Timcast IRL - Trump NUKES Nearly EVERY USAID Job, Cuts ALL FUNDS To Liberal News Amid PURGE w/Mel K

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

Tim, Phil, & Brett are joined by Mel K to discuss Trump eliminating nearly every USAID job, Trump ending all media contracts at the GSA, Politico co-founder saying liberal media is weaker than ever, a...nd a Democrat politician admitting she sterilized herself in protest of Trump. Hosts: Tim @Timcast (everywhere) Phil @PhilThatRemains (X) Brett @PopCultureCrisis (YouTube) Serge @SergeDotCom (everywhere) Guest: Mel K @MelKShow (X, Instagram, Rumble) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:51 BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Single person at USAID. He ordered leave for everybody. And then Marco Rubio basically received this list of employees that were supposed to be like essential. And he's like, nah, cut that down. So basically like 294 employees are left, which everybody knows means USAID is done. Trump then ordered the GSA to suspend and terminate all contracts with media organizations. This is nuts. Now, what we're hearing from the corporate press
Starting point is 00:01:25 is that it's a conspiracy theory that the government's been giving all of his money to these news outlets. Yeah, they've been they've been signing up for these exorbitant, insane subscription services, justifying it as a transaction. Politico came out with a statement saying, hey, it's just a transaction. You know, we got premium tools. The government needs to spend four hundred thousand dollars on per year for one hundred and seventy. And that's just one group. That's just Department of Energy. So we'll talk about that. A judge is trying to block Doge. And and then we got to talk about they're singing the black national anthem at the Super Bowl, but they did remove and racism. So they're still racist. And maybe that's maybe the reason they took and racism out of the end zone was because they wanted to sing a racist black supremacist song.
Starting point is 00:02:11 And I will talk about it because I got to tell you guys, when I heard that they decided to sing a race specific song, I was like, oh, whoa, where's the Asian anthem? Huh? You know, what about me? What about where's the Irish, The Mexican? The, come on. If you're going to do one, you got to do everybody, you know. Song for one race? Yeah, right. No, it's because they're playing stupid games. We'll talk about that, my friends.
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Starting point is 00:03:57 Who are you? What do you do? Who am I? What do I do? I have the Mel K Show. I have been a writer for almost 30 years. I was in Hollywood for 22 years. I left that and I really, really went into a lot of corruption, global situations. I try to follow
Starting point is 00:04:13 the money on my show. I have a show every single night on Rumble. And I have a book out called Americans Anonymous, restoring power to the people, one citizen at a time, where I go through how I think we got here and that our country is addicted to conflict and chaos. And if we don't start to heal ourselves from the inside and make differences in our own lives and our own sphere of influence, then it doesn't really matter who's president if we the people don't stand up and realize we're not just standing for ourselves. We're standing for the world because the Constitution of the United States is the one thing in the way, I believe, of a full
Starting point is 00:04:45 global governance model. I agree. Yeah, it's going to be fun. Thanks for hanging out. We got Brett hanging out. Guys, yes, Brett here. I host Pop Culture Crisis Monday through Friday at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, which is why I understand why someone would choose to leave Hollywood after so many years. It makes perfect sense to me.
Starting point is 00:05:02 I am Phil Labonte. I'm the lead singer of the heavy metal band All That Remains. I'm an anti-communist and counter-revolutionary. Let's go. Here's a story from NPR, my friends. U.S. aid cut dramatically as officials address stunning and irresponsible changes. I love this story. Trump, of course, announced that they were going to be putting everybody on leave.
Starting point is 00:05:22 And so we have this. There's a development. They say that senior staff submitted a list to State Department leadership of around 600 people whose work around the world they deemed essential and could not be disrupted. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved less than 300 for exclusion from a broad policy that will put a large percentage of the 13,000 plus workforce on administrative leave by Friday at midnight. That's according to multiple sources. Might as well shut it all down. 290 people won't be able to do anything. That's kind of the point.
Starting point is 00:05:58 So let me throw it to Mike Cernovich. He can break down a bit, just a bit. You know, Mike Benz, he's the guy. He's been going off on USAID. And tomorrow morning on The Culture War, youtube.com slash Tim Kess, subscribe if you haven't. We're going to be sitting down with a bunch of experts on how USAID is basically a weapon of the deep state to stage soft coups and spread U.S. influence. Mike Cernovich says, this ish is crazy, man. USAID grants to far left-wing nonprofits.
Starting point is 00:06:27 The nonprofits pay their employees six-figure salaries, most in the 300 to 500-year range. I'd estimate that over half of the D.C. economy is an outright looting of all of us via USAID grants. You guys want to hear something crazy? Rumors are circulating in the D.C. area that top shelf booze sales have dropped dramatically. Dramatic. This is what people are claiming. So I like to go to some of these restaurants. Look, we're not that far away.
Starting point is 00:06:56 We're probably like 10 minutes from Loudoun County, maybe 15 or 20 now. The old studio was literally across the street. You go down to Reston or Arlington, and they've got these really nice restaurants, everything's super clean and beautiful. These people, this is the capital in the Hunger Games. It is. They're dressed weird.
Starting point is 00:07:17 They have insane ideas. They're oblivious to the strife and the perils that working class people go through, and they get money likely through these systems. Now, I'm going to add one last thing to Mike Cernovich's point. I've worked for these nonprofits. It is not just that an executive director or senior staff get $300,000 a year. They work for multiple nonprofits at the same time.
Starting point is 00:07:40 Yep. So when we look at these grants and we can see that, you know, insert democracy organization of some type pays John Smith five hundred thousand dollars, it don't end there. That dude's also on the board of another nonprofit getting some kind of compensation for consulting. Then he's a staff member or consultant for another nonprofit. Me and my buddies did this 20 something years ago. We started looking at all the board members of various nonprofits working on liberal issues. And this is this is back during Obama. And we found that there were like 15 people that were on the board or staff of like 20 different nonprofits. And what they do then is some guy will come out and say, look, I work for a nonprofit and I only make $50,000 a year
Starting point is 00:08:21 because I believe in the cause. He's telling you the truth, but omitting that he actually makes $3 million a year through all the other consulting and nonprofits he works for. That's a microcosm of the absolute dishonesty that comes from them too. Just that example specifically is a microcosm of the type of lie by omission that everybody hates politicians for. Exactly. But this is what they do. And they fund rights off it. They say, look, you know, I don't pay myself that much. Then their funds, their various organizations are paying a millions. So Donald Trump has nuked USAID. I wonder what will this do? Will this nuke the D.C. economy? I'd imagine so. But also, I'm curious what you guys think is going to happen around the world with this elimination.
Starting point is 00:09:06 I mean, I hope that there are significant vacancies in in the greater Washington, D.C. But I mean, like, are we going to see countries collapse? Like, is all of a sudden, you know, Columbia going to be like, we're right wing now? Less American gender studies courses going on in foreign countries. Yeah, it's it's my sense that these aren't they're not funding the countries themselves but they are influencing the country so it's it's likely that there will be other influences that take the place of the united states so there will like like bro saying there will be less gender stuff there will
Starting point is 00:09:41 be less lbg lgbt, less what you would call woke stuff? I think we're going to see basically a lot of celebration around the world by people in countries that are aware that their country was infiltrated and that they had regime change or color revolutions that destroyed their nations. I mean, be it Libya, the former Yugoslavia, any of these countries, Ukraine. People are very aware that this is happening. And I'm sure you guys also are, Orban, Romania. There's also the connection to elections and USAID. So there are many people all around the world, Colombia, Chile, all over Brazil, that people believe that the CIA, in the guise of USAID and National Endowment for Democracy, have gone into their countries, started the process of creating opposition groups, funded them in order to topple the regime that the people actually wanted to put in a puppet that's going to go along with the bigger scheme, which is Agenda 2030 and all of this, you know, global governance model of the stakeholders.
Starting point is 00:10:45 And frankly, that's what I think is going on. And the truth is that a lot of this at the very highest level is a U.N. operation. And if you are not on board with the U.N. and the international bankers that run it, then you are going to be thrown overthrown. And I think people are hip to it now. Not anymore. Right. I don't know if it's going to be the case.
Starting point is 00:11:05 It's not. Yeah. They're not going to be able to pull it off. I've been calling this Trump's march to the sea. That, you know, we had a great someone someone called in the members only show and said that Trump's three elections track with Star Wars pretty well. A new hope. The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Orange Man.
Starting point is 00:11:23 And I hope I hope I hope that this time with trump's victory the deep state is routed and what he's doing now is effectively scorched earth through their institutions and they will not be able to put up any kind of meaningful resistance he has he has to and i know that me and ian got into it a little bit about this last night. But the reason that he has to is because the Democrats are going to use lawfare. They're already talking about Elon Musk and saying that he's breaking the law. He's breaking the law. This is preparing the environment so that way they can charge him with crimes so they can put him in jail.
Starting point is 00:12:01 The Democrats, this is the play moving forward. The left is going to continue to accuse the right of breaking the law, and they're going to use the levers of government to put people in jail for defying them. Right, which is why we need Kash Patel in there as soon as possible, and I'll tell you why, because the lawfare crew is very identifiable. It's through Brookings, it's through the Atlantic Council. It's Eisen and Weissman and McCord. They've been running this lawfare for decades. Eric Holder, Mark Elias. These people don't work for Democrats. They work for the parent company that is running the United States of America.
Starting point is 00:12:38 It's my belief that there is no left and right Republican and Democrat, that really our country is captured by a group of people that consider themselves the stakeholders of the region that is the American region, if you look on the higher level. And really, these lawfare people, all they do is they work for them to create roadblocks for anyone that wants to change the status quo, which is the funneling of money into these groups. So it's the Gates Foundation, the Open Society, Omadar Foundation, you know, Democracy Alliance, and then the whole Arabella Partners, Tides Foundation. Well, all of these lawfare crew, especially the Brookings Lawfare people, if you look into the entire situation from before Crossfire Hurricane all the way through, it is the same lawyers, it is the same people involved in the fake impeachments and the Mueller Weissman report in the transition integrity project jumped to the entire last four years.
Starting point is 00:13:30 These people are a small group of lawyers basically around Georgetown that truly do not work for the best interests of America. They work for the billionaire class that has captured this country and really is looking towards the global governance agenda 2030 model and anyone that gets in the way and threatens the trillions of dollars that they put in uh they're going to take down destroy and hopefully uh ruin forever but i think that's over don't you no no i think they're at it right now i think that they you look mary mccord about who's who's the architect of a lot of this with norm Eisen, they've been doing a show right now. Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen, for some reason, have a new podcast. And Weissman's going on there.
Starting point is 00:14:11 And these are all the people that have been doing the lawfare the whole time. They said they've been planning for a year. Now, I understand that they're not going to have success like they did in the past. But I do think there's about probably 3% or 4% of Americans that will still show up anywhere that they ask them to go whether paid or not because they are that far gone and they don't realize these people have no concern for them that they're just players in the game you mean what do you mean activist types yeah like protest types right like what's going on in la yeah exactly one of the hardest things going on right now is what the one of the ways they're fighting is that a lot of people do are starting to have like Elon Musk der who tends to be very bombastic
Starting point is 00:15:06 online, which kind of triggers people in the same way that Trump derangement syndrome did. I like just sharing stuff that Mike Benz does as like, if you can't read through this and take the time to understand these connections, then you don't need to worry about this because you don't care enough to actually look into it. So I'm seeing a lot of memes being made about how Elon Musk is the shadow president. I'm like, look, if you can't take the time to look into the facts from somebody dry, who's just giving you a bunch of documentation,
Starting point is 00:15:32 and you don't even have to do that. You don't even have to go as recent as that. You can check something like chat GBT, which is already biased, and just say, give me facts about USAID and their affiliation with the CIA and see what we've been doing in foreign countries for decades and decades and decades. This isn't the stuff of movies.
Starting point is 00:15:50 This is stuff that's absolutely going on in the country right now, and you should be concerned. If you are more worried about the people uncovering a bunch of wasteful spending and corruption than you are the wasteful spending and corruption itself, we have a problem. We have a problem because they absolutely are more worried about it. Yeah, they are. It goes beyond just opposing because it's Donald Trump. These people are worried about their cash cow. They're worried about the loss of ideological control over these institutions. They're worried about the loss of these institutions.
Starting point is 00:16:21 It should be totally uninteresting to the american people that the government is cutting waste it should be actually the american people should be like yeah we want that every single there should be i wish that there was an amendment that said look every single administration has to cut 10 right you can increase spending but you have to cut 10 of the government because you know that there's always at least 10%, probably more, of wasteful spending. Well, we're doing it now. The idea that you could go ahead and have no audits that even the Pentagon can't. We haven't had a budget since 2007.
Starting point is 00:16:59 And the fact that they're freaking out about this. Isn't Hegseth calling for an audit on the Pentagon? Yes. Well, they failed the last seven of them anyway. That's why they took at General Flynn was the audit at the Pentagon. But to your point, there's been no budgets. Like, it's just been omnibus spending, omnibus spending. The fact that they're behaving as if this is some terrible development, it's like, wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:17:21 How can you present this idea to the American people? And how is it that there are people out there that actually buy this? Well, maybe it's a giant distraction anyway, because what I think is that they've lost the control of the narrative. And I'm talking about the intelligence community, the unconstitutional spawned from the Patriot Act intelligence blob that that Mike Benz and everyone talks about that shouldn't exist. Frankly, I think that there's too many eyes on them. There's too many podcasts like this one and other ones that are pointing
Starting point is 00:17:48 at the IC, at DHS, at the surveillance state and asking what is going on. So I think it's a big distraction, just like the Twitter files. They release them when they could no longer not release them. They're releasing all this when people are actually looking at what's going on in far countries and USAID. So maybe this is also part of like the beginning shock and awe, because the real thing we have to deal with in America is what's happening here to our country. And instead of focusing on Elon Musk or Donald Trump and what they're doing, we should be looking at what all of this has done to our country, to our backyard, to what has happened here. And really, I think that it all goes back to this country being captured all the way back by the bankers and billionaires and the globalists that want this global governance model. They've invested trillions
Starting point is 00:18:34 of dollars since Obama signed us on this agenda in 2015. They are all go for it. I believe Obama was to take us into Hillary. Hillary was to take us into the end of the agenda by 2030. And this country was going to be done. The whole thing of that whole globalist thing that we're talking about, that I believe the Lawfare Crew work for, I believe that the IC out of the Patriot Act work for, is that there are no more nation states. It is much easier to have a technocracy, totalitarian, 17 goals, which is all it is, to control by regions, like you were saying about Hunger Games. When I read what Kissinger and Brzezinski and all these people were talking about, which is how I think we got here, it really sounds like Hunger Games,
Starting point is 00:19:14 that they would like people in nation states to believe they're free, to believe that they have sovereignty. But at the end of the day, they don't because above them is the Bank of International Settlements, IMF, World Bank, all the tentacles of the NGOs and the globalist organizations connected to the World Economic Forum and the UN. And they don't want us to see them. So right now, yet again, I think we're all pointing at each other when the true danger to our country and the world is actually this group of people that consider themselves stakeholders. The global public-private partnership I just covered for a week with Norbin Lott and Davos, they're not stopping. They fully are on board to turn us into a totalitarian, technocratic, one-world controlled thing from Brussels. And we're all fighting each other when it's like, pull the money out of all these things that are enabling that. Basically, every executive order Joe Biden put in was to reverse everything
Starting point is 00:20:08 Trump was doing to get out of the global system. But we're not fighting each other. We're fighting people who blindly march behind these institutions. Right. So the American people have a I guess I guess you can say those who largely vote for Trump, people who have woken up, whatever you want to call it, they're not all conservative. Some used to be liberal. Some are conservative. Some are libertarian.
Starting point is 00:20:30 I mean, the Libertarian Party largely supported Donald Trump. And then you have these people that no matter what Democrats do, they will defend them to the point where Elon Musk can uncover that the USAID was funding like gender
Starting point is 00:20:45 puppet shows in Peru. And there are literally Democrats being like, I like it. And you're like, why your tax dollars, your money? Could you want to fix the pipes in Flint? Then stop defending this. And they're like, no. So it's not it doesn't need to be left or right. It's whatever the institution in the machine state is doing. The Democrats are marching behind it. The problem is at a certain point when RFK Jr. is like, I think we shouldn't have dangerous chemicals in our food. And the Democrats go, you're bad. You're wrong. Regular people go, what? This does not make sense anymore. A lot of them, it just comes back to a nanny state. A lot of them really, really want to have faith in a state that's going to take care of them when we understand or we've learned the hard way that that's not really how the real world works. And you can't rely on a government to do that. Right. Right. Totally. Let's jump to this next story. We have some of the post millennial Trump ends every
Starting point is 00:21:39 single media contract at the GSA. Trump told the General Services Administration to terminate every single media contract. I just want to say right away, the media is going to claim that's conspiracy theory. The government's not funding these things. Funding is the manipulative language that they use. What's happening is large amounts of money to the tunes of tens of millions of dollars are being used to purchase these ridiculously expensive subscription packages and tools these media companies offer, effectively propping up whether these companies like look, Politico is like we've got an analysis tool they're buying. Great. And then the three thousand dollars a year per person that's going to your company, you then write anti-Trump news. And what's going to happen is these companies, they
Starting point is 00:22:24 know who butters their bread, the Biden administration. So, of course, they're not going to defy him. They don't want to lose a million dollar contract. Nobody does. And that's and that's effectively the kickback. Yeah. Trump is saying shut it all down. He recently came out and said billions of dollars had been stolen by USAID and other agencies, sending it to the fake news media,
Starting point is 00:22:45 mentioning Politico got $8 million. Now, I want to stress this, because last night people were saying, you know, a nuanced bro brought up, but how much of their revenue, you know, what percentage of their revenue is that? Because if Politico's doing $200 million a year, do we care about $1 million?
Starting point is 00:23:02 Superchatter made a great point. If you had a company that makes $50 million a year, to a leftist, they're going to be like, wow, you're rich. And then you look at his balance sheet and his profit was $50 grand. Yeah, $50 million a year, but you're spending that on staffing and resupplying and things like this. Then along comes a government contract and they say, you normally sell a product for 10 bucks, right? We'll give you $10,000 per product, a million dollars a year. And guess what? Now you have a million dollars profit and that guy's putting in his pocket. So they want to play these games. Trump's shutting it all down.
Starting point is 00:23:36 I don't know that this ultimately disrupts the media apparatus beyond what we're already seeing. But I want to stress this. I believe there's a strong probability that as Elon Musk continues his purge, his deep dive into these institutions, we are actually going to find many of these media companies are receiving funding from the U.S. government in some way. Yeah. Well, that's why they've named them trusted news sources. If you Google now, it takes five pages to see somebody that's not a trusted news source. There's a reason for that. YouTube's the same. Right. So there's a reason for that. And the truth is, I don't think that this whole movement that they've been promoting will continue.
Starting point is 00:24:15 I really think it's going to fall apart without these media outlets that constantly put out information that isn't true. I saw Brian Stelter earlier today, unfortunately, on CNN laughing about it. Now he's saying it's unreality. They've jumped from misinformation to unreality. And he's saying it's unreality that Politico got funding. Well, Reuters also got funding and AP also got funding and and all the trusted sources, New York Times, Washington Post all got funding. They shouldn't need funding if they have a good product. You didn't get money from the government. Let's clarify. It is technical funding. Politico says for $13,000 a year, you can get access to our premium package. And the government goes, guess I'll buy that. Now, I'm saying this. If I launched the Tim Kass Trump plan and it's $15,000 a year. And then all of Trump's staff signed up for it.
Starting point is 00:25:09 Democrats would call that money laundering. Yep. Yes, absolutely. And that is what it is. It's a transaction. What do you mean? He's just buying a service from me. Well, this is like they named their NGOs.
Starting point is 00:25:19 You know what? You know what really grinds my gears? I deal with this all the time in business. My accountant says, if you overpay or underpay, the IRS will have questions. If you buy a building, right? Let's say you own a house and it costs you $200,000. And then you sell the house for $100,000. IRS is going to have questions. Who did you sell it to? Some guy I met. Why did you sell the house at half of what you paid for only recently? They are not going to let you just do that because that means taxes aren't going to them.
Starting point is 00:25:51 Plus the property tax in the local area. How about this? You buy a house for $200,000 and then flip it for a million bucks. No, no, let's let's let's let's actually play this game. What do you think would happen? OK, you know, a news subscription costs $20 a month. And I'm being generous and saying $20. And the government's spending $2,750 per year per person. So let's just call it 10 times. So you buy a $200,000 house. And then a few months later, you sell it to someone for $2 million.
Starting point is 00:26:24 There's going to be questions about who that person is buying that house. And they're going to say, is this like a foreign dignitary buying a house from a politician or something? Or why is this money transfer happening? We have already dealt with this where we've been instructed by our accountants that if exorbitant fees are paid to staff, then you run the risk of being audited because they're going to say, if the average salary for a job is X, why are you paying X times two? You got to justify it. We should have every single one of these government staffing, these agencies and departments justify why they're spending 100 times the average rate for a new subscription. Yep.
Starting point is 00:27:02 And I mean, I would love to see these kind of things happen. I don't know that they're actually going to. So I think that we should just cut off all the spending right off the bat. I don't imagine that you're going to be able to pin Politico or Bloomberg as having actually done anything wrong. Not that this is above board, but I just don't think that the government's going to be, I don't think it's worth the time to try and pin it on them just cut the money off and make sure that they don't do it again or don't don't continue to fund them i think that's probably
Starting point is 00:27:33 the best i mean i would again if someone has a plan to do it and can make it stick i'm all for it i'm not saying that i don't want these things to happen but i think the most likely outcome is cut the money off and i agree walk away give them 90 days and have them file something saying justifying it like you're saying don't 90 days that's what they want zero what trump's giving him 90 days uh he's giving some people 90 days to decide um if they're going to keep certain positions no i'm talking about these payments to media companies yeah they're they're stopped, not just for 90 days. But what is he going to do now?
Starting point is 00:28:10 Just it's over? This is in this story is there's, for instance, the Department of Defense paid, I think it was a DOD, $900,000 to Politico for subscriptions. Yet we turn that off.
Starting point is 00:28:26 We literally just say, no more subscriptions. Most of these, does a place like Politico ask you to also donate, like a place like The Guardian, which asks you to donate? Politico put out a statement saying, look, these were transactions. This is normal business. And I say, shove it up your, no one is buying $1,000 a month TimCast subscriptions. That's insane. I don't care.
Starting point is 00:28:49 It doesn't matter to me if they say that it's normal or not. The government shouldn't spend the money on it. It's not a responsible use of money. Right. What about Wikipedia? Is that involved in this too? Not that I'm aware of, but I bet if you go to USA Spending Out Gov, you might find Wikipedia is getting a bunch of money. For sure.
Starting point is 00:29:08 But this is the game. That's why I called it plausible deniability. They can feign ignorance. All these media outlets, because apparently the BBC media action, their charity arm, was getting USAID funds. But you apparently have government employees buying subscriptions, exorbitant fees to AP, Reuters, New York Times or whatever, hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars. And then they go, we're not funding anybody. I want you to justify why you're going to spend three grand on this package 172 times. Why Politico is going to get a million dollars a year in contracts. I believe it's been reported the total number they've received in subscriptions is $34.3 million.
Starting point is 00:29:55 It's over a decade or so, but still. It doesn't matter. It's a waste of money. And again, the people are going to say well in the grand scheme of things you know the budget's two trillion dollars a year so this isn't this doesn't matter and etc etc i don't care i don't care because because the point of this isn't isn't as much about the money as it is about the influence and having the narrative be set by these these uh news agencies and being basically a mouthpiece for the left.
Starting point is 00:30:26 I think we have to keep scratching down on the surface here, too, because don't forget that during COVID, it came out that Bill Gates was giving a lot of money to a lot of different journals and news sources. Also, Open Society and George Soros does. And I mean, maybe there's multiple levels of money laundering going through these trusted sources, because it can't just be, I mean, we know about Bill Gates and the $300 million. And it all connects together anyways, because remember, however many years ago when it was that YouTube said, we are going to de-rank people that are not considered a trusted news source. And we're only going to push through articles and we're going to push through videos and lives that come from what they call trusted news sources, whether that's Fox, CNN, MSNBC,
Starting point is 00:31:11 all of which are working. I have a question. You know, is there any concern for a conflict of interest when these news organizations rely on government employees as a substantial portion of their revenue? Yeah, I would think so. So I have a question. Nuance Pro asked the other day, what percent of their total yearly revenue comes from government subscriptions?
Starting point is 00:31:30 I have a better question. What percent of their premium pro subscriptions come from government entities? Because if you want to make an argument that they make a lot of their money off sponsorships, we're comparing apples to oranges. No, no. I want a list of all of their premium pro subscriptions, and I want to know what percent are government employees, and then I want to know their political affiliation. No, no. I want a list of all of their premium pro subscriptions, and I want to know what percent are government employees, and then I want to know their political affiliation.
Starting point is 00:31:49 Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Might as well just call it the government package. Yeah. They do. So it's design-specific. Let me pull it up. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:57 Yeah, Politico. We Politico Pro subscription, and on their Politico Pro website, I think, let me just load up the website i'm pretty sure they have uh a government tier somewhere i gotta find it we had it the other day but because they make you learn more let me let me let me let me pull it up and see what we got here and uh take a look at this uh pro plus feature, man, Politico wants access to people in the government. They should just give this to people in the government for free.
Starting point is 00:32:29 I think what's more disturbing is that we're funding news agencies, news all over the world, in Ukraine, in Israel, in China. I mean, we're funding news all over the place. So, I mean, it's propaganda, obviously. But I mean, when I found out that that whole list of people that they want to kill from Ukraine of journalists that Tucker's on and Tulsi's on, we're funding that, you know, we're funding that, that OCCR that did the Panama Papers, we're funding that. That's also the impetus to Trump's impeachment with Ukraine was also out of that journal about corruption and international corruption. We funded that. How much
Starting point is 00:33:10 international news is the U.S. government funding right now is also the question. I mean, look, the fact of the matter is this kind of this kind of stuff is propaganda. The point is to to put forward a narrative the these media or the yeah these media and journalists uh institutes or whatever outlets they're not actually a honest brokers they're not showing honest both sides coverage they're not real journalists they're propagandists the point is to push a narrative and as long as the point is to push a narrative they shouldn't get one dime from the government, not a cent. It's really crazy to see all of the tactics that we used overseas for years, whether it's through the CIA and all that, to see it come back home.
Starting point is 00:33:55 They're talking post-2012 when the propaganda arm was turned back on America and seeing how fast it's devolved. Well, Trump should do that. He should overturn the Smith-Munt Modernization Act immediately. That was in 2013, I believe. And it made it okay for the State Department to disseminate essentially propaganda inside the United States. The logic at the time was supposed to be about preventing domestic terrorists from being radicalized, right?
Starting point is 00:34:25 Yeah, that was the logic. That was, right? Yeah, that was the logic. That was the logic? Yes, that was the logic. But the fact of the matter is it's being used to propagandize the American people. That's why our politics are so polarized nowadays. There are the people that are inclined to believe what the government says and then people that are not inclined to believe what the government says. And the government is saying that one half of the country is evil the government is saying these people are likely nazis our democracy is is in jeopardy they're saying that currently now
Starting point is 00:34:54 they're saying that our democracy is in jeopardy because we're trying to cut the bureaucracy yeah cutting spending in the government is absolutely... The craziest thing is that what is happening with Elon and Doge is effectively an audit, and Democrat voters and Democrat activists are angry about it. Unreal. Look, that's all you got to say to a family member. You'd be like, so they're auditing USAID. They're doing an audit of where our money is going. And if they get mad and say we shouldn't audit things, be'll be like, okay, you are insane. Bye. Well, they're going to say that Doge is not an official government organization.
Starting point is 00:35:30 They say, do you know what the USDS is? Do you know how these things started? And again, you have to start showing them like really, really boring papers. Like do not fall for the sensational headlines. Like if you don't have the brainpower to sit through and look at all of this stuff, then you're falling for the propaganda that we're talking about. Let's jump to this story from Fox News. Politico co-founder says the liberal media is weaker than ever in interview. Go for this. CNN and other liberal media outlets have been forced to cut staff this year. Jim Van Ey said in an interview published Tuesday that the liberal media has reached a low point in popularity. CNN and NBC
Starting point is 00:36:04 News, among other liberal news outlets, have reported layoffs of staff this year amid concerns of lower ratings and a changing media landscape as podcasters continue to grow their audience. Let me tell you a story, my friends. He's right, by the way. Ten years ago, podcasting was taking off on YouTube and YouTube panicked, took a dump on the floor and nuked the reach of all of these independent podcast channels. Apple owned the space, Spotify rising in the ranks. And only recently did YouTube start to take back the podcasting space. Think about how stupid you have to be to literally own the podcasting space and ban it in panic. That's literally what they did today. Despite the fact that shows like this have substantially more relevance than the likes of Rachel Maddow, of which she gets like what, 68000 in the key demo.
Starting point is 00:37:02 YouTube will still prop them up in the algorithm and give them preferred trusted access. Now it's going to change because there's an obvious trend happening. Donald Trump wins and they're referring to as the podcast presidency. People are starting to get their news and information more in general from podcasts. And sooner or later, there's going to be a critical mass that tells YouTube to shut up and get this garbage CNN off my front page. Until then, we need to be vocal and tell them it's enough. YouTube started to change a little bit, but for the love of all that is holy, shut down this trusted news garbage just because a powerful, wealthy investor put money behind a guy in a suit does not mean he is correct.
Starting point is 00:37:51 And it's time we change that. Do you think a lot of that has to do with the fact that YouTube's connection with Google and they want preferred treatment from the government before, you know, after Trump came in the office, they were hoping that post-Trump presidency, they would be prevented from growing, you know? I think it's bigger than that. I think that they're all partners of the Global Public Private Partnership of the World Economic Forum and the UN. They're all in on it if you go look at it. Google is a main partner, as is BlackRock and all these other people that are really running all this stuff. And frankly, I believe that they are protecting them and that they are all in on not the great narrative was written by Klaus Schwab after the great reset. This is all about a member just last week,
Starting point is 00:38:31 just when Trump was inaugurated, they had the Davos meeting at the Davos meeting. The number one thing was fighting misinformation and disinformation. They had people from Google speaking, from AP speaking, from the New York Times speaking. These are their media. That's the great narrative proponents. Those are the people that push them. That's why. And frankly, like I said, since 2015, they decided they were going to push this on all of us on planet Earth. This idea, this dystopian future technocracy, totalitarian agenda.
Starting point is 00:39:01 And anyone that's not going along with it, they were going to silence. And that is exactly what they've done and now we see it and to mel's point anyone that thinks that like this is just like made up or whatever like she's referencing a book that was written you can go read the book you can go read the great reset you can go read read the great narrative these are books that are written and all of this stuff is laid out it is not some kind of like it's an it's not a secret it's not something that's hidden all you have to do is go and read the the the books written by the people that want to implement this stuff klaus schwab is very big on letting people know exactly what he wants to do and what
Starting point is 00:39:35 he believes and remember that the reason why they want why they wanted to prop up their own networks is because they haven't found a way to move into politics in a way that somehow feels authentic, meaning that they they want to create their own Joe Rogan, as they said after the election, but they don't know how to do that because they don't know how to do it. They can do it with liberal women for some reason. They can do it with podcasts like Call Her Daddy. They can pull in liberal women into into their agenda, but they have a very hard time getting into traditional politics with something that feels authentic because you either have bread tubers or you have a dude in a suit telling you that barack obama was the greatest president of all time red tubers are suffering right yeah
Starting point is 00:40:13 is that connected to usa id i have no idea i don't know well vosh says that he probably is yeah i mean i think we also have to realize like like, I always go back to that NATO cognitive warfare document, Battle for the Brain. I don't know if you guys have all seen it. Gray Zone put it out first. It was a confidential document. I guess NATO's innovation hub is right near here. Basically, it was a battle for your brain and talking about how they were using social media and media in general to divide and conquer people within our nation and nations around the world so that we didn't deal with the real problem, which is a very big push to end the sovereignty of
Starting point is 00:40:52 nation states. And so at this point, I really think that we are in a cognitive warfare on a massive scale and anything that they can do to confuse the situation. So maybe looking at Doge and all that isn't really our biggest problem. Maybe looking at what we can do during the next 18 months before these people start, you know, going into the midterms, like what we can do locally, looking at all these NGOs have local situations all over the country, all these sustainable development goals, UN, World Economic Forum, Open Society, they infiltrated the local communities first. If we the people stand up right now and actually take control, not look at Trump in D.C., the sewer, look at the swamp in our own backyards. That's why I wrote Americans Anonymous and get together for freedom, liberty, privacy.
Starting point is 00:41:36 Those are the things that are on the line and do the real hard work, heavy lifting ourselves. Like people are, oh, the founders said this, the founders said that america's not even 250 years old we are the founders so at this point i think we have an option to save the country because you know trump's always saying they're not after me they're after you i'm in the way i think they're not after america they're after world and america and the constitution are in the way i i strongly agree like we are the constitution is a uniquely resilient document it was it was really it's a really really really solid uh piece of government that a way to lay out a government it's very resilient it does resist tyranny it takes a lot of work to actually it's taken a lot of work to get to this stuff a lot of unconscious unconstitutional stuff that has been slipped by
Starting point is 00:42:24 a lot of misusing things like the Commerce Clause and misusing the Necessary and Proper Clause. Those two things right there have made for a lot of the garbage that's on its face unconstitutional. But you get a court to just say, well, the Necessary and Proper Clause says that we need this, or the Commerce C clause says that we can do this because it's supposed to make regular you know regulate interstate commerce which i'm not even going to get into what regulate meant back then but um but yeah the the point is the constitution is very very resilient but it takes people that believe in it and actually
Starting point is 00:43:02 put their elected officials to the test and say, look, this is what the Constitution says, because if you don't do that, then the Constitution is just a piece of paper. And I think we've been mind controlled and manipulated to think that we're powerless and that the Constitution is just a piece of paper and it's nothing. And you've heard Obama, the fundamental transformation of America was about destroying the Constitution and the foundation of this country. We have a chance right now to take it back. But if the American people don't realize they're the answer, the answer isn't in D.C. and it's not in the courts. It's in American people holding their local politicians accountable and being the actual news for their neighbors and getting together and
Starting point is 00:43:40 like freedom cells, like Derek Brose suggests, or I suggest Americans Anonymous and not make it left and right Republican Democrat is just a fraud to raise money. What it is is it's about people that believe in the Constitution, inalienable rights and our sovereignty and people who don't care. It's one of the reasons why the left is so gung ho about the idea of packing the court, why they come back to that all the time, why they love the idea of getting rid of the electoral college, right? Because they don't actually believe in what our democracy actually means you know our is the important word for them there they say that empires last 250 years or 248 so uh 2026 arguably july july 4th some would say july 2nd uh that'll be the 250 mark. Now, a lot of people have countered that saying it's 250 years as an empire, not as a nation.
Starting point is 00:44:30 So how long has the U.S. been empirical? And it's only the end of World War II. I think that I think honestly, it went super empirical, though. You're right. And probably started even before that, around the time that the Federal Reserve did. But when George H.W. Bush walked on the floor of the United Nations and said that we were going to have a new world order run by the U.N., I think he meant it. I also think our country was captured the day they killed JFK.
Starting point is 00:44:54 And I think that we're still fighting the people JFK warned about in 1961 when he did a speech for the press, and he said that there was a monolithic conspiracy you know, the conspiracy about that, but that there was infiltration instead of invasion, guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. That is what we've been dealing with. And the craziest part about all of this is all these color revolutions, regime change, of course, Samantha Power and the fake responsibility to protect they used to go into Libya and other places has been used against us. And again, I think we have to fight certain things.
Starting point is 00:45:25 Like we should talk about repealing or actually replacing the Patriot Act. If we don't do that, that's when the CIA, which is supposed to be outward facing, teamed up with the DHS to be inward facing. So now they can pull a color revolution on us because of the Patriot Act. You know, so there's lots of things. Or the 17th Amendment, when states used to actually pick their senators through the legislature and it wasn't a national thing. There's lots of things we can do to take it back to the people, but I think it has to
Starting point is 00:45:54 be the people on a local and state level that really make the difference. Let's jump to this story from the Post Millennial. You guys may have seen the story. Trump was at a prayer service and this super woke bishop did the whole woke thing of, We're so nice. Won't you have mercy? Well, it was brutal and annoying. As it turns out, the Episcopal bishop who attacked Trump received $53 million in taxpayer funds.
Starting point is 00:46:20 Unreal. According to records, EMM received $53 million of funds from various government programs to resettle 3,600 individuals in 2023. So let's start over. Instead of this individual, I'd like to translate for you, of course, as she was preaching to Donald Trump saying, please have mercy. I would like to translate that to modern English. Please, Mr. President, don't shut down my kickbacks and the money flowing to my organizations, which make me very wealthy. Have mercy. I mean, it's not a shock.
Starting point is 00:46:55 I mean, everyone in D.C. it seems is part of the swamp. It was a Unitarian church, was it? The Episcopal Migration Ministry. But also, I mean, what is the with the 501c3 in churches and and synagogues and mosques anyway i mean johnson i think put that into control them a good church with a good pastor and everything would be able to sustain itself i mean i think we have a big issue with that yeah well i mean normally you tithe you you donate to the church you you get something,
Starting point is 00:47:26 you get a comment. Well, they go around the collection plates and say, please give. And, you know, I was I was I grew up Catholic. We would have a little they'll give us a little box full of envelopes. And then every time you go to church, you'd put money in a little envelope and you'd put it in the collection tray. And that's what helps keep the church going. Right. So those donations are all I believe they're all tax deductible. The church is about to do politics and things like that. That's codified. But then you find out that a lot of these groups like there's like the Lutheran ministries or whatever was people were saying that they were getting hundreds of millions of dollars right after Biden lost the election.
Starting point is 00:47:57 Right. Catholic charities, I think, was also accused of getting a bunch of money and facilitating illegal immigration. What's up with that? Yeah. Which is funny, too, because the left hates the Catholic Church and loves to talk about how evil the Catholic Church is anyways. Hands on the church. Well, it's Catholic charities. That's the problem.
Starting point is 00:48:12 Because, you know, I remember there was a document that Jamie Raskin and a couple other people gave to Biden and Harris. It was like the secular Democrats of America. And every single group on there was like Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Catholic, but they were all secular Democrats. This is how a lot of the George Soros Open Society funded things have a religious tint to them, but they're not necessarily that. And I think that's a lot of the manipulation of names, just like they say everything's about democracy.
Starting point is 00:48:43 Then when you put in a religious thing, because I know HIAS, which is, I think, Jewish Family Services, was funding a lot of the immigration. Catholic Charities was, UN was, but there was also multiple other religious organizations getting money to facilitate the open border. And you know what, you see the name, and you see that it's a religious thing, and people think oh they must be good well that's not true that's how they that's how they hide people that are not yeah it wasn't the uh this particular she's a bishop or whatever wasn't she isn't she a member of the lgbtq uh yeah a no she's married and she has kids she's married and she has kids well here's the thing though about all these with these. I didn't think a woman could be a bishop first of all, but I guess they can now.
Starting point is 00:49:28 Oh, okay. Yeah. It depends on the denomination. Whatever the case may be, it's one of many, probably. Postmillennial says, according to records, EMM received $53 million that we read. Since EMM has limited lobbying power, the Episcopal Church,
Starting point is 00:49:44 a separate legal entity, advocates for additional programs that benefit EMM in Washington, D.C., the outlet said. A 2012 Government Accountability Office report states that funding is based on the number of refugees they serve. So affiliates have an incentive to maintain or increase the number of refugees they resettle each year rather than allowing the number to decrease. Do you guys know the story of the snakes in India? I think it was India, right? I could be wrong. Basically, they had a snake problem.
Starting point is 00:50:10 And so it was like the British colonists were like, what are we going to do about all these snakes? I got an idea. Through the power of decentralization, we can use the citizenry to deal with these snakes. So they put out a call. To each and everybody who brings us the head of a snake, we will pay you. We'll pay you cash. So you know what a call. To each and everybody who brings us the head of a snake, we will pay you.
Starting point is 00:50:26 We'll pay you cash. So you know what those townspeople did? They started breeding them. Brilliant. And then the snake problem got substantially worse. And so what happens is, you get some refugees. The government says, okay, we've got to deal with this problem. How about
Starting point is 00:50:42 we give grant money to various non-profits to help deal with the refugees? what happens is all these organizations say bring in illegal immigrants we'll call them refugees we'll get way more money from the government and this is the perverse incentive we are witnessing it has to stop wow that's true i i mean i i don't see how that this kind of stuff is is completely and totally unsustainable that we're, you know, with as much debt as we have. And again, I will continue to reaffirm the fact that even though this is all bad, it's actually the unfunded liabilities that we have to worry about. It's Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. Those are the things that are actually driving the debt.
Starting point is 00:51:22 But if you don't have a balanced budget, then it just goes into it only it only makes it worse. So I dream of a balanced budget, man. I mean, it would be wonderful. And I don't I don't there's no legitimate reason why the United States can't have a balanced budget. We have we have our GDP is like twenty nine trillion dollars. There's a legitimate reason. And that is that there's a bunch of skeevy, corrupt a-holes siphoning money and extracting the value in the labor for themselves. Government needs the political platinum package. That's why we can't have a balanced budget.
Starting point is 00:52:00 That's right. I mean, you know, Norm, Norm, us Normies, we spend 20 bucks a month for our politico, but the government's like, no, no. You guys remember that? It would work for us. You remember that app? You could download where all it showed was a ruby on the screen and it cost $10,000. It was something like this. There was an app in the Google Play Store for $10,000 and all it did was show this image.
Starting point is 00:52:21 And the point was that rich people would show it off like jewelry. Like I have I can spend $10,000 on an app. That's basically what the government's doing. You know when you show up they're like your department got you what? Silver tier? We're platinum pro. Yeah yeah exactly. Remember that scene
Starting point is 00:52:38 from American Psycho where they're showing off their business cards? Oh yeah. Basically that. Sweating looking at that. Yeah he's sweating spinning a laptop around and it's like platinum pro. Yeah yeah. Basically that. Basically that. Sweating looking at that. And they're all so close. Yeah, he's sweating, spinning a laptop around, and it's like, Platinum Pro. Yeah, yeah. He's like, whoa, you've got Platinum Pro? What does it give you? Well, when I read the news, there's little silver frilly things on the side.
Starting point is 00:52:56 See, Tim will reimburse us for the movies we go see, but he will not buy us the AMC Plus package. No, never. We should totally do this. We should make it so that if you sign up to TimCast for $1,000 a month, there's gold trim on the side of the website. It's got to be something like that. At least somebody will do it.
Starting point is 00:53:16 I said earlier, I was like, if you sign up for $1,000 a month, I'll give you my phone number. Because then we have the TimCast Platinum Pro, $1,000 a month, $12,000 a year package. And then all the people in government need it because they can get me on the phone. No, it's an additional $1,000 to get you to answer. They can just have the number.
Starting point is 00:53:33 Yeah, I said you could have the number. I never said I'd answer. Exactly. Voicemails for the $1,000. Otherwise, if I find out that someone actually signed up for the $1,000. Oh, people would. Unreplied, like unread text messages i'll do it left on red no i'll do it i'll give my phone number if people do i mean like i said
Starting point is 00:53:51 i was half joking when i said i would do it but i gotta be honest like i don't really think anyone's gonna go to timcast.com click join us then go to 1000 options sign up and give a thousand dollars a month to timcast if you do i'll give you my phone number. It's not going to happen. I don't imagine that it will. It'd be funny if we get one sign up and it's like Donald Trump. Yeah, exactly. That's what I was thinking. And he's like, I love the show.
Starting point is 00:54:12 Wanted to talk. Didn't have your number. Like President Trump, I actually would have taken your phone call even if you didn't sign up for $1,000 a month. I would have. Hopefully he'll come by here one day. Yeah, we sat down with him.
Starting point is 00:54:24 I mean, we're pretty far from D.C. Every time we've talked to his crew, they've been like, bring the show to us. But he does that with everybody. Like, basically, if you want to do a show with Trump, usually you have to be by him. So for the shows that he's done, they're in Florida. Easy for him to pop over if he lives there. But coming to, like, Harper's Ferry. Yeah, we can't get members of Congress to drive out here very often.
Starting point is 00:54:48 So we're looking at setting up smaller satellite studios closer to D.C. OK, yeah, we got a couple that we can already use. We have friends in the area. And that way, you know, it's crazy. I'll tell you a story. We were trying to rent. I was trying to rent a townhouse in D.C. so we could have a studio in D.C. So we could if Congress is in DC. So we could,
Starting point is 00:55:05 if Congress was in session, you had all these people, they know us, they come on the show. None of them will rent to me. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, wow. It's funny. Every single time we submit, they email back with, I'm sorry, it's no longer available. And they take it off the market. Yeah. It's happened like four times. That's unbelievable. Yeah. And I was like, we're gonna have to have like a company do it or something. You can do that through a company, right? Like an LLC. Yeah, I have my wife do it.
Starting point is 00:55:31 Told Allison, I was like, you put your name down. Stop putting my name down. Nobody knows. You could ostensibly buy a building, right? We could, but that's a huge commitment for a temporary remote studio that no one's going to commitment for a temporary right remote so that no one's going to be well yeah but indeed i mean i'm well now that doge is is in effect and stuff
Starting point is 00:55:50 maybe it's not the best investment but if donald trump had lost it might be a better investment because maybe a lot of close down winter white house man you know gotta gotta go down to mar-a-lago for the winter white house yeah that's that's how it's got to be done. All right. Let's jump to this next story. I can't read this. Phil, you read the headline. Trump derangement syndrome. State rep sterilizes herself to protest president. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:56:16 What? Is this like those women that were— This is real. Okay. Democratic Michigan rep Lori Pahutsky, during her protest Wednesday against Trump, announced she decided to sterilize herself as a way to challenge the new administration. Lady, thank you for your service. Thank you for your service. We appreciate your commitment to not making another one of you.
Starting point is 00:56:39 Thank you. Just under two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to ensure that i would never have to navigate a pregnancy in donald trump's america i refuse to let my body be treated as currency by an administration that only sees value my ability to procreate um oh my god i'm pretty sure every conservative is saying exactly what phil just said didn't he just make pam bondy like attorney general what about that uh who that? Who was the really overweight influencer who said she lost 50 pounds since Trump took office because of the price of food? What?
Starting point is 00:57:11 Olivia, Julie. I don't know her name. Julian or something like that said that she lost 50 pounds in two weeks because of the price of everything. It's going to be really funny after all these USAID employees are fired and then all of the followers that liberals have just disappear.
Starting point is 00:57:28 Right, exactly. And they're like, I'm going to be tracking this, you guys, because I'm warning you, David. David Pakman, you hear me. I'm staring at your subscriber count. And after USAID goes down, if those numbers, if your views don't, I got questions. I'm kidding, by the way. I genuinely think people watch that guy's show. Look, man, Vosh was just on the other day
Starting point is 00:57:49 complaining. There was a clip of him complaining, I'm going to be in the poorhouse, blah, blah, blah. Wait, what? Vosh was just on his stream e-begging, saying, you know, you've really got to subscribe and blah, blah, blah, because I'm going to be in the poorhouse, blah, blah, blah. I didn't watch the, I didn't see the whole clip, but it was... Has he considered sterilizing himself.
Starting point is 00:58:07 I think I think, well, you know, is it? Hold on. I got a question like this. This movement's been around for a minute. Like when Trump was running, tons of women said that they were going to sterilize themselves so that they don't risk getting pregnant in, you know, a post-Roe America or whatever. And I'm like, if if if I cheer that on, will I get banned on YouTube? Like if I clap, yeah, oh, you go, girl.
Starting point is 00:58:31 They're going to be like, stop that. You know what I mean? Think about how sad that is that people would do that over politics, deprive themselves of a happy life. I mean, I just don't know. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. They're not depriving themselves. They are sacrificing themselves for us.
Starting point is 00:58:45 Oh, I'm sorry. They also don't consider that a happy life. They don't see having a family as a happy life. They are making the world a better place by stopping climate change. I wish we could go back. That's our in. You can't ban me because I'm celebrating their efforts against climate change. Oh, good for you.
Starting point is 00:59:03 That's good. Liberals, if you want to fight climate change, I hear, don't have kids. Oh. Oh, right. All right. I did see AOC discuss that. That's right. Yes.
Starting point is 00:59:11 So I'm not being mean. I'm agreeing. I'll be mean. But let's go back to that Vosh thing. I heard that there were some, like, so this happened after the election. Pac-Man and Brian Tyler Cohen, a bunch of people were like, I'm losing subscribers. Oh, heaven help me. And then, at the end of the week,
Starting point is 00:59:29 Pac-Man was like, no, no, they started signing back up again, we're getting people. Is that true, or have they been bleeding subs the whole time? I'm not sure. Hey, if you're watching and you know the Vosh clip that I'm talking about, tweet that at me, just tag me. But if I understand correctly, the situation was, do you have it? Okay. The situation was, do you have it? Okay.
Starting point is 00:59:48 The situation was he was on his Twitch stream. Nah, Pac-Man's doing well. His show's growing. Oh, well. He's getting lots of subs. Good for him. YouTube's propping him all up. Trump's got to have a meeting with the YouTube people.
Starting point is 01:00:00 I think he did. Yeah, I think he did. So we'll see what happens. I did hear that Musk went there and it was supposed to change, but I saw in the last few days a couple people said that they were still getting their posts taken down and stuff on Instagram.
Starting point is 01:00:15 YouTube is still very much propping up the left, censoring and doing all that stuff. You're going to find out that the government is buying a bunch of YouTube premium subscriptions. I bet you they're doing that too. Yeah. YouTube premium is just TV, isn't it? No, no.
Starting point is 01:00:29 YouTube TV is different than YouTube premium. I think it did come out that they were buying a lot of Disney Plus subscriptions. Was it for real? I believe so. Look it up. I think so. I mean, that makes sense. Bob Iger loves politics.
Starting point is 01:00:41 Yeah. It's so frustrating to hear these kind of things, because it was one thing when you were just like, oh, these people are all kind of on the same page. But then to come to find out that the government is is just spending tax dollars, spending your money on promoting their own ideology, the ideology that they ascribe to, even though half the country is not down with it, it's really frustrating. What's really sad is I went all over the country, probably like 26 stops. We went everywhere and we met so many people at events that would like cry.
Starting point is 01:01:17 They were so isolated and lonely. They felt like they couldn't believe that this whole country where it was going and everything. And now it turns out all of that was pretty much fake. But a lot of these people felt like, you know, they lost friends, family, this and that, so isolated. And then they'd come and they'd go to a big stadium with, you know, 10,000 people that think like them and think, oh, my God, I'm not the only one. I thought the world's gone crazy. But the media is telling them that they're terrible people. They're despicable.
Starting point is 01:01:49 They're going to kill their grandparents all this stuff and it really hurt people deeply and you know to think that it was all a a cognitive warfare operation that you know the the sba gave a bunch of loans to youtubers oh the yeah look at that i got the vosh clip the vosh clip kellen put the Vosh clip in the IRL slack. SBA was giving money to YouTubers? Yeah. Wow. For being a bit self-centered for a moment, I'm sorry. I apologize.
Starting point is 01:02:17 I know, I know. They say privileged streamer. My job could go out like that. You know how crazy things are getting over here? Literally, like at any moment. You know that? They could getting over here? Literally, like, at any moment. You know that? They could just say, hey, YouTube, it's un-American of you to allow left-leaning people to post videos.
Starting point is 01:02:33 These communist videos are pro-China. Kablamo. I'm out. And that's a little scary. Literally, like, there's no... Like, it's a day-by-day thing. I wake up every morning and I check. So I'm just saying, in the meantime, maybe I'm a little bit more like and subscribe-y than usual.
Starting point is 01:02:48 You have a backup platform you're planning to go to if shit hits the fan? Yeah, there's a corner under, like, right next to the 5 in downtown Seattle that I don't usually see other people panhandling on. Really? I gotta say, like, that pitch, that was no good,
Starting point is 01:03:04 Vosh. Vosh, you can do better than that. You've got to bang the table, and you've got to be like, the time is now! The resistance needs you! Like, you can do better than that. I don't imagine that he's actually in significant trouble or in significant risk of losing his YouTube channel. But I wouldn't have a problem if Twitch actually started to say,
Starting point is 01:03:24 look, the commie the commie stuff is is a little too much you've got hasan who's who's who's a terrorist supporter you got vosh who's a lolly con you got destiny who's a sex pest and a uh alleged to be sharing uh doesn't have criminal charges yeah alleged i don't know if that's true that's right that's why i said alleged but he's alleged to have shared um videos of himself and another woman i thought it was a guy well no that did have that one happened too but this is another time so he's uh he's alleged to have the woman is my my my left is in shambles my feelings were hurt when i found out that politico who gets less views than us makes substantially like substantially is not even the right word, like substantially times 10 more money than we do.
Starting point is 01:04:11 Well, it was a big deal when there was the great purge of 2020 on YouTube. I was part of it. X-22 report, SGT report, Amazing Polly. There was a whole bunch of people in one day that got their channels taken away overnight, banned for life. And I still don't understand that rationale but i mean have we ever seen any youtube uh or or google uh back in like we did for twitter and facebook because you know they should come clean and uh get back on track if they're if they're asking trump to be a part of the administration then remove everything and let everyone compete you you know, in real time.
Starting point is 01:04:47 I want to see this USA Spending Out Gov website is really amazing. I'm trying to look up data on YouTube. Like, is the government giving money to YouTube? And when you search for YouTube, it just is YouTubers. How about Alphabet? Yeah, but I'm curious. Are they like buying these packages? You know what I mean?
Starting point is 01:05:07 Does YouTube have some kind of like crazy $10,000 package? The government's just like, we'll buy that. Maybe. But do you know about Arabella Partners and 1630 Fund and Tides? Like it could be coming through something else. I think they call it solicitation. Like if you go to someone and say, they used to do in Chicago. They probably still do it. You go to Kegger have you ever been to a kegger party yes of course
Starting point is 01:05:29 and they sell red cups yes i know and it's like the beer's free but the cup is five dollars and i'm like bro you think the cops are gonna fall for that but that's what they would do every time i'm not selling beer i'm selling cups and it's like yeah you're selling beer dude like red cups don't cost five dollars it's a markup they do not sure yeah it's like, yeah, you're selling beer, dude. Like, red cups don't cost $5. It's a markup. They do not. Sure. Yeah, and then you know what's really funny in Chicago?
Starting point is 01:05:52 Because Cook County had a tax on cigarettes. So people would drive to Indiana, buy cartons of cigarettes for like $20, then drive to Chicago parties and sell the packs half off and make insane money. I'm pretty sure that's smuggling. Yeah, it is. People do that in New Hampshire. People would come to New Hampshire, buy cigarettes, buy liquor, buy fireworks,
Starting point is 01:06:12 and then they would drive back down into Massachusetts. Because Massachusetts has the most draconian laws of just about anywhere. Only recently did they, gun sellers started actually saying, look, you have to show an ID to be able to buy ammunition because in Massachusetts you have to show an ID to be able to buy ammunition because in Massachusetts you have to have an FID card or whatever just to buy ammunition. They won't sell actual guns because that's not actually regulated by the federal government
Starting point is 01:06:34 because those are regulated by the federal government. But you have to do a NICS check for that stuff. But when it comes to ammo, the government doesn't, the feds don't care. So people would come into New Hampshire and go to, you know, different gun sellers and buy ammunition and stuff. And only recently they've started to say, look,
Starting point is 01:06:51 you have to have a New Hampshire ID, but or else we won't tell you. Let's jump to this story from Irish star. That's a source. I guess Michael Strahan speaks out on Superbowl boycott threats over black national anthem. You guys say there's going to be a boycott? Irish star. Did Seamus send this to you?
Starting point is 01:07:09 He did. There's going to be a boycott of the Super Bowl because they've decided they're going to sing a black supremacist song before the show starts. Yep. And it's racist. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so needless to say, I was mortified. You know, that they would not sing the Asian national anthem. What's going on?
Starting point is 01:07:32 Where are we not people? Why are we being oppressed like this by the Super Bowl? Now, in all honesty, we're having a Super Bowl party. We're going to enjoy it. There will be pizza. There will be beer. There will be wings. The Super Bowl will be played. I won't watch it. There will be pizza. There will be beer. There will be wings. The Super Bowl will be played.
Starting point is 01:07:48 I won't watch it, but a lot of people here like it, and they will watch the game, and they'll go, oh, hey, what's the score? Who's winning? And I'm going to root for whichever team. I think the Eagles hate Trump, right? What is it? Some higher up guy said some nasty things about him? I don't know.
Starting point is 01:08:03 But you said they got rid of end racism out of the end zone. That's what they counted. Yeah. They're like, look, we'll sing this national anthem, but we'll get rid of end racism. I was surprised. I heard that Trump is the first president sitting president to go to the Super Bowl this year. He's going. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:17 But apparently, like, I don't know if it was the owner of the Eagles or something like that. The chat probably knows said something. And then a bunch of Eagles fans were like, shut up. We love Trump. Check out this story. They say Fox NFL Sunday presenter Michael Strand insisted the backlash to the staging of the black national anthem is insane amid Super Bowl boycott calls. Blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 01:08:34 The song has been part of the Super Bowl festivities, although it has become a talking point in recent years as the star-spangled batter has already performed ahead of kickoff. So Grammy award-winning artist LaD artist ladisi is to perform the song strahan express confusion on why something so uplifting is not the source of vitriol i don't know how about we do this it's segregation well how would you feel if they sang the white national anthem and it's not the star spangled banner and it was just a song about white families like dude i'm not playing this game these this If you're going to do the black national anthem, I demand the Indian national anthem, the Asian national anthem, the – well, not the Mexican, but the Latino national anthem. We're going to have a national anthem for every race.
Starting point is 01:09:15 And then we need the men's national anthem and the women's. And by the time that's done, the game starts at midnight. It would have been healing not to do this this year. Yeah. You know, just to kind of be like, you know, it's just if we could all, I just, it's just so sad that they just can continue down this path. But the NFL, something's terribly wrong there. I mean, obviously the CCP is very embedded in the NBA. I don't know how far. NFL? Well, Jay-Z's production.
Starting point is 01:09:42 The Super Bowl is NFL. Right. I know. I said, obviously, the CCP is very embedded in the NBA. I don't know. But it's JZ's production company that has a contract with the NFL that has an entire— Yes, well, to work on social justice initiatives connected to football. The real question here is why the Kansas City Chiefs announced that they're going to start making their own original scripted content when all of those rigged Super Bowl claims are being made.
Starting point is 01:10:09 I think football's fake. Yeah. I think football is completely staged. I think it's like 80% fake. It looks like it is now. I watch those videos where it's like, I don't know much about football. Those refs are certainly being accused of protecting Patrick Mahomes. There's all these videos that came out.
Starting point is 01:10:26 I don't pay attention to a lot of football, but there's the dudes running with the ball towards the end zone, and then a guy looks at him and then spins the wrong way. There's a ton of these videos that went viral where they're like, a guy's watching, and he's like, hey, watch this dude. He just stops and doesn't tackle the guy running for the end zone, and I'm like, that's weird. Maybe I just don't know anything about football
Starting point is 01:10:45 and it looks weird to me. But I'm going to tell you, if I watch a game where the goal is to tackle the guy with the ball and then there's a bunch of videos where a guy is running towards the guy with the ball and then just jumps the other direction, I'm like, yeah, he did that on purpose.
Starting point is 01:11:00 They try to justify it, make up reasons, like, you don't understand the play. Like, I had to do that. I'm like, I don't know, dude. Looks fake to me. The other thing that's going on right now, so because Trump is attending the game, it's become a political issue as well, where they're cornering the players. They're like, so how do you feel about playing for the president? And every single one of them looks like there's a gun to their head.
Starting point is 01:11:17 And they're like, I think it's an okay. They're very terrified to be like, because Travis Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes and other players were like, yeah, yeah, it's an honor to play in front of the president, which, of course, is being spun as I love that guy. He's fantastic, which is just a way for really, really dishonest press outlets to get clicks because they said, which is why they shouldn't get money, which is why we shouldn't be sending them our tax dollars. Went full circle. Exactly. No, I mean, look, the idea that the sportscasters are asking players what they think about the president going to the Super Bowl, there was a time in America where every American would simply say, that is a great honor. I'm glad that the president is a football fan and I hope he really enjoys the game.
Starting point is 01:12:12 That's the correct answer. The fact that there is a correct and incorrect answer is a sign of rot in this country. We're all Americans and you may not like the policy that the president has or or the the program that he had that he prefers but it is not a stain on you on anyone's life to say i think it's good that the president is going to engage in one of the national pastimes one of the biggest sporting events that happens in the united states every year He is going to be a part of it. He's going to go to New Orleans. We just had a terrorist attack not two months ago here in New Orleans. It's good that the president's coming down here, that he's showing that it's OK to go out there and enjoy things in New Orleans, showing that it's safe to go and do these things in New Orleans.
Starting point is 01:13:02 This is great that the president's going to be here. And terrible leftists have to make it a big deal. I hate them so much. Was that us earlier talking about the New Orleans terrorist attack? Like how that one feels like it just got memory hold? Is that just the acceleration of how many things seem to happen constantly? I think that's what it is. Where it's just like I heard that they were supposed to put the barriers up.
Starting point is 01:13:23 They never put the barriers up. They didn't even know the barriers were there. And then the story just seemed to disappear from the news. Yeah. When the secretary of defense was missing in action for three weeks. Yeah. Nothing happened. He was in the hospital getting like a colonic or something.
Starting point is 01:13:36 Is that what happened? He will not a colonic. He was good. I think it was. I think he was getting checked for prostate cancer or surgery for prostate cancer. But either way, it was the sec def. And then ignoring the fact that Joe Biden, it was a corpse at that time. He was literally a walking zombie.
Starting point is 01:13:53 He was not an awake and cognizant human being. He was a zombie the whole time. Fair enough. Did you see that Joe Biden got signed to a Hollywood talent agency? Yeah. Unreal. Joe Manchin was apparently through the same company. I was like, Joe Manchin has an agent as an agency?
Starting point is 01:14:08 That's amazing. Yeah, well, Jill and Hunter have been CIA clients the whole time. Amazing. Yeah. Amazing. Hunter for his art and books. He needs to make the Weekend at Bernie's movie. That's what I said.
Starting point is 01:14:21 Yes. Weekend at Biden's. I was hoping he was going to get cast for a film or something. Weekend at Biden's, and he can actually play himself. We should make that. Number three. I'm pretty sure someone's already made the skit of that. Yeah, it has.
Starting point is 01:14:32 But if he actually did it, he could actually rehab his image a little bit if he leaned into it and just went and made a movie where he's just a corpse. He could play Mr. House if they did a Fallout New Vegas movie. For those that don't know what that is, it's, so Fallout, of course, takes place like 200 years after a nuclear war wipes out the world. And Mr. House is a rich guy in Vegas who strapped himself to a machine so that he could, and he's like a decaying corpse strapped to a
Starting point is 01:14:58 computer and he can't move, but the computer talks for him and he's like, I will live forever. That would be perfect. You know, I like the idea that Joe Biden's actually, he's just going to stay that age for the next 200 years. He's like, the joke's on you guys. The CIA gave me the super drugs and I'm just going to be here. There's a name for that super drug. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:15:15 It's called NAD. Yes. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. Available at your local hydration therapist. Yeah, I don't know, man. All I know is that the Super Bowl is an excuse to have a party. And so I don't think anybody's actually going to boycott it.
Starting point is 01:15:30 We're not. I would kind of like to as an FU, but like, dude, nobody's boycotting the Super Bowl. Look, sporting events used to... A lot of people in the political space will have the conversation about how politics... I'm sorry, that sports are used to distract people from what's really going on. But in a lot of ways, despite the team sport mentality that a lot of
Starting point is 01:15:49 people have, sporting events were unifiers. And there were ways that people commiserated and came together in times of bad and good in a country. And that can't always be a bad thing. Now, you can say that being too involved in sports or things like that and not caring about what's going on, if you don't know who your local congressman is and stuff like that, sure. But in general, when the country is extremely polarized, you should be looking for things that bring people together. And for a lot of people, you know, the idea that you played sports growing up, you went on to watch sports and you really, really get along with others who enjoy it as well. That's not a bad thing. I'd really like if we stopped caring so much about the personal lives and private lives and day-to-day lives of the politicians at all. I want them to really scale down the government
Starting point is 01:16:32 and get to a place where it works properly that we don't even have to talk about it, that we just know that it's happening and we can oversee it because it's become a reality show. Like, I really don't care about their personal lives, and yet every single day, if they're not doing something on Trump, it's somebody else they're destroying or exploiting or putting out there. It's really important to know whether they're interested in men or women. You know, it's a big
Starting point is 01:16:56 component of modern woke sporting and creative works to make sure that the person you're watching on camera, do they like guys or do they like ladies? They want to make sure that the person you're watching on camera, do they like guys or do they like ladies? They want to make sure everybody knows the proclivities of these individuals. And I'm like, yo, I literally don't care. I don't care at all.
Starting point is 01:17:15 Like when I watch Captain America, I don't sit there and think, wow, Chris Evans is a really great patriot who wants to join the army. I'm like, he's an actor and he's probably dumb. Like I'm not trying to be a dick to Chris Evans is a really great patriot who wants to join the army. I'm like, he's an actor and he's probably dumb. Like, I'm not trying to be a dick to Chris Evans. I just mean like the assumption that people, I watch an actor or a musician, I don't know or care about their personal lives. I'm not going to ask, it's whatever. It's never bothered me to look at an actor
Starting point is 01:17:39 who I know is absolutely insane politically. I can still watch all the movies that they make. Not only that, there are people that are musicians that I find their politics absolutely detestable, but I still like their music. Rage Against the Machine is one of the ones that comes to mind.
Starting point is 01:17:56 They're straight up, there's commies in the band, but I like their music. I've always liked their music, even though they're garbage commies. Let's jump to this next story from The Telegraph, taking the world by storm. Oh, I thought this was fake. Lego can be anti-LGBT, says Science Museum. Institution's Seeing Thing Queerly Tour claims people think the toy bricks are gendered
Starting point is 01:18:21 and reinforces the idea of heterosexuality is the norm. I'd like to pause and just state all the Legos are male. That's it. They all got doodads that stick into doodads. You know what I'm saying? It's true. It's true.
Starting point is 01:18:37 Does that make them all hermaphroditic because technically they have both? No. It's because the doodad sticks into the rear of the other block. You had to know where that was going. But wasn't it the Leg sticks into the rear of the other block. You know what I'm saying? You had to know where that was going. But wasn't it the Legos that got rid of the cop Legos and all the Legos during the whole thing when they were trying to be politically correct during Black Lives Matter? Yes.
Starting point is 01:18:55 Now they've turned on the Legos. They were all proud of them when they got rid of all the cop Legos. Legos. I do love how you get an analysis from the same website. Now not even Lego is safe from today's gender-obsessed loonies. Apparently the Danish plastic bricks adds weight to the heteronormative notion that there are only two sexes. There are only two sexes. There are only two sexes.
Starting point is 01:19:20 There are only two sexes. Here's the problem, though. This is funny and we can all laugh at this, but the problem is there's probably some study that's being funded by the USAID overseas that is going to put this out as a report for people to read, not realizing that it was your tax dollars that paid for it. No, it's a science museum. They say that people describe Lego bricks as having male and female parts
Starting point is 01:19:42 that are made to mate with each other. Did you ever go to a market and you're buying electrical components? And this is really true. Phil, you know this. You go to a guitar center or something, and you need to get adapters or plugs for some instruments. And when you're buying a quarter-inch cable, what, what, what, what? They are male and female ends. That is just the way nature intended it. And when we built the cables.
Starting point is 01:20:14 What? When we, when we created the quarter inch cables, nature intended us. Yes. Intended for us. You, so I have an amp behind me and you take the cable and you stick it in the hole. Yes. And that's why there are male and female parts.
Starting point is 01:20:29 So when you're buying cables, like XLR, for instance, like it's pretty important to know if you're going to have a male or female, you know, ends or whatever, or especially if you're getting extensions, adapters and things like that. There's male and female. If you get male and you need female or you get female and you need male, you're going to have a bad time. But that means
Starting point is 01:20:49 that Guitar Center is anti-LGBTQ. Thank you, Guitar Center. Remember when they stopped putting master bedroom on listings for apartments and homes? Now it's primary. Primary bedroom. And computer components as well.
Starting point is 01:21:06 Yeah, and coding. Yep. They had master and slave, and they were like, nah, not anymore. Can't do that. Or Slave 1 in Star Wars. Can't do that anymore either. What was that about? That was Boba Fett's, the name of his spaceship was Slave 1. Now what is it?
Starting point is 01:21:18 I don't even remember what it is. Slave 1? Slave. I know. And now it's Slave? Probably. Oh, I don't know. Probably Slave 1.
Starting point is 01:21:24 I'll see. Yeah, that sounds like it. What did they do? Nobody watched it's slave? Probably. Oh, I don't know. Probably Slay one. I'll say that wrong. Yeah, that sounds like it. Nobody watched Boba Fett, though, so it doesn't matter. We need to start making content that is just overtly the other direction. Actually, I was thinking about this. Have you played Marvel Rivals? Now it's referred to as the Firespray Gunship. Oh, wow. It is Slave 1, yeah. Have you played Marvel Rivals? Now it's referred to as the fire spray gun shit. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 01:21:45 It is slave one. Have you played Marvel Rivals? No, I have not. I noticed it's hot. People love this game. Overwatch is done. Marvel Rivals gameplay is through the roof. At any given moment, 500,000 people are actively playing.
Starting point is 01:22:02 And in the game, if anyone's's seen it the dudes are all insanely jacked and the women are all like hourglass with big butts and big boobs and i'm like all right and then a bunch of woke people got mad because they were like why can't i make spider-man a woman like why can't i have girl spider-man like we should be able to gender like the woke people were complaining that you couldn't make male and gender swapped versions of the characters is that like why they talk about the getting rid of male and female and making it body type A and body type B? Oh, that is so cringe. Oh, did you guys hear that Dragon Age flopped?
Starting point is 01:22:36 Yeah, in Veilguard, right? Veilguard. So you don't got to worry. I won't get too esoteric for you, Mel. This is a video game where when it was being promoted, a viral scene from the game showed characters. They were talking. And then one of the characters referred to a deity as she and then went, oh, oops. I just referred to a non-binary deity as she.
Starting point is 01:22:57 And then she goes, I got to go pull a barb. And then she starts doing push-ups. And they're like, what are you doing and then it's like 10 minutes of explaining that if you misgender someone you need to do push-ups because it proves that you're like reconciling for the slight but to your point about making making it like content to the opposite way i'm actually the opposite like when i see content that goes the opposite way whether it's like right i just can't stand it no i'm saying overt and over the top, like not not something where it's like we're going to have American flags instead. I'm saying mockery to the extreme where all the guys are like seven foot tall. Just it's like Arnold. Everybody is Arnold. They're all just super ripped. No, Timothy Chalamet is here. No, Timothyhee Chalamet is. Everyone's Alan Ritson. The thing is, what you're referring to, Brett, is the uncanny valley of the other direction, right? So it's like, here's your spectrum of the, like, preaching is annoying, and then the movie's just bad because it's overtly woke.
Starting point is 01:23:58 Right. If you're going to go the other way, so imagine this. If a movie was so woke it was funny, then it's good. And so the same thing has to be if you're going to make it in the direction. You can't just be like, yeah, well what if we have conservatives? Nah, that's dumb. But what if it's insane and hilarious? Well, some movies are so bad it's good. I still think that
Starting point is 01:24:17 Madam Web was actually hilarious because it was so bad. What is a woke movie that's good and funny that you can think of? I mean... Okay, so The Craft is so woke and bad. The new one... I didn't see the new one, only the old one.
Starting point is 01:24:32 It's like, you are laughing like crazy. So they... But that's good. So it's like these four girls, one of them is trans, is actually a boy, and that's a part of the story. They break into a bully's house
Starting point is 01:24:43 and use magic to make him gay. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. That's nothing like The Old Craft. It's a part of the story, they break into a bully's house and use magic to make him gay. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. That's nothing like the old craft. It's like, it's just, you're laughing the whole time and face palming. It's so bad.
Starting point is 01:24:52 And then at the end, David Duchovny is like, I am the patriarch and I'm going to steal your magic. And then they like light him on fire or something. Such a perfect role for David Duchovny, too. Yeah, it's so bad. It's not that it's good.
Starting point is 01:25:03 It's that it's laughably bad. And so you can enjoy how miserable it is. I can't make it through those ones, man. I can't. Have you seen Spiral? No. Oh, the one with Chris Rock. No, I don't think so.
Starting point is 01:25:15 Spiral is a shutter film about an interracial gay couple with an adoptive daughter. I think adoptive daughter. And they move into this house in a neighborhood where they live next to a WASP-y white family. And then the WASP-y white family is trying to kill them. And they were like, we're immortal. And we white people live forever by sacrificing people. And then the interracial gay couple is like, but why us? And he goes, because no one cares if an interracial gay couple dies.
Starting point is 01:25:42 And it's like, come on, dude. And then the spiral is how they keep moving minority families of various types into this house. Oh my God. Because when they sacrifice them for immortality, nobody cares. So there's no white flight. Everybody moves in there and then...
Starting point is 01:25:59 Yeah, but basically what they do is they rent the house out or whatever to various minority families, sacrifice them for immortality, then they their point is that like when the minority family goes missing nobody comes looking for them oh my ridiculous i can't even believe that i don't have the patience yeah i watched the movie recently i can't remember what it was but i was like how much do you want to bet that the the black female character is going to make it a point to say like everybody's racist or something oh oh oh um maybe you know this one they go to an island where they get their memories erased yeah blink twice yes yeah and i was like
Starting point is 01:26:35 that's like epstein island it's a yeah so so it's basically like a bunch of dudes they use this perfume to erase the memories of women after they rape them. And so they can just keep abusing them. And what the main characters is black woman. And I was like, I got a feeling they're going to inject some kind of weird race BLM thing into the plot. Sure enough, instead of calling the police when they had a chance, she goes,
Starting point is 01:26:58 she starts yelling about how the cops won't listen to a black woman and that the white people will get away with it. So that's why we can't have the police. And I was like, so you're filling in your plot hole by just calling it racism and she was like the white people never get held accountable the police won't listen to women why won't they believe women and i'm like yeah because there's a bad turn in that movie but but i mean that movie was pretty i mean especially because it was done by i guess lenny kravravitz's daughter and Lisa Bonet's daughter that they made that movie.
Starting point is 01:27:27 Oh, Zoe Kravitz made that one. Yeah, because she was the director. Because, you know, I mean, that's pretty much what people say happened on Epstein Island. So it was a little bit freaked out. What, that he was drugging people to erase their memories? Yeah, well, maybe. I don't know. That's what people were saying.
Starting point is 01:27:42 The end of the movie is that she erases the white billionaire's memory and Steve. And then marries him. Becomes the CEO. Yeah, and then he's basically in a state of mental retardation because she keeps wiping his memory. He's like, ah. That's Cardi B, right? I don't know. Could have made a new Men in Black with that.
Starting point is 01:27:59 Yeah. Maybe they would have. They were trying to do a Men in Black universe. Yeah. Man, I don't know. I feel like. What was it? They kept trying to do a Men in Black universe. Yeah. Man, I don't know. I feel like... What was it? They kept trying to cross it over with 21 Jump Street.
Starting point is 01:28:09 What's up with... You know what I think it is? I think TikTok is largely... Not only TikTok, but Instagram too, is why we have cultural stagnation. We used to have good movies, big movies, but now people aren't centered on singular ideas and topics and themes.
Starting point is 01:28:25 They're just swipe, swipe, swipe. Like for me right now, the only thing I watch are pizza videos. Literally, Dave Portnoy telling me which pizzas are good are the best videos ever. I will fight you. It's just Dave, he's nailed it. I'm like, I'm watching a video from 10 years ago of him being like, this pizza is so good. One bite. And then he bites it five times.
Starting point is 01:28:44 He likes the great, like he likes the best style of pizza too, in my opinion. That ain't crispy? Yeah. No flop? No flop. And Dottoli. Do you know Dottoli? I thought I was the one who told you about him ages ago.
Starting point is 01:28:54 Yeah, he's probably my favorite person to follow on Instagram. If you're looking for somebody to inspire you, this is the guy. He's like, I'm going to stuff buffalo chicken wings in a pizza crust. And I'm like, this is the greatest content ever made. But nobody's got a brother. He's got a brother, too, also has a channel. They both like make pizza. Yeah, they both make pizza.
Starting point is 01:29:09 His videos are great. And I'm just like, no one's going to make a movie based on this stuff. I know we're all watching a version of like Rudy, but with Dottoli becoming famous, making pizzas rather than football. Dude, I just got to tell you, all these videos where they have a fresh baked pizza and then they just lift it up, I could watch those non-stop and then today I was like, let's go get pizza and then we did. I was like, I must. It's a good day. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:29:34 And then we ordered a bunch of Lou Malnati's. One cup of cheese, the second cup of cheese. But my point is like, everybody's watching something different. So when they try making movies, there's no cultural cohesion around those. That's why it's all centered around IP now because all of these companies have farmed out and bought up all of the IP, which is why next summer you have in just July, you have Superman, Jurassic Park and Fantastic Four within three weeks of each other. Jeez.
Starting point is 01:30:04 In one month. They're just making the same movies within three weeks of each other. Jeez. In one month. They're just making the same movies over and over and over again. Yeah. It's kind of wild. I love it. You know what's kind of crazy to me? I was listening to Blue Monday by Orgy. You guys know that one?
Starting point is 01:30:17 Yep. 1990s, like 94, I think. That song came out like nine years after the original Blue Monday, I think. When was the original Blue Monday? It was like not even a decade and i'm like back in the day they would do modern covers 10 years later yep and now i'm like nobody will even like nobody's doing like there's not big covers sort of there's there's been a couple that have been big but now it's like bro there's 30 year old songs people don't cover and they were massive and they were huge.
Starting point is 01:30:47 And I'm like, we used to have all of this stuff. Now it's just, I don't know. Everything's disparate and fractured. When it comes to movies, for instance, they're making Jurassic world reboot, uh, rebirth, and it's being made by Gareth Edwards. Gareth Edwards did rogue one. He also did a movie that I really liked from two years ago called the
Starting point is 01:31:03 creator with Denzel Washington's son. And the reason why it matters that it's IP is that the movie he made a couple of years ago, which I think is beautifully shot, $80 million they spent on it, and it looks like it cost $250 million to make, but nobody went to see it because it wasn't based on any original IP
Starting point is 01:31:19 that anybody actually knew. But are people going to go see a Gareth Edwards movie about Star Wars or about Jurassic World? Probably. They'll at least make... Well, that's why they did Joker, which was basically Taxi Driver. This is what was crazy to me is I was thinking about Spider-Man and I'm just like,
Starting point is 01:31:35 they do a new Spider-Man every like three years. For 30 years. The guy who wrote the new Jurassic World movie kept... So he also did the original – he did the screenplay for the original Jurassic Park and the 2002 Spider-Man. Isn't Tom Holland like 30? Yeah, rough around that. And he's playing a 16-year-old.
Starting point is 01:31:56 No, I mean he's going into college now. He'll be – 18-year-old. 19, 20. I mean back in the 80s and the 90s, all the kids in high school were played by 30-year-olds. Isn't it crazy that they would make a Spider-Man movie every three years? Well, they have to do that.
Starting point is 01:32:12 It was part of holding onto the rights. No, I know. It's like, bro, I don't want to watch Spider-Man anymore. And that's why when they did the new one, they were like, we're not going to do an origin story. Because it's just come on, we can't keep doing this. Well, and they've also got the animated ones coming out, the Across the Sky Diverse ones as well.
Starting point is 01:32:28 Not my animation style. Well, I mean, that's not even, that's Sony proper, whereas Marvel is doing the... No, I know, I'm just saying, Madam Web, wow. You know, I liked Kraven, but it's just so weird they're doing these Spider-Man with no Spider-Man movies. Which is funny, too, because they found out later weird they're doing these Spider-Man with no Spider-Man movies.
Starting point is 01:32:46 Which is funny too because they found out later they are allowed to use Spider-Man in there and people just assumed that they weren't allowed to use them. Otherwise, why would they do it?
Starting point is 01:32:53 They're like, people will be confused and like, that's underselling your audience a bit, but I think it wouldn't matter anyways. Do you think there's ever
Starting point is 01:32:59 going to be a return to theaters for movies that like the whole country goes to see? Well, we did. It happens. Top Gun Maverick to see. Well, we did. Top Gun Maverick did that. Yeah, Top Gun Maverick was huge. If you're talking about one,
Starting point is 01:33:11 even that's still IP technically because it's based on a movie from 30 years ago. This is the crazy thing. Let me tell you, we were hanging out at a bar. This is like six months ago. And I went to the jukebox and it was playing some song. I had no idea.
Starting point is 01:33:25 Just, and I'm like, I don't know what this is. And I saw some people dancing and some people weren't. I put on Bohemian Rhapsody. The entire bar started singing. There you go. The next song came on,
Starting point is 01:33:36 two or three people are dancing. And I'm like, people walked over to the jukebox, put on modern music. And it was just, nobody was unified. But if you go back in time, I can put on a song like Bohemian Rhapsody and everybody was just nobody was unified. But if you go back in time, I can put on a song
Starting point is 01:33:46 like Bohemian Rhapsody and everybody was singing it. Yeah, because I watched Wayne's World recently. It's not that, it's that back in the day, when a movie came out, we would all go see the one movie. Right. And so we had a shared culture. You don't have that anymore because streaming has made it so disparate that there's
Starting point is 01:34:01 50,000 things being made at any given time and all these companies are leveraged trying to put out stuff constantly. But this is why they make these woke movies. So when I worked at Fusion, the editorial team, this is 10 years ago,
Starting point is 01:34:12 said the new media wave is going to be mission-driven storytelling. So we need to adopt a stance on these issues and promote it. Yeah, right. That's exactly what happened.
Starting point is 01:34:22 And it happened in early 2000s with all these different programs that they were rushing people through if they were, you know, for the lesbian filmmakers or for the black filmmakers or for whatever different group, the women filmmakers. to push through new artists? Yes, programs. Programs that were just based on segregating people into different groups and then having, you know, them go through a program at AFI for two months and suddenly they're directing movies. Isn't that how Donald Glover got discovered? He's like one of those examples of somebody
Starting point is 01:34:57 who was a hire like that where he got brought in on one of these onboarding programs and he turned out to be really, really good, but the majority of them just don't end up there. Yeah, all the networks started doing it. Disney, NBC, they had like the comedy, women comedy writers, you know, LGBT comedy writers. And they were all separating them all.
Starting point is 01:35:13 And then you'd go into meetings and they'd say, can you fit this in? It's what he's saying. It's saying mission driven, you know. But I think it's all been the original gore movie, The Inconvenient Truth truth i think that that was the beginning of the full-on brainwashing of hollywood and and they've never gotten out of it well i mean fahrenheit 9-11 even the success of michael moore right yep yeah yeah i mean you're seeing a little
Starting point is 01:35:40 bit of a of a push away from it now in a lot of ways. They don't have the money, especially post-Rider Strike in 2023. They don't have the money to just risk it anymore. They also stopped caring about talent and earning it. There was a time when you went to, you know, worked as a PA for $100 for 18 hours a day. You worked for three months. You jumped to the next movie, and it took 10 years to get into the DGA. Now you can put a couple boxes, take a quick class.
Starting point is 01:36:05 You're in there. Next thing you know, they're looking for the right person. It's just talent has been sold out. I kind of think that there's going to be, or at least there has to be, a total cultural collapse. I agree. I'll give you an example. It's a bit esoteric, but Magic the Gathering, which is arguably one of the most popular card games in the world. They're talking about making a movie about it. So that's the degree that it's at. The latest set that is
Starting point is 01:36:29 coming out is called Aetherdrift. Okay, let me explain something to you guys. You don't have to care about this. Just let me explain it. Magic the Gathering, the storyline is that there are powerful wizards who have the ability to transport between dimensions. The theme of the game is very much fantasy-based, goblins, orcs, etc. And then they've made various sets with, like, vampires and werewolves. And it's very much themed in different magics. The latest set coming out is that all of the great wizards of the multiverse are going for a race! And they're going to get race cars and motorcycles! And they're going to race to try and get the aether spark. And I'm just like, wow,
Starting point is 01:37:11 jumping the shark. And then I, and, and, and I understand, I think that's just something that I'm paying attention to, but then I see like dragon agent, Veilguard and it flops. And I see like Marvel Rivals is dominating and it's literally just regurgitating the same IP that's almost 100 years old at this point. And I'm like, sooner or later, the bubble is going to burst. There's nothing left to do. Spider-Man's had an origin 800,000 times. There's Earth 616, Earth 999, Earth 10101. How many Earths are there in these universes?
Starting point is 01:37:53 Well, I saw not too long ago, I think it was Martin Scorsese was in an interview. He was in his 80s, and he was talking about movies now, and if he would make movies, start making movies if he was young now again. And he was kind of talking about how all the deep movies that we grew up with, like Terms of Endearment or Apocalypse Now or any of those movies, great movies, Godfather, that they don't make movies like that anymore. Groundhog Day. That move you from the inside. The life experience of the filmmakers of that time,
Starting point is 01:38:18 if we even go farther back than that, ones who were in selective service and were in the military and came through in times of war brought about great storytelling now most everybody kind of grows up with the unique or with the universally homogenous experience because of the internet and people are the way i always equate it back to is like writers of like screenwriters of the past read great literature screenwriters of today watch other watch movies and try to recreate what they saw with their own identity he was also saying all of the heroes now are superheroes there's not there's not these
Starting point is 01:38:50 men or women like real people that rise up and become heroes anymore in movies it's all the movies with heroes they're all marvel or dc comics there's not like the story of the person overcoming and becoming a Rocky, you know? Like the journey of the hero, like you know, the hero's journey. We're not seeing normal people become extraordinary heroes. Hollywood is admitted to being against telling the story
Starting point is 01:39:18 of the hero's journey now because it's a uniquely male story which they can't do. It's one of the reasons why female storytelling doesn't work with the hero's journey because it doesn't work. I do love how they tried doing a female hero's journey with Brie Larson in Marvel. And so it's like the hero's journey
Starting point is 01:39:33 Captain America very much did that in a lot of ways. Thrust into action Jumped on the grenade. Yeah, all that stuff. And then they were like they tried to do a female centric storyline with Captain stuff. And then they were like, they tried to do a female-centric storyline with Captain Marvel. And the problem is female-centrism doesn't involve jumping on grenades the way male. Like the male power fantasy is that you jump on the grenade to save the women and the children.
Starting point is 01:39:55 Right. That's not the same motivation that women have. So I think Wonder Woman did a good job. But they made Captain Marvel. And the storyline is that her power is being suppressed by a man oh I'm not yeah she's got a chip on her neck and finally and he keeps telling her to control her emotions because she's too emotional I'm not kidding and then in the end she finally overcomes the commands of the of the patriarch breaks the device on her neck and then blasts him knocking him out
Starting point is 01:40:20 and like that was supposed to be the female power fantasy. And I'm like, well, I guess it wasn't because people watch the movie and then nobody went to see the sequel. Right. And the, and the problem is, is that movies that appeal to men and women, when it's that type of movie,
Starting point is 01:40:36 whether it's superheroes or spies, both men and women enjoy those stories for vastly different reasons. The reason women go to see superhero movies is to see male men be competent at what they're doing and save the day. And the reason men go is because they want to imagine that they could be that person. Lisa was telling me that all they really need to do is get like a chiseled
Starting point is 01:40:56 dude to chop lumber with no shirt on and women will go see the movie. Well, the last James Bond was very disappointing as a woman. That was the other example. I made him into a loser. That was the other example I was going to give. I thought they made him into a loser. That was the other example I was going to give was James Bond is a unique example of that. As somebody where they try to get rid of the womanizing aspect of the character. But the point is, women know.
Starting point is 01:41:16 Men love it because men want to be him. Women love it because they're like, you know. You want to be with him. He's not a good person maybe, but he believes in queen and country. And he's a bit dangerous. Right, right. All right, we're going to go to Super Chat. Smash the like button.
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Starting point is 01:41:43 I was like, what's going to happen is they're going to sign up for $1,000. I give them my number and they cancel right away. They just cancel. I mean, but they gave me $1,000. What do I care? I never said I'd answer my phone. Yeah. I am kidding, but if you do join, you get access to the Discord server where there's this robust community with pre-shows, morning shows, after shows,
Starting point is 01:41:59 a lot of really cool stuff happening, a lot of plans. A lot of plans. We're working on a new show, Developing the Culture culture war the goal is to find a live venue have a live debate in front of an audience but the audience is only going to be our members oh wow so if you if you if you come to the door and you're like i want to come and watch you know phil debate uh destiny then it's members only it's like it's for timcast members. You can sign up right then on the spot. If you're a member, you can come on in if tickets are available. But here's the best part. Members can submit their talking points on the core issue of the debate. And then
Starting point is 01:42:35 we are going to invite people to join us at the table. You get five minutes to debate your points, rebut, counter, et cetera. And then we will debate with you for a few minutes and then you'll get up. Everyone will say thank you for coming and you'll go back and sit down and we'll rotate someone else in. So this is a way we can bring our members onto the show, bring in fresh ideas, members of the public and create some real value in the community. And I'm thinking that this is going to get a lot of people like liberals, libertarians, conservatives, atheists, whatever, to come and join the conversation. We keep trying to book these high profile libs. They won't do it.
Starting point is 01:43:12 So let's just go to a space where we can say, if you want to sit down at the table, all you got to do is you be a member because that's basically what pays for the show. If you're a member, tickets are free for members. And then you get to come in and we can only choose so many people. But you join in. So I say become a member if you haven't already. I'm telling you right now, you're going to want to be a member right now. All right, here we go. The Emperor's Champion says 2026 is looking pretty good so far. No more USA propaganda. David Hogg, vice chairman of the DNC and Dems are choosing to defend the indefensible. Life is good, my friends. Brucewitz. I think it was Brucewitz tweeted,
Starting point is 01:43:46 I can't believe we trolled the DNC into actually putting David Hogg in as vice chair. Wow. What were they thinking? Nothing. Apparently. Yep. Vought confirmed.
Starting point is 01:44:00 This is from Just Gonna Freeze. Vought confirmed as director of OMB. Now say it with me, afuera. Afuera. Let's go. Let's get it. Adaptive Outdoorsman Podcast says, Tim, congrats on the new wife and soon-to-be baby girl.
Starting point is 01:44:15 I have a baby girl due in late April. Any tips on growing small podcasts like mine? Thanks. Work harder than everybody else. That's really it. Watch, read the comments to a certain degree. It's difficult because some people comment lies to screw with you, but you really do need to figure out what you're doing wrong and how to improve. That's a big component of it. How can
Starting point is 01:44:37 you always be better? And then I would recommend reading and researching as much as you can and watching as much as you can. Most of these things, like these, like people will be like, how to grow your podcast. Click my video. It's fake. Totally fake. There are companies that know how to do it. Anybody who knows how to do it is going to charge you for it. They're not going to make a free video on the Internet.
Starting point is 01:44:57 All right, let's get it. Tuesday's Child says Politico is the outlet that leaked the Dobbs decision. Indeed. Yep. Very interesting. Vincent O'Rourke says, if this is what Trump can achieve in two weeks, I cannot wait to see what he achieves in two years. He needs to move fast for the midterms, but if the public approve of his actions, he'll gain more seats. Well, there's already a video where Jamie Raskin says, find me two Republicans and I'll get to work to impeach Donald Trump.
Starting point is 01:45:23 Yep. Show Ian that video where Jamie Raskin literally says, it's 218 and 215. If you can find me two Republicans, I'll get to work. I'm getting mad at me. Yep. Stop saying that the thing they're saying that they want to do is going to happen. Meanwhile, they all got pardoned. Him and Adam Schiff won't be quiet.
Starting point is 01:45:44 Meanwhile, they're walking around pardoned for what? You know, it's like, you know, but but the thing is, those pardons are weird because Trump could just go after him for something else. Right. Or pre 2014. Yeah. Gave his family like he didn't commit crimes before then. Yeah. It's about Ukraine, though.
Starting point is 01:46:03 All right. Adam says, sub 10. Praise God. I've been praying for God's justice because of all these all this corruption, lying and evil. They seem to have no accountability. They will have'll answer to God. And I'm like, but that means alive right now on earth with us. They're not answering for the crimes they're committing. They must answer to men. They must. They can. They will answer to God. I agree with that. But for the time being, they must answer to us. There will be accountability. It will be legitimate. It will be legal. There will be warrants and investigations. It'll be by the book. And if there are crimes committed, then people will go to jail. I am more confident than ever that this will happen now because of the things Trump is doing in two weeks. Trump ain't messing around. Yeah, but they also have
Starting point is 01:46:55 a lot of evidence that we've all seen. They just have not taken action on it because we haven't had an attorney general to do that. And now we she's doing a lot already i guess she defunded the uh sanctuary cities and uh has a weaponization committee investigation and all of that so yeah i think that it was i just saw something about the the if you're a mayor or something of a sanctuary city and you're not looking to help or you're looking to hinder she's going to actually start looking into you. Yeah. Let me see if I can find the. And then the Democrats today came out and said they want to release all the Epstein files.
Starting point is 01:47:30 Why don't they just release everything? I'm like, great. Let's get started. Shane H. Walder says the libs in Austin are losing their minds over USAID. They are protesting weekdays at the Capitol and talking about protesting at the Tesla Gigafactory. I don't know why people want to go to Austin.
Starting point is 01:47:47 Why would they be? Why would they? I don't understand why anyone would rally around against Doge. I don't know. That's private property. Arrest them all. Get out of here. But, you know, everybody keeps saying, like, go to Texas, go to Austin.
Starting point is 01:47:59 And I'm like, the only thing that I can think of in Austin is the Lodge Card Club. When I went to Austin, it was like L.A. It's woke. It seems so L.A. to me. It seemed like everyone left L.A. and went to Austin. I don't know why. That's what happened. Yeah. Seems it. Joe Rogan did it. All right.
Starting point is 01:48:17 But now I guess Zuckerberg's doing it. Oh, it is crazy. This story about a Delaware. Tons of major corporations have fled Delaware after the Elon ruling. This one judge was like like i am going to take away a private company's revenue structure voted on by the shareholders twice and so tons of companies were like holy crap we're out and the governor is like please don't leave and it's like you reap what you sow dude why how can you how can you contemplate staying when you know that the courts are going to be politically motivated against people that have the wrong politics, right? Like if Elon Musk's – if his agreement with his shareholders, which again, the – what he had to do to make that kind of money was no one thought it was possible everyone was like
Starting point is 01:49:07 sure we'll do it if you do this we'll be super rich and but we don't think you're going to be able to do this because it was all it was such a moonshot kind of uh idea and he did it and so like the fact the idea that a judge just can step in and say no no, we're going to go ahead and say you can't do this on behalf of a handful of... It was one guy, wasn't it? Was it one guy? That may be. But this keeps happening with judges.
Starting point is 01:49:33 Why are judges the only people that seem to be able to do whatever they want? Not just the January 6th, all these D.C. judges, the judges in the Trump cases, the judge in this case, two judges today put a stop on Trump's deal with the with the buyout deal. Like, what would happen if if Tesla was just like, yeah, we're paying Elon? Like, judge, you're not your your order is meaningless. I don't know. People never try it. Sick. I mean, I'm a Tesla shareholder.
Starting point is 01:50:01 I don't have that much, but I have a bit. I voted for Elon to get his pay package because I know that it's going to increase the stock value, which makes me wealthier. That's why I bought Tesla stock. I want the stock to go up. Right. I'm pissed. Evil. Evil man. All right.
Starting point is 01:50:19 Let's grab some more Super Chats. Chris T. says, will the Beanie Baby become the new TimCast mascot? Absolutely not. No. You will never see a picture of my child. That's smart. Yeah. Very smart.
Starting point is 01:50:31 No one will ever see. I see these people do this thing where they'll take a picture of their baby but smudge the face. I'm like, I'm not doing that either. What's the point of that? Yeah, no pictures. None. Pictures can go to, like, grandma and grandpa and family, but, like, no pictures on the Internet at all. I still don't understand parents that put pictures of their kids on the Internet.
Starting point is 01:50:52 It's so bizarre after all we know. Iggy the Incubus says average USAID salary is $96,000. Reducing the USAID as planned will save us $1,315,776,000 just from the cut salaries alone. Sounds awesome. I agree. Exactly. Agreed. I think it's really funny.
Starting point is 01:51:12 There's a viral post. Libs of Blue Sky posted it. And they tried getting into the EPA building and they were barred entry. And these libs are like, what do you mean you can't enter a public building? It's publicly owned. And it's like the J6ers have a question. Exactly. Exactly.
Starting point is 01:51:30 Let's see. The Engaged View says, how is a $2,000 a year subscription to Politico any different than a $500 wrench for a Pentagon procurement contract? It's not greed. It's not any different at all. No. That's the game that everybody plays. They're like, let's make a company that sells wrenches to the game that everybody plays they're like let's make a company that sells wrenches to the government 500 bucks a pop it's a it's a one dollar wrench
Starting point is 01:51:49 we make profit and they do it because they're stealing your money brutal and the and the democrats are sitting there swearing up and down that this is unconstitutional and that that it's it's actually an attack on democracy it's so ridiculous on its face and it blows my mind that there are people that will actually make these arguments they should be embarrassed and they say attack on democracy all they're saying is on the status quo they don't want it to change they don't want any any accountability they don't want audits they don't but it's so but then they want all the money for their causes so yeah you know again the the idea that you're going to audit the government and keep it accountable should be the least interesting the least objectionable concept that you could
Starting point is 01:52:37 possibly present the government the fact that there are democrats literally standing on the steps outside of the the congress making a big deal about this is the strongest indication that they are corrupt as hell. Especially that whole squad, which you have to you have to imagine that the squad is really benefited from this entire program. And it's also it's almost all one sided to the Republicans aren't doing it. Well, they're not making money off. Well, some are some are it looked like uh you know especially the the real trump hating republicans looks like bill crystal and all those people are bill crystal is not a republican i know but they you know their whole mo conway all those people
Starting point is 01:53:16 is this dom says the u.s hasn't hit empire yet we are following the roman republic at the moment baron trump will be the first emperor yeah but, but it was like, what, 200 and something, 250 years of prosperity, wasn't it? Until eventually everybody got mad. I wish everyone was getting mad right now. It would make sense if everyone was, if it wasn't left and right, Republican, Democrat, you're looking at these numbers thinking the people in Lahaina are living in tents and the people in, you know, Palisades can't go home and the people in East Palestine, it can't drink the water and nobody's doing anything about it. But we'll funnel your money overseas. Right.
Starting point is 01:53:57 All of it. Everyone should be pissed. Eat the Penguins Go says, Tim, look up the large amount of homes that were put up for sale in D.C. suburbs within the last week for over a million, especially Virginia. I took a look. I didn't see anything notable. Yeah, you can search by time on Zillow, and it looked the same as Baltimore. But maybe Baltimore is also affected. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:54:18 Give it two weeks. Christy says the 250-year lifespan for empires was a bunch of cherry- cherry picked BS and makes historians cry whenever it's brought up. That proves it. I mean, more the end of the empire signal is when Rubio went out and said that we're going into a multipolar world and the entire everyone's like, what? What's he saying? You know, or he's not going to the G20. It's just, you know, we have to deal with the reality of the world. Rubio said that? Yeah. Multipolar? Yeah. Wow. He also said that he's not going to the G20. It's just, you know, we have to deal with the reality of the world. Wait, Rubio said that?
Starting point is 01:54:46 Yeah. Multipolar? Yeah. Wow. He also said that he's not going to the G20. Yeah. Yeah. He's not going to.
Starting point is 01:54:52 They're dismantling the, you know, global. Is that in Johannesburg? Yeah. Yeah. I think the reason he's not going to the G20 is because of the situation in South Africa. Yeah, I mean, that's what he's saying. But, you know, the whole thing is a whole money laundering thing. Oh, he said because of the treatment of the white farmers?
Starting point is 01:55:12 Yeah. Wow. I heard that that's all fake news and that it's all constitutional. The president was asked about taking land and he says, but this is legal. It's all legal. They passed a law. It's allowed. Well, yeah. If you have land, and he says, but this is legal. It's all legal. They passed a law. It's allowed. Well, yeah.
Starting point is 01:55:27 If you have land, they can take it. Charlie Alpha Echo says, great news. John Schaefer of the heavy metal band Iced Earth got pardoned for J6. Did. You should have him on the culture war. I am a J6er in your Discord, and my case has also been dismissed. All glory to God for setting me free. Epic, bro.
Starting point is 01:55:43 Cheers, man. James O'Keefe also had the Ashley Biden stuff dropped by the SDNY. Yep. Yep. Nice. Wow, dude, that's crazy. It was totally weaponized. I had on Enrique Torrio two days ago. He got 22 years. He wasn't even in
Starting point is 01:55:57 D.C. Unreal. He thought he was going to die in there, and he was on his way to Mar-a-Lago. He said he's going to run for office, huh? He should. I like him a lot. What happened to them? Because I was on a call with him the day before he was sentenced. 22 years for a seditious conspiracy.
Starting point is 01:56:13 He wasn't even in D.C. He really thought he was going to die in there. Brian Egan says, Speaking of movies that are so bad that it's good, the short film Kung Fury comes to mind. The trailer... So here's the thing about Kung Fury. The trailer was the film. And then they raised money to do a half
Starting point is 01:56:30 an hour version of it, and it did not work. Do you remember Kung Fury? You don't know Kung Fury? Wow. It was a trailer for a fake 80s style film that made no sense. And the reason the trailer was funny, because it goes like, he finds Thor, then he's riding a dinosaur, and then he's fighting an arcade machine.
Starting point is 01:56:47 It made no sense. But then they actually raised money and made a half an hour version that tried to connect the nonsense, and you can't do it. Oh, that's funny. However, I will give a shout out to Kung Fu Hustle. That's a real movie. Have you guys seen that one? You've not seen Kung Fu Hustle? You're supposed to be the pop culture guy, bro.
Starting point is 01:57:05 You got to watch. Have you seen the film? No. What? Are you kidding me? Kung Fu Hustle, no. You've not seen Kung Fu Hustle? That movie's so good.
Starting point is 01:57:15 That's such a good movie. I don't know, probably 2008 or something. What about Shaolin Soccer? Yeah, see Serge? He's based. He knows what's going on. What's that? It's our pop culture guy. Yeah, you got to watch Shaolin Soccer. I think Kung. He knows what's going on. Our pop culture guy.
Starting point is 01:57:25 Yeah, you got to watch Shaolin Soccer. I think Kung Fu Hustle is way better. Steven Chow? Yeah. Kung Fu Hustle is amazing. It's ridiculous. It's like Kung Fu comedy. Yeah, I recommend it.
Starting point is 01:57:41 I wonder if he's got any other ones. We need real comedy. We need some mockery and some comedy and some fun Bantam Media says Civilization 7 is dope also been boycotting Super Bowl since 99 because it would preempt the Simpsons and I'm still mad
Starting point is 01:57:54 yeah I know they would be like no Simpsons tonight and I'd be like what's going on same network still? I gotta get Civ 7 I don't know I heard it was bad though people were complaining about it for some reason Civilization 2, that's the only real one.
Starting point is 01:58:08 Although, at this point, the funny thing is it's been 20... It's been 30 years. So, like, you have to get mods because Civilization 2 is an old, like, Windows 3.1 game. Or Windows 95. The technology ends
Starting point is 01:58:24 in the 90s. and so then once your civilization develops beyond 1990 it's just future technology you know so you're going to need the updates if you want to have things like social media wow yeah and the newer civilization games social media is a component of it doesn't exist in the early ones they did not know but it's always fun to to build nukes that's how i would play 2. I would never have to go to war because I would just build nukes like crazy. But then, of course, in the newer Civilization games, if you don't have access to uranium in your country's borders, you can't build nukes.
Starting point is 01:58:55 And then the other people do, and then they nuke you. That's just the reality, man. That's life. Civilization. What a fun game. All right, let's grab a couple more. Scuba Steve says, Space Marines 2, 8-foot-tall superhuman space soldiers that are all jacked men. Yes.
Starting point is 01:59:11 Well, there you go. That's good. All right. What do we got here? Ken Busby says, I would love to hear a conversation test on Between You and Me, Gabriel Mann, the producer, JD, the hots hot shot movie i don't know what you're saying sunko samurai says kung fu hustle was amazing there are people tweeting about at me about kung fu hustle right now shocked that you have not seen it that is a classic cult
Starting point is 01:59:39 that's a cult classic yeah i can't even describe it's so good it's it actually is a good story it's there's a bit of comedy in it, but it actually is like a hero's journey. Oh, wow. It's like a standard. It's a kung fu hero's journey with comedy in it. It's really good. All right, everybody, if you haven't already,
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