Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #499 - Russia Threatens To CUT OFF Europe's Gas Tomorrow, War Escalates w/Brian Nichols

Episode Date: April 1, 2022

Tim, Ian, Seamus of FreedomToons, and Lydia host podcaster Brian Nichols to discuss the newest threat from Russia, Joe Biden's laughable attempts to possibly run again in 2024, the Army's newest crisis with recruitment numbers, Maxine Waters' poor choice of words as homeless people protest, and how the right can win at the metaverse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thank you. something that is missing from many of the headlines because they're making it sound like Vladimir Putin's just saying, look, look, look, buy rubles first. When in reality, he's actually saying you can still pay us in euro, but it has to go through our financial system first. Why? Western sanctions hurting the Russian economy. And this is Vladimir Putin's way of saying we're going to strike back. Not only that, they're pegging the ruble to gold and instantly the ruble recovers. So Western sanctions fail. Vladimir Putin now has tremendous leverage over Europe and everyone is kind of panicking about whether or not he'll shut off gas tomorrow. European nations are calling his bluff saying, nice try. We're not going to play these games in Germany. They're saying this is blackmail. We'll see who caves first because tomorrow is

the deadline, April 1st. How amazing would it be if tomorrow Vladimir Putin comes out and goes on a public address and he's like, I warned you all. I would shut off your gas. And April fools everybody. I was just kidding. It was just a joke. Yeah, I mean, so hold on. You're telling me they've lost.

McDonald's isn't marketing there anymore. The big banks left and they went back to the gold standard. Sounds great. 1980s called. That's isn't marketing there anymore. The big banks left, and they went back to the gold standard. That sounds great. That's horrible. 1980 is cold. That's horrible. That's horrible. Poor people.

All right, everybody. So we're going to talk about that and a whole bunch of other stuff, I guess. Maxine Waters yelling at homeless people to go home, and they yell back, we don't have homes. That's just funny, I guess. It's funny sad. But joining us to talk about all this is Brian Nichols. What's up, Tim? How are you doing?

I'm good. Who are you? Who am I? I'm the host of The Brian Nichols Show. I'm a sales executive. And my role in this greater liberty world has been to take the ideas that we like to talk about all day long and make us your average person who actually want to pay attention and actually buy the ideas versus just hearing us old man yells at cloud. So yeah, bring in a little bit of the sales and marketing world to the liberty movement. Absolutely. I prefer to yells at cloud. So, yeah, bring in a little bit of the sales and marketing world to the Liberty Movement. Absolutely. I prefer to yell at clouds. So does Joe Biden, but here we are.

But when I yell at a cloud, you can understand what I'm saying. I'm not slurring. Come on, man. We're a sip of patience. Been a wise guy out there. But, no, I'm Seamus Coghlan. I run a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes. We create short satirical and educational cartoons. We release one a week.

We released one today, as a matter of fact, about the transgender sports issue and how the sort of milquetoast conservative ink response is inadequate. I think it's funnier than I just explained it. So you guys go check it out. I think you'll enjoy it. I was also yelling at clouds earlier, but with my mind

there was a big thunderstorm coming and I was like, not tonight. So I went up there and I dispersed the clouds above me. No, you were thinking at clouds. I was thinking I did that, yeah. You were thinking at clouds. I was thinking hard. I was thinking very, very articulately. I want to point out real quick, too, for many of you who don't know,

I actually am the voice of Dr. Anthony Fauci on Freedom Tunes. And I've been auditioning for Nancy Pelosi, so I'm really hoping. Oh, it's good. We're hoping he gets it. It's a good impression. I mean, if you want to do it. She talks like the same as what we'd be on your show I mean, if you want to do it. She talks like the same as what made me on your show. Look, if you want to give away your secret sauce, the whole audience is going to be able

to do the impression now. You've lost it. Good. Good. Yeah. Why not spread it? Hey, you know what? Maybe.

Maybe we got some Nancy Pelosi cartoons coming up. Everyone's going to love my Pelosi and they're going to say you should. Well, they love it as much as your Fauci. Oh, I don't know. It's a tough one. The Fauci is good. The Fauci is really good. The Fauci is what keeps the light on. It's too real, honestly don't know. It's a tough one. The Fauci's good. The Fauci's really good. The Fauci is what keeps

the lights on. He's too real, honestly. He does. It's scary. Ian, you want to finish your intro? Yeah, I love you. Perfect.

I love that. That's wonderful. I didn't want to cut Ian off, but I'm also here in the corner. People make fun of me because I say I'm excited about our guests, but I am every single night

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but it's more than that. Vladimir Putin has signed a decree stating buyers must open ruble accounts in Russian banks. That is very different. Nobody sells anything for free and we're not going to do charity either. Putin's demand is being seen as an attempt to boost the ruble, which has been hit by Western sanctions. While it's working, the ruble is recovering, but this is more about Russia's banks. They say his decree means foreign buyers of Russian gas would have to open an account at Russia's Gazprom Bank and transfer euros or US dollars into it. Gazprom Bank would then convert this into rubles, which will

then be used to make the payment for gas. He's not saying you have to buy the oil and gas. He's saying you have to open an account and put your money into it. He's propping up the Russian financial system because of Western sanctions. He's now got the mere payment system, Visa and MasterCard and Amex and all these companies suspending. He didn't care. All Joe Biden has done with his sanctions is bolster Russia and make them fiercely independent, strong and weaken the U.S. position around the world. So thanks, Joe Biden. I can't believe that something Joe Biden intended to do had the reverse effect. How about that?

It's unbelievable to me. You know, but this is what they say about smooth talkers, you know? Can't trust them. He's got that silver tongue, but the follow-through just isn't there. Yeah, but it's also that he tries to walk back or claim things never happened that never happened how does that happen how did that happen well the sanctions i think he was asked by ducy he's like the only journalist asking questions he was asked uh you know these sanctions were supposed to deter putin and they're not and then it was one of the

spokespeople for the administration like no no we never said that oh no i think biden said biden himself yeah he actually doesn't remember bro go easy on him he's like i didn't say that man alone that was a very telling video ducy brought up three things he said that was no i think biden said biden himself yeah he actually doesn't remember bro go easy on him i didn't say that man alone that was a very telling video doocy brought up three things he said that was a different one okay i'm saying he was asked specifically you said sanctions were going to deter putin he's like well no i didn't and then there's quotes from the biden admin where they were like the sanctions will deter putin and they didn't it's you know what it is it's like blinken and kamala and uh biden are like the three stooges and they're slipping around on banana peels and putin's just going off and doing whatever he wants man yeah you say something once on the internet video it's there forever essentially i mean not

forever but uh i don't think he understands that because he's from an old generation before the internet right right like remember when hillary cl Clinton put on a southern accent when she was in Alabama or whatever? Hot sauce. Oh, the hot sauce one too when she was on Breakfast Club, right? She goes, what do you always keep in your bag? Hot sauce. I have hot sauce in here. I carry it everywhere.

But she put on a fake southern accent because she didn't realize that people record everything these days. She's old, right? Back in the day, you could show up anywhere and speak however you wanted. AOC even did it. Remember she put on like an urban Latina accent or dialect or whatever? And then she was like, that's just how I talk. It's like we hear you on PBS. We hear you on CNN.

You don't talk that way. Right. It's so weird. It's creepy. But you know what? You get it. You're a sales guy, right? Yeah.

Well, she's trying to reflect the people she's talking to but at the same point in time there comes a fine line between being your authentic self and being condescending and i mean we've been talking about joe biden hillary clinton aoc nancy pelosi there's one thing that they all represent it's condescension you know what it is yeah it's like um it's like the the upper middle class lady who orders something at a mexican restaurant in broken English. Because she assumes that's the way to be able to understand sentences. Please don't. Yeah, you're like, please stop doing this.

They're not even trying to speak Spanish. They're just speaking English poorly, intentionally. It's like, what are you doing? Yo, senor. Yo necesito more guac. But that's broken Spanish. They will literally do broken. They're like, I want food for plate.

You're like, bro, you can just talk normally. Like, they'll understand you. Remember that Yale study that says white liberals talk down. They dumb down the way they speak to black people and conservatives don't. That's the crazy. Yo, like. Here's the thing. I don't dumb down my speech to anyone because it can't get any dumber.

It can't get d dumber for me personally. But these liberals, they're just so smart, they have to condescend down to the rest of us. The CDC is calling me right now. Should I answer it? Oh, yeah. The Center for Disease Control. Yeah, it's probably definitely a legitimate call.

I'm joking, by the way. I would say it's probably the CDC. Should I? It says CDC National Immune. It's your show. I'm just sitting on it. I'm all along for the ride. Hold on. I'm going to try to answer this.

Hello. I am live broadcasting right now. Is this the CDC? We're live streaming on the internet. Yes, I'm calling on behalf of the CDC. It is. It's actually the CDC. We're doing a live talk show right now. Just so you know.

Everyone's going to be able to hear what you say. Are you okay with that? Yeah, okay. Alright. That would probably be better. Otherwise, we've got a lot of people who are watching. Alright. Thanks, man. Call back later.

What is the CDC doing a survey for? You heard that? Yeah. Did you like our services the last couple years? What do you think? What do you think of the advice that we were giving to the public? Scale of 1 to 10. How much do you trust the CDC today?

How satisfied are you? Have your tax dollars been going to the right spot? Yeah, maybe not. They've actually been calling me a lot. We've got to know what it is. And then if you answer no, you take the survey and you answer that you're not satisfied. They're like, this guy's sick. We gotta quarantine this one.

Yeah, we gotta quarantine this guy. They come out with the hazmat suits like they do in China. You jump out the window. They grab you, bring you back in. They called me at 3.51. What? I really want to know. They called me, let's see, 3.51 today, 3.20 today.

They called me yesterday. They were trying to reach you about your vaccine's extended warranty, 351 today, 320 today. Did they call me yesterday? They were trying to reach you about your vaccine's extended warranty, bro. That's really weird. I don't think they called me at all. Did you guys get that here, by the way? Like people going around door to door asking if you got your vax? No. That was a thing in Philly, and it was weird.

This guy, like he comes up to my house, and my wife and I just moved out of Philadelphia, and he knocks on the door. He's like, hi, sir. I'm from the city of Philadelphia. And I'm just going around to check out what people are doing during COVID, see if, you know, obviously you had the opportunity to get your vaccine. I'm like, don't really want to answer that question. He goes, well, did you get your vaccine?

I'm like, okay. Well, that's what they're calling for. 100%. So I got a text message from them. What the heck? It was a voicemail. It was a voicemail. And what did they say? I thought it was a scam, to be. It was a voicemail. It was a voicemail.

And what did they say? I thought it was a scam, to be honest. Oh, here we go. That's why I thought it was a scam. Somebody messing around. Yeah, they said, I'm calling on behalf of the CDC, conducting a national immunization survey about vaccinations for COVID and other diseases. Please call us back or whatever. And they called me.

Well, CDC, if you call me, I just want to let you know it will be live. Yes. And so that's your decision. What up, CDC? I have so many questions. Anyway, we were talking about what's going on in Europe, and then the CDC called me during the show. I get phone calls periodically during the show. I don't answer them.

But it was CDC calls. Oh, yeah. I thought it was really interesting. It was like, is there a new disease? Did a new variant drop? What if it was voucher? Omicron B6. What if it was like, I heard you were doing my voice in these cartoons.

I am sending you a cease and desist. I should be the one making those royalties off of my own likeness. Yeah, that's fair. But yeah, I didn't actually think

anybody would be able to hear it, but... That was awesome. I asked them if they were okay with it. They said no. Respectable, I guess. But I didn't know

what they were calling for. So I thought it would be interesting. We do a show. We talk about this stuff. But where were we? We're rubles and Russian lands. I think part of the reason why the ruble –

Talking about Joe Biden. I know it's backfired, but keep going. Part of the reason why the ruble bounded back, not only did they set up on gold, but its value is calculated in relative to the dollar. So if the dollar drops in value, the ruble is going to go up relatively in value. So as the dollar continues to plummet as it's continued to be printed you're going to see all of these other currencies going up it's actually that's actually a really good point um everybody's looking at the ruble going back up and they're assuming it's all of these things putin is doing it could just be all the things

biden is doing destroying the dollar literally that's true biden the fed yeah across the board it's been a blast like there's no real is there an independent way to measure the value of your currency up against something? Well, when MasterCard, Visa, and all these companies pull out of Russia and – That's another part of it. It is more difficult. They put them in a corner. They say if you don't – you're going to – we're going to buy your oil with euros, but we can shut off your euro accounts at any moment.

Like why would he take that deal? I don't think he's doing anything out of the ordinary. I'm not saying I love it. I'm think he's doing anything out of the ordinary no i'm not saying i love it i'm just saying it's not when you look at when you look at what the the biden administration has done from a foreign policy standpoint we were talking about this beforehand like it has been one unforced mitigated disaster after another yeah and i think it's just a matter of and it's sad to say but i think putin looks at it as he just he has to maintain himself long enough to outlast Biden and these failed policies. And we're seeing this right now. Your average person is like, this is not worth it.

I mean, maybe. But I also think as soon as Joe Biden got elected, you know how they would do the show The West Wing where it's like that camera in front of them as they walk and then it turns the corners. Imagine that with Putin. And then his guy's like, Sir, Joe Biden is president. You have four years. And then he's like, let's move. And then they start nailing out all their plans like,

we're on the clock, people. We got four years to get this done. Because as soon as Biden's out, you're going to get a Donald Trump or a Ron DeSantis or something. So Putin knows the iron is hot. Now is his chance. It's like the purge for all of our potential foreign adversaries. We have like a small window where we can do whatever we want.

Once every hundred years, the U.S. elects a Buchanan or a Biden. You think Biden's going to run again? I hear that he is. This is I don't know what's going on. Come on, man. I walk again. That's what I'm talking about. He's going to have his walker.

Oh, you literally run again. No, he's not going to do that again. Jill Biden is not holding his hand his hand without stem cells or something maybe he's prp all right all right if joe biden were to run for president for a second term yeah yep it would not be possible it can't work the first time around joe biden was calling a lid every. He was sleeping in his basement or something to that effect. And he could get away with it with COVID. But I. That was the that was the reason he didn't have to go out.

But I think I think you guys are underestimating how appealing he is to the American people. You might be right. He's a sly devil. The way he sounds, the way he speaks. The way he sniffs. I get it. I don't know the way he smells. I've never been close to him, close enough to touch his hand. I enough to touch his hand i haven't he smells like mung beans or something you know you know you

don't want to be because ian i got to be honest if if you were at an event and joe biden saw you from behind yeah with your long you don't need to finish that statement i'm okay with where you were headed you know exactly where i'm going what's the next story oh what are we no no think about graphene think about graphene. Think about graphene. I might have to change my Twitter profile. I've got Biden smelling me from behind on my Twitter profile page. He's like, it's corn pop.

He's back. Think about how funny it would be, though. Like, Biden would go up behind Ian and then grab his shoulders and go. You're not who I thought you were. But then Ian would be like, yo, yo, I'm a guy. And Biden would be like, I know. I know. Ian with your long leg hair.

Yeah, he's rubbing your legs. Ian would astral project out of his body. That would be like, I know. Ian with your long leg hair. Yeah, he's rubbing your legs. Ian with an astral project out of his body. Okay, but in all seriousness, in 2020, there were a lot of excuses about why Biden should have run, why he could win. I didn't buy him, but a lot of people were just,

they really hated Trump. Well, now a lot of people really hate Joe Biden. His approval rating is lowest ever been. MSNBC is like, despite the booming economy, people don't like Joe Biden. But imagine Joe Biden running again against who? That's why I'm like, honestly, don't give him Trump. Give him DeSantis. Yes, give him DeSantis.

Because they hated Trump because he was Trump. People dislike or hate Biden because of what his policies have been doing to them directly. And that right there is the difference. Whereas if you had Ron DeSantis run, you get rid of everything about Trump that people hate. And now instead you can focus on the policies that people loved in Florida and people fled to in mass in Florida because they were trying to get away like I did from Philadelphia of the crazy leftist policies. Oh, you mass in Florida because they were trying to get away, like I did from Philadelphia, of the crazy leftist policies. Oh, you're in Florida now?

No, I'm over in Indiana. Oh, OK. So you know what? I think about it, though. Trump should run because we're at the point now where I'm pretty sure enough people are going to look at Biden and Trump and go, I'm not making that same mistake twice. And then not only do you get Trump back in office to be the raging bull storming through the ivory tower, but you could say, I told you so to all of those people who turn around and said yeah okay we made a mistake with that one see i look at desantis though because whether like the whole don't don't

say gay bill which isn't actually a bill that says parental you can't say don't say gay right um he was smart in the way he put that bill into place because he is making the left now respond in kind to him and say, we want to teach our kids this in school. And your average parent is like, you're teaching what to my K through third grader? No, I don't think so. Whereas Trump would just go out and be like, what's the headline for the day? What can I go after and smash with a hammer? And now we have a chance to put somebody like JFK.

A little bit, yeah. Now we have a chance to put Ron DeSantis in front where he could have the chance to put something like jfk a little bit yeah now we have a chance to put um ron desantis in front where he could have the chance to lead on policy and get and get the the progressive left to answer that i'd i'd rather have desantis to be completely honest because of what the new the latest news that he's calling a special legislative session to the redistricting uh no for congressional for constitutional carry oh okay geez wow so ron Wow. So Ron DeSantis was like, yeah, we're going to do a special session. Come in. Vote on everyone being able to carry guns without permits and you can just buy and conceal and everything.

And it's just like you didn't have to do that. I already liked you. Yeah. But I like this a lot. So bring that to the federal government. I'd love to see him be like as president. One of my agenda items for this is repealing the NFA. Imagine if he came out and he just issued an executive order, a moratorium on ATF action against NFA items.

I don't know if you'd go that far. But, you know, let's tell him to do it. Yeah. Or I mean, in all honesty. Ron, if you're listening, I mean, the CDC called you. Anything's possible. Maybe he's going to give us a buzz. Somebody said I should have answered the phone as Dr. Fauci.

Oh, yeah. Am I needed again? I'll be there. Do you know who this is, Tony? Are you wearing policies right now? Are you wearing your masks? My concern with DeSantis is that the media's started their smear campaign against him now with this don't say gay crap.

But it's not that they haven't done it with Trump. So it's not any worse. But they tried to do it's like not any worse but they try to do with him during covet too and and i guess and it failed like they really tried to make desantis look like he had four heads he was going to kill grandma and and that the state was going to burn into flames and yet that's a good point you even had aoc partying maskless in florida right Everybody can see that the progressives and the Democrats are being led by hypocrites and liars. Yeah, I mean, you're going to have people. And look, the media can propagandize the public all they want. People are decently intelligent.

They're going to notice that the folks living in the states that everyone is leaving are telling you not to vote for the guy who ran the state everyone has been trying to move to. And to your point, Brian, Ian, I would – or I guess to Ian's point, but bouncing off what Brian said a moment ago, you're correct that the media started a smear campaign against them with the parental rights and education bill, but all they did was make themselves look really bad. Especially at the Oscars. That was really obnoxious. They – brilliant play from the Republicans on this one. The parental rights and education bill says

no secret conversations, no withholding medical information, and no specific sex ed kind of talk for kindergarten to third grade. The initial bill on the website said pre-K, but the bill itself says kindergarten, so there's a bit of a confusion there. We were saying pre-k for a while. I checked the actual language of the bill says kindergarten. So that's a correction, but also the dot Florida.gov website does say pre-k.

So I don't know where that, where that split is coming from. But imagine now you look at the tweets, like David Hogg tweeted this, where he was like, here's a quote from the bill. Sounds like don't say gay to me. And I'm just like, but that quote you posted also prohibits straight discussions as well. And I'm just like, I don't understand why these people are so hell bent on having sex conversations with children.

Don't say sex would be a better name. It's such a weird thing to look for in a bill too. You hear there's a parental rights bill. They're like, but is this going to make it more difficult to have conversations with children in secret about gay sex? Like we need to make sure that that's not the case. Otherwise,

it's just a massive violation of our rights. But the crazy part is it's not about gay. It's about literally any anything. Yes, exactly. So like you can't you can't go in Florida to a classroom and be like mommies and daddies love each other and get married. No, you can't do that. This bill prevents that. And the people who supported it, most people support it because they're like, yeah, that makes sense. That's big to me, though. When you see the polling showing that it's like, what is it, 60 some odd percent supported the parental rights and education bill?

With the horrendous framing. Yep. That means people are starting to break through the lies, which is kind of why I'd love to see a Trump Biden rematch. DeSantis, I think, is better in a lot of ways, to be completely honest. Way better. But he is. I mean, he's younger.

He's more in. I think he's more in tune. This constitutional carry thing, that's just so fantastic. But what he's doing with Florida is just wonderful. And people are chatting, being like, don't take him away from us in Florida. Yeah. But that's actually really interesting. No, that's a really interesting conversation. Trump can be governor of Florida. Yeah. But that's actually really interesting. No, that's a really interesting conversation.

Trump can be governor of Florida. Yeah, we'll send him down there. Can you imagine? Oh, my God. First of all, I'm a judge. Now the greatest state. But I mean, can you, how much better, and granted, I am not downplaying the necessity of having the right person in the Oval Office, but I do think there is something to be said

for this idea that DeSantis is really extremely powerful in Florida. And imagine how much better this country would be if other political leaders just followed suit and behaved like him in their states. If Republican governors in other parts of the country actually had some guts and developed a spine and stood up for their people the way Ron DeSantis has, the country would be so... I mean, I think that would do more good for the country than even the DeSantis presidency

would. He's got balls. Yeah. Is New York ending the VAX mandates now? I just think that would do more good for the country than even the desantis presidency was he's got balls yeah is new york ending the vax mandates now i just heard that i heard they did yeah so that's in that i give it to desantis it's because of people like him particularly him that the country has been able to dodge a proverbial bullet of having to jab ourselves when now we're acknowledging that you don't really need it yep Yep. So he goes, and I don't mean to interrupt. No, no, no. But like this goes back to, and I've been pushing this a lot in my program, instead of responding to narratives, setting the narratives.

Like, and that's where DeSantis has been killing it. He is not responding to, okay, leftist makes an argument and they're full force and now conservatives, libertarians, anybody right of center is now playing defense. Instead, DeSantis is playing offense. We're seeing Republicans play offense, libertarians playing offense. And now you're seeing the left scramble because they're not used to having to actually explain, wait, why do you want to teach kids sex when they're in kindergarten? Like that wasn't in secret. And have secret conversations.

And have secret conversations with children right now now and i have a fun little expression like you use when you're explaining you're losing the left is explaining now and now that they're in this this trap of having to unwind this massive web that they have made of just insanity your average person and i keep on going back to the average person so i think this is who we should be talking to they're looking at what's happening and and they're like, this is insane. This isn't – I don't want to teach my kids sex when they're in kindergarten. And even if that's a conversation to have, let me have it. Let me determine when that's going to be.

So all the more reason why we all like Ron DeSantis and what's happening in Florida, why so many people are moving there. But just in terms of going back to the original subject was Joe Biden running. We also we need to consider that if Joe Biden can't run for president, that means the Democrats need to announce in a month or two that because they're going to have to start setting up their primary candidates. Yep. So 2023 is primary season. And if it's not going to be Biden, could you imagine Biden trying to campaign is going to be 80? Yeah. So what you're what you're saying is I need to release all of theiden cartoons you've been working on within like the next month or so before he's gone yeah yeah you're gonna have like this really great 12 you know minute i've been working animation on biden no i have a 12 part miniseries on him hour long episode come on man i mean you're

biden singing the greatest hits got like how many you get almost two million eight hundred thousand at this yeah yeah he's He's a lot of fun. He's a lot of fun. If not Biden, he's sad and funny. You know what I mean? It's sad. It's dangerous too. That's the thing.

Although that word's kind of vague. I like poke fun at him. I try not to be too cruel because on some level, you feel bad for the guy. His brain just doesn't work. But at the same time, it is really hysterical that everyone is avoiding saying that he literally has dementia. First, they were saying he had a stutter. Now they're saying it's because he's Irish. He says these ridiculous things.

He called for regime change in Russia because he's Irish. So he understands empathy. And I'm like, is that like a genetic Irish thing? Let's send the IRA in, man. I got a brand new shiny helmet and a pair of kinky boots. I don't have the same kind of sympathy for this guy. Because if you know, if you get behind the wheel of a car, for instance, and you're blind and you end up killing someone, I have no sympathy for you. I agree with you on that, but I almost think he's to the point where someone else had to have put him there.

I just don't know that he's competent enough to make the decision to place himself in that position. It's like you have somebody in the backseat of the car. They're like Joe Biden in the front seat. All right, there's a turn up here to the left. Turn, turn now, turn now. And he's like, what, where, tree? And he just goes off into the ravine. But like-

Whose turn is it? No, but- Whose turn is it anyways? Ian, I would agree with you. I think my point is more or less, and really what I'm trying to get at is if this was anyone else, if I were to see any other person

experiencing that kind of cognitive decline, it would just make make me sad i wouldn't really find much to poke fun at but because this man is literally the leader of the country and everyone's trying to pretend that he's not only fit but that he's like the best they can't just claim that he's fit he's like the best president ever it's a booming economy according to msnbc why don't people like him and the man can't finish a single sentence without saying something ridiculous or stammering or slurring. Everyone should imagine the emperor's new clothes story. And it's the emperor who ends up walking down the street naked with everyone pretending like he's not. But now, take that story again and replace the emperor with Biden.

And not only is the emperor wearing no clothes but he's demented yep and he's like fumbling about confused and someone's holding his hand as he goes no sympathy for me you remove people like that from power immediately that is a danger to our society absolutely absolutely no he should you imagine absolutely yo yo yo so they're all like nuclear war is coming russia and everything right and you know russia's gonna shut off gas and they're flying planes with nukes on them. Could you imagine if Vladimir Putin is in his nuclear bunker and he's like, fire missile on Kiev? And then NATO generals calls and they're like, Mr. President, Russia has fired an ICBM towards Ukraine.

Should we retaliate? Yeah, man, you know, hit Libya. Take them out. And they're like, Libya, sir. You know, come on, man. And like, all right, I guess we're nuking Libya. You know what Biden's first reaction would be if he heard that news? He'd be like, it would be disappointment because he's a

lame loser. Really, Putin? That's a 20, man. Listen, listen. When Joe Biden was talking about Syria back at like the G7 or whatever, he kept calling it Libya. And I'm like, yo, people downplay this. When Peter Doocy was asking questions to Biden, he said, it seemed like you said this and

it seemed like you said this. And Biden's like, never happened. It's like, Biden, you're only lying to yourself because everyone in the world heard you say it. Imagine if he's in private with a general. Where should we retaliate? Libya, man. It's like, Libya, are you Where should we retaliate? Libya, man. It's like, Libya, are you sure?

Are you sure? You heard me. It's like, okay, the president said nuke Libya. And then you're like, no, no, Moscow, Joe. Is a journalist going to pop up and go, Joe Biden actually meant to say Moscow? Oh, the generals then say, oh, okay, okay. We'll change the trajectory. I can't allow you to spread this paranoid misinformation.

Joe Biden's geriatric nurse would be there to let the general know he's having a senior moment and that he actually means something else. You think they're sending the man around without a translator or out of your mind? Yo, I know some old, Trump is old and he is spry. Yeah, it's true.

The thing about Trump is he wouldn't accidentally tell you to nuke the wrong place. He'd tell you to hit Moscow kind of early. He'd be like, I don't want to deal with it. If he's you to nuke the wrong place. He'd tell you to hit Moscow kind of early. He'd be like, I don't want to deal with it. If he's going to nuke it, hit him first. He went into Ukraine. Sign up before he invaded. Just in case.

Just in case. No, I don't think Trump would have actually nuked Moscow. I'm kidding. But there's that uncertainty. Like even Trump was saying 5%, 10%. This guy's kind of crazy. He's like, if I bought a 10%, I might have done it. Like I might have nuked him. I'd have done it like I was thinking.

I'm not. I was thinking about it. I was. I really was. I wouldn't be surprised if he was or or he just knows how to do the big ask. And he goes to she and he goes to Putin and says, do it and I'll nuke you. And Joe Biden can only just say, come on, man, come on or no. You don't got a soul. He claims he looked Putin in the eye and he told that bully, you don't got a soul is what he claims he looked putin in the eye and he told that bully you don't have a soul as if vladimir putin is just this really introspective guy who was like well if joe biden doesn't think i have soul perhaps i'm doing something wrong this is a

good cartoon you could make though where like in biden's mind he's like ripped and he like walks up to putin and he's like listen here chum you ain't got no soul no malarkey and put he's like, listen here, chum. You ain't got no soul. No malarkey. And Putin's like, oh, please, Mr. Biden, please. And then in reality, he's like, soul man. And then Putin's like, Putin's on the horse. He called me a soul man? He's like, I'm a soul man. That's the thing.

Putin, but it's like, so what he told him, he's mean? You told the foreign leader he's mean? Thank you, Joe. This is why they claim we push Russian propaganda because we're sitting here making fun of our president acting like Putin is not, you know. But then he shouldn't act like an idiot. Maybe if our president didn't have dementia, we would be making fun of Putin instead. And we made fun of Trump, too. And we made fun of Trump.

Trump is the people we make fun of. Yeah, exactly. I mean, frankly, I was thinking I thought, baby, today I will hit the button. I don't know. Think about it. It's just a thought. I didn't say I would do it. Ian, you mentioned something earlier because you were saying that Biden will simply say, I didn't say that, man.

Yeah. Even though everyone knows he did. It's on camera. You made a point earlier about how that could just be an issue with members of his generation. They don't expect everything to be filmed. I mean, I find with most public personalities under the age of 40, when someone calls them out for something they said, they're usually embarrassed about it or they start to offer an explanation. They won't say, I never said that. So I think you're onto something there.

If I truly didn't know that I said – if someone said, you said something, and I'm like, no, I don't think so. And they're like, yes, you did. I'd be like, okay, show me the footage so I can verify that you're right here. And I would eat it. You have to. What are you going to do? I'm not going to lie to people. Yeah, but it's not – it's just that Joe Biden,

you'd show Joe Biden the video and he'd be like, what am I looking at? And he'd be trying to look at it and everything. And he'd be like, Joe, this is you saying you would use chemical weapons.

And he goes, what? No, I never said that. That's not me. He's going to go, no, man, that's a deep pancake, man. That's one of them. They put your face on it. A deep cake. A deep cake. A deep cake, man. That's one of them. They put your face on it.

A deep cake. A deep cake. A deep cake, man. I didn't say that. I'm still going to make fun of Joe Biden after he's president, too. That's for sure. Well, no, I mean, look. Maybe it'll be less relevant, though.

The left ripped on Reagan for decades after he left office. And I remember this joke. They said it over and over again. Oh, how hilarious, how stupid that the Republicans had a president who was experiencing cognitive decline it's like well you guys chose yeah exactly it's like well you guys that was the enemy's presidency you guys chose joe biden knowing he was demented he wasn't president like there was an out and you still picked him oh man that's how i have you you guys see the story that um the army is uh uh reducing its uh enlistment expectations yes because i didn't know the commercial about having two moms didn't work

yeah exactly well actually let me see if i can find it you know so uh but anyway my point is kind of wrapping up the joe biden thing uh i forgot where i was going with it because now i want to talk about the well oh i i heard that it's because of the botched afghanistan surrender let's call it a surrender because that's what it was. We surrendered all $800 billion worth of equipment to the enemy and hastily left a bunch of people there. That's the reason people are not signing up for the military now because they don't trust it. Did you notice that's when things really changed? Like the tenor on Biden just like 180.

I don't know if it was the Afghanistan withdrawal or the fact that we left, like, what was it, $80 billion worth of supplies? I thought it was $800. Was it $80? Let me pull the story real quick at this point. We got the story here from Breitbart. Army reducing its numbers in face of recruiting difficulties. They say the Army this week admitted it was having problems recruiting and announced an unprecedented reduction in its number size that would shrink the active duty Army to its smallest size since World War II. Wow, that's great. Apparently, you've got retired Army Lieutenant General Thomas Spower saying the army has not faced such recruiting headwinds in the last 30 years.

I am unaware of a situation where the army has cut its end strength in response to a negative recruiting outlook. Vladimir Putin just drafted 134,500 people. And the U.S. is drawing down his numbers, being like, nobody wants to enlist. So thanks, Joe Biden, I guess. Well, and not just Joe Biden. I mean, we can definitely attribute it to him, even though it started way before he was president, because what was it, all the way back in 1997,

he was saying he wanted to go to war with Iraq. He's the swamp creature like the rest of them. He pushed for all this nonsense. And this is what happens when you go to war frivolously. It's not only a horrifically and barbarically evil thing to do in and of itself, but of course you undermine your credibility with the American people. So now when we're at a point in history where global tensions really are heightened, we don't really have a military in order to fight whatever war might break out.

And other nations know that. But we got to be very serious and specific here. How long ago was the Two Moms Army campaign? Yeah. No, no, no. It was last year, wasn't it? And now that clearly did not work. Yeah.

When you're recruiting three moms, we need a commercial with three moms. More moms. Yeah. More moms. Yeah. Just a whole bunch of moms. More is better. A bunch of moms.

A bunch of moms. Faster, funnier, louder. They didn't put enough moms. I don't think there was enough moms in that situation. It wasn't loving enough. It was only two. We just keep saying in circles, more moms. More moms. First of all, we need more of them. I love moms. I had the most mothers. No enough moms in that situation. It wasn't loving enough. It was only two. We just keep saying in circles, more moms. First of all, we need more of them.

I had the most mothers. But in all seriousness, the Army legitimately ran a campaign that was all about diversity, inclusivity, and equity, die cult stuff. And they did that very famous two moms thing. Clearly didn't work. And it was animated like a Disney cartoon, which was so strange. First of all, who listens to a cartoon, right? But also, I mean, if you're trying to recruit people for the military, why are you making this like saccharine? What's the role of the military not to go to St. Disney's to shoot somebody? I was surprised that like the

birds did, like the seagulls didn't fly to the ship and start cooking with them. I think it's fair to say, legitimate assessment, the Emma and her two moms has backfired on the army. It's an unprecedented moment where they're drawing down their end strength because they can't recruit people to the lowest level since World War II when they drafted people. Didn't they also kick people out of the military for not getting vaccinated? They did. And now they're kick people out of the military for not getting vaccinated? They did. And now they're removing the vaccine mandates in New York. Let's think about this. Like with the two moms, first of all, if anyone's going to dissuade you from joining the army, if it's going to be either your parents, it's going to be your mother.

Like odds are she'll be like, I don't want my baby going over there and fighting. So catering to people with two moms, dude, at least one of those moms is going to go, uh-uh, you're not going. In my family, my dad actually was like, if you have any creative bone in your body, do not join the military because they will break it out of you. You will lose it forever. Because he got basically forced to go Vietnam. He was either going to get drafted to the jungle, so he signed up for the Navy and traveled the world. And then they just, you know, browbeaten, told you to scum, clean the deck, piss in, all this.

And so it was my dad that told me that. But he had actual experience, really bad, didn't want to be there. He didn't think the war was valid. It wasn't even a war. The military action was valid. I want to make a point, right? I want to show this clip real quick, just a little bit, not the whole thing. So there she is with her two moms, and she said she was raised by two moms.

And I take no issue with that. Absolutely. That's not what this is about. Although I had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality. I like to think I've been defending freedom

from an early age. Just like Kamala. Here's the point I want to make. Just like Kamala. What? Freedom. Is this a military thing? What?

Is this military? Yes, it's military, Ian. And you thought they would break your creativity. You should have joined. Oh, I should have joined the creative arm of the military. They would have said, hey, express yourself, Ian. Okay, I'm sorry to interrupt. This is so disturbing.

Who is their target market? You want young men. That is my point. My point is you can get – no, no. I'm not concerned about targeting just young men. If you want to get men and women in the army, I'm down for it. There's jobs that men and women can do. You want to talk about Tucker Carlson and the pregnant flight suit thing. That's a little different. But the issue here is the marketing campaign they made targets no one.

Yep. Nobody. Nobody. Nobody who would like, yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no, no. It's targeting. So look, this kind of virtue signaling is extremely over the top. The target market for this is woke, progressive millennials and Gen Z. But these people are not the people who would ever want to join the army. Ever, yeah. Going to a fitness class, expert level, you know, Tai Chi or martial arts and trying to sell deep fried Oreos and double scoop, you know, banana split sundaes. These people are going to be like or maybe a better example. Going to the Olympics during training season and being like, here's a cart full of deep fried ice cream. Well, they give them Gatorade, which has all sorts of food coloring in it.

So they really don't care at that point. What are you doing to your athletes at that point? You can't equate Gatorade with fried ice cream. Why are you selling food coloring to your athletes? I don't know. It's a little different. I hear you. Gatorade's not great.

It's similar to the fried food thing. But I think deep fried Twinkies are probably worse. Way worse. Way worse. And so the point is that the Army made a commercial that probably insulted their target demographic. Yes. Not because people who join the army are going to see this and be like, oh, I'm so offended at two moms. But more so they were like, do you think this represents us in any way?

Well, and this goes back to the point we made earlier, right? So when you look at who is the Democratic Party speaking to right now in their head, now, I would say that they actually did have a target market for this. It was exactly who they, this looks like it was for, to your point, millennial, Gen Z, rich, progressive elitist. And that is who has become in their mind the Democratic approach for target market. But that's not really who your average Democratic voter is. I mean, if I'm out in Indiana, right, and I talk to a Democrat, they are much more likely to be a New York Republican than they are a AOC Democrat. But you said something that I think hits this as well. Wealthy. The people who believe these views, the progressive sect of this country

are well off, you know, middle to upper middle class, upper class, suburbanite types. They're the ones who push this. Do you think that you are going to recruit this 24-year-old progressive woman? No. They're going to be like, this ad is so dumb because America is totally racist. The people who hate you are not going to come work for you under contract. You need the people who are like, America, yeah. Yeah, you want to target it to kids that are bullied and stuff like that i mean i'm not advocating i'm not advocating for what are you talking about i'm not advocating for

propaganda but if the military wants to recruit people through propaganda you want to target young men that feel disillusioned and that they've been victimized no no no no no you don't yeah i mean that's what i would have done so so here's why drafting doesn't work you can't send people who've been drafted to go do very serious things on your behalf because they don't like you. Finding people who are bullied, yeah, that's a terrible way to approach people. What you want is people who are looking for purpose and people who are driven. You want to approach them and say your mission awaits. There are people who need you.

Or go get the bad guy kind of. I think that's part of it. That's what Putin is doing with his military that's why they've seen an uptick is because he's got the ability to lead with a purpose versus the propaganda well yeah because putin's able to tell his people if we don't witness war mcdonald's will not come back like well we better go fight whatever you say boss yeah like imagine i kind of feel like this is what the American marketing department thinks. They're like millennials like Disney. Let's make an ad to recruit them like a Disney movie.

It's like, no, you don't understand. Millennials liking Disney means they're not going to join. Right. It's the craziest thing. There are these videos. I don't know what the right word is for it. But there's a – if you go to like the Cringetopia on Reddit, there are people who make these TikTok videos where they talk in these really weird ways where they like bounce around. They're acting like Disney animation characters. Like when you're watching a new Pixar movie or whatever, they talk like this and they're like flailing about for some reason.

And so you go out and you see that. This is – they think think is that what we want in the army i i only got to say this you're gonna give away their position like that's not what i mean i just mean like there are people who have become sort of media mutated in their minds that perception of reality yes it's not an issue of what russia is doing it's an issue of what the u.s is the the kids who are growing up here have dejected and twisted views of reality, and they behave in very strange and broken ways. It's just it's disparate, a cultural nonsense.

And the reason why I think we're facing this recruiting problem is because no one believes in this country, as evidenced by our own politicians, by the corporations, by woke activism in general. When when when you see someone like David Hogg come out, this guy is famous for gun control, tweeting about why parents should be allowed to have secret sexual conversations with five-year-olds. I'm like, I kind of think you don't actually know what you're talking about or care, and you're just saying whatever you think the mob wants you to say. Which is the most charitable response to someone who's advocating for that. Right, absolutely. I mean, honestly, I think not him, but a lot of these people actually

are just pedo, pedo adjacent groomers or otherwise. But my point is, I don't want to go off on it. I don't want to derail that far. My point is the United States has no cohesive message. We don't tell our children, this is our mission. So when they grow up, they all are just, hey man, it doesn't matter what happens in this country. I'll extract from it whatever I can. The message used to be freedom, American freedom. And then George Bush invaded the Middle East and kept telling us because they hate our freedom, we got to keep killing people. And it just bastardized and twisted the definition of the word freedom. And now no one understands what freedom is anymore, or people are confused. It's true, Ian. And it's funny because the left sort of saw that early on,

and they would scoff at anyone who used the term freedom in a positive's true, Ian. And it's funny because the left sort of saw that early on. And they would scoff at anyone who used the term freedom in a positive way because of that. And they would go, oh, you're talking about fighting for our freedom. And they thought it was the cringiest, dumbest thing ever. But now they'll go, we need to protect our democracy against Russia. This is the exact same thing. Democracy is the new freedom. It's a republic.

Yeah, but protect our democracy. But that's the thing. They don't even use democracy in the phrasing of the way we look at it. Democracy. They use it as almost a replacement for freedom. It just means good. Democracy equals good. Democracy equals good. Yes.

I think with respect to recruitment, I mean, I have friends who are combat veterans, and I remember having conversations with them after Afghanistan fell. fell and i mentioned this before but to us that was a news story to them they have friends who died there they'd been shot at they'd really gone through some horrific significant trauma and then they just saw it all undone on live television in front of them imagine how horrible it is why would someone want to enlist in this military at this point in time, given all of that? There used to be a time in this country when the higher-ups in our government who would send young men to fight in wars respected them. And then we got into a period where they more or less were indifferent to them. And now we're at a point in time where the people who send these young men to fight in wars

or expect them to fight in wars actively hate them and everything they stand for and everything they believe in. And they're not idiots. They know that. Who's going to fight a war for Joe Biden? Who's going to fight a war for Nancy Pelosi? Not only do the young people not want to fight. My dad literally had to was involved in the Vietnam conflict and told me to my face, do not join the military. Yeah, but was he drafted or did he enlist? He was able to avoid the draft because he enlisted ahead of time. They were calling the numbers.

He's like, I'm not going to the jungle. No way. I'm joining the Navy. So he enlisted in an effort to try and get a specific MO or something. Just to not get drafted

into the jungle. Like his cousin got shot down in a helicopter and died. I'm sorry. It's horrific. So it wasn't only that i saw how dumb it was and chose it was my father actively told me not to do it so you not only do people not believe in it their parents are telling them don't do it yeah my so my dad was in high

school i just think just to add to this and this is so foreign to us but he told me that like every single morning on the announcements they would listen to the radio to know which students or teachers got drafted. And one of his teachers, who was young and had just started teaching there, ended up getting drafted into the war. And I'm pretty sure he died. Dude, you got to study tunnel rats. They would send these little guys down underground to crawl through these tunnels. Sometimes they would cave in and they'd suffocate. Sometimes there'd be a guy three feet in front of them in the dark with a gun pointed at their face.

Then they'd have to go set bombs under in these tunnels. This is the war you want to avoid. And think back to 20 years earlier. You had the World War II veterans, right? And I remember back when I was in school, you'd go to the AMVETS and you'd see the group of the remaining World War II vets. And that was the people that they'd have come talk to the school up in northern New York. And you'd see them talk about defending American freedom, helping defend interests over abroad, and fighting back the Nazis.

And that was something you could get on board with, I think. Your average person would be like, yeah, Nazis, Nazi equal bad. Whereas you look to Vietnam, it's like, we're going to go to a jungle for 20 years and do what? Get shelled for 20 years. This civil war that's coming is going to be fascists versus pedos the left is going to scream everybody they're going to tell everyone the fascists must be stopped and everyone the right's going to be like the pedos must be stopped those are those are the you know have you guys seen uh operation okay groomer that's been

going around no no so trending though yeah Because basically, the meme is anybody supporting the protests, you know, they don't say gay protest stuff. They're groomers. So they say, OK, groomer. And it's really triggering a lot of these people on the left. But I bring this up not to derail the conversation in this direction, but to point out there used to be an American message, the the Red Scare, the Soviets, the expansion. So everyone in America was kind of unified. You could get people to enlist who believed in it, and you could draft people as much as many people didn't want to be drafted. Nowadays, the US is split, not just in two. There's disparate factions all over the place. I mean, progressives wouldn't fight for Democrats, but they'll take

what they can get in terms of politics. Like if an actual fight broke out, Antifa and Democrats would not be getting along. So when it comes to going to someone and saying, what's your purpose and what's your mission? You know, people in the U.S. are not going to say, I oppose Russia. They're going to say the critical race theory, die cult left is destroying the planet. That's internal. Yeah. The left is going to say the fascists, they support Putin internal. That's true. No, I going to say the fascists, they support Putin. Internal. That's true. No, I mean, that's a very good point. We talked about this before. I think it was actually a conversation with Jack Posobiec. And it might have been a point Ian brought up, but basically how we live in a system where because power changes hands so often, you can't

really achieve anything. But historically, that wasn't really the case because even though the two parties had different ideas, they were similar enough that we could work towards a common goal, though we might have different approaches or have a slightly different vision. It was still possible to, like, continue along a specific path for a set amount of time, even with a change in leadership. But now it's like a complete regime change in some sense when a new person gets elected, at least with respect to the lip surf as they pay the public and what they tell people we want to do. So yeah, you're right. If you ask most people what the most serious threat is, the right's going to point to the left and the left's going to point to the right. Who cares about foreign adversaries at this point in time? Though you might if you're paying attention. Well, there will be some conversation. The right will say China, the left will say Russia. But for the most part, I'd be willing

to bet if you went to someone unprompted, like a political leftist, and you'd say, what is the existential threat this country faces today? They're going to say the rise of fascism. You ask someone on the right, they're going to say the critical race theorist, the cult. The right may also actually say China, to be honest. Which is fascist. That's where it starts to – what is it? It's something else. It's not.

It's commie. It's fashy. It's something different. CCP is the most fascist country that's where it starts to to con what is it it's something else it's not it's fashy it's yeah ccp is the most fascist country on earth i mean maybe the united states but ccp is pretty all the businesses run through that government it's excessively oh it has like just like do internet you have to go through china telecom yeah i don't think the united states is fascist it's got elements of with the federal reserve yeah but bro like national fascism was something specific that's why i i just i grow tired of using these words, even communism. It's become so pervasive.

Because those are 100-year-old terms for specific things and ideologies that existed during the post-industrial revolution. We're dealing with something unique and worse in a lot of ways. Yeah. It's the matrix. There's got to be a different word for it. So yeah, I understand it doesn't apply perfectly in all instances i still tend to use the word communism just because the sort of you know egalitarian dialectical materialism undergirding communism is what undergirds this stuff but fascism is is trickier because most people who are called fascist don't identify as fascist but there are

still people on the world stage who will identify as communists. So like the CCP call themselves communist. I mean, who calls themselves fascist? It is socially acceptable among the left to throw up the red salute. Yeah. That's just insane to me. It's mind-blowingly insane to me. I view the red salute and the Roman salute similarly. I mean, truth be told, Soviets killed communists, I should say, not Soviets, but killed way more people, but they're both psychotic ideologies that resulted in mass death. I mean, Che Guevara gets

canonized on the constant from leftists. He was a homophobe. Right. He was super anti-gay and all that stuff. And racist. Like, murder gay people in Cuba? Yeah, he put vlogs. He did. He was a racist guy. Very, very racist guy. That seems like problematic. Isn't that the word

we use? Problematic? We know that the left doesn't care at all about human life, but if we convince them that the guy's racist, it might upset them.

Worst person ever. Yeah, I mean, truth be told, if you were like, he killed people, they'd be like, everybody kills people in war. That happens.

But he killed gay people. And they're like, hold on. Oh, five inconvenient truths about Che Guevara from from fox news how's this inconvenient he's a murderous dick i was just gonna say that dude even fox news going oh how inconvenient that shea guevara did it's like it's not like he's george washington you're going that's unfortunate five sad truths about washington in 1962 guevara said he killed people without regard

to guilt or innocence. This guy's crazy psycho, but he was beautiful, so they loved him. He's cute, but a psycho, a little bit psycho. They're entranced by the way things look. Have you seen the thing recently? They're standing young Stalin. Look up young Stalin. So I'm pretty sure that picture of young Stalin, I've seen

this, and I'm pretty sure it's not actually him. I need to double check before I understand. It was like it's debunked, and it's been propaganda to make him look like he looked better that's been blowing up all over social media i saw on twitter to have like thousands of let's do operation photoshopped fat stalin and just make like a really unattractive we gotta do that with putin you want to win the war that's how you do it make him look ugly stalin where he was like waving at that water body of water and they erased the guy yeah just take that picture just make no no you need you need young Stalin to be a loser

so that they stop posting this young Joseph Stalin he looks like uh was it Gavrilo Princep the guy that started World War I that murdered that uh he looks like that guy he reminded me of um the hell's the guy from uh the Young Turks oh thank you no nour? Thank you. No, no, no. His nephew. Ember Pasha? Oh, Hassan. The fake Young Turks, not the real ones, not the murderous genocidal. Not the real killers, yeah.

I get confused because they're both called the Young Turks for some reason. The ones who were inspired by those who committed genocide, not the ones who actually did it. Yes, thank you for clarifying. The ones who initially denied the genocide,

not the perpetrators of it, or the ones who have been repeatedly begged to change their name to stop using the name of a group that carried out a genocide and who have refused yeah the armenian genocide could you imagine if someone started a news organization called the hitler youth right and they also and also like the head of that organization for a very long time like actively denied the holocaust but then later apologized big deal but then later apologized but still continued to call his organization the hitler youth all right like are you really sorry

let's uh let's do a semi-hard segue into the story about maxine waters because it's sad funny it's sad funny rep maxine waters warns reporter over la homeless story you'll hurt yourself but the real the real bit here is that she told homeless people to go home. So let me let me get there. They say Maxine Waters tried to stop the publication of a news story about the L about Los Angeles homeless crisis this week, reportedly telling an L.A.

L.A. Los Angeles Times scribe, you'll hurt yourself and the community trying to put this together. Investigative reporter Connor Sheets detailed a March 25th incident in South L.A. where hundreds of homeless people tried to obtain Section 8 housing vouchers after being misled by social media rumors. The would-be applicants crashed an event held by non-profit advocacy group Fathers and Mothers Who Care, which had

been meant to help the unhoused obtain emergency shelter. At one point, Waters told the crowd, I want everybody to go home, triggering an angry response. We don't got no home. That's why we're here. One member of the crowd yelled back, according to the LA Times. What home we going to go to? This is insane.

LA is the nightmare dystopia we read about as kids that we were warned about. The politicians yelling at homeless people to go home. The homeless people just everywhere, Skid Row expanding, drugs and feces all over the place. California is a wasteland. Tomorrow, Snopes is going to be like, well, technically, she didn't say which home they should go to. The underpass does count.

Yeah, she meant their tent. You know what I love? She could have been referring to someone else's house. Here's what I love. I love it when these leftists post photos from the mountains of California, and they'll say things like, those conservatives smack talk in California. This is what it's really like. If you got money. Right, exactly.

It's like you go to the Palisades, and you're looking at the PCH, the Pacific Coast Highway, and you're like, look how beautiful this place is. Sure, just like an Elysium. The French-speaking people in their space station, I'm sure they're looking around being like, what's beautiful this place is. Sure, just like an Elysium. The French speaking people in their space station, I'm sure they're looking around being like, what's wrong with our country? Everything's beautiful here where rich people live. It's like being a multi-millionaire receiving experimental treatment for your disease and being like, huh, people claim that our

healthcare system isn't good. Check this out. It's just imagine, it's the Hunger Games, man. The people in the capital are drinking Ipecac to vomit to keep eating and they're like what's wrong everything's great life is good huh it's like yo uh people are like living in their own waste i'm taking dumps in the street i guess a nice piece of news out of this is michael schellenberger who's been on the show before is running for

governor california governor and he's focused heavily on the on the homeless population helping clean it yeah but you know look as much as I can appreciate it, if somebody wanted to become mayor of a garbage dump, I'm going to be like, bro, good luck, I guess. Yeah, exactly. Because Rogan – he was on Rogan a couple of days ago and he said – Rogan was like, well, just focus on LA first. And he's like, LA is like too far gone to start on. I don't know if he said too far gone, but he's like, we'll start small and then if we can succeed, then we'll go to LA. What if he went on Rogan and he was like, well, actually, my plan is to segment LA and San Francisco and push them into the Pacific and then instantly the collective poverty and problems

and everything that's wrong, the corruption, will drop dramatically in California. It's like a blood transfusion. Well, no, it's like... But with people instead of blood. Lopping off the malignancy. Yeah, yeah, exactly. We can also build islands. so you know just it's like a blood transfusion well no it's like you know it's like but with people instead of blopping off the malignancy yeah yeah exactly we can also build islands i also it's so rich too because it's the people from california who have these really big great creative ideas about how we can fix the rest of the country even though nowhere is really quite as bad as

california i think it's too big and well it's it's also funny because they're they're constantly complaining about florida they're constantly complaining about what goes on in Florida while their state is falling apart. It's like, well, I don't know. DeSantis has not indicated any ambitions to try to change how things are done in California. I'm pretty sure he's just going to let that dumpster fire burn. We joke about California kicking off LA, but what if Ron DeSantis was like, we're going to separate Florida from the rest of this country only by a few hundred feet so that Florida is sovereign and protected and we don't got to worry about – Just a moat around there. Right.

A wall with a moat. Full of gators, dude. Full of gators. Country alligators, electric eels. And he can sell it as like an alligator sanctuary project. Please don't feed the alligators all in caps. Don't do it. He's done more to conserve.

Please. Don't. Feed the alligators. All in caps. And then you've got to have a wall with a moat with another wall with another moat with another wall. So if you go up the wall, you're just falling on a moat. So this is what's funny because they actually claimed Trump proposed a moat full of alligators, which he clearly didn't do. It's just the funniest.

I just – But you know what's an even dumber border security idea? Telling them all that they can get free health care if they come here. Like having our politicians argue that we should be giving free services to everyone who crosses the border. Look at this story with Maxine Waters. A bunch of homeless people were told you could show up, and then Maxine Waters just yells at them and tells them to go home. She's so disconnected, I guess, from humanity. She yelled at them.

She said, excuse me, there's nobody in Washington who works for their people any effing harder than I do. I don't want to hear this no, no, no. Here's the thing. Maxine, Maxine, when you're surrounded by homeless people and you yell at them to go home, and then when they get mad, you say, hey, hey, hey, nobody fights harder than me. She's like, do you know how hard I have it? Yeah, right. Do you know what my life is? Did you guys see the California is going to start paying everyone $400 rebate tax?

Well, it's about time. They're thinking about it. I mean, talk about it. This is another throwing money at them. It's about time California spent some money. I'm so concerned for that state. I do think it's too big, and the Northern California is way different. It's like Redwoods and – well, maybe not.

I think there are other Redwoods in NorCal. I haven't been up that far in California, but it's like lush. Down south, it's a desert. They're two completely different environments. It might be worth it. It's true. It might be worth it. State of Jefferson or whatever.

That's a proposal, yeah. New York State, all these bigger states with the majority blue, they're looking to do that. Let's put all cities in bubbles and their jurisdiction extends within their city and nothing else. It's a city state. You know what's really funny? Economic forum. We should abolish

states and go county only. Everything should be done by county because then you'd see how quickly the progressive agenda evaporates. They have highly dense populations of people who are stacked on top of each other in concrete jungles that smell like sour milk. And they all share this similar ideology. And then you look at rural areas and its disparate ideologies, differing views in different areas because people are more spread out yeah in the city you smell fumes carbon monoxide and stuff you're constantly breathing it in so no wonder they want to gas a carbon tax and reduce emissions

well i mean breathing in those toxins it leads to really good ideas it leads to you having right this is the problem with in my opinion the, the majority of Democrats. When I come out to the middle of nowhere and I see like a pig farmer, he's like, look, you know, I don't care what you do in the cities. You know, whatever. I raise pigs. My pigs stink. Don't come out here if you don't like the pigs stink. And I'm like, I get it.

I won't. The city people do two things. They say we live in a city. People shouldn't be allowed to make things smell like pig. So we're going to ban pig farming in Utah. And you're like, wait, wait, hold on. That doesn't affect you in any way. You don't live there. And they're like, well, I don't want someone raising pigs near me. It's like, bro, no one's raising pigs in New York. Well, we're going to ban raising pigs anyway for the whole nation. That's what they're doing with guns. It's like,

yo, Ricky John and Uncle Billy up in the mountains of West Virginia need guns because there's predators, there's bears, there's banditos. And you're like, I'm in New York. I have police. Ban guns for everyone. They look at these problems and think the solution is nationwide for everybody because they assume everywhere in the country must be a dense urban population. Well, then and then the process of creating their solution, they end up inevitably causing more problems down the road. So they ban pigs, right? And then like five years later, they're like, pork prices skyrocket. Why is pork and ham and bacon and everything so expensive?

So then they pass the pork subsidy and start giving out checks to people to be able to buy pork, not understanding they caused the problem in the first place. But they got to ship all the pigs to China first so we can get our pork from China so we don't have to smell it over here. They're like, first of all, it is an ethical abuse to kill pigs. We will only eat pigs killed on Chinese soil. Then they send the pigs over there. Now my soil is clean. To make this real, this is literally the conversation that is exactly happening with the gas. Yeah, exactly.

This is literally what's happening. We have been told that we can't have an American oil supply because it's going to kill the environment. In return, we need to release the million barrels from our strategic oil reserve. And also, we're going to keep on buying foreign oil from, we talked about Venezuela? Yeah.

A country that hates us and is a socialist dictatorship? Well, but empowering Venezuela is a good thing. It's a good thing. It's brilliant. Today. There was a really good Babylon Bee headline. Biden plans to sell Alaska to Russia so we can drill for oil

there. Oh my gosh. That hurts. Well, this is the current state of America. But I do have confidence, you know, that freedom is winning. Human ingenuity is amazing, dude. It's amazing. For hundreds of thousands of years. I mean,

we only have recorded history for like 10,000, 8,000 years. But man, amazingly how they overcome they overcome but i mean you do see empires overturned and conquered and they don't really talk about the death that comes along with that because it's all those people died they didn't get to write the history books like it's not a popular thing to to remind people about but that's the part of this that i don't i don't want to see you know weird how and i mean that's how biden keeps on going back to this too. Like, well, when we write the history books, how do you want to be remembered?

And like, that seems to be a recurring argument. You notice that? All the time. Yeah, but it's very Hegelian. Yeah, it's going to be really funny when

in 50 years, there's going to be a teacher talking to the kids in their digital, like, you know, hologram class. And they're going to be like, who can tell me about

the leaders of the 21st century? Ooh, ooh, me, me. They were vapid, self-interested egotists who are desperate to be acknowledged by us in the future that's correct and what do we say to that those people suck yeah dude that's so true they're such pick me's they're like come on future people tell me i was great tell me i was good yeah that's really what it is like amazing i think oh what are you saying biden like grabbed the wheel of the car because he i think he was like got to do this for my own posterity. And then all he's doing is ruining his own posterity by being unqualified essentially to run the country at the moment. You know what it is?

Look, I look at Japan when the Fukushima reactors melted down or whatever, the disaster. A bunch of old Japanese, a bunch of Japanese seniors were like, I've lived my life. I'm going to sacrifice myself to save the next generation. And these elderly people were volunteering to go into the reactors to try and get out of control, and many of them died. I actually, the fixer that guided me and Luke

Rutkowski into Fukushima, she was a bit older, and she was bringing journalists and people in there so that people could find out what was going on. She died of cancer. So these are the older people being like, no, no, no, it's fine. She wasn't even that old. But these are people who are like, I've lived a long life. I'm going to do what I can now because if I die, the younger generation will survive.

I look at what's going on in the United States and in Europe, and it's the opposite. It's old people being like, children should be restricted and put in plastic boxes so that I'm not inconvenienced. It used to be. You should be vexed if they're under the age of five. Keep grandma safe. There was a kingdom of heaven. It used to be that you believed that if you died doing something righteous that you'd be rewarded. And they told us that because they probably wanted people to live like that because it benefits society if the old people will sacrifice themselves for the young people.

It's very natural. No, I think it was an emergent phenomenon. I don't think – there's people who believe that religion was like powerful leaders who are like, I must trick the people into believing there's heaven. No, I think people genuinely believed that. Yeah, because you get the DMT rush at the end of life where they're like, I see the light at the end of the tunnel. But look, it's actually really simple. Outside of any theological argument or anything like that, if you take two groups of people, one believes in being righteous and honorable and the other doesn't, which one is more likely to survive the catastrophe?

That's a good point. Because in Japan, I don't know that they're necessarily Christian. Were they? Did they do this? There's some sort of honor code, apparently. It's a very honorific culture. Well, that's yeah yeah i mean they used to they used to commit suicide like i'm not going to pretend to be a

historian in japan but you know people understand the memes about seppuku and the idea was if if you failed or if you were dishonorable or something you'd take your own life now i think that's kind of horrifying but imagine what happens then if you have a group of scoundrels who are out for each other and are warring with each other and you have a group of scoundrels who are out for each other and are warring with each other, and you have a group of people who are like, I'm going to sacrifice myself for the greater good, which one survives in the long term? Well, this goes back to the point we brought up earlier about education. That's why there's such an intense approach right now on the left to control

what is and is not taught in government schools. And it's because you see the kids who are raised by their parents who have more of the religious backings, they're getting taught this at home. The idea that there is something beyond you in this present, there is a future that you're building for that you're not even going to see one day. Whereas if the left can take that and get rid of that in the government schools at a young age, then they're basically undoing the work that the parents have invested. And it's setting up to, to your point,

the worldview that goes into that instant gratification without thinking of the posterity. What comes next? I feel like the Democrat side, it's obviously not literally every person, but it's the overwhelming majority, are the people who are like, I hope future people like me. That's why they always say, you're on the wrong side of history. It's like, I'm not motivated by what future people think. You know, imagine being someone in China in the early 1900s. Yeah, you were on the wrong side of history opposing the murderous regime of Mao and the Gang of Four or whatever. But today, you're now on the right side of history, at least to us. I'm sure in communist China, they still don't like those who resisted. They don't like the government of Taiwan, the actual government of China. But that's the point. I don't care what you think the

right side of history is. If these die cultists end up taking over and it gets bad to the point where horrific things are happening in this country and I end up leaving, I'm not going to be going around being like, I guess i was on the wrong side of history i'm gonna be like my country was taken over by psychopaths yeah exactly like oh man i wish i would have been on the right side of that one because like just because you lost doesn't mean you're on the wrong side but but but listen to how realize how they think then yeah there are legitimate legitimately there are democrat activists who thought it's not right, but it will win. That's why they decided to opt to supporting dicultism.

Well, I just want to say if I were teleported to the future and everyone was transgender and was a communist country where children didn't pick their identity until they were 12 years old, I would just make fun of them. I would hope they didn't like me. I would hope they didn't consider me on the right side of history. Or just go back in time and say we got to fight for what we believe in yeah but i guess my point is there's actually an arrogance to saying i want to be on the right side of history not just in the sense that you are presuming that you would be for doing what you're aiming to do but also you're judging all of the past and saying well if we as modern people liked what you did, then you were one of the good guys. So my aspiration should be to have future people judge me well. Well, who says moral erosion

doesn't occur in some areas. There are things we look back on as being horrible that were actually better. And there are things that we look on today as being wonderful that are actually horrible. Imagine siding with some politics just because you think it's the one that's going to win. Yeah. I'd rather be correct. Could you imagine being someone who made very popular YouTube videos and song parodies and then ended up taking them down because you were scared that the left would – you'd get banned or they would come after you and that you genuinely just thought it's not worth fighting for these things I think are true because I'll lose. Imagine being that kind of person. People are scared too. I mean, I went up. So as you mentioned earlier, my day job, I'm a sales executive and I do a lot of talking about business technology, cybersecurity. And I went to Wisconsin. I was talking at a small business owners conference and we were just

talking about cybersecurity stuff. At the very end of the Q and A, this guy comes up and he's standing there and he goes, Brian're you're very political and yet you also do a lot in the private sector how do you bridge the two worlds and it kind of caught me off guard sitting there for a conversation about cyber security and i was like honestly like at the end of the day you just you just got to be your authentic self and like say this is who i am this is why i believe and i just i firmly believe that good people will find good people and that good people will bring out the good in people so instead of is what I believe. And I just, I firmly believe that good people will find good people and that good people will bring out the good in people. So instead of hiding what you believe and keeping that back, I think we should lead with our values, lead with our ideas and focus

on building things that are outside of the traditional mainstream, getting away from the explaining, right? Yeah. Good ideas don't require force. That's right. Available at briandickleshow.com forward slash shop. And if you wanted to create a better future, the opportunity is there right now. You can start to build these solutions. I mean, I had a guy on my show, he's the CEO of a pediatric cancer research company, and they have not only created a system to get donations through cryptocurrency, but now they're using blockchain technology to help increase the research efficiencies of, you name the focus. And he's talking about how there's Chicago schools

that they do research and how they were getting siloed into, you know, I'm focusing on this project, I'm focusing on this project, and they're a mile apart from each other. They're doing the same project. They had no idea this entire time. So taking it out of these silos, putting it onto blockchain, and now creating an open environment where we can get things advanced faster,

research done more quick, and we're seeing more people's lives being saved as a result of that. And that's all because somebody decided, I'm going to go by my values. I think that blockchain and NFTs has an amazing opportunity to just change the game. And they jumped on that. And now they're actually making things better. They're saving little kids' lives. That's a big deal.

I figured it out. The right, the libertarians, whatever, need to make the metaverse first. Yes, that's what we're working on. I just saw a little prototype on Wednesday. That's their plan. They want us to ghettoize ourselves. No, no, no, no. It's just the same with what the UN is doing with neural net.

No, no, no, no. When they – so they control all the big tech spaces. Conservatives have ceded control. I'm kidding, by the way, about this. But my point is the right, the libertarians, have ceded control of our current economic system, internet and social media, to leftists and Silicon Valley. So whether it's metaverse or whatever, my point is the right needs to start getting active and paying attention to what's going on.

Web three. Yeah. And building things now. I'm glad that Elon's doing the neural net. We talk about it and everyone's like, oh, I don't know if I'm going to, but it's good that it's him because that dude open sourced his Tesla patents. Yeah. Did he really?

Yeah. If we can see, all your patents are belong to us. If you look it up online, I don't know if it's every Tesla patent, but it's a bunch. So someone like that build the metaverse free, the software code, or that's what I'm looking for.

That's why we're working on the metaverse with our current project with this charity that we're starting. Okay. But we need to do that before. I was just like, let's just let it happen. Let's beg the authorities to make them open source of their code. That's not, I'm not an authoritarian. I'm not a, I'm not a fascist. We got to do that. Before, I was just like, let's just let it happen. Let's beg the authorities to make them open source their code. That's not – I'm not an authoritarian.

I'm not a fascist. We got to do it ourselves. So tough call. Who wants to go in the metaverse? I don't. I do. But if you build it first, you can prevent these wackos from doing all the evil things they plan on doing. Or set the standard.

Can you? Because they could make their own, couldn't they? They could. But you can now set the standard of what is acceptable and what people – I mean, think about it. We look and judge, for the most part, streaming platforms based on what Netflix was, right? And that's what the subscription model turned into. But the interface, not the ethics. Correct, correct.

100% correct. So, like, we can do that, though, in terms of setting the ground groundwork almost again setting that narrative and then either somebody else on the left would have to build something better that's going to attract more people or they have to react and change behavior so i think we can we can almost do both that makes sense yeah i'm not sure you think that we can build uh comparable technology and then change the behavior of what they can because once you control the tech you can decide how the user interface looks and slightly guide people's behaviors. I hear what you're saying.

Your question is, is it ethical or not? But yeah, that's what you can do. Well, and the left is doing it right now. Yes. Mark Zuckerberg is overtly doing it. Yep. 100%. Well, and that's the thing, right?

With these social media platforms, people are already living online. It's a very disturbing thing. It's like we're in the matrix but we're profoundly disabled because our only interface is this screen and our fingers to type with and if people do end up integrating with the metaverse they're going to look back on us and go how sad and insane uh ian you your analogy was it'll be like morse code to them they just won't even understand how we could have such a limited interface but i still think's sad. I think we should try to spend as much time in the real world as possible. I agree, but if Metaverse in any fashion, be it Neuralink or just VR headsets, becomes just dominant in economics, why?

Remote work, for instance, makes it a viable option. And the right just says, no, no, people should spend time in reality. Well, that's not how people are actually going to respond. That's not, you know, obviously you might want it to happen, but it doesn't mean it's going to happen. That's also because... So what you can do is you can make a preemptive technological strike.

And then when people do typically adopt this tech for say remote working, you own the means. You can actually say only two hours a day. So then the conversation isn't whether or not Elon Musk is going to build something else or by Twitter,

it'll be there already. Basically, mine's software code is available to build something else or by Twitter. It will be there already. Basically, mine's software code is available to take and build on right now if Elon wants to do it. What's easier, to storm the walls of Rome or to go there before Rome was built, plant your flag, and then say this is our land? It's easier to claim the territory before someone else builds up their fortifications and things like that. So argue your point about rather spending time in reality what the argument you're going to get back with that is the the metaverse is reality it's just a different way of seeing reality it's another kind like tv shows are real they're just not i don't know you call this base reality i don't know how to how to reference this is real well it's all real it's just it's

they're dramatized reality yeah so so when you're looking at an event that happened in the real world there's a reason we create this distinction about whether something is based on true events when we're watching something in media even though that term is also very much abused it's because there is a significant difference between something actually occurring in the world and a story that someone has told playing out before you in a simulated manner that's a good you need you need to watch these videos from tiktokers who are they they do these really we mentioned earlier in the show where they like if you watch a pixar movie people don't just talk they bounce when they talk so ian you have to understand and that's what they do on tiktok they do this weird like and they do side talking on their mouths and they like I twitch metaverse will amplify

that 1000 fold because these people are putting on a performance in their phones. They probably don't go and actually do that to write to like regular people at the gas station in the metaverse. They'll be doing it 24 seven. That's a great point. They'll be raised from five years old around people doing that and they'll come out and here's what you need to understand. When we watch these cringe TikTok videos, we understand what they're doing. You know,

smart, sane people say, yes, you're emulating an animation character from like Frozen or something. But what we don't understand is when the metaverse drives this to, you know, a thousand fold. And this becomes normal. No, no, it's not going to be people bouncing around. There's a connection between base reality and movie characters bouncing and then humans adopting it. But what happens when there's a rapid expansion of this bizarre behavior?

You'll have people just going like twitching and shaking and people, how about this one? Young girls on Instagram were getting fake Tourette's. Yep. There was a viral story. Yes, that's huge. They were getting Tourette's because Yep. There was a viral story. Yes, that's huge. They were getting Tourette's because they were seeing it.

And what's going to happen is – I have a friend in psychology who's explaining this to me. Imagine this. Right now, we know what Tourette's is. Let's say in the metaverse, a world develops one block at a time that results in people who have this weird tick where they just start like screaming, screeching. So what I mean, the easiest way to explain it, I suppose, is the Tai Chi Hitler video I bring up all the time, where these companies were trying to make algorithmically manipulative videos that YouTube would promote

them to babies. You end up with the Incredible Hulk and Adolf Hitler doing Tai Chi while they sing nursery rhymes. To a regular human, you're like what what is this this is psychotic weird fever dream the algorithm put these pieces together to manipulate the code now if you live in the metaverse and you're exposed to that a thousand fold you're eventually going to walk out going and they're going to be like what is this guy doing and they're going to be like it's just a thing they do in these shows in the metaverse regular people in the real world are going to be like yo what's wrong with what's wrong with these people already we watch these tiktokers bounce around like they're in a disney you know cartoon we're like something's wrong with these people

imagine if it's cranked up a hundredfold and they're just going i mean we can't communicate with each other as it is just imagine what's going to be like in 20 years yeah when you look at roblox what's happening is the kids that are in Roblox, in the metaverse with that system, are also building it as they're in it. So you'll see basically a rapid expansion or compounding expansion of change in those

systems. So if the people with fake Tourette's are actually the ones that are also building reality as they're, then they'll create like a Tourette's ridden reality that makes you get more Tourette's and then it could exacerbate. It's like a feedback system. Yeah. Yep. People are going to, people will rapidly start speaking very differently. If you, if, if the meta, if, if metaverse become something more prominent, people will build pocket communities very much like a discord or whatever. But if you can experience it via neural link, man, then people

are going to stay in those communities. They're going to isolate, and it's going to be like after the fall of Rome. The Latin language splits up and becomes the Romance language. It's a bunch of different ways. Now you can't even communicate between them to a certain degree. You know what else happened in Rome is they split the empire in half because they couldn't control it. It's just basically like the metaverse and base reality. If we split like that and you have the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire, which is now the world and the metaverse or the universe and the metaverse. Check it out. Already, because of the internet, we're speaking two different languages.

When we say racism, we're talking about prejudice based on race. The left is talking about systems of pressure, prejudice or whatever from the dominant groups. It means something totally different to them. Amplify that. these communities isolate further they go into private servers they go into metaverse you will create two distinct languages over time maybe even more yeah probably it's how you end up with you know again you know rome and then when it falls you have the romance languages they're all very similar but very different because they end up getting isolated from each other yeah and to. To tie it into the interesting philosophical question you posed earlier, which is

why and how do we differentiate between reality and narrative and what goes on in the metaverse, it's important to remember that the strongest teacher for humans, generally speaking, is experience. If someone experiences something or believes they've experienced something,

it's going to influence the habits they end up developing. And we see this even with film and television. When you're sitting in front of a TV set, I mean, it's obvious that you're not in it. You're looking at a screen in front of your face. You're watching the main character. It's not being seen from your point of view. But we live in a country where basically everyone has main character syndrome right now. And they think their life is some kind of strange soap opera where they're the main character and so people have

begun to interact with the real world in these bizarre and disordered ways just because of how much attention we place on fiction uh relative to what we should place on it which is significantly less and um if we get the metaverse up and running it's just going to be that multiplied to degrees i couldn't even predict right i agree it's the craziest thing to me how many millennials have main character syndrome when i'm obviously the main yeah exactly how could they not realize that there's uh there's well and to be fair it certainly didn't originate with millennials i mean solipsism is basically just the pretentious philosophical way of saying you have main character syndrome. But even that's a little different, though, because main character syndrome also touches on the way the narratives are structured and how you place your life into that category.

Like, you're on the hero's journey. Could you guys imagine if Seamus was the main character? I think he is. And I am. Thank you. It's all in Freedom Tunes world. Exactly. The metaverse. Thank you. It's all in Freedom Tunes world. Exactly. Little do you all know.

We are actually just a show in the Freedom Tunes world. They watch us. We get a glimpse into them only sometimes. Why is this so funny to you guys? Seamus is praying. He's like, of course you are. Exactly. Come on.

Freedom Tunes. That would be sad. Here's the thing. If I was the main character, that would be very depressing. I'm the best this universe has. Get out of here. I got to lay. I wouldn't want to live in that universe i'm flawed but like i'm the most interesting person we can focus on come on not yet you're

growing into that that's the journey but doesn't the show have to start with the main character being interesting usually you see their great flaw which for you is being irish i'm just kidding i love i'm irishty in Rambo do we see 20 years of Rambo's growth no no no the movie starts where it starts he's the main character

so what you need to understand Seamus is that whenever the movie that you're in finally starts probably when you're 35 you're gonna be super ripped

with like your sleeves torn off and a bunch of guns it's gonna be post-apocalyptic and you'd be like the name's Seamus and I'm here to save you all and then they find out like you're also catholic and they're

like and you believe in god and then you can it'll be like deliver the wisdom of the ages and it'll be a good story i mean to get really deep here but what is at its fundamental base the hero's journey it's the story of the hero being successful but overcoming some major event. And we see this a lot. It's kind of hit me where people have created the trauma, whether it's real or not in their lives, so they can feel that I have overcome this terrible thing to be my hero. And they look for trauma. They look for the bad things in order to justify their hero's journey. Amen.

Well, that's true. And also another really insidious thing that's happened is people expect their problems to be solved much more quickly than is reasonable. Instant gratification. Well, I mean, it's instant gratification. It's also the fact that when you watch these television shows, if it's a 22 minute long program, the problem arises and it's solved within that neat little three act structure. People also don't understand that change can be irreversible.

It took me a while to understand this, and maybe that's just part of being young, but as a kid, it just seemed to me that everything was reversible. Everything could be undone. I had to learn the lesson as I got older that that wasn't true, and I didn't watch a whole lot of television.

That could just be something that's built into humans and we have to learn, but I suspect not. I think it's the narratives that were fed that program us that way. Didn't they denature an egg? Denature an egg? Yes, a protein had a chemical change. An egg was cooked, I think, and the proteins fold or something like this. I don't want to misrepresent this.

They turn an egg into a hard-boiled egg, and they were like, the general idea is you can't reverse this process. A chemical reaction, yeah. And then they figured out a way to actually reverse the process. Like you could undo burns maybe theoretically with this kind of technology. It's pretty cool. Interesting. Yeah, yeah. But there's still a lot that we can't undo. But let's say

you're in the metaverse and you have a save point or a reset button. Or a time stone or something. But this has happened to me, right? Like I spend almost all of the time that I'm doing anything artistic, doing it on the computer with my drawing tablet dude i have been drawing with a pencil and paper and have literally thought i have to like i have to hit the undo button and then realized oh my gosh i'm not using a computer you know i just admit it how amazing would it be

if you're like a business meeting and you accidentally said like you're you're like look when we approach this orgasm, I mean organism. Oh, geez. All right. I'm just going to load my save state real quick. When you were approaching this organism. That's a date.

People would do crazy stuff. Have you ever seen someone play Skyrim and then reload their game after they go into the city and just take it? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Imagine this. In the metaverse, there's a bunch of other people who are there

and some guy walks into your office and then you see him pull up and he goes, quick save, and you're like, uh-oh. Uh-oh. No, dude, you know what would be hilarious? This could actually be a good little short film. This could be a good little short film. But someone's in the metaverse for the first time, and they think by pressing restart, it actually restarts it, but it actually puts everyone back into their starting position. But of course, because there are other people in the metaverse, they have

the memory of what you just did. So this person keeps screwing up and restarting and doing all these absurd things. They're like, dude, we didn't forget that you did that. Actually, here's how I'd approach it. It's the person who goes in the metaverse for the first time thinking it's a single player game. And so they're going around and they're saying really awful

things and they're like ripping their clothes off. And on Twitter they're tweeting about it, but they don't know because they're in the metaverse. Yeah, and everyone's like – And then you're in the metaverse where you can't actually harass people in these ways. And so then it's like you have been banned. I'm like, what happened? And they pull up their meta Twitter or whatever and it's like everyone's posting videos of you. It's like, oh, no.

I want to weigh in on this main character syndrome. Firstly, I think everyone is the main character. You're the main character and you're the main character. You're the main character, and you're the main character. Ian was the main character. I am, and so are you. It's not logical, but it is real. We all have this perception that it's dictating our reality. I think that a lot of stuff with Marvel, these superhero movies,

have put this in people's brains that they're heroes and villains, and that there's a, like you said earlier, a show, you wrap it by the end of the show and it starts again. Also, I feel like Donald Trump did a really disservice to the species when he started talking about winning and losing so much as a candidate like it was never about winning to any candidates before him they never talked about we got to win it was about doing what's right for america and he came up and it's like no matter what we're gonna win and now you see that all over the place people want to win and they do dirty things to win and it's not about that we all win if we work together i think i think donald trump's the main character he's definitely the main and and and and we're

all just npcs in his story we're in his world i mean look at his life look i mean i have a little bit of a solipsist i have a little bit of the bank look at his story yeah it's like you know he's he you start the video game off and of course you have access to all this like wealth and privilege and stuff you don't small loan of a million dollars right right right so you know, you start the video game off, and of course you have access to all this, like, wealth and privilege and stuff. Small loan of a million dollars. Right, right, right. So, you know, and then he's a playboy, billionaire, celebrity, philanthropist, owns a building with his name in gold letters. Then he becomes the president. He, like, woke up one day.

Dude, it's hysterical. Hillary Clinton spent her whole life doing everything she could, employing every cynical political move possible to become the president. This guy wakes up one morning. He's like, you know what? I could be president. I'm going to try to be president. And then he beats her. And that's what she hates him so much.

I know. It's hysterical. It's hysterical. I mean, in all honesty, though, Trump had been planning on running for a while. And I should also have bought the website and the name years in advance. And I should also take it back to Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen kind of created the winning narrative. That's true.

Winning, winning, and then all of a sudden Trump starts saying it. Winning, I'm winning. I blame Charlie Sheen for all this. What? Charlie. He's the main character. You said you were too crazy there when you were talking about your Adonis blood and stuff like that. You went too crazy.

How many people do you think really were taking Charlie Sheen's life advice there? Probably like 16,000. Probably 16,000. I'll be specific. That is very specific. Maybe Ian is the main character. It was like written into their code.

Ian's actually, we're in the metaverse and Ian is the only real player. I thought I was. I went through a psychosis phase in 2006, 2007 on YouTube. I was smoking a lot of weed, making videos

and watching myself and I was like, this is my reality. I'm creating this as I go and things started to synergize. when you make a lot of youtube videos when you're online you're exposing your soul to people things do start to synergize for you like you start to blend in with reality becomes one thing i i had gone so far psycho that i didn't i was unbalanced because you are the main character but you're also part of a system where there's all

these other main characters that are equally as powerful as you it's called an mmo mmo everybody playing the game multiplayer online game yeah so when you play like world of warcraft or whatever you can see who the npc is you can see who the players are so maybe this is what i was saying uh last week there are some people who don't believe they have souls you know and they'll say things like just a wet robot. Right. And I'm like, man, I kind of feel like I have a soul like I've had experiences. Maybe the reality is they just don't, you know. And so but but no, no. But, you know, Seamus, you laugh.

But like if it's I was thinking, like, why should I assume someone has a soul for telling me they don't? Because I think I do. Because because I think even though having a soul is a wonderful beautiful thing and it's very good we have them on some level when you really consider the responsibility it's a very frightening thing and it might be easier to abdicate that responsibility and say i just don't have one i don't i don't freak out when i'm in world of warcraft and i'm talking to a shopkeeper to like sell a bunch of crap and repair my armor the consequences aren't real though that's why yeah because you have that you could you have that

redo button exactly in real life the shopkeeper might be packing You don't have a redo button in World of Warcraft Well you can, you can turn off the game and turn it back on No you can't No it's an MMO But if you die you just respawn You can't turn the game off and on So an MMO is all real time

If you sell your gear and you made a mistake It's gone, or you can do a buyback. But when you die, your armor gets damaged and you respawn because the point of the game is so you keep playing. But yeah, you die. There's no reloading. There's no resetting. So my point isn't so much about turning the game on and off. My point is in World of Warcraft, as someone who is actively playing the game, you know who the other players are.

You can see them running around and doing stuff. You'll notice some of the characters running around just don't behave like human beings. And you can't even communicate with them effectively. And I start wondering about this. They call them NPCs for a reason. If I go to someone and say, hey, I feel a soul within me. I feel something greater than me. It guides me.

Do you? They say, no. I say, do you feel you have a soul? They say, some something greater than me it guides me do you say no i say do you feel you have us all they say no maybe they don't like i'll trust them i guess why would i assume if they're not experiencing it they have one well if we're talking about people in the real world i think if you had a soul and free will by definition that would give you the option to say that you don't it's like if we were all required to say we had a soul, that we would lose our free will. I'm just saying I think it's projection to be like I felt something within me and I've experienced something. Therefore, other people must have as well. And if they can't, something must be wrong.

There's something about clearing your mind and your that allows you access to your soul. I believe like the amyloid plaque on the neurons in the brain causes Alzheimer's. It also diminishes your ability to feel, I think. So let's wrap this up real quick. Sorry, but wrap it up with just a quick conspiracy theory. Uh-oh. Oh, yes. What if they say that fluoride, what did they say, calcifies the pineal gland?

I heard it turns frogs gay, too. No, that's atrazine. Yeah, that's atrazine. But they were hermaphroditic so the conspiracy theory would be what if powerful satanic or maybe it's not fair to say satanic but just evil we're trying to cloud people's connections with the greater you know whatever it may be whether you're religious or otherwise whatever you think that is what if there are people who genuinely can't see into it because they've been polluted or blocked in some way? I mean, I think what you're

saying, the idea of evil for sure is a real thing. Like evil is out there just as good. But I mean, like some people have a greater connection to the other realm or beyond the veil or whatever you want to call it. And some people don't. Why? Well, because of toxic chemicals or whatever. I'm obviously talking specifically about conspiracy theories. I'm not saying are true. But, you know, one thing we mentioned in the show before was just like DMT giving you this connection that people have these profound experiences and DMT is produced by your brain naturally. Yeah. What if that what if what if there are people who are being inhibited from being able to to feel the greater power or whatever? Well, I mean, there's a really fascinating philosophical discussion there about just the effect that

our hormones and neurochemistry have on us. And it's been waging. We all agree that there are some people who behave more morally than others. That much is evident. And then the question becomes, how much of what this person did was their own agency? How much of this is a result of a neurochemical imbalance or a mental illness. I tend to lean towards agency because I think we over-pathologize and we sort of blame everything on the person's environment and don't really

attribute responsibility to people anymore, which is unfortunate. But it is a very interesting conversation. And on a case-by-case basis, it can be difficult. Let's go to super chats if you haven't already smashed that like button subscribe to this channel share the show with your friends and head over to timcast.com for our members only show coming up at about 11 or so pm as a member you're going to support our work help our journalists keep doing their journalism on the ground reporting we're eternally grateful for all of your support in that matter but to smash that like button let's see what we got all right slain hope says matter. But smash that like button. Let's see what we got.

All right. Slane Hope says, have we all forgot that one of Joe Biden's first acts as president was killing six kids in a drone strike? Is that really what he did? Yeah. He messed up the Afghanistan at the end there. Oh. Remember they were trying to get the and they ended up getting a guy I think he had water in his trunk.

He was bringing water inside to his kids and then they had a drone strike in his car. Wow. Wow. Yes. Wow. I can't say I'm surprised. And there were so many bleeding hearts who were going, we have to get rid of Trump. He's so terrible. Look how bad he is. Look how horrible he is on issues of human life.

It's like, dude, Joe Biden's worse on all of those. He's worse on every single one of them. And he has been consistently. Did you know Joe Biden got elected to the U.S. Senate at the age of 29? He was 29. Wow. 29. Man. Did you know Joe Biden got elected to the U.S. Senate at the age of 29? He's 29! 29! He's been there his entire life. Alright, Liam O'Brien says... So he's done nothing productive. Yeah, exactly.

We love you, Took Ian. Maybe typo? We love you too, Ian. Oh, okay. We love you too. Good to see a fellow Irishman on the show so often. Thank you, Tim, for opening my eyes and turning me into a small-L libertarian. Oh. Hey, there you go. I'm what they call a plastic patty, you know? Wasn't born in

Ireland. Other people... Look, I didn't come in here guns blazing, going, I'm an original Irish leprechaun, I have a posh accord. A fan sent it because you all make fun of me for my name and my ethnic identity. You do. No, you guys do. You're always going, like, I'm Irish, I'm Irish. And we're like, bro, you're from

Chicago. Every single time I do anything wrong or I say something offensive on the podcast in the SPLC or Daily Beast writing article, Tim goes, he's Irish. He has. He's internalized his Irishness. Why did Seamus say those offensive things? Well, you know, the inhumanity we've seen in this world. He's Irish, so he feels it. People don't know this, but Seamus' actual dialect is a Chicago accent. Actually, it is the way I really talk, right?

We're talking about this. Seamus talks about garage doors and garage doors. Big old fan of the Bears. Spent the vast majority of my life in the suburbs out there, but I'll steal the street cred from you, Tim. You know, people used to actually talk like that, and then it was cable TV that got rid of it all. Yeah, in every area. I mean, that's basically how my uncles talk my parents

have a little bit of it when i was a little kid i had a little bit of it uh it's yeah i was northeast ohio i went out to new york to start acting and i i actively dispersed my my accent i guess i started to talk like tv like where there is no accent kind of or whatever yeah i i was looking at like some of the first cartoons i ever did when I still lived probably like 15 minutes outside Chicago, and there were just certain words I pronounced differently, and it's funny because you don't notice changing your pronunciation. You don't.

Are you talking about that cat northeast Ohio? Yeah, just like democracy. Well, to get the Chicago A, you don't say ah, you say e-ah. Yeah, it's like a Y. It also depends on the part too because in different parts of the city, people do sound a little bit different. And it's crazy because when you live there, you don't hear it from other people.

Like to you, everything just sounds normal. And then other people will be like, e-apple. And you'll be like, huh? And then you'll be like, when people really accentuate it, you're like, who talks like that? Go down to the apple store the one thing that always got me though is that people made up that chicagoans say chicago and it's like a meme but nobody says in chicago it's an ah sound an ass sound i understand if it was chicago people would say chicago but literally no one does that it's the weirdest thing when people

are like oh you're from chicago well i'm like bro that no one says that. It's the weirdest thing when people are like, oh, you're from Chicago? And I'm like, bro, no one says that. It's funny because the people – They say E-Apple and T-X-E. That's the thing. The people with the thickest Chicago accent say like Chicago. They actually don't overdo the A in Chicago. They say like Chicago. The people I know with the thickest accent,

it's about their lives in the city, actually pronounce the word Chicago without the accent. It's a weird thing. But outside of Chicago, everyone thinks they say Chicago. You ever do that thing where you say a word like 10 or 20 times in a row

and it starts to sound really weird? What sound am I making? That's called semantic satiation. Semantic satiation? All right. Drop on the grenade. Let's read some more. I love this thing.

It's great. Remy says, Tim, you should have answered in your Fauci voice. It would have been hilarious. I'll do that next time. The next timeemy says, Tim, you should have answered in your Fauci voice. It would have been hilarious. Yeah, come on. I'll do that next time. The next time the CDC calls.

Are you wearing your mask? You better be wearing two masks. Otherwise, the droplets will get all over your grandmother. All right. Where were we? Rye Lines says, CDC is calling to see if you're home so they can SWAT you later. Oh, gosh. Yeah, we got SWATed again.

I heard that. Yeah, seven times. It's part of the business. I imagine that these entertainment industries, once it gets to a certain size, it's just like 10 a day. And you just have it go right to law enforcement. You have law enforcement on premises, so it's all handled without you having to deal with it.

It's wild. It's crazy. You know, someone mentioned this to me. They asked me why it wasn't big news. I can't remember who asked me this. And I was like, I'm not sure. What do you mean? They were like, well, it's like, you know, you have one of the

biggest podcasts and you've been swatted seven times in three, in like two and a half months. Wouldn't that be a big story to these like journalists who are constantly talking about the dangers of media? Like Andy, no, got attacked, you know, and it was bad. And even CNN covered it. We had the bomb squad show up here. We were swatted with the cop walking past the camera. And it's happened seven times. And like, nope. That is really weird. There's something really weird about me in this show that we're under the radar for whatever reason.

The show's big enough, but nobody cares to talk about it. Good thing, I guess. But I think it's also because you have three channels. And so I think you're someone people will talk about, but because you do three different shows every day, it's like, it's difficult to pinpoint the one that people are going to say you're known for. Well, the interesting thing is I've noticed there are a lot of people who don't watch, don't know they all exist. Like there of people who don't watch, don't know they all exist. Like there are people who watch this show who don't know that I have a morning show. Yeah.

And that I have two other YouTube channels over a million subscribers. So I've noticed when people are smack talking me, they'll say something like, oh, yeah, he does this like, you know, he does these videos like this. And people will be like, no, he does like a podcast with people. And they're like, no, he doesn't. What are you talking about? Mandela effect, bro. They're like, I came from the universe where Tim Pool just does vlogs. He's like, I came from the universe, he does a podcast with people. And they're like, no, he doesn't. What are you talking about? Mandela effect, bro. They're like, I came from the universe where Tim Pool just does vlogs. He's like, I came from the universe where he does a podcast.

I'm like, I don't know. Maybe I should just get rid of half the shows. Because I will say there's a diminishing return. Your shows are cool, though. They're good to listen to because it's pretty quick and you give good news. Talk about some interesting stuff. The interesting thing is on weekends, the clips from IRL get way more views because people who watch all of the shows don't have anything else to watch. So that means the harder I work, the less more views because people who watch all of the shows don't have anything else to watch. They enjoy them.

So that means the harder I work, the less money I end up making. So it's actually like – I'm trying to get Tim to write music with me during the day. But that would entail him like – Can't do it. I work basically like I wake up at 7. Teach the humans. Immediately start reading the news.

And then I work typically until around 3 is when I finish the morning show stuff. Like 3.30-ish. Then I exercise, eat food, and then we get ready for this show. Some days I get lucky enough to go to the bank. Oh, exciting. Lucky. All right. Then he rubs his stacks of cash all over his face.

Yes. While playing that song Celebrate. Oh, yeah. Pine Tree Squad says, I haven't had a good laugh during TimCast IRL in a while. Between the commentary on CDC calling and all the rest of the good laughs are doing me good. Stay safe, everyone. Much love from Pine Tree Squad. Nice.

This is a very fun episode, I will say. We'll make sure we have the CDC call more often. That was funny. My phone rang, and I was just kind of like, they keep calling me. And it's the CDC. For all I know, they were going to be like, say something crazy. Say you need to pay them in Apple gift cards. That's the way to do it, though. I mean, it's the CDC. For all I know, they're going to be like, you know, say something crazy. Say you need to pay them in Apple gift cards. That's the way to do it, though. I mean, what if it would be hilarious?

You let them know that they're being recorded and if they're okay with that. That's the way. If you ever want to put someone on video, you got to do that. I think legally you got to do that so they know. Wouldn't it have been funny if, like, it's I answer the phone. It's like, hello? This is Dr. Anthony Fauci. I am my car

broke down and I need you to send me a Walmart gift card. Wow, that sounds true. Where do I send it? Just take a picture and send it. You need to get Apple gift cards from your local Walmart and send them to me.

Could you imagine if, Seamus, if you actually were able to pull that off, call people pretending to be... you know what you should do? You should legit call someone with a different number and tell them you're – like someone you know and tell them you're Jordan Peterson. It's Jordan Peterson. Listen to me. If you want to embody the archetypal hero, you need to go to Walmart and get some iTunes gift cards.

You need to send them to me. You have to scratch the label off the back and tell me the codes immediately. Listen, your computer has a virus. I'm trying to fix it. You owe the IRS $10,000. I'm trying to help. Wait, wait, wait. Do Ben Shapiro calling to inform you about your car's extended warranty?

I'm trying to call you reaching your car's extended warranty. How are you doing today, sir? What? I'm not playing that game. Oh, so I'm supposed to do this by myself? Okay, I'm trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty. Okay, did you know that you're... Here's the thing.

I hang up on them immediately, so I don't even know what they say. I don't know what Shapiro would say. If you want your car to last a long time, you have to buy a decent warranty for it, because these things fall apart, folks. We don't make things in America anymore like we used to. Okay, gang? Okay, gang. Honestly, gang? Okay, gang. Honestly, gang? Get some warranty.

Jordan Peterson. That's scary. That's terrifying. You have to get the app. And frankly, if you could grab some Applebee's gift cards as well. We're pretty hungry here. The IRS. You have to help me stop the cultural Marxists. Send me $75 iTunes

gift cards immediately. Can we prank call Dave Rubin doing that? Dude, he'd pick up and be like, I agree. You have to send these Walmart gift cards to the radical Marxists. They're going to take over.

Hey, hold on. We should legit prank call somebody. That would be so fun. Just find some prominent podcaster numbers I have and we'll film it for the vlog. They'll be like, who is this? It's Jordan Peterson. Jordan, why are you calling me? I need gift cards.

Send them to me now. Listen, listen, listen. Brett Weinstein, your computer has a virus. I'm trying to get it off your computer. You need to let me help you. Just install this program. Give me your password. We accidentally put $10,000 in your bank account.

We need you to send it back to us. Here's the screenshot. What other, what other? Jordan Peterson calling to say his car broke down and he needs you to send him money. I've just been doiling random numbers in my phone trying to find a good Samaritan. Somebody, please. You know how gas prices are right now? Gas is getting so expensive.

They'll only accept iTunes gift cards. Actually, you know what would be good? You know what we'll do? Like legit, let's totally do this. But you can call as the intellectual dark web and do Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson all trying to convince someone that they're all there hanging out. At the same time. Listen, you absolutely have to buy these gift cards. All right.

Okay, gang. We are actually going to starve to death out here. Yep. I agree. Our safety is at risk, okay? Our safety is at risk. All right. Let's read some more. let's read some more.

Let's read some more. Awake as Dawn says, Arizona governor signed multiple bills. One, abortion after 15 weeks is illegal. Two, proof of citizenship to vote. And three, prevent youth from trans surgery and participation of trans women in women's sports. Kind of feels like Arizona is going to turn dark red in this upcoming election. What do you think it's going to do for cinema?

I don't know. I think people actually kind of like her. The left hates her. Yep. You know, she's pushed back on Democrats a lot or enough. And maybe, I don't know, maybe she might have to change to be a Republican. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I mean, she's like basically turning into uh the the version of uh what the hell's the guy's west virginia mansion mansion thank you joe mansion i was gonna say can someone someone said call cnn please oh yeah it's called brian stelter i wonder i mean i've got a bunch of phone numbers i have like i got a bunch of people we'll call them we'll do a prank i have like a journalist from the atlantic oh sweet i I've got a ton of vice journalists. I think I have – I've got like high up vice people, obviously. ABC News people. Who else do I got?

MSNBC. Famous comedians. Let's do it. They would know we were pranking them. But they'd probably just laugh and go along with it or something. Yeah, that's true. You should call Ryan Long. Now he's going to know.

Now he's going to know. Let him know they're being recorded before you start talking in peterson's voice yeah i'm recording you all right but this is this is very important it's it's i record everything i do in case i want it to be a lecture if i upload this to youtube it'll get like 800 000 views all right people like me and then he can tell everyone on youtube to give him his uh his gift cards and scratch the back up and give you the number. Tim, oh my gosh. Please read the...

It was one right up there. The $5 one from... This one? No, a little higher. It was... This? It might be gone forever. It might be gone forever.

They said my cartoon inspired them to change their name. Whoa, really? Oh, where was that? Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. I think it's gone. I think it's gone forever. Oh, crushed.

That's awesome. His name was Mufootball, which is a line man, I think it's gone. I think it's gone forever. Crushed, it's awesome. His name was Mufutball, which is a line from my recent video. You guys need to check it out. Oh, yeah. It's a very important video. I guess it's gone forever. Oh, I'm sad. Thank you, Mufutball.

I guess we lost it. It's a, well, thank you, Mufutball. I want to thank you. Oh, no, maybe you were just seeing the, these are the older Super Chats. So maybe it's just down, it's down further. Yeah, no, it's probably down further, but i want to thank you my football question mark question all right bruce i want to ask you guys to watch that video so you get the joke okay freedom tunes bruce says stop trying to take desantis from us in florida vagrants you can have trump exactly no we we all

deserve desantis we do hold on do you think we deserve desantis i don't think we just i think he's great i think we want him do we deserve him I don't know man but what do you mean by that I don't think we just I was just kidding being like you can't have him you know no no no no here's the thing you're not gonna keep him all you're not gonna win DeSantis over by taking him for granted Tim oh is that it but no actually yeah do you so DeSantis the kind of guy you play hard to get with is the question like a politician I don't want to be president it's, we don't even want you as president. Stay in Florida, dude. Who cares?

And he's going to be like, you know what? I love that. I'm going to run for president. Even harder. You're doing a great job down there. I feel like that would have worked for Trump. Exactly. Yeah, Trump would be like, well, you know what?

Maybe I will be president. Maybe I will. Yeah, when you're president. And you won't. You won't be. When you're president, they let you do whatever you want, you know? Pass executive orders. So I hear.

Grab them by the executive order. That's right. All right, let's read some more. Let's read some more. Let's see. Kyle Buchanan says, a small population state does the same thing Florida does years before no one cares.

Florida says we are doing the same thing 20 other states have, then all the progressives freak out. That's interesting. They're a big state. They are. Timing, too. There's a lot about the timing. Here we go. They're a big state. They are. Timing, too. There's a lot about the timing.

Here we go. Cornelius Buttknuckle says, Trump and DeSantis need to squash whatever petty beef they have and commit to being running mates if either of them gets their Republican

presidential nomination because either way, a Trump-DeSantis ticket would absolutely crush. That's true, man. If Pence is out and good riddance, Trump-DeSantis

would be pretty powerful. Yeah, that'd be great. But I feel like they're both eight-listers. Yeah, they are. That's the problem man. If Pence is out and good riddance, Trump DeSantis would be pretty powerful. Yeah, that'd be great. But I feel like they're both eight-listers. Yeah, they are. That's the problem. That's tough. But what VP could Trump get without – Pence was bad enough the first time. You'd have to get someone popular.

What's her name from South Dakota? Oh, no. I think it's just a question of them running together in the primaries, right? And whoever gets the nomination chooses the other to be their running mate i'm not saying it would be that straightforward you know i'm i'm sure they would uh have a little bit of difficulty there because that hasn't happened though in gop history it used to be in a while yeah it used to be the way it worked well i'm going back to the like well not just necessarily the top two didn't run for president in 2000 did he

no well no so you had ge Bush. It can happen, though. McCain, Romney, and Trump, all four Republicans ran not with somebody who was also in the primaries. Yeah, I guess my point is that if he were to, I mean, it's a question of who should be the president, who should be the vice president. I think you just let the primary sort that out. All right, let's read some more. We got Smoke Rings and Sada says, Tim, please make a T of Cast Castle animation Ian being sniffed by anime Joe Biden.

Natero from HXH would be perfect. So if Kent is watching, you can make an animation of Joe Biden sneaking up on Ian. You're like, I'm a dude. I know. I know, man. Okay, just so you know. Oh, yes. I know. I know, man. Okay, just so you know. Oh, yes. I know.

All right. Let's grab some... Birthday Freak says, Now the U.S. Army has debuted a cute VTuber in order to recruit basement dwellers and Naruto runners across the country. Semper Waifu. Oh, my God.

Naruto runners. I think it's funny that there are people who actually would, like, do that. Would run like that? Oh, yeah. There were. I think it's funny that there are people who actually would do that. Would run like that? Oh yeah, there were kids in gym class, bro, who would run around the field house. Wasn't that a joke about Area 51 like two years ago? Yeah, Naruto ran onto it. And then what happened?

All of this stuff. Oh my god. Latin says, Tim, I'm in the army and the problem I'm finding isn't that people don't want to fight. It's that they don't want to die for these people and their crazy ideas and worldview. Yep. I want everybody listening right now who is in the army, the Marines, the Navy, the Air Force, Space Force, whatever it

is. When you are, if, I don't know if any of you will actually see combat for whatever reason, but when you are, I want you to remember what you're fighting for. Picture Kamala Harris in your mind, smiling and laughing. And you will find the inspiration to never give up. These people hate you.

Or you will just give up. Yeah, you will 100%. Well, that's what I was saying earlier. The people who enlist in the Army know that these people hate them. And the people who would ordinarily enlist in the Army know these people hate them. We're going to do it. Mason Barnett says, I think your idea of a truthies ceremony would be a good thing what better way to build good culture than promoting good truthful news and journalism

what should we do a hundred grand to the truthy awards yeah look i tim i've been real honest lately bro i've been real honest lately so what we could do is i nominate shamus we could do we could do like five categories We could do five categories like truth in news, truth in sports, truth in entertainment, truth in political cartoons, truth in politics, truth in Freedom Tunes episodes. Yeah. Yes, one whole category

just truth in Freedom Tunes. You always win. No, but think about it. Truth in politics. Yeah. So out of the three politicians who are good, you know, will be like this person's consistently... It ran Paul. Yeah. So out of the three politicians who are good, you know, we'll be like this person's consistently – Tom Smassey. Rand Paul. Yeah.

Yeah. And then for journalism, obviously, for, you know, arts and entertainment, we do games and movies. And then we say, you know, like your honesty and your approach, $10,000 plus an award and a ceremony. We could do that. Yeah, that'd be fun. You have to make sure they're really honest. Here's what you have to do. A review panel.

Yeah, you have to do a golden ticket type thing where the people you're thinking of nominating win a trip to your studio, and then you try to pull a Willy Wonka and get them to break the rules along the way, and whoever doesn't gets the truthie. Boom. Oh, interesting.

I think what we would do is we'd have a nominating board of prominent individuals who are, you know, trusted, and then they would determine who they think is doing a good job in these spaces. You'd probably have to have someone who – I'll nominate you. We'll just have Seamus pretend to be all of them. Listen, I'll nominate you for this truth-seeking award, but you have to send me your iTunes gift cards.

Go to Walmart immediately. Can we get Jordan Peterson scamming people into smashing the like button? Alright, listen. I am with the bank and we accidentally put $10,000 in your account that didn't belong. Now, we're willing to let you keep it

if you just smash the like button. It's the least you could do. We're out $10,000 on your account. Perfect. There we go. All right. Jay Carr says, the Truthy Awards is a winning idea on many levels. It will encompass and represent everything the independents do and

emancipate the stelters of the world. I don't like the name Truthy, though. Maybe we could find it. It was a joke name. We should call it Truth-er. Call them the Truth-er Awards. We can call it maybe like the Ian Awards. Daria says, yeah, I wouldn't join, or in my case, under this insanity either. I did my eight and a half years.

I'm good. Kind of sad to hear it, though, you know? Yeah, it's really sad. Yep. Raymond G. Stanley Jr. says, Sagar and Jetty Today said, folks who want war won't have kids in it. Wars last longer than we think and we forget about all the battles and people we lost yeah World War II is a holdover from World War I

many people say it was just the same war should we bring back the soundboard and we'll get Seamus to do like a Jordan Peterson smash the like button and a Ben Shapiro smash the like button we're going to have to think about it I mean look if you do more Fauci for me

but you said you're holding out on me until i get you those union rates i can't afford that well that was the last two two bits that i did with you on freedom tunes was that fauci is gone he's like he's been dumped but so i'm actually working really hard uh if you guys want to donate in patreon we're working really hard to bioengineer a virus so that fauci will come back and we can do more cartoons about him. Oh, I think Bauchi would be good. So patreon.com slash freedomtunes. I've been talking to EcoHealth Alliance, you know, just like,

I need this job, man. You know, like, everything we do here is funded by my residuals off of these freedomtunes. It's true. Voiceover bits I have. It's true, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Seriously, JK says, greatest advice to come out of the 80s, don't fall victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous being never get involved in a land war in Asia. That's true. Surprise Mechanic says, speaking of Hassan, I found out today that I work with his brother, Murat. It's funny that Hassan spends all day bashing American hegemony, but when his brother works for the DOD.

Interesting. Yep. brother works for the dod interesting yep silly white boy says jenk from the young turks is debating patrick bet david live on pbd podcast tomorrow at 9 a.m tim get pbd he's the most underrated voices in politics today i'm surprised jenks doing it i've invited him on numerous times politely and he's always just double down smack talking me like the first time i invited him i was like hey jen you know would love to have you want to talk about this stuff and then he's just like ignores it see him in person he screams at me yeah that happened i was at politicon he started screaming at me i'm like why are you

yelling at me like i don't know what's happening that's cool he's going on steve carell and anchorman i don't know what we're yelling about exactly i i'm really glad they're doing that debate i want to watch that that's cool or talk or whatever they're doing i'm glad i want to get more involved i don't like seeing them angry. Here's what I think. I think anybody who rejects a chance at a conversation is not a legitimate personality, right? So there's a lot of prominent left-wing personalities, high profile, that I think are just total grifters. Now, they like to accuse Tucker Carlson or me or us here,

but we invite these people on all the time, and they always play dirty games. Well, I will only come on digitally. Yeah, we saw what happened with Crowder, dude. You guys aren't serious. It's not a serious question. Also, it's literally called Timcast IRL because people don't,

that's the whole point of the show is that we don't do digital guests. And it just doesn't work. It doesn't. And they're like, well, you went on Ben Shapiro's show over the internet. And I was like,

we filmed it and then took the memory card and delivered it three hours away to a data uplink center because we didn't have internet and i'm like that was his show not mine like i've also gone on megan kelly from here right you know but that's different i also don't really go on other people's shows in the past few years either but we've invited so many of these people that won't do it. Vosh will do it. You know? He only wants it. Yep. One of the few will. Destiny.

I have tremendous respect for Destiny for coming on because he kind of just, I think he genuinely believes what he believes for sure. I just really disagree with, you know, his opinions on policy and stuff.

But he definitely stands by, you know, what he says. And I think he's, you know, he'll correct himself. He called out Kyle Rittenhouse properly, self-defense. He got banned over it.

That's true. What did he recently get banned for? I don't remember. Someone, Lauren Southern. They were working together. He was debating her or something, right? Yeah, Lauren posted about it. Twitch is dumb.

If you're on Twitch, man, I don't know. It's Amazon owns it. All right, Marcus Casey says, Tim, Army veteran here. Resigned as captain in 2018 when i saw the toxic leadership mirrored in attitude of lower enlisted us mid-tier leaders would never condone it but glad to be out seeing the pathetic culture now man that's really sad i know because we need people like you in the military that is really sad that it's come to this yeah Yeah. There was one, let me see, there's a super chat I'm trying to find.

Doug Hanson says, Ian, reservist combat engineer here. We enlist for lots of reasons. It isn't dumb. It's a pro versus con decision made person by person. Your elitism is close to DNC levels. I'm sorry,

I didn't mean to imply that it was dumb. I didn't say that either. It's not for everyone and my dad was clear with me that if I wanted to be creative and do a creative life and have a creative career

that I should not join. It had nothing to do with people being dumb. It's an important job. Defense is massively important. There's a super chat I'm looking for specifically. I can't find it.

Oh, well. Maybe it got deleted. It was specifically one person saying Tim never reads my super chats. And I'm like, I'm going to find that one. Oh, that's rough. Well, trying to find it but it's ironic it's gone maybe it's down here at the bottom and we're going all the way to the bottom let's go to the bottom see uh i don't know

maybe it's just gone we'll see if we can find it we're really looking all right we'll just we'll keep reading until we see we go oh here we go i see it we'll read it next by the, I wanted to mention because, Ian, I just want to clear the record because you mentioned the thing about Lauren Southern. I think this is one article I have pulled up on PC Gamer in which it says Destiny said in a Reddit post that he thinks the ban was imposed because of his stance that, quote, unquote, trans women shouldn't compete with cis women in women's athletics. That's what he believes. I'm not sure what Twitch said. We can have him back on. Actually, I wonder if we can pull him last minute for a conversation with someone from the Daily Wire or something like that.

Oh, that'd be fun, yeah. All right, Mad Panda says, I want TimCast to start doing a weekly prepping episode covering best firearms for home defense, how to store food, the fundamentals of growing food, raising chickens, or fowl for protein, the basics. I'm pretty sure we could actually do that because we've had Steve from Fortitude Ranch on a couple times.

Love Steve. And so I don't know if he's the guy to do it, but we could probably find someone who could go over all these basic things. It would be excellent advertising, obviously, for them and what they're setting up, and it would be a cool show. All right, here we go. Brian Grinch. I did not miss you.

He says, lost count of how many unread super chats I've had. I wish Tim was nicer to Ian, but I also wish Ian said smarter things. Tim, look into Tactical Response in Tennessee. Best gun school in the world. Building culture and saving lives. Cool beans. It's an act, you guys. I know it's confusing because it seems real, but we're on TV right now.

They're good pals. You say that, Ian. You've got to watch the after show if you want to see how it really gets. Nah, I mean, there's... Ian doesn't even like graphene. The only place that's him and I

are tight. All in acts. Yeah, Ian's got a... He's actually British. He's like, I like oil. I really like oil and the Federal Reserve's great.

Yep, yep. I'm a big fan of that. As soon as the show ends, he puts his hair back and he puts on a suit jacket and a tie and he's like, oof, I'm going to go call Ben Bernanke soon as the show ends, he puts his hair back and he puts on a suit jacket and a tie. And he's like, oof, I'm going to go call Ben Bernanke and tell him how much I loved his work.

He goes back to the Presbyterian church he's an elder at. He's a day trader, yeah. He's a day trader. It's an act insofar as it's censored, what we're doing right now. It's a TV show. Danny 066 says, Marjorie Taylor Greene did a Fox News interview from the timcast irl studio a few months back that's right it was january 5th and you could see the the timcast behind her it was great someone says ted nugent yes that's awesome he's so cool love to all right we'll grab one more here we go brian noel says got an email today from the u.s army they're offering up

to a fifty thousand dollar bonus for joining right now. You're on point. Decoy Voice was saying the same thing. They're like, we'll also give you another mom. Yeah. We want to make sure. Here's our signing board. We'll give you four moms. You get two moms. Just please, please enlist.

The Russians are coming. All right, everybody, if you haven't already, smash the like button. Do it for Jordan Peterson because he is the best. Smash the like button, man. Embody the archetypal hero. We accidentally put too much money in your bank account give me the iTunes gift cards and you can go to TimCast.com

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You can follow me at TimCast. Brian, you want to shout anything out? Absolutely. Two things. Good guests of the show. I know you guys are friends. Lily Tang Williams. I sent her on my show.

She's phenomenal. She's amazing. She's running for Congress in New Hampshire right now. She owes me a iTunes gift card. Well, she's looking for 10K right now in fundraising. Today's the last day. Get your gift card right now. I think you've got to make a cartoon. Huh right now! I think you gotta make a cartoon.

Huh? I think you gotta make a cartoon. I think I might have to do Jordan Peterson solicits. Number two... He's calling like

Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro trying to get gift cards. Because the IRS... No, no, actual grifter. No, no, no. The IRS calls Jordan Peterson and they're like, we need these iTunes gift cards.

He's like, oh no! Oh no, so he's calling and he's like, can you get me an iTunes gift card? You should make it that Jordan Peterson's an actual grifter.

And so he calls his fans and gets them to send him iTunes gift cards. We are libertarians.com. We have lots of, no, we have like 13 or so shows and then my show, briannicholshow.com. What we do is we focus on winning converts, not arguments. So we take, I take the approach of sales and marketing that I use in the business world

and I bring it to the world of politics. So you want to get better at talking about the ideas that we all talk about every single day, but I actually want to get people to say, hey, tell me more. I want to learn a little bit more and make this actually happen. BrianNicholsShow.com. Right on. Cool. Well, so if you have iTunes gift cards, send them to us. I was like, this is right on the line of the joke being dead.

I wasn't sure if I should go in on it. That's what I want to promote right now. So I have a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes. We upload a new cartoon every single week, sometimes twice a week. That's unheard of in this current era with the way that YouTube treats animation. So go check it out.

Support the few remaining animators, few remaining cartoonists on YouTube. Check it out. Freedom Tunes released a cartoon today which was absolutely hysterical. You'll all love it. It's about men competing in women's sports and like this very milquetoast response

we get from a lot of establishment conservatives about it. Go watch. Please, I love you. I love you too, Seamus. Thank you for telling everyone that you love them too. That was very nice of you. I wanted to point out, really emphasize what you said about Lily T williams she's running for governor uh no congress congress in new hampshire people can donate to her campaign yes today's the last day of the quarter fundraising she's 10k behind where

she wants to be so okay go and what is it what's her website do you know offhand lily for congress i believe she's an incredible human being she's amazing dude i love her she was on the podcast i was like all right this person's fantastic a lot of great guests on the podcast dragon brief lily tang williams.com and by the way if you and like i know folks have seen her in the program but like her story is incredible it is like oh my it's terrifying too like growing up in mao's china is it's such a world, which we need to hear that story today. It's a story we're not hearing. Agreed.

And there's something so refreshing about a person who has a spine. You know what I mean? And in fact, that woman really has a strong backbone. She does. I love her. I want to point out, too, a research study. This is from WebMD about the calcification of the pineal gland. A research study done in the 90s found high concentrations of fluoride in the

pineal glands of study participants. Fluoride from water and pesticides accumulate in the pineal gland more than in any other part of the body. After accumulation, they form crystals, creating a hard shell called calcification. So how can I get these particles, this fluoride, out of my pineal gland?

How to de-calcify the pineal gland? I would advise searching up on the internet and looking into it. I think breathwork can do it. Honestly, I don't. You're going to find some weird stuff. I don't know. I was doing a Wim Hof breathing method. He has beginner classes and stuff on the internet.

Is this a real thing? I was being facetious. Yeah, Wim Hof. Oh, yeah, you can decalcify. You can do things to help decalcify your pineal gland. Theoretically, I think. I've never actually looked at it under a microscope and seen it in real time or anything. But the breathing methods really, really helped.

I think also there are endogenous ways to produce DMT and things like that, breathing, stretching, food. Certain foods could probably bring it out of you. Thanks, guys. Have an amazing evening, and hopefully maybe see you later on the after show. Absolutely. Come join us on the after show. Go become members at timcast.com.

You guys may follow me on Twitter and minds.com at Sour Patch Lids. I also have Sour Patch Lids.me. And I'm going to throw it to Tim. I'm just, I'm trying to, Tim is, I'm making a. Researching. No, I'm making a maximum contribution to LilyTangLeads. Oh, heck yeah. Yes.

Do it with Tim. It's amazing. Go in on it. Yes. Go contribute to LilyTangLeads for sure. So you went to Walmart. Yeah. Tim's been to Walmart, if you know what I mean.

He got the cards. In all quotes. He got the cards. In all quotes. There you go. I just did a maximum contribution. What maximum? Can you say that out loud? It'll be in the public record. Dude, you got it, baby.

Yeah, it's a separate thing. Tim Pool, ladies and gentlemen. All right, everybody. Head over to TimCast.com. Become a member because we're going to see you all about 11 p.m. Thanks for hanging out. Bye, guys.