Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #475 - US Plans DIRECT ATTACKS On Russian Infrastructure Could Mean WW3 w/Ian Smith

Episode Date: February 25, 2022

Tim, Ian, and Lydia host Ian Smith of Atilis Gym in New Jersey, currently running for Congress, to discuss Biedn's options for cyberattacks on Russia, the plan to remove CBP agents from America's southern border to combat Russian actions in Ukraine, how quickly the US expects Kyiv to fall to Russia pressure, the EU's refusal to ban Russia from the Swift financial system, Biden's choice to halt all natural gas and oil leases to help combat climate change, Cenk Uygur's insane idea that the right wing approve of Putin because he's white, and the unhinged actress who read a poem in which she said she wished she had been Putin's mother. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know, on this show a couple days ago, we didn't expect it would get this bad in Ukraine. We had several conversations where, you know, I had said there's no way that Russia is going to move from the north of Ukraine or through Belarus to try and take Kiev. We had Steve Rene on. He's from Fortitude Ranch. And I asked him, do you think Putin would move from eastern Ukraine up to like as far west as Kharkiv? And he's like, no, no, it's going to be Southern Land Bridge. Boy, were we wrong because there's reported attacks as far west as Lviv, which is basically it's very close to Poland and things are getting things have gotten really, really bad. So they're absolutely moving north through Belarus. Belarus has apparently been like, no, we don't know anything about it. We got nothing to do with it. The U.S. has got troops

in Poland. The Baltic states are on high alert. Things are bad. I've got I spoke with a friend who's from Kiev who said, yep, war is here. They're concerned for their family. And so, yeah, dark times. But here's where it gets particularly worrisome. There's a few big stories, three in particular. One is that NBC reported Joe Biden has been presented with plans for the U.S. to engage in cyber attacks against Russia, against their infrastructure, which would mean U.S. directly and publicly attacking Russian infrastructure in response to the war in Ukraine. That is a dramatic and direct escalation. It's effectively this this article is is threatening enough, you know, but Putin's probably got intelligence. But if the U.S. were to actually publicly say, oh, we're going to cyber attack your

trains and your internet, we're going to disrupt your economy. I don't see how that's not a declaration of war. The next big story, which is potentially worse, is Ukraine and Boris Johnson and many others, journalists, blue checks, all saying ban Russia from the Swift payment system. That's international banking. If you do that, the US petrodollar is out. Russia is not going to cease to exist. They have resources. They're going to be immediately working with China. China's already backing them up. Kicking them off of Swift would be, it would guarantee international war as far as I'm

concerned. Now, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. And the last most important story is China's defending Russia. They're saying the US fanned the flames, the US caused this problem, and that Taiwan is basically the same as Ukraine. And it's now been reported that China is basically saying they're going to need Russia's support because they plan to do the exact same thing to Taiwan. This is everything we feared would happen, that if Russia moved into Ukraine in the distraction, China would make its move on moves on Taiwan. And it seems like all of that is building up. And I don't believe that Biden will actually attack or there will be cyber attacks. But even if they were to happen, we wouldn't know.

They wouldn't come out and say, hey, we did this. Russia may not care. They may view any attack on their infrastructure from anyone as Joe Biden at this point. Imagine some rogue hacker group now goes after their infrastructure and Putin says, well, Biden was the one saying he was going to do it. Who does he blame? We have a lot to talk about. We've got a lot of stories to talk about.

This is crazy stuff. Joining us to talk about all of this is Ian Smith of Attila's Gym. You had the state government, I believe, and these police, they come after you because you refuse to shut down your gym. Now you're running for office. Do you want to introduce yourself? Yeah. My name is Ian Smith. I'm one of the co-owners of the Attilis Gym of Belmar, New Jersey. You may have heard of our story over the past two years when we reopened our business against lockdown measures in the state of New Jersey and Governor Phil Murphy through pretty much all of the weight of the New Jersey government

and legal system against us. We went to war with these people and 700 and some odd days later, our gym still is open. We've amassed hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines. We've had pretty much everything thrown at us, but the gym stayed open. And so we won that battle, and we remain open every single day. That was our mission from the beginning. So the rest of it will get sorted out in the court system, slowly but surely. And in the meantime, I have launched a congressional campaign in the 3rd District of New Jersey against incumbent Democrat Andy Kim, and we're going to have some fun with it.

The goal is to make politicians really uncomfortable. There you go. You're also going to get thrown into the deep end on foreign policy conversations now. Yeah. It's good practice. This is going to be interesting. Now, what I think is really interesting is it's Ian's time to shine because Ian's been harping on the swift payment system for some time, and here we go. Oh, man.

So this is like cancel culture at its worst. If you think you can cancel Rush out of existence and just close your eyes and they're gone, this is not – banning people from the methodology of living on Earth is not the way to make them get along with you. I'm ready to talk about it tonight. Talk to you soon. And I'm also here in the corner pushing buttons. Very excited for this conversation. The world is looking a little dark today, so hopefully we can shed some light on that. We'll see what's up. Before we get started, head over to TimCast.com and become a member. If you would like to support our work as a member, you are making sure all of our journalists remain employed. That's how we pay everybody, basically, because

people have signed up. But you'll also get access to exclusive segments from this show, from the TimCast IRL podcast, available, again, at TimCast.com. But don't forget to smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends. And I'll just one more quick, just to plug before we get started. This one's just for you guys to pay attention and to be safe. Make sure you have plans for the safety and security of your family. Make sure you know if you're in potential hotspots. Pay attention to what's happening around the world. I don't know if this goes global or whatever. I'm just saying having some food, having some water, having a bug out kit, having a plan. Sometimes there's a fire. Sometimes there's a hurricane. You've got to understand these things. And I hope everybody

stays calm, stays safe, and thinks things through because it could get really spicy. Let's get started by taking a look at this first story. This this one from NBC News, one of the most shocking stories. And I think let me read the headline. Biden has been presented with options for massive cyber attacks against Russia. The options presented include disrupting the internet across Russia, shutting off power and stopping trains in their tracks. They say Biden has been presented with the menu of options for the US to carry out cyber attacks to disrupt Russia's ability to sustain its military operations in Ukraine. For people familiar with the deliberations tell NBC News, this is important because they're not talking about retaliation. This is not some story where they said we've presented potential cyber attacks against Russia in the event they

attack us. No, this is we want to have the U.S. attack Russia to stop their operations in Ukraine. Now, many people believe that we should be backing up Ukraine. Many believe that we shouldn't. Regardless, this story, I believe, is a threat to Vladimir Putin. The purpose of publishing this is so that Putin knows the U.S. is prepared to do it. If the U.S. wages a cyber war against Russia going after their internet, their trains, they are attempting to cripple their economy. Economic damage is warfare. Scary stuff, man. I mean, it's no different than if we were to go and bomb these same train routes. There's less death and violence, but the same objective from a warfare standpoint is achieved,

and that's the shutting down of the economy, and that has major repercussions that no country is going to ignore. So when you're putting these options on the table, you said it perfectly. Are we thinking about retaliation? Because we're not immune to ignore. So when you're putting these options on the table, you said it perfectly. Are we thinking about retaliation? Because we're not immune to that. We've already seen over the past year, I mean, we've seen several cyber attacks over the past year. We know that our networks are just as vulnerable, if not more vulnerable to those same cyber attacks. So do we really want to start that tit for tat? No, we definitely don't. I don't think there's a winner in that game. It may already be happening.

There was a – what was it? The refinery explosion? Yeah, in Oregon. Yeah. When was that? Last night? Or when was that? Crazy.

So that was the day before – it was yesterday, I think. And it just blew up and they had no idea why. So I still didn't figure it out. I was just like, is this possibly – The faulty pipes. The infrastructure attack. Yeah. It was a food processing plant.

Yeah, I think so. It just exploded. Hey, look. I don't want to connect dots where we have no reason to connect dots. Weird. Well, Putin, I was listening to an interview a couple years ago. He was talking to a crowd and saying that America's military defense capabilities, basically over the last 20 or 30 years, they've been building up their defensive capabilities against intercontinental ballistic missiles and missile defense.

And now that weaponry is so advanced and evolved that all that defense stuff is obsolete. And so all this American, we think we've got these great complete obsolescence. I mean, it's anyone that wants to kill right now, any government that wants to blow up a country can do it. I don't think they can, any superpower, US, China, or Russia, if they want to level something, they can level it.

There's going to be consequences, obviously, but we're not safe. We're not safe like we're not living in like a bubble here guys i don't well just just imagine if some way somebody were to shut off the the subway system in new york city imagine the type of chaos that would ensue from something just as simple as one target like that that's that's an incredible you don't need bombs you could you could turn a country inside out on itself with some of these cyber attacks. You could cause shortages in the supply chain. You could

cause disruptions in major cities. Imagine New York City in a traffic jam of 9 million people who can't get around all of a sudden. What happens then? And a lot of people don't realize because people have like a movie-esque view of warfare the targeting of civilians wins you wars look at world war ii we blew up two cities killed untold numbers of i mean massive numbers of civilians two cities and they beg please please please stop it's a scary thought but you've got a lot of people who have this view of warfare as like i love the idea of war crimes when you when you're dealing with the idea of war crimes you're not

really dealing with real war necessarily what i mean what i mean by that is when you can wag your finger and say the international court will hear what you've done that's not war that that that i mean it's it's it's like it's it's a lower tier of what war could be when you're talking about actual existential war then you're talking about actual existential war, then you're talking about people saying, I am going to evis scorched earth your cities, because you got to understand about targeting of civilians. Who do you think is making the machines? Who do you think is running the economy? Who do you think is producing the food? It's not like military is hammering away and smelting. It's not like it's all military

farming. It's regular people. So when you look at, say, the Civil War, Sherman's march to the sea, that's what the North said. We wipe out the farms. We wipe out the people. We win the war. And boy, is that dark stuff. But that's real war. That's brutal war.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Dresden, the reason that the Allies firebombed Dresden in World War II, which was really one of the greatest atrocities of the war, arguably had to happen because that's where they were. But it was a weapons manufacturing hub, basically. So they were like, you know what? We're taking them all out. Full of civilians. This is it.

Like if a terrorist has a building and they're firing at you and then they have a family in there with them, do you unload on the building with your M1 Abram and just level it to the ground? The answer in warfare is yes, because you're being fired at from that building. People will use human shields, man. i was watching these videos out of ukraine and uh the subway systems in kiev where everyone was piling in trains what people need to know is the subway systems in in kiev i i believe probably most of ukraine go deep underground like legit

when i was there and i'm taking the train, the escalators going down seemingly endless. And it's because during the Cold War, when they're building these things, they were worried about nuclear strikes. And trains are extremely, if not the most important piece of infrastructure, transporting people and goods. So they said, if we're going to protect anything with deep underground bunkers, we got to get our train systems to move goods. You take a look. There's a story out in New York. It's fascinating.

There's like a secret room in Grand Central Station that contains this old machine that used to run all of the tracks. And it was hidden behind like a secret wall or something. I don't know. You can fact check me on the story, but something like this. The reason was if any of our adversaries, say Cold War adversaries, found it, shutting down that one machine would cripple the U.S. economy. You got to understand, man, when the U.S. says we're going after your trains, that is level one of starting the war. We are going to shut down your ability to transport materials and maintain your economy. And the report is so specifically we can shut down your efforts in Ukraine. It's a form of siege warfare, really.

If you're crippling their ability to transport food to their citizens, you're putting them under siege. And I think it's extremely reckless to put that threat out in the open. Right. wag of the finger or a middle finger into the face of somebody who is clearly already easily provoked. Yeah. Doesn't it seem strange that we are having this conversation about this? Doesn't this seem like something we should keep on the down low? Am I crazy?

Well, exactly. Why would you say that out in the open? It's intentional that they put it out there. They're basically saying, Vladimir Putin, we intend to attack you. And they knew having Biden say this, he'd come out like,

oh, it's like, no, we can't even let our president say it. We got to put it in the news. Yeah. It's that bad. What did someone say?

Joe Biden said, chew grain instead of Ukraine or something like that. Yeah, someone said this. I don't know. I didn't see the clip,

but wow, a president that can't command. There's a whole bunch of memes about, you know, what's going on. And it's president that can't command dude there's there's a whole bunch of memes about you know what's going on and it's like there's one it's braveheart and it's like brock obama and then it's you know mal gibson no and then trump come that says for for trump's you know for each year and he's like hold and then it's biden no charge yeah it's it's look there's something to be said for that there's something to be said for that. There's something to be said for the fact that throughout love, love him or hate him throughout the Trump years, we didn't have these type of situations bubbling up to the surface right in front of us where people seem to be able to do whatever they want without fear of recourse. I mean, that's there's something to be said for that type of posturing.

And I think if you want to keep the world a safe place, you have to be able to do that to a certain extent. You see what Rachel Maddow said? Oh, my gosh. That the reason that Putin didn't attack Ukraine under Trump was because Trump's position was aligned with Putin's or something like that. Moscow, yeah. Yeah, with Moscow. Of course, they're still selling that Russian collusion narrative, right? To a certain degree, though,

I don't think she's, I think she's tactless. But there's one issue is the issue of NATO. I mean, we brought it up on the show that Trump was like, why are we still in NATO? Like, what's the purpose here? And so Putin was like,

okay, like, let's see what happens. However, I do think, in my opinion, I think Trump was too erratic. I don't think that Vladimir Putin was like, finally, a president who's going to work for my favor. No, that makes no sense because he was moving on Ukraine under Obama. He wanted Crimea. The eastern regions had already declared independence. He waited until there was someone weaker in office.

And I think the issue is certainly maybe, you know, it may be that when, when Trump was questioning NATO and saying they should pay more, Putin was like, we'll see what happens. But that just seems like a stretch. The simpler answer is Donald Trump was called a madman by his own followers, by his own fans. They called him the madman. They called him the God emperor. Vladimir Putin's like, got to be careful with a man like that. He erratic he could he could you can't predict necessarily what he's going to do now it doesn't mean that putin because in a sense he's looking at a reflection of himself absolutely there's there there's a lot of aspects about vladimir putin that are very similar and you can't predict what they're going to do they're

extremely hard-headed individuals um you know and and again it's not it's not do you like it do you not like it it's what what keeps the wolves at bay how much you want to bet you see that's that that statement from joe biden about a minor incursion remember that yeah they were like what do you do if russia invades it depends on whether it's a minor incursion or not you know i'll see what we'll do and then everyone's like he's basically saying the u.s is a tolerance level for a russian invasion of ukraine and then biden like, that's their line? I can push it a little bit. I can't believe it.

Let's pull up this map real quick from NBC News. Putin pushed it a little bit. Yeah, Putin. What did I say? Biden. Oh, push and pushed it. No, Biden, the only thing he pushes is his wheelchair as he's going to the sunroom to go to sleep.

I want to help him. He said, oh. Check out this map. They hit everywhere. I mean, this is crazy. Yeah. Through Belarus. Check out this map. They hit everywhere. I mean, this is crazy. Yeah. Through Belarus. It's absolutely insane.

Comprehensive. And this map isn't even comprehensive. Lviv is not even on this map. So, you know, I was talking to my friend from Kiev, and she was just telling me, like, all of these cities that were hit. So what it may be is that Russia's got special forces or some kind of ground troops who had already infiltrated Kiev and then staged these low-tier attacks to cause widespread chaos, confusion, and panic. It seems to have worked. That sounds right. There's a lot of Russian sentiment in Ukraine from what I've heard, what I've been learning about. I mean, it used to be part of the Soviet Union, and a lot of people in the Soviet Union felt a lot of kinship towards

Russia. And it all kind of spawned from Russiaussia in the beginning um the russian revolution and so on you guys ready to get madder than you've ever been yeah okay i'm looking at it already why don't you why don't you read that headline ian by the minute oh you want me to take the first line take the second line you go all the way way. Biden administration asks CBP officers to leave southern border for Ukraine, according to New Memo. My gosh. You have got to be kidding me. This is the type of stuff that makes me want to go crazy. First of all, you look at that headline and you can't even begin to wrap your

head around it we don't even have enough people at the southern border this has been an issue for what a year now and you're pulling them to go to ukraine or asking volunteers and and it's and it's because they want so it's it's mostly poland they want they want these troops in poland processing uh ukraine refugees or migrants. It's just, let me read a little bit. They say, the Biden administration is asking CBP officers to voluntarily deploy to Poland following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After being selected, volunteers will deploy within two or three days and work in Europe

for at least one month. They say the Office of Field Operations is seeking volunteers to assist with the possible evacuation of US citizens, lawful permanent residents, and their immediate family members in Ukraine. Reads a memo sent to the agency's field operations executives and obtained by Just the News. So I don't want to immediately be like, oh, shake my fist. We got to get Americans out of Ukraine. We got to get permanent residents. We got to get anyone who's helping us.

We cannot let this be another Afghanistan for sure. Do we need the border patrol here in America doing that job? To leave the already in shambles southern border. I feel like we have plenty aspects of our military that could cover that job. Absolutely. I think military police could probably do that just to name a few. I'd like to present you with my vision of how this came about. So you've got Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and they're in a room,

and someone comes in, and they're like, Mr. President, the situation in Ukraine is very serious. We're going to need personnel to evacuate American citizens, permanent residents. And Biden goes, oh, no. Oh, we have to open the southern border now. Because CBP is the only one who can do it. And they're like, Mr. President, we don't have to.

Oh, geez, you forced my hand. All right, send CBP off the border and send them to Ukraine. The only people that understand borders is the Border Patrol. I was thinking yesterday, I actually tweeted it out. A war with Russia is actually a war with Russia and China. And if that happened, we wouldn't be complaining about china invading taiwan we'd be complaining about them invading our southern border through mexico do not f around with this uh can we coin the term for like the russia china alliance you know because like history will

remember the name of the they're going to call them like you know like the axes of the... They're going to call them like the Axes of Evil or something. Sino-Rus. Sino-Rus. Yeah, something like that. How about like the Evil Avengers? I can't even bring myself to call them evil. The good and evil narrative is broken down.

We've been... America's been putting weapons and military bases in people's face for a hundred years. This is insane. And then they invade Iraq. This is the country of freedom,

the one that liberated Cuba from the Spanish empire and gave it autonomy and independence. We fought a war to give Cuba independence, not to conquer it. And then we go into Iraq and Afghanistan. We give the rest of the world carte blanche. You can't sit in a country and let the government conquer, say nothing, and not expect other countries to start conquering. We are the example. It's all the same. It's propaganda. The U.S. and Afghanistan, the U.S. and Iraq. And then they go, oh, I can't believe that Russia would invade Ukraine.

Get out of Iraq. Get out of Iraq right now. Get out, man. Get out and do it safely. God, get out. This is what I tweeted, and it was a multifaceted tweet. I said, I'm going to start an organization called Anti-War, and

we're going to claim to oppose war, but we'll actively support any war that we're engaged in because we're engaged in war for the sake of stopping war, so our war is justified. And then everyone was like, you're describing the United States and Antifa at the same time. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's a nice point.

The U.S. is justified in engaging in its conflicts. You know what the issue is? It's the same time. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's a good point. The U.S. is justified in engaging in its conflicts. You know what the issue is? It's the same players pointing their fingers at each other over and over again. Spider-Man. Who was in Afghanistan before we were? It was the Russians, the Soviets. Yeah, and it's back and forth and back and forth.

And when you're playing that game, it's hard to point the finger because we don't have any right to say anything because we've been invading territories for our own reasons. We had weapons of mass destruction was the first reason. That turned out to be a big lie. And then next thing you know, we're in how many countries in the Middle East? And then we're pulling out recklessly, and then you want to point your finger. And it's not to say that what Putin is doing is right.

It's not. But we can't be the moral high ground of the world if we don't have a moral high ground to stand on. Yeah. So when people are talking about why we should not get involved in Ukraine, I agree. To a certain extent, we can be. We obviously have to protect our allies in the Baltic states to a certain degree. I don't even know to protect uh our allies in the baltic states to a certain degree i don't even know how much we want to get involved in that if things you know truly go south because not even our border but we do have allies the challenge though i think is it may be inevitable whether whether we want to or not you look at what happens in world war ii

eventually you get dragged into it now yeah a lot of questions you could ignore it you know you could say okay well we're not getting involved in ukraine but what happens when ukraine falls and then russia moves what does putin do next you know so we holland's not going to be sitting they're not going to be happy about that yeah we've become entangled in all these relationships because we wanted to go out and be the world police we wanted to go out and put all these weapons facilities all over the world and spread freedom by force. And look where it gets us. How much better off is the American public over the past 60, 70 years that we've adopted this world police sort of mentality? What has it done for the average American citizen?

Yeah, quote, unquote, it's guaranteed our safety. But you can't even measure that. You can't measure what you've actually stopped. I don't feel very safe right now. But what is the cost to the average American citizen? We have, what, $30 trillion in debt? How much of that is war debt, you know, from us being the world police, from us funding NATO, from us funding all these alliances and acting like we're supposed to be, you know, regulating everybody's behavior around the world? It's a novel or, excuse me, it's a noble cause. but how successful have we been and at what cost?

Nobody wants to be the one to back down. When I talk about, say, Antifa and the woke far left, actually, I'll present you the conundrum. The culture war is rampaging on. Would you be willing to give up free speech and the first and second amendments to have peace with antifa it's a good question like i say antifa but you know the far left the woke of course not never there's no compromise there that even even if it would come at peace because it's it's it's peace at what cost kind of deal because what what comes after that peace and so what happens with a country like ukraine is people you know they say things like we should just not have the war you need to under like we should do and it's like i know it's yes we don't want war and it's really easy to say but you've

got russia vladimir putin looks at what's going on there and he says i will not tolerate the u.s coming in and i mean you look at what happened it's not it happened. It's not, it's not, it's the West, it's NATO, it's EU. You look what happened in 2014 with the protest there with Yanukovych. Putin views Ukraine as already conquered by the US. Yanukovych was ousted. Pro-America politicians get put in, pro-West politicians. And then he's like, I'm not going to tolerate. That's a red line for me. So he says, we're going to go in and we're going to get rid of this Western influence. The United States has the exact same thing about Russia. Vladimir Putin wants to rebuild the Soviet Union. He's trying to build up the Russian Trade Federation. He wants Ukraine as well. We're

battling over Ukraine. And the question with Yanukovych was, who's he going to side with? Where's the country going to go? Neither side is willing to give up that territory, the breadbasket of Europe. Thus, you get war. Now, let me just throw it back to the original. We're no better off than we were 70 years ago, 80 years ago during the Cold War. Right. We're right back in that same scenario. But let's throw it to the start of the segment and to what I think matters substantially more. When you have the Biden administration asking CBP officers to leave our southern border, they do not care about this country. Right. And they're asking the United States of America

to sacrifice blood and treasure for people in a faraway land. This is... Sorry, go ahead. I was going to say, shouldn't we secure our own oxygen masks? Could you imagine being one of the first people that volunteered to go to Vietnam

because you didn't know what was actually coming and waiting Could you imagine being one of the first people that volunteered to go to Vietnam because you didn't know what was actually coming and waiting for you over there? Yeah. Those people, like, the people volunteered happily in the beginning because they didn't realize they're going to be dying. Because they bought all the propaganda. Lydia, I'm sorry. I felt like I interrupted you.

I was just going to say, this to me seems like such insult to injury for Joe Biden to stand up there and say, we're going to have to make sacrifices. Who's really making sacrifices here? Is it Joe Biden? The middle class. It's my middle class and only middle class. Yeah. I mean, it's the poverty like middle class and down.

Yeah. When I say when I say middle class, I mean everybody because to us or to them, to them, it's it's everybody except them. Look at the look at these like blue check elites who are like, we have to intervene. It's like I've got an application right here for you to sign up yeah i will do your 55 well if you can hold a gun i thought you asked a really interesting question what's putin gonna do next and that's like i've been thinking a lot of this came up a couple days ago and was worth repeating that when hitler invaded poland he was doing it and he said because they were after world war one the treaty versailles split a piece of

germany off gave it to poland and then the Polish government was executing and committing genocide on these former Germans, now Polish. So Hitler was going to liberate that area and bring peace back to those Germans. Putin's saying a similar thing with Ukraine, post-Soviet, they're Russian. There's a genocide going on. He actually said that in his declaration yesterday. I don't know if there's a genocide going on. The U.S. news has been completely silent. I've never heard an inkling that there might be a genocide going on in Ukraine.

It's different. It's not out of the realm of possibility. No, no, no. It's different. I would say I think the Ukrainians learned their lesson about Russian control from the Haldimor and probably are not too keen to be involved in something like that. But if we're drawing parallels, Russia doesn't need to be Germany in this. China can be.

History doesn't repeat its rhymes. Oh, you're right. Because Mussolini and Hitler kind of fed off each other. One would invade a little bit, then the other would be like, oh, okay, I guess that means it's okay for me to take. And they're like, really? Well, then I'm going to take a little bit more here. Then I'll go into Poland here.

So if the Russians take a little piece, the Chinese psychotic racist, Han supremacist mentality might – because Putin is not a psychotic racist. Hitler was. But the CCP, they strike me as psychotic racist. Well, they got the Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps. And this is also American propaganda. I'm getting this fed to me from the Americans, but that's what it seems like. It's not just the Americans reporting on what's happening with the Uyghur Muslims. And you've also got the Falun Gong.

That's an established fact. That's like open massacre on these people. We're not without sin, but I think there's a certain level of sinister behavior that's going on within the Chinese government that is beyond what we're talking about with everybody else. Let me jump to this story from Newsweek because this is relevant. Newsweek reports U.S. expects Kiev to fall in days as Ukraine's source warns of encirclement. So you've got multiple reporters on this story saying, three different U.S. officials, Ukraine's capital will fall within,

I think they say 96 hours, and within a week, the Ukrainian government will fall to Russia. It's bad. It's very bad. However, it could be better than the alternative. Ukraine falling could be an end of the conflict outright. Sure, yeah. I mean, these situations are terrible because they're incredibly complex, and you don't know the next moves of some of these people.

What happens when Ukraine falls? Is Putin satisfied? That's a great question. This is my next question. Is he satisfied? Or do we just – if he is satisfied, do we just take that loss? And what are the repercussions of that? I mean, is it a loss for America? What are we worried about? loss yeah you know and and what are the repercussions of that you know i mean walking away with america

what are we worried about now the issue is nato these these western european nations want cheaper energy russia controls a lot of the energy flowing in the craziest thing is one of one of the moves that joe biden made uh in the past couple of days was to sanction the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which goes from Russia to Germany. He sanctioned that, but he was the one who lifted the sanctions on it in the first place. They tried to appease Putin. After he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline.

Exactly. They tried to appease Russia. It didn't work. Russia, Vladimir Putin, sees the appeasement. They're like, okay, we're going to lift these sanctions. You can do your pipeline. Just don't invade Ukraine. Otherwise, we'll put them back in place. And Putin went, oh, appeasement. They're like, okay, we're going to lift these sanctions. You can do your pipeline. Just don't invade Ukraine.

Otherwise, we'll put them back in place. And Putin went, oh, yeah, sure. Because we were fine with those sanctions. Yep. They weren't affecting them that greatly. So he said, okay, sure. Ben Shapiro made a really, really great point. He said, paraphrasing, that

the U.S., that our culture is so materialistic that we think sanctions, inhibiting their ability to buy things, that the U.S., that our culture is so materialistic that we think sanctions inhibiting their ability to buy things will stop them. Russia wants to rebuild the Russian Empire. China wants Taiwan. Joe Biden said it today that he didn't think the sanctions were going to do anything. There's a clip

of him coming out and saying, yeah, well, we didn't think sanctions were going to do anything anyway. So it's all for show. He knows that that's not going to do anything anyway. So it's all for show. He knows that that's not going to be enough of a deterrent. Ben Shapiro made the really interesting point. Sorry to cut you off. I just had to throw this out there.

But Ben Shapiro made the really interesting point that Russia has something higher to work for that the U.S. no longer has. He's like, we are so materialistic. We care about faster cars. We care about Levi's. We don't actually care about our country or like any kind of overarching moral framework. And they do. And that's something we cannot understand. Because they've been struggling for how long? Right. Exactly.

And this is, if you're Russian, you know, and if you're in the Russian government and if you're Vladimir Putin, you're seeing this as a chance to, like you said, rebuild or restore whatever that empire was in his mind. And we're not looking at it from that perspective. In America, we've never experienced that. The worst hardship that we've experienced financially in terms of hardship was the Depression. And we made it out of that okay, and that elapsed far into our memories. These people have been living under harsh conditions for a really long time.

So they're looking at these opportunities to capitalize and become a more powerful country, become more economically stable. So what dog do we have in the fight here? I think if he was smart, Putin, and he is, that he would take what he takes out of Ukraine and then that's it. He moves on and he's remembered as Vladimir the Great. Like, you could – But if he pushes too far – Honestly, if you were a betting man, would you bet that he would do that? No, I wouldn't. Yeah, because otherwise he's going to get the world to declare war on him.

He's got to be careful. No, no. I think we learned a lesson here. Just two days ago, we're like, ah, he won't go for Kiev. That's ridiculous. He won't go. I didn't think. 96 hours, yeah.

Yeah, we were sitting here saying it'll never happen. And then last night, it's like the show ends, and I got a message from Luke, and he's like, all caps. That was during the show, too. That was crazy. Russia's invaded, and I'm like, well, then. We were wrong about him. Because if he took a little bit now and then waited and later went for Kiev it'd be a big deal now he's just taking it all at once

to get it over with before people from the looks of the map it looks like the entire country yeah he's going to take the whole thing and then it's going to be done and it's going to be Russia why would he stop?

because the world will declare war on him if he doesn't no they won't I think they will he's already who? you have no choice at that point yeah yeah who? the United States

Britain France Germany all these people that are relying on cheap energy Turkey probably will get You have no choice at that point. Yeah, yeah. Who? The United States, Britain, France, Germany, all of NATO. All these people that are relying on cheap energy. Turkey probably will get – This is the issue. The Chinese will be on the Russian side.

It would be absolute torture for everybody. It's this entanglement of everybody's interests. You have Europe relying on Russia for a tremendous amount of cheap energy. Are they going to be so quick to declare war? Well, this is the crazy thing. The idea for so long was that trade would stop war. It's what the neocons and neoliberal establishment thought they were going to do. They said, we do a free trade agreement with China, and then we'll have peace because no

one will want to go to war. Instead, what happens is the bully in the room says, I'll go to war, and I get your stuff, and ain't nothing you can do about it. It works a little, Trey. True. But it doesn't stop war. It helps people get to know each other. It gives you an incentive to work together, but it doesn't stop conflict.

That's for sure. No, it doesn't because there's always workarounds. In a global economy, there's always workarounds. You can slap Russia with sanctions, but guess what? When China has their back, how much do the sanctions actually mean? Yeah. Like if they get kicked off the swift payment system did that we already touch on that story we're talking about next in a second yeah that's i mean that's let's talk about a new banking

regime but i i i think right now you've got germany they didn't want the sanctions on uh nordstream too because they want the gas they want the energy they need it yeah now they have no choice because vladimir putin like, I literally don't care. I got you by the balls. If you need our gas, we can take what we want. It's one of the reasons the US was like, hey, we should be working with our Western allies to move this pipeline up from the Qatar-Turkey pipeline through Syria. But all that does, if Vladimir Putin has control has control over your energy and then you say we're

going to screw with your allies and build a pipeline to shut your your your monopoly on energy down they're going to be like you know i can see you doing that right that's gonna happen like putin's like i'm watching you attack my interests i'm not going to sit back and let you do i used to play a lot of civilization and in the game sometimes i would choose to be like a trade heavy country and i'd have all these trade networks all over the world. But then every once in a while the world would be like, we're going to war. And as soon as the person would go to war with me,

all my trades would end abruptly. I'd be bankrupt. I'd have no income. I'd have no furs. I'd have no leather. I'd have no – Basically, if you're relying on trade and you go to war with your trade partner, you're getting done.

Yeah. You're saying you're bad at Civilization? Is that what it is? Well, I learned the hard way. I got good the hard way is what I was saying. See, what you do in Civilization, it's a video game, is- Energy independence. No, you take the furs from them with guns.

Well, that's one option if you're playing that kind of- I never play Civilization that way. I always have really strong borders, a really strong and advanced military, and I mind my own business. If I get attacked, I go full, right? That is a novel concept. I know, right? Can you say that one more time for us? This is how I – isn't it – you know, this is really funny, though.

Do you win a lot when you play? Oh, yeah, every time. But I go for science and cultural victory, which is – there's different ways to win. So I had a buddy, and he introduced me to Fallout 3. So I'm playing Fallout 3. Have you ever played Fallout? Yeah. The other game?

First time. So whenever I play it, you know what I go for? I go for stealth, sniper, sneak, lockpick. So dangerous, yeah. That's how I play the game. I never get in any direct conflict. I see a super mutant. I'm in the bushes and slow motion.

Vats. Got to get some power armor just in case. Hold on. My buddy. When he's playing the game, he runs in guns blazing. Oh, it's so awesome. Heavy weapons. That's how I played Metal Gear. Hip fire. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. My buddy, when he's playing the game, he runs in, guns blazing, heavy weapons. That's how I played Metal Gear. Hip fire. Wait, wait, wait.

Hold on. Check it out. He was a Marine. And so I'm like, you know what? The mentality of the person comes out. It's expressed in the way they play these games. His view was go in, guns a-blazing, shut it down quick and fast and control the situation. Mine was sneak around slowly, take your time, be patient, very different personalities.

When I play Civilization, you can see my mentality on all this stuff. I don't like war. Mind my own business, peace and prosperity, and that's how I play the game. I build up my cities. I make everyone live really great lives. We do research and technology. What do you do? And we mind our own business. What do you do if someone attacks you in the game we

wipe them i i take it to zero it's a strong it's a strong defense though well i'll go i never an issue i'll go if i get attacked i go completely ballistic and wipe them off the face of the earth like i don't i don't just sue for peace i i eradicate the species well well in the game in civilization if you do that, all the other countries. And then they think I'm a warmonger. But it's like, you know what? You deserve it because you attacked me. That's a crazy mentality.

And I'm afraid that humans have that mentality in real life. I'm playing a game. I got my little country. You know, the land my people have settled. They come to my borders and they say, give me your stuff. And I say, don't try it. Don't try it. They try it.

They get crushed. I go into their cities. I occupy them. And then whenever it gets mad at me, I say, don't try it. Don't try it. They try it. They get crushed. I go into their cities. I occupy them. And then whenever it gets mad at me, I say, I don't care. Stay the F away from my borders. Leave me alone and you'll have no problems. I like that mentality. America can have all the nukes in the world. It can be the most

powerful MF-er on the planet and it can sit back with its feet up and be like, dude, we're chilling. You guys leave us alone and we're good. That was the original idea. Right. Until they invaded Iraq or Afghanistan. No. Yeah.

I mean, we got it wrong way before that. I guess we invaded Hawaii. I think it was like Woodrow Wilson. Yeah. It was before. We colonized Hawaii. We invaded Hawaii and took it over from the natives. We invaded Wake Island and Midway Island.

We were one of those conquistador countries like with Britain and France and all them. Yeah, but the original idea was that we set out to be isolationists. We conquered, obviously, from sea to sea. And then we said, okay, this is our spot here now. And we're not going to go know around the world but we're gonna show it off you know they they sail they sail the navy around the world originally the great white fleet or whatever i believe it was called um you know because to show off our might

but then it went back to our borders and that's realistically that's that that should be the purpose of a military you know it would have enabled us to maintain our isolationist policies would have been to have developed some form of energy independence because this is the problem in Germany. They decided to shut down their nuclear plants because they had a whole lot of green guilt from a little Swedish girl, and now they rely so heavily on Russian gas. They can't live without it. They're literally talking about blackouts and brownouts during the winter in Germany because they shut down the nuclear power plants and they were like, when they sanction Russia, it is going to be a dark and cold. Well, freedom is about self-dependence, right? If you if you can't stand on your own two feet, whether that be at the level of a country or all the way down to the individual, you can't be free unless you can tell somebody to piss off that you don't need them and that you'll do it yourself. And we need to have that as a –

if we're going to adopt that mentality as a country, we can't be reliant upon China, Russia, anybody for energy. We have to be able to stand on our own two feet and say we're not getting involved, but if you come to our borders, you will find out. I got really trounced by this. If you think nuclear energy is too dangerous, but you're willing to threaten a nuclear war power for oil for your energy, you've missed the plot.

Don't see the problem. Nuclear power is less dangerous. It's safer than attacking Russia. We got to give an honorable mention to Ian for this next segment. The Guardian reports Kiev is furious as EU waivers on banning Russia from the SWIFT payment system. Now, before we get into everything,

I just want to point this out. If you guys, you know, there's a lot of people that are like, oh, World War III, it's clickbait, it's not going to happen.

The SWIFT payment system, it's the International Monetary International Banking System, ACH payments, bank transfers. It's how trade is done. If Russia gets a boot, because this is what's happening. Kiev is furious. They say we want it to happen,

but there are members of EU like Germany. They're saying we don't want to do it. Boris Johnson is saying, do it. Boot Russia from Swift. This would mean Russia can't use banks anymore outside of the country. It cuts them off financially. Do you think China says, sorry, Russia can't help you? Or do you think China says, we'll facilitate the trade for you? Do you think Russia says, oh no, I guess we've lost and now everything is done? Or do you think Russia says, you want a war? We'll give you one. Cutting them off from the financial system. Look, the only thing it will do is push Russia further away and give them less of a reason to actually

negotiate on any of this stuff. And I see blue checks. I see high profile Democrat personalities and never Trump or neocon types being like, yeah, we should do this. Yeah, yeah. Shut it down. And I'm like, OK, give Russia nothing left to lose. Do it.

And then see how they respond. Fortunately, I'm from the Washington Examiner. 50 minutes ago, Biden declines to cut Russia from swift payments. No, no, that's from today's sanctions. There's going to be a meeting, I believe, tomorrow. So Biden today said we're only going to sanction some of their biggest banks. We are not going to be cutting them off from swift. This does not mean they won't in the future.

That sounds like a baby step to me. Right. Saying your four largest banks are being cut off. It's saying, be prepared. We're going to shut down your entire financial system coming soon. It's so crazy. And then you see him shutting off the bank accounts of the Canadian people. Selinsky, the president of Ukraine, has shut off three, according to Tulsi Gabbard, three of the largest television stations in prison.

Like, this is Western democracy doing these things, threatening to shut off economies. We're not the good guys. No, no, no, no. Maybe we're not the good guys. War, war, war ain't no thing. No, nobody's a good guy in war. War is not a walk in the park. During World War II, we had an office of censorship.

The U.S. had a department. It was a department of censorship. Who slips in ships. The Germans had the minister of propaganda, Goebbels. Yo, we had internment camps for the Japanese in the United States. This idea of – They don't teach that too often anymore. No.

They browse right over that in U.S. History 1 and 2 in high school now. What, internment camps? Yeah. Not for me. Well, now, I mean. Not these days? Yeah. I mean, history class has gotten watered down tremendously since, you know,

since the time that we were in school. We should know more. I mean, that's that's something that's really important, because, again, it's it's if we are going to be the country that says you are wrong, you can't do this. We need to start working on our BS. And like Tim was saying, in war, you know, things how things change. Maybe there was some value to interning the Japanese that may have been japanese spies who knows if we hadn't interned the japanese that was that was the initial overthrow that was the initial uh reasoning for it but it

was like japanese citizens civilians like expats people that didn't deserve to be imprisoned were being interned so there's a lot of collateral damage when you do something as sweeping as that so you you talk a lot in about the swift payment system tell me your ideas on the swift payment system it's like a global i don't know who created it or where exactly i imagine it has to do with the bank of international settlements in switzerland but it's like a company actually goes through the bank of belgium wild like i think like 11 000 banks all right 11 000 banks 200 countries around the world, and it moves through the Bank of Belgium. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, SWIFT. It was founded in 1973, 48 years ago.

La Holt, is that how you pronounce it? Belgium. It handles basically all. I'm sorry. It says around half of all high high value cross-border payments worldwide use the swift network does it have any figure as to the dollar amount of the transactions that go through that type of it says 32 staggering 32 million messages per day so a message a transaction a transaction i i would imagine a million okay so that's you're talking an

unconceivable amount of money probably and it's probably dark money too i bet a lot of that's under the table that's the problem with the bank of international settlements in switzerland where they kind of funnel money through is there's no oversight no governmental oversight in the world it's a private company that's controlling this economy basically right now so i have i have a maybe maybe you'll have some thoughts on this right so say say we do kick them out right that we kick them out of swift where does the crypto market come into that oh baby they'll probably make like i bought bitcoin today yeah they'll probably make it their national currency a crypto they'll probably create like one or or use bitcoin

or or that's an interesting what what happens with the crypto market then when when an entire country says all right you'll kick me off of you know your your traditional standard um you know transaction system well we have crypto that's right and you can't shut that down you can't Russia can just very easily say we're going to now unless you shut off their their internet in the entire country I guess would be the only threat the threat and again look how quickly that escalates you know that what you could you could replace you could replace the banking ledger with the crypto ledger you could say here's what we're going to do i mean i'm sure russia's already working on it russia's bought up bitcoin they're probably saying why should we rely on the centralized controlled payment system out of Western Europe?

We can just use decentralized crypto to facilitate value exchanges and then have that be the basis for our monetary system in our own country. And again, you have – talking from a crypto standpoint, I have a very novice level of understanding of crypto. But they say, OK, we're going to adopt crypto. And then what happens when the entire we're going to adopt crypto and then what happens when the entire russian economy switches to mining crypto they have the space for it they have the resources you know they could do it up in those really cold siberian places where it keeps the gpus cold in an interesting place in crypto where we're moving away from proof of work to to create the crypto and it's moving towards proof of stake so like the people

that are rich are going to get more rich, but the people that are creating it are not really going to be the ones that make money on it anymore. It's kind of lame that they're doing that, but it's like a rich man's game. Well, it's what happens when government starts getting involved in these things. Crypto was, at least from my understanding, the separation between government oversight and regulation and money. And now we're watching governments adopt it.

When I saw – We may provoke one of the world's largest countries to adopt it. It may be inevitable, actually. I wonder if – I was thinking the bastion of freedom in the United States that's now invaded and enslaved Iraqis for 20 years. It would be the pressure that would push a country to develop some sort of more free, equitable currency. When I saw the news about Ukraine saying, we want to ban from Swift, Kiev saying we want to ban from Swift, when I saw Boris Johnson saying it,

I immediately bought Bitcoin. Immediately. That's just me. I'm not giving anybody advice. I bought it. And then right after I did, I was in the dip because it dropped when the chaos happened and then spiked again and i was in the dip and it spiked and i was like all right that's good for me i guess but you know what i'm thinking if they do bad look they're already sanctioning these banks these banks can already circumvent that by using bitcoin right now yeah so what does that sanction meaningless but if they kick them off swift i think bitcoin through the roof because russia is going to be like buy it up and what does china do at that point buy it up oh yeah after after they've already taken this hard stance against you know kind of crypto and but they even track people i

guess i guess they've taken a hard stance against people owning crypto but they i'm sure they have no problem buying it up themselves they do that as a game they they they put out these bands so they can strike the price down because people panic and they can buy it back up. You know what might happen? I don't know if it will. We kick Russia off swift.

Russia says we're going to use Bitcoin to back our transactions and handle our international trade. China says, hey, Russia, we're in it with you. We want your help on Taiwan. Both Russia and China don't like the petrodollar anyway.

They say, okay, you don't want to trade oil. You don't want us to get access to your markets. We're going to cut you off from our energy production, and we're going to buy in crypto or Bitcoin or other currencies. You can't do nothing about it at this point. It could precipitate the end of the U.S. dollar. Absolutely. I mean, we're watching it slowly kind of just decline at this point. But that would be an overnight just death to the dollar.

Not to mention gas prices already skyrocketing. What are they saying? Four bucks a gallon is coming? Yeah. Because now – We're getting close. Now with the sanctions and the conflict, Russia is going to be pushing back being like, you don't get our oil. If we can't trade on your systems, we don't give you the oil.

We're going to keep it for ourselves. And I bet you Joe Biden doesn't even consider opening our national pipelines. Oh, no. He's shutting them down. He recently, there was news, I'll try and find in a second, recently issued a ban on producing

natural gas in the United States. Another one. Why? I don't know, man. The little Swedish girl. Why? It's green guilt. Why? No, no. Why are they taking green guilt? It's green guilt. Why are they taking idea CBP from our southern border to go to Poland?

The policy is is to gut this country either because they're morons or they're laughing all the way down. It's got to be. I believe the latter. I really do. At this point, you can't be – you hear people all the time, oh, Joe Biden, he's so stupid. I don't believe these people are that stupid. You don't get to that position in life being an idiot. He's good at following orders, that's for sure.

Sure. But you can't be making this many mistakes. They've made too many mistakes at this point for it to be stupidity. You're gutting this country from the inside. I think corporations including the federal... Just take it one issue at a time. Look at the southern border and work your way up from there. What comes

across the southern border? Illegals. You know, people... Nobody vetted. Fentanyl. The number one killer of the ages between, what, 18 and 35 right now is fentanyl. Where does that come from? It comes from China. You know, look at our supply chain look at our energy production look at the value of our dollar all of these things are moving in the wrong direction and they're they are all the result of policy created by our own government these aren't none of these things are happening to us because

of outside influence i wonder if yeah sure china is shipping drugs but we have a responsibility to protect our own border we're not doing any of these things and all of the problems that we're outside influence i wonder if yeah sure china is shipping drugs but we have a responsibility to protect our own border we're not doing any of these things and all of the problems that we're facing today as a as a society as an american society are self-inflicted by our own government moving moving border agents to poland when we have a clear crisis at the border is about the stupidest thing i've ever heard how about how this one for you? From AmericanPress.com, Biden halts all new oil and gas leases. From Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022, reported by the AP, the Biden administration is delaying decisions on all new oil and gas drilling on federal land and other energy-related actions

after a federal court blocked the way officials were calculating the real-world cost of climate change. What were you just saying? Green guilt? Green guilt? Green guilt. It's a hijacked idea. Nobody, I don't think at this point, denies the fact that humans have an influence on the climate around them.

But this idea that everything we do has to be renewable and this and that, it's a ruse to undermine all of these things that make us fiercely independent. This country can depend on itself. We have everything that we're a unique country. We have everything that we need within our borders to be completely self-reliant. And somehow we are not. I think we're missing lithium. We're on the verge.

We are facing down full-scale ground war in europe like there is legitimately a ground war in europe right now the most significant and we're halting oil since world war ii domestically and biden's like oil and gas we don't need it that should be something he rubber stamps at this point yeah until further notice yeah we have we have a conflict on the horizon. Ramp up the machines at home and get ready to at least, at the very least, flex your muscles. Biden's going to look at Joe Biden flexing his muscles and laugh at this point. Yeah, excuse me.

I got to say something. Biden might be looking in the mirror laughing. I got to say something that's probably controversial. Oh, yeah. You know, and it's going to make a lot of people angry. No. But Donald Trump was a better president than Joe Biden. But there are no mean tweets.

That's right. I thought about it. I thought about it. And I was thinking maybe the mean tweets were worth it. Maybe it was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Energy independence. There are a lot of things that I disagree with Donald Trump on, but he is unequivocally a better and stronger. And I think stronger is really, in terms of this topic, an important characteristic. He is a stronger president. He projects strength in a way that Joe Biden I don't think ever could, nor Kamala Harris or nor really anybody on that roster on that side. I got to get a little real with it. It's not hard to be better than Joe Biden, I don't think ever could, nor Kamala Harris or nor really anybody on that roster on that side. I got to get a little real with it. It's not hard to be better than Joe Biden. No, no, no.

We're not setting the bar. Right. I thought Trump was great about not falling for this kind of global agenda of corporatization. Like he got us out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership within like two weeks of coming into office. He saw the danger of allowing our citizens to be sued by corporations because they didn't want to discriminate. They didn't want to buy Malaysian oil. Like, we're sovereign citizens. We don't have to bow to a corporation.

That was early on World Economic Forum stuff. And I think that what's happening is that there are corporate powers that are putting countries against each other so that they fight and then they can fall apart and be like, hey, see, national governments don't work anymore. Let us come in and say, I told you guys this before the show, let us come in and save you with our corporate benevolence. I want to follow this story from the AP. Biden halts oil gas leases amid legal fight on climate costs. Russia just invaded.

And this is February 22nd. When they were screaming Russia was going to invade Kiev. We're talking about climate cost. And he was like, well, you know, that little Swedish girl yelled at me, so I think, cut off the power. I just, I'm flabbergasted at the people

who voted for this man. Even with this stuff, beyond the headline, because it sounds nice to your bleeding heart social justice warrior, what does climate cost actually mean in that discussion? I think the assumption is that too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is going to cause a greenhouse effect, which is going to cause superheating. So we should be worried. That's the worry. We should be worried about the shorelines disappearing more than we should about a possible European invasion from Russia. That's the calculus that we're doing.

The invasions are preeminent in the forefront, I think. But you should not be focusing on how bad things could get, but how to fix the problem, which is the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. I just got to step in and say, we've got the potential for total nuclear annihilation in the immediate. But we're looking at that clock about climate change. Environmental danger, a nuclear bomb going off in the atmosphere. Exactly. It's like 10 million years of this stuff.

Those two words are essentially meaningless. Climate cost. It's meaningless. this stuff that those two words are are essentially meaningless climate cost it's i'm i'm right meaningless it's you know the american military is like the biggest polluter in the world the amount of crap it dumps into the oceans with its navy is and its army is like it as a core if it was a corporation it would be the largest polluter on earth i'm sure it probably is and and we're we're not even high we're not even up there on the list of – the people that we're talking about in this discussion, Russia, China, these are polluters of the world. These are people who don't buy this climate cost nonsense, and granted, China does a lot of things wrong. There's no acceptance of the way that they do things coming from me, but we are worrying about climate cost when these people are worrying about

taking over entire countries this is it's like what ben shapiro was saying we're like we're going to sanction you and then you can't use the bank and putin's like i want to rebuild the empire and i'll kill anyone to get my way exactly we're not even having the same discussion we want to make sure there's a bow on it before you do it and he's like smashes the wall out of the way and it's like come on i saw this build it. And he's like, smashes the wall out of the way. And it's like, come on. I saw this story. I saw this story the other day. And I'm like, my immediate thought process was shut down the show.

Shut down all the work we're doing. Tim Cass is over. I'm going to go buy a coconut, sit back, put my sunglasses on, put my feet up and be like, it was fun while it lasted. It's time to milk as much time as we got left because baby we are we are going downhill from here this this is i mean this is absurd our priorities are and again it's not to say that these things are not important because i'm not i'm not one to just you know just spit into the wind because that's what you're doing when you're ignoring uh the effects that you do have on the climate. However, we need to have some prioritization of what is important and what is not important. And we've got it seemingly completely upside down.

People are going to vote for the Democrats. In November, there's going to be a midterm and it's going to be close. The Democrats could even win. Not Andy Kim. If you show this article to someone and you're like, Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden decides to stop producing oil and gas. I'm just how are you?

The party of Vladimir Putin is an existential threat. And Trump was colluding with them. And also and also let's shut down our energy production. It's like the people who are like, we don't like the government has all the guns. Let's ban all the guns. Yeah. Except for the government. Except for the. Let's ban all the guns. Yeah. Except for the government. Except for the – yeah, exactly.

I'm just – I'm so ready. That's kind of par for the course at this point, coming from that side. It's the movement of double think and mental gymnastics because somehow to these people, when they go to the ballot box, it makes sense to them. I'm going to buy a machete and a bunch of coconuts, and I'm going to sit downstairs, and I'm just going to machete open those coconuts and drop a straw in there and be like, I'm done. Well, before you do that, I have to say, I will say that I've not seen the term climate cost before,

and that is really interesting to me because it is super vague. It strikes me a little bit as- Yeah, how's that calculated? It strikes me as anti-racism. This is one of the nebulous goals that Black Lives Matter is fighting for. What is climate cost? When will we know if we achieve this goal?

What is the goal? Is there an equation? The opportunity cost of loss of the climate getting hotter? Who's calculating this? Exactly. And if they're linear calculations, they're not accounting for change

in the progression. So if you develop a new technology that can recover the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into graphene, it dramatically changes the direction of our models. And I think it's been clearly shown, at least to my understanding, that of all the things that we can factor in to climate cost and climate change, we're only accounting for a quarter of of the things that actually come into play so this equation that we're that we're basing domestic policy on is not a very good one yeah an asteroid could completely annihilate the surface

yeah that's climate change yeah it's just it's you know it again you you have to prioritize and this is this is this is pure. This is par for the course of what we're seeing. What do we prioritize at home? We're prioritizing all of these ludicrous agendas. Meanwhile, our country is legitimately falling apart from the inside. I can't imagine that the U.S. can survive something as insane as this. I mean, we're talking about our energy infrastructure,

and we're not just talking about that. We're talking about that plus war. When you're a country that cannot put aside, you know, long-term climate goals to deal with present emergencies, existential crises, you're doomed. I mean, it's like the United States is looking at Russia and they're like we would rather die than pollute the air. That's essentially what that headline reads. Yeah. stage one are now thinking so far into the future that they can't look at an actual possible nuclear war and be like, oh,

maybe we should put this on the back burner for maybe a month or two while we figure out... Just a little while. Yeah, just like an actual nuclear war. Just turn them on until we get this situation under control and then we can resume that less important discussion. Yes, I can't believe that. Yo, I don't know, man. What's going to happen? Aliens are going to invade and then... Yes, please. Forces. Save us. Oh, yeah, I think save us.

The solution is meditation it is is prayer and meditation i don't know i heard thoughts for ukraine prayers for ukraine yeah and then and then silent mind you do the prayer of healthy or whatever you want to pray and then absence of thought for as long as you want alex jones told me that if if you uh you do dmt you can speak to the machine elves who will grant you the secrets of the universe. So maybe they're going to help save all of us from whatever this stupidity is. I'm trying to find a conventional way to fix it. It just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse and infected and more black mold.

It's got to be some psychoactive solution. No, there's rumors already that they've already been shuffling off, shuttling out prominent, high-profile political figures into bunkers. Now, I don't know if that's true or not. In Ukraine? No, no, in the United States. Okay. Yeah, I don't know if that's true or not. Well, Trudeau ran away from truckers, so maybe I'm not surprised.

Perhaps, but there's rumors going around that some flights have left and they're going to areas with underground bunkers. I don't know if it's true. Maybe it's not true. I hope it's true. If we're literally on the verge of potential chaos, we need our political leaders. War is happening. Do we? I know.

I hate saying that out loud, but yeah, we do. No, no, no, no, no. Me as an American citizen. I'm not talking about our president or anything like that. I'm talking about just like prominent, high-profile individuals getting ready for war. And no, if our leaders are going to bunkers, it's a good thing. You don't want your king standing out in the field just waving like, I'm the king. I'm in charge here.

I wouldn't mind Joe Biden standing out in the middle of the field right now. At this point, I was wondering, is Kamala Harris a more competent leader? Could you imagine Joe Biden on horseback leading the charge? No, can't. That'd be cool. He wouldn't be able to get up. That'd be wild. They tie him to the horse.

They used to do that with the Weekend at Bernie's. I got to do this, you guys. I have to talk about this man. Oh, the garbage, yes. The garbage. I have to talk to you about a man named Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks, and I don't want to because he's just a pundit. But when we're dealing with an internal

conflict that is effectively an existential threat, you need to understand the sentiment that exists among some of these individuals on the establishment side. Cenk Uygur tweets, right wing doesn't love Putin just because he is an authoritarian tyrannical leader. They love him because he's a white authoritarian leader. Race has become more important than even nationality.

They've turned on democracy and now even America in favor of a white warlord. This may be one of the most insane things I've ever read. Nowhere in these incoherent ramblings was there even a semblance of a thought. Yet this man has millions of followers and does actually have influence over a large portion of the political discourse in this country. Joe Biden is an old white man who is leading the empire of the United States. According to the Young Turks themselves and many of the left, the US is the empire, is the fascist empire. So is Joe Biden not a white tyrannical authoritarian?

Apparently not. Apparently it's Putin. But please show me where right wing individuals are cheering for what Putin is doing. Cenk Uygur highlights Tucker Carlson saying it proves him right because Tucker explained what Putin's mentality was. That's it. And I think that's important to understand. Right. Is it not? It is.

When dealing with who is right now your enemy, is it not good to understand the mentality that they have? It's necessary. To perhaps come to some sort of solution. Yeah, absolutely. They don't want... It's this typical rhetoric today where you don't even attempt to understand the other side.

This is insane. You just declare that they are wrong and hate them. Yeah, I would like to understand Putin's side. I think I don't – I'm not like, yay, I wish he was my leader. But he's – I think as a general goes, if I was like playing a video game and I wanted to put a guy in command of my military, I'd pick him over Biden or Xi Jinping who are both bureaucrats. This guy has got like military experience. He's ex-KGB.

He's cold as ice. He doesn't show emotion on his face. He's a good commander. Now, ethically, that's a-KGB. He's cold as ice. He doesn't show emotion on his face. He's a good commander. Now, ethically, that's a whole other discussion. And we have different – Russia and the United States come from different places, and we have different ethics and morals. That's another conversation. But I have that appreciation for the guy, for his abilities. But just bringing it back to what the U.S. is facing.

But it's not because he's white and what Cenk Uygur said is completely racist. It's not just that. I don't care. There's no substance here. It doesn't matter the ideas he's trying to convey. What matters is that he's just not well. It's white people attacking

white people. It's really disturbing. What does this have to do with race? This is typical, again, talking about priorities of the American mindset. This is what we're worried about. We're worried about white authoritarian leaders. How about just the fact that people are dying? The Young Turks was a genocidal group of Turks in the early 1900s led by Enver Pasha that basically created the Armenian genocide.

Basically, they did. Why would he name his company the young turks and why won't he change the name yeah check dude why i just want to know why it's a cool sounding name i guess listen it's because look man i don't want to be overly reductive here's a guy spouting that they love putin i i certainly don't love putin i don't know but so so you know i'm not going to assume he's talking about me. I'm not right wing, right? No, he's talking about me. I can respect an enemy without being in love with the guy.

Cenk calls me right wing whenever they do segments about me. Certainly, whatever that means, fine. But to imply that I am involved in any kind of love for Putin is psychotic. Cenk Uygur doesn't, I don't think he reads. I don't think he pays attention. And I think he actually, look, I'm going to come out and say it. He named his organization, the Young Turks, a genocidal group of people. He even denied the existence of the Armenian genocide until, I think, like 10 years ago

or something like that. So even while he had the Young Turks, he's like, it never happened or something like that. And then he apologizes for it. I can respect the apology for it 100%. Bro, change the name of your organization. It's like, and this is something that comes up all the time. But this dude has the nerve to come out and claim the right loves Putin because he's an authoritarian, tyrannical leader.

Dude literally names his organization after people who carried out a genocide and refuses, refuses to change its name. Dude, don't get your moral lessons from these people. This tweet should be enough to know this dude's lost his mind. And this is coming from the authoritarian left. I mean, these are the same people that champion Antifa. And exactly. It's such cognitive dissonance. They're talking about authoritarian leaders.

What have we been experiencing over the past two years with mandates? These people have championed rule byby-mandate sort of governing. Rule-by-decree. Rule-by-decree. Does he support that? I haven't really followed that. He doesn't talk highly of Antifa. I would go ahead and bet heavily.

I would too, yeah. I would go ahead and bet heavily that he was pro-lockdown, that he was probably pro-vaccine mandate and all of that. And if I'm wrong, correct me. But coming from that portion of the left, these are people that love, love big government. Look at this when it caters to them. You know, look, I hate to talk about him

because he needs this kind of attention. He doesn't nearly get as much attention as he used to or whatever. He says, I'm sure the fake left in America, Tulsi Gabbard, et cetera, who are still pretending to be progressive, are livid about this attack on civil rights, let alone Putin's unmitigated imperialism. I'm sure those pundits and award winning journalists are speaking out forcefully, right? Yes. Russia arresting protesters is wrong. One hundred percent. wrong 100 what world does this man live in or his followers that they think the right likes putin because he's a white tyrannical leader and that they're happy he's arresting people this is a

fabricated reality that doesn't exist yeah where where where's the evidence that that that thought even has been put out there by anybody credible that represents yeah the right i really don't like assumptions in general yeah i mean that's just one of those things where it's like at least show me a tweet from somebody who's got as many followers as you do. That has said like, yeah, Putin, go get him. Exactly. I mean these people love creating enemies where there is none and boogeyman's where there are none. The weird thing is it's like you said these people. Cenk changed.

It didn't used to be – he he's same guy but different behavior he used to be real anti-war and really like talking about right now he'd be talking about iraq if it was 2007 and like how we are the reason that other countries are invading i know he knows that but to get hung up on this crap man i think he's just doubled down and gone crazy with it but listen listen obviously what he said was insane obviously the right is not cheering for protesters being arrested who are opposing this obviously they're not out there supporting putin he's trying to make it seem like because tucker carlson says that putin does not like western influence in ukraine here's their perspective that it's support of putin but then what happens is a bunch of other american establishment left personalities defend his insane idea going that yeah for tribal

reasons because the right now mocks jen cougar they're going to come out back he's right it's a fact now his psychotic statement is now a fact among these leftists the battle of cult worship and ignore ignoring the fact that what tucker carlson is saying is a mere fact yeah tucker talking about the fact that vladimir putin is uh hostile towards western european influence is a fact that's not that's not a that's not a supporting statement of any kind there's no emotion in that statement that is a black and white fact they said he echoed putin's talking points echoed he literally told his audience what putin said he echoed Putin's talking points. Echoed? He literally told his audience what Putin said.

He's educating. Oh, yeah. It's amazing. His job is to echo talking points, I believe. Putin says that the Ukrainian administration is a Western puppet.

And then Tucker Carlson on his show says, Vladimir Putin views Ukraine as a Western puppet. In 2014, you know, the ousting of Yanukovych and they're like, he's echoing his talking points.

Well, how else is he supposed to tell people what's happening in that country? I feel like this is a step further. I feel like this is a step further on the removing the context thing, like what they did with Joe Rogan. He said the N-word, supposedly, whatever. They completely removed all context. He made it seem like he was insulting someone. So now what they do with Tucker is say he's echoing his talking points just by saying that this is what he said he's reporting the news he's telling his journalist exactly he actually is a journalist in fact that's misleading telling

someone someone's talking points is different than echoing them exactly echoing them as claiming that you agree with it and you're repeating right exactly echoing would be like yeah and i think that's really bad too exactly i'll put it this way. The way Tucker explained what was going on, he spoke factually, but it was very much what it's. There are certain things that are happening in Ukraine that Vladimir Putin has stated, which are easy facts. Simply by saying, here's a fact of something that happened in Ukraine. The issue is U.S. corporate press lies. They've been they lied about Joe Biden. They lied about Joe Biden as quid pro quo. And if you tell the truth on that, you're echoing Putin.

Joe Biden absolutely engaged in illegal quid pro quo. You're talking about his charisma? And Vladimir Putin sees that and he says, so the prosecutor in the administration is fired because putin uh because i'm sorry because biden uh threatened to take away illegally but mind you aid from the united states it's so obviously an american puppet that country well you're you're you're echoing putin now that that's salinski you see how that works now now just by observing corruption you are now in support of Russian agendas. So the Russian agendas are in support of me because it was my – I saw it coming two years ago, and I claimed it then. The Zelensky stuff is not – dude, Biden goes in there. He basically – I don't know what you would call – browbeated the president to fire a guy that was examining a company that his son was on the board of.

So the president fired the guy. And then when Biden was a VP, when he left office after Trump gets in, the guy comes back. He bragged about it. He bragged about it on stage. Yeah. We've talked about this so many times, which was so important to understand. But a video of him doing it. If you say that, then you're echoing Russian propaganda.

I want to now get into sort of the, what's the right word? Irreverence of the psychosis here. We have this story. I don't know what this is. Sismacht? Actress? Oh, actress is mocked. Jeez, proofread your headlines.

For uploading a video of herself reading a self-penned poem saying she wishes she'd been Putin's mom so she could have hugged him to stop him turning into a warmonger. Actress Anna Lynn McCord, 34, posted a bizarre poem online Thursday about her desire to be Putin's mother. Putin, 69, ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Do they have this? Let's play it. Oh, wait, I've got to turn the sound on, don't I?

You guys ready for this one? Yeah. Okay. Here we go. Dear President Vladimir Putin, I'm so sorry that I was not your mother. That was when I paused at the first time. Oh, come on.

The stupid thing's not working. I was like, this is cringe. It's really quiet anyway. So cringe. All right, is it going to work now? Never would the stories plight the world unfurled before our eyes, a pure demise of nations sitting peaceful under a night sky.

All right, all right. We're not going to listen to this. Oh my gosh. The problem I have with that is it wasn't genuine. She wasn't saying it. She was just reading a poem with like cadence to it.

It didn't sound like she actually meant it that's why i just gotta say like that's unbearably cringe something is we we have a malignancy in in in this in this country of vapid shells of people who do things like this where they're like i don't know about ukraine i don't care about russia i heard the name putin in the news let me make a video you know what social media was a mistake yep there are just some people that shouldn't be allowed to post yep i am kidding by this is a joke they should be censored all right maybe minors shouldn't be able to post i don't know well she's 34 in she should know better you look at this's half the age. You look at this and it's so absurd you don't even know what to start with.

Who is this Hollywood actress and what does she have to do or what does she know about? 90210, man. Come on. Don't you know? And what does this poem help? I mean this is typical like the toxic American culture where we think like if enough hearts bleed and we shed enough tears and hashtag hard enough, like we're going to solve world problems. Like this is going to come across Vladimir Putin's desk and a tear is going to like – just a single tear is going to just drop from his like stone stature. And you know what? He's going to say, let's pull back.

He's going to slam the table. And the invasion. She was right. And I too wish you were my mother. I think this reminds me of – there's this like kind of idea like, oh, if I go back and help Hitler when he was a baby and like give him the kindness he needed to become an artist, maybe he wouldn't have become a psychoactive, psychological dictator. But I think that's this idea. He did do crazy drugs, though. Yeah, he was all on amphetamines.

He was just shell-shocked from World War I, destroyed mind. This girl, I think, is doing that with Putin. She's like, oh, if somehow I could have reached his inner child, then maybe he wouldn't be so vile. No, I'm very cynical about this. Have you guys ever heard this lady's name before in your life? No. No? Ian? No? This person? Never heard of this lady? No.

Yeah, I haven't either. Until today. Hey, look, she's getting... It says she was on 90210, so I guess that makes her somewhat credible. I mean, she's got like 200,000 followers. She's getting older. I would imagine, right, the 90210 reboot. I know the original. If I was your mother, you would have been so loved oh man

so they're trying that this is like this is uh this is american you know uh toxic culture trying or hollywood culture trying to tie this to like toxic masculinity in some way we're a silly people dude if you want and again look at our priorities we're like're like Putin. Like if you just had a mother, it would be okay. And it's like let's not talk about like any of the other factors in this. His mom is like – look at this. Look at this. Look at this. Hold on.

Hold on. It's a picture. It says, although McCord blames the family matriarch, Putin's mother, Maria Shalimova, has been characterized by others as a kind factory worker who secretly baptized him. Could you imagine, you know, if anything, you know what's going to happen? Putin's going to be like, what did you say about my mother? About my mother. I understand wanting to emotionally connect with Vladimir Putin right now, and you have the technology to do it, so you may as well try.

But don't read a script, man. It's a poem that you wrote that you're – come on. Do it genuinely if you're going to do it. Otherwise, you're just burning the ground you walk on. It's just there's so much insanity. This isn't the only insane thing. There's this post from a lady and she's like, the only reason that Putin is allowed to wage war is because he's white. I was just trying to find that as we were reading this other headline.

If a black or brown man had invaded Ukraine, it would have been swiftly dealt with. And it's like, what? It would have been allowed, they said. It wouldn't have been allowed. Allowed. None of this is allowed. And again, it just goes to highlight how little these people actually understand the gravity and the severity of the situation that is unfolding right before our eyes. These people vote.

That's scary. It is. It's very scary. And I think it was Thomas Edison that said the greatest threat to a democracy is an uneducated public. And we are looking at millions of them at this point. Oh, man. Zombie hordes. People who vote with their emotions. I'm quite certain that this woman went out and probably voted against Trump because she thought his tweets were mean.

Yep. That's exactly it. That's a good point. This story of this woman saying, if I was your mother, you would have been so held. It shows the stupidity, the ignorance. And I would bet a large sum of money she voted Joe Biden. Oh, for sure. Yeah, I would absolutely bet that. I cannot imagine. and and i would i would bet a large sum of money she voted joe biden oh for sure yeah i would i

i would absolutely bet that i do i cannot imagine i mean who knows maybe she she voted for trump i really doubt it it's crazy you know you see these people and they say things like well it's a good thing trump's not president and i'm like is it but it's bad like the bad thing happened like it didn't all of that all of the things that you said were going to happen under trump are happening right now yeah the bad things didn't happen under trump exactly it's it's all happening now it's remarkable that they're like well if if trump was president everything would be a whole lot worse and it's like but it wasn't you had him as president the economy was great putin didn't invade ukraine biden gets in and then he does within a year

and you think the issue is putin would have done it anyway and it would have been worse with Trump? All right, man. Some people are just lost. No, I don't think you can even start to reason with that because that's that. They have already made up their mind. And anything you throw is going to lead them back to their original conclusion no matter what. Yeah. And it comes from just a genuine lack of understanding of understanding i think to the severity of the situation and and

lydia what you were saying earlier about how the um the the less people understood where ukraine was the more the more they wanted intervention i guarantee that if you put a globe in front of this this young lady here that she will not be able to find Ukraine at all. Probably five guesses and she probably still would not be able to get it. You could play Wordle with her and say, guess the letters and she still would be like, what's Ukraine?

Ukraine? It's pronounced Ukraine. I thought it was U-C-R-A-N-E. Close, but not quite. This is why I'm talking about just buying all those coconuts and sitting back and just macheting them open and see that straw in there and just sit back. I remember the good old days.

I went to Rio once. Dollar. It's like a buck for a coconut. Yeah, right. It's everywhere. You sit on the beach. You walk right out of your hotel and you sit on the beach and you just get a coconut. Right in Copacabana right there.

Oh, dude. Have you ever been? Yes. Oh, it's amazing. I went during Carnival. Oh, nice. Yes. Nice. And they got snacks in Copacabana right there. Oh, dude. Have you ever been? Yes. Oh, it's amazing. I went during Carnival. Oh, nice. Yes. Nice.

And they got snacks and food. They got street food. Yeah, man. Meat on a stick right in the street. That's right. Yep. Yeah, it's good living. See, that's what I'm thinking about.

Let me know if you go. Well, I do have a Brazilian visa. There you go. I'm just thinking, you know, as it all comes crumbling down, maybe we should spend time with our loved ones and smile. It's like, have you seen the movie Don't Look Up? At the end when they're all at the table holding hands and it's like the world's about to end. I'm like, that's kind of how I feel right now.

I know. I feel very – I made a video last night that I didn't end up uploading because it was so – it got so dark. Like I want to believe that we're better than animals, but we're just animals. Someone super chatted, she was trying to kill Putin by getting him to die laughing. Could you imagine if this story comes out that Putin had a stroke,

and then there's a photo of him on the ground confirming it, and on his phone is a picture of the woman and a big smile on his face. And then someone's like, I think he laughed himself into a stroke and died. I think this woman. The war is over. I think this woman stopped World War III.

She actually did it. The mad woman. All it took was one poem. I wanted to ask you, Ian, about Attila's gym a little bit before we go to Super Chats. You guys down? I don't know. We haven't talked about it really. I want to briefly mention just a little bit just what's going on with Taiwan and then give me 30 seconds.

So we didn't talk about it all too much, but I just want to make sure we squeeze this in a little bit. Fox News reports Taiwan warns Chinese aircraft flying in air defense zone day of Russia-Ukraine invasion. This is just China being like, we're going to whip it out. We're going to flap it around because we can. The U.S. is in a rough spot. You're totally distracted. They do this. They do it often, the pressing on Taiwan.

But I think this is, man, you know, in all seriousness, we could talk about this lady being crazy, but there's – I'm worried about what's coming. You know what I mean? Well, we get for invading Iraq and not getting our government out of there, man. Well, it goes right along with what we said earlier. What do you do? Do you step in? You step into Ukraine, right? Do we commit X amount of troops there, right?

Just walk through it. You say you put 50,000 troops there. Then what happens when the Chinese say, okay, well, we see you have 50,000 troops in Ukraine, and we're going to put 100,000 on Taiwan. What's America's next step in that situation? And how far do our alliances and entanglements go before we say this is not going to end well for anybody and we're going to step out of this? Yeah, the Taiwan thing. But at the same time, how do you just let these things happen? If we're taking our border protection off our own border to go to poland china knows we are spread too thin we've already gone too far yeah dude i mean that's canned i would read that exactly the same way if i

was in in charge of the chinese military yeah america's in disarray right now thank god but let's let's let's let's let's find a couple minutes talking about uh atilis well the thing about taiwan the last thing i'll say is in a war game scenario, what do you do with Taiwan if it's invaded? Do you level it to the ground like scorched earth and like no one can have it? This is where you make 60% of the world's microchips or processing, like computer software. You can't give that to your enemy in a war scenario. You can't. So it's like blowing up a factory that makes the atom bomb before they take it over.

You can't let them have that factory. But I've never been to Taiwan. I don't know the scope and scale of leveling the island to the ground. Why would we do that? Because if you allow the Chinese to take control of the production. You'd be killing millions of people. No, no. They would do it systematically before they left the island.

They would blow up all the infrastructure. The Chinese aren't going to let anybody off that island. Millions of people aren't going to blow up their own homeland and flee. That's a lose-lose situation to get into. Most people don't get away during scorcher. You probably don't hear a lot about that. And the Chinese probably know that. The Chinese probably know that

if they step into Taiwan, it is a lose-lose scenario for the American military. What do we have? What is it going to take to defend Taiwan? It would take probably a full-scale war.

And that becomes a game of chicken. China says, hey, we're going to do it. and we say no you better not well we're going to do it your border patrol agents are over in ukraine right now you're helpless yeah how how strong are you you know and if if you're somebody like taiwan who is on an aggressive footing and you you're looking at Joe Biden in the way he's handled everything so far, I'm going to call your bluff. And if that's something that I wanted to do, I wouldn't look at the United States right now as a credible threat to stopping. The Chinese said it straight to, I think it was Anthony Blinken.

They said the U.S. is not coming from a position of strength. Yeah. You know what I was thinking when we're talking about this stuff like the soviet union united states you've got these two like jocks on the playground you know fighting each other and there's some like fat asian kid chubby kid in the corner who's like not part of the fight or anything now everyone's older and going to high school and they see the kid for the first time and he's six foot tall and super ripped and he's like get out of my way yeah exactly and now the fight between you know the russian kid for the first time and he's six foot tall and super ripped and he's like, get out of my way. Yeah, exactly. And now the fight between the Russian kid and the American kid is getting interesting because the ripped Asian kid is walking up

to the Russian guy like, I got your back, bro. It's like, oh. Yeah. The Russian guy's like, I'm going to pick you first. And the Chinese guy's like, no, I'm going to pick you first. Get it? They want to be the leader. They want to be the team captain.

Somebody mentioned that it's called the dragon bear. China andussia the dragon it's a horrifying creature so like world war three is what the the silly nannies versus the dragon bears no it would be corporations versus i don't think none of those donalds nobody really wants it except the corporate drones like they don't care and i mean literally physical drones mechanical drones they don't have any feelings and then the people that are locked into the corporate media they don't care because their their emotions are drained well we saw uh i don't know if you guys saw the the cnn clip where they're um yes which one so there's literal bombings it's kiev it's oh that's right the air right side i mean if if there's, if there's not more of a... If you've ever seen the movie

Idiocracy, I mean, that is like you're like, wow, we are living part two. They are putting Applebee's five for five happy hour deals right over top of literal bombing footage. This is great. And in the worst way.

This is not great. There it is. Yeah, right there. You guys ready? Wait, wait. I'm going to start it over. This is from CNN. Here we go.

Here we go. 19 seconds long. Brought to you by. And a little bit of chicken. No beer on a Friday night. I gotta admit though the air raid sirens lead up very well when they started that song then they dropped the beat

and then when I heard it I was like I'm watching these air raid sirens and I'm like this is the end but a cold beer on a Friday night sounds pretty good get drunk with your friends and most Americans And then when I heard it, I was like, I'm watching these air raid sirens and I'm like, this is the end. But a cold beer on a Friday night sounds pretty good. Get drunk with your friends, everyone. And most Americans probably had a similar experience to that terrifyingly.

It's like war brought to you by Applebee's. Oh, war till Friday. Then I get to have my beer and my chicken wings. Like, dude, why would this? You know, someone pressed the button. Yeah. Like, so when we do live stream, there's a button on YouTube where I can turn an ad on. We never do it, but you can click it and then, you know, a certain amount of people who are watching see an ad.

It's pointless to do. Someone at CNN. It was like, now. It's my last day. Here I go. No, they were probably like, they were like, this kind of jams. Yeah. Let's get it.

I love this song. Drop the beat. Go. They're like, because they have like a, I think they have like a, they have a switcher. So someone heard the air raid sirens and then was like, they're like waiting for it. They got turntables and then they switch. Yeah, bring it up. And then you have that like that dude doing the weird butt shuffle.

It's like this is the weirdest thing. And it's still showing the air raids. Yeah, they're in the background. They haven't gone away. Wow, that is American idiocracy. It is. I mean, I remember watching that movie 10, 15 years ago and laughing at it because that's so absurd.

And it's like, wow, well and it's like wow well that's you know the only thing they need like next is a commercial about like you know electrolytes i actually i like apple bees they got good they got like they got they got good wings i don't know how they what they fry stuff in that's my only i'll tell you this i never i didn't like apple bees i'm sure it's probably not good whatever it is i went to an apple bees i got sick and the food was awful i was, I'm never coming here again. Crapplebee's, I think they called it. But we were ordering, and they have this trick where you go on Grubhub.

Oh, yeah. And it was called something. I can't remember. It was like Libby's Barbecue or something. I can't remember. And then I was like, oh, no, no, no. It was like Kitchen Wings. And then I was like, we're going to order wings and sauce.

And so I ordered a bunch of wings. And when it came, it came in Applebee's bags. What? And I was like, they tricked me. They create fake restaurants that serve only a certain thing so that people who are like, I don't want Applebee's,

I want wings will still buy from Applebee's and then I was like, it's actually pretty good and so now we just straight order from Applebee's sometimes. It's not true. The old bait and switch.

The old bait and switch. They got Applebee's cheese sticks before I got into like health consciousness. I loved Applebee's. Are they the ones who have the coconut shrimp? Because that's really good too. I think so. With like the before I got into like health consciousness. That was, I loved Applebee's. Are they the ones who have the coconut trips? That's really good too. I think so.

With like the sriracha. I worked there like years and years and years ago as like a teenager. I'm sure it's probably still on the menu. What was your position? Server. Oh, nice. Before you were 18? Yeah.

Oh, cool. We also order from Ruby Tuesdays. We live kind of in the middle of nowhere. So we have like, we have few options. Yeah, a few choices. It's like either pick up from a local pizzeria or something, or you can order from these medium-sized chains. Can you give us a brief update on Attila's?

Because we're about to go to Superchats. We've got about a minute. Yeah, absolutely. What's the status? We are still open. We just actually passed 365,000 registered visits to the facility. We still have a voluntary contact tracing system in place. We put that in place originally just so that nobody could say, hey, you're spreading coronavirus.

And to date, we've had no outbreaks linked to the facility. We have a storage unit full of 365,000 slips of paper, just to prove a point. But we're open every day. We have no less than 500 healthy, happy people coming through. We're still in the court system. We have an appeals process going on with all of the fines and the hundreds of thousands of dollars that they find us. We have an appeal process going on to sue the township so that we can get our business license back because we shut down our billing in March of 2020 and have not resumed it since. And then we're finally getting to municipal court that was kicked down the road for two years because of COVID. And that's where we can actually bring forth like legitimate arguments about constitutional violations and things of the sort. We've been narrowed to very narrow scopes of argument being caught with court orders and stuff like that.

And we also just pled guilty to criminal contempt of court for the heinous crime of taking our doors off of the hinges. And we got one year of probation for that. Wow. What do you mean by we? Like your store or you? Me and my business partner. Wow.

The company got charged or did you guys get it? No, individually we got charged. They pierced through the LLC for all of this. So we're personally liable for the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars of this. So we're all, we're personally liable for the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars of fines. And they brought criminal, criminal citations

against both Frank and I. To give context, tell us, you guys basically right when COVID came out and they started putting lockdowns and shutdowns, you guys just basically

said no, we're staying open? Two months in, we reopened. Day three or four is when we decided that we were going to reopen, but we took our time over the next six weeks

to develop a very comprehensive safety protocol program because we knew that we were going to get pushback. And we didn't want to just open just to open recklessly. We wanted to open because at the time, we truly believed that COVID was a credible threat, but that there could be some sort of happy medium between shutting the world down and mitigating the spread of COVID. So we opened two months after, in May of 2020, and we've been open ever since,

no matter what they did. All right. Let's go to Super Chats, though. If you haven't already, smash that Like button, subscribe to the channel, share the show with your friends. Head over to TimCast.com. We're going to have a members-only segment coming up for you around 11 or so p.m. We're going to be talking about conspiracy theories, about why Vladimir Putin really attacked.

It'll be interesting. It has something to do with biolabs. You'll want to check this one out. But let's get into the Super Chats for now. Get your Super Chats in now, and we'll try and read as many as we can all right la party says i don't know how alex jones does it but he called it again check out the video from memology 101 he was right again all right i don't look at this might be a video i think i saw from last october where alex was like uh apparently my sources are telling me there's going to be some sort of military war conflict in February. Really?

This is from my sources. He tends to be proven right by time. Yeah, this is awesome. He's got a pretty good track record over time of being right ahead of the curve. I think he knows a lot of the right people. There's a lot of noise in there. Yes. A lot of stuff he says is noise.

Well, when you throw a lot of crap at the wall, some of it will stick, but I think he's been right on some pretty important things along the way. Ryan Johnson says, Johnston, sorry, as much as I despise the administration, I will go back into the USMC if we have World War III because it is the best hope for the

survival of the Constitution. My life is swore to the Constitution. Right on. I respect that tremendously. That's a scary thing to sign up for. survival of the constitution my life is swore uh the constitution to the constitution right on i respect that tremendously that's that's a scary thing to sign up for yeah willingly omg puppy says america did fan the flames they led ukraine in a path to destruction with the coup d'etat in 2014 and encouraging them to antagonize russia and become a nuclear nato member russia could not permit that there wasn't there was a uh call it a coup, but the president was removed. This is when Zelensky got put into office?

I don't know if it was Zelensky. Was it Zelensky or was it? Check that out. Who was it? 2014. Might have been. Yeah, take a look at who it was. Was it Poroshenko or was he?

I'm not sure. I don't know. But Yanukovych was ousted, and he was the president of the country. KT Sky says, you are always wrong. Ian is always right. Oh. Well, there you go. Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Okay, let's grab some more super chats here. Grand Kai says, didn't Biden give a list putin of infrastructure not to attack after one meeting could this whole thing be planned with china and russia given all the connection between them and the elites no i don't i don't know that sounds ridiculous because you know putin's he he's he's too headstrong he's too into himself i really doubt it but um biden giving a list of things not to attack was like just pathetic diplomacy where he was like all right if you do attack us just don't do these and everyone's like did you just give him a list of critical infrastructure to attack yep that's kind of what that is right again that's

going back to that idea that we shouldn't really be talking open strategy uh or weaknesses yeah you know in in our mainstream media we should kind of keep that stuff under wraps oh mr was it arseny yet senyuk was the interim governor governor for ukraine after the revolution governor petro poroshenko became the president yeah he was governing until poroshenko became president all right mr slendy says these aren't goat farmer militias in the desert anyone who has has been spoiled by the proxy wars on the other side of the world wake up these are enemies who can reach out and touch us with fire and death. Yikes, man. That's true.

Very true. Man. Alex Law says all Russia has to do is turn off the gas supply to Europe if anyone, including the U.S., retaliates in any way. That's right. Yep. That is true and correct and scary. They are beholden. Wow, man.

It's not like we're going to come in and subsidize that in any way. Yeah. Bob says, Tim, room 34 is real, but that substation can only run the subways on the island, not the whole system like the legend says. Interesting. That's a secret room. What do they call it? Room 34.

Room 34. No, I don't think that's true. Is that what it's called? That's cool's true. Is that what it's called? That's cool, though. Is that what it's called? He seems like he knows what he's talking about. Is that real? Let me find out.

Room 34. No. Not seeing it. I think it's a quick search. Oh. Inside the secret life of New York's Grand Central. There you go. Is that what it is?

Maybe, yeah. Architecturaldigest.com. Huh. I think I read it in the New York Times. Ooh, Grand Central's amazing. And we were talking about, um, having privatizing the train tracks or like having not privatizing,

giving naming rights, naming rights, the infrastructure, having like, uh, um, Amazon and FedEx bring, create like hubs in the city and then overhaul and,

and maintain all the tracks. Be cool to have a big grand central, like shopping mall. I think at grand central, that'd be really cool. All right. Alex Hil shopping mall, I think, at Grand Central. That'd be really cool. All right. Alex Hilbert says, hey, Tim, I'm a paratrooper in the 82nd that works in an S2 shop. Intelligence, I appreciate your attention to detail.

And I have to say, keep up the good work. Ian, keep rolling 20s. Hey, thanks, man. I really appreciate it. Heck yeah, man. I mean, look, I read a lot of different news sources. And when claims are made, I try and find alternate sources. And I try and find root sources to make sure that I'm getting the real, legit information.

And when a lot of the information is based off of videos on Twitter, it's like, how do you really confirm it? Like when someone posts a video of a tank rolling, and I'm like, how do I know that's Russia? Yeah, you don't even know where that is just because it says that. Luke tweeted out, like, airplanes flying overhead, and it was like the Russian invasion has commenced. And people in the comments were like, this is from a year ago. This out like airplanes flying overhead and it was like the Russian invasion has commenced and people in the comments were like this is from a year ago. This is like a flying exercise. We, you know, this morning when I woke up I heard quite a bit of

air traffic. We're really close to DC out here. Interesting. And so there were some helicopters and some other you know, flights. Sometimes we see Ospreys. It's cool. You ever see those? They have the props that can turn up and go forward. Yeah, those are cool. Yeah, i wonder where they're going but um you know dc's nearby plus we got mount weather right over here i told luke that he needs to get out of florida i was like you don't

want to be in florida right now because it's a peninsula and you know i don't know what's going to happen but if you're concerned about this escalating florida's not a good place to be and he's like you're right next to Mount Weather. It's like the emergency bunker. And I'm like, I didn't say we were in a good spot. I'm just saying. We just have better ways to exit. Yeah, right.

Well, no, but I'm just saying like, Florida's not a good place to be if you think war is coming. All right. James Rogers says, Tim, I really wish you'd stop pushing this narrative that we're all going to war.

All we will do is push sanctions and give aid. Russia is manufacturing a false narrative and your hatred of Biden is making you fall for it. Stop. I actually gave credit to Biden. I think, I think James, you might, might be, uh, have an optimism bias or a normalcy bias. I actually said, I don't blame Biden for everything that's going on. Uh, I think, uh, Vladimir Putin's exploiting situation he's long wanted to pursue. I think a lot of the problems we've been facing with inflation is easily attributable to COVID. But I think Joe Biden's at a bad job as well. Yeah. And when it comes to the situation in Ukraine, Biden isn't entirely at fault. He's mishandling the situation. But a lot

of a lot of the restrictions and the things you have to take into account are from years and years of foreign policy. So even if he's making the wrong choices, he's operating on a playing field that he didn't necessarily lay out in front of him. So is it his fault entirely? No, but he's the one steering the ship. So I think that we should be looking towards him to make the best decisions that he can, given the set of circumstances in front of him. And on top of that, I just want to point out, I mean, when have we talked about stripping out a nuclear power from the swift payment system or the U.S. directly attacking Russia? This is not. We're not talking about Afghanistan or Iraq. This is not proxy wars. It's not

Syria. This is the U.S. being like, yeah, well, two superpowers. Is Russia a superpower? I guess they are. They still are Syria. This is the U.S. being like, yeah, we'll go after it. These are two superpowers butting heads. Is Russia a superpower? I guess they are. They still are. They got nukes. Their GDP is nowhere near the U.S. and China. It's the size of Florida. Yeah.

It's the size of Florida? Yeah, it is. Ha! Yeah. See, that's why Putin's mad because he used to be a bully on the playground. He keeps rolling through Eastern Europe. He's going to have a little bit more in that that's right in that armory and and when you have china who has clearly backed him already i mean that doesn't matter so much that he's got a small smaller gdp if also if you're calculating gdp if they've got a trillion gdp

and fiat you've got a trillion gdp and bitcoin your bitcoin trillion is worth a lot more than that trillion of fiat if you measure the calculate the way the fiat is headed inflation-wise. So GDP may look small on paper, but it might be better currency. All right. Keegan Mooney says, fourth attempt this week. In the immortal words of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, watch Attack on Titan. Real quote. Real-life parallels are only getting realer.

Really? I've only seen a little bit of Attack on Titan. I should check it out. It's where they fight the giants? Yeah, the Titans. The movie shows wild. And they've got these weird things on their hips

that have like that fire cable so they can launch themselves in the air. Really disturbing art. Worth seeing. Just to put your eyes on it to see the art. It's really weird.

Really crazy. Hank McCormick says a hundred suitcase-sized nukes missing from the Russian stockpile since the 90s. How many Russian sleeper cells are out there? I don't know, man, but maybe there's Tom Cruise with a crack team of special agents keeping us safe. No, no.

What if Tom Cruise actually was the secret agent for Mission Impossible and the movies are to cover up the explosions? They say they're just doing stunts, special effects. He was a fighter pilot in Top Gun. That's right. Top Gun. Makes sense. That proves it. Yep, I'm sold. He up the explosions. They say they're just doing stunts, special effects. He was a fighter pilot in Top Gun. That's right. That makes sense. That proves it. Yep, I'm sold. He's the hero.

Yeah. He does a lot of his own stunts, I hear, though. He broke his foot that one time filming Mission Impossible. He jumped between two roofs and then, like, rooftop. Oh, stuntman. Oh, gee. Yep. All right.

Let's see what we got here. Christopher Mass,sey says, As an Afghan vet, I feel qualified to say not only did the idiots in the swamp lose a winnable war, but it took 11 years to kill a guy that was living in caves. But they're going to outsmart Putin? Yep. Doubt. Man, that's why I'm saying I'm not confident.

And these are the people that we should be listening to, not the girl reading the poem on the internet. These are people who have experienced conflict and who understand that there's really no winners in this situation and that we should be trying to resolve this as diplomatically as possible and with as few casualties as possible because any American conflict in the past 20, 30 years has not brought this country any form of good. It's only hurt people like this, these veterans. And we know a lot of these guys because these are the guys that come to our gym. And these are the guys that have seen it and seen that these are not wars that we want to get involved in. We want to prevent these wars, if anything. Yeah.

All right. We got Amy Beth Quinn says, Tim, can you give a big shout out to Wes, a fan of yours who is currently hauling my family's stuff in a semi from Washington to Tennessee as we move from tyranny to more freedom? And Lydia, I have a super guest recommendation for you. Check out Jim Stroud on RumbleAndAnchor.fm. I will do that. Shout out, Wesoud on RumbleAndAnchor.fm. I will do that. Shout out, Wes. Very cool. Nice job, Wes.

Vsidious says, you really need to get Scott Horton of Antiwar.com on. He broke down the politics and history of the Ukraine-Russia conflict expertly on Dave Smith's podcast. We've had Scott, right? We have. Yeah, we skated with him.

He came on the show, and then afterwards, it's like midnight, and he's like, let's skate the mini ramp. And I was like, bro, it's a minute. I got to wake up. But I did a kickflip pivot. So that's a sick trick, and I was very stoked that I landed it. You'd be cool to have Dave Smith and Scott on.

Yeah, that's a good idea. If they're available. Yeah. It'd be great to have some anti-war personalities talking about what's going on. Let's see what we got here in these super chats richard bloom says when has any communist or fascist or bully ever had enough study economics growth through expansion is the only way they succeed yeah chris williams says why do you think russia wants chernobyl so badly

i i think they want to secure the country. Symbolism? No, I don't think they want Chernobyl so badly. I think they moved into the north. Chernobyl is very close to Kiev and they're taking strategic points. They can use it to their advantage and they're going to move into Kiev.

There you go, man. Ellen Rogers says, so much for 69th generational propaganda to sign up digital warfare, eh, Tim? Looks like guns, tanks, and planes are here to stay. Oh, I never said they were going to be gone. I was saying that a key portion of the war is going to, like, war will be fought

through propaganda, but what you've got to understand about hot war with planes, tanks, guns, and all that stuff, is when the propaganda stops working, then you escalate your tensions. You know, are we going to see nukes launched? We've seen gravity bombs dropped in World War II, and that was it. Are we going to see nukes launched? We've seen gravity bombs dropped in World War II, and that was it. Are we going to see ICBMs be actually used for the first time?

I certainly hope not. But they could be. Could be, man. Seth says, was delighted to tune in tonight to see you were able to get Nordic Kratos on. Yeah. Did people call you that or something? Kratos. I love it. you that or something? Kratos? No, but I'm guessing he was talking about me.

I got a feeling. Oh yeah, it's Kratos, the guy from God of War. You do look like him. He's a beast. God of War. How fitting for tonight's show. I've been talking about de-escalation of conflict the entire night.

I'm not doing my job no livin says do you think this will result in biden having to re-establish our energy independence rolling back restrictions on fracking and restoring keystone now i i did want to read this even though we did address it because i just want to uh reiterate biden recently in the past few days suspended leases on oil and gas. Yes. 20 seconds. That would be a fantastic step in the right direction from Joe Biden. I would take him a lot more seriously as somebody who is protecting the interests of this country if I saw a move like that. You know what we were saying the other day is could you imagine if for the State of the Union he comes out and he's like, my fellow Americans, we've done a bad job.

Inflation's through the roof. Our policies haven't worked. War has erupted in Eastern Europe and we're not sure how to handle it. Afghanistan was an absolute disaster. It was on my watch and my fault and I'm sorry. Could you imagine? I'd respect him if he did that. I would too.

I would be like, wow. I'd be like, all right, man. After coming clean and saying all that and just owning up to it, I'd be like, let me know what you need. I'll help you fix it. You come out here and honestly say like – That would be a powerful statement from any world leader. Right. But good luck getting that.

I'm sorry. Like someone super chatted the other day. They were like, God bless his speech writers for the State of the Union. What are they going to write? This has been a terrible past year. They put up a fence already. I don't know what you're going to write about it. COVID was worse than it was under Trump.

There were more deaths. Inflation is through the roof. Gas prices have doubled. Afghanistan was bungled. There's a war breaking out in Europe. We could have seen it all coming. What if he quits? What if he's like, I'm out, and he drops the mic and just leaves?

I'm going to get some ice cream. And then Kamala is like, is this thing on? What would actually be way better if he comes out with his aviator sunglasses and he's got the ice cream cone and he's like, and then instead of speaking, he just goes like, you're screwed, bucko, and he walks out. I don't know, Jack. Look fat.

Look fat. Look fat. i love it he should just come out with one of those stories where he starts just talking about like kids touching his legs and he should just just come out right from the rip with something that has nothing to do with the state of the union and just do one of those like shuffles where he walks away real quick as everybody's just bewildered trying to ask questions. Yes. Yeah, I mean, now's the time. Yeah, dramatic exit. He's got an audience. RM says, you are missing the point. The U.S. enticed Ukraine to give up their nuclear arsenal

and agreed to back Ukraine and Russia if Russia came knocking. Does anyone think Russia would invade if Ukraine had nukes? That's right. Yeah, some people were mentioning there was a deal the U.S. had with Ukraine that we would back them up. I don't know about it. I don't know. But there we go, man. I'd like to know more about that if you guys have any info odd stance says i hope people can now realize there are no right sides when it comes to war

the victor writes the history books hopefully people will now realize that fact when you get into a pissing contest you don't win you just get covered in piss yep yep wrestling with a pig john l says russia won't buy bitcoin putin will buy all fjb coin wouldn't that be really funny that would be an interesting turn of events the new standard warfare just by fjb you're gonna see a spike in that today the russia going to crypto is kind of like a hope i don't know if it's likely but that's like a hope of mine likely what would happen if they got cut off from swift they'd have to create their own currency whether it be a central bank coin or a piece of crypto that went on a blockchain i don't know yeah i mean either way they're they're

obviously going to come up with some sort of solution trackable digital even if it's a i mean even if they don't go to crypto they're going to go to some sort of other payment system and you don't think that that china would hop on board with that very quickly china can exist in both so so why wouldn't all these why wouldn't all these these big you know uh economic countries in that part of the world say yeah well we'll use that one too you'd see american corporations spinning up russian currency if they did that and be like, I'm playing both sides, just like Henry Ford did in World War II. Yeah. I mean, so whether

or not it goes crypto or it stays on fiat, I mean, that's a bad idea regardless. I think that that's something that needs to just get pulled off the table immediately. Hunter Keller says a nuclear winter will cancel out global warming. Yeah, there you go. That's the plan. And Greta will be happy. I don't know if that's true, but...

It may not work exactly how you think it works. What does Snoop say about that? Yeah, right. Yeah. Andrew Alvarez says, I'm running for U.S. House in Texas trying to primary an incumbent. Texas primary elections are March 1st.

Wish me luck. Keep America working and our families safe everybody please right now look up when your local primaries are and get rid of these incumbents yes i don't care if they're democrats or republicans tell them to go away this happened before i think it was like in the 50s like all the incumbents got voted out and then just all new people on both sides was it good did it turn out pretty good? I don't know. I think that's something that should happen regularly. Part of the problem I think that we have in our political culture is that people don't pay attention until it's time to go to the ballot box.

So they haven't really – in essence, they haven't really selected their candidate. Such a small portion of people take part in the primaries of their parties that whoever is on the ballot, they just vote for, but they don't really know much about them. You know, there's so many better options that are not making it through that initial cut because merely just because people aren't paying attention to it. You know, I don't know what the percentage is, but it's a dim percentage. The amount of people who pay attention in the primary compared to those who show up in the general election. And that's – I mean you want to start seeing change. That's a good place to start as an individual.

Tiberius says the real tragedy is that Hunter Biden lost his job. F. Aw. Damn. Tina Collette says on climate change, climate cost, et cetera, just remember one good volcanic eruption and the world temperature drops several degrees immediately for years there you go yeah and if you get

you know a Yellowstone eruption yeah then you get the sun blocked out and break out those coconuts that's right sit back and put your feet up and say all right man Kevin Clark says Metal Gear is great I love the boss. The end.

Everyone you kill comes back to haunt you during it. It really makes you think about your actions and their impact. Oh, that's awesome. Love Tim Kasky for the great work. Appreciate it, man. I only played the first Metal Gear. You said you played... I played a couple of them.

As a sniper? No, I would just run through and just kill people. I tried to hide in the box, but the guard would always find me and I'd just pop out and kill them. Hide in the box. Kelsey LaCour says, live in the box, but the guard would always pop out and kill them. Hide in the box. Kelsey LaCour says, live in Carroll County, Maryland. This morning we saw two batches of 8 to 10 military helicopters flying in formation heading northwest from D.C. Yup.

Yeah, when I was getting ready, it was like 7.30, 8 a.m. I could hear helicopters. We see them every so often. Sometimes the Chinooks come over and stuff like that. There's a lot, yeah. Yep. So, you know, in talking about potential for war and everything, when I was saying I talked to Luke, I'm like,

Florida's not a good place to be. And he's like, well, you're by Mount Weather. And I thought about it and I was like, no, for sure. It's a hike. This area, the D.C. area is a target. Probably the safest area, though. You know what I mean? Well, maybe not the safest.

You know, the bunkers of mountains in Colorado are probably the safest. They have like a, they, I think they moved NORAD, but they've got mountainous underground bunkers don't even know about. You got Mount Weather, but we do have, uh, SAM sites throughout the DC area. So, you know, if, if anything started happening, you got surface to air missiles. I don't know if they have any way of stopping ICBMs. I'd imagine we've had to have deployed high-power lasers already, right? That can just track and target like Iron Dome. If Israel's got Iron Dome, we have to have something like that. I'm fairly certain that if we wanted to stop something coming over the ocean at us that we—

Yeah, I don't think it's not the ice. It's orbital strikes that are the next big thing. They just come from above. You don't see them coming, really. Rods from God. Or missiles from orbit that are straight down. Yeah, coming straight down at you. Too high velocity to even detect coming in.

I think that we may want to get involved with the military in the U.S., actually, Tim. It's so weird to think this, but we might do a great service to our species if we go to NORAD and help them or go. We'd have to be invited, but I think that we can, because you have a voice that people listen to, which we need right now. You're saying I should go to NORAD and broadcast propaganda for the government?

Basically, if it comes to a war, a real war, yeah, that's the kind of thing you need people like me, or at least like you like thinkers that are outside of this woke crowd to save the lives of the the u.s administration would be like thanks so much for your input ian i just read this script and it would be like war is good vladimir putin is evil and our war is justified enlist today if you're 18 to 26 take up arms it's an adventure i'm yeah i'm not i'm not saying all to their, but I will do my best to protect people. That's for sure. I'm not reading a script either.

There's no circumstance where they're going to be like, thank you. Now, please broadcast this anti-war message. I'll read the script if I agree with the script, but that's about that. Or just say your script here and just say whatever you want to say. Yeah, we don't need to be there to help. But in the case of bombs dropping, it would be nice to be in a bunker. You just want to be in a bunker. Joe Biden. But in the case of bombs dropping, it would be nice to be in a bunker. You just want to be in a bunker.

Joe Biden is a crooked, crony, capitalist, criminal. All of those C's. Lots of C's. I don't trust a word out of that guy's mouth. I know. It sucks to think that my own government is the enemy. I don't like living like this. I don't trust a word out of Putin's mouth.

Yeah, me neither. That's nuts. But I think there's one thing I can count on. Joe Biden's self-interest. And his self-interest requires an American, an America to exist in some form. Clearly, the southern border is proof he doesn't care all that much about it. True. But at least he wants Delaware to be around because he's got a house there. So that's the one thing I can say.

Putin doesn't care about the Joe Biden's house. So long as Joe Biden cares about Joe Biden's house, the peripheral areas will probably be a bit safer than, you know. So I can trust self-interest. Yeah. All right. Chris Pavoto says, Ian, rolling low, bro. The Navy does not emit the most CO2. A lot.

Yes, the most. Please check the numbers. We have the safest global nuke power with carriers and subs. I trust our nukes people to operate our plants. Go Navy. I think I said the American military is the largest polluter. The Army and the Navy combined. You know, definitely don't take my word at face value,

but that's analytics I've seen in the past. Word. Trash Panda says, We are divided at a time where division is dangerous and I can't see how we get reunited seeing how insane leftists are. Dark times are ahead of us.

We don't. We don't. Maybe this is it. We're nearing 250 years, right? Yep. There you go. 250 years. Why don't you guys,

why don't you do this? Order yourself some Papa John's. Cheese stuffed crust. Get extra cheese, extra sauce, some pepperoni. Order some wings. Sit back with your friends and your loved ones. Buy a machete and some coconuts and crack a mountain. Just sit back and drink that coconut water.

Get some rum. It's good for you. Fix your gut biome. That's no joke because that will get your head in the game. That will help you get your head in the game. Just enjoy it because, man, it looks like like there's gonna come a time where you're not gonna be able to have that pizza correct our our papa john's already has no no employees there's like one guy who works there so there's no deliveries anymore it's one of the craziest

things that i've been seeing recently is you know i i traveled uh recently out to arizona for a speaking engagement you know and i used to live in a live in Arizona and wanted to go to this old restaurant that I loved. It was this Mongolian grill, just real basic. We pulled up and it said temporarily closed due to employee shortages. Yep. That was the first time. It's not like it's a bad restaurant. It's good food.

They didn't have enough people to operate the restaurant so they temporarily closed it high unemployment and high what's lack of employment at the same time it's so weird it's high um it's high unemployment but low um what i don't even know what the term is seeking work yeah yeah if you stop seeking work you're not even calculated as being no and that's the problem is you have a tremendous amount of people who are just not seeking work at the time or not seeking work on the books because of, again – Because they get unemployment and they don't want to lose it. All right, everybody. We're going to talk about these bio labs in Ukraine.

This is really interesting stuff. May all just be a conspiracy theory crossbones says twitter banned a user who matched up the bombing locations in u.s bio weapons labs in ukraine putin is hitting the deep state when he makes these attacks i don't know if that's true snopes says false oh okay and that means it must be true settles it right right right well we don't know but we're gonna take we're gonna take a look we're gonna talk about it i don't know if it's true it's just some posts on Twitter. So if you want to check out this segment, go to TimCast.com and sign up to help support our work.

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