Timcast IRL - TimcastIRL #48 - New Reporting Says Coronavirus Came From Wuhan Biolab, China And WHO Is Covering It Up

Episode Date: April 16, 2020

A breaking news story catches our attention because it turns out there is now compelling evidence that the coronavirus we are now battling came from a lab. In related news, the city of Wuhan is lockin...g down again after the Chinese government optimistically approved the lifting of the quarantine. And finally, China decides to ban video games that allow citizens to talk to one another without government oversight.  Merch - https://teespring.com/stores/timcast-2 Podcast available on iTunes and Spotify, coming soon to all podcast platforms! Support the show (http://Timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the show, everybody. This is the TimCast IRL podcast. I am Tim Poole, and I am joined by... What's up, everybody? Adam Krigler here. How you doing? And... The Invisible Lydia. The Invisible Lydia, who doesn't have a camera, but we're here to talk to you guys about stuff and news. And we got a major breaking story. This is actually crazy. I can't believe it. I mean this seriously. Brett Baier of Fox News reporting, Sources believe coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab as part of China's
Starting point is 00:00:26 efforts to compete with U.S. in the story. They basically call it a cover up. We got another story from the AP that's basically saying the same thing that China tried to cover this up. This is crazy. Now, now here's I know a lot of people already on Twitter and already in the chat are saying we all knew this. You're right. We all did. Finally, the mainstream media is catching up to what everyone else already knew. But you know what? Well, not for certain, but this is pretty clear. This is pretty clear. Look, how do you confirm something? When you've got a report from South China University saying this, you've now got corroboration from multiple outlets. Even you had one guy from, this was from, we talked about this, Washington Post saying
Starting point is 00:01:11 they thought it was possible. Now Fox is saying definitively they have sources who know what's going on, who have seen the briefings, and they're government officials. But when you combine this with the AP, the Associated Press's story, I think it's fair to say we're as confirmed as confirmed can get. I agree. I mean, that's what I was saying. Looking at all the stuff that I now have read, it's like it's pretty clear that they knew what was going on.
Starting point is 00:01:35 Oh, yeah. And they were trying to cover it up. Totally. We got a couple other stories. There's big protests across the country. People are rejecting these lockdowns and we've also got uh some this not as family friendly but uh buzzfeed news reported because people can't pay rent that some tenants are uh are resorting to the world's oldest profession
Starting point is 00:01:58 if you know what i mean there's always i mean job for someone. I mean, I do. Yeah. I still think that story is... You don't believe it? No. Why not? I don't know. A landlord says, give me the money, and then there's, like, some young tenant, you know, and she's like, I can't,
Starting point is 00:02:12 and he's like, there are other ways you can pay. Isn't this how everything, all the plot lines start? I mean, I'm not saying that it's not possible. I think it's legit. But I mean, look, it's BuzzFeed, so it's as trustworthy as BuzzFeed can be maybe that's my caution
Starting point is 00:02:29 but alright so we're going to jump into this first story before we do make sure you hit that subscribe button hit the notification bell hit that like button share this podcast if you really do like it because that's basically how we grow we don't have big marketing budgets or anything like that if we're good enough for you to share us then that's what helps us out. Otherwise, if you think we suck, then by all
Starting point is 00:02:47 means, don't share us because we're awful and no one should have to listen to what we have to say. But no, we're awesome. I think so. So why don't you hop in the super chat? And if you do, we will then read your comments to the best of our ability. Often we get a ton of people and so we can't get to everybody, but we will often try to read as many as we can we actually usually dedicate like a half an hour to 40 minutes of just like reading through your comments so and sometimes it makes like a full-on segment like that's really fun i mean typically yeah about it well you get you get tim ranting on on something well no i mean if somebody you know it's fun if someone in the super chat asks a question and then it's good and then we
Starting point is 00:03:23 can talk about it yeah yeah i mean that fuels a big portion of the show so make sure you hop in um but let's let's start with the first story so so this story from fox news sources believe coronavirus originated in wuhan lab as part of china's efforts to compete with the u.s you see that byline right there brett bayer that to me is what made this legit brett bayer is like a straightforward news guy yeah that's what i when i first said it i was like yeah but it's the news like how do i know i can trust it and you were like it's brett bayer i'm like for real oh look doesn't mean anything to me though so i mean for those out there i'm clearly tim believes him because he's like a straight shooter he's boring yes like to the point he's boring, yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:05 And that's not an insult. That's respect. Yeah, that's the kind of news anchor that we need right now. Not trying to spin something. Not trying to lie to anybody. Just here's the truth. These are the facts. That's the news.
Starting point is 00:04:18 Good day. I don't know a whole lot about Brett. And I'm wondering if like, do I got this guy wrong? Is he really like some crazy opinionated guy? But the reason I don't think too much about him is because whenever I watch him, he's just basically reading the news. There's nothing like, and so it's like out of sight, out of mind almost. And so I've seen other people praising him even on the left. And he's not one of these prime time, you know, opinion pundits. He's like a regular news guy, very dry, very straightforward. He's reporting this means it is it is bigger than it's it's bigger than than the other reporting i didn't think these uh
Starting point is 00:04:53 they they were they existed still straight news guys yeah yeah no because they're all becoming so desperate no but you've got uh like bill hemmer i think is his name you've got a handful of straightforward news people over at fox yeah so they So they're out there. Yeah. And there and there have been, you know, as much as the left likes to rag on Fox, you've got these professors, these liberal journalism professors praising daytime Fox News for being kind of boring, just like straightforward. But anyway, Brett reports this. He says exclusive COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory, not as a bioweapon, but as part of China's efforts to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the US. Multiple sources have been briefed on the details of early actions by China's
Starting point is 00:05:34 government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News. This may be the quote costliest government cover up of all time. One of the one of the sources said. The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was bat to human and that patient zero worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan. Now let's address the anonymous sourcing thing, which I'm not a big fan of. Same here. When you see these stories, you always got to look at the byline. That's what you're trying to derive your trust from. You see the New York Times do this all the time, saying an unnamed source. You know, my favorite line, I think this is the New York Times.
Starting point is 00:06:09 They said, according to sources familiar with Trump's thinking, like, that's a real line. Oh, my goodness. What? That's embarrassing. They can read his mind. Brett Baier, on the other hand, though, is a straightforward news guy who's been praised by many people and many partisans on both sides. And this is where you can trust. If he's saying he's seen these documents and he thinks this is
Starting point is 00:06:30 of merit, then I'm inclined to believe it. There's a lot of people that could have come out and said this and I'd roll my eyes. But Brett Baier, he's got, you know, he's got 1.4 million Twitter followers. He is a very high profile, straightforward news guy. I don't know what to tell you, man. You know, we ultimately choose to trust reporters. This is a major mainstream news organization telling us this. Yeah, that's pretty huge. Asked by Fox News' John Roberts about the reporting. President Trump remarked at Wednesday's coronavirus press briefing,
Starting point is 00:06:58 more and more we're hearing the story. We are doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation. Documents detail early efforts by doctors at the lab and early efforts at containment. The Wuhan wet market initially identified as a possible point of origin never sold bats. And the sources tell Fox News that blaming the wet market was an effort by China to deflect blame from the laboratory, along with the country's propaganda efforts targeting the US and Italy. Makes sense.
Starting point is 00:07:24 That's why they were so quick to ban the consumption of wild animals, because they wanted to solidify that story. Was that quick, though? Yeah, it was. I mean, within a month? I mean, for them to do that at all says a lot. So even that they did it, all I'm seeing now is they're just trying to solidify this deflection.
Starting point is 00:07:42 Make it the story. Yeah, yeah. Well, hold on. So now we're blaming the wild animals, so we won't eat wild animals anymore. That doesn't even matter. Check out this story from the AP. What Fox has reported is, in a sense, corroborating other reporting from the Associated Press. China didn't warn public of likely pandemic for six key days. Check this out. President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, January 20th. But by that time, more than 3000 people have been infected during almost a week of public silence,
Starting point is 00:08:12 according to internal documents obtained by the Associated Press and expert estimates based on retrospective infection data. Six days. That delay from January 14th to January 20th was neither the first mistake made by Chinese officials at all levels in confronting the outbreak, nor the longest lag, as governments around the world have dragged their feet for weeks and even months in addressing this virus. But take a look at that date. The delay was from January 14th. On the 14th, they knew. And do you know what the World Health Organization did on the 14th? Oh, yeah. Here's the tweet. 618 a.m. Eastern Time. So what time was it over in China? 6 p.m.? Yeah. Yeah, I think they're 12 hours. Yep. Here's what it says. Preliminary investigations conducted by the
Starting point is 00:08:59 Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus identified in Wuhan. Sounds to me like the World Health Organization was purposefully misleading us with the very least useful idiots for the Chinese government. Yep. Who knew, according to the Associated Press and withheld the information. But then why would the World Health Organization say this to us? Exactly. Think about it. Is the World Health Organization lying to us? They said China told them this, right? That's what they said. Yeah. All right. Well, on the 14th, China knew there was human to human transmission. Did China lie to the World Health Organization or did they know the truth? And then and who then lied to the rest of us? Somebody lied. I bet they lied to the WHO,
Starting point is 00:09:42 who then just believed it. And they're like, oh, yeah, their scientists said it. Yeah. I mean, that's the optimism in me. Like, I want to believe them, but I don't know because I have a hard time trusting anything right now until seeing that, like, the actual proof. This is crazy because let me read this here. It says, U.S. embassy officials warned in January 2018 about inadequate safety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab and passed on information about scientists conducting risky research on coronavirus from bats, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Starting point is 00:10:16 This is all now being corroborated. I think it's funny that we all knew this. And I'm going to give a nice hard shout out to people over at YouTube who are too dumb to let the people who do a good job on your platform report the news. Because as you guys may have heard from the rest of us, whenever we try and report on this, we get suppressed, we get deranked or demonetized. Welcome to how YouTube functions. Now, months after the fact, when we were doing reporting saying, hey, this looks like it may be possible, we're now seeing mainstream confirmation of what most of us already knew. You called that. It's incredible.
Starting point is 00:10:48 Well, I mean, I was skeptical. And even Senator Tom Cotton was like, we got to entertain the possibility. You know, this is a thing they're doing. We even had that story from Nature. Let me see if I have this. If I have this pulled up. Here we go. Nature.com.
Starting point is 00:11:02 Inside the Chinese lab poised to study the world's most dangerous, dangerous pathogens from the 23rd of February, 2017. Maximum security biolab is part of a plan to build a network BSL for facilities across China. And this is a laboratory in Wuhan. And you know, it's, you know, it's the funniest thing about these people. Nature.com went back in January, I guess, and they editorialized the article. Editors note January 2020, many stories have promoted an unverified theory that the Wuhan lab discussed in this article played a role in the coronavirus outbreak that began in December 2019. Nature knows of no evidence this is true. Scientists
Starting point is 00:11:42 believe the most likely source of the coronavirus to be an animal market. Why would they add that for no reason? Was it what scientists? Chinese scientists? Right. Because that's what the WHO said that they got their information from. Why go back to 2017 and edit this article? The information was sound, correct? Yeah. Then why change the source? if we have information that could provide context going back and changing it is suspect indeed yep totally agree and you know it's really funny too the new york times and cnn will like stealth edit articles that's when they don't let you know they changed things okay but here we get this editor's note we just want to let you know january 2020 cnn c got busted. What day in January, too?
Starting point is 00:12:25 Because January was a crazy month. End of the month, I'd imagine. CNN got busted writing Chinese propaganda as news. Yeah. You mean ZNN? ZNN. Yeah. GNN.
Starting point is 00:12:37 I like that. That's the thing going around. It's pretty funny. I love it. Check this out. Reporting. I'm sorry. Responding to the report, General Mark Milley,
Starting point is 00:12:45 the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday afternoon, it should be no surprise to you that we have taken a keen interest in that and we've had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that. I would just say at this point, it's inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural, but we don't know for certain. Americans were originally helping train the Chinese in a program called Prevent well before the Chinese started working on this virus. The French government helped the Chinese set up the Wuhan lab. China, quote, 100% suppressed data and changed data, the sources tell Fox News. Samples were destroyed, contaminated areas scrubbed, some early reports erased, and academic articles stifled. There were doctors and journalists who
Starting point is 00:13:26 were disappeared, warning of the spread of the virus and its contagious nature and human-to-human transmission. China moved quickly to shut down travel domestically from Wuhan to the rest of China, but did not stop international flights from Wuhan. Additionally, the source tells Fox News the World Health Organization was complicit from the beginning, helping China cover its tracks. Trump announced the White House coronavirus news briefing in the Rose Garden on Tuesday that the United States will immediately halt all funding for the WHO, saying it had put political correctness over lifesaving measures. The United States is the WHO's largest single donor, and the State Department had previously planned to provide the agency $893 million in the current two-year funding period. Senior administrations separately tell Fox News the rollout of the president's blueprint for reopening the U.S. economy will happen Thursday afternoon,
Starting point is 00:14:15 first for governors, and then briefed to the press. They say, meanwhile, Trump's own handling of the crisis has come into focus. On January 24th, for example, Trump tweeted in praise of China's transparency on coronavirus. Though they were not speaking for the president, the sources ventured an explanation saying it was diplomatic to make the Chinese feel good while the investigation was ongoing, with trade and other talks happening simultaneously. In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they were likely facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people. Millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebration. They knew they had to have expected what was going to happen. Yeah. Or wanted it to happen. The fact that they shut down
Starting point is 00:15:00 traveling from Wuhan to anywhere else in China and then let anyone in Wuhan. Oh, you're leaving China. OK, we don't care. Yeah, that's international flights. Go for it. Are you kidding me? It's like now it's like it got out and they were like, oh, it wasn't supposed to get out on our territory. Well, let's contain it as much as possible and hope it hurts them more than it hurts us. Exploiting it.
Starting point is 00:15:24 That's what it feels like. That's why it's kind of crazy to me that they're saying it was an accident. Because, like, you put out all these stories, man. Yeah, yeah. Saying that they were withholding information, which hurt us and caused massive damage. Yep. That, you know, BuzzFeed News reported that Chinese trolls were trying to slow down the response in Italy and Taiwan. That's an act of aggression.
Starting point is 00:15:43 Yeah. Why? So, so it's weird to me, for me to assume that like some dude slips on a banana peel, you know, this accident results in this major pandemic. And then there's like, let's roll with it. I mean, I guess it's possible, but I'm, it's like, you're saying that everything they're doing to hurt us in this was like, just fortuitous for them. I mean, they mean, it's basically moves of war. They're moving the chess pieces and we're just trying to, you know, we're not even realizing
Starting point is 00:16:10 we're playing this game right now. Well, I think our military does. I absolutely agree. That's why they came down and that the naval guy. Yeah. So what's truly fascinating about this story
Starting point is 00:16:21 is that numerous mainstream outlets have slowly been walking towards this theory for a long time. I mean, I talked about this months ago because we had a report that a researcher said, here's what we think happened. China suppressed the study. Now we have more mainstream reporting. But look, it's April 3rd, the trail leading back to the Wuhan labs. And then also the same thing, like we can't prove it. We can't prove it. But here's more evidence. Here's more evidence. I think at a certain point, it's really, it's really fascinating to me how the media handles these things because they, they, they,
Starting point is 00:16:52 it's like a dam breaking almost. Okay. You can see on the other side, all of these bits of evidence piling up. You get to a point where a reasonable person says, I think I know what happened, but the media won't say it until finally they have a smoking gun. All of a sudden then it's mainstream. Boom. Just one day. So now I see people on Twitter are going nuts with this, but here's what's really freaky. Jennifer Zhang is a YouTuber. I'm not super familiar with who she is, but she's been tweeting a lot about what's going on. She tweeted this image and she writes, presumably a translation, urgent notice, all county, town and village departments, all government departments in all towns and villages must continue to implement the level one response measures, resume all previous disease prevent and control measures and make sure nothing goes wrong. When leaders from province come to make
Starting point is 00:17:40 unannounced inspections this week, implement all control measures at all communities, especially old communities, for densely populated places such as hotels, markets, liquor stores, and parks. Resume temperature taking and registering mainly. And then there's April 13th. She says, mainly applied to people from other places, Hubei and Wuhan. In the meantime, take control measures in villages according to local situations. All the above measures must be implemented within one hour. Xingtai County. What does it say of Henan province? Coronavirus pneumonia control office.
Starting point is 00:18:12 I'm sorry. She says she said sorry should be Hubei province. So I don't. Hebei province. Apparently she tweeted this out. What is this? This is yesterday morning and people are saying the gist of it. China's going into lockdown again. Yeah. They just started talking in the news. No new deaths,
Starting point is 00:18:30 no new no new cases. They're leaving lockdown back in lockdown. This is you know what, man? I'll tell you what I there is no evidence right now to suggest this is a bioweapon, at least where we're at. Fox News is reporting that China was trying to show that they could keep up with the U.S. and they made a big mistake. Yep. So even now, government, the government actors, you know, the general whatever, haven't confirmed that. But I'll tell you what, man, could you ask for a more perfect biological agent for this country? Nope. You could not. No, that's exactly what they would. So again, I want to clarify, I am in no way suggesting, I am saying this is extremely fortuitous in every way for them, and it makes me suspect. I'd like to see this investigated because now we know there's a cover
Starting point is 00:19:14 up that's being reported by multiple outlets. But here's what I was thinking. If this virus was like Ebola level, it'd be shut down in two seconds. You do it. If you wanted something to be truly effective at hurting people, you'd want an airborne virus. You'd want a two week incubation period and you'd want a decently low mortality rate enough to cripple the country in panic and fear to shut down naval vessels and weaken your enemy. Yeah, but at the same time, they admit they want to be better than us. They want to prove that they can handle things better than Americans can. So if it did get out and there was Americans that were like, they have this lab that we should be worried about.
Starting point is 00:20:01 And they're like, no, no, no, we can do this. We can handle it. And then it gets out and they're like, oh like oh man don't tell anybody that it got out like let's try to you know put a cap on this and then it blows up and now it's a worldwide pandemic you know there i can see the argument that they have they just fumbled this in the worst way possible you know and that that it might not be any sort of act of war. No, no, no. I actually think the Fox News story makes the most sense.
Starting point is 00:20:29 Yeah. And that's why I'm not surprised by it. I'm surprised it's Brad Bear reporting it because I didn't think we'd get hard confirmation like this. Yeah. But what you just said, I really don't think they would try to cripple their own economy. Exactly. I do think they're bumbling morons who slipped on a banana peel and dropped a glass vial and went, oh, no. Uh-oh.
Starting point is 00:20:49 Yeah. And then it got out. Yeah. That makes way more sense. Some people have tried to say that because of the trade war and because China's economy has been seriously hurting, that this was their act of aggression. I don't know. I think it would have been way worse. No was their act of aggression i don't know i i i think it would have been way worse i no i don't i don't i think it would have been worse if they
Starting point is 00:21:09 if they if it was really them trying to hurt us how could it be worse i mean we have those reports from the department of justice that they've been smuggling in sars virus right to amer. So if it originated in Wuhan, we have all these, you know, the travel logs of like how it spread from Wuhan. And it's very clear from there. If they wanted to really hurt us, they would have dropped it in New York City. Kansas. Sure, wherever. In the middle of the country so that it spread from here.
Starting point is 00:21:42 And then it really didn't do that. You're right. That's a good point because they've tried claiming that it originated in the middle of the country so that it spread from here. And then it really didn't do that. You're right. That's a good point because they've tried claiming that it originated in the U.S. That's what one of the Chinese officials has said. I think it doesn't make any sense. Of course. If China really wanted to win, they would have made it. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:21:57 Yeah. So for those that didn't see that story either, Yahoo News and other outlets have reported that over the past several years, Chinese scientists were illicitly bringing in viruses. Yeah, some people got caught with it and lied about it until they were like, well, what's this vial? Oh, well, now that you found that vial, actually, it's the SARS virus. It's like, what? I think we got ourselves a case of three stooges syndrome. Yeah, maybe.
Starting point is 00:22:23 It's China going, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, slipping and then shattering the vial and going, for real, that's what it is. Yeah. So, I mean, it's not surprising that what Fox News is reporting, I think most of us expected this. Yeah. But I want to entertain another possibility,
Starting point is 00:22:40 or maybe not a possibility, but I want to highlight this article. You know, China is harvesting organs. I pulled this up just because I want to show you that these people are are twist like their their culture their government whatever you want to call it yeah it's nothing to do with race it has to do with a group of people that are harvesting organs yeah so i gotta wonder what they're doing and i also gotta wonder why i should trust them but again i do think fox news is reporting really does make the most sense. They're bumbling morons. As much as I think
Starting point is 00:23:07 they would intentionally do really, really messed up stuff, I think more so there's this common problem we see with communism. Chernobyl. They get an idea, they rush forward, and then just... It almost reminds
Starting point is 00:23:24 me of someone doing a jigsaw puzzle. And they find a piece that looks like it could fit. It doesn't. So they just start pounding on the table. That's that's how I kind of describe how how these communists, these communist countries try and implement these ideas. Yeah. You know, like Chernobyl. It's like you can see it's a nuclear reactor.
Starting point is 00:23:39 We kind of understand how to work. And then it blows up and sprays radioactive, you know, carbon or whatever into the atmosphere. Or like China being like, we're going to make a bio lab. And then they just are slamming on the table to make it fit. And then, boom, breach. Like they're nasty what they're doing with people trying to forcefully harvesting organs. It's messed up. I wonder, though, man.
Starting point is 00:24:01 It's really messed up. What do we do if this story is true? I mean, what do we do if this story is true i mean what do you mean if do we not know for certain that they're doing this okay so what do we do now that we know the story it's true so it's it's officially true now it's like it's not that i like didn't believe it you know because there's been some sources what more could we have to confirm this that's the challenge right so i know youtube's already YouTube's already going to smack us in the face for even talking about it. They're going to derank. This segment will be demonetized 100%.
Starting point is 00:24:31 They're going to say, how dare you say it? Yeah, well, you got multiple. That's the Washington Post. You got a professor from Rutgers. You got Fox News, Brett Baier. They're all saying it. What else do we need to say this is confirmed? Because I'll tell you what.
Starting point is 00:24:44 I know there's gonna be a lot of people reluctant to say it is. Even part of me, I'm like, oh man, do we say it? But here's the thing. A university in China released a paper saying they were experimenting on bats. Some guy got bit. Some guy got peed on. And he had to quarantine himself. They think that was the probable source. You then had the Washington Post saying we need to talk about this. The National Review, conservative paper saying let's talk about this. All roads leading back to the lab. And now Brett Bayer saying sources familiar with the reactions are saying this. And the AP coming out saying China withheld the information and the World Health Organization lied to us.
Starting point is 00:25:18 What more does anyone need to say? Boom. There it is. Yeah. Yeah. say boom there it is yeah yeah and it's not it's not to say whether it was it was malicious or not because that it's irrelevant for this for this all to seem it is true no it was malicious well that's not what they're saying it absolutely is it originated from no no no no no no no no no them lying for six days yes that's malicious for sure absolutely right right but was it you mean
Starting point is 00:25:42 intentional spread right was that them bumbling and, what do we do for six days? Good point. Or was it like them going, all right, let's let the rest of the world brew on it. I actually agree. You make a good point. I think the six days of doing nothing was three stooges syndrome. Yeah, I think – They were running around in circles, bopping each other on that and going –
Starting point is 00:26:02 Someone give me an answer. Someone give me an answer right now. Six days later. All right. Let's just tell the world. Yeah. No, they're probably just too stupid to. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:11 They don't know what to do. Yeah. It wasn't about an answer. It was like Xi Jinping is going like you over there. Give me a report. And then he like runs over and slams into like a low hanging tree branch or something and falls down. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:22 And then the other one. And it's like, you know, it's just bumbling around like morons. See it. You know, they have malintent, like I mentioned, with those camps they're doing. Oh, yeah. But, yeah, look, I think even if they were bumbling around like
Starting point is 00:26:38 stooges, which it really does seem like they were, at least that's what the evidence suggests now, they could have told us. Exactly. But that's, the evidence you know suggests now they could have told us exactly but that's you know what i gotta be fair it being a moron i think you would be predisposed to not ask for help you know what i mean like they think they're all tough their whole thing is to try to be better than us or better than everyone you know it's like so they they're like they're trying to save face as much as possible, and now it's crumbling. And what's worse is it's crumbling in their citizens are starting to get upset.
Starting point is 00:27:11 Their citizens are starting to group up and band together because they're sick of this also, which leads to our next segment. So I don't want to talk about that, but it's interesting stuff. My question then is we've got all this reporting stacked up we are now operating under the assumption this is true they knew they lied the world health organization lied that this may have according to fox news was a breach an accidental breach what do we do some people on twitter have said for wipe all of the u.s debt to china that's it boom i don't owe you anymore, bro. You caused this problem. You cost me money. I'm not paying you back. I mean, see, that's where we get into the big hearty reminder that they make all of our medicine. They make everything still for us.
Starting point is 00:27:59 We rely on them. People are talking about old people dying.'s like okay cut china off and then all of those people that need their blood thinner medicine or insulin i mean i could go on you know it all comes vitamin c everything comes from china right now so it's like we can't do that it's crazy you know obama the obama administration wanted more u.s jobs to to go to China. Really? More. The idea was that it would force China to like it would force our economies to intertwine and that would prevent China from overtaking us. That was their idea. OK, so send more American jobs over to China. It's called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trump shut it down on like what day one. Really early. The first thing he does wasn't really. But, but like actually it might have been.
Starting point is 00:28:45 Well, that had been bothering him. I think that troubled him the most when he got elected. But Bernie said the same thing. The TPP, it would have sent hundreds of thousands of jobs over to China. Yeah, we need those jobs.
Starting point is 00:28:57 So the idea they had, the way they explained it is it would make them dependent upon us for these jobs. You know, and a lot of people have have tweeted at me like because we've we've talked about this before and they say you know it wouldn't work because america has a minimum wage and then we you know you couldn't make products as cheap and it's like you know what the problem with this is people buy cheap things and they
Starting point is 00:29:21 break and then they go buy more because there's more why let's go back to making quality stuff that is more expensive but it lasts forever you know and you can fix it this is the craziest thing wealth inequality all these lefties are complaining about yeah it's driven by open borders that's why i don't understand it's an impossible political situation these people have put themselves in yeah and that's why you'll never see me supporting it. Listen, if you have a billionaire in the United States and he says, I'm going to make socks for people to put on their feet. You know why?
Starting point is 00:29:52 Because Americans need things on their feet. Everybody does. So then he goes and sends all of the factories to China. The Americans then go to the store and say, one pair of socks, please pay the 10 bucks. That $10 goes to China. And then a portion of it goes to the store and say, one pair of socks, please pay the 10 bucks. That $10 goes to China. And then a portion of it goes to the billionaire, or I should say it goes to the billionaire. And then he cuts, he gives his cut to the, to the factories. The wealth inequality has been being driven by the fact that the American worker has been removed from the equation.
Starting point is 00:30:17 Yep. The American worker gives their money away for the product, gets nothing in return. And the billionaires make cash and the Chinese laborers make the money. Exactly. It's driving wealth inequality. So this is why Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump had very similar policies. It was very populist, nationalist, pro-America. Bernie made the mistake of chasing after these people who don't believe in anything. Yeah. It's crazy. I saw this tweet. It was like cardi b was was doing an interview with bernie sanders had said something like i saw that she said i didn't watch it but open borders is capitalist i saw that tweet i don't know if it's true but it is even bernie sanders said this back in 2015 open borders is a coke brothers proposal right-wing proposal yeah for cheap labor yeah oh
Starting point is 00:31:02 oh you want to bring factories back to america well we're gonna need cheap labor. Yeah. Oh, you want to bring factories back to America? Well, we're going to need cheap labor so we can still make the profit that we've been used to. And that's why they want illegal immigrants. Exactly. Man, it's like, stop worrying about product and let's make like a make America strong and bring, you know, bring that middle ground back to the American citizens. If so, this is why I think it's interesting to talk about the disappearing middle class, right? Yeah. Yeah. Because you've sent it overseas. Exactly. It's crazy. But what's really fascinating is that you can have in 2016 a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders saying the same things. You know that there's leaked audio of Donald Trump back in the day saying like,
Starting point is 00:31:38 Bernie is the one I'm really worried about because he's a trade guy and trades my thing. Yeah. So I think the reason why the Democratic establishment really, really hates Bernie is that as much as he flip flopped and started bending the knee to them. Yeah. He does represent an end of this international what they call like the neoliberal economic order or whatever, something like that, where it's like we're going to keep expanding free trade, send more jobs overseas. That's an extraction of our economy. And eventually it collapses. You end up with exactly what we're seeing now. You know, Silicon Valley being a really great example. Silicon Valley is all
Starting point is 00:32:15 these billionaires. Meanwhile, down at the first floor, human waste all over the streets, homelessness, drug abuse. You know, even the police who live, who are working in San Fran can't afford to live there. And you know where the labor is done for these tech firms? No, I don't. It's Eastern Europe. Of course. And because it's cheap. It's really cheap and easy to do. Profit and greed.
Starting point is 00:32:37 Well, it's interesting. It's capitalist. It's not left wing. I don't understand why these... Dude, remember what we were saying yesterday when I said people on the left, not being on the left doesn't mean you have some, you're, you're mentally deficient, but people who are mentally deficient will be attracted to the left. That's like the far left. I mean, and I think it's because they give you pie in the sky solutions. They give you, they tell you that they're going to give you rainbows and candy canes. And then people think I want that. Whereas a mature adult is going to say, I don't believe you. You know, that's too good to be true. Right. So what do you really want? Well, what you end up getting are, you know, the Democratic Socialists of America voted at their it was like in September,
Starting point is 00:33:20 I think, for open borders. How did you convince all of these lefties who are supposed to be fighting for labor to support one of the most capitalistic systems ever? Yeah, trying to protect labor. That's going to ruin labor. Totally. In America. Yep. Factory's gone. But you know what it is? No, it's not gone. Your jobs are gone. You're right.
Starting point is 00:33:41 They go to the people that aren't registered. Then they can pay dirt cheap. Have you seen that video from the DSA meeting where the guy stands up and he's like, point of personal privilege. My name is, you know, John Smith. He him. Can I just let everybody know that, you know, the chatter is really giving me anxiety. So can we keep the chatter to a minimum? And then he's like, guys, please. And then all of a sudden someone starts huffing and puffing, gets up and goes, do not use gendered language.
Starting point is 00:34:08 You've not seen this. No. Oh, man. Well, you've seen it. Yeah. I think a lot of people have seen it, unfortunately. But the reason I bring this up and if you haven't seen it, seriously, look up the viral video from the Democratic Socialists. You look at how these people behave. And I think it's fair to say they're not they're not all not all there. I'm not trying to be mean. I'm not saying this to get an emotional reaction out of somebody. But they're clearly not with it. What do you think then happens if you go to them and say,
Starting point is 00:34:33 we should have no borders, right? They're going to be like, yes. And then you're simultaneously going to say, but we're working for the labor unions, right? Yes. Yeah, that's right. Get people who are too dumb to recognize their contradictory ideas yeah so this is what i don't get about bernie sanders or know what any of it means right right but they'll stand up and say you know john smith he him his it's like thanks i guess
Starting point is 00:34:55 whatever sure we'll keep the chatter down but it was it's it's it's really yeah but then they don't this is really funny they don't keep it down. Yeah. And then there's another clip where he gets up and he starts yelling again. Same dude. I already said, keep the chatter to the minimum. It is triggering to my anxiety. Yeah, they're like – it's like toddlers in adult bodies. Yep. I see it all over the place.
Starting point is 00:35:21 So now we have basically an end of these policies which is the craziest thing to me i don't understand why there are so many conservatives trying to downplay what's going on or act like it's not happening it's like trump is getting what he wants yep it's like all there was a new report that came out saying factories are coming back yeah that's it boom good it's like a guillotine dropped and just sliced it in half gotta Gotta come back. All these people in the chats were like, is Adam talking MAGA right now? Maybe. Maybe not. I mean, jeez, I was.
Starting point is 00:35:53 A little bit, yeah. I mean, there is something to be said about them having all of the factories. All of our medicine is made over there. If it was made here, we would be stronger, wouldn't we? We would. It's a simple truth. This is the weird politics that's happening right now. Yeah. Bernie Sanders. I was a big fan of him back in like 2015 and 16. You know why?
Starting point is 00:36:14 You know, Bernie Sanders was saying we need border security. Yeah. We need to fight for the working class. He was talking about national populist positions that spoke to a lot of Americans. And I'm like, he's guys, right. He was asked about national populist positions that spoke to a lot of Americans. And I'm like, this guy's right. He was asked about Second Amendment. Urban versus rural debate. And I was like, wow. That's legit, man. That's it.
Starting point is 00:36:31 I've seen it. And then all of a sudden, he starts getting closer and closer. And what does he do? I don't know, man. That million dollars looks pretty good. That fourth house, that looks pretty good. He's only got three. He's only got three.
Starting point is 00:36:44 I'm just kidding. Does he only have three? He's got three i'm just kidding does he only have three he's got three houses only three come on dude that dude flipped so quick oh and now and now that's like the big thing right now that like the the true progressives are like no bernie we're not gonna get behind you yeah but that's what's crazy a lot of people don't seem to get it i disagreed a lot with Bernie's policies on like, he put out something that said that they were going to pay for college by putting a tax on speculation on Wall Street.
Starting point is 00:37:12 And so I remember I was hanging out by 30 Rock and there were some progressives. They were talking about it and they said that they supported him because he was going to, you know, free college and all that. And I was like, yeah, but how do you pay for that? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:24 Like, because you got to realize if you promise free college, then you've now got basically every single person eligible to go, which means the schools will fill up and then no one can go. Right. You need more schools. All right. You need bigger schools. You need more professors.
Starting point is 00:37:38 That's a lot of money you can't predict. Right. But let's say you do say it costs, you know, 75 trillion or some ridiculous number. Where does it come from? And this progressive guy was like we're gonna tax wall street and i was like i don't what i don't know what that means what is what do you what do you tax like and does he even know what that means he did not yeah exactly and so i asked him it's such a fluff piece like it means nothing i was like what do you what do you mean by like taxing wall street and he was like you know like like stocks and stuff like they make all that money and i was like do you know what most of those stocks are
Starting point is 00:38:08 and like where that money goes it's like people's 401ks and stuff it's not like you know they're day traders there's speculation but most of what you see in like wall street trading is like pensions or something i don't know i don't know how it works and i was like but it's not like you're assuming there's some like rich dude in like a pinstripe suit smoking a cigar and making a million bucks. Yeah, see? Yeah, that's all. We're riding on the wall. Right.
Starting point is 00:38:29 That was commissions and stuff. Right. And then these progressives started getting mad, saying, like, what do you mean? You don't know it's Wall Street, man. They're making all this money. And I was like, dude, do you even understand how trade volume works? No. They don't.
Starting point is 00:38:41 Yeah, if you put a tax on a product, you increase the cost of the transaction. People might not make the transaction. You might not make any money at all. No, they don't. to adopt like dude a year ago he was saying what was he saying like there's too many poor people in the world we can't have open borders where does he where does he go in the last debate last month decriminalize open you know decriminalize the border crossings amnesty jobs it's like you have completely abandoned everything desperation yeah it's gotta be this is what bugs me out because it's like i was saying about the dsa and all that they their positions are completely contradictory bernie did an interview with the new york times and they said you know in 2015 you said This is what bugs me out because it's like I was saying about the DSA and all that. Their positions are completely contradictory. Bernie did an interview with the New York Times and they said, you know, in 2015, you said illegal immigration reduces low skill wages.
Starting point is 00:39:32 And he was like, yes, it absolutely does. And they're like, so you admit it. And then all of a sudden he got flack from the left again. He had to, they're like, no, Bernie, you're wrong. It doesn't. It does. We know it does. This is what people need to realize about Bernie Sanders.
Starting point is 00:39:43 He's not consistent. Yep. It's not like a lot of people do need to realize about Bernie Sanders. He's not consistent. Yep. It's not like a lot of people do that meme, no refunds. He's supposed to be the consistent one, right? The one who's been speaking the same thing for a long time. Until he got the major platform that he now has. Sold a book.
Starting point is 00:39:59 And now he's changed. He no longer says the millionaires. Now he just says the billionaires. He's in the club. He's in the club. It's a big club. You ain't the club. It's a big club. You ain't in it. Trump's been pretty consistent.
Starting point is 00:40:11 I mean, I got to admit, Trump says stupid things a lot. Like the most recent thing he said about having absolute power. Nah, there's no excuse for that. Or like, I can reopen the states. Like, nah, you can't, dude. I'm sorry. Yeah. But look, you know, the media screeches in his face all day, every day. And it's like, I get it, man.
Starting point is 00:40:26 I get it. OK, all right. People want to vote for the guy. They're going to vote for the guy. What bothers me is people coming out acting like Bernie Sanders isn't in a similar position with his lying and his flip flopping. They're like, he's consistent. I'm like, no, he's not.
Starting point is 00:40:39 You know, nobody says it. But Trump's been talking about China and all this stuff for a really long time. His position has been pretty, pretty straightforward. But the main point I wanted to bring up is people are saying you're talking MAGA. I'm like, no, I mean, yes, technically, but Trump is a moderate. And even Vox, I'm quoting Vox here, the left-wing progressive site. So he runs and says, I want to do these basic things the Democrats used to campaign on. I think what happened was Trump comes out as a Republican but offers up a moderate Democrat kind of position without the elitism and the ivory tower kind of behaviors. You end up with a guy who's saying, secure our borders, America first, repair our economy, bring back our jobs, protect the unions.
Starting point is 00:41:23 And I'm like, that sounds like a union, a union worker, you know, get their positions on how the government should be run. Or like a Democrat from the 90s. Yeah. I mean, but even then you still have the elite, the elitist ivory tower Democrats. Like you look at these union guys, when the guy who confronted Biden on the AR-15, like that, these are union Democrat dudes. And they're like, why do you want to take away my, my, my, my right to bear arms or whatever. And Donald Trump says, I won't. And they're like, why do you want to take away my right to bear arms or whatever?
Starting point is 00:41:46 And Donald Trump says, I won't. And all of a sudden you end up with a moderate guy. Trump was pretty, I don't know the right way to describe it is, but pretty, let's say fierce on key issues. Yeah, he was. One of the things that I think was the stupidest thing he ever said was that Donald Trump was calling for a complete and total ban on Muslims entering the country or whatever. It's like a statement from his campaign.
Starting point is 00:42:03 Yeah, I remember that. I went back and I watched it. He said some things that were absolutely worthy of criticism. But I think what happened was if you come out, if you're Donald Trump and you make yourself the villain, but then say something like, I want to secure the border. The Democrats then had no choice but to reject anything he ever proposed, which makes them seem insane. It's almost like, you know, Bizarro Superman? Yeah. Like, so there's Superman and he's all like evil insane. It's almost like, you know, Bizarro Superman? Yeah. Like, so there's Superman and he's all like evil Superman. He's not evil. So regular Superman is all like charming and chiseled and handsome. Bizarro is like underbite,
Starting point is 00:42:40 really dumb. And he's like reverse Superman. OK. Yeah. It's like so he's like he's not necessarily evil, but everything's backwards. So he speaks in like opposites. That's what the Democrats have been doing. It's like, you ever see that episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza is like, today I'm going to do everything the opposite of what I would normally do. I have seen it, but I don't remember at all. It's basically what the Democrats have been doing. They're like, they're holding up a list of things Trump said he's for and they must oppose. So they end up being opposed to ridiculous things. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:04 Yeah. Anyway anyway we somehow things that actually do make sense yeah right should you be like you know what that's that's actually a good idea okay so seed so is adam talking maga no no no i'm not talking maga i'm talking mag mag mag make america great period well yeah or greater greater yeah make america greater mug i think it's the best way to put it. Because we are great. And we could be better. Let's be better.
Starting point is 00:43:30 But the narrative on the left is that America was never great. That's literally what they say. We're so spoiled. Whoever is saying that out there, they're spoiled. They have no idea. That frustrates me, man. Yeah. They have no idea and that that frustrates me man yeah they have no idea how great america actually is it's like you don't travel the world and and then come back and and tell them go not
Starting point is 00:43:53 travel europe not not europe go go to like morocco yeah go to go to like the china like i was in south africa right and i i landed in Cape Town. Beautiful place. But then I had to travel for like an hour and a half outside. And as soon as you get outside, there's no green grass anymore. You know, it's like the favelas of Brazil almost the same. Shantytowns. Yeah, they have to walk for water. And it's like you have no idea how great America is.
Starting point is 00:44:21 This place is amazing. And we can make it better. You know what China's doing right now? What are they doing? McDonald's? Yes. What is up with this now? Tell people a little bit what you heard.
Starting point is 00:44:31 All right. Well, man, China is crazy, man. They're now basically saying black people are spreading the virus more than others. And McDonald's is now saying you're not allowed in if you're black. Do you have any idea? That's so messed up. Do you have any idea what would happen to McDonald's if they did that in this country goodbye McDonald's I mean I haven't eaten there in forever but it's ridiculous yeah I wouldn't want to that is so messed up if McDonald's handed out flyers banning people based on race
Starting point is 00:45:01 yeah first their stock price would drop by like 50 percent in it as soon as the news broke everyone would sell all their stock i'm assuming they're publicly traded i don't know whatever i don't know then all of a sudden the federal government would immediately step in and issue a bunch of fines yeah they would be shut down in minutes mcdonald's would It would disappear. And I mean if they did it at a corporate level, they did it. I doubt it was at a corporate level. It was probably like, I mean... No, no, it was at
Starting point is 00:45:31 government level. So that, yeah, the Chinese government made them all do it, right? Dude. Man, the CCP virus, yo, that's it. Americans, man, we got too many spoiled people. It's placed the blame where it belongs man i wonder if if like how do you restore that worldliness to some of these people it's no
Starting point is 00:45:50 surprise that a lot of these people who are saying america was never great are city folk yeah you know city folk are even even more spoiled i was thinking about this when i lived in new york i'm like i'm like standing up front of my apartment. I'm like, there's a sidewalk under my feet. There's a park in front of my apartment. There's a water fountain with fresh running water. All of these things have always been here. Yep. And not only that, I can have any kind of food I want to my doorstep.
Starting point is 00:46:18 With an app. In 30 minutes. Press a button. Boop. All of a sudden. Most people in cities, they're ordering out. I got one more for you. Go on.
Starting point is 00:46:26 Not only can I have any food delivered to my doorstep in New York City, I can press a button and get Venezuelan arepas delivered to my apartment while people in Venezuela are starving and can't even eat that food. We have access to food from countries that can't even make the same food themselves. That's mind bending. But here's the point I was making about this. I'm looking at all these things that are just there. I remember I was crossing the Williamsburg Bridge and I'm like, man, look at this massive bridge. Had to cost the equivalent
Starting point is 00:46:54 of like a billion dollars to make. It's just there. You never have to think twice about all the backbreaking labor that went into making that. So what do you think is going to happen then? If you grow up in a city where this is your baseline, everything's just been handed to you. Now compare that to going out in the middle of nowhere, maybe in the middle of Wyoming or Montana, and you're like, we're going to live here. Is there any water? Nope.
Starting point is 00:47:19 Start digging. You got to dig yourself a well. We're going to put a pump. Yep. You need to go to the store 30 miles dude i was driving through wyoming yeah and we had i had a full tank of gas we like sobbing got gas i was driving my friend we drove for hundreds of miles without seeing a gas station i thought we were gonna run out of gas and i'm like well that's it yeah there's like nothing here we're out of gas i guess we're gonna
Starting point is 00:47:40 live here now yep this is life it's nothing for hundreds of miles. And then there was this little tiny shop with two gas pumps. And I did not even realize there was a gas station until my friend was like, look, pumps. And I was like, whoa. And sure enough, I was able to get gas and keep going. People, you live in these cities. And that massive infrastructure is just there. Yep. It is.
Starting point is 00:48:04 They're standing on the shoulders of giants that they can't see. Boom. That's it. You know, a lot of this, see, what's the problem with Make America Great Again is I wasn't alive when it was supposedly great in what he was talking about back in like, what was it, like the 30s? Reagan era or something? The 50s, the 60s.
Starting point is 00:48:22 Like, I was born in the 80s. You know, this is the life I know. And this is a good life that we have. You know, man. You know, I think it is. I think it's just, have you actually had to work? I mean, yeah, there was times where I had to buckle and work down.
Starting point is 00:48:37 Right. I mean, have you gone through true hardship? Have you seen what it's like to not be able to survive? Have you had a loved ones, you know, suffer and struggle? And yep, I have. Exactly. Many times. And a lot of these people, so we see this in the data, these progressive activists tend to be
Starting point is 00:48:53 college educated, making more than $100,000 a year. Yeah, and they're mostly white. So it's really funny that they embody exactly what they complain about. But that makes sense. Think about it. You're the super wealthy, privileged, not necessarily super wealthy, but you're an upper class, privileged, young, white, you know, low T soy boy or whatever. And you're looking around at all these wonderful things you have.
Starting point is 00:49:16 And then you hear these stories about how bad things are. And you're like, I blame people like me. And the assumption they make is that every other white person must be just like them. Right. Instead of realizing 20 million poor people white in this country right they assume it's you know everyone must be like me they must have the same experience as i do of doing nothing for everything that's the other problem with college too is that you know the one of the reasons i see them they end up going to college a lot of these people end up becoming permanent students because they don't want to take any responsibility they're scared of it i know some people like that
Starting point is 00:49:48 totally yep i know people who are like they're my age and they they went to school right out of high school and they're still in school don't got to pay back those loans as long as you're in school and then you know they do they vote for bernie to forgive their you know hundreds of thousand dozen loans yeah they they they took all this money, lived for free, refused to do any work, and that was it. Now it's like, you pay for it. I guess it's just,
Starting point is 00:50:13 I don't know what we do to solve that problem of them being spoiled. Hard times. Hard times. That's the only way. You know, Rahm Emanuel, when he got elected in Chicago, said something about mandatory basic training. And I really do not like that idea at all for liberty. I don't like mandatory anything.
Starting point is 00:50:31 Right. Yeah. Don't force me to do anything. But I wonder if there is a better way to implement some kind of retreat or something you can do in school. An ROTC class. One semester. You know, you're not you're not in boot camp, but they're teaching the... I don't like high school mandatory either. Well, I mean, it's like, I don't know, make it a part of gym class.
Starting point is 00:50:55 I get what you're saying. Yeah. You know, it's like, I don't want to be told how to live my life. But at the same time, you know, if I structured my life better, I could probably get more things done. Maybe there's... Than the same time you know if i structured my life better i could probably get more things done maybe then i do you know i could have a game game podcast going people are asking me to do it but i you know i don't really structure my life in a way that i can just do that all the time i don't think that's as much an issue though like you not yeah yeah i guess i'm just bringing my own into it but i'm saying like these are people who think they don't recognize the wealth and privilege they have.
Starting point is 00:51:27 And it's a funny thing. They like they like to say. That's my point. They like to say that, you know, to the to the to the privileged equality looks like oppression. And I'm like, have you looked in a mirror? Good, sir, because you're describing yourself, not me. Right. When you complain, you know, that as part of their philosophy, they literally believe that a black woman who's a millionaire is oppressed and a white person who's sleeping on the street is an oppressor.
Starting point is 00:51:51 It's actually a part of like the arguments have been made. And, you know, it's funny because when I try talking to some of the more rational progressives, they're like, no one really thinks that. I'm like, dude, do you even listen to the priests of your religion? They say this stuff all the time. Yeah. I get it. There are progressives who don't, you know, entertain the silliness, but they ignore the rest of them that are actually pushing this stuff.
Starting point is 00:52:14 They have fringe ideas that make no sense. And you know what's funny is like we talked about how as things get bad, they kind of disappear. Yeah, well, they're starting to come back because things are getting better. Things are getting better. We'll see how it plays out. But you're right. Yeah. It's it's how do you make people not spoiled anymore? That's the big challenge. You can't. I don't believe it. I don't I do not like that. I do not like any minute. I don't I
Starting point is 00:52:35 don't like that. You have to go to high school. I don't like that. You have to go to school, period. I think that's stupid. I think a one size fits all government mandate for institutionalization of human beings is insane. You got a point. What do you do? You got a good point. What do you do, man? Yeah, I mean, you know, Lydia was just like, hard times.
Starting point is 00:52:54 And it's like, right, the saying is hard times make strong men or something like that. And I wasn't thinking of like a mandatory program. I was thinking of the way we've been so privileged is going to cause hard times that we have no say in right so how do we how do we get get to the skip that you know like to skip that like can we wake up before it's too late i don't know and we're all in hard times and we're realizing that america was really great i don't think there's anything you can do you know i i've been around the world man i i the more i traveled the more I would come back proud to be an American. Yep. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:53:27 And I would remember coming up to the checkpoint after being in some really messed up place. Yeah. And then I remember one guy was looking through my passport, and I got a ton of crazy stuff, like Arabic and whatever. And he's like, man, what is this? He's like, what's this country? And I was like, I think that's like Morocco or Egypt or something. And he was like, you travel a lot. What for? And I was like, I'm a journalist. And he goes, hmm, how is it? And I'm like, man, I am so glad to be back.
Starting point is 00:53:54 It's like you, you, these, these, these young people who complain about America all day and night, they really don't get it. When you get locked in a camp in China and they take your organs away, when they kick out you and or your friends because of the color of their skin, when you go to these countries where they're speeding down streets afraid to stop at streetlights because someone's going to jump out with an AK or something. And it's like, man, I've been – and I haven't even been to the worst places in the world. I haven't been to like Syria or anything. I did have some people try to get me to go. But even I'm like, dude, I know how bad it gets. Yeah. And I know people have gone to these places. I mean, I was in Fukushima. So that's probably the, one of the craziest places I've, places I've
Starting point is 00:54:32 ever been. And I saw the destroyed gravestones. I'll tell you what, man, I went there, the gravestones shattered. And this guy telling us like, this was his family's, you know, a grave and like, it's been destroyed. And it's like the earthquake destroyed it. Going to this guy telling us like this was his family's, you know, grave and like it's been destroyed and it's like the earthquake destroyed it. Going to this guy's house, the calendar left at the day of the earthquake and the tsunami, the clocks all stopped at that time. And you realize like everything this guy's family was, everything he ever had, everything he ever cherished and loved wiped out in an instant. and he can only come back and take a glimpse of it and i'll tell you what's even crazier the the guides we had that brought us in
Starting point is 00:55:10 one of them died of cancer wow that's the radiation that's how some people are are what they're dealing with right now but in america we got poverty we got crime we got bad stuff yeah but they really don't get how bad things could be. Like we saw the story the other day, rats are eating each other. You want to see what humans are going to do to each other when the food stops? You wouldn't even believe it. Don't want to know.
Starting point is 00:55:32 We don't want to know. You're right. But it's crazy. Why is it that there are some people like us, we get it. And we're like, you know, we joke about how people fantasize about apocalypse, but they would never actually want it.
Starting point is 00:55:42 Yeah, exactly. But you have all these people who are like, America is an evil colonialist empire. and then they go they go to a farm for a few days and they're like i want to go home i want to go be spoiled in the city work is hard i have to make my own food like actually chop onions what it reminds me of like uh the caricature of nobility in europe they're like you knowofy, like frail and weak and like, oh, have the maid do it. I wouldn't ever pick up that. And then you have like peasants just doing hard work and like chopping down trees.
Starting point is 00:56:15 It really does feel like these people are just snooty nobles. Yeah. You know, and I hate to call them that because it makes them sound better than they are. Yeah. But they really it's almost like I don't know what you'd call it, an excess of society. They do nothing to benefit society. They think they're smarter and better. They're not making anything, but they think they're entitled to everything.
Starting point is 00:56:37 That's nightmarish. This reminds me so much of the French Revolution. And we know how that ended. So I'm sure that's not going to happen. No, it's the weirdo crazies who take over because they got nothing better to do yeah and people who worked want to be left alone because they got work to do yeah i don't know where this ends up but i do know that we kind of went off on a fun wild ride wow oh wow so why don't we uh we got a couple more segments oh wow
Starting point is 00:56:58 it's a full hour totally i mean good conversation though yeah it was good solid so uh the next segment we have for you video games are getting banned in China yep and I think this you know I'm gonna be multiplayer games specifically not just video games they don't really care about the video games I'm just gonna go for it
Starting point is 00:57:17 I think this is a dangerous precursor to war I don't know if I agree with you there I'm not saying it will be for war or that it'll lead to war, that it's for war, but it's something that I think could contribute to dangerous escalation. Actually, I think you're right, but a civil war. No. This is
Starting point is 00:57:34 them... Yeah, because their citizens are getting pissed and are fed up with it. I mean, we're seeing videos that are coming out and then these people get ghosted. Well, let's... We'll save it. We're going to jump over to the Super Chats right now. And then we're going to have this debate over. So China's actually, yeah, they're banning video games.
Starting point is 00:57:51 But if you haven't already, make sure you hit the like button because it really does help the channel. Subscribe if you want to get more videos like this and hit the notification bell. But also jump in the Super Chat if you haven't. I have to admit, I don't think we're going to be able to read everyone's Super Chat, but we are going to read many of them. And so let's just go for it. Not a bad. And I also want to mention that the super chats are actually an hour old at this point. So there's
Starting point is 00:58:12 always a time delay. But thank you, everybody. Totally. Not a banned account says if we get rid of more rights, will the virus end? Yeah, that seems to be what everyone thinks. Just take away everyone's rights. Sure. But I will I will mention because we were talking about this earlier today. If it came out like from the government that the Chinese government exacerbated the problem and then it came from a lab and it was confirmed, you'd probably see a bunch of people say like, yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Tell me what to do. We're in this together. Yeah. The like it's an accident. It's a pandemic. Let's work together. It's not enough for people to rally. It's like you give them an enemy. It's a pandemic. Let's work together. It's not enough for people to rally. It's like you give them an enemy, they'll do it.
Starting point is 00:58:51 Dark Renji says, my 2018 taxes were filed, but I didn't receive my money. While friends did. Any ideas why? It's coming in waves. That's my understanding. Your Trump bucks may come. Just be patient. Genres and Generation says, I second what someone sent yesterday.
Starting point is 00:59:06 Watch Max Durat's video on MGS2, but also watch the Deus X one. I'd love to see a podcast discussion about it. That'd be cool. We'll check it out. You want to take a note? Yep, take a note. Redbeard says, do you think the doomsday clock will get moved up? I'm reminded of the quote from Watchmen when Dr. Manhattan is asked about the doomsday clock being moved to five minutes from midnight. And he says something funny like a fictional clock being changed is no more like soothing than like a drowning man seeing a picture of oxygen or something. I can't remember exactly what the quote was, but it's like really well done. And it's like the doomsday clock was made up by someone because of their opinion and moving it is someone else's opinion.
Starting point is 00:59:44 It means literally nothing to anyone. Yeah. I write Tim and Adam fanfic. Ooh, here we go. What's this? Oh, jeez. Creepy Joe Biden grinned as Adam and Tim were bound and gagged. No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:59:57 He prepared to harvest their ballots when suddenly Trump pounced, striking down the violator with his katana and saving their purity. I love this so much. And Trump was wearing a fedora and a duster. Yes. Oh my God. Ruslan says China must be punished for this. And I wonder how, you know, how. Right, how.
Starting point is 01:00:17 Spice says, do you think we can say Voldemort yet? Also, I really appreciate your content. For those that aren't familiar, Voldemort is the name of a CIA agent. I'm not allowed to say his name. So no, we can't say his name. Yeah, I really appreciate your content. For those that aren't familiar, Voldemort is the name of a CIA agent. I'm not allowed to say his name. So, no, we can't say his name. Yeah, no. Corto Maltese says, Tim Pool, more like Tim Cool, am I
Starting point is 01:00:32 right? You know it. Am I right? Nice. I felt like someone had to do that. Yeah. Graf von Tyrell says, I just realized the same Who director named Robert Mugabe as Goodwill Ambassador in 2017 and Nancy Pelosi takes this organization's side? Sheesh. It's almost
Starting point is 01:00:47 like their opinions aren't real when they're like, World Health Organization is good. What are you talking about? Nobody agrees. I just see a bunch of robots. That's what it feels like. Nancy Pelosi is a robot to me. She is programmed. What if China was secretly building androids? Maybe.
Starting point is 01:01:04 And they've been deployed. And they're all robots. I'm kidding, man. Oh, I knew it. All right, let's see what we got here. Ceylon Blue says, China bans online gaming with foreigners after Animal Crossing was used to promote Hong Kong. That's what we'll be talking about next. Yep.
Starting point is 01:01:18 Spoiler. Captain Sugar says, there's a difference between knowing and being absolutely sure. Guy Sensei. Lee Van Cleef says, Tim, Adam, Lydia, do any of you believe that you have the qualifications to exercise free will, your values, ideas, even your personality? Are they yours or just a product of the mindless masses? I absolutely have free will. Me too. The discussion, the idea I've brought up before about this is that, you know, it was a simulation
Starting point is 01:01:43 theory I mentioned where we're either, you could be in a single player game where you are the only free will actor. You could be in an MMO where there are some free will and some not. And then you can be in, you know, just like the world is normal. Everyone's got free will. And, you know, it's hard to, you'll never know because you can't experience someone else's consciousness. That's true. I just watched a documentary about that. But I can tell you that I do find the debate fascinating, determinism versus free will, that everything about you is predetermined based upon what happened before. If that's true, we should be able to see the future very easily. With enough computational power, we should be able to actually map out every possible variable in where and how the universe forms. So we're not there yet. I'd imagine it would take a ridiculous and
Starting point is 01:02:30 insane amount of energy to actually compute something like that. But I'm not entirely convinced. I think that there is something unique and divine within all of us that allows us some kind of, you know, we control. We do. I believe in free will. Yep, I agree. But I think it's... I could put this beanie on with my free will, or I can choose to not put it on and leave it right there. You could do something... It's up to me.
Starting point is 01:02:55 You could do something totally, totally ridiculous. Now, here's the thing. If you put that beanie on, people might say, well, it's because you were self-conscious. You took it off, same thing. But what if you cut it up into a million pieces? They'd be like, oh, the beanie. You could do something right now that would make no sense. And that's why I'm more inclined to believe in free will.
Starting point is 01:03:15 Yeah. If I could pick the earth up and just throw it against the wall, I mean, it wouldn't make sense. You wouldn't do it because it's a net negative and doesn't do anything for you. But you could but you could. I could. And that's why I believe in free will. Because I could absolutely just flip this table over and storm out and never do another show again. It's a pretty heavy table.
Starting point is 01:03:33 Well, I could, you know, knock it over. You could cause trouble. I'm confident. I could cause trouble. You can cause trouble, yeah. Wait for after the joke. I've made this point to people where it's like, you could choose to do something that makes no sense and is completely out of character. Like, literally no sense.
Starting point is 01:03:47 And sure, you can still argue it's a product of who you are and how you're developed. But, you know, I mostly like the idea of free speech. Haruglory says, you're so sexy, Tim. I appreciate it, but it's Y-O-U-R-E with an apostrophe. Yeah, the wrong you're. I'm sorry. It's the internet. We're always going to point out your bad grammar. Yeah, the wrong your. I'm sorry. It's the internet. We're always going to point out your bad grammar.
Starting point is 01:04:08 Totally. Yeah, it's true. Pickle for Sanity says, so I have a question that always gets some good conversation. When wiping, sit or stand? And for TP, fold or wrap and why? We're going to skip that question, but for those of you in the comments, feel free to have some fun. Perhaps.
Starting point is 01:04:24 Go ahead. What were you saying? Oh, I was going to say perhaps in the context of Amber Heard, this free to have some fun. You know, perhaps. There's actually this. Go ahead. I was going to say, perhaps in the context of Amber Heard, this question would make more sense. Sitting or standing. There's this YouTube show called 100 Humans. And they actually, like, make them do random things. And one of them was to show us how you poop. Like, show us what you do. You know, just to see, like, how many people do the over or under, you know, when they put the the thing on there like i'm not wipe front to back back to front it's like
Starting point is 01:04:50 it's kind of hilarious and i'm not going to answer this question but go watch that show because it's pretty funny i'm not interested in talking about my personal life i am interested in talking about amber heard though uh i don't want to talk about her when she was standing on top of johnny depp's bed squatting with witnesses did she have to sit down with witnesses that's that's what blows me away all right let's move on let's go el santiago says hey tim are you a fan of gundam wing i want to donate the poster i made i do freelance illustration as my side hustle no anime or comic convention happening soon so business is kind of slow to me i've never been a very big gundam wing fan though i know what it is funny enough uh google once banned uh gundam wing really because the because gun was in the name oh my god i kid you not have you seen ready player one yeah you
Starting point is 01:05:37 know when he pulls the big huge uh gundam suit and he turns into the massive gundam barely remember yeah i know i know it's amazing you know i'm not a big fan of the the giant robot anime stuff he turns into the massive Gundam. I barely remember. It's an amazing scene. You know, I'm not a big fan of the giant robot anime stuff. Okay. Like, I get it. You know, whatever. Nah. I like the more martial arts anime stuff.
Starting point is 01:05:54 Yu Yu Hakusho, Naruto, Dragon Ball Z. Well, what about Power Rangers? That's like the perfect mashup of both. Oh, man. Power Rangers. Hey, I was actually, I think I was like nine years old, and I watched Power Rangers as a kid. I think I watched some of it, but I never really. It's a jump around the couch, jump off, high kick.
Starting point is 01:06:13 Remember Beetleborgs? Yeah. No. What are they? I do. It was the weirdest show. These little kids, like a comic book came to life or something huh and then they got beetleborg power is like is the weirdest thing i don't need it didn't make sense but it was kind of like power
Starting point is 01:06:29 rangers oh and there were vr troopers they kept trying they kept trying to make a bunch of knock offs of power rangers oh yeah but then power rangers kept like kept chugging beyond power rangers ninjas or whatever i never watched any of those i watched the og one the og one og yeah with bulkin skull yeah i think they're going to be making a new power rangers movie did you see that short film with um uh what's her what's her name it's god who's in it i forget her name she was starbuck and battle star galactica uh what there's a new show that she's on no they did another life they did a short film oh okay where it was like the Power Rangers but in the future and it's like super gritty and really dark.
Starting point is 01:07:08 Oh, cool. Sounds better. That's what they were calling Starbuck, but I don't know. Some other chick. Did you watch Battlestar Galactica? The new one? Yeah, amazing.
Starting point is 01:07:21 I binge that whole thing. It was an amazing show. Alright, let's read some more. The Chef says, Tim, Hoaxed was wonderful. 10 out of 10. It was great seeing I watched it. I binged the whole thing. It was an amazing show. Alright, let's read some more. The Chef says, Tim, hoaxed was wonderful. 10 out of 10. It was great seeing you in it. I had a good time being in it. There were some people in it I disagree with. There were some people in it I agreed with. But for the most part, I provided my opinion and
Starting point is 01:07:37 commentary to someone who asked for it. And of course, Amazon purged it. Amazing. James Merriweather says can you talk about wwe firing numerous wrestlers after being declared essential also vince mcmahon lying about wwe having a stake in the xfl i don't know anything about that i don't know anything about that either i do know that donald trump is in the wwe hall of fame and he's our president. That's amazing. Crossover. Love it. Yeah. Yep. That's cool.
Starting point is 01:08:06 LaSalle Rhyme says, happy hump day, guys. You know it. Alex Bucci says, love you guys. Have some money. Oh, we will. Thank you. Thank you. Dave Inspiration says, did Epstein at Neckbones break a week before he died?
Starting point is 01:08:17 He was found unconscious on the first attempt. Whether he did it or not, I don't know. No idea. Cyan says, good day, guys. Hope you're good. Greetings from Australia. land of the crazy. You are quickly becoming a part of my morning routine. Keep up the good work.
Starting point is 01:08:29 Morning. Morning routine. Good morning to you. Yeah, it's nice for us. Yeah. That's great. Dark Fox says, Minnesota's protest is tomorrow at noon
Starting point is 01:08:37 from the Capitol to the governor's mansion. Yeah, there's a ton of protests happening. Yes, there are. This is what I tell people. It's like a Chinese finger trap. The government thinks, I know we'll lock everything down with harsh draconian laws that'll stop it and then makes everything worse right people are like you can't do that to us well we're coming out yep and south dakota won't do it so the governor keeps saying i'm not gonna lock down i'm not gonna
Starting point is 01:08:57 do it yeah and they're being dragged the the governor is being attacked by people it's so ridiculous but probably not south dakotans. No, definitely not. Right. Maybe some. There's states. But it's like, here's the thing. If you get a problem with like no lockdown, you can stay home. Right.
Starting point is 01:09:14 You don't got to tell other people to do. You know? Yeah. One says, if you don't like us and think we are terrible, share us anyway and annoy your friends. That's a really good point to make. Yeah. If you think we are awful, then share us everyone who does yes you said everyone tell them to come
Starting point is 01:09:30 and tell us how awful we are yeah we can handle it church fdc says hey tim i emailed you about the animated video you talked about last week i just wanted to make sure you knew animated video which one was that the guy who was talking to you about animating for you no no no he said i mentioned an animated video. I can't remember. I don't know. Fearless Soldier says, Adam, wondering if you got my tweets about Tony Hawk doing all in challenge one, how PIX11 was reporting about 12 day old info to smear the press. And I asked if you are playing Warzone.
Starting point is 01:09:59 I'm not sure if I caught that one, but I'll dig through my tweets. See if I can. did i don't know anything about that so s head says when soy jesus shaves his face it makes him look both like both the child and the adult okay i'm really i'm really digging into it you know trying to get into character no justin says what would a war with china look like a lot of uh power plants would probably explode because we have these really old industrial facilities that are extremely weak to cyber attacks okay now we may have gone and like secured them over the past couple of years yeah retrofitted them right but uh really old really basic technology controlling a lot of
Starting point is 01:10:43 these things easily exploitable. It's one of the disadvantages to inventing things. So these other countries, when they finally get around to implementing, say, like cellular technology, this actually happened in a lot of countries. We invent cell phones. And then by the time another country starts developing their infrastructure, the technology is already advanced. So their initial infrastructure is better than ours. So we still operate on really old infrastructure that needs to be updated. A lot of countries don't. It's why
Starting point is 01:11:10 there's two different standards. It's mostly merging. There's like the CDMA and the GSM standard. So the US still has networks that use something called CDMA. I think for the most part, it's phased out. Like we're all doing now with like 5g and lte stuff it's all synchronizing under the gsm but uh this was a direct result of us finding like a decent technology it did really well but then other countries got the update and didn't need it so right kevin kevin says shout out to my brother keith he looked like soy jesus amazing right fearless soldier says all in challenge not, not all in challenge one. All in challenge. What is it?
Starting point is 01:11:48 I don't know what that is. Yeah, the all in challenge. I feel like I've seen other people posting about this. Tony Hawk is on vans now. I saw that. That's crazy. I don't think it's that crazy. I kind of do.
Starting point is 01:11:59 Because he doesn't even, what was he on before? Was he on like, I don't even know what shoe he was riding for before. I mean, I remember him, I mean, seeing videos of him as a young kid wearing Vans. Yeah. I mean, he's the skateboarder. Vans are what I've been wearing for a long time. I actually recently just got Etnies because they make vegan skate shoes and they're pretty great.
Starting point is 01:12:19 I'm pretty happy with them. Yeah. Impressive. Yeah. John says, PSA, please everyone let your friends and family know. Do not wait to go to the ER for emergencies. People have waited out of fear with stroke and other time-critical emergencies. That's very good advice.
Starting point is 01:12:31 Agreed. Amonsel says, Trump just threatened to suspend Congress. What? Did he really? Is that? Can you Google that? He threatened to suspend both houses, I believe. Hold on.
Starting point is 01:12:39 What? Yeah, he did. Are you serious? No. Just now? This just happened? Just during the time we've been in the show, I think. If Donald Trump tries to suspend Congress, I will grab a picket sign and I will be marching down to D.C.
Starting point is 01:12:54 He threatened to adjourn both chambers of Congress. What does that mean? I don't know. Like go home for the day? Pause it for a while. I don't like that either. My understanding is just put a pause on it for a minute. Nope.
Starting point is 01:13:04 Can't they just be like, yeah there's there's no there's no one branch stronger than the other yeah exactly i would not stand for that that doesn't make any sense but we gotta definitely look into that that's crazy for sure yeah that's interesting adjourn them no a sneak peek into tomorrow's show let let let let improve all the crazy Trump derangement syndrome people right by pulling that off because I'll be standing next to them screaming like you can't do that, bro.
Starting point is 01:13:28 Yeah, that's nuts. I can sit here and talk about all these governors violating the Constitution. Right. I have no problem pointing the finger at Trump when he tries pulling that off too.
Starting point is 01:13:35 Yeah. The National Constitution Center noted that, quote, no president has ever exercised that authority. It was the stupidest thing he could have said. Yeah, why would he say that?
Starting point is 01:13:44 Because he wants the TDS people to have ammunition against them but you know what yeah if he proves him right he proves him right there you go that's on him he can say it whatever that's crazy yeah that's crazy man thanks thanks for letting us know dude that's nuts the meltdown of what's happening in this country is starting to freak me out yeah just and it's not i'm not specifically referring to trump but when he said you know i have total authority Just and it's not I'm not specifically referring to Trump. But when he said, you know, I have total authority or whatever, it's like, oh, shut up, dude. You know, you don't. I don't I mean, whatever, man. All these governors are doing all this crazy stuff. The last thing we need is the president to jump on board, too. Yeah. It's like everybody needs to chill out. I don't care who you are, man. You start you start taking a dump on the Constitution. You're
Starting point is 01:14:18 gonna hear me yell about it. Mm hmm. Well, we'll we'll look into that one because I assure you, I'm going to read that and I'm gonna start screeching into my microphone. You'll see me getting triggered. Let's see, sir. I can't read your name. Says China going to pay what they owe. Nathan Rayner says Virginia governor pushed through gun control bill during lockdown. You see, this is what I'm talking about. Same thing. Same same thing. All of these people are just so awful. I agree. You know? Adam Collins says, What will it take for MSM to get back to its roots and begin to actually report facts and ask legitimate questions again? Ugh.
Starting point is 01:14:53 I mean, have you tried turning it off and on again? Like, let them all go bankrupt and then build from the ground up? Well, it's like when the air traffic controllers threatened to strike and President Reagan was like, You're fired. Bye. Yeah. And he started from scratch. You know, one of my favorite memes is V for V for Vendetta.
Starting point is 01:15:11 And he's got a headset with a microphone on and it says, your government is doing what? Have you tried turning it off and back on again? I'm like, yes. Yes. I mean, yeah. It's so weird that these memes back in like 2011 and 2012 were very much just libertarian. It didn't matter if you were left or right. It was like you were anti-establishment.
Starting point is 01:15:29 You believed in freedom and liberty. But now many of these activists have joined the authoritarian wing. It's like, I don't, it's, they're probably cheering for like these lockdowns. They are. They're defending them. It's nuts. Jason Allen says, with news coming out about the virus coming from a lab in Wuhan, what do you think Trump's public reaction will be? I think so far they've said, well,
Starting point is 01:15:49 we're looking at it. We don't know for sure. And I think the reason they're saying it is because if they came out and said, yep, then the public would demand a reaction, right? A response of some sort. So let's see. Josh Clark says China tries to prove it's better than the U.S. fails so hard it starts a worldwide pandemic. That's what the news is reporting right now. Yep. White Knight says Dan Crenshaw deserves an apology. Apology for what? I mean, Dan's cool. He's been ragged on for a lot of things. Yeah. Ah, the beanie's back. Timothy E. says I don't think U.S. beats China in a war. We have ridiculous rules of engagement. They don't care. Same reason Vietnam and Middle East a war. We have ridiculous rules of engagement. They don't care.
Starting point is 01:16:27 Same reason Vietnam and Middle East wars were so bad. I've heard that. I also think that as the U.S. gets more and more desperate, you'll see people not caring about any rules. Like the fact that we have rules of engagement are due to the fact that we're wealthy and privileged. Yep, that's true. When we're actually under threat, someone's going to sit back and be like,
Starting point is 01:16:42 rules be damned. And he's going to press the button. And there we go. And the world doesn't exist anymore. JD says, China lied and people died. I hope there's consequences for this travesty. I'm not convinced there will be. But if escalation gets worse, then don't be surprised if it does.
Starting point is 01:16:59 Jeb Reed says, YouTube is getting investigated currently by the FBI. I have not heard that. Wow. I haven't looked into that. I didn't know that. Travis Potter says, do you guys believe these lockdowns, which some violate the Constitution,
Starting point is 01:17:08 are acceptable? What do you think is the best form of protest against them while trying to stay safe? You know, I don't believe in them. I think they've gone nuts. And I like the idea of what a lot of these conservatives did with their cars. They kept their doors and windows up,
Starting point is 01:17:21 and they just formed a traffic jam and started honking like crazy. And I'm like, that's actually impressive. You know why? They're still in quarantine up and they just formed a traffic jam started honking like crazy and i'm like that's actually impressive you know why like they're still in quarantine and they're protesting one person in a car takes up way more space than one person on the street it's true so you actually see this massive traffic jam and it's like that's not even that many people and that's a huge impact you get 50 people in the middle of an intersection they get rounded up and arrested right away yeah you get 50 people in cars and those cars are jammed everywhere they
Starting point is 01:17:44 can't get those cars out, man. That's a really good point. I'm not advocating for it. I'm just saying that's what they've been doing. It's an idea. Yeah. Let's see. The Hylian says,
Starting point is 01:17:54 this was just viral marketing for the Resident Evil 3 remake. They did a great job. Got everyone on lockdown. The video game industry says, you know, coming up. Excellent. Alex V says,
Starting point is 01:18:06 what would be more embarrassing for the far left? AOC losing or AOC becoming mainstream to keep her seat? The second one, which she's doing. She's going to like endorse Joe Biden or something. She kind of halfway did. Right, right, right. Wolf Spain says, I don't remember if you mentioned this in an earlier segment, but China has been pushing blame to minorities for spreading the virus.
Starting point is 01:18:29 And where is the left to call this out? Hypocrisy at its worst. Yeah, I know. How is it that I've come out with multiple videos complaining about this? How is no one talking about this? Where are the social justice warriors when there's literally social justice stuff happening? And it's like crickets. Maybe it's all here is crickets. Maybe it's because they're chinese trolls maybe china is this like russian bots to rhino yes well maybe the people claiming the russian bots were actually chinese people claiming that americans were russians oh gosh oh man oh yeah we go deeper into the hole man yeah rye says tim the channel called epoch times recently has shown on my ads do you know if they're reliable how do you check your sources So I use a third party service called News Guard. I there are a group of journalists that rate news agencies. I think they're very biased, but I don't think they're the absolute
Starting point is 01:19:14 worst. Now, they give Epoch Times, I think, a bad rating because Epoch Times is very, very biased against China. And I think they're moderately pro-Trump only in the sense that Trump is anti-China. I don't have an issue with biased reporting, as long as you know what that bias is. It doesn't mean the facts they're giving you are made up. It means they're selectively showing you information, which is fine, because it's not like you go to them for all of your news. It kind of frustrates me when people say, this is from CNN. I will never listen to anything they say. I'm like, okay, they have an opinion. You know what their opinion is. They can still present the news and they do. Yeah. I would, I would say if it's on CNN's TV channel, ignore it. If it's on their website, take it with a grain of salt, but the website's very, very different. Very different. The same is true for Fox news. The website is the Fox news website
Starting point is 01:20:04 is really good. Really, really good. Okay. And they even have opinion writers who are very lefty. The TV channels are, I'm sorry, the TV channel, actually through the daytime, is pretty good. It's the nightly hosts that are very bombastic. Except for, I mean, Tucker is too. And, you know, it's like I roll my eyes when he calls Brian Seltzer a eunuch and he does things like that.
Starting point is 01:20:23 And I'm like, Tucker doesn't need to do that. You know, he's got a great show. He brings on good guests. But yeah, that's what people do. And people like it when I say. Yes. Let's see. Robert Goldie says, Hi, Tim.
Starting point is 01:20:34 Do you think there is a possibility that people will backlash against the Democratic Democrats for wasting money investigating Trump that could have been used in this pandemic? I'd like to think that. But, you know, I'll tell you what, people people have drawn their lines. Most people are like, I'm on this side or this side. And it's getting to the point where I'm seeing people that, you know, on the left, praising the World Health Organization. And I'm like, you're insane. Right. I'm sorry, man. You're insane. I was defending them just because. I'm sorry. The Associated Press has come out and said that China was withholding information. The World Health Organization fed us BS.
Starting point is 01:21:06 Yeah. If you're defending them, it's because you're pretending to be partisan. That's all you care about. Well, not necessarily that. It could just because they not that they're pretending or anything. They believe it because it's the World Health Organization. That title alone. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 01:21:21 The AP. No, I mean, I'm seeing friends of mine that are posting like, God, I can't believe that Trump is, you know, suspending the World Health Organization. And I'm just like, do you know what they've done recently? But I'm not talking about the layman. Okay. I'm saying that there are political people, like commentators like me, who are defending the WHO.
Starting point is 01:21:42 And I'm like, how did you miss the Associated Press reporting on this this unless you don't actually read the news right so maybe they're being paid to ignore it i mean that's a stretch i know but no but it's it i would say framing but you're right they're they make more money when they ignore it they will make more money saying trump is wrong we must protect the who it's like dude listen if if Donald Trump tries to make some kind of move to adjourn or suspend Congress and do something like that, I'll screech on top of my lungs about it. I don't care. When I make content, it's because of something I believe in. When I see someone come out and say the World Health Organization must be protected, I'm like, but did you read the AP's story about this? Like, I'm sorry, man. That I can't believe all right it's like they they've they there's no
Starting point is 01:22:25 principles it's just it's i'm on this side and we're the side that's not trump yeah well i don't care about that i i think trump has got good and bad things going for him that's a ridiculous thing it's not a policy position to like or hate trump i'll put it that way it makes no sense i agree with you yeah completely yep it's like you can like the guy you can hate like i met a guy in an airport yeah i don't like everything he does not at all i met a guy and i was in an airport and the woman who was serving drinks was a bernie supporter okay the guy on my left was a trump supporter and the you know i was i started the news was on i asked the woman i was like would you want would you mind putting on cnn i was like i know it's probably gonna make everybody angry but like they i can't i don't remember what was on the TV, but it was stupid. And she put it on and they were talking.
Starting point is 01:23:07 And then this started a conversation. She said she was in favor of Bernie mentioned a few policies. The guy on my left goes, nah, nah, nah, Trump all the way. And I was like, really? I was like, you really like what about him? You don't you don't don't you take issue with like his attitude and the way he talks about things and the guy laughed and he was like does that mean he's a he's bad at being a president because he's a bad person i'm like no i got the point like totally you're right right i'm just wondering how you feel about it and he goes oh god the guy's a lowlife i wouldn't invite him to my house for dinner i'm gonna vote for him in 2020 he started laughing and i laughed and and the woman behind the counter the bernie
Starting point is 01:23:42 supporter started laughing too yeah and she was, I would never vote for that man. But you're right. He's a bad guy. And the guy was like, yeah, I think he's terrible. But he was right on the economy. The money's good. He's working right for this country. But I wouldn't let him in my house for dinner.
Starting point is 01:23:56 And I started laughing. That's interesting. And I'm like, that's a really. But, you know, I've heard that from a lot of people. Yeah. I was in an Uber. This was when I got invited to Glenn Beck's show in Texas. Okay.
Starting point is 01:24:08 I was in an Uber on the way to the studio. And the guy asked, like, so what are you in town for? And I was like, oh, it's, you know, Glenn Beck's show. We're going to talk. It's a podcast. And he was like, oh, yeah, Glenn Becker, you know, blah, blah, blah. And start talking about politics. And then I asked him, I was like, so what about you as a Latino guy in Texas? And I was like, you're going to vote for for Trump or, you know, I can't remember who else was running. And he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, of course. Of course. He's like, I just wish he wouldn't tweet so much. I wish you kind of just, you know, shut his mouth. But, you know, the economy has been really good. And I think he's good for this country. But, you know, he's got attitude. And I started laughing. I'm like, I hear that a lot. I really do. And I don't think these activists realize it,
Starting point is 01:24:42 that we get it, man. We get the orange man is bad right but there are a lot of people who are like that doesn't change the fact that he's a businessman who's going to bring the jobs back and and fulfill these things he's been talking about which it seems like that's going to happen yeah it's almost this pandemic is forcing the world totally america's hand the craziest thing about trump is that I think a lot of what was I going to say something like people don't realize that. I lost my train of thought on this one, but I think I basically gave the gist of it already. Yeah. That the attitude of Trump means absolutely nothing to the regular people. Right. You know, it's it's these activists are asking us to make a vote
Starting point is 01:25:21 based on emotion. Yeah. Yeah. Don't do that. Well, did you see the story earlier about the woman who tore the Trump flag down, the man and the woman, the doctors? No. They brought their kids with them. Really? Yeah, and the one kid was begging them, please, you're going to go to jail, don't do this.
Starting point is 01:25:35 And they were like, be quiet. And then they got a ladder and they go up and they steal the flag and they got arrested for it. Yeah, no kidding. These people are coming out and saying, don't vote for Trump. And you're like, why? And they're just telling you because they they emotionally react negatively to him. Yeah. They don't realize that everyone understands those feelings and still
Starting point is 01:25:52 doesn't care. Right. That there's other things they find to be more important. That's that's a but crazy, man. You're nailing it. But that's why they're running Joe Biden, because it doesn't matter who runs. These people have a weird emotional blockage in their brain where the only thing they're thinking is, I hate Trump. They want to get him. Ooh, they want that symbol to be knocked down. But that's not how you win, man. Nope.
Starting point is 01:26:15 You don't, you know, I always try and warn my friends who are skating and get angry. Yeah. They'll get angry. They'll start kicking their board around. And I'm like, you realize this is blocking you from succeeding, right? Right. You've lost your focus. You're enraged.
Starting point is 01:26:27 It is a trope in martial arts movies. Get your opponent angry so he loses focus and swings wildly. Yeah. You got to calm down. You will not win if you are freaking out. That's a good point. But they'll freak out anyway. Like today, I thought to myself, I took a deep breath and then I landed it.
Starting point is 01:26:43 Oh, the skating. You were skating. Yeah. Yeah. Adam were skating? Yep. Yeah, Adam did. You went, it's all, I think you would, I guess you'd call it fakie. Fakie body varial blunt rock revert. Fakie body varial rock to stall revert. I did so many different versions of it.
Starting point is 01:26:59 You basically did a pretty beast trick. But I smacked, I fell a lot trying to get to it though but you weren't angry you were stoked the whole time yeah yeah exactly because i was getting closer and closer but if i had gotten angry there's no way i would have landed that contrast that with like the reaction of a trump supporter right who will see something and like trump will turn the the the insult into a joke and they'll laugh about it and then they'll keep doing their thing right versus the people who get triggered who get so frustrated and flustered they can't see straight and that becomes their entire everything and they get arrested after they steal some dude's flag it's like wow dude you have hurt yourself right it's like it's like you've hurt yourself in
Starting point is 01:27:37 confusion don't you have anything don't you have anything better to do with your life yeah man don't you it's it's it's a come on. I read the definition of Trump derangement syndrome. It originated in the Bush era for Bush derangement syndrome. And it was Charles Krauthammer, I think. Am I saying his name right? Yep. And he said it's the onset of extreme emotional distress and paranoia in seemingly normal people over over specifically the existence of an individual. I don't get what it is, man. It's like these people can't think rationally.
Starting point is 01:28:13 They see Obama and they cry, hope and change. It means nothing. They see Donald Trump and they cry and scream orange man. It's like, there's no substance behind what they're saying or doing. Exactly. And then, so you, you end up like, there's a lot of people and no rational like reasoning for them to even like well what what about it well he said terrible things right okay what what else you know does that affect me it's like well what about his policies that you don't like i don't care he's
Starting point is 01:28:36 just a bad person yeah but what about his policies that you know dude they they i mean these interviews are always cherry-picked you know so it's hard to really like use them as an example. There, there are people who have made a career out of doing like gotcha man in the street interviews. You go to a university, you grab a stack of, you know, Bernie Sanders proposals and Donald Trump proposals, and you invert the name and like clockwork, you woke up to a college student and take a Trump quote and says, Donald Trump says that China is really dangerous. and it's about time we bring our factories back and work and fight for the working class and they're gonna be like that sounds like bernie i'm gonna vote for him you're like well that was donald trump bernie sanders actually said china is a great partner we
Starting point is 01:29:16 must that's what the people do all the time yeah you've seen them i have seen that and and it's it's again cherry-picked you know it's like but it's not even it's not even they get enough people they can make it seem however they want this this one isn't about cherry-picking, cherry-picked. You know, it's like... But it's not even about... They get enough people. They can make it seem however they want. This one isn't about cherry-picking. Right. Cherry-picking videos are more like they try to make you look stupid. So they'll find some... So they'll go to someone and say, name a policy of Bernie you like.
Starting point is 01:29:35 And they'll show only the dumb ones. But you can go to any person, smart, and be like, if I told you this, would you agree? And then they'll be like, oh, that sounds pretty good. And then it turns out it's a Hitler quote or something. Right. Because I guess you could say you could cherry pick certain quotes that you know are popular. That's all I'm saying. Right.
Starting point is 01:29:51 It's easy to pull off. But I think it's fair to say that you could do something like, is this Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump? And read a quote from Bernie in 2008 where he's like, we need this border barrier. Illegal immigration is hurting, you know, jobs in this country and people are going to think it's Trump. Yeah. And it's like, actually, that was Bernie. You know, that was Hillary. That was Biden. All right. So let's let's do this. I'm going to I'm going to go through these super chats much
Starting point is 01:30:16 more quickly now because we do have this video game segment we got to get to. Oh, yeah, totally. Let's see. Baltazar says Bill Gates says vaccines cause damage. Dr. Fauci is on the leadership council for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Burt's daughter is the deputy director there also. Bill Gates is the who's second biggest owner too. I don't know anything about the Bill Gates stuff, but I do think people are overreacting. Mr. Paul R says, got some extra Trump bucks today. Agree highly with Tim Pool. Only Wuhan theory was following this in January. Enjoy that. Enjoy all that you do.
Starting point is 01:30:48 Call the CCP virus. Wordy, wordy doored. Boom. CCP virus. I like Wuhan virus because it's the name of the city. It's the standard by which we name things. And it recognizes the Chinese government. Yep.
Starting point is 01:31:02 All right. Stephen says, F YouTube. Tim, keep doing the real news. You are more of a journalist than that Reza Aslan ever was. Jason Pratt says, look into how Western scientists engineered the H5N1 virus in 2010 to be more transmissible to study its effects. I think the Chinese did the same thing. Interesting.
Starting point is 01:31:20 Chet Chisholm says, look into the Chinese scientist Xianguao Qiu. She was being investigated by the RCMP for a policy breach while working at a microbiology lab in Winnipeg. She was working at a level four lab in China before. Student of History says, before I was wondering if I was being too harsh by entirely blaming China for this complete S show. Now I have no doubt in my mind that I was right. And the media, social media, who?
Starting point is 01:31:43 Every one of them. Sean Hanner, thanks for the super chat. Dwayne, also thanks for the super chat. Scott says, please investigate a drop in recorded flu deaths lately, as we are told COVID related deaths are increasing. I saw data from this and I did not see it. There was a chart that was going viral showing the current flu season. And it was like a normal wave compared to other years. And coronavirus is a major spike. Yeah. So I've heard these things, but I haven't seen it.
Starting point is 01:32:09 And so it's like, if I can't... It's too soon. I need data. Data, yeah. RMB says, shut up and take my money. I will. Thank you. Patrick says, thank you for your continued reporting,
Starting point is 01:32:19 even in these hard times. Oh, no problem. I mean, what else would I do? It's technically an essential function. We are. Yeah, the media is considered essential. We could walk around and they can't do anything. I mean, yeah. So no, but literally if we, if we got like press cards for the show, media is considered essential. We could walk around and like, what are you doing? It's like, we're doing a show, you know, it's, it's press and it's like, all right, there you go. Yeah, man.
Starting point is 01:32:41 Shrek says sitting outside, enjoying margaritas from the local mexican food thanks for delivery and relaxed laws on alcohol delivery here in texas and very little restrictions so far but not too bad here either sounds fun texas man i like that place i cannot read these symbols which i believe are chinese but they say soy jesus is right and in intentional bioweapon release would involve simultaneous release in multiple major American cities. Yep. Intelligent person would pick a stable one, low mutation rate. So already developed vaccine will work. Interesting. Ryan says the West has grown weak. What better time to attack us?
Starting point is 01:33:13 Some would say. F Garrett says, listen to y'all every day at work. How close do you think China is to revolting to their government? Their economy is going to take a huge hit from companies pulling out. It looks bad for them. I think we're really close. And our next article. Yeah. Yeah. Their economy is going to take a huge hit from companies pulling out. It looks bad for them. I think we're really close. And our next article, yeah.
Starting point is 01:33:30 Yeah, so the next segment we're going to do is going to dive into this. Adam thinks it could be internal collapse. Someone mentioned the other day that there already is strife in the party. I think so. Between Xi Jinping and this other guy. Yep. Roland says, hey, Tim, been watching you for a while now, and I finally have the money to donate. Ironically enough, given the, you know, economy, keep doing what you do.
Starting point is 01:33:48 You provide a very valuable service. I appreciate it. And I'm glad to see that many of the Trump bucks are coming my way. Yes, yes. More. Someone said the other day, like, I got my Trump bucks. Here's 10 bucks. And I'm like, yes, Trump, Trump.
Starting point is 01:33:59 He put his name on them. They got all mad. Joseph Flynn says as soon as he left his Jesus hair, let his Jesus hair out. He starts talking MAGA coincidence. i quickly shoved it back in student of history says soy jesus and the beanie bro going full manga for about 10 minutes here this timeline is we did go on a rant didn't we but it's i i i regret nothing it's not it's not it's not fair to us that what the left used to be agreed with Trump on so many of these issues. Yeah, that's true. Like, you can't expect me to change my opinion overnight because you wanted to adopt these weird social media activist things.
Starting point is 01:34:33 Yeah, exactly. We stayed in the very center. No, no, no. We're— Yeah, we're left. We're left of the center line. We used to be. Well, yeah, we used to be considered left of the center line.
Starting point is 01:34:42 But now with everyone over way over there everything's to the right they jumped off the cliff like we're they're just they're just falling away and as as they fall away they're like you're far right yeah exactly it's like well we're actually up here like not falling yeah adventurous as a chicken plant near me once was to be shut down after discovering they were employing undocumented workers who may have or had tested positive for covid city wouldn't let them due to taxes wow jeez jp says darker skinned people have less vitamin d it's not racism that causes the disparity in deaths oh really carrie steer says the amazon show the expanse show what earth would be like if all the far left policies are enacted and it's scary i well i need to re-watch it's such a good show buck a says like i said
Starting point is 01:35:30 trump is playing 4d chess with the rest of the world china and who have now been caught and red-handed and our own media sides with them tds is deadlier than covet 19 i kind of agree man i mean not literally deadlier but more dangerous because it could lead to full on war. Yeah. Mr. Paul says more Trump bucks your way. Stocked up on beans for the next two years. Still waiting on my Patriot supply, but my order is in front of 106,330 orders. Ordered February 26th.
Starting point is 01:36:00 Thanks, Tim Pool. Wow, man. They are way backed up. Yeah, but they've been speeding up. So for those that aren't familiar, I've done a promo for this emergency food stuff because I legit think it's a good idea. And the delay went from like 12 weeks. Now it's dipping back down. But they had to open new plants.
Starting point is 01:36:15 There's a bunch of food shortages. Are they made in America? I think so. I hope so. I would certainly hope so. Yeah. It'd be weird to have the like food grown in China and then shipped here though. I mean, I'm pretty sure that there was like very patriotic, the page.
Starting point is 01:36:30 Well. And they're like, we won't sell to the US government. I was like, geez. They're serious over there. I'm like, I don't care if the US government gets emergency food. I'm not worried about that much. All right. We have a major influx of super chats.
Starting point is 01:36:43 So nice. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I got to figure out nice. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I got to figure out where. Well, hey, guys, remember to like and share if you if you so feel we deserve it or wish to punish your. Wow. This is huge.
Starting point is 01:36:53 Or punish your friends. Yeah. Totally. We're terrible. I'll accept it. Susan says the world's oldest profession is begging. Somebody had to ask. Huh?
Starting point is 01:37:01 Roddy says, hey, I brought this up yesterday, but I'll pay to try and get more information out there to everyone about the internal faction war going on in China. Zhang Zemin was the guy who took power after Tiananmen massacre for supporting it, TBC. Interesting. Well, we're going to read about this. We do have it pulled up. Yeah, we're going to talk about this. Emeka Obi says, thank you for preaching what I've been trying to tell people, crony capitalism and owners who care all about the money to profit themselves while sending all the cheap labor to China. And this is what bothers me because in the left claims capitalism is broken.
Starting point is 01:37:31 No, no, no, no. I'm sorry. Corrupt individuals and politicians extracting the middle class is corruption. That has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It's just run. It's just run off the rails. By people selfishly exploiting the system for their personal gain. Yep, exactly. Roddy says
Starting point is 01:37:50 he began creating a cult of personality and put his loyalists in all positions of power. This is the Jiang guy. To finalize his power base so he could run things from behind, he selected Falun Gong as scapegoats and hunted them using the 610 office. Interesting. Yasser, Thanks for coming to
Starting point is 01:38:05 member. Thank you. Michael Maroney says, if you want to solve the spoiled brat problem, this country make voting contingent upon serving in the military for two years. That is the super troopers, starship troopers, starship troopers. Yeah, not super troopers. Roddy goes on when Xi Jinping took power, he had the same idea and has needed to dismantle all of his enemies loyalists through purges. Theang faction is deep in things like north korea which has been one of the reasons she hasn't been nicholas says you should you should read starship troopers it depicts a society in which you have to put in two years of military service for the right to vote or hold office still have other basic rights though it's a fascinating idea i think it is sargon is in favor of that now i don't
Starting point is 01:38:43 want to say what he's in favor of but sargon did did a big video breaking down, like, and it's a joke. Was it service guarantees, citizenship or something like that? Yeah. Well, what if they just went, like, you talked about not wanting mandatory boot camp, but what if that was all it was? If you want to vote, you got to do boot camp. That's the general premise. But not serve. Right, right, right.
Starting point is 01:39:04 Not actually, like, go and serve and you's the general premise. But not serve. Right, right, right. Not actually like go and serve and you might be in war. But just curious, what would you think about that? I don't know. I don't know, man. It's tough. That's okay.
Starting point is 01:39:16 This is why I'll never be in government. Stay on the fence. Well, I just don't think I'm smart enough to dictate for other people how they should live their lives. I'm just asking your opinion though. My opinion is that we probably need something.
Starting point is 01:39:27 I don't know if that's the right answer. Okay. But we need something so that people are responsible with their vote. Man, you'd make such a good politician. No, I wouldn't. Oh, God. I'd be standing there and be like... They all agree with me.
Starting point is 01:39:38 Because people would be like... Don't you agree with me? Yes. Mr. Poole, you're running for office. What's your position on increasing or decreasing taxes? I'd be like... It's complicated. I have no idea. Why should we vote for you? I have no idea. Don't. No, you would say, you know what? I'm not the expert. I'm going to bring in experts
Starting point is 01:39:55 and I'm going to learn what I need to do. That's what you would say. Probably. Or I just be like, I will tell you what I'm going to sit there confused half the time, not understanding because I'm going to have lobbyists from both sides screaming in my ears. So the truth. Yeah. It would be wonderful. It would be incredible. I agree.
Starting point is 01:40:15 I agree. It would be incredible. I would never want to be in a position of national security. But if I was ever in like Congress or anything, I just be like, just throwing documents out. Like, here's a picture i take pictures of everything and be like here you go here you go it's all public everyone gets to see it yeah i love that i'd wear i'd wear a permanent no more behind the scenes that's great they'd be like get this guy in there mr pool this is a sensitive meeting i'm like oh can
Starting point is 01:40:38 can you guys see he said it was sensitive what was that again you're what what hold on they're chatting me right now they're saying tell him tell him to shut up we pay your we pay your salary they said they pay your salary so you should shut up that'd be funny yes all right sorry for sidetracking us there all right let's read ted uh ted says i think you should mention sour patch sidekick in your promos he's a third of the show or uh i or at least a quarter also did reza act like he enjoyed his tv dinner asking for a friend disgusting yes uh well yes we we need to get the camera and the thing for sour patch sidekick i love it sour patch side yeah man it's got a good ring to it i like it and chris says i'm from a third world country i've been to the u.s and the eu and the uk just the
Starting point is 01:41:21 amount of freedom the u.s has makes makes it the best country in the world europe is china light maybe the uk can go back sad will says accept my offering soy jesus and there's some money 23 and 12 cents i will accept this harry batinsky says hello to tim and adam and hail the hidden hottie i never fantasized about the apocalypse visiting the philippines to do charity work was hellish though i hope the hope the country is opening. Well, thanks for that. Aqua says, keep it going, guys. Much appreciated. Thank you very much. Thank you. Student of History says China gonna ban multiplayer video games. Hope Blizzard feels happy about cucking out for them. Yep. Zine Mart says entitled college kids wouldn't be so spoiled if they had to earn their way like the rest of us. And government funded school loans. Problem solved. I'm a truck driver earning 85k per year truck paid for and these kids went to college and are in debt and
Starting point is 01:42:09 complaining yeah he's doing good congrats corasonic says if you guys have not played tales of berseria it's all about a man taking away everyone's rights and being human and making as being human and making them slaves this could be us soon y Yikes. Scary. J Max says, Adam, which Final Fantasy VII re-character do you think they did the best with? Which one do you find lacking, if any? I really love everything Barret and Aerith. Everything Barret and Aerith is a strong second for me. Jesse gets an honorable mention. I thought Rude was too talkative compared to the original.
Starting point is 01:42:40 That's a good point. He didn't say anything, really, in the first one. I'm really bummed that you can't use red 13 as a character um i really love tifa now she is so much more ba than i can't swear but i want to uh the first game i didn't use her ever because her limit break was risky and it wasn't a sure thing so i always ended up using sid barrett and cloud because their limit breaks were just simply the best and this game gives you a really good way of of figuring out what each character is really good i i love them all even erith i never used because i knew something in the future was going to happen i don't really want to i mean the game's 23 years
Starting point is 01:43:24 old but it doesn't matter. I just, you know, it felt like a waste, but I was using her and she is really strong. And Biggs and Wedge and Jesse, I like that you got to see that whole side of the Avalanche team
Starting point is 01:43:37 that you didn't before. So that was really cool. So, but thanks for the shout out. Kami says, you seriously need to watch Serial Experiments Lane. It will change your perception of reality. Cool.
Starting point is 01:43:49 Logan at Dakari says got my stimulus money and three weeks of unemployment all in one day. So shut up and take my money. Plus, my work is talking about going back to regular hours next week. Love you. Aunt, aunt. Keep it up. Cool, man. I hope everything kicks back into high gear and people get their jobs back.
Starting point is 01:44:02 Me too. Sam says best thing about the Chinese online gaming ban the script kiddie hackers will suffer also a discussion on strass how generational theory would make a good podcast topic nowadays that is a good idea strass how generational theory is basically strong men make good times oh yeah yeah yeah it goes on how like we're actually supposed to be on the cusp of a civil war or a complete and total breakdown of some sort. Yeah. It certainly feels like it, doesn't it?
Starting point is 01:44:27 Every 80 years or something like that. Yeah. We'll see. It feels like it for sure. We're there. Connor says, start wiping sitting. Final one is done standing as a safety. All right.
Starting point is 01:44:35 All right. Reiterating, Nerdette's newsstand has great coverage of Amber and Johnny. She has a playlist of videos she's done on it. Cool. The Grizzly says, hey, man, I just wanted to ask you if you are going to do any more conspiracy stuff after this outbreak and nonsense is hopefully over my question is to all three of you what's your favorite conspiracy theory and why is that i don't know probably lizard people in the center of the earth just because well no no my favorite conspiracy theory is that human life and all life originated on venus and that a runaway
Starting point is 01:45:04 greenhouse effect was destroying the planet. So the military created the Ark to escape the planet with the DNA of two of each animal and then seed Earth and that we're actually living in a post-apocalyptic new world. But we originally came from Venus. I love that. I'm not really into conspiracy theories that much because I'm so logic based that I tend to really dig into science and stuff that, you know, I don't I don't care to delve into conspiracies when I can delve into like actual scientific proof of things. But we did come across some someone tweeted at me the expanding Earth conspiracy. Oh, yeah. And it's kind of cool i mean it's it seems a little silly
Starting point is 01:45:48 but at the same time it's kind of cool i don't listen i looked it up expanding earth was the old theory before tectonic plates ah it was how they knew about it right they're trying to explain how the you know why it moved that makes sense okay that makes sense because expanding earth doesn't explain the water volume right i know uh but somebody mentions right here it's interesting saying uh nlf i think it's nlf the house and senate disagree on the time of adjournment the constitution says the president may adjourn them to such time as he shall uh he shall think proper okay someone meant someone says article 2 section 3 is that. So technically, this is technically constitutional. Well, is it or isn't it?
Starting point is 01:46:27 If it is constitutional, I got no problem. It's just never been done before, is everyone's issue. Well, I mean, we are in the middle of a pandemic. These are interesting times. It's because the House is Democrat. The Senate is Republican. Right. So they're not on the same terms.
Starting point is 01:46:40 Probably. Something like that. Okay. Motto says, South Dak Dakota and Governor Noem isn't just hip to constitutional rights. She's also hot AF cattle rancher, massive devaluation of our currency labor will manufacturing return poorer, but more sovereign. Matthew says since the Senate is not meeting until the 4th of May, but they are still in session. Trump is threatening to end the session and do racist appointments. Ah. Chris says, Tim and 2,
Starting point is 01:47:05 for all of your feeds and news, greatly appreciate it for the last six months and get me prepped in December. By the way, I'm a retired Navy and banded my head earlier on the carrier articles. Want help? We'll see. I mean, I don't know. Yeah, send a message. Tweet some information at me. Yeah, tweet it to Adam. There's my Twitter.
Starting point is 01:47:22 Send it over to me. I'll check it out. Chris says, please cover this tragedy going on in CA. I'm affected by this as well. Look up the petition to waive EDD false statement penalty weeks during a COVID-19 for claimants in good standing. We'll check it out. DK Samaritan says, there's a link. Here's a link to executive orders and powers.
Starting point is 01:47:41 Oh, interesting. Agent Toon says, Trump is frustrated at obstruction. The current practice of leaving town while conducting phony pro forma sessions is a dereliction of duty and that the American people cannot afford during the crisis. Well, there you go. We didn't get a chance to look into it, but it looks like we're getting the explanation. Theodore McCarthy says the complaints about Trump's attitude are just elitist bigotry. It's snooty people who can't stand the president talks like a bricklayer from Queens. Well, yes, he does. That I agree with. Yeah, for sure. He's blunt. That's why I never really cared. I grew up around all this stuff in Chicago.
Starting point is 01:48:10 Yeah, same here. I'm like, what is this? I'm pretty blunt. You know, I come off as brash sometimes, but I mean, it's who I am. Israel says, it's crazy. I was at Walmart. It felt like Black Friday. Lines of people with 55 inch 65 inch
Starting point is 01:48:25 tvs the future isn't secure is a tv that important will they be the ones not paying rent maybe it was all the trump bucks people are like i got money yeah not wise go spend it on a tv easy says we call it the flu han virus over here in michigan sebastian uh thanks for the super chat trump will stiltz says, don't let the woo flu get you. Will not. Woolfault says, what happens when the news is no longer free from bias? What happens when it is no longer trustworthy? Fact becomes fiction. Fiction fact, when does news become propaganda? Danger to the Republic. Oh, we just got a big old super chat jump. Hello when that happens. And where? There we go.
Starting point is 01:49:05 Carlos says, Winnie the Pooh did Tiananmen Square. All right. Flying Squirrel says, Trump does all the things rational people yell at their TVs. He shows the press when they lie and he beats on Congress when they hold up progress of normal government duties. You three do an awesome job and I appreciate it. Thank you. Kurt, thanks for becoming a member.
Starting point is 01:49:22 Thank you. Equizlull says, Tim, you're what a true liberal should represent and what the media should be. Keep up the good work. Appreciate it. Thank you. Kurt, thanks for becoming a member. Thank you. Equus Lull says, Tim, you're what a true liberal should represent and what the media should be. Keep up the good work. Appreciate it. Agreed. Zachary says, philosophical conundrum. We try to extend human life as much as possible through advances in medicine, but if we unlock the key to immortality, would it be moral
Starting point is 01:49:37 to make it accessible to the public? Oh, that is a great topic of conversation. You want to write that down? We should talk about like immortality and stuff like... Altered carbon. Altered carbon. Yeah. Then I have to watch it.
Starting point is 01:49:48 I don't know you guys. Oh, you got it. It's so good. I know, I will have to. I don't know you guys says, Conspiracy thought. Maybe the corona was a honeypot meant for Winnie the Pooh gone wrong. Love the matching color scheme.
Starting point is 01:49:58 Thanks, YouTube. Mr. Scratch says, Hey, Tim, Australian here. Only 15 cases of COVID in my hometown right now. In my town right now. However, it looks like a ghost town. Wish my family would take it slightly more seriously. They think I'm crazy for stocking up on some extra food.
Starting point is 01:50:11 Because the panic is what gets you. Lehman and Rob's, thanks for coming, members. Thank you both. Shadow Fox says, it's not military service. If government service, so long as you serve the state for two years, basically some more or less a federal job. Oh, so that's the Starship Troopers thing. It could be a government job of some sort.
Starting point is 01:50:27 Right, okay. Christian says, Tim, you've been mentioned several times. You have mentioned several times you aren't anti-Second Amendment, just left of center, and you don't know much about guns. Would you do a segment with a gun guy
Starting point is 01:50:37 to discuss gun rights or maybe go to a range? 100%. Yeah, I was wanting to get Coley on Noir. Right. And I think he, I may have mentioned something to him and him to me before. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:50:47 But then the lockdown happened. Yeah. I'm like, that would be awesome. We got to make that happen. Just to let everybody know, we got a bigger space just to have guests and let me be on the show with the guests. Because before, I would not be on the show and the guests would sit here because there was only enough room. But now we actually have this
Starting point is 01:51:05 positioning, you know, this guest space for a guest. So once this all blows over, we're definitely going to bring some guests in. It's going to be cool. Or if it doesn't blow over, we'll be gone in a van hiding in the mountains. There you go. It won't matter either way. Right now this is for social
Starting point is 01:51:21 distancing. Technically it's for guests. John Carroll says, mandatory boot camp or service is foolish. None of the guys I went to boot camp with became better people just because they went through training. They were that way to begin with. You can't change who someone is in 13 weeks. That's it. That's a good point.
Starting point is 01:51:34 That's a good point. JP Millen says, greeting to the holy trinity of new media. Adam, have you ever heard of the book series, The Stormlight Archive? Oh, I've read it. And it's amazing. I wish we could just have all of it out. But thus is my finding a good book series that isn't finished. But what are you going to do?
Starting point is 01:51:54 We have now come to the very last segment of the day. We'll go a little bit longer today. Yeah. This story is, this is nuts. Chinese retailers ban popular Nintendo game Animal Crossing New Horizons after players use it to organize virtual protests against Xi Jinping and the World Health Organization. There were some other stories, too, where it claimed that it was like, what were they calling it? Like an absent of authority or something?
Starting point is 01:52:18 Oh, a vacuum of authority. A vacuum of authority. Yeah. So I don't know if this has something to do with what was going on in Minecraft. Remember that story? It was like these journalists created an archive within Minecraft people could access in the virtual world. Yeah, it's amazing.
Starting point is 01:52:32 But now apparently they're going to start banning games. Now here's my theory. I think this could be a precursor to a major international conflict. If they're banning, it's like MMOs or something, right? Do you know what the gist of the story was because it's talking about animal crossing and retailers yeah there's a another article um yeah animal crossing got banned well it's it's there's they go into talk about how it's pretty much any any public multiplayer game where people can talk that they can't censor or observe so the main thing
Starting point is 01:53:04 is animal crossing because it just came out. So it's like a huge new game that's multiplayer. So now they're able to, like you could see this article right here. You know, it says right over his head, free Hong Kong. So it's like, Oh yeah.
Starting point is 01:53:17 Yeah, you know, it's like free Hong Kong revolution now. So that's like the world that he named his world that. So anyone that goes into his world is like, and they see that like, oh, okay, I could go into that world because I think that too. Let's go in there and chat. So I don't think it's international. I think it's China trying to shut down any sort of like a coup, like a civil war from their own citizens finally going, we've had enough.
Starting point is 01:53:42 Because I'm seeing these videos emerge from China. But this guy's not from China, is he? He's in Hong Kong. Let me read this. They say, no official reason for the removal was given, but activist Joshua Wong of the Hong Kong youth movement Demo Sisto said the decision was caused by protest activities he and others
Starting point is 01:54:01 had conducted in the game. He said, oh no, Xi Jinping banned Animal Crossing in China, apparently because I play it, and these angry gamers are blaming me everywhere instead of blaming their own government. According to a report from Ping West, public, I'm sorry, from Ping West, public chat groups dedicated to the game on WeChat had also adopted new rules to prevent discussion of the ban and were removing any members who tried to bring it up. The game is set on a small cartoon island and asks players to help a quirky cast of anthropomorphic animal residents with errands and chores while gradually raising money and collecting items to build out their home. Well, I think most of us, that's the gist of Animal Crossing. It is a foofy,
Starting point is 01:54:40 fun family game. But I disagree with you, i i disagree with you adam he the the it sounds like he's saying this activist saying that the chinese people don't like him they're not blaming the government for it they're blaming him for it hmm what what worries me about this is that through online gaming you have communication with people in a foreign country so you have like that that archive in minecraft if they start banning online games because of things people are saying outside of China, then they're segmenting their population from communicating with the rest of the world. There's already the great Chinese firewall. They've already tried doing this. Russia has apparently tried doing this. What ends up happening, in my opinion, is if you have the government saying,
Starting point is 01:55:19 the United States government did this, and then someone goes online and they speak with an American who says, well, here's what we heard here's what we heard. Then there's doubt, right? You can't rally your public to support your cause if they're getting information from the other side. Well, but in that same sense, they can't convince their, you know, their public that it's America's fault. If, if they're mad at the CCP, like Chinese citizens are mad at the CCP and they're mad at the ccp like chinese citizens are mad at the ccp and they're blaming them and the ccp is like no no it's america like we're just trying to stop you from you know believing what you you're saying it's us but it's not it's america and then they're doing exactly that they're going in these forums and going oh yeah but these american friends of mine are like
Starting point is 01:56:01 that's not what's going on but they're ban banning the forums. They're blocking people. Right. To make sure that their citizens think what they're telling them. So it could go either way, honestly. Both things could be true. But it feels like they're just trying this as a tactic for control. They're just trying to maintain the narrative. They want their citizens to get everything from them and take everything that they could get outside source information and take it away i'll tell you i'll tell you this we've seen the video of
Starting point is 01:56:31 the people riding at the wuhan border you remember that thing yeah so so if those aren't familiar they're like flipped over a squad car like a van or something and and the wuhan police were with them yeah yeah fighting the outside forces this is why i don't like the idea of the biolab conspiracy theory that i'm sorry the bioweapon conspiracy theory yeah i don't i don't necessarily agree with this might destabilize china i think it will i think that's exactly what's happening they're they're losing control and they're communists so they they have to have the controller else it doesn't work absolutely if their citizens are, if it's bubbling up, I feel it is because we've seen these videos. We've seen people in China fighting the police state.
Starting point is 01:57:15 And what you've got to realize, when we see videos in the U.S. of people smashing cop cars and setting fires, like, dude, we're a country based on protest and unruliness. It's true. We literally told the king to go shove it. And then we were like, it's our country now. So we protest is what we do. Like, I'm not saying it's good when people riot and stuff. I'm just saying, come on, man, Americans, we riot for everything. Football game, we won. Riot. Did we lose? Riot. Also riot. In China, they don't. In China, you put the wrong post on the internet and they torture you. Yeah. Like, we've seen that video of the guy being tortured by the cops and they're like,
Starting point is 01:57:46 why did you make fun of us? So the risk for the Chinese to protest seems... I'm not an expert on China, okay? I know there's a lot of pro-China people who like to rag on me, assuming that I think I am. I'm not. But I've seen videos of people, like some woman put a camera in her room. She turned her phone on and then police come in and take her away and and she filmed it like you say the wrong thing they come for you so imagine what
Starting point is 01:58:08 these people must have been thinking when they started flipping over a police vehicle they didn't care anymore yeah they were like nothing you could do to me is worse than what's already happening exactly wow and i think that that's happening right now yeah take away someone's video game that's the final straw dude yeah man that's why trump wasn't trump talking about football and he was like we all miss sports but he was saying something about like you can't take away someone's football like it's got a startup we're talking with the the sports companies yeah all of them he's he's bringing all of the experts or not experts the owners basically look at look at the roman coliseum at least the way it's portrayed in like, you know, fictional narratives or whatever. That was basically a distraction for the people.
Starting point is 01:58:48 Yeah. I think it's really funny. They say like, oh, they had all these problems in Rome, but they would come out and they would throw bread to the audience and they would watch these games and it would keep them satiated. We got like four Colosseums in every major city. Basically, yeah. You're right. Now here's the thing. I always thought about this. I'm like, man, most of these people don't care about what's going on in the world because they care more about their hometown team versus you know the other team their rival what happens when the sport stops all of a sudden people's team becomes political now the government is probably thinking we need people to watch football i definitely think that definitely because they they probably are looking at China going, oh, man.
Starting point is 01:59:25 Well, hold on. They're revolting over there. Right now, because sports has been frozen, esports is taking center stage. That's a good point. Because people can still play games online. That's true. China has just- That's what I'm doing. Is now banning some of these video games.
Starting point is 01:59:37 Right. So I'll tell you what, man. What are you going to do now? You can keep your population in the corner, in the corner, in the dark, just like not paying attention because they're staring at the screen, pressing buttons and harvesting little digital flowers. Take that away from them. They're going to look up and ask what just happened and why. This is the stupidest thing they could have done. It's like you've given people – it's almost like you give a dog a treat and then you try and take it back.
Starting point is 02:00:03 He growls at you. Yeah. Like he didn't care about it before, but now that now he's got it you don't take it away from him so in in that regard not only are they distracted but you've given them something that's that's that's appeased them they've grown addicted to it you take that away they're not going to protest because of your authoritarian abuses they're going to protest because you took away their video game like you've created a reason for a revolution yep no i mean i'm not gonna i mean the reason was there right but but now it's like i'm saying it's a different reason no no it's
Starting point is 02:00:30 just the final straw you put it up there and it finally breaks the camel's back well no no it's i mean i see what you're saying but the point i'm trying to make is if they never had the games in the first place they'd be doing something else okay but when you give them this game yeah it just came out and like last week and now they're all like oh this is so fun now take it away from them now they know how good that how good it was and they're mad they lost it yeah so not only do they have the reason to protest or revolt because of like the border closures the continued suspension of like you know business and everything now you've taken away what little reprieve they had in the first place so i don't look i, whether or not it translates to internal conflict,
Starting point is 02:01:09 I think there's a good argument because people like their, you know, novelties. But my bigger concern is with the actions we've seen from the Chinese government, could this contribute to a separation between the Chinese people and people outside of China, which then creates an obedient and, you know, angry population which rallies behind their government. And then when the government says, oh, you know, we banned this because the Americans are putting propaganda and disinformation, a lot of people are going to believe it. Then what happens right now if China comes out and says the U.S. just sank our carrier? Imagine if they faked it. Like that carrier they brought out to the ocean.
Starting point is 02:01:47 It's like, yeah, everybody is seeing it go out there. And then they're like, oh, America sunk it. That would be insane. So these things have happened, false flags, like the Gulf of Tonkin incident. What if China did that? Their people would not know. And so they would all panic and be like, oh, no, we're being attacked by the Americans. Oh, no.
Starting point is 02:02:02 I guess we'll go to war then. Yeah. Yeah. So it's funny because a lot of the conspiracy theories we hear about false flags are typically And be like, oh, no, we're being attacked by the Americans. Oh, no. I guess we'll go to war then. Yeah. Yeah. So it's funny because a lot of the conspiracy theories we hear about false flags are typically the U.S. citizens talking about the U.S. government. So I think – I don't know the full details of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. It got us pulled into the Vietnam War. Right. But it was apparently, like, fake.
Starting point is 02:02:19 They said, like, a U.S. ship was attacked and never was or something like that. I don't know the full details. You have to – you can look it up. But it's funny because we never talk about other governments doing the same thing.S. ship was attacked, never was, or something like that. I don't know the full details. You have to, you can look it up. But it's funny because we never talk about other governments doing the same thing. And that's why I'm concerned when they start cutting off communication, which China's been doing for a long time, it creates the opportunity for them to lie to their people and rally them to, you know, basically support militaristic actions against other countries. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 02:02:42 Yeah. Did you find it? Yeah. Apparently, it was kind of a false flag they found something they called tonkin ghosts which were false radar images they were not actually north vietnamese torpedo boats well they claimed the ship got hit right yeah it didn't yeah so one of the one okay so one of the aircraft was damaged one real and one falsely claimed confrontation
Starting point is 02:03:05 between ships of North Vietnam and the U.S. Look, so much goes on at top secret levels, we'll never know. Yeah. But, you know, could you imagine living in a country where they take away your video games? Nope.
Starting point is 02:03:17 Or the internet? Definitely not. No way. I would riot. You keep your people fat and happy, man. I love games. I've always been a gamer. They're pushing hard.
Starting point is 02:03:26 And people are already riled up. So I guess we'll see how this, you know, I don't know, pans out. Yeah, I guess so. Word. Let's grab the last few super chats here. If you haven't already, hitting the like button really does help the channel. Sharing the podcast. Sharing really helps.
Starting point is 02:03:43 You know, look, if you go to youtube.com right now, there's a section called COVID and it's going to be mainstream media. The likelihood you will get up to date rational information is relatively low. And I mean it because what we do is not only do we, we do look at mainstream media reporting, but we actually kind of break it down and go through it. I didn't just pull up the Fox news story and say, look at that. I pulled up the AP. I pulled up tweets for reference. I pulled up other stories, the Washington Post. And I try to do, I try to break down and factor what these organizations are doing to get ahead of the curve. YouTube deranks us and they give the front page to the channels that are two weeks,
Starting point is 02:04:17 two months behind the story. Nothing we can do about it. But I'll tell you what. But you can do it by sharing. There's nothing more powerful. No algorithm could stop people sharing. So they can try and suppress this channel and these videos, which they've done. But if you choose to share it because you like it, then we get way more play than CNN ever will. Of course. And you guys rock. Appreciate it. Yeah, man. But also make sure to follow us. And if you follow adam at adam criggler you can send him story ideas and then you know we actually fairly often use this stuff that's true you guys are great you give me all sorts of stuff and pretty much every other show we're doing uh
Starting point is 02:04:58 doing something that you've given me so really appreciate you guys out there and you can follow me at timcast on instagram and twitter follow me on instagram if you want to see fun videos because i usually just post like little silly skate stuff we have but we're gonna we will start making skate videos soon by the way we're getting warmed up oh yeah leveling up adam got a bunch of pretty good tricks it's like fakie body varial blunt rock rock like revert was just it was smooth it was a good yeah good trick one of the best tricks we've done on the mini ramp so far. We got a lot to come. I'm loving the mini ramp.
Starting point is 02:05:29 All right. Let's, I'm trying to figure out where we are at. Here we go. Based Okie says, don't skip over my Liz Croken question, please. All right. I apologize for missing your question. I will tell you, the more people we get, the harder it is to read everyone's questions. And I gotta admit even now, we do like an hour of
Starting point is 02:05:48 Q&A. I know. And it's getting harder and harder because more and more people are posting. But it's great. We had some serious good conversation though from the Super Chat. So we really do appreciate you guys. Yeah, but it does slow us down. Well, it's not about slowing us down. It's just like we want to read as many as we can. But we are doing
Starting point is 02:06:03 a two-hour show. I mean, we're already over right now, but we gotta do it. And it's not about slowing us down. It's just like, we want to read as many as we can, but we are doing, we are doing a two hour show. So, I mean, we're already over right now, but it's, we got it. It's cool. We got to do it.
Starting point is 02:06:09 But here's the, here's the thing. When we end up with like 15,000 people watching more super chats are coming in, then we can read. And over time it just would never stop. So it's like at a certain point we've got to move. So I apologize based for not getting your question in, but I will say if we don't, you can
Starting point is 02:06:26 try and ask it again. I'm really sorry if we can't get to it. Lightspeed says if Tim Pool was president, he would interrupt meetings to read super chats. Probably. Dude, I would be so disrupted every meeting. Tiny gavel. I'd have a gavel. I'd be in like a Senate meeting and they'd be like, I'd be like, no, I would be I would be worse than Ron Paul. I would be Mr. No times 10. I'd be like, I'd be like, no, I would be, I would be worse than Ron Paul. I would be Mr. No times 10. I'd be like, no, no, no, that's not true. I'd probably be like, I don't know. I have no idea. It's complicated. All right, here we go. Marcus Aurelius says, Hey guys, if you want to learn more about China, go find a channel called China Uncensored. They do good work. I've heard good things. Buck says, second, the recommendation for Serial Experiments Lane. It's a video, Videodrome, the anime,
Starting point is 02:07:10 but it's in a good way and a must see for fans of cerebral sci-fi and horror. Sounds good. Nas Fragis says, I work for Tesla Energy in the Bay Area and Elon's honestly been taking pretty good care of us and work is still going. Cool. That's good to hear. Aaron Cowell says, wasn't some of the reason for the Trump bucks to make it easier for people to keep money flowing in the economy? Yes, it was. Yeah. So thanks for becoming a member. Thank you. Gustavo says, about immortality. Do you are prepared for an immortal Trump? Immortal Xi Jinping? Immortal Hillary Clinton? That's a great question. I am not. No. Austin says, we'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false, said the CIA director in 1981, supposedly.
Starting point is 02:07:53 Wow. Tiller says, you and Kalyan Noir on the range would be awesome to watch. No cuts, just raw footage. You and Kalyan, yeah. I mean, I'm down when this is all over. Kermit Loves Bacon says, Timmy should get Madge from Black Guns Matter on. Oh, totally. I think I mean, I'm down when this is all over. Kermit loves bacon says Timmy should get Madge from Black Guns Matter on. Oh, totally. I think I've met that guy too. Stacey Ellis says, thanks for talking about what others are too afraid to. I mean, we don't talk about everything. Like I can't say Voldemort's name, but I have, I have a limit, right? If there's a story that's big and breaking, I will, I will, I will put that story out there. George says, have you guys watched Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans? I haven't. No. You guys
Starting point is 02:08:29 know? No. I'll look into it. Justin Force says, I floated the idea of two years in any public sector job, including military, but your coworkers must verify that you went above the bare minimum of effort. Voting should be earned, but not impossible for the poor and disabled. That's a good point. Based Okie says, will you debate discuss Pizzagate with Liz Crokin? This is my third super chat tonight. Please don't skip me again. I just want a yes or no, please. I will say most likely no for one reason.
Starting point is 02:08:56 I haven't been doing any guest segments with anybody at all. And it's like we actually had a bunch of people planned on doing shows with. And I'm not going to tell you who this was. at all and it's like we actually had a bunch of people planned on doing shows with yeah and i'm gonna tell i'm not gonna tell you who this was i actually had a very very massive uh um collaboration planned that is now effectively canceled and it's a huge bummer yeah so i'm bummed because i know what it's about yep can't say can't say i can't tell you but i know but there was a really big thing planned so i'm'm not doing, you know, for the most part, anything with anybody. You know, I don't know.
Starting point is 02:09:26 Maybe things will change in the future. Roddy says, and look, people have asked about doing Skype stuff. And it's like, we just, we didn't set any of this up, any of this stuff up for it. This was set up for in-studio interviews. Yeah. You know, I've actually, I did the Skype thing with Crowder. It was actually hard. Really?
Starting point is 02:09:42 Yeah, because I don't know what the problem is. I should have been able to easily set it up considering the gear we have. But when I configured everything, it was not set up for Skype. And so it's giving me codec issues and it interferes because we got like five cameras set up. We got all these microphones and everything. Yeah. It's probably if I started from the ground up planning for something like Skype, which I should have. But we have another machine we set up for different stuff that wouldn't work for this show. It's confusing. Roddy says, and if things go bad in China, the old nostalgic leader, Zhang Zemin, will come to the rescue and overflow things just to keep in power.
Starting point is 02:10:18 Blaze says, America, don't let a good opportunity go to waste. This pandemic will be used against us and our liberties unless we use it. This jolt to the economy can be used. Sports, concert, work all paused. This is the moment. DK6 says, paying 1% of my stimulus forward. What skaters do you follow on Instagram? I follow some young skaters. They are incredible. I follow the big magazines. Man, the young skaters are crazy. Aurelien Girard. Yeah. I don't even believe believe i don't even think that guy's real i feel like i'm watching a like a video game or cgi those tricks are so insane i like day one song he's oh day one's amazing he's really fun and different um yeah who else i mean naja is just so clean every single thing they're all robots that's it they're all robots. They're doing these crazy tricks that are just beyond me. I love skating and I won't ever stop, but I won't be there.
Starting point is 02:11:10 I'm not going to try those things. Bofadiz says, will the Chinese boogaloo be called the flu galoo if they all have the sickness? Someone's name is Tim Pool versus Ben Shapiro 2024. Let's make this happen. Battle of the well-informed. I think for the most part, we wouldn't disagree because Ben's very libertarian in a lot of issues, and so ultimately we disagree and be like, but we agree on the freedom of the person
Starting point is 02:11:34 to, you know what I mean? I listen to both of them, and I'm like, yeah, you guys agree on more things than you probably... I think his conservatism comes a lot from his spirituality, which I don't have. So we'd ultimately be like, I respect your right to believe and support your religion. He'd be like, OK, that's great.
Starting point is 02:11:51 It's libertarian. Yeah. Che says, Tim, did you know that while everyone is distracted by this pandemic, Congress is quietly trying to pass a bill that will effectively end end to end encryption? Look up. Earn it. Act. I have seen that. I really need to look. Look it up. Would you mind? I will makeend encryption. Look up earn it act. I have seen that.
Starting point is 02:12:05 I really need to look it up. Would you mind? I will make a note. Make a note of it. East Shore says, I didn't get any pics of the National Guard clearing our facility, but they were great. Also, just check Twitter and the Wuhan lab story isn't trending. Why am I not surprised?
Starting point is 02:12:17 Yeah, it's crazy. Not surprising. It's what people prioritize. Wolf in Coyote says, hey, Tim, don't know if anyone else told you for yesterday's video, but amphibious assault ships are both mini carriers and troop transports with interior Wolf in Coyote says, hey, Tim, don't know if anyone else told you for yesterday's video, but amphibious assault ships are both mini carriers and troop transports with interior docks for transport hovercrafts and marine amphibious tanks, APCs. Cool. Let's see.
Starting point is 02:12:38 Karambit says, Animal Crossing is the new Boaty McBoatface, the last straw that caused Brexit and will cause the revolution in China. Amazing. Wolfalt says, you guys watch the new Out of Shadowsatface, the last straw that caused Brexit and will cause the revolution in China. Amazing. Woolfault says, you guys watch the new Out of Shadows documentary. We have not. No, but people keep talking about it.
Starting point is 02:12:52 Yeah, we'll check. We'll take another note of it, I guess. Yeah. Patrick says, hey, Tim and company, here's a few more Trump bucks for you. Keep doing what you do. I have to say,
Starting point is 02:12:58 you are the only liberal journalist that I enjoy watching on a regular basis. Nice. But policy never is like a big issue about it. It's like if I said I like social programs, the media is lying. What does my policy position have to do with anything if I point out the media is lying?
Starting point is 02:13:13 It's like, it's not an issue of liberal or conservative. It's an issue of honesty. Yeah. Yeah, but what can you do if the media wants to make money so they're willing to lie to get money? Blaze says, get some of my stimulus cash, bro. I got it. Thank you. Corey says, what do you think of cash, bro. I got it. Thank you.
Starting point is 02:13:25 Corey says, What do you think of Out of the Shadows on YouTube? I haven't seen it. Don't know what it is. Brian M. says, Check out YouTube guys named Neibs Gaming for animators. They are amazing guys and huge animators. Cool.
Starting point is 02:13:36 Kami says, Watch Serial Experiments Lane. It will change your world. Now I really want to. Cody says, Have you played Apex Legends? I didn't. Did you?
Starting point is 02:13:45 No. They're all the same, itpex Legends? I didn't. Did you? No. They're all the same, it feels like. Yeah, yeah. All these. Overwatch. Fortnite, Overwatch. I mean, I've never, I actually don't know that much about Apex Legends, but isn't it one of those free games that like.
Starting point is 02:13:58 It's like team first person shooter. Yeah, I mean. Oh yeah, it's like. I grew up playing counter-strike and that was fun and i kind of got it out of my system so that doesn't really do much for me anymore i like destiny 2 because you can choose to go into like the 6v6 you know multiplayer fighting killing each other or you can do the story mode all with your same character and that doesn't really exist anymore yeah so john says immortal trump could only be president for four more years and immortal putin on the other hand yeah that's
Starting point is 02:14:31 that's worried yeah based okie says weak answer dude we're not going to be in quarantine forever come on it would get a lot of views at the very least uh you know what man when when people try to bother me because they want airtime on my platform, it's one of the most annoying things ever. I get, I get inundated with emails from people saying like, I should have to debate somebody. And it's like, dude, the amount of emails I get from people who think that I should do something with someone because they want their position out there. You have like, you, you, you have no idea. And I'm not trying to be mean. I apologize if it's, if it's a little bit disrespectful. I'm just like, I get 50 emails a week where they're like,
Starting point is 02:15:09 why aren't you talking about, you know, the electrical current that just struck in Alaska? You have no idea what's going on. I thought you're fake, you're fake news. And I'm like, I get these emails all the time. I have one person emailing me saying that because I'm not talking about like this one new government program that I've never heard of. It's like, dude, I just, I read the news. I talk about what I can talk about. I interview people. We had a guy on talking about school choice. We had a guy on talking about like traditional marriage and stuff. I've never talked to anybody about Pizzagate or QAnon or any of this stuff. So it's like, I don't understand why anyone would expect that I would actually have those guests on.
Starting point is 02:15:36 Yeah. I can talk about China. It's in the news. Where are we at? Umi says, Tim, do you play Roblox? I do not phantom boomer says you and coleon and taryn butler's school would be freaking awesome 68 retired in san diego and bored out of my mind johnny appleseed says watch out of shadows millions million views per day psru riding with biden i am certainly not gareth says the Chinese people might seem docile, but they have always had a limit to
Starting point is 02:16:06 what they endure and more individualistic than they let on. Waldo says 30M behind in the stream, but a good way to get people to take their vote seriously while encouraging people to grow up, in my opinion, raise the voting age back to 25 unless you serve, then you can vote at 18. That's interesting. That's interesting. Nerdy says ADV China Serp, Serpentsa, and Lawai were the ones who
Starting point is 02:16:26 are supposed to be on here soon. No? Well, a lot of people have recommended stuff, but we never, like, we're not doing guests or anything, so we'll see what happens in the future.
Starting point is 02:16:34 But I think we're about ready to wrap up. We went a little over today, but it's cool. Yeah. So you can follow me at TimCast on Twitter and Instagram, but you can also follow
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