Ilhan IS COOKED, Biden DOJ COVERED UP Ilhan Marriage Fraud, CHARGING MAY BE SOON w/ Dad Saves America

Breaking news this morning from the New York Times, it was actually the Obama DOJ that started the investigation into Ilhan Omar's brother marriage. Now here's where it gets crazy. New reporting from Fox News says that a Biden appointed attorney in 2021 shut the investigation down. So while this whole time there was a conspiracy theory they claimed that Ilhan married her brother, the corporate press, liberal activists all said it was fake. It is being reported by the New York Times that they knew, they had evidence, they actually had evidence that her marriage was a sham. They decided not to pursue it. Some argument related to statute of limitations, which actually doesn't make any sense. Now that Trump is back in office, the DOJ has been taking a look for at least eight months. Passport fraud, her family's involved, falsification of records, false name. And again, they knew this. The Obama administration is in fact, the Obama DOJ investigated her for campaign finance issues. Then in 2021, a U.S. attorney in Minnesota appointed by Joe Biden shut it down. I wonder why. We'll talk about that. Plus, we got a lot of big news, the biggest heist in the history of the world, the Binance heist, $5.6 billion in crypto was just stolen from the largest crypto exchange. And this is, it's getting pretty dang crazy. We do have a bunch of war kicking off straight before moves. Several ships are on fire. They're blowing up. And there's continued reporting that Donald Trump has warned Gulf allies, we are going to war after this election is over. So I can only say, guys, I think you should expect that. And then we got other big news as well. Stock market's taken a major hit. This could be related, of course, to war. Or it could be related to mass layoffs and earnings missing. Many of these big corporations missed their targets. There's mass layoffs over AI. So it's going to get pretty dang crazy. And of course, I must say this, rest in peace to Mon Capitan. Patrick Stewart passed away today at 86 years old. He was an absolute legend. He's a massive inspiration to me. I am such a big fan of Star Trek The Next Generation. I rewatch it all the time, at least once a year. And I think it's going to be a big hit. And I think I watched that show. And there was a great clip I heard earlier. It was on AP. It was a clip from an interview with Patrick Stewart back in the 90s where he said when he was reviewing the show, he realized that a lot of what was being portrayed in that show was not Jean-Luc Picard, but actually Patrick Stewart himself, the things he felt and the values that he had. And I think the morals and the lessons from that show, I get it, it's sci-fi, but the lessons that I was taught watching it, loyalty, honor, and sacrifice were extremely important. And then Patrick Stewart, of course, personified Charles Xavier. He was an incredible person. Sad to see him go, but rest in peace. We're going to talk about all of these things. Joining us tonight to talk about this, of course, and everything else is Dad Saves America. It's good to be on, man. Now I'm struggling to deal with the fact that I've just found out that Patrick Stewart is dead. Oh, I had some time earlier. Yeah, it's like this is like a Gen X shot to the heart. It is. It is. Yeah. Well, who are you? What do you do? So, John Popola, I host Dad Saves America, which is, the way I like to put it is, you know, you send your kid to school, they go to social studies class and get filled with garbage, and then when they come home, they sit across the table from me. From you, but I'm going to help you talk them out of what they've been miseducated for. So, yeah, we do an episode every week and then a commentary every Friday. And I come from a place where 13 years we were talking in television before that and just trying to you know fight for the country back before everyone went insane it was there was a time when you could go to like most movies and they genuinely had like a kind of heroic story yeah and like america was just the good guy and it was like it was called like 2010 it wasn't that long ago let's take the opportunity let's talk about star trek the next generation the morals and the values and then take a look with starfleet academy oh my god complete betrayal of the actual values of the show starfleet academy was terrible well of course libby's hanging out yes i am libby i'm hanging out i was very sad about john car john luke picard as i mostly think about him and i got to write a little bit about his life at post-millennial today just breaking that news uh that's where i work i work at the post-millennial really glad to be in the new studio thank you guys for having me on very grateful for that it was like i didn't want him to die i know i like particularly would pray like stay alive patrick stewart he's one of my favorite people on the planet and him and phil collins like i just these guys are like do you know i was on a phil collins kick like for towards the tail end of the summer i was just that was all i was playing oh my god me too yeah totally yeah yeah back in like may i was just he had some health problems and now he's doing better and it was just like i don't know i don't know i see these guys on tv when they're in their 30s and i just want them to be young forever with genetic therapy maybe we'll get a better shot at that but it's so sad to lose someone like mr stewart i mean what a what a legend a legend that came out of nowhere with star trek he's a theater guy he had yeah he he he had a he did a whole bunch of tapes with the royal shakespeare academy that we used to watch in my high school drama class and he was like the best shakespearean actor ever like you really you felt it it was so good mr levante hello everybody my name is phil i sing for all that remains what's going on carter what's up phil i saw your face over there you were cracking up a little bit but not at the fact that i don't know why you do that to me carter sorry the tweets like it but anyway i'm carter i'm hanging out thank you libby for coming out and thank you everyone else and i just want to say one more thing before we start the show shaka when the walls fell ah here's a story from fox news obama admin first launched the investigation into ilhan omar's alleged brother marriage a biden appointed u.s attorney in minnesota shut down the investigation in 2021 before trump revived it the investigation into omar married her brother an alleged immigration fraud scheme in 09 began under former president barack obama a u.s attorney in minnesota appointed by then president joe biden shut down the probe in 2021 a source familiar with the matter told fox news digital now the issue has been thrust back into the spotlight as part of a new federal investigation into the somali-born congresswoman part of which centers on whether she or her father committed immigration fraud on her application to become a u.s citizen sources previously told fox news digital that omar's real name is the father of the former president of the united states and the father of the former is Ilhan Nur Syed Elmi. In a federal court document, she was called Ilhan Omar Nur Syed Elmi. The New York Times first reported that Obama's FBI and Department of Homeland Security began the probe in the summer of 2016, and that officials found some evidence that the marriage was fraudulent. The Times reported that the investigation concluded when officials decided the potential felony crime was past the statute of limitations. Now, full stop right there. With the Trump DOJ, they said, wait, if this is a sham marriage, this means that subsequent documents and refilings are also criminal. Additionally, she was still married to the guy. So it was not beyond the statute of limitations. This is not correct. The statute of limitations is upon discovery of a crime, not upon commission of a crime, meaning the moment they found that evidence, they could have pursued this. This is where it gets murky, because by shutting this up, it's not going to be a crime. It's going to be a crime. They shut this thing down in 2021. They were effectively shielding Ilhan Omar from future prosecution from another administration, because then they could argue the statute of limitations has expired. However, since she was refiling this paperwork, the names she was using, it reignites these crimes. The statute is largely meaningless if you keep committing these crimes. I got to say, the only thing right now, it seems, based on the New York Times reporting this, the only thing saving Ilhan Omar is Republican ineptitude. If the Republicans decide to go after this, and you've got the reporting of the New York Times on your side, did you guys see the Daily Show even backed Trump's claims against Alaska? This blew my mind. The New York Times reporting, stating as such, you've got at least a portion of the mainstream on your side. If the New York Times reporting, stating as such, you've got at least a portion of the mainstream on your side. There's one thing that, there's a discourse going on on X that people are kind of getting wrapped up in, and it's about the friend-enemy distinction. So anyone that is on your side, you overlook anything they do wrong. Someone that's not on your side, you go for the throat. And that clearly is the way that the left behaves nowadays. And it has for a long time. I mean, if the Obama administration looked into this, saw the evidence and said, well, we're not going to do anything about it. Or, you know, we're not going to do anything about it. We're not going to do anything or what have you. That's more evidence that that's the case. I don't know that that is the proper way to actually handle politics or if that's the best way to handle politics. It seems pretty zero sum and it seems pretty destructive. But at the same time, it's good to see that kind of evidence and to also see that there are some outlets that are kind of stepping away from that saying, look, this is just, this is beyond the pale. I think with the New York Times report, are you talking about Alaska or are you talking about Omar? Both. Because the New York Times. Has anyone talked about Omar? I think it's just that they're not really circling the wagon. No, I mean, just with regard to the friend enemy thing, the New York Times. times dug into the mary peltola thing because she had fired a ton of staffers and they were like oh why did she fire all these staffers that's interesting and once they started digging they found a staffer who was like listen you got to look into this dan sullivan thing i thought that that was actually pretty impressive reporting from the times i was glad to see like i mean the new york times is the paper of record we need them to be good they should stop not being stopped being crap you know yeah so i was i did think that they did a good report this thing with omar though where the Biden administration shut it down, you know, I think that they, of course, would do that. They needed her. She's very prominent. But if you look into all of these different things, like Tim was just laying out, the last name Elmi, her dad being essentially some sort of Somali government official. He was like a general. And then he it looks like what he did was take somebody else's name, take the name Omar, use that, come to the U.S. with his two daughters. His youngest daughters send his son and another daughter, I think, to the U.K. They kept the name Elmi and then went about pursuing citizenship and all of that under this name Omar. So it's a fake name. Then you have the fudging of the birth birth date from Omar. She said she was born in 82. She like changed her birth certificate. That's already documented. That was documented in Minnesota. And then you have these the double marriages, which is also documented. Then you have once she had the double marriage and she had the second marriage. So she was essentially being a polygamist and she got married in the Christian church because they thought that that didn't count. Right. So wrong. Right. So she got married in the Christian church with her brother, said and then filed that with the state. Meanwhile, she had previously married her husband, Hersey, last name Hersey. Their daughter went to Barnard and whatnot. So she had the double marriages. She faked a lot of stuff around. That's what it looks like happened. And then everybody covered up for her because she was this she became this progressive darling. But there's so much there's so much at seven. And there was one other thing that I saw today, which is the DOJ convicted. A guy was convicted in Ohio. He was Rwandan and he had lied in 2017 at a trial about his participation in the Rwandan genocide. Turns out that there were at least two guys who had participated fully in the Rwandan genocide. And he was the one who was convicted. And he was the one who was convicted in the Rwandan genocide, like beating people to death with clubs, with nails in them. Horrible, horrible things. They changed citizenship. They they faked their refugee status. They lied. And they're citizens. They've just been living in Ohio. They got to go back. They all got to go back. So what are we doing? You know, not sending them back fast. Omar is another example of this. Her father was like a warlord, basically. Yeah. He if I understand correctly, he was he was responsible for something like one hundred or two hundred thousand deaths. It was a super bad guy personally. Yeah. And I gave him. Carrying them out, but giving the orders. It wasn't enough to get on a T-shirt in a college campus, though. Of course not. Of course not. Did he have connections with USAID? I don't know if he did have those kind of connections, but there was essentially a civil war in Somalia and his side lost. And that's why he was a refugee. That's why he was going to get out of Dodge. So that's why they ended up in Kenya in a U.N. refugee camp, because they lost. If they had won, she'd be, you know, I don't know, ruling something in Somalia. Queen of Mogadishu. There you go. You know, I I'm gonna take the I'm a steel man, the opposition here. Maybe maybe this look at all this evidence. Let's create a cavalcade into persecuting a lot of prosecuting a lot of Congress people for like not crossing a T on a form. And like, I just don't want to waste taxpayer money and the media thing for six months complaining about each of these little administrative missteps that you're putting on. And your point is well taken about. Not trying to not trying to go after small potato stuff like if there was some kind of error. This is a pattern, right? The fact that there's all of these discrepancies. This is not someone that made a mistake on a form. And she's being, you know, being persecuted for making a mistake on a form. There is a pattern. Birthday change. Yeah. There is a pattern of falsifying government documents. There is a pattern of criminal behavior. So it's not a situation where you're in a situation of, oh, you know, she might have messed up the paperwork a little bit. This is this is. And to be honest with you, when you bring into it the the allegations of of the winery and the winery, apparently they were shipping out barrels of wine with no wine and they were empty so that that that looks like husband because she ditched her see so and Elmi and then married her campaign manager. Yeah. So this looks kind of hates white people. So this looks like that looks like money laundering. So again, this is not like it looked. It looked I mean, it does, right? You know, it does. So this is a pattern of behavior, not a situation of she messed up the paperwork. So again, your points taken about people going after people that just mess up paperwork, you know, give a little grace if it's a problem with paperwork or something like that. But this isn't about a problem with paperwork. But this is about criminal behavior. A significant long intentional immigration amount of criminal behavior. And she like, part of me wants her to go to jail. But part of me wants her just to go back to Mogadishu, right? Like, which, which is worse. You can do that's what they should mean, probably worse to go back to the other problem is, is that it's just shielding the powerful because for everyone, she's she's in the spotlight. And it's like, Oh, woe is her. But meanwhile, like, I know people in Texas who were brought to this country when they were seven, they're technically undocked, you know, illegal aliens, if they so much as cross one t or dot one eyes, they end up never being able to go down the legal path. And so like, oh, woe is me, the powerful people have to actually have the law applied to them not not to mention that, like current immigration law, most of these people shouldn't be allowed in at all. Like, I don't see how mom Donnie's father was allowed in to become a citizen. Like current immigration law is quite explicit about totalitarian ideology, being a communist, no communists allowed. It's there. It's black and white. I don't know how his whole family is not being sent back to be colonizers, Indian colonizers of Africa like they used to be. So that's the whole thing is just so it's like, the bar keeps getting moved. And then we're asked to say, Oh, but it's, it's uncaring. Every time. Always, it's always like, Yeah, but don't you? But look, she's crying. Yeah, time. Oh, look, brown child cry, throw away the Constitution, burn the Constitution. They were just honest. And we're like, we're just gonna protect her because we don't want to upset the apple cart. Anyone in power, we're just gonna protect them prosecutorial discretion. I don't respect for them. I still wouldn't necessarily agree with that methodology. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I'm like, you know, the President has immunity for a reason. He's got to kill people. That's his job. He's the head of the military president has immunity. And that makes sense. And so some of these people in Congress have got to make some crazy decisions. Give them some lead. The President has immunity for presidential duties, not crimes, like ordering a drone strike on a civilian, for instance, and I get it. I get it. Yeah, no, I still don't agree with it. I understand it's war. He's the commander. Sometimes civilians got to die to win. The issue is simple for me. If the President orders a drone strike, and there's collateral damage, I understand immunity. If the President orders a drone strike on a civilian intentionally, yeah, I don't see why that should be immune. You can't. You can't. I mean, I get it. The Supreme Court ruled this right. And Trump made his arguments. But if the President is like, let's kill an American, like, how are we going to be like, well, you know, he's the President, and it was part of a military operation, American was just was there. No, no, absolutely not. There has to be a presumption of, you know, perhaps there can be some kind of like, like soft immunity in that. Actually, no, I take this back. The way it's supposed to go is you are impeached, you are convicted, following conviction, you can be charged. The war on terror made things very slippery, because anybody can be a terrorist. I mean, I don't know how they designate it. I don't know that anybody can be a terrorist. I mean, the Biden administration is saying that people that are Christians or Catholics going to Latin mass are threats. Oh, I thought you meant actually a terrorist. No, well, I do. Well, the point that I think the point that Ian's making is saying you can say that anyone is so and to Ian's point, when the Biden administration said, you know, people that are going to Latin mass, Catholics that go to Latin mass, they they might be terrorists, they might be a threat to the United States. No, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about government application. Yeah, I understand. Yeah. Anybody can be a terrorist in quotes. I should put that in quotations. You were talking about the friends. It's you know, there's a saying, right? There's no no enemies to the left. That's that's their slogan. And the problem is, like, when you say, well, the opposite of that's going to be no enemies to the right on our side. It's like you see what no enemies to the left has done. Oh, yeah. Turn them into like a fundamentally like corrupt, like morally completely hollowed shell of a party. It's just a tolerance of allies. I mean, that's that's the real question. It's not it's not no enemies to the right. It's a wide berth for acceptance. So Nazis not interested. Don't care. I don't care. Hate the left. You're equally as problematic in different ways. Not interested. So it's it's it's the reality of politics that it is not a left and right. This is just people simplify things. The reality of politics is that it's a it's a cube. It's a multidimensional and there's also a fourth dimension. It's a Tesseract. So the idea is, are there certain people who we tolerate in our society that we don't like but are willing to work with? That's the way it's supposed to be with liberals and conservatives. Liberals are like, oh, they're conservatives and they go to church and they're pro-life. But we largely agree, so we work together. The communists and the Nazis are supposed to be on the outskirts. And the problem is the liberals, instead of aligning themselves with conservatives, which they're supposed to do, align themselves with communists. Yes. No enemies on the left. You have to be discerning with your allies. I'm not advocating splintering and fighting with everybody to the right of you and everyone. But, like, if you ally with dark, miasmatic, swampish poison, it will consume you. That's why they say, like, communists consume each other. That's why Stalin killed Lenin. Probably poisoned the guy. No one knows for sure. But that's why they ate each other and they went after, what was the other guy's name that fled to Mexico? Oh, yeah. Trotsky. Trotsky. They went after Trotsky. They killed Trotsky. So, like, you got to be careful with who you ally with politically. Can I just give a shout out to the word miasmatic? That's a great word. I love that word. Man, English is a wonderful tool. Yeah. Of or relating to a miasma, which is a gas cloud. Priest. Priest has suffixes all around me. Miasma. Miasman, baby. Miasmatic. That's a great record. Miasmatic. There's a record called Miasma from, what is it? The Black Dahlia Murder. Great band. You see, you know what? This is the problem. It was just miasma. If we want to get more viewers, we got to talk about big butts and drama, not miasmatic. Trump's got that covered. More big butt drama? Yeah, Trump loves butts. I'm down. We could get AOC if you guys want to. I'm not saying she has a big butt, but that was what I thought of when you mentioned her. The big booty Latina. She works like. She's like 20 minutes, five minutes away from me. 20? It's like across the street. Let's hang out. She could give us the insight on Ilhan. Has she been radio silent on the whole thing? She would never, never come on this show because when we ask a simple question like, how come their dad has the same name? She'll be like, I have no answer for that. Right. It wouldn't. She's only going to go on a show where she says those questions are off limits. That's how the left persists. Didn't Ilhan get asked if she married her brother and her response was like, I don't believe so? No, no, no. Question from Chris. Is there any relation to, is there any kernel of truth to the story? And she said, not to my knowledge. Not to my knowledge. Oh, actually, I just forgot. So I was telling the truth. It wasn't to my knowledge. I forgot about it. He could have been my brother, but I didn't see the birth. I didn't see the birth records. Your brusband, I mean, husband posted on Instagram that your daughter was his niece. Why did he do that? His sister claimed to be your sister. What's that about? Whoopsie daisy. We're all so surprised. What are you going to say? AOC comes on the show. She walks. She walks in and we're like, why is it that Ilhan Omar's sister, who she called a sister, also calls her husband her brother? Does it mean brother-in-law? Is that why? How come the Obama DOJ, why do you think the Obama DOJ dropped the case despite the fact she was still actively married to a guy that they found evidence of it being a sham marriage? Do you think they dropped it purely because she was gaining power in the Democratic Party? Yes. Yeah, of course. Just think about how silly this is. The marriage is the crime. The Obama DOJ finds out there's evidence it's a crime and they go, Brett, she's in a fake marriage for a green card, but it's been eight years, so we're not going to charge her. It's like, but she's actively committing the crime. In fact, I'm going to say this again. The reason why I am calling this a cover-up straight up is because when Ilhan's brusband applied for permanent residency in the United States and was asked to prove it, he fled the country. This would mean they had evidence it was a sham. Well, that was happening. Her brusband said, I want a permanent residence. And they said, prove your marriage is real, and he fled the country. So it was actively occurring when they said they weren't going to pursue it. And also now he is studying and writing about queer theory in the U.K. Because he's gay. Yeah. Gay. Yeah. He was gay the whole time. Yeah, he was gay the whole time. He's very obviously gay. Marriage of convenience. Yeah, and to get student loans. That was another part of it, too, is after they got married, he was able to get student loans. And so that's part of it, too. So do they extradite this guy? No, he's in the U.K. I mean, should they? Are they planning on? Is this part of the blow as you extradite this guy as a criminal, violated U.S. law? I don't think we got to that point yet. It'd be sick, Ian. Yeah. It would be sick if we did. Why didn't he go back to Somalia? I mean, you can't figure it out. They've done a great queer studies program there. He's a very fair-skinned Somali, so he wants to go to the U.K. where there's not as much sun. But the truth is, she really did flee Somalia. As a refugee. Kenya. She was a child as well. She was 12. Yeah, she was a young, young child. So, I mean, it makes sense that she's trying to get out of there. The problem is that she lied to become a citizen and then lied on all of her documents that she had to write up to get when she was trying to get into registering to run for office and lied about it as a member of Congress. I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, no, no. And then also, if their last name is Elmi, then also her father lied. And so that brings into question her naturalization along with the fabricated birthday. So, if her father was naturalized and gained citizenship under false terms, then that is void and so too is hers void. And probably she was 18 at the time anyway, so she wasn't eligible to be parented. She wrote in her book that she was taught by her family to lie about her age and name and identity because it could get you killed. Oh, man. So, think about it. You've got people who are fleeing Somalia. Civil War. Do you think they're going to come to the U.S. and say, like, here's my honest information or are they going to lie about everything for the sake of survival? Let me ask you guys a question. If the U.S. broke into massive nuclear chaos, civil war, and everyone's dying and the places are raided, you had no choice but to flee. It was a literal fire. And you got to the border of Mexico and they said, you know, 50-year-olds aren't allowed in and you were 50. Would you say, I'm 49? Or would you be like, you got me. Guess I'll go back to death. You'd lie. You'd lie. Of course. Deception isn't evil. On its head. I struggle with this, especially in, like, relationships. But, like, deceiving someone, like, if the Nazis come knocking on your door looking for the Jews and you say, I don't have any Jews in my house, you deceived the Nazis for good. And so there are times when deceiving authorities could be an extremely good thing. This is like Huck Finn, right? When Huck Finn and Jim are going down the river and Huck Finn, and he knows that Jim was a slave and the law tells him that, like, he has to turn Jim in or whatever. And he says that he was not going to do it. And so the line is, you know, if that means I'm going to hell, then I'll go to hell because he won't turn the guy in. This is all 100% true. But then to lie so she can get into Congress, right? Like. That's a whole new lie. That's a whole different thing. So, like, again, yeah, it's true. Well, to go back to the Mexico thing, then you'd lay low. Yeah, exactly. Like, if you lie to get into the United States, then the proper course of action is being, like, keeping your head. Down, not getting into Congress and wagging your finger at actual Americans and telling us how bad we are. Well, that's really the whole thing. The whole thing is I came to this country from a war-torn catastrophe, and now I'm going to spend my entire career in public life criticizing the society that saved me and my family instead of being forever grateful that I had a place to go. Like, if we go, there's nowhere else to go. Right. And she wants to. That's what she wants. She wants, like, the final. You know, the last refuge to be closed or to be turned into her beloved Somalia. Somalia. Yeah, she's quite explicit about this all the time. She's referring to herself as Somalian. First. It was crazy. Yeah, and she's been like, I'm Somalian first. Two weeks ago. Let's go to this next story. We got another bombshell. This is from NBC News. DOJ issues subpoenas in Alaska Senate race as governor launches separate investigation. Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy said he was directing the State Department of Public Safety to determine whether criminal or civil action are warranted. We're hearing now around three dozen new subpoenas and document preservation requests as part of the probe into the Alaska Senate race. Let's go. I'm going to say it very simply for you guys. The New York Times definitively reported the Democrat Senate campaign, which is active right now. Mary Paltola trying to take office, sought to defraud the voters by running a guy named Dan Sullivan against the Republican Dan Sullivan. And I've also, correct me if I'm wrong, is it true that he tried changing his middle name? I don't I didn't hear that part. I'm going to I'm going to fact check the one I heard rumors. His name is Dan Dan J. Sullivan, and he tried changing it to an S and apparently refused to speak to law enforcement. This is 100 percent confirmed and it gets crazy. It is so confirmed that The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper agreed with Donald Trump. I was confused because I was watching The Daily Show clip this morning and it starts with him being like, ah, Trump is saying he wants the election nullified of the Republicans. And I'm like, you can't do that. And so with Trump, everything's a conspiracy. And then all of a sudden it plays CBS report. The Democrats did this. He goes, oh, Trump was right. And I was like, whoa, wow. The Daily Show admitting Trump is right. You know, it's bad. So this is absolutely massive. I'm going to go and say right now they we need an emergency injunction. It will be catastrophic for our con for Congress. If she. Is allowed to run if she wins and then two months later is disqualified, removed and imprisoned. I mean, then we just have to have another election. No, we know now we know now there needs to be an emergency filing, probable cause hearing, whatever, to initiate some kind of pause or criminal charges or whatever we have to do. But I can't believe that they are going to be like, well, you know, we're going to do the election anyway. I'll tell you what's going to happen. The election is going to happen in the event she wins. which is they're gonna go, don't want to disrupt the election that's what they're going to do that's what they're going to do so you know i gotta say maybe we need republicans who just do things you know what i mean oh that is so true let's do things last year they should have gotten rid of the filibuster and done all the things and instead we have a whole bunch of executive orders of good policy that can just be reversed as soon as a democrat comes into office i got mixed feelings on doing more the omnibus is an example of doing things that i'm like well matt gates came on our show multiple times like we got rid of the omnibus we shouldn't have omnibus bills you know single bill i agree with that too but the value of an omnibus is is pretty it's pretty apparent like you can get i don't know how much money they got 100 billion dollars in one bill and then they could do so much because of that trillion it funds it funds the whole government yeah so like that's an example of the republicans doing more although we haven't had like a budget in ages right it just keeps being continuing resolutions yep well we we will not until there's a there's a failed treasury auction i mean that's the reality yep which isn't france looking at something like total bankruptcy at this point what would that look like it wouldn't look good no it would look like yeah who do you auction the treasury bonds off to mars i mean we are we're the final we're the final stop you know as bad as we're as bad a shape as we're in you know the world gets a cold and everyone buys treasury bills still because we're the tallest print treasury bills who owns the most of our debt u.s public yeah i think so yeah they'll print a bunch of money makes me want to buy print a bunch of dollars they'll drop interest rates they'll raise the age of of social security eligibility um they'll do some austerity they i doubt that they will cut anything and i don't know that you could really cut a lot that would help um people the left will scream cut the military cut the military but the military is 12 percent of the budget yeah the military is first of all necessary and constitutional and also a small part of the budget when compared to social security medicare and medicaid did you see this thing in the australian congress where they were uh questioning the defense department and there was this australian woman in a hijab but she's like white and she was demanding that the defense department explain why they spent 1.2 billion on tanks instead of simulations and she goes what war are we even going to fight and she's like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know we should just have simulation simulated tanks that's all we need and the defense department was just looking at her like what the australian defense department australian defense department we may we have a lot of deals with the australian defense department pete hegseth was just talking to them like i know anderle sells them big submarines and we got our biggest all kinds of stuff we i mean and australia is a having a big military is a really big south china sea deterrent situation what is that base in the middle of australia in the outback it's our biggest military base outside of the united states i thought that would underground and it's like uh no oh it's awesome dude it's huge it's um a spy base basically we're spying on the pacific with it makes sense yeah but this thing with mary peltola i what's interesting too is in a in alaskan court already found that it's perfectly legal for him to run but i think you're right tim what's not what should not be legal or the shenanigans that she got up to in her campaign got up to to go find all the dan sullivans in alaska which is what they did they times reporter the one who broke the story i think it's a big deal but i think it's a big deal i think it's a big deal i think his name is kellen something um he he calls dan sullivan and it's like do you want to talk dan sullivan picks him up at the airport um and they go talk and they have this whole big conversation sitting on the beach watching humpback whales breed you want to defraud the alaskan voter and they want to commit serious crimes it's wild scott rasmussen had done this poll of basically the cognitive elite it's like the people that went to like the dirty dozen 12 top schools they they are 75 democrats and and it is like a it is a picture of a kind of monstrous cabal this is like it was it wasn't just like a small group of people it was it was a large sample set and it was a majority who said they were they'd be willing to cheat in an election to win the outcome really i'm gonna i dig this thing up because it was actually like it was like the the democracy dies in darkness crowd yeah literally that exact group of people said yes it is it is okay to cheat we've got a big fact check the dan j sullivan the fake one did request that his name be listed on the ballot as dan s sullivan the same initial as the incumbent they were intentionally trying to steal this this was criminal and this guy needs to be criminally charged as well yep the actual senator dan sullivan his whole campaign at this point is saying because they have ranked choice voting in alaska so his whole campaign all he keeps saying mary just don't list peltola on your rank choice voting if you put down two dans okay but don't list peltola and then she won't be able to win and they also what they did on the ballot was for the incumbent dan s sullivan they put uh republican incumbent next to it and for dan j sullivan they call him daniel on the ballot but his name appears first and trump pointed out this he said a lot of people don't know what incumbent they don't most people probably don't know what incumbent i go to times square and ask people if they know what an incumbent is they're gonna beg is it a vegetable oh my goodness are you you really think people know what incumbent means i did think so this is a this is a highbrow show that's like people that pay we say words like miasmatic i forgot i i gotta i gotta i gotta just say this ian like i love the word but you do know that like the app the people who watch the show probably get it because but you know you really want to hit the millions and get the big show you can't say miasmatic what i already did and you just said it again you said it twice and you're that into it dude yeah but it's not about money it's about educating the populace to use you know these these obscure small that's how english works yeah i don't create you add prefixes and suffixes to sounds it's aspirational on your wife aspirationalism shirts truly cheat on your wife and sell t-shirts yeah the ethan klein method like devastationalism oh hey speaking to ethan devastation uh you're like life's not over um look my my parents my dad had an affair i think it's public knowledge for like a year with her best friend it was it was almost wrecked our family but they decided to work through it they had drifted apart they weren't hanging out they weren't communicating and so he he looked for communication elsewhere and then they decided you know rather than end it they're going to work on their relationship and start doing things together that they love and they did and they're still together it was like 40 30 years ago it was 20 years ago so you can do that too gila i know it's ultimately if you want to take this guy back. But Ethan, your life's not over. You don't have to run away. He made his wife thing one and his mistress thing two. In his phone? On Halloween, he dressed his wife and his mistress up as thing one and thing two. Let's go back to talking about politics. A lot of weird ideas. We got the cow sheet balance of power, guys. Check this out. There's a cow sheet balance of power. Democrat sweep has been fluttering around two-thirds. 66%. The Democrats taking the House is 29% with Republican Senate. Republican sweep is 8.2. It is not looking particularly good for the Republicans. I do want to say shout-out to cow sheet for sponsoring the show. Guys, check out cowsheet.com slash midterm marathon because we are doing a big midterm show. It's going to be what are we doing, like 12 hours? We're doing 10 hours. Are you going to play guitar? Four to something. You're not coming to our election party? You didn't invite me. You were definitely invited. Just show up on election day. Yeah, we're going to have a big party. We're going to have lots of food. The new studio here. But looking at what's going on with Alaska and, of course, with the predictions that we have, I'm going to go ahead and say while I'm not entirely convinced about the predictions based on the polls because I think the polls many of them are fake, I'm going to go ahead and say the prediction market's right because the Republicans are inept. Right word? But we also have the thing with the polling where we had, what, two polling companies this election cycle coming out and saying that they were just making polls for fun and that they weren't actually verifiable or useful. I don't believe that for a second. I think those were to manipulate the prediction markets for cash. Really? And it's actually two that have been exposed as being completely false and a third went dark after being questioned. Wow. So this is interesting. I hadn't thought about that. This is numerous polls, not a single poll. This is tons of polls that were applied to all these aggregates. Yeah. My assumption is look, big conspiracy, little conspiracy. Democrats think they're going to win. Every Democrat. Thinks you're going to win. They're all sitting there cheering clapping. They're going to win because the prediction market says so. But if the prediction markets are responding to polls and the polls are largely fabricated, not completely you stand to make a lot of money. So I'd be willing to bet that these people were like, hey, we're going to game. We're going to gain the prediction markets and their plan was if you release a poll that says the Democrats got 20 point advantage, it's insane, right? Like they did in Wisconsin, but that will shift the prediction market upwards. You that so you buy Democrat. Release a poll saying they're up 20 points. It jumps 5% of the prediction market. You sell your profit. Wow. I would not be surprised if that's the game they were playing. That's that's so unethical. That's criminal. Yeah, but it's but look, we don't have accountability in this country. So much unethical stuff going on. I keep thinking about how we built a society that is essentially a high trust society. You leave your apple pie out, you leave your car unlocked, whatever we built a high trust society, then implemented a whole bunch of high trust society tools like way most you know, or self checkout and then we destroyed the trust. So there's no trust at all. Did y'all see that Pat McAfee was warned by the FBI to wear a bulletproof vest when he went to University of Utah? That's how bad it's gotten. The sports guy was going to do a kicking contest and the FBI warned him he needed to wear a bulletproof vest. The FBI has arrested and is tracking people that were threatening Sophie Cunningham all because she spoke out in favor of women having fair competition. We need law enforcement to just start arresting people. But we defunded the police in 2020 and it wasn't just defunding. I'm not talking about the police. I'm saying Donald Trump is the president. So again, you know, was it Chip Roy when he was on the floor and he was like, give me one thing to campaign on that the Republicans have done. And I'm like, I agree. I agree. Like, oh, you can't get your agenda done. Well, you can certainly send out some agents, one guy and go arrest one other guy. And then people are going to be, like, oh, but it's okay. No, no, I don't care. Okay. I'm just the Democrats charged James O'Keefe and campaign with felonies and they lied about what they did. Okay. That was total lie. You can see it on the video what they did. James O'Keefe never identified himself as someone he was not. He asked, he specifically said, do you have? So if I walked up to you and said, do you have Phil Labonte pointing to your phone? Did I say I was Phil Labonte? What he exposed was that these poll workers will give you a ballot for someone. Even if you never even assert you are that person simply by asking for that person's ballot and they're lying, claiming he identified himself as these people. Yep. So, so the Democrats are like, we will destroy everybody, even if we can make it up. And the Republicans are like, we have proof they did it, but we'll do nothing. I keep thinking about the Russian revolution, uh, in, in regards to where our country's at right now, because we have this, like this, like, uh, you know, elite group, like you were talking about earlier, that's kind of controlling things and protecting itself. But if that falters, it starts going at itself. That's when the communists really take power. So even if you think that Ilhan Omar is the problem and the DSA, if they go at it and it goes into full blown lawfare, that's when the communists will, will entrench. So we can't, that's why I'm really like reticent about just knocking each other over with this crime and that crime and this crime. It's like, it might be better to keep the ship floating towards its final destination. So have you, are you familiar with the, uh, the data Republican democracy, files or what have you? That was sick. She's still doing them, which is great. She's still putting them up. Basically what, what the synopsis is, the left is trying to create tumultuous, a tumultuous situation to bait Donald Trump into using the insurrection act, activating the national guard, and then having state governors. And JB Pritzker is one of the people that's, that's most, uh, most vocal about it, about being anti-Trump. Um, Newsom said he'd go along with it. Yeah. So using Democrat governors to defy the federal government and thereby cause a constitutional crisis. So what you're talking about, I understand what you're saying. Cause that's, that's, that is what's going on, right? Trying to create a crisis. So that way the DSA can basically, essentially they've, they probably already got it written up, but the people that used to be in USAID are working with the Democrats, uh, people that were the deep state people that got fired from the USAID. Um, they've done color, this is called the color revolution. They've done color revolutions in Ukraine. They've done them in other countries and they've been fairly successful and they're trying to do that here. And so, whereas I understand what you're saying, you don't want to play into their hands. I don't think that allowing the Democrats to, to have carte blanche and not use, uh, any, not push back in any way is a good idea because they already have a very, very well thought out plan. And again, the, the blueprint has been used in other countries. It was used in Ukraine against, I think abortion, Poroshenko was his name. It was used in, in, um, you mean the prosecutor? I'm not sure, but the, the point that I'm making is that the, the president before, uh, yeah, before Zelensky, um, but yeah, so prosecutor, right? Yeah. This, this playbook has been used by basically CIA. Cause that's what USAID really is like it's, it's CIA. And so people are, um, what's her name? She was all over X last week because she was saying, she was saying that she wanted to intimidate Republicans from going into, uh, Slotkin. Thank you very much. That was crazy. Yes. It's very crazy. They're, they're essentially, you see the same thing on the Indivisible podcast, the Indivisible people who started in 2016 to like be the resistance. Yep. They've said the exact same thing as Slotkin. And then you also had, you know, you have this repeatedly, you had Maxine Waters, you know, confront them in the streets. This is just been what's been going on this whole time. And then they killed Charlie. And now whenever you see the debate stuff, the, the TP USA, and they're going out there and doing the debates, you see them basically like, you see students coming up basically being like, we want to kill you. And the people sitting there like, don't, don't do that. Only that rhetoric of they killed Charlie. That's worn out. It's not true. A guy did it. A guy did it. And why did he do it? I don't know. Well, no one did it, but the entire internet is flooded with young people on college campuses, like today. Yeah. Saying they were enthusiastic about it. They made a, they made a party about they, they keep making, they're calling it the Kirkversary. Yeah. It's really like, so there's, I think one of the things that's actually frustrating about thinking that there's like a punchback, read the discord, read the text, read what he said, read what the suspect said. There's like two different games being played though. So like the tit for tat political attack stuff will always be with us and you, you have to punch hard. But the bigger problem to me, I think the reason why we are where we are is because we had this moment with Doge where there was actually really taking a hammer to all of their toys. And USA ID was the one real serious victory was like, this was a, a, a permanent institution created by the, the cognitive elite progressive, basically blob. Yep. And it was, it was underneath the surface of all this stuff we see in the headlines. And, and, but there's stuff that's above the surface. That they're called universities. Yeah. So we will have this fight over and over again, and the left will own these things that brainwash our kids. And then we'll be France. Like that's, it's like, it's really, it's the Bolsheviks. It's the Jacobins. It's the, it's our kids who we turn over to the enemy to raise them for us. And then we're surprised that they come out hating us and voting for lunatics and being lunatics themselves. And there's not really like a short-term fix for that. We, the short-term fix is okay. All of the universities are now cut off from all money period. Full stop. Yeah. And, and actually title nine is over. All of that's over. You're done. Seize the endowments. Well, the endowments should be seized to pay back student loans. Yes. Yes. This would require people with balls and he ain't getting it from the Republican party. You'd have to do it slow too. The ballsiest things we got from the Republican party, people didn't know about until after Lindsey Graham died. The big balls. Well, that was the moment. The moment was Doge to actually go after these institutions. I mean, we also have another situation too. This is, this came up in, in the second edition of Jack Posobiec's on humans book, right? Which I was checking out and talking to him about. There was a, there was a quote that he quoted in the book and it basically talks about how the George Soros guys, the leftist billionaires have a great men model. They want to go out there and use their money to be great men and to do great things. And Republicans, when they get a bunch of money, they have a middle manager model and they have a mindset of being a middle manager. They just want to keep their assets to themselves. They don't want to spend a lot of money. They want to make sure that whatever they're investing in, they're breaking even at least they don't have the great men model. And when you talk about the universities, you, we saw already like, what was it in the sixties? You had the long March through the, through the universities, through academia, one by one, they create it. They put Marxists in these positions, but they did something even worse, which it wasn't just the Marxists. This is something Camille Paglia talks about. She said that, uh, the real Marxists were out there on communes. And so what you ended up in within the universities were poser Marxists who are also just grifters and cheats. So they've been doing all of this under our noses this entire time, creating all of these nonprofits, getting all of this funding, getting government funding, sending out the soft power all over the world to like turn everybody, you know, gay essentially. And now what we're left with are institutions that cost thousands and thousands of dollars a year that are essentially the prestige and do nothing good for this country. These are the universities like Harvard, for example, how many of our presidents went to Harvard? It's a bunch, including John Adams, you know, and a bunch of these guys, these universities were supposed to create the leaders of our nation. And we have turned the American leadership class essentially against itself with the privilege walks and the self-hatred and the talk about, you know, how privilege is bad and all of these different things. And so now we have a leadership class that hates itself. We have, you know, working class that hates the leaders and themselves to a certain extent and has nothing, has no modus operandi to get anything done. I want to pull this story from Axios. This is massive. A fired general admitted to leaking classified Iran and Ukraine info, according to a report. And this matters because we are seeing a big debate for most of you are probably wondering, this seems a little bit too in the weeds for me. What's happening? Okay. So a general got fired. Liberals reacted and said, this is it. They're purging the people who are not loyal to Trump. And then we got the big story. The dude was leaking classified information. That's a crime. Axios reports the Pentagon's top military planner admitted to leaking classified information about Ukraine and Iran to two reporters from separate outlets over a one-year period, according to an internal report of the investigation shared with Axios. Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia was fired this week by Pete Hegseth for the alleged misconduct, which the career soldier acknowledged on video after he failed four polygraph tests. He had trouble passing multiple polygraph interviews. The report accused the general of making unauthorized disclosures to the media and said he was cooperative with answering questions about interactions with the media to resolve this and provided his personal phone for a forensic examination. I need to understand how do we purge this country of the cult? Okay. These are people for no reason. He's leaking information to media. Why? That's what I want to know. What would he say? The cult, it's for cult acknowledgement. It's Munchausen's by proxy, basically. It is this desperate need to be acknowledged by the rest of the cult. It is a murmuration of starlings. They don't know what they're doing or why. They're just zigzagging around in the sky doing insane things for no reason. The answer is you build a better cult. That's the only way to get people out of a better cult. I don't think we want a cult. I think we want the thing where people are rational, and think things all the way through, and have the same standards of judgment. I'm losing hope. You could have that in a cult. So fiction, then. Sure. Yes. I like fairy tales, too. Kind of like Star Trek The Next Generation. Right. This is kind of like what we're looking for. Murmuration. An evolved sensibility. Is that what starlings are called? Murmurs? A murmuration is when all the birds are in the sky and they're moving around. And they do that same- And they're all flying in the same direction. That's cool. I've learned new words today. What's fascinating about this is they don't know. The individual birds don't know what any other bird will do. It's that when one bird makes a slight move to the right, they all just follow suit, creating a domino effect where they flutter. But they spin around in random directions, but they all follow each other. The starlings. The starlings. It's a gene. It's emerging order. What's that? Emerging order. And it's how we survive as humans. I mean, we adapt to what the mob is doing, what the tribe is, what direction they're all headed. You don't need to ask. If you stop to ask, you're going to be left behind. I don't know what this website is, but it uses murmuration as an example. It's a fascinating thing. Have you ever seen a video of this? America into a nation where everyone thrives. Oh, that's terrifying. This kind of sounds like what we're talking about. Sounds leftist. I don't want to besmirch an organization I've never heard of. Okay, but that does sound terrifying. I want to use the word cult, though. I'm really general with that term. Local organizing. Like a culture of personalities. Well, again, I don't want to rag on an organization I've never heard of. I looked up the word murmuration, and I saw this website, and it has an example of all the birds flying around like lunatics. And I'm like, you know, there you go. And, like, you've got the whole cult thing transforming into where everyone is. We're their partners. If we all move as a unit. Do you know anything about what he leaked? Rank the vote? I think we can rag on this organization without knowing that much about it. How amazing that my explanation for what a cult is landed perfectly with how they brand themselves. On a cult page. I've never heard of any of these logos. I think we can rag on this organization. What individual? Well, what particularly do you not like about them? Who are you talking to? Libby. You're like, I think we can rag on them. I'm like, yeah. Well, they're talking a lot about organizing. And pulling everybody together. And I saw rank the vote. To get things like being more human. Deep south today. Life, democracy, and connection. It's a whole bunch of buzzwords that are designed to make you feel like you're doing something morally good. When really what you're doing is leaning into their agenda. And you don't even necessarily even know it. Rank the vote is a rank choice voting organization. This is all designed to. The whole leftist cult thing is designed to make you feel like you are a morally superior and good person. By going along with all of this. All of their crap. They literally call it murmuration. And first what they did was they. I mean, they. Okay. I understand not using they. The left really worked hard and academia to get rid of religion in this country. Thereby creating a void where a lot of people needed to understand how to feel like they were doing the morally appropriate thing. And then they filled it with murmuration. Well, they didn't really get rid of religion. They went after Christianity and replaced it. Yes, they got rid of Christianity. With a different religion. Christianity. A different moral operating system. They turned the soul into gender. Yeah. It's just. But they did more than that because they got rid of like lodges. They got rid of like. Like the Kiwanis. Civil society. Yeah, they got rid of all of the things that like. The third spaces that were not stores. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, it's like. I mean, nowadays, even the mall's gone where people used to go hang out at the mall, you know. But that was a. That was a terrible. The mall's still going in New Jersey. Is it really? But like, you know, it used to be an idea. It used to be guys would go to the lodge and they had Lodge Brothers and stuff. That's why you saw like the Flintstones when I was a kid, the Flintstones. They would go down to the lodge and you could rely on people in the Rotary Club, in the lodges at the Knights of Columbus. What have you. Like odd fellows. Exactly. I got an idea. Why don't we either do a new show or do IRL on Friday night from Casper in West Virginia and just. Just literally let random people come on the show. That's an awesome idea. I love it. We have a guy coming on the show. I met him at a gas station. He's an electrician. Nice. He's like, I was at a Sheetz and I was ordering, you know, I was getting the Sheetz big, big MGK, whatever it's called, burger and no bun though. So it comes in a tray and they're giving me the food and this guy's like, hey, are you Tim? And then he asked, he's like, so how do you normally like pick like who's in the show? And I was like, you want to go on the show? He's like, yeah. And I was like, what are you doing? He's like, I'm an electrician. And then I was like, like, how do you consider yourself politically? He's like, not, not too far right, but maybe far right. And I was like, you're not, you're not as far right as Lisa. And, uh, and he was like, oh, he's like, well, no, I think like, he's like probably a little bit more than right, right than you, but not, you know. And then I was like, all right, let's take me on the show. Like working class guy, electrician. I was like, let's hear what it's like on the ground, brother. Like, come on down. So he'll be here tomorrow. For context, Lisa is a monarchist. She is proper. She is proper, actual right wing. I texted her that. The guy said he was like probably far right. And I told him not as far right as you. And she, she responded with, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I think she's, I think she's, she's, what's the word? No, I think, I was just thinking about it. Like you mentioned the third place. Some of that shit, she's going to text her right now. There's no way. We do, we do the shows live from, uh, here's what we'll do. We'll do the show shows live from, uh, from, uh, Casper. Uh, we'll sell tickets. If there's a availability, then you can come in. But if all tickets are sold out, then it's sold out. And then people can, uh, submit to come on the show for a certain amount of time. And we'll kick them off if they suck. I like, I kind of like what we're doing for culture war. I like the idea of bringing like business people, like, like self-starters in, because I just, I, the only reason this comes up is because I was watching kitchen nightmares again, Gordon Ramsey. And in the beginning, I just thought it was entertainment. Ha ha. He's trying to fix these crazy people's things. Now I'm realizing he's saving small businesses. Like he rebooted the show post COVID and he's going in, transforming these people's lives, giving them direction, showing them how to do it right. And then giving them publicity. Like if we could do that for other people. Well, that'll be great. We'll do it. We'll do it on Fridays. And that means we do the shows Fridays from West Virginia. So we don't got to commute as much, right? Like we're not. You guys should always let me know when you're doing that. Cause I will totally come. Just come to every one. Yeah. There was a really great episode of, of Gordon Ramsey show where he finds this little hole in the wall kitchen and it's like a miserable location and it's like dingy. And the lady cooks like masterful food. And he's just, he's floored. He's like, I don't understand how your cooking is so good. She's like, you're like an old lady. And she's like, Oh, I, you know, it's my family. And it's like, it is a shame that you have this terrible location. People need to know. They need to know your food. And then he promoted her and she got really big. Gordon Ramsey is awesome. I'm a big fan of that guy. Him being mean is fake. He's not, he's not a mean guy. It's all TV. He's actually a really good dude. What about Simon Cowell? Was he mean or was that fake? It's all fake. Simon Cowell too? My, my, well, I don't know much as much. I I've, I've watched a lot of Gordon Ramsey's stuff and I've watched him online and everything. And I've seen like his fan directions. He's a super nice guy to everybody all the time. And the show is just silly. He's like mean for the show. Hell's kitchen. Oh, I know. It's actually really nice. Like you do what he says when he says it and you say, yes, chef. But when he's out of the kitchen, it's all in there. I like the yes chef convention. Just like that movie. What was it called? Menu? I didn't see menu. The one with that chick with the sunken face. I think I don't like it. And the chef and he wants to kill everybody. Oh yeah. I watched that over the weekend. I liked that movie. It has a, what is it? I really liked that movie. It looked so obvious. It was good though. You knew the whole time. No, I love that movie because it was original and well done. It's the main actors. The guy had to sacrifice himself. Nope. That's a good movie too. Is the movie called Menu? Is that also about cannibalism? I don't know. Yeah. The menu with the. It's called The Menu. Who's the main actor? What's that syndrome? Vanya Taylor-Joy is her name. Anna Taylor-Joy and Ralph. Osempic? Osempic vagina syndrome? Yeah. What is that? Apparently, osempic vagina is a thing. We could go into it. I don't know. We got time. We shouldn't. It's falling out at women. Oh my goodness. What? Yeah. This is what I'm hearing. Okay, Ian. We'll save that for the uncensored portion. Yeah, we should. We were having a conversation about a general that was getting fired because he was obsessed with the murmuration. And this is what's scary because the murmuration is goalless. It is just a swarm of thousands of birds doing nothing for no reason. The problem now is the people on the right are also murmurless. They're aimless. They don't have a message. They're not murmurless. They're murmuring, but they're not. They don't have a direction. They're just kind of like. They're not murmuring. They're following Trump. Half of them hate Trump. Half of them like Trump. The other half are libertarians. Like the Iran war, the whole murmuration split in half and now you got these two. It was never a murmuration. The thing is, it was a murmuration. It was a murmuration. It's the thing. The left is. The right has never been. There should be one because before the internet, everybody was murmured together. We just. didn't know it we were all doing what we were told we were all saying america's the greatest we were all eating apple pie because we all watched big bang theory there was nothing else to watch i get your metaphor but we were all going to war when they told us to go to war we were all sending our children into vietnam because that's what we were told it like it wasn't all good it was cultish then the internet broke it open and you're like oh shit now our cult's falling apart i mean vietnam wasn't broken go ahead i'm sorry no i was gonna say that this is actually like literally true so i don't know if you saw this i'm trying to find it on twitter there was somebody mapped essentially ideological uh clustering and on the left basically the cluster is really small and then on the right it's this giant and you know how the left responded to that they said it's because the left clusters around truth and there is no diversity in what the truth is and the right are conspiracy theorists who are all over the place because they have no idea what's going on the truth is subjective two people can speak the truth about the same thing and be saying different things about it you know i can explain this uh to you ian in a way that only libby would understand um but based on what you were saying i would describe it as dharmak on the ocean jalad on the ocean dharmak and jalad at tanagra yes yes go on i understand now libby knows exactly what i'm saying exactly what you're saying i'm not tracking uh i'm on the ocean too who's dharmak in this metaphor it was a lesson in learning languages by captain picard yes but do you know but but if but i'm pretty sure libya and i actually can understand what we just said what i just said to her what i said was we were separate in the beginning and we came together two opponents coming together yes but but it can be interpreted in through memification the idea is dharmak was by himself traversing the ocean and he came up across an island and jalad was as well when they came together they were they they could not communicate they were enemies but through shared uh conflict they ended up dharmak and jalad on the ocean so the story is dharmak on the ocean jalad on the ocean dharmak and jalad tanagra dharmak dharmak and jalad on the ocean ocean meaning that through shared conflict they came together and then uh shaka when the walls fell was me saying patrick stewart has died i don't want what does that have to do with shaka it's it's it's the story in star trek is that there was a race of aliens the federation could never communicate with because they spoke in memes yes i know a race of aliens had a spoken language but eventually began speaking purely in memes to convey ideas man is speaking man is speaking and being understood the best way to explain it would be like keanu on the bench patrick stewart his arm raised keanu on the bench i actually served him a meal while he was sitting on the bench it does watch the lake house before coming over here it was funny because uh like my wife didn't believe me when i said i put on a romance movie because keanu reeves is in it i i love it i wanna i do it it's a fun movie but you know okay hold on real quick have you guys ever seen the lake house no but i watched all the john wick because keanu reeves is in it even though it was all bloody spoiler the lake house is about keanu reeves lives in a lake house and he gets a letter one day from a woman saying i just moved out hope you enjoyed the house and he's like what no you didn't i live here so he writes a letter back she then writes what are you talking about yeah i just moved out you're the new tenant he's like no no one's lived here and then they realize he's two years in the past and when they write letters the mailbox is transporting the letters back and forward in time oh i love that and i said hold on real quick and i was like you know i know this movie was written for women because immediately he starts saying like so what do you do for work and she's like i'm a doctor and he's like i work in construction and never ask me a man would not do that he'd be like send me a sports almanac right now and a list of all the lottery numbers he'd like i'm putting a rope in there actually family guy did a joke about this the family guy joke was that keanu opens the mailbox looks left looks right and then unzips his pants in two years since i've gotten action there's a griffin there's also 10 seconds ago this like series of pretty books called griffin and sabine and basically it's that but with postcards across the world it's pretty fascinating i gotta know about this general because i know this story we tapped into this guy is there any information about did he say why he leaked what he leaked or maybe he snowed him right was he doing the right thing oh yeah like here's our here's our military plans for iran like a hero right it's like a chain of command like you were committing treason but maybe who needs that so it was like uh like kind of what what uh not tulsi gabbard she didn't really come out but uh joe kent i don't think he let loose any but these guys just left they didn't like burn everything down in their wake you know right they didn't ruin their careers they didn't ruin their careers and tulsi gabbard her husband is sick right so she's dealing with that that's a big deal kent just spoke openly about his disagreement with the war he didn't like i don't think he turned over classified documents he'd be in jail if he did i don't think he did so is this the book thrown at him this general pete hegseth fired him that was one thing and is there going to be is is he going to go after him depends on what got leaked yeah but i think that i think the pentagon is actually very in intense on not getting anything leaked that was their whole thing remember when they uh kind of cancelled everybody's press passes and uh the new york times sued him and um yeah so they cancelled everybody's press passes and said you are not to publish any pentegon unless you get explicit approval meaning no more leaked documents in the new york times and everybody freaked out and they were like what about democracy and free press and the pentagon was like we don't care um but they got sued anyway so there are a bunch of other rules but my point is the pentagon is very strict now about leaked documents yeah it i mean if he was like a staff sergeant they'd throw him into the wolves he would be in jail right now he's a general so they're like well you know but hegseth also did this other thing with the general the generals where previously the way that you became a general was just like that was your next promotion and he was like no we're not doing that now now if you're going to be a general you have to go through testing and everybody got mad they were like what about diversity and he was like what about testing yeah exactly i mean that i want a range of competence from from excellent to schmuck today abigail spanberger put out a most diverse that was a governor of virginia right she puts out a tweet of herself and her cabinet and she's like it's the most diverse that there ever was the most diverse virginia cabinet ever and it's her and like five black people and i posted i was like yeah because diverse means black like that's really that's remember black panther they were like we're making a diverse film like what it's literally just all black white guys right and he's the bad guy right what didn't he he was uh he was eaten by lions or something i don't remember uh uh got killed by uh uh a killmonger the guy who went around killing everybody so so killmonger was the main one was kind of a villain he was like a side villain well he had to be the circus nailed it by the way it was diverse as an aside when the whole animal farm fiasco was happening like our team was like we're going to get andy circus and then he bailed the last minute oh what a great interview yeah that would have been nice but i would have been like this is not an animal farm i've had a recent thing where so i'm doing this podcast and so i'll invite invited on artists right like phil came on and i've invited on different artists and i'll invite on artists who are outspoken about how woke is stupid and how everything's getting ruined in art and every single one of them has cancelled on the day we were scheduled to do the interview really like how many people like three four like three really kind of like what kind of bars like the big ones little ones um sort of like a little cut like sort of art world people do you remember when gavin mcginnis got that woman onto his show and then he just ragged her on her and it was really funny and she didn't realize what she was getting into i just literally wanted to talk about art she was talking about like socialism and how like all the socialist countries are better and he was like what which ones and she's like sweden and norway and he's like you mean the white ones he's like well you just named the most white countries that exist they used to be yeah not anymore and then she would yeah because it's like 10 years ago and she was like this is a mistake what is it in sweden like it's like i met her at a coffee shop after come to my show and she agreed and that's what she was like i'm like i'm asking my show and she agreed and that's why leftists don't come on shows if aoc came on the show i'd be nice but she would get obliterated well she got obliterated in uh germany at that at munich at the security conference remember she tried to answer questions and she was yeah but they they still they they just clapped for like seals sure but she's still that's in a debate but i think this conversational could be not a debate not a debate in this in a debate if if you say something that is incorrect we're going to correct you all right the other the other day a homeboy word what do you say the word soldier came from salt i pulled it up i was like that's not true and he's like oops it's like well i was wrong about what i like about the dsa is that they also don't want corporatocracy they're they're concerned with corporations you are wrong oh no no they just want a single they want a single corporation called the state yes well yeah they'd rather see the government control your ai validation of power and money in a place where they can dole it out or we can do it no no no no no no no no no no on paper we are the government yes not very much that's the point you give that up if you allow the government if you give that idea you lose but the dsa has given up that idea they don't want that they want to consolidate power and money they want to take money from rich people and not give it to the poor they want to keep it for themselves i'm not saying and then dole it out the way that they see fit and then they want no i'm just saying i'm just saying the thing that they are proposing as their idea that you are saying is a good thing is actually a lot they're pointing at the same problem that's what guys guys libby you are also incorrect really yes because they literally mean we, but we is not you. We is them. When they say we want this and we want that, so if I said right now, we want beer. Am I talking about the people watching the show? No, I'm talking about the people in this room. So when I go and say, listen, we want to be able to get beer to everybody, and then the people watching go, that's me. No, they're talking about them and their friends and they say we. It's the royal we. We can all do this together. I used to do that. Yes, we can, but literally we, the people, are the government in the United States. That's not the way the American founders understood what government is. They understood it as an entity that needed to be constrained. They needed to have power checking power because it is a separate entity and that its power comes from us, but it isn't us. It isn't like a collective manifestation of our, that's like pure Rousseau. It's a collective will. And what you're talking about, Ian, is direct democracy. The people have the power. We are a representative democracy. The House is elected by the people. The Senate is supposed to be elected by the legislatures of the states as a means to check the emotions of the people because the House is every two years. The Senate is every six years. It's supposed to be slower, more deliberative. It is a well thought out system, but it is not the way that the left and what has become popular parlance that we are the government. We are not the government. The government is the government and the people are the people. The government exists to protect the rights of the people. That is the point of government. Not to tell us how to live, not to provide us with health care, not to give us food, not to provide anything for us. They are supposed to protect our rights. Now, granted, we have moved, the government has moved far, far away from what that, from the powers that are granted in the Constitution. And it is honestly, in my opinion, been fairly bastardized because of things like the direct election of senators, because of the Commerce Clause, because of the Necessary and Proper Clause, the way that the way that the courts have allowed them to be interpreted. But that doesn't change the fact that the point of the government is to protect property rights, give you courts for redress of grievance, and protect the individual's rights and to defend the borders. Those are the legitimate power or legitimate functions of government. Everything else has been used, has been bastardized to empower the government at the expense of the people. The people are supposed to be free to live their lives however they want. The government is supposed to protect their rights. Now that has been bastardized, the government, people look at the government and they say, the government is supposed to provide me with a house. I hate that part. Yes, I do. I hate it too. I don't want that. But I mean, I think a huge amount of the Constitution is telling the government what it is not permitted to do. The entire Bill of Rights is a list of no. That's the whole thing. You can't do this. I like that. Yeah, it's a list of no's. And I think that is a good thing as a way to live. You want, I want that instead of a corporation governing me. So, the concern that a corporation might take over is legitimate. The World Economic Forum says they wanted corporate governance. They literally want to do away with nationalism and substantiate corporatocracy as our government style. And the left is against that. So, we have some alignment. That's where. I think that's just a ruse. I don't, I don't, in what sense is the left against that? They don't want big corporations controlling the world. They want one corporation controlling the world. They want we the people, the government. I mean, it's a little cultic, but that's what they want. No, that's not what they want. I can't speak for others right now. Well, I mean, I just think if you look at the history of progressivism as a movement and if you want to go back and say what were they after? They have always been after credentialed elite control. That has always been the fundamental program. It's the, like, if you look at Woodrow Wilson, Walter Littman, Edward Bernays, this sort of, the birth of what we now have, this sort of progressive, technocratic super state that is the entire West. It was basically founded in 1913, more or less. And this is what, and if you look at, like, Woodrow Wilson wrote this piece, he's really the demon, into the study of administration. And he decries the Constitution's constraints on the ability of the government to act. And then at the same time, also, everything he does is about restricting the people's right to actually act on their own. Like, I think even the word democracy, becoming synonymous with voting is, like, the original sin. Because since when is power to the people voting? Like, it's the least powerful thing I'll do in my whole life. I'm not saying we shouldn't vote. I'm going to vote, but I'm saying it is the least effectual action, I think. This is a massive peeve of mine, but the way that people talk about democracy today is as if democracy is a goal and not a means to achieve a goal. It's a process. They talk about democracy as if democracy in and of itself will produce a good outcome. That's the way that it's framed. Democracy dies in darkness. It is framed as if democracy is the only thing that we want. And then the results of democracy are automatically good because democracy is good. Democracy is a means to achieve a goal. It is only that. It is not actually something that you should hold in high regard because of the process of democracy. It is not in and of itself something that's great. It is I mean, Churchill said that it is the best worst system except for all of the others. It's a constraint. Which is basically the kind of thing we used to say about America and everything else. We would use that quote when I was a kid. You'd say that quote. You'd hear that a lot. And America is the greatest country because all the others are just not as good. You know? And now here we are at the top of the food chain. We have the most power. We have the most wealth. We have the most everything. And we hate ourselves for it. And I think that is just so crazy what we have done to our sense of national pride. And sure you can say like nationalism is not great and whatever. But like nationalism is part of our birthright as Americans. Like part of what makes us American is because we think we're the best. And so if you go around the rest of the world and everyone thinks you're fat, like who cares? Like my sneakers are still better than yours. Well we need it more than everybody else because we're not a blood and soil society. So we have to cease to even be a nation at all if we can't unify around the nation. I want to lift everybody up. So we're going to jump to the story. This is from Newsweek. Fundraiser for the Red Baron accosted by prankster raises $100,000. Well ladies and gentlemen it's actually upwards of $400,000 right now. For those that are not familiar, this working class Joe was stocking up Red Baron pizzas at a supermarket when two nuisance streamers went up to him to prank him, causing problems. And this dude, at first he's calling me like, okay guys enough. And they keep pressing him and he finally snaps, screaming he's got it hard enough as it is. He's working as hard as he can. And everybody felt for this guy. We got a tough economy right now. Things are not going good. And these nuisance streamers are trying to make money off of just breaking down society. And so everybody saw this and they rallied behind this guy. And he has raised now $400,000. In fact, Red Baron, the pizza company, tweeted out saying he's employee of the month. So can we just all come together and say, I hope so. No, they should promote him to like a PR thing now and make him a character, a mascot. He needs to come out and be like Red Baron doesn't stand for this nonsense. We stand for good pizza. Go out there and get it. That is a feel good story. I gotta say I'm glad. You're getting a bunch of cash. 40 of the month nominations are closed. Yeah, I'd feel better if he beat Lindsey Clancy on the crowd fund. Good on them, man. I'm sick of these nuisance streamers. Yeah. They're awful. I'm sick of influencers. I'm sick of that. I love that meme where it's from I think it was like, was it Hardy Boys or something? Where his hand is, I don't know what it is. Where his hand is like emitting waves. And it's like middle-aged men resisting the urge to start a podcast. Oh my goodness. I'm just like, I hear you. It's really about what you're influencing people to do. No, no, no, no. It's about every time you go on Instagram or TikTok, there's some guru charging money to teach you how to be an influencer or a podcaster and the guy himself doesn't even have followers. And I'm just like, oh my God. Or there's the woman who's like, I'm gonna charge you a hundred grand to teach you how to make viral content. And she just makes fake news videos all the time. I'm like, yeah, it's all miserable. Look, I'm gonna be a crotchety old man and I'm gonna complain about no morals. Like, I don't mind podcasts. I don't mind if someone does a podcast. But the internet influencer economy is just garbled evil trash. Maybe the low rungs. I just keep thinking about Gordon. I'm not gonna keep bringing up Gordon Ramsey. He's just fresh. But like, he's an influencer. Maybe you'd call him something greater, but his show is like a Instagram blog. It's just, it's got a hundred million followers. Well, he had a skill first, which is the differentiator. He had the right thing that involved mastery of something. Yeah. Other than just talking. And then the lens was turned on him. That's a huge part of it. I realized that on the up-come on YouTube, too. It's like, I was killing it with YouTube videos, but then I'm real. And I was an actor. So people were interested in watching my life and seeing what is the life of an actor in Los Angeles. When I quit acting, my YouTube videos were meaningless at that point. I'm like, there's nothing to share anymore. So I stopped making YouTube videos for a decade because I was like, there's nothing to give. There's no part of me that I'm proud of. And you gotta kind of build that up. I built that up for the last six years, you know, doing shows like this. something to be proud of, you know, something other than, but then I'm still sitting here on the internet i mean look the reason the only reason like the reason that i'm on this show is because of all the remains right like i i met tim on x because i was a verified accountant you know i had 20 years of of being in a metal band and and i did talk politics on x the entire time and in a time when it wasn't you know popular to be on the right and so i'd get into it with with people that were in in other metal bands or what had or fans and stuff on lamb goat.com or the metal maniacs message board before uh before x before twitter but the the you know i i i established myself as you know a musician first so that that kind of happens regularly you know that's a very normal thing to do it's a healthy way to go about it because then i think the influencer as part of your life kind of kind of supplant or like augments the the real part of you which is what you do with your what you believe how you are who you what if you don't even have a real part of you what if like all you have is that i mean the thing about the the influencer thing too it's like when you do those videos you're watching yourself do a video right because you like have it's like your phone or whatever i used to turn the monitor off when i would record right stancy in my face it was annoying and distracting that's what when the first like when i did the i did tucker carlson a couple of times in 2020 2021 when it was still like covid and so they'd send a van over to my house and i would always there'd be the monitor and the monitor would be me and i'd be like just turn that off like i'll just i'll just go with the earpiece and pretend i'm looking at tuckery and like if you go out of frame you go to frame but the but the influencer thing it's an it's a narcissistic it's an entirely narcissistic concept because you're you're uh sharing the the vision of yourself that you have you're sharing like what you think is your idealized vision of yourself you're not sharing yourself or really who you are you're not doing any like this is this is from the uh winston churchill society many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe no one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time and that's the full quote one of the greatest of all time man one of the the goats of the 20th century the the goat of the 20th century i mean there's a lot of them but goatish and they thought and they like been they've been canceling winston churchill in the uk they they say war monger but he was a good one at least he was obsessed with war he wanted it he was like hitler's bad we gotta get him we gotta get him like the 30s and there was like you're crazy it was killing he's in our time there's an argument when hitler invaded they were like yeah you were right all along please take power and then he became the prime minister he's like all right and then he wins the war and they vote in the socialists instantly what would what would winston churchill like let's say winston churchill came back right now what would he do with like france and the uk and the massive migrant invasion he'd start a podcast pill boxes he'd set up pill boxes on the cliffs of dover and you know it would be it would he would be sending the boats back i think we need to go back to like king ferdinand to really have a proper sense of what might need to be done yeah a little reconquista in spain type of situation there's a i think it's wild that when you see the in the uk and i worry about this for the u.s you know things are we have a different kind of culture but i worry about this uh when you see the protesters in the uk going out to meet the migrant boats and being like no turn back the the british government is fighting their own people in order to let in illegal migrants and then give them a bunch of stuff that the british people are paying for i mean it's so insulting and every time i see reports about the french riots and they're like oh it's really about it's education and it's really about you know we just need better housing it's like no you you you allowed a mass migrant invasion and now those people are destroying your country on purpose i think winston would have been off ostracized by the people as like a man of the people that the military order doesn't want because he's just he would have been for the people i think and then if it got so bad that there was a revolution in england uh like a islamic revolution or some foreign revolution they would beg him to take charge of the of the resistance i think i don't think he would have fallen into the queen's gambit or would they or would they tommy robinson him would they do to him what they do to tommy robinson i don't know he was a soldier he was next it's tough to say it's impressive anybody from any person from the the the center all the way to the right from the 40s and drop them into into the to modern society they would go directly to jail they would go might as well drop them off in prison because especially in england he would say something that was something that was illegal in 30 seconds he'd look around and he'd and he'd say something offensive and he would say something that was illegal and he would say something that was would be in jail immediately did you guys see that guy in billings who's uh gonna end up in jail for telling an indian guy to go home yeah that needs to go to the supreme court they need to fight it all the way to the yeah they they said that he should that the the guy shoved the indian guy but he denies that he says yeah i told him to go home but i didn't touch him yeah well if if there's an assault charge in it then obviously it gets a little a little more a you know if there's if there's no injury and it's he said she said and they're just throwing him in jail because the indian guy said that he insulted him like henry noah i was just gonna say it's like that's what i'm gonna pose a controversial suggestion here is it possible that winston or that uh woodrow wilson and fred franklin delano roosevelt who are known as like the two most autocratic u.s presidents maybe next to to lincoln but that maybe if they hadn't been is the first lincoln's probably the most autocratic but there was pre-tv you know pre pre radio so we never heard his voice but like is it possible that these guys had they not stripped the u.s of its of its basic rights that we would have lost world war one and two well if you pull if you pull the civil wilson out then world war two probably doesn't happen yeah could that would they would the u.s have joined the war he he was oversaw the war i believe was he after the war right before that was he during the war woodrow wilson 1918 yeah i mean he it's like europe is sort of grinding into this state stalemate and then wilson wants to be and make his mark is it his decision to send the u.s into the war yeah ultimately okay so sometimes then it's the league of well it's the league of nations that gets erected and then it's the the pyrrhic victory of you know that what's done to germany that causes the weimar republic to ultimately collapse and and so it's like the the marshall plan is the is the oh let's not do that again from woodrow wilson and the and the league of nations like so you don't you don't get hitler without the league of nations you don't get the league of nations without wilson it's like it's a very direct line from wilson league of nations weimar republic hitler and this is the marshall plan what's that no the marshall plan is what comes after after world war ii it's like okay well last time we just basically told the germans they can all die and hitler comes along so instead we'll actually like fund their reconstruction so that's the marshall plan you know not you know so that's yeah there's the lessons are it's very clear a similar thing to what they did to germany after world war i at versailles stripping the east of russia and turning it into pole of germany and turning into poland making all these germans now polish and then they're getting persecuted by the new polish government and their germans and hitler's enraged i feel like they did that with the ukraine when the oligarchs split up the soviet union they just carved off all the mediterranean sea access from russia they're like we can't let russia be a hegemon we have to create some new blockade that we can they can bow to the west in case so we can still control it because yeah the soviets are gone but there's still a bunch of communists and like that's why russia invaded the ukraine because they want their territory back like you know it's the same thing with hitler invading the sudetenland he wanted his territory back also you had you had the biden administration talking about how ukraine could join nato and part of the deal with ukraine ukraine means borderland i'm pretty sure um and part of the deal was ukraine can't be part of nato because russia doesn't want europe on its doorstep that's why we have this you know borderland and we can't be part of nato because russia doesn't want europe on its doorstep that's why and you remember it used to be called the ukraine because it was the borderland and then they changed it as they started to want to be more of their own nation and team up a little bit more with europe but that was i think the big thing you even had kamala harris going out there being like yeah we could have a deal where ukraine is is part of russia i mean part of nato not russia sorry that's what you yeah that's what she was saying your brain's at yeah anyway i i don't is going to be part of russia probably i look a lot of it a lot of people were kind of like woodrow wilson and fdr are the worst u.s presidents and i just kind of have been accepting it for five years or so but i'm starting to question like the value of authoritarianism and like stripping people of their rights to win a war once in a while um and like the new deal i mean it it turned from the great depression it took the economy and just lit it on fire and made it the strongest maybe it's winning the war that it didn't do that it didn't do that no no there's a lot of bridges that got built during the new deal i mean they're still up yeah the bureau of reclamation went across the country basically creating the water crises that we have today so they did that it shocks me that it shocks me that you have such a a honestly correct view on the federal reserve and what that has done but then would look at fdr and the new deal projects and and have look at those in a well i mean i i gotta say that that's probably a product of our educational system we were all raised and went to school with teachers who told us that fdr was the greatest president and that the new deal was terrific and that the new deal was the greatest president and that the new deal was terrific and the new deal was important to get the crusades were bad yeah the crusades were bad important to get the crusades were bad yeah the crusades were bad it turns out the crusades were ones, there were like a hundred. Certainly the early ones. The Christian on Christian ones? Nah, that was good. The Dukes? They were just trying to seize territory? They were removing the illegal migrants from Europe ones. Those ones were good. It was good that Spain did not remain a Muslim country. What about all the Brits? Although it's back. I don't really want to talk about the New Deal. There's a good book for you though on this. It's The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes. Basically, she lays out, it's really deep history but it's very readable. The New Deal, first of all, the New Deal was essentially just Hoover's economic policy with gasoline poured on the fire. The first story is, oh, Hoover did nothing and then FDR came in. It's like, no, Hoover began the problems with his interventions and Smoot-Hawley and all the rest. There is, just to give you a sense of how heinous the New Deal was, it was mass hunger, collapse of incomes, 25% unemployment and they were forcing people to destroy crops. At one point, there was actually a lawsuit with Schechter Poultry where they were so in command of the economy that they were telling small poultry shops in New York City that they're not allowed to sell the chicken for more than the other stores and it actually went to the Supreme Court and started to unravel the New Deal. It was a giant control scheme and it was actually because he had a brain trust that admired the Soviet Union. Rexford Tugwell, they literally were given the Potemkin Village tour of post-1917 Soviet Union and it was like, oh, they've got it figured out. We can centrally plan society. We can plan the peace like we planned the war. The whole thing is a gigantic scam. I want to jump to this story as we round out this show. It's from Deadline. Patrick Stewart dies, 86, revered for Star Trek, X-Men, stage actor. He had Alzheimer's and I believe, I want to make sure I get the, is it Lewy body? Lewy body dementia. And I want to just say this. There is a reason why this man was so influential. There's a great quote that I heard from him. AP played it as we were on our way to the show. Quote, it was an interview he gave in the 90s during the height of Star Trek The Next Generation where he said that a lot of what we saw in Captain Picard came from him and that he saw himself not Jean-Luc Picard but in Jean-Luc Picard he saw much of what he actually was. And there's many tremendous quotes from Captain Picard that were extremely influential to me and I think are very, very important for us. To pass down to the next generations. There are a lot of people who say Star Trek is dumb. I won't watch it. I don't care. And that's because they are closed minded. Because if they actually believed in almost all of what we talk about on this show in terms of our values, they would find that Star Trek The Next Generation is one of the greatest inspirations for these values. And for this I give the boomers tremendous respect for making this show and for having these values at that time and sharing those values. And informing them to this country. Star Trek The Next Generation was one of the highest rated and largest syndicated shows ever. It was airing on I believe three networks at its peak. It was just that big. And there's a few quotes that I think are absolutely musts for you to hear. We have a super chat from Tother Weirdo. And this is a quote from the show from Patrick Stewart's Picard. It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life. That is what it is to be human. To make yourself more than you are. These are two different quotes. And then he says Requis Scott Impachi Mon Capitan. T. Earl Grey Hot. Libation for you sir. Make it so. Go boldly where no one has gone before. Thank you for that massive super chat. But that quote is absolutely fantastic. And I want to tell you about it. Data is a machine. The idea is he should be perfect at games of strategy. But he keeps losing to this Grandmaster. And he doesn't understand and he believes something must be wrong with his program because he's supposed to be perfect. And then Picard tells him it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. An important life lesson that I think too many people never learn. You can do everything right and still lose. It's an amazing episode. And then it ends with Data actually technically winning. He stops trying to beat the Grandmaster. Stalls him out until the Grandmaster gets so frustrated that he throws the controller away and refuses to play. Data says he tried to play for a stalemate forcing a resignation. So it was brilliantly done. Kul Rami, right? Kul Rami? I thought it was Stratagem. Yeah, but like the guy's name wasn't his name. Kul Rami? There's another quote that is not technically from Captain Jean-Luc Picard but was spoke by Patrick Stewart in Season 4. With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured. The first thought forbidden. The first freedom denied chains us all irrevocably. And he says those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we are all damaged. Absolutely incredible. And didn't he say that to Satie's daughter? To the daughter who was trying to prosecute individuals because it was a, it was effectively like a red scare. Yeah. And she was trying to find a spy or a traitor where there was none. And then he, he has this tremendous quote. It's certainly prescient for the moment about, you know. And he ruined a kid's life, right? Because she ruined a kid's life because his grandfather was Romulan. Here's another one. Sorry. He says this to Riker. Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all, number one, we're only mortal. What an incredible show. And then, of course, you really need to understand the context. There are four lights is one of the greatest quotes in the history of television. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. And I'll explain the context because this is important in understanding why it is that I scream at Republicans for being pathetic and doing nothing. Can I just tell you, I watched that episode recently with my son and he was like floored. Everyone needs to watch it. Well, you need to watch all the episodes in that arc. Captain Picard is captured and held as a military prisoner. He is tortured endlessly. And the enemy general displays in front of him four lights and says, how many lights are there? And when he says four, he gets electrocuted. And then the general asks him again, I'm sorry, you're mistaken. There are five lights. Now tell me how many lights do you see? And Picard never breaks. He is disheveled. He is starved, dehydrated, in rags, and he looks up and screams, there are four lights. I wish we had a modicum of the character's resolve. Yeah, but after that, they get him out, he escapes, and he says, you know what, at the very end, he's like, I was about to tell them that there were five lights. He said, I thought I was actually seeing. He thought he could see the five lights. Yeah, cognitive dissonance is real, man. You can be broken into saying fallacy and believing it's real. But he didn't say it. This is why Star Trek The Next Generation was the highest rated show syndicated on multiple networks. Everybody in the country was watching it because there was strength, there was honor, and there was a powerful message in the story. And today, we don't have this. We have formulaic blockbuster Transformer garbage. With all due respect to the Marvel films, it's just flashy bang-bang garbage. Now, I want to say this. Why did the Marvel Cinematic Universe become so incredible? We can talk about Robert Downey Jr. being a great character and everyone loving to watch him, but I want to talk about Captain America. Captain America was technically it's really the second film which kicked things off because the Hulk no one really cares about. Captain America was a story about a young man who was sickly and incapable, and he was trying so desperately to serve his country, he was lying and trying to enlist at various different enlistment centers. And they kept rejecting him. And then finally, a guy meets him who sees he has heart and brings him in, and he becomes Captain America. The idea that we had a film that said, sacrifice everything you have, even if you're too weak and not capable for your nation, for what is right and for what is good, those are the kinds of messages that we need. And I think in the last 15 or so years we've been losing all of that. It's an example of why I think the MCU has been dying, because the message became garbled nonsense. There was just no message anymore at all. Even Thor had a message. The story of Thor was at most. Yeah, no, no. In Thor, he defies the king. He's arrogant. He defies orders. He says, I can do it. I don't need you, and I'll do what I want. And it causes a crisis, and it's his power stripped from him, and he has to learn humility. It's great. Fantastic. Quintessential hero's journey. I'd also just like to say about Patrick Stewart, one thing that he also did was he was like a very serious actor. He was like at the highest level of that art form, right? I mean, absolutely spectacular. And so when he took on the role of Picard, people were making fun of him. They were like, oh, you're slumming it, whatever. and he talked about this and he was like that is so snobbish for a lot of people I will always be Jean-Luc Picard and that's great like good and so I think that just in terms of the realm of that art form where actors can be so snobby about what roles they'll take on he was like no I if I can reach I can reach a great number of people this way I can do my art form and I can have it be more powerful than if I just you know stay with the Royal Shakespeare Company where he was spectacular also but he brought that art form he brought his skill and his ability to emote and bring us characters and make us really feel things and he brought it to all of us you know in the middle of the night on multiple syndication channels while we're sitting there unable to sleep and we get to watch the reruns I mean it was great this one's for you Ian there can be no justice so long as laws are absolute even life itself is an exercise in exceptions that's true limits limits I just wrote an article the other day there's a good one I'm sorry directive and villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot those who clothe themselves and good deeds are well camouflaged I like that one yep beware people need to understand when they're like I don't watch that show start the space battles and the spaceships it was all just metaphor and allegory for naval conflict it was all naval tradition based and they dealt with things in a sci-fi way that were very much just questions that we ask ourselves in war when they're dealing with relocation of native populations or how to negotiate trade and deal with diplomacy the opening reference to the show and I said Shaka when the walls fell a great episode on how to learn to communicate with somebody and with other peoples and nations it's just absolutely incredible show and particularly Patrick exemplified the flaws of humanity which make a great hero's journey which Phil mentioned earlier and which Marvel is lacking a lot of the characters in those movies and a lot of modern movies don't have weaknesses and it's to the detriment of the characters in those movies it's to the detriment of the film I think it's an unbelievable character because everybody's got weaknesses and when you can identify with the break in the person you really value the comeback and the show is just riddled with with the inadequacies of human it was wonderful and overcoming you know the best the best of the ability you know the least worst way forward so bad and data learning to sneeze and laugh watching the android game sentience was fascinating it was yeah I think the one thing I will say as a lifelong Trek fan is the next generation is a little bit of like the ideal of the EU I mean to like well it's you know Roddenberry was very much a kind of had a kind of like utopian socialist mindset and what I guess I don't think socialist it's utopian liberalism but I think he was even sympathetic to socialism it doesn't matter but I think that I think the thing that's interesting about Picard what about Star Trek I'd say is that Captain Kirk is like the true American he's the he's the Cisco so is this going this is oh man it was also great Cisco Cisco is underrated but Captain Kirk I think had not to I mean I loved next-generation loved it but I think as in terms of like archetypes for our for American culture and for and for the lessons of like what you do as an individual and I think about Star Trek too and it's like you know Spock basically sacrificing himself for the many and Kirk saying no not the many for the one and I think that this is the tension that the West this is like the crisis of the West is actually played out in the transition from you know you have first you have Star Trek in the age of Kirk against the backdrop of the of the Soviet Union and then you have the fall of the Berlin Wall and outcomes kind of the end of history next generation the sort of post money like like classless moneyless society but still how somewhere they're still they're still concert violists somehow because that's what we'll be doing it's kind of straight out of Marx there's also still property because you know Picard had a vineyard and we don't even need it because you got a replicator you do but you've got a post scarcity so your point is well taken in about Kirk he was a cowboy right like that was kind of the the he was like how did you beat the Kobayashi Maru I cheated yeah exactly you know he was he was a cowboy whereas Picard was more of a I mean he was a Plato character he was a benevolent dictator yeah there was another thing that I that I think is interesting about the prime directive and something I was writing about the other day the prime directive is only for the people who are elevated enough to be part of the Federation right so like if you have the prime directive you're going to look at some species of you know humanoids on some planet where they still you know pre warp speed society right pre warp speed societies where they still beat their women and like no one's allowed to get an education perhaps and they worship gods who has violence you know this kind of thing so you're going to look at them and you're going to say we can't get involved with them because they don't have warp and I think to your point about the EU what we see a lot in the EU is we can't scold these migrants from North African nations and Arab nations because they don't have warp so we're going to let them go we're going to let them we know that they raped but we're just going to let them go but they do hold Henry Novak to the higher standard and so they let him die because he may have said you know the ultimate crime some sort of racial slur but they let the rapists out because the rapists haven't they don't have war I want to I want to read these lines from one of the best episodes and this is the kind of stuff that informed me when I was young and why I have complete and utter disdain for the Republican Party today and you'll understand when I read this and I'll read it with pleasure so I'll set the scene for you guys those of you to know the show you'll know exactly what I'm talking about but the enterprise is confronted by two enemy ships and the enemy general says you see Picard after we dissect your enterprise for every precious bit of information I intend to display its broken hole in the center of the Romulan capital as a symbol of our victory it will inspire our armies for generations to come and serve as a warning to any other traitor who would create ripples of disloyalty first captain you will return the traitor Jarek then you will surrender as prisoners of war to which Picard responds do you seriously expect me to accept those terms the enemy says no captain Picard I expect you won't you have 30 seconds to decide to which Picard responds I do not do not require one Tomalak Tomalak says I urge you captain Picard surrender consider the men and women you would lead into a lost cause Picard responds if the cause is just and honorable they are prepared to give their lives are you prepared to die today Tomalak he says I expected more from you than idle threat Picard Picard says then you shall have it Mr. Worf aye sir two Klingon birds of three decloak surrounding the enemy warships and he says what shall it be Tomalak who responds you will not survive our assault and one of the greatest lines in the show Picard says and you will not survive ours shall we die together I look forward to our next meeting captain and then they retreat and I watched that and I saw this man get the upper hand on his enemy who threatened to murder him and everyone in his crew and he expressed that they were all willing to sacrifice themselves for something that was just and then when confronted with a threat of death he says shall we die together and I will tell you this one of the most important lessons I have learned in my life and James O'Keefe knows it I don't know where he learned it but he knows it you come for me I will burn everything down before I let you win I will not allow evil to prevail around me and watching James O'Keefe in the face of these felony charges standing up and this is not even the first time and In the face of previous charges, lawsuits, his door being kicked in, he stands similarly to how I saw Captain Picard, Patrick Stewart's character. And that's why I said yesterday that James O'Keefe is the greatest journalist of our generation and one of the greatest this country has ever seen. Because too few people in our country, and I mean this sincerely, James, you are a legend, too few people in our country will look into the eyes of oppressors, of tyrants, and of the evil and say, shall we die together? Because too many people say, please don't hurt me. And what happens then? Then you live on your knees. I learned that when I was a little kid watching the show. I absolutely loved this show. Patrick Stewart was a legend. And shall we die together is probably my favorite quote from the show. You mess with me, I will not let you win. No matter what. And you know what? I'm going to give a shout out to Naruto as well. Everybody who knows Naruto, very early on, one of also absolutely tremendous. And there's a reason why young men in this country are more interested in anime than American cartoons and American TV shows. In this show, the villain Orochimaru sought to kill the leader of the Leaf Village. And so the leader of the Leaf Village signed a deal with death to sacrifice his soul to eternity of suffering to end the villain and protect everyone he cared about. And when he was unable to, the Reaper sliced off the soul, his arms in his soul. so that he could no longer use his arms, the villain. incredible. These are the messages that we used to teach to kids. You watch the leader of the village, effectively the president, and he is fighting this villain who seeks to destroy the entire town. And he sacrifices himself not just to death, but to eternal suffering in the belly of death himself for everybody, everyone that he cares about. These are truly incredible messages. And he doesn't succeed. Orochimaru survives, but he succeeds in slicing off his arms, the sole portion of his arms, so his arms rot and decay and he can no longer use them. And that was worth it because it saved everyone he cared about. I wish we had more stuff like this for young people. Instead, we get weird, woke trash. And this is why I absolutely detest all of it. The creepy garbage that tells you to live on your knees. There's a balance. There's a balance of this because I like the whole mutually assured destruction. I do it in my personal life. If someone harms me emotionally, I will make sure they get cancer. For the rest of my life. I will stress them out from a distance like they will they will never forget what they did to me. But that's can harm me, too. And but it's like, I'll take I'll do it. Like if someone really hurts me, I don't think they deserve to live. So there's a balance point. The point is not to destroy yourself for revenge. That's not the point at all. The point is, be willing to give everything you can to stop evil. And if you die and they live, you did everything, you could. And if they want to fight with you, they need to know that you will do everything in your power up to your own death to stop them. Someone hurting you and then you come back for revenge and hurting yourself is not the message. It's about commitment. It's about making sure that you are willing to go as far as giving your own life for what you know is right. Well, that's one of the things about I mean, that's, you know, just to New Testamentize it for a second. There's this beautiful moment. When Christ is in his passion, as they say, which they say at mass every Sunday, they say, you know, Jesus entered his passion, but he's in the garden before he's for the day he's going to get killed. And he says, like, hey, do we have do we really have to do this? Do I really have to go through this suffering in order for all of mankind to be saved? And this is to a God who, you know, ruined towns because he could only find one decent man in the town and said, all right, fine. I'm a little decent man. You get out of the town and I'm going to destroy everybody else. And then Jesus is like, do I really have to do this to save all mankind? And he did. And that's and he's oh, my goodness. He had to do it to save everybody. And I just to say, we don't teach our kids this anymore. I started teaching a I don't really want to talk about it that much, but I kind of want to get this message across. I started teaching some little kids catechism. Right. And every week, like you can't get a lot across to six year olds. But I kind of. I kind of have this feeling, you know, if you get it in there at the beginning, then when they're 20 and they're lost, they're going to be like, what do I do? Oh, let me let me go find God again. I bet he's still around, you know. So I think that's important. We're going to we got to grab. I understand. Let me just go ahead. But you can get these messages across then and you can tell them and then they'll know. We're going to grab your Romo Rans and super chats. We'll start with same old man. He says, I don't want Omar to go back to Somalia. She needs to go to Guantanamo Bay or. Yeah. Then she has been in Congress seven plus years. She has seen docs and done harm to the nation. She can't go back. Christian UNC says to me, have you seen on X the Gen Z obsession with the prequel trilogy? A lot of young men saying they relate themselves to Anakin Skywalker would like to hear your and Phil's thoughts on it. You guys, I Star Wars is propaganda. The actual idea of Star Wars, if you were to dissect the story from its like remove the emotion and remove the charge statements and I would describe Star Wars as the perfect example of how the left. Takes a story and turns it evil. So, for example, the simple joke is a kid gets radicalized on desert planet by an old religious man. They take a cargo ship, rally a bunch of revolutionaries, religious fanatics to blow up a military base, massacring hundreds of thousands of people. You can look at it that way. Remove everything from it and you have. I'll put it like this. If there was a president and he was dealing with a civil war and so he enacted, you know, suspensions on civil rights, deployed, the military. Made made arrests of people without charge. Well. In the movie, he's the bad guy in real life. He was the good guy. He was Abraham Lincoln. That's why I say Star Wars is effectively like rewritten liberal leftist propaganda. If you rewrote the Civil War as if Abraham Lincoln was the bad guy, he'd be the emperor suspending habeas corpus, deploying troops, conscription, all of these things that it'd be like he's. He's. And then and then reconstruction. So when I think about. The real story of Star Wars. It is written to make Anakin look evil when he wasn't. They make him murder children. That's propaganda. Oh, he went around killing kids. Spare me. Now, what actually happened is that the Jedi were bloated and lazy. Here's a here's a really great example. Yoda age Republican Jedi Yoda, a master, the entire council. Have Anakin and Obi Wan fly across the galaxy to deal to go investigate what is it? Naboo's complaints about about the blockade instead of doing anything themselves. They sit around bloated and lazy and they're like, have the have the Padawan do it. That's the corruption of the Jedi. And they do allude to it. And the story could have been better if they did. But going the Sith are just evil for no reason. It's like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The. The Jedi were comfortable, lazy, and they allowed the corruption to fester beneath them. This is what we see in our country right now. They are the Democrats, effectively powerful sitting there. Oh, you know, we don't care. And they get mad at Trump for coming in, saying we got to clean all this up. Even Dooku tried warning Obi Wan what was happening. And Obi Wan did not care to listen. So then, of course, on the surface, whatever you think of the story. Sure. Anakin murders a bunch of kids, has an emotional breakdown, which makes no. Sense. The reason I say it's written as if it were propaganda is because Anakin is this great genius of the force and knight who served amicably in the Clone Wars as a hero with his own Padawan as well. And then for some reason, he just turns on the Jedi for like, just like that. So he literally for years serves amicably. And then one day he just decides I'm going to be evil yet. Could it be that the Jedi were corrupt? They were. They were kidnapping children effectively to raise them in their religious cult. They were unwilling. To investigate any of the injustices that were going on, like slavery. What was it? Was a planet Anakin was from Tatooine Tatooine Tatooine, really? Yeah, he's a slave. And the Jedi are like, we don't care. We don't care. There's the Trade Federation blockades Naboo. And they're like, hey, send one guy to go check to go check it out. They did not care about anything. They were corrupt as they could be else. And then when Mace Windu comes in, he goes, I'm going to kill him because he has a different religion than me. He says, I'm going to kill him just because he's a Sith and Anakin goes. You can't do that. That's against the law. And he goes, I don't care because he'll manipulate the courts. So Anakin's like, I have to put a stop to this. And then the writing is Anakin goes, I guess I'll be evil now and kill children. The core thing, the core problem was that Anakin was a simp because Anakin was like all about about Padme. And I love Padme so much. I completely disagree. Yeah, I certainly he certainly was worried about his wife dying and all that stuff. But that doesn't. That doesn't say anything to the fact that he that he was facing a corrupt council that wouldn't do anything and allowed slavery and other crimes to persist and military incursions. And they did nothing about it. And what did he say? He's like, I'm going to bring stability to my new empire. It's also a story about like not having a father, man. You raise fatherless children. They give over to the emperor like they just worship Donald Trump. You know, they worship the big authority. Well, the emperor was bad because he fomented these problems. The emperor did not make the slavery on Tatooine. The Jedi allowed for slavery to persist and could have put. Stopped it at any point. So if if again, I understand the story is the Sith are evil and it's written explicitly that they're evil. I'm just saying it reeks of exactly how the left reframes Donald Trump and the things that he's done. Oh, he said Nazis were fine people. No, he does comic book villain. You were talking about how inept the the Jedi Council is. I was thinking about how that one guy works from home. He he like video chats in his his avatars like digital. You don't talk about a hologram. He doesn't want to go to work from home. I'm not going to. I'm not going to Washington. I'm working from the capital. I'm talking about the emperor. No, like when they're sitting at the council, a few of. Oh, all right. Yeah. OK, the Jedi because they don't want to come into work. They're just working from home today. Exactly. They don't want. All right. We got this from Clank Clank on the tank. He said, if I knew it was that easy to get in the show, I would just hang out in Harper's Ferry. Indeed, that's all you have to do. Actually, it was the the Brunswick Sheets, Brunswick, Maryland Sheets. I went there. I like to go to Sheets because Phil Phil got me out of these egg white turkey chicken cream cheese. Things haven't been, you know, high protein. And then, you know, it's really, you know, it's really fantastic. A Sheets does have a great selection of protein bars that are low sugar. I like the built puff bars. They're like marshmallows, kind of, but it's collagen. And then, you know, I, I got brave and I ordered a Sheets cheeseburger. Those are not bad. Yeah, it was delicious. But, you know, she's like the Wawa of this. Yes, they've got frozen. No, no, no, no. You mean Wawa is the Sheets of their area. There are Wawa's around here as well. There are Wawa's. - Wawa and Sheetz right next to each other. the way. Wawa's like the VHS. Wawa has a good. Wawa has good hoagies. Oh, it sure does. But Wawa does not have the great keto selections that Sheetz does. Sheetz came first? Sheetz was around in the late 90s. So was Wawa. What are you kidding? Not in the Northeast. Yes, it was. Are you kidding? Oh, yeah. Philadelphia. Alright, let's grab a couple more. Your shell bell says, huge TNG fan. Met Patrick Stewart in 2013. Tricky convo while five months prego. He autographed, asked about my bump and family, touched my tummy, and told my bean, you'll have such a wonderful family. I always tell my kid, he was touched by greatness. That's right. Yeah. That's amazing. Mr. Stewart. Indeed. It's sad. But he's got one last movie coming up. Wait, what? Is he in that? Yes. That's cool. And also, I mean, he did make it to 86. That's a long, you know, that's a solid run. It's amazing. It's not, you know, Captain Kirk. He's still alive. He's literally an immortal. Incredible. I shot some promos with. Dick Van Dyke's 100. Yeah, he's still alive. I shot promos with William Shatner in the later years of my Spike TV tenure. One of the coolest things about Shatner is he. Young me. Oh, wow. Shatner did go to space. Like, in real life. Hank Fett says, for shame, you should have started with the most important news. Rip Sir Patrick Stewart. He will ever be. He will forever be mon capitane. Well, my friends, I have good news because the Star Trek Magic the Gathering. the Gathering set is coming out very, very soon. Oh, yeah. And I'm gonna go ahead and tell you the Jean-Luc Picard Picard signature autographed version probably is going to be insane. insanely valuable. Is he blue and white? Is he red and white? Let me. Magic the Gathering lore. My first thought was red and white. Let me see if I can find. Red, white, and blue. Come on. It's gotta be red, white, and blue. But he was. I mean, his character was French. Yeah. Which is weird because he had a British accent, but his. Yeah. This is, uh, this is. It's not. It's not an American accent, so it's fine. Well, I guess the British are worried about it. White. Yeah. He's white. So this is the card that will be coming out. This is the autographed signature. It's for pre-sale because it's not yet out. And it's got Patrick Stewart's autograph on the. It's the autograph card. It's a. This thing. It's about to be Make It So. It's a. It's a. It's cocked for Make It So. Yep. He's getting ready to Make It So, dude. That's probably gonna be an instant. Make It So. I am going. I was gonna buy a couple. I was like, yeah, I'll pick some up. I love Star Trek. But it's got new Star Trek stuff in it, too, so I'm kind of like. Sort of crazy how. If there's a Michael Burnham card, I'm out. But I'm gonna probably just buy a stupid amount of all of these, uh, cards now because I will absolutely have my autographed Jean-Luc Picard. What'll you do with the Will Wheaton card? I thought. I liked Wesley Crusher. He was good Wesley Crusher, but he turned into such a doofus. Well, Will Wheaton is a doofus, but, you know, when Lego put out the Star Trek The Next Generation set, they made Wesley Crusher crying for some reason. Mm. And I'm like, look, it's funny to make fun of Will Wheaton because he's so weaselly, but, like, I'm gonna give him respect. I thought Wesley Crusher was fantastic. What did you think of the way that they ended Wesley Crusher's story? That was fun. With, like, the Traveler and that weird planet, and then he's. It's kind of weird, but it was fine. You know, they wanted him to be a wunderkind. They wanted him to be, like, special. I don't care. I thought Wesley Crusher was a fine character. People really did not like him. That's why he got removed from the show, basically. I mean, he went to do movies and stuff. I will say, if he had a different outfit, they would have liked him better. Yeah, it was so tight. It was really that outfit. And that gray, and he just, he looked like he was walking around with his butt clenched together. It was weird. And you know what's really sad is, you know, someone super chatted that he said that Patrick Stewart is in hell because he made woke propaganda. And I'm like, well, what's really sad is that all of these people eventually just marched in lockstep with the machine when the machine demanded of them. Not freaks. Not freaks. No. But, you know, what's interesting, too, in Star Trek Academy, which was, which was terrible. He defunded it. The last two episodes of Star Trek Academy, of their first season, I think they're coming out with a second season, but the last- That got canceled, wasn't it? I thought the second season was in the bag. Did they cancel it? Maybe they did. I don't know. Maybe I missed something. But the last two episodes, the first one, freaks directed it, and it was actually the best episode. And so then the next episode was like the finale, and it was the continuation of that story. But it was the first time in the whole season where it felt like they were on the same team. Yeah. Because what they had done is they had so much infighting, and then they had a Jem'Hadar, like a half Jem'Hadar, half Klingon lesbian. No, no, that makes no sense. That didn't make any sense. We never got the follow-up from the Dominion War. No. Deep Space Nine is also just- Spectacular. Top tier. My God, you have to watch it. The Dominion War segment is just- The Dominion War segment is just- Cheap. Guys, fuck this. Can I just, like, I'm just going to go for it. You guys got to watch it. It's like the Federation of all their liberal utopian dreams create biological weapons, to just genocide their enemies. The captain blows up a senator in a false flag attack to force our enemies to join the war. It was incredible. That was crazy. It was incredible writing. When you watch this go, and he's, like, realizing what he did, because Garrick, he did not know he was going to assassinate a senator as a false flag attack to trick their enemies into joining the war on their side. To get the Romulans into the war. It's just so good. All of it, so good. And the thing with that moment is, like, he realizes he did a bad thing, and then he's like, I can deal with it. I'm good. Yeah, because he was like, you have to- So gangster. Because the message is, in war, winning is sometimes, there are things you have to do. It was just in, it was, oh, so good. Man, we got to go to the after show. We got to go to the after show. Smash the like button, share the show. We're going to be at rumble.com slash timcast. I run a second, you follow me on Instagram at timcast. Sir, you want to shout anything out? Yeah, we just did a comedy pilot called The Experts. It's at The Experts on YouTube. It's got- Ryan Long, Kurt Metzger is the writer, makes an incredible appearance. Be sure to check it out, and of course, you know, subscribe to me over at Dad Saves America as well. Is Callan in that? Callan's in it. That's quite a cast. What did you do with that? It's, we're trying to sell it, but we independently produced it. You produced? Yeah, yeah. So it's something I've been working on for a long time. Ryan Long's a superstar. I love seeing him on TV. Yeah, he's so funny. 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