Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #506 - CREEPY Video Shows Mass Shrieking In China Over Starvation & Lockdown w/John Rich

Episode Date: April 12, 2022

Tim, Ian, Seamus of FreedomToons, and Lydia host country music star and entrepreneur John Rich to discuss the emerging videos of Chinese residents losing patience with the lockdowns in Shanghai and sc...reaming out their windows as a drone flies in telling them to fight their urge for freedom, the epidemiologist saying that we need more China-style lockdowns, Joe Biden's plans for Americans' guns, Democrats looming loss in November, and John's philosophy about standing up to the woke mob. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 We got a bunch of videos coming out of China. Shanghai, apparently. Several neighborhoods. People are filming many other people on their balconies screaming. And it's not just screaming. Some people are just screaming, but it's shrieking. It's wailing. There's a video of some woman screaming, throwing her food in some kind of lockdown center,
Starting point is 00:00:18 banging on a bed. There are horrifying videos coming out of China right now. And it's a combination of the extreme COVID lockdowns they're going through wow it's like a rerun of 2020 but also the food shortages we're hearing that uh there's serious food shortages in shanghai there's a photo someone posted where they opened their refrigerator pushed it onto their balcony it's completely empty now the scary thing about this is a lot of people in America are biased. There's an optimism bias. There's a normalcy bias.
Starting point is 00:00:47 It can't happen here. It can't. But you got to understand we're closer than people realize. Maybe it won't happen. I'm not telling you that the end is nigh and to scream or anything like that. But we're going to look at some of these videos. And it's pretty scary stuff. We got a bunch of other stories as well.
Starting point is 00:01:02 COVID lockdowns may be coming back to the U.S. I know our good friend Luke Rutkowski had said to us, it's not going to happen. They're going to ease up. I said it was going to happen. But then when we started seeing all the lockdowns get lifted, I said, I guess I was wrong. Philadelphia is reintroducing their mask mandates. We're getting warnings again from the CDC that COVID is spiking. So it's entirely possible we do get more of these mandates. Plus, you know, we're going to make fun of our good friend Joe Biden, who what did he say?
Starting point is 00:01:25 Is it tobacco companies wouldn't be able to sue prostitutes or something? Oh, yeah, yeah. Something along those lines. Or it could be prostitute. Yes. Thank you, Joe Biden. Great. All right. We got a lot to talk about. Joining us today as we are live in Nashville, we are at the Daily Wire studios, but, you know, we're actually in our mobile
Starting point is 00:01:42 command center 2.0. We've got John Rich. How's it going, man? Welcome to Nashville, guys. Would you like to introduce yourself? Yeah, John Rich. You might know me from a duo called Big and Rich, which I think we have one of the silliest songs of all time called Save a Horse Running.
Starting point is 00:01:56 If you've never heard it, go look it up. It'll probably put a smile on your face. I've been here a long time, written thousands of songs in this town, and I'm a son of a preacher, grew up in a trailer park in Texas, and I have a high school diploma.
Starting point is 00:02:10 Very cool. That is my pedigree. You can carry it around with you when you move back. Nothing fancier, but I'm a fan of you guys, fan of your show, and I was excited
Starting point is 00:02:17 when I saw you coming to town, so thanks for having me on the trailer. Glad to have you. I feel comfortable in trailers. Yeah, perfect. You look good in here. Yeah, thanks, man.
Starting point is 00:02:24 Yeah. We got Seamus. Yeah, thank you for coming by i'm seamus coglin i run a youtube channel called freedom tunes we make cartoons political satire i think you guys will enjoy my stuff if you haven't checked it out we're going to be releasing a video tomorrow and thursday tomorrow's is about joe biden it's what i'm very excited to show you guys i think you're going to love it go there subscribe check it out ian cross on over here and can you hear the rain? If not, that's cool. But if so, badass. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the show. It's my first time in Nashville. John, thanks for having me, man.
Starting point is 00:02:50 Yeah. Thanks for making me feel comfortable already. Yeah, everybody's coming to Nashville. Yeah. Yeah, I hear that. Yeah, I mean, when Daily Wire, I heard Daily Wire was coming to Nashville. I didn't know anybody really there at Daily Wire, but I just kind of blind called them and said, Hey, when you finally get to Nashville, let me throw you a Welcome to Nashville party at my house.
Starting point is 00:03:09 Oh, yeah. And they said, Well, we've got like 160 employees. I said, Well, the room I'm going to throw it in at my house holds 200. And it's got a bar and a stage, and it's looking at downtown Nashville. And we bring the band in and rock your socks off. They go, Let's do it. So I had Travis Tritt showed up and all these musicians showed up.
Starting point is 00:03:27 And I looked down and there's Ben and Candice jamming and banging their heads. Yes, Ben banging his head on the front as Travis Tritt was ripping some Lynyrd Skynyrd. I love it. Why didn't you throw a party for us? Yeah, what the heck? The Tadcast crew's coming out?
Starting point is 00:03:41 So I do want you guys to go hit my bar while you're here. I have a bar downtown. I'm giving you a hard time. On Broadway called Redneck Riviera. You are from West Virginia, so I know what that means. That's the work hard, play hard crowd. That's awesome, yeah. You know, you guys are young.
Starting point is 00:03:55 You can handle that. Oh, for sure. I am stoked to have John this evening. Try to stay clean. Try to, you know, give up drinking for Lent. I thought that for our first night in Nashville, we should bring in a musician. And John perfectly fit the bill. So I'm so excited to kind of talk about current events with a guy who has some of a music background.
Starting point is 00:04:09 Also, I mean, we talk a lot about building culture. I think it's great to see people in the entertainment industry who actually have positive values and aren't acquiescing to the nonsense that the left is telling everyone they have to submit to. So good for you. Also, your solo, that's what's so great about it. Your own producer. Was that fair to say at this point? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:27 I mean, you guys, we were talking earlier, who owns your content? I said, this guy. I own my songs. I own my recordings. I own all my stuff. And I'm very fortunate that I had a career that went well enough for long enough that I could get to the point where I could afford to do my own stuff. I didn't need the big companies anymore.
Starting point is 00:04:47 And so when it comes to artistic expression, I now have nobody telling me what I can say or when I can say it or how I put it out or anything else. So it's the ultimate artistic freedom, I think, to be where I'm at. Right on. But don't forget to also head over to TimCast.com. Become a member if you want to support our work directly. We're going to have a members-only show coming up around 11 p.m. Eastern for all of you who want to check that out. And you'll also be supporting our journalists as a member. So we got a big team that writes news
Starting point is 00:05:13 every single day. And we're grateful for their work. And we're grateful to all of you for supporting us as we endeavor. But don't forget, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends. And let's jump into this first story. And I find it fascinating that this article from Newsweek is, it's all bright, and the image they show just shows like a nice blue sky. When the reality of these videos is actually horrifying, they say, Shanghai residents scream from windows, get drone lockdown warnings. Check this out. I'm going to play this. I hope you guys are ready for some creepy sounds because here we go. Okay, how do I get this to actually play?
Starting point is 00:06:00 Well, apparently we can't. There we go. There it is. So there's a lot of people screaming. Here's the crazier video. Check this one out. This one is Shanghai residents go to their balconies to sing and protest lack of supplies. A drone appears saying,
Starting point is 00:06:30 please comply with COVID restrictions. Control your soul's desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing. Yo, that echo is so creepy. So I sent this out to a friend said you know who speaks mandarin and they said yeah yeah that's that's that's what the drone is telling people control your soul's desire for freedom welcome to the future my friends how do you guys feel about it uh pretty terrified pretty terrified no i mean look i i think it's sad i think what's really striking about this story isn't just what's it's happening in china i think it's sad. I think what's really striking about this story isn't just what's happening in China. I think it's the fact that even without saying it, there are some number of Americans who would have absolutely no problem with this being the policy in the United States.
Starting point is 00:07:14 We've clearly given up any drive to have freedom. And it is sad to say that it looks like there is a real chance the lockdowns could be coming back. So a couple of years ago, in August of 2020, these videos started going around showing people screaming. When I first saw this video on Twitter, I said somebody got hoaxed. Somebody took an old video and sent it and said, look what's going on in China, and it was a rerun. It was a replay of this person who didn't do their due diligence.
Starting point is 00:07:43 So I pulled up the old videos. They're different videos. So this is new, and we have multiple sources confirming this. Several news outlets reporting on it, and it appears to be true because there's more than just this one video. There's apparently dozens of videos. The creepiest that
Starting point is 00:08:00 I have not verified, but there have been reports of people filming taking their lives because there's no food. There's a video of people fighting in a supermarket. All the store shelves are empty. People have taken garbage bags and they've filled them with whatever food they can, and they start fighting each other in the stores. I always joke about this.
Starting point is 00:08:18 With the food shortages, you don't want to be in a Walmart parking lot fighting with Agnes over the last can of beans. And I mean it jokingly but watching these videos of people in china fighting over food in the supermarkets is scary stuff man i mean it's reducing people back to a primal state where you got to potentially kill somebody to eat i mean it's as primal as you can possibly get and you ask yourself well why why would you ever push people to that point and i think i think the answer unfortunately is that there's really not multiple answers to that in my opinion it is it is a purposeful way to crush
Starting point is 00:08:57 people to such a point you know it's the nobody can lift their hand up for help unless they're on the ground first. And if the government, if the people in power want to say, come on, grab my hand, we'll save you, you've got to put them on their knees before they're going to reach up. And that is the definition of putting them on their knees to maybe the ultimate way. And I think it's really a dangerous thing for Americans to say. That cannot possibly ever happen in America. Really?
Starting point is 00:09:26 Let somebody shut the lights off for three months and see what happens in America. Well, I remember what happened in New York during Sandy. And I'm just going to stress this point, man, we're in rerun season, guys, because these are the same conversations we had back in 2020 with these lockdowns. But I was in New York when Sandy hit and the power goes out for an extended period of time. And there's people standing outside of bodegas with clubs and bats. One person allowed in at a time. I walk in the store and the guy says, all of the perishables are spoiled.
Starting point is 00:09:51 Don't buy them. The canned stuff and the sodas are fine, but they're warm. There was no electricity. So it's like you can get what you get cash only, obviously. Here in North Korea, he basically, Kim Jong-un, rules by starvation. He starves the populace. They no strength literally no power because they don't have any energy or their lack of energy from lack of food they're crawling around on the ground looking for food people die on the side of this from yunmi park who escaped i've listened to her story
Starting point is 00:10:15 escaped from north korea escaped from that country escaped that's the way they look at it uh china it looks like this could be i mean do they even care about that does the ccp care about those people or do they want less of them this is they had the one child policy before they wanted less people that way well they only think communists are good at producing is human misery and food shortages and then they just sit on top and and revel in the what they have the food because i'm thinking like oh no it's it's kim jong-un's got plenty of food xi jinping's got plenty of food they're central planners their view of this is we don't care about the individual we care about
Starting point is 00:10:52 the machine and if that means you've got a billion people in china and they're thinking this is so expensive and difficult to maintain there's too many people here so i'm sure they don't care when they're looking at how can we streamline the machine that is the chinese communist party and this country the whatever they want to call it so you know the republic of china people's republic of china if we want to streamline this okay we can stand to get rid of excess and then bring specialists in they don't view the individuals that they starve out they don't care they don't think about it yes and on top of that it's's it's totally impossible to centrally plan a supply chain like that. You just can't know where resources should be allocated without people being able to engage in free trade.
Starting point is 00:11:33 One issue we saw during the beginning or at the beginning of the covid lockdowns is that even though food production was considered an essential service, which wasn't shut down, there were still food shortages in some areas. We were getting less meat produced because the packaging materials that people use to send their meat to market were considered non-essential so small details like this are just going to inevitably slip past politicians and the bureaucrats they appoint to centrally plan the economy so even if they're making a good faith effort to get people fed they're just not capable of doing so right well and there are quantifiable facts in this country in america that that would lead you to believe the only ending which is there are people that want to see food shortages happen in america a couple of examples one they've been paying farmers for
Starting point is 00:12:18 the past two or three years i'm from amarillo texas up in the grain belt right through the middle of there they're paying them to to literally mow down and bush hog their soybean crops, don't plant anything this year, leave it all alone. And they're like, they're paying me more money to cut up my soybeans than I would have made on my soybeans, so I'll cut up my soybeans. FDR did the same thing. What is that called, fallowing? Why are they doing that?
Starting point is 00:12:41 You guys don't know what I'm talking about. They're getting government checks to cut them up. But why would government be doing well so there's there's there's i could have the word wrong so guys correct me if if i'm getting this wrong i think it's can you look it up fallow yeah and the idea is something to do uh you know honestly i can't remember but well it blends the nutrients back down into the dirt right because if you grow something enough times you kill you take everything out of the dirt so they'll actually grow a crop and plow it back under. But we've been seeing some of this for political reasons.
Starting point is 00:13:09 Is that what it is? Yeah, fallow is usually cultivated land that is allowed to lie idle during the growth season. Right. Okay, so that's to re-nutrify the system. Well, who owns more farmland right now than any other individual? Bill Gates. Why is that? What does he know about farming? Yeah, and it's in the last few years he's been buying it up. And why did China start buying corn futures like crazy over the past two years?
Starting point is 00:13:27 And Chinese investors. In important context, as per Bill Gates, he may own the most as an individual, but it's not that much relative to the grand scheme of total available farmland. So a lot of people assume when they hear that it means like half the country is owned by Bill Gates. No, he owns a very tiny percentage of the total but he bought he owns more than any other individual which still you know raises the question why is this guy buying up farmland what's he what's he what's he what's he looking at in the
Starting point is 00:13:56 future exactly an investment what is it about food production that he thinks is going to become particularly lucrative very soon here the people need to eat it, I mean, people have always needed to eat food. That's a little tongue-in-cheek, that there's shortages, obviously. I think he knew, or at least he saw it ahead. Maybe he just saw it coming and he could read the cards, or maybe he knew. You know, he's very connected. I'm not playing conspiracy here. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:14:17 I think if you've got a bunch of people who, you know, Bill Gates has given speeches on population control, you know, Bill Gates has given speeches on population control, you know, different from reduction, but, you know, I wonder about his thoughts on that. A lot of people speculate, by all means. But control, where he talks about how we need to reduce the amount of people being produced. There's too many. So he's talked, there's that famous TED talk where he was like, we can reduce population growth by 10 or 15%.
Starting point is 00:14:44 Now, when you've got someone who's coming out and talking like that why would i trust that guy on health advice yeah right i'm sorry i'm not i'm not going to trust you on health advice yeah that's his long-term goal is to have fewer people right exactly i'm not saying he wants anybody to die i'm just saying like i'm not gonna take health advice from a guy who sells computers who talks about how there should be less people and not just my doctor not just health advice if if you're an individual who doesn't believe that human life is intrinsically valuable for its own sake i'm not taking your advice on anything there's no reason to listen right he's a man he's like a utilitarian mathematician i mean he's like a coding guy and he's not a he's not a
Starting point is 00:15:21 he wants to be a renaissance man and he's not i mean i don't think he is he really i don't know he's a salesman yeah i'm sure he's not. I mean, I don't think he is. Is he really? A coding guy in code? I don't know. He's a salesman. I'm sure he knows computers. He basically co-opted a bunch of code in the early 80s and then made it private and sold it. That's right. He didn't free the code.
Starting point is 00:15:33 He did not. No, he did the opposite. Exactly. He's the guy that took Richard Stallman and a friend's code and made Windows out of it, this proprietary stuff, and then packaged it. Good businessman. Basically. Good for him.
Starting point is 00:15:42 Poison the waterhole. And antiviral software, that was his thing you can only sell so many computers but you you can get a lot of viruses out of those computers so you know i want to get that software going you wonder over and over you you wonder why it is that so many computer viruses exist sometimes because you know nobody's going to my neighborhood and just randomly attacking people not not not every neighborhood but we we don't see and you know maybe it's not as easy to say these days but you don't see overt political terrorism in the united states to a great degree like you do in other parts of the world and when you see computers being so often attacked you have
Starting point is 00:16:21 to wonder what the motivation is and why. Why don't people in public engage to the same degree? Maybe it's as simple as they do. The same amount of people commit crimes as make viruses, but viruses can spread more and do more damage, and that's why we see it more often. But it is a lucrative business, so I certainly wonder
Starting point is 00:16:39 how many of these companies back in the day, these antivirus companies, were making the viruses. Well, were like Antifa window repair, like Ryan Lowe's comedy sketch, where the Antifa guys go around smashing windows and then come back the next day and say, window repair. It's not a new tactic. It's why do you buy a $70,000 pickup that has plastic parts inside the air conditioner, and when it goes out after 30,000 miles, it costs $1,800 for somebody to take the dashboard apart and fix the $5 plastic part. They know it's going to wear out. They know you're going to have to come in and get it fixed. And they keep
Starting point is 00:17:09 more and more money coming out of your pocket. That's the oldest trick in the book. Sell somebody something that looks great, but it has some kind of flaw that you know they're going to have to get it fixed. Oh, by the way, we're the only ones that can fix or avoid your warranty. That's a busted system. Yeah, absolutely. Planned obsolescence. Yeah. It's disordered. Yeah, yeah. And what we hear is or it voids your warranty that's a busted system yeah absolutely land obsolescence yeah and and
Starting point is 00:17:25 it's disordered yeah yeah and and what we hear is uh well that's capitalism so off what the left says and i look at this this like you know if you want to have if you want to believe that capitalism can be idealistic feel free to believe that it's not true you're gonna find people who sell snake oil yeah the slave trade was capitalist too right there's bad things so you know when i hear people say laissez-faire capitalism free markets are better and all that i'm like i don't i don't agree i agree a free a freer market is better but i don't think well that's the thing about the free market they say they call it a quote free market but that doesn't mean anything about what they say it's just a name it's like when they say here let's have the happy kids bill that congress
Starting point is 00:18:01 wants to pass about like punishing a bunch of kids bunch of kids you know it's uh free trade is not like anyone can do whatever they want it's heavily regulated only certain people can do it no no but i'm talking about a true laissez-faire free market where you know uh buyer beware covet mtor people are are there's a lot of good arguments i've heard about how competition will solve a lot of these issues but you also will get uh planned obsolescence the counter argument to that is well then the company that makes the better light bulb that lasts forever will sell more. But then my argument to that is, what if one person discovers the creation,
Starting point is 00:18:33 you know, invents the light bulb and then they're making it and other people haven't figured it out for 10 years so they create planned obsolescence. And what's to say that the other companies don't just say, well, why would I step on the toes of a guy who's figured out how to get people to buy light bulbs nonstop? Why wouldn't they just say, I'm going to do his same business
Starting point is 00:18:50 and just lie to customers and say it's better? Yeah. Oh, no, you go. Now, what do you think Big Pharma is? I mean, healthy patients don't make them any money and dead patients don't make them any money, but patients that we're keeping alive make a lot of money. Check out.
Starting point is 00:19:04 Let me show you this post here from BBC World Service. Check this out. him any money but patients that we're keeping alive make a lot of money check out so let me let me show you this post here from uh bbc world service check this out why china's zero covid policy and shanghai's strict lockdown is in everybody's interest according to epidemiologist dr eric ding oh yeah no thank you no remember what i said at the beginning of the show yeah what was that well just that there are a lot of people in america and in the west who are completely comfortable with these kind of tactics to eliminate COVID. Zero COVID is disturbing, man. You can't zero the flu.
Starting point is 00:19:29 I don't know why they're trying to zero COVID. It's here to stay, as far as I can tell. That's what we've been told. Yeah, well, then the question is, are they trying to zero COVID? Let me just say to the point, this is this BBC story. I guess it's like a podcast, so I'm not going to play their podcast. But this Dr. Eric Ding guy saying it's in everybody's interest i hope that's out of context i sincerely hope what he means is specifically for china and not for us because if the reference if the idea
Starting point is 00:19:55 is we here in the united states should be locked in our homes for a week and told we cannot leave for any reason and we will not be given food well americans i think would act quite a bit differently than the chinese you know you think yeah second amendment yeah people won't silently starve to death here there's no well hold on in the cities i think in the cities they would do as they're told i think out in the country people are going to be like depends on the neighborhood you're in they're going to be getting the hell out of their apartments and coming out to the country right see where all the people have the resources and that's where you're going to be getting the hell out of their apartments and coming out to the country to see where all the people have the resources and that's where you're going to have the problems yeah right there starving migrants well yeah but hungry desperate people leaving cities going out
Starting point is 00:20:34 to where there is resources so yeah what happens when that happens yeah like so this is something you want to think so this is this is the question then what we see in china is horrifying people screaming out their balconies the drone saying control your souls you know urge for freedom or whatever if people in big cities if it does come to the point where you know what did joe biden call it a global famine if the food shortages do get that bad if the food inflation is as bad as people think it is and it's bad if it's if it's as bad as people think it is are and it's bad, if it's as bad as people think it is, are these city people going to run out of the country? Because then the question becomes Second Amendment.
Starting point is 00:21:10 If I've got chickens, and I do, Chicken City, ChickenCityLive.com, and someone comes and they're hungry, you're not touching my animals because we have these animals, we cultivate livestock, so that we can survive.
Starting point is 00:21:26 If someone comes and thinks, I'm going to steal that, that well people out in the country are going to be like i got to defend my property my friends and my family you can't just let anybody come and steal your stuff what happens yeah do they do they load up do they do people start fighting well yeah well i just want to say this the sort of the the city urban liberal types the dumb yuppies they'll just sort of be sitting ducks they'll stay in their apartment when they're told to these aren't independent thinkers but when you're looking at the neighborhoods with high crime rates where people do uh you know own guns or at least the criminals own guns and there's more of a gang presence they will absolutely start moving out into more rural areas and search for food and
Starting point is 00:22:00 you'll see some ugliness if we ever get to a point where there is massive food inflation that's starving people. So let me ask real quick. Chicago, what city? Cuyahoga Falls. Where did you grow up, John? Amarillo, Texas. So what is that like? Is that big city, urban skyscrapers?
Starting point is 00:22:16 If it wasn't for I-40, there would be no Amarillo, Texas. Especially if you look at the state of Texas, go to the panhandle on the top. It's right in the dead center of that. So it's as flat as a board. It's Tornado Alley. It if you look at the state of Texas, go to the panhandle in the top. It's right in the dead center of that. Oh, wow. So it's as flat as a board. It's Tornado Alley. It's the grain belt. How many people?
Starting point is 00:22:32 It's a couple hundred thousand. Oh, it's not small. It's a decent sized town. But how big is Akron? Akron's big. Well, I was actually from Cuyahoga Falls, a suburb. There's only 50,000 people. Yeah. But you grew up in a major metro.
Starting point is 00:22:41 No, no. I never grew up in Akron. It was a suburb of a minor metro. How far away from Akron? 25 minutes. 25 minutes. And how many people? We never went.
Starting point is 00:22:48 I went to Akron like once every three weeks. This is called the Akron Metropolitan Area. Yeah. You don't got to nitpick me. I'm just making a point. It felt like a small town where I grew up. This town was so small they didn't even have a barber. You see?
Starting point is 00:22:59 That's how small. Well, I'm just asking because I'm curious your thoughts. Being from Texas, I wouldn't call it a small town or anything like that, but I'm curious what your thoughts are on just Second Amendment, people defending their property. Well, what you're talking about is not defending your property at that point. What you're talking about is defending your survival of your family and of yourself. It's no longer, hey, those chickens, if somebody stole those chickens
Starting point is 00:23:23 or took my chickens or whatever, we're not in a famine. It's not as big of a deal. But if I'm dependent on that or whatever else I have for my kids and my wife and my parents and whoever's around me to survive, then it's not a question. Because then if you take my stuff, we die. So it becomes the stakes go all the way to the top when you start talking about famine. Water is the other thing. I mean, you know, people forget that electricity is what makes the water move through the pipes into your apartment or into your house unless you've got a well. Electricity makes water move. Electricity makes natural gas move.
Starting point is 00:23:58 Electricity makes fuel come up from the gas stations. It's a lot more than just your light bulbs. It makes literally everything move. So to me, you know, the electric grid and some of these things we hear about, somebody is going to hack the electric grid or whatever, that is honestly, in my opinion, is the most kill shot you could ever put. You were talking about solar earlier. Like the best thing you could get or one of the best things is a solar generator. Yeah, I ran across some solar generators and I thought, oh, they probably suck.
Starting point is 00:24:24 You know, I'm like, ah. I thought, well, they probably suck. I'm like, ah. I thought, well, I'll buy the small one and see how it does. So I buy this little solar generator, a thousand watt generator, and it charged up pretty fast. I went, okay, let's see what it does. I said, I wonder how long it'll run a freezer because I got one of those big freezers and it's full of meat and this and that. I wonder how long it'd run a freezer. Plug that sucker in, it ran that freezer for 16 hours.
Starting point is 00:24:44 Wow. Which you don't even need to run a freezer. Plug that sucker in, it ran that freezer for 16 hours. Wow. Which you don't even need to run a freezer for 16 hours to keep everything frozen. Yeah, you're saying you do it eight and then leave it off for 16 and then eight and then leave it off. Yeah, just don't open it very often, you know. So there are ways to get around it, but people need to think about it right now. Yeah, so there's this funny hit piece on, you know, me and a bunch of other, you know, Trump, pro-Trump personalities from 2020. Like, where are they now? And they're like, Tim Pool is selling emergency food. And then I'm just like, well, it's kind of crazy that the mentality among the left
Starting point is 00:25:10 is that it's an insult to want to have emergency supplies. Because I'm just thinking like, if you think it's a point of shame, like I would be ashamed of telling people like, make sure you get some emergency supplies. I'm not telling people to
Starting point is 00:25:26 set up a bunker underground with 30 years worth of beans or anything. I'm being like, you get one of these buckets, you put it in your closet, you forget about it. I also think you should have a first aid kit. I think you should have some water. I think you should download a survival guide onto your phone. But man, when we have these conversations about people in big cities being like, oh, they're so dumb,
Starting point is 00:25:42 you bought emergency supplies. I'm like, I don't want to be anywhere near that city if it really does get bad and the funny thing is i'm not even prepper level the preppers are sitting on their bunkers you know smoking their cigars laughing at everybody else because they got nothing to worry about and really the question is if you were a prepper if you built a bunker if you bought a bunch of guns if you've got stored food you know how to start a fire and hunt animals are you stressed by this lifestyle is there something wrong with that lifestyle sure you might believe crazy things like the end is nigh if you're one of these caricatures yeah but really if you're if you're somebody who lives out in a rural area and you know how to
Starting point is 00:26:19 survive you take care of yourself i'm sure you're living your best life imagine a more suicidally stupid cultural attitude than it's dumb to prepare for things potentially going wrong right and let's laugh at the guy who's trying to build his ark before the rain starts well i mean you don't have to believe that the entire world is going to end you don't have you don't even have to believe there's going to be societal collapse but how are you going to sit here and tell me it's a worse world if people have emergency food stored but isn't that the story of the ark yeah they laughed at it they laughed at it now i'm not saying that we're going to be seeing anything of that magnitude right and of course you have to make that perfectly clear uh because they'll clip you and go look they're saying because people should have emergency food they think the world's going to flood also global warming is going to flood the world guys
Starting point is 00:27:01 take that very seriously um but that's a good one too yeah exactly exactly um and so it's it's absurd i mean even if there isn't some cataclysm is it totally unthinkable that there might be a situation where you need a couple weeks worth of food and that's actually a really good point like they're they mock the idea of emergency food yet they're the ones claiming the great flood is coming. Yeah. That the ocean's going to rise by 20 to 100 feet. Yeah. You know, and then Barack Obama buys beachfront property. It's so strange because they have paranoid fantasies that would put the most ardent prepper to shame about how we only have three months to reverse global warming or we're all going to die.
Starting point is 00:27:49 And they say this every three months or so. And then they turn around and go look at this guy's trying to sell emergency food what an idiot what would you need that for this is actually a really good point yeah i don't i don't see conservative emergencies of like there's you know uh survivor company or whatever and they're selling all this stuff i'm like be a rugged man and make sure you can survive in the wilderness i don't see any of these companies saying global warming will wipe us all out. Because certainly that's a path towards selling your product, right? You know what we should do? I'm going to do this. I'm going to create a liberal prepper company.
Starting point is 00:28:13 I'm going to market only to New York, Chicago, and L.A. and be like, global warming's coming, man. Are you going to survive the flood? Here's your inflatable. I'm going to sell plans for building an ark. Edible inflatable rafts. A wooden ark. Here's how you build it. So this goes way back.
Starting point is 00:28:27 Why do city people, and I know all city people aren't the same, but let's be cliche for a second. Why do big city people mock and make fun of country people? Why do they do that? I think the reason is because they look at the country people and they realize
Starting point is 00:28:44 that those country people can self-sustain. They can defend themselves. They can grow their own food. They're a tight-knit unit. They could probably get through a hell of a lot more than you could get through, and they're threatened by it. In a way, they're the alphas that are out in the country. They're the real alphas. The ones that are in the cities that are up in a skyscraper apartment complex, they're the ultimate betas because they're at the mercy of anything that comes their way that's not right.
Starting point is 00:29:09 But the ones out in the woods, they're going to be all right for a long time. I think they're threatened by it, and they don't understand it because nobody ever taught them how to actually take care of themselves. This is a recent thing in America that people don't know how to take care of themselves, don't know how to grow food, don't know how to defend themselves. This is a recent thing in America that people don't know how to take care of themselves, don't know how to grow food, don't know how to defend themselves. This is fairly recent. The way I think about it is how long ago was it where a father was armed everywhere he went, and if he was with his family, he was ready to fight for his survival, like a wild animal? You go back a couple hundred years, cities are substantially smaller. You look at the Revolutionary period, there was only only i think two million americans within the 13 colonies fighting
Starting point is 00:29:47 for independence two million across the entirety of the eastern seaboard so if you're a family man and you've got your your homestead or whatever there's wild animals everywhere so when you go out you're armed and you're probably wearing thicker leather of some sort you're not just walking around in short shorts and a t-shirt with sunglasses on because everything's safe and fine. We are, when you compare a couple hundred years ago to today, it is the epitome of good times make weak men. But over a several hundred year period. And now, you know, we talk about what would the founding fathers think if they came here today and saw the government. It's like, well, aside from the fact they'd probably freak out at what happened with the government.
Starting point is 00:30:26 They're going to look at people and be like you walk around in short shirts some people walk like women walk around in bikinis and they're gonna be like there's animals there's predators there's there's there's bandits robbers and you nobody cares about any threats or danger and we can brag and be like we've mostly done away with so much of this through advancement technology we're safe we have fat homeless people and they'd probably be like wow until they see any potential disaster disaster coming ahead until they see these people are completely unprepared for any kind of survival although maybe they'll just come back and eat big bowls of ice cream and be like this is great yeah we should hope not and i wouldn't think so but it is very bizarre how we've been sold this idea that the best possible way to live is to move as
Starting point is 00:31:13 far away from your family as you can to live in a small box next to a bunch of other small boxes full of people to not have a yard to not have space and to not have children to just perpetually consume for the rest of your life without ever orienting any of that consumption towards preparing for whatever might go wrong i think it's pre-internet mentality stupid it's because when i was in the city i would when i thought of people that lived in the country i thought of a lack of ambition that was what i associated with it and because but now that's i don't know it's just the way i grew up northeast ohio kind of small town my aunts and uncles were hillbilly we all went out to the country on the farm hung out you know apparently it feels nothing the way I grew up. Northeast Ohio, kind of small town. My aunts and uncles were hillbilly. We all went out to the country on the farm, hung out.
Starting point is 00:31:46 Apparently it feels nothing better than squishing your barefoot through cow patties. Come up through your toes, they told me. But now with the internet age... They also told you to stick your finger in a cow's mouth. I love it. I still haven't done it yet. Alex Jones confirmed that it does actually feel good. But then once the
Starting point is 00:32:00 internet appeared, it changed everything. You can run a business from the middle of a farm in Arkansas. And also, I don't know. I think just realism has started to set in for me. You know, cities are super dangerous. The centralized power grid, it's like we were rolling the dice every day, and I hope I don't roll a one. Because if I do and the power goes out, and if the power goes out for six weeks,
Starting point is 00:32:19 I have no backup plan. And I hope the roads aren't jammed so I can get out of the city. This is the crazy thing about emergency supplies is I just tell people sometimes it rains. You know, we saw this big, huge flood in, I think it was in Houston, I'm not sure, where people were trapped in their houses. You never know what you're going to need. Did you have an emergency raft?
Starting point is 00:32:37 How many of you had inflatable emergency rafts? Now, if I told you, buy an emergency raft, you'd be like, what? Why? Crazy. Sometimes there are floods. Do you live in a floodplain? Have you checked? Maybe you don you don't but if you do you might want to have an inflatable raft you can and if you don't need it your neighbor might right your neighbor might need it this is the strange irony in cities everyone is packed on top of each other and yet there's virtually
Starting point is 00:32:57 no community and this is the question you have to ask yourself if inflation gets really bad if as biden promised there are going to be food shortages, do you want to have neighbors who know who you are and care about you? Or do you want to be another face, another name, someone that they have no responsibility to once they're hungry? I want to give a shout out to our good friend Joe Biden over here because he's got this tweet that just went up today. He said, we need Congress to pass universal background checks. That's insane because they already exist. Ban assault weapons and high
Starting point is 00:33:25 capacity magazines assault weapon doesn't mean anything and he wants to ban 100 round magazines or i guess that would be a drum wow wow and eliminate gun manufacturers immunity from liability these are that's insane these are insane statements let me just let me just be totally real first when you go buy a gun you got even in a constitutional carry state you've got the nix system nics now what is it national instant uh criminal check system or something like that you uh or check system you walk in you say i want to buy the gun you got to fill out your form they say give us a minute and then sometimes they'll be like you're delayed have a nice day you can't buy the gun because universal background checks already exist you see what he's trying to say is
Starting point is 00:34:02 if you live in the mountains of west virginia and you want to sell a gun to your neighbor who also lives in the mountains of West Virginia, he wants you to be forced to drive to a local gun store, FFL, federally licensed, and do the transfer that way. Personally, I think you're usually better off doing that, but I understand why you want to give your neighbor a weapon because you live in the middle of nowhere
Starting point is 00:34:22 and there's wild animals, or you just need to defend yourself and your property and there's no police. It makes sense. That's what he's saying. Banning assault weapons is meaningless because what they're talking about is like it's a pistol grip versus a rifle grip and it's just meaningless. High capacity magazines. When you buy an AR, how many rounds the magazine typically hold? 30.
Starting point is 00:34:40 30 rounds. That's standard. But they're saying high capacity, anything more than 10. But when you literally buy the weapon, it's a 30 round magazine. When you go on the shelf, all 30. You want a 10 round magazine? I guess you can get one if you want to make one, but this is what they're trying to do.
Starting point is 00:34:56 They're trying to reduce the standard capacity. Eliminate gun manufacturers immunity from liability? Now that's just insane. Making a weapon and then you get sued for what someone else does okay all right let's eliminate all car manufacturers liability yeah i was just gonna say or knife manufacturers right someone gets stabbed with your product you go to court buddy you can't come after pfizer yeah that's it that's the liability you can go after colt
Starting point is 00:35:19 you go after remington but you can't go after pfizer or moderna pharmaceutical we should not in my opinion, have liability. I think that if someone takes a vaccine from a company and gets really sick, that there's a court that'll protect these things is ridiculous. These companies, like, they feel like they really... I understand they shouldn't have liability. I think that they should be able to be sued. No, I don't think they should be immune from damaging people with their medicines
Starting point is 00:35:39 or with their drugs or whatever you want to call them. Well, I agree. There's challenges in that there's going to be side effects for basically everything and you know you might be allergic to something and not know or you might be the the one in whatever many if so like let's say you get like some kind of uh swelling treatment and they're like there's a rare side effect it gives you rash you get a rash yeah i think top-down medicine production isn't the way of the future a lot of it's like we're going to start 3D printing medicine that's tailor-made for your chemistry, your body chemistry.
Starting point is 00:36:07 And so this whole top-down medicine where they make one drug and give it to everyone is obviously not working because a lot of people aren't doing well with it. So I have a story about Nancy Pelosi asking me about guns in a backyard in Beverly Hills. Really? I'd like to hear it. Absolutely. I know, right? Even that, your attention. Let's hear it.
Starting point is 00:36:23 So I'm back there. I got invited to sing at Tony Bennett's 85th birthday party. And I'm in the backyard of Ted Sarandos, the founder of Netflix. I'm in his backyard. There's John Travolta, Queen Latifah and I are bringing out the birthday cake. I mean, you can't make this up. I'm looking around this backyard going, I'm not supposed to be here. So I'm just going to have some fun.
Starting point is 00:36:45 You know, like, no, one of these things is not like the other. So I'm back there and I'm hanging out and I see Nancy Pelosi over there starts making a beeline towards me. And I'll be honest, it was frightening. It was frightening. She's coming and she walks right up to me. She doesn't say
Starting point is 00:37:01 hello. She goes, you seem like a reasonable person. I guess meaning for a guy in a cowboy hat and a handlebar mustache, because otherwise you wouldn't be at this backyard, right? You must be a reasonable. You seem like a reasonable person. I said, well, I appreciate that, Madam Speaker. She goes, can I ask you a question about guns?
Starting point is 00:37:19 Uh-oh. I said, absolutely. Oh, yeah. So Vince Vaughn is standing there, and Vince leans in. Travolta's got his arms crossed. He's leaning in. Vince is great, yeah. So Vince Vaughn is standing there and Vince leans in. Travolta's got his arms crossed. He's leaning in. Everybody's leaning in. And Pelosi goes, now I'm not a hunter, but I'm pretty sure that if I shot that first bullet at whatever I was hunting and I didn't hit it, it would run away.
Starting point is 00:37:41 I go, that's correct. She goes, so why does anybody need more than seven rounds is what she said. Why does anybody need more than seven rounds in their gun? And I held up my cell phone. I said, well, Madam Speaker, right now, back in Nashville, Tennessee, I have a wife and I got a three-year-old son and a five-year-old son. And we live right in the middle of town. I said, now, if she had called my phone right now and said, John, I hear footsteps coming up the stairs. I said, Madam Speaker, would you advise me to tell my wife to grab the one with seven rounds or the one with 30 rounds? And her eyes kind of got big, and she said, is that the way you look at that?
Starting point is 00:38:17 I said, yes, ma'am. She goes, well, it was nice to meet you, and then just walked off. But for a brief moment, this light bulb pops. First of all, they know that anyway. That's why they all have armed guards. Yeah. But I was able to, dead in her eye one time, say it's to protect our families. Of course, we don't need 30 rounds to hunt a deer, and there's nothing in the Second Amendment about hunting.
Starting point is 00:38:37 It's all about defense. Good for you. How many rounds is that? They're armed guards, right? What kind of guns are typically used? Yes, I was just going to ask. They're going to have 17 plus ones. They're going to have 17 plus 1s. They're going to have 21 plus 1s.
Starting point is 00:38:48 They're going to have high capacity. They're going to have multiple high capacity clips on their belts because if something breaks out, they're in a gun fight. Oh, and I think when it comes to the speaker, she's probably got a couple guys with short-barreled rifles. No doubt about it. No doubt about it. So you can confront them, and I would always advise anybody, if you're ever talking to your neighbor's friends about guns and clips and whatever,
Starting point is 00:39:10 is that you have the right to defend your family how you see fit. You don't get to tell me how I get to defend my family. Those are my kids. That is my wife. God put me in charge of them, in charge of their defense. And if something happens to them that's on me and i'd rather deal with your bad opinion of my high capacity gun than deal with a dead child or a dead family we already got a couple people saying clips yeah magazines
Starting point is 00:39:38 it's that mentality that allowed us to build this country the way we did if we were all getting picked off at home and the government had total control and they weren't afraid of the population, we never would have had this beautiful liberal society that we organized. Sorry to use the word liberal. I'm bringing it back to what it really means, which is liberty. Sure. No, I mean, look, the founders make it perfectly clear in the founding documents of this country that owning a gun is a right that is available to all people it is not a privilege for the ultra wealthy who can have formed our guard armed guards and whatever paperwork these
Starting point is 00:40:10 bureaucrats would try to put you through in order to be able to defend yourself but now now now john would you agree with me when i say that the second amendment guarantees our right to have nuclear weapons and biological weapons oh no i didn't see that in there no i do i see it in there do you yeah so i got in trouble because i i pointed that out and they they take this clip of me where they cut my full statement and say tim pool calls for people to have nuclear and biologic weapons what i said was the constitution says the right to keep and bear arms it doesn't specify what right and back then as a privateer as a private citizen you could have any weapon the government could have. Correct. That hasn't changed.
Starting point is 00:40:46 They wanted equal force. Right. Has that changed? Well, we now cannot get our hands on weapons that are equal force. But the Second Amendment didn't change. They just started passing laws without any legitimate questions as to what the limits
Starting point is 00:41:02 should have actually been. And this is what Joe Biden is doing now. Now, I would not want people to have nuclear weapons or biological weapons. That's a scary thought, some lunatic guy with a bioweapon, because of how much destruction could be wrought. But there's a very serious question about when do we draw that line and say, regardless of the constitutional amendments, we've decided you can't have things. You'd have to amend
Starting point is 00:41:25 the constitution to change that that's a good argument well i think and i think we could easily amend it to be like yeah we've decided nuclear weapons and bioweapons like we're not going to include in the second amendment that's cool right yeah let's take that off the table well i think there's also another serious question to ask which is why did biden just decide recently that this was going to be his next moral crusade the country's falling apart we have runaway inflation he's acknowledged food shortages are coming and he's going to sit his next moral crusade. The country's falling apart. We have runaway inflation. He's acknowledged food shortages are coming. And he's going to sit here and tell us that his goal is to end gun violence? It's because he thinks there's going to be gun violence if there's famine.
Starting point is 00:41:53 He wants to try and stop it by taking the guns away. So there's criminal gangs running around creating mafia? Like, what the heck? I'll push back a little bit. I mean, it may just be he needs a distraction. It could be. And so, you know, in response to Biden, Jeffrey Miller said,er said oh look a new emotionally vivid issue to distract us from inflation and your catastrophic monetary policy yep so yeah they've been blaming inflation on putin i don't know and i thought it
Starting point is 00:42:16 was true for a long time that i found out was not true and i wonder how many gun owners think this is true uh i'm friends with a guy that's been in the ATF 29 years. And we were hanging out on a little vacation together, and he was kind of bumming around. And it was another one of these gun bills we're trying to get passed. And I said, man, you know, they ever come door to door wanting to take people's guns? I said, the ATF, right?
Starting point is 00:42:38 He goes, John, people don't know what guns you own. The government doesn't know what guns you own. I said, what are you talking about? He said, there is no gun registry for the United States of America. He said, here's how a crime works. I go to a crime scene. There's a Colt pistol laying in the street. We have to get the Colt pistol.
Starting point is 00:42:57 We have to call Colt, the manufacturer, find out who they sold the gun to, what store they originally sold the gun to. It could be a 30-year-old weapon. If the store still exists and if they still have records going back that far, we can find out who purchased the gun originally. Then we have to go find that person, and if that person no longer owns the gun, we have to see if they have any records of who they sold it to, and on and on and on. He said we would have to do that with literally every single weapon in the United States
Starting point is 00:43:24 to know who's got what guns. So this is just like a fear tactic? They want people to think that they know who has what gun? They don't know. They do not know. Now, in Illinois, California, New York, they have state gun registries in those states. And he said those are the only three where they actually know what guns you own in the past 15, 20 years. California, New York, and Illinois.
Starting point is 00:43:43 That's why the gun crime is so low. I was going to say, there's something interesting about. That's why the gun crime is so low. I was going to say, there's something interesting about those states as it pertains to their gun laws. They also have a whole lot of gun crime. Baltimore has got serious gun crime as well. It's not just those states. But when I hear Illinois, I'm like, they call it Chirac because of how many gun deaths there are. There was a year where there were more gun deaths in Chicago than the entirety of Iraq. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:06 And their laws don't seem to do anything to stop that. Granted, uh, I think it was in two thousands. There was a court ruling that I think Supreme court ruling. So now you can actually get a gun in Illinois, though. It's damn near impossible.
Starting point is 00:44:18 Yeah. I just found that to be, isn't that a myth though? Yeah. Didn't you think that was probably sure. They just, they'll show up and go, Mr.
Starting point is 00:44:29 Rich, we see that you own X, Y, Z.yz he goes we have no idea what you want yeah and the movies they're like we got the gun we got the serial number we're gonna run it through the registry and they're like oh we got there's a registry now when i see tweets like that from biden he's talking about universal background checks if he said universal registry that's a different animal that's a different thing if you ever see the word registry but the background check is probably the registry yeah exactly the plan that's that's probably the way they would word it in a bill would actually turn into a registry i find that we're on the verge of 3d printed guns like the 21st century is going to be all about crafting your own weaponry and stuff i verge of yeah we're in it it has begun the ghost gun is a real product
Starting point is 00:45:04 we had but the ghost gun is a real product we had but the ghost gun is you just making your weapon control pew we've had on the show posting all these videos on twitter of the guns they just make yeah how effective are those at this point i remember seeing some early prototypes and they were pretty lousy really yep yeah the early ones they had to pull the hammer with a string they pulled a trigger with a string from like eight feet back so it didn't explode in their hand because they didn't know. They're plastic. They fall apart. They fire one bullet at a time, but the new ones are... The first one, you remember what it was called?
Starting point is 00:45:30 Yeah, the Liberator. The little white plastic handgun that was good for like five shots or something. No, one. One shot. But now, if you go on Twitter and you follow Control-Q, CTRL, yeah. Yeah, CTRL, PEW,
Starting point is 00:45:44 and you look at all the things they're posting yo they have unique designs and these things work it's just it's it's no longer like the old days they've figured this stuff out it's like a whack-a-mole i can see a totalitarian regime would use that as a game of whack-a-mole to just write more and more laws of how to go after more and more guns like dude at some point like you're stepping on your own foot you know we're working together here there's real problems out there and it comes down to do you have enough water and do you have enough food and you have enough space to move around decentralization has done wonders with the internet one of the things that's pushing back on the the establishment
Starting point is 00:46:19 cult woke nonsense is that people who live in rural areas now have the ability to, uh, to build community. It used to be that the message, the narrative would come top down from big cities with big city intellectuals. And that was it. Community was formed around their broadcast tower. But now because of the internet, people can build their own communities, which is a lot, which is allowing more conservatives to, you know, coalesce around certain personalities, certain media outlets. You have the same thing with 3D printing. They can't stop it. And I think when you look at what's going on now with the culture war,
Starting point is 00:46:51 I'm fairly optimistic, especially when you look at a lot of the data. We have one story. Actually, let me pull up the story here and jump straight to this story we have here and give you guys some optimism. This is from slow boring which is matthew iglesias's sub stack yeah he's the he's one of the founders of vox.com vox lefty here's what he tweeted he said suppose democrats get 48 of the vote in 2022 and then rebound to 50 in 2024 pretty normal but under today's maps that means a GOP trifecta with 60 or 61 senators.
Starting point is 00:47:26 Yo, I read this today and I was just, it's shocking. I mean, looking right now at the current data based on all the aggregate polls, and assuming we don't see changes from now until the election, it looks like Republicans not only will win Congress, but that if this track remains steady by 2024 they'll have 60 or 61 seats in the senate which means they're going to steamroll through basically whatever they want it's not absolutely perfect because the republican party is kind of yeah maybe if people go and vote in their primaries this will have a bigger impact but looking at this
Starting point is 00:48:00 wow can you have an election if there's a famine or if they lock things down again so let me just throw it to this uh this this year from timcast real quick to go in uh at the context philadelphia to reinstate mask mandate for indoor public places now i don't want to be as bold as to say that the lockdowns are going to come back hard because that's what i said last year at the end of last year i said i think they're going to bring all the lockdowns back why they got an election to win and they're losing right now and what can they do well they need chaos right so i think there's a political play however luke ridkowski if we are changed said no no they're going to ease it up they've lost this one it's bad for them it's hurting them they're gonna have to ease it up
Starting point is 00:48:39 and then in january into february they started easing up the restrictions started ending a lot of these mandates i said you know what i I was wrong. They really are ending these things. And now people are shouting out Alex Jones. What he said was, they're going to ease the restrictions, get everybody to calm down, and then they're going to slam them back down on us. saying, aha, the rat hope experiment we talked about. You know about that one? No. So they put a rat in a vat full of water, several rats, and let them swim. And they couldn't grip on anything. After 15 minutes, the rats give up and they drown. Then they take more rats, put them in the vat full of water, the cylinder, let them swim. Right before they give up, they pick them up and put them down and dry them off. Let them rest, catch their breath, then pick them back up and put them down and dry them off let them rest catch their breath then pick them back up and put them back in the water the rats then swim for 60 hours because they had hope that if they just didn't give up they would make it so based on what alex said you know based on
Starting point is 00:49:38 what luke said what i said i'm like maybe what's going to happen is these restrictions being lifted in the calm down period are so that people can have a sense of hope that it will eventually come to an end but maybe this next lockdown is the lockdown that just goes on for a long time that's the definition of a psyop yeah that's the definition of a psyop you're playing a psyop on that rat we're just the rats you know but i think americans have woken up to that and i think it is to such a degree that it's now not Republicans or Democrats. It's just Americans, period, waking up to it going, these people are playing us in a psyop right now. Listen, anybody that identifies, I've raised a lot of money over the years for Republicans. I've campaigned with Republicans. two or three years, I have witnessed, heard, and learned things about so many Republicans
Starting point is 00:50:26 that I had supported that blew my mind how much they were betraying the people that they represent. And I've gone out and told people that are hardcore Republicans or whatever, I go, if you're an American, you better not identify with either party, just be an American. Vote for what you think's best for your family that's it don't rely on these people anymore because they if i had to guess a percentage i'm going to say 85 of all politicians are not worth the paper that they signed when they got that office did you see the uh governor of utah using his pronouns and saying latinx no i didn't say people are like, LaTinks?
Starting point is 00:51:06 This is a Republican? And he's just all on board. I would not be surprised if people don't go out and vote in their primaries. And we end up with just more neocon, establishment, uniparty trash. Give it a year or two and Mitch McConnell will be like,
Starting point is 00:51:21 I'm Mitch McConnell, he, him, and I'm here to give a statement about taxes, and mitch mcconnell will be like i'm mitch mcconnell he him and i'm here to give a statement about taxes and that's it unless people actually vote in the primaries and get rid of these these establishment party players you know if we don't let them force you to put a mask on your kid we won't be able to cut taxes two percent for three years right right and then you'll have more money for your kids while they're in school being groomed i basically stopped voting political parties when i was like 15 or 16. It didn't make any sense anymore. I was like, why don't I just pick the best person?
Starting point is 00:51:50 So that's what I do now. Well, how do you know who's a good person anymore? I mean, here's a question. Who can you believe anymore? Andrew Yang. That was wrong. Oh, no. I mean, he wasn't lying.
Starting point is 00:51:59 He goes on CNN. He gets a CNN contract after everything. Oh, maybe he got bought out. I like the idea of the Ford Party. I donated to them. That's fine. But that guy lost a substantial amount of trust when he went establishment. And then he walked away a little bit after, but no.
Starting point is 00:52:13 He was talking about economics. He was talking about real problems. It felt like he was talking about real problems. Sometimes people like Tulsi Gabbard gets to the heart of the issue. I mean, she's a little bit too hawkish on war for me. You mean anti-war? No, actually. I think she's a little too...
Starting point is 00:52:24 I mean, she's in the military. She's the least bad in the Democratic Party on the military issue, but I agree with you. She's not perfect. She's the one who keeps complaining
Starting point is 00:52:32 about Americans entering war. Like, that's her whole shtick is stopping the Americans. She was also, like, afraid of terrorists. And I'm like, I don't want a freak in the White House
Starting point is 00:52:42 that's talking about terrorism anymore. I'm tired of that. Yeah. I mean, Ron Paul talked about Mark and Reprisal against terror. And I'm like, I don't want a freak in the White House that's talking about terrorism anymore. I'm tired of that. Yeah. That's psyop. I mean, Ron Paul talked about Mark and Reprisal against terror. Ron Paul was pretty cool. Just, so I think, I think. There are real, there are acts of real terror, but, you know, the whole 9-11 terrorism thing that got shoved down my throat for 20 years, I'm fed up with.
Starting point is 00:52:58 So someone saying, like Ron Paul, you know, we should go after the terrorists and not have these regime change wars i don't think is a pro-war position to me it's ron paul or rand paul because i think ron paul's position was we just need to pull out entirely and we shouldn't even have foreign bases ron paul uh yes but he also talked about how instead of invading iraq and afghanistan we could have issued letters of mark and reprisal okay so we could specifically target rogue groups instead of declaring war and you know we didn't do that trying to build a democracy in afghanistan all that ridiculous but but you know anyway to to to back to the story i think even you know the democrat view on this is apocalyptic and so i'm wondering if one they'll use lockdowns politically or they just lie down and republicans
Starting point is 00:53:43 come in and sweep things up yeah maybe they'll lock down and Republicans come in and sweep things up. Yeah, maybe they'll lock down and then lift the lockdowns shortly before the election cycle begins, like six months or something. I am so done with these stupid lockdowns. I'm so done with it. Well, take a look at this. We all thought we were, by the way. Take a look at this story.
Starting point is 00:53:59 Daily Mail. Proof that blue states did fail their people during the pandemic. Harsh lockdowns caused huge death rates ruined kids education and destroyed business bombshell research finally shows with new york new jersey california and illinois all receiving an f minus grade are you telling me that um jb pritzker of illinois's brilliant plan to give three hundred thousand dollars of federal covid relief money to black lives Matter didn't make the virus go away? I'm shocked.
Starting point is 00:54:26 No, because we learned that the Black Lives Matter protests reduced the spread of COVID. Exactly. So it made sense. So if he gives that money to BLM, he's specifically giving it to groups that cannot spread COVID. I don't know. I guess the world's upside down. None of it makes sense to me. This is where we end up, man.
Starting point is 00:54:44 Maybe. I don't know. What do you think, John? Well, I mean, you know, if they lock everybody down and the red states push back and the exerciser 10th Amendment go, yeah, we're not locking down. We're going to have the election as planned. And all the blue states are locked down and nobody can get out and go vote. Maybe that actually plays to the other side.
Starting point is 00:54:59 It's interesting, the boomerang effect and some somewhat of the whiplash coming back. How do you lock everybody down now, knowing how much they hate it and still win an election also with people seeing the effects of the lockdown this is part of why it was so important for them to try to scapegoat putin and russia and this is part of why they had to say the inflation and the food shortages were his fault it was the result of a foreign adversary not the fact that they printed trillions of dollars not the fact that they shut the economy down for two years because anyone who's really paying attention knows that this is only going to get a whole lot worse if we lock down well so is there actually evidence that they're saying they're thinking about locking or shutting down because i've seen masks i've
Starting point is 00:55:35 seen masks i didn't if there was i just what was the first thing they did in 2020 15 days to slow the spread 15 days of what of like shutting shutting down, I don't know, businesses or something, working from home, going home, shutting down. Did they do masks before they shut everything down? They went back and forth on it. Yeah. Right? First it was, no, you don't need them, and then you did need them. But like you're saying, I think the masks were first. The masks,
Starting point is 00:55:58 I understand, but the shutting down, man, that's the poison. We cannot do that to our economy. No, it's shut down first. I know because I was on spring break with my kids when all that happened. I'm sitting there in Floribama. If you've never been there, go to Floribama, guys. Oh, cool. The edge of Florida, Alabama.
Starting point is 00:56:14 Oh, it's the Redneck Riviera. That's the heart of it right there. But we were down there, and I'm watching the news, and then we get the email like three or four days into spring break that the schools are shut down. You're not going back to school. And all that started to happen. All the interviews I was doing, concerts I was doing,
Starting point is 00:56:29 they closed the door on you right out of the gate. And then the mask was when they started letting you move around, but you got to have a mask or two masks or whatever it was. Because, I mean, the concert scene is everybody just went bang. It was just over. Well, if you're rich, you don't got to worry about any of it. You don't want to wear a mask on a plane? You have to worry about it in a different way.
Starting point is 00:56:48 Like, is the money that I have going to be valuable if the economy gets annihilated as a rich person? That's the thought process. They diversify their assets in ways that middle class people don't. Yeah, Bill Gates bought a bunch of farmland. Rich people buy land. And so, yeah, they don't have to worry about it. You don't have to worry about where their food comes from.
Starting point is 00:57:03 You might own land on paper, but if someone, an armed militia, goes there and sits on it, then you're going to have to take an armed militia to get them out of there, and that's going to cost you probably more than the land is worth. So it's also about other assets and other resources. But just having a substantial amount of resources, you command
Starting point is 00:57:17 access and power. Depending on how you transfer it, what you trade, a diversified portfolio or whatever you want to call it, wealth asset management. For these people buying land, yeah, in the event that we do go more riotous because of lack of food, the property you own is meaningless. You got a piece of paper that says your name on it. Some dude kicks the door and says it's mine now. What are you going to do about it?
Starting point is 00:57:38 Look how people were rioting before we had any food shortages just because the media told them they should be upset. Yeah, I think they were doing that because they didn't like being locked down. The George Floyd riots, that thing, it was like it was an excuse to get out of the house and party. Burning Man got canceled, so let's do it on the street in New York. Didn't they just cancel E3? Oh, I don't know. Yeah, I think E3 got canceled, and I'm wondering for what reason, but I think we might see lockdowns come again.
Starting point is 00:58:00 Because I don't know how else Democrats can even try to win. But don't you think that the lockdowns would be bad for them politically how would that help them win i don't understand yeah yeah i think i think i think that would be bad but then i think they would get universal mail-in voting and then in a completely unrelated story i think then the democrats will win interesting yeah completely unrelated i think you know there'll be lockdowns you have weird coincidences some universal mail in voting and then what happens is just totally as an aside other story I think Democrats win
Starting point is 00:58:30 interesting just in general in life yeah E3 was cancelled do you know why it was cancelled I'm wondering if it's COVID or if it's just something else it says it was years in the making E3 is that big video game conference and they announced it was cancelled so I see that and i'm like whoa what just happened but
Starting point is 00:58:47 you know i haven't i haven't been hyper focused on that because the world's falling apart you know how it goes do you do you think do you think strong states that are that are led by conservatives would push back now that they know what they've known and you got stories like that about what a fail an f minus yeah that they would go no we know it didn't work we're not doing it but then what civil war the red states tell jo tell Joe Biden to shove off. We're not listening. Let's say the Democrats somehow managed to pull the wind despite all of the evidence suggesting they'll lose. And then with Senate and the House and the presidency, they start, you know, they go for universal nationwide restrictions or something like that.
Starting point is 00:59:22 Yeah, the red states might say no, but then what? then what well i mean you've still got 10th amendment right you know the living laboratories of america it's one of my favorite phrases where each state can do it their own way i mean you've seen de sanis do it over and over it's flexing his muscles down there going now we're not doing that and he just doesn't do it and the government goes well then we're not going to send you any money he goes i don't need any money we have a surplus of 18 billion, I don't need any money. We have a surplus of $18 billion. They don't need your money. This is what we saw in the first lockdown. When Joe Biden was coming out and giving these speeches,
Starting point is 00:59:50 it was obvious he wasn't talking to red states. He would say to America, we've got to do these things. And I'm like, the red states are doing none of those things. So he's only addressing blue states at this point. I don't know what ends up happening in terms of this country eroding and falling apart I certainly think we're there I was thinking about this I think we were driving somewhere recently
Starting point is 01:00:10 we were out here in Nashville, we were driving around and I think I was saying something to you Ian about how the left can be told that Joe Biden sniffs little girls and posts videos on it and they'll say I don't care, I want you to hurt so they'll vote for Joe Biden despite the fact that he's got a garbage career.
Starting point is 01:00:27 He's been, the press has written about his corruption over and over and over again. They'll say, I don't care. I want you to lose. It's like, you're voting for a guy who's this low. I don't care. Trump's gross too. And it's like. It's like that kid that flips the table when he's losing a game of Monopoly.
Starting point is 01:00:40 I once saw a kid playing Pokemon at a tournament hit another kid with a razor scooter wow that's that's what it's like that's what it's like you hear the rain yeah that rain got intense uh e3 was canceled in in the physical form because of covid according to them and then they canceled the actual event all around and they said they're prepping for 2023 they're gonna do it again so they shut down e3 because of covid before any lockdowns or masks or what why it's no it's it's complicated question with a lengthy answer and i'm like oh god do i really want to use this it's a long article means you're about to get light impact of covid it's still talking about covid halfway down the page it's probably covid so fear covid you know so john yes you're you're this uh you know you mentioned
Starting point is 01:01:21 you told us a story about being at this party with Nancy Pelosi. I'm just wondering, you're here, you're speaking out, you seem rather fearless on these issues, but are there ramifications to being in mainstream U.S. entertainment and challenging the establishment, smack talking them? As we say in the country, does a bear shit in the woods, right? That's a big West Virginia saying as well. Yeah. Yeah. You know, what happened with me was, is I was becoming that guy that would yell at the TV. But then I would go out at the industry events, a red carpet, an interview, whatever, and understand that the majority of people running our industry were absolutely hated people that thought like I think. And so I would just shut my mouth, bite your tongue, don't say it in here, and just go back home and yell at the TV again.
Starting point is 01:02:09 And at some point I felt like I was sacrificing my integrity, sacrificing my freedom of speech. Why do we have these things? Because hundreds of thousands of Americans have died and bled and sacrificed and did whatever it took to keep those freedoms alive. That's why the lines are coming into the country and there's no lines going out because we have those freedoms. And I'm going to sit here and not say what's on my mind and speak what I know to be true, because I'm afraid somebody is not going to give me an award or
Starting point is 01:02:37 somebody is not going to play my song at the radio station or whatever. Yeah, that's the penalty. But which one is bigger? The founding fathers are walking out there going, hey, give me liberty or give me death. That was not a bumper sticker. That was not a hashtag. That's what it took to get this country up and running. And if they ever found those guys that signed the Declaration of Independence, they ever found them, they're going to hang them from a tree, burn their houses, kill their families and erase them from the memory of the earth. But now we're worried about somebody throwing us off of Twitter or somebody calling us a bad name, or in my case, the music industry not giving me everything that I want to get out of it. At some point, make a call.
Starting point is 01:03:16 Decide what's actually important to you. Is your freedom of speech more valuable to you than the approval of the music industry? That's where I got to. Good times. Got two little boys growing up up and they're watching me. And what if I'm dealing with this, what are they going to be looking at in about 15 or 20 years? So I'm the only example they have.
Starting point is 01:03:33 What did Pop do when he ran into that when the government did this or tech did that or businesses did this? What did dad do? Did he just yell at the TV and then go play ball? Or did he actually say what he felt? Was he the same guy all the time, 24-7? Did he take his hits? Hell yeah, and he got scars and lost money
Starting point is 01:03:50 and lost popularity with a lot of people. But what did he gain? Self-respect, integrity, and he sleeps okay at night. Not like Dad. Good for you. That's why I do it like that. So here's my question, though. Tremendous respect for all of that.
Starting point is 01:04:03 Do you fear they'll try to come after your kids, or you might put your kids at harm? They better fear ever coming after my kids. I love it. Because I'll let you come after me all you want to. You leave my family alone. We will die for our families. We'll die.
Starting point is 01:04:24 If you said, John, you you were them snap your fingers and take me out of here i mean right now we as my daddy would say who's a quasi pentecostal style prison preacher that i would charge hell wearing my gasoline suit with my water pistol blazing if you ever jack with my family and that's what they don't understand in this country, these liberals and people running our country, that there is a fierce love and dedication and responsibility that we have as parents that you step over that line and you start messing with my kids.
Starting point is 01:04:55 There is no boundaries anymore between us. You want full contact support? You want to raise the stakes on what you're doing to our kids and how you're, in my opinion, assaulting them in all these ways? You're going to assault my kids. Why don't you try to assault me one time? I'm going to step in front of these little kids. Now you're going to deal with a grown ass man and a grown ass woman who got nothing to lose and don't care what you have
Starting point is 01:05:16 to think about it. This is where America is going. Whatever look I have in my eye right now, because I know because I know what I'm saying, I'm feeling it down in my guts. That is what tens of millions, if not more Americans my eye right now, because I know what I'm saying, I'm feeling it down in my guts, that is what tens of millions, if not more Americans are feeling right now, regardless of their politics, regardless of who they voted for, or what they think about Trump or Biden, you mess with our kids,
Starting point is 01:05:34 you've got a world of hurt coming your way this fall. They're messing with kids. Good for you, man. You've got these teachers now bragging on social media about how they want to talk about their sex lives with children. And it's the weirdest thing to me that they're trying to normalize the idea that five, six, seven, and eight-year-olds are talking to their teachers about their teachers' marriages
Starting point is 01:05:56 or relationships. That never happened for me when I was in those grades, because Florida is where the big conversation started, the parental rights and education bill. When I was in those grades. Because Florida is where the big conversation started. The parental rights and education bill. When I was five. I remember the names of all my teachers. Actually I don't remember the name of my second grade teacher. I'm sure some of my family does. But I remember these teachers. I had no idea who they were married to.
Starting point is 01:06:15 I had no idea what they were doing. I was five. I was eight. I was nine. When I was 12 or 13. I learned about my teacher got married. That's all I learned. She was out one day. A substitute came in.
Starting point is 01:06:27 Oh, she got married. Oh. They didn't come into the classroom and say, I want to tell you all about my relationship with my husband and our honeymoon. Never happened. Yet now this is what they're saying. Oh, but it's totally normal. I need to explain to these kids what it means. Well, you don't. I mean, first of all, the parents can. And this can be handled during normal sex ed if the parents think
Starting point is 01:06:44 that's what the school should be doing. But they're actually arguing for the right to have conversations with your kids about sexual issues in secret telling those kids don't tell your parents so this is happening are you homeschooling no do you want my kid no because i found a school that won't put up with it and so that's where my kids go but let's just take that conversation out of the classroom, shall we? Let's go to a public park and your kids are playing over by the monkey bars. And a couple of adults walk up and start showing them those books with those pictures and having that conversation with them. What would happen to those adults in that public park? They would be arrested.
Starting point is 01:07:20 They would be arrested and hauled off to jail so if you look under the american bar association when it goes into uh the word grooming which is the big word right now which is accurate in my opinion it says and seventh circuit court of appeals actually actually has this perfect please go look it up that um it is not a defense to say that you are putting explicit pornographic or obscene material in front of a child under the guise of education it is it has already been stated it has already been solidified you do not get to hide behind the veil of education and that shields you from something that outside the school would be considered a felony. This doesn't work that way. So this game they're playing, the only way you short-circuit that is at some point,
Starting point is 01:08:11 parents are going to have enough of it, and they're going to go, you know what, did you show this to my kid? All right, turn around, put your hands behind your back. Let's take it to the workplace. I think it was Robbie Starbuck who tweeted this. If you talked to another coworker about what these teachers are talking about, you would be sued for sexual harassment that's absolutely right down right i mean because these books some of them have shown relatively graphic images i wouldn't like descriptive instructional pictorials pictorials
Starting point is 01:08:39 if you went to the workplace and take a look at this book they'd be like okay i'm going to the boss the boss is going to be like i'm letting you go why are you showing these images but in a school to children they're arguing it's okay under the guise of education what i'm telling you is that's already been established there's people have already tried to use that defense in the highest courts in our land and they were not upheld well people need to go after these teachers and file suits file charges whatever they have to do. Absolutely. On top of that, another thing that people are failing to acknowledge here is that one of the core elements of grooming is trying to separate the child from their parents.
Starting point is 01:09:13 So by definition, having secret conversations with children, especially secret conversations about sexuality, is grooming. And I think everything you just said a moment ago was put very beautifully. And so many people in this country feel that way and i think the left is going to start to realize that they've really woken a sleep and sleeping giant because they're completely incapable of understanding other perspectives all they know and understand is obedience to the party line and loyalty to their sixth set of principles and what their ideological allies tell them to believe.
Starting point is 01:09:47 I think many of them don't have close familial relationships, which is part of why statistically they actually are more likely to experience mental health issues. And so they can't comprehend the bonds that exist between good and healthy families. They have no idea what's coming their way if they continue to push on this. Well, I think if you go back in time, we were talking about several hundred years ago where the dad's armed, maybe he's got a single shot, you know, flintlock or something like that, or a sword
Starting point is 01:10:14 or a knife or something, because you never know, you gotta defend yourself, your friends, your family. People without families were much less likely to survive. That's just humans are social beings, our families and our tribes are how we survive and that's why we have such a strong social desire to be a part of the culture and the tribe because if you weren't you didn't you didn't survive we now have an expanding society
Starting point is 01:10:38 of family-less individuals they have some friends they hang out they're in their 30s they're not relationships they they're they're single they live in their 30s they're not relationships they they're they they're single they live in apartments i i gotta say i don't think people these people would survive the actual wilderness they're they're a product of the good times we've created the security and the safety that allows this individual ultra individualist you know i guess lifestyle probably also a bunch of drug addicts on adderall prozac who knows legalized pharmaceuticals so they're like distorted and aren't able to understand love with their mother you know it comes from like well i didn't get along with her to begin with i'm like come on guys i'm just
Starting point is 01:11:11 assuming a type of person but there's a lot of legalized drugs out there that people are on well i mean also statistically we know that children that come from two parent homes fare better than children who don't they have absolutely destroyed and gutted the family. It's been a very long-standing project on the left because they can't have competing power structures. And they know that good, tightly knit families that genuinely love and care for each other and have a strong sense of loyalty and parents who will legitimately protect their children solve the problems that the state claims it needs to be in a position to solve, though it never solves them well. It usually ends up creating more problems than it's addressing.
Starting point is 01:11:48 But the point is, they're not going to stop, right? Like they see your connection to your family as a threat. Like it is a threat to their way of life. And what they view is what's necessary for their survival. They're not going to stop. Like we have to stop them is the point. They're not going to stop themselves. Let me give you guys a white pill i don't know that that's that's the optimism right the for sure the one that means things are not so bad black pill is getting off the white all right let me let me let me tell you guys what i think is coming i think the future is going to be more conservative than uh this country's been in maybe like 70 or 80 years for one simple reason it has nothing to do with people waking up to politics it has nothing to do with young people being based it has everything to do with the fact that
Starting point is 01:12:32 the left does not have children and if they do get pregnant they are substantially more likely to abort their children kill their baby yeah so back in uh the early 2000s conservatives were having about two kids for every two parents so they were it was it was stable liberals were having 1.7 kids so typically a family would have one kid maybe two now we see in the polls that gen z is a tad bit more conservative than millennials but millennials and Gen Z are still relatively progressive compared to Gen Xers and boomers. What happens in 20 years from today? The birth rates collapsed, but conservatives still have a lot of kids. Maybe less on average than they did before, but way more than liberals.
Starting point is 01:13:18 If liberals, if the left can't indoctrinate children in schools, cease to exist within maybe 40 years exactly it's necessary for their survival you know what happened when the roman immigration when the roman empire failed and all the slaves were basically the when when the roman slave system ended a bunch of those people went out to the farms and started working for the farmers and became their workers uh it's more nuanced than that and i would highly recommend um looking into this because if this happened if this really if the economy fails and all these people come out of the cities these liberal weirdos that don't have families or whatever they're going to be looking for work and they're going to be basically put down but even put on the farm to get to work and they're going to be
Starting point is 01:13:54 overseen and then they're going to be you pay them whatever you want at that point do you think they're full enough to use on a farm well no no no i gotta disagree bro like there's a lot of people in cities who could come and do basic farm work but i tell this story all the time let me ask you john uh you remember occupy wall street i imagine sure during occupy wall street a bunch of land was granted farmland was granted to occupy wall street and so a large a bunch of these these these young people were like i want to get off the grid i want to be responsible for myself sustainable and, and not be a part of the carbon dioxide, corporate fossil fuel economy. So they went to this farm to be totally off the grid sustainable. How long do you think my friend made it?
Starting point is 01:14:37 I would say halfway through his first callus, wherever that came from. Halfway through my fingers, sir. Halfway through his first blister two weeks that's about that's about that's your first blister so i asked my friend two weeks later you're back and they said it sucked i woke up at 6 a.m and i worked until 11 p.m yeah i never had time to do anything it was just work work work if you want to eat you got to work then you had breakfast and you worked again then you had lunch then you worked again you had dinner and i was like that's what survival sounds like right yeah yeah you know these people
Starting point is 01:15:07 yeah but when the owner of the house has rifles and you're in a fenced-in area and there's nowhere to get out and you chose to be there because you need food like i'm saying we might be on track to see another serfdom rise in this country look you're you're you're not going to be able to take entitled gaunt millennials i'm not saying everybody's going to make it either that's a good point then because some there's a lot of people in the cities of course they're capable you know i i don't i don't think they're as skilled or as learned as people in the countryside when it comes to basic country things like the things i've learned just you know moving out of the cities over the past several years it's like oh wow i didn't know that we got chives growing in the backyard everywhere. You just walk up,
Starting point is 01:15:46 you pick them, you rinse them off, you eat them. I'm like, I don't even know what you can or can't eat. But the people out here are like, oh, here's what you can eat, here's what you can't eat. They can just tell me right away. So if one day the roads just were gone, and it was like, you're only going to get food which you can find, they'd make it, I'd be in serious trouble.
Starting point is 01:16:02 So people in cities, there's a lot of smart people in cities, but they're not going to know the first thing about how you grow crops. You know what we did last year? Remember those tomatoes we planted? We planted all the tomatoes at once. And then what happened? You get a lot of tomatoes and then you run out of tomatoes. And we had like 80 tomatoes that couldn't eat?
Starting point is 01:16:18 And they get rotten. Do you know how to can? No. Oh, you've got to learn how to can, man. We do preserve. You've got to learn how to can. This is going to be our party while we're out here. You're you got to learn how to can, man. We do preserve. Can, man. No, you got to learn how to can. This is going to be our party while we're out here. You're just going to catch us. Canning party. I'm going to take you guys out to Johnsonville and teach you how to do something. But we make preserves. That was fun. I got mulberry tree. Well, it's similar. It's very similar to that. You just put tomatoes in it next time. There you go. Or potatoes or whatever. But I wanted to see your white pill and advance you one pill. Because there's something I think I've had a realization about,
Starting point is 01:16:47 about what the future looks like when it comes to the conservative population. All these kids who were forced to wear masks eight hours a day, day after day after day after day, and hated every second of it. And they saw their mother lose her job because she wouldn't take the vaccination. And they saw their daddy lose his job because he wouldn't do X, Y, Z that the government man was telling them to do and watch their lives get destroyed and watch their own person be violated over and over and over, day after day, year after year now.
Starting point is 01:17:22 I believe that they grow up and when they become a voting age, they remember what that was and they go, they're not doing that to my kids. I'm not voting for anybody that I ever think would have a shred of a chance of ever pressing down on us that hard again. I will never vote for them. It doesn't matter how liberal they might be or whatever. They go, yeah, I'm not voting for that because this has been a horrific experience i mean when i got two little boys you see them little boys putting masks on their faces see that see it going in and out and in and out you go to a basketball game and they're making kids wear masks running up and down a basketball court child abuse is what that is and that jacks with their brains i told my, you're not wearing a mask to school anymore. All that the school said we had to, I said, I'm going to send the school a letter. So you look up online
Starting point is 01:18:10 and you go, is a mask considered a, uh, is it considered an experimental medical device? Yes, it is. Per the FDA, a mask is considered an experimental medical device when it comes to stopping the contraction of a virus. It is on their website. Go look it up. Okay, let's extrapolate on that. Then do you have the permission, do you have the authority to coerce me into using an experimental medical device? No, you don't. Not if I don't give you permission to.
Starting point is 01:18:39 Well, then I don't give you permission to. Well, you have to do it anyway or we're going to punish you. Oh, you know what that's in violation of? Nuremberg Code? I think it is. Go read the exact language on that. You are not allowed to force people to do something against their will, anything medically. And if they don't do it,
Starting point is 01:18:56 punish them for it. And so I sent a little letter and spelled all that out and put the links on there and highlighted what it said right off the government websites. And guess what I got five minutes later an opt-out form oh interesting an opt-out form they didn't want to have that fight well here's well they don't want to have any of these here's the issue i see i think there's a there's a rudimentary um view on masks i think masks work it's simple if you're going to cough or spit on somebody the the mask will stop you from doing it. But then there's questions about forcing everybody,
Starting point is 01:19:28 even people who aren't sick, to be wearing one. You know, we used to see all the time, people in Asian countries, if you get a cold, they put a mask on just so that they don't cough or spit on somebody. That's simple. I mean, that's basic logic. But then they come in and they say five-year-olds who may or may not be sick, we don't care, just they have to do it. And then there's serious questions about, okay, okay well what are you doing to the the development of their mind if they can't see mouths move if they can't see human expression while they're communicating at one of the most formative years of their lives when these kids aren't even sick or not only that but they're substantially less likely to get sick i can certainly understand if a parent wants to
Starting point is 01:20:03 make a choice for their kids, that should be on the parents, not the government. And this is why I just say the simple solution really is getting your kids out of these schools, getting them in pods. But it sounds like you found a solution, which was an opt-out form that they... Well, so I think it goes back to the point that these people are generally bullies. Whether it's talking about masking your kid up, or it's talking about grooming them in a school room or whatever, they are not willing to go the full distance of what that fight actually looks like if we've got the backbone to take it there. They don't want to go that far.
Starting point is 01:20:33 They don't want to go in a courtroom and have a, let's go back to the school that's being taught in the schools, hold up the book in front of a jury, read the state and federal statutes as to what it says about exposing kids to obscene material then show the jury the pictures read the jury the book and ask the jury are they guilty of violating these statutes they're going to go of course okay judge what's the penalty for violating the statute you're in big trouble why is that why isn't it happening though because people are too afraid to stand up again and that is the problem with getting too blackmailed about this stuff your average person goes around thinking i know that what they're forcing on me is nonsense but i can't make a difference but like you said and like you were able to show in
Starting point is 01:21:10 the situation with your kids in the school if you stand up to these people it's not always going to work out for you 100 of the time but you're never going to know unless you try and the problem is nobody's trying yeah it sounds like the evidence that you accrued that you sent to them would be valuable to put public so that other people could grab the evidence and send it to their... Dude, I have a high school diploma, okay? I'm a self-taught, I read myself. I can think on my own. And I look at this and I go, that's got to be illegal to do that.
Starting point is 01:21:36 Surely that's illegal. Well, let's just look. And here you go. And you can find volumes of information as to, yes, your gut instinct was correct. Your common sense proves to be true again. Here's all the ways that that's illegal and here's all the case law to back it up and here's what happens when somebody breaks that. And you present that to the other side, they do not want to have that fight out in the open.
Starting point is 01:21:56 I really appreciate what you just said a moment ago. I have a high school diploma. There are so many people who are so overeducated and then they can't even think to do the simplest possible thing when it comes to protecting their own children. Yeah yeah it's an indoctrination camp that's a big part of why public schooling and the college industry they want you to sit down wait till you're called on i mean tim dropped out you got out of high school basically and then what was your you went to college you went to an art college yeah i know can you believe it what were you did you do
Starting point is 01:22:19 college lydia no you were like homeschooled too for a long time yeah so i actually started to take classes that were the um equivalent of prereqs for nursing because I really liked biology and that kind of thing. So there was no indoctrination there. They're just like, here's what's up. This is what's really happening. I was wildly indoctrinated. I had to break that mold every day. I'm just ready to say yes and follow the leader, but it's not what I want. So I have to fight against it. It's funny because I went to Catholic school from kindergarten until the end of fifth grade. And I wouldn't even call any of that indoctrinating. Like they didn't even do a good job teaching me about Christianity.
Starting point is 01:22:51 Of course not. It was Catholic school. They teach you how to learn, which is sit, raise your hand, don't speak unless you're called on. Which, first of all, is like, are you kidding? That's a stomp on creativity. You need to let kids express themselves and be their best self. And there's other ways. You know, wait and you can can only go out you can't leave the classroom unless you're allowed to go for it maybe maybe that's the part of the drift right so even in a catholic school
Starting point is 01:23:13 we see them now many of these churches putting up blm flags yeah exactly stuff so when i'm a kid we had religion class you would take out your religion book at 9am or whatever and they wouldn't really actually teach us about the complex ideas around spirituality, faith and the universe, it was kind of just like read the paragraph I'll be reading my book I'll be collecting my salary at the end of the week
Starting point is 01:23:38 imagine if catholic schools were as interested in teaching the students about catholicism as public schools are at teaching kids to become transgender I say this to people as a catholic If someone has a deep love for Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin in my faith, you can't assume that a Catholic school is going to be good for your kid. In most instances, it won't be. I'm a big advocate of homeschooling, probably because I've never done it. Being facetious, I'm sure it's easy for someone who doesn't have kids, but also, I know I'm a huge advocate of homeschooling i think these institutions are are terrible there are some really good institutions
Starting point is 01:24:08 you can still find but for the most part you you can't say oh well it's like it's a catholic school therefore they're going to teach my kids good things absolutely not so i i grew up in chicago with a fairly liberal family but my mom still wanted to homeschool me and my siblings and then once i went up i went to catholic school uh my siblings. And then once I went to Catholic school, kindergarten to fifth grade, then public school, sixth to eighth. Spent a couple months freshman year of high school. My parents pulled me out saying it was bad.
Starting point is 01:24:33 Went back to homeschooling. We did a correspondence thing where my dad would come in every day. And then this is where my parents were getting divorced, but my dad would come in. Like, what did you read about? What did you learn? Ask me questions.
Starting point is 01:24:42 Let's talk about it. We ended up, me and my brother sped through the entirety of high school because we could go as fast as we wanted and i look at the school system as just corrupt for a lot of reasons outside of what they're doing now with the the creepy conversations with with these children and they're like we have to talk about our relationships and our significant others and i'm like to five-year-olds that sounds sounds really weird. But it's also just really bad. They don't do a good job of actually teaching kids. I believe
Starting point is 01:25:10 that every human has potential. That if you take a kid from anywhere, and you give them access to knowledge, and you teach them, and you show them here's how you hammer a nail, here's how you build a bicycle, they're going to learn that. I still remember the cheat code from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 on Nintendo. B-A-B-a up down b-a left right b-a start why do i remember that
Starting point is 01:25:28 because that game was all 36 i played that game for like a few months of my life and i'll never forget the code for level select in that game it's crazy i got oh seven three seven three five nine six three is the password to get to mike tyson and mike tyson you see now what if as kids what if as kids instead of learning that stuff we were taught something like language for instance yeah multiple languages how about what happens when you go to a school and you got a kid who's ready to learn and absorb information and they just waste their time they talk about nonsense and politics these kids are going to grow up without critical thinking skills and not just waste their time but groom them yeah like well let's say let's say we had public schools which functioned effectively and were really teaching kids the things they needed
Starting point is 01:26:07 to be taught the idea that you're going to sit a kid in a desk for six hours a day and end up having any kind of productive outcome from that is insane yeah they make the smart kids wait like you i used to stare at the clock and just wait to be done because i was like what are you doing um i want to talk about grooming a little bit because it doesn't have to be firstly i don't think it has to be sexual you can groom someone to be a psychopath to do other bad things. And it doesn't have to be non-parents. I think parents can groom their kids to do evil things if they're bad people. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:26:31 Here's the fascinating thing is there's this big, like, the big push now from the left is they're saying parents are grooming kids into heterosexuality by talking about, like, marriage and things like that. I can tell that. to heterosexuality by talking about like marriage and things like that and i was like okay let me let me just make this clear uh the parental rights and education bill prevents a teacher from talking to a five-year-old about traditional marriage i mean the bill does that and then you can't encourage the kid to keep it a secret so no that's that's a ridiculous argument it's not happening the reality is people just like hey i don't want you talking to my kids about adult content adult adult issues also for you to decide one thing that we just have to be able to acknowledge is if you think that's even remotely true your brain just doesn't work properly telling a child that they can someday grow up and get
Starting point is 01:27:16 married and have a family is absolutely not equivalent to trying to encourage them to engage in sexually depraved behaviors when they're older or render themselves in experimental hormones but i'm not even saying i'm not even going that far i'm taking their position on this where it's like a guy says my kids might ask me you know my students might ask me about having a boyfriend and it's like yeah that's not banned you can literally be like yes it's a photo of my boyfriend now if you want to understand but you're a boy too well maybe you should talk to your parents and and and they can help you understand the these more adult concepts and the kid will say okay and that's it.
Starting point is 01:27:46 Instead, they're like, let me tell you about all of it. That's not, if the kid's confused or doesn't understand because they're not exposed to it, you just simply say, maybe it's something your parents should talk to you about. I'm not here to teach you about that stuff, but, you know. It's the guys of education. That's all this is.
Starting point is 01:28:02 They are hiding behind the guys and the excuse of and the shield of they think education if you take the same exact situation same exact scenario same exact people and you put them out in a public park or you put them at a mall or you put them over at somebody's house or whatever and the same exact thing went down you would have the right to go after those people i feel like the the politicians are wrecking the economy as under the guise of politics right yeah they're just a bunch of people that have done a really horrible horrible thing to us in the last couple years i think i think nancy pelosi joe biden mitch mcconnell uh they're just they're just they should have retired a long time they're passively letting the federal reserve
Starting point is 01:28:39 annihilate our economy it's not no no i get that but what i'm saying in addition to this other stuff i mean look at what age do you retire from baseball you guys 38 40 41 if there's one thing we've learned to the left age is just a number yeah it's true yeah do you guys remember when i think it was i think it was snapchat had a sticker that said a love has no age disgusting yeah yeah and they got polls people were like what does that mean i do believe there's solar age is how many times your body's been around the sun. But then there's your genetic age, and some people age faster and slower, depending on how much damage you're doing to your telomeres. My point is just simply, in any other industry, all of these people would have retired.
Starting point is 01:29:18 Not every single one, but like Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Joe Biden, come on. You know, it's about time time they should have retired 20 30 years why do they have power i don't understand i mean it's the system it's the system we built that our ancestors built that we can vote a popularity contest to put someone in forever it's it's the apathy of the people we we are too comfortable everything is too good so people just stopped paying attention the left stopped paying attention the democrats stopped paying attention and then the woke nonsense came in and they just adopted it said fine we'll use it the right stopped paying attention and they let the cultural institutions get taken over by woke left insanity and here we
Starting point is 01:29:53 are that now that's a tidal wave that's coming though is on the local level i can tell you right here in middle tennessee every single county in middle tennessee has parents and grandparents who are running for school board positions county commissioners you name it all the way up and down the tickets and they these guys are running for the hills they don't know what to do because the parents are so fired up that the schools won't listen to them uh and are just running roughshod over their rights as parents they're just going well i'm a stay-at-home mom but i'm running for the school board my name My name's Sally. Vote for me. And they're like, I'll vote for you, Sally. No problem. I'm telling you, this is happening all over the U.S. They're going to
Starting point is 01:30:32 turn these little local situations upside down, and I don't think they'll ever get their power back because we have been asleep. We've been asleep a long time. We just assume that, you know, they've got to be good people because they're on the school board they care about kids right that that seems like an easy thing to do yeah but that's not true they had another agenda as to why they wanted to be on the school board and now we're all learning that and so regular old people are standing up and flipping it around i'd love to be on my kids school board absolutely when your kids like you and they see you at school it improves their mood and then they become more popular and well-liked
Starting point is 01:31:03 at school that's your dad? That's awesome, man. You know what works for TimCasts, for our company? I encourage people, and within reason, to bring their kids into work when they can. I want their kids to see what work looks like. I want them to interact with adults. I think you should treat kids like adults, within reason, obviously. You can cuss at an adult. You can get in an argument with them. You can show them certain things you wouldn't show a kid but you
Starting point is 01:31:27 talk to them on on on matters age relevant as you if you were as if they were adults so if they say hey what is this if ian said you know how do i how do i fix the mic i'll be like okay take the xlr plug it that's the cable right there i would i wouldn't say to the kid okay this is a microphone a microphone no no microphone. No, no. You just talk to them like normal so they can learn. I like it when the kids can come in. First of all, it's fun. We've got skeeball. We've got a skate park. And I want them to be like, this is exciting. I want kids to look up to success and say, if I work hard and I believe in myself, I can accomplish cool stuff too. I can be respected. I can have fun.
Starting point is 01:32:07 And I want them to see real working adults interact with each other. Here's trade. Here's money being exchanged. Here's I need this job done. Here's how you help chickens. Here's how you clean the floors. So that's what I really like. I think that's infinitely more valuable than what schools do.
Starting point is 01:32:20 My family owned a business when I was a kid. And that's what I saw. I saw adults talking about politics. They talked to me. They didn't care that I was a kid. And they'd be like, I just, I got to learn from real people. Real, you know. I can tell you some of the stuff I tell my boys is you want to play baseball? I want to play baseball. I want to be in the MLB. Ten years old. I go, all right. He goes, and there's this bat. It's called a Marucci bat. And that's like the best bat you could possibly get. He's not on the team yet. I said, I'll tell you what.
Starting point is 01:32:49 I'll get you that Marucci bat. You go pick out the best glove that you want, and that's it. I can't get you on the team, and I cannot hit a home run for you, and I cannot catch a fly ball for you. You've got to go out in the backyard and take 100 swings a day on that thing, off that tee. You've got to get on the team. If you don't make the team, that'll be terrible.
Starting point is 01:33:08 You know, I'd hate it for you, but that's how this goes. So here's the best bat. Here's the best glove. Go make the team. Yeah, my dad did that too. He got me the Martin Dreadnought. When I was wanting to learn, he was like, if you're going to learn a trade, get the best tool you can for it,
Starting point is 01:33:22 and learn it with that. Yep, but it's on you to go do it and there's no lying you're not gonna walk up to the coach and be like i'm the best player you've ever seen and he'll be like you're on the team then no he's gonna be like prove it yeah and you can only you can only prove it by doing it yeah when the kid strikes out at the game you go well how many how many swings did you take on the tee this this week in the backyard none he was on your ipad whole time, right? Yes, but sucks tracking out in front of all your friends, doesn't it?
Starting point is 01:33:48 Yeah. I go, well, if you don't want to feel like that again, maybe I'll go out there and swing it. But that's on you. I don't care if you're in MLB or not. I just want you to be good at whatever you do. If you want to be good at baseball, go swing baseball bats. And so he goes, okay. And so little, you're right about kids. People underestimate kids like they don't understand
Starting point is 01:34:04 it. They understand better than most adults because their mind's not cluttered up with all this nonsense that we all have. It's very clear to them what you're saying. You should, you should treat them with respect when you talk to them. All right, let's go to super chats. If you have not already smashed that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show, click the share button. If you really do like it and head over to timcast.com, we're going to have that members
Starting point is 01:34:23 only show coming up around 11 or so PM Easternm eastern time so you don't want to miss that and i'm saying eastern time because we're in central time right now so just so everybody knows but a lot of people are often like what time zone are you in we're currently in central but it'll be up 11 p.m eastern let's read some of these super chats we got paul thongham says you guys should have people from china uncensored on again to talk about Shanghai and their zero COVID policy. That would be amazing. We'll definitely look into that. Shock the Casbah says, hey, John, I've played your club in Nashville, even saw your bus.
Starting point is 01:34:54 I've given the cabinets a thumbs up. I give the cabinets a thumbs up. Thank you, brother. What's the club? Redneck Riviera, downtown at 3rd and Broadway. I got to go. It's got an American flag and a Gadsden flag flying right over the top.
Starting point is 01:35:07 If you're a vet or an active duty or a first responder, first drinks on the house, we've given away probably 10,000 cocktails so far. Wow. Come see my bar when you're in town. So cool. That's cool. All right, Murph Try says,
Starting point is 01:35:20 I let my kids watch Chicken City on Saturday. Today, my two-year-old would crow like a rooster. Then, from the other side of my house, my five-year-old would yell, Chicken Party! Here comes the next hit piece. Is Tim... Is Sir Timothy Cass turning children into chicken wannabes with his programming?
Starting point is 01:35:38 Is it a bad influence? Some far-left activist is posting screenshots from our vlog channel, which is like skateboarding, rollerblading, enhanced interrogation techniques. It's like making a cake for Ian's birthday. And they're like, look at the far right. Look at the people supporting them. And it's like a guy playing guitar and singing.
Starting point is 01:35:59 It's like someone singing Kumbaya. And I'm like, yo, you've lost it. Exactly. Well, and I'm going to say something that if they were ever going to on would be like you know bad for us but they're too stupid to uh it's actually really good for us that they're doing that because the whole point of the vlog is we're just trying to show people you can have fun build culture etc while still being conservative or at the very least not on the left and so for them to try to make it sound like it's scary that we're doing everyday normal things is just going to make us seem more normal appealing and likable to an audience like
Starting point is 01:36:27 people are throwing pebbles at a rocket ship as it's taking off and it's like you know throw as many as you want but but but also you look like a lunatic when you do that yeah and history will show that so stay strong and keep going i can only imagine the advertisers are getting these emails from people like look at what you're supporting and it's like someone playing a guitar for chickens and they're like i really don't understand how this is bothering anybody all right high-fiving tipping really well when we go out they just show them tim's ad-friendly chicken show yeah like look at this chickens all right uh why and it's chicken city live.com now that's right oh great and um it is uh so it it is... So we've only been hitting good Super Chats for the past week. But at the current rate, it will be one of the highest grossing Super Chat shows in the world.
Starting point is 01:37:12 Because of how just ridiculous people are just throwing money at the chickens. They love it. You get the chicken party. I like the interactive Super Chat thing is incredible. You give five bucks, treats come down, the chickens all run to get it. What is it? It builds up to $100 and then the sky egg releases the goods we we increase the duration of the parties they're over a minute now i'm so glad so the chickens go nuts and yeah they
Starting point is 01:37:34 come running when they hear the music i have a chicken song are you serious called i play chicken with the train oh that's right yeah look up cowboy troy i play chicken with the train big and rich you want a real slamming country rock rock and rap song for your chickens. I'm just saying it would be an honor to have our song. Yeah, let's do it. We'll appear in the Super Chat. The next plan was we're going to create a shuffle mix. So every chicken party is a different song.
Starting point is 01:37:57 And I was like, we need a rap one. We could do country rap. We could rock. We got dance. You got to use that screaming chicken party intro to all of them. If these chickens end up having too many parties they're just going to become depraved they're not going to be able to survive yeah good times create weak chickens so you know we we don't give them that much treats only maybe like i think like 10 mealworms fall out
Starting point is 01:38:21 at a time and there's what 14 chickens so they all rush to get them but I gotta be honest the chicken parties they might be like 30 or 40 that come out and people keep doing it so I'm like I know because they realize the other option being raised the cost of the chicken parties up because the more people that come otherwise it's gonna be a chicken party 24 7 which I'm not I got an idea I got an idea then you have a chicken rehab show. The chickens will be coming to watch for it. The chicken rehab show. Here's my idea. Hold on. Chicken rehab.
Starting point is 01:38:47 A drama reality show. Here's my idea. Poultry rehab. My idea is right now we're using very rudimentary code. Oh, man. But I would love to get dynamic code where when the chicken meter fills all the way up, it doesn't just trigger. It starts at 100 and then counts down to zero.
Starting point is 01:39:02 So the party goes on for the duration of the meter, which means while the party is happening, if you super chat, it'll bounce back up and keep partying. Oh, good idea. So then people could keep throwing money to keep the party going. Keep the party going. And so people will be like... All right, let's read some more super chats.
Starting point is 01:39:16 We got Y.O.F.E.T. He says, hey guys, question for Mr. Rich. Does he have another collab in the works with Mike Rowe? Oh, cool. Great question. Me and Mike have been talking about that actually and thanks for that we did a christmas song called santa's got a dirty job oh yeah so uh i was hanging out with mike and i said we got he's got this great voice people don't
Starting point is 01:39:36 realize mike rowe was uh sang opera for like 12 years what oh he's a phenomenal singer yeah yeah phenomenal singer so he goes he goes that'd be great john you should write a christmas song so i wrote it and he came to nashville we recorded it we put it out and this song i was telling you before we went on this song went number one on the sales chart across all genres and knocked a dell out of number one for eight days when her new record had just come out so you know they're sitting over there in London, New York, going, Mike Rowe and John Rich, Santa's got a dirty job. Adele's at number two for eight days. This is poor Adele.
Starting point is 01:40:11 This keeps happening. Remember the article we were reading about how the Let's Go Brandon song knocked Adele out of first place? And this left-wing journalist was super upset about it? Yeah. All right, Matthew Hammond says, I thought country music was safe
Starting point is 01:40:21 until I started hearing some big acts coming out for gun control after Sandy Hook. How do we keep these ideas out of our culture boycotts better ideas there's a there's quite a there is quite a void uh gulf between the music industry the country music industry and the country music audience i mean massive And every now and then you'll hear somebody poke up and say something from the industry side and the fans go, I don't think so. Well, that's only happened a couple of times because they understand what the backlash is like. But in reality, a lot of the people on music row here in Nashville, not all, but many majority, they would be the ones that would call those people out there, listen to music the deplorables. Anybody that voted for Trump, there have been major record producers in Nashville that after Trump was elected,
Starting point is 01:41:11 the guy walks in, he's got all these musicians sitting in a room in a big session. He goes, if anybody voted for Trump, raise your hand. Two guys raised their hand, and he fired them on the spot and kicked them out of the studio. I mean, that's the culture now of music row. It's not the culture of a lot of the artists, but it kicked him out of the studio. I mean, that's the culture now of music rote. It's not the culture of a lot of the artists, but it is a culture of the industry. Well, take a look at, you're familiar with what happened with The Offspring and their drummer?
Starting point is 01:41:31 Yes. Pete Parada? Yeah. We got him, he's recording tracks with us. Good. And it is a childhood dream come true. On the one where you said the high, who was singing the highs? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:41:40 That's Pete Parada on the drums. He's so good. Yeah, he's incredible. So I'm a kid playing Offspring covers, and he was there i think i think maybe their second drummer or maybe their third i think third because they had an early drummer who wasn't there for that long and he plays with them for almost two decades and then they disrespect him like that that you know he couldn't get vaccinated because of uh gian bar a syndrome and then i we end up meeting him he says yeah i'll definitely roll some tracks with you now i get the privilege the honor of getting to record songs with this this you know he's so good the way
Starting point is 01:42:10 he slides across the head of the drum i mean i don't know why he's i mean musical outlaws were always the ones who went against what the government said to do yeah how punk rock those were the actual outlaws that said well you know't think so. And they would buck the system. Now, it's the other way where all the tough guys out there, the Bruce Springsteens and so forth are out there going, you better do everything the government tells you to do or you can't come to my concert if you don't follow it to the letter. I'm like, what happened to outlaw musicians? What happened to the rambunctious punk rock? Hey, take two of these and call me in the morning attitude
Starting point is 01:42:45 from all of our American artists. Where did that go? It's almost like now the conservative artists are the new outlaws. It's weird. It's so crazy. All right. Dean Sherwood says, Long time watcher for Super Chat.
Starting point is 01:42:56 I really enjoy the trailer shows. Please ask John about the song 8th of November. Heartbreaking. Loved you guys at WeFest 2019. Come back soon. So what is 8th of November? 8th of November. Heartbreaking. Loved you guys at WeFest 2019. Come back soon. So what is 8th of November? 8th of November. One of the great things about country music is we get to write songs about actual people, actual places, actual events, put them into a song, put them out, and they actually get played. Like it's real as a heart attack. So this song is about a Vietnam veteran, Big Kenny
Starting point is 01:43:21 and I met in South Dakota, Deadwood, South Dakota, outside of Sturgis. He was our bartender. This was before we had had a record deal. And this guy tells us a story about a battle November 8, 1965, the first major ambush of Vietnam. All 27 out of 30 guys were killed except this one guy and two others, but they shot him up so bad that he went to Walter Reed for two years, getting over his injuries. He limped out of Walter Reed.
Starting point is 01:43:46 And guess what this guy does? He signs up and does three more tours of Vietnam for the United States Army and then retires back in his home state of South Dakota. And he's telling us this story. And I said, dude, you're an actual legit American hero. Yes. He goes, I ain't no hero, man. The ones that didn't come back are the real heroes.
Starting point is 01:44:02 So we wrote this song the 8th of Novembermber we took him all the way back to the act we had former communist vietnamese guys take us back up to mekong delta and out into these fields into a crater that was made by one of our bombs right in the field where all those guys got slaughtered took him down in there had a shot of whiskey sang the 8th of november it's on youtube. If you look up 8th of November documentary, you'll find it. That's amazing. But that's what country music really is to me. That's why I make it. Because I can experience something real and I don't have to filter it. I can just tell
Starting point is 01:44:33 you about this incredible guy or tell you about this incredible situation. And the fans eat it up and they love it because even though it's not their granddaddy, not their uncle, it reminds them of the people in their family that they love so much. Wow. Great song. Can I ask you something?
Starting point is 01:44:47 Yeah. Which country artist inspired you the most? I think the greatest singer-songwriter that ever lived was Johnny Cash. I think, and the reason I say that is because he could say more with fewer words than anybody that ever put a pencil to the page. If you write out the lyrics to a Johnny Cash song, it'll take up a third of the page and that's it. That's the whole song. But it's a tidal wave and Mount Everest of information
Starting point is 01:45:11 and feeling that comes out of that. It's like in the way it vibrates right here in his chest as it's coming out. And you can kind of hear the emotions in him. He was so effective in everything that he did and so powerful and never duplicated. One of the problems I have with modern music is I say it sounds like it went to the school of redundancy school. I can just interchange the artist and interchange a lot of the songs. But back in the day, you had real characters.
Starting point is 01:45:40 There's only one Dolly Parton. Do you think it's auto-tune? Like auto-tune that homogenizes the industry? Or maybe pharmaceuticals? No, I think it's our culture that homogenizes them. It's what we've been talking about this entire podcast, that this system, this machine that's in place is trying to break out any individuality whatsoever.
Starting point is 01:45:55 Break it down, flush it out, get rid of it. Everybody's got to think the same way, do the same thing. And when those kids grow up and start making music, that's kind of how they think. They don't really have the nerve to step outside of the box and take chances. All right, we got Amanda who says, Today is my daughter Sophia's seventh birthday. She watches your show.
Starting point is 01:46:13 Can you please wish her a happy birthday? Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Sophia. Nice job, Sophia. Happy seventh birthday. Congratulations. You did it. All right.
Starting point is 01:46:21 Dallas Smith says, Ask John if he's still friends with, is that Lilia Stepanova? I was friends with her in high school, and she claimed to be close friends with you. She's the OG barefoot bow contortionist. If so, tell her I said, hey, love your work, by the way. I have not talked to her in a long time, but that's a pretty incredible person. Yeah, she can do. You meet so many people out on the road.
Starting point is 01:46:44 I'm 48. I took off on the road at 18 years old. Wow. I've been going the whole time. If there's, like I said, a town more than 20,000 people, I've probably played at least twice. Did you do Blossom Music Center? You're a player over there? What's that?
Starting point is 01:46:56 Up in Akron? Blossom Music Center? Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my hometown. That's big country music territory. Yeah, man. That's my blood.
Starting point is 01:47:02 All right. Wayne Shannon says, check out the survival podcast.com learn to live a better life if times get tough or even if they don't i've been listening to jack science uh or jack since 2012 it's changed my life it says science but i think when people do voice to text things like that happen all right philip hughes says question for john are you going to take tim on a sightseeing tour of nashville and your cadillac convertible like you did ben shapiro i washed it yesterday tim and maybe maybe it's a 68 cadillac deville convertible that is the slickest thing you've
Starting point is 01:47:38 ever seen it would be my honor to put it's got a giant back seat too put all you fellas in that beautiful take you right down Broadway, hooping and hollering, pull right up in front of Redneck Riviera, and let's get you on stage to jam a little bit with one of the bands. When can we do it? Huh?
Starting point is 01:47:52 Saturday? You tell me when. I know a guy that's got a Cadillac and a bar. Hey, what's that? Be happy to take you. I'm totally down. Or I also have a Smoky and the Bandit car. You might want that one.
Starting point is 01:48:03 Whichever one you think is the best. We could do Saturday. Theoretically, we could do Thursday or Friday afternoon. They close at 11, though. 11 p.m. Central Time. What does? I was looking at the hours, and I was like, I'd really like to go to this bar. It looks like they close at 11.
Starting point is 01:48:18 Well, my bar, if we know we're going, it does not close. Oh, that's cool. There you go. No, no, no. In the afternoon. In between my morning show and night show. Or just Saturday. You know, Nashville is a drinking town with a music problem.
Starting point is 01:48:29 So just be very aware of that before you go downtown. You know, when we walked around, I think Sunday through Nashville, it is the greatest downtown I've ever been to in my life. Yeah. I love music. I've been playing music my whole life. New York is random. There's different neighborhood pockets and it's just, you got to find the place.
Starting point is 01:48:44 Chicago, it's all business downtown. There's different neighborhood pockets and it's just you gotta find the place. Chicago, it's all business downtown. There's art museums and stuff like that. Los Angeles doesn't have a downtown. When I come to Nashville and I'm like it's live music. You walk up to one bar restaurant, you can hear live music. You walk 10 feet, totally different song playing, different artists and I'm like this is amazing.
Starting point is 01:49:00 Both sides of the street. All the doors are open. It's stereo coming back and forth and listen, we open up at Red Nick Revere at about 9.30 in the morning. We close at 2.30 at night. And there are live music literally all day long and into the night. People come here from all over the world to hear that talent. And the talent comes here from all over the world. They come here from everywhere.
Starting point is 01:49:18 We got a girl from England that's over here. We got a band from Australia that moved to Nashville that's playing at my bar. It's an incredible place to visit. What's the capacity for the stage and everything? Like how many people? Well, I've got three floors. I've got a rooftop bar.
Starting point is 01:49:31 So it depends on which floor you're on, too. I think people might come if we do this on Saturday. Yeah. Let's do it. Let's do it. I think a lot of people might show up.
Starting point is 01:49:38 Hey, like we say in Nashville, don't threaten me with a good time. Yeah, right. I'll be, I'll be, that would be amazing. I'd love to play some songs. I'm sure Ian would love to songs rock and roll hang out seamus will you be there i won't be there oh traveling for easter that's right that's right i'll scream your name out thank you i'll zoom in with my harmonica perfect yes all right let's grab some more busted knuckles says
Starting point is 01:50:00 i live in rio last census was 250k i know know my family will be okay, but the way Amarillo is... Amarillo? Amarillo. Amarillo. Is, I fear the city folk will destroy it if it goes bad. People here won't take it well. We're already pissed off. Oh, man. Alright, let's jump out and try to grab some
Starting point is 01:50:20 more Super Chats. We're having too good of a time here. You guys rock out there. Yeah, seriously. The Super Chats are right in front of me now with this setup i like it grim reaper said here's another reason to have a 30 plus mag boars travel in packs hit one and doesn't fall uh off the first time hit uh off the first hit the will all charge and tear apart a human you need every round to save your life hunting you ever see that viral tweet where the guy said 30 to 50 feral hogs coming through my yard and all of these you know gun control liberals laughed at him and mocked him and then all of a sudden articles pop up saying actually yeah hogs are a serious problem oh yeah they overpopulate millions everywhere yeah they're
Starting point is 01:50:58 terrible but these people live in cities are like oh 30 hogs and feral hogs will kill you oh yes dangerous as anything ever was absolutely i heard regular farm pigs will kill you they will yeah so i've been told on farm like if you when you walk into the pig pen they'll start nipping at your heels and your legs and you got to like push them back with those boars those boars got tusks just like that you know pigs will eat each other oh yeah they're i mean they are mean i boys. I just watched a pig crush a chicken bone. Yes, I didn't know that, but you give them a chicken bone. It's like a redneck hippopotamus.
Starting point is 01:51:30 Yeah, it really is. It is. That's great. Oh, that's awesome. No, people don't realize they're dangerous animals. They are, yeah. I mean, Dorothy fell in the pig pen and was a boss, remember? And they all freaked out because they knew the pigs are going to eat Dorothy. You know what it is? There is just a complete lack of respect for nature.
Starting point is 01:51:47 Yeah. That's true, man. Yeah. The terror bird is one of the ones. Look up the terror bird. That thing used to exist. You ever hear of the terror bird? It's like this nine-foot-tall vulture-looking ostrich bird that used to hunt humans.
Starting point is 01:51:58 Or if we're going with extinct animals, man. Oh, my goodness. I don't want to do that. Why do you need a rocket launcher? Tyrannosaurus. That's right. All right. Andrewrew hobson says thanks for a horse of a different color it made my childhood and many road trips also tim has radicalized me i thought i was pro 2a because i wanted a select fire rifle but after hearing you i would want a military warship if i could afford it dreams are free i guess back in the day people had warships
Starting point is 01:52:25 and and cannons and cannons despite what joe biden has said yeah he's like you can't buy you can buy a cannon now you can buy a cannon well the the stupid thing about that is antique firearms aren't even considered legally regulated firearms so flintlock pistols are just they're not you're not going to be able to do anything with it. I mean, you could, but they're not regulated. So yes, you can have cannons. Can I give a piece of gun advice? Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:52:50 So there's a thing called, any gun owners out there, if you own a few guns or whatever you got, there's a thing called a gun trust. And you can, it's basically a family trust. You're the head of the trust. Think of it as an LLC. You can sign over the ownership of all your weapons into the family gun trust. Wow. And if anybody ever does come to you and says, give me all your guns, you show them a piece of paper and go, I don't own any guns.
Starting point is 01:53:14 The trust owns the guns. I'll see you in a courtroom. That's brilliant. And then they got to go pierce the veil of that LLC to get down to you. It's a whole layer of protection. It's a few hundred dollars. It's not crazy expensive. I would suggest if you have any kind of collection of weapons at all, think about getting a gun
Starting point is 01:53:32 trust. Are there any drawbacks? Would that give multiple ownership then? Yes. So your family members, anybody, if you're the executor of it, you can add on your wife, your kids, your uncle, whoever. You pass away, they don't inherit the guns. They're just part of the trust.
Starting point is 01:53:45 Wow, that's actually really, that's brilliant. Go look that up. So there's also questions about who has a right to, you know, on your property use a weapon. And so what I'm told, in some areas, let's put it this way, the cops are like, in an emergency, someone can take the weapon. But, you know, they're like, but someone shouldn't be
Starting point is 01:54:01 bearing a weapon. They can't come into your house and take a gun that doesn't belong to them for no reason. There's like rules and stuff. I suppose they try to be more lax about it, like depending on which state you're in. But there are some states that are ridiculous and strict. So that's one way to... You mean somebody coming into your house and taking one of your weapons? Like if you own a gun and then someone else who is hanging out at your house takes that and starts using it,
Starting point is 01:54:25 some states are very, very strict on you are in possession of a firearm. Got it. Someone else in your home. Right, right. But you're talking about using it in self-defense, not someone taking it and committing a crime with it. I don't trust these states, the 70 states or whatever. When they're like, oh, no, no, you're not supposed to. People who don't own the gun aren't allowed to use it because you got got you got you got to have a handgun license but in self-defense it's fine i'm like nah i don't
Starting point is 01:54:50 trust you you're you're you're not yeah you might say that but am i going to trust the the da or whatever government official no if it's self-defense defend yourself and let's go hash it out down the road i mean don't stand there worrying about somebody's statute if it's it fits your life on the line it's just it's ridiculous that it's even a even a factor to be honest yeah i know that they would tell you don't defend your life like no you're better off just sitting there and letting it happen like come on yeah no man welcome to reality in the united states this is a culture that is literally bent on punishing people for trying to protect themselves and trying to prepare for the future it's insane i think it's because of suicide
Starting point is 01:55:24 aggressive protection like the romans they would kill everyone around them to protect their home city so that there's a it's the whole discussion about that i want to i want to read this one but i'm going to paraphrase it a little bit liberty bell says when the city libs get desperate enough to work on farms the jobs will be taken by the immigrants they fought to protect i mean let's just be real many of these uh undocumented illegal immigrants these people are coming through the border who are doing uh day labor or working on farms have more skills so uh i've been to the farms in california where illegal immigrants are working and they're getting paid they get paid like 10 bucks an hour so if someone comes from the city and say i need a job
Starting point is 01:56:02 i'm gonna be like this guy knows how to do it you don't can you outwork this guy yeah it's not going to happen but I mean that's basically what happens these days anyway when these factories try and hire people illegally because they can pay them under market prices what's going to happen is they're going to go to the farmer and be like I heard you guys
Starting point is 01:56:21 need a poet on the farm will you hire me for that the chickens are bored, I think. I'm going to read this one because I was right. Donut Fighting says, Tim is kind of right here. Masks work when used properly. I started as a nurse, right?
Starting point is 01:56:34 As COVID started, masks need to be disposed of between patients. Yes. Correct. But it's also like, look, if I'm talking and then I spit, because sometimes you do, yeah, you can get people sick that way. And if you're wearing a mask, you're not going to spit on them.
Starting point is 01:56:50 But mandating that every single person, whether they're sick or not, has to wear it, and mandating every single child, whether they're sick or not, has to wear it, now that's just government overreach. Yeah, but you know that if you sneeze or something in a mask, the kind of mask that we all wear and you're and somebody's standing next to you they could have a mask on too if their eyes are even open and those particles it's like the joke of if you can smell the fart you're not protected from the virus it's like the particles of that virus are so smaller than scent particles you know they're
Starting point is 01:57:19 going to get out they're going to float around in the air for a minute they come out the tops and the sides that's why that's why the fda called it a experimental medical device when it comes to stopping the virus you know i couldn't find it i was trying to find it i i just think in terms of the simplistic it'll provide some protection to what degree that's the debate it works for what it does which is to block the spit that's the main reason but is it like wearing a gas mask no of course not but but my issue ultimately comes down to i hate arguing the science because i care more about the liberty going to children and be like we don't care if you're sick wear it you gotta weigh the consequences of it for sure man well the kids if they're like hey if you're sick we want you to wear the mask i'd be like well i
Starting point is 01:57:57 kind of understand that but if they're like we don't care if the kid's sick or not i'm like okay this is stupid well if your kid is sick you don't send them to school right come on guys i mean let's go right to that they're like you're not feeling well yeah you got oh you got a you got a little temperature you're staying home today yeah go on to school just wearing your mask nobody says that all right we're gonna read this one this one beastly devil says tim vaughn a vosh video showed up last night where he is a he's featured on a panel with other political pundits he was making a case for teaching kids about sex in regards to promoting abuse prevention. No, Vosh, come on.
Starting point is 01:58:28 You're the last guy who should be advocating for that stuff. Well, I guess, actually, most people would assume you would. He's got these quotes that are suspect. And he was like, no, people are taking it out of context. I'm like, okay, if you want to explain it that way, that it's out of context, you shouldn't be doing things like that. Granted, I didn't see what this video is, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was real.
Starting point is 01:58:54 All right, let's grab, we'll try and grab a couple more. We just got so many superchats, man. I wish we could read them all. Matthew Greger says, shout out to Seamus. Tim, you should have Dr. Sakonikas from Christendom College in Front Royal. It would make a great discussion. That said, I have a soft spot for small liberal arts colleges.
Starting point is 01:59:18 Also, Seamus, I have an icon for you if there's a good place to mail it. Oh, yeah. Thank you so much. So I think there's a P.O. box, right, Tim, that people can send fan mail to. So if you find that on the website. And I very much appreciate the shout out. Thank you. God bless you. Timcast.com about section. We have a P.o box right tim that people can send fan mail to so if you find that on the website and i very much appreciate the shout out thank you god bless timcast.com about section we have a p.o box all right wotan volk says mr rich i was happy to see you on the show thanks for being strong and standing on your principles like men should do it is refreshing to hear to hear hear you talk about your kids that way people should fear coming for your kids
Starting point is 01:59:45 because there are a lot of people who are just scared to stand up and they need to hear that strong sentiment. Don't back down. I think you gotta put on your own oxygen mask before you put on the masks of others. That's correct. You gotta make sure you're taking care
Starting point is 02:00:02 of your friends and your family. Alright, we'll grab a couple more. John Samuel says, Hey, my name is sammy mitchell producer songwriter here in nashville produced to luke combs and other stuff can i come hang on the cast while you're in town reach out ig sammy mitchell uh security is super tight here and especially considering what's been going on been going on in the past and in these past few months you know we got swatted eight times or whatever. Plus the bomb squad showed up. So I don't know if we can, I think that's going to be a no, but I guess Saturday
Starting point is 02:00:29 we'll meet us down there. Yeah, we'll play some music. I'll tell you that Luke Combs is one of the best new guys out there. Luke Combs is legit. Great country singer. Right on. Well, I think this Saturday sounds like we're going to have a blast and we're going to have, I guess effectively a hangout.
Starting point is 02:00:45 Bring your ID, Sammy, because other people might tell me that they're Sammy. Yeah. All right. Here we go. Let's, what else? What is it? Karen Bay says, is a trust legal in New Jersey because nothing else is? Look it up.
Starting point is 02:00:59 That's kind of what I was getting at. New Jersey and Maryland are dark states when it comes to guns and I wouldn't trust them. Well, I just looked up Maryland and it looks like it is option, and some legal places can look at it for you. Cool. Just look at it for your state. Right on. Well, everybody, make sure you head over to TimCast.com, become a member. We're going to have that members-only show coming up in just about an hour.
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Starting point is 02:01:54 Right on. Yeah, man. Cool. I'm Seamus. I have a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes where we make cartoons, political satire. We're releasing a very funny one tomorrow about Joe Biden and one Thursday about these groomer teachers.
Starting point is 02:02:05 I think you guys are going to enjoy it. Please subscribe. Hit the notification bell. Check it out. I'm Ian Crossland. Hello, everyone, and goodbye. Hey, good to see you, dude. Good hanging, man. Yeah, this was great. Yeah. I am also here in the corner. Thank you very much for coming, John. I have to say, you are activating
Starting point is 02:02:21 memories that I forgot I had because I love songs like the 8th of November. I love Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy. Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy. It was a hilarious party song. It was great. It was just like... It caused a small baby boom in the early 2000s.
Starting point is 02:02:36 I was going to say, I'm sure there were net effects from that song. That was wild. But I really enjoyed your work. I appreciate it. So glad you could come. Anyway, you guys can follow me on Twitter at SarahPatchLids and and on minds.com and i also have sarah patch lids dot me we will see you all at timcast.com thanks for hanging out bye guys

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