Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #631 Ukraine Calls For Pre-Emptive Strikes On Russia To "Prevent" Nuclear War w/Joel Berry

Episode Date: October 7, 2022

Tim, Ian, Luke, & Lydia join Joel Barry to discuss Ukraine's president calling on NATO to launch a preemptive strike on Russia, Russian officials urging the Kremlin to use low-yield nuclear weaponry, Hunter Biden facing charges relating to his gun purchases, Biden pardoning thousands of people charged with marijuana offenses, Biden's warning that Putin is serious about nuclear Armageddon, and HBO's new Velma show featuring Shaggy who is now black. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So that Ukrainian president guy, what's his name, Zelensky, he called for NATO to engage in preemptive strikes against Russia to show them before, not after, what happens if you use nuclear weapons. And then everybody was like, whoa, that's a little overboard. And Russia was like, yo, that's a little overboard. And then he comes out and he's like, no, no, no, I meant to say sanctions. Impose sanctions. No, because we've already been told that if Russia uses nuclear weapons,

it will be full-scale conventional warfare from NATO. So that's not what would happen. Sanctions, no. No, Zelensky, I think, was actually saying it's time for NATO to strike Russia because he wants war. He wants World War III. I, Zelensky, I think, was actually saying it's time for NATO to strike Russia because he wants war. He wants World War Three. I guess he's saying if I'm going down, I'm taking you with me. There have already been a bunch of Russian officials, a bunch, a couple that have called on Russia to start using low yield nuclear weapons. So that'll be fun.

It's very important stories today. Twitter rolled out the edit button and I'm having a whole lot of fun on Twitter just editing away. And the other really big news, ladies and gentlemen, Velma, not only is she gay, she's actually black. And Shaggy, his real name, it's Norville. He's black, too. You think I'm kidding? I'm not kidding. I mean, this is like they just released this, I guess, and now Velma and Shaggy are both black. And I guess, and now Velma and Shaggy are both black, and I guess.

And they're making a point about how they're going to start changing things because the classics don't work or whatever, but, you know, I think this is an interesting culture war story, so we'll talk about that. Before we get started, head over to TimCast.com and become a member to support our work directly. As a member, you get access to the

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they're only working because you guys are members so don't forget to smash that like button subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, joining us tonight to talk about all of this news and more is Joel Berry. Hi. Who are you? Yeah. What are you doing here?

Yeah, I'm the managing editor of the Babylon Bee. Am I supposed to move? Scoot toward me. Okay, all right. That's better, yeah. See, as you can tell, I've done this many times. Yeah, me and Kyle Mann run the Babylon Bee. We also wrote the book

The Babylon Bee Guide to Democracy, which just came out. And you can follow me on Twitter at Joel W. Berry. All right. Well, thanks for joining us.

It's going to be fun. We got Luke Rutkowski. Good to see my fellow people of color getting some time finally on Scooby-Doo. The power is with us. Anyway,

the shirt I'm wearing today, actually, I made almost a year ago, specifically with, you know, saying that at least we get a pizza party before World War III. It's very topical right now. You could get it on thebestpoliticalshirts.com. And, of course, it shows Joe Biden chomping away on some pizza. So, yeah, because you get the shirt, I'm here. Thank you so much for having me. What's up, everybody? Ian Crossland over here. biblicalshirts.com and of course it shows joe biden uh chomping away on some pizza so yeah because you get the shirt i'm here thank you so much for having me what's up everybody ian crossland over here and yes cast castle did go live yesterday the best episode yet civil war

the culmination of a four-part series i hope you have had a chance to see it i think some people whose feedback said that it was uh it was lagging or there was buffering issues so we're working on that might be a browser thing try different a different browser. Try clearing your cash. And maybe we'll talk about Hunter Biden today because federal agency chargeable offenses with tax offenses. And I think if we do get into it, well, we'll save it for the show. And what's going on, Lyd?

Yeah, I'm over here as well. Thank you guys for having me. Of course, I'm pushing buttons in the corner. Tim got the ability to edit tweets. He's been having a blast with that. Go check out his Twitter for sure. Let's into it it just i just did one last edit joe joe biden is a bad president and it just gave me a warning it was like this is your last edit stop five edits total i guess is that five no i think it's yeah it's five edits okay so it started with joe biden

is a bad president then joe biden is a good president joe biden is a good president. Joe Biden is a child sniffer. Joe Biden is responsible for our gas prices. Retweet this if you think the noble rooster is the greatest of God's creations. After people, of course. And then finally back to Joe Biden is a bad president. And then when you tried to edit it again, it said, please stop, or did it stop you? Please stop, gosh.

You can't do it anymore. You can no longer edit. Five edits in 30 minutes. That's the rule. All right, ladies and gentlemen, here's the news. I hope you're sitting down for this one. Zelensky calls for preemptive strikes from NATO to keep Russia from using nukes. Uh-huh.

Okay. Whatever, man. Zelensky says it's time for World War III. Everyone should burn in a rain of nuclear hellfire. He didn't really say that, but he may as well have said that. Volodymyr Zelensky called on NATO to conduct preemptive strikes against Russian targets to prevent their use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, which literally would do the opposite. OK, that's it. I kind of feel like he's actually just saying, you know, it's the waiting I can't stand. Just burn it all to the ground. Because no one, no sane, rational person thinks a preemptive strike against Russia would result in anything other than them launching nuclear weapons.

Zelensky was throwing people in. I think he shut down TV stations. The three largest TV stations in Ukraine. I think he had them shut down because they were speaking out against him. And political parties as well that were against him. He's not a good guy. He maybe was an actor, so he's got some charisma, but I don't think he's like a benevolent president.

During the time of war, all the rules are out of the window. So we have to understand, we're not fighting for democracy here. This is not a democracy. But he shut those TV stations down before any Russian aggravation. I believe it was because of the war

and the emergency powers that the government got. But again, all rules, everything's off the table once there's a war. And that's how he's treating the situation. His statements today, I mean, he's trying to, you know, walk them back as much as he can. He's trying to say that he wanted to really call for preemptive sanctions. But there's a big distinction between preemptive strikes and preemptive sanctions. And he was specifically talking to an Australian think tank,

the Lowly Institution, and these are big statements. The Russians are coming out and saying, well, these statements risk another world war, and these are very dangerous statements. And this is the trajectory that we are on unless there's some actual de-escalation detente and some real civil conversations that could actually pull us away from this lunacy. You mean like Elon Musk?

Yes. At least he's trying. His proposal wasn't perfect, but at least he tried. At least he started the conversation. And now lunatic Lindsey Graham, the chicken hawk that he is, is saying that he's going to be taking away his tax credits, which he never got for his Tesla company. He never even had. Someone's got to try. Someone's got to try to de-escalate. I guess I also wonder, why is he asking NATO to do a preemptive

strike? Haven't we sent Zelensky like $50 billion worth of weapons? Why isn't he doing it? There are three Democrats who have now publicly stated that the greatest national security objective for the United States is to defeat Russia in Ukraine. They came out and said it. Yo, we're at war with Russia. They're just playing this game.

It's not for Russia's benefit. Russia knows we're at war with them. It's because it's illegal. Because what they're doing violates the Constitution. They did not get congressional approval for this. So they're going violates the constitution they did not get congressional approval for this so they're going to dance around like you know you know people ask you've got you've got u.s personnel veterans on the ground in ukraine we now have confirmation from the intercept that u.s boots are actually doing special operations on the ground at what point are we just like okay

dudes we get it you declared war on russia yeah But that's the game. Vladimir Putin knows full well what NATO and the US are doing there. They're lying, saying it's just veterans being supplied and trained by us and then delivering weapons and training to the Ukrainians. The only reason they're saying that

is because they're not legally allowed to do it, and they did. So criminals. Criminals in the government. That's new, right? Yeah, that never happened before. Musk made another statement today when he was attacked by the Kiev post. He said, look, I love Ukraine, but not World War III. And I think that's the sentiment for the majority of people right now looking at this situation

rationally, as we're not really, you know, this conversation, it's shared about online. But when we look at the mainline coverage, this is not really talked about as much as significantly. The corporate media right now is focusing on two Russians that swam to Alaska to avoid the mobilization. That seems to be the biggest kind of story that you see on the main headline television networks. But you don't really hear about the dangerous implications. You don't really hear anti-war voices. You don't really hear about the dangerous implications you don't really hear anti-war voices you don't really hear anything contrary other than we need war let's play chicken nuclear war because it's fun somehow and that's that's insane for the record they uh zolinski shut down three tv stations in february of 21 2021 a year before putin invaded um and they were like

pro-russia according to him it was like, it's Russia. So they've really been at like a pseudo war since 2014. I mean, since Putin annexed Crimea, that was pretty overt. You guys know that the U.S. had an office of censorship during World War II. Yeah. Silence accelerates victory was their slogan. The motto, I guess. Well, we put Japanese in

internment camps, too. I mean, a lot of stuff is a part of the war. Well, information is key. And, you know, many times there was accusations against Germans. There was accusations against Japanese citizens that were providing allegedly information to the enemy. And the United States took it as far as to literally set up camps for Japanese people to be interned in, which was a step too far. And I think, you know, during these situations, during emergency situations, we should always be careful not to take a step too far. And we have done it time and time again. I'm watching this video or I have been of like volunteers on the ground in Ukraine, American guy goes over with a helmet cam, and he's recording it

as he's running around fighting, like they're in combat, and they don't know who they're fighting. They don't know where the enemy is. They're just being told by a squad leader who's like a French guy or like some Ukrainian dude. They got a French. So they just go place. They wait. And then they're like, if someone tells them, speaking of information being important, if someone says that's the enemy fire, they'll just start shooting. They don't know. Yep.

Yeah. How many how many Ukrainian citizens you think joined with the Russians? Something that they don't talk about in Western media. But but of course they did, especially in the East. They probably said, you know, we're with Russia on this one. Otherwise, I mean, they wouldn't have, it's just, I'll leave it at that.

My question, and the reason I bring that up is, do you believe the Western media that Ukraine is winning? This is, I think, a topic worth discussing because we might see opposing viewpoints on this as we were kind of talking about this subject before the show. There's a lot of circumstantial evidence. There's the understanding that there's a lot of propaganda, a lot of disinformation, but we also have to understand that the Ukrainians were practicing and drilling for this ever since 2014 on their territory. They have the latest technology. They have night vision.

They have thermal. They have satellite technology. They have GPS-coordinated weapons systems. They have training from CIA, covert ops, special forces soldiers that were there since 2014, setting up the groundwork for this invasion as the U.S. corporate media was literally cheering on and setting the groundwork to make everyone hate Russia. So this has been in the works for a very long time. And I do believe from just my initial perspective, from what I've seen, and I know people are going to attack me. I got attacked last week because I said the Ukrainians are going to take the city of Lyman. The Ukrainians did take the city of Lyman.

But from my perspective, looking at the Telegram channel, seeing footage from the Russians and Ukrainians, it does seem, especially right now, that therainians are getting back a lot of the territory and are having some significant victories against what looks like a disorganized force with the russians that's just my perspective and in my opinion and i could be wrong and i know i'm gonna get you know i don't believe for it i don't believe the propaganda but it's also not the ukrainians it's nato nato is winning back these cities yeah and also russia's russia's not fully, as far as I can tell, from what I've heard. I mean, they have not committed their entire military.

He just raised another 300,000 people drafted. I think they drafted. Was that their first mobilization? Well, in the mobilization, there's also a secret paragraph that hasn't been released to the general public. But also Russia is facing stiff declines in their population, just like the majority of the general public. But also, Russia is facing stiff declines in their population, just like the majority of the Western world. Taiwan, the Ministry of Defense actually came out today and also said that they have a huge problem because of the low birth rates. They're not going to have anyone to join the military soon. So Russia is also facing a very similar

problem. And how many people are fleeing? That's contested. There's a lot of disinformation. There's a lot of propaganda. And a lot of it is just centered around Russia bad. The war, they're losing it 100%. That's not the 100% truth out of the situation. But again, we're in a war.

The reporting has been just propaganda. And that's exactly what it is from now on well do you think that it's possible that the fact that putin is talking about nuclear weapons is a sign that maybe he is losing yeah is that i i think that's a better indication to me than anything coming out of the media just i don't know if he'd be talking like that if if losing losing though to the degree that he's engaged i mean the question is has has russia utilized all of their though, to the degree that he's engaged. I mean, the question is, has Russia utilized all of their forces to the maximum capability? Obviously, no, because they have nukes. And then the question is, okay, well, aside from nukes, then, are they using their ground forces?

Well, no, they just mobilized another 300,000. They could certainly conscript more people, so they've not even maximized in terms of ground troops. And then it's, if they really wanted to declare full-scale war, I mean, they don't even have to use ICBMs. They have, there's a bunch of weapons they could and haven't used. There was video going out of them dropping incendiary bombs on a city.

Why have they not done that in larger numbers on other cities? Because it looks like Russia is actually restrained right now. Well, it looks like there's a lot of supply shortages. It looks like a lot of their main routes have been met with a lot of resistance.

And there's also a lot of video footage showing Russians fighting with regular red book bags, fighting with no armor at all, fighting with old equipment. So again, how much of that is propaganda? How much of it is real? But I've seen similar reports and similar videos from the Russian side showing them fighting, having victories, but still a lot of them are under equipped.

A lot of them don't have any body armor at all. I think there was an expectation that they would move in from the east and that the people in Ukraine would open their arms and be like, kind of like what happened in Crimea, be like, well, thank you. Now we're liberated. We're back as part of Russia. We used to, you know, they used to be part of Russia

before the Soviet Union was split up, all of Ukraine. And, but it was underestimated the amount of psychological propaganda that had been proliferated in Ukraine and pro-West, pro-liberal economic order. And there was just massive psychological resistance. A lot of people thought Zelensky was going to

flee as soon as the invasion was announced, but he was like, no, I'm staying, probably because psychologically he was prepared because of all this NATO influence. But also Russia hasn't fully declared it as a war. They're describing it as a limited military operation. So we have to understand, attacks

on the infrastructure weren't made by the Russians. The Russians could take out the electricity, the power, the water, and a lot of other, especially with their control of the nuclear facility inside of Ukraine, they haven't done that yet. So I think they're still holding back some cards that will make a greater impact on this conflict, not just nuclear warheads, but a declaration of a full all-out war. Let me jump to these stories here. The first from Daily Mail.

Quote, use low-yield nuclear weapons. Russia-appointed official in Kursan calls for tough action from Moscow and urges the country defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, to shoot himself amid frustration at Ukrainian fight back. We also have this story from Reuters. Kadyrov says Russia should use low yield nuclear weapon. So they're outright saying use the nukes. This is interesting because I feel like nuclear war, man, if there's anything that would happen,

that would make a great reset happen. It would be nuclear bombs dropping. But the question is, is this, you know, what's happening in Ukraine going to affect the entire planet or is it going to stay regional? Is it going to become something that forces the West to get involved or does Ukraine just get, you know, win or lose? I don't know. When nukes come into play, I don't see how the whole world doesn't get involved. I mean, I guess one thing that does make me nervous is where's China in all this? When the nukes start flying, what does China do? Well, sit back and laugh. Well, yeah, they could,

I guess. Just watch us commit suicide. And it's a huge part of Eastern Russia. Yeah. You know, watch out for that. Well, Kissinger had some interesting comments about China and how they're looking at everything that's happening right now. We also have to understand that Ukraine and China were very big trading partners. And there's a lot of economic interests that the Chinese have inside of Ukraine. So this could be one reason why they kind of stepped back a little bit. But according to Henry Kissinger, the Chinese gave the Russians a blank check when it came to this conflict right now. I'm not really seeing it. But I think it's in their interest for themselves to be like, you know what, we're just going to take a step back as you two guys beat each other up, and we're going to rise as a

potential superpower, or try to rise as a potential superpower. Well, that's the art of war, right? Never interrupt your enemies when they're destroying each other. Yes. And there's been a lot of historical tensions between Russia and China. They have started to work closer together, especially with the United States becoming more aggressive against both of them. They started to share a lot of military secrets. They started to build a lot of military infrastructure together. But historically, they've been at odds, even when it comes to specific territory that they were threatening each other with just a few decades ago. The intercept report that I saw earlier, I think Michael Tracy was tweeting about it.

I mean, that was just a kick in the balls. What was it? That the U.S. is operating officially. U.S. special operations and intelligence are operating in Ukraine. So, like, that's it. This is the game they play. The U.S. and NATO, they didn't come out outright and say, we're going to engage in war with Russia. They dropped news periodically. First, it was like, well, some people volunteered. It just

happens they're Americans. Then it's, well, we're giving weapons to, you know, Poland and it's being delivered to Ukraine, but it's not us. And then the U.S. intelligence helped Ukraine blow up the Russian Black Sea Fleet flagship and then said, oh, well, we didn't tell him to do that. Now the U.S. is saying, well, yeah, we do have special operations on the ground that are ours and our intelligence has been operating there. I'm going to tell you this. They're blaming Ukraine for the assassination of Dugin's daughter. How long? Give it a week, two weeks, a month before they're like, oh, yeah, we actually ordered that. Or at first they're going to say, we gave them the information on where Dugan would be, but we didn't know that would happen.

And then a month later, it's going to be like, yeah, it was us. So basically what the United States is doing is handing someone a gun and saying, we're going to point it exactly where you're going to kill this opponent. And the only thing they're not doing is pulling the trigger. That's not there anymore. But some people, as you know, you would argue, they're doing even more than is pulling the trigger. That's not true anymore. But some people, as you know,

you would argue, they're doing even more than just pulling the trigger. Yeah, it's like that. Here's what it is. Alright, so Joel, you're fighting with your neighbor and so I'm like, alright, here's what we're going to do. I'm going to give you this glass bottle, alright?

Now, you got that, but you know what? Actually, Luke used to work for me. Luke, you go do it. bottle all right now you're gonna you got you got that but uh but you know what uh actually luke used to work for me luke you go do it that's basically what it is yeah it starts with people are like they used to be soldiers for the us army but now it's just their choice to go there right right right and they and then they have weapons that get supplied by nato and then eventually they're just like yeah they're paying us so yeah we're involved at what point does everyone figure out that just you know, when do

we eliminate the middleman and just go direct at each other? That's what I'm saying, you know. Look, just Joe Biden, if Joe Biden wants my respect, he'll come out and be like, my fellow Americans, of course we're at war with Russia. What are you, stupid? You don't think U.S. boots on

the ground, funding, supplies, intelligence, and war. You think that does not imply that we are fighting right. We're thinking. Yeah. But, you know, I think what you get from Twitter and from the media is you can really see these like psychotic fascist journalists will say whatever to keep regular people trapped in the dark. Right. They'll call you fake news. They'll lie. they'll push conspiracy theories and then claim it's you doing that projection is the only thing they have and the best part is they accuse everyone else of projecting when it's quite literally them projecting yeah they're the fascists supporting the machine and supporting the war now we're facing the prospect of uh getting hit by a nuke so i guess you know for uh for you guys have you

guys bought your potassium iodide yet i had mine for many years ago as i was warning about this on my youtube channel saying hey we're headed towards a conflict with russia like like 10 years ago i was making videos about this i was like geopolitically everything's aligning everything's shaping up as of course this is not the first proxy war that happened between the east and the west we look at syria we look at libya we look at afghanistan in the 1980s the The United States and the Russians have always been at odds with each other, always financing the enemy of the enemy. And this is nothing new. But now I think we have really escalated it to a dangerous situation that

implicates everyone in it, including everyone that's not even fighting. Innocent human beings are being affected by this in more ways than one, not just financially. But what about what about other countries? I mean, Turkey. Yeah, exactly. Superpower. There are the nuclear superpower. They're a Russian neighbor.

They I mean, Russia, NATO member. Yeah. And they're in NATO, which is very strange. But Russia has no Mediterranean access with or without the annexation they're trying to approve without Turkey. So they're they have to be allies for this war to resolve in Russia's favor. But they're in NATO. What the hell is going on? They have nuclear weapons.

What the hell is going on? It's simple. Klaus Schwab had a meeting with Putin and Biden and said, we need to reset everything. Let's pretend to have a war. And they were like, okay, that'll give us an excuse to launch the nukes. And then, I'm kidding, by the way. Hey, man, I can only say that Klaus Schwab is probably sitting back being like this war is very good yeah this war was

inevitable we need order order well and how much of this too is driven just by the like the military industry i mean it have we gotten to the point where just we always need some kind of a war we had iraq we had af Afghanistan, we got out of Afghanistan. Now it's Russia. After Russia, is it going to be something else? I mean, is it just a continual war machine where we're feeding this beast? That's what Eisenhower told us it was going to be.

And after Vietnam in the early 70s, I mean, there was just a slew of military actions I'm very in the dark about. It's just they're so obfuscated in the Balkans, in obviously Serbia, Kosovo, in the dark about it. It's just, they, they're so obfuscated in the, in the Balkans in like, obviously Serbia, Kosovo with like in the Clinton years, I remember hearing about Serbia and Kosovo and Bosnia.

Like there was just bombs going off. I never knew what was what, who was who. I just knew that we were involved in all this death. Yeah. I think without, without conflict and places to blow up bombs with, with some sort of reason,

whether it's fake or real, then the military industrial complex will cease to function. Yeah, sometimes I wonder if all this money being sent to Ukraine is kind of like to help replace the lost revenue from leaving Afghanistan in the Middle East. It's like $100 billion on the books that have been sent over there in the middle of an economic recession. They've sent $100 billion to some country that we're not even allies with. And then what happens? They buy weapons from who?

God knows. The Chinese, the Russians. I don't know where they're getting the weapons. Probably us. And they're buying oil from us. It's our own money being given right back to us. There's a reason. There's a saying that war is a racket.

Because it is and the only winners of the war are the people who finance the wars the people who of course bankroll

the sides and sell the arms and the weapons everyone else loses there's no real winners in the war other than the people who profit off of it

military industrial complex grifting for them it's like we need to justify why we need more weapons let's get mad at somebody and claim they're bad. Yeah. And then go fight them.

Yeah. Well, first, the recent US policy is, hey, we're going to give these guys a bunch of weapons. And then a couple years later, these are the bad guys. We got to fight these guys with all these weapons. Saddam Hussein, he has chemical weapons that we gave them to fight the Iranians. The Syrians, they have all these weapons. They have all these Humvees and trucks with American businesses on the side of them.

We've got to go fight them. They're going to attack and kill us. The Libyans, you know, Gaddafi, he's a very bad guy. We sold him a bunch of weapons, but he's a bad guy now. We've got to take him out because he wants to do a gold dinar. So it goes on and on and on. I can never stop. The Taliban, yeah, yeah.

We've got to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. We got to give them all the weapons. Oh, no. The Taliban. They're bad now. We got to go fight them. I tweeted out a video of this guy who went to Afghanistan recently. This video on YouTube is called Tourism and Taliban Controlled Afghanistan.

He went and he interviewed Taliban. He's like, what do you think of Joe Biden? And the older Taliban member who's doing the speaking was like, Joe Biden did a great job by leaving. We hope he never comes back. You can see he left us all this equipment that the Taliban is driving around on right now. We're very grateful for Joe Biden. Oh, yeah. They love him.

He's got a 98% approval rating over there. They call it Independence Day, the day 9-11 when we surrendered. The Taliban calls it Independence Day. Wow. The day that we surrender to the Taliban. Wow. Thanks, Joe Biden. Yeah, we just spent $9 trillion making sure that we get, you know,

we replace the Taliban with the Taliban. Money well spent. Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. Oh, boy. We got him. Hunter Biden. Daily Mail reports federal agents have enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden with tax crimes and making false statement while buying gun bombshell report claims decision lies in the hands of U.S. attorney in Delaware.

In Delaware. Perfect. They know all about the Bidens. I'm sure we're going to see Hunter held to account. And then, hey, man, the dominoes begin falling because once they get Hunter, he's going to squeal like a pig and he's going to be like, my dad did it all. He's a pedo.

He's pedo Peter. Here's the laptop. Here's proof. And then Joe Biden's going down. Mark my words. On November 12th, the arrests are, no, nothing's going to happen. Quite literally, nothing's going to happen.

Hunter Biden's going to laugh at it. Joe Biden's going to do nothing. And even if they did charge Hunter, Joe Biden would be like, here's a blanket pardon, son. Free to go. Yeah. I thought you were reading the latest Q drop there for a second.

This, I think, is a way to scare Americans into paying their taxes and not buying guns. I think they're going to make Hunter a poster boy for tax evasion and illegal gun handling. They're going to give him a slap on the wrist. But enough that's like people are super afraid. They don't want to cross the government because the government is looking out for tax and gun handling. They're going to give him a slap on the wrist, but enough that's like people are super afraid. They don't want to cross the government because the government is looking out for tax and gun crimes. That is interesting

because of all the things they could have got him on to choose those things. I mean, those are relatively minor crimes compared to everything that he's done with human trafficking, crack, all that. The deals with China, tax evasion, buying a gun,

that seems odd. odd yeah it's just common they of course they want to scare people with it right now and they're they're willing to throw hunter under the bus whoever they are but like you said biden could pardon the guy he probably won't he's probably gonna be like well he needs to you know we got to make an example out of hunter but you'll be okay no he'll do it you think i'll just pardon him straight up yeah because joe is not gonna be in i don't believe jo't believe Joe was going to run for president in 2024. He's going to be like, I'm out. I don't care.

My kid's not going to jail. But if he pardons him, it will set an example that paying your taxes isn't that important. You think he cares about that? No one absolutely does. Yeah, I think he's obsessed with making people pay taxes right now. That's why he hired 80,000 IRS agents. Not his own kid. But he's going to make an example.

This is my projection is he'll make an example out of Hunter in this people are minor directions this guy is so dirty and corrupt well he's not gonna nail him he's just gonna you know punish him like he's a 17 year old hunter biden could destroy the biden family with everything he knows joe is going to give him everything he wants i think i think hunters in on i think joe will be like we're gonna make an example out of you to show people that paying taxes is important. Hunter's like, okay, dad. You think that crackhead is going to be like, sure thing, dad. No, he's going to be like, no, I'm not doing that.

Because he'd go to. And don't make me go and talk to them because I'll tell them what you did with Ukraine and China. But he'd go down with them if he did. If Hunter turned on Joe, they'd both go down. I don't think Hunter's too self-serving. I don't think Biden believes he. If he's going to go to prison and Joe won't pardon him, then I'll say, if I'm going down, I'm taking you with me.

I mean, maybe he'll get like 60 days time served in a cushy home arrest crap with an ankle bracelet. The gun charge, I'd be surprised. But yeah, if they give him house arrest, he'd probably be like, sure thing, Pop. Doing crackiness. Sorry, Hunter, man. Get off the drugs, brother.

This is the same guy that had Secret Service intervene when his gun was found in a trash can in 2018. Secret Service literally butted in and said, you know, this is a local police case. We're going to make sure we're involved in this. And they literally found a handgun that was registered to him in a trash can. Which is like a family.

And he got away with it. Yeah. Well, hold on, hold on hold on they're saying they might charge him so not for that specific charge what is it for example he might he might not i mean there's talks about this uh what is it attorney general or uh prosecutor there's talks about this prosecutor being uh right wing and there's a possibility of this happening i think it's a trump it's a trump prosecutor yeah that was appointed by him so people are saying there's a small possibility here but again the system has a way of greasing

the wheels here joe biden is an extremely dirty human being that will use every illicit means to of course protect his inner circle and um i could see a lot of shadowy things happening behind the scenes putting pressure on this prosecutor being like this is my son you don't do this and then the prosecutor saying okay, okay, sure. Do you think Hunter caves on his dad? I think there's a theory out there that I think is plausible of Hunter deliberately releasing a lot of this stuff

in order to get back at his dad for potential crimes that Hunter committed against the president. Hunter might actually be the hero. Yeah. He's sitting there and he's being like, I may be a crackhead, but for the American people I'll make the sacrifice he's good friends he's good friends with tucker carlson what hunter yes look up hunter biden tucker carlson you could see it they have a good relationship with each other so maybe potentially yeah he's like giving all his

information up for money that's it that's you know that makes more sense to me uh money but also maybe retribution maybe there's there's something that calls his dad a pedo apparently yeah that was that one that's listed as a contact i do pedo peter i could see like in 15 or 20 years after joe biden's passed away that hunter is like does a tell-all story where he's like he was abusive he was manipulative he got me involved in ukraine he put me in positions that i didn't want to be you know just demonize demonize it. Look how horrible it was. Big sympathy for Hunter. Hunter runs for office. The Biden name, you know, bull like crap like that. I can see. I don't know. The Biden name is synonymous with mud at this point because of like just everything wrong with the economy. This is funny. If you look at the polling for Democrats, the generic ballot,

their their polling tracks alongside gas prices to a certain degree. Now that gas prices are going up, Democrat polling is going down because they're the ones who are in charge. And when gas prices go up, this is most people. It really is simple math. Most people don't know, don't care, Russia, nuclear war, whatever. But I tell you this, you probably go to your friends, your family, and you're like, hey, this nuclear war stuff is serious. They could, you know, we can go to war to war people could die and they go and i don't know what you're talking about i don't care about that and you're like your gas prices are up 50 cents well hold on what i noticed that now i'm mad it's because of joe biden's war in ukraine and i say

joe biden's war because i fully understand that vladimir putin invaded ukraine but joe biden decided to involve the U.S. in something that doesn't involve us. So that is his war. You can blame a lot on Putin, but why are we involved? So if you want to talk to people and you want to convince them to pay attention to this, you can be like, hey, you know your gas is going up because of this, and that means you can't pay your rent, you're not gonna be able to buy food, it means food costs are gonna go up, labor costs are gonna go up, and you can thank Joe Biden. Well, he's burning through our strategic oil reserves right now too i mean oh yeah man he's just he's just

holding off until the election as soon as the election is over gas prices are going to skyrocket because you know i don't know how much reserves we have left but i think we're at kind of a record low so eight dollar and 80 cent gas and in california. What the hell? It was 89 cents when I was like 18. I mean, if you're looking to have some kind of large reformatting, this is great. Yeah, like some sort of massive power-on thing. A hard reboot. A hard reboot. A large reboot.

It turned out it was a massive reboot. A gigantic restart. Yes. Yes. I'm trying turned out it was a massive reboot. A gigantic restart. Yes. Yes. I'm trying to turn it on and off. An impactful new beginning. But we're still going to need oil. Even if there's a gray reset, we still need oil.

If they cut off the oil, I think like billions will die. Like within the first few days of oil getting cut off, 60 million, I think, are the estimates? Between 20 and 60 million? Dude, I'm looking at this technology where a guy puts oil in his de deoxygenated pressure chamber or to puts plastic rather in his deoxygenated pressure chamber and then turns it back into oil and then can reuse the oil well what kind of plastic and is the video fake it was like a japanese guy from like six or seven years ago and it was on a small scale i don't believe it man i saw a video of a guy levitating objects and perpetual it was pretty basic and i think

it's still to be refined re-refined to be able to use like gasoline but it was oil i think people need to understand too like people like greta thunberg when she's like we have to stop the fossil fuels now you need to imagine an iron gauntlet on her hand and her slamming the table because she's talking about killing people yeah Mass genocide. Mass genocide. It's called, like, cutting off fossil fuels abruptly and outright will just kill tens of millions instantly. And then, within a few days. Well, they're already doing it with famine.

You know, that's... But give it a few years and then there's going to be famines, power shortages, and you're going to see... Look, take a look at the population growth charts and then right around the advent of fossil fuels, it just goes straight up

it goes from like a consistent 500 million people in the world throughout history and then right before the turn of the century just jumps to the billions and then it keeps climbing exponentially and it's because of this massive energy rich product if you cut that off it's going to go right back down here's the video it's called uh like, yes, yes, finally we get to do this. That's why he keeps trying. This is called Machine Reverts Plastic Back to Oil. It's New Inventions Machine Reverts Plastic Back to Oil. It's from about 11 years ago.

And the name of the inventor is Akinori Ito. He was the CEO of blessed.co.ltd at the time. The website now, that link is no longer working. I don't know what the status of this technology is right now but i mean if one guy in a small company can make this on a small scale where's our industrial plastic recycling we got a cbc report apparently they're doing it big pile of trash and these tiny pieces of plastic is what you're talking about i'm not sure this is a canadian company says they figured out how to do it. That would be a

diesel fuel that we're getting out of here. Wow. And a gasoline. Gasoline from plastic. In this case, this is the two that we've set up to do. Plastic is just like oil. And it came out of the ground at one time the same way. We are taking plastic and we are converting it using a process called pyrolysis

where we're converting it into a fuel. So we know that Bill Gates has people who monitor conversations about him. So, you know, of course, when the show starts, they tell him, Mr. Gates, Tim Kessler, IRL is on. Well, turn it on the TV. And now he's watching and he sees this clip and he goes, what? And then he's like slamming the table and he's going to call.

He's like, shut him down. We don't want people to live. You solved my problem. No, no, no, no, no, no. His problem isn't the use of fossil fuels. His problem is that the use of fossil fuels makes more people. You're causing my problem.

I want to ask this question because maybe it's a little philosophical. What do you think drives this anti-human bent in these people? Schwab, Bill Gates, this... Demons. Gravity. I have gravity.

The pain of being sucked down to a planet. The pain, the physical pain that we've become desensitized to makes people hate themselves. To answer your question, I think there's a combination of Satanist, demons, people with mental health issues, but more... In a more simple way, throughout human history,

there has always been someone trying to conquer the world. That's not something that's out of the ordinary. It is the norm, whether it's Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Caesar, whoever it may be, they become so empowered by other individuals that that power corrupts them. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And these individuals have reached such power, such wealth, that they are going along with what Hitler did, with what Mao did, with what Stalin did, trying to conquer and control human life for their own personal benefit.

Sociopathic demons is one easy way to describe them. Another way to describe them is, of course, just saying throughout human history, there have always been these types of people that challenge us and try to conquer everything. Yeah. Alexander the Great, he was on a conquering spree going east, taking like all of, you know, what is it? Ursa Minor, that east, western Asia. And it got to the point where he conquered so much of Persia, maybe even all of Persia, and then his generals were like, okay, Alex, we've had enough. We want to go home to see our wives.

It's been 15 years. You promised that, you know, this is all about making our lives better. And Alex was like, we must go on. We must continue. And they fought and he kept taking them. They're like, we're done. And then one day Alexander woke up

and he was very sick from the night before. I think they poisoned him. I mean, the theory is that his generals poisoned him because they couldn't stop him. Once you get into that state of mind, conquering, and he thought he was the son of God. He was educated by Aristotle. His mother told him he was a god, a god man. He thought he was there to conquer Earth.

And the only way to stop someone like that, at least to his generals, was you had to stop him because he wasn't going to stop. Why do you think? Well, I don't know. I do think it's a spiritual battle kind of that you alluded to that, you know, if we were created by God, we're made in his image, you know, and there is a Satan, you know, you have to assume that he hates the image of God. You know, he despises us. And I think if, you know, if those forces are at work in the world, then there's always going to be those people who rise up and who kind of just naturally hate God's image on the earth. And so it's probably kind of his oldest time, like you said. It just takes different iterations throughout history.

There's always some jerk taking a dump in the punch bowl. It's got gotta be like... And that's history. Like fear of being attacked. Like what Zelensky was saying, we need to preemptively strike so that they don't attack us. Like what the Romans did.

We need to conquer everyone around us so that we don't get attacked. Because if you actually are attacked and your city's sacked, like Rome, happened to Rome in the early days, there's like, took 200 years to recover from that.

Like it can annihilate a civilization if you're attacked. So there's this idea of like like i need to conquer the earth so that the earth doesn't conquer me do you think we're bored too we just we're so comfortable and happy and we have everything we need and it yep mankind gets to a point where they just get bored and we just have to destroy something so we can build it up again life used to be about survival right 80 90 of your day was just wake up work otherwise you don't have food winter is coming are you ready now we've got heating refrigeration we can have strawberries in the dead of winter we can have avocados fresh table side guacamole prepared to order in january now

that's something to behold so it's just we just we you know they talk about like we got to end global poverty and blah blah blah and i'm like i get it but there's no such thing as ending poverty because even the poorest people in the world have access to technologies that were unthinkable 100 years ago not that they have like consistent access to it but even the united states the poorest person in the u.s can can get clean drinking water very, very easily. You walk into a McDonald's and you're like, water, you're good. Try doing that in some other parts of the world where there's no water and they're desperate. Well, I don't think that also explains it because throughout human history when there was no drinking water, tribes used to kill other tribes, whether it was Native Americans, whether it was Europeans, there was always someone trying to kill someone else for their resources, for their clean water, for their

food, and for their energy and ability to survive as well. So this has been happening for a very, very long time. Now, it only gets a lot more sophisticated. It only gets a lot more complicated because of these technological advancements that allow people to hide behind the scenes and to impose their will in a fifth generational warfare way where people don't even realize that they're being depopulated, that they're being chemically attacked, that they're being castrated, that they're being taught and manipulated in a way that they become self

destructive and destroy themselves as a would be dictators literally pulling the strings and calling the shots without anyone even knowing their name. I think that's a more likely scenario with what we're dealing with right now than previously in archaic times where you would stab someone and you would go into battle. Now the battle I think is in our minds. And I think that battle is expanding in a way that, that there's no denying that it exists, especially with

the dehumanization that we have seen within the last few years. Yeah, I was thinking about the ballistics and how they've changed war, like being able to not have to look your enemy in the eye when you kill them. But then I'm thinking about the Romans and how they basically genocided the Gauls. They went through all of France and just millions of people were slaughtered at the hands of the Romans. And I think it gets to the point where the killers enjoy killing. Like they,

they, they learned the dehumanize these things that they're attacking and they enjoy the abusive behavior. Like it's a powerful rush. You gain from it. You get food and money and jewels and women after you make the kill. And it's like addictive. And,

and, and, and when it becomes easy for them and they think about, you know, these people have ideas I don't like. Hey, it's just that much easier. They don't think of those people, too. It's so crazy how the dehumanization can happen when you call them savage or whatever you want. Yeah, I'm telling you, they treat us like chickens.

Look, I was saying this earlier today on my other show. The government deeply cares about you. Your government cares about you your government cares about you they care about your well-being and they want you to be healthy and happy insofar as you can provide labor for them everything else your love your life your your your faith your dreams completely meaningless right and if you get in the way of their labor machine you are expendable so they care about you as much as I care about, say, chickens. Like, I don't want harm to befall them.

But if I have to get rid of, you know, a cocky rooster, he's going out to cock town or he's getting chopped up for lunch. They give me eggs. I don't care what else they do in the meantime. But if they start doing things I don't like, then you go in and you deal with them. That's how they view people. We provide labor and we do work. It allows them to live in their Elysium golden towers with golden toilets. But if we start acting out of line, speaking up and challenging their authority, the reality is we aren't chickens. We are humans and humans are smart, smart enough. So if there are smart people who can challenge them at the top, that's a problem.

I got nothing to worry about. There's zero chance Roberto Jr. is going to figure out how to come in here and take this company over. He's a rooster. Near zero chance. Near zero chance. It's a small percentage. Very tiny.

But for human beings, when we do shows like this, the people who are currently holding the keys to the chicken coop in which we are all imprisoned, they have to be careful because people are smart enough to break free from that and that means you ain't getting the eggs anymore that's why we have politics because people are too smart so we need a mind control system to utilize their intelligence without allowing them to seize control and that's possibly why we've seen such a ramp up with with what's happening globally and you know the great reset and all this war is because of the information age, what's happened, this is the advent of the printing press.

With the internet, we now have all this access to information without gatekeepers, and so it does seem like kind of the powers that be are very violently reacting to that. Boy, do they regret that one. But to add to your point, Ian, talking about politics, I think politics is just there to placate the population. I think it's there to just convince people that they actually have a say in things when they actually don't. It's like a Fisher-Price toy that you give to a child that you just calling the shots, getting whatever they want, convincing you, brainwashing you and screwing you over every single day. And they're doing it more than ever.

And there was even a mainline study that we talked about a couple of years ago, I think, on this show specifically talking about how our form of government is a joke. It doesn't exist. We don't live under a democracy. We don't have a democracy because special interests always get their way. What people want never happens. Plutonomy. Plutocracy, I think. No, plutonomy was the report.

I think it was from Citigroup. Okay, yeah. They said the United States is not a democracy. It's a plutonomy where the wealthiest control the system. Yeah. A great example of that is superdelegates. The Democratic Party, no matter who votes for what, when you go to the polls, at the very end, the superdelegates can come to you like, actually, we're going to make Joe Biden

the nominee. Like, you're not voting for the nominee. You're voting for people that you hope will nominate the person you want them to vote for. It's not democracy in the slightest. I like this. Plutonomy. Yeah, this is the documents.

The Plutonomy PDF. Citigroup. Equity strategy. Plutonomy. Buying luxury, luxury expanding global explaining global imbalances the world is dividing into two blocks the plutonomy and the rest the u.s uk and canada are the key plutonomies economies powered by the wealthy continental europe x italy and japan are the egalitarian block equity risk premium blah, premium, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

The plutonomy machine. Economy is driven by the wealthy. That's China right now. The industrial wealth. Wealth is distribution. Wealth is production. It's not about how many dollars you have. It's about what you're producing.

And the Chinese people are producing like mad at the moment. We're producing a lot of paper money. So there's that. Yeah, that's good. True. We've chosen a private company to do that for us at their own discretion. The Federal Reserve. Yeah, yeah.

Plutonomy is a term that refers to the science of the production of distribution of wealth. In modern times, Citigroup analysts, beginning with A.J. Kapoor in 2005, have used the term to describe an economy in which the rich are the driving forces and main beneficiaries of economic growth. Others, including Noam Chomsky, have used the term to refer to a nation or economy in which wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few. And there you go. That's where you are. And then they can use that for access, for lobbying, for manipulation, for media control. And then they create little underlings who go on Twitter and lie to you and know they lie to you. And that's it. It's just some people are just evil.

I was thinking about this when they I saw some I can't remember what I was watching, but they were like Republicans are trying to bring about evil into this country or whatever. And then I thought about that. I'm like, well, they know that's not serious. These people know that they're the ones who are lying because there's no way you can believe every single lie from the mainstream media unless you know, like there's no way you can believe every single lie from the mainstream media unless you know like there's no way you can keep saying this and believe these lies unless there's something wrong with you or you're just pushing the lies and so what i think is they view freedom and liberty as chaos and evil yeah whereas we view authoritarianism and manipulation evil so to them they're like these people are evil.

They want just chaos, people doing everything, and then it all burns down and climate change and whatever. I picture them like the guy in the basement that paints the little figures. Nothing wrong with that, but it has the scene set up and everything just so and everything posed, maybe like a little train set or something like that. And, you know, imagine if those figures were about to, you know, have agency or free will and it's just the guy loses his mind.

That's kind of, there are people tinkering with a train set in their basement. Obsessed with order. Yeah. Whereas libertarians are obsessed with chaos. Maybe not, but I mean, if you become obsessed with chaos or order, you become very dangerous. There's got to be a balance. Yeah, there does. Because too much order is show me your papers or get in the cell too much chaos is i lit it on fire i don't even know where the fire is anymore yeah well the really great and and really bad thing about our current dichotomy is that in

this larger war people are are literally killing and taking themselves out um it's it's a really bad thing because it's horrible to see and you try to prevent it, but a lot of times it's very difficult to do so. But on another aspect, it's a good thing because at the same time, it could be stopped just by information, just by knowledge, just by people being able to talk to each other

in a transparent, accountable, full, honest, real, truthful way. And the internet provides us a small opportunity to do that, but it's being limited every single day because of that particular reason. This is why this move by Twitter, again, it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out, but I think it provides a huge potential that could really upend and shift things. Will it happen? I'm skeptical, but I do see it as something that could change the world for the better as people realize,

hey, maybe I shouldn't be hurting myself. Maybe I shouldn't be treating myself bad. Maybe I should start eating better. Maybe I should start working out. Maybe I shouldn't just listen and do everything that they tell me to do when I keep getting screwed over by it. And I think the more people

who have those conversations and actually open themselves up to fixing themselves, they won't be killing themselves and blowing themselves up, figuratively, they won't be killing themselves and blowing themselves up, figuratively, mentally speaking. Yeah, drug addiction, like, and I'm talking about high fructose corn syrup sugars as well,

types of drugs like that, something the government can't really, kind of control it by banning certain substances, but the whole like obesity epidemic, because like you were saying earlier, the government wants workers, they want chickens that just do their chicken thing and lay the eggs,

but then why are they letting people get obese? I don't think that, I think it's just, it's bigger than gut. Like economy is, the market is stronger than our government. It always probably has been. I mean, we have very few food companies controlling most of the food supply chain now. And they're very well connected in government. And I think they have a lot of power, you know, over what goes in our food, over what goes in our, you know, on our nutrition labels. And so I think I think a lot of our our diet, our American diet is dictated by the lobbyists for these companies in Washington.

I want to jump to this story we got from Timcast.com. Biden pardons federal convictions for low level marijuana possession. Today, we begin to right these wrongs, Biden said. The pardon also applies to lawful permanent residents who have been charged with simple possession, as well as individuals who have been charged but not yet stood trial. Quote, as I've said before, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. Today, I'm taking steps to end our failed approach. Allow me to lay them out. Okay.

I agree with this. I said Trump should have done the same thing. I don't like Joe Biden and this earns no brownie points as far as I'm concerned because I think this is just pandering. But I still, look,

respect where credit is due. I think they should have been doing this a long time ago. I think Donald Trump should have done it. I don't trust Biden to actually do do anything i don't think democrats are actually gonna you know take marijuana off schedule one but what do you guys think do we know how many people this represents i mean are we talking about thousands millions i think it's thousands

i have seen that at the federal level right now there are zero that's what i heard zero i didn't check it out i didn't check it out. I didn't check it out. For this minor thing that they're classing it under what is a simple possession, there's no one, which would be really interesting.

I did see a meme earlier today about- So this could just be a publicity stunt then? Yeah, sure could be. I saw a meme earlier today about Kamala Harris looking through the blinds very sadly as Joe Biden releases all the people

she was so carefully putting in jail for marijuana possession. Poor Kamala. I kind of like Kamala. I know, poor Kamala. I like the way this sounds, though I haven't looked into it yet. It's similar to that AI Bill of Rights that they proposed a few days ago. I think that even an incompetent government can get stuff right, and no one's pure evil or pure good.

So in a way, I mean, definitely we should make marijuana not Schedule 1 narcotic. Completely insane. It's a plant. a plant it's like an herb yeah just don't overuse the thing it's freaking drug it's potent you know the war on drugs is a farce that just abuses people that have substance abuse problems that are never dealt with and only made worse and people are made harder criminals and bigger criminals just by going into our penitentiary system so i think they're they're reaching in a bag. They're like, holy cow, we screwed these people over really bad. We robbed them of all their money.

We robbed them of energy. We robbed them of any kind of potential. Let's just give them a little crumb here, and let's hope that affects the upcoming elections, because I think they are desperate. I think the war on drugs, just like the war on terror, is just manufactured to control populations. It's good to see a portion of it stop, but will this actually have real effect?

Again, I'm skeptical. Yeah, he's saying that he's calling on the attorney general to initiate a process of reviewing how marijuana is scheduled under federal law because it's considered more serious than fentanyl, which is just insane. That's so crazy. Yep. Why didn't trump do it though good question size i guess why why why i don't know bad advice he was gonna do it before the

split between the traditional conservatives who do vote for him and the maga types who are more libertarian he thought he wouldn't get rid of it. Yeah, I think it would have potentially split his base and been harmful to him politically. He might not have won if he didn't do it. Oh, wait, he didn't. I don't think it would have been harmful to him at all. I think there would have been some people who would have been like, I don't think he's right to do, but there's no way I'm voting for Biden. You know, let the states decide.

Jeez. Like, do you think any Trump supporter is going to vote for Joe Biden for doing this? No, he's got to earn my respect in many, many ways. More than one or two moves. The student loan thing, for instance, all of a sudden he went back on it. They were going to give $10,000 to everyone that has a loan. And it turns out not if you have a private loan, only if you had government loans only. Sorry.

And there's so many people with private loans that aren't getting them. Oh, they're going to walk the whole thing back. Of course. It's going to be like the day before the election is going to be oh yeah how about that but like crumpling up and throwing the guard there was no public and i didn't see like a public press conference about not doing it they just quietly were like that's what all this stuff is he's just throwing stuff against the wall he's gonna keep doing that until election day it's because he can't do it anyway he's got nothing else this is why we have this weird pseudo war you know with russia because they're

not allowed to do it joe biden doesn't have the authority to forgive student loans so naturally within a month or a few months they're like oh yeah he's not actually doing that like imagine if joe biden came out he's like i'm gonna give everybody who votes for me a thousand dollars he can't so it's like you he's lying you know people believe it i guess he's lying, you know, people believe it. I guess that's government though, right? What else is new? Half the time, at least.

Half? That's generous. It's a lot of like projections about what they're going to do. Half the time, Ian, are you kidding me? I just,

I just finally, they'll be like, what? They'll say like, we're going to fill in the blank and like, yeah, you didn't do it yet.

Wait, do it and then tell me you did it. Then that at least isn't a lie. Well, it's like Lydia was saying, there might not even be a single person. I don't know. I just pulled it up. I don't know if this is correct, but I'm hearing that 99% of federal drug offenders are sentenced for trafficking.

I haven't fact-checked this, so someone could fact-check this, and that only 92 people were sentenced for marijuana possession in the federal system in 2017 out of nearly 20,000 drug convictions. Yeah, it's like if Joe Biden came out and was like, all those children who are negatively impacted by the alien invasion will receive a million dollars from the government. You're like, okay, but that's zero. It's like, hey, we're helping kids.

Hey, man, we kept that promise. Because people will hear this. This is brilliant. Man, you know, in terms of manipulating people, this is just so good. Announcing that you're going to be partying a tiny, tiny group of people, but then saying there are thousands of people who were previously convicted. Convincing people that you actually did a thing when there's no one that's, for the most part, being affected. Now, look, to those 92 people in 2017 or whatever, I'm sure there was 100 in 2018, 19, 20, 21, 22. So we're looking at maybe, you know, several hundred people.

I'm sure their lives will be improved by this. Hell yeah. But he's not doing what I suggested Trump do, which was basically pardon anybody for any crime relating to any nonviolent crime who didn't plead down. So that means if they had like large possession or trafficking i don't care trafficking for references when you have 25 kilograms or more or 300 or more plants of marijuana here's what you do everybody who's been convicted for that if they didn't plead down from a violent offense they should be they should have to go through a mandatory licensing process and then be released that's it yeah like you were you were trafficking all of this agricultural product without a permit so it's a 50 fine get your permit have a nice day

get rid of the permit permitting system right away i'm disgusted by that sound i'm just saying like the appropriate thing to do is you know it's it's let people be and if they're not hurting anyone if they're just deciding to to smoke something or put something in their body, it's their choice and their decision. Even though they should be informed, though, that there are extremely negative consequences that we're not being told when it comes to marijuana. And marijuana is becoming more potent, is becoming more dangerous, and does have negative effects on some human beings. So people need to understand there's dangers in doing this. But at the same time, the government coming in and throwing you in jail for doing this is not going to solve the problem i had some old uh old hippies talking to me about how pot today is nothing like

it was in the 70s like in the 70s it was weak and they were like yeah so you'd smoke and it was like you know now it's just like boom it's very powerful stuff. So maybe, you know, we got to be careful about all drugs. But, you know, look, man, my attitude is if you want to go into your closet and, you know, smoke, inject, I don't know, whatever. As long as you're not hurting other people. I actually think that regulation is the best way towards helping people, ending the violence. By pushing it into the black market, you only create a space for this. So the appropriate thing to do, in my opinion,

is legalize with restrictions. If people are addicted to opiates, give them a space where you can go and help them and make sure they don't die from it. Instead, they tell you, well, you might as well go hide in a basement. Now when you OD, too bad, no one's going to call for help

because they're scared to go to jail. Or when you can't get your prescription filled, you'll go down to Skid Row to find somebody with fentanyl. When they run out of their Oxycontin or whatever, they look for something else because they don't. Yeah, man. But the thing about weed is it is legal. It is legal. I'm like, what am I? Okay, let's go with it.

No, it's addictive. And mildly, I think physically, definitely psychologically addictive. And giving it to kids is messed up. I used to know kids in high school that I never smoked until I was 23. But like in high school, they were just slow and dull and like bored with school. And like maybe they were slow and dull and bored with school anyway. But they would be more slow and more dull when they would come into work smelling like pot. And like, you know, weren't mean or anything.

We're just like, I don't know. It should be just like alcohol, you know. And and and you know marijuana does have some medicinal properties but at the same time there's also other forms of marijuana that will absolutely knock you on your butt and have very severe negative consequences especially if you're a child as it rewires your brain and and predominantly does make a lot of people lazy some people it actually makes them energized some people actually, it actually gives them inspiration. Some people, it helps. Some people, it hurts. Just like anything in life.

Lazy. Yeah. When I went to Colorado and I partook for the first time, I remember having this thought like, holy cow, this is kind of dangerous for me because right now, I feel like I would be completely happy never accomplishing anything ever again. Everything's good right now, I feel like I would be completely happy never accomplishing anything ever again. Everything's good right now. It's a big part of the transhumanist agenda is putting you in a metaverse on second Alex. They just want you sitting down.

Yeah, I'm surprised the government's not giving out free weed at this point. I see them doing this a couple years from now being like, yes, get high. Just totally forget about everything. Just go on the couch and sit there. Don't worry about anything. There's a nice pod next to that couch that we're also going to give you. Next will be Children of Men. Remember that movie when they were handing out suicide kits to everybody in little boxes?

They're going to try and create some kind of patentable derivative that they can control the price on. Then they're going to say everybody needs this because it de-stresses. And then they're going gonna say the government should pay for it everybody gets taxed without realizing it and then they're paying for the thousand dollar pills it's marinol it's called marinol and it's uh international non-proprietary name is dronabinol also known as delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol i guess they've they've pharmaceuticalized it yeah marinol syndol, syndros, Reduvo, and Adversa.

Adversa? Whatever you do. That's great, yeah. Whatever you do, do not smoke. It's a challenge. Whatever you do, do not smoke the government weed.

Do not take the Soma. Whatever you do. Cheap and free, Luke. Don't eat the bugs. It's going to be, insurance is going to cover it. What was that movie, Children of Men?

Children of Men, yeah. We're closely approaching that future, and that's terrifying. If you haven't watched that movie, it's soon to be a documentary. Did you see the videos out of Men? Children of Men, yeah. We're closely approaching that future, and that's terrifying. Oh, Canada's already doing it. If you haven't watched that movie, it's soon to be a documentary. Didn't you see the videos out of Canada where the guy is like,

he calls the hotline, and they're like, if you need help dying, let us know. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like pushing people to that. Yeah. Well, and we're almost seeing that a little bit in the States, too,

with insurance companies that will, you know, they won't cover your surgery or your treatment, but they will will, you know, they won't cover your, your surgery or their, or your treatment, but they will cover, you know, your, your, uh, what do you call it? Your death with dignity, you know, we'll give you painkillers until you die. Let's, there's kind of that movement. Just scoop people along. Let's, let's, let's move it along here. Wow. And, uh, yeah, you see it. You want, you want to, you want to know where we're headed in 10, 15 years. Look at Canada. Look at Europe.

Yeah. That's where we're headed. I think we need ethics oversight over pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies. I mean, it's got to be like governmental ethics. That's a big part of our government is ethics. The dudes that wrote the U.S. Constitution were ethicists. They understood religious and moral ethics, and that's why there were so many of them. They didn't agree on the logics and the literals all the time but they got like the ethics for the most part you know

the slavery thing was still debatable at the time so i feel like the founding fathers really understood human nature which is probably what what made them strong ethicists and i think you're correct i think the problem now is that i don't think government ethics is ethical i don't think it's ever a good idea for a government ethics board to oversee something like the pharmaceutical company. I think they're too tightly combined. I think it needs to be an independent outside organization. I have seen Marinol used. It was used to stimulate appetite for an older lady who was really struggling to eat. So it does have like good purposes, but it's not. I'm from Colorado, so I've seen what marijuana does to people and people used to tell me all the

time oh it can cure anything it cures cancer what are you talking about you're just being a downer i was like i have seen it change people and i've had people tell me i wish i'd never started marijuana or i wish i hadn't started as young as i did it changed my overall life experience hugely negative but that said it should not be illegal i could say i missed a lot of opportunities because i was stoned but that's blaming the weed it was my own fault like i had to make the final decision i could have went video games it could have been alcohol you know human beings find something yeah but it was me i i made the choice not to go do the things that i feel like i missed out on it wasn't and i blamed the weed for years and stressed my family out about it and then they

started freaking out about weed it wasn't the weed was me. It was my own personal lazy choice. So you got to make sure that whatever's giving you that dopamine hit, it's a positive thing with the future. I think South Park said it well when it's like they're talking to the kids about their future selves. Like they hired this company

that sends in fake versions of them from the future who are like, hey guys started smoking weed and then I became a loser. And then finally at the end, Randy's like,'s like son you know there's nothing really bad about smoking pot other than it makes you okay with being bored and then when you're older you'll find that you're not good at anything plus the government ships in all the drugs they usually have through the cia especially as we found out through the iran-contra scandal and i could keep

going but there's also some other breaking news happening right now i don't know if you guys see this from the associated press they're talking about how biden at a fundraiser in new york talked about how putin is quote not joking about tactical nuclear weapons uh armageddon risk at highest level since cuban missile crisis so these are words from the president of the united states specifically talking about the dangers that all of us face because of his reckless foreign policy that has brought us to what he describes himself as Armageddon, which is crazy. So this is actually breaking right now. So much so it's one sentence. Biden, quote, Putin not joking about tactical nuclear weapons,

Armageddon risk at highest levels since Cuban Missile Crisis. So hold on. Maybe people might need that pot. Yeah, let's think about it. Don't write that off too soon. Do they have marijuana? Like iodine pills? Right.

They're going to start giving out Marinol and potassium iodide. And they're going to be like, the first one is to help keep you alive, protecting your thyroid. The second one is to chill you out. You need to chill out.

I think that fear of nuclear war benefits the military industrial complex. So if Biden is functioning as a mouthpiece for that, or if he's just completely an NPC, just afraid of like normal everyday stimuli that like the more intelligent evolved people can kind of see around and understand the basics of. I don't know. The White House will walk this back tomorrow.

Yeah. He used the word Armageddon. I mean, you know Peter Doocy or whoever is going to be in the president. Are we headed towards Armageddon, Karine Jean-Pierre? And she's going to be like, blah, blah, blah. And she's going to flip through her notebook. And then she's going to say something that's like, well, you know, Armageddon. That's a word. And words have meanings.

And when a meaning is brought up, people have to wonder, why? Because Armageddon. that's an interesting thing to say and then they're like I don't what and she'll be like I answered your question she has the Obama cadence we very much does that a lot

we believe in the president it's been very clear and he's been very clear from the beginning about what we've said about what we believe and what we want to do. And Armageddon, you know. But you're missing the snoot when she does it. Barack Obama does the lizard. But what she does is she does that, um, and she closes her eyes and looks down like that.

You're so stupid. You really? I'm speaking. Pete Buttigieg does it, too. It's real annoying like Obama spawned a genre of politicians

that say uh and uh and uh talk like this uh there's Karine Jean-Pierre Buttigieg

I think uh Buttigieg what's his name Buttigieg yeah I gotta say those are people who don't believe in anything

Beto O'Rourke a little bit um and who are are biding time in their mind to think of the lie that's that's people who who need that many pauses.

Yeah, that's what she's doing. They have no foundation. They have no beliefs that just spill out. Absolutely. All politics. That's how you know Ben Shapiro is the most honest person ever. He talks so fast. It's just like there's no opportunity for him to think of anything.

It goes straight from the heart out of his mouth. It doesn't even touch his lungs. I feel like that's actually a fair observation because he does speak very quickly and very directly. And I don't think that speaking quickly is a marker that you're telling the truth because we've known a lot of people who can really spin really fast. It's actually really impressive. But it's possible that telling the truth is just easier and it makes it quicker for you

to access those ideas. It's natural. Yeah, it's nice, right? I found that releasing my past secrets on youtube videos it was humiliating but i've got like a hundred of them where i'm just talking about my past and my secrets and all of a sudden i didn't they didn't pop into my head in the middle of conversations i didn't have to remember or think like was i lying or was i am i hiding something here you can just kind of flow with whatever yeah i want you to do me a favor i want you to make me

a promise that if a nuclear strike is imminent where we live and there is no escape i want you to do me a favor. I want you to make me a promise. That if a nuclear strike is imminent where we live and there is no escape, I want you to stand atop the van driving full speed, holding American flag while blasting It's the End of the World as we know it. My R.E.M. You like that song? Well, I mean, for this scenario, yeah. While we hide in the bunker with our iodine pills. No, I'm saying I don't want Ian to die in a blaze of glory

unless there's no other choice, but then it would just be the greatest ending to any story ever. Oh, yeah. When Power 108 turned into 107.9, the end, they played that song for 24 hours in Ohio, Northeast Ohio. What's up, dogs? If you're from Northeast Ohio in the 80s,

you remember that night. I remember, because I'm from Chicago, Q101 changed. It was like a rock station. It turned into like talk radio or something. And then it just flopped miserably, so they changed it back. But my favorite thing about Q101 is that I'm sure even today, I don't know, I haven't been to Chicago in a while, I'm sure they're still just playing stunt double pilots.

Like they never stopped playing 1990s music, like 92. Because that's the people who are listening to the radio. I mean, who else is listening? They never changed. Yeah. This is, this is, this is interesting. Cultural stagnation. Not just in that, you know, cause I, I grew up, you put on Q and a one in Chicago and

they're playing grunge and it was modern. And then 10 years later, it's, they're still playing these songs with some new music. And then it's 20 years later. And I'm just like, man, they're still playing, you know, stone music and then it's 20 years later and i'm just like man they're still playing you know stone devil pilots and like pearl jam and stuff i bet they're still they're probably still doing it today if they exist i don't know again i haven't been there but then i'm just looking at a lot of these bands i talked about this a little bit the other day that you're surprised they're in their 50s and they're still making new albums yes and why is it that 311 or i don't know if it's new. Well, I mean-

Still touring. Yeah. But why is it that back in the day at a certain age, the music stopped? Like you were too old and you were just like, well, we're going to shift

into something else. They'd become record producers. They'd work in the industry. Now it's like 50 year olds still putting out albums. Like what is that? Is it because they don't have families? Well, they did.

Like the Eagles went for a long time. The Beatles, no, the Beatles broke up no stones obviously obviously stones the beatles they kept playing death will change like zeppelin lost their drummer um and they were like we're done but i but i think a lot of it is that obviously if you're like the beatles you never stop your market is working but a lot of bands fell out of favor with the current trends but for some reason i i think actually i think it's simple the internet it used to be that the radio wouldn't play your song anymore because it was outdated they'd be like look people don't want to buy this stuff anymore you're that's it you're off the radio and now you're retired now your husband these days it's

like i got followers on spotify don't need to stop at all the radio is meaningless so now it's just you can always be big somewhere yeah we went to hot top we were at the mall we walked past hot topic on the window for our topic is the nightmare before christmas right i'm like yo that movie's 30 years old 80s no it's 90 90 93 or 4 or something like that i'm like it's a 30 year old movie and young kids are i'm like everyone in there's a young person i i couldn't imagine when I was a kid walking into the mall and there was a store that didn't pretend to be a retro store selling everything from the 60s. Well, I think there's nothing, you talk about cultural stagnation, there's like nothing really new coming out anymore. You know, movies, TV, music,

it's all rehashes. There's nothing original. Art's in a huge slump. And so I feel, you know, people kind of are sticking with the people who innovated in the 90s, 80s, 60s. There is actually a new show

that I think is really, really good that I've been watching recently. Rings of Power? No. You know, it's been about, it's been a couple months now. And man, the stories are just compelling.'re funny they make you laugh make you cry starring ian crossland by the way cast castle it's a great show i got emotional at the end did you see

yesterday's episode i i it's touching the mute we've we've integrated some powerful music just a great scene with chris and i at the end me me and Chris like a leaf falls off the tree as we're shooting it's like a leaf actually fell off the tree in the middle of the shot it was just so natural it was so beautiful wait you're not talking about this week's episode this week's episode like yesterday's episode civil war yeah at the end of civil war the the shot is is stunning oh stunning cinematically beautiful anything for anybody but uh yeah i highly recommend going to timcast.com and checking out the cast castle series because it is new and it's hot so people only watch what they already like they don't want to see anything new so that's why the office just keeps getting replayed over and over again so there's no reason to do things it used to be that

there was a finite amount of space and these networks were trying to be fresh by making new things but now it's it's it doesn't. Look, I just watched Breaking Bad for the first time a couple weeks ago. And now I'm about to finish Better Call Saul, which, you know, to be fair, Better Call Saul did just finish. But these are like old. Breaking Bad was old. It took me 10 years to watch it. I watched The Sopranos a couple months ago. Loved it.

Incredible. But again, just like you. It's all old. There's too much existential stress on people to be creative these days. I think if you're stressed out, it's hard to be creative. Like in the 90s, people didn't care, man.

They were doing heroin. They didn't, like they were just like rock, rock and roll until they died. Those dudes like, well, I also think too that

with streaming and with the internet, content has increased exponentially. We've never had more volume in terms of content than we have now. But the talent pool for writing, acting, you know, creatives has not grown at all. So it's all spread out more thin, you know.

So you have a lot more content, much less quality. And so it's really hard to find. Like, I mean, The Office, for example. There really hasn't been a comedy that has come out since The Office that has matched that. Well, there was one called The Office. Remember remember the office came out and then they made another one called the office yeah what the british one came out it's called the office ricky gervais and then they immediately remade it because it's like cultural stagnation they couldn't even think of a new show they just remade the office yeah but it was still good but it was just a remake and it

could never be made today you watch old Office episodes, you'd never see that. Oh, man, 30 Rock. In the first season, Tina Fey, she's playing Liz Lemon, says that she tells her friends she voted for Obama, but she actually voted for McCain. Imagine a modern SNL show where the main character says, I tell everybody I voted for Hillary, but I actually voted for Trump twice. No way they would ever allow that.

That joke would not fly. the office diversity day i haven't watched the office but i just watched the small clip of that that would not be okay today yeah i want to do for our for cast castle but it was brilliant hilarious i love it some racy stuff i think that we can oh we can do it i can't spoil anything but we do have we do have a special guest coming out next week, and we're working on one of the most hilariously offensive shows we'll ever do. Yeah, I wrote a scene for it last night. And I can't say too much, but it's in line with what Luke was talking about, Diversity Day. So it has to do with the company

and how all the employees have to go through training, and it'll be really, really funny. Dude, Cast Castle's legit, man. It's going to be shockingly offensive to a lot of people it keeps getting better next i want to upgrade our sound quality so it's the same room tone everywhere so it's like the same sound you don't hear differences and the same lighting so once we get a sound and lighting rig it's basically expanding i think what we need to do is establish that it's good enough to keep doing and then once that's established we build out the crew i think we need a showrunner somebody who's got experience having done shows

like this before can come in and be like abcd is what you're missing and then and then we're good to go you know consultant or something like that or maybe something longer standing but i'm really excited for uh there's the currently there's one being filmed today uh like this week which will come out tuesday but what's going to be filmed next week is probably going to, I imagine everybody who likes our show is going to absolutely love what we do. And then there's going to be a bunch of videos posted by a bunch of leftist organizations who are going to be like. Yeah, but it'll be so good that it's indisputable. That's the thing you want. I mean, I'm OK with people complaining about it, but it's got to be so good when you finally see the source that you're like dang we got big news my friends

big news here shaggy's black shaggy from scooby-doo is now officially black and so is velma oh wait that's the wrong story there you go that's that's a bad one about uh here's velma velma i think i don't know if she's black maybe she's like ind Indian, like Mindy Kaling. Oh, yeah, that's who plays Velma. But the most, you know, I'm really offended by, we have this discussing film. It's like a first look at Shaggy, Daphne, and Fred, voiced by Sam Richardson, Constance Wu, and Glenn Howerton in HBO Max's adult animated Velma series. I just want to point out the most offensive thing here

is they, Shaggy, he's not, Norville. He got canceled. He's fired. Norville. He's fired change shaggy he's not it's it nor canceled he's fired norville he's fired he can't shaggy can't get a job that's not it's supposed to be shaggy but he's replacing shaggy okay okay so so canon fact check for all the nerds they did i think it was in a pup named scooby-doo as a show they established that shaggy's real name was norville that's why they're saying Norville here. But why? And they made Shaggy black.

Okay, look, I honestly don't care, but I have a point to be made. If they were going to choose any character to be black, I find it funny that they chose this stoner, munchies guy who is considered a coward. And that to me is like, why not Fred? Fred is like the strong leader. Why would they? I think it's racist. The progressives always end up being racist in the end that's no i honestly i just think it's

really dumb what's on his head it's his hair he did not have that kind of hair that's shaggy i don't yeah no longer couldn't they have given him just like hair like shaggy i guess why did they make i don't i don't understand. They gave the Asian the red hair. It's just... Look, guys. They made Fred look like an idiot. It's not Scooby-Doo. Fred is going to be the idiot. I think they even made Velma fat. Not like fat fat, but

they made her like... Chubby with a little bit of fupa. Yeah, a little fupa and chubby and just real cringe. And the trailer for this is her basically saying that uh you can never change she's doing a joke where she's like you can never change things and uh it's like everything always has to stay the same and then she says something like well at least the character is still white and then it reveals that velma is now black or whatever this is cultural

stagnation this is this is the death of art and. They can't make up new ideas. They've got no new ideas left. You know, it's been 50 years. Scooby. Come on. And The Simpsons. Did you guys see The Simpsons where Abe is gay? No. It's like he's bi-curious or whatever.

I don't know. And then there's another Simpsons episode where Bart gets mad that they gender swap itchy and scratchy. And so then feminists like make fun of him or something. Like, I don't, this is, guys. So why do you think they're doing this? Why do you think that this is, I mean, they're doing this with everything. Every IP out there. No, I think there's some 80-year-old white executive who typed in, you know, Scooby-Doo into an AI script writer.

And then it just spat out some garbage and then went, run with it. And that's it. It's kind of a marketing ploy, too. Like, I mean, no mean no one's gonna no one cares about a new scooby-doo show i mean who but look at us we're talking about it now this is crazy it's because people are permanent children yeah like dude i watched scooby-doo when i was really little and it was okay and then when i got older i was like this is really dumb and then i liked things like x X-Men. When I was real little, it was like Power Rangers was fun. But then after the first season or whatever, I was like, I outgrew it, and I was like eight, and I'm like, I'm too cool for Power Rangers.

Scooby-Doo was just not it. It was the same story every single time. We get it. Some dude's trying to lower property values, so he pretends to be Frankenstein. Them making a new show that's aimed at adults using these characters and then race swapping them is just like, we are desperate. We don't know what we're doing.

We're going to try and do Ghostbusters 2016 all over again. Is Scooby in this show? They don't even show Scooby! There's no Scooby there. Where's Scooby? Scooby is now a cat. He's going to be a furry. Daphne's Asian. Scooby's going to be a furry. I'm calling it right now. They made Daphne Asian.

A red-headed Asian? Red-headed Asian. I don't going to be a furry. I'm calling it right now. They made Daphne Asian. Okay. A redheaded Asian? Redheaded Asian. I don't see him in any redhead. No, man. It's an alternate universe. This is the most disappointing to me. Because he's supposed to be a strong leader, a grounding force.

They made him a dope. He was supposed to be a football star, right? I don't know. He's like 6'3", muscular. Yeah, but now he looks super skinny, super soy. Confused. Yeah, confused. He's usually like pulling Shag muscular. Yeah, but now he looks super skinny, super soy. Confused. Yeah, confused. He's usually like pulling Shaggy back from the brink.

That's like his main function. It's like, hey, everybody, remember, we have a mission. You made him unstoppable. I love the Super Saiyan Shaggyaggy memes though that really is funny so have you guys seen that video game multiverses it got a lot of attention it's like warner brothers smash brothers yeah it got a lot of attention because velma's super super move is to call the cops on you but i i will admit when i was watching the trailer for the game i'm like oh so warner brothers is putting other characters into a fighting game?

I'm like, that sounds dumb. And it's like Batman was there. And then all of a sudden Shaggy shows up, and I think it's funny. I'm like, ah, Shaggy fighting. And then someone, like, knocks a sandwich out of his hand. And then he goes Super Saiyan, and I started busting out laughing. I'm like, okay, that's good. I approve.

It is funny Shaggy going Super Saiyan. But this kind of takes away from that because I don't know who this Norville guy is and I don't know why they're taking away from... Shaggy's an iconic character. He's like the Scooby-Doo character. And there's a show called The Orville that Seth MacFarlane shows called Orville

and now they just call it Norville. Fred's also demasculated. He's going to be a low IQ idiot who's going to be making a bunch of mistakes. He's going to be the dope. He's going to be a low IQ idiot who's going to be making a bunch of mistakes. He's going to be the dope and he's going to be the loser just like every guy who looks like him is portrayed on television.

How amazing would it be if Fred is no longer the leader, nor will he be? And every time something bad happens, Fred's like, I'm sorry, guys. That was my fault. Or it's like... He jumps into Scooby's arms. He constantly does things

where he has to check his own privilege. Yeah. He'll be like, let's see who's really under that mask and they'll be like don't pull off that mask it's a cultural symbol jeez fred colonizer much i'm so sorry guys i'm so sorry i'm wondering sorry guys if scooby-doo was like a stoner show back in the day because scooby and shaggy were high as hell most of the show like shaggy's talking to a dog eating scooby snacks and he's eating dog food machine yeah absolutely i never i never understood as a kid and then i remember what like when i finally got old enough and i was like like you know and i was told you

realize the whole gag is that they're stoned out of their minds scooby snacks are edibles for sure edibles yeah no i don't know no i think he's just eating drug i think he's eating dog food that's what we that's what you tell the kids. Scooby snacks? Dude, they make Scooby go powerful. Yeah, they make him get like crazy powerful. The Scooby snacks would make him get like high. You know, they make him kind of super crazy.

Definitely drugs. This meme crosses the line. You've made him unstoppable. Biggest buff of all time if they can overcome the poor theme here and the writing's actually decent

it looks like they've got I mean Mindy Kaling's I think she's a fantastic actor so maybe she can pull like this this was a little the writing was kind of bad

we watched this trailer and she's kind of phoning in the dialogue wait hold on hold on guys she's talking like this and like this wait wait wait hold on hold on she's dead watch there's in the dialogue. Wait, hold on, hold on, guys. She's talking like this. No, no, no, look, look, look. Wait, wait, wait, hold on. Hold on.

She's dead. Watch. There's a guy. He's got a knife. She screams and then... Maybe she kills him. We don't know. Oh, she kills him.

There's a twist. Dun, dun, dun. Nice one. What does it say? What is Scoob? I don't know. It says Dinkley is crossed out. It says, what is Scoob?

Oh, it's like a mystery. Is there... The show's called Velma, so maybe there's no Scooby in it. Like they're looking for scooby maybe they haven't found scooby yet and he this is the prequel so missing yeah you know they should do these characters all get killed and then the real ones find their clothes they need to make into the shaggy verse and it's like all the different shaggies from different realities team up yeah don't give them awful ideas, please. They'll listen to them right now.

Have you guys seen the Violent Knight trailer with Santa? Yeah. Oh, I've seen that one. That looks pretty interesting. Yeah, you're right. It's like literal diehard with Santa. I think it looks like the best movie of our generation. And I'm proposing that

we do a company-wide outing at three on the Thursday preview to go watch it. So it's, who is it, David Harbour? And he's Santa. And it's just masterfully done. At least the trailer, John Leguizamo's in it. And, you know, their politics are no good, but their movie, it looks really great.

They disappointingly made Santa white, though, so that's... Oh, no. I was kind of into it until he punched into Santa's sack in like a present, shot out at him. No, no, shot out at him he has a knife and he stabs and it goes into the sack and then he pulls out oh it's got a present on the knife that's cool so basically like santa's doing his rounds and he's like half glazed over just like whatever and then he stumbles upon an

active heist on christmas and then he's like i don't want any trouble and then he basically uses his Santa powers to take on a bunch of terrorists in a big house. And it just looks hilarious. Like the puns, he's like, it's time for a season's beating. Gosh, that's horrible. I know, it's so good.

And then he shoved the grenade where the sun doesn't shine. Did you see that one? Yeah. And it runs away. He's like, wait, I gotta see this one. I'm excited for that. This could be a problem though because he's a,

I mean, Santa's kind of essentially a god. Like, how are they gonna give him an enemy that's gonna put him in any real danger? Is there like an anti-Santa out there? It's like in the trailer, it doesn't teleporting. He can teleport if there's a chimney nearby or something. Yeah, like how are they gonna make him

like a, you know, a character? I don't know. I mean i i just think it's going to be funny now look look look it is it is hard to come up with new ideas because futurama did the robo santa trying to kill everybody which is not the same thing and there's another movie i forgot what it's called from like the 70s or whatever where there's a guy just like santa going around killing people but this is literally santa claus himself inadvertently stumbling upon a die-hard style

kidnapping heist because this rich family's got a vault full of money or whatever i think it looks hilarious so i'm into it you know remember what was that movie jack frost the snowman that was killing everybody yeah yeah i never saw that they're doing that with winnie the pooh too right like are they making a oh yeah blood and honey that's got a lot of potential so it is all derivative pretty soon we're gonna have like a peppa pig or a bluey that goes around murdering people peppa pig's revenge yeah i think when i write music i basically take pieces from a bunch of different songs i've heard in the past and then put them all together into a new song where you don't know that those pieces,

like where they're from. So it's, I'm definitely, we're standing on the shoulders of giants. It's all mashups. Yeah, everything we do is a mashup.

Language even is a mashup of what came before. But you got to be so intricate with it that people don't know you're using past material. Right. Like I came up with a show idea

called Doobie Moo. And it's about a gang of young people that fight crime. With a pet alligator. With a pet cow. A cow named Doobie Moo. And it's about a gang of young people that fight crime. With a pet alligator. With a pet cow. A cow named Doobie. Oh, it's a cow.

It's a cow. It's a cow now. And it's a cow. Doobie Moo. Doobie Moo. Doobie Moo, yeah. It's an original idea. Great.

Completely original. I love it. And the main characters are Red. Yes. And Brafney. Brafney. They eat mushroom snacks. And Belma. The mushrooms that grow on Doobie's poo. And Baggy.

The special snacks. Man, it really is crazy how they just like rehash old things non-stop over and over and over again. Like we're on Fast and the Furious 10. They've got to use new technology. I think if you want to Furious 10. They've got to use new tech, new technology. I think if you want to make new art,

you've got to integrate like modern tech. Did you notice when the cell phones appeared, it took them like six years before they started making cell phones in movies because it was so cool to have a hero that didn't have access to the outside world. Couldn't resolve this. He didn't know what was going on.

That's the big part of movies is you don't know. So as soon as cell phones are invented, it like erases the drama of so many movies. Not only that, but you'll notice in modern movies, they'll have the cell phone to their ear and then someone will say something like, I am coming for your family.

And then you hear a click and a do, do, do, do, do. And I'm like, that doesn't happen on cell phones. Yeah, yeah. That was like, and the crazy thing is, do young people even understand that? There was a meme that is probably not real, but it's funny,

where some guy was holding up a floppy disk. And he was like, kid in my school just said, why did you 3D print the save icon? I saw that. I have no idea. Well, I don't know if that's real, but, you know, yeah, they have no idea. It's like they've not used these things. What a weird turn of events for our world, what the Internet has done. You know what I mean?

We're very fortunate to have kind of seen both sides of it. We grew up kind of before the internet. We got to see it come into being. And now our kids just don't, they don't know a world without it. What's that going to be like? You know? I don't know.

I mean. Instant gratification all the time. My entire life we've had TV is ubiquitous. My parents were saying that it was like when they were younger they didn't have tvs in their apartments because they were expensive and they didn't care that much you know now it's like flat screen tvs are in every room because they're dirt cheap maybe that's because they want to spy on us though for sure it's manipulation like the power and control of a government or people have over people with the tv if you can get it but wasn't

there a story that like tvs have microphones and cameras spying on you uh yeah that's i think we went on a search for for ones that didn't um and we were going around the specific stores on it and there was like one left i was able to finally grab it and no camera myself no camera no microphone have you seen that uh that cost chart there's a there's a chart going around the internet that tracks the cost of everything going back to the 50s and and how prices have rised for food health care cars houses literally everything like 100 things on this chart the only thing that has gone down is tvs yeah it's like just a bunch of stuff going up and then you have tvs they want it's the only thing that has decreased in well they also track what you watch They also have a lot of data on you,

your personal information on there. So this is why a lot of the TVs are so cheap, is because they collect a lot of data on you, and then they sell that data. And geez, if you get people to watch the news, MSNBC, you have control of their minds. Do you find at Babylon Bee that you guys create news? Do you feel like you're creating new concepts on here? Because a lot of it's parody, which is like using an idea and then twisting it. Hold on, let me just interject that you're wrong, Ian. It's not

parody, it's prophesizing. Can you tell us all the jokes that went too far that you guys never published? Oh my gosh. But maybe we could do this. Maybe on the memory segment. Like what's the difference between parody and satire? Parody, I feel like, is kind of aping off an existing thing. You have the movie The Godfather, and then you have Mafia, Mel Brooks' Mafia.

There's kind of a parody of that. Satire is exaggerating reality. You know, I think a lot of what makes our satire seem prophetic sometimes is I think it's just the fact that there's nothing complicated about it. I think we know the left better than they know themselves a lot of times. If you know someone's worldview, and then you also combine that with knowledge of human nature, you know, if you have a solid, truthful worldview, it's not hard to predict what people are going to do and what people are going to say. That and the Babylon Bee has a vat full of a fluid with three precogs floating in it, and then wooden balls carve out, you know, the future, and then they say, hey, that's funny. Let's write that up. It's actually a seeing stone,

but yeah, pretty close. Babylon Bee's staff are on robes, and they they say, hey, that's funny. Let's write that up. It's actually a seeing stone, but yeah, pretty close. Seeing stone. Babylon Bee staffed on robes, and they all stand in a big circle holding hands, and then the crystal lights up, and they can see the future. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the future's funny. It's very funny. It's hard, though.

I mean, yeah, we get a lot of feedback all the time. Please stop. Please stop, because you're giving them ideas. Sometimes I feel like we're giving them ideas. I mean, did you see the one recently? We did a, and it was just a throwaway joke. I mean, we call it the one joke of the Babylon Bee. It's like an identifies as joke, you know, blank identifies as blank, so he can blank. And it was like Eminem introduces new purple trans Eminem that identifies as a Skittle. And they rolled out a purple M&M? Yeah, a few months ago, a few weeks ago.

Yeah. As a celebration of inclusivity and diversity or something like that, they have a new purple M&M. So just stuff like that. I think we have close to 80 prophecies. The Black Mirror, that TV show, Black Mirror, the guy stopped making them because he was like, I think I'm giving them ideas or whatever he felt like.

I mean, that show is just like bleeding edge just like i love that show i just rewatched episode i just rewatched the one where they're hunting down the roaches these these this humanoid yes monster thing and they're like but they've got like ar brain chips they're like augmented in the neural net and so they see the the roaches are killed and then one guy gets like knocked out of the net by this thing and he realizes that they're actual humans that they've been told are roaches because they have a genetic deficiency and it's this weird like uh story of like genocide and and being manipulated by machines you know klaus schwab watched that episode and was like i can't believe i did not think of that. So do you think that, literally, do you think that you guys are giving ideas to the war machine?

Gosh dang, I hope not. I hope not. I wonder about that. No, I think that human nature is what it is. A lot of things are inevitable. You know, and you're really just kind of, you're watching the course of, you're, you're watching the, the, the, the course that they're, they're on and you're just extrapolating it, you know?

All right, we're going to go to super chats. If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends and become a member at timcast.com. We're going to have that uncensored members only show coming up at about 11 PM. You don't want to miss it. Here we go. We got Camila Mamani who says, Yo, Tim, I heard in my Argentinian news about undersea cables that Russia could destroy them for breaking communication or tapping them.

Yes, that is a current fear. Undersea cables all over the place. I think there's like New York to Brazil is one of them. Crazy. Massive, massive cables. If you're worried about the pipelines getting hit, they probably won't destroy them. What you need to understand about communications

is that in a time of war and conflict, people want access to the information, not to silence it. So I hear this a lot from activists. They'll be like, the police are censoring the internet. They're making it so we can't share and live stream. And I'm like, no, they aren't.

It's the congestion. The police want you to share information so they can intercept it and spy on you. It is bad. That's why they bring in the mobile cell tower trucks when there's high congestion at protests, depending on when they do this. Sometimes they do it because they want you to use your phone and talk about your plans so they know. Shutting you down would be bad for them. BC is me says yesterday I saw a 70-year-old lady walking her little dog wearing an ultra MAGA shirt. Made my day. That sounds fantastic.

Grim Veil says, do you have any plans to ever do written fiction content on your culture platforms? Trade publishing is ultra woke and there aren't many platforms where writers can just write good stories without the gender stuff forced in. Yeah, we were thinking about doing manga or something, graphic novels in the weekly release style, but it's a very, very, very difficult thing to do. I don't know

if we would ever do like fiction books or anything like that. Salem Publishing, we published a novel through Salem, a fantasy novel, and got no pushback on any of the content from them at all. What's the novel? The Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress. It's kind of like a multiverse hopping, you know, allegorical tale. Me and Kyle wrote it. But they're, I mean, they're the only one I know of. As far as publishing houses go, they're the only one I know of that will really just let you write anything.

Go anywhere else, you're going to have very strict parameters for what you can have in there, what you can't have in there, all the woke stuff. So yeah, publishing business is kind of a mess right now. All right, Heron Gaming News says, did you hear Chicago held Slipknot at gunpoint?

Do you mean that Slipknot was held at gunpoint in Chicago? Or the band Chicago had a beef with the held Slipknot at gunpoint? Do you mean that Slipknot was held at gunpoint in Chicago? Or the band Chicago had a beef with the band Slipknot and they held them at gunpoint? I know, because that's what it sounds like at first. And I'm like, I don't know if that would be a thing. Isn't Chicago fairly old? Yeah, Slipknot. They're still at it, huh?

Yeah, and they're huge. I didn't know this, you know. That's the thing. Very, very... Yeah, Chicago police held Slipknot at gunpoint. Why? This is from two days ago from Barstool Sports. Thinking they were about to rob a jewelry store.

Oh, wow. I wonder if they're in full makeup. Does Chicago police still work? They still do stuff? All right. Grofty says, balk the buck button. Balk, balk. Yes, please. But this was in 1999 that they

this happened 1999 this was 23 years ago clayton johnson says nothing like an emp to send us back to fighting with sticks and stones eliminate the enemy without the nuclear winter weapons of the future if an emp let's say let's say the big solar flare blasts the earth mass one or how about i got a better one let's say aliens come here and then as punishment for teetering on nuclear war they emp the planet destroying all electronics how long would it be until we just make new ones 16 days until things are back to normal if we don't have outside interference can we restart the electrical grid is the question i don't know it depends on the power of the EMP blast.

I think you can either fry an electronic or just shut it down for a short period of time. But I don't know enough about the mechanics. If the electrical grid was shuttered, there'd be billions dead within months, a couple months. Billions. They must have a backup ready to go. Maybe. Something ready to like. I'd actually be more inclined to believe they have underground bunkers ready to go for themselves than anyone else.

Like power lines underground connecting deep underground. Faraday cage barriers and things like that to keep out the awful underground generators and stuff that we don't know exist. Yeah, I think water is probably better, right? Like water is a better protection against radiation. So like you could do a Faraday cage and then you can do an aquarium and then you can seal your electronics in plastic and then put them in the water nice yeah water there was a story i read about a scuba diver got sucked into an intake valve and a nuclear plant was swimming around in the reactor and you're fine because the water blocks the radiation you can't you know well yep

shane templeton says joel salatin needs to be a guest on here. Huge knowledge in the natural way of raising chickens. And he has a very interesting take on government programs regarding farms. Would love to see he and Luke have a back and forth. Cool. You know him, don't you know Joel? I'm not sure. Okay, he's great.

He's a farmer, naturalist. I mean, he talks about getting in the pig feces with the pig while he's working, and how it's better for his immune system he was very vocal during the covid epidemic or pandemic whatever you want to call it michelle grim says it's official the end of an age no one has come up with an original movie idea since the 90s i swear let's make speedy into jose owens next and make him black just kidding yeah i was i think about this when I think about Groundhog Day. Like, that was an original concept, wasn't it?

Like, the day looping was the first. Now there's like 800 movies that have done this. Day loops, yeah. Day loops. Yeah. I like Napoleon Dynamite

and the 40-year-old virgin. I thought that was good. 2007, I think. Six. Yeah, those were good. Just like rom-coms. Groundhog Day, though though even though it kind of had that original conceit it was a it's a it was a very traditional story it follows the kind

of the hero's journey beat for beat you know same thing you see in star wars and all that oh yeah peterson was talking about jordan peterson talks about like tropes and um how there's only so many stories that can be told and we tell like i don know, 17 stories and just make it up off the top of my head. But like, the hero's journey is one. No, that's not true. You can make up more than that. They just wouldn't be enjoyable. We wouldn't care about them. We wouldn't connect with them. A story about a guy who gives

up everything to buy scratchers. That's it. Inspiring. And then he wins. And then he comes back. Oh, that's actually inspiring that's and then he wins and then uh he comes back oh that's actually a good idea a dad who leaves his kid to go get scratchers and then like 10 years goes by and the kid's like dad never came back and then one day he does and he's a millionaire and he's like i finally won and i'm back son i've been scratching for decades and his fingers are like his fingertips are callous

i did this for you son for you and the kid And the kid's like, it wasn't worth it. And the kid was dying of cancer and the dad came back just in time to pay for his treatment. And then the dad has a heart attack. And then the kid, like the dad actually, no, he's got, I guess it wouldn't be mesothelioma, but it would be some kind of lung damage from inhaling all of that shredded scratcher particle. And then the kid, no, the dad loses. That's what it is. But then the kid sues the

the lottery for the scratchers killing his dad and then ends up getting 100 million dollars oh that would be that would be a funny

the show that's what story is that that's not the hero's journey or is it that's a tragedy that's like Breaking Bad what Walter White

did with meth he's doing with scratch offs right yeah it's a tragedy but is it like for your son yeah

it's a yeah he sacrificed he did something noble for noble raisings but but he went about the wrong way and ends up doing the opposite of what he destroys his life destroys his son like thanos yeah all right triton 54 says on behalf of all south carolina residents i'd like to apologize to all timcast listeners for lindsey graham he should be removed arrested and tried he i love lindsey graham it's funny i love him he represents no one he is he is anomalous like even nancy pelosi has support from democrats republicans don't like lindsey graham democrats don't like lindsey graham what's he doing he's banging the war drum when i said we need preemptive strikes i immediately thought of l Lindsey Graham. Sounds like something Lindsey would have said. Oh, here's a good one.

Alexander Crisanti says, I am deploying down to Antarctica on Saturday for four months, providing food service at McMurdo. Will miss listening to your show. Also watch New York's midterms. There's a lot of support for Zeldin. Upstate should be close. You don't got internet down at McMurdo?

They have Starlink down there now. Do they? Yeah, he should be able to get. You need a Starlink. Yeah.? They have Starlink down there now. Do they? Yeah, he should be able to get. You need a Starlink. Yeah. And unfortunately, Starlink is cell locked. So they only work with specific satellites. So like the Starlink that I have won't work anywhere else.

Yeah, it works within like a 500 mile range of the area. Oh, no, no, no, no. Actually, though, the new Starlink RV works everywhere. Yeah. So if you're going down there, get Starlink RV. Maybe you can still watch the show yeah that'd be cool at the very least you can listen to it you got phones down there right someone can just call you and then press play and leave their phone and you can smoke signals

that's how we're going to be talking in the future soon smoke signal morse code for every single word said it'll only take three weeks to give you the full show. Just make sure you bring your flamethrower in case anything gets thawed from the ice that should never have been released. Adrian Contreras says, $7.09 a gallon at the gas station in Hollywood yesterday. Thank God my company pays for gas. Also, Shaggy was named Norville in a show called Pup Named Scooby-Doo. Scooby's real name is Scoobert. Scoobert!

The more you know. Best name ever. Scoobert. Yeah. I'll lay out the Norville Orville references then. Scooby's real name is Scoobert. Scoobert! The more you know. Best name ever. Scoobert. Yeah. I'll lay out the Norville Orville references then. Norville. Risen Tactics says,

Whitmer killed the elderly. Moderates in Michigan need to understand that they can vote for abortion and vote for Dixon. Article 2, Section 9, Paragraph 5 of the Michigan Constitution prevents governors from vetoing ballot proposals. Hmm. Interesting. Free Men Die Free says, section 9 paragraph 5 of the michigan constitution prevents governors from vetoing ballot proposals interesting free men die free says quote we need a vast military style campaign prince charles to the world economic forum the russia ukraine conflict is intentional to promote the great reset yeah i don't know that's a bold thing i mean putin was on like a World Economic Forum website, wasn't he? And then he got removed? Yeah. Here's a question.

Why wouldn't world leaders be in on it? Why wouldn't all world leaders just hang out and be like, we're the best, we're the most powerful, we're in charge? Why fight with anybody? I don't know. It's a good question. It's like they're vying for position one, two, and three. They want pole position in the new world order. I don't know. It's a good question. It's like they're vying for position one, two, and three. They want pole position in the new world order. I don't know, man.

Putin's like the richest guy on the planet. Wouldn't he just be like, eh, I'm rich? Unless it's ideological and he's like, my people will not be subjugated, you know? I think there probably is a little bit of that. It's not all political. Yeah. What do we got? We got some more Super Jets.

Porkchopolis. Great name. Says, I just hope World War III holds off until after the Super Mario movie drops in April. Is that in April? Priorities. When's Wakanda Forever coming out? Is that this November? I'll check.

I will say She-Hulk today i give a c plus oh better really well daredevil's in it and and uh daredevil's a great character and i knew they were gonna they were gonna rob us of the scene we needed so spoilers i guess there's a scene where Daredevil is, like, going to fight some dudes. And it's been years since the Netflix show Daredevil. And we got to see that amazing uncut fight sequence in the hallway. And so then a bunch of dudes run in. And I'm like, oh, this is it. I know what's going to happen.

You think you're going to get an epic fight with Daredevil. But She-Hulk's just going to one-shot. And then, sure enough, he, like, gets ready. And he, like, pulls out his weapons. And then all of a sudden the ceiling collapses. And then She- hulk's just gonna one shot and then sure enough he like gets ready and he like pulls out his weapons and then all of a sudden the ceiling collapses and then she looks like and i'm like yeah but it was but it was it was it was good it was good enough and i think it was mostly good because i i'm watching daredevil and i like i like you know the daredevil show and the character and everything other than that shield has been pretty bad. Pretty bad. All right.

DD Megadoodoo says, Aside from not getting a notification, had a hard time trying to watch this on my TV. The suggested vids were defaulted and had to type out the channel name completely. Must be a good topic. Yes, yes, indeed. I think the reason YouTube's censoring us is because of the shaggy story.

That's probably it. They were like, how dare you? Yeah. Yeah, that's a touchy one. If you Google search Velma, it rains pride flags. Yeah. Yeah.

That's weird. Well, all right. Velma Dinkley. Velma Dinkley. Joseph says, simmer down, boys. All they say is 4D chess. What does that mean? i don't know sick commode o dragon says brick's partnership includes russia and china she has

more interest in russia than the ukraine also russia won't use nukes they'll win without them maybe maybe lance link says bush used tactical nukes in iraq and no one ever said a thing i don't know if that's true i think the only time nukes have ever been used is uh japan are they talking about depleted uranium weaponry because they would make tank armor out of depleted uranium it was so strong that you needed to make bullets out of depleted uranium and pierce the armor and then they'd shoot it and they would go into the dirt and just irradiate the soil around there it's still there irradiating people and things yeah gulf war syndrome a lot of people have it so those are tactical nukes no no not not really i mean tactical nuclear weapons i don't know how you would

oh gee lesbian says hunter biden the real savior of freedom and the usa well who knew well there you go there's. Leaking all this information on his dad. What do we got here? Rick Barley says, how you all feel about House of the Dragon and Rings of Power? I feel the first House of the Dragon shows how to have a diverse cast while remaining faithful. I immediately stopped

watching it when they time jumped 10 years. Because if I'm going to invest in a show because i want to learn the story of a set of characters and then you just end that whole story arc and then start a new one i'm out it's like i i man it's it's it i feel like i'm watching the wrong show i'm like what happened there was a conflict dude collapses right king what's his face drops to the ground you're like whoa and then the next episode the ground. You're like, whoa. And then the next episode, 10 years later, you're like, huh?

I heard from a lot of people that was pretty jarring. Tons of people announced they dropped the show because of it. I liked watching it, but I like being a contrarian and I like weird stuff. And yeah, it's totally different. It totally catches you off guard. I kind of like that. I like, you know, Better Call Saul is one of the best I've ever seen. From start to finish, you can see how they subtly and very slowly change the characters

and how the stories evolve. And the motivations are very satisfying. Like, you never get some weird Revenge of the Sith moment where all of a sudden, you know, main character Jimmy McGill becomes Saul. He doesn't just go like, I'm going to be evil now. It's like, no, there's like a constant attempt

at like sort of doing the right thing and it's like a slow transition. I'm like, this is great. I heard it was brilliant. What I want to know is how, what on earth happened

between it, because the Rings of Power, one of their main writers was the writer for Better Call Saul. Really? Yeah. I couldn't even watch 15 minutes.

I was just like, what happened? Like, what happened between Better Call Saul and Rings of Power like for that Really? Yeah. I couldn't even watch 15 minutes. What happened? What happened between Better Call Saul and Rings of Power for that quality to drop? They talk about it. They've been watching every episode on Pop Culture Crisis and they've it looks like they're trying to

mimic the way that Tolkien wrote his flowery language but they're not writing it like Tolkien. They're just creating like a mockery. It comes across like grade school philosophy just like trying to sound really profound but it's just silly. Yeah, and then people get bored and are confused. And then they have so many characters that they're showing you a little bit from... These characters, you don't know who they are or care about them

because you don't know who they are. And then there's just too many characters, too many storylines. Kind of like the last season of Game of Thrones. Yeah, that was a mess. Yeah, there was nowhere for Game of Thrones to go because it's kind of a nih last season of Game of Thrones yeah that was a mess yeah there was nowhere for Game of Thrones to go because it's kind of a nihilist story so there's no there's no redemptive arc to it

they should have brought Ned Stark back the Red Witch should have resurrected him and he reunited him with his family I thought that would have been awesome yeah yeah or you know George R.R. Martin can finish writing the books man that show just went off a cliff. Everybody was watching it and talking about how awesome it was.

And I was like, I don't care. And then one day, I think I was on a plane to New Zealand. And it's a long flight. So they had like seven episodes of season four. I think it was. I can't remember. And I started watching it. I was like, this is really good.

I need to stop watching it so I can start from the beginning. And then I binge watched from season one. And then, man, did that show fall off a cliff. As soon as they got away from the books. Because they had no idea what they were doing. Same with Tolkien, too. You know, they thought they could write a show based on Tolkien's work with no source material. Except these appendices that Tolkien wrote.

And it just does not work. Does not work at all. John Gagner says, I no longer get notifications from Timcast, IRL, Matt Walsh, Stephen Crowder, Blair White, or Joe Rogan. The war for your mind is real. You must be the notifications you want to see in this world. If YouTube isn't sending them out, then you need to take the videos and post them. If you'd like to help us, it's the only way to overcome that attempt at shadow banning is to just push through with a grassroots effort.

That and we're buying ads in Times Square, the entire North Tower, for New Year's, and it's going to be hilarious. What's it going to say? Timcast. And when people are watching CNN, they're going to see it in the background.

It's going to be amazing. We talked about the Babylon Bee doing something like that in California, putting up some billboards like on gavin newsom's drive from from his home to work um you know like satan approves gavin newsom's new abortion policy and have a picture of the devil up there or something just like have like one billboard after another knowing that he's gonna drive by them all i think that was inspired by you a little bit because you were like you really taylor lorenz thing what's that the taylor lorenz thing yeah yeah yeah yeah i just i tweeted kind of as i don't remember why i was thinking that i was like do i gotta buy a billboard in times

square saying that she did this so that people like you know get it and then jeremy boring at the daily wire was like i'm down i'll i'll get in on this and then we did and then they they went nuts over there i love stunts like that it's's great. Yeah. And then I was just like, I wonder why there are so many more people who have way more money than I do who don't try to just push back on this culture and they just don't care. Because they're rich, bitch. They don't want to. I don't know, man. It's like risk.

A lot of people are risk averse. Someone was saying when they have kids, when people have kids, you get more conservative too. What do they do? Like, I was watching Trevor Noah quits, right? And I read that his salary was $16 million per year. And I'm like,

homeboy's getting more than a million bucks a month. What does he do with all that money? Like at a certain point, you're just like, I have too much money. Does he just like

give it to needy kids? Because you don't see it. Now I'm not saying, I'm not trying to rag on Trevor Noah for that. I'm just saying like, very, very wealthy people and you never see.

So what do they do? Do they just like give it to a wealth manager and say, figure it out, I'm not trying to rag on Trevor Noah for that. I'm just saying, like, very, very wealthy people and you never see. So what do they do? Do they just, like, give it to a wealth manager and say, figure it out, I guess? That seems just so boring. Lame. Yeah. I mean, this idea that your money has to make money. I mean, if you're that rich, you don't need more money. I don't see why you wouldn't dump it into things that create cultural capital.

You know, it's rewarding to see the culture move. You know what I mean? Why aren't more investors doing that? Don't people want to do things? Invest in movies, invest in TV shows. Unfortunately, a lot of people, very, very rich people do, called impact investment, you know, billionaires.

Yeah, but it's all leftists. Yeah. There's like, Peter Thiel's doing some stuff. But man, I got to tell you, if I had $1 billion, let alone 5 to 20, I'd be funding crazy stuff. Boy in slat. Ocean cleaner.

You know what I would do? If I had a billion dollars, I would set up a table. I would get, obviously, security guards. And then I would let people line up outside and come in one at a time with their proposals. And I'd just be writing checks. I'd be like, you know. Like Shark Tank. You should do a show like that.

Not even like Shark Tank. That'd be funny. I'd just be like, what's your idea? And the guy's like, I want to open a bacon store. What's that? It sells bacon. Anything else? Just bacon.

Done. How much do you need? There you go. Have a nice day. You should do that. That'd be funny. I'd get a percentage of the company. It's an investment.

But like, roll with it, man. Just do fun stuff. Why not? I would put money in. I would like hire a bunch of people and be like, let's make a graphic novel publishing arm. You know, so we're trying to do this stuff obviously but i just it's i wish i made a fraction of the money some of these guys make but what do they do with it all they especially the ones who complain about the culture war and are concerned about free speech i'm like bro you got

a billion dollars you could you could fart and impact media jeff bezos bought the washington post yep we don't got it come on man, man. And not only that, but there's people are starving for that. People are starving for good stories because they just don't exist. I was talking about how I wanted to open a cafe and then open it up next to Starbucks and then do like a really great co-op deal

where we just like pay the staff really, really well and then convince everyone to quit Starbucks and come work for us. We will be not woke and we will pay way better than all these mega corporations because our end goal won't be to just generate massive profits for the shareholders. It will be to push back on the culture and make a statement. To all of these companies that want to engage in this weird cult-like woke behavior, we will make a competitive market option where people won't want to work for you

and won't want to buy from you. But I can't do that right now because that requires a lot of money. So where are the mega wealthy? Like Trump could do this. Yeah. You know, Trump could, but... He did start Truth Social.

He made Truth Social. Sure. But he took a lot of donations and hasn't really done much with it. That's just so weird to me. I don't know. That's just me. Maybe I'm crazy.

We had someone on the show who said that power likes to be hidden. And I'm like, that's really it. People don't want anyone to know that they... And I totally get it. Yeah, that was Tucker Max. That was a good conversation. Because there are people... I got to tell you, when people find out you're successful, they crawl out of the woodwork.

I couldn't imagine what it must be like for someone who wins the lottery. I read a story about a dude in India who won the lottery and then people started like harassing him and like targeting his family, demanding money, just crazy stuff. Dude, I watched a Mr. Beast video where they did that thing where it's like, you got to put your hand in the million dollars and whoever, if whoever's the last person wins it. And then guys like, I promise 50 grand to this person, that person. I'm like, dude, you're going to get a phone call

from every single person you've ever met talking about how you're their best friend and they always believed in you and now they need 50 grand. Yeah. That's the way it works, man. Messes up your life. But that's why people try to keep it a secret.

That's why, like a lot of people, they win the lottery, they don't want anyone to know. That's why, that's probably why a lot of these, you know, well-off individuals

don't buy billboards in Times Square. They don't want to make themselves, you know themselves the center of attention or anything like that. They could finance someone else that pushes the same messages and morals. Through a foundation they start and give money to. There is that one that I'm thinking of. We got George Soros doing this like crazy. You got Mackenzie Bezos and Jeff Bezos both doing it. Bill Gates funding.

Bill Gates. Where is anybody else? Have you heard of the... You've probably seen the billboards, the values, pass it on. Like, you know, courage, pass it on. You know, thankfulness, pass it on. And it's just a billboard. It has a character quality and maybe like an inspiring figure.

That whole campaign is just financed by some like billionaire who lives in Colorado. That's nice. That just, like, I want to make the world better, and I want to make people better. So they just purchased billboards everywhere. Very cool. I don't know if it's moving the needle at all, but there's an example of it.

I think billboards aren't particularly effective. The thing about Times Square is it has a decent amount of, a decent effect and it was kind of just to make a statement like we can do this. Gets people talking about it. Well, you know, yeah, it's that we have come to the point of success where we rival you. You are not the elites anymore.

We are here. And that's why we decided against doing any hard political messaging that was like directly attacking the establishment. You know, the closest we get to is Michael Malice's quote on the Times Square billboard saying, the corporate press gives you the narrative,

Tim Kass gives you the news. And we talked about it and it's like, if you create an ad that insults the establishment, you are setting yourself apart and telling regular people you are not a part of the machine. You are not rivaling them.

If you just put your ads up there, you're just sitting there next to Coca-Cola and M&M. People are going to associate you with dominant culture. And that's the goal. The goal is to just tell people, we are winning. We are here. Don't worry about it.

You're going to hear more from us. And you do, I mean, you do feel that. You feel that the dominant culture and this legacy media. I watched a late night comedy show last night for like the first time in years because I was in a hotel and that's, you know, there's nothing else to watch. It is so sad. It seems so, it's just empty.

The laughs are not there anymore. You do get the sense that this legacy media that ruled the airwaves for 50, 60 years is really dying. There's just nothing left. No one's watching this stuff anymore. I got that with Colbert. I don't know which one. Oh my goodness.

Yeah, I watched Colbert and I watched Seth Meyers and it was just sad. It was politics. It was politics. It wasn't funny. The guests weren't funny and I'm wondering

who's watching this stuff? And like Greg Gutfeld on Fox News is beating them in the ratings, you know, and there are YouTube channels that are beating him in the ratings and and so you really do get the sense that it's well we get they're on their way out we get uh we were getting more views on our show than trevor noah was getting on his show yeah but he was getting more youtube

views on the clips from his show than our clips got on this show so it was interesting for like if you were to compare this live show to his granted i guess his show is shorter so you can argue that you know there's there's a there's a way to argue he was doing better i suppose and youtube probably promotes it too i mean oh that that's the thing about him cnn and all they're just getting pushed pushed up we're fighting against the censorship they're getting actively promoted yeah i'd rather listen to like grab uh we just gotta grab uh one's house yeah like okay one more super chat more um marked a shame says f in the chat for rakita law who is next google is also pushing for him to be disbarred google is or or people are well the story i've heard this may not be accurate either is that he

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