Timcast IRL - TimcastIRL #91 - Libertarian Party Endorses Black Lives Matter, Says We MUST Be Antiracist

Episode Date: July 11, 2020

The Libertarian party has truly gone off the deep end as Jo Jorgensen is tweeting out woke catchphrases, perhaps without understanding them. Then, the Terry Crews platform is discussed, and fascism vs authoritarianism. Onward into the policing of language on the real dictionary as well as the Urban Dictionary, and then the ever-changing nature of hate crimes. Finally, a critique of the deaths of modern punk rock and modern teen rebellion, the power plays of the far left as the 'revolution' commences, and where the right falls short in the culture war.  Support the show (http://Timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, we have been in a tropical storm all day. It has been raining non-stop. And I'm quite upset about it because I wanted to do the skateboarding, but I can't. I guess I'll have to settle with the fact that the Libertarian Party has endorsed Black Lives Matter and says we must be anti-racist. Welcome to the TimCast IRL Podcast. My name is Tim Poole, and I am hanging out with some friends tonight. What's up, everybody? How you doing?

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But it goes to you after me anyway. Why would you just jump back to this guy? She didn't want you to be able to say smash the like button. Okay, let's try that again. Who doesn't want to smash the like button? There we go. Am I right? Thank you.

I'm going to get one of these buttons to say how dare you, but it's going to be you saying smash the like button so I can press it. That's good. Steal it out from under you. That's good. That's good. We should do that. What up, everybody? There we go.

Oh, my goodness. Yes, there's also Lydia, right? Yeah, hello. Oh, hey. I'm producing. Oh, man. You're trying to. The Libertarian Party has endorsed Black Lives Matter.

And part of me wants to laugh, and I have. And the other part of me is kind of sad. Not that the Libertarian Party has done much, but this is actually pretty significant. The Libertarian Party is the third biggest political party. They got four and a half million votes in 2016. And I believe with this tweet, they just freed. So Joe Jorgensen, who's the candidate, just tweeted out support for Black Lives Matter, like a direct call to action, which is I would say it steps of the

line into authoritarianism, which is hilarious for the Libertarian Party. But this probably freed up a large swath of their votes. And I have to wonder, does the Libertarian Party want Trump to win? Maybe. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Maybe they're like, well, we're going to lose. Say something to make sure people vote for Trump instead of us. All right. I endorse Black Lives Matter. Boom. It wasn't just about endorsing Black Lives Matter. It was the overt call to action, which border, like, it's literally a call to take action, right? So the heart of libertarianism is, well, it's essentially leave me alone. Don't tread on me. Yeah. And she put out a call to take action, right? So the heart of libertarianism is, well, it's essentially leave me alone. Don't tread on me.

And she put out a call saying, we must be anti-racist. Anti-racism is a specific ideology. Maybe she just didn't realize what she was tweeting. But man, got some other weird wokeness emerging. Urban Dictionary has gone woke and is now denouncing their past existence. The urban side of them.

Yeah, apparently. They can't say urban things anymore for the fear of offending people. Yeah, they basically were like, we're not going to be a platform for hate speech. Oh, man. These are trying times. But, you know, maybe this is all going to push us to critical mass where regular people are being squeezed so hard they just burst. Yep. Like, how much pressure can this country take?

You know what I mean? And I have to imagine when you see that the dictionary—so it's not just Urban Dictionary. Like, the regular old dictionary is now saying the word homosexuality. That word. Offensive. Can't say it. Oh. Not kidding. Isn't that a thing?

Can't say it. But it's a thing, isn't it? Yeah. Homosexuality is a thing. It's a word that defines something. Yes. It's offensive. So say it. To who?

Miriam Webster. To who's it? I don't think it matters who's defensive to. Because like. Because one person on the internet got offended. That's how they ended up changing the definition of racism. Yeah. Well, hold on.

To be fair... I'm sure it was more than one person there, but... One person got offended on behalf of that one person. Right. And so that was the call to action. And so, you know, we're going to talk about all this stuff. So make sure, if you haven't already, you smash the like button. Smash the subscribe button, the notification bell.

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either what is it it's uh it's called angels envy and uh someone sent it. Oh, cool. So that's I figured I'd try it right now because well, not right now, but later on there. Yeah. Thank you for whoever sent that this way. There is also a really massive breaking news story that Trump has commuted the sentence of Roger Stone. But the reason we're not really going to get into it is because we don't have all the context pulled up. And to go through his case and Trump's position, the prison sentence and all that stuff, I thought would be probably too much because it literally happened like five minutes ago. So I'm like, there's no way we're going to be able to pull up all the sources to verify everything we would need to verify. So we're going to roll with what we got. The Libertarian Party has decided to get woke. And of course, they're backpedaling. Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you now to Joe Jorgensen.

She tweeted, it is not enough to be passively not racist. We must be actively anti-racist. Black Lives Matter, vote gold. Well, following this tweet, there was a major backlash from basically everyone. She got ratioed. Of course, a bunch of internet social justice warriors were on board with this, but telling the Libertarian Party that you must actively do something is like kind of the opposite

of what the Libertarian Party is supposed to do. What's her middle name? Is it Karen? It should be. If we find out it's Karen, I'm going to die laughing. I'm sorry. I have to do this. My friends, I'm going to die laughing. You know, I'm sorry. I have to do this. My friends, I give you the ultimate meme. There it is. It's been going around for a while, right? This is super old, but it's perfect. So I want to make sure it's clear as we start this segment. When I criticize the libertarian candidates, it's not unique to Joe

Jorgensen or the current party leaders, because this meme, for those that are listening, shows a beautiful, majestic fox for which it says underneath libertarian ideas. And then the next image is this weird, scraggly Muppet looking thing. Taxidermied. Taxidermied. Is that what it is? A terribly, terribly libertarian candidates. And it is a sad reality that the Libertarian Party just for some reason can't get a strong candidate.

Now, Gary Johnson, you know, he was probably as good as they could have gotten in a long time. And then he had his Aleppo moment, among other problems. So let this be my to be fair disclaimer. The Libertarian Party is not known for putting forth the best candidates. Now, why can't they do it? I just don't know. I just don't know. And I'll tell you what. So the second tweet Joe Jorgensen sent out after the massive backlash was Black Lives Matter means standing in solidarity with a mourning black community as we fight together to end qualified immunity, police brutality, sentencing disparities, and the war on drugs, not support any organization

by that name. This is an overt and outright backpedal for one reason. Calling for people to be anti-racist, saying we must, look man, part of the criticism they're getting is legit. The libertarian party saying they're going from don't tread on me to we must tread. So naturally people are going to be like, yo, don't tell me what to do. But anti-racism has an overt philosophy. More importantly, they've actually tweeted this out, which contradicts what their actual goals are. Libertarian in chief. This is Todd Hagopian. He's a 2020 Oklahoma Corporation Commission candidate, libertarian activist,

chairman of the Northeast Oklahoma Region LP, successful businessman, he says. And in this 3.5 rights and discrimination from the party platform, they straight up say that we reject the idea that a natural right can ever impose an obligation upon others to fulfill that right. Let me break this down for y'all. The Libertarian Party has just asserted you must take action to fulfill positive rights. Positive rights specifically mean that you must do a thing to fulfill it versus negative rights where you can't do a thing. Libertarians typically believe, for the most part, in negative rights. Like, if you have a negative civil right, it means no one can infringe upon your civil

rights. A positive civil right means you must take action to fulfill and guarantee. So this is where the big problem comes in when anti-racism is quite literally an ideology that says you must be actively conscious about racism, ending racism, taking actions to end inequities in daily lives. And it specifically refers to actions white people must take that everyone else mustn't. Just like they're doing in Seattle right now. All white people need to go take this anti-racism training. You know about this? Boom. Only white people, though.

Yep. Only if you're white. And they tell you you have to undo your whiteness. So I'll be fair. Maybe Joe Jorgensen did not know what she was talking about. I definitely not. But maybe then she should tweet out, I didn't know what I was talking about and that was a mistake. But she doubled down. But she doubled down.

But she doubled down. Anti-racism, you can look this up. It's not a new thing. It's an ideology that's been held for a long time. It's like if you say you oppose racism, that is different from being an anti-racist. Like I think racism is bad. I personally land on the side of, I think businesses should accommodate the public and should not be able to discriminate for a variety of reasons. Because I am not a libertarian. I'm a liberal, meaning I typically believe for the

most part in liberty, but there are some things where I agree we have to figure out how to work together. And sometimes you got to say, listen, you know, to give you the specific example, and I'll try and make it simple because it would probably go on for too long. If you are in a public place funded by public funds and public taxes, I understand some people don't agree with taxes, but for the time being, if I'm putting in my money for the roads, the electrical, for the plumbing, the infrastructure, the police, the fire department, the national security, then I don't think it's fair that you get to benefit from my contributions, but then deny me services when you're using infrastructure. That's kind of my position. So I do think there's an argument there if you're in a more rural place, unincorporated or something, or you have a private

business, or you have like a consultancy or something. My position mostly falls upon brick and mortar and the use of public places. But for the Libertarian Party, they don't think businesses should be allowed, should have to adhere to any of this stuff. So that brings me to, I believe this is, yes, Michael Malice. I tweeted, I think Michael Malice just shattered the brain of the Libertarian presidential candidate because he asked, as the libertarian candidate for president, do you support the repeal of anti-discrimination laws? She didn't answer. Because if she does, and she answers what she really thinks, then she would get torn up. They just boxed themselves into a corner. And I got to say, it really does feel like they're not – I'm sorry, man.

They've just done themselves in, I think. At this point, we are going to see a massive number of voters flock to Donald Trump. I don't know. Hold on. Hold on. Before we move on from that, at the same time, didn't they just – in California, right? Yeah. Didn't they, like, change their civil rights so you can discriminate?

So almost that is very libertarian of California, right? Arguably, yes. Right? For sure. It's like she almost – it almost feels like she's just pandering to that crowd now. Well, obviously she is, but it's, you know, it's like specifically about the rights and discrimination. It's like that's what they're doing in many of these places. They're allowing people to discriminate again.

So maybe that's what people want. Maybe they maybe that would be. I don't even know what the answers are going to be, but it's like seems like she's she is pandering to them and it's working. It is for some. So if we now have the Democratic Party. But not the Libertarians. The Libertarians are pissed. Oh, I know. Right.

So here's what I'm saying, right? Check this out. This is 2016. Gary Johnson got 4.488931. 4,480,931 votes. This is after the Aleppo. This is the results. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right. So how many of these 4 million, first of all, will actually hear that she tweeted out support for Black Lives Matter? I heard it. Your act is on Twitter. I voted for, yeah. Were you planning on voting for the Libertarian Party? I will not tell anyone who was even thinking about voting for it because I don't know yet. I was considering it.

Are you now? No. That's not Libertarian. How could you say something like that? It's the opposite. Telling people what they must do. I'm like, I don't like it. Yeah. Because the way I think about it is for the libertarian for for the libertarian party, it's like libertarianism acknowledges that other people believe other things to tell someone what they must do or

believe is the antithesis of libertarianism. Like, yeah, I don't like anyone telling me what to think or believe. I don't like it at all. I have the right to disagree with you. You have the right to disagree with me. We can talk about it civilly. I'm cool with that. That's how I roll. So now we have the Democratic Party and the Libertarian Party, and they're embracing

intersectionalism. Now, I wonder if they'll try and backpedal on this because they're not gonna win support from progressives that's insane what do they think was gonna happen that like antifa is gonna be like oh hey yeah that settles it i'll guess i'll vote for the libertarian party now because they believe in like i guess because they agree with them on police brutality stuff no antifa's like the the attack dog of the democratic party it's like that's i mean i'm maybe that's not a fact but that's just what i believe that's what i'm seeing they're not gonna go libertarian they're gonna vote for democrats because that's

what they were told no antifa hates democrats really but they would vote for bernie if bernie was a democrat ah okay now that joe b that Joe Biden and Bernie have done the unity party thing, you might see a lot of these people be like, I'll take it. Like, take the concession because you'll get some wins. I mean, are they going to be on the ticket, this unity party? So, no. All right. It's not unity party.

It's actually really funny that, you know, Brett Weinstein did the unity party thing and then Joe Biden and Bernie announced their unity platform to unify the progressives and the and the corporate dems unity platform well basically what happens is they're not advocating for directly for medicare for all they're advocating for a path to medicare for all but they're advocating for a strong public option that would automatically enroll low-income people into a deductible freefree government-paid healthcare program, which I'm like, sounds like Medicare for all. So it's basically like saying, if you're poor, free healthcare. If you're not poor, suck it up and pay for it.

So here's what we... Look, man, you know what? I can't help but be a little pessimistic. You've got the Libertarian Party embracing this stuff. Oh, man. everything is broken you know we had that story of the the nbc guy who claimed that he had covid yeah then it came out that he just made the what he made the whole thing up no no i read about it it wasn't that he didn't have he was sick but he was just saying oh i've got covid i've got covid and it turns out no he didn't

it was just regular pneumonia, which exists without COVID. And that's what it was. So they blew it out of proportion. Probably the same thing. Yep. I mean, he probably didn't even have any sickness because I don't believe anything comes out of that man's mouth. He got food poisoning. It was like COVID. Here's my chance. Let's extort this.

He ate a soggy burrito from the back of the fridge, got sick and was like, oh, what do I do now? More likely he stubbed his toe. Yeah. Walking up the stairs. And then he looked at and then he looked at the bump and said, oh, COVID toes. COVID toes. COVID toes is a real thing for those who don't know.

Like people are getting blisters on their toes and stuff. Weird. But listen, here's how I see it. If the Libertarian Party just made the like, this is their Aleppo moment. This is seriously the Aleppo moment for the Libertarian Party just made the, like, this is their Aleppo moment. This is seriously the Aleppo moment for the Libertarians. I wonder if, because Gary Johnson had the Aleppo moment, they may have already lost some of these votes. And I don't think Libertarians are guaranteed to go Republican. I think they're just slightly more likely because they might take, like, I guess I'll accept some things they offer.

Yeah. might take like i guess i'll accept some things they offer yeah but most of the people i know who are into the libertarian party are like socially progressive in some ways but it's it's a unique thing it's its own thing i don't think they'll go for the democrats because the democrats are authoritarian big government and ideological but here's what here's what i think gary johnson's aleppo moment for those that aren't familiar was when he was being interviewed in 20, it was like, it was a 2016 cycle, so it might have been 2015. He was asked what he would do about Aleppo, and he said, and what is Aleppo? And for those that don't know, it's a city in Syria that was being, you know, under siege, ISIS and all that stuff. And everybody like in the politico sphere was like, what? This dude's running for president? And then so they had to explain it

to him and he went, oh, oh, yeah, Syria. Oh, OK, well. And that was like a huge gaffe for them. I got to be honest, though, that probably generated the dude a ton of press. People who didn't know about him before all of a sudden were like, well, I'm not going to blame him for not knowing the name of that city. But I'm not going to vote for him. Well, some people probably were like, I'll vote for him. Well, 4 mil, 4 mil, 4.488. So here's what I'm thinking, man. The endorsement of Black Lives Matter and the call to direct action, that I think is going to cost them bigger than they've. I agree.

I definitely agree with you. I think if you went to every single person voting libertarian, 95% would walk away upon hearing she did this. I could be wrong. Maybe people in the comments will be like, no, no, that's fine. We love what she's saying, but I really don't think so. I'm not seeing a lot of that.

No, people are... Not on Twitter. Not on Twitter, no. The libertarians are like... I have yet to see anyone that likes that she said that. Well, the left does. I'm seeing like... I'm sure they do. I'm seeing Antifa be like,

here, here, we won't vote for you, but thanks for the endorsement. Right. People are pointing out that like, if you actually look up anti-racism, it is, it is this intersectionalism ideology condemning white people. Like you mentioned in Seattle, they're doing trainings where white people are being told to undo whiteness. That just blows me away it's like instead of letting racism

die off they want it on the forefront of everybody's mind and that's that's the opposite they're they're trying to perpetuate it they don't want it to go away they want to be able to have this tool to use as emotional like an emotional trigger for for people nowadays like i've been recent researching so much about racism nowadays you know and it's like it really is not it's not as prevalent as they're making it out to be it's not can we it just simply isn't can we create an ideology and movement based on terry cruz terry cruz's ideas matter he's great we call it terry cruz' ideas matter. He's great. Terry Crews' ideas matter. So for those that don't know, Terry Crews said, I don't care about the color of your skin, basically.

Good people of all kinds, we've got to come together. He said, we can't have Black Lives Matter become Black Lives Better. And he got attacked for it. And then Don Lemon even was like, you walked into this, you should have known. And he's like, you should have thick skin. I've got thick skin. what i've gotten it's like okay well you were saying the exact same things that terry cruz is advocating for seven years ago actually whoa yeah you're right right way worse i didn't even say anything and you're like wait i know way way worse things terry was calling for

equality saying like let's just all be equal let's let everyone come to the table, have a conversation. Don Lemon, that was not what he was saying. He was like, pull your pants up. Get like his words. I know. Verbatim, he said that. I that was the number one thing on his list. So he said a bunch of things.

A lot of things can get us in trouble. Yes. Targeting a specific racial group that he is a part of. That's over things. I'm going to say. Over cultural behaviors that exist among other races. That's the issue. Now you can argue,

when it came to Don Lemon, that they were saying like, you know, Don Lemon was talking specifically about his community, but if you stripped, if you just took the words and put them on any other platform, you'd get banned outright.

I suppose you can say Don Lemon is speaking from experience. That's why it was acceptable back then. But he was saying Bill O'Reilly doesn't go far enough. Yeah, Bill O'Reilly, actually, if we're going to get into the details, he was the one who was talking about what Terry was talking about. about yeah how the family the family unit is really important and we need to really glorify the family unit because people are falling out and then they don't have that structure they don't have that that solid rock of what a family can give to people and uh then then he was like oh that's not far enough yeah then he was like i'm gonna well so so here's what i want to bring this up because there's a meme like a it's a photo I guess it's a kind of meme. Check out this photo.

It's I don't know where it's from, but it's you recognize it. For those that are listening, it is the revolution is the Black Lives Matter revolution fist strangling the Gadsden rattlesnake. And it says we will tread. This is amazing to me because, you know, when I when I showed this to my friends who are pro Black lives matter lefties yeah they said that doesn't mean they're authoritarians and i said what do you think it means and they said the gadsden flag is used by racists so they're just pointing out that you know they're going to stop racism how does that make sense it doesn't it's an excuse right it's it's them being like let me try and figure out how to justify this. Based on what we saw from Joe Jorgensen, you can really start to understand the differences between like the core of what it means for libertarianism versus authoritarianism.

Saying we will tread. It's literally a part of what they do. They say we must do this. We must be active. We must tell people they have to do this. We must police. We must cancel culture. We must do all these things. We will police. We will shut you down. Yeah. They say there's another one. It's an anarchist flag and it's a mongoose eating a snake saying, I tread where I please. Again, overtly authoritarian. I don't, I don't, it's amazing to me how these people fly. The color is red and black which is the symbol for uh anarchism and labor i think yet they're overtly authoritarian this is not anarchism it's like fascism well borderline it's getting there so so the thing about fascism is that there's a kind of traditionalism associated with it okay but the core of fascism and the black lives matter fist is the exact same thing

so for those that are not familiar the fascist is a symbol of fascism, and it is a bundle of sticks with like an axe. It's a weapon. And the idea was that all of those sticks tied together made a more powerful weapon. The Black Lives Matter fist originated, I could be wrong about this, but it's from the Spanish Civil War, where you saw the rise of communism and fascism. The whole idea between the two groups was that we are stronger with unity. And so the revolution fist was each individual finger coming together to be strong. That's why they would hold up their fist. And so fascism specifically fell among certain groups that were considered to be more, it was like tradition versus progress. That was like

really the difference. I think if you look at it now, of course, ask a historian, they'll give you way more nuance in this conversation. But if you look at the current understanding of fascism versus authoritarian communism or the far left, the people who are, you know, as they describe far right authoritarian, believe in traditional family structures. They believe in a wife, you know, being home to raise the kids, things like that. They want it. They want the good old days, stuff like that. If you look at the far left, they want to destroy the family structure and they want complete hardcore progressivism, destroying old traditions. Down with the patriarchy is like one of the top on the list of the movement.

That's actually a really good, easy way to explain it. The far left says no patriarchy, and fascism says patriarchy. But they're both authoritarian structures. That's why I think people often say they're fascists, because they do so much of the same thing. In fact, there is a famous anthropologist associated with Occupy Wall Street who said a certain sect of the left gaining prominence has adopted fascistic philosophies to gain power. And one of those philosophies is, quote, there is no truth but power. And that's what we're seeing now. So when you look at them flying a flag saying we will tread, think about what that means. We are going to take an action against you. Then take a look at what Joe Jorgensen said. We must be actively anti-racist. And you look at what anti-racism means specifically that you must

take action to end racial inequities. She is literally saying we all must engage in an action against other people's beliefs, asserting her moral authority. There's another big piece to this. Like, I got to tell you, man, I'm obsessed with the fact that they tweeted this out because I politically fall on the libertarian side of things, though I'm not overtly real, like realistically when it comes to policy, I'm not, I wouldn't consider myself to be a libertarian liberal, but telling someone that their ideas are wrong is moral authoritarianism yep straight up if i said you're wearing a muse tattoos tattoos are wrong and i will actively resist all tattoos and i will fight like whoa whoa whoa i'm gonna let you do your thing you know what i mean i like my tattoos

i you know what i have my opinions about veganism. It's a good one. And I don't care if you choose to eat whatever you want. I don't care. I'm a very libertarian vegan. And there are authoritarian vegans. Yeah, I can't stand those. I can't stand those. They piss me off. It's like, you can't shove

ideology down people's throats. It doesn't work. Now imagine if you heard someone say, we must be actively anti-carnivore. That's like, whoa, whoa, don't tell people what they have to eat, what they can or can't eat. You know what I mean? Right, it's ridiculous. That's crazy. The libertarian, so. That's not going to change anything. That's going to make people want to go out and, I don't know, most people don't even hunt themselves. You know, more respect to, honestly, the people that do hunt for themselves. But,'s like you can't expect the world to just change.

Same as fossil fuels. It's like the world runs on fossil fuels right now. We can't just, like you were talking about, Greta's like, end fossil fuels. And it's like, how dare you? Right. We can't just turn the switch off. The society would crumble apart, and we would all probably starve i just in a year i just i just i can't even you hear that yes i can't even literally literally literally

can't even i'm not gonna say it there was uh i see this facebook post from basically every single lefty friend i have where they're like why are we trying to reopen businesses just pay the businesses and i'm like oh these children yeah children these uninformed poor naive children could you imagine that's the true pandemic that's going on in this country like the little kids ignorance yeah but i mean humans you know what i think it is i don't know if it was you mentioning this, but people have access to speak. They have these platforms now. Yeah, I said it yesterday. Marcellus Wiley was originally saying it.

So I was echoing it out, yeah. Ignorant people have always existed. Absolutely. Everybody is ignorant to a certain degree. It's true that some people are more knowledgeable than others. And in fact, some people are more intelligent in terms of their ability to understand and break things down and rebuild. Today, because of social media, we have leveled the playing field, which is good in many, many ways because it upsets the power structure.

It was a problem when our media was controlled by people for the sake of just because they were wealthy. And it was like we had a better system in America than we've had in a long time because class used to be based on your birth. Now we literally had upward mobility with, you know, the rise of this new world. But you still had people born into wealth. So class still existed. And it was still mostly about, you know, if you wanted a job,

and this is still true for the big news outlets, I would say the overwhelming majority of the people who work for mainstream media come from very wealthy families or relatively wealthy families. Yeah, they got to try to maintain that control. Well, so here's how it works in New York. If you want to get a job at the New York Times, you have to do some kind of low paid internship. Used to be unpaid. Who can afford to live in New York for 10 bucks an hour? Nobody.

Exactly. Unless your parents pay your bills. That's true. So this means that poor people never get into these positions. But this also means, and it's also important to say, just because you're rich doesn't mean you're smart. So there was a tendency of people who were educated to work at these outlets. But now we have access to the internet. Every single person, no matter how stupid or smart they are, has the same access. Now, there's some good news here. Meritocracy, smart people, and well, a combination of smart and hard work, and your voice will be louder than many others. But it is hard to rise above when you are surrounded by a bunch of really dumb people.

And now what do we get? Man. And they're clustering up too. So you get those dumb people that have this platform called the internet and they blast something out there. And then you get all those other ignorant people that also don't really understand things. But it kind of, it proves their point.

They're like, yeah, that proves my point. I'm going to shout it out. And then it goes to another circle of ignorant people. And then it just spreads the ignorance around. Yep. So then what do we end up seeing? Facebook has devolved into a place where stupid people screenshot tweets for half-baked political ideas and then just post them. Or just pass along memes that have stats on them.

Like I saw one today about trump's approval rating someone was posting it up you know it's like it's at an all-time low and i'm i'm like where'd that info come from i don't know no no response at all and i'm like hmm i'll do some digging sure enough it wasn't wasn't wasn't real and i'm like this is uh this is where you all are getting your news it's in you're an embarrassment you're you're an embarrassment i can't believe you're my friend it's exactly like this conversation we've had several times where we mentioned you know some dude on twitter it was a yang supporter oh yeah when i was talking about if the economy grinds to a halt and no products are being made then what do you do with the money anyway

the food comes from the store tim exactly the food comes from the store, Tim. Exactly. The food comes from the store. The book grows on the shelves. Like, when you were a little kid, and your parents just came with stuff, as far as you could tell, they could just have anything they wanted. And I think it's funny because, like, little kids really do have this mentality that, when I'm

an adult, I'm going to have, like, three PlayStations, and I'm going to eat nothing but cookie dough. Like all the things they wish they could have and they want, they think parents can just get. And then they get older and they realize like, what's all this other stuff I got to deal with? Taxes? Taxes? No one taught me taxes.

Yeah, seriously. Why aren't we taught taxes? That's a good question. Why is that not a class in all schools? Everyone deals with taxes. You have to pay taxes. taxes that's a good question why is that not a class in all everyone deals with taxes you have to pay taxes why why don't we get taught how to understand them what they what they go towards what is going on well then that but that clearly we need some reforms you know that brings me to this meme oh this meme there's a meme no you know before we move on yeah it's great i'm not really

moving on yeah yeah no yeah it's great i i just don't want to lose this um thought it's it's great. Well, not really moving on. Yeah, it's great. I just don't want to lose this thought. It's people, what really annoys me is that if you disagree in one thing, it's like suddenly they put you in this bracket that you disagree with every single thing that they believe. And that is another thing. It's not just ignorance. It's the allowance or the disallowance of not letting anybody, if they disagree with one thing, you suddenly now, you don't agree with me at all. So you're just the enemy. And, you know, it's more of this division.

Yeah, man. They're dividing us. And it's ridiculous. And you try having a conversation, but they want the anger. Right. They want the anger. And you've already been put in this bracket of you don't don't agree with me with this one little tiny minor thing. So civil conversations gone.

You can't even have a conversation with them anymore. It's just you disagree with every single thing I say. Did you just say all lives matter? Oh, so you're a racist and you think black lives don't matter. And it's like, no, no, no one thinks that they're trying to tell you. It's two people trying to convince each other that the sky is blue that's that's what i'm seeing it's like lives in general really don't matter we're all dust we're all gonna die that's that's a reality like i've seen a lot of death in my life i've been around a lot of close people to me have died so i've seen it a lot of

people don't even see it so when they when it does happen to them, the emotions flare. And if they're not in a sound place, then it just flares out of control. Some of these people take this to a dark place, though, and it makes them negative nihilists, I call it. People who believe that, you know what? This is it. It doesn't matter. I won't be alive to see it so why bother yeah i once had a conversation with a hardcore antifa sjw person someone i know back

from occupy wall street who used to go on twitter and just rag on me like and i was like why why is this person attacking me on twitter all the time i don't get it and we both had like comparable followings at the time and so one day through the fact that i mean mean, we're in similar circles, like during Occupy Wall Street, we ended up at the same place and we had a conversation. And it turned out that this individual was actually incredibly intelligent. And we had a conversation about liberty, freedom, rights, and we 100% agreed on everything, even philosophy. And I was like, wow. So why is it that I'm all about helping, you know, trying to inform people, let them make the right choices and live freely.

And you're all about, you know, destroying the system. And this person told me, I take sort of this nihilistic understanding of the universe in a positive direction. That meaning is meaning. The only meaning that exists is the meaning we give it our existence that means i can't tell you the meaning of life but i do know that i will do my best to help you fulfill your existence so it's like i've chosen what my meaning is yeah make your life matter this other person prove it matters right so it's like you make your own meaning almost the other person said it's it's pointless to even go that. Why wouldn't it be more fun just to watch the whole thing burn to the ground? So this is somebody who right now is still prominent. You know, I believe writing books published in major papers, pretending to care about racism, who told me explicitly,

I just want to see it all burn because it's funny. Literally the Joker. Yeah. And I was like, that's sad to me that's evil like you you know what you're doing and my thing is like how can i make more people feel good and your thing is how can i cause more suffering i'm not exaggerating it was literally like but isn't it more fun just to watch it all like break apart and collapse right and and you know this is another thing it's like people when when someone says all lives matter, suddenly it's like they think, well, you don't believe that there's bad people out there then? Oh, yeah? It's like, no, no, no.

Everyone knows that there's bad people that exist. There's evil humans. People can be terrible. Look at the history of human beings. That is not, I mean, it's not arguable. Like, we know it. You know, slavery is terrible. You know, and it's going on today right now across the globe it's happening they're building your computers you know it's like it exists this is the ignorance of these people you're right

and the ones who actually know they they they create stupid like it's sophistry man there's people who are smart enough to argue in favor of their fractured ideology to give stupid people what they think is a rebuttal which isn't that that comic i've been referenced yet you live in society oh you know the peasant saying we should improve society somewhere it's like if if you're talking about improving society while actively whipping someone that's a better that's a better version of that comic. Right. It's like, no, dude, you want to improve society? Put the whip down.

But I'm more effective with my whip. The slaves, they keep working. Right. That's literally what they're doing. I want to improve society. Yeah, for you and the other people with whips, but not for the people who are doing the labor. They pretend. It's a game.

Which brings me now to the end and ignore specifics too they ignore they ignore anything that doesn't fit in their little hallway of what their their life um perspective is they're just like oh it doesn't fall into this then that doesn't exist i want to show you some memes because the libertarian party this year at least is uh oof that boat's sinking so first you have the Gadsden flag which I'm sure most of you are familiar with it says don't tread on me

and people have made memes mocking them and I think they're all very funny I don't care if you think they're right or wrong this one I thought was funny I chose this one because you mentioned taxes or whatever it is funny though no one's taught how to do taxes you gotta figure it out on your own one I thought was funny. I chose this one because you mentioned taxes or whatever. It is funny though. We're not taught. No one's taught how to do taxes.

You've got to figure it out on your own. Why wouldn't we want people to know about that? It's a sad snake, crudely drawn, that says I'm too stupid to understand taxation. Clearly they're trying to make fun of libertarians who don't like taxes. I don't care if you agree

with it or not. It's a funny picture. That's the point. We're allowed to laugh at things. This one I really love. This one is, I dedicate to Sargon of Akkad. It's a fancy looking snake with a cane and a top hat of some sort saying, I do say, mind where you walk, old chap. I love it. That's a great one. But what I'm really getting at is while there are many jokes, I specifically requested the opposite of this. And it's a snake being stepped on. We begin to see the complete and total degradation of the Libertarian Party, which many of you

may be familiar with these memes. First of all, this one's funny. It's a Lego. Don't tread on me. That I definitely won't. Next, we have no step on snack. This was one of the memes that went around don't try it on me no step on snack it's funny haha then we got steppant and it's a squiggly line and then

finally don't this is where i think the libertarian party is at right now yep like don't yeah don't what i don't know it just doesn't even make sense but welcome to uh whatever this year is it could not get crazier i don't know if like whoa don't tempt don't tempt 2020 to prove you're wrong okay okay hold on please maybe halfway through you think it couldn't get crazier no no maybe we're over the bell curve man maybe we're gonna calm down i would love to believe that i would like to think that actually i think if you if you if you look at it the bell curve is the beginning of the year we got gradual craziness. Then it got really crazy, really, really fast. But the far side is the level of craziness is increasing.

That's the bell curve is low craziness, maximum craziness. And now we're going to go down the roller coaster. Well, specific instances, the volume of crazy moments will decrease. The severity of the crazy will increase. Great. I mean, dude, you ready for this next one? Yeah, let's do it. Urban Dictionary.

Yeah, there we go. This must be a joke. I'm going to preface this by saying I believe this is very likely to be a joke. Okay. Satire. I can't tell anymore. I hope it is also. So do you know what Urban Dictionary is?

Yeah. Do you want to? Sure. I mean, it's when you hear a word that some young'un's using some savvy, you know, person that is using the new slang and you have no idea what it means, you can check out Urban Dictionary and it'll explain it to you. And it's great. User generated. Yeah.

It's great, actually. I love it. Everyone I know has used it. Can you check if Florbo is in the Urban Dictionary? I will check. Let me look that up right now. Florbo. It should be.

Yeah, it sure should be. Somebody messaged me that we had to change the spelling to F-L-E-U-R-B-E-A-U-X. Oh, my God. Sorry. Floorbo. Floorbo. Floorbo. Is that in French? Yeah, it's in there.

Boom. Is that French? You did that. I did not do that. I think you did. No, you created Floorbo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And therefore.

As a soft. Right, but all you did was just come up with Flo you did. No, you created Florbo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And therefore... As a soft... Right, but all you did was just come up with Florbo. Let me read the definition. So by you doing that, you did that. What is the definition? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so Florbo is a proper name to be used in place of a pronoun. Here are some examples.

Sam identifies as non-binary with the pronouns they, them. Sam, I am offended by the use of gendered language john oh great florbo is offended again i wish that florbo would just shut up already so i'm assuming they're referring to sam smith who was the topic of conversation oh right there's a better example of that though so the two examples for what florbo is for those that don't understand, would be someone says, I am gender non-binary and use they them pronouns. Mr. Shapiro says, I am not a fan and I would prefer not to use language that I don't, you know, I don't recognize the ideology, you know, behind. However, in agreement to not offend either party, the debate moderator says, I will refer to you both as Florbo.

Yep. That way no one has to use a word the other side is trying to make them use. And the Florbo was meant to inspire image of like Kirby or like a fluffy marshmallow man, you know, Florbo or something like that. You know, I think I think like, you know, Flubber was probably like an inspiration. Sure. It's like what I was thinking of, like a little jelly jiggly man who's happy and fun. And bouncy. And bouncy.

And it was supposed to be kind of a not, you know, kind of just like a no one's really going to be mad about it. I don't know. So that was the idea. And Urban Dictionary ended up getting an entry for it. And many people started using the word. The general idea is if you don't know what someone identifies as, instead of getting into a position where they say, actually, my pronouns are, you say Florbo. And if they say my pronouns are whatever, that's fine.

Florbo. Florbo is a word that's not part of any whatever. And we can have a not. It was supposed to be like, there's no way to win an argument when there's no fence to sit on. So I made that fence. That's right. I hammered those fence posts in and i said floor bow is the middle so saith i good for

you and it works okay well anyway it got into urban dictionary urban dictionary has uh thrown thrown in a towel oh no you ready i'm i'm i'm going to preface this by saying this may be a joke because urban dictionary is like as offensive as they come. But this got published to Facebook. They wrote, 20 years ago, Urban Dictionary started as a place for everyone to share their language. It was intended to subvert the authority of the traditional dictionary and to document our messy, weird, and unpredictable language as it evolved. Every day, regular people add thousands of definitions,

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we want to hear from you. Urban Dictionary is written by you, and we want you to be involved while we decide what is and isn't acceptable on it. Please share your thoughts the form here and there's a link in a few weeks we'll share what we've learned from your feedback i got one thing to say here reform 230 boom reform 230 and this which is very clearly not a joke yeah yeah that's not a joke i know i just i just have to say that because urban dictionary is probably one of the most offensive websites that exists especially for a mainstream website yeah like you can type in any racial slur and get some of the most ridiculously racist and offensive posts the whole thing yeah there there are there are there are words used in slang in the real world and

online that are racist is urban dictionary going to start banning them yeah racism exists you know it exists no one no one says it doesn't exist people are just going to make up new words man you know there's a period where uh i don't know exactly the full details but there were certain groups of people that started using uh they replaced racial slurs with words like facebook skype and twitter and so they would say things like, you know, those Facebooks were doing this or whatever. And the gag was that if they use the word to represent a racial slur, eventually, like, they can't do anything about it. Because the platforms can't ban their own name. Even if they decided to ban certain...

Sneaky. So it's a guaranteed win. That was the idea. Because a bunch of articles got written about it, saying like racists are using the names of major brands as racial slurs. What's Facebook going to do? In certain contexts, our name is a bannable offense. They can't do that.

It's their brand. That's a good point. They can't use a robot to do that. So how do you actually stop people from doing it? They couldn't. And so people did. That's a really good idea, Tim. No, it's not a good idea.

I'm saying it's something that happened and eventually died out. Nobody cared anymore. Right. Because most people aren't racists. Right. And there was no big movement because nobody – I think the issue with that idea is a lot of these people probably thought it would become a trend until you realize most people aren't racist and didn't want to use that language.

Yeah, most people just don't like people who suck. Yeah. Stop being mean to my friends. You know what I mean? You can make jokes and stuff, but this is it. Urban Dictionary is supposed to be about jokes. Not anymore. What is Urban Dictionary now?

You're going to be like, I'm going to make up a word called like more more morbiff morbiff and it's when you uh when you accidentally drop a marshmallow in the campfire whoa it's like it's like we're becoming moral it's it really is becoming that jokey flanders family yeah you know wow man that crazy think about ned flanders and his kids rod and todd and how they're like it's he goes okay kids it's seven o'clock time for bed and they go yay and they run into bed and then shut the blinds like there's all these weird moments in the simpsons where they're celebrating really awful things so then there's like one where ned's like who wants nachos and they're like and then barton needs to run in and he goes, Flanders style.

That's cucumbers and cottage cheese. So that's what's happening. Yeah. It's what we're going to get. I'll tell you why. Equilibrium. Our dictionary is changing. Our urban dictionary is changing.

The Libertarian Party is endorsing it. You know what the thing about the Libertarian Party endorsing this is? That's the most, I think, insidious. What? They endorsed it without even knowing what it was. True. And that means a lot of people will. And once these ideas enter, so it's the Trojan horse. The Libertarian Party says, yeah, opposing racism is a good thing, endorses it outright. Then everyone sees it as normal. And then the people who run these organizations say, here's what it means. Here's what you got to do now. So for those that aren't familiar, the definition of racism has changed in the actual dictionary. They created a circular definition. Racism is one, a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities

and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Two, a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles. Two B, a political or social system founded on racism. Three, racial prejudice or discrimination. Now the problem with this, and many of you may have heard this already, but I'm just giving you context because I got another definition to show you. Basically what they did because of political pressure is they included systemic racism in the definition of racism under the word racism. What they're describing in these definitions is systemic racism, not regular, like not the word racism. This creates a circular definition

because they use the word in the definition of itself, Right. Which means you create a recursive loop. So the dictionary would read, a political or social system founded on a political or social system founded on a political or, and it would never end. It would just be an endless recursion. Right. Because they define the word by itself. Now you could argue you can use the first definition to define the second definition,

but that makes literally no sense. And now I bring you the best part about the change to our dictionary. This is Merriam-Webster. Since 1828, this stuff is here. It's here to stay. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the word homosexuality. Now sometimes offensive. See usage paragraph below.

Two, now sometimes offensive. See usage paragraph below. And the usage paragraph below does not explain anything. They're just literally saying the word itself is offensive. See usage paragraph below. And the usage paragraph below does not explain anything. They're just literally saying the word itself is offensive. So they don't even explain what it means? They don't explain why it's offensive at all. But go back up, though. Oh, no.

Where's the definition? Oh, there it is. Okay. Yeah. Sexual or romantic attraction to others of one's same sex, the quality or state of being gay. Two is sexual activity with need to understand the context. To turn your warning.

So now, see, this is what I've been talking about. They're making it offensive by telling everyone it's offensive now now it's like now they're teaching that it is offensive that it is a thing that racism is a thing that most people are racist that you know i'm obviously expanding on the idea but it's the same they're just trying to convince everybody now that it's not they're changing there's nothing wrong with homosexuality like some people are okay that's fine who's offended by it why would they be offended by well this was actually brought to my attention by ariel scarcella okay who was she was she offended by it no she was confused by it right and she was like i don't get it right she's she's

smart articulate and you know and she's a lesbian yeah and it's like okay i defer to her i would i do too i do yeah she she speaks out a lot about this kind of stuff. And it makes no sense. You know the George Orwell quote? Which one? Records were falsified. Street names were changed. History was erased. Yada, yada.

Yeah. I mean, that's all literally happening right now. Exactly. The 1619 Project has begun to rewrite and erase our history. They started under that same pretext, painting our streets, renaming our streets. A street in each of the five boroughs in New York has been renamed. In D.C., I think Chicago did the same thing. They're charging people with hate crimes.

They're actually investigating. You probably saw this. Yeah. The car that drove over the crosswalk. They arrested somebody for it. Are you sure they arrested him? I read that they actually arrested someone for it. I don't know if it's the right person, but it's crazy that you can rip down statues of people. Oh, yeah.

No investigation. Founders. Well, there is now because of Trump's executive order. They have video footage of the person peeling out know, peeling out over the rainbow street. And it's a hate crime. It's like. They weren't peeling out. They weren't.

There's no evidence to suggest that. Right. So there was a crosswalk. And this is in Canada, mind you. I think it was Canada, right? Yeah, it was. And the crosswalk was painted because it's got two white lines. It was a rainbow in between.

There was a tread mark across it because a car turned. It wasn't peeling out. No, it wasn't. It wasn't even going very fast. Sometimes you leave tire marks. That's true. Maybe they were driving and he did a hard turn. It was an accident.

I have no idea. It actually happens naturally. They're actually looking for this person. They're investigating and may have arrested them for driving a car on the road. Whoa. Yeah, man. Well, like the couple that went out and painted over the B and the L. Right.

I think they were trying to change it to All Lives Matter, maybe. I think they were just painting over it. In Chicago, they painted over the B-L-C-K. So the A was still there. And then they drew two white L's. So it's All Lives Matter. And now in New York white L's. So it's an all lives matter. All lives matter. And now in New York, they're doing they're writing Black Lives Matter in front of the Trump building. So I saw this. I've known that it was going on. But on Facebook, there's

this this meme that's going around. They're like, yeah, take that, Trump. And I'm like, do you know how much he's done for the minority community? If you don't know, you haven't been paying attention and it's embarrassing. Trump. That's all I said said to them i would i would be willing to bet a very large sum of money that if we could develop a machine to read trump's mind he cares not at all about that about them painting in front of the yeah no he tweeted about it uh-huh saying it was a hate message but i think the full context of the tweet was that you've got crime skyrocketing in new york and this is what they do right this is where they're putting their money basically so but people are getting killed every day they they roll with it like they said uh everyone started posting like ah trump's all

angry haha we got him and trump's probably like hey they think i'm mad about this yeah he loves keeping them so so trump recently tweeted something like less than one. He said one one hundredth of something. Yeah. That made no sense. And everybody started making fun of him for it. He tweeted another typo. And I'm like, he's doing it. They don't learn this.

It's not even if he does it on purpose. It's that whenever he puts a typo. Actually, let me put it this way. Sometimes in my YouTube videos, there will be a typo that I'll miss. I don't do it on purpose. But sometimes, you know, a few hours later, I'll see it and I'll laugh and leave it. You know why? Why? Because when people see the typo in the headline, they go into the video to make sure they can comment and say, I saw the typo. That's true. So I don't do it on purpose. But Trump probably tweets out and then an hour later sees his phone

blowing up and he sees a typo and he laughs and leaves it because it's distracting everybody that's true although i will say in trump's case i think he does it sometimes on purpose yeah i think so too the famous story was that he tweeted about the squad going back to their home countries and at the same time he was ending like refugee and asylum rules that were, like, pretty, like, it was a bold move. Okay. And the news cycle did not care. They were like, how dare Trump tweet this? And then, of course, AOC and Ilhan Omar were like, how dare Trump?

He is such a bigot. Meanwhile, I saw some journalists going like, isn't this story, like, this one way bigger? Trump just signed this order. Nobody cared. Emotions. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no. And not just just emotions it's ignorant people with platforms so this is what worries me man yep what section 230 reform absolutely

that will change everything it needs to happen the more we talk about it the more i look into it it's free speech online needs to be protected. People need to grow a backbone and not care. Worry about yourself. People need to worry about themselves way more than what other people are doing. Where did that go? So here's the challenge. I do think it's fair to say this will be the most important elections of our lives.

Yep. Right now. Absolutely. Not because I think this cause is more important than, say, the Iraq war or, you know, universal health care. That was Obama's, you know, one of his big things. Because it will fundamentally change the fabric of our country and the world if we do not reform Section 230 to protect legal speech. Yep. Right now, the biggest platforms and their partners in media control all cultural institutions, which means politics cannot exist unless the cultural gatekeepers allow it to.

Yep. If you want to, if you want to say something like this, I believe we should have a flat tax. Well, guess what? They could ban you for saying it and you can't do anything about it. And then you have quite literally no politicians advocating for a flat tax. So who is going to run on that position? Nobody. No one will care. That idea will be gone. Here's the bigger problem. This may be the most important election of our lives. And even if the Republicans win, there is no guarantee they actually do it. They would have to sweep the Congress and the presidency, gain control. Would they even do it?

They had control in 2016. They didn't do it. Now, I think it's fair to say you had what people call rhinos, Republican in name only. You had a lot of people who retired who had no interest they were establishment players in the republican party did not want to you know do anything probably got paid to not do anything yeah they were just keys to the castle politicians yep but even now most of them are right now what's you know is is it because we're we're deadlocked between the house and the senate that we're not getting anything done? I honestly don't know. So you've got to cross your fingers that come November, not only will you win. Let's say the silent majority does exist and they're going to go out in November in massive numbers and prove it.

But you also are hoping that the Republicans who get elected will actually do this. I think it's a great idea. It's been, well, look, it's not my idea. The DOJ, the guidelines. No, I've seen it. Bill Barr. Yeah, I looked into it after that, when we first talked about the other day.

Now, I'm not sure he goes far enough, because he still says that they should have a good faith effort to remove certain content. That means they can still start banning certain people, but it would give you more legal protections, I suppose. And the other issue is that we've already seen them violate the Section 230. Twitter does it all the time. That's true. Nothing happens.

So it's not. So, look, there's a lot of steps here. First, the Republicans would have to win. They'd have to put in Section 230 reform. Then someone would need a case. Something would happen, where they would sue and challenge their protections. Then Twitter would have, precedent would be set, and Twitter would, you know, take action. So Learn to Code is the best example. Under 230, they're allowed to remove some content, not all. It's got to be objectionable or

like harassing or whatever. And people were tweeting things like learn to code or a good example would be like James Lindsay. James Lindsay is one of the foremost experts on critical race theory and wokeness. And he just went on Rogan, get a ton of followers. They suspended his account. They can still do those things, even with 230 reform. Sorry, I got to ask. Did you see the first thing he posted when he got back? No, what was it? Was it spicy? Yeah. It was spicy.

Talking about people. How do I say this without saying it? Why? Because it's bad? You'll get banned? I don't want to say it. I don't really want to. It's very spicy.

It's a very specific subject. I don't want to talk about Well, it's very, it's a very specific subject. It's, it's, I don't want to talk about it, but go, go look at it. You know, read, read his words. Conceptual James. Because it makes a lot of sense what he's saying. Yeah. And it's scary actually also. So here, here, here's the challenge. With section 230 reform, they probably would not be able to ban him by mistake in that in that way it is the war

on ignorance yeah and also child ignorance yeah so that's all i can say if if we specifically state in in the reform 230 that a good faith effort to remove illegal content there will still be some mistakes but that wouldn't be one of them because there's no reason to believe and there's no good faith belief that he posted anything illegal right in which case these accidents would be few and far between no i could see some people would find it offensive but that's just the thing it's some people can be offended that's their right you can be offended anyone can be offended but that doesn't mean you're right. Thanks, Tom McDonald.

We need more than this, though, because right now another problem is that we have fallout accounts overtly breaking the law with their posts. That's right. So I'm going to – you know, I got to say it. There is one potential solution. What's that? The end of anonymity on the internet. That's it so kind of like people are upset that parlor you have to put in a number and it's like i kind of i'm down with that because you can't you're gonna go get like five different numbers so that you can because you have to actually they're trying to prevent

bots from manipulating yeah that's awesome i have one person that's me i don't want you know i don't need another voice i'm using my own voice i'm one person that's me i don't want you know i don't need another voice i'm using my own voice i'm happy with that i'm not trying to influence you know in and make fake accounts to like bot it up like that's people do that yeah so that is like parlor is actually that's pretty legit so this would have to come after reform after 230 reform i'm not saying it's a good idea because there are serious pros and cons right there are whistleblowers who can't speak up that use anonymity to protect themselves and call out you know malfeasance good point on the other hand there are people who run 50 accounts to manipulate brands into banning people to push ideology cancel culture exactly

so a big solution to a lot of these problems is an end to anonymity on social media facebook basically did it facebook said you have to use your real name from now on oh really yeah it was a while ago several years ago okay there was a big controversy because some people use pseudonyms and some people are activists who face persecution in their home countries and they fled and they're like if i use my real name so and and some people on facebook don't use real photos of themselves but the idea is if everyone has to stand up for what they're saying then people would be a lot less inclined to be awful and nasty people and it wasn't illegal to just speak your mind right which is what the reform would do well you won't get banned for, okay, right. Some things would still be illegal to do,

like death threats and whatnot. If it's illegal, it's illegal. Right, right, right. So here's the pendulum, sort of like the problems and the waves they cause. If we reform 230, we solve one problem. People can now speak up and we can rebalance the political conversation.

I'm not saying it would favor the extremes. It would not. It would favor the center and reinvigorate the center to come back for a debate. It would pull the left. It would force the left back to the center because the bigger conversation would be happening among more people. However, this could result in a massive flood of annoying, really annoying, racist tirades, brigading, sock puppetry, which can result in the platform becoming just a cesspool of chaos. This is one of the things that Twitter was concerned about, that the reason they decided to just take sides and ban one is that if they really did mass free speech, you end up with bots just spamming everybody all the time. And so they had to figure out how to deal with that.

So if you have Section 230 reformed, protecting all legal speech, and you create a platform where you can't be anonymous, problem solved. There's still some problems you can argue, but then individuals can't run multiple accounts, and they have to stand behind every word they say so will you get angry racist tirades that are really annoying yes you will but a lot of people do this to be contrarian that's true they do because it's funny it's fun they want to troll you will get rid of a lot of the trolls i think online trolls is like what started the karen movement because people were thinking that they were it was real and then they ran with it and then people started the trolls were like oh it's working all right now i'm going to get more people and then more

people were getting offended and then it snowballed into this you know speaking of the snowplow parents the kids grew up and were offended and the trolls were eating them alive and now we're now we're look where we're at you know i've seen these feminists retweet trolls on purpose and it's because they like it yeah it's a game to a lot of these people i've seen some high-profile feminists go i can't believe all the harassment i'm getting look and they start retweeting them yeah and then i was i i some one person i know and i said don't you know that retweeting them is their goal and then the response was do you expect me to be silenced i will not be silenced by them and i'm like oh shut up you're you know what you're doing you're feeding the trolls on purpose because it gets positive attention for you can play the victim and welcome to you know 2020 we are uh you know 36 years off but i guess we finally made

it here the streets being renamed you know records being falsified i was born in 84 what does it mean 1984 what does it mean the year i was born welcome to the resistance brother to all of you watching right now it may be there is a silent majority they may be lying in wait ready to pounce onto that voting voter booth yeah they want to they want to do it legally they're they're law-abiding citizens yes but for now we can't make that assumption we don don't know how many people... I'm making the assumption. But all we can really do for now is determine one thing. If there ever was an actual resistance, this is it.

Not them. Not them complaining about the orange man. Which brings me to the next funny bit. Oh. I have a question for all of you. What happens to the punk bands when they find themselves in complete alignment with the billion dollar multinational

corporations are you actually asking me I'm asking you I'm asking everybody I thought it was rhetorical no no no literally what happens I don't know I mean I know the funny answers that people have given well band names I'll just give it mean, I know the funny answers that people have given.

Well, band names. I'll just give it to you. I think the winner of the funny band names is Rage on Behalf of the Machine. And this is from Based in PA. Comedy Gold says, free sheeple. Well done. I agree. Listen, take Rage Against the Machine's lyrics.

Yeah. Play them today. They are quite literally the machine. They are just rage. It is rage on behalf of the machine. Think about it. The riots for Black Lives Matter, the government supports it. They're painting it in the streets. Every major corporation is plastering the message everywhere.

So when you go out and rage on behalf, you are the machine. You are a giant rage-filled hate machine. Yep, that's true. So this is actually, I actually thought of this because I saw, for those of you who are familiar with Paramore, Hayley Williams, who is like the front woman of the band, put up

a poster that was called Say Their Names. I could be getting it wrong because I just saw this passively. I'm not going to pretend like Paramore is the epitome of real punk rock. They were pop punk in the 2000s. But it still made me think of this because there are other punk bands that are in line with the establishment. We'll get to this. But I saw that. I looked up what had happened. So she had posted this poster of, I guess it was a bunch of names of people who like you know unarmed black people or people have been killed by police and she got attacked for it okay i say attacked but she got a bunch of angry messages saying it's offensive and you're profiting off

their names or whatever so she tweeted she was taking the poster down and i thought to myself you know i'm again not trying to pretend that paramore is like the epitome of punk rock certainly not you know it's like you know i would never emo pop equate them to punk rock no but it was supposed to be like youth it was youthful exuberant rock you know what i mean it was like teenage angst so it sure it was it was like the point i'm making is i saw that i thought about it like if you're supposed to be a rebel challenging the system, but here you are saying, so sorry, everybody. You know, I understand this is a big mainstream high-profile cause that everyone loves and supports and the government supports it. So a better example would be Bad Religion, which we talked about before.

Yeah. Writing their attempt at an anti-alt-right song, which is actually, I guess, inadvertently pro-alt-right. But regardless of whether or not you have all these modern iterations of, you know, of punk bands or anti-establishment music and art, what happens now to even the historic music? Rage Against the Machine from the 90s

or, you know, it was the 90s, I guess. Yeah. Now it's quite literally like, congratulations, you've lived long enough to see yourself become the machine. Or the villain. I actually had a question about this, even in high school. And you and I have talked about this a little bit. Because in 2002, I think it was, Bad Religion came out with Kyoto Now, which was their song in favor of the Kyoto Protocol, which is great.

I know if you're an environmentalist and you also apparently really like big government. And I couldn't figure out. I was like, are you against the machine or are you with the machine? Because that looks a lot like the machine to me. And I was a conservative even then. I was like, if you were really going to be punk, maybe you want to be conservative because they actually don't like the government. It never made sense to me. So I don't know.

Maybe this is just the continuation of that. It's like they were they were advocating for a bigger machine yeah the machine isn't big enough right the machine isn't big enough let's write some punk songs and just totally lean into you know we are the machine everything we say is pro establishment isn't that crazy yeah it doesn't wow man and so this is something i don't know who coined this was it paul joseph watson conservatism is the new counterculture yeah i saw that it kind of is but this is a different kind of conservatism the idea was that like i guess what he is saying is that if you go back in time the idea of wearing a suit and going to church is like a counterculture because

the establishment is like super far left yeah but what we're doing is still anti-establishment and we're not suit wearing stodgy religious what this show right now oh for sure okay like we are still skateboarding musicians you're a vegan like this is what a lot of punk rock was back in the day at least in certain respects not completely or entirely you know what i mean you could overlap with it. But skateboarding, you know, skateboarding, playing music and challenging the establishment and calling for freedom and liberty. It's not. Maybe they subverted these cultures on purpose. It's interesting, man. Remember what I was saying with the conspiracy where Trump is a part of the deep state? Yeah. The idea was that Trump is really part of the global elite billionaires,

and he is playing this role of the outsider challenging the deep state so that it can bring people back into the machine. But this is the second layer to that. The overall conspiracy, and I'm not saying it's true at all. I'm just saying it's something people say. Trump was friends with the Clintons. He was friends with Hillary. It's all an act. He wants you to think that he's stealing the country back from the corporate evil. And so what happened now is you get people like Alex Jones, who used to be very anti-establishment,

straight up supporting Trump. And you get punk rock bands that were straight up anti-establishment now completely in support of the establishment political positions. Yeah, that's true. Whatever has happened, it's completely made everyone in favor of one form of the establishment. Yeah, one or the other. One or the other. So that was that it? It was like, now you've got you've got people who used to be very anti-government libertarian being like in support of the federal government calling for them to

take action bring out law and order you know these were the more small government right right-leaning people now saying we need law and order we need trump to come and enforce the law and then you get the punk rock bands rage against the machine now literally putting on rock concerts sanctioned by the government where they paint their political messages in the street yeah legally with protection from the police you they paint their political messages in the street. Yep. Legally with protection from the police. You actually have the cops.

This is the best part. Seeing these videos of these young kids dancing with cops. Yeah. There was one, I can't remember what it was, but it was like a street and the cop was doing some shuffle dance with everybody and they're all laughing and cheering. And I'm like, it's so weird to see young people not rebelling.

What happened there? With, like, why don't kids rebel anymore? This is strange to me. Ignorance is bliss. You think they're just ignorant? Oh, yeah. That's all it is? Because they've always been ignorant, right?

I mean, everyone is ignorant until they, you know, like, on any subject they're not like privy to and then you climb out of that ignorance when you research whatever subject it is so i'm ignorant of many political things still you know i'm slowly you know learning my place and understanding the whole realm of and you know you just see that there's more and more the problem is everyone thinks that they know everything so a lot of these people these young young people think that they know everything they they don't realize that they are ignorant they think that they've just i mean everyone you know think back when you're 20 it's like you're i know everything i i'm finally out of the house like my parents were wrong i parents were wrong. It used to be rebelling, but now it's more

like... Conforming? Well, because they have the internet and they all cluster together because they find each other easy. Or they're going to college and then they're finding each other there. They're clumping together and then the ignorance festers and they don't they don't climb out of the ignorance they stay in it you know they don't have to it's not so much in my opinion about rebelling against parents which is how we view it but i think it's about asserting your individuality that's what's gone yeah when i was a kid i was like i do what i want you know you can't tell

shut up i do what i want yeah and that was rebe't tell me what to do. Shut up. I do what I want. Yeah. And that was rebelling, asserting like, here's who I am. And it was important in my opinion, when it comes to cultural and literal evolution, because it allows life to, to challenge and find better ways of solving problems. If you have a bunch of people trying a bunch of different things, 90, you know, out of a hundred 99 fail, but one person improves, then that improvement can trickle to the masses and then lift everybody up. So that asserting your individuality was a net benefit to our society and our culture, and now it's gone. Now you have these young kids totally in favor.

Yep. You know, they're pro-establishment. Yeah, they're not. The individuality is gone. Check out this. This is really amazing, this picture. Check out this. This is really amazing, this picture. Someone tweeted this. It is a punk-looking young woman. If you think you're goth, punk, or alternative, but you don't support the BLM movement, you're a poser.

Interesting. She has an Anarchy A on her jean vest. She's also wearing a shirt that says ACAB, which I'll give you the family-friendly version. All cops are bad. But the anarchy thing I find interesting because the government of New York just painted Black Lives Matter on the street. So your movement is in favor of the establishment government and political party. Just not cops, apparently. Why are you wearing the anarchy symbol? Oh, no, they're defunding the police. Right. Yeah. Yeah. ACAB. Yeah. They like the government. Bill de Blasio. Right. Yeah. So the anarchy makes no sense. Right. ACAB really, really pisses me off because it's it's just them going in. All people are racist is basically what that means. That's also what they say. I know.

All people are racist. And it's like, no, your ignorance is is spilling out and splashing all over me. I have to go shower. I can't stand it. I know people that are cops, and they're awesome. They're awesome people. Okay. So this is what I see. Every layer of our cultural institutions, which come well before politics, are under the control of intersectionalists.

They are establishment conformists. They have weird views. They're racists. Look, you know, I often, we joke about like, it's a meme when I say I'm mixed race and stuff. But I think people really, really need to understand. Like I've had conversations with other people who are like Hapa, meaning like half Asian or whatever, and Kwapa, quarter Asian.

And there are serious concerns about what a leftist identitarian future means. I was talking to Sargon because he was reading White Fragility. And what he basically said was she basically poo-poos mixed race people. Like, they're not a part of this worldview. That's very binary. So you're not a part of this world view you said so you're not a part of it well what it means is basically i'll put it this way my general understanding of other countries is that if i were to live in places where my family is from okay i would have been a second class citizen not in america though in america, we've bypassed, like we've succeeded.

We've passed these laws. We have these rulings. Right. We're all Americans. Yep. Period. So when I grew up, what I had to deal with, what I had to deal with at my family was people who were authoritarian racists.

So we had like someone threw a brick through our family vehicle window. We had our house was vandalized. And I was a little kid. And so it was like i don't understand you know people are attacking us i guess and it was like very obvious when you look at our family that it was not you know your typical white american family so when i was growing up i was like wow man look at this neighborhood we won like we're it's a star trek future man i remember when i was a little kid watching star trek with my dad and and I'm like, this is the future, man.

It's going to be people of all different types and creeds and colors just living together peacefully. Yeah, that's what it felt like in my high school. I went to high school out here, outside Philadelphia, and there was all sorts of colors. Pretty much every single person I ever interacted in high school was cool. Sure, there were some bullies, but's like that's that's not a race race issue that's a authoritarian you know it's bullies there's bullies exist trolls on the internet it's like they don't even know what the color of your skin is they're bullies that's that's it's what trolls do that's what they want my troll my concern is like we saw the whiteness training in seattle right? You brought it up

earlier. In Seattle, they had all the white people would do like an undoing whiteness thing. Oh, it's crazy. They don't know how to deal with mixed race people. And I was having a conversation with a friend of mine and I told, I was telling her why I thought this was bad. And I said, I want you to imagine for a second what it must feel like to not have the luxury of living in a community where everyone has the same race, right? Because it's something she brought up to me. She was like, minorities have to think about race all the time and white people don't, which is not true. But there are communities that is true. And I said, okay, so now I want you to imagine something. Imagine you're a minority and you wake up one day to see that

many people you know who are white are now calling for white collective action and they're calling for the formation of white racial identity groups. Do you think that would make them more or less comfortable? Less. Yes. So I was like, I don't like the idea that my friends are now going like this. Okay, everyone, listen up. Tim, you go over there. We're not talking to you. Here's what we're going to do. And I'm like, I don't care if you think you're the good guy or not. That is not fun. Yeah, exactly.

It does not feel good at all. Right. And then you tell me what I was told was that I have to choose to identify as white then. And I was like, that's complete BS. Right. The future they're building will do weird things to me and my family. And it also has very profound implications on who I choose to have a family with.

Do I want to put someone through the ethnic ambiguity or racial ambiguity problem? These people are awful. Yeah, they are. They're trying to inject racism back into society. They won't let it go away. They don't want to because it's one of their control pieces.

I went to Seoul, South Korea, and I met some... I have some friends who are 100% Korean, born in America, who have been there. And I met some people who are 100% Korean, born in Korea, and boy was it an interesting conversation. As young

people, they were very nice to me. But they explained to me that in Southeast Asia, I would not be, for the most part, acceptable. I'd probably get by just fine, but I would come across many roadblocks based on racism that I would never experience in America. And you look at, somebody brought this up in the chat, I think the other day, that in Japan, you can't even open a bank account unless you are like from Japan and you are Japanese. Because a lot it's like, dude, America's laws are rare. Yeah.

So many countries have overt racial identity in their laws for their countries. I know. This is what I was saying the other day about how how can we how can they deny that we are that America is not on the forefront of showing what it's like to be free to be civil to to show what equality is they're they're actually trying to disassemble that and that we have that we've we put it in place in in the 60s Martin Luther King got killed for it and he and and man I was listening to to a man named Shelby Steele. Incredible man. You could check him out on the Hoover Institute. They have a lot of amazing interviews on YouTube.

And he was talking about it. He was like, I would not take reparations because I've earned my keep here. I worked hard to get to where I am. I saw I was alive during in the 60s when we were actually fighting for civil rights. We had a message. We knew exactly what we needed to do. And now these people, everyone's confused.

People are confused because they don't actually know what is the plan. They don't have a clear message. You ask anyone, you can just move along the list of different people and ask them, what do you think the plan is? Originally, it was police reform, right? We tried police reform. There was a legitimate bill on the table. Now people are saying, well, that wasn't enough. And it's like, you didn't read the bill, did you? I still haven't heard back from those ragers on Facebook that I was like, here's the bill.

Read it. Talk to me. Zero. Zip. Nothing. They don't care. They don't want that. It's not about police reform.

What is it about? No one even knows. And I'll tell you this. It's not about accommodating marginalized people either that absolutely absolutely correct so this was the culmination of the conversation i had with my friend when they were basically saying you know white people have a luxury of never experiencing race and then when i said imagine waking up where you come from a mixed race family you've dealt with issues of racism and you see all of these white people now forming a white racial identity group right like i i don't do people aren't sitting there going like hey that's a good thing i remember

that that was great you know they're going like uh i thought we were so i asked her you know i basically said when you propose segregation based on race you have to understand that it was you your ideology and progressives in 1967 that got a ruling which created mixed race relationships in this country. Loving v. Virginia, 1967, made it so that it was legally protected. They could not discriminate. People of different races could have mixed race children. You have now created a couple, I believe, two or three generations now of mixed race families. And with your identitarianism and segregation you are basically telling them f you and you want to go back in time what is that that that's like you're

basically just chopping off a group of people that your side you know fought for yeah exactly the progressives there's no answer i mean that's that's that's probably the better argument like why would you want to go so so the argument was specifically about california repealing civil rights law yeah they they uh the california assembly and the senate repealed this i know most of you probably know the context by now for those who don't it's literally just it says the state shall not discriminate based on these things so when i hear them say that was a mistake we need to undo that i say so what does that mean for me if if you if you never these policies, perhaps I wouldn't even be here today. Maybe that would make you happy.

Of course it wouldn't make you happy, right? Okay, well then now you've got to deal with me. I'm not just going to go quietly into the night. I'm going to stand up and tell you to go F off. We have equality in this country. We have civil rights law, and they're seeking to undo it. And unfortunately, there's a lot of them. I can't.

When I heard that that California was was doing that, I expected some sort of like hiccup in the Black Lives Matter movement to to be like a screeching halt on the brakes. Like, what did what what are you trying to do, California? Excuse me, what? And they're like, no affirmative action. And it's like, OK, what what are you trying to do, California? Excuse me, what? And they're like, no affirmative action. And it's like, OK, that that was the title of the bill. Right. What was the language? Did you read the bill?

Do you know what you're voting? They have to vote. If you live in California, they know you do some research, please. It's going to pass. It's crazy because what's going to happen is so it's passed the assembly in the Senate. It's going to pass. It's crazy because what's going to happen is in. So it's passed the assembly in the Senate. It's going to go for a referendum in November and it's going to say support affirmative action amendment. And they are all going to say yes. And then guess what happens the next day? State institutions across the board will put up signs saying this race, that race, this race.

Yep. Segregation. Yep. California will be, it's funny, for a long time, they were on the forefront. They were the leaders of all this, you know. Still leading. Still leading. Not in the direction I want to go, though. Right, right, right.

You know, they're leading themselves backwards. That's what they're doing now yeah you know they they jumped into the air and slipped and now they're falling back where everyone's like we just decide we're just walking steadily forward what do you do in california because i don't i don't understand i'm curious as to like happens to, say, The Rock or Jessica Alba or people like that. Vin Diesel. These are people that are ethnically ambiguous. Okay.

When you have this idea of white privilege, one of the things I encounter is, and this is a story that my family has many experiences. When you get into arguments with different groups who view you as either white or not white and they can't tell. So like during Occupy Wall Street, it was nonstop all the time because they try so hard to make everything about race. Yep. They're like looking at me like, they mostly called me Puerto Rican for real. Puerto Rican.

Yep. I had one guy come to me and he said it was like, it's great to see a Puerto Rican brother down here. And I'm like, I'm not. Try again. But Mexican is what I get the most. Okay. And it really depends on if it was summer. And so I had more of a tan or not.

I was tanned and I have black facial hair. Okay. So people just immediately would come up to me. When I was in Anaheim covering the Trump rallies, it was like Telemundo walked up to me and started speaking Spanish. Okay. to find segregate everybody, then it just becomes a problem for me. And I'm like, nah, man, look, I may be one person. I may be part of a very small minority. And the problem with that is each mixed race in the United States is the smallest minority, but each person is a different mix. It's like some people could be like Afro-Cuban. You could be Jewish and black. You could be Asian and black. So there's no community. I've never had more conversations about race than these past few months. We've got to

stop talking about it. Why are we talking about it? Because the Libertarian Party won't let it. No, no. It wasn't just because of the Libertarian Party. Obviously the temperature of America right now is charged because of racism. It blows me away. I don't look at people. I look at the character of a person. If you treat me nice,

I want to be nice to you. I want to be nice to everybody. I want everyone to get along. People see one person who's being rude and equate their skin color to that rudeness. This is kind of what Shelby Steele was talking about, bringing back individual accountability. And that's huge. We need to be accountable for our own actions.

And that's not what people are doing. They're going, oh, I'm going to stereotype you across the board and fill my checkbook of what skin color are you? Okay, cool. This is the type of person, all of the skin color people that I know that are like you, that's who all of them are. It's like anyone can be awesome. Anyone can be. And you know what? They could be mean the next day, you know?

Should we go for the big conspiracy? Yeah. Oh, what is that? China. China. Realizing that Trump is going to dismantle their efforts to, you know, seize our production and things like that. Yeah. Has gone all out and are exploiting racial tensions as a key weakness.

Yeah, I see it. In a multicultural democratic system. This is one thing about this. There's a video of me going viral. It's still going viral. It's still being passed around. Liberal, you know, says he's going to vote for Trump. In that video, I talk about how Democrats are in bed with China.

And you were like, yeah, they made their bet. They didn't. They made their bets. Trump was not supposed to win. Hillary was supposed to win. They probably lost all this money. So that conversation you and I had was in that video. And at the end of the video, I'm like, I'm voting Trump.

I'm saying it. I don't mind. But it got deleted so fast. And several times. It is being pushed down. They don't want people to think that at all. It was probably the China bit, not the Trump bit. That's what I'm alluding to right now. It has nothing to do with Trump.

It has everything to do with the fact that China doesn't want anyone thinking about us. Do you see what's going on with the TikTok stuff? Yeah, dude. Okay, so for those who don't know tick tock steals your information that's simply put simply put they steal your information they find it's more than just what's on your clipboard that was bs it you you accept tick tock they have access oh yeah and that's that's a chinese company and we're trying to ban it amazon just banned all their company or all of their employees that have access to the Amazon server.

Wait, wait. Go ahead. Apparently, a story came out saying that was a mistake. Oh, what? That he didn't say? That they weren't supposed to ban it. They weren't supposed to do it? Well, they did.

I wonder if they did and then something happened and they were like, we're sorry, China. Yeah, because. China said we're going to ban Amazon. Yeah, because China makes who knows how many of the products that Amazon slanks everybody. Did you see the Josh Hawley thing? What? No. What was this?

When he asked the NBA to make like a he said, if you're going to do, you know, political jerseys, why don't you do a back the blue, you know, support the troops or free Hong Kong? Yeah. When the guy responded with FU. Wow. All right. Yeah. It was FU, right? Yep.

Yep. Yep. So now. And then he tweeted out and he was like, don't criticize China. Yeah. Now we're seeing these TikTok things popping up where everyone's like, we love China. China's amazing. Yes.

Praise China. Like it's a joke? Well, I don't know. To be honest, I'm not sure. I have no idea. This world is crazy right now. The world we're living in. There's a journalist who covers this kind of youth internet culture stuff.

Her name is Taylor Lorenz. And she's been subjected to a big controversy. For the record, everybody, Lydia just did some air quotes. Oh, that's because she, well, Tim's going to talk about it because she covers the topic that I think is not very valuable. But I'll let Tim explain it. Whoa, whoa. Well, listen. He said journalist and you were like.

It's because. Just saying. No, no, please, Tim. Go ahead. I happen to like Taylor Lorenz. I think she's all right. Okay. And I know a lot of people are mad at her.

And I think her beat is reality. And I mean this with all respect. It's like a reality TV. It's like, dude, we used to put 16-year-old kids on MTV and film them doing every bit. Ryan Sheckler had his show when he was a kid. So I think there are certain things to criticize her over, for sure. I don't even know. Go ahead.

She's a journalist for the New York Times. All right, go for it. And one of the things that sparked a controversy was that she was communicating with Kellyanne Conway's daughter. And it was like a family drama. And a lot of people were like, you know, political actors' children are off limits. And her argument was Kellyanne Conway's daughter was already putting this stuff out. Right. I'm not a fan of that.

You know, I agree. Like, there's probably a line. You shouldn't be messing with the kids. But as it pertains to TikTok, she's been covering this. And so the next, like, bit of controversy is her perspective on this story about TikTok is these kids are all really, like, freaking out. They're going to lose their careers, their followings. And what does that mean for them? It's their connection to dopamine, actually.

Exactly. That's what I tweeted. I said, China got our children addicted to digital crack, and now we've got to cut them off. Nailed it, dude. That's exactly what I would have said. But Twitter is the same thing. Twitter and Instagram and Facebook is just – and the U.S. is like, yo, well, we're the dealers, man. We're not going to let you interfere on what we've got going on because we control everything.

WhatsApp. WhatsApp is huge around the world. America. Well, everybody wants to be cherished. Everybody wants to feel valuable. It's in our nature to work humans. We come together as a community. That's how we've gotten this far. That's how we've taken over the planet. So now we're deconstructing the family home. So where are people getting that connection? It's, you know, you're taught like, oh, it's so bad to live at your parents' home.

You don't live on your own anymore. And it's like, there's nothing wrong with that. I don't care. I live on my own. I've lived on my own since I was 17. And, you know, it's like, I don't see anything wrong with it because it's community. Now they're finding it online. Now online, when you take that away from them, now, I mean, that is their community. That's where they get that feeling, you know, that they're not getting in real life. And we got to bring that back. That is very important.

I'm going to be very careful in how I describe this, but let me just tell you how easy it is for some of these companies to trick kids into getting on their platform. You create a social media app. You buy a handful of Facebook ads and Instagram ads promoting the app, showing young people dancing and having a good time. When a young person signs up, you then give them fake followers slowly over time so they get the dopamine trigger. Wow, when I do a post, I get a bunch of likes. This works. Once they do, they start bragging

about how many followers they have and their friends want to get involved. So you plant the seeds using bots to trick them. So here's what happens with Twitter and Instagram and Facebook. They've actually talked about getting rid of Instagram likes because it's giving people a dopamine rush. You post a photo, 10,000 likes, and you're like, yes.

The next day you want 11,000. You want more points, more points. So they're like, maybe we'll get rid of it. Twitter talked about getting rid of follower count, retweet count, like count. Instagram has. The reason they haven't is because that's the only reason they exist. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, they would not exist if there was no metrics on them. That's true.

Because you'd post. I agree. And the only thing you'd see are replies. And you might get some replies. It might be fine. So you might be willing to engage. People are all about the follower count, the subscription account, how many views did I get this time.

So what happens is some apps, I'm being vague on purpose to avoid lawsuits, artificially exploit this. It's just that simple. You get a 17-year-old kid, and he thinks he's talking to his fans, and it's one guy in China pressing buttons going like, you know, there he goes. Now he believes, you know, there's 50 more likes. He thinks it's working. Go ahead. finish your thought. They're addicted. And when you go to take it away, they go, but I have so many followers.

Here's the funny thing about the Taylor Lorenz story is why I brought it up. Some people were saying, I have got all of my followers on TikTok. It doesn't translate. You know, I've got X followers on TikTok, but barely any actually follow me on Twitter or Instagram. It's because they're not real followers.

So the reason I brought this up, we were talking about the deep web China conspiracy, right? So now I'm seeing these weird TikTok videos of like how awesome China is. And who has TikTok accounts? Kids, young kids. Who's the most susceptible to being converted to whatever ideology you shove down their throat when they have your attention, when they're getting their dopamine from them instead of their parents? You know, it used to be like your parents would be like, we're proud of you. And it'd be like, wow, I mean, someone I that's all I need. I don't need the Internet. I don't need TV. I don't need anything to know that I am important, period. Done. Because my parents showed me that. And it's like,

that's gone. That's and that is so essential. Now they're getting it from china so from fake bots i mean sure it's a it's a conspiracy you know but this is everything i just said still remains true this is what i think the trump side is missing a strong propaganda wing you technically have it with the meme smiths and the jokes yeah but these are above board on the level engagements and but those are people that are not being paid. They're doing it because they love it. Right. So when it comes to, say, Carpe Donctum, who is the master meme Smith of choice for the president. And he puts these I love that the lights went out at the debate. Remember that one? No. And then all of a sudden smoke fills the room and then Trump walks out of the smoke and it's playing crazy train or something. It's just so good. But it is meant to be fun, funny and a joke. Right. Doesn't tell you anything

about the president's positions. It's meant it's meant to make you have a good time. That helps Trump. But what the left has is, first of all, all these big tech companies will ban conservative opinions like Reddit right now is the most insane echo chamber of establishment leftism. Yeah. But if Trump tried to buy an ad band, they, you know, Facebook has, you know, flag or Twitter has flagged Trump. So if Trump even wanted to create, you know, a propaganda wing, they wouldn't let him do it. Yeah. The establishment is completely opposed to him. And so what Trump has is for one, he has his base. It's not particularly I would say it's relatively large. I think they say it's like 35% of the country. Then he has the center right. Trump is better than the alternative. So the Trump base, these are the people who will vote for Trump

no matter what he does. Then you have the more moderate conservatives who are like, I wish Trump could be better, but he's certainly better than, you know, Biden. And then you have a bit of the moderates who are like, I guess I have to vote Trump and the Republicans because of what's happening. What he doesn't get is he can't grow the zealous fanaticism because the machine is against him. And they're using that propagandistic machine to create the anti-Trump vote, which is really interesting now. Joe Biden doesn't do anything. You know why?

Because nobody's voting for him. Yeah, people are voting against Trump. Exactly. Not for Biden. So Facebook announced they may ban political ads. Which, I mean... That is a move against Trump, period. You know why?

Yeah. Well, Project Veritas did that whole expose about how they ban any Trump supporter, period. No matter what. They're like, oh, I see a Trump supporter. I ban. Well, so think about it this way. If Joe, if people are voting for or against Trump. Okay.

And they ban political ads. I think that would help. It only hurts Trump. No. And they ban political ads. I think that would only hurt Trump. No, I think the opposite, because Trump ads are already being pushed down and, you know, getting gotten rid of. Like we saw the Project Veritas. But at least they reach some people. Okay.

Well, then all the Biden ads wouldn't reach anyone. There are none. Oh, there's none. I mean, there are Biden ads, but no one is voting for Biden. Right. Okay. So if Trump needs to counter the propaganda with his message and they say we're banning all ads and then the media continues to spam anti-Trump propaganda, people are going to

vote for or against Trump. That's it. That's what the polls say. Nobody. That's why they don't care about Biden. He is he is a nothing candidate because it's either for or against Trump. Yeah, that's true. So if Trump can't post ads, they don't need Biden to post ads. They just need the media to do its thing. is a nothing candidate because it's either for or against uh trump yeah that's true so if trump

can't post ads they don't need biden to post ads they just need the media to do its thing and there you go everything will be trump bad yeah that's the move that's and that's i think twitter banned political ads right is it they did i believe so there you go in the early just to hurt trump because nobody cares about joe biden but they care they they care about and don't like Hillary. So when they make that switch, that's going to be... When they do. Okay, so listen. I think it's hilarious it's come to this point.

But if the Republicans don't take everything, and that's a big ask. I know. And 230 reform doesn't happen. Welcome to the resistance. You will be, as far as anyone's concerned, in the gross minority in terms of culture. Your ideas will be oppressed, shut down, and you'll be told to sit down and shut up because the machine is against you. This is your last hope. If the Democrats get in, even one branch, House, Senate,

or presidency, 230 reform can't happen that's true and it's and like i said it's not just 230 reform they've got to go one step beyond and actually like file suits and defend it and challenge it and that will only work not only that i mean let's be real the supreme court just gave half the jurisdiction of oklahoma back to the native americans which i'm sure you know a lot of people are happy with, but is very detrimental precedent to the rest of the United States. A lot of people are hitting me up about that, and I haven't looked fully into it. But from what I'm hearing from many different people, it's all about just the specifics

of land ownership doesn't change. Right. It's just the specifics of Native Americans that live in that area that have been arrested. Right. For crimes. So it's a narrow ruling. Right. Meaning they've asserted several positions and then said this is about federal crimes committed on this land. Right. The state will not have jurisdiction over Native Americans. But within their opinion, they said this is a reservation, which means precedent has been set to open the door for a wave of more lawsuits. So that's why I say you're going to get two narratives on this one. There's a lot of people

who are like, no, no, no, no, don't worry about it. But the problem with that is I don't trust it because there are quite literally people in Seattle, for instance, in the government saying they want to tear down the system. Ilhan Omar saying tear down the system. It's crazy. So when the Supreme Court does this, I say, I'm not going to err on the side of it's no big deal. I'm going to err on the side of, whoa, we should have, you know, Oklahoma needs to have jurisdiction over their state, man. I agree. So how about we jump to the super chats a little later than normal? Yes, let's do it. Let's do it. We got BB who said, and I pulled this up on purpose,

we are more aware than you think. That's good news. I hope so. Spin it. Oh, yeah. I got you, BB. I got you. LikeFryLikeFry says, the story about the army almost makes me ashamed to be former army. Got a shirt that says, spin the UFO and those little dizzy.

Did you guys get the DVD Second Civil War I sent from Amazon? Hope you enjoy it and hope you all enjoyed your Freedom Day. Did we? I have not seen that yet. I don't think so. Maybe we did. I did enjoy my Freedom Day. Oh, I think we maybe did. I think we have it actually right there. Oh, we do have a pile of I pissed a lot of people off on

Facebook that day. Oh, worth it. And it was absolutely worth it. Right on. Yep. George, thank you for the 69 and 69 cents says i think native americans were of asian descent and the spanish are white so it would make sense that tim looks mexican also i low-key want the revolution to succeed revolutionary heads roll first oh man spicy the kulaks have no idea what they're fighting for uh that is correct good sir i believe that the asians crossed

the bering strait at some point and there's a lot of really interesting theories about cultural development based on proximity and space but yes that's my general understanding i could be wrong but you know interesting stuff nonetheless but the comparison to the kulaks is actually pretty pretty on point i tell my activist friends who started the revolution you did yep so who is the threat to the new power structure you are ding ding ding they don't get it that's what happens every time the intelligentsia they're the elite wealthy class who think that by siding with the revolutionaries, they will be spared. But when the revolution happens, they laugh and say, you are a wealthy white person.

You're first against the wall. Havtom says, liberal comes from Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon. Good point. And it has been, man. Yep, they changed it.

Right now, I mean, look. Yep. Leftists don't call themselves liberal. Nope. They hate liberals. That's true. Conservatives call all leftists liberals. Yep.

Not every single one of them. But that's why I'm often like, nope, nope, nope, nope. Don't you do it. Don't use that word liberal. But the media does I'm often like, nope, don't you do it. Don't use that word liberal, but the media does it all the time. Is that I.B. Ripon over there? That was back, yes. I.B. Ripon says, admit you love me, Tim. Adam already admitted.

I will not be told what to do. Oh, well, I wasn't told. I just openly admitted it. You didn't have to tell me. Here we go. MH says, I married a Korean. And what you are saying about not being a full class citizen is spot on.

It's what I was told. So I actually know this very prominent journalist who told me that I would be considered kind of a curiosity. Almost like they would love to be like what a strange thing you are that's what you are that makes it so much better oh i don't like that i don't care i'm like you don't i know but yeah yeah what i'm an american still not cool and in america i am equal under the law boom i am able to succeed boom i can rise up from the the gutter of chicago and become successful that's why I love this country. Boom. Yes. That's why I really hate why they've always said the American dream isn't.

I got it. I got to smash this like button. You better be smashing that like button for that. That's right. That's deserved a like. America is awesome. And you can make it. You can.

Anyone can. I wonder what my grandparents or great-grandparents would think about my success today, having gone through the racist laws, racial covenants, and lack of civil rights to see, you know. It's ignorance. They have no idea what it was. The SJWs. Yeah, they have zero clue. I tell you this.

My ancestors are smiling down from heaven, and they're saying, keep fighting. You've done it. You know, we built this future for you. We fought this fight for you. And now these people are trying to tear down what my ancestors had created to make sure that I would have a good life. These people are evil. These people are absolutely evil. Let's see.

Let's see. Let's jump back a little bit. Joseph Lopez says, facts don't care about your feelings. These Marxists want communism. Nothing more, nothing less. That's it. Taysen says, no, Tim, I will tell you the meaning of life, but I can't. I want to. I won't tell you the meaning of life, but I can tell you there's meaning in life from Tucson. That is a good point. Birdman says, Hey, Tim and crew. We just had an event in Daphne, Alabama at the restaurant five guys where employees refused service to police officers because they are cops. Long story short, the employees were fired.

Spin the UFO, Adam. Really? I wow. Good. You know why? Good. If the if the owner of the business... No, no, no. My position is you're a member of the community, you provide for the community, I pay, you provide service.

Yeah, exactly. If the employees decide, you fire them. Yeah, absolutely. There you go, man. Good riddance. This is actually a really interesting conundrum because being a cop isn't an immutable characteristic. Right. It's a job choice.

Yeah. But in that regard, my argument actually stands tenfold. The point I make is I actually sat down and thought about the Baker situation. Do you know the story? I don't know. The Baker in, what was it, Colorado? Colorado, Denver, yep. And so a gay couple wanted a wedding cake.

Oh, yes. And he said, I will give you any cake you want, but I won't write what you want me to write. So they sued. He won, I guess. And I actually really thought hard about like, what is the most apt outcome? And I decided for me personally, based on my view of things, this is a city with a brick and mortar building, which has provided infrastructure, which has police, which has fire department,

all of these wonderful services that are paid for for not just by them, but by everybody. So if somebody lives there and comes in, I don't think it's fair that a business can reap the benefits of the taxes I pay and then deny me a service because they're occupying a space that someone else could occupy. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I get it. There's a certain community responsibility. Right. So again, I think that changes when you're doing private services

and consulting and stuff, but that's the argument. If you're a police officer, you're quite literally like a function of the community. To deny service to a cop is even worse. Reconcile that left that I'm like, well, cops are especially deserving of service because they

are actually being paid by the community and by your taxes. You know what I mean? I'm not saying everybody has to agree with my stance on the bakery thing because I think libertarians disagree. That's just how I personally view it. The first argument I get from most people is that taxes are theft. And my argument is, right, if we removed the tax system in general, I would agree with

your argument. The way I see it, though, is that not everyone chooses to live where they live, which creates the problem. But for people, you know, so if you choose to live somewhere, you're buying a subscription to that community. Like, if you move there, you know what you're getting yourself into. True. Okay. But there's challenges because where can you go where you can't pay taxes? That I totally understand.

There's a whole lot of ethical arguments emerging with the expansion of – I mean the fact that basically every bit of land on this planet is owned by somebody. Yeah. Except for the oceans. I'm sure you can find some open land in the middle of Alaska somewhere where no one will know. Did you know that China owns large swathes of land throughout the West? No. In Alaska? Actually, a real estate agent told us this. Wyoming.

Is it Wyoming? Yeah. China has been buying up cheap and open land throughout the United States. They've been doing it in all these different countries, man. What a surprise. People don't get it. What is it called? A thousand year plan or something? Yeah, China's scary. I think a long term.

Well. Yeah. They're taking over. Not if I can help it. Not if Trump can help it. He's doing what he can. I wonder, I wonder if the, I wonder if the goal of the establishment corporations and Democrats was allow a peaceful transition of power to China.

We've talked about Thucydides' trap. Yeah, no, I get what you're saying. That's a frightening premise. It's better to bend the knee than nuclear war, isn't it? Yeah, so you've been saying it's like those people are like, well, I might as well just go along with it because then I might end up with like a nicer house. But we know what happens to the revolutionaries.

I wrote a song about it. Yes, you did. You did. It's a good one. Kaleem Mim says, my co-worker told me that the thing about America is it's great to create your own business and succeed but you don't get the introductions on how to figure it out on your own. That I agree with. Absolutely.

I remember when I was younger, angry. I had the gumption, but I did not know what the first step was to actually do something. And I learned when I got older, it's literally do something. That's for real. So I literally bought a bus ticket to New York and just walked around an empty park in New York. And then from there, just kept doing things and starting that little tiny snowball down the hill. For a long time, it's a tiny snowball, but eventually it's a boulder and it's going full speed. But you got to start by just literally doing it. So my advice, I can only really give you advice to people who want to work in media. But whenever someone asks me about journalism, it's simple.

Work a crummy job, save as much as you can, sleep on couches, Save your money. And then go somewhere and film it. That simple. It just makes me think of the, I don't remember who says it, but we're not going to get to Mars until we beat the Xbox. Something like that. If we ever shake hands with aliens, it will be not because we overcame the Xbox. I'm sorry. Not because we overcame nuclear weapons, but because we overcame the Xbox. Right, right.

Exactly. Think about it this way. It's peak privilege to just be able to play video games. If you don't have a good job and are stable, you shouldn't be playing video games. Or start playing video games and make sure you stream it. To make it something that you do. To make a business. Make a streaming business.

That's something you can do. And there are a lot of streamers who are not really good, but they're fun people to hang out with. Their personalities. Right. They have good characters. Right. There were a bunch of streamers I used to watch that I would just turn it on and then go about my day. And I'd hear them just talking and saying funny things and playing the game.

And I'm like, it's fun to, you know, I'm sure that's why people are listening to us. You know what I mean? Yeah, for sure. So that's the key, man. Do it. So my favorite hoodie or sweatshirt I wear a lot on the show. It just says, go do. It says great things, but then great is just crossed out because it's like you can't do something great until you start doing something.

So go do something. Go do things. I love it. Offline. Joseph brings up a good point. He says, tattoo artists would be hurt by this in terms of the businesses. Saying, same basic structure argument as the baker. I'll do any tattoo you want, but I will not do a swastika.

That's interesting. Yeah. Political. So in Washington, D.C., if you're in a tattoo parlor and someone asks for it, you got to do it. Interesting. D.C. is an interesting place. They protect political party as a human right. Which means if you walked around wearing the worst of the worst, everyone's got to.

You know what you could do? You could walk into Starbucks and you can wear all the craziest whatever you want. They could not kick you out. Wow. It would be a human rights violation. It's because D.C. is where we have to engage in politics. Yeah. And what would happen if Starbucks was like, we don't serve Republicans here?

Right. So I'm fairly confident in D.C. wearing a MAGA hat. They just, the people who hate you will grumble. Yeah. They can't do anything about it. Yeah. One of these days, maybe I'll wear one on the show. Just kidding.

Just kidding. Break the internet. Hevtome says, I'm a member of no party i have no ideology i'm a rationalist i do what i can in the international struggle between science and reason and the bar and the barbarism superstition and stupidity that's all around us and there's so much of it man it's so much of it it's such a bummer yeah it's true let's see turtle burger says i love the goya thing anti-racist fight racism and white supremacy by boycotting a minority-run business because he thanked the racist president who was signing in an executive order supporting a minority community well said

well said and not only that that that minority uh company does so much for the community right i've been looking into it more you know because today i was just kind of like this is crazy this is hilarious it's going right there basically what i said for those the context wasn't familiar it's basically that the ceo of goya said thank you to donald trump and and then all of a sudden all of these lefties were like you know google i think aoc said time to Google search how to make your own Adobo. Yeah. And I'm like, it's like, what it is. It is a it's food products. You know what I said? I mean this legitimately. If I Bill de Blasio said we are banning large public gatherings,

except Black Lives Matter. He said that, right? Yes. Yeah. I would argue that supporting Goya is more important than Black Lives Matter for one reason. Why? Goya employees are essential workers during a pandemic who are risking their safety directly to make sure there is enough food for people in this country. That's a good point. Therefore, I believe I should have a right to march in support of Goya in a large gathering of hundreds of thousands of people in New York City? And who is Bill de Blasio to argue that my cause is less important than his cause? I like it. Now, I'm not going to organize a Goya protest. I'm sorry. But I will go buy Goya.

Me too. Dude, did you see the meme I retweeted? No. Cassandra Fairbanks tweeted, I'm about to own the libs deliciously. Oh, yeah, I saw that. And then she posted a bunch of photos of all the Goya stuff she was ordering online. And then someone quoted it saying, seasoning your meal to own the libs. I just loved it. Because it's the most wholesome culture war battle. But this is what really pisses me off.

This really pisses me off because we got people all over the place without food, right? They're starving people in the world. I've heard it my whole life, basically. Finish your plate. But now they're dumping Goya products in the trash. Filming it like, oh yeah.

Really? Boycott Goya. During a pandemic? Really? You're going to throw away food. You're going to throw away food right now instead of, okay, if you truly believe that, you could take your Goya products and go give it to a food shelter go give it to some homeless people that might need it go go give it to a church that

will you know bring it to the right place it's like you are just you're losing my respect if you even had any to begin with but it's crazy i'm seeing it all over the place they think it's cool there it's like what kind of virtue signaling are you doing? But remember when... What? Remember when conservatives burned their Nike gear over Colin Kaepernick? I did hear about it. I remember that, yeah.

The thing about that was I thought it was dumb to burn the gear. Right. But there's no big deal in destroying your own shoes. They already bought it. Yeah. Yeah, it's like their shoes or whatever. I get it. Sure.

It's kind of a waste, but whatever. Yeah, it's like they already bought the product. Exactly. Yeah. The company already got your money. Right. Well, they're throwing it away. They're not going to wear. Yeah, it's like they already bought the product. Exactly. The company already got your money. Well, they're throwing it away. They're not going to wear it anymore. They're not going to rep their brand. So I...

I know, but the Goya food, it's mostly canned beans. You're throwing away canned beans for the internet to see your little video. They don't want to donate it. Got to own the comments. Right. Guaranteed. They all hit stop, post, set the phone down, and took it out of the trash put it back into the cabinet or made their their their dinner you know so we got one from uh evodio tovar who says

man i was gonna vote for jojo after listen to this i think i'm going for trump at this point i think we all need to that's it's such a bummer the libertarian party i've always been kind of like well i get it their their candidates are the scraggly taxidermy fox but it's 10 o'clock so it is indeed adam is cracking up on the the whiskey look man i've often said this my personal ideology falls on the left libertarian spectrum of which there are few people because it is probably the most difficult political spectrum which you could exist on. It requires reasoned cooperation to create a functioning system. And it's very difficult. You're herding cats. Right-wing libertarianism is typically free market libertarianism. Everyone does their thing within reason, non-aggression principle, but you can buy and trade and the invisible hand guides things and i've always maintained if i had to choose which which quadrant our government would exist

in there's only one that makes the most sense the libertarian right you know why okay within the libertarian right i can have my left libertarian little little society that's a good point even within our system i think ron paul said this if people want socialism so bad why don't they go off and make a socialist community some people have actually done this there's a really famous commune of like a hundred people and you can sign up to live there and everyone works and they share in the bounty of all the work they do but it's very it's a hundred people or so right within america you could move somewhere get buddies, and have your commune. It's true.

There's no law against this. Why won't they do it? Because it takes work, Tim. Because they're not really libertarian. Yeah, it takes work. They're authoritarians who want to steal your stuff. That's right. They want other people to do the work.

Yeah. Exactly. It's easy. They want your stuff, and they don't want to do any work for it. Okay. Before we move on, I don't know if we're going to do music now. We are. You should play first.

What should I play? A song. A song'm gonna i'm gonna notice somebody right here says uh this is ires tv says notice me daddy and in parentheses it's adam uh sorry tim you're great but he did go viral so so that that's it oh all right it was a hefty super chat oh nice oh so was it new or was it yeah just uh just happened oh excellent excellent thank you for that so thanks i see you i noticed you and i appreciate you well ladies and gentlemen i'm gonna spin the ufo for you now you now you can smash the like button yeah smash smash it smash the button and rip it off this is normally where the show would end but don't go because we're going to keep hanging out it's friday night it is friday and so we actually hang out for about another half an hour and we're going to play some music and i guess i'm going to

play a song if my throat works because this is like hour six of me talking today my throat is getting dry no i have this uh this canada dry lemon lime sparkling seltzer but before we we go into into the jam session make sure you subscribe smash the like button hit the notification bell we do the show monday through friday live at 8 p.m we put up clips every day and you must this is your homework all right everyone's got homework yeah tomorrow at 8 p.m uh go to youtube and uh adam cast irl is going live for the first time from my new channel and you can uh we're gonna do me and ian crossland's back tweet tweet out the link to your channel i will i i have a few times uh i will tweet it out i'll put it on parlor too so actually i have so but i'll do it again obviously and uh check it out we're gonna

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All right. Spintheufo at gmail.com. We're looking for like a full service web development oh no actually we're not we found one didn't we we did we do have one okay never mind i'm wrong i should have said anything we did find somebody so you can all but you can send stories there lydia does uh she uh takes care of that email so i go through it every day if you want to uh send her some stories that'd be great we're gonna hang out for a little bit do you want to set up the mics now for the for the music yeah so you yeah let's go set you up because i've never done it before so uh for those that are they're hanging out let me just say for as it pertains to the cultural commentary and

political stuff we're we're winding down but you are free to continue to hang out because it turns out adam and i are both really, apparently really good at playing music and we're going to, so we're not going away just yet. So you're still, you know, still stay hang and we'll just, you know, jam out and hang out. And you're ready for me to turn the mic on. Oh, well, I can, I can, I can plug it in whenever you're ready. You have to plug it in first. All right.

Before I turn it on. I'm going to mute the audio now for those listening, so I can plug this in so it doesn't blow out your eardrums. And now we're back. Testing, testing. It's still giving me feedback, though. One, two, three. Oh, it is?

Yeah. There we go. I think we're good. Whoa. Uh-oh. Something happened. Let me double-check everything. Everyone's ears just explode. I think, Adam, I think you have to go first.

Why? Because I need to adjust the levels for the ambient mic. Well, then let me go grab my whiskey. There we go. Adam's going to play y'all a song. Or you know what? I'll just do it. Do you know how to adjust the levels for the... I'll play a song in E.

Do we have the jam cam on? Yeah, it should be on. Thank you. All right. Oh, that was better. Are we good? Do it to it. All right. Oh, that was better. Are we good? Do it to it. All right. Well, first off, thanks, everyone, for still hanging out to listen to us both play. I have no idea what I'm going to play, so I'm just going to play She's Just.

This is a song that I wrote a long time ago, 10 years ago now, I guess. It's just gone too far, she said, as she took another drink at the bar And to tell you what the truth is I just never knew when to stop I never knew when to stop She was sitting in the corner trying to pick up her pride They didn't disown her Oh, but she wished that they had tried

Been gone three summers Made all the difference in the world At least ten years older In her mind, but that's alright Moved to California Out to live that Western dream but her Eastern persona wouldn't ever ever let her be. She always ended missing home Missing home So many before her

She's just Just another face in the crowd It's becoming clearer to her, she's not ready right now She's not ready to go, intentions grew bolder Impatience picked up steam Too many people told her You have to stay And take what's in your reach I won't just stand here

Watching all my plans fall through Cause I've discovered It's all about the time I used Moved to California Out to live that western dream But her eastern persona Would never ever let her be She always ended up missing home

She always ended up missing home Missing home It's just gone too far She said She took another drink at the bar It's just gone too far, she said She took another drink at the bar And to tell you what the truth is I just never knew when to stop Thank you.

Woo! All right, I'm going to get Tim to come over and play a song. 16,000 people and two people in the room clap. Woo! All right, I'm going to get Tim to come over and play a song. 16,000 people and two people in the room clap. Woo! Come on, guys. Thank you, everybody. Oh, man. Oh, let's see if I can play some music, huh?

Don't forget to smash that like button. Smash that like button. How's it going, y'all? I'm going to play a song that was not written to be performed on an acoustic guitar, but everybody really liked that I was playing it before when we were jamming, so I'm going to play it. Everything look good on your guys' end? Yeah.

Yeah. Let's see what I can do. Maybe I should play it a little bit more acoustic-y, I suppose. Back to the start, to the lines where you were coming from You retraced your steps but now they're gone You only wanted something so beautiful Enter the dream Where all the promises you couldn't keep Went away ever so blissfully

You only wanted something so beautiful Back to the front, to the place when you had seen it gone You retraced your steps but now it's lost You only wanted something so beautiful Enter the dream of all the promises you couldn't keep Dripped away ever so blissfully You only wanted something so beautiful Here it goes again, just like you thought it would, my friend But you don't know now

It's a million to one Enter the dream, all the promises you couldn't keep But you don't know now It's a million to one It's a million to one It's a million to one Here it goes again, just like you thought it would, my friend But you don't know now, it's a million to one Enter the dream, all the promises you couldn't keep But you don't know now now It's a million to one

It's a million to one It's a million to one Woo! Yeah! Into one I only didn't really have any plans for what I was going to play. But I love this song. And it gets in my head all the time. It's not mine. And we're not allowed to cover stuff. But there's a loophole. See, I can cover Tim's music.

Oh, here we go. And no one has to know. Well, obviously, I just told everyone. But this one's called Words in a book i've i've heard the song when i when i first met him we jammed a little bit and he played the song and i was like dude you got some skill man and it's always been in my head seriously for freaking eight years i love i love this song so Remember when We used to fight for peace But heroes were only on TV screens

The market's made up of broken hopes and dreams To put me back in mediocrity two three four taking more taking spiderless and focus on the way really would guess you never change that day it's hard to believe that you mean nothing to me cause you used to mean everything remember when we used to fight for peace

villains weren't only on TV screens My heart is made up Of broken hopes and dreams I'll take my place in history Two, three, four Take it more Take in spite of this And focus on the ways

I really wish you'd change that day It's hard to believe that you Mean nothing to me Cause you used to be everything there are words in a book about what we've been through

and there are lines in a script written for me and you so take it all inside and pray in words Written for me and you So take it all inside And pray it works Another aching in your heart Starts to burn

Take it more Take in spite of this And focus on the ways I really hope you change that day It's hard to believe But I'm moving on with my dreams Cause you were never there for me There are words in a book About what we've been through

And there are lines in a script Written for me and you So take it all in stride And pray it works Another aching in your heart Starts to burn I'm a little blind I really love that song. That's a good song. That's Tim's song. You want to play another one? Yeah, why don't you play the one? Yes.

I mean, there's Will of the People sitting right here. I mean, I know you know the words. I don't need it. But I could play something else. Well, play whatever you feel like. I got to pick. All right. All right.

Oh. What? Play something that's easier on your voice. Yeah, well, you know what? Don't bell me, dude. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's hard to.

Okay. Maybe not. Should I tune it? I would. What did you think? Could you pinpoint? Oh, here he goes. While we're taking this very ever so slight Smash the like button! We're a well-oiled machine.

It's tuned as good as it's going to get. It's sub as good as it's gonna get. Subliminal. It felt like the clouds filled the sky when you looked at me and said goodbye. This is a soy song, by the way. It felt like

the rain came down When you looked away and turned around Oh no Now it's kinda like I lack the strength To carry on by myself in time You'll find That it's kinda like I feel the arms reached around my sides

To hold me tight It's better than before It felt like the room started spinning As I'm hanging here for another round It felt like my world stopped turning And I haven't found solid ground Oh no Solid ground, oh no Now it's kinda like I lack the strength to carry on by myself In time you'll find

That it's kinda like I miss the arms reaching around my sides to hold me tight It's better than before and I'm jaded And I'm broken up over the ending to the story we created I swallowed myself into this empty world Missing you, I'm missing you Without you I fell into I fell into And now it's kinda like

I found the strength to carry on by myself With time I found And it's kinda like A thousand arms reach around my sides to hold me tight And it's better than before and I'm jaded And I'm broken up over the ending to the story we created And swallowed myself into this empty world Without you

Without you Without you, without you, without you, I fell into the end. Yeah! You want to play another one? No, that'll do it for me tonight. Yeah, yeah. I can maybe play a really light one. She goes, don't play something where you have to belt. Yeah, man.

So you play a song that you dig into. I tried. Guess what I'm doing right now. Smashing the like button. Bidening that like button. Bidening the button. You smelled it. I sniffed it. Technically

it's the correct... Somebody said 50 bucks Tim can't record next week. Oh no. No, no, no, no. He did a lot of recording. He did Will of the People over and over and over again. That's why. That's the true... No, no. Yeah, that last week I lost my voice. We did six

full belt takes of Will of the People and that was... in like in like a half an hour span any requests in the room i mean i always pick your hot singles i know but i sure no i don't want to play taking it back those are the two that there's another one you play the most though what's the one other one yes yes find yourself

it's not the same without Nisha who's joined me a couple times on the show playing it for those that are curious every song being played tonight is original technically Adam played a cover but it was a cover of my song, so we can't do covers. So that song I played was a complete original.

Yeah. Everything we were playing is original. This is Adam's original now. This one's called Find Yourself. The beanie's off. He means business. That's right. Wow, some songs just...

How dare you! They require to be beanie-less. All the saints are calling all the masses They want your souls, go pay all their taxes Don't fear your belief of what you are inside Hold it dear, it's the truth that they're trying to hide Recognize the first stage of trouble Open your eyes to disguise Start searching deep in your soul

Deep inside your soul And find yourself Cause no one else will Find yourself Cause no one else will Hey Can I get just a little taste A salivatic little getaway

Or are you on your knees, swallowing the answers? See, authorities, see, they don't take chances Are we blind? It's a crime that we can't ignore I think it's time we show them that we'll take no more Recognize the first stage of trouble Open your eyes to disguise Start searching deep in your soul Deep inside your soul, deep inside your soul

And find yourself, cause no one else will Find yourself, cause no one else will We must unequivocally disobey? Help me Horace, let me seize the day. With a Guy Fawkes mask, true determination. Anonymous bliss, who controls the nation Are we blind? It's a crime that we can't ignore I think it's time we show them that we'll

take no more Recognize the first stage of trouble Open your eyes to disguise start searching deep in your soul deep inside your soul and find yourself cause no one else will find yourself

cause no one else will find yourself. Cause no one else will recognize the first stage of trouble. Open your eyes to disguise. Start searching. Thank you. That was Find Yourself. Another one of my songs. What time is it? It is 10.32. Arguably about that time. I'm going to cut it off. Alright, he's cutting it off.

Before I go back over there, tomorrow night, I can play some more songs tomorrow. You can tune in at 8pm. Adam Kass IRL. Ian Crossland is going to be my co-host. He's also a musician. You haven tune in at 8 p.m. AdamCast IRL. I'm going to have Ian Crossland is going to be my co-host. We're going to be... He's also a musician. You haven't heard him. He didn't get

a chance to play on AdamCast. But I'm bringing AdamCast back. So tomorrow night, 8 p.m. We're going to talk a bunch and then we'll probably jam some songs afterwards. Why not? Saturday night thing. Tune in. Thanks for hanging out with us. I'm going to head back over there.

We're going to switch things back up. So, thanks for hanging out for this Friday night jam session. We go a little long and I'm grateful to everybody who hangs out. It's kind of crazy because right now because of COVID

there's no large gatherings. That's a good point. But you played a song to 20,000 people. Isn't that crazy? That's amazing. Wow. For those of you that are watching,000 people. Isn't that crazy? That's amazing. Wow. For those of you

that are watching, just let you know, some of the biggest venues for your average band will have like a thousand seats. What? For real. Yeah, I worked at a venue

in Chicago. Oh, wow. Thinking about it is insane. It's like, I just played for 20,000 people. Is that what you're saying? I did, yeah. Thank you.

And then it leveled off. That's all I have to say. Like 12,000 people hang out just chilling. No, it was 15. It was like 16. I just mean like, just as it leveled off. That's all I have to say. Like 12,000 people hang out just chilling. No, it was 15. It was like 16. I just mean like just as you were finishing off. Right, right, right.

There's still 12,000 people who are hanging out. That's crazy. I mean, you guys rock. I got to admit, there's a certain weird feeling where we're just sitting in the house and we're like cameras on. We're talking about our feelings and playing music. And it's like people are hanging out with us. mean that's literally what we do i know you got whiskey talk about the worst job in the world man man i tweeted last week after after the jam and i was just like i love my job the sentiment remains it resonates i really do love my job we are moving

forward the big expansion project for those that have been hanging out. We've been talking about it. I'm hoping we can get it going within like a month and a half. Yeah. Indoor skate park, live skate sessions. Yes. So we have a big plan right now. We're going to have like a members-only site with live access. So when we're skating the mini ramp, because we do like almost every day when it's not well with an indoor park, we're skating every day. We're going to be skating all

the time. Let me tell you about my about my schedule. The first thing I do when I wake up, you know, it is what is it? I go on to Twitter and I go on to Reddit. That's what I do. Reddit's become less effective. But for the most part, I immediately start looking at my various news websites, news sources and Twitter feed. As soon as I wake up, I grab my phone and I'm sourcing news, grabbing links and storing them, being like, these are interesting things. I'm reading about what's going on at 7 a.m. I usually get done with all of my recording around like 3.30 or so because those clips go up at like 6.

And then I go in the skate park. I skate for a couple hours, come back in, eat some food and then we come back in here. And you're there. And we do the next show. And then at about 1130 or so, I'm in bed and over the past couple of weeks,

I've been watching every episode reruns of The Outer Limits. I love that show. I've never seen it. So good. I'm going to do Tales from the Crypt next. I am excited to read this book.

Thomas Sowell, dude, is a legend. Can I get my camera? What a boss. Here, here, here. There you go. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Black rednecks and white liberals.

Oh, man. I've been hearing about this book. This guy just really, he's a genius in his own right. And a lot of people need to look into him if you don't know him. Thomas Sowell, man. He's a, yeah, he's got a Twitter account where they post quotes from him. The dude is just. The quotes are on fire.

Yeah. Non-stop. It's great. Awesome dude. Awesome stuff. So it's Friday. We'll be back Monday at 8 p.m. live. Make sure to follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube and all that stuff at TimCast.

And Parler. And Parler. Yeah. And for those that don't know, I mean, there's probably an overlap where people don't know that I actually have two other channels, because I'm sure, but I actually have two other channels that are just me doing, like, news commentary. It's very different from what we do here. And then Adam actually has his own channel he launched, AdamCastIRL.

Yep. There you go. AdamCastIRL. Make sure you guys subscribe. Yep. You should tweet. Adam, you'll tweet it out. Yeah, I'll tweet it out.

But, I mean, for those who are here right now, AdamCastIRL. It is a channel. I uploaded a video. You couldn't actually see it until I had a video. tweet Adam yeah I'll tweet it out but I mean for those who are here right now Adam cast IRL it is a channel I uploaded a video I you couldn't actually see it until I had a video so what I did was I took my favorite video of Adam cast when they were doing Joe Rogan a couple months ago yeah I was gone for a couple weeks and yeah it was basically a deep dive into Nikola Tesla amazing man if you don't know anything about him you want to know more about him you could you could check it out on my channel Adam cast IRL more importantly, it's going to be a live show. Probably like a Saturday thing. Me and Ian are just going to rap about

stuff, deep dive into really interesting people in life. It's going to be the same set. It will use the set here for now until the new location. I might have my own spot in the Cast Network. Cast Castle, is that a thing? Cast Castle. So we're going to location we might we might have i might have my own spot in i think we will in the cast network cast castle is that a thing cast castle cast so we're gonna we're gonna have a vlog yeah of this new massive space yeah there's gonna be uh so much happening man we're gonna have exclusive content we're actually gonna create a members thing for like people who want to watch the mini ramp and hang out and we're gonna do special releases but i'm also gonna be setting up some actual journalists to do fact checking on a ton of news to actually start solving these problems

put my money where my mouth is yes adams we're probably gonna have multiple excuse me multiple sets yeah but uh first things first we're getting a new space motivated in part by the awful leadership of governor murphy in new jersey and i was like, we got to get out of here. We just got to go. And the good news is that when you move into the middle of nowhere, you can get big spaces for low cost. That's true. So a lot of expansion.

I'm actually trying to figure out how to build a full vert ramp. But that might be just a pipe dream because you're shaking your head. You're like, we're going to do it. I can skate a mini ramp decently well. I don't know about a vert ramp, but it'd be fun. I want to learn vert. I would love to skate vert. It looks so much fun.

And Tony Hawk is doing a master class now. And he's like the vert master. So maybe we can have him out. Tony Hawk, if you're listening, because of course he watches the show. Of course, yeah. If you're listening, we would love to have you come out to Cass Castle when we officially get it going. The good news is we're going to have a ton of space for having guests. The bad news is we're going to be in the middle of nowhere, so getting them there will be a certain—

And we don't want anyone to know, so if you want to be a guest, we've got a black bag at the airport. So here's what's going to happen. If you want to be a guest in the show, we'll give you a street address to stand at on a corner in a random city. Yes. And then you'll be standing there and a van will pull up. The door will slide open. Two guys will throw a bag over your head and pull you in and you will wake up here. Don't worry.

On the set live. It's live. We pull the bag off your head and you're sitting here. Welcome to the Tim Cass IRL show. Their hair's all messed up and they're like, oh don't hurt me oh tim tim pool oh i'm here yeah he'll be in the van he'll be knocked out or whatever that's funny all right everybody so uh again adam will tweet out smash that like button yes oh no is that not what i was gonna say adam's gonna post his uh youtube yeah i will and we Cast IRL. We're going to get out of here.

We'll be back on Monday. I'll be back tomorrow. And then stick around, man. We're getting really excited for this new big upgrade. So thanks for hanging out, and we will see you all next time. Bye, guys.