Timcast IRL - US Deploys 3,000 More Marines, 82nd Airborne Deploy To IRAN, WE ARE GOING IN

Episode Date: March 25, 2026

Tim, Tate, and Elaad are joined by Caroline Wren to discuss the Pentagon deploying 3000 troops, Army raising age of draft eligibility to 42, immigrants are scared that they will be drafted, a Texas oil refinery explodes, a Democrat wins an election in a Republican stronghold, a dude gets roasted after an embarrassing post about his wife, and Joe Kent says he would testify in the Charlie Kirk assassination case.  SUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/ Join -    / @timcastirl   Hosts:  Tim @Timcast (everywhere) Tate @realTateBrown (everywhere) | ‪@TimcastTateBrown‬  Elaad @ElaadEliahu (X) Producer: Carter @carterbanks (X) |  @trashhouserecords  (YT) Guest: Caroline Wren @CarolineWren (X) Podcast available on all podcast platforms! US Deploys 3,000 More Marines, 82nd Airborne Deploy To IRAN, WE ARE GOING IN | Timcast IRL For advertising inquiries please email [e-mail]

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Okay, maybe not, but there's this new report that they've increased the age limit for enlistments to 42, and they don't care if you've been convicted of marijuana or light drug possession. So the 42-year-old thing is obvious. They want older people to be able to join the military. I wonder why. They're also giving out steak and lobster to our troops. And the best part is the marijuana thing because I'm like, okay, now they're basically saying, we need to open up the pool a little bit wider.

That one's targeting Gen Z. But here's the interesting thing. The real concern over the draft, immigrants are worried. Not a joke. This is the report. Young people are kind of like, I'm undraftable because they're just like, Heikikamori. If you know what that means, it means they sit at home and play video games all day and they don't go outside. But immigrants are like, uh-oh. And there's a lot of people saying, you know, it would be funny if Biden brought in 20 million illegal immigrants from Honduras, not for the economy, but to just unload them all in Iran.

And then as John Bolton would say, this time next year, we'll be eating plantanos and Baliera in Tehran, which he never said. but would be absolutely hilarious if Iran just became like New Honduras. But the big news, of course, is, my friends, if you've been following this show, you are not surprised to learn that we are deploying the 82nd Airborne Division, 3,000 more troops to the Middle East. The speculation being this will be for the occupation of Karg Island, the key oil distribution hub for Iran. And we've been talking about this.

We had heard rumors in the area about, you know, people who know other people who see them packing up and getting ready to go, rumors of deployment, and it appears that it's actually going to happen. As many are saying, this is increasing the probability that we will see boots on the ground in Iran. That being said, Donald Trump has said he's in peace negotiations with Iran, and they gave him a truly, truly wonderful gift related to oil and natural gas, but he's not going to tell you what it is. And that's good, but I got to be honest, all the while we're being told that things are winding down, but all of the military action we see shows a dramatic escalation. Now, there's another big conspiracy theory.

I had talked about this, 2019. An oil refinery exploded at 4 a.m. in PA. Several hours later, Donald Trump announced that he was canceling strikes on Iran. At the time I speculated, could this have been a cyber attack? And Donald Trump pulled back on the attack to avoid an escalation of war between Iran and the United States. I don't know. Interestingly, yesterday, only a few hours after Donald Trump announced postponing the attack in Iran, an oil refinery exploded. Now, that's just some wacky speculation, right? Except a Saudi X account posted only a few hours before the explosion that just across the street, there would be an oil refinery explosion and then deleted it. But it's too late. The internet is forever. It was captured and reposted suggesting there was four knowledge.

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Joining us tonight to talk about this. We've got Carolyn Wren. Hello, thank you for having me. Absolutely. Who are you? I am born and raised in Austin, Texas, moved up to D.C. was there for about 15 years working for friends of the show, Lindsay Graham, John McCain, A.P. Other groups.

Oh, he nodded at APEG. Until I had a hard pivot when Donald Trump came out of the elevator. And now I'm firmly in the America First camp. And I run a lot of different campaigns, actually, against my old friends within the Republican, more establishment wing of the party. I'm sure they're happy now. Well, I think they probably are happy now. Yeah.

Well, right on. It's great to have you. Yeah. Should be interesting. Of course, Alad is here, but everybody knows you. We're not doing the introductions the way we used to because it's just everybody knows who Alad is. Al-Ahu, Timcast News, White House correspondent. Happy to be here.

Tate, what's good? Dave Brown is here, of course. We got to bring up the speed. We're not doing intros anymore. No, who we are. Not for the regulars. Like, this is 10-I-in-in-it-in-self now? I never, I've never, I've never-in-chered myself ever on this show.

I've never said, hi, I'm Tim Poole. Exactly. So if he doesn't, that's... I think I might have done it one time to be like, should I introduce myself? Were we becoming too formal of a news show with the introductions? No, it's yet, it's like everybody knows who you are, you know what I mean? Like, yeah. The guest needs an intro, but everybody else is like...

And our catchphrases, we're getting kind of lame. Carter's here. Yeah, it's starting to sound too rehearsed, so they're like, you know, we don't like... Not just that, but it's like we get it. We know who Tate is, you know what I mean? And like Ian's going to say, I know, graphene, ha, ha, ha, ha. Catchphrase. Did that doc ever drop it?

Holding it down? You know what gay, I dropped? The graphene documentary? Yeah, didn't it? I think it's in route. I think Kevin is heading right now. Okay, you see, here's what we're doing. Let's get into the news, my friends, and talk about what's going on.

We got this from Politico. Pentagon prepares to send another 3,000 troops to the Middle East. The decision to move the Army's 82nd Airborne Division to the region heightens the possibility U.S. troops will enter Iran. No decisions have been made for troops under the country, according to defense officials, who confirmed the plan deployment. But the buildup of troops is a drastic escalation. The 82nd has a quick reaction force that can deploy around the world within 18 hours,

but it's not clear if that division will head to the region. The troops increase comes a month into U.S. military airstrikes against Iranian military forces and infrastructure, and amid spiraling gas prices as Iranian officials block access to the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world's oil passes. U.S. Central Command, which oversees the effort said Tuesday, that U.S. aircraft and missile attacks have destroyed more than 9,000 military targets inside Iran, Since the attack started February 28th, military officials have said the strikes targeted around missile launchers, Navy, and defense industrial base.

Strikes have also killed dozens of the regime's leadership. The U.S. already has 50,000 troops in the region. The increase suggests potential for more involvement, such as taking control of the straight by force. So it is being speculated heavily that we are going to occupy Karga Island, a small island in the Gulf, where Iran does most of its oil distribution. Trump keeps saying things are getting better. We destroyed them. They're all but defeated. This is the end. We're having peace talks.

But everything we're seeing from the military is suggesting an escalation. So I actually want to throw it to Elad first because you're, I mean, you've been like dancing on the table, tap dancing, excited with joy about what's going on. What do you think it's happening? Do you think Trump is nearing peace or do you think we are going to go in and just full-scale war? So a few things. So far, I believe the war is going about as well as it could be, all things considered. minimal amount of casualties. Of course, I think they're like roughly under 20. Of course, every death is of an American service member is extremely unfortunate, but these are the most

patriotic among us. And we've all but decimated the Iranian army and navy. I think there will be issues, though, if we do reach the point where we do have a land invasion. Obviously, that would raise the casualties by a ton. And I don't know if the Americans could stomach hundreds of casualties. However, this does seem to be a choke point, Karg Island, where we do. a lot of this oil is distributed from Iran. It's sort of the choke point for the economy of the Iranians. And holding the island would leave a lot of our American patriots and our American troops at risk from counterattacks more easily.

I think he wants to leave all his options open, the president. Do you think we are going to go in? Do you think it is escalating or do you think Trump is winding things down? I think the president wants to leave all of his options open. I'm asking you if you think we are winding things down, or do you think we're going, we're escalating? We're escalating. We're ramping things up.

The president could not leave this regime in power moving forward. The current Ayatollah, his entire family was killed by the president. I think the current Ayatollah is actually dead, too. Yeah. Well, if he's not dead, he'd have a lot of reason to try to avenge his father, of course. So I don't think we could moderate this current regime. And I think the president knows that. So I think if we leave these guys in power, they'd probably race to the bomb.

And I think that's what the president's mindset on this issue is at this point now. We've done way too much damage to not take the regime out. Is this the most you've ever supported Donald Trump? Like, look, I knew the president was not going to allow this regime to get a nuclear weapon because he's been crystal clear on this issue for decades. I know a lot of people like to project their politics onto the president and pretend that the president is flipping a new script all of a sudden, but he's actually been extremely consistent when it comes to this issue about Iran not being able to get a nuclear weapon.

And actually, I saw Michael Tracy actually quote this, the president talking about this 20 some odd years ago, saying how he would take Carg Island if it came down to it, if push came to shove. So I don't know, you must be a little bit conflicted. It sounds like you worked for a lot of neocons in the past and now have kind of, I don't know,

it would be too supportive of a knock like this. It seems like John McCain's wet dream, maybe you would know a little bit more about that than I would. Yeah, I'm conflicted on, especially since I spent so much time working for, I feel like, that wing of the party, and then I left it and like a kind of public breakup. I did a lot of interviews about it,

and now I feel like I'm right back in it, it. And I am very nervous about this. Well, you know, I didn't want any more, you know, foreign intervention. I still don't fully understand what the purpose is of why we are there. Also, Iran is an extraordinarily complicated country. It's 90 million people. You have 19 different religious factions. And also, they don't care about human life. So when you say that, like, if we take Karg Island and, yes, it'll hurt their economy that, like, the Iranian regime doesn't give a shit about their economy. Like, they don't, they can let their people starve. And all they have to do to win the war is just outlast us. And so we've seen this before when Donald

Rumsfeld went on TV and told us that we were going to be going to Iraq for two days and then it was two weeks and then it was two months. And Rumsfeld went out there and it's the exact same thing now. They're telling us two days, then two weeks, then two months, then it's two years and then it's 20 years. And so having said all that, I'm praying and hoping for the best. And I do think President Trump is a wonderful commander in chief and a great leader. And I do think it's preposterous that Netanyahu can just walk in and tell President Trump to go do something and he would do it. Trump is famous for bringing in a lot of different opinions, letting people duke it out, and then making a decision.

So if there is an off-ram at this point, I would love to see it, but I don't see how there is an off-ram, but I think that now is a good time to buy Raytheon or Palantor. Yeah, I think you hit it on the head. I mean, that is kind of, I think it's almost a maybe a miscalculation. I don't know if it's a miscalculation. I think it's consistent with the Don Roe Doctrine, which is, again, when you're negotiating with these countries, you assume they're all. self-interested, they're all driven by economic gain, these sorts of things. And that's worked

very well thus far through both Trump administrations. That's kind of the miscalculation with Iran, to your point, they're driven by things that are sort of detached from like tangible assets, right? We're talking like oil, energy, economics by and large, like they're driven by fanaticism. I think that is the point that these really, like these Iranian hawks are making. That's correct is they are driven by fanaticism. That's an argument against getting into a problem. prolonged war with them because, again, like you said, Iran, victory for them is just surviving. Yeah, they got nothing but time. We need to introduce only fans to Iran.

Yeah, I think it's worthwhile. Maybe then they'll be so distracted and degenerate that they'll just stop caring about anything other than getting money and selling oil. Look, maybe I'm confused, but I think there is a serious threat from the Iranians. I think there's credible evidence that they've had assassination attempts against the president. They chant death to America and death to Israel. there's a lot of evidence of them interested in acquiring a nuclear weapon or at least getting on the precipice of it.

They do fund proxies and do have the death of American service members on their hands. But I don't know. I'm sure you've heard that stick. Let me ask you a question on the first point that you made. So was Trump wrong after the 12-day war when he said they said it back 10 years on the nuclear program? Yeah, he was wrong. So that was- Look, I'm not here to try to defend every single thing.

I'm not suggesting you are. I'm just saying like the 12-day war was a failure. And, you know, the expectation was they were going to go in, stop and didn't work. And now here we are again. I think the 12-day war was a failure if the goal was to completely decimate their nuclear facility. They escaped with the material. There's photos of the trucks. But in a certain aspect, the 12-day war set us up for this war because Israel was able to take out most of Iran's air defenses.

So it set the situation up such that we could advantageously have this opportunistic war right now. And I mean, I said this at the top of the show. All things considered, I think this is a good use of American power. And fortunately, the casualties have been extremely low. And I hope they continue to be. I think we have a kill-death ratio of something like one to a hundred. Still, obviously, all these deaths are too much. But I went to a Pentagon briefing with Secretary HECSeth the other day,

where he said he went to the dignified transfer for a couple of soldiers that were killed. And the families told him to finish the job and not let his death. service members, death be in vain. So, you know, that's where my mind sets at. I know you guys also represent like a wing of the party, an emerging wing. It's hard to say what exactly is going on, though, because according to many of these polls, people of Republicans at least are trusting the president's plan and are letting him cook. It seems as though you guys aren't. That's true. That's true, but he needs independent voters and the Republicans need independent voters if they want to win in November. and this message that keeps going out like, well, Republicans are behind Trump.

It's like, congratulations. We always knew that. Democrats have always been opposed. Republicans always support. It's the very thin middle that you need to convince, and they are not being convinced. Now, you can call it whatever you want. I honestly believe a good portion of these, quote, unquote, podcaster personalities would say whatever the advertiser dollars direct them to. I'm not going to call it anybody, but I'm not talking about Tucker Carlson.

I don't know what his deal is or what he believes or why he's doing what he's doing. A lot of people have accusations. But he's got something going on. Like, I mean, and I don't mean negatively. I mean, like, whatever it is he's doing, he's doing. But there are a certain person that has that have no business in politics that I guarantee you, if you went to them with like a $10 million deal and said, just, you know, don't be mean to the president support them. They'd say, yes.

They'd say, okay in two seconds. Because these guys, these middle of the war guys, don't know anything about the region or politics or otherwise. I'm not saying they're right or wrong. I'm saying when someone who doesn't know where Iran is tells me what they think about this war, I question their motivations. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm not tuning into like the Theo, show for like a nuanced take on geopolitics but like it is worthwhile like I think the useful polling

that we would need to see is what did first time Trump voters what do they think about the war I think that would give you an indication of like the status of the coalition because you know everyone is declaring that the you know 2024 coalition is dead et cetera et cetera and you do see polling like within MAGA it has 100% support it's like yeah because that's what like it selects for it selects for people that are in favor of decisions Trump makes so again if you're against the Iran war then you're probably not considered part of the MAGA polling group anymore. And that's when you would need to go back and look that initial batch of 2024-Butters really determine how popular is this war.

And then again, it's like I think even President Trump is starting to realize that, you know, this might have been a miscalculation you're seeing on his truth social feed. Like it's kind of like he's a little upset. Like it's kind of clear he's saying like, we're just going to bomb all their energy fields. And then like you'll come back around and say, Israel shouldn't have done that. It was a mistake. It's like I think he's starting to realize. that we might have undercalculated what's going on here.

Let's jump to this story from task and purpose. Army raises enlistment age to 42, removes waiver for marijuana possession. Hey, that last one, that's for you, Gen Z. So they want to make sure they can get as many people as possible in. And so I can imagine they're having a meeting like, what do we do? Well, why don't we allow older people to join? Hey, look, 40's the new, you know, is it 40 is the new 30, right? These guys can still fight.

And they're like, what about young people? Why can't we recruit young people? they smoke too much weed. Let him in anyway. So it looks like when you get a story like this and they're saying they want to increase enlistment and so they're changing the rules instead of offering incentives, it sounds like they're really trying to get a lot of people in right now. And of course there have been concerns. At least I would argue they may be fake, but the left liberal media has been reporting fears of a potential military draft over this conflict. What people need to understand, about Iran. 90 plus million people. This is not Afghanistan. If you think it was hard, if you know that it was hard enough for the U.S. to deal with goat herders with AK-47s in a desert country, imagine what it's going to be like going to a mountainous 90 million person, strong country. They can take out military targets, but you do not get regime change with 90 million people without occupying that country by force. Yeah, I mean, this is why I think the Trump administration,

I don't actually expect them. How old are you? Ramp it up. I'm 32. You are well within the age for enlistment. And you're coming with me too, buddy. Not me, you're 40. They won't let me in. You have two more years. No, I'm high net worth.

They won't let me. Oh, so make me high net worth. What do you mean, Elad? You like this. We're going on a quick trip. Don't you want to go in? Are going to eat a lot of gourmet sabzi, and that's the only Iranian food.

Wouldn't what is that what they eat? I don't need any. War-Sabsie, yeah. But wouldn't you want to go there and contribute to the war effort? Yeah. Like if Trump said, like, if it was like, I want you to go in and help us win.

Oh, if the president asked me, I definitely would. What if he had you to a gun is like you're on the front line first in? Boats land in tomorrow. If I was fully trained for it, then if that's what my fate is? Look, no, no, no, no. People who signed up to be in the Army are genuinely the most patriotic among us. I don't think we should, like, treat them as children, too. They know what they're signing up for a lawyer.

I'm asking you. I'm saying like, and I don't have that dog in you. It's not a joke, right? I'm not being saying I'm saying, let's say we've, we've stressed. our physical force to its limit. And the president says, we need any able-bodied man who fits this category. Whether you're trained or otherwise,

we'll give you basic training, but we need you. Would you say yes? Yes, I think there should be a draft. I think there should be a national service. I think that's one of the things we should actually copy from Israel. I think everybody should have skin in the game in our society. And I think it would help with actually our simulation process.

But specifically, yeah. You go on the ground in Iran. To be part of the most powerful military that's ever, existed and to know that if anything happened to me, the KD would be one to 100. Yes. No, there's a price. There's a big price on my head. For every American service member who's hurt in Iran, there is 100 plus Iranians paying

the price for that. And these are patriots among us. These are the bravest among us. We should honor them and thank them, you know, for allowing us to live this free lifestyle. I'm just imagining like... We live on the backs of patriots, of dead patriots. Our freedom exists on the back of brave. We're willing to fight.

That's right. I'm just imagining, you know, it's like the boat crashes on the shores of Iran. And then, like, I lot runs out. And he looks to his left. And there's Lindsey Graham. And Lindsey Graham's like, I can't believe I'm fighting alongside you, Elad. And he was like, what about fighting alongside a friend? And then they go like this.

And then they run in together. Well, because that reminds me of Ukraine. You had the Reddit Woffin get deployed. And they kept, like, posting, like, with all the metadata in there. And they were just like, blown up all the time. I don't want a romanticize. war, but isn't there something so romantic about, you know, you and the boys fighting against the ops and, like, Tate, if you got hurt, shot in the arm and I'm holding you in my arms

and saying no, and then, like, avenging your injury. Yeah. No? No. I love it. I don't mean to fetishize that, but it's like, there's something so. There's just, like, alpha about, I don't mean to even use that sort of rhetoric, but like, hunkering your opponents.

But there's still, like, 30 to 40 countries if my group chat could get together that we would invade before Iran. India comes to mine. Invade India? Oh, yeah, do we be storming the shores? Because of the call centers? Because of the call centers, because of the smell. You know, like, we would be all in.

Adi Day would look like a birthday party, quite frankly. If you'd be landed on Goa or something. I would invade Antarctica. Just to get over the ice wall to see what's on the other side. That seems like a guaranteed failed mission, though. No, man, there's nobody down there. Well, I guess the Koreans, they'd see you and be like, he's one of us.

The Koreans? Oh, that's right, because people don't know this, but outside the ice wall, just all Koreans. There's like 43 billion Koreans. He is home. You didn't know this. No. Yeah.

So, like, Earth is right. 43 billion. Oh, yeah, no. So Earth is not flat. It's round, right? But what we know as the world is actually a small portion of the planet surrounded by an ice wall where the 43 billion Koreans keep us in as slaves. It's true.

That's the only true conspiracy theory is that one. There won't be a single community note. I think if we zoom out Elon's going to be like Maybe Can we do my Elon right now I got to lock in for that The ice wall

I need some like weed And then I can still get to I would invade Cuba Yeah I think that's right there But Hassan beat us to it There's no there's no hard rock cafes That makes me mad I just love the idea of like Hassan eating

Like a really nice meal At a five star restaurant And there's like a bunch of starving kids outside Like shivering Yeah But they wouldn't be shivering Because it's Cuba But you know

I remember when they Imagine they are anyway. And like they're doing the thing where they were like literally throwing food out. Remember how mad they got at Trump for like shooting the toilet paper and was it Puerto Rico? Yeah, that was hilarious. Yeah, and that was like awesome. And he was still giving us. Yeah.

Throwing the toilet paper. He was doing like stepbacks. I was like, whoa. It was like James Hard. He did a 360 dunk with a toilet paper. Yeah. Some little kid caught it. Just on Bad Bunny's head.

And that's when he's like, I'm going to become a libtard when I grow up because of this. That's what happened. That's what. Yeah, that's right. It's a story. It's a bad bunny. Uh, to come full circle for a second. to this story. I think this was on the list of like three different things to increase military

recruitment and like that was way overdue. Of course, expanding the age range, but also like this waiver for marijuana is very overdue. I think there's a lot of people who could serve despite having minor possession convictions. I think there was also one other thing and that's the grooming standards. As I understand, like there's a strict grooming standard in the military and black people deal with this differently than other people because their beards grow indifferently and it's very curly and like shaving causes ingrown hairs and stuff like that something like that and it's actually a serious issue where it affects the amount of black people that could be recruited so these are big changes that could you know oh no tons of black people they don't have

beards i don't understand this i couldn't tell you i think they just want beards well i think they look cool with their beards i was at a meeting in the pentagon recently and this marijuana thing came up because they were actually talking about the context of how trump has been talking about how he wants more shipmaking in the united states but like to build ships uh there's not a labor force here in the United States and even to build out the ports to have to do it. They were struggling with it and really came up with me. The biggest problem was marijuana possession or use. If you, like, when you become a contractor for the Department of War, even if it's just

to build this facility or to enlist, you have to say that you've never smoked marijuana before. And so that takes out like almost all the workers that you would have to do like some construction jobs like this. And so there was really no way to proceed with building these huge new bases and things Trump wants to do without removing that wave. Yeah, I don't mean to sound like a podhead, but that seems like an unreasonably high bar to pass for some of these gigs. Damn.

Don't smoke weed? Don't, I mean, look, we're legalizing weed, so doesn't it seem like there's some contradictions here? I think it's more so just we want to get as many people as possible to sign up and we're going to remove the restrictions. I wouldn't be surprised if like, look, if we actually did invade Iran and we were in full-scale war with 90 million people, I know that's not the entire size of their army or whatever. You know, they'd be like, sending in the crackheads, meth is next. That's what I'm saying. If you tell them there's fentanyl on the nuclear reactors, get them, and then drop all the homeless in, this war would be wrapped up.

No, what you do is you fly over Iran with all of the addicts and then you give one like, you know, carrier with a bunch of crackheads, one with a bunch of meth heads, one with a bunch of heroin addicts. And then what you do is, as they're all like sitting there like freaking out, you walk up to like, you know, they open the hatch or whatever. and then he dangles a bunch of baggies and says, you guys want this? And he chucks it out, and they all run full speed and just jump out to go get it. There wouldn't be a single copper wire left in Iran. They'd just be yanking them out.

I think peyote's begging around. Peyote? Yeah. Really? Yeah, so that could be an incentive for some folks. Those people are tripping. Wow. There's a lot of, yeah, we could send a lot of groups over there.

It'd be really exciting. The Somalis. They're here. We should use them. So we have palettes. Shah. Palates, we have grant forms for hospice and daycare centers,

and then we kick it off the back of the planet and be like, there it goes, and they all jump off. Oh, man, it's a shame we took up their Navy because we could take their ships. Their Navy? Yeah, we could have had the Iranian ships if we sent the Somali Navy. I'm like, you mean like guys on speedboats with Ais?

We sunk all the Iranian boats. We could have just sent the Somalis and we could have captured the boats and then sold them. Or maybe the homeless captain. I don't know. We had some options here. I would say if they were putting mines in the street, I was like, why don't we just capture some of these Iranian ships and just make them go first?

Yeah, you'll find out of the mines there real fast. That's a good idea. Yeah, why are we sinking? Because if you sink any boats in the straight, then it's too shallow and it will potentially mess up the... Well, that's why we had these carg in the first place is because the coastline is too shallow, and so the carg is the only place that the tankers can actually get into. Let's jump to this story. We've got this from WKDZ Radio. New search data shows surge and draft angu.

anxiety among immigrants following policy shift. What? That's right. A rise in online search as related to U.S. military draft is revealing growing anxiety among immigrants and non-citizens following recent changes to federal law that automate selective service registration. A new report from Mendoza immigration law found that Google search activity in March of 26 spiked dramatically, with some searches increasing by as much as 5,000 percent. The data suggests a growing concern over how personal information collected the draft registration could be shared across federal agencies. If If Joe Biden brought in 20 million illegal immigrants and the play was to send them all to Iran, I ain't even man.

Patriot, quite frankly. Like I was saying, as John Bolton would say, by this time next year, we'll be eating Baleeda and Plantanos in Tehran. It's like five D. We need more cannon fodder. I don't even know what that is. Brilliant. It's like the Baleida is, I don't know to say it properly. It's a Honduran burrito, I guess, like a ques a deer or something.

And then plantanos, you don't know, plantanos? Plantains? Yeah. Okay. But we call them Plantanos. We don't hear. They're just small. They're not in West Virginia.

We don't. Actually, they do. When you go to the restaurant, it says Plantanos on the menu. Yeah, can I get the small nasty bananas here? No, no, no, no, no, no, bro. Is that a joke? Is that a joke? Do you have any of, Tate?

That is embarrassing. I am embarrassed for you. Yeah, can I get the shriveled up nasty bananas? They fry them in butter. They fry them and caramelize them in butter. and then give you cream fresh. And imagine if it was a banana, it'd be even better. When it said it's like the shriveled up.

No, you're wrong. See, when you caramelize the plantains, they are sweet and delicious. But bananas would melt and break apart. So anyway, the point is, could you imagine if, like, the Israelis finally go into Iran to, like, finalize the occupation after the country's been conquered? And when they get to Iran, it's just basically Honduras. There's like just burrito and tequitos everywhere. And everyone's speaking Spanish.

Well, you're connecting some dots for me because if this was a long game by Biden here, then lifting the marijuana restrictions would make sense for Hunter to be deployed if this is a Biden family operation here. Yeah, Hunter goes... Well, but they didn't lift the crack, so he's still out of us. Not yet.

Yet. Did we ever find out whose bag that was in the White House? Hunters. On the patio, he's like, sniffing around, it goes and turns around. That's kind of encouraging if the White House staff is doing code. That means they're getting everything done. But it was outside the situation room.

So why Hunter was in there is a greater question that we have not gotten answered. So they've already, there was already a couple legislators a few years ago that we're trying to get a bill passed to grant citizenship to illegal immigrants if they serve in the military. I would not be surprised if a big reason that Biden was like bring as money as possible in is because they're going to go to them and say, you go fight for us and when you come back, you're a citizen, knowing that a lot of them ain't coming back. if any at all. Would you be open to something like that? An illegal if they served our country patriotically over, I don't know, let's say the course of four years

then they could have like a pathway to citizenship. They have the French Foreign Legion and you aren't actually given a pathway to citizenship unless you get hurt or you did it for like five years. Yeah, I think it would have to be an extended service like eight years, not a single four year. And you got to consider that there's a darkness to this question because what you're basically saying is

most of them are coming back. If we said we got 10 million males of fighting age, as everyone was pointing out, and we're going to just drop you in the country and just take it over. Like, we got narco gangs. You know, why is it that Joe Biden wants so many rapists and murderers? No, no, no, no, we need to keep them because we're going to drop them in Iran and let them just do their thing. It's kind of like if you took a cat and threw it into like a rabbit pen and just watched what happened. That cat would go nuts. It just would be mawling anybody in the rabbits would be freaking out.

Now, honestly, the rabbits might actually kill the cat, but 10 cats. So the challenge there is some bad people might come back, I get it. But while I would like to say yes, understanding that what you're saying is, you know, six million are probably going to die. If we actually, like, this is a country of 90 million people.

And if you do like a foreign legion, you know, so of this problem, the French Foreign Legion had this problem as since they were, you know, they're having activities in Western Africa. A lot of Western Africans would go and join the French Foreign Legion and then come back and start settling scores right away.

So you just have, It's like, where did Emmanuel go? And he's, like, burning down at, like, a rival tribes village with a French beer. Double agent probably. Yeah, we'd probably have, like, a similar issue with, like, these guys just going back to, like, the Middle East and just settling the doors. I got to be honest. I mean, I don't understand why this isn't like a standard military tactic. It seems really obvious.

Just getting a bunch of, like, rapists at the point. Well, they're not all rapists. They're just guys from Honduras of low skill. And it's just like, we're going to give you a gun. They're coming for our jobs. Even our soldiers' jobs aren't safe from illegal. I know. Dude, they're H1 being the soldiers.

The soldiers now, too, bro. Americans can't do anything. There are no true. Hold on. What is the argument against this? Do we send our soldiers to go fight? Or what if we could just be like? The argument against its entitlements.

We can't afford it. So we can go serve with the military even four or six years, but we can't even have. I never said anything. I never said giving them entitlements. You give them citizenship, though. When you let them come back or you give them citizenship. The ones who come back. How many are going to make it back?

That's the point of the question. This is the argument. If you're 20 to 30, because then you give that, they go and fight, and then you give them at the end of the war, they get a plot of land in Greenland, and they get to live there you go. No, no, we give them Canada. Yeah, they can run the data centers. We give them where they conquer. To be honest, the data centers should be in colder regions. Yeah.

Iceland, they're starting to build some too because they've got geothermal, which is actually a great source to use energy instead of taking it from other things we're using geothermal. And it's cold, so one of the, data centers has a lot of water to cool. So, but no, my point is Most of the people ain't coming back. Like, if you set them on the ground in Iran for a full-scale invasion, they're not coming back.

Well, look, I don't, we had roughly 3,000 casualties in Iraq. Or wait, wait, you just go back on your word and leave them there. No, we give them the plot of land in Iran. Yeah. 40 acres and a camel. And then they get it.

What kind of, they don't have camels in Iran, do they? I think they probably do. Probably do. Why not? You know? Yeah, it's like, Elephants. The Silk Road, I feel like, yeah, crossed through Central Asia.

And 40 acres and a camel. Yeah. On the side of a mountain. I like it. I like it. Do you like that? I like it. Do you want your own acre in Iran?

40. And a camel. It's not a bad idea, you know. And then when we take over Canada, we get 40 acres in a moose. Yeah. Yep. That might be nicer in some parts of Iran. Well, there's the big real estate development happening in Gaza, too.

So if they're a really good fighter, maybe you get, you know, one of those new beach. Oh, I'm buying in Gaza. I'm buying all the later. Ara Gaza. All of Gaza, I will buy. But that's like a purple heart situation. Yeah, if you kill 200 Iranians and you get a place in Gaza or something. It'd be like the arcade where like everyone, they give you like a ticket and then you go to like the counter and you can exchange for like your plot of land or like you can get a penthouse in Gaza safe.

You got like 200, you know, kills. Yep. Beautiful thing when you really think about it. And everyone, no one speaks to English. So like the friendly fire rates like through the roof. Like these guys are just mowed each other down because no one's speaking the same language. They're talking about plant things. Tim's like man-splaining plantain splaining plantain stuff.

Dude, they're women. When you caramelize them. Yeah, I'm like, sorry, what am I a chef? They turn into sweet treats. All I see is gross shriveled up bananas. That's all Catholics. Would a chiquita kill anyone? You know, I mean, like, you're just showing your white boy ignorance.

You're insulting the delicious. By it being Americanness. Bro, have you never had mango? Mangoo. Oh, my God. You guys are just, they fry cheese. They fry. bro. This is west.

South of the border. That's where I go to vacation. I go to vacation. This is European colonizers. I eat hard rocked. They came in and they massacred the natives, took their food, and fried it up. Mangoo, you take boiled mashed plantains, you fry salami and you fry cheese and you put it on top with pickled onions. This is just illegal immigrant food. I'm not eating this. No way, dude. It's like the most delicious breakfast. Do they make it on the street too? No, man, they're making restaurants. I went to a, it's like Dominican. I went to, I think it was a Dominican restaurant. And it's my favorite breakfast. When I used to work at Vice, I would always go

for breakfast at this like, that's right. The three hits. So amazing. And that's what I get for breakfast. Fried cheese, fried salami, boiled and mashed plantains. And I'd be like extra pickled onions. And this funny thing happened where there was a, like the Hispanic guy working around the counter. He was like, man, he's like, white people love yellow rice. And it was, I thought it was like a black dude. He was there. And he was talking to the Hispanic guy. And then he said, don't white people love yellow rice and then the guy working there was like yeah man they do and I kid you not right this is in Williamsburg rat race says it a white dude walks in hipster flannel and glasses and like you know slick back hair and he walks up and

goes can I just get an order of yellow rice and then we all started busting out laughing and I didn't know why and I was like damn that's me that's me when I go to like Mexican restaurants I'm getting like the chicken fingers like a burger not eating the and these oh yeah what is this it's fried corn with cheese and beans that's every meal You could order in a Mexican restaurant as some variation of corn, beans, and it's like someone chewed it up and vomited them. That's what it's like, every single one.

Sometimes they deep fry it. Sometimes they deep fry it with the text. Have you ever had a chimichanga? Yeah, it's a deep fried version of beans, cheese. A deep fried burrito, bro. You stuffed that thing with cheese. You deep fry it. Heaven.

Heaven forbid I want something like made from flour. Have you ever had, it is? What are you talking about? A chimichanga is a flour tortilla. No, it's not. You can't tell. It's all deep fried. Yes, you.

You can. We're talking about it. And it's slothered in beef. Bro, burritos or flour torches. Have you ever had fried ice cream? No. Oh my God. Why would you fry your ice cream? This is why we can't let these people in the country.

No way, dude. You've had fried ice cream, right? I don't think I've had fried ice cream. I have a lot of Mexican food. They take a ball of ice cream. They dip it in batter and then deep fry it real quick. It's a deep, and then it's not, the inside's still cold, but they fry the outside real quick, it is the most delicious thing.

It's a bit too decadent. You put chocolate and caramel sauce and whipped cream and a little cherry on top. You know what really pisses me off? These cheapo places now, what they do is they roll a ball of ice cream in corn flakes. And I'm like, no, no, no, no. That's just

that is an offense. It's a fence to my country. I'm getting married next weekend and I'm doing my rehearsal dinner and I'm not a fancy person and so I'm just getting a taco truck and I've got all these guys coming. I was like, you know what, let all the family come in. They think they're coming to Palm Beach for like a fancy wedding.

No, no, no. It's backyard taco truck. Because correction with the Mexican food, that is the one exception, as the tacos do have some variation to them. Everything else, and it's numbered. You know, you can ask. Flour tortillas and not corn. But it doesn't matter because you can't tell because they're slathering it

in like tomato juice and beans every single time and cheese. It's the same like four ingredients, but the taco they switch it up. I respect that. So that being said, they all need to be deported. still, like I respect that, you know. Well, we can keep their food. That's true. Did you guys, do you remember that story out of, I think it was Seattle, two white women

opened a taco shop, and the activists demanded they shut it down because it was cultural appropriation? I'm glad I feel like we passed that faith. Sounds familiar. That era, I feel like it's a bygone era now. It is. I don't know if I know. It's a happier time now.

Because it was like white people realize the dreads look stupid on them. You know what? So it's not becoming a fight. I'm not even playing. This was Mary's idea. We got to open a North Korean barbecue. It's brilliant. Not even joking.

Yeah. Do they do? They don't do. They don't eat meat there. They can't afford to eat meat. In North Korea? Yes. Some do. They have cows, bro. What are you talking about? No, only the richest there. They're too poor to afford. No, no, you are wrong. On a regular basis.

You are, you are incorrect. It is, it is harder to get because they're all starving, but they eat beef. They raise cattle. Yeah, like maybe once a month. No, the Olympians that lose, they eat them. So I think we actually have to do this. I need to find someone who can open a restaurant. It was Mary's idea. You open a Korean barbecue, but everyone's dressed in like North Korean jumpsuits. Yeah. And then when you order like a pound of brisket, they give you a half pound. I go, that's a pound.

And then like, when you walk up to it, we're going to do a trick with the windows where inside looks really nice. But when you walk in, it's actually dingy and gross. Yeah. Or it's actually, I don't want it to be gross, but it'll be like plain. Like from the outside, we'll do, like, have you ever seen those screens? They're see through with like a mesh. I don't know how they do it.

But like at arcades, they have this thing where it's like, it's glass you can see through, but it's a touch screen as well. We'll do that. So from the outside, it looks like there's candles and a nice TV. But then you walk in, it says very plain. It'll be delicious. We'll make it good food. North Korean barbecue.

I bet we'd set, we'd be packed every day. Yeah, you'd have a lot of defectors. We would get a guy who looks like Kim Jong-un to be like the main dude at the restaurant. Yeah. Yeah, you would have like a kitchen staff defect like the normal Korean restaurant and they get like hauled back in. No, what we do is. No, what we do is. Every, like, every hour we stage a, uh, an, uh, an, uh, an,

error where like the, like a guy will run out from the, from the back of the kitchen being like, I'm so sorry, I messed up your order. I'm so sorry. And then he gets dragged in the back room and you hear screaming. You'd also have to have like anti-American propaganda of history stories playing on the screens. But like pictures of Trump, he's great because Kim Jong-un likes him. He likes him. Yeah, and Dennis Rodman, of course. And Dennis Rodman. Yeah. I'm doing this. We got to do it. Because I love Korean barbecue. It's delicious. So, you know, let's go. I like it.

Let's go. Let's jump to this next story. Check this out. This is big news yesterday. Massive explosion at crude oil refinery rocks Texas City, as residents told to shelter in place. You may have seen the story. We don't know the, I think they've gotten only, they've, a preliminary. The sheriff came out like immediately after it said it was a fire that caused an explosion

in one of the like engines or something. And then they did a press conference this morning that I watched it. So shortly before this. Donald Trump announced he was postponing strikes on Iran. Seven years ago, June 21st, 2019, Donald Trump came out and said he was stopping, he was calling off an attack on Iran because the casualties would be too great and it was disproportionate to Iran had shot down a U.S. drone. So he's like, no, no, no, we don't want to kill that many people over this.

We're not going to do it. However, a few hours before Trump made the announcement, a refinery in PA exploded. At the time, I speculated this could be what's called ICS sabotage or industrial control system sabotage. That is, we know for a fact our adversaries have hacked into our industrial control systems to destroy them. We do the exact same thing. It's largely viewed in cyber warfare as a mutually assured destruction moment, a Mexican standoff. Every country got their finger over the button that would destroy the critical infrastructure of their, of their rival, of adversarial nations. Now, here's where it gets interesting. This morning, I speculated,

saying, look, I really don't know. Probably just a coincidence, right? Except. I was unaware of, not this post, this post here from at Amuse, who tweeted. A Saudi X account posted a specific threat against the Port Arthur Motiva Refinery one hour before the nearby Valero explosion in the same city. He deleted the post and all 4,739 of his previous tweets immediately after. This account is a Saudi X account created in April of 23. Connected via a Saudi Android app posted a specific warning that Motiva enterprises in Port Arthur Texas. The largest U.S. refinery and up to 720,000 barrels a day would be destroyed

than a week. The post went up about an hour before the Valero Refinery explosion rocked the same city. The user then deleted that warning. Now here's the thing. The Valero facility is across the street. It's literally they're next to each other. This can't be a coincidence, right? Apparently it can be. Give it to him, Tate. I don't know. You know, he's Saudi. I can't I don't believe a thing I read on Twitter this is a real tweet no I know I know no no no no no this guy this guy did tweet this night before it was all white this guy did tweet this yeah he he he was highly online too

and he was clearly Saudi but like I went through he wiped all of his tweets but all of his when he tweeted at someone you could still read it so I just put in his thing and like he was I don't know if he's like a terrorist or somebody's just always talking about foreign policy and stuff but he absolutely sent that one hour before, like there's no AI here or something, that tweet was up. Like, there's enough screen grabs. It's coming from all over the place. And it is, I mean.

But this could be one of those things. Like, you know, the people that will, like, tweet the prediction of a sports game, like a year before. But they tweet, like, a hundred predictions. So one of them, when it does hit, they delete all the other ones and they were like siege. Possibly. I got that right.

And I think he may have been. You think he just tweeted a bunch of predictions. Tweeted a bunch of, this is going to be targeted, like, a bunch of different targets. A bit of refineries. I could tweet the president will attack Karg Island on this day. No, but if you give every day. I read 200 of his tweets last night. And like there weren't any prediction, right?

Because I agree. If there was just a bunch being like, he's going to hit, you know, this facility or wherever, and you tweet 100 of them. And you just, this was, I think, the fourth or fifth largest refinery in the United States. 720,000 barrels a day is a ton. Like, this will affect oil prices in the United States. No, it's real. We don't know how much damage has been done.

But if that, like, facility were to go down or offline and what is already a very delicate oil market, it would be. very bad. Well, it exploded, and that is going to cause problems. It wasn't the motive, but it was right across the street from it. And I believe there's a very strong probability that these things are ICS sabotage. This is basic cyber warfare. This is the first level of cyber warfare.

It's rudimentary. I've seen demonstrations. It is not hard to do. I think one demonstration I saw at the Black Hat Convention in Vegas, security researchers had only a couple lines of code can blow up any, any refinery. Any, any industrial chemical plant, water processing, they use the same pumps, and you can just, you can do a couple of things. You can set the pressure limit high so that the pressure keeps building up until a pipe

bursts. And then what happens? They say a pipe burst. Yeah. That's it. And Valero, from what I understand, people could fact check this, but this is from what I understand. They're headquartered in San Antonio.

San Antonio is military, you know, city, USA. There's like four bases there. And Valero is also the primary defense contractor for like energy supply for a lot of the Air Force specifically. So I did see people speculating that, look, if there were going to be, you know, a foreign attack on a, you know, refinery of some sort, this would be the number one target. This is like it would be kind of obvious almost. As again, you go for Valero because Valero is a domestic oil producer and they are the defense contractor of choice, you know. Also, this refinery process is heavy crude, which is what Venezuela has, which is kind of interesting because Venezuela and Iran had. some deep ties. And so if Iran wanted to retaliate against Venezuela's new, like working with the

U.S. government, then hitting this facility would make sense. And it seems largely like the very pro-Iran war pro-Trump factions are the most. I don't know what the right word is, a combination of skeptical and offended. The response that I've seen are that the most Trump supporters are like, this is ridiculous. It never happened. Because the implication is that we are being attacked. And they don't want the narrative to be that Trump gets involved in this war, and then the U.S. is paying the price domestically in any way. The one thing that could turn a hawk into a dove in this country is high gas prices. The one way to drop support very quickly, even among the most hawkish of us, is for gas prices to go up by a dollar. And they have.

I think it's been like 50, 60 cents so far, the national average. But once we start seeing 4-450, It's just like an ad against the president. Isn't a buck or two worth it for having a clean conscience? You know, it's hard for Americans to see tangible results. Hey, hey, I asked you a question. Isn't a buck or two worth it for having a clean conscience? Yeah, yeah, it is. That's a Colbert quote.

Yeah. Even Colbert said that. It is much more than a buck or two, though, because it's going to be a buck or two. It's going to go to, I think, $175. If you saw the United CEO put out a press statement yesterday that they're preparing to raise all flights by 20%. So you start to do your flights and then also oil prices. That evolves everything from you driving to work, planes, machinery that you work. But then on top of that is 70% of the world's fertilizer supply comes from there.

Fertilizer is food. It will decimate our food supply. Not only in the United States, we're a little bit more insular to that, but allies across the region, across the country. The fertilizer is like just as you could see a massive famine from this in places like India. I've become less and less concerned with our allies as it becomes more. abundantly clear that they are just spineless and not willing to help us when it matters. It seems as though they're more of a burden and drag us into things more than anything else. I think Scott Besson put it most succinctly, though.

He said, we're going to have to deal with 50 days of higher prices for 50 years of no Iran nukes. So I think that's the current pitch from the administration. I think there are things that we could do to help curb the issue of high gas prices in the United States that we should look into. These are like gas taxes. I think we should also... Gas taxes? We have gas taxes.

We could remove the gas taxes, rather. How do he taxes? And then also, I think we should do a temporary ban on oil exports. I'm sure the gas companies will be pissed about it. But we are a net oil exporter at this point, and it could help, at least domestically. Well, the oil prices are set by a World Illuminati that nobody really understands or elected. So even if we ban exports in your bit, then it'll still affect the prices of the world. Sure.

I mean, our allies and the Europeans can get screwed, but we wouldn't, because we are an net exporter at this point. I saw someone game it out. I do believe like banning exports doesn't actually help the gas prices because they're just sold at a premium to American. As I understand domestically, it should make them go down, but then the oil, the global market will still go up. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

Yeah, I saw someone game. As an exporter. I saw an autistic game it out on Twitter. He was just saying, like, best case scenario is what Trump is doing, which is your, like, he sanctions on Iran. Something you said I wanted to follow up on that grabbed my attention. I know that you used to be part of the maybe we'll call it more hawkish squad and now the more so-called American First squad. What do you make of Trump's actions in Venezuela and how that went about?

I know you're also in Florida right now. And as I understand, a lot of Floridians are very supportive of that kind of stuff. What did you make of the president's stuff in action in Venezuela? So I was pretty heavily involved in that. And I went down to Venezuela not long ago, actually. And I was initially against it, mainly because I was against the narrative that we were doing this because of drugs. And I'm like, that doesn't make sense. No drugs come out of Venezuela.

The drugs come out of Colombia. Like, Venezuela doesn't need to launder drugs. They launder oil, like, in gold. And so I just felt like we were being, we started blowing up boats or I called the canoes. I'm like, I don't really understand what we're doing there. And I think there were two different. Again, this is why I love Trump. He'll bring in different factions to come in debate.

And then he chooses the question. course to take. There were factions that wanted a full regime change there, which was to go in, take Maduro, and then bring in MCM, who is the opposition party leader. I thought that would be a disaster. And especially because Venezuela's 23 million people. They're in our backyard. They already had a massive migrant crisis that led to them all flowing here. And so if you start a civil war and just take out the leader in a regime in Venezuela and then just abandon it, then you could see real famine, inflation, and then migration. But what Trump ended up doing is he took what the real hawkish, you know, my South Floridians wanted, which was to topple the Maduro regime.

But then by putting Delsey Rodriguez in charge, she was the vice president there who I've met, she's very smart and stuff. And then basically he owns her now, right? She has to do everything they said. He was able to do it where there was no protesting in the streets, no loss of life, really, no like. So he kept the regime intact. But we got the objectives we wanted, which was to neutralize what could be. a threat there. I mean, they were closely Iranians and Russians or other. They were selling all their oil to like pennies on the dollar to China. And now we really get to be the ones to export

all that and secure that. And there's also a lot of other natural resources of Venezuela has. So I think it was flawlessly executed by President Trump. And I think he took several opinions and mesh that together. And I was a skeptic, but I'm very, very pleased with the outcome. There is some chatter now about something similar being done in Cuba. I know you're a little bit reluctant to support what the president's doing in in Iran, but what do you think of a potential regime change or similar

to Venezuela move in Cuba? I know you have those again, those Florida connections. Maybe you could give us a tidbit about why this matters so much in Florida and the influence of that in Washington. Yeah, so I just reread Marco Rubio's book because I was

trying to get inside of his head as we were going through all these Venezuelan negotiations. He was a son of Cuban. Yeah, and his father's dying wish was for him to liberate Cuba. I think for Rubio, this is like very, and even Venezuela, Venezuela, it was weird, like Maduro's security guards were all Cuban. And so the Cuban intelligence, they were directly linked. So I think Rubio's thought was if you, you know, take down Venezuela, and cut off Cuba, that was their only financial resource and lifeline. So for me, I'm just, I'm less interested in Cuba because they have no natural resources. Yes, they have beautiful beaches.

It's a cool tourism spot. But like Venezuela was a strategic, incredibly, important country of like 23 million people on a coast with a ton of oil, and more importantly, they have a lot of gas. Cuba, you can build hotels at the end of this. So I'm like, but for Ruby, I get that it's deeply personal. You could topple the Cuba regime in like eight seconds. I don't like, we went in and captured Maduro, no problem. We took out half the Iranian regime, no problem.

We can't find Nancy Guntheri, so that's confusing. But I'm assuming they could find and take out the Cuban leadership. But I think that that is on pause right now because I think it's. taking a lot of our, whether or not Secretary Ruby or a high-level state-demortment folks, their time away from, like, Iran is now what everyone actually should be focused on or working. But I think Cuba will fall fairly easily. But it's really just South Floridians. It's about 700,000, I think.

Maybe even, actually, maybe in Lessa. That might be combined with, like, Venezuelans who live in South Florida. And this, I mean, that's what they really care about. But they, it's been so long that they even gone back. A lot of their families have passed away. A lot of people grew up with their parents came over here. Like they've never been. And so I do think it is that loudness about liberating Cuba has really died out on a national stage.

But, you know, Pan Bondi is from Florida and got elected from this crowd. Susie Wilde's White House Chief of Staff is from Florida. You've got, obviously, Rubio is from Florida. You've got Michael Waltz from Florida. I mean, it is a like Floridian cabinet. Obviously Mar-a-Lago also in Florida. Yes. And so this was a priority of secretary.

Secretary Rubio's, and I think he'd end up doing a very good job in Venezuela, and I hope he takes Cuba with the minimal loss of life. The reporting that Emily Gregory won Florida State House District 87. Was that the one where... That's not going to doubt Trump's. Trump endorsed John Maples. That's the Democrat then. Right. That's a big deal. That's a big deal. So this is not a primary. This is the actual state seat. So it's a special election. And I forget what happened where the State House member went. So that's why these special elections can be... Some people say they can be indicative of the midterms. I just let's let's pull this up. We got this from Frank Luntz. Mar-a-Lago in this district Trump carried it by plus 11 in 2024 and the seat will be going up for up for grabs in 26 but Vote Hub is projecting that the Democrat has won the Florida State House District

87 general election. This goes along with the other story that we have from media. Yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes. CNN poll experts stunned by Trump's massive plunge with young men showing that Trump is down with men 40 points on the cost of living, a 40 point swing to minus 30 from plus 10 on cost of living. And generally seeing he's minus seven among men. I believe that the conservatives who are telling Republicans Trump is with like Trump is enjoying 100% support. You know, CNN in that story, the goal of this is to trick conservatives into losing. If you are actually trying to win a war and someone came to you and said,

my liege, we've won on every front. What are your orders? And he's like, oh, okay, I guess maintain position. And now what's actually happening because everyone's just getting brutalized and slaughtered, the king loses. A week later, they stormed the gates

and he's like, but I thought I was winning. We're seeing these prominent personalities across social media being like, don't listen to these people. Trump is enjoying massive support among Republicans. His support for the Iran war is at 89% indeed.

and now Palm Beach just went Democrat. Look, this is what they did to Biden. They all propped him around saying, he's great, don't listen to him and show fake polling. And they lived in this bubble where the rest of us living out in the country, we're like, yeah, he's going to lose. Like, if you go talk to your neighbor or whatever else. And this is why these polls are so dangerous.

And I think it is a form of suppression. And I always say that I think polls are for strippers and firemen. They're not for predicting elections. And the problem with these is when you go ask the MAGA question, where it was on CNN of like, That question, the way they phrased it was, if you were a, consider yourself a MAGA voter, if that's how you would check the box when they asked you that, which like a MAGA enthusiast that that that's the wing of the party that you're in, then it was just asking, do you still

of Trump's approval? Like, I'm a MAGA voter and do I approve of Trump? Yeah. Like, of course I do. I would walk over glass for that man. But that doesn't mean you can't disagree with certain things. And also I do think, especially for someone like me who works in this field, I'm very vocal when I do disagree on things because this is what I like about Trump.

he listened to a lot of people. So it's just Lindsey Graham on the golf course with him, telling him to bomb Iran all day. And the rest of us are just clapping saying, you have 100% support. Then, like, what are we all doing here? What did I work eight years of my life for? Reuters poll shows Trump's approval's at 36%.

Now, to be fair, that's a single poll. But I think when you're looking at all of these polls, let's pull up the RCP average and see what the current approval aggregate is for Donald Trump. It's currently sitting at 41.3. disapprovals at 46.3. It's a minus 15 spread. Now, a lot of these polls I don't trust.

I think that's fair for most people. What you want to track is the polling trend. Because if you've got, you know, ABC or CBS, what does they have minus 20, right? You're going to say, well, they're biased. Fox News is a tutorial as bad. They're biased. So Fox News says Trump is minus 10. You know they're, you can assume, well, they're biased.

They're going to skew negative. That's baseline. A month later, that minus 15, if they haven't changed their methodology, Trump went down. And when you see Trump going down across all metrics, Trump is down. And again, I'll stress this, the proofs in the Putin.

A Democrat just won for state house, Marlago, like Palm Beach. That's where Trump won that by 11 or 14 points. I voted this morning before I got on the 5th, I voted at 7.15 a.m. I went to go vote for John Maples because they were hammering. You said before the show started that Trump endorsed the guy in Florida. And I was like, oh, he's going to win.

I'm like, how does Trump lose Palm Beach? Wow. People in Palm Beach voted Democrat. That's crazy. Yo, Republicans are getting cooked this. I don't, I don't, you know, I will be honest. If they pass the Save Act, Republicans never lose again. They're definitely now passing the Save Act. I agree. Zero percent chance on that one. So do you guys, should we start just exercising now and smoking so we can get ready for prison? No, we got to get tough and in shape and be ready to be shipped off and,

fight for a great country. I don't know if it was discussed in the show previously like where you guys were in Austin, but do you think there's any credibility to the idea that the Republicans don't want to pass a Save Act because they would just be getting primary left and right? Because like a lot of these primary votes are propped up with probably a lot of shady tactics. I think how does a John Cornyn route in Paxton? That's a fair point, but I view it more likely that Republicans and Democrats share the ethos of we here in Congress are smarter than you. And we know it. And so they don't want people to vote. Oh, I'm just imagining like Thune is sitting there with Democrats and he's going, oh, God, could you imagine if people voted for us?

And so, to be to be fair, I actually don't like the popular vote for the Senate. And it should be through state appointment. But I think the actual view is we want procedural elections, not popular elections. We want to win by the numbers of the machine, not by the whims of the people. So if they pass the SAVE Act, you're going to actually have people making decisions so long. long as they don't, Democrats get elected by just convincing morons to vote who don't know what they're talking about. What I hate most about this is that it feels so just theatrical the whole time the president knew the Save Act wasn't going to pass. John Cornyn knew the Save Act wasn't going to pass.

Chuck Schumer knew the Save Act wasn't going to pass. Everybody knew that you needed 60 votes to overcome the filibuster and the Republicans don't have that. They weren't going to flip, what, eight some odd Democrats to do that. John Cornyn was never going to get of the filibuster. Senators like the filibuster because it makes that more powerful. It makes each individual senator more powerful because now if you want to reach that 60 vote threshold, you need to compromise. And that allows more people, more senators to stuff more pork in each bill to bring back home the bacon. So it just, it feels like a dumb waste of time. It feels like some people were let on. This was used as a sort of pressure release valve for some people

who thought we were going to get some form of voter ID ID, but it was never going anywhere. And, you know, I felt like I was taking crazy pills for a moment because it was like, I don't know, am I missing something here? Do I not understand the money? The legislative process is that? I always, you've got to trace the money on these things.

First of all, a 60 vote threshold is not in the Constitution. So that was a rule making decision. I think in 1913 that then kind of sprout, but it is like nowhere in the Constitution. It says you have need 51 votes. So it is ridiculous. We have 60. 60 vote threshold came along with lobbying.

Why? Because corporations did not want, think of you're a big pharma company, and Elizabeth Warren or someone just goes and gets to drop a bill that says that, like, we need to lower insulin prices and you only need 51 votes and all of a sudden these senators actually really do have to be on record on a vote like that. When you do the 60 vote threshold and there's never, no one's ever had more than I think 56 or 57 of one party, then you can always blame the other side or wherever else and claim this bipartisanship, but really it's a massive corporate lobby trying to keep this filibuster to exist because these senators would not be able to survive in their jobs if they were

actually taking votes that we the people wanted them to take on things such as an 80-20 issue like voter ID. So then it goes to the Democrats said, we will lift the filibuster. This was to pass HR1. That was Nancy Pelosi's big, their election bill, basically the same thing, that now they're saying you can't federalize elections. It's like, okay, you all of you went on record saying you would nuke the filibuster to pass your HR1, which was federalizing elections in the way you want. two senators didn't, and that was Joe Manchin and Kierston Sinema. They are no longer senators because of that one vote alone. Democrats only had 52 seats, so they couldn't get it passed to Newt.

You have to actually vote and get 51 to nuke the filibuster. And in fact, Sinema couldn't even go to like a wedding in Arizona. She would be booed out of it. The Democrat base was so pissed. So the Democrat Party has made their decision when they take power, the filibuster's gone. Now, we Republicans are in power, and we have all three branches of government and we can't get Trump's agendas passed. And I think it's saying that we're holding onto this like this. this filibuster rule that is not even in the Constitution, and this is an incredibly important

vote for them to take. And at minimum, I think we should take a vote on the filibuster because they won't tell us which senators are against it. You are certain that the Democrats will nuke the filibuster. Oh, my God, yeah. They all. All it would take is two or three, depending on how big of a majority they have to not, right, because they would need the 51 votes. Yeah, you just need 51 votes to nuke it. So assume that would need, I don't know if they'd be able to get all of them. I think John Federman said he wouldn't nuke the filibuster, and I'm sure there's at least... Well, this would be if the Democrats take power and get enough seats and stuff. So if they were in power right now, they would.

Schumer has already come out. And then, in fact, when Schumer, they were criticizing this talking filibuster, the talking filibuster is different from nuking the filibuster. The talking filibuster is basically you just talk exhaustively until that party, the other party goes home or has to leave, and then they don't have a quorum, and so you can technically pass it with 51. This was Mike Lee's idea. And everyone's like, we've never, John Thune came out and said, I've never even heard

of this. I found a video from two years ago of Chuck Schumer calling and to use the Talking Philibuster to pass HR1 when it was right after Sinema and Manchin had voted against nuking the filibuster. So Michael Lee's idea was not wrong. He was right to push for this. And it's not nukeing

the filibuster, like using the talking filibusters better. But I think that these Republicans, like they just they, I don't know, they don't want to do anything. And it's not that they're against voter ID or some of these senators, but they are so obsessed with the institution itself. But now they're lying to us today and came out and said, oh, we can pass it through

reconciliation. You can't. The Senate Parliamentary will never allow it. You couldn't even get illegals who are on Medicaid. We tried to get the Senate parliamentarian to, we try to ban that in the big beautiful bill and the Senate parliamentarian stripped it out. And to the idea that you're going to get any part of the Save America pass for reconciliation is a joke, but they just want to fundraise on Hannity and tell us that it's going to happen. I think this is largely why young men, especially are sour on Trump. And I think just dudes in general are checked out. I think the polling data shows exactly what a lot of people are suggesting right now in the space.

I'm going to go there. I know that guys don't like to hear it, but this is why you've got a lot of people Kirk posting. Erica Kirk content is massive female viewership. And guys have checked out. They're just, they're over it. I think the Iran war was a massive kicking the balls to a lot of guys. And I think this, I feel. like we got a one-two punch of mass demoralization right at the exact same moment, and that is the

Save Act failure, as well as the Iran War, told a lot of guys, you've been wasting your time with this. And so they're probably like, guys, let's go watch football. What's the point? We struggled, we screamed and we clawed for years, and we're back at Square One. It's almost like you ever play a video game, and then it's like you forget to save and you fight a boss and lose, and then you realize you didn't save. And now you got to go, start from the beginning and you're like, oh my God, and you just throw the control down, I'm not playing anymore. That's what it feels like for a lot of people. And then so at the same time, there are in the metrics, a lot of behind the scenes, I'll tell you guys secret. A lot of

people are pointing out, like we're friends with some of these people who have been, you know, talking about Erica Kirk quite a bit, though we disagree with it. Their viewership is skewed almost entirely female, the moment you start talking about Erica Kirk. And it makes a lot of money. Your RPMs triple. Your female viewership skyrockets. Male viewership is man. massively crashing. And that's what everybody's pointing out right now. Because they were like, look at her, the type of dress she's wearing, the makeup pants. And I'm just like, she looks like completely the same as like how I always see her. But for women, it's like big differences. Even even Joe Rogan had a viral clip where he was talking about

Erica Kirk. Because everybody in history knows this. And what I will say to everybody is that behind the scenes, these conversations, like I look an hour long phone call with someone in the industry that you guys all know who it is. I'm not going to say what is. Talking about how viewership is collapsing right now. Everybody's experiencing it. And the one thing I often hear is like, obviously, for those that are watching on Timcast, IRL, between Rumble and YouTube, we have, I think, 33,000 concurrent viewers. And we were hitting like 4550K two months ago. Now we're down to like 33K. It's not bad. It's better than where we work comparably to the previous election cycle. We have seen some growth. But it is seriously down. And everybody is having

conversations wondering what's going on and why it's happening. And I think, I think it's fair to say that men have checked out. Yeah. That's it. Women don't care about this stuff and never did. That's why our audience has always been 80% guys and 20% female. And now you can see with the approval ratings of Trump among men dropping, they're not interested in this. But the people who are hanging on are Trump supporters. So they're saying, no, what's the problem? They stand with Trump. Then, of course, you've got the libertarians. They were never going anywhere. They were always going to be in politics complaining about something, right? but the regular people that got on board when politics became pop culture, I think are checking out.

And so I'll give you an example. For my morning show, viewerships pretty dang good. Like it's fairly stable. But I do, like, I did a video about the woman getting a car accident. It's general interest. And then the videos that do the best are UFOs, alien, space weather, like totally non-political stuff. I think dudes have checked out of politics right now. and it's going to be apocalyptic in November for the Republicans.

I think it's going to be worse than people realize. If this trend continues, we're not looking at Democrats just taking the House. We're looking at a supermajority. We're looking at like a 30-seat swing or something absolutely insane with these numbers. Yeah, you're kind of just seeing, you know, it retract back to the Politico's, where it's just the people that are interested in politics are the ones tuning into political content. I mean, to Tim's point, like, you know, I'll do uploads occasionally on his channel. and by far my best performing video

was one of the ho-math. Yeah, as you talk about women being hoes and it's like, guys are like, tell me about it. And I put out these different, and it's fine, like I'm not, it's whatever, but I put out these videos and I bring on these different experts or whatever on like politically focused content and they get like 10,000 views.

I got it. When I have like congressmen on it, like it's like 10,000 views, but then you start talking about like stuff that men are really at the top of their mind, dating. That's why we'll get into it later, I suppose, is the discourse right now against the very thing.

But this is, this is the point is that guys got heavily involved in politics, politics became pop culture. And I think now, I'll tell you my honest feelings was like, with Iran war kicking off, I was like, so Trump was, he was wrong about the 12-day war. We did not disable their capabilities. Now we're going back into war and it just, it feels like a like a one-two punch of demoralization. You've got the Save Act failing, despite it being extremely popular. And I think people are completely demoralized. Like, oh, it was fake the whole time. Trump's giving us war, we didn't want that. And I know, I know the Trump supporters are saying there for it, but it's fascinating to see Trump supporters all of a sudden being like, a lot's right about

everything. Bro, come on. Like three months ago, they were like, we don't like a lot. He's wrong about everything. Now they're all agreeing with them. Hey, I got no problem if you're going to stand behind Trump the whole time. I think Trump still is the best president of my lifetime. I think we've had a bunch of miserable president and way better. But my point is for young men, they're like, oh, Trump's doing the exact same thing. What was the point? Oh, the safe act isn't getting past. What was the point? Why were we spending time doing this? bro, I'm going to go order a pizza and go kick back and fish or something. You know, I think we're also coming off of a high of like the pre-Trump era,

or like the early Trump era where all of the left was freaking out about everything that the president would do. There was a ton of these women marches and Antifa, and then there was the George Floyd riots, and like media was really hitting a high then, and the left was going crazy, and there was transgender everywhere, and everybody was non-binary or gay, or there was every new, new what form of gay of LGBTQIA, ABC. Everything. It's crazy. And a lot of that stuff seemed to be dwindling down.

Yeah. And like, there was a lot more, there's a lot more much clickbaity stuff. I remember five or six years ago, there were like these transgender protests every day, and Tifa every year, constantly railing against the president. And it was like, it was crazy. And then they would even riot against the president, especially in the first time. And things were so crazy. And now things are just chill.

They're losing. Well, here's the other. thing, maybe, you know, not to be so pessimistic, maybe we won. I mean, let me, to finish the point, the progressives in Illinois all lost. Every single progressive was crushed and that whole woke era is dead.

And so guys are not being as motivated. I think maybe, and they've canceled Starfleet Academy, I think maybe they're getting, they're getting the message that we should just let guys play video games. Well, I think the left just like realized how disastrous the resist lib, like era, how bad optics that was. Because you think about all the characters, like to a lot's point, they're freaking out all those time.

Trump, too, they're actually, things are happening that they're saying, because nothing happened in the first term, but the things that they were saying were happening in the first time were actually happening now. Like, like, there's ice goon squads. And they're like, not really freaking out. I mean, Mueller just died. Do you remember, like, the first term, like, Mueller was like this superstar and they were glazing them, like, crazy.

And they had, like, you know, effigies. and these candles form and everything. And then he died and they just kind of like quietly were like, okay, because they're almost embarrassed by how crazy that period was. I remember Trump supporters being assaulted in the streets regularly. If you wore a maga hat, you were persona non grata. You were liable to be assaulted and people would justify it on the internet. They would say like, yeah, we're just punching a Nazi.

And if you're wearing a maga hat, then you're a Nazi. The culture has shifted completely. They burned cars over like Ben Shapiro. Like it was crazy. They used to riot over a Ben Shapiro. I know. They now sell MAGA hats like in. the airport if you like arrive at mega's main street dolus there's like little kiosks i've been to

i think like 137 trump rallies the OG ones in the beginning in like 2016 primary days there used to be just people busts it like fist fights and trump would get into it and like start screaming be like get a get um and like if you went to a trump rally it was like dangerous like you were like going to something nobody knew what was going to happen there was like brawes breaking out trump's like throwing there's like two cops and it and now it's like a cc tailgate it was yeah it was just absolute like madness. Everyone's drunk. I'm like, like, this is so different from like, then I'm like standing at a Jeb Bush rally. I'm like, what do I? What is this? Yeah. But that, to me, that part is like kind of, one, it's just everything is so formal now when

you're president who is long. And he's also had multiple assassination trips. But I just find in January, the White House was saying, all right, we're going to spend, said the president out and we're going to focus on a like affordability tour. And now we're in March and I'm like, okay, but well, I think I saw him go to Memphis and like one other place. And, we've invaded Iran, but like where, can we go back to the affordability tour? I think he gave up on the midterms. I mean, we're already, I think, going to not be, the Republicans are losing the majority. I believe there's a Republican who's going to die in the next, who has a terminal illness in the house.

And then depending on how you count Thomas Massey, there's about to be a true 50-50 split. The party in power almost always loses in the midterm. So the president might just be thinking, F it, if I'm already going to lose, I'm just going to do whatever I want. And then again, second term presidents have a history of being more unrestrained, especially when he comes to the... And he's got, like, Mark Levin in his ear who's like, there's like a literal, like, Nazi, like, group in Iran. And if you take them out, you can, like, be in the history books forever. And Trump's going to, like, respond to that. And also, to be fair, like, the people that are slamming Trump for, like, being friendly to Mark Levin,

keep in mind that these guys are, like, constantly supporting the president and encouraging him and, like, putting out these, like, really pleasant posts about Donald Trump. And then all the guys that they're, like, mad that Trump won't listen. are like constantly like ankle biting and like being nasty to him. It's like, well, why would Trump listen to these guys who are like undercutting him even with like more based? Trump's going to respond to the guys that are like glazing them all the time. That's just human nature. Look, I also think there's and he's 80. There's something to be said about people in power and understanding how to wield power instead of again being like ankle biters. So like again, people love to trash Lindsey Graham. There's a reason why he's a what, three, four time senator

in South Carolina and not going anywhere. Please dare to primary Lindsey Graham and see how far that gets you. He's extremely popular in his state. He's not going anywhere. He has a power base. He has constituents. And this allows him to be effective and effectively pitch the president. It's a catty gay guy. Good luck taking that guy. It's going to be interesting if the progressive Democrats lose and the Republicans lose and we get corporate Dems taking over. I wonder how that's going to change the culture in this country because, I mean, the polls are not good for Trump, but the corporate Dems have not been in control of their party for some time. The progressives have been. That's why We were saying they're protesting in the street every day.

What is that going to look like, right? Abby Spell Spanberger everywhere. Guns banned. That's the same running the country. Exactly, yeah. That's what it looks like. But I'm not convinced that I think maybe they're just being careful and they're actually allowing primaries, which is nice.

You forget, they just annoyed people. They didn't allow any conversations in the Democratic Party. They had no primaries ever. They're actually allowing those to happen. But like, I do think, like, Graham Plentner ends up winning in Maine and some of these populist Democrats will win. In Illinois, I mean, you did have, A-PAC did not have a good night that night. So you had some progressives win as well.

And A-Pak also, the amount of money they spent compared to, even some of those races being quite tight. You know. Was it a Nazi tattoo? We're going to jump to, what was that? Was it a Nazi tattoo or am I being a sensitive Jew? Or who? From Plantner.

Are you joking? It was a toten conf. Well, I just want to make sure I'm not being a sensitive Jew about it. No, no, no, no. It was literally the Totenkov. And he said it was, and he said, oops, I didn't know what it was. He didn't say it wasn't a Nazi tattoo. He says, yes, it was an accident.

Did he say that? I feel like he said. Yes, he didn't know what this. He was wrong with his military. He didn't admit. Did he admit that it was a, I think he said he didn't know what it was. Yeah, he was like in the military, we get Nazi tattoos. It's what we do, you know.

Don't insult our patronage. We get a Nazi tattoos. But listen, but listen. Listen, listen. If you hate the Jews, which political party do you choose? You tell them, I guess the Democrats. What do you mean you guess the Democrats? I don't, I think the whole debates in 2028 are going to be about this, about Israel and

support and both parties are going to have it. And so. I think, you know, if you have Rubia run or even J.D. Vance, I think you're going to have a, like, an MTC and a Tucker and a Thomas Massey and people all on the stage in these primaries. And this is going to be a defining question. I think on the left, too, you saw even like the Pennsylvania governor distanced himself from APA. Like, it is so bad that they cannot like. Israel, Israel support in this country is over. You know, I hate to break it to you. Boomers love Israel. Bill Maher said, if I'm with Trump on this issue, boomers love Israel, but boomers are on the way out.

I'm not trying to be a dick, but it's true. And among the younger generations, you've got either anti-interventionist or outright anti-Israel and on both sides, the fringes, anti-Semites. This is just a fact at this point. When we're looking at the cancellation of these TV shows, why? It's because their viewership is all 70 years plus. these people will not be voting in any substantive fashion in the next in 2032 boomers are out especially we eliminate mail and voting we're looking we're looking at boomers now that are split between

their they're late they're they're 70 to 80 years old so in the next six years we're expected to see what's called the mortality shelf this is where two thirds of boomers are going to all die because they're all hitting life expectancy on average it's the goes down that means they will be a minimal voting block. They'll be important, but they'll be much, much smaller than Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z, which each are going to be around, I think Gen X is like 70, then Millennials and Gen Z are 80. Gen Alpha is microscopic, so they're not going to play a role. Millennials are going to dominate politics in this country as the largest voting block. Indeed, with boomers out, Israel's got no support. Cable TV's done, it's cooked. And so I wonder if, and this has been some of the speculation,

the reason why we went to war with Iran now, is that Israel knows if, Israel knows if, you're the war doesn't happen now. The U.S. will not be involved six years from now. I'm praying for our boomers. They're our country's biggest patriots. Actually, the boomers are split. They half footed against half four. 70 plus was the only age decade that opposed Trump. Every other age bracket supported Trump. So the younger boomers are more pro-Trump. The older boomers are anti-Trump. And it's going to be interesting how this plays out now that Trump is moving on. But I do believe that when you get to that stage in 2028,

no one is going to be staunchly pro-Israel. Now, no, hold on. I'm not saying there won't be support for Israel. I'm saying you're not going to see that weird, cringe New York mayor stuff where they're like, which country would you go to? And every mayor is like, I'd go to Israel. And then Zarin's like, uh, I'd just stay here and help New Yorkers. Like it's weird that everybody's saying that for Israel.

You look at young people. And this is what I said. When I don't do that mean with Netanyahu, I was like, you guys got 10 years if you're lucky. That's it. And then the U.S. is cutting off and Israel's on their own. Well, I mean, even Israel themselves, like Benjamin Naini, I was like, we should probably just try to decouple like now. And he didn't say it, but I think in his head he's like, it's probably inevitable that the U.S. will try to decouple. There's certainly be a push from the decor.

Let's jump to this story. We've got this tweet massively, massively viral tweet. Trevor Sheets, he's got 32 million views because he said, my wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born again. committed the church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day. Reaction, pick attached. We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker. You could imagine, you're saying she's been the most wonderful.

She's more pure than most virgins as biblical purity has less to do with past sins, and more to do with the one's current posture. I'm going to speed through this because you get the point. He says, a woman or man's past sexual sin matters, but matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is the first is if the person is truly born again. If their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. And then he quotes the Bible. He's got this beautiful picture of his marriage. And of course, it is blowing the F up with 12,000 replies, 7,000 retweets and 31.5 million views. And oh, boy, here we go. Tate, what's wrong with this?

There's a lot wrong with this. I mean, like, let me just clear this because, again, people just don't understand. Like, I think people are being intentionally obtuse. We're not really critiquing the concept of redemption. Like, yes. And Christianity, I'm speaking as a Christian. when you do, like, admit to your sins, right? Like, you are a new creation in Christ.

There's no doubt about that. Like, no one is debating that. What we're having contention with is two things. One is the bizarre public, like, declaration where you just air your dirty laundry on the internet. And then somehow package it as if it's like a testimony and that it's somehow helping somebody. It's really not. And it's actually just having a demoralization. I actually think that's like the primary issue.

But I think it's also. exacerbating the problem by telling women you can be promiscuous and slutty, but don't worry, just once you're done, just claim that you're born again and you're good. Because that's like the primary issue, I would say, with the entire thing is it's really just presenting to women the concept that it's more of a bailout than an actual, like, there's not a proper, there's not proper indication to these women that like it's actually a really bad thing to be promiscuous. It's just saying like, it happened.

Oh, well, you know, it's like it was like a phase of her life. You know, it's like some people are emo. Some people sleep around. There's a Simpsons meme for this. We call it Bart Simpson. And he says, a life of sin followed by the deathbed repentance. Yeah, well, that's,

and that's effectively what he's telling. And again, it's like, this isn't a novel testimony. This is probably like half of marriages where, like, oh, the woman or the man had like a really promiscuous background.

Because unfortunately, the world that we live in today is like the concept of, you know, chased, like the concept of saving yourself for marriage is basically laughed at. So it's like, it's really rare this actually happened.

So, again, I don't know why he's packaging this, like this is some unique testimony that we are desperately needing. It's like, no, young women understand this. And for young men and young women that are pursuing like a Christ-like marriage, this is just unbelievably demoralizing and frustrating to see because it's like, yes, we know young women who are women that like sleep around get bailed out all the time. We know that. And then in addition to that, it was just no repercussions. No repercussions. And then it was insulting where he says, she's more pure than a lot of virgins. I think you might

have said most virgins. That's just absurd on the face because it's like, one, that has a definition, what like pure means. And two, it's. It's like, screw you. Like, there's a lot of young women specifically that are waiting, that are trying to be obedient. And like this woman's stolen valor because, like, what, this guy married or now she's more pure? It's like, no, that's ridiculous. Here's how Tristan Tate responded. He says, you know when you've never driven a car before and then you scrape money together for an old shitty vehicle,

but you think it's pretty good because you've never driven another car? I remember that feeling mine was a VW golf and the engine didn't even fire from one of the cylinders. The salesman told me it had been reworked and was good as new. I didn't know it wasn't. I had no point of reference. Now, this isn't about the physical driving sensation. That was enjoyable enough, despite the wear and tear. But the reliability and soul of the vehicle was expended.

It went through numerous breakdowns. One day you will think back on this analogy. Nonetheless, I wish you both well. Nikes, that is ice cold. What Tristan's getting at, and like, you know, I'm trying to approach this from like a Christian standpoint. But what he is hitting on is valid, and this is a problem, is this like scarcity mindset. So it's specifically with young men because the dating market is so bad for young men right now. that as soon as they find a woman that will, like, show them love and affection,

especially if like this guy, I think he's a little older, he's like 30 when he got married, they're just going to jump in with both feet because the reality is for a lot of young men right now, especially Christian young men, there is this sense that like there's really not that many eligible spouses and they have a really difficult time finding eligible spouses. So if they finally find someone that at least ticks a few boxes, they just go all in and like worship this woman. It's the scarcity mindset and it's a big problem with the evangelical community. If you're a young guy right now and you're seeing this,

I agree with what you're saying. It's basically like, this guy is a weak man. I'm not trying to be a dick. And this is the narrative that's been pushed on the internet for some time by like the red pill or like men's rights guys. Maybe not men's rights guys. It's not way to describe it, but like dating advice that women are going to go for the chads, the alpha chads, and they're going to get used and abused by them because these guys have

no reason to settle down because everybody wants them. Then once they're older and hit the quote unquote wall, they'll look for a weak man who says, I'll give you anything you want. Yeah. So the young guys are sitting there saying, I just want to have a family, I want to have a job, but the women are saying, I have no reason to do this because the hottest guys want me. And then as soon as I turn 30, I'll come back, I'll come crawling back to you and you'll give it up. And that's like the thing. There's this thing where like a lot of men are like, wow, you know, she's like ran through or whatever. She's really going to regret that one day or she's waiting to get married. Like she's really going to regret that when she's older and doesn't have kids.

It's like there is no justice, actually. These women do end up happily ever after. They will find a guy that, again, is just going to bail her out that's like looking for a wife and he's gotten old enough for he's like, I'll just, you know, marry. There is no justice. Like these women will be fine. They will have kids. They will have a husband. And there's nothing you can do about it.

And that's what infuriates young men. Look, I'll take the contrary and take here. If these are two happy consenting adults, let him go at it, you know? No one ever said not to. It's like arguably for gaming. No, no one ever said not to. The point is social degradation. Sure.

I also think there's something to be said about how periscuous. I don't know if I'm getting into the nitty gritty here, but people have different definitions of this. But like, all things considered, if they're happy about it, like, I'm not, well, I'm not saying they should get like divorce. I'm just saying, like, let's not prescribe this as like a model to follow. And that's what this guy is trying to do by airing out his wife's dirty laundry. I mean, she's spoke about this testimony publicly. But it's like, do stop the way he's portraying this. Again, it's not, I believe her.

I believe her at face value that she truly is redeemed and she's not going to fall in that lifestyle. Some guys are trying to like, you know, dig into her lifestyle. I don't really care about that. What I'm saying is stop presenting this like it's a model because it's not. And the reality is the way that marriage works in 2026, I'm saying this. as a Christian, picking your spouse is not something you can screw up. You got to get that right. And so it's like you need to interpret whatever data you can to determine you're making

the correct calculation for the same reason why you wouldn't have a born-again pedophile like babysit your children because it's like, that's great. You've redeemed your life. And I do believe you. I do believe you're redeemed. But past sin, there's consequences to that. You're not going to be seen the same. It's just unfortunate.

But it's like you cannot remove consequences. It's unfortunate. As the only female here, do you have a. thought? I don't really. I read it as a super dushy post and I'm also like what he says my wife was promiscuous part of me is like what does that mean she like made out with other people does it does a detail like what do we even know what this woman did like it could have been I immediately assume she slept with like a bunch of people that's what also but the type of guy that would write this like would think it's promiscuous to make out with someone so that's why I'm like do we

even know if this woman slept with anyone like yeah that's like these evangelical guys like She had two boyfriends. Let's assume. But she came out later and she was like, I couldn't keep track of how many men I was with. That's what she said verbatim. I lost count of how many men. Oh, I didn't know you had the inside scoop here.

Oh, yeah, I got the tea. Yeah. Well, because it's all over the timeline. I didn't want to learn. I'm learning. Everything about this couple I'm learning is against my will. Oh, so you have more information than we do. For women to sleep with many men, or I don't know.

Many men. A handful. In our generation. Yeah, I do think people are sleeping with more. partners because they're getting married later, right? So that is another problem. Everyone used to get married at like 18 to 23, and so like your number would be much lower. But now when everyone's getting married at 36, so you just inherently have more partners.

But yeah, I think I would rather set myself on fire than go to a dinner or party with these two people. And I pass that don't really have too many hot takes on it. No, that's completely. It's just like there's a reason why, because this is like it just depends. epitomize like what a lot of young men are feeling but specifically young men that are like specifically in the evangelical are young christian men seeking a virgin woman uh well the problem isn't that we're like every man it's going to be ideal for them like let's not pretend like men are actively seeking out women of like a high body count isn't even a consideration it is it it's a hundred

well it's a hundred percent of consideration for a lot of men who are like serious about marriage you want to make sure they get it right and then like the message from like evangelical leaders i'm seeing it all over the timeline is like not only is it like you're wrong for thinking that it's like they're basically saying you don't have the right to like desire for a spouse. In Christianity nobody's beyond redemption and I agree but it's like again it's just the way things work with how broken the dating scene is it's like men have to be a little caught and women too for the record women should also have the right to want their spouse to like be at least on the same footing as them the same level of experience because this isn't applied to sexuality like applies to multiple

realms. Education, like, like, you could, it's fair to say you want your spouse, like, at the same level as you, but for some reason, men, it's, for some, for some reason evangelical leaders are dead set on removing all the consequences of, like, sexual degradation, sexual degeneracy. I don't know why, but they're just so intent on it. Trying to get these promiscuous women wed. What I think it, well, I think it's that, but I think, like evangelicalism in and of itself has a serious undercurrent of feminism. And this is why you see these churches, these churches have, like, basically TED talks for sermons. and the worship is like gay.

It's like literally, you know, it's like just this really whimsical music. Jesus is my boyfriend style music, the great Voddy Bakum coined that. And it's like, it's just pathetic. It really is. Evangelicalism in 2026 is just anti-male fundamentally. And then you're seeing it where all these pastors are coming out and they're like, the real problem here is actually the men. And you're like, what?

Like, where did this come from? We need to have an evangelical knowledge to defend their honor. I grew up. I grew up on the Southern Baptist Church. I'm a Presbyterian, like, by all accounts, every trad cathode would call me like a kitchy evangelical. I know, this is my people. I know a million people like Trevor Sheets. I know these people like the back of my hand. Maybe it's testosterone's going down, you know what I'm in?

Yeah. Yeah. You know what I do think a big component of testosterone going down has to do with people's skin is nicer as well. You know why? Nobody goes outside anymore. So there's a really funny, I guess, trope where it's like, you ever notice that in the 90s people who were like 30 looked like they were 50. You ever notice that? Like on Seinfeld, you're like, those people were 29, 30 years old. Like I think Elaine was supposed to be like 28 or something. And they look like they're in their mid to late 30s, relative today. It's because we don't go outside as much. This is true.

So people went outside to walk places more often. So obesity went up. And a lot of people are like, something happened. There's this meme where they're like, something happened at the end of the 90s where obesity skyrocketed. They changed our food. No, the internet. People stopped going outside, they started doing more work at computers. You used to have to walk to the store for things. Now you don't. Now someone else does it for you. There was this, I can't remember who told the story. You guys

maybe look it up. I think the chat will know. Where guys like, I intentionally walk to the store to get envelopes or whatever because it's not going to the store that matters. It's what happens on the way where I see a dog and I pet it and I wave to my neighbors. Not anymore. And so I think

one of the reasons why testosterone has been dropping is not necessarily because of microplastics and our balls or whatever. It's because guys don't use their muscles. They're not walking. They're not lifting. They're not doing manual labor. Young men used to have to go and lift rocks and do work as kids. Like, women worked at the soda shop and they'd bring you your burger on roller skates and guys would move boxes and lift and break rocks. And then you had like that video of the presidential fitness program where the guys are swinging on the monkey bars and they're doing pull-ups. That work boosted testosterone.

It's not just about all the food. Now guys are eating, you know, takeout pot Thai, heavily starchy with only a little bit of protein. They're sitting around watching movies. Their muscles are thin and flabby. They don't build testosterone, and then they go, whatever you say, dear. Yeah, it was the bronze age pervert suite

where it was like ancient men conquered cities, put them to the sword. Meanwhile, you go to wine bar with your girlfriend and enjoy tasteful banner. You are gay. It's like, so true. You are gay. I think that's why we got to go to Tehran.

I think that's why we got to Tehran. That's why I said. I love the masculinity. Maybe the real problem is just all these frail little sissy boys. We just need war. For no other reason, just war. Like, we're hurt a little. No, we just need brutal men who just do brutal things. Well, there's some truth also to the fact that, like, the world war is removed, like, the top percentile of test, like, men out of the gene pool forever. Yeah, because all the weak guys stayed behind. Yeah, all the weak guys stayed behind and also, like, the most, like, strong men. But that's been true forever. That's been true forever. That's why there's so many smiths. Yes, but like the world.

World Wars were like a really high volume of, like, herd thinning, so to speak. I mean, Russia, every 20 to 30 years has a massive birth rate drop purely because there's so many men missing from that generation. They call it echoes of the wars. And they're actually going through one right now. Isn't that crazy? Ukraine war still going on? Like, what is it? Everyone just forgot about it?

Who cares? It's like over that war? Remember that war that's still happening? All those TV drones that's still, like, I still watch those videos all the time. Nobody cares. I don't know. I have like 25,000 deaths a month right now. This is like a serious war.

Nobody was just a drill. And no one talks about it. I'm like, we didn't lost seven people. And I, and it's like, more so far to Rod, I'm losing my mind. They're literally, like, it's wild. This topic that did remind me, and maybe it's the picture. But I, um, I used to work for Turning Point. And I know Charlie from like original day and helped with fundraising for him. And Charlie and I were flying to New York. And he was that night having his first date with Erica. And he, he was so nervous. But earlier that day, I won't say who, but there was, I was with Charlie and some guys. They were all making fun of him saying, Charlie, like, you're 26 years old and

virgin now. Like, you need to figure this out. I think it was 26 or 27. Like, and... So they went to a CIA recruiting farm where they found Erica and he picked her. Yeah, no. So they go to New York City. He was asking me about like restaurants and then I don't remember what he picked someplace. And then the next day, we were flying somewhere in the Midwest. And so he gets on the plane and immediately like, how did it go? And he's looks at me and he was like, I'm going to marry her. And was so... And then I got to like watch him court her. Just how purposeful he was. It was actually really neat to see. I'd not seen a guy just like take a girl out on a date. so long and then do that and then just actually like beat so and drink course.

Let's actually hit this one more story. I know we're pushing a little late, but let's let's grab this one from media. Betrayal. The Charlie Kirk show utterly discussed after Joe Kent says he testified at alleged assassin's trial. Now, Joe Kent has made the claim that he was not allowed to investigate any foreign nexus, which may have been involved in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which of course presents a little bit of doubt. I'm not saying it's, you know, beyond a reasonable out. But the outrage here is that Joe Kent is insinuating there may have been something else involved and they were blocked, which will allow the defense for the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin to say this was not a proper investigation. And with this statement already in the public,

how can the FBI say that their investigation was thorough and complete and correct if you have the testimony from a counterterrorism director saying they weren't not allowed to investigate? That's going to create reasonable doubt for the jury. They are going to get this guy found not guilty because at least one or not to mention the amount of jurors that are probably watching a lot of these podcasts and these shows. So this is interesting, but I will just say, you know, I haven't seen the evidence. You know, we've only seen what's in the public. I think the trial should be public. We should be able to see what the evidence is. And I think that the official narrative on Tyler Robinson is not correct. But I think Tyler Robinson is likely the person who did it. We'll

see what the evidence bears out. I think Tyler Robinson did not act alone. And there's evidence other people had four knowledge of what was going to happen. And that is being effectively, I don't know if covered up is the right word. But you've got people claiming Israel did it, which seems ridiculous because Charlie held a seminar to convince Gen Z to support Israel. Like even Nick Fuentes is like, that's crazy. Like if Ben Shapiro died, people are going to be like, Israel did it. That's insane. That being said, they are really downplaying all of the evidence suggesting other people were either assisting or involved with this assassination. such as the vehicles outside of Robinson's house,

the social media posts from individuals saying something is going to happen. They had four knowledge. Something is going to happen. The question is, how did they know? Well, he's a director of counterterrorism, which, by the way, this was an organization that was founded post 9-11, because there are many people say that if the CIA FBI had actually been coordinating on the intelligence that they have, we could have prevented that attack. So that is what his role is to be at the intersection.

He has access to every single piece of sensitive data that comes through our country, from both the FBI and CIA. So the idea that Joe Kent, he's saying that they tried to obstruct him. Nobody obstructed you, Joe. You were in that job. You could have investigated anything. You were the director of counterintelligence, and you were counterterrorism.

You were Senate confirmed. No one is able to go into the computer system and block Joe Kent from having access to that data. So one, I think he's a liar. And I think that this is pretty outrageous as to what he did. And by the way, you were in that rule for a year. So what the hell did you do about anything other than runaway and then go debate Mark Levin,

where I learned absolutely nothing and what was the worst, like 47 minutes of my life. Yeah, and if he's fixated all this, this indicates why there was so much inaction on like the Antifa cells following the Charlie Kirk assassination. If he didn't even think it was them that conducted the end, and if Andrew Kovilt send you a private text message chain that they want to keep private, and your job

is to go investigate that. You have access to literally every single piece of intelligence in the United States government has access to. And instead, you give it to Candace to say on our podcast. So he, he denied leaking it, but Colvitt, and I can corroborate this, said that he, Colvett said that he,

Colvett said that he gave that text where Charlie said he was being forced to leave the pro-Jewish cause. He gave that to Joe Kent, and then sure enough, the next thing he knows it leaks to Candace Owens. Joe Kent's denying it, but then it would be Joe Kent gave it to somebody. He shared with somebody after he said it needs to be made public. What I can say is that I had spoken with guys at TPSA, including Colvitt, and what they're saying now is true. That this is my understanding before any of this became public when the text, came out, I was told this exact story. And so the fact that Joe Kent is now, you know, in the spotlight and Colvin is saying he's the guy that was given it and it got leaked. Even before there was public,

I knew. So I don't say anything because if someone tells me to keep things private, you know, I'll be like, okay, because they're like, we don't know who leaked it, but I'm like, yep, I don't know. Well, I will say this. It would seem, at least as far as my understanding of these conversations, Joe Kent did leak these texts. 100%. Now, whether he leaked it to Candice own, I don't know, but somebody was given it and it got to Candace. Now, the problem is the problem with the selective relays of a text message like that and what Candace is doing with these texts is that she can just put out whatever message she wants to frame the picture any way she wants and Charlie can't speak up to defend himself or to correct the context. And so I, I just,

you see it endlessly where people are like, this proves Charlie was anti-Israel. And it's like, yes, but at the same time, like around the same time, he did a seminar with Gen Z to convince them to support Israel. That's context too. And it sounds like to me from these texts that he was basically venting, not that he was saying he was changing his stance, but he was like, man, you know, it very much reminds me of the, oh, won't someone rid me of this meddlesome priest. Not a direct statement of, I want him dead, but I'm just so frustrated with these people. And then it's taken to be construed as that he was anti-Israel. No, he was under a lot of pressure from his donors. I was a fundraiser for Charlie. And the pro-Israel

donors are very intense. They care about one thing and that is Israel. I always joke. There are pro-Israel donors, pro-business donors, and then the actual ideological ones. Those are the three categories. The pro-Israel, they want you to unequivocal, like, to support Israel, which is fine. And Charlie, but Charlie had a massive amount of donors, right? He was the best fundraiser on the country. People loved him. But those pro-Israel donors would give him so much pressure on his speaking, lineups and all this stuff. And it was weighing on him. But also, he would tell people in private that he thought that the trans community was going to kill him. And ultimately, I think that's what happened here.

I think the trans community did kill him. I think there's been a lot of radical trans shootings. And I think this guy was radicalized by the trans community. He shot Charlie Kirk. The people who threatened to kill me are not Israel. It's the craziest thing. It's just literal wackaloons. The people who have swatted us, and we believe we know what it is, they are leftists.

There has never been an instance where, like, it makes no sense that Charlie Kirk would be killed by Israel. Maybe some other foreign country, I suppose. But it is wild. what has become of the political space in this country. And I'm going to say this too. I think another reason why young men may be dipping out of politics, you do have a break from Trump. And this could be a combination of factors from demoralization.

Also, many of these people are probably fans of Tucker. Tucker is probably driving a shift as well. But I also wonder if there's a lot of people that have just, they've checked out because of the psychosis of politics. Because you've got, you go on acts and what happens. I love this. You're either a Nazi or a Jew. Like, that's the polar extremes at this point. And then somehow I'm both simultaneously.

It's amazing. So I got to tell you, it's demoralizing and it makes, like, why would I want to be involved with any of this insanity? Why would I want to be party to the grifter class who are just saying whatever they have to say because they're scared their views are going down? And that's what's happening. And, you know, I'll say this to everybody. watching. I told this story before there's a fitness influencer. He made videos about fitness.

After October 7th, he made a video about October 7th. And he was like, you know, I don't really talk about this stuff, but the things that we're seeing are really horrifying and everyone's talking about it. And the comments were asking me and my thoughts. So I decided to make a video. And you know, it's like everybody gets in this moment, this cultural moment. Well, all of a sudden, he goes from getting like 30,000 views on fitness videos to 150,000 views. And he's like, wow. Then he gets more comments being like, have you heard what's going on? Can you, can you update us? Can you tell us what you think?

And so then he's like, well, when I do, last video I did, I got six figures, right? There's another video on Israel. All the comments are anti-Israel critical saying, I don't know, man, this seems fishy. Did you see this story? You see that story? Slowly over time with more and more comments and more and more money, his channel is now nothing but anti-Israel content. He is nothing but an anti-Israel influencer because his RPMs went up.

his viewership went up and he says, I've become successful. It's when you look at Mr. Beast, look at his early YouTube videos, playing Minecraft, giving people money, and then that's where he found a success. Now he's doing game shows. You know, he just become a generic personality. He just chased after whatever built him up. Dylan Mulvaney, another great example. Dylan Mulvaney's original TikTok videos were gay safari.

Then Dylan made a I'm non-binary video, 4 million views. gay safari no one's watching then i think i'm trans i'm going to do a trans thing every single day and millions and millions and millions of views people are driven in this direction because they're chasing after what gets them money and what i will tell you right now is behind the scenes the business the guy selling ads that people know this uh i don't know this next thing is true but i'm going to say it anyway a lot of people have pointed out i was talking to a guy who does ad sales and he says

you'll notice the Hodge twins on Facebook and the Hodge twins on Twitter have inverted political opinions. Oh, interesting. And what I was told, it's because the marketing company that does the posting does not care about politics. They care about engagement. So this is a guy sitting in a room who has no idea what Trump is doing or not. All he knows is that when he says Trump here, he gets four X impressions. When he says, no, Trump here, they get four X impressions. so they just set the machine and keeps going.

People have been saying this all over X every time the Hodge Twins post, they're like, on X, they're pro-Tucker, they're anti-Israel, on Facebook, they're pro-Trump. Facebook is largely boomers who like Trump. X has something else going on, whatever that may be, different audience. So all of a sudden, these people, they start shifting what they normally talk about. They're talking about geopolitics, I'm going to taxes to Erica Kirk's leather pants. 100,000, 400,000 views, 100,000, 300, 400, 400, 400. I'm like, why is this guy who used to talk about politics that I actually liked watching and cared about?

Now just complaining that you wore the wrong pants. Right. Because they get a boost in female viewership. They make a lot more money. Their RPMs jump. And they're chasing after it. So by all means, we can have a show here where we talk about whether Trump is doing good or Trump is doing bad and be honest about our thoughts on it. But that's not what makes the most money and then something else happens.

YouTube is going to algorithmically promote whatever generates the most viewership and ad rates. and for some reason right now RPMs on Erica Kirk content have passed finance. Finance is the number one RPM. It's like 20 bucks. And now Erica Kirk posts are rivaling or beating finance. I was talking to these people who are running this behind the scenes

and they're like, oh yeah, Erica Kirk content, $25. And I'm like, what? News media is $6,7. That means for every thousand views you get, you'll get $6.7. not if you're talking about Erica Kirk, I'll get 25. That means not only do you get more views, you get more money, and the region get more views is because YouTube is like, if the RPMs are higher, promote these videos more because

we'll make more money off ad sales. So who the is advertising intentionally on Google ads targeting Erica Kirk content? That's the weirdest thing to me. But that's happening. It is. She is completely irrelevant on the world stage. And I'm not trying to be a dick, but she is. Okay?

She's just running a student. organization for politics. She's not telling Trump to bomb Iran. She's not involved in any of that. And if you really want to influence what's going on, you need to be talking about Pete Hegsef or Donald Trump or are Mark Wayne Mullen right now. Nope. That's not where the money's at.

And there's a bunch of conspiracies about it, but it could just be that people chase after what gets the viewership. They struck a gold mine with this because women are interested in it and men. So if you've got 80% male viewers, but you're not, But you add so many female viewers that you shift to 60% female. Your audience is skyrocketing. Your RPMs are going to go through the roof and you're going to be rich. We should the best of luck.

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Back when I played video games, they used to have like these servers for like, oh, just North America, oh, Asia server, oh, Europe server, Africa server. We need that with social media. No, we need region blocking. I am going to block everyone outside of like 10 countries. United States, Canada, UK, you're good, France, Germany, the Netherlands, it's fine.

But for the most part, that's 95% of my audience. We don't only need physical, borders, we need virtual borders as well. Indeed. Unironically, yeah. Let's grab some of these. We got Mac. He says, we have had service for citizenship for a long time, but they still have to pass the citizenship test. I had a buddy that was serving to get citizenship when I served over 20 years ago. Indeed. Junior Rod says, is that what is J. R. R. R. R. Tate has never had true Mexican food. Tate has had American Mexican food. He needs to eat a torta or a pozole. Go eat a tort. Go eat a torte. That's not. No, they're not eating this in Mexico. In Mexico,

the Mexican food is really good. I'm talking about American Mexican food is literally the same generic slop over and over again. You mean like Taco Bell? Not even. Taco Bell's fantastic. It is. I was about to strike you.

Taco Bell's American food. It's right. It's like the Texan Mexican. It's like the same like... Good, hard shell tacos don't exist. That's an American invention. Mexico, it's just like just meat on a corn tortilla and I'm like, fine. That's cry like that.

I enjoy a little cilantro. Supreme is probably the best Mexican food that was ever created. That's not Mexican. That's American. Well, it's an Americanized version of Mexican food. We bastardized their food. No, we didn't. That is no equivalent in Mexico.

Burritos are Tex-Mex. Because we do it better than that. No, no, no, no. Elad, the flour tortilla wrap, okay, that was invented in America, not in Mexico. Do you understand that, right? Yeah, yeah. That's Tex-Mex. They don't have burritos in Mexico.

We bastardized their food and made a better version of it. No. What don't you understand to? We invented that. Tex-Mex. Tex-Mex is Texas. Texas, not Mexico. Yeah, but there are Mexicans in Texas, as I understand who made Tex-Mex.

No, the burrito is an American, a Texan creation. It is not Mexico. The best Mexican food, authentic Mexican food. Well, you go to Mexico, they're eating chicken and rice. I don't go to Mexico. That's why I'm saying the best authentic Mexican food is Chipotle. Kidoba is at a close second. I don't even know if Chipotle counts.

Oh, that's authentic 100%. Burritos, again, it's Tex-Mex. No. People think burritos are Mexican food and you go to Mexico and they're like, a what? You're like a burrito and they're like a burrito, and they're like a burrito, and You can't, on the ethnic food stuff, you just can never win. If you're a white person, you can never win. It's like a losing battle.

No matter what take you have, it's wrong. Ordering a burrito in Mexico is like ordering veal. You're basically saying, give me baby donkey meat. Burrito means baby donkey. You just can't win. You can't. I really like, no, that's not authentic. The problem is you haven't had real Mexican food.

I'm like, what am I supposed to eat? I hate it. I'm sorry. I don't like it. Chicken and rice, bro. Chicken and rice. That's what ever. That's every brown.

country, that's what they eat. That's what they eat. Oh, in my country, we eat chicken and rice. Are you all bodybuilders now? Like, what's going on? I can't handle it anymore. That is like what people eat everywhere. That's the brown belt. They all eat the same variation of chicken and rice and a certain spice. It's true. I went to Brazil and I was like, let's get Brazilian food. My friend was like, you want real Brazilian food? And I was like, yeah, it was steak and rice. Yeah, it's steak and rice. But they do put a little cornmeal on top. Oh, that's how we differentiate from the Philippines. It's like, okay. All right. Can I get some Italian food? Maybe French or And then he was like, do you want to have guacamole?

And I was like, sure. And he bought an avocado that was this big. And I was like, what the is that thing? He's like, he's an avocado. And I was like, it's massive. And he was like, what do you mean? And then I was like, bro, our avocados are like this big. And he's like, ah, no, avocados are big.

It was amazing. And then we put like a cup of lemon juice on it. And it was the best thing ever. That's right. You just mash it up. You dump lemon juice or lime juice or whatever. All right, let's grab some more. Quisby Joe says, as someone who takes CBD, THC as a sleep aid,

I don't see the big issue with marijuana. It is an illegal drug, okay? It's a crime. You're a criminal. So true. Unironically, yeah. All right. Dem Nuts says that anyone else get over 20,000 back on taxes this year.

Here's a tip for the boys. Sorry, I can't do more. Oh, wow. Dude, you're going to get audited for saying that way. I don't get refunds. The way it works when you're running a business is that you pay quarterly, and that's it. There's not just things as a refund anymore at a certain point. That's another thing Andrew Tait should point out.

when you're rich, you don't file taxes the same way. I don't file once a year. I file every quarter. And then at the end of the year, they just say, you overpaid and we'll apply it to next year's taxes. I think I've overpaid probably like an insane amount. I'm still a million dollars. And contractors do quarterly, but you're legally obligated to.

They will fine you. I'm still a wage cuck, W-2 American. Andrew Tate says if you know how much money you have, you are poor. I do. I have not that much. Same old man says, Tim, go outside and talk to people in town, cities, and so forth. They will give you a better idea of how popular Trump is or not. Indeed.

And that's literally what I do all the time. I go out every weekend to various poker rooms, of course. And one of the things that I and everybody loves at the poker table is sitting down with usually seven other people, because a lot of casino, a lot of poker rooms, they make more money if they do eight max instead of nine cedars. And then you're sitting with a random group of people and everyone's talking. and it's a lot of fun. And that's why old guys do it. They call them old man coffee.

You go to a poker table. There's going to be three old retirees, and they're there because they want friends. And then all their friends are dead so they can sit down and they can talk with people and, you know, have some social engagement. And it is very nice. It is very nice. You know, play with these guys. And then you talk and you find that, uh, I got to be honest, I find that most people I talk to

similarly agree with what I've been saying. Uh, even the people who are like, I like Trump, like me. I like Trump. I think Trump's the best president of my lifetime. I think he's had a series of blunders and he's hurting really greatly among moderates. I sit down with some young guys, varying ages, old guys, and they all say the same thing. Yeah, Trump's a lot better, but man, this is not looking good and the economy's not doing well and young men are struggling. And they're frustrated because all of these hos are getting bailed out by these Christian guys, you know? My bad. You can hear it.

Sorry, guys. That's how we get that reproduction rate back up. salty pizza's guys the Save Act is pivotal in saving a republic then why is it America First crowd Benny Crowder you etc. putting all pressure on the GP 24-7 take responsibility you command the millions we talk about it all the time we talk about all the time what do you think

what are we going to do huh Trump said he won't pass any legislation he won't sign anything until the Save Act is passed and they said screw off because they're basically like oh boy if you hold out for a couple more months Trump's cooked you know what the cynical hot take here is this Save Act is just more distraction from the Iran war.

I think it was good to let, like, all the pocket, everyone's been debating the Save Act online instead of actually debating the Iran War. So the White House, I actually think it's a good thing to have this Save America debate going on. Yeah, draw away attention. All right, let's go. We got electric chimerasing, as it's tradition. I'm in the hospital with my wife having our first child, our son Ray, spin the UFO.

Let's go. Let's go. Welcome to the world, little patriot. Here we go. Bang. I'm trying. Too far away. Can you see it?

Oh, yeah. That harkens back to the olden days of 2020, when the table was much smaller and there were only two people. And rarely did we have a guest? And there was, in the UFO Gmail. Here's a secret. The original purpose of this show, Timcast, IRL, was I have a van that I had built, and I had talked about this on Rogan. It has solar panels. It's actually outside.

It still works on everything. It's got electric. It's got so much juice from the solar panels that it will never run out of power because it just somewhat. And I had actually produced my morning show from it when I was on a road trip to go to Texas to join Joe Rogan. And Timcast, IRL in real life, was going to be. I would do my show from this mobile sleeper van and then pull up somewhere and say, hey, guys, I'm currently in this place. Come hang out and we're going to do a real conversation where I put up a table and anybody can come and we can have a conversation about anything. And then COVID happened.

So the channel had like 78,000 subscribers. on it because I was like, check out the van. And like, you can look at the first videos. It was like, I had the van. COVID happened. And it was like, okay, well, now we can't go anywhere. So then the idea was, I have nothing to do with their other half of my day. So I wake up, I do my morning show. Everything's great. And then I'm playing World of Warcraft. You know, I was playing World of World of Workup, Legion, I believe, at the time. And then I was like, you know, the easiest way to do more segments would be to just do a live stream with my buddy. And then we would just do 10 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 minutes. And we can pick anything. And the original idea was

was going to be weird and wild, wacky, interesting stories and conspiracy. And then because of the nature of COVID, it turned into news, politics, and commentary. And that's how we ended up where we are with this show. And yeah, now that's all over. So there we go. Let's grab a couple more of these. What do we got here? All right.

Let's see. That one gamer says Trump should send the Shirek Special Forces with Tim, leading the charge, Tim can be the company commander for Oblock. There are a lot of gangbangers and let's just call them listless young men in Chicago. Man, you drop those guys. Drop them into Iran. Man, that'll be wild. Yen Brigade.

Storming the shores. I like it. What's the name of the guy who got shot, the O'Block rapper? King Vaughn. There we go, Vaughn. Yeah. For Vaughn. Come on, guys.

Charge. From 83rd? I'm 83rd. That's all the listless young men talk. Come on, guys. Let's band together and let's take down this Nazi regime, guys. Let's get them. I say Federally says random, but in the Army, it's legit that the bees constantly have to get shaving profiles for irritation.

It's like getting ashy or something. I decay. The blacks. They look like Freddie Kruey. Yeah. No, it's a serious issue. I think it is. If you go to Walgreens, there's like 80 different products to help them with the neck.

The ingrown hairs are. I have that problem, too. Let's grab one more. we got grandma. Only 3 to 4% of Iran's population support the IRGC. All opposition factions have agreed Crown Prince will lead the tradition.

Government. Watch 2CTV to get educated on the Immortal Guard. The Crown Prince isn't coming back. The president says that he wants somebody from in Iran, not somebody from Virginia. And Trump has been talking about

the parliamentary speaker, I guess. Yeah, somebody in Iran. You guys are idiots. You're not watching this really obscure YouTube channel for what's really going on in Iran. All right, guys. We are going to go to the uncensored. portion of the show over at rumble.com slash timcast i rl so smash that like button share the show with

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