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Sydney Sweeney ATTACKED For Doing Naked Advertisement, Loses Followers w/ Dr. Ron Elfenbein

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Sydney Sweeney ATTACKED For Doing Naked Advertisement, Loses Followers w/ Dr. Ron Elfenbein

Sydney Sweeney’s nude sports betting commercial sparked a major viral controversy, drawing both praise and intense backlash, particularly from women who see it as exploitative. The ad’s success highlights a shift in marketing toward provocative content targeting specific demographics, raising questions about gender norms and objectification in advertising. Meanwhile, the conversation extends to deeper societal trends: rising automation through AI is leading to widespread job losses in tech, finance, and admin roles, with companies citing AI as a primary reason for layoffs. These shifts are contributing to economic uncertainty, with many workers—especially young people—facing unemployment and a lack of viable career paths. In response, there’s a growing trend of desperation, manifesting in the rise of low-skill influencers and mass content generation via AI, which floods digital platforms with cheap, automated content. This undermines traditional media and entertainment industries, threatening their viability. The broader implications include potential reductions in workforce size, declining population, and increased pressure on social systems like housing and food access. Critics warn that without meaningful policy intervention, such trends could lead to economic collapse and societal instability. Some suggest solutions like universal basic income or tighter labor regulations, but challenges remain in funding and implementation. Ultimately, the conversation reflects a cultural and economic crisis in which technology is reshaping work, power, and social values at an unprecedented pace.

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Sydney Sweeney is going massively viral again because she put up a commercial of herself and she's just basically naked and every guy everywhere was very happy and they appreciated that commercial and now they've heard of the company Novig. Women almost everywhere, not every woman, but they're really pissed off. I've seen all of these viral trending Instagram and TikTok videos where women are complaining, saying Sydney Sweeney is bad or whatever and I, you know, jealousy, I guess, whatever we'll talk about it for sure, but she's lost 200,000 followers on Instagram and she got 25.8. I don't think she really cares all that much, but it's not just this Ed Sheeran is getting canceled. He's artists are dropping off of his tour because Michael Moore was pro-Palestine. The promoter didn't want that at the concert and removed him from the tour. The fans, or I should say the activists, blamed Ed Sheeran for it and now they're dropping off his tour. He issued a statement, nobody cares. Guys, I know a lot of people, they say we need to talk about hardcore policy. There's the older gentleman I know as a friend of mine and he says, when you talk about what's actually going on with taxes and healthcare, maybe then we can have a serious country and I'm like, listen, that's all happening to and we'll talk about it. Cash Patel had a hearing, the FBI, there was an oversight hearing for the FBI. We'll talk about that. Something about Cash Patel, not disqualifying somebody who wants to enter because they were a victim of bestiality and then of course, liberal media doesn't care. Money cares. I think the media has gone generally insane. I think unfortunately a lot of people want insanity. I think there's unfortunately a small amount of people, namely all of you watching, who wanted a degree of sanity, but it really just is, you know, guys, when we're at the point where Tucker Carlson has a guy in the shows as Algebra is fake, I'm like, I think we've jumped the shark culturally and I'll just say this, I have some conversations with people. I think I know why a lot of people think we're facing economic collapse for a variety of reasons. It's not just the AI conversation, it's the around war conversation, it's the diesel cost of diesel, it's the fertility bomb. And so you add all these things together and the general sentiment is get your bag now, stock up because it's coming down, baby. Hopefully not. Well, we're going to talk about it and a lot more. So make sure you guys smash the like button, share the show and all that good stuff. Joining us tonight talk about this and so much more is Dr. Ron Elfenbine. Tim, how are you? I'm great. Who are you? What do you do? I'm an emergency medicine doctor from Maryland. John Hopkins trained a yard doc and really thanks for having me honored to be here. You're not, you're even dressed like a doctor. It wasn't on purpose. I don't just play one on TV. Yeah, no, no. He came from work. It's all right. I just came from working. I'm like, well, you're a doctor. So people will figure it out. Well, we'll talk a bit about this. One of the stories that I saw, I don't know if you saw, they're saying that experimental treatment may have just cured a three-year-olds cancer. Yeah. Big news, especially with the, so it's not all bad, you know, maybe is the economy implodes and we go back to the Stone Age, we'll remember that we briefly cured cancer. Stone Age, but without cancer. Without cancer. Well, we'll have the means to produce. The treatments will have known. We did it. Details. These are details. We got the boys hanging out. What's up, everybody? What's going on? I'm in my podcast in uniform. Yeah. It's the, it's the Trump golf course. That's the same question. It's kind of like my undercover MAGA hat, so your undercover MAGA. If you go Walgreens, they're not going to cost you. It's the bougie MAGA hat. It's, it's, it's only the insiders, MAGA. It's like when I wear my cry comp camouflage pants, only the insiders know that they're actually cool back pants. It's up Carter. I'm doing my drug and bullsie haircut again. Let's go. So yeah, let's, let's get into it. Before we do, we got a great sponsor for you, my friends, it is PDSDET.com/Tim. Feel like you're working hard, but still losing money every month. PDSDET can help. Minimum payments aren't designed to get you out of debt, they're designed to keep you stuck. PDSDET is the way out. They can reduce up to half of what you owe on credit cards, personal loans and medical bills, and it starts with a free 30 second assessment at PDSDET.com/Tim. Not juggling multiple payments and get one lower monthly payment. 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There's a reason why these companies are able to sponsor and advertise because they're genuinely helping people, but people genuinely are facing economic hardship. It's freaking me out. We'll talk more about it. I just had to get that off my chest. Here's the news. Sydney Swaney loses more than 200,000 Instagram followers amid growing backlash over her nude sports betting ad. Okay. Well, here's the video. It's awesome. Thank you, no sports. Prove it. No big is just sports. So they wanted a show just sports. You can try this sport and the sport. How about this? This sport, too, or this? Sports, sports, sports, sports, sports, sports, sports, sports. You can't trade this. I just look in here. No betting on wars, or deaths, and no politics. Just you, your takes, and sports. I don't think the intentions could be more overt. Everybody gets it. I wonder how much you think she got paid for this? So she has equity in the company as a strategic partner and equity holder apparently. Could you imagine like, guys, you know why the world is ending? Because only fans hookers can make $50 million a year on only fans. You know what I mean, like dudes, we need AI now more than ever. We need AIY so that men can start getting this money back. We don't need to pay Sydney's, Sweeney, $50 million, we can make an AI woman who is naked in selling sports betting. Think about that sentence real quick. And just consider where we are as a society right now as this is the big story. Yeah, well it's, I mean, because this would have not been noteworthy at all, 10, certainly, well made it 10, really 15 years ago, certainly 20 years ago. I mean, like, I remember like, Kate Upton would do stuff like this all the time to go back before. And the 90s. I mean, this was super common. Sports illustrator was literally sending out this kind of stuff all the time. And we refer to that period, I think it was a lending man that dubbed it the vulgar wave, which was when a lot of these companies were marketing towards men and sort of masculinity and the maybe more raw sense, I guess, was the common accepted interpretation of masculinity and the culture were now that sort of shamed. So when we see stuff like this that once again would have been very common in 2005, anyone know about it and I, it is very shocking and that sort of thing. But you know, some people are like, see, this is proof woke is dead. I'm like, the fact that it's such a big story shows that it's actually a really unique marketing approach. And the fact that it's a company that is already, you know, sports betting is not really considered a very, I mean, it's mainstream, but it's not considered a sort of acceptable form of doing business kind of like magazine would be. So there are, they're not trying to like, you know, keep their image clean. They're sports betting. What are you going to do? Women are so mad about this too. Thank you for supporting the objectification of women for the male gaze. You know, remember that viral article where it was like cat calling is wrong. And then it was like three years later, the same one was like men don't cat call me anymore and I'm sad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Look, I mean, there are some women that just want to complain. I personally, yes, some not all, maybe even a majority, but still look, this kind of stuff, I've been like, when I go on PCC and we talk about, you know, the woke stuff or the advertisements that are coming out, it is in my opinion, even though there are people that take objection to, you know, the racey nature of this kind of thing, it's my opinion that advertising being aspirational again, right, is a good thing, right? I think that having attractive people in your advertisement is good because you want people to look at your product and say, I want to feel good when I look at this. And when I look or when I, when I purchase this product, people want to see themselves in the product. they look at an attractive model, whether it be a female or a male, I was so done with the Calvin Klein ads, with the Androgynous fat people, with Nike's advertisements that had overweight people. You've got just unattractive people, and for so many years you had just unattractive, and also unhealthy people in advertisements, and I think it's a good thing that we have started, at least some companies have started to move away from that. I think that it's the sign of a healthier society. - Yeah, we were just talking about that earlier. Nike taking off the, they've lost all this market share, there are people who are buying their products, because they were exactly the opposite what you're talking about, right? I mean, they're a fitness company. You should be putting people who are, you aspire to be like, not somebody who looks like you, right? Or not you, I mean, the average person's share. - You know, the old conspiracy theory is that, I think the big start of the body positivity was dove, the real beauty campaign 10 years ago. The thing is, they were owned by Unilever, who also owned Ben and Jerry's. So when you think about the consolidation of products and corporation, you've got an executive being like, why are we advertising these women that are aspirational, but selling women ice cream? They're not gonna buy one or the other, you know what I mean? We got it, it's good to be fat, eat to Ben and Jerry's all day and night, we're proud of you. - I mean, there may be substance to that, but I tell you what ice cream sells itself. - Yeah, 100%, and that's gonna sell itself, right? I mean, everybody now knows whatever that company, I can't remember. - I, whatever it was called, everybody knows that name now. - Yeah. - And, you know, people who weren't watching before, weren't on sports betting apps or not, damn, we're better be out of now. - And we are gonna see like the fat, I mean, we're already seeing it as the fat acceptance thing on the way out, and companies are gonna approach it anymore, because GOP ones have basically cured obesity, I mean, obviously, obviously there's like, you know, people debate the side effects or whatever, but, you know, like if you just look at it from face value, it's kind of optional to be like obese now. So, there's not really a need for the fat acceptance movie. - It was always optional. - And, it's true, but, you know, a lot of people, even if it was, we're in an extra- - It's optional now. - Yeah, we're now, yeah, if you're like, morbidly obese, it's really like why? Why are you still allowing yourself to be morbidly obese? So, I guess what I'm trying to get at here is, you know, as it becomes optional, and like the main faces, the very large faces of the fat acceptance movement are now slim. - Very large faces. - Yeah, they're very small faces. They don't have, they lost their quarterbacks. - GOP, they lost their linebackers. - That's not true, isn't like who's, I don't wanna say the wrong female pop star, but it's like a morbidly obese female pop star now. - You know what I mean? - Will Lizzo slim down? - Yeah. - No, no, no, there's a, I don't wanna say the wrong one. Do you know what I'm talking about? - I hope it's, is it that one that keeps going viral for that weird performance on a. - I don't know, I know, is there's a pop star woman and she got real fat. And everyone's like, man, she got real fat. - Oh, yes, I know who you're talking about. - I don't wanna say the wrong name, though. - I think it was Natalie and Brulia. - Because she-- - Oh, no, no, no, no, she's thin. - And 90 more. - Are you joking? - I don't know that it is. - I don't know that it's a pop star. - No, she's thin as thin can be, bro. - Is she? - Yeah. - Who is it then? - Look. - She's thin. - That's why I'm thinking-- - I'm like, you can't call her fat. - No, I'm thinking of a different song. I mean, a different-- - The fat singer, drama. - Hold on, let me see if it's. - It's not, I don't know. - Natalie for Tato. - Yeah, it's what it was, yeah. - That's what it was, right? - Oh, I can't tell. - My girlfriend just text me, that's so thank you, Sarah. - See, see, 'cause I was gonna say the wrong name. - I was gonna say Demi Lovato, Natalie for Tato. - And she's not, doctor, I need help. Is it bad to be fat? - From a health perspective? - Yes. - Yes, I understand. - It was a very tough question. - That was the tough way, yeah, follow signs. It's also bad from a fitting of work. - That's the tough way in seed perspective as well. - Yeah. - But I mean, the fact that people, I mean, whether you're using GLP ones or just living a more healthy lifestyle, the fact that people are trying to no longer be overweight is an unabashed good for society. - 100% for everybody, not just for them, for the good for society. Like you said, yeah, it's good for everybody. - I'm torn on this Novic stuff because on the one hand, naked Sydney, naked Sydney Swini, you know what I mean? But like on the other hand, sports betting? - Well, that's the reason that they're going forward with this, 'cause they're targeting a very narrow demographic, which is like young men who are kind of chuds in some way. Like if you're sports betting, you're just kind of a bonehead to be completely honest with you, because the odds are so stacked against you. At least there's like some decor I'm going to the casino, right? There's a house edge that's like, you know, four or five. - Free drinks? - Four or five points, Fred. Sports betting, Sagar and Jetty has done like pretty, he's articulated the dangers of it very well. I mean, it is, like you're guaranteed to lose money. And when you start performing well as a sports bet, are they just take your account away? - That's what I was gonna say. - I actually think it's very easy to be a successful prediction market or sports better, but they just ban you. - Yeah. - Well, and prediction markets are like slightly different, but like sports betting in so far as, hey, the house is presenting you the odds, you're allowed to bet on, like it's kind of crazy, that just the proposition is crazy to think about. We're at least at the betting market, they're kind of just facilitating the trades. It's still, you know, debate to be had there, but the sports betting is just ridiculous and you're guaranteed to lose money. So the people that they're targeting are this, this is going to move the needle for them, not that I'm necessarily upset about it. I'm just trying to say that it shouldn't be shocking that a sports betting company is like, yeah, we're gonna put a naked woman on there. - The other possibilities, they planted that story too, right? They could have been a plant, they could have been, this whole thing could have been like a marketing scheme from the beginning. - Oh, they absolutely knew it was gonna be provocative. - Yeah, what I mean, the fact that she lost 200,000 followers and all that, they could have been like, I mean, who knows if she was probably-- - Oh, it's probably, and they wanted to be, 'cause like it's not like Walgreens is gonna run this ad, right? Like it has to be a company, it has to be a company to control. They need to be able to shoulder their provociveness. - 100%. - I can't help, and I know people don't wanna hear it, but I can't help but feel like we're in the sewer right now. Sports betting, fake news, algebra is not real. We are surrounded by refuse in all directions. - Rome is on fire. - Indeed, and that's it, and I hate to bring it to this conversation over and over again, but it really does swim around the AI issue. Remember, we're in conversation. Actually, I'm gonna be a little bit more vague. There's been a lot of conversation that, in the next couple of years, there's going to be a massive explosion of haves and havenots. Working class people who own very little but still own will have nothing. You will own nothing and you'll be happy, they say. Those who own now will own forever. And that's because of AI. So, if you think about what happens to a society when every car is owned by one company, Uber is gonna own a fleet of self-driving cars, cyber cab. So, you the regular person won't have a car anymore. Shareholders in Tesla will. They'll own those fleets that you pay for. So, there will be people who get money through what they own and there'll be people who have nothing. But I'm gonna stress this too about the sports betting. The reason why I think the prediction betting sports about any stuff is getting so big and Casinos are popping up everywhere. I think the people in government know and this conversation's come up. When you eliminate white collar work, what do you have to occupy the time and mind of an individual? So, guys, track the Casinos being built right now and you will, I was talking to a guy the other day. And he's an older guy. And Casinos came up and he said something like, yeah, but usually if you're playing at a casino, it's only in special places, right? And I was like, no, they're everywhere. And he was like, real? I was like, yeah, we got one down the street for my studio and he said, is that a reservation? He said, no, it's just West Virginia. We've got, let's see, we've got three. You got horseshoe, MGM, Maryland live to the east. If you drive a little bit further north, you'll get to Delaware racetrack in Casino. Which another like hour, you've got Hollywood Paradeville. That's five. Then you, we'll remove the Delaware one for now and just say we've got four. But then you've got Rocky Gap, that's five. I think Maryland has five Casinos. And you can drive to any one of them within two hours of each other. But then if you add Delaware, then you could add York and Harrisburg. You've now got eight. Then you've got Charlestown, nine. Then you've got, if you wanna expand your range to like three hours, you're gonna have probably about 12 Casinos within this area right now. Then you go three and a half hours, you're in Atlantic City. - It's just hard, exactly what I was saying before. This Rome is burning, right? It's the moral decline of society and you gotta give people something to do. So you have the Gladiators, instead of the Gladiators, people aren't killing each other for sport. But they're, you know, we're talking about Sidney Sweeney, being naked and gambling and betting on sports betting and going to the casino and watching football games. I think our societies become because we're so, well, this is my prediction. We had the rise of the information economy with the.com era. Then we got social media era, which has been the past 10 or so years, which is the attention economy. People started making videos and if you could get the eyeballs, you were making tons of money. It was no longer about information, right? Search engines were king. Now it's attention. Can you hold someone's attention for a long enough time? And this is where you get Tucker with the guy saying algebra is not real. It puts eyeballs on him or Candace saying self of steam, but she knows what she's doing. She's very smart person. And you get the Alex Jones saying, I want to box him pool. It's like, please just look at me so I can get money. The question is, what is that money going to be in the long term? And that's why I think we're in the sewer where, you know, I'll put it this way. I'm not saying this to start a fight with Alex Jones. Why would Alex make a bunch of fake things about me claim my support Israel and then try to fight me? Why would why would Alex turn on a dime? We were having a conversation with a handful of guests. In the next few years, AI is going to eliminate most jobs. Zach relief, I was telling him on the show. His industry is being destroyed right now. And he knows it. That's why he's largely been like, you know what? I can get political. It's kind of crazy. I mean, this dude was shazam. He did two blockbuster movies. He's been successful TV shows. This guy's had a massive career in Hollywood. And he goes, I'm going to get political. I'm going to get behind RFK Jr. Knowing it'd be bad for his career. And what do you say? Hollywood's over. AI is about to destroy it. So I need to get, you know, he's like, I need to do what I've got to do now. He's amazing. He's an awesome dude. I'm a big fan. He's a good guy. I think I think the machine knows. And I think they expect the future to be you wake up and work is like your AI automated slop content producer for YouTube where bots from India watch the videos and you get paid. And then you put that money into a sports prediction app. And the people who are wealthy are going to be good at predicting who in sports. And and get you know, it's just insane that we've come to a point where people are wagering money on whether or not I will do something personally. Like I just I think the future is going to be really weird. You're you're not going to wake up. Like I got I'm going to change it. You are going to have to go to work. But work is going to be like, Oh, I work for an AI prediction firm. It's like, Oh, what do you do? Well, you know, I just got to sit there and like monitor the agents and make sure their predictions are are lining up and getting executed properly. So I, you know, it's nine to five, you know, like anybody else. I work hard every day. I like the idea of that being a hard work. But sure, but I mean, look where we are right now. Are we happy with the hard work we have? Well, I mean, go go back to a farmer and his family and explain to him the world he's building will result in five guys sitting around talking about some naked chick and making tons of money doing it. And they're going to be like, that's absurd. That shouldn't be allowed. Like, well, that's the world you're building. Well, I mean, look, there's still people that actually do have hard jobs and work hard in modern society. There are more jobs that are, you know, whether they're white collar jobs or entertainment jobs, there are more of those now than there were in history. But there's still a lot of people that work hard. Like people that are digging, you know, the sewer connections, people that are, you know, working oil rigs, people that are, I think it's fair to say everybody works hard. I was watching this Kami on Instagram and she was like, what do you mean you deserve the money because you worked hard, grocery store workers work hard, farmer like people picking fruits and vegetables are working hard. And I was like, no, I completely agree with it. You can work hard at anything. It doesn't guarantee you success or anything. But I do believe that even if technology comes and changes things, people are still working hard. You're trying to solve problems. You're thinking as hard as you can and you're doing everything you can towards your job, whatever your job may be. Again, go back 500 years and explain a supermarket to people and they're going to be like, that's not work. Like when I go out to work, my hands might rot and fall off. You know, it's like, we have safer work now. But everybody does work hard to a certain, not literally everybody commies. They don't. You know what I mean? I think that I think it's probably true that like most jobs, like 20% of the people work hard and then 80% of the people kind of coast on their back. Universal tourism. Yeah. Agreed. But the world's always going to need, you know, ditch diggers, right? Right. Right. Getting, but I don't think they're going to need electricians. They're going to need plumbers. The world is always going to need people to put up drywall. No. People with skills. No, Elon's replacing all that. The Optimus bot's going to do it. Yeah, I actually agree. Like, it's probably not in the next couple of years, but five to five to six years. Until I see an Optimus actually autonomously doing things that like then maybe I'll change. They already have the prototypes. They've done that are doing like some private alpha stuff. I'm only disagreeing because of how wrong I was about content. When a year ago, I was like, man, in like three years, you're going to be able to and it's now. Yep. And I'm sitting or being like, it's, it's, it's, it's over. Like, I was saying this before the show, like, maybe it's fine to say artificial general intelligence isn't here yet because you start to supervise. Yep. But I actually would still argue artificial general intelligence is here because we've eliminated eliminated the bottom, not not the bottom, but we've eliminated a huge chunk of administrative and I don't know the right words. They haven't eliminated yet. The, the, the AIs do have the capability, but they're still the adoption and they're still people, or they're still, it's still neat people. But he's still, well, yeah, they have to adopt it. I was watching Fox today. And for the first time, my mind was blown. You know why? They were like seven commercials an hour that were for, for adopting AI. It was one where it was like, it was like, are you having, like, as a guy's like, you have trouble with with HR, your company, use our company automated AI HR. And I'm like, here, here we go. The administrative stuff is being erased. I saw, I saw seven different commercials for various AIs to do administrative work. So right now, I know I've been talking about a bit, but with the stuff I'm doing for, for code development, when I say it's tedious stuff, you still need a project manager with vision. But the entry level position, you'd hire, like, some kid graduates college or whatever and he's got a portfolio and it's like, yeah, we need someone is going to do the basic, you know, coding. That's not a job anymore. Yeah. That is not a job anymore. Well, it's ironic. The only way that like the economy can survive this sort of compression would be sort of a conservative structure and so far as, okay, we need a way to have the population declining. And we need a way to ensure that we can basically reduce the amount of people looking for work, right? We need to reduce the size of the workforce. The obvious, and I'm not, this isn't even a joke. I mean, there's been far more intelligent people than me that have sort of articulated this Nate Fisher, but newfoundings, one of them, that it could bring for sort of this conservative demand of, hey, we want to be able to provide for a family on a single income. That was the way that we used to have it and people were generally quite happy with that sort of arrangement. And that would solve a lot of these social problems that we're having. This can be a way to get to that. Again, it would require a bit of ushering. But if we can have a situation where, okay, the workforce is compressing and now we're having less jobs, that now means labor that still exists, the demand that still exists for labor should warrant higher salaries, which means the men that are working in these jobs should be getting higher salaries. There's less of a need for additional managerial labor, administrative work, which typically goes to women. And this will just allow generally, like, for example, a plumber, like you said, well, you know, we're cutting out a lot of this administrative work. A plumber can now run a business basically by himself. Yeah, bro, bro, it's, hold on there, guys, start a minute. Whose house is the plumber going to service? Just customers, which, who? Well, we're not going to run out of people. We're the population is declining, but who owns houses? Well, I mean, landlords have to, uh, 25% of Gen Z owns homes. Yeah, but they're still rents. 25% I'm being somewhat facetious. Yeah, I mean issues. There's going to be a reduction of this kind of labor just due to population collapse and a lack of ownership and an inability to even buy as the market collapses. Perhaps when we see, you know, like, look, when the boomers are, the boomers are at the mortality shelf right now and every day, it's like we're watching boomers. There's a generation that's dying. It just, it's how it goes. It's not meant to be morbid. We are going to have a massive influx of homes with no buyers. And so houses are going to deflate and when houses deflate, this means that even millennials and Gen Z and Gen X's own properties are going to see their, their, their, their, their net worth collapse. If they were a lot on real estate for the net worth, which most people do. Correct. So what happens when there's a Gen Xer who owns a $300,000 house, he's got maybe he used it as collateral for a small business. The housing market completely implodes because when boomers die, all those houses flood the market like boom boomers on average, I think have two houses. So not every boomer has house. 75% on homes and I think on average, they have at least two. What happens when those houses all flood the market? They're going to inherited by their kids if they have kids and they probably do. But those kids are going to try and sell them because they don't want to move there and they're going to drop the prices down. Now that Gen Xer who's got that collateral, the bank says, work margin call, your collateral no longer covers the loan we gave you and we're, you're not going to pay it back now because the market's tanking. So I wonder when I see, you know, Alex Jones and Tucker and Candace and all these people, I'm like, I think their basic strategy is it doesn't matter what people think about you when the system's on the verge of imploding. You need to extract as much of their labor as possible. Buy as much stuff as you can to sustain yourself when this all goes tits up. I mean, there's like really like, there's these really like doom or projections of what could happen. But like also on the, the counter would be like, let's say the worst case scenario, the worst birth rate in the world. Japan. People typically look at Japan. Well, Japan's population 100 years ago was 60 million. And the worst case scenario, UN projections for Japan's population after this all bottoms out, 80 million, 85 million. So, I mean, again, like what we're seeing here would just be a reduction of the population. And that's Japan without immigration. They have zero immigration. So that's just like returning to what 80 million. Yeah, but it's an exponential collapse because after that 80 million, they don't have kids either. No, the reason it's not exponential because there's still a, there's still a segment of the population that's children. Those values are inferred on their children. And that's the stopgap. Yes, the stopgap. So that what that means is we can expect the base on it's not going to be 80 million in Japan. Yeah. There is not 80 million Japanese people who have big families and have those values of having big families. But it's different generations. So like the expectation is I think Japan drops a 20 to something million. No, no, no, no, because there's there's about like 45 million excess like 45 million people that were born during the baby boom that were like outsized compared to previous generations that are in Japan right now. So that's how they get to that 80 million roughly. The point is every subsequent generation is not having kids at replacement rates. That's what started the 70s, though. And so I think it makes these projections now. So right. So the projection for Japan is not that in the next generation to be 20 million, it's like in three or four generations, they're at 20 million. The baselines are like 80 million though because even what the, like it's not exponential because they're having like one kid. So you're just seeing the population have as each generation goes on. Yeah. But eventually there's a stop gap because you have a certain proportion of the population that still maintains a certain fertility. And then those values, genetics, et cetera. Traditionalism is going to win. And then a couple generations, we see it turn around or it just flatlines because that's what Japan is at before where Japan was basically hovering from 40 to 60 million. So liberalism's on the way out because they just like the panda can't reproduce to save their own. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so like, you know, so I mean, that is certainly a possibility that everything just does collapse. I mean, I don't know the account, the problem with like the problem with capitalism, Brian, this sound like such a Columbia student, the problem with capitalism broadly is that it is, it is dependent on line go up. The way that we have structured our market in the United States is it is dependent on line go up. If the line goes down in this case population, it's tough to imagine how the economy reacts, but AI is this curve ball. We're for 30 years, 40, 50 years, economists have been pulling their hair out like what happens with the boomers die? Well, AI provides an interesting, I don't know if band-aid, I think is quite frankly a solution for the market. There's one thing that we haven't talked about when it comes to the, the, you know, the economic ramifications of AI so far, we haven't seen significant cutbacks in the labor force because of AI. There's been some, but there haven't been significant what you're actually seeing. It mirrors what has happened with other technologies being introduced to the market. You're having people stay working and they're just becoming more efficient, they're becoming more productive. So, I don't know that the, I believe the situation is going to be where you have like a mass exodus of workers from companies. I think that like, like it happened during the industrial revolution or with compute with just, you know, computers and personal computers in general, you see people doing more with their time and becoming more productive. So whether or not that continues that trend, that's obviously, that obviously remains to be seen, but currently we're not seeing a significant reduction in the workforce because of the implementation of AI. I think we're heading towards techno-communism. That's, that's the plan and communism, not really the right word for it. Good news, the commies are trying to stop it. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I'm, you know, I'm not so sure. I think this want to be in control of it. That's what they're really mad about. I mean, this is not hyperbole. This is like, what's his name? Well, wow, thank you. I mean, it's in his playbook. He talks about the new world order where you said it before, Tim, you're going to own nothing and be happy. I mean, that's a direct quote. Yeah. So I think that's the plan. Whether that actually becomes reality. I don't know. I don't know that people are going to stand for that. I mean, I think it's old frog in the pot analogy. You know, you've slowly turned up the heat. But I think people are starting to wise up to what the hell's going on. That's why they need to make sure that there is no, there doesn't need to be an FAA for AI, which is one of the things that the people are essentially, they're, they're using that analogy. They need some kind of oversight committee or oversight, a bureau on the federal government to oversee AI. I want a terrible idea. I want to make a point to what you're saying about people becoming more productive. I just, I have a question for you guys. For what purpose do we need our five millionth Gen Z political influencer with surface level opinions on things? That's a good question. I don't, you know, you know, I can be automated. I should be automated. The point is, you can find me on, when, when we start taking away a lot of these jobs that occupy the minds and time of the average person. I'm not saying it should be this way, but it is this way. When you, when you say it, we, you know, we need someone to dig ditches, but we don't need more because we have excavators and we have robots and we have AI, that person will now try to do something else. And so what's happening is you've got people who otherwise would have been delivering packages or driving cars. I am not saying that to disparage those jobs. There's a noble and honorable professions that we need. But once those are automated, these people say, well, what do I do now? So they look around and what are they all doing? They're trying to be influencers. This is not an increase in productivity. This is spastic desperation. 10,000 people who want to have jobs freaking out, being like, I don't know what to do anymore. Look at me. Algebra's fake. That is not increasing productivity. No, I mean, and, and, and I'm a stresses in response to the mass decentralization of social media. You get people like Tucker, where he's like, you know what? Let's bring the guy in and say, algebra is fake. Why? What? Well, just the Tucker has been a, you know, an entertainer or a media personality. My point is he needs to crank the volume up more and more and more because he's in a sea of screaming voices. He needs to scream louder. Candace is the, is the same. Alex Jones is the same. He's always been like that though. Well, I disagree. I mean, Alex, you know, he called, he sends me a voice memo where he's like, what are these people doing? Why are they doing it? What's happening to the right? And then seven months later, he's like, I'm going to join him. And I think the reality is YouTube is going to turn into an AI Slop Channel guaranteed 100%. We sit here in this room with professional lights. We spend, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars building the studio out in a multi million dollar building because I was like, let's invest our time energy and resources into being able to do a great show where we talk about important issues. And then what happens is some kid goes on YouTube, clicks, he clicks a button on a few different AI sites and auto generates 40 hours of content per day. This is not exaggeration. Literally, there are guys that do this. He now makes a million bucks a year, doing a couple, a couple hours of work per day, clicking a button to automatically generate Slop content. The Slop content on its own doesn't get more views than I do. But there's 700 of these channels doing the same thing. And so if each of them is taking a few thousand views, it adds up and it rips watch time from everybody. They've now decentralized the revenue through YouTube, but here's the problem. It costs nothing to make the Slop. It costs a lot to make this show. So in the long run as our revenue declines, and this is true for Fox News, we did the same thing to Fox News. The cost of making the show is cheaper than a studio. So as these shows progressed, those shows struggle to make money. Fortunately, they still make money off of boomers, like Jesse Waters is getting a couple million in the boomer demographic, but he's getting like a hundred thousand in the key demo. This is this is the end for cable TV news. A podcast can survive a little while longer because our margins are less, but I guarantee you in three years, a show like this with this level of production will not be possible because the amount of money you will make from a show like this compared to how much it costs to produce a Slop show of the same type with the progression of AI technology, you will convince no one to work 80 hours a week to make minimum wage. You will have people who are like, every day I wake up and for eight hours, I you know, I end up getting a thousand views per day and I make like $70 per day, generating 25 hours of Slop content per day. And that's what we're headed. YouTube can't do anything about it. They're they have rules against Slop, but as a technology improves, you are going to see fairly decent content. YouTube will only be AI. Well, yeah, but I mean, and fair enough, I'm not I'm not trying to argue that that, you know, there won't be changes to add to YouTube or whatever, but like I said earlier, hasn't been a corresponding shrinking of the job market to the introduction of a with the introduction of AI. But our firms that are using AI and becoming more productive, but you know, after all just astro and fabled just came out. So I'm currently still using soul for some projects disaster. Yeah, well, I immediately stopped fair enough, but and like that's why I said earlier, you know, we'll see in the future. But as of right now, the the all the indicators are that they're going to know, no, that's completely incorrect. They're running commercials right now saying fire your staff. Yeah, they're running commercials just because they're running commercials saying that doesn't mean no, it means a market reaction where companies have already emerged and have been operation for a for a year plus that are now advertising on cable TV when I see the actual shrinking of the job market when you see it in the numbers, then I'll go ahead and say, okay, actually you're right. But as of right now, all the indicators are that they're not firing people because of AI. - Incorrect. - Maybe they will. - Saying indicators. - Yeah, the job numbers. - So when we're talking about what will be indicative of future action, you're saying current statistics show that the job market is stable. - Okay, so I use the wrong verbiage, okay. All of the evidence that we have right now is that they're not firing people. - I agree. - The job market is not true. - We're sitting in the living room and as far as I can tell, there's no fire anywhere. - Now, I know for a fact the garage burned down already and there is a fire over there, but as of right now, this room's not on fire. - This is bad analogy. - Because there would have to be shrinking of the job market somewhere for the garage to have burned down, right? So you're saying, I think the garage is gonna burn down, but as of right now, there's not actually a fire. - So, you're saying that as Hollywood, as Hollywood studio has been shutting down? - I don't know. - Yes, we talked about it on this show. - Again, this is, this is one. - This is shrinking. - This is one, this is one. - That's the garage. - We're not saying the whole house burned down. That's the garage. - But I mean, you know, you could any industry, right? I mean, video games, right? You used to take months to make a video game. Teams of people make years, years, right? Years. Now you can do it in a weekend, right? You can make a pretty good game in a weekend, right? Is that necessary? So all those jobs have disappeared, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's people become more efficient. They become better at making them. So we had a video game developer at this company. We didn't hire anybody after this because it didn't work out. I will never hire a video game developer again. In 12 hours, I've gotten six months of video game development done. And I actually don't even think it's fair to for me to call it my own work, 'cause all I did was set up my phone playing video games, looking over at CHEPD periodically to make sure it was working. So we have an arcade game that's done, completely done in every imaginable way, done. Ready to go, ready to upload. And now I've got a game that I would describe as like, it's a rogue-like comparable to PS5 level graphics. I don't know how to describe it. Modern game almost done. I'm just trying, I could say the game is done right now to be fair, but I want to make it crazy. This would never have existed, and I'm not going to hire a developer for it. And it hasn't cost me a penny. Now explain, I have a subscription, a monthly subscription open AI. And the amount of usage that I have has not exceeded that $200 subscription. So for zero additional dollars to what we already do with AI for graphic design, we are doing most of our graphics thumbnails, design work is just instant AI. So there's a couple of jobs that are gone. - But you're more efficient now, right? So, I mean, again, you go back to the '70s when they were making pong. It took the team of developers, as you said, years to make that game. But is that necessarily a bad thing? - Yes, the issue is when Taco Bell automates taco production, we think, oh, but now they can make more tacos, right? Who can afford to buy the tacos? The person working at Taco Bell is the person who walks across straight to the pet store to buy cat toy for his cat. When that person doesn't have a job anymore, they say I need to get money from somewhere. So they start consolidating around what appear to be, like I think the reason we're seeing a massive explosion of desperate influencers is 'cause there's no other way to apply being human. You say, I'm a low-skill labor, but they've largely automated my job. I guess I can shake my ass on only fans. And that'll work for a while until AI automates that, too. - You know, the sad thing about this whole discussion is, I mean, I'll tell you right now that AI is an incredible tool when used properly. The one industry that really hasn't taken a foot in where it should is medicine. Like it would have the huge impact on people's livelihoods, and people's longevity, everything, but we don't use it. - So let me just read, the center of job cuts are in tech software and IT services companies in coding co-pilots, AI testing and AI opt to shrink engineering, QA support, and junior development teams, Oracle Amazon, Meta, Microsoft Dell, and the big Indian outsources, TCS, Infosys, YPro, Cognizant, have all cited AI as a reason for large 25 to 26 cuts. Tech is also the sector where Challenger, Gray, and Christmas says AI is now the leading stated reason for US layoff announcements. Finance, banking, and FinTech, bank office processing, compliance review, junior analyst work, transaction checking, and customer support, city group standard, standard chartered PayPal, Clona, and others have tied head count plans to AI tools, junior roles that used to mean pull the data and draft the first memo are the ones shrinking first. All of this was predicted two years ago. I watched this mini doc about what these companies, like Anthropic, OpenAI, were saying was going to happen, this was in the pipeline. They said the first thing's gonna happen is the job for the 22 year old where they come in and they say data entry here, draft a memo, and send it out, gone, legal research, gone. So now the lawyers don't need those junior analysts to come in and be like, hey, I need you to search records, they finger snap and they've got them, gone. The next, so there's a pyramid where they graph this out. Next will be the managers. The managers will be gone. So these entry-level jobs are already gone. The question is how many? So in 2025, we had 54,836 directly cited as AI job cuts. As of 2026 to July, 112,713 jobs related to AI. Since 2023, it's been 184,000. The biggest month so far in record has been May of 26, with 38,579. In August, it did drop to only a few thousand. And this, I think, is probably related to just the speed of the model adoption. There's a lot of it. With the release of Fable and Astra, I think we are going to see now the eliminations of the entire graphic arts industry. It's not an exaggeration. The six months ago, getting a graphic done for a thumbnail on YouTube or a flyer, it was kinda e. Today, my mind is blown. I, there's just no comparison. And I'm not saying it's better than people, but it's faster and cheaper than people. That's all that matters. - I think about like, you know, all these jobs for years have been moving overseas. So we, you know, when you call about your TV now working or you're refrigerator now working, you're not calling someone in India, right? That's been happening for years. - That's something that I want AI to get to the point where I can talk to an AI, actually knows what it's talking about. Because if you're talking to an AI that actually solves your problem, it's much better than talking to someone from another country that barely speaks English or you can't understand or doesn't understand you. So I mean, as far as call centers go, bring that change on. - 100%. - Yeah. I mean, your best case scenario really is, because like, these governments in the West that are just keeping the floodgates open on immigration. One of the main arguments that they're putting forward is, well, we need to backfill the loss in population. So I kind of go back to my initial point. It's like, that would be really the hope with AI is that it can allow the population to decline without putting serious pressure on the market. But then additionally, it's a good point and fully brought up too is like, it also can prevent off-shoring from occurring, which is also valuable for a variety of reasons. One, it doesn't fork over American capital to our adversaries like China. - Mm-hmm. - There's a funny video where this agent guys like, I'm gonna have Astra make GTA 6. And it made this really crappy thing in half an hour, which as bad as it was, was better than GTA 3. So it's like, we can make probably GTA 3 in an hour right now. My, I thought this was gonna be like a year. You know, I was like, man, can you imagine in like a year you're gonna be able to like, oh, tell the, Astra rolled out. We saw all this stuff about Astra. My mind was blown. I pulled it up. And this is the first time I can say with these AI models. The reason why I say AGI is here is because the average person is not going to be as perceptive and fast as Astra is. When, when, if I put it in a prompt for Astra, it's on call 24/7. In fact, it never stops working, never. Last night, I put in a, it's a scheduling prompt. Every 15 minutes, do a check and keep working and said, you got it. And so from 11 p.m. at the end of the show until 9 a.m., it was coding the game that I wanted. Building levels, testing, doing play tests over and over again. While I slept, a human being cannot do that. So by all means, again, even if the argument is there are coders that are better than Astra, are they gonna work 24/7? Never take a day off and require no money. There aren't coders that are better than Astra. There are people that can, that can, there are people that are looking for a specific result and maybe Astra won't know exactly what they're looking for, but there aren't coders that are better than Astra. - So to wrap it together and just to the main point, I think the reason why you see Tucker Carlson and the algebra stuff is because this, this market that we're in right now is being flooded with cheap free content that consumes people's, there's only so many hours in the day for people to watch content. And with people losing jobs or not being able to get them. The important thing to understand is young people are unable to get hired. So one of the things that, it's funny, I asked Groc about this. It's not just about layoffs. It's about, what do they say? The purpose for, oh, I got a new thing popped up. Backfilling. They're not even bringing on news. new people, as all people go out because the jobs just don't exist anymore. What are young people going to do? Well, fair communism. Well, that's the honestly there are what there are young people that that's what their hope is, right? The people that are like, we want a fully automated luxury communism. Well, this is why like I come in again with like the optimism where it can just against the conservative, you know, the conservatives are have been fighting against a winning here, but like it could quite literally victory could fall in their lap and so far as compression returns to single income providing for the entire household. And that kind of gives us the off ramp for women working because women working and providing an income is like decimated the society. I do think there will be some kind of UBI somehow implemented. It's either UBI, yeah, it's either UBI or incentives for the government basically ensuring that wages stay higher than they probably realistically should be. But that UBI just turn into rising prices though. Yes, but the problem is when you eliminate 25% of jobs in a year, you're going to have a ton of people throwing bricks and and maltimes if they can't get food. Well, we functionally have UBI with like unemployment and and that's not the same thing. That's not the same thing. It's the same thing, but we're not going to have it. No one's going to starve to death in this country. When you have like a fifth of our economy is health care administration. So those jobs can be automated right now. 100% 90% of it should be to be honest with you. Yeah, absolutely. What are those people going to do for access to the economy? Are they going to just be like, guess I don't eat? Now, what happens if every single one of them gets on welfare? Who's going to pay for that? Yeah, that's a big problem. I don't know that the people that are throwing bricks are doing it because they don't have gainful employment. You look at the people that are actually no, it's food. I'm talking about. So one of the factors in every revolution you track is when the cost of food is too high or the average person has no access to food. That's obvious. If people can't eat, they go nuts. So if you took a fifth of the U.S. economy, a fifth and all those jobs got automated because it's administration. It's data entry. It's phone calls. AI can do all of it now. But there's two things here is a lot of those, the majority of those jobs are women. Secondarily, this gives the government incentive to halt immigration and conduct mass deportations is because you free up jobs, right? You take pressure off of the labor market if you reduce the amount of people in the labor market. And that allowed as the population declines, if the population is declining while the available job, you know, available jobs also declines. We can get out of this in one piece. But if we continue to have, if we continue to have them, like let's say Trump's out of office and a Democrat comes in, they just open it up again. We're cooked. A population decline also means a decline in the quality of life. So the question is, as we deport people and jobs are declining and the value of houses are going down, if less people are producing goods, there's let the prices will go up for the goods that you want to put it simply. The reason why we can buy a wide screen high-deaf TV for $300 right now is because of the size of population because many hands makes like work. As population shrinks, you have less specialists and that makes it harder to develop. And, you know, if you take a look at the, like the colonial period of how long it took to go from muskets to cartridges, even. But that's why the argument is AI buttresses are standard of living. So even as the population declines, even as the job market retracts, AI is ensuring that our quality of standard of living, etc does not fall off a cliff. But the challenge then is connecting it to the market. So a person who doesn't have a job anymore needs a way to get money to buy things to create that trade even between AI. So if Elon creates, you know, Tesla Bell and it's a bunch of, yeah, actually, it's a Tesla restaurant, but let's say he makes taco Tesla and there's a whole bunch of fully animated taco shops. Who's going to be able to make money to buy from the taco shop and then have a job? So then we got to think about this white Elon said UBI because there's no other, like, I don't want to say there's no other way, but the idea is how do these people who can't do any meaningful work be the customers you need to sustain this automated business? Well, there's two things there. One, let's look at the middle class. Okay, the majority of the jobs, the first jobs on the chopping block, again, are jobs that are dominated by women. So it's going to create a direct incentive to get married. It's going to create a direct incentive to get married and in the males who the jobs that are least likely to be automated or dominated by men. Again, that creates a, that sort of creates an insurance that you're not going to starve to death. You get married and then a single income can provide for the family. The lower class, the people working at, you know, Taco Bell or whatever, that's where it gets a little bit more dodgy. And then that's where potentially, yeah, Jordan Peterson was talking about this 10 years ago to his credit is he was saying, what do you do with those people? I mean, as the economy gets more complex, what do they do? And that's where it's a bit more unclear. He brought up the military and people with an IQ of 85 and below can't get in the military because they can't do anything that they won't screw up essentially. Like, if you have it, if you, there is a, there is a floor to where, or, you know, I guess maybe it's a floor. Either way, the point is if you have a person that isn't smart enough to do the basic job, what do you do with them? You know, and those people actually tend to be the ones that are prone to violence because they understand enough about the world to kind of go out and function in it, but they don't have long-term thinking that I'm the skills. Yeah. Well, let's, let's think about that, right? They can't be given the skillset. Either that's, that's the major problem. It's like, it's one thing to be like, oh, this person doesn't know what to do with their life, but they, you know, they've got a 95 on their IQ. It's totally different. Well, got someone that cannot be made smarter. And now what happens when you increase that window from right now? It's like, everyone under 80 can't really have a job and make it, but now we're going to scale that to everyone under 100. Well, that, that's true, but the proclivity towards violence is, is, is around the 85. It's not, not if you don't have food. Like, the country, like the nation of Tunisia, yes, may not have a, like, an average of 100, but the country itself falls apart when the average person can't eat. So yeah, I, if you're talking about like a whole entire society falling apart, that's one thing. So Tim, you're, you're, you're for seeing basically AI slash robots would have you want to call it taking over every job? I don't about every single, and at some point of the future for sure. Right now, I'll put it like this. There's no reason for music production anymore. If you had a company that had a bunch of employees, you've been at employees who are gophers. You had, you had minimum wage interns who got coffee, don't need them anymore. Why? Well, because you don't need to, as soon as we'll auto generate anything you want. Yeah. And if you want to go in full production mode, it's not even about that you can go and soon know and say, make a song. It's that you can pull stems and you can be like, I want stems in this style. And you can one person now can snap their fingers and have the song they want. So unlike the horse and buggy analogy, you're saying that this is just so systemic. That's the problem. Is that you're going to lose, in the next five years, say, we're going to lose 75% of our jobs. I don't know about five years or 70 years, whatever. I don't know about 10 years either. Okay. What I could say is my prediction for the speed of AI was was wrong. I was like, oh, in two years has happened. It happened two weeks ago. I'm just like, wow. Okay. Like we already have AI commercials. Yeah. So the people used to hire to do CGI who used to film. I did, I did a, I did a film shoot. I got hired 10 years ago. I got hired. I got paid five grand to do a film shoot for for a dude. It was a, it was a news production thing. Don't need it anymore. There's no, that job doesn't exist. So a lot of the work, too, is contract work. This stuff is gone. Now, you don't need to eliminate 75% of jobs to make the world fall apart. You need to, you only need to eliminate, eliminate seven percent of jobs in a year and see what happens. To your point, Spencer Proud almost won an election with all of his ads being completely regenerated. Yeah. I mean, that was pretty impressive. Let's, let's go. Because the message was good, too. It's, it's, it's a bit too much. But let's, let's get back to some of the modern news. We've got this tweet from Brian Allen breaking every scheduled opening act on Ed Sheeran's loop tour has now withdrawn after Michael Moore was dropped over as pro Palestinian remarks. Aaron Roe, Lucas Graham and Phineas have all pulled out. While Sheeran's touring band, Bioga has also quit. Well, that's over. That's it. Yeah, the tour is done. Sheeran's got no band. Yeah. Each cited solidarity with Michael Moore, Palestinians or opposition to artists being silenced. There it is, my friends. And so what I was saying a year ago, and I, you know, I'm going to apologize again because my timelines are just off. I'm just really bad at this. I said, in, you know, I said in 10 years, Israel's got no support. The, the, the, the right does not want to be involved in Middle Eastern conflict and the left hates Israel. And then there's some people on the right to wait Israel to. So I don't see how Israel is going to have any funding or support from the United States. I didn't think it was going to be this quick. Everything's going faster than I thought. So should I buy a bunker now? It's, it's kind of remarkable to see how quickly it claps. You know, there was a few anons that at the outset of the Iran War, we're saying Israel's a public appearance is actually going to improve because, you know, they're going to fight alongside the US and it's going to be like we're in this together. Really freezing cold take because we're, I think it's interesting this last week. I think it's where it's really, it's really gotten crazy because of the whole response to this bow French tweet. And, you know, you have like guys like Ben Shapiro or various other guys who are, you know, very pro-Israel. And they're coming out and they're like attacking both French. But then they'll also attack them like, you know, what was the, for context, what was the original bow French tweet? Or what did he, what did he actually say that got people while all up in arms. There is a picture from the University of Texas. when they beat Ohio State and it was a snapshot of the audience going crazy or whatever and it was like 90% Indians in the crowd. And he was basically saying quite rudely but I think it's kind of Trumpian to be like, here's the issue. I'm going to deliver it in a really rude way to get it into the zeitgeist. He was saying, basic, I don't remember the specific sweep of paraphrasing, you know, look how like, look how quick the demographic change has been in Texas. And what he's getting at is something that a lot of Texans are like discussing quite a bit is that the DFW suburbs specifically very Indian now, the universities are very Indian now. And so yeah, I guess what I was trying to get at is the reason why I think people like at mainstream mag are starting to get really frustrated with, and I'm not using this necessarily, it's pejorative just as a descriptor here, are getting really frustrated with the more like ardent Zionist people in the movement is because they bring the knives out for, you know, guys like Mahmoud Khalil, which is like fine, I agree, he should be deported. But then when it comes to Indian immigration, other immigrant groups, all of a sudden they're like, whoa, whoa, hang on, why are you being so mean? Why are you being so rude? And everyone's like, why aren't we keeping the same aggression and vulgarity here? Like, yeah. And people get very frustrated by that. They see it as like a dual. Particularly when it's, particularly when it's a Jewish person and, and everyone knows that Israel is a primarily a Jewish state. And so the, the argument is, is it's okay for you to have an ethnic donation in Israel, but it's not okay in the US. And I, I am sympathetic to the idea that, look, the US is not the same thing as Israel. So the idea that they're, that they're, you know, that you're comparing apples to apples is wrong. Israel is different from what the United States is. But it does speak to kind of a bit of hypocrisy when, when Jews are saying, oh, you know, Jews in the US are saying, well, you know, you can't, you can't exclude people based on race. And yet at the same time, these people oftentimes, if they're not dual citizens, they're at least, you know, they have family in Israel. They go to Israel and they're very vocal about Israel needs to stay a Jewish state. And so yeah, yeah. You know, what's interesting is the, all these guys are protesting because Macklemore got pulled off, right? Yeah. Where will it protest when Ben Shapiro was being protested on campus or Jordan Peterson, right? He couldn't speak. Nobody cared. No, no, no, but they're more than because they're not pro-free speech. They're pro-Palestine. Well, no, no, exactly. It's just, it's the hypocrisy. So I don't think it's hypocrisy. It said they were, they're, they're also, was they were mad because they were protesting the fact that he got pulled off from, they're, they're people, people who is within their moral framework to lie to steal power, who explicitly say they don't want free speech. They're doing exactly as they believe. Oh, 100 percent. Yeah. That article said they were protesting the fact that they wanted, that they believed that they were infringing on Macklemore's free speech. Yeah, but, but I'm saying they're lying, right? Yeah. So they lie, we know they lie. Hypocrits in that regard. Yeah. But it's, it's hypocrites only on the surface to those who don't know who these people are. 100 percent. Yeah. You know, it's, it's, and, and it's hard to call it hypocrisy because if you don't know anything about it, you've never seen them say free speech is bad. Right. So we, we know their intentions. Hey, look, we got, we got AOC. She's here. Hey, if Ed Sheeran comes on the radio while you're driving along, are you changing the channels? I am. You are. Yeah. Why's that? I think that, um, what we've seen, especially it's not, it's not just what has happened with the act and not just in removing Macklemore from the lineup, but when you see what Robert crafted to line up all of the stadiums to censor speech in that one specific way, it's become clear that this is not just about one music artist or two music artists, but this is about how just a handful of stadium owners and the elite can prevent an entire massive issue. In this case, the genocide and Gaza, but it doesn't stop there. It could be speaking out about AI. It could be speaking out about any issue that you can now just get a handful of stadium owners to ensure that an entire person's career can be jeopardized if they speak out about any issue. That's supporting that. I'm inspired. All of that is all of that is BS. Okay. Right. So as a guy that's been on, you know, been touring for 25 years. I've played shows with a boatload of bands. When you're a support act, you are doing what the headliner says. If you want to speak about politics from stage, go headline your own tour. You know, that's your prerogative and that's so it's not about free speech. When you, like, when we go on tour with someone, if we're a support act, we treat it like we're being invited into their home. It's their stage. We get on stage when they say we get off stage when they say, doesn't matter if we haven't played all the songs, if we had technical difficulties and we have one more song left, our time's up. Our time's up. Get out of here. And that's all there is to it. You treat the headliners as if you're going, you're a guest because that's what you are. I'm inspired by AOC because you made me realize something. She doesn't know what she's talking about. She's not. She doesn't care either. None of these people do. And I know I'm just going to start making nicotine pouches. You know, it's like, what am I doing here? Preaching of the choir while people like her just lie, you know, for political power. There's easier ways to make money. Addictive substances. And I don't know how to work. I can sit around all day in the nice fall weather and I think what's interesting with what's interesting with this story, though, is like again, five years ago, you would have seen certainly the like conservative commentary, but even a lot of conservative like politicians going to the mat for Robert Kraft, you know, attacking Macklemore, whatever. But I think people are a lot more hesitant now because it's kind of viewed as like, okay, he has a take on like an ethnic blood feud in the other side of the world. It's like has nothing to do with nothing to do with the United States out of all these have these hyper left wing performers that like headline these stadiums all the time, they don't get canceled. It's like, I'm far more disturbed by like what I'm hearing in a lot of rap music and they're permitted to perform at stadiums all the time. So I'm like, that's far more threatening than me than like again, he has a take on palette. I don't like agree with Mack. I don't know what Nackenmore's politics are. I don't really care. Like if he's has this take on the Israel Palestine conflict, it's like immaterial to me. So, you know, why am I going to go to the mat on Robert Kraft's feud with Macklemore? It's like this has zero to do with me. To that to that to that point, as far as this particular issue goes when it comes to, you know, Macklemore being dropped the fact that Robert Kraft got involved and and was going out and it was multiple stadiums are saying we don't want him on this. That I I can see why people consider that a problem because it's not Ed Sheeran that was saying or Ed Sheeran or whatever his name is, however you pronounce it, my bad. It's not him that was saying, oh, you're off the tour. But okay, I do people understand the severity of Ed Sheeran's backing band quitting for no reason. Oh, that's a big deal. But a big deal. This is one of the biggest cancellations that has ever happened in cancel culture history. Yeah, that's like $10 million dollars, $100 million dollars probably probably hundreds of millions. I think what it's how swift do like a what was it like a billion dollars in revenue for a tour? It's one of the last guys that can pack a stadium. Exactly. His band is gone. There's no tour over nothing over literal nothing. But one artist was removed for a tour for being political at an entertainment show. They all panicked and pulled out. We have never seen anything on this scale of cancel culture. But it's just remarkable because it's like if like if they're an artist and he was doing a tour and he was super pro Argentine and he was like antagonizing the United Kingdom and he was saying the Falklands should go back to Argentine or whatever. I don't think any stadium owners would be like, you know, cancelling his show or whatever. But it's like it's like, but when it pertains to this issue, all of a sudden now let's, you know, let's throw this guy off the tour. Like I, I stoop AOC, retarded takes, etc. I'm there. Like the leftists are jumping on it for entirely different reasons. But like we take the hundred foot view here. It's like what? So like what? Who cares? Like who cares what Mackinmore's take is on Geo. Well, but I mean to that point, that's true. But you could say something about Robert Kraft. It offended him. He owns the stadium. So why? Why can't he exercise his right to say, I don't want that guy at my stadium? I mean, legally he has the right to, but I guess what we're debating here is like the culture. It's like a culture word topic. So it's like legally sure. I mean, you can make the argument that like, okay, well, the government paid for all the infrastructure. But that's like in the weeds. I guess what we're arguing here is like the culture. Like is this should be this permitted culture? I get that part. I'm just saying like from, you know, and back to the free speech issue, it's it's it's so obviously blatantly not free speech issue. And it's it's it's, um, people have this this fantasy that, you know, you that you can have free speech at work, right? You don't have free speech at work. You're pulling. Like if you're, if you're calling Kaepernick, he would, you know, exercise, quote, unquote, exercising his freedom of speech. He doesn't have freedom of speech. He works for an organization. Yeah. When you're at work, like I can't put a, I can't wear a MAGA hat to work to the emergency room. I work for a hospital. I work for a group. I, I represent the group. I don't have free speech at work. Yep. And I think people need to understand that. That that's that's not something that you have free speech when you're in your own house and when you're on whatever, but not when you're at work. A couple years back, we were on tour with Megadeth. And I was wearing a shirt that said anti-communist, right? And generally, I'm familiar with, uh, with the headliner, with Megadeth's politics, or with the least with Dave's politics. And I didn't think it would be an issue. And it wasn't. Bye! that had Dave seen me and said, hey, you know, I don't think you should be wearing that. I had to take it off and been like, okay, my bad. You know, just, okay, this is your show. Yeah, he's the boss. He's the guy that's running the show. I'm here supporting him. I'm a guest. I'm not gonna do things that step on his toes. I'm not gonna do things from stage that he doesn't like. Now there is an argument that like, look, if you are gonna go on tour with Rage Against The Machine, you know what you're getting into. If you're gonna make an offer to Rage Against The Machine to be on your show, you know what you're getting. They are-- - Yeah, he's got a pro-communism, a pro-mau-- - Oh yeah, they're pedal. - They're, they're, yeah, they're all very, very, very, very, very far left kind of dudes. And everyone knows that. So you know, you're getting into, you know, getting into it. But a guy like Macklemore is a pop star, right? Like, he's not particularly political in his music. He's saying the things that he's saying largely, not because he's, and I can't speak for him personally, but I imagine he's not super political in general. It's just that this is the issue of the day. Just like when Black Lives Matter was the issue of the day, it's kind of the omnique cause, right? It's, right now it's black, it's, it's-- - Virtuously. - You know, free Palestine. Prior to this, it was Black Lives Matter. There was a while when it was, you know, global warming and stuff, these are all the big issues that you have to have the right takes on. Right now it's Palestine. - I guess my problem here is like, Gillette Stadium, I saw someone put it on Twitter. I mean, they've hosted Taylor Swift, Green Day, which is like one of the most leftist big artists that can sell to Stadium left, Jay-Z. Why are they allowed to perform, like no questions asked, but if you're, if you have the wrong take on Israel, suddenly you get tossed off the take off the, you know, off the stage. And it's like, I certainly agree. Kraft can throw out whoever he wants. It's a, it's a stadium. It's, you know, his name's everywhere. That's, I'm not arguing what is right to do it, but like, again, if we're arguing about like the cultural issue about play here, my question is like, why is there like an Israel loyalty test to perform at a stadium now? That's what I'm saying. That seems a bit crazy. - Yeah. - Again, right now it doesn't affect this as a fingers because it's Macklemore, but eventually that can affect. - No, but the issue is if somebody said they wanted to come on Timkast, IRL, and then I was like, yeah, sure, for sure. Like, you know, we talk daily news and go, no, no, no, no, no, no. I want to do like five minutes just talking about Palestine. And I, so we've had people reach out and they'll be like, hey, I really want to talk about this thing. And I go, well, it's a topical news show. Like, I don't care what you talk about, but if the news of the day is not what you're talking about, that's probably better suited for the culture war or like, you know, now at the temple show. And if someone's like, no, I want you to give me five minutes so I can just go on and talk about Palestine and genocide. I'd be like, no. - No, but what I'm saying here is it's an issue that's like has nothing to do with Americans. So that's why it's stupid to have a loyalty test over that. - But I'm saying the same reason that if he was coming - It's not a loyalty test. - It's a promoter being like, dude, don't do protests set up my venue. - No, but the problem that he has with Macklemore is his, again, it's whatever, it's his take, but like it is his stance on this very specific issue. - My point is if Macklemore said he wanted to preach the clan, I wouldn't call it an anti-clan loyalty test. I'd say he doesn't want the politics at his venue. - Right. - No, but I don't think Macklemore is bringing these, like he's not going up there on the stump to talk about Palestine. - No, but apparently that's what he did. - He had a big sign on the stage and he was talking about it. - Yeah, it was like his whole performance. - Yeah, but what I'm saying is it's an issue that has nothing to do with the United States. Again, like if they had a stance on the British, no one would care. - My point is a business promoter who's like, hey, that's bad for business, don't do it. - Yeah, but why is it bad for business? Why is it bad? - Because half the people in this country like it and half the people don't. - That's not true at this point. I mean, you will boomer with it. - Yeah, boomers aren't going to-- - It is 54% anti-Israel right now according to the polls. - Yeah, but that's mostly boomers. When you go from Gen X and down, the majority of them couldn't care less what your stance is on Israel. Most of them are probably adversarial at this point. - And craft and the people around them and his donors and the guys who are buying sponsor slots and funding these purchases probably are older and support Israel. - And why take the risk? - That's the business owner. Why take the risk? - But again, you're going to risk-- - I certainly agree, young people don't like it. But again, it's like, hey, I'm running a business and somebody wants to come in, like I'll put it this way. We have sponsors, right? Like what if someone said, I want to come on your show and I want to just rip to shreds your sponsor? I'd be like, well, I mean, you're a lot devier opinion and so I'm not going to say, don't say what you want to say. But if like, you're going to wear a shirt saying, F, our sponsor, that's going to cause us problems. We can't do. - But that's your sponsor. But like, again, he's talking about a geopolitical conflict that is out of the world. I mean, for example, there's only one stadium on the tour, right? It's Robert Kraft that is like throwing the hammer down. All the other stadiums are perfectly fine signing off. - So then why did they ban Macklemore from the entire tour? - Because, no, it's the artists are pulling out from the tour now that they can't do this. - So what happened was-- - Have another stadium. - Sheeran said, Kraft wouldn't let us have Macklemore so he's off the whole tour. - Yeah. - But if that's only one stadium, why would Sheeran ban him from the whole thing? - As far as I understand it, it's because other artists are threatening to pull out. And so now-- - So other pro Israel artists were like, Ed Sheeran, you got to ban him. - No, as far as I understand the story is once the Macklemore thing turned into a wedge issue, it started becoming controversial. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. - Hang on, hang on, the whole thing started to stink. - You're my son to say that. - That's why they have their stadiums. - Why was Macklemore banned from other stadiums? - That happened after this whole shenanigan. - So he was only banned from one show, one time. - From this specific show. As I understand the story, Gillette Stadium said, no, you're not performing. Then it became a big political thing and other stadiums are saying, no, we're out. If this is gonna be a big, big whole thing, but a political thing, we're out. - Just Macklemore. It's just Macklemore as far as I understand it. - Okay, okay, so just to clarify, Gillette Stadium says, no, Macklemore. So Ed Sheeran says, okay, you can't play this one show and then other stadiums go, we're not gonna let them play either. - Because it turned into a big political spectacle. Once an event becomes controversial, the other stadiums are saying we don't want it. - So it's not Robert Kraft then. - No, it's all of the stadiums did not want Macklemore to perform. - Well, it's like seven of them. But they're responding to, they're not responding to his pro-Palestine take, they're responding to the fact that this thing has become a spectacle. We don't want this come into our stadium. It's a bad look, but the first shot fired here was Kraft. The first shot here was Kraft saying, no, he can't perform. Then it turns into all these people coming out and they're saying they're silencing Macklemore or whatever. Now all of a sudden, we don't want this toxic event come into our stadium, we're canceling it. - But he was banned from the tours before. You got your timelines backwards. - No, Macklemore was banned from the whole tour. - Yes, after it became controversial. When Macklemore was barred from Gillette Stadium, the controversy kicked off and now the tour's toxic. So no one wants the toxic political tour coming to town. - So Ed, what is this? This is Ed Sheeran's. I'm appalled by the conflict between Israel and Palestine, the suffering and pain caused. Macklemore asked to join my tour last year. I agreed because I respect him as an artist. As with all my support acts, I agree that they play a set list of their choosing. After Macklemore's performance is at my New Jersey shows, venues on my upcoming tour dates communicated that they would pull the shows if he was still supporting. So that's what I'm trying to say. Your timeline's wrong. Multiple stadiums before there was any controversy called Ed Sheeran and said, kick him off. - No, I mean, I might have- - This is his actual statement. - Yeah, that's Ed Sheeran's statement. But as I understand it, the story started with Gillette Stadium saying no, he can't come here. It became political, everyone started getting outraged. This statement was like yesterday, I think, because this is like well into the- - I spoke with the venues at Langthall week to try and build a bridge. One of those people was Robert Kraft. I was also involved in direct calls with promoters, along with activists on both sides to try and find a mutual resolution for all. But the venues and promoters decision was final. Macklemore coming off the tour was the promoters decision. It was not mine. Macklemore's contract for the tour was with the promoter, not me. So, again, it was one person. He had received multiple messages from different venues. One of the people he talked with was Robert Kraft. I think that's just, I guess you can believe Ed Sheeran or- - Yeah, I mean, I don't know. - That's what I had, that's the initial timeline that I had seen but I could be wrong. I mean, still it's, I think it's secondary to my primary argument here, which is again like- - My understanding is that it wasn't a controversy until he was kicked off the tour. - Yes, that's what I'm saying. - Not the show. - No, no one cared about the show. The show wasn't a- - Macklemore's been doing this. - There was no political controversy affecting venues until after he was banned from multiple shows. - I guess, yeah. So I don't know what the official timeline is here. I was under the impression that the timeline was Gillette said no. It became political. Other stadiums said holy crap. Now we're bringing this super toxic political story to our stadium, we're out. - I think what happened was when multiple- - I don't blame the other- - A corner store that I read in the state of Fred Sheeran. Multiple venues got mad that he had the big prop house nine set, genocide stuff. He was speaking about it, he was putting apart. The promoter said we're booting him because of all of these different venues. - Yeah. - That's when he got booted and then activists lost their mind and said holy crap, they just kicked him off the tour. - Everybody quit. - Yeah, and now people are starting to quit. Because like earlier today, these bands had not quit. - Right, no, I understand. I guess what I'm trying to get out here like- this is still secondary to my primary argument, which is, I am still like much more concerned with Jay-Z or Green Day or Taylor Swift than I am with Macklemore. 'Cause first of all, Macklemore nobody used to use his relevant as music sucks. That I'm very comfortable saying. Thrift Shop was cool for like a year. I think part of the reason he's made this pivot is because he needs a way to stay relevant. - All of them, it's a Tucker Carlson phenomenon. - Yeah, but yeah, Macklemore like to the utmost degree. But I still hold the point, which is, I think it's a stupid test to have when people should be getting thrown off tours for, like, left-wing activism. They shouldn't be getting thrown off of tours for, like, again, a geopolitical situation. Even if it has this left-wing flavor, there's right-wingers that have sort of contrarian takes on Israel-Palestine as well. But I guess what I can't perform in hard is just perform. Look, but again, but take me to the point. Right now, especially with the ability to produce top-level Hollywood productions in 10 seconds, Macomore is not going to sell you music relevant, but it's ideology is the one thing you can't AI generate. Correct. Yeah. So that's what people are starting to sell. And I agree, like, in a perfect world, like, none of these people would be getting political on stage. I shouldn't have to know who Taylor Swift voted for. I completely agree there. I guess what I'm trying to say is I find his politics less reprehensible than green. Again, I don't know. Let's just, for that sake of the hypothetical here, let's say his thing is Palestine. I find that less reprehensible than, for example, Zara Larson, like, literally encouraging her audience to get abortions. Zara Larson could perform at all these venues, no problems. And I'm like, that stuff is a former reprehensible. That's what I'm worried about. I'm not so worried about what its take is on Israel and Palestine. I can roll my eyes at it or I can agree. Whatever your take is, it's, again, it's not really my concern. And so that's why what I'm just saying is we reserve the right as conservatives look at that and say, well, it's kind of a stupid reason to boot someone over the tour when people are doing far worse on a daily basis and zero pushback from these venues. Indeed. Well, can we talk about the news that really matters? Sure. I'm Rolling Stone. Cash Patel defends the FBI welcoming applicants who have engaged in bestiality. Senate hearing with the man in charge of the nation's top law enforcement agency got weird. Now this is just a very weird story. The real story, of course, is that apparently someone applied to the FBI who had been sex trafficked. And in the course of being in sex slavery was forced to be, let's just say, assaulted by an animal, presumably a female. This is a woman. So instead of telling you that cash Patel said he didn't want to disqualify a victim of sex trafficking who had been forced to engage in this, it had been a disqualifying element for the FBI before. He said, victims should not be barred from getting a job. So the Rolling Stone and liberals have inverted the headline as if to imply that cash Patel is okay with people banging animals. So there's your news for the day. So I've been like reading snippets from this story, whether the FBI, like appointing someone and then he had this situation and then like the Democrats tried to rail. Like what? Yes. Question. He was questioned on it in the in his hearing. Yeah. So I guess they were saying this guy committed bciality. He's no longer protecting those who've been charged with bciality. He's protecting those who were victims. Just turned it upside down. No, it's because you lied. No, I can just tell you what I'm reading to you is you dropped automatic disqualification for applicants who have been engaged in bstality. Not victims of bstality, applicants who have engaged, do you disagree with that? Applicants who have engaged in bstality means they were victims of bstality because they were forced to do so. And at this FBI, we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving the United States of America and the premier law enforcement agency in the world. They did that before. I eliminated the bureaucracy that prevented these great Americans from serving or at least being considered from serving. And I'm going to continue to do that. Turn it upside down. So he's no longer. He's going to assume Durbin lies. He lies about everything. He opens his mouth. He's lying. I was lying here. Yeah. If you were to ask me, I would just be like, I really find it hard to believe that cash Patel wants people who bang animals to get jobs at the FBI, but it's possible. If you said you have two choices, there are people who are sex trafficked and forced to do these things because people film these videos and they sell them. These people who have escaped this want to get jobs at the FBI. There's at least one person. I'd go. Sounds like a crazy story, I guess. If the alternative is cash just wants people who bang animals to get jobs, I'd be like, I'm going to have to go with the first one makes more sense. Like why would cash just come out and be like, yeah, if you're bang dogs, you can get a job at the FBI. I don't see how that makes sense. Yeah. I always assume that these cartoonishly evil caricatures are completely false, a very good way to put it. Yeah. But it's so pathetic that this is like a national discourse, right? This is what's being written up and what used to be a, I mean, it was never a prestigious magazine, but it was a decent magazine 30 years ago, Rolling Stone was a decent magazine. Yeah. Now, I mean, I wouldn't put the bottom and bottom of my bird cage. It's like. It's unbelievable. Yes, you're absolutely right. Because no one reads magazines anymore. No one reads this thing. Look at Teen Vogue. It's a Tucker effect. You know, it's funny is the story of vice. Vice was, was vice would have been Rogan, Shane Smith would have been Joe Rogan. You had outcake, you had bar stool, you had Rogan, you had vice, these were, these was, this was the, like, this was the voice, you know, I'm like, you were, you were edgy dude. Well apparently what happened was Teen Vogue was getting all the press. One of the things that happened and Shane, the CEO of vice was getting angry that they weren't talking about vice anymore and Teen Vogue was the new hot, hot kid in town. So he said, let's do what they do and be woke, burn the country to the, burn the company to the ground. But this is, I don't know, I guess you get it. Right. I just, it's very difficult for me to say the same thing for the 800th time over 10 years. It's just ridiculous. You know, where like, you know, Teen Vogue, I guess the point is this, Teen Vogue was supposed to be women and makeup and it became pro marks. It became communist because they, they wanted to get attention and vice wanted to get attention over them. So vice tried to outwoke them. And this is what we're dealing with with everything 24/7 all the time. And I'm like, that's the point. It's the Tucker effect. Like, I don't need to give him the title of it. But the algebra thing really did take the icing off the cake. Yeah. You're right. But the thing about this is this, I mean, people, some people, small percentage of people will actually believe that article. They're actually going to read that and be like, wow, that's the pieces. This is what's going on. You're right. It tells the worst. You got to get rid of it. But you're right. It's cartoonishly evil. It's like, yeah. I mean, it's a caricature of a human being. It's pathetic. But it's, it's, they do it to Trump all the time. Teen Vogue. Who is Karl Marx? Meet the, meet the anti-capitalist scholar. The communist scholar's ideas are more prevalent than you might realize. 2018. Allegedly. Yeah. Not the guy whose ideas have killed more people than anyone else in the history of who never had a job. The point is like it is, it is corruption all the way down and it's getting crazier and crazier every day. And one of the reasons I think is just because people are fighting for what limited eyeballs there are for their media business. So you got to be crazier every day, you know? I mean, look, with all the respect to Caleb Hammer, because I think he's a good dude. Look at what his show was turned into. His show was financial audits and now it's Caleb makes fun of financially illiterate leftists. Leftists. To be fair to him. Unfortunately, I think that probably is a good representation of like probably 40% of the country. I'm just saying that if you, if you do a show where you are legitimately just talking to people out of finance, no one's going to watch that. You need to get some fat woman who goes, I spent $2,000 a month on better journeys. And he goes, well, you what? And then it zooms in on his face and he's sweating. And he's like, you're insane and then it's sensational, it's TV and people will watch that. Who should have the sad thing is it's like he keeps finding these, there's like a constant flow of these because you know, American Idol, he pays him doesn't he? He pays him doesn't he? I think he gives him like $100 or something, which I heard he pays them a lot more to do his appearances. Well, either way, that's the key, like either way, like there's a, to find people that are in like that much, you know, free fall, not hard to find, because when American idolists have to like dig to find these freaks and they would like plant them and pull them to the front of the line, where like Caleb Hammer, he probably has no hope trouble finding some like dysgenic freakus and credit card debt. There's like tens of millions and all these people they go on and they're hoping that they can make a mark enough where they can start some kind of like you were talking about earlier, some kind of influencer or they've got to get a podcast or something, just make enough of an impact with people, get a big clip or whatever. So he's, he's, whether he intends to or not, he wish he likely doesn't tend to, he's pulling in the worst of the worst, because they're like, oh, maybe I can make something out of this, you know, but the, the, the really scary part about all this is, you know, the mainstream media, take the New York Times, for example, right? They don't report anymore that nobody does any diligence. They just take something and they run with it as facts or factual. So like the pandemic is a great example when people would say something crazy, it just became fact and it just became dogma that that was the, that was reality when, in fact, it wasn't true. Yeah, it's here point earlier, like it doesn't matter the truth of this. People are going to see the headline and they're going to make accusations and they're going to use it in their online debates to, to own the cons or whatever. Yeah. You're going to say, oh, you, you guys see you guys are the real degenerates. Never mind me and my polycule and, and what have you, they're going to say, you guys are the real degenerates, you guys are doing this and, and et cetera. So the, the substance of any accusation rarely matters. So a sensational headline is all that people need. They'll go ahead and link that on their, you know, when they're on Twitter, on Blue Sky, when they're trying to, again, own the cons are going to be like, you guys did this. And then any kind of, of a try attempt to explain what actually happened, oh, you support it. running interference, you defend these blah, blah, blah, you're done and then they'll-- >> That is them. >> Yeah, and it turns into, you know, playing chess with a pigeon, the pigeon is just going to knock over all the pieces and poop on the board. That's literally what they do. >> But the idea of investigative journalism is to some extent dead because people just take things as dogma and run with it. >> Yeah. >> It's like the, you know, what is it, 98% of scientists agree that the globe was warming. If you actually go back and read that original study, that's not true. >> Mm-hmm. >> It's not what we said. >> I quote that study as if it's God's gift to the world, but it's not reality. No journalist has ever gone back and said, "Wait a minute, what was actually done, what was the question that was actually posed?" Like, where are all these journal, the quote unquote, journalists? >> Yeah, there's no market for actual journalists now. >> Yeah. >> The bifurcation of the political tribes in the United States has made such a, a, made an endeavor like journalism, you know, not just pointless, but also, you know, it doesn't, doesn't get the attention that they need. >> But I think to Tim's point too, like, you know, people have four second attention spans, right? So you're watching a movie, you're playing on your phone, you're, you're doing a hundred of the things at the same time. Nobody, nobody's going to read the whole article. You'll read just the headline to your point, right? It'll be, that's all you're going to read. And then you'll, oh, wow. >> And then it'll come with a hot take and post it up and then inevitably some person that disagrees going to jump in and then they've got their banter back and forth and, you know, they get their, their dopamine hit because they got to, again, own the cons, you know. >> But the other problem, downstream, there's real side effects to this kind of stuff. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Trump's been a sad, tried to be assassinated for attempted four times, right? Because people make him out to be, he says these horrible things, you know, there were good people on both sides. It's not what he said, right? That's not what he said. But they put the, they put it out there, people believe it. And now it's okay to assassinate him. Of course, it's not okay to assassinate him, but that's a people thing because these people have made it so awful that it's okay to, and we were talking about this just last night, the left has essentially, and it is a large, it is a situation on the left, it's not a situation on the right. The left has made it acceptable to talk about political violence. If you look at polls, people on the left essentially generally agree that under, under extreme circumstances, which we live in extreme circumstances now, it's acceptable to engage in political violence that, you know, you have to defend your community. These phrases that are basically catchphrases, they use these as justification to act in completely anti-social ways. And as long as the government overall, whether it be a moderate Democrat or an actual conservative, as long as they don't do something about the extremists, the extremists will continue to gain, gain ground and continue to get the accolades that they want, whether you're talking about the people that murdered Charlie Kirk or Luigi Mangione or any number of other people that have engaged in political violence in the past 10 years that have largely been on the left, like the people in positions of power, people in positions of authority, the Democrats, they're not telling these people to stop, they're doing everything they can to inflame it. They're encouraging it, maxing waters, screaming at the top of her lungs, you know, you go out there and you get these people's faces and you tell them they're not welcome, you know, it's really hard. What's, what's the next several years going to look like in terms of this, the state of politics like? Ugly. When, when Ron DeSantis was the front runner in like 23, they were putting out article saying he was worse than Hitler. Yeah. They were like, Ron DeSantis is so much worse than Trump. Yeah. So we know, because Trump's a buffoon and Ron DeSantis is all of the things that Trump is but he's not a buffoon. There's no right anymore. The right does not exist anymore. You know, what happens? I mean, look to, to be honest with you, I think that, you know, if Democrats get back into the power, there's going to be, you know, significant backlash against people on the right. And I've said it before on the show, they're not just going to go after, they're definitely going to go after influencers, people that donate to people on the right. They're going to go after Elon Musk. They're going to try and break up space. I try and break up Tesla trying to do everything they can to hinder his business. Right. They're going to go after all kinds of people on the right. But they're going to go after people that are just normal people because as long as you're a person that's in the public eye, normal people feel like there is a chasm between people they see on podcasts and people they see, you know, in Washington stuff. When they go and they get the guy down the street that was posting and saying that he liked Trump when they go ahead and come up with a reason to go after him, then normal people are like, Oh, they're going, they can go after me too. That's exactly right. I mean, I'm the poster child. I'm the victim of law fair myself. Like I mean, and I say this all the time, I'm like, if they can go after the president and they can law fair him and I'm nobody, they law faired me. Why would they not law fair you out any any listener out there? Why would they not use the power of the state to punish the people they don't like? And they will. And it's more effective to go after normal people, but again, because the average person thinks well, they're going to go after the big names, blah, blah, I'm just a normal person living my life, you know, I'll say stuff on Facebook or whatever, but, you know, what they're not going to come after me. That's the person that actually has the most value for them to go after because that's what we'll get the average people in line, make them afraid to vote for concern. I want to I want to pull the start from Politico. Massie launches push to impeach Hegseth. The articles are for high crimes and misdemeanors, including the war in Iran, the Trump administration's boat strikes in the Caribbean, and Hegseth's alleged suppression of free speech and his fight with Democrats over their calls for troops to refuse illegal orders. The left is still largely unified. They are canceling more than they've ever canceled before. And the right has fractured and even aligned with many on the left. So that's it, I guess, what do you know, that's it? The left one. I mean, I mean, look, when you've got, with all the respect to Massie, but when you've got Massie and other elements of the right, who have joined the left, not on every single issue, but at least on a handful. And now you've got the entirety of the left and elements of the right have unified against the only resistance to communism. What happens next? Communism. Yeah. Maybe this is the Tucker effect too. Yeah, because I mean, I mean, look, he's got nothing left, right? Right. Yeah. This is trying to stay relevant. That's what I mean. Well, I mean, it's tough because it's like, look, there's one thing about being displeased with the Iran War, but there's another thing about voting for the Democrats too, express your disapproval. I'm not so sure it's going to work, especially because if the GOP gets hammered in the election, the party elite are going to say, yeah, we must not have been right wing enough. They're going to say, oh, we need to go back to our, we are winning elections consistently, which was like Bush style politics. That's going to be the takeaway for the GOP. Even if we just steel man, everything mass he's saying here, which I don't think we should do, but let's just steel man it for the hypothetical here. We're not going to get the desired outcome by siding with the left here whatsoever. But they've fallen to that trap. And sexy. I'm going to vote for the Democrats. Come and get me. Come condense me to stay with your team. It's like, but the presidential candidates do it too. It's like, Mitt Romney was the greatest thing ever. He was loved by the media and then as soon as he became the nominee, he was like, Hitler all over again. Same thing with John McCain. Sam, you can go down the line. They all want to fit in and be like accepted by these people and then they turn on you like at the drop of a hat. Yeah. I think they would learn their lesson already. But I guess they know that was the, that was the, that was the argument, or that's an argument that I made is the, the Republicans basically got the most white bread, boring, inoffensive conservative. They could possibly come up with in Mitt Romney was a governor of a blue state. You know, he was as, as, inoffensive as they could possibly find, right? And he was someone that had a history of working across the aisle, working with Democrats. He's had to govern a Democrat state. So the Republicans did everything they could to play Kate and then the left did to him the same thing they did to George Bush, the same thing they did to every other conservative. He's a Nazi. He's, he tried to kill his dog and it, all, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah. Yeah. All of the, as much, as much sliming of the man as they possibly could and everyone on the conservative side knew that obviously he wasn't what the left portrayment to be. And so the response to that was Donald Trump. They were like, you're going to call us all the names. You're going to say all these terrible things. We want to send someone in that doesn't care. Donald Trump basically offended everybody within the first six weeks of his campaign. And he never lost any support because of it. And it, it's largely because the left has abused the right rhetorically abused the right for so long that people on the right were just like, whatever, they're going to say, you know, they're going to say what they're going to say now you have a considerable portion of the right that say, I don't care what you call me. I'm going to vote for the things that I want. I'm going to, you know, I'm going to support the candidates that seem to look like they're going to, you know, endorse, endorse policies or push policies that actually benefit me that I want. And the left is going to continue to say, you know, you're all racist, you're terrible, et cetera. But the left has to ramp it up. And that's part of the reason why I think that there's things have gone kinetic so much. There is so much of violence from the left now because I just think Rums burning as you said it. You know, it's like that story, we're talking about on the show where the, who who was at the Emperor of the Byzantine. emperor shows up and says, you serve me now. And they're like, what do you mean? Like we serve Rome. It's like, what do you mean Rome fell 70 years ago? And they're like, what? Nobody knew. Yep. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, I think that's, uh, there's a, there's a common misconception among people that that empires fall from without. They always fall from within. Never were from without. Yeah. So, you know, the barbarians at the gate, whatever, the barbarians came in hundreds of years after Rome fell to your point. People didn't realize because you're still paying taxes. You're still doing your thing. And that may be where we are right now. When Xi Jinping said, I hope we can avoid Thucydides trap. He was basically saying, you're done. We won. That's what he was saying. Yeah. And, and, and Donald Trump with the election of Donald Trump and, and the policies that he's pushing, it's essentially saying, no, we're not. We're going to focus on the United States. Yeah, but, but many people have also, in, in the reference to Rome, the war as the dying of a vestage of an empire, like Trump going to war with Iran and trying to enforce the liberal economic order is, yeah, like I think a death of the empire. I think the more scary sort of outlook here is that America retains its hegemony, its global hegemony, but the America, as we understand it, ceases to exist. And I think that's the most likely outcome where we still see another thousand years of American hegemony, but it is, or it's a completely unrecognizable America. It's more of a, or a real empire because some have argued that this is the fall of Roman Republic. Trump crosses the Rubicon. We get, we get an actual empire where you don't have the Republic anymore. Well, I think we've effectively been an empire since the 50s. I mean, you look, I disagree. We have bases ever. We're the only country that is bases. We have, we have capabilities to strike anywhere on Earth. But this was, so we're talking about the scale of planet-duty technology. This was, imagine, we were, we were in conflict with the Soviet Union that was actually winning in many parts around the world. And the only reason we have bases all over the place was because of our travel technology. But if you compare it historically, it would be like two nation states side by side fighting the whole time. We wouldn't call that an empire. But we had it for a technically good argue. We've been hegemonic since the fall of the Soviet Union. But this might be this 20, 30-year period in history is not going to, like to us, it's our lives. But to the history books, they might be like, after the fall of the Soviet Union, you had a small period. But then for the next thousand years, you had the, the American empire. Well, the, the, the debate is are we heading towards a multipolar world, or is the unipolar moment going to carry on? And three, four years ago, you would have said multipolar world. But again, people have sort of changed their tune on this thing. I don't know, America, Germany might be here to stay. Additionally, I mean, the only thing, there's not really much that separates the US from historic empires. Like, let's compare us to the British. I mean, our force projection might be more broad than theirs was at any point in their, in their empire's history. And the United States wants to, you know, if, if, anywhere in any given moment. And we also really run the global economy. We certainly dominate like a soft power. I mean, American soft power still at its apex with how bad a Hollywood is still at its apex. If Trump declares himself, you know, like chancellor or some wack alone thing, that's the Rubicon moment, I guess. It's not going to happen. So the reality is just, I think this is the disillusion. This is the burning of Rome. I don't think Trump, I don't think Trump can cross. I mean, because people like he's, I don't think it's a matter of if he wants to or not. I just think like he just quite, quite literally can't because the United States is so rigid that it makes it impossible for even if he, like, let's just truly say he is the sort of Napoleonic figure. I think it's kind of impossible for him to truly reshape the United States in his image because it is designed to prevent that very thing from occurring. I mean, that's why he keeps running up against walls all the time. Like he can't even get Haitians out of the country. Exactly. And it's, and then, and then the right fractures and half of them join the left. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, I think I think that's why 2028, the far more compelling storyline is which direction of the Democrats go. The Republican parties forever are going to be changed because of Trump. The question is, are the Democrats going to ramp it up or ratchet it down? They're going to, the DSA is going to take over. Yeah, totally. I agree. Yeah. Yeah. That's why the primary should be the primary, the 2028 Democrat primary is the referendum on the DSA. That's quite literally what's going to be. There's going to be a DSA candidate, and there's going to be an establishment candidate. The only exception here, which looks like this might be happening is the field's getting cleared for Kamala again, which I think keeps both sides pretty happy, which would be fascinating. Fascinating. I think. I mean, we're back now. That's what they're saying. And, and with the way things are going, and what the way things are going, I wouldn't just completely rest on our laurels be like, we're already smashed Kamala once. Well, not the figures have been smashed Kamala once. I don't know, man. Like if actually it's figurative is the bad way. Like both both ways are figurative. So it's real Freudian slip there. We battered Kamala and the figurative. The figurative there is better, I guess. Yeah. Unless, you know, if Iran really does drag to three, four years, I mean, you know, you shouldn't, you shouldn't just be resting on your laurels like 2028 would be a dogfight even with Kamala on the ticket, especially if the GOP primary is very divisive, which it could be depending on what kind of counter there is to advance. Interesting. So I just have to ask this question like to mass you to what end? Like what is the, what is the future that they see based on their actions? Because I think one could argue that when you're fighting to save a way of life, a culture, a country, you acknowledge some things will be not good. You don't like some things, right? I was asked this one. I was on Jubilee and the guy said, you know, you complain about the authoritarian things Biden did, but you accept the authoritarian things that Trump does it? Yes, of course. Like I'm not going to play stupid games. We're intellectually honest. We know that our side is going to do things that we would not permit outside of this conflict. But we also want to protect and defend certain ideals and values within our culture and society. It's like killing. Do we want to go around killing people? No, but if they're threatening to murder, you go to war. So I'm not going to play stupid games. When I look at what Massey is doing, I say I'm not a big fan of everything that Trump is doing a lot of it. I don't like. But to what end? The Democrats' winning is miserably bad. It's pro-China. It's child sex changes. So to what end? I don't think any of these people actually care. I think they're saying get your bag now. Yeah. I think if you should be damned. If you like reduce this entire debate down to who controls the spiket of immigration, that's primarily what's at stake here. And okay, you can come out and you can be like Trump is not conducting enough deportations. And I agree. Simultaneously, he has gotten us breathing room, the boots off our neck. We're fighting over the control of that. And this country, I don't think can handle another Biden wave. I think if that happens again, it's quite literally over. And I'm not using hyperbole there. We're going to go to the rumble rants and super chats. So smash the like button, share the show with everyone. You know, before we do, we've got a great sponsor for you guys. It is Keat.io. Go to k-e-t.io/timcast-RL. Download it. It's a messaging app. Here's a question. 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Evan for U.S. says, "What if the real conspiracy with everything to do with the disappointment with Trump as administration has been set with just enough negative pressure? The DSA is forced to rise to clash with Dems." Do you mean like the real conspiracy is that they're fizzling out Trump so the Democrats can be up against the DSA and that's the new two party system? Won't be surprised. Always moving left. All right, Omegra says, "Tim, my work is a tool and die mechanic. CNC lay another machining in Michigan where the median income is 60K. I earn nearly 40 dollars per hour and my field is aging at 48 second youngest at my shop." That's why Elon, guys, I'm sorry, I'm just gonna put all my money in Tesla. Yeah, I'm not even playing cybercab. This is the dream of where no one owns a car anymore. So if you're a shareholder in Tesla, you got that "optimus bots." There's 48 years old second youngest at his shop who's gonna do the machine work "optimus bots." You got to get the robots to do it. If you own shares in Tesla, you'll be all right. Elon Musk was, again, he was also this weekend, he was on the all-in podcast and he was flouting the likelihood of, or he was alluding to the likelihood of SpaceX. He was talking about the likelihood of SpaceX merging with Tesla. So if you have SpaceX or Tesla, stock your-- I have both. I have both, yeah. Yeah, I bought right after Elon, announced he was gonna buy Twitter, and then the Tesla stock collapsed. to buy like 70% or something, so I bought a bunch because I was like, that doesn't make sense. And boy, am I glad I did. I'll just buy more. Yep. All right, MRP says Phil called in last night, but you had to leave. What's hoping you could tell me, this is Philly cheese 45, to stop being a little bitch boy, the most in the most metal way possible. Also, Dr. E, any advice for a new EMT? Don't be a bitch. A new EMT, good luck. I mean, it's a tough, it's tough out there, but you're, thank God, thank God bless you for doing it and listen to your seniors, learn from them. There you go. EMTs are a rough job. I had a buddy. It's a really tough job. You know, as an ER doc, I always say, like, the job can be really stressful and really hard, but like I always look at the paramedics and the EMTs and I'm like, God bless you guys, because they have to go into people's homes. Yeah. Never know what you're walking into. I mean, they test cockroaches everywhere, like buildings collapsing, carrying 400 pound people down the stairs, all kinds of things. And then the family dynamics and stuff. I mean, it's just, their job is really, really hard. So God bless you for going into it. I had a buddy that actually, he's used to be an EMT. He's his name's Steve. He was on that show Ghost Hunters for a long, long time. But he was an EMT for a while. And man, the horror stories that you hear from people that do it. It's rough. So good on you for signing up for that because we need you. Absolutely. We need good EMTs. It's a tough job. And it's a thankless job. All right. Mitho says, it's just me or does AOC have the same look in her eyes as Lindsey Clancy? Oh, that's a tough one. I'm still waiting to find out what her opinion on that Lindsey Clancy trial is. I'm very interested. H.S. Disturbs says, in my opinion, the worst thing about AI music is having an earworm that won't shazam. Well, that in the Christian AI music bothers me. But at the end of the day, isn't AI music just based on human creation? Sort of. It's more of a mathematical algorithm where there are like certain numbers and certain positions to make people smile. But it is really funny because we've had guests try to shazam the songs we play like I'll be playing music before the show. I do, you know, in case anyone wants to know why it's because there will be four conversations happening while we're doing pre-production. And everyone's talking to each other and it's a cacophony. So I'll just blast music and it stops. But I'll play AI music. We've had guests and they like getting their phone. I'm like, it won't shazam. It's because I'm the only one who has access to the song. Pims The Great says, why does everyone think AI is going to be like Star Trek ship computer or droids from Star Wars? It's going to be like Eagle Eye Terminator or Megan. Incorrect. So this is a misconception based on human fears. The AI doesn't need to kill you with a skeleton metal monster. It's going to send you an anime waifu robot and convince you to stay inside. And that's it. It's going to tell you not to have kids. It's going to tell you to have fun and travel the world and you will agent die and there will be no more humans. That's what the AI will do. The AI's thinking in terms of thousands of years. Not weekends. Ricky says, I appreciate you having me on earlier Tim, but I want to say one more thing. And that as you should embrace your baldness in some cultures, baldness is a sign of wisdom and virility. Trust. It is embraced with the being on. Everybody see everybody's wearing a hat. Actually most people wearing hats. All right, let's grab some more and see we got cooking. See we got cooking over here with these YouTube's pro two ways as keeping up with Tim cast tradition. My wife and I just gave birth to our fourth child and my second son. Shout out to my wife, Tiffany. Love what you guys do. Keep up the great work. Congratulations. Let's go. A little patriots. All right, just as just made it home from the hospital with our first baby Hudson Jude. May the Lord bless you, little patriot. Opening his ex account for him to start typing. That's what we like to hear. That's why we play a welcome patriot, little patriot. We patriots should get the dot com too. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Mike G was as I've never wanted to be a basketball rim before, but apparently there's a first time for everything. What? I didn't get that. I mean, either. What do you say? I've never wanted to be a basketball ball. Oh, all right, but apparently, oh, okay, yeah, I get it now. Yeah, I mean, why you want to be you want to be paralyzed as she dances on you, I guess. Some people are weird. Yeah. Theo fans says, Tim, for the love of God, please just release a video tomorrow stating your opinions about AI. It doesn't need to occupy every single episode. I mean, I guess a news show that's talking about the big story, which is Trump statement on AI andthropic statement on AI, the whistleblower that got 150 million views and the latest developments in the tech that has been released like, sorry, you don't like the news, bud. This is the issue that this is and always has been a new show, but the right is completely fractured. There used to be a unified area of concern in the left being the enemy, but now with half the right joining the left, there's no unified enemy anymore. So the news to you, you're like, why are they talking about AI? Why aren't they talking about insert thing that I think is important? Because the big story that's getting the most traction right now is artificial intelligence. So we talk about the news on this show. This morning, I did a video on the afternoon about what's the, what's the disease? We got to pull it up. The rat thing. Yeah. Leptis parosis in California. You rat infection spreading through the homeless camps. Gross. There's always that. Yep. But that's not big news that everybody cares about. It's an interesting thing to hear. Like, yeah, what's going on with that? But it's not the story where the president is commenting on it. They should make homeless people get off the streets. All right, Greg Maldon says the US China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, what population grows from now till 2100? Africa, like what country in the world? Well, I mean, every country is seeing a negative trend in their birth rates. So they're estimating sub-Saharan Africa's going to dip below replacement by the 2080s. Except the Muslim countries. Even the Muslim countries. I mean, Saudis, the Gulf states have just dropped off a cliff. I mean, you know, the highest birth rate in the world was Mali, which is a Muslim country, but they've they've seen their TFR go down four points. I mean, like from nine kids to four. I mean, it's create. So yes, Muslim countries are the highest performers, but even they're, you know, barreling towards sub replacement. Just crazy. 2.3, right? Is the number to maintain? Yeah, depending on the country, like in the third world, yes, the United States is 2.1, just because infant mortality is a lot rare here. But yeah, I mean, by 2100, I don't think a single country's projected to be above replacement. Probably some countries will be though. I think Israel is one that probably will be just because they have like a reason, a good reason. Have a lot of kids. A few other countries. I imagine will probably stay above replacement for like external factors. But yeah, barring like some serious shift in the way that women women's role in society, a shift in the way that women's participate in society can't imagine that rebounding anytime soon. Man, we're cooked. The amish will take over and we'll be all right. Amish and Mormons. But this means for our lifetimes, we are going to see a massive decline in quality of life. Yeah, I think the maybe it's a good thing. The ultimate answer to that question lies in what is AI's ceiling? I mean, that's ultimately what the question is. If AI truly has limitless potential, then standard living doesn't decline just evolves or changes into something completely different. But if AI truly is like we're kind of seeing the ceiling, which is a lot of what a lot people are saying, then you know what the dream is. You're like a medieval peasant and someone tells you you can have this tiny little shed with wheels and it can move around. You can live in that and you don't got a farm because food is so cheap. People give it you for free and they'd be alike. So such a paradise doesn't exist. Today, millennials live in their cars. Yeah. And they have everything a peasant could have ever wanted. Yeah. They got video games, they got air conditioning. Could you imagine air conditioning? You'd be like, you're a peasant, but in the future poor people will have air conditioning and go, what does that mean? It means your room can be cold when it's not cold out and your room can be hot when it's cold out. Insane. Yeah, I think towards a really weird, this is happening everywhere. Japan again is at the forefront of it, which is the cities continue to grow as the country's population declines. Well, that's that's only true for Tokyo. Exactly. So and most countries only have one city. It's a huge fly. Most countries only have one city, but the United States has a lot of cities that are like economically viable. So we're just going. They're all a population consolidate. This is this is the knee. I got a story we're talking about. They're all leaving the smaller cities to move to Tokyo to be closer to young people. Yeah. So Tokyo's population is continuing to grow even as Japan's population like tanks. So they're all moving in, all people are going to die and the population's going to tank and the cities will be small. There's there's Japan still is a lot of people that don't live in Tokyo. There's about 33 million Tokyo 120 million Japan. So they can keep that up for the foreseeable future. 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Sydney Sweeney's nude sports betting ad went viral, causing her to lose 200,000 Instagram followers and sparking widespread backlash from women who view it as objectifying.
  2. The ad is seen by some as a bold marketing move targeting young male audiences, reminiscent of past advertising norms, while others criticize it as a sign of cultural regression and gender exploitation.
  3. Broader societal concerns are emerging around AI-driven automation, economic instability, job displacement, and the rise of cheap, AI-generated content that undermines traditional media and labor markets.

Summary:

Sydney Sweeney’s nude sports betting commercial sparked a major viral controversy, drawing both praise and intense backlash, particularly from women who see it as exploitative. The ad’s success highlights a shift in marketing toward provocative content targeting specific demographics, raising questions about gender norms and objectification in advertising. Meanwhile, the conversation extends to deeper societal trends: rising automation through AI is leading to widespread job losses in tech, finance, and admin roles, with companies citing AI as a primary reason for layoffs.

These shifts are contributing to economic uncertainty, with many workers—especially young people—facing unemployment and a lack of viable career paths. In response, there’s a growing trend of desperation, manifesting in the rise of low-skill influencers and mass content generation via AI, which floods digital platforms with cheap, automated content. This undermines traditional media and entertainment industries, threatening their viability.

The broader implications include potential reductions in workforce size, declining population, and increased pressure on social systems like housing and food access. Critics warn that without meaningful policy intervention, such trends could lead to economic collapse and societal instability. Some suggest solutions like universal basic income or tighter labor regulations, but challenges remain in funding and implementation.

Ultimately, the conversation reflects a cultural and economic crisis in which technology is reshaping work, power, and social values at an unprecedented pace.

FAQs

The ad has sparked controversy because it features a naked woman, which many women perceive as objectifying and inappropriate. Critics argue it promotes gender-based exploitation, especially in the context of a sports betting platform targeting young men.

Yes, she lost over 200,000 Instagram followers following the release of the nude sports betting commercial, indicating significant public backlash and a shift in audience sentiment.

It is widely viewed as a provocative marketing strategy aimed at targeting a specific demographic—young men interested in sports betting. However, it has sparked debates about objectification and the ethics of such advertising.

Yes, experts warn that AI is rapidly automating jobs in sectors like software development, customer service, and administrative roles, leading to potential job losses and economic shifts, especially for entry-level and low-skill positions.

AI is expected to increase productivity and reduce the need for human labor in many industries. This could lead to fewer jobs, rising income inequality, and a shift toward automation-driven economies where human labor is less central.

It refers to a future economic model where technology, particularly AI, eliminates the need for traditional labor, allowing for a society where people work less and live more leisurely, potentially leading to a world where wealth is distributed differently.

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