Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #546 - Democrats Face HISTORIC DEFEAT, CNN Says GOP At 80 Year HIGH In Polls w/Bethany Mandel

Episode Date: June 8, 2022

Tim, Ian, Luke, and Lydia join commentator and mother Bethany Mandel to discuss abysmal new polling for Democrats, gas prices hitting $10 in California and approaching $5 in the rest of the country, the Democrat senator who gloated that she doesn't need to even glance at gas prices because she owns an electric vehicle, Matthew McConaughey's capitalization on children's deaths to make a point about gun control, the Democrat representative who wants to make 'Drag 101' mandatory for schoolchildren, and the new CNN owner who wants to make partisanship a thing of the past at the network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CNN data reporter crunched the numbers, and it turns out Republicans have not polled this well before midterm in 80 years. In all of these years where Democrats actually were defeated, they were polling up. So it's going to be particularly brutal. The good news is, well, there's no good news, but Joe Biden's trying to make it seem like there's good news, saying we're in a robust recovery, and that everything's fine, everybody. But it's weird that the messaging is everything's fine when people are looking at gasoline nearing five dollars a gallon. The latest triple A average for the country is four dollars. Was it four dollars and ninety one cents in California? Mendocino, I think, is the name of the city. Nine dollars and 60 cents a a gallon, the highest in the country.

And 13 states have gas already over five bucks. People have been telling us in Illinois it's five bucks. So yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the economy, stupid. But of course, we can also talk about what's going on with these drag queen kids shows because Texas and Florida have two reps that are seeking to make it a felony, to make it illegal to bring kids to these things. I'm pretty sure it already is, but okay. And what's happening now is, unsurprisingly, the left and Democrats are actually defending these shows for kids. So I don't know how you defend that. I don't know what regular person's going to think that's okay,

but that's where we're currently at. We got to talk about that. We got to talk about Steve Bannon. He's subpoenaing Nancy Pelosi, striking back. Peter Navarro was arrested. We've got all of that crazy stuff to talk about. CNN's collapse, of course. And a bunch of other news. Joining us to talk about all of these things is Bethany Mandel. Hey.

Would you like to introduce yourself? Yeah. So I am a homeschooling mom of five. And the editor of a series of children's books called Heroes of Liberty, which is sort of a take on children's literature that doesn't have drag queens and there's no transgender characters. like recent past and not so recent past so alexander hamilton ronald reagan john wayne and just sort of you know telling our children about all of these people and founding principles and ideas in a way that um is engaging and wonderful illustrations and yeah and i'm also a contributing writer for deseret news i'm like they're pro natalist writer we gotta we gotta talk about these uh what's going on with this

Libs of TikTok stuff because apparently now these drag kid events are getting cancelled. The crazy thing is one of the latest tweets from Libs of TikTok is there was, I guess some mayor organizer said, we weren't informed they were planning on doing Drag Queen Story Hour. It wasn't included in their initial

proposal. They just put it in. So, yeah. We'll talk about that stuff. We got Luke. Hey guys. Lots of crazy political news. I'm so excited to be disappointed by the Republicans when they take office. Welcome back beautiful and amazing human beings. My name is Luke Grodowski of WeAreChange.org. If you want to support me, you can on thebestpoliticalshirts.com where you can get the shirt that I'm wearing right now. It's good to be back. Thank you so much for having me. Ian, good to see you as well. Luke, I'm wearing right now. It's good to be back. Thank you so much for having me. Ian, good to see you as well. Dude, Luke, I love you, man.

It's great to see you back. I heard you were doing some crazy stuff while you were out and about. Lots of crazy stuff. Did you guys talk about Florida's incredible and also beautiful

Bilderberg in Washington, D.C.? All of it, it's been just a wild last couple hours. You're a superstar, man. Thank you. Thank you for coming back. Bethany, great to see you.

I'm in kind of a stop, look, and listen mode right now. I feel like there's a lot happening this week, and I want to hear what you guys have to say. This is crazy. Elon Musk's deal, the financing is being – I got too many stories. Matthew McConaughey, holy cow. His comments. Yeah, that struck me deep.

As an actor. The January 6th meetings and hearings, the ABC News guy. Oh, my God. I didn't see it, so it wasn't on Fox, and so it didn't happen. There's no way for a Fox viewer to see it if it's not on there. I'm also here in the corner pushing buttons. I'm very excited to be here and hear from Bethany, who has

a lot of children. I had five siblings I was selling her before we started, so I'm stoked to hear what she's got to say. It's a unique perspective. But also, head over to TimCast.com and become members to help support our work directly. As a member, you'll get access to exclusive segments from this show Monday through Thursday at 11 p.m. So we will have one of those special segments up tonight.

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polling shows GOP will take huge house majority best position in over 80 years. This is fascinating. He said, quote, I would say they're looking very good from the historical context. Basically, I took the best Republican positions on the generic congressional ballot at this point in the midterm cycle since 1938. The generic ballot basically is, would you vote for the generic Republican or generic Democrat in your district? And guess what?

Since 1938, the Republican two-point lead on the generic congressional ballot is the best position for Republicans at this point in any midterm cycle in over 80 years. It beats 2010 when Republicans were up a point. It beats 2014, 2002, 1998, where Democrats led by a point. And in all of those four prior examples that make this list of the top five, look at that. Who won a majority? It was the Republicans who won a majority. He added. Now, of course, the election is not being held tomorrow and we'll see. Sometimes history isn't always prologue, but my estimate for the 2023 House makeup, if the election were held today,

which again, it isn't, we're still five months, five months from tomorrow would be Republicans, 236 seats to 241 seats, Democrats, 194 to 199. That's based off of a formula of seat to seat race ratings from the Cook political report and inside elections. Now this is coming from CNN data reporter on Jake Tapper's show. Perhaps hearing that's coming from CNN, it must be even worse. The fascinating thing is there was an article from the Washington Post that was like, Democrats are going to lose the midterms. Here's why it's a good thing. My favorite line in their opening paragraph is every poll can't be wrong.

They're basically saying they're saying Republicans are going to win. And, you know, as much as people might not want to believe it every poll can't be wrong and i just laughed because i'm like not only are all of the polls wrong but they're actually wrong in favor of republicans i'm sorry they're wrong in favor of democrats meaning if every poll right now is saying republicans are going to win and it's like the generic ballot is plus two gop it's probably plus seven gop or plus 10 so this is going to be amazing uh luke you were this is going to be amazing. Luke, you were excited to be disappointed. Yes, absolutely.

I mean, I think it's very fair to say that there definitely is a political transformation. I question a lot of the polls that are out there. But I think that this political transformation that's happening is a precursor to the economic transformation that we're seeing under the Biden administration and under the previous administration that essentially is creating one of the largest transfers of wealth from the poorest people to the richest people. We saw this from the beginning of COVID. We saw this with the secret Federal Reserve bailouts. We're seeing the effects of this. The effects of this are being felt everywhere. I forgot which corporate media network was interviewing a random person at the gas pump just a couple hours ago. The video is going viral on Twitter because the person being interviewed is like, this is absolutely insane. This is going to motivate me to get politically involved, and I'm going to be voting for the Republicans. And this was a person who was previously a Democrat before who publicly is stating this.

So obviously this larger political transformation has a lot to do with our current financial situation, which is absolutely ruined and left a lot of people in havoc. I fully agree with that, man. It strikes me as like political football. The pendulum is swinging in both directions. CNN is happy because they're either going to trash Trump or trash Trump. But it's an economic crisis, and it's a transformation economically. Either into some world economic forum, you'll own nothing and be happy renters world, or something that we control into some sort of maybe democratically cryptographic, decentralized, something new that hasn't been created yet.

Who knew stealing people's ability to have upward economic mobility was unpopular? Who knew giving corporate bailouts was unpopular? Who knew raising gas prices, stopping domestic energy production was unpopular? Obviously, people are feeling it. No lies, no propaganda could cut through the reality of the horrible situation that we're all facing. And what are Republicans going to do? Yeah, I mean, that's the question. You are going to be disappointed. Yeah, absolutely. No, I mean, but it's so frustrating because this is such a moment. And I don't feel like Republicans are really, I mean, they're talking about sort of opening domestic energy moment. And I don't feel like Republicans are really, I mean, they're talking about sort of opening domestic energy production. But I don't feel like anyone in power sort of understands what is actually happening with American families. I am in a

Facebook group for large families. And it's a really fascinating window into a lot of different sort of ways of life. And the number of posts that people are making, like how can I stretch rice and beans? What different recipes can I do? How can I be creative cooking for 10 people? I'll tell you, different types of vinegar. Different types of vinegar and different types of oil give you all these different combinations of flavor. Well, Ian, we were ordering supplies,

and Ian was like, just buy a bunch of vinegar, and we got like 20 gallons. Your white wine vinegar, your red wine vinegar, your tarragon vinegar, your malt wine vinegar, your tarragon vinegar, your malt vinegar, your balsamic vinegar, your coconut oil, your avocado oil, your olive oil. You see what they do in Haiti? Mud cake.

You take mud and you put a little sugar and salt and butter in it and then you flatten it out and the mud is like not food, but it fills your stomach so it doesn't hurt anymore. I mean, we're not there yet, but they will regret making people care this much. It is impacting every corner of people's lives in a way that this will drive anger. I mean, they're talking about abortion will fuel the midterm.

None of that will fuel the midterms. It is people driving to the gas tank and then not being able to go grocery shopping. That's it. It's amazing to me that they're really driving the gun control narrative right now. The media is pushing it like crazy. And I'm like, I'm pretty sure the dude who turns on the news, it's just all going past him. Every word they say with a gun control and mass shootings. And he's sitting there just thinking, I don't have any money left.

I'm not going to be able to fill up my tank. Well, they're trying to change the conversation. They're trying to make it emotional. Abortion, guns. But my point is you can't. Because when there's somebody who just is – they're holding the receipt in their hand for a $100 tank of gas. And then you're like, listen to me, gun control and abortion. And they're like, what did you say?

What was that? I'm looking at my receipt. There was an interesting statistic that was like 80% of people are worried right now financially. 80%. You cannot just wish cast that away with gun control or abortion or anything. At the end of the day, it's going to be the price of gas and the ripple effect of all of that. Well, not only that, but we're just coming from the era of COVID, where small businesses, small operations were shut down by two weeks. Non-essential.

They weren't essential. Yeah, by two weeks. Non-essential. They weren't essential. Yeah, by two weeks of slowing the trend. Walmart was allowed to be open. Costco was allowed to be open. And this was happening under the Trump administration. The Biden administration is continuing the same kind of economic pain and suffering with all of their policies, all their regulations, all their taxes, all the moves that they're making that hinder the average person from having any kind of upward economic mobility to be fair trump did nothing yes yeah and joe biden is pushing regulation so it was the governors in the democrats in these states they were doing it

look at florida come on tell me florida's doing bad well florida's florida's doing okay but it was there right now it was mike pence that that first said we need two weeks to slow the spread he's the first one that instituted that idea and everyone's kind of went along with it which was actually bonkers so so you know again florida did well because they were able to stand out and say no no no we're not going to punish everyone there was also other ecological events that happened before covid that hit florida very severely and and their businesses were suffering before covid and that was another reason why desantis made a very strong stance saying, no, we can't shut down the small businesses of mom and pops.

We can't have thug police officers walking around intimidating grandma, telling her shut down her little trinket shop. We can't be doing that in this state. This is unethical. The reaction, the causes of that, of stopping the global supply chains, of stopping the world economy, we're feeling the reverberations of that right now. There were so many other states that were feeling that, and they went whole hog.

I mean, California was doing that. New York was feeling that. The states who stood up and said, absolutely not, were all Republican states. People have eyes, and they can see that in Florida, in South Dakota, things went back to normal much quicker than they did in California and New York.

Well, Florida led the way. The corporate media said that DeSantis was good. South Dakota also. But Florida was the first public big state that everyone was saying was going to lead to the killing of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people. The Grim Reaper on the beach. I think you're wrong.

South Dakota never locked down, I'm pretty sure. Kristi Noem was like, never going to happen. And they never had a mask mandate. And Florida did lock down for a little bit, didn't they? Yeah, for like two or three months, yeah. Right, yep. And then they came out and said, we're done with this. And Texas as well.

And Christy Noem, right? That's her name. Yeah, she said, we will absolutely not have a mask mandate. I trust people to make the right decision for themselves and their community. But as far as the narrative, the major attacks were on Florida. The major attacks were on Florida. Oh, 100%. I think they did try going after South Dakota.

They were like, this is where the hotspots can be. They were claiming it was going crazy. And the population density is so low there. Yeah. But that's why they go after Florida, because these are major urban centers. Miami's massive. Yeah. But Miami had different rules than the rest of Florida.

So, like, I was planning a vacation. I think it was December of 2021, thinking like, we're going to go to Florida and be free. And then I started looking at the Children's Museum in Boca. Oh, it's still closed. Oh, let's go to this. Oh, it's masks for two-year-olds. And it became sort of we just sat in our backyard and swam because nothing in Florida where we were staying was actually really open. I just remember how crazy it was when the lockdown first started.

And we had a small backyard that was like what, like a point two of an acre or something. And we're just sitting in the backyard like nobody can go anywhere there's nothing open and then we were like we got to get out of this place yeah yeah we bought a house in in uh just in march of 2020 now imagine if you were living in in new york city imagine if you were living in a huge apartment where you can't escape or you don't have a backyard you have roommates they closed the they closed the parks and they they did padlocks on the playground and it was that uh israeli rabbi yeah hashi tesla he was on the show in brooklyn okay uh sorry jewish uh you know pastor came out there yeah yeah it came out there and then

you know cut it open and made a stand and they arrested him yeah he went to jail for for making a stand just for allowing children to be went to jail for making a stand just for allowing children to be able to be outside and not cramped up in little small apartment buildings, which was absolutely ridiculous and crazy and insane to see that entire process play out. And very few people actually stand up for their own personal liberty and will. But what we're seeing from those larger effects happened during the start of COVID. The larger economic effects that we're feeling right now is because of what happened then. So let's jump to this next story.

We have this from CNET. Gas prices are at record highs. Here's why they won't drop anytime soon. Okay, sure. 13 states, a gallon of regular is averaging more than five bucks. In Mendocino, California, 960 a gallon. They say 13 states, California, they9.60 a gallon. They say 13 states. California, they say it's over $5.

California is averaging $6.37 a gallon. Right now, the national average is $4.92. This number is apocalyptic in politics. People, I guarantee you, you go to a random place, working class place, and you ask them anything about Pelosi the Supreme Court and they're going to say I don't know

I don't know I don't know I can't afford gas how am I supposed to get to work? And it's June so we're only going up from here

I mean that's the thing like has gas ever gone down in the summer? No Right The summer driving months are when it goes nuts Peak driving season

we're entering those Yes We're entering $8 Yes, we're entering. $8 on average, they're saying. My kids are sick of... I drive back and forth, whatever, and I just look at them like, I have never seen gas above 350. I mean, is that...

That's right, right? Like never above 350? The record was four something under Bush. But I've never seen it though because it's always in places like. But I've never seen it, though, because it's always in places like California. I've never seen it over four. Oh, yeah. What was the national average during the Bush years would be important? It did hit as high as four bucks.

Yeah, as high as four. It was four in Chicago, but national average was probably than 350-ish. I don't remember it ever over 350. But now, I mean, I drive by something 520 today. CNET's saying it's going to be $6.20 per gallon by August. I think it's going to be higher. I think it's going to be higher. I keep on doing this thing.

I'm never a person who lets my tank go past half. And I keep on sort of like pushing it. I'm like, well, maybe gas will go down tomorrow. Maybe it'll go down tomorrow. And it just keeps on going up. I would not be surprised if we hit seven or eight come August. Buying gas has become more like the stock market. Yo, 325 was the highest under George W. Bush.

Yeah, see, I did not think we... On average, and then 368 under Obama. And then under Trump, the average was 280 at its highest. Its lowest was like $1.50. Yes, I remember it was under two, and I was like, cha-ching, when I was filling up my tank. I have a minivan, and it was costing like $35.00 to fill the minivan. Now it's $85.00. To be fair, under Bush, in his first few years, it was $1.40 on average, decently.

And then it started skyrocketing towards the end, and then under Obama. So it's funny because people keep pointing out that they show these images of four dollars a gallon gas under bush and they're like i remember when gas was this high why are you blaming biden no and i'm like yo that those weren't the average prices you're looking at california and new york and there's that one gas station in dc on the hill that's next to the heritage foundation yeah and everyone always takes pictures in front of that one i was like well that's not to the Heritage Foundation. Yeah, the really bad one. Yeah, and everyone always takes pictures in front of that one. I was like, well, that's not actually the average. But I drove past.

I was driving my kid into Rockville, Maryland today, and I passed 520. Wow. Oh, it's here. I was getting a haircut, and as I'm getting a haircut, people in this area, they're like, do you see the gas prices? Do you see what they are?

What are they here? Even local people are talking about how there's one store that's offering 30% off a gallon if you buy a carton of cigarettes. We got to go to this store. We got to smoke it right at the gas station. I mean, these are conversations that are happening with average people, with normal people that are getting politically involved because they were thrown into a mess, which sadly, a lot

of ignorance has led to this because we saw the warning signs from a very long time ago. Ever since 2008, the signs were there. But there was a warning sign in Joe Biden talking about climate change. Yeah. So, again, I'm not going to make a moral statement on climate change. But Joe Biden and Democrats have long said we need exactly this. They want high gas prices so people don't drive, so there's less carbon emissions. Joe Biden shut down Keystone.

He banned fracking on public lands. He shut down various oil and gas leases. Josh Hawley has the list better than me. He took action specifically over climate and environmental issues. And that is a major contributor to why you are paying so much at the gas pump. It's working. I looked into getting a hybrid. I was like, we can't keep on doing this.

But the problem is they keep on talking about like, this is the solution, but it's not because the cars aren't available and they're not, I can't drive in a hybrid. I have five kids. We need more space than that. It's not. Well, so the, the end result of all of this, look, if you, if you follow after the environmental narrative, it is going to be suffering. Yeah. They, that, that's it. That's the only way. In France, they put a petrol tax, a tax on the fuel, resulted in, what, 18 months of rioting.

Because it's simple. When they come out and say, you've got to cut back, they're saying it's going to get a lot worse for you. They're saying you are the carbon that they want to get rid of. And again, we were talking about this yesterday. Biden is talking about these high gas prices being a, quote, incredible transition. He was talking about how he wants to build back better, how he wants to set up more green policies as we're literally importing oil from Saudi Arabia.

All of that in the name of green policies instead of domestic energy production. And then there's these politicians like this Democratic senator came out, was bragging how the gas prices don't matter to her because she has an electric vehicle. So let's think about what happens in November. Gas prices are going to hit a peak in August. Yeah. A couple months beforehand.

I don't think there's a single word a Democrat could say at that point. That's it. They're going to put out all the ads in the world. And I wouldn't be surprised if we have like a record i don't mean this literally but i'm saying i would not be surprised if there's a record low spend from democrats because they're like just just don't gonna write it off don't waste the money yeah save it for 2024 you would think that they would have their messaging a little better right like they're

talking about gun control they're talking about abortion and they're they're talking about like well i don't care about gas prices because i have an this is a great transition we're building back better this is awesome this is great for the environment robust recovery yeah like the jobs report is good therefore all of your suffering doesn't matter because someone got a job inflation is transitory it's temporary oh it's actually good for you yeah it's crazy it's absolutely insane the talking points that they're releasing. I'd call it gaslighting if it wasn't so insane. Oh, that's benefit.

It's like, it's, it's, it's. But that's the definition though. It's just crazy. I liken it to that family guy joke where Peter's in an elevator with one other guy and he farts and then says,

it was you. Like, that's what they're doing. They're saying, the economy is better than ever and you're like, bro, I'm pumping my gas right now right here yeah i'm standing here so i think when they say the best point in 80 years when you consider the fact that the polling has been skewed by what like seven points yeah no it's going to be

i you know people are calling it a red wave right there's going to be a gop red wave and then some people start saying wow look at the polls it's going to be a tsunami i'm like no it's going to be a great flood and democrats better start then some people started saying, wow, look at the polls. It's going to be a tsunami. I'm like, no, it's going to be a great flood. And Democrats better start building that arc. So what is the Senate numbers? Do you know what the Senate numbers are looking like? I think it's going to be like a couple seats. It's like Republicans might have, I think, 52 or 53. Okay. All right. Because then it's a...

That's, that's, who knows, man? Look, it's, we're five months out. That's an eternity. And we got to speculate on what's going to happen in August, then speculate what's going to happen in October. But I'll add this. We don't have any fertilizer because of the war between Ukraine and Russia. That severely limited our resources there. So they predicted this months ago, back in February, March. The fall harvest is going to be brutal. It's going to be down 40%.

We're going to see food costs skyrocket. There's going to be a shortage of diesel, meaning you're not going to have the food. And if it does come, I got to tell everybody right now, if you don't have emergency supplies or whatever, it sounds like you might be fighting over the last can of beans with Agnes

in the parking lot at a Walmart. Maybe that's a little too much though. But I'll tell you this, you're certainly going to be fighting over toilet paper because that already happened. Yeah. It's not crazy because we all just went through it. Or baby formula.

I know. You know, part of me is like, oh, man, to say you're going to be fighting over beans sounds crazy. People are already – there's videos of people fighting over baby formula. Yeah, because it's life and death. That's the problem with baby formula as opposed to almost any other product on the market. It is not replaceable. You can't just give a baby who's like three months old whole milk and be like, good luck to you.

And you can, but... What about Nest Quick if you mix it in? That's good, right? Probably not. No? I wouldn't do it. What about the GMO lab mate Bill Gates milk that he's developing and making on very coincidentally as well?

We could test it on goats. Coincidentally, look, if you're an investor and you see the news, who would not be investing in future materials, metamaterials, whatever you can do, like fake meat, graphene, for instance. Graphene? Graphene, yeah, yeah, yeah. What is that? It's hexagonal lattice monatomic carbon.

It's like a layer of carbon, a flat layer of atomic carbon, and it's hexagonal, so it looks like a honeycomb. It's actually something right here. It's a powder, black powder. It's pure carbon. Did I just open a Pandora's box? Let's lay the 21st century steel. It's an incredible building material with electric... Sorry. I'll get into it later. Drink.

They use it for making better batteries. It's a very powerful, wonderful... Touchscreen wallpaper. It's going to be revolutionary. My point here is, when you're watching the collapse in this way, you're going to be investing in food, farmland, raw materials, chickens. Bill Gates is buying farmland. He's making fake meat, and he's making fake breast milk.

How convenient. That aligns perfectly with his agenda. I mean, he's a businessman. He wants to invest in what he needs to invest in. It makes sense, doesn't it? He is very good. He's definitely cornered the market, to say the least. I could say a lot more about this. But from everything that I'm seeing, I think in the future, there's going to be a lot more economic instability. I think that's without a doubt definitely happening

here in the United States. I think we're going to be seeing more limited supplies, random items that are not going to be available. I don't think it's going to be as bad as it will be in places like in Africa and the Middle East, which are definitely expected to deal with the full brunt of this larger geopolitical proxy war that's happening inside of Ukraine, especially with the wheat and the fertilizer crisis, which will hit them. The richer countries will be able to afford a lot of the wheat, a lot of the food they will be importing out. Other countries that are poor in the Middle East and Africa,

they're going to be facing some significant problems that is going to be overwhelming. So I don't know how bad it will get for us in the United States, but let's take a look at what our leaders are telling us. In the story from Daily Mail, Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow brags that it doesn't matter to her how high gas prices are because she drives by every station in her electric vehicle. Let them eat cake. Let them drive Teslas. Okay, so if the meme of the

person drowning getting a high five from the person on the boat were a person, I was like, holy cow, I cannot imagine a better environment. That's insane. Remember when Colbert said the same thing? Yeah. He's like, I don't care if it's 20 bucks a gallon, I drive an electric said the same thing so so i was uh i was on facebook and i see these memes because i have like thousands of people follow me and someone posted uh gas prices

are not joe biden's fault or like you know something like that and then i responded with you know being snarky if you can't afford an electric car you can't afford to drive you we are and i was like we are all in this together with the environment and and you drive if you can't afford an electric car, you can't afford to drive. And I was like, we are all in this together with the environment, and you drive around with carbon emissions everywhere, caring nothing for this world. And then the lady who posted it, she was like, I can't afford an electric car.

And I said, oh, it's only $50,000. And she's like, I can't afford. Then what do you think is going to happen when you drive up gas prices or celebrate it? Yeah. I mean, this was the lesson of COVID was the war between the haves and the have-nots. You were essential and you could go to work or you were not essential and you couldn't go to work. I mean, this was in every way what they chose to shut down and what they chose to keep going. The best part is that plumbers and labor and stuff was like some of it was essential, but all of the journalists were essential.

It was like, okay, that's okay. Everyone else go home. But if you're a blue check, Washington post reporter, you're good. Yeah.

You think that, uh, you guys ever follow saltwater as a fuel? You looked into that at all? No. Some people are burning salt. We just got John Kansas. We should pull this up in the after show.

Maybe he was, uh, running microwaves through saltwater, looking for a cure for cancer. And one frequency lit it on fire, saltwater, just a, just a frequency. And then, then you know haven't heard a lot about it for 12 years but maybe because it's nonsense there's a video on youtube of him doing it and the other scientists are like we should talk about it on the after show but i mean there's a video on youtube about

how the earth is flatting come on i'm not saying the earth's not flat you're saying it's not well i'm saying if it's true that saltwater has a lot of potential energy in it, if we really could burn the stuff, why is it like a cabal that's intentionally – is this just like a wealth transfer? They're going to charge as much as they can for oil until people can't pay any more? Let's entertain the idea that you can burn saltwater. I don't know if that's true or not. I'm not – there's probably someone in the chat like –

Burn might not be the right word, but like, you know, Release heat from, release. Yeah. The issue is that, you know, I did some reporting on the desalination plants in California. It's actually really bad. We cannot just pull water from the ocean.

It creates brine, which then sinks to the bottom and causes serious problems. So the idea that we can extract from the oceans is not a long-term solution to anything. So even if we could take salt water and use it for some kind of fuel, you're going to have byproducts, you're going to have waste products. So that doesn't seem like a solution.

Jeez, I mean, oil has given us enough of a byproduct problem as we go. Well, look at batteries. These electric cars, they're not made out of some fairy-winged Al Gore coming off and pooping them out of his nether regions. They come... These electric batteries don't come out of nowhere.

They're not magic. They aren't just made out of environmentally friendly people. We know that because you can't get them. Exactly. And there's a limit in getting them. And there's a shortage in getting them. And when you do get them, it is extremely destructive to the environment.

There's a huge entire long process and a lot of even the solar panel stuff, a lot of it is just bigger scams. And when you look at the, quote, carbon footprint of getting, you know, they say you get it from sand. No, you don't. The way of getting it, it's so complicated.

It has such an effect on the environment. It really makes you question this entire larger scheme as a Ponzi scheme. Recycling is also. Yeah, recycling also another scam that a lot of people don't like to talk about. A lot of the recycled material literally was shipped over to China. China just dumped it into the ocean, and now we have whole islands filled with plastic. So there are legitimate issues that we could talk about when it comes to the destruction of our environment.

We don't talk about that. There's elaborative Ponzi schemes that literally transfer the wealth from poor people to rich people all in the name of fighting the environment, literally giving the money to the people destroying the environment, which is bonkers. I was in Chicago, this is like 15 years ago, and they had these big city garbage bins and there's one hole that says recycle and one hole it says garbage and it goes to the same place and they both go to the same shoot that was like i looked at it i'm like wait a minute it just goes on a slide into one garbage can but i still i know this intellectually and yet i still cannot not do it it's like been

ingrained from childhood where you have to separate the cardboard and the plastic and the garbage, and I can't not. If it's got food material on it, you can't recycle it anyway. I know. It's all nonsense, and yet I have this OCD that I cannot not do it. I was flying through, I think I was in Dallas, and I ordered an Arnold Palmer or something. The lady comes and she brings it to me, and I'm

in Texas, and she gives me a paper straw. And then I laughed, and I was like, paper straws, huh? And then she goes, some dumb little girl complains about plastic, and now we me a paper straw. And then I laughed and I was like, paper straws, huh? And then she goes, some dumb little girl complains about plastic and now we can't have straws anymore. And then I started laughing. I was like, you get it. You know exactly what's up. Shout out to Boyan Slat and the Ocean

Cleanup Project. Have you guys been following his work? I interviewed him when he went to Bilderberg. He actually gave me an interesting comment about his take there. But he's also a fascinating, extremely young person that has been doing some really fascinating work when it comes to cleaning up the mess from essentially the Chinese dumping all the trash into the ocean. And all the developing countries. The Pacific Gyre, that giant Texas-sized swirling patch of plastic trash.

He's out there with these giant ropes cleaning it up. But where does it go when he cleans it up? He brings it back to shore, and then they've got to figure out what to do with the plastic. You can break it back down into oil if you heat it up with low oxygen or no oxygen environment. You can reconvert it into fuel. There's bacteria that started eating it. Yeah, there's bacteria. There's also mushrooms.

Pestealopsis microsporae is a fungus that can consume it, turn it into sugar. Turn it into sugar? Yeah, you grind it up into little plastic pellets and then you run it through an aqueous solution and spray it with the fungus with the spores and then over like a week

it breaks it down into sugar. That's cool. Let me read a little bit from this article. This is funny. The average cost of an electric vehicle is $56,437

which is approximately $10,000 higher than the industry average. So these, I'm just, I'm really hoping that whatever ends up happening in November, we never forget the let them drive Teslas line. And it becomes like a thing like, let them drive Teslas.

You know, these people are just like, they're complaining about gas prices. Why don't they just drive Teslas? Yeah. Buttigieg said it. He's like, people should buy electric cars. There's not enough of them. There's no batteries. There's no cars.

That's why the demand of them. There's no batteries. There's no cars. That's why the demand of them is going up. I just placed an order for a Ford Transit that will arrive maybe at the end of the year. We're hoping. Tesla's backordered

incredibly long. Prediction. I think Joe Biden will likely invoke the Defense Production Act and some kind of, the Democrats will introduce some kind of bill.

Magic. Massively fund electric vehicle production in this country. And like cars, big rigs. That would help Elon Musk. You said China wrong, Tim. You said China.

Because Biden's probably going to be giving all the business to China. Probably. More than anywhere else. That's where he's buying the solar panels that he's importing. I'm saying when the diesel shortages hit in August, you think gas prices are a problem? Look, if the truckers are going to be spending 10 bucks a gallon on diesel yeah a lot of them are gonna be like i'm not driving anymore yeah then your products are gonna skyrocket so i think joe biden's gonna step in and be like

we got a problem with prices and shortages man come on we gotta have to do the defense production it's gonna be like fruits and vegetables that are gonna fly off the shelves and that will be completely scarce gone yeah it took him a really long time to actually admit that there was a baby formula shortage and he didn't really do anything about it so i wonder if he's actually going to do anything about that all you guys think you're going to have strawberries come october people people have no more strawberry ice cream no the things that need to be shipped and shipped quickly not going to happen yeah that's right yeah so you know whenever i go to the store, you know what really bugs me?

The strawberries, you got to like check them. You got to open it up and make sure there's no mold in there. And then sometimes you do, after a couple of days, they're all moldy. And that's because

they have to be transported very quickly. But if you buy the strawberries that last more than three days, they're tasteless. They're gross, yeah. So there's no middle ground. Or frozen strawberries.

I have really strong feelings about strawberries. Yeah, me too. Avocados, gone. Or frozen strawberries. I have really strong feelings about strawberries. Avocados. Gone. So $12.92 at Costco for a six-pack. Whoa! Two bucks an avocado!

That's the millennial apocalypse. How are we going to have our avocado toast? I know. I just saw it on Instacart and I was like, oh, that's not going to happen. Have you been tracking prices? Yes. Of course she has. I just said $12.92 for a

six-pack of avocados at Costco. Semi-rhetorically. So we went out to eat and we went to a Mexican restaurant. It was, I think, me and three other people and the bill was $100. That's low. I mean, I keep kosher, so I think that's low, but yes. But it's like

a year ago it was like $60. Really? Yeah, I mean, if we got a couple's like... It's not New York City. A year ago, it was like 60 bucks. Really? Yeah, I mean, if we got a couple tacos, it would be like 10 bucks a person. We're looking at 40 bucks with drinks. To get takeout for my family of seven, and I have small children, it's nowhere under 150. Wow.

Can't do it. We don't get takeout anymore. What area are you in, if you don't mind me asking? Silver Spring, Maryland. It's here, yeah. Oh, wow. I mean, also, I keep kosher, so you have to put a 30% tax on life.

Do I keep taxes? The local Chinese place, just the dinner special, went up over 35%. It is now $19 to get just a dinner special of Chinese food.

Wasn't it like $10 a year ago or something like that? No, I mean, his prices went up. I mean, I'm not blaming him. Avi, I'm not blaming you. But it's just crazy. And it's only the beginning. It's only going to get worse. Inflation is the largest tax on the people of the world.

And your wealth is literally being evaporated because of the financial policies of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Biden administration. I'll tell you what was really scary for me. We have our truck for transporting materials and stuff and for moving the trailers and the mobile studio. We had to get an oil change. We were told we can't do it. We don't have any oil.

We went to an oil change place and they told us they didn't have it and they couldn't help us. And then I was like, what? And they're like, you're going to have a special truck. It's a Dodge Ram. Diesel. Yeah. But they were just like, we don't have the oil. You't help us and then i was like what and they're like you're gonna have a special truck it's a dodge ram diesel yeah but they were just like we don't have the the oil you're gonna have to get you i'm sorry we don't have it what does everyone else do i mean like it's not like we live in like manhattan we had to drive and we were in the middle of nowhere we're out here you know west virginia we had to drive to a couple stores to find the right uh fuel oil we went to i think we went to like an auto zone or something and then we were like i forgot i forgot the oil that we need i'm sure everybody knows exactly what

we need and they had i think like four uh gallons or whatever and we needed i think three two or maybe maybe two or something and so i was like just get it all because they told us that there was a shortage and they couldn't help us they could they didn't have any and i'm like wow that was that's never happening in my life yeah in my life, every vehicle I've ever had, my friend's vehicles, they pull in, they're like, yep. I mean, that's what I did with baby. I nursed my baby. Like, he's never had formula. And when all of this stuff started, I bought a canister because I was like, if I get hit by a truck, I want that on hand.

One thing, people are mentioning in the Super Chats, DEF shortages. What is DEF? So I think 10 years ago, the U.S. passed a bill requiring all new diesel, maybe it was longer than this, but all new diesel vehicles need to have diesel exhaust fluid, which is basically urea and water. And so when we're filling up the RAM with gas, there's actually two holes, a small one and a big one. If you go to a truck stop, you can pull out the DEF and stick it in and it smells like piss. That's what it is. But we import it. And so there's already shortages. If the truck doesn't

have it, it gives you a warning and says speed will be reduced to five miles an hour. That is dystopian. Is it a part of their global warming? Yes. What DEF does is it bonds with the fuel so that instead of making a pollutant or whatever, it makes water or something.

Or something like that. It's like a nitrogen something. I think a lot of people, EGR deleted their diesel trucks, and they don't have to do that. Correct. And I think there's some local state jurisdictions that made that illegal, but it's kind of hard to find out sometimes. But people are going to start hacking their vehicles. Oh, yeah.

They're going to try and find ways to reduce the cost in whatever way they can. At the end of the day, I don't know how much you can hack. $7 a gallon. Biodiesel. Make your diesel from corn. I don't know, man. People are going to be driving... But that's not effective. I'm surprised that the government is not having more of a dialogue about getting people to become self-sustainable.

It still seems like they're like, hey, wait for us to fix things for you. Wait for us. Wait for us. Right. I mean, they're saying, you know, drive a Tesla, but you have to spend $55,000. Minimum. If you could get it. If you're lucky to get it because those are the regular prices that you could preorder.

I know people that are making money just off pre-ordering Teslas because of the value of how much they've been rapidly increasing. So they order one that they're going to get in a year or two years. And then, of course, their value of it skyrockets up and the value of the battery goes up. So they sell it as soon as they buy it and they make a profit off of it. And when you pre-order, you don't even put down the money, right? You put down like $100. I think now they want $200, whatever it may be, $500. I mean, I don't

know. I put down a deposit on a Ford Transit this week, so I'm an expert on a Ford Transit. What do you think the White House is talking about in these trying times? Press a guess. Matthew McConaughey makes powerful appeal for gun control at White House because this is something I care so deeply about. Seeing celebrities come out

and talk about gun control when gas is $ bucks a gallon. It's just it's so smart. Good job is brilliant. And the poverty that they're creating will lead to more crime will lead to more people. They all have armed guards. That's why they want to take the guns away. They all have armed guards.

So it's actually not really Matthew McConaughey's problem. So this is the next story. In an emotional appearance at the White House briefing room on Tuesday, Matthew McConaughey made an emotional appeal for greater gun control measures at once evoking anguish and hope. How, he asked, can we make the loss of these lives matter? Oh, so he's outright saying he's exploiting the tragedy for political gain. It was nice of Yahoo to write this press release as a news story. Yeah, did you say in an emotional appearance he made an emotional plea? That's really considerate.

Appeal to emotions rather than logic. He brought the shoes of one of the children there, and he also brought a painting of one of the children there that lost their lives. This is also on the heels of one of the teachers coming out and also now during that incident talking about another important aspect of the story that again contradicts the police official version. There's so much to this that again is filled with just emotion so you don't rationally think about exactly what happened here.

But it wasn't even a real emotion. He was looking at a script like for half the talk. It wasn't like a, I mean you call it a speech, but it was basically a cold reading of a script. It was so obnoxious. And you were saying before we started, it wasn't even that. No, he's like a TV and film actor trying to do theater, and he's shuffling his feet, looking all nervous, looking down. At least get off book if you're going to try and lie to me. Make me think that you believe what you're saying.

Dude, he said, this is a quote, we need to raise the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 rifle to, and then he looks at his notes, 21. He doesn't even know what he's talking about. It's like the most basic talking point. He didn't even know what it was. And meanwhile, he's able to afford private security. He's able to afford guys walking around with guns that are going to protect him. And he's making the argument that, of course, no, you can't have that. No, you're not responsible enough to do that.

He flippantly said red flag laws, which would get people with medical marijuana licenses to get their doors kicked in if they don't want to get their gun over you know like come on man what is he what is he thinking well i'm pretty sure if you have medical marijuana you can't get a gun you can't not in maryland no no not anywhere yeah what about people that have a gun they get a medical marijuana unless you're hunter biden unless you're hunter biden you can do whatever you want that's interesting that's fair if so um if you guys in the chat, if you have weapons already and then get a medical marijuana card, I wonder what happens. But you cannot buy a gun.

So if you go to a gun store, it asks you, are you an illicit user of any of those? And it says in bold letters, note, marijuana is illegal at the federal level and you must. Well, that's a problem in itself. They call it a narcotic at the federal level. It's considered a narcotic. Isn't it Schedule 1? Schedule 1 narcotic. Like heroin.

I'm such a nerd. I just, I'm like, no, I'm really boring. I don't do any of these things. Please give me my gun now. It's incredible. The history of marijuana being illegal is insane to begin with. Harry J. Anslinger colluding with, what's the paper magnate? The paper industry.

William Randolph Hearst. Yeah, William Randolph Hearst. They basically went and they did this propaganda piece called Reefer Madness and scared a bunch of people and then they made it illegal. Basically it was the foundation of our country. I don't care for smoking weed or anything like that, but it sounds like gun control to me. Because you've got a lot of young

people who don't know or don't care. You've got people who walk down the boardwalk in California and they're told, just spend five bucks and get a weed card, and they're all disqualifying themselves from having guns. That's insane. That's one way to do it, right? Yeah, as they're registered with the state. And there's been many instances, especially in Colorado, California, where you hear people

denied the ability to defend themselves because of going through this process. Then you hear about the FBI not actually being able to get through all of their backlog of background checks. So I don't know. Well, that's why we have the 72-hour release. But they still can't get through it. Well, right. But this doesn't matter because after 72 hours, it's gone.

Right. And you get your gun. Joe Biden's trying to get rid of that and that would effectively ban all guns. All of them. Period. How? So if right now the rule is

you have to get a background check when you buy a gun from an ffl right uh for the average person you get researched and within 5-10 minutes you're cleared right however sometimes you get delayed if the fbi does not complete the background check within 72 hours you get your gun right if that 72 hour release is removed as per joe biden's you know demand then the fbi will say we'll get to it when we get to it. And then you never get the gun. I mean, that actually happened. So I got my first gun in Highland Park, New Jersey, which is like one of the most liberal townships.

Yeah, no, it's bad. It's bad. They banned fracking. Like, this is how they spend their time. And the hoops that I had to jump, the illegal hoops I had to jump through to get my gun license were completely illegal. There's nothing I could do about it. They just kept on calling me into the back office. Are you sure?

Are you sure? And then they were sort of misogynist and infantilizing because I had my kids with me. And they were like, are you concerned about your safety? Are you concerned about the safety of your children? I'm like, I am concerned about your ability to do your job in a timely way, and I would like the ability to defend myself and my children because I don't trust you, sir. You, you, police officer, you, because you're not very good at your job.

I had the cops in New Jersey telling me to get a gun. Really? Yeah. Some guy tried breaking in, and the cop was like, if it were me, I'd answer the door with a shotgun. And I was like, I don't have one. He's like, well. You might want to get one.

And I was like, okay. And they all lied to me as to how to do it. Well, the thing that kills me about this story is that the lesson of this Texas shooting is that we should never have guns. After we watched what the cops did standing out there for an hour, what was an hour? I would rather have a gun to protect myself and my children because the mom who jumped the fence, she's the hero of the story. And the Border Patrol agent who borrowed the shotgun of his barber, he is the hero of the story. And I am not super interested in entrusting my children and my safety in the hands of those people. And I'm a back the blue person.

And I'm definitely not. But what happened in Evaldi is not rare it's not uncommon this happens a lot this happened throughout other school shootings uh especially just one of them but there's other events my friend joe lizito dealt with this entire situation as police officers were watching as he was stopping a serial killer getting stabbed in the head police officers are have argued in many states and even on the federal level they have no duty to protect absolutely and it's important for people to understand so for them to use this emotional kind of event in order to push for gun control so people have to depend on the police is absolutely

insane disingenuous and just absolutely stupid. And the only way they could do it is if they have enough emotions. And this is why we're seeing such hyperbolic language. And this is why we're not seeing the mom who had to jump the fence. Yeah. And that mom right now is being threatened, according to her. She came out saying that she's threatened by police for speaking out against them. Yeah.

I mean, this is what happened in Parkland. It disappeared so fast once it became clear what had happened, and they don't want to talk about it. No. The story became the hog. Was his name Andrew Hogg? David Hogg. David Hogg, thank you.

The story became David Hogg and all of these things instead of the dad who kind of stood up and was like, I'm sorry, can we have a conversation about what happened with the police department? Yeah, the teacher came out today. The teacher that was in the classroom where he lost all of his students came out and said he had to pretend that he was dead for over an hour. He heard police officers, and then he said that they retreated. They went away. And when he went away, the shooter started again hurting small children.

And this, again, contradicts the official story of what the police officers were telling us that day. That they were outside. No, they left. They retreated. They ran away. And then the shooting actually continued and escalated and more people lost their lives when they didn't need to and the cops are right there. It's disgusting. It's absolutely insane. So I don't know if this

panned out. This was like a sort of I heard it originally when all of this stuff happened. They were telling kids to yell out. Yep, that's one story as well. And that happened a sort of, I heard it originally when all of this stuff happened. They were telling kids to yell out. Yep, that's one story as well. And that happened. One of the teachers, this teacher that came out today did an interview with ABC News and he said specifically how

we heard the police officers outside, we thought they were coming in, we thought they were rescuing, and then they just left. And then one student said, hey, help me, I'm here. And then the monster came in there and then obviously shot and killed the child. David Hogg tweeted about not allowing, not having immigrants come to the United States. It was like the weirdest gun control talking point. He was like, someone should tell immigrants not to come to the United States.

We should issue warnings in their state, their country should issue warnings. And I was just like, that's just like, I don't know what his point point was trying to be but he went like anti-immigrant to argue for guns like i don't know he was trying to where he goes was he trying to art yeah right i just think that we should just let him talk all the time i i'm i'm of the mind every time he opens his mouth we should all just listen and just learn agreed i think so too if we ignore him he's we ignore him and belittle him, he's going to get more powerful. So it really is someone that we should communicate with. Well, no, she's saying that the more he talks, the more he discredits himself. I know.

I understand. But I also think that he's the kind of person that if you make fun of him and act like he's not a big deal, will become way more politically powerful than you intend. Well, look, when half of the political space in this country is people who are willfully ignorant and then accuse everyone else of being willfully ignorant, I don't know how you solve for that problem anyway. I mean, you see that in no more clear context than with guns. They do not understand the very basic mechanics. Yeah, I'm thinking about policing because I'm kind of with you, Luke, that you can't really rely on cops to save you. But I think, okay, we start from the beginning again.

Then you have your homeschooling, your kids in your house, you have guns to protect it. But that's not scalable because you can't be on guard all day. That's why we develop specialization as a species. We have people that specialize in defense of the community. Well, no, no, no. Armed societies are polite societies. And if you look at some examples specifically, when a criminal knows that someone could defend themselves, they're not going to treat them like a victim. They're going to know that there's going to be consequences if they aggress against somebody else. I understand that.

But coordinated attacks, you can't – no one dad is going to be able to stop. I am probably the only person on my block who has guns, and I'm very okay with everyone knowing it. Because at the end of the day, it's not my house getting robbed. Yeah. Luke, I think your power cable might be on your microphone or something. Yeah, I'm trying to troubleshoot it, but I also gotta switch cameras. But on that note, Bethany, there's this viral video, James O'Keefe

recently posted it, where they went door to door and asked people if they were in favor of gun control, and when they said yes, he was like, we have this sign saying proud gun-free home would you put that in your front they're like no no like why not because then people would rob us and he's like sounds like you're saying you need a gun to defend your home the funny thing is these people who won't do it no they don't need guns because everyone else has them yeah

and so i agree people should be armed i think or at least have the right to arm themselves and let people know we're armed um but on top of that, you're still going to need a community police force at some level because you can't expect parents to always be on guard. If you're teaching your kid, you're not on guard. So at some point, you're going to have to rely on your community to protect you at some point in some instances. Maybe it's just gotten too big, like having a small police force. I saw this chaos in Philadelphia the other night, maybe two days ago or something. And there were like four cops, I think, where they are at this huge crowd of like 100 kids, 100 people out in the street shooting each other.

Yeah, well, the crazy aspect is, you know, the same kind of Democratic Party establishment, the same kind of individuals that are telling you, you can't have a gun, you shouldn't have a gun, are the same individuals that are usually financed and sponsored by individuals like George Soros that literally are financing DAs and public prosecutors that let criminals leave and get out of jail after committing very horrible, violent crime. There was a crazy incident in Los Angeles recently with a mother that was run over by a crazy criminal. The criminal got five to seven months out of camp in response to him running over a mother and her child. Again, there's been so many instances of just horrible, violent people being let out into the streets,

and these are the same people doing that, telling you, you can't defend yourself. You can't have, you know, we need more laws to go after law-abiding citizens that, of course, won't be following the context and pretext that they want them to. Let's talk about a new law. Oh, yeah, this guy.

We got a story from the Post Millennial. Love this guy. California lawmaker who relaxed punishments for sex offenders proposes mandatory Drag Queen 101 class for K-12 students. Yes. So when the left demands something and the GOP ignores it, they get it. When the left demands something and the GOP ignores it, they get it. When the left demands something and the GOP pushes back,

they recoil and then demand something twice as bad. So we have all of these stories. You may have seen the story where there's a big neon sign saying it's not going to lick itself and children are dancing

with sexualized adult performers at a nightclub that was doing a family event, which is not for families, but they're claiming it is. And in response to this, this guy is like, why don't we make it mandatory in schools? Because this is what they want to do.

In response to a Texas state representative announcing he will file legislation to ban drag shows from having children in their audience, California State Senator Scott Weiner Is it Weiner or Weiner? I'm going to go with Weiner on this one. Yeah, let's go with that. Proposed offering drag queen curriculum in schools.

Responding to a tweet from Rep. Brian Slatton of Texas, he said, this guy just gave me a bill idea. Offering drag queen 101 as part of the K-12 curriculum, attending drag queen story time will satisfy the requirement. I don't think he's completely serious. I think he's just poking the bear. But the fact that they've gone beyond defending it and are now publicly being like, let's do more.

Let's do more. Let them keep saying it. I know. That's how I feel, too. I mean, the end of the day, it's not a mystery why there's going to be an absolute tsunami. And it's not just this stuff. It's not just the over-sexualization of children. It's also the fact that parents over the last two years were watching their kids on Zoom and thinking, oh, this wasn't very impressive.

This wasn't very good. And I now know, I mean, if you look at the test scores out of where I live, Montgomery County, Maryland, used to be like 65 to 75% of kids were sort of adequately prepared to do algebra in middle school. The latest testing is 15%. And so parents aren't just seeing this, but they're seeing this instead of math. You've got to make it fun, man. We need to monetize, gamify algebra for kids where they get tokens and stuff. Math is racist. They do that in homeschooling.

I mean, this is the beauty of opening the market. There's a viral video going around where someone said that he went into this event, and there was a little boy, and then the bartender asked him if he was gay, and he said no, and his mom went, yes, he is gay. He says, no, I'm not, and he got really angry. Munchausen. It's Munchausen. Or I don't know if that's Munchausen. That's a mother who's like, I'm a special mom.

I have a special. She wants to fit in. She wants to be a part of whatever this is. I don't know how many of these parents there actually exist. I mean, I would like to know if this guy actually has children because at the end of the day. So Heroes of Liberty, the books that I do, we were just reviewed by Current Affairs and the reviewer had no children. He's like the socialist with cats and he has no children. And he's like, this is what parents should be teaching their children, and this is what they should not be teaching.

But none of them actually have kids. None of them have any skin in the game. They do. They have your kids. Right. I mean, that's the thing. They want to capture our kids in K-12 kids. So, again, in Montgomery County, where I live,

there was just sort of an announcement put out on, like, the mommy listservs that normally at our local zoned elementary school, they've hit 100 kids by now in kindergarten enrollment. At this point, they had 100 kids. Right now, they have 55 kids signed up for kindergarten. And they're starting to panic because by June 30th, they're going to start having to fire kindergarten teachers because they're not going to have enough kids registered. And they keep on passing the buck. They got federal money over COVID to sort of inflate their budget because people were pulling their kids out. But that federal money is now gone and they're screwed. I want to pull up this tweet from Libs of TikTok, who writes, the mayor of Apex, North Carolina announced that the drag queen part of

the pride event has been canceled after feedback received from citizens. But it's more interesting than that. The letter from the mayor says, it continues to be my goal to ensure that all voices in our community are represented. I have received a variety of feedback regarding the drag queen story hour at the upcoming Apex Pride Festival.

Given that this part of the event was not originally presented when the event was proposed, I met with representatives from the organization hosting the event, the Apex Festival Commission, and presented the feedback I've received from citizens. Today I was notified that the Apex Festival Commission has taken the feedback

into careful consideration and has decided to remove the Drag Queen Story Hour from the event. They tried sneaking it in. They didn't announce it. They get their access and permitting the event they tried sneaking it in they didn't announce it they get their access and permitting whatever they need and then they add child sexual grooming they don't even have to sneak it in this is something that they love doing so i'm kind of surprised that this was the response because this is their entire raison d'etre is like sexualizing children so i don't know why they had to sneak it in when it's

like normally just you know part of pride week now i think they they know that if parents the average parent sees this there's going to be a major backlash i mean but this is not out of school right like this is just a public event that people can attend well so here's an interesting moral question the what the what there's a mountain bailey kind of thing going on where in the bailey you have them outright just sexualizing kids it's not going to lick itself and then when you call it out they retreat and say it's just a costume party it's all that's all it is a pageant show and then and that's like dude they're sticking dollar bills in thongs there's photos there's queen lactia, a nine-year-old boy,

touching a nude adult man in a photo shoot. These are grooming kids sexually. That is overt abuse. Yeah. Yeah, no, I don't get it. Yeah, and of course they were also talking about drug abuse, and there's different layers of this. I think this all kind of coincides with a larger depopulation agenda

if we go down the rabbit hole. But to me, there's a lot of different aspects of this that really do need to be understood here. And parents being responsible for their children is one of them. I feel like a lot of them feel that they could just give a screen, give a computer, put them on Netflix, and their child is going to be okay. And they're not. You need

to be a part of your child's life. You used to be able to outsource. You used to be able to put your kids in front of Disney and bring them to the school library. Now, especially in the month of June, if you go to your local library and you look at the children's section, it is wall to wall.

May I just say that I am absolutely in love with the fact that they are turning parents into a voting bloc. I wish them the best with this because this transcends everything. This transcends class, race. It transcends whether you're gay or straight. If you have kids

and you care about your kids, you're going to push back on this so hard. You're going to flip their boat. It's going to be great. Well, we saw with Glenn Youngkin. And it was funny. I met this mom at a dance... My kid does a dance class

in very blue Maryland. And she walked up to me and she sort of gave me a little bit of her backstory. And we were texting later to get our kids together. And I was like, oh, you're one of those blue, red-pilled moms for Glenn Youngkin. And she's like, you bet I am because I saw what they were doing to my kids on Zoom

and they did not care. I mean, it's not just that they didn't do it well, it's that they just did not care. And so what really frustrated me about this call for everyone to enroll their kindergartner in school or the kindergarten teachers will lose their jobs. When did the kindergarten teachers express any concern over children over the last years?

I know that the unions were sort of the larger villains, but I didn't see that many teachers coming out and saying, we need to be in person and I need to teach reading without masks on myself or the children. We did not see that in masks. And the psychological negative impacts of the mask wearing, of specifically the distance learning, is going to have long-term consequences for children that are not going to be able to be socially available for people. We're going to turn an entire generation into,

and I don't say this in a bad way, into autistic. They are not going to be able to form these social bonds. My kid does occupational therapy, and most of the occupational therapist patients are on the autism spectrum, and they've told us, like, this is bad. Or have good human interactions with the fellow children and fellow friends. And another aspect of this to really kind of ascertain is that they're not going to be able to have healthy relationships,

whether with friends or with partners or with lovers. And then you have the aspect of pornography and how readily available it is and how it literally rewires children's brains. And then you teach people not to have, you know, you're essentially leading people down a pathway where they're going to be alone and miserable for the rest of their life. And I think this is all done on purpose because then you have the perfect consumer. You could control someone. You could enslave someone when they're an individual.

But when they're a family, when they're a group or in their unit, it's harder to control and subjugate a population. If you want to explain to people who don't understand the damage masks do, it's actually quite simple. Set the volume on a TV just low enough to where it's kind of hard to hear, and then have something play on the TV, and then ask this person what they said,

and they'll tell you. Then block their view of the person's mouth and play it again, and they'll say, I couldn't hear it. But why the volume's the exact same? And then learn how to read that way. One of the most underreported stories of all the school stuff is the

violence in schools. And people are like, why? We wouldn't see this coming. When you dehumanize children, put them in literal glass boxes, don't let them go near anyone, and tell them that they are vectors of disease for two years, there's going to be some anger. And then over-sexualize them and confuse them with all these other things.

And put them in front of a screen where they have ready access to the pornography. Exactly. And was it Michael Malice who said that schools are maybe the one place where children experience violence or something like that? Yeah. What did he say? On par with prisons, I think, is what he said. The same people who build the prisons build the schools.

So what do you expect? I mean, especially when you look at the larger, people call it an education system. It's, again, an institution that indoctrinates children for the political benefit of the people controlling that institution. And this is why David Rockefeller was instrumental in creating the modern-day education system, trying to create factory workers that were going to be good workers for him and no one else. You treat everyone exactly the same and everyone sort of goes to the machine. Are you familiar with John Taylor Gatto? Yes.

He does incredible work. And if you don't know who that is, you should definitely look at John Taylor Gatto. So he was a teacher, actually. He won Teacher of the Year in New York City. And during his speech, he sort of stood up and said, this entire machine is broken. We treat children as cogs in a machine. And it's unnatural to teach anything when you tell them, okay, read this poem, and then a bell dings, and then they have to move on. It treats children as if they are rats, basically. Absolutely.

Yeah. And the homeschool philosophy that we follow, because I homeschool all my kids, not all of them, obviously, I have a baby but um it's called charlotte mason and it just basically yeah and it talks about sort of her entire philosophy is the respecting the personhood of children and treating every child as an individual and it's this is what the education system should be and you know there are charlotte mason schools that i mean this and this is what the education system should be. And, you know, there are Charlotte Mason schools that, I mean, this is why people are flocking away from public schools, because they treat children as cogs. Homeschooling is on the rise, which I think is absolutely incredible,

absolutely awesome. Pods are also starting to exist. Entire networks are starting to exist, where people in a community are coming together and saying, hey, I'm a physicist. Hey, I'm a mathematician. Hey, I'm a mathematician. Hey, I know history. On the way here, I was talking to an art teacher.

She homeschools her kids, and I said, can you teach an art class for all of the other Jewish homeschoolers in our community? I was literally on the phone with her on the way here. There's huge networks popping up, and a lot of people weren't talking about this. New Hampshire just passed a lot of new legislation allowing people to homeschool even more freely and even have more access to taxpayer funds if they do homeschool. And they have entire communities of individuals,

especially a part of the Free State Project, where you have an expert in one particular field that teaches an entire group of children on the very specific issues that he's an expert on. My friend Jay Noon does this with welding. He has little kids welding and building stuff and constructing stuff. He calls it, I think he calls it man camp. He might get canceled for that.

But Jay Noon does great work, and he literally teaches young women, young boys how to build stuff out of their hands. And it's incredible stuff what they're able to do when they're taken out of this confined space where they're told just to regurgitate something. And they're told, hey, you have free reign to create something. And the things they come up with is absolutely incredible. Kids have so much potential.

They have so much creative energy. They have so much incredibleness within them. And the school system, the indoctrination system, intentionally suppresses that to make them good slaves. People think when you say indoctrination system that you're sort of feeding all this drag queen stuff, which obviously is happening. But I think

that the larger point of indoctrination isn't, and the damage isn't that messaging, the progressive messaging, which I obviously think is really damaging. It's treating children like they are cogs and like rats. Rinse and repeat. Say this. Killing their love of learning.

Remember this. Think about how we read books in school. You have to write a book report, and then you have to illustrate it, and then you have to... And I hated the book by the end of it. I never wanted to see it again. And then when I read it as an adult, I'm like, oh, Grapes of Wrath is actually a really good read. It's a pretty good read. And so I'm rereading all of this classic literature as an adult. And I'm like, you

murdered this piece of beautiful literature. And I mean, this is schools. All of it. I mean, the only books that millennials have read is Harry Potter. Those are actually good. I defend them. Sure, sure, sure. I like Harry Potter for sure. But it's the only thing they've read. Right.

For pleasure, I would say. I mean, this is the problem with also putting kids in a pen for eight hours a day. At the end of the day, they're just fried. And then you put them in front of a screen, whatever. But they have no energy and no inertia to just read for pleasure and read for fun. I think we have to expand pods. So they're really hard to put together. Let me tell you, as someone who spent the last three years trying, it takes more coordination

because then you have to rely on other people. And I don't know if you remember group projects when you were a kid. So bad. Never rely on someone else to do it because no one does it as well as you do. So I don't know if they have these where you are, but in Colorado, when we were homeschooling, we had these co-ops where you could go and learn Latin and- Yeah, yeah. They're incredible, but they're super hard to form. And then, so this is like just my personality. I hate rules and I don't like people telling me what to do and a lot of the pod a lot of the co-ops near us were crazy with covid and so i just didn't want to partake and

a lot of them i mean we sort of fit into a sort of weird ideological box because we're jewish and because you know whatever and so it's hard to sort of find like-minded people but we're i mean we're trying to form that where i live but um but it's hard it's hard to coordinate what about doing it online coordinating online so we do so my kids do an online like hebrew class and whatever and the teacher is wonderful but i don't want my kids in front of a screen all day yeah not all day i would think there are some things you could learn online so they do so my kids do it like it's called gesher and like it's it's basically so the problem with the the jewish model and like my experience and my perception is that so in the jewish community

people 95 of people send their kids to jewish day schools like orthodox i'm not talking about reform so if you actually like care about your faith um you will send your kids to these schools but they're like 20 30 40 000 a pop and,000, $40,000 a pop. And so it's a kind of birth control because people are like, oh, we can only really afford to have two or three kids. One kid it is. Yeah, yeah. So people have two or three kids, and so it forms, you know, sort of becomes birth control basically. And so what some people do but very few people is that they pull their kids out,

and I'm talking like 2% of people homeschool right now. And the woman who runs this program that my kids do, she runs all of the Jewish classes online on zoom. Um, but it's hard. I mean, it's hard for, I mean, the, the Jewish community does not homeschool on mass and I do not understand it. It makes no sense because we have the financial constraints of not just the tuition, but also you have to live within walking distance of your synagogue. And so there's a Jew tax on your house because it's the home value and it's also the property taxes. And so it's really expensive to be Jewish, which is like, you know, there's a reason why there's all the stereotypes about us being cheap because we're really tight. Things are expensive. Kosher food

is also super expensive, and so I don't get why there's not more Jewish homeschoolers. I think I can easily attribute much of my success to the fact that I was homeschooled before kindergarten. So when I was growing up, when I'm a little kid, my mom's homeschooling me from our earliest memories until we even started kindergarten. And then I learned later on, none of my friends had any schooling, that they were three and

four years old doing very little, if anything. You know, getting a little bit of instruction from their parents, but mostly nothing. I was actually, you know, every day, we have grammar books, we have math books and vocabulary and all that stuff. And so I started researching schools because I despise them completely i did uh k through eighth grade and then i did a couple months of high school and then just stopped completely with all school yeah so you're there for an idiot was it you're there for an idiot because you oh oh of course absolutely and you didn't turn into anything yeah so so the issue is

you know i remember when the conversation around college was happening and people were surprised to learn you don't need a high school diploma to go to college. But all of my friends were convinced they had to have one, and I was like, once you turn 18, you can just go to community college, get an associate's, and then transfer to – You don't even have to turn 18. I have a friend, when she realized this, she was completely sold on homeschooling. Her, I think, sophomore age in high school, he's already going to community college. By the time he graduates high school at 18, he'll have an associate's.

Yeah, exactly. And so it's a complete waste of time. I remember when I was told, don't worry, high school is going to be different. And then what was it? Identical in every way. And I was like, how many times are we going to learn the exact same things over?

You're teaching us nothing. So I was like, I'm out, I'm done. Yeah, I went to New York City Public School. That was extremely Brooklyn. I don't want to kind of release the name of it. I went to two high schools. And when you're there, you have teachers that are absolutely horrible, that absolutely ruin learning, ruin literature, ruin your ability to even have basic functions.

And there's also teachers that do care. I had teachers growing up. I know four of them off the top of my head that used to say, okay, this is what they want you to learn. This is what's going to be on the test. Now here, let me tell you how the CIA brings a crack into the poor neighborhoods. Here, let me tell you about Iran-Contra. Here, let me tell you about JFK. Here, let me tell you about Iran-Contra. Here, let me tell you about JFK. Here, let me tell you about

Gulf of Tonkin. And there was four teachers throughout my entire life in New York City Public School that were absolutely incredible, caring, loving individuals that did a good job that actually made you understand what the world was really like, but that was rare.

And the vast majority of them, I just hated school because it was just like indoctrination. I love homeschooling. I'm super rah-rah. But the problem I think of conservatives is that we think that homeschooling is like a scalable solution for a lot of people. It's not. So here's the problem.

You had four teachers who were caring and whatever. When you get into the parenting world and you realize how few parents care about their own children, that I think is one of the most earth shattering. I've been saying this and people didn't like it. And I said, you've got how many parents that would prefer to have a job knowing it meant their children are being groomed than to risk their comfort and their access to resources? Not just their comfort. I'm just going to be really mean for a second. It's not just their comfort.

They just don't want to spend time with their own children. And this is something that I truly do not understand as a parent because, and Jordan Peterson talks about this, who your children are are basically, under the age of 10, a reflection on you. So if your child is a real, then that means that you're not a great person either. And I always say to my daughter,

because we have social issues, if the parent is liberal, they sometimes don't want their child playing with my child. And this has been a reoccurring issue in our family, unfortunately. And my daughter was really disappointed for some... I'm just going to be honest with you, honey. That person is a jerk. And their child, therefore,

is not someone you're going to want to play with socially because plus i don't why would you want to fall far why would you want your kids hanging out with them i mean that's exactly it the child is a jerk and it all i mean this is people keep on talking about sort of what this your child's socialization whatever with with homeschooling and i'm like it's a feature not a bug because i don't have to have my children play with any of those jerks kids i know who they're playing with. It's not about a jerk necessarily, but it's also about social contagions. Yes, 100%.

I was the bad kid in my class all growing up. I was the one that told all my friends about sex and drugs because I did not grow up in a great house. Oh, no, I did not grow up in a great house. And I was the one that told all my friends about, do you know what sex is? Do you actually, do you want to talk about like what that actually is? You were that person. Oh, I was awful. Oh my gosh.

I'm protecting my children from myself at seven. That's great. Yeah. Let's jump to this next story. This is fun. CNN's new CEO plans to prune partisan personalities

in programming. I hope they fire Brian Stelter. Poor Brian. Upon taking over for Jeff Zucker, Chris Licht has vowed to make changes among them as a reduction of partisan programming and on-air personalities. If he gets his way, on-air talent could be ousted if they can't adjust to a less partisan tone and strategy.

Here's what's going to happen. Brian Stelter is going to do a segment where he goes, this is exactly right. We shouldn't be partisan. It's funny how whatever the company wants to do, do he's just like of course that's the right answer but here's the problem for brian one day i don't know when it will be but one day they will actually make hiring and firing decisions based on ratings that is the day that brian sees the end of the road so i mean obviously i support this i think this is great but let's just make it a meritocracy That is the day that Brian sees the end of the road. So, I mean, obviously I support this.

I think this is great, but let's just make it a meritocracy. But if they did that, then Tucker would be on CNN. Yeah. I mean, it's crazy how the cable news used to be. Tucker was on MSNBC. Really? When? He used to have a bow tie. Yes, he did. He used to argue for...

MSNBC used to be kind of like corporate. Yeah, yeah. It was like a crossfire thing, right? No, no. I think MSNBC was considered to be like center-right or something. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's only recently that MSNBC turned into a far hard-left, weird, liberal Democrat thing. I think that's a lie.

Really? No, yeah. Sounds like fake news to me. They got bought by Comcast at some point. Interesting. What if that was it? Didn't they have Jesse Ventura on? And they canceled his contract because he criticized the war

when they told him to stop. Nice job, Jesse. Tucker Carlson was on MSNBC. Yeah, he's like the Sonson guy. You know when Comcast bought that? And Rachel Maddow and Jay Severin were featured guests. Interesting. Isn't it crazy how this stuff used to be?

Yeah. Now, I don't think Tucker Carlson, if anything, he's become more populist. Yes. So he used to be very staunch conservative. He was a conservative guy on Crossfire. So him being on MSNBC, MSNBC was not this hard left weirdo thing it is now. I think it's... But it looks like it's been moving less since 2008.

That's when they canceled Tucker. That's just what I'm seeing. I did not know this about MSNBC. I had no idea. I've only known them as... I'm glad it wasn't only me. I followed the news closely and I was like... So that's 2009 is when Comcast... Actually, they announced that they were buying NBC Universal,

and then it was 2013 when they actually bought Universal. Interesting. Black Rock, State Street, and Vanguard own 20% or whatever, 18% of Comcast. So it's just this media consolidation you see with the banks, with Wells Fargo now owns whatever else, other banks, and Comcast is just dictating the narrative. Yeah, the more you consolidate anything like that, I think the worse it's going to be. I think we are seeing all this corporatization

because at the end of the day, like three companies own everything. I bet you that more people watch your show on YouTube. More people listen to it, that's for sure. And I'm not talking about words they're hearing. I'm not saying they're hearing more people hearing. I'm saying they're actually listening. Yeah, no, I mean, this is the

Brian Stelter thing. You can respond to this show. It's a completely different ballgame. But this, I mean, that's why it's popular, though. Because people feel like they're invested in it. They are part of this. Yeah. Whereas Brian Stelter, when you watch it, you just feel like you're

on the receiving end of a really bad lecture. Who would sign up for that? Yeah, that media, that whole genre is gone. It doesn't make sense. I mean, some people, I guess, are used to it, so they're still comfortable with being talked at. So I just pulled up. Ad Week's ratings are up to date, but they don't let you read them unless you log in, and you can't log in because the system doesn't work for whatever reason.

But I pulled up. This is from National Media Spots. MSN – so Fox News, 1.5 million in – what is their number? Is this primetime? I don't know. I think it's primetime viewership peak. So Fox News gets 1.5 million. Their average viewer, though, is I think, what, 62? Yeah.

Yeah, kind of old. They do get a lot on the advertisers because oh my gosh yeah pocket catheters yeah but i but i think tucker gets around 400 to 500 000 key demo viewers which is uh basically what we get it's we get about the same number but we're not getting any of the other demographic right like that we don't get any target demographic so tucker gets you know three to five million people watching his show ten percent of them are key demo he has massive influence i wish that you hadn't said that now i'm just gonna sit here terrified the rest of the show i intentionally shield myself from this kind of information what how big the show yeah i just i

like to think of just sitting up it's really but it's but it's also different too because we get that over the life of the show so like i think off-season politics we're getting like 350 to 450 uh on youtube and then we get like 100 on the podcast then we do the clips which get another six to seven hundred right right so it's different from how cable cable tv works yeah but it's definitely changing and changing for the better so i what I'm wondering is, I'm wondering, you know, from an internal business perspective and from a cultural perspective, what's the upward limit of a show like this? Can we ever be as big as Tucker Carlson? It can be infinite. I don't think so.

With neural net, it can be infinite. Everyone on earth can know everyone on earth. It can really be like that. Well, I don't think that's possible right now, and there's no reason to predict in the foreseeable future that will be the case. Yeah, I would give it 70 years or something. When people watch cable TV, there's like seven channels they would choose from on cable news. And that means all of the conservative people are going to watch Tucker when Tucker's on. When it comes to the internet, you can watch this.

You can watch Viva. You can watch Jimmy Dore. You can watch this. You could watch Viva. You could watch Jimmy Dore. You could watch Crowder. It's made me realize how small the world really is when you break through. You make a YouTube video and then 18 million people know who you are the next day. And then with the neural net, I mean, I don't want to break the conversation and start talking about tech that doesn't exist yet. But it seems like we're headed towards an environment where we're more interoperable as humans. I think fame is going away. And I predicted this 10 years ago.

I was at, what is it called, NAB in Amsterdam, National Association of Broadcasters. And I was talking to these guys, and I said, fame as we know it is going away. And they're like, no, it isn't. That's not true. That'll never happen. And I said, what I explained to them was,

the Internet is decentralizing how we consume media. New clicks, new groups, new subcultures are emerging and they're exponentially emerging. So where it used to be that there were three channels to choose from, then there was five, then there was ten, you would have one guy on that nightly show with Johnny Carson

or whatever. How many guests would they have? Two or three. And so everyone in the country has to choose between these five channels. So you've got 100 million people all watching TV, 20 million watching this one show, and that one guy that's on it is seen by all of those people. Now,

there's 50 shows to choose from. Yeah, and I think that this is part of a larger sort of, our culture is sort of, we're not as connected anymore because it used to be that everyone used to watch the same shows and listen to the same music or whatever. And now you were talking about some stranger things before the show. I was like, I've never seen that show and I have no intention.

And I can do that. I can operate in a world where I've never seen that show because how often does stranger things come up in my everyday life? Not that often. But if this were 50 years ago and I hadn't seen Johnny Carson last night, I can't talk at the dinner table. I have nothing to say. And so I think that it's really sort of

not just bifurcating it, but just like atomizing all of us into our little bubbles. Is it a good thing or is it a bad thing? I think it's a bad thing. Well, it depends because it's also the decentralization of power and information. That's fair. It's a good thing when it's meritocratic. What's happening now is the establishment and the lefty cults are manipulating the platforms to prop up bad ideas.

When bad ideas are propped up against meritocratic ideas, then there's conflict. It's painful. I don't know if you call it good or bad, but spiritually it's painful to not know what other people are thinking or caring about. Also, powerful people manipulate the perception with bots and spam accounts and fake accounts to make ideas look more popular than they actually are if they have an agenda in pushing it. And that's why I think the Elon Musk spam kind of debate is a lot more important than we even understand right now. But another aspect to kind of look at here is that the corporate media, a lot of their viewership is dying off. They're slowly passing away of old age. And I think, Tim, you make a good statement.

I think it's the same kind of statement that Andy Warhol made when he said, in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. And I think with the digitalization of everything, I think that's where we're going. I think that's where we're at almost as a certainty in the near future. Yeah, I mean, you think about sort of America's sweetheart like Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock and all the, like. Do we have that today? Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Like, does that exist?

And to me, I'm very emotionally invested in Rachel Green, a.k.a. Jennifer Aniston's procreation. But now she's 55 and it's not going to happen. Those magazine covers are now over. And I'm not emotionally invested in anyone the same way I'm invested in Jennifer Garner. so will smith yeah well so he was one of the last ones because back in the day people were like do we really want to run non-stop of the nastiest coverage on someone that people kind of like a lot it's risky right if someone is hated and infamous well then you run the the hits and the tabloid garbage but if it's a celebrity you're like people are interested in celebrity life and lifestyles of the rich and famous now though, though, you can do them both. You can make a magazine called Celebrity Love and you can make a magazine

called Celebrity Gossip where one says Will Smith is the best and the other says Will Smith is garbage. Run them both, get both audiences and make money off the hatred

and the positivity. Yeah, Meghan Markle is like the key demo on that. I think it was so hard to watch Fringe. You can tell a lot by a person what they think about Meghan Markle. Yeah.

Why is that? He's a good person. This is Prince Harry's wife. I just can't stand the royal family. I disagree with you on that. Did you guys see the video of Meghan Markle talking to the little kid and the kid was giving her

the fingers? No, that was Prince Louis. I'm a royal. Tell me about it. I'm a royal fan. A royal. Tell me about it. I'm a royal fan. I've been imbibing intravenously all the royals. So you know a lot about lizards. What's up for a lizard? I did not know this is what I was walking into.

I'm a Gila monster guy myself. I got this new AI story generator. There's an AI program I just subscribed to. It's called OpenAI. It's really amazing. You can tell it to do anything. You can say, draft me a product proposal or give me a catchphrase. And I said, tell me a story about Donald Trump defeating the lizard people with his good friend, Alex Jones. And it wrote this really amazing story. A couple them i i ran where one was like trump was at a rally when in the stands he sees a couple lizard people in masks shouting

and he points points him out everyone starts booing and then he goes into the stands with alex jones like or he like it was it was just an absolutely ridiculous story one was like a lizard guy breaks into trump's house and he throws alex jones's book at him and hits him in the face knocking him out make me think of Scorpion from Mortal Kombat. Remember that? He would take his mask off and he had like a lizard mouth. We got the masks. Okay.

Now what's next? That wasn't Scorpion. Scorpion was a skull. Okay. So we could fire all of our writers. We're talking about Reptile. Reptile. Just be AI.

You know what I'm thinking, Luke? You mentioned corporate. You were talking about the corporations earlier. I think that when a corporation gets big enough, when it becomes a megacorp, that it should no longer be called a corporation, and it should have new laws and rules about what it can and can't do. Own land? No. You can't own land if you're

a... All sorts of stuff like this, like, oh, own software, private software code? No. You can't use that stuff if you're a mega-conglomerate. You should be broken up, first of all, so we've got to figure out ways to make the system so that it cannot grow to a place where we're going to ever have to break it up. Interesting proposal, but a lot of the rules and regulations

made the corporations as powerful as they are right now because they made smaller businesses and competitors at a disadvantage to the people who are friends with the politicians. So do you think more rules and laws will save that? That's a question that a lot of people are asking themselves. I'm a little bit more skeptical of that. I'm very libertarian for the most part, but there's one thing I think the government should be focused on is breaking up monopolies

and making sure people don't become economic slaves. But at the end of the day, they're the ones who are going to be able to get around all the laws. There's no law that you could write that would make Jeff Bezos do anything. Right. Well, you can make him free the software code of his systems. You can't make it legal. Copy left. You can't make it, but you can make it illegal not to.

I don't agree. All that happens is it's like there's 50 million cracks in the surface, and you are plugging one of those cracks. Yeah, but I can't give up. This is like if the Founding Fathers sit around like, there's nothing you can do to stop King George. Nothing. I would never, I'm not living that life. It's not the same thing. I mean, it's kind of like we're having that same conversation all over again

with corporations. Now it's Jeff Bezos. You're inverted. It would be like the king saying, there's nothing we can do to... But like if the founding fathers gave up before they started, I can't give up on this. There are definitely ways we can use law and order to protect ourselves.

The government would be the crown in this analogy. I think it's Bezos. I think Bezos and the, not Jeff, particularly Jeff, but I'm saying Megacorps are the modern day monarchy. The problem is we're not fighting fair. Like, at the end of the day, we're all if we're fighting

against Jeff Bezos, it's in the court of law and they have the power in that circumstance. If we're fighting like hand-to-hand combat, like they did in the Revolutionary War, maybe we have a a chance public opinion is where it's all at what makes you think that the government's going to work in the benefit of the people they never have they there's been studies proving that it's a scam the special interest the people with the money essentially call the shots push the laws they get them passed because they want them passed yeah and they're the

ones that are served here the the super rich. We have socialism for the super rich and everyone else gets screwed. That's essentially the system that we're living under right now. That was the lesson of COVID. Amazon made how much money? Yeah. Amazon, Walmart, Costco. They did a study and found that public opinion has no effect on what bills get passed. Only the opinion of the top 1%.

Lobbyist and the people with the money. Literally, when they would look, they tracked public sentiment on certain issues and then bills being passed, no correlation. Right, yeah, democracy is a scam. The founding fathers didn't rely on their government to save them from King George. They just made a new government. I mean, so that's basically what has to happen. Of course.

Here we are. The revolution starts here. So the issue is, I don't think it's that hopeless. I think the fact that Trump got elected shows that you can get somebody in. And I think what needs to happen now is Robbie Starbuck, he won his court battle. He's back on the ballot. We need to go out in the primaries and vote for people who actually want to help this country. So here's the problem.

As someone who lives somewhere and I tried desperately, you have to find people willing to do it. And you have to find people willing to stand up to... I spoke to so many people. I, again, live in Montgomery County, Maryland. I spoke to so many people who were incensed by what happened in Montgomery County. They closed the schools the longest. We were subjected to all the COVID rules the longest out of anywhere else in Maryland. And people are terrified of standing up and just saying what they think might be an unpopular thing or submitting themselves to the mob of, you know, when you run for office, people think that they own your soul and they try to destroy you. You have to convince people. And so the people like Robbie Starbuck who are willing to stand up and say,

I am ready to fight, are so few and far between because people lack really, really basic courage. Yeah, I'm thinking about how do you stand up against a government. But the thing is when I say we need a new government, it's not that we need to trash the U.S. Constitution. It's great. It's the corporations I'm concerned with. And we can use our government and the structure of the Constitution to defend against that. The best way to make a government obsolete is to not need it and not to depend on it. And that's why personal responsibility is my choice of a solution. Letting people be happy, healthy, and productive, and just overall living a good life is something

that, of course, the state does not want you to have and i think if we did we wouldn't need a lot of the government what do you that we have in our life what do you do when the dude who's like two miles upstream from you and your friends little farm houses starts taking a dump in the water what do you do when monsanto poisons poisons the entire food supply when they create gmo everywhere what do you do when they have control of entire crops that literally spread throughout the entire world that there's no stopping? So that's the situation that we're dealing with. But now we have Monsanto protected by the state.

That's what bothers me. So Monsanto is protected by the state. If we didn't have a state... We agree on that. When you then get to the circumstance where somebody is upstream from you, and it's a legitimate question, I'm not getting you,

what's the effective way to respond to someone who's not willing to cooperate with you, and they're polluting your water? I know the big corporations are doing it already. I'm like, how do we solve that? My counterpoint is, yes, it's already happening. We'll deal with that problem as it comes.

But that problem is less of a problem with that one individual compared to a multinational corporation that literally has a monopoly and could do whatever they want and are destroying the soils. When we look at the larger impacts of it, is it an individual stopping this and stopping this one person? Okay, fine. I would argue that there would be less harm. There would be less pain. There would be less suffering if there was more decentralization.

Because of centralization, we have Monsanto. We have glyphosate. We have the rise of horrible cancers. We have the rise of factory farming. We have the destruction of our soils that's getting rid of the nutrients and minerals in there that's creating very severe health problems for the rest of the country. So I would argue that with this system, we have more pain and suffering than if we didn't have this kind of system and if we had more decentralized ways. Then what happens when you get a monopolistic power like Monsanto regardless? People argue from this perspective that, of course, the market would respond.

People would know that they would be voting for and supporting something with their dollar, and they wouldn't be doing so. But that's an argument to be made here that some people are making. The other perspective of it is, of course, that they're so powerful that they can't be stopped, and they'll be willing to do what they can. I'll tell you. In California, you have these small farming communities with no water because of the drought. Yeah. And the farmers couldn't get surface water because it was voted to go to the cities.

So they would drill thousands of feet into the earth for groundwater. The small farming migrant houses only went down 30 feet for their wells, so their wells ran dry very, very quickly. This was devastating. And what happens is the people in the big cities are like, why should I care to vote in favor of those people? It doesn't matter if it's your dollar or your vote, your ballot. The same thing would happen.

That's why I'm like, I don't know what the solution is, be it the state protecting or the private company just hiring private military to protect themselves. I mean, I think a lot of this sort of goes back to what we were talking about, like the atomization of people just don't care about, you know, their fellow man anymore. When we have nothing in common with people and we don't know who our neighbors are, you don't care about if someone downstream, two houses down, you're taking a dump in their water because you don't know who they are and you don't care anything about them. I mean, this is the sort of breakdown of community that Tim Carney talks about a lot. Ben Sasse talks about a lot. When we have no connection to our larger community and you don't even know.

I mean, do you know who your neighbor is? Do you know his name? I live in an RV. When you park, though. I do. I met an excellent, awesome. My last stop was in sarasota as soon as i pulled into the rv there's a culture there yes i had three people back you know help me get my rv into my position afterwards two people came to me and they're like hey let's you want to are you

hungry we got food here we're doing a barbecue there i got two offers for dinner and i was and and they're like, we talk about politics and get into different perspectives. And people, especially in the RV community, are a lot more open and a lot better than a lot of other people in closed communities

in big cities. Yeah, because it's very sort of, everyone has to help each other. I drive around here, people wave. They're super cool. People are ready to communicate. It's just a matter of doing it. Yeah. We're going to go to Super Chats. If you haven't already, smash that.

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You are the media captains. The agency sent me the photos of the Chicago ads. They're great. I didn't realize how big they are. One of them is like, I think it's like 50 feet tall or something. Can we keep them afterwards? Yes. That's awesome.

Are they physical media? They're physical vinyl that they print out. You should go get them. Yeah, absolutely. They mail them to us, I guess. Oh, cool. Yeah, you just got to pay the shipping and they send them out.

100%, yeah. It's not that expensive either. So the other thing is, I just found out, we're getting free Times Square ad slots. So we're going to be rolling up some more ads. Nice. Yeah. I mean, it says something interesting about the traffic in Times Square right now. Yeah. So here's the funny story. We bought two billboards and right now they're just big Timcast ads right next to each other. And when I was in

New York, I noticed one of them was off. It was a digital billboard screen. It was off. And so when our ad ran, there was just a single ad. And so we're getting additional space to add on to it. So I was like, cool, cool. We're going to do some cool stuff. We've got some plans for the next few months and the marketing strategies we're going to be doing.

And we're going to be doing culture jamming as marketing. So we're just going to, you know, mischief. Yeah, just massage the toes of the culture. Mischief. You know, just like we're going to put up ads and we're going to do things that are going to make people go, what? You've got to stimulate that lymphatic flow of the culture. It kind of reminds me of Fahrenheit 451 when you like awaken people to the... when you kind of open their eyes to what's going on. What's the website for the

Mines Festival? It is festival.mines.com. Let me double check that. Festival.mines.com. We're going to be there on... 25th, right? Yeah, 25th of June. This is going to be huge. It's going to... James... Did they announce? Tulsi Gabbard, yeah. Okay, good. I almost said it. Hornell West is going to be there.

James O'Keefe, dude. Yeah, Luke's not going to be there. We'll see. That'll be the selling point. I got invited, but I don't know if I'm going to go. You guys want Luke? Say it in the super chats. Give a super chat for Luke.

If you want Luke to come, smash the like button. Because we can get him there. And then if we get 20,000 likes, Luke's promised to go. I never said that, but you guys are pulling my leg here. I'm promising for Luke that he'll have to break his promise that I made up.

All right, let's see what we got here. Dan says, Hey, Tim, typically I listen via podcast and rarely get a chance to catch your live show. Keep on keeping on, you guys. Lydia is the best. Also check out Stellaris if you think Civ games are awesome.

I love Stellaris. Stellaris is great. It's real time, but it is really, really good space game. All right. Jeb Reed says, every single Republican who signs on any gun control bill will have their political career ended. They will be joining the private sector this fall. Agreed.

Oh, man. Yeah, absolutely. Dilly Dilly says, Luke is back. Nature is healing. Is that what it is? It's spring. Springtime springtime springtime you were here in what like february yep all right recrim morson says golden rule of democrats accuse opponents of what you are doing biden lost in 2024 and won't leave they'll do what they accused of trump in 2020 they did that in 2016 in 2016 they were like oh russia and they did an investigation they'll do what they accused of Trump in 2020. They did that in 2016. In 2016, they were like,

oh, Russia, and they did an investigation. They cried and they won. All right. Robocat says, Luke, you're so cute. Marry me. Okay. Whoa. You just accepted your proposal? I did. Is that a verbal contract now?

It's right. I'm in trouble. Flambo says, you know what would fix all of our problems? Graphene. I know. No, it's not a silver bullet, but this fiend structure. This is this hexagonal lattice structure. They have it with boron, too, borophene.

It really is. It's graphene. When we start producing this stuff en masse and start building stuff out of it, we're not going to need steel. We're not going to need copper as much. It's going to be transformative. Let's get Trump talking about this all right blue the goy goyer says we have hens we've been glassing our eggs can preserve fresh eggs up to a year with filtered water a five gallon bucket and hydrated lime i

think you can do technically two years can't you they uh they're not as good after you've you've you've had them stored for a long time, but they're food. Yeah. You ever see glass eggs? No. We have a jar downstairs. Ooh. Yeah.

They're like preserved, preserved eggs. That's really cool. Yeah, they last forever. Well, they last for like a year. Samuel Pyle says, if there is not a red wave this election, I do not see it ending peacefully. I completely disagree.

It's a midterm. The presidential election year is going to be crazier because you have Congress and you have the presidency. Right now, it's a midterm. The presidential election year is going to be crazier because you have Congress and you have the presidency. Right now it's a midterm, so we'll see. Logan Culver says, we need a revolution. And he highlighted E-V-O-L. Oh, like love.

Luke, do you think you would be disappointed if Dave Smith took the helm? I don't trust any man or any person. Everyone should have a check on their power, no matter who it is, especially if they're part of a revolution. Revolutions usually turn into worse situations historically, and I think the commentator was talking about more of an evolution, and that was the kind of slogan by Ron Paul.

It was a revolution, but it highlighted the evolution part, which I think is much more important to concentrate on, especially when it comes to personal development. Cool. Coldilocks Production says, My state, Nebraska, never locked down either. And while we had a mask mandate, loads of people flat out ignored it. And IRL, too, was scarcely enforced.

Only in Omaha and Lincoln was it really enforced. Interesting. What do we got? David Toronto says Florida was a bit strict for a while. Misstopped all the crap a little before Florida. And we have constitutional carry. I don't think Florida has constitutional. Not yet.

Yeah. Yeah. And it's about to. Yeah. Democratic places like Miami definitely weren't largely representative of the entire state. Matt Lucas says 13-gallon tank times $6 equals $78, slash 17-gallon tank times $6 equals $102, slash $15 per hour net pay $996.65 in CA.

Something has to give. That's right. When the cost of driving to work exceeds the amount of money you make, people will just stop. Someone said that. She's a stay-at-home mom in this large families group, and she said, I have to go back to work to pay for my husband's gas so that he can go to work. Wow. That's insane, man.

I don't think we owe this interest to the Federal Reserve. Why don't they just use private jets? I don't get it. I don't understand. Did you guys see the ADP jobs report? The small businesses were completely gutted. Yeah. It's like medium to large businesses were all fine, but small businesses were all wiped out.

It's not surprising. I mean, I have several. I mean, I'm friends with a lot of the kosher businesses in my area. And they're very frank about the, I mean, Jews talk about money. And they talk about their chicken costs and their labor costs and everything. And they're just like, I have to raise my price by 35% because I have no alternative. And then people don't want to buy their stuff anymore because we can't feed our family for under $100 anymore. So, I mean, we don't get as Chinese as much.

Ardwich says, Biden isn't lying. The economy is great. Have you seen the revenue numbers now that everything is costing triple or quadruple what they did 16 months ago? So, I mean, we don't get as Chinese as much. Ardwich says, Biden isn't lying. The economy is great. Have you seen the revenue numbers now that everything is costing triple or quadruple what they did 16 months ago? It's like that Dan Aykroyd skit from Jimmy Carter when he was like, don't you want to own a $5,000 suit? Smoke a $50 cigar? Own a $5,000 car? All that stuff.

Or whatever. I remember that one. Yeah. It's great, isn't it? CJ Stedman says, if you think having an electric car is a solution, until the brownouts hit this summer that's the other thing they're not telling you we if every car was electric the grid could not handle it yeah that's just you know it's crazy man in incompetent hands says my hat says make america florida i wear it every day but can't remember where i got it some Some loser, I guess.

I wonder where he wound up. I puke nightly, but only from all of the potatoes and whiskey. Shimcast for life. I would be careful with that potatoes and whiskey diet. And are you talking about maybe this hat that I also have here, coincidentally? Make America Florida. One of my favorite shirts.

Steve Jones says, Fox News is pushing red flag laws like CNN. Watch the A block of the five. Tulsi, Gutfeld, Perino, and the rest were all aboard. As a conservative, I am sick of Fox. Tulsi Gabbard? Tulsi's been in favor of gun control for a while. Good. I want to talk to her about it.

Yeah, she's wrong. But that's okay. She's also wrong about nuclear power. Gutfeld is wrong. Perino? Per-rhino? But I assume Jesse Waters was not in favor of red flag laws. she's also wrong about nuclear power gutfeld is wrong perino per rhino but i assume jesse waters was not in favor of red flag laws red flag laws will mean that armed police can just come to your house and violate your fourth amendment rights that's it that's ridiculous yeah it's

gonna be abused just like every other power that the government has yep let's see. SoAndNB says, between Ian FreeTheCodeCrossland and Luke HatesGatesRudkowski, I'm surprised you guys haven't had Linux put on all the office computers yet. That would be good. Andy's been trying. I'm going to start veering away from calling it FreeTheCode,

free software, because it's confusing, makes it sound like you can't sell it. You can't. It's called copy left software. It's different than copyright, like you can't sell it. You can't. It's called copy left software. It's different than copyright because the copyrights are free and left and open. Morgan H says, Ian, please get excited about thorium. We need thorium reactors to solve our power issues. Yeah, I've heard great stuff about thorium for about 18 years. Have you guys been following it?

Same exact thing. It's just super hot metal that doesn't produce the nuclear waste byproduct, but I don't know enough about it to go. Well, it's like it's a liquid system, isn't it? I don't know. Thorium salt reactors? Yeah, where you melt the salt, and then you get endless amounts of heat from the molten salt. It stays hot overnight.

We can keep boiling water when the sun goes down. Here we go. Mike Gibson says, There is a Popular Mechanics article from October 1, 2009 by Daniel Tam Claiborne about burning salt water with 13.6 megahertz frequency microwaves. 13.6 megahertz. Here we go. Dude, you got to check out John Kansas. It's K-A-N-S-U-S, saltwater burns on YouTube. There's video of it from like 2008. And it sets off a 1600 degree

flame. It's basically, and you see a gap between the saltwater and where the fire starts, just like on the sun. Below the corona, you see that gap where there's no flame. So I basically, and you see a gap between the salt water and where the fire starts, just like on the sun. Below the corona, you see that gap where there's no flame. So I think the sun might be getting a frequency that's making it light up like a flame ball. So if we can get the salt water, which is done in a test tube in the lab, but take it into low orbit where it coagulates into a sphere, and

then you run the current through it, it's going to light up like a star. Yo, this is crazy. Josh, oh my gosh, says, Tim, a friend of mine works at a baby formula plant and he said the problem isn't the production, it's the shipping. He says the warehouse is full of baby formula. I blame the lockdowns and diesel costs.

Wow. Yeah, a lot of drivers don't want to drive because it costs more to drive than it is what they're getting paid to drive the trucks. Yeah, I mean that's everything. That's not just baby formula. It's everything under the sun. That's why we have supply chain shortages of everything. Steve Brown says, Tim, if you need a luthier, give me a shout out. Is it luthier or luthier?

How do you pronounce that? I don't know. Luthier? Guitar maker? We do. We should do some custom. We talked about this a while ago. Custom Timcast guitars to hang up.

Email spintheufo at gmail.com, and then we will figure out custom guitars. I would like all of my wood to be rare and imported from exotic places. Or just, you know, I don't know, maple or whatever you make a guitar out of. Something nice. Something nice. Yeah, I'm thinking the guitar body could be a T-looking thing with the I as the neck and the M on the body. You could make it out of wood from the Endurance on the bottom of the ocean. They just found the Endurance.

Oh. Got the guitar made out of the wood of the Endurance. Wow, that'd be crazy. I don't know if it would sound good, though. No, it doesn't sound terrible. It's all about saying it's made out of wood. Mike Roman says, I drive 425 miles a day delivering pharmacy drugs to nursing homes. Like everyone else, I can't afford an electric car.

I also don't believe in them for many reasons, some of which you mentioned already. Ruben Pedroza says, master automotive tech here. Your cars are now digitally controlled. Your car is constantly monitored via GPS and internal CAN systems. Your steering speed and braking can be controlled already. You will own nothing and you will be happy. Yeah, so I was mentioning this the other day. Basically, every car is self-driving now.

Yeah, and they can be repoed very easily without your consent. So I have a Tesla, and it's got self-driving. We're all excited. You're on the road, and you go boop, boop on the thing, and then all of a sudden you're like, whoa, it's driving itself. And it's like, keep your hands on the wheel. And then it cruise controls, and the wheel turns, and it's driving,'re like wow and then i got a honda accord same thing no different what yeah honda accord has a button you press it and it just drives the car for you my honda odyssey from 2018 does not have that i can tell you right now i can tell you right now yeah 20 2019 civic

has it yeah no i mean i bet you my my 2023 ford transit will not have that either so i'm i thinking, what, in 10 years, no one will own cars? You ever see those bird scooters or lime scooters or whatever all over the cities? You ever see those scooters lying around? Oh, the annoying things that people trip over all the time. Yes. Cars are going to be like that. Every car. Absolutely not.

That's what they've been aiming for. And Uber is already doing it. But it's not going to work. I mean, this is my internal bugaboo, like the war against families. You cannot do that with kids. You have car seats. You have crap. I have a snack box in my car.

I have a diaper box in my car. I'm not mobile. I wish I were. I wish I could just jump on a scooter. Well, this is why it's going to be more convenient to be in a pod and on a VR set traveling in your virtual car. This is why it's going to's more convenient not to have children. This is the end goal here is to stop us,

the breeders. What people don't realize about the self-driving car revolution, this is what's going to be funny. They talk about how Uber is going to be all self-driving, no drivers. The cars are going to be owned by Uber.

You're going to call and the car itself will pull up and you'll get in. We see it in modern sci-fi films that they've been making in the past several years. The cars are just good to go. What will happen if you walk into the middle of the street right as a car, a self-driving car, is speeding?

It's going to slam its brakes on and stop, right? So people knowing they can't get hit will just jaywalk everywhere and all the cars will constantly be getting jammed up and stopped. New York will be chaos. You won't be able to drive in New York because if people know there's no... They want that. But sure, but if they switch to self-driving cars, you still need to deliver things, right? So if the trucks are doing deliveries and they're all self-driving, people are going to be like, I can't get hit.

And so no one will ever stop for the crosswalks. Yeah, but people don't actually put two and two together. It's kind of like with everything going on with diesel shortages and whatever, people don't put two and two together that when gas prices go up, their grocery prices go up. And so New Yorkers are going to love jaywalking, and they're not going to put two and two together. That's the point. They're not getting deliveries. That's my point.

My point is no one will stop for a self-driving vehicle. There's no one to get mad at them. Right, but they're not going to understand that New York becoming more and more unlivable is a product of their own doing. Yeah. That's my point. Oh, I'm totally not getting it then. The cities will collapse because people are going to be like, I don't care.

Yes. And they're just going to walk in the street and the cars are going to be stuck and unable to move. Yes, that's true. Then there's going to be a self-driving car. You're going to call it, but no one will stop walking because they won't care about a robot. They're like, there's no one in the car

to get mad at me, no one to complain, and they're never going to stop in the car which is not moving. You're making an argument for facial recognition. Citizen, you have been issued a ticket.

Not when there's 300 people every 10 seconds crossing the street like you see in New York. Yeah. Unless you have a social credit score and facial recognition systems like they do in China

where they just take a photo of you and automatically deduct your money out of your bank account. That's where we're headed. I think the future, maybe the ideal thing is tunnels in cities. I know Elon's been working with a boring company, one of his companies, to bore tunnels. But could you imagine New York City, how cool it would be if you walked out of your house and it was just grass? But you know how long it's taken them to build the east side subway system? They're never going to actually do it they spent like 30 million dollars on one staircase in times square yeah no it's 30 million dollars

i wish it were in the kid i mean i'm also i i i went to high school in new york city i'm i'm graduate of new york city public schools also and i'm it's not a great scene no all right we got brony ninja he says i'm, I'm home from Winnie City Pony Con. Oh, cool. I went to Danny's and Villa Rosa, as you suggested. They're just as good as you said. They were happy seeing your shout-out with 430,000 views. Also

tried Lou Malnati's, Giordano's, Portillo's, and Home Run-In, A+, all of them. Lou Malnati's is good. Giordano's is good. Portillo's, we ordered a whole bunch. We got a bunch of hot dogs here. Those are fantastic. Home Run-In is absolutely delicious. But those are the tourist things in Chicago. Villa Rosa and Danny's Pizza were the local pizza places I used to eat at when I was growing up.

And I was actually surprised Villa Rosa is still around because I was like a little – this is like 30 years now. They've been in business longer than that probably. But I'm like 30 years ago, we'd order pizza and it would be from Villa Rosa. So if you are in Chicago, that was the place we would always get our pizza from. Danny's. Danny's was further away. So depending on where we were, it might have been Danny's, but it was typically Villa Rosa. Check out the art of pizza on North Ashland

too. Apparently they're still around. Man, that's some mega deep dish. Really good. Really big deep dish. You might as well just get spaghetti. It's like eating a shot of pizza. You eat it and then it expands slowly over time. So if you eat two really fast, you get really... Lenny's Pizza in Brooklyn.

That's all I have to say. All right. Based for Life Radio says, My son will be participating in a homestead homeschool co-op for kindergarten, learning how to care for chickens, livestock gardening, composting, aquaponics. Shout out Based for Life Radio for independent anti-establishment grunge punk rock. Here's what you got to do. You got to teach your kids how to take care of the chickens.

Do you guys know about the placebo effect? Oh, yeah. You're probably familiar with it. And there's a nocebo effect, which is also a big trip. The scientific method can't really account for why the placebo effect seems to work. But in the medical industry, they're not allowed to tell a patient you're getting healthier because they can get sued if the patient dies. I wonder if in the education system, they're not allowed to tell a kid you're succeeding, you're going to be great, you're going to solve the world's problems

because they think there's some liability. But kids need to hear that. They need to believe that they're great to do great. I feel like that's all kids nowadays hear. All they hear is they're great. Yep. And then they get trophies. Hearing it and believing it, like having it honestly said is different than. Yeah, but who says anything honestly nowadays? I do. All right, here's an interesting one. We got TRD, I can't read your name, dude.

We have five vehicles in my household, converted all of them to compressed natural gas. We fill them with a small scuba-style compressor from our residential gas line for 75 cents per gallon. CNG is 120 octane, no power loss, 300-plus miles of range. How do we do that? That sounds amazing. I want a natural gas car. I heard about that, right? Super cheap.

It's methane? Yeah, we should. I don't know. Is it methane? They use it in Europe, too, because of how expensive the gas is there. So, yeah, in Poland, I saw a couple people even use, like, have those tanks in the back of their trunk and set up their car to run on both. So we got all these chickens. We're going to have to eat these roosters.

I'm not going to complain. Yeah. There's, like, three of them screaming outside my window every day. Three? We have like 15. When they all start chiming in. There's three silky roosters. Do they wake you up at 5 o'clock in the morning?

I've started to get used to them. They were in the beginning, 4 o'clock, 7 o'clock. So that's like me with my kids. Yeah. I just ignore them. I treat it like traffic now, and it doesn't bother me because I grew up on a busy street. Yeah, yeah. That's what I do with my kids.

We're building the boys' dorm, and we're expanding it for Adamastan. Because right now, Roberto's over there, and then we have the triplets, we call them. And they're nasty. The triplets are mean roosters. We thought Roberto was going to go in and tell his sons what to do, but they were not having it. So we had to separate them. It was not nice. But Roberto, he's retired.

He's an old man. So we've got to take care of him. To follow up what you were saying about your kids, are you kind of like let him cry it out kind of mom i i will not get out of bed before 6 30 unless there's some real screeching going on which like i had a kid who was sick all weekend and today is what tuesday like today still feels like friday because i haven't slept but i will go in there when there's like a kid with 103 fever and sick. All right. Rian Gow says, Tim Pool says, salt water is not a solution.

Chemists yelping everywhere. That's funny. Yeah, that was a good one. That was a good one. It's not a mixture. 1776's Life says, as a farm kid living in a small city, I started growing my own food and hunting fishing more. My family can rest easy for our food storage, but please make sure everyone

knows how to preserve food. If you ever need to try hunting, hit me up in Illinois. We made jams last year. We're going to do it again this year because we have mulberry trees everywhere. I picked way too many strawberries at the strawberry farm on Thursday. Oh, strawberries are great. We have a

wineberry season is about to start. So the entirety of like Appalachia is just riddled with these wild Chinese raspberries. And we made raspberry. I made lemon wine berry jam. I made wine berry. Is this like a parting gift when I leave? We don't have any for you. No, I'm sorry.

And if we did have it, I would not give it away. We have frozen wine berries. We made a mulberry jam. And then I made a mulberry wine berry, mixed them together. And then we also have it, I would not give it away. We have frozen wine berries. We made a mulberry jam, and then I made a mulberry-wineberry, mixed them together. And then we also have blackberries. We had black raspberries growing. And we have tons of pawpaw. I didn't realize, because pawpaw season, they call it hillbilly banana.

Yeah. It's in end of September, October. And so I'm looking at the trees, and I see like three, and I read how they're like hard to grow and they're hard to pollinate. So they're kind of rare. And I'm like, OK, well, maybe we'll have a handful to try out. When pawpaw season came, you couldn't walk through the forest without getting hit in the head by a pawpaw. They were everywhere. You would shake a tree and like 15 would fall down.

And then we ended up having like 50 or 60 of them brought them in and nobody could eat them because there's just too many. But they're delicious. And they're just everywhere. It's fantastic. I should bring my kids back here. Yeah. You made a bread, didn't you? Yeah.

I didn't put enough sugar in it, so it kind of came out mealy. Did you? Kind of grainy. I think it needed to be like maybe boiled or cooked before. You need to just do it like a regular banana bread recipe but using pawpaw. Yeah, something like that. And then, oh, man, you know what's really great? Chive grows before grass when the season starts changing.

So we had crazy chive everywhere. It's so good. We were putting it in everything. Yeah, yeah. My daughter walks around eating onion grass like it's actual food. It is. It is food. It's delicious. I know. I mean, she just eats it. She walks outside. I'm like, you know the dog pees over there, right? She doesn't care. Well, it's all food, right? All right. Let walks outside. I'm like, you know the dog pees over there, right? She doesn't care.

Well, it's all food, right? All right. Let's grab a couple more super chats. One Mountain Mama says, look up C11 in Canada right now. Canadian content creators will be moving to the U.S. I know a few who are trying to. Or are they banning free speech again or whatever? Garhant says, can you guys please address the fact that Tulsi Gabbard

is a World Economic Forum young leaders member, the same as Dan Crenshaw. They look good, but go closer. Anyone in the World Economic Forum is an emperor, not a leader. So here's what Dan Crenshaw said.

He said he has nothing to do with that list. It's an editorial they put out on people they like. Now, that means a lot. If the World Economic Forum is saying these are people we're looking at, I'm kind of like why? But it doesn't mean they're directly involved. So I'll ask Tulsi when we do this event. We'll see.

And Dan, feel free to come on the show. Dan's not coming on the show. We've been waiting. And I think it would be great to have a conversation where we could go over a lot of the misconceptions that people have. He agreed to come on. Then his guy said they were scheduling conflict, and then the outreach was canceled on us. I know.

I just flew for that. Oh, that's right. I flew here. That's probably why they canceled. They're like, oh, they brought Luke back. Can't do it. We can have a cordial discussion that I think would be very productive for everyone involved. All right, everybody.

If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button? Unfortunately, we did not get to 20,000 likes, so Luke will not be coming to this event in New York, as I promised for. Who wants to go

to New York City? I promised for Luke that if we had 20,000 likes, he'd come, but... What is it right now? Close.

11. Oh, that's not even close. Not even close. Definitely not going now. So no Luke, but don't worry, everyone will puke.

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Bethany, do you want to shout anything out? Yeah. So HeroesOfLiberty.com is the children's books that we do on Ronald Reagan, John Wayne. We talked a lot about masculinity and stuff, and this is sort of our antidote because teaching boys that it's not a bad thing. It's not toxic. And you can follow me on Twitter, Bethany Shondark. So I was looking at the chat during the show,

and I just wanted to shout out the person who called me a dollar store Bill Maher. That one got to me. You kind of look like him, too. Absolutely. And Julian Assange. If Assange and Bill Maher had a baby, I think so. I see the Bill Maher, yeah. Anyway, also people are asking me who's on my T-shirt.

It is, of course, the late John McAfee. This is a T-shirt that I have available on thebestpoliticalshirts.com. I have another different version only available for members on LukeUncensored.com, as well as two videos coming out today, one of an original report, another with health misconceptions. If you want to see all of that, sign up on LukeUncensored.com. Hope to see you there for a very important conversation. Thanks for having me. In addition to bending light with sound, I want to give you four words to remember me by here until tomorrow maybe.

Turbostratic, twistronic, flash graphene. Remember those words? Turbostratic, twistronic, flash graphene. Look up those three things, flash graphene, turbostratic graphene, and twistronic graphene. When you put them all together, you're going to be 3D printing some megastructures. Certainly such an object was dreamt up by you, Ian.

Oh, yeah. I believe there are AI working on it as we speak. This is really funny. I told the AI, write me a story about Ian developing a cost-effective means of producing graphene, and it actually wrote how to do it. Oh, yeah, yeah. They were talking about chemical vapor deposition. Yeah, that was crazy.

That's rudimentary at this stage. That's like five-year-old technology. Now we're using lasers to pound carbon and turn it into layers of it to make these super conductive materials. I'll go deeper at another time. And before I go, I wanted to read one super chat. I've never done this before.

I thought it was kind of important. It's from Aaron Preston. He says, the DEF shortage is due to the fertilizer shortage. Urea is a component of both. Eat or drive, you will have to choose,

which is a very interesting observation because we're actually talking about that in Slack. Urea is a component of fertilizer. Eat or drive, you will have to choose. Which is a very interesting observation because we're actually talking about that in Slack. Urea is a component of fertilizer. It comes from bat guano. You guys may follow me on Twitter and Minds.com. You can also catch me tomorrow where I co-host on Pop Culture Crisis with Brett and Mary. It's always a lot of fun. There's nothing to worry about with gas prices. I mean, if DF is shortage, like I can eat.

We can all eat or drive because I have electric motorcycles. I have several of them. Just buy an electric motorcycle or a Tesla. What's the big deal? Thanks. I have guns, so I also feel pretty confident. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, what is the joke?

The people who don't have guns are stocking up for the people who do? Yeah. That's funny. All right, everybody. We'll see you all over at TimCast.com. Thanks for hanging out.