Biden Audio LEAK Proves Criminal COVER UP w/ Rep Riley Moore

Summary

Timcast IRL — July 29, 2026

Episode: Biden Audio LEAK Proves Criminal COVER UP w/ Rep Riley Moore

Main Theme:
This episode centers on the newly leaked audio of Joe Biden admitting to possessing classified material, the ensuing claims of political double standards, and the broader context of escalating global conflicts—particularly U.S. tensions with Iran, Russia, and China. Rep. Riley Moore joins Tim Pool and the team for an unvarnished discussion of American politics, war, propaganda, and domestic policy challenges.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Biden’s Leaked Audio & Alleged Cover-Up

• [00:00–04:13]
  • Tim Pool opens with the leaked Biden audio: “I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.”
  • Biden’s awareness of possessing classified material highlighted: “He even warned his ghostwriter... this might be classified. You gotta be careful.”
  • Double standard alleged: “Why was he not criminally charged... because it’s political entirely.”
  • Criticism that Biden was not prosecuted for classified document handling, unlike Trump.
  • Tim contextualizes current world events—strikes by Iran against U.S. forces, further escalation in the Middle East.

“Basically saying, hey look, we’re committing felonies most likely and he’s gotta watch out for it.” — Tim Pool [00:58]

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2. Disaster Relief & Community Leadership

• [04:13–07:16]
  • Rep. Riley Moore shares frontline disaster relief stories from flooded West Virginia communities.
  • Remarkable stories of local heroism; a man saves his granddaughter and daughter-in-law from floodwaters.
  • Critique of detached politicians who fail to serve their communities.

“There’s a flood in my district. People have died, homes destroyed... [reporters] had no idea.” — Rep. Riley Moore [04:41]

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3. Political Divides and U.S. Leadership

• [07:48–15:04]
  • The panel challenges recent regret among some voters regarding Trump, reminding listeners of “Biden years” and key controversies: COVID lockdowns, vaccine mandates, southern border crises.
  • Trump is praised for avoiding war escalation and pursuing Abraham Accords.
  • Discussion of U.S. involvement in Ukraine. Tim argues America must win the current conflict, even if people oppose the war’s origins.
  • Contrasts Trump and prior Democratic administrations on immigration and foreign policy—claims of increased deportations and “counter-revolutionary” rollback of progressive-era policies.

“If Kamala were to be elected, would the US just falter and slowly dissolve on the global stage as China becomes ascendant?” — Tim Pool [15:05]

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4. Dismantling U.S. Foreign Policy Institutions

• [15:27–21:48]
  • Riley Moore (Appropriations Committee) confirms elimination of USAID funding, 20% cut to State Department budget under Trump.
  • Discussion on intelligence agencies running operations via USAID.
  • Panel agrees projection of strength, deterrence key to world security; critiques of Obama-era appeasement toward Russia and Iran.
  • Russia-Ukraine, Iran-Israel-U.S., BRICS expansion: strategies, consequences, and escalation risks.

“There are reasons to believe that China is providing targeting information to the Iranians...” — Rep. Riley Moore [29:43]

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5. American Hegemony, Reserve Currency & Economic Power

• [23:12–32:38]
  • U.S. standard of living supported by reserve currency status; risks of China overtaking U.S. hegemony.
  • Thucydides Trap explained—historical tendency for war in power transitions (Xi Jinping’s shadow warning).
  • The American public is shielded from harsh realities of global trade; if reserve status lost, economic pain would be immense (“$10,000 laptops, $100,000 cars”).
  • Industrial deterrence: Trump’s policies on tariffs, reshoring, and rebuilding U.S. manufacturing for national security.

“If the dollar were not still the US Reserve currency ... the riots that we saw during the George Floyd riots would be comically small [in comparison].” — Phil Labonte [28:32]

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6. New Tech & Military Advancements

• [31:38–34:19]
  • Palmer Luckey’s innovations: U.S. now fielding cheaper, domestically-built advanced missiles and drones (“cutting edge using existing materials”).
  • Hope for “reindustrialization” of U.S. defense sector.
  • War constraints: U.S. bound by rules, adversaries aren’t; democracy’s strengths and limitations in conducting war.

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7. Escalating Global Conflict: Proxy Wars & American Strategy

• [34:19–44:13]
  • American and Saudi precision strikes in Iraq; Iran’s regional ambitions, drone proliferation; U.S. military responses.
  • China’s calculated role—both economically and possibly militarily—probing for moment to act as U.S. seeks to isolate it.
  • The “plane is already in the air”—U.S. must see conflicts through to victory despite objections to current interventions.

“We are here. I’m not going to ever argue against the United States. The United States must win in all of these efforts.” — Tim Pool [47:33]

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8. Domestic Political Frustrations: Messaging, Propaganda, and Civic Participation

• [45:20–51:00]
  • America’s messaging in foreign and domestic contexts is failing—propaganda efforts unconvincing compared to adversaries.
  • Broader allegations of Democrat policy failures (“gay communism”), campaign effectiveness on cultural wedge issues.

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9. Culture: Physical Fitness, Masculinity, and “Patriot Games”

• [69:04–76:26]
  • Extended digression on the need for physical rejuvenation (“bring back the Presidential Fitness Test,” steak for every child, “Patriot Games”).
  • Good-natured banter about modern health, processed food culture, masculine identity, and innovations in caffeinated/alcoholic beverages—Mountain Dew, Four Loko, and lost “innkeeper physiognomy.”
  • Jokes about testosterone, social trends, and the impact of modern diet and substance use on society.

“One of them is the death of purpose is the death of a civilization.” — Rep. Riley Moore [67:01]

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10. Save Act, Legislative Strategy, and Electoral Structure

• [90:06–97:09]
  • Rep. Moore pushes for the Save Act (election integrity), passed repeatedly by the House; hopes for passage via reconciliation in Senate.
  • Calls to scrap the Senate filibuster and even repeal the 17th Amendment for indirect election of senators—returning power to state legislatures and local communities.

“If they don’t pass the SAVE act and we lose the House, they have culpability in it because it is hurting us.” — Rep. Riley Moore [92:01]

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11. Islamism, Left-Wing Naivete, and Civilizational Conflict

• [101:04–110:30]
  • Analysis of the historic and current alliance between leftists and Islamists (the “red-green coalition”), referencing European trends and the Iranian Revolution for parallels.
  • Warns of left’s inability to defend against illiberal Islamism; civilizational security rests on Christianity, Greek philosophy, Roman law.
  • The U.S. as apex of Western civilization, European decline, and the need to reinforce core Western values.

“Western civilization rests on three pillars: Christianity, Greek philosophy, and Roman law. If you pull one out, the whole thing falls apart.” — Rep. Riley Moore [109:18]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "I just found all the classified stuff downstairs." — Joe Biden, as recounted by Tim Pool [00:00]
• "Our standard of living would collapse if we lost the global reserve currency.” — Tim Pool [27:09]
• “There are reasons to believe that China is providing targeting information to the Iranians...” — Rep. Riley Moore [29:43]
• “To go back to the original point, if Kamala had won, and I’m China, I’m invading Taiwan.” — Rep. Riley Moore [44:13]
• “You put the power back in ... [this] also solves ... the whole term limit question, particularly on the Senate.” — Rep. Riley Moore on repealing the 17th Amendment [95:51]
• “Industrial deterrence. If you have the capacity to build faster and stronger than your competitors, it does have a deterrent effect.” — Rep. Riley Moore [29:43]
• “The entire Western civilization rests on three pillars: Christianity, Greek philosophy, and Roman law.” — Rep. Riley Moore [109:18]

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Important Timestamps

• [00:00] — Opening monologue: Biden leaked audio & Iran attacks
• [04:13] — Riley Moore on disaster relief, West Virginia
• [07:48] — Biden-Trump classified document double standard
• [15:27] — Dismantling USAID and State Department
• [23:12] — American hegemony, reserve currency, and economic threats
• [29:43] — Industrial deterrence, cutting edge defense innovations
• [39:00] — America’s challenge in fighting peer adversaries (China/Russia)
• [47:33] — On supporting U.S. victory in global conflicts
• [69:04] — Patriot Games, physical fitness, national culture
• [90:06] — Save Act discussion, election reform, legislative process
• [101:04] — Islamism, leftist naivete, and civilizational defense
• [109:18] — Three pillars of Western civilization

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Tone & Style

Raucous, direct, and irreverent—Timcast IRL delivers blunt political commentary, robust debate, and unapologetic criticism/notetaking of both left- and right-wing establishments. Frequent humor and cultural sidebars (e.g., Mountain Dew discourse, “innkeeper physiognomy”) leaven dense political analysis, while Riley Moore’s presence grounds the discussion with on-the-ground stories and legislative perspective.

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Intended For: Those seeking a critical, independently-minded analysis of current events, especially on governmental double standards, American foreign policy, and contemporary cultural divides.

Best Quote to Summarize the Mood:
"This country would be substantially better because people would be ... fundamentally bring back control to the people." — Tim Pool [94:59]

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Note: This summary omits advertisements and unrelated off-topic banter, focusing on major themes, timestamps, and direct quotes for depth and utility.

Transcript

[A]

I just found all the classified stuff downstairs. That's an actual quote from Joe Biden. CBS has published Excerpts from nearly 70 hours of audio that Biden was trying to have covered up. And it shows something very important. I know Joe Biden's not the President and he's not going to be ever again. So a lot of the liberals like to say hey, we're not going to talk about this or Fouche or this, that or otherwise. But they went after Donald Trump and tried to put him in prison for classified documents. And we knew the whole time that Joe Biden had this. Now with this leaked audio we know that he knew and he even warned his ghost right away, you know, some of this might be classified. You gotta be careful. Basically saying, hey look, we're committing felonies most likely and he's gotta watch out for it. Why was he not criminally charged in much the same way? Because it is political entirely. So we're talk about that and what it all means. Now just about an hour ago we learned that Iran launched a surprise attack on U.S. forces. The U.S. i believe has basically repelled all of these attacks. And now there's discussion of a massive escalation. This of course coming after Iran struck Iranian ships in the Caspian Sea. Now the big talking point all throughout the day from these major cable news outlets is that it's one big war at this point. That Iran supplying weapons to Russia, Russia fuel to US adversaries. Ukraine strikes the Iranian supply lines now bringing Iran into the fight with Ukraine, which brings them in with Russia. And now the US of course already involved in Ukraine. This is about to kick off or I guess technically it's all just snowflakes in an avalanche. The question is, will China escalate? It's hard to say for sure, but we'll talk about that and a whole lot more. We also have the the Governor of Kentucky demanding that Mitch McConnell prove he is alive or resigned and has begun the process to have him expelled from the Senate is all very, very weird. We'll talk about that and more before we get started. We got a great sponsor. It is Backyard Butchers. Guys, you got to go to backyard butchers.com use promo code. Tim, get some real meat. Here's what you got to understand, my friends. In the United States, Secretary of Agriculture is publicly warning that Americans consolidated meat supply is a threat to the country itself. It's true. Just four companies control the majority of America's beef supply and the largest is foreign owned. This is not a conspiracy, my friends. This is national food security. Here's what most people don't realize. A single pound of conventional grocery store ground beef can contain DNA from hundreds of different cattle. Man, that one always gets me. So what's the solution? As Americans, we gotta return to tradition. Where you know your rancher, know your land, know where your meat is coming from. That's why we like backyard butchers. That's the real American tradition. They offer 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 backyard butchers.com use promo code Tim for up to 30% off. Two free 10 ounces ribeyes plus free shipping. And they also have the America 250 box celebrating America's 250th anniversary. You get this for free when you purchase a steakhouse box complete with burgers, hot dogs built for the best holiday. I know it's passed. Fourth of July is over, but you can still go out in the beautiful summer and you can grill and have burgers and dogs and steaks and don't forget your potatoes. So again, go to backyard butchers.com use promo code TIM for up to 30% off. Thanks for sponsoring the show, guys. Shout out to backyard butchers. Also, don't forget to join [e-mail] we can't do this without you. So if you believe that this show is good and if the work we do is important, you must go to timcast.com right now and join the Discord community to make sure we can continue to do this work. But also get active and involved. Don't just be sitting idly, idly by. Be the change you want to see in this world. Don't forget to also smash that like button. Share this show with everyone you have ever met in your life right now. Go through your phone, but just text everyone in your phone book. Watch Tim cast IRL right now and send them that link. Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Rep. Riley Moore.

[B]

Hey, Tim, thanks for having me on. Quick, shout out to Jay Yakimashi, who's longtime subscriber to the show, loves this show, watches it all the time. Also shout out to my brother Alfie.

[A]

Right on. You are a member of Congress?

[B]

I am.

[A]

You are one of the best members of Congress. You represent us here in West Virginia and you were just on the ground doing real work for disaster relief in central West Virginia. You want to mention that really quick? I think it's really important.

[B]

Yeah. You know, it's kind of funny, I unfortunate funny. I was leaving the Capitol after votes to go to Buck Cannon and Weston, which is an upshur in Lewis county in West Virginia. And one of these reporters said, what are you, what are you doing on the break? Where are you going? I'm like, there's a flood in my district. People have died, homes destroyed. They're like, I had no idea. They're just not even paying attention to it all. So we have close to 35 homes completely washed away, gone. Over 300 homes damaged, roads gone, bridges gone. And the governor's now just asked for a FEMA declaration. Myself and the rest of the delegation just wrote a letter to expedite that declaration from fema and it was really sad. Some real heroic stories down there. One gentleman I met, his grandfather, his whole family, like a lot of people in West Virginia, he has his whole family living around him, you know, several houses in one plot of land and one of the homes is being swept away. His 18 month old granddaughter and sister in law, or pardon me, daughter in law were in the home. And he goes through the water, grabs both of them, swims out, saves their lives. Is unbelievable. We had another guy who drove a stake into a ground in his community in this holler, seven feet down, tied a rope to it, tied a rope to himself and then went house to house through the water.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Getting people, it's just unbelievable stories.

[A]

And I saw your posts on X, just massive respect. I appreciate you representing us here because you know, I feel like most, look, I'm gonna avoid just making this partisan and going after people, but there are members of Congress that don't even live in their districts, they just pretend to.

[B]

There's several members, there's a lot of members don't live in their district.

[A]

Right. And they just pretend to. And it's just, it's great to see you, you're out there actually doing real leadership work for the community, actually helping coming down. Cuz this is what people actually need. When you are electing people to represent you, they should be actively involved. So I saw those posts man, and I was like doing great stuff man, doing good work.

[B]

So I appreciate it, I appreciate it. And I went down there, truck full of water and I, and my daughter went with me too. And you know, look, these are our people, these are West Virginians. Let's go down, let's go help.

[A]

It's also pretty crazy to me that this is a, you said, we said

[B]

3,500 homes so 35 homes destroyed.

[A]

35 homes.

[B]

And then we overestimate that are just washed away. And then we have over 300 that are probably damaged beyond repair. Right, Right. Yeah, massive.

[A]

That's crazy. But, hey, man, great work. So it's awesome to have you here. We can talk a bit about it for sure.

[B]

Well, thanks, Tim. Appreciate it.

[D]

Absolutely.

[A]

We got the boys hanging out.

[E]

Yeah. What's going on? I'm happy to be here with, I would say, my favorite congressman. I think rally's the best. Thanks, bro. Super.

[A]

Well, I think it was the comment you made about immigration. Instantly, everyone on the right is like, I actually, I like this guy.

[E]

Yeah. Pretty simple, man. Yeah, I like it.

[C]

Very easy to please. What's up, everyone? My name is Phil. I sing for all the remains. Carter.

[D]

What's up, everyone? Carter here. Yeah, we were talking about Nicholas Cage before the show and lightened the mood a lot. But, yeah, this is crazy. Shout out to Jay Akamashi as well. I know that guy. He used to work at the gym that I was working out at. But, yeah. Let's get into the news.

[A]

Here's the news from the BBC. I just found all the classified stuff downstairs. Biden tells ghostwriter in recording. You know, it's tough to lead the news with a president, former president. It's been. It's almost two years now. He's not in office anymore. He was barely in office to begin with. He barely campaigned to begin with. So, you know, for regular people, they're just thinking like, so what? Right. But here's what I'm point. What I want to point out. I see these people posting that they regret voting for Donald Trump. I saw Sean Strickland and Marjorie Taylor Greene, and I'm sorry, I think y' all have forgotten what was going on during the Biden years with lockdowns, vaccine mandates, with the opening of southern border, with the Texas State Guard coming into a physical confrontation with federal authorities because the Biden administration was facilitating a criminal conspiracy against the United States. And then, of course, you had them trying to imprison Donald Trump because he had daily briefings in boxes that he obviously didn't know about that were dropped off at Mar A Lago after he left office. And they said, well, it's classified, so you're going to go to prison. Despite the fact that Joe Biden had comparable documents in, did not have the authority to have those documents, and even told his ghostwriter, I found all the classified stuff. Be careful. You know, you got to be careful with this stuff. Donald Trump as President had the authority to declassify documents. Joe Biden did not. And there was never any action taken against him. So when you come to me and say, oh, it's so bad now because the war is escalating, I say, listen, listen, I hear you on the war stuff. I'm not going to. You're allowed to be upset about all of that stuff. But to act like we would have been better off with Kamala Harris, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

[E]

Yeah, I mean, I think it's evident that like, look, large swaths of the population. I don't think you need to even look into politics to see that this is true. I have like a very high time preference, right. Like they just want immediate satisfaction, immediate results. And President Trump, while, yes, there's been a lot of immediate victories, I think that's safe to say a lot of what he's done has set us up infrastructure wise for success. Decades. Decades, Decades. Which is rare because like in a democracy, you know, presidents are thinking four years at a time, you know, they're thinking, okay, well I just gotta survive this term and move on to the next. But like you look at like the big beautiful bill, for example, and the funding and where money was moved, where it was allocated, et cetera. I mean that kind of stuff sets us up long term for victory. So all that aside, to Tim's point, I mean, to repeat it, did we all forget like what we just went through? Not to just mention with Biden, but even Obama, I mean, like these are in recent memory, incredibly destructive, corrosive forces that were in the White House and now not. Do we just have a Republican that's like stopping the bleed. Cause that would be one. I would be celebrating that even, heck, even George Bush would be like, hey, at least we got the boot off our neck for a little bit. We actually have a guy that's like moving the football down the field and President Trump, which is fantastic. And sure, okay, yeah, you might have some criticisms here and there, the vast majority of which I think happen to be a bit overblown. And there are some that we have serious disagreements with. But it's like, yeah, that's the president. He's governing 350 million people.

[A]

I take a look, look, Donald Trump did a very good job in my opinion, in his first term avoiding escalation of war, Abraham Accords and all these things. I voted for him because he was the less war president. However, he inherits a lot more from, from Obama. He inherits more from Joe Biden. And then I think he takes responsibility for what's going on in Iran. But that being said, I'm sorry. As bad as all that is, there were things already happening before he got in. And when you take a look at the corruption under the Biden Kamala administration, I say Kamala because Kamala Biden was not even there. We could not have dealt with that. So I look at it now, cuz I was talking about the escalation and we'll get into the war stuff in a second. But my attitude is I'm not a big fan of Ukraine, their government as a country. I think they're great. I have friends from there, but I think their government is filthy. And I think that the United States had never justified our involvement in this war. But I will stress this. We've got an escalating war here. There is no argument against US victory. You can not like what's going on, but the United States has to win. We have to win for whoever we want to blame. So that being said, just to bring it back to the main point, could you imagine where we would be right now if Kamala was president? It would not be better.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, look, I was listening to Victor David Hansen the other day and he was making the point that. And I think he's exactly right. Donald Trump is the first counter revolutionary president. Right. He's the first guy that has tried to start rolling back some of these policies that honestly got started in the progressive era. Right. Way back with Woodrow Wilson trying to roll back some of the stuff that, that, that were the. If it wasn't started back then, it was the obvious next step after things that were started back then. He's actually shut down the borders. He's actually trying to deport significant number of people. And people that want to criticize Trump, they'll say, oh well, Obama, you know, he deported more people and that's just patently not true. He turned people away at the border and those people were counted as deportations. That is not the same thing. We have net negative migration last year. We've, we've deported 250,000 more people at this point this year than we did last year. Something around three to three and a half million people have been deported so far between actual deportations and voluntary deportations where they, you know, decided they were, they would use the app and take the check that we're giving them. And that alone is great for the United States, in my opinion. Never mind the stuff that the other tertiary things that don't get a lot of press that he's done. The stuff that he tried to do with Doge. Granted, Doge was largely unsuccessful, but they did shrink the, the size and scope of the government some. No president has done that in my entire lifetime and I'm an old guy, right. Like there is significant change with the fact that USAID has been dissolved. That's a massive, massive global thing. And you'll hear the left complain about, oh, these people are going to die because we're not giving them money and these people are going to suffer because we're not giving them money. And whereas that might be true for as an argument there might be people that, that don't get the US giving them, you know, giving them foreign aid and stuff, but the amount of, of of change that you're seeing in South America because of the, the disillusion of usaid. And now granted, I know this is this the, I don't have evidence that this is, this is the case. But US Aid goes away and right wingers start winning all over South America. People are sick and tired of the socialist government. And without USAID propping these governments up and propping up the left leaning, left leaning politicians, you, you see a massive change in South America. And I think that, that in the, in a longer term, to Tate's point, in a longer term that's going to be a tremendous benefit for the United States because then you're going to see, you're going to see more reliable governments down there that are aligned with the United States and that plays into the whole, you know, Monroe Doctrine. Looking at the Western hemisphere as our

[A]

immediate problem, I wonder, if Kamala were to be elected, would the US just falter and slowly dissolve on the global stage as China becomes ascendant or China is ascendant and with Trump, yeah, we're going to get a big war. But the United States is dominating the globe economically, oil production, etc. And what we're seeing with all these conflicts, they're choking out China, Russia and Iran.

[B]

Yeah, I mean to first on Phil's point one of the, and I'm on the Appropriations Committee where we got rid of usaid. We, we stopped funding. It was awesome. The other thing to remember is that we have lowered, we have diminished the budget of State department by over 20% over the last two years under Trump. It is State Department is quite a bit smaller now. Why are we getting these conservative victories in Latin America? Don't forget the intelligence agencies run a lot of programs through USAID and otherwise. And so it's not Just foreign aid. There's a lot of other stuff that goes on through those.

[C]

You know, we had Mike Benzon on Friday and he would make the argument that USAID and CIA are basically the same things.

[B]

They, you know, it's, it's no secret out there that they have worked together or one has been used through the other in the past. So we're not subverting those elections anymore. And everything that goes on with USAID and what they were doing, you know, informing the public and all these other things, which is like psyops and things like that that they had been involved with for a very long time. So there's, there's no coincidence there. And just take a look back at history to Tim's point in terms of an ascendant China, if Kamala were present, how do we get here? On Ukraine, Obama let Russia just walk right into Crimea, does nothing. Nothing.

[C]

Not only that, he, he, he, when he was talking to Medvedev, he implied, and this might be, this might be because he was, was naive or a novice at, you know, international politics, but he implied that once I was reelected, Putin can do what he wants. Yeah, he may, he said, he said once I win my reelection, I'll have a lot more latter lenience or I think we, I forgot what the quote was. But he said to Medvedev, you know, once I get reelected, leeway. Yeah, leeway, something like that. But he said, once I get reelected, you know, essentially the way that they understood it was Putin can do what he wants.

[A]

And now this is what we talked about this quite a bit, that if the US had put a no fly zone over Ukraine, there never would have been an invasion from Russia because would have been a declaration of war on the United States.

[B]

And if Trump were in office, it wouldn't happen anyway. That's why, no, nothing happened when he was in his first. So they're in Crimea, then you have the red line in Syria. Obama does nothing on that. And then these guys do the. If you remember under Secretary Clinton, the Russian reset. We're going to reset the relationship with Russia. So we do a nuclear arms treaty, NPT 2.0 with them might have been NPT, but so we do a 2.0 where we lowered our strategic deployed nuclear weapons to the same level as the Russians, but not addressing their tactical advantage over us on the border of Europe. So then how's Putin gonna perceive that we're weak, we are weak and we can just, they can just walk right over us. So then they just walk right into Crimea and So this projection of strength and the idea that there is going to be consequences out there does actually prevent conflict. It is a deterrent and it keeps the world more safe. And so you have the same damn thing that has happened in Iran.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

No one did anything for decades. Obama hands them billions of dollars, this fake Iran nuclear deal that they did and all these other. So this has been slow walked, you know, just like walking dead into the point where, okay, they're two weeks from breakout period. What are we going to do?

[E]

Well, I think it was, it was Kamala Harris, like literally a few days before the invasion in Munich at the security conference was like, hey, by the way, Russia, if you make a move on Ukraine, we're going to like bolster NATO, move it right up, like as close as we can possibly get to eastern border. So if you're Russia hearing that, you're like, oh, we need to make a move now. Yeah. That aside, what I'm trying to illustrate there is that that kind of gives you a look into what Kamala Harris's policy would have been on the Russia Ukraine war if she got into office. I mean, we'd be looking at potentially a full blown war with Russia. I mean, you think Iran's bad, wait till you see a full blown.

[A]

Well, I think it's coming. Let's, let's jump to the story from the Wall Street Journal. Iran launches surprise missile attack on U.S. forces. American interceptors shot down all of the projectiles. But the strikes will increase pressure on President Trump to launch an aggressive response. So this just broke right, right as we were getting production ready for the show. The US Was able to stop all of the attacks. But of course there is now a question of what Donald Trump is going to do in response to this. And the conflict has been raging out. Of course, we also saw that this is, I'm sorry, that's the wrong story. Still, still, still matters that. We'll get that, we'll get to that one. There was the, the Ukrainian strike in the Caspian Sea on Iranian targets. Iran vows retaliation against Ukraine. All of this is related. Iran is supplying drones to Russia, which they're using in Ukraine. They, the US Is backing Ukraine for natural gas reasons. This is escalating. And now the Strait of Hormuz closed. I fear that China may actually get dragged into this. We don't know for sure. The question is what would happen if we did nothing? And the follow up is what do we do now? You know, and let me add to that, obviously I have been outspoken against US Military intervention Support for, you know, the US Getting involved in Ukraine. We are at this point of escalation where Ukraine strikes Iranian ships in the Caspian and we're in it. We are in this conflict. We can't just, we are not going to advocate for US defeat in this. I think it is fair that those that are critical of the US War machine be critical of the administration. But we still have to be in support of the US Winning this one. I call it Iraq and a hard place. But let me simplify it. I will stand by the United States and its allies and friends in this conflict and we have to win it while still being upset that we are in it. But so, so, so where would we be? What would, what would these countries be doing had we done nothing and where do we go from here watching this escalation?

[B]

You know you had Palmer Luckey kind of talking about this recently which is pretty interesting. And in his assessment of the Iranians ability to meet this ramp up period for one way attack drones was going to get to a point where if we were to try to stop their nuclear program we would not be in a position to be able to do it. So there was like this unfortunate decision point that President Trump had to say okay, what are we going to do? You know, they're saying we're a couple weeks out, 10 days from breakout where they could have nuclear weapons. They lied about their intermediate and long range missile program. We, I clearly believe and it seems to be the case that we had a blind spot on how many one way attack drones and some of these other armaments that they've had and how effective they've been in terms of like their asymmetric capabilities where you know, it takes us like Patriot missile system to shoot them out of the air. It only cost them a fraction of that to build these things. So if you did nothing, I think you might potentially get the same result that looks somewhat different which is to your point, potentially regional instability and regional conflict.

[A]

Well, I, I think the writing's been the wall for a long time with the expansion of the BRICS nations regardless of the, of the, of the nuances and how many missiles they might have, what their economy might look like. The end result of sitting back was that the United States would become a secondary power in the planet. China would become the dominant global hegemon and we would live under the rules of the Chinese Communist Party as it pertains to international trade and foreign affairs. And the American people, their standard of living would decline rapidly and they would be pissed off to A great degree.

[B]

Oh, if people are upset about interest rates now, if we get supplanted as the reserve currency in the world,

[E]

do

[B]

a Google search of what your mortgage interest rate. I mean you're talking double digit, I mean just through the freaking roof. To be able to borrow money that, that us as the reserve currency of the world, we all benefit from that here in the United States.

[A]

You heard what Xi Jinping said about Thucydides Trap. He's quoted as saying that I hope that China United States can avoid Thucydides trap. Which are you familiar with the phrase what it means?

[B]

No. Good.

[A]

Whenever a dominant economic power is about to be supplanted by a rising power, there's a tendency for war to break out. I believe in 16 of the the 16 past historical contexts of this empire, flipping 12 resulted in grand warfare. For Xi Jinping to say this, there's an underlying threat China is going to supplant the United States. And I hope we don't fight about it.

[C]

I mean, look, in 2021 was when China met in Alaska, they met Blinken and they met Sullivan and they specifically said the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength. Right. And that was five years ago.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

And that has totally changed since, since President Trump got back into office.

[A]

This is what's really fascinating about, about war. Now I certainly don't trust all of the elements of foreign war intervention otherwise I think there's a lot of corporations that are hoping for, you know, big contracts or whatever. But there is an underlying truth in that the American people find foreign war deeply unpopular. But could you imagine what would happen if the US lost the reserve currency? The American people would be 10 times angrier. So I wonder, right, are we better off as a nation just explaining literally what it is the United States does internationally to maintain global shipping security and the US Standard of living. Cuz I think if the US Government just came out and flat out said, if you want that thousand dollar MacBook and you don't want it to cost $10,000, yeah, it means we're going to war with Iran and then people are going to be like, okay, that's what it is.

[E]

I mean it's like, how do you package this, like geopolitical, like game out, like in a way that's like sexy. Because like the problem here is anytime you're fighting, you know, anytime you're acting and operating defensively, like we're trying to like sort of defend our interest Overseas that is like, that's. There's so, so much political, you know, attrition that occurs in that instance versus like you know, a Venezuela cell operation. We go and we get out. Oh, look at. This is awesome. Here's some edits. Take a look. Everyone's like, this is sick. But when you're like fighting a war for like very sophisticated, complex reasons that would like require quite a bit of time to like truly flesh out like all the different avenues this could go game out. The alternative if we didn't do anything, the alternative if, you know, the war went slightly differently, that kind of stuff, like a lot of the American people just get lost right away and they're just like, I don't know, why are we in this war in the first place? That's kind of the question always goes back to versus like you know, China and Russia and Iran, I guess all three. They don't really have to like explain anything. They can just operate and then, you know, do whatever they need to do or, or whatever they feel like they need to do. And whether or not the people support it is like immaterial.

[A]

I want to address at least as one comment someone chatted saying, none of this is true. Tim, I'm just going to say this. The US does not manufacture at a level where the American people should be having this standard of living. If you were to just look at US exports and manufacturing, our standard of living would be a lot lower. But we control the global reserve currency and the deal is supposed to be that we have this massive military and navy that keeps shipping lanes open for everybody so they can freely go about and trade. And for that they will use the US dollar which we don't have to do anything but print and other countries have to purchase. Now you may not like that and that's okay and you can complain about that system, but it is a fact the American standard of living is substantially higher because of this global arrangement. Whatever your issue with it may be, it is true. And so my point again is you don't have to be in favor of war. You can actively oppose the war, you can be mad about all of that stuff, but when we do the macro level statistics, I assure you the majority of this country would lose their ish. If the standard of living declined because the rest of the world got off the petrodollar system and the US had to trade for a one currency with China to buy oil, we would be at a massive detriment. Your laptops would cost $10,000, your cars would cost 100 grand.

[C]

People are losing their mind or people lose their mind when gas goes up by 50 cents or a dollar. People are losing their mind now because their dollar doesn't go as far at the grocery store. And people are, you know, there are people out there that are suffering because of it. But people are willing to say, oh, they're willing to say, you know, Donald Trump didn't do anything because things aren't easier for me. If the, to Tim's point, if the dollar were not still the US Reserve currency, if the dollar were not being traded all over the world, if oil were not traded in dollars, people would like the idea of riots that you saw or the riots that we saw during the George Floyd riots. Those would be comically small.

[A]

Let me just stress if the Democratic Party was not pushing gay communism so hard, they would get all of the funding they could want for any war at any point. Click of a button, they get vote. But they've become so detestable because they have a whackaloon progressive left element and they cater to it that everybody backs off. Nobody wants to be involved in whatever it is they're doing. What is it? Their net favorability is minus 26. Some insane number in the latest poll that CNN put out.

[B]

Yeah. One of the things though, and we've talked about this, the long term strategy of what Trump is doing, through tariffs, through reshoring, industry, those things that we're doing, and I've talked a lot about this written article about it and I got another one coming out. Industrial deterrence. If you have the capacity to build faster and stronger than your competitors, it does have a deterrent effect. Why is China so strong? They're representing over 30% of global manufacturing on their shores. How did we win World War II? We were able to build things faster than they could destroy them. We kept building and building and building and turned industry into the war machine. Right now, obviously we don't have the capacity to do that, but that's part of the reason President Trump is bringing this back, because it does have a deterrent effect on conflicts and adversaries around the world. And last thing I'd say, don't forget what's going on here. And I said this on Fox News last week, China it is. There are reasons to believe, which would be the correct way to say that without getting into something classified. Reasons to believe. There are reasons to believe that China is providing targeting information to the Iranians. If you look at that strike where we lost three service members here just recently in Jordan it was too precise. It was too on the nose. And how the hell did they even know they were there in the. And their ability to do that, that was not in the Iranian capability set. And there's reason to believe that the Chinese or the Russians, likely the Chinese, provided targeting information to the Iranians.

[E]

I mean, that makes a lot of sense because like half of these Iranian strikes are like, which way is Israel? I don't know, just shoot it in that jump. And then all of a sudden now they're like getting these like super precise strikes.

[A]

They're just like fire towards the sun as it sets.

[C]

The only thing to your point, Riley, about the production capacity, that's one of the reasons why companies like Palmer Lucky, Zander, like that company, actually gives me hope for at the very least the US's ability to re. Industrialize in at least the Defense Department. Right. Because, Because, I mean, they just rolled out the first, first jet fighter that's unmanned. That's. Yeah, that's going to, that'll fly with, it'll fly with like the F22 or with the F33. So basically every, every F. I think it's F30, F35 will have two wingmen that are, that are drones that are up there. So basically it's like a small squadron for every individual pilot. And one of Palmer Lucky's, one of the, the core principles that he has is he, he wants to be able to make these, these drones by using existing materials.

[E]

He.

[C]

Like so many of our, our military assets that are amazingly capable, but they, they require very specialized parts from specialized locations. And essentially Palmer Lucky said in an interview, he's like, he's like, I know that Radio Shack doesn't exist anymore, but I want you to be able, I want to be able to make weapons that are, that are cutting edge using parts that you could go down to the hardware store and get. That you could get at Radio Shack if you're an old guy.

[B]

Yeah. And look, I've been fortunate enough to go out there and look at his facility and I'll tell you, it is mine.

[A]

Where is it? Where is it based out of? Is that he.

[B]

Orange County.

[C]

Oh, okay, so the, the planes are rolling out of Ohio.

[B]

Yeah, that's the arsenal facility they put out in Ohio. But oh, man, you think about a Tomahawk cruise missile. I want to cost us over $1 million a pop. 1.5. 1.3 million DOL dollars a pop, something like that for a Tomahawk cruise missile. He has designed something that can have the exact Same effect for a couple hundred thousand bucks.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

And all manufactured in the United States. We don't need chips from Taiwan. We don't need any of this other stuff. It's all indigenous here within the United States.

[A]

But so, so, so much of war I find to be silly. Like, let's be real, the idea of a war crime, in my opinion, like, I understand what we're trying to accomplish. We're trying to be somewhat reserved and gentlemanly as we stop someone we view as an adversary. But the reality is, when it comes to a lot of these countries, they have no concept of a crime in war, only killing you. And they will use any method that they can. So we are constrained by our morals and our decorum, and our enemies are not. We do not have the same moral world.

[B]

We're constrained by democracy as well, which is a great thing. And look, I am no fan of war. I don't like wars. I don't want us to be in conflict if it is avoidable, you know, if it is avoidable, I don't like it. But you know Carl Van Clausewitz, right? The guy who. Great book. If you haven't read it, on war, I'm sure Phil's read it and some others politic war is the extension of politics. And the objective of it is to compel my enemy to do my will right.

[A]

You know, I love you. Ever played the game Civilization?

[B]

No, I haven't played that.

[A]

Oh, you gotta play Civilization. I don't know about civ. 2 through what. 5 are really good civil.

[E]

This one.

[B]

5.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

6 is just washed.

[A]

Here's what I absolutely love, at least about civilization too. This is a game for those not familiar, where you build a civilization. You have settlers. It starts in like 4000 BC and you advance over time. When you decide to make your country a democracy or a republic. It's beautiful. Your production, your wealth skyrockets. There's a bonus to production when you allow the people to privately trade amongst themselves and it rapidly develops economically. And then you can be literally as the player, as the executive of this nation. You've built up. Watch your adversaries build nuclear weapons and they're lining them up around your border and you're like, okay, they're going to nuke us. We need to go and stop them. And when you send a military unit to strike their nuclear warhead or whatever, it'll give you a prompt saying, you have been voted down by Congress. Your action has been, has been, has been stopped. So you can't take. So you're sitting there watching that, I feel like you give every kid the civilization game to play and they're going to be like, why do we have this government? This is insane. Like, we know our adversaries seek to, to massacre us and we live in a system where we're going to vote. Now the problem ultimately I have is not, first of all, I'm not a fan of democracy. Democracy is a general term I get, but literal democracy, where you have no strong central government, never just votes. I like constitutional Republicanism, yes. But my concern is I don't think people in this country understand enough of what is going on. I believe this largely is the fault of the United States in how we've handled media. And we don't explain to the people of the United States legitimately and honestly what it is the United States does for the world and what we want for our allies. So we only ever get these they hate us for our freedom nonsense. And then any learned person, and I don't mean like omniscient, they're going to say, okay, that's BS and you've now you've insulted me and now I don't support you in this effort. I feel like if the United States were to be completely honest and said, look, we don't want reckless death, we don't want collateral damage, but we will not allow the Iranians to supply the Russians with weapons against our friends. We will not allow the Chinese economic block to destroy American trade and, and everything we have built and for this it may come to war.

[E]

Yeah, well, I mean, it would help.

[B]

You got to have a deterrent effect out there. We have to be able to deter our enemies. And if it's threat of conflict that leads to conflict, or if it is our industrial capacity or otherwise. But it has to be credible. Yeah, it has to be credible or doesn't mean anything.

[A]

Let me throw, throw something to this. Laura Loomer recently flipped on the cause of Ukraine and she's been getting glowing write ups from the corporate press.

[B]

I'm sure.

[A]

I believe that the reason she flipped on the issue, it is, it is not so. It is overly simplistic. She says that she was duped by Russian propaganda or whatever. No, I think the issue is this. Initially, Donald Trump did not want escalation in Eastern Europe and Laura Loomer is the biggest Trump supporter there is and she is in direct communication with Trump and his team and his administration. And they say we do not want to be involved in what's going on in Ukraine. Laura Loomer comes out, Ukraine is bad. We don't want to be involved. Now that the war has escalated and obviously Iran is supplying the Russians with weapons, Ukraine has launched a strike against the Iranians. This war has merged, and the Trump administration is likely now coming to the conclusion that's it. We are in with Ukraine and this is expanding. And they've conveyed it to Laura Loomer, who now comes out and says we need to get on board with Ukraine. Not because we think they're. That their government are good people, not because we. We are going to forget whatever it is they may have done, the past that we disagreed with, but because we have a conflict budding between the BRICS nations and the Western and Western powers, and we are not going to align. We're not going to be opposed to those that are fighting with us. We are going to get behind Ukraine because they are on our side in this war.

[B]

Well, and China is part of this. China is part of this as well. They are absolutely part of this. And the thing that keeps me up at night when I think about this, the United States, we have never defeated an enemy with a population larger than ours and an economy of peer size.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

We never have. It's never happened.

[A]

And the Europeans are useless.

[B]

Yeah. And the Europeans are useless. It scares the hell out of me. But that is the reality. You know, it's like we. We are behind. Yeah, we are behind.

[A]

You know? You know, I just love about this, like, the stuff that we talk about on this show is probably 1% of the truth because we have no access to class. That information, classified information. You probably know a lot more than we do. But China also knows a lot more than all of us as well, based on just their plans alone. But just looking at what Trump has done, and this is not to condemn or condone, but it's masterfully done. When you look at the Obama administration, it was a miserable failure. Now, don't get me wrong, there are some things I'm sure people will praise, something Trump's eventually going to come to realize. Maybe Obama did right. But you take a look at what's going on right now, and we've laid this out a million and one times on this show. Trump securing of the Panama Canal, his pacification of the Caribbean with getting rid of the narco drug traffickers and the violence, opening up trade routes, working to secure the Northwest Passage in Greenland. The Gulf of America become the largest oil export location on the planet. And the shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz, cutting China off from 44% of its energy for the past six, was it five months now? Now when you look at all of that, my position has always been that the goal of the war with Iran is to close the Strait of Hormuz, to cut off our adversaries from their energy. If you want to, you win. What does Sun Tzu say? You win the war before it begins. You cripple China and shut their economy down to the best of your ability. And then slowly through attrition over time, they are no longer a threat and you can avoid war this way. That being said, with Iran using the Caspian to transport weapons to the Russians to fight the Ukrainians, it's now lumped into one big conflict. I know Phil and I this conversation and Phil's not so confident, but I believe that China has no choice but to get involved in like to escalate to kinetic conflict. As you mentioned just a moment ago, Riley, they had to have been giving this information or there's reason to believe they are providing the intelligence. But we've also seen flights from China going into Iran at the start of this conflict. And yet the, the, the presumption was it was targeting materials, it was, it was chips for missiles so they could build more weapons. There is no reality in my, in my view where China is not supplying Russia and Iran with targeting materials, weapons, resources or otherwise. Sooner or later, especially with them getting cut off, they're going to have to make a decision, just economically die or fight for their energy, which means direct conflict in the Strait or with the United States.

[B]

And they are facing this population bubble that's going to burst through their one child policy. So they have to put themselves in a strategically strengthened position for when they get there. All of these manufacturing jobs and everything else that they have, there's not going to be people to replace them. This one child policy which was abhorrent, terrible, awful, forced abortion policy, it's going to come back to haunt them here now. And so that's going to be a massive problem for them that they're going to have to deal with. And to your point, if we can weaken them and wait them out to that point, I think and the Chinese

[E]

are trying to stick the landing as they transition. It's like a more service based economy as well because they were trying to offshore to Africa and Pakistan and Bangladesh etc, now they're in this position where they're like, oh shoot, we gotta put a pause on that. It changes their entire like economic outlook. For Zelensky it was easy. He just had to lock in and Put a blazer on. And he was gonna get American support. We outlined, like, we told him. We're like, dude, we'll fund you. Just like. Like, don't dress like a slob. He's like, oh, okay. Is that easy?

[A]

I gotta say this. I gotta defend them on this one. He was getting attacked by conservatives for not wearing a suit. He was wearing a suit. It just wasn't like a traditional business suit.

[E]

It was like his war costume.

[B]

It was like.

[A]

It looked like a hybrid between a military uniform and a suit. And there were people being like, that's not a suit. And I'm like, it's a designer suit. Come on, guys. I'm not going to sit here and complain about the guy's clothing.

[B]

I thought it kind of looked like a Bruce Lee military outfit, kind of like hybrid, you know?

[A]

Let me ask you what you think. Do you think that this is a stronger question? And I'm not suggesting the answer is yes, but do you believe war with China is inevitable?

[B]

No, I don't think it is. I don't think it's inevitable. But I think proxy conflicts are. I think we're in them and we're in them.

[A]

But I do think that if Trump's play is isolate China's energy, China really is between a rock and a hard place at this point. Where do they decide to enter into a kinetic conflict with the West? Not just the United States, but our allies. If they do, they risk getting flattened. At the same time, if they do nothing, they risk they will just slowly decline. So it's a pick your poison for China. The question is, what are they going to choose to do now?

[B]

In. To go back to the original point, if Kamala had one, and I'm China, I'm invading Taiwan.

[A]

Oh, just.

[B]

Yeah. What are you going to do?

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, she couldn't even articulate what she'd want to happen to the troops. She'd say something nonsensical, like, the true goal of our military operation in the sea is to see the operation of the military literally. Like, it'd be.

[E]

The Japanese would be on the chopping block. I mean, the street of Hormuz closed down, down. It's screwing over the Chinese, but it's also screwing the Japanese. I mean, they're like Bond markets completely melting down. They're in freefall. Like, they'd be on the chopping block. And they're one of our few allies that's actually at least putting a little fight, you know, showing a little fight,

[B]

and then it all sparks off. There The North Koreans go. The Chinese go.

[E]

He's been waiting, dude. I saw, I saw. They opened up a fake Ikea and Pyongyang. They're planning something.

[A]

Really?

[E]

Oh, there's a fake and they're building furniture.

[A]

Does it say ikea?

[E]

Oh, it looks like, just like an Ikea, but. And then IKEA came out. Like, we didn't sell any.

[C]

Everybody, every third meatball is out, actually are just a ball of dirt.

[B]

It's like a. I was thinking about the meatballs, too.

[E]

I'm like, yeah, like. Like rad ankles or something. Yeah.

[D]

I don't know.

[A]

But I think the US Is particularly bad at messaging. Just like, what happened? We used to have a department of censorship. Like, we used to be a brutal people. I'm not. I'm not suggesting we go back to that. I'm just saying, like, CNN, is it. Is it the best that the U.S. intelligence agent agencies can do? Ms. Now, really?

[E]

And people are, like, freaking out about everything, like, oh, Trump's too mean to Biden or whatever. I'm like, jackson called Buchana Cannon gay.

[A]

So it's like, you know, I think

[E]

we've been through this. Has, like, gone back to the beginning.

[C]

Which one of them was calling the other one a hermaphrodite.

[B]

That was Adam's Jefferson.

[A]

They were homies. Yeah, they were homies.

[E]

They're like buddies. And he's like, hey, put that in the Philadelphia. And got the whole area. That was. That was truth social. Before Trump, thankfully, invented Truth social is you used to just have to settle it in, like, the newspapers. It's like, well, and sees this next week.

[B]

You used to have a time where leaders, elected officials could go to the media and be like, I know you all know about this. Can you keep a lid on it? We have something about. And they're not going to do that now. Oh, yeah, it's in the best interest of the American people. They don't care about that.

[A]

I have to say, I think, you know, of all of the things that I've seen in terms of foreign policy and statements from the president, be it the, you know, China meeting with Blinken, the scariest thing is Laura Loomer coming out and saying, I am fully behind Ukraine at this point, because she does not just change her opinion lightly. And I know that she's come out. And again, I mentioned this, but she's saying, like, oh, I fell for Russian propaganda. I think that, again, is a mistake in. Well, I mean, look, if she's genuine, she's genuine. I'm not trying to impugn her honor or anything like that. The media tried claiming I was insulting her, which I absolutely was not. I think that Laura has access to information through the administration, and I think she's seen the seriousness of this escalation in the conflict. They're saying the wars are merging, and I think her attitude is like, holy crap. I may not like Ukraine, but we have to get behind them at this point.

[B]

Yeah. You know, the thing is with her, and I know her detractors are. You know, she's nutty and. But she's actually done some pretty good

[A]

reporting, to be fair.

[B]

I mean, she's done some really good reporting. And I mean, fair is fair on that. And I think people need to respect.

[A]

I think they're scared of her.

[B]

Yeah, probably.

[C]

I.

[A]

What is this?

[E]

We struck back. We struck Iraq with the Saudis. Just.

[A]

Where's that breaking?

[E]

Just check Centcom on Twitter.

[A]

Listen, I said this earlier, and I like guys like, I don't care. What is this? Just 26 minutes ago? I'm gonna. I'm gonna say it very, very simply. I have said everything that I can say in opposition to US Involvement in Eastern Europe and in opposition to US Intervention in the Middle East. We are here. There's. I'm not going to ever argue against the United States. The United States must win in all of these efforts. You can be mad that it happened. You can fight to make sure it doesn't happen. And I think we here rejected and resisted military intervention and conflict. We are in it now. We will see what happens. It is not a question of are we arguing for or against with the US in this conflict. The question is, will we keep a hand on the steering wheel and be the voice of reason to make sure things don't get out of control? That being said, I am going to be in support of the United States and her allies. You can complain, and we can complain, and I've complained 100. But what do we do? Honest question. Because I can bang my head on the table a million times. Am I supposed to sit here and be like, well, I hate Ukraine, so the US should lose? Yeah, I can't do that.

[E]

The plane's in the air. What are you cheering to crash? Like, yeah, well, that's left the wrong ways.

[C]

What are you, a libertarian?

[A]

We can deal with accountability, which I think is rare to begin with, but we can. Like, if you are mad about this conflict and how it started and whoever's involved, that's something to figure out after we land the plane in the tailspin.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

I'd want to point this out though. U.S. saudi forces. Does that happen without the Abraham Accords?

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

I don't think so.

[E]

Yeah, here's tell someone 10 years ago we're doing joint.

[A]

Let me, let me, let me, let me grab this from centcom. US Central Command of the Saudi Arabian Armed forces conducted precision strikes in Iraq on July 28 against Iran aligned terrorists and the IRGC. Directed to attack US forces and Saudi energy infrastructure. The unwarranted attack against the US forces were not successful. From February through April there were more than 600 attempted attacks on US citizens and facilities by Iran aligned terrorist militias in Iraq. The IRGC and its terrorist proxies must cease these attacks to avoid further US military response. You know, I am genuinely irritated by the constant foreign propaganda and at the same time failures of the, of US intelligence in actually being convincing to the American people. It's all just garbled nonsense half the time. Is the United States really this impotent when it comes to dealing with Russia and Chinese propaganda?

[E]

Well, I mean we have to put out statements. We don't have like an authoritarian central propaganda wing. At least now that USAID's gone, we don't.

[A]

What I'm, what I'm, what I'm talking about is they have, they have old spooks going on Ms. Now and CNN giving you the most banal talking points that are just unconvincing or that too. I mean it's like you're convincing no one.

[C]

They're, you know, the, the left and the Democrats are just trying to counter signal the Trump administration because we all know if this was, if this was a Democrat in office, they would be, you know, cheering on whatever the, the military decided to do. It's not like the Democrats are, you know, at least the old guard dnc. Right. Democrats. I'm not sure that the DSA would be this, would be this, this kind of, the same kind of opinion about, about going, going into a foreign country or whatever. But the old guard Democrats, they would be there, loves this stuff. Absolutely.

[A]

She lives for, she wanted war with, with Russia.

[D]

Right.

[A]

Right off the bat, I recall, I

[E]

mean I was, I was a youngster but no. 8, she was like complaining that Barack Obama's foreign policy would be too weak and that he.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, it was, it was so insanely weak. I mean I've talked, we've talked about, about this ad nauseum. The Qatar Turkey pipeline, US interests in the 2000s with offsetting Russian gas, prime gas monopolies. The Obama administration miserably failed in every capacity as it comes to this escalation, this conflict, when it comes to Ukraine, all of this attempts at soft power just failed. And with all due respect, I have said this from the get go. Russia is in the wrong on the invasion of Ukraine. They lost the soft power battle. The US used manipulation. But I gotta tell you, having been on the ground in Kiev, the people there don't like the Russians. It's not that they hate Russia. They're in a trade agreement. The issue was for a lot of the urban Kievians, or whatever you want to call them, the history of Russia and Ukraine is not a good history. So when they get an offer of a trade agreement with the EU and a potential to join the Schengen Zone, these people were ecstatic. It was like being told you're going to win the lottery. The Russian Trade federation wasn't offering them anything, so they wanted to go with the eu And Russia could not handle it because they would lose Crimea and their only warm water port. The argument we get from many people is, well, Russia could have just built in Sochi or one of these other cities. You're not going to convince the Russians, especially considering it's mountainous, to abandon a $300 billion military base and, and their flag where they house their flagship in the Black Sea. You're not going to say, just move. They're not going to do it. They're going to take Crimea. And as you already mentioned, the Biden administration was too impotent to do anything about it. Now again, I'm not saying that it's. That he's the, that Obama is the bad guy in that capacity. Russia decided to seize territory and invade because they lost the soft power battle. And my opinion is the soft power is the appropriate way to do things. You avoid war, you offer up capital, resources, economics, and when you win, you win. But you have to be prepared for some lunatic to swing at you. Yeah, and Barack Obama was not prepared for that.

[B]

They walked in there without firing a shot.

[E]

Shot, yeah.

[B]

Not one shot fired. Just walked right in.

[E]

And the soft power is so vital. I mean, this is why Trump wants a new Rush Hour movie. So we don't have war with China, have a Sino Anglo Agreement 2.0.

[A]

Well, it's to, it's to help Chris Tucker get back on his feet.

[C]

You know, is Jackie's, Jackie Chan still doing all of his own stunts?

[E]

He's gonna. I hope so.

[A]

I'm not serious. Movies now. Have you seen these for him?

[E]

He's Locked in.

[A]

They're, they're, they're cool.

[E]

Riley, I wanted to ask you, not as Rep. Riley, but just as Riley, like after the, the Iranians instigated this latest like round of fighting. Obviously from my perspective and like from a lot of people's perspectives, it seems like the IRGC and the Iranian civilian government are just like not on the same page whatsoever. Because it seemed like the Iranian civil government was. The civilian government were the ones that, you know, agreed to the MOU that jd, I mean it's. Listen to JD Vance talk about it on Rogan. It seems like the IRGC not quite gone rogue, but they really do seem to just not be on the same page with Tehran whatsoever and so forth.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, I think one of the things to think about here is the entire top echelon of the Iranian leadership was eliminated. Now that was the old guard, right, who are very much Islamic radical fundamentalists that were in alignment with the irgc. This new generation who has now stepped up into those leadership roles are more nationalist driven, I think I'd say, thank you, Islamic. They weren't around for the revolution is what I'd say. They weren't alive for it. Right. So they're younger, of course, they're Islamic radicals, but they're not driven by that same revolutionary ideology that Khomeini and everybody else like brought to fruition. Right. I mean they fought the revolution, they won it, which makes them do more irrational type things. Right. This new group of leadership are more like state actors, I guess, is what I'd say. Certainly more interested in statecraft, which is what they're doing. The irgc, they're on the other side. Right. They're fighting the jihad. Right. I mean they're, they're out there fighting, you know, the Great Satan, the Holy War and all that. So there, there certainly is a disconnect in between, I would say the civilian leadership and the IRGC military leadership. Now do they ultimately want the same thing? I think certainly. But how they get there I think is a little bit different. I mean, this new leadership, they want to be legitimized and if they're not, you know, they're probably going to end up getting killed by their own population if they don't get this thing under control.

[E]

Do you think that was the calculation from the admin was breaking up that link between the IRGC and this, I mean like that super strong ideological link.

[B]

So I think that that was certainly a consideration in it. And obviously there's a lot of other intelligence assets that were fed into it. No one had better penetration into the IRGC on planet Earth than the Israelis. I mean, they were. They had. They had a guy. This is. I'm sure you all know this story, but the dentist to the IRGC generals and top leadership was an Israeli asset, and he was putting in crowns and filling into their teeth with bugs in them.

[C]

Jeez.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Wild.

[B]

I mean, they knew. That's how they knew exactly where they were at every moment.

[A]

What is. What is what, in your view? Like, what is going on with this weird bifurcation on the right where you've got, you know, people like Tucker now deeply critical of Donald Trump? You've got this sort of. I don't know what you'd want to call it, but this ascendant. And I don't want to say they're explicitly anti Israel, but there is a expansion among the youth on the right and the left. But my question is on the right, completely anti Israel in every capacity, to an extreme degree, because I consider myself to be fairly ambivalent on the issue of Israel. Like, should we be providing military funding to foreign countries like this? Not without good justification. So I'd be in favor of cutting that military funding. But you look on the Internet and you look at these people, and it's like, israel killed Charlie Kirk, or they're responsible for every major conspiracy, or the earth is actually flat and the Jews are keeping us believing it's round. Like this degree of insanity, I understand it's gonna be. A lot of people would be like, that's a straw mantim. I have differentiated between the whackaloon conspiracies, which is Israel derangement syndrome, and the genuine identity of. There are people whose core identity on the right is just anti Israel.

[B]

Yeah, look, there is an obvious Venn diagram of circles, our interest and Israeli interest, that have a lot of overlap. Right. Are they our strongest and best ally in the Middle East? Is that even arguable?

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, like, is there somebody else who's more aligned with us? No, there's not. But I think part of it, though, is to be fair to some folks out there, if you say anything on Israel, then you get. You get whacked. Right?

[A]

Anti Semitic?

[B]

Yeah. If you say literally whacked. No, not. Not literally.

[A]

I mean, there's a lot of people going like, yes, he's right.

[B]

No, no, not literally. Not literally.

[A]

You know, they come for your political career. They say, you know, you're an anti Semite.

[B]

Yeah. And look, we are good enough allies. The United States and Israel, where I think it's fair to say, hey, we might not agree on X issue. I mean, we trash talk the UK all the time.

[C]

They deserve it.

[B]

And they deserve it. And we're still allies. So, you know, for now. You know, for now, for now, we should. Should have separated.

[A]

I just, I guess I asked because

[C]

an ocean's not enough. We need to get another ocean.

[B]

Yeah. Especially around 250.

[A]

I'll give you my complete and honest take on everything. I think that the Biden administration launched a psychological operation on the United States targeting me, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin and others with the tenant media fiasco. It's a Tennessee based company, licensed one of our shows. And then Merrick Garland goes on TV announcing that these influencers are secretly getting paid by Russia to create the insinuation that my views on US support for Ukraine were actually being pushed by the Russians, which is totally fabricated. That's why I say the US propaganda apparatus is abysmally retarded. The stupidest thing about. But I guess it works for half the country. All it does is create division, animosity. So I'm trying to wrap my head around what it is they're trying to do. With that being said, I fully am cognizant and I've discussed on this show even going well before the tenant fiasco. Foreign countries do manipulate US politics.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

We've had Al Jazeera plus in this country getting billions of views promoting intersectional feminism and the far left. This influence absolutely is here. So regardless of who's going to blame each other, point the finger to whoever you want. My question is, why haven't we stopped it?

[B]

Yeah, look, it's what. It's our biggest strength and our biggest weakness is the openness of the First Amendment and our freedom of speech and the media that's out there. It's our greatest strength. It's our greatest weakness. At the same time, because they're able to go influence through media outlets and social media and otherwise. The view that people have of the United States and otherwise on different foreign policy issues, whether we're talking about Iran or this or that, then we lose.

[A]

And you know, it's a sad reality, but can we just be mathematically sound? If it is the case that the United States is incapable of defending itself from psychological operations from foreigners due to our own constitutional constraints, which I'm not saying we should do away with or anything like that. This is just the arithmetic. If China, Iran and Russia are able to manipulate influencers both foreign and domestic, and we are incapable of stopping it. Then we just lose. Then the narrative in the United States among most young people will become that the United States is bad, should be destroyed, the Constitution is wrong, and should be abolished. And that's what we are starting to see among young people. And you get a Biden administration that lets in tens to 10 to 20 million people who do not share our values. So what do you do? I mean, I look at what the Biden administration did, and it looks like it's only the destruction of the core identity of America. What are we supposed to do?

[B]

Well, look, I mean, and that's why, thank God, we got Donald Trump. We have shut down the border. I think Donald. Yeah, USAID is gone. And look, I think Trump does, to many Americans, speak with this truth and clarity, which is why he's popular, it's why he's the president, is that he was willing to say things that everybody was thinking and they thought were true. And so I do think that there is a lane for being honest, being open, and just cutting through all the BS, as President Trump has done the last 10 years.

[A]

I guess when I look back at, like 10 years ago, Facebook and Twitter at the time had backdoors for intel agencies, for the FBI, for the CIA to come in and flag things they wanted to remove. They were doing weekly phone calls, and I'm just thinking back, like, well, they tried. I mean, they were really bad at it. That's what's crazy. I think if they never tried doing gay communism, then the establishment machine state would have just maintained total control unabated. But they come out with this weird gay communism stuff overnight. And like, half of my generation, more than half most young people are like, we reject this, and you make them vote for Trump. So then when I think of that, I'm like, maybe they're actually really smart and Trump is what they actually wanted the whole time. I have no idea.

[C]

I mean, to your point, Razor, they're just retarded. To your point about the gay communism stuff, right? Like, that's really what kind of activated the. The normal people is the idea of a man going into the bathroom with a. With your daughter.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

With kids like this. The. The stuff that they had at Target.

[A]

Right.

[C]

The Dylan Mulvaney being the spokesperson for Bud Light. The people that weren't interested in politics and thought, you know, didn't think about this kind of stuff, then it was shoved into their face. I think it partially because of the COVID stuff. The. The videos that were being disseminated of what's going on inside classrooms and then seeing these kind of, like, crazy things. Because, you know, Tim points it out a lot and it's true. Like, you know, Dennis Prager was on Bill Maher and he was like, they're putting, they're putting tampons in the mo. In the boys bathroom because they're saying that, that boys can menstruate. And they laughed at him. And I remember this is, this is a while ago now, but I was making jokes with the band about how prevalent trans people were becoming. And like, they were like, why do you care about. And I can't say the word that they said because we were dudes. In talking about trans people in like 2016, I'm like, this is going to be a big deal. I was like, you watch. And they're like, you're crazy, dude. You're weird. This is. You're too involved in politics, blah, blah, blah. You need to, you know, put the, put the, the put Twitter down or whatever. Lo and behold, I was right. This was not only a big deal, it was the deciding factor for people to become politically active for a lot of people. Because these, these, these ideas that the left has that they truly believe are possible but fly in the face of just actual reality. Right? Like socialism has as. As an economic system, it has never worked anywhere. It always destroys an economy, it always ruins countries, and yet they still continue to do things. Like in New York, doing rent control. Every time you try rent control, it ends up hurting the people that can't find places to live. It drives the cost of rent up in places that aren't rent controlled. And the places that are rent controlled, they fall to crap because the people that own the buildings don't have them, aren't going to have the money to. Are gonna be able to make the money back that they invest in a place. These things are not conflicts of policy. They are conflicts with reality. You know, they really are.

[A]

You know, there was a really funny post. Someone said, I hate capitalism, how it makes me have to work every day. I just want to feel something. And I saw that and I was like, you're not met at capitalism, you're met at entropy.

[C]

Yeah, that post has to work every

[A]

day because of the laws of physics, not because of capitalism.

[C]

That post has two and a half million views now because everybody's sharing it. Because it's so dumb.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

And I mean, you're exactly right. They are mad at entropy. They're mad at the fact that that just existing doesn't automatically provide you with all the, not just the things you need, but with a lifestyle that they see people have on Instagram. Because in the United States, even homeless people have smartphones.

[B]

Right.

[C]

It's like literally 98% of Americans have smartphones. And that means that most homeless people have a smartphone. You know, you have this amazing technology in your pocket and you. You live on the streets. Most of the time, it's because you choose to do things that mean that you have to live on the streets, or you choose to live on the streets because you don't want the responsibility. It's not a question of whether people can actually feed themselves it or. Or provide the basic necessities. It's that they want a better lifestyle than they have. You know, and like I said, it is just. It's. It's things that don't align with reality. And they refuse to admit that there are certain things about existing at all that are required to continue your existence.

[B]

And one of them is the death of purpose is the death of a civilization.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

If individuals lose purpose. And look, I think God has given all of us, all of us some type of talent. And to continue that work and do that work in that talent that God has given us is to continue his work here on earth. And that is how you're going to find some fulfillment, I think, in life. And absent of purpose, what do you get? You get drug addiction, you get depression, suicide, sometimes violent. I mean, we've seen this.

[C]

You get a society where more people smoke weed than smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. I just saw that today. That is a terrible thing. We need, we need to bring back cigarettes. We need a nicotine, caffeine fueled.

[E]

You know what's sad is that troubling development.

[B]

I am all about those things. Nicotine, caffeine, creatine, protein. That's my diet.

[C]

Listen, Enlightenment, the pharmaceutical companies, the medical establishment, they need to fix cancer. They need to fix lung cancer. Fix. Fix emphysema, fix cancer. And then you'll see the United States take off, bring back smoking a pack and a half a day.

[E]

It was John Daly that said nicotine plus caffeine equals protein. It's a. John Daly already crunched the numbers on this. All these lab coats. Lab coats. Like, oh, it causes cancer. John Daly figured it out and he's a champion.

[A]

I do think there is a measured economic output from widespread caffeine use. Yeah, like businesses have coffee for a reason. This is not a joke. Yeah, like offices have coffee because it increases. Like the amount of money they spend on coffee is returned by Full orders of magnitude.

[E]

The British got access to tea and then industrialized like right away.

[D]

It is the Enlightenment.

[A]

It's the Enlightenment.

[B]

No, seriously, that is where caffeine right now. And I got some. And I got nicotine going at the same time. If you've not had that combination, I would urge you to try it.

[A]

I've not done it.

[B]

It's amazing.

[C]

I used to do high octane. Both of those. I used to smoke a Marlboro and drink two Red Bulls and smoke two Marlboros and drink two Red Bulls in the morning. Started the day off.

[A]

I love the Patriot Games.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

Have you guys heard about this?

[D]

No.

[A]

Oh, we got to pull this up. We got to talk about this.

[E]

Where all the states are sending their delegates.

[A]

They're sent, they're sending. Is that what it's called? The.

[B]

It's Patriot Games, isn't it?

[A]

Patriot Games.

[C]

It's like American, hopefully.

[E]

Here we go.

[A]

Here we go. Here we go. Here we go, here we go. Check us out, check us out. Patriot Games, two weeks out. Here's what we know about the events. They say it's a concept. Has drawn comparisons from critics. Oh, I don't care. Are you kidding? A boy and a girl representing each state will compete in days long events for the chance to win scholarship money. It doesn't go far enough. I love it though. I love the idea that every year, every year they should do this. I don't know what their plan is. Everybody across their state and all high schools and grade schools start training and practicing to get really good. Then you have in the beginning of the year, competitions at the local level. The winner goes to regional, the winner goes to state, and then the winner of state goes to the Patriot Games Nationals. I don't know if that's what they're planning on doing, but what we need in this country is like national fitness tests again.

[B]

Yes, The Presidential fitness test. I loved that thing when I was a kid. Yeah. All right, I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna. And could you imagine Donald Trump were competing?

[A]

How many push ups they could do?

[E]

Yeah, yeah. And Donald Trump's like hyping you up.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, so you get the Presidential Fitness Award back in the day and it's like, how many sit ups could you do fast? You run the mile, pull ups, all those things. It was awesome.

[E]

The Patriot and there's so much you could do. You know, there's all this fighting for federal funding. Settle it on the, on the athletics field. Like if your state does well, you get more federal funding. If you crap the bed, you cut and we can do like soccer where you get relegated. It's like, sorry, Nebraska, your guys sucked this year. You're going to play in Canada for a year, Ontario.

[A]

Hold on, hold on. Here's the challenge to that. If Nebraska keeps losing, they eventually just are demoralized and stop trying. So you've got to have a system where the challenge is. So cutting their funding means they're gonna give up. That's the challenge. But incentives, I think, is a good idea in some capacity. What I'm mostly concerned about is going to the grassroots level. Get every kid in this country. I mean, there's not that many of them relative to the previous generations. And be like, get ripped. Boost that testosterone. They should give every kid a steak.

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Like, just like a chance on gym memberships.

[A]

Like ribeye, you know, just like every, every, every child on Monday is going to get a ribeye. Professionally cooked, pan seared, beautiful. We're going to put a little compound herb butter on it. You will eat well. And then you're going to do 100 push ups and you're going to do 100 sit ups and you're going to run 10 miles. I don't know about immediately after eating the steak. I'm just saying we could, I mean,

[E]

we could totally solve all this, like, you know, partisan divide by just making all political decisions focused on how your athletes do that year.

[A]

The left is going to lose highway funding. You guys ever see that episode of Rick and Morty where they separate their, like, detestable selves from their normal selves? That's like season four. I don't know if you guys watch it, but there's like the negative versions of themselves. That's the left. Okay? If you say, hey, guys, why don't we eat healthy and get fit? They're gonna go, you're a bigot. You're far right. It's like we're trying to make everybody feel better and they're like, no, you're racist. Oh, my God.

[B]

And y' all have probably seen this. This video kind of started circulating back around President John F. Kennedy saying, there's nothing worse than a fat, flabby kid who can't, you know, exercise. And, like, we need to have a strong youth. We need to have a strong youth out here that's in good shape.

[C]

Go outside and play.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm going to say this out there to every dad who's got a fat kid. You are not preparing your child. If you are out of Shape. And they are out of shape. I watch these videos. You see them with a big fat mom is like, I'm making dinner for my daughter and she like, dumps a whole bag of like pizza rolls and chicken nuggets on a cookie sheet. And then she like, puts like maple syrup on top. She's like, this is what we. I'm like, what is going on?

[E]

So good.

[B]

Got to get everybody in shape. Your dad, you're an older dad. Get in shape. If you're too old, get on test. Do whatever you got to do. Get out there.

[C]

I love that Riley's talking about juicing. Riley's on the trend train.

[B]

I mean, be fair. The Trump administration has made it easier to get test. They put out a regulation here recently that actually makes it easier for older folks.

[E]

It must be said too, and we'd be remiss if we didn't add this on, is there's a big difference between a fat kid and a husky patriot, right? We love our husky patriots.

[B]

You've seen those guys in the gym. They're huge. And like, they're putting like six wheels on. Like, oh, yeah. Strong as hell.

[A]

Of course. Yeah.

[B]

Those are terrifying.

[A]

I'm saying we. Look, you can't be doughy lying in bed playing Marvel Rivals all day. You can't do it. You got to get out.

[E]

But if you're a husky patriot, you're 12 years old up there. And a glass of Mountain Dew is the difference between you and just taking over the world. Down that glass of Mountain Dew and get back out there tomorrow and conquer. Like, I don't think people understand what a code red Mountain Dew. And not a lot, but like a 30 minute to an hour Call of duty session can do for a husky patriot. Have you seen Take over the World?

[B]

Have you seen what Mountain Dew is rolling out? This is going to be one of the most dangerous products for certain regions of the country. It is Mountain Dew with alcohol.

[E]

Never mind. The country's finished.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay, so I'm pretty sure I saw like.

[D]

No, I think you're right.

[A]

I think you're right because Hard Mountain Dew.

[B]

Hard Mountain Dew.

[A]

Oh, my God. This is the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life.

[D]

I think this stuff's already on the

[A]

side targeting 40 year old men. They were like, remember when you'd hang out at Taco Bell? We put booze in it.

[E]

Orange boys.

[B]

I'm not gonna lie. Baja Blast was awesome.

[C]

This guys, you know what this means, right?

[A]

You want to know the secret to Baja Blast and why it Was only at Taco Bell. Why is. Because it was the Powerade syrup mixed with Mountain Dew. You know, I didn't know that. I'm pretty sure that's the case.

[C]

You know what this means, right? You're going to be playing far more drunk people on Call of Duty. So you got. We have a chance. We have a chance. Boys also in their clear ride. Couple zins in the lip.

[B]

Exactly.

[E]

Scared Orange beach is about to look like a war zone with this rolling out there. I mean, Orange beach is going. You know, Orange Beach, Alabama. I mean, it is going to look like full blown trench warfare. I am. I'm absolutely on.

[A]

The Internet says it's a urban. The Internet says it's an urban myth. And then I'm not correct. So I'll take it.

[C]

I want to believe.

[E]

Fact check.

[B]

Dang it.

[C]

Gosh. Unfortunately, yeah.

[B]

You know, but I mean, this is not. I don't want. Does it have caffeine?

[E]

Oh, yeah, sure.

[A]

Of course.

[B]

It's got to have caffeine. You all remember or Loco.

[A]

Four Loco.

[B]

Remember the four Loco.

[E]

Blowing people's hearts out. It was awesome.

[B]

And then you had Sparks.

[D]

Juice was another one.

[B]

You never heard of Sparks? Oh, yeah, it looked like.

[A]

Wait, wait, hold on.

[B]

I don't think it looked like a battery.

[A]

Yeah, it's not available in West Virginia.

[E]

It's like Duracell sponsors it.

[A]

West Virginia have to. West Virginians have to go to Maryland to smuggle in some Hard Mountain Dew. Oh, no, that's good.

[B]

We don't need it here.

[A]

Oh, you know what? It might be. It might. Didn't. Did West Virginia do that? That food dye ban.

[B]

Yes. Yeah. Food DY ban.

[A]

That's amazing.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

I go to the grocery store, I don't even think about it anymore.

[B]

Yeah. No.

[A]

When does it go into effect? Like January 1st or something. Doesn't it?

[B]

I think I thought it was July 1st, so maybe it is in effect now.

[D]

Some of these on the shelves.

[A]

I'm super for it because I'm telling you, there's a bunch of suburban moms in. In like Virginia, Maryland and around D.C. who will choose to drive the hour into West Virginia to buy their groceries knowing it's all going to be free trash.

[E]

It says zero caffeine. That's the wokest thing.

[C]

What?

[E]

That loss is the ballot box. Okay, let's not check the last election

[A]

results took effect last year.

[B]

Oh, there you go.

[A]

What?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. In schools.

[B]

In schools. Okay.

[A]

The statewide ban starts including preservatives January 1st.

[E]

2028.

[B]

There you go.

[E]

That's big.

[A]

But litigation is ongoing.

[B]

Yeah, they're suing over it.

[E]

Zero caffeine. What?

[D]

Yeah, that's one.

[A]

Well, you know what? I have an idea.

[B]

Sparks. Can you Google that? So it was this alcohol energy drink. It looked like a battery. It had a plus sign and a minus sign.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[E]

Well, if we want to.

[A]

I remember this.

[E]

If we want to increase home.

[A]

Yeah, there it is.

[B]

It was like a bad.

[A]

They stopped selling all these because people were dying.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

And then guess what? One girl building.

[C]

Only the weak ones weren't supposed to drink.

[D]

Two of them. Everyone knew that.

[E]

Get your hard hat on. Get your marble red.

[A]

This was discontinued in 08, dude. It's because of the.

[B]

The four loads.

[E]

They all went with it.

[A]

How old were you? Like 24?

[B]

Something like that.

[D]

Yeah, there's this gas station attendant who bought a bunch and held on to them and like, sold them to us after they were illegal.

[A]

Hey, well, they kept the domain, though. I mean, it's sparks.com. that's a good domain.

[B]

Maybe they're trying to make a comeback.

[E]

You know, that'd be big. See, the zero caffeine, I mean, four

[B]

Loco had to readjust. I guess they're still around, but not the original.

[C]

Yeah, the possibly the possibility of an exploding heart is literally why I never tried cocaine.

[E]

Can you imagine?

[A]

Wait, wait, hold on, hold on, wait, wait. Is Hard Mountain Dew gluten free?

[C]

No.

[A]

What is it made of? What are they similar to beer?

[E]

I don't want to. I don't want to know.

[A]

Yeah, well, hold on. Is Hard Mountain Dew caffeine free? Yup. Exclamation point.

[E]

The wokest thing that doesn't make any sense.

[A]

You don't have.

[B]

The whole point of Mountain Dew is that. One, it's great. Two, it's got caffeine.

[E]

Like, are they not Kamala win? Did I miss something?

[A]

But hold on. They're saying it's just beer. It's just like. Like Mountain Dew flavored beer.

[B]

What? That's all right. I'm not for that.

[E]

What is going on?

[A]

No, like, bro, here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna buy a Mountain Dew and I'm gonna put a shot at the key limit.

[D]

What about Monster?

[A]

That goes with pineapple.

[C]

Buy one of these new flavors down a couple Nodos. Rip the Mountain Dew. There's still sugar in it. You'll be great.

[E]

All right, if you say so. I'll do for the show Thursday.

[A]

You know, nobody really? Drinks anymore? No, you have, like, this crazy shelf of booze. And like, a couple years ago, people would come in like, oh, yeah, I'll pour a scotch. And nobody drinks anymore.

[B]

I don't.

[A]

People come in. Yeah. They come in like, no, no, no, thanks. Everyone's like, we got some. We got some Louie over there.

[E]

So gay. Everyone's like, live longer.

[A]

And you would, like, that take. That's, like, Scottish or something.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Make your hair red. Oh, wait,

[B]

I don't know.

[E]

It's very, like, native name.

[A]

And then we have Laphroaig, too.

[E]

Lafroy. Get a little French on us.

[A]

No, that's. That's. That's Irish, I think. Oh, I might be Scottish. I don't know. Yeah, regardless.

[E]

Wilkinson River. There was.

[A]

And there's something from Mexico, but it's like a skeleton guy. I don't know what that is.

[E]

There is a beverage in Scotland that is banned in the U.S. it's called Bugfast. I don't know if you know anything about Bugfast. It's a tonic wine that has, like, 200 milligrams of caffeine in it.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[E]

And it was causing so much civil disruption that they had to, like, ban it because it was like. They just call it the domestic abuse. Jewelry juice is what they would call the abuse juice and use juice for similar reasons.

[D]

They don't sell liquor on Sunday in Texas because everyone would lose their jobs.

[E]

That makes a lot of sense. Yeah. So.

[A]

Well, I. I don't. I don't care how we do it. We just gotta. We just gotta bring testosterone back, you know? That's why I like what Hagseth is doing. He's like, if you're in the military, we're gonna give you tea. We're gonna. We're gonna. All these soldiers are gonna be just jacked.

[C]

And, like, I want to fight.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But we need to get young men to just start. I mean, listen, the truth is, the ladies would love it. Not like the young women. Nobody wants to be around a whiny, portly fella who just is not. Is weak and doesn't want to get the job done. So the guys got to get the testosterone. They got to stop your correct if I'm wrong, but something about, like, body fat converts testosterone into estrogen or something like that. Is that what it is?

[E]

Something like that.

[A]

So you gotta lose weight. You gotta. You gotta lose weight, you gotta exercise, you gotta lift, you gotta run, you gotta do fun stuff. And then when the guys are all swinging from monkey bars and doing Parkour or whatever. They'll be jacked, and they'll. You'll like. You get all the ladies. This is the funny thing, you know, with, like, the red pill dating stuff, these incel. Guys will be like, women just want to rip, Chad. So get ripped. Like, literally. You can just go to the gym.

[B]

Well, you know, it played a big role in this. And think about how many there are still around today. IPAs. IPAs.

[E]

Yeah, that hit us like crack.

[B]

I mean, that.

[A]

That pa. Yeah, that.

[E]

Oh, that hit the white community.

[A]

Disgusting. Yeah.

[B]

So, yeah, it was like. Yeah, it's like an epidemic.

[A]

It's like earwax and.

[B]

And that stuff. And somebody will correct me if I'm wrong. There is some amount of estrogen I believe, in. Ipa.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

Equity.

[E]

Why are millennials so liberal?

[B]

It's like, hello, so you got the IPAs. I mean, there's some of these things that are 300 calories a pop.

[C]

And back when. Back when IPAs were like, a big thing, I was just drinking straight vodka, so I. Oh, yeah, it's got phytoestrogens.

[B]

See?

[D]

What?

[E]

Crazy.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

And you know what the biggest. The. The biggest tragedy in all of this with the obesity epidemic etc is? It's totally killed off the innkeeper physiognomy. You know, you had this big, jolly innkeeper, like maybe a Bavarian or maybe someone Irish extraction. And he had the rosy red cheeks, and he was. He was round, but he wasn't fat. He was just kind of built like that. You don't see that physiognomy anymore because, like, you know, I don't know what, maybe hostess got involved or something, and it totally blew out the guy's ways. We used to have these guys everywhere. They used to be all over the

[A]

place, and they were like handlebar mustaches.

[E]

Yeah. And they were trusted individuals, and they're just gone. Like Mike.

[A]

They talked like this, like, the Mike Ditka build.

[E]

Mike Ditka now, you know, I don't want to get, you know, pick on any other head coaches in the NFL, but they would look like.

[A]

You mean, like. Like distended bellies.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

That's a sign of trust. It's a sign of prosperity. The Chinese said this is a sign of prosperity, and they might have been on to something.

[C]

The. The guy. Nowadays, when people are. Are. You know, have too much weight on them, it's oftentimes like, gelatinous. You know what I mean? They. They move around like a waterbed. Yeah. You know, as opposed to, like, the dudes with the big Solid.

[B]

So I. I used to work construction. I was a welder. That's what I did for a living. And you would have these. These massive human beings on the job site. Big, like, but not like, kind of like we were talking about just huge, visceral, fat, you know, just hang. But just big guys that were strong as hell. That. Yeah, I mean, they had. They're big around, but they could also lift, like, steel beams above their head. Yeah.

[C]

If I. If I don't cut it out with the cookies, I'll end up like that. Chocolate chip cookies, man. And ice cream. Ice cream. Oh, boy.

[E]

Yeah, I know. It's just. What's happening to this country? It's just a disgrace, really.

[C]

Ice cream.

[E]

And thankfully, thankfully, the Trump administration stepped in to return the. The innkeeper physiognomy, which has been.

[A]

Keeper.

[E]

Yeah, it's been a bit. If you look up innkeeper physiognomy, it'll come up with the guy I'm talking about.

[D]

Well, that's a real thing.

[E]

It's a real thing. And it's been this blind spot in our country for some time now. You can look at old pictures of, like, the Nebraska line, like, you know, like the. The offensive line. We lost that physiognomy. They're all just, like, fat now, and they used to just be big.

[A]

This is a literal, scientific, medical term.

[E]

Yeah, it's a thing. I wouldn't make that up.

[D]

Physiognomy.

[E]

I. I'm precise with my words when it comes to physiognomy.

[A]

The traditional literary and historical stereotype that associates an innkeeper's character, morality and role with specific facial and bodily features.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

In classical literature.

[E]

And they're gone. They disappear.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[E]

You know, it's. It's a shame. That's him. That's him. The innkeeper physiognomy. That's him.

[A]

Trustworthy innkeepers stay the same shape.

[E]

It's true. And we lost this. We lost this as a country.

[A]

Well, Tate, start packing on the pounds and you can be the trustworthy innkeeper.

[E]

Everyone's like, tate, why haven't you, like, completely cut. It's like, because I don't want to give up on this.

[C]

You have to lose that neck you've got there.

[D]

It kind of looks fat to me. I know.

[E]

How do I. How can I, like, get the gullet Just like, boom.

[D]

Traps.

[E]

Traps. This is actually.

[A]

This is crazy.

[E]

It needs to be like. That's just trust. He's trust building.

[C]

Well, he's got.

[A]

This is like NIH.gov has a write up on this. I'm not kidding.

[E]

That's a thing.

[A]

Here's, look at this one.

[E]

It's real.

[A]

So there's more than just surfaces and appearances. Character phys, physiognomy and communication in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. This is a message from the sea.

[E]

This is the real red pill people weren't ready for. You know, people like, oh, the red pill. Tell me about like this, that, that

[A]

we need the fetch Scottish guy to serve us beers.

[E]

Yes. Yeah. Instead, now it's weed. Now it's your sketchy weed dealer and you're smoking pot and you got these thc. This, that.

[A]

I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna hate it all.

[E]

Bring back the innkeeper.

[A]

I'm just gonna mention this for no reason because I was at a like an inn in the UK because it was like, it was like a hotel where I was, I was staying when I went there and the first floor had like a bar and restaurant and you know, in the uk, like have you seen these? They're like, they're like almost like slot machines.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

You can put in a pound and then play games. And if you do really well, you win money. You ever see those? One of these games is the Spot the difference.

[E]

Oh.

[A]

And it shows you two squares. And I'm so insanely good at that. I was printing money from these machines. It was weird. I was like, I don't understand why I can just keep making money. Why are they letting me do this? And I'm going to let you all in on a secret as to how you win those games. Every single time you play those games, you get two pictures and it says find the difference. And you gotta, you gotta tap the differences on the screens.

[C]

You know the game, I know the game.

[A]

Every single bar. Riley, you play that game at a bar your get two screen, you get two images. Yeah, it's not, not related to the innkeeper. There's. They have those little kiosks and you'll put in a dollar and you can play like arcade games. And one of them is spot the difference.

[B]

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Show you two different. It'll show you two of the same pictures with minor differences.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

If you want to win that every single time. And you can play this infinitely with and never lose. There is one secret technique so that you can literally play until your hands are bleeding and you can have. No, no, no. As your score. You cross your eyes. That's all you do.

[E]

You cross your eyes.

[D]

Is it really?

[C]

Oh yeah.

[A]

You have two pictures. You cross your eyes, the pictures overlap in your field of vision and every difference starts blinking in your field of vision. You'll see it blinking sort of back and forth between the error. So different colors start to, like, they look weird because they look like they're two different colors at the same time. And if there's like, let's say there's a boat and a window's missing, you'll see the boat half transparent. You'll see the window half transparent. You can literally go to those games, cross your eyes and then you go next level. So in the uk, they had this machine where if you got to like level 16, it would give you a pound. And if you got to level 17 to give you two pounds. Like, once you got that far and the timer's going really quick, I'm just

[D]

going like,

[E]

like free money, renting money, unlimited money. Glitch.

[A]

Yeah. Like, I was able to realistically make like a few pounds per hour. Like, it wasn't that easy because what they would do is after like level 17, the pictures would go like this and, and tilt.

[E]

Oh, they're trying to throw off the outside people.

[A]

Yep. But like, every time I go to a bar with my friends and they have one of those kiosks, I'd walk right up and be like, I'll get like 12 million points and then I'll leave. No one will ever beat that score. That's the secret.

[C]

It him has the secret sauce.

[A]

My brother came up with it. He told me to do it. I don't know, he just crossed his eyes and put the pictures together and went. And I was like, interesting.

[C]

I just saw this in relation to the, the conversation we're having about marijuana and nicotine and stuff.

[E]

The.

[C]

It's the hard times create nicotine men. Nicotine men create good times. Good times create weed guys. Weed guys create hard times. Pretty accurate.

[A]

That's true.

[C]

You know, I mean, look, man, there have been times in my life where I would smoke marijuana. And it does make you, you know, lethargic. It makes you kind of just want to sit around and play video games. When I was smoking cigarettes, man, I never made.

[A]

Well, let's just, let's just, let's just be real. You know, back in the day, nicotine men would give a woman a firm, open palmed slap on the bottom. Weed men sit in the corner of the room, glazed, just staring at the wind as they walk by and go, man, that's it.

[E]

Oh, and these people and they, the potheads mobilize. No One mobilizes, like, the potheads, too. Like, I think the most brutal, like, reply to, like, ratio I've ever seen in my life was Sagar and Jetty because he tweeted out, you know, something about the weed declassification. He just said, you know, marijuana is the smell of civilizational decay. Like, objectively a true, by the way.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

And the replies were just all these guys who were on one hand attesting that it's not addictive, but then also, like, having this impersonal, this, like, personal infraction because he's just saying he doesn't like the smell of marijuana.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

I don't know what's going on here, but I've seen the data and, like, 30% of people that say they smoke marijuana, so they smoke every day, versus 1 to 2% of alcohol users, I imagine.

[A]

Let's, let's, let's, let's jump back to politics. I guess you want to hit that point before we jump on.

[C]

So I imagine that my mentions will be. Will at least have a few people that are upset that we're even discussing any negative effects from marijuana, but just

[E]

have a cigarette and calm down.

[A]

I got to ask the congressman, are they going to pass the SAVE Act?

[B]

Oh, man. God bless. We in the House have passed it four times now, and now we are attaching it to everything moving. We've put it on everything. Every bill we send to the Senate has a SAVE act. And to his credit, great man, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Tom Cole, said, I will put it on all 12 of my appropriations bills coming out of the House. And so we're sending everything over there has the SAVE act on it. The best chance that we have to pass it is this reconciliation 3.0 that we just passed the budget resolution on. We're going to come back in September and pass reconciliation 3.0, which will have the SAVE act on it. This is for munitions for the military.

[A]

Is this NDAA?

[B]

No, no, no. Reconciliation 3.0. So the reconciliation process, remember, this is one big, beautiful bill, right? That allows for a simple majority vote in the Senate, so we could get 50. 50. Vance comes in, breaks the tie. So it's, it's as low. So this whole thing of, oh, we need 60 votes for cloture, you know, filibuster, blah, takes all that away. All that away. So this bill has funding for the military, U.S. department of Agriculture, obviously, we had a bad winter and some of these other things. It's very narrow what we're doing there. And then it has The SAVE act in it, and there's money in for that as well. They're going to have to actively take it out, vote on the floor to take that out if they want. If that's, you know, if they're so against it, which they're going to have the weight of the entire country that believes in the SAVE act, which, by the way, there's like a 8020 issue.

[A]

That's crazy. Everybody wants it.

[B]

Everybody wants independence.

[A]

Democrats Democrats are like 70%, independents like 80. Republicans are like 90.

[B]

And you know, my Senate friends aren't going to like this statement, but I would tell you, if they don't pass the SAVE act and we lose the House, they have culpability in it because it is hurting us. Yeah, it is hurting us.

[A]

I don't understand. I appreciate Trump has started speaking up against Thune for not taking the action. I think we should just get rid of the filibuster. Go simple majority, just get the job done. The argument I always hear is, oh, but if you. But if you get rid of the filibuster Democrats. No, no, no, no, no.

[B]

I promise you, they're getting rid of the filibuster.

[C]

It.

[D]

It's over.

[A]

And also they're not going to win if you get rid of the filibuster. Get the SAVE act in, you don't got to worry about it.

[B]

Yeah, My controversial hot take on the whole Senate is, aside from the Save act thing, I want to get rid of the 17th amendment. I don't think. Yeah, I don't think we should be electing senators. Yes, we need to get rid of it. That was the true intent of the founders. We changed that in the early 1900s. But it needs to go. We shouldn't be doing these direct elections. Legislatures should be. And by the way, if it was left to the legislatures, we'd have 60 fricking Republican seats right now in the United States Senate.

[A]

And the point is, it makes the people of a state know who their state senators and reps are. You don't vote for your senator. You vote for your state legislative body, who then appoints senator from your state to the federal government. Because the senator represents the state, not the people. And states that appeal the 17th.

[B]

And the states have no check on their federal elected reps right now.

[A]

Right.

[B]

No check on them.

[A]

You're not gonna, you're not gonna recall them. It's not gonna happen.

[B]

No, that's not gonna happen. This puts a check. And to your point, which is so important, it puts focus back on the State legislature. Most people don't know who their state

[A]

rep. You know what I find just the funniest thing ever is when you see these, these campaign ads where like a rep will be like, I'm gonna clean up this town or kind of thing. It's like you're running for federal congress, like you're going to represent the town to the federal government.

[B]

Right.

[A]

It's the local representatives and your state government that are going to the town. But people don't understand this anymore. So they believe that when they vote for a member of federal congress, it's a person who's going to be voting on bills for their city, which to a certain degree does happen.

[E]

Sure.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You need to know who your state rep and state senator is because they're the ones who are going to come knock on your door and you're going to say, hey, we got it, we got it. We got a sewage leak. And they're the ones who are going to be focused on that.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

If you want to find the person who's going to affect your day to day more than anybody, it's likely your county commissioner.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Your garbage doesn't get picked up. You're like, I'm calling my congressman.

[A]

Yeah. People do. Yeah. They do get caused like that, I imagine. Oh yeah, yeah. Do you just be like, let me get somebody, I'll try and help.

[B]

Hey, we got this pothole we got. It's like that's like 90% chance. That's probably the state or the county.

[A]

But you still have to do the work.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

You still have to be like, let me help you on this.

[B]

Yeah. And we help.

[E]

Switchboard operator.

[B]

So we always help. We go, we talk to the state, we talk to the county. But people should be looking at their state and local reps. That's where it's at.

[A]

People just, we've lost this. And this country would be substantially better because people would be like, they would go to the town halls or council meetings and be like, hey, you appointed a bad senator. They have to hold their state accountable, which affects the grassroots and will fundamentally bring back control to the people. What's happening right now is we're sort of skipping over the people because popular vote for senator is lowest common denominator statewide. If you go, if you make sure that there's that level of state senator and state rep, you are now creating stronger roots to the community as you move up the chain to federal government and beyond. Right now we're skipping over all of our state governance and so you're Ending up with. With senators who don't represent any community in their state. Just the lowest common denominator of people. People spanned it across the state. Yeah, exactly.

[B]

You put the power back in. And this is also solves, by the way, the whole term limit question, particularly on the Senate.

[A]

Oh, easily. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. And look, if the state legislature decided we're going to keep him for three, four terms, there's probably a pretty good reason. Highly unlikely, because eventually people would say, we want a new guy.

[A]

Yeah. And man, could you imagine? Florida would always have just, like, the best senators.

[C]

The silver lining on this would be the fact that it would really piss off the DSA types because they want to get rid of the Senate and we'd actually restore the Senate to proper places.

[B]

And to point about an hour ago, we're a republic. We are a republic. We're not just. We're not a direct democracy. The Democrats want direct democracy on everything. We are a republic. And this returns us to that principle of a constitutional republic as we are in this country.

[A]

How do we do that? I'm for. So I think it was Ben Sasse who said this years ago when he was. He was a senator, I believe.

[B]

Yeah, he was.

[A]

It's been a minute. And he said, we got to get rid of the 17th. And then I thought about it for a while and I was like, I don't know, that sounds crazy. And then I read what he had to say about it. I think I watched a video of it and then I read through it and I was like, yeah, yeah, we got to get rid of that. That's, that's, that's crazy. How do you do it?

[B]

You got to amend the Constitution. So it takes two. It takes two thirds to do it. It's in the Constitution. So it takes constitutional amendment to be able to do it. But to me, I think anybody who is watching this, which. Start looking into this. This. Yeah, this makes a lot of sense. To do something like this returns power back to the state and accountability. Not to mention, you know, see a John Cornyn lose the Republican primary down in Texas. They spent over $100 million on his primary.

[A]

I mean, insane.

[B]

To beat Talarico, we're going to spend 150. Who knows, $200 million. That. Does that make any sense? You know, that doesn't make sense.

[A]

The best business you could start right now is open a news organization called the Texas Independent. And you just cater to independent voters because you're going to get both Democrats and Republicans dumping all of the ad dollars they can on your publication. Just make $20 million and then you can. Then you're done. Come back.

[B]

Oh, yeah, look, there he is. Ben Sasse.

[A]

Yeah, I read this National Review. Ben Sassez calls for appealing 17th amendment, eliminating popular votes and at elections. And I saw this, like, what? Sounds crazy. And then I read about it and I was like, wow. Yeah. It was Wall Street Journal op ed. I could not make this edit great again. Agreed.

[B]

Poor guy's got cancer right now. Yeah, yeah, real bad.

[C]

And the treatment is really, really rough. I've seen some pictures and he is really struggling. It sucks, you know.

[B]

You know, he's putting out some wisdom there right now.

[A]

And I could, I could get behind some Democrats if they just got rid of the gay communism stuff. Like, I, you know, like, that's the biggest complaint I think most moderates have. The problem is they keep trying to wield gay communism, like the one ring you can't. You can't control it. And now they're getting eaten alive in New York, in Colorado, and it's. And, you know, watching fox news, watching CNN, Harry Anton's like, the Democratic party's favorability is minus 26. It's because regular people don't like gay communism.

[B]

They don't. And we literally ran against it. Best ad they they are for they them and we are for you.

[A]

You know, three point swing. They Democrat political action committees tracked this and they found that the Donald that the right, the concern, it wasn't necessarily Trump, but it was the Republican. Kamala is for they them ad campaign resulted in a 2.7% swing from Democrat to Republican.

[B]

Great ad.

[A]

And Glad said their assessment isn't conclusive on votes, but found it resulted in a 3 to 4% drop in support for trans rights. That's insane. I mean, it's. Even Donald Trump, real quick, brought up Kaitlan Collins, Dylan Mulvaney.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Mulvaney comes out and says, why are you saying my name? And I'm like, Dylan Responding is everything Trump could have asked for to reignite an issue that Americans are animated by.

[B]

Yeah. And look, he is, to me, the great communicator. Politically. He is now, as you said, reopen that conversation, which is how we won two. We've all been trying to figure out how to talk about this DSA takeover and all this. Trump's just calling them. What is it?

[C]

It's kind of communism.

[B]

It's communism. That's exactly what it is. If you go, and I'd urge anybody to go take a look at this. The difference in between espayat who lost his primary to one of these Mondami primary challengers. They're both Dominican. He's actually born in, in the doctor, she's not. They both speak Spanish. They're both left wing lunatics on immigration, all this other stuff. What's the one difference in between the two of them? She had converted to Islam recently and he was not. He had been supportive of Israel at some point in his career and that's a big question. I think what's going on in this country in terms of the Democrats is what's happening in Europe. I'll give you an example. Like France, it's the red Green coalition.

[C]

Yep.

[B]

The red green coalition, the communists and the Islamists.

[A]

But the Islamists of course don't much care for communists, but they know that they're useful.

[B]

They're useful idiots in this.

[C]

I mean you can.

[E]

What happened to the 1979 in Iran? Yeah, that's exactly what happened there.

[C]

Yeah, I wrote a piece about it on my, on my Patreon. You can go check it [e-mail] for the remains. It's free. But yeah, like the, the left and the, the communists, they don't have the ability, they don't have the way to, a way to articulate a defense against the Islamists. The Islamists are, according to the left, they are an oppressed group.

[E]

Yes.

[C]

And so because they're an oppressed group, they are in a position to push the, the communists essentially around because the whole, the whole oppressor oppressed narrative rules everything they do. So they align together. They say we're taking up the cause of the, of the, you know, the, whatever it is, the Islamists or the Muslims that are oppressed and etc. Etc. But then once they've defeated the right, then the Islamists will turn on them. And I think it was 40,000 people were killed in Iran.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

That were, that were, you know, on the left by the Islamists. Like you don't have, you do not have a means to define, defend yourself from these people because you can't, you can't even say things that would offend them, never mind actually defend yourself. And if the, if the Islamists and the left do beat the right, the Islamists will slaughter the left. They've done it every single time.

[B]

Every single time they have done that. And, but they're just looking at how deranged they are over on that side and these useful idiots where it's like, like we're trans people for free Palestine. It's like Let me know how that goes.

[C]

Well, the problem is they have to beat the right first.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

And so, like, if they were to win, we'd never find out because we're all going to gulag anyway. So, you know, we'll be making big rocks into little rocks, you know?

[A]

Yeah. You know, but.

[C]

But yeah, the. The idea that, that, that they're able to align together. Even now you see it in. In Europe where there are, you know, palace pro Palestine demonstrations and they. They're kicking out the people that are waving the lgbt. Yeah, there was. There was just a. An Islamist in Berlin that drove a car into a pride parade.

[A]

Oh, and you see the videos of the progressives blaming white people for it.

[C]

Yeah, of course, of course.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

No, it's real. I'm not going to blame your religion, but white men and what.

[C]

That.

[A]

It's like.

[D]

Oh, God.

[C]

Yeah, it's. It's because they. They don't actually have contact with reality again. The. There are. They're. They are in conflict with reality. Like, the Islamists are not going to welcome them in.

[B]

And the wildest part is that they've all bought into this narrative that the Islamists are complaining about the colonizers and the colonizers.

[A]

Is there.

[B]

Is there any faith that has colonized more than Islam?

[C]

Nope.

[A]

Have you looked at a map of the Jihad versus the Crusade? Let me see if I can find this. We brought up on the show like, a couple years ago. I just love pulling up this map. Let me see if I can find a good Jihad map.

[D]

It's.

[A]

It's insane when you look at it. Is this it? No, no, that's modern. That's modern. We don't want the. Oh, that's crazy, too. Yikes. I'm gonna pull that in just while I'm looking for the historical. This is like. Yeah, this is the modern one. And it's like, yikes. That's crazy. No, I was looking for the historical.

[C]

The Ottoman Crusade was awful large. Half of Spain was controlled by Muslims for a long time.

[B]

Moors. Yeah, yeah.

[C]

I mean, we're not related, by the way. Fair enough. But, you know, there you go.

[E]

This is it.

[C]

There you go.

[A]

Can we make this big? So the. The top one is the Jihad and you can see all of the battles, the spread. The green is where they took over and the conflicts were the red dots. Here's the Crusade battles. So this was like. This was a big viral thing on the Internet several years ago where some guy made a video where he said, let's compare the Jihad of The Crusade. And it's like. Yeah, there's. There's no question. The Crusades were microscopic.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

No, and the Crusades, by the way, were very specific in protecting pilgrims who were trying to go to the Holy Land from Europe. There was a sp. Which, by the way, had gone on for, I think, 400 years or something like that. They had been targeting Christian pilgrims trying to go to the Holy Land. And that's how this came about. Pope Urban II and everybody else, you know, and made a call out there to protect these pilgrims. And a lot of it was private. People think that this was, you know, the. The country of France or that these were families and houses that decided, we're going to go protect these Christian pilgrims on their way down. And then ultimately ended up securing the city of Jerusalem and then other outposts in that. In there. Now, obviously, it's war. Terrible things happen. Got all that. But you can look at this map. It speaks for itself.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

But, you know, you can't see as close in there. But it's like. Don't remember, like, Austria. That was like 1683.

[A]

That.

[B]

Yeah, it's like, you know, if you're looking in the span of history of all these things, not too terribly long ago recently.

[C]

Yeah. I mean, when. When was Islam. When was Islam established as a religion?

[D]

Six, like 400 years or something after Christianity. I could be wrong.

[B]

Yeah. Six hundreds. I can't remember the exact.

[C]

Let's see.

[A]

638.

[C]

I think it's six. Yeah. 610.

[E]

DLC. 610.

[C]

630. Mohammed's death was in 632. So, Mom, Muhammad was born in 610. He died in 632.

[E]

It was an expansion pack. DLC.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

When I say 638, you're supposed to go 637.

[C]

But yeah, the left has no defense against this. They. They have absolutely do.

[A]

It's just. It's. It's what they do. When you bring up anything, they change the subject or they say you're obsessed with Trump.

[C]

No, I mean, they don't have any defense against the Islamists.

[A]

Oh, you're saying when the Islamists come to just wipe them out.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Should the right.

[A]

I don't even like the argument. No, try to argue the left. They'll just change the subject.

[C]

Yeah, no, no, they'll. They'll argue till the. Till they're blue in the face that the right is wrong. But should the right not be there as a bulwark against both the left and the Islamists the Islamists will have no problem killing them.

[D]

Yeah, the left is being hoodwinked by the Islamists who are using them to fill their prophecy.

[C]

You say hoodwink, but that implies that they, they, they're being fooled. And I don't think they are. I think they are. I think that they are just refusing to acknowledge reality.

[B]

I, I think they do have a line through in terms of just one similarity and it's control. And they both have different ways of doing that and controlling civilization. Ultimately, though, and we conservatives are a bigger threat to Islam than obviously the useful idiots of the left, because many of us are people of faith. We're Christians, obviously. There's Jews, we. People who believe. And that is more threatening to them than some transgender rights activists marching down the street in San Francisco, that this is a civilizational conflict that we're involved with. And the entire Western civilization rests on three pillars. It's Christianity, Greek philosophy, and Roman law.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And if you pull one of those pillars out, the whole thing falls apart.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, the, I've heard other people talk about the, the three pillars of Western society and, and it really is true. Like, without any one of those, those foundational philosophies or whatever, you don't have the United States. You don't have the west as a, as a, as a culture. And even though all of Europe, there's very different cultures throughout Europe, they are really based on, you know, they are based on, on, you know, Greek philosophy, on Roman

[B]

law.

[C]

Law there. Thank you very much. Yeah.

[B]

And look, we are, to me, the United States. We are the apex of Western civilization.

[C]

We're the, we're the top. We're the culmination of the promises made in the Magna Carta.

[B]

Yeah, we, we are at the top of it. Unfortunately. Europe right now is like hospice for the Western civilization. It's in the, the death rows, the decline. Hopefully they can turn it around.

[A]

We're going to go to the uncensored portion of the show in 10 minutes, but for now, we're going to read your rumble rants and super chat. So smash the like button. Subscribe, Share the show. All that good stuff.

[C]

Stuff.

[A]

Let's start with force. Name change. It says, I buy my chicken and beef and pork and eggs all from my local Hutterite colony. Is that you say it. They also throw in a bottle of wine. Can't beat that. We got awesome Mennonites out here. And we used to. We don't do it so much anymore, but we're probably going to start going back they just have, like, a little Amish shop, and you go in, and they have all of, like, the legit real farm food.

[B]

The Mennonites are amazing.

[A]

And they're wearing the little bonnets.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They're just sitting there, and they're like, it's real food. And you're like. That's all I had to say.

[C]

Yummy.

[A]

Real cheese. You know what's really crazy? I think I was talking about this, like, last week. I think maybe I was talking about this with Lily Tang, is that, you know, when I first got chickens, this was probably 13 years ago, maybe. Maybe 12 years ago. I had friends come over, and I walk out back, grab the eggs right from under the chicken, and come inside. And I'm like, you want eggs? And they go, don't you have to, like, do something? And I was like, what do you mean? They were like, don't you have to, like. They're like they're dirty or something. And I was like, oh, you want to cook them? And they're like, yeah, but aren't they supposed to be, like, processed or something? And I was confused. I'm like, do you think that, like, after the eggs are laid, they have to be, like, processed in a factory before they can be eaten? Like, you literally just eat them right on the spot. You could crack it open and just eat it. Yeah. But I feel like a lot of city people have grown up detached from food. They don't realize you can walk out to your garden and just pull off a tomato and just eat it.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean, that's like, look, you one of the first. Some people do this. I have done it. You know, you shoot a deer, you got the deer. People want those back straps. You cook them right then.

[C]

Yeah, it's all good.

[B]

You don't need to, like, send it somewhere. It's okay.

[C]

You need it. Those are the people that, when you say, where does food come from? They say the grocery store.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

Yeah, that's right.

[A]

Like, we get wine berries out here. You see them all the place, I'd imagine, right?

[B]

Yep.

[A]

They're invasive, but they are delicious.

[B]

They are.

[A]

And so at the castle, it's nuts because we probably have millions of them just everywhere invasive. We don't have them out here, but people would come to the. When they come on the show, and I'd be like, oh, look. And I'd grab a handful of berries, and they'd be like, you just going to eat them? And I'm like, yep. And the bugs on them.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

There are Little bugs on them. Popping them right in my mouth. That's right.

[B]

There are.

[A]

There are so those that don't know wine berries. They're like a Chinese raspberry. That's invasive. I don't know how it got here.

[B]

I don't either.

[A]

But they spread all over the place, and they're more resilient than raspberries. They're like. They look like they're a little. Just firmer, I guess. I don't know. Yeah, but they're delicious. They're a little tart. You can pop them right off the vine and eat them, no problem. The problem is they choke out raspberries. So, you know, that's a problem.

[C]

That is a shame.

[A]

But they have these little bugs that look like little. Little praying mantis that live on them their whole world. You're like this little bug. You'll pick one and you'll see this little tiny bug, and it lives on the berry. Could you imagine just living on a giant cheeseburger your whole life? But just eat them.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I've never thought nothing about it. I don't rinse them off or anything. Not sick. No, no.

[B]

I've picked him many times.

[A]

Yeah, we have a paw paw as well.

[B]

Paw paws.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Pull it right off.

[E]

And pull it right off.

[B]

Good.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like the Appalachian mango.

[A]

Yeah. It's unfortunate that they're not. So they're not like. They're so hard to produce. It's not valuable. That's the problem. Yeah, they're. They're. So the pawpaw is a fruit out here that they say it's like mango, avocado, and like banana. Is that what it's.

[B]

Yeah. Yep.

[A]

It's got big seeds in it. But the tree is pollinated by beetles and flies, so it's difficult to cultivate. But in the wild, they're all over the place.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

By the end of September, October. And they taste pretty good. I feel like it's got. It's got almost kind of like a cereal flavor, in my opinion. Like, it's kind of. Yeah, that's hard to describe.

[B]

Yeah. Well. And we actually have a town called Pawpaw in West Virginia.

[A]

Do a paw paw festival, I imagine.

[B]

Paw festival. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, it is good. The problem is they. When they're ripe, they just melt. Like, you can take it off a tree and just split it wide open. And it is like avocado. It's gooey. But avocados have a thicker, harder case, you know, shell. So you can't really transport these. Same thing with Mulberries. Mulberries are really delicate, so by the time they get them off the tree, they. They're all bruised and damaged. Nobody wants to buy them, so they just don't harvest them pretty wild.

[D]

Let's.

[A]

Let's grab some more instead of just talking about West Virginia fruits.

[E]

Well, there was. There is. The fun fact in the Hutterites, too, is that there's a colony in Japan. It was a bunch of Japanese people, and they just became persuaded by the Anabaptist arguments, started a Hutterite colony.

[A]

Let's go. Jason says. Tim, I've been watching you since you stream, and as per tradition, I'd love to congratulate my lovely wife Sabrina, giving birth to our fourth beautiful child, Jasmine, another proud Acadian.

[C]

Congratulations.

[E]

Welcome to the world. This is a Canadian patriot.

[A]

This is. This is. This is a big story. We didn't get to it. Search and seizure says Minocqua Brewing Company, Wisconsin is getting their alcohol permit revoked on August 4th. It's the owner that was advertising free beer Day when he dies. I'm celebrating this news. What are your thoughts? Yeah, did you hear this? This guy is like a known leftist activist who had been saying that if Trump died, he'd give everybody free beer or insinuating it'd be Trump or whatever. He got his permit revoked. Apparently, he's being accused by the state of illegally shipping beer and not paying taxes. I just find it particularly ironic that an AOC and Bernie supporter was being accused of not paying taxes.

[C]

Oopsie.

[E]

That's. See, that's your mind on IPAs. That's what happens.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Maybe if he paid his fair share, you know, he wouldn't have gotten shut down.

[B]

I think it was Joe Biden said paying taxes is patriotic.

[A]

That's right. Let's see. Shade says. Did you guys see. Happen to see Libs of TikTok's post showing Connecticut's Senate Bill 298. It's going to have public schools, teach Islamic and Arab studies. Your children will learn to love their conquerors.

[C]

That's a.

[A]

Not my kid.

[E]

I assume it's not gonna be like an adult Jeffersonian. It's just.

[A]

It's just really funny when I talk to, like, these moderate lib types because, like, we debated them on the show about my kid and, you know, and they're like, here, your daughter is going to get into things. You can't stop it. I'm like, my daughter's going to be homeschooled. She's not going to one of these Whackaloon public schools, where an agent of the state will indoctrinate my child. Now, I'm not trying to be a dick. I know some people, they have no choice because you're you. You acquire dual income. Your mom, the wife is working, mom's working, dad's working. And so they have to have someone watch their kids. But this is the problem. I'll never do it. I will live in the wilderness hunting deer with my bare hands before I hand my child off to the state.

[B]

Well, when your child's old enough, don't forget to sign up for the HOPE scholarship here in West Virginia.

[D]

Let's go.

[B]

Homeschool kids. And private school kids are eligible for their. Their portion of state taxpayer dollars that can go to home school or private school. Roughly around $5,000 right now.

[A]

You know what my wife really wants to do, and I think it's a really good idea because we talked about it. So Casper Coffee Shop is open in Martinsburg.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

And there is a. There is a small child's play area. It's small, just in the back corner. There's toys, there's books. Can probably accommodate three or four kids at a time, but it's closed. So you know where your kid's going to be. If you're sitting down, you can sit down next to them. But my wife wants to do. They do these play places where it's. It's not like a jungle gym or anything. It's a bunch of educational toys and things to climb on. And parents bring their kids there, and the kids run around and play. And I was like, we should do a hybrid of that with some educational stuff for homeschool kids. So parents, when their kids are homeschooled, this is where they bring them, you know, for an hour or two every day for socializing.

[B]

Oh, that'd be cool. That's a good idea.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, I think it'd be really fun. My wife was really excited. She's like, I want to open one of these, like, you know, child's play places.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

She was like, they're great businesses, and she's been looking at them. And she goes to a handful with. With our daughter. And then I was like, let's go. It sounds fantastic.

[B]

Yeah, that's a great idea.

[A]

What we wanted to do with the coffee shop is on Saturday mornings, have, like, a family day. We call it Saturday morning Cartoons. And we'd play, like, good, appropriate children's content. We would do. We'll figure it out, because I think we're this is still on the. On the. On the. On the burners. The idea is to do small catering so parents can come in, hang out, have some breakfast, some eggs, bacon, sausage, some pancakes, and the kids all get to hang out and play together. So that was one of the ideas we had, and we just got to figure it out. As always, the biggest challenge is always management.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So I think, you know, John over at. Casper and Mamba certainly has a handle on things. We just need to go and coordinate with him. We're also going to be talking about doing miniature events every week and monthly big events. Because we did our grand opening, members only. Everybody showed up. It was a lot of fun.

[B]

Sorry I wasn't there. It was.

[A]

Oh, no. Oh, I know. Yeah. You know, come by whenever. And Ian sang, you know, nice. Jason Ellis did comedy. It was very good. It was very funny. He made fun of me the whole time.

[D]

You sang as well, and I got some on video. It was pretty good.

[A]

Oh, yeah. I was not prepared to sing, so I was like, you get what you get, Alex. Me and Alex Stein started a band and then disbanded immediately.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Speedrunning the Beatles, basically.

[A]

Well, it was funny because Alex was like. I was like, hey, Alex, I'll play guitar in freestyle. He basically had one tone and one chain of thought. Casper, coffee is good and Starbucks is gay. Tim Pool is here. And, like, that was about it. Usa. Usa.

[E]

Compelling lyricism.

[A]

All right, let's grab a couple more here. Just about a minute left. Merck says, Tim, they taste like Mountain Dew. I rarely drink anymore, but got these from Wally world on the 4th as it was the most America ish I've seen in a while. Delicious. Not like beer at all. Okay, cool.

[D]

There you go.

[A]

We'll give Mountain to the benefit of that. But no caffeine makes me. Hey, I have questions.

[E]

Strong anecdote.

[A]

Let's try and grab a couple of these. We got toasted butter. 1776 says, Want to announce the birth of another Patriot.

[E]

Let's go.

[A]

A couple of weeks late, but need to honor the tradition. Mom did great. Baby is healthy. Have more babies.

[E]

World Patriot.

[C]

More babies immediately.

[E]

Goo Goo Gaga. Whatever. It works. Helps.

[C]

I won't even let. We won't even put pictures of our kid out on the Internet.

[E]

But he's already.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

All right, last one. Kyle Zoker says with great honor, I get to continue. Tim Cast Tradition, please welcome. Joy. Liberty. A blessing from the Lord for a man to fill his quiver. Psalm 12735.

[E]

Welcome.

[C]

Congratulations, Liberty.

[E]

That's a lot of pressure there. That's a big name.

[B]

Congratulations.

[A]

Hey, we're gonna go to the uncensored portion of the [e-mail] Timcast IRL. So hit that like button. Hit it. Share the show with everyone you've ever met in your life. You can follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast. Riley, do you want to shout anything out?

[B]

Yeah, check me out. Instagram, X, all my accounts. Rep Riley Moore. Give me a follow. We keep the content interesting. Appreciate you having me back on Christ is King.

[A]

Right on. Anytime, brother.

[B]

So true.

[E]

Yeah. You follow me on X and Instagram at real Tate Brown. Go follow me there. Thank you so much, Riley. You're the best.

[B]

Thanks.

[E]

But shout out to everyone that I met at the Casper grand opening. That was a lot of fun. I've been on the show since that, so it was a blast meeting all of you guys. Can't wait for the next one. It's seriously, it's a lot of fun hanging out with you guys.

[C]

So I am fill the remains on Twix. You can also check out the stuff that I write on Patreon. There's some of the all that remains behind the scenes footage. Sometimes a little bit of that too. So that's patreon.com filler remains. You can check out the band's music at Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, YouTube, Spotify and Deezer. Don't forget the left lane is for crime.

[D]

Carter, I'm Carter Banks. You can find me at Carter Banks everywhere. And at Carter Banks official everywhere else. Tate, you did a great job emceeing the event. It was very funny and fun. Riley, thanks for coming out. Let's get into the after show.

[B]

Thanks.

[A]

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

[D]

Sa.