WNBA Emergency Meeting FAILS To Define "Woman" w/ Max Garely

So the WNBA had their emergency meeting where they couldn't conclude what a woman was. They said, you know, uh, there are no eligibility issues. So we don't take kindly to these bad faith attempts to besmirch the league because they're, you know, it's all they could do. And, uh, you know, exactly what we predicted, they weren't going to be able to come out with a definition of woman because these are the games they want to play. Now the next step, I predict they're not going to entertain the draft. Uh, uh, paperwork for Anis Cantor and Royce White. I hope Anis and Royce sue citing discrimination if they are ignored because they formally submitted. So they can't be ignored. So we're talking about that. We got a bunch of crazy stories that we're going to go through admittedly, guys. It's one of those news days. The big news everyone's talking about is like Trump's names in the Kennedy Center again. And I'm like, yeah, okay. I guess. 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Share this show right now with everyone that you know joining us tonight to talk about this and everything else. We have Max Garley. Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. Who are you? What do you do? My name is Max. I am a writer. I write for the spectator. Video politics, political economy, US politics in general. I also make content on social media, Instagram. I'm trying to get more into X right now, but mostly I make real short videos on Instagram. Right on. And then let me see your two. Yeah. I'm here. I'm Libby Emmons. I'm glad to be here with you guys. I'm the editor for the post millennial and host of the pod millennial. We got the boys hanging out. Chris is here. What's up? Chris Carr. I'm a writer and editor and I'm happy to be with the team tonight guys. What's going on? Everybody knows who I am. I'm Phil. It's up Carter. Everyone knows who I am. I'm Carter. So let's get into it. We got a full stack tonight. Let's go. I love how all of the news outs are handling this story. ABC7 says WNBA denounces bad faith, transgender debate and says league has no eligibility issues. I think that's so big. That's such a transphobic headline. Yeah. It's unbelievable. Well, what they're saying is that Royce White's experience where he said he was afraid of flying was a manifestation of his gender dysphoria. They're basically saying this is the double edged sword of the whole DEI trans stuff. Actually quite simple. If you're allowed to insult one, you're allowed to insult all and if you're going to argue that Royce White is lying, then I can argue that, you know, give me, give me, give me a name of somebody. Who's that congressperson? Sarah McBride. Lying. Tramaine. Bad faith effort. Tim McBride is a liar. Definitely. Faking it for brownie points among the Democrats. That proves it. Yeah. Are all the California alleged rapists who's trying to go into women's prison? Well, that one might be fake, right? I think. Wow. Are they all fake? I think, yeah. That's the point. I think that's really the point here. That's the point. All of it is bad faith. We live in a society in which we can accommodate people. Well, we have the choice to accommodate people. Some people are going to say, no, I reject the fact that you're presenting yourself as a woman. I know you're a man. Some people are not and they're going to use the preferred pronouns, but that's an individual choice. These people making demands for access to gender, and I don't even like to use the word gender because I don't believe gender is a thing. I think it's just sex. But women's spaces, right? Like the fact that they're making a demand for access to women's spaces, that's bad faith. Because you're supposed to, you're supposed to just take their word for it and play along with what amounts to their disorder, right? And again, we say this kind of stuff all the time, but there is no other disorder that people have where we entertain the disorder. Right. If someone says my arm is not my arm, we don't say, well, that bad boy's got to go, right? Like we just don't do that. Well, there is a doctor in the UK who did do that. He said that he had some kind of dysphoria and he was actually meant to be disabled. So he went to this whole thing and had his leg removed. Yeah. That's crazy. Well, it's all crazy and the broader point is, like you're supposed, the medical establishment is supposed to help people that deal with this. If your skin's a frenic, you don't say, you know what, the voices are probably right. You know, you just don't do that in no other context, only crazy outliers where they say, OK, maybe you should remove a body part. Hey, maybe those voices you're hearing, maybe they actually got a point, like that doesn't happen. Right. So the fact that we entertain this stuff, it's all bad faith. Well, the real bad faith, though, I think, is on the part of the WNBA who all of a sudden does not recognize gender self-id. After decades of us hearing that gender self-id is the way to go, that if you are a trans woman, all you have to do is announce. I am a woman, I feel female. And we're supposed to all believe that you are female. So what's really bad faith is telling Royce White and Anis Cantor Freedom. And I think another, you know, be female, be penis person who has said that he too, he she too, is eligible for the WNBA draft, telling these people that they are not sincerely fulfilled. Real women, that is in bad faith, given all of the rhetoric that we've had over the years. And I think that it is, this is the perfect thing that happened that these men came out. God bless them. And basically. Women, these women come out. Yes. Well, sure. First with this massive dog. I'm glad they're living their truth. They're living their truth. And then you also had some trans-adaptic activists being like, well, if you really feel it, then, you know, take some hormones and cut your dick off. And it's like, you know what, we were told that it's gender, self-id, that if a rapist identifies as a woman, he can get transferred into California women's correctional in Chao Chilla. And that's nobody's business. The ACLU has told us we don't even get to know how many, right? There's one guy in California who literally murdered a bunch of children and is now in prison with those children's mother, right? I think the cult has abandoned these people. Has abandoned who? The trans stuff. The trans. I look at AOC. She's like, what one was crazy? And it's, I think the cult is the cult. The cult doesn't care what they're attached to. Their activism, their logic makes no sense. Well, we're a couple of things past trans at this point, right? Because it was BLM, then trans, then Palestine, like pro-Gazza stuff. This is why it's all Israel right now. Right. And now we're at ICE. So we're like two things past trans. I think, I think if you look at the left wing channels, they're not talking about trans stuff and they don't care. They don't want it. Yeah, I know. They're like, we lost. So they're like Israel. And then you get Tucker and a bunch of other people being like Israel and now they've got their coalition. And now, you know, I'm gonna say this, like seeing this stuff from Tucker, I would not be surprised if in two years Tucker is a Democrat. Because look at this stuff he's advocating for in his show. This price is too high and this country is not about capitalism. This is unfair and Israel, like he, he, he may as well be. and I can spare him at this point. I'm not even kidding. - The thing, too, though, is all of these people identify problems, but that does not mean that they know what the solutions are. Sure prices, yes, prices are too high. I think that's true, too, but that doesn't mean government controls and price controls are the answer. - I don't think Tucker believes in anything. I think he just tells his audience what they want to hear exactly. - Yeah, of course, he's just a grifter. - He's making way more money now than he did when he was at Fox News, you know? That's crazy. And it's not all just on the little nicotine things. - Well, I mean, so the estimate from, what was it like Hollywood Reporter Forbes, I'm sorry, was that he's doing 20 million a year, but then you add his nicotine stuff. And you know what I really love about the nicotine is how anti-conservative these products are, selling addictive degeneracy to conservatives. - Like, look, look, look, I'm big a dick. I really don't care if you, what's this company called? - Alp. - Those are his? - Yeah, those are his. - I see him on the TV. - I don't care if it's better than smoking, and I don't care if you want to do drugs. - I'm fairly libertarian in that regard. I'm not a conservative, you know? But it's funny that you've got people who are like, we've got a problem with degeneracy in this country, and then, you know, he's all like, you want some drugs, no, yeah. Depends on the drug, but yeah. - Well, he's all for freedom, but he'll be Putin's lapdog, you know? - Just shit with Russia. - Yeah, I just wanna make one point, nicotine patches, or the zins and stuff like that, they're not better than smoking. - Oh, they're not. - And they're smoking rules, dude. - Terrible for drugs. - But it must be your lungs up there. - Only look, man, when they come out-- - It's smoking rules. - When they come out with the cigarettes, they give you vitamins and minerals. I am back on it, man. Sorry for hitting the table. But yeah, look, Tucker is, he's gotta be just going for the money, right? It's fairly clear. - And he kind of seems like he wants back in the fold. - How do you say that? Well, we'll make sure to say that. - Oh, he's budding up with Hunter Biden. - But it's really the budding up with Hunter Biden and not holding him to account for Burisma, not asking him any questions about that, not asking questions about the Ukraine loan withhold. - Do you think this is a play for the Democratic establishment people? - No, I think he's just, you know, wants his friends back. - Back to CNN, maybe. - Yeah, back to that whole thing where, I mean, you see, like, it seems like it'd be nice to be warm and fuzzy in the fold just believing in telling the lies you're told. - It is weird, 'cause I watched like half of that Tucker interview with Hunter Biden, and I couldn't watch the rest of it. - Same. - He's kind of like insufferable. So that's why I can describe it. - Did you see what Sheamus did for Freedom Tunes? - Yeah. - But he did say that like, he grew up on the same street as Hunter, something like that, right? - They were like, we grew up in the same town. - Yeah, right. - Right, actually. - We knew a lot of the same people. - Yeah, I thought that was all very weird. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I mean, look, why he sat down with Hunter Biden. I mean, I don't know. Maybe the Biden, maybe Hunter paid him to sit down and give him a softball interview, 'cause Hunter's looking to run or-- - But the Biden's are broke, didn't have any you heard? - I doubt it. - That's what they said a lot. - That's what they're saying. - Yeah, well, they made a lot of money in Ukraine if I understand correctly. So-- - 80,000 a month for a while. - I mean, that's nothing to sneeze at. But when it comes to, you know, back to the trans issue stuff, like the WNV is not gonna let these guys play. And no one on the left is gonna make a stink about it, right? Like, it's just not gonna happen. And I do think that the trans stuff is over. I think that that was the thing that killed, that really took the steam out of the left and the whole woke movement. The trans people saying, look, you have to, you have to identify, you have to recognize my identity when your average person that was just like, well, you know, maybe there are too many black people getting killed by cops. Maybe the police are too aggressive. Maybe, you know, maybe that's actually true. Maybe, you know, that didn't really look into it. And they're like, you know, you know, generally they want to think of themselves as nice people. And they're like, maybe they got a point. And then the whole LGBT stuff, you hear trans people saying, well, you know, if you don't ask my D, you're a big hit, dude, you're like, whoa, hold on here. You know, because that wasn't, that wasn't very long until that was gonna become a thing. There were already a lot of trans people that were making those remarks. There's still trans people on trans, you know, trans women on the internet that say, look, if you won't date a trans woman, you're a big hit. And dudes are like, I do not care. Call me a big hit. - What did they say? - Or no, no, no, the girl penis. Like, come on, come on. That was a shaped object. - Yeah. - You know, they were talking about the cotton ceiling, you know, the lesbians that would not date a trans. - Oh yeah, that's another thing, yeah. You see, I mean, they pissed everybody off. What does that mean? You know, panties, basically, like, underwear. - That's so weird. - Cotton ceiling, yeah. - So we, I wanna jump to this next story, but I gotta make an announcement. So for those that saw, I tweeted out at 738 that the Legend of Hassan video game is available at timcast.com to play it, go to read in the top bar, or just click the link in my, my, my ex post. And you can play the Legend of Hassan in the long ago of seven months ago. Hassan faced down wave after wave of his own dog. He's in the power of electrocution to get them to fall in line. This is your quest, you are Hassan, the power is yours. And I do have to, most ever driven off, 2,400 is at it. So here's the game, you know, it's a side scrolling arcade shooter where all these dogs are, you know, wave after wave of your own dog are coming up. You can earn experience points and then level up and choose, I'm gonna go with quick fire. There we go, so I can like shoot my dog faster. And then you'll notice the top right, my viewers, instead of getting points that go up, every time you electrocute your dog, your viewer count goes down. There are a bunch of Easter eggs. So this was a joke that I made in three minutes on Claude, so I'll just tell you all the jokes. Once your viewer count gets to zero, it switches to kick, and your viewer count starts going up. (laughing) 'Cause on kick they want you to electrocute the dog. And then I do have to announce that we have a winner. I said that I would pay one person $100 for winning. And I did not think it would happen this fast, but it did. And we got a winner here. I believe his name is Neil Williams. He said don't hurt the dogs and indeed. In fact, if in the game, let's refresh it. If you don't electrocute your dog, they won't bite you. That's it. It's an important lesson for everybody. - Oh wow, that's great. - You want to electrocute your dog. So I sent Neil $100 and it says congratulations. You didn't electrocute your dog. You win. After three waves of not electrocuting your dog, you win the game. So that's it. That's the joke. It's pretty hilarious that you can make games in three minutes and put it on your website that quickly. Let's jump to the next story though. We got this one from Middle East Eye. Tucker Carlson says Israel pushed him to report false allegations against Hunter Biden. Former US President Sun says Netanyahu Operation Center was involved in disseminating alleged drugs and sex leaks. The claim that there was material involving Ubisoft Motors on the computer came from the Israelis Carlson said in an interview aired on Monday. I'm just telling you that they came to me with it and that's how I know it. That everything's fake. - I mean, bro, this is not true. Okay. Guys, I can't tell you how many people came to me and offered the hard drive. How many people offered you as hard drive? - Couple. - Yeah. It was everywhere. And Hunter Biden signed off on dropping it off. Now, maybe that's all fabricated, but Hunter didn't even deny it. He was like, I have no recollection of dropping that off. And like, that's a legal answer you give in court when you know you did, but you don't want to purge yourself. - Right. And on the interview, I listened to probably as much of it as Carter did that they got into about how the laptop was probably misinformation from Ukraine. - Yeah. - What? - Yeah. - Yeah. - The picture from Ukraine, from you, from-- - Was it Ukraine, wasn't it you? - I don't know. I watched his socks while I was at Russia. - Was it Russia? - But in both of them, he said like, yeah, it was totally like, it came from Rudy Giuliani made it all up, got somewhere else, like-- - Somebody else dropped it off. But I thought that maybe it wasn't you. - I think-- - Maybe it was Russia, I'm tired of you guys, sorry. But-- - I'll defer to you. - But it was definitely, they were definitely talking about how it was misinformation. And it sounded like a repetition of the Gen Socky talking points and the 51 CIA agents who all said that it had hallmarks of Russian dissent. - He denied everything pretty. - James Coglin. - And he wasn't pressed. I mean, Tucker did not press him, that's the thing. You remember that interview he did with Ted Cruz? Like, you know, he basically held him up against the wall by his neck and his feet were dangling. And in this case, there was nothing. There was no pushback, no in-depth questioning. It was just like, well, yeah. - Let me, let me, let me tell everybody some, right? Right now, on this episode, we have, on YouTube, 11,375 concurrent viewers on Rumble, we have about 9,000. That's low, that's low. This time last year, we would have been at 50,000 combined. But you know what? Look, we're, we're in the summer. Elections cycles not yet started. And look, Trump's got to try Fecta. There's no great political conflict right now for the most part. Now, for me, I've run this business for a really long time. Tucker, actually he's relatively new. How long has Tucker been doing this thing? Couple of years now? - Yeah, like, is that anything? - Yeah, couple of years. - It's been a couple of years. I think the thing for Tucker is that, you know, he worked at Fox News for a long time. There's a couple of arguments you can make. One that Fox constrains him. Basically, when he's at Fox, he's like, he's got producers and he says, what do I say? And so those famous monologues he had, You guys all know that, those were. were written for him. And uh, the dude who wrote it, who does he work for now? Um, Matt Walsh. It works for Matt. Wow. Matt Walsh. Great monologues. Yeah. It's killing it. So there were a couple of writers. There was one principle writer and uh, really talented. Yes. And that was who was writing the monologues for Tucker. Tucker was just a guy to go on TV and sit there and read about it. So what's going to happen? Well, Tucker does his own show. And he's chasing the views. Here's the reality. Trump's got a trifecta. He's got Congress. He's got this, he's got the house. He got the Senate. So he's got the legislative branch. He's got the Supreme Court. He's got the executive branch. Not that it's perfect or strong trifecta. But this means that any issue we face in this country, everyone's pointing at him inflation aside, gas prices are up. Burritos are 20 bucks. Well, Republicans got everything. They're the issue. So for the most part, regular Americans aren't hyper-focused on politics right now because there's no great political battle. You did it. You got Trump and you're still unhappy. So people are kind of checking out. Not to mention, there's very few young people. So if you want to maintain viewership and we talk about this every political cycle, guys, I was thinking about Lucard, Lucard Kowski's house in 2012 in the in the in the winter. Obama's about to get elected. And I was, I was only doing a little bit of YouTube stuff. I wasn't really, I was doing live stream stuff at the time with you stream. Luc had been on YouTube for at that point, six, seven years. And so he said, after Obama's elected, all the views on our content is going to go to zero because nobody cares about politics right after the election. Well, the truth is, you'll get, you'll get the first hundred days news cycle. And then that tracks basically, you get that first year of what's going to happen next. And with Trump's first year of a second term, there's a lot happening. USAID getting shut down. Now, not a whole lot. I mean, we had big viewership when the war started, when we get big primary elections, then we can see viewership spikes, the Supreme Court rulings, our viewership spikes. We had, we had one like three or four weeks ago. I can't remember what it was, but we ended up with like 60 set. We, I think we had 70,000 concurrent viewers. When there's political action, our views are through the roof. And we know it because we're a news show. Now, what if you're, you know, Tucker and you're watching your views go down or some other, there's a bunch of other podcasters doing this. Well, you make a video about Israel. And then, you notice you get a little bit more views. So you make another video about Israel and eventually you're like, Hey man, ragging on Israel. We're getting a lot of views. Do you want amazing? I wonder where those views are from, though, because Americans don't really care all that much. I imagine if Americans don't care about politics, you got a big audience with all these other Muslim countries that don't like Jews in Israel. You can do that. That's not surprising. Maybe Dearborn that we're seeing things like this, but I would also add for this is guys, I said it before I'll say it again. I reported in February that there were rumors in the beltway that there was going to be like with Tucker and with a bunch of these people, a break away coalition, that would align left, try and pull Trump derangement moderates from the left. So that the establishment is worried about socialism. They might have even just stolen the election in Wisconsin. I don't know. But the pitch was Tulsi Gabb was going to resign. We were going to see a bunch of people break from Trump to form this like anti war, anti Israel, but, but respectful and not woke anti Trump. The idea was that a lot of Neocons and moderates joined the Democratic Party because they hate Trump and this empowered socialists and like trans kids stuff. Well, when these elites are like, well, we don't want any of that. That's bad. We're losing because of that. How do we maintain the anti Trump, but attract more people? The rumor was that you were going to get this break away thing and people asked me like, oh, you think like Tucker or Tulsi is going to be a Democrat. And three, four months ago, I was like, I don't that seems like a long shot. Not anymore. Not with Tucker apologizing to Hunter saying, you're a good dude and Israel made me do it. Now there's a perfect lineup for the crazensteens to come out and be like, Tucker may be a bad dude, but he's doing the right thing now. Yeah. How much do you want to bet in the next several months following the following the primaries or whatever? Probably sooner than that. You were going to see mainstream lips, not like Kyle Kalinsky, but like David Pakman say, you know, Tucker Carlson did some bad things, but he's owning up to it. And that's all we ask. And then I actually think there's a decent probability following a hundred Biden interview that Tucker Carlson becomes a Democrat and actually advocates for moderate sane Democrats in the 28th cycle. Do you think Marjorie Taylor Greene will join him? Yep. Yeah. I don't think he's that principled. I mean, I think Tucker's kind of just like a bullied kid. If you remember, he used to wear bow ties until he got bullied into not wearing bow ties. I mean, I don't think Tucker really is that I think he's really just about two things. And that's about being liked and then using that to make money and maybe going fishing. Maybe. Yeah. Talking his nicotine powder. Right. That's part of it. Yeah. You can do that while you're fishing. Oh, certainly. Filming right out. Yeah. That's a good ad actually. Do they, does he have one like that? I'm sure he does. He must. Yeah. What do you think? If he were to go to like, you know, to become a Democrat, right? And say, we're the normal Democrats because everyone knows there's a civil war going on a Democrat party right now between the progressives and the normal Democrats. It looks like the normal Democrats are going to fall in line behind the progressives because they're the ones with the the ones with the energy. They're the ones that are going to do the canceling if you step out of line, et cetera. What do you think the chances of, quote, unquote, normal Democrats abandon the progressives and falling 100% all the polling shows this. We had, I think two polls now showing that it's nearly four to one when a democratic socialist is up against a Republican, the Republican wins. So that there was, what was that? We pulled this up like three days ago. There was one that was published by Washington posted a poll and they said that party favorability for democratic socialists is like 20%. Party favorability for Republicans is like 55%. When people are given the option to vote between a democratic socialists and a Republican, they vote Republican four to one. So what I see is a strong probability. The rumors all make sense. I'm going to say it again. I was told earlier this year Tulsi would resign. And I, I questioned this stuff. Do you think that like moves are made over resignations over a weekend? When I reached out to some people, they were like, there's absolutely no way Tulsi is going to resign. I said on my show, like the claim is that Tulsi is going to, there's going to be like this Tulsi, you know, she's a moderate. She joined Trump at National Breakaway, maybe RFK Jr. Obviously with Joe Kent, everybody says, yeah, there's no way Tulsi's breaking away. And then a few months later, she, she resigns. And then I'm like, wait a minute. Then Hunter Biden and Tucker do this show. And Tucker's like, I was completely wrong. I should never have supported Donald Trump. I mean, it's actually really bad. And it was Israel that made me report these things actually. And I'm like, well, here you go. Hunter Biden represents non-woke Democrats. So what may happen, Phil? I think you're this potential there. I think they're planning for these contingencies. If in 2028, the democratic socialists have stolen the gas from the democratic party and they're going to win these primaries, they're going to send in their spoilers to pull as many moderates as possible from the democratic party to ensure a Rubio Vance ticket. So let's say that Vance and Rubio, because Trumpism right now is not particularly popular, economy is bad. War is very unpopular. Trump's now selling this access to his account, like Joe Rogan's going like, what is happening? That's nuts. So yeah, it's crazy. We'll go to that in a second. But let's say you get a JD Vance, who is fairly vanilla pudding, like, you know, but people are going to be like, no, we don't want more of this. Let's say that JD Vance can only muster up 43, 44%. The democratic socialists conquer the democratic party use anti-Trumpism to get the pop, the plurality. That's when you dispatch the, the, the, the, the, the Tucker ticket. He may not be a Democrat. They may be that third party he's talking about. It could be a Tulsi Gabber joke Kent ticket. But if that pulls 5% from the Democrats, because there's going to be a bunch of dams who are like, I hate Trump, but the socialists are crazy. I'm voting Tulsi. Vance wins. I mean, that would be, you know, the, the best outcome that I could think of, whether it be Vance or Rubio or whoever, whoever the most likely whoever the conservative or the Republican candidate is, they're probably going to be better than, uh, basically anything that Democrats have to offer, including, you know, they're crossing. I mean, you went, I went and watched the whole hour and a half of him talking about his point by point thing. There's only a handful of things in it that I found that I, you know, that I wasn't particularly interested in. And most of it was his delivery. But it's it really, I don't feel like that is going to read, like that plan is going to resonate with regularly, quote unquote regular Democrats. Well, I, I was not going to watch an hour and a half of talker talking. I just, he's never been my guy. I don't really keep up with him that much. But that it, I read the bullet points that he put out. It's their grievances. I mean, there's a plan there. There's just grievances. It's some of them are good letter from talker. It's a more fine, you know, yeah, you all course should live through debt. But I got to be honest, the stuff that he's preaching is very aligned with left populism. So, uh, he had this whole thing that about Ben Shapiro being a siop, which is, it's crazy. He's basically saying, he kept saying they created Ben Shapiro over again. They elites in special interests. He said, he said Ben Shapiro is boomers vision of what a young person thinks. And they're using Ben Shapiro to, to send this messaging, this, this political ideology to young people. And it's like, it worked because of the trans stuff, which we all think they probably created anyway. And it's again, it's just like, who is they though? Who is they though you then mentions Israel a couple times, but isn't explicitly say it. Yeah. So he talks about, he was complaining because Ben Shapiro said, burritos don't cost $20. Good burritos cost $20. And he said, if you can't afford a $20 burrito, too bad, save up, split rent with your buddies. And I'll just think like everybody's wrong. I think everybody's wrong is usually the right answer. Yeah. No, I mean, burritos, a good high quality burrito shouldn't be $20. I don't know. I went to the, I, during burrito gate. I went to the Chipotle menu because I don't typically order Chipotle. And the, I looked at a burrito and it was 1950 in the menu. And that's, and that's high quality. Yeah, I mean, you know, I tend to get extra stake in Syria. And it's awesome and good and not $20 because like the whole piece of meat is $20. Taco Bell burrito is like $3.50. Sure. I used to get, I used to get California burritos all the time from this place in Philly when I was much younger. And they were $8.50. And I got one every single day for lunch. And it was like as big as my head. Yeah, but everything. There are some spots in LA, like I'm just, oh my goodness. That's at a career town. What's that street that large month is on? Not large month. The cross street. I can't remember the name of that. LA too well. And if you walk down that, if you go from large month and you head east, there's a Mexican restaurant with like dirt, cheap, massive burritos. And they do that panini grill thing on them. Man, those were the days. My son still talks about, we went to we went to LA a couple of years ago, so I did do a thing with Prager. And we ate all the Mexican food in LA. We ate so much Mexican food. And there was this one burrito that we got. And it was 12 bucks. And it was giant. And he still talks about it as like the absolute best burrito he's ever had. It's the reason I started. Like learned how to make birria and like burritos and stuff other than just like here's some taco meat, put it in the thing. So, yeah, it might be Beverly. I'm not sure if it was Beverly. But yeah, burritos, like a high quality burrito. I don't know. I don't think it should be 20 bucks. But then again, you know, there's a lot of things that are way too expensive. But I tired of going to the grocery store and having like every steak, I pick up be 35 dollars. This is this is all because of the the inflation that we saw after COVID. Like it takes, this is why inflation is so pernicious, right? Well, a nasty bout of inflation is so pernicious. And it hurts so bad is because it takes forever to for wages to catch up. Oh, yeah. No one like, honestly, in 10 years, if there's no big economic shocks and wages catch up, people aren't going to think, oh, the $20 burrito is so terrible. They're going to be like, well, $20 isn't what it used to be, right? And it's true. But, you know, $20 now isn't what it was in 2005. But that's because of the inflation that we have. And you can lay that directly at the feet of bad policy during COVID, right? Like they shouldn't have printed up all that money. In fact, to be honest with you, I would even go so far as to say that it was bad policy through the teens, right? They shouldn't have kept interest rates at zero just to keep the stock market afloat. You know, every time they tried to lower or to raise interest rates, the stock market took a tank and every whoever was president Trump, Obama didn't matter. They all chickened out. What do you make of this? What do you guys make of this L. Syed thing where he's like the blues clues thing? No, there was the blues clues thing, but then also how he how how banks, how banks helped him have a sharia mortgage, which means no interest. Yeah. Like that. Oh, sharia. Sorry. No, no interest mortgage was a no interest mortgage. So banking institutions have been working to create financial products specifically for Muslims that adhere to sharia law on. I want to. Who doesn't want to work in? I ain't gonna call you still have to pay interest. So I actually just wrote a piece about this. It should be coming out soon. Basically, the sharia compliant finance stuff, instead of charging you interest, they just buy the house, then charge you more for the house and split that into, you know, 50 easy installments. So you're essentially paying interest. It's it's literally just the loophole to get around. Okay. Okay. And it usually the rates are crappier because from service that they divide, they want to make some money. So right. Yeah. Not great. Oh, that's terrible. Yeah. Oh, I'm mad. Oh, no. I know. I would have. Like that's a trick. If somebody was getting a no interest mortgage, I want one. Yeah. Abdul El Sayed has a bunch of really weird videos. The blues clues thing is weird. Should we pull that one up? Yes. Oh, man. Listen, I'm trying really hard because like right now, like, let me pull this up. Politics is really divided. And I'm like, I'm going to, I'm going to give this guy a fair shake. I'm not. I'm going to give this. Well, I want, I want to give, you know, if he's going to come on, say he's not a socialist, but the DSC is campaigning for him. I'm going to say it like it is. DSA was campaigning on his behalf. He's claiming he's not a socialist. I don't, I don't believe it. But come on, guys, you ready for this one? This is going to be real. It was way better than when Steve did it. Yeah, I agree. Thanks, mailbox. We just got a letter. I wonder who it's from. It looks like my ballot brought to me by my Secretary of State. I thought this is AI. And with it. Oh, my God. It's my democracy. The first day that I can turn in is in 25th. It has to be postmarked by July 21st. Star Wars adults. I can drop it off up until election day, which is August 4th. 30 year olds that buy fun go pops. Yeah. It's good. We can't do. I think this is going to cost me election. It should. It should. The most offensive part to me was this right here. He's flat. It's fair. Yeah. No, I was just. You guys remember? I mean, that's what's up. That's from blues clues. That's the. Well, I mean, I was in blues. Clues was weird enough. I didn't watch my kid will not be watching any of this weird psychobabble nonsense. We'll be watching us. I'm going anywhere near that psychobabble. It's like crack for kids. But it's it's like it's it's it's it's it's it's retardational. It is like if you want to be a manager. Those pepper pigs. No, no, but the double mean isn't the question. The question is like you can you can trigger kids double mean through video games. Yeah. That are or or movies or or our content. That is real. In a sense. Like you can put on a show that's exciting with loud music, but it's real people doing real things like a guy is playing rock music in a band and everyone's screaming and cheering and then he's pointing and everyone's laughing. But those are things real humans do. But this children's stuff is like. It's like this is what Ian sees like when when when when I go to get my mail, I go and I grab the letters and I walk upstairs and I'm like I feel I think someone sent you fan mail or something and feel like okay, and then I'll be like, oh, it's got a bill some tax thing. Oh, here Chris someone sent us a letter to you. Ian is sitting there watching me and I'm the blues clues guy going, we just got a letter. Hey, Phil, it's fan mail and Ian sitting there with his eyes all big like, whoa, that's what kids are doing watching this stuff. You are inducing that in their brains. That being said, back to the main point. I'll say I'd Lord have mercy. What are you doing? There's more. Try pulp the other stuff. He thinks he's just healing. So please do infantile and yeah, infantilizing them. Well, I mean, the Democrats do want to lower the voting age to 16, but even still this seems. Yeah, this is way below that. You have no idea who is this. What is this? No, this is not real. Is this real? Right? Yeah, for real. Well, so are there. Is this real? I can't tell if it's AI anymore. Is this real? She wears shorts. Oh, man, fear it might be. That doesn't look like AI. I know. We're going to get a strike for that stupid song. I love that song. I'm not going to talk. This is real. Yeah, that's totally real. You know what? Not more outlandish than the blues clues. Guys, I figured it out. I'm going to run as a Democrat. And you know, I'm going to do. I'm going to wear Harry Potter robes. And the debate literally, you know, during the debate, I'm just going to stand there with like in the robes and the wand. And then whenever someone says something, I'm going to cast a Harry Potter spell. Yeah, he's going to be like your tax policy. Confundus. And then the crowds are going, they're all going to be screaming like Harry Potter. And then I'll be like, guys, what he just said. It's what Darth Vader would say. And then they're all like, my point is this works. He won. Yeah, he did. Yeah, surely won the primary. Yeah, he did. But Francesca Hong didn't you think that they, you think they stole it from her? She was up for like, by like less than a point. I think they're still, I think the way around. Like the dude from Milwaukee, Milwaukee has an error. And the dude from Milwaukee wins. And he was behind. My question is, well, Crowley was behind in the polls, but he was never behind on election night. Like I was watching that thing. Back in 2018. Oh, no, I thought you meant Tuesday. Oh, no, no, yeah, yeah. Because other Crowley was the AOC Crowley. Remember. Yeah, was isn't that the guy's name David Crowley? I think so. I wasn't even paying any attention. Well, so, so she was up in the polls by double digits. So either the prediction markets had had her at night. 99.9 to win. Bro, if on election day, you went on one of these prediction markets and put a hundred bucks down, which is that point one. 10 hours later, you declared 13 grand. It's crazy. Yeah. That is because we were all wrong. First thing I did when I saw her, when I saw her lose, I was like, I'm looking up all the primaries now where the Democratic Socialists are favored to win heavy in the polls. There's a couple coming up. There's one in Florida. And I'm just like, they're all switching now. Basically, everyone's like, the polls are wrong. That against them. The polling has been screwed up for years and years. Yes, but that's it. That's the question. The dude from Milwaukee, who is behind in the polls, there's an accidental error benefiting him in Milwaukee, right with the like five USB drive or whatever. We got the wrong data on it. We have to go and check. So the argument people are making is that the checking was that they needed to know the exact tally numbers at the end of the night. So they knew how many fake bouts that I'm not saying that's true. I'm just saying, maybe the socialist actually are doing really well. And so I was supposed to lose, but they didn't cheat enough. But do you think they're that organized? Like I feel like they're pretty organized. Are you saying if like one woman in Milwaukee County could flood five USBs? Absolutely. Fair enough. You don't need it. You don't for a primary. Yeah. You don't, you know, or I mean, this is the thing. Milwaukee is the dense urban population. That's where you're going to get your biggest density of votes per USB stick. So when they go missing, again, I don't know. I don't want to speculate. I'm just saying the rumors online are that they wait until three or three 50 AM or whatever to see what the vote count was. So they knew no more likely come in that way. Okay, we're going to need 20,000 votes. So he can't lose. If you do it early on and your margins are off, he loses. So that's why the ballot dumps are always at two or three in the morning. I don't know, though, don't get me. It would, I guess the challenge is if if the mission, I don't know, it's kind of weird to see the dude, Kornaki on NBC, just be completely dumbfounded. You guys saw that? Yeah. That was wild. He's, and then he, I can't remember the quote was, but he was like, how do I say this? I, and everyone's like, he wants to say they stole the election, he can't because he's on NBC. So I just wonder, mate, I got, you know, knowing the, the lips that I know, I think what he's doing is going to work for him. Like, I'm not, I'm not even kidding, guys, I'm pretty sure that if say a joke to a debate, dress as a Harry Potter character and literally do what I explained, he'd do well. They'd be like, he won the debate because he spoke to his audience. Yeah. I mean, it's a clown show where like, we're, like two elections away from Alando, what's his name? Elisando, the guy from the president from Idiocracy. Oh, yeah. Is it a long, though? Elisando, Elisando, Elisando, Elisando, Elisando, Elisando, something, they have. Down, do her, or something like that. I forget what is, what they drink is Gatorade. Yeah, no, no, they water and they water the crops and they can't figure out why things are growing. But I mean, not kidding around like we're just a couple of elections away from that. I mean, personally, I think that it started with like, you know, President Obama wanted to slow jam the news. And, and because you know, he was kind of the first social media president and stuff. And Donald Trump playing sex. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe. I mean, MTV, the MTV generation, the whole rock the vote thing that that might have actually been the beginning so fair enough. But then, you know, Barack Obama wanting to do all the appearances on late night TV and stuff. Donald Trump being a TV personality before he was even a president, obviously turned it up. Like seriously, it's going to, there's going to be some, you know, like Sean Michaels is going to run and you're going to have like, he's going to walk out to do the state of the union with the sexy boy song. Right, you know, yeah, Sean Michaels is a wrestler. Bro, it's, it's like, ideocracies was not wrong. You know, Mike Judge was, was always right. Office space was perfect. Yeah. And there's more video. Should I pull up the rest of them? Let's, let's see them. I guess everyone's like, yes, I'd like to see that. I don't even know how to find it. It was singing. There was, yeah, there's definitely been saying the blues clues. One is the one that's really taking off. It's like disturbing. Yeah. I didn't know what to think of that. Still don't. Well, that's not the democracy that we need, but it's, I think it's the democracy that we deserve. Yeah. Yeah. That's terrible. We let too many people, we let too many people vote. Well, I mean, it is what it is. I mean, we, we picked our bed and we landed. This is this is what we're, this is that quality of candidates that we're looking at. We allow too many people to vote. So you have to appeal to the lowest common denominator. We're really close on that, Phil. How about nobody votes? I mean, I, I am being swayed. I am being swayed. Like the whole, this whole democracy thing. Yeah. I can't actually find the other ones. He's got a bunch of these though. I saw a great meme. Like someone, someone had, uh, it was George Washington saying you let women vote. And I have a kind of thing. You let people vote because the joke is like people always say the founding fathers, if, man, if they saw what was going on today, they'd be, they'd be bushing caps already. And it's like, bro, you went to the founding fathers. They'd be like things went wrong in 1830, not 1999. I think things went wrong and they'd be like blasphemy's legal. You'd be like, yeah, you'd be surprised, boys, things went wrong and, uh, you know, the 17. Well, this is one of the arguments. Some of the, more reactionary Democrats make is that they say that Thomas Jefferson anticipated the constitution being rewritten every like couple generations. That's true. Yeah. And, and, and the, the, the, the issue, I, I'm, Thomas, how do I say this? Thomas Jefferson was wrong about a lot. He was right about a lot, but it was wrong about a lot. Cool house though. Cool house, right? Um, he was right about the founding of this country. And, uh, I think it was wrong about religion. And I think he was wrong about the rewriting of the constitution. And I'm glad some of his ideas didn't get implemented. He was wrong about the French Revolution. He was very pro-French Revolution in the beginning. And he's like, whoa, wait a second. Jacobins, you guys are nuts. Yeah. You know, and that's the point because he said he said something about a constitution would need to be rewritten because he made a point about, was it every 40 years because that's the generational? I don't think it's at 40, but it might have been. But his point was that it would be absurd in 200 years for dead men to be, you know, making the laws for a holy different people. The problem is Thomas Jefferson's life, the way he lived technologically was functionally identical to 200 years before. The technological advancements were so dramatically minimal, like the head muskets for hundreds of years, and the muzzle-loading muskets for hundreds of years and no one thought to rifle or make cartridges until the 1800s. And this isn't an argument to get more people involved in the way that your society is organized, right? Just because Jefferson said, oh, you know, we should, you know, you should rewrite the constitution every 40 years or whatever. He said, doesn't mean that, oh, every time Dick and Harry should be allowed to vote and have a have a say and we should have a democracy where every single person gets to vote and at that matter and every, you know, every vote counts, that shouldn't be the way that society is organized. Like that's the reason why we have representatives, right? That's the reason why the federal government is supposed to be limited because Congress people can't be expected to know, to know the ins and outs of every vote that they're taking. The government is supposed to have very few, the federal government is supposed to have very few powers and then the the states are supposed to have more power to, to, to rip to affect the daily lives of the people that live in those, live in those states and you're missing municipalities are really where you're going to actually have the biggest effect. You can go down the street and look for your selectman and yell at him if, you know, he passes a bill that you don't like. You got a whole lot more chance of affecting your life if you're dealing with your local legislator somehow than, than if you're dealing with, you know, your congressperson who, you know, represents however many people they represent. Yeah. 100,000 or something like that. Yeah. So the, the argument that the left makes, they say, oh, they, they wanted the founders wanted to rewrite the constitution. That doesn't mean that they wanted to have like you deciding how I get to live. She wanted to know some crazy. There was a shooting in my neighborhood in Chicago recently and it was like, I don't know the story though, because it's only I'm just hearing it from like friends, but like, I get sent a video about the news report from my neighborhood. And it was like old people. It wasn't, it was right outside of a school. So I pop up this video on YouTube and I'm watching and I hear the lady saying like, you know, this shooting happened and they're showing shots of the streets and the shots of the school. And it shows all the locals like standing outside of their houses watching because the squad cars have blocked the road off. And this is the neighborhood that I'm from. Everybody was Indian. Really all the people? I mean, there was like a handful of people. It's not like there was 10,000 people in the street, but like people standing in, so like Chicago, Chicago houses on the south side to give a small lawn. And so people are standing on their porches and standing on the sidewalk. And I'm like seven or eight Indian people in front of the houses. And I was like, wow, like no, no beef. I'm just pointing out that where I, like my neighborhood where I grew up, this, this area of Chicago was all Polish and like white, like, I guess, I don't say red neck because it's a Chicago like a glass. Somewhere in between. They were, they were, they were citybillies. Citybillies. That's not city Williams. We were giving them respect. Citybillies. And not Hillbilly's, but that's where I grew up. So it's like, we were on the border of the South suburbs. There's a suburb of Summit. We called it Scumit. Some people probably live there right now that they're mad at me for calling it that. Or they're going, "No, he's right, yeah, "we call it Scumit," you know what I mean? But now it's like, what was once a Polish migrant neighborhood? And largely just like white working class, cops and firefighters. My friends are like, it's all Latino, Indian and some Asian now. - Right. - And it's like, the point I bring up is one, you know, the demographics are absolutely changing. There's a desperation because there's no young people. Nobody had kids. But also, what does this mean for our constitution? If we were to rewrite it every time. Oh, bro, we're in for a storm. I'll tell you what, because it doesn't matter if you do or don't rewrite the constitution. If we all here are raised on the American tradition and believe in free speech and gun rights, and now we're all going to get a bunch of suppressors for every single gun we own, and we're going to get stocks for our pistols, which I guess technically makes the SBR's a corner of the ATF. That won't matter anymore. We're all smiling as we do. And then when the police have a problem with it, we say, you can't search our stuff, and we have a right to confront our accusers. What happens when it's not all of us here raised on the American tradition? But two or three of us, and then 17 dudes from China, who are like in China, you get arrested first. And then you get beaten and told to shut up. And then we went, and then what happens when we're debating in what happens when our Supreme Court in 50 to 70 years, it has seven justices that are the children of Chinese migrants. And they're on the court and they say, the First Amendment clearly doesn't mean you can say anything you want. The First Amendment just meant that if you were going to be polite in public and adhere to the party's wishes, you could express your opinion. Free speech means you're allowed to agree with us. Because what the founding fathers really were worried about is that when you want to express your dear love for the Little Red Book, they would tell you to be quiet while leader is speaking. Right. What happens when they start doing things like that? The right to keep in bear arms meant literal bear arms. The founding fathers are talking about going hunting. And when you hunt a bear, you put his arms in your office. And then when we say that's not what the founding fathers meant, they go, it doesn't matter because we're the Supreme Court and we say it so. The answer for that should be saved for the after show. My point is Thomas Jefferson did claim like you'll need a new constitution for a new people. And I'm like, nah, you have to amend the constitution. And we haven't been doing that. We've been legislating the constitution through the Supreme Court. And it's resulted in this wack alone world where we don't have a constitution anymore. Sorry, guys, we just don't. If you think the constitution has written is what the founding fathers wanted it to be. You are wrong. And it's funny how conservatives and progressives both simultaneously agree and disagree with me when I say this. There are some progressives who are like, you're absolutely incorrect. It's Trump, he's destroying the constitution. And there are progressives that I meet that are like, nah, you're right. That's never the, you know, I get these like far lefties. And they say, you are completely correct him. The founding fathers were white nationalists, white supremacists. And they wanted more. They wanted blasphemy laws and they had them. Then you can, I talked to conservatives and they're like, no, we are adhering to the constitutions and initial intent. The founding fathers did not think that a state had no right to ban you from wanting guns. The founding fathers thought that if Virginia wanted to pass a law banning guns, that's their problem. The federal government wouldn't be allowed to do it, but Virginia can do it Virginia does. The founding fathers thought that free speech did not mean you could blaspheme the name of Jesus Christ. In fact, when you're making that joke about, he's like, you let women vote. They'd actually be like, you let Catholics vote. Right. That would be shocking to them. Yeah, it was a big deal when JFK was elected as the first Catholic because I mean, you know, he might have allegiance to the Vatican, you know, as opposed to the United States. So. Indeed, imagine where our constitution is going to be as I described it in 50 years as these demographics change. We're going to get, it's going to be fascinating. I guarantee you this. If Islam continues to expand in United States, as it is, hold on guys, there are variables. I don't know that it will. But if you can envision a 20 or 30% Islamic faction in the United States, I guarantee you, we'll get Supreme Court rulings on the question of free speech where they will say things like the found, you will get, I guarantee you this as long as the density of Islam is high enough, a legitimate argument setting precedent of free speech where the sitting justice Abdul Muhammad Sayed says, the founding fathers would arrest you for blasphemy. You could not blaspheme that law only later on were these issues challenged. It is entirely constitutional to make it illegal to besmirch the good name of the prophet peace be upon him. Yeah. I mean, they could make changes whatever they want, really, of the Supreme Court. They seem to not be entirely concerned with precedent. I actually, my real quick, my argument is, there is historical precedent for the banning of blasphemy. So, if you were to ask a Supreme Court justice right now, can we ban blasphemy? Justice could say, yes, the founding fathers full intention was that blasphemy was not covered by the first amendment. They won't because of the ideology of the justices, but they've also heard cases on blasphemy sins. And they can overturn them. They can, but they, and there is precedent that says that they'd have to go against. Indeed. And they overturned precedent all the time. They generally avoid doing that. That's not the point because I guarantee you an Islamic Supreme Court would be like no problem. Well, in Islamic State. And the point I'm making is not that any immediate Supreme Court justice would, but that I guarantee you, if you got at least a soft majority of religious Islamists on the Supreme Court, they're going to say the United States has a strong tradition when it was founded. The founding fathers intention on the first amendment was that blasphemy would not be covered by free speech. It is only because of an attempted reinterpretation by progressive groups that this was ever allowed, and if the American people want blasphemy to be free speech, you need to amend the Constitution. Thus it is so ordered, reversed. And then they're going to be like, it's going to be a case involving someone drawing a picture of Muhammad or something. I am not saying Islam will take over. I'm not saying they will go into the Supreme Court. I'm saying Islam is a strong religion. Christians do not have the same issues Christians do. Christians stand back and say, you know, live and let live. I'm not trying to, you know, Muslims do not do this. Well, Christians extend their values to those who disagree with their values. And they extend that grace. And that can turn into a problem. And it lacks a certain measure of self-preservation. Yeah, and I mean, that's, I think that's kind of the argument that I'm summing up when I say that liberalism can't deal with authoritarianism. Well, I guess if you listen to Tucker, Islam's not that bad, actually. And Israel made me say that they were. We're not going to listen to Tucker, though, just saying. You know, it's really funny, though, is like, there's a lot of irony in paradoxes within the conservative arguments against Islam and all that stuff. I was watching this video on Instagram, and it was a dude who was like out on the street holding a sign saying, like, Islam is a threat to this country. And then two, like LGBT people were like, that's offensive as Islamophobia. And then he was like, what's wrong? What do you think it's not a threat? And they were like, you're being a bigot to like an entire people. And he was like, would you want to live in Saudi Arabia? And they were like, that's not what we're saying. And he was like, if they came here and implemented their government, they're going to force women to wear burkas. Women won't be allowed to vote. And they're going to throw gay people off roofs, and then the LGBT, because like it was trans guy and woman, they were like, we're done. We're leaving. Yeah. And he's like, I'm saying this for you, I don't understand. It's fascinating to me that it's progressives that would suffer the most under Islamic law or Sharia. And it's conservatives that recognize the, that it goes too far in one direction. But there's a lot of things conservatives would absolutely like that's in these, in these countries. Well, that's such an interesting thing. He read that with regard to the Mahmoud Supreme Court case, which I think actually, oddly enough, I think Sotomayor was right in her argument that it goes against the West Virginia case from like 18, whatever. So West Virginia had this Supreme Court case ages ago. I think it was 18 something, whatever. I don't remember. Sorry, guys. But West Virginia schools said that Jehovah's Witnesses had to do the Pledge of Allegiance. And the Jehovah's Witness family was like, no, we don't believe in that. And so West Virginia said, okay, then don't come into school. And the Jehovah's Witnesses said we still get to go to school. We just don't have to do the Pledge of Allegiance. And eventually what the Supreme Court decided was you can't tell them they can't come to school if they don't want to do the Pledge of Allegiance. But they don't have to do the Pledge, but they do have to sit there through it, right? Because you're not free from exposure to ideas that you disagree with. And then in the Mahmoud ruling with Montgomery County, Maryland, we had a situation where kids were getting like weird LGBTQ books read to them. And the parents Mahmoud and like, you know, it was like a coalition. Like it was a Muslim parents, Christian parents, I don't know, like Jewish parents, some other kind of parents, whatever. They all were like, hey, we don't want our kids to have to be subjected to this. So I agree. I don't want my kid to be subjected to that trash either. And I do want him to say the Pledge of Allegiance, right? Okay. So in the Mahmoud ruling, the Supreme Court said you allow opt-outs for other things like sports activities. have to allow advanced notice opt-outs for these things. And if you don't allow the opt-outs, then it's a violation against the religious liberty rights of these families, because it's an undue burden to make them have to send their kids to religious schools. - Yeah, cool. So my question for everybody is, should women vote? Well, I mean, I think women should vote, what do you think? - I think women should vote. - What do you think? Nobody should vote, no voting, I'll say it till I'm dead. - No voting at all. - I'm sympathetic to Chris's perspective. - So should everybody vote? - I think everybody who's of legal age to vote should vote. - It's wrong, I'm sorry. You're a communist. You're a communist. - Okay. - What do you think should everyone vote? - Absolutely not. I mean, if you look at people with, like, for example, intellectual disabilities, like we can't let somebody who has, like, profound intellectual disabilities vote, because they just don't understand what's going on. Great. It would be, like, almost inhumane to like, stand them up in the line and try and make them for some, if you do conclusions. I think if you have any kind of disorder that would, be defined as a perception misaligned with reality, you should be a lot of vote. - So that would be, like, all of the people who are like, I'm new or divergent, and that's interesting. No voting for them. - No voting for you. - Okay. No vote for you. - Look, if there's, like, a thing that is, and you don't think it is, you can vote. I'm being very, well, I'll be very sensitive to that. I think you can change the weather with your mind. - No, not that's, believe in objective reality. - I'm saying that, if I stand before you, and, you know, I show you a car, and you're like, that's a giraffe. I'll be like, can you define what a giraffe is? And like, it's a large mammal with a large neck. And you're like, okay, that's a not correct. You can't see functionally. So the problem, the reason why you shouldn't be allowed to vote is because if I asked you to drive the car, and then you ran off in the wrong direction, you know, let's say somebody is dying. And I'm like, quick, get in the car and drive it. And then they run up and jump on a bike and then slam into a wall. You're like, that person shouldn't be dictating how this country functions. - But blind people could vote. Definitely. - Yes. - Well, what about disability? - I'm talking about a mental disorder by which your perception of reality is incongruous with reality. - So we used to have these rules, right? There used to be, like, rules in the South where you had to pass certain tests to be able to vote. - Yes, yes, yes, but those tests were insane. - I was lying. - Well, the Supreme Court said, you can't do this. And now Louisiana, anytime you ever seen these tests, you have to clear it with us. No, I didn't. - They're ridiculous. - Should there be some kind of tests? Maybe you may be, but the problem is, you're alive. You can't vote. - Chris, no, no, no, no. Okay, listen. The problem is, so this is an example of a literacy test from Louisiana, is that the people in power can create a question with multiple answers and then say, oh, no, you, we meant the other one. - Right, no. - You got it wrong. - Chris, do me a favor and it's like unpack your perspective on voting and how, like what's your worldview is about voting and stuff like that? - Well, I'm coming out from an anarcho-Christian point of view. I mean, we think about the political spectrum between right and left, Democrat, Republican, liberal, libertarian, Kwame, whatever. They all agree that there has to be some sort of an elected or appointed leadership. The anarchic spectrum is totally different. It's on a different narrow proportion of the inverted triangle. And we all anarchists agree that you don't need a leader. - Look at this question. Draw a line from circle two to circle five that will pass below circle two and above circle four. So what? - You have to go through it. - From two, under two. So you're gonna start at the bottom and go under and then come up here and then go to five. - Yep. - In the line below, cross out each number that is more than 20, but less than 30. - Okay. - So see, I think that above the letter X make a small cross. And then, so it's questions like this that often get people to bring up because what if you did a plus sign? Like, I said a cross, it's a plus. - Yeah, they need multiple. - What if you do an X? I'm like, that's not a cross. A cross is like a small T. Like, it's ill-defined. - You know, just be like, like this is a pun, what if they pacified my lord? It's a cross. - That's actually true. I mean, that's probably what they were saying. I mean, look, I'm in circle the first. Look at this. Circle the first, first letter of the alphabet in this line. - The first first letter of the alphabet. So the first. - No, no, no, hold on. Circle the first, comma. First letter of the alphabet in this line. What does that mean? - I think it's the first first letter. - Yes, so. - It would be the A in alphabet. - Yeah. - And it could be, if there's first letter of the alphabet in this line. - The first? - Maybe I'm stupid, but I have no idea. - The first time the A appears. - Or it could be A appears. - It's a B appears. - Or the A, then you would. - Nope, what are you saying? - Nope, it says circle the first, comma. Meaning they want you to circle the first. So you'd circle first. - I could, I could interpret this however I want. - Well, I could think that's probably the point. The point is to stop black people from voting. - That's why these, that's why they said you can't do this. - Right. - Draw a line under the last word in this line, so that it wasn't racist. - Like draw a line under the last word in this line. - Draw a line around the number or letter of this sentence. - It's funny, there's a. - What? - The number or letter, this would be one. - The, there's Canadian staffers at the post millennial, and we have midterms this year. And they're like, you guys are always voting. What is this? How is it more vote? Wasn't there elections last Tuesday? Yes, there's elections every Tuesday until midterms. - I got it. Have you guys ever seen this speed reading videos? Where the word just flashed on the screen. You ever see these? - Yeah. - It'll do like a thousand words and they flashed on the screen for a fraction of a second. - And it's like, yeah, if you can read this, you're not stupid. - So how about we do 600 words per minute, giving you the instructions on how and where to vote? And if you couldn't follow it, you can, that's. - I have a much simpler solution. We just allow people to sell their votes and then kind of the dumbest contingent of society would just sell their votes. I mean, I guess you should say discriminates against poor people because they need more cities. - But we already have people selling their votes, right? - In California on Skid Row. - Legitly. - $2 for a signature on a petition. - I like the net taxpayers can vote. Look, and I know that does favor our lives because they live in cities and they pay more taxes typically, but I'm fine with it because then the people in the cities who have the money are gonna be like, I ain't voting for more taxes. - That would be a good thing. - Look, I'm an agnostic, but I would actually. I think I haven't fleshed this thought, this idea out, but the idea of having like a federal government that's based on Christian, the Christian religion, that doesn't change and then your states can vote. Just don't have any federal voting. - Nothing federal level. So how do we get federal stuff? - Well, you could have, I don't know. Maybe it would be something like the state legislatures. You can vote for your state legislatures, the state legislatures decide who's gonna be running the federal government. - Some states are like that, like the state legislature decides. - You used to be for the Senate. - Yeah, the Senate. - Let them elect the president, let them elect the Senate, no more House of Representatives, your representatives are in the state, and then they just stay there. - House of Representatives is my favorite body of government. - That's 'cause it's a clown show, it's funny. You know, we all can laugh at that. - But also, you notice everybody always likes their representative and they still think Congress is trash. - Yeah, yeah, because this is literally an argument. - So it's true, and but then too, I like my representative. - This is an argument against voting. (laughing) Everybody likes their own representative. Nobody likes Congress. Well, maybe we should-- - Well, because none of those representatives can get along with each other and come up with anything worthwhile. - I don't know, but the whole idea of like everybody should vote, I hate MTV for the rest of my life, because the whole rock the vote. - Paris Hilton looks so cute. - Paris Hilton did look cute, but it doesn't change the fact that like everybody shouldn't be voting. Like the, nobody votes. I'm with Chris. - All right, here we go. It's cleaner. - What do you think? - What do you think? Just King Trump? - Well, no, no king. No monarch, no king. No appointed ruler or leader. - That's where we differ, I think they were unique. - And how do you run things? - Well, listen, we're always gonna be subjects of the state. And there's no place on earth that I can go where, and Maoist talks about this. There's no place on earth I can go where I'm not going to be a subject of the state and subject to its many abuses. - I disagree, but continue. - You don't think so? - Yeah, I disagree. - I don't think that the state is gonna abuse its citizens in any way that it can. - And there's no place I can go where I wouldn't be subject to the state. - Where would you go? - Middle of the woods. - I'm just thinking about state. - I mean, you're gonna have to pay taxes or still gonna be a state. - You're gonna go to court society. - And so, huh? - You're gonna go to places. - No, no, no, no, no, no. My question is at what point in human history ever was there a place you could go that you would be subject to some person claiming, you know, authority. - It doesn't exist. It's always been, I mean. - It's never existed. In which case, it's, I argue that the claim that there's nowhere you can go has an implication that there perhaps could have been if, but not for the existence of the state. But in fact, if you go back to any point in human history, no matter where you went, someone claimed authority. So you could have been literally in the Western front, you know, in the eight, or late in hundreds. And the U.S. government, the Mexican government, Canadians, some one was gonna say it's ours. There was nowhere you could go at any point in history. It's just a difference in population density, in which case, go up to the UConn, you can do whatever you want. - And the fact that nature abores a vacuum, like if you don't have some kind of authority, whether we like the idea or not, very few people are gonna say, well, you know, actually we all agree with Chris. And so it's probably a lot. There's going to be people that are going to be in positions of authority. You're being so hierarchical. - You're gonna go, there's an island in the middle and nowhere and you're gonna be like, this is the one place. That's why we'll be free from the authority, right? Yeah. And I imagine you're gonna have tools and a gun and you bring your family and you build little house and you got a little fishing area with some nets. And then one day three random people show up and they say, "We're gonna take all your stuff." What are you gonna say to them? You give it to 'em. You're gonna give away your stuff. Because you're an anarcho-Christian and you're not attached to your life or your things. So they're common, they take all your stuff and-- You're not attached to your life. They murder your family and then just-- You said that, he said, "If you love your life, you'll lose it." So when they show up on the island-- That's to it. What are your family and you just go, "Well, it's always about." Everybody else talks about slaughter. It's like the extreme example. And I get that. They tie you up to the other stuff and leave you to die. And you participate in the suffering of Christ. So you just watch your family die, you just give up. I think that's also called Quaker. But no, no, no, hold on, I have no problem with if that's your worldview. And I think that's why Christianity is being crushed by Islam. Well, because nature abours a vacuum and someone that has the opinion of, I'm going to take this, I'm going to make this mine. I'm going to exert my will on the people that don't want to stand up for themselves. That's going to happen. So, I mean, yeah, you're not going to be in a situation where you're not going to encounter violence, but the question is, do you respond to violence with violence and hope that that solves everything? Well, it will certainly solve someone not killing your family. Well, not necessarily. Well, well, yes, you may not succeed, but I guarantee if you do nothing, then your family dies. So, you have the choice of, I'll try to have my family live or I'll give up and let them kill my family. Well, the math on this is actually quite simple. If Christians hold this view of, I will let the Islam do what they want, then Christianity will cease to exist in a couple of hundred years. And that's fine, I guess. I, sooner. I mean, I share a different view. I mean, people that are truly animated by the Holy Spirit and their love of Christ and their determination to live as he lived. Do you think affect lots of change? Do you think that Islam is expanding? Oh, yeah, of course. And in the United States too well. Yes, of course. Do you think that they will impose their religion by force? That's, they couldn't do otherwise. It will Christians let them? Yeah, we'd be martyrs. And then in a hundred years, when there's no Christians left, then what? Well, that's not how the book ends. That's not how the book ends. I mean, I have a glimpse of what eternity is going to be on this earth and Christ wins in the end. I think that there's an argument that revelation is, there's three, it's predictive, descriptive, and I always forget the three. Predictive, descriptive, and what's the other one? Look for it. There's three. The predictive is, here's what is going to happen. Here's how the book ends. The descriptive is, here is what has happened. And the third one I forgot the word is, here's what you must do. It's kind of all prescriptive. Yeah, there's predictive of, here's how the book ends. The people who believe in the predictive message of the Bible are the ones who will sit back and let these things happen. I believe that's incorrect. Prescriptive is the descriptive, I'll start with that one, is these things have happened before and they inform us as to the future. There's some people believe that revelation was actually a description of historical events and it was essentially a warning of, these, this is what happened to us and this is why you can't do bad things. And the prescriptive is, here's what you must do for this to come about. There are many people, and this has to do with the red heifer and the temple mount, everything's going on in Israel because a lot of these people are prescriptivists. They believe that they must take the actions of revelation in order for them to side to come. And they are Jews who believe this and they are Christians who believe this. I would simply argue that, you know, God helps those who help themselves. And the people, or you, if your argument is, I will sit back and be a martyr because the book will add another way. Nope, you'll get crushed and wiped out. Well, you're talking about an extreme scenario obviously, but there is something to do. I disagree, I think we're watching it happen. I think we're watching it happen too. And I also think that there's something we said for, given the Quaker perspective, right? I went to a Quaker school and one of my friends was Quaker and we talked about this, this whole pacifism thing, you know, like if somebody's coming at you, you let them kill you because that's the pacifist way to go and he turned it around and he said, why is there life more valuable than mine? You know, like why is anybody's life more valuable than mine if my life is not more valuable than others? So you participate in the cycle of violence? Well, or, you know, if it's a choice between killing you and someone else, why not just let them kill someone else? Do you know what I mean? Like you can twist it into any perspective you want. I think people misunderstand the crusades. I gotta say that, you know. There's also a lot of things that are a lot worse than death. There are things a lot worse than death. Like they can do to your family that I just couldn't let happen. Yeah. I don't think that, I think it would be almost the antithesis I've been a good Christian to stand by as a Muslim slaughtered your family. Yeah, I think the right thing to do would be to slaughter the people trying to slaughter your family. Yep. Well, let's hope it doesn't come to that in our life. But for many people, it happens every day. Where some, I'm saying Islam saying where evil people seek to do us harm. And you know, what did Jesus said? He said, "Buy a sword, sell your cloak if you don't have one." And that wasn't a direct statement about the general concept of people should be armed and defend themselves. It was particularly about he was in trouble and they were like conflict is coming. And he said, what do you buy a sword and sell your cloak to buy a sword? I don't know the exact quote. I'm not going to put on a biblical scholar. But I've had a lot of conversations with many different denominations of Christian about this. And typically I hear from most of them. I think you're the only one who's ever, I've ever heard say, sit back and let them slaughter your family. Well, it had to really do a lot of research on to really understand the, is that what he said? No, he kind of had that thing though with the revolving door prisons, the furlough weekend furlough programs. He got slammed for this whole thing where he was like, what if the guy raped your daughter? Wasn't it him? Wasn't that Michael DeCoccus? I'm not sure. I don't remember that one. I remember. Was that like the 86 election or something? Yeah, it was something like that. He was there in a tank. He looked dominant. Oh, yeah. Well, I was tell was the end of helmets. Yeah. You never wear a helmet when you're running for president. No, you can't do that. You can't do that. You can put the helmet hair, but not the accent. There was one of Ted Cruz's kids was trying to put a hat on his head. And he was like, no, no, no, no, no. Why people were like, whoa, whoa, that's weird. But then someone pointed out, look, ever since Michael DeCoccus was wearing that helmet in a tank. I think he actually had the chin strap. He did. Oh, wow. That was the thing that Ted Cruz is avoiding. He didn't want to have a picture. Because you look what happened to on Dean, right? Was his Dean? Howard Dean. No! That was his career. That was his whole thing. There he is. Look at him. He looks ridiculous. Oh, my God. But that's something, yeah. That's something that-- I want to promise. Need to avoid like they have to worry about that kind of stuff. You can't be yourself and run for president. No, it's going to be wild in like 2036. It's when it's Ocasio-Cortez V Fuentes. Yeah. It's going to be a thing. And we're going to be a lie. Well, who are you voting for? And it's like, well, I'm not a big fan of Fuentes, but I can't vote for a communist. And she's on the campaign trail with her surrogates carrying her embryos, flying communist flags. Yeah. And her surrogates are literal Chinese citizens. Yeah, that's right. And she bought them, because they were prisoners and she just paid for that. You. Anyway. You. Yeah. What were we talking about before? Island. Well, you were saying there's nowhere you can go where you want to be subject to. You had another point that you didn't finish, though, because I interrupted you. My arguments are basically they trace back to Tolstoy. He's kind of considered to be the cornerstone for anarcho-Christian thought. And in his book, "The Kingdom of God is Within You," he crystallizes what that looks like. But for both a Christian perspective and a negation of the state and rejection. It kind of sounds like something a Muslim wrote to trick Christians. Like, did you know that to be a good Christian, you should not fight me when I kill your family? Really? I'm going to kill your family. And if you want to be a good Christian, let me. Listen. Well, okay. It makes sense, I guess. There's a lot of ambiguity in the Bible. But Jesus is directive to turn the other cheek. Somebody tries to take your shirt, give them your coat to. Those are not ambiguous. They're very clear. I mean, like, it's almost impossible to misinterpret. I don't know. I don't think Jesus would want you to sit there and watch your babies get murdered. I wonder if he ever said that. I don't know, but I think otherwise we'd all be cool with abortion, too. That was my point. You know? Like what's the difference? Babies get slaughtered. Same. Well, I mean, it's essentially a conversation about salvation. There are people that are not saved, and there are people that are saved. And I mean. I don't think I would be more saved. I mean, I got to say, if watching my child be slaughtered is what it takes to get to heaven, then I'm going to hell, you know what I'm saying. If Luke 629-30 of someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Leave to everyone who asks you. And if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. But your family doesn't belong to you. You're supposed to protect them. Yes, but the food they need to survive, the water they need to drink as they traverse the desert. And I go to them and say, "Actually, Luke says you've got to give me your water." And I'm taking it. And then the man says, "But surely my children will die of dehydration." And I'm like, "Well, you have to do it." And I've taken it. You can't ask for it back. And he goes, "Good point. Yes, I'll die." We're resorting to extreme scenarios that could be easily applied in daily life. Extreme. Yes, those are all the time. I know. But we're talking about worldwide events, I mean, just locally, locally. If one can apply these principles to their daily life and their day-to-day interactions with people in their community and their family, then I think you would see a massive change. message has been sent to the more to do with like, if your neighbor came to you and said, I need this, you'd share it with them. I don't think it means that when the barbarians are at the gates, you go, all right, everybody lay down, they're going to, they're rape and kidnap our women and children and then the men are all dead. So you love your enemies. What's your take on your enemy? It doesn't mean to me. It doesn't mean let them murder your children. Well, you can, you can love them and then cry as you kill them because they're going to kill your family. So, what you're taking on like, just like self-defense, right, like so someone is going to, someone's attacking you or whatever, do you defend yourself? Yeah, and Arco Christian believes in absolute non-resistance to evil by force. Oh, okay. Okay. Absolute non-resistance to evil by force. What's the difference between an Arco Christian and Quaker? I don't know. I'm not familiar with Quaker. It's quite frankly. So like, is the idea like, Islam wipes out all the Christians and then Jesus comes back? There's no scenario where that's going to happen according to my beliefs. I could be mistaken. It stops Muslims from, or Islam from taking over. Evil, they're not an Arco Christians. Ah, the Arco Christians sit there and watch us. No, no, no. They feel Tim Carter. I mean, listen, listen. There's a Christianity in general in this country has been very submissive for 100 plus years. It's been ridiculously submissive. It was submissive in Europe even. What two or three crusades and like a thousand years of, of G-Hud? Yeah, I mean. And even now, like the torching of Notre Dame, all the churches getting burned down. So I don't think it's an Arco Christians fill. And I don't think there's enough secular people because they're, they like Islam. Ah, liberals. Could be the Jews. Who? Stop them. The Jews are good at self-defense. That's what I'm saying. Is there great at that? I mean, the Jews are, this is like, it's like Ukraine. Basically, they're basically preparing for war against Islamic invaders and people who, you know, use tactics that are kind of unknown to us here in the West. I mean, they're operating actively in this kind of like guerrilla warfare, obviously it's wound down. But over the last few years, they have way more experience than we do in this kind of like tight-knit, urban environment, fighting people who have no problems killing. We got, there's like, using them as, there's a, you hold on, hold on, there's a couple million G-Watvets that has, that spent, you know, the better part of the last 20 years fighting whether it be in Iraq or Afghanistan. So I don't disagree with you about there's plenty of, you know, Jews that have, have been fighting whether it be Hamas or Hezbollah or what have you, but like the idea that there's not a lot of Americans, we've got, we've got an entire, we've got an entire generation of young men, you know, that grew up, you know, in combat. There are more people in America that have experienced combat now between, you know, even though the boomers are rolled, the Vietnam vets and Gulf War I and then Iraq and Afghanistan, like there are a lot of combat that's in the United States. So you have a good point. I should have specified that this is just kind of like the latest iteration. Like they are the, the newest to do it. Sure. And they are defending Christendom in a lot of ways. I think so. Yeah. I mean, I, I don't know that they're, I don't know, maybe they're doing it like indirectly. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, because I don't think that they're going to, you know, I don't think that's the primary goal. You know, they're not, they're not praying the same Michael before they go into, you know, go into the tunnels in Gaza. But yeah, I mean, I guess, I guess that does, you know, the, the, if you're making the argument that, there's probably Christians in the IDF. Yeah. I imagine, you know, if you're making the, you're making the argument, look, it's better for the Israelis to control Jerusalem than for, you know, Hamas to control Jerusalem. You know, when it comes to Christians at least, it would be better for, you know, Israelis to control Jerusalem than Hamas. I think that that is probably the DSA has, the DSA's plan is to make the whole thing palestine with Jerusalem. Their plan is to die because the center and the Muslims are just going to kill them. I mean, the, you know, Hamas leaders have said that they're just these useful idiots. Yeah. All you have to do is look at the Iranian revolution and that's so you're not saying it's going to be a free secular state with equal rights for all where everybody can be gay and trans openly and, yeah, and Muslim, you know, something tells me that's not going to be the reality. I say, Minkling, I've said this before, and this is kind of like a meme for a while, but conservatives need to just fully embrace the Islam thing for, for a while. Yeah. I agree entirely. No, because it, it, you go to all the woke people and then when they're like, you know, we defend Islam, you'd be like, yes, and then you bring Islamic protesters to like pride events. Right. And then they're going to be like, maybe we don't like this. I mean, in terms of like the, from what I understand, which is of course limited and, and based on one of one of our writers who used to write for us at human events, Madeline Martin, makes you rest in peace, but she was working on a piece that she ran and it was about how there are different stages of jihad. And the one of the first stages is about how if you are Muslims and you are minorities in the culture where you are, you know, make friends with the, for lack of a better word, Gentiles, don't bring them into your heart. Well, let me, let me, and it's a slow takeover of the society. Let, let me, let me ask for the Christians in the room, obviously you don't agree with the general, um, like, uh, what's the right, like spiritual overarching belief system. So it's, you know, like you believe in a different God of the political system that is sharia and Islamic law. What don't you like about it? I don't like the treatment of women, the eradication of education, uh, for women specifically. I don't like the notion of jihad or the thing where you, um, you know, Takia, what the, when you're allowed to lie to, yeah, I don't like that. That's part of the whole jihad thing. Yeah. I don't like the, uh, forcing people to convert or making them pay attacks. Oh, yeah. What's that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of different. What about, what about your Christian? Yeah. I'm not a Christian now. I'm not a Christian. I'm like an atheist. Yeah. My dad's Jewish, my mom's Christian. You're atheist. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So you're atheist the ghost thing. I'm very, very, well, IP. No, uh, yeah. You all know way more about sharia law than I do. Theocracy, which I'm opposed to, for obvious reasons. Yeah. Also, genital mutilation. That's a bad one. And everything Libby said, also, it's an authoritarian, um, wait, hold on a minute, dude, they don't hold. I'm, I'm just, it's kind of weird, right? Islam, they cut up girls, I, and the Jews cut up boys. Yeah. What's, what's going on? These are questions. I'm asking myself. Was that, was that like, is that how the conflict started? The Muslims came in and they're like, what are you doing, a little boy? And like, what are you doing to those girls? And they're like, ah, fighting each other. I was under the impression that that didn't happen like in the Middle East. They don't do that, but they do that kind of in Africa. I think it's like in the Sahel. It's pretty big. But also Michigan. Wow. Yeah. Michigan, Africa. There's been some cases where the judge has decided, I believe in Michigan, I'd have been Minnesota. Also honor killings. Honor killings. Totally bad plan. I don't like the thing where if someone shows a cartoon of Muhammad, you torch their entire office. Like, so like, inside of Arabia, they're doing these things. I don't know. I think Saudi Arabia. I don't know. Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia women are allowed to drive now. So that's new. That's been for a few years though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Still relatively new. Yeah. Yeah. But, but in Saudi Arabia, you can take like a lot of a stack of $100 bills and put it just outside. On your lamp. No, on the ground and no one will touch it. Yeah. It's because they cut hands off. Yeah, yeah. It's homerabi. It's the whole homerabi thing. I, for an eye. Well, Sharia would destroy the economy. It would destroy capitalism in the West because our whole economic system is ultimately built upon interest. So if you can't loan money or borrow money, we're kind of screwed. How do they be? Over there. Well. Oil. Yeah. I mean, they kind of, their economies are. Instead of a little silver pellets. Yeah. If you look at, if you look at the Islamic countries that are sitting on oil, those are the ones that are advanced and blah, blah, blah. You look at Afghanistan, you look at the Islamic countries in Africa that don't have oil. They're all basket cases. Yeah. It's all just because of oil. Well, I mean, it's a disaster. All those places. Yeah. That has, I think that has a lot to do with all the warring between them and Saudi Arabia. It has a lot to do with like the massive death. Yeah. Yeah. It's the creation of a population that's like mostly under 30, never going to do well. No. Yeah. It's, it's not about, it's not that they have good economies or whatever. It's they're sitting on liquid gold. You know, I'll throw this out there to the shatters. If you want to throw in some superchats, I'm genuinely asking like of the political system, throw in your, your concerns and criticisms of it. The reason I bring that up is because the, the thing they promote that you'll see a lot of a Muslims promote about Sharia law are the things that conservatives do like, so like no crime is, there's like the easy example. So I'm interested in the finer arguments. I don't think like it. I wonder would, would conservatives like, you know, chopping off hands for stealing? Well, my whole thing is like in the United States, our, our, our ethos is that we trade safety for liberty. And so we're willing to accept a slightly less safe society and let's say the, you know, case of gun rights. So like are we willing to go all the way and make our society super safe, but by enforcing these like extremely harsh consequences on it? I don't think our society is that way. I think the fact that every year the surveillance state expands and new laws are put in the books. We give up, we give up our liberty every single day and by demand, people are screaming and demanding it. Keep giving more of it up. Yeah, fly camera. We give, we give it up for convenience generally. the people that have, you know, got a conscious choice, right? - Well, I mean, it probably not. 'Cause all of the sort, like, they're obviously the cameras and stuff like that, that's something that's bad. But we had someone that was in here yesterday arguing for them saying, look, you can find missing kids, you can find people that have actually committed crimes, faster, et cetera, et cetera. And while he was making good points, I still don't, I am not convinced by the argument for a lot of cameras. But at the same time, I'm, you know, walking around with a microphone and a camera that could be turned on at any time, and I would have no idea all that, you know, someone just has to know how to actually access it. And most of us do. Like, the vast majority, I think, 95% of Americans have a smartphone nowadays, right? So the idea that Americans are actually really concerned about their privacy, or they're really concerned about, you know, being anonymous and stuff like that, they're not. And you can tell they're not, because they have these tools. You can opt out if you want to, right? You can, you can say, I don't need a cell phone, or I don't go out of the house with a cell phone. You know, you can't, I think it's probably pretty hard to find landlines now. But like, you could have a cell phone and just leave it at home. And when you go out and leave, you can have an old vehicle that doesn't have computer chips in it. Now, obviously, this is not an easy thing. You can print out your map, Clest, because you can't even buy a map at the gas station anymore. Yeah, I mean, so it is possible. My mom hordes her maps. Good for her. I know, it's cute. But, you know, the idea that people are strongly against these things, they're against them when they first hear about them. Like when I, when the three Xbox 360 first came out, it was always connected to the internet. That camera. And I was like, I'm not buying that. I'm never blah, blah, blah, blah. Three years later, I was like, all right, whatever, you know, because I had, by that time, I had an iPhone. And I was like, well, you know, whatever, it's fine. You know, it, it becomes a situation where the convenience outweighs the, the intrusion. And Gen Z and Gen Alpha don't have the same concept of privacy that someone my age does, right? I'm 51. And so like the idea of privacy when I was a kid, I would get on my bike and leave. Nobody knew where I was. It was, that was good stuff. Yeah, it was like literally like, there was no tracking system, none of that stuff. The cameras weren't everywhere. So like, I understand-- In college, we had a call phone. What? In college, we had a call phone. Oh, yeah, like a phone down the hall with no answering machine. I remember what payphones were like, you know? In fact, I think when I started touring, payphones still existed. My first apartment, our phone was the payphone outside. But Gen Z and Gen Alpha don't have-- I mean, I don't-- I don't know if we're in an island or we're old, but I never used the payphone in my life. My girlfriends, you never used the payphone? Yeah. So back in the day, there was this trick. It was called 5-1-1ing a phone. You guys know this one? Yeah. If you doubt 5-1-1 and then the phone number, it would click and then click. If you hung up, the phone would ring. And so we just put the phone down and then walk away and then the phone would ring and some guy would like, hello, there's nothing there. It's like the most-- It's like the most-- It's like the stupidest prank imaginable because it literally did nothing. And we didn't even know what it was or why it was. We used to do the thing where I'd call my family collect and they would pick up the phone and the message would like it. It would say, say your name after the beef. And I would be like, this is maybe I'll be a home of talent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What 100 collect and it would be like, would you like to receive a collect call from? I'm at the park. I need to ride home by. Yeah. [LAUGHTER] You know, like, you know, Gen Zian and Gen Alpha, like it's normal to have the location service on for you and all your friends. So you can-- I know people that are just like, oh, like they look at their phone and they're like, where is this person? My brother has that. And actually, my brother and I have-- we have shared location. No, no, no, no, let me tell you a story. Let me tell you a story. Where my parents are and they are elderly. Always turn on location on your device, shared location. Because when we were in Vegas, I think it was Brandon. He-- I think he forgot-- he left his phone at a machine or something and someone found it. And so then he's like, he went to go look for it. It was gone. But our security guy was like, we have shared location on. So he turned on his phone in an arrow point to the direction of his phone. And then we walked up and there was a door and it stops. And we're like, it's in this room. And it was a security room. Security guys picked it up and put it in the room. And then they're like, yeah, here you go. That's why shared location is amazing. Yeah. How old are you, by the way? 21. Man, I don't share my location with anyone. No, no, I'm just saying it sucks. Because when I was a kid, it sucks for you to miss the Golden Age. I know. My parents and the Gen X people and the older people were like, nobody was talking about how the '80s were technologically better. They were like, oh, cool new thing, cool new thing. The new video game counts so amazing. Now it's the future. And everyone's like, the '90s were so good. So like in the '90s, everybody was excited for new stuff. And then in 2000s, people were like, yes, OK. Now everybody wants to go back to the '90s. Mostly, once we got laptops, and I was good. All I wanted when I was a kid, like my mom, I always had this collection of cigar boxes. In me, my friend, Julia, would turn them into fake laptops. Because it was before laptops. And we'd pretend we were on a spaceship. We'd put tin foil in, and we'd make little levers and everything. And so all I ever really wanted was a laptop. And so then once I got a laptop in 1993, I got an Acer Anywhere computer. My dad bought it for me or '94. Whenever I got it, who knows. It was awesome. And I was happy. That's what they do in '94. And I was very happy. Yeah, it was good. Awesome. 2008 is when it all went fell apart. 2008 ever. That was the ubiquity of internet. Yeah, internet and the housing bubble. 2008 was when everybody had the internet in their pocket. So before 2008-- I didn't get mine until 2007. It was '07 and the iPhone comes out. And it was pretty crummy. Like it worked and you could go on Facebook. And I remember being on a train in Chicago as an L. And my friend had just gotten one, like the very first iPhone. And they were like, dude, look, Facebook. And they were scrolling. And I was like, wow, that's crazy. Because it used to be, before this, I had a singular rocker. I don't know if you guys know what the rocker is. It had speakers in it. It was a candy bar phone. And you could send texts. I had AIM. It had a message around there. And it was $0.10 per message. So I remember we racked up an $8,000 bill once. Yeah. Well, because it told us that unlimited messages in our plan. It was on the line. But then they said, no, no, because AIM doesn't count as messages. And we were like, what? And it was a really weird web app. But for the most part, you couldn't really stop, sit down, load the app, and then like, you didn't do it. So what would happen is, I'd go out. I had a, I had a moped. And I'd go ride to my friend's house. And then I'd be like, knock on the door, not there. Try calling him. Where are you at? Was this in New York? No, Chicago. And there's no internet. So I'd wake up, I'd go online. Check my email, see what's going on. Then I'd go outside and I'd go do stuff all day. Having no idea what's happening in the world. Nunds the wiser, no anxiety. Then you'd get home, you'd check the internet. So your messages talk to people and go to bed. Sometimes you'd get home. And then you'd pull up A, O, and some messenger. And somebody'd be like, five messages from a friend. They'd be like, go party, party, party, where you at? And I'd be like, oh man, am I too late? And then I'd message him back. And I'd be like, well, I'm going to show up anyway. And then you make it. Today, everything, everywhere, all at once, all the time. I don't know, I still miss parties. Like just yesterday, I checked my signal. And I'd been invited to something. And I was like, oh, that was two weeks ago. I just had new-- Old people parties are wack. Well, I don't want to go to an old person party. I don't even know what it was. Let me tell you something. We have parties and parties for us. It's like, oh, we're going to do a big event. You should come. And it's like people in suits, and there's a bar. And there's like, there's like, hors d'oeuvres. And everyone just talks. And the music's really loud. You can't really talk. Parties, when you're like 20, it's like you walk into someone's house, and there's someone doing a keg stand. And everyone's just jumping in the floors, moving up and down with you. And you're just pumping kegger into your red cup, playing flip, flip, flip a delphia. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. See, that's a fun party. I used to throw some killer parties. Yeah. That was really good. You need a party with us. We only hang out with old people. Yeah. Everybody's retired. Old. We go to a party we're playing bingo and playing trivia. It's the best. I'm telling you. I'm a big proponent of that. I'm saying you go to-- parties in my 20s is you walk in. Everybody's jumping like a song. The whole floor is going to break. That's parties were good. And then there's like, you know, in my day, everyone in Chicago, so everyone singing alkaline trio, every song. You walk in front door and then all of a sudden you'll hear, like, goodbye forever, come on. And then also everyone in the party is screaming and singing. They're holding beers. Everyone's getting drunk. Now I go to a party and it's like a guy in a suit. And he's got like his wife and she's well dressed. And they're like a guy walks by. He's got little like deep fried, little rice paddy. He's a little-- Why not in the past or derves? Those were great. They're delicious. I'm just saying it's different. No, I mean, when I used to go to like the art openings or whatever, there would be past or derves. I would like go to the art openings to eat green dinner. Green dinner. Green dinner. I got to be honest though, like at the same time. Stand by the kids. The reality is there was a time and a play for those kinds of parties. I'm more like everything I do has a purpose, whereas back then it didn't. So it didn't matter if you want to know those parties. Like so when I'm 22, I'm like, I'm going to go to a party and just, you know, sign a bunch of beer and then party saying and then tomorrow, who knows? Today it's like, nah, we're filming a vlog tomorrow. So I've got my gear set up. Like I got stuff to do that I want to do. And in hindsight, if I had this mentality when I was 20, I'd probably be a billionaire, you know? I said, I had that mindset and I'm not a billionaire. I don't think I'm ever going to be a billionaire. But like I would go to parties and I would stay up all night and then I would make it to work on time. But that's what I'm saying right now is the reason why I don't go to those parties is because I'm like, we're doing other stuff. What am I going to do tomorrow that adds another brick to another layer, you know what I mean? Back then it was like, yeah, the party's the party, man, you know, and then tomorrow wake up. We'll figure it out. Sure. Today it's like, no, no, I got my plan set it for the next several months. Like we have a calendar of all the shows we're doing. Nice. I'm not going to a little party. I get invited to a party on the weekend, and I'm like, are you nuts? Sunday I'm waking up, and I'm gonna have breakfast, and that's my day to relax to recharge for the week because I have stuff to do. Back then it was like, if I go to a party, I'll just call and sick. I never would call and sick after party. I would always make sure that I was ready for the morning. Well, I worked at Jamba Juice. So take full advantage of your 20s. I'll tell you. I'm trying. My advice to you is to be as arrogant as you can, but professionally. I'll tell you a story. What do you say that? What's it? Man, the 20 year olds I meet in this industry, I don't want to say unimpressed, but I'm worried. Well, I'm worried if you're a 20 year old in this industry, no. I'll tell you a couple stories. So I worked at a Jamba Juice, and I also play music. And so I think I was 20 going on 21 when I lived in Lakeview. So I make smoothies all day, and I go to my bass, and I'm like, hey, in two weeks I'm playing a show at the Ashbury. I didn't actually say the Ashbury, but it's for everybody who's listening. That's where I was playing the show. I was like in two weeks I'm playing a show on Saturday, so I'm not going to be able to work Saturday. I can work the morning, but then I got to leave because I got to be there by 6. And so I'm going to do the shows until like 3 a.m., so I'm out. And she's like, okay, no problem. When they put the schedule for that week, I went and checked, and it had me opening on Sunday. That means I got to get there at 5 a.m. And so I immediately like the manager wasn't in when I get there. And I'm like, yeah, what I already said I can't do this. So then, you know, this is when I was, yeah, I was like 20. So then when I finally, a couple days later, we were on the same shift, and I was like, hey, you scheduled me for Sunday morning. I told you I was playing a show that until like 3 a.m., I can't do it. And she goes, well, you're scheduled, so you have to come. And I said, I don't think you understand. I told you, I cannot come. Okay, I won't be here. And she's like, you're scheduled to be here. And if you don't want this job, let me know. I was like, okay, I took my apron. I was like, no, stop, stop. And I'm like, my life, what I'm planning is more important than what you're trying to do to me. Yeah, I appreciate everything. Have a nice day. And I walked out and I quit on the spot. And that was a Wednesday. I was like, later, I didn't have a job. I quit on the spot one time too. I was interning for the theater company. And I was doing all this work. And then they had me, I gave notice. And then they had me trained someone who was getting paid. And I was just interning. I wasn't getting paid. And I realized they were getting paid. And I was like, oh, okay. So at the lunch break, I dropped a hit an asset and walked out. That's how we do it. That's how we all, I guess what I mean about the arrogance is, so I worked at vice in 2013. And I was then 20, I was 26 going on 27. I think actually, no, I think I start when I was 27. I would have been 27. I don't actually know. I think so. And I had no problem walking up to any of the executives. Like, it's just, it's just crazy to me. At the time, there are people that I remember this one dude was like, I got this really great idea I want to do. But like, I don't know how to do it. And I was like, what, why don't you ask Shane? And he's like, what? Shane was a CEO. And I'm like, it's, there's like 300 people in this building, bro. Shane walks through every single day. Just walk up to him. Just tell him you want to do this project. And he's like, oh, I can't do that. I was like, huh? Did you read that article from Mitchell? It's amazing. So he nailed it completely. Everything he said was, it's like, I've never seen a better article outlining exactly how things went down and why they went down that dude. He knows it all. I read that and I was like. So he was an intern when I got hired. And then he stayed after I had left. So he had, he had been there before me as an intern. And he was there after me as a staffer. And this is an article about advice I tweeted about it. And he just perfectly nailed it. This is really important. What he wrote, Joe Rogan is a bro bar stool. Their bros outkick their bros and vice their bros and Shane Smith was the king of the space. And they got really big. And when the corporate interests came, they said, you have to be woke. And it wasn't about him going, well, because what Mitchell said, it's about him wanting to please people and be what the media want him to be. He was jealous of teen Vogue. So he changed chasing after this. And he smashed the multi billion dollar brand in desperation to look good to corporate interests who didn't understand the space. And Mitchell said, and Joe Rogan and and portnoy and Travis, they stayed true and sold and cashed out. But anyway, my point is, when I worked advice, I'd walk into the boss's office. It'd down put my feet up and be like, what's going on? Like, what's your working on? And who am I? Right. But all these other people at the company were like terrified to talk to the bosses. So I'm like, young people got to be more arrogant. I mean, maybe maybe he's more confidence than arrogance. I think you don't want to be unprofessionally arrogant, but more than confidence, more than confidence, because the thing is, although confidence does sound often like the more professional. It sounds like the professional of arrogance. You got to be a little, if you go up to one of the bosses and you tell him he's a dumb POS. And you, and you know, if I was in charge of this company with a double private, you think you, yeah, he's going to be like, you can leave. But if you go to the boss and say, listen, with all due respect, I know what I'm talking about. Okay. Right. I know you know your space. You've built something tremendous. What I'm doing is going to make millions of dollars. Now you can be involved in my project. Then they're going to be like, all right, all right, time what you got going on. Confident is, hey, I want to make this pitch to you. I know it's going to work. They're going to be like, yeah, yeah, listen, buddy. I hear this all the time. Errogant is where you're getting their attention, just as long as you're not condescending or insultingly arrogant. Understood. But I say this when I worked advice, everything we're doing right here, I pitch to the executives. Well, and of course, you have to remember too that this is something one of my friends in grad school told me the thing you're doing is better than 95% of the other crap out there. Yeah. So just go with it. It's better. I was at I was at vice and I explained exactly this show to them. And they said, yeah, I mean, that'd be great. And then you know, they just they didn't want to do it. And I said, yeah, whatever. And then when I quit, everybody was shocked because I quit mid 2014 when vice was at their peak. And everybody might was like, are you insane? You were you were a correspondent for vice. And I was like, yeah, I have I have numerous vice stocks with millions of views. At the time, this was the dream of every millennial. Sure. I was getting emails from people like, I want to work with you. How do I do it? I had, you know, I did the Kim.com thing. It got like five million views overnight. And people are like, man, so cool. And then I quit. And then people asked me why? And I said, well, I hired vice to do a job for me in exchange for my value and labor. And they didn't do the job. So they fired them. And I went to the mentality, like the mentality of the millennial was like, but but you worked for them. No, I went to the executives before I started there and said, here's what I want. And in exchange for what I want, I will give you something and return. And then when they didn't deliver within three months, I had a meeting with the Boston. I said, performance review. I said, listen, I have been holding up my end of the bargain. Y'all haven't been holding up your end of the bargain. I expect these things. And I think I have delivered on my end. And so they said, OK, OK, give me more money. So we're in a sign of good faith. We're going to give you a raise. We'll go talk to the producer. We're going to get these things done. Then we had some movement. And it was like half past another meeting. We're sorry. Bringing Jim will get it done. And then finally, the third instance, I just said, you're fired. And then I get a call from one of the bosses. And he's like, what do you mean you quit? And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I like appreciate everything you guys did for me. It's not working out. So, you know, I'll be moving on. And then he was like, no, no, no, you don't quit. You don't quit. And I was like, no, I quit. And I actually cashed the check already. So I'm working for fusion. And then he was like, no, this isn't over. And I said, it's over, brother. Thank you. Have a nice day. He's like, I'm going to call you back. And then I never did. Yep. You got to go out there and you got to know what you're doing. Man. You can also fake it. Well, faking is a lot of it for the most part. Yeah. But you know, the thing is I actually had the inverse of that in that there are people who fake it till they make it. My thing was that I actually was wrong a lot. But I was just so damn sure of myself. The truth is this show that we have everything that we did. I pitched directly to the executives of vice and to fusion. And they did not do it. And I just think like I'm so grateful that they had such a myopic view of the media space. Because if Shane or, you know, Eddie or whoever advice was like, you know what Tim, we're going to do your podcasting idea. I wouldn't own this company. I would be making I'd probably be living in a two bedroom bungalow with a very, very small net worth and they'd be making bank off of my ideas and all the work that I did. But you know what at the time I was more than happy. I was like, let's make some cool stuff happen. And then they told me no. And then I went to fusion and fusion was like, no. And then I was like, fine, I'll do it myself. And I, you know, put on the podcasting gauntlet collected all the podcast stones, you know, and then here we are. Man, it's not electrocute any dogs. Well, actually, there was this one time where no, no cats. It was cats. Yeah, we would, we would juggle cats. All right, everybody. We're going to head over to the uncensored portion of the show in 10 minutes. So get those chats and rumble rants. I want to grab your rumble rants and super chats right now. Before we do, we got another sponsor. It is Keat.io. My friends, they had a question for you. Why should your messaging app need to know anything about you? And I, I have asked myself this on so many different apps that I've used. Why do I need to sign into this? Why do I have to give you my information or connecting my accounts? Most of us have already accepted accepted that technology companies collect enormous amounts of. information. 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You know, look, they're buying a sponsorship from us and the app is free to use. Like they're not profiting off of it in that direct way. So I respect that. They do what they say they do. Let's see what you guys want to say. GI jeeps says happy NFA day. It is a glorious day. Big day. I got two silencers on the way to my two cans, two suppliers. The maximum silencer was was the first patented suppressor was called the maximum silencer. So, but yeah, I've got two cans heading to my local FFL to fill out the 44-73 and nothing else. Hey, Kate Storm says what started all this was Sophie Cunningham saying men shouldn't play women sports. I wonder what would happen if she thanks the NBA for doing just that. That's the play. If like, this is the double edged sword. If they keep Royce White and then his canter out, then everyone's going to be like, we won. But I got to be honest, I think the progressives are going to avoid this issue. Yep. The, the, the, a Democratic pack did an analysis on Trump's they them add and found a three to five point voter swing. And I think glad found a drop in support for trans issues by like 8%. Oh, yeah. And they found a huge drop in support in Hollywood. In fact, there were no children's shows with trans or LGBTQ thing themes last year. How horrible. I know they were super disappointed. And I was, I was glad. Just like glad wasn't general 45 cases. I'm sorry, the views are down. So I'll do what I, what I can to help you guys out in addition to the discord love the show. Well, I will just say this. It's, it's, it's not a bad thing. It's, it's every four years. Benny Johnson made a great point. He's like, so the New York Times and a bunch of outlets copied the story where they're trying to smear all of the people in the space like, look how down their views are. And it's like, he said, that's like saying football viewer soccer viewership is down following the World Cup. Like we had a, a presidential election. Everybody had massive views. Now we're moving into the like off cycle and, and views go down. Where our viewership right now is comparable to where it was in 2022. So it's just kind of like, this is what happens. However, overall, our viewership is up. So Tim Kess Thierryle, of course, viewership is, is, is down from where was a year ago. It's comparable to where it was four years ago in the off cycle, which I would argue is a little bad because there's always supposed to be a little bit of growth. But I do think Trump had a trifecta coming out of the COVID era. We're going to see a little bit of a dip here. The expectation is that with a billion dollars being pumped into the midterm elections coming up very soon. You're going to see the algorithms are blasting off a lot of this content. What I will say is. When, when live stream viewership goes down, we don't just go, oh no, we've like, we've planned for this and reprioritize a bunch of things. So our viewership across the board has been massive. We've got clips on Facebook now with millions of views. So that's just our Facebook's been getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And people might say, yeah, but Facebook is, well, oh, man, it is what it is. The views are there. The demographics are largely similar. They skew only a little bit older. So it's like late 30s on Facebook, where YouTube is low 30s, early 30s. But we're making more and more money across the board. Facebook just launched this new creator program, where if you have at least a million followers, they guarantee you three K a month just because really free money. Yeah, it's called like the creator fast track program or something. And then X just announced that they're doing the new creator program starting in September, which I fully expect. You, you heard it here. X creators are probably going to get massive viewership and make insane money. I'm going to say this actually, I should just say straight to Elon. You're only going to make money on X. If you produce original content articles, videos, if you're just reposting someone else's content, you don't get money out that anymore. So this was like, you know, Nikita was, yeah, he was, he was removing all these accounts for doing it. They formalized it now. A lot of accounts will just quote tweet, generate a lot of engagement. And then they're like, that's not enough. You got to do a little bit more than that. If they algorithmically prioritize video, then like the amount of like, so what's going to happen is all of the ad revenue for X has been consolidated into a very small group is very few people make original content. The reposts are eliminated from that. That concentration of ad revenue is going to be spread out amongst those producing. And there's very few who do. And we're one of the biggest ones. We post a lot of my, all of the clips from Tim Cass are posted on X like three or four times today. And then this show is live on X. If they algorithmically prioritize that two things happen, monetary consolidation. So that means that the money we would normally get is going to be 10 X because fewer people get it. And with an algorithm push, our viewership is going to go way up. And then our share of the money is going to be even greater. The best thing X can do right now, I think is to promote original content. What is killing the platform? And they've already noticed this is all the regurgitated garbage content. I pointed this out earlier in this year, all these conservatives turn into aggregation channels. There are individuals, you know what I'm just going to say this with all the respect, but Brandon struck his Twitter account turned into like a like an editor just reposting clips from the news. And it was like a clip every 10 minutes of just some random news thing. That is boring. And I'm uninterested in that. Well, not only are they just aggregating, but a lot of times it's just some guy and his mom's basement in Pakistan, who's right, not even American. There's no original commentary whatsoever. And this is another thing that another component of the new thing is that you have to be producing content for the for the region you're ran or something that effect like, yeah, they make that change because I thought they walked that back that the new creator change. I already signed up for it. No, not the creator change, the change about the channel. That's in the new terms of service for starting September 10th, I think it is. Okay. So in the app, actually, let me pull this up. I got notification. So what do you go to creator studio? And it says original content rewards coming soon. Let me see what it says. Subscribe to premium B at least 18 have at least 500 verified followers have at least 500,000 verified home timeline impressions in the last 90 days, not including replies. Interesting. And it says check back later, we're okay. Yeah, here we go. Let's see, it's in here, the rules impressions from the same account created more than once per the following are excluded, paid, promoted artificial fraudulent, um, minimally model, see the following content are not considered original copied content minimally modified content aggregated content cross platform reposts interesting. Oh, no, no, okay, it's other than other than the original creator, interesting. Let's see, it says somewhere that you have to be be based in a country where the original content rewards program is available. Okay, so maybe, maybe, maybe you were maybe I'm wrong. I thought, uh, I got to read through it. I guess I'm pretty sure it said something about the content you produce the revenue generated based on the region that you're in, which would make sense because otherwise an Indian guy would be they'd be selling ads and an India's guys content to Indians that makes no sense. Right. So what if he's producing content on American politics in an Indian language, then I suppose it'd be fine. If the ads are for Indian. Yes, yeah, in Indian right. Yeah, the issue is, uh, if you're follow, if you have a million followers in, you know, Pakistan, why would, why would you know, an American company want to run those ads? All right, let's see, same old man says we need to reintroduce the McCarran Walters act. Islam was banned from the USA in 1952 because it was a threat to the Constitution. We need to just ban Islam and Islamist United States. What happened? Was it challenges? Now communism was 1964 happened. Oh, yeah, there you go. You know civil rights act. Dustwood says the verse you're looking for Tim is Luke 2236. Look it up. No way that my family died and just watch. That's not Christian. That's cowardice. Well, you don't have to be mean about it. Tiffany says the instruction about your swords, but now if you have a purse, take it and also a bag. And if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. The disciples said, interesting. All right. What does this one say? Mason says the Jews actively collaborated with Muslim invaders into Europe pre crusades, counting on them to save Christians is folly. Well, the Muslims in the Middle East teamed up with Hitler and said that promised Hitler that they would finish the job. Yeah. This guy probably thinks that it was a reason mind confs all over Gaza. Yeah. This is a really. Oh, yeah, everywhere. Find it in schools. Arthur Palmer says turning the other cheek is about forcing the Roman to disrespect you when he strikes you. If someone is going to hit you, make them mean it. I've heard that before too that there's all these different interpretations. The interpretation was that turning to their cheek was basically to insult them to as if to say that this means nothing to me that you are pathetic, you know, kind of like how tipping is as offensive in certain Asian culture. like giving them money as seen as like an insult. But I'm not saying I got believe it, it's just. All right, let's grab a couple more here. We got Carl Mango, is that what it says? Magno, Carlo Magno. Tim invites Sam Shemoon or David Wood to talk about Islam and Sharia law, preferably not at the same time since they're having a beef right now. - I don't really do it at the same time, yeah. - That's awesome. - Raymond G. Stanley Jr. says, "I nominate Chris for a culture war religion show." - Okay, we'll get Michael Manos. You know we'll do, we'll get a Christian, I'm not a Christian, an anarchist. - Yeah, I love it. - And then we'll go at it. All right, let's grab one more here. Oh, let's see, clank clank. I'm a tank says, "Just as Spirits is so scared, she would wear a hijab if Islam got to 15% of the population." Yikes. You know, I don't know, I completely disagree. My friends, smash that like button, share the show with everyone you've ever met in your life. We're going to the uncensored portion of the show to talk about what Phil wanted to talk about. It'd be interesting. So you could follow me on X and Instagram at Timkast. Sir, do you want to shout anything out? - Yeah, absolutely. I'm on Instagram at maxzultin2ens and I'm on X at maxzultingarly. Thanks so much. - It's my turn. I would really love to shout out our sponsor for the Pot Millennial sound.money. And you can check them out at sound.money/libby. They are bringing silver and gold to the people like it's Coinbase or Kraken, but it's better because it's Merik first. So you can go check them out. They support everything that we're doing at the Post Millennial and the Pot Millennial supporting us. 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