Timcast IRL - Timcast IRL#210 - FBI ARRESTS #WalkAway Founder After Relative Turns Him In w/ Brad Polumbo

Episode Date: January 26, 2021

Tim, Ian, Lydia, and Luke are joined by commentator and columnist Brad Polumbo to discuss Brandon Straka, Proud Boys, Politico staffers, Dr. Fauci, and the power of government.  Support the show (http://Timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The FBI has arrested Brandon Strzok, founder of the walk away campaign for his involvement in the Capitol riots. And they're alleging some pretty serious stuff, like he was telling people to do things like go inside or take a cop's shield. And there's even a tweet. I remember seeing myself where Brandon said he told he tweeted the patriots at the Capitol hold the hold period, the period line. I saw him tweet that. Well, I don't know exactly what it was about but here we go fbi has made the arrest we got a bunch of crazy stories so we'll go through this but the craziest thing about it he was turned in by a relative according to the fbi

affidavit the witness who handed over the evidence claims to be a relative of brandon strach welcome my friends to the great culture revolution here in the United States where kids are turning in their parents. We've got a couple stories about that. We'll rehash just a little bit. There's some nuance in these stories.

We've also got a story out of Canada. They've apparently voted to label the Proud Boys a terrorist entity. Whether or not that actually means anything is yet to be determined.

I know a lot of people think it's legit, like it's done. It's not. It's not. They're calling on the government to make it official. So we'll see how that plays out. But I got to tell you, I wouldn't be surprised if here in the U.S. we see something similar. So, you know, there's already with Democrat control of the House and now essential control of the Senate. I wouldn't

be surprised if they play that same game. Now, in less important news, the articles of impeachment have been delivered to the Senate and there's going to be a trial. And it's kind of funny that we've actually have this one slated for later, like it's not our lead story because it's just, you know, I got to be honest, it's kind of silly. But then we have another big story too. We have a lot tonight, actually. A hundred Politico staffers have written a letter outraged that Ben Shapiro wrote an op-ed. This is how crazy things are getting. So I'll just I'll leave the intro at that because we got a ton of stuff. And joining us tonight is Brad Palumbo. Would you like to introduce yourself, Brad? Hey, thanks for having me. It's good to be with you. And what who are you? What do you do? So I'm a conservative journalist, Washington

Examiner columnist and podcast host just like yourself. Right on. So we'll have your we'll have your opinions. Of course. Luke is here. Oh, howdy. We had a fun weekend. We shot a melon that jumped up six feet in the air. That was pretty cool. Because you're using the scar. Well, we shouldn't go into too much detail about exactly what we were doing,

but we had a lot of fun here. We finally got the shirts back up personally that were banned, that I was wearing on this show, that were banned during the show. They're back up on the bullet the best political shirts.com and yeah i mean it was a great weekend we finally got the store back up and uh we're doing great and uh yeah and we also finally got the i am a gorilla t-shirt approved by youtube so now it's pinned and official and uh i haven't followed up yet i know t-sprint'sing's been trying to get a hold of me, but I'm seeing a lot of people. For those that aren't familiar,

a lot of people are posting photos of the misprinted I Am A Gorilla shirts where his hands are white and his face is darkened. Okay. Well, Teespring assured me that won't happen again, so I guess we should be good. If you want to buy the I Am A Gorilla t-shirt, it should be normal this time, so hopefully.

We got Ian chilling. He's wearing glasses. What up, everybody? Coming at you. Who are you? I'm Ian Crossland. No intro, Ian. You're going to make me cuss.

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become a member to help support the show directly so that in the event that, you know, we eventually get purged, we will still exist in some form. And we actually have this really great post up right now. It's Alex Jones raiding Luke's RV and waking him up. That's not what you think.

All right, stop, stop, you dirty minded people. It is, it is. It's RV and waking him up. That's not what you think. All right, stop. Stop, you dirty-minded people. It is. It is. It's actually really, really calm. You know, a lot of people who comment on it say it's really cool because it's just like

Alex being normal and saying, hey, Luke, how you been? And Luke being like, oh, what's going on? So confused. Utterly confused. I must have been jarring.

Just waking up. It was dark. There's a history there that hasn't been explained. I might do my own sponsor video on my own site explaining the history there but uh yeah it's it's but it's we also we also in this post have the lost episode the one that youtube banned so it's available there for members it's also on bit shoot just you know just so you know but we've made it convenient for all of you so many thanks everybody's become members we can also see that the uh i am a gorilla

t-shirt is available now finally integrated in in YouTube, and you can get it. And hopefully, at this point, everybody's getting the corrected versions. And I guess we'll call the misprint one what it is, a misprint that we did not sanction or endorse. And if you got it, well, congratulations. But let's just jump to the first story. Man, this story, this is nuts. I was sitting on my couch and I saw a tweet. Brandon Strzok, who's been on the show several times, has been arrested by the FBI. We have this local news outlet, KETV7 Omaha says,

Omaha FBI agents arrest founder of walkaway campaign for actions during U.S. Capitol attack. They say Brandon Strzok, 44, was arrested Monday by agents from the FBI Omaha field office. Strzok faces charges of impeding a law enforcement officer during civil disorder, knowingly entering and remaining on restricted grounds without lawful authority and or engaging in disorderly conduct within proximity to a restricted building to impede official functions and engaging in disorderly conduct with intent to disturb a hearing before Congress. Court documents show that officials were tipped off about Strzok posting a video near the Capitol entrance shouting, go, go. The video was later removed and officials said they

could not find any video or posts on his Twitter page relating to his actions at the Capitol. However, the FBI was sent multiple screenshots. These screenshots reportedly revealed that Strzok made the following comments on Twitter, saying, quote, Patriots at the Capitol hold the line. Quote, I arrived at the Capitol a few hours ago as Patriots were storming from all sides. I was quite close to entering myself as police began tear gassing us from the door. I inhaled tear gas and got in my eyes. Patriots began exiting shortly after saying Congress had been cleared. He goes on to

say he was confused. For six to eight weeks, everybody on the right was saying 1776, and that if Congress moves forward, it will mean a revolution. So Congress moves forward. Patriots storm the Capitol. Now everyone is virtue signaling their embarrassment that this happened. I think that quote right there is a really good example of what happens when you're in an echo chamber. As if anybody thought that going inside a building and physically standing there was going to change the government overnight. Just definitely not the case. But the more important points I'll make right here.

They say, according to documents, one video showed an officer from the U.S. Capitol Police holding a protective shield. As individuals pushed past the officer toward the entrance of the U.S. Capitol, the officer held his shield up in the air. The report states, according to documents, Strzok is heard shouting, take it away from him. And others in the crowd then yelled, take the shield. As several people in the crowd grabbed the officer's shield, Strzok yelled, take it, take it. Officials learned that Strzok was a self-described former liberal and the founder of the walk away campaign.

Now, here's where it gets crazy. I've got here the FBI affidavit. They say the FBI received multiple tips referencing the video of Strzok at the U.S. Capitol, including a tip from Witness One. I interviewed Witness One on January 13th. Witness One stated he she was a relative of Strzok. Now everything else we've heard for the most part, accusations were made, videos were sent. And I'll also point out, this is probably why Facebook banned walk away and all of the people involved. See, we didn't, I don't think any of us actually saw those videos unless you had been following walk away. I wasn't. So when I heard that they banned the entirety of walk away, I was like, Whoa, that's nuts. Now, if they're saying he was posting these videos

of himself storming the Capitol, it's not surprising at all. But I think the bigger issue here is, for one, we got the news. That's it. Founder of WalkAway arrested. Relative turned him in. I mean, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I don't know why anyone went near this mess at the Capitol. They were never going to accomplish anything. They were never going to stop the certification of the vote.

I mean, that ship sailed a long time ago. For a few hours they did. They delayed the inevitable at a big cost to them personally. Wait, wait, I disagree. That shaman who believed he was an alien, he was definitely a threat to national security. And he became very close to being Speaker of the House. I mean, how can you argue against that? It was an insurrection.

Wait, wait, wait. He was standing in Mike Pence's place for the president of the Senate. That legally means he was the president of the Senate, right? That's the idea, isn't it? By physically going in there and standing there, you hold the title? That's the rules, right? Well, is that what people thought was going to happen? But okay, look, look, look.

Sorry for interrupting you. Go ahead. Finish your point. But I was saying, like, it is disturbing to see people starting to turn in family members it'd be one thing right if it was there was another story that you and i were talking about before we went live right where there's a threat of like imminent violence or terrorism but like just snitching on your family members there's got to be some really extreme circumstances to justify anything close to that and just posts that you saw from them on Twitter,

I would never do that personally. Well, we also have to understand we're in a political climate where it seems like the FBI has been absolutely activated. Previously before, when it came to other issues, the FBI is kind of sitting around. But now, I mean, they're putting up bulletin boards. They're putting up wanted posters.

They're putting up tip hotlines. It looks like they finally got off of their buttocks and started being extremely proactive and very efficient at their job when previously with other cases like the Epstein case, they kind of didn't really do much. Not just that case. No, no, trust me. There's a long history of the FBI not doing their job correctly. Anybody who actually committed crimes at the Capitol, they should be doing that, right? But where was that during the BLM riots this summer, right?

They weren't tracking down every person that smashed a window. No, Brad. Those were peaceful, mostly peaceful protests. And they stopped COVID. And they fought COVID according to scientific studies that were released and published by CNN News. Are you telling me CNN News is lying and you're cutting me down? I'm telling you. I'm going to have to speak louder, Tim.

Okay, sorry, go ahead. I'm just telling you that when they tell you it's mostly peaceful with the burning background, with the building on fire, it might not actually be mostly peaceful. This is a serious problem, man. I've had emails from people saying, like, Tim, you talk about the same thing over and

over again just different times like same same stuff different day we don't swear on the show and i'm like what do you want me to do like i'm telling you it's happening it's happening i what i won't do is be like oh i am i'm absolutely shocked by this double standard the fbi arresting these insurrectionists and what we have we have antifa still riding now like they've never stopped. They're still going. But look, look, I know you guys want to rag on the FBI and all that. But I got to point out the family thing because you brought up that story of the kid and his dad, right?

Let me tell you how insane and despicable things are getting. We have this story from the New York Times. Son tipped off FBI about his father who is charged in Capitol riot. He says, I put my emotions behind me to do what i thought was right and you know what he thought was right in his twitter on his twitter account his his official link you know on twitter you edit your profile you can put a link it's his link to a go fund me this morning this morning his go fund me was at like 90 something thousand dollars and i was just like dude it's one thing to rat your family out maybe you have to do it if there's a real threat maybe you have to right it's true so it's not it's not so, it's one thing to rat your family out. Maybe you have to do it if there's a real threat.

Maybe you have to. It's true. It's not so simple. It's another thing to be like, guys, I turned my dad in. Here's my GoFundMe. I'm looking for $100,000. And wait. Since then, he's raised another about $25,000.

So he increased the total goal to $200,000. He's calling it his college fund. Listen. This guy reported his dad weeks ago. Because his dad was saying he was going to do something big and i'm like look if your dad or your family member was antifa and they were talking about doing something big especially when you have stories of all these riots going on and you turned them in i get it it's it sucks okay but then if you come out publicly and you're like

i'd like to do an interview with with cnn and the the New York times and then publish a go fund me to make hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's horrible. Wow, dude. Well, you brought up a very important point because it could have been a scenario where there was a present danger. And at that time, you know, we don't know the interpersonal relationship. We don't know if there was abuse. We don't know any of this stuff, but at the same time, one thing we have to note here, the the mainstream media especially cnn they're taking this case and they're running with it they're running you know till the cows come home essentially exploiting this and and and loving it and and they're running with it as as a headline story and this is where he even wrote in his own description he's like i'm getting so much support after my CNN interview.

I might not have a home to live in, but it seems like he's getting some support. He can buy a home now. That's the most dysfunctional incentive structure, though. You're setting up with these resist bucks. I mean, this is what they did with Claudia Conway, right? That she was willing to drag her mom on Twitter for working for the president.

And so the New York Times had a glowing profile of her and they started constantly sharing her and promoting her and turning her into a tick tock star. And it's like, I don't think we should be incentivizing with money, young people to do this kind of thing and sell out their family. Unless you're a commie and you want the culture evolution, then you're,

then you're cheering and jumping up and down and clapping for it. Happy. But wait, I thought they didn't believe in incentivizing people with money. That's the funny thing I said. You know, that's what I was saying earlier, that a lot of these people claim to be socialists or leftists, but when it comes down to it, they're the worst version of capitalists. Everything they complain about capitalism, like the raw exploitation for money, I'm like,

what do you think it is you're doing when you literally sell your dad to the state for money? That's incredible. Look, if i had to report a family member i'd be embarrassed i'd be i'd be saddened but more importantly what if it was possible he could have talked to his dad what if when he heard his dad say crazy stuff he was like yo dad sit down let me talk to you like we need to have a family intervention about this because saying i'm gonna do something big just you wait what does that really mean it's crazy is that is

that when you're like well something big time to call the feds and have arrested did he say it to the kid or did he write it on twitter well well later afterwards he told the kid he would shoot him so but that he reported he poured his dad weeks ago he so the dad told his kid that he was at the capitol and if he snitched on him he would do you know what you know what traitors deserve traders get shot this sick guy sounds unstable totally i think the kid's in the right here well so his kid reported him weeks ago all right and that's what that's what i was saying a lot of people are immediately jumping the gun saying oh don't run on your family that's messed up and i'm like i don't know your dad's saying like no that's fine it's the fundraising part that's right is he so the kid's like homeless now is did he lose his last parent? No, I don't think so.

Well, he wrote in his description... I might be kicked out of my house due to my involvement. I might be. Give me money! Dude, I got sympathy for that guy, that kid. Because that's a weird... If your dad threatens to shoot you and goes and does some illegal act, and you have to distance yourself from your family

when you're younger than 18, is he? I don't know. Well, it could go either way. We don't know what happened younger than 18, is he? I don't know. Well, it could go either way. We don't know what happened. His future could be shattered. We don't know what happened personally between these two individuals and their personal relationship. It could be that he was making an offhanded joke and wasn't that serious about it. It could be that he could be an abusing father that beat his children and literally threatened more harm on them.

So we don't know exactly what happened there. It's the fundraising. Check this out. and literally threatened more harm on them. Yeah. So we don't know exactly what happened there. But again. It's the fundraising. Check this out. On his GoFundMe, he keeps saying like, I'm raising. Let me see. Let me see. Wow.

He goes, I'm raising the goal to 100,000 from requests and it's staying at 100,000. Thank you everyone for your messages. They all have been read and cherished. Thank you. People have requested again that I move the goalpost once more. I'm sorry about saying it would stay, but you guys have been persistent, so I got to ask for more money. I guess I got to take more money. There's one more.

I moved the goalpost once more. People have been requesting. It's just, listen, it's not me asking for the money and increasing the goal. It's that people keep saying, dude, we want to give you money. You don't need to increase the goal to make money. If your goal is five grand, people can still keep donating. Increasing the goal has the purpose of making people think you haven't reached your goal yet. So they're more likely to donate.

I doubt. Well, no, look, there probably are people saying like, hey, increase it. Right. And he's like, I guess. Okay. But just from a raw perspective, you kind of have to respect the hustle. Yeah. Totally.

He's a capitalist. And, you know, I'll be completely honest. The money he's taking. This is a really funny question when it comes to money. People are like, you're getting paid by, you know, Soros or like the Koch brothers or whatever. And I'm kind of like, who would you rather have the money? The Koch brothers or me? Like, I kind of, isn't it a good thing that these organizations lose money giving it away to other people? They lose that power. Yeah, we don't have this kind of.

Wait, you're getting paid by the Koch brothers? No. The point I'm making is, I don't know what this dude's politics are he's probably not particularly political but he's now taken 125 grand from you know establishment and tribalist lefties so it's like i guess better he has the money and spends it on whatever he wants to than a bunch of you know crazy people like it's better than mitch mcconnell taking 150 000 from the nra probably because it's like grassroots at least mcconnell taking 150 000 from the nra probably because it's like grassroots at least wait what like we're talking about people donating money and receiving money like these politicians that are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporations

we don't sit here and talk and complain about each of those but it's probably way worse than a kid going on gofundme and taking like this what i'm saying is this kid's probably gonna like buy a car and then just like go drive around and do nothing with it. Buy crypto. But the people who have the money in the first place are going to be like promoting fringe political causes and stuff. So it's like, you know, I guess he takes the money and he just like, you know, goes to school with it, I guess.

He's influencing one person. He's paying them to influence him instead of paying to influence others. You know what I mean? But it does incentivize more of this. Right. That's the main issue. That's why.

If he gets it, then a bunch of other kids out there whose parents maybe are not that crazy are going to see the money. And maybe the next one. I mean, I'll give this guy the full benefit of the doubt. Maybe his dad was crazy. Maybe he had to do this. Right. But there's probably some kids out there who look at that and are like, I want get a slice of that and maybe they will not be telling the truth when they do it yo the chick who turned in her mom uh hold on wait is this the same one oh no there's many

there's many of them that's that's the thing this didn't just happen once it happened a couple times and you as you said you can only imagine if your dad says, eat your vegetables, your kid's going to look back at them like, I could call the FBI on you. Butt talks right now, fool. The Nazis and the communists, the Russian communists, Soviets, would be like, turn them in, do the right thing, or maybe through threat of force. And now they're doing it through bribery. It's this new world order.

Check it out. Or maybe through threat of force. And now they're doing it through bribery. It's this new world order. Check it out. The young woman who turned her mother in has raised $73,391 of her now $150,000 goal. And of course, she's going, pay for college. Well, to be fair, Biden's going to take a lot of that money with his new tax plan. Oh, definitely. And then college, I mean. Well, they're going to get their student loans all canceled loans off anyway i'm gonna tell you my hard prediction i think these two people are gonna go to jail or uh well kids yeah yeah yeah maybe maybe not jail maybe it's a little harsh

i think because what people don't realize i've heard this story a lot when people get an internet windfall and they think the money is free and they don't pay taxes on it and the irs comes a knock-in and they end up owing the irs a of money. So this dude who's getting all of this money for college could be argued that by putting that. So I'm not a tax lawyer, but you know what I've been advised is if you want to give someone a gift, then there can be no consideration. Consideration being a contractual term, a legal term. So if I said like, here you are, Luke, one gorilla for free, and you can do whatever you

want with it, then that's a gift. But if I say this gorilla is for X, it's no longer a gift. It depends though. You could argue that paying someone's medical bills or college could constitute a gift. But we saw this. I don't know if you guys remember when Occupy organized that big debt payoff where they were like buying people's medical debt. People were getting tax bills because of it. Because paying off someone's debt is giving them money and then depending on what the money was for if there was a consideration involved like i'm gonna give you money but can only be used for this then the person has to pay taxes on it a gift can have no strings attached well right now with covid people are getting tax bills for their stimulus checks and their expanded

unemployment benefits that's crazy that unemployment is a tax. You pay unemployment tax to cover the unemployment. Then they pay it out to you, but then they tax it. It's already a tax. You pay sales tax to earn it. You pay income tax to just keep your property. You pay property tax.

It's multiplied a million times over. At the gun store we went to on the receipt, when it said taxes, it said taxation is theft. Oh, did it really? Yeah, you got to check your receipt. Love to see it.

Yeah. So, I mean, there's local businesses that are hit either way. I mean, you brought up an important point. I mean, they tax almost... There's so many aspects of life are taxed. You receive money, you get taxed.

You spend money, you get taxed. And then you got to pay taxes on top of those taxes, on top of other taxes it's just this is but hold on this all this is why what a lot of these lefties don't understand is that lowering the tax rate can actually increase tax revenue oh yeah because if the dollar if i have one dollar and we we spread it around this table by the time the dollar is done being traded the government has all of it all of it but if you raise the taxes to a point where i can't even afford to spend it then i just hold the dollar well and also none of it high taxes discourage economic activity right if the top rate is 90 like aoc's dream right people aren't going to work

to earn those extra dollars once they hit that bracket then there's less overall revenue from that too i disagree um you're you're right but they just do clever it's it's a it's a rich people's game once they get to that point they're just like they just do clever... It's a rich people's game. Once they get to that point, they just buy other things that don't get taxed the same rate. They just open up a charity, and that's one of the biggest scams out there. Just like Bill Gates, who said he's going to give all of his money away to charity

and then tripled his wealth somehow. And those Panama papers didn't get enough attention. Did you guys pay attention to those when they dropped the papers? Oh, yeah. Did the person who leaked it die or something? Oh, my God. I don't know.

But all these really wealthy people have bank accounts in Panama. Celebrities. Or thereabouts. I know one of Putin's best friends has tons of money there. He's like the musician guy. I mean, that's like the elephant in the room with this economy. Rich people have the means and the ability and the legal power, and they get away with it.

Are you like a tax lawyer? No, no, no. You're not a lawyer. No, but I do. I report on economics and write about economics. And that's been one of the most interesting things about COVID and the big response. Like the Federal Reserve printed trillions of dollars, essentially. A lot of it went to big corporations. A lot of the Paycheck Protection Program, which was supposed to help small businesses, went to big corporations.

This happens all the time with government. This is why the swamp is actually one of the truest things Trump ever said. In Washington, even the progressive legislators get called by all the big companies every day and get tons of money from them and make sure that the big bill doesn't hurt their bottom line. It's all like that there's a study where they say something like public opinion has zero impact on public policy and the opinions of major corporations and the wealthy impacts almost exclusively makes sense why why is a politician going to be worried about well i think the internet has changed things though because it used to be that you needed the money to get to run the ads now it's it's the twitter game it's you know aoc know, AOC goes on Twitter, and she starts ranting about the Republicans and like how they're evil and

stuff like that. And then she gets more and more followers. And they just people love to hate, they love to be angry. You know, they want to feel their anger is justified. Well, that's the impulse that gathers your attention the most. So there have been many clinical studies. And if you could make someone fearful and scared, those are the incentives to make people click more than anything else out there in the Internet. And a lot of these news companies, a lot of these big tech companies know this, and they need to keep people on their platforms. They need to keep people engaged as much as they can. So they hit this fear. What is it?

Flight. Fight or flight. Fight or flight instincts all the time. And our emotional systems are hyperbotically just going insane after being induced into so much of this kind of casino gamified informational warfare that's blasted in your face. Well, let's jump into the next story then because this is perfect. We have this from globalnews.ca. MPs unanimously agree to urge feds to designate Proud Boys a terrorist entity.

So I see a lot of tweets from people saying like Canada just declared the Proud Boys were terrorists. Well, politically, the MPs kind of did, but there's been no official declaration from their federal government. They say members of Canada's parliament have agreed to call on the federal liberal government to formally designate the Proud Boys a terrorist entity. The motion, introduced by NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, passed with unanimous consent in the House of Commons on Monday. The motion calls upon the government to use all available tools to address the proliferation of white supremacists and hate groups, starting with the immediate designating the Pr boys as a terrorist entity the ndp has for weeks been calling on trudeau and the liberals to ban the proud boys and designate

the group a terrorist organization the move comes after thousands of supporters of president trump or you know storm the capital yeah yeah we get it members of the proud boys were reportedly present during the right isn't joe biggs a proud boy um i think so yeah i don't know much i think he is but he got arrested he got arrested he got arrested so so they were there and enrique tarrio was supposed to be there but he got arrested and they kicked him out of dc the federal government said it is considering designating the group as a terrorist entity as minister blair has said we strongly denounce ideologically motivated extremists including groups like the proud boys white supremacists anti-semitics

islamophobic and misogynist groups. Mary Liz Power, a spokesperson for public safety minister, Bill Blair, told the Global News earlier this month, intolerance and hate have no place in our society. Think about what this means. How often do we see the Proud Boys go around and actually smash things up and destroy things and cause violence? Not really. It happens sometimes. Rarely, though. How often do

we see it from antifa designated last night in portland it just happened last night coma yeah tacoma washington smashing up windows and just when joe biden got uh inaugurated they smashed up the democrat headquarters windows and everything and destroyed it and where's the fbi i mean i i know in canada this is canada we're talking about with the Proud Boys, but let's just talk about Antifa in general, because Antifa operates in Canada. I mean, they're in the Pacific Northwest, so they go up and down all the time.

Do the Proud Boys even operate in Canada? I don't even know if they have a branch there, personally, to be honest with you. It's remarkable. They're trying to claim... Like, what did they do in Canada? I think the goal is they're desperately trying to redefine what white supremacy means.

And I think they've succeeded. There's no point in calling it the double standard. Okay, it's like all the time that conservatives are like, there's a double standard. It's obvious. Yeah, dude, no, duh. The left knows this. They don't care. And you saying something does literally nothing because they're not going to stop.

Now they're at the point where they've redefined white supremacy. White supremacy is totally redefined in media. And now because they've redefined it, they can now claim the Proud Boys are white supremacists, even though their chair is literally not white. From what I understand about the Proud Boys, there's a lot of things not to like about the group, but racism and white supremacy is not one of them. But the real concern, too, is that when they're designating things terrorist groups, that's a precursor to infringing civil liberties. That's a justification for surveillance, for limiting speech. And that is something you've got to watch against because that's how authoritarianism creeps in. They've actually started to do something similar in the U.S. here after the Capitol attack.

Tulsi Gabbard has come out and warned against this. Don't let them use the Capitol attack as an excuse to expand the national security state and crack down on civil liberties. To be fair, I think Rashida Tlaib did as well. She did. I'm a huge critic of her, but I was like, okay, Rashida, go off, queen. Yes. Right on. I agree 100%. I won't say that very often, but... They need to magnify the threat to, of course, get what they want. And that's more power, more authority for them. And if the Proud boys did commit to terrorism if there was a terrorist attack done by the proud boys yeah label them a terrorist organization but can you even tell me an act or a single day where the proud boys did anything in

canada that justifies well not so much canada but there was that one time where that guy was walking out the street and he got shot oh wait, wait. That was Antifa who shot and killed the Trump supporter. Sorry. Yes. There was the time the Proud Boy got whacked with a retractable baton. It was those Proud Boys all in black with their faces. No, that was Antifa.

Oh, that was Antifa. But to be realistic, there was in New York when Antifa showed up to the Gavin McGinnis speech and then the Proud Boys ran at Antifa, beat the crap out of them and then started laughing about it and streaming it. And they went to prison for it. So even when they actually do, you know, the Proud Boys argue they didn't start the fight because Antifa was surrounding and harassing. And Antifa did rob a guy who was leaving the event. Still, if you're not like, don't swing, you know, defend.

And if they start a fight, well, then I understand defending yourself and ending that fight. But you don't don't swing you know defend and if they if they start a fight well then i understand defending yourself and ending that fight but you don't want to be the person starting the fight now these guys went to jail it's also because they cooperated with cops the cops were like what happened here's exactly what happened they said okay gang violence going to prison antifa refused to cooperate they're gone they're safe now i'll tell you how things get creepy we're talking about canada right oh this is going to have a direct and immediate impact on all of the proudoud Boys in the United States. You know why?

You guys know about the Five Eyes Spy Club, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Luke, I know you do. Ian? Yeah, I know. I've heard of it. I don't know.

No. So we got, what do we got? Canada? Australia. Australia. New Zealand. New Zealand. The U.S.

And what is it? South Africa? Or the U.K. The U.K. The United Kingdom, yes. The Five Eyes Spy Club. It's very clever. It's really simple.

You see, spying on American citizens, actually against the Constitution is illegal, right? In theory. In theory. No, no. But in a lot of ways, there's still some barriers. What happens if Canada spies on an American citizen? And then the U.S. says, hey, Canada, you know anything about Enrique Tarrio? You called him a terrorist.

Are you spying on him? We are. Can we look at that? Yes, you can. I see how this works. Yikes. Yep. And it's been that way for a long time it was actually it was edward snowden i think who revealed a lot of this stuff this this manipulative this circuitous game they play where well you can't spy on people in the u.s but australia can there's probably still some

restrictions on whether or not the u.s is allowed to look at certain things and can be sued over but look at what happened with michael flynn and unmasking well in theory was the right and look at there's probably so much more that we don't know about because people like snowden don't get the pardon right and so there's so many whistleblowers that probably haven't come forward uh because of that so the surveillance state and the spying is always crazy but it always is crazy because it's only like the tip of the iceberg you know there's so much more there that we don't know about. And I wonder sometimes just how bad and how pervasive it actually is. Hold on.

Hold on. Hold on. Smoke bombs. Smoke bombs. Yes. So we went to an Airsoft store. And we got some Airsoft stuff. And some of it is just like the colored smoke.

So for like signaling. And I don't think it's really good for a smoke screen, is it? No. No. It's just for like signaling your side or whatever. For like 10 seconds. we didn't post anything our ads were like dog food and stuff because you know luke's got a dog and then we were downstairs and the box on the shelf no one mentioned it no one talked about it nothing was going on we didn't

go to any stores it's been weeks yeah and then luke was like should we try one out sure picks it up throws it and we sit there and we're like meh whatever we go inside was it 20 minutes later yep i check my phone and it's an advertisement for smoke bombs yeah we didn't but this is like this is like the fifth time something like this has happened uh so it's uh utterly you know if facebook has that type of technology imagine what the cia has or other intelligence agencies you know the cia like the former head of John Brennan, that compared libertarians as a part... Oh, that pissed me off. ...and nativists as a threat to national security, as a threat to national democracy.

You know, there was this Twitter user, Spike Cohan, and he said, this stuck with me very much, he said, quote, a silver lining to the Biden administration labeling libertarians terrorist is that soon the cia will probably start giving us money and weapons now and i'm like you know this is my spike bohan spike cohen not my idea but i'm like that that's probably that makes a lot of sense that's history repeats that's exactly what's going to happen here but we're seeing this kind of you know this term white supremacy being vagued all the way to nativists libertarians well it's everything i

don't like is racism and then i don't have to engage in actual political argumentation exactly but the losers there are the actual victims of racism because when everything is racism nothing is yeah so it what it actually just undermines and dilutes the word because real racism that we literally would all agree is horrible and it it obviously does still exist. But when they've just started becoming calling everything they don't like racism, you know why they're doing it to win the argument because they're racist. Well, no, but but seriously, so you look at the efforts in California to repeal their Civil Rights Act and their Constitution. Yes, they are racist. They want special laws for people based on race. We who don't like racism oppose that.

Well, this is like Joe Biden. He said that he will be conditioning his COVID stimulus aid to specifically favor African-American and different minority groups. That's illegal. That is. It's definitely illegal. But also it's like the opposite of American values. Right. We want or at least we used to want equality under the law.

And now they're like, actually, we want inequality under the law, but woke. This spying thing reminds me of Captain America, Winter Soldier, where the bad guys, Hydra, develop an algorithm where they can target people who are basically deviant. And then their plan is to just kill them all with these airships. That's what the movie's about. So I have to wonder to wonder facebook it has been reported knows when you will poop what yeah yeah no yes yes 100 how so first considering the power of their ai i think the average person could just be like yeah i'd imagine their their their algorithms and artificial intelligence are strong enough to determine and make these predictions but

it's actually really simple you You have a pattern of behavior. They know where you work, right? You're in your house. Your phone location service is on. Every morning around 8 a.m., you leave and go to Starbucks where you work. They know. Then you leave Starbucks around noon and go to McDonald's. They know when you ate.

They have general understanding of the average person's, you know, you know, waste cycle after eating. But they also know when you know waste cycle after eating but they also know when you enter a room and stop moving so they can actually now predict when you will be going to the bathroom they know actually where you will eat before you do so there's there's simple things that that you know these algorithms can find if somebody let's let's say on your location services you went to uhadworks or whatever. I'm sure that's the place probably, right?

And they're like, okay, someone who ate leafy greens is more likely to do this tomorrow. Yeah. People don't realize these simple things that are seemingly meaningless have a huge impact. Let's say they see that you've gone to an ice cream shop or whatever. They're going to be like, okay, tomorrow he's not going to be feeling well because he's eating a bunch of sweets and candy. They can predict your behavior behavior think about how simple it is look if someone told me i went and got a whole bunch of taco bell last night i'll be like oh you're gonna be taking a dump for a long time no offense taco bell your food's good but that's when

the premium advertisements come in after the taco bell now people are gonna get taco bell ads yes no no but like if someone told you they went ate a bunch of garbage fast food you would immediately assume like your stomach's gonna to be screaming at you. Think about what an AI can discern based on all of these other things. I'd imagine the CIA knows what you will do before you do it. It's like pre-crime. Especially with all the selfies everyone keeps taking and photos of themselves. I mean some people take like hundreds of photos of themselves.

And I'm like, what do you think you're doing with that? You think there's – I mean – Oh, it's all being fed into these machines like this was another big story that these selfies are automatically being scraped by mit and other institutions to create artificial intelligence how do you you know you know they do the face morphing app it's because they have everyone's faces and they've like created an algorithm that tracks so why is it that no one cares when i talk to other people my age right like other people in their 20s, and you tell them, you know, that Alexa, the FBI can hear you right now. They're like, lol, okay, they've grown up like that. And I guess people really

don't care. How do we make them care? I don't know. I don't think they ever will. It depends on how much the government uses that power to overreach but ultimately look if look if you're a criminal and you're at home and you say something about what you did and it's used as evidence then you're a dumb criminal like you have right there was there was actually a story where there was a murder i guess and someone had one of those fancy little amazon devices and it recorded like everything that happened and then they were like how and oh you know it just uh i don't know it must have been an accident no it's recording everything you say in order to actually know you're talking to it it has to have its microphone turned on all the time now they say they're not really tracking or anything and maybe that's true but i just kind of don't think it is

i think you'd have to be naive to think so well this is the crazy thing this has been happening for a very long time even even before Edward Snowden. I remember walking up to the head of the NSA and the CIA, General Hayden, and I asked him, hey, your NSA agents were caught spanking it to people's private photos through their text messages before Snowden. He was like, no, it doesn't. No, that never happened. I'm like, yes, it did.

There was even mainstream news articles about this, and he lied right through his teeth. John Brennan, also another individual, former head of the CIA, lying through his teeth. And now he's bragging about Biden's intelligence agencies being laser focused on libertarians. And it's absolutely insane. Let me tell you something crazy. Have you ever seen the photos of Mark Zuckerberg at work? Yep. And then you see his computer? Yep. He's got got tape he's got tape over his camera not just that

but also the the microphone right also but wait there's more so there's a phone uh it's called the one plus seven or something like that and it has a manual mechanical camera so the front facing camera has to actually go like come out the out the top. Most phones, the front-facing camera is just right there, always staring you in the face. You'll notice people like Zuckerberg will put tape over it. So my friend who has the OnePlus with the mechanical camera noticed that randomly on different websites, the camera will just open. Like, uh, what? But think about it. Think about it.

That would freak you out, right? Right. Why doesn't it freak you out that you've got a camera on the front of your phone all the time and you never know when it's filming you? It's like if a kid is born into, okay, if there's like a flood, we would all be like, oh, there's a flood. We got to do something about it. But then if kids are born during the time while the flood's already happening, it's just normal. Yeah. The New York Post also had an article not so long ago, and their title was Covering Up the Camera Could Damage

Your Laptop, Apple. Wow. And then below it, all the comments are like, nice try, Fed. But we got to understand the larger implications here, because we have a President, Joe Biden, who bragged, he openly bragged in 2001 about how he wrote the Patriot Act in 1994, and how was right-wingers and libertarians who fought against it. I started, my video off started with him saying, look what I did. I did this. I created the Patriot Act. Now we're passing it through after 9-11.

Now they're talking about working a new Patriot Act 2.0 that many prominent Democrats are bringing forward that will give them even more surveillance power than they already have. Already NSA agents were caught spanking it to your private text messages and your private photos. Now they want even more. I mean, what's next? Literally taking your girlfriend and, you know, doing...

Oh, God. Yeah. I mean, what's next? What is next? Seriously. The thing is, though, when they get these powers, they say it's for one thing and they do it for another thing. So with the Patriot Act, they said it was for terrorism.

You look back at the data. I don't know exactly. It's like 97 percent drug cases. So they get these powers in the name of terrorism or whatever they label it. And that probably, at least in 9-11, sure was a real thing. But then they know that they're going to use these powers for all sorts of things to just screw over the little guy. As they literally finance the terrorists. Literally. guy as they literally finance the terrorist right literally so so it's like how can i trust the guys

that are that are shipping in toyota trucks all the latest ammunitions all the latest night vision gear all the latest armor re-equipment possibly to isis al-qaeda and al-nusra telling me that they're fighting terrorism and i need to give up my freedoms because of al-qaeda fighting but you have to admit it was really funny to see see ISIS driving around in that truck with the Detroit plumbers, like, phone number on it. You ever see that? No. Yes. So there's, like, a video of, like, ISIS guys in a truck, and the truck says, like, you

know, Jim Bob's Plumbing Detroit with a phone number. And people are like, what? How did that happen? Yeah. And they're like, oh, it's because, you know, the U.S. is sending it over there. We were also talking about getting a.50 cal, and I was actually looking at the history of the Beretta.50 Cal, and it became prominent because the CIA bought it and were literally giving it to Al-Qaeda to fight the Russians.

Oh, God. Yes. No, no, no, no, no. The.50 Cal. The.50 Cal. Isn't a Desert Eagle.50 caliber? No, no, no. We're talking about the—

Like anti-material, anti-tank guns. Yes, yes, yes. That one specifically that we're thinking about purchasing. I'm reading a little bit about spy satellites. There's been some great leap forward in the... Great leap forward? That was a communist Mao thing. Yes, that was in China.

So there's been some great leaps forward in spy satellite tech. They have this thing called the Capella 2, which can use radio beams to pulse through your building and measure energy inside the building. They say that you can't actually record people inside their building yet but uh they may have been measuring your smoke bombs outside and been like oh so they heard you on the amazon machine your phone was triangulating that you were at the airsoft store and then radio telescopes are seeing the smoke clouds i don't think they'll do all that

to sell an ad i don't think they would either but I don't think they wouldn't. They have lasers that they can point at a window and then words you say vibrate on the glass and they can listen. Yeah, I've heard that they can listen through your house from space.

Well, I don't know about from space. Maybe. I wouldn't be surprised. Like, you have to imagine the stuff we know about is nothing compared to what they actually have. Right, this is the stuff

they finally revealed in December of 2020. But also think about, like, we're talking about what Facebook can do. Wow is the stuff they finally revealed in December of 2020. But also think about, like we're talking about what Facebook can do. Wow, I wonder what the feds and the CIA can do. It's like, dude,

they don't have to do much. You're walking around with a microphone and a camera and a tracking device all day. They know where you are. They coordinate with Facebook, with Amazon, and with like, you know,

Boston Dynamics and other Capella, these companies, you know, companies to get all the techs to work together. I'll tell you, no one's going to care until people – like as long as people are fat, they're happy. You know what I mean? You give people food and you're not going to get a revolution.

I just don't see it. You know what I mean? Like you might get, for whatever reason, these people storming the Capitol thinking there's a revolution going on but like i think what what we've seen in many instances for the most part people have to be in in real dire straits where they feel desperate and nothing can solve this problem but as long as people are being fed they'll sit around and just eat you know what i mean yeah they're not really scared well they feel like they have nothing else to hide but they better hope they never piss off anybody powerful i mean that's that's how this goes it's it's never the well-off well off and well connected who have to worry about the

government infringing on their rights or screwing them over. No, it's going to be the little guy and it might be too late at that point. I mean, actually I disagree a little bit. It's, it's, if you're in the club,

you're in the club, but there are probably some people who up will gain upward mobility and that's when you're in trouble. Do they need to remove you? If you get it, if you go up the wrong way. Yeah. Like if you're, if you're a joe the plumber why would they care they're gonna be like i don't know if they need a patsy i guess but then it's like a lottery tickets chance they frame you or whatever i just don't see that what i what i do see is they're gonna be they're gonna be keeping a hard eye on anybody who might gain too much power

and threaten their club and their you know the, the upper elite and all that stuff. I mean, that's what Bill Benny. Well, look at Trump. Yeah. Well, Bill Benny said this a long time ago. He was at the intelligence agencies saying, why are we collecting data on everyone, everything? Why are we catching this vast net and losing ourselves in it when we could do strategic spying on actual jihadis on actual threats that pose a danger to the american people but we're not doing that we're not effective at stopping any terrorism

at all because we're collecting as much as we can what are we going to be doing with all of that data i'll tell you exactly what happened so there's bill benny he's a nsa it was nsa whistleblower right uh yes and he's and he's he's he's talking to some guys like isn't it weird you know that we're we're not actually stopping any terror and the guy laughs and goes bill it's because we do it and then bill goes wait what and the fbi guy goes wait what and then they throw him out of the building like oh he wasn't supposed to know that was he well he retired and then of course he faced you know the prosecution uh for whistleblowing and revealing that the government was spying on every little thing

you were doing. This was way before Snowden, these revelations. He was like, I was telling you they could do this, but he didn't have the hard documents. He's been saying they spy on every phone call. They know exactly what you're doing all the time. He went through the official chain of command and whistleblowed officially, and they still went after him, and they still heard him. And it took Edward Snowden literally taking the documents releasing them to glenn greenwald and getting

them out there to the world and there's still a lot of questions about right where's the rest of the documents as well so think think about this if this is what the u.s government is doing what is china doing yeah what are they doing with tiktok yeah what are they doing with all the data they have on americans they're watching you poop right they're they're probably doing more than that they're probably watching you to create blackmail files on everybody that's going to end up working for the government. And right. So they can shake you down. And right now there's like an NSA guy, an FBI and a CIA guy.

And they're all watching this podcast with like popcorn. Like, yeah, it's totally right about China. That's a good point. But they're not watching the show on YouTube. They're watching through our phone cameras. Luke made a really good point. Are you watching Tim Kastari? Well, yeah but i i'm assigned to ian so it's funny there's a meme about my fbi agent have you ever seen that oh yeah yeah it's like people like it's

a joke it's like haha and we know what's happening and we don't care eventually you know you know i think the main issue is whether or not they abuse the power, like, you know, cranking it to someone's girlfriend or something and getting caught doing it. Which they did. Right, right, right. It's are they actually going to infringe on your life? I feel I care about it, but I feel overwhelmed as if we're in an avalanche that's going down the mountain and we're in the snow like, ah, like I care that there's an avalanche, but

I'm not concerned with stopping the avalanche right now. But Ian, Ian. I'm concerned with surviving. It's all about positive mental attitude. Okay. So we're in the avalanche, right? I'll just wheel the avalanche to stop. No, no, no, no, no, no.

All these people are screaming. I'm just sitting back as the avalanche goes down and I'm chilling. It's kind of fun. You know what I mean? Like when you're skydiving and like you realize your parachute's down, you're like, well, at least I get to enjoy myself. Whee! So we know the avalanche is going to go off the cliff and we're all doomed. Ride the avalanche.

That could be another shirt. Just surf it. You know what I mean? You can't stop where the avalanche is going, but you can throw down your board and just cruise while you can. And there's this thought that maybe we can stop the avalanche or redirect the avalanche? No, because if anyone becomes a threat to derailing the narrative, derailing the agenda that's set for you, the NSA, the FBI, with their predictive programming algorithms,

with their pre-crime technology, could figure that out. They could say, oh, he's growing in popularity, he's getting a lot of followers, he's reaching a big mass of people, we need to intervene because he's heading towards a trajectory

towards actually making some substantial changes in our government yes stop over immediately you're overthinking it they don't need to do that because they have their shills and their useful idiots already which brings me to the next story yahoo news 100 plus politico staffers send letter to ce railing against publishing Ben Shapiro. And this is an exact. So what we're just talking about is that if you if you're starting to become too influential, too powerful, they'll come after you try to take you down. If what you're saying goes against the established narrative, they will try and stop you. Ben Shapiro is fairly mainstream conservative.

So he's not threatening. But there are many people and they've been banned. Parler, for instance. Parler is a threat to the narrative. Banned. Now, Ben Shapiro is still not perfectly aligned. So he's just outside where they want the narrative to be. Here's what happens. Yahoo says more than 100 Politico staffers signed onto a letter to publisher Robert L. Britton expressing disgust with allowing right wing firebrand Ben Shapiro to guest author one day's edition of the playbook and with the outlet's subsequent

handling of the fallout. Earlier this month, the Beltway News outlet handed over the keys to its signature news product to Shapiro, a talk radio host and pundit who has long been one of the most controversial voices in right wing media. That's actually 100% not true. In right-wing media, Ben Shapiro is not controversial at all. He's actually fairly mainstream. Yeah, well, I was going to say, with all due respect, tepid. Like, you're not turning on Ben Shapiro and hearing some ranting lunatic calling for insurrection. You're hearing a guy giving his opinion, and it's like, yeah, he's a lawyer. And it's very much like, oh, that was a good point, Ben.

It's very normal. But the worst thing about this is that it's journalists doing it to me i can say this as a journalist they're not journalists okay they're people who call themselves journalists and if you're a journalist and you don't believe in open debate and free speech and you think other people's ideas make you unsafe right you are not a journalist learn to code do something else because you do not belong in this look i'm gonna get banned for that but But it's seriously, it's sick. I mean, these people have come to see ostensibly neutral outlets. Like Politico is not supposed to be a left wing thing. It's not supposed to be Jacobin, right? As their zones where even just a momentary one day intervention of a conservative voice violates their safe space,

makes them feel betrayed by the institution they work for. That is diagnostic of a sick mentality. Well, here's what they say. According to multiple Politico insiders familiar with the situation, the letter to Albritton criticized the decision to publish Shapiro, claiming it had demoralized a substantial portion of the newsroom, but also railed against the response to criticism offered by editor-in-chief Matt Kaminsky. It's an internal matter and will be handled as such, a political spokesperson told the Daily Beast. During a combative meeting on January 14th, the day of Shapiro's publication, the top editor defended the editorial decision to irate staffers by claiming, Mischief-making has always been a part of Politico's secret sauce. We were an upstart. Some of that sensibility is always going to be a part of this publication.

The staff letter sent last week to Albright maintained that Kaminsky had not appropriately apologized for his responses. Additionally, referencing an email he sent to staff on January 15th, which was obtained and reviewed by the Daily Beast. The top editor expressed regret for his initial response about making mischief, but reiterated that publishing Shapiro was part of his hopes to experiment and mix things up. And that's why they don't like it. Because I'm sure there were a lot of new conservatives who came to Politico and liked what they were seeing. And there are probably some moderates who heard an opinion they hadn't heard before. But let me tell you why this is all BS. It's very, very simple. Remember when there was a collective scream that we all could physically hear when Tom Cotton wrote an op-ed saying, send in the troops? It was like one day

I just heard, I was like, what's happening? I can hear it everywhere. All of these leftists screaming in news media, by the way, about how awful it was that they dared publish this in the New York Times. Send in the troops, Tom Cotton said, to end the riots in Portland. And then they sent in 25,000 troops to Washington, D.C. to prevent an insurrection. Oh, but that's different. That's OK. Now they're all happy.

Now they're all like, well, it's good that we have our security here. They're keeping us safe. Apparently, Nancy Pelosi requested crewmanned machine guns in a civilian. Yes, this is. Was it Ken Cuccinelli? I think it's. Yeah, it's it's it's it's a remarkable in a civilian town in a city. I know this federal jurisdiction reported.

I should say Ken Cuccinelli said she requested this of them. Could you imagine what would happen if a bunch of unarmed Trump supporters? Well, some of them were armed, but a large group of angry Trump supporters like waving Trump flags and like shaking a fence. And then Nancy Pelosi was like, use the crewman machine guns and they started there's civilian buildings nearby you can't do that in a city are you nuts so apparently they were like no no we don't do that here like that's not how things go where's the outcry from the left now so they're complaining about ben shapiro no it's not fair you're publishing him but we know their their complaints are bs it's

there's no conservative they would accept. I mean, unless a conservative that's just going to confirm all their beliefs and go totally never Trump and become Jennifer Rubin, you know, Max Boot. But here's the thing that bothers me, too. It's not even that they were objecting to the content of what he wrote. They were objecting to just him as a person being allowed to speak in that platform because of like tweets from 2007 or something that upset them it would be actually at least something we could fight against and debate if they were saying that column was bad and shouldn't have been published no one cares about none of these people freaking out about it could tell you what he wrote most of them didn't even read it i

would bet i don't even know $1,000 it was about impeachment it was about saying well here's why senate republicans aren't going to support impeachment. I talked to them. They tell me this. It was not even very opinionated. He said Democrats overplayed their hand. Did he mention that his wife was a doctor? No. He might have.

My wife's a doctor. Right. The funny thing is he does have a style that can be, like you said, kind of combative. But he's very mainstream. He's not the razor fire brand that you'd think these people couldn't handle. If they can't handle him, there's no one they can handle. But the problem is that they frame their opposition to him as a matter of safety. And that will never stop bothering me.

Ben Shapiro's ideas make other people unsafe. Well, then there's something wrong with you. You're not an adult. You need to return to fifth grade and develop the emotional stability of a grown human being. You know, man, I read the story a long time ago about this family that was on a beach. And then it was like, it was a dad, his wife, and they're like two kids. And then all of a sudden, they saw a large black wolf walking down the beach, and they panicked.

And they swam out to this rock that was like, you know, 20, 30 feet out. And they huddled together on it, shaking, dripping wet for warmth as the wolf paced back and forth. And it was like this harrowing experience the men had recounted. And I was thinking about that, and I'm like, I wonder what would have happened 200 years ago. Would he have pulled out his, like, flintlock pistol and his sword and said, protect the kids, bang, and then, like, drew his sword to protect them from the wild beast? Or would they have hidden and shivered? And imagine back in the day when we were faced with these very serious challenges and men

literally walked around armed all the time. Something like that probably wouldn't have happened if it was a couple hundred years ago. Well, let's say even 100 years ago, they probably would have had a gun on his belt, you know, when he was and he probably would have just shot the thing or something like that. Now, today's day and age, you still have circumstances where a dude who lives out in the middle of nowhere with his family is going to be armed. But the point I'm bringing up is like i read that story and i thought to

myself like would that would like are we gradually just getting weaker and more scared of everything i think the answer is yes and this story is a perfect example ben shapiro's opinions now make you unsafe you have these colleges where they say things like that you know their speech is violence like they literally now think the word. But think about it. You have these kids who grow up where they get participation trophies, where no one's allowed to pick on them or insult them in any way. And then they actually they probably feel real physical pain they can't deal with when

someone calls them like a stupid doo doo head. They're like, it hurts. I've never experienced this pain before. It feeds into itself, right? Because if you start not being exposed to different ideas or different opinions, you don't ever develop the thick skin. And then it just becomes more and more out of control to the point where they – because the thing is when they can frame other people's speech as violence or endangering their safety, that is the necessary precursor they have to get to logically argue they should be allowed to shut down that speech preemptively. Because if it's just really offensive, most people won't agree they should be able to shut it down well to bypass the first amendment right exactly even do that here they said that

this demoralized the newsroom and most of their complaint was this the with this guy who said that part of what politico did was cause mischief so they're not even saying that it was making them feel like they're in danger how pathetic was was it? How pathetic was it to even claim having Ben Shapiro write an op-ed was mischief? It's not. It's really not. He's a mainstream, high-profile, prominent conservative, one of the biggest podcasts in the world. It was boilerplate, too, the actual article. The article was not controversial. He's written some controversial things, right? It wasn't like he was writing about trans issues. It wasn't like he was writing about abortion. He was explaining Senate Republicans' writing about abortion he was explaining senate republicans rationale on impeachment it's like you said they're objecting to him yes he could have walked in and said hey i'm ben shapiro and they would

have been like they let him in the building and they would all scream and like one guy jumps out the window and then he's like okay but i will say it only helps him right it's like it is an example of like they only confirm everything he says about the liberal media when they do stuff like this and they don't seem to realize that they're just making they're proving his point and they're only propping him up that's another thing we have to understand here like this is this is backfiring and lucky luckily it is because sometimes it doesn't and they get their way but we can't give uh give our way to these people that are i think clinically insane i mean if you're at a point in life where hearing words makes you feel pain, what's wrong with you? And again, I keep reminding people, one of the most important powers you have as a human being is the power of your reaction.

I got to add to this, you know, just to say I'm not a longtime gun person. You know, I was told this story in January of last year. I was like, I don't want any guns in in my house now we got a bunch luke's talking about buying a 50 count i was like yeah okay so we like guns and uh i remember seeing that story from the journalist who claimed he got ptsd from firing an ar-15 do you ever sorry yeah what are you right with i think it was abc i'm not sure he fired an ar and i bet what what was probably like five five six yeah and he claimed that he got ptsd from shooting it he could feel the shock wave and it hurt his arm and all that and i'm like here's what's funny because it's something i didn't understand until i actually experienced it game load for a shotgun when you're hunting turkeys has more recoil is a bigger

explosion than an ar-15 so when like when we went to the range and we had birdshot, I'm like, man, you can feel that birdshot. And then when you're firing the AR, it's like actually not that much at all relative. So if this guy is getting PTSD from an AR-15, complaining it's like it's a weapon of war and he was traumatized from it, I'm like, well, heaven forbid, you have to hunt a turkey.

I'm like, wow. It was the daily news the title was what is it like to fire an ar-15 it's horrifying menacing and very very loud in 2016 by gersh kunzman uh 2016 and the first uh headline here it says it felt to me like a bazooka and sounded like a cannon. He said the explosions loud like a bomb gave me a temporary form of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just

a few times, I was anxious and irritable. That's kind of offensive to PTSD victims. Yes! Very much so. My favorite image that people have posted on this as a meme is a little girl with a pink shotgun shooting. She's great. I think she has her own like instagram page where she does when she does competitive shooting oh wait wait wait look there's an update on the story says many people have objected to my use of the term ptsd

in the above story the use of this term was in no way meant to conflate my very temporary anxiety with the very real condition experienced by many of our brave men and women in uniform i regret the inarticulate use of the term to describe my in the moment impression of the gun's firepower Oh, did he? That's exactly what it meant. He says, that's not what I meant. That's exactly what it meant. He says he was terrified. Bro.

Okay, he says the gun debate is over when's this article from it's from june 15 2016 in all my years in journalism coming up on 30 i have never received so much angry mail as i did after yesterday's story what it's like to fire an ar-15 bro it's because you take a turkey hunting listen if you were hunting pheasants or squirrels there would be a bigger recoil than your AR-15. That's the craziest thing. I've asked all these dudes who are like, we're at the range, and I'm like, what do you think? And they're like, that guy's nuts.

Like, what's the weakest possible interpretation of using a gun? Hunting squirrel. And he's going to have like game load our birdshot, and he's going to be facing more pain from that. He's untrained, too. So it's like what it's like to to hit a baseball that's being thrown 100 miles an hour from someone that's untrained it's going to be terrifying they might get hit by the ball it might break their in can we take you shooting yeah sure let's go let's go this weekend and i think he's been shooting he fired he fired the 410 out of the

governor ah oh yeah you you fired the shotgun shells right yeah so the it's it's not like a big shotgun shell but 410 bore out of the the revolver it's it's it's you know it's it's pretty big i'd say it's way uh way i thought it was going to be way more kickback than what it was if you're prepared for it and you have a grip and you're focused it's not it's very good doesn't this tell you how out of touch journalists are with the people they cover it would be so interesting to go into one of these newsrooms and actually if you could get them to be honest, right? The Daily News, the New York Times, how many people own a gun and actually know the true answer to that? How many voted for a Republican? Maybe there's like a janitor there.

You know what I mean? To see how many people have you – how many of you go to church? How many of you are pro-life? Any of these issues where it's like the public is split, but the institutions that cover them are so dominated by one side. How can anyone think? Even if they were well-intentioned, which I don't really believe anymore. Even if they were well-intentioned, I don't see how they could cover a population like that. The funny thing is they say this and they acknowledge this in terms of diversity on the skin surface level. They're saying a newsroom with no black people can't cover America fairly, which maybe that's not true.

But they at least acknowledge it in that capacity. They don't acknowledge the same thing for actual ideas and actual perspectives and experiences. You reminded me of that Huffington Post picture where they took a photo of their editorial board. And one day it was all women. It was just a whole bunch of white women. And everyone's like, look at how diverse we are. And I'm like, wait, what are you talking about? Well, no, no.

They said it was something like, what do you notice about our boardroom? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was like a bunch of women. It was all women. And then someone was like, it's all white people. They're like, Huffington Post doesn't hire black people. And then they had to like apologize or something.

Oh, wait, actually, that reminds me of something. Huffington Post opinion, I think it was, actually publicly, they released, so I used to pitch op-eds in a job that I was in, and the editor there released like data about the percentage of minority authors we published, the percentage of trans authors that we published, and they promised to do better next year. They're like, we will actively ensure that we publish more black people, more trans people. And it's like, so you're just openly admitting that you're not going to publish the best articles. You're going to ask people, so are you trans, by the way? I need to know so I can know whether to run this or not.

This is a really great op-ed, but who do you like banging? Right. Can you publish my opinion? I don't know. Do you like dick or do you like – Like the equality of outcome versus the equality of opportunity? So like if they publish more people that created a love of all humans to work

together, as opposed to published more black people and more women that maybe would even cause divert, like diversion, you know, cause what would you call it? Like, Hey,

I don't even think of the word cause I don't like it in my lexicon. Yeah, division. So you could have a bunch of white guys that create a space where everyone comes together. Or you could have a black guy and a white woman and an African or whatever, all creating a situation where people hate each other. It doesn't matter who they are.

They're never going to publish Enrique Tarrio. When they say they want more black writers, they're not talking about Enrique or Candace Owens or the Hodge twins. They're talking about social justice activists who agree with them. When they're talking about diversity, they're not talking about bringing on people with different ideas. They're talking about people who look different but have the exact same ideas. Well, and if they don't have the same ideas, then you ain't black. Right. That's Joe Biden for you.

Right. So it's not it's not only just or it's like Peter Thiel, right? Well, and if they don't have the same ideas, then you ain't black. Right. Yes. That's Joe Biden for you. Right. So it's not only just – or it's like Peter Thiel, right? The LGBT media wrote about him that he's not actually a gay man. He just has sex with other men because he endorsed Trump. Dude, that's literally an article that was published in The Advocate, which is supposed to be a gay rights magazine. It's the – the look saying double standard hypocrisy has become redundant at this point it's something special and new it's just like what's the what's what's a you you have logic and you have like math and you have formula

what's the opposite like abstract absurdity absurdism you know it's it's articles that are meant to make no sense on purpose you know it's like it's like the art you know when you look at art it's like you have like a beautiful like we have we have a picture over there and it's like a beautiful like aurora borealis and there's a lake and that's like a real thing you know realism and then what's what's what's the art called where the abstract yeah abstract art that's what it is it's abstract it's abstract politics right it's meaningless and it's meant to be like that's not possible a possible thing your ideas are nonsensical they're like perfect they're perfect little

establishment slave ninnies that are used to push the agenda and the narrative of controlling people and getting rid of people's freedoms and they use it over issues and they use it over these talking points and these buzzwords that absolutely have no meaning just like in 1984 orwellian doublespeak is becoming more and more of a reality. Yes, yes, but look what people do with freedom. In New York, they bought too large of sodas. So Michael Bloomberg had to put a punitive tax on it so that people would stop buying too large of sodas.

Michael Bloomberg used his freedom to put a ban on other people's sodas. Yes. See, you're trying to curtail Michael Bloomberg's freedom? That SOB had me arrested. I have a long history with him, by the way. Didn't you yell at him? He's a dirty, dirty politician. He promised

to help out the first responders, and the 9-11 first responders, police officers, firefighters, medics, military men who were sick and dying after 9-11 told me, hey, he's promising to give us this funding and support this bill if you personally, Luke, stop harassing him.

What? And confronting him. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you want to get into this story, but every time he did a radio show, every time he did a ribbon cutting, every time he did a gala, every time he did a public event, I was on him like white on rice, confronting him and asking him like, you're cutting support. He said that first responders were sick because of ptsd and not the actual uh you know um what was it uh that that dust that creates asbestos

asbestos yeah yeah yeah he said is oh it's not the asbestos in the air that's that's hurting all these first responders and rescue workers it's ptsd there was it's it's psychosomatic you can't breathe no i worked dude i worked there no trust. There was a police officer who died that he called the not a hero, James Cedroga. And I was calling him. I was like, what are you doing cutting funding from these incredibly important individuals that came to New York City on 9-11 at ground zero to rescue people? And now they're being even denied basic health benefits that they had in their contract. So I was on Bloomberg because I knew many of these guys. A lot of them were my friends. A lot of them were...

Bloomberg never funded it. A first responder organization came to me, the John Feelgood Foundation, and they said, look, Luke, we just got a call from the mayor's office. He's telling us that Bloomberg's running for a re-election. He wants you to stop questioning him at every press conference. He wants you to stop calling into all of his radio shows. If you leave him alone for his reelection, he will give us this bill. Right. I did.

And I went to other gala events and I covered other, you know, book signings, other ribbon cuttings where he was at. I just kind of gave him a side eye, but I didn't do anything. And I kept my word to the first responders, even though I told them that Bloomberg was going to lie. Bloomberg gets reelected for a third term. One of the first thing he does is he cuts medical benefits for thousands of not alone. First responders.

They call me back this particular organization. They're like, Luke, he lied. He screwed us over. I'm like, I told you. So I went to confront him.

And literally they had NYPD intelligence, a specific branch waiting for me as I'm going up the escalator to one of the gala events. And they're like, Radowski, you're coming with us. I'm like, what? No, I'm not. I'm going outside. They grabbed me, held me down. I'm like, I want to go.

I want to leave. They're like, no, you're not leaving. They came back with 15 police officers. And they said, Luke, we told you to leave. Why didn't you leave? I'm like, yeah, I got it here on camera that you told me I can't leave. Took away the camera, threw me in jail. The police officers were fans, so they were literally taking me out

and giving me smokes and out of the jail cell. NYPD intelligence came down and made sure to send me down to Central Bookings for three days during the weekend, even though it was a criminal trespassing charge that went on for two years, found non-innocent. But that was one of the reasons that the Canadian government used to ban me from Canada for 10 years, because they said I had a criminal arrest record, according to the FBI. What you're saying is that you confessed to committing a crime? No, I didn't commit anything.

But I was never found guilty. They dropped the charges. Interesting. But Bloomberg is one of the dirtiest, nastiest politicians out there. And isn't it crazy that Democrats are fine with it because he gives them money? Exactly. Like when he ran for president, people finally talked about it a little, but mostly conservatives. This dude has the longest history of racism and sexism and Me Too and misogyny.

I mean, he literally did the stop and frisk where it's like, all you look black get up against the wall let the police violate your civil liberty there's a recording of him arguing with people about why how it's right to racially profile right and this guy was running on the democratic ticket and he had support yes because he had the checks that's really it's it's a surface level commitment to all of this diversity stuff because ultimately they knew that they needed him to beat trump so they decided whatever all our standards are flexible it's amazing that he he like look there are arguments for stop and frisk i don't agree i think it's a fourth amendment violation but there are arguments about you go where the crime is i've heard that before

it's like well there's crime happening there then we go there try and stop it he didn't even do that like there's an actual argument for people say like well where are they supposed to go to the wealthy areas no bloomberg literally said but that's what the criminals look like like oh dude what i mean i was in new york city during stop and frisk and there was a number of occasions where even i was grabbed up thrown against the wall by some disrespectful nypd officers that were rude that were antagonizing i got beat up by them, you know, previously before on a separate incident when I was younger. And they just, they just, again, just came up on you and they started grabbing you all in your personal, you know, parts. And I can't even describe what

they, they did, you know, a number of instances, but this is the, this is what they were trying to normalize. Government agents walking up to you on the street as you're doing your business, throwing you against your wall, insulting you, and putting their hands down your pants. That's crazy, because if that had gotten federal traction, I mean, that's like massively totalitarian. Yeah, but that's what these elitists, that's what a lot of these billionaires, that's what a lot of these people call for. That's what they want, because it gives them ultimate power. It gives them something that, of course, they can't get enough of, just like money. People reach a certain level where they have so much money, they only could

focus on having more money, no matter how much they have. So the same goes for power. It's an addictive substance, just like attention is. And it's something that needs to be addressed against these megalomaniac psychopaths, which are in Washington, D.C. Let's talk about government power spending with this next story from the Daily Mail revealed. Fauci is America's highest paid federal employee on four hundred and seventeen thousand six hundred and eight dollar salary. After joking in interview with Matt McConaughey that he was just a government worker on a government salary. So how do I get one of those government salaries?

Gosh, they say Fauci is the nation's highest paid federal employee, raking in four and 17000 in 2019, which is the latest year that federal salary date is available. He made more than the president's $400,000 a year salary. Excuse me. In 2019, he also made more than Mike Pence, who outranks Fauci in authority, and made $235,100 in salary, as well as Dr. Deborah Birx, who made $305,000. If Fauci remains in this position and doesn't get a raise, he'll make $2.5 million from 2019 through 2024. I don't know why they picked those years but i guess it's because

of the next term data shows that the highest federal employees were medical and dental officers why are we paying look i look you can talk about dr fauci and his right or wrong and lockdowns and all stuff but why are we paying these people so much money and it's not just about fauci it's about just all of these people in general getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the taxpayer for what? Because they're friends with the people that make the rules, that dole out the finance. And it's free money for them because it's tax money. They don't have to know us to take our money. They just get it.

So that's funny, though, because I'm actually – I thought those numbers would be even worse because at the state and local level like at the university level a university president at least at where i went umass makes north of 650 000 right the basketball coach at umass which sucked and lost most of its games made a million dollars when i was there made more than the president and these are all government employees made more than the governor of massachusetts a public yeah they Yeah, these are all taxpayer funded. And so if you, listen, if you can't succeed in business, go to government. And because they actually, the funny thing about government is how they advance and how they do raises is not based on merit. It's literally just based.

All right, all right. I'll say this. Tax money going to these people to pay them exorbitant salaries is theft. There we go. I've been working on you for a while we did it folks celebrate tim finally admitted because the i think the idea of taxing is fine the problem is when the government's corrupt then it's not being used for what it's supposed to be supposed to be used for you can make all these arguments all the arguments in the world that i hear from the left about taxes are good it's like paying a subscription to receive the roads and the safety in the in the clean water and i'm like sure if that's what was used for am i supposed look i got no problem with taxes the prop the prop i have no

practice with the concept of paying taxes the problem i have is how much is going to blow up kids how much is going to pay this this dude's salary for the basketball team which is point like what's what why are you getting a million dollars? But that's the thing. It's in concept. That makes sense. But government is always going to be corrupt. Show me the government that isn't corrupt. Government power, centralized power by its very nature corrupts even good people, though good people are usually not drawn to high office and running for power.

This is public choice theory in economics. It self-selects for the people that are the most ambitious and most ruthless. They're the only ones that can get to the top of the food chain. So government corruption is not a bug. It is the system. Yeah, very good point that you made there. Now, there are some people arguing that we should pay politicians and government officials a high amount so they don't get bribed by special interests. But this definitely seems exorbitant, to say the least. Dr. Fauci, I mean, I'm definitely not a fan of him, especially everything he did at the Wuhan laboratory,

specifically trying to make coronavirus as lethal as it could be with the gain-of-function data studies. But, you know, there is an argument to be made that you don't want these people working for other interests. But as I've been arguing against that, saying, you know, there's an argument to be made that you don't want these people working for other interests. But as I've been arguing against that saying, you know, money corrupts individuals and you never have enough. So even if you do pay them a lot, you know, what's the middle ground here? Where do we meet in the middle to make sure that they're satisfied and that they're not corrupt? Because I mean, essentially, let's ask ourselves, what did Dr. Fauci do? I mean, he's repeating a

lot of the World Health Organization kind of directives and talking points, but those keep flip-flopping all the time. A lot of the projections were wrong. I think it's very fair to say that the United States' handling of this entire situation has been extremely poor. So when you have something that is not done right, you shouldn't be paying top dollar for it. Well, and that's the problem is with businesses, if they mess up and they then guess what?

They go under. Or if an employee messes up big time, they get fired. But think about it like this. The CDC literally blocked all COVID testing at the beginning and said, you can only use our test. Right. But then their test didn't work. And it took them months before they allowed private labs to go and make tests again. The CDC did not lose any money from their budget from that. They didn't get cut. They didn't get shrunk. Like a private business that bombed that bad

would probably go out of business and be boycotted. Or even Dr. Fauci that told you that masks are bad, that you shouldn't wear masks. Dr. Fauci literally was telling you that flip-flopping all the time under the directives of the World Health Organization, which he just a couple days ago was very excited that the United States is going to be back a part of and financing and funding, even though they don't even recognize Taiwan as a country, which is absolutely ridiculous. The media and some of the liberals. Some people just like him, right? But some people have gotten culty with it. They have Fauci. I've seen Fauci sex toys. Oh my god. Yes.

I've seen glowing profiles of him about how he's a stud and all these memes that are sort of joking, sexualizing Fauci. He screws you over. Literally and figuratively. You guys sense this cult worship. We're like, who's the new? It's like Greta Thunberg, 2-1-0. Who's the new celebrity? It's this guy, Fauci.

They're like, oh, it's this guy. Oh, no, now it's Kamala Harris. Let's worship Kamala Harris. Well, to be fair, Brad Pitt did play Dr. Fauci on SNL. Good for him. So, I mean, if you're looking at those kind of accreditations, you don't have much accreditation. What did Dr. Fauci do during this entire saga that we've been through that actually made a positive impact into the coronavirus? I mean, that's a serious,

legitimate question that we need to be asking, especially if he's getting paid that much. I mean, can you name anything noble or great that he's done with the coronavirus other than just repeat World Health Organization talking points and contradict himself all the time well we don't know what he's done behind the scenes and i i imagine he seems like a good guy i think he's done his best and it was like a super horrible position to be in right no one knew how to handle it but no one can say he didn't make a ton of mistakes he he did and we should be allowed to point those out and ask what the consequences are yeah is there going to be any. Is there going to be any accountability? Is there going to be any way to get justice for some of the larger consequences that are

leading because of very bad government mistakes that have hurt people? Well, so here's the thing that bothers me the most about Fauci and some of these other public health people is they were saying they changed their tune and they act like they never did. So, for example, you mentioned masks, and that's a good one but also schools yeah schools ran paul and a bunch of other people and science was showing this too in other countries that reopening schools was perfectly safe and fine and fauci and other people were totally against it and then they just pivoted a month or two ago they've really pivoted hardcore since the election and about lockdowns and that's

what i can't stand is i feel a little gas lit by it all yep you may have heard some chiming i don't know if that was coming through the podcast but it's because i was scouring the web to try and find that story about fauci and the research and i got it to newsweek.com dr fauci backed controversial wuhan lab with u.s dollars for risky coronavirus research is newsweek how have i never heard that this is newsweek that tells you that a lot that i've never heard that story from april 28th of last year they say dr fauci is an advisor to trump yada last year the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases led by fauci funded scientists at the wuhan institute of virology and other institutions for work on gain of function research on bat coronaviruses well what what well the particular the particular bats that

are in question here that many scientists and experts point to uh leading to the coronavirus are thousands of miles away from wuhan so the possibility of these bats traveling specifically to wuhan is extremely improbable now do we have any empirical evidence showing that there's a direct link to this? No. There's a crap ton of circumstantial evidence highlighting exactly that there could have been an accidental leak in the Wuhan laboratory. People were selling them. People were taking animals to the wet markets. That's what they're saying.

There is, from I think New York Mag, what they call the lab leak hypothesis. We don't know for sure. Exactly. hypothesis we don't know for sure exactly we don't know for sure but there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that a lot of experts are looking at and pointing to and saying they were literally working on making the coronavirus jump from species to species making it as dangerous as possible uh this is where the term gain of function comes from this is what dr fauci was literally in charge of bankrolling uh you know, before the coronavirus. So this is in the United States.

There was even diplomatic leaked cables saying that there's a high probability of a virus leaking from this Wuhan laboratory before the coronavirus. And just to clarify, this is from the intelligence or New York Mag. The lab leak hypothesis for decades. Scientists have been hot wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic not causing one but what if and that's basically what he brings up that there are many scientists saying that essentially the the hypothesis is they were trying to create vaccines and then there was a breach of some sort but i'm not saying that's true if you read it in the new york mag take it from them people love it sometimes you need a crisis man we couldn't get into syria though the weapons of mass destruction weren't quite enough you know 9 11 got people riled up New York mag, take it from them. People love a crisis. Sometimes you need a crisis, man. We couldn't get into Syria.

The weapons of mass destruction weren't quite enough. 9-11 got people riled up. For Iraq, you mean? Yeah, just to rally everyone to become subservient soldiers for the cause or whatever. Well, the reason this is important to me, because if we could understand the origin of this sickness, we could deal with it. So the real issue right now is China blocking the World Health Organization or the researchers who want to come in. Around a year, China has blocked the World Health Organization, the World Health Organization that sings its praises, that says that China did an amazing job with the coronavirus.

They are even being blocked from coming in. And just a few days ago, finally, after I believe three or four official very public attempts, that China grant the World Health Organization access into the supposed wet market. Well, China reopened the wet markets. Yes. That's the craziest part about all of this. These wet markets are notoriously unhygienic and dangerous for diseases and jumping. And this happened. Coming from one was at least the original hypothesis.

They reopened them. They evident they don't they evidently don't care and another thing that bothers me actually as a journalist is i see all the time china's numbers just uncritically parroted like the headline will be china new crate case numbers has covet under control or china's economic numbers i'm particularly suspicious of they're like rosy economy in China as the rest of the world struggles. And I'm like, you're just repeating according to Communist Party officials. Well, hold on.

You just said you're not going to question that? You think that those are just trustworthy figures you can just accept as fact? Think about how many journalists in the United States all of a sudden became the cheerleaders for the U.S. intelligence apparatus whenald trump got elected all of a sudden everything the government said was true and correct all the time how many leftists made that switch to like and also they were kind of right like decades ago saying like the war on terror they're infringing civil liberties blah blah and then it was like oh they're spying on trump heck yeah like well that's okay now it's really funny because you got some lefties who are like you know well we mentioned the journalists with sending the troops how dare you then they send

in the troops to dc that's a good thing and there's a good reason for it okay and they're keeping them there up until march or maybe even indefinitely because of a supposed threat again the threat it's the impeachment trial what did jack posobiec say he's like uh the military will will remain occupying the city until the opposition leader's trial is is over that's just absolutely crazy so i actually went i actually went into the city when this was all locked down and everything and i had to like get an uber to go somewhere to do something for my job right and he could only get me within a mile to where i needed to go because there was like swat team not even swat teams but like military trucks blocking the road and put up fences and i had to walk the rest of the way like just get the uber i got the uber like within a mile and i was like i guess i'll just walk what

day was that oh that was like two days before inauguration geez uh it wasn't on inauguration day and it wasn't even particularly close to the capital or anything it was like a couple miles from there have they toned down the security somewhat but so they reopened the highways and they reopened the bridges they literally closed the bridges from arlington to dc like you just couldn't go across and i was like how are people who are essential workers supposed to do that this whole this the shutting down of the economy and the world is is really kind of crazy i was my conspiratorial mind is like lit up the last few days particularly the last few days for some reason thinking about wuhan and corona because obviously corona's nasty

dude but where it came from totally up for debate and we should talk about it because bio weapons we've been making movies about them for 20 years, and it's like it is a terrifying idea. I just think it's so disruptive to the world economy. I mean, it's just grinding things to a halt. You're confusing the virus with the government. Well, I'm thinking of the response to the virus is what I'm most concerned with. Right, right. What we know about COVID is a 99.99 survival rate for people under, what, 70 years old? Yeah.

So the question is the government response rate. they're what are they they're adjusting the pcr test threshold that was the world health organization that even it's not it's look you know people have gotten sick i know people who have gotten sick with it and i know and i know people who've had family members die with it right i think the reality is never let a good crisis go to waste it's simple it's the government saw an opportunity to exploit us because there was something happening. So like, well, and government also, they never think of the unintended consequences, right? So they see the problem, they swing the hammer. But it's like, I saw a study the other day, actually, and this was in the National Bureau of Economic Research, saying that 850,000 excess deaths will

be caused from the COVID-related unemployment. And that's mostly from the lockdowns, not from the disease itself. And what is that like in over a year span? Over the next 15 years from suicides, from depression, from heart issues. This is a documented trend in economics that unemployment causes health issues. Poverty causes health issues. And that's just one thing. Yeah. Depression. That's not counting. Suicide.

That's not counting marital violence and domestic violence. And the children of all the people that that will affect. So if 850,000 people are going to kill themselves or die, what about all their kids? Right. There's another 16 million people. Yeah. But it's all these second order unintended consequences when they just looked at one thing, and they didn't consider anything else. And then they refuse to adapt. Also, that's the original,

I think the original mistake you have to give some grace for what's bothered me is the fact that they've doubled down on failed tactics. They haven't adapted. And they got promoted for it and never held accountable for it. The other study that I saw was done by Duke, Harvard, and John Hopkins professors, and they talked about an excess of one million deaths coming in the future because of the longer effects of these lockdowns. And again, that's not even including the health screenings, the stoppage of cancer treatments, mental health illnesses, and a large number of economic illnesses that are going to be happening as, of course,

people have to deal with the larger consequences of a failing economy, losing their jobs, losing their businesses, and having failing wages with just record medical care costs. Don't forget the kids who have lost school and have it shut down. They will, this will, like, you will look back at the trends 10 years from now and you'll see like a distinct class of children who were screwed over by this. And it will show in their lifetime success because you can't miss a year and a half of school and just that's fine. A lot of these kids are committing suicide or at least trying to. I saw a terrifying story about that, about a school that reopened.

I can't remember the details, but a school that reopened because it had a suicide spike among its students. And they're like, we have to reopen. This was a private school. And you can't do this to kids, especially when we're also transferring it because they're not the ones at risk here at all. And so we're transferring the cost to them for the benefits for other subsets of society. I think that's fundamentally more. Because there's been even some studies showing that there's no benefit towards lockdowns and that lockdowns actually may create certain situations where people accumulate together at Walmart or Target or Costco and therefore could even help spread the sickness even further. So there's even

medical arguments being made like that. There's studies showing that lockdowns don't work. And part of it is this, right? So I got really frustrated by New York City and Cuomo. He ordered restaurants to close. They were at 25% capacity. They were getting some... People could go to restaurants, but it was limited. It was super safety measures. But the state's own data showed that only 1.4% of COVID cases were coming from restaurants. Most COVID cases were coming from private interpersonal household gatherings. Well, guess what happens when you shut down the restaurants people have more gatherings like these people actually made this worse by shutting down businesses so not only did they slap new york entrepreneurs in the face but they also probably

made covet wars yes you also see riots breaking out which is talking about destroying people's lives this capital riot maybe it would have happened if there was no corona probably not it fuels them yeah people wouldn't be out screaming destroying emotion if they weren't forced to stay inside and losing their money and their income trump would have won if there was no corona so not a bad argument that's a good shout yeah i mean but he also would have won it if he handled it better it's true yeah he had an opportunity and you know interestingly trump relied too much on fauci for whatever reason fauci you know what i saw him doing was basically the media would say it a day later he'd repeat it

and that's why he ended up being wrong so often he'd say things like oh you shouldn't wear a mask and then two days later oh yeah you should wear a mask and it's like bro they were saying that in the news like two days ago so the dude in my opinion for a while i was like i like fauci seems to be on the level seems to be be keeping us apprised of things. And then it kind of felt like, wait a minute, this guy's like checked out, isn't he? He's like super old. He's been there for decades. He's getting $100,000 a year.

He's just sitting back going like, what are they saying, CNN? Are his eyes at half mast because he's zen or because he's on drugs? Neither. It's because he's checked out. He's like this. Like, dude. neither he's because he's checked out he's like this like dude he recently made a statement talking about how the numbers are plateauing and everything seems very promising in the united states moving forward with covid was this after the election yes well also michigan dc chicago

california new york all of the political leadership are making announcements that they're reopening easing restrictions it's just a coincidence. It's just, you know... Could be. How many states was that again? How many cities? Well, there's D.C., the state of Michigan, the city of Chicago, California, and New York. That's five numbers?

That's not enough to even win the Powerball, bro. That's only like half the country's population. The state of New York. The state of New York and California. But again, let's be open-minded. Could be a coincidence probability, who knows, let's, you know, we could we could play those games at all. But but I think it's important to have all those possibilities open. But I agree with your shout, though, like,

Trump definitely would have won if COVID hadn't happened. Because before then people were talking about the election in terms of socialism versus not woke ism versus not in the economy, in the economy, right. But then COVID, it really all became about competence and stability. And those terms of socialism versus not wokeism versus not in the economy in the economy right but then covet it really all became about competence and stability and those are not trump's strong suits those are not government's strong suits at all when when trump was giving his daily briefings he reached his all-time approval rating in aggregate and then all of a sudden the media panicked and then stopped airing them saying he was lying too much what really happened in my opinion was not whether or not trump did a good or bad job.

It was that no matter what happened, the media said it was a bad job. Now you have Joe Biden coming out saying in his recent speech, there's nothing we can do about the trajectory of COVID at this point. When he said he was going to shut it down. Right. While he was campaigning. No, no, there's nothing we can do. Well, he had a plan. He said last year the travel ban won't do anything.

Now he's just reinstated a travel ban. Yeah, to people in South Africa, right? right and actually valid but that's actually valid i'm pretty sure and europe and others other it's the same travel ban trump lifted in the first place he's doing more travel bans he added more countries i i we've talked with lefties about this and i said you know basically by what metric do you compare trump's job on the coronavirus if we were looking at the media trump did a tremendous job because they were saying millions would die and then hundreds of thousands have died. And that's why conservatives, Republicans, when polled were like, we're happy, we're okay with where things are because they were told it was going to be 90, you know,

90% higher. One to 2 million was the original number. I'm sorry, like 10 times higher. And then it was one to 2 million. And then it ended up being like 100 to 200,000. And people were like, wow, we were warned that it was going to be worse trump must have done a good job but the left just said no all these people are dead it's the worst possible job ignore that no matter what he did it was wrong and that's and then people people believe it that's just it and you know trump's problem is he does have he did have a direct line to the people with twitter but boy did he not know how to use it look yeah he tweeted and it's something we haven't seen other people do but he didn't do it as effectively as he could

or should have and so the message was jack dorsey can i send this message message jack dorsey can i send this message no he was saying i send this instead of every time you tweet you're asking jack dorsey if you're allowed to send that message. The issue is that Trump would attack people and he would play, he would get caught into the flame war. That's always been his problem. Right, a lot of people liked it, but he had an opportunity to bypass the press

and they hated him for it, and he did many times, but too often it was just inflammatory internet flame war. Dude, I was listening to some guy last night that worked with him a lot and said that he was a raging Adderall addict in the 80s and 90s, like just a party boy going out. Did he have Adderall in the 80s and 90s?

Speed, different kinds of – it's a methamphetamine. I don't know about – We don't know. No, today, like on the apparatus. He supposedly doesn't even take alcohol. Yeah, according to him, he doesn't touch drugs at all. But they had to remove the Diet Coke button from the White House. I wouldn't want a Diet Coke.

He had a button. It's a protein-filled substance. I know people who have Diet Coke. He had a button. It filled the substance near me. I know people who have been on the plane with him. I changed it to iced coffee. I know people who have been on the plane with him covering stories and stuff, and they tell me the dude doesn't do drugs, he doesn't drink, and he only eats McDonald's. I never saw him do drugs, so he doesn't ever do them. What a moronic statement.

That journalists who have actually been with him. I spent some time with him, and he didn't do do it so he never does it like what the hell when when journalists are flying around with him and following him on his on his on his campaign tours and they never see him drink or do drugs people that work with him that city was a raging adderall but hold on well hold on but hold on oh i should pull up the guy's name real quick just look up that story and look up that thing but the media was hyper critical if the man had toilet paper on his shoe. If he had two scoops of ice cream, they had a crap storm about that. So if he had a drug problem, I think they would have found out about it and talked about it.

And I definitely agree with your point here, Tim. He could have spent his time better because dunking on Rosie O'Donnell maybe is not the priority and shouldn't be the priority when it comes to the issues that this country is facing. Well, and most leaders, most politicians actually got an approval bounce except for Trump. Every governor, like everyone except for Trump. And I think there's two reasons for that. One, I think you're right as the media, but two is how he handled it and how he did shoot himself in the foot on several occasions with stuff he said or feuds he started. That's always been part of his problems. You know, he started his campaign with being this character and being very negative on a bunch of different things, playing to the internet.

And he's been that way for a long time. Even before he was running, he was tweeting about obama and and roger donnell and so what happens is he enters office with this perception that the media used and exploited to make money and there was very little he could do because people already hated him that was it the guy's name is noel castler he worked in the entertainment industry in like the 90s 2000s running for shows and but i think when trump says what did he do with trump uh he worked on the apprentice uh he would he'd be trump uh he worked on the apprentice uh he would he'd be the guy that worked between the producer and the actors so that the producers didn't have to tell the actors like hey what time you're going to be here what do you need

he would do all that stuff for the production company so they'd hire him and bring him into different shows um he worked like michael jackson madonna and trump and i think when trump says i don't do drugs he's saying i don't do illegal drugs. And he got an Adderall prescription. Could be. We don't know. But another thing to kind of really think about here is that when he first even became president four years ago, we were literally arguing about crowd sizes. Donald Trump was saying he had the biggest crowd, way bigger than Barack Obama. And at that point, I knew there was an ego problem.

And when someone has an ego problem they could be very easily manipulated and that's what i knew this is not going to be the four years that he promises it's going to be because a lot of people could just pull a couple strings here and there especially with someone who is very egotistical yep and they could they could easily get their way with someone who's so full of themselves the bomb stock ban was a perfect example of how democrats could have manipulated trump way better if they wanted to if they just sucked up to him they could have got him he does not have except for a few issues rooted core values so he's very subject to influence by you know who the last person that talked to who kissed up to

him the most so that's that was always the problem that's how people like john bolton got in that administration noel was saying that he also got this like nasal plasty um surgery to get this part of his nose reconstructed from all the cocaine he did that blew out his the cartilage in his nose like he was a party boy in his early days just women women drugs he was seen with jeffrey epstein partying it up um him and bill yeah bill clinton what yeah it's so funny that he comes out and he's like i never touched drunk and he Epstein partying it up. Him and Bill. Yeah. Bill Clinton. What? Yeah. It's so funny that he comes out and he's like, I never touched drugs. And he acts with this piety. And he's like, dude, that guy was crazy.

I don't know. It's hard to really determine that, especially from one person. I would understand if there was a number of people and maybe if there was some evidence. But until there's evidence or actually other people collaborating, I don't think it's good to take that right and i'm not i don't even dog on drugs i'm all about i just don't care yeah the reason but don't lie about it the reason i don't buy it is because when you google search the story it's a bunch of people speculating that trump was sniffling and they're like i watched a video where trump had the sniffles that proves it on drugs there's a bunch of articles speculating and then what i know Trump, because I've known journalists who have been on his beat, is that he's a complete germaphobe. He won't touch people. He doesn't like shaking people's

hands. He's always doing sanitizer. And he only eats at fast food restaurants because he's scared about getting something foreign in his food. And he believes that McDonald's has universal standards. So if he orders pre-made food, he's safe. So like you walk in McDonald's say, give me that burger right there. They couldn't have put something in it and he can't get sick from it. It's a combination of, I guess, a fear of poisonings and also a fear that smaller restaurants have, you don't know if they're going to be following some specific code for cleanliness. So he only eats fast foods. Why is the photo of him on the plane with fast food? And so the people I, I, the journalists I know who have been on the plane with him and and followed his entire campaign tour

uh for both terms have said basically the dude is like straight edge maybe he's not i believe that with alcohol because the out at the very least about alcohol because with alcohol is i believe it was his brother that died and was an alcoholic and from from what I've heard, that's very genuine that he doesn't drink. He has no signs of alcoholism at all. But it's not even a positive story to say he's a germophobe who only eats McDonald's. It's just weird that I see all these stories popping up trying to claim that he does drugs

because they saw him sniffling or because people have accused him of doing it. There was one story where they claimed he was getting prescribed some kind of medication to help him be active and alert and awake. Adderall? I don't think it was Adderall. There was a story where they claimed he was getting prescribed some kind of medication to help him be active and alert and awake. Adderall? I don't think it was Adderall. There was a story about it.

And that was as close as we got to is Donald Trump doing drugs. But so you mentioned McDonald's, the best moment of his presidency was when he had the whole Chick-fil-A. I forget the exact circumstances, but there were some guests coming to the White House and there was some issue with the kitchen or with the food they were going to prepare, so he got full Chick-fil-A spread for them all. Chick-fil-A's good, man. Let's read Super Chats, everybody. If you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to the notification bell, and go to TimCast.com. Become

a member. We're going to have some more bonus segments coming up, and we're actually going to be doing a lot more bonus segments that are more probably got to the gun range and stuff like that. Maybe some kind of behind-the-scenes stuff. That being said, let's read. Karma and kerosene says they have dropped a more anti leftist pop culture yesterday. Our new single compromised about Joe Biden. Come check it out after the stream. Sounds cool. Will do. Yeah. So that's one of the things that I've talked about. Conservatives and people on the right spend too much time complaining about things. And so there's really got to be an effort to produce things, you know, like do stuff,

play music, play video games. Did you hear about the Daily Wire launching their own movie? Yes. I like that. Yep. I'm going to be watching it. And actually, I'm going to be interviewing for the producer for my podcast, right? But they actually are going into the cultural arena.

And I respect that because the culture is where the battles are originally won and then politics is downstream and it's like like sun tzu said you have to win the war before you fight it right somewhat well that's a paraphrasing because the actual quote is probably more profound than that but you get the idea all right we got east f says crowders having twins having heart complications and launching a lawsuit he posted an update today coming back February 1st. I did watch his video. Heart problems? Glad to hear it.

What lawsuit? Oh, no. He seems young, though. He is young. Yeah. I think he's younger than I am. I think he's stressed. I'll see you at the CIMH.

That's crazy. It happens. I think he said it was genetic. Genetic issue. So I hope he's doing all right. I hope he'll be okay. Come back when you feel all right, buddy. Twins is a nice move.

Yeah, there you go. Soft Shell Crab says, I wanted to ask, who's y'all's favorite commander to play? Also, Mono Red for the win. Urza. Yeah, look at him. Did you see Tim's face when I said that?

We basically banned Urza. Mono Red is for the win. It wins so often. But who do I like playing the most now? Probably, I don't know. Kai Karr? Narset. Oh, Narset's pretty fun.

Yeah. Kai Karr. Because it's just crazy. Yeah, he's cool. I wish you guys played cards. Most people are like, I have no idea what you're talking about. I have no idea. Magic the Gathering?

No. No, it's awesome. It's a card game. Oh, I know what it is. I just died. Don't play. Gage Kemper says, hey, tim and ian check out the new treasury secretary on her stance on crypto article on business insider from january 20th push for

new harsh regulations coming of cryptocurrency yep i've seen that we'll see though when you got massive special interests and all these big corporations supporting it and investing in it they're not gonna let yellen come after their investments well she actually walked it back a little bit too so she put out a statement because Bitcoin dropped after she said that, of course. But she put out a statement later that was kind of saying, actually, not so bad. There's just creating a buying opportunity. And what did you expect from the former head of the Fed? Someone checked her bank account.

Yeah. She let it go down, bought a ton. I said I was going to buy the dip. And people were like, you're crazy. It's going to bottom out. Then buy, and then it went right back up. Yeah, the dollar is the ultimate crap coin. Family-friendly show. All right, let's see what we got here.

Inside of the age, it says, all content be tagged, and a protocol could be built to insert the original video into your video edits via timestamp. Calling the OG file saves space and gives watch time to both. Chain of credit. Interesting. timestamp calling the og file save space and gives watch time to both chain of credit interesting we have to build it's about like building a video protocol i guess or blockchain or something i don't know opulent gaming says i'm trying very hard not to laugh at all the people who voted for biden and are now regretting their vote also people want to say there wasn't any voter fraud but a limestone county woman was arrested for 134 felony counts of it

and the veritas lady that's the problem i have with the fraud people they try and make it so that any claim of voter fraud is a grand conspiracy when there's literally bill barr on record saying we found a bunch of fraud just don't have to change the election and then you have the veritas lady getting arrested paxton putting out the statement the ag like we've arrested this lady yeah it happens you know but uh the two sides talking past each other on that one it's like one side won't acknowledge any fraud happened and the other claims that it could have swung the whole election when rand rand rand paul is smart about he brings up the uh the correct argument i believe was state legislatures uh having the having the

laws change without their approval so there was election law changes by AGs, by governors. By the Constitution, any election laws have to go through the legislature. That's the real argument about what's concerning with this past election. But that never got a duty to this. We didn't talk about it, but Dominion launched a lawsuit against Giuliani for $1.3 billion. That sounds like a fake lawsuit. Like they're just throwing're just pushing they're just throwing their weight around because they have money it's it's the stupidest thing in the

world when a company's like i'm gonna sue you for a billion dollars so the giuliani one sounds like a stretch but i actually think there might be something to the way they sued newsmax and some of these other outlets because those outlets immediately ran massive retractions. There's this website, American thinker. It's like a conservative website. They ran the craziest retraction I've ever seen apologizing to dominion saying had no basis. In fact,

because dominion told them, we won't sue you if you do this. So they must be scared of something. Well, I think a lot of people were pushing conspiracy theories and you know, man, the Q stuff is just really sad. Now they're, now they're claiming, yeah, Well, I think a lot of people were pushing conspiracy theories. And you know what, man? The Q stuff is just really sad. Now they're claiming, yeah, it never ends.

No matter how often they're wrong, it's become pseudo-religious almost. Right. Nightmarishly so. Like, I see gold fringes on the flag, you know, and March 4th is the real inauguration. I was like, just stop. Just stop. Why do people fall for those things? There are good people I know whose parents believe in Q?

I think it's because people want to feel like they do have control over their lives to some degree. And you have two choices. Either we have no control in these elections and the people we want lose, or it's a grand conspiracy against you and it's easier to believe that you're fighting this grand fight against the evil cabal. At least when you're involved in this grand fight with Team Q, you feel like – You're not helpless, I guess. Right. You're not helpless. When the alternative is the system is too big, it's out of control, and the guy you didn't want to win, you know, won.

So people just keep believing it no matter how much they're wrong. You know, without naming anybody, I've had people I've seen people on Facebook saying, you know, it was on the 5th, I think, Trump's going to make the announcement today, posting links and showing photos and showing Q screenshots. And then they're like, today's the day Trump's gonna make the announcement, executive order, blah, blah, blah. Nothing happened. Then they were like, I got it wrong.

It's actually tomorrow. It's going to happen just before the vote announcement. Nothing happened. Well, I don't know because I don't know what the Q people, you know, I got it wrong. It's actually tomorrow. It's going to happen just before the vote announcement. Nothing happened. Well, I don't know because I don't know what the Q people, you know, what Q's doing. So I'm like, dude, just stop. It's like the mind calendar thing. Yeah, it is. Just stop.

It's not happening. It's never happened. Mueller wasn't working for Trump. They believe that. You know that, right? They were saying during the Mueller investigation that Mueller was secretly working for Trump. Yeah. It's almost like, look, man, they get mad at me because, you know know because they want to just they want to believe it they want to believe it's just

not maybe there's some some threads of of truth to q maybe no i don't know i'll tell you what it is but it seems like take bull for the most part take a connect the dots you ever do connect the dots yes it's a sailboat and they have a picture and so you can you can see the outline with all the dots a sailboat but they use the dots to draw a picture of a dolphin and they're like It's a sailboat. And they have a picture. You can see the outline with all the dots, a sailboat. But they use the dots to draw a picture of a dolphin. And they're like, it's a dolphin. You're like, no, you ignored all of this. You connected these dots that shouldn't be connected.

Okay, so the dots are real. They're just not connecting them properly. They're connecting the wrong ones. And that's what you get from a lot of conspiracy theorists. They'll see a pattern, but then make the incorrect assessments over what the connections are whereas everyone is going one two three four like a sailboat they're going like seven thirteen five six zero and they're getting a weird image no critical no critical thinking skills on the left on the right on the conspiracy theorists that we just need to think if you really want to ban fake news the best way to do it is to teach just need to think. If you really want to ban fake news, the best way to do it is to teach people

how to think independently and to look at evidence and make up their own minds and decisions. I mean, if we really cared about society, we would be doing that. What do you think about Q, Luke? What is there to think about? It's riddles.

I mean, I've been calling it out for years as ridiculousness. And I was saying, I need to see evidence. I need to see proof. They're saying a lot of vague language. It doesn't really add up to anything. And I got attacked. I got ridiculed, Fiora.

I knew YouTube curators that had their videos taken down that ridiculed it. So I believe. It's crazy. But how crazy is it that Marjorie Taylor Greene, she openly believes in it. She got elected to Congress. This isn't going away. That's the problem with it is I've tried to explain why it's not true. I've tried to like share fact checks, but there's something impenetrable here.

And I haven't figured it out yet why it is that this is not going away when people are presented with the facts that do not add up to this conspiracy theory. Because they'll have a mental breakdown because there is a a characteristic of the human mind that when it is when when when our brains solidify around an idea and this happens to the left happens the right happens to everybody and our what our brains are basically saying is this is true and correct and we're surviving because of it right so? So you grow up, there are certain behaviors you pick up, there are certain things you believe, and you've succeeded to a certain point where your brain says,

this is how I succeeded and survived. If someone can disprove those things, it puts your life at risk, essentially. Right. So then people have mental breakdowns and they're confronted with hard evidence that disproves their worldviews. It's kind of like an extreme version of the fact that somebody who's like made their life

on a certain belief and made their life's work can't have their mind changed because they have so much invested in it and they've built their sense of self around it. It's like an extreme version of that. Let's read some more super chats. Mark Shapcott says, Tim, you say defend, don't act. But how did that work for Alexander Hamilton? He tried to do the noble thing and died. We got Aaron Burr. He could have just said i'm not gonna do you i mean his dueling was a big thing back then i guess but yeah he uh i guess the story is alexander hamilton purposefully missed you know missed because he didn't think it was going to be a legit duel and he got he got hit in the chest or whatever and there you go he died but that's like come on

that's like what 200 years ago 100 and That's like, what, 200 years ago? 100-something years ago? Also, the musical soundtrack slaps. Yeah. So I hear. Let's see. Ponyboy says, I lean right, Tim, but I respect you for not succumbing to the bias of your fan base and sticking to your research. With all the negativity, maybe a good idea would be to focus on one wholesome story a week or something. I like that. Well, what we're going to be doing more and more of is just, you know, we've got some people who want to have a come on the show who focus on near-death experiences and life after death and stuff like that.

Like real research. Not like some, you know, hippie shaman guy who thinks he's an alien. The one from the Capitol. Not him. Right. We actually have people who are like university professors who have done research on people who have had near-death experiences. And there's like weird commonalities and patterns. That's the fun stuff to talk about.

So we're definitely planning some shows. Maybe we'll be the like welcome to the weekend we're just going to kind of chill out and enter the weekend with a smile on our faces and talk about bigfoot or something you know you know there's a congressman who wrote a whole book about bigfoot or former congressman now denver denver denver wriggleman he wrote a whole uh book about bigfoot erotica. That's very weird. That's amazing. Before or after he was in office. So what happened, and I'm going to butcher this because I don't know the details, but like his campaign opponent made some oppo research claiming that he liked Bigfoot erotica and he didn't. But then he wrote a whole book about conspiracy theories and how there are people out there who believe in Bigfoot for real and who have – it's become kind of a sexual cult, I guess, around Bigfoot.

All right. And so this congressman who just left office published a whole book about it. Do they go to Burning Man? I don't know. All right. All right. Let's read some more. Intellectual Millennial says, growing up, I saw the left hate corporations.

And yet with this fight is the Dem supporting corporations. Side note, I truly believe Trump's stirring brought up multiple trafficking issues connected with those in government. Where's Maxwell? I don't know what that is. And the Maxwell stuff and the Epstein stuff. There's a lot of stuff we know, but I think we're only scratching the surface. I think it's, you know, a lot of people want to. I'll just put it this way.

We probably know one out of a hundred things about what's actually going on. And you think about what Epstein's been accused of, I think there's way more going on. Human trafficking is one of the biggest... But I'm just saying way more than that. There's probably shady business. There's probably drug dealers. There's probably weapons trafficking. There's probably all the craziest stuff you can think of.

But we don't know because all the secrets went away with Jeffrey Epstein. Yep. You know, the Russian dissident that just went back put out a public statement, I am not suicidal because he knew the Russian government was about to arrest him. Oh, the guy Navalny? Yes, he put out a statement

as soon as the Russians were arresting him, Putin's people were arresting him, saying I'm not suicidal. They just arrested him again? As soon as he went back they arrested him. He's been in jail. That's where all the protests came from this weekend. We have a very important one from Jacob Williams. He says, Tim and Cass, the.50 caliber or Meduse is made by Browning.

The laser tech for listening to conversations has been around since the USSR. If you want to see insane things satellites are capable of, look into Maxar as well as a book called Deep Black. Interesting. It'd be fun to have someone talk about that on the show too like ancient so like like cold war technology and crazy spy stuff that'd be a lot of fun what were the soviets doing turk longwell says wait a second did luke just say that he wants to buy a 50 cal machine gun y'all getting serious down there huh great guess too rock on on not a machine gun just a single fire you know could

be semi-auto could be even both but uh what can which states allow a machine gun like a legit well machine guns are banned in some states uh but most importantly it's they're only available for the rich if you're rich you could have one and you just have to fill i i think an nfa license to get one all right here we go judo eagle says, I feel bad for the NSA guy assigned to Ian. He loves his life. He's sitting there, and he's watching Ian on his computer. He's gaming again? No, no, no.

He talks to his friends, and he's like, dude, did you know there's DMT stuff? What are you talking about? I'm just listening to Ian, man. This is crazy stuff. And now he's like, I need mushrooms for this. The NSA guy's doing DMT. Most undoubtedly dmt most undoubtedly yeah all right let's see i am insanity says i had a news channel in 2015 with 100k subs quit because of death threats tried again in 2018 but quit when a guy tried to break into my house at 2 a.m to kill me luckily live in texas and have a lot of

guns whoa that's crazy polaris589 says brad palumbo doesn't like privately owned tanks fake phony libertarian you don't like privately owned tanks how dare you so my whole thing was i criticized the libertarian party presidential nominee for saying that private citizens should be able to own tanks because i basically said it's just totally out of touch it's just like and i think you have to draw so i'm very pro-gun but i think you have to draw the line somewhere right like i don't believe private nuke ownership and i think because that's crazy you think you would do trust bill gates with a nuke um i don't think bill gates would nuke anybody i don't know what he would want to nuke for but i can tell you that at the time the second second amendment was created corsairs and privateers

were all the rage so when the foundingathers said the right to bear arms, they legit knew that people had artillery, and they knew that people actually had their own warships. I think that we should have as few people with nukes as possible. That's my hot take. We're talking about tanks here, don't you dare filibuster here. What's wrong with an individual

having his own personal tank? If I want to have a tank on my property, the specific question was not whether you should have a tank, but whether you should be able to have a tank with intact artillery. If you just want to have a tank to drive around, I'm okay with that. The artillery system, no, sorry.

I don't know why. Because I just think it's dangerous. I think there's got to be a line somewhere. Forks are dangerous because they make people fat. Someone could punch you in the face. Right. Has anyone ever walked up to you and punched you in the face? I've been slapped so like i was thinking about this when we were at the range you have all these people all over the place with guns and they're shooting and i was just thinking

like at any point someone could you know shoot somebody else but it's not going to happen because people don't want to hurt each other now sometimes people do like to do the kill dozer you know what i mean so i think ultimately the challenge is i probably you're probably right and don't give people are you know full full intact artillery shells but the dude built the killdozer and no one could stop him he only he only the killdozer guy only got stopped because he fell into a basement yep but if someone really wanted to do something they'll do it i guess nowadays the cia is spying on everybody so if you tried to build a killdozer they'd come for you you know? I also think it's just kind of funny watching libertarians freak out when I say I don't like tanks. Just libertarians on Twitter.

And I count myself among libertarians. But it's funny watching them melt down. It is interesting. Like, look at the East India Trading Company. It was a massive corporation with warships all over the place. And they just did their thing. And it was, like, pretty brutal and authoritarian in a lot of ways, you know? It's tough.

I think the issue is at a certain point, nuclear weapons are probably a line. I think for everybody. You don't want Bill Gates with a nuke. I don't know. I don't think he would fire it, but I don't want any. I don't want Russian billionaires with a nuke. I barely want any governments to have nukes. You know what I mean?

I would rather none of them did. Well, I mean, Putin has nukes and those are his. But those as few people. I actually am really really this is maybe one of my nerd areas i'm really worried about nuclear war you know that during the during the cold war there was actually a situation where they almost launched all the nukes yeah we talked about it we talked about it and then on friday yeah we talked about it friday isn't that crazy yeah they have like nuclear submarines all along the coasts. We don't know about how many nuclear subs are in the world right now.

So all I'm saying is we need as little more of that as possible. I think you're right about long-range artillery, too. First, get rid of the government's nuclear weapons. Then we could talk about tanks. So I would love that. The problem is I wish we actually could get rid of all the governments, but you could never. Like nuclear disarmament as a strategy is like,

well, only the good guys are going to go along with it. So just to clarify, you're not... You don't want to take away people's tanks. You want to take away people's artillery. Yes. All right, we got a super chat here from Wyoming Trailer Trash. He says,

Aloha, Tim, would you please ask Lydia to DM SticksHexenHammer666 and Razorfist on Twitter and extend an invitation for your show while Sticks is back in the States. Sticks! He's back in the States. Sticks has a standing invitation to join us on the show. Of course. Sticks is great.

Yeah, that would be awesome to have him here. Cody Ite says, try some three and a half inch 12 gauge slugs. You'll have fun then. Oh, yeah. Eric Britt says, try firing a 10 gauge sometime. I just, we're talking now about the journalist who panicked over the recoil on a 5.5. We're assuming it's a 5.56. I imagine it would be.

It looks like a 5.56 from the photos that I'm seeing there. It's just not even that much, you know. Slugs are fun. Yeah, slugs are fun. Ricky Bobby says, ever since I got into crypto about 10 months ago, I get ads on YouTube for black girl stocks. Could you imagine if I tried making white boy stocks the double standard is absolutely insane p.s polka dot to the moon okay polka dots incredible it's not a security so you can't get it in the united states oh really yeah technically id says

hey tim i recommend you check out a song called knives guns and bed by rare americans the song is a representation of china and america fighting interesting timothy peterson says on the ar-15 ptst tip when we first went to range in basic training our drill sergeant put an m16 against his crotch and fired off three rounds to demonstrate low recoil love it when msm refers to 223556 as high power seriously we have a 308 which was fun at the range. And it's just like, what is this guy doing? He's never, like, I'm sorry. I got to bring it back to how funny it is to imagine like a teenager going turkey hunting with his family. And that's more recoil than this guy had.

And he can't handle that? People, seriously. Jeez. Okay, so Matthew Doherty says Stephen Crowder announced today that he will be involved in a lawsuit against Big Tech. And he plans to join in or do something similar. Me, no, but I did see that Jack Posobiec tweeted something about Amazon and mail-in voting and Twitter labeled it as disputed. And I think that might be grounds for a defamation suit against Twitter because Twitter made the statement. So if you tweet something about – so Amazon recently said we don't want mail-in votes.

We want in-person secure. And then he tweeted saying like they're saying mail-in voting is, you know, insecure. Twitter put an auto flag on it saying this claim about voter fraud is disputed, blah, blah, blah. But it's not disputed. Everyone agrees. The media agrees. Jeff Bezos did say this. That's a false statement of fact.

So what would the claim be against Twitter? Twitter made the statement. By putting a statement on Jack Posobiec's tweet, Twitter publicly stated Jack Posobiec is wrong. But he's a public figure, so he has a really high definition standard. Which would be knowing that what he said was true and correct and still putting the flag there anyway, which is the challenge. Because if it was done by an algorithm— That's what I was going to say. It's like, you have to prove intent.

It's like, I got sued by Roy Moore, right, for an article I wrote criticizing him. Yeah, fun fact about me. But like one article I wrote was not false at all. But even if it was, he would have had to prove that I knew it was false and published it anyway. So the public standard, public figure standard is so high, it's like barely anyone can ever reach it. Matthew Reckamp says, in several videos, Tim seemingly justified the cancellation of the XL pipeline by mentioning the 29 leaks. From my view, there are questions that need to be answered. How severe were the leaks?

How many is that compared to other transportation methods? Is it worth the oil being sent likely to China? I think it's unfair to say I seemingly justify the cancellation. In my latest video, I said I have no strong opinions one way or the other. I understand the argument that it actually creates less emissions transporting the oil by pipeline than by freight or by trucks. And I don't know the amount of spills we've got from freight or from trucks. So it's hard to know who's right or wrong on the issue.

The point I was making is that these unions endorsed the pipe hitters union endorsed Biden and Politico was like, even though he says he's going to ban Keystone, they did it anyway. And then when he bans Keystone, they're like, oh, no. Oh, geez, how could he do this? And I'm like, you knew he was going to do it. You're not really outraged. You're pretending because you're manipulating your members. Did he ban fracking? He put a moratorium on it. On federal land. So what conservatives are doing now is they're saying, aha, see, he banned fracking. And they're missing the last part of that on federal land for 60 days. And the left is saying he didn't ban fracking, ignoring that he did actually ban some fracking.

So it's like you said before, talking past each other. Right. You know. Moral of the story, everyone's wrong. Yes, everyone's wrong. I mean, it's fair to say he banned some fracking. Right. But you got to put the some in there.

Otherwise, people think he just outright banned fracking. And he temporarily banned it. Right. 60 days. And, you know, we'll see how things play out. But I think he's going to do it. Or it's fair to say that he was lying to all those people who asked him. When he was like, oh, we're going to get rid of it.

Trust me. But he also, the thing is, he and Kamala both said both things on different occasions on the campaign trip. Sometimes he said, yes, we will ban it. Sometimes he said, we'll just ban it on different occasions on the campaign trip. Sometimes he said, yes, we will ban it. Sometimes he said, we'll just ban it on federal lands or some other thing. And also if America becomes less energy independent,

we have more of a excuse to go into the middle East. Just saying. And Joe Biden doesn't need much of an excuse to do that. Yup. Orange field two says Lydia, can we book someone to actually disagree with you guys have an inappropriate polite debate it seems like an echo chamber and no one learns anything love your show though well we invite many leftists but they're scared of covid and i don't mean that disrespectfully

i mean literally we've invited many leftists high profile ones and they're like i'll do your show and then it's like we'll buy your ticket we'll get whoa whoa whoa in person yes the show is in person we don't have any setup. And I don't intend to do Skype or digital stuff. It just doesn't work. It doesn't work at all. It's everyone sits there and then yells at each other while their chats go off and they argue back.

Nah. Having someone in here in person is how you do it. And unfortunately, it is a fact. Gallup has the polls. The left is terrified of COVID. They won't travel. There are even some like rational and legit leftists i really like that say the same thing they're scared of covid

conservatives don't seem to care at all look at this guy sitting there with no mask on no i mean we're all socially distanced actually it's just interesting we are more or less but i guess the thing is i also think it's also hard to get leftists to come on your podcast period at least that's been my experience is i've reached out to a bunch of people and they don't really seem i would go on msnbc i go on rachel maddow i'd be like anytime i don't know that a lot of leftists really are willing to engage i've had there's one leftist i really like and he said to me like i really appreciate the invite to be honest there's no upside for me coming on your show and i'm like you're right big audience but do they not care about reaching they don't

they don't think that the people who watch this show is going to benefit them in any way so why would they bother doing it unless they make clips for leftists that's just an alien mentality to me though at least if you're doing this kind of thing you should care about reaching people with your with your message and your voice and it shouldn't just be reaching people of a certain persuasion or you're doing it wrong i've always been of the of the ilk of like communication first get through to the human and then if we want to talk about ideas and whatever but as long as you can connect with the human doesn't really matter who you're talking to all right we got a super chat here from crystal max 76 i love your rv luke maybe you should invite someone random to wake tim up a tired tim and a beanie sounds like a party keep the members only

content coming thanks guys i like i like the way you're thinking. And since you did this to me, I now have been granted permission officially by the internet and the rules of Super Chats to do the same to you. Yes. You changed it all when I knocked on your door when you were sleeping. And what did you say to me? What? I don't think I can repeat it.

I don't remember. You changed the rules. You were sleeping and I banged on your door. I'm not going to say it. I'll leave it there. Wait, wait, wait. Do you sleep in the beanie? Is that what I got from this?

You sleep in the beanie. No, I got these really nice little boxer shorts. Do you ever sleep in the beanie? Why would I? Just fall asleep. I feel like it's your thing. No, I take it off on the couch every day. What do you mean?

I'm sitting there watching. What do you watch? Family Guy or whatever? And I'll play Hearthstone on the tablet. And then I, you know. Let me know who I should surprise Tim with. Feel free to reach out to me lauren southern what's she up to she was on she was on australia yeah oh she was on ruben somebody's show she had a new documentary that's you know all right andrew yang that's my

other guess hey tim i got a thousand dollar check for you right here uh universal basic income for you that'd be a good one. Uriel Avila says, Tim, what is your prediction on Godzilla versus King Kong? I don't care for giant monster movies. Never cared. Pacific Rim was like King Kong all the way. I guess. I'm biased.

I guess. Ready to Rumble says your website needs a comment section under the videos. Us beanie boys need to converse. There is a comment section under all of the videos. That's there. need to converse. There is a comment section under all of the videos that's there and all of them. It is. Yeah. So become a member and then you can comment and everyone talks to each other and it's good fun. Brian Bourgeois says, why aren't we talking about solutions? We can complain all day. I know it's hard, but we need to talk about solutions because we do. It's building culture because the culture war is where the war is happening and politics is only after

the fact so we've been talking about doing vlog content we just put up a video where alex jones walks into luke's rv and wakes him up and there's nothing political in it you are fully exploiting me to the but it's because we have like five videos up yeah and it's the one we put up where it's literally just you're watching alex be like hey luke i just drove here how you been and luke's like and they're like we're gonna go get food and it's like it's just not political it's literally just you're watching Alex be like, hey, Luke, I just drove here. How you been? And Luke's like, yeah. And they're like, we're going to go get food. And it's like, it's just not political. It's just regular. So that's the point is to make fun and silly stuff. And that's part of the solution.

It is. We could talk about flash graphing if you want to talk about solving for the future technology. But we got to have an expert on. Yeah. On which subject? On graphing. Flash graphing. Just a formation.

Oh, yeah, for sure. I'd love to get an expert on like directed energy weapons, too. All right. Let's see where we're at. We got too many super chats coming in this is crazy unreasonably angry says fully functional a10s are a god-given right what's an a10 i think that's a shotgun uh that is only for military use i don't know i'm just guessing here let me look that up tyler wood, I just finished Anne Jacobson's Untold History of Area 51. Black projects and funding exploded after Sputnik. As bad as the

U.S. was during the Cold War, falling behind technologically would have been way more terrifying to me. Oh, I agree. Let's see. Corny says, you should get the same guest Jimmy Dore had the other day. Oh, the Boogaloo Boy guy. I mean, maybe. I wouldn't want to just be like, oh, Jimmy Dore interviewed him. I better interview him, too, because I says you should get the same guest Jimmy Dore had the other day. Oh, the Boogaloo Boy guy. I mean, maybe.

I wouldn't want to just be like, oh, Jimmy Dore interviewed him. I better interview him, too, because I think you should watch Jimmy Dore's interview of him. He's getting a lot of criticism on Twitter because of that. He was trending. Yeah. Nationwide. A-10 is a fighter jet, by the way. Oh, yes. Yeah, so Jimmy interviewed a Boogaloo Boy who was very pro-left culturally on a bunch of issues.

He said, like, pro-LGBT a bunch of issues and he said like pro-lgbt pro-blm all this stuff and then the response from the establishment was he's lying he's far right it's like why why is he far right that makes no sense antifa wants the same things as him it's ridiculous i'm not going to say they're far left that would be ridiculous too but you know whatever none of that makes sense all right let's see where we will do a couple more garant says sticks is under a concerted attack to smear him as a nazi they got sarah carter to tar him to put him to so put him on now he's hot and we'll get views and it will protect the guy he's good well i'm not super concerned about getting views from having sticks on i think

six is all right i don't know what they're saying about him as much as as far as i can tell he's like a fairly libertarian commentator yeah i did not realize people were smearing him i do not agree with those smears lucas kaiser says have you heard of bunker brands they make t-shirts got to love matt how many demos out there we've heard like you reached out to him i reached out to him they didn't respond yet well you know we'll see yeah what do we have here? What's this? Stinky ugly says I bought a 308 ar-10 and it's brought me joy second only to my wife I Do call my firearms girlfriends so kid truck says did you guys know that Gatling guns are legal in many states?

Really no, that's the crank You ever see the video I think Mythbusters did it they did a steam Gatling guns are legal in many states. Really? No. That's the crank. That's what I want. Do you ever see the video? I think Mythbusters did it. They did a steam Gatling gun where they basically had a steam engine spin really fast. And what it would do is once it lined up with with like the barrel, it would sling a bullet out. It was crazy. Something like that.

Yeah. Cool. Railguns are cool, too, man. All right. Let's see. We'll just do a couple more. Jonathan says, interview a critical race theorist so they can educate y'all. Okay. We should do a sponsored video where we do a behind

the scenes critical race theory class for everyone here. Yeah, mandatory diversity training. I would love to get some progressive I don't like the word progressive what it means what it's become but like cortez rashida talay cory bush just somebody that's like so out there on the other end of the spectrum just have them in let's let's like i don't think they would and learn we'll be nice you know we'll we've had we've had like this on and we have an we have an invite

we invite many of them all the time the problem problem is when people bully us, they try and force their way on the show. But anyway, here we go. The last one, the most important one. Alessio De Monte says, can you add a 480p on the videos on your website? My internet sucks. The good news is, moving forward, all videos, we have a new player which allows all the way down to 144p up to 1080. You can customize so you can stream better. It is a better player.

It is easier to load. We are constantly improving the site. But the key to a successful business is to just start doing it. If you try and build this massive castle before anyone's come, you might find that people don't actually want to use it. And then you got to change everything.

So you start like we did. We're going to reformat the whole layout of the site. We're going to be adding more kinds of content, better video players. We're just slowly going to be improving it over time. So make sure you go to timcast.com. become a member because we're going to be producing more and more members only content. We're probably expanding like crazy as this ramps up because it's really, it's taken off and you guys are awesome. But I want to make a network that is

huge. I want to do eventually like a 24 hour live stream where we have like different people hosting different news segments of the day and just make it really this big you know network of content a variety of issues and uh you know skateboarding music culture games everything just take it off and we're getting there we are getting there so go to timcast.com become a member we should have a bonus segment up later today hopefully we'll see how things play out but uh brad you want to mention your social media and anything people should check out yeah absolutely thanks for having me on and if people want to follow me it's brad underscore palumbo p-o-l-u-m-b-o and most importantly podcast is breaking boundaries with brad palumbo on apple podcast and spotify oh today i'm wearing one of my favorite uh personal

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