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Hello? Hey, there. I'm looking for a Mr. Billy Bennington. Yeah, that's me. Excellent. Mr. Bennington, I'm just calling today because I heard you might be interested in refinancing your home. No, I'm really not, and this isn't a good time. Oh, hey, now. It's always a good time to talk about saving some money. It looks like you're currently at a 5.3% rate. And, you know, I can get you up to nine, nine and a half percent easy. Maybe even get you some cash out on the deal. That sounds terrible, and it's really not a good time. Well, respectfully, Mr. Bennington, you don't know what you're talking about, okay? I'm the professional here, all right? So why don't you take the tampon out and calm down. I don't have time for this. Please take me off your list. Okay, I can do that. Oh, and Mr. Bennington, get some rest. You look tired. What? Trust the professionals. Whether it's a medical procedure or financing your home, call the pros at American financing today at 1-800-974-6500 or visit www.americanfinancing.net Crowder, NMLS 182334. If you start today, you may even delay up to 2 mortg SA. That's an invalid. SIP. What? I'm an invalid? You see this? This. This? Is there anything gayer than a back pillow that I have to wear right now? Yes. Yes, there is. Yeah, probably. There's a few things. Intercourse with another man. Guys, I'm gay. Pure man. But the point remains. Disc golfing, farting, and nothing making a sound. Feels like someone played golf with my disc. That's why I have the back pillow. Thanks for touching a sore spot. Eating corn the long way. There's lots of things. There are lots o. All right, I didn't think it right. Double fisting corn dogs. There's a lot of things. There are a lot of things. I think this well has run dry. But, yeah, a lot to get to today. Look, the main topic of today is China, inevitably the next great superpower. We've been told this time and time again, there is one man who has been willing to stand up to that myth, or at least point it out as a myth. And I think you know who that man is, and my mind has been changed on that. I, you know, was surrounded by people in finance for a long time saying, well, you know, I'm only hiring people who speak Mandarin. It's inevitable. They're going to be the next great superpower. I'm going to go through some claims versus the truths there and it's kind of shocking as to how uninformed people are and how much propaganda people actually buy. Which also brings us to Vance gave a great speech vice president on AI over I believe in France today or yesterday in defense of the United States and innovation. Also, Denmark wants to buy California. We're going to do the math. Probably not going to happen other nations. You should shut up. We don't care what you think, especially Denmark. And would you get yourself sterilized to protest Donald Trump because this bitch did sounds like a good excuse for me, honestly. And yes, this was a state rep who did. So we're going to get into that in more so at some point, I guarantee you you're gonna see if you're still watching on YouTube this head on over to Rumble. It's a live show, 10am Eastern. Also, we have on the show, I forgot to say this major announcement. Rumble Premium Mud Club is now Rumble Premium. Rumble Premium is Mud Club and Tim Pool is now signing onto the network. It has been announced, I believe later yesterday he's going to be on the show. Give you the ins and outs. It's your one stop shop. It has a network that you cannot find anywhere else. No more tip jars. You get Tim pool, you get us. You get Donald Trump Jr. You get Nick DePaolo, you get Mr. Gunsinger, you get Dr. Disrespect. You get it ad free. We're building an army. Figuratively. Could be literally two other holdouts. Yeah, there are a lot of guns. There are other holdouts. We'll see. Water is warm. Water is all right. It's okay to admit you made a mistake. Captain Morgan, you doing well? I'm doing really well. Better what you might. I'm just a happy person right now. You feel good? My back doesn't hurt. All right. And of course, Josh Firestein, who's back is fit as a fiddle. Must be nice. I got all kinds of back. And I now am going to I guess present a clip that I have not seen, but I was told I need to watch. Remember that. That rapper, Dank with the Orbit Dank demoss? Well, I guess not. The smell. I guess it appeared on the Breakfast Club to try and give you her side of the story. Several sides of the drama with the whole lift debacle. She doesn't have sides. I ended up ordering me a lift. You know, it was like 15 and you order a lift all the time. It's Never nice. Yes, I do. It was like 15 minutes away. Did they have to get her a custom couch? The driver's hair? I went downstairs. As I'm walking to the car, he looks you. The door is getting unlocked. I'm just. You ain't gonna let me in your car? I'm like, for real? So I put my camera out, and it's like, why you not about to. Why you not letting me in your car? Like, I kind of peeped that. That's what he was on. Because the look at me. I seen that look before, you know? So that's how it happened. This is the first time this has ever happened. The first time. So that seems pretty normal, right? What do you mean? We were gonna get to. Well, the couch thing next. Oh, is that in the next. Well, hold on a second. So that is not just me, because I've watched the breakfast clip. She's explaining her side. Right? Okay. Yeah. She looked a little low to me. She did look. And there may be a reason. Okay. When she says, didn't let me in the lift, she means the man didn't get out and shove her into the lift. Correct. I just want to make sure I understand using his foot. And I know you have a hydraulic press to shove her in. And I know what you're. Look, I've never once just said, ha, fat person. That's not what this is. This is someone who is advocating this kind of an unhealthy lifestyle for other people and advocates pride for it. You should not be proud there. There's a litany of bad decisions that have led up to this. Your body is telling you something. You're dying. Okay? Let's be honest about it. I will find tears welling up in my eyes if I'm at the gym and I see someone really trying to get it done, and I'll give them words of encouragement. That's not the same thing as advocating an early death, which is what is happening here. That being said, it also makes for great comedy fodder, I guess. Here's the next clip where she fell at a concert. No, this was the. No, this is her entering the. Okay again. They. They said, don't watch it. This is new. Don't watch it. We're gonna show it to you on air because I guess they like making me mad. Let's watch a little pouch. Peace. Big dang. How are you? Morning. You good? Good morning. Good Lord. Nice to meet you. Hi, how are you? How are you? Thanks for attempting to cover something. How are you, brother? You good? Nice to meet you. Kings got it? Yep. So there's the chair that she's attempting to see. That's the only seat y'all got. What you want? What you need? There's one more. A bigger chair or something. How about a hammock? So they disassemble to move the couch over for her to fit. And it's. Talk about the entitlement. Like, this is the only chair you got. You don't got a family of Mayans. We have in a Mayan hammock with a. He's too fast. There's not enough fabric. You only have a normal person chair here. Yes, yes. You ain't got, like, four beanbag chairs. She should be happy the chair she sat in didn't collapse immediately. You got, like, that love sack they have at the mall, but the one for the movies, for the whole family. You guys are being insensitive. Know what it's like to swallow a stool with your bus? And then she's like this, speaking into the microphone. Thanks, guys. Appreciate the couch. She goes to the doctor. That's for a stool sandwich. Like, I think I got one. Can't believe they make them so small. Doctor's like, yes, yes, I can. You know, she can't wipe her butt, dude. Respect the entitlement. That's the only chair you got. And, you know, if they said, yeah, why? What's the problem? Like, oh, you got to ask me if they're the. You know what? Look. And I say this, and you're right at the cusp, Gerald, of too tall. Right. Where you almost have to get everything Custom. Airplanes are tough. I'm kind of there. As far as the width on airplanes or sometimes in cabs. Yours is more of the depth. Yeah, a little bit of the depth. You know, DeMoss and I have that in common. But you know that you're not average, right? Close about six'five you know you're not average. I do. Yes, exactly. I don't expect accommodation for someone to expect the entire world to. To revolve around them. No pun intended. Okay. Pun intended. That's a man. Like a moon. Yes. She doesn't have an entourage. She has moons. When you're fat and you walk in with clothes like that, all bets are off. Like, you can be made fun of all day. And here's the thing. It ultimately, look, you see these stories. Now, what you don't see is how it ends, because the media doesn't want to cover that. And it really does make you wonder when people try and Push this fat pride. When people push lgbt, whatever it is, you go, how can they always be wrong, Those on the left. And push pride in something that is destructive to society. Also destructive to your knees. Here's a clip of her falling. She was like a stuck turtle, too, for a minute there. That was a 7.2. There was a bounce. It's like on that inflatable blob use at summer camp where a kid jumps. People are still trying to help her out. Even in the movie Heavyweights, the fat kids were jumping on her. Yeah. Somewhere a producer on the other end of the stage, you know, it's a travesty. They don't play the rest of that clip. Cuz I want to see her getting up. Yeah, I know. I want. So I thought It'd be like 10 minutes long. You got to call for cliff. That's the whole situation. I'm getting up. Slow and steady wins the race. Not. Not yet. No, no, no. I'll just sit the. Well, she's getting down with the sickness, I'll tell you that. Just sick from down here. I want to see her crowd surf. No, you down? Oh, I'm always down. It's not all this is not her fault, though. She did think she was getting breakfast at that show. Y'all ain't got any chairs. Y'all ain't got no biscuits, no gravy. Y'all ain't got a buffet. Huh? Y'all ain't got no grits. This false advertising. I'm gonna add you to my class actions. It would lift up y'all lie. Guarantee she's the kind of person who eats. What's that called where it's like a chicken? What is it? It's a turducken. A turducken? Hey, hey, hey, you want some water? Something? I don't know. Y'all got any turducken back there? Y'all got a whole turducken and a. Just for me and a dyke. I'm getting faint. You don't want my ass to fall. You know how long it take to get me up? I fell in the studio last time. Didn't get up till we do the B side. Got an oster ducking. Add an ostrich to that, too. Okay, I'm sorry. You made. That's mean. I'm fat. All right. Not that fat now. I still got wiggle room in the. In the seat belt on the plane. Here's the thing. This person just is not the craziest lady featured in this show. That's true. Last week, radically pro abortion feminist. Exactly how you would think she looks. Michigan state Rep. Lori Powski. I think it's pronounced Pahutski from Livonia in protest of the fascism of Donald Trump. You're gonna see a clip, so you know, I'm not making it up. She voluntarily sterilized herself. Michigan state Rep. Lori Pahutsky says she had discussed undergoing sterilization with her husband for. And then this year, Donald Trump became president. And that made me worried about things like insurance coverage, whether or not all hospital systems would even continue providing that level of care, depending on what came out of Washington. So we decided to keep the surgery date, and I got it done. Pahutsky fearing the fate of contraceptives after the first administration's effort to roll back insurance coverage. I think a lot of people decide if they don't fear children that much, that they just would like a more formidant perm of birth control. A forminant perm of birth control. A huge bush. I told you. Walking around a house party between her legs. Now you know how it goes from the center to all the legs. Can you perm that out for me? Yeah. I want to keep this permanent. I want that to be firmanent permanent. And let me ask you, you can comment below. Is this grandstanding or do you think this woman is actually concerned that Donald Trump is going to show up and punch her in the p. Like when she's like, hey, hey, look, I'm gonna force you to have my baby long shank stay couple. What is your fear here? No one is talking about doing away with birth control. And you already voted to include to preserve radically pro abortion policies in Michigan. Keep in mind, this broad calls herself or describes herself as a scientist, a millennial, and a bisexual woman. So you didn't. I mean, half of you didn't even need to become sterilized. Her husband, what's he there for? He's not. She just says bisexual to try and keep him on his toes. I have options. I have a lot. Look, you only have 50%. I have the whole gamut. Now, it's stupid, of course, but we do actually have an inside scoop. Her PR manager has been doing some interviews and we have this one for you in Spanish. Sita Miram Banyado. We're gonna get letters. Funny ones. She did it, not us. Oh, rest in peace to that guy. She is gonna be so pissed. All right, I guess. Here, by the way, we're going to have Tim Pool on later. We're going to Be going a little long today because Tim Pool had a little bit of a scheduling issue for us to match up. So we'll be doing a little bit of a longer show. But if you don't get to watch every day where you get the full extra hour, click right there. Join Rumble Premium. $99 annually $9.99 a month. You get the wonderful co promoted mug and you get access to the whole network ad free. Download the app. Best way to get notifications. Let's move on to this. I hate Europe just in general. You just end the show. There you go. Next segment. I don't, I don't like Europe. Tim just freaked everybody out and I'm just, I'm just at this point where I could even see yesterday when we were talking about Africa where I said Africa sucks. There's no place in Africa where I would want to live. Pick a place. No. People go. Like you can't say that about an entire continent. Yes, I can and I did. I don't like it. I think it's inferior. I would say and this is where, lest you say I'm a white supremacist, we get into a disagreement. Europe sucks too. To be clear, I would take 20,000 pro capitalism, pro American Cuban migrant refugees over one Swede because they're cowards, they hit dirty in hockey and they wear visors now. The same goes for Denmark. I think the rest of the world needs to remember we don't care. The stance should be we don't want to be like you. We have had results that are different from every other nation ever because we've done it differently and we don't want to be like you. Uk no. Germany? No. Denmark. Absolutely not. We don't even really know who you are. If Denmark as a country walked into this room right now, I wouldn't recognize it. So in response to President Trump's legitimate interest in purchasing Greenland, the Danes have now announced a campaign to buy California for $1 trillion. And just so you know, that number is not even close. Not even close to what would be required. But they did release a statement saying that they want to bring Danish values to California. They said we'll bring Hugo to Hollywood. That's, that's like a spirit. It's like their aloha spirit. It means like spirit of good cheer, kind of. We'll bring, we'll bring Hugo to Hollywood by clans and Beverly Hills and organic smallborough to ever street corner rule of law. Yes. Universal health care and fact based politics might apply. Okay, well how's it worked out for you. They don't even have an Oakland. No. No. Oh, my gosh. You think they. You think a bunch of ultra white Danes would have any idea what to do with Oakland? Holy shit. We can't reason with these people. What happened to my catalytic converter? I don't know what happened. I was at the corner Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, and after the stoplight, my car was on blocks. All our bikes are gone. Are you telling me that the Raiders left? Yes. Even their statement only mentioned Los Angeles landmarks. Like, you guys know there's more. There's more, right? Yeah. Also la. Not great. Oh, my gosh. They have black people. So what is a triad? Let's do some. You know, let's do some math here. Just. So this is how absurd it is. And this also gives you pretty good picture as to why America is in the driver's seat. And we should be using that leverage. So they kind of opened a door here, an opportunity for us. Let me. Let's do some calcul. Ah, shoot. What happened? Tim? Oh, no. He's got a bag of goodies. Need help? Need some help? It didn't unplug, right? I don't know. Let's see. Okay. All right, so let's look at this theoretical purchase. And all the references are available. So we're going to do this like a good account. All right, Silly. So the purchase of California. Let's look at Denmark's annual revenue. Okay. Okay. It is $47 billion. That's a lot. Okay, $47 billion. California. Let's do it by land valuation. Let's do it a couple of different ways to see if 1 trillion is reasonable. The median price of an acre in California is $18,000. Number of acres is 105 million. 105 million times 18,000, that comes to, ooh, 2 trillion. About a trillion short. Denmark, just on land. That's not just a forgot to carry the one type air. Let's do it by a different measure. Keep in mind this is just one state. Right. Denmark's an entire country. An entire inconsequential country. Yes. So let's do it by income valuation. Annual California revenue is about $630 billion. Let's assume, conservatively, a 5% recapitalization rate. That sounds fair, Gerald. So price here, if you average that, okay, based on income potential, would be $12.6 trillion purchase price. Well, that's better. Get to work, Denmark. You're going to need some outside investment potential. I get that. It must really bother you. To understand that the United States legitimately could purchase Greenland, or, you know, God forbid, just take it. There's 57,000 people in Greenland. Yeah, that's not even. Dude, that's not even El Centro, California. No, but you guys can't even come close to just within striking distance of purchasing a state. And this is the example again, you see it with trade across the world. When people talk about the consequences for the United States, just think of this as an example. They don't have any leverage. They don't have the purchasing power. This is an entire country who, by the way, in the international stage, these summits and organizations, they get to sit with just as much of a legitimate voice as the United States. We're all equal. They can't even purchase a tenth of a state. One state. If you don't trust my word, well, don't take my word for it. We actually have another person who did some math on this. Our very own economist Firestein. Bad Money. Hey, friends. Firestine here. And welcome to another edition of Bad Money. Now, I'm not just here to entertain you. I'm also here to educate you. So call me at 555-5555 or tweet me at WhoCares69. Now, in response to Trump offering to purchase Greenland from Denmark, the Danes have proposed buying California from the United States. I think this is a smashing idea. They say they'll bring bike lanes to Beverly Hills. Goodbye, car keys and hello, helmets. Yeah, safety first. That feels like Hygge. Mix that with some California sunshine and a little bit of Zola now, you'll be flying high. There's too many. Now, I know what you're thinking. Denmark. Danish. Like the pastries? No, stupid, those are from Austria, you Nazi scum. They're bringing a smorgasbord of new foods from Daniel and Day Dade, Denmark, whatever it's called. Yeah, they got all kinds. They got s'mores bread. You ever heard of s'mores bread? No. It's like a buttery toast with little toppings on it. You can have all kinds of stuff. You can have s'mores bread with meat. You could have s'mores bread with cheese. You can even have smart bread with PB&J. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be spending the rest of my day spending all my Danish crones at Legoland until my kids give me Crohn's disease. Lesson is, we should just take over Denmark. Yeah, pretty. Pretty much. And by the way, to tell you, we did mention this in the outset, but American financing close as fast is 10 days when you're looking at getting a mortgage. Save $800 a month. You could delay up to two mortgage payments. Call 1-800-974-6500 or americanfinancing.net Crowder Save some money. There are a lot of tricks in this industry and a lot of Americans get screwed. It's time to start helping the American consumer start empowering you. NMLS 182334 just I guess we gotta say that. Yes. And by the way, they've helped a lot of people with refinancing too. Not new stuff. So refinancing is huge. So you can save some money and put a bunch back in your pocket and keep your eyes out. You know, if interest rate is, if rates come down too, that's something to definitely be on the lookout for. Hey, let's go to Vice President J.D. vance. He was speaking in France yesterday. And this will lead into our segment on China. All the claims versus the truths as to what you've heard. They are the next superpower. I think they're a paper tiger, but we could be the ones who empower them. That's kind of what hangs in the balance here. So J.D. vance addressed this. But first, let's start with, with his outlined four pronged approach on America and the future of AI. This was a great speech. Number one, this administration will ensure that American AI technology continues to be the gold standard worldwide and we are the partner of choice for others, foreign countries and certainly businesses as they expand their own use of AI. Number two, we believe, believe that excessive regulation of the AI sector could kill a transformative industry just as it's taking off and will make every effort to encourage progre growth AI policies. Number three, we feel very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias and that American AI will not be co opted into a tool for authoritarian censorship. And finally, number four, the Trump administration will maintain a pro worker growth path for AI so it can be a potent tool for job creation in the United States. Why waste camera time on Justin Trudeau? I was surprised he got an invite still. And J.D. by the way, he's definitely wearing eyeliner, right? I don't know, it's hard to tell. Maybe he's wearing the fake lashes. He could just have, he could just have wonderful eyeliner. He has beautiful eyes. He does fine. Whatever. You noticed his eyes. I get lost on now. He did, by the way. Number one, he said we're gonna lead. Yes. I love that. The first thing he did. In the room full of people who want to be the leaders, we are in charge. Yep. He just. It's us. Then he justified it. He gave his reasoning for it without mentioning China specifically. I think you can tell who he's talking about here. He warned, really the entire EU about what the future could look like if AI were to not only fall in the hands of perhaps a fascist regime, but. But if said fascist regime would actually find themselves in the driver's seat because they've been empowered by members of the eu. This is really important. Pretty. Pretty stern stuff. As they do with other tech. Some authoritarian regimes have stolen and used AI to strengthen their military intelligence and surveillance capabilities, capture foreign data, and create propaganda to undermine other nations national security. And I would also remind our international friends here today that partnering with such regimes, it never pays off in the long term. From CCTV to 5G equipment, we're all familiar with cheap tech in the marketplace that's been heavily subsidized and exported by authoritarian regimes. Partnering with them means chaining your nation to an authoritarian master that seeks to infiltrate, dig in and seize your information infrastructure should a deal seem too good to be true. Just remember the old adage that we learned in Silicon Valley. If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product. It's very true. And when you think of the fact that you are the product, meaning your information, right? Your personal data, and you consider what China wants to do, we have plenty of examples. You have Huawei, Huawei, Huawei, Huawei, Huawei, TikTok, Deepseek. I mean, that should be no surprise. I know that it's looking to mine your information. It has Deep Seek in the name. They will never know the only thing, the only one worst was made off. And Deep Seek they have outright. They've refused to answer any queries, for example, or. Sorry. When you try and put these in. As far as AI Deepseek, they also refuse to answer questions, just like TikTok does. Or they simply deny it. But Deepseek, if you try and ask Deep Seek about Tiananmen Square, it's like. What you talking about? No idea. You talking about like lemon square? No. By the way, China no good desserts, fortune cookie sucks. It won't answer anything you ever. You ever say. You go. If you go to a Chinese restaurant, you plan on doing dessert somewhere else. It's part of the truth. It is? Yes. I don't know. PF Chang's has a banana egg roll. Okay. All right. No way. That sounds terrible. I particularly like it when they mix the sauce at the table for the lettuce wraps, they go, do you want more spicy, less sp. See, it's like having my own little slave. It's a real Chinese experience. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. It's not a slave. It's fine. No, it's fine. Tim, I say, you've been working on the railroad. Aw, go get me some cobalt. And he finishes it. He goes, oh, no. It makes me feel really powerful. So deep. Seek Tiananmen Square. Nothing. Anything about Xi Jinping, including whether he even exists, anything about Taiwan being an independent country. When you consider that you're often. You're often reaching AI with customer service or for product support these days, imagine all of that being in the hands of the Communist Chinese. Of course, they seek to destroy the United States of America. They want to be the next superpower of the world and they want us to falter. Why would we give away that territory? That's what it comes down to. It doesn't make any sense. And by the way, these guys just lied anyway. Of course. They just. They lied about all of this. And I think we're going to talk about that here in just a second. But the world bought it for a minute. It actually made Nvidia's stock go down consistently, considerably. Oh, yeah. I think they lost almost a trillion dollar. It was either 500 billion or 800 billion, something like that, in the first day of market cap. Just one company. That's insane. And Denmark still couldn't buy them. They couldn't buy their decrease in market cap. So let's get into this. Let's get into China. And I would really like to hear from you. Comment below. Did you grow up in the era where everyone assumed. I know I did. And Gerald and I were talking about this. It's inevitable. China is going to be the world's next great superpower. We are going to take a back seat. We just need to accept it. Get ready to serve your tiny overlords. Prepare for the inevitable. I don't know if that's true. And I'll lay out the case as to why that's not true and why there's been one person who has really been the fulcrum for this shift in our approach to China. So last month, a US Intelligence report, it actually reported that China is building a new military compound in Beijing, 10 times the size of the Pentagon. References available. Link in the description. Every show we do that. Please don't take my word for it. Do your own research now. Their base is allegedly huge. That being said, the military equipment still built by Temu couldn't use deep stick for that one. That's cute. And this is just the tip of the iceberg on some of the moves that Beijing is making. China obviously is trying come on fast and strong. And they will if they will be allowed, keyword is allowed to do so. As the Pentagon signaled the emergence of the United States as a major military power, China wants to cement its military status in the present day. On December 26, China's aerospace sector flew a sixth generation fighter design for the first time. A Chinese artificial intelligence model Deep sea sent shock waves around the world last week, topping the free Download charts in 140 countries and regions. China has become the world's largest car exporter, overtaking Japan. Exports increased by about 60% in the first quarter. When it comes to solar power, China is outpacing everyone. Last year it commissioned as much much solar energy as the entire world did. In 2022, China is not only expanding its neighbor base home for the first time, it's establishing a new naval outpost in Southeast Asia. Launched in June 2022, the Fujian is a massive leap forward for China's navy. A stunning show of ambition and innovation. Ten years ago, this arsenal was around 50 or 60. It's now over 100. We see them deploying larger and numbers of nuclear weapons. Economists are saying that, are saying that by 2030, China will reach parity with the United States. And what I'm saying as an, as an expert in my field is that when you reach parity, you've lost. And I know this is me being pedantic and childish, but I don't like taking any type of international finance advice from someone who looks like he wears toe shoes for your souls. Yeah, I'm wearing a long sleeve T shirt. I'm not necessarily Mr. Formal, but enough is enough. This industry is hacky sacks. Yes, exactly. Frisbee golf. Now, here's the thing. It always worries me when you hear people in the United States going along with this because we know the propaganda line and we also know the intent of China. They're very explicit about their goals. You can read about them in their state run media outlets. There's your first clue. This is written in. I think we translated this. By 2050, two centuries after the Opium wars, which plunged the Middle Kingdom into a period of hurt and shame, China is set to regain its might and reascend to the top of the world. Even though the Chinese government certainly has not planned the timetable and roadmap to become the world's number one. This is a people's war. But is China actually capable of being number one? And is it inevitable? We've been told that. Well, don't let this tin can I'm about to kick hit you in the teeth. It's time for some truth. Fact. I meant to say clean. Truth. Truth, fact. Truth, fact. That's not even close. All right. Yeah, I don't need to be admonished as well. Yeah, because you tattled on him. Yeah, no, no, we both do. He said it. He corrected himself. So let's go. First claim. Okay, claim. I just hit an admonish. You're a little bit trigger happy for the admonish and not so much on doing your job. Let's try this again. First claim. China is going to overtake the US Economy. Just bet on it. Well, I think China is a real interesting country, I have to say. The thing to appreciate about China is just that there's a lot of really smart, really hard working people there and they're going to do a lot of great things. This is sort of independent of Chinese government policy. They're just going to do a lot of interesting things. The thing that will be, that will feel pretty strange is that the Chinese economy is going to be probably at least twice as big as the US Economy. Maybe three times, but at least twice. Here's the truth. Probably not. So let me give you some numbers here on growth. Since 1990, China has averaged about 9% annual growth. Growth even two times. They were as high as 14%. Yeah, okay. But in 2023, they struggled to meet the 5% growth target from the government. And then in December, Xi banned a top Chinese economist from speaking after he actually questioned an official government report because he believed it was worse. Here's what you also have to understand. China can't move. They can't transition to a consumption model. Right. They have a bunch of people who are effectively modern slaves and then can create, they can support the goods and services that we need in a free enterprise society. But at a certain point, these slaves are going to want to take part. And for China to move to a consumption model, they would have to empower their own citizens to be able to have freedom of choice. That's antithetical to the communist regime. So the only way it happens is if the regime topples or there's a civil war. Yeah, especially with their social credit score limiting what you can and can't purchase, where you can travel, that really constrains the economy. It's never ended well. It's never worked out long term for a communist regime like that, no matter how hard they have tried. I know that we've been told no, no, no, they're getting it right now. Well, okay, we'll get through some of the propaganda in a little bit. But some of the giant by the way, builders like Evergrande, Country Garden, Sunak, they defaulted. And part of the story is these developers actually pre sold homes to pay off debt, never finished them. This is rotten tail buildings, a term coined to describe unfinished homes in China where towards the end construction lack of funding causes the entire project to stop. In a sense it does look rotten, but it's corruption at the core where developers create Ponzi schemes to lure people to make down payments and the fund is used to make more projects and bribe local officials. When the money dries up, banks start asking people to pay even if the buildings aren't done and contractors resort to subpar material or simply abandon it. In 2022, a survey conduct found over 45% of home buyers in China encountering this rotten tail problem. That means no elevators, running water, electricity or gas. Jeez, seems like kind of a big deal paradise. So if people are telling you in the media, oh yeah, no, they're going to be the second or third or they're going to be two or three times the size of the American economy and they don't fill you in on that information, what's the motive? There's accuracy here matters. Why would we want to demoralize the west, especially if it's not an inevitability? The second claim you hear a lot, okay, is that, well, there's like, there's like 19 trillion. It's just a sheer numbers game. China has too many people, they're going to overtake all other countries because so many Chinese. So that assumes GDP per capita still less than the US but since they have about four or five times the population, then it would only require getting to a GDP per capita of half the United States for their economy to be twice the size of ours. And as I'm sure people in this room know, the foundation of war is economics. And so, so if you have half the resources of the counterparty, then you better be real innovative. So here's the truth. China's demographics actually are terrible. Donald Trump, don't trust China. China is asshole. So the total fertility rate of China, it's one of the lowest in the world. To give you an idea, China in 2022 was one, meaning women have an average of one child in the United States where we do have a birth rate problem, 1.7 70% more. And they're at a crest right now where it's really going to prove to be a problem, especially because you know, it's in a moral godless nation, despite what the Eastern gurus try and tell you. And they drowned plenty of their young girls in the bathtub or left them on the mountain. Yeah, exactly. Bitch again to me about the United states and patriarchy. 2024, the population in China declined for the third straight years. And that means you're going to see this pyramid where you have a shrinking work base and they have to support older people. It's kind of like what you're seeing with Social Security because you had World War II, you had the baby boom generation and the ratio now of retirees per workers. Just the math doesn't add up. No, it's crazy. And by the way, they said that that's not just a blip, that is going to be an accelerated trend in the future. Yes, it is an accelerated trend because birth rates are, fertility is low and that's not going to be fixed when you also understand that people aren't getting married. It's a shockingly honest proposal. 35 year old Hu Yanbin is here looking for a wife. His dating resume details his personality traits, political affiliation, job and household registration. It includes a blunt assessment of his situation. Situation. Old male virgin seeking marriage. Huo is among millions of people in China between the age of 20 and 40 who have never married. If you get married in China, it's almost 100% sure that the guy is going to buy the apartment. So the girl doesn't buy the apartment at all. What if he cannot afford an apartment? Then he cannot get married. So this is the reality. That last guy looks like Mowgli watched the Steve Jobs movie. Yeah, I want to look like that. That could be me. Or I'm on a bracket turtleneck now. 2024 marriages in China fell to their lowest since 1980. It's down over 20% year over year. Also, that is the most Chinese way to try and get married that I could possibly imagine. Yes. Look at my spreadsheet. He had his political affiliations on there. How could you have have what is it China? Yeah, I mean I thought there's only one party in the States. In the States we have like looks maxing guys like, you know, I'm not fine. I want you get, get on a treadmill, go to the gym. They're saying, look, I have Did I have did to house. I have a good. I have good family. I have good life. I am a virgin, and I am a five or six tall. You marry me. Good business deal. The only thing he's missing is a picture of him with a big fish. Yes, that's exactly. And I have no job because I am here just clearly a photoshopped, enlarged sunfish. Look at me. Sunfish. Sunfish. Catch so many sunfish. You marry me. All the sunfish you could eat. Now I have an apartment, no gas, no elevator, but many cockroaches. Now, young Chinese citizens actually find the idea of marriage too daunting for a number of social reasons, economic reasons, and the anxiety is rising in the nation of China. That's the clip I just ran. Oh, that's right. Okay, sorry. I can run it again. Well, just run it for, like, two seconds. It's a shock, to be honest. So the marriage rates are shrinking year over year. And that's not the only thing that's. That's shrinking in China, as seen by this international chart. Yep. Hold on, hold on. Just to be fair, you actually missed one. What's that? Just. Just did it. Well, I will say this. They. The likeness is uncanny. Well, I didn't even make the chart. Yeah, that's true. I'm an innie. No one made the chart. Someone must have taken a picture of me while I was napping. I was in the pool. That's why he's all wrinkly. No pool, all crowder, all raisin. Put that on my resume. Marry me. Borac Raisin. No, prune. That's all raisin. Always smaller than average. Penis. It was the last line. I'm like, they call me Sun Maid now. At least you're tan. Here's another claim, the third claim that you're going to hear a lot in accepting the inevitable, that China is going to be the world's great. And here's the thing, it could be if we keep screwing up and propping them up. They claim that our economy, the US Economy, and this is a given, is totally dependent on China. While Trump brandishes the threat of tariffs like a bull with a bazooka in a China shop, nobody dares correct him on how they actually work. Let's break it down in the simplest possible terms, taking tariffs aimed at China as the example. Americans depend heavily on all kinds of products from China, China, smartphones, digital automation systems, toys, media transmission systems, lithium batteries, display monitors, computer parts, and plastic goods, to name but a few. Any tariffs on these Chinese goods will be paid by the American companies importing them. Yeah, we're very dependent. Well, here's the truth. We don't have to be Donald Trump. Don't trust China. China is asshole. So the people who tell you we are dependent on China understand that this is the result of bad policy. As they continue to advocate for bad policy. The solution is not to accept your new rulers. In my opinion. You can comment below. The solution is to put an end to bad policy. So right now it is true, the United States does rely on China for quite a few things. So consumer electronics. Apple for example, they mentioned lithium. Tesla obviously relying on that with batteries, rare earth minerals for military applications, pharmaceuticals. But this didn't just happen in a vacuum. Washington is largely responsible for this. So example, they hamstrung the mining industry with all kinds of regulation here. Not to mention of course allying with unions who give 99% of their donations to Democrats making production manufacturing unfeasible here in the United States. So they then outsource for cheap labor. And this was done under the false guise that China would moderate, they'd become more moderate and they would come into the 21st century. Well, we're not actually seeing that. And so it's time to change course. Simple things that we could do. I know you think this is reductive. We could reshore some of the manufacturing. We could use tariffs to force their behavior. They're not going to become more moderate. They're becoming more communist, more fascist. Well, let's start with tariffs. They need us more than we need them. We can leverage some of the advantages that we have so we could have export controls on high end technology like chips. And not just us, but also use our allies like Taiwan for example. We, we use that. Guess what? China has to play ball really, really quickly. The de minimis repeal, make that permanent. That's where there's no tariffs on goods I believe under $800 and they're shipping directly to US customers. Shipping directly to US customers. Different stuff with the stuff where they've stolen intellectual property and they just undercut companies. Things like that. Fake goods, can't control it. Everything is tiny. When you order it, be sure you actually get the measurements it took. That seems like a personal experience. Here I have a whiteboard the size of a wallet that was meant for my kitchen for a grocery list. Oops. I have basters that you can only use for a peanut. Yes, exactly. Yes, I got those too. I got an easy bake oven baster. Yeah, no joke. It was so tiny. I'M like, what is this? What they use in China. Oh, Tamu. It took three weeks to get there. Yeah, exactly. So those are things that we can do. And by the way, Korea has been very successful in leveraging their chip advantage over China. So it's not like this is something that's completely unprecedented. Here's another one that you hear another claim, right? A myth that you will hear from those who seem to have a vested interest. And I'm sure we'll discover more in relation to their finances as far as our public servants, where they will try and convince you. Well, here's the thing too. I mean, you may think that we're better than China, but actually China is a very harmonious society, also crime free. So maybe we should tear a page from China's book. Do people feel free to work alone anywhere in America at any time of the day or night? Do people have this freedom? Well, this freedom, by and large does exist in China. The statistics are absolutely incredible. You're 70 times more likely to be victim of a violent crime in the US than you are in China. This is anecdotal, but in my seven years in China, not only have I never been a witness or God forbid, victim of any crime, but I've never had anyone of my in my acquaintances who was. It's a very, very safe country. So this freedom from fear does exist. Here's the truth. None of that is true. The CCP just lies. Donald Trump. Don't trust China. China is asshole. So a recent study found that up to 97.5% of all crime is not recorded. Whoa. Major killings go completely unreported, Unheard of. Just to be clear, why would someone be parroting this? Well, I think that's a valid question. And usually you can follow the money trail. Over just the last year, we've heard a ton of stories by the way of these killings, these attacks that are considered revenge against society. Attacks in particular using vehicles. Jeez. Ah, that's sad. No crime. No crime. No crime. Crime. Let's be like China, no crime. They have no crime. Why do they have ambulances and police officers? No crime. No crime. No crime. 2024, there were 19 attacks like the one that you just saw, four times the rate of the annual attacks from 2019 to 2023. These are just the ones we know about. Imagine what goes on where you don't have a perfectly positioned camera, or the CCP doesn't get to that footage to destroy it before it makes its way out. Yeah. Or you have people like that. Was that a priest? It's what it looked like. Or some kind of a pastor, like being threatened, essentially. If you speak the truth about this stuff, you'll be kicked out of our country. Go out and be a good shill for us. Now, I wouldn't argue that there probably is lower overall crime because you have a society that is subservient effectively. Right. To their overlords. They live in absolute fear and terror. Also, there's an argument to be made that there are much harsher punishments if you commit commit violent crimes against white western tourists because they want to keep up appearances. You know, you've all heard of, read about the Blazing Saddles, fake towns in North Korea when people visit. That's pretty much all of China as it relates to their society and crime. If anyone tells you that it's a harmonious society where people look out for their fellow neighbors, they're lying to you. And you need to ask why. And then question the premise that China is coming. China is coming. Yeah, exactly. So they do this around the world. In places where big tourist zones, they actually put more police, of course. Right. They have tougher prohibitions in a place like China. If you really want to see, just go outside of a tourist area. Yes. Go outside of a tourist area and see exactly how it is. Yeah, exactly. Right. Here's another claim I think we're in four or five that you will hear from the people who want to beat you into submission mentally. They want you to simply, simply give yourself over to the notion that we're all going to be speaking Mandarin within 20 years. And they've been saying this, really since the 90s, to be clear. Clear. The claim they make is that, well, okay, not only are we reliant on China, not only do they have the population, but China is actually the world's biggest innovator. That's tough to deal with. The rise of Chinese AI chatbot Deepseek has taken the world by storm, but it's part of a wider trend. Chinese apps are rising up the charts around the world. TikTok Capcut, Shia Temu, to name a few. And it's not just on our phones. China is becoming dominant in many other areas of tech. Yeah. Show his neighbor eating fried scorpion from a sewer. Yeah. I don't understand what that was showing. Was it just like a different. It was showing the face Id couldn't even tell him apart from other people. Just like Apple struggled with. Here's the truth. Sure. China is the world's top innovator. If by innovate you mean steal tech and lie about it? Yeah. Donald Trump. Don't trust China. China is. Remember last month we covered this story and we said, well, the most likely scenario is they're lying about this. Otherwise this is going to change all of a. We erred on the side of their lying about it. Deep seek. They claim they trained their AI model for, I think it was under $6 million. Yeah. 95% less than anybody else on planet Earth. And we thought, well, this, this would be a tectonic shift. Yes. Well, there's been a new analysis. Turns out the total cost was actually closer to $1.5 billion. That is a huge difference. If you're going to lie, why l so big? Because they, they knew that many in the media would carry the water and tell you, if China's doing this for 6 million and you look at these other companies, well, you just can't be competitive. It's. It's the Chinese. They're coming. The Chinese are coming. The Chinese are coming. It's not true. Time and time again these stories come out and they are quickly discovered to be lies. This is not the first time this has happened. Let me give you some other examples. 2023, he had propagandists. They were lying about how. How Yahweh, Huawei, Huawei. I can't say it right. I don't care. I don't like their silly language and stupid people. Not the people, not the citizens, but the Communist Chinese Party, some of the citizens. Now, 2023, they bragged about how Huawei, their new phone, was the first, I guess, domestic 7 nanometer chip. This was like a big thing. They said, Chinese scientists deliver a kung fu kick to the American imperialist nuts. Okay. Huawei and SMIC, both under US sanctions, have created seven 7 nanometer chips without the gear from Dutch firm ASML, which shamelessly obeyed the US empire. First off, isn't it always kind of funny when anything from China is calling the United States an empire? Yes. I mean, you actually were in. You actually did have that entire continent. You had emperors. This continent, this country here was founded on not having a king. I just think it's funny. And they tried to claim that export controls didn't hurt China. Well, here's the reality. Apple and TSMC, they've had seven nanometer chips since 2018. Oh, and TSMC, they're already, as I understand it, manufacturing two nanometer chips, right? Yes. So they're light years ahead. We've had this technology before. And asml, basically, this is one of Those things that we can do to leverage our partners, they are the company that makes the equipment, that makes the chips. They're the only company in the world that makes that equipment. And we just be like, hey, just don't sell it to them. Yeah, just don't give it to China. It's almost like they're more reliant on us a little bit. And our friends. Yes. We're talking about asml, right? Asml. Not. I prefer the asmr. Chinese asmr. It's just. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Tiny feet. Did you get tiny? Basta. I said tinobesta. Tiny feet. Oh, so sexy. Now the sound of a Chinese lady slurping noodles. Yes. Oh, you will only have a baby boy. No, girl, that's a baby boy. Pans together. Here's another example. In January of 2024, Chinese military officials, they were reportedly caught stealing rocket fuel, replacing it with water. Are you serious? I tried that trick with my parents vodka and it did not work. No, it did not work. They lie about everything, right? So this idea, they're the ones holding the economic. Well, no, that's not true. That they have the birth rate, they have the population. Well, no, that's. That's not true. That they are the innovators of. No, that's not true. That we are completely reliant, maybe a little bit, but that's because we've decided to go with bad policy. And bad policy can be changed. And the one that really bothers me is if they're trying to tell you that China is in any way a better or more functional society, even discounting the idea of basic freedom, which is kind of foundational to us a little bit, A little bit just at the metrics, it's not true, it's not accurate. And if people are trying to sell you that bill of goods, you have to ask why? Because we have gone along with. And by that I mean our public servants, both Democrat and Republicans, even people out there who claim to be conservatives, they've gone along with this for a very long time. There's really been only one voice in my life time that has spoken up against this, boldly made it known, and has pointed out that the emperor has no clothes. And this very well may be a paper tiger. I like China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China. If you look at Japan, if you look at China, where we lose $100 billion a year with China, I'm going To instruct my treasury secretary to label China a currency manipulator. The greatest in the world. China's defaulted with us because if you look at what they're doing with intellectual property, $300 billion a year. I mean, you look at what they're doing with the way they steal our intellectual property, our intellectual rights. I mean, it's crazy what they're doing. Why do you keep using this? Because it comes from China. It's not racist at all. No, not at all. It comes from China. You know, 70% of the signage on the Panama Canal was written in Chinese. That's not right. It wasn't meant for China. We would tick their ass. It's not true. One voice. Yes. In our lifetime. One voice. And he was the voice. All the economists of this guy. He has no idea what he's talking about. He's a moron. And now they have to play catch up. This administration with Doge is moving so fast, the left doesn't even know. They don't know what to vilify anymore. It was like, oh, hold on a second. They want to take away your reproductive rights? And it was. They want to hire the irs. And now they're going like, I don't know. Something about a mind check left. It's fun. They really don't know what to do. And I want to see the same thing happen with China. I want to see China have to scramble the way our federal government has had to scramble. Because it's time to. Let's take the wool off from over our eyes and ask why. Why has everyone been pushing this? So let's open this to a round table. We're going to have Tim Pool actually on the show in just a little bit. Major announcement that he is signed with Rumble. And we'll pick his brain on that a little bit. But Lane the Brain Dinner snap is here because you spent a lot of time in the Asia. The Orient. The Orient. I don't know if we can say that. I think we have a Stinger for him. We do. It's a prop gun. Yeah. I was really hoping it would be more of like, you know, the. The K pop song, but, you know, There we go. Perfect. We're going to the club. That's basically what it's saying, right? Sort of. Yeah. That's the vibe. Yeah. Whenever he walks through the office, someone plays. You actually lived. Was it in Beijing? Yeah, I did live in Beijing for about half a year. Tried to do my master's program there. How was it? Why'd they kick you out. They didn't kick me out. So it was. It was funny enough, it was in 2018 when Trump kind of started that initial trade war. When I was there, it was October of that year. And you really saw the tea leaves start to change because there was a. Like you said before, Trump really took the wool off people's eyes. There was this idea that China and America were going to be friendly towards each other, it would be harmonious. China was going to continue to grow. We would just have to deal with it, but that's okay because we'd be. And then Trump stopped that in his tracks. Well, you started seeing the way they treated foreigners change drastically, the repression get much more serious. And I remember one time in class I asked one of the professors and all these professors were very influential in government policy making. He great, nice people. But he said to me, I'm sorry, I can't address your question as a member of the Chinese Communist Party. Really? Yes. Did you have a follow up? I said, understood, not trying to get Otto Warmbiered. And so I left the country shortly after and went to Korea. Were you taller than. Oh, that was it. Yeah. Except the Mongolians that live there. Yeah, they're tall. They're tall people. Well, it's the Asiatic Russians too. It's that whole thing. So let me ask, do you think they're going to be the next great superpower? Do you think it's inevitable, or do you think what determines it is more so our policy and approach? Absolutely. I think all of the description that you gave in there is completely accurate. And your assessment of us allowing it to happen, I couldn't agree with more. The thing about them being a paper tiger, I would slightly push back upon only because our policies failed so long that it allowed them to become caught the paper tiger. You see the moves that they're making. And a really interesting graph just came out. I don't know if it was the Economist or somebody, but it showed countries around the world that supported China's full annexation of Taiwan by any means. Yeah, almost all of South America and Africa agreed with it. Really? That's only because we have let them make inroads into these continents in these countries for the last 20 years. Well, the Belt and Road initiative through the Belt and Road and through. Yeah, any source of loans and diplomatic outreach. So, yeah, I think that they have amassed a great deal of power that they are probably going to use because of what you said. I think they are getting more dangerous because they are seeing that they're reaching the Peak of their abilities with the demographic problems, with the economic problems. Well, I remember we talked about this when the Ukraine war started, where we kind of had a little bit of a disagreement where. I don't know if it was you or Gilson. Well, the Chinese and Russian are not good. Russians are not good bedfellows. I said you might see that start to form. And we've definitely seen it since. Yeah. Where it's been an unlikely alliance and might embolden them quite a bit. Yeah, yeah. And even within that relationship itself, which, you know, up until the last 10, 20 years, Russia would have clearly won the pants in that relationship. Now it's China manipulating Russia. China allowing or not allowing Russia to do certain things because Russia has become dependent upon them. Right. Sort of the way we've let our own economy become dependent upon them through bad policy making. We've almost forced it. We've almost forced ourselves to become reliant. And. Yeah, I mean, for example, like we use the example, we weren't able to get the amount of mugs that we needed from an American company. It wasn't possible. So we can have them etched and we had them painted here. There wasn't anyone who could provide the kind of raw materials that we needed where that's not really a choice of a company. Small companies have to use what's available to them. And unfortunately, it's been the result of policy. Let me ask you this, though. Is there a. When you talk about power, do I think it's important, though, to separate the CCP and the people? Because I've heard quite a few and I can't prove this because no one's going to study this empirically, that a lot of the citizens are fed up that if they have children who come here to university, some of them are trying to send all their money to the States. And as soon as they can get their tiny asses over here, they're not necessarily loyal to China, whereas there used to be a greater sense of that. Yeah. And I think you can really see that. And if you're online terminally, as I am, if you look at the China propagandists are always saying about, you know, how great China is to live in. But then I retort with, why are there so many Chinese trying to illegally cross the border to get into our country and not vice versa? Because there is a lot of disillusionment with the government. But the government has figured out to kind of how to preclude revolution by making sure people have enough money through economic growth. Now that the economic growth is starting to fizzle out. I do think you're going to start to see, you know, the revenge against society attacks, the more willingness to push back against the government. But I think that's only going to encourage the government to repress even harder, like the 90s, like a Tiananmen Square sort of situation. So kind of on that, with the economy not doing as well, does that. That obviously probably would hamper their ability to be spending so much money around the world on these development projects and these partnerships. Do you think the rest of the world that they've been kind of buying the loyalty from, kind of like the Panama Canal thing, The United States steps back in, then immediately an announcement comes out that they're not going to renew the 2017 agreement that they had with them for the Belt and Road initiative. Do you think that kind of destabilizes them a bit as well? I would say to a certain extent, certainly. Because if they have less economic means to pursue projects, yes, they're going to pull back. But a lot of these economic projects are just kind of aimed at getting conciliatory measures from these countries. Right. Giving them huge loans that they're never going to be able to pay back, basically just so they can, you know, occupy territory. But they can't do that forever. No, they can't. But you see very clearly in the policy making right now that the CCP views security and national security above economic growth. So they will use repression where they don't have money or where the middle class isn't growing as much. And, you know, I do think that's going to come to a headwind because look at what happened with Japan Pre World War II. They found themselves in a very similar position. Yeah. That China feels that they are in right now. And that caused them to act very, you know, I would say not out of pocket. I guess that's what the kids say. But yeah, contrary to their own interest, I mean. No, they thought that was their best. It was a bad calculation after the Atom was, which is crazy because it's an Asian country. You'd think they'd make better calculations. Yeah, they're good at that. If they don't, we don't have a shot. Let me ask you this, though, because you lived there for a year and I know you've also. Half a year, but you also live in trauma. Yeah. You spend a lot of time in Asia. Societally, what is culture like there in China? Because sometimes people are surprised. And I know when I was young, I thought, okay, Everyone has to fake. When Kim Jong Ill died, they have to fake as though they're sad because they don't want to be taken on a helicopter ride. But some of those people in North Korea actually do believe that he's a deity and that he can read their thoughts. And he got 11 holes in one in his first golf round. Yes. People in China, do they buy into it? Are they loyal to the CCP or. Or are they disenfranchised? And something has to give. I would say there is a healthy disenfranchisement among a large. I don't want to say majority, but a large number of the population. But what the CCP has done very well at is over the last 10, 20 years, and especially since Xi Jinping took power, is ingraining this nationalist sentiment of the rest of the world. Is the one trying to hold you down. We are the only people that can protect you. And if you look at our historic right, for most of the world's history, we were the powerful country. And look at what all these Western powers have done to you over the last hundred years. That's over. And I think that does resonate with a lot of those people, because if you can play, it's kind of the opposite of what we've been doing in our school systems for so long. We were the oppressor, we're the bad guy. If you look at England, I think we sent in that poll a couple weeks or a couple days ago that like, 11%, correct me if I'm wrong, only 11% would fight for Britain and less than half felt proud to be British. Right. I am willing to bet in China that's much higher because the indoctrination has been quite successful. Yeah. I would be willing to bet that it's higher as far as people who are proud. But I would also be willing to bet that the people who are willing to fight against that for some type of revolution is significantly higher than in Western nations, too. You kind of have to pick a side. Yeah, Yeah. I guess there's also probably a big fear, if you look back at the history of Chinese civil conflict, how many people have died? Well, it doesn't go well. It doesn't go well. Lots of. So, really quickly, just a quick update, Tim Pool is actually going to come just a little bit earlier. Okay. It's about six or seven more minutes, so hang out for that. But on. On this front, like you saw it with Russia, Russia kind of experimented with kind of freedom, and immediately the people went back to what was Uncomfortable, but at least familiar and secure, which was okay. Well, at least the government had me. At least the government made sure I had a house. At least the government made sure XYZ happened. Yes, there were shortages that we had to deal with, and life wasn't great, but it's better than the unknown that you're kind of going into. So as far as social conflict goes, I don't see them running towards freedom. I see them running to another form of authoritarianism. It's very rare for the Western liberalism to work outside of Western liberal thinking, outside of essentially Europe and North America. The only places that that has really worked, I would venture to argue, are places like Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Right. But that's because the United States stayed there indefinitely to make sure they got it. Yes. And that was only after long, long periods of authoritarian rule. Yes. So I. Yeah, I'm with you. I don't know if. Without an occupation by Western forces, and I'm not saying that is something. No, no, no. I don't that at all. I would love to see the CCP fall. But if you look at what the CCP is, it's basically just the latest iteration of whatever dynasty came before it. Right. And communism is something that they sort of. They say, Chinese, Chinese, or socialism with Chinese characteristics. Politics. It's not. It's just authoritarianism with government control over what they want to control. Yeah. So really, we come back to the same solution. The only solution is the United States to enact better policy, that we use our leverage. Because if our liberal Western ideas won't work in China, basically, okay, it works for us. And we need to cripple the government of China. And that certainly is feasible. Like, it doesn't take that many policy changes to have an impact. No. And the one thing I did want to touch on, I completely agree with everything you said. Well, don't talk about Chinese butts. No. Oh, did you see that? Almost half of Asian American women voted Republican? I knew I was onto something. There you go. You got a good pool. But speaking of Trump, I think in aggregate, he's done very good things in regards to China. I do worry about his association with Elon Musk when it comes to that, because his market exposure and also just the way that he's talked about China. But also the de minimis thing kind of trips me up. And then. Yeah, because that happens. He put that in place. We were like, all right, that's a good move. They're saying it's a logistical thing because too many packages were Piling up at the border. I don't know. I want to see him make that permanent. But then you see certain appointments like in the State Department, I think Darren Beatty was appointed to a senior position under Rubio and that guy has said full force. Taiwan will be absorbed by China. And not to mention Bergam. Yeah, Doug, we all thought like, ah, he's funny, kind of a muppet looking. And then when you look into him we're like, oh, this guy is, this guy is hardline for China, it seems like. Correct. So I'm not necessarily as worried about Donald Trump because he's been pretty before he even ran for president. You can see him on late night shows like yeah. In the 90s and on the View talking about the problem with China. So let me, let me pose this. Like maybe Donald Trump is trying to split the difference a little bit here because as you've kind of pointed out and we pointed out in the show, the demographics suck for them. The economy isn't moving in the right direction for them. They're not as. They're not going to be able to spend as much money around the world. Repression looks like their only option if they start to run out of funds at home. Home. If we go in and start crippling China. They do have enough of a military where they might, the calculation might become. If we. It's kind of like Japan. Well, if we don't strike now, we never will be able to strike. Yeah. There has something to reset the balance of power. Correct. Xi Jinping is getting old. Their economy's running out of steam. There's a lot of indicators that say if we're going to do something, we need to do it now. So maybe a soft landing is what they're really trying to achieve. I do think we need to make it very clear to them if, if they do anything, it will not go well for them. And that, that starts with that. He does. He does it. So that's great. Maybe the other people. But then he turns around and says we're going to throw 100% tariffs on Taiwanese semiconductors, which what great in theory except nobody else makes those in the world and they also have companies in America building them for us. So that was a weird one. I would just like to see a little bit more consistency. But overall a market improvement from the last last 50 years. Well, he's the only one since Clinton. He's the only one who's taken a hard stance on. Yeah, and I think that's a big reason for, I mean, not that I'm pro union, but the support of a lot of union representatives and people, because they were, they were always furious about nafta, about tpp, and, and here we are. This is the first time that a Republican. First time any president and it's Republicans saying these were horrible deals. Yeah. The idea of modernization theory, if you open up these markets into Western products and trade and ideas are going to moderate, like Bill Clinton said and George W. Bush, the saw it when they put him in the wto. It's stupid, it's wrong. And Trump saw that in the 1990s. And you know, if he's as, as good as we could have hoped for at this point. Yeah, well, and I hope that we start using the leverage that we do have. I do believe with the, the de minimis thing also, it ended up affecting packages not just from China. Correct. There was a slowdown. Like I had a package. I had a package coming from Sweden for something and yeah, it couldn't come in, they couldn't ship it. So I think it's more so about dealing with those logistics. Hopefully Doge came where it's like, okay, we want this to only affect Chinese goods. I don't think he's. I don't think he's necessarily changing his opinion. It was meant to help developing countries, like grow their economy. Like a Kenya or something. Yeah. Not a, like a Chinese Etsy. Not the second largest economy in the world that has a nuclear triad. Right. What are we talking about? Yeah, if someone wants to order like, you know, a cup holder or something from Etsy, someone out there and in Beijing, it's, yeah, all right, that's fine. But then you realize everything is just being ripped off of American companies. And have you gone on Amazon lately? And it could be something like, I was looking for an aerosol sprayer like that you could fill with something for when we do use cigars here that will like create nanoparticles, a really, really fine mist. Okay. There were 50 bottles that were the exact same with different company names and a price difference of 4 cents here, 6 cents there. Bunch of reviews with bad grammar. It's about gaming the system and screwing the American consumer. And I think at a certain point, you know, that's going to come to a head. All right, Right. Yep. Laying the brain. We really appreciate it. Thanks for all the work today. And we do have Tim Pool coming on. So you go and he comes in. Sounds like, all right. Do we have the man of the hour? Do we have him? The man of the hour? Really? The man of the day. Yeah, major announcement. It was made last night. I've known about it for a little while and you know I'm horrible at keeping secrets. I just, I was like, I was like, Joe Gerald, you can't tell anyone. Okay, fine, but tell me. Tim Pool is signing with Rumble Premium. So let's bring on Tim pool right now. Mr. Pool, first name Tim. How are you, sir? I'm good. How are you? I'm doing fine, except I'm an invalid. My back, I have an old man back pillow here. So. Yeah, yeah, it's, it's, it's, you know, know we're getting about that point. Major announcement. How long has this been in the works? And what, what, what made you decide to make this move to Rumble? Because you have a huge, not only subscribership, but obviously huge media company. This really makes Rumble Premium ground zero for a lineup. And it's no, it's no small catch. What was the catalyst? Oh, the easy thing simply is we were entering renegotiations on ad sales and things like this, which, which opened the door. And this is like the real flat business element of it. Oh, hey, we're in, we're in negotiations again. Our term with our existing sales are up. And this allowed us to have a deeper conversation with guys over at Rumble over how we can be bigger and better than we currently are. So it's a massive win, win across the board for all of our members for our Rumble Premium. And the big picture was we want to make feature length documentaries. We want to make behind the scenes sports content. We want to do more than we're doing now, now. And the challenge we run into every step of the way is we are an island. You know, it's, it's Tim cast IRL in the morning show and it funds everything else. And so the conversation that we've had internally, that I've had is you can only just be some wandering rogue in the forest for so long, right? We have to be part of something bigger so that, you know, in the event of censorship, you have support network, you have a marketing network, you have access to, to more events. Events. When we're trying to set up events, we want to do maybe like, hey, we want to do a big behind the scenes sports thing. Who do we reach out to? How do we do this? Teaming up with Rumble opened the door for a lot of new possibilities in content development, access to new audiences. And it's just a massive win, win for all of us. I'll give you some just real simple nitty gritty stuff. It cuts our infrastructure costs down. That's an easy one. Right. But the most important thing for me was because we've got this, this. We've been on Rumble for a while. We've been posting our videos here. But it's been difficult to run a company and you know, just come totally by myself, obviously now I'm married. Alison helps run, she basically does all the administrative stuff. So she helped run the company on the administrative side. And we, we were basically having this discussion of we're not going to be able to grow beyond where we are as a mom and pop shop. We have to join with, with people who have access, infrastructure, abilities so that we can make more and be a bigger company. Company. And that's the simplest form of it. Yeah. So we teamed up. We, we've got our, our green room show, which is when the guests show up and we're recording behind the scenes and having that conversation, which is raw and unfiltered on Rumble Premium. The Tim Cast IRL uncensored show where we take callers from our Discord server is now Rumble Premium as well. We just started yesterday. We're going to be, our goal is for eight. Eight full length documentaries over the next two years. It's going to be a big lift. Yeah, we may not get there, but we're definitely working on more. And then we've got, we're going to do some comedy stuff. Not nearly as good as you guys, of course, but we're going to be working on sports, comedy, gaming, etc. Yeah, well, that's the one thing too. There's a lot of opportunity there at Rumble because it's not just politics. But remember, people used to say, why don't you go create your own YouTube, right? I mean, I've been here since 2008. Go watch. And it was like, well, okay, that can't. But now there actually is an alternative. There actually is a viable alternative. I know YouTube is still this huge leviathan. We understand that. But especially after election night and from people watching right now, I mean, there is something to be said for you. And I talked about this. Gosh, I don't know if it was a couple years ago, at some point there's going to be tip jar fatigue and subscription fatigue where everyone has a Patreon and everyone has a GoFundMe. And now where you used to just have maybe Amazon prime and Netflix and a creator, then it's like Amazon Prime, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount, Max. Even though you don't get Westworld, but you get Chris Wallace now. You need Hulu now. You need. It does all of these different subscriptions and it's hard to keep track of content. We always wanted to grow into something where it wasn't just we have Mug Club and a very large loyal subscriber base which has sort of insulated us from being canceled. But we always wanted to make sure that those people wouldn't feel like they have to decide between multiple creators that they like. And being able to get all of this additional content now, where it's basically a lineup the likes of which really hasn't been seen anywhere else. That's what excites me from that perspective, from the consumer, knowing that you're here and everyone will have access to you. Here's something that was cool. Last night we did our first uncensored calling show on Rubble Premium. We had around 13,000 people watching. And this is the behind, this is the after show. Right, Right. We, we ended up hitting 72,000 concurrent viewers, which is above average for us. We ended up getting nearly 40% more. Actually, no, I think it was like 70% more views on the episode than we normally get. Maybe that's just, just the big announcement. Everybody wanted to watch. But we really do think viewership is going to increase from this. But the coolest thing was in the uncensored call in show, a bunch of the chats that were coming in were people saying, we're Mug Club and we're now watching Tim Cast. Yeah. And so easily for us, it's like, oh, okay, so more people are watching my show now. That's cool. You know, so joining a network is just. Yeah, this is what you're talking about with the network. The people who watch my show who maybe aren't familiar with you, are now going to be exposed to your content. And this is gonna help build a sphere of influence that I think is better. Yeah, I think morally. Yeah, well, I think so too. And the thing is too, with Rump, everyone out there knows, you know, Chris has actually flipped the bird to the government. Like, you know, he's a guy who's actually, you know, he's certainly been forged in the fire. No one can question his free speech credentials. And we're all under an umbrella where we don't all agree on everything. Like it doesn't matter. It really doesn't. Whereas a lot of these other networks that kind of previously existed were top down. That's not the case here. I mean, I only knew about it because Chris told me. And then I reached out to you, I was like, hey, that's great. I don't have a say in anything that you do. You don't have a say in what I do. But, hey, people out there can watch all of it and not have to go through five, six, seven different payment systems. That's always what we wanted. We wanted to. You know, I'm not gonna do this forever, and I want other people. You know, we need to be building a bench, too, and hopefully other creators will see that. But the biggest thing was the. The cost. I think people leaving YouTube, the opportunity cost where they were concerned about viewership. This hopefully solves that problem for creators or at least helps. And it certainly solves some issues for the viewer out there. I know that's a big complaint that people are like, ah, I just, you know, $99 is a lot of money to people. And when you add that up over the course of the year with a bunch of different subscriptions, hey, man, like, we got to give them something. Got to give them their money's worth. And you know what's changing too, is Spotify launched stream, gaming, podcast a while ago. Yeah. There's this weird world where advertisers are playing catch up with how they buy ads and most of these big networks, Right? So I was. I was saying, we're negotiating contracts with a bunch of different networks that do ad sales, and we have some internal. They're all saying, podcast, podcast, downloads, downloads. But all of a sudden, with the Trump victory in the podcast presidency, they started going, YouTube. Ooh, YouTube. And I said, what about YouTube? YouTube? These guys are saying, like, what are you. We want to sell against YouTube now? And I said, when. When we sold. When we sold. Sold audio. Podcast ad reads, you never came to us and said, you want to sell Apple, you want to sell Spotify, you want to sell Google podcasts. You literally just said, whatever. Your downloads are for the podcast, we don't care what platform it's on. So what's changed now with Spotify going video is when these companies came to us, I said, you mean streams versus audio? You mean streams versus downloads? And they would go, what's that? I said, you guys are playing catch up. Okay, Spotify is doing video now. Rumble has video. You know, you talk video. Yeah, we don't single out, hey, look, on Apple, I get this many views. Would you like to buy our Apple spot? Right? We say, we have a show. We have an audio and a video. YouTube, Rumble, Spotify account for video streams as one lump package. We say, right, we average 600,000. You can buy ads against that. That's where I think things are changing. And people need to realize that if you're not approaching your, like, Rumble viewership for us, which is substantial. Yeah. You're just throwing a bunch of money in the garbage. Yeah. So now, and I said this for a long time, if you're starting a new show, YouTube is not the place to go. And this is not. I'm not trying to be biased, obviously, we did deal with Rumble, but I have literally said this for years. And the reason is you can't get monetized. Right. YouTube, you're suppressing the algorithm. You're. You're beaten down. Certain opinions are not allowed. Rumble is a new, exciting space, which is more like working with a. Although it is massive. When I have a problem, I can actually talk to somebody at Rumble and we can work through it. We got, I think, 250,000 streams on the show last night. It's not even. It's been, what, 12 hours? Yeah. So we're looking at, like, a 70% bump. And when we put that press kit, that package together, that sales kit for advertisers, we just say, here's our total vod, our stream delivery, and our views are up. This is a huge opportunity that I hope people realize that when it comes to these sales, you're going to make way more money. If you're. If you're approaching this from a broad standpoint for creators out there. Sure. And I'll give you even one more to talk about how behind they are. Westwood One had, like, podcast one for a period of time. I kind of went through this whole thing where they were trying to sell, you know, ad reads, and this was, gosh, I want to say 2000. It would have been 2014, 2015 maybe. And they go, okay, so it has to be 60 seconds at the front of the podcast, because it's all audio downloads. I said, yeah, but we don't do that. We cut these commercials and I put them into the show. And so people don't even know it's a commercial. It's meant to be fun to go, oh, wait, you're talking about. Well, we don't pay for video, actually. We only want audio auto downloads. I said, but I just hit skip. I said, I just hit skip. So look, then we're not going. This isn't going to work. Now, industry standard is they ask you to put it a certain length of time into the show. And, of course, video is more valuable. Real estate. Estate. These people. This is the thing. A lot of these industries out there that exist. It's just about making money on what currently exists, not looking toward the future. And ultimately that ends up hurting the consumer. My focus is always, how do we give them the best value for their dollar? These ad agencies out there and a lot of these networks, they don't care. I was just talking about this. You know, I used to have. We have all this stuff to my everlasting shame, because if we have to record shows or clips for this show here at hbo. Max. Okay, it was hbo, then it became Max. Did you know that you can't get Westworld on hbo? Did you know that it's not available? Westworld, it's gone. You'll get Chris Wallace, mind you, his. His shitty grin every time you sign in. You know why? Because they didn't want to pay royalties. I. I believe they didn't want to pay royalties, and they wanted to write it off as a loss. So now you can go to Apple TV and pay like 60 bucks or whatever it is to buy. That was the HBO show. You're going, what am I paying for these? These companies are just trying to fleece consumers, try and separate them from their dollars. They're not providing added value, obviously. Far more people paid for subscription for Westworld than Chris Wallace. You know, you know, it's fascinating. We just launched Tim Cast IRL on Rumble Live for the formerly. We've done a couple streams during big nights. This is the first release, and we end up with hundreds of Thousands. We had 28,000 peak incurrence in the first night night. Again, that may be just, you know, hey, they just announced Tim Cast. Let's go check it out real quick. We averaged probably around like 21 or so throughout the night. YouTube still was much bigger, but we saw a bigger viewership. With all due respect to Spotify, who is this big player where their stock is at like $400? We don't get nearly that much. I think we get like 30 to 40 on Spotify. Yeah. So how is it that we've been on Spotify for so long and that's the best we can do and we want to do better. We go on Rumble, we end up with substantially higher viewership. Yeah. What this says to me is. I don't know what I'm allowed to say or not say, but let me just put it this way. Rumble is in a better position than Spotify for delivering the future of podcasts as they have become video and Spotify, with all due respect, I'm not trying to be a dick. They're playing Catch up to the video podcast platform. Yeah. YouTube nuked video podcast. Like morons. Yes. They, they had the early iteration of video podcasting. Yep. And they started saying, we're going to censor and ban all of these people. We don't like it. Right. So Rumble ends up picking up the slack and now we can launch a show and instantly have hundreds of thousands of viewers. And I'm just thinking about growth as a business. Advertising. I think Rumble is gonna, gonna take off. It was another reason. Look, when Rumble comes and they're like, we want to work on a deal and I'm talking them, I'm talking to my, obviously my, my family, my wife, and I'm like, I think Rumble's gonna be massive. I think this is gonna be huge. I think in 10 years they're gonna rival the biggest podcast platforms. And it might be especially with, with Crowder, with Bongino, with, with Reuben, with, with Russell Brand, if they keep making these moves, plus the massive investment they just got from Tether. Yeah. I don't see how Rumble can fail when you've got Tether investing in it. Not to mention the other, the other big backers to it. Sure. And the fact that, that they are the ones that picked up video podcasting when these other platforms were dumping it or playing 10 year catch up. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. And not only that, but they've done it without compromise. And what I see when you talk about those viewers is that it's real. Like I notice. And this is. Well, you know, I'm not trying to be a dick, but I'll be a dick. I noticed you didn't include X views in there because we all know that those views, you can't run for advertisers because you only know that 98% or 2 second views are less. You see so much of this in the industry. People, if you're watching right now, you see these numbers and people will brag about numbers and you go, yeah, but they're not real. Rumble is an honest company. It's an uncompromising company. And hopefully people watching right now see the moves that they're making. I mean, Tim Pool doesn't come cheap. Tim Pool values who he is. We all know that. My point is, right, Rumble is willing to bring in the best people and they don't demand ownership over your name, image and likeness forever. So you're able to actually be authentically who you are. And Chris Pavlovsky, Rumble, pretty premium, will stand in the pocket. With that said, Tim, I want to continue actually here. Our first foray here on Rumble Premium. Where's the best place for people to go and sign up? I imagine just your channel and click that button. If you use promo code TIM10TIM10, you get 10% off an annual membership. Rumble.com Timcast and rumble.com Timcast IRL okay, great. We're gonna continue right here on Rumble Premium and take some chats. Tim Pool, stay with us. YouTube, piss off. A thank you, Rumble.