Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #496 - Biden Doubles Down On Russia Regime Change w/Alex Bruesewitz
Episode Date: March 29, 2022Tim, Seamus of FreedomToons, and Lydia host Alex Bruesewitz of XStrategies and former assistant attorney general of Environment & Natural Resources Division Jeff Clark to break down Biden's choice to ...stand by his European gaffes, including calling for regime change, the former Obama defense secretary who claims Biden is because Biden is Irish, and therefore highly empathetic, Biden's new tax for billionaires, coming soon to an income bracket near you, Desantis' signature of the new Parental Rights in Education bill (falsely called the 'Don't Say Gay' bill), Hunter Biden's role in the Ukrainian biolabs, Tim's song material being possibly imitated, and the Will Smith/Chris Rock smack debacle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Joe Biden was questioned by Fox News' Ducey about three statements he had made,
which were particularly egregious, and he claimed they never happened.
He implied there would be U.S. troops going into Ukraine, that the U.S. would use chemical weapons,
and that Joe Biden wanted regime change in Russia. And Biden's like, that never happened.
What are you talking about? This is an absolutely crazy crazy news cycle because not only did he deny it,
he then doubles down on calling for regime change in Russia. And then when Ducey says,
like, what do you mean you'll respond in kind to chemical weapons? He goes, I'm not telling you.
And he's like, the people want to know. And he's like, well, I'm not telling them.
Just wow. Tremendous response from a president. So, you know, we'll be talking about that. Plus,
Florida has signed it. Rhonda Sanders has signed into law that don't say straight bill.
That's right. The bill in Florida, which prevents teachers from talking to preschoolers to
third graders about heterosexual marriage. It really does. Of course, the media and the left
have been framing it as a don't say gay bill, but we'll get into all that stuff. And then,
ladies and gentlemen, we have a extra juicy bit of drama tonight. You see, November 2nd, 2020, I released the first song in a series
called Will of the People, where you see a ground shot of the base of a statue moving up with cables
thrown over it under an orange sky, and then people pull the rope down while saying, this is
the will of the people. And
something interesting happened. Muse on my birthday, March 9th, published a video call
for their album, Will of the People and song Will of the People that starts with a ground shot.
And then you see a foot come in and then it shows a low view up to a statue with cables hanging from
it under an orange sky while people are chanting Will of the People.
And I've gotten a lot of questions about it.
And a lot of people are asking me, what does it mean?
What did my tweet mean?
What's going to be happening?
And wow, this is really crazy.
This is a crazy story.
And I feel like I'm in a very difficult position here.
So I'll just give you just a brief, a quick mention is most of you have been following
the show know that we've
invested a significant sum of money, six figures into our will of the people universe. I've
mentioned repeatedly, we have a sequel. We actually have several because this is part of a concept
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We've already had plans for – we've already discussed film.
And so we're very heavily investing in cultural development.
So we'll get into all of that.
But suffice it to say, this is a serious problem for us.
But we'll talk about what it means, and I'll show you guys what it is. Cause some people have questions about legal issues and I'll just, uh,
add one more, one last thing to let people understand we're, we're not some fly by night
company. We're not just like some, we're in, we're in a six figure studio. This is a, you know,
expensive construction in a multi, uh, in a, in a, in a million dollar property. Like we are a big
company in terms of our, our reach and everything. We have a big company in terms of our reach and everything.
We have a ton of lawyers that handle all of this stuff for us,
and it's shocking that we're in this position.
But here we are.
So that being said, we'll get into all the news.
Joining us to talk about all this is Alex Brusiewicz.
Did I get it right?
You got it right.
All right.
Man, I was worried.
I was like, I'm going to say it wrong.
How do you pronounce your last name?
It's Puowl. Puowl. That's what I'm supposed to say it wrong. How do you pronounce your last name? It's Puowl.
Puowl.
That's what I'm called.
Is it French?
Yes.
Or Ukrainian.
It's actually Dutch.
Oh, it's Dutch.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But thanks for coming, man.
Do you want to introduce yourself?
I'm Alex Bruzwitz.
I'm a victim of the unconstitutional January 6th commission witch hunt.
And, you know, I'm a real victim, real life victim.
Now, I'm a political consultant.
I own a company called X Strategies.
I know you've had Greg Price on a couple of times, and he loves you guys.
And I've been a fan of yours for a couple of years.
So I'm really grateful to be here, and thank you for the opportunity.
Absolutely, man.
We've got a lot of fun stuff to talk about.
We also have our good friend Seamus.
Ian Crossland.
Well, I am Seamus, but I'm filling in for Ian Crossland.
So I'm going to do my best to be an Ian substitute this evening.
However, I will let you all know if you're interested in seeing more of my content.
I run a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes where we upload animated cartoons every Thursday,
sometimes on Tuesdays as well.
Go check it out.
Very cool.
You guys know it is my favorite night of the week.
That is Monday night because I enjoy my job very much.
Very happy to be here with Alex.
Stoked to get into it tonight.
Let's go.
I know everybody's also like, please don't talk about Chris Rock getting slapped.
But it was staged. No. Dang it.'s also like, please don't talk about Chris Rock getting slapped, but it was staged!
Maybe. Maybe.
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That's the actor who played Ian Crossland on TimCast when he was absent.
That's right.
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Yeah.
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show with your friends let's read this first story from the Daily Mail. Biden stands by his comment that Putin cannot remain in power,
but insists he was expressing moral outrage, not policy change. Claims three Russia gaffes
didn't happen despite White House having to walk them back. I got to show you the video, everybody. You need to watch this because I'm sitting downstairs.
I get a message.
It's from Cassandra Fairbanks, McDonald.
And she's like, you need to watch this video.
No laughing and LOL or anything.
It was like, watch this.
And then I watch it, and we're just playing it on the counter.
And then all of a sudden, we get to this point where everyone in the room busts out laughing.
And I'm just like, we are screwed. Come on, man. Let me play this clip for you guys, and then all of a sudden we get to this point where everyone in the room busts out laughing and i'm just like we are screwed come on let me let me let me play this clip for you guys
and then we'll we'll oh wait let me fix the audio for you but you know it's funny because
before the show started i was browsing twitter i didn't get a chance to do that today it's very
necessary and i saw your tweet with that biden video and i was cracking up i don't want to
interrupt your conversation oh i was like, we are screwed.
All right.
Let's see if we got it.
Hopefully it's loud enough.
Are you worried that other leaders in the world are going to start to doubt that America is back?
If some of these big things that you say on the world stage keep getting walked back?
What's getting walked back?
It made it sound like just in the last couple of days, it sounded like you told U.S. troops they were going to Ukraine.
It sounded like you said it was possible the U.S. would use a chemical weapon,
and it sounded like you were calling for regime change in Russia.
And we know –
None of the three occurred.
None of the three occurred?
None of the three.
Mr. President?
You interpret the language that way.
I was talking to the three. Mr. President? You interpret the language that way. I was talking to the troops.
We were talking about helping train the troops that are the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland.
That's with the context.
I sat there with those guys for a couple hours.
That's what we talked about.
So when you said you're going to see when you're there, you were not intending to say this? I was referring to with, beating with, and talking with the Ukrainian troops that were in Poland.
And when you said a chemical weapon used by Russia would trigger a response in kind.
It will trigger a significant response.
What does that mean?
I'm not going to tell you.
You've got to be silly.
What?
The world wants to know.
The world wants to know a lot of things.
I'm not telling them what the response is.
Then Russia knows the response.
That was amazing.
Also, I want to say I just love how it starts with this reporter talking to him like he's five years old.
It's like the exact cadence and tone of voice he used to speak to a child with.
God bless Peter Doocy.
He's been great this entire regime so far. He's going to
be really important next couple of years, too. Yeah, it's crazy how the guy from Fox News is
the only one questioning the president. Look, if you know, when you have a President Trump,
you get a journalist who's like, Trump, I got to push back. I want answers. I want some questions
answered. I'll be like, you know, we should have journalists pushing back no matter what it is.
If, you know, Trump could come out and give a good answer and a journalist is like, I'm going
to push back and I want you to answer these concerns. I'm fine with that. But what do we
get under Trump? Every single journalist was just always spitting and yelling and complaining and
very, very unserious lies, manipulations, chasing false stories. Now we get Biden,
arguably one of the worst presidents we've ever had,
who said,
when you're there,
you're going to see people
in front of a damn tank
refusing to move.
It's like, what does that mean?
Like, troops are going to be there?
He said,
if Russia uses chemical weapons,
we'll respond in kind.
Is the U.S. going to use
chemical weapons in Ukraine?
Well, remember, Tim,
the adults are back in charge.
That's what we heard for four years.
We need to get the adults
back in charge. And this is the best that they years. We need to get the adults back in charge.
This is the best that they have to offer.
I think we went too far to the
upper limits with the whole adult thing.
We could have been a little younger.
One of my favorite Don Jr. posts was, he says,
you're supposed to eat your vegetables, not elect them.
Oh, my gosh.
That's what we have right here.
He's completely lost it.
To your point, the media was so vicious towards Trump, and they would lie about him.
But now they cover for their lies, and they'll actually run stories about how Joe Biden didn't actually say what he said.
This is what he actually meant.
And so it's a total double standard, and it's complete BS.
We saw Lindsey Graham call for the assassination of Vladimir Putin.
I was like,
yo, that's crazy. I call him Lady G.
There was a report a couple years
back about Lindsey Graham, Lady G,
about how he had relationships
with a bunch of men.
The establishment would say,
Alex, you can't call Lindsey Graham
Lady G. It's going to be hard for us to
recommend senators to work with you.
That's okay. I doubled down on Lady G, it's going to be hard for us to recommend senators to work with you. And that's okay.
So I doubled down on Lady G.
And so is he drunk when he goes on Hannity calling for the assassination?
It's the same thing here. And so who's running the messaging on this?
So I bring him up because now Biden is saying, what did he say?
Quote, for God's sake, this man cannot remain in power.
And I'm just like, wow.
You want to talk about no peace, no chance at any kind of resolution here?
You can thank Lindsey Graham, and then you can thank the president,
because, yo, Vladimir Putin's going to be like, okay,
there's absolutely no reason to communicate at all with the Americans.
We know their position.
So I'm not a military expert by any means, okay?
But I've been in a few fights in my life or have seen some fights happening, and I think the number one goal should be to de-escalate, right?
Yeah.
And the adults in charge currently have no interest in de-escalating.
Why?
Because the people who fund their campaigns and fund their livelihoods, something called the military industrial complex.
They say, no de-escalation.
You guys are pushing for war.
We're sending in the MiGs.
And like I said, nobody knows what the hell a MiG is, but everybody's sending in tweets
in all caps, send in the MiGs.
And so I don't want to send in the MiGs.
I want to send in the peace.
Yeah, it's hilarious.
The adults who are in charge completely fail to understand that there is a concrete world that exists outside of their rhetoric.
And politics doesn't just exist on Twitter or on television.
And the things they say to foreign leaders or about leaders are actually going to have consequences beyond their constituents liking them more or throwing red meat to their fan base or the right people disliking them. I mean, calling for the assassination of a foreign leader online
while they're invading another country
and tensions are as high between us and them as they've ever been,
or for the president of the United States to say
that the leader of a nuclear power needs to be removed from his position
is so unbelievably out of line and insane and irresponsible.
But, of course, they're the grownups, right?
And we constantly heard about how Trump had mean tweets and Trump wasn't responsible with
the things that he said.
But you know what?
Things were somewhat together at that point.
And these people are literally not at all different, except Trump's policies were actually
somewhat effective.
I like how Trump, you know, they accused him of working with dictators and i'm
just like if it brought peace it was i can't remember who it was i don't want to quote the
wrong person but he was like you got to understand the reason putin didn't invade ukraine under trump
was because trump was doing his bidding what the hell does that even mean it's so stupid and i'm
like pulling our troops out of afghanistan i guess pulling our troops out of syria okay i guess like
so what you're saying is donald trump was de-escalating war and crushing ISIS.
So Putin was like, all right, I'm going to chill.
Should he not have done that?
I mean I guess if it makes Putin happy, we shouldn't do it.
But this is why it was a perfect and beautiful lie.
I got it.
What is it?
If we really want to piss off Putin, then we just need to stand back while ISIS comes back.
That'll show that Russian.
That's true.
That's insane.
So I've been doing a lot to support Ukraine.
I've banned Moscow meals in my home.
I'm not doing white Russians anymore.
In fact, I'm just going to dump out every bottle of vodka I own.
And if you're not doing stuff to help Ukraine each day,
you have to check yourself before you wreck yourself
because Ukraine is
my total everything now. Can I ask you
something? What's your policy
on cats that were bred in Russia
competing in cat shows? I want to
make sure you really have a sufficiently tough
response to their aggressiveness.
I don't think that should be allowed.
We need to take serious measures. We should ban
Russian cats from America.
I went to a yogurt
restaurant, like a frozen yogurt place,
and they had a chalkboard when you walked in,
and someone drew the Ukrainian flag on it.
And I'm like, the people working here are like 16 years old,
and I don't think any of them know where Ukraine is.
No, they couldn't point it out if there was the letter U
and a picture of a crane next to it on a map.
That's what I heard.
I love all the buildings lit up in blue and yellow.
And I wish people paid this much attention to Ukraine in October of 2020 when it was reported that Hunter Biden was getting paid big money by Burisma.
But now everybody's Ukraine expert, Ukraine stan, Adam Kinzinger is fawning over Zelensky shirtless every day on Twitter.
You know, if you came to me and you were like, Joe Biden actually has a gigantic mind control device.
And the reason he always seems out of it and tired is because he's like Professor X and
he's just exhausted himself and he's mind controlling people into believing fake news.
I'd be like, well, you know, there's been so many fake stories and people keep believing
it.
That almost sounds like a plausible explanation.
Biden's got a mind control device.
Because I don't understand how you can have millions of people in this country,
like one day all of their Twitter accounts have blue hats.
Then all their Twitter accounts have syringes.
Then all their Twitter accounts have Ukraine flags.
And like no matter how many fake stories come out,
they're just like, I'm going to go along with whatever they say. or like it was a bill burr when he's talking to joe and
he was like i just turn on the news once every two weeks and do what they tell me to do yeah i'm like
man oh boy is that someone's got to have mind control powers i swear thinking's hard it's it's
hard to think and people have whatever the hell they got going on their fancy football leagues
that they got to pay attention to or they have their Netflix series they're really tuned into.
Doing the real critical thinking about the important issues,
it's hard.
They just want to listen to the experts, right?
And the experts are bought and paid for, unfortunately,
by people who don't want to do the right thing.
How many days do you think it'll be until some fact checker
publishes an article saying Tim Pool claims Joe Biden has mind control powers.
One day, two days?
Two days.
I can absolutely see it happening.
It'll be like Tim Pool insanely claims Joe Biden has mind control powers because they don't know what sarcasm or a joke is.
Or if they're really mad at it, they'll release an article saying Tim Pool falsely claims we're going to release an article about him making false claims about Joe Biden's mind control powers.
You're onto something there, Seamus.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. So the whole, well, one thing I wanted to mention here is when we look at the scenario,
when we look at the fact that Trump was called a puppet for Putin every single time he did
something that Russia might at the very least appreciate or which wasn't, you know, explicitly
aggressive towards them, we were told he was a puppet.
This is exactly why Russiagate was the perfect lie for the deep state and the industrial
military complex to fabricate about a sitting president of the United States, because they've
been trying to push for war with Russia for years now. And all you have to say is, well,
the current president is being controlled. And anytime he doesn't want to go to war with them,
anytime he doesn't want to do anything that would lead to war with them, it's because he's a puppet.
It's because he's weak. Do you guys see this tweet? We have this from Gordon Lubold. All right. This guy is a White House national security and Pentagon
reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Yeah. He says Leon Panetta says on CNN that Biden's gaffe
in Europe about regime change came about because Biden is Irish and his instinct to internalize
human suffering may have overwhelmed him to the point where he was not careful about what he says.
Biden needs more discipline, Panettaetta says what's he talking about is he saying there's some sort of internalized irish thing that exists within ethnically irish people causes him to respond
a certain way alex are you irish i'm not irish oh okay well i could self-identify though yeah
that's true that's true all right well i did on uh the 17th yeah wait this is i'm assuming this
is a terrible no shame i'm not you're sitting right to my side. I'm going to be Ian today.
Seamus, tell me about this deep Irish internalization of suffering.
Wait, I want to be clear.
This is a joke, right?
No.
No?
Come on.
No.
Are you serious?
Oh, my gosh.
I would have used this to get out of so much trouble in school.
I know, right?
I'd have been like, you know what?
I'll turn my homework in when Ireland is a free nation not being occupied by the British.
Is that what they're claiming? Yeah, I have no clue. What is this? Northern Ireland? Leon Pet... I'm like, you know what? I'll turn my homework in when Ireland is a free nation, not being occupied by the British. Is that what they're claiming?
Yeah, I have no clue.
What is this?
Northern Ireland?
I'm sorry.
This has to be a joke.
You're messing with me.
I don't know.
Is it a joke?
Is it for real?
I don't know.
This is a Wall Street Journal reporter tweeting it out.
I agree with you.
I'd assume it wasn't real.
Even if it's not a joke, it's a joke.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
It's ridiculous.
It's a great statement.
I mean, the spin's amazing.
Are we in a pressed group now who gets to use that as like an excuse for failure?
The Irish have always been oppressed in my opinion.
It's true. Well, no, I mean, Irish people weren't like considered white until being
white meant you had to apologize for being white.
Absolutely.
So frankly, you know, talk about buying high and selling low.
I'm just thinking about how we're going to title this thumbnail,
like this clip, and it's going to be like –
Seamus responds outraged to racism against CNN.
CNN claims Joe Biden is oppressed because he's Irish or something like that.
It's going to be good.
I wrote a book called Anglo Fragility, and it's about how if you don't think you have Anglo privilege, it's because you've internalized it more deeply than other people and when i make mistakes and you point that out it's actually because you are spitting upon the graves of my
ancestors for holding me accountable irish i didn't see that one coming yeah i can't believe
that that is it would be really great if they used it as an excuse for anything biden does
he's irish come on this is remember well this is interesting because you remember during the
state of union when i said he sounds drunk? Oh, he's Irish. Exactly.
That's what I was going to say.
You brought up a good point about the Russiagate scenario as well.
And it's important.
Lindsey Graham was on CNN shortly after the 2016 election.
And he did an interview talking about how Russia also hacked his emails.
And that's why he got 1% of the primary vote.
Now, he got 1% of the primary vote because his failed dangerous policies were horrible and widely rejected.
And also because he's Lindsey Graham.
Nobody likes this guy.
And so he's had a personal bone to pick with Putin for a long time.
He blames his own failures on Putin.
He should take some self-accountability and seek help.
I want to make two points here.
Firstly, everyone argues, well, my emails were hacked by a nefarious group who you shouldn't trust okay but those were your emails we're talking about things
you actually said you can't like putin did not put those words in your mouth but also we went
from the president is a russian puppet to the president is an irish puppet his internalized
uh suffering as an irishman as resulted Remember when someone commented, is this related?
Is that not also like really, really offensive?
That's extremely racist towards.
Well, but he is Irish.
I know, but that's extremely like, oh, well, of course he's going to make mistakes.
He's Irish.
You know what I mean?
Like, of course.
Of course he said something ridiculous and needlessly aggressive that he didn't need.
Of course he picked a fight that he didn't need to get in.
He's Irish.
Whenever Biden slurs or stumbles, can we just say, he's Irish.
He's Irish.
Watch out.
You know what the implication of that would be?
But look, look, look.
Someone replied, is this related somehow to Cuomo's I'm Irish defense?
Then that was Cuomo's I'm Italian defense.
When he posted all those videos of him grabbing people and kissing them,
and he was like, see, look, it's normal.
I do it all the time.
That's what the top comment is.
An Italian giving advice on self-discipline?
Question mark, question mark. I just want to say, too, look, it's normal. I do it all the time. That's what the top comment is, an Italian giving advice on self-discipline? Question mark, question mark.
I just want to say, too, this is not a joke.
Fox just released an article that says,
former Obama defense secretary,
President Biden made Putin gaffe because he's, quote, Irish.
Please, hold on.
Can I read this tweet again?
I'm sorry, I'm not off this yet.
We'll get back to it.
Don't worry.
Oh, there we go.
So we got the actual article.
Gosh, can you expect from him?
I know, he's just Irish.
Yeah, there you go. Irish empathy strikes again oh my god amazing
new epigenetic trauma is a mainstream smart person concept data point just dropped
all right um joe biden is in europe making gaffe after gaffe, implying that U.S. troops would be in Ukraine.
The White House then goes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Then saying if Putin uses chemical weapons, we respond in kind.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Then he says we need regime change.
You know what?
I'll take it.
And then they're like – CNN then comes out.
They sign out the White House.
Oh, it's because he's Irish and he's internalizing the suffering of the Ukrainian people.
He's like his sweet little Irish feelings were too overwhelming to him.
He's not in control of himself.
Is this like a point?
No, no, for real.
I got a serious question, though.
Is is are they making some kind of point about Ukraine being like Northern Ireland, like the Donbass region is Northern Ireland and Russia is like the UK?
You know what I mean?
I think they're just calling Irish people stupid.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure that's what's happening here.
They're like, look, Joe Biden.
Joe Biden doesn't have dementia. He's Irish. that's what's happening here. They're like, look, Joe Biden doesn't have dementia.
He's Irish.
That's what's happening right now.
Do you understand?
Shame is real.
He's a crazy Irishman.
I'm trying so hard to be a victim.
No, well, look, this guy is giving me victim points.
He's saying that Irish people are more likely to internalize other people's suffering.
Yeah.
I mean, it makes it sound like very nice and empathetic.
I get that.
But it's a little bit offensive.
You know. Oh, by the way, I don't, I don't even know. It's a little bit offensive. You know,
Oh, by the way,
I'm trying to make myself a victim.
Tim,
every single time you say something insulting about the Irish people,
you,
you pull the Irish card out and say,
Oh,
I'm part Irish too.
So really Tim,
you're being insulted as well.
What am I?
I think I'm like a third Irish or something.
I'm German.
So,
you know,
no empathy there.
Yeah.
No empathy for me.
No empathy for me.
I am German,
Irish and Korean. And there's like a, and like a little bit of a bunch of us stuff. Like my, my for me. No empathy for me. I am German, Irish, and Korean,
and there's a little bit of a bunch of stuff.
My last name is Dutch, I guess.
Quite the blend.
Yeah, absolutely.
I'm wondering, do the Germans and the Irish team up for something?
Because German-Irish tends to be a common thing.
I mean, we both drink.
Drinking beer.
German-Irish is actually a pretty common mix.
Yeah, it's a pretty common mix. German people and Irish people were like, yeah.
I think those were just the poor immigrants at the turn of the century. Yeah, it's a pretty common mix. German people and Irish people were like, yeah, I like to cut your jeans. I think those were just
like the poor immigrants
at the turn of the century.
Yeah,
that sounds right.
The 1900s,
late 1800s,
it was the Irish
and the Germans
and they hung out.
But no,
I think there's something,
I do think there's something
to this theory.
Do you guys remember
Biden's whole like
pot of gold gaffe?
He's like,
oh,
we're going to pay off,
of course,
we're going to be able
to pay off the national debt.
We've got to be
a bunch of gold
at the other end of the rainbow.
His economic plan to follow rainbows until we could get the gold at the end of them.
Do you guys not recall?
Is that the Build Back Better plan?
Yes, exactly.
Oh, God.
There was a – no, no, no.
In all seriousness, though, there was that one moment where he was chasing after all those little kids because he sniffs them.
He said, they're after me, Lucky Charms.
No, I wasn't going – I actually wasn't going for that joke. I was going for the he sniffs them they said they're after me lucky charms no
i wasn't going i actually wasn't going for that joke i was going for the biden sniffs
little kids joke really that's not a joke it's a real problem and that should not be tolerated
is it not i i'll leave it alone in a second because i know we've really harped on this but
i just got to say is it that hard to admit the man's experiencing cognitive decline he makes a
gaffe because he always makes gaffes and they're like you know what the guy's irish you know so or or is it the leon panetta's like biden gaffes and they're just
looking in the hat of random defenses of biden and there's like one left and says irish on it
he's like uh biden gaffe because he's wish me luck well i think it's important to remember
that obama's former secretary of defense robert Gates, said, quote, Biden's been wrong on every foreign policy decision in his entire career.
And so there's no excuses for it.
The guy just sucks at his job.
He's been in office for 50 years and he's been wrong on everything.
And so nobody has confidence in his ability to get us through this.
I got to push back on that, man.
That is unfair.
Biden has not been wrong on every foreign policy decision.
He's made incredibly successful decisions as it pertains to foreign policy for his family.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The contract his brother got.
I was going to say like arming the Irish rebels.
Frank Biden.
Yeah, the jobs that his kid got.
I think you're looking in the wrong place.
You're right.
So we can say that Joe Biden has failed the American people in terms of foreign policy,
but the Joe Biden personal family foreign policy is quite successful.
I mean, to be honest, though, I could not believe it when he armed the IRA.
I thought that was pushed too far.
It was very shocking.
It's funny, but that sounds like something that could be true.
Because he's been in office for so long.
Actually, in the late 80s, early 90s, Biden signed this bill.
He stated, come on, man.
We're going to give guns to the IRA, man.
Get rid of the Brits.
Got a brand new shiny helmet and a pair of kinky boots, man.
But I remember the last presidential election where foreign policy wasn't really at the forefront.
And because of President Trump's success for four years, we had peace all across the board, peace in the Middle East, peace in Korea.
You know, Russia was at bay.
China was obviously doing what they do to, you know, unleash the virus onto the world.
But the foreign policy aspect wasn't really a conversation during the 2020 debate when it was at the forefront of the 2016 one about who's going to destroy ISIS.
And everybody thought that Trump was going to be the one that actually did it, and he succeeded.
But this is – foreign policy was a negligent issue in the 2020 debate.
And if you could have played that clip of Robert Gates saying that he's been wrong on every foreign policy decision
and there's actually foreign policy conflicts, I think that would have had a drastic impact.
But we're seeing the genius at work here. And what happened
in Afghanistan, what's happened in Ukraine, China's going to move on Taiwan. It's going to be nasty.
And we got this blabbering fool in the office and Hunter Biden's securing the bag.
They suspended the gas tax in Maryland. So a bunch of people, I've talked to people out here
in Maryland and they're like, no, gas prices went down. Things got better. And I was like, yeah, they suspended the gas tax.
Like gas prices aren't going down.
The government just backed off because they're scared about what's happening.
And they went, oh.
They're like, yeah, because in West Virginia, it's still over $4.
And I'm like, yeah.
But don't worry.
Biden brought in the TikTokers to make TikToks calling it the Putin gas hike or gas price hike.
So it's on Putin, he says.
And they all come in like good little sheep and then they spit it out to their audiences.
And it's really sad how quick this misinformation can spread.
You can't blame Putin.
I mean, he's Russian, right?
All right.
My friends, you all saw the State of the Union, I assume, because we were here and we were
drinking and Lauren Southern was drunk and she yelled and called Biden based because he said we got to secure the border.
That's true. So the reason I bring that up in the context of this story about Biden's new
billionaire's tax is that Joe Biden during the State of the Union says he's a capitalist,
secure our borders, build, make America, you know, build American. Now, after that's long past,
he comes out with this far left 20 minimum tax
on households worth more than 100 million dollars this is a trojan horse mark my words
regular people are going to be like why do i care i don't make 100 million dollars
two things they will lower the threshold like they did with the income tax initially
the initial income tax was like three percent only for the ultra wealthy right and then of
course they just move it down
but this is also Joe Biden desperately
pandering to the far left after calling himself a capitalist
he's like
I wonder if they're doing a media strategy of
okay State of the Union was this big
TV thing that old people watch
say what the old people want to hear
now internet medium put out a statement
that's what the left wants to hear the progressives
so he's going to tax the rich they say 20% minimum tax Now, internet medium put out a statement that's what the left wants to hear, the progressives.
So he's going to tax the rich.
They say 20% minimum tax on unrealized gains.
So Elon Musk, this is the craziest thing. It's basically like if you buy, check this out, used cars have gone up in value like crazy because of the chip shortage.
Let's say this tax was a general tax on everybody,
unrealized gains tax. You buy a used car for two grand, but then the chip shortage hits.
And now the value of used cars in all government metrics is up 100%. Your $2,000 car is now $4,000.
The government goes, you got $2,000 unrealized gain right there. And you say, well, I don't have any money. I just have my used car. And they say, then you got to sell the car to pay the tax. You say, but if I sell the car, then I won't be able to work.
And they're like, then you're going to be in trouble for not paying your taxes. So you sell
the car. Guess what? You could only get a couple of grand for the car. And they say, now you owe
us taxes on the income you got from that two grand. And you're like, so I got to pay the tax
on the unrealized gain, but then I sold the car and I got to pay taxes on the income. Right now it's a hundred million dollars, but rest assured
you give them the ability to tax unrealized gains. Two things are going to happen. One,
they'll lower the threshold. And the second is inflation will push you up further and further
to that threshold. Yeah, no, it's true. This is one of the most insane economic policies that he
could try to implement right now. First of all, we're not in a place where you can really talk
about introducing these like radical new measures to socialize the now. First of all, we're not in a place where you can really talk about introducing these radical new measures to socialize the economy.
First of all, we're not really in a healthy place to look at these sort of more social
justicy, far left pandering options for policy and try to implement them is ridiculous. But also,
what this effectively does, Tim, you're using the example of a used car.
It would force people who are successfully running businesses to the point of making them profitable to sell off their shares.
So basically somebody who is moving a company in the direction of making it more profitable is forced to give up control of their company so they can pay the tax on unrealized gains.
And what an unrealized gain is, by the way, is money you literally have not made.
It's completely theoretical.
The government is taxing something you don't have.
Yeah. And they could theoretically just be like, hey, Seamus, that shirt, a million bucks.
Yeah. I mean, exactly. How do you assess the value of something like that?
I mean, Hunter Biden's art assessor is going to assess the value of all this stuff.
Exactly.
Well, that's a big trick, too. People don't understand that you're going to all of a sudden see billionaires being like that Rembrandt painting.
Unfortunately, nobody wants to buy it anymore because of the tax, so it's only worth $1,000.
I actually lost that money.
Can you write off the unrealized losses?
Yeah, well, I also – I'll give this regime some credit for recognizing the moment that we're in.
I think now more than ever there's an appetite on both sides of the political aisle
to kind of stick it to some of these billionaires.
And on the right, they're sick of the woke billionaires who fund all these nonprofits,
the arabellums that help fortify elections against us.
And so there's an appetite to take it to the billionaire class that our people,
the Trump base, I mean, we're working class folks.
And so the billionaires don't have the same luster and we don't have the same party anymore.
And so there is an appetite there, I think, to get some on the more populist right to
jump on board with something of this nature.
But Tim, you bring up a good point where they're not going to stop there.
If we give the government an inch, they're going to take it down to the half a millionaires
to the eventually anybody thataires to the – eventually,
anybody that makes under 100 grand will be impacted by it.
Or in 50 years when inflation is really, really bad and let's say a dollar is now a dime.
So you're spending $10 on a candy bar.
You're spending $100 on a couple of movie tickets or whatever.
They also – lowering the threshold and inflation is going to get you closer and closer to that
limit.
Well, I think that the billionaire should wake the hell up though, especially the ones that help fund these woke institutions and the woke organizations to eat their ESG scores higher.
Because they're losing the people that historically defended them.
They're losing – they're pissing off a lot of Republican voters who have always been against the increase of taxes.
They've been against the punishing the wealthy.
But when you're using your wealth to fund organizations that hate our country, it kind of pisses off some people.
And they see stuff like that and they're like, well, right now it's only for the billionaires, so maybe I'll support that.
But you know what? I think a lot of the billionaires know that ultimately this tax is going to disproportionately affect wealthy people who aren't lucky enough to be in the exact bracket that billionaires are in and therefore will have a more difficult time avoiding the increased taxes on their net worth.
I'm sure they'll find all sorts of workarounds and loopholes so that they don't end up having to pay, and it will actually make business more difficult for their competition.
This is probably good for them.
Take a look at the progressive tax brackets.
What's the highest bracket?
Is it 250 and up or is it like 500 and up?
I need to double check.
I think someone changed it.
I can pull this up.
It's like 250 and up.
So imagine this.
It's like 37.5%.
Imagine you're a middle class, working class person and you hit it big somehow.
And now all of a sudden you're making $400,000 a year, which is a lot of money,
you're paying a very high tax
rate on everything above
$250,000, which is substantial.
What is it, like $38,000
to $40-something percent?
$38,500.
If you're
making $10 million a year
as the CEO of a company, and you're paying
that percentage, everything after $250 is effectively disposable income for you to invest any way you see fit.
If you're making $250 to $400, you're like, this is my chance to grow and become a wealthy American, but they're pulling you down.
So the simplest way to explain it is if you only need in the United States right now $150K a year to considered middle class median and that's because of inflation used to be 77 000 then 80 and who
knows where it's at now yeah once you hit that threshold you're getting a savings you're building
a little bit of wealth but you're not on track for independent wealth where you can just dump
money into a bunch of funds and then make interest and things like that you make 10 million dollars
who cares look i got my 250 a year to fund my lifestyle.
And then I've got an extra $9.75 million. Oh, I got to pay 38%. I still got $5 million
where I can spend that on anything I want and generate massive amounts of wealth.
The richer you get, the less that impacts you. So long story short of it is these taxes
stop people from becoming wealthy. Now you
tell that to the left, you explain it and they say, good. And I'm like, no, you don't understand.
It means the billionaires will stay billionaires forever and they'll become oligarchs and then no
one can rise up and displace them and challenge their power. Yeah, exactly. And so another thing
that he's failing to take into account here, and of course he is because he's on the left, is a concept known as the Laffer Curve.
So I've talked about this on your show before.
And there are some less educated lefties who will say the Laffer Curve doesn't exist.
It does.
Every left-wing economist agrees it exists.
The only debate is whether the parabola peaks at a higher tax rate or a lower tax rate.
Can you explain the curve?
Yeah, sure.
So if you tax at 0%, your revenue will be zero. Can you explain the curve? rate, at which point you can reach it. And then if you tax any further, you're actually going to generate less revenue. And so interestingly, federal revenues for the United States as a whole
have basically stayed around 20% regardless of what the tax rate has been, which suggests that's
probably the largest share of GDP that they're able to pull. And when I said 22%, I'm speaking
as a share of GDP. So that's probably the largest share of GDP they'll be able to pull out of the economy. So all they're going to be
doing with something like this, if it even is, uh, uh, effective at getting these people to sell
off their wealth, because again, who knows many of them are going to be able to circumvent it,
but, but let's say it has, it's, you know, quote unquote intended effect in that way.
It's probably not going to increase revenue. I would argue that it wouldn't increase revenue
because the Trump tax cuts actually led to an increase in revenue. The left continually claims
that it didn't. And Biden talks about this, you know, quote unquote fiscal mess that Trump left
him, but that's complete nonsense. Federal revenues increased, but our spending growth
outpaced the increase in federal revenues. So we ended up with more of a deficit after the Trump
tax cuts than we had prior, but that was because of an increase in spending, so we ended up with more of a deficit after the trump tax cuts than
we had prior but that was because of an increase in spending not a deficit in the amount that we
were bringing in why don't we just print more print more money bro yeah well you know yeah yeah
yeah no let's just do that that's worked fantastically for us they're just slapping
band-aids on band-aids why don't we start another trillion dollar war like multi-trillion dollar war
let's go let's go out get a ground war with r Russia like Adam Kinzinger and Lindsey Graham want and get some more money.
That seems like the direction things are going.
I think a majority of Americans fear the U.S. will get involved in a ground war with Russia.
It's terrifying, especially if I couldn't think about the parents who have children who are active duty,
and they all watch what the hell happened in Afghanistan,
and thinking about the degenerates and the morons who are in charge right now
are going to be in charge of the military, the operation on the ground there,
there's not a whole lot of confidence in their ability to get the job done.
And so praying that we can de-escalate and get peace, but it's just a mess.
Let's talk about peace here at home well
like can i mention one more thing so you discussed you you brought up biden bingo which we played
during the state of the union address and i want to mention that that headline starts with biden
whispers that it's not right which was on the bingo card that we had that's awesome for biden's
state of the union bingo he likes to whisper daily. Daily Mail has some great headlines. Stop writing.
Let's talk about peace
here at home, though.
We have this story.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Florida's DeSantis
has signed the parental rights
and education bill.
Hits back at Hollywood critics.
Democrats misleadingly
attacked Florida legislation
as a don't say gay bill.
I like that Fox News subhead
accurately points out
that they've been lying
the whole time
about what this bill does.
Now, my understanding is the initial inception of it was more so targeting, you know, don't teach
about gender identity or whatever. After several amendments, they came to, okay, how about we just
say pre-K, you know, preschool to third grade, we don't want you teaching identity and orientation
stuff to children, to these four to nine-year-olds.
After that, it's fine.
Just keep it age appropriate.
And for those four-year-olds, as long as you talk to them in a semi-private setting, totally
okay.
Did you know that?
In Florida, this bill that was passed by Republicans will still allow a teacher to go up to a four-year-old
in a semi-private setting, meaning if they're in a classroom and there's a bunch of kids running around,
they're playing, a teacher can get up and walk over to a group of kids and say,
do you want to learn about being trans?
Oh, my God.
The bill does not ban that.
Okay.
And so that's what they've been claiming.
Well, maybe we'll make some calls into the Florida legislature.
Yeah.
I mean, again, we were talking about it being an anti-grooming bill,
but it doesn't go nearly far enough to even be called that. Yeah. I call it the don't say straight bill. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't, again, we were talking about it being an anti-grooming bill, but it doesn't go nearly far enough to even be called that.
Yeah.
I call it the don't say straight bill.
Yeah.
Because the teachers also can't talk to these kids about straight traditional marriage.
So I gotta be honest, the biggest pet peeve I have with this whole outrage is that when
I was in high school, just like six years ago, if I said gay in any situation, I'd get
detention.
Like, Alex, you can't say gay.
And I tweet gay, and now congressmen who hate me, they find screenshots of my tweets from when I was 14,
and I say the word gay, and they're like, he's a homophobe.
See, you used to get in trouble if you said the word gay,
and now you see these idiots running through the halls of the school
yelling gay and getting no pink slips, no detention.
That's the bone I got to pick with this bill primarily.
It's just I grew up in the wrong times.
Have you seen the meme where it's all the stories about Disney workers being arrested for child exploitation?
Oh, absolutely.
There's a great sheriff in that region of Florida named Gary Judd, Sheriff Judd.
He's phenomenal, and I think he busted like 17 Disney workers for pedophilia and trafficking kids.
It's sick.
And also, Disney is so outraged about banning sex ed from young kids like this.
I can guarantee when I have children, they will never watch Disney.
What kind of subliminal messaging and crap do they put in there?
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You don't know the urban legends about Disney and their subliminal sex?
Oh, yeah.
Have you seen that clip from The Lion King?
Oh, yeah.
Which one is that one?
All good girls take off their clothes?
No, no.
Oh, that was Aladdin.
So in Lion King, when Simba falls down onto the flowers, the pollen flies up into the air and it spells the word sex.
And Disney claimed, no, no, no, no.
It said SFX. We were excited
about our new sound effects package. I'm not kidding.
What the heck?
We were excited about our new sound effects package, so we wrote
SFX. I'm sure we can get a higher
depth image or whatever. Weird.
There's also on the cover of
The Little Mermaid. Oh, yeah.
It's a large
cylindrical... you know.
Yes.
It's the mental illness
that they want to teach these kids about sex
and they need to be held accountable for it.
And I think DeSantis should reconsider the bill
and make it even tougher out of this backlash
and also consider revoking some teaching license
from these teachers who are so enraged by it.
And who wants to push their sexuality on these kids?
Yeah, perverts. Sick perverts. And the only people who won't stand up against this are either really
sick perverts or they're complete cowards. Because the responsibility of adults is to protect
children. And as it happens, we live in a culture where people are so fundamentally either depraved
or terrified and completely weak that they would rather allow children to be groomed than be called homophobic or some other word that everyone's too terrified
to be labeled with to actually stand up and protect children against disgusting predators
this one might be just you know people wishful thinking i don't know about wishful thinking but
like looking for something and then telling everyone it's true so but let's see what snopes has to say about this disney thing right was a
phallus purposefully added to the artwork of the little mermaid from 1998 false and you can see
it's just a golden tower of various you know sizes and then uh what do we have it here where did it go there you go it's just
it's just a golden castle palace tower and everybody i know would always point this out
and be like hey look what they put on the cover you also have um what was it it was aladdin right
uh when when he was talking to uh aladdin was talking to jasmine do you know this one it sounds
like yeah i remember the clip.
And then also in the Rescuers, there was an example.
I can't remember if it was the Rescuers or the Rescuers Down Under.
But as they fly past a series of buildings,
there's actually a pornographic image that's placed inside one of the windows.
That's on camera for a fraction of a second, but it is there.
Here's Snopes again.
Did Aladdin ask teenagers to take off their clothes?
False.
It's false. Snopes says it ask teenagers to take off their clothes? False. Oh, it's false.
Snopes says it.
Good teenagers take off your clothes.
In Aladdin, he whispers it.
So let's see.
Can we play it?
Are we going to get YouTube?
Down, Katie.
Good teenagers take off their clothes.
Down, Katie.
What was that?
They didn't even play it.
They did.
They still let you have to slow down.
Oh, he's saying, come on, good kitty.
Take off and go.
Sure.
Okay.
I don't know, man.
I don't trust Disney.
Maybe the Lion King one is like they really wanted it to say SFX, but like maybe.
Why even have it say anything right i know but but so anyway i bring
up the disney thing because it makes sense if like these predators want to go to the to these
disney parks where there's kids everywhere they're getting caught what's fascinating to me is maybe
it's just coincidence that florida says hey we don't want you talking to kids about this stuff
whether it's straight or gay or otherwise and then they're like oh oh harumph i say how dare do you tell us we can't say gay and
they go around running through the hallways and then it's like also there's a ton of predators
down there at disney you know it's like is that a coincidence no yeah well i mean we talked about
this uh a few shows ago but brian peck was hired to be a consultant on a Disney film after or on a Disney project after being found guilty of sexually abusing a child.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
There's some really demented people out there.
And the outrage to this bill.
And I'm glad that you brought that point up about how it doesn't go far enough.
And if I know anything about Ron DeSantis, he's going to want to make sure it's even tougher.
And he's not going to cower to this outrage. He's going to want to make sure it's even tougher and he's not he's not going to cower to this outrage he's going to in fact probably double down but but maybe i mean the challenge
is republicans are consistently reasonable the democrats accuse them of being vicious
authoritarians and look what they do they're like you can still teach kids about the stuff just not
as a classroom discussion and and you know it's it's like why are you giving leeway to there's no room
to negotiate on this one these are children yes uh they shouldn't even be allowed to have these
they shouldn't even be allowed to have a conversation period because this this whole
idea that you can change your agenda that should not be a conversation that we ever normalize nor
accept and so the idea that some unqualified teacher who's a creep is going to have this
conversation with your child you can't let that happen.
And so we can't be reasonable.
No leeway on this.
I keep hearing from parents who say, I can't speak up because I'd lose my job.
And I'm just kind of like – it's kind of a scary prospect that you're more concerned about your job than who your kid is around for eight hours every day.
Absolutely.
There's another job out there, and you don't have that many kids.
Maybe you do.
Imagine being willing to work for the kind of employer who would fire you
because you are against sexual perverts trying to groom your child,
and you're vocal about that.
Yeah.
I think people need to hear you can succeed.
I think people need to hear that there are
other jobs out there. What's that
website for anti-woke people?
Square something?
Is that what it was? I don't know.
Square's a payment processing company.
Square is a payment processing company.
But there's another website you go to
and it's job listings for people who aren't woke.
Well, God bless them.
You got to find that out and you got to promote the hell out of them.
I'm going to promote them.
I mean, people need to have the courage to stand up and say this stuff's enough.
Well, people, yeah.
People need to fire.
And look, I was in high school when gay marriage was legalized,
the Supreme Court ruling, and I used to be like,
what's even the fight about gay marriage?
Like, you know, the conservatives on their talk radio
would be like, well, if we normalize this,
what else are we going to be forced to normalize?
I'm like, oh, they're just bigots or whatever.
And then five years later, six years later,
somebody who was a woman for four days
gets named Sports Illustrated Woman of the Year,
Caitlyn Jenner.
And now we're in this next phase
of the transition into normalizing stuff and the grooming crap.
It's because there's no end, right?
They say the ends justify the means, but there is no end.
Meaning no matter where you are, you're always moving in one direction.
The issue is, for me, it's not gay marriage or a slippery slope fallacy.
I think two consenting adults is not the issue.
Obviously, there's a lot of traditional conservatives who have an issue with that. I think two consenting adults is not the issue. Obviously, there's a lot of traditional
conservatives have issue with that. I disagree. The issue is children who can't consent. That's
always been the point. Adults can consent because they're there. You know, they can go and do their
thing. Children cannot. It's I look at this like there needs to be a hard line. I don't need to
come on, be like, what's next? Dogs and cats
living together or whatever. No, no, no.
I just be like, I don't care about consenting
adults. I care about this. Hard line, stop, done.
Have a nice day.
Who's phenomenal on this? It's an
open secret. That Twitter account
I think is open and I've gotten to know the folks
behind that pretty well and they say
we got to stop using the term child porn
because porn is a consenting term
and children can't consent.
It's child rape and torture material.
I try not to use
the term child porn
in my rhetoric because when you're a child,
you can't consent.
Children can never consent.
We can never normalize that.
You're right. You do have to stand up for the kids.
The parents need to wake the hell up and they need to be vocal. They need to be the ones that stop this.
Yeah, I want to make another point here, piggybacking off of what you just said about
all of the arguments that were made by conservatives about gay marriage just a few
years ago and where we are in relation to those. It's not just the case that basically every
prediction made by the Christian right about what would happen in America after gay rights were legalized and gay rights were normalized happened.
It's that like the most cartoonist straw man version of their argument that a left winger would have come up with 10 years ago has turned out to be what's actually happening.
Like child drag shows.
Yes, exactly.
Like child drag shows and also uh left-wingers like pink news thinking that it is bad press for
the republican party for them to go out there and go did you know that the republicans are going to
try to ban child drag shows if they get elected and expecting people to look at that and go oh
wow well i'd better not vote yeah of course it's so weird yeah what a great advertisement
it's just become bizarre and and look i i still believe that I'm okay with gay marriage personally.
Okay, whatever.
But the stuff that's come after it, it's been messed up.
The trans rights has been such a weird issue.
And I think Dave Chappelle kind of lays it out nicely.
And he's like, you guys need to disown these other people.
You need to disown the T-plus.
This is the problem.
This is the problem.
There are people like – I think Caitlyn Jenner has been great speaking up in defense of women's sports.
People like Blair White I think are fantastic.
There is a science researcher, a trans woman, who's talked about male advantages in sports.
I think, look, people want to live their lives the way they want to live.
I'm very civil libertarian, libertarian.
The issue is there are bad people who are trying to cover up what they're doing by hiding within the LGBT community.
And the challenge is when you call out these bad people, they will use that and say, oh, so you're attacking trans people.
And say, no, no, no, no, that is a person preying on on little girls going into the girls bath and taking
pictures of them yeah i i got no issue with the trans person i got an issue with with the people
exploiting it but you'll get banned yeah you'll get kicked off but i'm glad that people like blair
and caitlin are are speaking out against this you. And we need more, hopefully more like them if there
are them. Well, there's just one more thing I want to say here, because I hear what you guys
are saying. I don't think we share a perspective here, particularly on gay marriage. I think once
a society says that two men can be married and tries to redefine marriage in that way,
we've already lost the plot on what gender roles are and so we're open to any uh in everything happening with the relationship between men and women that doesn't
really correspond to reality and what the the sexes do and how they're designed to relate to one
another that's a long philosophical moral ethical ethical conversation i think it's a libertarian
like right now we're saying like libertarian versus conservative but let's talk about uh
speaking of of terrible families and abusers we have a story about hunter biden oh you're ready for conspiracy theory uh uh conspiracy
theories huh that aren't conspiracy theories anymore because we waited a couple months
not even a couple months been a week yeah hunter by this is okay this hunter biden helped secure
funds for u.s biolab contractor in ukraine gosh incredible russia's assertion that biden's son hunter was
financing biological laboratories in ukraine was based on truth now hold on there a minute
bioweapons i don't know anything about and that's where the fact checkers keep coming in
because instead of saying biolabs which we know exists now because victoria newland basically
said they do you say that and the media comes out and says, they talked about bioweapons labs.
Like, no, no, no, no, no.
These are bio threat reduction labs.
The US is trying to stop the threat of biological weapons.
And I got to be honest, it actually makes sense that these programs, the funding, it
all makes sense that they're investing, they're doing research, not on weapons, but they're
doing research on pathogens for the sake of being able to identify and protect against, considering they're right next to
Russia.
I think that makes sense.
You can look at it more from a more malicious or nefarious angle and say, no, I don't trust
the US.
They're probably doing this.
Well, we still don't have any evidence.
Yeah, I guess the question is, what kind of research do we know they're doing there?
Is gain of function research occurring?
But we don't know.
We don't know anything.
Right, right, right.
Check it out.
They say a trove of emails on Hunter Biden's infamous laptop found that he played a role in
helping a California defense contractor analyze killer diseases and bioweapons in Ukraine.
Now, that is a bold statement. I'm going to push back a little bit and say, based on what I've read
from this, I still don't see bioweapons. But far be it for me to call the New York Post,
who is NewsGuard certified,
wrong.
If they're saying the emails show Hunter Biden did this and there are other outlets reporting
the same thing, then I can only say, I don't know.
Look, fact checkers, take it up with the New York Post.
I'm just going to say, you know what?
It must be a conspiracy.
It's all fake news.
So the New York Post and their conspiracy theories, why would they go and report that?
The funny thing is the New York Post reported about Hunter Biden's laptop.
What did they say?
Russian disinformation.
Then we get the Biolab story.
What does the media say?
Russian disinformation.
You give it a week.
What do you find?
It's all true.
As soon as we first heard that phrase, I joked, why would we ever believe these people when they call something Russian disinformation?
That's what they call everything that turns out to be true. And also, why would we believe them when they said
anything about a biological weapons lab being fake news? But it's both sides of the political
aisle now. It's not just the Democrats saying Russian disinformation. For example, just last
week, Congressman Dan Crenshaw was on Fox and Friends and Rachel Campos Duffy was kind of
pushing him back saying, hey, some Republicans are concerned about, you know, just jumping on the Ukraine, you know, bandwagon and giving them everything they want because, you know, we're worried about pushing Russia closer to China, whatever.
Crenshaw goes, well, we're not funding, you know, when they say you're funding neo-Nazis, that's a lie.
It's totally fake news.
And then he goes and says the biolabs, when you say the biolabs, you're playing into Putin's hands.
You're pushing Russian disinformation. And this is a republican member of congress and obviously
this came out two days ago it's been vindicated and he has said nothing these people say nothing
they lie and then when they get caught lying they never apologize they never correct their record
in fact they double down and so it's it's dangerous that we're playing with a nuclear power
uh like this.
And I don't know, are these people working to protect the Biden family? Are they not wanting
this information to actually become public? But I don't know. The weirdest thing about this
is that we have confirmation from Victoria Nuland testifying before the Senate there are
biological research facilities in Ukraine, or biolabs for short.
As far as I know, Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker, we're not talking about weapons.
Now, truth be told, I haven't heard every single thing Tucker said, but Tulsi, she came out and she's like, I never said weapons.
There's biolabs there.
And we're like, Russia might get them.
It's a bad thing.
Like what's going on there?
We should know.
So they always move the word.
So after the 2020 election, it went from there's no voter fraud to there's no widespread voter
fraud, right?
They always move the word. They always try to change
the narrative. And they play a narrative
game. And they can because they have
big tech on their side. And they have
every mainstream media publication
on their side. And so they can move whatever hell word
they want just to say that we're wrong.
But I just, I'm just, what's confusing
to me is that when you wait a week, the story
is proven true. So
how are there people who still believe this? Like a story breaks, you got to go, I'm going you wait a week, the story is proven true. So how are there people who still believe
this? Like a story breaks,
you got to go, I'm going to wait a week.
Then you go, oh, that's what happened, huh? But there are people
like Bill Burr,
when he was talking to Joe Rogan and said,
I just turn the TV on once every two weeks and do what
they tell me. Once every two weeks, I turn it on
and do whatever they say. Hey, look at that.
He's like, Joe, you're not a doctor. You're only talking about
masks. Why did he become Fauci?
He's a younger Fauci.
What are you talking about over there?
Talk about masks.
But no, I think that maybe I'm being a little optimistic here, but the number of people believing them are fewer and fewer with each passing day.
Let's ramp it up.
We got the story from the Wall Street Journal.
Prosecutors advanced tax probe of Hunter Biden.
Grand jury heard witness in February about past drug use spending habits of President's son.
Let's talk about Ukraine.
Hunter Biden was helping secure funding for this contractor.
It was reported by several outlets, notably the Daily Mail, that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden shared bank accounts.
This was back, I think, in September they reported this.
So here you have Joe Biden, whose son is on the
board of an energy company where he doesn't have any experience or speak the language.
There's concerns about an investigation of the founder of that company, Michael Zolchevsky.
And then there's some requests, you know, some emails go to Hunter about like, we got to deal
with this. Then Joe Biden flies out and says, if you don't fire the prosecutor, then you're not
getting the billion dollar loan guarantee. Sounds an awful lot like a lot to me like joe biden uses his son as a proxy for corrupt dealings in these countries and you know what i
feel bad for hunter we keep ragging on hunter yeah he's just a fall guy for biden right yeah joe biden
it seems like he says to his son you go work the private company you get the salary i can set these
deals up because i'm the vice president,
we'll share bank accounts, you pay my bills,
and we'll have one guy for all of our taxes.
That's what they were doing. It's been reported,
I should say. The shared bank accounts
thing is an unbelievably gigantic
red flag to the point where you might have been able to call it a smoke and run.
Don't you still share your bank account with your dad?
I don't know. But if I was smoking
Parmesan cheese, maybe I would have to.
For people at this income level, I don't know how they shared a bank account.
Because the taxes must have been a nightmare.
How would you prove to the IRS that this purchase is like, oh, well, this one wasn't Joe.
This was Hunter.
Because people need to understand, you can't just give people money.
You cannot do that.
You're a wealthy person making $83,000 a month like Hunter Biden.
He cannot just hand $40,000 grand to his dad it's not legal you'd have to do tax filing for like gift taxes and stuff like
that so that's that that's that's a huge red flag i mean i'm just confused by what their system was
and it's also important to know that it wasn't just hunter and bo biden was also involved in
the family corruption and nobody wants to talk about that
because obviously you know he passed away
and that's tragic and that's sad
but Beau Biden
ran a foundation and it just
came out
sorry but it just came out
in a new report that
he was in charge
of the foundation they raised like 4.9
million dollars only 500,000 dollars that actually went to the operating costs
and the rest of the $4.4, $4.5 million
went to paying salaries of board members
and lobbyists and consultants.
And so it's a whole family corruption.
It's a disgusting family
that's done nothing for our country
but used it to get rich.
Do I really have to clarify that saying I feel bad for Hunter was a joke?
No.
I mean, look.
Pointing out that his dad's corrupt and pushing all this?
Like, no.
Hunter Biden's a bad guy.
To be fair, given the way his dad acts around young children, I am not convinced terrible things didn't happen to Hunter Biden.
So I do feel bad for him on that front.
Yeah.
I mean, and he's also a crackhead.
You got to keep that in mind.
Crackheads make bad decisions.
They sure do. It's true, though.
Look, look, look. And with all due respect
to people suffering from addiction who need help,
they do make bad decisions, regardless of whether
or not you want to have sympathy for them or not.
Hunter Biden, man. You know, it's
really fascinating that you see these people of great
power, but they just can't control themselves. Epstein? Well, I mean, that's why they seek power. People who
can't control themselves try to control the entire world to compensate for it.
Unfortunately, I think in politics, I talk about this a lot. I wasn't a perfect grade point average
student in high school. I was a high school student that partook in-
You yelled gay in the high school.
I yelled gay. I tweeted gay. I was a rebellious high school student. You yelled gay in the high school. I yelled gay. I tweeted
gay. I was a rebellious high school student. But I think a lot of the folks that end up getting
into Washington, D.C. were the folks that never were really popular in school. They were really
great students. They didn't really have a lot of fun. And for the first time in their lives,
they get into power. They feel kind of cool. And then they take off years and years of misery and anger
and then they do bad things with it.
And so a lot of sick people up in Washington because of that, I believe.
Well, Joe Biden was actually very popular in high school.
He was a very good football player.
It led to him getting the nickname Hands.
We called him Hands.
He's got that nickname.
Do you remember there was this whole story?
I think it was like a children's thing, but they said that joe biden's uh nickname in high school was hands because he was so good at football he was really good at catching them
something like that yeah well i also heard that uh he was very popular with the kids in the pool
and he's got hairy legs i've heard that too can you believe that story when he was like i'd be
in the pool and the kids would grab my leg hairs.
Like, what are you talking about?
81 million people voted for that.
Oh, gosh.
Dude, I always tell this story of the people I knew who were like posting on social media like, I did my part voting for Joe Biden.
Did you?
And I'm like, oh, man.
If only you watched Trud Not a Shot but a Pressure
and Batacalf Care.
Maybe, maybe.
But these people,
they just,
I don't know where
they get their information from.
They're watching CNN all day,
I guess,
because CNN doesn't have any ratings.
No, they get it from Twitter,
unfortunately.
Most of these people
get it from Twitter.
And podcasts.
And Twitter recognizes that,
and that's why
they started to rig the game.
And they promote,
you know, it's stuff like,
remember when COVID happened? And then they had the trending tab and the news tab and
then they created a whole separate covet 19 tab they're basically doing the same thing with for
ukraine now they're just controlling the narrative they're banking on people not doing their research
and twitter has become the the thought box for almost half the country if not more now it's the
crazy stuff with project veritas too too. Overall, like the investigations
and the spying. It's creepy stuff.
It is.
Well, let's do something special.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a
story to talk about that involves me
and I have to address it.
So, good sir, would you like to talk
law with us?
We have a lawyer who's coming in right now.
We got a lawyer.
Yeah, have a seat who's coming in right now. That's correct. We got a lawyer. You're going to stick me here? Yeah, have a seat and introduce yourself.
Sure.
We have a lawyer.
Oh, what's going on with my camera?
Interesting.
That was weird.
Give me one second.
I'm going to look at that camera.
Oh, no, no, no.
That's fine.
Oh, wait.
This one's not working?
Yeah, something's wrong with it.
Oh, okay.
Maybe that camera then.
Do you want to turn that one on then?
Oh, sure.
Yeah.
Well, it's trying a different camera.
Weird.
It's the powers that be. You're going to have to
come over here. Sorry.
The powers that be are trying to stop us from talking
about this very, very important issue.
And hopefully the camera is framed properly.
Max Headroom? Yeah, the camera
wasn't working. Hello, good sir.
Would you like to grab those headphones and
introduce yourself? Sure.
You want to grab the mic? Yeah, right up to the mic.
There we go.
Can you turn the volume up? Yep, right up to the mic. There we go. Can you turn the volume up? Yep, yep. We'll get some sound. There we go. There we go.
Now we're good to go. All right. All right. So my name is Jeff Clark, and I'm the former
double assistant attorney general in the Trump administration. I had 1,400 lawyers under me at
some point, but in the interest of full disclosure, I am Irish.
Oh, no.
Well, I know you have a habit of internalizing people's sorrows and difficulties.
So just try to be careful.
So I'd like to talk to you guys about this story real quick, and then we have a lawyer give us his perspective.
Can I just make one point?
I want to let the audience know what I referenced earlier.
It's from a children's book called Joey, the Story of Joe Biden, where we learned that in high school,
he was given the nickname hands because of how good at football he was. Anyway.
All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to take a look at this is timcast.bandcamp.com.
For those of you that are familiar, and those of you who aren't, I released a song November 2nd,
2020 called Will of the People. It's actually part of a series. It's a universe where we're actually writing a bunch of different songs that go into this artwork. We've got a
studio that's going to be producing the artwork. We've got two sequel songs that are in works.
We just released the retro version the beginning of this month. And you can see here our album art
shows an orange sky with statues and cables on it, and they're being pulled down.
In the beginning of this song, we can see right here,
what you're seeing right now on the screen, and I'll describe it, is gears,
and this is underground.
I'll lower the volume and just play the intro for you.
Now what you're seeing is the ground level and the base of a statue
as the song begins to start to show you as it moves up.
You then see the cables at the waist of the statue
under an orange sky and more shots of the statue with cables wrapped around it.
I then want to show you the end of the song, which is kind of a spoiler alert for those
who haven't seen this production. But at the end of the song, you then see the resolution, which is the ground level brown
orange sky cables wrapped around a statue and people are pulling the statue down.
But when they do, the statues rotate.
So keeping those points in mind, I'll just quickly say I produced a song that is part
of a bigger project we're working on.
We've pitched movies. We've talked about graphic novels. We have a whole story arc for the
characters in this because we've been trying to build culture. This is our most successful
cultural thing we've produced. We have a story called Will of the People. It is a song and
series we're producing. And it begins with a ground shot, the base of a statue under
an orange sky with cables pulling it down. On March 9th, which is also my birthday, Muse posted
this video, which I'm not going to play for copyright reasons, but I can scroll through.
Starts with a ground shot. You see a foot, some point, come in. Then you see the base of the
statue pointed up with cables
hanging down under an orange sky. And then it zooms out as a hooded figure and people are
firing more cables and they then pull the statue down. Now, my initial reaction to the fact that
Muse launched an album called Will of the People and a song called Will of the People.
It was on this show that Ian said to me, he's like, hey, did you know Muse has a new album coming out called Will of the People?
And I went, oh, how about that? Because yeah, it's just a title. And Muse being very political,
I thought, okay, you know, whatever. Then it was last night, we were driving back from, you know,
we're just out of town a little bit. And I decided to actually take a look because I hadn't actually
looked at what Muse was producing. And sure enough, the way I would describe this is it's a live action version,
shot for shot of the intro and parts of the ending of Will of the People. Now, considering this is a
promo, we don't know exactly what Muse is intending to do with the full release. In this video,
they're chanting over and over again, the will of the people, the will of the people. And of course, in my song, we say, this is the will of the people,
and they're pulling statues down. So it's very similar. What people need to understand is I've
not said anything in terms of legal stuff. I tweeted out, we have questions. But considering
we've heavily invested in, we've got, again, I got two songs, you know, I can actually do this.
I'm going to do something I shouldn't do because I shouldn't have to reveal this stuff, but
I have no problem showing just a little bit of a rough cut. So this is one of the songs that I don't know how to turn off.
There we go.
That we've been working on because, and we also have another song.
It's on my Instagram.
So we're absolutely producing in this, and this is an issue for us.
So I'm curious, Mr. Lawyer, what your thoughts are. Well, look, I had done copyright work for General Motors at one point about the computer code in their cars and attempts by the state of California to grab that.
So, you know, look, in terms of the basic elements of copyright law, I mean, it looks to me like there's a lot of similarity here.
And it would be interesting if you could uncover evidence of whether there was actual intent to copy.
But it looks like it's been – some key elements have been copied.
And then the issue is, is there originality in your work?
I think it's very original.
I think particularly, you know, compliments to you, the turning statue.
That was inspired by artwork from a Polish artist.
But we created our own version of it.
We animated it, and we made it part of a bigger story.
Okay.
So there's a lot to break down, especially.
Some people have said, I tweeted this out, and I said, we have questions.
Big fan Matt Bellamy would love to chat
because I need questions answered, right?
A lot of people said,
the idea of the statues being pulled down, you don't own.
And I said, right.
And they said, the idea of an orange sky, you don't own.
They said the phrase, will the people, you don't know.
And I said, okay.
And then I said, the name, the ground shot
followed by the base shot of a statue under an orange sky with ropes pulling down the statues is pretty much a live action remake of what we made.
Right.
Well, look, I mean, it seems to me that that's the kind of defense argument you would face, right?
But it's an attempt to atomize your work.
If you look at it, if you take a step back and you look at how you've combined the elements, right, it's combinatorial.
It looks like it's very similar.
And if I were you, I'd be pretty concerned about, you know, Muse, you know, coming out with something like that right after you've done it.
So there may be evidence that, you know, they saw your work, and that would be very troubling if I were looking at that, Tim. Considering that Matt Bellamy has praised Alex Jones in the past,
maybe I'm wrong. I just want to make sure I can put that out there. But there have been numerous
statements, and I listened to an interview purportedly of the lead singer of Muse telling
Alex Jones, Alex Jones inspired his music. Their songs use a lot of themes of anti-establishment,
anti-government. So a lot of people like them, though I don't know where they exactly stand on the political spectrum.
It stands to reason that they likely have access and have definitely seen the work we've done and
produced, considering the guests we have on the show overlap with a lot of what they talk about.
So I've seen them. I know that they have a connection to the Alex Jones Show.
I have some used songs on my iPhone right behind me.
So I know kind of where they draw their themes from, and I can see why you're asking these questions.
If I wrote a book, you can't copyright book titles, right?
Not quite sure of that off the top of my head okay uh
so i'll put it this way there's a lot of people who responded to my post on instagram and my
twitter when i said we have questions i didn't say anything beyond that i didn't threaten any i
didn't claim anything but a lot of people immediately said muse didn't steal your work
and like i didn't even say that a lot of people didn't realize though that they took the name
as well as the color scheme
the symbols i mean we have the character in the hood raising his fist and and then and then like
it's a whole pulling the mask up so obviously there's a lot of things that exist in in reality
that you can't individually claim but um you know my response is like what if i wrote a book called
um star battles about space ninjas with plasma swords that fought the
Imperials.
Sounds awesome.
Would I get sued?
Would I get sued for that if I made that book?
Yeah, I think you would because, you know, everyone would recognize it as connected to
Star Wars.
And, you know, the combination of those elements, right, those creative elements is what makes
it, you know, a particular work.
And, you know, I think you'd have, interesting claim, more than colorable it seems to me, that that's infringement of a set of combined ideas that you put together.
And if I didn't sort of spell out the atomization point, right, if you just take a very narrow slice of some creative work, you can always find that there's some similarity to something else, right? That can't be the analysis. You have to take a sort of gestalt
and take a step back from it and look at it in order to assess that kind of issue.
So everybody, we're a decently large company in terms of revenue, not in terms of employees,
but we're expanding. We've got multiple properties. We're building a new headquarters.
We have lawyers. We have several a new headquarters. We have lawyers.
We have several because this is what you have to do when you're working in entertainment and content.
And so the first thing we have to do as we're working these projects is just like send it to the lawyer. And the immediate response we got from one friends who are lawyers and our lawyers was, whoa.
Now, here's the crazy part.
They published it on my birthday. Now, obviously a lot of people,
the first reaction I get was like, everybody basically said to me, I say everybody has a
small handful of lawyers. They're like, you know, if someone came out and said,
this guy made a similar work to me and put out on my birthday, they'd be like, well, you know,
look, there's 365 days in the year. It's like, they're eventually going to hit it.
But when it's the same name, then it's like, well, you know, I guess, okay.
But then it's the same colors, the same theme, similar characters, same story, same name.
And on my birthday, yo, it kind of sounds like they did it on purpose.
Well, if you take a number of probabilistic events, right, and you start looking at what's the probability of those all happening
in conjunction with each other, right? You multiply them together and the fraction gets
smaller and smaller, right? I mean, these kinds of things, you know, those sorts of arguments are
launched in, you know, all kinds of litigation, but, you know, especially in the criminal law,
right? So maybe, you know, there's a one in 10 chance that a particular fiber was left at the
scene of a crime, right? But then if you accumulate it with a piece of evidence about the ethnicity
of the person, and then you have some DNA evidence. DNA evidence doesn't necessarily
rule out everybody, right? But you multiply all those things together, you get to an astronomical
number, then you start to scratch your head and say,
you know, it looks like the odds that it's not this person are very low. And so in this kind of analysis, it would be with all these coincidental elements of the work all occurring at once,
seems like it's right for you to be asking questions.
But it doesn't seem like a coincidence.
Well, let me say this. To everybody who's listening live, comment, do you think this
was coincidental or intentional?
And I want to ask you guys what you think based on what you've seen and, you know.
Well, I want to get ahead of everybody else in saying this.
I think that we've found out who the muse of muses.
Yes.
And it's Tim Pool.
You are their muse.
And so I think Jeff's assessment that there's something there is pretty accurate.
Jeff, when you look at this just personally as a lawyer, does it look like intentional to you?
Like it was intentional?
You know, I think as a lawyer, part of my training is to be cautious, Tim.
And so, you know, that I wouldn't jump out on right now.
But I will say that, you know, like putting those two things side by side, they look pretty damn similar.
And there's some other-
And they're named the same thing.
Yeah, they're named the same thing.
I mean, where there's smoke, there may be fire.
And so it's right for you to be pushing this and raising your questions.
And the fact that there's a year and a half distance between the two projects coming out.
When you first posted about it, I thought you just posted it, like created this video
the other day.
I didn't realize it was out for a year and a half.
They've had plenty of time to watch it, review it, and be like, oh.
We've got 1.2 million views on our song.
Yeah.
It's on Spotify.
It's on iTunes.
It's on Bandcamp.
The first Tim Kast IRL performance of this was June 19, 2020.
So even well before we published the video of it, I was playing acoustic and singing live.
So I don't know.
What I have to consider is there's a difference between me as an individual business owner
and what a corporation with multiple owners would
be dealing with, there's pros and there's cons to being a partner in a big corporation.
Let's say you own a company with like four other people, shareholders. You've got 20%,
someone's got seven, someone's got 30 or whatever. If some problem happens and you want to stand your
ground and say, I will not allow this person to come at me, you've got to consider your other partners.
You've got to be like, who's our investors?
Somebody invested money in our company.
If I go to battle and I lose, I'm losing their money.
So you may be risk averse.
One of the benefits, however, is you get a problem like this
and you can say, we have an obligation to each other
and it's not about what we want to do, it's about what we have to do.
So if I had investors in this company, which I don't, then I would have no choice but to
immediately launch, fire everything and be like, I can't be responsible to investors.
But as an individual, as someone who's a fan of Muse, I think about, look, we've got a lot of
money invested in this project we're working on. It is too similar. Already when you search for Will of the People, it's displaced us.
But it's not just the name.
It's that it's literally the description of what my song is.
Their description is the same as my description for the most part.
Their visual depiction and story is the same.
If you were going to explain to someone what my music video was,
it's interchangeable between the two of them.
How am I supposed to carry forward with this massive investment to building culture
when Muse, a year and a half after me,
has published what I view as a shot-for-shot remake
of at least so far the intro
with the same name of my song?
And so the question is,
I'm a fan of the band.
I can play most of their songs.
But this is a threat to my business
and to the mission that we have.
I don't have investors to worry about,
but I'm wondering what people think
I should do in a situation like this.
Should we say we can't,
should we say like already
Muse making an announcement
has generated,
because they're a large
and famous international band,
already it's generated so much press
that's an uphill battle for us.
Or do I say, we are one of the biggest podcasts in the world
with 60 million listeners every month,
and we have to push back
and make sure we assert our copyrights
and the project we've invested all this money in.
We've been investing in this project longer than they have.
So what do we do?
Let's just look at this from,
just for the sake of argument, right? Like, arguendo. So what do we do? that they can get away with this. And so if I were an individual creator, I'm not a person gifted with a lot of musical or visual artistic skills.
I'm a guy who lives in the world of analysis and writing
and presenting arguments to courts.
But I respect your talent a lot.
As I said, I'm a fan of Muse too.
I have their songs on my iPhone.
But I would be insulted if I were someone who poured my creative energy into something
and I saw that it was blatantly being hijacked.
That would hurt me personally.
Let me ask you a basic copyright question.
A company like Warner, they're going to do a basic search for IP and copyright if they're launching a product, right?
Yeah.
I mean, they're going to do any company that engages in anything, especially if it involves a significant investment, is going to do due diligence to see what's out there, who could come after us.
We did when we launched this.
So we are careful to make sure that when we're launching it, we do basic searches.
We look up song.
We don't find anything.
We're like, okay, we're good.
Because if we're going to put tens of thousands of dollars into marketing even.
Right.
Yeah, you don't want to take chances with it.
Because it obviously is possible sometimes that there could be some coincidental overlap.
You don't want to be blindsided by that when you're down the road in the business venture that flows from the creative act.
You know, I would think that that big, you know, company behind Muse would do that kind of work.
And, you know, look, it also doesn't.
So let's say there was, again, for just for purposes of argument, imagine that there was some deliberate activity here.
It doesn't even look like they tried to
make tweaks to things to
be able to improve their position.
They didn't change the color scheme.
The title's the same.
The birthday thing,
I think that would make me wonder
whether I was being trolled, but I don't think
that's the kind of thing that
could be pure coincidence.
But just all of these things together?
Both videos start with a ground shot. There's a slightly That's the kind of thing that could be pure coincidence. But just all of these things together. All of these things together.
But look, both videos start with a ground shot.
Theirs is slightly different.
The shoe steps in.
Right.
But then it shows the base of the statue.
Theirs is pointed upwards.
Mine's at the base.
The ropes are already hanging from their statue.
The ropes are already hanging from mine.
Orange sky.
Right.
People are pulling on it.
And then that's the cold open.
And the reveal at the end
is they're pulling the statue down and it's rotating.
So look, we have no choice but to ask these questions
and pursue it and have these conversations,
especially there's a lot people need to understand
about why we would do a segment on the show about this.
And it's because there are certain legal questions
about your ability to assert your position
when you're a public figure. Long story short is, if I don't exercise my rights to try and assert my copyright,
it could be bad for me. And considering we've got two songs nearing completion and we're reaching
out, we're storyboarding the next, we've already finished storyboarding the next series on this.
I have to be like, hey, this is an issue for us and we're taking it very, very seriously.
And we're going to be, you know, we need to have a conversation with Warner and Muse.
So Warner and Muse, you need to be talking to us. We have to. Otherwise, I don't, it has to be done.
So with that being said, comment, let me know what you guys think. I'm not saying I know exactly
what the best path forward is for anybody, for me or Muse or otherwise. I'm not saying I know exactly what the best path forward is for anybody, for me or Muse or otherwise.
I'm just saying whether you agree or not, most people say there are similarities.
There's confusion.
There's an issue.
And ours existed first.
And we've already put more money into this.
So questions need to be asked.
But we'll move on from this because I think we talked about it as much as we can.
And let's talk about the Academy Awards.
I think that Will Smith smacking Chris Rock was staged.
Really?
What do you guys think?
I don't know.
Yeah, I have no clue.
I almost don't care.
You almost don't care.
I don't care at all about that event that took place.
But I think it's important to talk about mental health.
And Mike Cernovich has been on top of this,
talking about how it's probably taken a toll on Will,
the fact that he allows his wife to sleep with other men,
and then he's totally okay with that,
but a joke he gets upset by.
And so Will's probably not all there right now from a mental health standpoint.
And so I could see how it wouldn't be staged.
I could see how maybe he just had enough and he had to stop.
Someone did super chat us saying, trust me, it wasn't staged.
And the way Chris Rock reacted, there's two things.
One suggests it was staged, one that it wasn't.
After he got hit, you could tell that he didn't know what to do.
And he was like in a difficult position where he was like uh and they said we're
giving away documentaries oscars because he's clearly flustered he got smacked in the face
however when will smith cranks up to hit him chris rock doesn't put his hands up which is a common
reflex when you're about to be hit yeah in fact he does a maybe it was an accident but he makes a
move that is common in fight choreography where he moves with the hand swing.
So when someone is fake slapping you,
what you do is when the hand is coming in,
you move with it.
So it's a glancing hit and less impact to your face.
Well, their ratings have been in the tank
for the last few years
and nobody talks about them anymore.
And now everybody's talking about it today.
There's been great memes created already.
It's a great meme template.
Will Smith is a, you know,
I'm very grateful for his work
in giving us good meme templates over the years.
His movies have been lackluster,
to say the least, as of late.
But he gives us great meme templates
and so there's a lot you can do with the slap motion.
Well, Cuck was trending on Twitter all day.
Really?
Because Jada Pinkett Smith apparently is allowed to be with anybody she wants.
Yeah.
I got to read Mike Cernovich's tweet.
It was the best tweet I saw on this whole situation.
Mike's been on fire for this.
He's always on fire.
He tweeted, being a Cuck just went out of style.
Everyone saw a broken man trying to save face.
Don't be smacking cheeks when you're letting other men clapping cheeks.
Wow.
Poetic by Cerno.
And it's almost 10,000 likes on that one.
Oh, man.
Twitter doesn't let me pull this stuff up anymore.
So, look, I didn't study Hollywood fakery in law school, so I don't pretend to be an expert.
But I would say as a layperson, I don't buy this.
I think it's about as real as wardrobe malfunctions in the past.
And look, Hollywood is expert in staging things, right?
That's what they do for a living.
And that's why the cops didn't come in?
Look, and I'm a fan of Will Smith. He's a fellow Philadelphian.
So, you know, I think that the whole thing smells,
and it's the kind of thing you launch when you're in an awards show
that no one wants to watch anymore.
It's possible it was real.
Like, you know, you can think about the LAPD said,
Chris Rock's not going to file, so that's it.
My response is the police don't need the victim to file.
If the police have evidence enough to convict,
they can go on whether or not you as a victim want them to.
So it could just be it's all one big happy family,
and they're like, we don't want cops arresting Will Smith.
Just let it go, and they all say let it go, and that's what happens when you're powerful, wealthy elites.
You can walk up to a man and smack him in the face for your wife's honor, and you're not going to spend it.
You're going to go party afterwards and get drunk.
Yeah.
I personally thought the clip of Amy Schumer and her fellow idiots singing
gay on the stage was...
I didn't watch it.
You gotta pull that one out. You literally have Amy
Schumer and two people I've never seen or
heard of before in my entire life
singing, you know, protesting
Ron DeSantis' bill saying gay, gay, gay, gay.
It's just so weird that Hollywood would be
protesting like the most milquetoast
attempt at an anti-grooming bell.
Strange.
Yeah.
But, I mean.
Roman Polanski is.
Yeah.
You're just jealous, again, going back to your detention slip days.
Yeah, I'm seriously pissed about that one.
You're like, where was Amy Schumer when I got sent to the Princeton office?
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
Hollywood's dead, man.
Yeah.
They had 10 million total viewers in the Oscars last year.
Brutal.
And that was down like 60% from the year before.
Yeah, we did a cartoon about that if you guys want to check out.
It's called The Wokest Oscars on Freedom Tins.
I'm not sure if it was staged.
I said I almost don't care.
I guess maybe some small part of me does a little bit just because I very much dislike Hollywood
and they do something ridiculous and i want to say uh darn hollywood but whether it was faked or not it's clear that this has had the
effect of people ridiculing a specific person at the oscars rather than the entire ceremony as a
whole because for the past couple years it's been how unbelievably stupid is this ridiculous padding of oneself on the back ceremony that occurs where they give
awards to their friends for doing things that they sit there and pretend is important while
the rest of us don't really care.
Seamus?
Yeah.
I would like to award you our first annual Castie.
Tim, I just, oh my God.
There you go.
That's beautiful. That's beautiful.
So I want to say that we have always been ahead of the curve on TimCast.
He wants us laughing.
In telling ordinary Americans that they're wrong and need to be more like us.
Thank you for this award.
Yo, legit, I think I'm going to buy a bunch of those little alpacas.
Yeah, that's so cute.
Give them out as awards.
Yeah, I think I should go pick some up.
Seamus didn't say he stands with Ukraine in his speech.
Oh my gosh.
Cancel.
Hold on.
Give it back.
Yeah, we're going to cancel Seamus.
He gave it back.
It's mine again.
Because I think it is the default stance to stand for Ukraine.
That's right.
I'm sorry that you don't agree.
If we did like an award.
Turn it around on him.
It doesn't need to be said.
Exactly.
It goes without saying.
If we did like an award ceremony called the Truthies or something and we use little alpacas.
Yes.
Do you think James O'Keefe would mind?
That'd be so good.
James is great.
What if it was an award ceremony for like most contrived speech and we just went to different podcasters and awarded them based on who gave a really contrived speech at some point in their podcast, and then they have to give a contrived speech
while they're up on stage receiving it.
I mean, who would be better for that?
Sounds great.
Isn't that the whole point of the award show?
Someone goes on stage, gives a contrived speech.
A lot of people get mad at it.
It boosts ratings, and people pay attention.
Wouldn't it make more sense to just cut out the nonsense
and give people awards simply for making contrived, nonsensical speeches?
It is a crazy thought when you realize that nobody watches the Oscars.
These great cultural moments losing significance, and now we just don't care anymore.
We're talking about it now because some dude smacked another dude.
But whether it was staged or not, that's the only thing they have that makes us talk about it.
Do you know what movie Will Smith was in?
No.
No?
No.
No idea.
Does anybody know?
I know what movie he was in.
The Start of the Sea? No. I know. Do you guys not know? No idea.? No. No idea. Does anybody know? I know what movie he was in. The Start of the Sea?
No.
I know.
Do you guys not know?
No idea.
King Richard.
I'm sorry you're up to date on these things, Tim.
This is investigative journalism.
Yes, it is.
But my point is people don't even know what movie Will Smith was in when he was there.
And all they know is on TV some guy smacked another guy.
That's all the Oscars is these days.
Yeah. But, you know, back to the I'm becoming probability guy, you know, back to the combining probabilities, right?
The fact that the show is failing and the only thing that makes anyone talk about it is this incident to me suggests that the incident is artificial.
Right.
Makes sense.
It's fake news.
It's all fake news.
But people need to
understand too that
that stage doesn't
mean anybody other
than Will Smith and
Chris Rock knew about
it.
It could even be that
that Chris Rock didn't
know about it but
Will Smith's people
told him this would
be really good for
publicity.
You know we heard
he's going to tell a
joke go up there and
smash him.
Is he going to get
like an alopecia
like an anti alopecia
contract?
I don't know.
We're talking about
him aren't we? It's his first Oscar isn't it? It's the first one he's ever won anti-alopecia contract? I don't know. We're talking about him, aren't we? It's his first Oscar,
isn't it? It's the first one he's ever won?
I don't know. That I don't know.
Also, what was the joke even? G.I. Jane?
Why is that a bad joke? Because
Jada Pinkett Smith has alopecia, so her hair's
falling out, so she shaved her head.
So he was like, I look
forward to G.I. Jane 2.
And Will Smith laughed. And then Jada Pinkett
Smith's face like... She glared at him. And then she looks at him, and then jada pinkett smith's face like and then she
looks at him and then he gets up and then you know chris rocks or something like oh hey richard or
whatever and then will smith slaps him i thought it was fake i thought it was fake because the
cops didn't come i thought it was fake because chris rock didn't do anything that's the weirdest
thing to me i don't know if i was on stage and someone walked up to
me the first thing i would do is be like i put my hand up and be like back off what are you doing
yeah i don't walk up to me like this i don't know though man because if if we were gonna fake a fight
and that was our whole thing and you were supposed to come up and smack me i wouldn't be like yes i'm
gonna take the role of the guy who stands there in front of the entire world and doesn't fight
back after he got smacked in the face it just seems like a really weird thing to agree to.
I saw all these comments.
Will Smith defending his wife's honor.
And who defends their wife's honor with an open-hand slap?
I've got to be honest.
I think it's good that we're talking about it.
Do you?
Yeah, because I'd rather people of low –
what's the polite way to say this?
Of low cognitive – of limited cognitive faculties.
I would prefer it if they weren't coming out and arguing politics and voting for Biden.
You know, the way I put it is when I was younger, I was like, I wish more people were involved
in politics.
Why don't they pay attention?
All they care about is sports and celebrities.
Then 2020 happens and all people cared about was politics, but they didn't know anything
about it.
And so they're like, I just feel like we're in a car.
You know, we're in a bus.
And everyone's like, we can drive off the cliff or just turn around.
And I'm like, I vote to turn around.
And they're like, off the cliff, off.
I'm like, no, no.
Everybody look at the rabbit.
Look out the window.
Look at the rabbit.
Stop.
If people want to pay attention to politics and they're passionate about it,
then by all means, we can have disagreements for whoever we want.
But if regular people are going like, yo, he smacked that guy.
I'd rather have them be more interested in that
than going out and voting on things they don't know about and aren't interested in.
You don't got to be smart to vote.
I'm not saying that.
I'm saying if you don't care about it and you're only going out and voting
because it's pop culture, that's a problem.
Let's have everybody go watch sports and pop culture somewhere else and anybody of any
intellect or whatever, you're allowed to vote so long as you want to and you're choosing
to take that first step.
You're saying it consumes their attention span budget.
And I got to thank Will and Chris because they were able to shift the news cycle away
from Ukraine for a very short moment.
And so now we're back.
I just wonder if Will Smith has some Irish in his blood.
That's a great point.
That must be.
All right, let's go to Super Chats.
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I've been talking about. I want to stress the importance of cultural content. The Daily Wire
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that's important. Inspiring someone
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You've got to show, and that's why cultural stuff is so important.
So with your support, we'll do more. Smash that like
button. Let's read some of these super chats.
We've got a Random User who says,
Send Will Smith to smack Putin.
That sounds like
something someone at the Oscars speech would
say. That's a thought. Sounds like something Lindsey Graham
would say on Twitter. That's true.
Man Overboard Media says, Can next year's Oscars
be hosted by Jerry Springer and Steve
Wilkos? Yes.
Amazing.
Trip Suck says, Out of all the voices that Seamus can do,
he chooses a Tucker Carlson impression
for his regular, normal, everyday voice.
Do I sound like Tucker?
What do you really sound like?
Here's my actual voice, ladies and gentlemen.
The media wants you to think
that I sound like Tucker Carlson.
I don't, actually.
Ridiculous.
I've never said anything
that sounded even remotely like Tucker Carlson.
So why do they want you to think otherwise?
That's the question you need to ask.
He adds those little things
afterwards, like, you know.
Instead of just making a declarative statement,
he then adds, you know. Why don't you
think about it? And they
should. And they should.
We got the Irish brogue from you
tonight, too.
I said the last time I've been Irish brogue back there.
It comes out to me every now and again because I
internalize other people's suffering
so often.
WhitePaperCat says,
you're working on a video game. Cool.
Yes, we are.
We've had a bit of a functioning
alpha.
Then we have right now
a...
We retooled it and refined it.
Right now, the latest version is awesome.
I think so. I won't say refined it, but right now the latest version is awesome. I think so.
I won't say too much, but you collect – it's sort of a roguelike – I think it's a roguelike game.
It's an easy way to describe it.
It's a platformer descending roguelike where you are battling your way and collecting new items.
And it's good stuff in the works.
I think – I don't know if we ever said the name publicly or anything though no i don't want to give too much away about it we've been
working on this for over a year and it's sort of gone longer than that yeah yeah we we've gone
there have been a couple of iterations but it looks like it's finally getting to the final
stage with like the actual code that we're gonna end up using and the thing so i'm really excited
about it it's gonna be really cool we're really getting close there's definitely more that's like
there's more work to be done but i think we finally have the the basis
completely finished we're not working on a rough draft at this point right now it's now it's a
matter of artwork and i think the only thing we really need at this point is like we want to make
a ridiculously massive inventory system so you know i'm talking like weekly updates with new
items yeah and it's it's gonna be fun it's gonna be fun well items. Yeah. And it's going to be fun.
It's going to be fun.
Well, and Tim, how cool is it to be at a show where you got D100s on the table for –
I got a D120.
Thank Ian for that.
D120.
It's heavy too.
Yeah, the D100 won't stop rolling after you roll it.
It's not going to roll away.
There you go.
It's going to destroy the whole table.
You got a 14.
14.
All that for 14.
Yeah, pretty crappy.
Oh, well.
All right.
Trudon on a shot but a pressure says,
I'm a professional actor and have been a professional fight director.
That slap was a stage slap.
Note Will Smith hitting his chest to make a sound.
Did he really?
No.
Did he do that?
He did the.
Do you want to pull it up?
Yeah, I can pull it up on my laptop.
I heard that slap and I thought it sounded weird. I'd heard someone say that he stom the do you want to pull it up um yeah i can pull it up on my laptop i heard that
and i thought it sounded weird i'd heard someone say that he stomped his foot god you're telling
me hollywood couldn't come up with better special effects than that if they were to fake this
yeah but yeah but look if if it was staged between just the two people and no one else
right yeah thomas sidebottom says the only reason the media can get away with saying what he actually meant was is because Biden literally can't defend against it.
Also, I mean, they they do it all the time. People who can defend against it.
They just know what you were thinking every time you say something. It's really it's a it's very impressive power they have.
Seriously, JK says, I know I'm a random Internet guy, but I have a very close inside Hollywood source with direct connection to two of them.
Nothing was staged.
Trust me or not, but this person is super legit.
But could it be that Will Smith walked up to Chris Rock yesterday and whispered,
I'm going to slap you.
Do a joke, okay?
Don't tell anybody.
Could it have been that staged?
And so obviously their family and friends were like, wow, that was real.
Huh.
Maybe.
Let's see.
Barak Bulldog says, no, Ian, we peeing ian is currently on vacation tim let me send you the link i i don't know i can't pull it up on oh you're not able to
pull it up on there okay all right i don't know jacqueline pierce says shimcast please shout out
joseph's nine ninth birthday because he's a huge shimcast fan and loves freedom too so much thank you well
that's fantastic uh joseph is also an incredible name happy birthday young lad
vosh says zelensky threw up the white flag he's giving up the donbass if only russia would have
told us that was their intent we could have negotiated for peace instead of arming people
they consider terrorists is that happening that's the latest's giving up? He's going to give in? Does that make Putin stop?
Don't know.
It's not going to work.
Yeah.
You know that joke I sent you about the USA Today article?
Should we say that or did you want to use it?
Let's use it.
Let's think about it.
Also, someone shouted out the cartoon we collaborated on.
Oh, did they?
Which one?
I think it was up there a little bit.
He complimented your Fauci performance.
Oh, there you go.
Harry To says,
the Freedom Tunes episode,
Fauci starving for attention,
is the funniest thing I've seen this year.
When Fauci Tim starts singing Eminem's song,
I almost fell out of my chair.
I'm very proud of that.
Yeah, that was a great moment.
And if you guys are interested,
if you watch the cartoon and laugh,
if you donate on Patreon,
you'll actually be able to see Tim and I recording it.
And some of it was actually improv. The final product is a bit different from the script and we came up with some really funny stuff wait so we actually recorded when i
had that epiphany yes i was like i stopped and i was like jamis you're like wait a minute i've got
it and you were like what what do you got and i was like stan i was like that's a horrible idea. We're not doing it. Fauci singing Stan or Trump.
Trump sings the Dido part.
And then she's got good.
You guys got to check it out.
I'm going to work on it.
Group B says in response to earlier video, Brookings mislabeled you as Tim Pool Daily Show.
When everyone knows it's Timcast. Also about BioLabs, how do we know that they don't data back from the Soviet Union era?
Have data? I don't know, but I will say the Tim Poole Daily Show is a podcast. I put up
two podcasts. Timcast IRL is conversational and Tim Poole Daily Show is monologue.
So if you didn't know that, because Timcast IRL on podcast platforms has way more
viewers. It's got like triple the audience. So I have two YouTube channels, which are like me
monologuing. And then that becomes one podcast on iTunes and Spotify called Tim Pool Daily Show.
That's what Brookings was referencing. They basically took me saying there are no bioweapons
labs and people are wrong, and then made an article saying Tim Pool pushes lies that there are biolabs.
Congratulations.
It's brilliant fake news.
All right.
What do we got here?
Awesome.
Archivist says,
Tim, I have a prediction
based upon my analysis of the Ukrainian war.
I believe if the UN and NATO
do not help rebuild Ukraine
for fear of further Russian aggression,
the World Economic Forum
will for good public press.
Interesting.
Perhaps.
Valorne says,
See, we English told you you can't trust the Irish,
but you didn't listen and now you have one doing this.
Don't feed him whiskey after midnight.
First of all, you think he's awake after midnight?
Come on.
No way.
Yeah, we have to limit Seamus after the show because we wrap up around 11,
and then Seamus is always going for the whiskey.
That's extremely offensive.
It's not true.
The lunch is for it.
It's true.
Only when it's not lent.
Yeah, that's fair.
All right.
Icefox says, any advice for how to research your reps?
People like me who work long hours and no skill in research trying to figure out
our reps' claims versus actual beliefs
just moved to NC and I'm trying to figure out
my reps' choices so I can vote
right coming up. Go talk to them.
Look at their Twitter.
Look at their Twitter. Talk to them.
And you can go to Ballotpedia and look up
a lot of information about them.
It's the best thing you can do. It's hard to know exactly.
Can you trust them? Look at their record, I guess, but it is tough to be-
There are some rating services that look at people's voting records. You could find that
on the net too. Greg Duvier says, Seamus, why do you still use Patreon?
That's a good question. So we're actually working on building a paywall on my website right now,
so we can use that instead, but it's still under construction.
So I switched to Subscribestar for a little while, but unfortunately, even though everyone tells you they want you to use something besides Patreon,
when you create something different, you just don't pull in as much through donations.
And it got to the point where we were literally going to have to stop making the cartoons because we weren't generating enough revenue to continue.
So I just had to go back to Patreon for the time being.
Get that website.
Yeah, yeah.
No, we're getting closer.
It's built.
So basically what we're going to be doing is launching a paywall.
The normal Freedom Tunes videos, the weekly uploads, are going to stay free,
but we're also working on extra content for people who donate.
And a little bit, I don't want to give an exact date right now,
but once we have a solid enough content of library to have a bit of wiggle room, we're going to launch the official website where people will
be able to donate for exclusive content. So we're working on it now and I'm pretty excited for that.
All right. Hans Gruber. Oh, Hans Gruber. He says, when billionaires sell massive amounts of stocks
to pay taxes on unrealized gains, the market will crash. That's true. It absolutely will.
That's what I'm saying.
I mean, they're going to have to sell off their shares.
You're going to crash the market.
But as I also mentioned, what you are doing is you are essentially saying if someone is doing such a good job at running their company that the value of their stock increases, they should sacrifice control over to their company to people who have potentially never been involved with the business before.
That's insane.
Yeah.
All right. Winston Alexander says, with an unrealized tax, the government will have to federalize
appraisers, local tax assessors, and insurance adjusters.
Yeah, otherwise, how do you actually determine the value of something?
Crazy, man.
B.D. Pershing says, this hits people who own crypto hard because you don't earn any money
on crypto until it's sold.
So all these multimillionaires due to crypto are going to get hit hard.
Maybe that's the point.
They're legit people who are worth $100 million because of crypto.
So they're going to try and stop these people from becoming wealthy off of crypto.
But, man, just think how crazy that is.
That you were some libertarian trying to buy drugs on the internet in 2010 and now you're worth 500 million
dollars crazy good for them no yo you think i'm kidding like that's what happened to a lot of
people man sequoia says unrealized gains tax unrealized gains tax force forces asset sell-offs
across all vectors huge financial crisis fed has perfect rationale to buy these assets,
currently prohibited.
They have ownership stake control of every company
equals great reset.
Crazy, man.
Yeah, or they seize your assets
because you couldn't afford your tax bill,
so they just take your stuff from you
without you selling it.
A bunch of people were arguing over
smashing the like button.
Button the smash like, like the smash button, smash the like button. I think people were saying slap the like button. Button the smash like. Like the smash button.
Smash the like button.
I think people were saying slap the like button earlier in the show.
Slap it.
Smush.
Might have been where it started.
Smush.
Rakin, as I say, Rakin or Raylan.
Wealth tax is already here.
It's called property taxes.
My house assessment went up 20%.
That's true.
And property ownership is how people transfer wealth to their kids.
So they're absolutely taxing your wealth.
They just want to do more.
It's to prevent ordinary people from becoming wealthy because one argument that the left will always make about systemic racism and redlining is that property ownership is the quickest way to build up wealth and either enter the middle class or upper class, and black people are excluded from that.
But they're fine making it more difficult for literally everyone in the country to amass wealth that way, even though they have acknowledged that it can keep a group of people down and will keep groups
of people down. Well, it's what you were saying, Tim, earlier about structural dynamism. If all
these rules basically lock people, lock the world into a stasis where the rich stay rich and other
people can't climb the ladder, then there's no challenge to that economic power structure.
And it's just not the kind of system that we should want to have.
You know, we need to have strong respect for the rule of law and for constitutional law,
but we also need, you know, an Adam Smithian kind of economic system.
Otherwise, you know, you get power monopolies either on governmental power or on private power or, these days, the combination of private and public power all in one.
All right.
Wes Candle says, even if they did get the idea from you, they'd have to steal actual frames of your footage for you to have a claim.
Blade Runner used that color palette with statues and star battles surely exist.
How would you?
One more time on that one.
That one went by too fast.
I apologize.
Yeah.
Wes Candle says, even if they did get the idea from you, they'd have to steal the actual frames of your footage for you to have a claim.
No.
Blade Runner used the color palette with statues and star battles surely exists.
No, I don't agree with that. I think that, like I said, it's a kind of overarching analysis
that looks at all of the elements together,
and I don't think you have to copy particular frames in order to have a case.
Stock says wait 10 days and we'll know if it's intentional or coincidence.
What would you recommend in terms of something like this?
Should you just wait until they publish something that may be infringing or do you?
Well, I mean, you know, it looks to me like you should raise these questions now because you also
don't want to wind up in a spot where you sleep on your rights. Right. That's what people need
to understand. I see, you know, people are commenting like Tim thinks he's all this and
all that. It's like, dude, you have a bunch of lawyers when it comes to criminal or civil.
They tell you if you don't exercise your rights, you can't defend them later on.
So let me just warn all of you guys.
If you come to this property because we've had the issue, you will be charged with a felony.
I'm not exaggerating.
The feds have already been here because of what's been going on.
And there are people who think it's a game.
So I'm just letting you guys know, our hands are tied on all of this stuff.
Because as a big company with a bunch of employees, if someone comes and does something, we have to exercise fullest extent legality.
To the fullest extent to legalities.
Because if there is someone who does a thing that in some way infringes or violates any of our rights and we don't exercise it, we lose claim to it in the future.
So with this song, our immediate reaction was we have to exercise all options.
Right.
And in terms of your physical safety, right, protect the physical safety of everyone who's part of your enterprise.
You know what's sad is as our company grows, not a day goes by where I'm not saying to – I'm not wondering myself or realizing this is exactly why all corporations do the things they do.
Because certain laws exist, regulations exist.
And it's really fascinating when I learned you couldn't give people money.
That was kind of shocking to me.
I was like, wow, you can't give people money.
You can't.
Up to $15,000 you can give someone money.
But you can't like, you can't like buy your mama house.
You just can't do it.
There's ways you can support your family for sure but uh there's like
you can't hire people unreasonable at unreasonable rates you can get investigated people seem to
think that um if you have money you can do whatever you want it's like man certainly it is good to
have money no joke life is comfortable but there are a bunch of rules that come into place if i
want to be able to make music and make money off it, if I want to be able to do this show and make money off it, all of a sudden there's crazy rigid legal rules we
have to follow. When something comes out that people are saying looks like it's a copy, we're
like, okay, we have to exercise our rights. Absolutely 100%. Otherwise we could, we risk,
you know, losing them in other places. So that's why, this is why, and I'll let you guys know,
this is why I'm talking about it publicly on this show instead of just going to our lawyers and being like fire
away. I was like, no, no, no, we should talk about it. Let everybody know what's happening and how,
how we feel about it because we want to be able to produce content and not be crushed by massive
conglomerates like Warner or something like that. That means we do it this way. Um, and you know,
some people say it's, it's, you know, I've been
advised maybe we should just file something and not talk about it. But I'm like, I'd rather let
people know, you know, what's going on and be transparent to the best of our abilities.
But at the same time, assert we will be exercising our rights. I'm wondering if in 10 days it's
coming out, the song or something. I don't know. I know the album's released in August.
All right.
Wes Candle says,
so following up, he says, I've worked on tons of music videos, and they were clearly referencing Blade Runner.
I like you, Tim, but no one in this industry
is passing around your music video for reference.
You know, I disagree,
especially with people saying, I think they were
saying Matt Bellamy was on Alex Jones a year ago?
Or something like that? It was multiple years ago.
I thought it was back in 2006. Yeah.
That he said that he was inspired by Jones
to make Uprising.
Yeah, I thought he was on Jones in 2006. Yeah.
Talking about Alex Jones' documentaries and stuff. Yeah.
It's been a while. So, if
this is a guy who's familiar with this space
and he's in politics and he pays attention to anti-establishment
voices, you know, I think
it's incredibly likely. Plus, the video's
got 1.2 million views. It's
not like it's, it's not like it's got no views, you know? All right. Raymond G. Stanley Jr. says,
stand your ground. You're effing Tim pool. I mean, look, I, I, I, here's what I want to say
too about the, the, the people getting charged for coming here. That sucks. I, I never wanted
to be in a position where it's like a castle,
like a literal one with like fortified walls. And then you realize you have no choice,
literally, legally, criminally, civilly. We have no choice. If someone steps foot on the property,
the first thing that happens is the police come down and that person's getting charged.
And I'll just make sure it's clear. There's big no trespassing signs. You walk past that, it's a misdemeanor. There's a physical barrier. You walk around it or pass it, it's getting charged. And I'll just make sure it's clear. There's big no trespassing signs. You
walk past that, it's a misdemeanor. There's a physical barrier. You walk around it or past it,
it's a felony. Not kidding. And that's all I can say. People need to understand that.
And we do have... I'll leave it there because it's a tough circumstance. I always wanted to be
accessible. We wanted to do events.
We wanted to be like in the future we're going to have events that will be members only.
And then it will be semi-private.
People started abusing our kindness.
People started doing crazy stuff. And the sad thing is when you're getting 60 million – we were getting like 100 million views during the election.
It's crazy numbers.
It takes only one out of 100 million to be crazy to come here
and ruin everything for everybody and hurt somebody so all right let's grab some more
lex avalino says seamus fellow god-fearing brother here building in the blockchain gaming space would
love to hear more about your game and see if we can add some value shot you a tweet i'm in virginia
too oh cool yeah let's uh see if we can a conversation. I'm not sure if you're interested in other stuff with the code.
I've basically just been focusing on like story and art.
I wouldn't know anything about the kind of code that goes into it or anything
that might be associated with the blockchain.
But if you want to reach out to Tim and his people,
if they're willing to talk, that'd be pretty cool.
And also God bless you.
And I'm glad that we have other God-fearing folks out there.
We do need, we do need a
blockchain stuff so cool yeah great spidge b says if you don't defend your copyrights and trademarks
you may as well not have them having reputation for playing aggressively will dissuade other
interlopers maybe mediate but uh but theirs can't coexist it's it property rights right you know uh
good fences make good neighbors.
And so, you know, that's one reason why it's important to make sure that property rights
aren't invaded by the government, which is happening with increasing frequency.
And it's also a reason if you're the holder of a property, right, even an intellectual
property, right, that you make sure that you're aggressive about protecting it.
Jerome Morrow says you have to aggressively enforce your copyright.
If you don't, not only will you lose your right to do so in the future, but you'll also
be showing the authoritarian woke left an effective attack vector to sabotage your future
cultural works that counter their influence.
Yep, that's basically it, you know.
Pew Pew Trucker says you're looking at the muse song the wrong way it's a tribute cover
they just want to stand with their idols certainly one way a lot of people have said uh imitation is
the is the greatest form of flattery that's true but like if we have been working on these vocals
and like i've been screaming into these microphones writing songs we've been flying out musicians some
prominent uh musicians we've had on one of the songs uh actually on both of them it's the drop screaming into these microphones writing songs. We've been flying out musicians, some prominent musicians.
We've had on one of the songs,
actually on both of them, it's the former
drummer from The Offspring. So we're not
like, this is very serious.
We're actually negotiating with major labels
on this stuff for like
guest vocalists and singers.
I shouldn't have to be publicly announcing our
plans to launch this stuff because of what Muse
is doing.
Regardless of whether or not anyone thinks it's intentional.
If someone does a cover song, right, a cover version of a song, that's imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?
But if they're taking an original idea you have, especially when it's in the kind of launch phase and ripping it off, that's theft.
Man, times are tough.
We have a huge backstory for the universe in the characters of Tales from the Inverted World.
I think I've even talked about it on the show.
The dictator's name is the Wolf.
There's posters saying, send the pigs to the wolves.
The little boy under the bed is holding a stuffed wolf.
The character's arc is his parents are executed by the dictator that they were calling the pigs,
you know, Cochino or whatever.
And the last thing this kid had from his parents was a stuffed wolf toy.
So as he grew up, he always carried it around with him, had it in his backpack.
And so he gained the nickname The Wolf, which was actually a term of endearment
because his friends knew what it meant.
He was this revolutionary.
But when he grows up and becomes the leader of this authoritarian regime, The Wolf becomes pejorative.
Like we have a whole universe mapped out for this project.
And we were like we wanted a comic.
We're talking about movies.
No joke.
Almost two months ago, discussions on feature film.
It's frustrating that it comes to this and I have to now be like, hey, look, here's what we're planning on doing. I hope everybody knows,
but that's the reality of it, I suppose. So we'll see where it ends up.
All right, let's grab a couple more super chats. Jason Bellick says, I work for the guy who sued
Lil Nas X for copyright. You need an expert on the music industry. I can hook you up.
I appreciate it. We actually have a couple,
and it's really interesting. We've already had some conversations. Obviously, like I said,
our company has lawyers that deal with this stuff because we distribute a very large podcast.
All right. Ryan Merce with a mouth says, there is a video labeled as the leaked song from
muse and the chord structure is identical to your song,
but it's not actually a muse song song by Oliver light called revenge.
Well,
I've,
I've not heard that my,
my,
my concern right now is with their will of the people promo that shows like a
live action shot for shot remake.
So,
all right.
Leon's law says,
why are these idiot lawyers advising Tim to do lol suits?
What's a lol suit?
Like a frivolous –
Is it LOL?
Yeah.
Okay.
Frivolous, laughable suits that won't go anywhere.
I don't think that I've advised you to file a suit.
That would be point number one.
I don't think he's listening very carefully.
Right.
I don't think I've even said filing a lawsuit.
Yeah.
No, you didn't either.
That's what happens when you argue with a lawyer over the Super Chat.
It's like, I never said, but you notice.
If you return to 10 minutes and 36 seconds into the podcast, you will know what I said.
Well, see, people don't...
I think you want to...
Let's replay the transcript.
People don't understand that legal remedies don't necessarily mean lawsuits.
Like, it could literally be like when I say taking action,
it could be like we write a letter.
Like, hey, can we get on the phone real quick?
Yeah.
Well, I heard you say that you wanted to raise questions,
and I also heard you say that when you said you wanted to raise questions,
people immediately hopped to the conclusion of, you know,
well, they didn't steal it from you,
which is kind of almost like a consciousness of guilt
or the lady doth protest too much.
Right.
So.
Well, that was the funny thing,
because some people interpreted that as,
everybody knows I'm a fan of Muse.
And they were like, no, he said he wants to chat with him.
He wants to get him on the show.
Some people said that.
Some people just immediately went, whoa, what?
And a bunch of people responded saying, dude, they didn't steal your work.
Calm down.
And like I literally said nothing.
So projection.
It's a point I was making before.
When you say something like that, it says more about what your thought process saw already without being prompted.
So that was the lol projection.
Yep.
Yep.
Raymond G. Stanley Jr. says says i love the support of your audience
go irl team you know i thought about this i'm like i'm a i'm a fan i'm a big fan of muse i can play
you know a bunch of their songs it's been a while i forgot something but i can i covered a you know
i could play a bunch of their songs i've been a fan of them since i was like a teenager but that
whether i'm a fan of them or not is immaterial to what's happening now if some people if they're like you inspired them or whatever i'd be like
if they did see it and they were like you know we were inspired by it i would have appreciated
a conversation but but i gotta i gotta say all that's immaterial the question is we have to
we have to consider our rights we have to always pursue protecting our rights as a corporation.
We don't even have a choice in the matter.
It's not like you can't ignore these things.
So people need to understand that it's not often, it's not personal.
Sometimes it's personal.
Sometimes people allow lawsuits because they're just mean people.
But this is not personal.
I'm a fan of Muse.
But I'm not going to back down from this project we're working on and the culture we're trying to build.
And I've been a musician since I was seven years old.
I obviously care about my work.
Just because Muse is a massive stadium selling out band doesn't mean I'm going to ignore the fact that there's an issue.
We'll see what happens.
But now you guys heard it from me before anybody else because I didn't want this to come out like a press story or something and then have people be like, whoa, what's going on?
But that being said, my friends, smash the like button.
Subscribe to this channel.
Share the show with your friends. Head over to timcast.com. We're going to start
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You can follow me at timcast IRL. You can follow me, you can follow the show at timcast IRL. Follow
me personally at timcast. And you can check out Will of the People on YouTube, which has been up
since November 2nd. Watch the video. It's a short film. I think most of you will really appreciate
it if you like the politics of this show. And we have on my Instagram some
demos of the next songs that are coming out. On youtube.com slash Cast Castle, we actually show
part of the production process with the songs we're working on. Some of these are rough cuts,
and they don't sound all that good. Just keep that in mind. And the songs are going to get mastered and they're going to be top quality, really, really good stuff. So appreciate it.
Alex, you want to shout anything out? Yeah, I'm going to get yelled at if I don't do that. So
I have a book coming out. It's published by Post Hill Press. It comes out April 26. It's called
Winning the Social Media War, How Conservatives Can Fight Back, Reclaim the Narrative, and Turn
the Tides Against the Left. And we talk about a lot of the stuff that we talked about tonight, including the mass formation psychosis that takes place online, the censorship.
Hunter Biden's laptop plays a key role in the reading of the election.
And so we lay that out in there very nicely.
We interviewed dozens of leading conservatives, including Donald Trump Jr., Charlie Kirk.
Even politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Senator Rick Scott was gracious enough to give us some time.
And so it's an awesome book.
Some say it's the greatest book of all time, just past the Bible and the art of the deal.
And so unbiasedly, I agree with them.
So winning the social media awards in Barnes & Noble, Amazon, all the major booksellers.
Seamus Coghlan. You guys want to fight over here? No, no, no. I'm not going to mess with the lawyer, all the major booksellers. Seamus Coghlan.
You guys want to fight over here?
No, no, no.
I'm not going to mess with the lawyer, all right?
You go ahead and have your spot.
Maybe I'll have to consider suing you, Seamus.
Oh, my goodness.
He didn't say he was going to sue me.
He said he was going to consider suing me for everyone listening at home.
Very good.
Exactly.
Real quick, real quick.
Someone said in Super Chats,
you guys should call your games division Tim-tendo.
Haha.
Defend yourself fiercely.
Could we do that?
Shim-tendo.
No, no, no.
Legitimate question.
If we formed a company called Tim-tendo for our video games.
I'm not advising you to, theoretically.
I think I'd have to analyze that question very carefully, Tim.
Good lawyer response.
Yes.
I kind of feel like I wouldn't get away with it
especially if we got big nintendo would be like get out of here you might get a threatening letter
at the very least yeah yeah uh you can sue a ham sandwich it doesn't mean you're gonna win
that's right so one thing people need to realize too is if someone's got the resources and they're
just like i don't like what you're doing i'll bury you they can just throw money at you i mean
the january 6th committee is doing that to everybody that ever stood by President Trump right now. They're doing
that exact same thing. There's nothing that they can be investigating that's actually legitimate.
And so their goal is to financially harm anybody. I'm $90,000 deep in legal fees already.
And all I had to do is tell them to F off. I used my second favorite F word,
Fifth Amendment, 102 times in 46 minutes. I wanted to used my second favorite F word, Fifth Amendment, 102 times in 46 minutes. I wanted
to use my first favorite F word, which I'm not going to say because I'm a classy gentleman right
now. But I mean, they're doing just evil things to evil people. I know my friend Jeff's also been
looped into what they're doing too, but you made a great point. You can sue anybody for anything.
You can make anybody go through the trouble of getting attorneys just for the hell of it.
And it's a dangerous tactic.
It's like poker.
If you've got the weight, you can pressure somebody and even force them to back down, even big corporations.
They'll often just be like, I'll pay you what you want and go away.
Yeah, and that's what most people that have been subpoenaed by the January 6th Committee have done.
They've kind of taken the subpoena and they're like, oh my gosh, I want to do what I can and take everything
because I just can't afford it.
And kind of similar to you,
I think a lot of people pick on you
because they don't understand
how big you are, right?
You have 60 million viewers.
It's a substantial revenue stream.
I mean, we were just rated
the 25th fastest growing company
in the southeastern United States
for private companies.
And most people go to our website
and they're like,
oh my God, they have a Wix website from 2018, which we do. We just never
really cared about our website. And so I'm going to stand up to this commission, tell them to F
off because they're dangerous. And I said they picked the wrong fight. And so now if you guys
can find the January 6th committee's phone number, call them and ask them to drag me
in for the public show trials because I'd love for them to do that.
It'd be a lot of fun because I could use some at least free publicity with the tens of thousands
of dollars in legal fees I've spent.
Right on.
Wow.
Well, I have a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes.
We make cartoons.
We release one cartoon every week, sometimes two a week.
We got one shouted out in the comment section here
to a video Tim and I did
about Dr. Fauci. He's very sad that
he's not getting the attention anymore. So won't you
go over to Freedom Tunes and watch
the cartoons we just uploaded with him
in them. It would really mean a lot to him.
And also, we did a cartoon on the Oscars
from last year.
I was very happy. I think it's a funny cartoon
so if you guys want to check that one out as well,
I think you'd enjoy it.
Your microphone's off.
Oh, my microphone's off?
Yep, your microphone's off.
Oh, there we go. Oh, I am there. There we go.
I muted myself. I just wanted to be quiet.
I just wanted to say that our guest, Jeff,
was a former Assistant Attorney General
for the Environment and Natural Resource Division
under Trump. I realize that we didn't fully introduce him.
He's also a lawyer, which is why we were looking for his expertise this evening.
Thank you, Jeff, for pitching in.
Appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
And I also wanted to say, we mentioned a website that was for looking for non-woke jobs.
That site is down.
Unwoke.hr is gone.
They got hacked.
They were off the air in like a day, which is really kind of annoying.
But there's another site called redballoon.work.
It's very small.
But on it, you can go and find like freedom-oriented employers,
people who are looking for maybe unvaccinated employees,
which is kind of interesting to me.
Anyway, that was just what I found over the course of the show.
You guys may follow me on Twitter and minds.com at Sour Patch Lids.
I also have sourpatchlids.me where you can go to find
all my socials if you're interested.
Can I make a quick
two plugs? Yeah, yeah.
So please follow me on Twitter at
JeffClarkUS
and also in light
of the issues that
Alex was talking about, I have a
legal defense fund actually
in terms of the numbers that are being mounted up
for my personal legal bills
at givesendgo.com slash jeffclark.
I'd appreciate any help.
Right on.
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