Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #390 - Over 2,000 Southwest Flights Canceled, Pilot Mandate Revolt Rumored w/Tom Sauer

Episode Date: October 12, 2021

Tim, Ian, Luke, and Lydia join former Navy bomb squad leader Tom Sauer to discuss the cancellation of thousands of flights and what this might mean, Kyrie Irving's courageous choice to stand by his principles and stand up to a vaccine mandate in the NBA, even though it will cost him a lot, personally, Taiwan's efforts to strengthen itself against China, the highest prices on food in a decade, and how the government may not stand a chance in the face of an actual insurrection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I think it's working. We got a new studio. And I just pressed the button and nothing changed. And I'm like, okay, it's broken already. No, it's working. So we're streaming now at a substantially higher bit rate. This is crazy. We're in a brand new studio.

So the sound may be crazy and whatever. You look, you just got to do it. We're going to do it. And so we got some news, man. You guys probably heard the big news was Southwest Airlines canceling over 2,000 flights. And the rumor was there was either an air traffic controller strike or a pilot strike. Now, it's probably neither of those things. It's something substantially worse.

I actually talked to a pilot. Well, I should say someone who told me they were a pilot. We're still investigating the story. We're still getting statements and seeking to vet. But I used to work for O'Hare. I'm sorry. I used to work for American Eagle Airlines at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. So there's jargon, you know, this individual's telling me, and I'm like, he's probably legit. And he said, there's no strike. It's not a sick out or anything

like that. It's worse. It's when you have vaccine mandates, people work as hard as they can work, and then all of a sudden they just reach their limit and say, I can't do this. I'm calling in. And so a lot of people may just be independently calling out, which is causing an airline collapse. And that's worse because we're seeing this with Biden's vaccine mandate. We're seeing it across the board with the economy. Shortages are getting worse. And now they're warning us for one Fauci. I don't even know if he's going to give us Christmas. Maybe if we cross our fingers and ask him nicely, he say yes but now we're being told you better go shopping now because you're not gonna be able to get those toys later on so we got to talk about this we got to talk about this this uh pentagon what was he a pentagon a cheat a general or software

software engineer saying that yeah we're absolutely behind in terms of cyber war Taiwan says they're they're gearing up for war there's a lot to to talk about. So that being said, we will try our best to make sure this new studio setup works. But if you don't just roll with it, you'll never know where the bugs are going to be. So we actually did a few test streams. Everything seems to be good. And joining us today to talk about all this is Tom Sauer and Colin Myers. Do you guys want to introduce yourselves? Yeah.

Thanks for having me on, guys. My name is Tom Sauer. I'm a former Navy EOD officer, a bomb disposal officer, special operations bomb squad. And also currently, my current line of work is I own a mental health and addiction treatment company primarily focused on veterans right now. It's called the McArthur Group, but our main company is Miramar Recovery in Orange County, California. And one of my partners in all this is my Naval Academy classmate and good friend, Colin Myers. Thanks, Tom.

Tom and I were classmates. Graduated Naval Academy back in 2006. Yep. I went on to be a submarine officer and then was dealing with communications after that. And finally, I joined forces here with Tom at Miramar Recovery. Right on. Well, we got a full house tonight because we got Luke here as well. I mean, this studio's freaking

incredible. Can we do a wide shot? The wide shot is pretty cool. I can't. Hold on. We'll do it later. All right. We'll do it later. But I also brought in some art from my trailer right behind me. It says, We Don't Dial 911. I got that in Florida, of course. And he has a sword.

And a sword, you know. You know. I'm just your local parking lot vagrant. I guess I've been called here. I don't know what that means, but they're calling me a vagrant here. I'm also a humble t-shirt vendor.

And if you like the t-shirt I'm wearing, like the one that I'm wearing right now that says if you could question it, it's science. If it's not, it's propaganda. You could get your own exclusively at thebestpoliticalshirts.com thebestpoliticalshirts.com. Thanks for having me. Hey, also real quick, I just want to point out all this new

artwork here. If you guys are looking for new artwork, there's a really cool new emerging artist. I think he's named Hunter Biden. It's expensive though. It's really expensive. Yeah, he's named Hunter Biden. It's expensive, though. It's really expensive. It is good. Yeah, it's good. He's really good. Hey, Tom, how many bombs did you dispose of in your career? A couple.

Oh, yeah. Not too many. I was one of the guys. Most of my focus area was actually on Asia Pacific. So I spent most of my time out there working the big picture stuff. China, North Korea, all that. So I spent a lot of time in the tropics. I'm one of the few Navy EOD guys who did not go to Afghanistan.

I did a brief stint earlier in Iraq. It was very uneventful. I'm not an Afghan. I'm not the Hurt Locker guy. We kind of worked on a different world of that. We can talk about it a little bit. Counterweapons of mass destruction. Nuclear weapons. Spent a little bit of time at Los Alamos.

Very cool. All that stuff. Taken a lethal dose of radiation more than once. Luke and I went to Fukushima. Oh. So maybe. We're also non-intelligent. Bought a bunch of iodine. I think that's supposed to help. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, Ian Crossland. I don't have the sweet background like Luke has yet.

I've got a light switch over there. It's going to be changing. Get some artwork behind me. I have an array of crystals in front of me. And the UFO has returned. I don't know if we have a shot of that yet. We will. I will show everybody that in just a minute. Maybe he's still fixing out, fixing all the new buttons.

Well, we have a new camera that takes a second. It's a PTZ camera. Oh, cool. So you can't, you have to actually like reset it. Yeah, it has like pre-programmed. It has to actually move. Very cool. Happy to be here.

And I'm looking for, oh, actually, before we get started, I have a gift. This is for you, Tim, and for the TimCast crew. This is the big book of hell. I don't know if you guys have ever heard of this. Oh, yeah. Matt Groening's original works. There we are. This is the creator of The Simpsons, and in the early 80s, he did a comic strip about

this binky, the rabbit, and I want you to have it. All right. He was a Navy nuke. Did you know that? He was a Navy nuke. Nuclear engineer. Oh, wow. Homer Simpson in his position as a senior reactor

operator in front of the panel comes from Matt's background. The female rabbit, I think Marge is kind of his mom. Okay, you guys. I have super cool stuff to show you. I have my new camera, of his mom. Okay, you guys. I have super cool stuff to show you. I have my new camera so I'm going to show you. I'm going to see if I can show you guys the UFO.

Let me know when that's in shot. I'm spinning it. Let's go. Don't spin it too much. Yeah, you'll throw it off altogether. And now we got a wide shot. That's cool. Look at that whole room.

I can't see it. I have to look at it on my phone. Oh, snap. That's cool. Look at that whole room. Here we are. I can't see it. I have to look at it on my phone. Oh, hey, look. The virtual shield ad is already pulled up. Don't forget. Go to TimCast.com. Become a member.

And you'll get access to exclusive members-only segments of the TimCast Herald podcast as well as all our other shows, which means, actually, we're going to have a lot more members-only content, especially from our new show, Tales from the Inverted World. But don't forget to like this video, subscribe to this channel, share this show with your friends. Now let's get into the big story of the day so far. Southwest canceled more than 2000 weekend flights and the disruptions are continuing. And this is a story from today. It's been updated after I covered it this morning, but I also did something interesting. There was a post on patriots.win, which is the big Donald Trump forum. And someone there said they were a pilot. And they were like, Tim Pool, I know you. You browse here. You better get in touch with me.

And then I was like, OK. So I did a little digging, found the person's information. Turns out it wasn't actually the person who was posting. I'll leave out a lot of details, but it was someone related to a pilot with Southwest who was relaying basically their story. And what I was told was there's no strike. There's no sick out. It's worse. It is part of what we've been seeing with the labor shortages across the board.

When you push people too hard, eventually they reach their limit. So the vaccine mandates, for instance, was a huge smack in the face to a lot of these pilots who are already pushing their maximum hours. I'm being told that, you know, back in August, some of these people were already told by the FAA due to what they said, federal aviation regulations, they couldn't fly. You fly too much. They're being spread too thin. We saw the same thing happened earlier with Spirit Airlines. So we're seeing this across the board in almost every industry with labor shortages. You add on top of the fact that people are being spread too thin, a vaccine mandate. This is just bad policy across the board. But I know you, Tom, you were talking

about having gotten a message from someone or having more insight on this. Yeah. So what happened was Colin is friends here with a number of Southwest pilots. And also in my family, I've got a pilot and an air traffic controller. And what happened was he got a text from one of his pilot buddies saying like, hey, there's a walkout. Or when they say walkout, it's not a literal walkout. It's folks calling in sick at air traffic controllers in Jacksonville. It's called stop like 650 flights. More to follow.

Just wait. The pilots are about to step in too. And it's just getting started. Spread the word. So then Colin says, well, I know Tom's got a lot of followers on Twitter, you know, for a non-public figure. And Tom knows people who have an awful lot of followers on Twitter. And he says, do you want to put it out?

Do you want to put it out? Says Dave, said go for it. So I did. And I was actually in the air. I was on the plane on the way out here from California. And I immediately, Cerno retweets. And then I send it out to our mutual friend, Jack Posovic, Kurt Schlichter, all those guys. And it goes super viral.

I think we're at almost 6 million views now. It's insane. And we, it turns out, we broke the story. We scooped everybody else, which sounds crazy. And then, of course... It seemed crazy to us at first because there was nothing about it anywhere we were searching yeah he he tells me about it like i'm not seeing anything about that do you know anything i didn't see anything in the media and so then it goes big and next thing you know we're i'm in the plane the entire way and and

it's just i'm getting dms we're getting hit up by people and then next thing you know we hear about more and then more and then i got a dm from somebody says hey tucker carlson would like to talk to you and here's a number i'm like how do i know is it a non-account i'm like how do i know this is you know and he says he will talk to you on the phone so i'm like okay sure so i send like a you know probing text like hello and then get a phone call and hello hi tom this is tucker carlson i'm like holy crap okay yes sir yeah and so it was great so we talked for about 20 minutes and i referred him to a few of our friends who are pilots who spoke to and also spoke to the air traffic control.

My family, she is unvaccinated and is planning on, you know, losing her job. Wow. Yeah. And so they're making plans and all that. And then everyone else. Yeah. Is that like, you know, a thousand people out of 50,000? I think we're at 6,000th number for controllers.

That's the number I was given. Yeah, 6,000 controllers were going to refuse vaccination. That's what they're looking to lose. That's what I was given. And you know who you are. You're watching. If you want to text me and correct me, go right ahead. But do you know the total number of air traffic controllers?

I don't know. I can actually find out. I just phoned a friend. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so that friend of the family, she's watching. So you go ahead and text me. I mean, considering we're already dealing with labor shortages and problems with flights as it is, 6,000 is no small number.

Yeah. I heard Tucker Carlson might be having a pilot on on his show today possibly. I might have been the person introducing to him. Yeah, but this is severe. We're talking about 3,100 flights in four days canceled. Yeah. It's over 3,000 now. Yeah, 3.1 in four days.

Now, the union is denying that this was a sick out, but the union, the pilots union, Southwest Pilots Union, is actually suing Southwest because on December 8th, that is the deadline that Southwest put on their employees to get vaccinated or be fired. That is the deadline. And this could have been organized. This could have not been organized. It's going to be playing out soon, but I definitely foresee this to become more of the norm. I'd see a lot more disruptions coming. Former U.S. Congressman Ron Paul and former presidential candidate Ron Paul called today the, quote, great rebellion. So that right there kind of solidifies this kind of moment right now, which everyone's on edge.

Everyone's waiting to see how these mandates are going to play out. Other people are calling some of these pilots terrorists. Some blue checkmark individuals on Twitter are saying the pilots who are participating in a sick out are terrorists. And that's just hyperbolic, nonsensical language. And very interestingly, even when we saw workers union in Australia rise up, we saw a lot of people on the establishment left criticize them, even though it was a populist workers union standing up for their personal freedoms,

for their bodily autonomy, for their individual rights as human beings, not to be subjugated and jump through government hoops. So a lot of things are moving. This is a fast-moving story. It's only going to develop from here. And if it's not organized, as you said, Tim, this is only going to get a lot worse. And if it is being organized, they're not going to say that it is. Exactly.

They told us it was the weather. It's like, it's the weather. I'm like, bull freaking crap. The weather is only affecting one airline out of all the other airlines out there you got to be kidding me i mean we're not that stupid southwest released that statement the mainstream media regurgitated it i mean what kind of bull crap are they trying to give to the american people when they're telling everyone it's the weather guys here's the best part so uh the other night we were watching family guy like a new episode and fox 5 i don't know is that like the local dc channel whatever the news comes on and the big story is southwest

cancellations at this point it was over a thousand and the lady said southwest has canceled over a thousand flights they said in a statement that it was due to weather and issues with air traffic control the faa which had a statement saying that there was no shortage of air traffic controllers or and then i was like wait wait wait who said shortages like why did they include that statement so what you learn is the news the news outlet knew that there was a story about a shortage and they included the quote from the from the faa but not the actual information the context you needed to understand why the faa said that right what that says to me is that the news is withholding information from people

because they don't want... Here's what I think. I think if regular people realize that 6,000 air traffic controllers are going to refuse to be vaccinated... And it looks like from the FAA, 14,000 air traffic controllers in the U.S.? That's the total.

14,000 plus, it says. Whoa! If that's true, consider air travel done. But if that's the case, how many more people are going to be like, if they can do it, so can I? Yeah. That's why they're so worried about these celebrities, too. It's a stare-down, though, too if that's the case, how many more people are going to be like, if they can do it, so can I. That's why they're so worried about these celebrities, too. It's a stare-down, though, too. That's the thing. Right now, you're having

establishment, whether this is a major corporation, whether it's a government agency, and then you've got the people, and they're having the stare-down. Like, hey, somebody's going to have to blink. Eventually, somebody will. It's not just Southwest. There's other elements of society that are saying, no, no, no, no no no no my body my

choice i get to decide what i get to put inside of myself including amtrak the amtrak uh official twitter account just posted that there's going to be some shortages of trains because of quote unforeseen crew issues what unforeseen crew issues are you talking about there's also kairi irving an nba player that gets paid 15.58 million dollars he's putting his contract on the line because he's refusing to bow down to the authoritarians and they're telling him you might not be able to play home games and that's what might happen in just a few moments from now so and it's also national guardsmen there's there's also reports of over a hundred thousand troops not taking the vaccine not budging so so there's there's a lot more people out here that are saying no than we even know about.

Here's what I think we're seeing right now. We've talked about this quite a bit, the rat experiment, the rat utopia experiment. What was it, Carl Schlichter? Is that the name of the guy? I think so. We went through how long? A year of lockdown, a little bit longer. And then it was this summer.

They said, okay, everything's going back to normal. And then it's all coming back again. Are you guys, I'm sorry, not the rat utopia experiment, the hope experiment. Sorry. Are you guys familiar with the hope experiment?

Not terribly. No, no. They take three cylinders. They put rats in them. They're full of water and the rats swim desperately. After 15 minutes, the rats give up and die.

They then did another experiment. They put the rats in the cylinders. After 15 minutes, the rats give up, but then they pull the rats out, dry them off, let them rest, put them back in. then the rats swam for 60 hours six zero yeah six zero because they felt hope they were like i will that hand will save me again that was uh but dr kurt richter

out of harvard richter so so they're related this is what this is what i think you know look these these cancellations and everything, it is going to get bad. The lockdowns are like the vaccine mandates are basically lockdowns. They're telling businesses

you can't operate, you know, unless you do these things. And then we're seeing people say no to them, which is resulting in more economic strife. But this time,

people aren't going to freak out as much. They're going to hold out for hope because they've seen the return to normal if only for a few months. That's a great observation. I mean, that experiment is terrifying, especially with what could possibly happen here,

because there's still a lot of unexplained issues. We still don't know exactly what's going on. We know that there's a lot of mandates, a lot of government pressure. We saw what happened with United Airlines, with them pressuring their employees, firing their employees. So I could definitely see that this is not going to go away anytime soon. But there's also a lot of other issues. There's estimates here that over 100 million people in the United States had already COVID. This brings up the question of natural immunity. There's 200 million estimated people that have taken the vaccine, but daily cases are still up 300% than they were from last year

when there was no vaccine. What's going on here? What's the science? Dr. Fauci deserves to explain all of this, and there's no explanation. There's no conversation, and we should at least start with some of these basic facts and just be able to have an honest, real conversation about it, and we can't. I think we need to recognize that they don't know. Yeah.

And the problem is Dr. Fauci likes to always say definitive things and then get proven wrong and the and probably one of the most dangerous things he said was christmas is canceled and then everyone's like freaking out and he goes i misread the science it's not canceled anymore like then don't say it yeah because people are freaking out already but hey maybe that's what they want he loves the attention they want you spinning in circles exactly and that's why when there was a major backlash, he went back on the science of canceling Christmas. And just a few months ago, he issued a statement that he's granting permission for kids to go trick-or-treating.

Are you kidding me? You're not God. You might be compared to Keebler elves, but that's not God. Maybe in some religions it is. But for freaking things. Thank you, Lord God Emperor. There's no science

backed by it. It's all popularity contest and it's getting ridiculous by the day. Isn't he the highest paid federal employee? Yeah, he is. He's making more money than the president. Making more than a four-star general. I think he's been in that job, that specific job, about as long as someone's been alive. 40 years, I think.

Longer than I've been alive. He's got a book deal. He's got that Netflix documentary, too. No, Disney. It's Disney, right? Oh, Disney+. You're right. Thank you.

The new movie, Fauci, had a 1.2 rating on IMDb, but it was a bunch of fraudulent reviews. So now they're fixing it as a 5.8 rating. Sure. They're like, let's be real. You can hate Fauci. The story can be awful, but we put that documentary together very well. How many dislikes does it have now? Because they got rid of the comments.

I want to see. I'm going to look it up. Why would they ever get rid of the comments? It was 95,000 dislikes a couple days ago. Let's actually, can we? Yeah. I'm going to pull it up. Where is that?

On YouTube? It's on YouTube. It's the Fauci Disney Plus trailer to his documentary. That's a horrible picture of him, by the way. It's Disney Plus with National Geographic. I don't know if he's got cheekbones done or something. All right, so we pulled it up. A hundred and five thousand dislikes.

Oh, my. The National Geographic page. Are you on that one? Oh, no. I'm on Disney Plus. Yeah. The Fauci official trailer has 21,000 dislikes. On the National Geographic one, which comes up first when you type in

Fauci National Geographic documentary that was released a month ago, 105,000 dislikes. 7.7. We got it right here. 105,000 dislikes. Wow. Wow. Yikes, man.

This is popular. Well, I'll tell you this. People don't like Dr. Fauikes. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Yikes, man. Oof. This is popular. Well, I'll tell you this. People don't like Dr. Fauci. Yes. Man, I know. I mean, who's going to love North Korean-style propaganda films? Seriously.

I mean, there's no conflict. There's no drama here. It's Bono and George W. Bush acting like fluffers to Dr. Fauci. That's what the documentary is about, okay? I don't want to watch that. If I want to watch North Korean-style propaganda movies, I'll watch North Korean propaganda movies. They're funny. Yeah, they're interesting. They're thought-provoking.

At least there's something there that you know is kind of theater. But for them to play like they're unbiased and not interview anyone critical of them, not introduce any – I mean, they talk about the AIDS drama a little bit. But other than that, it's just glorification of a government bureaucrat. And there's nothing more disgusting, in my opinion, than to worship someone in public office. You should be holding them accountable. You should be making sure that they're transparent. You should be making sure that they're transparent. You should be making sure that they're accountable to the people.

You should be making sure that they're working for you, not worshiping and celebrating these, I can't even say it, family-friendly shows here. Look, when you criticize Fauci, you're criticizing science. That's right. Exactly. The guy's a madman. He's a lunatic.

So hold on. Don't show it just yet, but I pulled up the Rotten Tomatoes for Fauci, and do you guys have a guess, A guess on the official critics' score? 99.999. First, official... Oh, don't look at the screen. I just did. I already gave you my guess.

I already guessed. I said 99.9%. All right, pull it up. The official critics give Fauci 91%. Wow. But the audience score is 2%. Oh, my gosh. This is like the worst score I've ever seen from an audience.

But it's people who just don't like Fauci. They initially didn't have that audience score. We should pull up the Dave Chappelle recent comedy special. That was actually, I saw half of it. I was actually pleasantly surprised. I didn't agree with everything he said, but it was good.

I enjoyed it. I was able to sit back and enjoy it. Now we pull up Dave Chappelle, the closer. Official critics 33%, audience score 97%. You see how this works? Oh, yeah. There are clearly two different figurative species.

The journalist, the better man, as they would call themselves. Our betters. Yes, our betters. And then everyone else. And they're all sitting there clapping, oh, Fauci is call themselves. Our betters. Yes, our betters. And then everyone else. Right. And they're all sitting there clapping, oh, Fauci is brilliant. And Dave Chappelle, how dare he? It's digital Hunger Games.

You know what I mean? In a lot of ways. I mean, fortunately, it's not real Hunger Games. No, no. We're not there yet. It almost is. I mean, with like AOC at the Met Gala wearing that dress, no masks. And then we see that, what was it, Seth Rogen at the Emmys, I think, where he's like, look at us all. We're not wearing masks. He's see that what was it seth rogan at the at the emmy's i

think where he's like look at us all we're not wearing masks he's like what's what's wrong with us and they're all laughing about it like they don't care this makes me think that it makes me cements the idea that authoritarianism doesn't work in art because you can't like force someone to think they like something they don't like but then i'm thinking about yunmi park coming out north korea and how they don't even know what love is like they don't understand that concept because it was never taught to them. So maybe authoritarianism does work in art and we're just seeing the beginning of them trying to do it.

It doesn't work in the beginning. It takes a generation. It's horrifying. Look at all these movies where they did woke remakes or whatever. I mean, man, I know you guys haven't seen the new craft because of just who you are as people who pay attention and have good taste. But you guys remember the craft, right? The old 90s movie with the witchcraft thing yeah so they remake it okay and the latest

version is just like the most nonsensical woke religious garbage it's not even a movie it's just like doesn't make sense at all david de covney for some reason turns out to be the bad guy but he like he apologizes to this girl for being mean with her be uh you know mean to her she's this he's the stepdad and he's like don't attack people because she hit somebody and then she gets all like shocked that he she was told not it just the movie makes literally no sense they cast a spell and i gotta turn him gay or something it's for real is it worse than girl ghostbusters oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah at least Girl Ghostbusters was like just a bad movie. Sure. The craft is like random woke PSA clips stitched together.

Yeah. And so, you know, like what you're saying, Ian, that you can't force someone to like art. Yeah, but if that's like, if there are people who will just clap, you know, in unison for the establishment, it's not about liking art, it's about just they're clapping to fit in. And so they'll tell you they like everything, they like anything they're told to like you know the comments on this dr fauci documentary are absolutely glorious and awestunning someone wrote corporations and government working together against the people classic another person wrote the gain of function is really going to be relatable to a lot of people so and someone someone uh wrote that they're going to make this movie into a ride

at disney and the wait is going to be two minutes but you're going to be in you're going to be there for 15 years so the comments are absolutely beautiful and uh glorious some people wrote this is the sequel to nuremberg 2.0 again a lot of people are saying a lot of different comments lots of uh let's go brandon's but uh the comments are very entertaining to say the least nice so i i i think you know why didn't trump fire the guy yeah that's a very good question why didn't trump fire a lot of people you know i think the reality is the trump presidency was was anything but a despotism it was a guy who was like i'm gonna do what i want to do and he's kind of a loud mouth, but he didn't push too hard. And the problem was he should have fired a lot of people.

He should have fired Fauci, but he didn't do it. And he could have done it. Yep. I think right now, as it stands, like the odds are, if you had to play the odds, I mean, a lot of people have these predictions, but one, I mean, it's pretty clear that Trump, he's going, I mean, he's, he's going for it this, this next round. And frankly, I think he's going to get it. I'm not saying this is one of those things where, you know,

whether that's necessarily what I want and all that, but if I had to bet money on something, and I think he's going to win. I really do. I know it sounds crazy, right? But, I mean, people thought it was crazy the first time around. His approval is up in rural areas. Yeah.

We're hearing suburban areas that were anti-Trump are now supportive of Trump, even though he's not president. This is the craziest thing. It's like approval now flipped over 50% in some suburban areas that were anti-Trump are now supportive of Trump, even though he's not president. This is the craziest thing. It's like approval now flipped over 50 percent in some suburban areas where they're he's not even the president. They approve of the guy. What? Yeah. And he's going to go against like an animated corpse.

Or he's going to go against a very unlikable, you know, for a cop. Yes. You know, reanimated. Maybe. Excuse me. Reanimated. Or maybe he's going to go up against oprah but more importantly he's probably going to have to go against ron desantis and there's a lot of donald trump supporters that are absolutely angry at him for his handling of of the events after his presidency for not supporting them for not

standing up with them for raising a lot of money and then kind of sitting on it. There's a lot of accusations of money just being thrown away. I don't disagree. So there's a lot of disenfranchised Donald Trump supporters that are absolutely mad with him, especially with what he did to whistleblowers, especially the opportunities he had, the opportunities he failed. I mean, if someone, I mean, a lot of people have been left after the Trump presidency being like, wait, what just happened?

I thought he was going to make America... A lot of people are disenfranchised, but a lot of people are also understanding how bad Biden is. So it's going to play out. And with DeSantis, unfortunately, his wife came down with cancer, breast cancer. That could be a game

changer for her because if things take a turn, like him doing something like that while wife with cancer. Ron, if you're listening, look into fasting. You know what I think? I think Trump was heavily focused on his economic agenda and he ignored the politics of it all. That's kind of the problem with having someone, a non-politician as president. Exactly. Yeah. I was talking to somebody a

long time ago in new york and they were they were mentioning i think philadelphia they had i don't know it's not wolf is it but they mentioned they tried electing a businessman governor and it didn't work or something i don't know the full details maybe you guys in pennsylvania know this but typically what you'll get is someone like trump who thinks that he you know he's the ceo of this big company he can be like you're fired then he gets in the government and he goes somebody says you're fired and they go uh you don't have the authority to do that that's got to go through committee approval we'll see you in a month yeah and that person stays in the job or they got a weird federal union so i feel like trump mostly i mean

he picked a lot of weird culture war fights he focused on economics which was was good but that they the swamp had him surrounded yeah you know he couldn't actually change things that needed to be changed i mean if the one thing he could have done was i don't know pardon surrounded. He couldn't actually change things that needed to be changed. I mean, if the one thing he could have done was, I don't know, pardon Assange, couldn't even do that. He pardons the Detroit mayor guy. He said he doesn't know who Assange is. He said he loved WikiLeaks when he was running for president,

and then he's like, WikiLeaks? What's that? I don't even know what that is. Would have played to his favor. I'm like, what are you doing? You have an opportunity and chance to go against the establishment in such a way with just one little move, correcting a wrong by the U.S. military industrial complex, correcting a wrong by the intelligentsia, and you don't do it? But he – fire Fauci? Like even when he was not – clearly not getting along with the guy.

Right. But he just – he didn't make these moves. If you think about this like – I know you've had – I'm sure you guys are all familiar with Curtis Yarvin, of course. And it's one thing he's talked about quite a bit where it's like, hey, this is bigger than one man. Where it's like – where the president of the United States is like the leader of the executive branch in the same way that the queen of England is like the head of state for – yeah, official head of state but doesn't have any real constitutional power. Has a little bit like on paper but isn't really anything. He a big long bit i'm a big fan of his and he did a long bit on tucker carlson today explaining all that i hope you guys get him on i mean he is he's fantastic but he's just like no it's bigger than him it's like you look at the entire federal government

where it's just like it's like fish in a coral reef and then a giant wave goes over a hurricane it is yeah and the fish are just kind of like you know the actual federal employees there's like oh what's that something you know every election something happened where it's like it's bigger like that's you know and we call that people call that deep state or the swamp but it's decentralized it's not some cabal the administrative state yeah administrative yeah exactly and it's decentralized all that right these people who exist in government beyond, you know, in between every administration. Sure. They just, they never go.

And then they influence intel. And you'll get a president who comes in and the same people will be like, here's your official report. And I think this time or last time with Trump, Trump was like, I don't care. America first. And they were like, oh, he's not listening to us. What do we do? And then all of a sudden they were like, oh, he just got elected and we'll impeach him. And the same people who said they were going to started the process.

Yarvin's recommendation of that book, The Machiavellians, would be really good for Trump to read if he comes back in again. Because I think the real question is, what does he do differently? I don't know if he reads books. Yeah.

Hold on, hold on. If Tucker reads it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. There you go. Then Trump will turn on his Fox News and then Tucker will say it and then we're good.

As long as, you know. But, uh. Wait, you got points really, Mike, it's really my dude it'll work out uh tucker says good things about this actually let's let's let's go back to kairi irving because luke luke mentioned kairi irving refuses to get vaccinated we have a story from insider.com the nets are conceding he won't play in home games in a stunning turn of events man look there's there man, look, there's hard falls and there's scary falls. There's a lot of people who say, I'm worried about refusing this. If I lose my job, how do I feed my kids? And I completely understand that. But complying has got us to the point where

now there's food shortages. Now you've got someone like Kyrie Irving who's worked hard his whole life. He's one of the best. He's in the NBA. and now he's going to potentially lose that, standing up for his beliefs. There's still a lot to lose, a lot of hard work people put in. Yeah, he's standing up for his principles, and he's putting up millions of dollars, and he's making a stand here. Now, he was asked about this. He says he doesn't really want a lot of public media attention on this. He's trying to, of course, work things out.

But New York City mandates that people get vaccinated if they want to work there. And he's working for the Brooklyn Nets risk benefit analysis here when it comes to healthy athletic individuals risking themselves to do a compliance procedure that might have complications that might hurt them and end their careers. So there's a lot of things to weigh here. There's a lot of things to discuss here, but at least some of these NBA guys are starting the conversation and at least they're making it an issue that can't be avoided because when you have kairi irving one of the best players on that team saying i'm not going to play home games now because of this ridiculous government mandate it puts it in your face how over the top a lot of this is we also have this story from timcast.com former misfit singer michael graves cancels los angeles concert

over vaccine mandate now this i have tremendous respect for he says quote i have made the decision to not perform on october 13th in la at the whiskey a go-go due to the city's vaccine mandate that is being enforced as of october 7th graves said in a statement provided to timcast i will not perform to a segregated audience i will not participate in any effort to pressure anyone into undergoing an experimental medical procedure to enter and dwell in a building as a prerequisite

to see me perform. If I can't play for all of you, I won't play at all. I mean, hey, bro, go on the street corner and busk. That'd be the coolest thing ever.

Oh, yeah, that would be. Maybe get a security guard or something, but... Giant middle finger, too, to the venue and to all the folks down there. Yep, tell everybody, come outside.

Watch for free. I think that'd be fantastic. But this is incredible, to be completely honest. There are a lot of people who say a lot of words about, I refuse. This vaccine mandate is bad policy. And a lot of them don't actually put up. They don't put their money where their mouth is. They'll go and they'll perform all the same at the vaccine mandate place.

It's a big deal? You know, if you really think if you really oppose the vaccine mandates, then you would oppose them and not be the tool by which these vaccine mandates are implemented. So these guys, Kyrie Irving, I'm actually interested because New York City has a performer exemption. So that's interesting. Like if Graves were to play in new york city the executive order says if you're performing on stage you don't got to get vaccinated yeah which is which i think it just makes no sense of course it makes sense but like you're trying to make sense out of things that are like you know designed to be nonsensical but what's interesting i know like a couple week

or two ago i was watching you and you're saying how hey if you oppose the man and you know i think caused a little bit of a stir on twitter i was like yeah if you oppose the man. And, you know, I think caused a little bit of a stir on Twitter. I was like, yeah, if you oppose the mandate, but you still, you know, get the vaccine anyways, then you don't really oppose it. And I get what you're saying. Or if you go along with the mandate. I said, if if if someone claims that they oppose the vaccine mandate. Right. But then out of fear of losing their job, go and get the vaccine mandate anyway. Sure.

They're not actually opposing. They don't actually oppose it. What I mean to say is how is it opposition to something that you're actively participating in yeah you can dislike something right opposing it so i people are looking at the word oppose like i think it shouldn't be done versus opposes and i'm actively standing up against it yeah no that's fair because there's so many folks out there it's like that you know they don't have you know they're not professional athletes they're not professional performers where you know they're $60,000, $70,000 a year.

They've got family. They don't have a ton in savings. They don't have a lot of runway. And it's like, hey, they lost their job. No, absolutely, 100%. I think that's why it's good for folks like this to start doing it. It's like, okay, maybe there's something here. And it's even better when you're seeing an industry where it makes them hurt where you're talking about the pilots.

And also, it's the flight attendants. I got a DM earlier. It's like, hey, don't forget about the flight attendants because they make a lot less money and also but they're in the exact same boat and there's plenty of them too and it's a big one there's a lot of southwest pilots yeah from what we're hearing it's about half or or maybe just under half are unvaccinated so that's where when the pilots were talking to him we know quite a few southwest pilots you know being in the navy a lot of pilots from the Navy or Marine Corps go right into working with Southwest as an example in this case. And we know a few.

And that's what they're saying is if they don't do this, and maybe it's only 25 or 30% that just refuse. Yeah, it is. But that's still significant. It's a lot. Southwest already has their problems aside from these most recent. Before all this. So if you think you have like a little less than half of all the pilots are on vaccines, that's like the estimate right now.

And let's say like half of those, which is at the other estimate, half of those. So yeah, 20, 25, maybe 30% at most are going to like lose their job. That's a bad news. And also I got to point out, I got to point out this one gal who wrote to me. Her name's Crystal. She sent me a DM. She says, thank you for speaking about the Southwest Airlines. Please don't forget the thousands of flight attendants that are facing

termination as well. My 20 plus years are being flushed down the drain. Thank you for all you do. But let's think about what the logical conclusion to these efforts, right? It'll be a lot harder to fly. Demand will still be there, but the prices will skyrocket. There's substantially

less pilots. There's less flight attendants. There's going to be less availability yeah what do you get hunger games yeah you're going to get very wealthy elites you're going to get the people who are willing to wear the masks like uh was it hunger games that had the avoxes we're talking about that was hungry yeah so i guess this wasn't in the movie yeah no it was part of the book in the book they they the rich the rich people in the capital have servants whose tongues have been cut out that's what it was yeah so it's so interesting you mentioned the hunger games because the way i see it kyrie irving is really channeling what the african-american community is feeling right now and these celebrities saying this is a counter to the hunger games because they're saying no we're not going to do this not only that normal

people who are afraid to lose their jobs they're not alone so seeing all these captains do this and seeing all these celebrities do this has got to be incredibly encouraging. At the same time, if regular people walk off their jobs, say start homesteading, which I think would be good. I think it's fantastic. Just realize we're going to live in a world where

only the wealthy elites are traveling internationally. The wealthy elites are going to be like Elysium almost. Everyone's going to be living in like, you know, do these people want this, I'd imagine. Yeah. They want a surf class. I think also it's Southwest because that's the budget airline, right?

They're the ones that's hurting too. The folks who can afford it can handle it. They're flying either another airline. They're flying up front, right? They're flying business for first class or some of them would be flying private. They're flying any of those. The budget airline is for the everyday folks. Hey, it's a cheap ticket gets me from where i gotta go taking the family to disney i gotta business you know like that's what that is and it's like it's gonna hurt them the most it's not hurting you know the big boys

yeah i don't know if you guys ever heard of the term the great reset yeah but but you know they a lot of globalists especially at the the World Economic Forum, came together and said that people are flying too much. People are consuming too much red meat. People are enjoying life too much, and they need to be controlled and regulated to the point where they have no privacy, own nothing, and they're happier than ever. especially with the larger economic consequences, the government has their fingerprints all over it with helping spur on a lot of troubling times that are going to be coming very soon. Whether it's lockdowns, whether it's mandates, whether it's restrictions, whether it's regulations,

whether it's taxes, everything the government is doing is trying to stop any kind of prosperity, any kind of sovereignty, any kind of liberty and freedom, and trying to benefit, of course, the corporate billionaire class that has greatly benefited from every one of those policies. So what we're seeing here is a clash point, but it's a clash point that's not started by pilots and stewardesses and Kyrie Irving. It's a reaction to something that may be more methodical, that may be done on purpose in order to spur on more of an economic destruction and calamity that should be coming soon. Is it war?

Some people say economic warfare is war. Fifth generational warfare. Target supply lines, crush them. And then what have we seen over the past few decades? One of the biggest problems, one of the biggest weaknesses we face as a country is capital incentives. You find a high-powerful individual or a high-powered company, and then you can easily offer them money to guide them in the direction you want. See, the thing about the Chinese Communist Party and the authoritarians is that they're ideologically driven and authoritarian. So their incentives are all based on whether I'm told to do it or the tribe wants it.

In the United States, there could be a company, and all you got to do is chip one step at a time. Here's some money, do this. Here's some money, do that. And eventually you can steer them in a wrong direction. For example, if a bunch of contributions are coming in to politicians who are advocating for sending our manufacturing overseas, and then all of a sudden the middle class gets gutted, which has happened, the center will not hold.

There's no center left. Our politicians have literally gutted us and it was easy to exploit them into doing it yeah look what we see what's going on with swallow well and fong fong you know diane feinstein and her driver we saw mike pompeo come out and say that there is you know these these uh china the chinese have infiltrated us every level oh yeah so i'm wondering if we're seeing all these shortages and all this bad policy simply because there's this is a means of war. They play the long game, the Chinese.

Definitely. I mean, they know. They think in decades and centuries, well, we're thinking about the next election cycle. We don't think that further past. I know that's kind of one of the things we want to talk about, but that whole area, Asia Pacific, was mine. And also, Jack Posobiec was one of the Intel guys at my unit. That's how we became friends. Oh, wow. Yeah. That was like, that was our connection. And that's how I kind of, and that eventually found my way. Now I'm, I'm here like a few years later,

which is crazy, but yeah, it's, uh, well, that was our big focus. That side of the world was China. And so, and I did a couple of staff jobs. I was an Admiral staff and, um, I drafted tiny little parts of the war plans for China. if anything with Taiwan were to happen, or South China Sea, and also a separate war plan for North Korea. So, you know, obviously I didn't write the whole thing. I wrote a little part of it. It's a huge, huge document, and it goes through admirals and generals and this massive process.

But one of the things with the whole China thing is on the military side, it's like, it's scary, but that's the thing. That's not where this war is being fought. It's economic. It's informational. You know, that's where the real war is going to fight. It's the future. It's fourth and fifth generation.

It absolutely is. I would anticipate limited war, though, unfortunately. This could be something. I don't think China wants a war. Well, hold on, hold on. They keep it limited. Like, it'll be like a Taiwanese. Let me pull that story up to set the stage for this because we do have major developments.

From Timcast.com, Taiwan strengthening military to defend against China. During a speech on Taiwan's National Day Act over 10th, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen warned that the country would be strengthening its military to defend Taiwan's sovereignty against the Chinese Communist Party, saying after taking complete control of Hong Kong and suppressing democracy activists, the Beijing authorities also shifted away from the path of political and economic development that they had followed since reform and opening up began decades ago. At the same time, regional order is being challenged in the South and East China Seas. The routinization of Chinese military activity in Taiwan's southwestern air defense identification zone, that is, has seriously affected both our national security and aviation safety. She stressed that Taiwan

is willing to do its part to contribute to the peaceful development of the region and that Taiwan's position on cross-strait relations remains the same. Neither our goodwill nor our commitments will change.

However, Tsai explained that maintaining peaceful relations requires China to also maintain the peace. She then said that Taiwan will continue to strengthen its national defense to protect its people from China. Interestingly, someone superchatted us just a moment ago

saying that it looks like military is building up in Taiwanese streets. So, fighting a sneeze. But I know that you were mentioning you had experience in these areas. Yeah. What do you think is going on with this? I mean, we've been hearing over and over again more and more stories. They've been saying that for a long, long time. And that's one of the things that Taiwan has always been like this big, big focus for the United States for a long time.

Matter of fact, the first time the United States ever threatened to use nuclear weapons against an enemy was like Eisenhower back in the 50s. Like, hey, we'll nuke you. But one thing that's interesting, though, is that one thing, and this is open source. I don't really feel like we were talking about it, but right now Everyone talks about invasion A lot of folks might not appreciate that The Chinese currently Don't have the sea lift capability

And it might not seem like much But the thing is that One of the things they teach you with all the fancy war colleges And all this other stuff, and all the big strategy stuff Is that They call it the stopping power of water. Like, it's really hard to move an army across just, I mean, think about the massive undertaking it took to just cross the English Channel.

Yeah. Right? I mean, it's a huge deal. Like, moving an army, and you need an army if you want to, like, actually control something. Oh, I don't know about that. Well, if you want to invade, if you want to seize, hold, and control territory, you do need boots and you need to stay there, right? And moving that is just a massive undertaking.

So they currently don't even have the sealant for that. Or you use sowing dissent, propaganda, cyber warfare. That's a different story, right? And if the door gets open from the inside, so to speak, right, and they let them in, that's a different story. But if you're talking about a confrontational, like them doing a D-Day kind of thing, I don't think that's... Let's be real.

At this point, I think that would be like saying, if the Chinese were going to launch a trebuchet at us, it's like, no, no, no. We don't need that ground invasion anymore. It's fourth and fifth generation. 100%. Economics, manipulation, propaganda.

Hollywood culture. And we have to understand, multinational corporations have sold this country out for pennies on the dollar. I mean, the access that they give them, the influence that they give them. John Cena, one of America's most prominent celebrities, is like, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry for recognizing a country during his tour, not even saying anything political. It's embarrassing. Now, I definitely don't think China wants to get into a hot war yet. I don't think they have the resources, especially the oil.

You need a lot of oil, especially if you have a Navy. And there's going to be an energy crunch soon that a lot of people are going to wake up to. And it's going to be very difficult. But also at the same time, I'm also thinking if you are china and you have the failed leadership of joe biden you have his actions of just how horrible everything went in afghanistan you must be thinking to yourself this is the most perfect opportune time to do something very aggressive because biden is literally going to give us weapons and he's going to give us all the all the information to all the people in that area and he's going to give us all the help that he can when we attack taiwan because

that that was his policy in afghanistan it was blundered almost deliberately so if you're trying at the same time you see a big opportunity with the biden presidency or what if this is just a distraction i mean honestly we had talked about it before, the long game. CCP is really good at playing the long game. And in talking with people in Taiwan now, generationally, there's differences. We as Americans tend to view things black and white. We see Taiwan as it's been for the last 20 years, as an example. But the new generations coming up have a lot more in common

with the general Chinese people than they do with their elders, necessarily. They may not be opposed to becoming one with China. And if you're the CCP looking at the long game, sure, we can do some positioning, we can throw the Americans off, but maybe the long game is truly just waiting it out because they don't have to do their business. It's not a long game.

The war is now. The conflict's happening right now financially. But when they go over willingly. Yeah, you're right. There's like 40 flights a day going between Taiwan and mainland China. You know, that's great. Have you guys ever been to China or anything like that? I've been to Hong Kong, and I've been there for

a lot of the protests there. And they were... It was great stuff you did, by the way. This was like street warfare on levels that I haven't seen before, comparatively maybe to the Yellow Vest Movement in France. But this was like gore, blood, and seriousness. What's great, if you go through the Beijing airport

or the Shanghai airport, which is awesome. It's kind of funny almost. They'll have an English and they'll go to the domestic terminal within China, and then the international terminal. And then the international terminal is every other country. It says, international flights and Hong Kong and Taiwan.

That's not international, you know? Yeah, like, that's how they very much look at it. But I really do. I think you guys are right. You're right. The war is being fought now. And I think you're also right, Colin, where it comes down to. It's like, look, I think that the generation,

I think they're going to open the door from the inside, and they're just going to go over willingly. And it might not be, you know, this year, might not be this decade, but it might be soon. And honestly, that's the smart... If you were China, that's the smart move. Instead of sending ships over and kicking the door down. Yeah, you don't want to blow it up. What's the value

of Taiwan? Is it the infrastructure and then they're importing stuff from mainland China? Also national identity. Bannon said it was Silicon Valley West. They produce so much of our silicon chips we've got shortages now and it's making it impossible to get particularly cars so an invasion would be bad because you'd end up destroying infrastructure and that's what

they want is the infrastructure so that do they have tunnels in taiwan is it like an underground because that's what in vietnam the reason why we couldn't win is because they had prepared tunnels for like two decades before among other things yeah uh i don't think as far as that goes, but the thing is, I think if they just let them in willingly, if they're in a fight, like, if you're China, that's a smart move, right? It's the only move I can think of. Otherwise, you're going to have to blow up the thing you want to take. Right. And hold them under

a police, like, nobody wants that. And look, they're good at doing that. Guess what? Instead of, like, shooting you or anything like that, we'll just buy you off. Yeah. That's what I was saying before. Exactly. About the exploitation in the United States. They're eating a lot.

Our weakness. Easily, you can go to an American and offer them cash. We saw these professors, the Thousand Talents programs. And then they end up getting arrested because they're effectively selling U.S. research to China. Yeah. Selling us out. Trump canceled that program and Biden vetoed it when he got into office and implemented it back again. I'm like, what are you doing?

How does this make sense? Oh, we know. And again, everything's for purchase. Everything has a price. And the Chinese literally have a blank book. They have their own Federal Reserve System where they literally print money out of thin air. They have a whole economic system that's based out of just numbers that they print on a screen. So with that kind of unlimited money, they could do anything they want.

And they're very methodical, with their belt and road initiative especially with their infrastructure now through kazakhstan and afghanistan their connections with iran and and the energy that they get from them this is a very methodical move that the chinese understand is going to be a long term but they understand that it started a long time ago we're just realizing it started they realized a long time ago hey we got to do this and they are like they're playing 4d chess and we're playing tic-tac-toe yeah it's not even checkers yeah i think there's a lot of individuals in the u.s i think a lot of people who like you know watch the show for instance probably know a lot of this and have started taking the individual actions to protect themselves

but without a strong collective like a United States and a shared culture and vision, we're getting they're eating our lunch. I think the British play the long game. Do you guys ever get that vibe? I don't know about that. The British monarchy, they're like, we don't do anything. They used to. They're just sitting in the road blocking traffic but saying that they're not doing

anything. I'm not doing it. I think they used to. I mean, now it's kind of like just a crappy quasi-socialist country. it's really sad it's really sad it's like to me in my in my mind i've been to the uk several times i just yeah it's like oh wow this used to be so amazing yeah but there's a lot of problems too don't get me wrong i mean you know colonialism you know yeah that's what kind of started all this taiwan was a british colony yeah it was from the opium wars yeah yeah they set up i think it's taiwan right and well? That allowed sanctuary for the Chinese government when it was taken over by communists to flee, which is my understanding, right?

Yeah. That's a big one. So technically, I love that meme of West Taiwan. You guys have seen it? Oh, yeah. Yeah. The all of China mainline is called West Taiwan. That's right.

Yeah. You know, communism is, I think if communism succeeds and expands and whatever whatever whatever china is they found out something clever it's not just about doing communism it's about manipulating the public giving them limited freedoms so they can at least satiate themselves but then you use the iron fist for everything else yeah it's a clever way to run things the problem with soviet union is you know books and tracking and stuff One loaf of bread wasn't working. They weren't getting the supplies they needed. So China found a way to mix markets with the lower class and then give themselves absolute authority on top.

So all these businesses have a Chinese Communist Party branch or whatever. That, I think that will absolutely wipe out humanity. So if you – I know. I mean you – I missed that. What do you think is going to wipe out humanity so if you if i know i mean i missed what do you think is going to wipe out humanity there chinese i think if chinese style state communism or whatever you want to call it succeeds in becoming this global crypto communism yes this will wipe this will this will decimate probably the wrong choice of words because the root is to reduce by 10 percent yeah

but it would it would be a catastrophe in that central... No, the downer. When he says, like, oh, man, you're right. But centralization of planning does not work. Right. It works in some areas. Like, oh, you want to make cell phones. Great.

Have a planned, like, here's the parts we need, and you can organize it. But you can't organize for a billion people. You can't organize for a million people properly. It is the decentralized wisdom of the masses centralization works if your centralized system is part of a decentralized system so it's just a big node on the network so when we have different businesses like the airline knows the airlines and the and the dairy industry knows the dairy industry that makes sense it's a decentralized grid but imagine having one

government guy who's like overseeing everything and it's like dude you used to be a bus driver and now you're trying to tell us how to produce oil thanks maduro and the country is not now they're what are they doing they're doing a new currency in venezuela oh it's it doesn't work one person is not smart enough to run fifth imagine someone thinking being so arrogant they're like i am but one person but i could i could be the ceo of every fortune 500 company simultaneously. That's insane. You can't do that. The CEOs barely do that. But they brought the smart people

from the universities. Don't worry. The university professors. But if they dare sneeze in the wrong direction of the Communist Party, they get sent to the work camps. I mean, look what happened to Alibaba. Look what happened to so many entrepreneurs in China that have been literally taken out just for the smallest

microaggression of talking against the state and and again this shows you how bad this is another point that we also have to entertain here because with massive centralization comes major problems that china is dealing with right now including major resource shortages they're trying to make a desert into a fertile uh land of of farming because they know resource-wise they're screwed there's a lot of very significant problems in china because of the centralization and i think we also have to examine that because they're not as strong and as powerful with their military um as they're trying to convince the world because they have very hard times even just making their society run in some instances i imagine that people hate the government there just hate it

well depends they're raised as young children to love the state to obey the state and they know if they dare even to criticize it they lose privileges they lose the ability to send their their children into good schools they use they lose the ability to travel they lose the ability to send their children into good schools. They lose the ability to travel. They lose the ability to have good internet because they criticized the government or smoked a cigarette in the wrong place or jaywalked. So there's also that aspect of it. And consider how you control people with tribalism. So they're raised to hate America as well. To be told that they're the bad ones.

They're evil. And then they cheer when they win. We're winning. Yay, they're losing. So that makes people, you know, it boosts their morale it makes them want to be be involved in that mob mentality essentially i heard that there's like chinese hero movies now where they're fighting americans and the the americans are like how we had the russians in the 80s oh wow but look i want to talk about i want to bring it back closer to home with what's happening because

we you know we can talk about the potential for war and the crisis. I want to pull up this story from Reuters. World food prices hit 10-year peak from the Food and Agricultural Organization, which is based out of Rome. They say that this is the UN, actually. It's a UN agency saying it. FAO's Food Price Index, which tracks international prices of mostly global traded food commodities, averaged 130 points last month, the highest reading since September 2011, according to the agency's data.

And check this out. America's bare shelves, Walmart and Costco, limit toilet paper sales while toy companies warn parents their kids' Christmas gifts won't arrive in time thanks to backlog at ports, rail yards, and on the roads. Supply chain problems that have been tormenting retailers for months are showing up in America's stores around the roads. Supply chain problems that have been tormenting retailers for months are showing up in America's stores around the country. There are shortages of goods on shelves in Target, Costco, Home Depot, and Sears. They're saying that the cost of shipping from China to LA is now at $20,000, four times what it cost last October. And I think it's like 10 times as high

as it normally is supposed to be. What do you think this means for people in America? I think, you know, we talk about the people who can stand up, who can reject the mandates. And I think we talk about this foreign conflict, but it all comes back to whether or not someone's going to be able to have food on their plate. Complying won't get you there. Ignoring what's happening around the world won't get you there. I mean, this may be one of the hardest times for a lot of people.

We've gone through this golden age where people have lived so peacefully, so perfectly with movies, with pizza. Man, you pick up your phone, you go pizza, and then boom, a pizza shows up. You can actually pick up your phone today, press the button and say, order me a pizza, and then it'll find you a restaurant. You can get it. Now, all of a sudden, we're being told our supplies are being strained. Our food prices are through the roof. Hard to find some supplies. People are now having to experience what actual survival and hardship is going to be.

And there's war around the horizon. If people don't get their act together, man, start standing up, standing up for themselves, being responsible. That's part of the problem. I'm sorry. Sorry, I didn't mean to drop. We talk about hard times. I don't think anyone's actually thought through what a hard time is going to look like. And I think we're starting to see that just from, so this is really simple,

something really small and something that I noticed is that there's less selection on the store shelves. Like why don't we have 600 types of peanut butter to choose from anymore? Cause we just don't have that anymore. So it's starting small and it's going to get really bad because they're so backed up. Like off the coast of California, we're talking about how the shipping ships,

the crate ships, whatever they're called, cargo ships, cargo ships, the crate ships, whatever they're called. Cargo ships. Cargo ships, there you go, are all backed up. And there's like hundreds of thousands of packages on there. Like you're talking about Christmas being delayed and all this other stuff. These are the hard times coming. Like I don't, there's no way to avoid it. Well, I guess it means

strong men are coming after that, right? That's right. That's my thinking. We've just been so conditioned to be comfortable. Conditioned to be comfortable. Well, we're also extremely spoiled, and I kind of recognize this, and I bet you did too, Tim, after traveling a lot, going around the world. I mean, I was in Zimbabwe, I was in

Venezuela, you were in Venezuela as well. When you stay with people, when you live with people, when you see the world from an international kind of perspective, from a third world perspective, it really gives you a lot of, uh, a feeling of,

of humbleness, especially when you come back here and you have so much abundance and you have so much options and, and us being spoiled is only going to add to the disaster of what's coming because there's also going to be a lot of fears about panic buying. There's also going to be a lot of people who are unprepared for this. There's going to be a lot of, uh, latte drinking,flop wearing yuppies who are going to try to tweet their way out of this problem. And there's no way of hitting the computer keyboard to help you in a situation

where resources become very hard to get. So there's going to be a big reality check for a lot of individuals to see how useful they are to see the skills that they have to see what they could do uh and it's really going to lead to a very transitionary time that i think we're starting to begin to head into right now i was just thinking about you know we've talked about people in cities being unable to survive in the event of like a serious catastrophe and then you know luke mentioning these hippie flip-flop latte drinking guys and i'm just sitting here imagining this is the first my third my first thought was well i'm good you know i got we got chickens and a garden and we're building more and we're going to be a little

bit more responsible in the middle of nowhere in the middle of nowhere and then i'm like what would they do and i'm thinking like well they might start attacking each other stealing each other's food what happens when they don't have anything what happens when they can't even you know there's no people left in the cities and they're all fleeing and i'm imagining like coming outside one day i feel like there's like two in the morning and you hear a rustling and then you know it's like someone here is like tim i think there's an animal outside and you know we grab the 410 we go outside and we're like looking around with the light on and then all of a sudden we see some like scraggly looking hipster wearing a flannel shirt

and he's like he's grabbed my chicken and i caught him in the lights and i'm like hey you hippie hipster give me that chicken back and he's like and then he runs he's like help i need a latte i need some milk but it but it is it is funny to think but i'm like that's like a real possibility these people who don't know how to survive what are they going to do they're going to have to look if it ever came down to the point where the cities didn't function properly it's very difficult to get food and resources into cities. And if we're talking about oil prices through the roof, if we're talking about global elites that are like people shouldn't be driving, then these people in the cities who've never grown a vegetable in their life – and I'm not saying everyone in the city has never done that. People have gardens.

But I'm saying the ones who didn't, the true hipster, woke socialist types, they're not just going to roll over. They're going to start screaming and pounding on walls. And then one day you out in West Virginia are going to see, to your shock, a hipster wearing like some kind of expensive clothes they got at the thrift store that was, you know, for some reason, grabbing your chicken and running. And like, what are they going to do with that thing? But hey, man, I would not be surprised if, like, in five years you see things like that.

What about just, like, an upper middle class? You know, you have, like, instead of, like, some hippie, you just have, like, a mortgage broker trying to steal your chickens. You know what I mean? Like, really? Like, folks like that, a lot of folks who don't really have the wherewithal to, like, survive. And, like, fortunately, you guys and a lot of folks we know, like, you know, are when it comes that sort of thing like you guys are out in the middle of nowhere it's nice but and that's something that i always think about too it's like man and here's why i used to think about it for a while and now i'm having second thoughts after all the covet events was a lot

of folks who were like really well off or get to a certain point it's like their bug out location a ton of folks were buying property in new zealand right right mountain fortresses too yeah yeah i think peter teal like bought his bought himself a passport and he's got a compound out there and it's like hey you know the crap hits the fan like get the fam get in the jet and off we go yeah and i can't blame him and it's great because you think about it it's like it's in the middle of nowhere it's very hard to get to it has mild summers mild winters tons of natural resource like i spent like a month there it's amazing and everywhere yeah exactly it's like there's no natural predators and it has what's funny is they have like four million people and i think it's like 30 million

sheep and 50 million heads of cattle right out there and it's like it's like lord of the rings is gorgeous and it's like you can go out there and pretty much live off the land one way or another and it's like that's a very safe place but then with a lot you know some of the restrictions and a little authoritarian government i think you could still hide out there pretty well well in latin america your dollar goes a long way that's true and a lot of latin american police officers and politicians really love getting tipped uh they really love that we're talking about when the dollar is of course yeah uh and it's going to create a very very unique interesting situation people in the comment section are saying that there's going to be soy seeking hordes

people wandering about looking for for uh you know soy uh but but a lot of also very powerful people bought a lot of property in latin america um you know and a lot of people are also looking into latin america because the police officers there and the and the law and and you know and and a lot of people are also looking into latin america because the police officers there and the and the law and and you know the government there doesn't have the tools to enforce a lot of the ridiculousness as well you you brought up mortgage broker and so to be more practical than being like you know you hear rustling you go outside there's a hipster like eating one of your chickens and he's like no but i think what what by what might be uh closer to reality is you know is you live out.

You get a homestead. You move out maybe to like central West Virginia. There's a lot of farms out here, and they're amazing. Almost all the farms you can pull up, and you buy fresh foods. We went to one place. They had like a trailer, and we got tenderloins. They were amazing. So what will happen is one day, a mortgage broker will walk up onto your property with a briefcase wearing a nice little suit.

And you'll be like, what can I do you for? And he'll be like, I need to work. The cities can't sustain me. What am I supposed to do? So I'm out here trying to find a job. I can do anything. And then this farmer is going to be like, what can you do? What did you work?

I'm a mortgage broker. Do you know how to till a field? No. Do you know how to help tend to the chickens? No. Cows? No. I don't think there's anything you can do for me.

Maybe you can lift heavy things. We'll figure it out. But then what happens is when this guy gets rejected, he comes back in the middle of the night and tries to steal because people are not going to roll over. They need to survive. Yeah. Just like a desperate bear will make desperate moves. He's going to be like, hey, I have these Federal Reserve fiat notes I could give you. Do you want them?

And I don't care if he has millions of them. If he can't have real life skills to fix things, build things or make his own way, I'm not interested in working with any of those people. Tim, are you going to be like the next Rick Grimes from Walking Dead? No, I'd say the leader. I like that a little bit.

But he was just one of those things where he was the leader at a compound and then they're traveling. All the stuff you guys are describing. I have it. We have, we have a caravan. Some people, people in the comment section are saying soy beans instead of zombies. There's going to be a bunch of soybeans around running around. So it could be like the walking dead.

But, but again, that's kind of, it's very entertaining to talk about these kind of cultural issues. But when you kind of do look at South Africa, the situation there has already turned pretty bad. Human beings are very resilient. They'll always find a way. That's why when you said people will become hardened, people will become smarter, people will become more in tune to the land. I think there's also going to be a lot of vast opportunities for that where a lot of city dwellers are going to return to farming self-sustainable lifestyles because of necessity. And I think that's going

to be a good thing. Right now, most of our farming is factory farming. A lot of it is Monsanto. A lot of it is GMO. A lot of it is absolute bullcrap. A lot of it is owned by Bill Gates to try to create fake meat. But again, when things fall down we're also going to understand that the authorities won't be able to hold things together and there's

going to be a free-for-all and uh you know it's already it's already they can't hold things together when when we see these stories about the federal government's heavy hand making you know statements about going after parents that's that's like a frightened bear it's an animal trying to look bigger and scare you it's the animal puffing up and you know it's the blowfish one it's like okay i'll stay away from you but yeah it's kind of it's kind of fake authority too because like real authority comes heavy and hard with weapons they're trying to be nice this is like the federal government's like hey do what we say but we're not going to mess with you but like a real authoritarian government would be like i'm going to mow down who disagrees and then everyone else do what i say now but in a country of 330 million the federal government does not have the capacity

for policing something so large and so vast i mean look if it really came down to the fact that people were losing came down to the people losing confidence in the government alaska would not be part of this country anymore yeah it's just too far too far away. Yeah. And it'd be difficult. It would just become something different. I mean, look at the collapse of the Roman Empire. Well, different countries emerged from it. While we're talking about Alaska, it's arguably not as beautiful as New Zealand, but you can still homestead there. I was out in Nome, Alaska two years ago.

Wow. And now you can get waterfront ocean property. As long as you do, I think, some minimal upgrade every year, you can have your own plot of land out there. Now, a can of Pringles back then, three years ago, would cost you about $9. It's probably $50 today. Somebody can back me up. But yeah, this home setting is still a real thing where you can have your own land.

But winter. People in the comment section are saying the Woking Dead. I love the comment section so much. I seriously appreciate you guys and your puns. Hawaii would be out. I mean, Hawaii, I don't think... Can Hawaii

sustain its population without import? That's the fracture of the empire when you see Hawaii go. I lived in Guam for four years. Guam, U.S. territory. I lived there for four years, stationed out there. That's where Jack and I were in the same unit out there. And yeah, it's out there. I mean i mean yeah it does really well to sustain like the local population but everything that's there i mean if it just everything devolved i mean the upside is there's

fresh water there and but as far as like the food food real quick i was reading that on a lot of these islands in the pacific there's too many people now and so all of the human waste is contaminating the water around the human waste is contaminating the water around the islands. It's contaminating the groundwater, so that's where they get their water to drink. And so then people run out into the ocean to do their business, and now it's contaminating everything else.

There's a limit to many people. You've got to pull it out at least. I mean, the regulation for most ships, merchant ships, or even Navy ships, it's like two and a half miles. I think it'd be two and a half miles to pump it out, which it really is because, I mean, all the fish poop there too. But if you're just out on the beach, you're running out there just waiting out there to go, yeah, that's a different story. That's bad. The funniest thing was instead of pumping it ways away, you could pump it in port as long as you paid the host country.

Yes. So you could pump it onto another ship, like a poop ship. Yeah. But the funniest thing was seeing the poop ship just have the pipe go across the ship onto the other side, and then they pump it into their own port, and you're paying them for every gallon and a second. Yeah. Some countries will just let you pump over the side.

Like in Spain. Surprisingly, Spain. We're like, what do we do for our sewage service while we're on port? And they're like, just pump it aside. It's fine. It's fine. Wow. Do you guys remember that story where Dave Matthews' band went over the bridge in Chicago,

and the bus driver hit the release, and it sprayed a boat going under the bridge? It was Dave's tour bus? I think that's what it was, right? It was Dave Matthews Band. That's great. Because the bridges in Chicago are like grates. So as the bus went over, I guess the driver was like, no one will notice. It's going in the river.

And there was a boat underneath and they all got sprayed. As a proud trailer park uh enthusiast black water was not fun uh yeah it's gross people don't understand they don't get it they think rv life is glorious and you're gonna be like those instagram babes and i mean no one asked the question and whenever i see one of these instagram babes or like uh youtube people van life people i'm like where do you poop because you're making it look all glorious and nice, but show us the real footage of you cleaning out the black tank. Show us the reality of what happens when you got to go.

That's the reality that people are denied seeing a lot of the times because it's glorified. I think about that when I watch TV a lot. All the characters on TV, like Matt Damon. When does his character poop? How come we don't see that on the movie? I don't know about that. Every day in the movie, he's doing it probably almost. come we don't see that on the movie? I don't know about that. Every day in the movie he's doing it probably almost. Do you want to see that on the movie?

I want realism. Give it to me. You're watching Born Ultimatum and then he's like give me a second. I gotta take a dump. Watch him go in. Goes in the stall and he sits down. And then he gets up and he's washing his hands and he just shows all of it.

That's the movie that Ian wants wants thank you you get you never get thirsty hold on there hold on we were talking about the federal government's ability to reduce waste and then we're talking about these islands and potentially breaking away i'm thinking about cannibalism did we i've been thinking a lot about cannibalism as we've been talking about this like what are they gonna the city eat rats and then what eat each other and And then the zombie hordes in The Walking Dead, what they don't show is the hordes eating each other because they're zombies in the show, but actually if they're starving humans,

they're just going to start eating each other. But you're going to get an Instagram video of someone picking a human, eating a human, and that's when really that's going to be the iconic. Yes, but if these soy boys start eating that much meat, wouldn't that boost their testosterone? Oh, yeah. And then all of a sudden they'd be like, they'd turn into much more aggressive.

Prionic. But if they're vegetarian to begin with, can they just start eating meat? They get the shakes. I think if you eat meat, something bad happens, right? That's right. Yeah, it'll mess you up. You guys ever see the Book of Eli? I have not.

That movie's great. But they do this thing where they'll be like, show me your hands, and you have to hold your hands up. and the people who are cannibals they shake from uh prion disease is that right yeah prions it's like a protein fold i think in the brain and so you get the shakes from from cannibalism yeah you can't hold your hands straight and they're like ah they you know get them and then i think he actually goes to a place where there's a bunch of cannibals it's a post-apocalyptic yeah yeah yeah yeah so the Yeah. Yes, of The Road, Cormac McCarthy's, he made a book,

same guy that wrote No Country for Old Men and all that, Cormac McCarthy, and then he made a movie with Viggo Mortensen, but it's like post-nuclear apocalypse,

everyone's starving, nearly everyone dies, and it's like this one guy is trying to get his son, trying to get south, and they don't really know exactly where, and there's like roving hordes

of, you know, like warlords and like cannibals, and it's like, it's horribly terrifying. It's really sad. It's really sad. It's depressing. I read the book on the deployment, and I was like, I just ruined this part.

I was having a crappy time anyways. I was like, oh, maybe I'll open it. Oh, no, this is awful. I've been jokingly saying that we are in... Eating people. We are in a brave new Fahrenheit 1984 for Vendetta. And so I'm thinking about it. It feels like all of these dystopian novels are competing. I wonder, Luke, you have that shirt. Yeah, I have a shirt about that. It says, You Are Here, and it's like the V it feels like all of these dystopian novels are competing and like i wonder you know luke you have that shirt yeah i have a shirt about that

it says you are here and it's like the venn diagram of all of them i have three of them and then i have another shirt that has nine books and movies all together just to make you know the point hit harder but yeah i mean you guys you got to watch fever vendetta yeah we've said it before but do you push the clip about like that's right yesterday i was like well this is close dude no so uh there's that so we're talking about the southwest pilots yeah i'm watching local news and they're like you know the airlines you know southwest airline cancels 2 000 flights they say it was due to air traffic control and weather issues and then i look over my friends and i'm like do you guys believe this bollocks which is like i'm directly you know yeah

quoting the line from viva veneta and then i'm like i thought you guys believe this bollocks? Which is like, I'm directly, you know, quoting the line from Viva Veneta. And then I'm like, I thought about it. I pulled the clip where Chancellor Suttler is like, I want them to remember why they need us. And then, like, it shows the news clips. And the first clip, it says, Civil War in the former United States is destroying parts of the Midwest. And I'm just like, oh, man. And then, like, a new pathogen is spreading. And I'm like, dude, this is all happening. all happening but you know outbreak in the quarantine zone right it's always like

that's cut yeah you cut it's a little too close to home yeah and that was what 2007 ish when would that movie come out oh man yeah maybe it's a graphic novel originally but the graphic novel was like it was was more than just the one story i'm pretty sure and he's like the funny thing is the v character he like guykes was a theocrat who wanted to blow up Parliament. He wasn't, like, some champion of liberty or anything. He just wanted his own form of government. But I digress. I mean, a movie about a bunch of elites who manufacture a fake virus,

then buy stock in the company that produces the cure, use the virus to scare people into gaining political control, and then are pumping out mass propaganda. I'm just like, oh, geez. That's like all the conspiracy theorists are probably pointing at that. Have you guys seen Utopia? I've not. No. We've talked about this a lot, but this is the show on Amazon that got canceled

because it's about a tech billionaire who's scared of overpopulation. He tries making fake meat it's not working so he stages a pandemic so that everyone will get a vaccine that sterilizes them the show was canceled people were like hey a little too close but like you know the weird thing is like do people really believe that there is a powerful global elite tech mogul who's trying to sterilize everybody i think there's a lot of people who do yeah but why cancel a show over it unless like do you do you really care about these fringe conspiracy theorists it would still scare enough people i think and it would also like discourage folks i mean whether it's true or not you know i don't necessarily think it's necessarily like you know some cabal like a bunch of you know fat cat billionaires you know sit in a big room like

this smoking cigars trying to figure out what to do but i think it's like very just decentralized but what if that's exactly what it was? Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos and they're smoking cigars. The biggest conspiracy theory out there is that there's not a conspiracy. The second one is that the government has never committed a conspiracy against you.

I forgot the exact quote, but I think there's a lot of room to believe that powerful people do come together. Oh, yeah. Also, it's kind of brilliant that John Cusack is a lot of room to believe that powerful people do come together and manipulate situations for the benefit. Also, it's kind of brilliant that John Cusack is a part of that movie when he's blocking people left and right. Blocking me, yeah. He blocked me too a long time ago. Powerful people come together all the time to gain power and make money.

Sure. It's called running business. Yeah. But when they get caught doing something, but when they're accused of wrongdoing now it's a conspiracy theory right it is look do people in government have meetings and discuss public policy yeah yes they do they do it all the time yeah they have but do okay so what if what if the policy is a bad policy that would hurt people yeah oh that's just a conspiracy theory i'm not advocating for any particular conspiracy theories i think we need hard evidence yeah i i think and I think we need hard evidence.

Of course. And I think people need to realize that when it comes to the Bill Gates conspiracy theories, you don't need to look for any deeper meaning.

He's literally saying it. He literally says we've got too many people. People need to have less kids. You need to stop eating meat. He talks about what he wants to happen and they write articles for it.

The mainstream media runs articles all the time saying stop having kids. Big meat is awesome is awesome it's amazing it's like they're doing his advertising and his pr and and what i meant to say is that one of the biggest conspiracies is that the government has your best interest at heart right uh that to me is an important slogan that a lot of people should remember but you know if if we see how easily it is to buy off politicians buy off scientists sure if we say how multinational corporations are able to do whatever they want, it should send a chilling effect, especially when you understand history

and how it's been welded and used throughout the last few years. There's one of the most important aspects of fascism, for instance, and it comes in like national socialism, right? But the whole fascism thing is where and it comes in like national socialism right but the whole fascism thing is where you have major major corporations right who cooperate for the government for their mutual needs you almost always at the detriment of the people now instead we rebranded that and that's what called public private partnerships right right right like that's what i mean it's the same thing they're just you know they're putting a bow on it and you see a lot of that

right now and that's when you hear about corporatism, crony corporations and all that stuff. That's the stuff that's getting really scary and ugly. One of the things you point out was the Russell. What's that one? How basically outside of the fan companies, the big tech companies, it's like the economy. If you take away all the big super tech companies, right? Yeah, they're down 10%. Yeah, the rest of the economy is down 10%.

But big tech is doing good. Yeah, because those few companies are just so massive. yeah they're down 10 yeah the rest of the economy is down 10 but big tech's doing good yeah and and so because those those few companies are just so massive so they're just kind of like pulling everybody else up but like whereas like the rest of the economy is actually not doing so hot maybe we just need to start referring to the democrats and the and the establishment republicans as the corpos just like they're the corporate they don't it's it's because look you know luke talks about government not having your best interest at heart but what if i think if you're actually going to talk to somebody who is not super politically initiated, they don't understand everything that Luke would be saying. So their vision of government is more like this young, naive view of we all come together as people and then work for each other and help each other.

And it's like in a certain point, some people realize it's a path for power, and then they start exploiting the system. So if you want to talk about the public good, I'm completely for you. If you say, hey, we're all going to band together and start a fire department, volunteer fire department, I'm like, that's fantastic. That's awesome. If you want to talk about the government, we're usually referring to corporate style, like well-funded establishment, corrupt individuals. And then you get the Democratic establishment and the republican establishment and i think the only reason the republican establishment is doing nothing is because they know if they go up against the trump populist types they lose whatever power they have and so long as they feign actually resisting they can obstruct meanwhile the democrat corporate you

know corrupt whatever they're just literally trying to burn the whole thing down doesn't john smirks say that they're like the the Washington generals versus the Harlem Globetrotters. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And then one good friend of mine who he's still active duty, but he used to work as a legislative fellow. So he like worked for a staffer and he worked in the Senate. And one of the things he said, like really quickly, you know, as he pointed out to me, he said it kind of as a joke. And he's like, like well maybe not really he's like i can tell it's like there's like a cabal between how or between senate republicans and house democrats right like they're kind of you know that what they're doing and what's

interesting even within congress itself is how and he's not the only guy that told me about this is how a lot of the division isn't necessarily along party lines like republican democrat a lot of it's so much house and Senate. I'm testing our new studio. We have a coffee maker and some new walking lines. I've been bumping in front of you guys. But I think coffee's a little loud to do during the show. I don't think I'm going to do that again.

I don't actually think you can hear it on the mics. Maybe a little bit white noise. Why are you drinking coffee at close to 9pm? Because I'm in a state of psychosis because the media is making me not understand what's real and what's fake. I think we're all experiencing a state of psychosis right now. I don't think we are. Well, I was looking at the definition of psychosis, and it's like when you don't know the difference between reality and fake.

And like what I don't have, like we're just talking about conspiracies. I don't know what's real and what's not. Well, but there's a difference. Like if you're someone who thinks that the birds are talking to you and you can't tell if you're imagining it or not, that's psychosis. Yeah. That's a danger.

You're saying like, I don't know whether or not this corporation has my best interests at heart. I don't know. Actually, I'm sorry. They typically don't. Right.

But yeah, it's like, if you can't tell the difference between like Rachel Maddow in news, you know, maybe there's some psychosis there, I guess. That's crazy. I'm kidding,

by the way. Like if people are being kept ignorant, it doesn't mean they're crazy. It just means they're being manipulated. And so many people like, you know, you know, guys in this room,

like especially you guys, it's like following the news is your job, right? It's a huge part of your job. And a lot of folks are really into it. And it's kind of like the passive high, but you know, one of the things that,

and people were in the know, like you guys are like super well known, but for so many folks out there where it's like, they might catch a little bit of the news, right? They might catch this, but it's like, they got, you know, uh, wives and husbands, kids, mortgages, jobs. And it's like, I don't have time for this. Like a lot of folks don't realize, like, it's just, it's not a huge part of their like day.

And when I talk to folks afterwards, like, oh yeah, I got a couple of friends in the media did this, this, this, you know. They don't know what we're talking about half the time. They really don't. They're going to vote. If they vote, they're going to vote just, oh, I grew up a Republican or I grew up a Democrat. Then it backfires. They don't know who they're voting for.

I think one of the things that's really good and one of the best benefits and I still think why social media is a net positive for society as a whole and and malice has said this so many times i think it's so true it's like it allows it allows the average person to call you know our elites out on their bs right like immediately like in very and it was a great example it was like just this whole thing happened with us like we turns out like some normal guys end up kind of breaking the story we've got reporters calling us

and also when they said when they start put out press releases like, oh, no, the FDA said it's fine. Nothing happened. Or South Oregon's like, no, no, no. And if we didn't have social media, we wouldn't have that. Like nobody would know. Nobody would tell. And like that's really, really good despite all the other problems with social media, which are massive flaws which are there.

So that's a huge thing, man. Just believing these talking heads. I think that's one thing Viva Vendetta didn't have, social media. So people were just watching the news like is this true nowadays people just go on facebook and twitter and rumble gab whatever youtube they'll post and people can see alternatives yeah the establishment's trying to do it's doing everything it's power to make that hunter biden laptop thing got that new york post story got basically muted by twitter i've just looked up the definition of psychosis, an abnormal condition of the mind that results in difficulties

determining what is real and what is not real. I think society is experiencing psychosis because of the amount of media that's coming from all these different angles where they'll say, it's dangerous. No, it's not dangerous. It's good for you. It's bad for you. Yeah, and their perception of reality

is also being manipulated by the social media algorithms. And a lot of the perceptions that we see online are not the true perceptions of our reality as well. And the voices that are talking may not be the most important voices either, or the most, you know, they're conveying what the masses feel. I mean, to Tom's point,

who has time, you know, as an average, hardworking American, to try to find source documents? Wait, wait, wait, wait. People work. So for those who do. For those who do. And it just takes so much time to do that.

So who are you going to believe? And I think that's why people do latch on to conspiracy theories because they don't trust mainstream media. So who do they trust? And that's in platforms like this. Maybe that's why cult worship is so popular right now, why people get so latched onto an individual, like where they'll believe whatever that, I like that guy, so no matter what he says, I'm going to follow him.

It's the hope principle. They want some kind of hope. They want to latch onto somebody that they believe is telling them the truth. And I mean, because a lot of times I'm in the same boat. I don't necessarily know what to believe, but there are times like this where we're talking to people

who are actually flight attendants and pilots and air traffic controllers are telling us one thing. We're seeing what's coming out in the same boat i don't necessarily know what to believe but there are times like this where we're talking to people who are actually flight attendants and pilots and air traffic controllers are telling us one thing we're seeing what's coming out in the media and we're like that does not connect right yeah i was doing a lot of work on the border as an example with border special operations group and the same people who were there when aoc went down there yeah to visit you know on the border talking to the sector chiefs i saw the same videos they showed the members of congress and it was night and day different. And that's where I can say I know that they're not telling the truth in this case. I got this tweet from Matthew Iglesias.

He's one of the founders of Vox. He said, a lot of debates on here are people who are to the left of 98% of the public deciding that people who are to the left of 75% of the public are huge right-wingers, and it gets tiresome. He said, this is an interesting poll from last summer check this out voters are less likely to view biden as moderate than they were earlier this year the ideal candidate on a scale they say one being very liberal seven being very conservative and four being right in the middle the ideal candidate is slightly to the right wow 4.2% 4.2 on the scale,

leaning conservative. And they say Trump is rated as a 5.7 and Biden is a 2.8. Now for a lot of people, they'll look at Biden. 2.8 is closer to them. And if this is the case, they'll probably put in that direction. However,

I think if you're paying attention to the news, you'd realize that Donald Trump is actually substantially closer to moderate. And they view him far right when he's not. He's 1994 Bill Clinton. Right. On paper. Yep. Yeah.

You know, it's amazing. Like if you watch like State of the Unions and stuff like that and you see like some of the speeches, you're like, uh, he sounds a lot like, uh, Bill Clinton sounds a lot like Trump right there. You know, on like immigration, crime, like all this stuff is amazing. I was like, it was actually really quite stunning. He's a New York liberal. Yeah.

That's the craziest thing to me. And he ran as a conservative. And I think that that is part of what broke the democratic party yeah all of a sudden they had no identity but if the republicans support helping the middle class and you know uh you know gay marriage where the democrats yeah they had andrew yang and tulsi gabbard and like they just ignored them it was so crazy i think it was just because business interests had control of the organization with hillary clinton's you know email scandal being if nothing else that the shining you know red light warning sign that something wrong was was going on yeah and that was so much as well like like that's one of the things the left like really

latched on to was so much of this like you know fake well it's not completely fake but mostly fake issues of you know all the systemic this and the woke this the social justice life just totally played up and because and then when they saw that they saw the occupy wall street you know that's where tim that's where you you know earned your jobs where you kind of really got started was what was that 2011 10 years ago 10 yes 10 years ago right and that's where you really kind of got started right where it like kind of got on the map is that i mean i started doing uh live streaming coverage one of the first people to actually do live streaming and commentary of these these big newsworthy events and yeah

the mainstream media loved it which was huge man it was huge and it was it was great and but things like but it was during that time where it's like okay we you know this economic stuff right we're all jobs also and you know at the same time i think you had peter schiff up you know walk down there and he's like hey i am the one percent he's like hey you're in the wrong city y'all need to go to dc that was like at least the argument he made i was there when that happened oh yeah it was pretty interesting ian was also down there so that was a big transitional yeah where i'm at luke yeah that's so cool yeah i knew you guys know each other that long that's awesome oh yeah from occupy wow went there with bill ottman and then we went to the after it was like

the brain trust where there was like 50 people sitting in a circle i was there for those okay i didn't know you at that time but you were there too yeah so crazy and it was they were like mayor bloomberg's we got to take him out we got to get him he's a bad guy i'm like i i was like you guys you need to use him as an ally if you want to win this thing and they're like no he's a bad guy we got it and i'm like oh he's zealots so that was such an exciting time it was so weird i mean you had so many random things i mean there was events where they people came down and gave free haircuts to to people who needed haircuts for free uh there was celebrities coming down i remember uh rosie o'donnell came down and she like found me she's like hey i know you and so many

other celebrities so many other politicians so many other people started the conversation there. And, you know, you could say a lot of negative things about it as well. But I think this was a shock to a lot of the establishment saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, we have Obama as president. And these people are not happy with the way that the financial systems run with all the corruption it has. Holy crap. We got to invent social justice warriors. Exactly. Holy cow.

We need some wokeness for these people so they fight each other instead of understanding how everyone else is screwing them over. And you guys are obviously, you and everyone else down there, it's like that's kind of where you guys got started in a lot of ways, right? I mean, we were like kind of put yourself on the map, which is huge. Which also, by the way, very successful. Well, Luke had a pretty big channel back then.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, yeah, you did. Yeah, for sure. But it was like, and now it's like, look at you guys now. Like, that's awesome. And now, but the. But now it's like, look at you guys now. That's awesome. And now, but the thing is, the other side, the enemy class, they saw that and they responded. And quite frankly, they responded, I think, very effectively for them

from their perspective. And I think they've been largely successful thus far. However, I think there's enough people out there that are starting to catch on. A lot of folks were just like, wait, wait, wait. Maybe they're full of it. Their PSYUP could only work for so long until people realize at the end of the day that they're getting the

wrong end of the stick. And they're getting screwed over even more than they did before in 2011. But again, the divide and conquer agenda, the wokeness, I think that has been deliberately upplayed in order to get rid of this populist energy of being robbed i noticed

one thing while we were down there at occupy was um bank of america across the street they were like one all of a sudden one day they just started doing street construction right next to zuccotti park right it's loud all night it would be just massive construction so it made me realize that the the vulnerability and centralization of a movement you do want to hold land to like protest but if you're going to centralize it that I don't think that's effective against the empire right now. Yeah. Decentralized currency seems like – I'm surprised the U.S. hasn't adopted decentralized currency yet if they want an arm up on China. Let's go, Brandon.

That's a lot of comments. Let's go, Brandon. A lot of comments going on. Let's go, Brandon. Man. That's a lot of comments. That's about it. A lot of comments going on. Let's go, Brandon. Man. How about we go to Super Chats, everybody? If you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to the channel, and go to TimCast.com, become a member. Because we're going to have a members-only segment coming up around 11 or so p.m. as we always do.

And that just means we get this massive library of content. You can go back and watch all these bonus segments with all these other people you know and love. And we're also going to be starting the new members-only show with the Tales from the Inverted World crew. But Shane is actually flying to Georgia to track down lost Confederate gold for a long series of a bunch of crazy stories. It's going to be a whole lot of fun. So we'll try and work that out and start getting those shows produced. But again, TimCast.com, smash the Like button. Let's read some of these super chats we got.

Oh, man. Your mom says, just got my concealed carry today. Also, when is the cast castle getting a pet raccoon? I don't know, but Luke and I once went to a raccoon cafe. Yes, we did in South Korea. We made a video about it. Actual raccoons? Yeah.

In North Korea, they have different cafes with different animals that you can interact with when you go buy tea. Were they cool? Yeah. They were pretty interesting creatures. I always liked them. My parents were like, don't touch them. We did a live stream at a dog cafe. That was really fun. And there was like 50 dogs in a

space like this. Yeah, jumping on tables. It was fun. You could buy dog treats and raccoon treats. Let me read this one. Woot Do For You says, All my local grocery stores here in georgia have rotten produce on the shelves buckle up folks hope you fellow beanie folk paid attention yeah man you know we we we were uh so there's so uh i'm gonna say this not not a promo but i'm

gonna tell the contacts so safe and ready meals.com is one of the things that we we sometimes promote i did a promo for them earlier today because i'm like now more than ever i genuinely think it's a good idea to have this stuff as emergency food augustin farms which is another big provider on their website says they're no longer taking orders wow and there's there's a letter circulating where some of their vendors got cut off completely they were like we can't get the materials we need and so i actually called them to ask them and they said that is just for some business clientele like vendors or something that have been no longer – that they're cutting off service to for three months. And on their website it says you cannot place orders. But they're like, you can go on other websites if you want to find it.

And I'm like, yeah, like third parties? So I talk about this emergency food stuff and people laugh. Now you're lucky if you can get it. What do you think of the beans? Is that the best, the best the ultimate beans and rice rice yeah rice and beans check us out bn says friend's mom works for southwest corporate i asked her if she knows what's going on her response verbatim pilots are calling in sick since they can't legally strike because they are fighting the federal mandate interesting Interesting. Wow. Josh says, new stream quality is legit.

Can't wait to see more art in the studio. Absolutely. Yeah. So that's one of the things we do. We do have a bunch of art. We brought on some of the art. I'm really surprised we were able to get the studio up and running by today. So I came in here like at four,

like three o'clock or four. And I'm just like, I don't think we'll be ready by today. And then we made it. We made it happen. Actually, maybe we didn't make it happen. Maybe we're literally just doing it.'re not ready i heard there's some feedback

that it's too bright which i could i could be down with dimming the lights maybe 20 trying that tomorrow i think it's our center lights and then that there was a little bit of echo so maybe we can put like sound dance yeah people are saying i look like casper the ghost hilarious stream i got a twitter comment saying the uh the is much, much better. Yeah, we increased. Yeah, it's good. It's noticed. That's the point. Here's the thing, though. Previously, we were streaming at about 2 kilobits per second. I'm sorry, 2 megabits per second.

Jeez, 2 kilobits. Wow. 2 megabits per second, which limits quality. Now we're at 10. But that means we have backups. If we have to hit one of our connection backups, satellite or other land, the quality will drop along with it. Yeah.

Hey, Tim, if I may, may I read a super chat from my fiance? Oh, absolutely. Natalie writes, Bosco keeps getting confused when he hears his dad on TV. That's our golden retriever. So Bosco, follow at Bosco Sauer. He's a handsome little golden retriever. Anyways, but he can hear me on TV. So hey, Bosco.

Good job, Bosco. I know. It's on TV. It's good. Thanks, babe. Cajun Red says, you've got some feedback and squealing on the audio. Oh, man. We tried switching on our mixer board.

We tried everything. Trying to figure out what was going on because we're using an analog connection in the computer. We're getting interference and so we tried using a usb a usb uh um workaround didn't work so we just tried doing a thicker better cable and then eventually we put a filter on it so if you're hearing squealing like it was worse before we all we were talking about maybe using the other studio up until about 7 15 and then we're like let's we're committed well because because we if we don't do it then we don't solve it yeah right so on our on our monitors everything sounds perfect yeah but the output something's happening too so we didn't learn this until we started trying to do it now we're going to have the audio recording we're going to go in we're going to try and isolate what it is and then by tomorrow it should be

worked out but if you're if you're too scared to move forward because you don't know what the problems you're going to have are then you're never going to move forward. Paralyzed. That's why I got that coffee midstream. But also, a lot of people are mentioning that they don't hear it. That, I guess, when we're talking, you can't really hear it when there's quiet periods. It comes through, I guess. We're never quiet, so. Nicholas Cosmic says, if Luke is a vagrant t-shirt vendor, he would fit right in around Seattle.

Hey, mention us once in a while. I live rurally in washington and our state is blue flu interesting really woe man says y'all look amazing for your information thank you very much very good thank you all right delhiopolis says robo biden 2024 dead or alive you're coming with me to the thing like anyway uh that you you like to be able uh whatever man that that whatever from biden was like the most like the worst and when is this whatever yeah remember when he was talking and he was like you know we gotta you know work together uh whatever oh you remember that one yeah it was just like his brain went i saw a twitter video of him from like the late 90s and him today oh yeah he was sharp back

in the day he was was supposed to be safe. He was like anti-authoritarian kind of. I mean at least he talked about the freedom of the individual. I think he was all about whatever kept him in office. That's true. I think that's what he was. It worked. Yeah. Obviously. I mean it's amazing. But yeah

it is actually just really scary. You see that and you're like oh man. And it's also get to the point where it's like how can anybody deny this? Even his own folks. You know. It's just. Come on guys. It's bad. It just really scary. You see that and you're like, oh, man. And it's also get to the point where it's like, how can anybody deny this? Even his own folks. You know, it's just, come on, guys. It's bad. It's really bad. That's why I still think Trump's got a shot. I really do.

I mean, like it or not, I think that's what I think something really might happen there. This is interesting. Stephen Faber says the reason why they said weather is because federal law says if the flights are delayed for any other reason, the airline must get hotels. We talked about that. Yeah, because I've been delayed. Lots of them have been delayed for weather. Happened, they're like, sorry, act of God,

force majeure, like, sorry, guys. But if it's them, they got to put you up. Right, and they'll wait for any little excuse. Yeah, correct. And then there's a class action suit in waiting now because they lied about the weather? Can that be confirmed? I think it's pretty tough to do.

I mean, I suppose it's possible, yeah. But, I mean, I think that might be a tough one. I mean, they've already got some lawsuits coming that they can deal with anyways, but why not pile on? You'd think it would be tough to lie about the weather, too, but apparently not. The union is suing them now about the vax mandates. All right. We got one from Tak Fuji. Luke, I've been following you and We Are Change for like 15-ish years, and you've never responded to a comment of mine.

I don't think they were such weak sauce. They never deserved a reply, LOL. No, Luke, we puke. I try to read as many comments as I can, and I appreciate the comments. That's not true. I remember the other day Luke was talking about Takafuji, and he was like the Takafuji guy. I get so mad when I see him.

I'm never responding to that comment. Sure. All right. He forced my hand. Yep. Poxa says, Newport News Shipyard has 11,000 workers in management fighting the jab. We have three commissioned aircraft carriers and three subs at NNS right now. Real bad.

Wow, man. Crazy. Yeah. I mean, those are national assets. You think about that, right? Like a commissioned aircraft carrier or nuclear submarine, and they need to work on them. Those things are – it's not like a Honda Civic where you just like leave it alone just pop in those things those are incredibly labor intensive takes a lot a lot a lot of skilled labor and it's like nns a norfolk

naval shipyard right like it's not i mean guys that's a that's a big deal that's a big deal so it's scary our our military readiness is not nearly as good as we might advertise by the way in general unreasonably angry says, hi, guys. I ordered my first AR, and it's coming in on Friday. Luke, would you have recommendations for iron sights? Also, let's go, Brandon. Yes. Well, red dots are usually a lot more better, but it's good to practice, have a lot of fun,

and just look up how to use it to get training and have fun with it. All right. Let's see what we got here. Reverend C. says, Eric July has a new project launching in comics. He's going to create culture for future generations. When he makes his announcement for his comic, you could bring him on and talk

comics and politics. Love the new set, guys. Yeah, that'd be awesome. A lot of people sending us love saying uh new studio looks awesome joseph asturo says tim invest in a lint roller for your beanie for the camera tim cast irl is the freshest breath of air i get all day thanks for all you guys do i will i will get a lint roller thank you for the advice. We have one here. It's a French breath comment. Let's see. GG Player says, Tim, I don't really like the new studio, unlike the last one.

It doesn't distinguish you as the host of the podcast. Actually, it looks like Luke is the blank. Blank? The blank? The blank? I don't know, Luke. The leader. It's because he has that wide shot.

I think so. Yeah, Luke wants to be zoomed out. It's only a matter of know, Luke. A leader. That's because he has that wide shot. I think so. Yeah, Luke wants to be zoomed out. It's only a matter of time. Okay. All right. Rude cast IRL. All right, let's see. Now we know.

Let's grab some good super chats. James Nelson says, the angles of the camera is a bit jarring. Looking down on everyone. Tim no longer seems to be looking into the camera. I do sometimes. It's like that. Yeah.

Yeah. But there were periods during when like, you know, I'll look more in the camera. But, you know, we're getting in there. Ghost Crusader says, hey, Tim, think about having a chat on your site for members to chat. Absolutely. Good idea. We've been we've been talking about implementing that. But we're trying to do a mobile at first.

And then I think we're gonna have a site wide chat. so people on the chat aren't there's gonna be an active chat room so there you go aiden moss says hey tim it's my dad's birthday he is turning 27 as a huge fan keep up the awesome content happy birthday dad happy birthday quincy burke says i'm getting fired fired from uh i'm getting fired from my job great benefits and a six-figure salary all over mandates. I joined the Army National Guard at 17, and I've been serving my country in some capacity for 24 years, and now I'm being betrayed by it. Jeez.

Nice, man. Sorry. All right, we got Christopher Bell. He says, New York Union operating engineer who lives on Long Island. I quit and will go back if and when the mandate is gone. Wow, man. Very good. Mike, Mr. Hunt, first name mike says tim gas gang if you have snapchat look at the snap map in taipei taiwan you can see

military vehicles and equipment massing on the streets do you think this could go nuclear i signed up with fortitude ranch thanks to you very. They're a recreation and survivalist community. You can go out there, and they've got a shooting range, and there's a dog and roosters. It's a whole lot of fun. But what do you guys think? Nuclear over Taiwan? I don't think so. It could, but...

There was a time where we would have. Like I said, that was the first time we ever actually threatened to nuke anybody. It was Eisenhower. But these days, I don't think so. Well, at least at that time in the 50s, China wasn't nuclear capable. But right now, it's like, no, they can hurt us a lot too. I think any sort of a nuclear exchange. And actually, frankly, Colin was on a nuclear ballistic missile submarine.

That's what he did for a living, like an apocalypse submarine where it had, what, 24 missile tubes. I think if it was its own country, it would have been the fifth most powerful country in the world. An Ohio-class submarine. The thing carries, what, 24 missiles, eight warheads per missile? You know better than I do. Well, we'll have to look it up online. I'm not sure what's published. Yeah, there we go.

That's a good answer. I'll say that. But whereas you were a counter-nuke, I guess that makes me pro-nuke. I guess. Yeah. I would imagine there's just nuclear submarines all over the west coast of the U.S. that are Chinese waiting, and then a bunch of American ones on the east coast of China. The way that works, like in general terms,

like the, and since you can't talk about calling, so this is what I read online, right? Where it was, where, where, you know,

for the fleet, you have your attack submarines and they operate with the fleet, right? They're there to protect that and to do all their missions. I start, but then you have the ballistic missile submarines where like, they don't operate with anybody. They're alone.

There's a platform. They're supposed to go out alone. They best punch a hole, go out for late night and they just cruise and stay hidden. They stay quiet and they're just there to wait for the call that nobody wants. So we always have submarines, both oceans, and we don't even know exactly

where they are. We don't know where our own submarines are. Large swaths of the ocean will be operating. But the whole idea there is strategic deterrence. So if another country chose to take out our entire nation, there's nothing left. We would still be able to strike back. Yep. Wow. That's the whole purpose behind that whole nuclear triad and

second strike capability. They call it second strike and everyone has that. That's why it exists. And so like right now, they'll say it's like, oh yeah, there's a USS Alabama or whatever. It's operating, you know, I'm just making this up, like in the northern Pacific Ocean. And like that's literally like the only people who know exactly where they are are the people on the boat.

Wow. Yeah. And I think as far as military technology, there's weapons that are stronger and bigger than nuclear weapons that we don't even know about yet. Like a sonic weapon? Something like that. Yeah. Yeah, but I think they realized a long time ago just vaporizing something isn't necessarily the best

thing. Like Ian was saying, if you want to control it, you don't want to blow it up. Right. Those are better ways. If you blow it up, well, especially with the nuclear stuff, you're going to blow yourself up. Yep. We got Bruno Bronoski says, please be inclusive and stop saying mandate. It's a vaccine they date. We'll mandate. See what you did there.

We'll mandate. All right, let's see. Seth Adam Smith says, big idea for the team at timcast start your own version of snl invite people like ryan long jp sears and others to send in original sketches for a weekly comedy show it would be hilarious and it would smoke the competition that is correct it would i was just talking to andreas about that and chris wants to do that too um i the first thing i thought was that would be so hot on YouTube. That would be so hot.

Even if it was on the vlog channel, Thursdays at 6 is like a different show on that channel. It could be live. You could do a live show. A live sketch comedy show. We were talking about that last year, getting all the top alternative comedians and making one show with it. That's a big budget. Huge budget and huge investment and huge time. Like goofy skits that we do.

Can you kickstart something like that? Definitely. If it's a project. You have to do a give, send, go though. But like goofy skits around here, we have such good cameras and audio that we could pull off. It would look pro. It would look like a big budget thing. We've definitely had plans for doing comedy sketches.

For sure. We already do. We do the animations on the Cast Castle vlog, if you guys have seen it, where Kent animates these really silly things. The best one is probably when Ian picked up the Alex Jones mushroom that was screaming. And it was just Alex Jones screaming and saying weird things. And then Ian's all excited to find his mushroom. So that was awesome. But, yeah, people love that stuff.

And so we definitely – we got a bunch of crazy ideas for good sketches we're going to be doing. All right. Let's see what we got. Sean Casey says, 41 minutes into this cast, i i see luke has you all at sword point twice and wink once if you need help why why does luke have a sword why don't i have a sword is the real question why don't it was sitting here when i got here i got it from a video game from a game store yeah it's a nice blade at least it looks nice. Yeah. It says something like the seven

demon souls or something. Sacred promise or something like that. And then we also have the Link's master sword over there on the wall. Well, leaning up against the wall. That's what that was. That's like one of three swords from the samurai set. Is that right? I have no idea. There's a short one, a medium one, a long one.

That's too long. That's like somebody made a sword and they're like this is cool and you know it's just you know you get it at a store that sells anime dolls all right let's see fango crusk says taiwan produces 60 of the semiconductors for the entire world wow are they getting all that's all the materials from mainland China? I don't know. Great question. Don't demasculate my sword. It's a beautiful weapon.

It's pretty sharp. All right, let's see. Reeve Nelson says, Any ideas for me to promote with no social media presence? Anyone else I could hit up? Givesendgo.com campaign stand alone. I don't know. I know that we're actually setting up a newsletter. So we're going to have like a weekly newsletter of our stories.

And you'll get like a list of like our, we do five shows a week. So we have a list of guests. And then we'll have the articles that we think are important. One thing I say, like, at least as a business owner, one thing that I get a ton of is, I mean, it's not social media, but it's email marketing. And like a lot of times I spend half time. I wake up in the morning and I'm going through email. It's like delete, delete, delete. Okay. I don't need don't need this don't need it and then but every once in a while we actually got one we're gonna like talk like oh this might actually be helpful to us

reply yeah we'll have a meeting we'll do that that actually might work but like i think email marketing it's not social media like i think it can actually be pretty effective and the thing is you got to buy those email addresses right and that's what all those coming in when you sell your data. Oh, just fill out the form in your email address. Well, guess what? Your email address and your data just got... Right? I think that's one.

I'd say that email marketing. Dog Water Actual says, I'm a charter pilot. Most pilots are blue collar, freedom lovers who won't stand for unjust decree on the public and private sides of aviation. My friends in Southwest have a lot to say. Does CAS team need a pilot on board? Hit me up. You know what we want to get? I forgot what forgot what they're called but they're like it's like a hang glider but then it's also got a fan on the back and you like sit in a basket and just like fly away

yeah a little paragliders i think they're called paragliders yeah that's what it is yeah yeah yeah not a bad one it's one thing when you talk about southwest especially is we're talking about this i think we talked downstairs and andreas is how, though, and this is like our anecdotal, unscientific, I don't think there's a survey on it, but I think it's a safe assumption where if you look at Southwest Airlines, started in Texas, right?

Where do they fly? Where are all the hubs? Red States. They have a disproportionate number of prior military pilots compared to the other airlines. I would wager that, and this is, again,

not data, but it's like it makes sense that the vast majority of a higher proportion of southwest pilots lean right or at least at the very much very much are you know freedom loving and against this and that's why i think you see such a higher number of southwest pilots right who are you know anti-vat you know not anyway anti-jab whatever you want to call it. Mandate. Anti-mandate.

Excuse me. Yeah, yeah. That's actually—that is a more appropriate word. Yeah. And I think that's one of the reasons why you see that and you see this pushing back is because I think that Southwest pilots are, yeah, much more right-leaning. I think that's what you're seeing in this right now. I think it's a safe assumption. Why are these ones cheaper?

Well, that was the model. I'll say another point we didn't bring up that's probably worth noting is the fact that there's real risk for pilots. For adverse effects, even if the risk is small, there's a chance they might not be able to fly again. These are guys who take a physical every

six months, and if there is any chance of something to happen, they lose their career. You get a blood clot, something like that, and it's like you're never flying ever again, even for fun. That's it. So that's a real risk. And they don't do that,

and so that's why they're pushing back. Destroyer Lord says, Tim, what are your thoughts on having doctors on your show? I've been following Dr. John Bergman for several years, a chiropractor in Huntington Beach, California. He is well-informed and one of the best doctors, in my opinion. My church has also been doing studies on COVID with

Dr. Peter McCullough. We've had doctors on the show. Chris Martinson is one. Prosperity. Very knowledgeable. Very knowledgeable. And I'm not familiar with those doctors. Stephen Colbert is a doctor. He got his doctorate from a college. They just gave it to him.

Honorary. He's not that kind of doctor no he's not that kind of doctor jill biden ah yeah social anxiety says cyber attack toyota america my dad works at one of the toyota plants and i just heard that they are being held for a 25 million dollar ransom or they will sell employee info it is being investigated they believe they're in australia have till end of week to pay. Have you guys heard anything about that? I don't know if that's true. Is that true? There's probably a lot more ransom attacks

than we even know about, especially with the NSA toolkits being released to the general public somehow mysteriously. So it wouldn't surprise me if that news is true, but a lot of it is being not reported because they don't want the Streisand effect on these particular attacks to go out there. And they also don't want, especially if it's a big company, they don't want the Streisand effect on these particular attacks to go out there.

And they also don't want, especially if it's a big company, they don't want their shareholders to know that that happened. That's a huge one as well. A lot of the companies are just paying off the ransoms a lot of the times. We have a friend we worked with her former company. They got hit by ransomware and I think it was just like everything was locked up. They couldn't do anything.

It was a healthcare company. And I think it was like $150,000. It's almost part of doing business now. There's ransom insurance and companies buy it as a cost of doing business. They've got that. If you're operating in Mexico, you get kidnap insurance. Actually, the ransom insurance companies are the ones that negotiate

with whoever committed the attack. It's crazy. All right, let's see. Busted Knuckle says, Tim, as a certified septic waste tech, I loved your poo segment. If you want someone who does that, would metalwork, livestock care, security, or moving a heavy box,

would a resume be a good move? Yes. To jobs at timcast.com with the new Fridama stand that we're setting up. That might be a job we need filled. And we're also, I want to know that Chicken City is being built and it's ne nearing completion it should be done this week over there yeah it's a big chicken run and they're building a sewer system this is like we're gonna have a so they're

the dude who's building it has been reading up on chickens and so the chickens always they like to sleep roosting on these you know on bars on my elevated and so he's creating like a plastic slope that goes beneath it so when they all take their dumps, it falls into a pipe that when it rains, the water just washes over it and pushes it all out the back. Nice. Just, you know, draining it and cleaning it out.

Sure. Self-cleaning system. Wow. And then we're doing a big gravity feeder so we can just pour the food into the bag, into a pipe that feeds. Yeah, we used to have one of those. Yeah.

Yeah, they were great. It's the same team that built this studio. That's correct. Great job. You guys, excellent work. Fantastic, fantastic work. Very versatile. We're building a new house right now, and I think the primary driver for that is my wife wants chickens. Yeah, good for her. They're so dumb. How many

are you going to get? We've got, I don't know, but we've thought of names. Colonel Sanders. Yes. Kung Pa we have we have one chicken named margaret hatcher i like that one we're having a problem um of the original cast of chicken city katarina is being beaten by the other chickens yeah and we were warned that you know if it gets worse we have to remove katarina otherwise she'll die yeah oh no you guys aren't gonna have any any like cockfighting stuff out here they used to have that back back

in the day way out here we we we cocks yet we have uh i think four four babies okay so roberto had babies and four of them out of the i think what do we have uh eight our dudes okay maybe we could send um the chicken what's her name that's getting katarina getting busted up to daniel turner he had mentioned maybe doing a chicken swap yeah but he wanted to do a rooster swap oh definitely no i think i think once we uh set up the space we're gonna have a separated area yeah so that there's actually like quarantine oh yeah because we have three separate flocks now because we had babies at different times and they weren't raised by the parents and we can't introduce them to each other.

They've been introduced, but they fight. Once the first batch are a little bit bigger, the other problem is Roberto's son, Roberto Jr., they're not going to get along. Roberto Jr. is going to be like, get out of the way, dad. Start placing bets. Start placing bets. No, it's illegal. I know.

I know it's very illegal. No, we like them both. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Actually, one of the weird things, I didn't even know anything about this, but, like, it came to my head, and I thought it was just hilarious and crazy. I spent a lot of time, you know, in the South these days. I spent, when I was in the Philippines, I'm sure you probably spent some time out there, is what blew me away was they televised cockfighting. It was like a... Wow.

Yeah. And it was, like, kind of well-produced, and they would have, like, 50 matches in an hour. I mean, it was, like, because they're quick, right? And they put, like, blades and spikes on their And it was like, it was like kind of well-produced and they would have like 50 matches in an hour. I mean, it was like, because they're quick, right? And they put like blades and spikes on their... Oh yeah, it's serious. Were they finishing off the other roosters? Yeah, because that thing,

when it goes in, it's like you win or you die because a lot of times they'll both, quite often they'll both die, right? When it goes on. And it was so intense. And then with Bloomingham, we're watching this

and they actually have like, winner! And it was almost like a Mortal Kombat at the end. It was so weird. And then they play like Bruce Lee. Winner! And I was almost like a Mortal Kombat at the end. It was so weird. And then they play, like, Bruce Lee. I'm like, wow! Winner! And I'm watching this with our friends at a hotel in Manila. We're just like, what is going on?

And then what made it even crazier is they had commercials during the break selling chicken steroids. He's like, he's heading my champion chickens. And he's got the supplements. The Filipino guy, he's got all these trophies behind him. And he's like, he's heading my, he's my champion chicken. And he's got my, the supplements, the Filipino guy, he's got my chicken, all these trophies behind him. And he's like, he's like, buy, you know, you know, Trenbolone for chickens or whatever it is.

Like, buy, buy. And it was just like, wow, it's like a whole industry to watch. I'm like, this is amazing. And they can't eat them because they're all pumped full of drugs. The Philippines is wild. It is crazy. Different place. It is amazing.

Were you in Manila? Yeah, Manila and I spent a time coming here. Manila was wild. It is crazy. It is amazing. Were you in Manila? Yeah, Manila. Manila was wild. It was a great place, but I can only take it. After a week or so at a time, I needed to leave. Pollution and traffic. It was bad.

We got a super chat from Rita Ho. Here are some facts from a Taiwanese. Taiwan was colonized by Spain, Holland, and Japan, but no UK. We have no tunnels. More than 80% of people want to remain status quo, not part of China, not claim independence as Taiwan. Very few want to be part of CCP.

You have no tunnels that you know of. Well, thanks for the fact check. Yeah, Hong Kong was the UK. Interesting. Yeah. Jordan VT08 says, npr wrote a critique of chapelle's new stand-up and they say dave used white privilege to express transphobic thoughts so dave chapelle is white privilege yeah whatever they disagree with they make race part of the

issue yeah uh dave chapelle is um this may be surprising but he's a black man and he made a skit as a skit about the black KKK member that is literally turning into reality because of NPR. That's where I think we're part of it. So many people are like, the woke folks, they're imploding, they're imploding a cave. And it's like, yes, I think they are,

but I think it's good they're going to get a lot worse before it gets better. It's going to get a lot crazier, I think. We got an important one. Phoenix499 says, spin the UFO. It's going to get a lot crazier, I think. We got an important one. Yes, sir. Phoenix499 says, spin the UFO. It's spinning. Get ready for this, Lydia. You got me on camera?

Hold on. I got to... Let me see here. You give Lydia a few seconds to cue that camera. It's one camera with multiple angles, so you can't just... There you go. Yeah, okay.

You pressed the wrong one. No, I did push the wrong one. No surprise there. Ooh, you guys can watch. Here we go. Woo-hoo. Spinning it for you, baby. Where'd you guys get that?

The UFO? I got an ad for it on Instagram. It was like hovering Bluetooth speaker and I was like, that's pretty cool. Oh, it's a speaker? Yeah. It's wirelessly charged Bluetooth speaker. Heck yeah. The UFO makes noises. It's going to look good in the dark, too. I wonder how many of those things we sold

by having that on the show and spinning. Hopefully a few. I love that thing. Do you have a promo code? No. No. We are not sponsored by the UFO company. Maybe we should be. Maybe we should make our own.

Yeah. Make our own UFO. With chickens on it. Spin the chicken. We also have these little bowls that have a wooden platform they spin. We've got to bring the bowls back now that we have a wide shot. Yes. We have room for all this stuff. Yes.

All right. Corey Gawney says, retired Air Force. Left my job with Washington State due to the mandate. Our state employee union did nothing to support us. Running for Olympia City Council, combating the failed woke policies of our current council. Very great to hear, man. Stand up. Stand up for what you believe in and hope you're victorious.

All right. Let's see. What is this? believe in and hope you're victorious. All right. Let's see. What is this? Someone said AOC spying with app for teachers. What is that about? Interesting. Has anyone seen that? I will look it up.

Spin that UFO. All right. Cornelius Butknuckle says Ian's superpower is his ability to correctly yet somehow inappropriately use a word. That's awesome. That's a great superpower. I like that. Yeah. Vanessa Stoller wants me to stop holding onto the mic.

Never. I am holding it. Very tightly. Jack Muth says, for those that want to get out of the city, USDA has a home loan program where you can get a 100% financed home loan for 38 years. You can use these funds to buy or build a house in a rural area.

Is that true? Yeah. What? Yeah. What? Yeah. Wait, what? I think I should do that. USDA loan for a house in a rural area? Yeah, I have heard that, yeah.

Why don't people do that? I want to look that up. We'll get more info. We have a lot of people that we're trying to relocate for work. Yeah. There you go. Buy a house. I got to say, there's so much stuff out there.

It's one thing as far as opportunity. People think the job is like, look, I'm not a finance guru. He's sitting next to me. But the thing is, there's one thing I do there. It's one thing as far as like opportunity. People think the jobs are like, look, I'm not a finance guru. He's sitting next to me. But the thing is, is one thing I do know for sure is like, you know, say what you want about the times, but like the world is flush with cash and there are tons of people and there are tons of like programs. I'm not big on like big government programs, but like the SBA aside before PPP is an amazing program.

Some of the stuff you can do and how you can get like, you know, federally guaranteed money and all that. And like, I'm usually not a big government guy, but there's some really good stuff and like usda loans va loans if you're ever in the service you get a va loan but if you're not like usda has great programs and even then there's like a lot of stuff out there so you just have to know where to look sometimes it takes a little bit longer especially with the sba right now yeah it'd take longer sure but it's there is it possible you take out a huge loan to buy a house that then the economy crashes the house house becomes worth a tenth of what it was worth, and they won't take that cash anymore to pay it back,

and then they seize the house back from you? No, that's the opposite. They want you to pay back the... Let's say it's a $100,000 house. You get a loan for $100,000. Now the house collapses, and it's worth... The economy collapses, it's worth $10,000. They just look at you and say,

I don't care about a $10,000 house. I want $100,000 back. Yeah, we didn't loan you the house. We loaned you the money. But you think they'll still take cash? Or could it get to a point where they're like, we're not taking U.S. dollars anymore? For the federal government, if it's coming from a federal loan or a federally

backed loan, probably it's because they're pretty straight stick about it. But there's other stuff out there. There's tons of stuff out there. Hey, if I may real quick, Tim, I did get a message here from a fellow EOD guy I worked with, deployed, same unit I was at, Jack, and it's interesting, so I'll remove his last name, but Hey Adam, Hey Adam,

from two and five Oh one back in 2011, 2016. Cool seeing you on Tim cast today. And it really hit home. I worked for a small weapons testing company in Ohio now, and I found out today I'll be fired if I'm not vaccinated by December 8th. Looks like it's time for a career change. And he said, well, Hey Adam.ah Hey Adam, reach out to me again Let's talk That's an example I know so many people

There's tons of folks out there Where they're like, hey, I'm just not doing this And I gotta say, for the folks who aren't making a ton of money The folks who don't have assets Real assets That's a tough thing to do Especially if you've got kids It seems like the time to build a new industry This has been on my mind you know like that's a that's a tough thing to do man you got kids something like that man

it seems like the time to build a new industry this has been on my mind to build this graphing factory that just sucks carbon out of the air and makes graphing you know puts it on copper palladium alloy or something where you can like make 50 different companies with 99 employees each and then hire all these people that are losing their jobs find somebody to invest get funded yeah because people will invest in that. You need a lot of money for something like that, though. Well, my friends, if you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to the channel, and go to TimCast.com because we're going to have a members-only segment coming up around 11 or so p.m. So definitely become a member.

And thanks for hanging out. We're live, of course, Monday through Friday. You can follow the show at TimCastIRL. You can follow me personally at TimCast. Tom, you want to shout anything out? Yeah. I can't believe it's already 10 o'clock yet. I'm honestly tired.

I need a good night's sleep, so I'm probably going to use promo code POSO to get a good night's sleep. He made me do that. He's like, oh, I got to do it. He's like, got to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, hey, thank you very much. I just want to say, yeah, at ThomasBSauer on Twitter. And also, we're the owners of Miramar Recovery in Orange County,

miramarrecovery.com. And also, especially if you're a veteran, you're in the western United States, you or somebody you know needs help, go ahead and reach out to your VA provider and they can talk to us. Right on. Thank you, guys. Kyle, you want to shout anything out? Nope.

Just if you want to reach out to me, reach out to Tom. There you go. Right on. Now, I don't usually like to toot my own horn here, but I am very particularly happy with the offensive meme that I posted today on Instagram and Twitter under LukeWeAreChange. LukeWeAreChange.

Go definitely check it out. And I release YouTube videos on WeAreChange. Lydia, can you cue up that wide shot? I can try. After Tim gives the final outro, maybe you can click over that wide shot because I think that's going to look really cool. Yeah, I can totally do that. Bye, everyone.

I'm Ian Crossland. We'll air credits. Yeah. Have a nice night. Love you. Thanks for coming. Great to see you guys. For now, this camera is me while I get it figured out.

Thank you guys for tuning in in our new studio. I'm loving it. Please bear with me as I get used to all of these buttons. Let me if i can do the wide shot look at that oh snap automatically just zooms out i love it and then you can see in the tv screen everyone super chat portion now are we is that we're out right now yeah we're gonna we're gonna record the members only segment okay everybody and that'll be up around 11 or so p.m so thanks for hanging out we'll see y'all there. you