Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #940 GOP Debate CANCELED After Haley REFUSES, Trump Rally Chants VP For Vivek w/Adam Weiss
Episode Date: January 17, 2024Tim, Libby Emmons, Hannah Claire, & Serge join Adam Weiss to discuss ABC News canceling the GOP Debate in New Hampshire, Trump blasting Nikki Haley for being propped up by democrats, the DeSantis camp...aign doubting Trump's immense success in the Iowa Caucus, and Vivek Ramaswamy officially endorsing Trump for president in 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Thank you all for hanging out with us.
We were in Iowa.
Got back at around 3.40 a.m.
I'm exhausted.
We got big news tonight. The GOP debates in New Hampshire have been canceled. Nikki Haley is refusing to debate unless Donald
Trump is there. Ron DeSantis says he will debate two empty podiums. And they were like, yeah,
okay, no, Ron, thanks for the offer. But Nikki Haley did the meme. And so this is one of the
funniest things she's ever done. She basically declares, or she literally declares,
that the result in Iowa proved it's now a two-person race,
but she came in third place.
So I guess she's in some way conceding to Rhonda Santis, I guess.
But I think the reality here is the establishment play
is that the GOP primary is the actual election.
Nikki Haley is a Democrat.
She is funded by Democrats. Democrats are voting for her. And I think they're hoping
that in places like New York City and California and Illinois, when they have their Republican
primaries, Democrats show out in force for Nikki Haley. And then it doesn't matter if Joe Biden
is running for the Democratic ticket, because if it's Biden versus Haley, you get a Democrat
either way. So we'll talk about that. But Vivek Ramaswamy announced last night that he was
dropping out of the race. And I think we kind of realized it because, you know, we really like
Vivek. He's a great guy. With all due respect, he did cancel on us while we had scheduled him for
the show that Monday. And I think it's fairly obvious why. When the results came in, they were a lot worse than I think the Vakes campaign expected.
And so while he was supposed to join us here on TimCast IRL, he ended up not showing up.
And I think we all kind of realized what was about to happen.
But he did then endorse Donald Trump.
He appeared in New Hampshire today with Donald Trump.
And after speaking, the crowd chanting vp over and over
and over again people are really excited for the prospect but we will see donald trump basically
said they're going to be working with him in some capacity but who knows what that really means
we'll talk a lot about that and uh we'll talk about the uh the primary process and where we're
going a lot of a lot of a lot of uh this stuff going on today with a gop primary related stuff
but there is a big story that i think we may get into. A report from the Daily Mail that China has created a new,
they've gained a function
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in the mice that it infected.
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tonight to talk about this and everything else is adam weiss tim thanks for having me i can't
believe you're doing the show after a brutal week in iowa and uh with no sleep but thanks for having me. I can't believe you're doing this show after a brutal week in Iowa with no sleep.
But thanks for having me.
Morning, Chantel.
I'm Adam Weiss from New York.
I run a communications PR firm and I'm a contributor to RAV, Real America's Voice News.
Catch me there every week.
Right on.
And, of course, we have Hannah Clare hanging out.
Oh, hey.
You guys know that – well, first, I'm Hannah Clare Brimlow.
I'm a writer for SCNR.com.
If Tim collapses, this immediately becomes Brimcast.
It's like a hostile takeover staged by me personally.
I'm really excited because Libby Emmons is here.
Hey, Hannah Claire.
Hey, Adam, Tim.
Thanks for having me on tonight.
I'm Libby Emmons with The Postmillennial.
Glad to be here.
Well, yeah, if you want to do a members only, I'll go to bed and you can do a Brimcast after
the show.
I don't even know what I would talk about solo alone in Brimcast.
No, I could if you wanted me to, but it's not the same without you here, Tim.
I'm tired.
But Libby is here.
She's Ian.
I'm Ian.
Yeah, filling in.
You know, we do these late shows when we fly in.
I get to bed at like, we get back at 3.30.
I'm asleep by like 3.40 because we got to bring our bags in.
It snowed four or five inches.
It was very snowy last night.
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couldn't land at the airport where our car was because of the snow so we had to land at a
different airport like 40 miles away then we had to have a car come and pick us up which they didn't
know where to go then they had to drive in unplowed four inches in a honda civic we did have some suvs
but they're it's all unplowed. So everyone's driving.
We drove 20 miles an hour. When we tried to speed up, we were slipping. And I'm just like,
oh, this is so brutal. Finally get home. Couldn't go up the driveway. Our driveway is about a
thousand feet long. It's a long winding middle of the middle of the north path. And so we had to
walk up carrying all the bags. And then I finally get to bed. I wake up at seven. I get back to work.
So, you know, welcome to work. Well, I wasn't, I wasn't up that late. I wake up at seven. I get back to work. So, you know, welcome to work.
Well, I wasn't up that late.
I was up until like about 12, 1230
working and filing stories
on last night's adventures in Iowa.
But when I woke up at seven,
I went back to bed.
I was like, I'm not doing this.
Nope, I woke up, got to work.
And then I was excited to try snowboarding
because we finally have snow
but there's no base so it just sinks into the grass
yeah but it is what it is
and then I basically just slept a little bit
and then still had to work but we're here
Serge is pressing the buttons
yo I am good to be back
and out of the vortex
polar vortex death storm we were in
let's jump to the news
ladies and gentlemen we got this from the New york times abc news cancels gop debate after haley demands trump appear too
nicki haley said she would not agree to more debates unless donald trump was on stage with her
another debate on cnn was in doubt before the new hampshire primary next week i i just i think it's
funny there's no primary no like this is this is not a primary okay
this is something weird nikki haley is not even going to debate ron desantis why are either of
them running after trump won with a historic blowout landslide in iowa it was a landslide
30 points that's the biggest ever i think the other the past record was 12%, yet Trump's going to win.
Everybody's wasting their time.
However, what do we get from,
what was it?
I think MSNBC said,
I think it was Joy Reid.
She's like,
you know, Iowa's all white Christians,
so they're of course going to swing for Trump.
I think they're laying out their plan
for Nikki Haley.
She is Hillary Clinton.
She is.
This is the election.
The primary is the general.
The general is meaningless we were
speculating for a long time about how they're going to get rid of joe biden and i'll say we
were correct joe biden is not their nominee nikki haley is well the election is happening right now
and when the primaries go to california illinois and new york all of these urban liberals are going
to show up as republicans to vote for nikki Yeah, well, a lot of Democrats have been giving money to Nikki Haley, and we've seen that. We've
seen Nikki Haley donors bragging, essentially, about how Nikki Haley gets all of this Democrat
money. And they're all really happy about it. And also, you had Joy Reid, who, yeah,
like my social media team last night was checking out Joy Reid as as well and she was she was saying that joy reed lost because
of racism so they're already lost because of racism yeah yeah she's brown lady apparently
so they're already embracing her with their stupid ethos well i got a question real quick just uh
does nikki haley appear on the ballots as nimrata or nikki i think it's nikki it's nikki yeah
i think one of the interesting things.
Oh, go ahead.
I said like a few months ago, I said to a small, I said, why don't you host this?
They said, the GOP wants like a million bucks.
I said, what is this, a money making scheme?
So they want to, the GOP, the National Committee wants to take a ton of money from the outlets.
Then they want the donors to pay.
They invite all donors to sit in.
So I feel like this whole thing is just a money making scheme.
I mean, this is their biggest money-generating time
period, I would assume, an election year. The problem is that basically the system they have
built doesn't work in this case. I mean, I was watching CBS last night when they were doing all
of the election coverage, and they immediately went into, can you believe that despite all these
self-inflicted wounds that Trump has incurred, you know, skipping the debate, he is still managing to win, which, by the way, was completely predicted. I mean, they do not
want him to be the nominee so badly, but it's just at this point impossible to deny. Instead
of adapting to the current reality, they're trying to say he is unpredictable and we don't
know how this would happen. The only person that shocked us was Vivek. I mean, he rose from zero
to eight, right?
He was a wunderkind, he was an amazing spokesperson.
But if we all sat here a year ago,
the results would have been the same.
It's like we wasted a year
and we gave a hundred and something million dollars.
You could have done so much with that money.
Well, I will say, I mean,
I don't know where Nikki is necessarily spending
all of her money,
but if any of it is going to Republicans,
it's kind of funny to hear that Democrats are giving money to Republicans for Republican causes.
I mean, she has spent a ton of money, but it was specifically in Iowa and then in New Hampshire.
She hasn't spent very much nationwide. I'll pull the numbers in a second from the
ad impact report. But, you know, she was trying really hard to have an early victory with Iowa.
She didn't succeed. In factowa she didn't succeed in fact she
didn't even win the race for second place uh despite what she said this is now what did she
say this is now it's clearly a two-person race now yeah sort of like i don't think you understand
well she thinks it's a two-person race between her and biden right ah but probably not considering
she didn't even make it to second i I got to play this clip for you guys.
Okay, can we pull this one up?
I'd like you to listen to this.
I can safely say,
tonight, Iowa made this Republican primary a two-person race.
I despise this woman.
But this is like an episode of Veep
because as she's saying this at the bottom of the screen,
it shows Trump and DeSantis in the top two positions.
And not her, yeah.
With 95% in.
It's almost like Curb Your Enthusiasm or Veep.
She's just so oblivious to the fact that she lost.
She's the meme of the guy cheering and spraying the champagne
and biting the metal, and then he's in third place.
And it's like, you lost, lady?
Somewhere along the line, we started giving out trophies to second place,
to third place, to make kids feel good in high school and elementary school.
This is like Nikki giving herself a trophy after she lost.
To be fair, we do give first, second, and third place
because in the Olympics, you've got thousands or millions of people.
But when the race is literally four people,
you don't get a medal for coming in bottom 50%.
Technically, it was five
because as I found out today,
Asa Hutchins was in fact there.
He was, yeah.
He got 191 votes and then said,
I'm out.
His quote was,
I am driving back to Arkansas.
Did you see that?
When he was in Iowa?
Yeah.
Wow.
Well, he was running a presidential campaign
even though none of us realized it. I feel bad for him. Did you see that? He was in Iowa? Yeah. Wow. Well, he was running a presidential campaign, even though none of us realized it.
I feel bad for him.
Did you see there was a, someone went up to DeSantis the other day and gave him a participation trophy.
I did see that.
It was a nice little viral clip.
It was cute.
It's very nice of them.
Wasn't it?
Yeah.
Because I mean, that's really all he's going to get in the end.
He burned down his career for what?
For what?
And you know, the thing that drives me nuts is that I feel like he could have been a good
candidate and he had such a poor team.
His team is spiteful and mean and exclusionary.
And, you know, like they don't they don't do anything good for him.
When we say that Vivek is running the campaign, we hoped Ron DeSantis would.
You look now at Vivek hugging Donald Trump on stage at a rally while they
chant VP. And it's like, I'm just imagining Ron is outside at the window looking in with like a
single tear rolling down his cheek like that could be me. And it's cold. There's the wind
chair. Vivek embraced his youth. He embraced the fact that he was, you know, doing all kinds of
podcasts. He took the new media route. There were a lot of things that I think DeSantis' team
maybe failed to advise him correctly on.
And, you know, presenting this young, fresh image was one of them.
It seemed to me like he sort of became more buttoned up and closed off as his campaign progressed.
And it's difficult to dig yourself up.
He took less opportunities.
Right.
Whereas Vivek has really presented himself in this beautiful, open, communicative light, which I think is what people want, especially from young candidates.
I mean, they are similar ages.
They have similar age children.
And yet they seem very different.
They seem so different.
There was such a cool thing the other day.
It was like a, it was a compare and contrast.
You had how Vivek handled a heckler
and how DeSantis handled a heckler.
And Vivek was like, right?
This was amazing.
Vivek always.
So on Wednesday, when we did this town hall
the timcast team was like they come to me and they go we asked everyone who's coming to the
show to write down a question and then we're going to go through them and figure out which
ones are good i'm like no that sounds terrible i was like we don't want to do that like that's
like corporate garbage and they're like yeah but someone's going to scream something crazy and i'm
like i'm pretty sure if a fake will say no he will not accept that and i was like i don't think we do that i think it's good they prepared questions but we're
gonna call them at random and so i told the vape hey my team i don't know what you what your policy
is but my team had everybody draft questions because we i never it's my policy to take no
screened questions let them ask whatever they want there's viral video of ron de santis throwing
people out of his events who said nothing right Just because he's scared of who they may be associated with.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There was a guy the other day.
In a wheelchair.
Yeah.
In a wheelchair.
And so you had Vivek gets his heckler.
The woman starts screaming something about climate change.
And he's like, how about this?
I'll make you a deal.
I'll hand you the microphone for 60 seconds.
You make your case.
And then I'll talk about it as well. know then i'll tell you why you're wrong yeah
i'll tell you why you're wrong and it was it was a great moment she was confused she made a terrible
case he was able to trounce it in a second and then there was a clip of desantis dealing with
a heckler being like no i'm doing this i'm doing this you know no no respect no consideration at
all just sort of you know like muscling his way past the guy.
It was really distasteful.
I want to go back to March of 2021.
I think I went to the last fundraiser
that Trump hosted for DeSantis.
It was at Mar-a-Lago.
Somebody got COVID, one of the chefs,
so they still went ahead with the fundraiser,
but it was closed.
It was about 80 people,
these colleagues, old colleagues
and friends I had from Long Island,
they hosted it for DeSantis.
March of 2021,
so he was just
still a year
to go running for a second term.
I go in there. I'm with my
dad. I'm with other friends. I went up to
very close to the governor. I'm trying to talk to him. I'm getting
nothing out of him. I'm doing my best.
I just moved here from New York.
It's terrible, the policies. I couldn't get
anything out of him that I remember.
If you meet the sitting governor who's doing a great job, I'm trying conversation and nothing's coming out of him, no personality, which you can remember.
What do we have?
Memories in life?
I can't remember talking to the governor because nothing came out of him.
Trump is there.
He sees my dad.
He's at a clear distance.
Is that your dad?
He says, get him over here.
I want to take some photos and talk to him.
That sums up the difference in that little moment in that little, you know, moment in time.
And that Trump held those last fundraiser for DeSantis.
That, that sticks out.
That kind of sums up the personalities.
I'll tell you the first story I've ever heard of Donald Trump outside of like the media.
I was in Chicago and I met this guy who was a music producer, young guy, like, you know, college music producer. And he said that he was, I think he was doing some kind of delivery
when he's going to Trump Tower to drop off a package or something.
Donald Trump is coming up behind him as he's walking in,
and he holds the door open for Trump and his team as he's walking in.
And then he walks in behind him.
Trump stops and goes, hey, kid, thanks.
And he throws him an iPod.
This is back in the day when iPods were like several hundred dollars and it meant something.
But the kid caught it and he was like, whoa, like I held the door of this guy.
You hear I hear stories like that all the time where Trump stops to make sure he leaves you with a positive impact.
When I went to Trump Tower during his campaign cycle in 2015, I was with some colleagues and I was like, hey, we're covering Trump's rallies. We're covering Trump.
Let's go see what his employees have to say about him.
So we decided to get food at the Trump Steakhouse.
Asked everybody what they thought of Trump.
They love the guy.
They love him.
I went to his ice cream shop downstairs and I asked him and the people working there said,
Trump will show up randomly and walk, call the staff out and just hand everyone $100 bills.
And everyone's like, we're so excited when Trump comes.
He's such a nice guy,
shakes everybody's hands,
thanks them for their work
and then gives them $100 cash.
To be fair, Tim does this too.
We'll just gather around a staff meeting,
hands out $100.
Staff meeting, here's money.
No, I'm just kidding.
Tim doesn't do that.
No, we play poker.
I take the money from you.
Yeah, and Tim gets us like snacks and stuff.
It's fine.
No, but I think that's true.
Trump had that personality
and it stayed true when he was president.
I mean, the presidency,
I could see potentially you dial it back a little bit you have to whatever my one of my favorite
clips of trump ever is when he and melania my favorite first lady were handing out um halloween
candy and someone comes up in like a minion's costume he like puts this full-size jacobar in
this kid's head and he's obviously laughing like there was something i gotta pull that clip up
please do it's my fate one of my favorite trump clips of all, there was something I know. Dude, I gotta pull that clip up. Please do. It's one of my favorite Trump clips of all times.
There is something, you know, he's brash.
There are times you don't like him.
Whatever.
There is such a personality that is true and authentic there that you kind of laugh along with him.
Last night he brought the...
Can we just play this real quick?
Because it's like...
It's the best.
One of the best clips of Trump ever.
His little spider...
Two Spider-Mans and a unicorn princess.
Melania is like the nation's room mom.
Look at this.
The kid's hands.
He can't reach his head.
They both put candy bars on him.
And then they, this is amazing.
They slide off and fall in a little girl's bag.
And it's Melania who's like, well, I'll give you another one.
Like, hold on.
Don't leave.
Yo, that is one of the best moments ever. at him he like tested out make sure it doesn't hurt him and then look it slides off the head and lands right in the girl's bag oh no they fell
on the floor they fell on the floor that's why she gives her another one and someone comes and
picks him up oh my god the kid in the minions costume his arms can't reach above the set
it's it's just these small things or there's another one where he's on the phone we don't play this clip but they're taking calls when kids are on christmas and there's one
where he's like uh you know wishing he's like how old are you seven merry christmas so do you
believe on santa that's right on the edge like where are we like he just has a personality that
shines through and i think so many americans like that because it's not stiff and formal
i worry i think you know, I think
Ron DeSantis could have a political future. I'm not one to speculate what it could be.
But, you know, it it's sort of embracing that personal connection that people are really
craving in this day and age. And it has so much to do with our our personal interactions with
our neighbors falling apart to see a president that you can all kind of share these memories
with and laugh like that's something people desperately want and the politicians that can do that like trump like the vague thrive i
made it the heartland proved last night they love a funny brash fighter new yorker right and that's
proved it again last night and the culture hollywood the media used to love trump until
until three four nine years ago until he decided to say, I'm a Republican.
I'm running for office. All of a sudden he wasn't. He was great for headlines. Right.
He's still great for headlines. Still great for headlines. But it's negative headlines.
It used to be all positive. Trump was a, you know, an icon in New York.
He did so many wonderful things, building the skating rink. He paid for Jesse Jackson's office for the Rainbow Coalition.
Oh, really? Yeah. Back in the day. I didn't know that. Let's jump to this story.
We have this tweet from Team Trump.
Flashback.
Trump said,
You know, I just found out that Democrats
are funding Nikki Haley's campaign.
I hear that Democrats are contributing to Ron DeSantis.
Let me play the clip for you guys.
I just found out that Democrats
are funding Nikki Haley's campaign.
I hear that Democrats are contributing
to Ron DeSanctis's or Ron DeSanctimonious
to Ron DeSanctis's campaign.
I got to stop you there, Trump.
It's DeSwampus, okay?
DeSwampus was always the best name,
but he went with DeSanctis, whatever.
But the conspiracy theory now, I suppose,
I don't think it's actually a conspiracy theory i
think it's a fact we know for a fact that nikki haley is getting support from democrats many of
the voters that are coming out and voting for her in iowa that voted for in iowa are liberal
individuals and we have the proof it's in the pudding the iowa caucus results trump lost only
one precinct and it was by one vote actually it looks like he may have reclaimed it so this was
uh where we have johnson county oh okay no no johnson county look at this they're not even showing it anymore
johnson county is the only county that went for nikki haley by one vote and as it's pointed out
to us this is the urban liberal college area so it's not surprising that's what's happening
but that would mean that many people are coming out for Nikki Haley. They're in liberal areas.
They are liberal Democrat voters.
And then we have this from The New York Times.
In Iowa, Nikki Haley has the attention of Democrats and independents.
Haley has attracted the interest of non-Republicans who say they'll caucus for her as rivals attack her for an insufficiently conservative message.
This is the play, ladies and gentlemen.
We were speculating.
How are they going to get Joe Biden out of the race?
Joe Biden would have to suffer some injury, get sick.
But then he's past the point at which the Democrats can have a primary.
So then people said it won't happen.
A strategist for J.P. Morgan said, no, he will drop out due to a medical issue.
And my response is that's actually smart.
It allows them to appoint a nominee by passing a
primary, preventing a Bernie Sanders situation. Vivek is smarter. He pointed out, and I believe
he's correct. He said, no, the establishment play is the primary. It's Nikki Haley. The deep state
will stop at nothing to remove Donald Trump. And when they do, it's going to be Nikki Haley versus
Ron DeSantis. And Nikki will win.
And that's how they're going to take back the system.
And we get more wars.
We get World War III.
I think that's actually what's happening right now.
When you look at the Democrats voting for Haley, the New York Times is saying it outright.
Donated Nikki Haley.
They realized we cannot win a general election against Donald Trump.
However, Donald Trump will struggle
to win blue state primaries
if Democrats come out and vote for Nikki Haley.
So this, she's Hillary Clinton.
Of course you can.
No, you can't do that in every primary.
Yes, you can.
Well, you'd have to change your,
some of them you'd have to change your voter registration
that far in advance.
Yep.
And so these people have been planning this for a year.
Look, look, the vague said they'll stop at nothing. And we can't look back on this in 2025 and say, how did we not see this coming? He's correct. So how many votes do they need to beat Donald Trump? Nikki Haley got what, nine delegates? Let me let me. She got eight delegates. Eight? She got eight delegates in Iowa. She's behind Ron DeSantis,
but she is polling in the high double digit,
or I should say near as high as Trump in New Hampshire.
And it is speculated these are Democrat voters
that have switched their parties.
This is it.
I mean-
In New Hampshire, you don't have to switch a party.
You can be an independent Democrat,
vote in the primary.
Right.
And so for places where you need to be a registered party member, like in a democrat vote in the prime right and so for four
places where you need to be a registered party member like in a caucus you just do it in advance
super easy and then there's states with open primaries what i think we're seeing is they're
actually rather fascinating is the end of the democratic party when when they realize you can't
beat donald trump in a general election their only, their only path is to beat him in a primary. It's actually kind of scary if you think about what comes after this. If the general
election doesn't matter because it's Joe Biden with no support, the Republican Party becomes
the single party rule in this country. And while many people may say, oh, but that's great. We like
Republicans. We'd rather they win than Democrats. No, but you don't understand. It's Democrats weaseling their way into the Republican Party as their only
means of stealing power. And then instead of having general elections, we have whoever our
president's going to be is going to be solely based on who wins the Republican primary.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's getting pretty desperate on honestly, on both sides of the
aisle, right? There are a ton of people who do not want Trump to be the nominee. They don't outnumber the people who want him to be the
nominee. But the tactics are there. When Asa Hutchins dropped out, one of the pieces that I
read when I was researching for my article was the recommendation from a Republican strategist that
he endorsed Nikki Haley, who he shares more votes with, you know, he's this long term governor from Arkansas.
I think there are going to be sort of moments until the end, until her campaign is over,
where people are trying to say, well, if just the right people and she got some states, we can still make this happen.
There's still a way to deny Trump.
And I think that's ultimately denying reality at this point.
Yeah.
I think you have something interesting, Tim, because I saw a colleague, a friend from the hamptons an older gentleman auntie saban he was on neil cavuto
last week i was just thinking about that he said the interesting thing we're doing a fundraiser
for nikki at the end of the month and a lot of democrats are coming yeah he said believe it or
not a number of it is coming from democrats democratic fundraiser yes right and they're
doing a big fundraiser in new york for nikaley. Why would they join Nikki Haley Democrats?
Right.
And what are Nikki Haley's positions?
Pro-war.
Pro-war.
Don't call illegal immigrants criminals.
Right.
Register with the government before you comment anything online.
That's a big thing.
That's a social media.
Yep.
Yeah, she's definitely sort of the Hillary Clinton of this campaign.
She's even running on, you know, I'm a woman, elect me.
That's a qualification somehow.
And she likes to talk about her high-heeled shoes.
I think that's sad.
I think if you were really a candidate, you wouldn't have to, like, you being a woman would be like a fun benefit, right?
But it wouldn't be the major tenet of your campaign.
This ad impacted the study, and they were about uh the top themes that each of the
candidates during their ad spends have because republicans have spent like 230 million dollars
so far yeah and trump is talking about illegal drug trafficking he's talking about the border
he's talking about policy he's talking about trade and both desantis and uh nikki haley are
talking about china which you know fair and they're talking about character, which is just code for they're trying to say we're better than Trump.
And I can't even remember the last thing they talked about because it's just so irrelevant.
They are trying to separate themselves from Trump.
And Trump is the one setting the pace for policy.
The thing is, Trump is able to run on a lot of the same policies and ideas that he did in 2016 because he had four years. He did a
lot of really good things. Biden took over, literally reversed everything on purpose.
And now it's like, oh, we're back here now. We have to redo it. Even look at the situation with
the Houthis in Yemen, right? You had Trump, when he was leaving office office classified the Houthis as terrorists.
The day he came into office, Biden reversed that.
And he said, no, they're not terrorists.
And the reason that he reversed it was for apparently humanitarian reasons,
which is the same reason we're throwing money at Gaza, right?
So that Hamas can massacre people again.
But now Biden's talking about,
oh, I better make the Houthis
classify them as terrorists.
And it's like,
they've been terrorists
this whole time.
You know,
so he literally came into office,
reversed all the good things
Trump did,
made a whole bunch,
out of spite,
did a whole bunch
of really bad things.
And in terms of the border wall,
reversed the concept
of the border wall
and then left all the equipment
and supplies
just sitting there
rotting, waiting for nothing, you you know with people climbing over it and then
had to like re restart up the border wall anyway even though now that's you know irrelevant now
because it's humanitarian it's just too they're gonna try and spin it so that right whatever they
did was the correct thing to do but so trump is able to run on the same stuff that brought him
into office in the first place. The same reasons.
Now on to the good things Joe Biden has done.
Oh, it's very quiet now.
He's got a 33% approval rating.
It's rough.
Can we think of anything?
Nothing. Let's be as nice as we can.
Nothing.
He's been pro-pardoning people for some drug offenses, which depending on your stance on that, that could be perceived as a good thing.
He was.
He's given us some of the best memes of the day and age.
The marijuana pardoning thing was done because there's nobody in prison at the federal level.
In federal.
Exactly.
For possession.
It's stupid.
With all the rambunctious left progressives with anti-Israel, he stood up a little bit.
But I just read recently he hasn't talked to the prime minister in like three or four
weeks. That's right. Yeah, but's not incredible being being wishy-washy
like what's a good thing he's done being like halfway there is not a good thing it's like well
he was like tepid here no no what was he good on i'm trying to be honest like can we i want to
think of something because i feel like if you it's too easy to be like everything he did is awful and
he's terrible like i want to be you know and say, like, well, maybe this was good, but it's very hard. Well, I I remember during Trump's presidency.
So when he won in, you know, when he won in 2016, I remember thinking, OK, like I didn't vote for
Trump in 2016, but he's the president. I'm going to support the president and I'm going to watch
what he does and see, you know, see what his policies are and go from there. And then
every like he kept coming out with policies. I was like, that's good. Well, that's good. That's
good. And with Biden, I did the same thing. I was like, I didn't vote for Biden. You know,
I wisened up. I voted for Trump. I didn't vote for Biden. And I thought, OK, well, you know,
I'll watch. I'll see what he does. And everything that he did, every executive order, I kept reading
the executive orders.
This is terrible idea. This is this is destructive. This is destroying everything.
I can't think I've been tracking his his time in office since he took over.
And I can't think of a single good thing that I that he did where I was like, oh, that's good.
I'm glad he did that. I can't think of anything. Yeah. I mean, even with Obama, I remember, you know,
he made some efforts to encourage private investment,
investment in space travel.
And I was like, that's good.
Yeah, right.
But was Hunter Biden on the board of the space travel company?
Yeah, it's always the question.
I mean, it's to me not a good sign that there is a president
that we can't off the bat be like, this one seems okay.
Well, look at what he did on his first day in office, right?
He pushed equity.
He pushed weird gender stuff.
He reversed the border wall.
He declassified the Houthis as terrorists.
He did so many terrible things.
And he said during his first campaign speech a couple weeks ago,
you know, the Republicans are all focused on the past.
And then all he did was talk about January 6th.
But that's actually been the theme of his administration the whole time i mean yeah
he has everyone is saying oh trump is saying revenge and he's going to do whatever but
actually it's democrats who have been acting out of spite right the fact that he reversed
his first day in office reversed a ton of trump policies just because trump did them to prove to
his base that trump is bad and then let us all suffer the consequences of his, you know, spite is not good. What what out of the two of them who talks more about the future and
who harps on the past nonstop? The Democrats harp on the past. Let's jump to the story from the
independent DeSantis fury after Trump is projected Iowa caucus winner before some even started
voting. Language from the DeSantis campaign echoes Trump's own election denialism.
It's kind of sad because DeSantis had said previously that if Donald Trump loses in Iowa,
he will claim it was fraudulent or it was untoward or something like that.
And now that Donald Trump has won, it is actually DeSantis campaign saying that something was a foul here.
But here's the real conspiracy, my friends. As many of you may know, if you were watching the Iowa caucuses last night,
within about a half an hour of the caucuses beginning, they called the race for Donald
Trump. The Associated Press said, we have seen enough. Trump is the winner. Now, of course,
the Sanders campaign is saying that's not fair. People haven't voted yet. This is a trick to help
Donald Trump. The Sanders campaign staff even said that the media is a trick to help Donald Trump. DeSantis' campaign staff even said
that. The media is pro-Biden. They want Trump to be the nominee because they want Trump to run
against Biden so Biden can beat him. These people are as dumb as a box of rocks. I'm sorry. That's
offensive to rocks. The reality is this was a play against Donald Trump. And I'll break it down for you. And I am right.
Okay, maybe I'm wrong, but okay. But hear me out. Think about this. Who is, whose election is it to lose? Donald Trump. If you're a DeSantis supporter, you know, entering this race, you are facing an
uphill battle. You know that if you want Ron to win, you must fight tooth and nail.
And so you're sitting there ready to caucus and you get a push notification that says
Trump is the winner. You knew, you knew Trump was the favorite here. You know that to win,
you must do your duty. Why would you leave? Now, hold on. You're a Trump supporter. You know Trump is going
to win. Everyone is telling you the race is pointless. Why are we even having a primary?
Trump is up 30, 40 points. You're sitting there in minus 15 degrees in your caucus location and
your phone and you look down and says Trump is the projected winner already. And you go, OK,
I knew we won. I don't need to be here.
Everybody knew Trump won. I'm going home. The reality is it was Trump's to lose. And the only
people I would say Trump supporters are more likely to leave having already believed they
were going to win in the first place. And this is brought up by Trump and many Republicans
that because the polling favors Trump so much, Trump supporters are more likely to be like, well, I guess Trump already won.
Why do I need to show up?
This is what they warn about.
Some people say this is what cost Hillary Clinton 2016.
They were so confident Hillary would win that many Democrats like why even bother showing up?
So this is not a play against DeSantis.
It is not media bias for Trump.
It is media bias against trump to trick trump supporters and
it didn't work or if it did it wasn't enough you got a great point then because right before we
went on there i read an article politico on their newsletter it says trump won but only seven percent
of the republicans came out so that's their story lowest line right so what's turnout in in in a
decade so if you're standing online or waiting to vote vote, and I know it wasn't there, you were, how cold is it?
You're like, oh, Trump won, let me go home.
You're not going to wait anymore.
Exactly.
But if you're a DeSantis, Haley, or if you're an opposition voter, you're going to be like, we all knew they were going to call it for Trump.
We have to stay here and try and get our candidate to win if if you know come 2024 we're 21 i mean the election
in november trump supporters are not going to back down because they know you need a tsunami
of votes to win this is why i think the play is to get this is why i think the primary is the
general nikki haley is the democrat she's running in the primary to beat trump and she's going to
try and beat him in major urban strongholds.
The play here is, well, it's basically that.
They are going to try to convince Trump supporters that the GOP primary, it's done deal, done deal.
Trump can't lose.
Don't even bother coming out.
And that might work.
See, because everybody's saying come November, everyone must vote.
Bring your friends.
Don't assume Trump will win because that's how they trick you.
But in the primary, everyone's like, I got Trump won already.
And RFK gave up on the primary, right?
He said this is a rigged primary.
But at first he was a Democrat.
He said this is too rigged.
I can't run in there.
There's another congressman, I believe his name is Dean Phillips, ran.
He's getting no attention.
Well, Phillips is doing, I think he's doing okay in new hampshire right now
so the play is probably let's get as many democrats as we can in new hampshire and vote for
nikki haley and this way we can somehow stop trump if we can if she can win new hampshire
then it's you know nikki ahead this is what the donors and the media and people are missing out
that there's going to be republican primaries in blue states nicki haley could win those so how many ways are they trying to stop trump right now
they're trying to pull him off the ballot right they're trying to send him to prison in new york
georgia and at the federal level uh they're driving them crazy with civil suits they're
driving right then the eugene carroll and the stupid Letitia James one. You know? You took out loans
and paid them back.
That's a criminal offense.
Right, so he's a
crazy, crazy man.
Crazy.
How dare you?
Wait, he won the primary
last night.
He flew to New York
and sat in a civil trial.
That's garbage.
With this stupid
E. Jean Carroll thing.
That's garbage.
And then he just flew back
to New Hampshire
and did it.
The energy this man
has is amazing.
I know.
At his age.
It's incredible.
Yeah.
People will tell me I work a lot, right?
Because I'm barely functioning off any sleep right now.
And I'm like, don't look at me.
Look at Trump.
No question.
I mean, he's flying nonstop.
I don't even know how he does it.
I don't know how you do it.
And I don't know how Trump does it.
Man, it's hard enough for me.
Isn't that interesting?
Everywhere up the level?
Because you all work really hard.
I mean, like, both of you have been sharing probably your daily life.
I work extremely long days, but like, I'm not flying back from Iowa at 3 o'clock in the
I gotta start eating more McDonald's.
Because Trump eats McDonald's and that must be it.
Doesn't he like a Diet Coke guy too?
And the golfing.
You gotta start golfing.
David does not want to stop a girl from starting golfing.
I am not going to eat McDonald's.
It was the Sunday before 2020, right before the election.
And I was at a private aviation airport.
It was his fourth rally of the day.
Fourth.
It was 1230 at night.
He started the rally.
I turned around.
I saw New Yorkers.
I knew Floridians everywhere.
It was like 5,000 people.
I said, there's no way he's going to lose this election.
It's 1230 at night.
There's 5,000 people.
It's his fourth stop.
And he spoke for an hour and 15 minutes to 2 a.m. I said how does he humanly do this if you told most humans you got to do two stops
today and do two speech i don't know if i could do that he's also so personable i mean like last
night at his victory speech he brought brick suit up on stage you know that was yeah that was so
cool and i like brick suit i think he's a really swell guy and I thought that was great. He notices
his supporters. He calls
them out and he's just so
present in the room with people.
I've seen him speak a couple of times and usually
it's at these giant
things.
And it's always personable.
It's pretty amazing.
I mean, we might just credit him with
being an extrovert here.
He really does feed off the energy of people and being around people.
An introverted person would be like, this is too much.
I must leave immediately.
But I think Trump's energy also underscores how tired Biden's campaign already is.
Right.
They should just go back to that base.
I mean, put on the mask.
Right. Trump is younger than Biden by what, two, three years. campaign already is right they should just go back to that base i mean how on the mask right
trump is younger than biden by what two three years but biden seems exhausted and he is in
the white house well he has the old man walk he has the old man walks he has a slur he has like
his voice has audibly changed and it's just rough you know you can't make seem like you can't make
weekend at bernie's jokes about trump you know i was thinking just like totally for no reason
it's nonsensical, but
all the things, like there's a lot of things we don't like about
Joe Biden that are perfectly acceptable if he was a golden
retriever. Like, first
the obvious is sniffing kids.
The dog runs up to the kids, sniffing, nobody cares.
Funny. Fumbling around and falling down
and rolling on the ground. We laugh. Oh,
puppy fell down. And then the muttering incoherent
nonsense when the dog walks in and goes,
we're laughing. We're like, I wonder what. But when joe biden does it you're like this guy's got the
nuclear codes at least the dog always knows where the stairs are right that's true who would be a
better president right now a golden retriever or biden that's rough yeah no no for real because
paralysis is better than whatever it is biden is doing i mean a golden retriever as president
cbp is gonna come and be like, what should we do with the border?
And it's going to go, blah. And they're going to be like, we have
no idea. Joe Biden's like, facilitate
human smuggling. And then they do.
So at least the golden retriever can't give orders.
That's true. But he can get belly
rubs. And he would just look
great. He'd make us all feel wonderful. Joe
Biden we're just like nervous about all the time. Joe Biden getting belly
rubs would be alarming for the country. No, I don't want to do that.
That would be really weird, wouldn't it?
And you notice how every time he goes out there and gives a speech, what he really says is Trump voters suck.
Yes.
You notice how he does that over and over again?
He's so negative.
And it's like, how would any of us ever come vote for you?
All you do is tell us that we're extremists, that our religion is bad, even though, you know, we're basically just Christian.
Also, when convenient, you claim to be Catholic.
Right. That's what I'm saying. It's like, you know, the FBI targets Catholics,
the FBI targets parents who speak up at school board meetings.
Joe Biden calls us all extremists and we're supposed to, like, come around and be like,
no, it's OK that you're, you know, destroying the country and you hate us.
We're going to vote for you anyway.
Like, why would you vote for someone who just keeps telling you that they hate you?
Adrienne Curry in the chat says,
golden would have great polling numbers no matter what it did.
And that gives me an idea.
I'm going to take a picture of a golden retriever
and just post it on X with a poll,
like favorability rating, favorable, unfavorable.
And I bet it's going to be like 95% favorability.
Dog people are going to go berserk in your chat.
I feel like they're going to have
all kinds of comments about it.
People feel really strongly about their dogs.
What's your favorability of random dog I found on internet?
Yes.
You know?
I mean, I would think a border collie would be a better call for president.
It's smarter than a golden retriever.
But a golden retriever would do less harm than Joe Biden.
I like a corgi.
I think I'll do that now.
Yeah, I like a corgi.
But that's the British monarchy's dog.
I know.
And they round people up.
We'd field occupied.
It'd be like a whole thing. I used to hang out with my friend uh in connecticut at his family's lake house and we'd
all go hang out but he had this corgi and all of us you know goofy kids would be hanging out in the
in the yard and the corgi would notice that we weren't all in the same place and would just start
rounding us all up and we'd be like oh my goodness ginger just rounded us all up. And we'd be like, oh my goodness, Ginger just rounded us all up. My cousin had an Australian cattle dog that they were like, oh, we'll rescue it.
But it was from like a working dog line.
And, you know, there were a lot of us growing up.
And they would herd us onto couches.
Would my little guy make great president?
Sammy.
That's so cute.
So cute and tiny.
I don't know if the cameras can see it.
But it's a tiny, tiny chihuahua who's very, very, very sweet.
Sammy.
I mean, what is the
stamina on this dog right like but even last night uh Joe Biden's staffers I guess tweeted out
at 11 30 p.m because of course Joe Biden was probably asleep but tweeted out um it looks
like Donald Trump just won Iowa he's the clearrunner on the other side at this point. Here's the thing. This election was always going to be you and me versus extreme MAGA Republicans. It was true
yesterday and it'll be true tomorrow. But they're the party of the future. But they're the uniting
party. They're the uniters. And you had Rachel Maddow last night bragging about how MSNBC was
not going to show Trump's victory speech because it's you know truth is
really important and then she starts talking about rising authoritarianism and there she is
literally praising the network she works for for censoring the guy who's giving a speech
thanking his opponents and talking about unity that's crazy it's crazy even Obama masters even
his terrible policy but he masked his speeches in positive.
Right.
He was always looking up in an arrow.
That's how he won because.
Even Clinton was.
And this guy is just brutally negative.
Negative.
Against half of the country.
And fear mongering.
He wants the people who do support him to be very, very scared of other people.
Specifically people who vote differently than them.
We got a super chat from X10 man saying he's going to go go to the democrat ballot and write in haley writing trump yeah that's better
plan like what what if every republican in in in the democrat prime well because i'm not having
primaries i guess the democrats are just not doing it but what if every republican went to the
democrat primary and wrote in trump well that's the other thing is that the democrats have really
snubbed new hampshire this year and iowa and i. And Iowa. They honored Iowa, but they're saying
South Carolina is the first primary. That's what they really want. And that's because Biden got
wrecked in New Hampshire last time and he won South Carolina. And so they pass it off as like,
well, we need more diversity and we need to be reflective of the voters. And so we're going to
avoid New Hampshire. But they know probably if he had the primary there, I mean, he's the incumbent.
So it's a weird year, but he would not do well. New Hampshire doesn't like him. Let's jump to this story. We have a tweet from
George. I don't know you, George, but you have this tweet breaking Trump crowd chance VP, VP,
VP after Vivek gets done speaking. Trump says he's going to be working with us for a long time.
Here's the video clip. Let's play it for you right now.
Thank you. Thank you. Wow. That's how is that? Pretty good, right?
That was pretty good. And he's a fantastic guy. and he's really, he's got something that's very special because he started off with a Zippo, and he's got, he ended up very strong.
He did a great job.
I was actually surprised when he called because he was doing well,
and it's an honor to have his endorsement.
He's going to be working with us, and he'll be working with us for a long time.
He's going to be working with us.
For a long time. Because's gonna be working with us.
For a long time. Good.
Because we were talking about this
a little bit before the show.
Vivek needs to work in a Trump administration.
If he's going to be the next guy after Trump,
and I think he can be, he needs government experience.
One of the pitfalls, one of the reasons why Vivek
was not the guy this time around,
Trump had that first term.
He walked to the minefield. He hit some of these mines. He knows where some of them are. He can do
a better job this time around. Perfect. No. Good. Yes. Vivek, good speaker, good ideas, great ideas,
in fact. But he doesn't know what those landmines are in the same way Trump does.
So if Vivek gets a position in the Trump administration, then coming into 2027,
he begins campaigning.
He will have the experience behind him.
And I got to tell you, man, Trump is this unrefined or and Vivek is refined.
When Donald Trump explains something, it works for the average person.
And he's this brash, crass guy who's going to say it like it is.
Vivek can lay it out analytically and just
he can sell it to you so i think this team up i don't know to what extent what do you guys think
you think he's vp i think that would be great what do you think adam i don't think he's vp
he's just too big of a personality i think he's a cabinet secretary because cabinet secretary
your name will be constantly in the news you can can go on TV all the time. You can create policy.
You could be ready, prepared for 2028.
VP, I think he needs someone like,
Trump needs someone like a Tim Scott,
a more calmer.
Ben Carson.
Barbara Carson, Tim Scott.
Sorry, keep going. The alpha that Trump is,
and I feel like Vivek is an alpha,
but more refined, like you said,
would just be too much together.
You can't put two electric
outlets, you can't put two positives together.
It would just spark too much. You can't do that.
Secretary of State? What do you think?
Secretary of Energy,
Secretary of Commerce, maybe
Chief of Staff,
but personally it might be too big
for Chief of Staff.
He needs a front-facing position because he's so good on camera
He's really charming. He can really communicate a message about think about him on TV every week meet the press or you know
That's right talking about economic policy run circles around these people something like a blanket great
Yeah, you want him to be front-facing for sure?
I you know
I take him seriously when he came on this show and said that he didn't want to be VP. And I think Tim's right that having more experience in the government would be good.
And in some ways, VPs aren't super known for what they contribute to an administration.
There's a rumor that it'll be Doug Burgum because based on what Trump said last night.
Burgum?
Burgum was back, was with him there.
Yeah, he endorsed him, didn't he?
He endorsed him.
And last night when Trump was giving his remarks, he said something like,
oh, he's going to be around.
Like he had this like smirk and stuff like that.
Trump, Burgum, 2024?
I don't know.
And no one will see that coming.
I think that's sort of,
I think he needs, you know,
he would.
But he needs a personality
that's quieter than Biggs.
And Burgum's is quieter than Biggs.
I totally disagree.
He had Mr. Quiet personality
and stupid pence.
Yeah.
And that didn't work out.
I think he would do it again though.
I think he should go
for someone nice and big. Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi. I. And that didn't work out. I think he would do it again, though. I think he should go for someone nice and big.
Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi.
I like Tulsi.
I like Tucker.
I like anybody who can go out there and rev up a crowd almost as good as Trump does.
Because also, he's going to need somebody on the campaign trail while he's being dragged
around by, you know, stupid Merrick Garland and his minions.
Yeah.
I would love to see Trump just put a candy bar on Merrick Garland's head.
That's so funny.
Again, that was one of the best moments.
It was terrific.
I think that there are a lot of potentially good picks.
I think Burgum would be weird because North Dakota is not, you know, necessarily a stronghold.
Bad pick.
I guess it's different.
But the way he was talking about him, there is a belief that Burgum is involved somehow. So you could start piecing together who his captains would be. My question with Vivek,
and it could be great for him to gain experience on the federal level and then potentially run
again in 2028. I wish that he would take some of the really innovative things that he talked about,
like civic engagement and different things during his campaign, and apply it on a small scale
in Ohio. It's just that the timing doesn't line up where he could take a position
in ohio and then run again in 2028 from what from what i know i don't know bergham does not seem
like vp that that's a that you may as well put just trump blank yeah it's not like that's what
i don't want i don't mean to be these cherry picking like democrats but i don't think we
need a white male from north dak Dakota to help with the ticket.
I like the old way where you just get the second guy.
You know what I mean?
Oh, so Biden?
No, DeSantis.
Yeah, the old way was whoever got second place in the general would be the vice president.
Yeah, yeah.
That's how you ended up with Adams.
The argument there was that the country would have representation for those who lost the election.
And it makes sense.
Now it's not.
So half the country feels disenfranchised.
You know who's very articulate and doing a great job out of New York?
Elise DeStefanik.
DeStefanik has done a good job.
Excellent speaker.
She went to Harvard.
She's a real fighter.
That's why she's so pissed at Harvard.
I don't see VP there, though.
Tulsi Gabbard is a long shot but you kind of make sense
if people when people say you're like okay i can kind of understand why she'd be vp um people are
saying christy no no yeah she kind of feels like vp and she's been a trump ally for a really long
time with stefanik i wouldn't want to lose her from congress i think she's doing really good
things and it's nice to see their representation in new york i mean part of part of the problem
is that if you lift anyone out of position they're currently in that becomes a vacuum you don't know
what's going to fill it i got it trump trump 2024 which one baron don yes junior don jr eric
don jr don jr yeah but then the democrats would freak out and be like he's just putting his own
kids in this is crazy he's just like george bush Just like George Bush. Just like George Bush. It's a monarchy.
And the Adamses.
Yeah.
Don Jr. is great.
But I can understand why he's a family member.
They wouldn't do it.
But I think Don Jr. would be a great choice, too.
Do you think he'd run for office on his own, though?
I mean, would he run for state or, you know, Senate or something like that?
I don't think.
I don't know if Don Jr. is going to go that route.
I don't know.
I don't see it.
I think he could be a VP.
But I think the play is to get
someone outside of the Trump space. That's why Kristi Noem makes sense. Tulsi Gabbard could
make sense, but it definitely seems like a 0.1% likelihood. I like Tulsi Gabbard as VP because
military experience, fairly moderate, could attract former Democrats and disaffected liberals.
She would also
do some work right i mean kamala harris doesn't do anything at all telsey gabbard would be like
i have a position i'm gonna do some stuff kamala harris entertains us every day with her veep style
speeches she's unburdened by what might have been man it is amazing when she says stuff like
how does the community is a good thing
because it's the community.
And you're like, what?
Well, and the Biden administration,
initially, they had her out there.
They moved her to the background.
And now that we're getting closer to 2024,
they're kind of being like,
it's the Biden-Harris administration.
They really are trying to sell that.
Yeah, but for the middle two years,
they were like, stand in the back
and don't say anything because she was just not good, right? Well, they were trying to get her to Yeah, but for the middle two years, they were like, stand in the back and don't say anything.
Because she was just not good, right?
Well, they were trying to get her to do stuff and she wouldn't do it.
True, she was our border czar.
Remember the whole border czar?
And then her office was like, no, no, she's not the border czar.
She's working on the root causes of migration in the Northern Triangle countries.
And she's not even doing that.
And then she was like, actually, it's LGBTQIA plus violence that is the problem.
So we need to prioritize them for asylum, which then they had an EO about that.
Have you guys seen that meme where it's LGBTQ plus and it's let's get Biden to quit plus Kamala?
That was very funny.
Very funny.
The Internet is undefeated i mean i wish we could
pick vp based on like what issue they are going to rabidly champion during the administration
because then i would love to see you know really serious uh immigration restrictionists go into
office but i just don't think that's going to happen so much of the vp selection is saying
who can we court in terms of um electoral college votes where's rfk jr is he still
he was in north carolina over the weekend a lot was there covering him and he has an event in
west virginia coming up i think he's doing pretty well for an independent but you know he's not
it's sort of hard because he's not in the news cycle because there's no primary for the
independent he's like you're just yeah but he also, I don't think he's taking the,
like Vivek went from zero, like in a year, look at this.
He went to fourth place in the primary.
He went to 8% in the Iowa caucus.
I mean, this is amazing.
And he did it.
And even got the Trump camp worried
because he was getting so much support,
but he went around the press record.
He went to podcasters, media personalities,
and he made himself available to them.
RFK is not doing that so much.
He has an opportunity to get attention.
He won't take it.
And that 8%, he took it right from Trump.
Those are all Trump voters.
Well, actually, technically, yes.
Or maybe he grew the pie with young people, too.
He did.
That's what it is.
So among first-time voters, Vivek was in first place.
And Ron DeSantis actually, according to one poll, got more Gen Z than any other candidate.
But Vivek got a good amount of Trump supporters, but a lot of first-time voters.
So I think that's the opportunity here for Trump.
Vivek targeting new voters, brilliant, because now he goes to the Trump camp and says,
I didn't think I was going to be able to pull it off.
I didn't pull it off.
You got my endorsement.
I can bring in new voters for you and get those numbers up.
I'm going to pull in voters from areas you've never seen before.
Yeah, that'd be cool.
And I think that's a good sign for, you know, conservative values or maybe libertarian values generally, because they were really drawn to to Ram Swami's campaign.
And ultimately, that's the future, right?
So it's easy to focus on what happens this November. But what we want long term is for new voters to be interested in voting for candidates represent long term investment in a future that's going to be steady and provide a prosperous life for a lot of people. America's future or of America's past. Yeah. We have no real social cohesion or vision for what the American character is or understanding of where we came from.
It's just a constant fracturing.
But when do you think the fracture started?
Do you have an estimate?
This is something that is, you know, that has recently been coming up.
I was actually talking to Inez Stepman today about it on her podcast, High Noon,
something I've been talking to Jack Posobiec about. He's been talking about leftist revolutions.
And it was actually really fascinating. He had this series on human events daily during the
period between Christmas and New Year's. And it was like four, I think it was four episodes
about cultural revolutions that were like leftist revolutions.
And it was, I forget what they all were, but there were a bunch of them and they were really
fascinating.
But the one that I found most fascinating was the one about the 1960s in America, the
cultural revolution in America, which I had never conceived of as a revolution.
I'd never conceived of it as a leftist revolution.
You know, to a certain extent, I just thought of it as, you know, my know yeah to a certain extent i just thought of it as
you know my stupid parents were they're not stupid i love you guys mom and dad your silly parents
my parents were sort of part of the whole hippie thing they were boomers they came of age during
that period i thought you know it just it seemed like a very cultural moment and it was something
where you know fashion would take from it as I was growing
up. It was always like, now we're in the 60s moment again, now we're in it again, now we're
in it again. But I never thought of it as a revolution. And I've been thinking about that
a lot. And then, you know, the civil rights movement and that whole era, which I always
had a very, I thought I had a very clear view of it, and I've been reconsidering it. But I think that a lot of it started then, when you had this huge generation of young people
saying to their parents, everything you taught us was wrong. Everything you thought about the
country is wrong. Everything you think about us and our future is wrong. We're going to destroy
everything you built. We're going to dance around
in that rubble and we're going to build on top of rubble. And I think that's what happened.
So then when you hit the 90s, which in my view, like I was in my 20s, I guess, in the 90s,
you hit the 90s when you had a very, what seemed to me, a colorblind society. You had a lot of great culture.
It was like, you know, I was hanging out with a bunch of art kids,
downtown New York City, and there was just money everywhere.
It's like you'd go out and like somebody would pick up the tab.
Somebody would, you know, somebody would fund the giant art show.
There was money left over.
Who even knows?
Who even knows what was going on?
But, you know, it seemed like this pinnacle of civilization, but it was really apparently
just built on top of rubble, the rubble of our grandparents, of our religion, of our culture,
of our shared past, of our appreciation for our history.
I grew up in a small town on Long Island, Port Jeff Station, and my neighbors were African
American black, but never had discussions about race, never had discussions about any of this.
And we were just my neighbor and we liked each other and got along well.
And all along my life, I had black friends, never thought of it. I think somewhere along the line,
when Obama got elected, at the very beginning of his term there was this uh you know incident at harvard university with this black professor
right off the bat and the police called because he was being obnoxious he was screaming something
about a beer right off the bat the president of the united states took the side of the obnoxious
professor that's right and went against the white police officers and it became a race issue but it had nothing to do with race and the media jumped on this and said they need a lesson the
police need to go to you know sensitivity training and i think somewhere that incident i feel like
stood out really in this lesson where obama wanted to turn back the clock on race relations
and i don't like that's kind of like that was the start of it.
Didn't he have both those guys
to the White House for a beer?
And then he had a beer summit.
For what?
Because the guy was being obnoxious
and he had to accuse the white police officers?
I think Obama had a negative impact
on race relations,
but all of this started with social media.
The evidence is every single country
experienced the exact same thing
at the exact same time.
And the only connected factor would be the advent of social media emerging in all these countries.
What happens is for Facebook at the time, and Twitter wasn't really that prominent, but Barack Obama used Facebook to get elected.
It helped him get out the youth vote.
What happens is as the platform gets bigger, they need to find a way to keep people interested in the platform when
their feed was inundated with too much content. When these platforms first started, you'd see an
update every few seconds and you didn't care. Cell phones come out. Now Facebook is ubiquitous.
Everyone's on Facebook 24-7 and you're following more than 300 people. Your feed becomes
incomprehensible, moves too quick. So they create the algorithmic feed where it only shows you some content some of the time. What happens? The stuff that gets the most
clicks was related to racism. It actually was related to a couple other issues, a couple issues.
White nationalism, not entirely, but, you know, a strong nationalist Christian and white nationalist content was prominent, as well as social justice
content. However, these big tech companies, you know, when you get these free speech individuals
in the early days, they call themselves like the free speech wing of the free speech party on
Twitter. They look at it very economically. They sit down at a board meeting and someone says,
okay, a large group of people are posting about white nationalism and a large group of people are posting about black nationalism.
And they go, okay, well, look, advertisers will not buy on your platform if there's white
nationalists here.
Ban them all.
Advertisers don't care about black nationalism.
It's fine.
What ends up happening is people have an option to click on the most, I guess, baity, rage baity content they can.
And for these biased reasons, the algorithm will always favor anger and justice over every other
emotion. And justice can take the shape of many things. But when you combine it, you end up with
police brutality, like things like you mentioned, like this professor. But if the tech companies
are like, if a white guy is murdered in the streets and people start defending him and saying you know
white people under attack oh we got white supremacists delete that stuff advertisers
will flee but if it's you know black people mexicans asians or whatever that's acceptable
a bunch of companies started mass producing this social media companies started mass producing this
and then we see in every single country country a massive spike in support for these, these issues. When it started, it was police
brutality, which turned into feminist issues, intersectional feminist issues. And now we're
into full scale diversity, inclusivity, equity, et cetera. Yeah, that's interesting. I mean,
I think it's hard to say. I think social media was sort of the gasoline to a lot of underlying
cultural tensions that have been building for a long time. Well, it's hard to say i think social media was sort of the gasoline to a lot of underlying cultural tensions that have been building for a long time right and i think that's the the hard thing to
dial the clock back on right like you might be able to say to people oh here's what happened
during this event with obama and they might be able to say okay but they won't forget the fact
that they felt this way for a long time and they'll be constantly driven by algorithms that
want them to feel divided because that ultimately sells more than anything else.
I think-
Right, because they probably figured that happiness,
we can't keep people on our platform too long
if it's just happy.
So let's constantly create conflict.
Well, it's sort of.
It's an emotion.
They don't think about that.
They think about what will get someone
to spend more time on the platform.
They need posts to look at that they engage with.
What do they engage with?
Well, on Facebook, actually, the top engaged with kind of post is I'm married and had kids.
So they may have fixed this, but the meme was if you ever had an important announcement for your friends and it's like you got a new job where you're moving, start the post off with I have just gotten married and I'm having kids.
Okay, now that I've said that, none of that's true. I'm actually moving. Hope to see you guys
at the party this weekend because it'll put that at the top of their feeds. But I don't think for
a lot of these people, it was intentional. I think, as I described it, people like Jack Dorsey,
he basically built a big toilet for everyone to sit on and then he hooked up the pipes from that
toilet into his own mouth. So they build this machine. The machine
favors content that gets clicked the most. Here's an example. YouTube wanted to compete with Netflix.
YouTube used to get, if, you know, we go back in the days of like auto-tune the news,
Shmoe Yoho, Songify, they're getting millions of hits per video. All of a sudden, the views
start dropping. I actually talked with Google about it
and they said Netflix is our biggest competitor. And I said, Netflix? I was like, oh, you're
missing the big picture here. If you think it's Netflix, their view was, what are people watching
online? It used to be YouTube. Now it's Netflix. Netflix introduced streaming. Everybody signed up.
They're getting premium content. So YouTube said, we need to get our creators to start making content that competes with Game of Thrones.
So here's the idea.
If your video is longer than 10 minutes and people watch it for a long time, that's what we want.
High retention rates, longer videos.
Then people will start producing shows like Game of Thrones.
What did they get instead?
Teamcast IRL.
How do you produce engaging
long form content? Video podcasts, vodcasts. The problem with that is you got a massive spattering
of argumentative and serious political issues, which generate a wave of nationalist, white
nationalist, racist, all sorts of content. And I'm not saying only.
I'm saying it included everything.
YouTube then panics going, oh no, that's not what we meant.
So these companies don't actually care about what the content is so long as it's making money for them.
And if advertisers will buy on the platform.
So they're not thinking like, I want people angry.
They're saying, tell the algorithm to favor high
retention rates and long videos what happens after this parents would give ipads to their babies this
was part of the elsagate scandal several years ago it's like six seven years ago now they would
give an ipad to their baby and leave the room they would press play on finger family at the time it
was the most popular nursery rhyme have you guys ever heard
this one yeah yeah finger family where are you whatever and it goes index finger middle finger
when the song ends youtube's autoplay feature will load the next video automatically
so the parent puts the ipad in front of the baby the song ends another video plays eventually
it starts the algorithm doesn't actually know what finger family is there there
were people in india knowing this was the trend started exploiting the algorithm by producing
extremely low quality and freaky videos like the example i often give is the incredible hulk doing
tai chi with adolf hitler but hit but it's hitler's head on an on a woman's body in a bikini.
And this is not an exaggeration.
What would happen is once the parents would play the video and the video would end, it would just autoplay the next video for Finger Family.
And it just so happened to be the incredible Hulk and Adolf Hitler.
But Hitler had boobs and it was weird, freaky stuff.
They didn't intentionally make that happen.
It happened because all they did was tell the algorithm to let it go.
What I've argued, and I believe this is the most likely scenario,
as a baby, you don't know what you're watching.
So if you're watching Finger Family and the next thing that pops up is Hitler,
you're just a baby staring at a screen going,
but an adult can see that and go, whoa, something is wrong here. However,
adults aren't immune to this either. When you're watching a video about a criminal case involving
a corrupt cop and you go, man, the next video that plays is say George Floyd or Ahmaud Arbery,
you go, wow, you don't realize you're actually, I'm going to say this. I will equate the Ahmaud
Arbery case to Adolf Hitler
with a woman's body doing Tai Chi with the Incredible Hulk. As an adult, it falls into
your preconceived notions and it seems to make sense, but the story is totally fabricated and
false. Everything people know from the mainstream press, the Ahmaud Arbery case, who do we have on
the show recently? They were like, oh, that was the guy who was jogging, right? And he wasn't
jogging. That was never even a legal talking point.
The courts, they never argued that Armand Aubrey was just jogging.
They actually conceded he was a burglary suspect who had been witnessed and was wanted by the police for questioning.
But in the mainstream media, they were saying he was just jogging.
These are people who live in the world where they can't recognize the algorithm is feeding them refuse down their throats.
And that's why I say the people running these companies didn't one day decide, let's produce a bunch of rageful content to make them go insane.
No, Jack Dorsey was like, we're the free speech party.
Then when the algorithms they created were propping up the most psychotic, nonsensical garbage.
He took that hose and shoved it straight down his throat, started absorbing it, believing it, and shattered his own brain.
The people then running these companies adopted these views and integrated them back into
their systems, exacerbating the problem.
Here we are.
That's so true.
Do you feel like this is something that people who aren't involved in alternative media aren't aware of?
Like if you were a longtime Fox sort of corporate person, would you be as well versed in Elsagate and all of this stuff?
Do you think you have an advantage because of the medium you're in?
You mean like the people who are watching cable live in cable TV world?
Yeah.
I mean, so this is the reality of 20 or 30 years ago.
If someone went to CNN and said, I have a huge story, and they were like, we don't want to cover that.
That's it.
Never happens.
No one ever hears about it.
Have a nice day.
With the internet, some random guy makes a video and he's like, I think Epstein's doing something.
You end up with Alex Jones.
Massive personality generating millions outside of the controls of the deep state.
I mean, look,
we know about Mockingbird. We know about how intelligence agents would go to the press and say,
here's an article we wrote for you. Sign your name on it. Not every journalist and deep state
narrative story is like that. Most of them aren't. We know they do that. The problem now is the only way to control
the narrative is through extreme censorship. And the problem there is a decentralized press
mechanism like what we have now with shows like this can see through it, call it out,
causes problems, and they lose. Hence, Donald Trump is the front runner.
Do you think-
Where do we go? I don't know.
Yeah, that's the question. I mean that's my my big question for 2024 really
has been who is going to come come next after this who's going to be sort of the successor to
the trump movement because well that is such a personality that's the that's the real shame with
desantis it should have been desantis no no i think i think we're lucky with desantis you think that
we that we lucked out?
Oh, we got so lucky.
In that he failed?
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, this guy is-
He could have been the heir apparent, though.
No, he couldn't have.
And this is the point.
It's a good thing he ran so that we all got to see just how impotent he was politically.
I mean, the dude can't run a campaign, can't control the staff.
He lacks charisma.
He definitely can't hire.
He can't hire.
He can't sell.
He can't control the staff he definitely can't hire he can't hire he can't sell he can't he can't even pitch and so if this guy did not run and everyone kept praising him
was like this guy's so great and then 2028 comes around and he goes well i'm here to take over for
donald trump uh here are my high heels and here are the crackpots that i've hired we'd be like
oh crap but he might have learned in the intervening years. He might have got better. No way.
You don't think? No, look, look. People can improve.
You don't think people can improve?
No, stop. We were
at, um, the office
building that we were in for the Iowa caucus
was the same building as Vivek's
campaign office for, uh, Des Moines.
His headquarters was at a different location
um, for that
caucus night. I think the office
we were in was his principal office. We were not in his office, there's a distinction, but we were
in the same building and we had to negotiate with the building's owner. So it's not like,
you know, Vivek got us anything, but we were in the same space with him. He did help us find it.
That's no doubt. But in one of the rooms they have on this whiteboard, things successful people do.
And I just laughed when I saw it. It's like, they ask for help. You know, they have on this whiteboard things successful people do. And I just laughed when
I saw it. It's like, they ask for help. You know, they're mission driven. And I'm like,
these are things you can't give people. Okay. I've been in so many corporate meetings,
so many corporate offices where it's like, here's how to be successful. And they try to teach
someone who doesn't have the X factor, how to have the X factor. And they don't. So when I used to do
fundraising for nonprofits, what they decided was just give everyone the lowest common denominator training as to how
you pitch someone to donate to your cause. And so they tell everybody, keep your feet spread open
with each foot lining up with your shoulders. Keep your arms open. Never cover your chest.
Never hold a binder of your chest. Those are all off-putting. Bounce on the balls of your feet and rock back and forth.
This is what they tell everyone to do.
And here's what you have to say and how you have to say it.
And I'm like, if someone doesn't have the ability to sell, this will not help them.
And if someone does, this will hurt them.
So I look at Ron DeSantis.
Totally useless, in other words.
Totally useless.
What you'd find is they would tell you, probably for legal reasons, you have to say this verbatim.
Yeah, right. Everybody who went out to fundraise for every nonprofit I ever worked with would say
whatever they felt like saying, and they would always sign people up. And the people who would
always try to do the pitch would get super angry and be like, why can't I do this? I've seen people like Rhonda Sanders before,
okay? Me and my buddy got hired. So I'll try and simplify the story. Me and my buddy worked for
a nonprofit. They hired a woman. We were both managers. She ends up working underneath me.
She's brilliant. As soon as she gets trained by me, one of the top fundraisers in the nation,
she goes to another company and says, I want to be a director, a position above me. I was trained by one of the nation's best from this company.
And they were like, wow, job's yours.
Impressive resume, speaks multiple language, has training from one of the top fundraisers
in the country.
And then she immediately hits me up and says, you want to work for me?
And I was like, wow, I am impressed.
And so me and my buddy end up saying, okay, fine, screw it.
We'll go work for your work for your office one of her friends me it's it's three of us me my friend and this guy this guy that she
hires as a friend of hers he doesn't have it he is the ronda santos of fundraising we are both
trump and vivek ramaswamy fundraising and so me and him are standing there on the street down in
chicago both of us are sitting there with like glazed over looks on our faces,
half paying attention, expending no energy. This guy is doing everything he's told,
standing upright, balls of his feet, waving to people, asking them, asking them, asking them.
He's getting burned out. Me and the other guy are sitting there. And then we see the person, that guy right there. You come over here, sell them instantly. This guy freaks out,
gets really angry. And he
was like, I don't understand. I'm doing everything I'm told to do and no one will talk to me.
And then I'm watching these guys do nothing and then just snap their fingers and someone comes
and signs up. And I was like, what we have is the ability to recognize someone who's interested,
open, willing to talk. You're going about it through the motions that's how i see ron desantis he does
not have the abilities you can beg him to please understand what he's doing wrong and we tried
and all that happens is he doubles down we did correct yeah absolutely here's a crackpot campaign
staff what did they say the media calling it for trump was actually pro-biden and pro-trump and and
and the media's biased for trump and it's like you you've lost
your minds we've been warning the whole time since since the sentence announced that his campaign is
garbage he has no charisma he's a he's failing and when his first starts and we're polite about it
like guys what did we say first here on the show i was like you gotta get him speech training and
charisma training and they, how dare you?
And they started attacking all of us, insulting all of us.
And now Ron DeSantis loses.
And then they got their minions to attack everybody.
Tim, you have a good gift, naturally, as a salesman.
But I tell people, if you're selling something, let's say you're selling real estate, you're walking around.
You don't want someone just to bombard you with your card.
Just because you don't want someone who was needy and pushy.
Do the opposite.
Get someone to like you first.
Be warm.
And Ron was never been able
to do the opposite.
He was just as stiff.
He came across that way.
And I would have told him,
Ron, you've got to be,
if you can't,
if you don't have it,
just do the opposite.
Try to be warm, you know?
You are correct,
but I don't think
that's the principal issue.
I think the principal issue is that he's a loser.
And I know that he won his congressional races.
We like the policy he's got.
He won in Florida massively.
I don't give him credit for all of it.
I give him credit for some of it.
But what I mean by loser is when you're selling something, it doesn't matter if you know what
it is.
It matters that you sound like you do
because I don't know. Okay. If I call a plumber and I'm like, guy, my toilet's busted. And he goes,
well, I mean, I could probably fix it. I'd have to look at it. I'm not, you know, I think I could
do it. I'll be like, okay, well, you know, let me give you a call back. Then I call Trump plumbing
and he goes, listen, we're the best plumbers.'re gonna come in fix it five minutes easy cheap no one's better than us everyone agrees
i'm gonna be like i want that guy get in here because he's i mean at least just sound confident
and i think you might show up and and you know gary johnson exemplifies this when he said and
what is aleppo everyone knows the aleppo moment that is loser talk and I'm trying I'm kind of trying to be
a dick but not really I've I've often said if Donald Trump was confronted with a with a with
a subject matter he didn't know about you so imagine Trump's being interviewed and someone
says yes but as president how will you have how will you handle Lucendando? Trump would go, look, you know, people have been talking about Lucendando, but the economy
is what matters to the American people.
So we're going to do that.
It's a gibberish word I made up.
But Trump would deflect by saying, I'm not going to sit here and talk about an issue
like that when the American people are concerned about their jobs.
Gary Johnson goes, what's that?
And everyone's like, he doesn't know what Aleppo is. I mean, people are dying here. This country is Johnson goes, what's that? And everyone's like,
he doesn't know what Aleppo is. I mean, people are dying here. This country is being
blown to smithereens. And so when you look at Ron DeSantis, listen, if I'm going to sell you
anything, who are you going to buy from? The guy who says, well, I'm here to offer you a drink of
this delicious spin drift lemon drink. You'd be like, OK.
Or the guy walks in and says, this is the most delicious drink I've ever had.
But I'll tell you what, I'll give you a little bit.
You got to pay.
You're like, oh, what's this all about?
Confidence, charisma.
Ron does not have it.
You can't give him it.
We tried.
All he did was get a bunch like, you you know what i feel like with the desantis people
i feel like it's high school really like high school donald trump is like he's not necessarily
a football player he's he's like kind of the bigger guy who hangs out with a bunch of he's
tall he's he's chunky but he's he's he's the jokester he's funny people kind of like him
and he's the guy that everybody likes kind of There's the guy in the middle who got along with the
rockers and the sports people. Yeah.
And everybody liked him. Right.
And he's kind of a dick sometimes,
but he'll rip on you and say, I'm just kidding,
and they'll give you a shove. And Ron DeSantis
is the nerdy kid in the glasses
with his dorky friends being like,
why don't people listen to us? We're
smarter than they are.
People are so stupid. I bet if we tell them they're stupid, they'll listen to us we're smarter than they are people are so stupid i bet if we tell
them they're stupid they'll listen to us yeah good luck with that desantis congratulations i feel like
vivek is the guy who was just like what no i'm not paying any attention to any of these people
no just go do my own thing no that's what he seems like to me vivek is like
he's hanging out with the cool kids and he's the shorter, fast-talking guy.
You know, so when I used to do nonprofit fundraising,
there were two kinds of guys that made a bunch of money.
Tall guys and smooth-talking guys.
Trump's tall guy, Vivek's smooth-talking guy.
That's what it is.
Ron is the nerdy guy who got fired in three days.
That's just the reality of it.
You know, welcome to politics.
I feel like Vivek is fun because-
Then who's the Nikki?
Who is Nikki?
Nikki is like that girl on student council
that's really annoying.
And she's always talking about something
that no one wants to do.
And she's always trying to drop bombs on foreign countries.
And like your teachers really like her,
but it's hard to explain to them that like no one else does.
And they're like, but why don't you just listen to Nikki?
And you're like, because Nikki- And she's trying to get everyone to blow up the balloons for prom yeah but also like it's a prom that she organized where no one wants it at a date
that's gonna be inconvenient for everyone else like she's ultimately self-centered but she's
passing it off as like but i'm doing it for you guys that's nikki haley to me that's interesting
yeah let's talk about her unprofessionally so we're
just getting off the holidays we have this story from Seattle Times passengers sue Alaska Airlines
Boeing after 737 max 9 fuselage blowout wow well that's the big news I guess because it really does
matter to you if your plane is going to you know blowout. One of our guests who was supposed to fly here on United had their flight canceled because they – we got an email saying your trip has been canceled because the Boeing 737 MAX 9 has to be – they're all being inspected.
So this plane is no longer available and the flight will no longer be happening.
Damn.
Have you heard about – just identify the phone case on the iPhone that fell out of that flight?
It like hit the ground. Oh, what was the phone case? It'shone that fell out of that flight it like hit
the ground oh what was the phone case it's um i should have come prepared for this comment
apparently this was like the big thing with all of these like you know whatever they were like
somebody needs to tell us stat what it is yeah but it fell from like the sky at 75 miles an hour
if i take my phone with no case and i whip it at the ground as hard as I can and it hits the grass, it's going to be fine.
I don't know, man.
This phone landed in a, one of the phone they found landed in a bush.
And a guy was out for a run and he looks and like, there it is.
Yeah, your phone hits the tree, bounces back and forth.
It's not going to break.
These things are amazing.
From the sky, Tim.
The sky.
I thought it was crazy that it was open.
There was like no passcode
or anything.
Well, it's because the person
was apparently reading their email
about their baggage
which is the crazy thing.
So when the dude found it
and opened it,
it opened up to an email
saying, you know,
your baggage fee or whatever.
Maybe this sounds too perfect.
Now I'm starting to get skeptical.
Could you imagine
if someone sitting in that chair
could identify what flight it was on?
So you're sitting in the chair
and your phone gets sucked out.
Imagine you're sitting next to the door with your seat belt off and that was the thing you get sucked
out the two people that were supposed to sit there like last minute decided not to go on this trip
and so the seats were empty like hmm now it seems a little sketchy well i don't know that was uh
they actually explained that what had happened was the two people supposed to sit there were
waiting in the in the lounge before the flight and it was a guy and a woman and the guy fell asleep and then he woke up
in a cold sweat screaming the plane was going to crash and so he started yelling and they pulled
him off the planes he's like i gotta get out of here i gotta get off this plane they pulled him
out and then uh that happened and now they're marked by death and um even though they escaped
the plane that sounds plausible this is the plot of Final Destination.
Serge over here gets it.
No, no, I don't get it.
And I believe you 100%.
Okay, well, there's like 12 Final Destination movies.
12 of them?
Probably.
They're all the same.
They're all the same.
And they're all basically a guy and a woman go on an airplane.
The plane crashes.
And then he wakes up and goes, what did I just witness?
I had a vision.
Freaks out.
They throw him off the plane. The plane crashes. And then crashes and they go you cheated death and now death is coming for you
and then like instead of just having them i don't know like slip and hit their head in their bathroom
death decides to have some circuitous rube goldberg device you know spin around 12 times
death needs something to do i guess i'd like to i'd like to do my version of like i want to make
short films,
and mine would be Final Destination, but, like, if death was competent.
And it would just be, like, the guy goes home, walks up his stairs,
slips on ice, bashes his face on the ground, and that's it.
Did you ever see The Seventh Seal?
You know, that Bergman film?
Uh-uh.
So death comes for this guy, and the guy's like,
okay, well, I'll play a chess for it.
Oh, yeah, that old movie. Yeah, it's an old movie. It's, like, yeah, well, I'll play chess for it. Oh, yeah, that old movie.
Yeah, it's an old movie.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, 70s or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like that one better than Final Destination.
How many of those did they make, though?
Just one?
It was really just the one.
So Final Destination is a bad concept
and then they made it 12 times?
Seems unnecessary to me.
I don't think it's a bad concept.
I just think The Seventh Seal probably was really good.
I like that movie. I've been's a bad concept. I just think The Seventh Seal probably was really good. I like that movie.
I've been flying a lot lately,
and I noticed the service on these planes
have become really bad.
Oh, it's unbearable.
I don't know if it's the start of Pete Buttigieg's recruitment,
of his diversity and equity inclusion recruitment,
but it's been really, really bad.
No, I think it's cultural breakdown.
It's everywhere.
It's in restaurants and everything, too.
Yeah, everything.
It's not just planes.
Yeah, it is everywhere. It's everywhere. Everywhere. Services fall and everything too. Yeah, everything. It's not just plants. Yeah, it is everywhere.
It's everywhere.
Everywhere.
It's falling to the floor.
It's crazy too.
Plus tipping culture.
Right.
That's out of control.
Right.
I go to Starbucks and then there's like a tip thing that pops up and it's like, you know,
one, three, five dollar tip.
And I'm like, bro, I ordered a two dollar coffee.
I ordered something online from a store, like a small business, and they asked me to tip.
And I thought, no, I don't think you get.
Well, I was at Starbucks when we were in Des Moines.
And the tip jar said on a scale of $1 to $10, how attractive are you?
And I was like, brilliant, but kind of crazy that we're getting to the point where it's like, can I get a $10 tip, sir?
So I went to this place, Anytime Fitness, to work out in the morning as I woke up.
And there was no workers there.
It's just a fob.
They trust people to go in with a fob.
So I'm like, this is great. I'm going to pay for a day pass.
So I worked out there. Great little fitness place.
Then I went to the pizza place next door
and I just ordered a salad
and a tip popped up.
Even at a little pizza place, they got the tip popping up.
And we've become
almost like a guilty culture now.
You feel almost like they're pushing you to feel guilty
that you have to give a dollar or two.
Right, or like
the tip of the self-checkout.
Nobody wants to do
the jobs they're doing.
I don't know
what it is they want,
but I will say
that the millennial generation
and large portions
of the younger generations
want to do
literally nothing.
Somebody's got to do the work
and make the food.
And what's happening
is maybe it's
strong men make hard times
for the previous generation we're like here's my job is the job that i do it's the job i have
now it's like oh i have to go to work today i'm gonna have fast and it used to be a common thing
when the cut when the cashier or the waiter was nice now it's like a rarity wow that person was
nice it's like whoa well there's all these things too like i've been
seeing um you know different you know things online about um job interviews and it'll be the
person being like so this person came in for a job interview they wanted to work only four days a
week they wanted to know about the work-life balance it's a starting position they wanted 150
to start and it's all of this sort of crazy stuff. Like
what happened to the thing where you take a job, you want to do well, you want to do well for your
personal life, you want to do well professionally. And so you work your ass off. You work overtime.
You know, you come in early, you stay late. I've done that with jobs I hated. You know,
I do that with a job I love, but like I've done that with jobs that I just don't like.
And I think to myself, I am grateful to have a job.
I'm grateful I have health insurance.
You know, I'm going to work hard not to get fired like somebody else just got fired.
It's not going to be me.
Do you think part of it is that there's no vision for the future with the young generation?
I think the younger generation is so weirdly hopeless and dark.
They're sort of like there is no motivation to do anything
right they don't they don't aspire to anything because yeah nihilism like it's the same thing
when they talk about climate change and they're like well i don't want to have kids because i
don't want to burden the climate with my children and my children with the climate or whatever like
yeah having more kids makes bad weather they it doesn't whatever they feel like they work in these
endless jobs that sort of go nowhere they
feel like they don't create everything is faceless like they are sort of numb to everything around
them and so there's actually no momentum behind their choices like when you talk about i'm going
to work this job really hard because maybe this isn't where i'm going to be forever but it's the
job i have right now and it could get me somewhere else like you you are forward thinking person
everybody wants to be the main character yeah but like be the main character the main character doesn't
always have 150 000 a year and four days a week and the main character sometimes the main character
just works the main character no the main character in shauna the dead was lazy half-assed
had terrible ideas got his friends killed and he's still the main character or like in on reels or
tiktoks they they have these things that girls talk about,
like rom-com jobs where they like are.
What's a rom-com job?
It's like jobs that I will leave for tip.
No, I'm just kidding.
But they like work at bookstores
and they like know about books and it's pretty
and they have like tiny studio apartments
and there's something,
they kind of romanticize it.
I used to have a job like that.
Right.
Or they like are cafe girls.
They work in waitresses
and then like eventually they meet a handsome man
and get married.
Like there are jobs that people kind of can spin and tell themselves like maybe it's
but there's something kind of maybe we need a dictator maybe we literally need a dictator to
be like just for day one no for for for three months because these people who are like i want
a job like the idea that i get to have a big house i get to have whatever i want all the latest
devices and all the latest fashion and i'm gonna like friends for instance i work at a coffee shop
and i live in this massive new york apartment they explained it eventually but sure what like
an heiress what was the explanation the explanation was it was monica's grandma's apartment and it was
rent controlled and monica took it over and the landlord doesn't know that Monica's grandma is dead.
Because you can't grandfather those things in.
Right.
Well, so what happens is all these young people expect free stuff.
And I'm just like, I would love if but for a moment these people had to survive off of their own wits.
And we just dropped them in the middle of the woods and said, good luck.
Because then they'd be like,
but where's my latte in my apartment?
Make it.
But someone else should do it for me.
And we should tax you and take your money so that I can live in this beautiful place.
The government should pay for my bills
and should cover the cost of my utilities.
And someone else should cover
the cost of transportation for me.
And then I should be able to make a Chaz farm.
Remember the Chaz farm?
Yeah, that was ludicrous.
And it was filled with rats.
And they tried to clear it just recently.
They cleared it.
I had the same conversation with my son who was like, people should have free health care.
And I was like, really?
Who should pay for it?
And he was like, the government should pay for it.
And I was like, hon, have you heard of taxes?
And he was like, what?
And I was like, I pay taxes.
I work really hard and I pay taxes.
Should I pay taxes so that other people can i pay taxes should i pay taxes so that
other people can have free stuff that i pay for myself and he was like oh maybe i should rethink
this yeah yeah think it through people nothing is free i've told this story before but during
occupy wall street someone gifted like five or ten acres of farmland i think it was more than
that i think it might have been like 20 or something.
And they said, you know,
anybody who wants to come and live here can utilize the land and live off the land.
And a bunch of these hippie-to-be-moron college kids
were like, I'm going to live carbon neutral
and just live off the land
because everybody knows that peasants
had more vacation time than the modern worker.
That's such trash.
They really believe that.
And I was, you know,
how long did my friend last on this farm
two weeks that's it two weeks was all it was it was all it took and she came back and i was like
weren't you gonna go live on that farm and just live off the land and she was like i would wake
up at 6 a.m and go to bed at 11 and i would work the whole time and i'm like uh-huh that sounds
like my day sounds like living on a farm she's like yeah but it was crazy like i don't have time
to read or watch tv or even take a shower and i'm like right yeah uh-huh yeah it sounds like living
on a farm yeah oh you like living your petroleum-fueled luxury reality in america
i like that's why i think people who are willing to work hard decide that there is something
worth it right like maybe you're you have a family feed and you just have to do it it's necessity
but then i think also people who like what they're doing, who are interested and passionate feel
driven. And I think that's the problem. The, the, the young generation coming up is that they feel
nothing. They are ultimately negative. We are standing on the shoulders of giants
in terms of the technology. I was crossing the Williamsburg bridge one day, and I just thought
to myself, how amazing
that so many people came together to build this thing so that I can leisurely walk across
this river where normally it was rather difficult.
And that was just, it's just there.
I don't pay for it.
There's three river crossings downtown.
It's really, really amazing.
But now we have so many people who don't know what it took to build that.
And I'm going to add one more to that. We're not just standing on the shoulders of giants who have lived in the days of yore.
We are standing on the shoulders of slaves in foreign countries and third world countries who are mining cobalt and other rare earth metals.
And their teeth are rotting out of their faces.
And we don't see it at all.
So when these activists are like, yeah, we should get rid of fossil fuels and all that stuff, I'm like, well, you're the first to die.
Like, you know, when Greta Thunberg is like, we're not going to fade to 2030.
We must stop now.
I'm like, that chick would be dead in three days.
But the other thing, too, is you have Joe Biden pushing for all of the solar and pushing for EVs and lithium battery fueled things.
You see the Tesla in Chicago?
Yeah, that's actually pretty funny.
A bunch of dead robots.
Yeah, the dead robots, the car graveyard everywhere but also we're we're saying like you know instead of using
fuel from america or fuel you know fossil fuels we're just going to have kids do the mining and
we're going to use their labor but that's the joe biden thing and there are people who are like we
can automate this mining no No, you can't.
Maybe eventually we get to this point.
But humans, especially, you know, children, they got those little fingers that are good for digging around in tight spaces.
And so in these foreign countries, Google search the videos of the cobalt mines.
I mean, this is big news where you have just like 10,000 people all just sifting through the mud and dirt to find this stuff.
And that's what is that this is
how you live in luxury but we're gonna go to super chats but i guess because a lot of it by popular
demand everyone is demanding uh brimcast uncensored no way so i i guess okay so what so instead of
you guys both want to stay tim's gonna go to bed well yeah no it's well earned that's not me being
mean to tim that's that's saying please also stay, it's well-earned. That's not me being mean to Tim. That's saying, please also stay,
so it's not just me
talking to the camera.
But we'll go to Super Chats.
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it snow for this wow here's an opportunity yeah no i'm just so brutal like when driving from the
airport we landed in hankerstown and uh there's four inches of just perfect fluffy snow and no
plows we're in the middle of nowhere and uh the vehicles we have
we got a couple suvs and a honda civic we had to drive 20 30 miles an hour the whole way back
slowly sliding because there's no plows and salt in the backcountry roads or anything like this so
oh man it took so long i get really impatient with that like i grew up in new england so grew
up with snow things like that but then when you're driving and the condition is just such that you cannot speed up and there's no plow and you just have to go slow i start to just like get the
jitters like i'm like maybe it's worth speeding and flying off the road yeah but then once we
finally got back to the house going up the driveway 10 feet and slid back down and it's like
but we're gonna read super chats raymond g stan Stanley Jr. Says moral compass doesn't point north.
A dream of hers is to bomb the earth.
Absolute bird brain bat ish.
Crazy.
Everyone meet no teeth moving.
Nikki Haley.
Manipal has the first super chat saying foist.
That is correct, sir.
You've won the prize.
All right.
I hope they keep score on the discord of who actually gets, like, the most amount of firsts in a month.
And then their chatter of the month.
Maybe we can do something like that.
I wonder what the legality is of doing a contest where it's like, we will track every day the first super chat.
And then whoever has the most at the end of the month.
Gets a gift.
Yeah.
Or like, I don't know, 10 grand or something.
Well, okay. Wow. that's a really nice gift
and suddenly a bunch of people are jumping in the chat i think that they'll qualify does that
count as all setting your subscriptions went up big time it's 10 grand but it's all uh credit
to our teespring the reason why i say i wonder if that the legality because it sounds like a lottery
almost because everyone's going to be paying two bucks to try and get it and then but we're not
saying it's a random chance it's you have to be first but that's a sweepstakes like if you call
in this number you have there have to be free ways to join sweepstakes i think aren't there
isn't that a thing yeah i think i think we can't do that for sure you had to like have a free way
to yeah so here's the other thing too because we were planning on doing like this timcast grant
thing where every month we'd give 10 grand. We just can't do it.
Yeah.
And so I have given people money in through other ways.
But, you know, basically the legality of it is we want it to be like if you're a member and you're working on a cool project and you share with us, we will help you fund that project.
It's not legal.
You're not allowed to do it.
You can't.
You can't.
Because if you require someone to be a member with a chance to win money
you're engaged in illegal gambling yeah it's gambling and i'm like yeah there's a judging
criteria and they're like the way you do it is you don't have to be a member and an external
panel decides who gets the money and then i'm like yeah but we're trying to do this for the
community to invest in the stuff so basically someone who's never supported the show doesn't
really watch pitches something we can't ask them if they're a fan of the show and they support any of the work we do.
They get the money and then someone who's worked really, really hard and has been dedicated.
I'm like, so we really can't do it, unfortunately.
So we can't do any stuff like that.
Anyway, Jacob Verity says the Never Nikki message needs to be pushed with every ounce of energy we have.
Nikki is a candidate for the Democrats because they have no one.
What if something happens with Trump court cases.
And is disqualified.
Nikki.
That's right.
Or maybe Ron DeSantis.
I got to be honest.
I'll take Ron.
Yo.
If Trump gets knocked out.
And it's Ron versus Nikki.
Ron's got my vote. And you know what's really funny.
Because I was saying before.
I wouldn't vote for him over the AI image debacle.
Then Nikki Haley jumped in.
And I was like. Lord, help us.
I've realized my mistake.
It could get worse.
That's a good lesson for all of us to learn.
But maybe that's the real plan.
They were like, look, Ron's not popular.
We need to make him look more attractive by relative comparison.
It's Ron's backers who are like, Nikki, come on, join the race.
But they're like, we need Ron to look better.
You know, this super long primary season they're like, we need Ron to look better.
You know, this super long primary season we live in,
it's never ending.
At least it really hyper-focused on their personalities.
And you couldn't get around it, right? So you're really shined on who really Nikki is
and who Ron is.
And it's part of our culture now.
It's just never ending.
I wish we didn't live in this never ending cycle
of running for office.
Since 2015, it's never-ending.
Yep.
Never.
That's crazy.
So crazy.
People make money on it.
That's the thing.
I feel like it was just January 6th yesterday.
I remember when we started TimCast IRL.
Don't forget January 13th.
Some of the first clips we did was like reviewing Sonic the Hedgehog and talking about aliens.
And then just politics became pop culture. Every day it got crazier and crazier and has been ever since. And you know, the funny thing
is, so I have youtube.com slash Timcast. That's where the culture war show clips go up every day.
And then the live show itself is on Tenet Media. So guys, subscribe to them. They're awesome. Doing really great work.
And that was like, that channel, I would do a 4 p.m. news segment.
That was about a half an hour long.
And I'd be like, here's the big story of the day.
And then I have youtube.com slash timcastnews.
Subscribe to that channel as well, where I put up four videos every day.
That channel was like movies, video games, commentary culture, pop culture stuff.
And all of that just turned into politics.
Nobody cares about any of that stuff anymore.
And so now that channel is just basically like the news and what's going on.
And, man, it's kind of wild that this is where we've gotten to culturally.
It's just politics is pop culture.
Everything is politics all the time.
I mean, Mia Khalifa being confronted by some Jewish mother.
Jewish mom.
I'm like like why is the
porn star lady debating israel yes what the why it's too much but i have a good friend before i
went on the airs is mike phil's name it's a big online marketer tech guy and he says tell tim
thank tim because we were all afraid five years ago to come out so afraid now because of tim and
these other podcasts
across the country,
we're ready to speak.
So he wanted to thank you for that.
I appreciate it.
There was a really funny post
in like 2017
where someone wrote
about coming out
as a Trump supporter.
And a bunch of people
were commenting
that they were like
identical to coming out as gay.
It was like,
I'm scared to tell my family and friends that's right i remember that i support donald
trump because they'll they'll shun me and ostracize me they won't accept me or they may kick me out of
the family and i was like this is so funny i think that is the experience though and in some ways
because everything has become so political i almost wonder if we'll get a moment where everyone's like
burned out of politics and it becomes uninteresting i just think we have another four or five years to
go unfortunately yeah i feel a lot of people that have been saying they just burned out on in general of politics and it becomes uninteresting. I just think we have another four or five years to go, unfortunately.
Yeah, I feel a lot of people that have been saying
that they just burned out on it in general.
All right.
Joe Spinell says,
this is a comment to your earlier segment,
people in Alaska plugging in their vehicles.
Those are heater blocks, especially for diesel,
not primarily for the battery.
Diesel fuel in sub-Arctic temperatures can turn to jelly.
That's correct, but your earlier comment is incorrect.
Every vehicle had a plug in it and they're gas vehicles,
not diesel vehicles, and it was for their batteries. At least that's what they told us. The car rental agency
said your gasoline SUV will freeze. The battery will stop working. You have to plug it in. In fact,
when they gave us the car, the remote, the electronic entry didn't work there. Oh, I got
to tell you, we got an SUV there. They give us the key to it.
It's minus 28.
It doesn't work.
And so we're out there.
It's freezing.
In Iowa?
Alaska.
We're in Fairbanks.
And they said,
yeah, if it doesn't work,
just pop the key out
because there is a mechanical key in it.
The car has no keyhole anymore.
They're all electric remote entry
and it's too cold so it doesn't work.
And so they're like, oh, you have to
warm it up. And I'm like,
yeah, so it was plugged in.
All the rentals come with extension cables
and they say if you don't
plug it in, your battery will die.
That's what they told us.
I do understand that diesel also
has heater blocks because diesel needs to get warmed up
before it can start.
Sure, I get that.
But plugging in the vehicles was specifically because the batteries were dying.
And we went to the hotel, and they didn't have any plugs.
And so we went in and said, it's minus 28 right now.
Will the car be fine overnight?
And the lady said, no, your battery will be dead in the morning.
And we're like, okay.
And she's like, so go drive around until you can find a place to plug it in. If you can't in a handicap and then we waited someone left we took a spot we plugged it in but uh that's what we were
told maybe they were wrong i don't know all right sarah lee hooper says encanto is the last good
disney movie worth the watch i don't believe it i'm not watching it sorry i never saw it i'm not
gonna do it i'm okay yeah. Yeah, so She-Hulk
I guess that's, you know, She-Hulk got cancelled
or whatever. Good. That show was weird. I only saw
one episode of it. Get woke, go broke.
My son and his friend hate watched that show.
What was their take?
They would tell me about it. They hated it.
They just thought that it was really lame
and that the main character
had absolutely no story arc.
And then the story arc doesn't even,
like what arc there was is her just jumping out of the Disney Plus,
I'm not kidding,
she jumps out of the Disney Plus thumbnail for the show
and then walks around the Disney Plus streaming app
and like then meets Kevin Feige or something.
Man, they really had no idea what they were doing.
They lost their minds.
All right, the homeless veteran says, how do I get on here to tell my story about an insane paranormal mission I had overseas that is still not acknowledged?
Retired Army.
And about my persecution by the FBI and USG.
I want to tell it.
I-D-G-A-F about after.
That sounds like a job for Shane Cashman.
Normal stuff is definitely Shane.
Yeah.
The Inverted World live show is going to be getting started very soon because we finally
got the freedom is in building done, but it's not just freedom.
Stan, the, the new studio location we have is 50 acres.
It's got multiple structures.
We've got two primary offices and studios for the show.
So we're going to be, so we can launch more shows.
Really, really crazy.
What we're building over here.
We're investing millions into our new skate show, the Boonies. So subscribe to The Boonies. I think it's Boonies HQ on YouTube.
You can search for The Boonies. And Instagram, where we're going to be building, we've already
built this large private facility. The skate park should be done in about April. A bunch of pro
skateboarders have already come through and done interviews with pro skateboarder Richie Jackson,
who is our principal host of the Booneys show.
And we've got big interest from some of the top pros in the world.
I got to tell you guys, have hope and do not be blackmailed.
When I watch these huge pros for like Nitro Circus,
I'm talking like big professional athletes,
and they're wearing public square t-shirts, black rifle coffee, we are winning winning it used to be that these pro skaters i
complain about they'd hit me up being like look man i'm a big fan but i'm scared i'll get fired
for my job now they're like well if i do get dropped i mean black rifle called me up they're
offering sponsors i'm like yes so you know as much as people have had beef with black rifle in the
past yo they're sponsoring athletes and giving them a chance to say f you to the woke garbage
that is awesome yeah i know people have a lot of opinions about Black Rifle Coffee,
but every time I'm in a Walmart and I see how much Black Rifle Coffee is there,
it kind of blows my mind.
Because I remember when they were just sponsoring people on YouTube,
I didn't even know if they had a retail store.
And now it's like, oh, you're pushing your way into the mainstream.
When I heard that, I don't know if I'm breaking it.
I don't think I'm breaking it.
But Travis Pastrana is sponsored by Black Rifle.
I'm pretty sure that's true, right?
Let me just...
Let me double check here.
Yeah, Travis Pastrana is sponsored by Black Rifle Coffee, I believe.
Whatever.
And when I found out that was happening back in the day,
because he was on Red Bull before, I was like,
we're winning.
And this is massive. This is a pro to a company far from perfect a lot of other
criticisms but there's there's other pro skateboarders wearing public square shirts
and i'm what i'm pro athletes and i'm like we are winning some of the biggest pro skateboarders in
the world in their skate parks have rumble on their on their on their walls and rumble is the uh i believe it's the
exclusive uh location for street league skateboarding i'm like guys we're winning this
now i'm getting hit up by some of the biggest names in professional sports in action sports
saying like we're huge fans we're gonna come out we're gonna skate scoot blade bike all that stuff
and i'm like this is it young people are going to be pulled in this direction we're going
to believe in freedom meritocracy individual responsibility this is how we do it good fun
i just wanted to say with regard to disney did you guys see the new thing that they came up with
which was a um uh the first deaf native american amputee superhero. Echo. Yeah.
Yeah, but I don't really have,
I don't have an issue with it so much as they're making it about that
because imagine if Daredevil
was like the first blind superhero
and the whole show was just about
how he's being oppressed
for being differently abled.
So when they're like,
we're making a show about a minority deaf woman,
I'm like, no, no, no, hold on, hold on.
We like Daredevil, okay?
He was a kid. He got blinded so he attuned his his senses so now he has like super senses and he became super great
blindness does not make him it actually makes the character really interesting like in the scene in
spider-man when he's sitting at the table and the brick flies to the window and he catches it
and they're like how did you do that and he's like i'm a really good lawyer like it's great
because a blind person should not be so good at this but he's a superhero so if they're like, how did you do that? And he's like, I'm a really good lawyer. Like, it's great because a blind person should not be so good at this, but he's a superhero.
So if they're going to make Echo, who's deaf, it needs to be like, look, Daredevil is blind and he has Echo location because his ears are so good.
But it's also his weakness.
Loud noises go, ah, and he falls.
What are they doing with Echo?
She is a minority amputee deaf woman.
And then they do a bunch of cringe stuff in the trailer that are, it's about being deaf.
And it's just like,
oh,
come on,
man.
That's the lame part is when you make it about the thing as opposed to
about a story or a narrative or something organic.
The only place that's worse is a quiet place,
right?
Where like the daughter was deaf,
but it worked out in this world.
Cause gave this fan family,
this advantage there spoke sign language.
Like that's when I felt like that played into the storyline.
Well,
big champ says, but I was not just Tim and friends friends i'd like to recommend youngstown ohio for your
live show being the halfway point between pittsburgh and cleveland you'd be sure to draw
a good crowd penguin city brewery as a possible venue isn't i'm pretty sure youngstown is where
during the occupy protests the like the police and firefighters joined in the protests over the
the corruption in government and then the government went to the police and said, we'll give you anything you want.
The cops said, you got it.
Turned around and arrest all their co-protesters.
Wow.
I'm exaggerating.
That's medieval.
The cops got what they wanted and then turned around and said, okay, everybody, time to
go home.
Reminds me of, I think it was Family Guy.
Peter Griffin's protesting the new supermarket, the super center that moves in, like it's
Walmart or whatever.
And then when he goes in to complain that for my job,
then he turns around,
walks out and says,
you are trespassing and you are required to leave.
That's the reality of a lot of people,
man.
They'll sit there and scream and protest.
All you got to do is offer them cash.
And then all of a sudden they're like,
I'm with you.
This is true for a lot of these leftists.
I make a wager.
Maybe we can do an undercover show to prove this point,
really destroy some of these woke far left extremists. Undercover footage where you go to some far left Antifa person
and then just legitimately offer them cash to do a job that they would otherwise protest.
And when they say yes, then be like, oh, hey, look, here's this guy you think is a big eco
activist and environmentalist. We offer him, you know, a six figure job working on a petroleum rig and he said yes well you know it's
because i thought i could do more good yeah okay please dude but also work i just feel like that's
the thing that's gonna be averse to yeah you could be like hey you've got a bunch of followers on
social media we'd be willing to pay you you know like hey we we agree we're trying to save the
environment but help us do the right thing and spread the good word about the good work we're doing and why petroleum is good and we'll pay you
20 grand.
And they're going to be like, OK, there were a bunch of or I saw this report that gas stations
were trying to give sponsorships to lots of like young social media influencers to be
like, come to my gas station.
It is cool.
I thought was kind of funny.
Gas stations are always cool.
Yeah.
But the fact that you have to pay an influencer to tell you that, that's weird.
Wyatt Caldenberg says,
HCB, do the after show.
You are smart and well-read.
You and Libby can do it.
Three Collins and small talk.
It's time to move your game up a level.
Dude, thanks.
This is career coaching from the chat over here.
What a hype.
You guys are fun.
And then Christopher Lambert says,
Brimcast, brimcast, brimcast, brimcast.
I'm not
putting the energy into it i'm tired but there's like 15 exclamation points there well i appreciate
this oh my gosh uh serge texted me i will say during the show being like so are you being
serious about this and i was like it's yours and it's tim's idea that i do the after show
so i'm glad the chat's in support i'm happy to do it that's the point of having other people
work at this company it's just the after show but it keeps the so i can't ruin it i mean it's it's fine well no it's
like it you know it's it's it's an opportunity for the guests to call in and ask questions
i really like our members i did um over thanksgiving raymond g stanley jr like
walked me through how to use our discord because i'm a boomer and i got to talk to people in the
discord and they're like it's such a cool community i'm glad that we've been able to cultivate it somehow
or at least bring them together in a central place so the event we did in iowa i think we're
gonna end up losing you know low five figures on doing that trip because it costs like it costs
over a hundred thousand dollars to do wow in order to get nine people because we have people who
produce the show uh manage the venues work with guest
relations and stuff and security the only way to do it is if we fly out on a private jet only to
make it possible and i'm not some hippie dippy eco-activist i don't care if you're flying a
private jet as long as you can afford it but uh if you're a hypocrite then i'll make fun of you
so you know it's like so last week on tuesday as soon as the show
wrapped at you know 11 we got out the door got in the car drove straight to the jet landed in in in
iowa like two in the morning went to bed and woke up to start producing uh oh no i'm sorry i'm sorry
that's not what happened the flight got canceled because the weather did the morning show and then
left that morning landed and then did the nightly show.
Then coming back was also extremely brutal.
We were sponsored by
Based Records, B-A-S-T-E Records.
Super grateful for their help.
Excited to work with them on some music projects, too.
And that helped cover
a bulk of the costs, but not all of it.
We sold tickets. The ticket sales cover
almost nothing, and so we lose money
doing it. But I think it's incredibly beneficial to the company. And I think it's incredibly beneficial
culturally to have these on location events where people can come and hang out and actually watch
the show in person and ask questions. But one of the plans I think we're going to do,
we've been advised by some bigger companies is, and this is Luke's idea, is to do super private, like VIP dinners between five and $10,000 per ticket,
not for individual regular people, but for businesses who wanted to have private meetings.
And it's not because we want to make money. It's because we want to fund the show.
So it's like, if we want to, if we want to do more events, here's the restriction.
We reach out to sponsors and say, Hey guys, we want to do a stage show in this place.
It's going to cost, here's all the costs. we'll show all of them to you stage production camera equipment rental
security and people don't understand how expensive security is seriously if you've got a presidential
candidate coming down they're going to be like seven how many exits in the bill how many exits
entrances in the building eight i want two guards at each entrance okay those are 50 bucks an hour
people and so all that's super expensive per day but this way we can actually put it out there and be like if we can't get a sponsor we'll try that approach because
we've actually had people say straight up they would like we've had people back hey i will i
will give you x amount of dollars to just be able to come and do like a private meeting with you
guys and we're like why don't we do a dinner and so i think that's one one opportunity to help fund
more of these things because we've got people who want us to do you know once a month or something and i'm like bro that is so brutal like people don't sleep got to
get on a plane the only way that's possible is with a lot of money and then everyone says okay
and we're like okay well then you help fund it and they're like okay and i'm like all right well
we'll give it a shot we'll see what happens so that's one idea we might do and uh you know we'll
see what happens but uh i think the next event will have
a series of like ultra vip private dinner tickets which is basically what politicians do when they're
like hey it's you know five grand for a ticket to come have dinner with me but ours is going to be
like you come have dinner then we go to the show and you help put that show on and we'll give you
a shout out and thank you for sponsoring the show. Well, Trump does a fundraiser. He charges for clicks, photos.
Really?
Beforehand, yeah.
Just to get a photo, 25K, something like that.
25K for a photo with Trump?
And then afterwards is the regular fundraiser for maybe 1,000.
I get it.
I mean, if you're doing a fundraiser and you're like, look, like Trump's-
When you get a photo with the sitting president, right?
Yeah.
And my thing is like, my first thought is, man, to try and charge that much.
But there are people who are like, look, I run a big company.
We want to pitch some ideas to you.
We would help.
It's basically not that you're giving us money for profit.
It's your sponsor.
So these are like, you get to have private dinner.
And then you're also a listed sponsor of the show at the time and stuff like that.
So I think it'll be fun.
And that's what we'll try to do.
So that'll help us get more events
and allow us to travel to more places.
All right.
The real Raul Camacho says,
Magaswami, Vivek VP, make it happen.
He would be good.
He would be good.
I don't know who would be better,
to be completely honest.
I know who politically and market-wise could be good,
but Vivek is, man, Vivek is a good weapon for Donald Trump.
You cannot win an argument with that man.
The media will try to go after him.
He's going to run circles around him.
Very, very smart guy.
Very smart.
And very articulate, right?
What did Joe Biden say about Barack Obama?
Do you remember that?
No?
No.
Joe Biden said something about Barack Obama
was articulate for a black man or something.
Yeah, something like that.
This guy is our president
and he was his vice president.
He didn't say it like that.
He said something akin to that.
But it probably was basically like that.
I mean, somebody must bring in this golden retriever
immediately.
Actually, if Trump said,
Vivek, take over my press conference today it would
be amazing right because vivek is incredible hand in the press he did say that good as
almost as good as trump yeah in 2007 i mean you got the first mainstream african-american
who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice lookingumbag but the MAGA extremists are racist i know right this is
what he said i mean that's a storybook man geez oh man all right classic uh classic
stang lover says doesn't cabinet members have to be a pre-approved be approved by congress
would they allow a vague i don't think they have to be approved right cabinet members no that's just like you hiring your staff i think so there's certain positions have to be approved by congress would they allow a vague i don't think they have to be approved right cabinet members no that's just like you hiring your staff i think so there's certain positions
that have to be approved confirmation and but those are like bureaucratic positions
all right get a pair with sully says tim dems infiltrating republicans the same as what the
wigs did when they went extinct the wigs took over the democrats completely and remained prominent
in reps the first republican president was a lifelong Whig.
Yes, Lincoln was a Whig.
Huh.
You know what would be really funny if Republicans infiltrated the Democratic primary and then nominate Trump?
And then Nikki Haley wins the Republican, but Trump's the Democrat.
And everyone's just like, I guess I'm voting Democrat.
I never thought that would happen.
Then Donald Trump is like, I'm changing parties now that I'm elected.
All right. that would happen then donald trump is like i'm changing parties now that i'm elected all right bt diaz says the cabinet positions etc for vivek is all good is good and all but how much government experience did trump have in 2016 i reject this notion that government
experience small time or otherwise guarantees a good president i didn't say that i said donald
trump has experience in government so he'd be better than vivek ramaswamy vivek ramaswamy
getting experience in government would make him a better president in 2028.
And it keeps him in the news constantly.
He needs to be in the news.
He needs to be.
Yeah.
And you know the news is not going to get any nicer to Trump.
And we need a fighter like Vivek going against the news cycle, going against the mainstream media constantly.
Because we're going to get a barrage of anti-Trump, anti-conservative.
Sorry, I'm jumping out of my skin tonight.
I'm so nervous about Brimcast.
No, and what Tim said, what I remember about it was that one of the things Trump had to
do during his first time in office was to learn where there were issues and learn where
the landmines are.
I mean, having experience, being able to see what's going on on the inside would benefit
Vivek or whoever is the nominee in 2028. Jodan 80 says, if Trump picks Tulsi for VP,
doesn't that boost his chances of getting on Rogan? Does that boost her chances? Dude,
a Rogan-Gabbard-Trump episode would be the most viewed podcast in history.
Yeah, that would be cool. Like if Trump went on Rogan, it would get a lot of views and it may be close to the most viewed podcast in history.
But like you throw someone in the mix like Tulsi Gabbard or even Vivek and it's going to be the most like who's going to miss that show?
Yeah.
No way.
Yeah, for sure.
All right.
Let's grab one more here.
What do we have?
All right.
Jason Hutchison says, Tim, buy a jet.
And when they and when they are not flying you around
rent it out that is an option and jets aren't as expensive as people think i shouldn't say jets
but uh private private flight so we do look at this there are like five seater turboprop planes
that are a couple hundred grand so that means you're spending like two or three thousand dollars
a month on on the uh on the loan then you've got to have staffing that could be like a hundred to 200 K for,
for a good pilot.
And you probably need more than one.
So all in all,
we talked to a company and we were like,
if we want to do every month,
some kind of event,
that means we need to jet.
And they said,
ultimately you're going to end up spending like a million bucks a year to
maintain fuel and fly this thing. And you've got to make
it worth it. And I'm like, oh man, that's kind of crazy. If we, if we do like four events per year,
we're going to be spending like a hundred grand per year in private flights. And so, okay, maybe,
maybe that's, you know, we do something smaller, but there's something called net jets where you
spend several hundred thousand dollars to buy a share shares in a fleet
and then when you schedule a flight all you have to do is pay the the the time for the staff you
pay the flat costs so there's no profit you know like when you when you when you book a private jet
there's a broker fee they will someone someone's renting the plane out they want to make a profit
with net jets it's just covering the costs and you're a part owner and you can always sell your
shares later it's like a time share for jets yeah and it's what a lot i think it's just covering the costs and you're a part owner and you can always sell your shares later. It's like a timeshare for Jets.
Yeah, and it's what a lot – I think it's what – whenever I talk to ultra-rich people, most of them don't even bother having Jets that I talk to.
But, I mean, if you're super rich like Bill Gates, but I got five.
Trump's got three, I think.
But for like the not ultra-billionaires, it's just – it makes more sense.
I know a guy who's like effectively a billionaire and he's like, eh, NetJets is easier.
They handle everything for you.
You don't got to worry about pilots.
You don't got to manage anything.
You just call them up and say, here's the flight I need.
And they say, well, we'll see you there.
Is it ever funny to you that you have reached a place in your life where people are like,
Tim, just buy a private plane.
Just buy a private plane, Tim.
I always knew this day would come.
Okay.
So you did.
No, not really.
I mean, it's, it's when we're at this point where we flew on a private jet this morning, we were landing.
And it's funny, I'm thinking about it, how it's not fun.
Was it NetJets?
No.
Did you use NetJets?
I was a broker.
I was a regular broker.
The first plane we got out there was great.
It had Wi-Fi on it.
The flight back didn't.
You never know what you're going to get. Because basically what we did was we called a broker and we said, it the flight back didn't you know you never know what
you're gonna get because you just basically what we do is you call a broker we said we need a flight
this here's what we can find for you and you got to pay these ridiculous fees and it's massive
it's expensive but for me it's just like it is not fun to land at three in the morning and then
not get any sleep no that doesn't sound fun at all so these people make these videos and instagram
posts where they're like walking walk onto a private jet.
And I'm like, the average person who's flying is bored of flying and is like, I've got to travel for a meeting.
It's work, it's work, it's work.
And it's a practical issue of, is there business and market demand for what you're doing?
And if there is, then you have to spend the money on it.
And I don't walk out of the airport and go, wow, look at me on a private jet and i'm like yeah we gotta we gotta rush out the door it's stressful
it's it's painful it's it's it's uncomfortable there's no food you do not like the bat if you
if you're lucky enough to get one of these things with the bathroom because most of them don't have
like a lot of jets and turbo props they have no bathrooms yeah you're flying you're flying for a
couple hours no bathroom they say go before you leave and good luck.
The nicer ones will have a bathroom, but the bathrooms are really awful.
And you're cramped.
It's not fun.
Flying first class commercial is way better.
They give you a steak.
You get a wet towel and you're wiping your face.
But then you got to go through security and deal all that bs and so in the long run it's like i can't go to iad to fly at midnight to catch you know a show in iowa and do this stuff
so that's where we're at but uh we'll wrap it up there if uh become a member at timcast.com
go to timcast.com click join us brimcast uncensored will be coming up in a few minutes
and um you can follow the show at timcast irl you can follow me personally at timcast
i've had a headache the whole time because i haven't slept but uh you know i just you got to
do what you got to do so i appreciate all of you guys watching and supporting the show making all
this possible uh i shouted out based record several times because we were only able to do
the iowa show with with their help because they they sponsored the show it didn't cover all the
costs you guys as member members made it possible and picked up the rest.
So shout out to all of the TimCast.com
members for empowering us and the
ability to make these shows happen.
I'm going to go to bed, but I appreciate all
of your support. Adam, do you want to shout anything out?
Thanks for having me, Tim.
We'll have some great
spots to tell you
for your tour and hopefully
we'll see you in New York.
And Miami again. Yeah, I think Miami's I got some great spots to tell you for your tour, and hopefully we'll see you in New York. New York?
And Miami again.
Yeah, I think Miami's absolutely yes.
New York will probably be like outside New York somewhere.
Long Island.
Maybe.
Yeah, maybe outside of New York State.
Maybe we'll figure it out, but thanks for hanging out.
Are you on social media?
Should people follow you on?
At Adam Matthew is my Twitter handle.
Adam 5PR is my Instagram.
Cool.
What about like Niagara Falls?
Yes, let's go to Niagara Falls.
That sounds fun.
It does sound fun.
Pittsburgh's out of the question.
That is heartbreaking to me.
I'm so sad about it.
Without naming any of these venues,
the general idea as conveyed to me
is they're all basically like
if we book you,
Antifa will burn down the venue
damn come on pittsburgh no no i'm not clarifying i don't believe anyone has explicitly said
anything like that but they're scared the vibe is as i'm described it seems like i'm being very
careful uh their concern is that antifool burn down their venues if we if they host us i still
wish we could do a show somewhere in Pennsylvania, because I think it's just
such an interesting time to be in Pennsylvania.
We may have a big West Virginia one coming up.
Good.
I love West Virginia.
Great.
Also a good place.
Not far away.
Okay.
Yeah.
Which is one of the benefits for Pittsburgh for us.
But yeah.
Well, that's too bad.
But hopefully our Pittsburgh-based friends could come on down to West Virginia.
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Maybe I'll see you later.
Libby, I was so glad to see you tonight.
Yeah, it's great to see you too.
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