to come in and then just take his foot up and then pull a lever down and finally just. He might find he's the guy that needs the shovel and needs to shovel all the poop out so that there's enough room for it to flush. Totally.

Oh, this reminds me, though, that this video did not get nearly enough coverage. Gavin Newsom cleaning up at Berkeley. Did you guys see that? Oh, I saw that, yeah. Oh, man, that was great. He looked like the petulant 12-year-old kid that's having to help his grandpa clear out lumber. He's pitching it, and he's got this awful face on him. It's so funny.

So that's how he cleans up California, petulantly and angry like an elitist. But Larry Elder would actually come in and do some serious work, I think. That's what I'm saying about these people who just want power. They don't want to do work, right? They don't want to – Gavin Newsom is like – he was probably sitting in his office, and they were like, okay, Gavin, look, this recall is a big deal. There's a lot of people who want to vote you out. We need to do something to show the public you're there for them.

And he's like, I could give a speech. And they're like, no, no, no. You've got to get your hands dirty. Excuse me. Excuse me. I'm thinking, why don't we go clean up? I thought for a minute you said you want me to go clean up their mess. We've got to connect with people people i won't do it and then like some guy was saying gavin you gotta do it or you're done he's like

oh fine and he's like uh and that's how i imagine it clean your house yeah and then he shows up and he's like you make me clean you stupid that's exactly that's the total vibe he was given off in that video and i don't even think it had sound but you could just see it on his face he was just like why am i doing this this is beneath me but think about it's like you know there are people who work hard every day construction and labor and and and you know um medical professionals and this guy what does he do he just he california is just awful like where were you and you were in orange county yeah orange in orange county but prior to that, I was in the San Fernando Valley in L.A. Oh, okay, okay.

Yeah. And that's got a lot of problems, too, still. Not as bad as, like, San Francisco with the homelessness and the poop patrols and stuff. No, I mean, it's still got problems. I mean, homelessness is a serious problem. I mean, I'll never forget I was standing on my patio. This was probably six months ago when they were releasing prisoners from the prisoner. And I saw two police cars pull up. They released released a prisoner he signed his papers at the bus stop

then we locked eyes i went back inside huh wow like yeah that's because of the covet stuff yeah i'm assuming i mean maybe it was just like a standard drop off but it was at the same time that i was hearing oh we're still releasing prisoners you know in droves so uh yeah i mean it's california has problems it's statewide It's not necessarily, you know, pockets. This is crazy to see this. Look, look, look, tinks. Yeah, no, because I'm like, I got to be honest. Like I was talking about when we were mentioning mentioning this with Joe Biden, that even though I know Joe Biden isn't with it, like it's fairly obvious.

I still believe there was some control. You know, I'm like, oh, Joe Biden's out of it, but the system is working, right? It's maybe in a weakened state, but it's still there. Now with Afghanistan, I'm just like, there is no system. There is no president. It is just absolutely chaos. I look at this thing with the Democrats and I'm like, there's no plan. These people have genuinely gone insane.

As much as I rag on them them i always kind of felt like the wokeness was was planned coordinated like they knew what they were doing to manipulate lie cheat and steal this woman shows you they don't they've they've eaten their own refuse that that that toilet's full they're eating out of it they believe the crap they're put they're filling up in these toilets i guess it it's a good thing, though, right? I don't know. Well, it means regular people aren't in that world. That's a good thing.

But I guess I'll put it this way. People keep voting for it because they think Republicans are bad. Oh, well, you know, Republicans are kind of bad. The two-party system is stripping people of their choice whether they realize it or not. People feeling like the lesser of two evils. Man, that drives me crazy. That phrase lesser of two evils. I've heard it for like 20 years. People want to

vote for the lesser of two evils. Yeah, we're not even there anymore. Now it's like you can vote for nothing or for a toilet full of crap. The Democratic Party is like piling up a toilet and the Republicans are not going to flush it. So it's like you can vote for the guys who at least won't stack up on

it or you can vote for the guys who are going to stack up on it. It's like... What do you do? Like, I can't take a 78 year old and a 70... Dave? You read my mind. That's exactly what I was going to say. He analyzed the situation pretty thoroughly not too long ago.

He was talking about how, you know, we're looking at a very strong possibility in 2024 where it's Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump. And he's like, if this plays out, it's a very interesting opportunity for a third-party candidate. Not going to say me, but, you know, that was his point. And I really think that might be the case. I mean, I'd like to think that would happen, but, I mean, won't they just – We can manifest it. Right, Ian? We have a lot of power.

We can do it just by thinking and meditating or by talking about it on TV like every – I love calling this TV, by the way, television. Yeah, let's use the – but I think the more we talk about it, like it has compounding effects. We can definitely help manifest. I think, man, it's tough because Trump's – I don't think Trump – man, Trump's tough. Because his character defects are an issue. But his policy, you know, what he wanted to do was pretty good. Like his second term agenda, I like. School choice was big.

Banning critical race theory in contracts. It's a violation of law anyway. Do it. Getting our troops out of the Middle East and things like that. I'm for it. Getting our manufacturing back. I'm for it. Protecting our borders. I'm for it. But Trump's character plays an issue. Now, I've never felt that

his character was like the guy could say the stupidest things in the world if he's doing a good job, then fine. Who would you you rather have a plumber who can't like you know you got two plumbers one guy's falling asleep and can't speak straight the other guy's cussing like a sailor but man he can fix some pipes you know which one do you hire 2024 if we get maybe a third party option i might consider it yeah well but the thing that worries me about trump though is that we saw it's not just like he was the plumber that was swearing up and down and was able to actually fix the problem people like the machine got in his way and prevented him from fixing the problem

you know so i mean isn't that just going to happen again is it going to be you know russiagate 2.0 and i mean how strong is this machine that's going to prevent him from actually instigating these policies that he wants to do? Yeah, that's why I've been saying, like, DeSantis is probably better than Trump because Trump is one of the most polarizing candidates we've ever had. Right. And DeSantis will get smeared like they're doing it to Larry Elder, but they're not going to be able to smear him nearly as much as they do with Trump because Trump had prominent personality and clips and people ate it up. DeSantis doesn't have the history of Donald Trump speaking or anything like this. They're probably already working on it.

You know they're doing oppo research like crazy right now. Now, the thing about Dave Smith, because we had him on last Friday and we're big fans, Michael Malice, press secretary. That's all I want to see. That's all I want to see. You know what, man? I can laugh about it, but I genuinely think America needs a Michael Malice press secretary. You know what that leads to?

Michael Malice vice presidency. Hell yeah. Michael Malice presidency. Press secretary. Was he born in the U.S.? I think he wasn't, so he can't be president. Isn't that the law? If he's press secretary, he's not going to be vice president.

No, no, eventually. He'll just get his feet wet. He'll learn the system, and then in 2032, I don't think he can be. I don't know. I want to see him deal with the press. That's all I want to see. I mean, I think you said the other night that he would just run circles around these people. And that's an understatement.

Exactly. Exactly. They would be sitting there. They're like their heads would start spinning. And then just like it would be like the final scene in Kingsman while their heads blow up. Yeah. Yeah. That would be that would be amazing.

But imagine what the American people would finally hear if you got someone like Michael to be speaking. That's almost more important, in my opinion, than the presidency itself. Because we don't hear from Joe Biden every day. We hear from Jen Psaki. We didn't hear from Trump every day. We heard from Spicer or Kayleigh. And they did a pretty good job.

Kayleigh McEnany was fantastic. When she paused the book and she was like, let me fact check you, journal. And she had all the articles to fact check them. Brilliant. The thing about Michael, though, is he would add a level of mockery and disdain and derision. That would be unparalleled. A level of malice, if you will. A level of malice.

Exactly. Built right into the name. That'd be a beautiful thing. Yeah. Well, one can hope, I suppose. We can manifest it. I'll put it this way. My biggest fear always with these things

is that people are going to be like, a third party can never win, so just support the Republicans. And I'm like, well, that's why they'll never win, because you won't put your faith in that system. You won't stand up for what you truly believe in and want. And so we don't know what's going on with a libertarian party. We don't know what's going on with the Republican Party. One of the challenges is that there's no good party.

The Democrats are insane. If you give them power, they will misappropriate it. Even if you find one, like all these moderate Democrats who are like, we're going to get back to kitchen table issues. Vote for me.

And then people said, okay. And they're like, here, Pelosi, here's power. Okay, so great. You basically just voted for Pelosi. What's the point of that? Then you get the Republicans. And what do you get

when you vote Republican? They do nothing. Nothing is better than burning the system down, I guess. So if that's your choice and then you have the libertarian party which is insane yeah they're just they're just insane yeah what the libertarian party of texas tweeted you can't be pro-freedom and anti-immigration and i'm

like that just doesn't even mean anything you said nothing i'm not saying it's wrong i'm saying it's not saying it's like you can't like pizza if you're a fan of carrots. What? What are you talking about? Plattitude. Yeah. The argument that you can't have secure borders or community makes literally no sense. It's like you're either an anarchist or you're a Nazi.

No, there's varying degrees in between those two things, my friend. You can be very pro-freedom but not an anarchist. Libertarian party does not mean anarchist it means there's some government are those restrictions anti-freedom it's just meaningless garbage it doesn't mean anything and i feel like most people who are starting to pay attention to politics are like can we just have like a guy to you know do some maintenance on the machine you know someone in government is going to be like, well, we'll get everything going. The other thing too is we're always writing up new laws. We're always complaining about things.

Have we ever stopped to consider that like, it's pretty going pretty, pretty well. Let's, you know, let's, let's take a breather. How about for once we just kind of like have a seat, just breathe in and out a little bit. No, it's always get someone in new new laws, more laws in the book, stack them up, stack them up, stack them up. They never go away. Have we ever stopped to consider that, like, you know, it's going pretty well? I do, but no, not really.

Never. I would love to see that, to see more. What's the repelation of law? Appealing, yeah. I guess the issue, though, is there are certainly things that I think need to change. Section 230, for instance. Censorship stuff. You know?

So there's always something happening. I guess the bigger concern now, however, is going to be the rise of authoritarianism. I don't know if you guys saw what's going on in Australia. We can talk a little bit about that. Jeez. Yeah, there's this viral video where this dude is is covid positive and he left his apartment so they should have warrant for his arrest oh my god they play a clip of my they play a clip of him on tv coughing and sneezing on an elevator and they're like he just won't do the right thing

and i'm like it'd be fair if you're sick and then you get on elevators are coughing and sneezing not covering your mouth it's kind of a dick move move. But to issue a warrant for his arrest, now they're saying they have to put signs on your door if you're suspected of having COVID. Suspected of having COVID. They force you to lock down and quarantine your house and they put a sign on your door saying, do not come

in, leave packages at the door. They gone full Nazi, man. Yeah. Yeah, I heard they had like four cases or four deaths out of 25 million people, I think, is their total number of people who live there. Four is simply not enough to lock down your entire population. Well, I don't know if it's four, but I don't think any number is enough to lock down your entire population. I think we all agreed to 15 days to slow the spread.

And Dave Smith said it best when he was like there's nothing more permanent than a temporary government solution or a temporary government program it's like yep you guys ready for this one? from the Daily Mail get vaccinated or stay in jail New York judges order defendants to get COVID-19

shots as part of plea deals and bail agreements but is it even legal? a New York judge ordered a defendant to get the COVID-19 vaccine as part of his plea deal while another made it part of plea deals and bail agreements, but is it even legal? A New York judge ordered a defendant to get the COVID-19 vaccine as part of his plea deal, while another made it part of a drug dealing suspect's bail terms. Manhattan judge Jed Rakoff granted the release of a woman accused of drug dealing on the condition she get vaccinated. Another order came from Bronx judge Jeffrey Zimmerman, who made vaccination part of a plea deal. Neither defendant appeared to object. I mean, to be honest, it's probably like, okay, I get to go and, you know, that's all I got to do.

The problem I have with this is setting the precedent of government mandated medication, which we already have with like fluoridation and water and things like that. It should be between you and your doctor. You should talk to your doctor, not have a judge tell you what you should or shouldn't do. Or, you know, we have we have joe biden now check this out joe biden is calling on corporations he tells companies to start mandating vaccines and speech celebrating the approval of the pfizer vaccine hey that's great the fda approved pfizer vaccine wonderful now as same as it's always been you can go talk to your health care professional that you know and trust and figure out what makes sense for you and don't ask me for medical advice.

But to tell all of the companies start mandating this, we are going to see a purge of sick people. And then what? They go on unemployment? Someone brought this up to me earlier. with no medical exemptions, and now for teachers as well, and this push from big companies, they're going to take all of the people with medical conditions that are still able to work and make them unable to work. And now they'll be stuck on government benefits. Once again, just decimating the economy. What do you think is behind these mandates? I mean, really, because are we to believe that, you know, Joe Biden saying that private companies have to do this and judges saying that people have to do this on conditions of their parole?

Are we to believe that this is the result of a genuine concern for public health? Oh, I definitely don't think so. So what is it? What is it? Is it just is it just power? That's it. I don't know, man. Look at that Newsom.

You know, he doesn't want to do work. Imagine being able to just like tell everyone to do what they're told and they do it. I think it's ideology. It's just, man, people want power. It's like you ever play a video game and you put in a cheat code? It's fun. You're playing Doom and you type IDDQD and then all of a sudden you can just go around doing whatever you want and it gets boring kind of quick but that's basically what they're doing they're like oh now i can just snap my fingers and it's done but these people are not

smart people you know yeah like imagine you hired a guy to fix your toilet and he's a computer programmer but you gave him carte blanche and you come in your bathroom and just just spraying water everywhere nothing makes sense and he's like i i will you leave it to me i'll figure it out it's like oh dude yeah will you though will you really but you know what we're on the middle of nowhere now that's why i don't know if i care you know i mean like you've been saying that for a while it's just like these cities want to burn themselves down, let them do it. You know, I mean. If people aren't going to vote to recall Gavin Newsom, then, well, there you go. Time to move.

Right. You know, this is what I was saying. People were complaining because I'm saying get out of cities. And they're like, no, you got to stay and fight. And I'm like, listen, in New York City, staying and fighting was voting and saying no to this. And then they keep electing Democrats. They elect Joe Biden. You did. And if people didn't stand up in enough numbers to actually make that change, then you did it.

You made your attempt, and now it's time to go. I mean, I suppose you can try and stay, but my point is, like, if there's a bunch of people yelling, like, hey, we're going to win if we all stick together. And then when it comes down to it, not enough people stick together. You tried. What more can you do? Well, there was that one restaurateur in New York. I think he had a bakery and he said that he's not going to, you know, he had to put this big poster in his window saying we don't discriminate based on gender, sex, anything, vaccinated, unvaccinated. And they put that poster up right after de Blasio, right after de Blasio announced. And they thought that they would have, like a lot of other restaurants, fall in line with

them and say the same thing. It's just like, we're not going to do this. Nobody did. So now they're just the only ones out there saying, we're not going to follow this policy and we're probably going to get charged thousands of dollars in fines. So even when you do step up and do that, you're not necessarily guaranteed to have other people have that bravery to do that. You shouldn't worry about what other people are going to do to a certain extent. Sure.

You should stand up for what you believe in. And if that means in the end they'll delete your restaurant, it's worth it. It's worth it to me because we see what's happening with these kids, right? You see that video in Australia where the 12-year-olds are getting pepper sprayed and arrested? There's a bunch of videos that are like this of kids being arrested. There's a video out of Australia where it's a bunch of teenagers partying on the beach

and they get arrested and they get fined $1,000. And it's like, to everybody who said to me, oh, I can't speak up and risk my job because I have to feed my kids. And I'll be like, okay, well, you know, good luck feeding them when you're in a gulag. Because if you don't speak up now, hey, it may be harder right now,

but it's going to get way, way worse. I mean, we're looking at the signs, man. Look at what's going on with Australia. They're building quarantine camps. They're putting signs on people's houses, labeling them as, you know, unfit, undesirables. This same course, this same history has happened over and over and over again. It's almost like you can just track it to a beat.

Here we are in 2022. What was going on in the 20s leading up to the 30s and to the 40s? People just go along with it. Like your friend who was cheering for the fascism. Right, right. Yeah, yeah right yeah yeah totally fine with him but you know i don't know enough about australia or australian history to understand why that place is the one that's actually doing the full-on nazi lockdown they gave up all their guns that was that's that's what happened in australia so uh what do you guys know when australia gave up all their guns they gave you can look it up they gave up all their guns a

little while ago and not that i think people would go out and actually fight with their government. The left tries to use it as an argument because they always want to jump to the most extreme. If I say, hey, you know one of the first things Nazis did was target disabled people, making it harder for them to live, discriminating against them. Then people will go, yeah, but the Nazis also did most extreme thing ever. And I'm like'm like yes that was bad that was really bad one of the worst things in history and they also did a bunch of other bad things before that that led up to the point where people accepted it it's actually what gina carano was saying remember that post she made that got her in trouble she was saying that they they

demonized people to the point where neighbor attacked neighbor and we've got to resist that they they took her job because of it yep so we're walking into the exact same thing it's it's one step at a time it's not like you know that's what i always say did you think the despots wouldn't have an excuse they're not just going to snap their fingers and become authoritarians overnight it looks like it was in 1996 there was a mass shooting in uh australia and they restricted guns so here's here's what happens when you have guns the government that the the agents of the state are scared to kick your door in without a warrant huh because you are legally allowed to defend yourself brianna taylor's boyfriend when

they when the police broke the door down they fired at him he fired back and hit a car i think he fired first and him in the leg they tried charging him with it and he ultimately won. And in the case, there was no charges in the end because he was legally allowed to defend himself from someone breaking his door down. In Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK, we got these videos of cops walking in, breaking the door down and just coming in and beating people and dragging them out. We don't see that in the United States because the police are concerned the citizen is probably armed. It's not that the citizen is going to get in a gunfight. No, we don't want that to happen. It's that if they don't do it properly, the power balance between

the individual and the state are at that moment the same. In the UK, the state always has the advantage. So don't give it to them. Why give the state the advantage? That's a big difference. So I don't know. Australia, people just slowly gave up more and more of their freedoms, and while you weren't looking, Nazis took over. So by allowing the government to take their guns,

the government just innately realized, oh, well, now what's the next step? Because it's like you said, it's not necessarily that they were going to, you know, use their guns and arm in the streets and, you know. It doesn't need to be intentional. Right, right. It doesn't need to be intentional. It needs to just be that water flows.

You know, if you have a river and there's a dam and you open the dam, the water pushes through. There's no conspiracy among the water to make the water flow through. It's just the natural flow of things. So when you have governments that overreact and are panicky and don't like an armed citizenry, then you lose your guns. What happens when you have a population with no weapons? Tyrannical government easily just flows through those open gates. So, you know, a lot of people, I think, assume that the quest to take guns away is on purpose.

I don't necessarily think so. I think for some people, seizing guns is on purpose. But I watched this old, like, gun debate thing with Rosie O'Donnell and Tom Selleck, and I've watched a bunch of other arguments about the 90s assault weapons ban and stuff like that. It's panic. It's people who don't know anything about guns panicking and then virtue signaling their way into banning them. And then what happens when you have a disarmed population?

Tyranny flows right through those open gates, whether anyone wanted it to happen or not. Look, I don't know what you guys think about the mandates and stuff. I think if people want to go get the vaccine, it's their business. I just think excluding people based on this stuff is... Mandates are awesome in the right circumstance. I think this is not the right circumstance

personally. It's very exhausting to talk about this stuff because I don't know if screaming at a camera is enough to get people to change. But other than that, what else is there? I don't know. Self-improvement. That's kind of the route I'm going in my life right now.

Get better at singing. Get better at thinking. Get better at typing. typing the uh the the vaccine minutes they're doing say that you have to have uh for like you know the military is doing it now too you have to have the you know your your vaccines have to be up to date so i was uh actually this is really really funny somebody i tweeted vaxxer id is racist you see the joke i'm making voter id is racist you know vaxxer id and then what happened was was uh actually kind of surprising the response i got from Democrats said a vaccine card is not an ID. And I was like, what are they talking about?

I'm talking about de Blasio requiring IDs to get into buildings. I didn't say vaccine cards had Vax or ID. Like, they're using the vaccine mandate as a way to mandate identification. They didn't know it. And then when I actually told some people like the mandate requires id this one guy was like no it doesn't and i was like did you read the mandate and he goes yes and i was like then you didn't read it and so he was like show me where it says that i send him the link and then he comes back 10 minutes later and he's like oh wow

i didn't see that part where it says an id must be government, you know, issued or whatever. And I'm like, yes, I'm talking about IDs. They don't know. God, that could be a mantra of the 49% in that first poll you mentioned. Oh, I didn't see that part. That could be like their mantra. You know, they, they, they revel in being nasty people. They're, it's, it's like all of the hate float in one direction. It's the craziest thing.

Yeah. I see the nastiness component, but at the same time, I see just kind of – they feel some sort of bizarre warmth and ignorance. They need things to be like third grade level. The people that I talk to that just don't really see what's happening or they perceive it in some way that I just – I don't understand. They just want to tune in to CNN for 20 minutes, have their 20 minutes, and then have their talking points and be done with it. They need it to be very simple, very easy, and then they can get on with their lives and shout down people that disagree with them. I think we're addicted to convenience. I think the fake news is very much a form of convenience and almost a form of comfort to some of these people,

which is really turning out to be quite the problem because they're believing everything they tell them. So if they do change the rhetoric and be like, oh, biden did this thing wrong they're just going to believe that hook line and sinker too so they're clearly not like progressively progressively thinking through this what i was hoping when i started to see this was that they were starting to see that hiring someone based on the color of their skin like they did with camel was a terrible idea and voting for someone like biden against trump terrible idea but no it for someone like Biden against Trump? Terrible idea. But no, it's just because they're blindly following along the media because it's convenient and makes them feel good.

But why did they become so nasty? We talked about Phil DeFranco before. There's a few other people I know that I'm just surprised to see become really vile people. Petty tyrants. A lot of it is perception. Like the way that you see someone else's text is not necessarily the way they intended it to be seen. And so you get people that are angry.

They type something down out of rage, which is never going to totally translate what they're feeling. And then someone else reads it and has their own feelings that they put on top of that. Just a massive miscommunication. Like you said, you talk to your friend, but it was through text. And that just a massive miscommunication like you said you talked to your friend but it was through text and so a lot of miscommunication through text i've had a really good friend of mine i've actually cut ties with via text because i couldn't handle the text comments after a while like it's but but but i still think you you know i get it but you're missing the main point like why is why are people that I know posting the meanest, craziest things on Facebook in general?

People who used to be normal people I know from Chicago all of a sudden are posting things on Facebook saying, like, F these stupid MFers. I hope they all die and burn and suffer. And I'm like, what the hell happened to these people? Yo. Like there's one viral tweet where someone's like, I've seen a whole bunch of pro-vax people celebrating the deaths of people who wouldn't get vaccinated from COVID and wishing their death. But I've never seen the anti-vax people wishing the same for those who are pro-vaccine. Like what is what happened to these people, man?

It's like they're infected with some kind of rage. And they just want more. They're addicted to rage and anger and being mean people. Someone with perhaps a bit of a spiritual or religious outlook would say that there's some sort of possession that's happening. Because people are really, a lot of them, I know exactly the kind of people you're talking about, and they're not themselves.

And I don't know what that is. But getting to the kernel of where that started, that's really hard to unwind. I don't know what that is. Demonic possession, got it. We'll roll with that one. Go with it. For yourself, what would put you in that state of mind? Like being really mean to people? I just tried not to do that. think if i was physically uncomfortable like maybe overweight or eating i know when i'm physically even if i eat crap and then like a day or two days later i i just have a terrible terrible mood so that i i don't i can't understand it man i could not understand posting f all the mfers i want them to die i post silly garb silly non i tweeted out on

i tweeted out joe biden is the greatest president of this or any generation then i waited a few minutes for people to laugh and then i said why aren't you retweeting this like i got i got i got uh i got no hate i got concern you know i got empathy and i have disdain or hate maybe i'll cause pain it's like um residual from trump come in be like the far leftists all these jerks and hillary's like basket of deplorables and then biden comes in and he like arrests all these people on one six and what he should be doing is letting those people go and commuting their sentences or their crimes, like John Hancock did with Shays' Rebellion. When the farmers revolted before they signed the declaration,

he realized they did it out of desperation. They didn't do it because they were evil people, so he pardoned a bunch of them. Biden should pardon those people if he wants social cohesion right now. But as long as there's this, he said, she said, they're villains, he's an enemy, we're gonna see it in the in the pop yeah but dude there is an objective reality here what is that in portland a bunch of right-wing groups wanted to have a summer of love event and sure you can argue they know what's gonna happen if they have an event in portland but they're allowed to put on a rally

where they talk and say things antifa showed up and started throwing gas and attacking people. And then a bunch of Proud Boys reacted and started fighting back. And then the media blames the far right. Certainly, I think the far, you know, the right-wing groups that are down there don't understand that they're being baited. But it's like, what am I supposed to say? Right-wing group is allowed to have a rally.

They're allowed to stand up on their truck with a big sign saying, Summer of Love and the Hate. And that's okay. If you don't like it, you know, walk away. Antifa has no right to show up and throw bricks at people and beat them and crash, you know, try and ram them with cars. There was a shootout. And I think the guy who got arrested was an Antifa guy.

I don't know for sure, but he looks more like an Antifa guy who was shooting. Two people were shooting. We see a bunch of videos, a bunch of reports of the Antifa people with weapons and things like that. The objective reality is the media will call Antifa left wing and they'll call conservatives far right. And I started thinking about this.

I'm like, then what's right wing? Like if you're a conservative and you're far right, then how would the media define right wing? Oh, I think I know. A pro-universal healthcare liberal like myself. Traditional liberal, I suppose. More classical liberal in a sense.

But they'll call me right wing. They'll call an actual conservative far right. They've lost the plot. Yeah, I don't know what's left and right and conservative and liberal. We look at crypto economics and being conservative would be to maintain the current system of fiscality, you know, economics. But we see that it's a broken system

that's on a runaway train to demise. So it's actually conservative to change that system to a more conservative financial system. So whereas you would think it's liberal to tear down the economic order and install a new system, it's actually very conservative to do that because the system is dangerous.

That's my opinion. I don't even know, man. I don't think the words have become meaningless. Yeah. You can be a liberal conservative that's far right and far left at the same time. It's okay. I'll tell you what's funny.

And a centrist. When I was watching, I was watching one of Hassan's video because we talked about Hassan Piker buying the big house. And he was talking about he said a lot of things about Afghanistan that are identical to exactly what I said, that it's a shame it's going down this way. It's good that we're getting out. And then he said, but it's literally Trump's fault. This is you know, this is Trump's plan. Trump negotiated this. And my take, and it's literally Biden's fault. Biden changed the plan. Biden, you know, failed, like, pulled our troops out of Bagram Air Force Base in the middle of the night.

And I'm like, if someone superchatted this to us, if we had, you know, Jack Posobiec or Jack Murphy or Steve Bannon sitting down with, like, Vosch or Hassan, they'd probably agree on most things and then disagree on cultural issues and culture war issues. And so it's like, I guess I'm just pointing out there's a tribal need, in my opinion, to blame Donald Trump for everything. And so my criticism of Hassan in this regard and many on the left is it's literally not Trump's fault if you actually follow what's happened. But it's easy to say Trump negotiated the withdrawal. Therefore, he bears responsibility for how this went down because there's – but Joe Biden is literally the president, and he changed the terms of the deal.

So it's like it's tribalism. Yeah, I want to avoid trashing Biden. Like big problem. I was born in Ohio and Cleveland Browns for life. Cleveland Browns fan because that's my hometown. And when the quarterback would screw up, a Cleveland Browns quarterback, throw a few incompletions, throw an interception, the fans would turn on the guy and be like, this guy sucks.

He's terrible. And then the guy would start playing worse because his morale would be shot. And then he'd be like, he's terrible. Get rid of him. They'd go through a quarterback, get a new quarterback. He's the golden child, throws a few interceptions. He's terrible. Get rid of him. So they destroyed their own team by talking crap about it. If we do that with Biden, I'm afraid that could happen.

What if the quarterback was 78 years old and couldn't talk? You still want to improve his morale. No, at that point you say get him out get him out look i get what you're saying if i was sitting there with you ian at a cleveland browns game and the quarterback was 78 and he was going and you were like don't don't rag on him man we got to give him a chance i'll be like bro come on dude what are you talking about like but it's more subtle it makes sense if he was 40. At what point do you watch a quarterback throw incompletions? At what point do you say he's not the guy anymore?

Joe Biden wasn't the guy to begin with. He's the commander-in-chief. It's like the quarterback of the best team in the NFL. Let's try this. What if the quarterback was 78, couldn't talk right, and wasn't actually chosen by the team's owners or managers? It was just that the quarterback they were going to have, the fans didn't like. So they were like, just get us anybody.

And they were like, we got this old guy sitting in the stands. Just take him because the fans don't like that guy. So it's like what you were saying, right? You got a quarterback. He throws a few interceptions. And then when people boo him, he starts cussing at him, and he's rude. And they're like, we don't want to watch this game anymore. And the owner's like, we're losing money.

What do we do? We need anybody, anybody. And they're like, just grab that 78-year-old guy who can't talk straight. And now you've got people sitting there watching and they're like, dude, this guy can't play. What do we do? And you're like, dude, we don't want to lose another quarterback. Don't rag on him. And I'm like, I think we want to lose this quarterback.

I think he can go home now. But you lose the whole team when you – But the vice quarterback is even worse. Right. And the speaker of the field is just insanely bad. So assuming you don't have another – there's no free agents waiting to get hired right now. Then that's when morale improvement is key. Because like Tom Brady wasn't necessarily the best quarterback, but he was in a great

organization with massive people were behind him. He had incredible morale and thought he was great. So he kept being great. He kept fulfilling that prophecy. What would President Kamala be like? She'd laugh a lot. Live, laugh, love. Maybe we get some video

of her firing a pistol. Could you imagine a President Kamala? Like already she's laughing at the question about Americans trapped in Afghanistan. But could you imagine her like sitting down with like Vladimir Putin and he's like, if you do not withdraw your troops from Libya, we'll fire a nuke. Oh my gosh. Wow. Are these troops in Afghanistan, are they like 15,000 Americans left for dead?

Were they just left? Are they going to be in prison like prisoners of war? Well, the Taliban is saying like, no, no, we'll get the Americans out. And then there's all these Afghanis and their families that worked with the American troops that are still there. Like, I don't know how many thousands, tens of thousands. Are those people, we're just going to leave them to be incarcerated, sold into slavery, have their heads cut off? I mean, here's the challenge. You got to watch out for the propaganda. just going to leave them to be incarcerated sold into slavery have their heads cut off like i mean here's here's the challenge you got to watch out for the propaganda there's a bunch of propaganda

coming out saying like you know america don't do this there's a like i saw one story it said a famous afghan tiktoker was captured and executed by the taliban and it seems like a lot of these stories are preying upon western sensibilities to make Americans be like, we have to go back in and save them all. And it's like, no, no. The reason the problem is this bad is because we did this in the first place. You need to stop. Just stop. Unless you're pro-colonization, I guess, you know, and you think America should colonize, then it's like, okay, well, then you're pro-colonization.

Colonize Mars, maybe? Yeah, well, they want to colonize Afghanistan and then build a pipeline into Europe. I'm not a big fan of colonizing on top of other people. Yeah. What do you do? I don't mean do colonization. I'm like, what do you do about the fact that you've got international elites and you've got massive corporate interests in getting oil pipelines out of Afghanistan. And they're going to fund the politicians and the system will flow in that direction. Probably change the economics situation.

I think, you know, remove the fiat currency from diminish its value. It seems like it's happening automatically. How do we get the left to be on board with ending the Fed or auditing it or something? You've got to make it exciting. My goal is to get super famous with a hit song and that people are like, yeah, whatever you say because I'm obsessed with you. I don't know. Call worship. I don't know other than that.

What if we accuse the Fed of being racist? Yes. There you go. That's a good start. I do like that they've gotten woke. No, I don't like that either. I don't like using their tactics against them. I'm not a big fan of them.

Now, let's be honest. The Federal Reserve was created by a bunch of rich white men to uphold white supremacy. There you go. You think they'd buy that? It's worth a try. It only works when their priests tell them. The cathedral.

They tried the Rockefeller Rothschild keyword thing in like 2011 and that was like all the buzz is like oh the rothschilds oh the rockefellers and like those those families were involved in like the creation of the banking order and the federal reserve and things like that but so that shock value of like rockefeller is gone like that came out was like 2008 that name all of a sudden was like, ooh, big bad name. Right. It's tough to say because this is something James Lindsay talks about all the time when he's

analyzing Herbert Marcuse's work about the Marxist professor Herbert Marcuse who's kind of, in a sense, an architect of the woke stuff, is that the asymmetry is the whole point. There's not really a reasonable debate to have with some people that are kind of infected with a sense, an architect of the woke stuff, is that the asymmetry is the whole point. There's not really a reasonable debate to have with some people that are kind of infected with the woke ideology.

It's about asymmetry. It's about this side is permitted, this side is not permitted, plain and simple. There's no room for discussion. There's no room for exchange. It's just right-wing bad, that's not tolerated. Left-wing good. All goes. This is part of this guy's study? Anything they've done.

Herbert Marcuse. Yeah. I mean, this is, yeah. This is, his essay is called Repressive Tolerance. Very dense essay. I would encourage you to listen to James Lindsay's analysis of it because he, you know, he's lived in this world, you know. But, yeah, that was essentially his whole take on it. The idea is that tolerance at a certain point is repressive and is bad.

So you can't be tolerant of the right. You have to be tolerant of the left. Yeah, who was that other guy? I can't remember his name. The Paradox of Tolerance? Oh, I'm not sure. Popper. Popper, that's right.

Carl? Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard of that. And he's not wrong. The problem is the left is intolerant and we tolerate them. Yeah. Yeah.

There you go. Well, that's the other thing you see coming through in our current society with Marcuse and his ideas is he was saying that it's a pretty interesting argument that he makes. He says, you know, if we had just pre-censored Hitler and just said, let's not let him speak, then we wouldn't have had the Holocaust, now would we? So we have to pre-censor these ideas. They can't be expressed because if we tolerate those speeches, then it's repressive for everybody. But he was censored.

Hitler? Yeah. Yeah, he absolutely was. He was? Yes. Oh, okay. And the people on the left try to bring up saying like, see, even they went after him and then the counter is, yes, and it didn't do anything. Because when you push things into the corner, they just fester in darkness.

And if people are actively paying attention to these ideas, then they understand them and they can reject them. But you let these ideas grow in the darkness and then it's all of a sudden you're like standing up and like, whoa, where did all this come from? Well, that's what we're seeing now is that there's that bad idea, the idea of pre-censorship is happening again with big tech platforms. They're saying let's just not let these ideas out there, and it's backfiring. It doesn't work that way. Yeah. Yeah. But I have to say, I don't want to leave this, before we go to Super Chats, on a sad note. I want to point out that woman who called young Latinos latinxes and just remind you all that these people have no idea how to communicate with young people.

And they're probably going to create a generation of more liberty-minded individuals who are anti-woke. Not a guarantee. Yes. You know, they'll get a lot of, you know, people to join their little cult, tribalist, whatever. But I think a lot of young people are going to be like, what did you call me? Like, that has nothing to do with my community going to be like, what did you call me? Like, that has nothing to do with my community. Yo, like, why is Fast and the Furious so popular?

Failing. I just watched F9. Oh, how was it? Sorry. I like it. I love Fast and the Furious. Dude, the Fast and the Furious cinematic universe is the best. Oh, my God.

You know why? Well, why? Because they're self-aware. Are they? It's absolutely. A statement. Like, dude, they went into space they went into space oh they went to outer space it's awesome why did they go to outer i don't know no one knows i don't know and and but it's self-aware and the point is fast and the furious is like cars music music pretty girls and action

adventure because people like these things right they don They don't know what this woke stuff does. But no, for real, in Fast 9, I'm sorry for the spoiler, guys. Movie's still out. Bring it on. They go to space. Uh-oh. Just think about how hilarious that is, where the first movie was like a normal crime drama. Yeah.

And now they're in space. Fast 9 in outer space. I was watching it, and I was just, I'm laughing. I love it. Each and every movie is better. They did Hobbs and Shaw. Did you see that one? Oh, yeah, yeah.

Fast and the Furious, Hobbs and Shaw. It's a Superman movie. I don't even know what's going on. It's amazing. Dude, they got to roll with it. And I really hope that eventually they get to the point where they legit get superpowers. Oh, that'd be cool. How amazing would it be if the FFCU literally becomes a new superhero cinematic universe?

Yeah. That'd be great. Just because – well, they already have super soldiers. So they have the potential for Captain America, right? So in Hobbs vs. Shaw, you had Idris Elba playing a guy who was a super soldier. So he was like super strong. He was great. He's awesome.

That movie – I didn't like that movie, but I loved him in that movie. I thought the movie was fantastic. I didn't like Statham. My problem with Statham is that he never seems like that he's at risk. There's never any like sense of urgency or danger. He always is like too powerful. He's an actor. He knows his character can't be hurt so that there's no fear.

So I'm like every time he's on camera, I'm not afraid that character's gonna die just i'm waiting for it to happen dude i i want to see in f10 like vin vin diesel like raids you know the the super soldier compound and he gets injected and then he becomes he gets superpowers you know and then uh ludicrous is just he can fly for some reason i think that's the only way you can heighten it from here. I know! That's the logical move. They go to Mars. Is Justin Lin always the director?

Does he direct all of them? He's the writer, producer, and director of the Seth 9. It's just every movie is crazier than the last, like to an extreme degree. I like that. People love it. They make hundreds of millions of dollars. They could totally start bending reality,

like Doctor Strange, and have The Rock. I don't want to spoil the movie. Oh, it's great. that people love it they make like they could totally start like bending reality like dr strange and then like have the rock i don't want to spoil i don't want to spoil the movie oh it's great like we're so close to to vin diesel getting superpowers let's do it he's got a brother apparently he could have like a second cousin who turns out to be like his mom or something a wizard yes yeah there you go yeah i like that yeah great. I like that. Yeah. Well, Vin Diesel's a big D&D guy, isn't he? Yeah. He's a gamer. Is he actually?

Interesting. He's a hardcore gamer. How cool would it be if they go to Egypt and find a Stargate? Okay. That'd be amazing. That'd be cool. You know Vin is into that, dude. Aliens.

What's next, man? Hey, already super soldiers. All right. All right. So we don't want to jump too much so the next one's got to be like they find the super soldier serum and they themselves get the super soldier abilities then the next one can be like someone you know jumps really high yeah you got to get ben diesel got to get bombarded with radiation sometimes there's the whole scene of him being like his arms bulging he's like

yes and then he turns green yeah and then we're just like dude I already when I turn it on I know it's gonna be just like

nonsense yeah it's awesome nonsense it's just like it's man it's a parody of itself but it's that's how you do it's a parody of itself. That's how you do it. You've got to lean into it. I love it.

Let's read some super chats. Okay. Smash that like button, subscribe, share the show with your friends, and go to TimCast.com, be a member. We'll have a bonus segment coming up for all y'all. We've got Jonathan Galtarini says, My wife and I have been trying to have a second baby for three years now. Nice. We had to resort to IVF, which is way too much for us to

afford a go fund me shout out would be dope andrea and zachary ivf fundraising by andrea kunkle best of luck for you on your children and endeavors try fasting too when you when you free up the blood flow in your lower core it helps uh you know free up the blood flow in your genitals i found which can help you have babies. All right. Yeah. Terrific. Patrick Stover says, Tim, what is the best guitar and why is it the Telecaster? Oh. You know, I honestly, I just like it the way it sounds, to be completely honest.

So my first guitar was a Strat. And then the first guitar given to me when I was a little kid was a Strat. And then I got a Stratacoustic when those came out which is a small fiberglass body Stratacaster it looks like a Stratacaster Fender Stratacaster but it's acoustic

and it doesn't sound very good and they don't make them anymore is it that black one yeah yeah it was the first one I ever bought myself but then I bought a Telecaster

a white Telecaster because it just sounds better it's the easiest way to explain it I mean I suppose you can always change out pickups and customize and do whatever you want

but I just got we're building a music studio, production studio for all the music. And so we got the Acoustasonic Telecaster. Incredible. Was that that brown one? Yes. Nice. It's up there. It's expensive.

But it is – they had a really expensive one. It was like $4,000 because it was some exotic African wood or whatever. And I'm like, we're not trying to – like know, like we want something that sounds really, really good so we can make music. And it's hard to justify an expense this high, even for the one that did get. But for the live performances, I think this thing is absolutely,

the sound is incredible. It gives you an acoustic sound or an electric sound when you can just change. Yeah, it's brilliant. And it's a Telecaster. It's the Acoustasonic Telecaster. It's amazing,'s amazing amazing amazing i don't know i just love it i i don't like strats um i like i like schecter uh but i think just telecasters man i love yeah i would love the martin the or it's the dreadnought i mean i'm just that's the one i played for 20 years

it's the acoustic martin dreadnought yeah electrics i don't know i don't know much about them i've always strata caster that was my first one yeah i think most people get a strat to start 20 years. It's the acoustic Martin Dreadnought. Electrics, I don't know. I don't know much about them. I had a Stratocaster. That was my first one. Yeah, I think most people get a Strat to start. It's like a cheap black and white. Yeah, that's what I had. Strat. John R. says this is in reference to yesterday's Cast Castle. Number one, have you ever had Irish cream

and coffee, Tim? You're in for a real treat. I've not. Overrated. We bought Irish cream. It's actually creamy i'm like i know maybe i'll try that in the coffee yeah we went we went to the liquor store because we're building the new studio and so we wanted to get like good booze for guests and for celebrations like we're not gonna dish out really expensive stuff for just literally no reason just waste money or anything like that so i got corn whiskey which was like 10 bucks and that's i'm the most

excited for that because i want to get some of the snootiest whiskey snobs and be like, here's your corn whiskey with a plastic bottle. No, it's in a glass bottle. It's in a glass bottle. But we had some good stuff too. And a lot of people were pointing out that none of us drink. Everybody who went to the liquor store, nobody drinks. And so they're like, it's like bringing vegans to a butcher shop.

Like, what are you doing? We have this. Some of us drink. Ohishi whiskey. Tim, we had a little bit of this before the show. The three of us did. And I'm not a drinker, but I tasted it. It's good.

I tried it. It's delicious. You can tell it's made with rice. I like it. It doesn't have like a, it's not really bitter. It's very smooth. Yeah, it's part of the experience. So that when people come, you have your option between your caffeine or your alcohol.

Yes. So, you know, you can either – some people are really nervous. You know, you can give them a little bit of booze if they're – Tired. If they're really tired. A little bit of both. Yeah, we got Red Bulls. And for people who are just crazy and listen to Nu Metal or whatever,

they mix it together. Yeah. And then they die. Oh, John R. has got a number two. He says, what's a good raspberry vodka, you ask? There isn't one. Ha. And number three, something weird, liquor-wise, that no one would expect you to have at a

party, absinthe. Let me know before you go to the liquor store again, and I'll hook you up. Absinthe, yes. Good stuff, by the way. Have you guys had it? Oh, yeah. I'm pretty sure we got some. It is really good.

You could put an ice cube in it and then light it on fire. What? That's like one of the, what do they call it, traditional ways to do it. Cool. Burn your little, or maybe it's like a sugar cube or something. Oh yeah, that's what it is. And it's made with wormwood. It's mildly psychoactive. But I think that's the stuff in Europe. I don't think you can get

that here. Oh, interesting. Wormwood. So I was talking to that. He said he's like, oh, do you want absinthe? And I was like, is that legal here? And he's like, it's really different. Yeah, it's a different thing yeah so everybody buys all excited but you know it's not f yeah all right let's see what we got here um andrew carrie says biden is stopping extra unemployment in early september just after pushing for vaccine mandates. No coincidence. Interesting.

Interesting. All right. Balian says not Ian. According to Rachel Maddow, the Afghanistan fiasco is all because of Trump's immigration laws that hindered the Afghan people from coming to the U.S. Of course. Of course. They couldn't get out. Or they couldn't get in.

Yeah. What's the phrasing here? Michael Shipley says, I found a company that will customize beanies. Let me know where to send the info. You want to follow me? Yeah, stiglyofo at gmail.com. That'd be good.

I will accept that. Cigars and Sig Arms says, I don't know what's the most amazing phenomenon from the last year. Right wingers turning on the cops or left wingers simping for Big Pharma. Great. There you go, man.

Funny, huh? John R. says, number four, no, I'm not an alcoholic. All right. James Nelson says, never forget the 150-ish generals and command staff Obama and Biden purged to get this woke military. Oh, yeah. And Trump didn't do that. Trump could have come in and been like you're all fired the one thing he was famous for and he didn't do it enough ironic sarah says a friend fought in afghanistan after withdrawal he's one of only a handful of soldiers left from his unit the rest passed in the last week suicide support our

veterans they need and deserve it definitely Definitely, man. Sorry to hear it. Wow. Oh, man. Herpnerp says, what's the most heart-wrenching movie scene you've seen? Someone showed me the choice scene from Sophie's Choice today. Broke my heart into a million pieces. I'm a big fan of that scene from The Notebook.

Ryan Gosling. I won't spoil it for you. Watch The Notebook if you haven't seen that. Oh, man. It was in Fast 8. I'm just kidding. Very emotional. Very emotional.

We were in the theater together when that happened. No, The Notebook's good. Very emotional. I cried, man. That was an emotional time in my life. I think I cry every time during that final scene. So good. When he finally breaks through and gets to her. Oh, man. That was an emotional time in my life. I think I cry every time during that final scene. So good. When he finally breaks through and gets to her.

Oh, God. Yeah, that's gut-wrenching. I'll have to watch it. Oh, it's great. So hot here. All right, let's see. Brian Ventura says, Tim, hitting Chicago for the first time this October.

Keep up with the foodie scene there still? If so, what's the best neighborhood to find the following? Ramen, pierogies, deep dish pizza. P.S. Love the website. Best $10 ever. Hey, thanks for being a member at tincast.com. Ramen. I don't know about ramen in Chicago.

Do you have any? I've never had it in Chicago. Yeah. Pierogies. Well, I don't know if it still exists, but in the Midway area where I grew up, it's like a very Polish neighborhood. And you can probably find a lot of little Polish delis around there. It's like

Pulaski Avenue on the south side. But man, I honestly don't know. Deep Dish Pizza, however, you know, I like Lou Malnati's. What do you think? Giordano's? Lou Malnati's? I'm going to go with Giordano's. But we got it frozen and had to cook them off.

And I think the... Not Illuminati's. What do you call it? Lou Malnati's. It was a little watery. I think because it was frozen, it would become a little watery. So I didn't get the full Lou Malnati's experience. I will tell you this. When we order Giordano's here, we order

deep dish because I'm like, hey, I'm from Chicago. I'm going to make people try it and see what they like better. When you cook the Lou Malnati's like it comes out with water on top and i literally lift it and drain the water off of it it's not bad though it's like tomato juice it's just like watery and i have no problem with it it's adult i think it tastes better but that's just like full disclosure the giordano's thing it tells you to microwave it yeah weird yeah it comes in frozen it's like microwave it then bake I'm like, oh, that sounds really weird. No, no.

Something's wrong there. It is good. I like that. It is still good, though. It is very, very good. I'm a huge fan of the art of pizza in Chicago. If you guys haven't had that yet, the deep dish art of pizza. I used to go to a place called Big Tony's, which is just to the west of Bucktown, I think.

It's like in Logangan square and i would get the giardiniera pizza and that was my favorite like with the with the carrot and celery and all the cauliflower yeah giardiniera that's a chicago thing right yep yeah yeah yeah that's good stuff yeah i remember when i first went to new york i went to uh sandwich shop like a bodega and i was like i'll get you know let me get like a roast beef and cheddar with some giardiniera. And the guy was like, with what? What? And I was like, giardiniera?

And he was like, I don't know what you're saying. And I was like, giardiniera? And he's like, bro, I don't know what that is. And I went, oh. I went to Potbelly's, and I saw the bottles, and they're called hot peppers. They don't say Giardiniera. It's a Chicago thing. Oh, right.

Yeah, it's like being in a different country. It's like, what do you mean? And then I remember the first time when I was buying a sandwich, they had no option. It said Hero and Roll or whatever. And I was like, the hell is a Hero? Yeah. No, no, no. Hero.

H-E-R-O is what a sandwich is called in New York. Oh, interesting. Yeah, it's called a Hero. Yeah. And so I walk in and I'm like, what's a hero? And he's like, sandwich. And I was like, but like, what is it? I don't know what it is.

We call them subs in Chicago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or hoagies. Yeah, same in Chicago. Yeah, I guess, I don't know. No one really says hoagie. I grew up in hoagie, in the mountains. Yeah, that's what we called them.

Yeah, hoagie. We said sub. A long time ago. Sub, yeah. In Ohio, there were subs. And we have Subway everywhere. Sub sandwich. Yeah, that says subs. We said sub. A long time ago. Sub. Yeah. In Ohio, there were subs. And we have Subway everywhere. Sub sandwich. Yeah, that says subs.

What's the best food in Chicago? If I was going to recommend food in Chicago. Well, we all love Portillo's. Oh, the Stinking Rose. That has some great garlic bread. I think that's downtown Chicago. Nice. Well, there you go.

Is that Chicago? Stinking Rose? Go to El Gallo on South Archer Avenue. Get yourself a burrito. Burrito. That's where it used to go. There's Los Gallos. No, no, El Gallo, I think, is on 63rd Street near Narragansett.

And Los Gallos is on Archer. We used to go there. Those people, that was always so much fun. If it still exists, I haven't been there in a long time. All right, let's see what we got here. Well, that one's a mean one. I'm gonna read that one don't do it total wildlife management says my son is a new marine they just told everyone if you don't get the jab then you have to be discharged but isn't that true for everybody who signs up you get tons of vaccines that's my understanding yeah yeah i don't

understand this one like when i know a ton of people who have joined and they're like yeah you go through basic they give you a bunch of vaccines and it's like okay well here's another one i don't get it it's fda a non-approval thing and i i saw they did approve the pfizer vaccine but then i i read something or someone sent me something that said that it didn't it didn't it would still had problems but they just had approved it. Did you read anything about that? I did not see that. I read that they passed the trials with an exorbitant amount of people and that it's going into phase four now, which happens after FDA approval.

Okay. Look, I can respect people saying that they want to make their own health choices. I can respect people saying that they want to make their own health choices. I can respect people saying that they want long-term studies and stuff. But I just think it's important to point out some perspective. Most people go to the doctor and get prescribed medications they never look into. And that should change. People should actually start looking into this stuff. The information is available on the internet.

You should. Yeah. Just if that's your attitude now, maintain it across the board for your health and make proper health decisions. I think Mike Cernovich had one of the best responses to this. It's a comic where it's like a big fat woman and a rascal saying about the vaccine, I don't know what's in it

or whatever. And it's like, his point was you're not healthy. There's a lot of people who are like, well, I don't want to risk my health. It's like, dude, you eat greasy cheeseburgers and smoke cigarettes and get drunk. You're not like,'s you're not. What is it? You know, you're not worried about your health. Ideological. And in instances like that, it must be ideal. Ideological. Right. I mean, there's certainly something different from being like, I know that if I eat a cheeseburger, it'll make me fat if I eat too many and like

taking a medication. But I just think there's a lot of small things that people should have some perspective on. And more importantly, like regardless of that, people should, you know, eat better, exercise. You do what you got to do. Use that inversion table. You know? Yeah, that one's great. EOD Voodoo says,

first super chat Afghan vet. A haiku. My children run in the yard. Missing limbs hinder obstruct delay and drain. Was it all worth it? Thank you, Tim Castine. That's hardcore. Thank you.

Logan Culver says, Where's the Kurt Schlichter episode from last week? It is on Rumble.com. If you go to Rumble and look up TimCast IRL, it is also on the website. If you go to the website, it will be there. You know, there you go. Jared Lifeguard says, Ian, what would you think

would happen if we mastered fusion energy and magnetic transportation? What would the masses do with that technology? All the TimCast viewers have to find the time to read Atlas Shrugged. You could transport food across long distances really fast by launching it into orbit and then catching it as it comes back down with a magnetic like counter pull

so shipping it could it could accelerate shipping you could also people could take trains from place to place and you could have little villages all over the place as opposed to centralizing it in cities so that would help the spreading out issue, I think. Connor H. says, How many ears does Jean-Luc Picard have? Three. His left ear, his right ear, and the final front ear. Yes, I love that joke.

It's like Davy Crockett. All right, all right, all right. Good humor. All right, let's see. Katie says, I'm not going to donate a lot because I don't have a lot of money, but I appreciate the work

your whole team does. I love that you call both sides out, especially useless Republicans. I wish you all well. Thank you. That's the problem with the Republican Party. But it's like useless

isn't as bad as destructive. You know what I mean? Right. So it's like, what am I supposed to do i'm not going to come out and just lie i guess all right purposeful porpoise says yo tim prepare yourself for the stargate episode where the general looks straight into the camera and basically admits that the show is a cover for a real Stargate program. Aliens confirmed. What?

Oh, come on. What? I don't know if the joke we had from the jam session was put in the vlog, where we sang a song about Ian's revenge. It wasn't in the vlog. It wasn't? No, it wasn't in the vlog. I wish it was.

That was a good one. Yeah, so we jammed a song where I was basically, it's like about Ian killing a guy. Oh, no. But the chorus is about how he kills a guy, because it's his revenge. But the verse is me saying, it's really true. It's not about Ian killing a guy. Oh, no. But the chorus is about how he kills a guy because it's his revenge. But the verse is me saying it's really true. It's not a joke.

You think it is because it's in a YouTube video and we're just messing around, but it's real. Tell a friend. Yeah, tell your friends. I should have said something like, please help me. I'm stuck in a corner. He's going to come after me. My hands are tied. Only playing the song is keeping him occupied very good yeah uh but anyway yeah about that fourth wall breaking um i i must have missed that one what's what season is

that in the last season oh it happened i thought they were saying it's going to happen no no the show ended a long time interesting yeah yeah this is like a mayan native american thing is that stargates are real. They would have these areas that were carved out that they would stand in, and when they were inside of them, their minds would transcend the universal superstructure, so it seemed, and they would communicate with aliens and see other realities. Mark S. says, love Larry Elder. Totally voting for him on this recall. Ian, Larry Elder is the guy that put Dave Rubin on the spot and got Dave to start thinking critically

more classically libertarian. Keep up the good work, you fine people. That's right. Dave was talking to Larry Elder and mentioned, I think he was talking about systemic racism. But Larry, like, clearly knew a lot more than Dave on the issue, and then Dave was kind of just, like, respectfully like, oh, okay. But then Larry's

conversation with him kind of opened up Dave to be like, hey, man, you gotta, like, read this stuff. And then Dave was like, okay. And Dave, like, he him kind of opened up Dave to be like, hey, man, you got to, like, read this stuff. And then Dave was like, okay. And Dave, like, he posts the video. He's proud of it, you know, like, being the kind of guy who's going to hear something and then change his mind. Yeah, it was, like, from five years ago. Yeah. Yeah, that's the one.

Cool. Thanks for letting me know about that. Good clip. Great dude. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so Dragon Lady is the same thing. Ian watched Dave Rubin's first interview of Larry Elder back in, I think, 2015. Awesome. Rubin calls it one of Larry Elder back in, I think, 2015. Awesome.

Rubin calls it one of his most transformational moments. Wow. Very cool. I could see it. Nong Mar says, is Ian Timcast Castle's shaman? Yes. I guess technically, by default. Easily.

Yeah. I'm down to hire more shaman, though, if you want. Jesus Sanchez says, I don't know how far you are in Stargate. You should watch season four, episode 16. I will check it out.

I've, so, there's like three episodes that come on per day. So, I'm in like season nine or something right now, but I've skipped

half the episodes in between because I certainly can't watch three episodes a day. So, it's like, you know, it's hard to keep track. Did you just skip through

and look for ones you like, the premise of? No, no, no, because between like four and six, there's like, you know, it's hard to keep track. Did you just skip through and look for ones you like, the premise of? No, no, no, because between like four and six, there's like, you know, four, five and six, they play an episode of Stargate. And I can't watch every episode all the time. So I'll see like one of the three. And then, you know, so now they're already at like the end of the show or whatever. That sucks. Amazing show, though. Really, really good show.

I'll have to look for the one where he looks at the camera. All right. Let's see what we got here. Elizabeth Carmella Comedian says, Hey, Tim and gang, the other weeks you shouted out my son, Orion. Blew his mind. Thank you. We live in Northern Cali, Solano County specifically.

Don't believe what you see on the news. We are voting Newsom out. I'm voting in person. All right. Perfect. There you go. Let's see it. Nice. I'm feeling good. Sketchum says, PA Trucker here. I haven't

had work the past couple of days due to no workers at warehouses to load or unload trailers. Oh man, it's coming. It's getting crazy. It's not good. Matt Ram says, do we trust the same people that approved the medication that started the opioid epidemic? No, Luke, I puke. I bought nine i bought nine chickens for our roosters whoa that's too many roosters

luke's coming back soon you know he's coming back soon um as for trusting people the issue with the opioid epidemic was the was the um not the fda it was the pharmaceutical companies and the doctors just like dishing them out. And they were encouraged to prescribe medication, weren't they? Something like that. I don't know the full story. It was like a big investigative piece on it. Look, I'm not saying I'm a big fan of the FDA

and revolving door policies of the head of this pharmaceutical company gets a job in the government or anything like that. But I think the opioid one is telling people to take a medication that turned out to be extremely addictive and problematic. Yeah. They didn't frame them as addictive.

That was a big part of the problem. They sold them to kids, like little kids too, young kids, oxycodone, oxycontin, and then kids were coming down with hardcore addictions. Then they'd look for the next biggest thing. Then all of a sudden fentanyl gets developed. Oh, man. Yeah. Probably as a result or... Fentanyl's developed. Oh man, yeah. Probably as a result or

Fentanyl's from China. Jeez, dude. Yeah, that's what's up. Kevin Pilgrim says, Chris says he is bad at speaking. I absolutely love him as an in-house guest. Great job, Tim Pham. Oh yeah. Thank you very much for that. Thank you. That's awesome.

OMG Puppy says, you can buy Le Fee Absinthe. It's legal now. It definitely has a mild cannabis-like high in addition to the alcohol. I served some at a party and there were some strange revelations like a truth serum. Oh, snap.

Yes. Interesting. That was my experience with it too, with the Wormwood. Really? It's mild, psychoactive, so you get the THC kind of wavy understanding along with the alcoholic subdual jason lindholm says watched

your cast castle video of you all getting musical equipment and gear jealous i want to jam with you and everyone there's a bunch of stuff with the music it's um we license music for some of the stuff we do there uh we want to make our own we want to just generally produce music i've got a bunch of songs i need to produce but we're thinking like in-house for all of the – we've got what, like three new podcasts on the horizon. And we're going to make our own music so that we don't have to worry about licensing or rights or copyright strikes or anything like that. And we want to have live shows. So we just need the equipment and the production. The speaker systems we got are so we can do the live shows outside.

And then we got one so we can do live shows in the basement. It's going to be a lot of fun. I think Andreas got a song featured in the vlog yesterday. I think that was one of his. Oh, yeah? Couldn't tell you. That sounds like his style. There you go.

I think so. Crazy digital Helena art. Yeah. Helena. Oh, see, here we go. Michael Adkin says, Fast and Furious should team up with Transformers. Yes.

There we go. No guys would be able to stay away. All right. Tate Story says, Hey, Tim and crew, 20 year old guy and wanted to make a change and joined the Mises Caucus of Utah. Also, you're wrong.

The Jazzmaster is the best guitar. Also, if you're in the need of another animator, I would love to be of use. Eventually, yes. More animators. I tried the Jazzmaster. It was good. So they have the Acoustisonics.

They're like, I don't know Acoustisonics. They're like... I don't know how to describe it. They're not just acoustics. They are, but they're more like electrics. I don't know. They're amazing. They all sounded great. They were all really, really amazing. So I would say the Telecaster I thought sounded the best, then the

Jazzmaster, and then the Stratocaster. It's a close tie, though. I think the issue with the Jazzmaster, and then the Stratocaster. It's a close tie, though. I think the issue with the Jazzmaster was that it did sound really, really good, but I just am impartial to the Telecaster, I guess. So maybe that is true to say the Jazzmaster is better. I think it's just personal preference at that point. But I was really impressed with the Jazzmaster, to be completely honest.

I was like, wow. Sean Anderson says, Fast and Furious 1 is point break with cars and i love it that's right point break great movie aiden says will you guys have charles uh hiskinson on as a guest cardano has exploded recently yeah we've been meaning to do that hoskinson yeah hoskinson stand fight. He just needs to reach out to me. Cardano has a bright future. I don't know. I still have not been reading a lot about it in the last couple of years. I'm optimistic.

Yeah. I have a decent amount of Cardano ADA tokens. Hoskinson is a visionary. I mean, he was a part of Ethereum. So it's just, I look at a lot of the altcoins as like stock. You know, it's not necessarily, there's like utility tokens and stuff. But Bitcoin is decentralized crypto. Everything else is kind of,'s like utility tokens and stuff but bitcoin is decentralized crypto everything else is kind well monero and stuff i guess but a lot of a lot of these altcoins are like stock mr laxative says what's the eta and the timcast app oh man probably

months i have no idea uh we're working on it you know um so that people can use listen to the episodes and everything we needed to start we man so we need to start uploading audio versions of the members-only stuff so people don't have to use a lot of bandwidth and make it easier. I will say, though, the Brave browser has the ability to play a video

and then sleep your phone, turn the screen off, and still listen. So apparently people were saying that's a solution if you want to listen to the episodes without your phone being on the whole time. Let's see.

James Oldages says, please look into Right to Repair and discuss it with Louis Rossman. It's an issue we can all get behind. Another standing invite. Absolutely. He needs to follow up with me. I bet that's a bigger deal than I realize Right to Repair. I want to talk to Louis. Yeah?

Louis. Yeah. All right. Let's see. We'll do a couple more Louise. Yeah? Louise. Yeah. All right. Let's see. We'll do a couple more here. Jumping down. Oh, I see somebody asking us if we've heard of Yuri Bezmenov. Oh, yes, we have.

Yuri Bezmenov. Yeah. Put a nickel in the Bezmenov. It's a Russian ex-KGB. It's kind of a joke. People ask that a lot. Do you know who he is? No, I don't.

He worked with the KGB and came out in the 90s and told America, the communist motive is a long 80-year plan, 20-year plan, where they will go in and seed your culture and transform the culture from the grassroots and then take over the country that way. And it's been going on in the United States for like 20-plus years, he was telling. Interesting. Yeah. Sorda says, Tim, Americans can make whatever medical choices

they want. It's called Against Medical Advice. There are federal laws protecting it. No matter how you choose to live, you are free to choose how you live.

I'm 100% for people making their life choices. I wouldn't want to make a medical decision for anybody. I'll have to look up the AMA rules. And that's why I'm like, bro, if I was in a zombie apocalypse

and people were like, I'm fine with it, I'll be like, I'll leave. That's the thing, too. Remember the smoking? you could smoke in bars they banned it all i don't smoke i hate smoke i hate being around people who smoke and i was against banning smoking in bars and restaurants so in chicago when they were doing it i was young but i was taught i would always talk to people and i'm'm like, why? If you don't like smoke, don't go to the bar. And I had friends be like, yeah, but that's BS because I'm like, I can never go to the bar because people always smoke.

And I'm like, yeah, that's too bad for you, I guess. If the bar is okay with it, don't go there, and that's too bad for you. We talked about this before. The employees, it screws the employees too. Quit. It's not that easy, though. Just because one idiot wants to smoke a cigarette in the back of a room and destroy the entire restaurant atmosphere.

Your boss says it's okay and they're allowed to do it and you're like, I'll keep working here. Yeah, the boss is like an unhealthy smoker and doesn't care but all the employees are getting sick because people are smoking in the restaurant. There's no obligation to the employees or the employer between each other. It's an agreement.

Well, the manager. I mean, you might be right that it's more of an owner decision. If you are like, I would like to work at this bar, but oh no, people are smoking. Maybe you shouldn't work there. To be like, well, I'm going to unilaterally decide no one's allowed to smoke anymore. Like, okay, dude, you can just leave. People are enjoying the place. They used to smoke

on airplanes. I was watching old images. So gross. You can't leave an airplane and you don't know that people are going to be smoking when you go on the airplane. You're trying to eat when you're at a restaurant and it's like, I can't taste my food because I smell smoke. It's just not a... I flew on a plane to Morocco that had

ashtrays on it. Were they smoking? No, no, no. You weren't allowed to smoke. The plane was so old they were ashtrays. Yeah, there's still cigarette lights on planes. Airplanes are different. Okay. Definitely. But I do recognize that it's not a one-for-one issue where it's just like either you allow

businesses to allow smoking or you don't. Bars are different. Right. You can walk into a bar and walk right out. You go onto a plane and you're stuck on that plane for a long time. So I can certainly respect them being like, hey, we don't want people smoking on planes anymore. Plus the just general risks of being in the air and the smoke and stuff like that yeah that'd be brutal

yeah i wonder if they've done studies on if the bars if businesses are more or less profitable since they've banned indoor smoking nationwide right yeah all right let's read one more here we got eddie he says hey tim my super chat closed for some reason, so I'll donate again. The Afghan script reminds me of how the U.S. messed up in Allende, Mexico, and Los Zetas came and killed many. Also would love to see you guys talk China with Laowai86 and Serpensa. Also standing invites? Yep, correct. Three for three. Everybody, there's something you need to do right now.

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Check out that vlog at the Cass Castle from yesterday. I did sing a little bit. A lot of times Tim and I will be rehearsing, and then we get footage of it, and it's cool, like behind the scenes, chilling. But you also got to know, like, if I'm rehearsing music, it's basically like you're going to smell me while I'm working out. It's the grossest sound. I'm working it out, you know?

That's not the final product, but you can watch if you want and enjoy. We're going to be recording a new song soon. It is so good. Carter Banks is excited about it. Our new producer. I got a bunch of songs and people are always like, oh, that's the one. That was great that he grabbed that other one.

Yeah. This one's I never recorded. It was just one that Tim and I had knocked around harmonies on for a while, but I hadn't thought to put it in the top three that we would do first, but Carter was like, that's the one. Yeah. Yeah, this one's I never recorded. It was just one that Tim and I had knocked around harmonies on for a while, but I hadn't thought to put it in the top three that we would do first, but Carter was like, that's the one. We got a producer. Exciting times over here at TimCast

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