Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #394 - 1,000 Woke Netflix Staff Plan Walkout Protesting Dave Chappelle w/Nerdrotic

Episode Date: October 16, 2021

Tim, Ian, Luke, and Lydia join Gary of Nerdrotics YouTube channel to analyze the 1,000 Netflix employees threatening to walk out and refuse to work over the recent Dave Chappelle special, the concepts that fueled the hit TV show 'Squid Game', Democrats who think the economy is good in face of all the signs, shipping container apartments that can no longer be built because shipping containers are in such short supply, and the thousands of citizens protesting in Italy over vaccine passport mandates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave Chappelle's new comedy special was pretty good. I think it wasn't as good as Sticks and Stones. Of course, the critics are outraged, saying it was just bad. I love how this new generation of woke media critic hates everything that most people likes. Whatever. But of course, you see it in Rotten Tomatoes. The audience absolutely loved it. But it's generating a lot of controversy, which is a stupid thing to say because it's just a fringe group of woke weirdos. However, it's still a lot of people at Netflix. First, we heard a trans woman stormed into a meeting and started yelling. Then we heard someone at Netflix leaked information about how much Dave Chappelle got paid.

Now we're hearing 1,000 woke employees are planning a virtual shutdown where they will not be working. Netflix has even fired the leaker and claimed we are on the right side of history, which is kind of odd considering cuties. But sure, try and stand on that hill, Netflix. I don't think anyone is going to be defending you for the most part. But I think most of us like Dave Chappelle. And this just goes to show, I think, you know, kind of optimism here, kind of being optimistic because it doesn't look like their protests are going to work.

Netflix doesn't care. They make too much money off this. People like Dave Chappelle. So we got a lot to talk about. We got to talk about this. We got to talk about the economic collapse. The holidays are on the verge of, well, the holidays will happen. I don't want to say they won't happen, but pumpkin shortages, turkey shortages, Christmas tree shortages. Well, you name it. That's all thanks to Joe Biden. But don't worry. Jen Psaki says this is good news. It means people are buying stuff. Yeah, right. Okay. Joining us to talk about a lot of these topics and probably a whole bunch of comic book stuff is Nerd Roddick. Hi.

How are you doing? I'm great. Do you want to introduce yourself? Yes. My name is Gary Buechler. I come from nerdroddick.com and nerdroddick here on YouTube. It's my first time here. I'm happy to be here.

Happy to talk to everybody. It's impressive. It's impressive, the compound. Like our new studio? Yeah. Awesome. I love the new studio. It's impressive. It's impressive, the compound. Like our new studio? Yeah. I love the new studio, love the house, love everything about it, and happy to be here. It's an honor. Howdy. My name is Luke Grodowski here of wearechanged.org. And first off, it looks like Instagram, I might be wrong, took off a warning before people followed me on my Instagram page. So thank you guys for helping me rectify that situation

by having hundreds of people follow my account. Second off, I personally want to thank YouTube for demonetizing my channel a few years ago, because if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have an awesome T-shirt store and shirts like this that I'm wearing right now that say, I'm Joe Biden, and I forgot this message, which you could exclusively get on thebestpoliticalshirts.com.

So thank you, YouTube and Instagram. Never thought I would say that. You also have a crystal around your neck. Is that quartz? This was a gift. I forgot exactly what it was. It's not a quartz. It's something else.

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I read that when I was 12. It was epic. The first time that I saw, they had killed somebody before, but first time I had read a character get killed. Yeah, that's something about that. And there was something that impressed a lot of us 12-year-olds back then who were very impressionable.

But Frank Miller's art and his writing was just next level. Good. But that was brilliant. Yeah, this series is great. Well, I'm Ian Crossland. Happy to be here. Thanks. And I am also showing off Luke's merch from the, what is it called?

What's your site, Luke? The bestpoliticalshirts.com. That's right. And he gave this to me for Christmas, and now I have it. It looks way better on me than it does on him. Mark, I'm going to do the Christmas shopping now because of the shortages. So let me know what you guys like. Yeah, awesome.

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Dave Chappelle. We got this story from Gizmodo and there's a lot of moving parts here. 1,000 Netflix employees are reportedly planning a walkout to protest new Chappelle special. Staffers are threatening to revolt after executives doubled down on claims that content on screen doesn't directly translate to real world harm. All right. I'm in a tough spot right here, guys. Okay. Netflix, they did cuties. That was messed up.

They also do big mouth. I also think that's pretty messed up. Yes. But they're defending Dave Chappelle from a woke mob. What do we do? Conflicted. Take it one situation at a time, I guess. I'm not subscribed to Netflix anymore, but I support them in supporting Dave Chappelle.

And we're starting to see certain things break down in our system as time goes. And this is going to be a huge face--off between two groups we'll just say it's important i mean no one's perfect if someone does good you compliment them if something if someone does something bad you criticize them uh there's a lot of things to criticize netflix especially with its founder especially with its history especially with its past and the psychological symbolism and a lot of its content. But when we look at the Dave Chappelle special, unless you watched it, I don't think you should be commenting on it because I just finished watching it today. And it's not his best work, but it's powerful.

It's impactful because I don't want to ruin this. So spoiler alert, if you haven't watched it yet, you might want to just mute it for like two minutes while I talk here. I mean, there's a story at the end that revolves around Daphne Dorman, a friend of Dave Chappelle, that, according to her family, committed suicide because the woke mob went after her because she supported Dave Chappelle. And this is a trans woman. This is a trans woman that Dave Chappelle was friends with, was doing comedy shows with, was helping, supporting, and treating like a student of the art.

And Daphne tweeted, I tweeted this on my official Twitter account, a look we are changed, because I sent out the tweet that got her attacked by the hate mob. And it's an important one to note here to see what she tweeted here, because the family members are literally saying it was this hate mob that led to her committing suicide recently when she defended Dave Chappelle's Sticks and Stones Netflix special. And she said, quote,

Punching down requires you to consider yourself superior to another group. Dave Chappelle doesn't consider himself better than me in any way. He isn't punching up or punching down. He's punching lines. That's his job, and he's a master of his craft. That's what she wrote. And this is what, I mean, it's a partial spoiler, but in the special, I mean, a large portion of it is dedicated to this story with a series of jokes in it. And he has this line where he's like, man, I don't know what they said to her, but they drove her to climb up on top of a building and jump off.

And then he tells a joke about it. And then, you know, everyone laughs and he says, Daphne would have loved that joke because she was part of my tribe, a comedian. And see, that's the thing, right? This is an individual, a trans woman, who is like, yes, people can do jokes. It can be offensive. It's like it is what it is. Dave Chappelle, we totally get it. But this woke mob, they need to control comedy, art, laughter. You know, maybe it's cliche to say communist, right? That's what the Soviets did. They can't allow people to have free thought that would challenge and and spread so they specifically target it now these people are planning on protesting i think it shows man their their their their power is waning now now let me just say

about about netflix they did cuties man that's messed up they do big mouth you guys know big mouth is yes no this nick kroll big mouth is a show about um cartoon like pre like children going through puberty and it's extremely sexually explicit and i'm just like yo it's a cartoon it's not the same as cuties but it's still like weird like what they're doing like i don't know man i saw some people like hey you should watch it and i'm like i guess i was at this guy's house and they put it on and i I'm like, dude, this is what are you watching, man? Like, I don't want to I can't even say what some of these episodes are about because YouTube would literally like demonetize or derank or even ban us.

If I gave you the synopsis of one episode I saw, yeah, we'd probably get taken down. Like, you can't even talk about it. But it's on Netflix. Netflix is also the company that fired one of their, I think an executive got fired because he was explaining to staff what words were offensive and should not be said. And in doing so, he said the words. And so they freaked out and they fired the guy. Now, with Netflix coming out and defending Dave Chappelle, this is what we got.

We have to defend them on this one because all the people who came out and said, Netflix is evil. I'm canceling my subscription, should be coming back and say, for this, I actually will consider subscribing. Because think about it, even though they did bad things, if there's no redemption for Netflix, they won't change course. If Netflix feels like, look, we tried,

giving these people what they wanted with Dave Chappelle, it wasn't enough, screw it, cut them off, there's no point. We're never going to win them back. If we say this is what we do like and we're willing to sign up now because you're defending Dave Chappelle, they're going to be like, hey, do more of this. The woke people aren't buying anything. They don't got money. These are the people that we should be supporting.

That's why I think it's important to actually be like defend Netflix on this one. Yeah. I mean, you know, we don't have to always lump everything in when talking about a particular case. And again, case-by-case basis, there's a lot to criticize Netflix. I mean, it's just weird that the founder of Netflix, his uncle is Edward Bernays. He's a nephew of Sigmund Freud. Wow, really? Yeah, yeah.

This is according to the New York Times, and they're reporting on him. So this is obviously an industry that has grown very fast, very rapidly. And I still think it's figuring itself out because you do see a lot of propaganda. You do see a lot of subliminal messaging. You do see a lot of crazy content out there that you don't see on normal television. You do see them taking risks, especially with things like Black Mirror. There's a lot of predictive programming. There's a lot of conditioning. There's a lot of things that we could say here. But I still think by and large, Netflix has expanded. It's at a point where YouTube is trying to become it. So that's power right there, to say the least. How they're going to wield this power, how are they going to move

forward? It's going to be very interesting to see. But they're a major powerhouse to contend with. It is difficult, though. I mean, because don't they still have cuties up? Yeah. And it's like even if you defend Dave Chappelle, they're also getting you to come on board with that kind of garbage. Yeah. So I support them defending Dave Chappelle all day long. I'm not going to sign up again until they get rid of cuties.

I kind of hold the line there. And it's hard. You're right. We need to show people support when they, you know, like if they're a puppy dog, you go, good dog. When they do something good, they pee on the floor, you get mad at them. But let's see what they do in this one instance, and then I will see if I can support it later.

It's a weird fight because Dave Chappelle isn't against trans people. He has friends that are trans people. He cares about the community. His message is like, hey, stop trying to tell me how to live my life. Stop trying to control every aspect of my existence. Stop trying to cancel people just for trying to make you laugh. And I think that's the bigger takeaway here because this is all at the end of the day coming to comedy, coming to someone mastering an art, trying to help people, trying to make people's lives better, trying to improve the quality of their mental health by being able to laugh at very tough, difficult situations, which sadly are stigmatized to a point and level where you can't even discuss them honestly on you know the major information highways that we have on the internet you you can't really

get the truth about a lot of these issues you can't really speak about them openly so the last thing that we have is comedy so to see this kind of war against comedy, it's troubling. I have a lot of negative things to say about Netflix. On this side, it's a weird fight because it's weird leftists who are protesting someone trying to help them and make them laugh, who's essentially on their side in many elements of his existence. You know, it used to be the left used to protest multinational corporations, government, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, big pharma. That's the old one. There's a lot of dust to wipe off there. I heard Tucker Carlson, critical of the World Trade Organization or something.

You know, he's talking about that. And I'm just like, man, to see Tucker Carlson on the side of the WTO protesters from the battle in Seattle is just a weird thing. It really is. And but hey, I'll take it. You know, we're in. Yeah, we're in a weird timeline for sure. I mean, there's that. I want to sit back and kind of watch them eat each other at times like this. It's just fun because they deserve it.

They do. But what you said earlier, if you watch the special, yeah, there's no way you can criticize it without watching it because it really is an end to all his Netflix specials. It really is kind of an epilogue to Sticks and Stones, which is just epic. It's so good. And he really says what he means. And it's like what I was noticing was he says really normal stuff. That's that's considered controversial now. To where I don't even, I mean, I'm a guest on a show, so I don't want to repeat it.

But he said something very normal about women in the process of giving birth. And what that is, you know, compared to. And people were applauding. And we're like, yeah, that's something that, like, really happens every day. It's not, yeah, it's weird that we're applauding stuff like that. He's like, women give birth. It's not. Yeah, it's weird that we're applauding stuff like that. He's like women give birth. Yeah. Dude, you know, I talk to a lot of regular people.

You know, I go out, we go to the mall. I was at a farm recently talking to some regular people just about life. And their opinions are very similar to to all of ours. I think the issue is that these leftists and people at Netflix, it's that tweet we pulled up before for Matthew Iglesias, where he's like, Twitter is people who are 95% further left than the average voter, arguing that people who are 75% further left than the regular voter are far right or alt-right or something. That's exactly it. Netflix thinks Twitter is moderate. And that's like going into a sewer and thinking you're getting farm fresh vegetables when it's black sludge. You're like literally pouring to a

gin and cum like, looks like farm fresh vegetables to me. It's like, dude, that is, that is the after effect of all of the refuse and waste and chemicals. That is not real life. This is what you get is the shows they make. It's kind of crazy to me that they, that they make and keep making some of these shows and some, some shows they make. It's kind of crazy to me that they make and keep making some of these shows, and some shows get canceled. I don't even know how they determine which show is worth keeping.

Perhaps they liked Cuties because the controversy was just good for their brand recognition or something. But a lot of people canceled their membership after that. I did. A lot. I canceled mine as well. Everyone has a friend of a friend anyway.

To see some of a friend anyway. To see some of the latest stuff. That's how I watched today's Dave Chappelle special. But this is a very interesting dichotomy. Because it used to be Netflix used to allow you to rate the videos that you would watch out of five stars. And then, of course, came Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer. Yes. And absolutely nuked and destroyed that system

because people are like no we don't like this we don't support this and they didn't like that and they got rid of the people's voice on netflix that was hilarious yeah just awful problem now you have that um that hannah hannah gadsby i think her name is gosh yeah and she's complaining about it as well because they're like look we have an eclectic group of voices. Check out the story we got from The Hollywood Reporter. Netflix fires employee for leaking confidential information on Chappelle's special. The employee leaked financial data to Bloomberg, which reported in October 13th article that Netflix spent $24.1 million on Dave Chappelle's The Closer. Woo! Not only is Dave Chappelle smacking down wokeness and just speaking his mind,

he's getting paid that kind of money to do it? Nice. Wow, man. That was half of what he walked away from Comedy Central for. So he's made it back,

I'm guessing. Good for Dave. Yeah. Well, he also said he's not going to speak about this again. He says it's over. I'm not going to be doing

specials. I'm done. I got to say, watching the special, it feels like they got him. Dave Chappelle was like um i can't do this anymore he said i'm not gonna make these jokes anymore because if they don't get it i don't know i can't do it dave chappelle gave in that's too bad because he's a cultural

force and he can change people's minds he did it before he walked away from the chappelle show just went to africa for a while checked out he does what he wants yeah i think i think it was because um i think his story was that when he did the chapelle show he did a sketch that was critical of racism but the people like he talked to someone who didn't know that's what it was and it kind of got him mad that he was like is that what you think i'm trying to say i remember reading a story about that i don't know maybe maybe it's been a long time i'm getting the story wrong but something like that here's where i think it's really crazy netflix says we are on the right side of history in row on internal message board

over the comedian's jokes. That to me is the crazy, crazy thing. He says, quote, we let go, a spokesperson said, we let go of an employee for sharing confidential, commercially sensitive information outside the company.

We understand this employee may have been motivated by disappointment and hurt with Netflix, but maintaining a culture of trust and transparency is core to our company. The longtime employee was fired because they leaked that information.

But to say that they're on the right side of history, I do believe that our commitment to artistic expression and pleasing our members is the right long-term choice for Netflix and that we are on the right side, but only time will tell. That's what he said. Apparently what they said to the New York Times. This is what you get when you let this stuff go on for too long and now it's biting them in the ass so good uh and that part of it i'm i'm extremely happy about to see them suffer these consequences yeah i mean that being said maybe not supporting

them is still the right move maybe oh i don't support centralized um entertainment networks like this i think you need a decentralized network that's going to propagate the art because anytime you have a gatekeeper, you're going to have people saying yes or no, and that's the problem. It's not that they said no. It's giving someone the ability to say yes or no and get super rich off it. Well, on that note, there are a lot of different options that you have. You can let the free market decide where you're going to spend your entertainment dollars.

I use Hulu. That's my choice. I don't know if you completely agree with them or whatever, but you can your entertainment dollars. I use Hulu. That's my choice. I don't know if you completely agree with them or whatever, but you can use Disney Plus. You can use Hulu. You can use like DirecTV and Amazon. They're all so awful. They're all so awful. Oh, I know.

They're all bad in different ways. Hulu did that tweet where they were like, remember a couple years ago? Don't wear Halloween costumes that are insensitive. And I'm like, why is my online streaming platform telling you what to wear because you get a central authority that builds up millions billions of followers and then they sell the company to some idiot that gets the that gets the twitter account and of 40 million people and can tell you to do stupid stuff and now most of these platforms are filled with ads you're paying a premium just for a specific uh channel and now amazon hulu all of them are like Paramount. They're all playing ads before

you get to watch the content that you paid for. It's just another slap in the face to the consumer. And that's probably why they're not doing that well and they're going to all have to... One of them is probably going to get bought up by Paramount. It might be for sale by Apple sometimes.

And they're way too late in the ad game. But the reason... I think Netflix is way too powerful. And they're a billion-dollar corporation that does make way, you know, they were, this is a rumor, okay, but they were thinking about going into content creation like YouTube. They thought about it seriously three years ago, ditched out of it. Oh, really? Yeah. They were too far behind

right uh but their infrastructure i had a i had a good friend who worked on work with them in the early days that infrastructure that they worked on that for years so they are light years ahead of any other streaming service for a long time uh they have patents on certain menus that's why you're on disney plus you're on paramount plus you're, why is this menu set? Well, they own half of it. Most of the menus and stuff, they own the patents on that, so they can't go. Wasn't Amazon going to do a YouTube thing a few years back? Remember that?

Well, they're doing some kind of live streaming thing now, which is weird. No, on Amazon, on the website. They're doing like, here, watch this live stream, which is usually someone trying to sell products. That's pretty weird. Amazon Live.

Is that what that is? Yeah. Is this the right side of history is the question. I don't think so. Centralized authorities are not... We're not going to look back on having a gatekeeper as the right side. I guess I looked at it like freedom of expression, not centralized authority. So I suspect what's happening with Netflix is that they're looking at twitter and they're looking at their marketing data and

they're like okay twitter is really not real life and what's going to be best for us is actually having diverse viewpoints and diverse opinions whether everyone agrees with stuff like cuties or whether everyone agrees with stuff like dave chappelle or not which i think is probably smart and will do them well in the long term. You know, the challenge is this is where our culture's at. I mean, you've got Dave Chappelle, The Closer on Netflix.

It's a point of conversation. People group around it. And that means people have to get a subscription to be able to watch it or, you know, Bottle of Friends. But for the most part, it means more subscriptions. And that's exactly what Netflix wants.

Then they'll probably just keep doing the same controversial stuff back and forth, generate more controversy which is good for their business no matter what happens i agree i i want i like dave chappelle i'm gonna side with dave chappelle and not netflix and i think the only reason netflix is supporting dave chappelle is because they gave him 24 million dollars and it's just they're weighing out like, because if they pull that special, they're just weighing what the backlash is going to be, what's going to be worse. And they're right now.

They're publicly traded too, aren't they? Yes. Yeah, imagine explaining to your shareholders why we dumped $24 million into Dave Chappelle only to pull it within like a week or something. Or it's been a little bit than that but still I having a thousand if I think if a thousand employees do walk out that might

make a difference I mean there's a lot of people there I don't know if that is actually going to happen I mean that sounds like a plan I mean who's saying that like where's the claim coming from there's going to be a thousand people coming out on protests I mean maybe insiders and I mean yeah I mean, maybe. Insiders. Yeah, I mean, that just seems extremely optimistic.

You can never ask protesters how many people are at a protest because they're always going to exaggerate the number. And it's just ridiculous to think that's going to happen. But have any of these people watched the show? Because I think if they do, they would get a sense of understanding. It's not about that, though. I know. Of course it's not. You go to these people and you're like, here's the video clip of what he actually said, and they're going to be like, you're a bigot.

Yeah. Netflix net worth is $280 billion. Whoa, really? As of October 14, yeah. Wow. Whoa, look how that has shot up in the last year. Yeah, because people got to watch something. I guess here's the question.

You know, do you think that we're going to see more companies try and embrace anti-woke stuff? Because look at what Bill Maher said. Bill Maher said for the first time he's playing to a mixed audience. He said people are hungry for critiques of the woke left. It's like, we like to the party, Bill, but I get it. Yeah, he's way late to that party. People are starving for stuff like that, but I don't think yeah he's way late to that party people are starving for

stuff like that but i don't think they're going to go to broadcast entertainment for it i think they're finding it right here and right on youtube with other people and i think they are way late i would like to see the establishment uh turn it around i just have very little faith they they need a lot of they need a lot of failures uh which they haven't had. They've been able to either hide them, or who knows what's true anymore. They're starting to hide TV failures now.

They don't have to give out numbers for streaming services. You know what I don't believe? I don't believe anyone liked Kimmy Schmidt. I don't either. I do. Did you watch it? I watched it. You liked it. Lies. I'm such a big fan of 30 Rock. I will tell you why I like Kimmy Schmidt? I don't either. I do. Did you watch it? I watched it. You liked it? I liked it. Lies. I'm such a big fan of 30 Rock. I will tell you why I liked Kimmy Schmidt.

Because she was trapped underground in a bunker. And as someone who was homeschooled and isolated from the rest of the world for my entire upbringing, that really resonated with me. So I don't know if it was true. That made the jokes funny, I guess. I liked it. That was just cute. Look, I watch, you know, I just binged 30 Rock again.

Because I periodically will watch 30 Rock because it's amazing. And I just laugh nonstop. It's brutally hilarious. And then I'm like, I finished it and I was like, okay, I'm going to watch Kimmy Schmidt. I tried to watch it before. I got to watch it because it's Tina Fey, very similar style of humor. And then I'm two episodes in with my eyes just like half closed, like not a single laugh, maybe a chuckle like, and then I was like, how I look at the, I look at the ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and it's like award winning number one. And I'm like, dude, I understand how the media lies because I pay attention to politics.

I'm looking at these shows and I'm like, I really don't believe people are that into this show. And it only got, I think, four seasons, which says to me, it was doing bad. People didn't like it the media lies try and make money and then ultimately they cancel it because people weren't watching that's my opinion i don't know jack murphy said he liked it maybe that's just me then i don't think you're ever going to get truly anti-woke sustainable anti-woke or or like edgy stuff out of corporate media ever i mean you already have broadcast things you can't say the

f word you can't talk about this i can't joke about this on this show so it's really not anti it's not like a comedy show where i can be free there's there's always corporations can be sold to some idiots so you need a decentralized way for for the comedy to thrive i think there are always limits right people need to understand this too this is what gets lost in the free speech debate you can't go on tucker carlson's show and say a lot of things they'd ban you i think jesse kelly was was he the one who got well it's not it's not tucker it's cnn or it's it's fox yeah if you go on tucker's show with him with that owns the network and has like owns the isp he could let you do whatever you want but it's a it's it's about um look the reason we don't swear on this show

is not because YouTube's going to ban us for doing it. Tons of people swear. It's because we've gotten emails from people being like, hey, my kids are with me when the show's on. Would you guys mind keeping the swears down? And I'm like, we don't lose anything by not swearing. And there are kids who are watching, and we really want

younger people to hear the message and be with their parents. I'm like, that makes sense to me. So we ask people like, you know, don't swear. But if you do, we're not going to cry. It's a cultural choice. Yeah. So like the same thing is true for a lot of shows that will be like, hey, you know, we have our limits on what we're willing to. But like in 2008, you could swear and it was almost like the kids loved it.

And that was when Larry and Sergey owned the company. And then they sold it. I'm not talking about YouTube. I'm talking about we got an email. We get emails periodically from back when we used to swear a lot more and they'd be like, hey man, big fans of the show. I was watching last night with my husband

and my kids. But I'm a puritan. And they were like, I just, you know, when you guys start swearing a lot, we don't want our kids to hear that kind of language. And then we're like, all right, I understand. We want to give proper values and manners to children and we can do this show and we can be something like that that people can listen to sometimes because we do get spicy stories when their kids are around i respect that i do and so we're like try not to swear if you swear it happens you know we're not

going to cry about it i had a couple of those emails too i remember calling bill gates uh a special name i can't name here and then i get an email saying that uh one of uh the viewers toddlers was just repeating it running around saying they're like thanks uh yeah here's my favorite he's like i'm not gonna and then people are like i'm not just gonna watch your show i can't watch your show because of this so i understand that that's why family friendly show on my show as well. As long as we're getting the ideas across and we're able to talk about important subjects, I've got no problem with being okay. We won't swear. My favorite was

when we were talking about a group of people that are all in a big circle together. Yes. And they're all patting each other on the back. Oh, yeah. Complimenting each other for being jerks. And it was a circle of jerks. Yes, of course. And we call it something else. More adult.

And then I got a couple emails and one of them was like, hey man, big fan. I just had to spend the past 15 minutes after your show explaining to my kid what that meant.

And just wanted to let you know that when we're in the car and I'm taking my kids somewhere and we put the show on and I'm like, we'll say a circle of jerks all patting each other on the back instead of, you know, the other way to say it. Self-congratulatory. Yes.

When it comes to comedy though, you can't let your audience decide how you run your show. So this isn't a comedy show. If it was, you know, take the censors off. And that I agree with too. Like when it comes to comedy, someone could be like, hey man, you can't say that around me because I got kids. It's a comedy show. You shouldn't bring your kids. This is where

we get, unless you're doing children's comedy, why did the chicken cross the road? Funny joke. I wouldn't watch that on YouTube anyway. It'd be creepy. Probably against whatever that new law is, that COPPA, whatever the heck it was. Oh, yeah, yeah, the anti-kids thing.

Yeah, that everybody freaked out about. I want to talk about Squid Game. We should talk about Squid Game. Yeah. We should talk about Squid Game. Yeah. What about it? So I think Squid Game is, I don't think it's overtly political. Apparently, you were telling me, Gary, that it was,

there's like a political message in Squid Game. Yeah, the writer, at least that's what he said. My takeaway from it was communism bad. That was my takeaway from it. Okay, so now i'm gonna say this for those that are listening spoiler alert if you haven't finished squid game it's an awesome show yeah i prefer watching it in the original korean with with subtitles i think it's fantastic with the dub you lose a lot of that like reverb and like natural sound it's kind of weird

uh so spoiler alert i'm gonna say it again we are going to spoil this show to uh the the to kingdom come there we go spoiler alert uh so what what was it about you mentioned that the creator had said something and it was like the creator called it a fable for uh modern day capitalism uh but also for life and the competitiveness of life. Uh, and that message, I, it's, it's not subtle at the end, uh, which I won't ruin for anybody, but it's not subtle at the end.

And that messaging was there. And, you know, some people can't get past it. And I understand that, but I thought it was a damn good story. What was the messaging? Like,

what do you think the message conveyed? Well, it's that it's a, it basically, it's a cold and cruel system they're in that fable you know there is no resolution except for at the end they create their own enemy quote unquote but um that's what i got out all right all right uh just for context okay because those of you that are sticking around even though we told you spoilers are here i'm going to give you the

quick breakdown of the show it's a bunch of desperate people in debt. And then all of a sudden they get an opportunity to play in a game. But the game is brutal and you die in it. But if you don't, you win. I think it's like equivalent of U.S. like $35 to $40 million is the translation. So it's like 45 billion Korean won or something. Now we're going to get into, again, I warn you, spoilers. I think the whole thing is the perfect example of somebody who thinks they're opposing capitalism, but just makes communism and wokeness look really, really dumb. And the show ends up being, in my opinion,

more anti-communist than anything. So one of the big themes in the show is that everyone is equal. They all enter the game as equals, and they're allowed to play as equals. And there's an arc in the show where it's like somebody violates the equality, and so they kill him. And they were like, that's the worst thing you could have done is strip the equality. But now, here's how the show ends. You've been warned. In this equal system, everyone dies but one person who gets all of the money. Okay, so that doesn't sound to me like capitalism. In capitalism, we recognize not everybody is equal. Not everybody does have an equal chance. We do want equal opportunity, but some people are

poor and some people are rich. In this system, everyone is wearing the same clothes in the same room being brutalized by the powers that ultimately results in one person having all the wealth and everyone dying. That is not capitalism. In capitalism, there's too much food. People are morbidly obese and there are homeless people who are fat. In communism, everybody wears the same clothes. They have limited access to anything. They get garbage food every day. They're like, okay, the game's over. Here's the food you get. And they get trash. And they're fighting each other because they're starving that to me is an indictment of communism and if this guy who made the show is actually like it's it's actually capitalism's

that's bad i'm like it just goes to show this is a person who made a great show but was really dumb and didn't understand they were actually critiquing communism it's like they took them out of a capitalistic system where they were doing pretty bad to a communistic system where they were doing really, really bad and were executed by the state, which usually happens under communism. For like childish whims. Exactly. And that's literally what happens under communism. Look up what happened in China, what happened in Russia, what happened in Europe as well. So there's a long history.

There's a long context to you know people just being purged taken away another very interesting aspect of that story is the masks that the very rich people were wearing were kind of similar to the same masks that the rothschilds were pictured wearing at some of their private parties and gals a couple decades ago so i i saw that right away i was was like, wait, wait, wait, that's the elites doing this. And I thought of the movie more of a critique about the ruling elites

because it's essentially, again, spoiler alert, rich people coming together to watch the average poor people, struggling people, kill each other over money. And there's some important kind of parallels there. The movie, I'm sorry,'s some important kind of parallels there.

The movie, I'm sorry, the series is kind of gory. So if you're sensitive to that stuff, I wouldn't watch it. I watched it. I was like, Tim, you got to watch it. But you watched it, and it is very thought-provoking. It is very emotional, and it definitely pulls at the heartstrings in many different ways. I looked this up. Luke, you ain't kidding.

What is this? There's a bunch of photos from this Rothschild party where they're all wearing these masks that are similar to the Squid Game thing. But that's probably what he was doing, the creator. Yeah. It was a guy, right, who created it? I'm saying he. Well, the story. I'm hearing a lot of different reports about this guy saying that he lost a bunch of teeth because of the stress during the production of this movie.

I heard that he tried to get this movie done for years and it kept getting denied. The series, you mean? Yeah, the series. But yeah, I remember seeing those masks automatically thinking, wait, wait, wait, I saw these masks before. They're at the private gallows and private meetings of the super rich that already do take place

when you do look at the very powerful people in our world that manipulate the system for their own personal benefit this way capitalism isn't the problem communism doesn't exist it's just this idealized system we might as well call it unicornism the real problem is corruption and corporatism and the left says capitalism when they mean corporatism i think that's exactly the problem i think that's what he's doing with the masks. He thinks that the Rothschilds embody capitalism. They do not.

They embody elitism. They're the biggest promoters and pushers of communism and destroyers of actual real free markets. Another interesting aspect was the fat guy. I mean, he looked almost exactly like Newt Gingrich. I talked to Newt Gingrich a couple times. I went up to him, asked him straight up to his face, hey, what did you do at the Bohemian Grove

when you shipped in specifically male prostitutes? And he was sweating up a storm. I did this like five times to him. He really doesn't like being asked those questions, but we got to understand here, there is some level of reality when it comes to super rich people coming together in the middle of the woods doing very weird things.

That does happen. It's called the Bohemian Grove. There's also other kind of secret societies and offshoots to these secret societies. Remember when Bilderberg was a conspiracy theory? Yeah. They said it didn't exist. They said it didn't exist a few years ago. And I was there at the meetings.

I'd be like, it's here. It's happening. They're like, no, he's crazy. Remember when they sent that dude from The Guardian down? He was really angry. Charlie Skelton. He came there to make fun. He's now my friend. Charlie Skelton was sent down there by the Guardian to make fun of the people outside. They sent him down there. He's like, there's a bunch of loonies. There's a bunch of crazies. He literally got followed everywhere, assaulted by police officers. They raided his

hotel room. They raided my hotel room. The police officers acted like the Gestapo against any journalist trying to do any real reporting against the Bilderberg group. And he came out of it shook saying, hey, I thought these guys were crazy. I came here to make fun of them. These guys are honest. I'm being followed by police everywhere I go. And they're literally trying to arrest me for just trying to take a photo of David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger walking down the street together. I got arrested at Bilderberg way too many times, too.

They said it wasn't real. They said it was a conspiracy theory. Yeah, it doesn't exist. And it's like you could literally just stand there and be like, here it is. And they'd be like, sorry, sir, it's a private event. It's the Bilderberg group meeting. And then you look in the newspaper and it's like, nope, not a real thing. Yep, doesn't exist.

Crazy. Yeah, I remember there being like, this is absolutely absurd. But when really rich people do come together, they do really weird stuff. And there's a lot of weird stuff that I even experienced at Bilderberg. There's even weirdest stuff happening at the Bohemian Grove. And this is some of the stuff we know about. What about the stuff we don't know about? So I thought this was a perfect time to talk about the bigger elements of these elites who do very sinister things.

So that was me, the larger conversation of Squid Games. But the criticism is always the corrupt elites. When they talk about, oh, communism, they never actually implement it because it's not possible. It's impossible to do. And then when the left criticizes capitalism, they're really just angry there are elites with centralized power able to do really messed up things and get away with it because of how much power they've accumulated.

That's not what capitalism is supposed to represent either. And the problem is communism doesn't exist, right? They say that like every time they try it, they get some weird form of, you know, genocidal authoritarianism.

Capitalism at its root is just people with capital from their work can reinvest that into making more projects. However, in our current system, which mixes it, we end up with a lot of corruption, and then you get a left saying, aha, this proves capitalism doesn't work, and it's like, no, actually, the problem is the corruption.

I don't care who's doing it or why. Corruption, bad. When you use the power of government to destroy your competitors in the, quote, free market, that's not a free market. That's not the free market. That's communism. That's government direct intervention into the free market. That's preventing the market from being able to express itself, from being able to speak for itself. Because usually in the free market, if someone does something good, they get promoted.

They get business. They get commerce. They get people going to them because they know that their reputation is good. When you have multinational billionaire elites playing by a different set of rules, not paying taxes, getting subsidies, literally getting taxpayer funded money, getting bailouts and restrictions and rules that punish their competitors and only help them. That is not a free market.

We don't have that. We have multinational corporations, globalists, some people call them, that are literally the ones calling the shots, creating policies that screw you over while they get whatever they want for the grabbing. I got it. I got to bring it up again for the 800th time.

My friends, you've seen it in almost every segment that I've done over the past few months. Democrats in the civics poll believe the economy is good. Republicans and independents think the economy is bad. 70% of independent voters believe the economy is to some degree bad, either fairly or extremely. 88% of Republicans say either fairly bad or very bad. 54% of Democrats say the economy is very good.

We got the story from Breitbart. Consumer sentiment crashes as confidence in Biden economic policy collapses. Breitbart says the University of Michigan's preliminary October rate of consumer sentiment fell to 71.4 from 72.8 in September. Richard Curtin, the survey's chief economist, explained the downturn. Consumer sentiment has remained for the past three months at the lows first recorded in response to the shutdown of the economy. The Delta variant supply shortages, reduced labor force participation rates will continue to dim the pace of consumer spending into 2022. There's another less tangible factor that has contributed to the slump in optimism.

Confidence in government economic policies has significantly declined during the past six months. So there you go, my friends. There are people who are living in a cult. They believe for some reason, I just, I literally don't understand how they think that things are going well. We are being told by Jen Psaki that, well, it's good that prices are going up because it means that things are being sold.

We saw that article that was like, inflation is actually a good thing. It means you'll make more money. No, no, no, no, no. It means you can't buy stuff. It means your savings are being sold. We saw that article that was like, inflation is actually a good thing. It means you'll make more money. No, no, no, no, no. It means you can't buy stuff. It means your savings are being gutted. This reminds me of Bernie saying that bread lines are a good thing. That means there's a bunch of bread.

Like, no, you're wrong. You're wrong about that. People are waiting in line to eat. It's a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. We're in this weird limbo right now where everything is – we're still getting out of the COVID economy. I'm selling a house right now, and the market is still good.

But, I mean, you can see – Can I buy it? Yeah. Sure. It's in California. Yeah, it's in California. You can keep that. Sorry.

Here's a question, though. So right now in rural areas, rural property is absolutely bonkers. Yeah. Like property that used to be a couple hundred grand is now going for like triple. But what about in San Francisco? Is it going down? It hasn't gone down yet. It hasn't skyrocketed up.

San Francisco, it's not the best test because they don't have a lot of inventory. So when a house goes on, it's usually gone and it's bought up by a company. Usually when their right mind would move to San Francisco right now. Don't know. I don't know. We just had a poll come out recently saying half the people, half of the residents want to leave. You guys have poop all over your streets. And that's not the deal.

That's not even an over exaggeration. It started drifting out into the outer streets. It used to be just in the tenderloin or on sixth it's like rolling down the street it's rolling down california street going down 101 which they just blocked off because you can't drive on 101 anymore you can just ride a bike on it or poop you can poop on it too if you like nice uh yeah it's terrible it's terrible i've seen things in california i I'd see. Yeah. I was in L.A. and I was going to a shopping center. And then right in the middle of the street, this large homeless woman just walked right in, spread her legs and squatted and just went to town. And I was like, what is happening right now?

This is crazy. Welcome to the city. I remember doing a walk and talk that was unedited. And I was just walking down San Francisco, down where I think City Hall, is that it? Or the state capitol? City Hall. Where City Hall is. It looks like a state capitol.

And I saw a lot of people taking the vaccine on the streets. Self-administered. Self-administered. And I saw a lot of different stuff. But as I was filming, as I was was walking there was a lady screaming on the top of her lungs and i see police officers hear that and literally run the other way and i'm like this is what's happening one of america's biggest city with some of the highest rents how did how in the world do you live there not for long i'm leaving i'm getting the hell out i was it was enough are

you are you able to tell us what options you're looking at? Texas, any place in the country away from a city. I don't want to live in a city at all anymore. I'm done. Smart move. My house got – I grew up in San Diego, like never had my car broken into. Lived in San Francisco for 18 years, had my car broken into twice a year. Wow. Twice a year.

And my wife had hers broken into. It's all the time. There's always – have you considered Chicago? No. Surprisingly enough, no. Nice city. New York City is also very charming with a lot of people trying to stab you. Big rats.

Big, huge rats. They didn't oversell that one. I couldn't believe it when I saw that. But no, no cities. I'm done with cities. Sorry, go ahead. No, no. The crime, i don't know how the they can say the economy is good when we have uh how many we have there's a help wanted sign in california everywhere everywhere i go every shopping center has at least five if it's not empty it's a cult yeah if it's not an empty building it's a help wanted sign you go to the

supermarket out here and there's there's a every other refrigerator door and on every aisle multiple times saying $500 sign on bonus. And these people are just like, I think the economy is good. I tried to go to a restaurant earlier today. The first two all closed when it said it was open. Your Waffle House is closed. That scared me. I've seen a lot of things. I've seen people die before my eyes.

But when I saw Waffle House closed, my heart felt like it was being just strained. And I was like, it's happening. It's the end of the world. True story. There is a Starbucks near my house that ran out of coffee

because of the supply line chain. Wow. Ran out of coffee. Had to close. Holy. I want to just glo Yeah, I'm just... I'm going to... I want to just gloat

when I was saying like, hey, you should get emergency food a year ago because you never know. Sometimes it rains. There could be a flood. The road might get closed and you got it.

You can have some food and water in the closet. You can pop up when you need it. And all these lefties were like, Tim's so dumb. He's telling people to buy emergency food.

And now we're going on like year two of supply chain collapse. Yeah. Yep. Well, you know, go to your store. There's food. I'm not saying people are starving right now.

But I'll tell you this. The prices for emergency food has like doubled or tripled. Some shops don't sell them anymore. So if you got it, you're good. If you don't, oof. And Bitcoin's through the roof. What's it called? I already made a list here.

Bitcoin's up. Stocks, bonds, copper all up. Confidence crashes near decades low. As the Washington Post is literally writing articles that are entitled, America needs higher, longer-lasting inflation. I mean, how more criminal could you

get? When you look at inflation, it predominantly makes people poor. Already, the cost of living astronomically high. The cost of food, higher than it ever has been for the average American. And everything for the basic cost of living astronomically high the cost of food higher than it ever has been for the average american in everything for the basic cost of living is going up wages staying the same what did they call it was it reuters or called it a great reboot or yeah a great yeah a great reboot yeah no for real yeah i think reuters did right yeah i think so the great

reboot it's like guys we know what the great reset is we know the word yo man bitcoin is what like 62k yeah imagine how many how many people i remember uh because we talked about it i'll just say this right away like why bitcoin works it's decentralized it is better than all the other cryptos in my opinion and when you've got a failing US economy and failing US policy, Bitcoin is global and decentralized. So it's much, much more difficult to actually manipulate. Now, a lot of people say, oh, but Elon Musk tweets and he manipulates it. No, you don't get it. We know what the real value of that coin is. And basically right now, that means you're buying at a discount. But I remember when it hit 60 and a bunch of people were like, oh, you know, it's a bubble. And then it fell down to 30.

And they started saying, like, see, that proves it. And I'm sitting back like, okay, sell your Bitcoin then. And they did. And poor people were selling. Now it's back up over 60. It's its highest point, isn't it? I don't know exactly. I have to double check that to make sure I'm accurate.

$61,351 per coin. Not quite the highest. It looks like it was a... Close. 63 or something. Still. I mean, April of 2021. Yeah, 63 and April 15th.

That's... Jeez. But yeah, essentially it's where it was. It's at about its highest point again. People need to understand this is a sign not of... This is not good news. Okay? If you're a cryptocurrency holder, what this really means is your dollars are

becoming worthless. Yeah. So when we, when we were in, uh, back in November, when we were talking, we had Bill Ottman on the show and he was like, yo, buy Ethereum. And I was like, okay. And so I bought some more Bitcoin and Ethereum. And then within a few months, it was at 30 K and I was like, whoa, lumber went up at the, like basically the same rate.

So I think it's actually happening is when Bitcoin skyrockets like this, what it really means is not that it's getting more valuable, but the dollar is getting less value. Now they're saying, I saw one report, the dollar will lose half its value in the next decade or so, next 13 years. Sit on that money. Sit on that money. It has to. I mean, how much did they print over the last two years? Like $6 trillion, I think. Yeah.

I mean, like six trillion, even though arguably it's still BS. The dollar is not based on anything. And it's just a big joke at this point. But when you print that much over the last year, it has to fall. And they've been kicking the can down the road for, I mean, longer than I've ever seen in my lifetime. I've seen economies come and go. Nothing's been like this. But yeah, anytime he's like, even before the internet,

anytime you start seeing some old guy trying to sell you gold, you know, we're about to go into a recession. And like the same thing is happening here, except the new gold is Bitcoin. And it might be, I would recommend it. No financial advice. no financial advice. I don't know anything. I used to own a comic store, but I keep a lot of cash in my safe. That's where, that's what I do because I'm not really sure.

I mean, I don't know how bad it's going to get. It's, this is the worst I've ever seen it. And with the, since the shoe hasn't dropped yet, uh, and it's going to be, it's only a matter of time. Really? Uh, I don't know.

I think it's going to get worse. People realize demand is about to spike for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Oh yeah. And with already like constrained supply lines that could snap it. Yeah. Totally travel already. Super expensive. And you know,

we talk about how the VX mandates are really bad, but a lot of people aren't talking about how the Biden administration literally wants to pass a $3.5 trillion bill, which one of the provisions is a surveillance bill where the Biden administration will be literally looking at everyone's bank account to make sure that everyone's paying the IRS if they have over $600 in their bank accounts. I mean, this is a massive surveillance bill. This is a massive incursion into people's personal liberties, people's personal freedoms, and they're going to be paying for this bill by taxing everyone over $600 when they print the money out of thin air? Tax the poor. It's insane.

It just seems cruel. It's more cruel than than logical in my opinion i completely agree and nobody's talking about it like nobody's upset about it you should be very very upset about this this is something the bank the democrats in their bill and their spending bill want access to the income and outgoing money from your bank account if you have at least 600 bucks yeah and nancy pelosi and janet ye literally arguing, saying, this is going to get the billionaires, guys. This is going to go after the billionaires.

Because billionaires have accounts with 600 bucks in them. Yeah. This is going to go after what they've been after the whole time, the middle class. They've always been after the middle class. When you hear tax the rich, it's tax the middle class. You can tax all the rich people you want. It's not going to make a difference. A lot of the multi-billionaire corporations, a lot of these super

wealthy people call for more taxes, call for more regulation, because it will destroy their competitors as, of course, they save their money in a lot of different safe havens. So, as... As you are literally paying every single dime, every single

penny, which the IRS knows exactly how much you owe, you make a mistake, they'll send you a bill right away saying, no, no, no, no, no, no the IRS knows exactly how much you owe. You make a mistake, they'll send you a bill right away saying, no, no, no, no, no, no. We know exactly how much you owe. You understated your taxes. Why not just tell people if you're going to be doing that anyway? But you're going to have to pay every little last cent of this to go into a hole that literally is going into nowhere. Meanwhile, the multinational corporations get to do whatever they want play by a different set of rules as you're getting screwed every single day and your dollar that you worked hard for is being devalued right in front of your eyes inflation is a tax on your savings and holy cow are they taxing the crap out of you but bitcoin

is a hedge against that i'm not giving anybody anybody advice, but I'll tell you this. I'm particularly happy with my purchase of Bitcoin over the past several years. I remember when it was at like $1,300 or whatever, several years ago. And I was thinking to myself like, dude, I just wish I would have bought when it was a couple hundred bucks. And then I was like, I'll just buy some now. I'll just put some of my savings into it. And boy, was that a good idea. Luke and I were talking about this the other day when I was like, Bitcoin is going to hit a million bucks. And then Luke was like, and then we're going to be thinking back to when it was at 60 and being like, why didn't we buy when it was at 60?

And that was a joke I made. If you look at the trends, some people are projecting 200k in the next month or two yep i think so i do i do i don't know but if you look at the trends similar trends happening it should spike and max kaiser also called it and he's been he's been within margin of like his predictions quite a bit i'll just put it this way man i don't got advice anybody other than the u.s dollars becoming worthless uh yeah you're 20 if they raise the minimum wage to like $20 an hour, it'll be worth $10. Exactly. So, yeah, that's just what you said.

The dollar is worthless right now. Do you know the Big Mac Index, I think they call it? You ever hear that? Yes. They gauge the strength of economy by a working class person's ability to buy a Big Mac, something like that. And so it's like how many hours do you have to work to purchase a Big Mac? And so they'll look at a bunch of countries, and for a lot of countries, it's like you've got to work four or five hours to get one Big Mac.

That's a bad economy. In the United States, it's like you can work for one hour and actually get two Big Macs. Yeah. So it's a good economy. Right now, if a Big Mac costs five bucks, and you're getting 10 bucks an hour, you're getting two Big Macs an hour. But if they increase the minimum minimum wage what's really going to happen is that big macs are going to go up in cost and you're still going

to be getting two big macs per hour the amount of money you make is not relevant to the cost of the materials and the labor to produce the product the left doesn't get it there is one benefit though when it comes to imports because raising the wages in the united states won't change imported goods from other countries which maybe they're trying to do, hoping that, okay, the economy is collapsing. But what if like your computer was cheaper, because everyone or not cheaper, but you're making more money now you can afford to get it. The computers are still going to get expensive, but they're hoping they can like outpace the imported goods as they outsource more and more of our manufacturing and products overseas. So this just sounds to me like we're giving more of our power to countries overseas.

So that's not good, first of all. Second of all, I'm very glad that you guys' Bitcoin investment are going up. But at the same time, that terrifies me because it lets me know that everything that I'm earning and everything I'm doing, trying to pay off my own debts, it's for nothing. The value of my dollar is falling. No, that's good. Your debt's becoming worthless, too. Yeah, that's great.

So it's like I was saying. So this is what the U.S. does though. The U.S. purposefully inflates so that the debt they owe is worth less. So if $20 can buy you two cheeseburgers and let's say I borrow $20 from you to buy two cheeseburgers. I owe you the equivalent of two meals. I wait until inflation hits and the 20 bucks can only buy one cheeseburger and then I only got to pay you back one when you gave me two. You see how that works? That's

the trick. China is also implementing a very similar policy. They've been acting like they have blank checkbooks and they've been writing checks all over Africa, all over Latin America and buying a lot of influence, buying a lot of resources, buying a lot of manufacturing, buying a lot of relationships that slowly and surely are overtaking the United States

and their sphere of influence in those particular regions. So it's very interesting to see China implement the same role, but instead of just giving it to multinational corporations, they're using it to build their country to make sure that they have enough natural resources for their people, as they're, of course, more of a nationalistic government. Meanwhile, our government keeps selling us out every single day. Yep. And it gets rooted on by more than half the country every day. And that's the thing we have to fight is that influence and that apathy

or either rooting for one team or that apathy. And we see it. It's all throughout our culture. And, yeah, I worry about the future. I've got kids. I'm going to buy a house soon. I have no idea what we're getting into. That's why I think it's a good time to not give up,

but fortify your future. Fortify your future, if you can uh by getting out of a city but not everybody can uh and the the one thing i learned through through covid was i i never paid attention to like local elections it's san francisco's a waste of time but um that's something i'm going to pay attention to every day now every Every time, everywhere I move, I'm going to know who the dog catcher is. I'm going to know who everybody who lords over me is. I want to know everything about them. And that's where I can make the change.

I don't know if it's going to work, but I want to know. I got to show you guys what I think is one of the funniest stories I've seen in the economic collapse. This is from the Salt Lake Tribune. Shipping container apartments opening delayed by global shortages, developer says. Hilarious. Okay, okay. This is hilarious. The cost of a shipping container is skyrocketing.

The cost of transporting it is going way up. They tried to make low-income housing out of shipping containers, and now they can't open it. This is like a firetruck on fire, isn't it? It's like the perfect definition of irony. I know. We'll use shipping containers to create large, cheap, low-income housing, and now the shipping containers are spiking, so they can't even do that. This is the perfect economic collapse story. I saw this. I couldn't.

I just, wow. I've been doing some research on them. They're expensive to transport, which is why they're not the best thing to do and they're also you don't know if they're going to be dirty or that they shipped toxic uh chemicals there's no insulation when once you insulate them in the inside they become much smaller they're only like eight and a half to nine and a half feet high anyway six feet that was in salt lake city where it gets pretty cold look at this this is crazy imagine living in that have you guys have you guys seen ready player one it's a pod yes it's how they live in the stacks yep that's what it is

that's exactly what it is yeah they have yeah these are up in san francisco they have them look look look i love the idea of getting a shipping container for yourself and like burying it and having a little clubhouse or something bunker yeah or doing a tiny house but this is the stacks this is what we've been like this is 1984 when the guy lives in that crappy little cute concrete cubicle welcome to your dystopian nightmare california you will own nothing and you will be happy in california you can only get single use containers uh like one shipment version containers but everywhere else apparently you can have like they can transport transport transport animal blood you know phosphorus you don't know what's going to be in it we're going to be breathing in so i would at this point recommend do not

at least go look into it but it seems a lot worse than i thought it was i was just watching ready player one the other day and then when i saw this i was like oh man so like all the mobile homes are like stacked you know and people live in these really awful conditions well this is what you're gonna get i gotta be honest the the these shipping containers are probably better living than new york bachelor apartments huh have you seen how bad new york is uh i've been there once and it was uh well recently they've got apartments that are like, that's a closet. Yeah.

And there's like, there's no bathroom. You got to share a bathroom. I used to live in one of those. It's the same as San Francisco then. So for a studio in San Francisco was 3,500 bucks a month to 4,000 a month to rent. Why? That is a good question. Especially after, you know, before. How does someone afford to live there?

They go broke. They eat a lot of freaking cup of soup, making $100,000 a year and pooping in the street. I have no idea. Well, they make a lot. There's a lot of money floating around that town. There was in 2019. Best economy I've ever seen. Wow.

The Trump economy. In my lifetime, the amount of money that was going through San Francisco in particular withisco in particular with the big tech they're all centered their patreons their uh twitter's their downtown yeah and uh they the and you know houses are expensive there's always been money rolling through there and there's always a million people this is before prior to covid but there was a million people a day that would just travel into san francisco so the population doubled uh on every business day and i i've never been able to explain like a normal house i don't know how a a a gardener lives in san francisco and he must have bought his house 30 years ago maybe it's like 10 gardeners all sharing one studio. Maybe. And they all just like sleep in bunk beds.

It's like good amenities. Nice weather. You probably know better than I do. And then you got the mountains to the north. In the east, you have like, what's the city? You have those Sasa or Sasa leaders up north. But like, then you got like kind of suburbian, beautiful farmland to the east. You know, you got the one on one, the PCH.

So it's located in a nice spot and the temperature is incredible. If you're down low in the hills, it's cooler. And then you go up and it gets really warm, like up above when the sun's hitting you. Yeah, I've never loved city living. So I've never really gotten my head right why people would want to be that close to people.

And I lived there for 18 years. And I know you've lived in cities before. I don't know what attracted people to it originally. It's just, it sounds like the worst thing in the world. And I always think San Francisco, there is that for, if you're in your 20s and 30s, I get it. As a family guy, I don't.

You're not taking your kids to the tenderloin in San Francisco. I moved there in 2016 for a year, paid $3,000 a month for a one bedroom. And they were trying to sell me mushrooms on the street when I would walk around. That was something interesting. But other than that, I never left the house. My car got broken into the day I went down there to look for apartments. I had my backpack in my backseat, came out and the window was shattered.

It was gone. That was rough. Strong start. It was terrible. i think it's an illusion i think a lot of people i mean like there's parts of it that were beautiful there was parts of it that were nice and there were parts of it that were fun but i think a lot of it is an illusion people build this up new york is this fabulous city san francisco new york new york smells like sour milk pre-internet it does it's all based on pre-internet living before the before you could get any everything shipped to you at will.

You could only find cool jewelry in the jewelry district in Manhattan. Now you just order it online. They make it and send it to you from Japan or wherever, Malaysia. China. China. Everybody had to say it.

China. I think, well, and then the mom and pop capitalism, which I love, is dead. Yeah, you sold your. So you had a comic shop in San Francisco? Yep. What was the whole process of starting it and then selling it? Oh, it was, God, it was great.

This was back in 2003 when I bought it. It was, hey, I want to buy your comic store. And the guy said, yeah. And we signed one piece of paper. And that was it. And you can't do that now. And the landlord was cool. I got lucky.

He was an old guy. He liked me. And he gave me, he said, a thousand bucks a month. And he only raised it 25 bucks in 10 years. Wow. And he felt bad when he did it. You can't do that now. Once the heirs take over, as time went on, the city got more intrusive to the point where they did a

point-of-sale purchase tax through the food and health. I don't even know how. They wanted to get into my taxes then. So I just got rid of the point-of-sale purchase. I'm like, I don't have it anymore, so you can't tax me because I was having to submit it. And it was a way for them to look at

and that's their way to sneaking in and looking at your taxes, the city. So they started doing more and more intrusive stuff like that. No more parking bikes everywhere. You can't, you can't drive anywhere. Public transportation got more, more expensive.

Crime went up. My place got broken into a couple of times. They couldn't get in, but it got broken into. It was like regular when the front windows broken, front doors broken. And it just got worse and worse and worse over time. So it did start out nice.

But you no longer have this comic shop. No, I sold it. I sold it back in 2013. I'm happy I did. My wife owned a business in San Francisco for a two bit, well, she had two salons and it went to one for 15 years and she did great. She did fine, but she had to deal later on. It was, there was a homeless guy sleeping in the,

in the front door every day. And, and then you can't just scoop them up and get rid of them. You can't call the cops. They won't come and get them anymore. San Francisco, if it's a, this was before the,

they changed the $900. You can go and steal $900 with the stuff. And they won't prosecute you. They will not prosecute you. 20 years before that, if they broke into your car, they did something that was even short of being violent. You just went online and you filled out a form and they might come.

My friend Kelly Cutler was working with the homeless up there and said that every morning at 4 a.m. They'll bring like a fire truck or something down the street and just fire hose the homeless people and make it so that they get off the street. What? Are you serious? No. I mean, I've been to the Water Canyons before at protests. That's pretty severe. I doubt.

I don't know. Let's look up the sources to that. In San Francisco, you said? I haven't seen that. You've never seen that? No, I've never seen them leave a street. It would have to be like Obama coming through or something like that. That was back in the day.

But they are a constant force all the time, especially down on 6th and the Tenderloin, which I brought up, but it's spread out because they gave them cash. For the longest time, San Francisco gave them cash. That's how they're fighting drugs. They give them clean needles and cash money once a month. I'm going to get in touch with Kelly and see if I can get her evidence on this because that's where I heard all about this from. And then I'll bring it on the show. Maybe we can talk about it next week.

It was when I heard that there would be hosing the homeless because they couldn't get them to move otherwise without getting violent. I forgot what they did when – this was a long time ago, but when Obama would go there quite often for a fundraiser. And every time he came in, they just bought him bus tickets. Huh. Wow. It's like that South Park episode. You ever see it? Where all the homeless people come to South Park. So then they just bought him bus tickets. Huh. Wow. It's like that South Park episode. You ever see it? Where all the homeless people come to South Park,

so then they get a bus. Yeah, yeah. And they get everybody, all the homeless people, to go to Venice. That's what they do. Didn't Giuliani do that or something? I think it was a concert or something. No, no.

On South Park, they sing the song. They were like, In the city, city of Venice, right next to Matt's house that was a funny line i love that one because matt stone yep uh they've been doing that for a long time giving him bus tickets to get out of there they stopped doing it in california because they're like it's great it's great here we get cash we get needles why would we want to leave uh ever yeah i i i worked um i worked for a homeless shelter in california and people don't understand what causes it.

They just don't get it. And it's really, really frustrating when you have these bleeding heart types who are just like, why can't we just take a house and then put the homeless in it? And they do this thing where you'll see high-level progressive, famous progressives be like, there are more empty homes in America than homeless people. And I'm like, okay, and? that's a non-sequitur the the reason the homeless people are homeless has nothing to do with an empty house it has everything to do with their with with many of these individuals choosing to be homeless a lot i hear a lot they're like mental illness is the

cause of of homelessness it is it is a cause but my experience the biggest cause that i experienced was people saying i want to be homeless they they enjoy living outside they don't have to worry about much people are giving them food and money fresh air but it's it's not even that it's like they don't care under a bridge they don't care you will not be you can't you go to them and say look there are a lot of homeless people who are definitely in in hard times who want to get out of that right who want to find a place to live but my experience most of them were just like, I don't mind sleeping under a bridge. Why should I get a job? People give me free food all the time. So I go to sleep, wake up, walk around, get free

food, go back to my bridge and go to sleep. How you solve for that? I honestly don't know. You can't. You can't. I mean, you've seen it, but there's three types of homeless people. There is the one who wants to be homeless. There is the mentally ill. And then there's drugs. Drugs is the vast majority. And ever since the opioid crisis, it's doubled, triple, quadrupled. The amount of deaths in San Francisco eclipsed the amount of.

I would say this. There are the legitimate trope of homelessness that the left thinks someone down on their luck hard times loses their home that exists definitely and there's a lot a lot of people like that i've met many people like that but it was not the majority it was like one in ten yeah if if and that may be generous one in ten most people that we encountered would say something like get away from me i'm not going anywhere near your stupid shelter i want to be homeless yeah they wouldn near your stupid shelter. I want to be homeless. They wouldn't say it specifically like, I want to be homeless.

They would be like, I don't want to have anything to do with your garbage. And if they ever did come in, they'd come in for clean clothes, a shower, and then leave right away. Yeah. I don't know the exact story on this, but when everything was locked down, they let homeless people into a hotel or a couple hotels in San Francisco. There was a death in two weeks. There was fires inside. They were caught dealing drugs within a week.

It was just a complete S show. And they had to continue it because they couldn't. How bad would that look if they stopped it? But there was cops there all the time, and the hotel was wishing they hadn't have done it. But they did. I would love to find a solution to homelessness, but that means arresting homeless people. In Northern California, they announced that they would intern homeless people if they were deemed not mentally fit. Yeah, they would take their paychecks or any money they had coming in and seize it and then lock them up. That's the simple solution, because I tell you this. When you go up to homeless people and say, here's a house

and they go, no, what do you do? Are you going to drag them into the house and lock them in? Because that's that you're going to have these people don't understand. These leftists are naive. They think everyone assumes the world. They think everyone thinks the way they do. They don't realize that people believe different things. They think every conservative is a grifter because how could you possibly believe that, say, Jesus is the son of God or something like that? I don't believe it. Therefore, they don't either. And they're lying or they're crazy. It's like, yo, you are not the arbiter of truth and morality. You don't know what you're talking about. This is what makes it so hard to actually solve these problems. The arrogant. Exactly. And judging the world by their own standards all the time uh you're not

going to save everybody i mean you know what what's that saying that the left sees the world for what they want to see out of the world and the right sees it for what it is i don't know if it's a correct saying i don't even know if i said that right but well you made it up if you did yeah there you go i mean there's the the you're not going to save everybody. It doesn't mean you don't try. But as far as the homeless problem is, because it's not something you can throw money at. It's like the drug war. That was ridiculous.

It's the same thing. You're going to have to fight the problem at home, and you're not going to – there's hobos. There's a whole culture of people. Do you know what hobo means? I don't. Hobo, vagrant, bum, vagabond, all different things. Vagabond's the obvious one. That's like a wanderer, a traveler.

But I learned this. Hobo is a person who is looking for odd jobs and is just passing through. It means homeward bound. Oh, wow. Interesting. I did not know that. When you'd see the cartoon of the guy with the stick with the thing in it, it's because he's going back.

I guess the idea was people would go out looking for work, and then when they failed, they would start heading back, taking odd jobs along the way. So they didn't have any place to live. They didn't have a job, but they were looking for some work. Hobo. And then bums, I think, were people who were around the town not working. Vagrants were usually, like, unable or unwilling to, like, you know, it's, like, typically a negative, like, layabout.

And then vagabond was just somebody without any direction, just traveling around doing whatever. Interesting, huh? Yeah. I've been called that a couple times. Vagabond? Yeah, that one's not really derogatory. That one's just, like, you're a wanderer traveler. And, again, you can only get hurt if you give power to words.

I'm seeing another story on Twitter. I don't know if we're ready for a transition, but I'm seeing a pretty wild story that I definitely want to talk about. But we can still continue on the subject if you want. Well, you want to give your final thoughts on the homelessness thing? You didn't really chime in, but then I'll pull up whatever on Twitter. A lot of people are like, let Gary speak. So I'm trying to give as much. Yeah, Luke.

I know. What are you doing? I can't help myself sometimes. That's lot of people are like, let Gary speak. So I'm trying to give as much. Yeah, Luke. What are you doing? I can't help myself sometimes. It's okay. I'm like, ah. But it's such a difficult problem. The government, in my opinion, is exacerbating it. It's making it that much worse. Luke's homeless. Pretty much. I don't like that word.

I like home free. Home free sounds a lot better as I'm establishing my relations with homesteads all across the United States. Building trade routes. I free sounds a lot better as i'm establishing my uh you know relations with homesteads all across the united states i trade routes i'm getting a lot of emails people being like yeah we have a free dama stand here in south carolina north carolina georgia florida so so thank you for your emails i i love being a vagabond i love staying in parking lots uh but that's a whole other story in my trailer and my RV. I like to act like a diva when I smash through the door and be like, I just got out of my trailer. But in reality,

it's my travel trailer that I live in. But that doesn't matter. But again, the government is exacerbating this problem. I think a lot of it is lack of economic opportunity. I think a lot of it is mental illness. I think there's also a lot of other elements that we can't even quantify in words. But when you look at mental illness. I think there's also a lot of other elements that we can't even quantify in words. But when you look at mental illness, when you look at lack of economic opportunity, that's everything that the government has been literally pushing for and creating along with big tech social media. So that problem is going to be exacerbated. It's only going to get that much worse. People are poorer.

People are unhealthier. People are in a worse mental decline. And that is only getting more exacerbated the more government gets involved. So, Luke, you mentioned that there was a big story on Twitter. I can't help but notice the number one trend is WWE SmackDown. Is that the story? No.

I saw Epstein trending, too, a couple hours ago. That's because Bill Clinton was in the hospital, and then Bill Gates' daughter is having a Well, what's the story, huh? But this is something that kind of hits close to home with me because I'm seeing the frontline COVID-19 critical care organization, the FLCCC, just tweet out that their PayPal was suddenly shut down along with Facebook restricting their account. And they're a group of medical professionals and doctors that are literally putting out protocols of medicines,

of supplements, of medical studies that have helped a tremendous amount of people. They're very pro-mask. Yeah, they're frontline COVID-19 critical care workers. There are a lot of the doctors, and they just got attacked by multiple social media platforms. And I know a lot of people that they've personally helped. So to see this kind of attack on medical professionals, on doctors, on people who are quoting the data, the science, and actually going after the studies, to me is a very big deal and another grave escalation in the censorship. Ryan Long has that sketch we've talked about where – I don't know. You've seen Ryan Long, right, Gary?

Yep. He has that sketch where he's like, all the experts agree, and then Danny walks in. He's like, I read the data, and I came to a slightly different conclusion, and then he just punches them. Yep. And he's like, no, all the experts agree. And then Danny walks in. He's like, I read the data and I came to a slightly different conclusion. And then he just punches him. And he's like, no. All the experts agree again. And that's how it's been for a long time. I mean, there have been a bunch of studies. I won't get into the details of some of the studies because I'll just keep it vague.

That have been pulled down. Scientific reports on certain cultural issues that get deleted because they're offensive. You'll end up with, in this instance, I think the CNN story is a really, really good example. Sanjay Gupta sitting down with Joe Rogan, finally being forced to admit Joe Rogan was right. A doctor prescribed his medication. And then what happens? CNN doubles down on the lie. To see big tech going after doctors, look, look man i don't know what to say what we've

already said 50 billion times and it just keeps happening i'm not completely pessimistic because there's been like you know just because something bad is happening now doesn't mean the world's going to end doesn't mean that it's completely over there have been some games like we're talking about dave chappelle getting defended by netflix it's a good thing and that looks still kind of sucks but i i just don't know man you know uh know, Bill Maher, you know, came out. He said he's not getting the booster, right? You've got Kyrie Irving coming out saying it's his body, his choice. He's got one life to live and one body to have.

You've got Joe Rogan and his fight with Sanjay Gupta. And you have massive amounts of protests all over the world that we're not hearing about, including one developing right now in Italy. Well, to be fair, from CNN.com, thousands protest as Italy's COVID pass becomes mandatory for workers. They say anyone who is on a payroll in the public or private sector must have a green pass with a QR code as proof of either full vaccination recent recovery from infection or a negative test within the previous 48 hours employees who go to work without the pass risk a fine of up to 1500 euros 1730 and suspension without pay employers could

also face fines if they allow staff to work without it wow yeah that's uh it's substantially worse than here in the u.s exactly And the way that they implemented this was really sinister because in Italy, talk of like the COVID vaccine passport, it was first deemed a conspiracy theory. It's crazy. It's not going to happen here. And then they started to implement it with restaurants and indoor dining. Then they started to implement it with travel, trains, buses, planes. Can't get on any of those if you don't have the green pass.

And now their latest rule here, I don't even want to say rule, their latest decree here by the Italian government is that you can't work in the public sector or private sector if you don't have a green pass, if you don't have a QR code that says the government allows you to work and if you do work you get a fine of a thousand five hundred euros um and you need a vaccine to be compliant every six months with this quote green pass or a test every 48 hours which is unfeasible so what's the i i got a question so what's the option if you say no to all this? You're going to jail. You're getting fined. 1,500 euro fine for going to work and not having a green pass. Here's the best part.

In the United States, if you are fired because you didn't get vaccinated and there was a mandate, it's considered a voluntary resignation. Oh, wow. And in many states like New York, you lose unemployment benefits. So nurses that get kicked to the curb literally have to find another job right away to make sure that they could even pay the bills. So we're in phase two. Italy went through phase three and four. We're seeing a lot of countries implement the same policies only on different timelines, but they're doing the same thing. It's common. Again, it's already here.

Los Angeles has some of the most strictest COVID-19 vaccine passports that they're going to be implementing. CNN has been cheerleading it, saying it's awesome, it's great. You know, getting permission slips from the government for every basic activity is so awesome. You know, the same government that runs the DMV. Yeah, I definitely trust those people to have a domestic permission slip passport system. I mean, it's just ridiculous. It's insane. And people are standing up to this. People are protesting in mass. I've been tweeting out photos that show huge amounts of people. There's also some fake photos. There's some

disinformation going around, but I'm trying to confirm a lot of this. I have some people in Italy that I'm talking to, but now unions, dock workers are coming together, and they're doing a, quote, indefinite blockade of the ports in Italy with them saying, we're going to block this until you get rid of this domestic passport permission slip system. So it's going to be a very interesting showdown and clash that we're going to see unfold in Italy in just a few moments from now. It needs to happen soon because as you guys know that once they implement this stuff, it doesn't get unimplemented. It's done. It's expanded. There's no deadline. There's no deadline. They're not going to say, Hey, if everyone is free of COVID, we're going to get rid of this. Or if 90% or 80%, they usually do this. You can't tell someone to sacrifice for something that has no end to it. That's why we're setting up free dhamma stand.

There needs to be a free dhamma stand in every state. And you're setting this up West Virginia? Yeah. Oh, that's brilliant. It's not like it's going to be an actual big city or anything, but we're going to have a lot of space. There's going to be a big communal aspect to it where people can come and we're sorting it out.

We're going to be growing our own food. We we're gonna be doing a lot of sustainable living stuff ian's gonna build his free dome geodesic dome we're gonna we're gonna try and do things in the most uh environmentally friendly and economically friendly way to be like self-sufficient because look man it's the great reset it's coming right they want you to own nothing and be happy well as long as you have some land and the ability to produce some of your own stuff, then you'll at least own some stuff. And if the supply chains are breaking down, what I'm really interested in is what can we make in Freedom of Stan? What can we get out of the ground? What can we build ourselves?

Luke's talking about trade routes and stuff. Can we get metals and things like that and then start doing construction or even sourcing raw materials, things like that? Ian's talking about pulling carbon from the air to make graphene. Maybe this sparks the graphene revolution because we can't get iron anymore. Right. You can pull the carbon dioxide out of the air, then deposit it onto a copper palladium alloy at 1,000 degrees centigrade, and it'll deposit graphene oxide. That's one way to do it. There's other methods, too. You can take rubber, trash, and then hit it called flash graphene,

where you pulse it with lasers and then turn it into a fine layer of graphene that requires a lot of electricity. And lasers. We need to figure out how to generate a lot of electricity. Yeah. Locally, like geothermal or something. Giant hamster wheel. Ian runs in it.

A little mini nuclear plant. Yeah. It sounds much better than Chad, for sure. It does. It's solutions. If we just stare at the problem like this all day, every day, we're all going to go insane and then it's going to end. So we have to fix it. It's funny.

They set up the autonomous zone in these cities just by trying to steal land or whatever. They're colonizing. Yeah. What do we do? We rightfully negotiate a treaty for settlement on this here land and then set up our autonomous zone. It's not an autonomous zone. We're just like a normal place with business. No, it sounds like it's weird.

We were talking earlier about things flipping. We're seeing people on the right. I don't know. I don't want to say too conservatively thinking about communes and going on their own, which is good. There's always been the preppers as well, to be fair. And we have to do this soon. We have to think about these things soon. So one thing, when I talk about it on my channel,

I've been talking about it for a long time, is nobody's going to come and save us. Nobody's coming. Trump ain't going to sweep in and fix everything, even if he wins in two years. The midterm elections might be a slap on the wrist but you know right now they're all in on this most of the government is in on this they're just playing their stupid game and they're resetting on us and there's like there's

stuff i'd love to say but i i didn't want to say it you know on on your channel you know we were talking about earlier and i won't say it here but uh you know until we decide we are going to end this those rules like i said are implemented they're implemented they're not going away ever and now this word mandate is just part of our language now we're completely cool with it so we went from our emergent emergency provisions mandating that people stay at home for a couple of weeks to Gavin Newsom mandating what a business can sell on a toy aisle. That's why we chose West Virginia. You could choose New Hampshire, Florida, Texas. I think Texas is too dense, and that means it's susceptible to leftist manipulations and things like that for a variety of reasons.

What happens, we see this in West Virginia where there will be like a gun range, a shooting range, and it's noisy. There actually is one up not too far from here. It's a public land where people go shooting. You're not supposed to use it as a range apparently, but people do hunting training or something. All the neighbors can hear the gunshots all day every day, and they're fine with it. But liberals are starting to move in from D.C. because they want to get away from the nightmare they created and go to West Virginia, where it's conservative. When they move in, they're told when you buy this

property, you sign this disclosure acknowledging there's a shooting range, you know, the other side of the street, which presents some dangers, risks and a noise issue. But you accept these things when you move in. And they say, yeah, no problem. Then they tell their friends to move in and say, once we get enough people, we can vote to shut down their range and that's what's been happening things like that there was like a farm that had like a dairy farm and it was stinky and so people moved in and they were like you acknowledge there's a farm here the smell is you know something that people are concerned about is it no problem once they sold all the land around it the people voted and said shut the farm down and then all of a sudden you own this land and

they're like sorry the cops come in and say that people have spoken. And then you can't run your business anymore. That's what you got to watch out for. That's why I'm worried about, you know, Texas because it's happening in West Virginia too. Now that's because West Virginia, people don't know this is about an hour from DC. It's not that far away from DC. So New Hampshire might be a good idea, but then New Hampshire is, uh, I think New Hampshire, what has going for it as a free state project, which is protecting it and expanding the freedom. West Virginia has the inverse problem. They have a lot of people trying to come into the eastern part.

That being said, though, West Virginia has lost a ton of liberals from the other more urban cities. So I think West Virginia is a good bet. New Hampshire is probably, I think in the long term, we're actually looking at setting up shop in some capacity in New Hampshire is probably – I think in the long term, we're actually looking at setting up shop in some capacity in New Hampshire. So maybe buying a small piece of land. That way we have a place to be in New Hampshire in the event the Free State Project becomes very prominent because as long as – I've been telling Luke nonstop like New Hampshire is a great place. Oh, Gary, you're blasting me.

That's a lie. Blasting me. I've been screaming about New Hampshire forever. I've been sending you property there a few weeks ago. Luke sends me Zillow posts. I was like, dude, this is good right here. Because there's already a Freedom Stand there. There's a great guy called Jay Noon.

He could fix and build everything. He's been teaching me pretty much doing Man Camp, which he does. And he helps people figure out how to get out of the cities and learn to actually be self-reliant. He's a great guy. Jay Noon, if you ever heard of him, great, awesome part of the Free State Project. But he has his own Freedomistan in New Hampshire. I want to build a forge.

Yeah, and there's a lot of freedom in New Hampshire and a lot of opportunities. So I love it there. I go there for the summers, Florida for the cold, cold winters, and of course I hear what you guys for the foreseeable future. Texas is doing all right. Yeah.

It's really dense though. So far. And you got that border problem, right? These people flooding in through the border is a big risk to Texas in terms of maintaining their sovereignty. California. Yeah. California was fine 20 years it's California was fine. 20 years ago,

California was fine. Like when I was growing up thinking about like San Diego was a right wings military town and Los Angeles was pretty centrist. San Francisco was always weird, but it never ran the state. Now it runs the state. And now we've seen what happened like Nevada, Las Vegas,

you know, they, they had these like crazy mask mandates. And I was've seen what happened like Las Vegas. They had these crazy mask mandates. And I was just like, God, gangsters used to run this town. I was just there. I'm like, it's so conforming. And it was kind of a turnoff. And then Arizona is the same way. So, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Texas flips, if Florida flips.

It just depends on what county you're in at this point. So Texas and Florida are like teetering between left and right. Now, there's been some big changes. Like on the border, it went Republican. Miami went Republican. West Virginia is the second most Trump-supporting state in the country. And so I'm like, I like it. New Hampshire is good.

But I think in order to get a good space, you've got to be kind of far away from the urban center. Whereas here, we get West Virginia. We're in the tri-state area, but we're setting up Freedom of Stand in West Virginia, and it's like an hour and a half to the airport. So you still get a big urban center airport, not too far away but not too close. We weighed a lot of options. I mean, I was looking at northern Maine. I was like, I'll take what I can get, but satellite internet is not going to cut it, and bringing people out to the middle of nowhere is too difficult.

We looked at rural Pennsylvania. That would have been awesome. I really wanted to find a dying town and bring industry back and just get more jobs and stuff. But maybe we'll do that with the Ferdamistan area, and more people will find jobs and more industry will grow, and we'll be investing continually in the space to build stuff and set up a

business. You know, Luke wants to get to have his own gun shop. So that would be fun. And, and, um, training facility and,

you know, growing our own food. Yeah. Yeah. Owning a shop was brilliant. It was the most freedom I've ever had, except, you know,

working for on a YouTube channel. It's great. Being your own boss is absolutely... That's the American dream. And you don't need to be rich. I never made a ton of money at the comic store. I was so freaking happy for most of it. And I'm happy now,

except for the world falling apart around us. I'm happy. It's hard to work out in my head sometimes but yeah i guess the only problem i had about moving out of california was finding internet i mean that that's that was you know like you said satellite internet's not going to cut it so i'm going to have to have it put in myself especially yeah like you have you know if you go too far out there's no way you're going to get it uh that's the only problem because i would love to be out in the middle of nowhere, nowhere near a city, not even within 100 miles. But that's not an option right now.

There's still a ton of country. Texas is cheap. Even now, compared to California, everything's cheap. Crazy prices, man. But how about we do this? Super Chats. If you haven't already, smash the like button. Subscribe to this channel.

Share the show with your friends. Become members at TimCast.com to help support our work. And we are having an event coming up October 23rd. Tickets sold out basically instantly. However, so the initial plan was we were going to give a day's advance notice to members who gave $25 or more. We're keeping it locked at that level because $25 members are still struggling to get access because of like the high demand. But some people are canceling periodically

and tickets are opening up. So the best I can say is I apologize for the kind of chaotic nature of this. We are going to be opening up an auction to members so that we'll have five auction slots where you can, you know, choose how much you want to pay. And then this was our compromise. Like we can have people who don't have time to like try and be

there clicking the button every, every few minutes, but we can also, you know, some of the people who have time to dedicate can get the ticket for free. Other people can just support us by doing the auction system. And then we'll get people to come and help support the event and everything like that. But people are canceling sometimes. And I did see a super chat from one person who said they needed a ticket for their girlfriend. She was able to get one, so I'm glad to hear it. And if you send in emails, we will respond. We might be able to accommodate some people

who got the short end of the stick due to how the system was operating. So we're going to try and make sure we can do it to the best of our abilities, helping people out. I gave out some tickets to my audiences. Literally minutes gone. I was like, what?

This is crazy. So yeah. people want to come hang out we got to expand this grow this build this oh man you know i we could do a stadium like a like a stadium but like a big auditorium but then it's just more like a than a it's not the same thing you know yeah what we're planning on doing is it's not it's not a bar it's it's open to all age i think you have to be 18 i don't know but uh so it's not all ages but it's like 18 and over and we're gonna have a stage and there's gonna be some comedy from right along so it'll be fun all right let's let's read some of these super chats smash that like button if you haven't already joshua hickey says anyone else see peter teal donating to people running against the likes

of liz cheney and other swamp creatures said he wants Trumpism to continue for generations in the same ilk of DeSantis. Interesting. All right. Chef as does it. Tim Pool and Nerd Roddick, the ultimate team up. There you go. Nice. Dan Vasque says, George, what's that about?

That is an inside joke for my show. Too long. Sorry. But Dan Vask is great. Dan Vask, you guys might have seen him. He does cover songs, and he sang Toss a Corn to Your Witcher. Got a couple million views. Nice.

He did the theme song for our show. But, yeah, the George thing. George is out there. He'll know. right inside joke all right captain says tim you were right about the ports the trucker problem isn't truckers it's trucks ca carb emission law doesn't allow any semi-truck over three years old to operate at the ports look up opening the port of los angeles 24 7 isn't the game changer biden claims interesting punk Punkrockfox says, Tim, we did it yesterday. I was upset because I could not get my girlfriend a ticket. Guess what?

We got it today. See you in West Virginia. I'll have my Mohawk up for you, buddy. Let's go, Brandon. Also, hi, Ian. We're all going to be there. I'll look for Mohawk. Let's go, Brandon.

And I'm really excited to see Ryan Long perform. We haven't really worked out any schedule for playing music, but I think Ian's going to be playing, right? Sure. Ian's going to play a set and rock out, and everyone's going to be super stoked. Yeah, we've got to do a couple songs together. I've got two that I've been working on. I'm practicing them.

I wonder if I can do one or two songs. I'm like, this is going to be a lot of work. Events like this. People need to understand it's tough. Oh, yeah. I just did a tiny event. It was very, very tiny compared to this, and it was a ton of work to understand it's tough. Oh, yeah. I just did a tiny event. It was very, very tiny compared to this, and it was a ton of work, but it was fun meeting everybody. It makes it more real.

Let's do an acoustic thing. Yeah, I'm thinking just acoustic. But Ryan Long's a good drummer. Yeah, he is. Oh, there you go. Got a whole band. We can bring the digital kit. Yeah.

Nathan O'Connell says, the last time Netflix tried the woke stuff with with cuties they lost seven billion dollars in value because everyone canceled their subscription they aren't siding with the woke anymore and they're not losing value over chapelle i don't think their stocks are gonna go down over that they're gonna be like people like it you know chapelle's insanely popular i didn't know he had a special until the drama oh they're terrible at promoting their specials but i mean they don't need to. With Chappelle, it would get around, and within two weeks, everybody had seen it. And if it wasn't for Squid Game, it would be the most watched thing on there. And Blazin64 says, Gary and Tim need you to discuss Falcon and the Winter Soldier series. We did.

We were talking about that before the show started. Before the show, but not on the show. My general assessment was that it was not overly woke. It tried to be political, but kind of just didn't really get a strong message. But I liked how U.S. Agent was the media claimed that he was the embodiment of white supremacy and white male rage. But he turns out to be a redemption arc hero that is like made to look good. So take that, media. I totally.

The writing was all over the place. And U.S. Agent Cap was much better than he was the best character. And I thought he had the best character arc. But I thought it was filled with I get into the weeds on this stuff. But intersectional feminism, I call it the MCU. And yeah, they it's a long story, but it goes back to Captain Marvel. And, you know know at the end yeah terrible movie terrible movie but at the end they had falcon falcon didn't even fight his own bad

guy oh i call her freckle jesus but she came up and uh she got killed uh she got killed by by carter by sharon carter so why are you not even fighting your own bad guy at the end of people say oh you're just nitpicking stuff but no if you watch the entire story falcon does he deifies his villain who is basically the head of antifa she's like a you know and he's like chewing out doing this uh you know he's projecting right in front of three uh three politicians that just happen to be standing there that survived a plane crash. And his big suggestion, or helicopter crash, is do better at the end. That's what it is.

You know why I didn't like Captain Marvel? And I thought a lot about this. I watched a video comparing Captain America film to the Captain Marvel film. And they're like, in Captain America, you have Steve Rogers. He's weak. He has no strength. But he has good moral character. He's willing to stand up for those and stand up for himself, even though he knows he'll lose. Here's a scene where he throws himself on top of a grenade, proving that even though he isn't, you know, a strong physically, that he's a good person

who's willing to do what he has to do. He's then granted power and and then his his he has the strength to back up his ideals captain marvel was always strong and her powers were locked away by a man so in the captain marvel story she's mean she's nasty and in the end she doesn't have a redemption arc she has a self-realization i actually found her to be the villain i found her to be very villainous not that the militaristic you know uh group that she was working with was good guys no one has to be very villainous not that the militaristic group that she was working with was good guys no one has to be the good guy but her whole arc is basically

she's a bad person she's a bad person she's a bad person now she's strong and a bad person and arrogant and I was like and then in Endgame when I was in the theater

and she punched Thanos the whole audience the whole theater groaned no joke so there's that scene it's like there's that scene where thanos has the infinity gauntlet he has everything and then or yeah he has almost everything no no he does have them all right he has almost everything and he comes down yeah and then

and then he's like pushing against her and then she she's holding his like he head butts her and she doesn't flinch and then everyone groaned oh and then she grabs the or no he grabs the stone and punches her people were like i was i was laughing people cheered when that happened in my theater they cheered when she did it they did when she got punched by they were like yes i was in rural maryland when i saw endgame and so it must have been this a conservative area because i was like i was in a particularly conservative area western mary. Everyone groaned. I was laughing when I heard it. And then when all the women came down in that

scene, the audience groaned again and I was laughing. I was like, I knew it. I'll point out again, Disney annihilated that series, the Infinity Gauntlet. They should have made the Infinity Gauntlet and made it like they wrote it because it's amazing and people die and it's horrible to see your favorite hero get ripped apart by the Infinity Gems.

It's just that's what they needed more of, not these invincible trash characters. I liked – did you watch What If? Yes, I did. I thought it was kind of dejected. Like it's clear people recorded their lines in passing. It's like as part of your contract, you're going to do this movie and then just read this line real quick into this microphone. Okay, thank you.

During a lunch hour. Right, exactly. But I really did like the finale. I liked, like, you know, the watcher breaking his oath. Oh, spoilers. Sorry. But I liked it. I didn't think it was that great, but I was entertained by it.

I watched it. My favorite, I'll tell you this, the Doctor Strange one was wrong and I fixed it did you hear my rant on the Doctor Strange No I did what happened so you've seen it right

yeah spoiler alert everybody should have seen it by now so Doctor Strange in this universe is he's bringing what's Janine

that's her name right no what's what's the woman's name I'm blanking on oh my god this is bad for me, too. Janine. That doesn't sound right.

No, it's not. I don't know. Janine. Why did I say Janine? I'm not a nerd. What's the name of the doctor? Palmer? Dr. Palmer.

What's her first name? It's Rachel McAdams. I know the actress's name. So anyway, we'll call her Dr. Palmer. Christine. Christine. Why did I think Janine? Weird.

Anyway. Okay. So anyway, we'll call her Dr. Palmer. Christine. Christine. Why did I think Janine? Weird. Okay, so anyway, in this universe, well, I'm going to start over. In the original movie, he's an arrogant prick. He invites her out. She says, I'm not going to something like that. He's trying to pass somebody in a storm, crashes, his hands get crushed.

He can no longer be a doctor, so he starts losing his mind because he's like his whole life is destroyed. Eventually, he finds the mystic arts and becomes a sorcerer supreme and that loss drove him to becoming the hero that's helping save the planet in the what if series they're like in this version of reality he brings christine with him she dies and in trying to figure like learn about life and loss finds the mystic arts becomes sorcerer supreme but eventually decides to use the time stone to go back in time to save Christine. But he can't because it's a fixed point in time that created him. If she doesn't die, he never becomes Sorcerer Supreme.

You know what I thought was going to happen? What I thought was going to happen was that when he's like, you know, desperately trying to like bring her back to life and the Watcher talks to him and says, you can't change a fixed point in time. It is the loss of Christine that drives you to become the Sorcerer Supreme. I thought he was going to go back in time and destroy his own hands on purpose, creating the timeline where he destroyed, where his life was destroyed. And then what that does is it kind of sets in motion this loop into the original movie

where you realize he didn't have to be crippled. That in the original timeline, he just lost Christine. But even though they didn't stay together, he was willing to sacrifice everything that made him who he was in order to allow her to live. And they didn't do it. No. And it was kind of like, eh, whatever.

And then there's like a weird thing where the ancient one turns him into two Stevens or whatever. And I was like, yeah, whatever, man. And it ends the same way anyway. My way was better. That would have been awesome. I think so. I mean, I think they just wanted it to be a sad ending.

I think that's pretty much it. And plus they stole something from Doctor Who, having the fixed point in time. That's straight up a Doctor Who thing. I got to stress how amazing it would have been if he's like to see the scene where he's like trying to save Christine and the universe is collapsing and the Watchers are like, it can't be done because the law strives you to become the Sorcerer Supreme. Then he's like, what if I gave up something else?

And then it was like it would have to be something of tremendous value. What if it was everything that made me who I am? His hands. And then he creates their own timeline. So he basically punishes himself. How awesome would that have been? That'd be cool. Yeah.

Anyway, I'm totally lost. Yeah. it's okay we gotta take advantage of that yeah go ahead all right cole uh stuyvesant says tim please talk about the globalists there you go that's what luke is here for yes that's right all right dennis s says dems have media media runs on trades trades Trades have mostly conservative Republicans, etc. Love you guys. Listen every day. Let's go, Brandon! Let's go, Brandon. Absolutely. Alright.

J.H. Schwalbach says, with all the money I give in Super Chats to Gary and Tim, my wife is sure I'm buying porn. Keeps marriage spicy. Hail Friday night tights, right? Yep. AZ, X-Ray Girl, Geeks and Gamers, RK Outpost, and all thanks to Tim for having Nerdotic Moist. Oh, no problem.

We're more than happy to have you on. Thank you. And it's porn in a way. Intellectual porn, maybe? Yeah. I hope. All right. Toxic Man Flu says, Gary has an awesome story of hope and success.

I never would have made it through the last two years without Gary, Comics Division, Culture Casino, and many others in the fellowship. Thank you all. Right on. I like how they're using the word fellowship. I tell people stop using the word community. Stop. That commie language. Yeah.

The fellowship of the ring. Yes. We got so many super chats. This is from Sarah Stathatos. She says, George, exclamation point, exclamation point. I'm not going to read all of them. So many exclamation points. She says, George, George, George.

George is going to love that. That is brilliant. Yes. I mean, there's a bunch of superchats saying the same thing. Yes. George is a supporter of my channel, has been for a long time. And every time he would give a big superchat, we'd just yell his name and it became a thing afterwards. Nice.

Samuel Bonin says, Vax mandate taking my job soon. But fear not, although most of my time is taken up by OT, I've accumulated over 20 projects, books and games that I can start building culture with.

Wish me luck. Very cool. Or hire me. You can always send an email to pitches at timcast.com but I do have to admit, we are just like dramatically swamped. We get a lot

yeah all right let's see furious phil says jc tim you have nerd roddick aka gary start asking him questions let's go unicorns do not crap ice cream and fart rainbows they don't oh i thought they did. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Vexcoon Kilrog says, Hail Gary. Hope you're enjoying Babylon 5 before the CW reboot come for it too. Is that true? Yes. And Straczynski is writing it too.

So they got the original creator and it's still probably going to be. I know a lot of people have hope, but no. You can't go back home again and even if the original creator comes back they're going to capitulate to especially it's on the cw did you like picard no i hate it really as i hated it with a passion i couldn't stand it really why uh it was the federation apology tour and they uh emasculated picard throughout the entire series it became about the girl who's the key to everything uh plus uh patrick stewart just looked tired yeah he was like talking like this i mean how old is he's 80 or what you know he's pushing 80 i think he's gonna be 79 and they shot two series back to back and they have like running upstairs and freaking sword fighting and

it's ridiculous it was absurd it was it was ridiculous. It was absurd. It was just another deconstruction of a traditional character, which they have been doing over and over again. I liked it. It wasn't the next generation. It was just kind of like, you know, going to a reunion of friends and seeing Riker and Deanna and Picard. And I was like, you know, oh, look, there they are again.

I would love to see a continuation after Deep Space Nine and they haven't given us anything meaningful. It's just been reboot and prequel and I'm just like, so what happens? You know? Well, they'll probably eventually get around to it. They've got like four other shows, or three other shows coming out supposedly. I guess

the one reason I like Picard is finally I'm like, they're showing us something after deep space nine because that really bummed me out that we get the dominion war and it's like let's go back in time and talk about stuff no no no what happened this was big the cardassians come on there are four lights oh come on but then they come back and we don't see anybody we really recognize until later in the show that was an afterthought by the way they didn't originally want to do that. Really? Like have like Riker and everything?

Yeah, that was an afterthought. They actually shot a different ending and they CG. At the very end, I won't ruin the end. Well, it's terrible. Oh, you're right. It's a couple years now. It's freaking terrible. And I still owe people a review on it.

I think it's the last Jedi of Star Trek. I think it's the worst thing I've ever seen. Wow, I didn't think it's the worst thing I've ever seen I reviewed every episode I felt like I was having an aneurysm by the end of each episode The last Jedi is the worst piece of media but have you heard my theory on this?

No That Rian Johnson sabotaged Star Wars on purpose because our culture is stagnant Have you seen Knives Out? Yes, I've seen Knives Out No, I hated it Really? Yeah I liked it, I liked it out no i hate it really yeah i liked it i liked it a lot i thought it was great people love it though so i'll give you that i didn't think it

was a little preachy but i thought he did politics well because he has that scene where the liberal the leftist woman is arguing with the maga uncle and i think it was decently an accurate portrayal of common opinions the guy wasn't a racist nazi the woman was like your typical liberal and they had like made real statements about it which was funny and then you had the the young liberal daughter who turns out to be a cutthroat who's going to sell out the girl whatever i thought it was good when i saw that looper was good but weird and the story kind of didn't make sense but i was like it's fun and then when i saw the last jet i was like there's no way this was this was an accident he even says kylo ren says let the past die kill it if you have to and i was like he did it on purpose because he was probably like yo all we do is reboot remake same thing over and over again

and he sabotaged that's my opinion that's my bet uh you would have to sabotage to be that bad you would have to try to suck that much and i would say like when the plasma plasma is arcing in outer space i'm like dude he was sitting there thinking like what can i do to make this as offensive and awful as possible i want it i want diehard fans to reject it so when you see them firing the plasma it's arcing in space i'm like he did that to piss off the diehard people who are going to be like what what? How? Or using hyperspace as a weapon. I mean, like they never did that before, which changes the entire lore, which people care about. Like, that's the thing is people actually, right?

I call him Rian Johnson. Rian Johnson doesn't care about Star Wars. And he made that pretty clear. He was happy with, you know, he's an artsy filmmaker. He likes to piss off half of his audience because he's cool this is star wars just make people happy but yes they did go in there and deliberately deconstruct luke uh the symbolism of him drinking uh you know the blue milk out of a giant puppet throwing the lightsaber away puppet boob throwing the lightsaber away you know looking like the big lebowski uh you know like complaining like the big Lebowski, you know, like complaining all the time,

getting his butt kicked by Ray for no reason whatsoever, not really training them. And then, you know, he ODs on the force. That's just like, I hate star Wars and I'm going to do a movie now. It's ridiculous.

Yeah, dude. Star Wars is done. It's done. Um, some of the games, I guess what's, what's the game they just did recently. People liked, but I don't, I don't even know. It's the old Republic. No, no, of the games, I guess, what's the game they just did recently people liked?

Knights of the Old Republic? No, no. The OG Knights of the Old Republic was amazing. They have a writer coming in to screw that. Do you need that? You just said it's amazing. I'm not the biggest gamer in the world, but you said it's amazing. Does it need to be changed? It was one of the best games I've ever played in my life.

I was addicted. It was so good. They brought in a writer who one of the writers who likes to drink fake geek tears, one of the best games I've ever played in my life. I was addicted. It was so good. So good. They brought in a writer who, one of the writers who likes to drink fake geek tears, one of those type of people who just hate the fandom. That's part of the thing. I defend the fandom once in a while. They get picked on a lot by creatives and stuff. Always have. But it's always been behind the scenes but now since uh social media is around they love saying things like toxic fandom or incels and

all that or you live in your mom's basement it's like i thought you were supposed to be for the nerds about the nerds i'll just put it this way uh you know i think we we share a lot of opinions a lot of people who are upset about the destruction of this content. And the room we're in is anything but a mom's basement. We are well-mannered and developed adult individuals who enjoy entertainment of the sci-fi and fantasy nature. And it's being ruined by people who don't care about it, who have been handed the reins by big corporations. And I think that their goal is they take a look at their market share. And they're like, we got too many dudes. How can we get more women involved? And they're like, like what do women like and then they just make some mashup

garbage it doesn't work well they bought i mean they bought star wars to bring more boys to disney that was the whole point of doing it and then they nuked it yeah the sequels were just the worst garbage i've ever seen in my life first of all force awakens is a shot for shot remake of a new hope yes and then you get the last jedi which is the worst film i've ever seen in my life. First of all, Force Awakens is a shot-for-shot remake of A New Hope. Yes. And then you get The Last Jedi, which is the worst film I've ever seen in my life. At least The Room is funny in how bad it was.

It became a cult classic. And then I just love, oh, the Emperor is not dead, actually, and The Last Jedi didn't matter, and he's here. And my favorite part about it is he wants to be Rey. The Emperor's like,

I'm going to be a young woman. And then he's like, strike me down and I will possess your body. And then she goes, never. And then she strikes him down. Yeah. And he kills himself. No, no. He becomes Rey.

Like he said. Yeah. The way he set up. You're right. He should have won at that point. And he didn't. Or did he? Who knows?

Maybe he transitioned. He did. But that was the weird thing to me when he was like, I will take over your body. I'm like, that's really weird. It is. Yes. The Emperor was trans the whole time, and that was the character arc. He wants to be a young woman.

And then I guess he wins, though, because she kills him. Yep. And then kisses Kylo Ren. Weird. The Emperor the whole time was just like, that Han Solo is kind of hot. Yep. And then Han Solo dies, and then he's like, well, he still has a son. Do it.

He looks him in the eyes. Do it. All right, all right. Falconizer says, nerd-rodic geeks and gamers and Timcast need to team up to make sci-fi content we cannot depend on the entertainment industry

to entertain us anymore so we have to make our own entertainment I'm down I've been saying before we want to do like a comics section kind of like Shonen Jump

where we do like a few weekly releases of various series serieses series series so if you know people who have good story ideas and they want to just start cranking out weekly chapters or something, I'd be down for that.

I don't know if you guys are. There are hundreds of them out there. Hundreds. Hundreds. Thousands. You've got to find the good one. You've got to find the good one, though. So, yeah.

I mean, they send me stuff. If I saw something great, I'd send it your way. Make sure it's good. Yeah. Make sure it's good yeah uh make sure it's really really good uh i i basically just i think the comics are all regurgitated at this point i'm not entertained by them i used to love the justice league so much the stories where i just big fan and the x-men when i was little now i'm all i i started to get get into manga and

anime and now i just think they're doing a better job. My Hero Academia does superheroes better than comics today. I mean, you got, that's just, it's kind of amazing. That's the case. Yeah, I wouldn't read manga or watch anime for the long, I mean, I like some of the anime, but manga I would not read for one. It's reading backwards and I never, I was an American comic book snob,

but people have sent it to me and I finally, I am into it now. Death Note. Yeah, Death Note's good. I like Death Note a lot. I like Attack on Titan. I haven't watched a whole lot of that. Somebody sent me a bunch of One Piece,

so I'm getting into that right now. I haven't gotten into that. You know, the problem is it's so big, I'm kind of like, ugh. It's big. Yeah. It's taken me a little while to even figure out what's going on. And then they finally sent me a Blu-ray of My Hero Academia, which my kid has been trying to get me to watch.

It's brilliant. Yeah, I really like it. I think they do superheroes so much better. It's original. And to see anime doing original superhero stuff, I'm just like, man, where are you at, America? They gave it up. They had it.

We created this stuff in the 50s, the golden age, all this stuff, these superheroes, and now it's just trash. Stanley, one guy can do that again. Japan is so far behind because, well, I mean, there are gay characters in there, but not everybody's gay. So once everybody's gay in manga, then they'll catch up to America. There's a lot of good stuff, you know. But I definitely would like to make some comics, you know, have some of that content and maybe even make our own shows and stuff

when we get to that point. There's a bunch of stuff that I haven't been watching a whole lot recently. But someone mentioned Eta Fuera. I'm pronouncing it wrong. I don't know. It was a show I watched a big chunk of until I reached the...

I watched every episode until the latest and then I'm like, okay, I binged it. Now I don't know, was a show I watched a big chunk of until I reached the, I watched every episode until the latest, and then I'm like, okay, I binged it, now I gotta wait for them to do it more episodes. Black Clover, a lot of fun. I guess people don't like it. I thought it was cool. My Hero Academia I thought was really great. Man, I used to read every single Naruto

when it came out every Wednesday, at the Scanlation every Wednesday for years. So I'd be totally down to make some fun, new cultural content and do these comics. Did you see the Donald Trump and the Death Note one-shot? No. They made a legitimate canon Death Note chapter with Donald Trump in it.

No way. Yeah, so it's basically a kid gets the Death Note and decides to sell it. And Donald Trump is like, America will give you $50 trillion, something like that. It's good i thought it was great all right let's see we got spider bro says hey guys huge fan and you're right me and my cousin tried to get breakfast at ihop denny's and waffle house both ihop and denny's

were closed and waffle house was only taking to-go orders because they only had two employees wow that's brutal dude this is stuff i have never seen i mean that's this is uh yeah this is kind of the the beginning uh the breaking down you know when you see the the organized uh gangs going in and you know shoplifting out of walgreens i saw one guy uh oh you might i won't repeat his name here he retweeted and saying oh well you know this is what you get when the chain markets come in and take over the mom and pops. He's not totally wrong, but this is happening to the mom and pops in San Francisco, too. They're just not videoing that. It's happening to them, too.

That's society breaking down. That's the beginning. Darth Meerkat says, I can't wait. I can't wait to play the division. I already have you played The Division? Uh-uh. It's about a pandemic that, like, wipes out a bunch of cities. And then in part one, you're in New York.

And it's pretty cool to be in Manhattan. And it's like an apocalypse. And there's, like, rogue factions start taking over. So firefighters start, like, they actually take flamethrowers and become actual firemen. And they're trying to purge the disease and they end up going crazy and just killing anybody they're like it's too risky they're infected you have regular gangs you have paramilitary groups it's fun it was fun game and then in uh part two that you're in dc and it's like you're in the white house and it's

abandoned yeah fun game fun game plus you get real guns like the guns are all based off of real guns. So it's, you know, it's fun. All right. Sarah Stathatos says, George, George, George, George, George, George, George. Thank you for the big super chats to say George. Dragon Balls Deep says, Tim, given all the gun stuff y'all do, you must get in contact with Mike Glover of FCS.

He's the real deal. Also, I want to see Dave Smith versus Vosh debate. Love the show. Shout out to Ian. I'd totally be down to host Dave and Vosh. That'd be fantastic. But I feel like, you know, is Vosh the only one willing to actually sit down and express himself, you know, his ideas? He does a good job of giving his ideas.

A lot of people think he's wrong, but I can respect that. If he wants to come and speak and be wrong, that's a great thing. And be wrong, yeah. But I don't think he's completely wrong. I think we agree with him on a lot of stuff. I think there's, yeah, there's just like core issues we clearly don't agree with. I think most Americans, regardless of your beliefs, agree on like an overwhelming majority of things. But it'd be nice to get someone else

on the left actually want to come and have these conversations the problem is there's two kinds of people on the left who want to come on the show outside of vosh either people who are small and don't have big channels can't really articulate the thoughts as well and are just trying to get some kind of you know notoriety yeah and people who are grifters who want to come on and do stupid things to make a scene and then get us in trouble and then make viral content for themselves you should have andrew yang on he sent us a gift he sent a book to the he did but it came with like a generic print instead of like a signature okay like you can sign the books and just go like that's cool he sent us a book we he should probably come on there's probably a person he's not on the left

but he's kind of like can represent that he a PR person. He's not on the left, but he kind of can represent that. He quit the Democratic Party. That's pretty big. The Forward Party. Yeah, the Forward Party. Oh, he did, huh? Yeah. We tried to have him on a while ago, and he said he would try to do it, but then he got way too big, way too fast.

Because I was a big fan. I donated the max to Yang. In the early days, I was like, this dude has got a huge list of comprehensive policies, and he's right about a lot of it. He was fairly moderate, and he actually looked at tons of different areas where he thought he had ideas. And then he just kind of just started playing ball with the Democratic Party to try and get support. And I was like, he worked for CNN. I would love to talk to him. And I have a different point of view than Tim.

Scott Anderson says, Luke, 1 luke 1000 yards forever what's the current rate for 50 bmg got a story for you tim what is the best way to get to one of your reporters um i think it's what tips at timcast.com probably info i have no idea uh you can email pitches at timcast.com we're really trying to you know we gotta we gotta get to that point i try to let you guys know like um a lot of the stuff that we're doing outside of the show is, like, we're investing in. Like, doing new shows, like, it's not easy to just make a show and then try and make money doing it, you know. So we're really hoping that other shows can become, you know, new ways to get new people to be involved and things like that. But we're working.

We're growing. All right. Let's read a couple more just because we did talk quite a bit. Jerry Latt says, hey, Tim, 10 years working maintenance on metal container closing machines. The information on this process at times can be esoteric. I imagine it could be useful to your future endeavors. I'm willing to give advice and help you choose that path to work on metal container closing machines. Maybe for Freedomistan, we could use something like that. We do have a nice little hill, and I was like, we could get three shipping containers and just bury them, and then have three little dorm hangout places, or make them stores.

They have the town. I would love to have a little western town, like the sheriff and general store. That'd be cool. Freedomistan. All right. we'll just do a couple more here all right let's see i don't know what that means so i can't read it r barrett says let's talk about some bond rip or how they are systematically killing strong male characters like he-man, Bond, Indiana Jones, etc. Yes.

That's what I was talking about with Luke Skywalker. That was the beginning. It started a little before The Last Jedi. Everything that's going on. But it's very deliberate. I guess it's only deliberate to hardcore nerds who not only just pay attention to Star Wars.

They pay attention to star wars they pay attention to the whole realm so uh when they see something similar happening to picard and to james bond and to luke skywalker and to captain america and to iron man they tend to start thinking that there's something nefarious going on. And there is. There is. Since the Me Too Time's Up little moment in Hollywood after Harvey Weinstein, it was a huge power shift. And what they decided to stop doing is they started writing basically Marxist PowerPoints. And it sounds insane.

It does. It absolutely does. Until you see the paperwork, until you see that not only just BLM, but it sounds like it's from BLM. You have the Roddenberry Foundation that's owned by Roddenberry's kid, his heir. And there's a ton of money in there.

And it's supposed to be a workshop for writers, Gene Roddenberry's kid, his heir. And there's a ton of money in there. And it's supposed to be a workshop for writers, Gene Roddenberry. And they made some paperwork basically on what you can and can't write in Hollywood anymore. And you can't write. I mean, some of the stuff actually sounds like it's sure it makes sense because it's not the 50s anymore. But some of it is nuts. They tell you how you can write a hand of capable person and how you can't write. They can no longer be the person who overcomes their handicap. You cannot write that anymore.

They revel in it, I guess. Yeah, it's supposed to be bad. It's a bad stereotype. So anything that perpetuates a stereotype is gone from Hollywood. You can't show a woman or a man mentoring a woman in any way, shape, or form anymore. A woman can mentor a man, but you cannot portray a man mentoring

a woman. Do you have a list of these rules? Yeah, I can send them to you. Why don't we make a short film that violates every rule? That would be brilliant. A handicapped man who really wants to mentor a woman, but he overcomes his handicap to become the best mentor she's ever had. Yes.

I would love that. Woke. Everything woke. I mean, it's so ripe for being made fun of. Yeah, it's great. I mean, Saturday Night Live's rating that they were good and they haven't been for decades. If they made fun of woke culture, it would be the most watched thing on broadcast TV. We have had requests of doing sketch comedy stuff, So we could certainly start doing stuff like that.

That'd be fun. I think that'd be a great idea because there's low-hanging fruit everywhere. I mean, Ryan Long nails it. Yep. He nails it consistently. We should totally be doing similar stuff. Check out Ryan Long. Have you seen Kyle Dunnigan?

Yeah, he's great with Star Trek. What are those episodes called? blarp trek no i forgot boat uh yeah there you go and then it's uh they were originally called something else but you can't it's not it's not good for the show yeah he also does the best biden impression i've ever seen and there's a quick skit where Biden sees himself in the mirror and it confuses him. And he's like, who are you? See that skit. Yeah, Kyle Dunnigan's genius. I think, you know, we've got a couple shows in the works that are like tentative.

But I think we should start doing sketches. Even if we just start with like once a week and then they get something rolling, that would be hilarious. Even if they're not that good. I mean, we used to do them back in the day. They were not good, but they were funny. Actually, they were good. They were good. They were just like amateurishly produced, but it was funny.

When Luke was vomiting and then in the bathroom farting his brains out. We had a lot of fun with that. That was great. We did a couple of those. Yeah, we did. We did another one that never aired when we were testing less lethal munitions on each other. Oh, that wasn't a skit, though. That was just us getting tear gassed in a garage.

Yeah, that was pretty funny, though. That was hilarious. I like that. All right, everybody. If you haven't already, smash that Like button, subscribe to the channel, share the show with your friends, and we should have an episode of The Green Room in the Members section. So if you go to TimCast.com and you click Members Only,

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