ITS HAPPENING w/ Robbie Bernstein

Summary

Timcast IRL – "ITS HAPPENING w/ Robbie Bernstein"

Date: February 20, 2026
Host: Tim Pool, with Libby Emmons, Brett Dasic, Phil Labonte, Carter Banks
Guest: Robbie Bernstein

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Episode Overview

This episode of Timcast IRL dives into the explosive revelations surrounding Prince (now former Prince) Andrew’s alleged arrest for leaking state secrets to Jeffrey Epstein, the ongoing implications of the Epstein files, and their effect on transatlantic politics. The panel also unpacks speculation about government transparency regarding extraterrestrial life after some suggestive comments from Donald Trump and Barack Obama. Layered throughout are sharp critiques of US and UK governmental institutions, digital-age media manipulation, and a dose of comedic relief from guest Robbie Bernstein.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Prince Andrew’s Arrest & the Epstein Files

[09:09 - 23:42]

• Prince Andrew has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office — specifically for allegedly leaking confidential government information to Jeffrey Epstein.
• Tim Pool summarizes the media landscape: “He is facing life in prison, which is pretty dang wild.” [01:30]
• The group discusses the popular theory that Epstein was running a blackmail operation for foreign intelligence by entrapping world leaders and elites.
• Robbie Bernstein: “If other countries are taking this seriously, it puts more pressure on the United States government to actually investigate.” [15:02]
• Libby Emmons notes the collateral impact in the UK, with Labor party officials and associates facing fallout.
• Panel voices frustration that despite the crimes allegedly being most central in the US, meaningful legal action is happening overseas first.

Notable Quotes:

• Phil Labonte: “Imagine being such a scumbag that you get booted from being a prince.” [09:09]
• Tim Pool: “Andrew is a scumbag. And now he is in deep, deep trouble.” [13:17]
• Brett Dasic: “It’s easy to lose faith when every day it’s horrors—nothing happens.” [15:17]
• Robbie Bernstein: “I actually see this as a giant white pill...the wheel’s starting to turn...because it’s not going away.” [18:34]

Timestamps:

• [09:09] – Prince Andrew’s arrest and public reaction
• [13:17] – Tim Pool summarizes Andrew's predicament and theories of blackmail
• [15:17] – American inaction vs. UK prosecutions

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2. US Government, Epstein, and Political Accountability

[23:03 - 25:00]

• Criticisms of the US government’s shrug towards the Epstein case.
• Tim Pool and Phil Labonte dissect how accusations against Trump surface in recently released FBI files—a number which they say are “over the top absurd” and likely politically motivated.
• Tim Pool: “Claims against Trump in these files are beyond that level...the stupidest thing I have ever heard.” [21:26]
• The episode also covers cold tips and wild, easily debunked conspiracy theories submitted to the FBI (e.g., celebrity connections).

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3. Les Wexner’s Deposition – Threat or Joke?

[25:00 - 30:22]

• The panel reacts to a viral video snippet in which Wexner’s lawyer whispers, “I will f***ing kill you if you answer another question with more than five words.”
• Robbie Bernstein and others take it as a tough-love lawyer move, not a true threat, although the optics are bad amid conspiracy-fueled discourse.
• Libby Emmons: "You’re rewarded for making stuff up…it’s why ad revenue is the worst thing to happen to X.” [29:04]
• They lament the incentive structure online that rewards sensationalism over substance.

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4. Mainstreaming of “Conspiracy Theories”

[30:22 - 33:57]

• In a tongue-in-cheek exchange, the group notes the progressive left is now echoing what was formerly branded as "QAnon," suggesting elites are engaged in secret “cabal”-level conduct.
• Tim Pool: “Isn’t it fascinating the left has become QAnon?...Welcome to the club.” [30:31]
• Broader discussion includes term limits, government corruption, and the inevitability of power’s corruptive influence.

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5. Polarized Politics and the 2026 Elections

[33:57 - 39:14]

• Discussion on how war, particularly with Iran, could play into the US election cycle.
• Phil Labonte speculates: “If the economy is gangbusters, Republicans can win. If not, they cannot win.” [33:24]
• The panel debates how a large-scale foreign military event would reframe voter priorities, especially with boomers making up a diminishing but still influential pro-establishment bloc.

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6. Aliens, Government Secrecy, and Social Reaction

[39:14 - 46:55]

• Trump’s enigmatic comments (“He gave away classified information”) about Obama’s suggestion that aliens are real, and the ripple effect it caused in media discourse.
• The group jokes about how normalized alien talk has become: “The probability that they announce the existence of aliens…and we actually see aliens is going up a lot.” (Tim Pool, [42:22])
• Theories range from government psyops, slow "disclosure," to everyday indifference if actual first contact were confirmed.

Memorable Moment:

• Robbie Bernstein: “If aliens actually showed up, I’d be the first to die—I’d think it’s a government illusion.” [44:12]
• The conversation transforms into playful sci-fi conspiracy theorizing, including the classic "humans were engineered to mine gold" motif and Area 51 myths.

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7. Political Slogans and the Decline of Discourse

[57:40 - 63:25]

• The group reacts to Illinois Democrat Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton’s viral “F*** Trump” Senate campaign ad.
• Tim Pool: “We are so far gone...y’all are just rolling around in it like pigs in shit.” [58:21]
• Phil Labonte: “The upper house is supposed to be...people with poise...not clowns. This is a clown show.” [60:55]
• Conversation pivots to failing city governance in Chicago and the Chicago Bears leaving due to sky-high property taxes.

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8. Generation Z, AI Content, and Media Manipulation

[80:21 - 89:26]

• Extensive breakdown of how AI-generated content and engagement "farming" (misspellings, comment baiting, looping videos) are now flooding digital platforms.
• Tim Pool: “You are in YouTube’s algorithmic bubble...Gen Z doesn’t actually make content anymore. They make their algorithm farming.” [80:32]
• Discussion on the shallow information environment, and how AI is increasingly automating not just content, but even job "hiring" via intelligent agents.

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9. Social Decline, Parenting, and Education

[71:45 - 77:46]

• Viral video and a news story about a student injured during an anti-ICE protest—raising questions about student safety, discipline, and political activism in schools.
• Tim Pool and Libby Emmons argue for homeschooling and stricter discipline.
• Phil Labonte: “All the schools of education are completely inundated with leftists…teachers should have to wear body cams, too.” [76:54]

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10. Lighter Fare: Movies, Sleep, and Culture

[105:03 - 109:28]

• Breezy debates about why Hollywood can’t make “good movies” anymore and jokes about Jason Statham movie premises.
• Libby and others riff on what they'd do after the "machine breaks"—open a restaurant, farm chickens, or run a bed and breakfast.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• Tim Pool: “Arrest him now. When the worst stuff comes out, we can say, see, we arrested them.” [17:16]
• Robbie Bernstein: “This is a very promising storyline because it’s not going away.” [18:34]
• Tim Pool: “Claims against Trump in these files are beyond that level...the stupidest thing I have ever heard.” [21:26]
• Phil Labonte: “I feel like the idea of term limits is a double-edged sword...then you end up with the bureaucrats doing more.” [31:39]
• Tim Pool: “The content Gen Z is making right now—they’re spam blasting AI slop.” [80:32]
• Tim Pool: “You get to do GTA missions in the future, essentially.” [88:39]
• Robbie Bernstein (re: aliens): “I would be the first to die.” [44:12]
• Libby Emmons (re: Chicago): “People are going to have to sell their homes to afford property taxes—his goal to eliminate private property is happening.” [66:42]
• Phil Labonte: “The upper house is supposed to be people…with poise, a little more dignity. This is a clown show.” [60:55]

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Additional Highlights

• Discussion on the degradation of political discourse, exemplified by profanity-laced campaign ads and attention-grabbing stunts.
• Regular jokes and tangents, especially from Robbie Bernstein, infuse comic relief.
• In-depth critique of generational shifts in content production, the AI-driven future, and what it means for media literacy.
• Conversations regularly loop back to the necessity for real government transparency, skepticism toward official narratives, and the existential (often comic) possibilities of confirmed life beyond Earth.

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Episode Structure/Flow

• Opening ~[01:30-08:33]: Banter, sponsor reads, guest/host intros
• Main Block ~[09:09-46:55]: Prince Andrew, Epstein, foreign intelligence, and US/UK governmental response
• Middle Block ~[46:55-76:54]: Conspiracies, term limits, aliens, cultural polarization, and the politics of outrage
• Late Block ~[80:21-109:28]: AI/Gen Z content, education/parenting, sleep and ad revenue, movies, comic tangents
• Closing ~[109:28-126:00]: Callouts, event plugs, show announcements

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For listeners:
This episode is a rapid-fire, irreverent, and in-depth discussion for those interested in current events, political accountability, the culture of conspiracies, and the latest zeitgeist in tech and media manipulation. It pulls few punches and is laced with dark humor, skepticism, and the panel's signature freewheeling tone.

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Plugged Projects & Final Links

• Robbie Bernstein: Stand-up shows in Perryville, MD (Fifth Company Brewery); Podcast, “Run Your Mouth”
• Libby Emmons: Pod Millennial podcast feat. Tim Pool, Drea De Matteo, etc.
• Brett Dasic: Pop Culture Crisis (YouTube/Rumble)
• Phil Labonte: Touring with All That Remains (April/May)
• Tim Pool: Cast Brew Coffee, Pod Millennial, and Timcast IRL on Rumble

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Episode available at rumble.com/timcastIRL. For more, follow @Timcast and guests on X/Instagram.

Transcript

[Libby Emmons]

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[Brett Dasic]

I'm gonna pull over and ask that man for directions.

[Tim Pool]

Hi there.

[Libby Emmons]

We're looking to get to the campground.

[Phil Labonte]

Well, you're gonna take a left at the old oak tree end of this here road. No, I'm just kidding. Let me get my phone out.

[Libby Emmons]

How are you getting a signal out here?

[Phil Labonte]

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[Tim Pool]

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[Phil Labonte]

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[Tim Pool]

Okay, here's those directions.

[Brett Dasic]

Actually, can you point us in the

[Libby Emmons]

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[Phil Labonte]

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[Tim Pool]

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[Libby Emmons]

Hey, y'.

[Tim Pool]

All.

[Libby Emmons]

As a growing family, my husband and I love game night. Especially when it's Wayfair edition.

[Tim Pool]

Let's do it. You gotta name as many Wayfair furniture and decor categories as you can. Ready? Go. Sofas, bar stools, beds, ottomans, outdoor seating, bookshelves, kitchen tables, garden sheds, mid century modern lamps.

[Brett Dasic]

Time.

[Tim Pool]

Nice. You got nine out of a lot. Not too bad. Keep practicing by visiting Wayfair.com where you can shop every style for every home.

[Libby Emmons]

Wayfair, every style, every home.

[Tim Pool]

It's been revealed he was arrested for potentially releasing information to Epstein on foreign affairs. And it's a big deal. He is facing life in prison, which is pretty dang wild. Now, Thomas Massie, you know him. You love him? I don't know. Maybe not. He. He tweeted out an image of all of the different hoaxes and scandals for which no one has been arrested, save Epstein files, which he changed the zero to a one. Now, this guy Andrew, he's not being arrested for trafficking or anything like that. Some are speculating that it's because they can't because the statute of limitations would. Would be up at this point. No, I think they're getting him because he was leaking state secrets to Epstein, which is actually honestly, in my opinion, much more interesting. And I don't mean to downplay the severity of what Epstein is accused of, but Prince Andrew leaking state secrets to Epstein. The question is why? The speculation has been for some time that Epstein was working for foreign intelligence. Perhaps as Dan Bongino stated on this show, Middle Eastern intelligence. We wonder which country. Why then would Andrew be giving privy information to Epstein? It makes you wonder, could it perhaps be blackmail? That's the longstanding theory that Andrew was being blackmailed by Epstein or not necessarily Andrew, but that Epstein was blackmailing powerful world leaders for access information or otherwise. So we'll talk about that. Very interesting. But my favorite story actually is that Trump confirmed aliens are real. And I got community noted or no, they're trying to Community note me on X because Trump was asked on Air Force One about Obama claiming aliens are real. And Trump immediately goes, that's classified information. He shouldn't have done that. And then Doocy is like, so they are real. And he's like, well I don't know, but it's classified information. And so everyone's like, well, Obama saying a thing, you know, aliens existing and then Trump just blurting out that was classified implies it's true and you're not supposed to know. So we'll talk about that. There are a bunch of other interesting stories of course we have throughout the, throughout the day that we'll, we'll get into before we get started. My friends. I got a great sponsor for you. It is Rumble Wallet. Guys, you're tired of people banning you, blocking you, shutting you down. They want you to own nothing and be happy. Well, Rumble Wallet is a non custodial means of holding value, storing value and transferring it to other people, trading. So if you're watching on Rumble and you want to tip, you can use the Rumble Wallet. Rumble's the only company that has stood the test of time, deserving our support and fighting for free speech and freedom to transact and exist as we want. Banks can cancel your account. They can freeze your card. 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[Robbie Bernstein]

Hey, pleasure to be here.

[Phil Labonte]

Who are you?

[Tim Pool]

What do you do?

[Robbie Bernstein]

Oh, I'm Robbie Bernstein. I'm a comedian. I got a podcast, run your mouth. And I also do Dave Smith show. Part of the problem. So a little bit in the hybrid comedy and, you know, politics lane, there

[Tim Pool]

was a, I guess like a mini beef between me and Dave that wasn't really a beef, but other people told me I had a beef and then Piers Morgan had us both on and I was like, well, there's my friend. And then he was like, I loved him. And Piers Morgan was like, oh, come on. Because he wanted us to yell at each other. No, but it was a lot of fun. Dave's great.

[Robbie Bernstein]

It was funny after the episode because I asked about that, and I guess they didn't get the Jerry Springer moment they were looking for.

[Tim Pool]

I told them when they asked me, I was like, they know that I like Dave, right? Like, we get along, like. And I was like, all right, whatever. It was fun, though, so it should be fun. Glad to have you here. We got Libby hanging out.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, here I am. I'm hanging out. I'm Libby Emmons. I'm with the post Millennial. And you. Actually, I have a new podcast. You guys can check it out. It's called the Pod Millennial. You can go to thepodmillennial.com to see all the episodes and find the links to wherever you listen to podcasts. And I just interviewed Tim tonight, so that's awesome.

[Tim Pool]

Were you impressed by how I can talk nonstop for 40 minutes?

[Libby Emmons]

You know, I didn't know that about. I was totally taken off guard. I was very surprised.

[Tim Pool]

Well, it's because, like, Libby's like, I've got questions she clearly wants to ask, but I just wouldn't stop talking.

[Libby Emmons]

That's correct.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

No, but it was good. It was actually super fascinating.

[Brett Dasic]

The goal of every interviewer is somebody who will just talk the whole time.

[Libby Emmons]

Right.

[Brett Dasic]

Have to do any of the work.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, there are people who just don't say anything. And you're like, really? What is this? This is a cocktail party. I have to draw you out what's going on.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, we got Brett hanging out.

[Brett Dasic]

Yes. Guys, what is going on? Normally I am doing Pop Culture Crisis Monday through Friday at 3pm we actually just had EP showed 1000 on Tuesday, which was a huge deal. Today I had special guest Vera Dark on the channel. Colonel Kurtz will be back on tomorrow. Mayor will be back on Monday. We have a lot of fun over there. You should go and subscribe to the channel if you have not done so already.

[Tim Pool]

Hello, everybody.

[Phil Labonte]

My name is Philabonte. I'm the lead singer of the heavy metal band all that Remains. I'm an anti communist and counter revolutionary. What's up, Carter?

[Tim Pool]

And we got Carter over there pressing the wrong button. I thought you might had a little commentary afterwards to introduce Phil, but I was wrong. I'm Carter Banks. You might know me from Music and Trash House, but I am pressing buttons now as well. And yeah, let's get into it. Tim. Here's a story from the BBC. Andrew released under investigation after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office. I love how we call him Prince Andrew, but they don't. That's because he's not a prince anymore. Look at this picture of him. Oh, he looks terrified.

[Phil Labonte]

How do you like, imagine being such a scumbag that you get booted from being a prince?

[Tim Pool]

Literally.

[Phil Labonte]

That's worse than your family disowning you by.

[Libby Emmons]

By a guy like King Charles who cheated on Princess Diana, of all people, for a very long time and then married that. Weird.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

You know, I just got to stress to anybody who's only listening to audio, you are missing out because his picture of Prince Andrew would. Well, it'll probably freak you out, but

[Libby Emmons]

we had some good.

[Tim Pool]

There's a little shot in front of

[Libby Emmons]

some good descriptors before the show of that.

[Tim Pool]

Should we. Should we have his picture.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah. Of what was going on in the.

[Brett Dasic]

Says he's.

[Tim Pool]

No, no, we'll save that for the uncensored portion of the show.

[Robbie Bernstein]

It looks like a man who had a psychotic break. Like if you accidentally got unplugged from the Matrix and saw the real reality

[Tim Pool]

and then they had to pull you

[Robbie Bernstein]

out of your home and instantly get you to the psych ward. That is the face of.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, like they put him back in. Like he. Bro. He broke through the veil and saw the truth. But then they pulled him back and he's like, I have seen it all. Like how they get this angle. I mean, it's like through the.

[Libby Emmons]

It's like through. Through the front of the cop. Carazi are crazy.

[Tim Pool]

We have to explain the news. So they write. And I love saying this. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been released under investigation following his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office. This we understand, but let's jump to the meat and potatoes here. It's the first time he's been arrested. He consistently and strenuously denied any wrongdoing. Indeed. Indeed. And what is the misconduct? I'm gonna have to jump down because they're really laying it on thick. So he's always denied wrongdoing in his association. Association with Epstein. These files get released. And now we've got this. Former UK Minister Gordon Brown has told the BBC he has submitted a five page letter to several UK police forces providing new and additional information from the Epstein files. So let's see a former. We got Jufre. This is just a very, very poorly put together article. I must stress from. Here we go. In 2010, Andrew appears to have forwarded government reports from visits to Vietnam, Singapore and China to Epstein. Files relating to the late financier recently released by the U.S. department of justice appear to show. The documents also appear to show Andrew forwarded information on investment opportunities in gold and uranium in Afghanistan to Epstein. Now this is fascinating and I know a lot of people are saying, oh, you know, there's, there's, you got a lot of Trump supporters and you got a lot of strangely weird, not Trump supporter, moderate people who are like, the Epstein files are a nothing burger. It's all exaggerated. Virginia Giuffre is a liar. And now they're saying Andrew wasn't even arrested related anything to the girls. It was, it was, it was, it was public misconduct. Here's what I find fascinating. First, he's facing life in prison over this.

[Libby Emmons]

That's a big deal.

[Tim Pool]

This is a life in prison penalty. Misconducted public office. Giving this information, Epstein, the question is, why did he do it? Well, there's a picture of former Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre, who I believe she was 17 at the time in that photograph. If I don't know, I could be wrong. But I believe that's the case. And the argument for a long time, the conspiracy is that Epstein would bring on underage girls. The play that Epstein, the conspiracy is this. He says, hey, I got a private jet. You want to fly? I'm going from California to New York. And you're like, oh wow, private jet. So you're some politician, you're some corporate boss, you get in the plane and then you're flying when all of a sudden you see this young lady come out and Epstein says she can take care of you. And then the powerful person says, okay, you know, don't worry, she's 18. Then after she takes care of him, Epstein goes, She's 16 and I own you. And if you don't do as I say, I'm going to release the videos of the photos. Now, I don't know if that's true, but that's one of the theories. So when you have this picture of Prince Andrew with a 17 year old girl, these, these young women reportedly were hired on as masseuses, but they were just underage prostitutes. And then Prince Andrew, it's revealed as arrested for leaking privy information to Epstein. It does lightly corroborate this climate. Doesn't mean it proving it, but it does lend itself to this theory that Epstein was getting access and information from powerful global elites after they had, you know, now it's possible Andrew is just a slime ball and was leaking information to Epstein, his buddy, because he was giving him underage hookers. I don't know. But either way, Andrew is a scumbag. And now he is in deep, deep trouble.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, well, I mean, like I said, I mean, you've got a really bad situation when you get, you know, booted from being the prince. And that was before.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah. Didn't his mom pull his title?

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, I think, actually I do. I do think it was the queen before she passed away. But I mean, and that was before all of the, or the evidence of him giving state secrets to Epstein, you know, So I mean, I would like to see Americans that have engaged in some of the nefarious activity be, you know, investigated or see something come of that. Because as much as, as much as, you know, everyone wants to see people that have, that have violated kids, you know, face punishment and face the music. But like, Andrew's not an American and there's a lot of Americans that have influence here that are alleged to have done some.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, it really does. The whole Epstein thing really does seem to be taking a toll on the uk. It took out one of Starmer's top aides who I think he'd appointed as ambassador to Washington. It's taken out like some other people in the labor party. And I gotta say, I find that kind of funny because here you've had Jamie Raskin and all of the rest of them howling for months to release these files, despite the efforts to release the files. And then it turns out that it's actually just taking down Democrat allies in the uk.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Well, speaking to what Tim was saying about blackmail was this is the second case of someone in the UK getting in trouble for sharing financial secrets. I think it was the Starmer case that you were talking about who let Epstein know that there was a big bailout going on before it happened.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, I think that's right.

[Robbie Bernstein]

But I love it because, you know, if other countries are taking this seriously, it plays into the reality of something actually happened here. And I think that puts more pressure on the United States government to actually investigate it and start bringing some allegations and some lawsuits against people.

[Brett Dasic]

Depends on how black pilled you are. Because like, if the first person you see that gets arrested for all this, by the way, it's not one, it's two. Technically, if you count Ghislaine Maxwell, I suppose that counts as arrest number one. But in general, if the first person you see, you know, when the, the whole of the scandal seems to at least at Its face took place in America or started in America and the first arrests are happening overseas. It's like just how deep is the rot in the corruption in the US government that it finds its way to the UK before any of it find its way here? And I do think one of the problems with all of this going on right now is like people are getting black pilled because you're following the story every day it feels like it's kind of re, it's like retold to you and you see the horrors or you hear about the horrors of what is going on and day goes by, you don't see anything happen. And it's really easy to, to lose faith in anything when that continues to be your reality each and every day.

[Tim Pool]

I don't think that they're arresting Prince Andrew, former Prince Andrew, over nothing. Right. And what that means is what we're hearing is probably just the tip of the iceberg because typically people in this position of power, even a disgraced individual, they protect them. There are tons of people who have been disgraced, but for some reason you never get accountability. And now they're going after him because I fear they, I should say, I, I believe there is something much, much worse underneath all of this. And this is just what they're telling us to avoid the worst of possible reactions.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

What do you think the worst stuff is?

[Tim Pool]

I think he was diddling kids. I think that based on what we know about the Epstein thing, Epstein was, or this Andrew. Well, so here's, here's the challenge with the Epstein stuff. There's a lot of people arguing that what Epstein was doing was with teenage girls, not children.

[Libby Emmons]

Right.

[Tim Pool]

There are videos and creepy things of underage kids, prepubescent kids in the Epstein files. So I do believe there is evidence to corroborate that Epstein in fact was a diddler. But there are a lot of people who argue that's not the case. I think knowing, knowing, seeing. Some of these videos are censored, by the way, but they're appearing on X. Yeah. I think Epstein was probably doing a lot worse than what they're just claiming for Andrew. I, I'd throw this under. Andrew knew that he was with underage girls. He was going to the island, engaging in it quite a bit. And they know he was doing it that when he gave that interview on the BBC and they're like, Virginia Giuffre says that you were dancing together and you were quite sweaty. And he goes, oh, well that's, that's not quite strange because I don't sweat, or at least I didn't. And it's like, what? It's like I have a peculiar medical condition where I don't sweat. No. I think they're looking at the files coming out now and they're saying if more comes out, it's going to destroy the Royal Family. Arrest him now. Because the Virginia Giuffre stuff was bad enough. Now we find out he was leaking information to Epstein. They're probably saying, this can't go any further. If more information comes out or is found, because people haven't even gone through all of the files yet. If we don't do anything, they're cooked. So I think the attitude of the Royal Family, and just the UK in general, is arrest him now. When the worst stuff comes out, we can say, see, we arrested them, we're on top of it. Sometimes they'll, like, get you on something smaller so they can build their case around something bigger when they know they have it. But they need time.

[Libby Emmons]

Like getting Al Capone on tax evasion.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, well, that's because they couldn't get him on anything else.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Robbie Bernstein]

That's why I actually see this as a giant white pill, because I feel like we're educating the general American public to the actual corruption of our government. And typically speaking, when it comes to these corruption storylines, they aren't that sticky. They go away. But I feel like the public's demanding that this is looked into and people are held accountable. And so the fact that the elites have to pretend like they actually represent us, and now the UK is folding and actually arresting Andrew, I think that's starting. The wheel's starting to turn. And I actually think that this is a very, in my opinion, a very promising storyline because it's not going away.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, it's. It's definitely not going away. And honestly, that's. I think that's largely because of all of the people, like, online that are really just kind of hammering it away. There are. There are constantly people talking about this. This doesn't, you know, whether it be on podcasts or. Or just, you know, in chat rooms talking on X and stuff. Like, this is something that. That actually ignoring it isn't going to make it go away. It's something you have that has to be addressed by the administration.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Yeah. Unless you're such a Donald Trump fan that you feel like innocent CEOs are going down over a Democratic hoax.

[Phil Labonte]

I. But, like, that's a fair criticism. But the thing is, like, I don't think that that's I think that the people that are Donald Trump fans that are just like, trying to brush it off, I think for the most part, their argument is just, well, Donald Trump isn't actually accused of these things in the, in the Epstein files. He's all over the Epstein files. Yes, he was, you know, like, he was friends with Epstein at some point or to one point. But, like, it's not like there's, you know, really legitimate, credible accusations in there that are like, oh, Donald Trump did this recently, or what have you, you know.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, a lot of it was news articles that had his name in it.

[Tim Pool]

Well, it's not just that. It's. There were. I don't know why they're releasing these. There's files, FBI cold tips from five years after Epstein's dead. What is the purpose of submitting a tip with no corroboration in 2025 about Donald Trump? They're wild and outrageous. And I really do recommend, when. Read them, read these claims against Donald Trump because they are the epitome of the absurd. When Brett Kavanaugh was. Was going through confirmation, this. These stories started emerging from these accusers that Brett Kavanaugh was involved in parties in college where they. The men would line up outside of a bedroom where a woman would be held captive during the party, and these men would take turns forcing that woman while she was trapped in that room. Okay, I'm being very light with the language in case there's children. And it was the most shockingly insane thing because if you have a hundred people in a frat house and there's a woman trapped screaming as guys take turns lined up outside, everybody would know that was happening.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, that's.

[Tim Pool]

Look at the lacrosse scandal, the Duke lacrosse scandal. Like, come on.

[Libby Emmons]

That ended up not being real anyway.

[Tim Pool]

Right. The claims against Donald Trump in these files are beyond that level. I don't want to. It's really graphic accusations. I am not saying that 100% of them are definitively false, but they are so over the top absurd. One of them is that Donald Trump walked around a room full of little girls with a measuring tape. And I can't. I'll save the description of what was going on for the uncensored portion of the show because this is really graphic stuff. But this is just the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Donald Trump was not walking with a measuring tape and little girls, and it's just not happening. I mean, these are. And this is an accusation from like 2025. So we are in the height of anti Trumpism and Octip gets, gets called in during an, you know, right after Trump is elected. And some of these are 20, 24 during an election cycle. And it's just like, okay, we get it. You're putting up billboards. You're trying to claim that Trump is involved with Epstein. That being said, there are claims about Trump going back a long time, and I've got no problem if it sounds reasonable to pursue in that capacity. I'll shout out Dan Bongino and Cash Patel when they say some of these things are ridiculous and uncorroborated. It's not just about Trump. I've made this point ad nauseam. Tony Hawk was not on the island, did not get married on the island. And this is another FBI tip that came in on the phone accusing Tony Hawk of getting married on Epstein Island. It's just absolutely insane and not real. So when you hear that stuff, I'm sorry, I just. We have 10 years now of Orange man bad. It makes it very difficult for me to believe these wild, ridiculous accusations.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I think the accusations against Trump trying to implicate his involvement or anything with kids is completely unsubstantiated, is not a valid criticism. I think criticizing this administration for taking part in covering this up, not wanting to investigate it and not digging in more and being. Not that the other administrations did a terrible job with this, too, but he's the most recent administration, and I don't think they just fumbled on it. I think they took a look in there and realized, hey, we don't want any part of cracking this door open. And I think it's fair to criticize the administration, Cash Patel and Dan Bengino for that.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, I mean, I think that it's fair. Look, anytime you're in government, you're opening yourself up to criticism, right? I mean, everyone, you know, everyone has some kind of beef with the government to some degree. So if you're in a position in the government, you're opening yourself up to criticism, and it's perfectly fair. And as for the administration's handling, it's probably. I mean, it's incredibly obvious that this was the biggest blunder that the Trump administration has done. Like the whole. The handling, whether it be the binders when they came out, all of that stuff like. And a lot of it falls on Pam Bondi, I think, personally. But Donald Trump definitely has his fair share because of the way that he treated it. When he says, when he, He's. When he says things like, it's a Democrat hoax. I understand what he meant. As in it was them saying. It was Democrats saying that Donald Trump is in the files and had done inappropriate things in the files. That's what Trump was talking. Or that's what I think Trump was talking about when he said the hoax, that it gets another Democrat hoax. Just like the, you know, good, good people on both sides. They implied that he had said something that, that they do.

[Libby Emmons]

So many of them.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, they do.

[Tim Pool]

But.

[Phil Labonte]

So I think that that's what he meant.

[Tim Pool]

Sure, sure. He's not doing. It was horribly mismanaged, all accounts.

[Phil Labonte]

That's. That's the overall point I was making.

[Tim Pool]

Let's give a quick shout out to Thomas Massie real quick, because he's not technically correct, but he's technically correct. The best kind of correct. He posted this image. Number of arrests, Russia collusion hoax 0. Jansek 0. Marlagrade 0. Biden auto pen 0. 2020 election 0. Epstein pedophile arrests, 1. Covid 0. Benghazi, 0. DOGE funding, 0. Ukrainian patriotic, 0. And he says, you're welcome. So it is a fact Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's efforts largely are responsible for the arrest of former Prince Andrew. So there you go. But let's jump to this next story because this is where it gets real spicy. We've got this from media ite Lex Les Wexner. Lex Les Wexner gets wild legal advice during House Epstein deposition. I will effing kill you. Now, now, hold on. It does seem like it may be a joke, but it also seems like it may be a jokey way to literally threaten someone. So I don't want to say I know for sure, but we do have the video here, and I'm going to play it for you. This is Les Wexner giving a deposition and his lawyers right here laughing. And you can hear what he whispers. So we got to be real quiet and hopefully you can hear this.

[Phil Labonte]

It was just regularly done.

[Tim Pool]

Answer the question.

[Brett Dasic]

Okay.

[Tim Pool]

He said, I will effing kill you if you answer another question with more than five words. Okay. Now it does seem like it could just be a joke. For those are not familiar. Les Wexner is a potential coconspirator in the Epstein case. And his name was redacted in a document of potential coconspirators. They argue. The FBI argues they don't have evidence to actually take him down. He's giving his deposition and he says, I will effing kill you if you answer another question with more than five words. And again, it may be jokey. There are a lot of people on X that are trying to make it seem like they're threatening to kill him for talking. There's one where they're like, wexner's lawyer just threatened to kill him if he answers questions. And it's just like, oh, these people are just lying. Okay, we could be reasonable about this. It's a. It's a creepy thing to say to somebody. It might just be a joke. But considering what's going on in the background, it is possible. It was more like a I'm not really joking.

[Robbie Bernstein]

That strikes me as a pure lawyer moment. Yeah. That's sitting down with your lawyer. You're talking to the cops, and they walk in and go, shut up. Quit talking.

[Libby Emmons]

Correct.

[Robbie Bernstein]

With that said, I know that Les Wexner lied in these depositions, and I know this, and I'll say it. It's because he said he did not understand why Donald Trump was at the Victoria's Secret modeling events because he's not in the fashion industry. And you're telling me you can't understand why a man wants to go to Victoria's Secret show? That was a hot ticket, all right?

[Libby Emmons]

We were all running beauty pageants.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah.

[Robbie Bernstein]

So he's literally in. But I'm just saying, the idea of, oh, I have no idea why this man would be here.

[Tim Pool]

You know exact.

[Robbie Bernstein]

You know the brand. You. You know exactly what this is. You've got hot chicks up in lingerie. You're starving them to try and convince other women to not eat and be thin as well. And we all appreciated that in the 90s.

[Libby Emmons]

Secret guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Robbie Bernstein]

But the idea that you're running a Victoria's Secret fashion show and you're trying to pretend you don't know Donald Trump and you don't know why he was at the event you met him at, because there's no reason for him to be there. It's called. He's a dude.

[Libby Emmons]

Right? A rich dude. Yeah, a rich dude who likes models.

[Brett Dasic]

The point of people saying on X with, like, complete certainty that this is why he did that is because that's the benefit, to gather more clicks for your content. Right. If you say, well, it could be this, but the context might say something else. Like we're saying right now, it could be a lawyer movie. Could just be saying this because you've been answering the questions too fully. I keep telling you not to, but if you make it seem like you're actually threatening his life, if you talk at all, that's more salacious. So you make the more salacious Statement because more people will click on it. It's why I think ad revenue is one of the worst thing to happen to X because it disincentivizes giving nuanced takes on anything at. For the initial post. You might get into it more once people start debating it, you know, underneath the actual post. But if you want to get the eyes on it, the best thing you can do is to be as, you know, as dubious as possible.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, you're rewarded for making stuff if that. The other thing, too, that drives me nuts, just super quick is the thing where people post videos and they're like, this is shocking. And then you look closer and it's like, literally from six years ago.

[Tim Pool]

Yep.

[Libby Emmons]

You know, that drives me insane.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I feel like if this lawyer handed Wexner one of, like, those Bush funeral letters, I would go, okay, he was threatened.

[Tim Pool]

He slides a picture of Epstein across the table.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Do you remember?

[Phil Labonte]

I mean, like, look, this is, this is the exactly how I would want my lawyer to talk. You know, I mean, there, there's not a whole I, I, I disagree to you.

[Tim Pool]

I would want my lawyer very clear

[Phil Labonte]

and, and, and concise. And if he felt like swearing, I'm fine with that.

[Libby Emmons]

My lawyer wouldn't have to say a thing because I would keep my mouth shut no matter what.

[Phil Labonte]

Fair enough.

[Tim Pool]

He shouldn't be speaking. I know he tr. But it was miserably done. He could have just taken a little note, written down, shorter answers, talk less, and then just held it and showed it to him and then. And folded it.

[Brett Dasic]

He knows he can't write, I will effing kill you. Because

[Libby Emmons]

what Wexner needs are those. Those attorneys from the Tyler Robinson case.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

Who make sure that there can't be a camera or a mic or anything even within, like, 5ft, 20ft, 100ft of.

[Tim Pool]

Then you have people reading their lips so well.

[Libby Emmons]

But that's why they moved the cameras. They don't do that. Now.

[Robbie Bernstein]

What did you guys make of the fact that there were no Republic Republicans there for the deposition? The Republican staffers Comer sat it out saying he had a dental appointment.

[Tim Pool]

Isn't it fascinating that the left has become QAnon? Yes, liberals on X. Mainstream normie lib types are posting things like, a cabal of satanic pedophiles are running our government. And it's just like, welcome to the club.

[Brett Dasic]

Welcome.

[Libby Emmons]

We've known this for a while now, guys.

[Tim Pool]

Yes. Finally.

[Brett Dasic]

You're twitching up in far earlier.

[Tim Pool]

It'd be funny if the whole QAnon thing was fake. And it was just a, you know, the right was like, we need to really smear the Democrats to win. The Democrats are like, well, if you do that, then we're going to do it too. And they've just created a world in which everyone is adamant that Democrats and Republicans are just in the business of protecting petos.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, Democrats and Republicans who are leaders, you know, I mean, once you get into government, I feel like you get completely corrupted by power. Who doesn't get corrupted by power? You know, I mean, that's a, that's a huge reason to have term limits because people get corrupted and then they, they don't have the best interest of the people at heart. And you have to get them out and get somebody in who actually has some hope and optimism for the country.

[Phil Labonte]

I feel like, go ahead.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I would love it if the next election cycle is people running with slogans and satanic rituals in dc. I'd be like, all right, we've made some progress as a country.

[Phil Labonte]

I, I feel like the, I still, I'm still of the mind that the idea of term limits is a double edged sword. Right. Like if you've got someone that is in there for a short amount of time, then you end up with the bureaucrats that are, that are installed even with even more power and doing more running of the, of the government that,

[Libby Emmons]

I mean, they're the ones who keep everything sort of stable.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

And then they get corrupted as well. So, I mean, maybe there should be term limits on lots of things.

[Phil Labonte]

Maybe we should just get rid of more of the bureaucracy.

[Libby Emmons]

There should be way less government. Yeah, less government.

[Brett Dasic]

I also don't know if I buy that the left to become conspiracy theorists. This only stands on its feet for them because of Trump. Like, they just don't like Trump the second. If Trump's name wasn't mentioned, they wouldn't be talking about satanic veto.

[Tim Pool]

Technically. But we saw this when Trump was kind of out of the limelight for a bit in like 23, when Ron DeSantis had become the front runner in all the prediction markets. They immediately started writing articles saying Desantis is worse than Trump. If you thought Trump was bad, oh no, Desantis is coming. And I gotta be honest, like DeSantis is, he's pretty good in Florida, but he was pretty much vanilla yogurt everywhere else. And they were acting like he was Neo Mecca Hitler.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, they're like, Vance is worse. He's worse Nazi than Trump. They say that kind of, I mean,

[Phil Labonte]

look, as of the beginning of Next year they're going to be talking about whoever's running, you know, for president because that's when they're going to start, people start announcing and they're going to just start sliming them all as worse than Donald Trump. And they'll actually, they'll ease up on Trump for the last two years. I mean, obviously the House will still be doing the impeachment stuff, but the actual, the rhetoric surrounding Trump.

[Libby Emmons]

You think the midterms are already lost?

[Phil Labonte]

I'm behaving as if they are. I think that I'm of the mind.

[Tim Pool]

It's a districting thing.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, yeah.

[Phil Labonte]

I'm of the mind that if the economy is gang, is doing gangbusters, the Republicans can win.

[Robbie Bernstein]

But once this Iran war started, I

[Phil Labonte]

don't know, but that's going to, but let me, let me finish my point.

[Tim Pool]

We don't know for sure because war, wartime does improve, historically a president's approval rating.

[Phil Labonte]

If the Republicans, if the economy is doing gangbusters, the Republicans can win. If the economy is not doing gangbusters, the Republicans cannot win. And just because I'm saying the Republicans can, I'm not saying the Republicans will. I'm not predicting that they will. It still is going to be dependent on the actual people running.

[Tim Pool]

What do you think would happen if Iran. I'm not, and I'm not trying to, you know, a lot of people are going to be like, stop, don't say it, Tim. You're going to war. You're for war. No, no, no. But genuine question, like, what would you think would happen if Iran staged a large scale terror attack on the United States?

[Robbie Bernstein]

Oh, that's a much different story, right? Yeah. If Iran, I mean, I don't think they are going to, nor do they have the capability, but if they did, yeah, I think that would probably get people excited for more military action against Iran and that would probably help Republicans.

[Tim Pool]

Let's, let's say attack. An attack happened that was clearly and definitively Iran on say, you know, like times S or something and, you know, thousands of people.

[Robbie Bernstein]

That would probably help Trump.

[Tim Pool]

But so, you know, if that happened, I think everyone could agree this country would be overwhelmingly in favor of war with Iran. You'd get 60, 70% being like, yes. The question is, is that enough for Trump to rally for a midterm victory for Republicans?

[Robbie Bernstein]

What if there was a terror attack on our country?

[Tim Pool]

If there was a terror attack where most people agreed or felt that we should go to war, would that give Trump the power to then rally and say Vote Republican and then they would vote Congressional.

[Libby Emmons]

You know, I think that would, I mean, I think you'd get pretty close. But I do think you're right about the districting situation because New York State eliminated Nicole Malley talks as his district, essentially, totally.

[Brett Dasic]

Yeah.

[Robbie Bernstein]

The only reason it might not is if they blame Trump for it and said, you kicked the beehive when you bombed them. Right.

[Tim Pool]

That's a good point.

[Libby Emmons]

I don't think we're sick of that, though. Don't you think we're sick of being blamed for when people hurt us and we're like, oh, no, you hurt me. I must be a bad person. Mommy, please don't beat me again.

[Phil Labonte]

Look at the reaction to the Venezuela raid, right? Like, that is you almost ubiquitously on, you know, a positive thing to most Americans, like, okay, we didn't actually lose any Americans. We showed how strong we are, blah, blah, blah. Most Americans are like, that was actually cool. Like, whether. I understand that libertarians don't have that same perspective. So I get where the criticism would come from. But most, I mean, Libertarians are like 3% of the population or something like that. Nobody wants to be free. They want someone, they want to control other people. So if, if, if the, you know, if Iran turned into some kind of military action, if there, if there is some kind of strikes or even if there's a ground war, like, if it's not something that turns into a quagmire where Americans are coming home in slew of caskets and stuff, if the United States goes in and essentially loses almost no one, the American people are going to be like, actually, that's kind of cool. I really. And whether or not, again, the chat's probably going to, you know, chew me up for this, but I really do think that, like, most of your normies will be like, actually, that's kind of cool because I think most Americans like winning.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I think where Iran might differ from Venezuela is, for one, there's a lot more risk factors on the table, such as how China might react, whether or not there's going to be disruptions in oil trade, whether or not you're going to see Turkey or other people get more aggressive with Israel. But also there's a lot of discontent in this country right now for how aggressively this administration is supporting Israel. And I don't know that when Venezuela had more of a pitch for America first, even though it was all lunacy, I think a lot of people will see a strike against Iran as being for and in Israel's benefit and not in America's benefit. And I don't know that even a quick strike, depending on how successful it is, but assuming the best case scenario, I think some people might still say, I don't like that we took this risk and that we did it for another country.

[Phil Labonte]

I think that that's something that young people might think. But young people don't vote in Americ midterms.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. And I think young people are typically anti Israel to a certain degree. We've seen this in the Pew research. Based on the swings from young people and a little bit from the middle aged generations, it is around like 54% in opposition to Israel. But that is a weaker voting bloc than all of the old people and they largely support Israel. I do think in 10 or so years with boomers dying, you're going to see support for Israel basically evaporate, not because it's going away, but because it's already gone. Among younger generations. When the older generation that supports Israel dies, you have largely just the right wing, we don't care about your country and we don't want to support you. And the left wing, we hate Israel. So the right is going to be much more moderate, like, whoa, whoa, we don't hate Israel, we just don't want to be involved. And the left is going to be like, well, we absolutely hate them. Hey, we'll compromise, cut them off.

[Libby Emmons]

There is, there is sort of a thing though. You were talking about potentially disrupting oil in Iran and I'm not in favor of going into Iran because I'm not really in favor of any foreign conflicts of any kind. But the thing with Venezuela where Trump was basically like, okay, your oil is ours now, might mitigate any fallout from an oil disruption from Iran. And also to your point, Phil, the Pentagon at this point, like I was on this Pentagon trip yesterday. We went to Missouri and visited Boeing and it's like the second time I've traveled with Pentagon and they are so intense, intent on buying all of these kinds of autonomous weapons and things like that. They're really into it. So we're sort of at a point where our guys can stay home and play video games with, you know, autonomous weapons and take people out and take out entire nations without anybody batting an eye. It's kind of crazy.

[Tim Pool]

Let's, let's, we got, we have breaking news. Let's jump to the story. It was a post from Donald Trump. He says, based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War and other relevant departments and agencies to begin the process of Identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects, and any and all other information connected to these highly complex but extremely interesting and important matters. God bless America. Of course, this comes shortly after Donald Trump has confirmed the existence of aliens. I say that I'm half kidding, but

[Phil Labonte]

listen, I would love to have China and Russia.

[Tim Pool]

They've been invited. Yeah, you need both. You need all persuasions, no discrimination. Something that got a lot of attention this week. Barack Obama said that aliens are real.

[Phil Labonte]

Have you seen any evidence of non

[Tim Pool]

human visitors to Earth? Well, he gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that. So aliens are real.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I don't know if they're real or not.

[Tim Pool]

I can tell you he gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that. He made him. He made a big forsake. You took it out of classified information?

[Robbie Bernstein]

No, I don't have an opinion on it.

[Tim Pool]

I never talk about it.

[Libby Emmons]

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[Brett Dasic]

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[Libby Emmons]

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[Tim Pool]

support is always available because a great trip starts with peace of mind. A lot of people do. A lot of people believe it. Do you believe it, Peter?

[Phil Labonte]

Well, the president can declassify anything that he wants to. So if you want to make an

[Tim Pool]

announcement, I may get him out of trouble by declassifying, we know illegal aliens.

[Phil Labonte]

Only illegals.

[Brett Dasic]

What else?

[Tim Pool]

Okay, so hold on. Trump is asked about Obama saying aliens are real, and Trump's response is, he gave away classified information. He accidentally confirms the existence of aliens. Now, apparently what people are saying is that the actual story that Trump is referring to is that Obama made references to Area 51 that he's not supposed to mention that was actually giving with classified information. Or it could be some have spun it as by confirming or denying the presence of aliens at Area 51. He's not supposed to do that. Some people believe that the myth of aliens at Area 51 was a U.S. pSYOP to terrify our enemies, particularly the Soviets during the Cold War, to make them fear that we may have advanced technology they don't know about. And it may just be that there are aliens. And Obama admitted it. And Trump, Trump is saying he shouldn't have done that and that's why Obama walked it back.

[Brett Dasic]

That's the only, the only reason I don't believe it now is because he's confirming it with the tweet.

[Tim Pool]

Right.

[Brett Dasic]

The second he made the mistake and made it seem like an accident, I was like, okay, maybe this is actually real. But the government like quasi admits aliens are real like every couple of years when they need to.

[Tim Pool]

You know, I honestly think the probability that, that they announced the existence of aliens and we actually see aliens is going up a lot. And I'm still not saying it's a great probability at all. I'm saying it's like, you know, more than people would actually imagine. Not impossible, but the general idea is over the past decade or so they've been giving out more and more information, having more discussions about it. It's becoming boring. When Obama said aliens are real, literally nobody cared. Yeah, he's like, oh, of course the real just not Air51. And everyone's like, oh, would you look at that? That's interesting. The point, the point is the fear was decades ago if the government came out and said aliens exist, everybody loses their mind and they freak out. And the conspiracy theory for a long time was the government would have to trickle out a little information to desensitize the public. That way, when they do announce, in fact we have made contact with non human intelligence, people would go, ah, they finally said it. It's boring.

[Brett Dasic]

The news cycle is like instant now. People will be over it in like 10 seconds exactly. Unless they tried out like an actual alien body.

[Tim Pool]

10 seconds, gonn. No, no, no.

[Brett Dasic]

Even then they won't care.

[Tim Pool]

Row literal gray aliens could walk on the White house lawn and 10 seconds later people would be like, did you hear Trump? He called Rosie o' Donnell fatigue again.

[Libby Emmons]

I don't know. I wonder about that. Like, if aliens actually showed up, you don't think we'd unify, like, oh, hell no. We'd be like, the left would be

[Tim Pool]

like, are they communists?

[Libby Emmons]

To come together and be like the Federation of Planets?

[Tim Pool]

No way. If the alien, if aliens showed up first, there's questions about whether or not they have the same degree of technology and do they have faster than light travel or a facsimile of faster than light? Is there actually a federation? All of these things. It may just be like we traveled 100 years on a colony ship and came here and now we're going to Kill and eat you. Who knows?

[Robbie Bernstein]

If aliens actually showed up, I would be the first to die because I would go, this is Covid nonsense. You're trying to trick me back into my home. It's a government illusion in the sky and I'd be the first to get vaporized.

[Brett Dasic]

The only way this could end up being worse for Trump is if they actually came here because they needed a place to live and we had to deny them entry. They're actual illegal aliens. And we're like, we don't have any room.

[Libby Emmons]

I would. Supporting everybody else, I would be in favor of that. I'd be like, sorry, fellas, you gotta go home.

[Brett Dasic]

Mexico's over there.

[Tim Pool]

Over there, Section nine.

[Libby Emmons]

You don't have to.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, I don't think that's a movie. Right? I.

[Phil Labonte]

District 9.

[Tim Pool]

District 9.

[Robbie Bernstein]

That was a great movie.

[Tim Pool]

District 9.

[Phil Labonte]

Great movie.

[Robbie Bernstein]

That was a good movie.

[Tim Pool]

It was really good. I thought that it kind of got off the rails when weakest turned into an alien. I don't know what that was about or why that was relevant to a story about the refugee aliens, but, you

[Phil Labonte]

know, to show them what it. Show them what it was like to be on the other side.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, but, but for the most part, he's half laugh. He's like a weird, like, I'll turn the bug. And they're like, so we're gonna kill you. I guess so we're gonna say, well,

[Libby Emmons]

if somebody's turning into a bug, Mexico.

[Tim Pool]

And why did the, why did the fuel from the battery turn him into a bug?

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah. Well, why do you have put on the sunglasses so that you see the aliens in that other movie.

[Tim Pool]

They live.

[Brett Dasic]

Different movie.

[Tim Pool]

That's a totally different movie. And that one makes a lot of sense.

[Libby Emmons]

Sure. But all of our sci fi content is kind of loosely related. Not all of it. There's sort of different genres of sci fi content, but a lot of it that builds on similar concepts makes even less sense.

[Brett Dasic]

In the X Files that they like they constant. The government constantly tries to stop him. But he works for the government.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah.

[Brett Dasic]

His explanation is like, I have friends in Congress. I'm like, I don't know if anybody in Congress is like, powerful enough to stop this from, to stop them from shutting you up.

[Tim Pool]

Wishful thinking. Yeah.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Listen, I would love it if they exposed aliens. Bigfoot Ray apps give us all the conspiracies. I would love it if they actually had transparency on this stuff.

[Libby Emmons]

Stuff.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I don't think Obama actually said anything. He was asked on the podcast, do you believe aliens are Real. He basically said, yes, but not because of anything I've seen from the government. And then he clarified later on, what I mean is because of the mathematical probabilities.

[Tim Pool]

Now, now he's walking it back because Trump said, that's classified and you're going to go to jail. Well, he walked. No fun. He walked it back.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Prior to Trump saying that for one, and for two, Trump says crazy.

[Tim Pool]

It's because he got the call.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Trump says crazy stuff all the time. He's not that careful with his words. This is classic funny. Donald Trump. Gotcha. I don't think he accidentally said, oh, that's classified. I think he's kind of having fun and prodding at Obama. But that's my.

[Tim Pool]

No, no, no, no. It's obvious that the aliens have returned and they want control of Israel because that's the original site where they started creating the hybrid humanoids to mine gold for them.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I thought they liked the ice wall in Antarctica, and because there's tunnels there,

[Brett Dasic]

the Grays can be. Antarctica.

[Robbie Bernstein]

You don't understand.

[Tim Pool]

You understand, Okay, I needed to show

[Robbie Bernstein]

up today for this education.

[Tim Pool]

I'm gonna have to educate. You see, the Anunnaki need gold for their weak atmosphere because they're an elliptical orbit around the sun. So every 2,500 years, when the planet returns to proximity to Earth and the sun, they come to Earth to mine the gold they need to survive. So what they did, they hybridized themselves to create a slave race. The only problem is the first race they created was too smart, understood the nature of reality, and defied their order. So then they said, we need to make a stupider race. So they hybridized with monkeys and created humans. And this was obviously, of course, in, you know, where Israel is now. And they said, we're gonna have you mine gold. And then the. The first group of, of hybrids that were created went to the humans and were like, nah, you don't got to listen to them. You've got to be slaves. And told them the truth. And this created all this chaos. And so then you know, this. The. The Nibiru is the name of the planet. It leaves and it heads off for another 2,000 years. There's about a 500 year period where it's close enough in proximity that they can travel to and from the Earth. Well, this is when they were on their way out. And now they've been gone for 2,000 years, but now they're back and they want that land back. And they want gold for their atmosphere, and they've got the next 500 years to seize control of the Earth. And that's really what's happening now.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Can I ask one question from the story? No.

[Tim Pool]

Yes, go ahead.

[Robbie Bernstein]

When they had sex with the monkeys, did they return to their planet with aids?

[Tim Pool]

They didn't. They took their DNA and they fused it with some monkeys and get this, some viruses. Indeed. That's why humans have some DNA in their systems that are not found anywhere else. They believe that it was from the genetic engineering process.

[Robbie Bernstein]

So are we all in a capitalist structure because we're just serving these alien creatures and producing gold for them?

[Tim Pool]

The theory, the conspiracy theorists believe that life, intelligent life, generally understands the nature of existence because it seems odd that you would be intelligent but not know why you're here. And that humans are actually not a fully intelligent race. They're a hybrid, semi intelligent race that are smart enough to be programmed to do any job. You take a human shot and you can make it a specialist, but not smart enough to fully comprehend the nature of reality. And that is the conspiracy theory about why we like gold.

[Robbie Bernstein]

So we got to opt out for making money and become socialists. That's what I've learned here today.

[Libby Emmons]

What creatures would be able to comprehend the nature of reality?

[Tim Pool]

The conspiracy theorists believe that all of them.

[Libby Emmons]

All of them except us.

[Tim Pool]

Yes. Like we were, we were specially engineered to not understand God.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, but that's, I mean, that's just sort of like what I love about all these simulation theories is it's like, oh, so, so God created.

[Tim Pool]

It's not a simulation theory.

[Libby Emmons]

Right.

[Tim Pool]

But the other ones are. This is a whackaloon. Somebody tried to create a sci fi movie explaining a whole bunch of random things. And they just. Well, they did. It's just if you make up a bunch of crazy nonsense, you can make anything sound. You know what I mean?

[Libby Emmons]

I mean, if you look, I mean, if you look at the Old Testament, it's sort of. It discusses essentially how human beings cannot achieve God knowledge and cannot fully understand God. I mean, that's right.

[Tim Pool]

And so that's part of our culture. So the people who make up this theory about the Nibiru and the Anunnaki read the Bible and then said, what can I make up to extrapolate from that statement that makes it sort of aliens. Right, exactly. So they say, well, the reason why the Bible said it is because it was the word from the aliens who created us telling us we couldn't. That's the point of the conspiracy theory.

[Libby Emmons]

Every time I hear the Anunnaki thing, I Think of the Abenaki, which was one of the Algonquin tribes.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, probably where they got the name from. Probably because they just made it all up.

[Libby Emmons]

Up. Yeah. Really good story.

[Brett Dasic]

How long ago is that? Did they make that up?

[Libby Emmons]

The Algonquin? Yeah. No, no, no.

[Brett Dasic]

Tim's. Tim's. Tim's.

[Tim Pool]

Well, actually, you might not know this, but Native Americans. Not real.

[Brett Dasic]

Not real.

[Tim Pool]

Made up by leftists to make white people feel guilty.

[Libby Emmons]

It didn't work. I don't bad at all.

[Tim Pool]

When you see a Native American Asian.

[Brett Dasic]

Is it possible that Epstein was our envoy to the aliens? And that's why they don't want to let.

[Libby Emmons]

One of the things that I love

[Tim Pool]

is how the aliens wanted to. To rape young women.

[Brett Dasic]

Well, they took him back. They took Epstein back. That's why we can't find one of the things I.

[Libby Emmons]

The how the left spent decades telling us that, you know, you're not actually of German, Italian, Irish, Polish heritage. You're just white. And now AOC is going. Whiteness is just a myth. You're actually just all these other things. And there is no such thing as white culture. And it's like you just spent the last, you know, 75 years explaining to us why everything is hom. Every. Every Euro descended person is homogenized and just plain white and white culture. And that white culture is bad. And now you're telling us it doesn't even exist. Exist.

[Phil Labonte]

She's the worst.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, I. I was. I. I watched her Munich stuff so much. Watched. I watched all of it.

[Tim Pool]

Why?

[Libby Emmons]

Because I found it fascinating. I also watch. I like the Munich stuff. I thought Rubio was good.

[Tim Pool]

She's making me want to run for office.

[Libby Emmons]

I liked Vance. Yeah, the last year.

[Tim Pool]

AOC is so bad at just general politics. It's making me want to just.

[Libby Emmons]

She didn't know where Venezuela was.

[Tim Pool]

I know.

[Libby Emmons]

She said it was below the equator. And it's like. Did you go to school? I mean, she went to school in Westchester. Those are like top rated school districts.

[Tim Pool]

Well, you know, she's real dumb.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, I guess so. I guess so.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

She just got pretty jeans, but no

[Tim Pool]

smart jeans, you know? You know, one of the things about me is I can't stand watching someone do something wrong. And so if I see somebody trying to like, put a doorknob on and it's taking a long time and they're doing it poorly, I'll be like, just get out of the way. Let me do it. Like, I'll be done in a minute. So when I see her up there.

[Libby Emmons]

Better than, like, beating them with the doorknob.

[Tim Pool]

No, I just. It just. Can we get it done? Why are you taking so long? It frustrates me.

[Libby Emmons]

Yes.

[Tim Pool]

So when I watch AOC do anything, I'm just getting frustrated being like, let me do it. You're doing it wrong. Yeah, but she's saying it's incoherent.

[Libby Emmons]

Gonna run for Chuck Schumer's seat. She's gonna be in the Senate, and then she's gonna run for president or one or the other or both.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I stand by this. I've been wrong on a lot of things. Too stupid to run for president.

[Tim Pool]

I don't think you have to be

[Libby Emmons]

smart to run for.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I don't think you do not have to. An actual run.

[Libby Emmons]

You don't have to. She doesn't have to. All she needs is somebody else to do it.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Worse than Kamala Harris?

[Phil Labonte]

No, no, she's not.

[Libby Emmons]

She's better than Kamala Harris.

[Tim Pool]

And come on.

[Phil Labonte]

She's got less experience, but she's not worse.

[Libby Emmons]

And she doesn't have.

[Tim Pool]

Hold on, hold on.

[Libby Emmons]

Laugh.

[Tim Pool]

Here's the. Here's what I will say. The answer she gave at the Munich security conference does really knock her down a peg or two.

[Libby Emmons]

And whether the Taiwan one.

[Tim Pool]

Both Taiwan and the rules based order stuff.

[Libby Emmons]

Yes.

[Robbie Bernstein]

You.

[Tim Pool]

You need to be able to sound smart, not be smart. So Trump is. Is. Is sort of good at this. Sort of. Because sometimes it does sound like. Like what is he even talking about? But it's the weave. He can dodge difficult questions and he can over. He can simplify things to the point where he gets away with it. AOC can't. Okay. You can't have a stuttering, rambling, nonsense. The rules based order thing was so much worse than the Taiwan thing. She was just basically saying a bunch of words strung together, not even making any. Any sense. You need to. You need to. I. I've had people say to me, they say, tim, you. You know, you really. You really. I watch your videos. Like, you're really smart guy. And I'm like, no, I sound like I'm really smart. There's a difference. I'm probably knowledgeable in a lot of things, but understanding that what works in media is sounding intelligent, not being intelligent. And then you'll understand basically how politicians actually win and whether policies tend not

[Libby Emmons]

to work and why all of the news outlets are a disaster.

[Tim Pool]

Indeed.

[Brett Dasic]

That's why it's time to elect Fetterman.

[Tim Pool]

So AOC needs to be able to weave and she cannot. That's a problem for someone trying to run for a higher office.

[Libby Emmons]

So do you think Kamala could weave?

[Tim Pool]

Absolutely not. I think AOC is better than Kamala.

[Brett Dasic]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

But that Taiwan answer, she could have. Literally. I mean, I got to be honest. If AOC's response was, you know, that's a very difficult question, and I'm not sure I have a really good answer for you. Everyone would have. No one would have cared. Well, it would have been like, okay,

[Libby Emmons]

that's the kind of answer JD Vance is comfortable giving.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

Because he's confident.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. Instead, she was like, I need to make it sound like I'm smart by saying random things that don't.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah. That I don't even know what words mean.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I think Trump has a superpower, and he's one of one, and no one can duplicate it, which is. He says nothing. He's a sales guy. And so he just goes, we'll get it done. And he refuses to give you a reason. He refuses to give an explanation.

[Brett Dasic]

Well, that's what Kamala Harris did. She said nothing. Every time she spoke, Harris tried to

[Robbie Bernstein]

pretend like there was a reason there, and then it came out as gobbledygook.

[Brett Dasic]

Yeah. But it was nothing. That's the point. No Trump sell nothing.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Trump doesn't actually say anything. It's, hey, I'm going to end the Ukraine war in one day. Doesn't tell you how he's going to do it. Won't validate how he's going to do it.

[Tim Pool]

I disagree. I completely disagree.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Okay.

[Tim Pool]

When asked about ending the Ukraine war, he says, he goes, we're going to end it on day one, day one. And that's bloving. That's. That's arrogant. He didn't get it done, but that's okay. He's a salesman. Right. Do you want to buy a product from the guy who says, I'm not sure it'll work, or the guy who says, I guarantee it'll work. So. So when Trump is asked, how do you get it done? He says, listen, listen. He says, these guys don't want to be fighting. Putin and Zelensky don't want to be fighting. We're going to go in there, and we're going to stop the fighting. And that's a very, very, very simple answer. He's giving you 1%. Basically, I'm going to tell them to stop fighting. That's the answer that he's giving you. There is. There is the smallest of substance there. Kamala Harris, her answers are like, you know, fighting Is like when you're up against someone and they're trying to make you do something and you're not letting them, and you're fighting and you're just like, oh, she's not even telling us what she's going to do. She's not giving us the lightest of morsels of, I will tell Putin to stop. So Trump at least gives you that little bit. And I think the strategy with Trump. Trump, as with many presidents, is to target the lowest common denominator, because that's how elections work in this country. You try and sound smart, congratulations, 7% of people are going to vote for you. You try and sound as simple as possible. Listen, Putin and Zelensky, they don't want to fight, so I'm going to tell them stop. And then, unfortunately for this country, the lowest common denominator is going to be like, well, I think it's good that Trump's going to tell him to stop fighting.

[Brett Dasic]

That version of that is like, in Ukraine is a country in Europe. Europe.

[Tim Pool]

And Russia is a bigger country.

[Brett Dasic]

Country. Yeah, exactly.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Well, Trump did it. Venezuela, too. We run the country now. He didn't explain what that meant. I actually find that where Rubio and Vance get themselves in trouble is they try and fill in some of the details, and there aren't details.

[Tim Pool]

I just. I get so frustrated with that AOC thing because she could have just said, yes, should the U.S. that is the policy of the United States. So who am I to say otherwise?

[Phil Labonte]

The policies. It's to be ambiguous, isn't it, Instead, Largely.

[Tim Pool]

But we have. We have troops there.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Instead, she decided to take a Biden pause.

[Tim Pool]

Let's. Let's jump to the story from the post. Millennial Illinois Democrat Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton releases F. Trump Senate campaign video vowing to abolish ice.

[Brett Dasic]

Okay, Trump.

[Tim Pool]

Vote Juliana. Fuck Trump. Vote Juliana. Fuck Trump. Vote Juliana. They said it, not me.

[Brett Dasic]

I'm Juliana Stratton, and I'm proud to have lived my whole life on the

[Tim Pool]

south side of Chicago.

[Brett Dasic]

I'm not scared of a wannabe dictator.

[Tim Pool]

I'm running for Senate to stand up to Donald Trump.

[Brett Dasic]

I'll abolish ICE and hold Trump accountable for the crimes he's committed, just like they said.

[Tim Pool]

Trump. Trump.

[Brett Dasic]

Trump.

[Tim Pool]

Vote Juliana.

[Brett Dasic]

That's why I approve this message.

[Tim Pool]

And so let me just stress this, J.B. pritzker, in this video, the degradation of politics, we are so far gone. And I'm going to say this to all these. These Democrats, Trump didn't start it. Trump was a symptom of it. Okay. And where we are now, y' all are just rolling around in it like pigs in. Well, since we're already swearing pigs and shit. So this is. This. This breaks my heart. We have. We have much bigger news than anything we've talked about today. Much, much bigger news. Much, much bigger news. We talked about Epstein, Prince Andrew, former arrested Trump saying aliens are real. There's a bigger story here. Chicago Bears are leaving Chicago.

[Libby Emmons]

Oh, yeah.

[Tim Pool]

And this is quite possibly the worst thing that ever could happen anywhere in all of human history. And it is because of these pieces of trash Democrats who have lived on the south side of Chicago our whole lives. So now we have two options for the Chicago Bears. They can go to Arlington Heights, which is okay, fun. Still Illinois, but it's a northwest suburb or Indiana. Okay, we can talk about that in a bit. I just had to bring it up because I'm not even a big football guy. And I see this woman being like, I have lived here F I. So I'll abolish, you know, them. And Trump is bad. And I'm like, you are why. Everything is falling apart in our state. And people like me and my friends fled because y' all burned it to the ground with 100 years of Democrat supermajority rule and your crackpot gerrymandered garbage districts. And now the city is turning to. To. To garbage. And it's miserable. It's miserable. They won't fix it. I see this lady, you know what she may as well have just said? I put on my they Live glasses and she goes, buzzwords, buzzwords that you've heard. So you think I'm cool and like, you vote for me. Here's another Democrat. He agrees. That's all I heard.

[Phil Labonte]

It's pretty comical, the fact that she's like, in the worst ways, yeah, I'm going to stand up to Trump. It's like you're supposed to be. You're campaigning for the upper house, right? The Senate is supposed to be the one where people kind of aren't really clowns. Like, they move slowly, they've got longer terms. You know, it's fine. When you hear people in the House doing ridiculous things, there's 435 of them. They do stuff to get attention because there's 435 of them. The upper house is supposed to be the one that. Or where the people that have a little more poise, a little more dignity and stuff. And this is her campaign. This is.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Do you remember?

[Phil Labonte]

It's a clown show.

[Libby Emmons]

A couple years ago, there was a story that came out that was basically saying that there was evidence to suggest that people who curse more are smarter. And did you notice a lot of stupid Democrats start cursing way more all of a sudden as soon as that study came out?

[Phil Labonte]

I didn't notice the. I didn't notice that it was correlated with that.

[Robbie Bernstein]

It'd be fun if she competes with Jasmine Crockett for who can be the sassiest in Congress. Yeah, you know, it's a fun direction that we're headed in a complete freak show. But, yeah, I mean, this really does speak to the degradation of politics, of there's no campaign promise, there's nothing. It's just f that other guy. That's pretty. It's pretty absurd that anyone would rally behind that.

[Brett Dasic]

And a lot of times the swearing has to do with when they feel threatened. So I talk a lot about. On our show about, like, there's something about the average celebrity when ICE comes up, they have to say f ice and say it with their whole chest because. And they say the same thing about AI they say FAI because they're so scared of what it's going to do to their industry that all they can muster is to say a swear word alongside it because they don't have an actual coherent argument against it. And any coherent argument is going to fall in the face because it's not going to work. The technology is already evolving. In this case, ICE is already doing what it's doing. They're not able to stop it. And so the only thing that they can muster is to swear.

[Phil Labonte]

It's. It's just sad. It's. It's.

[Brett Dasic]

It's.

[Phil Labonte]

You know, I mean, I. I assume that there is a portion of the electorate that. That is going to appeal to, you know, the Democrats that really hate Trump, of course, and stuff. But, like, you know, she's not just running in Chicago, she's running to represent Illinois. Yeah, and. And that's a very.

[Tim Pool]

Like, that.

[Phil Labonte]

That ad is. Is very, very narrow. It's targeted a very narrow group of people.

[Tim Pool]

You know, I love the Chicago weather and the architecture and parks and all these things growing up there. You know, like, I'm talking to my wife about where do we really want to settle down, like, where we truly want to live. We're in West Virginia now, and we do love it because it's not too dissimilar, weather wise. But of course, when we think about it, we grew up in Chicago. We love the summers where you can go swimming and, you know, Go out and do outdoor activities. We love the winter where you can play in the snow and there's snow activities.

[Libby Emmons]

Not.

[Tim Pool]

Not great skiing or anything like that. The problem is because everything in this spattering from Wisconsin to Minneapolis to Chicago is deeply corrupt, evil human waste running the machine. And Brett, from our cousins over there in Minnesota, knows exactly what I'm talking about, how corrupt and garbage everything is. And it pisses me off because I'd love to live there.

[Brett Dasic]

I don't want to move back.

[Tim Pool]

Right.

[Brett Dasic]

Me and my wife have talked about moving back to Michigan, where she's from, which is still just like we were there. Remember, over the winter we had to go to a funeral. It was like negative nine. And I'm like, I'm good. I love it now. Like, I'm.

[Tim Pool]

Sign me up.

[Brett Dasic]

I can get back into it if I'm there for a period of time. But I like when here it gets down to, like, 20. You're getting into the 20s. I'm fine with that.

[Tim Pool]

I'm down for Alaska, man. We went to. When we went to Anchorage. Amazing. What a beautiful place.

[Phil Labonte]

Everything's so much more difficult in the winter time. Doing anything outdoors is way more difficult. It's just really.

[Brett Dasic]

Skating is actually better in the winter.

[Tim Pool]

You know, it's so humid and hot.

[Brett Dasic]

It's like.

[Tim Pool]

But isn't there substantially less crime the colder it gets?

[Brett Dasic]

Well, that's why people were saying that the. The ice riots were ironic. The ice riots were going to be less substantial because it was winter and they weren't all out in the summer.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, well, you know, you can still turn up the political temperature even when it's cold outside.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I gotta say, Chicago is one of my favorite cities to visit. I love it. Great American city. I don't follow football. The fact that the Bears are leaving Chicago makes me sad.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Robbie Bernstein]

That's like such an American thing. The Bears are the bears. The Bears, like. Yep.

[Tim Pool]

Well, that. The. It's people like this lady who have thrown a noose around the neck of our cultures and our tradition and are just strangling it to death.

[Robbie Bernstein]

And you know what they should do? They should start a new town called the Bears and let all the super.

[Tim Pool]

Bears. Bears.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Yes. Yeah. And just let them all move there and start a new city. That's awesome.

[Tim Pool]

Just. Just. Let's try this one out. You've got the Chicago Bears, but let's just. Just hear it. The Hammond Bears.

[Robbie Bernstein]

It doesn't work.

[Libby Emmons]

It sounds like teddy bears. It sounds like a German stuffed animal company.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Sounds like the gummy Bears. Sounds like the Haribo Gummy Bear.

[Tim Pool]

Hey, can I, can I, can I copyright or trademark Hammond Bears right now

[Libby Emmons]

before it happens you should definitely get own.

[Tim Pool]

Own the phrase. They have to change it to the Indiana Bears.

[Brett Dasic]

Have they? So they are leaving Chicago. The Bears are leaving Chicago. Who's getting blamed for this? Like are they, are they blaming the politicians? Because you know what they're going to do? They're going to say that the billionaires aren't paying enough in taxes to keep the football team in. In Chicago.

[Phil Labonte]

They should ab. Absolutely go to Gary. It's right there.

[Tim Pool]

The Gary Bears take.

[Libby Emmons]

Come at your own risk Gary. Just like another disaster. Like Chicago is a disaster.

[Tim Pool]

I'm just gonna.

[Brett Dasic]

I may pay you to go to the game.

[Tim Pool]

I just want to point this out. Hammondbears.com was was parked by godaddy and so is Indiana Bears.

[Libby Emmons]

Oh, interesting.

[Tim Pool]

So I wonder if that's an indication of something. And guess what? Arlington Heights Bears. Nope.

[Libby Emmons]

No.

[Tim Pool]

First all of sale. Anybody listening to the show right now you can go and buy arlingtonheightsbears.com Something tells me that will not be the name they use.

[Robbie Bernstein]

And then make it the fruitiest website of all time. Make it an exclusive place to meet other people of your specific orientation.

[Libby Emmons]

Or just sell a bunch of Gummy Bears.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, their colors have to.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Now is this just a negotiation tactic to try and get the city to buy them a new stadium type deal?

[Tim Pool]

No, the issue is they should not buy in the stadium. It's that the property taxes are too high.

[Libby Emmons]

High.

[Tim Pool]

So it's going to cost them around 250 million bucks a year in property taxes and they want the city to give them an exemption. And the city is a bunch of communists who won't do it. So Indiana passed a bill saying like no, you're good, we'll take you.

[Libby Emmons]

I think, I think that, I think they should leave.

[Tim Pool]

I think they should absolutely leave.

[Libby Emmons]

I think everybody should leave where they're being overcharged. You know, I mean all of the people in New York did this thing with Mamdani where he's trying to extort Albany into paying a whole bunch more money to the city for the. His social, his promised social programs. And what he's saying, which you know, everybody already heard already but like what he's saying is if you don't do it, I'm going to raise property taxes almost 10%. And the thing is, if you look at the way the property taxes are calculated in New York City, there's four tiers. There's private homes, like one, two, three family homes. Then there's apartment building buildings, then there's utilities, and then there's commercial. Right, like hotels and office buildings. Private homeowners are already paying over 19% in property taxes, 19% of the assessed value of their home and property. So he's talking about raising property taxes on New York City homeowners by another 10%. That brings them to like, almost 30% of their property taxes. People are going to have to sell their homes and able to afford the property taxes. And basically his goal to eliminate private property in the city will be much faster on the way anyway. Because their idea, his whole administration's idea, is to create not just a city full of renters, but a nation full of renters. And they want them paying their rent to the government. And if you look at it, Mamdani's had this whole thing where he was like, oh, we're gonna let tenants come in and complain about their housing and complain about their landlords, but they're not allowed to complain publicly. You know who's not going to be able to complain publicly in those hearings? Residents of New York of the New York City Housing Authority. That's public housing. That's projects. So if you live in the projects and you don't like your housing, you can't go to this, like, rental thing and start complaining about how the city is a crap landlord. And the city is the biggest landlord, the city is the biggest landlord in the city, and their housing stinks. And all the time during the campaign, he was like, oh, we'll change light bulbs in the city housing, you know, Cause the light bulbs are out. And he didn't even mention the elevators, which like our open shafts. Half the time he even mentioned that. And then he's like, but, you know, for you private property owners, we're gonna raise your taxes and drive you right out. And I think all those private homeowners should get the hell out of that city.

[Phil Labonte]

How many people that voted for Momdan do you think have are now regretting their vote? And that's like, this is like three

[Libby Emmons]

months in, I think a lot of them. Because, you know, he's talking, and if you look at what he wants to spend his money on, meanwhile, Albany just gave him another 1.5 billion, like five days ago. If you look at what he wants to spend the money on, it's pretty much it's entirely social programs. It's entirely social programs. And it's like, that's great and stuff, but you have to, you know, Quality of life is what matters in the city.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I think all of them. Cuz the way our political system works is who can lie to the best during the campaigning process and none of them can pull through on what they're saying. The thing that I'm shocked people are upset about is that I guess part of his campaign promises was that New York City could keep their homeless. And I can't believe that that's the pitch that they're mad at him about is that he promised not to clear them out of the parks and now because they're freezing to death 19 years, he realized he has to and they're upset at him of you broke your promise to us of letting these people stay in the park.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, because you know it's better to let them die.

[Libby Emmons]

He went around in his New York City monogram bomber jacket handing out blankets to these homeless people who then died.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I'm sorry, that, that's funny. It just. It's just socialism right there.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah. Yeah, it really is. They, yeah, the monogram, they were red and they were like compliments of Mumdani

[Robbie Bernstein]

or something the government couldn't figure out they needed.

[Tim Pool]

They weren't very good.

[Libby Emmons]

They weren't electric blankets.

[Phil Labonte]

Blankets, no.

[Libby Emmons]

They were just your regular.

[Phil Labonte]

Well, yeah, if you're homeless, where you're gonna plug it in?

[Libby Emmons]

You're gonna. Where are you gonna plug it in? What are you kidding? New York City, like open up one of the lamp posts and just plug stuff in there so you can plug stuff in all over the place.

[Phil Labonte]

Really?

[Libby Emmons]

There's plugs?

[Tim Pool]

Didn't know that they, you know how they have those kiosks? They. I don't know if they still do. Like with the Internet.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Homeless guys.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, yeah. There were like these digital kiosks they set up where you could just use the Internet whenever you wanted. And then homeless guys were using it to, you know. You know what I'm saying? Saying they were gooning.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, any if. If human beings create a thing, it's going to be used for porn.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, essentially. Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

You know, I got to be honest. If they set up a digital Internet kiosk for free use of looking things up, anything you wanted, literally anything. And it was at a ski resort, you would not have a gooning problem. Not at a ski resort, but at a resort now, why is it you

[Libby Emmons]

have thousands of dollars of equipment just hanging around outside side. Well, because skiers don't steal.

[Tim Pool]

Why?

[Libby Emmons]

Because they don't, Tim.

[Phil Labonte]

Because they have money.

[Tim Pool]

Let's jump to the story from the post Millennial Student struck by car injured during Florida anti ice walkout. The student was taken to a local hospital with non life threatening injuries.

[Phil Labonte]

Stay in schools, kids.

[Tim Pool]

Did you guys see the video where the mom tries to stop her son from protesting? He walked out of school. And she's like, you get in this car right now. He's like, no, mom. And she's like, you can. You can't do it. He's like, I could do it. I'm allowed. You can't stop me. And he ignores her. I'm like, man, mom, you need the chancla.

[Libby Emmons]

You need the what?

[Tim Pool]

Chancla. You guys don't know nothing about this.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I don't know the chunk.

[Tim Pool]

It's when the Latina mom takes her flip flop and starts whacking the sun with it. And then the sun's like, mom, stop, stop, stop.

[Libby Emmons]

Oh, that wouldn't have been what happened at my house.

[Tim Pool]

Belt. No, what you do is you get a leather belt room.

[Libby Emmons]

You guys think.

[Tim Pool]

I cannot imagine. I could not imagine. That is crazy to me. When I grew up, if any of the kids in the neighborhood said, no, mom, she would be like, what? And she'd be.

[Libby Emmons]

Your mom's awesome, though.

[Tim Pool]

I'm just saying, all the kids in my neighborhood, no one would dare say, no, mom. Like, that's just not happening. I don't know about you guys to see this. I'm just like, oh, we're cooked, man. More importantly, the bigger picture is your schools are letting your children run amok. And there was another viral video. The dad walks in. You guys saw this one. He walks into the school and he's like, why are you having my kids go to protests?

[Libby Emmons]

He was like, get them out of here.

[Tim Pool]

He said, a kid got hit by a car. What are you doing?

[Libby Emmons]

A kid got hit by a car in Florida today. On it during an anti. Yeah, that's. Oh, that's the story. We. Yeah, we ran that.

[Tim Pool]

Talking about.

[Libby Emmons]

God, I even assigned this one. I was.

[Tim Pool]

In a minute. It's been one minute. But the dad was like giving my kid. I'm taking him out of your school. Because you're allowing this, guys. You got to homeschool your kids. I'm not saying it's going to be easy. I'm not saying everyone can just make it. Make and do it. But if you're in a burning building and I say, you got to go outside, you got to get out of the building, you can't be like, but it's cold outside. I know it's difficult. I know it's tough. I know some people have it easier than others, but you got to get your kids away from this psychotic behavior.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, no, I. I agree with that. I think this is absolutely insane that this is what's going on. And the is thing is, schools have a responsibility. Once you send your kid on that bus or whatever, drop them off to school, they have a responsibility to keep your kids safe in the schools. And I was wondering that too. Like, when I was in high school, juniors and seniors could get permission to go off campus during certain times of the day to go get lunch, but your parents had to sign it. And one of my friends, he forged his mom's signature, and then he went off campus with another one of my friends, and the one of them got his arm broken by like a gang of thugs. Cause it was in Germantown, Philadelphia. And they said to my one friend, they were like, touch him, he's a brother, cuz he was black. So they didn't beat him up. They just beat up the white kid. And then when they came back inside, the whole thing was for my friend whose name I can't. Why can't I think of, like a fake name? Let's call him Tom. Anyway, so Tom comes back in and everyone's like, keep quiet.

[Tim Pool]

At Charmin, we heard you shouldn't talk about going to the bathroom in public. So we decided to sing about it. Can use less better than the rest

[Robbie Bernstein]

Shaman ultra strong Booty pass the clean text summon wave texture it's the best

[Tim Pool]

Study up, teach a lesson on fresh

[Robbie Bernstein]

your booty pass the clean test Shaman

[Tim Pool]

ultra strong Charmin ultra strong with diamond

[Libby Emmons]

weave texture Cleans better than the leading

[Tim Pool]

one plaid brand so you can use less. Enjoy the go with Charmin.

[Libby Emmons]

Don't say that Tom was off campus because he's not allowed to go off campus because his mom will freak out. And so it became this whole thing where the whole story wasn't about the arm broken, it was about trying to cover for Tom so he didn't get, you know, whooped by one of these sandals or something.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I guess in the modern day, this is a good high school because how also these kids are going to be ready to go protest in college, right? You got to get them ready for the college experience doing stupid things.

[Libby Emmons]

So which is setting up camp, not going to class, harassing Jews.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Yeah, yeah, you got to get them started early on dumb things.

[Tim Pool]

Things. Yeah, yeah.

[Phil Labonte]

Well, I mean, look, this. This is just like I said earlier, it's. It's another advertisement for like, stay in school. And I Mean inside the building.

[Libby Emmons]

Did you see the principal who was like, okay, you guys are all out here. We're not doing this. You can go back inside right now or you can get suspended. Your choice. What are you going to do?

[Phil Labonte]

Did they suspend them all or did they. Was he just like.

[Libby Emmons]

No, it was a 20 second clip on Twitter. I have no idea what happened after that. It auto scrolled to the next thing. It's probably AI and it's rotting my brain. That's why I follow through talking about this story. Five seconds.

[Phil Labonte]

They should definitely follow through. They should suspend them. All the teachers that organize this stuff should be suspended, actually. Because you know that it's like the kids, kids are going to be like, I get to go outside and screw off with my friends and holler and make a big stink about something. Yeah, I'm going to do that. Heck yeah. For the most part, kids don't have real strong convictions about this kind of stuff. But if they do, do they get them from their teachers? They get them from, from their guidance counselors, you know, or possibly from the parents, but you know, like teachers organizing this stuff because, you know, the. All, all the schools of education are completely inundated with leftists. So it's like this is like all

[Libby Emmons]

the graduate schools and stuff.

[Phil Labonte]

Well, I mean, all the. No, the schools that teach teachers. Yeah, yeah. It's like they're all leftists and they're teaching the teachers to be leftists.

[Brett Dasic]

The cops have to wear body cams. The teachers should have to wear body cams too.

[Tim Pool]

Absolutely.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

I mean, wearing body cams.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Growing up, unless I showed up to school and my teacher wanted to tell me about the situation that was going on in Minnesota, that's not something that would have came up at my dinner table. It's not something my parents were telling me about. Maybe it's different nowadays.

[Tim Pool]

No, I'm saying, what, like your parents

[Libby Emmons]

didn't talk politics at home?

[Robbie Bernstein]

Not really. Particularly not if like they were kind of horrifying stories, you know, like, that's not coming up. Hey, someone died today because they were out protesting.

[Libby Emmons]

Really?

[Robbie Bernstein]

That wouldn't have been a conversation at the table.

[Libby Emmons]

They're arguing about politics half the night at dinner.

[Phil Labonte]

My parent, my dad would complain about the government because he would, like, he constantly was dealing with like, regulations.

[Libby Emmons]

My dad was complaining about business as well.

[Phil Labonte]

He had a business. He's like, he's like, you know, the government, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, it's like, because he's like, he was a business owner and yeah, regulations.

[Tim Pool]

My. My parents didn't really talk about all that much, but I had the Internet since I was a little kid, so I was online all the time.

[Libby Emmons]

My son comes home from school and he says, mom, has there been any big news today?

[Phil Labonte]

That's when you say, child. No, though. Go do something fun.

[Libby Emmons]

And I say, well, we could run through some of the headlines.

[Tim Pool]

You should say.

[Libby Emmons]

And then he says, I'm gonna go talk to my friends, though.

[Tim Pool]

No, you got to use this. You got to say something like, yes. It's terrifying. There was an attack, and the only way to protect ourselves is you need to do 10 reps of these weights here. And then we're going to run a couple laps around the house.

[Libby Emmons]

Actually, what actually happens is I tell him what the big news stories of the day were, and I just tell him, they shot this kid. This lady's dead. We might be going to a war with Iran. And then he says, okay, I'm gonna go talk to my friends now. I love the laugh track. That's great.

[Phil Labonte]

Perfect.

[Libby Emmons]

That's so 80s. It's retro 80. You know, it's gonna be funny when AI movies. There should be AI movies with laugh tracks.

[Tim Pool]

I just gotta tell everybody. You know, podcasts came about because people were passionate and interested in such subjects, but now that it's becoming ubiquitous, you are going to get laugh track podcasts. I would not be surprised. You're going to get all my balls. The podcast where it's going to be the most, like, idiotic nonsense, but, you know. Have you guys ever watched Big Bang Theory without the laugh track?

[Libby Emmons]

NPR Morning News show.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, but I want to hear an

[Phil Labonte]

NPR Morning News show with a laugh track.

[Tim Pool]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Big Bang Theory without the laugh track. You've heard it, right? No, it's like. Like, Sheldon walked in, he goes, oh, what are you doing? And then I'm just sitting there being like, why? Why are. Why. What's the laughing for? Like, nothing was done. And so they made these edits where they remove the laugh track, and it's really just psychotic people, where it's like, he'll walk up and be like, a hot dog.

[Phil Labonte]

It's bad.

[Tim Pool]

Yes. I'm eating a hot. And you're like, what the Is going on?

[Brett Dasic]

I like the ones where they add the scary music into it, too, because it works just as well.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, yeah, we have a. We had. We had. Callan sent me sad trombone to add to our tour.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, you used it yesterday for me,

[Brett Dasic]

and I think it's innate that we're like, we're destined.

[Tim Pool]

No, it was actually after Phil's statement about going on tour. Yeah, got it.

[Brett Dasic]

I just added like audience, like an audience applause button on our show too.

[Tim Pool]

Just audience applause.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Brett Dasic]

Like you start the show, it's like the show started and just like I intro the show with like Clapter, as if there's like a bunch of people watching us live from in studio, but it's just me, you know, Clapter.

[Tim Pool]

That's laughter.

[Brett Dasic]

Yeah, it's what, it's what like stand like late night comedians get. Yeah, it's not laughter, it's not clapping, it's Clapter.

[Tim Pool]

I. I can only stress this again because I do it every single day, but guys, content is over. We talked about this on Libby's pod Millennial podcast.

[Libby Emmons]

This is a sneak preview, you guys.

[Tim Pool]

Sneak preview. There are programs that can auto generate anything. So if you want to make a YouTube channel channel, you'll need some capital to get started because the scale does get expensive. But you're not competing with anybody. We're not competing. It's as simple as this. If I want to make a two hour podcast, it's going to take me two hours. It's going to take me other people, production, whatever it might be. If I want to do a two hour podcast entirely on my own, which I, which I do for my morning show, it takes me at least two hours. Now here's the thing, I got to do research. I got to find articles. So it actually takes me like five hours hours to make a two hour podcast. There are programs already online you can sign up for, for to varying degrees of expense, some relatively cheap, and you type in show you. You click a button and it'll show you all the top YouTube videos for the day. You will then say copy you. You. It'll then prompt you to what title do you want? It'll say here's, here's titles based on this video. You then copy the title. It'll then auto generate a screen, auto generate the voiceover, auto generate all the visuals, auto animate them, and then create a backing track and it renders it all for you. And then all I have to do is click upload and you can produce a two hour podcast in literally with 15 minutes of labor, rendering time maybe an hour. So you do the 15 minutes of work, you get up, you leave, you go play video games, you come back, it's done, you upload it. Boom. And I would argue that a good portion of YouTube right now is all AI and the only Reason you, dear viewer, don't know is because you are in YouTube's algorithmic bubble. That is as a long standing YouTube viewer, you are seeing things you're used to seeing. But newer viewers are being fed all AI slop because it's being mass produced. The other thing to point out is Gen Z doesn't actually make content anymore. They make their, their algorithm farming. So an example of this is they don't actually need to say anything in a TikTok video video. So the example that I gave for the on, on the pod Millennial was you'll see a young woman, you'll swipe and she'll go, you will never believe what just happened to me at Wendy's. I can't even believe it happened. So right away she's shocked you without saying much. So you're waiting. She's got a big piece of lint right here on the top of her head. And what happens is the people sit there and they see it. She then starts saying, you're never going to believe this. The story is totally mundane and pointless. This. Every so now you've got at least 10 seconds. For YouTube it's 30. But the lint results in them commenting, everyone spam blasting. She gets 50,000 comments. Now the Tik Tok algorithm or Instagram or YouTube says, wow, this must be a good video. That's the content Gen Z is making right now. They're spam blasting AI slop because they don't got to do any work and it requires no talent and, and it's, it's making them money. Or they're doing algorithm farming where they, they make fake videos with engagement tricks to trick you into liking. There's the really obvious stuff where it's like, I'm going to do this thing, click the like button. Then you'll see. And then stupid people go, oh. And they click the like button. Or they say double tap the screen right now and you'll see the reveal. And that makes you like the video. So they're engagement baiting. But the algorithm farming is hilarious. They'll misspell a word on purpose. They the comment trick. The comment baiting is really, really interesting. Interesting. Doing something like wear a button up shirt but have one button unbuttoned. And then what happens is people watch the full video because the video is rolling, but they comment and they're typing. You need to learn how to button your shirt. What's wrong with you? And then you get 10x comments and the algorithm promotes you, makes you famous.

[Brett Dasic]

That's like, that happens every time. Sometimes we'll have like a misspelled word. Like, the worst today was like, when it's not even like, like a bad one, where, like, clearly you just hit the wrong button. It was like, journalist, but the end wasn't there. And it's like, that's my nightmare. That somebody's like, o, you freaking idiot. Why don't you know how to spell these words?

[Tim Pool]

Gen Z has started misspelling words intentionally. And so.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, but they didn't know how to spell them in the first place because they were not educated.

[Tim Pool]

Well, sure, but the reality is they're intentionally misspelling words to bait people because they know that other people will see the misspelled word than comment. And it does. It doesn't matter what the comment is. YouTube just says they're getting a lot of comments and a lot of likes.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, and also it. It's. There's no human intervention at any point. Point.

[Tim Pool]

There's another trick that you've all seen, and that's where a video will start. And it'll be like, this is the craziest roller coaster ever done, like, ever built. And then they'll say, it was built in 1981 and it goes up 100. And then at the end of the video, and it'll. It'll say something like, and then the drop is 85 miles an hour. And that's why.

[Brett Dasic]

And it starts over.

[Phil Labonte]

Yep.

[Tim Pool]

They do that because if they can trick you to watch even two seconds again, then the algorithm is going to boost the video. So I instantly block anyone that does that. Any video that loops, I instantly block the account, but it doesn't matter. So blocking does degrade them algorithmically. But this is the. This is basically what Gen Z content is going to be. AI generated random nonsense. There's going to be a bunch of history and news videos that are wrong because there's no fact checking.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, nobody looks at what's actually real because they just trust AI to get it right. And AI gets things wrong.

[Tim Pool]

No, they don't care. They don't care if it's right, so

[Libby Emmons]

they don't trust anything like we looked up. So when. When ushavants announced that she was pregnant, we were like, oh, I wonder how many second ladies have been pregnant while their husbands were in office? And we looked it up and AI, like Google AI told us that she was the very first one. And that was a lot.

[Tim Pool]

Yep.

[Libby Emmons]

Who's actually the vice president of Ulysses S. Grant's wife.

[Tim Pool]

It's not about whether it's right or wrong. These guys are literally going on. There's a whole bunch of AI websites that create these studios and these toolkits. So there's the simple ones that we've discussed. Like there's the ones everyone know, you know, Claude, there's Gemini, but there's derivative ones that use APIs to create one stop shops to produce everything rapidly. Gen Z doesn't even know what the video is about. They don't care. Care. They will just. You click trending and it'll show you all the top trending videos. And then you just say, okay, Batman's trending. And then they go in and they say, write a script about Batman. What, what could we do? Batman's most difficult villain. And then it will just AI generate a script. It'll be a 20, 30 minute long video, maybe 10, whatever you want it to be. It'll make all the visuals and then you just, it renders it for you, takes you 10, 15 minutes of doing work. The estimates that we've seen reported are that some, some of these people who are making close to a million bucks will work for about two hours a day. And they don't actually know any of this stuff. They don't care. What's really interesting is that the Claude Bot website was hiring humans. So what, what was happening was, was someone would make an AI agent and then say, I want this task done. The AI agent would then say, this task is best suited for a human and then start making requests of humans to do the job. Yeah, crazy. And then now there's, now there's a website where humans can apply for jobs given to them by AI. Yep. And they just put their hourly rate, they say what they can do and the AI is like, I need a human to do this, this. Now. I, I, I predicted this. Remember when I said the future is going to be, you're going to have an app and it's going to be called like job hunt or something. And it's going to be like f, you're going to say, accept the job. And it's going to say, find this man and accept this object. And I'm going to be like, okay, it's a picture of Brett. I walk down the street. Sure enough, there's Brett and he's holding this. And he walks up to me and he goes, I hand this to you. Okay, we're good. Brett hands it to me because his job, job was find me, give it to me. Then I take and I go, great. Then my, my app says, now bring this App bring this object to this man. We have no idea why we're doing it, what we're doing, but the AI knows it's building a machine. We just have, I don't care. I get 50 bucks. That's where we're going. That's going to be the future of jobs.

[Robbie Bernstein]

We get to do GTA missions in the future, essentially.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, yeah. You're lucky if it's a GTA mission.

[Libby Emmons]

You get your 50 bucks and then you go to the weed store.

[Tim Pool]

It's, it's. You'll literally get a job. It's going to say, like, go walk to third in Lexington and then wave your arms up and down and then leave. And you're going to be like, okay, I guess, why? And then there's going to be someone else that's going to be like. When you see the man wave his arms, that's when you press the button.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Like, we're all in a spy movie. We don't even know.

[Tim Pool]

It's the worst part if you actually

[Brett Dasic]

knew you were in the spy movie.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Robbie Bernstein]

There's something hilariously tragic when I think about the hundreds of hours I put into stuff that was little, not very well consumed, and then you just hear AI slop is crushing it. I don't know, there's something like, like, funny in a very pathetic way to think about the amount of like hours going into stuff that no one looks at.

[Phil Labonte]

Well, the thing is, if it's on YouTube and people are getting paid, then people are watching it. You know, like if you're making money, if you're making YouTube videos that people are watching, the. The ones that people aren't watching are the AI ones that are like stuff for sleep. So like science for sleep, which I've actually listened to a bunch of those. You just get to go and get some topic, you know, about physics or about space or whatever, write up a big long. Go to ChatGPT and have it write a big long script. Take that script, you plug it into mid journey or whatever and it makes the video for you. And then you take the video and you upload it. And you know, some of them have thousands.

[Tim Pool]

Maybe I'll.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I'll create a Spotify channel, AI background nonsense to get me paid.

[Tim Pool]

I will say I've seen some videos that are actually doing the opposite where there'll be like, human read stories for

[Phil Labonte]

four hours or like human read history of this, this and this, this.

[Tim Pool]

And sometimes I'll listen to those for like, sleep. They might be using AI to write the script. Sleep Videos for sleep are massive. It's free money.

[Brett Dasic]

Yep.

[Tim Pool]

You, you AI generate a calm, soothing British voice that explains something interesting to you.

[Phil Labonte]

Exactly how he reads it too.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. Yep. And that's going to program your brain while you sleep and you'll become a functional or a play British man.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Everyone, probably in the future, everyone's going

[Phil Labonte]

to be David Attenborough.

[Tim Pool]

You know what I'm going to do? You know what I got nice idea. I know how we can break this machine and I'm going to need all of your help. We need to create like 5 hour long videos where it's like, you know, peaceful, something to sleep to. It's like peaceful history lessons or math or something. But then at like an hour mark, the person just starts saying really graphic, disgusting things.

[Libby Emmons]

Oh my goodness. Just to like get in your head while you're sleeping.

[Tim Pool]

You're sleeping and he's like, the things I'm gonna do to you. You're not even awake now, are you? And then people start having nightmares.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

And then they stop. They're like, we need to, we need to stop. This is freaking me out. I'm waking up, I'm sweating, I don't even know why. What are you listening to? That's the key.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Scare people.

[Tim Pool]

Actually, hey, this is a really good idea. Not like that, but it's the, like you make a two hour long, you know, something to sleep to. And it starts really nice where it's like story, fairy tales to fall asleep to. But as it slowly goes on, things gradually just get darker and more, more like the story gets more horror and discordant.

[Phil Labonte]

Well, yeah. Then, then they have a nightmare and it wakes them up and they have to put on another video. That's a gold mine. It's a gold mine.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Pays for itself.

[Phil Labonte]

That's right.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

I literally just watch Star Trek if I can't sleep.

[Tim Pool]

I've. What I've been told is that Lex Fridman, a lot of people say they fall asleep to his show, which massively boosts him in the algorithm because then they end up watching the full podcast. Podcast. And, and for this industry, people have said this, they said that it's a very calm and relaxing show to listen to where they ask questions very lightly. And so people turn it on, just pass out. And as far as YouTube's concerned, that works.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

You know, it's funny though, YouTube has been completely derelict in their duties because there are people buying ads on videos for sleep and that's how they're making money. And that is A. That's fraud. That's a scam, in my opinion.

[Libby Emmons]

Why?

[Tim Pool]

Because people are. Are asleep. They're not getting an ad. So if I buy an ad on YouTube for pool water and YouTube's putting it on videos that are designed for people sleeping, I'm spending money on nothing.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, that's not reasonable.

[Tim Pool]

Yep, that's completely.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Maybe they wake up in the morning and want to buy a pool.

[Tim Pool]

Either way, if I run an ad, I expect someone will try to listen or close the ad, but if they're sleeping, you're stealing my money. And I think that that's. That's interesting because I wonder how you. How you solve for that. I got to be honest. There's millions of dollars being pumped into videos for people who are sleeping. Literally, there's a ton of videos for sleep, and people are making money on them, which means ads are playing. That means the advertiser being ripped off by YouTube. And what's YouTube's excuse? Back in the day, back in like 2018, when the adpocalypse happened, YouTube was like, we didn't know our ads were running on graphic content, so they created the demonetization system. Well, now what happens if you're an advertiser and your ads are running on videos of. For people sleeping there? Again, you're just burning your money.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, that's messed up.

[Brett Dasic]

I can't believe you would even want to watch a video about, you know. You know, if you're trying. Trying to watch a video about sleeping and then you know that there's going to be an ad coming, why would you even click on that video?

[Tim Pool]

Because you're asleep.

[Brett Dasic]

Yeah, but you're not gonna, like, do you that quickly.

[Tim Pool]

The first 10. Most of these people do. Some of them, yeah. I mean, most people fall asleep within a few minutes.

[Brett Dasic]

Well, then why are you lay down sleep playlist.

[Libby Emmons]

If the.

[Tim Pool]

It's white noise. Okay. It's soothing. You turn on a show and then you just. You pass out some. A lot of people grew up with the TV on in the background.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brett Dasic]

But I'm guessing that the audio isn't equalized. Right. Like, the sleep playlist is going to be playing at a different frequency or

[Tim Pool]

at a different volume than bro, you're asleep. Most of these people are not differentiating between the ad or the show.

[Brett Dasic]

But I'm saying the last thing I want to do is if I'm like, on the verge of falling asleep and then some ad just like, that would be really loud.

[Tim Pool]

And I'm sure that happens. But it's so rare. It doesn't matter because these channels work. They're making tons of money.

[Brett Dasic]

Were these people falling asleep that quickly? Most people sleep not too bad. Like, I'm, I'm a bit over exaggerated, but I go to bed super late to begin with. Like, I go to bed at like 2 or 3. So by the time I fall asleep, it's pretty quickly once I lay my head down. But if I had to go to bed earlier because I had to be up at a specific time, it's a little bit different.

[Tim Pool]

It's actually really quickly. I'm. I'm pretty sure the average is 10 to 20 minutes.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah,

[Brett Dasic]

yeah, you're getting that ad. You got to be getting that first ad before 20 minutes or before.

[Phil Labonte]

The fastest you can fall asleep is like seven minutes.

[Tim Pool]

I'm. I can go to sleep whenever I want.

[Libby Emmons]

I. I'm.

[Tim Pool]

I get on a plane, I sit down. Like, I flick a switch.

[Libby Emmons]

Also, I fall asleep on planes. All the. I fall asleep in any form of conveyance.

[Tim Pool]

Yes, yes. You put me in the, you put me in a car. This is why I don't like driving. If I sit down in a car, as soon as I'm. The door closes, I'm asleep. I wake up. When I'm there, it's like, it's like fast travel.

[Robbie Bernstein]

That's a superpower.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, it's a superpower. I get on a plane, doesn't matter. I will sleep until the plane. I'll just d. Wake up when I'm landing. My brain's just like, all right, we're not needed for the next three hours. Turn it off.

[Robbie Bernstein]

You start doing live shows and going on tour. I mean, that's a superpower for having to hit the road, sleeping, just waking up and you're getting gig. You're just there. Oh, my God. Yeah. Gig is over and you got to go to bed because you got an early call time. That's a. They'll tell you that's a superpower.

[Phil Labonte]

When I was younger, it used to be a little bit more difficult than that. Like nowadays, like, we go on tour, we get off stage, and, and I can be asleep by midnight without a problem, you know? And then the bus doesn't usually leave until about two, so then it's driving, you know, five to seven hours or whatever. So as long as the bus is moving, moving, I'm usually still asleep.

[Libby Emmons]

Do you wake up when the bus starts?

[Phil Labonte]

No, but when the bus stops, I do.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. I would feel like the moving would be comfortable.

[Phil Labonte]

Awesome. Yeah. It's awesome. Like, the, the bunks, they're, they're, they're, you know, it's your own little apartment or whatever, and you've got everything set up the way you wanted to, you know, want it to be or whatever. Climb in there and watch videos on you on your phone for 10 minutes or whatever. And just, like, you're out, and then it's dark all the time.

[Robbie Bernstein]

So I'm a cartoonishly light sleeper. If I'm like. If I'm asleep at a hotel and there's a noise in the hallway, I hop out of bed. Like, who's trying to kill.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, when you're on a bus, like, if you can, if you, if you can fall asleep on a bus, you're used to the motion and stuff like that. So usually, you know, the stopping is what wakes people up. That's, that's why you usually want your driver to get, like, get fuel in the morning, not get fuel at night.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Take that break.

[Phil Labonte]

So that way they don't stop because you stop and, like, people start sticking their hat out at their curtains. They're like, what's going on right now?

[Robbie Bernstein]

I did a keg in Key west once, and they didn't tell me that there was a military base there and that they had had, like, military jets. Oh. And I woke up in the morning, I thought I was listening to a missile, and I hopped out of bed and screamed, we're being invaded. It gets worse. I was, like, looking for a weapon. I picked up the lamp, and then I remembered, I'm not a soldier. What am I going to do?

[Libby Emmons]

What are you going to do with a lamp? And then shoot anything?

[Robbie Bernstein]

Yeah, I walked out of my. The Airbnb for the comedy club at seven in the morning and locked myself out. And that might have been one of my single most pathetic moments on the road.

[Brett Dasic]

Road.

[Phil Labonte]

That's the worst. Getting locked out of anything. When you're on the road, everything that you have is inside, and you're just like, you know, there's no one really you can call or whatever, go to

[Robbie Bernstein]

the bathroom in the park, like a homeless man.

[Tim Pool]

We got to pull up this, this, this, this tweet right here from New York, prepper US presidential doomsday plane rushing back to DC at 700 miles per hour from. How do you pronounce that dice? Air Force Base. And according to this flight record radar map, it is indeed going 695 miles an hour, which apparently is very, very fast. Yeah, that doesn't mean much of anything, though. Gro Says that. Well, you know, it does routine flights like this, although that is pretty fast. I think the reason people are concerned is that this is the doomsday plane, which is like. It's for. In the event of, like, nuclear disaster, Fort dies.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I think they shouldn't have talked about the aliens.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, right.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Yeah.

[Phil Labonte]

You know, the speed of sound is 767 miles an hour. I don't know if what.

[Tim Pool]

What.

[Phil Labonte]

You know what plane it is. What is it? A 747. So that's fast. That's fast.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, Hegseth was in Nashville and Fort Campbell today, so I don't think it was him.

[Tim Pool]

No. Oh, look at this. It does appear to be going straight towards Nashville. What time was this?

[Libby Emmons]

I might have had to pick him up or something. But yeah, he was in Nashville, Tennessee, to deliver remarks at the National Religious Broadcasters Year's Freedom Celebration, and he was also in Nashville. And then he went to Fort Campbell. Oh, on Friday, he's going to Fort Campbell. So I'm not sure if they're heading back because they've been doing so many of these Arsenal of Freedom trips. And of course, I'm sure that they're talking. They're referencing, like, the World War II arsenal of freedom and not Star Trek. TNG Season 1, Episode 21, the Arsenal of Freedom. But. But yeah, they do all these trips and they're like, it's like a half hour. So for press, they tell you show up at Andrews at a certain time, and then you take off and then you get back that night. It's kind of crazy. That was yesterday. I went to St. Louis and I was excited about it because I'd never been to Missouri, so I got to check it off on my map.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, I've been, you know, every state,

[Tim Pool]

so, you know, I. It'd be the greatest thing in the world if tomorrow. I woke up and it was just like, my phone's got 8,000 notifications. And then, like, I don't really. I wake up and I look and I'm like, what's going on? And then, like, I go in the living room and the news is on and my wife's standing there, and it's just like Trump talking to an alien. I just be like, I am not going to work today, actually. No, I'd be like, I gotta go live. And I just, like, run over in my shorts.

[Phil Labonte]

You're actually more likely to wake up and find out that we're at war with Iran, honestly.

[Tim Pool]

Well, I'm actually really excited for. For that. Think about all the footage that is going to drive ratings and make the media rich. So, you know, if it bleeds, it leads, baby.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, you know, the, the Iraq or not the, well, yeah, the, the second Iraq war and Afghanistan basically were, you know, you have so many videos of that and I imagine nowadays it would be that times 10.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, actually we're our, our sales team is already calculating and factoring in this to our sales and we have a tier pricing now for our sponsors. An ad read on this show will be a $5,000 in the event that no war happens. If the war does break out, it's gonna go up $7,000. But, but if we get videos of dead civilians, $10,000. Cause that's really gonna drive the rating. So you gotta pay a premium. So, you know, everyone in, in cable TV news is sitting there, there just begging and begging that Trump goes to war with Iran.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Brett Dasic]

How much is the ad? If the aliens are real and he's actually standing there with an ad and you're talking about.

[Tim Pool]

I feel like if they actually confirmed aliens were real, we'd have substantially, we'd have much more, we'd have more substantial things to worry about than whether or not we're selling ads. And the, the, the nature of our reality would shift dramatically or everything would

[Libby Emmons]

go on exactly 50% more.

[Tim Pool]

Okay.

[Phil Labonte]

You know, I think that if like, you can have evidence and, and, and whatnot, and that's one thing, but I think if there was actually like communication with an alien species that could teach us how they have like, you know, managed to travel from a different, you know, star system, whatever. That's the thing that I'm interested in is like, if there are aliens here, how did they get here? Or if they're from another star system, right?

[Tim Pool]

They're gonna land in D.C. and they're gonna be like, take us to your leaders leader and they're going to go to Trump. And then Trump's going to come out and he's going to be like, listen, I'm here to meet you. And they're going to be like, who is this? We said your leader. And they're going to hold a picture of Joe Rogan or Trump wasn't. We have been watching your media. We know who it is that you follow. And Trump's going to be like, wait

[Phil Labonte]

a minute, Joe Rogan's going to come out in like a T shirt smoking a joint, right?

[Tim Pool]

He's going to be like, yeah, yeah.

[Robbie Bernstein]

He's going to be like, take us

[Tim Pool]

to your leader and we're not talking about out. No, no. He's going to come out of the ufo, smoking the joint with him, and he's gonna be like, they picked me up, asked me for advice. I said, maybe we should go talk to Trump. They're gonna be like, well, we've been monitoring your communications. He seemed like the most reasonable guy to talk to. For now.

[Phil Labonte]

Like, I gave them dmt.

[Tim Pool]

I was. The aliens are all tripping.

[Libby Emmons]

We already came back from our ayahuasca trip.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

The UFO crashes into the rose garden, and then they get out and they're all just, like, on drugs.

[Libby Emmons]

And Trump's like, who cracked my rose garden? Who cracked the cement? You're gonna pay.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, I imagine them. I can imagine them. Them all just, like, staggering around, just like. They're. They're big black eyes, actually, like the. They have tiny little white pupils that you can't see, and they're. They're huge.

[Tim Pool]

Wasn't was like the plot of ET that immigration services were trying to capture him? Capture him. Is that. Was that what ET Was?

[Phil Labonte]

I don't think it was.

[Robbie Bernstein]

It should have been.

[Tim Pool]

I mean, somebody was trying to get him.

[Phil Labonte]

They remade it today. It would be.

[Tim Pool]

Can someone use sea dance 2.0 to make that ice detaining et send them back.

[Brett Dasic]

Send him back.

[Tim Pool]

No, it's just. I want to see a video of, like, an ice guy, like, pinning E.T. on the ground and cuffing him, being like, stop resisting.

[Phil Labonte]

He's. He's.

[Tim Pool]

He wanted to go lure him with Reese's.

[Phil Labonte]

The whole movie was about. He wanted to get out of here.

[Brett Dasic]

And they shoot him.

[Tim Pool]

E.T. like, is in a car, and then they try to pull him over, and then he speeds off and hits a lady.

[Phil Labonte]

The mod, the modern ET Is his phone. The app doesn't work on his phone.

[Tim Pool]

To.

[Phil Labonte]

The self Deport app he wants is 2600 bucks. So he, like, goes to Washington and is, like, banging on the White House, like, I want my 2600 and I'll get out of here.

[Tim Pool]

Man, we got so many alien parodies we can do.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Phil Labonte]

Mars attacks a lot of them. We come in peace. We come in peace.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, yeah. Smoking.

[Phil Labonte]

It was great. It's just, like zapping everybody.

[Tim Pool]

Great. It was great ensemble cast. Everybody dying.

[Phil Labonte]

Yep.

[Tim Pool]

That's what I'm about.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Talking, talking about.

[Phil Labonte]

That's what I want to. If I'm in an alien movie, I definitely want to be one of the people that gets taken out by the aliens.

[Tim Pool]

You don't want to have your head surgically grafted to a dog's body.

[Phil Labonte]

Well, I mean, like your own ass, now that you mention it.

[Brett Dasic]

No,

[Phil Labonte]

but yeah, I mean, look, that's. If you're going to be in an alien movie, it's got to be like, you know, take me out in a fun way. Right? No.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

You wouldn't want to be in like, some. One of the, like, serious alien movies, like GAD or something.

[Tim Pool]

No, I'd rather be evaporated immediately.

[Libby Emmons]

You say one of the sort of serious.

[Tim Pool]

Which. Which movie did you.

[Libby Emmons]

Space movies. I meant to say space movies. Not like Gattaca.

[Tim Pool]

Gattaca is not a space movie.

[Libby Emmons]

No, it's a. It's sort of a space movie. It's like a future sci fi.

[Tim Pool]

Ish movie. Yeah, but it's like, not aliens.

[Libby Emmons]

No, I misspoke.

[Tim Pool]

I was like, what? Yeah, GAA is. Where was it? Ethan Hawk.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

He's like, I can't fly because I'm not a genetically engineered human.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah. So he steals the identity of some guy who got paralyzed who is genetically engineered, and he ends up on the space mission anyway. But he has to kill people.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, you know what I like? I like Minority Report.

[Robbie Bernstein]

That was a good movie.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, I like that one.

[Brett Dasic]

See, if Independence Day was real, then the President wouldn't know about the aliens anyways because he didn't know about the aliens in that movie.

[Libby Emmons]

And he didn't know about it in Men in Black. They get away with it for like, what, four movies or something?

[Phil Labonte]

Kept a lot of it.

[Robbie Bernstein]

That was a great scene, sir. It's called plausible deniability. Yeah, Yeah. I remember that from when I was in, like, eighth grade and that came out.

[Tim Pool]

How come they can't make good movies anymore?

[Phil Labonte]

Because there are too many women writers in. In Washington or in Hollywood. Sorry, Libby.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, that's probably true.

[Libby Emmons]

I don't think that's the reason.

[Tim Pool]

The guys are like, the guy should have to crawl through broken glass to save the puppy. And the women are like, oh, but that would hurt. Let's just have him hug the puppy.

[Brett Dasic]

We've got Street Fighter coming out this year. There is hope.

[Phil Labonte]

Oh, I don't know, man who plays Gu in it?

[Brett Dasic]

Was. Is that the one that Cody Rhods plays?

[Phil Labonte]

I don't know. Just the guy with the. The blonde hair. The military guy.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. What was the last good movie?

[Phil Labonte]

The last good movie?

[Brett Dasic]

I went and saw Shelter the other week. It was good.

[Tim Pool]

Was.

[Brett Dasic]

It's a Jason Statham movie. Every Jason.

[Tim Pool]

Does he go around just beating people up?

[Brett Dasic]

He kills a bunch of bad guys?

[Tim Pool]

No, I was Upset.

[Brett Dasic]

The whole point was that. Yeah, yeah, it's in the theaters. At first it thought the movie was about, like, him, like, fighting the weather because it was called Shelter and it was like, all in inclement weather.

[Tim Pool]

I'm like, oh, yes, he's gonna shoot nuclear missiles, hurricanes.

[Brett Dasic]

No, it's.

[Tim Pool]

It's a.

[Brett Dasic]

It's a. Every Jason Statham movie you've ever seen. It's awesome.

[Tim Pool]

I am going to make when Sea Dance 3 comes out the most insane Jason Statham movies. I'm like, give me any reason to justify him going on beating people up. It's gonna happen.

[Brett Dasic]

He's making a movie right now called Jason Statham Stole My Bike.

[Libby Emmons]

What? That sounds awesome.

[Brett Dasic]

He plays himself.

[Tim Pool]

I want to see a movie where, like, he orders a pizza, but it comes and the cheese is slightly shifted to the side because the. The delivery driver put it on the back seat, and when he turned, the cheese shifted. So then he puts it down and opens it, and he's like, what is this? So then he goes and just. Just wipes out the entire pizza chain franchise.

[Phil Labonte]

All of them.

[Tim Pool]

Like, goes just one by one. And then he makes his way to corporate. And then he's. But. But it's got to be justified. Like, when he goes back, he's nice, but he's honorable. He's an honorable guy. And he's like, I just want my cheese pizza. You ruined it. You make me a new one. And then the guy's like a snooty guy, like, I'm not giving you a pizza. You get what you get. So he's like. And then he fights him. Then the manager comes out and he's like, you don't get a pizza from us. And then he's got to fight his way all the way to corporate. And then after he beats up the CEO, he gets his $7 back.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Brett Dasic]

What if it ends up being pro capitalist propaganda? And the CEO is actually really nice to him and he's the one who gives him the money back and he spares the CEO.

[Phil Labonte]

I'm comfortable with pro capitalist propaganda, to be honest with you.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, it's a communist pizza restaurant, but,

[Brett Dasic]

well, no, no, no.

[Libby Emmons]

Mutual aid.

[Brett Dasic]

It's a mutual aid full of a bunch of jerks. But the one guy who finally gives him his money back is the CEO because he understands business.

[Tim Pool]

All the employees were communists? Yeah, all of them.

[Brett Dasic]

They're not. They're not making enough money.

[Tim Pool]

You know, actually, what would be good is Jason Statham is a pizza delivery driver. But then communists take Over. And then he goes and he just beats all of them up, just kills

[Brett Dasic]

them all with, like, the pizza cutter.

[Tim Pool]

Well, he doesn't always kill, you know, he just. He punches them. They fall down and don't get back up.

[Brett Dasic]

Yeah, but that's the. What's one of the most annoying tropes in Hollywood now is the innocuous. Maybe it's death, maybe it's right. It's ruining everything in filmmaking. It should be absolutely for sure.

[Tim Pool]

Okay, well, if it's AI, then I'm gonna have him go around with like a 12 inch buck knife life. And he just. You. You know, they're gone, every single one of them. And he makes his way all the way up to the government. He kills every single communist revolutionary. And then the president, like, of the United States is like, you've. You've saved us from communism. And he goes, I did.

[Brett Dasic]

What unintended consequence.

[Tim Pool]

But why did you just kill all those people? Why not? Yes, Jason, straight.

[Phil Labonte]

The movie deserved it.

[Tim Pool]

Because. All right, we gotta go to your rumble rants and super chats, my friends. Smash that, like, button. Share the show with everyone in your life. Maybe that special somebody, your neighbor, tell them to watch the show, and let's just see what y' all have to say about that. NNY says re Rumble wallet. Can I tip Phil directly every time he chastises Ian? I want to encourage this behavior. Also, if you can build crisis party and chicken party, can we have seat shockers?

[Phil Labonte]

I just want to understand what Ian's thinking. So, like, I'm usually just asking questions

[Tim Pool]

like, okay, where did you get that idea? You know? Okay, now this is a really good idea idea. We should do a comedy podcast where each seat has a punching glove on a retractable arm and There will be four meters, and when any one of them hits $100, it will punch the person. But in all, like, not a serious

[Robbie Bernstein]

punch, and the nuts are in the

[Tim Pool]

head, in the face. Okay. You'll get like, you know, it'll be enough to make you laugh, not actually hurt you, but it'll be funny because then people will be feel like, Ian's on the show. We'll make millions of dollars he's gonna be hitting.

[Phil Labonte]

You have to offer him like 10% or something like that so that you'd be. All right, man. Cool.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, perfect.

[Brett Dasic]

Cover the cte.

[Tim Pool]

That is a good idea. And as for tipping Phil directly, if Phil has a Rumble account.

[Phil Labonte]

I do.

[Tim Pool]

Then yes, I do.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah, you can. You can send me bitcoin. And I was gonna Say, what we

[Tim Pool]

could do is we could add the, the. The. The QR to the lower thirds.

[Phil Labonte]

Oh, yeah, there you go.

[Tim Pool]

So it'll like pop up with a name with the QR code. Code. So if you have the Rumble Wallet, you can just scan it while watching the show and tip the person if you like them. I think that's a cool idea. Look at us, revolutionizing the Internet.

[Phil Labonte]

Rumble Wallet. People said QR codes were dead.

[Tim Pool]

Nah. All right, let's see. AMC Conah says first super chat to Tim Cast. I love this channel and thank you for all you do. I'd like to give a shout out to, for my newish Catholic channel, Samco Vagabond. God bless the Tim Cast crew. Thank you, you, sir.

[Libby Emmons]

Thank you.

[Tim Pool]

Zu's petals, they need to be this angry for all the young girls gang raped and trafficked by rape gangs and even sold by Care Home employees to their rapists. Yeah. You know what's funny is the Epstein stuff is crazy. We want the answers. But there's rape gangs in the uk. Yeah. Like it's happening and we know it's

[Libby Emmons]

happening and it's happened in multiple places. And they were. Now they're like deleted. Deleting the files. You know, Keir Starmer's deleting files because

[Phil Labonte]

if they actually look into it, it's racist.

[Libby Emmons]

It's. Yeah, because it's racist to say that it's wrong to rape white girls.

[Tim Pool]

All right, we got that place that I am says, why didn't the US government release this information pertinent to Andrew to the UK government before the release of the Epstein files? I bet they did.

[Brett Dasic]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

And the UK didn't do anything because they protect the elites. And with the release of the files, they said, oh, we're in trouble. We better rest them now. I think there's worse stuff. Worse. Worse.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Or they. The files came out and the UK was like. That's not in the redacted part.

[Tim Pool]

Yep. Phalanx says so is Obama going to get arrested for leaking classified information? Trump got raided for having allegedly declassified information in a locked room that is guarded by the U.S. secret Service. Take a look.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I'll be right back.

[Phil Labonte]

No, he's not going to get arrested it at all. Of course not. That's ridiculous.

[Tim Pool]

Shaj Barry says this $10 rumble rant. You'll be seeing more of this if you run for office. Tim. Wink, wink. The only thing that actually makes me consider wanting to run is that I'd love to answer these questions, like, make the media ask me Questions that I just want to answer.

[Brett Dasic]

Like which one specifically?

[Tim Pool]

Literally anyone, any of them at all. I will never get AOC'd. It's impossible for that to happen. First of all, I have no problem saying, you know, I don't have a good answer for you. It's that simple. And all of the basic questions I love to talk about, AOC has no idea what's going on. But see, here's the thing. If I was lacking of intellect like her, but with the same degree of charisma that, that she and I both have to certain degrees, I'd also run for office. You know, AOC has got charisma. She does, but she's not very smart. But she is able to talk to, to people. So politics is the natural place for her to be where she doesn't have to actually prove anything. She can always blame everybody else.

[Libby Emmons]

She was also probably a good bartender.

[Tim Pool]

Indeed. Now for me, I am good at talking and have a degree of charisma. So I will actually just use my, my abilities to run a business and be successful. And that's why I'm not in politics.

[Brett Dasic]

Is there like a rule, like a hard and fast rule with politicians where like their advisors say, don't ever say I don't have a good answer for you. Are they like advised against that?

[Tim Pool]

Well, with aoc, the presumption is she was given an answer for these questions and she was struggling to remember, so they told her. And the issue of Taiwan, you will say it's a long standing US policy that we do defend Taiwan. However, we want to avoid at all costs any circumstance where this would actually happen. And she was trying to remember. So she's going, you know, I, that's, that's, yeah, that's bad. Because she's like, where is it? Where's it? My brain, man. She literally could have just said, you know what, let's put a pin in that real quick. And I want to mention something. She could like, there's so many just simple quick witted segues you could do. Yeah, she could have. She could literally just be like, you know. Yeah, yeah.

[Brett Dasic]

I mean there's times like on the show where I'm like making a point and then just like I'm halfway through and then something just clicks and goes away and I'm like, crap. And then I have to work my way back to it.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, that's easy. If you're ever making a point and then you lose your train of thought. But you want to sound like it's not. Get frustrated and Change the subject. Acting as though something just bothered you. But if you really don't have anything top of mind to snap to, like, so let's say you're thinking of saying something. You're in the middle of your train of thought. Like my, my, my final point is going to be that, you know, Trump is a, is a great business person. You weave a little bit to give an example, then you forget where you're going. If you're quick witted, you can just, you can just do something like you don't know. I, I shouldn't even say this. What I should say is like, I forgot my train of thought. So I'll just, you know what, I'm not going to go there. But if you're not quick witted, you can always just go, you know, right in the middle of your. Phil, what are you doing? And then it's like, I didn't lose my train of thought. What is, what were you doing? Oh, I'm sorry. Phil was doing something. I, I, I got distracted by Phil.

[Phil Labonte]

Blame, blame the other guys.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, he always, that always, that's always effective to blame.

[Phil Labonte]

Also known as rolls downhill rule or

[Tim Pool]

and this literally happened in here last summer. There was a frog running around.

[Libby Emmons]

Really? Just a real frog.

[Tim Pool]

A real frog. And what happened was, I think it

[Libby Emmons]

was, I like how you say it was running.

[Tim Pool]

Was it Tate maybe or Kellen? Somebody had a frog in their backpack. What?

[Libby Emmons]

What? But why did it sneak in?

[Tim Pool]

When was this? It might have been Dane actually. What?

[Phil Labonte]

There are frogs outside.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, they're everywhere.

[Phil Labonte]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

There's thousands of brains and they're all screaming.

[Brett Dasic]

The worst was like we'd be in the middle, we were in the middle of the show and there's bats in the, in the other studio there was bats and what? Because there's the chimney there, there's bats. Well, not right now. They're all dead. But the point is like I'm in the middle of the show trying to deliver a point and you just hear like a bat in the background. And I'm like, I'm just looking at the camera.

[Phil Labonte]

Like, you're like, are we in, are we on the inverted world?

[Libby Emmons]

You know, they sound like mouses but horrible.

[Tim Pool]

They sound like, yeah, yeah.

[Brett Dasic]

They sound Transylvanian.

[Phil Labonte]

They sound Eastern European.

[Libby Emmons]

I can't think of bats without thinking of those like 3 foot tall Australian bats.

[Brett Dasic]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

And then I just get, oh yeah, those are creepy, those things.

[Tim Pool]

Let's grab a couple more. We got it. I'm not your buddy. Guy says, anyone see that Doocy question on aliens to trump. Here's a fun hypothetical. What if they exist? However, it's more of a spore like alien that takes over the host. And that's where all these woke come from.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, that's a very optimistic.

[Tim Pool]

In the, in the children's book series Animorphs, they are little worms called YKs, I think. YKs. I remember when I was like fifth grade and those books came out, we were like, whoa.

[Brett Dasic]

I never read them, but I watched like a, like a 45 minute documentary on them about how apparently they were very traumatizing to.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. Oh, no joke. Like, dude, it was, it was. I couldn't believe they were giving these as to us as kids. Like one of the alien races had like a blade scythe tail that would slice people's heads off and stuff. And I'm like, why are children reading this?

[Libby Emmons]

Well, children read all kinds of things. I mean, Grimm's fairy tales are brutal. Very brutal.

[Tim Pool]

Raymond G. Stanley Jr. Says Brett and company, we are once again headed towards World War III for the seventh plus time in the last couple of years. How do you feel about it, guys? It's going to be so relaxing when the machine breaks down and I can just go be a chicken farmer.

[Libby Emmons]

I think about stuff like that a lot.

[Phil Labonte]

Farming chickens?

[Libby Emmons]

No, I think about.

[Tim Pool]

Well, yes, opening a little.

[Libby Emmons]

I think about opening like a little Italian restaurant.

[Phil Labonte]

Oh, okay. You know, I always assumed that it would be a bed and breakfast in upstate New York.

[Libby Emmons]

No, I don't need people staying over. My God, that sounds awful. You have to deal with these people in the morning. Like, you eat your spaghetti, you go home. Home.

[Phil Labonte]

There you go.

[Libby Emmons]

But it would have a killer wine selection.

[Phil Labonte]

I was going to say being in a couple drinks. Right.

[Tim Pool]

We had. We have an idea for Cast Brew.

[Libby Emmons]

Little Good bar.

[Tim Pool]

You guys are going to love this. One of our ideas for Cast Brew Coffee Shop is that we're going to have a little miniature craps table and roulette wheel. And the promo is, it's, it's free. It's not really gambling. It's just depending on how we do the promo. It's like you order a coffee, you can then make a, a, a wager. So let's say you're like, okay, we'll do roulette and I'll put, you know, I'll put my coffee on black and if it comes up, the coffee's free.

[Libby Emmons]

Oh, that's fun.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. So it's like not all the time. Not. But we'll give out coupons. Where it's like, you know, you might win a free coffee Instagram.

[Libby Emmons]

Like that looks really cool.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. And then you're like you roll a seven, you get a free coffee.

[Libby Emmons]

When is it checkoutable?

[Tim Pool]

We're thinking it's probably going to be up just by the end of March.

[Libby Emmons]

Nice.

[Tim Pool]

So what we're going to do is once we. So it's almost done then we're going to do the final check run through of everything and then we're going to set a date. But we want to do members only VIP pre opening.

[Libby Emmons]

Okay.

[Tim Pool]

So Tim cast.com discord members. Can I get. Of course, yeah. You'll be one of the attractions.

[Libby Emmons]

Oh how fun.

[Tim Pool]

We want to convince people to come. We're going to say you can meet Libby.

[Libby Emmons]

Okay.

[Tim Pool]

And so a couple of weeks it should be totally fine. Done. Very excited. All the machines there, the fridges are there. There's going to be ready to eat food. I don't think there's going to be hot food. So it's going to be like ready made sandwiches and things. Like it's like how Starbucks has it.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

And then coffees and all that stuff. Second floor is a collectible shop. Third floor is trading card gaming collectibles. So that's where we're considering. Well that's where we are. If we do the show, which we believe we will, that's where the gaming show will be with Ian. The, the concern everyone has is will Ian be reliable enough to host a once a week show?

[Phil Labonte]

That's a great question. Can we get that up on call sheet?

[Tim Pool]

Make our own internal prediction market.

[Phil Labonte]

Right. Yep.

[Tim Pool]

Let's grab a couple more of these.

[Phil Labonte]

I'm putting $1,000 on.

[Tim Pool]

No, your fave says Phil. You need to get Tim to change the cold brew to anti communist cold brew. What could be more American than coffee Capitalism and hating communism?

[Phil Labonte]

Nothing.

[Brett Dasic]

I'm excited about a, like a concentrate. Cuz that's the only type of coffee I drink is cold brew concentrate.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, it's, it's lightly sweetened because we, it's, it's just how we ended up making it. And it's light so there are these little bottles. It's two ounces. You put it in a glass with like I think 8 or 10 ounces of water and you got a glass of coffee. Yeah, you got a cup of coffee.

[Libby Emmons]

That's clever to just have the small things. And you'll be able to buy those at the coffee shop when.

[Tim Pool]

Yes. And you can order them now at guess what.com we because we were trying to do cans of cold brew because we love it. And then when we looked at it, it was like $5 per can.

[Libby Emmons]

Right.

[Tim Pool]

Because of the shipping costs were expensive at stores, we would have to map. So the, the way Starbucks and these other companies do it is they make millions of cans. So if like we're talking about making. Here's the challenge. Are we going to spend. Sell 5,000 cans? Probably not. In a short amount of time, the coffee will go bad. So we can't have just coffee wasting away on the shelf. So what if we did a thousand cans? We could probably sell that before they expire. Okay, that's not a very large order, which means it's going to be very expensive. Every time you do it and the first order goes through, we don't know what our sales are going to be. So we can't just say we're going to sell these in four weeks. So, so two weeks in, we need to have the next order. You know, we've got to have a lead time on it. So the, the easiest way to do it was concentrates. So you can buy one bottle that's gonna last you a lot longer. It's a little bit more. It's, it's, it's like a comparable price one bottle, whereas you'd normally get a, a can or you know, like a six pack or something, you know, whatever. The prices are comparable. We don't gotta deal with the shipping

[Brett Dasic]

weight ends up being cheaper over like the, the jug of concentrate ends up being pretty cheap if you're making you throughout the week.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, and, and it works out too, because cold brew has much, much, much, much higher caffeine, like serious like three or four times. So. All right, let's see.

[Libby Emmons]

We got.

[Tim Pool]

We'll grab one more before we go to the uncensored portion. Let's. What does that say? SJC Jason Statham enters corporate. We are sorry, Jason, but your pizza is in another castle. All right, everybody, smash that, like, button. Share the show with every person you've ever met in your life. The uncensored portion of the show is about to start [e-mail] timcast IR. You can follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast. Robbie, do you want to shout anything out?

[Robbie Bernstein]

Yeah, I actually, if you guys live in this area, Perryville, Maryland, at Fifth Company Brewery. I'm opening up for Sam Tripoli Friday night and then Dave Smith Saturday night. Dave Smith sold out, but a couple tickets left for Sam Tripoli and Eddie Bravo, which is going to be a great show tomorrow. Yeah. If you want to come out. Fifth Company Brewing.

[Tim Pool]

Can't do it. But what's. What's. David. He's got to come.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Come hang out, come, uh, come Saturday night. But that's, uh. Oh, is it Dave Smith there Saturday.

[Tim Pool]

Saturday night in Perryville.

[Robbie Bernstein]

It's probably about an hour and a half from here. It's a fun brewery. I've done.

[Tim Pool]

I've done quite a few shows Friday and Saturday.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I'm personally doing Friday, Saturday. Dave's just there Saturday night. I'm doing Friday night with Sam Tripley. I don't know if you know him. He's great.

[Tim Pool]

Of course. Oh, man, it might be rough. I might try. Yeah.

[Phil Labonte]

Come out either night.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I'm. Yeah, I'm there both nights, and it's good lineups.

[Tim Pool]

Where are y' all based out of?

[Robbie Bernstein]

I live in Stanford, Connecticut, and then Dave lives in Jersey. Jersey.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, okay. So he's not that far away.

[Brett Dasic]

No.

[Tim Pool]

Well, because we want. We want. We want to come on. After we did the. The. The, like, micro beef, I was like, just come on the show, bro.

[Robbie Bernstein]

Let's start more beef.

[Tim Pool]

It wasn't a real beef. You know what I mean? But, like, people wanted it to be. Like, people here were like, did you see what Dave said about you? He called you cringe. And then I was like, oh, I don't know. I probably.

[Robbie Bernstein]

I gotta be honest. I'm a sucker for some, like, as a. A podcast viewer, I'm a sucker for when people have drama going. So, you know, it's. It's good. It's good for the market.

[Phil Labonte]

It's fun.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, I. You know, I don't. I don't think I said this on peers, but I was like, he's my. He's. I'd vote for him. You know what I mean? If he's gonna run, he's my guy. Anyway, Libby.

[Libby Emmons]

That's me. Anyway, Libby, I'm over here. I want to encourage you guys. Go listen to the Pod Millennial. Our guest this week was Sopranos star Drea De Matteo. And it was great. We had a really fascinating conversation. It got a little wild. Wild. We've also had other amazing guests like rock star Phil Labonte, Jack Posic, Michael Knowles, and we have Tim Pool coming up. So please check it out. Thepod.

[Brett Dasic]

Millennial.com Guys, if you could go. Follow me. I'm on Instagram and X, Brett Dasic on both of those platforms, but you should also go check out Pop Culture Crisis. We are on YouTube and rumble. We are getting dangerously close to 400k on YouTube and we just did our 1000th episode. You can get go back and check that one out. We are also live Monday through Friday, 3:00pm Eastern Standard Time, which is noon Pacific. We'll see you there, guys.

[Phil Labonte]

I am Phil that Remains on Twix. The band is all that remains. You can check the band out at all that remains online.com we're going on tour this spring. We're going out with Born of Osiris and With Dead Eyes. The tour starts April 29 in Albany and we'll be going through the end of May. You can get tickets also atall remains online.com VIP packages are still, so you should probably get them soon. You can check out the music at Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube and Deezer. Don't forget the left lane is for crime.

[Brett Dasic]

Carter.

[Tim Pool]

What's up everyone? Thank you for watching. Thanks for coming, man. Got a really big show tomorrow and you're not going to want to miss it. So you can follow me at Carter Banks everywhere and follow our label at Trash house Records on YouTube. We do have indeed a very big show tomorrow with a very, very excellent guest. We're very excited for this. It's going to be a crazy conversation, so you don't want to miss it. We're going to leave you hanging on who it might be. But for everybody who wants to come hang out, go to rumble.com timcast IRL and we'll see you there in about 30 seconds.