Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #610 EU "Flattens Curve" By Limiting Electricity, Riots Erupt Over Energy w/Amala Ekpunobi

Episode Date: September 8, 2022

Tim, Ian, Hannah Claire, & Lydia are joined by Amala Ekpunobi (PragerU) to discuss the EU trying to "flatten the curve" regarding the current energy crisis, Amala's story of growing up in a left wing household, Kathy Griffin calling for civil war if Republicans win the election, Marianne Williamson's tweets, the protests against climate lock-downs, AOC crying about a potential civil war, and the negative impact TikTok is having on children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I heard something funny. The EU needs to flatten the curve. So they're limiting electricity, which is what? Yeah. And then when I heard them say they were flattening the curve by doing this, I'm like, oh, so that whole thing was like training people. And then when you look at how things are going with, you know, the cult and how they follow the media, it's like, yeah, people are trained.

They are. And then I started thinking about this. I'm like, if they're reusing this terminology in a new way to reduce energy, this was completely predicted by tons of people that the next move was going to be locking down for climate change. And lo and behold, we're getting something akin to that. Surprise, surprise, ladies and gentlemen, we're in the rat hope experiment. They put us in the cylinder. We swam and struggled. They took us out, dried us off, put it back in. Now they expect us to swim twice as long. I think it's going to get a whole lot worse.

The only difference between the rat hope experiment and what we're going through is that we have an election coming up. And we might get new leaders who say no to all of this. So it should be interesting. So we're going to talk about that plus the riots and protests that are erupting because of the energy crisis. California facing rolling blackouts. Well, good for them. Gavin Newsom was seen wearing a sweater amid a record heat wave. And a lot of people were like, what is he doing? Yeah, he's probably blasting the AC while telling you to suffer. Ain't that how it works?

And then we have this story. AOC gave an interview where she said she doesn't know if she'll be alive by September. Now, of course, she gave the interview a little while ago. So I don't know why she thought by now she'd be dead. I'm glad she's not. You know, I hope she lives a long and prosperous life. But I have to wonder first, does she have cancer? And then I thought, oh, she's talking about like civil war or something. Yeah, she's talking about something like that, I guess. Patriarchy and how people hate women of color. And then she thought she'd be dead by now. So either they're completely overreacting or you look at everything that's going on it's kind of falling apart joining us to talk about all of this is amala epinobi did i get it you got it i got it you got it totally right i was like i'm gonna ruin it you're one of the first people to actually get

my name right on the first try i was worried great job thank you now i feel good the k is silent silent that's the tricky part. Who are you? I am Amala Panobi, 22 years old. I'm currently working over at PragerU as a personality, whatever that means. You guys can decide whether or not I actually have one. Talent, yes. And I am a recent radical leftist who's sort of left the left and on sort of the other side of things now. If you want, you can move that mic around with you and just keep it like about this,

aiming right at your face. Beautiful. Yeah. Got it. Momentous. Yes. Hi, Hannah Clare. Hi.

We also have Hannah Clare. How are you? I never know what to talk. I'm just going to wait for my cue. Do you want to check the audio? Yeah, we're checking the audio right now. No worries. So just what happened was

the digital gain was erased. Oh, yeah. So that's why there was audio problems. Digital gain. Digital gain. It's crazy. It's like a band name. I feel like I work on a spaceship sometimes.

I know, right? I don't know what any of this means. It's exciting. Tell me about yourself. Well, hey. I'm Claire Brimlow. I'm a writer for TimCast.com. It's a super cool news site.

I think everyone should check it out every day. What kind of things do you write? I write all kind of things do you write? I write all kinds of things. I was talking about Michigan's abortion ban today or the judge's ruling on their abortion law. I wrote about Vladimir Putin earlier today. Always interesting. Yeah, we cover a lot of stuff, lots of science, lots of policy.

And I, again, highly recommend TimCast.com to absolutely everyone. There you go. All right. Well, hey, I'm Ian Crossland. Good to see you guys. Amala, great toCast.com to absolutely everyone. There you go. All right. Well, hey, I'm Ian Crossland. Good to see you guys. Amala, great to meet you. Good to be here. And I just want to remind you, check out Cast Castle.

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EU to impose mandatory electricity cuts to flatten the curve reduced reduce peak energy demands european commission had announces russian price gaps as putin threatens to cut europe off from all energy deliveries the european union has announced plans for mandatory electricity rationing with european commission president ursula von der leyen telling reporters the eu must flatten the curve of peak energy prices. Her announcement highlighted a five-point plan the EU is preparing to enact to address local energy markets. Europe is faced in an energy crisis following Russia cutting off supplies of natural gas. The funny thing is Russia is now selling gas to China, who is driving it all the way back to Europe and cranking up the cost.

And now people are looking at like 500% energy increases. Italy, you've got bars and restaurants with candles. And when you look over at California, and they're doing the exact same thing, it kind of feels like what's happening there is going to happen here. And we're just a little bit behind. But I know Amala, you live in California, right? How's that? Unfortunately, I do live in Los Angeles. So last night, I was chilling in my apartment and got a notification that says, you know, due to our overwhelmed electrical grid, your electricity might go out at any moment. And you're going to have to deal with that for an hour or two. We'll rotate it across our different circuits. And welcome to the new world order here.

But it didn't, your power didn't go out? It didn't end up going out. But I guess they're putting out warnings that through this continuous heat wave that we're going through right now that there's a very good possibility that's going to happen and in other regions of california they're doing those rotating brownouts yeah you saw you saw gavin newsom though right yes he's wearing a fleece sweater that was cold yeah he's cold okay maybe he's like a you know it could be that he's a lizard person you know and then it's like it may be hot but yes he still needs to i like that he's got like person, you know, and then it's like, it may be hot, but yes, it still needs to. I like that he's gotten like really crazy tattoos of late and he has to hide that.

He rips his sleeves off and he's just got sleeves. So it's basically after 4 p.m. I heard Gavin doing, did a video. Maybe this is a video you're referencing. After 4 p.m. That's like hot time. That's like peak, peak electricity. You turn off your, what, everything except for your large appliances?

Yeah, they're saying basically try not to use AC. If you can help it, cool your house or your apartment beforehand. Don't turn on any larger or major appliances, anything like that. And certainly don't charge your electric cars, even though we're going to start banning gas vehicles in the coming years. Have you heard of passive cooling? Have you ever studied any of that stuff? No, I haven't.

They make like these, I don't know if they're made out of wood or out of cork, and then they'll make all these little cuts through the cork, and then you just pour water into the cork, and then through, it only works in really dry environments, but through, I don't know what the- Evaporation. Yeah, evaporation. It cools down the room by 10 to 15 degrees. The water absorbs the heat from the atmosphere to-

It'll get you from 105 to 90, maybe. It's for desperate, hot, dry climates. Does this fit in a studio apartment? Definitely. Yeah, it's a little box. You can probably make one from cardboard. I don't even know. Very creative.

Low energy evaporation air conditioners. You fill them with water and then it basically... Yep, recently just bought one of those. Although I don't know after 4 p.m. if we can even have those on. You know, here's a question. Why don't you leave Los Angeles? Oh, you're getting into tricky territory here.

So I do work for PragerU. We're headquartered in Los Angeles. It's Dennis's fault. We're there. You know, Dennis, who you had on the show, he's like, I am not leaving California. He's like, I'm perfectly fine being in California. And I get it.

He's also wearing a sweater. He's good. Dennis is chilling. Dennis is chilling. Dennis is chilling. And yeah, you know, I will say that being in the heart of all the problems does really get you invigorated every day to be in the fight.

You know, when you're walking out of your apartment and a homeless man screams obscenities at you, you're ready to work every single day. Yeah, that's fair. You've got to learn self-defense. You've also got to learn, you know, tactical poop cleanup. You never know if you're gonna step in it I'm 120 pounds soaking wet

So self defense is something I need to work on 100% Where were you before LA? Florida Why did you do that? I like to think I thought it through It was a fantastic opportunity I love my job so much so so it's totally worth it.

Don't get me wrong. But leaving the freedom state of Florida to go to L.A., which has just been disintegrating in front of my eyes, has been an interesting experience. You're on the front lines. On the front lines. You left the comfort. I'm just imagining you.

You're at home in Florida, and you tell your family, and you salute them, and you're like, I'm going to the front lines. You're like, don't. You're crazy. I'm going. And then you go to Californiaia where it's really bad which it's hilarious because my mom is a super radical left leaning person so she would love to have switched from florida to move over to los angeles and we've

sort of taken our opposite path your mom is radical left because you said you were too right i was too yeah did you appreciate florida while you were there no this place is awful like i hate this place did you did you get like hit in the head with a turtle shell or something and it just knocked sense into you? No. Or what happened? You know what? So I grew up, my mom works for the political left.

Hi, mom. She's not watching. But hi, mom. Definitely not watching. So I grew up with her influence and I was constantly told about the oppression that I was going to face living in America. She happens to be white. So she was telling me about like, you know, you're black.

It's going to be a little bit difficult for you. Things are going to be hard. And I totally fell for it. Hook, line and sinker. Graduated high school, started working as a youth organizer and door knocking and telling people who they needed to vote for. I worked on the Andrew Gillum campaign in Florida. Yeah, we all know how that turned out.

Like, luckily, my efforts went unnoticed on that. And eventually just recognized so much hypocrisy that I had to leave and started looking at other views. What made you realize like, what was the moment that you realized something? Yeah, so I grew up with my white family. And I was constantly going to work and hearing about how awful white people were. And there were several instances where it was just the most blatant racist rhetoric you could hear regarding somebody all towards white people and i would go and work on these projects and then go home to my white family that had taken care of me my entire life and i eventually

confronted one of the vps at the organization and said i don't get it man where we said we're tolerant we said we're anti-racist we're literally working on these like critical race theory initiatives and he basically told me you don't know how oppressed you are and that's not my fault so so it's like half your family black half your family white yes i wonder because i i have a similar experience i come from a mixed mixed race family so i'm a quarter i'm a quarter asian and my experience was was similar in that i go out and i hear these lefties saying things like white people are bad and i'm like hey wait a minute. Like I got white family and not white family. And I'm pretty sure you're full of shh. You know what I mean? Ish. Yeah. Yeah. Like this. And then what I end up

actually seeing growing up is the policies they put in place. They claim help help racism actually just end up hurting my family. And my family was the epitome of like opposing racism. Right. A hundred percent. I went through the exact same experience. I actually grew up in a really rural, conservative, small town, never truly experienced an ounce of racism in my life, but was so dedicated to the idea that I was oppressed in this country that I like fought people about it. And I, I, I basically labeled myself as a victim and went around the world telling everybody

about how victimized I was. So when you go to your family and you're like, hey, I don't believe this stuff because like, you know, we're a mixed family. And clearly the white people in my family are good people. This is not true. Yeah. Well, so my mom and dad got divorced when I was six. So I was basically just with my mother's influence. And I went to her and I was like, hey, mom, I think I might be a little conservative.

And she hated it. and we went through what's the liberal equivalent of sprinkling you with holy water she's like what can i do to stop this from happening because i was like her little protege and in a lot of ways working at the same organization she was working for so you know her her head blew through the roof and we went through months of just contentious arguments over all these different subject matters. And eventually she was like, OK, this is my daughter. I think she's pretty strong willed about what she believes right now. And I'm just going to leave it alone. Maybe we don't talk politics.

Yeah, I went through something similar with my mom. And I realized after like five or six years that it was more about the tone that we were communicating. It was more about, you know, less about trying to be right or just listening. But Ian Redbilled is my mom. Yeah, but it took 12 years. And it was like, we almost, our relationship almost ended. And she got really sick from stress.

Like, it was horrible. When you go at it and you're like obsessed with trying to convince someone, they can get really, really ill. It can really hurt people. So the best is just to exist and listen. The cult is scary. I agree. Yeah. I realized that just through living my life with my values, I think it would sort of influence

her a little bit. Like she's now come around and said, you know what? I think I'm comfortable being friends with people who are conservative, which for her, it's a big, big step. I mean, when I say she's radical leftist, I mean as far left as you could possibly be. So yeah. But like authoritarian or libertarian? Authoritarian.

Crazy. Because like the libertarian left, in my opinion, doesn't really exist. Like they do, but it's such an impossible political standard that most people on the left abandon it. Right. But then claim their libertarian left to try and win votes so that it can then enslave you. You know what I mean?

Yeah. I mean, with all the policing you want to do of people's speech and how they act and what left to try and win win votes so that it can then enslave you you know what i mean yeah i mean with all the policing you want to do of people's speech and how they act and what they do it's hard not to be authoritarian in that sense do you know political compass memes there's like a couple different pages oh is it like the little test that you take that puts yeah yeah the memes are hilarious and it's like one of the one of the one place on the internet where they actually understand what the political compass actually means and you'll actually see like the left and the right arguing with each other but laughing at these jokes and i did a i did a mini rant once where i said woke people are not libertarian left every single time

people come out and talk about antifa or something they claim it's a libertarian left i'm like dude it is not libertarian to go around bashing people over the skull demanding they live the way they want you to live that That's authoritarian left. Libertarian left is like hippies living on a farm being like, you want to share this watermelon with me, dude? The problem is supporting that is extremely difficult and it doesn't scale very well. But the political compass memes people

were like, Tim is correct. And they put my face on the liberal left quadrant arguing why Antifa and woke people are not libertarian left and everybody agreed like all these different people were like yeah that's that's literally like woke people are authoritarian commie socialist types right as soon as you start trying to impose your worldview on anybody you can't call yourself a libertarian right that's why it was really funny when um was it jorgensen the libertarian candidate said jo Jorgensen. Yeah, Joe Jorgensen said it's not enough to not be racist, we must be

actively anti-racist. Insane. But I was like, the libertarian candidate telling people what they must do is deliciously ironic. What is the libertarian version of wokeness? Well, wokeness is ideological. So there's no, if you were woke and you were libertarian,

you'd say something like, you know, I think critical race theory and these things are good. How can we work with each other on trying to implement what I agree with? And then they say, I disagree with you. And it's like, oh, OK, well, we disagree. Let's figure out how to live together. See, I totally get along with those people. I met I met a communist guy.

He, you know, I was in Berkeley. He denounced Antifa. He said the violence is wrong. They shouldn't be doing that. He's like, true communism would be us living together, working together. And I was like, oh, we're friends. I was like, bro, you can be a communist. I don't care as long as you're not bashing people over the skull, you know?

And it really is as simple as that. And they think we're far worse than that. They make us out to be these horrible villains. But really, I'm like, you can believe whatever you want to believe. Just please don't come into my territory and impose it on me. Right. But that's how a lot of woke ideology works. It needs compliance and it needs you to agree to be a part of it. If anyone questions it, then their system is broken.

Yep. And that's unacceptable. That's what I love about like this weird world where the mainstream corporate press calls every single person far right or right wing. And it's like, it's just so weird that every single ideological viewpoint is right wing like all of them if you're a communist and you're woke you're left but if you're a communist and you're not woke you're far right if you're a socialist and you're anti-corporate you're far right jimmy door who's like a socialist is is right wing that that that one blew my mind i'm

like okay y'all jump look you want to come at me and say tim pool is right wing. That one blew my mind. I'm like, okay, y'all jump. Look, you want to come at me and say Tim Pool's right wing or whatever, I'll beg. You can make an argument about center right or something, even though I'm like in the middle. But Jimmy Dore, he's like universal healthcare and like all these other left policies. But then he goes, the Democrats and the Republicans

are corporatists who are selling you out. He's far right. Right, but they just move the center to a place where they're like, look, all the way over there is extreme far right. Whereas it wouldn't have been, you know, a decade ago, two decades ago. We just migrated it so far that we don't understand where the middle is at all. We just got to ignore them. Yeah, I was thinking that.

I love that idea. The buzzwords, kind of let the buzzwords flow through you. The alt, the left, the right, the authoritarian, the libertarian, like you don't fall into a group. Like we're not putting you in a holding cell right now because of what label we slapped on your chest. It doesn't, that stuff's not relevant in humanity. Jimmy's a great example of that because he talks so much. You see the intricacies of who he is

and he doesn't, he's way all over the place as he believes what he believes. Jimmy has left. I just think we have to ignore what the cult thinks because the woke cult is not left or right like this is what i was saying people that some people don't don't agree but i'm like sterilizing your kids is not a left wing or right wing position it is of the left right now but the left is like it's it's it's usually a reference to revolutionary or economically flat systems.

Communism, for instance. The farthest left you go on the political compass, whereas right is laissez-faire capitalism. That's the economic scale. Yeah, I think Jimmy is a bit revolutionary. He's got that revolutionary state of mind. But I also, I can tell that he appreciates the state when it functions properly. He likes that kind of stuff, and he's willing to use the state to you know accommodate people listen this and that's more authoritarian versus libertarian the state versus you know no state and the thing that always confused me when that was is when they

say like laissez-faire capitalists are far right and so are nazis and i'm like but they completely disagree on like everything how does that make sense what does that even mean and they say things like they're always trying to redefine what left and right is in order to justify why you are not left or whatever so i'm just like we got to be careful about putting people in camps that's what that is is the first step on the path to putting people in camps is giving them labels and putting them in a consciousness box when it comes to i think cult is often a good word i know it's a strong word but it's a good word because as soon as you start to deviate on even one single issue they throw you out and label you as something and And language is so powerful for the woke left

in particular, the way they manipulate it, the way they utilize it in order to put people in certain groups and label them. And as soon as we go, you know, I'm not going to accept the label and I'm not going to take that. I think it's when we start changing the game a little bit. You know, what's interesting is I think it's like the snowball effect, the snowball rolling down a hill. So I'd imagine for you, as for like a lot of people who start questioning wokeness, you probably said something small like, hey, I kind of don't agree with you on the white people thing. And then they immediately start shoving you as hard as they could out. Yep. That's exactly what happened. I had. So I'll tell a quick little story. I was working on a project called the

Groveland Four back in Florida, and it was about these four black men had been wrongfully accused of sexual assault. And there was a documentary that we were showing, and I was trying to get all these college and high school kids to come and say, you know, this is America. This is what they do to black people. They shove them through the criminal justice system, even when they have nothing. And in the background, Brett Kavanaugh gets accused of sexual assault. And that whole firestorm starts

happening and i'm working on this project watching brett kavanaugh just completely break down on camera and i brought it to my boss and i said you know why are we treating these two situations differently why is he completely just getting obliterated by the media and by the work that we're doing here yet when these four black men get wrongfully accused, we're giving them all the grace in the world. And he said, well, he's a white man and I don't care. And he clearly is the frat boy type. So he did it and he should hang.

Wow. Yeah. Just when I tell you the most dramatic rhetoric you could possibly hear, I was hearing day in and day out. I don't know how I didn't leave sooner, but eventually it was just, you can't stand it. I kind of feel like the left hates mixed race people like woke people like their their perspective is i've experienced this personally

where they're like we should have segregated spaces right the poc and the non-poc and then you know if you walk up to them and you're like what if i'm both they're like get out because then you're still white and and your story, what I'm imagining is like you've got white family. Him saying he's white, I don't care, let him hang. It's like, yo, you realize like when people say that stuff to me,

I'm like imagining my family. I'm like, I don't like that. Right. Like you're talking about my family too. Which was interesting because I had conservative people in my family who are sort of like

the Fox News conservatives watching that all the time. And then I had my mom who was totally on board of, you know, F white people. And I'm I just happen to be a white ally, but also I'm part of the problem. So my brain was just going crazy all throughout my childhood. Did you feel like she owed you an explanation? Did it like hurt your sense of identity? You know, I just have conversations with her now and say, you know, in the future, maybe we don't do this to children. Maybe we

don't teach them that they're victims from like the age of eight years old and say, you know, in the future, maybe we don't do this to children. Maybe we don't teach them that they're victims from like the age of eight years old. And, you know, tell them that there's some boogeyman out to get them, but he's invisible and see how that goes. And how did other people in your community react when you were like, I don't know that I totally get behind all these beliefs anymore. I was completely just ousted from the organization gone left never talked to again and of course later i about a year or so later i started making videos and and those sort of blew up and just people were pissed one story i talk about uh every so often is that during occupy wall street there was this dude i was a white dude and black dude and uh black dude was like

i'm gonna run across the street to go to the bathroom and the white dude they were friends he was like oh hey would you grab me a cheeseburger when you're over there and the black dude was like i'm gonna run across the street to go to the bathroom and the white dude they were friends he was like oh hey would you grab me a cheeseburger when you're over there and the black dude went off and he was like excuse me and he was and he was like oh can you grab me a cheeseburger when you're over there i'll give you money and the black dude just went off and i'm sorry yelling at him and then i asked him later what happened and then he he said you see how racist that was and then i was like he asked you to get him a cheeseburger and he's like yeah like i'm his boy like going to get him food or something and i was like like, he asked you to get him a cheeseburger? And he's like, yeah, like I'm his boy, like going to get him food or something. And I was like, dude,

my friends ask me to grab him stuff from the store all the time. Yeah, there's a phrase, you fly, I'll buy. That's what we used to say. Go to Taco Bell, you fly, I'll buy. What I think happened there was that this dude internalizes the racism and sees everything through a lens of you're being racist towards me.

So something as simple as my friend asked me to grab him food because I was already going that way turns into a racist attack on him. Yeah. Well, and I think white guilt is something that people are introduced to at a really young age. I saw a friend over the weekend and she's moved to New City

and she told me that she specifically picked her yoga studio because it was in the historically black neighborhood and she liked that it was owned by a woman of color and if that's your preference totally cool and then she said i also think it's really important that they offer classes uh for free to black people only and i think it's better because i should be paying for it it's okay if i have to pay and other people don't and i was like you you're describing discrimination you know that right but you know what am i supposed to say to someone who feel feels like this is part of her moral duty to the world?

You have to, like you were saying, kind of approach it calmly. This is what I think people who agree with us need to understand. There's no mistake. They're racist. They define racist in a different way, but who cares the way they look? I'm not trying to win an argument with them over what words mean to me. My base basis for racism is that they want racial discrimination, that they believe certain races are inherently one way or another or something like that. Whereas I'm kind of like, you know, if I went to a restaurant and they had signs about like only serving white people or somebody said to me that they that they liked a restaurant because it catered to white people and offered free food to white people, I'd be like, that's kind of messed up. I don't like that. And if they did the same thing for Mexicans or black people, I'd be like, that's kind of messed up. I don't like that. And if they did the same thing for Mexicans or black people,

I'd be like, that's not okay. I don't like that. That's kind of lame. And the woke, they want the segregation. It's fascinating when I talk to people and tell them about how Dearborn, Michigan had the, do you see this one, the POC and the non-POC digital events they did? I've seen a lot of places doing this. Tons of this stuff. And they're like, it's a good thing. And I'm like, it's a bad thing. I'm like, well, if you don't like it, you're racist. And I'm like, dude, I don't care what word you use.

I don't like what you're doing. And I'm just going to stay away from you. And that's the smart thing to do. I mean, Ibram X. Kendi, who we all know and dislike, talks about the way to fix past discrimination is present discrimination. And how that lands with anybody, I just don't't understand and i think a quick thought exercise that anybody can do is to sort of look at these headlines and what these woke people are doing and swap out

people of color or black or hispanic for for any other race and and see how you feel about it see if it's truly racist and it always is yeah it Yeah. It's crazy. I think part of it is people feel like they are, they are doing the right thing by making things, by overcompensating, you know, by saying like, oh, well,

we'll, we'll pay more now because at the time you were wronged. And I think we forget that we can acknowledge that past wrongs were committed without needing to, you know, push a bunch of other people down in order to make this unstable system we're trying to build up on. It doesn't make any sense. Isn't it funny, though, how there's an overlap between these people? They're the same people who support war with Ukraine. They're the same people

who think everybody should bend the knee to vaccine mandates. Like, what's up with that? I think it's because, you know, I was thinking about that. I saw these memes about how the Christian right were mean and they hated people. And I'm like, yeah, that's not been my experience, you know, for the most part. But I wonder because because I know that they exist. I wonder if what what it really is, is that there are a group of people that are, I would say, a certain amount of people tend to be zealous and mob like they don't actually believe anything they just do whatever the dominant social group says and they adhere to it with with force and aggression and at one point when the religion when when this country was dominated by christians those people claimed to be christians and gave a bad name now that the country is moving towards secularism these people are now the same people they've always been but now just along with the woke, giving them a bad name

and making them look like garbage. But the problem is they're the prominent ones that are pushing this stuff. Obviously, there's like regular people who are like on the left and think racism is bad, but the dominant voices

have all become these like despicable, weird authoritarians. And I think they make it so such a gray area where it's like, well, your instincts on what is racism and what feels wrong to you is wrong. You don't have a true understanding of this because you don't have this knowledge and context that we, especially in the realm of academia, say you must understand and go through to really get. Yeah. And I think another

underlying factor with why they do things like the vaccine mandates and jumping into war with Ukraine. When I was working for the left, there was this constant idea of radical compassion. So you identify a problem, you identify what you think would be the compassionate thing to do, and you do that to the most radical extent that you possibly can, which means hopping into war with Russia, which means mandating vaccines for everybody. If you want people to be able to come into the United States and immigrate here, we need open borders. Everything is always the most radical form of policy they can think of. You know, radical compassion doesn't work, in my opinion. I tried it in 2006 on internet videos.

It's like, what would Jesus do with this technology? He'd connect with everyone he could and spread the gospel, listen to them, connect with their eyes. And I was doing it. And it became so exhausting. And a lot of very weak people would connect with me. And I was doing it and it became so exhausting and a lot of very weak people would would connect with me and I was like I'm not turning anyone away I'll talk to anybody and so it broke me like the the people that were busted up psychologically were infecting my mind with busted up psychology and I was becoming busted up and I realized it's not sustainable this radical you you need to let people fix themselves you need to maybe create an environment where it's not sustainable, this radical. You need to let people fix themselves. You need to maybe create an environment where it's easier for them.

Some people can't be fixed. But that's up to them. I cannot fix them. I can only give them an opportunity to fix themselves. It's coddling. It's what's happening right now. And that's what I recognized a lot when talking about being biracial in America

so much as what do we need to do for you? What's hard for you? How can you get into school? How can you get a job? And you can switch out the race thing for gender or sexuality, but that's constantly the underlying factor is how can I be a savior towards X community?

It's funny that I think there are different conspiracy theorists, factions, that all will blame one group of people for their problems. So like you've got the groups that, you know, will be like the globalists, you know, the more Alex Jones-oriented conspiracy theory types. Not referring to him specifically,

but you've got people who hate Jewish people and blame them for all the problems. You've got the woke who blame white people for all the problems. You've got Occupy Wall Street who blames the 1% for all their problems. It's like, if you want to figure out where you fit in, which group do you hate the most? Blame for all the problems, and you found your friends. To me, it's creepy because obviously this planet and society is extremely nuanced,

and it's not so simple to say there's one group that's causing all the problems. There aren't. There's war, there's countries, there's cultures, there are ideologies. Within countries and within races, there's different ideologies that are attacking each other. of course the woke they've become the corporate dominant and they blame white people for their problems yeah our minds are so simplistic i mean it's so weird that we've reduced ourselves down to things like race and gender which are just things you can see to the human eye and then we've just decided oh because i can see it that must be the rule of

thumb here and there must be one ultimate villain in every single case for every single problem it's unbelievable how simplistic our brains work i don't like the black and white thing because we're not black and white or that's very obviously a wrong way to describe things it's too simple it doesn't function it is let's jump to this uh good fun story we have here from the new york post kathy griffin slammed for saying republicans will start a civil war. The first thing I want to say. Tim, she stole your line.

No, no. New York Post is wrong. Hold on. New York Post, you need to issue a correction. She did not say Republicans will start a civil war. She never said that. That is defamation and slander of our good friend Kathy Griffin. What she said was, if you don't want a civil war, vote for Democrats in November. If you do want civil war, vote Republican.

She did not say in any capacity that Republicans would start one. In fact, she didn't in any way imply either. Well, she didn't state either side would, but she implied Democrats would. Let's do some basic logic real quick. If you vote for Democrats, they win. There won't be a civil war. That means Republicans will do nothing. If you vote for Republicans and they win and she says there will be a civil war in that capacity.

Well, Republicans aren't going to start a civil war after winning legitimate power. Yeah. The Democrats would have to start fighting with them. Otherwise, they're in power. She's actually implying Democrats will start a civil war. Many people pointed this out. She's basically issuing a threat. Yep.

If you don't vote for us, we are going to war. Well. And Twitter's cool with it. Civil war, drink. Yeah, leave it up. This is the second one. She did the cut the Trump head. I think it's more than a second.

And held that bloody head. This is kind of another weird, like, visceral statement. It's just shock value. I think after that Trump head thing, she should have just went, you know what? No more internet for me. I think I'm done.

Siraj, where's the list? Yeah. Take her phone away. Seriously. I saw her try to work it back and say, you know, if the Democrats are in power, they'll be able to hold off

the MAGA Republicans from starting some sort of war. That's what I meant by the tweet, but I don't think that landed. So she's implying that the MAGA Republicans get elected, are handed the keys to the castle, war that's what i meant by the tweet but i don't think that why did so so she's implying that the the maga republicans get elected are handed the keys to the castle and then they're gonna go they just start running around and smashing things they have legitimate power they've won

an election why would they do anything like that they're all crazy white people tim we don't know what they're gonna do we don't know what white people are well that's true but then you end up with people like tim scott they act like doesn't exist you know what white people are capable of. Well, that's true, but then you end up with people like Tim Scott that act like doesn't exist. You know what I mean? Yeah. I wonder how much of Kathy is getting taken out of context because it's did she say this verbally or was this in text? It's a tweet. It's a tweet. She's a comedian. Text, your jokes don't

always translate to text. Oh, come on. I don't think this is a joke. I mean, it does seem like a cry for attention. She did have a reality TV show that was like My Life as a D-List Celebrity or something. Oh, yeah, something oh yeah yeah this is way back in the day she's a d-list celebrity i've never heard of it so herself you know she really does need people to notice her whenever whenever possible so i feel like again she's somewhat political openly a lot of the time but also you know she has to stay part of the relevant conversation as somebody who who's you

know half of their tweets are completely nonsensical and hilarious uh yes i'm saying my jokes are funny uh i feel for kathy griffin if she's taken out of context the only issue is she who's, you know, half of their tweets are completely nonsensical and hilarious. Yes, I'm saying my jokes are funny. I feel for Kathy Griffin if she's taken out of context. The only issue is she took a photo of herself holding a faux severed head of Donald Trump. It's hard to get out of context. Yeah, she's literal. Like, you know, look, I think my tweets are funny because I'm intentionally trolling and screwing around.

And the fact that some people believe, so I'll tell you this. I tweeted when the left was ragging on the song we put out I said, the success of Only Ever Wanted proves that deep down Americans crave powerful emo music but the globalist corporate elite are conspiring to

suppress it. And they started sharing the tweet on Reddit and other posts being like, Tim Pool literally thinks this and I'm like, that was so overt in its nonsense that no sane person would believe i was being telling the truth if you were to look at kathy griffin is saying and you think she's joking then i think you're being equally dishonest i think this is the this year's democrats get out the vote campaign like if you don't vote for us it's going to end in civil war. And they want you to believe it's Republicans, but as Tim is completely right in pointing out,

it's actually the Democrats being like, we will riot. We've been doing it for a little while here. Everyone's cool when we do it, not when any Republicans do it. You know, it's kind of crazy that she can post this, it can stay up, and she's going to be like, no, I'm in the right to say it.

This is a get out the vote. It's all fear tactics. I mean, she seems clearly inspired by Joe biden we watched his last speech where he's talking about you know the MAGA republicans are the threat to america so we all have to worry about they hate this country so long as they don't win i think they're really just pushing fear fear fear and please get out and vote for us or else and it works yep it it works and you know a lot of republicans are like oh it's going to be a red tsunami. We're going to win.

And I'm like, yeah, you better operate under the assumption it's going to be a blue wave and get out every single person you can. Because I'll tell you, even if you do win, the likelihood the Republicans, you know, the Republican leadership will do something is low. So you need to make sure the win is overwhelming so that, look, if in swing states, you get moderate Republicans who win, then they're going to jam things up and be like, no, no, no, listen, you know, we got to be, we can't play that way. We had Rick Santorum on. And, you know, I respect the guy, but he was like, we can't play that game. We've got to play by the rules. And I'm like, okay, like, dude, I get it, play by the rules. But playing by the rules also means you subpoena them when they do something illegal. You don't say, well, you know, that's too much and too far. Well, that's what they're doing. They're going after Trump. They're going after Bannon. They're going after people on the right. They put Peter Navarro in shackles. So

maybe Republicans need to win and just, you know, get some subpoenas and do some investigations, figure out what went on with Crossfire Hurricane, maybe get some accountability for Russiagate. Yeah. And I think if you are a conservative leaning voter, it's much better to look at the tsunami after it's hit than to be like, I think it's coming. I leaning voter, it's much better to look at the tsunami after it's hit than to be like, I think it's coming. I'll just pretend. And then it turns out it's nothing. I think the Republican Party is prone to complacency.

And they think they're being forgiving, being like, well, we're not going to follow up on any of these things. We could press charges, but we're going to be the bigger people and move on. And it's like, no, actually, you're letting the justice system fall by the wayside by being inactive and becoming complacent yeah the riots of 2020 was an example of that like day two where was the national guard and all they said was like well if we start prosecuting people we'll probably get worse right we're being mean we're just reactionary and just reactive we're like waiting for them to come to our backyard to react to them and then going oh well there was no laws to protect me for this. Oh, so sorry. Yeah. So I get called a black pillar a lot because I'm constantly like,

hey, guys, I'm not convinced there's going to be a red wave. And they're like, oh, just let it happen. I'm like, no, you can't do that way. You need to be taking every single possible step you can. You need to be getting other people involved in voting. And I've been going back and forth a lot of people about whether we should fight on their level and i think the ultimate answer is that yes we should as far as lawfare goes and then as far as like character goes we need to stick by see that's where your conservative principles can actually come out is in your character you don't need to do what they do you don't need to cancel people as hard as they do but you can fight back on the level playing ground that is supposedly there was a poll from the uh trousalga group i

think today that said after biden's speech a a lot of independents and i can't remember the percentage but let's say 30 swung and we're like this that speech is like cool aggressive rhetoric this is inappropriate like this is not right obviously you know high percentage democrats thought that speech was wonderful lots of conservatives were like wait no that's insane but it was the independents who were like, you're losing us here, Joe Biden administration, the Democratic Party. Like, this is not something that we support. I think it was like, I wish I had the number in front of me, like 50% were like, we are against how this presentation and the way this looks. I think in some ways, the Democrats themselves will show,

are showing their true colors. But I can't stress enough that I feel like the Republican Party's one of their biggest issues is that they become complacent. And they're like, got in the bag. Let's all just pack up

and go home. And that's how you lose. No, we need serious asymmetric, what would you call it? I guess culture warfare. Lawfare. Well, lawfare, I'm open to being equal.

We should be treating the law equally among all people. But if you want to win a culture war against a communist infusion or whatever the hell is happening, you need deep spiritual power. You need some sort of imbalance of power to win that. And that I think is internal. It's meditation, consciousness, listening to people, being willing to cry. That comes out. The way that we communicate is so different to the way that progressives communicate. And I've learned that a lot just having worked on both sides.

Their grassroots organizing endeavors are insane. And they're very well run. They're in the communities, running around, knocking doors, having conversations with people, and having very emotional conversations with people. And I think that's what influences voters. Conservatives, we're not very emotional. We don't use a storyline in order to influence people. And I think that's what influences voters. Conservatives were not very emotional. We don't use like a storyline in order to influence people. And as far as his speech, he had an amazing opportunity to hop up there and give a message of unity and say, you know,

we can coexist. There is a way that we can unite out of this. And I want to be the president who does that. But he fumbled the ball. And at least that ball is now in our court. Yeah, I think the play was you're going to fumble. The other team's going to, but then we're going to recover it and run it in for a touch. Like it was like, the speech was written as a fumble. See, I feel like it wasn't actually about unity because of the lines about the right-wing extremism.

It was not. It was like under the guise of patriotism being like, look, I'm in front of Independence Hall and they've got all these great colors and look at those Marines. And then it's like, but remember, the MAGA conservatives are the devil. And if you vote for them,

you are going to set our country on fire. The emotion thing. Which is not a unifying message. The emotion thing is everything. Yes. Right now, the Democrats are heavily just targeting emotions, hate and fear, hate and fear.

And I think people on the right, as you were mentioning, they're not very emotional. They don't get it. Ben Shapiro, you know, thinks he'll make a logical argument and convince you. But in fact, he's, thinks he'll make a logical argument and convince you, but in fact, he's only speaking to people who are already

logical, and people who are already logical are probably already more right-leaning. So I know this from having done street fundraising, and I'm canvassing, where we would go and talk to people on the street, wave, hi. They always give you these spiels, and they would be like, say this, and they were very methodic, logical, hi, my name

is this, I work for here, here's a problem we face, here's how you can help. And of course, like, say this. And they were very methodic, logical. Hi, my name is this. I work for here. Here's a problem we face. Here's how you can help. Great. Of course, that stuff never works. And they don't want you to say anything else, like for like legal reasons. But I was like, dude, I can get people to sign up for anything without saying a single fact. Like they're worried about you saying something factually incorrect and then giving someone,

someone gives a donation and then you've got like a, you know, liability issue or something. And I'm like, just tug on their heartstrings. So the pitches I would do were often very much like trying to make people cry. Just tell them a story about talking about homeless people. Telling them a story about a homeless person that no one loves. Imagine what it must feel like that no one's there for you and no one loves you.

And then when you finally do see someone walking down the street, they look at you with disgust and they spit on you. And then people are like feeling bad. And then they donate. The best sales pitch I've ever seen was this guy selling door-to-door children's encyclopedias who was like, yeah, I took this opportunity to be out here because my fiance's here. But, you know, it's really hard. And they didn't tell you that our wages would be awful.

And we have to buy the product first. And like, we all have to share a van and like i have to sell these because otherwise i'm in debt to the company and like i watched so many people buy that guy's encyclopedia he might as well been selling i don't even know what but if you if you go up to somebody and say he also may not have had a fiance i just want to put that on the table it could have been lying the whole thing could have been a lie the same is true for for the right like if you were going to make a pitch and say like here's here's what democrat policy is bad right joe biden he's enacted these these policies such as banning fracking on public lands which has caused

a spike in speculation now here's a logical reason why that's gonna they don't care they don't care they say you're lying they say it's fake news donald trump is bad he's evil you need to go out and like drive emotions talk of you know just create a circumstance where you make them feel something and then point them in the direction of what what they that's what the democrats do they say bad stuff bad stuff donald trump bad stuff our best bet is like going out there talking about the state of the economy right now how american families are hurting talk about this defund the police movement and how it's hurting low-income minority communities tug on the heartstrings there and it's not a hard thing to do because it's real it's actually happening people are seeing it in their backyard parents are getting galvanized

because their their students are being affected in this public schooling system that's completely failing them if you use those emotional stories and then you know plug in the facts there as you need to uh people will get behind you i want to pull up this tweet because we were talking about, you know, like law and stuff came up and I was thinking about this in the context of where we're going Civil War wise. Marianne Williamson was responding to a Newsweek story about Trump getting his special master that they're going to review the document seized. And she said, this is terrible news. Why is that terrible?

Stix Hexenhammer says, how sad that your witch hunt nonsense is being put on hold for due process reasons. She responded, does the law matter to you at all? Or do you just think it doesn't apply to him? Now, here's the problem. Marianne Williamson. I actually, I think she's very nice, sweet lady. But this is the issue with the left.

They don't care about facts at all. They care about how they feel. So they ignore facts. They don't do research and my response the law stopped being relevant when democrats impeached trump over joe biden threatening the ukrainian president with illegally blocking u.s aid guarantees or maybe it was when they fabricated evidence to spy on trump the funny thing is people like marion williamson don't know that happened telling her doesn't matter because it gives her a negative emotional response.

You were wrong. Your facts are bad and you're on the wrong side. Negative emotional response. Don't want to listen to you. Get away from me. They only want sweet comforting lies. Well, they want sweet comfort. No, they want lies. They prefer lies. Look, whether

they intentionally say, I want lies or the lie is what makes them feel better and they request so they're like make me feel better yeah i love that line from viva vendetta where he says would you prefer a lie or the truth when when he gets asked by evie about you they want hope did you kill that man what was the so what is the situation here what law what is being discussed she says there's no due process there's there's no rule of law so So Donald Trump, they seize the documents. Trump says a special master

should review this to make sure they're not going through private stuff they're not allowed to, like privilege documents. And she thinks you should not have due process. Well, you should.

She's scared that the appointee is going to be somewhat on his side, that they're going to help him out. And she's also scared of lengthening this out before he announces whether or not he's going to run for president. So if they have a hitter that they can use on Trump before out. And she's also scared of lengthening this out before he announces whether or not he's going to run for president.

So if they have a hitter that they can use on Trump before he puts in his candidacy, they want it now. Right. And it's so, sorry, let me squeeze this in real fast. It is so telling to me that they don't want it to be possible for someone to like Donald Trump's perspective. That's insane.

He's already convicted in their minds. Oh, for sure. He committed a crime. We're just not totally sure what the crime is, is the logic there. So why he would need due process is sort of beyond Ken to them because he should already be convicted. They don't want anything holding this up because he is already persona grata enemy number one. There's no recovering from that. He doesn't deserve the law.

A big mistake people are making, I think, is that they're pinning a lot of social distress right now on political parties like which is it the republicans causing this chaos or is it the democrats but in reality when you look at videos in like sri lanka or in italy where people are rioting on the street and smashing stuff and attacking cops it's because they don't have heat they don't have electricity that's what's causing and going to cause civil stress in this country it really doesn't matter who's in political power at that state but everyone is going to say like well you know you why you don't have the things that you need to survive because of that other party i uh vladimir putin did this interview today where he was like yeah europe is sacrificing all of their people uh to keep them uh american globalist elite in

uh dominant power like he is saying the exact same thing. We are all looking for someone else to blame issues on. But with all of the sanctions and energy bills are high, you can understand where that line is now going to potentially be persuasive to at least Russians, if not other people who are like, yeah, our leadership is really messing us up here. How are we going to get over this?

What is it, the system? They don't want, I hate using the term they, it's so vague, but power structures don't want people to be in power don't want people to have unlimited electricity because then they'll have more power than the government and rise up and overthrow so they've kept this in a state of slavocracy but that's going to cause people to rise up it's like in one of the greatest movie franchises of all time fast and furious great a wise man once said the villain in one of them i'm not sure if it was five or not he said you know you give the people

something that they're that they're scared to lose you could take away and then you control them then they're your slaves that was my thought yeah so it's basically like give them just enough you make their lives better and then they're dependent upon you it's like it's like it's like you know it's not all bad in a sense where you're making their lives a little better, but then you're also using it specifically for control. Yeah, it's like leashing a Tyrannosaurus Rex and hoping it doesn't realize that it's a T-Rex and you're just a little guy with a leash.

Well, it's like there's this famous meme where there's a big elephant with like a rope on its foot and a little spike in the ground. And someone said, why won't the elephant just rip it out and walk away? And they said, when the elephant was little, it struggled and fought and learned that it couldn't get out. Now that it's older, it doesn't even bother trying.

And on top of that, they're also pushing this message of you need to do this. This is for the greater good. Like with this energy stuff that's happening right now, entangled in that is the climate crisis and hysteria surrounding that so not only are you giving the government control but you're doing it for a good cause you're doing the right thing which is exactly what's happening in the netherlands right now you know the farmers are are up in arms about their their livelihoods being taken away and it is just a massive land grab from the government but the government is saying no it's for climate change this line flatten the curve like covid taught us you reference the rat hoax it's

really pavlov's a dog they ring the bell oh we gotta flatten the curves and everyone should fall in line and do this because it's for the greater good that's right so the rat the rat hope experiment we've talked about a bit before guy takes three rats three cylinders puts the rats in the cylinders they swim for 15 minutes can't get out and then they just give up sink and die then he takes another pair of rats set of rats puts them in they swim 15 minutes then they just give up, sink, and die. Then he takes another pair of rats, set of rats, puts them in. They swim 15 minutes or so. They give up, but this time he lifts them out, dries them off, lets them relax,

then puts them back in. The second time they swam for 60 hours. So we talked about this during the COVID lockdown. Are they going to rat experiment us? You put us in lockdown, everybody starts losing their minds, and then right before it gets too bad, you stop. You let everybody go back to normal.

You bring the movies back. You bring the video games back. The food's back. The pizza's back. The wings are back. And then you give everybody a little bit to relax, dry off, and then do it again. And now they'll last 60 times as long. So if you went, let's put it this way, 15 minutes to 60 hours, we're talking about,

what is it, like a 200 200 was it 20 what are we doing yeah 240 times 240 time increase so uh based on the fact they locked us down for what a year are they now going to start pulling hard back for another couple hundred years it doesn't need to be that much it doesn't need to translate you only need a generation because you lock down the generation of people that are used to living well and have access to technology. Once they accept their fate and say, if we just stay at it and flatten the curve, then eventually things will get better. Then they die.

And the kids born into it will be like, this is normal. People don't do well in slavery. They never have. And they've always, there's just a history of uprising against slavery, whether it's a monarchy or a corporation or whatever Like I I can't imagine that people would sit still for very long Don't try for sure control. Is there is there like a form of soft? Totalitarianism where it's like you you are somewhat enslaved

But you have all these wonderful amenities to keep you at bay and to keep you docile and you have your streaming services And you have just enough AC to keep you at bay and to keep you docile. And you have your streaming services and you have just enough AC to keep your house cool and just enough to be fine in the place that you're at and without enough energy to really realize how oppressed you are. They have to slowly take away from you because the idea is you will own nothing and you will be happy.

That's right. But this is true, okay? That's a true statement. You will own nothing and you will be happy is true. So we right now are not unhappy that we don't have access to flying cars and teleportation. I mean- Speak for yourself.

No, I know. Some people are like, I wish I could teleport. But what I mean is, we mentioned this a little while ago. There was a video of a 90 year old man in like the turn of the century, 1900s. They recorded him. He was alive in the civil war. And they were like, what's it like with all this? You know, how was it for you growing up with all the

technology now? He's like, same. People get by, they do the work they got to do. We got by just fine. People get by now. We are, we are accustomed to technology we have. We are not upset that we don't have technology we don't know exists. So if they can take it away from you and then remove it from your thoughts or the next generation grows up without having it, they won't be unhappy because they won't know it existed. Yeah. I forget what podcast I was watching this week,

but they were talking about how it's humanity's greatest strength and our greatest weakness that we can get used to anything. So there really hasn't been a lot of humans thriving in slavery, but people do get used to it. I don't know if you remember, and I'm sure Ian doesn't know, but in the Bible, the Israelites

escaped slavery and they were so upset in the desert. They were like, why can't we go back to slavery? That was better. At least we were fed, right? Yeah. This is a thing that happens to humans and has been happening since we became humans. I mean, look at young people during this COVID pandemic being locked down, how quickly they were like, oh, I'm totally fine being home.

Also, let's work from home now. And the way our workforce has shifted subsequently, it's we are very quickly. And you saw I used to see a lot of content that was like somebody asked me to get lunch before the pandemic and you're like running errands, you're doing stuff. And then after the pandemic, like you have one social interaction. You're like, I'm done for the year. I can't do it. It literally became something that people are overwhelmed by when it was actually a huge part of civilization working in community and having regular contact with other people like we are now more isolated and the pandemic just made it so we acclimated

faster yeah but we're more connected through the internet right guys i love the training the training worked but i also think it's a big marketing campaign it's a big psyop so you do remote work i'm actually not not as opposed to remote work for a lot of jobs some jobs require community and and and you know cohesion but for a lot of jobs like yeah you can work from home for a lot of this stuff now you've got people who are i don't want to go back to work i want to work from home yeah that's good for everything that's going on like reducing carbon carbon emissions, all the climate change stuff, all the energy stuff. They put people in a position for a year.

Then people get accustomed to it and then beg for it again. That's what they like. Social manipulation, social engineering. And this would be, I don't want to put too much weight on the World Economic Forum, but I don't know who else they're working with. But the idea that people are going into the pods, that we're creating like a of bored people pod people that are people brains are hooked to the to the machine and and we're all kind of seeing each other's thoughts and working as one because the other the other option is total chaos and uprisings of people thinking they don't have enough and fighting and killing and destroying i don't want everyone to be blackpilled here. Oh, okay. I want you to see this story from Bloomberg.

Oh, good. Yes. Thousands protest in Prague over energy crisis. Demonstrators gathered a protest against the government in Prague. I think in Italy, they were burning their energy bills. Is that Italy? Why? UK doing the same thing.

UK, take a look at this. Protests against the Indonesian government's 30% gas price hiker in full force. Watch as protesters try to break down a wall of police officers in riot gear this is apolitical yeah that's right bipartisan so what i mean to say is you know people won't stand for this and i don't believe barack obama or bill gates or any of these people they are not trustworthy people they come to me as a young man and say, good sir, urban liberal. We have a climate crisis at hand. And I say, really?

Tell me more. And they say, that's right. There's too many people. Makes sense, doesn't it? Deer get overpopulated. Bird, turkeys, pigs. They can overpopulate, right? And I'm like, yeah.

And they go, well, we got a problem. We can't just kill people. So we have to work together to reduce our energy use, reuse and recycle. And I'm like, yeah, that all makes a lot of sense. And they're like, now you get to it. My private plane is waiting to my beachfront property. And I'm like, yeah, that all makes a lot of sense. And they're like, now you get to it. My private plane is waiting to my beachfront property. And I'm like, well, hold on there a minute. Hold on.

I sacrificed. And then you bought beachfront property in Martha's Vineyard. These people are full of it. If they really cared about this stuff, they wouldn't be doing the things they're doing. No, but I think the reality is, is that they want to preserve what they have. They probably are worried about overpopulation and political instability but the reality is if we can get you to sacrifice we get to keep our private jets yeah so when they try to implement these these

control mechanisms it's like you mentioned ian they want to control the energy you get access to because by limiting it it makes it easier to control you if only the wealthy elites have access to the internet or access to these you you know, you know, flying cars or whatever, they're an advantage over poor people and they can more easily control them. So now what we see is people are protesting and rising up saying, we do not agree with this. And that's what we need to see. Because if people just lay down and accept this, then you're all going to be pod people, basically sheep or chickens. Internet's kind of helped us to smash class systems like there used to be the elites and the plebs or the plebs at least and all through society there's been better men and everybody else you know whatever in the americas there

were the better men that made the government but i think people are are not everybody but more willing to represent themselves what tim is saying is reminding me of the criticism of the north america free trade agreement it was like here's what we're going to do as a collective you a u.s canada mexico and part of the environmental policies were like we're going to reduce carbon and do whatever and mexico never reduced their uh carbon emissions and so it was like wait we were we said we were all in this together and it was like but why are we why are we staying in this agreement in this partnership that's not working i feel like that's the same thing that these people are saying like we rely on you to protect us and you are swearing allegiance to a system that is causing

us to suffer like you are supposed to put our interests first right they're realizing their public servants are not serving them anymore and that there is a clear i think the class divide is getting just so abundantly clear especially through the internet and independent journalism like if we weren't talking about this and these independent journalists weren't talking about this nobody would know that all these separate protests are happening right now but now we're getting videos coming out and different people are jumping on the movements in the netherlands when that started sooner or later france jumps in spain jumps in because they all know this is going to be a collective fight i mean it was the same thing with the freedom convoy right we saw

it happening in canada and people were like oh wait yeah i don't want this either we're gonna we're gonna act and you didn't see it modeled as heavily anywhere outside canada i mean people carried out to a certain extent but like that reminded everyone that like you don't have to lay down and conform to what's going on especially if it's harming you i think it's funny i remember the arab spring you had uh people using facebook and twitter to organize mass protests in these arabic nations then, you know, overthrow their governments. Egypt did it twice. And then we start seeing that with Occupy Wall Street.

People start organizing and protesting. Occupy, I think, got co-opted by, you know, special interests. But the ability to use social media to organize and reject these centralized control systems is extremely apparent and now they're desperately trying to put a stop to it they have to ban people like alex jones they have to silence as many as many of these voices as possible and they they first started going through going for big names alex jones for instance mylianopolis laura loomer then they started going after the smaller accounts because they were like, hey, maybe we can do it that way. Go after a million small accounts that aren't big enough to make a splash if they get banned, as opposed to the big one that makes a big news cycle if you do ban.

So that's the strategy now. The other thing, obviously, is shadow banning and, you know, algorithmic manipulation. The second benefit that I heard to them is, you know, you ban these people. And if you're saying like, oh, these they hold extreme views and they get purged they look for an alternative right so andre torber talked about like gab was not a inherently political uh alternative to twitter except that they banned all of the extreme right wing users first so they were like well we'll go to gab and so that gave the platform a natural leaning even though that wasn't how he started it then you can have anyone at twitter be like well what are you going to do join Join that crazy extremist platform.

It siphoned off society and made it so you can point directly where you should not go next. The internet is very powerful. I mean, like, look at China and what's happening there right now. There's protests erupting all over China because people can't get their money out of the banks. They have such a stronghold on social media and the information that you're allowed to get out to people

that it's so hard to stage a protest. It makes me always want to be like who is getting banned first because whatever they're doing maybe i don't agree with it but i want to know because if they're getting purged first just just be aware of it like why are they getting purged well they do a lot of things somebody commented already that um you know we've got 40 000 people listening to the show right now concurrent viewership we're not trending on youtube when you search for it you can't find it and it's election season so we knew this was going to happen yep but uh unsurprising has it always been that way with this show like did you ever trend on youtube i can't remember i i think yes early on we we did trend several times i'm pretty sure and then all of a sudden one day uh i remember team guest irl you couldn't

search for it on google anymore you would take the title verbatim put it in google and facebook would come up instead and it was just funny and then it was after like a year or so all of a sudden i mentioned it on the show the next day we reappeared in search but they i think it was more that they realized it was so overt people People were catching on to their suppression. Right now, I think it's funny because we put out a song last week. Everybody knows at this point, I guess. And it was trending number 23 on YouTube, which is funny because this show gets more views and it never trends. But this is the point of the culture war.

Putting out music is apolitical. Boy, are they really salty that we did that and succeeded at it. They're freaking out. Some are, but it was a good song. So they get that. Well, it's like overwhelming thumbs up and positive, but the corporate press is losing their minds. When it comes to admitting social networks, politics is kind of a risky admin because if you decide to let politics run on the front page of your social network, you're basically

taking a political stance as a social network administrator, whether you want to or not. So I used to put that stuff in its own bucket. Like if you want politics, you gotta go look for it. I'm not gonna push it at you. I'm pushing, you know, letting entertainment or what. And it's like, that's a dirty surface level way to go, but politics is really dirty too.

And I don't think that just cause someone's got the loudest voice necessarily means that everyone should be looking at it people want power well here's a question are left-leaning people

ever trending on YouTube do you guys keep up with that stuff yeah well I don't I don't know about prominent overtly political

yeah I don't know about that if you look at it it's usually music and like Mr. Beast no so every single time I turn on my smart TV

it's on YouTube and it's on the Young Turks every time well well it doesn't and it's on the Young Turks. Every time. It doesn't matter what I do. The Young Turks are an approved YouTube TV station. Right.

Like you get YouTube TV and they're a channel. Why are we a channel? Yeah, what the heck? That's a good idea. Well, they have 24 hour coverage, I'm pretty sure. Like they have something running on reruns on like a live stream for a channel. I didn't realize that. So we can have a whole show where I just vamp for an hour.

Well, I mean, we're getting there. We have Pop Culture Crisis 3 to 5. We have TimCast IRL 8 to 10. We got to start filling these time slots with other shows. We're going to be launching the Conspiracy Show with Shane Cashman, which is a call-in show.

It's not going to be live, though. But we could air it in a time slot and then maybe eventually get a 24-hour rolling live stream. Does Young Turks do a website where you pay 10 bucks a month and get their stuff? Yep. Oh, okay.

So they're doing it for a long time. I think we have more, I think we're bigger than they are, to be honest. I'm not sure. I see a lot of left-leaning, not always like a politician or a commenter, but I do see a lot of presentation of, you know, it seems like fun internet content, right?

Like rank all these people for like best fashion, but it always you know you have to look at the people they have certain ideologies they'll talk about how they don't like certain things and it's never from the conservative perspective it's always and i think that's partially because youtube has flagged let's say left-leaning culture as mainstream culture yeah it's moving us towards a left-leaning spectrum when we know that's not actually accurate for most of america exactly that is why i started making videos i was just sort of a passive user of social media but then i started realizing how they curate the content based on your demographics and what they know about you and i started getting all this stuff about black lives matter and the black struggle and the feminist struggle and i thought is there

nobody to counteract this on social media and of course they are but they're just getting throttled left and right yeah yeah it's unbelievable yeah oh man i'm gonna save something for uh the next 17 20 minutes to give a quick update on on the on the culture war issues so i'll save it but uh yeah the the issue with the uh with facebook and twitter is algorithmic and early on what happened was people who ran these big tech companies were naturally left-leaning. They think they're the majority, so they would ban what they thought was not normal. It's literally exemplified in that meme

where it's like the left and the right and Bernie Sanders is placed in the middle and there's nothing on the left. And it's like, watch this space. And they're like, it's like, dude, Bernie Sanders literally uh the people to own percentages of corporations that's socialist like overtly if you think he's a centrist you're in a cult but they do they think i'm i'm a middle of the road person and and bernie sanders is in

the middle of the road no no he's not yeah by no metric not by left and right uh progressive like cultural standards and not by economic and right progressive, like cultural standards and not by economic standards. He's left. He's fairly far left, actually. But they think they're in the middle, so they ban you. Well, it's the tech.

You're totally right. It's tech executives as well as the area that they're in, right? So if we think of Hollywood and Silicon Valley as similar areas, both those industries

are dominated by people who are already naturally left-leaning. And then they walk outside and their kids have friends at school who aren't in the industry. And they're also left leaning. And then it gets reinforced over and over again. It's why I'm so interested in businesses like Daily Wire setting up in Tennessee, like businesses that want to produce content, especially now that the Internet gives us that flexibility, who settle in places that are not the centralized, you know, echo chambers. They're physical echo chambers where people all sort of think the same thing. I would like to bring you to the world of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

In this tweet from Ursula Perano, she says, AOC on talks about her future ambitions with a heavy comment, quote, realistically, I can't even tell you if I'm going to be alive in September and that weighs very heavily on me. All right. Hold on. Hold on. weighs very heavily on me. All right. Hold on. Hold on. Girl did some mushrooms. Oh, right.

She's like, I'm getting ready for this. Life doesn't even exist. It's okay to cry. Now, hold on. There's several questions. Does she have a terminal disease? Right. I hope not.

It's called life. Yes. Is she suicidal? That's a serious question. Because saying something like that, I think people haven't thought about what she could mean by this. and if she's not sick and she says something like i don't know if i'll be alive usually that's a sign of depression especially in the context of this article she says a woman of color can never be present because people hate them or something it's like very negative she was crying when she said this really she they said that she had tears in her eyes yeah but you know what we saw the fence

maybe she needs like a 51 50 or something she needs to be brought somewhere and given an evaluation because if you tell people crying that you don't know if you're going to be alive in september we need to sit you down and ask you what's wrong because if you ignore this something bad could happen we want her to be okay and i know the left is going to be like oh shut up they're like no dude you okay we're going to play a game pick one do you think she's referring to a civil war and that racists would come and kill her by september yes you think that's what she's talking about i think she's shook up from the january 6th thing and it hasn't left you think that a couple weeks ago she was sitting there thinking a couple weeks from now a bunch of white racists are going to start a civil war and i'm going to die she probably thinks that she's a target if something like

that were to happen she'd be like after january 6 she was like i i could have died but she's not walking around with security detail see this is this is my point right the assumption a lot of people make is that she must be talking about like what kathy griffin is talking about something like that the other question is okay all right most people are probably going to think it's something to do with political conflict we still have to ask questions about like dude i'm the Civil War guy. I'm like ranting and raving about it. And I don't think in three weeks

there's going to be a bunch of racists going around hunting down women of color. Maybe it's climate change. Yeah, no, right. Exactly.

Her comments remind me more of like Mark Ruffalo. Didn't he have this thing? He's like, if we're around. Yes. She did say the world was going to end in 12 years,

a few years ago. I think that if she'd been living with purpose it wouldn't matter she's alive or dead like when you're living your purpose you don't lament about when it might end you're just doing it so obviously maybe she's lost a lack of purpose she feels kind of aimless this was a crazy interview on a lot of friends i also enjoyed during it that she said she wasn't sure it would be like good for her to marry a white guy she's currently engaged to a white guy that she's been dating for years he's gonna kill me in my sleep she's got a lot of anxiety she needs to work out and i'm i'm being a little sarcastic there but also like

you are setting yourselves up for a lot of scenarios where you feel like at any point your life could fall apart and or be in danger like something is wrong i think she might be suicidal really maybe i think i think we we are looking through the lens of the culture war and so we are assuming that someone political like aoc must be referring to what we see instead of asking a very simple question when you hear hooves it's not zebras it's usually horses the gq article says tears pooled in the corners of her eyes she says i hold two contradictory things in my mind. One is the relentless belief that anything is possible.

At the same time, my experience here has given me a front row seat how deeply and unconsciously as well as consciously so many people in this country hate women and they hate women of color. People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can't even tell you if I'm going to be alive in September.

Why is the immediate assumption, like if you started off from a blanket no reference to any individual and said someone says that in three weeks they might not be alive your immediate reaction would not be well they're talking about civil war no yeah you'd say wellness check yeah you'd be like okay why do you think that the first question might be like are they sick like someone who thinks they're going to die in a few weeks, are they terminally ill? They have cancer? I mean, maybe AOC does and we don't know about it.

I don't know. But I think either, look, either she's insane and she thinks that a bunch of crazy extremists are going to come kill her, which that sounds insane. Or she's depressed and crying in an interview about how people hate women of color and she doesn't know she'll be alive in September. Right, but yeah, her interview about how people hate women of color and she doesn't know she'll be alive in september right but yeah her leading with the people hate women of color is the thing that's kind of bringing me into the fact that maybe she's talking about

extremism or but also if you grew up always believing that you were the victim and your job is to overcome you've got to do it and like you're also the victim but you're still kind of winning because you got to congress but also you're still the victim either way wellness check exactly that's her what does that mean though? I hold two contradictory things in my mind. This is a very confused and divided person. If she said this to a psychotherapist who wasn't involved in the political world,

he'd probably be like... You need about a three-month vacation, girl. Well, three days, an evaluation, a sit-down, some therapy. Just go to Hawaii or something and look at the waves, just sit on the beach if she genuinely believes that there's going to be white racist men hunting women of color that

and that's why she'll die she needs serious therapy she needs a break right now i don't know how long but she needs to get out and she needs to go talk to a doctor because that's crazy she's i think it's i think it's a fair assessment to say she lives in a world where biden comes out and says the maga extremists are a threat to this country, where she hears in the news all day about white supremacists, and she genuinely internalizes and believes this is the world she lives in. That's possible, too. But I also think that is still using our echo chamber worldview. We know about political problems. So to a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

We assume that political people must view the world this way. And if she does, that's the real reason. worldview we know about political problems so to a hammer everything looks like a nail we assume that political people must view the world this way and if she does that's the real reason when in reality it's like dude she's extremely high profile she gets people shitting on her all the time maybe she's just like maybe the pressure is a lot it is which i can have a lot of empathy for that uh you know i will point out again, I know it sounds random, but she did get engaged in April. And I think that the idea that she's moving forward with this high profile relationship, she's already in Congress, like, where do I go from this pinnacle career? I mean, people regularly include her in polls to become president. Like, what if she is actually

unhappy with where her life is? She can't walk away from this, right? It was a big, big change. Like people rag on her i think it was great that she was a bartender i think that the idea that a regular person can you know get a seat in congress is fantastic i think it's stupid to insult her over it but imagine going from no public persona to being the one of the highest profile democrats yo it is stressful one of the highest ranking officers on the death Star. The United States, the military machine is the Death Star. And all these people working in Congress are serving on the Death Star. So I understand her state of mind is broken because she's like, what am I doing?

That's just existential. That's underneath the content on top of what she's been feeling. And this girl's tuned in emotionally. She's like, we're talking about leftists are emotional, rightists are logical. She's very emotionally in tune talking about leftists are emotional, rightists are logical. She's very emotionally in tune with what she's feeling. Like with Mark Ruffalo. He was asked, will you be the Hulk in the future? And he goes,

if the world allows it and I'm still around, the interviewer didn't follow up with, hold on there a minute. Do you think you're going to die? The interviewer here as well. You're not going to be alive in September? A good interviewer's going to be like, are you sick? Are you depressed? Or do you think the war is going to break alive in september a good interview is gonna be like are you sick yeah are you depressed or do you think the war is gonna break out in a couple weeks especially if she's been on the verge of tears throughout this whole interview like well i don't know about the whole

interview it's at least that point right if you're hitting emotional notes in an interview and then this sudden person's something like and i'm gonna i might not even be alive in september like you're not having a like haha we're joking around i don't even know if i'll be alive that like you have to respond to the gravitas of what's going on. Clarifying questions. She's only hitting with serious notes. I got a red pilling breaking moment right now. I went through that in 2008

and I was suicidal. I thought for sure I gave up. I thought, oh, the world like we've got the Federal Reserve as we've been under this system. There's no hope. I had completely given up, but I still wanted to have hope. I had that other part of my brain, like she's saying,

where I'm like, I know everything's possible. Here's what I want y'all to do right now. And just stop a second. Imagine someone sitting in front of you. Think of a random person you know, crying, says to you, I might not be alive in a few weeks.

Well, why? Why? That was the first thing I would say is why? But exactly. The fact that she said this, it's like, again, we're approaching this from a political perspective yeah think about how you would feel if someone you knew told you that yeah so i'd be like yo you we need a doctor like the next three weeks i'm the doctor right now i'm not a doctor by the way but tell me why

at least you know let's start with friendship and then if it's unresolvable maybe we'll get a psychotherapist this is this is a crazy thing to say and they publish a crazy thing to not follow up on especially like where's the journalist in this one wesley lowry what are you doing okay so journalists aren't mandatory reporters like you have in the hospital in the hospital if somebody said something like this yes you are on suicide watch you don't get to have any cords you don't have any cutlery you have to eat finger foods let's clarify that if if in the hospital someone told you i may not be alive in a few weeks you would report them and we would put them on suicide watch which was supposedly what epstein was on he clearly wasn't because he still had access to sheets you don't

have access to anything right when you get arrested they take your shoelaces and your belt away exactly and and because they don't want you to kill yourself or someone else i would imagine i've had several family members Baker acted and as soon as you say anything toward the lines of harming yourself, it's immediate. You're being put in a facility and you're there until they feel like

you're not a threat to yourself anymore. But you know what's going to happen? And she's making this comment to a journalist. Like, what is she saying to people she really trusts and knows? Like, that's what's disturbing to me. I think what you're going to hear is many on the left are going to dismiss this,

downplay it, say it's the far right because they would prefer she be in a desperate and dangerous position if it wins their wins for them politically that's right they don't care about her that's the sad part if she did go and do something to herself the amount of people who would like use it as a story and use it as a way to move forward their political agenda another possibility is she is a sociopathic narcissist who faked tears and said this to try and win brownie points in the media,

not like believing to herself there's no real threat and she's just a crazy person. Well, and if she is someone whose emotional spectrum is kind of off, she can perform emotions. She knows how to cry,

you know, on cue, let's say, but she doesn't actually always feel the weight of her words. You know, she can say like, I might not even be alive and not know what the appropriate response would that to be. Like if she pictured someone in front of her saying, I might not be alive in September.

Would she respond with like, we need to talk about that? Are you okay? Or would you respond with like, well, I really need you to vote for me early then. I know what's going on. What's going on? Tell us. AOC is likely depressed because of Instagram and TikTok. I actually believe that.

She's not getting enough likes. Yeah. We have this story from the Daily Mail. Addicted to being sad, teenage girls with invisible illnesses known as spoonies post TikToks of themselves crying or in hospital to generate thousands of likes as experts raise concerns over internet-induced wave of mass anxiety. This is real. It's true that young women are getting depressed because of Instagram and TikTok.

And as far as it goes with AOC, we were just talking about how she said she might not be alive in September, which to me is an indication of depression or severe, I don't know, what would you call it? Like paranoia. But I also think it's possible that, you know, she's in the limelight in this position.

If she starts putting out posts like any other individual susceptible to depression from these platforms and she's not getting the likes or the attention she might get depressed and we're seeing this now with teenage girls across the board well and she is one of the most followed like has the biggest social media presence of any member of congress i mean she has really cultivated her brand as being someone who is in touch with her followers she does upgrades updates through her instagram live and through Twitter and things like that, as well as shares her skincare routine

and she sells fun merch. She is as much an influencer as she is a politician and public figure in so many ways. She's more an influencer. Right, exactly. And so in some ways, I could see if she's won re-election and she's had this moment

where she was sort of this fun golden girl for the left. And if any of those numbers drop, like if she's getting 80,000 likes on a photo instead of the 110,000, she's going to feel that burn so intensely. The same way that, you know, teenage girls are susceptible to it too. But like, it is not just her identity.

It's also her career. You see this throughout the history of YouTube. One day, a popular YouTuber will make a video saying like, I can't do this anymore. And then all you got to do is look at the views for their past videos and you see them going down and then all of a sudden they snap yep so people it's really amazing to me i remember getting a message from someone it happens all the time and they'll be like are your views down and then i'll be like yes and they'll be like dude something's going on i'm like it's called summer summer happened people went outside outside. Calm down. I see these trends all the time.

And there are people who, you know. You should promote global warming so they stay inside. Well, I remember, you know, like two years ago, it rained for a week straight on the East Coast across the board. And then one day I got messages from people being like, dude, my views are cut in half. I'm panicking. Like, what's going on? I'm like, bro, the rain stopped. Everybody went outside for the first time in a week. Calm down, man. are cut in half i'm panicking like what's going on i'm like bro the rain stopped everybody went

outside for the first time in a week calm down man but this is what happens to these young girls on social media they'll post a picture of themselves get 100 likes and go oh 100 the next day they get 80 they get depressed they panic why aren't they getting likes they delete the photo and repost one can i do better can i do better not realizing bro it's like two in the morning people are asleep calm down i knew girls who would when they traveled out of the country, they would time their Instagram posts to go up. They'd like set alarm for like 3 a.m. So it was the correct time to post in America to get the maximum likes.

Like I didn't even grow up with TikTok. Like this is crazy. Right. And I think social media is really morphed too, where not only are we seeking validation through the likes, but your depression and anxiety is affirmed through social media. Like social media used to be a highlight reel for people's lives you follow these influencers but you know it's not real like they're in hawaii but they're probably arguing with their boyfriends behind the scenes whatever the case may be now it's a trend to cry on social

media it's a trend to show your panic attacks and that gets you millions of likes or having like anxiety coping like here my anxiety copes or here's my OCD copes or here are these things that I think I'm doing that are actually very strange behaviors. Or misspelling words. That'll do it too. Yeah.

So it's true that if you misspell a word in your title, you'll get more engagement as people want to correct you. Wow. So what happened is a bunch of YouTubers

started intentionally misspelling words like simple typos and then little kids who are watching it started misspelling the words that way thinking it was spelled correctly. Yeah. media is is melting the brains of humanity yes and

particularly young girls i did an episode one time because i was scrolling on on tiktok i do have the app regrettably but i was scrolling part of your job it is part of my job but i kept getting videos of young girls who have Tourette's like tics and I kept getting them and it's multiple girls, multiple girls. And I was getting recommended these videos and upon watching them found that several of them had the exact same tic. So I started looking into this and doctors talking about it and they actually had doctors saying these girls are being so heavily influenced by a mix of anxiety and tick tock. They are developing functional neurological disorders that are real, that are real.

They're not just puppeting and parroting.'re actually developing these anxiety-induced i'm a huge fan of video games but man we are tweaking our brains with modern technology yes it's like a big experiment dude the emotional development that teenagers going through like part of being a teenager is looking at your peers around you and figuring out what the social norms are so if you're only being fed people who are behaving in you know maybe they really do have Tourette's and they have you know an issue and they're trying to talk about it or bring awareness but if you're constantly being served like I have anxiety I have depression I have Tourette's like you are then trained to be like maybe I do too and you start seeing it anywhere because that's part of the emotional growth that teenagers are going through

like yeah we should keep them away from this stuff it's it's not we shouldn't talk about mental health or anything like that but like we don't need to shove it down their throats so constantly that they become paranoid they themselves have you know one of the things is that i've noticed is it's not so important how many followers you have it's the quality of the followers are they really why are they following you is it because they're really listening to what you're saying or is it because they want to laugh when you fall down i don't want those people following me and the problem with social media is just the number shows on your page so they think more is better but then you get the subscribe direct subscribers this is where you

start to realize the quality of the follower or the watcher the viewer or whatever is much better because you might have 10 000 people paying you 10 bucks a month that he might have 10 million people watching paying him nothing he's way worse off you're way better off with less followers more quality and um hopefully young women we can teach them that maybe through direct subscriptions and they see the internet as the beyond end all there's i don't remember what study came out but most young people like one of four want to be social media influencers this is a whole new area of the world that they are completely devoted to, right? And they will never have a break from it if that's the career they choose to pursue. Yeah, it's an augmentation to your career, social media. No one is just going

to land on being a social media influencer and that's it. Because if your life is boring, no one's going to watch your social media. You've got to do something cool with your life. And then the social media will be there to show everyone what you're doing. Or you have to sell all of your personal information. You have to, as a young teen mom, start talking about your past relationships. Or, you know, as you get married, you have to give all the details of everything that's going on. You have to sell who you are in order to please people, which is a really morally corrupt way of living. I remember when I was younger and, you know, like MySpace first came out and stuff like that. We were on, I think it was like LiveJ was first yeah i mean yeah i was on compu serve

you know because my family computers then you got aol yeah then uh with aol yeah you had geocities and other sites that you could you could make your own site then eventually you got like live journal then you got friendster you guys remember friends hell yeah and then myspace yeah and i remember uh facebook came out and it was like all the cool kids that are migrating to facebook and i would see these posts from people that just looked so awesome and fun and i was like how come they're doing all this really awesome stuff and i'm not and then you know it wasn't until later i realized like oh they weren't they were faking cool things so they could look cool and like that was their it was marketing and marketing. And so we end up seeing this highlight reel of their life of all the coolest things they've done,

but they staged a lot of it. They try to make it look as cool as possible. They try to make their lives look like movies so that you're jealous of them. Yep. My favorite is I know girls who have, when they go through a breakup, right? They start posting on their Instagram

or on their story all the time because they can't be the one that's at home and like sad. They have to be busy and cool and having a great time. And their mind is somewhere else. These people don't realize they're robbing themselves of their own actual individual lives for the sake of other people who are viewing from their bedrooms.

Yes, all they're giving away is their own time, which ends up being their lives. And I do want to say before we move on from all this AOC talk, she's talking about holding two completely different views in her mind at the same time. I think she's about to get red pilled. Change my mind. That's what about holding two completely different views in her mind at the same time. I think she's about

to get red-pilled. Changed my mind. That's what it feels like. Hope I'm right. I kind of went through something similar where I, well,

I already mentioned this earlier. Sorry, keep going. I truly believed in the possibility of the human race, but at the same time

seeing this insurmountable, you know, mountain of impossibility that I was up against and like, how the hell can I overcome a global monetary system? Well, but what if also a lot of things

that she's been preaching are not working and she's having to reconcile the fact that like there are policies that she is vocally backed that she doesn't actually, she's not sure she supports. She isn't just a person. She is a brand and identity

that a lot of lefts want to cultivate in their own daughters. Like she can't, we talk about this with Jazz Jennings sometimes, like there's nowhere to go from there. Like this person can only continue down this path and that's scary. AOC can't come out and be like,

well, that one bipartisan bill seems kind of good. You know, she has to continue down this path. To get voted back in. Right. And like if she's going to get married, right? But if she gets pregnant, she's like, well, actually I'm going to leave politics because I want to be a mom.

That's anti-feminist. Like, oh, you know, I have some questions about the way lockdown went. You know, maybe that's not so good. She's anti-COVID. You know, there is no escape for her. And in some ways,

I have sympathy for that. Yeah, it's true. You can't say I was wrong. The most feminist thing you can do, Alex, is whatever you want. Take control of your life, baby. Such a liberating thing to have a baby that's why i say yeah yeah have a family and do whatever you want you can always do politics later yeah there you go well

i mean if you don't want to do it anymore leave yeah yeah yeah but i think like right now the whole trend is not to have a family and it's like you have to actually resist the current to have a family which is the funniest thing you know it's like it's been a meme forever to have it all. So the women who are like, you know, I decided I don't want to have a job and a career. I want to raise children. It's like it's against the grain. But it is massively feminist to do that, to take control of your life if you want a baby. But that's why I think they intercede.

I don't know. I mean, how many people you know who are feeling the pressure to decide in your early 20s that you actually don't want kids and make a permanent decision right to go past that like yeah they are trying to head the south past because a lot of times you actually hear it from women who are in their late 20s or in their early 30s who are like i thought the career was the most important thing but i've reached this age and i actually would prefer to focus on my family and if you can prevent people from ever having that door when they hit 30 they have to continue to stand by that they made the right choice to get a hysterectomy when they were 21 wicked cycle wicked cycle and then if you decide at 30 that you want a family but you don't have the man yet and you don't have the you know you're also yeah i tweeted

this abortions increase the likelihood of miscarriage that's true entirely yeah i mean it's it's it's a very basic thing i you know i saw the story from jennifer lawrence and she was like roe v wade and things like that and then i was like look if you support this stuff like women need to be told this that if you get abortions so like i look use condoms or whatever try not to get pregnant but if you get an abortion you are increasingly likely that when you're older you're not gonna be able to have kids and that's because there's there's damage that's caused by it it's the same thing with with taking birth control for years. Like those have long-term effects on the bodies, but because it's seen as this revolutionary tool

that helped many women join the workforce and gain control of their body, like we're not supposed to criticize it. And I actually think that sets us behind. I've known a lot of women who have struggled with, you know, anxiety, depression, different things like that, and really had to push their doctors to be honest about the consequences of taking hormonal birth control. And that's scary. It's

insane. You can't even get accurate information because it goes against an ideology that we are supposed to be 100% behind. Yeah, we've just jumped into a culture that says this is accepted. Here's the thing you need to do. Now do it. And then 20 years later, when we have the ramifications of it, we're going to be like, and I wish women would hear that like you are they are willing to sacrifice you and your personal choice and freedom and health to maintain this illusion that the ideology they pushed is worth having around. Dude,

if you are willing to give up your power to medical tyrannists, they will take it. But empowering Ian, if you take the birth control pill, it's empowering. I, this is terrifying what you just said, Amala,

because I think that this is exactly what's happening with the kids now. So you know how like however many years ago it was birth control was, you know, unknown, but they still encouraged people to take it. It was so easy for me to get on birth control. I had to, I like half made up an excuse. I was like, I'm 19. Now it's time. I got to figure this out.

Be smart or whatever. And it was easy. It was the easiest thing in the world. And I'm terrified they're going to do the same thing with human hormones. Before we go to Super Chats, I want to give everybody an update on the the song because it is now officially the end of the reporting period ended on thursday and uh there's a bunch of really good news and um a bunch of really fun news for those that are interested so the first thing i want to say is only ever wanted the song we released the 26th of August, is the number two most sold song in the U.S. for the week of September 10th.

We could not beat Elton John and Britney Spears, but number two with your help. So we were the second most sold song in the country. That's massive. It's huge. And the first song we officially released hit the charts, number 21 on Rock and number 24 on hot rock and alternative and uh there's actually a bunch of others this is really funny so we're at number

one alternative digital sales number 24 hot rock and alternative number 21 rock number 28 in canadian sales number one in rock sales number 21 on rock and will of the people which were released two years ago hit number 17 in alternative digital sales which is huge and i'll tell you exactly why this mattered and i was correct um and and and you were as well i knew that invading the cultural spaces with apolitical content was going to trigger them to an extreme degree and not only did they put produce a bunch of videos ragging on the song completely completely getting disproven. They're saying, oh, the song is bad and it's stupid and we hate it.

And it's got like 70,000 likes, 1.7 million. It's got tons of streams. Number two digital song sales. You can't lie with the billboard charts. We objectively placed among some of the biggest songs in the country. There are a bunch of bands that I'm a huge fan of that release songs all the time that never chart. And I'm sure you know that exactly is the same thing but here's the best part um without getting into specifics when our communications people started reaching out and saying here's a song from pete parada tim pool and carter banks they got so effing pissed no joke i like industry

press we're gonna for the time being until I can do a deeper assessment not going to reveal the names of these individuals and the things they said but they were legit effing pissed

I hate these people F you like kind of stuff wow refusing to write about it I love it it's like

does your bias against someone preclude you from doing your job apparently well here's the best part. They cannot ignore it. There are tons of mainstream established rock bands that don't chart when they release songs.

And oh, we did. So how long are they going to be able to hold out, ignoring the fact that we put out music that lands on all of their charts? It's going to get really funny when after the third time we chart, they're like're still not going to write about this and then people start saying like hey wait a minute band that song on the radio you're not writing about something's messed up fifth hit that comes out will be they'll they'll all of a sudden they'll write about it but we always loved tim pool we always loved that rock band or whatever the hell it's called good yeah that's what's going to happen i hope that's the case the retconning. So there are some issues with reporting on some of the numbers. Just take a look at what happened with Tom McDonald when he talked about how his numbers weren't tracked properly and they wouldn't put them on billboard and things like that.

We've bumped into a little bit of that, but they can't deny it because sometimes the numbers are too much. Based on the metrics we got and where we land on the charts, I am 100 100 confident that the next song we put out is going to chart substantially higher and they're not going to be able to ignore the fact that we are pushing into the cultural spaces they once owned and don't own anymore it might be the third hit when they start writing about it i've said fifth it might be the third maybe i just that this is the point and so let me just say that behind the scenes i'm talking with a bunch of other big companies and artists who have seen similar problems and are sick and tired of the woke cult controlling the establishment, controlling the arts. And so we're talking and some fun and funny stuff is going to happen.

And then I'm, look, number two on Billboard for sales. And now what are they saying? Sales don't matter. Sales are, they don't matter. Oh, okay. Yeah. Tell that to Nicki Minaj. Tell that to DJ Khaled. They're on on the look we beat dj khaled god dead now i get it not everybody buys these days but it's still one of billboard's top charts sales it matters and

regardless of that i'm not saying we came out with the hot 100 number one hit i didn't expect we would get anywhere to be honest a bunch of my favorite bands don't even make the charts and we did they're really pissed off about it, and we're going to keep pissing them off, so thank you all so much for helping us do that. And we're going to keep putting out music, and we're going to build that library, and we're going to be signing other artists. And we're going to go for people

like, look, the Daily Wire brought on Gina Carano when they cancelled her, and boy, the corporate institutions, they got all pissed off. She was cancelled. She wasn't supposed to be working and doing movies. Now she's in a bunch of movies. She's doing better than ever. They're trying to keep you in fear so that when you work for them,

you don't speak out and you don't speak up because then you'll lose your job. When we succeed at producing this and we plan on moving forward, signing more bands and producing more music, how long until another industry executive or an engineer or producer says, you know what? I don't need to work for this garbage anymore because I can go work for any one of these other companies. That's what we need to build.

And that comes from the success of the projects we're working on. Do I think it's the greatest song ever written? I don't know. It's just a song we wrote and produced, but apparently it did well enough. The next one we put out is going to be even better. So thank you again, everybody, for your support.

And we'll see what happens with, you know, my attitude is I want to publish all the emails from these people so you can see just how angry they are. But maybe it's not a good idea. You know, I got to say they're not my emails. We use a third-party company, so not my emails to share. But what I'm hearing is there's, like, effectively saying F off and F you. And they're very, very angry about it. It's kind of like an inoculation. Someone gets a shot in the arm.

They're like, ow, that hurt. But if you like show everyone what a, you know, what a pansy they were when they got the shot, they're not going to like you in the future. But after the inoculation, they feel better. They're like, okay, it was, you know. We're going to keep making music. Sooner or later, one of the songs we make will chart very very high and maybe be maybe be a top 40 or something and it's going to be really funny when they finally begrudgingly with anger in their

eyes right song by tim cass is good and people really like it for making me love again uh-huh maybe it won't be a song by me it'll be a song by someone we sign but the fact is when we put out this music and i'm to tell you guys how it works right now. Let you in on some industry secrets. So, I think the CPM for songs is like five bucks. What is it, like five dollars for every thousand or something like that? I could be wrong. But when you're a band and you put out 20 years of music and you've got 100 songs, you're not charting. It's the volume that people across the board listen to music that makes

you money. So we're looking at this from a business perspective. We're going to be able to produce music and make money. That's the goal. Now that it's looking like we're going to be able to make money doing this, we can sign a bunch of bands and build up a label. And then we're going to take over the cultural institutions. Thank you very much. We'll start reading some super chats. So smash the like button. You're not even saying that in front of a podium with red light behind you it's not even as scary as we think it should but still moving you should have dimmed the lights while he was talking yes all right youtube's giving me the business but we're gonna pull up some uh super chats if we can because the thing keeps crashing so smash the like button subscribe to this channel share the show with your friends

all that good stuff here we go super chat time all right raymond g stanley jr says tim i blame you i'm stressed before you i was ignorant to the evil set out to destroy us now i daily wreck my brain how can i help what more can i do though in the end i effing love america ty for new eyes no look like people are screaming at cnn is moving to the right whatever. They're calling for boycotts. Yeah, we're winning. They're thrashing about. It may get bad, but the reality is we're winning the culture war. As everything I described with the music stuff.

Yeah, they're really mad about that. I love it. Do you think it's fair to say that in some ways they are moving to the right because they were so far left? And now was it Chris Lish's name? He was like, I don't want as much partisan. We have to get back to being center. And so the criticism that they're moving to the right in some ways is true although like not the way they're presenting it moving to the center they're moving right to get right back to the center like it doesn't make any sense i think we're winning i don't know i feel like we are too like how much

more can this be sustained the complacency alarm goes off don't say that don't say it conservative guys you still have to be active victory is when these corporations say we can't do this anti-trump stuff it's hurting the business and cnn starts laying people off who are ideologically driven and not fact driven then yes we are winning absolutely and then that if cnn goes moderate and actually starts reporting the news hey i'll give them i'll give them credit we got to cheer on when they do good stuff now to be honest i don't think they will but is that just i think they'll have to they won't make money that's the best part the right wing grift at the left complained about all the time we mentioned the other day business people are going explain this you make money doing this this gives you money oh yeah let's invest in that i was thinking

it's like the victory of a cultural battle which isn't really victory it's winning a battle but what is the overall war score goal here like what's the individual freedom personal responsibility people saying is up to me to work hard to live a better life and make a better future for my kids it's people saying i'm not going to demand the government pay my bills i'm going to do my best it's not about what my government can do for me, but what I can do for my government. We got to look out for corporations. What was it saying?

What JFK said? Country, not government. Ask not about what your country. Right, right. Because government's a bad word. I was going to be like that. Yeah, government. I don't know that I want to do anything for my government.

I'll do stuff for my country or for my fellow man. We got to look out for international corporations that take that message of individual responsibility and highlight it on a show for the entire world to watch like slaves to like laud. So that if you've seen a black, there's a Black Mirror episode where they do stuff like that. They will try and co-op the message of individual liberty as well and put it on a pedestal. They'll co-op any message that services them and that people are willing to pay for.

It's really that simple. Correct. Uncle Yoda says, Ian, I need you to wear a wizard suit for Halloween. Anyways, y'all are doing a great job. Great idea. I'm so into that. Murph Tries DIY says,

does anyone recall when Dr. Chris Martinson said they'd be using lockdowns for climate change? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Yeah, I remember. Yep. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Insert name here says NorCal here. Tim, don't forget that Chairman Newsom also banned the sale of fuel-powered generators and that motorcycles are included in the ban amazing man i saw a video of somebody trying to power up their electric car with an oil generator and it's just like we're i probably should i'm i i don't want to uh give away too much but we're working on a vlog episode script based on

green technology failures. So like the electric car have to be plugged into a generator, stuff like that. We have some funny gags planned for it. But there's an image going viral right now of a Tesla plugged into a gas generator or a diesel generator. Amazing. Yeah, I believe it. Salty Duckling says, y'all should do a doc mini series

with the daily wire called how we got here cover the left and right's perspective of the event leading up to today's political climate so we have a resource to show those we are trying to save all gamer games all gamers yeah just gamer gate oh man gamer gate was what 10 years ago jeez don't say that yeah I wasn't paying attention when that happened 9 years ago

no you were like 12 I was not paying attention I was still like in my little bubble my little kid bubble yeah I was literally 12

so I was not concerned about Gamergate not a joke for real yeah that's awesome were you following it Gamergate when it happened a little bit

yeah I saw you know like Sargon and, like, Shoe on Head. Yeah, that was how I met, how I found out about him. Yeah, but I didn't know too much about it. I did know that these companies were enacting this policy stuff because I was working for them, you know. They were getting woke, going broke. Yeah. Ryan Miller says, missed the live show celebrating my first birthday as a father, but a late birthday gift to myself with a shout out to little Jackson Gilligan. Ryan Miller says, missed the live show celebrating my first birthday as a father,

but a late birthday gift to myself with a shout out to little Jackson Gilligan. Jackson. Jackson Gilligan. Yay, fatherhood. We love that. Yes. Yeah, I'm here for it.

Good, good, good. San Oti says, bad thing is now on the Chrome extension store. Bad thing? So bad thing, it was the extension idea we had where basically

you take negative words for the right like fascist and it just says bad thing. I gotta thing, it was the extension idea we had where basically you take negative words for the right like fascist and just as bad thing. I gotta look that up now. It's a great idea. Disrupting all the cultural institutions. You install the extension, it replaces all the words with bad thing. Wow, CNN would just be like bad thing, bad thing, bad thing, bad thing. Yeah, pretty much.

Donald Trump likes bad thing and wants bad thing to happen. Why? Bad thing. We want good thing. Yeah. That's Seamus's joke, by the way. Yeah, I hope Seamus made it. Has he not done it yet?

I don't know. Unsolicited says, Crowder is sharing all of his parodies on Spotify for free this week. Maybe we can make another cultural impact by downloading Seasons of Trump. I saw that. I just want to tell everybody. It's a lot. It's for the big commentators. It's not very difficult to get on these charts

as long as you do it properly. You got to make a good song, obviously. But it's not as hard as people realize. One of the things I think we're seeing is these book publishers are going to commentators and political figures and saying, can we do a book with you? Because your brand will market and sell this book

in a big way. It's a brand. That's what you got to do. We got to do with music. We'll just go around to every person and get them a song. There you go. It's true. And it doesn't have to be like overly political, like Tom McDonald and like the Bryson Gray's.

Like your song wasn't. And that's, I think, a beautiful thing about it because it gives us a better view of just not being political all the time and everything. But that's why they're so pissed off. Right. So like the political stuff doesn't bother them because they know where to put it and it's easy to be like, hey, look how far right that is.

Yep. But when the song, so like Only Ever Wanted is just a love and pain song. So when regular people start hearing that, we're getting shazams, meaning people are hearing it

and then wondering what it is and playing it. Those regular people are falling into our sphere of influence and it's pulling it away from the cultural institutions. They're like,

he has a podcast? Exactly. Tell me. And that's what they said. You see the Daily Beast article? No, I didn't. they said that i'm trying to lure people into my right wing right wing world the alt-right pipeline with your van with candy and alternative emo pop i love it i told shamus he's got to do a cartoon where i have like a pipe and i'm like bopping about and tooting and like people are following me and like towards a cliff marching into the GOP convention. Oh my gosh.

People are just like yeah that's exactly what's happening. Sailing down the river on a raft that'd be awesome while you're playing the flute. So I want to say for the Cast Castle vlog it's if we

I think we put the full thing on YouTube we'd probably get banned for it because Ian's running for union president and then something happens at 3 a.m. It's really good. That's crazy. It's not then something happens at 3 a.m. It's really good. That's crazy. It's not based on real events. That's right.

It's fictional. Purely fictional. Just fictional. Chris is amazing. It was like his debut. I mean, I know he's been doing work for a while

but he's really good. Ian was running for union president against Chris and everybody voted but there are employees who don't work here so we had to wait

for the absentee ballots right it's disturbing yeah the window's covered up i bet everybody can figure out what happens next in the show so crazy but it was but it was a free and fair election that's right and then we have a cameo from james lindsey who sword fights roberto jr that's on youtube love it right on the cast castle youtube channel right now if you want to see james yeah it's funny because he was like actually showing us how to do sword sword fighting because james literally knows how to sword really yeah he's very talented you gotta be prepared you know you never know you don't want to leave behind as a skill amen when the civil war comes we don't know what weapons we'll have is the thing this is true

philip reed says tim talking about making a tween pop song reminded me of spose and his song pop song which was about the big labels telling him he can't make what he wants and that he needs to make this instead you know that song love song by sarah borealis yeah you know the story of that yeah i'm gonna write you a love song yeah like i guess the story is the label said write a love song it sells and she was like i don't want to. And they're like, well, that's what sells. So then she wrote, I'm not going to write you a love song because you asked for it or whatever. It blew up.

Good for her. Yep. Stick to your guns. That's right. Yep. All right. Denny Decibel says, Amala, have you come across David Barton and the Wall Builders Museum?

If so, what do you think? If not, will you look them up? I will look them up. Never heard of them. David, never. I have no idea. That name's got to be here. Pizza Makes My Belly Hurt says,

My aunt works for the DNC, came home from DC for a week. We started talking and said, you need to work on your white privilege. I looked her dead in the eye, trying to hold in laughter. We're from Syria. Oh.

Gosh. Amazing. Nice. What a conflict. Paul Jones says, In reference to your comment about the left hating mixed race people i can 100 confirm i'm biracial as well and i'm always called an uncle tom because i don't say america is the worst yep but that's like this is one of the things that really bothers me they're always like oh you won't say america's the worst then you're an extreme opposite like it's to make you feel ashamed and move closer to their point right push you in the direction of the extreme anything that

falls outside of it it's all or nothing always like it's not even who you're so you're a republican it's like oh so you're an extremist right waffle sensei says the left only shows the straw man crazy people on the right and the right only shows the straw man crazy people on the left it's orienting people to believe that everyone else is polarized and there is no middle how do we beat that thoughts false um i do think it's true um to a great degree but the left is it's the rule and the right it's the exception many people on the right only show the crazy on the left all of the prominent lefties only show or lie about the people on the right. So, you know, for example, we've given praise to several people like Kyle Kalinsky and, you know,

Crystal Ball, for instance, were fans and Jimmy Dore as well. Highlighting Jimmy Dore, I think, is a great example of showing someone who's on the left who has socialist policies, but calls out what is false and wrong. Jimmy's an awesome dude. That and, you know, but I guess we're middle of the road, I suppose. But Tucker Carlson has Antifa on his show. He used to have a lot more, a lot more lefties. Steven Crowder routinely

tries to debate these individuals, not the craziest, the prominent figures. They won't do it. They won't. Yeah. Yeah, we recently reached out

to Anna Kasparian of the Young Turks because she was talking about crime and this massive spike that's happening. I gave her praise for it. Same here.

And we were like, we could have some common ground. I know we don't normally agree. Would you want to come on and talk about an issue that we can find common ground on? She goes on the Young Turks, I hate PragerU.

They're disgusting. They're garbage. I wouldn't go on their show no matter how much they pay me. It's ridiculous. That's insane. Crazy. Dennis is a really balanced guy.

He's a good dude. He is. All around, I don't know, a holistic dude. But they love to villainize him. They love to villainize him because he just fits the bill. You know, old white man. That's all it is.

Red Dragon Emperor says, didn't get to say this last time, but Cali would not benefit from nuclear power due to a drought. Nuclear plants require one billion gallons of water per day. Is that, it's freshwater? If it is the north of california has fresh water it's the south that doesn't so they could do it i guess i don't know about that that seems like a lot of water yeah i don't know about a billion a billion seems like a lot um but i'm not an expert so i'm not going to tell you wrong i will say that's it's the cooling system i mean water comes, we use water pressure. You probably couldn't do salt because you'd get salt.

Deposits. And you'd need a constant stream. Okay. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah. Unless they can do like a self-contained system that the steam goes in like an air conditioner or something like that.

And then the salt melts and they use the salt, the liquid salt as a heat storage device. All right. they use the salt the liquid salt as a heat storage device all right ted scannon says love seeing amala here and and that girl can sing oh yeah this may be off topic but uh but you should bring her in on a song cheers everyone that's awesome you do sing i sing and play guitar yeah i have a record i would love to yeah yeah i don't know if you know but you now produce music i would love to I do write music So yeah that'd be That'd be fun Let's do it

Yeah Well let's What do you want to do You want to do like dance pop Like you know Britney Spears maybe Elton John maybe No I'm just kidding

They have number one They have number one I think like Most of the top music Is usually like dance And hip hop Because it's club music That's easily played

We could do that I just want to make What do you do normally? What's your favorite thing? I mean, pop. I like country music. I love just like any good strong ballad. Oldies, jazz.

Country? I love everything. Everything. You want to write a song about your dog and your pickup truck? Hell yeah, brother. And being from Florida. Hell yeah, brother. Florida lady.

Yeah. All right. Mark Giudetti says, Tim will be too afraid to read this oh and i know he wrote that because he knew i would read it i was like what's how they get to you yeah i need to read it ian speaks nothing but nonsense he should learn to talk a lot less you see he tricked me because he wanted me to say that but ian had a bunch of 20s tonight so careful with the all or none rhetoric i gotta say though the one in the rolling ones and 20s was spot on. Yeah.

It's too extremist for me. I need more sevens in my life. You do. I'm holding this crazy hundred-sided dice. You're like, I had to roll a one or a 20, and everyone's like, that's actually a good point. Like, sometimes Ian nails it. Like, wow.

I got to wait for my moment, and then he either come in hot and slice through it like butter, or I crunch on the surface. Frieza says, 38,000 people watching and this video isn't trending. Not listed on any lives and not the top search

for Tim Pool. Damn. Makes me feel like a real hipster, you know? We have this cool thing going on but no one knows about it. It's a subculture. I finally get to be

countercultural. We are. We got a cult following. The 11th, I think, the last I checked counter cultural we are we have a cult following the 11th I think the last I checked was the TimCast.io

was the 11th biggest entertainment live podcast on YouTube no big deal and the 16th most super chatted or maybe the other way around I think it's the 11th

most I'm not sure it's top performing it's great huge yeah so in terms of live performance

like we are the biggest like the 11th biggest or whatever or 16th biggest and then it's like but we are the biggest like what like the 11th biggest or whatever or 16th biggest and then it's like but we're competing against like you know anime waifus and things like that so in terms of a real sit down human conversation podcast i think we are the biggest live yeah i'm not sure yeah probably uh but live when it comes to like so here's another another issue episode per episode we're not the biggest but it's because we do five episodes per week many other podcasts do one per week and they'll get a million hits in

that one week whereas we get you know like 10 million or something per week but it's split up against all the other episodes right yep so if we did one per week all those views would concentrate and we jump in the i wonder if politics is the wrong path. I mean, I know you study it during the day. This is an entertainment show. Yeah, it is entertainment. I try and make it entertainment, personally. But we have things like EU riots in the title of this video,

so that's probably why it's not being shown and trending and stuff. And if we were just talking about, like, Ally McBeal's butt and crap like that. Pop culture crisis exists for that reason. Yeah, I don't like trash either. 3 p.m. every day crap like that. Pop culture crisis exists for that reason. I don't like trash here. every day of the week. Pop culture crisis

is not trash. No, I don't like talking about Ally McBeal's butt. Like Brett's a genius. Anything he does is good. So I think part of it is like if we only chase

like how can we stay trending and how can we do this? We're also feeding the exact same, you know, comply with what YouTube wants.

Like I'm really grateful that we're able to talk about things that we're all interested in, but also not have to be like, well, we can't talk about that because, like, then we won't trend or whatever. Like, I'm grateful that this has grown past that point because I'm sure in the beginning it was extremely helpful to trend. I mean, it's a big deal. This show started off as more

entertainment. It got more political because politics became pop culture. But this show is still and always has been listed as an entertainment, not news and politics. entertainment it got more political because politics became pop culture right but uh this show is still and always has been listed as an entertainment not not news and politics and that's because we bounce around on cultural issues it's cultural politics so it's tough you know i don't know and it's tough to ignore crazy shit in the world like it's happening and if someone doesn't talk about it that's a big problem but i think you know there's there was a question we had about whether it's news or entertainment and that news would be less jokey less trolly less silly and very straightforward and very stodgy

like npr podcast would be a news podcast so you know i this is more conversational more entertainment than personality Personality driven. Yeah. Rather than news driven. Yeah. Because I think if we went, if we labeled ourselves as news, we'd probably be the top news podcast. But it's like, you know, like.

We don't like labels. Well, it's just that you listen to like the New York Times daily news brief and I'm like, that's a news podcast. Yeah. You know, they're like today in the news, this is what happened. It's like, oh, well, John, I talked to somebody and they said this. It's like, we say silly things. And I feel like I contrast a lot with the work that we do on the newsroom side of things

where we try to be really accurate and devoid of opinion. We try to present things, whereas this show is more fluid and it has a different purpose and people come for a different experience. Right. It's like Daily Wire has their journalism, but they have their personalities, you know? All right. Let's read some more. Buck Nuckeluchal says tim there's a democrat county official here in vegas who is who is being accused of stabbing a journalist in front of his home the journalist

had ousted him by the way rip jeff german i saw that story dude crazy dude right i did not see that you know times over there augusto mimo shea says a well-trained horse won't move if you just set the lead of their bridle on the ground because they've been trained that it hurts to pull on times over there augusto mimo shea says a well-trained horse won't move if you just set the lead of their bridle on the ground because they've been trained that it hurts to pull on wow yeah they're like elephants yep it's really funny uh like i don't want to say too much but some of the reactions from these journalists they're just really really angry that uh pete parada is succeeding he He's so good. Well, outsiders and people who push back on the authority,

you know, I'll put it this way. If you're somebody who is really, really angry that you were forced to get the vaccine for your job, and then you find out other people are succeeding and they didn't, you're probably really angry. Yeah, that's fair. You're like, but I had to do it. Why don't they have to? There's that video of the guys in the store.

And he's like, is anybody else mad that we have to wear masks and she won't that's exactly it yep i feel for like a generation of people that are about to figure out what it means to take an experimental medicine and there's gonna be another level of compassion that we need to well there's there's a lot of things uh let me just go back in time to thalidomide it was that right yep yeah you know that yeah yeah birth defects in kids it was like a uh an anti-nausea medicine i only bring that up to say one simple thing the best we can do is find doctors that we trust yes so my recommendation to people is if you're having issues and you don't trust your doctor you better just find a good one and like experimental medicine this is what i get don't like about covid is that it two weeks to

slow the spread. That was the experimental moment. Is it going to kill humanity? Are we going to be bleeding out of our eyes like the stand? And we weren't. Like the stand. And then they,

for whatever reason, they went forward and pushed experimental medicine anyway. And I'm like, we had, we did the shutdown to find out. Ian, we have to flatten the curve. You don't understand.

Slow the spread. Flatten the J. I really stand by my comparison to Pavlov's dog. Like they wanted to push as many buzzwords that will elicit an immediate response

from people. No matter what the issue is, they'll just go back to these catchphrases so that you will comply. And at this time, they put out these news articles in the New York Times

like the earth is healing. And a lot of people predicted they'll do the same thing for climate change. And it looks like that's where we're going. Exciting. I want to read a different article that's like,

the family is healing because they're allowed to spend time together again. There you go. Matthew Stockhausen says, just wanted to say today is my daughter Camilla's first birthday. In the past year, she has been the perfect angel. Only issue was an RSV scare when she was three months old and was hospitalized for three days, smiling the whole time. Too fair, not her fault.

Well, all right. Happy birthday. Someone, Johnny Hickson, gave us a big red thumbs up. Well, alright. I love when dads brag about their kids. I think it's so cute. It's adorable, yeah. Pablo Papano says, sounds like AOC regrets not being married and having kids. It does, doesn't it?

She's getting on that train, isn't she? No, she can't because she's a feminist. That's right. She can't. She can do anything. She can. I don't want She can do anything. She can. I don't want to be too mean to feminists. But like, I do think that there is this like, am I making the right decisions? And I think it has to do with policy. But I do think the article is interesting.

She says like that it was her partner who was like, I want to get married by the end of 2022. And she was like, I don't know how I feel about that. But I don't know that she could have told this article as like the head of feminism you know yeah i really want to get married i hope you propose i wanted to propose three years ago this is exactly what i talk about when i say i think she's about to get red pilled because she's about that age she's about my age and she's probably like oh yeah i should really have a family right about now but there was a story i saw earlier a study came out saying that having kids makes you more conservative on all these different issues and i'm like yes surprise surprise people are no longer in favor of abortions for the most like

many people lose their favorite favorability towards abortion when they have kids yep yeah and then there's a lot of women who are like contemplating it had their kids said wow i'm really glad i didn't do that yep it's the weirdest thing that it's like there's like these these laws that say if a woman wants to get an abortion someone has to counsel them on this stuff because so many women have their kid and then are grateful that they did yeah that it's really creepy that you have to try and stop someone from explaining that to them like why if they don't want to have an abortion because someone made an argument let them not have the abortion what did elizabeth warren say she said like the these uh crisis pregnancy centers

are torturing women is what she referred to it as i think that's insanity but i look like you take everything that's happening right now from the democrats and the left and the end result is less people so whether you want to believe there's a conspiratorial depopulation agenda doesn't matter intent is irrelevant their actions are leading to it yep they sterilize their kids they abort their kids they advocate for not having kids at all and now they're cutting the electricity and they want to get rid of fossil fuels like all of that will result in less food less people less babies well when you hear these conversations with people being like oh i'm choosing not to have children

or i'm gonna you know get maybe formula shortage one of the things they say is like i don't think i could do it how could i afford it how could i find for like yeah i would be stressed too if i didn't think i had i was resourceful enough to figure it out you know like they're told to put their needs over everyone else's. And then also it seems like it's impossible to even take care of yourself or at least that's what they're told.

Yeah. I could understand the campaign that's going on. Yeah. A hundred percent. All right. Let's see where we are with some... Paul Fongham says, you should watch season two of Legion.

It's a spinoff of X-Men. Just for the cold opens, they talk about psychology. And what does it say? spin-off of x-men just for the cold opens they talk about psychology and what does it say phycology and a lot of the cold opens talk about how you can uh about talk about you can see happened in real life oh cool interesting like psychedelics and stuff zakanen says aoc credit the border fence looking at an empty parking lot she's an actress for her audience that's the thing you kind of have to take into account she did that at the border fence she did the whole i thought i was going to die on january 6th when she wasn't in the building in question tax the rich dress did the tax the rich dress uh she cried about the

state of where her grandmother was living in puerto rico without helping her there's like so many things that have sort of lumped up as far as her being pretty dramatic that's true waffle sensei says do not accept them not including your youtube views every other artist in the world promotes their own material not everybody likes every song but the people bought your music the issue is so we we haven't got an official response yet but um before we we we made sure that we were doing everything properly so that they could not try and exclude us. And we got some responses from the official tracking companies saying like, here's what you got to do

and you're good to go. And we're like, all right. And now they're like, well, it wasn't uploaded properly in a way that we can actually track the data. So, and then I'm like, okay, we'll self-report, right? How else was reported before the internet? Like, can't I just give you the document?

Here's our analytics. Here's the data from the backend. And that should be enough. They might say yes. So that's why I'm not, you know, look, we did this totally independently with no idea what we were doing. It's entirely possible that we just screwed up. Fine, whatever.

That's fine. You know, the next song we put out is going to be even bigger than it is what it is. I'm not going to start this by going to war before we have a chance to basically push this through. The fact that we've made the charts already is like, fine, exclude YouTube. We'll figure it out. But we're already there. Every song we put out, we'll end up charting, period. And that's going to be, I mean, that's kind of a crazy thought, to be honest.

Yeah, really? What does that say for the state of the music industry right now? Either we're really great or something's really wrong. I mean, look, for a lot of the big established right now. Either we're really great or something's really wrong. I mean, look, for a lot of the big... We're both. A lot of the big established mainstream music artists, they always chart, always. But most music you'll listen to, most of it, never charts.

And that's the crazy thing to me, that a lot of the songs that I'm really into, the bands that I like, like, you know... Well, I'm not going to name any bands because I don't want to talk about their analytics and stuff like that. But very few songs actually make it to the charts they just put out a ton of music people find it by the albums and then over a long period of time they

make money off of it right because charting is about like a small finite period of time and how many views you get in that moment or buys you get in that moment right so it's like sales and also streams there's like different charting methods so the hot 100 is like just the best i think if they included our youtube views we would have hit the hot 100 based on the other uh other bands that were there and the comparable metrics i think so like we sold better than a lot of bands that are high up right but obviously we wouldn't do better than the club music that's getting like 100 million plays or something like that but that's it's whatever the the top albums sell like hundreds of thousands but i think the top alternative albums sold like 50k which is kind of crazy

what the way it works is you get six months of pre-orders then all those pre-orders drop your your opening week and they're counted as your first week sales which is total bs that's nonsense you know what i mean like you release album. How many albums did you sell? Well, for whatever reason, they say you can six months in advance sell albums. And that counts as the first week release. So when you see a band say like we sold 50,000 albums and it's like, yeah, over six months. Right. Congratulations.

I mean, it used to sell way more back in the day. Now they don't. I'm fairly confident. Actually, I will say this. I know for a fact that if we did a pre-order on our album with a six-month lead time we'd probably hit like the billboard 200 at the top we'd probably sell a couple hundred thousand based on the amount of sales we already had that's without listening they're just buying it because they have faith that it's going to be awesome or does it like do they get a sample of the song or something before that no i don't know

people just so you know what i'll just i'll just tell you guys we sold 12 500 songs in one week that's number two that is this so if you can sell 12 520 some odd songs in one week you will be number two in digital sales did you get who got number one that was britney elton john and britney how many did they sell did you get that number based on the metrics i think they probably sold 25 to 30 okay they're some of the most famous musicians in the world yeah i mean it's a a lot. And it's your first song post-conservatorship. Yeah, that's a big thing too. If you're a new artist, like selling 12,500 songs is not an easy task to do. You know, and so I really do appreciate everybody who supported us, but we have like, we have

fans of the show, we have fans of the content we produce who supported us. And so it's a mix of general support, political support, and people who genuinely like the music that we've produced. But I will just say that if that's the case, if what we can pull off in one week, let's say we sold an album six months in advance. We have 24 weeks. Yeah, we'd have a top-charting album. I don't want to do that, though. I don't want to sell songs without them being out.

That's why I thought the pre-order stuff is so dumb. Yeah. Like, we're're gonna put out a song and i think three weeks from now that's that's the plan we're waiting to hear back from our industry guys so we can make sure they can't exclude anything at this point i guess people like the song they can order sign up for the next one get on the pre-order list for the next one that's right all right we'll just uh we'll grab uh one more here Fleeting, floating feather says, Tim, sing punch a Nazi. What a really great song.

Punch a Nazi. It was a parody of paparazzi by Lady Gaga, by Chris Ray gun. And he took the video down. Oh, wow. Inciting, inciting violence.

He took it down because, um, I think the, the reason is that he's scared of the left and bowed out and try to get away from the culture war or something like that. I didn't like that punch That's what it felt like. I didn't like that punch a Nazi movement.

And then he was making fun of it. He was mocking the idea that to the left, everyone's a Nazi. And then I guess some leftist told him that he was helping Nazis who was okay

and he took the video down. Crazy. It was a great song. It was a killer song. If you don't punch them, he'll be able to listen to it. My friends, if you haven't already,

you can check out our music on Spotify. Search for TimCast. And there's two formal official songs, Will of the People and Only Ever Wanted, with several more to come. We've got Bright Eyes. We've got, what do we got? I think we're calling it Lockstep because genocide is not a good marketing term. No.

We've got Eyes of Advice. We've got A Million to One. A lot of these songs you can already see like because we played we jammed them before words in a book all of these things are getting ready for release so thank you all so much for the support smash the like button subscribe to this channel head over to timcast.com become a member we're gonna have a members only show coming up you can follow me at timcast irl you can follow the show at timcast irl you can follow me at timcast amala do you want to shout anything out oh yeah you can uh check out my stuff by

typing in amala vanobi on any platform. I know that's a mouthful, but you can try. Also, I'll be at PragerU.com if you're worried about censorship. That's where I'll be. Cool. I'm Hannah Claire Brimlow. I'm a writer for Timcast.com. You should go there every day and click on the read tab.

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Happy to do it. Happy to see it. Bye. That's right. Cast Castle is not the only other show we have. We also have Pop Culture Crisis, which I was supposed to be on today, but I went and got my cast changed. We're all signing it.

Look, it's really awesome. I have, oh, you can't even see it. Oh, I wanted to show everything. Everybody's signing it. So I will be on tomorrow on Pop Culture Crisis crisis 3 to 5 p.m eastern time you guys can follow me on twitter minds.com at sarah patch lids as well as sarah patch lids dot me somebody asked where's the video game oh in production we we actually play it fairly often downstairs because the development version is available and uh it's a it's a collaboration with seamus so it's a i guess

it's a freedom freedom tunes video game basically it's it's all freedom style super dope yeah and the story is amazing and it's like passively political but the character you play is not political and it's like i don't want to say too much maybe we'll come up with a marketing plan for what we can announce about the game and shows we've shown off some of it already on the vlog and on instagram where it's like your little guy and you're you know in a skyscraper so uh it'll be fun anyway thanks for hanging out head over to timcast.com we'll see y'all all over there in about an hour and uh thanks for hanging out bye