Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL#1025 Red Lobster FILING BANKRUPTCY, Economic Crisis Has Democrats Worried w/Michael Seifert

Episode Date: May 15, 2024

Tim, Hannah Claire, Phil, & Serge are joined by Michael Seifert to discuss Red Lobster going bankrupt and shuttering more than 50 locations, grocery prices up 30% in America, Biden refusing to believe that he is losing in the polls, and Ukrainian officials accused of stealing millions of dollars meant for the war effort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, Red Lobster is preparing to file for bankruptcy. It's big news. It's a little silly, but it's actually significant because Democrats are really worried what this means for the economy. Joe Biden recently gave an interview where he said that people got money to spend, you know, despite inflation being way up. New Consumer Price Index reports came out and inflation is up. So there is this massive disparity between what the media is telling people

and what people are feeling. And I think this is breaking people from the corporate press because people can tell that prices are up. People can't go out to eat anymore. And now, silly as it may be, Red Lobster is shutting down 50 locations and preparing to file for bankruptcy.

And this is a bigger indicator of what's going on in the U.S. economy. So we're going to talk about that, what that means for the election. And then we've got a bunch of other crazy news. So if you heard about that portal from Dublin to New York, apparently there was a big live stream and degenerates came and made sure that it was not a thing. And so they had to shut it down. Some OnlyFans adult entertainer, I'll be polite, bared all in front of the uh the live stream camera so they shut that one down but everyone's laughing about that and then um this is this is pretty big news

actually but i don't know how much people really care about the foreign policy stuff uh we were thinking of leading with it but in russia the russian forces are advancing into kharkiv unabated no obstruction which is strange because the U.S. just sent them billions of dollars and the money that was supposed to go to the fortifications went to fake companies that were set up and tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars were stolen. Yep. This is regular crooks and thieves who pretended to be contractors in the country, took the money. And that's it.

No one actually wanted to fight. And that's where your dollars are going. This story is big, and I think it matters. But it's hard to condense the nuance into a functional headline so that people understand how this economy being crap is, well, a large factor in it is them sending your money to Ukrainian corrupt individuals, stealing it for personal gain and Russia's winning anyway. So that's why foreign policy matters. We're going to talk about that and a whole bunch more.

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We're changing the country through the power of commerce. I just showed Michael earlier that Flip Skateboards is on Public Square. And I want people to understand this. This is one of the most prominent skateboard companies in the world. And they are on Public Square basically saying that they agree with our values,

American values, family values, free speech, all of these really great things. You may not care about skateboarding, but this is just a major cultural victory. It means pro sports and these massive companies. I mean, skateboarding is in the Olympics. So this is tremendous. You guys are doing great stuff.

Glad to have you here. Thanks, man. It's good to be here. Phil's hanging out. Hello, everybody. My name is Phil Labonte. I am the lead singer of the heavy metal band All That Remains. I'm an anti-communist and a counter-revolutionary.

How are you doing, Hannah Clary? I'm good. I'm Hannah Clary Brimlow. I'm a writer for SCNR.com. That's Scanner News. Follow all of our work at TimCastNews on the social medias. Hi, Serge. Hey, guys.

I'm here, too. Let's get started. Here's the news, ladies and gentlemen. It's bad news. Red Lobster. We hardly knew you. Preparing to file for bankruptcy protection this month. Casual dining chain aiming to restructure agreements with landlords and creditors to trim debt.

Now, the crazy thing is, Daily Mail reports, workers fury as thousands lose their jobs after Red Lobster immediately shutters more than 50 outlets across America without warning. Red Lobster staff are furious. The chain let them go with no warning. More than 50 outlets are being shuttered across the country. And the brand has already begun auctioning off kitchen equipment. But it's OK. Joe Biden said that people have money to spend and everything's fine.

Well, you know, the best the best angle of this whole thing for me is the fact that one of their biggest issues is they lost apparently 11 million dollars on their endless shrimp campaign like they they just flew too close to the sun and then they lost it all and i feel like that is just a story for any entrepreneur out there uh you know i i can't eat a red lobster i'm allergic to shellfish but i feel like it's not gonna be the same when you're not driving down the street and occasionally passing a red lobster there are still like 700 locations across the country maybe this is something tiktok can turn around like where are the gen zers and their campaign to save red lobster they're broke yeah the the the significant part of this is i mean just like you said there's a bunch of other stores that are going to stay open so it's not like red lobsters

going out of business but closing 50 stores and losing that many jobs is significant. And it just goes to show there are significant struggles with the economy still. People are not feeling like they're in a good place economically. They don't feel like they're financially secure. Well, and they're auctioning off kitchen equipment. It's a fire sale. And that's, I mean, you're not, your business is not in a healthy position

if you're having to file for bankruptcy protection. So if there is going to be a TikTok campaign to save them, it's got to happen in the next month. And the hard part too is like, Red Lobster is a staple of sort of the middle class. Red Lobster is like a great date night spot for lots of Americans to go out. And the fact that that establishment took the hit

is, I think, indicative of a much bigger problem in the economy. Like people do not have disposable income to be able to actually spend on anything outside the bare necessities. Now, I thought it was funny to read, to lead with Red Lobster shuttering. That's the big news, right?

But people need to understand that the only reason we mentioned the name Red Lobster shuttering. That's the big news, right? But people need to understand that the only reason we mentioned the name Red Lobster is that it's a massive corporate chain. So when they shut down 50 stores across the country, that registers with the national press. You know what does not register? When mom and pop diners shut down, when local family restaurants shut down. So you're looking into this big corporate entity, an octopus with many tentacles, and it screams and you hear it. But what no one reports nationally is here's a list of the 50 mom and pop diners that have shut down across the country because it's not relevant. It's relevant when your chain that you know and you see down the

street is closing. I'd be willing to bet if you look at local news small towns you're seeing rick steiner is closing after 30 years john's family bakery after 80 years is shutting down yeah this is just a continuation of a trend which is you know probably started with covid i think you know when the shutdowns happened and people had to stay the lock you know the lockdowns happened people had to stay home they had to close their a lot of people had to stay, the lockdowns happened. People had to stay home. They had to close their, a lot of people had businesses that they lost because of that. And then you had the issues with the supply chains and stuff. And then you had the inflation.

So there's been significant stressors for the entirety of the Biden administration and their responses, the Biden administration's responses, have been absolutely insufficient. Well, and it's interesting, too, because the Red Lobster has been around since, like, 1962. So in the time that it was growing, it prevented small businesses from opening up. That's how this works sometimes, you know, whatever.

But then when it goes away, we don't have small businesses moving in, and we also don't have this corporate chain. So the communities that it's in will inevitably suffer. It reminds me of stories, you know, I had read an interview with someone who lived in, I think it was Welch, West Virginia, which is one of the poorest areas of the country. And they talked about how they'd lived their whole lives. There used to be a bustling Main Street, industry changed, that got closed down, a Walmart came in, in the Walmart left

And so the the communities there have it's nothing right there. Yeah. No, I was just gonna say there's a there's a survey from slack Actually, I was just thinking about this when you guys were talking they did a a survey in January end of January and released the results that found that 32% of the small business owners that utilize slack said that they're afraid they're not even going to make it all of 2024 a third of small businesses did you see the story that something like 40 of small businesses didn't make rent yeah last month yeah that's horrifying i mean like it's looking really bad i do want to briefly mention this funny meme that i saw a guy tweeted there is a secret society of people that are keeping long john silvers in business and they're living among us and i'm like i believe that this is what i don't know who goes is a long john silvers but this is what i'm saying about like the tiktok campaign like one of the things that

the country could do you know tiktok just being like any sort of young people fad when these things become cult cult classics people start going after them. Like, I saw this video on Reels where girls are like, you know, don't unalive yourself. There's Applebee's. Applebee's is great. And they're like showing eating like a group of girls. Because of Red Lobster? No, Applebee's. I think it's Applebee's.

I mean, like, they're depressed because Red Lobster closed? No, they're saying like, life is good. Look at this Molson Lovin' Cake from Applebee's. Like, people have weird sense of humor. If someone could just really market Red Lobster, maybe we could turn this thing around. On the other hand, again, I've read this report that this endless shrimp thing wasn't good. But there was a moment they were like, but people think it's so funny that they're coming in. So maybe that's working for us.

Like, maybe we can survive these losses. Again, I can't personally eat at Red Lobster, but you have to decide which American iconic chain you want to protect alongside all of the small businesses that depend on your dollar. I wonder if, you know, I was just thinking that people need to find a passion. They need to find satisfaction in the little things and, you know, working up to something, be it if you really enjoy hiking, then you can find a way to turn that into a business to share your passions. Maybe it's a product. Maybe it's videos. That's my world, right? Media. So maybe you're filming videos. But I wonder if actually this is a contributing factor to part of the economic downturn is that Gen Z being hit by two economic crises in their lifetimes, millennials too, that they've basically just been like, I don't really care to pursue things that

make money when the system is mismanaged so miserably. For millennials, I mean, I imagine someone gets out of college, they're maybe my age, and then immediately after they do, they can't find a job because the market collapse results in – it's a story I told. I was looking for a job as a dishwasher, and I'm standing in line, and the guy in front of me is like five years older than me wearing a suit applying for these jobs. And I'm just like, wow, because when they lost their jobs, they went – they had to find work. And so this ripple effect backwashes,washes i guess into millennials now they're in their you know mid-30s and then covet happens and so their their view of building things doesn't

matter because it's been destroyed it's like they built sandcastle wiped out those wiped out now they're just like i don't care i don't need money i'm gonna live in a van down by the river and i i say it so often as a semi-joke but van life was massively popular i don't need money. I'm going to live in a van down by the river. And I say it so often as a semi-joke, but van life was massively popular. I assume it still is. These videos all over the internet of people being like, I'm done, I'm leaving. Van life is basically the system in collapse.

They're not having kids. They're not having family night. They're not having family dinner, which means you see Red Lobster shut down, Olive Garden's next. And the thing is, these are are um sticks i was gonna say that's a doom and gloom prediction now i don't know for sure uh red lobsters like structure but i think they're a franchise aren't they so they're so is it one franchise either way point being um like there's

a lot of businesses that are closing this is because of these strains that our economy is is seeing and i'm gonna say i'm gonna say this as much as i can because it's literally the most important thing that we're that we've got going on right now is the fact of is we have too much money printing and we have an inflate we have an inflationary situation and we have bills coming due with unfunded liabilities, the economic threat, the value of the dollar is the biggest threat to the United States of America going. And as long as the government continues to kick the can down the road and not do anything about unfunded liabilities,

you can complain about war all you want. You can complain about any of the social situation, any policy you want. All of them will get worse if the dollar explodes. Yep. They all get worse. More war? Absolutely.

Without the United States being a stable? More war? Absolutely. Without question. You talk about what's going on in Israel and Gaza, the whole Middle East will go up in flames without the United States actually being a stable country. I'm not talking about the U.S. being there dropping bombs or anything. Just if there is that kind of instability, other

countries are going to act. Our fiscal problem is our biggest problem. The unfunded liabilities is our problem. A trillion dollars in interest last year alone. A trillion. People need to understand that if the petrodollar collapses, that means the CIA-run sock puppets

that make this show look big will be out of work, and then people will realize no one actually watches Tim Kast IRO. Actually, they'll realize that we're just AI, right? I watch it.

There'll be glitches. But he had to say that. It was part of his contract to be here. Yeah, exactly. I did sign that part. It's all deep state. So every month, we send out a survey called the Freedom Economy Index.

We have 80,000 plus small businesses on our platform. These people are salt of the earth, family owned and operated, heart of Main Street, and they fill out a survey every month, thousands of them that share their thoughts on how the economy is going. And I think the resounding feedback we get every single month is that they feel gaslit. They feel like the Biden administration and the powers that be and every Janet Yellen and all of the ivory tower folks that run our economy have told them you are fine. You are fine. Prices

aren't rising. You're imagining that you're not having a hard time hiring. You're imagining that unemployment's not high. People aren't getting second jobs like they just tell you all these things until they hope that they will beat you into submission and actually believing it. But our business owners even have said over the last month that their costs, over 80% of them said that their costs, in terms of supplier costs, have gone up again over the last month. And that's the eighth month in a row that they've gone up again.

What's fascinating, though, is that over half of those business owners that respond, we're talking thousands of business owners, have said that they're gone up again. What's fascinating though, is that over half of those business owners that respond, we're talking thousands of business owners have said that they're actually not passing on those costs to their consumer. Well, that has a breaking point at some point, like they can't keep doing that forever, especially if 42% of businesses aren't making their rent and over a third of them. It's insane. So that there, everybody feels like we're kind of in this, we all feel it. You're kind of standing on thin ice and it feels like it's about to break and you don't know what the first domino to fall will be uh yeah here you go 43 of small businesses were unable to pay their rent in april due to economic headwinds so this is

this is unusual unusual whale uh whales great exciting uh bloomberg's report the highest rent delinquency since march 2021 i think we are looking at the potential for some serious economic downturn. The only and I just hate to be such a naysayer about it. But guys, let me let me jump to the story and just throw it in the mix. As we start the segment off, Biden is blasted as clueless and out of touch for claiming Americans, quote, have money to spend when told grocery prices are up 30 percent in rare sit down. Now, now, wait there a minute. Let's all just remain calm. A lot of people tell me, like, I can't take listening to this. It's bad news all the time.

You're right. You're right. It is. I wish we could pull up some silly bunnies and puppies, you know, chasing butterflies or something. And I think it's fair if you choose to ignore all this stuff. I met a guy when I was hanging out in D.C. a couple months ago. He said I used to watch every episode, but I just decided that it was too negative. I should I should cut it out of my life. And I'm like, I don't I I get it. I absolutely do. I am mad about it. My fear is just the end result of doing that is exactly what causes it. Yep. What I see with the economic downturn, with Biden going on TV out of his mind saying people have money to spend is the result of the Titanic has hit the iceberg and someone just said,

I'd rather not think about it. And it's like, OK, then when this ship cracks in half, you go down with it and the rest of us will be. I admit ignorance is bliss. And for the time being, facing what we're facing and the election in November, we we may all be a little a little bit more tightly wound, but tightly wound with full bellies because we are thinking about this. We're planning. We're trying to fix it. But the most important thing is what really frustrates me

when I met this guy and he was like, I used to watch every single episode, but it's just too negative. I'm like, you've given up and there's bad news all the time. And the people who understand what's going on, but keep cool about it are the ones that are working towards reversing it. When you say, I don't want to hear it anymore, you're basically saying, I understand our house is on fire. I'm going to go across the street and read my phone and check Twitter while you deal with the fire. And I'm like, we all need to focus on what's going on. And at the very least, think about what we can do to, if not solve it, mitigate or prepare for ourselves, our friends, and our families. Well, and that's, gosh, you want positive news.

Like, the biggest takeaway for me out of the past six months is that if you actually call people to action and you give them an actual solution, they'll jump at it. Like, the country's not without hope. People just want to know what I do with my frustration. So we, I mean, we tell this to people all the time. It does not take much to help a small business stay on its feet. Like if a coffee shop gets an extra $500 a day in revenue from customers, that can mean all the difference. And so it, you want to feel like a superhero for your own community. You want to feel like you're actually doing

something. If you want to feel like your vote matters, use your dollar. Do you want to save the small businesses in your community? Do you want to help Casper your dollar do you want to save the small businesses in your community do you want to help casper advance do you want to help the parallel economy emerge if you do it doesn't take a whole lot of consumer spending to shift it subtle plug but i'm just saying like the businesses you've started the 80 000 on our platform the incredible community that's rallied around this concept of a parallel economy free speech platforms like rumble great communities that are trying to start up payments solutions banks like there are a lot of innovators that are trying to fix the problem but if you just kind of in apathy continue to go to the starbucks and continue to put your head down and continue to

just scroll twitter and doom you're you're you're going to feel like your apathy eats you alive it's a self-fulfilling prophecy versus if i have five dollars to spend and i can choose where to spend it, you just heard that 42% of businesses aren't about to pay rent. Just missed it the last month. You want to help keep them afloat. Make sure that you're supporting them instead of these massive monolithic chains that hate you. Imagine that the economy just totally collapses, but everybody who's buying from public square companies are focused there. So like there's an island of businesses still functioning

and they're all American values supporting businesses. That's the plan. Yeah, I think it'd be amazing. Probably everyone could go through their list of like weekly purchases, right? And decide that instead of going to a chain or a different business that doesn't support their values, they're going to intentionally go out of their way

to go to the smaller business or to go to a local company that they want to see grow. I think about this with, you know, farmers markets or people who are concerned about, you know, meat or different things in their food. Like some people are already motivated to do that because of their personal values. And they decide that, you know, maybe not being able to just stop at the closest Walmart for something is worth the time and trouble. And I think if people did it in minds of like what they want to see survive in their community, treating every Saturday, so to speak, like a small business Saturday, that's the thing

they do after Black Friday, you know, it would really shift, I think, their personal outlook because it is hard to get constantly, you know, this is going up and this is more expensive and no one can pay anything. On the other hand, I think you're totally right. It's bad news and it's overwhelming when when there's no solutions when you feel like you're powerless and just letting these things crash down upon you. But if you feel like you could potentially affect change, I think people would look at this, the bad news as sort of a call to action. Well, and, you know, we people used to use the excuse of, well, McDonald's is just so much cheaper, and these chains are so much cheaper.

But you've seen McDonald's is not cheaper, and McDonald's is scoring record profits. Your small business is now the same price, and they're not scoring record profits. They're struggling to stay alive. So we do have to make a call as a society. Do you want to live in a society controlled by a few major businesses that are all in bed with a government that's kept them afloat because they prefer their political views? Or do you want Main Street to thrive? I have a strong thesis that over the next decade, America becomes far more balkanized. We embrace balkanization. People embrace their own communities first and foremost. They try to lean in there. They shop local. They support the farmer's market.

There's a really cool startup called From the farm that's basically helping like airbnb but for farmer's markets you can actually uh even some food delivery stuff for local vendors and things i think more things like that are going to happen over the course of the next decade because people i think are really tired of feeling like why do i continue to feed the beast if all that it does is spit out nonsense at me and lecture me and i think at the end of the day too like everybody's pretty frustrated in the midst of all of this and i know that we talked about ukraine earlier in this like everybody's pretty frustrated that in the middle of this economic turmoil and feeling like main street's a disaster and that it's closed closed closed closed one after another of all these businesses that are shuttering we're gonna send

other countries more of our money. Like that really, it makes me sick. And that's the deep frustration that I hope people channel into doing something different with their money so you can stop feeding the beast. This is the crazy thing about the Russia story though. I don't want to get into too much detail, but you've got these pundits being like,

we must support Ukraine. You've got this Democrat in Virginia saying saying Ukraine's border is our border. And we're learning that the money we send these people in Ukraine are creating fake companies. How do people think the money gets distributed in Ukraine? Right. A portion goes to the local governments who then choose to give it to no name businesses that just started last week because they're likely in on the corruption. And then this company gets money. Russian forces advance from the Northeast unopposed

because the fortifications were never built. Where did that money go? And NPR reported something like $40 million stolen in January. Now we're learning that I think it's something like $40 million stolen in January. Now we're learning that, I think it's something like, they reported, I think it was about $175 million in fortifications, just nowhere. We're not supporting Ukraine. They are strip mining the US economy

and laundering it or something like that. So what you were talking about in one of the bits today about how the United States is essentially doomed and that the government – it seems like the government and the bureaucracy is just digging into the trough as much as they can to get as much as they can for themselves to support themselves for an inevitable collapse. And it's hard not to think that's true. But there is something else that I want to point out about foreign aid that people need to remember. Foreign aid, not only is it inflationary, but also, like, the point of foreign aid is to get more people using or to have more people using dollars. So that way it makes the demand for dollars higher, which is inflationary. Uh, or, well, I mean, no, the demand for dollars would make it, uh, would make it deflationary.

Um, but it makes it, it makes people more likely to continue to use dollars and continue, continue to desire to take out our debt. But our debt is the biggest problem we have. It's the reason that we have all these issues here with, with businesses closing it, it all like every problem that we have is going to be worse if we don't take care of the debt. Well, yeah, and that's, I mean, you just nailed it. If I'm printing dollars in a way that's inflationary in order to give to countries that will make us feel good that they still need the dollar, you're not actually solving anything. You're just perpetuating the problem further because you're weakening the dollar by making it farther inflationary.

It's fascinating to witness the collapse of the United States' monetary supply due to its debt more than anything else. Our debt-to-GDP ratio, it's just absurd. You talked about the interest payments we're paying earlier. More than the military now. More than the military. More than all of the. Oh, yeah. More than the military. More than all of the biggest military in human history.

Like the military that has robots that shoot missiles that are controlled from the other side of the planet. We spend more money paying for the interest on our debt than we do for that whole military with aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons, planes that are invisible to radar and all that stuff. And we still pay more just for the interest on the third highest expense line. And what happens if we default? Well, I think that means probably war, because I imagine if there's no more that I imagine the United States would look to use military power to preserve the dollar because essentially at the end of the day...

It's the only thing that secures it right now. People say it's oil, but it's actually... That would be against its own people. Most of the debt that the U.S. holds is debt in the United States from private corporations and people. The interest is basically because this is ridiculously insane how modern monetary

theory works. But money is created upon the issuance of debt. So when the U.S. government says we're raising the debt ceiling, they're creating a debt that has to be paid back. It doesn't mean they're printing money. It means they're agreeing to write an IOU to the people they're paying. So the U.S. government will be like, we want a contract to build a bridge. How much will you do it for? Say 50 million. I'll be like, OK, bill us. When they get billed, they pull it from the coffers. And now there is this massive deficit, a huge debt that exists. If they don't pay it, that means a whole bunch of U.S. contractors, companies, private individuals don't get paid. Government employees don't get paid. And yes, many foreign contractors as well. And then the countries that are holding U.S. debt, thinking that it's going to be worth something in the

future if they hold on to it, they've already been realizing for the past 10 plus years, it's not going to be worth it because the U.S. is moving towards insolvency. By 2033, NPR reports Social Security is gone. And then... Yeah. Aren't you happy you're paying into that? And there's also... Whatever paycheck.

And also on top of it, like that's what you're talking about. That's why a lot of countries, that's why BRICS is happening. That's why there's the de-dollarization. Like that is a clear and present danger to the United States because the less stable the US dollar is,

the less stable the United States is. And the less stable the United States is, the more volatile the rest of the world is. Let's jump to this story from Axios is a good one. Biden's polling denial why he doesn't believe he's behind. This is one of the best headlines I've ever seen because the corporate press is marching away from the Democratic Party. It's remarkable from the Bill Maher calling Stormy Daniels a liar, MSNBC actually being forced to defend Donald Trump, and now Axios saying Biden's in denial and won't accept that he's losing. They say President Biden doesn't believe his bad poll numbers, and neither do many of his closest advisors. The dismissiveness of the poor

polling is sincere, not spin, according to Democrats who have spoken privately with the president and his team. That bedrock belief has informed Biden's largely steady as she goes campaign, even as many Democrats outside the White House are agitating for the campaign to change direction. In public and private, Biden has been telling anyone who will listen that he's gaining ground and is probably up on Donald Trump. Quote, while the press doesn't write about it, the momentum is clearly in our favor with the polls moving towards us and away from Trump, Biden told donors during a West Coast swing last week. Confronted with some of his bad poll numbers in a rare interview with CNN, Biden offered

a more sweeping indictment of polling methodology. The polling data has been wrong all along. How many, you guys do a poll at CNN, how many folks you have to call to get one response? Delays polling in the six battleground states likely to decide the presidential race, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, doesn't paint a rosy picture for Biden. I'm going to pause. Biden's right. Biden's completely right. Yeah, he's winning. Everybody better redouble their efforts. Tell all their friends, register voters, do whatever you got to do because Biden's winning and Biden said so. I'm in for that message. If it if it hypes up our people and doesn't let them get apathetic, then I'm down because this guy cannot.

I'm fine with him believing in naivety that he's ahead and that they're going to cruise into the White House because I am seeing more people than ever who were as left as the day is long in 2020 that are now saying, I don't know what I am, but I'm not that. I'm not with him. He's only up, this New York Times poll, he's only up in one state. I don't know if it showed it in here, but he was up in Wisconsin.

But even there, it was within the margin of error. It's a total disaster. I think it was double digits in Nevada. And Nevada's an interesting state because if you want to look at economic sentiment related to issues like housing or new job growth, you look at Nevada. Tourism is big there, too, so you see what kind of consumers are spending money on. And Nevada is in a really desperate and painful place. And Nevada's a spot that votes based upon how their economic standing is doing.

And clearly, they believe that Bidenomics is not working. And I think that when you also start to break down the same poll that it quotes here into actual demographics, you see that among blacks, Hispanics, women, all different classes economically, he is faltering to a level that is worse than Jimmy Carter was looking before he lost to Reagan. I think this poll also showed that if the election were to happen today, Trump would have well over like 340 electoral votes. So it's a disaster. There's a couple of polls that have replicated similar things. I mean, to me, these statements remind me of how selective reality really is. The fact that he's saying,

oh, the mainstream media won't talk about it, but we're actually up. No, the mainstream media talked about it all the time. December, January, they were always saying, no, no, Biden's way ahead and Trump can't whatever, and the primaries, and they were always on his side. And now it's becoming such a pattern that they're not able to deny the fact. And again, some of it is within the margin of error, right? Some of it is not that Trump is up by 10, 20 points. It's that it's way more narrow than the media had been saying for months and months and months. In fact, it seems to be really shifting in Trump's favor. Don't forget to vote. You have to vote if you want to see it. Because I just think that is the cynical side of me is, you know, if you can scare conservative leaning, you know, sort of liberty minded people into complacency, then you won't see the results of these polls.

And again, polling data is it can be totally fallible. It really depends on who's putting out multiple universities and outlets over and over again. It really does seem like Biden is either choosing his own reality or he has bad informants all around him who are not letting him see the fate of his campaign. I just want to point out, too, that today is an election day. And we really, I think, collectively, culturally have stopped caring because at this point, it's a foregone conclusion. It is Trump versus Biden. But just just to let everybody know, Trump won West Virginia.

He's got 86 percent beating Nikki Haley. And there's, I think, 22 percent reporting. But also this one does matter. Shout out to Riley Moore, who's currently sitting at 45 percent with 36 percent reporting. So we're fans of Riley. It looks like they declare for Jim Justice, too. They called it for Jim Justice. That's what that's what. Yeah, right. Yeah. Public radio. Yeah. He beat Mooney. It's it's really interesting because the effect of taking the presidential campaign out during an election year for some candidates, that might be good. Right. You don't don't have as many voters going to the polls and voting. But for other candidates who need that wave of energy that having a presidential

nominee on the ticket would provide, they could suffer. I mean, this is the other thing that we only focus on the president. You have to focus on everything down ticket. Who your state senator is, is probably going to affect you more directly than who your president is, who your congressman is. It's not that it won't matter, but in terms of what happens to your local community, that happens to your neighborhood, you need to vote in your state elections above all else. It's true. And a lot of these polls are actually showing that while Biden is disastrously behind, Democrats are actually favored in many of the contentious Senate races. People are split ticketing. It's interesting in in these polls and so to your point yeah if you're if you're

if all you're thinking about is the presidential election not a whole lot's going to change people are still conditioned to be like default democrats and so they're still getting used to the idea that the democrat policies that they've had for the that they've been living under are actually not working and they're having tangitive negative results in their lives. There are so many people out there that for the longest time had just bought into the well, I'm a Democrat because they're the nice people. Those are the moderates that we are that we're actually trying to reach. And and those are the people that I say that that are like, OK, these are the liberals that we need to reach to get them to come over to our side or whatever. And the reason is because you get an entire narrative fed to you for 20 years or more. You know, like just fed to you all the time, whether it be in the news or whether it be Jon Stewart or whether it be in movies, whatever it is, it's always the same narrative.

And so you've got people that are just now getting comfortable with the idea that's like maybe the Democrats are actually wrong. Maybe the policies, maybe it's not just lies from the Republicans. Maybe the bad things that we're seeing that I'm feeling, maybe it's real. Maybe it's not just lies from the Republicans. Maybe the bad things that we're seeing that I'm feeling, maybe it's real. Maybe it's not just lies from the Republican. Maybe the Republicans aren't just racist. Maybe it isn't just that they're the bad guys and we're the good guys. Maybe the Democrats are actually wrong. So thank goodness that the people are waking up, but it's about time. So I pulled up 270 to win Senate projection right now. Republicans are expected in 2024 to get 50 seats in the Senate. Democrats right now, 47. But that's actually 45 Democrats and

two independents who caucus with Democrats. We're looking at three toss up states. So we've got three seats, which could be one Arizona, Montana and Ohio. And I really feel like Montana. Jon Tester. Yeah, I don't. He's awful. Yeah. It's just I think we're so polarized. I don't see a reality in which Montana decides. I understand Bozeman's up there. But like West Virginia was Democrat. I think Riley Moore was saying he's the first Republican state treasurer in something like 80 years, something like that. The polarization has, and Manchin, like he's up for re-election in a couple of years, right? Or what's his- Manchin's leaving.

Yep. Leaving right now or leaving in two years? Well, the Senate race that's going on right now is to fill the seat that he is making at the end of this term. Right. Okay. Okay. That's what I was-

But it ends this fall, right? Right. Yeah. It ends in November. That's what I was wondering about. It ends when this year's turnover happens. There's no way he could win. There's no way he. It ends in November. That's what I was wondering. It ends like when this year's turnover happens. There's no way he could win. There's no way he's winning in West Virginia.

That's the issue. This was a big debate because it was like, is he going to retire? Is he going to declare himself independent? And then he announced like, I am going to step away. And he sort of has toyed with this idea of running like a uniparty ticket. You saw him sitting with Romney at the State of the Union. It's weird. But I do think that, you know, a Manchin Democrat is very different than

an Ilhan Omar Democrat, right? Like their party is bifurcated in the way that conservative Republican parties are as well. You know, to your point, I think you're totally right. I think people are realizing that this idea that like Democrats are the nice people and therefore voting for them is always a vote for the nice thing isn't always right. I also think that conservatives have become more discerning of who is running with the R on their ticket. I think there were a long time where people would be like, oh, well, I'm, you know, let's say I'm evangelical. So I'm always going to vote for the Republican because they have my values. Actually, there are, you know, there are faults in the Republican Party, too. There are a lot of Republicans who say they're for certain

values and they don't actually represent them or they don't vote for them. Their history doesn't back that up. And I think that is why it's hard because there are so many races to pay attention to. At the same time, you have your own life. You can't pay attention to every single thing every single candidate says. And discerning which people are true to your values

is really important. Well, and I think a lot of people are blatantly faking it and have been for a long time, and now they're all getting exposed. So a good example, by the way, I feel that about a lot of Democrats and Republicans. What do you mean? What do you mean? Here's what I mean.

Like we mentioned Montana earlier, John Tester. So John Tester is as Democrat progressive as it gets. But every single election cycle, he gets out his old rifle that he's never shot. He talks about his farm. He talks about his country upbringing, how he's for down-home Montana values. And then when you reelect him, he'll go and vote with Ilhan Omar. I know he's obviously in the Senate and she's in the House, but they'll have the same sort of agenda on every single thing. a while that would work because people aren't paying attention after the election but now with how everything's been blown up in

social media you can't get by anymore kind of faking it and that's a good example but check this out so this is the house interactive map and we can see that montana's second is strong republican and montana's first is leaning Republican. I would say, look, if the House, I understand Tester's got the incumbent advantage, and that's probably why they're saying it's a toss up. I'm saying you look at this. Trump supporters and Republicans and young people are pushing for for for for the Republican Party. It is a really good point that everyone's just screaming Trump's name and people got to get local and make sure they're focusing on those local races. Cause you take a look down here at Colorado's lower, lower, uh, Lauren Bobert, she's switching to Oh four, but that one's leaning red. Democrats are going to

pull some surprise moves. Here's what concerns me about Joe Biden saying I'm actually ahead shadow campaign. The reason Joe Biden is saying he's ahead in the polls is not because he's actually had the polls he's behind, but it's because they got a plan and there's got to be something that happened. So remember in 2020, they said the red mirage, watch out for the red mirage because it'll look like Trump's winning. But then in the middle of the night, it'll change. And then when it happened, they went, see, we told you it was going to happen. Doesn't mean there's there's there's nothing weird about it. It just means just means you said it was going to happen. In fact, that's actually kind of weird that you told us it was going to happen. So if you look at Biden now saying, I'm actually ahead of the polls and the polls are wrong, then if something weird happens and Biden ends up

winning, he's going to then go, we told you he was ahead the whole time. You just didn't listen. Yeah, I think it's true. I mean, this is this is the interesting thing about Biden, which is I don't think his campaign actually wants him to talk at all. So if he's saying I'm ahead, maybe his campaign is like, shh, let them think they're winning. It's hard to say. I think the the biggest issue is maybe just the apathy and negativity that Americans feel right now. Like if you feel like there is no path forward, maybe you are not going to vote because you just feel doomed. And I think that sense of this is not something our economic problems are our cultural tensions. If you feel

like there's something you can't overcome by voting, that's that's the issue I think all candidates have to to fight against. Well, I think there is some good news in this, and that's that Democrats now, especially younger ones, a lot of these polls are revealed, cannot stand Biden on three key issues. Number one, they believe he's totally—these are Dems, by the way, so young, progressive Gen Zs—cannot stand the way that Biden's handled Israel and Gaza. That's number one. Number two is they feel like he has not fixed or fulfilled on all the promises related to student loans that he would. And number three is that he has not taxed the rich like he said he would. There was a new report that came out that the wealthiest billionaires are paying less in taxes than somebody making 80 grand a year because they're not taking an income. They make 80 grand on their salary or sometimes

often just report a zero. But they take all the tax breaks that Trump called out in 2016 that are employed by all of Hillary Clinton's donors. Y'all remember this wonderful debate. So Gen Z feels like they've been screwed by Biden. That's really prevalent along young women. Then Gen Z men are leaning more and more conservative, and they're starting to show up at the polls and actually represent their political views that are leaning hard right in a way that we haven't seen in a long time. And so my hope would be that Dems have a ton of apathy going

into the fall because they feel like Biden hasn't performed and they can't stand the guy. You see, by the way, Dems are predicting this, which is why they're rushing to put all this abortion stuff on the state ballots, because they're trying to just get any young Gen Z women to show up because that's the only demographic they actually want in the midterms. So they're trying to drive traffic to the polls. It's not working. It's not translating because they cannot stand Biden. Meanwhile, hopefully, if conservatives will get up off their butts and not be apathetic

and drive young turnout and minority turnout, holy cow, I mean, we could actually we could actually experience a lot of breakthrough here, but we cannot get apathetic. I know we've said that word like 30 times in the show so far, but I really, I feel that so strongly. Like we, if we, if we embrace apathy heading into November, cause a lot of people are just tired and pissed off. Uh, we're going to deal with a whole lot worse circumstances in four years where you won't even be able to afford to be apathetic. You're going to be forced to pay attention. And that's not what any of us want. I feel like maybe people need to reframe how we're seeing everything and look at it not as despair, but as a grand adventure opportunity.

Every every generation is faced with a challenge. This is ours. It's not something to be upset about. It's not something to shy away from. It's something to recognize within yourself that there are some people who are not cut out for conflict, some people more than others, some people so much so they become warriors who fight on the front lines in physical combat, brave men and women in uniform going to places that most of us would not go under any circumstances. Some people go there for nothing other than the the the purpose and the need to to to serve their country. Then there are people who engage in public sector life. And I mean, good people. There's a small handful in Congress.

Many of them are not good people. But I look at, you know, talking to Riley Moore, just like choosing to wait around in the swamp. It's like, you know, I know Riley's a good dude. And so I'm glad he's going in. But at the same time, it's like, you are going to be fighting swamp monsters on an uphill battle and it's so brutal. But there are some people who we can actually trust and hope we'll

do right. And so I say to everybody, don't get upset at the news. The news is always bad because good news is it's not it doesn't put us at risk. It's like if we got breaking news that, you know, the economy is great, you'd feel it. You'd feel good and you would have to worry about it. People only start to worry when things are getting bad and they're trying to wonder why that is. And so my view of this is when when I'm reading the news all day and people say, like, how are you not getting so down by it?

I'm like, this is the adventure, man. We are here. We are men of action. We are we are here to ensure a better life for those that come after us. If that's not for you and you'd rather hang out, watch the game, then I feel bad. I wish you would stand alongside us. But at the same time, that guy I was mentioning earlier in the show, he just wanted to play poker. He says the news is too negative for me.

I say, well, covering the news, focusing on it is the little bit that I do so that you can enjoy a nice game of poker and not have to think twice about it. And then I throw it to the men and women in uniform. That's why I'm a huge fan of Tunnels to Towers and things like that, because the men and women in uniform are doing the real work. Firefighters, yes, police officers, I know Chad's going to go nuts, but the actual first responders who are out there every day so that we can sit in a safe room. That being said, I do like West Virginia because constitutional carry, better security, big open spaces. But there are people who put their lives on the line every

single day so that you can sit in your living room and watch the game, hang out with your buddies and not have to think about it. And you can choose to be that. And there's nothing wrong with that because people are building that world for you. Soldiers are fighting battles for you. Police are out there. Firefighters out there. EMTs are out there so that you can live comfortably and don't have to live in that world. And then other people are called to action. So my view is when you see the news, you should feel resolved. When you hear about the economic closures, when you hear about the Democrats, new policies are going to let more criminals out. You should feel that fire inside you,

light you up and say, this is why you are here. This is your purpose. And you have a mission and the mission can be simple. Live a good life, raise your family and be vigilant. Your mission could be more than that. It could be a call to action to be a police officer, be a firefighter, to be an EMT or serve your country, or it can be to be one of the few good people in Congress. But if you feel the despair because the news is bad, then maybe it is important that you decide to live the world of comfort that other people will fight for. I don't think there's any shame in that. I think the brave men and women in uniform, be it from civil service to military service, know full well that they're doing this for you so that you can have a better life.

I respect it. I look forward to every day waking up and doing the little bit that we do here. And there are certainly people doing substantially more than we do. And speaking of that, let's jump to this next story from NPR. Ukraine says corrupt officials stole $40 million meant to buy arms for the war. This was first reported January 28th, 2024. Well, I got an update for you. This is from Pravda.ua, a Ukrainian newspaper. They write, where are the fortifications? Kharkiv OVA paid millions to fictitious companies, but millions? That's hundreds of millions of hryvnias. That's the Ukrainian currency possibly stolen. They mention a total of seven billion hryvnias were spent there, poured by the Kharkiv OVA

to the front companies of avatars. It's a poor translation. What they're basically saying is these companies don't exist and were paid out millions or hundreds of millions of dollars. And now the Russian forces are actively advancing. And the New York Times reporting that the Ukrainian general paints a bleak picture. A CIA official said Ukraine could lose by the end of the year. And so just a moment ago, for those that did not hear it, I was talking about the brave men and women in uniform,

the civil service here in this country to the military service. What bothers me the most about the spending of this money is one, it rips it from the middle class. It takes it from people who are, I see every day in the chat saying I'm suffering from cancer. My, I can't pay my rent. I'm living in my car. And this money, which is a drag on our labor in this country, is being given to corrupt officials for what reason? Why do we have to spend money and send our brave men and women in uniform to foreign countries in military bases? We have all over the world while our border is cracked wide open.

We have crime rampant in our streets and the people who are dedicating their lives to serve the people of this country are being redirected to nonsensical endeavors overseas while the people back home are suffering and our tax dollars, our buying power and our resources are stripped away and sent to corrupt officials and fake companies and criminals, outright criminals in a country most people can't find on a map. It's true true more new millionaires in ukraine created over the last year than in any year of their nation's existence it was almost like it was about getting the money and not about anything else everyone knew that ukraine was considered the most corrupt country in europe or one of the most corrupt countries in europe this was baked into

the cake as soon as we started sending them cash payments and the support. I know that there's been some arms that have gone, but you know, there's just been, you know, they've been shoveling dollars into Ukraine like mad. And there's been a lot of reports saying that we had no, we weren't tracking it. We didn't know where the money was going. It was being sent. Like the fact that, oh, it turns out it wasn't ending up where it was supposed to be is exactly the plot line we all could have predicted. It is wild to me because if you're the American people and you're saying like, hey, my city needs a new bridge. Hey, what's going on with the border? That's not secure at all. Hey, this is an issue that's facing my community. the federal government said to you, we don't care.

We'd actually rather just literally throw money away, never to see it turn into anything in Ukraine than to help you. And that is not a message for a people that is trying to become a strong culture and a strong force in the world. Well, and I can't remember who said this, but the basic adage was the government needs transparency and the people need freedom. And the point was, it's the goal of a government to protect the freedoms of the people, because that's what we the people deserve. And then what we expect in turn from the government is transparency, because they work for us. But what's fascinating is like, so I'm the CEO of a publicly traded company. And every quarter, we go through a quarterly review on our 10Q. And we have

auditors look at our financial statements. And if we even misplace $5, it is under the most strict set of review guidance and parameters. Then you do your end-of-the-year actual formal audit, where you have to report your end financial results, and they comb through every single line item because they're auditors. That's their job. The SEC has the right to review those forms and hold companies accountable or their auditors accountable if there's anything fraudulent on those forms. And so this is a very strict process that we spend lots of money on and time and energy and resources. And we're just a company, you know, that's making our way and growing and advancing

every day. But we're,'re you know we're not even a billion dollars we're 150 million dollars what happens when the u.s government that is in control of all of our lives and billions of dollars that we can send overseas misplaces five billion of it as it's on the way to deliver arms and they are under no review no auditors are banging down their door the sec is not calling them the irs is not calling them and saying, what are you doing with the U.S. taxpayer dollars that you're misplacing billions of it? They're under no penalty. And so they just feel like I feel like the last 10 years has just been an experiment. And how much can they get away with? Right. There was this year during the budget hearings, I think it was the Defense Department was asked, you know,

what happened to this several million dollars? And they were like, we don't know. We don't know. Haha. Anyways, more please. Like they're held to a standard which the American people and the American businesses are not held to. If you were to say, like, don't know, they would be like, great, fines, potential criminal and all kinds of punishments coming your way. But the federal government, all of its agencies and Ukraine are not held to the standard that we hold American people.

We punish American people for things that we turn a blind eye to for other people. That's not America first, and this is not a value that I would support for a government going forward. Nope. We don't even have $5 billion for a border wall, they said. So they'll misplace $5 billion in Ukraine, but we don't have $5 billion for a border wall here. Misplace.

Misplace. We don't know what happened. Yeah. It's just gone. It's a few pennies here or there. In all seriousness, though, imagine you're like some gutter crust Ukrainian dude living in the borders of the Donbass. And then you hear in the news that the U.S. is giving $100 billion to your country.

And then your local government says, we're looking for contractors to build fortifications. And you're like, I have a company. And they're like, how much do you want? $10 million. And they're like, here you go. And then he just runs off. I mean, talk about a payday. I'm jealous of that guy.

Well, and I've heard that a lot of the companies actually on the ground that could do the work in Ukraine that are supposed to be receiving the U.S. aid are not actually the ones receiving the money. It's government officials that will spin up these little shell corps, funnel the money into it that was never real in the first place, not real contractors, and then they flee the country. They head to Monaco and they buy the yacht with the money. So not only is the money being dumped into fruitless endeavors, they're not even real endeavors. Like, it'd be one thing if we were taking our money and funding sergey the the

contractor who's got a business near you know the donbass region that's going to build a new bridge that'd be one thing i'd still be against it but it's a whole nother thing when the money never even gets to that guy his quality of life's not improving so while he's being invaded his quality of life still sucks and he has no business even though he's reading the headlines saying the united states is about to fund me yay but instead, it's the local city official that takes that money that was supposed to go to him and bounces. Or what if it's not actually local officials or local criminals, but that's the patsy. And the real issue is that international interests and U.S. corrupt officials are funneling it to themselves. I mean, i just like to recall hunter biden being on the board of barisma yeah

yeah i don't think there's there's much question about whether or not there's you know pay uh back channels uh people getting in the u.s getting money from this this is if it's not getting it directly then they're getting it through the funds going to weapons manufacturers here and then the weapon manufacturers supporting their candidacy or some some version of that or something like that some some other way where the the u.s pays money to a corporation in order to ukraine and ukraine buys weapons and the money gets back to the people that have passed the laws this this is is fairly boilerplate corruption right surely we wouldn't just be sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel if no one was making money off it at home.

Right. Like our policies couldn't be that bad. Corrupt maybe, but not stupid. With the Israeli money, at least you see what you see what they're doing with it. With the Ukraine money, you don't see what they're doing with it. Like, you know, they're losing. You know that they're losing thousands of people. I don't know what the numbers are, but you know that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have died and a lot of Russians have died. But they're not obviously stopping the Russians. I mean, they're obviously not dealing with domestic issues. That's my biggest complaint overall.

With Ukraine, it's so blatant. But for any country to receive tons and tons of money, it's a prioritization of international conflict over domestic needs. And I just don't think that's something that Americans can really stomach for any longer. We shouldn't have been doing this in the first place. We fund conflicts from every side. We really mess up all kinds of geopolitical landscapes and to the detriment of people at home. It's that classic meme where it's the rockets flying from both directions and it says my tax dollars somehow also my tax dollars. It's true. You know, it's interesting, too, about the Israel versus Ukraine debate when you look at the transparency on where the funding is going.

I think part of the reason the United States has been able to dump so much money into Ukraine carte blanche without any repercussions or transparency or accountability is because the international community is sort of at this point turned a blind eye the international community now has placed a ton of scrutiny and and accountability on israel and regardless of how you feel on that issue the point is the the world is paying a lot more attention to what israel is doing than what ukraine's doing and so i think it's uh you know biden you can argue whether or not he's making an about face on israel now trying to kind of strip aid and fight his own Democrats in the party because he's trying to appease those Gen Z voters we talked about earlier. Or is it because he knows he can't just get away with everything now in Israel because they've got a heavy eye on them from the international angle? I don't know, because Ukraine's been this money laundering pot that nobody's paying attention to And the world's focusing on Israel. So it doesn't surprise me that Biden's like, ah, let's just keep funneling money to Ukraine. And we're not going to worry too much

about continuing to fund Israel. Because originally, Biden was like, all in funding Netanyahu. And now he's all of a sudden making kind of an about face. And it's very interesting to see why. I think that's because of the because of his poll numbers. I don't think I think that he would be funding Israel, or more pro Israel, if it wasn't think i think that he would be funding israel uh or more pro israel if it wasn't for the fact that the the young people and the the yeah weren't turning against him for it yeah but it's not just the young people and it's the more far left kind of more vocal people in the democrat party that are that are turning against them for it because they're the ones that are actually like pro hamas and stuff yeah it's wild and then as for as for the ukraine stuff i mean it's the ukraine the ukraine stuff is is it puts us in a position where

it's possible that there could be a nuclear exchange you know and even people you know some people say it's unlikely some people don't think it's unlikely but i don't see the only benefit that you hear from anyone anyone that talks about like geopolitical stuff. The only benefit the U.S. gets out of this is it weakens Russia. Right. So Russia spends, you know, you essentially you throw a bunch of Russian people into the meat grinder and get them killed. And they spend a bunch of money and weapons and that weakens them. So that makes the United States better off. I mean, you can say that you can make that argument i don't think that it's worth the risk because i don't think that russia is actually all that much of

a geopolitical threat to the united states and i don't think that using that uh um that that inflaming tensions with the russian ukraine and possibly putting nato into a position where they get into conflict with russia is in anyone's interest well that's what's nuts you have you have actual diehard warmongers that genuinely i I don't know if they believe it, but they tell you it like they do, that if Ukraine falls, Putin will invade France. And it's like, you can't be serious. But they've made Russia into this huge monster, right? Like, not to say that Russia is perfect in any way, but it's like we have to do anything to stop Russia.

And I will give you several hysterical scenarios of what could happen. Like that's how they were able to say, like, not only do the Ukrainian people need our support again, loss of life is bad. Like I understand that aspect of it, the empathy. But on top of that, it's actually the collapse of the world and World War 3 is upon us all the time. I think this is the issue that, you know, whereas, you know, in contrast the Israel-Palestine-Hamas issue, you know, American voters are much more divided on it and so you're able

to hold a level of scrutiny to how we're spending money that we weren't. With Ukraine it was like, you have to do anything to stop Russia at all costs. Don't even ask what Russia is doing. The thing is, even if Russia takes over Ukraine, right, it's not like Russia's going to go in there and kill all the Ukrainians. If Gaza had their

way with Israel, they would kill all the Israelis. I don't even know how many Ukrainians are actually left. I don't care who runs Ukraine. You know what I mean? Millions have fled. Cities are displaced. The eastern region is seriously damaged from war. And, uh,

even the people I know from Ukraine have, have, they left the country a long time ago and they're posting happy photos from various, various parts of Europe. So at this point, if Russia were to take the Donbass, I think the big issue for the United States is that the U S is trying to control energy in the region. Yeah. Russia controlling the Donbass secures their position in the Black Sea in the Mediterranean. And then the only other option the U.S. has is to pressure Turkey to cut off Russia's access from the Bosphorus, which they will not do.

And so if the U.S. does not win in Ukraine, they cannot push Russia out of the Mediterranean, which is what we're trying. The United States, I say we, but it's the U.S., I'm against it. Well, and that's where you know the united states the my biggest beef with all of this besides the funding issue from the beginning because i just don't like don't get me wrong i i want peace and i want i want people to create these mutually

agreeable deals that provide a sense of uh statesmanship and uh and amicability between nations i just don't really care at the end of the day, I don't want to fund it. I don't want to touch it. We have our own problems here. Have you seen New York recently? It's a total mess. But my big thing is, besides that,

I've always just wanted to know what the heck's the plan. If you're going to take my money, this is another thing. If I'm going to invest my money in something, I expect to know the roadmap. Show me the deck. Show me what your plan is.

And they've never had a plan. And the few plans that they've been willing to share about what peace would look like are completely unrealistic. You're not going to get Crimea. It's not. Ukraine's not going to hold Crimea forever. It's not going to happen.

So stating that as some sort of realistic expectation or a litmus test for when we will finally back off, it's been irrational from day one. Crimea means World War III. It does. Russia will not allow. This is where their Black Sea fleet is based. They have a naval base there. It's been there forever.

The U.S., the war we're in now is because the U.S. was gaining too much influence with the Ukrainian government, the ouster of Yanukovych, leading to a more favorable EU Western president, puts Russia on high alert. They have their quote unquote referendum. They take Crimea. How did they take Crimea? They took two steps out of their naval base and said, we're here. And that was it. But they needed land access because they have a single bridge from Crimea to Russian territory. So they said, we need to secure land access. And once it became apparent, see with Donald Trump in office, Putin's not worried about it. Trump's in office and he's like, this guy doesn't want to go to war. He doesn't want this. We don't have much to worry about. We're

going to be able to get our shipments in and out. Biden gets elected and Putin's like, here we go. And that's why we end up with war. The US wants to press this, then World War III. And that's why it really is insane to see what's going on with Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine and all this funding. And then Trump's like, it's going to be World War III unless I get elected. And it's like, yes, my fear is that the snowball is rolling down the hill already. And I don't know how much Trump could avert at this point, considering how far we've already gone. Yeah, I mean, that's the big question. How much do you think America turning an about face now would stop the actors that are in motion?

I don't know the answer to that. It's probably regional. Given that China hasn't made direct moves, I'd say that a Trump election in the fall, because he's been super bullish on the idea that, you know, China cannot touch Taiwan. Maybe that is thwarted, but are you going to stop the Israel Gaza conflict now? Are you going to stop Ukraine and Russia through an election? I don't know. I would hope so. Let's jump to some domestic news with a tweet from Patrick Bet David, who says it's official. Chris Cuomo and Dave Smith have agreed to do a sit down with a live audience. works for PBD. I don't want to get that wrong, but I believe he's like officially a part of their crew, whatever, has been contentious. And there's some e-drama, but I think there's an interesting question around the hiring of Cuomo and what you guys think. But we'll start from the beginning

here. When it was announced that PBD hired Chris Cuomo, I said, I think this is a massive mistake. This is a guy who went on his show on CNN, mocked people for eating horse paste, joked about COVID with gigantic oversized Q-tips. His brother was putting sick people in nursing homes, resulting in an estimated 15 to 18,000 dead. Blamed Trump said, well, Trump said this. Well, it's not even true. Numerous outlets fact check this. And it's funny because normally I'm not a big fan of the corporate press, but it was so ubiquitous in the press that Trump never said to put sick patients in nursing homes. But we saw many Democrat governors do this and just Democrat governors. Here's a guy now who apparently has gone on.

I think he was on PBD. I'm not sure where he was on saying that he's actually suffering from side effects or some kind of, you know, some kind of side effect or long. I don't know what he's something like that. And he's taking ivermectin now. Now, I certainly do believe in redemption, but it is tough for me because Chris Cuomo was such an egregious actor as a component of CNN. I wonder what is the purpose of trying to rehabilitate a guy with no following with who offers up nothing other than he he would sell you to your death during the lockdowns. I don't quite understand why they brought him on.

Now, Patrick Bet-David had said he wants to, you know, bring, be more neutral and bring in the other side. My rebuttal is Chris Cuomo doesn't represent the other side. Nope. He was a corporate employee of a news outlet. He did not have a big following. There's no like, you know, Chris Cuomo, big fan base. His viewership on News Nation is relatively low. This idea. So perhaps it's just an oversight on PBD's part or that's what he truly thinks. And I'm wrong and that's

fine. And I will lightly address the earlier tweet controversy, which is actually quite hilarious. I don't know, Patrick, but David was mad. But I actually got asked to do this debate. So I don't know exactly how it happened. I was contacted by a company that does PR work for us. And they asked me if I would debate Chris Cuomo on PBD's show Saturday morning. And I said, it's impossible because we do a live show Friday night. And there's no flights. It's like if we left the show Friday night, I get to the airport at 11, best case scenario, 1130. And then if there's no, there's no flights to Miami. So the only way we could do a Saturday morning show is if I got a private jet. I don't know if that's something they can do. And then I hear back from this PR company saying, they said,

what about doing a Saturday night debate with Cuomo? And I was like, look, I'd love to. I'd love to sit down and do this conversation because I was like, I tweeted these two questions. What do you think your son learned from you when he watched you emerge from your basement after faking being in COVID lockdown? Do you think he learned more from you or do you think will take more after your brother who murdered people and then tried to blame it on Trump? I'd love to sit down with this guy. But doing a Saturday night show, I said, well, that would mean wrap the show, go to bed, wake up. Then it's packing, travel to the airport hour, commercial flight, three and a half hours, plus an hour each way in the airport. So hour to the airport, hour wait in the airport, you know, security,

all that stuff, three and a half hour flight, hour from the airport to the destination to arrive just in time for a podcast, do the debate, go to sleep, wake up, same routine on the plane. And I was like, the challenge is by the time I get back Sunday, I have done 14 hours of airline travel in two days. And then I have to record a show on Monday morning. I don't think I can do it. So like, unless we can do a private jet, it's not possible. And then I guess PBD got offended. I don't know if he knew the full context or whatever. And I responded, someone asked like, why don't we do this? I said, actually, I turned it down. And that's not to imply there's anything wrong with their debate. I was upset about their debate or that I was like, how dare you? I refuse

to do it. I was just like, yeah, I said I couldn't do it. And PBD tweeted at me, got mad. And I think he may have misinterpreted my tweet as to imply something negative about his debate. Whereas my point was simply, we'd love to have Chris Cuomo here. I would love to see Dave Smith ragging him. I think this is going to be epic. Dave Smith is a way better choice than me. And I was unable to do it because of scheduling constraints. And so there's that. Now that that's been addressed, the big question is, is there a redemption arc for someone like Chris Cuomo, knowing everything we know about what he said for, for he's the guy who went on CNN and said, who said protests should be peace, need to be peaceful while people were trying to,

were burning, they were burning down police stations. People died. A police, a retired police captain, David Dorn was shot and killed during this riots. And Cuomo goes on TV and says, who says they have to be peaceful? I'm dude people are being murdered small businesses have put up things in their windows saying please don't hurt us is there a redemption for this guy only if he admits he was wrong if he admits he was wrong and admits even in this debate that he made a lot of egregious statements in the heat of emotion during COVID, or he was listening to his corporate overlords and he was just following orders. And now he realizes it was a mistake or he shouldn't have backed his brother, but family ties, he just had to like, if you admit you were wrong,

then yeah, absolutely. I would love to hear you talk and let's hear what you have to say. And I will even give you a fraction of the benefit of the doubt that you might be genuine. But the fact that he's papering over it like he never made those comments shows me that he's a total fraud there's there's there's zero redemption arc for someone like this who's not willing to admit they just want to gaslight you to believe they never said these things in the first place and by the way he's not the only one there are tons of people asking for covid we didn't know it's like no we no, we knew. And we were quieted, silenced. I knew. Look at the mask flip-flopping. Yep. And the lockdown. Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine.

There's so much mask flip-flopping, but the lockdown flip-flopping, I think, is the hilarious element of it. Democrat politicians being like, I never said we should force businesses to lockdown. And then Define L's on Twitter will them. Dispose of the video, yes. Or it's like two tweets where one's like, it is important that every business shut down, whether they believe they should or not, because we're all in this together. And then a year later, be like, I never said that. I suppose the question I have, or I suppose my feeling on the issue is, you know, I talked about Joey Salads a while ago. He's not really been, you know, in the limelight these past few years, but his big thing was several years ago, he filmed a fake video where he put a car in a parking lot with like Trump stuff inside of it and then hired black dudes

to destroy it. And he was like, he made a video where he's like, what'll happen if I leave a car in this neighborhood with all this Trump stuff on it and then faked it. And someone caught him doing it. I, I, I insulted him. I said, screw you. You're fake news. You're a liar. You're a bad guy. And then I thought about it. He had a lot of fans. And I was like, if this guy has a big following and he has no redemption opportunities, the only direction he can go is toward the darkness. So if we say, I accept your apology, do better, welcome to the right side. Absolutely. Then you bring someone to the fold. That being said, I don't know if Chris Cuomo is redeemable in that regard. Joey Salads was a guy who was just like,

this video makes me views and was kind of bumbling about and just getting wrapped up in chasing algorithms and making fake videos. Chris Cuomo is a guy who knowingly goes on a show every night for years and just does what he's told. My concern is in the difference, and maybe there's not a big enough difference. Maybe it is fair to say Cuomo deserves redemption and or Joey didn't or whatever it is. My concern is that Chris Cuomo doesn't care at all, doesn't feel any remorse. He's simply saying this boat is sinking. I better jump to the one to my left or in this instance to his right. And now he's trying to make it seem like I'm on your side, guys. Someone posted a meme of him, the Steve Buscemi thing where he's got the skateboard from 30 Rock. And it was Chris Cuomo saying, how do you do, fellow conservatives?

It's pretty clear that he's just trying to save his own neck, or he's doing what he can to save his career. I mean, it's, I don't think that, well, okay, I can't speak for anyone else, but I never expected a whole lot of integrity out of people from CNN, or I haven't expected a lot of integrity out of them. The behavior isn't a surprise. Nobody should be surprised. I'm not surprised that he's got another job in the media because at the end of the day,

it's clicks that people are looking for nowadays. And I think that even if he is getting hate clicks, if he's the guy that people hate on PVD's channel, then clicks are clicks. Absolutely. So, you know, and he's going to, you know, he's going to do what he needs to do to try and, you know, pay his bills

and make sure that he can, you know. This is something that Ian brought up, which is a really good point because we talk about Chris Cuomo faking the quarantine. I mean, that is like, holy crap above and beyond. And the story for those

who aren't familiar is Cuomo was on CNN every night being like, I'm here in quarantine. You know, look at me. I've been working out. I'm sweaty. And then he goes on his radio show and says, some guy with a fat tire bike is talking to me.

Don't you talk to me, which kind of exposed him as admitting he had traveled out of quarantine. Some guy riding his bike saw him and said, aren't you supposed to be in quarantine? You're on TV every night. And Cuomo starts yelling at him, basically admits it, proves the story's real. Ian points out, like we talked about how on CNN he merges from the basement. It's nuts. I think it was even like Nate Silver was like, it is insane that CNN thought they could pull that off when everyone knew how big the story was that he had faked that he was out of quarantine.

Ian pointed out, as he's walking up, his son is sitting there watching him do it. Think about what you tell your child. When you're like, I'm now going to go on TV. We're going to blast this message out to a couple hundred people that are watching CNN. I'm being a dick. But your kid watches you lie to the world. And I wonder if his kid asked him, like, Dad, that's not true. Why did you say that? Or if his kid just says lying is okay, we should be liars. That's the lesson he's learning, certainly. I mean, I think, you know, somebody can be really a candidate for a beautiful redemption story.

And that doesn't mean you ever put them on TV again. So, you know, there are lots of criminals. And by the way, I do think Chris Cuomo is a criminal. I mean that full heartedly. His rhetoric led to people probably withholding treatment from themselves that could have made them better because they were afraid of looking like a lunatic that took horse pills well i i want to mention specifically is the people who died during the summer of love riots yes we we had someone it's a perfect example and he's the

guy on tv saying you should like he's the guy on tv saying who says these protests have to be peaceful yep i think most importantly is is the whole debate at the time, especially around the medical stuff. And, uh, is there was this twofold scenario where they would go on TV and tell you what to do or not to do. And if this is a remarkable thing,

be it Fauci, be it Cuomo, be it Anderson Cooper, any one of these people on the corporate press, celebrities would tell you what medical treatment you should get despite not being doctors. And if anyone else said something comparable, you'd be banned. You'd be censored.

You'd be shut down. So I have no problem saying this. And to all of our friends at YouTube, we're not doctors. We're not here to give medical advice. I don't know. Don't look at me. But Chris Cuomo, he can go on CNN, Anderson Cooper. They can go on CNN and give medical advice all day, every day. Mock you. The thing about ivermectin

specifically is that doctors actually prescribed it. Now, I assume they must be crazy doctors because YouTube says you're not allowed to do that. Well, I don't know. I just tell people, go talk to your doctor. We're not medical experts here, but Chris Cuomo mocked people. Now, the crazy thing about it and the worst part about what he did is, you can get prescribed it if you have worms. Yes, it's one of the most commonly used medicines

in all of Africa. There was a Nobel award. Peace Prize. Yes. Not a Peace Prize, but a Nobel Prize for the development of the medicine from the guy who actually created it. Remember what they did to Joe Rogan? I think it was CNN, right?

They made him look pale and weird and sickly. Yellow and gangrene looking. That is so out. They're super ethical. Anyway, not to get into all that, I guess the big question is that I see a lot of people are on Twitter up in arms about there are a lot of people who I think are actually good, are cool with Cuomo being brought onto the PBD network and all that stuff. And there are a lot of people that are basically saying he's going full CNN by pulling him in. I don't know. It seems to me like if you want redemption, you have to be honest about what happened,

right? Like you'd have to acknowledge like, yes, I said these things. Yes, like I faked being quarantined or whatever, whatever the problem is. And then, you know, walk everyone through how we got to the other end. Otherwise, it just seems like, well, I was getting paid to do one thing and they're not paying me anymore, so I'm going to do the other thing. And that's obviously what's disingenuous. I don't follow a ton of Chris Cuomo's content. I don't know if someone has directly asked him about these things. I don't think so. But until he has openly addressed the controversy, I don't think that there is a way that he could seem trustworthy to most Americans. He'll always have the same bias maybe he did i don't know i don't watch his stuff so i'll give it i'll give it that much he doubled down on a lot with tucker and that interview like

he's still got his and by the way i believe in these redemption arc stories even you talk about like accepting those folks that have kind of reformed in their thinking and come into the movement and been like dang i was wrong and they detail the path because we've all been wrong on stuff. It can be amazing. I think of a perfect example. I'm a big fan of Tulsi Gabbard. 10 years ago, most of what Tulsi Gabbard said probably would have repulsed me. Today, though, and I've witnessed over the last decade, like the way that she's become a leader in the movement for human liberties and flourishing in our country, and especially with her position in the military, now speaking out against all this foreign aid, trying to protect our borders. Like she has proven and put the time in over the years that she really is for this movement.

Chris Cuomo just arose two years later and is like, now I'm going to act like I still deserve a position of authority in your life and I did nothing to earn it. I just want to say, though, I think it's a great debate. I'm glad they're doing it. I look forward to Dave Smith. He's fantastic. And I think it's going to be a really interesting and widely viewed show. So shout out. Good luck, PBD, with that one.

And Dave Smith is an excellent choice for this. But let's jump to this next story. Degeneracy. I love this. It's so sad. OnlyFans drugs and 9-11 taunts. Dublin to New York portal taken offline over inappropriate behavior. The innovative sculptures linked the two cities together, but were soon hijacked by people intent on antisocial antics.

So I don't know how many of you guys saw this story. But we have this portal sculpture they built they built, got a camera on it and a screen. And it's basically just an active live stream because the people put together apparently never heard of the He Will Not Divide Us campaign by Shia LaBeouf. The best scavenger hunt of all time. That's right. And so I remember. So they basically built these two screens that broadcast to New York and Dublin. And oh, look how cute it is. At first it was hello from New York.

We love you, Dublin. And I don't know if they actually have the photos in here, but some like there you go. Some hooker walks up and just flashes the thing. This was really interesting. This is what really was really interesting. So they shut it down because they're like people were doing drugs in front of it and just like crazy stuff. In New York, you are legally allowed, women are legally allowed to take their tops off and walk around, you know, their boobs flopping around. There was

a ruling that it is unconstitutional. It's a violation of civil human rights law to have different standards for men and women. So if men can be shirtless, women can be shirtless. I kind of felt like the solution is men should wear shirts, but you know, whatever. Can we just make men not allowed to be shirtless in New York? I would prefer that. You can go, you can go that way too. It's like guys start wearing shirts. But anyway, the thing is what she's doing is not illegal. She is in New York where it is legal to be topless. I don't know the law in Dublin, but I was just thinking like there are a lot of things in New York that are, that are legal, that are not legal in Dublin. But I was just thinking, like, there are a lot of things in New York that are legal that are not legal in Dublin and vice versa. And so that means

what she's doing, like, I don't know, is there a crime being committed? Because, are there kids who can see this, maybe? You know what I mean? Yeah, is it like an indecent exposure violation? Not in New York. If she goes

to Dublin, does she get arrested dublin if i'm exposing myself to someone in dublin how does that work in new york i mean you couldn't obviously hold anybody accountable for it from ireland women are women are allowed to be topless so that means there are women who walk around new york topless and people can kids anybody can see them it's not illegal but in dublin like like if she flies there would she go to jail? If the guy doing drugs, like what is, I don't know. I suppose the story is just funny because like, what did you expect to happen? Yeah. This was never going to go anywhere good.

It shows you someone in society is optimistic, right? They were like, we can put this out there. It'll just be like a nice thing where people wave at each other. Like that's almost adorable. You know, I hope there at each other like that's almost adorable you know i i hope there are more people like that uh i think the girl flashing the camera is obviously completely self-absorbed i think the fact that you were like you know what everyone needs to see right now me you know that's not a great representation of american culture i'm sad that this is our export to ireland uh but

i i don't know of any time when someone was like well we're gonna leave a live webcam streaming just on and on and on like no one has ever been like great idea let's do it no liability everything sounds good

there was the other one that broke Shia LaBeouf in yeah he kept moving it and people would do all kinds of stuff broke that man

right in half and it was a game after that which was hilarious it was awesome because I went there several times like I'm in New York and I heard about it and I'm like I'm gonna go check this out so it was a game after that which is hilarious it was awesome because i i went there several times like i'm in new york and i heard about it and i'm like i'm gonna go check this out and it was a party shy laboff set up a live stream where he what was it like he it was

called he will not divide us and there was like an active live stream and then trump yeah and then people started going and holding up signs and doing weird crazy things and so it got 4chan things yeah it's so bad that Shia LaBeouf took the live stream to the middle of nowhere with the camera pointing up at a flag that said he will not divide.

I think the first thing he did was he put it on a roof. No, was it second? I don't know. All I know is there were two instances. He moved it a couple times, yeah. He moved it more than once.

First, you could only see in the live stream a blue sky and the flag saying he will not divide us. They found it. They heard frogs croaking at night so they knew it was near still water because frogs don't like running water and then they looked at the contrails from planes and then looked at the they crossed they said a place where

frogs are still water and two planes are intersecting they found that thing so fast it was amazing i'm i'm deeply impressed. That's scary. Again, something that brought us all together. This hilarious game where we have to find Shia LaBeouf's dumb thing. Do you follow that GeoGuessr guy on YouTube? Yes. He can look at one picture anywhere in the world

and goes through this whole process of analyzing the picture and ends up finding the spot. Is he the guy who did the album cover of The Guy in the alley in Louisville? I watched that. It's fascinating. People will be like, Oh,

my parents took this picture somewhere. I don't know where it is. And I'll be like, bam, here you go. Yeah. Incredible. The funny thing was like,

I watched this video and he goes, here's a, I forgot the guy's album, the guy's name of the album cover, but he's like, it's, it's, he's like the singer's from Louisville.

So it's probably in Louisville. So, and I was like, oh, well that was dumb. He, he figured it out because the guy was from there. And then he finds the address. He finds the direct, he finds the Google maps and he zooms in and he finds where it is on Google earth. I was like, oh wow, that was amazing. He's legit.

There's a, there's another guy who just had a viral, uh, seven, seven part arc trying to find this skateboarder. I wonder if I can actually look him up on instagram because i've been watching these videos they're really really amazing uh let me pull this one up he did this collaboration with tony hawk let me see what the guy's name is if it pops up here we go we got it so this is uh danocracy on instagram and what he does is he tracks down people found in old vintage photographs. And it's wild to watch this stuff. So he did seven episodes trying to find this mystery skateboarder from an old Life magazine

photo shoot in Central Park. Couldn't find him. He found everyone else, though. It's really wild. Like there's women, there's kids. He found these people. It's really amazing. What if the skateboarder went missing kids. He found these people. It's really amazing. What if the skateboarder went missing and is a missing person?

And that's how we solve a true crime. Sure. I like it. So this is back in 1965 and it's a guy wearing a suit riding like one of the first prototype skateboards. And they're trying to figure out who this guy is because none of it makes sense. Like he's so comfortable on a board. Hands are in his pocket.

Skateboards were a new thing. How's he riding so well? And he's wearing a suit. Couldn't find him. But point is, someone will send him a photo and be like, I found this photo at a thrift store. And then he was like, I'm going to find out who this person is. And so then he checks the time, the date, the location.

He looks at other people who are there, the clothing they're wearing. So he can figure out like the time and all that stuff. It's really cool stuff. Yeah. I need to watch more of his videos because they're fun look the internet can be a very cool thing but other times it's other times it leads to this yeah did you you know that running joke of people coming up to tony hawk and be like has anybody ever told you you look like tony hawk yeah because he always tweets it happens all the time it's hilarious

it's because he's he's famous but he's not famous like he's a weird kind of famous yeah so he always has these tweets where i was like i was on a plane and someone said you look like that skateboarder guy tony hawk or whatever and he's like oh really i like the one with i think it was a tsa agent like checking his ticket she was like anthony tony hawk like the skateboarder anthony hawk and he was like yeah and she was like i wonder what he's up to this is me but it's funny because he's basically like it's a weird thing to be famous for so people heard the name but they don't know what he looks like yeah yeah well as for this uh this portal you know you're the first thing i think of when i when i see stuff like this i think now i get bill gates Now I get Bill Gates.

I don't think it goes that far for me, but, you know, it is. I didn't say I agree with him. It shows that people are inherently optimistic. Yeah. Because whenever you propose these kind of things, the first thing I think of is all the ways that you can just make it a bad idea. But someone was like, no, it'll be nice. You can see the signs they have printed, like, we love Dublin. I saw some dude's holding up his phone. He's got porn playing on it.

Did you guys see the climate scientist who said the only way to stop the emissions is through a pandemic that culls most of humans or something like that? Don't let that man anywhere near power. Right right but i mean these are people saying to cull five billion to save 500 million at least thanos was like 50 50 like geez utilitarianism gone that's the crazy thing about it's like we must kill 99 of people to save one percent and some that's how far it goes

i think that that idea is one of the most dangerous ideas going around now. That people are bad. And I'll tell you why it's fake. I can debunk the whole narrative right now with one simple logical point. The first question is, why avert climate crisis? Any answers? Why avert the crisis? Yeah, why is the climate crisis a bad thing?

Well, this is the irony in it. Because it affects our population, and it affects the world, and our ability to thrive here. Because people will die? People are going to die. It's going to make it more expensive with food shortages. Which is inherently a love and care for humanity and wanting to protect our home. This is the illogic of the culling humans statement that he made. If the fear of climate change is that it will kill humans, killing humans just makes it a moot point.

Exactly. So there's no reason to do it. If your concern is there are too many humans and the earth needs to heal, you need only wait, right? Wait for climate change to cull the humans like you've prescribed and then earth heals. Unless you want'll say on which humans are getting exactly the issue is never the issue the issue is always the revolution

it is like and you they call it a like it's green on the outside right on the inside or whatever like the green uh environmental um environmentalism is the the front but inside it's actually just the front for communism that some type of socialism ecosocialism, it's always an excuse to just acquire power and to be able to tell people how they have to live their lives and what they should do and et cetera, et cetera. And they always choose the most sad, depressing spokespeople. These people are always, they're not healthy. They look morbid.

They're not enjoying life. You see them channeling their inner just frustration at the world it's not about any grander vision of what the world should be they're just angry and depressed and frustrated the world they're lashing out against their conservative dad like most of this is just that but on top of that you know the united states it was just revealed last week that we have the lowest population growth in over 100 years like that's a major problem so if you have this whole culture wailing this message of the growth of families is a problem because it's going to strip your economic opportunities it's bad for the climate etc

like that's the death of a nation you you just signed the death wish so we'll just do it we'll get into this a little bit just for a couple. Social security funds are set to fall short by 20, 20, 2033 NPR reporting this two days ago. I got bad news for y'all in nine years, there will not be enough money in social security to pay the people who rely on it. At some point, it won't matter how much you tax people. Older people are going to get cut off from benefits. They're going to have no way to fund shelters, nursing homes, and the elderly. The issue really comes down to this. Right now, we could raise taxes. It's like, okay, we need more money for Social Security. We got to raise taxes on everybody. And that strains the younger generation. Eventually, there's no one to tax.

The birth rate, fertility rate is so low, eventually to the point where there's three elderly for every one young person. And that one young person cannot sustain three elderly people. And that's when it all breaks down. Older people are going to keep voting for their interests. That's just one of the ways it can break down. It is one of the ways.

Here's what I think. I think social security is insane in the first place. Of course. Like the problem, this welfare system opens the door to families not being there for their elderly. The elderly should be cared for by their families. It should be a personal thing. But now Social Security has become a dependency because we created it.

And now too many people rely on it. And now it's going to break. You've broken the culture of people taking care of family. You've created a dependency on government. And now government is failing. What I see is older people who are on their own vote way more than younger people. So they will vote for whatever they have to vote for to get money. And eventually that will lead to a very weird system where I wouldn't be surprised if Social Security failing, older people vote on something as insane as younger people have to give up 100 percent of their income and live off, you know, young people should live off the welfare and should get government housing and do labor and have no disposable income.

And then once they're old enough, they'll earn it. That way we can have our money in our golden years. I'm not saying every older person is like that. I'm saying that it's just a pressure system. Enough older people will be staring down the barrel of your benefits will expire next week. And they're going to say, what can I vote for? Well, there's a new system, a new vote that would be in favor of drafting young people into civil service so that we can keep funding the system. I'll say I'm for it.

And young people are going to be like, I don't vote. And there you go. New system you get. Yeah, I mean, what happens in 2033 when the people that have paid into this their entire lives are forced to reckon with the fact that it's all a scam. Do they feel frustration at the folks that have pushed them into the scam for decades? Do they wallow in apathy? Is this the beginning of a universal basic income? And we start with the elderly.

In South Korea, you know, they've dealt with it. But where does the labor come from? Exactly. There's nobody to supply any of the care of the services or certainly the income from a taxation perspective to fund all of that. But the income is immaterial at a certain point. You can print all the money in the world. You can tax everything you want. But if the labor doesn't exist, you're buying nothing with your money.

Oh, yeah, of course. That's why population collapse is so dangerous. Exactly. If we get to the point where they say, okay, fine, universal basic income, the old person is going to walk to the supermarket and there's going to be no one working there. They're going to be like, where's the staff? They're going to be like, there are none. We have one employee. He's off today. And they're going to be like, where is everybody? There are no young people. There's no young people. The government can print you a million dollars. You can't spend it. We at Public Square own the fastest

growing baby brand in the world. It's called Every Life. And we launched a campaign in January called Make More Babies. And we put a big Times Square billboard up. I remember that. It said, Make More Babies. And we had a wonderful team of influencers that were there. And Ashley St. Clair was actually on the ground interviewing people and asking them, do you believe in this statement? Do you believe that we should make more babies? Do you believe that it's good for the world? And some people gave an emphatic yes, absolutely. Like, it's natural to reproduce, and it's beautiful to populate the world, and we should create a legacy.

A shocking amount of people, though, gave completely ridiculous, reckless answers of like, oh, no, bad for the climate. Oh, no, too expensive. Oh, no. It's like, how short-sighted? And how, by the way, narcissistic do you have to be to believe that like, no, my comforts are too... Like we used to be, as you described earlier in the show, we used to be a nation where

the American dream, or maybe this was before we were recording, but it was brilliant. You said the American dream used to be that a family would come here and they would be willing to live in a tiny studio. They would work all their lives so that their kids one day could own the house in the suburbs. Yep. Today, when you interview somebody and you ask them, oh, you know, do you think make more babies is a good thing for the world? And they answer, no, no, no, no, definitely not in this economy. It's like you've completely lost sight of your mandate as a human, which is like to make your community a better place.

And one of the ways that you do that for the vast majority of people is have kids. Be fruitful, multiply. When I worked at O'Hare Airport, there were a lot of Filipino guys that would work 80 hours a week. There was one guy who tried working a double shift every single day, and they put him on mandatory vacation because of legal limits. So he was trying to work no days off every day, double shifts, dude. And well, one of the issues is that you start generating overtime after you work a certain amount of hours. So the way the union organized it was that it was actually really cool.

You could trade shifts with anyone by logging the computer. They didn't care who was there as long as you were there. So what I ended up doing was I had Monday through Friday off and I would work Saturday and Sunday from five 30 till midnight. I would sleep at the airport, work five 30 in the morning, work all the way till night. And then Monday through Friday, I had every day off and I was getting 30, it was 36 hours. And, hours and you'd get mandatory overtime typically on Saturday, Saturday nights. If you work the night shift, you almost always got, they call it Mando because planes come, if a plane comes late and you're on the morning shift, you leave. Guys who are

coming in will take care of it. If you're on the night shift, you're the last shift, a plane comes in, you have to stay and you get time and a half. There was one guy who refused to take any time off and it was because he moved here from the Philippines. He was in his like 60s. He had older teenage kids and he wanted them to go to college. And they said that's the American dream. The American dream is that when they were in the Philippines, they were dreaming of coming to America and working for $10 an hour. The American dream was that they could come and they could work every waking moment of their lives, but for $10 an hour.

And their kids would get to go to school and get a job and one day own a house. Now you ask young people, what's the American dream? And they say, to make it big on TikTok and then be rich and get to go and party. And it's like, wow, that was never the American dream. I think younger generations- Ownership of property was the thing that people wanted.

Like it used to be where like people, the American dream was to be able to have a house and a family. And the property was a big part of it because in other, like in other countries, property rights weren't as secure as they are in the US. And the security of the property rights in the United States is the driver of our economy. It's what makes your entire society capable of producing the, the products

and services that you need, you know, and, and, and so property rights are the, are fundamental. And that is really what the American dream is about is owning your own little bit of free country where you can be left alone. So we're going to go to super chat. So if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends and head over to timcast.com. Click join us, become a member because the uncensored member call in show will be coming up

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and cool people you can meet and hang out with. And I recommend it. We're really excited for when we get the cast through physical location up so we can have the physical space to hang out at and play skee-ball legit. We're going to get a skee-ball machine. That'll be awesome. Yeah. All right, Clint Torres, of course. Yes. With the first super chat saying, howdy, people. Go to the gym. Happy Taco Tuesday. I had fajita and egg for breakfast and lady for dinner. What kind did y'all have? I had pollo asado with corn tortillas, and it was delicious. Nice was it was in fact taco tuesday i didn't think about it but you know i enjoyed it i had a taco last night does that count it was tuesday somewhere if you go around the world i had a burrito taco is wonderful oh yeah those are amazing all right

let's go mike eases anyone else here to see what hairstyle Serge has? I mean, it doesn't change, does it? It's rad. No, right now. Serge is rocking sort of a loose curl, sort of free flowing effect.

You know, he's not, he's not scrunching his curls to give it that real ringlet look. He's, he's more relaxed. It's, it's almost an ode to the seventies in some ways, I would say.

All right. Tyler for page says, just wanted to say thank you for donating to my go fund to me last night. Was able to get another month worth of medication and gas for dialysis. That rules. Best of luck, man. Quantum Strange Quark says, howdy up there, Clint. Everybody knows Clint's going to be the first Super Chat.

Let's go. Big 7588 says, free Tibet. The Republic of China is the lawful government. The CCP are an illegal occupying force. Does that mean that Taiwan has the right to intifada China? You mean West Taiwan? West Taiwan. Let's go.

I'm not your buddy guy says, you know, Kingsman Secret Service was meant to be an entertaining spy thriller, not a roadmap to solving climate change. Isn't that weird that you've got movies like this? OK, you've got the show Utopia. Have you seen that one? But everybody talks about this in relation to this conversation. Right. And then you have similarly you have Kingsman, which they're both about tech billionaire

megalomaniacs who want a coal population. Kingsman was it was i remember watching that being like kind of kind of wild premise but i think i know where that idea comes from good movie by the way yep i thoroughly enjoyed it second one was okay um i think i watched the third one and i wasn't as into it haven't seen i like all of them you know but the first one was really good let's go what do we got here? All right. BBS Fan says, stop threatening to send people here to Alaska. By the way, shipping to Alaska

makes your coffee too much money. Saving up $35,000 for a septic is more important. Well, fair point, fair point. Shipping is brutal, is brutal. That's a heck of a septic system. Yeah, $35,000. Yeah. IMBP says,

PBD hosting Dave Smith versus Chris cuomo on may 31st it's going to be glorious it is indeed uh i don't know what chris cuomo was thinking dave smith is it like an assassin like i mean of all the people to sit down with he said dave smith that makes sense i'm like but he probably didn't get a say right like if he's a contracted employee of whatever pbd's company is like he has to make an appearance yeah whereas like i mean maybe i could be wrong i don't know what his contract looks like but it's it's dave smith or the alternate that gets the option to say no it doesn't seem like chris cuomo could have i suppose that's the benefit to hiring people like chris cuomo you know i was thinking i'm like

the whipping boy yeah you just make him look like a fool all the time it's not just that it's like we try to book people all the time that should be challenged they won't do it they don't want to be challenged yeah so you put him on payroll so he has to be yeah so maybe that's the real play that pbd is making and he can't say it he's like look we put this guy in payroll and then we get to put him on camera every time and and and have that debate i mean was it uh wasn't tucker employed by cnn at one point like this happens there are all kinds of concerns to get hired by the other side i don't think that other people do it with fox news but like yeah but to be fair cnn was very different back then yeah crossfire days yep yeah and then he always tucker was also on msnbc msnbc was like what is it moderate corporate now it's far left when right after right after 9 11 i listened to a ton of msnbc and i watched msnbc every day from like 9 11 until like 2010

when it just got to the point where i couldn't watch it anymore because they started actually the thing that set it off for me was i was just like all right Morning Joe's starting to make comments about uh about assault weapons bans and stuff like that I'm like you're supposed to be a Republican I'm like I can't watch this anymore but that's the thing it's like it happened all the time like you see all these left-leaning or these mainstream middle-of-the-road places going to the left all right let's go Project Editan says I'm in Baltimore County Maryland went to vote they gave me the wrong ballot twice both were democrat went back for a third time they had to go to the end of the table move a bunch of crap off the unopened republican ballots wow crazy well we don't trust maryland so what are you gonna do is that unopened because it's baltimore county and therefore there

are just not that many republicans or is he saying that they're trying to get him to vote as a democrat trying to get him to vote as a democrat i'd to get him to vote as a Democrat, I'd imagine. Let's go. Domagod says, what is it with Dems and brains? Reza ate them. RFK Jr. had his eaten. Biden doesn't have one. And the woke have a mind virus.

That is quite tumorous. It is also funny that John Fetterman broke his brain and then kind of woke up. He had a TBI or a stroke and then kind of woke up like you know yeah he he had a tbi or a stroke technically i guess and in that stroke he kind of came to his senses and it cured his mental illness and now he's thinking rationally amongst the democrats on some things which is wild to see ks cory says i just looked at the list of 100 my local red lobster closed yesterday but wasn't on the list probably a lot more closing than they want to admit. Or they announce like, here's the ones we've closed,

while others are in the process of closing. Right, and they're also saying like, we're starting the auctions of the equipment at these 50 places, but that doesn't mean it's exclusive to these 50 places. It's just where the start is. I'd imagine, given that they're filing for bankruptcy protection, this is probably very similar to the Bed Bath & Beyond story, where they sort of announced that they're going bankrupt

and then it's a three to four year journey as they roll off stores and try to protect any existing cash flow. Are you saying people are going to be able to buy the Red Lobster decor at one point? Get your cheddar biscuits while you can. No, you could buy like the shelves from the clothing Bed Bath & Beyond.

Like people could buy the Red Lobster sign in a couple of years. The little fish tanks where they put the lobsters. Get them while they're hot. Those are expensive. Those are really expensive. Youster sign in a couple years. The little fish tanks where they put the lobsters. Get them while they're hot. Those are expensive. Those are really expensive. Maybe get a good deal.

So when Sears, like Sears has been shutting down. Sears is gone, right? Yeah, I don't think there's another Sears that exists anymore. I don't know. I remember going to Sears. This was in Deptford, New Jersey, I think is where it was. And everything was for sale. Just literally the shelves, the hooks that go into

the shelves all for sale the chairs computers i was like i'd love to buy one of these point of sales terminals you know what i mean but everything it was crazy because there's like a weird shelf and it was like sold like someone came in and said i want this display rack and they're like all of it was got has got to go and then i they, what did they turn it into? I can't remember. There are only 11 left. 11 Sears. 10 in continental US and one in Puerto Rico. This is the crazy thing.

Why didn't they become Amazon? They had distribution centers already. Yep, they could have, but they didn't see the writing on the wall. It's sort of the BlackBerry versus iPhone story, which is a great movie, by the way, if you haven't seen it. But yeah, about the BlackBerry story.

But BlackBerry had the opportunity to be the iphone but they were so tied to the clicking and they thought consumers would never love a touch screen steve jobs was crazy enough to believe that they would and he went after it but he uh i can't remember the founder of blackberry he had been debating for years trying to develop a touch screen and just wouldn't do it wouldn't go the smartphone route and then apple comes onto the scene and blows up amazon had plenty of those storefronts that could have gone into the digital age it's the same story with blockbuster versus netflix yeah like people thought netflix was a joke and blockbuster's the future blockbuster stuck to their guns and netflix saw a future and went after it but here's the other thing to consider the people who are behind these things the brand may be dead but

the people behind them don't go anywhere so we're all saying like wow how did sears go out of business um i'd imagine that a lot of people retired very wealthy who are running this corporation and they didn't care younger guys who were heavily invested moved their money over to amazon in shares and didn't think twice and then when sears started going under they said liquidate it pull out the cash we can we're in in Amazon now. So these individuals who are at the highest level, they don't go anywhere. Well, not only that, most of the time when a company's going through a bankruptcy proceeding like this, they'll hire a CEO that's experienced in bankruptcies that's basically cleaning up all the assets to get ready for a sale. And so you're right. All

of the existing people, the minute that there's blood in the water, they've detached themselves from it. They have no brand loyalty to it anymore. And the, the, they, you know, bring in a team that is there to basically salvage any assets that are remaining. But it's interesting. The, the world, I was driving by a mall recently camera where I was, uh, Indiana, I was driving by a mall and half of the mall stores were completely shuttered. There was no more, everything was for lease. Nothing was actually occupied other than a few small stores. And I do think that there is a massive awakening coming in the world of sort of commercial real estate for a lot of these things. It'll be fascinating to see what comes of the old Sears buildings as they continue to

advance forward. Does anybody even need that space anymore? A lot of them are turning into churches or health centers or these different things. But yeah, I think a lot of... There are cities where unoccupied office buildings because of the big conversion to remote work, they are now saying like,

well, do we turn these, I think it was Boston's like, should we turn into apartments? What should we do with them? You know, anecdotally with the mall, I always find it interesting because there was, when i lived in dallas there was one mall that was like i guess i'd been really great back in the day but the movie theater was still there and it was really inexpensive to go but also the storefronts it would be like this is my personal

art gallery it's the art that i make like it was it was getting some sort of like weird or like there's a mall nearby that like a church has a storefront in and i just find this deeply fascinating because at a certain point the mall needs someone to be there at what point does it become sort of a more urban cities small town like main street square because they're all right there is it a salvageable thing or do they have to say like this is something we shut down uh there was a a mall in i'm trying to think what it is, somewhere in Rhode Island, there was a big sort of mall type area, but it's a historic structure. And they turned the upper level of it into basically tiny home sized apartments, you know, so it'd be like really small, like basically efficiency studio apartments. And then they kept the lower level as like this

area. And it meant that they had residents there who would then go to the coffee shops or stuff that were in the area. It's a there's a residents there who would then go to the coffee shops or stuff that were in the area. It's a, there is a potential to change these things. On the other hand, will we return to the iconic mall era? Probably not. Well, would you go back to the 90s if you had a time machine?

Oh yeah. Malls scream nostalgia. I used to skateboard on the top of a mall in high school on the roof and you'd get in trouble, but it was awesome. And you'd hang out in the food court for hours. And it just, it screams classic Americana. I americana absolutely would the i feel bad for young people you know

it's funny because um i always remember like older generation being like we had eight tracks you know and you'd put it in and you'd play the song it's like wow and we had cassettes and now it's like now there's a floppy disk icon programs that young people like these Gen Z kids are like, what is that? But outside of all of that technology changes stuff that happens to a lot of people, the, you know, up until where a dude's skating in the in the 80s running from a security guard and i'm like oh been there that's so funny that it's like the people who are in that movie are basically our parents today we have a shared experience of what it's like to hang out with our friends at the park and you know now it's it's that's that's just not the case a little bit but it's not the same think about the scene in uh mean girls where they're at the school they're like we're going to the mall and they bring her and then she describes it as if it's sort of like observing the wildlife of teenagers and these people are over there and

these people are doing whatever like that aspect of socialization went away for huge generations of young people and then we wonder why they socialize differently while they're more anxious like they aren't doing the things that generations did before them and so they effectively view the world in a very different and ultimately antisocial way i think what i'll do is i'm going to invest all of the money we make into building a device that traps all of humanity in the years of uh the early 80s when men at work were at the top of the charts because that was the only time that mattered because overkill is like one of the best songs ever and we can sit there and listen to it all day every day and of course uh land down under talk about one of the best songs ever written it's the way we salvage humanity that's right let's read some more superchats uh just because

i'm free says i think the federal reserve will wait to spike the economy till trump gets elected unless he plays ball with the deep state is blackmail the correct term i won't be surprised that the fed can deeply control but i don't know if you look at their balance sheet and you look at the like the inflation and stuff i don't know that the the federal reserve can actually navigate their way out of this one no and i don't think that it i don't i think the if you think that the federal Reserve would harpoon Trump's presidency because it's Trump, I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation. When everything falls apart, to call it falling apart is insufficient.

Like I said, I don't think that the united states loses the dollar and has an economic um restructuring without like a world war or or without significant wars happening in other parts of the world because the united states it whether or not people like it or think it's good or not the united states is the the essentially the the global police force the way that is essentially works right now and if there's a significant change to the status quo in the united states you're gonna have serious serious repercussions throughout the whole world i gotta read this one james eaton says tim i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart i can't watch right now i'm in the hospital with my dad but i just want to thank you your explanation on what to do for a sucking chest wound might have saved his life i hope it did save his life um

i imagine he got some kind of lung punctured but i will just point this out again and the reason why i've brought up the idea of how to treat a sucking chest wound you guys are familiar with what this is is because uh when i was a teenager all right this is probably i think i was probably like early 20s, there was a story in my neighborhood of a dude who got into a fight, and someone, he got stabbed in the chest and got up and ran off, and then a minute and a half later, collapsed dead. And it's crazy to think that that strike to the chest,

if only he knew to like, man, like hold a credit card over it, even something. He'd be alive. And so this is one of the things they teach you in hostile environment courses, first aid courses. The general, there's a bunch of complicated ways to do it. Some say if you have no choice, you hold a credit card over it to seal the wound. But if you get, and definitely consult a medical professional, because I'm going to view the rudimentary, I did first aid hostile environment training. You take, if you have plastic wrap, you put it over the wound, you tape down three sides.

And what that does is when there's a hole in the, where the lung is, when the person tries to inhale, there's no pressure differential. So no air actually moves. The chest cavity expands and the air that's in there stays in there. So the person's asphyxiating while thinking they're breathing and then they just die. But if you seal the hole when they're breathing, then it pulls air in, pushes air out, pulls air in, because that's how it works. And what happens when you put the plastic over it, tape it down to three sides, is that when they inhale, it pulls the plastic up to their chest. And when they exhale, I'm sorry, when they inhale, the expanding pressure forces air out of the hole

because it can't pull air in, which pushes the pressure back out, allowing them to breathe better. It was just a crazy idea because, like, there are these moments where if you just knew the tiniest bit of it, if someone said one sentence to you, someone could be alive. That's the craziest thing. You can buy stuff like this, like hyphen vents. These are actual chest seals. You can buy stuff like this on Amazon. You can buy tourniquets on amazon or public square you can get you can get all kinds of first aid stuff that is not expensive it's not going to end up uh you know crushing your your your bank account or whatever and you know it could make a huge difference yeah it make i well, you can save lives and,

and a lot of people talk about guns and stuff like that and carrying guns and stuff. Look, you're way more likely to find a use for a tourniquet or for, or, or bandage pressure bandages. Those are great. Pressure bandages are great or gauze than you are for a gun.

So get first aid training and get a bunch of first aid stuff and stuff it into your car and into a bag. This one blew my mind when i i i when i did hostile environment training and they're teaching the basis of tourniquets they were giving instruction on femoral bleed tourniquet and people put it close to the knee they put it i don't know how you describe it above or below but they were like you have to put the tourniquet above the wound so that it i don't know how you describe it above or below but they were like you have to put the tourniquet above the wound so that the blood doesn't pour out of the body and they went oh and i was like i can't believe there were people that did not realize that the purpose

of the tourniquet is to cut off the blood flow to pouring out of the out of the bleed crazy thing as an aside is he showed a pig femoral bleed and a guy passed out instantly. There's that, I don't know what it's called, but it triggers some nerve when you see the blood flow and some people faint. And he just, he puts on the screen the pig bleeding and a guy just hits the ground. We hear a bang, the chairs flip over, they're folding chairs. And then the instructor immediately runs over, grabs his legs and lifts his legs up,

which increases the blood pressure to the brain. The guy comes to and tries getting up and the instructor yells, do not move. And the guy just freezes. And the guy on the ground goes, I'm fine. I'm fine. He goes, no, you're not. You passed out. And the only reason you're conscious is I'm holding your legs up. Stay where you are. It was wild. Crazy story. Let's, uh, let's read some more super chats. Colby Hanson says, Michael, I love the vision, but what are you doing to extend to the West coast here in Utah? Representation is a bit lackluster aside from businesses that are on our side. Great question. First of all, thank you. What I would say is that Utah is actually one of our fastest growing states, which is pretty exciting. We have obviously two components of

the platform. So we have the e-commerce side where you can actually shop from all the different businesses, tens of thousands that are selling their products directly online so that you can get these products shipped towards your door. If you're looking for gauze, if you're looking for tourniquets, if you're looking for coffee, Casper, shout out, or you're looking for flip skateboards, which I didn't even know was on our platform until earlier today, which is awesome. I'm still stoked on that. E-commerce is great for that. On the local side, my recommendation is keep checking back in every few weeks because you'll be amazed at how quickly that local

community on the Near Me tab actually blossoms. But on top of that, if you know a business that you feel like is probably with us, invite them to the platform because you'll be amazed that not only will that business join, we've seen in the data that they'll likely invite three other businesses to join with them. One of the greatest ways that we've actually grown in local communities with our near me functionality is when businesses that are already on actually invite other businesses. They're creating this sort of chamber of commerce. And that's one of the most exciting aspects of this platform. So we were talking about this because I was saying I want to get my haircut. And the only one in the area is actually like an hour and a half away in D.C.

And I was like, but I just keep checking. There'll be another salon on there eventually. Oh, yeah, there will. All right was like, but I just keep checking. There'll be another salon on there eventually. Oh, yeah, there will. All right. Even in West Virginia. Come on. Bill Levin says, Tim, you had a hand in saving my life.

That's two in one night. Well, I live in Vegas, was a federal contractor, drank heavily and hated life. You said over and over, get out of these cities and move to red states. I listened. I got early retirement. My wife works remote and we're happy in Texas since October. I'm glad. It's a different kind of saving life. But, you know, I just there's a lot of people I know that the reason why I was saying

earlier in the show about having purpose, seeing the news and having it light a fire within you to be the warrior is that there's a lot of people who are lost without purpose. There's a lot of people wondering why they're here and asking these questions. A lot of young people who are depressed and angry. And some of these kids are going towards the woke cult because it provides a pseudo purpose. Be one of us. Join the mission. And it's giving. No, no, no.

Idle hands, the devil's playground. We need to make a more divine playground. We need to put into the hands of young people divine purpose. That is to to create life, to protect life, to make the world better, to bring a wholesome dignity to our society, to protect and help it flourish. We've got this tremendous force in wokeness that is a chaotic, destructive force that is amoral. It is without morals, and it seeks to pull people who are missing their purpose and their mission into darkness. We don't have, I don't believe, a very strong counter movement. We have people who believe in freedom.

We have people who are like, those people are crazy. But we don't have a comparable force of, what's the right word, generacy. You've got degeneracy. But where's the inversion of people being like, let's make a world better? That means that they do exist. I think what Daily Wire is doing with Bent Key and his children program is absolutely amazing. Public Square, obviously, that's why we love what you guys do. Thank you.

And it exists. And I actually think, to put it simply, Public Square, I think the reason you guys are so important is that that might be the public square of this. It's our goal. You know, it's the inversion of woke. Well, and we always want to, we want to be known more for what we're for and the vision we're casting for the future rather than what we're against.

So we get asked all the time, can you guys make a blacklist of all the businesses we should stay away from? It's like, you know that already. You see it in culture. It's a safe assumption that most of the businesses you shop from, if you're just kind of taking the corporate hand,

are probably businesses that are working against you. We'd rather spend all of our time, energy, and efforts into showcasing the type of American entrepreneurs you should support. I'd rather focus all of my energy on casting a vision for the future we're trying to create. Because I completely agree, Tim. It is our pure intent at the end of the day to create a new public square. All right. Last one. Drew Dane says a new public square. All right, last one. Drew Dane says, is public square open to individuals?

I build custom PCs, can't plug my site in a super chat, but I'm sweet information technology on Zuckerbook. Absolutely. You would not be the only one, so come join. We do really well with sole proprietors. The creator economy, we're a massive fan. And ultimately, you'll find that obviously not only is it a great values aligned community, but even differentiated from an Amazon, we have a product in terms of how our platform is actually structured that far, far better serves the small businesses or sole proprietorships, individual content creators, etc. The last thing I want to

say is just one more thing about Flip Skateboards being on Public Square. This is one of the biggest skate companies in the world with some of the most prominent skateboarders. These are guys who appeared in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater back in the day. The first skateboard I ever owned was a Tom Penny Flip Skateboard. And AWH Skateboard Distribution,

one of the biggest in the country, as well as Flip Skateboards, being on Public Square. This is Olympic level professional equipment asserting publicly that they oppose the woke cult garbage selling a product to where they think it matters. And it's absolutely incredible. So we're going to go to the members only show. Smash that like button.

If you haven't already, don't forget one like equals one. Let's go, Brandon. That apparently works better than saying smash the like button and head over to Timcast.com. Click join us. If you want to listen to the uncensored members call-in show where we answer questions from you guys and you can really ask whatever you want. It's up to the members to vote

on what they want to appear on the show. And it'll be a lot of fun. So we'll see you there. Make sure you join the Discord server. It's how you get involved. Follow me at Timcast on Twitter or X and Instagram. And don't forget rumble.com slash TimCast IRL as well. But subscribe to this channel

and share the show with your friends. Michael, do you want to shout anything out? Just that it's awesome to be here. You can check out Public Square at publicsquare.com. If you'd like to check out, if you're a parent, you'd like to check out the baby brand that I referenced earlier, that's everylife.com. And then we own a few other really cool businesses

in the parallel economy. We'd encourage you to join us on our journey. You can change the country with the power of your wallet. So please, please, please do not be apathetic. And then we own a few other really cool businesses in the parallel economy. We'd encourage you to join us on our journey. You can change the country with the power of your wallet. So please, please, please do not be apathetic. Put your hope for a better future into your purchasing power and change the country. And think about how cool this is. You're looking for a bite to eat. You open the public square app.

You look at the map. You see a burger joint. You walk in. The owner is behind the counter making burgers. And you know you can be like, I saw you guys in public square, and it's gonna be like, awesome. And that means you can talk freely

about all of the things you wanna talk about because you know this person's not gonna be a nut job. You got it. It's that simple. Perfect. I am Phil that remains on Twix. I am Phil that remains official on Instagram. The band is All That Remains.

You can catch us this summer on the Destroy All Enemies Tour with Megadeth and Mudvayne. You can check out our new single Divine on Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon Music, Dooser, I think it's called. You know, the internet. Oh, and don't

forget, the left lane is for crime. Well, it's been so fun to have you here, Michael. I always like when you're on the show. I'm Hannah Claire Brimelow. I'm a writer for SCNR.com. That's Scanner News. You can check out all of our work at TimCastNews on Twitter and Instagram. If you want to follow me personally, I'm on Instagram at HannahClaire.b, and I'm on Twitter at HannahClaireB.

Guys, thank you so much. Bye, Serge. See you later, Hannah Clare. Shout out to the federal agents who monitor us. What's up, guys? See you later. They're just down the street. All right, everybody, we'll see you

all over at TimCast.com in about a minute. Thanks for hanging out. you