Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #704 Pfizer ADMITS To Engineering Virus In Response To Project Veritas w/Matt Strickland

Episode Date: January 31, 2023

Tim, Ian, & Serge join Matt Strickland to discuss Pfizer admitting that they engineer the covid virus, the woke mob going after Zachary Levi, Biden announcing the end of the Covid-19 emergency, and the growing use of facial recognition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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but we did have a lot of news over the past weekend weekend. And for those that missed it, because that was the, it was, it was, that was the intention of Pfizer so that you would miss it. Last Friday at 8 p.m., they issued their formal response to James O'Keefe and Project Veritas. Okay, informal. They issued a statement about mutations and directed evolution. And the interesting thing is that they actually said that in certain cases, such a virus could be engineered so they could help identify antiviral drug treatments, blah, blah, blah. Basically, no matter of speaking, they made it seem like they were denying having done anything like this. It's not gain of function or directed evolution, nothing like that. It's just engineering such a virus and researching

the mutations to determine whether, okay, fine. You know what? I don't know what they're trying to say. How about we read you their statement, which basically says they're doing it. And several outlets have already reported they deny gain of function, but admit to engineering viruses. They claim it's safe. Don't worry. But we'll read into that. We'll talk about that. Plus we got celebrity actor, Zachary Levi, Levi, how do you say Levi? He's in Shazam. And in the wee hours of Sunday morning, he tweeted that he agreed Pfizer was dangerous for the whole world. And now he's got a bunch of liberals attacking him as an anti-vaxxer, which is the weirdest thing because he didn't mention vaccines, nobody did. It's just a big corporation that's been fined billions of dollars for criminal, for being found guilty of criminal charges and then allowed to continue operating. So we'll talk about all that, plus a

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this channel. Share the show with your friends. If you really like it, click that share button and then share it wherever. And you can follow the show at timcast irl follow me at timcast joining us today to talk about this and a whole bunch more including his personal experience the lockdowns we got matt strickland tim thanks for having me on brother i really appreciate it my name is matt strickland and you uh you uh you're a restaurateur i sure am before that uh i uh i was in the military so i'm a veteran spent about 10 years of my life fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and came home and I opened a food truck. It turned into a restaurant and that quickly became successful as well until COVID hit. And I realized very early on that these mandates were more about control than they were our health and safety.

So I fought back. And because I fought back, the government stripped me of all of my licenses, but I continued to fight back. And the people stood with me and we kicked the government's ass. You won. We won. We got to talk about it. This is great.

We went down to Gore Melt's. It's in Virginia, right? Amazing food. Love the music, 90s music. Yeah, the food was legit. It was good stuff. And hearing that you won in the end is exactly what people need to hear. That's right.

Because, you know, nonviolent civil disobedience. You said, look, we're a restaurant. This is unconstitutional. We're going to do our thing. The government came after you. It was a hard fight. And in the end, you win. That's it.

That's what it was all about. I mean, I saw them stripping my customers and my employees of our constitutional rights, and I wasn't going to be complicit in that. And the reason was I spent my entire adult life fighting dictatorships overseas, and I was not going to come home to my country and allow a dictatorship to rule. And then what disappointed me is that my Republican leadership in the state of Virginia did not step up and fight with me. And for that reason, I'm now running for state senate in Virginia, and I'm coming to crush the establishment. All right, man. We'll definitely talk about it.

Thanks for hanging out. Thanks for joining us. We got Libby hanging out as well. She's back. Hey, what's going on? It's Libby Emmons. I'm with the Postmillennial. Glad to be here.

Right on. Hi, everyone. Ian Crossland here. Happy to report Bucko is doing extremely well. We had an amazing weekend together hanging out healing eating a lot and also from the front of gaming news if you haven't heard wizards of the coast has gone back on their decision and plans to basically rip apart their old open gaming license and proprietize all their software they were about to start taking huge chunks of percentages from people that were

trying to make money off the dnd rule set which had previously been made open they couldn't even do it they tried yeah and they realized the correct the 89 percent of the people were dissatisfied in their polls so they just scrapped the whole plan they're keeping it open so i've read another another instance of humanity stepping up and making sure that what's right remains some quick context uh mr bocus is the cat he is our cat here at the at the cat's castle and he's sick, so Ian is getting some experimental treatments for him. But for us, normally, you know, Bocas lives with me, or he did,

until Ian started tending to him over the past couple of weeks for his medicine. But, you know, Bocas will try and wake us up at about 6.30, 7 a.m., screaming. And then what he does is he puts one paw on your face and then lets out a claw, right in your face, and you can, like, wake up to a lightning, like, what's happening? And then lets out a claw right in your face and you wake up to a lightning like what's happening and then he's yelling

I want food wake up so we were thinking it was kind of funny I'm like oh man you know Ian sleeps so late how's he going to handle Bocas screaming at him and then I went Ian's awake at 6.30am he goes to bed so Bocas is chilling he wants dinner

Ian gives him his 6.30am dinner and then they both go to bed at the same time. That's great. And also, it's Cara and I are doing it together, my girlfriend Cara. So the two of us have a 12 hours on, 12 hours off kind of schedule. That's in good hands. Right on. We got Serge pressing the buttons. Yo, what's up, guys?

I hope you guys are well. It's been a long weekend for me, but we're out here. Let's get started. All right. Here's the story from the daily mail pfizer admits engineering covid mutants in lab studies to ensure its antiviral drug works on new variants but pharma giant insists tests were not gain of function and did not pose risk to the public i love this story because like we constantly hear this where it's like you know the analogy i give is you know. Fauci, is there a door on the building of the NIAID? No, there is no door. We have no door. We have a porthole with a large wooden object. And there is a mechanical device you twist, which causes it to unlatch and open on hinges. And you're like, bro bro you're describing a door they just play this game where they're like i didn't jaywalk i just crossed the street not in the crosswalk it's like you're

describing literally the thing so pfizer in response presumably to project veritas released a statement at 8 p.m on friday look at this friday january 27th 8 p.m you know we did a show that day but like we didn't see this message come out literally the moment we go live because we do pre-production about an hour before. But we're going to make sure we get this story front and center on Monday so that nobody forgets they tried to memory hole this.

Let me read for you what they say because it'll make you laugh. Allegations have recently been made, is their statement, related to gain of function and directed evolution research at Pfizer. And the company would like to set the record straight. The next paragraph you're about to hear is just patter to like make you not want to read it. They say, in the ongoing development of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer

has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research. Working with collaborators, we have conducted research where the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants of concern. This work is undertaken once a new variant of concern has been identified

by public health authorities. This research provides a way for us to rapidly assess the ability of an existing vaccine to induce antibodies that neutralize a newly identified variant of concern.

We then make the data available through peer-reviewed scientific journals and use it as one of the steps to determine whether a vaccine update is required. Okay, so wait. You get the new variants, then you test it, see if you need to update.

Makes sense. They add. In addition, to meet U.S. and global regulatory requirements for our oral treatment, PaxLivid, Pfizer undertakes in vitro work, e.g. in a laboratory culture dish, to identify potential resistance mutations to Nirmatrever. Most of the work is conducted using computer simulations or mutations of the main protease A non-infectious part of the virus. You see, at this point, I'm reading it like they're not saying they're engineering anything. They then go on to say in a limited number of cases when a full virus does not contain any known gain of function mutations, such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells.

Okay, now they're just trying to play a legal game with me. Let's just break that sentence down and try and understand it. In a limited number of cases, when a full virus does not contain any known gain-of-function mutations, such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells. What they're saying is when they engineer the cell, they need it to express mutations like they said they were checking for

so that they can see if their antiviral works. That to me, fine. Don't call it gain of function. Call it engineering like they did. So COVID's actually engineering such a virus as they've stated to assess antiviral activity okay there you go pfizer pfizer's engineering oh sorry

what is it covid covid is engineering but oh yeah pfizer pfizer sorry yeah so pfizer you're saying in this they admit to engineering certain viruses they have to check and see if it works right right right it's not gain of function or directed evolution it's engineering what i want to go back this is the game they play you're right tim because when i read this i also started to fall asleep especially after that second paragraph where they're like let us be clear about what we did we did not do it was the first the way they start off the first thing but when they say that they they've conducted research where the original sars cove 2 let me get this below this image up here, has been used to express the spike protein from new variants.

So the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants. What does that mean that they use a virus to express a protein in another variant? Well, no, no, no. It just sounds like what they're saying is when there's a new variant discovered they take it and then they put it in a dish and like grow it so they can have the spike that that that doesn't sound like gain of function or anything like that it's the bottom it's the middle part of the third pair well second paragraph where they're like and in a limited number of

cases if the virus does not contain any known gain of function mutations such a virus may be engineered it sounds like they're saying engineered to have gain of function mutations. It does sound like they're saying that. And I think they are saying that. But you had Fauci saying for a while that they weren't doing gain of function. And then it was clear that the research that was being funded was gain of function research. It says gain of function on the research documents. Yeah, that's what it says.

And Rand Paul is like, Dr. Fauci, this document is yours. And it says gain of function research it says gain of function on the research documents that's what it says and and rand paul is like dr fauci this this document is yours and it says gain of function research no we did not do it it says right here gain of function i didn't do it okay man i just and you can see why they would think it's a good idea right you can see why they would think like okay we're gonna do research we're gonna figure out you know we're gonna we're gonna make the virus worse so that we can test our drugs and whatever else. You can see why they think it's a good idea. But that doesn't make it untrue that they're doing it. I disagree.

I think the potential mutations of a virus have to be infinite. I don't think it's a good idea. I'm saying you can see why they would think it's a good idea. My point is this. Let's say there's a million potential mutations to the virus. Why would they mutate it and be like, if we mutate it this way, we can make a vaccine for it this way. It's like, oh, so one in a million chance. You make money off that?

It doesn't make sense to me. I don't know. To me, it sounds like the quintessential CYA. They just spent a whole paragraph telling us they're not doing something and just slipped a sentence in there saying, psych, we're doing it. I was saying before the show to you, Matt, that I think they maybe even have immunity from the CIA as like, you're going to have to lie on this one and you've got all retroactive immunity if it comes out that you were lying in the future.

Well, I mean, it's public information that Pfizer's got immunity. I mean, and the reason they have immunity is because our politicians aren't the one relying on the future so well i mean it's public information that pfizer's got immunity i mean and the reason they have immunity is because our politicians aren't the one running the show here guys and you guys know that the people that are funding their campaigns are the ones running their show and who's at the top of that food chain pfizer and the pharmaceutical among just massive people that print the money basically who's making the money where's the money coming from because those are the people that are divvying out. The Federal Reserve decides who gets the loans first. Right.

So you've got maybe a company that might sound like Black Croc. Just a random word I thought of. And they get Federal Reserve loans just passed right along to them to buy up whatever they want. Companies like these then will invest in PACs and super PACs, allowing politicians to get elected. I don't know if overturning Citizens United ruling would actually change this. It might. I'd be interested to hear what people thought about that. You guys are familiar with Citizens United? Yeah, yeah.

Basically, super PACs, as long as they don't collude with the candidate, you can donate an infinite number of money and then they can say whatever they want. So what ends up happening is you get big corporations. They'll go to the candidate and say, are you the guy who's going to help our very important research save America? Because we're looking to donate a lot to help that happen. And then the candidate will be like, well, I don't know nothing about that. But rest assured, I'm a big fan of Pfizer and them helping would sure would be great if I won. And they go, we get it. They then go to Super PAC and say, here's $500 million. We want him. Super PAC can run a campaign for somebody. You don't

have to be involved in it. They're going to make you win. Well, Biden is planning to completely increase the medical industrial complex as part of the cancer moonshot plan. You know, they're funding so they're going to put so much money in to create federal, like basically a federally funded, federally affiliated medical research situation. Wow, that sounds like a good idea. It's disturbing. It's very disturbing. Yeah. But that's that's like part of their big plan. They're going to increase that portion of the federal government, get a whole bunch of researchers on there to do, you know, more stuff like this.

All in the idea that they're going to cure cancer. I wonder how much cancer they make in labs, you know, that they're then going to try and cure it. Yeah, well, I mean, high acidity, lymphatic system can cause the cells to duplicate at a rapid pace which a lot of scientists call cancer like if you don't alkalize your your lymphatic system you can feed people sugar and keep making medicine and then you're doubling down on the profit because not only are they buying your food they're buying your medicine i can't stand it i think that there's some value for pfizer to be working on uh uh i guess you'd call it gain of function in simulations and computer simulations, like a quantum computer. That's different than the lab thing.

Millions and billions of potential viral outcomes and then millions and billions of potential digital cures of viruses in a computer. Keep it in the computer because outside, you know, they can leak. They can leak. Viruses can leak. You create something that you're afraid of becoming reality. You just created the thing that you were afraid of becoming reality. So I don't know.

But I mean, I think they're doing it personally. I think they're just doing it for profit. I think that companies, because they're allowed to, if someone's allowed to do something, assume that they're going to, that if they're allowed to make a virus and a medicine for it and profit off that medicine, why would they not? Well, and once a kind of technology or something like that is created, it will be used.

It's just a matter of time. The for-profit aspect of it is actually, I mean, it's terrifying. It's not, it's unethical to profit off of a medicine. I don't know. People profit off of food. They profit off of food.. What the? I don't know. People profit off of food. They profit off of food. The food industry is for profit. Look, man, I've never been all about laissez-faire capitalism like Luke is.

He likes to come on and he just talks about how capitalism or free market solves everything and this is corporatism and things like that. And the government actually intervenes to help major corporations win. It's not really capitalism. But I genuinely believe that if you have completely unrestricted markets, you're going to get seed oils. Like, this is my shout-out to Luke Rutkowski of We Are Change. You're not here to defend yourself.

Too bad. Unrestrained capitalism, a company is going to say, look, no one cares about seed oils. Only these weirdos like Luke Rutkowski are complaining about seed oils. And they're cheaper? Use those. And then everyone's going to start eating them and if they get sick they're not going to know why and there's not going to be anything they're not going to they're going to keep buying these products you know a little stink bug right on your chest um what really concerns me is the drug dealers that are making money off this system like pfizer's a

company that deals drugs i mean you might use a different term they sell drugs to people but like the the tobacco industry used to have commercials for kids they would target kids with joe camel and like they want you to start early and that was the congress had to step in because the you know unrestricted capitalism you're right about the drugs though and if you look at the data the number of kids and teens that are on psych meds is incredibly high and a lot of the kids that are on psych meds are like vulnerable kids like kids in foster care a lot of boys are on psych meds and a lot of these kids are on medications that are not approved for their age group and they're on multiple drug cocktails that are not approved for their age group, and they're on multiple drug cocktails that are not approved for their age group as well.

I just want to say stink bugs are lucky that they're kind of cute and doofy. They're not cute. I think they're tremendously cute. They're creepy. They're not creepy. They clap, you know that? I don't like them.

They clap. I don't kill them, but I also don't like them. You kill them, they make a stinky smell. I don't want anything to do with them. He was on my monitor, but they clap. I'm not even kidding. I recorded a segment, and then I was done, and I looked up, and there was a stink bug just going like them. You kill them, they make a stinky smell. I don't want anything to do with them. He was on my monitor. But they clap. I'm not even kidding. I recorded a segment and then I was done

and I looked up and there was a stink bug just going like this. I'm like, why is he doing this? Is that like some kind of mating call? Probably. Right?

I mean, aren't they all mating calls? They were just like, yo, you complain about Joe Biden so good. They dance too. If you watch them, they'll like walk sideways

and then walk sideways and keep doing like turn and shake and stuff. As far as these pharmaceutical companies go, it's insane to me how incentivized doctors are to prescribe a certain medication. When I was in the military, I was a combat medic. So I was an infantry medic. And the first job I got when I got out of the military I was working at a hospital and these pharmaceutical reps will come in and wine and dine these doctors and provide all of us even us medics you know free lunches and such and uh and it's just insane to me how incentivized these doctors are to sell

those specific products and as far as the PACs go they may not be able to deal directly with a with a candidate but everybody knows you know if it's two or three people removed they get a hold of these candidates and i'm when matt gates was on the show just a uh just a few days ago he told you guys he said the first thing you do when you become a congressman when you get to dc is you sit down at a table with the people who are the leaders in the industry that you want to be on a committee of. And that just shows you right there, it proves to you how corrupt politics are and it lets you know that these politicians that we get pissed off at and that we blame for all of these problems,

they're not the ones running the show. It's these lobbyists and these PACs in the pharmaceutical industry. I mean, those guys are at the top of that food chain. It's a lot of companies. The military industrial complex. Absolutely. You got Lockheed. You got Boeing. You got Halliburton.

I mean, the list goes on. Northrop. What you were saying, too, about hospitals and pharmaceutical reps, when I finished college, I worked for a small medical office. And I was doing insurance paperwork. That was my job. But these pharmaceutical reps would come in like almost every day

and they would bring lunch for the entire office and they'd just like spill sample cases full of their drugs all over the place. And it's so weird, you're right. Like they used to target kids with tobacco advertising and now like anytime you watch TV, there's half a dozen drug advertisements and you listen to the list

and my son and I will joke about it. He'll be like oh this drug for depression mom it cures your depression but you might have increased thoughts of suicide and it's like okay isn't it the opposite of what's supposed to do and you listen to it and it's like this will help you lose weight but you you might want to kill yourself or sleeping drugs and it says like you may forget that you got up and drove your car while you were on this drug. So be careful with that. And why are we seeing all of these advertisements for major pharmaceutical drugs that can make you think you're sleeping while actually you're driving your car?

The best thing is when they don't actually tell you what the drug does. And they never do. They're like, ask your doctor. And you're like, about what? Yeah, I remember seeing a commercial. I can't remember. Y'all have probably seen commercials like this where it's like an old guy and he's like looking sad and it's like the color's gray and it's like, feeling down?

Maybe Clovestol is right for you. And then he's smiling and then he's like walking through a park and it's like, ask your doctor today about Clovestol. No, I don't know what you're selling me. Yeah. And the drug names are so bizarre. Like, Successra. It's the reason they made pill boxes.

Because you need a pill to remedy the side effects from this pill. And then you need another pill to remedy the side effects from that pill. And it just goes on and on and on. And that's why they created pill boxes. This one makes the pain go away, but also makes you want to die. This one makes you not want to die but could also make you think about wanting to die. So then you have this one here that actually makes you forget

what's going on so that you don't remember wanting to die. Side effect, it might cause pain. So back to the original pill. Might have to double your prescription. I think when the oxycodone epidemic in the late 90s, this is the oxy. This is what you call the

what would you call it the what kind of drug is that it was like an opiate i remember actually like i was trying to i was trying to buy weed and uh the guy didn't have any weed and he was like oh here take this and it wasn't it was an oxycontin and i was i was out for like two days i was like what the heck you had no idea what it was you took it no yeah i was an idiot i was i was out for like two days i was like what the heck you had no idea what it was you took no yeah i was an idiot i was an idiot obviously we don't do that nobody else should ever do that especially with fentanyl people have been dying from overdosing on fentanyl that they think is like i don't get the whole fentanyl thing isn't it a prescription drug like how did it get in all the street drugs like how did this happen? It's both prescription and street.

No, China. China. I'm telling you, so in 2012, I had a vasectomy in 2012. And first time I ever took any kind of painkillers. So they gave me Percocet and Vicodin. Oh, man. That's a lot of painkillers. That's a lot of painkillers.

Percocet's powerful stuff. I took two. And I flushed them down the toilet. And the reason I flushed them down the toilet is because it was like the best drunkness you've ever had without the hangover. And I was like, this is dangerous. So I had to flush them down the toilet.

And it's in the freaking water supply because people are flushing them down. That's my fault. No joke. In 2014, I had a kidney stone. And there's nothing they can do for you. I mean, if it's like really bad, you might have to get surgery. But it wasn't really that bad. It just, it hurts.

And also, people don't understand. Let me tell you guys. It's inside your body. It's not like, you know, you're going to the bathroom one day and you're like, there's something jammed up in, you know, my schlong or something. You're at the doctor's and it's either appendicitis or, like, they thought it was appendicitis. And then I went in, like, pain in my abdomen abdomen and they were like, yeah, it's your kidneys released like a small rock.

And they were like, nothing we can do about it. Here's a bottle of pills. And I took one and you nailed it. Feel awesome. And I never took another one. You wrote a song about it. At least that's one of the songs you were telling me about. It was that guy searching for the fix. At least that was one of them. That were telling me about it was that uh a guy searching for the the fix at least that was one that was written a long time before that was wild but this

is this is uh like the feeling you get from it was so intense that i did same thing you did yeah i didn't flush on the toilet i just threw it away but the point is that so i flushed down the toilet and i just took motrin and guess what i was absolutely fine that's all i needed so these doctors they're just pushing this medication just shoving it down your throat well it's not only the medication it's surgery it's like at one point I hurt my back like after my son was born and I saw two doctors and they were like you need back surgery and I was like no no I do not need back surgery well look at Hulk Hogan he's paralyzed now right yeah we were just talking about it before the

show Hulk Hogan's paralyzed I had a doctor i went in because i was having trouble sleeping and she prescribed me sleeping pills which then gave me nightmares and i also couldn't sleep and then i bought new pillows like i literally bought new pillows and i didn't have an issue ever like ever after that you know the reason i brought up the opiate crisis and some people call it an epidemic because is you see what the sackler family did to humanity for profit in the 90s and in the 2000s crazy so that's the example of what pharmaceutical companies all over everything I know you would think at this point people would realize oh that family is demonic I'm not like a good and evil kind of guy I'm not that binary but when you see pharmaceutical companies eradicating

the population for profit I gotta wonder if maybe they're evil or doing something wrong. They're the oxy people, right? Yeah, the oxycodone. They created it. Oxytocin. It's supposed to be like a feel-good chemical. Oh, because oxytocin is like the- I think that's why they named it that. It's like the orgasm.

Manipulation tactics. Thing, yeah. So you would think people would be so awakened to the pharmaceutical company's attempt at profits that they would be eye-opening and at Pfizer right now, like with a microscope. Well, what's weird is they came down so hard on tobacco, right? But they don't come down. They like praise the pharmaceutical industry for all that they're doing for humanity. And the pharmaceutical industry is getting all this federal funding.

You know, hey, burning, burning, breathing and burning smoke obviously is bad for you. So that's an easy target. We're paying up for that stuff with like all the covid tests and all that crap considering we're ragging on uh these big pharmaceuticals let's jump to this story from fox news zachary levy sparks twitter controversy over claim that pfizer is a danger to the world hardcore degree hardcore agree i love this here's a tweet lyndon wood said do you agree or not that pfizer is a real danger to the world he said hardcore, hardcore agree. And liberals went nuts. OK, one less movie ticket to spend money on. Stupid.

Seriously, guy? Like he he he didn't like a massive multinational pharmaceutical corporation that's been a fine. Some of the largest fines in history, two point three billion plus another four30 million from five years prior. They didn't learn their lesson. They got fined like 200 million, I think it was in 2001 or something like that. They got fined 430 million in 2004. Then they got fined again in 2009, and it was 2.3 billion dollars. And my question is, at a certain point, why don't you shut them down? You're committing crimes over and over again you're done when a human being commits a crime we say we take you from your job your job is no longer being done we put you in a box we close it you can't go out well these corporations well it depends on the

severity of the crime sure but if we're talking about a crime against humanity on the scale of 2.3 billion dollar fine because they were selling off you know off i can't remember exactly what they were what they were doing but they were like misleading the public as to what their drugs were doing or something like that well that lets you know how crooked it is because at my restaurant if there was case after case after case after case of people getting sick after eating at my restaurant i'd be shut down and there'd be no question about it if if if you ran a company if you were if you were in a restaurant and that restaurant was dealing drugs out of the back door they would shut it down every employee fired

i mean it's like sorry this company's doing something committing crimes that's right and and you know what it could be it could be one manager who's been doing it and they shut the thing down and they say no no this is this is this is a criminal enterprise and then the people are just like i don't know man i just make burgers like too bad you lose your job but when a pharmaceutical company does it this is the reality of the world they're too big to fail so the government says just give us a cut of the profit and keep doing what you're doing so for the record pfizer got fined 2.3 billion uh for misbranding bextra with the drug Bextra, with the intent to defraud or mislead the attempt, essentially according to Justice.gov.

I'm not sure what it was for. Hold on, was that the $2.3 billion one? $2.3 billion. They were selling it off-label, meaning that they didn't get FDA approval for the things they were selling it for. They only had approval for the original thing. And actually, the FDA had declined to give it approval

for the things that they were selling it for off the label according to justice.gov a big big big mishandling of the public trust there's also a situation where this there's this drug lupron that's used for um for uh like prostate cancer and things like this um and it's being used off label as a drug to give children to block puberty to for gender dysphoria and it's also used for precocious puberty in a few in like some cases but it's only recommended for three months at a time and so it's not approved for uh you know it's not fda approved for use in children for more than three months for this extra purpose, this gender dysphoria purpose. But no one says anything about it.

And Lupron's sales continue to increase. They don't recommend the drug for that purpose, but they certainly just keep taking the money. This company, AbbVie, which makes a ton of drugs. This is how it works with big corporations. Typically, the government just says, look, give us our cut and you can keep doing it. A company does something that's illegal, makes $10 million. FTC says it's a $5 million fine, sir. And they go, oh, geez, I guess I got to pay you.

Have a nice day. They put $5 million in their pocket. I should specify, sis, here that the FDA, when it came to Bextra, specifically declined to approve. So I think that they didn't say this is bad. I think they just didn't give it an approval, but they went ahead and used it anyway. Zachary Levy, is it Levi? Is it Levy?

Is it Levy? Don't know. I'll call him Levy. He was getting ragged on and attacked by the left. So he tweeted just one example of what I'm referring to. And it's at justice.gov, the largest healthcare fraud settlement in history. It's not anymore.

I think there's a, was it GlaxoSmithKline's now the biggest. Yeah, three billion something. But, and that was later on. But they're still attacking this guy over it. It's like, you're not going to go see Shazam next.

You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to buy two tickets to Shazam. And if nobody takes it, just pay for it. Just, I'm going to give the DC Universe, Warner Brothers money. Because they got a guy leading a movie who didn't say anything anti-vax just said hey man be wary of these massive multinational corporations they're dangerous i respect that

and that's the kind of marketing i think movie should be all about so you know i'll buy two two tickets i'll buy two two tickets for you thanks i won't see it but yeah okay oh maybe i will then oh we got tickets to go. Oh, no, we don't have tickets. We have tickets to see Quantumania. No, I really do want to see. It's Shazam, Fury of the Gods. I'm really excited.

The first Shazam was awesome. I don't know anything about Shazam. It's a DC superhero. Billy Batson's a little kid. Wizard gives him the power of Shazam. It's a bunch of gods. Shazam, is that like some sort of- The Wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the...

Okay. You know, something, I don't know. He's fast like lightning. So he's a little kid, and then he yells Shazam and gets struck by lightning, and then turns into a big, huge dude. And it's fun and funny. It was like the only DC movie that was actually a bit irreverent. I like the funny ones.

That's why I liked Guardians of the Galaxy. Yes. Because it was funny. You haven't seen Shazam? You'll like it. No. I'll like it no i'll check it out can i take my kid probably oh yeah absolutely he'll be like oh nice we're going to see something i like but you can see the first one the first one's out okay it was like the best performing dc movie i think because they're all garbage uh-huh this one actually was good and uh the second one's coming out and all these liberals are yelling like one month before the movie comes out this guy's an anti-vaxxer and it's like he didn't say any of that you guys are nuts like these hollywood

people they need you all to comply with their viewpoint or else they're gonna yell at you and it's like there's no reason to comply with anyone's viewpoint think for yourself every single time i mean obviously it's like making a song this is why the beatles were so great john and paul did not work in lockstep they didn't know They didn't sing harmonics of their words. They sang two totally different songs together to create a mega song. And we need more of that with arguments. Who do you think was better, John or Paul?

John. Really? I mean, John Lennon's one of my ultimate personal top three heroes. Well, here's the reality. Next to George Washington and Einstein, probably. Paul was poppy. John Lennon was cool.

And so together, that was a powerful force. That was the force. John's willing to speak out against the military industrial complex beforeon was cool. And so together, that was a powerful force. That was the force. John's willing to speak out against the military industrial complex before it was cool. He had the cool glasses. Think about Paul's songs with like, what was that one he wrote years ago?

Which one? He's written so many. I don't know. It's all like super poppy. It is very poppy. Yeah, he was the pop star of the band. And John Lennon is all like, Vietnam is wrong. Kids are getting bored. Dark, angry, got beat up yeah he was the pop star of the band and john lennon is all like vietnam

is wrong you know kids are getting dark angry got beat up when he was a kid like just a rough life love that guy do you know what i want to add some nuance to what um zachary was saying about pfizer being evil i think that what happens is unfettered drug dealers are dangerous or evil not not all not because marijuana is a different beast. Caffeine is a different beast. They're both drugs, THC and caffeine. Yeah, but unfettered, it's really bad. I mean, there's unfettered marijuana sales

in New York City right now. You can't walk down the street without smelling it. Every bodega has unregulated marijuana sales. You don't have any idea what is being purchased or what is being sold. You don't have to show ID. There's absolutely no regulation. And the city is trying to shut it down now and be like, no, we're only going to give

weed licenses to people who were formerly incarcerated or on drug charges. But it's been like over a year. You can't tell the bodegas they have to stop selling loose pre-rolled joints now. They're not going to. And it's unregulated. It's unfettered, and it's not a good situation. Yeah, Pfizer's a result of an unfettered system where they can have immunity. Like, Moderna's right there in the shadows. If you want to take down, spend the next 10 years taking down Pfizer, Moderna is next.

And it's going to be the exact same problem. It blows my mind that there's regular people on twitter defending pfizer i can't believe that i mean it's it's the same it's the same other people well probably not but it's the same cycle when it comes to these pharmaceutical companies it's create a medicine or vaccine or whatever cause injuries destroy lives uh make 30 billion dollars find three billion dollars rinse and repeat well that's the thing I was saying about what we were just reading with the off label

the intentional misleading these are companies that if you pull up the Wikipedia list of all of the crimes committed by these corporations so the real issue for me is these people aren't doctors I mean they're technically doctors but you have a doctor that you talk to when you're like, yo, I got a bum knee.

They know your medical history. They know your family. If you get a good one, you've had them for a long time. The problem is when, you mentioned earlier, they go and lobby the doctors and they say, I told this story earlier. I was skating when I was like 16 and I hit my knee. And I heard it and I'm like, I better get it checked out. Doctor says, nah, it is a sprain or a

strain or something you're fine here and then he handed me a whole bunch of sample packets of an anti-inflammatory steroid methylprednisolone i think it was my goodness and he was like just take a couple of these and they were sample packs and he just threw them at me and then i was like whatever you say doc and i'm like my doctor did that with birth control pills like in little sample packs yeah like a ton of them. Like here, just take all these, you know,

this was my family's doctor. And when I was 16 and you went, you know, what ended up happening is I, I was like, okay. So he's like, I took a couple of them and then I didn't notice anything.

And the next day I was like, I don't know. I just didn't take them. And then I ended up just getting better. Cause I was a kid who, you know, I banged my, I banged my knee.

I fell skating. I fell, hit my knee and I couldn't bend it. And so like swole up or something. And it turned out to be nothing legitimately serious or anything like that. But I just kind of, I don't know, man. It's kind of weird to me.

You got to make sure you got a good trusted doctor. It's just that you got to make sure that when they hand you some like samples or whatever, you ask them, what is it? What does it do? Why do I need it? And if they can't answer and they're like, well, it was given to me,

then maybe you got a salesman and not a doctor. So find someone who can give you good advice and talk to you about it. But actually, Matt, I want to talk to you about what you went through because we're talking about all the big pharma stuff, but I'm curious, when all the lockdowns happened, there were a handful of businesses

that stood up and said, no. You ran one of these businesses that the government tried to shut down. You resisted. And the first thing I just want to say is this is a story that I'm excited for you to tell because we've long told people nonviolent civil disobedience. Stand up for what you believe in. File the lawsuits. File the complaints. Make them work for their oppression or whatever,

and you will win. And you won. They tried to shut you down. They hurt your business. They hurt you. But then in the end, you ended up winning out. So tell us exactly what went down with your business, how that started. Yeah, well, so as soon as COVID started, I was actually, at the time, I was still working as an intelligence analyst for the military, just to supplement my income. You know, because when you start a restaurant, you're not off to the races, you know, automatically making money. So when COVID happened in March of 2020, they shut my entire program down that I was working on. And I was working on a pretty intense, a pretty serious program that had a lot of national security implications. So when they sent all of us home and they shut the entire skiff down, I paid attention

and I said, well, this must be something serious. This must be a virus that's going to kill half the world like they're saying. So I took it serious and I listened to the recommendations of, at that time, Governor Northam, and I shut my restaurant restaurant down took a step back because I wanted to be responsible and didn't want to put my customers in harm's way nobody knew at that time what was going on so it wasn't long after that maybe a month or so that I started to realize something weird was going on and then three months after June of 2020 Governor Northam said okay restaurants you can open back up. But under these provisions. And that's when it clicked. I said, wait a minute. This is more about control than it is our health and safety.

And it was because they put mandates in place like you have to wear a mask when you walk in the restaurant. But as soon as you sit down, somehow you're safe from COVID and nobody's allowed to sit at my bar but I can pull the table up to the bar and you can sit there and my bartender couldn't hand a drink over the bar my bartender had to walk around the bar and serve it to the person side by side just very arbitrary mandates that made absolutely no sense and so like I said I spent my entire adult life fighting dictatorships overseas, and I wasn't going to come home and allow a dictatorship to rule. So I did the only thing I could do, and that was fight back by not complying,

civil disobedience. And I kind of did that kind of under the radar at first. I didn't announce it. My customers just knew that when they came to gore melts they were walking in to uh what america used to be pre-covid they were walking into freedom a safe space a safe space there you go and uh and i operated that way actually from june of 2020 to january of 2021 i would get a call from uh from the health department maybe once a month or so and they would say hey matt we uh we got a call from one of your customers that said you're not following COVID mandates. And I would never confirm or deny it. And at that time, the health inspectors, they weren't allowed to come out and inspect.

So none of them ever came out to my restaurant. So I would just say, oh, well, thanks for the call. I appreciate that. And they would just say, oh, yeah, you know, covid mandates and i'm like okay cool whatever and uh and it went like that until january 2021 now what happened in in january was biden took office and when he took office as you guys know he started firing off all of these executive orders one of those executive orders mandated osha come out in conjunction with local health departments and shut down restaurants specifically that weren't following COVID mandates. And that's when I got my first visit from the health department and OSHA.

And they said, hey, Matt, you're not following COVID mandates. And I said, no, no, I'm not. I said, because they don't make any sense. I said, if you can make them make sense to me, common sense, because I'm all about common sense. I've never been a very political guy. I've never trusted politicians on either side of the aisle, to be honest with you. And and I just want things to make sense. And what he told me is really what set the wheels in motion. He said, well, Matt, it doesn't have to make sense sense the governor said you have to do it so you have to do it and at that point i said absolutely not this is not how things work in america

and he said well we'll come back and uh we'll suspend your your health department license and i said well you do what you have to do but i'm going to do what i know i have to do and uh and that is afford my customers their constitutional rights and And at that point, I told him, I said, at this point, you were trespassing. So if you don't leave my property, I'll have you removed. And he left. But he he made good on his promise. And he came back about two weeks later, served me with the suspension papers, suspended my health department license. And in the state of Virginia, if your health department license is suspended, your alcohol license, your ABC license is automatically suspended. So I lost both of those that day.

And I continued to operate business as usual. I didn't comply. And at that point, I made a video and I put it out to the public what was going on. And I let them know that I would not be complying. And the main reason is because, like I said before, I spent a lot of my time, a lot of my adult life fighting overseas. And I have a lot of brothers that went overseas with me and didn't make it back. A lot of guys that died over there and their kids are growing up right now here in the United States of America because they felt that America was more important than their life. So if I'm not willing to put my livelihood on the line,

when those guys were willing to put their life on the line, then what kind of man am I? And my wife and I, we always teach our kids to do what's right, no matter what the personal cost is to them. So how in the hell are we going to teach them that if we're not willing to do the same thing ourself? So those are the main reasons why I fought back. And because I did that, they sued me. Governor

Northam sued me and he took me to court and tried to shut my business down. But I didn't back down. And it was overwhelming, the response from the community that showed up after that. I mean, I had people coming from across the nation to support me. I had one guy come all the way, I remember, from Iowa. Now my restaurant, Gourmelt's, is right off of Interstate 95 in Virginia, not even a mile from the exit. So it's very convenient. So I get a lot of people that come by all the time just passing through. So this guy came up to me and he said, hey, I'm from Iowa. And I said, well, you're just passing through or what? And he said, no, I flew out here just to come to your restaurant and shake your hand and look you in the eye and thank you for what you were doing. And he started crying. And that right there, man, it got me.

It let me know at that point that I was doing the right thing. Because when you make a decision like my wife and I made, which was to fight back, you have no idea which way it's going to go. We thought it was going to be the end of our business. We thought it was going to be the end of everything we worked our entire life for. But the community showed up and they supported us. And we had a line out the door from open to close. And by 7 p.m., we had no food left. Wow.

All we had was bread. And people were walking up to the register saying, give me a piece of bread and I'll pay full price for it. Wow. It's amazing. And it just it blew my mind. And and we continue to fight back. And and I reached out to my my my Republican representatives in Virginia because they're supposed to be conservative patriots that stand for the Constitution. And all I was doing was standing for the Constitution, standing for my customers' constitutional rights. And I was very disappointed that none of my Republican representatives reached back out to me. And so, long story short, I said, how do I get rid of these scumbags?

How do I make sure? Because they run around saying Democrats are ruining the country, and they are. But these Republicans that are sitting on their hands, not willing to step up and fight for you and me, they're no better than those Democrats. That's the establishment we talk about. The unit party is absolutely real. In the end, you got back your liquor license, your health license, and all that stuff? So what happened is we go to court with the health department, and I beat the health department in court. I proved that these mandates were, in fact, unconstitutional.

And they had to give me my health department license back. Good. So the next step was the ABC. We go before the ABC board to get my ABC license back. And we thought it would be cut and dry, open and shut. Hey, you took my ABC license only because the Virginia Department of Health took my health department license. Well, we beat them in court and they had to give me that license back. So now in turn, you should have to give me my ABC license back.

Makes sense, right? Yeah. Well, it's a very liberal ABC board. Now, at this time, we had a change of governors in Virginia. So Governor Youngkin took over. So now Ralph Northam is no longer the uh the governor uh we got a republican governor republican lieutenant governor and republican attorney general so i go before the abc board it's a very liberal abc board and what they said was in a nutshell basically was matt

didn't matter that you beat the department of health and that's the only reason we took your license it doesn't matter that the reason they took it was unconstitutional. All that matters is we took it and you didn't comply. And that word comply kept coming up. And they said, so for that reason, we're not going to give you your license back. And I said, well, Roger that, then I don't need a license. And I continued to sell alcohol without it. And I immediately, as soon as Glenn Youngkin took office, I reached out to him and I heard nothing back from him. We all saw the video where you're filming and the ABC guys come in and the cops come in and they're raiding and looting your private property of alcohol. So what finally happened? What is this? Well, the reason they came out and raided my place is because, like I said, I was reaching out to the governor since he took office.

And by that time, I announced my run for state Senate to come crush the establishment. And Republican leadership, they don't like when a Republican candidate speaks out against other Republicans. But I have no idea why you should speak out against any politician that's not doing their job. So for that reason, they didn't reach out and help me. They left me to the wolves. any politician that's not doing their job so for that reason they didn't reach out and help me they left me to the wolves and i heard nothing back from the governor's office or the attorney general's office until december 2nd of 2022 this past december when the virginia state police and the virginia abc agents came and raided my restaurant and took every drop of alcohol out of my restaurant

that's where you're at right now what well so so that's the viral video that you guys saw. And so what happened after that is we were going back and forth, and they were trying to settle with me, but I've always stayed strong in my stance in that I will not settle with you. I didn't do anything illegal. I didn't do anything wrong. What do they want? What kind of settle do they want at this point?

I mean, the whole thing's over. well so you know they've always you know they were offering me you know hey Matt instead of 90 days of suspension and a $15,000 fine or whatever it was uh no suspension of your license and just give us two thousand dollars oh my goodness and we'll make it go away a little extortion aown. Yeah. Exactly. And it's all about them wanting to get a win. And that's it. And so I said, listen, I stood strong. Hey, no settlement at all. And they kept coming back with settlement offers.

I said, you know what? I will settle with you. I said, I'll pay you $17.76. And I was hoping like hell they took that. Just to remind them of freedom. This is like Michael Corleone When he says you know my offer is this Nothing

So of course they didn't take it And I said well listen man You guys aren't getting a dime from me I am not going to serve a suspension And I'll tell you what After I reopen my restaurant for Christmas Because I'll be closed for Christmas When I reopen after Christmas I'm going to open my bar back up and I'm going to sell alcohol and I'm operating business as usual.

And magically, before I close for Christmas, December 23rd. and the rest of the Republican leadership in Virginia, if you guys are ready for the political shitstorm that follows you arresting a small business owner who is also a veteran that fought for his country, if you're ready for that political shitstorm, I'm ready to go to jail because a lot of my brothers were ready to die for this country, and they did. So I've been ready to die for my country since I was 17 years old, so I'm damn sure ready to go to jail for my country. So at that point, was uh it was a mexican standoff man and uh and they folded december 23rd they gave me all of my alcohol back they gave me my abc license back and i didn't pay a dime when did we go down there what was that that was before this right that was before that so you remember we were playing in a party right wait right yeah so i i told you i said hey, this is my plan. I said, regardless of what happens, the day we open after Christmas, we're going to be

selling alcohol, man. Let's throw a party down here. And we were planning that. Yeah. And magically, they said, you know what? Never mind. They tapped out and they said- They brought your booze back.

December 23rd, you get everything back. Yeah. Wow. Well, you would have made them look so bad. Yeah. I mean, you made them look get everything back. Wow. Well, you would have made them look so bad. I mean, you made them look bad and good. Yeah, very good. What happened in the early days when you were resisting the initial stuff? What was the process?

Day one, you didn't shut down. Were they like fining you every day? And then in retrospect, they just dismissed the fines? What was happening day to day? Yeah. I feel other people are going through this. Yeah. I mean, it was – so I was fined over $70,000 by OSHA for having an unsafe work environment.

Was that a day-by-day fine that added up to 70? It was just arbitrary fines that they just made up. So, like, they sent me this piece of paper that said, oh, hey, Matt, for not making people wear a mask, we're fining you $20,000. For not putting up plexiglass, we're finding you $35,000 or whatever it was. Where the hell did you get that? Where'd you get those numbers from? You just made them up? And where'd you get these regulations?

I mean, they're totally arbitrary. Plexiglass is going to do something. Yeah, it's just insane. So when that ocean inspector actually came out to my restaurant, he said, you got to put plexiglass up. I said, okay, I want to know the regulation. How wide does the plexiglass have to be? And he said, well, actually in the regulation, there's nothing that says how wide it has to be. I said, well, so you're telling me if I put a one inch strip of plexiglass up,

I'm technically in compliance. And he said, well, technically, yeah. And I said, listen, man, take your OSHA hat off for one second and just talk to me, man to man. Does that make any sense to you? And again, he said, man, it doesn't have to make sense that's what they said so you have to do it and psychotic that's not how the American government is supposed to work that's how they work that's how they do it and so we signed up for what my story proves what it proves is that if you stand up and you fight back no matter how much they try to back you into a corner and bully you, if we stand together, because I wouldn't have won this by myself. If it was just me and Matt Strickland fighting, I'd be in prison right now.

But the people of America stood with me from across the nation. I mean, they came out of the woodworks and supported me. And the only thing that politicians, the only thing that they answer to is political pressure. And I mean, everybody knows Glenn Young is trying to run for president now. And so they inundated his office with emails and phone calls. He couldn't make a social media post without somebody jumping on his post saying, hey, what about Matt Strickland? What about Gore Meltz? And and they cave to that political pressure.

They didn't want to help me because I stand up against not only Democrats but Republicans also. But the political pressure was enough from across the nation that they had no choice but to act. I think part of what's great about the story is, too, you were willing to comply in the early days, in the very beginning, when you didn't know if it was airborne Ebola, where their skin was going to start melting off. You didn't know. And you were ready to make the sacrifice for the betterment of the people. And then when the evidence starts coming in, then it's like, okay,

now realism and common sense takes over. As it did in the beginning too. I think that's why I was willing to shut down for two weeks to slow the spread. But on top of that, you'd walk into a restaurant and you'd walk in the front door and they would say, please put on a mask.

You'd say, okay, you put it on. They'd hand you one. Right. You'd wear it and they'd say, now the chair right next to you, please sit and take the mask off. Right. And you take it off,

throw it in the garbage. And then you're supposed to put it back on to walk to the bathroom. Do you remember this? You were supposed to put it back on to walk to the bathroom. We had a plan here we never got around to

because, you know, in West Virginia it was fairly lax and then they ended up lifting it. But what we wanted to do was get full hazmat suits. Nice. Walk in, you know, in West Virginia, it was fairly lax. And then they ended up lifting it. But what we wanted to do was get full hazmat suits. Nice. Walk in. Sit down.

Take the full suit off. You know, like, go to your table. Take the full suit off. Place it on the chair next to you. Sit down. Order food. And then go, I'm going to run to the bathroom real quick. Put the full suit back on.

Zip it up. And then walk slowly and awkwardly. Just to make the point. Yeah, it was ridiculous. It's like, there's a comic where the person's walking and the covid virus hits him in the face and that shows i'm sitting down with like a green and it just goes right over there yeah right on their head exactly well and it's interesting too how you talk about how it was june 2020 that they said you could open your restaurant again and they

hit you with all of these arbitrary arbitrary restrictions of what you had to do in your restaurant that's of course, after George Floyd was killed, and it was after the entire government of all the blue states decided that you can't get COVID if you're protesting for Black Lives Matter, but you can get COVID

if you go to a restaurant that doesn't have plexiglass. You know what you should have done? You should have just put up a BLM flag. And a pride flag. And then they'd say, you know what? You're good. No fine for you. They would have been okay with that. Yeah.

I mean, it's funny you guys say that because, of course, I was trashed online for not following COVID mandates. And people who have never met me a day in my life were saying all kinds of things about me. And somehow, just because I didn't make people wear a mask when they walked into my restaurant i was racist i knew i knew that was coming too it's always it's always racist whatever whatever when you don't comply when you don't just do what you're told then you're then you're racist as though as though there's all these you know as though there's no black people who want to

stand up for their rights it feels like aliens are trying to control us but don't quite understand humans like well humans don't like being called racists so no matter what they do call it racist is like and really it's not aliens it's children it's it's you know the you know the best part about the internet is on the internet you you're not aware you're arguing with a 14 year old yeah they're adult men in their 40s who work for major news outlets who go on Twitter and there's an account called like you know

Trump MAGA 300 and there'll be a picture of Trump going like yeah and then it'll say something like you're stupid your politics are bad and they'll be like

who is this guy you can't say that to me and it's like a 14 year old kid who's just laughing they have no idea what's going on or he's like it could even be 11

it could be like an 11 year old kid it could be my kid yep just goofing off on the internet don't even care these people take it

so seriously I had so one of my the DDM on my team in Iraq the sniper he when we'd have down time

he'd go on and play Call of Duty and I remember when he told me one morning he was he was arguing with like a 12 year old

on Call of Duty who he showed me he was like look at this dude lookyear-old on Call of Duty. He showed me the camera. He was like, look at this dude. Look what he's saying, man. You suck. You have no idea what real combat is. You don't know how to shoot. That's what the kid was saying to him.

The dude is a sniper. You know what I mean? Yep. You know, looking back over the last couple years for yourself, is there anything that you would have done or would have changed in the process? I know it seems to have turned out extremely well but for people in the future that are willing to stand up you know and prevent to create civil disobedience yeah what is there anything that you can help with yeah well first of all what i would have done earlier is pay attention to politics um i i uh i did not pay

attention to politics like i do now and uh And I run it for state senate now. And if anybody wants to follow my journey on that, they can follow me on social media, at Matt4VA. And my website is Matt4VA.com if you want to see how that turns out. But I'm ashamed to say, and I was telling you guys this before the show, the first time I ever voted was in 2020. And the reason for that is because I don't trust politicians on either side of the aisle. And so pay attention to politics, especially on the state level, because that's where you make your money. But as far as fighting against covid mandates and such, I truly believe it will happen again. Maybe not in the same shape and form that it happened this last time, but the government trying to take control of our rights

i mean so one of the mandates in virginia was you weren't allowed to leave your house between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m how is that curbing covid how does that do anything for a guy that's when i was surfing remember the guy on the beach oh he was arrested for surfing by himself remember the video where the guy's jogging on the beach and the cop chases after him and the jogger just speeds up and just bolts and the cop can't catch him? It's just insane. That sounds more like an anti-rioting thing. Yeah, it just makes no sense. So what I would say is what you need to do the next time something doesn't feel right is trust your gut and you need to stand up and you need to fight back from the beginning. And not only that, everybody needs to support you, especially small business owners.

You would be surprised how many restaurateurs in the state of Virginia I had call me as soon as they heard about my story. And they would say, hey, Matt, thank you so much for standing up and doing what you're doing. I'm totally behind you 100 percent. What can I do to support you? And I would tell each and every one of them, if you believe in what I'm doing, the best thing you can do to support you and i would tell each and every one of them if you believe in what i'm doing the best thing you can do to support me is do the same thing and they would all say the same thing they wouldn't do it not me but i don't want the health department breathing down my neck man and i said listen with that attitude they're going to be breathing down your neck the rest of your life man well wasn't that the shocking thing too was how many people just did comply it was i i found that so stunning how many americans just sucked it up and did what they

were told and i found that extremely disappointing for my fellow countrymen to watch them just like capitulate and do what the government told them to do it's like that's not what we're founded on we're founded on telling the government exactly that we're not going to do what they tell us to. I feel like video games has made people really willing to comply because in a game, there's a structure and a set of rules that you cannot bypass. You're stuck within this realm of like if then. But in reality, you have complete freedom. You can go anywhere, see anything, interact with anything. I just started watching.

Have you guys seen 1883? Negative. I haven't seen Yellowstone but we were having dinner and everyone's like you gotta watch 1883 so I'll watch a few episodes I heard about that too

and there's this really great scene where there's like it's a bunch of German people and they're trying to get to Oregon

it's paradise they hear and they they gotta cross a river and so the you know the Marshall guy or whatever his name is he's like

you guys swim in Germany I was like no it's illegal and he's like it's illegal to swim in germ germany and then he gets angry and he's like everything i don't think he says germany says it's illegal to swim where i'm from he's like everything is illegal where i'm from he's like that's why we're leaving and it's it's crazy to think about that that's for a lot of people that were leaving europe and coming to emptiness, conflict and death. It was because it was better than having the government live to live with the government's boot on your neck. I actually just showed my son the other night the movie Brazil. You remember that movie?

What's that one? I think it's Terry Gilliam. That's a person, right? I'm pretty sure it's his movie. But it's basically it's about this guy who works for the government and it's just all red tape and bureaucracy and all he does he has his he has his dreams you know and he like lives in a fantasy kind of but at the end at a certain point i won't give it away but he ends up um sort of outside of the city he gets up away from the paperwork and you just see this these mountains and you're just you could it's like you

can finally breathe watching the movie and we're doing a whole dystopia thing right like he's reading 1984 gonna we're gonna do all of it fahrenheit 451 but the other thing that you were talking about in terms of the covid restrictions and how that was used and these restauranteurs are going to have the government breathing down their necks the rest of their lives there's a lot of um officials around the world not necessarily in the u.s although i think probably in the biden administration there are who see a lot of this covid lockdowns and restrictions almost as a blueprint of how they can um coerce the population into submitting to climate change mitigation measures the german health minister

was talking about this a year ago. And I think, you know, Jack Posobiec was fact checked for saying that this was happening, but it actually was happening. And they say things like, you know, the kind of restrictions that we used for COVID, we can ask people to do that to mitigate climate change, we can ask corporations to tell their workers to work from home. We can ask them not to take business trips, not to travel as much as they would like to curb this climate thing.

So yeah, I mean, they're gonna use these same methods over again. They're gonna use it for whatever new crisis they come up with. And what we see from the left, what we see from Democrats is a willingness and insistence to rule us based on crises. I don't even know if it's-

It's always a crisis. I wouldn't even start at the left. It's just people that are with their head down, like you're saying, half the governments of the Republicans say- That makes sense too. But I mean, that's the methodology. Call it a crisis and then use it to control and manipulate people. Let's pull up the story from Daily Mail.

Biden will finally lift COVID emergencies on May 11th after more than three years. White House urges 14-week drawdown to deal with Title 42 at the border, student loans, and hospitals. So that's it. He's finally putting an end to the COVID-19 national emergency. I mean, we've been, I guess we've been out of the pandemic for a while. Restrictions have been lifted. Biden said the pandemic was over when he toured the Detroit auto show in September. Right.

And then the White House was like, no, it's not. It's not over. It's over now. Biden's ending. He's ending it. It's it. There it is. It's over in May.

There it is. He says the emergency's over in four months. And you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. How can you be sure? I thought it were an emergency. No, no, the emergency's over. Okay. Well, it's a 14-week drawdown.

Okay, good. That's what it is. It's totally stupid. According to Biden, the pandemic is over. It ended last year. Well, there we go, everybody. Congratulations. We did it.

We can go back to doing everything. But you know what I noticed? You know, I love the casino out here. It's the Hollywood casino. When we first moved out here it's the uh the hollywood casino when we first moved out here craziest thing every table game had plexiglass like you were talking about matt they had to put the plexiglass and you weren't allowed to touch any cards this is a gambler's dream because that means when you're playing a table game but maybe you're playing uh let's say mississippi uh you guys ever play

mississippi stud here's how the game works dealer gives you two cards there are three cards on the board that everybody shares and you got to pay every time you want to see the next card hoping that you get a good enough hand to win your bet it's like if you get a pair of jacks or better you win you win money if you know what your cards the cards you're the other players have your odds increase so you to the casino, and then everybody's forced to show their cards. It's funny to me. I don't understand. It's like you're teaching a kid how to play.

That's how you teach a kid to play, is everyone shows their cards. I'm like, all the gamblers, right. But you're walking, and you're looking down, and you're like, okay, this guy's got an ace, I got an ace, I got, there's no ace on the board, I fold. And so these businesses were complying with policies

that made no sense, stopped nothing, hurt them substantially, but everybody was just for it. But here's the point I want to bring up. Aside from that insanity, they shut down large portions of the casino and they've never reopened them. Really?

Never. Why not? And I think, for whatever reason, nobody wants to work. So there's a horse track there. And we went out out not this weekend but the previous weekend we went to the horse races

it's so much fun you guys ever go to the horse races? yeah yeah they're a blast yeah you like

they have a horse race every 15 minutes and it's a minute long thing but you get some food you get a beer or whatever you bet a dollar on the horse the silliest name and then you hope it wins

and then you win like a dollar fifty or something maybe it's a good time itiest name, and then you hope it wins, and then you win like $1.50 or something. Oh, it's a good time. It's a good time. It's fun. It's silly. It's outdoor. But it's outdoor.

And so we went there, and it was funny because we were there with Shane Cashman and Nancy, his wife. And he bet on this one horse called like – what was it called? Like American Pryor or, or American Patriot. And when we were looking at the horses going around, like they're doing the walk up, I mean the warmup, his is going sideways and like fighting. He's like, Oh no,

it came in last. We were laughing. My horse came in first. I ended up winning like 50 bucks. But anyway, there's no restaurant. You normally you'd sit and eat food and watch the races outside. And it's so fun.

Cause every 15 minutes, the horses are running. And they said they really want to reopen it, but they can't find anybody. Nobody wants to work. It's the weirdest thing, man. People ask me that all the time, too. Do you have that issue at your restaurant? They ask me, hey, man, is it difficult finding people to work now?

And I'm like, yeah. They're like, why is that? I'm like, I have no idea. It's so weird. I wonder that, too. How is everybody feeding their families? How are people paying their bills certainly not with eggs where is this right where's this money coming from that

everybody has well first of all it was it was ridiculous and in the beginning of uh the pandemic to pay people double what they were making to work to sit at home how in the world are as an employer going to get somebody back to work come back to work for less than you're making to sit at home. Who in their right mind is going to agree to that? But the reason why people can't find workers is a question that nobody is able to answer. I have no idea what's going on. What are all these people doing?

I've been asking this for, what, a year now? Brought it up on the show? And the joke is, I mean, I was saying this when Seamus was here. They got raptured. Where is everybody? Where is everybody? Where is everybody? How is it that we still have a shortage of workers? Nobody wants to work.

But there's, I mean, well, hold on. Ian, you pointed this out. A lot of homeless people. Yeah, a lot of them are on the street. I don't know. I don't have proof that those that got fired from their jobs are the ones on the street. It makes sense, though. Either they're collecting unemployment and sitting in their, you know, the one bedroom apartment.

Unemployment gives out. You get like 18 months of unemployment. I've always been terrified to not have a job. I've been working full time basically since I was 19 years old. I don't know how else you're supposed to exist. What are you supposed to do? I got unemployment for about two years. A lot of people seem to be doing that.

That's a problem too. I'm not great at that. In 1984 they're like um football uh alcohol and gambling are where are the three like signs of the end of the civilization especially gambling football alcohol and gambling i think those are the three that george orwell talks about was it you and taylor were with us right at mgm yeah taylor won a bunch of money and i lost 300 we went to mgm national harbor and libby just lost every hand and uh taylor silverman was silverman was with us and her first hand she gets trips on

three card poker and won like a thousand dollars she was like libby i made your money back i'm pretty i have like a real aversion to gambling it makes me really nervous because it's so easy and fun but it's that's the problem with it this is is the thing. I think it's an indicator of an end of a society or civilization, the rampant expanse of gambling. Look, I love the casino. It's fun. It's like an adult arcade. You never go there thinking

you're going to win money. I'm not talking about going and being like, oh boy, I'm going to take my rent money and bet it. No, no, no. You don't do that. You get $100 or whatever and you say, we're going to just play some fun games minimum bets just for the fun and excitement then have some food and go home it's like going to the arcade you're spending a hundred bucks on games no different than if you went to an arcade put a hundred bucks in your chip machine so you can play tokens with your kids or something but there are people in mr beast who know but there are a thousand people's

blindness right except i i go to the casino and what do I see? It's people milking themselves dry. I walk up to the ATM and I see a receipt. True story. I saw the receipt and I pulled it out because I'm curious. Who are these people betting all this money? It's crazy to me. When I sit down, I go to the craps table. Dice game. People don't know. And I see a dude standing there

and he's got $10,000. And I'm like, who the is this guy to be gambling $10,000 like And I'm like, who the is this guy to be gambling 10 grand like that? It's so crazy. Well, I don't know if this casino, they have a credit window, but it's closed.

But like National Arbor, they got a credit room. You go in there, people are gambling away things they don't have. I pulled, I went to the ATM and there was a receipt hanging

and I pulled it out and it said withdraw $100 of total available balance, negative 300. Meaning they likely had just gotten paid, withdrew from their paycheck, but their account was previously negative. So it didn't roll over. Trying to win back the fee that it's going to charge them for taking out overdraft. It's like $6 for the, yep, yep. That's sex.

I don't know, but I mean, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I don't buy into these conspiracy theories. But I do truly believe that the government at large, they do not want a prosperous middle class. And that's evident. And I do believe that one of, I'm not saying the reason for COVID was to kill small businesses, but I do believe that it's one thing that did happen. And at the very least, the government saw it happen and accelerated that process because small businesses were absolutely just ravished during the pandemic. Well, there was a thing early on, and I think it was Lansing, Michigan. It was like, I think it was April of 2020. Was it April?

Anyway, it was like right early on and a whole bunch of small business owners went to the Capitol in Lansing to protest Gretchen Whitmer and be like, hey, you need to let us open up our nail shops and our hair salons and all of our little businesses. You need to let us open back up. And Whitmer had allowed casinos to stay open, liquor shops to stay open.

She allowed big box stores to stay open. And all the little shops had closed. So all these people showed up and they did like a car protest, essentially. And some people went into the Capitol, you know, and they were armed. They weren't like brandishing their weapons around or anything like that. But they were armed. And everybody freaked out that these people were there and they were like you're racist because you're protesting these lockdown measures and i remember distinctly there was one woman who ran a nail shop and she was like i have employees i have a family i have a nail shop and you took

it from me like why did you do this there was There was a hair shop in Texas and she refused to close, you know, and she kept getting shut down. There was a woman in Minnesota, I think it was, southern Minnesota. She had a coffee shop and she refused to close. That's right. So they went after her and she fled to Iowa, I guess. And then the sheriffs came and arrested her for illegally running a coffee shop. Yeah, it was ridiculous. Well, the thing is, you is, as a restaurateur,

obviously I have a lot of kids working for me, minimum wage kids. And the minimum wage is going up to 15 bucks in Virginia, and you just cannot afford that as a small business. So, I mean, you're more than doubling what the minimum wage used to be. So as a business owner, I have to, I've got to increase my prices. But as a restaurateur, I can only sell a burger for so much before you say, I'm not paying 20 bucks for a burger.

I can only increase it so much. And so what that does is it eventually, it destroys small businesses because restaurants, that's the biggest industry as far as small businesses go in America. There was a little barbecue stand not too far from where we are. It's where West Virginia meets Virginia. It's gone now. I think someone stole it. Crazy. Someone stole their cooker and drove off with it or something like that.

And now there's – and there was a waffle stand. It's gone. I don't know why it's gone. It's sad. But we used to go there. And you'd go up to the barbecue. And I remember one day we went there. I took a picture.

I posted it on Instagram. They said they had no brisket. The cost of beef was too much yeah and i said well i mean can you get it and they're like we can but who's going to want to buy a 20 brisket sandwich exactly and i was like yeah i'll take the five dollar chicken sandwich and the thing is what people don't don't realize and i mean it's the most obvious thing to me is that minimum wage more than doubles, right? But did that person who's making $60,000 a year, did his salary double? No, it didn't. So now when businesses have to double their prices to keep up with the people that they have to pay to work,

now you, as the middle wage earner, the $60,000, the $150,000, now you're poorer. So we lifted the minimum wage, and now the teenagers are getting paid a lot more money. But now you, the person that needs to take care of a family, now you are doing nothing but getting poorer and it's killing the middle class. And it's so obvious. And the thing is, why should you be paying $15 an hour to some kid who doesn't know how to do their job either? Why is that the thing? This happens with minimum wage increases as well as it would happen with UBI. You're a business and you have to pay, whether it's because by government mandate

or by environmental pressures, 15 bucks an hour, you're raising your prices. End of story. So for like UBI, you tell everybody you get 500 bucks per week guaranteed. Then one day, all of your employees quit. All of your stockers and cashiers quit. And you're like, well, why are you quitting?

And they're like, I get 500 bucks a week for free. Why should I work? Well, how much do you want to work? Man, in order to compete with a free $500, you got to understand this. We're not just talking about the amount of money I got at the end of the week. We're talking about the equation of how much work do I have to do for how much reward. If the amount of work I have to do for UBI is fill out a form one time and then I'm done, we're talking about $500 per week for the rest of my life. add that up for one minute of work. Do you think your 40 hours of work for even $600 comes close? Sorry. People are going to say, I would rather eat out less, but not have to work at all. If you're doing UBI or free 500 bucks, or let's say it's even 100

bucks, 100 bucks to a young person, they're going to say, 400 bucks a month, I'll split that money with my buddy, we'll get a studio apartment and live for free, and then I'll figure out the rest, but now I don't have to have a job at all. And if you then say, we'll give you 100 bucks a week if you do this job, that way you're getting twice as much, they're going to be like, yeah, but I have the minimum I need and I don't have to work, so I'm not going to. You say, okay, how about 200 bucks a week? And they're going to say, even that.

You want me to work 40 hours a week or 30 hours a week or whatever? Okay, 600 bucks a week. And they'll say, I mean, I guess. But it's still a maybe. It's an exponential increase in the amount of money you have to offer because you're not actually offering them money. You're offering them 40 hours more work they don't have to do if their needs are met.

Well, and that's going to bankrupt not only the economy, but it'll bankrupt society because there won't be any innovation. Well, who's all for these minimum wage increases? These big corporations, the ones that fund these politicians' campaigns. Well, and then they can put the small businesses out of business.

Exactly. Starbucks can afford the 15 how can i right how can i compete with with walmart who a teenager can just go there and stock shelves and and by the way put their airpods in and not have to deal with any customers and listen to music while they're stocking shelves and make 18 bucks an hour and walmart can afford that because now they have like a 50 reduction in workforce because they don't even need cashiers anymore now you're the cashier i hate that so much i hate that so i cannot even tell you how much i hate self-checkout oh my god like i have a job and now i'm doing this and i was at the thing the other day with my kid and we like bought some stupid crap shelf that then i had to build myself

you know because like i can't even buy anything that's put together and we put it on the i'm like okay we have to try and get it on the scanner you know it's this whole undertaking of engineering product project and we don't even realize that there's like a glass sitting there that i had already paid for a little toothpaste cup and the whole thing the the shelf smashes into the glass the glass goes flying now everything is smashed and now i have to clean up the smashed glass that i already paid for that i can't even take home with stupid shelf oh i'm so mad i'm so mad i'm still mad i got a solution for you i gotta i hate it so much i got a solution for you check out this uh this tweet from wall street silver on twitter coming to a town near

you face scanning for access to food and public transportation it works great as long as your social credit score is high enough because you obey fire and then there's another video i don't know if you saw a tiktok where a woman says she's paying her bills at whole foods her checkout with her palm what oh because she has like a rfid chip for a bank account you go up to a machine and you put your credit card in it you then hold your hand over it and it scans your hand and then you take your card out and now your handprint is is connected to your card when you're buying your groceries this is at whole foods i think it was you walk up and you just hold your hand over the thing goes and then you walk right out no i want this not at all i don't want any piece of this.

Recently, I moved out of New York. And part of it was like, I don't want this encroaching, overtaking of my body and soul and mind and identity to go to all of this stuff. We're very close in New York to having the thing where you put your hand scanner on just to ride the subway. That's what this is? No, no. Have you seen Minority Report? No.

You've never seen minority report come on no he walks into literally watch space movies and stoner comedies and like woody it's the future he gets an eye he gets eye implants you know for i guess um your eyes they recognize they can all the cameras everywhere scan your eyes so he gets them removed and gets other eyes put in and then he like he walks into a mall and it's like hello mr wong and the ads like because it's like mr wong's eyes or whatever are all tailored to him so you're walking around seeing things they'll be like hi libby did you pick up that new lipstick yet it's right over here around the corner that's what's going to be like they're doing this facial recognition stuff i went to a few years ago the uh it was the the amazon store i think it was in seattle yeah

where you have a store yeah you walk in and walk out grab whatever you want and walk right out and the cameras track everything you do they bought whole foods oh the plan is to implement this at whole foods that's what they're doing the hand palm the palm scanner whole foods during the pandemic i went in and i tried to get them to make me a sandwich and they said no they can't make me a sandwich because of the stupid arbitrary garbage rules and uh they were like no but we have sandwiches made here and i was like didn't you make those and they're like yeah i'm like okay so you can make a sandwich with your covid germs wrap it up in plastic and put it here but and i could buy that but you can't make a sandwich now and wrap it up in plastic and hand

it to me so that i have the sandwich i want and the thing is that no matter how much can go and check it out and we won't stop can't stop won't stop but the thing is that no matter how bad you don't want it it's going to happen and the reason is people are lazy and the problem with society is this is very simple the problem with society is we're too comfortable. People are willing to blindly comply because they have AC, they have heat, they're able to pay their bills, they can go grab a coffee from Starbucks when they want

and as long as they can do those things, they will gladly hand their rights over to the government. I got to tell you, man, look, look, look. I know I'm not a big fan of Starbucks, but let's be honest, that pistachio cold brew cream thing, that's so good.

I haven't tried it, man. I was thinking the other night that you got to do uncomfortable things to succeed, and I thought, no, that's backwards. It's that the things that you need to do to succeed are uncomfortable. So you got to be willing. Not everything that's uncomfortable

is going to make you succeed. Like, don't break your legs. I disagree. I disagree with someone with that you're you are right but here's let me rephrase it i think what happens to our society is that what what used to be a rewarding experience people don't have to do and now hate doing so for example exercise right i like skating it feels good exercise is is is ancillary it's like it just so happens that if you're skating you're staying in shape but skating is fun yeah there are a lot of people

who like working out because they're pushing their limits and they're trying to get more lift more weights but for a lot of people most people working out sucks and they're like i have to do something that that's uncomfortable if i want to succeed it's like it shouldn't be that way it should be from when you're a kid your your parents take you out to go exercise and it becomes rocks, and they're like, I have to do something that's uncomfortable if I want to succeed. It's like, it shouldn't be that way. It should be from when you're a kid, your parents take you out to go exercise, and it becomes a routine that you enjoy doing, that you push yourself and you succeed at it, and it feels good to do those things. You know what I mean? It used to be-

Like biking is great. Acquiring food used to be like that. It used to be a big deal when someone would come back to the tribe with food. That was not expected. If we don't get it, we're- Now it's like people loathe going to the grove. Oh, I don't want to do it. I have to go all the way there to get the thing.

Like, dude, you are lucky. I'm watching 1883. And there's the scene where the dad is hunting with the kid. And then he points the scope at the deer. And then he tells the kid to look. And then the kid's five. And he says, you know, pull the trigger. And then he's like, he brings the kid down.

And he's like, you did it. You got your first kill. It's a deer. It it's gonna feed us for weeks he's all excited and then he's gotta like gut it and pull out the garbage and then throw on the horse and bring it back or he carries it i think well we you know what we don't even have to go back to the 1800s i was actually ironically just thinking about this yesterday and in the 90s you know in early 90s when when i was growing up as a kid i ate like shit but when i joined the military at 17 years old i was 130 pounds why because it wasn't as comfortable as it is today to be in the house tv sucked you had to get up and change the tv and everything that you wanted to do if you wanted to interact with your friends, you had to go outside.

So I truly believe that, of course, food is an issue. I mean, there's no doubt about that. But I believe the bigger issue is the inactivity. And I think it proves it because, you know, in the 90s, we had the same foods that we had today. And it was just as shitty. But the obesity wasn't as rampant because we were doing things. We weren't sitting in a dark room playing video games or sitting at our phone. And our friends are just at our disposal right here on our phones.

We had to actually go outside and interact with them. You used to have to go to the store to shop and go to the bank to get money. Now, I bought like 20 things on Amazon in the last four or five days from my room. I didn't even leave the room. I remember when I was a kid, I'd have to go run errands with my stepmom before the weekend. And one of the errands was always to go get cash because you couldn't get any cash at the weekend.

Or you'd have to go to the grocery store and cash a check. You'd have to stand in line with everybody else who forgot to go to the bank on Friday. Before the debit card, I got my first debit card. And there was no ATM. We had to do a drive-through

with a little hydraulic thing and whatever. You had to interact with somebody, cash a check, to get your money. I think you're completely right that the lack of socialization

is driving this. Also, I think that the opiates are heavily involved with the lack of socialization. No doubt about that. But the bottom line is it goes back to we're just way too comfortable in today's society.

And the video that I filmed live when those police officers came into my restaurant and stripped my livelihood from me, that's the message I was trying to get across to them. I was not ragging on police. I've always supported police officers. What I was telling them is what they specifically were doing was wrong. And I don't give a damn what your profession is. If you're a police officer, if you're a teacher, if you're in the military, if you're a small business owner, if you're complicit in stripping a citizen of their constitutional rights, you are wrong. But they were willing to do it.

And I know for a fact that at least one of those officers that day felt bad about what he did because he had a friend come into my restaurant afterwards and tell me such. But the reason he did it is because what? Because he didn't want to lose his job. Because he wanted to maintain his benefits, and he wanted to have a paycheck coming in so he can provide for his family. And on one hand, you ask yourself, well, what can you blame him? But then on the other hand, the answer is, well, the only reason this is going on is because of people like him that are willing to be complicit in things that are illegal and unconstitutional to be comfortable. Now, if every police officer involved in that situation would have stood up and said, this is unconstitutional, I'm not doing it, then it wouldn't have happened.

And it was the same for me. It would have been way easier for me to comply and just go along with what they were telling me to do. And I wouldn't have lost, you know, six figures. I wouldn't have had the stress put on me and my family that was put on me. But there's more, there's things that are bigger than you. And there's things that are more important than you and your business and your money. And my mindset was always, if I lose everything, if everybody in this entire country stands against me for what I'm about to do, and I lose it all. Well, I'm a hard worker. I'll bust my ass and in one way or another, I'll provide for my family and I'll be okay. But if I give up my freedoms, I'll never get that back. And that's what I want people to understand and remember

next time is that if you refuse to stand up and fight for what's right, just so you can keep the comfortability of your daily life, then you're going to lose something much greater and those are your constitutional rights and those are your freedoms and and i just don't know how to get that across to people but i hope that my story in my situation i hope that if nothing else what it proves is that if you do stand up and you do fight the people will rally behind you and you can beat the government and you will beat the government. And we are bigger than the government. We are stronger than the government

because we are the government. Well, and once you give away your rights, like that's your kids' rights too. That's your grandchildren's rights. And that's the most important thing. Then you have to like fight a war to get them back. That's right. And I did this.

I took on this fight mainly for my kids and for the next generation because if we don't you and me if all of us here in this room if if our generation doesn't step up and and take this fight on right now and not only take it on but when and we just hand this fight over to the next generation by the time they're old enough to fight this, it'll be too far gone. Well, and they'll be squashed already. Exactly.

I got a feeling the next round of shutdown government stuff is going to be for power outages. I could be wrong about that. What do you mean for power outages? If the grid goes down for two weeks, then our phones are off. People are trying to figure it out. The government starts coming around saying,

we're going to take control. Don't leave the house. Don't leave the house. Don't leave the house. They're not going to do that until they make us all have electric cars. They're going to take control. Don't leave the house. Don't leave the house. Don't leave the house. They're not going to do that until they make us all have electric cars. They're going to wait until we all have electric cars

then we can't go anywhere either. I don't know if they're going to cause it or if it's just going to happen. But if that's a situation where it's like, don't leave the house, don't leave the house, what do we do?

Do we resist against it? I'm going about my daily business. That's literally how every city was during COVID lockdown. It's going to be asymmetrical. So next time, it probably won't be a virus next time. It'll probably be something a little... They're calling it a cyber...

Cyber 9-11? Yeah, they're working on that too. Like the FAA, the flights that all got grounded. They could pull something like that. At the World Economic Forum they're referring to it as a cyber pandemic or some kind of cyber 9-11 incident that will destroy a global economy. So what do you think? I mean, you're

pretty realistic. It would wipe out everybody's money, right? What are those things that would wipe out all of the information? Temporarily. All of your money is... Do you think that people should prepare realistically? I've got a ham radio, solar panels. Hey, hey, hey.

Everybody who listens to this show and can or figure out how to get chickens is laughing right now listening to this show and can or figure out how to get chickens is laughing right now listening to this show because they got eggs and their neighbors are probably like, please, Matt, I borrow some eggs for my pancakes. And you're like, no, they're mine. Actually, you can have some.

No, you're not wrong. You're absolutely right. I mean, being self-sustainable is the most important thing. But I'm telling you guys right now, and I hope this doesn't come across as too politician-y, but I am running for office right now. But I am the furthest thing, even in this room, from a politician, man. But I'm telling you guys, you need to start paying attention to state politics. These federal elections are not where you make your money.

It's at the state level in virginia in 2035 electric cars are going to be the law so you are no longer california too and new york so virginia and orleans and washington exactly and i think it's montana wyoming that said wyoming said that they're banning electric exactly electric cars are banned. Yeah. And so let me tell you guys something. That's where you're going to move next. A lot of people don't know. Oh, yeah. I'm not.

Absolutely. It's awesome. It's expensive, though. Yeah, it is. The most important thing, guys, the most important thing by far, and even if you don't believe that, and we were talking about this before the show, even if you don't believe that any election was stolen or any of that, elections are not secure. In the state of Virginia, you can go vote without showing an ID. You tell me that elections are not secure in the state of

virginia you can go vote without showing an id you tell me how elections are secure when you that's true in new york too you just sign for it well hold on in what was the story uh i think we talked about it did we talk about it non-citizens can vote oh yeah well in new york they put up a proposal where non-citizens could vote in local elections and it was overturned they can vote right now i'm going to tell you how and not a lot of people know this so check this out in the state of virginia and in many other states as well as an illegal alien as an illegal immigrant you can get a driver's license at the dmv a valid driver's license right so our voter rolls they come from the dmv and they go so how our voter rolls get handed down to the office of elections register right that's what happened in california so check

this out big story a few years ago the people that that run our voter rolls is an organization called eric eric and everybody look this up if you think i'm BSing. E-R-I-C, the Electronic Registration Information Center, ERIC. So what ERIC does is it reaches down to the DMVs and it says, hey, DMV, we want all of your information from all of the people in your state that are of legal age to vote. So the DMV sends them all that information. Now, illegal immigrants are in that batch because if you look in the bylaws of Eric, it doesn't hide it from you. It says in the bylaws of Eric, it says, hey, DMV, you are not allowed to tell us who is a citizen and who's not. Why? I'll tell you why.

Okay. is Eric sifts through that information and sends the voter rolls down to the state level and it says, this is everybody in your state that's allowed to vote. And illegal immigrants are included in that. And the answer to you as to why, you know who funded Eric? Who helped create Eric? I don't know. No, who? Take a wild guess. George Soros. Oh, Soros. George Soros. So George Soros is running your elections and if you think

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Not only do we have a journalist currently being funded to go out and cover the story, but, well, I mean, I should say that. We quite literally have a guy flying on a plane going to meet all the people involved and interview to figure out what's going on and do an investigation of it. And I got to be honest, like everybody's like the spamming, the chat and spamming the super chat demanding that we talk about this one issue. And it's just

like, I don't, I don't know if you guys follow the show, but we, we, we've, we, we never cave. Like we, the, the, the pre-production isn't dictated by what things are in the chat are like the hour before the show, we pull up all the the stories we don't then have a whole bunch of people start chatting to us and then we say oh hey let's let's throw out all the stories we already planned for and then not have anything pulled to talk about whatever we don't do that so i'll tell you this um know all about it um jeremy sent me some information on it jeremy was supposed to be on the show we were going to have jeremy hambly on the show um today actually today true and uh he just i guess i don't know exactly what happened he didn't get back to cassandra

uh who handles all the bookings for us and then he didn't come i told him to come on i was like i want to have you on like this would be the perfect time especially he was just reinstated he has a big threat about what happened and i'm like dude i'm not the person to to uh like jeremy come on the show like would love to i'm a bit i'm a fan i'm a friend uh want to talk about coffee too but uh jeremy didn't make it out so i told him you gotta come on when you can so if everybody wants to talk about it it's like my guys let's get jeremy to come on the show man we want the quartering on the show. So we sent Shane Cashman. So we're hoping to get a sit down with anybody we can

on whatever the story is. It is really interesting. It is really interesting to see all the details. I don't know enough about it. I just know that there's something going on here. And that the quartering, a very prominent personality talking about culture and news was suspended talking about this video.

So I'm curious to see how it turns out. Simply put, when I saw that everybody wanted something done about it, I went and talked with Shane Cashman. He wants to do a full profile on this whole thing. And I was like, that's probably the best and most effective thing we can do. Other than having Jeremy come on the show. So it's like, I don't know what else y'all want from me my friends just go dig into it yeah like jeremy jeremy jeremy come on the show and he can literally say all of this we had eliza on the show before all i know is she's

on twitter she's a prominent activist talking about the stuff many people are saying that her shade her past is shady and stuff like that it's not true she's lying and i was like oh this is perfect we're having jeremy on the show and then jeremy didn't make it out and i hit him i was like bro you're not coming like come on the show so that's that's the best thing i can do if you want to see it talked about like we gotta fly jeremy out um what's figured out and the challenge was this was the day we had booked in a month in advance and we're booked up but i would i would happily make room for jeremy i mean you know did britney venti get unbanned on Twitter both of them did oh good yeah all right let's read some more Russell Garcia says I can't wait to vote for Matt in the election

sending love from Spotsy I appreciate that thank you so much and if if anybody hasn't so far you can you can you can follow this journey because I'm telling you right now I'm coming to crush the establishment and I will with the support of you and you can do so at Matt for VA on social media and the website is mattforva.com I'm fighting a war on two fronts Democrats and these Republican establishments so if you can help the campaign out please do so yeah man plus if you're not too far away go to Gourmelt's man that was some good food we got to come back down is that place lit up right now from all the publicity oh man i mean we've we've got such a an awesome customer base man and uh and you know it's it's now it's such a patriotic customer base and the environment is just it's awesome man there's there's uh never any issues in there and we do something every night

so wednesday nights we do trivia thursday karaoke friday and saturday we do trivia Thursday karaoke Friday and Saturday we do live music and our live music so the entire name of the restaurant is Gourmelt 90s Music Bar and Draft House so we're all about

90s music and our live music on Friday and Saturdays is 80s and 90s cover bands so we blast out man we have a good time maybe we can play a show

some night there man yes indeed anytime what are your signature foods your top three meals oh man so the uh the the top ones are we have a we have a melt called the southern cookout and melts are you know grilled sandwiches and so what's in this one is uh sharp cheddar cheese it's really good

sharp cheddar cheese and uh sharp cheddar mac and cheese barbecue pulled pork that we do everything from scratch so we even We do everything from scratch. So we even do our barbecue from scratch. And we don't sweeten our barbecue sauce with sugar. That's good. That's very good. We sweeten it with figs. Oh, nice.

It's amazing. It's amazing. Did Luke convince you to get off the seed oils? He did, man. I'm on board. I'm on board, man. Society's at the point where if you spend 30% to 40% more on the ingredients, you're going to get 70% to 80% more on the customer return.

Luke actually just chatted, asked him about seed oils. Tell him I'm all in, man. He's all in. He's all in. Yeah, man. We went down there. The food was amazing. The pretzel.

That was crazy. I'm like, I don't want to eat all these glutens, man. Oh, my God. It's good. As you go down, we should come down. Maybe not this weekend, but the next one we'll come down. And we've got something for everybody so everything on our menu we can do gluten-free and our pretzels are handmade uh by a guy locally he's uh he's from germany

i mean the pretzels are legit you tried it that was so good we've got grilled cheese tacos so what we do is we take a corn tortilla and we grill shredded mozzarella cheese to the outside because when you eat a a single tortilla uh taco it falls apart right yeah all you got to do is lightly grill a little bit of mozzarella cheese to the outside of it and you're good to go so that's good oh it's all right all right let's read some more let's read some more all right what do we got um let's see wade mcunder says mtg reminds me of a triple a gaming company nowadays oof that's actually that is that is that is a dig for those that don't know all right raymond g stanley jr says tim the cult twists everything we say to fit their narrative

then if they can't argue against our claims they go right to insults they're pathetic yep that's right t-rex patchup says tim i don't have the good stuff for mr bocus but i have ut supplements and treats that help with kidney health i can get the good stuff however on special order request what's the update of mr bocus you know you being here is the good stuff man uh bucko's doing fantastic he's sitting i'm gonna go see him in about 20 minutes say whizzap and then i'm gonna come back up for the after show he's probably laying on my bathroom floor right now i got him a nice big uh is he wearing his body fresh mat no i got him a new collar he didn't like the bodysuit and he could chew through it to get to

the stitches so i got him this this cosmos collar where it's like stars and stuff and it looks like uh it's like it looks like a flower so he can't bite his own stitches you know eating a lot he gets inspired when i get inspired. So if I start working out, he gets inspired to start eating a bunch of meat. He's probably put on a pound and a half in the last week or so. Has he? Yeah, he looks fantastic. Filling out.

I'm going to take him to the vet tomorrow to get another diagnostic done before we give him the stem cell injection. But those are coming, and then what's the update? The stem cells, they are ready. Vet Stem is the company that does it. It's headquartered in San Diego, California,ia i believe and they will be sending it out overnight to the clinic whatever

clinic we choose to go to and then they will give them it's a real simple thing they just give them the injections and i think it's every three months he gets another injection after that and they think it will help his kidney function that's the plan yeah that's the it'll help everything yeah his heart uh i mean i don't know exactly i don't know i think it might even heal up his stitches on his stomach i'm fascinated i i i think it will i think that that uh they you can buy stem cell therapy for humans where they harvest it from umbilical cords or whatever or you can do a thing where they take it from you and then culture it or whatever but we watched a video about it, and damaged tissue releases some kind

of chemical or something, and then stem cells are attracted to it, attach, and then turn into the cells around it, repairing the damage. It's crazy. You can do it with teeth, too. There's experiments that you can regrow. Stem cells for teeth? Yeah, not the enamel, but the, what's the stuff underneath the enamel? Your tooth?

The root? No, it's like the root, but it's, what's that stuff called? Not dentin. I'll pull it up. I have no idea. All right. You know what's crazy, though, is one day, like in 100 years from now, like after all this stem cell research and stuff,

like being paralyzed is not even going to be a thing anymore. They're going to look back at us and laugh at us. Like, can you believe they allowed people to stay paralyzed back then? They didn't know. People used to drink mercury? They didn't know. People used to drink mercury. James Tour just figured out how to, he injected graphene nano ribbons into a spine of

a mouse that had complete severance of the spine. It was completely broken in half. And it regrew the spine within two weeks. It was walking again. Within three weeks, it was even better. Alright. Christina H. says, my chickens have finally started laying again. It's been excellent. was even better. All right. Christina H. says, My chickens have finally started laying again. It's been excellent.

They never stopped laying for us. You can do some tricks in the winter that you need a light because if there's not enough light, the chickens stop laying. But if you turn the light on, chickens are not very smart, which may be surprising to you. And they think it's day, so they keep laying. It's like a thing, I guess, for chickens. But there's also some breeds

that lay better all around. And I think Black Stars are really good layers. Yeah. It's a Rhode Island Red and Rooster and a Barred Plymouth Rock. We have a whole bunch and we have too many of these guys. I like those little fluffy ones.

What are those called? Little fluffy ones? Oh, the silkies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great hair. They're cute. Their skin is blue and their and the chicken meat is black that sounds awful oh it's probably served different kinds of chicken meat i want to now that sounds delicious man i mean you guys you you can tell the difference between just a farm fresh

egg and one you get no joke i mean it's so different it's crazy yeah when i when i when when i go out to eat and i order eggs i'm like these are conventional garbage eggs because the eggs i get on they're fluffy it's i can't i don't know they're just better the yolk is a different color darker yeah it's got more of an orange tint to it yep yeah i'm getting ready to get on the chicken train man i'm getting some chickens oh that's cool yeah i've seen restaurants that have chicken coops on the roof and stuff i've heard of stuff like that that'd be dope they like grow their own vegetables on the roof maybe it was all right mac n says i was put on stratera at the age of five for adhd i was in foster care at the time later when i was 14 i was put on

adderall and prozac i'm 23 now and i've been off project for almost a year and i have never felt better nice dude oh good glad to hear it man yeah man. How do you supplement? I want to know. Because for me, sometimes if I'm addicted to something, eating a healthy thing kind of like helps my body. Not just waiting

for the addiction to go away, but actually introducing new things kind of to take control of my own body. But I'm interested to hear what you've done to kick all that stuff.

You know what I did, man? So like during the pandemic, everybody was drinking more. Everybody was like, you know, and I started noticing man? So, like, during the pandemic, everybody was drinking more. Everybody was like, you know. And I started noticing, man, because I used to, I would have maybe a couple beers on the weekend or something. But, you know, for whatever reason during the pandemic, man, I'd have a beer a day. And I said, I got to cut back, man. You know what I did?

I introduced soda water to get me away from, you know, just drinking beer. And it worked. Yeah. I just started drinking soda water instead of regular water. And I didn from just drinking beer. And it worked. I just started drinking soda water instead of regular water, and I didn't want a beer anymore. To cut back on coffee, because I'll do coffee with peanut butter powder and a little bit of coconut water, I just started doing hot water with peanut butter powder.

And it's the peanut butter. My body is totally into it. All right, we got Mickey Blackwell says, I like this guy. Thanks for fighting for this country overseas and here. We need to watch out for how the government controls our food. Well, thanks, brother. I appreciate that.

And you are absolutely correct about that. And that really scares me because how do we really make sure the government doesn't get involved in our food? That's the question. Aren't they already involved in our food? Yeah, but I mean uh you know a lot of uh i don't know if they're rumors or not but you hear a lot of stories about how uh they're gonna come get these anti-vaxxers one way or another they're gonna put the mrna vaccine in your food now and you know it's just and nothing today to me is a conspiracy theory everything's on the table

i mean the government's even admitting aliens are real now. Well, are they, though? Well, they did release all those documents. Somebody did. Yeah, they're saying UFOs. If they came out actually and said, yeah, aliens are real, I'd... I suspect a false flag. They're going to be like, aliens are attacking. Everyone stay inside.

Do not get a gas car. We need to only electric. I don't want to give up my gas car. I just got a car maybe two years ago, my very first car ever in my life, and I will be damned if I'm giving that up. Your TV's going to get taken over, and it's going to be an alien being like, humans, we have come to take over your planet. Unless you get rid of your gas cars.

Tune to CNN. We only have CNN. Well, those of us are going to hang on to our gas cars and fight back by keeping our gas cars. But then what happens when the gas stations go away? I don't like that. You don't have a choice. We need to fight back by putting the right people in these political positions.

The issue, too, though, with the electric cars is that they're not actually sustainable or renewable or better because of the implications of the mining that goes into creating those batteries. The waste from the batteries is worse than the waste from oil spills. I think everybody knows that except people who are lying to themselves. Well, I think they, yeah. I mean, you know, these people who are like, oh, I'm going to give up my gas stove to get an electric stove because it's better. Not realizing that they're just creating waste by getting rid of their existing stove. This is a good one from Jeff Phillips. My background is pharmacology and I've worked in and with the pharmaceutical industry for years.

I don't know one scientist at any pharmaceutical company that want anything except making medicines that help. And I'll tell you exactly what happens. The scientists are like, yo, we've discovered this medicine that seems to do this thing. It's going to help a whole lot of people. Let's put it into tests.

And then during those tests, they're like, we noticed that these pills you prescribed to save people from heart attacks is giving them boners. And then a business guy goes, we are gonna make a fortune on boner pills and i think that's what it was wasn't it something like that that viagra was not initially intended for that and ozempic yeah it was like a diabetes thing now it's like a weight loss drug right but also it will give you suicidal ideation ozempic will yeah but they

have that happy song oh oh, it's a drug. Yeah, but you have to listen for the whole thing because it's actually pretty bad. The side effects are death. I hate that commercial so much. I'll buy into that. I mean, I believe the scientists are really trying to do good.

I mean, the worker bees are trying to solve a problem. It's the same as the military. Like us soldiers that go to fight, we think we're fighting for a righteous cause we're fighting for freedom in america in reality we're fighting to the guy or the or the girl to our right and left but in reality in reality do we really know what's going on do we really know what the puppets up at the pentagon are uh are really sending us out to fight for it's the same thing in the pharmaceutical company the, the guys on the ground,

they think they're doing what's right. But in all actuality, somebody else is in control of that. All right, David Flores says, guys, I spent 14 years addicted to opiates, been clean for four years now. I was a fireman at EMT. No doctor told me it was heroin.

I lost everything. Glad to hear you're clean now, my friend. Sorry to hear you lost everything, man. That's great, dude. All right. User 4179 says, here's a few bucks for all the 20s Ian's rolled tonight. Hell yeah. Ian's rolling.

20s like crazy. Kevin Corbett says, if you like horse racing, try your local dirt track. Sprint cars and late models are beastly. You know, I really want them to reopen the restaurant so you can sit up top with a seat looking down and eating food. And then every time you see the horses and you're like, well, and you can make your bet and then go sit down, have your food and be like, oh, who got it? It was so much fun. I bet on all the favorites two weeks ago and all the favorites won. So it's like you bet 10 bucks and you win like thirteen dollars or something.

So it's like, OK. And I guess it's because people will bet on the long shot horses and the net money covers. So you can't really, if you really want to make money gambling, you can go bet on roulette or something, put on a red or black. But the horses is fun. It's like you pick the horse with the stupidest name, like American Patriot or something. No offense. I mean, the horse is a nice horse, I'm sure. But he just came in last place.

So he didn't win any money or anything like that. But but it's fun you know those those uh those jockeys got some balls man yeah jumping up on those horses man and going around the track like they do man that's what the first thing i thought of when i was at a racetrack for the first time i said good lord man these dudes they got some heart man because those horses man they got some power my favorite are always the uh mystery shows that take place at the horse races like you'll get like an agatha christie show and it's all about there's murder at the horse track and someone was illegally doping the horse those are always my favorite ones you know josh karen says the baby boomers retired during covid that's another good point i've heard that a lot that's why it's hard to find employers workers because the baby boomers were working, you know, management jobs.

They all retire. Then the millennials and Gen Xers start moving up. Gen Xers take over these jobs. Millennials, you know, move into higher positions. And now there's no low skill worker base. I see. What about all the Gen Z people? Don't they?

Are they just too young still? They're posting TikToks too much. They have no idea. They don't know what's going on. They don't know what's going on. They're living at home going on they're living at home with their parents probably i guess my kid is gen z right is that right yeah if he's 2010 is 2000 i don't know if that's gen z that might be gen alpha it's like the next one it's like the unknown no gen alpha is the next one okay i'm calling it alpha gen well that's what some people call it now you want to look it up yeah now that

we've surpassed the z gen, we're starting it over again. Now it's going to be ZGen, AlphaGen, BetaGen. Oh, there's a stink bug. Because Gen Beta, Gen Alpha, you know, I don't want to get confused with the last one. You don't want to trigger them, man. You want to be nice to those guys. Yeah, you just take a piece of paper and they walk on it and then you place it. That's what I do.

Dude, AlphaGeneration, as if they're not going to be the most badass humans ever made. I don't know about that, dude. Gen alpha. Alpha gen. Is that what it's called? They call it generation alpha because they have no creativity. Alpha gen are going to be the wall-y hover chair morbidly obese people. If you say that, they'll believe you

and then that's what they'll become. But we've got to inspire alpha gen. We've got to change it, man. What year is it? What's the Generation Alpha? Early 2010s. Yeah. Yeah, so I guess that's my kid. Yep, that's right.

To the mid-2020s, yeah. All the kids these days are Gen Alpha. Well, early 2010s, what is that? Is that 2010 specifically, or because maybe he's at the cutoff? I don't know why it doesn't say. He's a Gen Zalpha, like a Zennial. Oh, yes. He's like right on the cusp.

Yeah, well, Ian's a Xenial, I think they call it. Yeah, Xenial. The last year of X. Yeah, I'm definitely in that. Right at the end of Gen X, they call them Xenials. When does Millennials start? Millennials? 1981.

Is it 81? Are you sure? I think it would be Millennials. No, it's not 81. Wikipedia says 81 to 96 is Millennial. Wow. And then 97 to 2012 is Z, so that'd be millennial. No, no. It's not 81. Wikipedia says 81 to 96 is millennial. Wow. And then 97 to 2012 is Z, so that'd be 2013. Oh, okay, so Z.

Okay. Your kid is Z, 2012. He's a Zalpha. Okay. He would be, yeah, a Zalpha. Yep. All right, what do we got here? James races, a lot of people died from COVID,

and the homeless might be a reason not enough workers. That is a good point. What's your worker base been like the whole process? Did you see more people leave or have you hired more? It's tougher to get people. I mean, my wife and I are at the restaurant all day, every day, because it's hard to get people in especially management positions. It's easier to get the younger workers that are just coming into the workforce. I mean, although I got to, you know, I got to overpay them to work. It's easier to get those folks because they're just coming into the workforce.

But to get the 25-year-olds who can hold down the restaurant without me having to be there, you know, 24-7, those are the positions that me having to be there 24-7. Those are the positions that are impossible to fill right now. And I have no idea why. I have no answer for it. It's just weird. But what I do see is I do know a lot of people are on unemployment because I put those ads out, and I'll get like 30 applications a week. And I'll call all of them in for an interview, and none of them will show up.

Wow. They're just checking the mark because they've got to apply to a certain amount of jobs every week. Oh, my goodness, to fill out for unemployment. And I actually called the unemployment office in Virginia, and I said, hey, guys, this is going on. Just wanted to alert you to it. And they transferred me to like five different people because everybody said, i don't know i don't know what to do with that information and i said no no i got this person's name right here i wanted to let you know if they're on unemployment i called them in for an interview and i i'm gonna i'll offer them a job so just so you know if they're

on unemployment i will offer them a job and they transferred me to like five different people finally she was like we don't have anybody that records that information. But here's the issue. If someone makes $20 an hour, loses their job, goes on unemployment, comes to you, and you say, I'll give you $15 an hour, and they go, okay, and then you're like, why aren't they calling back? They could be telling unemployment, I got an offer, but it was under my normal wage, and they'll say, no, no, don't take it.

Because the problem is is if somebody makes let's say somebody makes like 50k a year and they get laid off and they're desperate unemployment covers a very small amount then they get offered a job at 35 what they actually say is if you take that underpaying job you will start you like it will that your bills you'll be able to pay them. You will end up in the exact same position, and it'll be for longer, and it will reinstate another round of benefits. So the math actually is don't take an underpaying job. Otherwise, they'll end up paying more unemployment. You see how it works? Yeah. Not that I'm saying it's justified.

I'm saying that's the logic they give. Yeah. I mean, everything the government puts their hands on turns to shit. And that's the moral of the story. That's the bottom line. Yeah, well, you know, that's truth. That's truth. John L. says,

What is Libby's excuse for the post-millennial headlines of Antifa forced protesters? Oh, that... That was funny. I got you. You did. Yeah, you got me.

I was reading this post-millennial. It's like Antifa protests, shoots cop, burns down buildings. And I'm like, hold on a minute. You know, it was interesting because we had run stories about that before where the headline called them domestic terrorists. And this was a story that Andy Ngo was working on. And he and I talked about it at length. And apparently it's actually called the Atlanta Forest.

And he thought that by saying defenders, he was making fun of them. Well, why would you want to make fun of them? Why don't you just do the news? We didn't end up totally agreeing on that headline. Yeah, even Cassandra wrote a story and she called them protesters. And then I said the same thing.

I was like, TimCast.com, protest? What is this? And then later they're charged with domestic terrorism. And I'm like, Timcast.com, protest, what is this? And then later it says they're charged with domestic terrorism and I'm like, let's just say alleged domestic terrorists. Our previous headlines had said domestic terrorists.

Yeah. So I think maybe we were just switching it up a little bit. Alleged is key. Yeah. They've just been charged. Exactly.

But I think they were charged. Innocent until proven guilty. They were charged with domestic terrorism, I believe. But the guy that shot the cop in the woods? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Allegedly. But then he got shot. And killed. Allegedly. And you gotta with domestic terrorism, I believe. But the guy that shot the cop in the woods? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Allegedly. But then he got shot. And killed. Allegedly. He was allegedly killed. Well, he's dead and you can't defend the dead. But you've got to understand

the scariest thing of the story about these Antifa terrorists is that they crossed state lines with guns. You know, that's really a disconcerting situation. I don't think you should,

there should be obviously checkpoints so that you're not allowed to cross. They crossed state lines with guns. out to the united states that's crazy can't believe they would do that even imagine that's just heavens mercy all right b walsh says i was in walmart one night about 8 30 p.m so in a busy area not not so real late all right so not real late they only had self-checkout. I forced them to put someone on a register, said there's 20 employees doing nothing.

You know what I can't stand? We would go, what store would we go to? We stopped going there. I think it's Weiss, the supermarket chain out here, because our self-checkout doesn't work. Here's what happens. I know what you're going to say. What do you think i hate it man so you you ring something up you and then it tells you put it in the bag exactly

and then you're like it's in the bag it's in the bag it's like please place item and it is it's sitting so you have to take it out and put it back in exactly when they say every single time remove the item from the bagging area and you're like there's nothing there yeah literally didn't put anything and then i'm going i'm putting it there's nothing there. I literally didn't put anything there. And then I'm putting it down. And then it's like, it won't scan anything. And I pick it back up. And it's like, please return the item.

And I put it back down. And then it goes, please wait for assistance. Oh, are you kidding me? And then we're like, hello, is any human here? And there's no humans. Nope. I just want to walk down the aisle and just push everything onto the floor, man. It just pisses me off.

That's what they do in New York, and then they steal it. They put face masks on because they're COVID compliant, walk in with garbage bags, take everything off the shelves, and run out. And security guards, nobody will stop them. And you'll even have employees telling customers, don't do anything, and they'll just film it. But everything is becoming automated. I get an email probably once a month from companies that are making these robotic arms that can run your grill for you. All right. That doesn't sound like it's going to result in good grilling. No, it doesn't.

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Where's Ron DeSantis? None there, one. Big hail, big fan, Tim. The fact that this was allowed to happen is absolutely disgusting. Wouldn't this qualify

as biological warfare? When do we bring back tarring and feathering? I don bring back tarring and feathering? I don't think tarring and feathering is actually effective. Not that I think locking someone up for a long period of time is effective either. Well, if you tar and feather someone, that's death. You kill them by doing that. Pretty much.

Were they killing them? Yeah, you can die from that. Oh, yeah, yeah. They used to do it all the time to people. That's a weird thing to do. They also used to draw and quarter people. That would also kill you. Have you guys...

Okay, so I'm watching 1883. don't like it all right i don't know you guys have seen it i haven't seen it no everybody's telling me last night at dinner like you gotta see it it's so good it's it's the oregon trail it's this it's this it's a prequel to yellowstone and they're and they're going and there's like it's like if you've ever played the game organ trail when you're a kid oh you're gonna love it and then i'm watching it and it's literally like every five seconds it's people just killing each other and i'm like come on man and then and then it's apparently like it's it's realistic to how things were back then i'm like come on there's like a pickpocket and then and maybe this is true fine the main character just shoots him in the back and then you and then everyone's like someone

else pickpocket starts stomping on him while he's got like buckshot in his back. And then he goes, he took my wallet and grabs his wallet back. And then they literally drag him and just string him up right there, killing him on the spot. And I'm like,

for real? Okay, maybe, maybe, maybe. Then, there's like, I don't want to spoil it, but there's like a big fight happens and a kid dies.

So they go to the Marshalls, played by Billy Bob Thornton. And he's like, well, let's go. And then he walks into the saloon and then he goes, he yells at the guy's name. And then he's like,

look, I boom, shoots him, shoots it, shoots a guy, shoots a guy, shoots a guy. And he goes,

are there any else? And then he points another guy and he's walks up and shoots him. And I'm like, come on. That's just not literally every 10 seconds. Someone's dying. And it's like, how would human civilization function? Right. if this is how it actually went down?

And people are saying like, that's really how it was. You'd walk into a saloon and just murder 10 people and walk away and nobody. I don't think that's right. The other thing, too, is whenever you see these shows and a whole bunch of people get killed, no one has any emotional reaction. And I don't think that's accurate either. No, people vomiting and stuff like, yeah, you'd have an emotional reaction. You'd be like freaked out if somebody

walked into where you were sitting and shot 10 people. All right. We're going to read one more here. Jennifer Ramos says, Matt for VA

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Thank you. Looking forward to spending some time at Gormouts playing a show. I can't wait, man. I'm ready for you guys to come down and rock with us. And Matt Gates, when he was on, we were talking about blockchain backups for voting to secure the actual votes. That's very interesting. So if you and Matt can ever get in touch, I think that might be something we can start pushing forward with.

I would love to. Yeah, great stuff. All right. Bye, everyone. I'm Ian Crossland. Happy to see you. Happy Monday. Take care of yourself tonight.

And I am at surge.com. It's been a good show. Really hoping you do well, my friend Matt. It sounds like your head is in the right place. That was a good show. Let's go to the next one. All right, everybody. We will see you all over at Tim cast comment about an hour thanks for hanging out