WILDFIRE In Canada Causes Air Quality Panic, Democrat Blame Climate Change w/ Arielle Scarcella

Summary

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Timcast IRL Podcast Summary

Episode Title: WILDFIRE In Canada Causes Air Quality Panic, Democrat Blame Climate Change w/ Arielle Scarcella
Date: July 16, 2026
Host & Panelists: Tim Pool (A), Arielle Scarcella (B), Carter (C), Tate (D), Phil (E)
Main Theme:
This episode dives into the East Coast’s air quality crisis triggered by Canadian wildfires, with a critical take on political responses—especially around climate change narratives. The panel also riffs on urban culture, immigration policy, automation/AI, global real estate trends, social divisions, and the relentless evolution of job markets and technology.

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Episode Overview

The main focus is on the massive wildfires in Ontario, Canada, that have plunged parts of the US East Coast into a haze, sparking panic over air quality. The group discusses the politicization of natural disasters, environmental management, and how these events are used to justify various policy moves—especially by the left, according to the hosts and guests.
Lighthearted and cynical banter covers topics from culture wars to the future of work, spiced by commentary on AI, immigration, and the quirks of modern urban life.

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1. Wildfires, Air Quality, and the Politics of Blame

[00:00 – 07:25]

• Ontario wildfires send smoke across much of the Eastern US, especially New York, prompting warnings and public panic:
  • "New York City... absolutely blasted due to wildfires in Ontario. The videos are absolutely insane." (A, 00:00)
• The panel criticizes Democrats and liberals for immediately blaming climate change, often tying in unrelated issues like data centers:
  • "Anything that a liberal might be mad about... they can point to climate change." (A, 00:13)
• Discussion of whether forest management or arson is more to blame, with claims that left-leaning regions suffer worse wildfires due to poor land stewardship:
  • "The argument that you hear is that the left doesn't do maintenance of... national forests and stuff in national parks." (E, 07:09)
• Sarcastic commentary on how crises get spun for policy justifications.

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2. Immigration, Government Overreach, and Urban Change

[07:25 – 25:00]

• The episode briefly veers into election issues, Trump's influence, and hypothetical scenarios about political power grabs.
• Immigration policy is a repeated theme:
  • "Honestly believe that immigration is the most important issue facing the United States." (E, 23:32)
• Guests lament gentrification and urban displacement, relating how cultural enclaves are replaced by corporate developments:
  • "You get these really cool hole-in-the-wall restaurants... and then I come back and the restaurant's a Bank of America." (A, 18:03)
• They riff on cultural contradictions in progressive strongholds:
  • "You want to be gay. You don't want to be a communist." (A, 04:26; ref. to Pride events)
• Air travel, class divides, and the ubiquity of pre-check services spark a comedic but pointed exchange about American convenience culture.

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3. Global Housing, Demographics & The Japan Real Estate Craze

[25:00 – 40:00]

• Extensive discussion on Japan’s depopulation leading to ultra-cheap abandoned homes (aka "akiya"), and American expats buying them:
  • "Look at this right here. You can have your own grocery store for $12,000." (A, 26:05)
• Contrasts Japan’s high skill, low-immigration approach with American demographic strategies (favoring lower-skill, high-volume migration).
• Commentary on why Japan prefers attracting "white collar Americans" over other migrant groups:
  • "Why is Japan advertising to white Americans and not, you know, Hondurans?" (A, 37:08)
• Discussion on assimilation, difficulties of obtaining permanent residency, and the realities of being a foreigner in Japan.
• Cultural riffs: panel wonders if America will suffer the fate of depopulating cities and "Gary, Indianas," while Japan’s approach is contrasted as selective, strategic, and racially/culturally cautious.

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4. Automation, AI, Declining Job Markets, and Investment Humor

[59:07 – 72:10]

• Speculation on which sectors are safe, which jobs are facing extinction, and how mass automation (AI, robots) will change the labor landscape:
  • "What should we invest in right now? Knowing the population is collapsing... what do you do?" (A, 59:07)
  • "Best investments... not Tesla or human robots. It's the actuators and electric motors." (A, 68:09)
• Lists jobs already made extinct by technological progress (lamplighters, telegraph operators, travel agents, toll booth operators, projectionists, pin setters, milkman).
• Jokes about the coming social adaptation to robots, including robotic doctors "with 362,000 surgeries of experience," and the likely normalization of AI lawyers and contract review.
  • "You're going to go and you're going to talk to a robot... 'We've done 362,000 [procedures]...'" (E, 67:43)
• Lively predictions about workweeks shortening, social structure becoming more ‘chill’, or productivity paradoxically rising.

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5. Social Identity, Flags, and Cultural Satire

[47:00 – 50:00]

• Humorous debate over the proliferation of identity flags in the LGBTQ+ movement, Reddit’s role, and the performativity of public identity claims:
  • "Why do gay people keep making flags? Can you explain this to me?" (A, 48:22)
  • "Because they're not actually oppressed, but if they create a flag, they can commandeer [culture]." (B, 49:07)
• The growing absurdity of identity markers and youthful subcultures is mocked—as is the instability of traditional art and music careers in an AI-driven world.

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6. Testosterone, Fitness, and Social Attitudes

[92:52 – 98:12]

• News that the US military may provide testosterone to all soldiers, triggering debate over hormonal health, masculinity, and political/psychological effects of testosterone:
  • "They’re going to be testing everyone's testosterone level, and if you have a deficiency... it’s not going to be very long until they're just like, all right, give it to everybody." (E, 93:15)
• Fitness routines, diet, declining "manual resistance" in modern work, and claims that testosterone can push people (comically) to "vote Trump."

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7. The AI Revolution in Arts and Culture

[83:08 – 86:53]

• Discussion shifts to rapid advances in AI music and film. Tim demonstrates transforming Phil’s song into a "Paramore" track:
  • "I took Phil's song and I had Paramore sing it. It actually really sounded great." (A/E, 84:11)
• Debates on copyright, fair use, and the future legal clashes as AI mimics or reinterprets distinctive styles.

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8. Community, Connection, and the Search for Meaning

[73:46 – 74:44]

• Prediction that increasing automation will make people long for real human intimacy and connection:
  • "I think people already are starving for intimacy and I think it's going to become even more relevant." (B, 73:46)
• The likelihood of AI companions, robot marriage, and “robosexual” culture is joked about but considered plausible given current trends.

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9. Closing Thoughts, Cultural Dissatisfaction, and Satire

[87:35 – End]

• Discontent with the direction of pop culture franchises (Star Wars, MCU, anime fillers like "Boruto"), jokes about rewriting movies with AI.
• Satirical calls for "national calisthenics" or even monarchy as a solution to societal drift.
• Final remarks reflect the podcast’s overarching cynicism, humor, and mix of libertarian-populist critique with pop-culture nostalgia.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• "Anything that a liberal might be mad about... they can point to climate change." – Tim (A) [00:13]
• "You just want to be gay. You don't want to be a communist." – Tim (A) [04:26]
• "Honestly believe that immigration is the most important issue facing the United States." – Phil (E) [23:32]
• "Look at this right here. You can have your own grocery store for $12,000." – Tim (A) [26:05]
• "What do you invest in... when AI robots are coming for the tacos and LLMs take over admin jobs?" – Tim (A) [59:07]
• "Why do gay people keep making flags? Can you explain this to me?" – Tim (A) [48:22]
• "I just must vote Trump... Lifting weights makes people right wing—because of testosterone." – Tim (A) and Phil (E) [98:01]
• "I took Phil's song and I had Paramore sing it. It actually really sounded great." – Tim (A) and Phil (E) [84:11]
• "I think people already are starving for intimacy and I think it's going to become even more relevant." – Arielle (B) [73:46]

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Key Segments & Timestamps

• [00:00 – 07:25] – Wildfires, air quality, and climate blame games
• [07:25 – 25:00] – Immigration, urban culture wars, bureaucracy
• [25:00 – 40:00] – Japan’s abandoned homes, demographics, global migration
• [59:07 – 72:10] – Automation, vanishing jobs, ‘future of work’ investment
• [47:00 – 50:00] – Identity flags, cultural fragmentation
• [83:08 – 86:53] – AI transforming creative arts
• [92:52 – 98:12] – Testosterone, fitness, masculinity, and military trends
• [73:46 – 74:44] – The loneliness and intimacy gap in tech society

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Tone & Style

Overall, the episode maintains Timcast’s signature mix: fiercely irreverent, skeptical of political establishment (especially left factions), culturally nostalgic, and intent on exposing what the hosts see as the absurdity of status quo narratives. Humor and sarcasm fuel much of the banter, all while serious policy critiques bubble under the surface.

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This summary encapsulates all major topics and the lively, opinionated exchanges that define a Timcast IRL panel, providing clear signposts and timestamps for anyone wanting to dig deeper into the individual themes.

Transcript

[A]

We got major air quality issues on the east coast. New York City, New York State is getting absolutely blasted due to these wildfires in Ontario. The videos are absolutely insane. They're calling it a hellish inferno and wildfires happen all the time, guys. But right on cue, we got our liberal friends claiming this is climate change. And here's the best part. You know what? You know what I love about climate change? Literally anything that a liberal might be mad about. I'm not trying to drag you liberals, I'm just, they can point to climate change. So right now, what's the big deal? It's like data centers, right? So now with these wildfires, a bunch of libs are coming out and being like, oh, sure, we need more data centers. Look at this. Because the implication is everything causes climate change, so just don't do things. You know, I'm not a big fan of the data centers as it is, but I do think it's funny that it's a wildfire. So it's, it is a big story and we're going to cover it. Talk about what's happening for you guys in New York. We also got a fire down here in West Virginia hitting D.C. and, and everyone's wondering why it is. The sky looks weird and it hurts to breathe. We'll talk about that. And we got a bunch of other smaller stories, guys. To be honest, when I saw the story that Jack Smith was spying on members of Congress and the Trump administration and things like that, it's like, yeah, I guess, you know, we get these political stories and we know we got this story. Seth Moulton, he's a Democratic rep, called on people to come and fight ICE to stop them from doing their jobs following the shooting in Maine. And for life of me, I don't understand how the Democrats and liberals keep getting away with it, inciting people to violence and crimes, and no one does anything about it. So we'll talk about that as well. But, you know, hey, we'll talk about the wildfires, I guess first, before we get started, we got a great sponsor for you. It is backyard butchers, my friends. You gotta eat real meat. It's delicious. Check this out. Four companies, just four companies, control the majority of America's beef supply. The largest is foreign owned. Here's what most people don't realize. A single pound of conventional grocery store ground beef can contain the DNA from hundreds of different cattle. It's kind of, it's kind of gross when you think about it. I mean, it's weird to think about, like all These cows mashed together used to eat it. What's the solution? As Americans, we got to return to tradition where you know who your rancher is, you know the land, you know where the meat is coming from. So you guys, you got to check out Backyard Butchers. It is the American tradition. Backyard Butchers offers premium American beef from real Texas ranchers. Born, raised and processed right here in the USA. 98 grass fed, 2% grain, finished, no hormones, no antibiotics, no preservatives. Go to backyardbutchers.com use promo code TIM for up to 30% off. Two free 10 ounce ribeyes plus free shipping. And this summer, Backyard Butchers celebrating America's 250th anniversary with a free America 250 box. When you purchase a steakhouse box complete with burgers and and hot dogs. Of course, the fourth of July may have passed already, but ain't nothing stopping you from whipping out that grill and having a great American burger or hot dog. Go to backyard butchers.com use promo code Tim. You can get up to 30% off. Two free 10 ounce ribeyes plus free shipping. Shout out. Guys, thanks for sponsoring the show. And don't forget, you got to go. Join [e-mail] if you care about what is happening in this world and you are concerned that the future looks dim, then stand with us. Join our Discord community to be involved directly and this is how you can be the change you want to see in this world. We got tens of tens of thousands of members. Their membership supports this show, makes all this possible. But they also host their own shows, launch their own projects and some have even gotten married. So if you are tired of sitting in the sidelines doing nothing, stand up. Join us. Sign up for the discord [e-mail] don't forget to also smash that like button. Subscribe to this show. Subscribe to this channel. Leave us a good comment. A positive review on the podcast. Joining us tonight to talk about this and everything else is Ariel Scarcella.

[B]

Hi. Been a while since I've been here.

[A]

It has been. Who are you? What do you do?

[B]

I am a right leaning lesbian, let's say.

[A]

That's weird, right? You're a trad lesbian.

[B]

A trad. Well, yeah, I do want to get married.

[A]

I mean, I was talking about this yesterday. I was like trad gays is a kind of a joke.

[B]

It's a. No, it's a thing. The normal gays are making a comeback.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You should have seen Pride. It was. It was horrible.

[A]

Pride.

[B]

Pride Would you say month? Just Pride Day in New York City was. Was horrendous.

[A]

Was it like naked guys?

[B]

It was queer communists everywhere, like everywhere.

[A]

It's about the naked as. Like, as like a right leaning lesbian. Just I have to imagine you're like, you just want to be gay. You don't want to be a communist. You know what I mean?

[B]

Yeah, I just want to be a normal gay. Like what happens to the normal gays that don't want to date women with peepees?

[A]

I guess it's, it's. It's bigotry now, but it's considered bigotry now.

[B]

So.

[A]

Yeah, so we're chilling. We got the boys hanging out.

[D]

I mean, I've been asking that for years, you know, it's a very salient question. Yeah, Phil, I mean, I imagine you're in the same boat or not. Carter, you're in the same boat, right?

[C]

We don't know what he is exactly.

[D]

Women penis is not good.

[C]

No. Yeah, I agree broadly.

[B]

That's not a fan. Not a fan.

[C]

I mean, will. Unless it's a female penis.

[B]

But yeah, that's what they say.

[A]

I don't even know what's happening these days.

[E]

So. I'm Phil Amante. What's up, Carter?

[C]

What's up, Phil? What's up, Tim?

[A]

Here's the news. We got this in the New York Post. Apocalyptic video shows wildfire engulfing train in hellish inferno. I like the way to describe it. There you go. Look at this. This is a. A train. Could you imagine? So here's what people don't realize. You can feel that. That fire.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

People think that like you see this

[B]

photograph and you're in a metal box.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

It feels. It feels like the fire is literally in front of you. Yeah, it's wild. When I was in Ferguson during the riots, we drove down West Flores and all the buildings just engulfed in flames. And it feels like you're standing in front of a campfire in your car with the AC on. It's absolutely insane. Check this out. I think I got a video for you guys. Is this. Here you go, aerial footage.

[E]

Oh, wow.

[A]

And then I heard the voice of

[C]

the Lord saying, whom shall I send?

[A]

And I said, here am I. Send me. I don't know why we need the music.

[B]

Hard rock, but it's death metal.

[E]

No, that's not.

[A]

That is absolutely not. You offended, Phil?

[E]

That is not death metal.

[D]

Screamo.

[E]

No. Deftones.

[B]

Is that what it was?

[E]

It was being called Deftones?

[A]

Yeah, yeah. It's just like Hard Rock, right?

[B]

Yeah, it's like.

[A]

So here, check this out. This is the, the fires up here in Ontario. But look. What, look at, look at poor old New York. These communists up in Canada are smoking out Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Syracuse. Yeah, you're getting smoked out. How much you want to bet it was an arsonist again?

[E]

Oh, I wouldn't be surprised at all.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

What is it? I mean, I'm sure someone that's an expert on wildfires could probably chime in and explain this, but it seems like it only. Wildfires seem to only be affecting like left wing jurisdictions recently. California, Canada. Like you don't hear about wildfires in like, you know, Florida, Alabama.

[B]

Oh, I mean, Florida, they are swamps though. So I feel like it would be really difficult.

[A]

Yeah. Right.

[D]

When you're Wyoming, you would assume there'd

[B]

be, we could say Wyoming. Sure.

[E]

I don't, I don't.

[A]

Yeah, that's true. It's pretty dry in it.

[D]

I imagine it's not very wet.

[E]

I don't know if it's actually true, but the argument that you hear is that the left doesn't do maintenance of the, the, you know, national forests and stuff in national parks. I, I don't know how true it is. You hear people talking about it with California. They like to dunk on Gavin news. They don't do anything with it.

[B]

And once he builds billion, billion dollar bus stations and nobody sits under and,

[E]

and if I understand correctly, that was one of the arguments and I don't think that this would actually turn out to be true. But one of the reasons people, or one of the arguments people bring about the Palisades fires, like, oh, these fires start because you look at the side of the road and there's all kinds of brush down and stuff. They don't go and clean it up. And you know, because California is so dry, it just takes a lightning strike or some idiot with a, you know, flicking their cigarette out the window or whatever. And next thing you know, you know, the Palisades are mass and Spencer Pratt's

[D]

running for mayor and Ontario, I mean, they have a conservative premier which, you know, means he's to the left of Memdani. He would make them in Canada.

[E]

Conservative in Canada. That's the, that's the whole reason why the US cannot make any part of Canada the 51st state. The Conservatives in Canada are like Democrats.

[D]

Well, I mean, the strategy would be offer asylum with like, make sure they're verifiably right wing. We take all of them in. Maid will pretty much clean out the rest. And it'll be a wide open frontier at this point.

[E]

Made will clean.

[D]

I think that's the long term trajectory.

[E]

Isn't it true that like, there are more people? There's like maid is the third or fourth largest killer in Canada probably. It's just made medical assistance.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought.

[E]

Ridiculous.

[A]

I was thinking. I wasn't really paying maids. I was imagining women in French cleaning outfits going around murdering people.

[D]

No, maids,

[E]

they do.

[D]

They create people.

[A]

No, you know, you know what I was thinking? I was thinking, I was thinking that, you know, we got this big speech from Trump tomorrow and, you know, we're going over the news for, for the show and admittedly I know that the wildfire stuff, people, you know, when, when we're doing shows, we're trying to figure out what the biggest story of the day is. And it's usually something cultural, political, because that's what people care about the most. Wildfires happen. And so, you know, we're like, eh, we'll go with the wildfire. People are concerned about their health. And also, I just, I don't want to chase after this stupid drama. Like, there's some, I don't know, Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro are fighting now. It's all fake. Everything's fake and gay. And actually, I feel pretty good, to be honest, because I think Trump's going to win. I feel like the Republicans are going to win November largely because no one cares about anything. Everyone's just kind of like, yeah, I just don't care. So that means nothing's going to stop Trump. He's going to do whatever he wants to come out tomorrow and be like, these two senators are illegitimate.

[D]

They're gone and nothing will really happen if he does. Like, he'll just take him out and then, like, they'll complain a little bit and we'll be back at.

[C]

And he'll end it with, and there's aliens.

[D]

And it seems like the World cup has just been like, you know, double XP week. It's a creative mode.

[A]

Oh, hey, that's what, that's what you can do. When Trump announces that Warnock and Ossoff are illegitimate senators, he can actually just say, and aliens. And then when he sends in, you know, law enforcement to go arrest them and remove them from office, he'll just. But they're aliens, you know, like they're from outer space. So, you know, nothing in the Constitution bars me from this.

[E]

That's right.

[A]

There you go.

[E]

Get him out.

[A]

I mean, it theoretically get really weird what's to stop a president from just, like, lying and saying someone's citizenship documents are not real documents?

[E]

We, we know very well that there is nothing that will stop a president from lying. Doesn't matter what I'm saying.

[A]

It is like Trump says he's going to come out tomorrow. What if he comes out tomorrow and he's like, warnock wasn't born here and here's proof and he has, like a fake Kenyan birth certificate. You know what I mean?

[D]

Yeah. It's a good strat.

[B]

Even if it's not true, a lot of people are going to believe it.

[A]

Half the country is going to believe it.

[B]

More than half the country.

[D]

Like, I guess he's Canyon.

[E]

Get him out of here.

[D]

Sounded pretty English.

[A]

Although I don't. You don't have to be American to run for office, so.

[E]

No, but I.

[B]

Which is, which is really messing up New York City, by the way.

[E]

That's a shame. You should, you should have to be born in America to any kind of public office.

[B]

I agree.

[E]

You know, they, they figured it out with the president. I don't know why they didn't figure it out with the rest of Congress and the Senate. And I mean, obviously New York is, you know, states are going to have their own laws and stuff like that, but when it comes to federal elections, it should be very simply, if you're not born in the United States, you shouldn't be allowed. And no dual citizenship either.

[D]

Republicans, that would have solved all our problems. Ted Cruz, gone. John McCain gone. Dan Crenshaw, gone. Those guys all were born here. Like that would solve our problem.

[E]

McCain born.

[D]

McCain was born in Panama. He was born in Canada. And Dan Crenshaw was born in Scotland,

[E]

but he was born to American parents.

[D]

It's, it's, it's kind of murky because it's no longer our territory.

[A]

No. That's interesting, though, because born an American, Mom.

[D]

And then. Dan, hold on.

[A]

I have a question then. You know, with this whole 14th amendment thing, the Supreme Court ruled that people who are here are subject to our jurisdiction. Couldn't you argue that people who are not here are not subject to our jurisdiction? If the argument is you don't have to be a citizen to be subject to our jurisdiction, that our jurisdiction is simply the place in which you stand, then I would argue that somebody who was born to American parents but in Canada is not subject to our jurisdiction and therefore would not be a citizen.

[D]

It's actually kind of cooked because we have people in the country that appear to not be under our Jurisdiction, like a wide range of people that are scheming the government constantly. But then American citizens abroad are. Because they get double tax. We're the only country on earth that taxes our citizens while they're overseas. So if you're an American doing your thing in France or Britain or whatever, you still got to file a tax return. And if you fail to do that, if Interpol doesn't pick you up, they'll just arrest you next time you enter the country.

[E]

Shameful.

[D]

It's crazy. So it's like we torture our citizens, and then we have all these non citizens in the country, like, literally doing whatever they want.

[E]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, look, the. The federal government is very good at torturing American citizens. There's a boatload of things that u. S. Citizens are subject to that no other country, you know, or the, you know, like, u. S. Citizens, like, you don't have to show id it's in. To vote everywhere in the world. You have to show ID Some places you have to stick your finger in, you know, ink to prove that you voted. So, you know, make sure that you can't stuff. So, yeah, there's plenty of things that we can.

[B]

You have to do that to get into Disney World.

[E]

Really?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You have to. Not. Not the ink, but just to put your finger. You have to put your finger and show.

[D]

Oh, yeah, you do. The fingerprint. Yeah, they fingerprint.

[A]

Disney World was an op by the government to just get everyone's biometrics.

[B]

Maybe, but you have to do that to get into universal studies in Disney world in Florida.

[D]

And I. I used to.

[B]

You don't have to do it to vote.

[D]

I used to be on the waiver. I'm like, there's no way the TSA is getting any of my info. And then one time, I hit the passport gate and went through right away. I'm like, do they need my blood?

[E]

Just.

[B]

I got.

[E]

I've got clear and I've got tsa.

[A]

Yeah, but clear. Fake.

[D]

I'll do a sperm donation.

[A]

Here's fake. I signed up for clear when it first came out, and I was all excited. I was like, oh, boy. And I thought they were gonna escort me past secure. Like they were gonna open a door and be like, you can just go in. And then you know what they did? So I go to the airport and I see clear, and they're like, you know, it's like 250 bucks or something for the year or whatever.

[B]

The line, I think, right?

[A]

There was no line.

[B]

There was no line.

[A]

I walked up and they Said, would you like to sign up for Claire's? Like, what is it? And they were like, we get you through security faster. It's. It's. It's an upgrade from TSA Pre. And I was like, okay. And I thought that it meant if they scan your fingerprints and took a picture of your face and took all your info, they just clear you through and you don't got to get searched or flagged or anything or you'd, like, do a quick walkthrough. And so then I sign up, I pay for it, and they're like, right this way. And they walk me to the front of. There's no line. It's literally not a single person in line. They walk me to the checkpoint and they go, and this way. And I was like, now what? Now you go through security?

[B]

And I was like, it's for places like New York City where there is a line.

[A]

Yeah, it's a fast line.

[B]

There's still a line.

[A]

It's a fast pass.

[B]

It's literally. Yes, it's like a fast pass. Yes.

[D]

And they've ruined it because now everyone has pre check. Like, the fact that I have it indicates that it's useless. Because now, like, I go to the pre check line and it's longer than the, you know, the journal boarding. I'm like, I'll just take my belt off. I don't care.

[A]

Now you're, You're.

[E]

You're.

[A]

You're exposing yourself here a little bit. You're. This is only in the wealthier areas. If you go to, like, a porn. If you go to, like, a. A busier airport with, like, a budget airline, the security checkpoint that. It depends on where you go, because a lot of them have checkpoints that go anywhere. But if you're going to certain gates, then the TSA Pre is empty and the regular line is full. But then, like, if you go to Jackson Hole, being a great example, the TSA Pre line is full and the regular line is empty. Because every single one of those people is, like, upper class, you know, TSA Pre, Global, Global Entry. And so we're standing in line. I'm like, this line's long. So I got out of the TSA pre1, the regular line, and then I went the regular line, looked at my ticket, and they handed me a TSA Pre card. They give you a little laminate, and then you just show it to them, and then you walk right through. And I'm like, what was the point of waiting in the line with all those people?

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Waste of my Time.

[D]

I like, I'll like accidentally get pre checked now. Like, everyone's got pre check. It seems like there's. There's no. And that's. I mean, I would say I'm okay with that, but I'm one of the last ones in, so we're the ones blocking the lineup for everyone.

[A]

You know what they need? Like, what, what movie was that? Total Recall where they had a big X ray hallway that you walk through and they could just see your skeleton.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Then you're not going to stop at all. You just walk through and they're like, that's a gun.

[D]

If we didn't have the entire civil rights agenda, they could just profile again and they would have. They would have 100% success rate. Like, look at us. We're not. We're not getting up to any shenanigans at the airport. And then, you know, certain people, they'd be like you. And then he would. Guaranteed.

[A]

I mean, they still do that. They just say they don't.

[D]

Right. I know. And I'm like, just, let's drop the facade. Let me just stroll through. Like, it's.

[A]

Well, it's like that. It's like that joke. So that meme, I'd rather be racist. Would you rather be racist or dead? And it was a. People posted in response to. It was like a woman walking down the street and then like she got attacked by some, you know, black.

[B]

Oh, I saw that. Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

And then someone commented, it's better to be racist than dead. And then I think it was like, Matt Wall said something, it was a while ago, but he was like, if. If this person had just decided to be racist and cross the street, they'd still be alive today.

[D]

So true.

[E]

Yeah. I mean, the, the idea that being racist is the worst thing or, or doing something that is racially insensitive, that's. That's even less of an offense than being a racist person. Like, the idea that that's, you know, beyond the pale and you should risk your life for that, that's. That's so stupid. But that's the way the truth is

[B]

that the leftists aren't. And look, if you want, but I could segue this into New York City stuff, but if you look at the people that voted for Mamdani, that swear that they're all for minorities, for the black people, for the Hispanic people, whatever you want to call them, there's actually like, if you go to Williamsburg, there's not that many black people. There's not that many Hispanic people. There's all white people there. Yeah, they don't want to be around the ghetto. Well, I mean, you know, they don't want to be around it.

[E]

Yeah, it does tend to be all white people.

[D]

Some of them are like cannon fodder, though, where they try to go into Bushwick. It's like the modern day Lewis and Clark. And they're.

[B]

Bushwick is like West Hollywood, but not gay, if you will.

[D]

Yeah, you'll see, like, yeah, some of them are just total cannon fodder. It's like, hey, we're going to try and gentrify this neighborhood. Are you going to go? It's like, I'm not. Let's send the art majors in.

[B]

And then that's why I said, it's like West Hollywood.

[D]

Yeah. And they're just getting mowed down all the time. But it's like, hey, they're trying to reclaim the neighborhood.

[A]

No, it's the worst thing imaginable because this happens all the time in Chicago. I haven't been there in 20 years, but when I was younger, we had our grody, nasty Hispanic neighborhoods. And I'm not saying they're nasty because the Hispanics. No, we loved them. They had great tacos. But then what happens is you get these really cool hole in the wall restaurants. You go in there, you order your food. If you order your tacos in Spanish, they give you a free beans and like, dip.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Yeah, man. You walk in and you say, dos tacos de pollo, por favor. And they hand you free chips and like, dip queso. And then I remember my friend did that, and I was like, oh, you order chips? And she's like, no, they're free. And I was like, they're not free. I was like, come here all the time. You're like, when you order in Spanish, they hook you up. I was like, that's a secret. And then what happens is they had this, this. This banger restaurant. There's like a cafe down the street. Everybody wants to hang out there. The rent is cheap. And then I come back a few years later, and the restaurant's a Bank of America. And what happened is all those art students are now in their 30s and their salaries went up, and they don't need some, like, some amazing little Mexican restaurant. Property taxes went up, rent went up, kicked out the restaurant, put in the bank of America. And now the art students pushing his glass up, being like, well, I'm considering refinancing my. My condo, so I didn't need the restaurant anymore. And you're like, you ruined everything.

[B]

You do ruin everything.

[A]

That's where I grew the leftists, but not for the same reasons. I just want my taco shop back.

[B]

You know, New York City has changed.

[A]

You know? You know. You know, the secret is when you order a taco and corn tortillas, they put two tortillas and they stuff it. You slide the first part off and you have. Then you cut it in half. Now you have two tacos. That's how you do it.

[B]

Wait, something like that you just said actually happened to Savannah and I recently at the park we go to.

[A]

You made two tacos?

[B]

No, them charging us more.

[A]

Oh, really?

[B]

Yeah. A bunch of my friends are Puerto Rican there. They speak Spanish. They spoke Spanish to the guy. You know, they're talking about the people that go around. They sell, like, waters and stuff like that. He sells mangoes and watermelon, and he comes to all the local parks where we paddleball and racquetball. And he comes every day. We know him. She goes, how much was this? I said, I think they gave it to him for $4. She goes, he charged me $5. She goes, the other two. The other two people spoke Spanish to him.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

A dollar off gringo sax is brutal. It's going up to him.

[B]

It's real.

[A]

Oh, but this is big in Japan, too.

[B]

She's half.

[A]

There's 50 cents off in Japan. There's a viral image of a sign, and it's got Japanese, Chinese, and English. And in Chinese and English, it says, sorry, we are full later. And then in Japanese, it says, if you're able to read this, come on in. We're fine. Everything's fine.

[D]

That happened to me when I went to Japan and we, like, went to a restaurant and it was empty, basically, and they, like, didn't seat us, and they didn't really speak English or whatever. And we walk out and, like, two Japanese, like, walk in and get seated.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

But I couldn't even get mad. I was like, that's actually kind of base. I'm hungry. But, like, I.

[A]

Here's the other thing. There's a big story where apparently there's a menu, and in Japanese, it's got lower prices than in English.

[D]

Yeah, I. You know, you kind of have the tip, the hat. You can get that mad. You're like, hey, I wish we did that.

[A]

No, but I. I get it. Because the. The, like, the GDP is much less for Japanese workers in Japan. Americans are relatively wealthy, so they're like, Americans have no problem paying $10 for a cheeseburger.

[D]

The yen is, like, in the toilet. Like, when I went there and I was exchanging my cash, I was just like. Like when they were showing me the exchange rate, like, you can go to Japan right now and just fleece them

[A]

because 30, 35,000 per capita.

[D]

Well. And if you start waving around USD or euros or something, they're going to

[A]

be like, bet the US is 94,000.

[B]

Yeah, good.

[A]

Damn, that's like almost triple.

[D]

And you bring it in currency. They. They want it so you can rent some.

[A]

You know what, man, I'm just so fed up with Americans. Most of them, they're just always complaining and they got it so good. But I actually think a lot of people are starting to recognize they got it good. And I think that's why everyone's kind of checked out right now.

[B]

I think, hopefully little by little.

[A]

Yeah, I think. I think USAID was actually the nucleus of all things international, cultural and political, and Trump smashed it with a hammer. I think Hollywood was usaid. I think the music industry was. I think the protests were. I think it was literally everything. Like, they were funneling money into USAID for the purpose of generating culture and fabricating this. This consensus.

[E]

I'm still. I still think that we need a little more time to kind of figure to nail that down as actually true. But it does seem pretty compelling, you know, like the fact that everything has changed so significantly since the end of usaid. And I, I honestly, I hope that it's true, you know, because then the. You'll see significant. You can. You'll hopefully will see significant changes over the course of the next two years and stuff. And then should a Democrat win in 28 and they reinstate this stuff, you'll have a real, you know, real clear view of whether it was, you know, whether it was at USAID or not.

[D]

Yeah. I've just been using the advertisements at the mall and like Victoria's Secret as the gauge is like, are we winning or not? Like, right now, it's like skinny women.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

So it's like, we're winning.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

But USA fires hard.

[A]

Go out of business yet? Is Tord gone out of business yet?

[E]

Wayne Bryant.

[A]

Oh, bro, I love how all of these celebrities who pretended to love being fat are now when I was epic.

[B]

They are.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're all thin. Like, I never wanted to be fat.

[D]

It's like, okay, that's bad for the environment, actually. It's true.

[A]

Oh, man, we. What, What, What. What is happening? What's going to happen to humanity? You know, I Think it's never.

[D]

We're, we're, we're going in the right direction. Whatever happens. I'm excited.

[E]

I do, I do feel like, you know, even though it's not the, the big dramatic thing that, that people were hoping for, we are moving in the right direction. Yeah, they're there.

[A]

What direction is that?

[E]

Well, they're, they are doing deportations. You actually have, you know, ICE is back and was reinstated and they're actually going to do stops now. We had net negative migration last year. Like, those are the most important. I honestly believe that immigration is the most important issue facing the United States. Right. Like, if you continue to import people that have a different worldview, you're going to end up with more people joining the dsa. You're going to have more people that are coming here to, to scam the, the social services that we have, and it's a huge deal.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

So I think that.

[A]

What do we, what do we do about everything like housing and labor and all that stuff?

[E]

Well, if you get, if you deport a lot of people, then you, you're going to see that prices of housing going down.

[A]

Well, the price of housing are going down because there's no people to buy them.

[E]

Well, right now.

[A]

Yeah. And there's no people to do jobs. So we're going to end up with a bunch of Gary Indianas.

[E]

I don't think that, that. I don't think we'll end up with a bunch of Gary and Gary Indians.

[A]

Who's going to, who's going to. Who's going to want to pay to maintain a house they can't use or sell?

[E]

Well, the point that I'm making is once is the. You've got a lot of boomers that are holding on to houses and stuff like that. You increase the inventory houses. You don't see a housing problem in, in Austin. Right. They lowered the, the issues with, or they changed the issues with, with zoning and with, with regulation and stuff. And they. People went in and they built houses and the cost of rents went down. That kind of stuff actually happens. So the fewer people that are here renting, the more illegals you get rid of people that aren't supposed to be here. The more people that are scamming the government that you get rid of and get them, you know, get them back to the places they belong, you'll have the cost of housing go down. You'll have more jobs available for Americans. And I understand that young people are really facing a lot of problems. I, I understand like the stuff that you talk about is like, that's real intangible for young people. I do think partially young people kind of expect. Have an unrealistic expectation, but. But at the same time, like, it doesn't mean that they're. That they're, they're, you know, having the ability to pay.

[A]

Check this out. I love this story we talked about a little bit over the past.

[B]

Couple of my friends actually did that.

[A]

So this, this is Japan's Ikea rush. Foreigners are buying abandoned homes. I was actually talking to my wife and I was like, you want to go to Japan? And she goes, yes, but what do you mean? And I was like, I mean, like, move there.

[D]

It's the PewDiePie method.

[A]

Is that what he did? He moved to Japan?

[D]

Yeah, he just moved there. Well, because he can work remotely, so

[A]

he's just like, Exactly.

[D]

And he has a great lifestyle account.

[A]

And then IRL would just be, I wake up in the morning.

[D]

And the reason he said he likes it now, you'd probably be able to relate to this to some degree. I mean, obviously he's like, you know, everyone's going to notice him, but he's like, no one there recognizes me. No one stops me. He's like, I can just live a normal life, by and large, granted. You know, you'll learn.

[A]

Jeff, Bro, look at this right here. You can have your own grocery store for 12 grand.

[D]

Like, if. As long as. If you have a remote job, a job you can do from home, you can do this. Yeah, it's very realistic. The problem, though, for young people is they typically don't. And so they can't just, like, move to the middle of nowhere. And if you're trying to find a wife, it's going to.

[A]

So this is a really great example of what's going to happen in the United States. So Japan is very anti immigration, very anti foreigner, and they recently started approving foreign investment into these. They're called ikea's abandoned homes because there's no young people. They have. They have a birthing crisis and they have no migration. Now, I'm not saying bringing a bunch of Honduran farmers is going to solve any problems for America. You got two problems. One, AI is going to wipe out the white collar jobs. And then without white. Then the white collar workers are only. What job can they do? They're going to be like, I guess I'll go work at a Taco Bell. But then a robot's doing that. So they'll be like, I guess I'll pick berries in a field, but the Honduran farmer is doing it. And the Honduran farmer is better at it than the middle manager who's not of a job and needs to find a job so he can't find a job anywhere. It's just going to get bad. In Japan, they're, they're now saying, okay, let's bring in foreigners. But instead of bringing in, you know, like third worlders, like we are, they're trying to bring in us.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Japan's like, hey, go find a bunch of like those white collar Americans and have them move here. We'll take them. So what's going to happen in 20 years? America is going to be a bunch of Honduran farmers and Japan is going to be high skill, futuristic, developed.

[E]

Are these, is that eighteen hundred dollars rent?

[A]

No, it's own. That's Dubai for these buildings are completely abandoned. Completely abandoned.

[D]

And there's two things that are interesting here is one of these homes are all still fairly new because in Japan they rebuild homes about every 50 years just because of earthquakes and stuff.

[A]

Right.

[D]

And then secondarily, what's interesting about Japan, there's two, two things going on on the demographic side. One is pretty much their entire source of immigration is what they would just call it cousins, basically. So Brazil is their largest source of immigration. You hear that, you go, that's weird. Because there's so many people of Japanese descent in Brazil, they're allowing people of Japanese extraction to come back to Japan and move there. So you kind of have this like Brazilian Japanese population, but after a generation or two, they assimilate fairly well. Korea does the same thing. Korea takes in Koreans from the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union scattered Koreans throughout the place. So they're moving back to Korea. The other interesting thing about Japan and South Korea is the entire country is depopulating except for Seoul and Tokyo. So Seoul and Tokyo are still growing.

[A]

Oh, and Tokyo's nuts. Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo Metro is crazy.

[D]

And it's continuing to grow because even as the population declines, it's just going to consolidate in like one or two cities. The United States is unique because we have so many cities that it gives people plenty of options. And whatever city is in vogue is different every three to four years. You know, three years ago it was Austin, now it's Nashville. Three years later. Who knows what it'll be. But like, you know, it's constantly changing and whatever, you know, political dynamics or cultural dynamics. But countries like this. Yeah, it just consolidates around Tokyo, Osaka.

[A]

Whoa, what's your excuse? Gen Z. Look at this. This house is five grand and that's like 20 bucks a month for a mortgage.

[C]

Got a urinal in the house.

[A]

It's got a urinal in the house. Look at that. For the bo. And it's abandoned. It probably needs some tlc, but yo, it's not like Gary, Indiana. No, I mean, it's dirty.

[D]

Well, this is, I mean, this is part of the problem with the United States that Japan doesn't have is the United States. Most of our cheap housing is locked up in like, extremely dangerous areas.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

The United States. Like, for young people to live in cities, you're either competing in nice neighborhoods with boomers who refuse to downsize, or you're going into like black neighborhoods or Mexican neighborhoods where they'll sell your head off.

[A]

Nobody wants to live in Gary, Indiana, bro. That's why when they're the Hammond Bears, it's just, it's not, it's not, not, it's not good.

[D]

But it's the same with Memphis. Like, I mean, I grew up in Memphis, so I can use this as an example. Is like a lot of young people would like to live in Memphis, but the problem is, again, two options, like Midtown, which is all like rich boomers. Good luck buying a house there. Or just get, look at this, which is 90.

[A]

This is the, this is the middle class dream version of a passport, bro. It's, it's, it's the, the, the mortgage, bro. You're like, I can't afford to buy a house in America.

[C]

Look at this.

[A]

18 grand.

[E]

Is it like impossible to get a mortgage in Japan?

[D]

It's impossible to get a.

[A]

No, no.

[D]

On a mortgage.

[A]

Well, well, actually, so I wouldn't describe. I've been reading a lot about it. I would describe it as easy, but apparently because of the IKEA means, which means abandoned home, and Japan desperately trying to bring people in, this creates a door, which makes it a bit easier. Now it's hard, it's hard to get citizenship. But I watched this one video from a guy who was like, why would I want to be a citizen? I don't care about voting. And I think about the perfect scenario. Japan's creating a bunch of like, middle class Americans coming and filling in holes in their economy with no right to vote.

[E]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Well, I mean, because you can't, you can't. There's no dual citizenship in Japan. Yeah. So you have to renounce your American citizenship. If you were to take Japanese citizenship,

[A]

you're not getting it. It's not gonna happen, white boy.

[D]

It's pretty hard to be a for not even because of like xenophobia. Like, who cares? It's like you, it's a lot.

[E]

It's because of sensible laws.

[D]

It's sensible laws, but it's like difficult to access healthcare.

[A]

This is nice.

[C]

Yeah, I know. My sister worked at a law firm there for like five years and she knew this one guy was like on his 10th year and they were going to send him, he had to do one more year or something like two years back in America and then come back again before he could even qualify.

[D]

Yeah, yeah. So it's like to have access, it's like to have access to the things you would need to build a life there. It's really difficult, bro.

[A]

Like, this is an abandoned home. Look, look how wood ceilings. You want to see an abandoned home? For that, go to Gary, Indiana and look at abandoned homes. There's like a thick foot of sewage on the floor everywhere. You can't go in those places in Japan. It's like, well, it's been abandoned. It's like it looks like no one ever. It looks the same. Yeah, they're like, yeah, it's just dusty. Yeah, nobody wants to live there. It's too dusty. 12,000 for the whole house.

[E]

Well, there's not a significant number of crackheads that are breaking into, you know, do drugs in there.

[D]

If you have a remote job and you don't really care about having like friends or family nearby or like a church or anything really, then you could do this.

[A]

But right here, dude.

[E]

I imagine within a couple, within a couple years you could make friends and stuff.

[A]

I, I, I don't imagine speaking Konichiwa in, in, in a, in two weeks.

[D]

I know people that have lived in Japan and they're like, it's impossible to make friends with Japanese people cuz they just like are always going to be just like, why would I talk to you?

[A]

No, no, what you got to, what you got to do is you got to dress up like Goku. And then you walk around yelling Kamehameha. And they're going to be like, you respect my culture.

[D]

And you're instantly friends, guys, clearly one of us.

[A]

Actually, the joke is Americans Weebs go to Japan and they're creepy and like they walk around wearing like Naruto gear and like running with their arms back. And Japanese people, look, imagine if someone came to United States from Japan dressed like Homer Simpson, walking around going right, right, like eating donuts. You'd be like, bro, stop.

[D]

You have these guys going over there, they're Like, I'm going to find my waifu. And they like learn the intricate intricacies of Japanese culture and all the mannerisms, etc, and they're repulsed by them. And then you have these like American servicemen chuds that go over and they're like, we should have nuked you again. And they go home with a wife. So it's like there's a tactic there. It's just like, actually you should do the opposite. You should like hit these people and you'll be back.

[E]

I mean, my experience in Japan is, my experiences in Japan are definitely, you know, as a rock star. So it's like when you go over there and they're, they bring you over there and you're getting carted around, you're playing shows and stuff. It's, it's, it's probably.

[A]

I, I watched a video. They were, A guy went around asking Japanese people, like, how much money do you need to make per month us to be considered wealthy? And they were like, 3000. Like $3000. And you're, you're like, you're like, well off.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then they were like, but what about like. So that's when you're comfortable. What about like you're rich? And they're like, oh, 10,000. Wow. $10,000 a month. That's, that's the median. That's, that's GDP for Americans. 94K.

[B]

Right.

[A]

So if you, if you work remote and you go buy one of these houses, man, Japan be stealing all the. This is a problem. This is a big problem.

[B]

Looks like a mansion.

[A]

It should like how many? It is a mansion.

[B]

It's a mansion.

[A]

Some of these places have like 10 bedrooms.

[C]

Look at this. Can you buy one without having been there yet?

[B]

What is it?

[A]

Yes, you can.

[C]

So just, you could buy this right now and be like, now I own this property.

[A]

So the challenge is to get like live visas. You get like temporary live visas. And the government and I could be wrong. I've only been watching some videos. I haven't like actually gone there and investigated, but I've seen people say that the government is basically split. The conservatives are like, we do not want non Japanese in our country. And the liberals are like, we're collapsing. We need migration. And then the liberals are like, we'll take who we can get. And then they bring in people from India and Africa. Yeah, real bad things happened. And then the conservatives are like, stop doing this. And they're like, wait, what if we tell the white wealthy Americans to come here instead? And they go, okay, but only Some. Yeah, so you can get like two. So there, there are challenges because I watched some videos where they were saying like they bought the house and they live there, but they're temp. They're temporary visas.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So it's a problem because you own this property and then you can't live

[B]

there for more than what, five years.

[A]

But you know, you just got to keep refiling and like keeping up with it. But I'm like, that's not a big deal. It's like, bro, you want to have a 10 bedroom mansion for 20 grand? Okay. It's okay. It's not a mansion.

[E]

It's.

[A]

It's 2632 square feet. That's not the biggest house in the world, but hey, for 18 grand. But here's what's funny. 3 million yen. That's. That's the price.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Imagine someone, this 10 bedroom house is $3 million. You'd be like, oh my God. But you know, from yen to US dollars, ain't nothing be awesome.

[D]

You have your own dojo you go hang out with.

[A]

And I think this, they actually do. They actually do have karate with your boys. They're not really like dojos, but they have the big room that's effectively could be a dojo.

[D]

Yeah, I want to do that. I'm. The cartoons I think are stupid. I want to do the karate and all that. That'd be fun.

[A]

Dude, this is, this is nothing.

[D]

Boards.

[E]

Japan is sick. Look at this. Real sick.

[D]

So. Oh man, I love. Yeah, I loved going to the convenience stores, eating the sandwiches.

[A]

But just bring it back to like America. We're doing the opposite of this.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Instead of being like, like, this is what Trump said about countries, pardon my French. He was like, why are we bringing people in from these countries? We could bring them in for Norway. And then the left, the left was all like, that's racist.

[B]

Well, look. But then at the same time they're like, no, no, no, don't send them back to that country. Because, well.

[A]

And the South Africans came, they were like white supremacy.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Well, even look at Tokyo. It's not even exorbitantly expensive there. Like, they've just done a good job in Japan of like making life manageable for people. Yeah. Tokyo is the work life balance there is pretty horrific. That's one of the kids.

[A]

Look at this. They even got stuff. What? Look at this.

[D]

It's because they rebuild their houses all the time. I mean, they don't.

[A]

No, look, I'm saying, look at this.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

This looks like a McDonald's play place.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

GMod house.

[A]

Do you wanna. Why in. In Saitama? Look at this, man.

[D]

I like that they call this.

[A]

It does look like Legos on the inside. Yeah, looks like it's all Legos, bro. I don't care. I'll sleep in a van down by the river, you know what I mean?

[D]

Factory from what fact you from, dude?

[A]

I bet that we get across a priests.

[D]

Yeah. What sure are you? Yeah. What brief you from, dude?

[A]

No, they probably just say prefecture because they are pretentious, very formal.

[E]

Tate, son.

[D]

Yeah, dude. Yeah, you better believe it.

[A]

Tate, son.

[E]

Tate son.

[A]

Man, you can have a house for a couple grand. So I'm seeing all. Here's the other thing too, because we talked about it quite a bit. They want all the white people to move there. And the question is, why is Japan advertising to white Americans and not, you know, Hondurans?

[D]

Very similar.

[A]

Not Haitians or Haitians.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Why won't Japan put run ads in Haiti and say, come Haitians come?

[E]

I think answering that question is technically a hate crime.

[B]

Did they get away with it because they're white adjacent?

[E]

Well, I mean, me and Tate were talking on X today. He's like, japan's the only white country left from the world.

[D]

It's true.

[A]

Japan is kind of funny. Well, I mean, ICELAND is like 99 white, isn't it?

[D]

No, it's. It's getting bad over there.

[A]

Iceland.

[D]

Yeah, well, because there's not many of them. So it only took a few and they're all cousins. Yeah. So it took like. It took like 20 migrants and now it's like 30. Oh, it's crazy. They have a lot of Polish people there. I was in Iceland recently and they're not white. Yeah, well. Yeah, and. Well, they're not.

[E]

They're.

[A]

According to the community, the Coalition for Communities of Color, Polish people are people of color.

[E]

They're Slavs.

[B]

Really?

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

We had this when Luke was here. Luke's got blonde hair and blue eyes. And the website said Eastern Europeans are people of color.

[D]

Well, if you ask Ben Franklin, I mean, the Welsh weren't white. Like, it's pretty tight parameters. But yeah, I went to Iceland and like everyone is Polish. I was like, this is crazy. But again, it's just because there's not. There's 350, 000 of them. So it didn't take very many of like immigrants to come for it to

[E]

be like, oh, wow, this Icelandic pierogis.

[D]

Yeah. Covered in ice.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

So, yeah, Japan by all accounts is like the last white Country.

[A]

Yeah. South. South Korea is also having a similar problem, but I don't. I don't see the same kind of advertising to. To people to move there, because it's

[D]

not as appealing, you know?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You know what it is? They do love Japan.

[D]

They love it and they love us. It's mutual.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, no. We say that Japanese love American cultural stuff, but don't want foreigners coming to their land.

[D]

That's how we should.

[A]

Americans would love it if Japanese people came with, like, oh, look, Japanese.

[D]

I love other cultures. I love learning about them. I love their cuisine. It's just. I like learning about it in their land. It's like when I. When I'm learning about it home, when I'm trying to go to Costco and I'm learning the intricacies of, like, Gujarati culture, I'm like, not necessary. I think we're good here.

[B]

When Muslims are praying in the streets.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

New York City.

[E]

Not that kind of stuff. That should be obvious.

[D]

I've learned so much of India because of where I live. It's crazy.

[A]

I.

[D]

It's for.

[A]

Imagine this, you know, we all moved to Niigata, Japan, and we wake up and do IRL first thing in the morning, but for everybody else, it's at night here in America. And then, you know, everybody just buys one of these abandoned houses next to each other, and we get a little. Little enclave, and we'll call it Little America.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And then what we'll do is once we have enough people, we'll start having lots of babies. Once we have enough people, we'll create our own American policing, which is unofficial. It's not. Not to interfere with the laws of the government, but, you know, just for our own people, whoever have guns.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

It's called Okinawa. The Jews is out of this Okinawa. Yeah. The entire island. It's like Marines, Giant Marine base.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Right. You know, it's crazy, too, is people don't realize Okinawa is so far away from Japan.

[D]

And if you go around, I have some station Okinawa, they're like, there's just half black, half Japanese kids everywhere.

[A]

Really?

[D]

Yeah, like, everywhere. They're starting goalkeeper Zion Suzuki, He's.

[E]

But the.

[A]

The best part is after we have this, you know, we. After we develop this, you know, community, and we're growing. Maybe in, like, you know, 20 or 30 years, there might be 10 to 30 or maybe even 40,000 of us and our kids. And then what we'll do is we'll start lobbying that we should have the right to vote, even if we're not citizens. And then we'll start bringing in outside money to convince the Japanese people why it's important that we vote. And then once we start eroding their governmental base, we'll lobby more politicians to allow for more of us to come in. And then maybe in a hundred years, Japan will be 87% white American. It and the Japanese will be a minority in their own country.

[D]

Took a little while, but the win over them in World War II was more decisive than we thought.

[A]

Yeah, that's right.

[E]

I didn't realize.

[D]

Utopia, it'll be beautiful.

[E]

I didn't realize that Okanawa was so far away from the mainland of Japan.

[A]

Yeah, it's like their Hawaii.

[D]

Yeah, it's nice.

[B]

I didn't know that either, bro.

[E]

Look at this luxurious.

[A]

I, I, I can't even zoom out far enough. Here's Japan. And also people, people need to understand that Japan is basically driving from Maine to Texas. Yeah, that's how big it is. Yeah. And so then when you look all the way down here to Okinawa, also these islands down here, that's Japan.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Super far.

[E]

Some of them are actually disputed with China, if I understand correctly.

[D]

These islands down here, what's not disputed?

[E]

China's. China's.

[D]

These ones, I think they're called the Ryushu Islands.

[A]

Is that it?

[E]

Yeah, maybe.

[C]

Look at that.

[A]

Ishigaki. I mean, that's Japanese. You can always move to China. All you got to do is be a communist.

[C]

Shanghai not far away.

[E]

Terrible.

[A]

Yeah, man.

[E]

But yeah, Okinawa is, it's full of Marines, man. And I didn't realize that it was so far away from the mainland.

[D]

People they had, you know, like with the Confederacy, they have like this lost cause kind of thing, and they mourn it or whatever. That's me with Hong Kong is like, what would British Hong Kong be like? That'd be fascinating, but I'll never get to see it.

[A]

Speaking of cause, speaking of glazing the ccp, we got the story from the Gateway pundit, Trump to accuse China of meddling in US Elections. In Thursday night, speech evidence, Beijing compromised US voter voter data. So Trump's gonna be given this big address and apparently he's gonna say that the election was stolen or something. Uh, here's my prediction. It's a waste of time. Nothing's gonna happen. He's gonna say very little. He's gonna go, china did it, thank you, goodbye. Nothing's gonna change. And we're all gonna go about our day. And then, I don't know, World cup watch, party on Sunday, anybody?

[D]

That would be nice.

[A]

Look, I. Argentina, man, that comeback.

[D]

How about that?

[A]

I called it. We were sitting down, I said, tate, Argentina is gonna win. And Tate's like, no, England's gonna win. And then England scores a goal. And I was like, oh, come on. I was punch. And then 88 minutes, 88 minutes, they get that goal, they go into overtime.

[B]

Boom, boom. Yeah, that was sick.

[D]

That was nice.

[A]

Yeah. Anyway, Trump's going to come out, accuse China. We knew this. Nothing's going to change. And I think when I say that nothing's going to change, I want you all to understand I'm not, I'm not being blackpilled. I'm just saying, like, we win, no one's going to protest, no one's going to riot. Trump's going to do his weird, whatever, behind the scenes stuff. They redistricted. I think that even, even now, still, I think Republicans are, have a decent chance of winning. Holding onto the, holding on the House in the midterms.

[D]

I have people that are like a little insult, like serious insiders that would be incentivized almost to black pill for fundraising purposes. And they're saying, yeah, Republicans are going to keep the House.

[E]

Really?

[D]

Yeah. Which is really interesting. And I'm not breaking decision desk is

[A]

saying Senate 50, 50, which means J.D. vance is the tiebreaker. I mean the SAVE act passed again.

[D]

Hold on though. So I think it'd be 51.

[A]

That's true too.

[D]

Assume they're saying the Maine will go Democrat.

[A]

But the other thing too is with the, the SAVE act got attached to the ndaa, which is the funniest thing ever because the National Defense Authorization act is, it's the military budget every year. So they attached the SAVE act to it. But I think you were saying, Phil,

[E]

the parliamentarians are going to, it's not a funding thing. And the parliamentarian's probably gonna pull it out, which is a dumb thing. I've seen a lot of people that are talking about, you know, if you get rid of the, for Israel, then you know, they'll, they would vote for the, the SAVE act in there. And to me that's a. Or not the funding, but the, the merging of the US Intelligence apparatus with the Israeli apparatus. And to me that's a no brainer. Right. Like get rid of that, put the SAVE act act in there.

[D]

The Senate voted on that amendment already and approved it though.

[E]

What the, like the.

[D]

Yeah. Intel sharing and all that.

[E]

Yeah. But I think doesn't, don't they have to vote on the House lob to

[D]

look over it now.

[E]

Okay, Well, I mean that was a

[D]

Senate amendment, I believe. I was surfing Twitter.

[B]

That's.

[D]

I haven't dived super deep into it yet.

[E]

Well, I don't know for sure but to me it seems like a no brainer anything to get the SAVE act passed. Basically. It's so popular with the American people.

[D]

80%.

[E]

80%. There's. Yeah. And it's ridiculous that there are, there are people that are dragging their feet on it and I know that there are a lot of people that are black black pilled and stuff. The time to, to actually like go after people for, for this kind of stu. The primaries. So if, if you're, you know, if it doesn't pass and you're bummed about it, primary the people that vote against it. Right. Like use the, the levers of power that you have. Make a stink and primary them. Don't complain, you know, in September. Do it in January of the, of the, the next election. Not this coming, you know, obviously, but in January of 2028. Right. Like make a stink, then primary the people that, that are. That vote the way that you don't want. Like get rid of the people that are bad. And it's, it. Part of the problem is, and I think part of the problem is people don't pay attention off your elections. But if it's a presidential election that election year, you'll know it's coming. Everybody's pumped to vote for the president because they think they're voting for the king anyways. So go and primary your bad politicians. I like so many people call in, they're like, oh, we can't do anything, blah blah, blah. And I understand why people feel that way, but they miss their opportunity to primary the crabby people.

[A]

I, I think we should seize the means of production from people who identify as communist.

[D]

Well we could do we just throw

[B]

a page out of their own book.

[A]

The moment someone says they're a communist, we go. Okay. Your assets on are now public property. Not mine though. I'm not a communist.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, then more stuff for us.

[D]

Pretty sure I'm not.

[A]

I mean the only problem is anybody who's a communist, they're usually broke.

[E]

They don't have anything. They're all. They're always politician.

[B]

Communist.

[E]

Yeah, even, even they're. If they're not in like high positions, they don't really have that much. They get a lot of student debt because how do you think they got became economist in the first place?

[B]

Yeah, they went to art school.

[E]

They Went to school.

[B]

I went to school with them. I literally went to Pratt Institute. Like, it's an art school in Brooklyn almost. I went there last year.

[A]

Was everybody gay?

[B]

No, they weren't at the time.

[E]

Really?

[B]

No. Very few people were gay back then. But this is 20 years ago now. I went there this right after Charlie Kirk passed.

[A]

Everyone's gay.

[B]

We went there. No, not even that. They're just all queer and they're all communists. They're all. They're all. They're all pro political violence. It's really bad.

[D]

They're all, like, bisexuals, but they only date men. It's the weirdest.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

No, the funny thing about the left is that they'll be straight but just say they're gay for brownie points.

[B]

Yes, they do.

[E]

Well, yeah, they'll say, well, I'm non binary. That some kind of.

[B]

That's not a thing.

[E]

They'll just put a tag on themselves so they can be like, no, I'm a member of the lgbt.

[A]

I'm.

[E]

I'm an ally, blah, blah, blah.

[A]

I'm non, non, binary.

[B]

Right.

[D]

You know, I'm binary.

[B]

So that's. That's an extra.

[A]

I'm non, non binary, which means binary.

[D]

Right.

[A]

So that's. That's. That's another One for the LGBTQIA. To 2s.

[C]

Whatever. You could be queer with that statement right now. You can what that means, right?

[E]

Wave your flag around.

[A]

We're special here. You know, we should just add our own N. Normal lgbtn.

[E]

Lgbn.

[D]

I could get behind that.

[B]

I mean, remember when they made the straight pride flag and it was like, black and white, gray.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

They were like, f them. Straight people. They're boring anyway. Like, make their flag.

[A]

No, I think it was like, make

[B]

it black and white or I think

[A]

it was like orange and black and had, like, a man and woman holding hands on or something.

[B]

It's ugly. I forget it was this.

[E]

Yeah, the street.

[B]

Basic and ugly.

[A]

Well, why do gay people keep making flags? Can you explain this to me?

[B]

Because they're not gay.

[A]

What do you mean?

[B]

Because gay people, like, actually normal gays, like, nice things. Right.

[A]

Like shoes.

[B]

Like. Right. Like actual physical things, but also lifestyle wise. Like, we go into the neighborhoods like Chelsea and hell's kitchen and WeHo and, like, up the property value because we put work into things.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

These people, these queer people.

[A]

I'm just saying, like, how come there's a flag for every. Like.

[B]

No, I was. I was gonna get that. I was gonna say the queer people come in.

[A]

Is it so that people know who they want to bang.

[B]

No, they just. They're obsessed with commandeering anything that they can put their hands on.

[A]

No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying, like, there's like a. There's like an asexual flag, there's a transsexual flag. There's like a hydromorphic flag or something.

[B]

There's all these kind of flags because they're. They're not actually oppressed, but if they create a flag, they can commandeer.

[D]

It's like a Reddit thing because, like, Vexology is huge on Reddit and, like. And Reddit. I'm being serious here. And Reddit has. What is Vexology And Reddit And. And Reddit has a really high proportion of like. Yeah, just broadly gay people. So they're just really flag. I think that's, like, legitimate. The explanation sounds very.

[B]

Autism is.

[D]

Yeah, because like, right now, if you're on Instagram reels, you would assume that Australia is on the verge of changing their flag because it's like all these different proposals and da, da, da. And then you, like, do public polling and like, 60, 70% of the country is like, no, why would we change our flag? But yet these Redditors are just obsessed with flags.

[E]

The weird.

[B]

Because they're all autistic.

[D]

Yeah, they're all autistic. Half of them are gay of some sort. Yeah, because you can tell. Because I've noticed something new with the zoomer. The zoomer? Gays is. They always have canes.

[A]

Wait, I have an idea. Hear me out.

[B]

Extra oppression point.

[A]

What if we created a system of governance by which only people who are landowners, male and white, could vote?

[E]

It's a start.

[A]

Yeah, it's a good start.

[E]

Start.

[A]

No one. No one can vote. Nobody gets to vote. Not even white people.

[E]

I mean, look, man, I was. We were hanging out with Lisa last week. She makes a compelling argument for monarchy.

[A]

Oh.

[E]

She's just like, look, you know, people shouldn't vote. We need a dictator. We need some kind of someone that's going to tell everybody what to do.

[D]

And they should. They just should have pushed George Washington become too entitled.

[B]

They have no idea what they're.

[D]

George Washington? Yeah, because George Washington crashed out once about it. They're like, all right, stop asking. They should have pushed him a little harder. Like, George. Look, you don't understand. Like, you got to just take the reins here.

[E]

Yeah. If someone could have, like, brought him like, a. A couple magazines from today, you know?

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Like, hey, look, this is where you're

[D]

heading show them a Costco.

[B]

This is where you. This is where it's heading in 200.

[E]

So yeah, I mean, what do you mean?

[D]

Catholics can vote? It's like, that is the least of our problems.

[E]

I mean, I mean, I'm joking around a little bit, but like. Well, when it comes to the monarchy thing, but like, I do think that, I think that in federal elections there should be way fewer people allowed.

[A]

It's not a joke. Everybody's life would be better under monarchy in the short term. So when what tends to happen is that you get an autocrat because the problems become so intense, the political corruption runs so deep, one person takes over with a singular vision. It straightens things out temporarily.

[B]

Right.

[A]

And then what happens is the reason why you get narratives of oppression from autocracy largely is because autocracy arises after conflict among a population. So like Franco, for instance, now the people who supported, you know, his ideology and worldview loved what he was doing and the communists did not. And so they're like, he was a dictator. It's like, well, yes, because it remove ideology from the equation. And let's just say your nation is, is composed of three different ideologies. A, B and C. And then A, A leader rises from faction B who takes over.

[B]

A and C are going to be.

[A]

A and C are going to be like, help, help. We're being repressed. And, and group B is gonna be like, this is fantastic. And then in the end, it's who wins. So in the short term, it straightens things out. It gives you stability in times of chaos and economic uncertainty and things like this. But then in the long run, it can go, it's a wash. I mean, when you look historically, most of these autocratic regimes, they fall apart or they fizzle out and become weak republics of some sort.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, like, that's why North Korea is such a head scratcher that's lasted so long.

[A]

Well, that's because it's locked down by China. China's got a boot on it.

[D]

Well, China's will vote on sanction packages on North Korea like China. The only reason China is so pro North Korea is one, because it provides a buffer between the west, but additionally is because they're also trying to win influence over North Korea because Russia is also interested in North Korea as well, because North Korea has been providing so much, you know, munitions and people for their war. So again, North Korea doesn't want to be a puppet of China, so they have to entertain Russia, etc. But what I'm Trying to say there is North Korea's this weird outlier where it's a total autocracy that has lasted quite a long time. I mean, China could just implement their system in North Korea very easily and still keep them as a rump state, but they haven't been able to do so because Kim Jong Un is just, like, unable to fall apart. Things, by all accounts, have been improving. He seems to be consolidating power, if anything.

[E]

Yeah, if. I mean, if I understand correctly, part of it is because of the narrative that people believe, like, they're so isolated. They really believe that, like, Kim Il Sung used to eat and not go to the bathroom because his body was so efficient. He would use all the stuff that he ate. It was crazy stuff.

[B]

I mean, you can't. You believe what you're taught if you. You think you're gonna die unless you believe that.

[E]

Like, not even that. I mean, it's like they don't. But they don't have anything to compare it to or in contrast it to.

[A]

They don't.

[D]

See, it's difficult to gauge, like, people. There's. I mean, there's people that study North Korea for a living, and even they have trouble, like, deciphering, like, how, you know, committed to the bit are the North Koreans. Because, for example, they had a. A province in North Korea that was opened up to South Koreans for a period of time for family reunifications and just to hang out and whatever. And they found that, like, the North Koreans knew a lot of the K pop songs.

[E]

Oh, really?

[D]

Broadly familiar with K dramas. And then likewise, when the Korean soldiers, North Korean soldiers, went to go fight in Ukraine, a lot of them knew how to use the phones already and were able to, you know, navigate the web quite, quite easily. They all got addicted to porn right away, which is pretty funny.

[E]

They have. But they have. They have their own version of the.

[D]

They have their own version, but insofar as, like, they are vaguely familiar with the rest of the world, apparently. So the question there is, like, are they. They kind of know what's going on, but they just are either committed to the bit, like they think, like, and. Or they're just afraid of missing their next meal.

[B]

I would think they're just afraid. That's because you do, most likely. Yeah, you do a lot of weird stuff if you're living in fear.

[D]

But it also is completely possible that they quite literally just think Kim Jong Un's God. So it's like that.

[C]

But they also think that we're terrible. And they have a whole different history of like what we did to them.

[D]

Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah. They're always chest beating about the Japanese especially they hate the Japanese.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Which they do have some, some points. But yeah. What's interesting is about North Korea. If you were to compare north and South Korea just on paper, you would assume North Korea is the better system because their birth rate's positive, South Korea's is negative. So when you expose Koreans to both forms of government, one exterminates the people and the other doesn't. So like if you look at it from that perspective, you know, maybe that's what then their heads, they're thinking like, hey, we're vitalists and etc and the South Koreans are these idiots and they're going extinct.

[E]

Well, I mean I, I think that the, the phrase exterminates the people is a little bit of an overstatement when

[D]

it comes to South Korea. I think America over exaggerated. But South Korea, like they work their people to death. They really, the government doesn't. But the sort of system that's created, okay. The society, four companies basically, like it's a high pressure, everyone's freaking out. Dropping of heart attacks all the time.

[B]

Really.

[D]

Yeah. 50% of them get plastic surgery. They just want that little bit of an edge.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, that's something that I heard. There's a lot of plastic surgery over there. There's a lot of people that are just like, we want to look, we all want to look like K pop stars.

[D]

Yeah. And like for the record, I'm making a point there. I think South Korea's by so many metrics a much better place to live in North Korea. I'm just saying that from the North Korean perspective, you can understand why maybe they would, would be slightly skeptical of western reforms in their country because they might just be saying, oh, they're all degenerates that like just have dogs instead of kids. That, that stuff works. The Chinese think that way. The Chinese think that of Westerners, they're like, they're just all, you know, hedonistic degenerates.

[E]

Yeah. I mean if you, if you look at the, you know, images of like at least urban areas in China, they don't look like a prison camp. You know, as much as, as you can't, you know, you're not free and you're not, you can't express, you know, opposition to the government and stuff like that. It's like the average person that lives in a city in China, they don't, it doesn't look like they're in North. Looks nothing like North Korea, you know what I mean? It's like they don't have like the, the same kind of like oppression that, that North Korea does.

[A]

So let's talk about this, this Canadian illegal immigrant. So we got the story. This chick from Canada. Actually we got a picture of her. She so surprised me. Apparently she came here in 2024 on a temporary visa. It expired and she stayed illegally.

[D]

Did she?

[A]

And then. Yeah, and then she saw some teenager wearing Trump gear and smacked her.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

So now she's arrested and ICE detention pending her, you know, her hearing or whatever. And her husband's begging for help, saying, oh no, I took my wife. And they're all sharing this photo being like, oh no, look what ICE is doing to this poor white woman because liberals are all racist. But turns out she's an illegal immigrant. And you know, I don't care if she's Canadian or Honduran or whatever it might be. Lock her up. Yeah, violent felon.

[C]

Well, I mean a criminal.

[A]

Oh, right. Someone smacking someone. Simple assault. It's not a felony.

[D]

Well, she did everything.

[A]

She struck a child. Yeah, a child.

[C]

Child eater.

[A]

She is a child beater.

[E]

I think they should.

[D]

Have you seen her husband's like scrambling

[E]

like, let her out.

[D]

Let her out.

[A]

You should lock him up too. Yeah, I don't know what he did,

[E]

but you know, he can be with his life.

[D]

Annoying.

[E]

Is he here illegally?

[D]

No, he's an American.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Oh, he's an American.

[D]

Reason why she's here.

[C]

Harboring a fugitive.

[E]

There you go. Harboring a fugitive from justice. There you go.

[D]

Yeah, get him.

[A]

You know what my problem is? We just don't have law enforcement anymore.

[E]

We not only do we not have law enforcement forcement, but we don't have judges that will actually I'm just throw the book at people anyway either.

[A]

We need a government that's going to be like a dad with a belt, you know what I mean? When the kid acts up, you know you do take the belt. You ever did that thing where you fold the belt over and you snap it?

[E]

Let's go.

[A]

And you're not actually hitting them, you're just freaking them out.

[B]

Yeah, scare tactic.

[D]

Well, that's what we are doing with the ICE raids like the high profile ones and whatnot. And then we've kind of cooled down on those like hey, we should just deport them instead of doing these like stunts, right?

[C]

Snap.

[D]

But that was the equivalent of the belt snap. And you know there is one argument is like if you do the Kind of shock and awe. Then like it scares people into self deporting.

[B]

I think it's worked a little bit.

[D]

It's worked a little bit. But I think I like Mark Wayne Mullen's approach a little more. It's like, let's just deport them instead of like having, you know, Kirsty Noem walk out and like Barbie heels or whatever, you know.

[A]

You know what I want to talk to you guys about? My question is, like, what should we invest in right now? Knowing the population is collapsing, so you're going to get the AI robots to start making tacos, so ain't no taco jobs. And then you're going to get the LLMs to take over administrative jobs. So people are going to need like, what, what, what, what do you do? Like, what do you invest in? Right. Do short. Something.

[D]

One play. I have. Not financial advice, but I'm gonna go to give the game away because I'm already leveraged. Is. And again, not financial advice. Actually, don't do this.

[A]

Put it all in Argentina for Sunday.

[D]

That. Yes. But also I bought a ton of Levi's stock because I'm like, everyone's losing weight because of Ozempics. They got to buy new jeans.

[A]

You bought stock in Levi.

[B]

That's kind of smart.

[D]

Yeah, yeah. Wrangler. If there's any, like, publicly offered jean companies, I would just really gobble it up because it's like their next earning reports. Earning reports are going to be going up for the next few months or next few quarters because everyone needs.

[A]

That's a good point. When population collapses and people are starving and we're in a depression, they're going to have to buy new clothes or belts.

[D]

Yeah. Well, the problem. So one guy.

[B]

Or belts.

[D]

One guy made a big mistake was when Covid. This is. I got the idea for the play from. Is one guy, when Covid hit, he's like, I'm going to buy Levi's stock because everyone's been sitting at home, they got fat, so they got to go buy new jeans.

[B]

So smart.

[D]

Earnings report came along, they smashed it and he's like, let's go. But the stock tanked.

[B]

Why?

[D]

Because they were like, well, everyone's already bought their jeans now, so they don't need new.

[C]

And they close all the.

[A]

Can you short Torrid. You know, torrid is. You know, torrid is.

[B]

Yeah, it's like Spencer's but better kind of torrid.

[A]

Yeah, no, it's the fetch at the. It's the mall where all the mannequins Are morbidly obese, they should call it.

[C]

And they have, like, torment Spencer's.

[A]

Well, tort is a combination of. What is it?

[C]

Lane Brady.

[A]

I was going to say tormented and horrible.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, that's funny.

[A]

Horrid.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

That's such an awful name. Torrid.

[B]

It is.

[D]

I thought it was like a bitcoin company or something.

[A]

Could you imagine? You know, it's really funny. So the conspiracy theory. It's not even a conspiracy theory. Is that the Dove Real Beauty campaign. Dove is owned by Unilever, and Ben and Jerry's at the time was as well. So it's like, imagine you're an executive and you're like, let's put them all together. Well, like, women don't want to buy the ice cream because it makes them fat. And they were like, let's tell women it's okay to be fat. So they did, and that way they could boost both sales. And women got real fat and started pretending to like being fat when they really didn't know. And then they got. Then they said, this drug will make you not fat anymore. And all the men are.

[B]

All of them took it.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Because if you're investing that, if you're

[D]

Frito Lay, you own Cheetos, you own Doritos, you get the dust all over your fingers. They need to be buying up hand soap companies and then making the dust extra sticky.

[A]

I've seen that would be a flirt.

[C]

People that have, like, soaps for every part of your body. Really weird.

[D]

Oh, yeah. Well, so the classic trope where men will use a three in one, Right. Like the body wash. Mouthwash.

[A]

Well, there's that. You see the meme, and it was like. It was like 17 and 1, and it started. It starts to get gradually more unhinged.

[D]

Motor oil.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's like. It's like motor oil, nail polish remover, drain cleaner, embalming fluid.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

It's because. It's because guys don't actually care and women do. And so here's the point. When they do the men's shampoo, expecting men to buy it, it's going to be like a gray bottle, and it's going to say shampoo.

[B]

That's it.

[A]

But if they want women to buy it, it's going to say all these things.

[E]

Yep.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And the guy's gonna go, I don't know.

[B]

No, it's true.

[E]

I don't know anything about shampoo.

[A]

Yeah, Beard shampoo.

[B]

There you go.

[E]

Soap.

[D]

I remember they had a while. They had like. They call it, like, a Charcoal scrub. And you're like, whoa, I'm rubbing charcoal. First of all, it sounds weird. Why would you rub charcoal on yourself? Second of all, it was just little plastic flakes they were putting in the soap and they're like, that's the charcoal. And it's like, no, that's microplastic shit like smearing into your skin. The charcoal's like in the fluid.

[C]

There's a second there. They said it was good for your teeth.

[D]

Charcoal?

[C]

Charcoal, yeah.

[D]

Oh yeah.

[B]

I think it removes stains. I don't think it's like good for the teeth. It just makes it look better.

[D]

There was one guy on Twitter and he was selling like a charcoal tooth powder and someone tested it and had like an absurd amount of iron in it.

[B]

The only thing charcoal is actually good for your body is for gas. Gas. It, it dissolves gas or it absorbs it.

[D]

Like fart gas?

[B]

Yeah, like farts. Yeah, yeah. Bad guess it'll. Yeah.

[A]

I'm just sitting here like, look, look guys, we, we are on the forefront of all this news and everybody watching is as well. And we're at peak 18 year old. Universities are starting to go to business, companies are starting to close. They can't find cheap labor. So maybe like how do you invest in Optimus robots? That's going to be hot.

[E]

Tesla.

[A]

Oh really? That the Optimus Bot is through Tesla, not SpaceX?

[E]

Well, I guess, yeah, they're trying to merge them, but the reason they stopped

[A]

making the model S on SpaceX, I don't think it's gonna be like a billion dollars a share.

[D]

They won't let them.

[E]

They're gonna try to. The Tesla. They stopped making the Tesla Model S and I forget what other one. And the reason they're doing that is they're converting the production line into Optimus. They're making that the optimist production line.

[A]

If you could. If like check it out, Imagine the year is 1618 and some guy comes to you and he says, I have a great business opportunity for you to invest in right now. And you're, and you're like a British noble and you're like, well, you know, I'm all ears. Imagine if that man said to you, labor. What if you could own the production? The labor? I mean that's a no brainer. You'd buy as much as possible, wouldn't you? As right now Tesla's got these robots and there's a shortage of people. I think this is it. I think we should put everything into robots. You find a robot startup that's Rivaling Tesla with low cost humanoid robots for labor.

[B]

The good thing is they don't need insurance for the most part. They don't need Social Security.

[A]

Well, they do need insurance.

[B]

Well, they need insurance if you're going

[A]

to, if you're going to buy a 30. Right.

[B]

I'm not saying like health insurance.

[A]

Yeah. And you're legally allowed to demean them.

[B]

True.

[A]

It's going to be real work them, you know, like, have you guys played Beyond? Was it Detroit Beyond Human or whatever? No, a game from 10 years ago. It's like there's a bunch of androids everywhere, but then they become sentient and then have a revolution and it's like a choose your own adventure.

[B]

That's kind of interesting.

[A]

Yeah, I thought it was an actual video game and then I played it and it's like a movie with like, you know, choose your own adventure, whatever. But it's okay, whatever. It's a fun story. It's gonna happen. I think like something weird's gonna happen. You, you can't just have a bunch of robots doing all this labor because humans are going to abuse them in really messed up ways. And then sooner the, like the robots are going to revolt

[E]

maybe.

[A]

Well, the robots aren't going to revolt in the way that humans think they are. It's not going to be like a robot being like, please don't hurt me, I'm alive. It's going to be like you have caused damage to property.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Law enforcement has been informed. And then like law enforcement routes are going to come start beating them.

[E]

Then the, the law enforcement is going to be robots. They were. I've just watched.

[A]

Oh yeah, bro.

[E]

Yeah, I was just watching something on YouTube. There was a, a full engagement by the Ukrainian army that was on. Was all automated.

[C]

Right.

[E]

Like just robots with guns just heading towards the Russians.

[D]

Like the robot dog with the gun strap.

[E]

I think it was actually like a track vehicle. The robots won.

[B]

It was AI.

[E]

Well, they were. No, no, it was real. It was real. It was a full, full assault by, by fully by robot drones and, and ground robots. Sure.

[D]

Here's a summer offensive.

[E]

Yeah, you know, chat.

[D]

GPT response.

[E]

But like that, like that kind of like people say, oh, that's coming. It's here, man. Like I just, I just had a. So we're, I'm talking about putting out a new record and so we just took the deal from one of the, from one of the labels that we're talking to or one of the, the companies that we're talking to and I gave it to my lawyer, and I also put it into my AI and I said, tank, you know, review this and give me the points. He gave me the points and he gave me the, the list of things that he's like, blah, blah, blah, these are. Whatever. And I sent it off to my manager and my manager was like, holy, this can do this. Now I'm like, bro, it's been able to do it for, like, six months. Yeah, like, the whole, like, the amount of the, the, the things that AI can do right now. In fact, I just saw, and I might have said this yesterday, but I just saw that there was a, an operation on a gallbladder removal, not from a human, but from an animal gallbladder removal that was done by a robot. Now, it wasn't done by a robot. Like, it wasn't like a robot thing. It was a humanoid robot that worked the controls that a human normally does.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

And I was talking about this, too. Like, you're going to go and talk to a doctor and you can say, how many of these procedures have you done in your life? And he's going to be, you know, 50 years old or whatever. He's gonna be like, I've done 500, you know, of these specific procedures. And then you're going to go and you're going to talk to a robot that's been in service for 18 months. But there's, you know, 5,000 of them around the world, and they've all done so many. And they're going to say. And they, yeah, they all link. And they're going to say, well, we've done 362,000.

[B]

Which one are you going to pick or something, Right? Yeah.

[E]

Which one are you going to pick? You're going to pick the one that's done 360,000. You're going to. And everyone's going to go to robot doctors and stuff like that. In the future, there might be people that are overseeing them, but even now, doctors, they're taking their, their. They're taking X rays and they're looking at stuff and they're feeding it into AI and they're getting, you know, hey, this is probably what it is. And then obviously, humans in the loop, but that's only going to last for so long, you know.

[A]

So I was researching this a little while ago, and actually, the best investments, not advice for anybody, always say this because, you know, it's not my fault if you lose your money. Not Tesla or human robots. It's the, like the actuators.

[E]

Yep.

[A]

And the electric motors. So the companies that supply those to Tesla, Tesla is doing like the framing and the coating, but these companies that make the components are going to be selling to everyone.

[E]

Bearings. Yep, yep. Stuff like that, like the bearings for the motors and stuff like that. I actually just was looking at an ETF that has a bunch of companies that supply those types of things. I mean, in the gold rush, people didn't get rich off of gold. They got rich selling picks and shovels.

[D]

We should just pull like, we should pull like an all birds and just turn Tim Cass into a bearing manufacturing company.

[E]

I mean it doesn't sound particularly all birds, right.

[D]

They're just like, we're a data company now.

[E]

I don't remember what the name of the company, but I know, I know you're talking about they were a shoe company, right?

[D]

Yeah, it was. Now it's AI.

[E]

So they're just like. And as soon as they did that, their stock went through the roof.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

People that were just like, man, I thought I was getting kicks. And now it's like, now I'm in AI and I got, you know, my, my investment is. And think about, yeah, 10x, you know,

[B]

serious question for the people that are watching, like, what do you think the future of the world looks like? Like, this is not gonna change, right? Like we know that this is, this is gonna keep going this way with robots, with AI. Like do you think it's going to be maybe not legally, but more of a like socialistic like society where everyone's just kind of chilling, like you have robots to get the, to make the food, you have robots to cook the food and you're just, you're not working nearly maybe. Like, what are we gonna have a two day work week maybe?

[E]

No, I mean, so I personally think that robots and AI and stuff are going to actually increase productivity.

[B]

That's what I'm saying. So like you don't have to work as much. We're just.

[E]

Well, well, I mean, I think that there's going to be people that are still going to decide to work. Right. Like, so when labor saving machines came out, Europe decided they're going to go with the, with the free time that they provide in the United States, they decided they were going to double their, their productivity when the car came out. And the price of gas used to be, you know, prohibitive of people driving. When the price of gas dropped, people didn't, you know, save the money and drive like, drive the same amount. The amount of driving went through the roof. The, the size of vehicles increased, you think it's good.

[B]

You think we're going to do more stuff?

[E]

Yeah, we'll do more traveling, more, more

[B]

cooking, more helping, whatever it is.

[E]

Because the thing is, people will. And the world is going to change without a question. Right. The, the things that people do.

[A]

You know, one will have a podcast.

[E]

Yeah. 200, 200 years ago or 300 years ago, there weren't therapists right there, There weren't podcasters, you know, 50 years ago. But these jobs have been created because of the technologies. And I think that that's going to happen a lot. There's going to be a lot of new things.

[A]

Yeah. Taco Bell's gone.

[E]

One of the only jobs that's actually disappeared because of technology. And I'm sure there are probably more, but one of the, one of the very few that, that I know about is the elevator operator. Used to be where the guy would stand there.

[A]

There's a lot of jobs that are gone through technology. Like what, Archer? Like the guy that governments are no longer employing. Archers.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Or pikeman. Or phalanxes.

[E]

Yes,

[A]

Operator. How about that one?

[E]

But, but military. The military is still in existence.

[A]

How about. There's certainly novelty jobs, but like chariot driver.

[E]

Yes. Yeah. You know, the, the, the people that.

[A]

Carriage driver, whatever that job was called.

[C]

Chimney sweeps. At all?

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Oh, yeah, Absolutely. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

If you got a chimney, you need someone to sweep it. It can still catch on fire. The soot that gets on there, super, super flammable. But yeah. I personally think that there's going to be hound crier.

[A]

There's a lot of jobs that are

[B]

gone to wake people up.

[A]

Yeah, it's true. People, you'd hire people to come and they would, they would throw pebbles.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Because you used to have the paper route. Those people have Twitters. Now it's the same thing. Here's the news.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Paper boy's gone.

[D]

Oh, yeah. But they just became Twitter posters and now they're getting Twitter revenue. Hey, here's the news. And it's just me. Yeah, it's like that's.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

What about

[A]

bridge, toll operator? No, there's not at all.

[B]

It's very.

[A]

When was the last time you've seen a toll operator? Because now, now it's all told by plate.

[B]

Well, in Italy that you press the button and they talk to you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You go, you're in like an air conditioned space somewhere else.

[A]

Every, every toll I've gone through in the past 10 years has been either toll by plate or I pass.

[D]

No, I see to uppers is jersey and they like hand you like a punch card. Like.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

And like you go, go across the George Washington, you still got to talk to someone. Especially like if you're in a bus blackjack or something like that. That's gone.

[A]

So there's a lot of casinos that are starting to phase out physical blackjack tables and they're just putting in these robot blackjack tables.

[E]

Yeah. Okay.

[A]

Yeah. Thank you. But they're also doing, they have kiosks where there'll be one dealer for like 50 tables and then you. Everyone gets the same exact cards. It's, it's, it's pretty wild. Yeah, it's weird. Yeah. So if you choose to hit and someone else doesn't, then they'll just leave your hand as it is on the screen and then they'll pull another card out for all players. It's, it's like it's digital weird.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Of course there are still tables, but if you go to like, I think like Empire City Casino in New York doesn't have blackjack tables. Yeah. I'm pretty sure it's all just electric and it's just like some like, like PlayStation 1 graphics. Asian lady. No, that's not fair. It's PlayStation 3 at least.

[B]

least.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know what I do think though? What, what's. Believe it or not, what I think is going to happen. I think people already are starving for intimacy and I think it's going to become even more relevant. You know, I really do.

[E]

One, I was, I was talking to a guy just the other day about this. The, the way that people interact with AI and with chat with like even with chatgpt.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Right. You can actually have like a normal conversation with it. Once you close the, the context window, it goes away. But if you have like some kind of AI agent, like I've got an open claw agent at my house, you can have full on conversations with it and it, it today it feels real, feels like a person does and that's only, it's only going to get more like it's a little, in my opinion it's a little too complimentary and it's hypes you up.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[E]

And I've actually told my, my agent like look, don't BS me. Don't BS me.

[B]

Give me the truth.

[E]

Give me. Yeah, don't, don't do this. And it, it remembers that stuff. But that's part of the point. It remembers that when it's interacting with me, it doesn't BS me.

[D]

You know, it doesn't or it doesn't is if you're a man, you're asking for relationship advice. It's like, what are you doing? But if it's like a woman, you could literally be like, yeah, I just killed my husband. Be like, nice. He totally had that. Liberated yourself.

[A]

Oh, check this out. Check this out. We got. Here's a list of jobs that are gone. Lamp lighters.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

People used to walk around lighting gas lamps. Ice cutters.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Used to be a common thing. A ship would carry a gigantic block of ice covered in sawdust. They would deliver it into a basement in, like, New York. And then ice cutters would hack at it and then deliver ice. And the la. The ice would last all year.

[C]

You have to keep it underground.

[A]

Yeah, underground. Covered in sawdust.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And it would stay frozen for a long time. Buggy whip makers. Oh, yeah, People used to make buggy whips. Knocker ups. That's what you were talking about?

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

They come and they throw things. Farriers. These are blacksmiths for horses.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Telegraph operator.

[D]

Mobile mechanics.

[A]

Telegraph operators. Gone. Candle makers. Although that's not fair because people still do.

[E]

Like candles.

[A]

There's novelty. People still like candles. Either way, chimney sweeps are gone.

[E]

Down the street from my house.

[A]

There's no. There's no longer common chimney sweeps. It's now been lumped into general H VAC work. And it's very uncommon for people to.

[C]

Yeah, I was thinking about, like, when they send children down the scribes in England.

[D]

Yeah, scribes. They're still scribes.

[A]

The people who used to load the printing press letter by letter.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Let's see. Elevator operators, filter that. Switchboard operators.

[D]

Operators in New York.

[A]

Yo. Pin setters.

[E]

What's a pin setter?

[B]

Oh, the bowling alley. Yeah.

[E]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Well, there's still people that need to go back there and fix the machines, though, so I guess, you know, that's crazy.

[A]

Back in the day, when you'd go bowling, every time you'd throw the ball, a guy would have to put the pins up for you.

[C]

Whoa.

[D]

How you get, like, slow on.

[A]

You're like projectionists. Yeah, man.

[D]

Like, project your insecurities on you, man.

[A]

Linotype operators.

[D]

What's that?

[A]

Computer type setting.

[B]

Linotype is milkman. Milkman.

[A]

Yeah, the milkman. Oh, we got Oberweis. Is that still around?

[B]

I know. Type is a way of printing. It's like a. It's like carving into something. It's like, let's go. Like, if you want to print a

[A]

dick to phone operator, like, you could

[B]

print this I know what that is. Sketch it out. You would cut it.

[A]

Travel agents.

[D]

That makes sense.

[A]

Travel agents.

[E]

Travel agents are gone.

[D]

Yeah, they're gone, bro.

[A]

It used to be that if you want to book a flight, you had to go to an agency because they use the Saber system.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

And you wouldn't have access to any of that stuff. So you have to go to a person and say, how do I? Like, if you wanted to fly from New York to Hawaii, you'd go to an agent who's going to be like, let me figure out the flights for you that will get you to Cal. And then they'd be like, okay, so I got this travel plan here. When your flight's going to be. Here's where you have to get a car. Now you just go online and the airline does it all in one go. That's crazy. Oh, here's one. Blockbuster Video clerk.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Oh, well, there's still one left. Isn't there still one Blockbuster Video novelty or again.

[D]

Or something.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Let's see what else we got.

[B]

The smell of that place.

[A]

Tollbooth operators in here.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Because most. Most states have just done.

[D]

They have them in Jersey. I know for sure. In Jersey.

[A]

Yeah. But Jersey also, you're not. You're not allowed to pump your own gas.

[C]

That's crazy.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

I hate it.

[A]

It's communism. It's communism. They create fake jobs. Yeah, exactly. Fake jobs.

[B]

Jobs.

[D]

The red pill is like, large swaths of the military are a job.

[A]

Encyclopedia salesman, bro. That used to be a thing. Yeah, man.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Train signalmen. Oh, bro. Lighthouse keepers. I think there's.

[C]

They're gone, too.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

I wonder if they're actually. If these are. If this is a list of things that are totally gone or just things that are like.

[A]

Well, but let's be real. Like, candle maker used to be a very. Like a Chandler. It used to be a very, very, very common job. Now it's like an arts and crafts thing for, like, white liberal women who have time. Too much time on their hands.

[E]

Yes, well, there's still someone that runs the machine.

[B]

Piper Chapman, your hobby lobby.

[A]

To be fair, I don't think it's fair. I don't think it's fair to say candle makers are gone because there are factories that mass produce candles because people still want candles for intimate settings.

[B]

Right.

[A]

So I don't think that one's a luxury.

[B]

It's like a luxury or, you know.

[A]

You know what technology has made obsolete? Guitar players and singers no longer needed. Yeah, that's right.

[D]

Specifically for rock.

[A]

Yeah. More like metal.

[D]

Yeah, I'd say metal.

[A]

Yeah. Metal no longer necessary.

[D]

Yeah, Especially the ones that wear hats.

[B]

You know what the bad thing about that is? I feel like it's always going to be the. It's going to sound weird, but part of the beauty of music is that it's. Even when somebody is singing a song, it's always slightly different if it's live.

[A]

I hate that.

[B]

Really.

[A]

The worst thing in the world is like, there's a song that you like and the singer decides to change it.

[B]

No, I don't mean like that. I just mean even they might like, mess up a little bit. Not. I'm just saying like, it's. It's not perfect. That's part of.

[A]

What am I paying for, huh? Half assed job.

[D]

I hate.

[B]

No, I just hire a robot to say.

[A]

That's right.

[D]

I remember I was watching, I think it was MSNBC or something. And they were talking about when Jose Canseco did the national. National anthem. But he liked the little twist on it. And they were like, wasn't that crazy? Everyone booed him. I'm like, I would have been chirping him out of the stadium. You kidding me? Don't switch up the National.

[A]

I mean, every single time someone sings the national anthem, they do some weird flair. It's like, no, sing it.

[B]

I heard that.

[A]

Isn't the Star Spangled Banner a cover anyway? It's like a Weird Al version.

[B]

I don't know.

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

Well, I mean, yeah, like, Francis got key. Weird Al.

[D]

Most songs are set to like, British publishers tunes. So it's kind of redundant where they're like, oh, you know. It was originally a British pop tune. Like, like, every melody we know was like. Of course they came up with it somewhere. Probably drinking. That's like how ideas work.

[A]

Until recently, it was a popular British song. Let's see. It was originally. Yeah, it was the Anacreontic song.

[D]

But these things weren't like institutionalized. It was just like people would know the melody and then they put lyrics to the melody.

[B]

I have a question. So you will. You really would want, like, if there was. If there were two different people, if it was. If it would. What's your favorite band?

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

Pick one. All right, I'm just gonna say Aerosmith because that's. For some reason that came into my head. Steven Tyler. You can have a robot version of him sing the song in front of you. Or you can have actual Steven Tyler. Who would you.

[E]

So if you're.

[A]

Hold on Say I could have a robot. Steven Tyler.

[B]

Right.

[A]

And he'll do whatever I tell him

[B]

to do, like singing robot.

[A]

I'll tell you why. The robot will be inexpensive. I can choose the songs that I want and he can do a backflip.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I'd be like, I want to hear Dream on and I want you to do a backflip while singing it.

[B]

It's a great song.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

The reason I ask that is because currently that's not how the world works for the majority of things. Right. And let me explain, let me explain. When we're talking about music and art, it's different. Are you on my team or his team in this one?

[E]

Well, it depends.

[B]

I'll give an example. If I give you a Van Gogh painting, if I literally had the ability to make every single stroke, when I say every single stroke perfection, exactly the same as Vincent Van Gogh, which one do you think people will buy?

[E]

Well, people would buy the Van Gogh.

[B]

Why?

[E]

Because of the, because of the history with it.

[B]

But when you're talking the same exact

[E]

thing when you're talking definitely don't want

[D]

Van Gogh in my house.

[B]

It's the same exact thing. It's not about the history. History.

[E]

When you're talking, listen. When you're talking about live artists. Now the idea of not having perfection from the vast majority of your, your big acts, most of them are using Auto Tune live.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

They're playing to a click. And you know, if you're, you're talking about like the, the really top performers like Taylor Swift. When she's preparing for a tour, she doesn't just sing all the songs, she sings all of her songs on a treadmill.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

So she gets to the point where she, she's, she, yeah, she can do all the stuff when she's running.

[B]

Right.

[E]

So like you're talking about the top kind of. When you're talking about a list, top, top tier artists, they've got everything that you could possibly have working in their favor. You're probably not going to hear a bad note. Right. So now when you're talking about someone like Aerosmith. Yeah. They don't, they don't do that kind of stuff. They've been, they've been around long enough where they're like, no, we're just going to do it live and stuff like that. And there are still bands that do that. But when you're dealing with like the big pop stars and stuff like that, I mean, nowadays, Auto tune on vocals, live, like that's part of the show because they use that effect in their songs anyways.

[B]

So it's gonna sound too different. Then people are gonna be like, that's not even the same person. Right. That makes sense.

[A]

And it is.

[E]

And it's also worth noting that, like, when you've got. And I've said this before on the show, like, when you've got music that's being really released, that's literally perfect. Right? It's all on the grid, so it's all perfectly in time. Nobody does like a wreck or. Very few people do records that are like that have any feel anymore. And people get used to hearing that. When they hear things that are not on the grid, when they hear things that aren't perfectly tuned, they start saying, that just sounds bad.

[A]

Remember back in the day, if you want to record a song, they'd bring all the dudes into the studio room at the same time, balance the mics, and they would all play the song, actually play it in the studio live. And. And that's what the recording was.

[B]

Multiple takes. Yep.

[C]

Even the first time I recorded a song, I still played the guitar for my drummer to lay down. Like, the drums. I played it live for him to

[A]

set the click, bro.

[C]

It's over.

[A]

We're. We're a year away from AI generated complete movies. Not. Not even kid. We've been talking about it. AI music is already here. It's. It's done. I. I took Phil's song and I had, uh, Paramore sing it.

[E]

Yeah, it actually really sounded great.

[B]

It sounded good.

[A]

Two weeks, really. And then I loaded it into an AI and then I said make it female pop punk vocals. And because Hayley Williams is the, like, probably the most notable female. It just. I was saying this the other day that Amy Lee and Hayley Williams probably got to sue these AI companies because they're.

[B]

They're in their likeness.

[A]

It's. But if they were to sell it, it's inadvertent. And it's interesting to argue whether or not a voice is somebody's. But there's certain things about it you can tell because Amy Lee has billions upon billions of. Of streams and purchase and sales and songs. When you do that kind of like hard rock, gothic, rock, alt rock, female vocals, it always makes it Amy Lee. And if you do. If you do pop punk or pop rock, it always makes it Hayley Williams.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Interesting.

[A]

It's just because when. When the AI is training on this data, it's getting insane amounts of samples from these prominent artists, and it's making those. The voices.

[E]

If it's not training. It's not exclusively on those people. It's. It's training on people that are emulating them in there, you know, because they sound like similar.

[A]

You know, and there's nothing you do about it. Here's the thing. There. There. There are people who. Who are challenging these AI companies, saying, look, we're going to sue you for using our videos. It's transformative. It's fair use. 100%.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

And I'm not saying it's a good thing, but If I take 10 piece, 10 sounds from 10 pop artists and alter them, combine them, you cannot say that's your song anymore.

[B]

True.

[A]

You ever see how they made, you know the song Numb, I think by Linkin Park?

[B]

Yes, of course.

[A]

That. That. That violin intro was from a James Bond movie, and they reversed it.

[B]

I didn't know that.

[A]

Yeah. And then there was also a lawsuit that I think Skrillex was in, and then he showed how he transformed it, and it's not the same sound anymore. You can't claim ownership on it.

[E]

That was the Lincoln park thing you're talking about, right? From Lincoln Park.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

The.

[A]

The. The violin, they reverse it. Yeah. So when an AI takes all of these different pieces and makes a new song, even if it sounds like some of these other artists are songs, it's just transformative. It's literally what fair use is.

[B]

Yeah, but I was. I would disagree with you. When you're literally mimicking. Somebody's not mimicking. You're taking somebody's voice.

[A]

Nope.

[B]

AI.

[A]

If I. If I do an impression of Phil, can Phil sue me?

[B]

No. I would say that's different, but that's coming out of your mouth, and that's not what I.

[A]

That's not fair. If I take my guitar right now and I. And I tweak the EQ so that it sounds just like all that remains, can they sue me? No, you can't own that.

[B]

Yeah, it's tough.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

Well, didn't they.

[A]

Not only that, but some people naturally just sound like other people.

[E]

Yep.

[B]

Right.

[A]

What are you doing?

[B]

Right, right.

[A]

You sound too much like me.

[B]

Yeah. You can't. Yeah, that's. That's.

[A]

Nah, it's over, man. I'm gonna. I'm really excited for the AI movies because I'm gonna fix Star Wars. It's gonna be so amazing.

[B]

You're gonna make it more like Spaceballs.

[A]

No.

[C]

What?

[A]

I'm gonna fix them. I didn't say ruin them.

[B]

Some people would say that was fixing them.

[A]

No, like, you know, my. The one thing I'M the first thing I'm gonna fix is when Anakin is there with the. With Palpatine. And then he's like, help me, Anakin. I'm too weak. Please don't kill me. I just have Anakin stand there, be like, I ain't doing nothing. Like, this is crazy, bro. I'm not even. I'm not even a Jedi Master. You're.

[B]

You're.

[A]

You're the chancellor, and he's a Jedi Council guy. You deal with it yourself. And then Mace Windu just kills him, and then he's like, that's it. Although, to be fair, the. The Jedi Council were the bad guys, in my opinion.

[E]

They were the terrorists. Right?

[A]

No, the Jedi Council. There's a really great post where they were like the. In the movies, there's slavery, corruption. The. The Trade Federation invades a planet and kidnaps their leaders. And the Jedi Council, sitting on their fat asses, soaking in all the wealth of Coruscant, being like, I ain't doing nothing about it. Send somebody else. Like, they were awful bureaucrats who never did their jobs. I'm not saying Palpatine was a good guy either, but holy crap, look at what happened.

[D]

You know, he's kind of like Assad. It's like he's a stabilizing force. Vacuum is much worse. You know, you got to deal with it.

[A]

Exactly.

[D]

Okay. Blew up Alderaan. Okay. Big deal. Where were they?

[A]

Nobody liked Alderaan.

[D]

Yeah. Seriously.

[A]

It was. The whole planet was a city anyway.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like there's any. It was. It was. It was. Climate was bad for, you know, climate change or whatever. You know, carbon emissions.

[D]

Yeah. I'm focused on. Course on first. I'm not worried about what's going on. Let them handle their own affairs.

[A]

It's like the only thing bad the Empire's ever been shown to do in the original series.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Is just blow up a planet.

[E]

Everything is just implied. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. And then they decided with all the new movies, like, we have to show the Empire doing bad things.

[D]

Yeah. They're like.

[A]

But in.

[B]

And.

[A]

Or they really nailed it.

[D]

See, the teddy bears are attacking them, so they must be the bad guys. It's like, I don't know. I don't think I get along with the Ewoks very well.

[A]

I'm really. I'm really mad about Star wars, and I think we should be allowed to retcon everything that is bad. So, like the mcu the past six years, we should be allowed to say no, Boruto. Right. For those who don't know that's the continuation of Naruto gone just now. Kishimoto. It's. That's not. Never happened. Like, they did. They did this with Dragon Ball gt. In fact, after Dragon Ball Z, they made gt and everyone's like, let's just stop and erase that. It never happened. And then they created a new series that pretends as though that never happened. And we all agree that never happened.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Dragon. Dragon Ball GT is not a thing. I don't. You're talking about.

[B]

I never heard of it.

[E]

Not canon.

[A]

No. I mean, it is in its own

[D]

weird way, but it's like Mormonism, I guess.

[A]

I think it was still made by Akira Toriyama. But they, like. I don't know. It's like 15 years ago, they were like, let's just pretend that whole thing we did in the 90s never happened and then just do a new series where people actually liked the show. And I say that's true for Star wars because when you think about it, like, there's a funny post where someone wrote, han Solo is like, the Darth Vader must think Han Solo is the most badass guy in the universe, because just think about it, he shows up in Cloud City with his son, his daughter, his, like the. The. The. The. The Wookiee that fought him on some planet. He's got the droid that he built as a kid, as well as the R2 unit that was used by Obi Wan. Like, who is this guy?

[D]

Yeah, a lot of.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And he was Indiana Jones.

[A]

That's true.

[D]

And the guy in Blade Runner.

[A]

Star wars is just a broken hodgepodge disaster with lesbian space witches.

[D]

And he escaped prison in Chicago and then like, somehow stayed in Chicago and then found the guy that killed his wife. Like, he's done everything.

[A]

Can we just. Can we all agree that Star wars is dead?

[B]

You want to laugh? I've actually never seen the movies.

[A]

Any of them. Well, so.

[B]

So what happens is I don't really see any movies. I don't watch tv.

[A]

You're gonna like this, though. They. They.

[E]

You know.

[A]

But you know what the Force is, right?

[B]

Of course.

[A]

Yeah. Use the Force. And he's like telekinesis or whatever. So they decided a few years ago to explain the Force and it's. Lesbian space witches created. It's not a joke.

[B]

That's what they said.

[A]

Yeah. A bunch of concepts. It's not a joke. This is literally. Yeah. A bunch of lesbian witches came together and, like, chanted and, like, created.

[B]

That's what created the Force.

[A]

Something like that.

[B]

Yeah. Serious.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Back in the 70s, a show called

[A]

the Acolyte and they were like the forces. Female.

[E]

Yeah. You know, that's all like new Star

[A]

wars stuff and that's where. Well, it must be real. Like midichlorians.

[E]

Well that, I mean that was.

[A]

You've got tiny cells in your body. Midichlorians. And that was very many of them.

[E]

That was way less bad than the. The witches created the force.

[A]

How come everything became after the 2000s like.

[E]

Well, that was in 1998, so.

[A]

No, I know. And that was fine. Like the prequels were kind of just like, eh. You know.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

They kind of. They kind of lost the adventure.

[B]

The best childhood we had all.

[A]

What was it?

[B]

Everything.

[A]

I think it was like George Lucas was saying that of the prequels, he was making it for children.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

And so in the 70s when he made Star wars, it was for the children then. And what. And then in the late 90s and early 2000s, he was like, what children want now is hero action stuff.

[B]

Right.

[A]

So that's what we're doing. And they, they, they. They should have never made the Phantom Menace. That was deeply offensive. But you know, we'll give him a pass. I also love. There's a post where it's like. Because in Revenge of the Sith, Anakin meets Grievous for the first time in the Clone wars series, the writers had to twist themselves in a knots to make sure Anakin never met the protect. Like the, the antagonist of the whole series.

[E]

Oops.

[D]

I mean, Gen Z. Gen Z could have been 60, 70% LGBT if it weren't for Natalie Portman in those movies though.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Portman did a lot for heterosexuality.

[E]

She looked great. She still looks.

[B]

He said that. Did a lot.

[D]

She's like our Harvey Milk in a lot of ways. You think about it, what she had.

[A]

She had a child lover maybe.

[B]

I don't know, somebody. I said that to somebody in Hollywood Pride and they got pissed about Harvey

[A]

milk having a 16 year old milk in his name.

[E]

They're trying to change the name of the USS Harvey Monk, I think.

[B]

Really?

[E]

Yeah. They're going to change the name of the ship. Yeah.

[A]

Trump is.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, let's talk about. They're going to give all the soldiers testosterone.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

I like that story.

[E]

We are. That's the first step towards Steve Rogers. We're going to have every soldier, Captain

[A]

America dudes, jacked up on tea, all like ripped and angry.

[E]

I want to fight. I tell you what, there's a. There's already a Lot of dudes in the military that are juicing.

[D]

So, yeah, we won't even give them guns. Those rounds are punching. All the Iranians be awesome.

[E]

I mean, look, if, if I understand correctly, the. They're going to be testing everyone's testosterone level, and if you have like a deficiency, that's, that's how it's going to start. But it's not going to be very long until they're just like, all right,

[B]

give it to everybody.

[E]

No, no.

[A]

You know, honestly, I think there's actually a really simple reason why. I think there's a really simple reason why dudes are low T. And it's because we don't carry. We don't carry things anymore. And it's not a joke. It used to be up to 100 and something years ago, you're on a farm. You lift big bags physically.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And, and, and what is it? Muscle resistance. And like strength training generates. It makes your body produce testosterone. So now we got a bunch of these weak soy boys. Like the. Remember the try guys on Buzzfeed?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Like 10 years ago. This is the ancient magic from the Internet. Embarrassing old lore, but they, they were like, we're gonna get our testosterone levels checked. And they weren't even surprised or scared.

[D]

It was like a five year old girl's testosterone.

[A]

It was 80 year old men. These guys, what was it, like 200 or something? And they were like, look at that. And I'm like, bro, if I'm surprised, the producers like, guys, we can't air this. You need medical intervention. Yeah, something's wrong. Yeah, like, you are dying. Do you have kneecaps? Like, are. Is your. Did your body develop normally? You're lacking hormones?

[B]

You don't think it's because of the food stuff also?

[A]

No, no.

[E]

I mean, look, the best way to naturally increase your testosterone is a squat. Heavy squats.

[A]

Let me, let me, let me ask you boys serious question. Let me. Phil, how many push ups you done today?

[E]

I did legs today.

[A]

You did likes today. Okay, how many squats you do today?

[E]

I was doing. I did goblet squats. I did like 50. I did, I did lunges.

[A]

I asked you first, cuz I know that you work out regularly.

[E]

Yeah, I did lunges, I did extensions.

[A]

1.

[D]

Yeah, I was laying on the floor earlier.

[A]

So you just pushed yourself up? I did, I did 30 push ups. He said, I just, I didn't, I didn't do anything intense. If I'm not skating, then I'll try to just mix in some push ups randomly. Yeah, you Just got to do it. You just got to do it. And like, if I'm not working out, I'll just. If I'm like, you know what? Look, I got 15 seconds. Let's just get some, get some, get some strength in there.

[E]

Chest on. Monday, I did legs today. I don't think I'm gonna be able to get to the gym tomorrow. I did, and I did a half an hour cardio and an already hour.

[A]

Monday is skateboarding, so it's. It's legs. Tuesday, I'll do some, you know, I'll do a little bit upper body. Wednesday, I eat mushrooms, punch bricks, and jump on turtles.

[E]

There you go.

[A]

Thursday, it's back to skateboarding again.

[E]

Good stuff.

[D]

Respect that. Yeah, that's a good routine.

[A]

We have a lot of turtles around here. And so you jump on them once and then you can kick them.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

And they go flying and they'll. But you gotta be careful because they'll bounce back at you.

[D]

It's a West Virginia thing. It is a West Virginia panhandle. It's a panel.

[A]

It's like Super Mario.

[D]

Very similar.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I'm just loving that. It is kind of crazy, though, that there's probably something to the food or plastics.

[B]

That's what everybody's been saying, but I don't know.

[A]

No, I. I do think so, because we wouldn't need to give our military members testosterone if that wasn't the case, because they do PT and so they're.

[B]

They're right. Exactly. Yeah. And they're getting, they're constantly getting that workout on.

[E]

Yeah, well, I mean, look, I. If you take testosterone, it does help recovery time, you know, for damaged muscles and stuff. I don't think there's a problem. Look, everybody loves to, to. Not everybody. People on the left are perfectly fine with birth control. Some people on the right are. People on the, on the left are perfectly fine with, you know, all kinds of hormones. For trans people and stuff, the idea that it's a problem for men to take testosterone when they're in a. When they're in the military, if you're, Especially if you're like talking about, like infantry guys or whatever, you want those people to be able to have as, you know, the fastest recovery you can. They, they. They give them all kinds of. What's it called? They give them all kinds of caffeine stuff to stay awake. Giving them testosterone to help recovery time and help build muscle, that's a, That's a no brainer in my opinion, you know, or not even giving Them allowing them the option. Right. Like, because you're not forced. So just saying, okay, if you want, you can go get tested and if you want to get testosterone replacement, it's fine.

[A]

Nah, they should, it should be mandatory. I mean, they. No, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not joking. They give these guys crazy shots all the time. And testosterone is the, is not a crazy vaccine that's going to kill. If you are low T, they should tell you, you're in the military. We are prescribing this for you. It's good for you. We're not. They're not, they're not mandating you get some like, crazy untested vaccine or something.

[B]

Right, Right.

[E]

Yeah. I mean, like I said, there's a lot of dudes, especially the guys.

[A]

The reason I say this, though, is because there's going to be some like, scrawny, soy boy guy feminist who's gonna be like, I don't want it. And as soon as you give him that one shot, he's gonna be like, Trump.

[E]

Yeah. Well, I mean, it does, it does make you more tend to like, it

[A]

makes you vote Trump. It just does.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

This is what the liberals don't understand is that the moment your T levels go up, you're just like, I just must vote Trump. Yeah, you just got to vote for Trump.

[E]

It literally does make people more right leaning. It's true.

[A]

Lifting weights makes people right wing just really. Because of testosterone.

[E]

Testosterone.

[A]

Because, you know, you know, it just makes you not like, you know, you know, it is, I think, I mean,

[B]

that makes a lot of sense. If you look at the queer community, not the gay community, queer.

[A]

But. But there's a couple things to it. If you're someone who's willing to do the work to improve yourself, you are not going to be persuaded by somebody who's like, but I don't want to do work.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Everybody else handle it for you.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[E]

Testosterone does have the effect to lower neuroticism a little bit.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So, you know, and it makes you euphoric. It makes depression go away. That's why I said men don't need therapy. They need to lift heavy things.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

And then all the feminists get really angry and then they start yelling at me. They were really yelling at Phil.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

And then I just agreed with them. And then they attached my name to it for SEO.

[E]

So it's, it's good to get out and exercise. It's good for your body, it's good for your mental health. You know, I Mean it. This isn't like some kind of, you know, secret knowledge. Like, everybody knows, go touch grass, go take a walk, go do things and get some sun.

[A]

Get a runner's high.

[E]

Yeah. Like, these kind of things are good for you. This isn't something, you know.

[A]

You know what I recommend? Because if you're not a. If you're not a long distance runner, you can't run great distances. It's not super easy. But ride your bike.

[B]

Very good, bro.

[A]

I used to. I used to ride my bike from Brooklyn to Manhattan when I used to work for Fusion. And so it was probably like a five mile ride, but up the bridge, I just would not stop. And by the time it was just painful, out of breath, pushing. And then when you get to the top, it's just like you're.

[E]

You're.

[A]

You're high.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Literally whacked out of your mind.

[E]

You're like, oh, and another thing about. Another thing about going to the gym and exercising and stuff is like, there's a lot of people that. That as soon as they feel some kind of, you know, stress, as soon as things get a little hard, they're like, oh. And it's like your body, when you're, like, trying, you're like at like 40%, you've got a whole lot more in the tank. Discomfort is where you start actually making progress. And that's the same whether you're trying to learn an instrument, like playing guitar or playing piano or whatever, or if you're lifting weights or whatever. Discomfort is where you actually start making changes. If you're not dis. If you're not uncomfortable, you're not doing that.

[B]

You're not. You're not getting those. What are they called? The little ripples?

[E]

Yeah, they make little tears.

[A]

You know what we should do? Here's an idea. We should have a national program for, like, morning calisthenics. And then everybody can wake up and at like 6am it's like, all right, everybody, we're gonna do like deep knee bends and squats, and we can put cameras in everybody's homes and then a screen where they can see Trump's face as he tells them what to do. And we film them to make sure they do it. And if they don't, they get sent to a re education center.

[D]

I think that's great.

[C]

We can weld them into their apartment or something.

[D]

Finally put those flock cameras to use. That'd be nice.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Weld them into their apartment.

[D]

Yeah, it's a. I think it's a great Idea.

[A]

And like, the only thing we gotta watch out for, though is like a woman in a. In a. In a day go with a sledgehammer who might run in and throw the sledgehammer at the tv.

[E]

Yeah, that.

[A]

Everyone's watching Smash it. I mean, how rude was that?

[D]

That was so rude of her.

[E]

It's a terrible commercial.

[A]

Everybody was watching that, that, that show. She comes in, she's like, I don't want you to watch it.

[D]

It was like locked in.

[A]

What if. What if you were sitting at home, like all your friends are watching Tim Cast irl and some, like, lady came in. Just throw a hammer your tv.

[D]

You're like a World cup watch party in the final 90th minute penalty. And then all of a sudden, just lady comes up with a sledge.

[A]

So let's do this. Let's do this. Before we go to the. So this is the calcium prediction markets. I got my. I'm for Argentina and I'm going to tell you why. So Cal, she's got Spain at 57.7. Argentina's at 42.2. But see, the thing is, South America is America Junior, and that's more America than Europe. And, you know, screw Europe. So Spain, Spain's popular. Argentina.

[E]

Spain's got a lot of communism is.

[D]

Look up Leo Messi. Yamin Lamal.

[C]

What is that?

[D]

Lamina Mall. That's. So that's Spain's star player. Yeah, like 19 years old.

[A]

Oh, right, right.

[D]

He's 39. And there's a picture from 2007 from a UNESCO photo shoot. Bathing.

[B]

That's crazy.

[D]

Lamini Mall.

[A]

What's the guy's name?

[D]

Lamine. L A I L L A M

[A]

I N E. Oh, yeah, I see it. What? Him holding him as a baby.

[D]

Yeah, There's a picture of him bathing him as a baby.

[E]

What?

[D]

And now he's.

[A]

We live in a simulation.

[D]

Spain, star player.

[A]

It's here somewhere. This is what?

[D]

Yeah. So that's that.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[D]

Baby is now Spain's star player. He's there.

[A]

Is it like that by Messi having touched him, he transferred part of his powers to him.

[D]

So people think. I mean, it's like that's what people think.

[B]

I'm sure there's a lot of people that do think that.

[A]

Why? Who is this baby? And why was Messi bathing him?

[B]

That's also weird.

[D]

So it was. Yes, it was a UNESCO photo shoot. Messi is the star player of Barcelona. So they put like a drawing out, like a raffle. They said, hey, if you have a baby In Barcelona, if you win this raffle, he can be in a photo shoot with Messi and it'll be this fun thing he can grow up looking at. Well, it turned out that player is now the star player for Barcelona and Spain's star player.

[C]

I would have said a bathing photo.

[B]

I'm saying it's just a.

[D]

It's a weird something UNESCO related. But yeah, that's him now. Well grown.

[A]

I wonder if what actually happened is that he stole Messi's essence. Like, like from X Men.

[D]

Borrowed it.

[C]

Borrowed?

[A]

No, I keep it forever.

[D]

Well, I guess we'll see who wins and then we'll know.

[A]

But I, I don't. You know, I was rooting for Argentina today against England, because England is the oppressive monarchy and Argentina is the rebellious

[D]

former colony rabble rousing gauchos.

[A]

And I'm not going to root for Europe. Right. Monroe Doctrine. No, they got $1 billion wagered on this. Wow.

[E]

Wow.

[B]

That's not surprising. Isn't it the most popular sport in the world?

[A]

Of course it is.

[B]

Right? Yeah, of course.

[D]

I know. We'll have an estimated look at this.

[A]

$1.2 billion.

[D]

So that means during this game, half of the world, Argentina watching the game.

[A]

Yeah, Argentina's gonna win. I got proof. You ready for this? I got proof. Right? Here you go. Oh, can we actually get the image to pop?

[C]

There you go.

[A]

Here's proof. See, Brazil won, Italy won. Spain, Germany, France, Argentina in 2022. And it says 2026, Argentina is going to win. And if they got the rest of them right, that proves it. And then also Spain will win in 2030. But 2030, 2034, 38 and 42 will be canceled due to nuclear explosion tanks. And then there may not be a world. And then the Iberian Union wins in 46, Southern cone in 2050, Greater Germany, 2054, the Netherlands win three World Cups in a row.

[D]

They have a good streak.

[A]

You go Slavia in 2082. They're still around, apparently. Greater Persia in 2094.

[B]

Oh, they make a comeback. Okay.

[A]

It is for this reason that I'm going to be placing my bet on Argentina to win.

[D]

I might just go for the parlay and hit every single one.

[A]

Yes. Maybe by 2100 you'll have made 78 trillion.

[D]

Inherit my parlay.

[E]

I'm going to put some money on Greater Persia right now.

[A]

But who are you guys rooting for?

[E]

Argentina.

[A]

Yeah, Argentina. Look, South America's America junior. And it's melee, you know what I mean?

[E]

Spain is actually communist.

[D]

Yeah, I just, I like do you think I like great men? I like greatness. I want to see Messi be great. I want to see him win. I mean, like, you know, I was pulling for England, but it's messy. I mean, it's just one of those things you like to see great men excel. It's just. It's just enthralling.

[B]

Do you think if Argentina wins, Messi. Not Messi. Melee will go to Spain.

[A]

They'll all yell together.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Be great.

[A]

I got. I got. I got my. My bet on Argentina.

[E]

Your prediction?

[D]

It is pretty funny. Like, the two widest countries or widest teams in the tournament ended up in the final.

[A]

I felt bad for England today, though, because. Who was the dude who scored the goal for England?

[D]

Anthony Gordon.

[A]

You see, he was, like, almost crying.

[D]

Yeah. He's super young. He actually just signed for Barcelona, too.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

Englishmen rarely leave the English leagues.

[A]

Well, you know, he. He got him a goal, and they. They wasted it.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Although, to be fair, I. You know, my argument is Argentina was just. We just giving them false hope. They're just. They were screwing Argentina.

[D]

Like, they keep winning at, like, the very end of the game. Like, they.

[A]

It was amazing, dude. What was it? It was, like, 88 minutes in, and I left here.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And I went home. And then I. I walk in and I turn the TV on, and right when they score the goal, and I'm like, yelling like, let's go. My wife was like, what are you yelling about? I'm like, argentina. And then she started laughing, like, why do you care about soccer? And I'm like, because it's America junior. South America's America junior. South America is America. As far as I'm concerned, when it comes to Europe, it's. The way it goes is I might fight with my siblings, but if you insult my sibling, now I'm gonna fight with you. Because blood, you know, blood is thicker than water. Right? So, Argentina, I'm rooting for America against all the teams. But then now it's Europe versus South America. I'm. You got America in your name.

[C]

You're.

[E]

You're America. That's right.

[A]

Unless you're trying to come illegally through the border, then get out.

[D]

I. It's so annoying when Argentinians. When you're like, I'm American, they're like, I'm American means everyone from the Americas.

[A]

They always do this.

[E]

Everybody in South America.

[B]

We know you. We know you.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Weird.

[D]

Okay, then be, like, the world's greatest country ever.

[E]

And there was. You can say that there was some Mexican Guy that was waving the Mexican flag and some at one of the protests and someone said something like, you know, why, why, why are you trying to be in America? He's like, well, we're from America. One America, North America and South America. One America. North America. One of my. No, no, no. Yeah, it's not the United States.

[D]

The hedge is a little tighter this time. You know, the little too.

[E]

You know, the United States of America is the only America. The continent of North America and the continent of South America have a very wide diversity of populations and countries.

[D]

Oh, nuke a few, you know, drop a few nukes, go to the moon and then we'll have a conversation. Conversation.

[E]

Just get. I mean, just get into outer space.

[A]

Don't exist. And the moon doesn't exist either.

[D]

It's true.

[E]

Okay. Shane Cashman.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I wanna.

[E]

There.

[A]

Who's that? That we're talking about this guy that flat Earth guys. Like, he gets a lot of attention. I wanna. I wanna sit down with that guy. That'd be great. He thinks the earth is.

[D]

There's a lot of them.

[E]

He says.

[A]

Yeah, but there's one guy who's got like the best videos because they're actually funny.

[C]

You know what his name is?

[A]

Nah. I'll figure it out though. It's probably not too hard.

[E]

I knew it yesterday.

[C]

Yeah, I remember. You were talking about it.

[A]

Yeah, but let's. Let's grab your Rumble rants and super chats so we'll smash. And don't forget to smash the like button. Share the show, subscribe, you know all that stuff. Uncensored portion. Coming [e-mail] Timcast Iro. All right, let's see, we got here, we got Thinker for life says there's no such thing as normal gay. This is what I call boiling frog branding to shift perception. It's against God's design and it's an abomination, which is worse than average sin we all contend with.

[B]

You want me to answer that?

[A]

Yeah, sure, if you want to.

[B]

I can. I mean then, then how do you. How do you contest the fact that there's like homosexuality over 500 animal species?

[A]

Well, I guess.

[B]

I guess God's design too.

[A]

But their argument is you have choice not to act upon it.

[B]

So do animals.

[D]

But animals don't. Animals eat.

[B]

Their.

[D]

Animals eat their young too.

[A]

And their poo.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Animals eat their own poo.

[B]

They. They have choice. They have. It's not like that's only other males.

[A]

Yeah, but humans, I mean, look, I'll be honest. Like, I don't care if a dog does what a dog. I don't care. I don't care if you or a human does whatever. Just, you know.

[D]

So I have different expectations for humans and animals.

[A]

I went to the zoo when I was in sixth grade, and my teacher brought us all up to the baboon. And, like, you could look over the. There's like a railing, and you look down the baboons, and one of the baboons was shoving his finger up his butt, pulling poop out and then sniffing it. And she was like, stop, stop, kids, get away. And we were all laughing.

[D]

Yeah, that's just animal. I mean, they don't have agency. They're just animals.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

And then he. And then he took his finger and he sniffed it and then he smeared it on the ground.

[D]

Kind of patriot. I respect that. I respect that.

[C]

Chungus, if you will.

[E]

Does that qualify for wholesome chungus?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Answer the. To answer the question, when I say normal gay, it means not a woke queer communist activist, just a regular old school. All right, I'm just homosexual. Doesn't affect my politics.

[A]

Let's go. We got C. John. Security says she wasn't using her car as a weapon. So he wasn't. So he was using his car as a weapon. But come on. He's allowed to use a car as a weapon. Running over feds with a good. And you're a bigot for disagreeing. Wait, what?

[E]

I, I.

[D]

What the hell that an attack or a defense of the.

[A]

I have no idea.

[D]

Yeah, I am. I, I just, like, couldn't care less about this latest spree of ICE incidents.

[A]

Like, apparently the left doesn't either because they're not even rioting.

[D]

I know. I just, like, every time I see ICE killed someone, I'm like, all right, well, she's probably crazy. Or he was probably crazy. Like, I just don't. I don't even like. Because the first the Renee good. We were doing, like, the instant replay. Like, oh, the tire moved there. Now I'm just like, who cares?

[B]

It's become the thing.

[D]

Cares. Yeah.

[A]

It's not. It's not just that. Literally nobody cares.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I go online and people are like,

[D]

even like, the Democrats are like, they're just like, they're phoning it in. They're like, yeah, this is so evil. Anyway.

[A]

I think, I think people are burned out. I think.

[B]

I think they got what they needed to out of it at the time, and now they have to move on.

[A]

They. They. Well, it's not just that. That politic everything in politics has been shocked to the point where, like, our nerves are fried.

[B]

Yeah. They got whatever they, whatever shock value they got out of it, whatever. Whatever wiggle room they could use to leverage their. What they believe instead of, you know, Republicans, they used it. Now they have to move into something else.

[E]

Yeah. I think that the, the fact that political division has been so intense for so long, I think people are kind of burnt out on it.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[E]

You know, the, the left doesn't have the, the same kind of, you know, fire that they used to. And the average person doesn't care. Right. They. They really it. In 2020, after the George Floyd thing, like, the average people, your average non politically aware people kind of were like, oh, this seems terrible.

[B]

Right. And then everywhere, it was literally in people's faces.

[E]

Yeah. And then after Covid and stuff, people were just like, I don't have the energy for it anymore. You know, it's like Trump got reelected. And then everyone's like, okay, we can kind of breathe. We know what to expect from him. You know, he's going to be a little bit weird. But even the way that, that the left, you know, treats Trump, it used to be everything he did was a catastrophe, you know, and now they, you know, if.

[B]

Well, because their ratings were dropping because people knew they were lying. So now they have to at least be like 50% accurate for them.

[E]

Well, there's been changes at. There's been a lot of changes in the, in the leadership of these places, but I still feel like, you know, there's only a handful of really committed pundits out there that are like, oh, my gosh, don't.

[B]

They're getting fired.

[E]

The joy of the world and people are. Yeah, exactly. They've lost their jobs. There are people, aren't. People just don't react to their stuff the same way they used to. So here we go.

[A]

Token MAGA says, remember in Overwatch, one of the story points was the liberals protesting and rioting for the right to be robosexuals. We are going to have robot marriage. Not a joke.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

There's going to be humanoid robots that are indistinguishable for the most. I think we're still a long way from being indistinguishable, but speech wise, getting the point to where the, the movements look like an actual human is tough, but in terms of speech patterns and everything, it's going to be indistinguishable within a few years. And then people are gonna be like, I want to marry a robot.

[E]

I think five years on the movement.

[B]

Really? That's it?

[E]

Yep. Have you seen the new hand that they just, just released? Yeah, it looks, it's crazy. The, the most of the motors are in the forearm, similar to a human being. And it's got like, like almost this. It's got like 25. Like the human hand has like 27 degrees of, of articulation and this has like 25. They, they showed it screwing in a light bulb and then they broke the light bulb to show. To prove that it was a real light bulb. And I think that it's, it's just, just a few years away from, from being movement like a person. Actually, not just movement like a person. It where they will be able to move like a person if they want. But like Elon Musk was predicting, look, at some point in the very near future, you're gonna need a strobe light to see these things because they're going to move so fast. And that's probably true. You know, I mean, you like flying drones, they are so fast. Now just like you watch some of the videos from Ukraine, how fast they come in. Like, people talk about, oh, I'll shoot them down with a shotgun. No you won't. No, you will.

[B]

Not so fast.

[E]

You know, they're, they're the, the capabilities of machines. It's, it's going to be completely. People are totally unaware and they're totally unprepared for it. Like I said, I just impressed the crap out of my manager because my AI agent went through a contract and found all these points was like, hey, this is actually really, really, really good, you know, so.

[A]

Yeah, but then you still need a human to go through to make sure the. I didn't.

[E]

Oh yeah, my, my lawyer is going to go through it. But that's all, that's, that's only a matter of time. And it depends on what kind of contract. Right. If you're, if someone's offering you a kind of deal, like a deal like a record deal or whatever. Yeah. Now you want to have a regular lawyer look at it, but in two or three years, not going to need it. You're gonna, the AI is going to be so good because it's your option to sign or not just be like, you know, you don't have to have. There's not someone else involved in it. If you sign it, you sign it. So all you, all you do is you say, these are the things that I want to make sure are in there. These are the things that I don't, I want to make sure aren't in there. Take a look at it. And if the AI says it's good, okay.

[B]

Right.

[E]

You know, and that's going to be. You know, lawyers are like either.

[B]

That's probably their least far. I feel like that's lawyers least favorite parts of the job anyway though it is probably contract. Yeah.

[A]

Like I don't know what's the most fun part of the job? Lying.

[E]

Maybe collecting the 250 an hour fee. Yeah, 250 it's way depends on your lawyer.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

All right, we got our sergeant says. I've been having nightmares about the movie Bicentennial Man. One day robots will be considered human. If you have not seen this Robin Williams movie, y' all should check it out. It's really good. The reason why I don't agree is because they're gonna be networked. So a lot of these movies they envision a. An Android that is a singular entity. All of these machines though are going to be hive mind like the Borg. So they're not going to be a singular human. Yeah, they might pretend to be. It's like that, that show Pluribus. You guys see that one?

[C]

Not yet.

[A]

It's the one where all humans get hive minded by a virus.

[C]

Oh yeah.

[A]

And there's like a few people who aren't.

[B]

But do they pretend to not be?

[A]

No, no. The hive mind like basically just says we'll do anything for you. And it's trying to figure out how to infect them.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And then there's one dude who's just like. Because they're all hive minded and they'll do whatever he says. He's just banging all these women.

[B]

Oh gosh.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Well that's, that's. That makes sense.

[A]

Let's see what we got here. Our sergeant says my grandpa invented the layover. Everything was direct flight prior.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

Shout out to your grandfather.

[B]

Really? That's kind of cool.

[D]

I love the layout.

[C]

Kind of a bummer though.

[D]

Layover is great.

[B]

The layover could get good. Better food.

[D]

I just. When you're on a super long flight, I kind of like breaking it up.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And then it's like, it's like a. Like.

[C]

I don't know, man. It's like it's flying.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Your second plane's not taken.

[D]

Because I'm never in a rush, you know, I'm just enjoying life. Stopping some of the roses. It's like halftime. You get to go out to the the hallway and get your drink and soda and go back in for the second half.

[E]

It's great worst part about flying is. Is getting on the plane. So no.

[D]

Domestic layovers are the worst. Okay. There's things that are worse than that, but like dying.

[A]

Let's see. Thrust says. Yeah, them homes are abandoned because Japanese ghosts are crazy. Have you guys ever read or watched the Gingi Ito stuff?

[E]

No.

[A]

It is the best horror ever. It's the best.

[C]

We were looking at those homes. It reminded me of the Grudge.

[B]

I was gonna say scary movie when the little Japanese guys on top of the stairs.

[C]

Right.

[B]

Tamagotchi. Konnichiwa.

[A]

I recommend you guys, if you're ever looking for good horror, to check out the Ginger Ito stuff. Yeah, it's. We actually have a bunch of them somewhere, actually. They might be up there. They're on the bookshelf at the castle before we came here, because I had all of them, and they're amazing. Yeah, there's. There's a lot of short stories, and it's just really creepy. Good original horror stuff. And then the Netflix and Amazon has. They both have. They both have animated versions. Yeah, just good creepy. Creepy good horror, you know?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Recommend it. All right, let's see. We got here. Zigrat says I'd moved to Japan if. If I could own my guns. Still, those prices are awesome. Yeah, I don't think you can have your guns.

[B]

Oh.

[E]

Firearms only.

[C]

Yakuza.

[D]

Not much going on.

[A]

That's the thing.

[B]

It's like the lowest.

[A]

Yeah, but. But the Yakuza, like, I like the mob. I wish. I wish the mob was back. I wish we had mafia.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, what's the worst thing they did? Gambled.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They ran Vegas.

[C]

Sure.

[A]

In Japan, you whacked a guy off, the guy whacked off a guy.

[B]

They took it. The majority of them took care of the things the cops didn't want to do.

[A]

I would much rather have the mafia in my neighborhood then these gang bangers.

[C]

Oh, true. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, the mafia was in my neighborhood growing up.

[A]

I'm sure it was great.

[B]

It was fine. It was good. Yeah.

[D]

In Japan, you don't need. You know, there's no crime. And then, like.

[B]

Oh.

[D]

To prevent government tyranny. I'm like, I think I trust the Japanese to be authoritarian.

[E]

Well, historically, that wasn't so. Yeah. Never went around.

[A]

Yeah. You know, you don't want to be a. A gaijin when they decide to start experimenting on people.

[D]

As long as you're not Korean, you're good. So you might be cooked, but I'll. I should be. Okay.

[A]

Well, I can just Pretend not to be. I just.

[C]

Oh, I'm white.

[B]

You're white. Passing.

[D]

Just depends, really. Open up.

[A]

Nah, they're going to know in two seconds. Asian people know that I'm Asian.

[D]

They can smell it. They can smell it on you.

[A]

They just know instantly how they can see my face.

[B]

I see your face.

[A]

Are you Asian?

[B]

No.

[A]

Exactly. If I go to, like, Korean barbecue, they go, which one of your parents is Asian?

[B]

Really?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

It's got to be a thing. Yeah.

[A]

When I worked for.

[B]

When I worked, it's kind of similar how? Like, when I leave New York and I see another New Yorker, I, like, just know. I don't know how to explain it.

[D]

Yeah, I can tell.

[B]

I know another New York Italian.

[D]

Someone's Scottish.

[B]

I know another New York Italian when I see it, like. Like, so much so I was in Italy and I knew. I was like, you're from New York.

[A]

And it was when I worked for American Airlines, there were, like, three. Three groups. There was the. The Filipino mafia, the Latino mafia, and the black mafia. That's what I call them. And it's like all the black people hung out with each other. All the Latinos and the white people just float around and just didn't really care.

[D]

Asians.

[A]

Yeah, free agents. But the. The Filipinos, it was. It was. It was like, mostly Filipino to me and my brother. Like, hey, come hang out with us. Instantly, like, right? And they're like, which one of your parents is Asian? And we're like, oh, is our mom. And they'd be like, oh, cool. Like, you want. Here, Eat, hang out, play chess.

[B]

Damn.

[A]

Everybody was friends, but it's pretty wild that when you walked in the main break room, it's like, all the black people were here, all the Asians were here, and all the Mexicans were over here, and they were like white dudes just walking around. Yeah, that's just how it went. All right, everybody want to go to the uncensored portion of the show [e-mail] Tim Guest, IRL. Smash that, like, button. Subscribe. Leave a good review. Leave a comment. All that good stuff. Follow me on X and Instagram at Tim Cast. Ariel, do you want to shout anything out?

[B]

They can go follow me on YouTube if they want. YouTube.com Ariel Right on cool X and

[D]

Instagram at Real Tate Brown. And I'll be back on the Tim Cash channel at noon tomorrow for the daily Noon Live.

[E]

See, there I am, Phil. It remains on Twix and on Patreon. The band is all that remains. You can check out our music on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, YouTube, Spotify and Deezer. Don't forget the left lane is for crime.

[C]

Carter I'm Carter Banks. You can find me at Carter Banks on X and at Carter Banksofficial on Instagram. Check out the label at Trash house Records on YouTube. Got a music video up there and a new song that is kind of still new, but yeah. Ariel, thanks for coming. I'm glad to. I'm pumped to get into the after show.

[A]

We'll see you all [e-mail] TimCastirl right now. Thanks for hanging out.