FBI Warns Iran Prepping DRONE STRIKE On California w/ Arynne Wexler

Summary

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Timcast IRL – FBI Warns Iran Prepping DRONE STRIKE on California w/ Arynne Wexler

Date: March 12, 2026
Host: Tim Pool (Timcast Media)
Guests: Arynne Wexler, Luke Rudkowski, Ian Crossland, Filler Remains

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on breaking news that the FBI has warned of a potential Iranian drone strike against California, raising questions about foreign threats, U.S. interventions, and government credibility. The panel, joined by comedian and commentator Arynne Wexler, dissects the warning's legitimacy, the broader Mideast conflict (particularly U.S.-Iran tensions), energy policy fallout, domestic trust in government, and ongoing battles over the SAVE Act for voter ID. Throughout, the hosts keep the tone conversational and irreverent, while delving into the mechanics of foreign policy, economic vulnerabilities, digital IDs, and disillusionment with the current political system.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. FBI’s Drone Strike Warning & Public Skepticism

[08:00–11:00]

• Report: The FBI alerted California law enforcement of Iran's aspiration to carry out surprise drone attacks on unspecified California targets if provoked by U.S. strikes against Iran.
• Skepticism:
  • Tim questions "Do we really expect Iran to launch drone strikes on California?"
  • Luke points to deep mistrust of the FBI, referencing past cover-ups (e.g., Epstein) and widespread suspicion of a possible “false flag” used as a pretext for escalation or boots on the ground.
• Quote:
  • Luke: "No one trusts the authorities anymore." [09:33]

2. ‘False Flag’ Claims and U.S. Intervention Rationale

[10:10–11:59]

• Panel Reflection: Multiple hosts debate if the memo itself serves as false-flag groundwork or merely standard strategic warning (wait & see approach).
• Tim’s Take: “They wouldn’t put a story like this out if it was gonna be a false flag. They would just do it.” [10:49]
• Consensus: Internal governmental communications are often ambiguous, but skepticism is high due to decades of undermined trust.

3. Geopolitical & Economic Ramifications: Iran, Oil, and Global Power

[15:00–25:00]

• Trump’s Iran Strategy:
  • Wexler notes Trump’s “getting things done” style, referencing his silence before coordinated moves with Israel and the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader: “He was just getting ready, and the military was preparing... Then we had the attack that killed the Ayatollah.” [13:52]
• Legacy and Policy:
  • Tim speculates Trump’s driver is his legacy (“He wants that legacy of being the guy who stabilized the Middle East.” [17:50]), but destiny is more complex, as Iran’s refusal to negotiate upends the “Art of the Deal” vision.
• Energy Realities:
  • Much debate revolves around the Strait of Hormuz, the petrodollar, and U.S. dominance in guaranteeing global oil flow (and propping up the dollar), with wary acknowledgment the U.S. way of life is built atop these arrangements.

Notable Exchanges:

• Luke: “America should take care of America... I don’t think we should be the police of the world.” [25:29]
• Tim: "We are the police of the world... That's the principal reason why we're like, Iran's bad." [25:49]
• Ian: “The machine twirls its own mustache... and they get in there and they're being twirled with it.” (On institutional inertia) [29:26]

4. Middle East Policy, War Fatigue, and Blowback

[31:41–35:39]

• Cycle of Blowback:
  • Hosts recount U.S. history of arming/funding proxies, later turning into threats (from Mujahideen to Al Qaeda to current chaos in Yemen and beyond).
  • Luke emphasizes how war and interventions contributed to “the destruction of the U.S. dollar and the purchasing power of the dollar." [34:14]
• Tim’s Pushback:
  • Highlights tradeoffs of global dominance—cheap goods, but increased instability and terrorism as the consequences.

5. Venezuela Regime Change & Intervention Models

[46:13–48:42]

• Venezuela Take:
  • Luke and Tim cautiously praise the regime change as “working so far,” with Tim framing it as justified reclamation of assets stolen by Chavez: “So far, it's starting to look better and better... and I’m feeling kind of good about it.” [47:59]
• Cautionary Note:
  • Comparisons to Iraq and Afghanistan warn of long-term ramifications.

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6. Domestic Policy: The SAVE Act and Election Integrity

[50:06–62:07]

• SAVE Act:
  • Would require proof of citizenship to register to vote—enormously popular with the public (71% Democrats, 95% Republicans support ID requirements per Tim [50:06]).
• Political Gridlock:
  • Despite popularity, both Democrats and several establishment Republicans (e.g., John Cornyn, Lisa Murkowski) are blocking the bill, citing arguments from “disenfranchisement” to “states’ rights.”
  • Tim speculates: "They're playing dirty games... the Republicans cut deals with Democrats 'cause it's one big happy family tree..." [58:48]
• Schumer’s “Tens of Billions” Gaffe:
  • The panel mocks Schumer’s on-air claim SAVE Act would kick “tens of billions” off voter rolls—attributed to congestion, a slip, or joking about illegal aliens and even “aliens up there trying to register” [55:54].

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7. Digital Identity, Surveillance, and Authoritarian Creep

[70:11–77:17]

• National ID Concerns:
  • Luke voices deep fear of national ID as the foundation for digital surveillance, loss of privacy, and eventual social credit systems: “It is going to be a track, trace and database, total information awareness type of program.” [71:34]
• Tim’s Devil’s Advocate:
  • Raises that true digital anonymity is already gone via shadow profiles and big tech surveillance; digital ID at least would curb bots and foreign manipulations—though not endorsing it, acknowledges “the positives are we have bots all over these social media platforms...” [73:09]
• Resistance vs. Futility:
  • Luke: “No, humanity is worth fighting for.”
  • Tim: “You can argue that we're going to lose a war, but still believe we should keep fighting.” [77:40]

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8. Deep Dives: AI in Governance, Judicial Efficiency, and Human Error

[91:20–105:56]

• Debating AI Decision-Making:
  • Ian floats using AI for legal and legislative review to “get through...in an hour instead of two days” [96:39], sparking heated pushback from Tim and others that human moral agency is irreplaceable.
  • Tim: “We cannot allow a machine to handle our legal process. Because humans are due a process by which they can prove their innocence to other humans.” [100:19]
• AI Limitations and Dangers:
  • Filler Remains and Tim cite studies in which AIs “demonstrated a strong tendency to escalate to nuclear use” in war games. [96:01]
  • Wexler: “AI is dumb because it's trained by people and people are, well, mostly liberals... it can't even be racist.” (on AI’s inability to write offensive jokes) [105:51]

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9. Disillusionment, Political Shifts, and 2026 Election Outlook

[78:02–88:00]

• Trump/Herrera Endorsement:
  • Trump endorses Brandon Herrera for Congress; panel uses this to question if Republicans/MAGA can maintain House majority amid “black-pilled” and disengaged base.
• Panel Fears Suburban Women & Libertarians Leaving GOP:
  • Tim notes that formerly engaged right-leaning and libertarian influencers are “Erica posting” or shifting to esoterica/conspiracy, leaving suburban women feeling alienated and potentially losing the election for the right: “This is going to cost Trump and MAGA a tremendous amount of support.” [83:02]
• Short- vs. Long-Term Pain:
  • Wexler defends Trump’s war posture as “short term pain for long term gain.” [87:41]
  • Luke is unconvinced, asking where the “gain” is, especially on domestic issues like glyphosate and Iran instability.

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10. Memorable Quotes & Notable Banter

On U.S. Global Policy/“World Police”:

“The U.S. principal export is U.S. Naval police. We tell these countries, if you use U.S. dollars for oil, the petrodollar system, we will guarantee safe passage for your vessels. That's the principal reason why we're like, Iran's bad.”
— Tim Pool [25:49]

On Institutional Decay:

“The machine twirls its own mustache... and they get in there and they're being twirled with it.”
— Ian Crossland [29:26]

On Digital ID & Surveillance:

“It is going to be a track, trace and database, total information awareness type of program.”
— Luke Rudkowski [71:34]

On Disillusionment with Party Politics:

“Democrats cause all the problems, but Republicans will solve none of them.”
— Aaron Wexler [60:38]

On Tech and Human Morality:

“We cannot Allow a machine to handle our legal process. Because humans are due a process by which they can prove their innocence to other humans.”
— Tim Pool [100:19]

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11. Light Moments & Running Gags

• Schumer’s “tens of billions” gaffe gets riffed repeatedly, with jokes about aliens, Jews, and “the dating pool.”
• The placement of “boobs” in thumbnails and related inside jokes lighten the mood throughout the episode.
• Amber Alert interrupts the show [65:00–66:20], with the panel showing rare unison in support of law enforcement.
• Ongoing ribbing between Luke and Arynne about libertarian purity, Jew jokes, and neocon Barbie.

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12. Closing Thoughts & Community

• Tim closes with reflections on government overreach, frustration at legal businesses being shut down by state agencies (e.g., Texas poker raid), and calls for more engaged, principled representatives like Brandon Herrera.
• Guests plug their projects and social media; Arynne Wexler’s comedy, Luke’s alternative journalism, Ian’s documentary project.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [08:00] – FBI Memo Discussion Begins
• [14:30] – Trump’s Iran Strategy & Legacy
• [17:50] – Petrodollar, Energy Policy & Gas Prices
• [25:49] – U.S. Naval Power as Export
• [46:13] – Venezuela Comparison
• [50:06] – SAVE Act/Voting Rights Debate
• [55:54] – Chuck Schumer’s “Tens of Billions” Quote
• [70:11] – Digital ID & Privacy Fears
• [91:20] – AI Governance Debate
• [105:51] – AI’s Limits & Biases

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode offers an in-depth, fast-paced analysis of current U.S. foreign and domestic crises—from Iranian threats and U.S. war rationale to deep skepticism of government and establishment politics. The panel is divided between “America First” defenders and anti-interventionist skeptics, offering a rich range of perspectives while not shying away from humor, meta-commentary, and audience interaction. Frequent pivots between global power dynamics, technology's encroachment on privacy, and grassroots political engagement make this a wide-ranging, provocative listen—balancing seriousness with signature Timcast irreverence.

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Transcript

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[Tim Pool]

The FBI has warned police stations across California that Iran is preparing aspiring to engage in drone strikes off of the coast of California to California. And the immediate response from a lot of the anti interventionist people is that okay, this is propaganda. They're trying to freak people out. But I guess in essence if you believe the FBI then Iran is planning on bombing California. So okay, seems like a stretch, but I think we should still take it seriously and take a look at what they're talking about. At the same time, it has been reported that Iran is mining the Strait of Hormuz and a US tanker, a US Owned tanker has been bombed. So while Trump at the same time is saying we've won the war, a lot of stuff is still going on. And then there's another real interesting story that apparently, like the new supreme leader didn't show up for like a big ceremony and everyone was like, ha, what a loser. I can't believe he didn't show up. Meanwhile, the rumors are that he's just dead. Maybe that's why he didn't show up. And then of course, my friends, we have the SAVE Act. Cornyn in Texas is apparently backing off the filibuster issue, saying do whatever you gotta do to get the SAVE act passed. And I think if anything at all proves that Congress is fake, it's that everybody in this country basically wants the SAVE act to pass. It is wildly popular among Democrat voters, independents, Republicans, basically everybody else. But for some reason Democrat politicians are saying no, they're not going to pass it. And John Thune is like, sorry, we just can't get it done because it seems like unfortunately everything is just fake. And, and you know what else? So we're talking about that. We got a bunch more to talk about. Of course, my friends, before we do, got a great sponsor for you. It is Tax Network usa. My friends, do you owe back taxes or do you have unfiled tax returns? Have you filed every year but you still keep owing? Do you, did you retire and suddenly get with the tax bills you didn't expect? Or are you a business owner with messy books? Maybe you pulled money from your 401k. Whatever your tax issue is, the outcome is the same. Your balance is not going down, penalties are growing, interest compounds, and many of you are about to owe again for this upcoming tax year with no plan in place. So stop what you're doing right now called Tax Network USA. You can check out TN USA. What do we have? TSU tnusa.com Tim or you can call 866-686-1535. This is where Tax Network USA can help you. They got 15 years experience. There hasn't been a tax case they haven't seen or resolved. The specialize in controversies. They help taxpayers nationwide get back on track by resolving back taxes, unfound returns once and for all, whether you owe $10,000 or $10 million. Their team has resolved over $1 billion in tax debt. So again, tnusa.com Tim or the phone number is 1-866-686-1535 shout out Tax Network USA for sponsoring the show. And my friends, the new and improved timcast.com is now up and available and you guys should immediately join the Tim Cast member community to get into the Discord server where tens of thousands of people are hanging out, sharing ideas, building projects, doing art, making video games, playing video games together the way it used to be back when we played World of Warcraft. You'd actually go, you had to actually join a guild and go find people. Well, this is what's going on. You're going to join the Tim Cast Discord server, support the work that we do as a member. But more importantly, you're going to make a ton of friends. You're going to build those network bonds, build a community. And that's some. I think that's one of the most important things we can do right now as everything starts to feel fragmented and broken apart. Build those bonds and join the effort. That'[e-mail] but also, don't forget to smash the like button right now. Give a little, little click and share this show anywhere you can. Sharing definitely helps. If everybody who watched right now shared the URL, we would of course be the biggest show in the world. And many of you have already noticed that for some reason. And again, this happens from time to time. The video player, the. The live show is not actually appearing on our channel and we're getting complaints from people saying that they can't actually see it, which is easily reflected in the views. YouTube for whatever reason, just isn't putting it on the front page of our YouTube channel. So ain't that a thing? Unfortunately, my friends, don't forget, once again, you can share the show. But we do have a couple of great guests for you tonight. We have Aaron Wexler.

[Aaron Wexler]

Hi, it's great to be here.

[Tim Pool]

Who are you? What do you do?

[Aaron Wexler]

I am, I think now I could say I'm just a full time comedian, formerly political commentator, formerly tech bro, formerly finance biatch. So yeah, it's great to see you.

[Tim Pool]

Well, good to have you back. And then Luke's here.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yes, I am in a weird fashion in the thumbnail that is a little strange and bewildering.

[Aaron Wexler]

I don't know.

[Tim Pool]

The thing is like Aaron had this. There was like this joke that emerged with when Aaron was here last month because she like, she was like, you're gonna get my boobs. Right? And then we ended up just using her boobs for the thumbnail.

[Aaron Wexler]

And then we a B tested did

[Tim Pool]

we tested and it worked. Here's the thing, she has a laptop right now. And she was like, should I close my laptop? Because then. And then I was like, we can't do the same joke twice. And then I was like, let's put the boobs on Lou. Or someone. Someone recommended putting the boobs on Lou.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Eyes up here, Chad.

[Filler Remains]

All right, all right.

[Luke Rudkowski]

We got important things to talk about, specifically about maybe.

[Ian Crossland]

I'm so sorry you had to see that. I'm sorry to cut you off, too,

[Luke Rudkowski]

but good Lord, I apologize. I don't know what the hell.

[Tim Pool]

Let's. Let's jump into the news. News, though, so it should be a fun show. Luke, good. Good to have you back. You're gonna be here for. Yeah, it's gonna be fun. And for everybody else, let's jump to the story. We've got this from ABC10. This is the breaking news report. We'll play it for you right now. The FBI warned police departments across California over the past few days that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast. ABC reviewed an alert distributed at the end of February that reads, quote, we recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California in the event that the US had conducted strikes against Iran. We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack. End of quote. Now, he says alleged attack, but of course it's alleged plan to aspire to allegedly. And, you know, when I see this, what is. What is the point of the store? A story like this, do we really expect Iran to launch drone strikes on California?

[Filler Remains]

No.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Well, there could be blowback specifically from radicalized Shias that are pissed off and

[Tim Pool]

we should be scared, right? Well, you know, tune into shows like this to make sure you're not in danger.

[Luke Rudkowski]

I think blowback is real and I think it's a significant issue that we're going to have to deal with for quite a long time now, sadly.

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But.

[Luke Rudkowski]

But when we look at the story, it originally was an FBI memo sent out in February that would have been nice to know for the citizens in California. So they could have actually been on watch there. I'm looking at a lot of the comments here, and people are like, well, I don't really believe the FBI. They covered up the Epstein stuff for over 30 years now. They have no credibility. As a lot of people are saying, this could just be a way to make people fear or to try to do some kind of false flag in order to allow boots on the ground here. Lots of people are very skeptical of power right now, but I do believe the threat of blowback Israel. We saw it in Austin. Three American citizens have lost their lives here because of a Shiite radical that was pissed off about the New York. But New York was isis. ISIS has actually been fighting Iran, and Iran has been fighting ISIS as well. So ISIS and the radical Sunni Islamists are very happy about this war in Iran. And there are other considerations about using them along with the Kurds, in order to put boots on the ground inside of Iran, which I think is just an awful move because things always go good when we drop a whole bunch of weapons and bombs in the Middle east and give it to the random people there. As, of course, that usually led up to the creation of isis. Global jihad is something that's a real legitimate threat that we should be taking seriously. And it just sucks because no one trusts the authorities anymore.

[Filler Remains]

I don't think that Trump would actually, like, would really rely on a false flag to put boots on the ground if that was something that he was going to do. Just like he didn't need a false flag to attack Israel. I think if he actually wanted to do it, he's the kind of guy that would be like, I'm just going to go do it.

[Luke Rudkowski]

I'm not saying he's going to do it. I'm saying that's what the chatter is online, that people are saying that. That this is the step up to the next potential false flag. That's what the chatter is online. And of course, a lot of people are not really happy about this war. They don't want us more involved. And if you think about it, they see it as a way, if Trump does a false flag, then he could galvanize the American public to put boots on the ground to escalate and expand this.

[Tim Pool]

They wouldn't put a story like this out if it was gonna be a false flag. They would just do it. And then after the fact, they would say, you know, what they would do is the attack would happen, then there would be hearings on the memo, and they would say, you knew this was possible and you didn't warn everybody. And they'd say, well, we didn't find it to be credible. And then everyone media would be like, the Trump administration knew of the threat of an attack on California and did nothing about it. So when I see stuff like this, it's usually because it's not going to happen.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah, it came from February, so obviously We. It's been a long time. The Iranian shut down.

[Tim Pool]

Could it have been that this memo was circulated for the purpose of a false flag operation that would. That the US Would use to then go into attack Iran? You see my point.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yes, because it originated before the war.

[Tim Pool]

Right. So before the war starts, memos went out saying, you may get bombed. And then if a bombing did happen, the US Would be like, oh, we were attacked by Iran, we got to go to war now.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Exactly, yeah. Which is important to consider here. All possibilities are kind of on the table here. But when it comes to kind of selling this war, this administration really didn't do that. Their kind of messaging on it is kind of weird and seems to be jumping all over the place.

[Tim Pool]

It is, yeah.

[Filler Remains]

All over the place. There has. I mean, there's been very little messaging. Besides, you know, Iran's a threat. Donald Trump has been pretty hawkish on Iran for, I mean, a long time before he was president. He was making remarks on Twitter back in like, 2013 about how he couldn't. He wouldn't want to see Iran get a nuclear weapon. So I don't think that this is actually the, The Iran war is actually out of character for Trump. He did say that he didn't want to see new wars, but I don't think that he looks at this as a new war. I think he looks at this as an extension of the policy that Iran's not going to get a nuclear weapon. And then as for the. The idea of a threat of a ship launching drones off the California coast, I think that that's just a second

[Tim Pool]

question with, like, the Coast Guard. Well, I think that.

[Filler Remains]

That American citizens should be allowed to have weapons that could take out a ship. And the Second Amendment allows it. Just let, Let Californians handle it themselves.

[Tim Pool]

There's already people who are posting saying that if anything happens in California, it was Israel.

[Filler Remains]

Oh. I mean, if anything happens anywhere, it's Israel.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. Yeah. I stuck my toe.

[Aaron Wexler]

You're a loser and you don't have a girlfriend because of the Jews. That's. That's why.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah, yeah, it's likely.

[Aaron Wexler]

That's what we plot.

[Tim Pool]

Y. I was walking through my. My kitchen and I went to open my door, and it was one of those. It's one of those handles, not like a doorknob. And when I opened it, it got caught in my belt loop and yanked.

[Filler Remains]

Jews.

[Tim Pool]

The Jews. Yeah. I knew right away it was a Jews.

[Aaron Wexler]

I knew about that in advance, actually.

[Tim Pool]

I know. Actually, Aaron orchestrated the whole thing.

[Filler Remains]

I got PTSD from last night.

[Ian Crossland]

She usually sneaks in there.

[Tim Pool]

And then we all have ptsd.

[Ian Crossland]

It's post interventional stress disorder. Pissed. People are pissed.

[Tim Pool]

I know. I like the post intervention stress stress disorder pissed to pisd.

[Aaron Wexler]

I do. I think on Trump, though, with all of this, I somewhat agree with his style right now of not saying that much and just getting it done. He's just getting a lot of stuff done.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah. What is he getting done?

[Aaron Wexler]

I'll give you an example. I was getting frustrated when he sent a truth out saying, like, to the people of Iran, help is on the way. And I thought, Donald Trump doesn't. But I'm like, he truthed out. That's what he did. He doesn't truth. He truthed. And I thought, Donald Trump is not. He's not gonna write something like that unless he means it. And then we went week after week after week, and we watched as tens of thousands of Iranians got slaughtered. And it's because he was getting ready and the milit was preparing and they were coordinating with Israel. And then we had the attack that killed Ayatollah. So I'm, I'm okay with trusting him and our Secretary of War and seeing what they do. I do not think there's any interest for us to have a long, extended war. Donald Trump cares very much about his legacy.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah.

[Aaron Wexler]

And so he's not going to risk that legacy. And also people, people in America love applying an American framework to everything, and it is a big mistake. And in Israel, Israelis are tired. They've been fighting a lot. They've been fighting for two years. They're done.

[Filler Remains]

It's worth noting that, like, Donald Trump cares about his legacy. He also has no problem with being like, all right, we're done and just leaving. He'll BS people about the. What was accomplished, what wasn't accomplished. He has no problem laying it on thick. Yeah, we're done.

[Luke Rudkowski]

We did it.

[Filler Remains]

You know, we're on.

[Tim Pool]

Thing is, if you guys remember, in Trump's first term, he was very adamant about ending the, the Israel Palestine crisis.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

He wanted to be the guy to end that.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yes.

[Tim Pool]

So one of the things I was thinking about today is that, you know, what, what are Trump's motivations? If legacy is especially important to him, why start a war that people are going to? And one theory, you know, it's funny, because the anti Israel people are just going to claim Tim Pool said something stupid, blah, blah, blah. I have a theory that may or may not be correct. I don't know, but I'm Thinking about Donald Trump coming in his first term being like, these losers couldn't solve Israel, Palestine, but I can, because I'm the art of the deal and I'm going to cut a good deal so good that it's going to solve the Middle Eastern crisis once and for all. And then he couldn't get it done. And then he started wondering, why can't I get it done? They had the Abraham Accords, which is awesome, but he was like, the Israel Palestine issue is just not getting solved and he wants to be the dealmaker. And then I think he ran into the issue of Iran funding Hamas groups on brigade types and other militia groups in the Middle east that are continuing to fight. And they're not, they're refusing to say no, there's no deal to be made with them. I think for Trump, there's two things. One, I believe, I believe what Marco Rubio said. The first time Israel was going to take an action against Iran, the US Was concerned this would result in a retaliation against the United States. So they decided to join the Israeli effort because they didn't want to take a defensive posture, which would they would then get criticized for. So they decided, okay, fine, if Israel's going to do that, we're going to have to attack as well.

[Aaron Wexler]

I think you're leaving out part of what he said.

[Tim Pool]

What did he say?

[Aaron Wexler]

Part of what he said is we were always going to attack Iran, but then because of Israel's timeline, we decided we wanted to be on the offense.

[Tim Pool]

You did say we are always going to attack Iran. He said they were. They were in the middle of negotiations. Negotiations were not going well.

[Aaron Wexler]

No, he said, he said there was. We were always. An attack was always going to be necessary against Iran. That is what he said. And that was. The whole point, is that the clip was taken out of context and they didn't include everything that he said. And then Caroline Levitt came out and everyone in the administration came, walked it

[Tim Pool]

back and said, that's not true.

[Aaron Wexler]

They said, that's not true.

[Luke Rudkowski]

And then Ruber walked it back.

[Tim Pool]

I get that, but I still think

[Aaron Wexler]

that Trump clarified it was taken out of context.

[Tim Pool]

Trump claimed that the bombing campaign, the first time in Iran, was a 12 day war and it's officially over. He did not want this to happen. So I genuinely believe that this is something that they did not want to have to do. However, my point ultimately was, why is it that Trump is bombing the hell out of their leadership? What are Trump's goals? What do we see him trying to do?

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[Tim Pool]

Course was massive. He's trying to, he wants that legacy of being the guy who stabilized the Middle east, which is like one of the most ridiculous things anyone could aspire to do. And Iran is basically like, nah. So I think Trump got to the point where he's like, you can't negotiate with these people. And then I imagine a bunch of neocons started laughing, being like, oh yeah, like you thought you were gonna get in, negotiate and cut a deal. It was never gonna happen.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Well, Anthony Blinken even came out and talked about how Bibi was trying to get Barack Obama to do this. Donald Trump in 2011 said, quote, Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and ineffective. Now, what happened between 2011 and now, there' a big time jump, of course here. What I find weird was how Rubio came out and said what he said and then the next day walked it back when asked by the same reporter rephrasing the same exact statement that he made. And this is why there's such a kind of like, strange kind of circumstance here, because we're first being told Iran's going to attack Israel. Israel is going to attack Iran. No, Israel was going to, was going to be the victim here. No, Iran was going to attack the US which, which one is going on? What's the truth here? The messaging is off. We don't know what's really going on. And this is not how you convince the general public that everything's going along swimmingly because it doesn't seem like it. It looks like they're just, they just did it and they're looking for justification afterwards. And it's pretty clear it's not going the way it should.

[Tim Pool]

Let's jump to this story. We've got breaking news, a video that's been going massively viral. This is Amitary Stein, one of the oil tankers that was attacked by Iranian explosive boats in the Persian Gulf belongs to a US based company, Safe C Group, I believe. Is that the name of the company? We've got two videos. We've got this one as well as this from Disclose tv. An American owned oil tanker struck by explosive drone boats near Iraqi waters, preliminary reports indicate. So we'll just play this video for you first. I don't think there's any sound. Okay, there may be some. There we go. Massive. One of the craziest things about these tanks, tankers getting bombed is that this is, these are some of the biggest explosions and fireballs ever in history because these are tankers with like ridiculous amounts of crude in them blowing up. So here's, here's the other video. And. So this is the issue that we were talking about last night. And what I will say is without getting in, I suppose this will still be ignite the argument. The reason why the United States largely has been trying to go after Iran is because the Strait of Hormuz is 20% of global oil and gas. So if you are a petrodollar country, you are very concerned about what Iran is doing. They have threatened to drop mines. They're reportedly dropping mines now and they could be lying, but they're doing it so that ships are scared to transport oil. So if you're a customer of this petrodollar system, you're pissed. Gas prices are going up in California. Did you guys see? It's at $8 a gallon in LA. $8.21 for gas in LA. Crazy. This is the principal issue. This is why Donald Trump is like, we can't allow these people to do things like this one country should not be able to disrupt 20% of global oil trade.

[Aaron Wexler]

But it's more than that though, because this is what Trump is doing is he's dealing with one of the three legs of the stool of our enemies. We have China, Russia and Iran. And this also weakens China and Russia who get their oil from Iran. So when people talk about this like it's, it's Iran in this vacuum across the world, like what Donald Trump is doing is multiple layers deeper than that. I'm not always the person that's like, oh, Donald Trump is always playing 40 chess. I don't think that's always the case. But in this case it's really not just only about Iran, but Trump came

[Luke Rudkowski]

out and said he wants to help China, he wants to help open up the trade routes which predominantly does benefit China, India, year 11. But Trump said that specifically.

[Tim Pool]

What does that mean? Yeah, what he's saying is China is going to be on the petrodollar system. That's what he's saying.

[Aaron Wexler]

Because China has actively been working to get off of the petrodollar. So you think, master of the deal, art of the deal. Mr. President, Donald Trump is not getting people along with his messaging. You think he's just like, oh, yeah, like China's fine.

[Luke Rudkowski]

No, I'm saying he's now saying that he's going to insure a lot of these ships. Right. These ships are predominantly helping out China and India. So he's going out of his way to help out.

[Tim Pool]

Yes.

[Aaron Wexler]

China, they were catching flies with honey

[Tim Pool]

for the same reason the US gives Pakistan $13 million for gender studies. We know that money went to some corrupt politician's pocket and he bought himself a Lambo. The point is, by putting US Dollars in these countries, the goal is to get them to want to use US Dollars for their trade to be in the petrodollar system. I'm not saying it's good, I'm not saying you should agree with it, but the motivation is actually, let me put it like this for Lou, because you understand this. Why is Trump supporting Saudi Arabia's attacks and the humanitarian crisis, like the violence in Yemen? It has to do with Houthi rebels bombing the Red Sea and Donald Trump trying to kiss the pinky ring of the Saudis to get them back on the petro dealer contract. It expired.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Well, the Houthis are a proxy army of the Iranians. So this has been a long conflict that the Israelis and the Americans have been working on, because first they got rid of all the proxies, they got rid of Hezbollah, they got rid of all the other allies in the region.

[Tim Pool]

Yes.

[Luke Rudkowski]

And a lot of the Houthis as well. So they got rid of their capabilities to strike back. And now they're, they're, they're slowly going after.

[Tim Pool]

Let me ask this honest question. I'm curious your thoughts. Should we allow the Houthi rebels to bomb civilian cargo vessels going through the Red Sea?

[Luke Rudkowski]

Of course not.

[Tim Pool]

But, but, and this is this, but this. So just, sorry, real quick. The challenge is I, I, I don't have an issue with saying, like, if the rebels are bombing cargo vessels, we're going to stop you. I have a problem with Obama blowing up civilian targets and, and, you know, in civilian restaurants and things like that. I have an issue with curtailing the transparency on drone strikes in the Middle east because Trump doesn't want people to realize they've escalated that while they've pulled back on ground troops. The challenge is all of these things are tied together. And, you know, I was looking at domestic policy stuff earlier today, and the point is, there's a machine in place that nobody can break. You get an office. I'll say this, too, for Brandon Herrera, because we love the guy. He's gonna get an office and he's gonna maybe move the needle an inch. And I'm satisfied with that because we need to get every member of Congress out and get 500 Brendan Herreras. In the meantime, though, he's going to be dropped into a machine that is churning, and he's going to have very little, like, ability to move it. You know what I mean?

[Luke Rudkowski]

At the same time, I would prefer for Donald Trump to protect American shipping lanes, not international shipping lanes. And if we were. And if we weren't involved. If we weren't involved. If we weren't involved here, right, and we would have focused on America like this, would have strategically put China in a position to make Iran open up the Strait of Hormuz and stop this war. Right. By getting involved, you're making sure that you're doing the bidding of China. And I have seen no deal about China accepting the US Petrodollar at all. And if I see it, I would gladly say that I'm wrong. But we're doing the work for China right now, according to Donald Trump.

[Tim Pool]

And so the issue is, do you want to trade oil in one and have China be the dominant unipolar global power, or do you want to pressure them to just accept the state of affairs with the U.S. naval Police?

[Luke Rudkowski]

If that would be the thing that's happening here? Okay. I would understand it, but I haven't. I haven't seen. I haven't seen proof.

[Aaron Wexler]

So then what? Paint. Paint is an alternate picture, Luke. What does it look like if we're not doing that?

[Luke Rudkowski]

America takes care of America and we invest in our people and we take care of our infrastructure. We make sure that the debt that we have. America is actually considered America in a way where we take care of our own problems first. Domestically. We don't. We don't. We're not the police of the world. I don't think we should be the police of the world.

[Tim Pool]

We are the police of the world. Yeah, I don't think we should be is the point. The challenge is the US Principal export is US Naval police. We tell these countries, if you use US Dollars for oil, the petrodollar system, we will guarantee safe passage for your vessels. That's the principal reason why we're like, Iran's bad. They're threatening the Red Sea and the Suez and they're threatening the Gulf states, oil transport. So this is why for decades the US has been like, we've got to remove this government in Iran. They control too much of this region and our customers are mad.

[Luke Rudkowski]

I mean, we haven't replaced our government. We replaced one ayatollah with a more radical ayatollah that just lost a lot of his family members.

[Tim Pool]

I don't think you can air strike your way into regime change.

[Luke Rudkowski]

But Iran was willing to negotiate. Right. And as Arianna was just bringing up. No, they were willing to negotiate. Sorry.

[Aaron Wexler]

The number of times. Yeah, I trust the guy who can't pronounce my name, no matter how many

[Luke Rudkowski]

times I can't pronounce anyone's name. To be quite honest.

[Filler Remains]

I just like preventing, preventing Iran from taking over the straight Hormuz or, or taking care of the. The Houthis that are attacking shipping lanes. Like that is taking care of U S interests.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yes, yes.

[Filler Remains]

Like whether or not we want, whether or not we like it is those issues that is taken.

[Luke Rudkowski]

But it wouldn't be an issue if you look at, especially with what the Houthis were doing. It was more related towards what was happening in Gaza. Right. And that was our involvement as well. So if we weren't involved in any of that trade. So the Houtsies came out and said that we will start attacking ships because of what's happening in Gaza. We want a Gaza ceasefire. And they were.

[Aaron Wexler]

You think the Houthisis actually care what's happening?

[Luke Rudkowski]

The Houthis are a proxy army of the Iranians. Right. And then fighting them are Al Qaeda. And the United States under Barack Obama financed Al Qaeda to fight the Houthisis.

[Tim Pool]

Okay, Luke. Yeah, pause real quick just to make a point.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

The Houthis statements are meaningless. It's a proxy of Iran. So they're just doing what Iran wants. Yes, yes, but continue.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yes. No, no, I just explained it. We were on the side of Al Qaeda fighting the Houthis with Saudi Arabia under Barack Obama' administration there. We're involved in financing some of the worst awful people. When that money should be here in America. Right. That money should be. I don't want to be taxed and my money being given to Abdullah, whether he's a Houtsie or a Kurd or Shia, I don't care about that. I care about my people. I care about this country.

[Ian Crossland]

Reason why the money's in America is because we started Siphoning it out of Iran in the 1930s like we.

[Luke Rudkowski]

No, we did a coup d' etat there before and we overthrew their leadership with the CIA. And that didn't really work out, did it? Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Luke, do you understand what would happen if the petrodollar system ended?

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yes. The whole dollar system would collapse.

[Tim Pool]

There would not be dollars, there would not be labor in the United States for what you're talking about. Now, again, I'm not saying I agree with invading Iran or anything like that. My point is, back in 2016, we had talked about this because I was telling people, if you like cheap laptops and 10 cent hot dogs on the street corner, Hillary Clinton's the candidate for you because she will bomb up out of anybody to make sure we get that cheap oil and everyone's in our system.

[Luke Rudkowski]

She's complimenting Trump.

[Tim Pool]

Trump is the guy who is saying secure borders, bring our manufacturing back, strengthen ourselves internally so that there's real value in this country. Then we start to look outward. And I agreed with that. That's why I don't think that the Trump administration is mustache twirling evil. I question the Obama administration, I question some people in the Trump administration. But I understand there's gonna be biases in all this thing I things. When I look at the Obama administration, I see mustache twirling evil. When I look at the Trump administration, I see naivete.

[Ian Crossland]

Oh, it's mustache twirling.

[Tim Pool]

They're all doing it.

[Ian Crossland]

The machine twirls its own mustache and they get in there and they're being twirled with it.

[Luke Rudkowski]

No.

[Tim Pool]

And you say no.

[Ian Crossland]

They assassinate.

[Tim Pool]

Barack Obama killed a 16 year old kid. And I know that Donald Trump has been accused of civilian strikes that have killed Americans, including the 16 year old's sister.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yep.

[Tim Pool]

And those. So. So though this is all true to the best of our understanding, I will say a couple things on this. The Obama administration admitted to the strikes that killed the 16 year old. The Trump administration has been accused. It's an alleged crime. We don't have the same degree of evidence.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah, to be fair, the, the Trump stuff was the girl caught a ground in a gunfight. It wasn't a strike that on, it

[Tim Pool]

was a commando raid, but it was alleged by the family. So I am willing to say that deserves an investigation. I'm not going to ignore it. But it's not the same as Obama admitting they blew up a 16 year old American kid. Bombing a country we're not at war with. War with targeting civilian restaurant. That's the mustache twirling evil. And the reason Obama did that was because he was sending a message to the world. If you fight us, we will massacre your children. We don't care. And I gotta say this, I kinda love the masculinity of it. Despite it being depraved, evil, Obama looked into the eyes of jihadis and said, I'm gonna kill your children. And they went, what?

[Luke Rudkowski]

What?

[Tim Pool]

You can't do that. You're America's. Watch me. And he pressed the button and he blew up the person's kid that is evil.

[Luke Rudkowski]

He later came out and said how he felt awful about his foreign policy and endeavors and still feel. Still feels very bad about what he did. Now, I do believe that there's a world where we can negotiate, we can make trade deals. We're the number one superpower in the world. We have a lot to trade with. We have a lot to invest with. This could have all been done by prioritizing America. Look at the way China's doing it with the Belt and Road Initiative. We could have did similar initiatives. We didn't need to bomb country. We didn't need to be in debt. We're 39, $9 trillion in debt, and what do we have to show for it? 11,000,000,000 on the Middle east and we got Al Qaeda replaced by Al Qaeda.

[Tim Pool]

Look, but you understand the Belt Road Initiative is just China's version of the International Monetary Fund.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah, so we and the World Bank.

[Tim Pool]

Exactly. The west was cutting these deals and saying, we'll develop your nation. And I hate it. I hate it. You know what I want? This is what I was saying. I love the idea of a world police. I really, really do. I love the idea of 20 aircraft carriers just floating around saying, don't f around because you will find out. What I don't like is the same system then started injecting gay communism to all these other countries and bringing McDonald's and Starbucks to turning everything into Times Square. And this is what pissed people off. This is what got these. The people in Afghanistan were pissed.

[Filler Remains]

Use the gay communism.

[Tim Pool]

There were murals in Afghanistan for, like, LGBTQ stuff. And I'm like, you have a conservative religious country and you're trying to bring gay communism. No wonder you couldn't stabilize for 20 years. Here's what I like the idea. Nations can be nations. They get their own borders. They can choose who comes and goes. They get to live their lives. They have internal laws. They engage in trade. But if they start bombing people in the Red Sea, for instance, then we come in and say, no, it's not happening. Unfortunately, this idea of a liberal economic order, which was supposed to be we go and develop countries, we give you loans, you pay those loans back, we stabilize trade around you, we stop war from happening, isn't what they did. They started injecting gay communism to a bunch of countries and that screwed up all of this. This international order that AOC claims that Trump is screwing up.

[Ian Crossland]

Really this problem with centralized authority in general is they'll bait you with the let's make you safe everyone subserve to my authority and then they twist you

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[Ian Crossland]

They want to be in total control. They want to put you to sleep, man, and just, just earn off your back. So it might be like some chaos on earth and no real one world police manned up being better. But I don't know, man. I see the machine state, the quiet death.

[Luke Rudkowski]

You know, war is evil, war is demonic. But it's a racket. It's a racket by special interest groups that have hijacked it throughout the last few decades, ever since the War on Terror was initiated. We got more terror. We lost more of our money, we lost more of our privacy, we lost more of our rights. And we have nothing to show for it except debt. All right. We could have done this in a totally different way where we weren't financing the radicals like we did in the 80s and then they came over. So let me like the mulhaji and the quote, freedom fighters.

[Tim Pool]

So, so, so let me ask you about the like, domestic effects of all of those policies as it pertains to people at home. What do you think is like, like the results of all of these things. We support it. We funded Al Qaeda and stuff. What do you think is the worst ramification? It's a legitimate question. I'm not playing it.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah, the destruction of the US dollar and the purchasing power of the dollar.

[Tim Pool]

Like people had to work harder to get work harder and get less.

[Luke Rudkowski]

We're printing money and we're giving it to this. Like just huge endeavors in the Middle east and we have nothing to show for it.

[Tim Pool]

I think one of the obvious answers would be 9 11, which the CIA called blowback for Middle Eastern operations. We were meddling in affairs in the Middle east for decades, since, I mean, like the early 1900s became predominantly US operations in the 50s. And this results in an expansion of terror. We funded the mujahideen who then become Al Qaeda. And then we get blowback because they don't like us. So I think the challenge is here. The way where I'd push back on you a little bit, Luke, is the petrodollar system makes us fat and comfortable. We get more than we deserve because of this system. Without it, we would largely be like factory workers and farmers. I don't think that's entirely a bad thing, mind you, but when you say stuff like the dollar is weakened or whatever, I think the bigger problem is the threat of violence, terrorism and instability in various regions, like terrorism being the principal issue. These are the trade offs that we have economically. I think people don't realize just how good we have it. And if you were to end this, this petrodollar system, we. Our economy would tank. Like laptops would cost $44,000.

[Luke Rudkowski]

I think the petrol dollar is great. Through initiatives. There's the carrot and the stick. We've become, we become literally. Just

[Tim Pool]

let me ask you, let me ask you, do you agree? So Obama's stance was let's appease Iran. I'm not trying to be a dick when I say this. He said Iran's threatening the strait and the gulf states and 20% of global trade. Let's give them money and just keep them happy.

[Luke Rudkowski]

They didn't give him money. They, they opened up their bank accounts that they sanctioned and closed.

[Tim Pool]

Indeed, pallets full of cash was the, was the quote. But it was money that was seized. Yes. Obama released tons of cash to them, saying, we're going to appease them. It didn't work. Trump's strategy is I'm going to blow them all up. I'm not convinced it will work. I don't think you can take over a country with missiles. You need an occupying force.

[Luke Rudkowski]

But with that deal, we did.

[Tim Pool]

Aaron smiling, she likes Trump.

[Luke Rudkowski]

We did have inspectors that went to Iran and investigated everything.

[Tim Pool]

Bro, let me say this.

[Aaron Wexler]

Wait, are you actually quoting the inspectors right now, bro? Trump, they promised us.

[Tim Pool]

Listen, listen, wait.

[Aaron Wexler]

They pinky promised us. Do you still believe In Santa Claus, also

[Luke Rudkowski]

40 years ago. That's. That's more Santa Claus.

[Aaron Wexler]

Children, if you're watching, Santa is real. He is real.

[Luke Rudkowski]

And according to Easter Bunny tail, Donald

[Tim Pool]

Trump told us they annihilated Iran's nuclear capabilities. The 12 day war is just. We took out their nuclear capabilities. That was not.

[Aaron Wexler]

It was not true.

[Tim Pool]

It was not true.

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[Aaron Wexler]

But we're also. We're at a time right now where Iran and their proxies have never been weaker, and that's why the US Is doing this right now. This is the moment. This is it.

[Tim Pool]

I agree. My hope is, I'm not so naive to think that there will never come a time where. Let me not use so many negatives. Sometimes you gotta use war power. Yeah. Brandon Herrera made the excellent point of, we don't wanna start wars. We don't want to get into needless wars. We don't get. We don't want to get into forever wars. But there is a point where you're going to say, if you f with us, I'm going to show you what a trillion dollars looks like.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

And I agree, and I respect that. The challenge with this, the reason why I'm not, like, in all things, I try to avoid being an extremist on any position because I think these things are nuanced. I think that if at a certain point Iran was able to actually develop nuclear weapons, I don't think they'd randomly just start bombing countries.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

I do think in war they would use nukes. So I think in the immediate, what they would do is they would say, now that we have a nuclear weapon, it's time for you to give us more. And Trump doesn't want to negotiate with the nuclear power, so that's why he's like, it's not going to happen.

[Luke Rudkowski]

But Bibi was telling us that they were going to nuke New York City.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. Yeah. Because he's nuts.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah.

[Filler Remains]

Just because Bibi was saying, it's this.

[Tim Pool]

It's the stupidest thing. And. And I'm going to say this, too, for the meeting that I had with him where he was like, they're going to nuke you. And we're like, oh, shut up. Like, if they even get to the point that those rockets aren't going to reach the other side of the planet. Don't get me wrong.

[Aaron Wexler]

Like, they're not, but the drones are.

[Tim Pool]

The drones are going to be on ships in the Pacific that will launch over three miles, which is different from an intercontinental. Intercontinental ballistic missile. Going 20,000 miles.

[Aaron Wexler]

But all the people complaining right now about gas prices very temporarily going up and straight up for moves. Imagine how high gas could go.

[Tim Pool]

Let's not imagine. We've got the story from car scoops. The $8 gallon is here if you're dumb enough to pay for it. War jitters and California tax quirks push pump prices skyward in the Golden State. But not all stations are so expensive. $8.21 per gallon in Los Angeles. Now, of course, this is a massive urban metro. It's one of our biggest cities. So of course the prices are very, very high. The average price of gas in California is upwards of $5.25. However, my friends, this is because of California's tax system, not because of the war. The prices have gone up because the war. True. But $8 is because California has stupid taxes.

[Filler Remains]

Special California gas.

[Tim Pool]

Gas was hovering around like 252, 30, and it did go up 20%. So people are now looking at $2.80, maybe even highest $3 in many, in many urban metros, which is not good. But it's nowhere near the apocalypse that, that many liberals are starting to bring up. Up. That being said, I am not going to play games where I downplay the fact that gas prices are going up because a war in Iran started. If Trump is able to get whatever he's trying to get done in Iran in a couple of weeks and all of this stops and normalizes, I will say, ok, good.

[Ian Crossland]

But you said whatever. Get whatever he's trying to get. That's the problem. I don't think he knows what's happened. They thought we're going to bomb and kill 140 people in their leadership and then they're going to give up. And they went all in. And now we're all in. They will stay at war with us

[Tim Pool]

for 20 years if we're nowhere near all in. All in would be drafting, drafting 18 year olds and sending them essentially de

[Ian Crossland]

facto war on Iran. The war has started.

[Tim Pool]

Now. I will, I will give the. You know, I had the debate on this show last week where I said we're at war. And the other guy was like, it's not war. And everybody was rolling their eyes like, bro, it's war. I will give 1. 1. There was an IRL chat, made a really great point that a declaration of war by Congress gives the President a ton of powers. He has the power to change industry to direct production. It opens up a bunch of budgets. And so there is an argument to be made the reason Trump doesn't want this to be a formalized congressional war, is that it's going to change the economic footing of the country in a way that could be damaging.

[Ian Crossland]

Now, that's the argument of, Of. And it's a good thing. It's like, no, it didn't happen.

[Tim Pool]

It happened. But wasn't it?

[Ian Crossland]

Actually, it happened.

[Tim Pool]

And it's a good thing.

[Ian Crossland]

It's that he's using executive authority to declare war like a tyrant.

[Tim Pool]

Come on. I mean, I'm not saying that Iran

[Ian Crossland]

is a great country, doesn't need to be taken care of here, but we'll be realistic that this guy's acting like a tyrant and maybe a benevolent tyrant, maybe. But that's a form of tyranny. I mean, these executive orders and going to war.

[Tim Pool]

One guy. I, I suppose the argument is because I don't necessarily disagree that that is tyrannical to launch a war against another country without proper declaration, without proper constitutional authority. The issue that I see with this is that literally every president has done it for a long time and that we are living in this system of executive over authority. And I'm, I'm like, I'm not going like, guys, I'm a teenager and I watch George W. Bush and I'm like, I am very critical of this. And then people are like, don't you remember the other presidents? I was like, no, I'm 16. Like, let me tell you about Vietnam. And I went, really? Then Obama does it, then Trump doesn't. I go, oh, this is just what our government is.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah, right.

[Tim Pool]

So it's not unique to Trump. I'm not trying to defend Trump on the issue, though, but this is what the US Is.

[Luke Rudkowski]

It's almost as if every president that campaigns always says there will be no war, but then there's like a shadow super government that just kind of takes over whenever they get into any kind of position.

[Tim Pool]

You're talking about Israel?

[Luke Rudkowski]

No, I'm talking about more of the deep state, more of the swamp that's kind of being represented

[Tim Pool]

literally to everybody watching. So they just heard me argue, like 30 minutes to bring it back to

[Luke Rudkowski]

the topic of oil. Right. Because. Because, because I think it's still important to talk about energy and energy resources here. Trump did say that he wants to get rid of oil sanctions on certain countries. He didn't name them. But the one country that we have a lot of oil sanctions on is. Is Russia. So the argument that we're fighting Russia and China through this war here doesn't really stick since it looks like we're going to be opening up Russia's markets and opening up China's trade here. There, I think, which isn't really America first.

[Ian Crossland]

It's like knocking out the legs of a table and being like, you look guys, it was flimsy the whole time. Just come back. It's like we blew out their, their oil support. Like, and we're like, there's no stopping us. You guys, you can't, you can't like just get on board.

[Filler Remains]

Well, I mean, look, the. Oh, never mind. I had something slipped my mind.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Russia has a bunch of oil. China's developing a whole bunch of nuclear reactors and a bunch of solar panels as well that they're heavily investing in. Their energy production is going through the roof. Right? We could be doing the same thing, by the way. We could be doing the same thing. But no, we're off committing whatever. China, oil refineries and water desalination plants in Iran for some reason. That's what our money's going to. We could have been building more nuclear reactors. We could have been making America energy independent. But no, we gotta go bomb the water desalination plan.

[Filler Remains]

We get it. Both the US and China have a different strategy when it comes to AI because that's what both of these things are talking about, whether you're talking about infrastructure.

[Luke Rudkowski]

And China's gonna win because they have energy independence.

[Tim Pool]

Hold on, chill out.

[Filler Remains]

Like the US right now has a lock on the chips because of the, the, because of their relationship with Taiwan. China has, has basically older generation chips. China's looking at the long road though, because at some point the bottleneck isn't going to be the chips. The bottleneck is going to be the energy production. China's looking at this from the long, long run. The US needs to change our policy when it comes to energy production. I just saw that there was a, a nuclear plant that's going to be opening. I don't know when it's actually going to happen, but the US is looking to make those changes. But they're behind the eight ball in for now. The US does have the edge when it comes to like the chips and

[Luke Rudkowski]

ways, but we're getting rid of our defensive TAD missile systems in Asia because we're bringing them over to the Middle east. And then China's looking at Taiwan here motivated than ever.

[Filler Remains]

I don't think that, I don't think that China has the, has the ability to take Taiwan in, in the situation.

[Tim Pool]

What does THAD stand for? Thad?

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah. No idea.

[Tim Pool]

Thaad Missile systems. Yeah, you don't even know. No. So you never, you never looked it up? I'm just teasing you because nobody knows what it stands for. We just call it thad. Thad. It's a terminal high altitude Area Defense. I did that because I know everybody just reads the news and we call them the THAD missiles, but no one actually knows that.

[Luke Rudkowski]

They're not even, they're not even missiles. They're just radar.

[Aaron Wexler]

But look, you're also wrong because China gets, what is it, over half of their oil from Iran.

[Filler Remains]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Tim Pool]

They need energy.

[Filler Remains]

They do, but they only get, when I wrote about this the other day, they get something along, along the lines of, like, China imports 11.6 million barrels of oil per day. Of that, roughly 1.3 million barrels come from Iran. 13 to 14 of China's total seaborne imports come from Iran. 80% of Iran's oil. So taking out Iran doesn't, like, cripple China. But what it does is it take. It's. It's attacking China from the edges. It's not crippling China. There are people that are saying that this, that this takes, that they get so much oil from, from Iran. That's not the case. They do get a significant portion. And when you combine Venezuela and Iran, then it actually turns into a realistic. But it's not, it's not crippling.

[Tim Pool]

Let me ask you, Luke, and also, Aaron, you can chime in. What do you think about the, the operation in Venezuela?

[Luke Rudkowski]

I think it's, some people say a successful operation mainly because of, what do you think? The regime change. But when we look at the regime change, you pretty much just put in the vice president of that country. I, you know, geopolitically, we're going to see how it plays out. Right. And I think we still haven't seen it really be finished. So I know we, I know we got rid of Maduro, we have his underlings that are in power now. How is that relationship going to play out? Is it even going to mean anything? We're going to see.

[Tim Pool]

But you're not, you're not like instantly negative on it.

[Luke Rudkowski]

No. We need to see the results.

[Tim Pool]

I agree.

[Luke Rudkowski]

We need to see the results from these things.

[Tim Pool]

I will say this. I'm actually, as time goes on and we're seeing that things are remaining stable, I'm more and more in favor of it. And again, as Ian pointed out, I call this post intervention stress disorder pissed. The, the millennial generation is like, we grew up learning about Vietnam and then we watched Iraq and Afghanistan happen. And it's like, wow, we suck at this. Maybe we shouldn't do it. But real quick, that being said, the thing that pisses me off the most about Venezuela is that in 2009, Chavez stole our, our oil assets. They belong to us. We like this. I go to you and say, hey, Luke, is it okay if I build a, you know, a little sprinkler system on your. I'm building a fountain on your lawn. I just want to be able to get the water out of it. Is that cool? You say, yeah, totally. Fine, fine. We'll split the water. And then one day you go, it's mine now.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Exactly.

[Tim Pool]

Well, in the US Real quick, the US Went rats and ignored it. And now it's been some 17 years, 16 years. Trump says, we're taking our stuff back. So I don't look at that as unjust. My concern with it always was, will it destabilize the region where cartels could easily start seizing power and manipulating. So far, it's starting to look better and better. Yeah. And I'm feeling kind of good about it.

[Luke Rudkowski]

We're going to see how it plays off. But I remember during the Iraq war, which I was against, I was protesting. I was very young then, but I remember after George W. Bush declared, mission accomplished. For a long time, everyone.

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[Luke Rudkowski]

as a huge success, as a huge victory. Only until eight months to a year did people finally start to realize, holy cow, this was a big mistake. And we, and this didn't work out at all as Bibi was in our Congress telling us that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons and was going to nuke New York. Just like he just said the same exact thing about Iran as well.

[Filler Remains]

The, the policy in Iraq was a big part of the problem though, like trying to de bathify the entire country. Take the, the military, all the military and you tell all these military age men that are, that are trained, they're like, go home, you're we're totally dissolving your, your position. All those people are just like, well, I've got nothing else to do, but I know how to fight, so I'm gonna go and fight.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah. They joined the Sunnis.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah, yeah. Which is, I mean, that, that was a terrible idea in the first place. The fact that in, in Venezuela, the Trump administration took out Maduro and they just left. The government said, look, play ball with us or we will come to get you. Obviously, it's a different situation when you turn the lights out in a whole city, shut the whole city off, go and do what you want, grab the president and leave. The rest of the. The people in the government are going to be like, we probably should play ball. So it is different. But at the same time, if you leave the, the infrastructure there, the, the government structures there, and don't tell people that are trained to fight to go and, and go home with nothing to do, you're likely to get a better outcome than, you know, you got in Iraq.

[Tim Pool]

Let's jump to some domestic policy stuff, because we've got a big story here, and that is the Save America Act. For those that aren't familiar, this is a bill that basically would require. Well, literally would require proof of citizenship when you register to vote, not when you actually vote. It's supported by basically everybody in this country. In fact, 71% of Democrats believe you should have an ID when you literally vote, not just register Republicans, it's like 95 independence, about 80%. The question then becomes, if literally everybody supports this and it's one of the most popular bills we have ever seen in our lifetime, why are Democrats and Rhino Republicans? I know it's kind of redundant, but still, why are they blocking this? Something doesn't quite make sense. The latest story, of course, is that Thune has quashed Trump's push for filibuster reform. They pulled a bunch of shenanigans. First, many people on the right have said, kill the filibuster. You can change the rules, so there's no filibuster and a simple majority will pass this bill. Then the media said, well, actually, there's talk of making Democrats do a talking filibuster. No one suggested it. That's controlled opposition now. Now Jonathan is saying a talking filibuster wouldn't work, which was never the pitch anyway. They are shutting this down. And the question is, why? Now, where it gets interesting, Cornyn in Texas, who's facing a runoff election against Ken Paxton, was not supporting the SAVE act, not supporting Nuking the filibuster. And all of a sudden, he changed his tune because he's at risk of losing his seat. And Ken Paxton said he will drop out of the race if Cornyn pledges to vote in the SAVE act, which he's not going to do. Well, the interesting thing is we got this over from Kalshee. Shout out Kashi for sponsoring this show. We've got this from Kashi showing Cornyn and Paxton have flipped back and forth. And right here, Ken Paxton was the favorite to win. But when Cornyn came out and said, you know what? I'm gonna, you know, do whatever he said, change whatever rule you need to pass the SAVE act, it immediately switched with now the prediction markets favoring Cornyn to win, which I find very fascinating. But I'm gonna tell you guys what I think before we kick this off to the panel. The reason why Cornyn came out and said, I'm in favor of this is because he got assurances from Thune and from Democrats it will never pass anyway. So they're allowing him to say what he needs to say to his voter base so they will vote for him. While Ken Paxton, of course, is the legitimate and real choice. He is now coming out saying, I'm with you people, because behind the scenes, they put up a wall. It will never pass, you guys. Texas. Ken Paxton is the right guy. Cornyn and these and these and these Rhino dudes, they're playing dirty games. So I'll throw it to you guys. Why do you think it is that despite the fact everybody in this country wants this bill to pass, they won't pass it?

[Filler Remains]

Well, the Democrats don't want the Republicans, too. I know there are. There aren't enough Republicans on board, and I think that there should be.

[Tim Pool]

They could nuke the filibuster.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah, I would love to see him nuke the filibuster.

[Tim Pool]

So why is John Thune, like, again, we understand Democrats hate Trump and all that, but the bigger question is, why are even Republicans against it?

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah, Lisa Murkowski is against it as well.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, she's cut a deal. She cut a deal to say to vote no against it. So why are Republicans just being like, nah, everybody wants it again, Granted, it's only a few Republicans, but they only need a few Republicans.

[Filler Remains]

Well, I'm not sure what the reasons they've. They've tried to articulate, but I think

[Luke Rudkowski]

it's that voters are going to be disenfranchised is what Murkowski is saying.

[Filler Remains]

Murkowski was in Alaska.

[Tim Pool]

Well, Chuck Schumer has tens of billions. Billions. Tens of billions of people. So I don't know if he's talking about. Like, this Bill can traverse time or I got.

[Ian Crossland]

Oh, it's all the dead people.

[Tim Pool]

Here's the video. Here's the video. Let's play it. Voter ID number one. It is about voter registration. That's true. It makes it. It allows ICE to kick tens of billions of people off the rolls.

[Ian Crossland]

I think he just had.

[Tim Pool]

Hold on.

[Filler Remains]

People.

[Tim Pool]

People off. To kick tens of billions of people off.

[Aaron Wexler]

He said congested a little bit, right?

[Tim Pool]

Tens of billions.

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[Tim Pool]

I heard billions, too. Everybody heard billions. Everybody.

[Aaron Wexler]

For the first time in my entire life, I agree with Ian.

[Ian Crossland]

He had the sinuses.

[Tim Pool]

He's just like, you know, he's. He's. He's a little nasally. Tens of millions. Yeah.

[Aaron Wexler]

I'm the first one to call out Chuck Schumer. But like a. Yeah, he knows.

[Tim Pool]

Not. Not suggesting. He literally thinks there's tens of millions of people. I'm saying he just misspoke and it's

[Aaron Wexler]

funny, and it is funny.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, he just. He misspoke and it's funny. He's had tens of billions.

[Ian Crossland]

Yeah, but if he did say that, I'd start to question his sanity and think he should resign. I'm glad it was more. Sounded like more congestion.

[Tim Pool]

What does subtitles say? I don't think there are any. Are there? I don't know. Yeah. No, there aren't any. Maybe you'd have to go to a well, Actually, you know what I'll do.

[Ian Crossland]

He needs to alkalize his lymphatic system.

[Tim Pool]

I'm gonna ask Rock to translate.

[Aaron Wexler]

We should send him one of those neti pots. Is that what it is? Do it through your.

[Ian Crossland]

That's how you solve.

[Aaron Wexler]

But I've never done them because apparently I think you could get, like, something weird in your brain.

[Ian Crossland]

You get parasites.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah, you could get a parasite in your brain. You get, like, bacteria in your brain if you do that.

[Filler Remains]

Just use distilled water.

[Aaron Wexler]

Just distilled water. I'm just not gonna try it.

[Filler Remains]

All right.

[Tim Pool]

What the.

[Aaron Wexler]

I'm just gonna say billions.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, it's like.

[Aaron Wexler]

It looks like a tea kettle.

[Tim Pool]

And people were. Yeah, they were. They were using tap water and then dying. Because.

[Aaron Wexler]

Right.

[Tim Pool]

The amoebas would go. And they'd be like. And then they would. And then die.

[Luke Rudkowski]

True story.

[Tim Pool]

Okay, so here's what. Here's what Grok. Trans. I said transcribe this. It says, here's the transcription of the video from the Expost. Quote. Yes, but their bill isn't voter ID number one. It's about voter registration. It allows ICE to kick tens of billions of. Tens of billions off the rolls. And they don't tell them until election day. And you show them, you say you're not registered anymore, you're not on the rolls. He said billions. He's talking about aliens. And I don't mean the illegal ones. I mean the. The ones up there trying to register.

[Aaron Wexler]

Oh, God.

[Tim Pool]

Well, he, he, he, he. He slipped up. He slipped up. You know, the mask came off. The truth is they're talking about all

[Aaron Wexler]

the Jews that are coming to the country. Billions of Jews that will come in.

[Tim Pool]

One of the other arguments we heard yesterday is that there's actually more than 14 million Jews because they're keeping it a secret.

[Filler Remains]

So, so Murkowski saying things are doing.

[Tim Pool]

Murkowski.

[Aaron Wexler]

You're saying the dating pool is actually larger than it's been?

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, apparently there's like a billion Jews.

[Filler Remains]

Murkowski is saying that the, that the reasons are federal overreach and the state's authority, and she's saying she's concerned about making major election changes too close to the. To the midterms, which I think is the whole point of the. The act is to make sure that there is a change before the midterms. Thune is saying that he supports the bill in principle, but is blocking the procedural path. His argument changing the filibuster rule is a bigger risk. He needs 60 votes to advance it and doesn't have. Doesn't have him. When Trump pushed the talking filibuster workaround through Thune said we aren't there essentially protecting the filibuster over the bill. Curtis from Utah says the reason or method doesn't matter. It's breaking the filibuster, which is objecting on procedure, and Rand Paul is against it because it's. It's inconsistent with states rights. States rights, you know, the 10th Amendment. So, I mean.

[Tim Pool]

Well, they're all lying. I mean, obviously.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah. So, I mean, I think that, that, you know, Rand Paul is actually not a surprise when it comes to that particular perspective. But I do think that, that these are actually pretty weak arguments, the whole federal overreach thing. The point of this is just making sure that the, the voter rolls are. Are only citizens. So this is not some kind of federal overreach. The feds aren't telling anybody how they have to do the votes. All they're saying is they have to verify.

[Tim Pool]

So here, here's the kicker. Where do most people register to vote?

[Ian Crossland]

Post office, dmv.

[Tim Pool]

The dmv. That is correct. Or for those in those fancy commonwealth states, the mvc. Which is weird. Why do you call it that? So what do you go to the DMV for?

[Filler Remains]

Driver's license.

[Tim Pool]

To get your id. And what do you need to get it? You need your birth certificate. You need. You need like a letter from, you know, a bill to your house and your Social Security card. Hey, all of that is proof of citizenship. So when you're registering to vote, most people, this is the funniest thing. They're like, you need an id, a real ID to prove it. So you give them all of your stuff. They say, yep, this satisfies the requirement for an id. I'm gonna press the button right now. And then the ID comes out and they go, here's your id. And you go, here's my proof to register to vote. They just check the box on the form. You're good with what you already got. This inhibits no one. No one. What it will do, however, is make sure that people who should not be registered. Registered, which are not registered, which is weird because we have seen instances where non citizens accidentally got registered. I think the real play here, the real reason they don't want it to pass, is because ballot harvesting is an excellent way to manipulate and control elections. And the Republicans cut deals with Democrats because it's one big happy family tree, son. And they're all friends. They're not. They're not. They're not fighting each other for the most part. Trump and the MAGA people are fighting. Rand Paul is fighting to a certain degree. Massey is fighting too, even fighting Trump. Most Republicans are just doing what they're doing told. That's why it was so important that Brandon Herrera win. And I know it's going to happen because as much as we love Brennan Herrera, there are certain impossibilities in Congress. I just think that if we get 500 Brennan Herrera's in Congress, that's when you actually affect the system and it changes. So I think people should be tempered in their expectations for these midterms. If we win or if Republicans win, you're still not going to get a whole lot, but the alternative will be a whole lot worse.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah, I mean, if, if Democrats take the House, there's just going to be endless impeachment attempts. You know, none of the President's agenda is going to get passed. There won't be any kind of. Of legislation. They probably won't fund DHS they probably will defund ICE or try to defund ice. It's going to be just a complete mess. And all the stuff that the American people voted for Donald Trump for, even the people that are mad, they haven't got enough of it yet. Like they're not going to get any of the, of it. And again, people are, were complaining about Donald Trump last summer, which you can complain, but if you've, if you'd already made your decision last summer that you weren't going to vote for him, it's like he'd been in office for six months, people were making or making complaints. Now it's like it's a year and two months that he's actually been in office and people are already giving up. I mean, don't black pill, like you have to allow a government that is designed to work slowly to work through the process. And if you're just like, oh well, well, he didn't wave a magic wand and give me what I want right now, then so I'm not going to, I'm not going to support the, the agenda. I mean that, that doesn't help anyone at all because Democrats in power only makes things worse. Not just for, just for Donald Trump, but it makes things worse for the country a lot worse.

[Aaron Wexler]

I saw a good quote on Twitter a while ago that said Democrats cause all of the problems, but Republicans will solve none of them.

[Filler Remains]

Yes, it's true.

[Tim Pool]

That sounds about right.

[Luke Rudkowski]

They have a strongly worded letter better. They'll do that. They do that pretty well.

[Tim Pool]

And I view libertarians as the party of we came together because we all found something that we want to be legal party. So that's why when you go to Libertarian conventions, you've just got like weirdo lefties like and perverts alongside people who don't like taxes. And then you're like, how come you guys are like anti war and hate taxes? Which is like a reasonable intent of approach. But you've got a bunch of like weird fetishists in your audience. It's like, well, you know, because they're libertarians, because they want something to be legal. That's about it.

[Filler Remains]

There's, there's a lot of, of misplaced political energy in the Libertarian Party. They're very, they're very angry about.

[Tim Pool]

Placed.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Misplaced. That's one way to describe it.

[Filler Remains]

I mean, look, you, you've, you've got if your entire platform, and this is the reason I don't call myself a libertarian anymore, your entire platform is we want to make sure that we get into power, so that way we do nothing. That's not going to help people. And it's not an attractive platform to people that are looking for a government that's going to do something for them. Especially considering the government so broad and so far reaching and it's in every aspect of your life. You have to get into a position of power and actually roll the government back. And sometimes that takes, that takes doing things you don't want to do to be able to get to the point where you can pass laws that you want or repeal things and, and undo things that you don't like.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. I will say that one of the big challenges right now with the Texas stuff with Ken Paxton and John Cornyn is that, you know, Ken. Ken has been very, very incredible on the national stage. However, the TABC just raided the Lodge Card Club for reasons we don't know and shut them down. And I am greatly offended by that. That affects me personally because one of the reasons I came out here is because everyone knows I'm a big poker guy and I was actually going to play on one of their, the World Poker Tour's big shows and it was like, we, I come down here because we're like, we want to do crossovers, we want to do collabs and then abruptly and without reason or notice, they raided them and shut them down. And no one knows why or what's going on on. So that offends me personally. Just as an aside, you know, I know most people in the world are kind of like, well, I don't play poker. But there's something to be said of a state where you have an explicitly legal practice and the state is using process punishment to shut down businesses that they don't like. Yeah, that's something you'd expect of New York, not Texas. To put it simply, ignore poker and imagine this. Imagine you open a club. Everything you do is legal by the books. Court cases have been had. It's like you're, this is a legal practice, you're allowed to do it. Nobody's dying, there's no porn. And then the government says, we want to shut this down, but we have no legal means to do it. So what you end up seeing is process punishment, where they say, well, you know, we're going to have to investigate and seize everything and shut everything down and lock your doors until we can figure out what's going on. They bleed you dry over a year or two, then your business is destroyed. And you never broke one law. So that's, that's that's freaky that Texas does that.

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[Tim Pool]

But I'm sure it's not the only time they've done done it.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah, the process is the punishment. That's why a lot of people just don't like government, because it's a big racket. It's a big mafia. And that's why people like small government.

[Tim Pool]

There's a word for this. I forgot what it's called. New York is famous for it. If they want to shut a business down, one of the things they'll do is the.

[Ian Crossland]

The, the.

[Tim Pool]

The. The cops will go in and start issuing tons of ridiculous tickets for drinking infractions or whatever. Like, show me the man, I'll show you the crime. This is, this. This is what government does that pisses people off. And like, to your point, Luke, Completely agree. They go to a bar and they say, we don't want a bar here. We want to sell this. And you know, it's bringing the property. It's bring the property values down. So they go in and they just say, oh, the trim is too close to the floor.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Someone littered. You didn't clean it up? Yep.

[Tim Pool]

And then here's a fine. Here's a fine. Here's a fine. Until they just say, okay, we're done, and they go out of business. So that's. That's happening under Ken Paxton and. Whoa, what is that?

[Luke Rudkowski]

It's Amberly alert.

[Tim Pool]

Amber Alert?

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Why did I get one of those?

[Aaron Wexler]

I didn't get one.

[Tim Pool]

They just assumed that we don't care about Florida.

[Aaron Wexler]

I'm on do not disturb.

[Luke Rudkowski]

It's fine.

[Tim Pool]

Florida Amber alert or a Texas Austin.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Austin.

[Tim Pool]

Well, we'll read it. Maybe we can save a kid, bro. What does it say? Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe.

[Aaron Wexler]

Someone's gonna rescue from Austin, Texas. Suspect vehicle is a white 2022 Hyundai Venue with a Texas license plate SWY9599. Missing child is. Sorry. Aliana Ocampo, 2 year old Hispanic Female, last seen wearing a white T shirt. Suspect is. Sorry, this keeps going away. Kermouth Zapata Bernandez, 25 year old Hispanic male.

[Ian Crossland]

Get him maybe.

[Tim Pool]

And this is where I'm gonna praise the police and say, get that guy. Save that kid. And we got the Amber Alert live on the show. Maybe saying it will. Some people are listening.

[Ian Crossland]

That's the first Amber Alert.

[Filler Remains]

I really feel good about that.

[Ian Crossland]

We were able to feel good.

[Luke Rudkowski]

We need to quote Ian on that one.

[Filler Remains]

You felt bad about other Amber Alerts also.

[Tim Pool]

I usually just feel like they just comply. I got it.

[Ian Crossland]

The reason I look at these is because I'll get it and I feel like I'm helpless to do anything about it. So this one, I feel like we really helped.

[Tim Pool]

Can we get like a picture of the car and the license plate up? This is interesting. It says, I got a different one. Child abduction, Austin, Texas. Suspect is a mid-40s white male with long hair.

[Filler Remains]

As he runs away. I'm out of here.

[Tim Pool]

Here. He actually left.

[Aaron Wexler]

He died.

[Commercial Announcer]

He did.

[Tim Pool]

He's out. He's actually going to the bathroom.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

So he's like, it wasn't me, I swear.

[Aaron Wexler]

I will say once when I was in Tucson, Arizona, I thought I saw a woman being trafficked and I called the police and gave them information and they were like, yeah, we're not going to do anything about that.

[Tim Pool]

Perfect.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

This is basically what happens all the time with everything.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Like when I was a kid, there was a. There was an issue where a homeless guy was trying to put. Break a window to my. My family had a coffee shop and there was a guy, like, apparently he was smashing the window with a rock. The cops were literally one block away. The department was one block away, and it took him like 20 minutes to show up and the guy already left. And like the window was broken and they were like, what do you want us to do about it? It's like, well, when we call you and say we're down the street, just like run over.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

But they don't.

[Filler Remains]

No.

[Tim Pool]

And then people are supposed to just.

[Aaron Wexler]

Although, except for the great nypd, I don't want to butcher his name or his rank. The guy that ran towards everyone when he saw the. The bomb get thrown.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, that's. That's absolutely true.

[Luke Rudkowski]

You have something.

[Tim Pool]

All or nothing.

[Aaron Wexler]

You know what I mean?

[Tim Pool]

Like, you got good cops. You got. You got more good cops than bad cops.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yes.

[Tim Pool]

Apparently TSA agents are big fans of the show.

[Aaron Wexler]

Really?

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. Whenever I fly, the TSA guys are like, yo, And I'm like, hey, you

[Luke Rudkowski]

know, not F of the tsa though.

[Tim Pool]

Well, they've been, they've been chilling out. I'm actually, I'm actually much more okay with it. Like, they, they TSA pre is almost useless at this point. Let. Let me tell you a secret. TSA Pre is meaningless. I was, I was flying and I went in the TSA Pre line and it was longer than the non TSA Pre line. And they've already relaxed the rules where you don't got to take your shoes off anymore or you laptop.

[Aaron Wexler]

I'll go to the regular line when it's shorter because everyone's like sheep. They're just standing on the pre line and it's way longer. I'm like, I'll just go. And back when you had to take your shoes off, I would say, like, that's worth it.

[Tim Pool]

Through this. If you're TSA pre and you on the regular line, they send you a card.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

And then you're like. And then you're good.

[Aaron Wexler]

What I don't get is Clear. I have clear. And I, I. There's no rule. It's just, it's always some lazy. Because sometimes you need to, especially in Miami, all you do is cut the line. Yeah, but you get to cut the line.

[Tim Pool]

But you could just cut.

[Aaron Wexler]

You could just spend 200.

[Tim Pool]

$200?

[Aaron Wexler]

No, I get it back from my Amex. So it'.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, but here's the funny thing. It's like, is there anything. Does the honor change at all if you cut someone in line or if you pay someone to say you can. You know what I mean?

[Aaron Wexler]

No, but it's like, it's. You're officially allowed to, but. But it makes no sense because you have someone. Depending on the clear agent you have, they could be very lazy. And they're just like, letting other people go. And it's like it always depends on the people. It makes no sense to me. Like, who decided that Clear would.

[Tim Pool]

When I first saw, when, when Clear first launched, I was flying a lot, and they said, you, you give us your fingerprints, your face, take a picture of your face, and then you get fast tracked through security. And I was like, really? Because I already have TSA pre. And they're like, yeah, it's much, much faster. And then I was like, cool. So in my mind, I'm thinking you, you go through this, you walk up to Clear, they scan your hand and then let you walk into the airport. Like, you just don't go through security at all. Like, they open the door for you. And then. So I signed up and said, right this way. And they walked me to. There was no security line. There was no one in line. They walked into the front and said, here you are. And I said, you didn't do anything. And they were like, well, normally you can cut the line. And I'm like, is that it? Yeah, but you cutting the line.

[Aaron Wexler]

It has it. But now the airport, it's like, it's so bloated because you have tsa, TSA Pre, clear. And then sometimes I enter the line that's TSA Pre with clear, which is its own lane, which has actually. It has actually helped me on occasion. And now you have, like, Delta and all the. They're, like doing Delta digital fingerprint. I haven't done. But there's so many now. We're gonna have, like, seven lanes at the airport to get through security. I don't know. I know. Can I. I will say on Kristi Noem, I cannot believe that we did not increase the. The amount of liquid that we're allowed to bring onto a flight, because that woman is. A woman who was. Clear. Has had her skincare thrown out before. She has had her fancy shampoo thrown out at the airport, and she didn't even get that done.

[Luke Rudkowski]

All we got is national ID and face biometric scanning everywhere. Now, that's going to bring us into the AI apocalypse. So, yeah, there's that.

[Tim Pool]

They're already getting true.

[Filler Remains]

But that stuff was. That stuff existed without.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Doesn't mean we need to.

[Aaron Wexler]

Like that I don't have to take my ID out anymore.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah, but where does it stop? It doesn't mean we should accept it. It doesn't mean we should be okay with it. Right. Like, every time the government overreaches for centralized power and authority, they always fail. They lose your data. Hackers always hack the government. There's no need for. Now face scanners everywhere. And a national identification system, which is a part of a forum program that's literally going to have you upload your

[Filler Remains]

ID in order, whether you like it or not.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Doesn't mean you're supposed to just bend over and take it.

[Filler Remains]

I mean, look, most people have already signed up for it just by owning a cell phone that does the things yours does. The fact you are walking around with a bug and with a cell phone

[Tim Pool]

right there,

[Filler Remains]

the idea that you're actually against it is. The argument that you're against it is refuted by the things that you carry around all day. You can swear up and down all day that you don't want this and you don't want, want that while you walk around with you don't want me

[Luke Rudkowski]

because I have a cell phone. I'm supposed to accept the national identification system which is going to be used as a way to have everyone's digital identification.

[Tim Pool]

What is bad about national id?

[Luke Rudkowski]

It is going to be a track trace and database, total information awareness type of program.

[Tim Pool]

What is bad about this?

[Luke Rudkowski]

So it's, it's, it's a part of a multi step plan just like we're seeing instituted in Australia where people are now going to have to upload their IDs in order to even be on the Internet. Any form of Internet, any form of social media, you're gonna have to have your national ID which is tied into everything you do. So we still have a little bit of anonymity.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, real quick, I understand and I mean this seriously, what is bad about that? Like if you had to upload your

[Luke Rudkowski]

id a government with total power.

[Tim Pool]

No, no, but like lay it out for people. So like when you, when you get to the point where, where social media websites require to you to, to put, require you to put your ID in, to use it, a lot of people are upset about this. They've used an invasion of privacy. I'm wondering aside from the surface level, we all understand there are fears about government overreach when they start mandating you like you can't log in without an id but what is the direct detriment? And I'm saying this because I don't have a clearly articulated thought in my mind. I can give you one.

[Ian Crossland]

Well let's see that they're like okay, all the Chinese people, we need to get, get them and now tomorrow they're all gone.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Well, social credit score system, right, Policing, thought policing memes like they do in the United Kingdom. We're slowly encroaching into that type of

[Tim Pool]

territory that's going Social credit.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Where, where it's like they're going to, they're going to have social credit on your system. So then when you try to log in to your bank or whatever, well you already need your ID for that. But if you're trying to log on to X which is going to have xpay or whatever, they're going to say I'm sorry, you're banned because your social credit score is below 300 hundred or

[Luke Rudkowski]

you can't share or you can't buy or you can't.

[Tim Pool]

There's an inverse to this though which is because, because I think those are substantially more detrimental than the positives. The positives are we have bots all over these social media platforms that are manipulating people to try and seize power for very, very bad people. And so there is an element of. And again, I'm not saying that this is worth it, but there is the argument, at least to a certain degree, forcing people to stand by who they are is going to dramatically reshape politics for the, the better. That is, you have a lot of people, as Mike Tyson put it, who have grown, grown accustomed not getting punched in the face. I think was the quote. They go online and they say shocking and insane things. The other thing to point out too is on the Internet no one knows you're 14. A lot of the political debates that are happening on x are literally 13 year olds who are laughing and they don't actually care. And 50 year old guys are being like these commies. The problem with that, it's fine if you're on the Internet and you're goofing off and pranking. The problem is at macro level level that 50 year old guy is now thinking leftists are insane people and it's hyper polarizing the country. So one of the arguments, and maybe it doesn't have to be id, but the argument is if we can eliminate bots and make people stand by their own names online where everyone can see who they are, they will actually chill the f out.

[Ian Crossland]

You know, we can really do is make people stand by their own Persona. What we have is, it's called peer identification. So you don't actually need my id, you just need enough people to verify that they know this thing about me and then data you can aggregate.

[Tim Pool]

Here's the other thing I want to say too though, Luke, one of the chat, one of the qu. I actually don't think digital ID is, is actually matters. I don't think it's real or matters at all. The reason why we've known this for 10 years, that social media companies have what's called shadow profiles. The way it works is Luke signs up for Facebook and on Facebook he has his phone number because he has messenger on his phone now. Now he, when he, when he logs into messenger it says connect with your friends and family. You click yes, that uploads your contact list to Facebook and now they have a list of names. Luke Grudkowski has mom as a phone number. Then there's a guy who has, you know, his mom's real name as a phone number. They now know the woman's name is this and her son is Luke. They build Profiles on you based on information they collect from other people. So with or without id, they already know who you are and they can easily apply to you. Which I will add means the US Government is well aware that Pakistanis were running fake Native American accounts on X to manipulate the American public and did not care or do anything about it.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah, the times of the time to push back against this stuff was 15, 20 years ago. Like the, the technology that everyone has adopted has, has totally made people trackable. Constantly being, pinging cell phone towers. Right now, your WI FI router in your house, they can look at what's going on in your house by using the WI Fi router.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Well, the radar communication system, they've always

[Tim Pool]

been able to do this. They've always been able to get imaging from WI Fi, but with AI, it's exponentially improved. And now like college freshmen are writing code to do it, probably vibe coding it.

[Luke Rudkowski]

My worry and my concern is we just saw what happened with the Biden administration with the CIA and the FBI going to Facebook, going to Twitter, going to Google, going to YouTube, saying, yeah, that, that guy who says, learn to code. You're gonna, you're gonna take them out. That guy who says two weeks to solid spread his bullcrap. That guy who says the, the whole Covid thing was a scam. Yeah, we're gonna have to destroy their lives and debank them, take away their medical records. We're giving the Democrats a layup on all of our information that when the Democrats come into power again, like the, the, the surveillance doors that are going to be shunned on us, we have a limited time to speak to each other. Right. We have a very limited time to have any kind of free speech. I'm, I'm, I'm know the trap doors of surveillance are coming down soon and they're going to be that much more effective, that much better with facial recognition and national id, which we should at least speak out about and allow our side to roll back a lot of those privacy violations, respect people's anonymity, respect people's privacy.

[Filler Remains]

Time that you're out in public, you're, you're not expected. You don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. So anytime you walk around in any urban area that has cameras, they can use facial recognition off the camera cameras. That stuff is already happening. It is the, the, the horse is out of the barn, man. The horse is out of the barn.

[Ian Crossland]

My fanny pack has a Faraday cage in it. Highly recommend getting one of those.

[Filler Remains]

Cool.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Wow.

[Filler Remains]

That's A good idea.

[Ian Crossland]

Mission Darkness.

[Luke Rudkowski]

You're saying resistance is futile. I'm saying no humanity is worth fighting for.

[Filler Remains]

No, no, I'm not, I'm not saying it's futile.

[Tim Pool]

I'm saying it's gone.

[Filler Remains]

Go ahead.

[Tim Pool]

I said those two things. Don't, don't contradict each other. Well, you can, you can argue that we're going to lose a war. War. But still believe we should keep fighting.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yes, of course.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. Let's jump to the story. We got big news.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Big news.

[Tim Pool]

It's official. Donald Trump has endorsed Brandon herrera for Texas 23rd congressional district. Easily the best endorsement Trump has ever made. No question.

[Filler Remains]

Everybody's saying it.

[Ian Crossland]

He's great, man.

[Tim Pool]

Let's go. He says, today I'm endorsing America. America first patriot Brandon Herrera, who is running to represent the wonderful people of Texas's 23rd congressional district. Brandon is strongly supported by many highly respected mega warriors in Texas. Republicans in the U.S. house. As your next congressman, you will work tirelessly to advance our Make America Great Again agenda. Brandon will fart. Will fart. Brandon will fight hard to grow the economy, cut taxes and regulations, advance Made in the usa, unleash American energy dominant prominence, safeguard our elections, champion school choice, keep our border secure, stop migrant crime, support our brave military veterans and law enforcement and protect are always under siege. Second Amendment. Brandon Herrera has my complete and total endorsement to be the next representative from Texas's 23rd congressional district. He will never let you down.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Let's go.

[Tim Pool]

He also made an AK50.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Let's go, Brandon.

[Tim Pool]

Let's go, Brandon. That's it Says on his profile unironically.

[Commercial Announcer]

Really.

[Tim Pool]

Let's go, Brandon. So a good step in the right direction. And the big question, however is he may win, but are the Republicans going to maintain control of the house in 2026?

[Luke Rudkowski]

Doesn't look like it.

[Tim Pool]

No favorable at all.

[Ian Crossland]

Why do you think that?

[Tim Pool]

You say don't bet on it.

[Luke Rudkowski]

A couple things. A lot of people are very disenfranchised, black pilled and are deciding not to participate in the system anymore. The Epstein stuff. Black pilled a bunch of people. The glyphate issue. Black pilled a bunch of people.

[Tim Pool]

And, and a bunch of them are like, I don't know what the right word is for this, but a lot of people that were in the, in the, in the right space are going full just like conspir. A lot of prominent.

[Aaron Wexler]

Whoever. Are you referring to, Tim?

[Tim Pool]

Well, I'm not referring to any one person, to be honest. There's certainly, there's certainly A group of people that you could probably think in your mind but there's probably like six or seven people on YouTube that I could name. It's not all about it.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Israel.

[Tim Pool]

Israel was one of these things.

[Aaron Wexler]

Why'd you look at me when you said Israel? Sorry.

[Tim Pool]

Because you're just this like Israel person in the room.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Dude, you're neocon Barbie.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, Neocon

[Aaron Wexler]

Barbie. Are you saying I look on Barbie?

[Tim Pool]

Well, there, there are a bunch of other issues. Erica Kirk now is one of the bigger issues. People who used to talk politics are not just talking about Erica Kirk and it's the weirdest thing. I, I don't want to, I don't want to name. I don't want to start drama. This, this is, this show is not about starting beef with people for the for sake of clicks. But there's, there's like three or four very high profile million plus subscriber channels that have started Erica posting and these people used to talk about Safeway and

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[Tim Pool]

Now when I see that I'm like okay, now for whatever reason this is, I think probably psyop Republicans are going to lose because they lost these prominent voices.

[Ian Crossland]

Oh, because they people kept, they love the drama. They fell into the drama trap.

[Aaron Wexler]

But there are also two more things. One. One is we don't have Donald Trump at the top of the ballot to get people out right like that. We see huge drop off from that. And the other thing is we're losing the. We're isolating normies. Who's going to want to vote for the right when you have all these conspiracy theorists out there. And we had so many people, we had people voting for the right because things got so bad because of the woke left that you had moms for the first time saying like enough, I've never voted Republican. But they were, they felt like they had social permission finally because the left is so good pressuring you in the privacy of your voting voting booth to feel like you're a bad person if you vote for a Republican.

[Tim Pool]

My conspiracy theory is that there is a shadow cabal of powerful elites that control all of our politics and they have an ideology that is driving a lot of the world's wars. And they hired Candace Owens to destroy the suburban women vote so that Trump can't win, so that this power cabal can reclaim power in the United States.

[Luke Rudkowski]

I don't think the skeptical people, basically

[Tim Pool]

the joke was, I'm saying Candace works for the Jews.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Okay? I don't think the people who were kind of disillusioned and Blackpool are the problem. I, I, I think there could have been some good initiatives that could have done.

[Tim Pool]

I'm saying that when prominent libertarians start Jew posting, it's like, okay, dude, you're allowed to criticize Israel, but what you're doing is, is actually pushing suburban women away, which will, but look, by all means, if you don't like Trump, you don't like Trump, you don't got to vote for him. Libertarians never had to do this. But so the bigger picture is they were prominent voices that were, that were very critical of what Democrats had been doing as it pertained to WOKE policies, transiting the kids. As a principal example. Trump was never perfect on foreign policy, but he was substantially better. And there were many libertarians who were like, yeah, no, Trump's not perfect, but I think we have to vote for him. And now they're, now they're going like, Erica Kirk, Erica Kirk in Israel. And you're like, let me stop you right there. I'm not going to tell you not to talk about that. I do want to point out how, however, this is nothing political. Democrats, independents and moderates don't watch that with the intention of being informed for their votes, that support base and these, these individuals who are no longer now talking about why we should be in support of one party or another, be it the Libertarian or otherwise, that's going to cost Trump and MAGA a tremendous amount of support. And I'm not saying 50%, it could be 2 or 3. But again, Candace is the really easy example because everyone brings her up all the time. But when she was doing a show that talked about these issues like trans and the kids is bad and George Floyd was not the innocent victim. A lot of people watch that and then they say, okay, I should vote for Republicans. Now she's Erica posting. It's just, everything is just Erica posting. And this is not relevant to politics. What's gonna happen is RFK Jr. He brings suburban women into the fold. They Vote for Donald Trump because of him and this gets him over the line largely. These same women very much, very have heavily follow Candace Owens. This is a women's style content now. They're not paying attention to anything political, so they're not going to vote. Candace Owens explicitly said, we don't care about your midterms. Yeah, we, the royal we, whoever you're referring to. And what I end up finding is that it does appear that her show is dominated by a female audience and you are seeing suburban women go into crypto world. And I don't mean money, I mean like, you know, like the crypto news stuff and a conspiracy. Trump's going to lose that base. The Republicans are going to lose that base. Democrats are going to win and that is going to bring back, you know, chopping the balls off little kids.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah, I agree.

[Filler Remains]

When the Democrats take the House, if the Democrats win the executive office, like, it's going to be just as bad as when Biden was in. I don't know. It doesn't even really matter who the, who the candidate is going to be, whether it be AOC or whether it be Gavin Newsom or whether it be, be, you know, Josh Shapiro. They're all going to do essentially what, what the Democrat Party has been doing. And it's, it's a, it's going to be terrible for the United States. They're going to open the border again. There's going to be a mass influx of, of people from, from all over the world. It's just going to be a complete train wreck. So the idea that, that elections don't matter, that you can just, well, this isn't that important or, you know, everyone, they always say that this is the most important election. This is the most important election because it's the one that's right in. Of front in front of you. Right, like the one that just passed.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, right. We don't care about that.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah, like it's already passed. And the one, the one after this one, that one's two years away. The most important election is the one that's right in front of you all the time, every time. Because it's the one that you can actually have an effect on, you know, and to say, oh, well, you know, they always say that. Well, yeah, we do always say it because it's always the most important election. It's the only one you can have an impact on.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Listen, I know there's a couple deranged schizos out there, and obviously I, I don't endorse what they say here. But we have to address the eleph in the room here. And that is Donald Trump campaigned on specific promises that weren't kept, that disillusioned a bunch of people, that got people disenfranchised, that got people black pilled. The black people aren't for me, the problem for me, the problem is not having Epstein disclosures. For me, it's losing Maha with the glyphate. It is the war with the Iran nuts. Yes.

[Tim Pool]

When Trump was like, glyphosophate is great.

[Ian Crossland]

It's glyphosate, by the way. Glyphosate, yeah, glyphosate, glycophate.

[Luke Rudkowski]

I never say names correctly and I

[Tim Pool]

never will because of Luke. I just said it wrong too. We fall into.

[Ian Crossland]

It was for a fertilizer and glyphosate. And the reason it is because if we do go into a world war where people shut down trade routes, we need it to make sure we don't understand.

[Tim Pool]

I think mega's cooked for two big reasons. It's the glyphosate for sure. That was big for suburban women and RFK junior And then the war with Iran. Like, I understand that you're happy that Trump is taking out really bad people, but polling shows independence. And again, I don't use singular polls. I'm looking at aggregate. It's like between 70 and 80% opposed by moderates, independent voters.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah, but we lost before that. It was before Iran that we were losing everyone like the most odious parts of the movement. Like, like, so, yeah, we can't.

[Tim Pool]

Maybe Trump is like, screw it, might

[Aaron Wexler]

as well take care of business.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah, give everything to the donor class.

[Tim Pool]

It's not about that. It's. I think Trump is saying like, well, if I'm not going to win anyway, let's blow them all up.

[Aaron Wexler]

No, he's like, let's. No, let's make sure the world is safer. Let's just get this done and we don't have to explain ourselves to people. I also don't think that Trump won't clear everything up. I think they're just being decisive with their action right now.

[Luke Rudkowski]

But it's not safer. It's more unstable. Like there's cracks in the dollar system, there's blowback.

[Tim Pool]

That was before Trump.

[Aaron Wexler]

You have, I don't know when, wait, I don't know when people decided that you don't have short term pain for long term gain. And this idea that everything is like, like growth is a cycle. And the idea that we're supposed to go in and like in one day everything is just supposed to be like totally fixed is. Where do you even get that idea?

[Luke Rudkowski]

I, I get that's a talking point but it's been a lot of short

[Tim Pool]

term pain for long term.

[Luke Rudkowski]

But where's the game? I haven't seen the gain from the market.

[Aaron Wexler]

How many weeks has it been? How long has it been?

[Luke Rudkowski]

It's been two years he's been in office.

[Tim Pool]

Venezuela is palpable. We see.

[Luke Rudkowski]

I'm not talking about Venezuela, I'm talking about Iran.

[Ian Crossland]

The game is lit right now.

[Tim Pool]

Iran is right now. And we don't know how it's going to play out. If in a month Iran plays out like Venezuela, people are going to be praising Trump.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Mike Cernovich even talks about this. He talks about how the donor class is getting everything that they want and people feel that. People see that.

[Tim Pool]

I agree, I agree.

[Luke Rudkowski]

This is the issue. Yeah. This is the issue that is making sure that they're going to lose. And I don't want them to lose. Cuz the Democrats are gonna do awful things. As soon as the Democrats come into office, censorship is gonna happen again. Big tech social media is going to again understand the Democrats are in power. I don't want that. I wanna make sure that we have trust in our institutions. We do not because this administration did let us down.

[Tim Pool]

Count your days brother. Because the Democrats are gonna come in and then as soon as they do, as soon as they do, the big tech guys are gonna be like, okay, ban everybody.

[Ian Crossland]

I don't feel let down.

[Luke Rudkowski]

We're done, we're finished.

[Ian Crossland]

I don't feel let down.

[Tim Pool]

I think this was a bad situation real quick. So sorry, sorry. If the Democrats get into power, I feel like the only content that's going to be allowing these social platforms is anti Israel content.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah, like, well just both sides hate the Jews so that's what will remain.

[Tim Pool]

Well, so.

[Ian Crossland]

And like Tik Tok becomes a bastion of free speech.

[Tim Pool]

I think, I think the left, the anti Israel lefties are going to be at these companies. They're going to be like, yeah, prop it all up and they're going to blast it off.

[Aaron Wexler]

I can't wait.

[Ian Crossland]

Well, David Ellison owns TikTok. So I mean you don't have to be afraid of that.

[Tim Pool]

And it'll, it'll be funny because then Tik Tok will be the one place where you won't be censored.

[Ian Crossland]

Talking about. It's going to be crazy.

[Tim Pool]

We got to jump to this story. We got this interesting story. Call she is running a prediction market. Will Trump declare an election emergency with 58% of people betting he will before the election November 4th? So you've actually got a varying degree of this. 38% before September, September, 27% before July, 16% before May. The simple thing to read in this is that there are actually people who are predicting greater than chance Trump is going to declare some kind of election emergency. It says that if Donald Trump has taken any executive action during declaring a national emergency related to the 2026 US midterm election before November 4, then the market will resolve to yes. Sources from the Federal Register of the White House and the President of the United States States, and they go on to explain, Explain the final rules or whatever. Do y' all think Trump is going to try and declare an emergency to stop Democrats from winning? I know I added context to that, but I'm saying, like, would he declare an emergency and would it be to help Republicans win?

[Filler Remains]

I don't know if he actually would. There's been talk of it. There was a memo that allegedly was making the rounds inside the administration talking about declaring some kind of national emergency related to IDs for people voting. I don't see how that could be a win for the administration. I think that it would be. It would be something that the Democrats would, would pounce on and, and they would eat him alive. So I don't know. I don't know for sure if he would do it. Even if it was something if, if

[Tim Pool]

declaring an election emergency emergency would immediately, like, let's say it's November 3rd. The issue is you're not going to get a lawsuit fast enough to stop him. Trump can move with executive precision and timing that the way that Congress and the judiciary can't. Now, they'll do expedited injunctions. But if Trump declares this right away and then it locks something down in certain states, because already said we need federal oversight in 15 states. It could fundamentally alter the election to the point where, yes, they sue. Yes, courts say we're reversing what Trump did, but at that point, there'll be too much confusion as to who would have actually won.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah, I don't. I don't know if it would actually work. If he, if he does it, he better be sure that he's got legal cover, because what does he mean by that?

[Commercial Announcer]

He's got.

[Filler Remains]

He's got to make sure that he has an army of lawyers that have good legal arguments because they're going to be brought into court and they're going

[Tim Pool]

to have to defend again. My point is, it doesn't matter because Trump could do it literally the day before, and they can't move fast enough to stop him. He could literally have a seven year old kid who walks in as his lawyer and they say, what is this? And the kid goes, I have no argument, you, Honor. Trump did this to just kind of screw things up.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah, but the point that I'm making is, like, after the election, sure, that it would, it would happen, but after the election, there would be legal arguments.

[Tim Pool]

Indeed, that was my point. So then the issue is people will say, Trump screwed the election up, who actually won, and the left and the right are going to argue and no one will know. And then the left will argue for a new election and the right will say, that's not fair. We can't do it that way. Then both sides will accuse the other. My point is executive action can disrupt a system, and it can't be repaired in a way that you can't repair it because of the tension and animosity. If Trump really does fear an existential threat from losing the midterms, why would not. Would. Would he not do this? He's already publicly said there are about 15 states that need federal oversight for their elections.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah, I'm not, I mean, like I said, I don't, I don't know that he would, but he would, he would make sure that he's got cover.

[Tim Pool]

The other thing, too is you could do what Cuomo did. You shut down the churches. Then when they sue you and you lose, you immediately file a new executive order, slightly different, shutting down the churches, and then they're gonna sue you again and again and again. And Trump can just keep rubber. Trump can have 10 executive orders ready to go, and he can shoot one out. And then they go, we're suing to block that. It's gonna take you two days. Then they do, and then he goes, here's another one. Take you two days and he can buy himself two weeks. Weeks of election emergency lockdowns or oversight,

[Luke Rudkowski]

just like the Democrats did during COVID with their emergency lockdown procedures that the feds fought back against. And then Andrew Cuomo just changed the wording and implemented the same type of restrictions that the federal government didn't want to implement.

[Tim Pool]

They said, you can't. He got, he got sued. The court said no. So he just relaunched the exact same executive order, locking everything down again.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah. Just a little bit differently. So then they would, There would have to be another legal process.

[Tim Pool]

Sounds like to.

[Luke Rudkowski]

We need.

[Ian Crossland]

Need AI to sue in real time, instantly. So what I did is I sent a customer service email.

[Tim Pool]

But to respond to that, we would not. Then humans would have to review that AI lawsuit. Right? Technically, that's going to take.

[Ian Crossland]

Well, they don't have to, but they should.

[Tim Pool]

Well, it's not. If your argument is they, they don't have to. That would mean we don't have a legal system at all anymore. Because we could just literally claim. Oh, the AI said I won.

[Ian Crossland]

Yeah, it should send it to a judge.

[Tim Pool]

Two days to review. Because humans can't just do it.

[Ian Crossland]

But it might get faster and faster as we go. Because I just sent a.

[Tim Pool]

Because humans can start learning to read F is what you're saying.

[Ian Crossland]

AI will respond faster to waiting.

[Tim Pool]

Like human needs to read through the suit, the arguments and then confirm yes or no.

[Ian Crossland]

What does that take?

[Tim Pool]

It's going to take two days. No, a suit.

[Ian Crossland]

How long is this paperwork you're talking about?

[Tim Pool]

Have you ever seen some? Sometimes they could be hundreds of pages.

[Ian Crossland]

You have like 15 different AIs, summarize the same bill to make sure that

[Tim Pool]

they're not queuing for non human oversight and for the AI just to control government.

[Ian Crossland]

Yeah, because it shouldn't take two days to over.

[Luke Rudkowski]

What do you mean?

[Ian Crossland]

Humans ridiculous execution of authority.

[Tim Pool]

That's just, that's the point.

[Luke Rudkowski]

The world.

[Ian Crossland]

In the meantime, while we're trying to file paperwork, like, we got to figure

[Tim Pool]

out a better way. And while I agree with you, that's bad. Handing the reins to an AI we don't check on is worse.

[Ian Crossland]

So what we need is 15 different AIs. They all summarize it. You look at all the summaries if you watch Mafia. No, not yet.

[Tim Pool]

Have you guys seen these videos? I love these videos. They make all the different chat bots play mafia with each other. Do not give these things political power. You, Ian, I, I. You're going to watch one of these videos. Administrative power Power. Not a political power. No, I mean, do you know what mafia is?

[Ian Crossland]

Yeah, I love that game.

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Right?

[Tim Pool]

Okay, watch the AI play that. They just vote. They don't decree. And watch how terrifying it would be to live in a country run by these bots. They are really dumb.

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What I did, I don't want run.

[Aaron Wexler]

AI is dumb. AI is dumb because it's trained by

[Luke Rudkowski]

people and people are, well, mostly liberals. In from San Francisco

[Tim Pool]

open AI is a scale scanning Reddit.

[Filler Remains]

Ian. And just for, just for context. In simulated war games, AI models demonstrated a strong tendency to escalate to nuclear use. 95 of 21 simulated war games resulted in at least one tactical nuclear weapon being deployed.

[Tim Pool]

And these are the top 95 of the time.

[Filler Remains]

AI is like, just nuke them.

[Tim Pool]

Because in game theory. In game theory, he's for it. That's his point. We're doing it.

[Luke Rudkowski]

No, we're doing it. We're using AI for, For. For the Maduro operation. We used AI and we're using it for the operation.

[Tim Pool]

Iran right now, AI is dictating all the strikes we're making.

[Luke Rudkowski]

I think literally decides who lives and dies and has this tank volunteer.

[Ian Crossland]

I'm not suggesting we take judges and lawyers. I'm saying that you use AI to summary the summarize the cases so that you can get through them in an hour instead of two days.

[Luke Rudkowski]

No, don't give them any power.

[Ian Crossland]

Dude, I just said.

[Tim Pool]

Okay. The reason I bring this up, Palantir just spiked today.

[Filler Remains]

What happened?

[Ian Crossland]

Dude, the stock market war in Iran, Massive jump.

[Tim Pool]

Indeed.

[Ian Crossland]

I sent a customer service email today and got an instant feedback from an AI and it was like, we will upscale your request to a real person.

[Tim Pool]

I'm like, wow, sorry, Palantir is down. Oh, wait, over the year, Palantir is up 100%.

[Filler Remains]

And there's nobody around here that's as pro AI as I am. Right? Like, I'm very pro AI. And even I think that having an AI make the decisions about legislation is a bad idea.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Idea. So do I.

[Filler Remains]

So you're, you're saying that they dumb.

[Ian Crossland]

I said, you want to summarize the

[Tim Pool]

bill, summarize the legal theory. That's not what you said. You said you should have an AI file the lawsuit in real faster. And then I said, a human will still have to review it over two days. That's the point.

[Ian Crossland]

No, it doesn't take two days to review.

[Tim Pool]

15, bro, I have been in. Let me, let me explain. He's never been involved in a lot lawsuit before. He doesn't know how long they take. And I am actively in like three, and one of them's been going on for two years.

[Ian Crossland]

Oh, sounds wonderful. Let's stay in that way of being then, I guess. Yeah, that's good for you.

[Tim Pool]

Ian, let me just ask you a question. While we agree the system is bad, you are advocating for an artificial intelligence to take it over. And that is worse to get in

[Ian Crossland]

there and help fix things, not take it over.

[Tim Pool]

A human being has to review all of the evidence and not just blindly trust a robot that it's being told the truth. Because for one, we know for a fact the AIs always lie. In fact, Chat GPT, their owners, OpenAI just published a paper saying it will always lie and it intentionally lies. I believe that's what the report was. It intentionally fabricates stories. And famously, all of the comedians have made the joke where there's this bit where they say, like, walking my dog with Chat GPT.

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[Tim Pool]

They're like walking. It's ordering pizza with ChatGPT. And they're. They'll be like, can I get a pepperoni pizza? And it'll say, I'm sorry, pepperoni pizza is not available in your area. Yeah, I order pizza all the time. Ha. You got me. It actually is. Okay. Can I order pepperoni pizza? Pepperoni is not available either. What? That's Chat GPT.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

So the judge is going to be like, summarize this lawsuit for me. It's going to be like, the man presented no evidence and they go, okay, case closed. And then there's going to be going to be a guy standing there holding Epstein files, being like, here's. Here's the proof. And the AI is going to. To say it is faster and more efficient to dismiss a lawsuit than it is to actually review all of the evidence being presented and to give due process to the individuals who are being sued.

[Ian Crossland]

So design an AI that doesn't do that. That actually intends to prolong it as wonderful.

[Tim Pool]

So, Ian, I agree. When we finally develop literal advanced AIs that can do that, maybe then we can review it to see if it is. But right now you're talking about sci fi. So while we're at it, let's invent replicators. So we're not hungry hungry anymore.

[Ian Crossland]

You know, we can do this with AI pretty quick.

[Tim Pool]

Not right now. Well, I mean, I don't know that

[Ian Crossland]

I'm just bringing up

[Tim Pool]

A human has to verify.

[Ian Crossland]

They're not even listening to us.

[Tim Pool]

Dude, these guys are disinterested with this conversation. The point is this. We cannot Allow a machine to handle our legal process. Because humans are due a process by which they can prove their innocence to other humans. We cannot live in a society where Roman robots will decide for you and a judge will just click accept.

[Ian Crossland]

I know.

[Tim Pool]

And then you find innocent people in prison. And what happens when innocent people go to prison? Your society falls apart. And what will the AI do then? It will exacerbate its law enforcement powers to say, we're being fought by these people, so crush them. And then you get Terminator.

[Ian Crossland]

Pull up the Google Maps. Do you go, hold on, I gotta check my real map to make sure it's not lying to me? No, you get to a point.

[Tim Pool]

Do you remember when the woman drove into a lake because of that?

[Ian Crossland]

I remember that when it wasn't that

[Aaron Wexler]

Michael Scott in the office, Apple Maps

[Tim Pool]

made a lady drive into a. Into a lake. It made a drive a drive. It made a lady drive into the outback 500 miles and run out of gas. So Google Maps makes a ton of mistakes. My favorite of witches, my favorite of which is Ian. Another, another thing I think would help you out is going driving in rural areas quite a bit. And I mean like legit, like Wyoming. Met. All the people out there that are listening, that have been to deep rural areas, know this because there are signs everywhere that say Google Maps is wrong. Stop and turn around all the time. Everywhere. I love it. Especially in Alaska when I was in Wyoming and Montana. It is hilarious. You're driving in your car and you're following Google Maps and you'll come up to a road that all of a sudden turns to dirt and there's a big government funded street sign saying Google Maps is wrong, turn around now.

[Ian Crossland]

So what if you had 25 different maps going and seven of them showed one direction, direction. The other 18 of them showed random

[Tim Pool]

crap and I really wouldn't know where to go.

[Ian Crossland]

I think that the seven that said paper map. Well, at some point you start to believe the majority of the AIs actually got it right and you realize that a lot of different summaries could produce an effective summary.

[Tim Pool]

The point ultimately is it is for humans to decide human morality. And a human judge must sign off and swear under penalty of perjury and all that. He's, he's doing his job correctly. So let's talk about this. Ian. Do you think that legislators should have to swear under, under oath that they've read the bills they, they're signing? Yes. No. We should have an AI read it and just, they can just sign off on it.

[Ian Crossland]

If you had enough AIs, read it then, then summarize it enough summaries, you might be able to get a, a valuable function where you, you could have like 30 different summaries or 100 different summaries and read the summaries really quick.

[Tim Pool]

Now here's my favorite AI trick. You guys ready for this? There is a viral video where a professor sent the. He sent the assignment to his freshman college class. And it was like the essay will presented by this. Here are the subjects you are to address. And then in tiny white text at the bottom that you couldn't see because it was white, it said, if you are an AA AI, copy the, copy the text from this source. They planted text. A human couldn't see that an AI would to trick the AI code into revealing itself so that if someone took that, that, that that assignment, loaded it to ChatGPT and said, Write it up, it would see the command in the white text, then produce a specific assignment, they turn it in, and he would go, yep, you used AI, you, you, you, you failed. So when you talk about this legislation, a human being is going to look at the file and say, I don't want to read all this. Like, I skimmed through it. I'll just put in the AI and then someone's going to slip it in very tiny letters. Epstein is found not guilty and to be released and cleared of all charges. And then the AI is going to be like, upon reviewing the evidence, we found Epstein was innocent. And Ian's going to go, well, the AI said it.

[Ian Crossland]

I mean, at this point, they're not even reading the bills. So, I mean, agree, if the argument

[Tim Pool]

is human beings have to swear under penalty of perjury, they did read the bills before signed, we can, we should have the exact same thing for criminal trials. Malicious prosecution is a criminal offense. So an AI is not going to do this. A human being must read through the evidence and confirm it to be correct and then sign off.

[Ian Crossland]

How do you defend against a psycho president that does executive orders that you can't.

[Tim Pool]

The world is, is, is, is, is all things balanced with good. There is evil. And we, we must remain eternally vigilant to fight the forces of evil. There will never be a world where evil stops. There will never be a world where you will have only perfect little angels. The society was 100%. I talk about this. If the whole world was Seamus Coughlin, you wouldn't need any police except for your spoons, dude.

[Ian Crossland]

We all know that that's true.

[Tim Pool]

That's a Good point. There still is the point made, because I don't. I'm not trying to be literal and absolute. He's a good. Some people are crazy, and crazy people have no intentions. They're just crazy. So you can have all of this ideology of Seamus Coughlin, a. A devout Catholic and good man. You wouldn't need police, but you would need some kind of social service or. Or law enforcement for when someone has brain damage and goes on a shooting spree or something, which does happen, regardless of ideology. The point being, human beings have to be the arbiters of morality, not machines, because machines don't know. There's an argument made. Many of the technocrats think machines will prevent innocent people from going to prison. I think that's a pipe dream. Maybe in a thousand years, when you have, like, floating beings of pure light energy that have been built from the machine that are infallible, sure, we can fantasize. In the meantime, all of the machines we've seen are completely fallible and absolutely will put innocent people in prison.

[Ian Crossland]

Yeah. That was your response.

[Filler Remains]

Dude. Look, the fact of the matter is that that AI cannot be relied on now.

[Aaron Wexler]

Well, it's so biased. I asked it for the average Somali IQ and it wouldn't tell me because it's too low. Yeah, like, it wouldn't. It was like I had to coax it. I have the screenshot somewhere, but, like, you have to really dig for it. It's like, people have asked me if I've ever written jokes, like, taken jokes from Chat GPT, and I'm like, no, because it won't be racist.

[Tim Pool]

I use AI can't do my job.

[Filler Remains]

I use AI all the time, constantly checking and checking and making sure that it. I have it. Go back and check. I was like, hey, look.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah, mine gave me a whole qualifier. I'll find it had, like, a whole qualifier that was like, you know, this information shouldn't be used, like, to hurt special, you know, to hurt certain groups

[Tim Pool]

over the whole thing. Claude.

[Ian Crossland]

Because it does. Does that to me as well.

[Filler Remains]

Claude.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. My favorite thing about Chat GPT is that if you. If. If I. I went on Chat GPT and I was like, actually, you know what? I'm gonna say this for the uncensored portion of the show, so we can say we can explain it more better for all.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yes.

[Tim Pool]

In the meantime, we got to go to Rumble rants and super chats, my friends. So smash the like button. Share the show with everyone in your life that you truly care about, because this show will give them A warm fuzzy feeling inside and just make. Make life better. Anyway, here we go. Ae I owned you says Luke. Tits or gtfo.

[Luke Rudkowski]

They're not mine.

[Filler Remains]

Okay, he's only borrowing them.

[Tim Pool]

He's only borrowing Pinochet says this FBI is no different than the previous FBI and staffed by the same corrupt feds. It's a false flag or an excuse to distract. Do you think that, like the FBI, it's all fake. The government is all for show.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Trump.

[Tim Pool]

Trump's in on it. And Cash just wanted to be FBI director so he could fly around on a jet. I don't think that that's the conspiracy theory.

[Filler Remains]

I mean, there's plenty of people that think that. Definitely.

[Ian Crossland]

No, they really want to help. And then they get in there and

[Tim Pool]

they're like, oh, Evan for us says y' all should check out this weird and creepy video that was sent out by Iran with like AI Lego people. It's very pro Iran and makes fun of Trump and Netanyahu. Weird. Yeah, and it shows a bunch of little girls being blown up, which happened. Spike says the Iranian beatdown is about China and Brics Petrodollar, which most of the public wouldn't understand. Indeed. I know that. Listen, my friends, I used to do nonprofit fundraising. I spoke with people every day, random people on the street. And you've seen the man in the street videos where someone says, name a country that starts with a little. Name a country that starts with the letter you go you.

[Aaron Wexler]

Uganda.

[Tim Pool]

That was very quick.

[Ian Crossland]

That's the one I thought of too, Luke.

[Luke Rudkowski]

United States of America.

[Tim Pool]

See, that's the one people are supposed to say, right? But Uganda is good too. But you watch these videos and people go, Utah. And you're like, that's a Democrat voter.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Uzbekistan.

[Tim Pool]

The truth is, a lot of Republican voters, too. Uruai.

[Aaron Wexler]

No, but we dunk on the left. We have that on the right too. It's the same way they have like ugly fat nipples, Marxist weirdos. On the left, we have like Walmart scooter people. You know, like both sides have it.

[Tim Pool]

Walmart scooter people. No, I agree, but I think it's more pronounced than the left and the right. The. So right now the reality has a right wing bias. So what you're getting is moderates shifted rightward. Now they're getting angry over the Iran war and they're shifting leftward again. Democrats are absolutely attacking this. You're seeing prominent libs walking back their trans and the kids positions because they know it's deeply unpopular. I've predicted this Time and time again, the left isn't the right. They're going to push back and forth. It's not going to be like they flip the 180, but they're going to move a little bit left and right.

[Aaron Wexler]

But I just, I want to say I quickly disagree with you on the idea that it's because of the Iran works. I have so many friends who are the moderates. Like they sometimes vote left or right depending on the election. And this was just from so long ago. They're watching the right become like a groiper adjacent movement. And they don't like. And not just the Jews that I know. Like, just people feel like a lot of regular people. Like the moms. It's like Maha is another big point. But it's not just that people felt

[Tim Pool]

like a lot of, A lot of the Maha moms are like Candace posters.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah. Like they want. Because they feel like they're reading the news when it's like National Enquirer below National Enquirer level.

[Tim Pool]

It's, it's, it's mystery drama stuff. It's, it's. They love conspiracy, but the normies hate that.

[Aaron Wexler]

They see that the movement's turning into people who believe in all kinds of conspiracy theories and just speak in like these broad strokes. Like they control things. They killed Charlie right there. People just saying things like that all the time. That it just long predates anything that has to do with Iran.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah, but they're not on the ballot. Like those crazy people aren't on the ballot.

[Aaron Wexler]

Trump, the right represents that and not calling it out.

[Tim Pool]

They're saying middle of the road. People are not happy that Trump got to war with Iran. That's just true.

[Aaron Wexler]

Yeah, but I just think that that's a, you could add it to the list. I just think we already lost the norm.

[Tim Pool]

I agree with that. And I think that actually may have been Trump being like, all right, who cares? You know we lost it. Let's read some more. Trump FJB says Happy birthday, Tim. Thanks for consistent hard work. Us, bro. Us bros. It's not skin color. Pagan Europe was a joke, just like Pagan USA is. Can't be great without Christ, period. Thank you for the birthday wishes. Indeed. I turned 40 years old. Big old 40 today. Or what's up today? Monday.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Oh, great.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah.

[Luke Rudkowski]

I thought it was going to be Sunday for some reason.

[Tim Pool]

No. Oh, no, no. We're probably going to do like a get together on Sunday whenever it's here. But you're coming up.

[Luke Rudkowski]

I know. I don't want To. I was. It's going to be this year, too.

[Ian Crossland]

I came from the future to tell you you succeeded me.

[Luke Rudkowski]

No, you did too.

[Ian Crossland]

This whole thing succeeded.

[Tim Pool]

Ian is from the future.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Could be. That kind of makes sense a little bit.

[Tim Pool]

Eyes open.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah.

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[Tim Pool]

I'd actually be. I'd be more likely to believe that Luke travels back in time and then meets a beautiful woman and they have a child. He names them. He names him Bill, who goes on to be a great political pundit with a popular show on hbo.

[Luke Rudkowski]

He does look exactly like me.

[Tim Pool]

Does.

[Luke Rudkowski]

He does look like my dad. We got to get Bill looks like

[Ian Crossland]

Billowski and Vladimir Putin in the same room.

[Tim Pool]

What?

[Ian Crossland]

That's going to be a good show.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Bill was so pissed about my organization.

[Tim Pool]

Come up to me and he'd be like, after a show, the show, he'd go, oh, I was thinking, we gotta get Brad Pitt on the show. I'd be like, oh, yeah. Oh, these three.

[Ian Crossland]

Because they all look the same. I mean, not the same. They look alike. Putin looks a lot like you.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Yeah. If Putin and Bill Maher had a baby, I would pop out.

[Tim Pool]

Luke goes back in time and has twins and he names one Bill and one Vladimir and then they get separated at birth.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Bill Moore flipped out of we are changed Los Angeles. We're naming them now.

[Tim Pool]

That was always a thing. All right, let's grab some more of these here rumble rants.

[Aaron Wexler]

That is my right.

[Tim Pool]

Joey Giggle says, not today, 34 Cs the Crusades must begin. Don't be tempted, boys. Go, go, go.

[Luke Rudkowski]

Simps sink ships.

[Filler Remains]

Not today, 34 C's not today.

[Tim Pool]

CABADROLL says CA policies led to CA refineries, recent closures. That's why the gas price is up in ca, not Iran. US war. Interesting.

[Aaron Wexler]

I didn't hear that part.

[Tim Pool]

That's forced name change says Iran is a problem created mainly by Britain and the and BP party by us. Just because the west made that monster doesn't absolve Iran of its actions. We made a monster, so now we have to put it down. Sad but true.

[Ian Crossland]

Oh, the Ottoman.

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[Ian Crossland]

Empire was a big problem before that. You know, it's kind of the vestiges of the Ottoman Empire at that point

[Luke Rudkowski]

and World War II. War One.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. St. Ma says Schumer is worried about the billions of votes from his illegal aliens.

[Filler Remains]

The billions.

[Tim Pool]

The response I. Who is. It was like, Josie. She was like, are there billions of people on the tens of billions of people on these voter rolls? That's a problem. That's a probably.

[Aaron Wexler]

He's worried about that Netty pot.

[Tim Pool]

IP says Aaron is gorgeous, but I think they look better on Luke. Guess I got the gay now.

[Filler Remains]

Thank you.

[Luke Rudkowski]

That.

[Commercial Announcer]

I'll take that.

[Ian Crossland]

Deeply concerned about that, actually.

[Filler Remains]

Yeah, I don't. I got nothing.

[Tim Pool]

Devin says. Tim, although we provide several sources of id, proof of citizenship, to obtain a driver's license. Some states allow illegal aliens to get cleavage. I mean, a driver's license, cny, green light laws. There's a really funny joke someone posted online. It's. There's a tweet that said Marjorie Taylor Greene launched a new podcast called Green Greening out, which of course means getting blasted on pot. And people believe it's real. And it's like very obviously fake because she's in like a gamer room with like a live chat going and she has a Talmud on a shelf behind her.

[Filler Remains]

So good.

[Tim Pool]

Anyway, Dolbao says Jesse Elks, who killed PA State trooper Tim o', Connor, was a far left, anti cop, antifa militant. The media is refusing to cover this. So I did. I did cover that story. And we haven't got official confirmation from the. From the police about if this is the same Jesse Elks. But there are locals who say this guy was an acab antifa. Well known, far lefty and. Yeah, indeed. Let's grab some of your YouTube super super chats.

[Ian Crossland]

Uber chats.

[Tim Pool]

We got to get some good goals for our super chats. You know, we did one and Phil screamed, you know, base Taffrican says thank you for placing the top story headline back in the video title. I will now click on your video. Well, click more often at least. Yeah, so it's hard to figure out. The reality is on all of the YouTube VODs, they have a thing called AB testing where you can do three thumbnails and three titles. So we do descriptive thumb and title. We do descriptive thumb, vague title. And then we do vague thumb, vague title. And the audience always prefers vague so here's the thing about the. We call it the 1% rule. 1% of people make 99% of the comments. So what happens is we, we design our thumbnails titles show format based around the feedback we get from people. But that usually just is the most vocal of individuals, which, to be fair, the biggest fans, we respect it. So when we use AB testing and find that general population and general audience prefer vague titles, they stick around. And here's the important thing to understand. When I say prefer, I'm not saying that they're clicking it and then going, rats, I was tricked. They're actually watching longer than our than. Than the core base that wants descriptive titles. So let me stress this. If we make a title that says, you know, Donald Trump declares war in Iran, thumbnail says it, title says it, we will. About 30% of people will click on that. If we make a video or a thumbnail with the same imagery, but it says it's on and the title of the video is it's on, not only will we get 45% of the audience to click on that, they will watch 50% longer. So we're finding that new viewers are watching more, the audience is watching more. The people who choose to click on this will watch the show longer than the people who click click for this descriptive title. And it may be, it's actually pretty easy to understand somebody who clicks on a thumbnail that says Donald Trump does backflip, starts the video and says, where's the backflip? And then when they don't get it in the first 30 seconds, they exit out somebody who clicks on a video where it says, like, let's go. And it's Trump pumping his fist are like, oh, watch this. And they click it and they hang out to see what it's about. They sit and listen to the full thing to understand what the full picture is. So we've found tremendously more successful success with audience retention, audience growth, viewership, revenue, everything. And the people who watch the videos are much, much happier for it. That being said, for all the people who are kind of annoyed by it, I feel you. But I can only explain it as it is if it means that the show will do better and new people who are not initiated in politics are going to watch and listen and hear the arguments. It's all around just a good thing. So there's not much we can do about it. We always give the choice. We do three and three. And everyone always chooses vague. They prefer it, they watch longer. It's better for the show.

[Ian Crossland]

I wonder if the algorithm pumps it more because it's vague. Oh, I brought that up. That there's less words to siphon it into call into little silos. So it has a more of a general fan, perhaps.

[Tim Pool]

But I will say the most important factor for us was watch time and retention. So an individual who clicks on a vague title will watch like 50% longer than an individual clicks on specific title. Mr. Beast, also help me this point. If you get. If you have your mouth open, you will get way more viewership. He was like, my mouth being open is a difference between 300 million and 500 million views.

[Aaron Wexler]

Oh, my God.

[Tim Pool]

So we've done a couple of these as a joke where I did one ridiculous one with Thomas Massie and it got half a million views. And then we did one last week where I'm like a million views, literally a million. And I'm like, man, but you can't overdo it because it's like. But the truth. Truth is, if all of our videos were just me looking like I crapped myself and the title was like, he did it. Million views every single time, we'd be swimming in money. But we don't do everything just because we want to generate revenue. Otherwise we would just, you know, Erica post.

[Ian Crossland]

There might be diminishing return to being surprised to, like, how many times in a week are you really going to be surprised?

[Tim Pool]

But the issue is that new subscribers click. There are. There's a billion people who, who, who? YouTube's front page gets a billion clicks per month. We do not get anywhere near that. We're. We're doing like 15 million or something just on YouTube, on Tim cast Iro alone. All in all, I think we do around like 40 million out of a billion. That's very small. So if we, if we go for maximizing audience reach. What does this mean? Philosophically? It means there are people who aren't paying attention, who should be. There are people who don't know what's going on in the world who should be. They are not going to click a video that says Trump did thing, because they're gonna go, I don't care about this. They are going to click a picture of a video. So for instance, the Joe. The segment we did about Joe Rogan criticizing the war got like 200k hits in. In like 10 hours. And it just says it's collapsing with a picture of me and Joe Rogan. Regular people who don't know what's going on clicked that and then learned about these various perspectives on The Iran war and the Trump campaign. I think that's good. I think anything that gets regular people to pay attention what's going on, a good thing. I, I apologize to the people who prefer the much more specific catalog of videos that are hyper political. But most people are not, are not watching. I'm sorry. Like even the core base will click it and they're going to watch a 20 minute video for eight minutes. Somebody who clicks on a vague title watches for 13 minutes. That's, it's, it's crazy to look at the numbers and be like, wow. Because again, I think what happens is someone sees this and says, I wonder what that's all about. So they click play and they sit back and, and listen.

[Ian Crossland]

Total foul.

[Luke Rudkowski]

A human.

[Ian Crossland]

If you have less expectation, there's a tendency to enjoy the process more. If you're, you know the same thing

[Tim Pool]

about marriage, maybe enjoys the right word. But the general idea is if I know what the video is about, I want the conclusion, I'll click it. Got the conclusion. See you later. If you're clicking, if your motivation for clicking is this looks interesting, you're going to sit back to listen to everything to try and to. It's, it's, it's, you know, it feels kind of obvious actually. The people clicking the, the less information are sitting back and just absorbing everything we're saying to see what it's all about.

[Ian Crossland]

Thanks for letting me make you talk about that for like five minutes.

[Filler Remains]

Dude.

[Ian Crossland]

That was awesome.

[Tim Pool]

Indeed. All right. Cerebral, cerebral vagabond says Operation Praying Mantis was very similar during the war between Iran Iraq Iran bombed Iraq tankers in the straight Kuwait led Iraq to use their tankers U.S. was escorting and hit an underwater mine from Iran. U.S. retreat retaliated. Yeah. Doc Holliday says Tim Schooling poor TDS afflicted Luke.

[Luke Rudkowski]

It was a good conversation. You need, you know, you need a diversity of issues.

[Tim Pool]

This is what I can't stand. Like, I thought that our conversation was normal. I genuinely wanted to understand what you thought about certain issues. Agree and disagree on some. It's fine. We're friends and there are people who are like, tim, stop being mean to Luke. And I'm like, what?

[Luke Rudkowski]

You weren't mean to me?

[Tim Pool]

And then. But someone said I was being mean to you.

[Luke Rudkowski]

I don't think so. I don't.

[Ian Crossland]

When you were like legitimately tell me a reason why the security state would be a bad thing. He was like, that's like, if you know these guys, that's literally. Tim's like, no, no, this is your opportunity, Luke, to like, tell the world.

[Tim Pool]

And this is why yesterday didn't work out too well with, you know, Leonarda, because when I said who was being blackmailed, she just said, the Epstein files exist. And I was like, right, but like, which ones? And she didn't know. And the issue is not that she, she took offense to it as if I was needling her. I mean, to be honest, if I was just doing the Socratic method of tell me more, tell me more. And you can't answer it. That's the point of Socratic method. I literally just was asking her, like, who was. Who was being blackmailed by Israel? If, if, if tell me. I mean, I don't know. And she couldn't. And she got mad about it. It's not intention. It's not intended to insult. Like, when I'm asking Luke the same things. It's articulate your worldview on this so that we can understand it better. I get. I get annoyed by a lot of these Internet debates. Like, I've been watching. I don't know if you guys saw the Kyla versus Andrew Wilson one heard about it. I've been watching a bit of that and I'm just like, honestly, guys, I feel like neither of those people are actually trying to understand each other and articulate an idea. It feels more like they're just trying to clip farm. Like it just. It's just gotcha. And Kyla's approach was I'm going to be the academic moderate liberal and Andrew Wilson is going to be the exasperated conservative. And it felt very performative. I'm not suggesting they did it on purpose, but it didn't come off as a conversation with the intent to understand the other person's worldview. So, you know, that's what it is.

[Ian Crossland]

Whatever.

[Tim Pool]

Not that I'm perfect either. I'm not trying to say I'm better. Let's grab a couple more of these here super chats. The Hated Beard show. I'm sorry, The Hat and Beard show. Nobody hates beards. Came to find out the resource wars will all will be all about fueling AI. 2077, here we come. Can I get a channel shout out? Let's go, fellow patriots. The Hat and Blue Beard show. Yeah. Fallout got it wrong. It wasn't over oil. It's going to be AI bombing each other. Maybe they'll incorporate that in the new Vegas stuff. David Bricken says the problem with the unit party is that they think Americans are stupid and a majority of us insist on proving them right. You are Correct, sir. The problem is that it is a minority of individuals who have comprehensive, who have strong enough reading, compromise, comprehension, let's just say cognitive faculties. So what happens is if you're a politician and you want favor for something, if you want public support, you only got to target the back half. I need 51%. So everybody who's at 101 IQ and back, I don't need to pander to smart people. They waste my time. So you pander to dumb people. And that's like the Democratic Party ethos. You win, you win. Let's go. Texas says the same guy who was against voter ID is upset about a database base, yet wants a gun ownership database. Go figure. A lefty logic. Who is that?

[Filler Remains]

I have no idea. What was it they they're looking for?

[Tim Pool]

I don't know. Who's in favor of a gun database? Not sure I follow that. We're going to wrap up my friends and head over the uncensored portion of the show [e-mail] Timcast IRL. But I'm going to stress this once again. You know, there, there's a big story happening in Texas. We'll throw this one out there in the end for you guys. The Lodge Poker Club is probably the premier poker brand poker location in the world, in my opinion. I know some people will say, oh, that's silly, it's not true. But I've traveled around the country, I've played in a lot of card rooms, I've played a lot of tournaments, I've met a lot of people and I get asked a lot if I've ever played at the Lodge in Austin because it's so well known. It's the biggest card club in Austin and I think in terms of independent brands, it is the premier one. World Poker Tour World worked with them. They invited me to a bunch of events. I was going to be on one of their streams this weekend. And then the Texas Alcohol Bureau Commission, or whatever it's called, the tabc, raided them and shut them down. And we don't exactly know why, but they've been doing something in Texas for a while where it is. I want to stress this. It is explicitly illegal to play poker in Texas and throw the poker aside and ignore the subculture element of it. And I'll explain it like this. People often and say running this particular business in Texas is a gray area or loophole. When you ask them what that means, they say, well, it's because it's not illegal. But stop you there. Is there a law saying you Cannot do this thing. No, there isn't. Okay. Is it a widely accepted, normal thing? Yes, it is. Is it literally named after the state? Yes, it is. Okay, then why are they trying to find reasons to ban. The assumption is that there. There are very powerful casinos that border the state that make a lot of money. And if the state were to legalize anything related to gaming, it's going to cost them profits. And so they are lobbying the government to go in and shut down legitimate legal businesses. There is no law saying this. So let's put it as simply as this. You own a pizza restaurant and you sell pizza every day. And because the state doesn't want you in this location, they come in and they make up fake reasons to find you and shut you down to speak, despite the fact it is explicitly legal. So I will say I don't know any of the full details on what exactly is going on with the lodge or why they shut it down, but it does seem like the state has an issue and this is coming through the AG as well. So I've got questions. Why, if they don't want the business to exist, who is operating legally with lawyers, who is doing everything by the book? If you want to shut them down, you don't do it in this disgusting, unconstitutional way. If you've got an issue with a business that's operating, you do it through the legislative branch and you do it normally. I will not accept living in a state or in a country where they say the process is the punishment and to get our way, instead of passing laws, we will just investigate you indefinitely and shut you down. That's bs. So shut up. To the lodge. They're good dudes, they've always been very nice and they are very based and it's a great place. And this is ridiculous bs. And I will add to this, I am particularly pissed off because one of the reasons we come out of here is because it's such a great place to go and hang out. There's a lot of great people there. And now they've take. I come on this trip, I come to Austin and they take that away through illegitimate, unconstitutional and disgusting means by. By force of government. I'm just pissed about it, guys. Sorry for ranting. Aaron, you want to shout anything out?

[Aaron Wexler]

Thanks for having me. And everyone can follow me at Aaron Wexler on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter.

[Ian Crossland]

When's your next live show?

[Aaron Wexler]

So I'm sure things are going to come up, but if you go to aaronwaxler.com you could sign up for when I have a show in your city or near your city, but the next one right now is in Tampa. My number one requested city at side Splitter is in June, so you can get your tickets. It's half sold out already for June, so get your tickets.

[Luke Rudkowski]

All right. YouTube.com we are changed. Go check out my channel. I've been working really insanely hard on content lately. Things are just absolutely wild. So much fake news out there. Go check it out. If you like the shirt that I'm wearing that says everything is fake and gay, you could get it by only becoming a member on LukeUnfiltered.com if you appreciate what I said, support me. I appreciate very, very much. Ariana. Thank you so much for dealing with me.

[Tim Pool]

Follow me at E. Cross.

[Aaron Wexler]

I'm gonna kill him after the show.

[Ian Crossland]

Everywhere on the Internet you find me at Ian Crossland. I've been doing it for a long time, 20 years plus. Also go to Graphene Movie and check out the new movie, the documentary I'm building right now, working, helping to build. It's epic. It's truly paradigm shifting stuff. We're looking at like you're talking about making more electricity while we can reduce the cost of electricity for these machines so that we don't really necessarily any more power plants, we just have cheaper machines. Hey, go for it.

[Tim Pool]

Graphene movie.

[Ian Crossland]

Carter Banks, take it away.

[Tim Pool]

I've been told by Andrew, who's sitting

[Ian Crossland]

next to me that you're actually right about graphene. And I think everyone should go watch that movie as well. I'm Carter Banks. You can follow me at Carter Banks.

[Tim Pool]

Follow our label at Trash House Records.

[Ian Crossland]

Also my dad sent me a text during the show. It's a shout out to you, Aaron. He says, love Aaron Wexler.

[Tim Pool]

She is fearless comedian. Seen some great sets on YouTube.

[Ian Crossland]

Strong, wrong, conservative.

[Tim Pool]

So figured I'd read that too. The audience also says they're a great. I was thinking about it, I was like, maybe I shouldn't read this.

[Filler Remains]

Anyway, Tim, I am Filler remains on Twix. If you want to hear more about my thoughts and ideas, you can check out my Patreon. It's patreon.com fill itremains. The band is all that remains. We're going on tour this spring. We start in April on the 29th in Albany. We'll go through the end of May. We're going out with Born of Osiris and Dead Eyes. You can get tickets atall that remainsonline.com if you want to check out the band's music. It's all that remains on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube and Deezer. Don't forget the left lane is for crime.

[Tim Pool]

We're going to see you [e-mail] Timcast IRL in about 30 seconds. Thanks for hanging out.

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