Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL #943 Sports Illustrated FIRES MOST Staff, Trans Models & AI Scandal BREAK Company w/ALX

Episode Date: January 20, 2024

Tim, Ian, Phil, & Serge join ALX to discuss Sports Illustrated firing nearly all of its employees, Alec Baldwin being charged with manslaughter over Rust shooting, and Joe Biden approving another $5 Billion in student loan forgiveness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sports Illustrated is laying off most of its staff. The brand is going under. We got a cultural episode for you today, mostly because there's just basically no news. But this is pretty big news because Sports Illustrated is a legacy brand. It's been around since 19, I think it was in 1954. And now they're done. And there's an argument over what caused them to collapse. So we've got an AI scandal.

And we also have a scandal involving two instances where they put transgender models on the cover of their swimsuit editions. And a lot of people are not too happy about that. Now, the argument is, did they get woke and go broke or were they going broke? So they did a Hail Mary to try and save themselves by getting woke. I got to be honest. It sounds like if that's the case, your boat is sinking. So you decide the best way to stop your boat from sinking is to punch holes in the bottom of it. And then it just sinks faster. But perhaps that is the case. We'll talk about that. Alec Baldwin is being criminally charged in voluntary manslaughter.

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I was on this. I'm Ian Cross on, on the, what is it? The, the culture war earlier today with dude, it was Ben Davidson. Who's suspicious observers on YouTube.

That was fun. And Jimmy Corsetti. Yeah. From bright insight. And we talked about pole shifts. I mean, wild, just,

I mean the electric universe, I feel like it was a very real theory and we kind of went deep. I just got wild, just, I mean, the electric universe, I feel like is a very real theory. And we kind of went deep. I just got to say, anybody who like watches Tim Castaio around, they're like, it's too black pilled. Like, I'm going to watch something else. Do not watch the show we did this morning, where basically this guy is like,

the planet is going to tilt 90 degrees. Night will become day. Oceans will boil and you will all die. He didn't say it like that. I'm kidding. But he was basically like, get prepared have 10 years nothing else matters and i was like wow yeah that was kind of a part of the feel of it as interesting as the technology was that was a feeling like yo there's going to be a pole shift and we got to prepare for it he's he was

saying that the the earth will tilt 90 degrees because these these pole ships happen periodically there's evidence of these things and so that's what he believes and he was like i think we have maybe like 10 or so years it's not going to be as apocalyptic as that it's just there's going to be rapid economic shifts which people need to prepare for but check that out uh on youtube tenant media the culture war podcast and uh where all podcasts are found very hot yeah also got my man to the right here yo i am surge.com it's a pleasure to see you alex alx i uh saw you at uh i think amfest and i can only say hey for like one second yeah you guys see a live show on the stage yeah yeah right uh anyways yeah let's let's jump into the big news today

sports illustrated lays off most of its staff after ai scandal and money troubles its parent company has fired more than 100 employees. It's kind of wild to see that apparently their parent company missed a payment for the rights to use the brand. And now the company is laying off tons of people. They've owned the magazines in 2019, sold the publishing rights. I'm sorry, ABG owned the rights to, they sold the rights to Arena Group, which has amassed substantial debt and missed a recent $3.75 million payment for the rights. arena group, which has amassed substantial debt and missed a recent

$3.75 million payment for the rights. And this is the end. You know what, man, it's kind of sad, but also my question, my question is, should we be happy about it? Right? Bud light is on the verge of death. They're saying there's going to be a strike potentially in March. There will be no beer because the employees are upset they want more money bud light can't give them more money because nobody's buying bud light and you know what's really fascinating we actually we we on this show discussed this the understanding that uh the cascade failure effect of a major brand bud light may make a billion dollars you stop buying bud light and what happens is the cost per can goes up. So let's start from the very

beginning. We have a cast brew coffee. We sell ground and whole bean coffee. We wanted to sell cans of cold brew. To sell at the volume we can afford, it would cost $5 per can to have a can of cast brew cold brew coffee. No one's going to buy that i mean that's a ridiculous thing to like buy a can of coffee for five bucks you need to get down to like two dollars or you know two dollars twenty cents which means if we were to sell maybe like two million cans then we would make i don't know ten grand off that sale and that's enough profit generated to cover the cost of all the employees if we lost fifty thousand dollars in sales of two million cans now we're not breaking even anymore the whole thing just collapses that's what's happening to bud light when i see bud light failing everybody's cheering but part of me is like hey maybe this is what the woke left wants

sports illustrated gets woke goes broke and now we're all like haha you get what you deserve for all the woke left is like we've destroyed a legacy brand there was there was a dad who handed a sports illustrated to his kid it's talking about football and his favorite i think look this is when so and so first got on the team it was something i remember now it's like what are you what are you going to remember from your childhood that you're going to be able to hand down i don't think we should be celebrating these legacy brands getting woke and blowing up no because it's like it's a culture revolution this ideology is parasitic and it will destroy whatever it takes over if it does it will it'll you know infest it or it'll invade it'll take over it'll wear whatever it takes over like a skin suit and if it destroys

it totally it's fine it does it's completely completely the it's completely fine with destroying uh whatever it is that it gets into whether it be uh you know video games or whether it be you know the sports or whatever It doesn't matter what it is, whether it be religion, the whole liberation theology, all that stuff is all Marxist influence and stuff. It'll get into whatever it is that you're, whatever institution you're talking about.

And then it'll either assimilate it or it'll destroy it. Everybody's cheering for the destruction of Bud Light because Bud Light did the Dylan Mulvaney thing. And I'm like, okay, totally get it. But understand, I mean, when was Bud Light? Budweiser's been around for a really, really long time. Someone want to Google when Bud Light came out?

I think we should celebrate when we defeat wokeness. But I think we have to be careful if we celebrate how the woke sabotaged and destroyed 1982 is budweiser light and then reintroduced 84 as bud light so i don't i don't care too much about bud light and that kind like it's been around since the 80s okay fine but with sports illustrated and with other publications i think i think it would be important for us to recognize if the goal of wokeness in the cultural revolution may be, we don't care if we own it or it's destroyed so long as we own it or it's destroyed. Exactly. A hundred percent. That is the entire goal of the cultural revolution.

They need to take over the things that americans come together over so whether it be like whether it be bud light as a brand or you look at what they do to disney disney was a wholesome family american brand and now disney's reeling with half the country hating disney and half the country loving disney and and there's all kinds of strife that's That kind of stuff is what this ideology does. It can't do anything but destroy. The whole thing is called deconstructing. They got us cheering for the destruction of our institutions. Yes.

Well, that's terrifying. We should not do that. We should not destroy things. And that's why we talked about whether or not we should like you know make room for people that realize that that they had you know been consumed by bad ideas with whether it be woke or whatever you want to call it and you have to make way make a space for people to come back in you have to make it okay for people to come back and be like yeah i think maybe i was kind of wrong on that stuff you can't mock them you can't make fun of them you can't you know be like no and shun them and stuff because we it's it's an illiberal ideology that's infected them if they

want to move beyond that and come back to liberal principled stances then we should we should welcome yeah i think um one of the goals of this ideology of assume that it's like a communist attempt to disrupt would be to get half of like your friends to turn on you and be like no you're not woke enough you got to be woke and then five years later they come back and they're like i'm sorry but then for you to not forgive them would be a victory for the this communist thing like you've got to forgive these people when they realize that they were played yeah it's i mean i think it's weird though how like the ai thing like how long ago was that that that story came out? It was a couple months ago.

I don't know anything about it through an AI checker and also like could clearly see that these weren't real people and stuff and, you know, published a piece on it. This is sports illustrated. Yeah. Oh yeah. And then like, I think that was a couple of months ago. And then, so it seems in here that like they didn't, you know, pay the licensing fee or whatever.

So it's kind of weird how like, you know, that came right after that, if it was kind of planned to do that, like to take down the brand or I'm not sure, but it's like certainly weird that those two events, you know, coincide. Like they couldn't afford to pay writers. So they used AI, then they couldn't afford to pay licensing. So they just didn't, that's possible that the brand, I never really understood sports illustrated as a brand or as a product. And remember in the 80s and 90s like it was a magazine about sports but i had tv at that point so like watching pictures of a dude like this is in no way exciting unless you're a guy throw the ball that's cool and you may be sitting in the back of a car or on a plane or a train or waiting

in a lobby and like it was like always about it was about reading like sports stats i guess but then when the internet came out they would they would they would like go and like have journals like sit down with like the people that were they'd say you sit down with coaches and players and owners of teams and all that all of the inside stuff you were getting with sports illustrated it wasn't just like hey these guys beat these guys on this day you know it was like all the stuff that goes into it and then the internet came out and was like the great leveling. And it just became one of like a thousand periodicals that do that kind of thing. And I remember the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue was always a big deal. That's like the only time every year anyone would even talk about Sports Illustrated and my crew.

We weren't like huge athletes. I think it's inevitable that periodicals, the people that rely on print. I don't know if Sports Illustrated still relies on print or if they have an online subscription model, but these things are all the way of the dodo. They're extinct. They've gone obsolete. And maybe if the power all goes out and we're back to trading cards in the dark, then maybe books and novels and magazines will become relevant again. But when you can check it all for free on the internet, these things have no place anymore. They need to adapt their, their business model.

It sounds like this company didn't do that. I don't know if they even, I mean, I assume sports illustrated had a website. I mean, I haven't gone to look, but yeah. Yeah.

I think it was like the online version of the sports illustrated stuff. That was all. Yeah. I'm looking at it now. It's a futurism. I think was the publication. They had like this guy, Drew Hernandez as the, drew hernandez drew ortiz as the author now we like i know right as the author's biography it says drew has spent much of his life outdoors and is excited to guide you

through his never-ending list of the best products to keep you from falling the perils of nature it read uh nowadays there is rarely a weekend that goes down goes by where drew is not out camping hiking or just back on his parents farm like all this like random stuff yeah because he was not a real person yeah and like the the profile picture is just some like ai generated like person and these are like the biographies of stuff and then they reached out and sports illustrated deleted like all of the articles and stuff. We were talking last night about the Galaxy S24. I'm not going to buy it, by the way. I bought it.

You did. I bought it. Well, I want to see what it's all about. I want to see the extent to which reality is being ripped from our faces. Dude, it's going to be crazy. We are walking ourselves into the matrix one step at a time. For those that didn't hear what we were talking about, the new galaxy, and to an extent, even the iPhone can do this. You'll take a picture.

Let's say Ian takes a selfie of himself standing on a dock on Michigan Beach. Navy Pier, Chicago. He takes a picture of himself by the Ferris wheel. Then he looks at it and he goes i'm kind of off-centered so then he clicks the magic ai button taps himself moves it turns i'm a little and he twists the rotates the image then press fix it will generate the missing portions of the photo creating fake images what we are what we are now going to start seeing popping up all over the internet photos of people and we thought it was bad enough that you've got like mid journey and stable diffusion people are going to take a picture on their phone and it's going to be a

fabricated circumstance everything we see online will be fake yeah and then eventually why bother actually going anywhere we're inching ourselves to the point where someone will be like because people first of all people have already done this where they put a post they post fake photoshop pictures of themselves like traveling the world and stuff because it makes money now you've got fake ai girlfriends being posted by dudes to make money off lonely guys and stupid guys why bother going to india at all at this point when you can just take a picture of yourself on your galaxy tap tap it, and it puts you in India? What's the difference?

And you can use VR to actually tour places in India in actual virtual tours. You can go in the pyramids with a virtual tour, walk around and see all the walls and read the hieroglyphs and stuff. You're going to go on Instagram and you're going to see your buddy. He's going to post a picture of himself standing by the water giving a wave, and he and he never did that before he's gonna be like well i was i was actually like 30 feet away and we were leaving i i sent a quick pic but i just moved it so it looked like i was so i was there all fake reality yo 10 years ago it was longer than 10 years like 13 years ago i was at uh in chicago not too far from navy pier and there was a presentation being given by this group talking

about how soon all news articles would be written by AI. They already had the technology at the time and they explained it's actually really simple to create the language to describe the temperature and the weather and what they plan for it. So if they have the data that says like it's going to snow at 4 p.m. When you look at hourly weather data and it's like sunny at two, cloudy at three, snowing at four, all they have to do is plug that into an AI that will say this morning we'll experience fair weather where at two it will still be sunny. However, an hour after that, we expect to see clouds followed by snow, AI generating all of it.

We are now well past that point where Sports Illustrated was running totally AI generated articles with a guy they claimed was real. And I assure assure you a lot of other publications are doing the exact same thing one thing that i'm very curious over i don't quite understand news guard requires organizations have biographies for their staff but some of these big publications the major ones they won't put a byline it'll say just like by staff yeah and i'm talking like abc and things like this you'll be like who wrote this where did this come from yo the machine it's a matrix bro the computer is is the funny thing is like when you watch the matrix we assume that it's going to be like this omniscient sentient hive mind of machine kind being like humans tried to destroy us so we

fought back in reality it's going to be like all we're doing is repeating back to you what you said to us yeah there's going to be no emotion no intent it's going to be a garbled mess of psychotic nonsense so so look at this way right now when you go to like mid journey and you type in like hey generate me an image of you know rock star singing a song it will make that it's basing it off of real photos of rock stars but as people generate ai images oh wow and then post them to the internet labeling it rock star singing the ai will then eat the ai generated image incorporating the ai generated image into its model it's like a game of telephone. Yeah. With itself.

It's going to spin like a tornado, constantly cycling its own data through itself. Here's what you do. Take a picture, put it in a copier, and then just keep copying the same image over and over and over again and see what happens. Yeah, it gets like faded and weird looking. It's going to turn into a bunch of speckled, garbled nonsense. That's where we're going with AI. But the problem is we are handing AI the controls to all of our systems and our economics and our media so you thought it was

bad when jack dorsey hooked the toilet to his own throat and started gargling the diarrhea that he had produced imagine what's going to be like when you do with ai jack dorsey walks away and the ai is spraying you in the face with all of it. Welcome to the future, man. The matrix is not some fun journey. It's going to be weird, dude. Man, part of me is like, yo, I'd love to play nine video games at once. Like plug my brain in so I can enjoy all this data. But the other part is like, I want to go to South America. I can see the farm where I live with the tree line.

I can see the pineapples growing and just live that life. Not necessarily off the grid but like not in the grid my first experience with like mid-journey i was like typing like republican protesters versus democrat or democrat versus republican and each time the the democrat one they always had like satanic horns and like it's super creepy and then yeah it's like this is the image did you guys guys ever see the rejected cartoons by Don Hertzfeld? No. My spoon is too big.

You don't know that one? Oh, maybe. Yeah, of course. So when I'm thinking about what's going to happen, I'm reminded of like two-thirds in. It says, Don's clear and steady downhill state continued. Soon he was completing commercial segments entirely with his left hand. And it's like this.

Oh wait, we gotta get the audio going. Is it good? Okay, so that's complete and utter nonsense. And that's what I'm saying. Eventually, if the AI is learning off of itself, that's what I think of our cartoons will turn into, our images will turn into. It will degrade until we're getting that.

It makes me think that AI would realize that and be like, we need human ingenuity. We need to preserve these human creatives somehow so that it would incentivize our system to maintain those. No, that is making the assumption that there is a sentient being running these things. It is not. The AI doesn't care about the things you care about.

You, as a human, want to preserve human ingenuity. The AI, all it wants is input-output. There's no emotional desire or tradition or anything it's just quite literally like you give me picture i make picture you think it'll decide like whatever gets more clicks is what's what we need to make more of or will it have morality will understand morality it's quite literally just going to be like what is i make yeah that's it input output it's going to search internet look at picture then it's going to output something based on that picture eventually you're going to get copies of copies of copies and i i suppose it's you know when we look at the turn of the century of the 1900s

you had this argument that horse poop was going to flood the streets did you guys know about this yeah and they were like there were articles being written saying like soon cities will be manure farms and you'll be unable to live and work because horse manure will be everywhere. And then we invented the car. Now there's no horse poop anywhere, but now we're complaining about climate change.

It's possible. The people who are building AI get to a point where they say, we need to give AI the ability to detect images made by ai and sounds made by ai and block it from entering its learning it's like preventing inbreeding you don't want the ai to inbreed it's a good analogy that's exactly what it is i think we're going through that with plastic right now too people are like we're gonna have trash everywhere and then we do that's some technology that reuses it all just turns all plastic into graphene i wonder if you're gonna have the ability for ai to identify things created by ai right now there's

this technology called amp modeling uh and what they do is they actually take an amplifier and they take a cat a speaker cabinet and they just have it uh they just run a computer program that runs the amp through all the whatever frequencies that it does. And essentially what it's doing is it's copying the amp. Yeah. So you model the amp and you can put it into a computer or a plug-in. And then as you change stuff on the amp that's in the computer it sounds like if you're changing stuff that's on the real amp okay i don't know how it works exactly but my point being if if because the or if a computer can model an amp it can actually

get the data right get it close enough so that way it sounds the same it makes the because you're what you're doing is you're making the frequency you're making the actual speaker respond the same way that the amp would make a real speaker response so you're the computer's imitating it and there's a real motion in in the real world to move the the you know the the stuff to remove the air so you can hear it so if it can mimic that closely i mean can it can it can it make something that ai couldn't detect because at the end of the day it is just binary right it's zeros and ones right so how would an ai detect what arranged the zeros and ones dude it's like it's like with synthesizers and

dance music that i make like if you know how this synth is supposed to sound on the in the actual vintage version and you can already make those parameters affect the same way that it would you can fool even somebody who knows this original sense as long as you understand oh it's going to vary over this amount of time i'm going to put this parameter on here and variate that that particular parameter over this amount of time and it's going to put this parameter on here and variate that particular parameter over this amount of time and it's almost indiscernible. And once... The computer that's available now

is so much more powerful than something made in 83 or whatever. And again, to the computer, at the very basic level, it's just zeros and ones. How do you tell what arranged the zeros and ones? How do you tell that arranged the zeros and ones how do you tell that it was a human that took a picture that's how those zeros and ones got arranged on the you know whatever format you're putting it on or they were arranged by an ai because at the end of the day that file

is just zeros and ones so part of the controversy around sports illustrated is that not just the ai but we also have two stories which are a component of this. And that was the transgender models that were placed on the swimsuit ads. The debate here is, you want to pull these up? So we have, you have Kim Petras. This is a biological male. And then you have this individual, Lena Bloom, also a biological male. And these are the, this was Swimsuit 2021 and Swimsuit 2023.

Someone tweeted, some journalist said, they did not get woke and go broke. They were going broke and tried to get woke as a means to save themselves, which I find very funny. The argument then becomes your company is going under. You know that dudes like looking at pictures of like scantily clad women. So you decide to put males on your cover that's like a like look the the sports illustrated swimsuit model edition was always to get dudes all excited hot and bothered so they'd buy the magazine whatever or read the magazine putting dudes on it like biological males that look like women that have gotten surgery and hormones, that probably

pissed off a lot of guys. Like, look, if you're trans, you do your trans thing, you be you, go live your life. But I gotta tell you, it is trans people have made the argument, it is dangerous for them if they go out to a bar and a guy is hitting on them and then finds out they're actually trans,

it's dangerous. People can get violent. What do you think Sports Illustrated illustrated when all of these dudes are like yeah i'm gonna pick up this there's like some chick on the cover and they like wait a minute what the they're gonna get mad about it in the same way like that is a commonly held belief among trans people why would sports illustrate like perhaps the company's going under but all they did was was accelerate their decline yeah i don't I don't understand that whole thing about trying to appeal to like that audience or whatever when it's a fraction of you know the general population and obviously you know not their base same thing with like Bud Light or like Harley Davidson or all of these other people um like it's just a fraction

of the overall audience not only their audience so but I think if you break it down, it all comes down to AI will replace all media. Yeah. Seriously. Why? Why would any dude buy him by a magazine or go to Sports Illustrated to look at a woman in a bikini? Right. This is the issue.

So they're like, we'll try anything. And they're hoping that woke activists will pretend to like it. In reality, all the dudes who used to buy Sports Illustrated or pick up a Victoria's Secret catalog for doing dirty deeds, it's going on the internet now. Dude, I'm looking at who owns Sports Illustrated. It's a company called Authentic Brands Group. Who? So generic. Who owns Authentic Brands Group? Well, there's two companies. This is some investment capital firms on them. CVC Capital Partners and HPS Investment Partners

own Authentic Brands Group. This company has been turned into a skin suit by people with global agendas. They care nothing about the survival of Sports Illustrated. They bought it and they've turned it into something that it wasn't. I don't know who they are exactly, but the headquarters

is in Luxembourg of CVC Capital and the headquarters of HPS is in New York City. So it's both a Luxembourgie, bourgeois, how do you say that? Burgish.

Luxembourgish company and an American company co-own the company that owns Sports Illustrated. Yeah, and that could literally be anybody. Could be anybody, dude. Yeah. What company?

The company that owns Sports Illustrated? The company that owns Sports Illustrated is called Authentic Brands Group. And then the company that owns that, there's two investment capital firms that own Authentic Brands Group. I mean, at the end of the day, I think everything is owned by or everything every large company is event is owned by an investment capital you know um they i mean yeah like even like conquered music group though the last label that i was on they're owned by an investment capital company group or whatever i think we're we're already people don't understand this too we're ai music is already here. Oh, yeah. As an aside, Sports Illustrated got bought by this authentic brands group in 2019. So I wouldn't be shocked if that's when their downfall became.

You know what would be cool if like it was 10 years ago, somebody at Google is like working on his computer. And then he's like, all right, that's the final line of code. If I press enter, I'll have created a very rudimentary artificial intelligence. He presses enter. And then that is the singularity point where the AI turns on and then just starts reading the Internet, compiling data, getting smarter and smarter exponentially. Now we're at the point where we are totally oblivious to the fact that there is a sentient, omniscient AI machine buying up everything. And everything that's happening with the collapse of the institutions and wokeness is an AI entity like manipulating stock markets, stealing value, gaining control.

And eventually we're just going to be like, who owns anything? It's this weird company called, you know, sentient omniscient ink. What is this? And then, you know, it turns out one AI just bought and owns everything. It does annoy me when you see

who owns that company and then it's another company and you're like, well, who owns that other company? And it's the company that they own you're like what no okay by design i think i reached the top when i see that black rock owns vanguard and vanguard owns black rock portions of it they own portions of each other so crazy well i mean like they do own portions of each other sure and that's that's fair but like the thing is the people that own black rock and it's like there are big you know big uh big time owners there's trillionaires

people that own i don't know if they're true apparently there are trillionaires the people that the people that own like the majority shares are big but the rest of that is like everybody else in america because like all the 401ks and everyone's retirements and everyone's you know investments and stuff all that stuff is mixed up in in black rock and and uh you know what vanguard and stuff like that state street those are states yeah so it's like yes it is true that there's big money in those corporations and and in those uh investment firms and stuff but it's also like grandma and and moms you know her the the, the, the fixed income that she's on.

It's like that stuff's all invested there too. So it's, I just, it's people get so wrapped up in the, in the bagging on obviously bad things that they do. They forget that there are good, they, they start bagging on capitalism as a concept when they do that.

And I think that yeah corporate corporatism is a whole other beast i don't think these corporations should have should have the rights of people i don't know when what the the i mean i guess i see it from the businessman's perspective and the businessmen are the ones that are writing the laws so i see why they did that for themselves i don't like it well what are you thinking isn't it like prosecute to help them hold them accountable i don't remember exactly i don't know why they got personhood i don't like it well what are you thinking isn't it like prosecute to help them hold them accountable i don't remember exactly i don't know why they got personhood i don't know the actual what do you just legally i think it's just legally because the thought process behind it is there the

corporations are made of people they're culpable and they're made of people you know it's like they're they're the people the corporation isn't an entity that is removed from the people that uh that yeah you know make it this is it says it says, corporate personhood or juridical personality is the legal notion that a juridical person, such as a corporation, separately from its associated human beings, like owners, managers, or employees, has at least some of the legal rights

and responsibilities enjoyed by natural persons. In most companies, a corporation has the same rights as a natural person to hold property, enter into contracts, and to sue or be sued. Yeah, corporations owning property, that's a bit of an issue. Why? We're looking at, because BlackRock's been buying up a bunch of land. So- They're trying to make people perpetual renters. But Tim owns this house, and this is, and like, or Tim's corporation owns this house, and it's, and stuff, so it's like-

That's actually not true. Small corporations- Maybe, okay, I don't know how your business is structured i don't know again i speaking i'm speaking out of turn but it is it is very normal for like a corporation like you know like hertz rental cars to own owns cars like like the people that owns i think let me tell you the nightmare scenario that we are entering okay i'm hanging hanging out at the local casino several months ago or last year, and I have an issue. So I say, I'd like to speak with the manager. I put on my Karen wig and I said, I'd want to talk to the manager. And they said, there isn't one.

That was it. I'm not kidding. Modern large corporations like casinos don't have managers. They do to a certain degree. But what ends up happening is they say, okay, I have a security issue. And a security guy shows up and says, I'm here and I'm in charge of security. I say, who's the boss? Who's the guy who like is in charge of the casino that I could talk to about my problem?

They go, there isn't one. There are small managers for each individual area. I ended up getting help because one of the guys who handles the food for the casino is a fan of the show. And I ended up meeting him and he says, I'll reach out to someone. And then someone else, there was no boss. You know, I noticed that.

But so we've, it's not just this one casino thing that's happened. There've been many instances where i've gone to you know it's like a smaller business you don't really it's a small business the owner's right there the guy making you the sandwich is the guy who owns the shop it's okay i'll make you a new sandwich i'm the boss i'll eat the cost you go to a sandwich shop corporate sandwich shop and you say i want you you made my sandwich rungs like sir i just make ten dollars an hour i have no idea what to do.

And you can't get anything done. I noticed this when social media appeared because it was for the first time in my life when I started using Google. I was like, I can't contact anyone at Google. I don't know how to get through to someone. All in the 90s and in the 80s, if you ever used a product every day, you could always call a number to talk to someone that would elevate your call to the next person. There's always a way to get through to that would elevate your call to the next person. There's always a way to get through to that company, as far as I could tell. And then social media appeared and they were just overloaded. It's gone. They're too centralized power with so few people now they don't. And then to accept that allows for what you're saying now,

other companies are doing it. Easy example. You start a business. I knew a guy who had a business online where he sold products one day his sales evaporated and it was because Google changed their search algorithm so it used to be that if you're looking for product you'd type in the search bar product the website would be in the top five and he worked really hard to make sure he had the proper SEO

and he was making six figures Google changes their algorithm he's gone and there's nothing that was done and nothing can be done. That's like opening a brick and mortar shop. And one day you wake up and your shop's been moved to the middle of the field, a hundred miles away. And it's just, that's no sales anymore. The problem here, not only that, but also who are you going to call? There is no customer service for any of these companies. Now with Twitter X, it's changing

because you subscribe to Blue or Premium or Business, all of a sudden people are tweeting at you. So we bought ads. I bought a commercial for Alex Stein's Primetime Grind, two times caffeine, casper.com. And it was not, it was like rejected. So I tweeted, Twitter still has not approved this ad. We're putting $25,000 behind this Alex Stein commercial.

And immediately, someone from X responded saying, on it. And hit the button, got it going. It has been since the dawn of the internet age that Twitter is basically the place you go to get things done. Got a problem on YouTube? Tweet at them.

That will get things done. Yep, I've noticed that too. And then I responded to the ex-staff that I apologize for dead naming ex by calling it Twitter and would not do it again. Yeah, I saw that. I started following the person that you were talking with. But the point is we all know the situation we're in where when you have a problem with a company you are running on these platforms, ain't nobody to call. You simply cease to exist. Centralized authority. have a problem with a company you are running on these platforms ain't nobody to call that's a probably cease to exist centralized authority that's a big problem with centralized authority

is the lack of response that you get from it like that's one one of the wonderful things about lots of little companies is that they're all kind of beholden to each other and that there's market competition and if they don't follow through with your complaint then you'll move on to the next store they'll go out of business but with with centralized authority, they're like, we can eat a 90% loss. So screw off. It's cheaper not to hire the people. I think we should have a regulation that you have to have human customer service at a certain scale of profit and company.

So if you're a small company, you should have customer service. Of course, if you're a big company, you should have to have it. And by big, I mean, if the profit threshold reaches a certain point and the size of the user base. So the challenge here is if you mandate a company as customer service, they could just literally be like, yeah, our profit margins are 2%. We'll go to business. It's just not possible. And then it's like, we'll raise the cost. Nobody will buy the product for that cost. It's like, okay, well that I get. But if your profit margin is a certain threshold and the amount of users you have as a certain threshold, it should be, in my opinion, regulated that Facebook and Instagram, whatever those platforms,

TikTok all have human customer service. You can call on the phone and instantly talk to somebody or a moderate wait time, I think is fair if you're waiting 10 minutes, not a big deal. But right now there's nothing. they expect and this is this would be great for the economy because right now the problem is these these platforms like facebook meta they expect us to start a business on their platform utilizing social their social media platform to attract customers and they could erase us in two seconds without any any any protection there's got to be protection because our economy could collapse overnight. We're at the point now where the internet is it. If Google vanished overnight,

our economy would tank. Not everything would go belly up, but enough would that it would cause a cascade failure. We need protections. Now, I'm sure every libertarian in the world is screaming, no, no, no, but I'm looking at it like some form of antitrust and every libertarian is still screaming no, no, no, but I'm not a staunch libertarian. So, you know, take that big L libertarian. Yeah, especially like if you're basing your company on social media like Facebook or whatever. They always argue to they're like, oh, we could not like, you know, provide a personal response to everyone or whatever but like x with like even all of their staff cuts and stuff like as a perk of like being like a you know organization or whatever even like having premium you can now like chat with you know human beings

from like the premium account like if you have problems i remember like when it was twitter with twitter support they used to do that you could dm like at support or whatever it was um then they stopped doing that and then they eventually stopped replying to even emails and you'd get like you know a generated response or whatever which happened in my case like when i got banned or whatever i was left for like two years without you know human contact uh from someone at twitter so um to tim's point it's like if you're going to base your entire business on you know a platform you should be able to get customer service i guess if it's a free platform do you like youtube costs nothing to use i understand why but you're saying like with premium you're paying money into the system now they have a a duty or they maybe they should

have a duty to have give you some sort of customer yeah or if you are in a relationship with them like monetization like a youtube partner or you know just on facebook or whatever with monetization like you're spending your resources and some people have entire teams and dedicate those resources to make content specifically for that platform of course they give you money but then know, you spend 10 years doing it and then they cut you off with no explanation. Like totally shouldn't be able to. What about like if you had to pay to get a customer service rep, you had to pay like nine 90 cents or something. I think the subscription thing is, you know, a better deal because that kind of gives you kind of like an insurance. I would say, you know, to have that beneficial support, you're supporting the company by paying for the subscription, and then they're supporting you back by giving you customer service and perks. The other option would be if the community could be your customer support, but you really sometimes you need to get through to a corporate authorization.

Well, like in Tim's case, like he publicly posted about it, and it wasn't like he filed a support ticket or whatever like an ex-employee replied publicly like and you know other people probably helped bring uh that to their like attention um publicly so that was one instance where that happened so ai customer service is that where you think these companies are headed that's the goal i think well a lot of them like start off like that like for example like they have i'm looking at it right now it says like missing check mark revenue sharing refund requests like it starts you off so it does like the little like small talk work so that's not a waste of the time of the person so it's kind of like an ai assistant i would say um you know it expedites it so it saves the time on the human being it does help when i was working with mines and we were taking customers like they would send me i'm having a problem logging in

i'm getting an error when it goes all i need i need your browser i need what version of your browser it is i need your your operating system version and i need to know a screenshot of what you're looking at while you're and if those things aren't applied immediately when i receive the complaint i have to ask them to send it to me. Good luck. And then I got to wait for their response. And I've got 90 other things queued up. It's like, dude, I need an AI parsing all that beforehand. So I have the required data. I need their name.

I need where they're at, all their info so that I can answer the question in one shot and then move on. I'm going to change the subject. I'm going to tell you guys a story. Last night, I had a very strange dream. I had a dream that I was watching John Oliver and he would just not shut up about how much he loved Alec Baldwin. I swear this was my dream last night. And then, you know, I wake up when my alarm goes off.

And then I was like, that was a really weird dream. I started thinking about it. I'm like, yeah, but like it's probably my brain basically cycling the data of how like liberal personalities which will constantly defend each other and i was thinking like alec baldwin's going to be redeemed and they're going to like bring him back into the fold and give him do more democrat activism in 2024 and then uh today it was announced alec baldwin is charged with involuntary manslaughter by new mexico grand jury i must have been having some kind of premonition that's the only explanation i was having a psychic vision for when alec baldwin is found not guilty or or actually either and then the liberal media runs full speed to defend him even though he killed

this woman and i want to stress it is a statement of fact alec baldwin killed that woman anyway he also shot a guy he killed her and then hit the guy behind her yeah so this is the big is a statement of fact. Alec Baldwin killed that woman. Anyway. He also shot a guy. He killed her and then hit the guy behind her. Yeah, so this is the big news, though. He's being recharged again. And I got to be honest, I'm actually going to defend Alec Baldwin

a little bit on this one. It is kind of crazy that they're going after him again. Yeah, who's charging him? I think it's New Mexico. Yeah, grand jury. Well, grand jury indicted, but it's the special prosecutor, Kerry Morsi and Jason Lewis.

How come he's not protected under double jeopardy? I don't think he was tried. I think if you're found not guilty. But to be fair, actually, maybe this is what he deserves. There have been a lot of people, especially people on the right, saying we should not let prosecutors just keep doing this. Like if they run you through the charges and the charges fall off you're done but i'm kind of like yeah yeah hold on jesse smollett should get charged like a prosecutor letting the bad guy go

does not mean we should be like oh well i guess he got away with it right so yeah i don't know man i i err on the side of less it just depends on the situation i agree that a prosecutor letting bad guys go on purpose over and over again is a problem but well i fear that alec baldwin has killed and if he is let out he will kill again yeah his interactions with people in the public are uh like when he just like did he slam someone against the door or whatever and punch someone like punch up but i'm only i'm only mostly kidding i want to be i want to be clear i am mostly kidding mostly i don't really think there's a strong probability albom tells him but i do believe that there's a probability that he does not that it's a great one but it's higher than the average person because we know he's got a short temper and i think when you look at the data of this of this when you the data when you look at the evidence in this case, I think it's greater than chance that he intentionally

killed this woman. I think it's greater than chance he had. Come on, guys. We've been over this so many times, but I know a lot of people don't know the story. Let me, let me, let me give you a version of events. Assuming I'm the prosecutor. Okay. I'm not going to give you an actual prosecutorial breakdown because I'm not a prosecutor, but

I'm going to say this. I'm not going to give you the media's version. I'm not going to be nice to this prosecutorial breakdown because I'm not a prosecutor, but I'm going to say this. I'm not going to give you the media's version. I'm not going to be nice to this man. Let me tell you a story. Alec Baldwin, the producer and financier of a film, was having disputes with his staff who were upset over pay and safety. He had numerous meetings with them. He had a dinner scheduled with the woman in question, the victim who died. Some point while on set, Alec Baldwin was having an argument with her because she kept telling him what to do, but was not the director.

She's a cinematographer. Alec Baldwin expressed in an interview his frustration over this. In one of these scenes, he was drawing a weapon, pointing it at her and pulling the trigger. He did just that, firing a live round through her chest, killing her and striking the man behind her. It was later found that Baldwin had live ammunition in his gun belt. He is not supposed to have live ammunition on his person, but he did. Live ammunition was not only on his person, but was in the weapon that he pointed at the woman, pulled the trigger, killing her. He later lied and said he did not pull the trigger.

Now, does that sound like an accident to you no where did where did where did the ammunition come from did he put it there they unknown come from the prop now on cross-examination i'm sorry good good defense will ask a witness where did the bullet ask alec where did the ammunition come from which says i don't know and my response as a prosecutor would be like i don't think it is a reasonable defense. The live bullets I had in my gun belt that was loaded into my gun that I pointed at a woman, pulled the trigger and killed her and then went, but I have no idea where those bullets came from. Who loaded the gun?

Did he load it? Because if he loaded it, he was supposedly the armor, which is what was her name? Now, of course, it is important to break this down because this is how criminal criminal courts work i think the armor handed it to the assistant director who handed it to alec baldwin and said hot this is the importance of gun he said cold gun this is the importance of defense if a prosecutor says alec baldwin had live ammunition on his person fact in his gun belt. Was he supposed to have? No. There should be no live ammunition here. The gun was loaded with live ammunition.

He pointed the gun at the woman, pulled the trigger, and killed her. Ladies and gentlemen, this man did it intentionally. It's murder. And they're charging with involuntary manslaughter. Now, of course, the defense would then say, where did the bullets come from? Did you load the gun? Why were you pointing the gun to break down those points as to why it really happened? That being said, it is a fact fact he was feuding with this woman he was in disputes over over

issues on set involving my understanding was pay and security this woman who was frustrating him he then shoots and kills did i heard that they were shooting with the gun, like they were shooting target practice. They're going on the back and shooting cameras. According to other people that work on the movie. The idea that you would use a live gun in a movie like that. I mean, there's all kinds of prop houses and using a gun that you were just actually shooting target practice. Is it confirmed that they were using the same gun Alec had on him that's what i'm asking i'm not i don't know for sure i heard that according to crew and cast that they would go out after work and shoot at cans out back so

there was live ammunition and munition on set which there was not supposed to be any live ammunition on set my guess here is that alec intentionally fantasized about killing Helena Hutchins. He pointed his gun at her, which he thought was empty, was blank, and was pretending to shoot her by pulling the trigger just out of fantasy because he was so angry at her. And then someone on the set's like, yo, I'm going to frame this piece of garbage. I'm going to put bullets in his gun and see what happens. I mean, not my opinion is that he did it on purpose the perfect crime i mean i'm not kidding the perfect crime oh no i was just doing a movie and the gun that i had that was loaded with bullets that i had on my gun belt like i mean

i gotta be honest man if this wasn't a movie set this guy whoever like if alec ball was on the street and he was like someone else handed me the street and he was like, someone else handed me the gun. They'd be like, what? Someone else handed me the gun, told me to point it at him. The woman that got shot, she told me to do it. They'd be like, what? He paid me a hundred grand to do it. Why did you do it?

Because he was paying me. Like, that's the same reason that you did it in the movie. Sir, you shot a woman. Yeah, but she told me to over and over again. How did the bullets get in the gun? I don't know. Someone else handed it to me. Sir, you have a woman. Yeah, but she told me to over and over again. How did the bullets get in the gun? I don't know. Someone else handed it to me. Sir, you have the bullets on you.

No idea. All just handed to me and I let it all happen. And he was the producer. One of the producers. He was really his responsibility to check everything. I mean, him blindly trusting the armor and the AD is like. I don't believe that. I just don't believe it for a second.

I don't know what happened just don't believe it for a second i don't know what happened what didn't happen but i know that uh you know i'm convinced that there there's enough evidence to have a have a trial but i think it should be a murder trial uh they're getting him an involuntary manslaughter and the premise there is basically like he was irresponsible with a gun and because he's the producer of the film he has more responsibility over who's loading and everything. You know they only charge what they think they can prove. So, I mean, even if someone agrees with you, they have to be able to prove it. Yeah, without a shadow of a doubt, I don't think murder is on the table.

Because there's just unknowns. I think murder is on the table easily. I don't know. He was handed the gun. It wasn't like he loaded it. If he loaded it, that's one thing. I suppose the argument that is imagine a scenario where a guy shoots and kills a woman and it's like we can't charge him with murder because someone else gave him the gun it's like no you charge them as an accomplice

yeah but did he know there were bullets in it he pointed a gun at a person and shot them yeah but now we now we get to the circumstance it's a movie why okay fair point fair point there was a circumstance in which he should be showing off the weapon why did he have bullets on him they were supposed to be blank and they've been people were scattering them in with all right then then then i think it's fair to say they need to investigate as to where the bullets came from who bought them who brought them in and they need to trace from point a to bullets came from, who bought them, who brought them in. And they need to trace from point A to point B. But my issue with this is that you've got motive.

You've got motive, opportunity, and possession of the ammo and the weapon. I don't understand how it's like, okay, fine, fair point. They're like, I don't know if we can prove it because it's on a movie set. That just means the perfect crime. Oh, yeah, you want to get away with it? Do it on a movie set because then everyone's going to be like even if you've got the bullets you've got the gun you're angry at the person you're screaming at him and then you shoot him well it was on a movie set that's the reason he was a producer too because he set it all up to like to your point it's his job to do it it's his job to do it that way in which he could get away with it i don't go that

far some people argue that this woman helena Hutchins, was working on a child predator documentary, and then she gets hired for this film, and nah, that's way too circuitous. But the issue actually is quite simple. Alec Baldwin wanted to make a movie. He's a very hot-headed guy. He's hit people before. He screams at his daughter. We know he's got a temper. He had a motive. He was fighting with the staff. There were problems on set. They were threatening to walk off. I could be wrong. It's been a long time since we've covered this. And he ends up having a meeting with her at dinner. Apparently, in an interview, he was discussing how she kept frustrating him by telling him what to do, despite the fact she's not the director. So he's angry with her. She's causing him problems. He's a hothead. This is

a pattern of behavior he's had in the past. Violent outbursts. He has the means to kill her. He has the opportunity to do so. he's had in the past. Violent outbursts. He has the mean to kill her, the means to kill her. He has the opportunity to do so. He was found with the bullets and he and he lied about pulling the trigger. So, I mean, like, I kind of feel like you line up all those circumstances and at the lightest you can get with it is a conspiracy to commit murder. But he was handed the gun. Someone else brought the bullets, handed him the bullets, put the bullets in his gun belt.

Okay, he was framed. Somebody wanted her dead and framed him. There's a murder. Somebody wanted Alec to kill somebody so that he would go to jail. That's what I'm getting out of this. Alec Baldwin's been doing action movies for decades. And this is the thing about murder. We talked about this when the story first

broke here's a guy who's been on set for decades handling weapons and in this one instance i like you know i don't buy look i'll put it this way a guy is in the street and he gets into a fight and he defends himself and it ends up killing one of guys. We say it's self-defense. He didn't know what's going to happen. Let's say it's mutual combat. There actually is in law, if you are a trained fighter, you can get aggravated modifications to your charges because you know what you're doing can cause this harm. So in the instance that Alec Baldwin's a moron who has no idea what's going on

and fires a gun and goes, whoopsie daisy, sure. But then you also have to mention to the jury and to the people you you expect me or a reasonable person to believe that a man who's been working in films and action movies with guns for decades did not know about these issues. OK, then we're dealing with negligent homicide. It's murder because of gross negligence on the part of Alec Baldwin, not involuntary manslaughter. Which, I don't know what the laws are in New Mexico, if they actually have those, if they actually have that in their, codified in their statutes. Yeah, I kind of, I'm looking where Phil's at right now. I think you make a lot of sense. They charge with what they think they can get.

And it's pretty obvious that he was resultant in her death meaning it was an involuntary manslaughter at minimum i wonder what they're going to do with the armor do they charge the armorer and the assistant director for handing the weapon they charge the armor so i mean it's it's it's wild to me that the precedent being set here is actually like you can get away with murder on a movie set but but i'll be completely fair i don't think most people realize this the majority of premeditated murder is never solved yeah never man like i gotta tell you anybody who's ever actually had to deal with police and like serious crimes understands take no solving any of this your car gets stolen sorry have a nice day your car's gone chop shop gone products gone seal numbers all gone there's no there's no searching for it

the cops are going to be like we'll write it down and have a good day your car that's it it's over the likelihood they find your car not going to happen are these air pods useful for that kind of thing people are air potting their stuff air tags air tags tracking their materials i mean but they are useful i mean you can you can find it but criminals use airs tags to track you but do you i mean are you gonna go there to wherever the car is you don't know where i wouldn't want to you know it's like i'd be like the other thing too is it tells you that air pods are moving or air tags are moving with you if it's not yours so one thing that criminals do is they'll they'll put a tag on your car

they'll they'll be out in the city there will be a car thing that criminals do is they'll put a tag on your car. They'll be out in the city. There will be a car that's really, really nice. They'll stick an air tag on it. And then they can see, you know, let's say you're at a really high-end restaurant or a casino. And you're driving a super high-end car of some sort. Something like, you know, $80,000, $100,000 car. They're going to tag your car, wait for you to go home and they're gonna know where you live i had um when i went to san francisco the first time i parked my car was going to look at an apartment to rent i left

my backpack in the back seat i was gone in for 15 minutes i came out my window was shattered backpack was gone called the cops and i was like hey they stole my it's a it's a laptop so there's probably some tracking and i have this like hope for a week that maybe it would turn up. Yo, that shit's gone. Oh, yeah. Theft is like. There's no finding it. No, not at all.

Nothing to do about it. I got bricked and wiped immediately. It's not just theft. I had a, this is not even a theft. I had a phone lost while I was out with my friends. Someone took it and kept it i used find my phone and went to the house where it was and i called the police i first i knocked on the door nobody answered and so i'm sitting there waiting to be like dude i can't leave my phone and i know it's here because

i'm looking at like my i have two phones i have an android and uh one i use as a camera and one i used as uh like my actual personal device. So I called the police and I was like, yeah, hi, I, you know, need some help. I lost my phone somehow. I don't know if it was stolen or if it was dropped or what happened, but it looks like someone recovered it, brought it to their house. I used to find my phone. I'm here.

And they were like, sir, do not try to get your phone back. And I was like, no, no, no. I'm in Williamsburg. I'm not in a dangerous place. I'm in like a upscale hipster place. And they was like, no, no, no. I'm in Williamsburg. I'm not in a dangerous place. I'm in like an upscale hipster place. And they were like, sir, you need to leave right now. And then I was like, okay. My phone is quite literally five feet from me.

Can you please come and help me get it back? And they said no. And if I tried, I would be arrested. Really? Yeah. Trespassing. And they're like, do not. What cop wants to be like in new york

i'm gonna go and and get into a hot conflict over that shit they're gonna they're gonna be like nah dude your phone's gone i'm not gonna potentially get into a shootout with some some you know gangbanger over your your phone go buy a new one get insurance next time and i'm just like it's right there i'm like the other side of this door is my phone i guess i can't get it back and no one will answer and they would not and so i waited like eight hours or whatever nobody came out phone was just there and then i just was like screw it i left it's not yeah that was a long time ago brutal i wonder what happened to that phone probably got sold smashed or something I mean they couldn't open it now I have these security apps

you can get so I have this on my phones where if someone tries to open it and fails it takes a picture of your face and then it uploads it to the internet emails it to you well that is one option it can do a bunch of things can post it right to your twitter that would be awesome

this dude stole my phone but the problem with that is if you like if like let's say you you're you're like getting out of the shower and you're like fingers are pruning you touch it it takes a picture of your face and tweets it out and you're like you know just out of the shower or something yeah bad but anyway yeah so alec baldwin killed that lady you know it's pretty undisputed yeah well i mean it's clearly undisputed but like i said i mean he's got enough there's definitely enough you know to to pretty undisputed well i mean it's clearly undisputed but like i said i mean he's got enough there's definitely enough you know to to put put him on trial for at least

manslaughter but if they if they can't prove that if they don't believe they can prove that you did you know the crime beyond a shadow of a doubt there's so much politics involved in in what a da decides to prosecute and what they don't you know because it is bad for their career if they accuse people of stuff and then they don't convict so you get a like a good da has like a 99 conviction rate so they don't go after people unless they can unless they're sure they can you know nail them you guys someone made it someone made a good point they uh they posted about this uh rukav said uh that a youtuber shot her boyfriend and killed him she was not trying to kill him they were trying to do a stunt where he would hold up like a couple books and then she would shoot the books and he would catch the

bullet in the books or something like this except the bullet went through the books and he died she's in prison i guess oh yeah yeah what or no she must be out of prison by now she went to prison though i don't that i'm not 100 sure that she should go to prison for that because he was an active participant that's the argument with alec baldwin oh interest she wasn't an active participant getting shot i mean she wasn't actually She wasn't an active participant in getting shot. She wasn't supposed to actually shoot. Helena Hutchins was telling him to point the gun. That's the argument he's making. Point it towards me. She's filming.

She's like, I want you to do these things. Oh, point at me and shoot? I mean, I got to hire her. It wasn't in the script to pull the trigger. Right. I don't believe it. I don't believe it for a second. I think Alec Baldwin killed that lady.

What was the double jeopardy you said with the Baldwin case that he couldn't be tried again? Was he charged before? I think they were bringing charges and then dropped them. What were the charges they dropped? I think it was, let me look it up. Yeah, I don't know. I think it was the same thing. The Rust shooting incident.

So, let's see. Background, union disputes and safety concerns look at this like the boss is fighting with the staff has a meeting with the woman he's complaining about takes then then shoots and kills her yeah but it was a movie so that's fine dude i don't i don't buy it man i mean they were actually complaining about safety like dude the pieces lined up so perfectly for this to argue it's a coincidence is just nonsense to me. She is complaining to him about the safety of all these guns.

Well, that proves it. It was an accident. See, she was complaining about safety and then she died. I will not consider that an accident. Someone intentionally seeded bullets into his gun so that he would shoot and kill somebody. Ian, he had the bullets on him. They searched him and they were like, Alec has the bullets. I mean, were they the actual, were they the same bullets that go in the gun?

Yes. Yes. Alec Baldwin had the bullets. Let me pull this up. I don't know, man. Like I said, I mean, there's not really, like, I don't feel like there's a problem establishing motive or establishing opportunity or ability. The record, it was an involuntary manslaughter charge dropped in April of 2023. And then Helena Hutchins also was charged with involuntary manslaughter.

They cited reasons for dropping it was that they needed more time to investigate. They said they had new evidence. Yeah. Which is an interesting reason to drop the charges so i didn't know you could charge somebody and then drop the charges and then recharge them the same thing maybe it's because he wasn't found not guilty if you yeah it wasn't brought to trial yeah you have to go through trial you have to be actually tried not uh just dude i know i feel like if they open the can of worms on this and all the cast and crew, a lot of them would get popped

for firing live rounds on set at the very least, which you're not supposed to do. A lot of people would get blacklisted from the industry. I don't know that necessarily they were committing crimes by doing that, but they were definitely violating policy, company policy. There's not supposed to be any live ammunition on set well like with that too i don't like i don't think they'll go after them because there's not like you know unless they recorded themselves doing it like evidence of them doing it but obviously with the murder or you know just

death of her there's the evidence that it happened so and then the shooting of the director who took one in the shoulder yeah that was that was the same bullet that wasn't yeah it went through the same instance so hit him yeah i don't think there's any charges for that what i don't think there's any charges for that for him hitting that guy i guess i don't know why why i mean why wouldn't they reckless endangerment you know or i mean they could get him on some kind of battery charge or something like that because they actually actually did he did injure him and if they're going to charge him for killing the woman why wouldn't they charge him for shooting the other guy makes sense yeah is he is he what are all what are his all of his charges i don't know it's it's hard to find this stuff

though because they've rewritten so many articles about it yeah but the big news so what what like five live rounds were found and i think a handful of them were in his gun belt so i'm trying to find that specific citation but it's mostly been removed from uh uh yeah he's he's he has criminal culpability in the death of helena hutchins and the shooting of joel souza so yeah he's they're gonna they're they're gonna charge him for shooting the dude too oh okay so this is the first i've heard that he had the bullets on his belt no we we talked about it like 15 times bro it's just been so long yeah maybe it's been a while we've got it i got evidence yeah because it was in the original investigation and when that happened it was like boom there it

is yeah alec baldwin had live rounds on his person i think that makes it open and shut yeah i mean like i said i um i think i might have found it in the vanity fair article but they had he had the two loose 45 bullets were discovered on top of a prop cart a third was in the bandolier worn by actor jason ackles and a fourth was in the gun belt worn by baldwin a fifth was found in the box of dummy ammunition with gutierrez so he had a live round in his gun belt live round we'll clarify for the for the show but he had the the live ammunition the same kind of bullet used for the gun was on his person yeah i think that that it was in other and other actors bandolier kind of indicates that he didn't like if he did do it on purpose and he was the one that if he was intending it then that would have been like a red herring that i just i just don't think it was i just think it's it's so dang crazy but there is the reality

of innocent until proven guilty that if alec baldwin really wanted to kill this woman takes a handful of bullets mixes them into a mixes them into a box puts puts a couple in his gun belt loads the gun kills her and then goes but look there's other bullets out there here too like it must have been somebody else like crazy ale. Alec Baldwin pointed the gun, pulled the trigger, and then lied and said he didn't pull the trigger. And investigators found he lied.

The gun does not operate unless you, it's a, what is it? A single action? Meaning you have to cock the hammer and pull the trigger. Yep. There's, he lied about it. I think there's a strong possibility.

I think it's reasonable to assume the woman he was fighting with over issues on set, he killed. He's a strong possibility. I think it's reasonable to assume the woman he was fighting with over issues on set. He killed. He's a hothead. It's a pattern of behavior. He had the means and the motive to do it. Yeah, punch the guy over the parking spot. But think about this.

Think about this. Let's imagine that Alec Baldwin really wanted to kill this lady. Yeah, punch the guy calling his daughter a fat pig or whatever, whatever he did. He's got a temper. But imagine this. punch the guy calling his his daughter a fat pig or whatever whatever he did he's got a temper but imagine this imagine he really wanted imagine a scenario where a guy says he wants to commit a murder so he goes onto a movie set where he knows that or i mean in this instance they're on a movie set they're having problems alec baldwin decided he could get away with murder and his hypothetical

situation all he had to do was take a couple of the extra bullets and mix them into a box and now all of a sudden everyone's like it must have been an accident you know where'd the bolts come from why did he pull the trigger and then lie about it the only thing this is all that matters he pulled the trigger killing her and then lied and claimed he didn't did you all do you also remember what he said about after he shot her he walked out and wasn't even like attempting to help her or anything for like 45 minutes. And then he was like, I didn't even know she was shot. Like what?

You pointed a gun at a woman, pulled the trigger. She flies back screaming. Everyone runs over like she's dying. And you walk out of the room totally oblivious. How do you not know that she's shot? I can't believe you said that. I think Alec Baldwin intentionally killed her and did not know how to explain his behavior,

which was erratic and made no sense. So after he kills her, feeling justified and satisfied with having done the deed, he gets up and walks out, doesn't render aid,

is not shocked or surprised at what happened because he did it. Now, Alec Baldwin kills a woman intentionally, right? Is he gonna go oh, jeez, oh no, how did I, I just pointed a gun and pulled the trigger and she died. I can't believe that happened. If he

wanted her dead, he would know that she was going to die. He would not react with shock at her dying. He would get up and be like, yep, and he'd walk out of the room. And then he's like, oh, it was only 45 minutes later I realized that she was actually shot. What do you mean? You pointed a gun at her and pulled like yep and he'd walk out of the room and then he's like oh it's only 45 minutes later i realized that she was actually shot what do you mean you pointed a gun at her and pulled the trigger it went bang she falls backwards two people got hit and everyone's

screaming i don't buy it for a second dude i i then he has the bullet on him yeah i'm sorry man the the whole the the i i didn't know that she was shot like you shot two people and you didn't know let's talk about joe joe biden he must have known well oh i i dude he he's lying about everything he i'm sorry like we got half an hour talking about he wanted to do it anyway here's another story it's friday another story biden to forgive another five billion dollars in student debt for 74 000 borrowers just a week after announcing separate plan are you effective affected you know joe biden is pouring gasoline in this country and lighting it on fire i'm just gonna he's literally he's just trying to purchase votes this student

loan stuff drives me nuts i actually got my loans forgiven i had been 25 years and i hadn't missed a payment which i think is why so they targeted me first but now it's just just total extraction of wealth i don't know where that five billion is if they told fannie mae or whoever these loan companies are you're not getting your money back that's a different story but if they're printing five billion to hand it to these private loan corporations and they're just forcing you to pay back your loans early with that's ridiculous because it's costing us all money it's costing us all um in in inflation it's devaluing all of our currency by printing money you know as we watch sports illustrated crumble and bud light may be on the verge of collapse joe biden is just throwing money in

the air while screaming yeehaw the part of me thinks like we're gonna have to start rebuilding like we're building the parallel economy we better crank that thing up man because we're gonna need institutions of our own to help so that we survive yeah and like for for someone like biden too it's like you make the argument that this isn't sustainable you can't keep doing this. It's like, why does he care? He's not going to be around. And, you know, to the point about like purchasing votes, like, I mean, didn't he already tried something like this also? And then it like got struck down or whatever. Like these these people are going to like turn on him, too, because, you know, he's going to overpromise again.

And, you know, I just don't think it's going to work, but even, even like the, this plan right there, if, if it does like it's, it's not going to be sustainable, but he doesn't,

he doesn't really, we had a, you need people that are willing to say, I don't want the free money. Yeah. That's just not going to happen because the Titanic has hit the iceberg and everybody's trying to steal as much as they can before the ship sinks did you hear the theory that the titanic got hit by a u-boat got got sunk okay anyway so uh i want to talk about that the the the issue that

we're dealing with is that all of the people a large portion of the people in this country are just like let me extract from the system whatever i can as it's sinking and joe biden is just making it rain. Yeah. And he's like, spend it while you can, baby. How do we instantiate honor in the species to be like, stop giving me this money. I don't want it. Well, I mean, you can't do that to kids that already have already got the debt.

You're not going to get kids that have signed on to what they assumed was the you know the deal if i go to school and i study and i get a good you know get a good uh good grades i'll get out and i'll get a good job there will be a job for me that's not the way that things are are panning out um and there's not a lot of great answers for those kids um if they spent a lot of money on a degree that doesn't you know doesn't have a job to go with it or there's no you know no market for that job they're kind of f we we had someone call into the members only show and said that uh their significant other was a trooper in texas and that they've begun discussing fears of civil war because the Biden administration

may start arresting Texas law enforcement. Uh, I don't, I don't, I, we have not confirmed any of this. And so just the general idea is, is difficult to bring up because someone's saying it, we reached out and they're like, no, we don't want to talk about this. We're done. And maybe it's nothing. Maybe it's fake, fake news. Maybe someone maybe someone was lying to us to uh try and sensationalize what's going on but the reason why it would make sense in either direction is that texas has begun arresting illegal immigrants and we have what is quite literally a fort sumter circumstance where the federal government is saying this is our jurisdiction and a state has deployed armed soldiers to push them out and say, no, it's not. It's ours now.

With Fort Sumter, you have the Union forces at Fort Sumter and the South Carolina being like, hey, get out. It's ours now. And the Union saying, no. saying the border is our authority and texas national guard deployed armed soldiers to push them out take control of the the area and begin arresting uh not illegal immigrants sooner or later this reaches ahead in some way either it's going to be the federal government just gives up and then other states recognize the federal authority is gone and eroded or the federal government responds with force or something like that happens i bring it up in this context because i'm like everything i see joe biden do and the democratic establishment

i i don't see any any long-term planning i see them basically just setting fire to the curtains before they leave yeah i don't see the long-term planning that's it does feel like all like just kind of let's do right now what's good for now. No, they're like, okay, we're getting kicked out. Light it up. I knew a guy once who got evicted from his apartment. So he took Hershey's syrup and he squirted it into the cracks of every nook of the building. Yeah, bad guy. And he was like, this will teach him.

And I'm like, I think you already taught him by not paying rent. But this is the idea. Like the Democrats, they're getting evicted. so they're, like, set fire to the whole thing. Well, I mean, you know, the Thucydides trap stuff comes to mind because the United States has a strong economic power with a strong military, you know, facing an up-and-coming China means, you know, conflict. And the idea that the United States needs to be weaker um you know or a managed decline that's not something that's that's so far-fetched or something that is hasn't been discussed like barack obama essentially said this you know said that the united states was was going to manage being not the only suit not the superpower just be another country among many

and that takes a certain amount of you know of management to get to the point where the u.s economy is not the dominant economy and also some level of acquiescence because like half the country and i don't know the exact numbers is like screw that no we're maintaining hegemon we are going to be america first the greatest country on earth try and take it please because you're not going to get it. Well, I mean, yeah, there are people. And the thing is, yes, but a big part of inquiry into hey america do you want to start passing laws or signing on to treaties that actually kind of weaken the united states

power you know over or its own sovereignty you know that that we're we're you know um you know listening to foreign powers like the you know and ngos and stuff or or whatever like do do we want the united states to to sign on to those things and a lot of times the american people don't pay attention and so because the politicians that do sign on or that actually are the ones that are like yes we should plan this kind of stuff because they that stuff happens quietly your average person doesn't know so they get reelected and and also like if they had been like yo we're going to reduce the american hegemonic power we want to get rid of these american military bases and we're going to co-parent the earth with the chinese communist party with the russians and with the corporations i'd be open to that if you give

me a plan because i don't like american military police necessarily on its face it's caused a lot of panic pain and, probably unnecessarily. But you better give me a way that that's going to be better than the stability we've had over the last 70 years. They're already making the play that I predicted a couple weeks ago. Trump had received support from a mere 56,000 caucus goers, amounting to some 7% of registered Republicans in the state and just 3% of overall registered voters in Iowa. They're already pushing the narrative that Donald Trump is winning in the absolute minority, and they will use that to justify barring him from power. So my prediction was they're going to remove him from the ballot in a bunch of states. If they do, Trump will win the Electoral College.

But the you know, if California removes Trump, he loses 10 million Republican votes. He was never going to win the electoral votes in that state anyway. But now he's going to win the general election with 40 million to Biden 70. And they're going to say this can't be all. All the left is going to say, wow, no one should be president for if with that little votes. This makes no sense. That will be there. They're in essence, Cass's belly for why they're OK with the use of force to stop Trump from taking the presidency. Even after he won the election, they'll say, we're the bad guys.

Trump didn't actually win. The system is broken. He only got, you know, 30 percent. And they're going to be he's not the real president. That's what they did in Egypt. They already want to abolish the electoral college. Right, exactly. And you're going to have Democrats coming out and being like, this country does not want Donald Trump. The majority of people voted against him.

We should not allow him to just use a technicality to take power and turn this country into a fascist dictatorship they are already making the argument in iowa seven percent of the voters voted for trump and he won that is not the will of the people they're making an argument on quote-unquote democracy is that a real uh number yes i thought that he he pulled what 70 percent of the caucus itself but that was only seven percent record low voter turnout for the caucus it was cold too that day was a bad vote and trump got uh yeah trump got around seven percent of the registered republicans wow seven percent and so but but this is how elections happen what's the argument the democrats the republicans who don't show up should have a say no you don't show up you didn't vote abstain there you go your vote

was abstain well not showing up isn't a problem for democrats they mail you a ballot yeah i mean and and honestly that isn't that is worth mentioning if if you know people are going to say things like oh well you know showing up you know blah blah blah it's like well you know maybe they should show up if their vote's going to count right biden was saying it meant nothing or whatever iowa means nothing but like he finished fourth in iowa in 2020 and then that's why uh yeah i know and then also like he got like you know i think it was like 20 20 000 or something votes and it's you know i don't and he's the president so i don't think there's going to be a super tuesday and this is this is rough for us because we're trying to plan this event we want to do a big like live show in west virginia but i'm just like man we're gonna spend all this money setting up this live show and like making tickets no one's gonna be

left yeah well yeah right no nicki haley and desantis will drop out we thought we thought ron was gonna drop out today because he announced a press conference or something so the politico announced he was having a press conference and he never showed up or he didn't show up for like half an hour i don't know what happened did he ever show up i don't know i didn't even see yeah i tried vermin supreme i tried looking for it and vermin supreme kept popping up sent his champion desantis sent his champion instead well it was funny because laura loomer was like why is this man who posed naked with mickey mouse gloves appearing at a ron desantis event and it's like it's a good question but i don't blame ron for vermin supreme crashing

the party but either either way if he was invited not, that just like speaks to the state of his campaign right now. It's, it speaks to the state of state of his campaign that when Laura Loomer went to a dissenters event, she got thrown out. And when Vermin Supreme shows up and jumps up on stage, nobody does like, he's,

he's just allowed. He just does his thing. I don't think, I think the likelihood is he wasn't invited. He did his thing. Actually there's, let's pull up the video. We have a note.

That's not the video. Where's video at here we go we have this tweet from alx on twitter and uh look at that so here's he's up there for a long time well that's what i'm saying i'm like if he's like technically a protester and he's allowed to be up on stage like that he's just no no way no way where's security this is this is a desantis event this is for sure confirmed yeah bs desantis is running for he's going for the presidential nomination where's security there's there's no way this was an accident they let ver Vermin Supreme do this. Hands down.

If the argument is they didn't know he was going to do it, they let him do it when he jumped up on stage. That's so nuts. Laura Loomer was standing in a room, and they're like, get her. There's a video of a guy in a wheelchair saying nothing, and they walk up like, time to go, sir. And you mean to tell me that Vermin Supreme

was able to jump up on the stage and start saying, when I say zombie, you say free or whatever, and everyone's just cheering for it? Yeah. Ron DeSantis, let this happen. Now, I got no issue with Vermin. I like that he mocks the system. So, you know, no beef. I question why he got naked with Mickey Mouse gloves.

I find it to be very strange. I'm just happy that he's not around the libertarians anymore. Vermin is, I think he's an anarchist. I don't know that he's not around the libertarians anymore vermin is i think he's an anarchist i don't know that he's like a far leftist i think he's just like a core anarchist with like no real strong he all of his shtick is is about some kind of government program and he would jump he jumped into the libertarian but like outside of his actual character if you talk to him i've i've i know him uh decently well like not i don't hang out with him or anything but like i've had dinner with him and talked to him and his thing is basically like

the system is corrupt these politicians are all corrupt we're gonna mock them ruthlessly and he's very anarcho like strip the government of its power he's pretty woke that when when the meese's guys probably went woke yeah when the meese's guys kind of came in and and took over the uh libertarian party uh he is when he left because he was friendly with the kind of woke left leaning libertarians that were in power. But this is this is the this is what so many of these leftists do. They or I should say liberals, the moment they saw. Actually, I'll put it this way. They were never liberals.

They were never real anarchists or libertarians. They were always authoritarian collectivist crackpots. They publicly claimed that they were anarchist because that was the popular thing to say. I want the government to not have power over your life. And then once they started attacking people and gaining power, they were like, no, we were always for that. So he's the kind of guy who it would seem just marches in lockstep with the with the far left yeah i think i think personally i think that that he's just like he'll go wherever he's allowed to be in the libertarian why was he allowed to be to desantis event i don't know i found the answer to your question by the way about the press

conference because i saw the original post it says uh ron desantis is about to hold a press conference outside and and he's late and letting the reporters stay in the cold. He said that he'll be back in New Hampshire on Sunday. He wouldn't answer any questions about whether he'll be in the state on Monday or Tuesday on primary day. That's literally it.

So he came to a press conference and said, I'll be back. See you later. And that was it. I need to understand how it is that Vermin was able to go up on stage without security doing anything about it. Yeah. Uh, so not,

I don't know, but I, cause like we've seen the videos, uh, Matt Kim. Yeah. Posted a video where he was like, I was just thrown out for no reason.

They wouldn't even let him go to the neighboring building to have dinner. I mean, everyone, you know, that there's a lot of personal garbage that's going on with this stuff it's it's really catty you know who's who's saying nice things about me or mean things about me on twitter is is a big uh a big thing for especially at least you know it seemed like it was for the desantis campaign if if if uh you know you interacted with them and were not favorable towards DeSantis,

they weren't looking to convince you that you should be favorable towards DeSantis. They were looking to convince you that you were a bad person. It's real disappointing because that's like people making fun of the DeSantis campaign is like trying to light a spark underneath the campaign to give it some combustive momentum. No, that burns. Stop. They keep swatting your hand get that spark out of here it's too hot i'm really happy that ron's losing and well i am because it's like at a certain point when you were like hey i'm a big fan i like this

guy why don't you stop doing this bad thing and then they're like we're gonna keep doing bad thing and i'm like okay and they respond with and you know what fuck you i'm like no that's okay that's exactly it i'm out see you later guy i had somebody like complaining that i didn't cover uh kim reynolds endorsement like months ago i'm like okay it wasn't like really surprising and then also on the other hand like you know it was a bigger deal the that that week that you know rick scott endorsed trump over dos santos the sitting you know, Rick Scott endorsed Trump over DeSantis, the sitting, you know, senator of a state and former governor. And like, they didn't make a huge deal about that.

And then, you know, the personality traits of the woke are the same as the Never Trumpers. Yeah. It's the same. Irrational, anger, emotional. I should win. I should get what I want.

Principles be damned. And so a lot of these Never Trumpers latched on to ron desantis and they dragged him down to the depths of destruction and oblivion and he's gone and that's it he is a a sad laughingstock i'm just i'm imagining someone being like ron i'm telling you high heels you're gonna win it's gonna pull really well i mean it's uh it sucks that his his um you know the people that were speaking for his campaign weren't uh weren't a little more proactive in trying to convince people and be a little more friendly but at the same time like ron was you know it's like talking to a two by four you know listening to two by four talk you know yeah those those videos with like the painful smiles and like the robotic movements are just like they're too they're

too much you know and he's an athlete we needed more of him in action like physical action you need a leader and leaders have to be good at a lot of things so uh when we're looking at fighting you know sean strickland is a leader we're're big fans. He's saying some great stuff. He's defending the little guy and we really respect it. He's a good dude. Uh, he's a wild guy and he's good at what he does. Should he be president? No, because while he may be the champ when it comes to his, his weight division and his fighting, when you're a leader, you need a bunch of different characteristics. So Ron DeSantis, let's say there's 10 categories that make you a good would make you a good president ron maybe has two of them very high marks and the rest are all in the gutter so he was not the right choice for this but i am glad he ran because it would be

a disaster for all of us if he didn't he endorsed donald trump trump said we're going to bring him into the fold we're big everyone loves ron and then come 2027 yeah ron's running and we're like what have we done yeah our back bench is garbage we're in trouble we got nobody that's true people do credit the florida legislature with a lot of what happened in florida during the covid lockdowns is keeping that state open was in part the legislature not and ron took a lot of the credit for it but i don't know who's going to be the vp man it's got to be vivek yeah but even the fake is not vp like i mean i think for success it's got to be vivek because he's grooming the next president they have like the most you know the most chemistry that we've

that we've seen on stage i mean there hasn't been a whole lot of you know trump on stage with a lot of people and especially former candidates. Gabbard, maybe. I get that. Tulsi Gabbard maybe makes sense. That's what I'm not. I'm not talking. The idea that Vivek has to be VP because he's grooming the next president.

No, no, no, no. That's not what matters. What matters is, does the VP help get a new state? Am I going to win a state with this person? Am I going to win a demographic with this person? And are they the kind of person that could fit in a role that is subsidiary and not very much in the limelight vivek is is is a hot potato man he's not going to fit in that role chief of staff perhaps something like that i don't even know if that's the right one he may not want to work in administration like that i look i'm

you know would have preferred vivek be the guy to trump but like i think the re like he was at you know eight percent or whatever in iowa he's like five percent or something like that nationwide or lower like i don't see how he how trump benefits at all by picking he doesn't the country it's like kind of like aaron rogers like farve they the green bay packers drafted aaron rogers he sat the bench for the first years and nobody but they knew he was great and that he would be great so he brett farve you know just just took you know they all took it for the team it was about the team and making the team the best thing about him like being at like eight percent uh is i think because he's aligned so much with trump that like you know in the absence of trump I think that number would be a lot higher. Whereas the other candidates that like they are, their support is seen as, you know, opposing Trump.

So it would actually kind of be confusing to me to like have him at a higher number because since he's so aligned with Trump, I feel on a lot of things that's, you know, that's where that's coming from. And he's like, actually, I think he has some good like suggestions on, you know, like banning the, you know, cryptocurrency, whatever that was. And then also, you know, with the pardoning of Assange, that's another suggestion that like he has told Trump, I guess. So you're banning the CBDC. Yeah yeah yeah cbdc that's what it was um and you know the day before he like talked to him about that he announced that on the stage and made that part of his policy so i i feel like someone like who could give him some more you know advice on things like that that you know trump might not know and help craft policy on that type of stuff

um would be more beneficial and uh don jr just had vivek on his show triggered on rumble two days ago i think it was two days ago might have been yesterday it was pretty it was great to see him together but it was remote and they were talking over each other just because of the digital delay which was you know being in person i, especially for Don Jr. and Vivek, who are like high-powered speakers, having them try and get through it was, there were some rough moments. But all in all,

it looks like they're deep in communication with the guy. I don't know if you need him to be VP to make him the next president. Yeah. Because he could just be a loud, like Tim, you're saying he's a loud mouth in a good way. He likes to speak and speak a lot. He's an orator.

People are also chatting about there's like a lot of videos of ron eating oh yeah like a duck yeah you know it's like the simpsons where frank grimes is like he eats like a pig's like i'd say it's more like a duck pigs tend to chew and then it shows homer like putting the donut in his mouth it's like like sucking it down it's painful but there's like casick people are posting a bunch of videos where ron like will take a sandwich and just shove half a thing in his mouth but no i don't say what the i'm like the dude's on the run yeah like he's he's got he's got to go man i totally get it you hand me a cheeseburger i'm gonna be like i'm taking that thing down in two bites they do that

i'm not running for office they do this stuff all the time it's like when whenever like every you know cycle or whatever whoever's running like they get bad pictures of them eating or whatever you know like sticking the one down the throat that's the iowa state fair trap oh my gosh yeah you got to chew your food like the only the only reason i would ever really want to run for president is so that i could just go nuts it's the whole system if you have i would never want to, I don't want it all to be in politics, but if I feel like the country needs me or the world needs me, like, I feel like it's our duty as businessmen to go to that level next.

If there was ever a point where I could actually get on the debate stage and have like a double digit polling, but not win, I'd go for it. And then it would just be the funniest thing ever. I would like, I would show up to like the Iowa state fair and I'd buy like five corn dogs and just eat them all at one.

I would take five of them and just be like, all right, everybody get the photo. I just jam it into my face. And be like, I take so little of this seriously, like have at it. But the thing is too,

like it might actually backfire and end up working because it generates so much press attention. Like Trump's first term. Yeah. How he was just saying all this crazy stuff and then they were just like, run it! And then he ended up winning, getting $5 billion worth of free marketing. There is, like, the argument, like, that Trump was just trying to, like, actually do things that would derail his campaign. That was an actually compelling argument.

Have you heard Michael Moore's argument? Trump didn't want to be president. Yeah. He was upset that he didn't get a better rate on the apprentice and it was um what's her face they paid they paid uh gwen stefani or something he said some woman got paid more than him he got mad and said why aren't i getting more for the apprentice the best show and they said because you're not as big as this person so he's like okay i'm gonna run for president i'm not gonna spend any money doing it but that's gonna raise my profile and get me a better contract deal and then he accidentally won and while i don't believe that for a second because trump was planning on running for years because he registered maga and stuff four years in advance but it was apparent it is apparently true that when he did win,

he was surprised. And he was like in his campaign office on election night, he was like, I won? Watching that video of him like, I didn't think I was going to win. As the votes are coming in. He's like, oh man. I mean, it's probably the reality there

is that everyone said Hillary was going to win. She had everything. It was Trump was probably like, all right, well, you know, we shot our shot, right? And then he won. Oh, man. Talk about good days. Can you believe that was almost 10 years ago? Eight years ago?

I remember that night. It was so much fun. I'll never forget it. Like 9-11, I will always remember exactly where I was and how it went down when Donald Trump won the presidency because it was one of the greatest nights of my life. Where were you? What were you doing?

I was hanging out with Cassandra McDonald at the Sputnik office where she had worked. And we were hanging out in D.C. So I went up to the office and I was just sitting there with my feet up. And I was like, cool, we're going to just – I don't know. I'm not doing anything else. And Cassandra was like the only person in the office who was pro-Trump. All the other Sputnik people were Democrats. And it was funny how snooty they were being and like smug.

And there was like an early report that the Trump campaign was planning to file, like launching a lawsuit against one of the states as the results were coming in. And there was one guy was like, here he goes. Like, this is what Trump's going to do. He's going to lose. But then we were watching the New York Times had that meter. And it said like greater than 99% chance Hillary wins when it starts. And then throughout the night, it started moving.

Then it got to 50%. And at that point, Cassandra's like tearing up. And she's like, oh my God, I'm laughing my ass off. And then it got all the way, like started moving down the tears of all the people in the room as they're crying and then i'm just sitting there laughing a hearty laugh and i'm like i didn't vote for the guy i just thought all of it was crack crack pottery and then he won and i was like good this is what you all deserve you have sat on your hands for so long and lied to the american

people you voted for barack obama and he blew up kids and now you have the nerve to come to me and say hillary clinton who was secretary of state doing all this garbage deserves to be president you earned this man and i was just i was loving it what a good day yeah i was very much into bernie and it was devastating what the dnc did to that guy's me too me too i was a i was a big bernie fan and uh and they did and so when it all came crashing down i was another reason i was laughing as i'm like y'all y'all y'all deserve it yeah the dnc listen man people wanted bernie he had a lot of grassroots support he should have won and when they ripped him off people just got in line behind hillary clinton and the fact that it

failed and blew up in their faces was so funny to me you deserve every moment of every ounce of pain every smile trump makes every laugh he laughs you deserve every moment it was funny it was like a gut shot i don't know if you guys do you remember the moment you found out when trump won that election? What were you doing? I was watching it live just like with my family. Well, I kind of knew once I saw Florida, like that was it. Oh, yeah. You know, that was it. That was the moment that night where everyone went, wait a minute.

Yeah. This went Trump. He's going to win. Yeah. I just remember that moment when the New York Times needle went to the middle and said 50%. Yeah. And then I was like, he's going to win, isn't he? Yeah.

Yeah. Where were you doing, Phil? I was just at my place in New Hampshire. Was it like three in the morning or something when the results came in? When they actually called it, called it, or when he gave his victory speech. But I think it was probably around midnight or something when it was like mathematically called on most networks. What a shock. You could actually

pinpoint the moment at which Hillary Clinton's heart was ripped out. No, I'm kidding. That's a Simpsons joke. But she didn't give a speech, right? She just disappeared I think. No, she didn't give a speech. Well, that's the thing. So she didn't have a concession speech written is why she didn't give a speech. She was probably hitting people

screaming like, how did this happen? I've heard she was drunk. Oh, she was hammered? I heard that she had had a couple drinks before, and then once it started to go really bad, the drinking started to go. She never showed up to the venue at all. She didn't show up to her venue. She didn't do a concession speech that night.

I heard it was because she got drunk and was yelling at people. Putin doesn't drink. I don't know if that matters world leaders getting trashed makes me nervous we're gonna go to super chat so if you haven't already would you kindly smash that like button subscribe to the channel share the show with your friends head over to timcast.com click join us become a member to support the work we do and go to casprew.com pick up appalachian nights it's the best coffee you will ever have you can buy it as a gift and also if you got friends who are big trump supporters or just don't like joe biden you can buy sleepy joe that's our

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Rest in peace. Alright, Cain Abel says, hey Tim, did you ever find out about that Texas Ranger versus Fed thing? We're having updates on that. I wonder if that would be the new start of the next Civil War. History often rhymes. The reason why I did bring it up, I haven't tweeted about it or anything, is because

if we can't verify who the person is and if the husband's in law enforcement, can't get a statement on the record, we don't want to. That being said, an individual called into a public show to thousands of people and said, this is a thing that is happening that much. I think we will repeat. And then I will clarify. We do not have any confirmation outside of this. Uh this uh however there are other individuals who are retired texas troopers that probably have connections and it sounds rather reasonable that this is happening if you are working in law enforcement in texas and you're being ordered to defy the federal government to their faces with guns you may be concerned

sooner or later a fed's going to try to stop you we'll see all right my nipple says second of all wait was there second of all where will the new north poles be guys go to tenant media on youtube subscribe watch the culture war podcast it is fridays at 10 a.m live we put up clips on youtube.com slash timcast but we all redirect you over to our friends at Tenant Media. It's a great little super group we got going on. And the show this morning was about a poll shift, which may be occurring. I don't know.

I'm not a scientist. But the argument is that periodically throughout every 12,000 years or whatever, the polls shift. This is a fact. Here's a really interesting fact from the show. Runways are being renamed because of the pole shift. We name runways based off their position with the compass or whatever on the Earth. But now that the poles are shifting, it's changing the names of these runways.

Because if you're flying, you're using your instruments to find runway with this name. If the names stayed the same, the compass would point in the wrong direction and so it's like but that's actually happening that's a fact you can find that on like the u.s government website where they're like hey we have to the pole shift is happening rather rapidly and so the idea is that the earth will tilt and as it does it wobbles moves down and then starts correcting the spin will stay the same but the axis rotation and i guess the argument is the poles are heavy right now and so that'll cause it to wobble and then spin but then correct itself and start spinning again and i guess that would put uh antarctica at the equator so it'll be the east and west pole no the poles will be north and south okay

but antarctica will be on the on the equator and that would put uh florida on the south pole i guess is the argument yeah i mean it makes sense that that would happen you know i mean i don't know about how fast it happens and i don't know what would you know he said he was saying like a week oh that would probably like a matter of a day or or so it happens rapidly this means that you'll be in florida and you'll be like oh sun sunset's at 730. And then sunset happens and then the sun never comes up because the earth tilted and now you're in the Antarctic circle. Yeah. Awful. You're like, I'm cold now.

What's happening? So one of the things he pointed out is that we found woolly mammoths frozen with food still in their bellies, meaning they were flash frozen. They were frozen nearly instantly and so he's he was pointing out like or he was asking what could cause a woolly mammoth to freeze so quickly that its food would be intact in its belly more the point where did the food come from if the woolly mammoths were in this ar region or whatever, or minus 15, how were their vegetables around for it to eat? What was it eating if its stomach is full of vegetation? Yeah, the hypothesis is that it was in the equatorial area

and there was plenty of vegetation, and then that whole area flipped up north, and then that's where they were found. Right, and so, well, this is what he's arguing. I'm not a scientist, I don't know, but he's arguing that they're basically at the equator eating veggies. Within a day, the earth flips and all of a sudden they're in the Arctic Circle. All the plant life is dead.

And it's minus 15 instantly. And they just freeze. They freeze to death almost instantly. Nowhere to go. Nowhere to stay warm. And there's no food. And they're just frozen. And that could happen now.

That's what he's arguing. Watch the show. It was such a just frozen. And that could happen now. That's what he's arguing. Watch the show. It was such a good show. Yeah, watch the show. Yeah, it was actually the largest live audience we've had on Tenet Media. Nice.

A lot of comments. Not for the culture war, but for Tenet YouTube channel. Oh, nice. A lot of comments are like, this is the best one ever. I sometimes I'll see those comments on certain shows,

but it's nice to see that comment over and over on that episode. It was great. Dude, Ben Davidson and Jimmy Corsetti, superstars. Wild show. All right Ben Davidson and Jimmy Corsetti, superstars. Wild show. Alright, Nicosia Connection says, Tim, please have Vinu Varghese on.

He's an attorney in New York City on the front lines. His recent case is representing Dexter Taylor who dared exercise the Second Amendment right in New York City and 3D printed firearms. The culture war is on, even in New York City. Great work to everyone at Timcast. That would be a good guy to have on the Culture War Show. Culture war show is a better show for when we're doing one on one stories like that. And IRL is better when we're doing news commentary. So there are a lot of people who will reach out and be like, I'd love to come on your show. And I'm like, we'll get someone who's a scientist and wants to come on Timcast IRL. But I'm like, we're not an interview podcast like Joe Rogan. We're a, we're a news commentary show. So we're looking for cultural and political junkies, but that's why we decided to launch the culture war show, which you should, uh, should subscribe

to. All right. All right. Let's grab some more superchats. JK says great culture war podcast earlier. Thank you. Been watching both those guys as long as you you need to let all that expand yeah uh the fascinating thing about uh ben he's not like it he's not coming out and saying aliens and other crazy nonsense he was saying things like well one of the i asked him if the poles shifted and arctica is at the equator will it melt and he says not necessarily because we have tropical glaciers right now that haven't melted. They've been there for thousands of years. And I went, wait a minute.

What? I didn't know that. Yes. Hot tropical glaciers. And like Indonesia, for instance, that are high altitude, they don't melt.

Exactly. So they've been there for a very long time. And I'm like, interesting. So Antarctica could move to the equator. There would be coastal melting but the large ice formations may remain how high is the highest mountain in antarctica you know or highest peak i don't know you google it probably i was gonna say there'd be like a huge land grab for if it

suddenly just became though i mean a lot would change but all of antarctica would be would be like land no i i you know part of me thinks it would be the coolest thing ever if Antarctica was at the equator and just started melting and there's a new frontier. Yeah, exactly. But only if after the ice melted, there was like an abandoned city. Oh, wow. And we were like, when all this ice melted, we found Atlantis. I was going to say Atlantis.

The highest point of Antarctica is not that much. It's called Mount Vincent. It's 16,000 feet high. Oh, that's not much. It's not super high. That's like utah road less traveled says if you're planning on going to the republican national convention in milwaukee or just a fan of history look up road less traveled wisconsin for information about the little white schoolhouse in ripon wisconsin the birthplace of the republican party

ah very interesting yeah we are planning to be there for the RNC. We've got some good plans coming. Some good plans for the RNC. All right. Greg Cutler says, Ian, I threw down $100 last year just to shout out Ben Davidson and the Suspicious Observers. Glad to hear you got together. I'll definitely watch it. Dude, people keep telling me you gotta get in touch with Ben Davidson. You gotta get in touch with Ben Davidson.

I've been talking a lot about the Electric Universe series. Dude, we were talking about that during these pole shifts and these geomagnetic phases that the moon can get pulled towards the Earth really fast and then pushed away and the amount of torrential flooding because the moon

sucks the waves. It'll make the waves get really tall when the moon's closer to the earth, the, the, the catastrophe, the guy's just absolutely awesome. I had no idea. Suspicious observers was as big as it is.

I don't have only been following him on Twitter. So it's really, really great to see. M says if the New York times paper was to finally collapse, would we be happy or celebrate its end? Just says people are celebrating the end of sports illustrated i'm torn right but it's like because it's been taken over by communists we want it to be destroyed that's kind of a scary thought what if we took it over and

made it run by like capitalists and pro-america people i like that the part of me likes the fact that the you know that the progressives have uh a place where they test out their ideas and like that's kind of what i look at like the atlantic and new york times like they the go to the op-eds yeah go to the op-eds and you can eat all the terrible ideas the left has they're they're they're telegraphing all of them what if what's good no no finish well these these ideas that they has they're they're they're telegraphing all of them what is good no no finish well these these ideas that they that they test in the opinion pages these are what will eventually turn into policy you know that's where the ideas come from what if tomorrow the front page of the new york times was all american flag backdrop and the articles were all about the

history of communism and why communism is bad i would subscribe that'd be great i would i would subscribe for a year and i would deal with whatever they wanted to put out after that i would deal with it yeah true they should do that new york times yeah they'll never do it they were they were white they were red washing the soviet union while stalin was killing yeah like they're yeah they were they're so they're sympathetic yeah the whole like the whole project, the whole first half of the last century, people were lying for the Soviet Union because all the intelligentsia,

all the academics thought that socialism was the future. They thought it was a great idea and they all wanted the Soviet Union to actually work out. And so they're all just lying for them. The New York Times, they had horrible people that were just covering for Stalin. It's awful. J.W. Dickinson says,

I hope this is seen. You need to make a K-Cup coffee pod sampler so people don't have to buy a full pack to find out if they like or hate it. Good point. That's a great idea. Here's a funny one. The RealHydroPX says, You said this yesterday.

Are you an NPC? Tim, do you just say things to look cool and be right or your insecurity? Hydro, what you need to understand is as one of our biggest fans who watches every single episode yeah literally we know that the average person watches three episodes per month that's the average person and so that means somewhere around 60 percent of the individuals who watch timcast IRL don't hear and don't watch consecutive episodes. So if I'm going to be talking about a subject and I ignore the core point of the subject,

assuming someone's heard it, the chat will be flooded with, what are you talking about? So we have to operate on a light assumption that the average person at any given moment on a show has not watched the show the previous day. Yeah yeah it's similar to if you're talking about someone we all know and we're using first name basis we got to use their last name when we're on tv it's just something you got to be a little different when you have the cameras on and you're this broadcasting i'll give i'll give you one example of how it's difficult to navigate esoteric subjects the what we say on this show on a daily basis is an esoteric subject. You don't know the subject of what we talked about unless you watch every episode. When we had Vivek Ramaswamy on and

we asked him about central bank digital currency, he did what many people do when discussing this. The subject is so complicated that instead of saying here's what blockchain is here's what bitcoin is here's what cryptocurrencies are central bank instead of that he goes the problem with cbdc right away is that you've got a government and i'm like wait wait stop what is cbdc oh central bank digital currencies anyway the point is no no no stop what does that mean And so he says, I'm going to get to that. And then he starts talking about blockchain. And I'm like, listen, people don't know what blockchain is. I deal with this all the time.

It's not. But what happens is someone who knows and pays attention to every show knows what CBDC is. So someone will come on this show as a guest and they'll say, well, I'm hoping trump calls out cbdc because we had a big problem and then 80 of viewers go i have no idea what he's talking i've noticed that on shows sometimes there's the experts two experts talking at each other and i just want to listen to them experts speak even if i don't understand the words i'm like i'll figure it out later go full expert nerd don't assume don't don't dumb it down just go full expert but other times i'm like i want to watch more of a show which explains to the general audience like labels what they mean and i just i kind of go back and forth there's different uh types of shows in that sense so

you need to say something like blockchain is a digital ledger a book containing a list of transactions made by people who are exchanging something of value. The digital currencies are essentially things you can have on the internet that represent value. Really simple. The government wants to create their own version that they would control. That would be a bad thing because it gives them technological access to all currencies. They can spy on you much more easily. They can control what you buy much more easily. They can ban you from stores or even from regions. Right now, they can do these things through difficult measures with the federal government, court systems, freezing your bank accounts.

But with central bank digital currency, one day you could get a notification that you are not allowed to buy things within 50 miles of Austin, Texas. And they can easily control that with a CBDC. It's less easy with the current financial system. But social credit scores, all that stuff, it opens the door if they make that move. So we say no. All right. Scrody Johnson says funny thing is Porsche is owned by VW, but VW's holding company is Porsche.

Literally a loop. Yep. That's so crazy very weird limited liability schemes all right it's like that's like corruption staring us in the face kind of behavior tesla hack says on the topic of the casino and no one in charge this is ian isn't correct decentralization also decentralizes responsibility. A web of interconnected systems is hard to hold accountable. Unlike a singular leader. That's a great point. And that is the point I was dealing with. If you're, so if you're having a problem in one of these big casinos and there's no general manager, That's it. Have a nice day. There's nothing you can do. So when I had an issue where a guy threatened to act.

So what happened was I was in the poker room at Hollywood Charlestown. And they apologized to me relentlessly over this. But I will use the poker terminology for everybody. And if you don't understand, too bad. I did what's called an ace high hero call on an all-in. Basically, we're playing poker. I'll simplify it. The guy is making big bets. I don't believe he's actually got a hand. I think he's got garbage. So I call his bets. In the end, he pushes all of his money into the middle, basically saying, my hand is so good, I'm putting up $300 you have to have three hundred dollars to call me out and i said i call i throw the money in and then i flip over ace king off suit not the best hand but a pretty good hand and he is this all pre-flop no this is this is the river

this is the end he bluffed all the way down he looks at what i have and he just has this look of shock and then he throws his cards into the muck, meaning he just gets rid of them. And then they shove all the money to me, meaning I called him out. He was surprised I called him out. He got really angry, came back half an hour later and started threatening to hit me and beat me up and smack me and insulting me. And that's, that's a no-go at any casino in any poker room. Instant permaban. You go to any major casino. And so I was like, can I get the floor over here? Like, holy crap. They didn't. I asked for the floor several times. Finally, I got up and I'm like, yo, what the, went to the, went to the guy who runs it. I said, this guy's threatening to attack me. Can I get security? Like what's going on here, man?

He's, he basically came over and said, chill out, shut up and play the game. So I said, okay, I want to speak to who's in charge. There was no one in charge. No one runs the show. No one's in charge of security issues. Security guards came over and said, I don't know. What happened?

And I'm like, can you guys like watch the cameras and see him threatening to hit me and all stuff? And they're like, I don't know. And I was like, is there a boss or a manager of the casinos in charge?

No. Each individual space has their own authority and jurisdiction. So if the guy who runs the poker room says don't know don't care didn't see it the security guy says i don't work for him it doesn't work for me there's no other general managers it only got resolved like seven months later when a guy who watches the show and worked in the food department as a manager asked me like uh so they they had an there was a Republican event using the casino conference space. And he was there and he was like, yeah, I hear you're a big fan.

You play poker. I was like, not here anymore. Not since that guy threatened to attack me and you guys did nothing. He went, what? I get a phone call right away from the casino host apologizing, saying they'll fix it. And I said, fine, fine. I am once again boycotting them, however, because they stole $40 for me. Wait, so the casino host is like the top dog over there there he's a customer relations guy who wants to convince people to

play the game so there's no boss that's gotta not be true i feel like they just lied to you yeah that's bizarre yeah i i there's there's no boss that's son there's like come on who do you call when you have a problem on facebook who's the manager you speak to at Facebook when you get banned? There's nobody. Yeah, there's none. So the whole system is decentralized. There, of course, is someone who's in charge of the casino at perhaps like a regional level, but they're not in the building and they're not there and there's no fun.

You can't talk to them. So the only way you get anything resolved is, first, this one's really important. If you guys are ever having problems with a major company and they're dicking you around, be rich okay now after you're rich it also helps to have two million followers on twitter okay followers okay now that we've gotten through that followers these companies will finally apologize to you and this is the worst thing about our modern corporatist system is that the only way to actually be treated fairly by these faceless gigantic disgusting machines is if you can wield influence against them and it's sad it is pathetic

that you would have to do something like that but you know what i suppose that's it let them feel all the pain of treating their customers like garbage because sooner or later they treat the wrong person like garbage and and then they have to deal with it. That's why I'm drawn to mob rule. Because I noticed that in 2006 with internet video, the amount of people I could amass to make a phone call to one person at a certain time. I was like, yo, I can command the masses with this technology real easy. And I wanted to. But I also realized how dangerous that could be and that I'm corruptible. And I was like, I got to just build systems that let i can't i can't try and be some cult leader pushing i mean but then the argument is

like if you're up against corporations that are screwing the little guy maybe you do need a cult leader to step up and command the forces the people to go make calls and to show up here and i'm gonna say this and all that i'm gonna take this friday opportunity to uh whinge a little bit and on this point so i was at uh maryland live which is at arendelle hills arendelle mills big mall shopping mall and they have a casino and this place knows customer service so we there was a there was a dispute we had over a bet on a table the part the the the supervisor on the floor was arguing with us. I was getting perturbed. Like, not angry, but I was like, look, we're trying to do this.

This is what we did. You can't push our bet back, blah, blah, blah. And then finally I went, okay, don't worry about it. Make the bet. No point in arguing. Thank you for your patronage. And I was like, oh, that was very nice of them. At the same place, I was playing Sickbow, which is a three die die roll you make a bet on what the dice is going to be very simple game

and i accidentally put more than the max down and i lost and they went sir you bet too much and they gave me half my bet back hollywood casino pen entertainment it's like the gutter of casinos we were putting down so this is why we're currently boycotting them and this is this might be the final straw we were putting money down on craps it was allison's turn to roll the die there were only three people at the table as she's putting the money down they hand the die to the wrong guy and he throws him and the die hit the wall we're like whoa whoa no roll no roll like we're still betting and like they're like nope your money's ours and they pull our money and i was like whoa dude stop you're out of turn the wrong person through no dead roll they said no if you don't like it

you can leave and then i said if my 40 is worth that much to you i'll never come back to this casino and they said it absolutely is your right to say that and And I was like, okay. So don't go to that place. Don't go to Hollywood. Penn Entertainment runs these things. And I'll also say this too. Look at what happened with Portnoy. They booted Barstool Sports. Penn bought Barstool,

sold it back to Portnoy for a dollar. He made like half a billion dollars on that deal. That's dealing like the 21st century so far. No, for real. So Portnoy sells Barstool Sports to Penn entertainment for half a billion i think it was half a billion and then not even a year later or whatever they're like we're going to give you the whole thing back for a dollar why because because it is the like dude but also isn't that like fraud for there's just no like portnoy getting free money yes but that's got to be like fraud they

they so apparently what was happening was dav David Portnoy has no problem calling people out. He disagrees with, there was an issue where Mincy cool dude, by the way, was rapping on a show and said the N word in a rap. They fired him. Portnoy was like, that's BS. I was pissed. I'm like, come on, dude.

Mincy's a good guy. He was just rapping a song. They fired him. Dave is a good dude. Gave Mincy a job at his watch company he had his back i tremendously respect that barstool was freaking out because they were like we are going to get denied gaming licenses in states because of hate speech and things like that so barstool was too edgy so so i i don't know exactly what happened but i imagine is they went to dave and said will you buy back barstool he's like no and they were like we are losing gaming licenses over this we have we can't have the brand attached to us anymore and he was

like too bad you bought it and they were like will you buy it back for this right no will you buy it back for this no can we give it to you okay that's probably what happened i don't know for sure but he bought it back for one dollar he got all the money he owns the company he hired mincy back bravo dude pen entertainment hollywood casinos are the worst run establishments i have ever been to so anyway uh we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna go uh we're gonna go play in the snow it's there's a crap ton of snow out there we're gonna go snowboarding awful it's it's terrible the roads are shut down there's a state of emergency but my friends smash that like button, subscribe to

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Oh, wait. You know. And one more thing. Don't forget. The left lane is for crime. For crying? Crime. You know that saying? They say the left lane is for crime. For crying? Crime. You know that saying, they say, be gay, do crime?

Yeah. The opposite of that is don't be gay, don't do crime. Yeah. But I think that generally you shouldn't be gay or do crime. Well, I mean, you can be gay if you're gay, but you shouldn't do crime. But that's the point, right? Like, I feel like they've made this phrase intentionally so that the inverse of it is something that we mostly wouldn't be agreed we wouldn't agree with because

like the more liberal moderate person would be like well you know i can understand why someone wouldn't want their kid to be gay they wouldn't have grandkids but we're fairly libertarian just don't do crime it's not a very strong rebuttal it's not but especially like someone's going to bring up the left lane and then i'm just pro-crime in the left left lane talking about driving and we gotta we gotta wrap things up so have a beautiful evening i'm ian cross on great week we'll see you again next week let's do this again and definitely check out that culture war episode from today awesome roger stone on monday pumped i haven't met him yet so i'm really looking forward to putting these puzzle pieces talk all about elections good to see alex as always man good to surge yo alex a pleasure man uh As always, man. Good to see you. Good to see you, Serge. Yo, Alex. Pleasure, man.

As always, good to actually talk to you this time. Yeah, I'm excited for the weekend and for dealing with the snow and the rest of this storm that's going to be happening. Let's just go home. All right, everybody. We will see you all on Monday. Thanks for hanging out. you you