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Tim Pool
New documents have been released and oh, boy, this one's a doozy. In the documents released from the Durham annex, it goes on to explain how Hillary Clinton approved of a plan to smear Donald Trump as being supported by the Russians. And it was Obama's intel agencies that were helping. When we put these stories together, what do you get? They knew it was false. They knew it was exaggerated. They were going to smear Trump anyway specifically to cover up the Hillary Clinton email scandal and shift the view of the public towards Trump instead of her because she had broken the law and Comey refused to prosecute her. You combine this with the other documents that Tulsi Gabbard released, which show Obama ordered this directly, and things are getting a bit interesting. Now, on top of this, we've got the Pelosi story, The. The Pelosi act, as it were. And Trump was initially mad at Senator Hawley, but Hawley says he talked to Trump, cleared it up, and now Trump's actually on board. They may actually ban stock trading. So we'll talk about that. And then on top of that first story, we have a whistleblower. Apparently there was a guy in the OR intel analyst who was threatened by the higher ups that he had to sign off on bad intelligence to smear Trump. Hence, this looks like a conspiracy against Trump and when he was president, his administration. So I talk about that and more. But before we get started, my friends got a great sponsor. It is Beam Dream. My friends go to shop b e a m.com/. I believe it's slash. Tim Pool. Is that what it is? Or it could be Tim Slash.
Brett Dasovic
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Mary Morgan
Thanks for having me, Tim.
Tim Pool
Who are you? What do you do?
Mary Morgan
I'm the CEO of Alio Capital. A L L I O Alio.
Tim Pool
And what does this. What is this Alio Capital do?
Mary Morgan
It's a macro investing platform, you know.
Tim Pool
Yeah, interesting. So it's actually fortuitous that we have you because the Pelosi act is a big story and there's discussion about insider trading, how the ultra wealthy are playing these games, how the politicians are playing this game. So it'll be interesting to get your insights on how this whole infrastructure and investing works. So thanks for hanging out. Should be fun. Yeah. We got Mary Hanging out.
Joseph Gridante
Hello everyone, I'm Mary Morgan. You can usually find me on Pop Culture Crisis here at Tim Cast alongside my lovely co host. I finally get to say that to you.
Brett Dasovic
Perfect. Yes guys, I am filling in today for Phil. It's Brett normally. Also Pop Culture Crisis Monday through Friday, 3:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Let's get into it.
Tim Pool
Here's a story from the New York Post. Read the documents that prove Hillary Clinton okayed plan to smear Trump with Russia collusion. This is from the New York Post published today. They break down this annex. This is crazy stuff. Hillary Clinton and Obama were in on this scheme to smear Trump as a Russian asset, claiming that Russians hacked it or that Trump was colluding with them or something like that, which didn't just affect the campaign but went into his presidency resulting in a multi year long investigation that cost tens of millions of dollars. Take a look. Hillary Clinton signed off on a plan hatched by a top campaign adviser to smear then candidate Trump with false claims of Russian collusion and distract from her own mounting email scandal during the 2016 campaign. According to explosive intelligence files declassified Thursday, the 24 page intelligence annex was compiled from memos and emails obtained by the Obama administration in the lead up to election Day that laid out confidential conversations between leaders of the Democratic National Committee, including then chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and liberal billionaire George Soros. Open Society Foundations. Can you believe this? The plot, the brainchild of the Clinton campaign's then foreign policy adviser Julianne Smith included quote, raising the theme of Putin's support for Trump and subsequently steering public opinion toward the notion that that it needs to equate the Russian leaders political influence campaign with actual hacking of election infrastructure. They say Smith would go on to serve as former President Joe Biden's ambassador to NATO. Quote. I don't have any comment, she told the Post when they phoned her on Thursday. Now I want to scroll down. There's a little bit more. They show some documents. In one document it says Obama has no intention to darken the final part of his presidency and legacy by the scandal surrounding the main contender for the dp. This to solve the problem, the President puts pressure on FBI Director James Comey through Attorney General lynch. However so far without concrete results. That is to say, Obama knew Hillary Clinton was scandal ridden. She had a private server. This was illegal. They were refusing to prosecute. She had the server destroyed, phone smashed with hammers and Obama was like this is going to make me look bad if I do anything to intervene. So he leans on the FBI and says you take care of it and what happens? The FBI says we will not bring charges against Hillary Clinton for the crimes she has committed. Shockingly insane, they go to say. Durham consulted the FBI and CIA, both of which assessed the information was likely authentic, but couldn't corroborate exact copies of the Bernardo emails with open study foundations. The CIA also determined that the intelligence was not the product of Russian fabrications. Smith was at minimum playing a role in the Clinton campaign's effort to tie Trump to Russia, Durham concluded. Now I'm going to scroll down here, page seven. This is where it gets interesting. Let me read you this paragraph according to this is from the Durham annex. According to data from the election campaign headquarters of Hillary Clinton obtained via the US Soros foundation, on 26 July 2016, Clinton approved a plan of her policy advisor Juliana Smith from the TS nab TSS unknown acronym, to smear Donald Trump by magnifying the scandal tied to the intrusion by the Russian Special Services in the pre election process to benefit the Republican candidate. As envisioned by Smith, raising the theme of Putin's support for Trump to the level of the Olympic scandal would divert the constituents attention from the investigation of Clinton's compromised electronic correspondence. In addition, by subsequently steering public opinion towards the notion that it needs to equate Putin's efforts to influence political processes in the US via cyberspace to acts against a crucially important infrastructure would force the White House to use more confrontational scenarios vis a vis Moscow. That as a whole suits Clinton's line of conduct. A relatively sluggish reaction by the administration to the events surrounding the DNC that led to the resignation of Chairman Deborah Was Deborah Deborah was Wasserman Schultz provoked exasperation within the PC, possibly political convention and the entire deep state, which may also be used by Clinton to reinforce her position among the security service agents. To simplify, Clinton's campaign wanted to get the bad press off of her and shift the focus to Trump and they knew that making this scandal bigger would force the Obama administration to target Trump with actual law enforcement capabilities. And then we got years of Trump being accused of being a traitor to this country, secretly working with the Russians the whole time because Obama didn't want to get his hands dirty ordering the release of information they knew to be false. Holy crap. Ladies and gentlemen, the more that comes out, the more shockingly insane we we we we learn this story to be. And I guess the question then is for everybody watching, will anybody get arrested?
Brett Dasovic
No, it's nothing ever changes Gang over here.
Joseph Gridante
It's like, why it's not shocking is we just keep finding out that we were right in our hunches and our conspiracy theories. And the truth eventually does come out, and I guess that's a happening, but nothing changes as a result.
Brett Dasovic
Do you see this leading to some type of prosecution, you know, or even grand jury?
Tim Pool
What? You know, maybe, and I will, I'll say this. Trump got arrested. You know, they arrested Donald Trump several times. They arrested his lawyers. So maybe they might actually go after Obama or Comey. I mean, they said they're investigating him. And the question is, does Trump have the willpower and does Trump want revenge or is this just big one puppet show to keep us distracted as they do a bunch of other weird stuff around the world and you know, and.
Brett Dasovic
Who ends up with the better mug shot, Trump or Obama?
Tim Pool
It depends on what you just what you mean by better. Well, Trump.
Mary Morgan
Trump got to hang his on the White House wall. It's tough to top that.
Tim Pool
That is crazy. That ba. Like, is that the Oval Office? But that's not it. Oh, he. Did he hang the actual mug shot?
Mary Morgan
Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
Tim Pool
I went to the White House not that long ago and the picture that Trump got, his presidential photograph just looks identical to the mug shot. And I'm like, I think he did that on purpose.
Brett Dasovic
They gave him trace paper and just had him trace over.
Joseph Gridante
Dramatic lighting and that like raised eye. Stern.
Brett Dasovic
He also looks thinner than, like he looks thinner in that photo than he actually is.
Joseph Gridante
220 pounds.
Tim Pool
What did you say? Did you call it a svelte 220.
Joseph Gridante
Felt £220, mind you firm.
Tim Pool
I want to show you guys this. We've got a video. This is from 2016. Listen to this. According to the Washington Post, the CIA has concluded that Russia intervene in the election to help you win the presidency. Your reaction? I think it's ridiculous. I think it's just another excuse. Today we'll attempt a feat once thought impossible. Overcoming high interest credit card debt. It requires merely one thing. A SOFI personal loan. With it, you could save big on interest charges by consolidating into one low fixed rate monthly payment. Defy high interest debt which a SOFI personal loan. Visit sofi.com stunt to learn more. Loans originated by SoFi Bank NA member FDIC. Terms and conditions apply. NMLS 696891 I don't believe it. I don't know why. And I think it's just, you know, they talked about all sorts of things every week. It's another excuse. We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College. I guess the final numbers are now at 306. And she, you know, down to a very low number. No, I don't believe that at all. You say you don't know. Why do you think that the CIA is trying to overturn the results, the election, to weaken you in office? Well, if you look at the story and you take a look at what they said, there's great confusion. Nobody really knows. And hacking is very interesting. Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you're not going to catch them. They have no idea of a trip. Russia or China or somebody. It could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. I mean, they have no idea. So why would the CIA put out the story that the Russians wanted you to? Well, I'm not sure they put it out. I think the Democrats are putting it out because they suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country. And frankly, I think they're putting it out and it's ridiculous. We ought to get back to making America great again, which is what we're going to do. And we've already started the process.
Brett Dasovic
I love how he says, like, to Trump, the CIA doing something wrong, like, that's a completely incredulous idea.
Joseph Gridante
Well, at the time, it was a new idea. And I don't know where this falls on the timeline this, like, news hit, but I'm just reminded of the big mic drop moment in that second presidential debate in 2016 between Trump and Hillary where he says, maybe someone say, tongue in cheek, like, you'd be in jail if I were in power. If I were, you know, in office, you would face criminal consequences for your private email servers while Secretary of State. And it was like this big, like, oh, like he really just said that. But then he got into office and, like, that didn't happen. And, yep, she didn't get arrested the first time for the same reason that she's not going to get arrested now. Now, there's evidence, too, for the same reason that there is a little handshake between Trump and the deep state about the Epstein files now.
Tim Pool
So. So what's the point of all of this declassification in the release if they don't intend to actually go out to go after anybody?
Joseph Gridante
I mean, just declassify all the other shit so that people stop asking about Epstein, I guess.
Brett Dasovic
Distraction.
Tim Pool
Yeah.
Brett Dasovic
Keep the base happy.
Mary Morgan
This is a woman who did her dissertation on rules for radicals, and yet there are people at my company who still will refuse to believe that, you know, she had any part in this. No matter what you show them, they, you know, swear to you that Santa Claus is real before they would possibly believe that Hillary Clinton could do something wrong. So I, I don't think there's, you know, anything's going to come of this.
Tim Pool
I don't disagree.
Joseph Gridante
The gate is debunked.
Tim Pool
But, but look, look at that video with. Who was that? Stephanopoulos. I can't remember this guy. Was, Is he still on tv?
Mary Morgan
Matthews. Is that Matthews there?
Tim Pool
No, this guy, George Stephanopoulos.
Mary Morgan
That's Matthews in this video. That's Chris Matthews.
Tim Pool
That's Chris Matthews, man. Oh, you're right, man. I don't know who these guys are. They're. They're ancient.
Mary Morgan
They do look alike, though, right?
Tim Pool
Chris Matthews. Okay, the. Like, as, as, as Brett brought up the, the, the, the shock. But what do you mean the CIA did something wrong? Not them. I mean, never.
Brett Dasovic
I mean, even if we want to go back more recently, NSA spying scandal.
Tim Pool
Was like three years before this tweeting.
Mary Morgan
That the Gulf of Tonga.
Tim Pool
Yeah.
Brett Dasovic
Like, oh, my goodness. As if this, as if Hollywood hasn't been making movies about all the awful things the CIA has been doing for the last 20 years.
Joseph Gridante
The CIA is like, who? Little old me?
Brett Dasovic
Yeah, they're like this. And I think, to your point, I think you're right. Like, the issue here is that it doesn't actually matter what the truth is because 10 gazillion people ran with the Russia Chris Wallace.
Tim Pool
And I was gonna say, yeah, I.
Brett Dasovic
Don'T know where Matthew's.
Mary Morgan
Nobody knows Chris Wallace.
Tim Pool
I don't know these guys.
Mary Morgan
Chris Wallace.
Brett Dasovic
Chris Wallace FOX HOST won.
Joseph Gridante
This is like ages ago.
Tim Pool
Like one of those.
Brett Dasovic
Yes, but the point is, is like the damage is done. They did the reporting. They, they claimed that he was colluding with Russia. And the worst person you know, and you're in your highly liberal aunt, all believe it. And they ruined a lot of friendships and a lot of relationships running something that they knew was a lie. And like you said, there are plenty of people, even if you're not talking just about what they think about Trump, they could not imagine a world where Hillary Clinton was evil to despite the fact that the rest of the world knows that she's pretty evil.
Tim Pool
And I want to just make sure I include this other document. This is the 2020 ICA which says, Acting on President Obama's orders, DCIA Brennan directed a full review and publication of raw human intelligence information that had been collected before the election. CIA officers said that some of this information had been held on the orders of the DC while other reporting had been judged by express experienced CIA officers to have not met longstanding publication standards. Some of the latter was unclear or from unknown subsources, but would nonetheless be published after the election over the objections of veteran officers on the orders of DCIA and cited in the ICA to support the claims that Putin aspired to help Trump win. It was all one big scam, and it was Obama and Hillary. And I'm gonna say it again. As I said before, I think this likely. What was going on is the Clinton foundation was taking hundreds of millions of dollars. I wonder where that money was coming from. When Hillary Clinton lost the election, the money stopped coming in. So the presumption many people make is that her private server was. Collect. Was. Was the. Was the. It was how they communicated for this illicit transfer of funds of US Government policy. Private bribery, you can call it. And then when they said, we want to see the server, Hillary Clinton had it destroyed.
Brett Dasovic
Yeah.
Tim Pool
Irretrievable. And phones smashed with hammers. I think they went after Trump because they were like, we're in trouble. He's gonna. He's gonna start going after this stuff. This is what they do. They have to go after Trump first so that if Trump responds in any way, they'll say, see, Trump is only doing this because we did this. Now, take a look at the Epstein story. People keep saying that Donald Trump is distracting. Distracting from Epstein, despite the fact the Obama. Obama Russiagate releases have been coming out well before the Epstein story came to prominence. Don't get me wrong, Pam Bondi, the doj, they've been screwing this one up royally. And Trump is acting real weird about it, I'll give you that. But he's not distracting from it because these documents were getting released and the conversation was happening well before the Epstein stuff happened.
Brett Dasovic
Obama has one thing going for him. There's no photos of him and Epstein.
Tim Pool
Yeah. That's good for him.
Brett Dasovic
Yeah, he's got that going for him.
Tim Pool
You know, there's a lot of other people. Like. Like Howard Stern.
Brett Dasovic
Yeah.
Tim Pool
Bill Gates. Oh, Bill Clinton. You think Hillary went to. With Bill.
Brett Dasovic
Wait, was that. Was there ever actually. That picture of Bill in the dress said.
Tim Pool
Yes.
Brett Dasovic
Little St. James. There you go.
Tim Pool
That's real. Maybe.
Brett Dasovic
Maybe Hillary bought that and brought it home.
Joseph Gridante
Wait, a photograph or an illustration?
Tim Pool
Painting.
Brett Dasovic
Painting.
Tim Pool
Oh, painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress.
Joseph Gridante
Yeah.
Tim Pool
It's weird, but there were just all.
Joseph Gridante
Of these cameras there for no reason.
Mary Morgan
The one that Epstein had in his apartment. Famously correct.
Tim Pool
I was on his island.
Mary Morgan
On his island, yeah.
Tim Pool
He also had George W. Bush with two, like, little towers. He was throwing paper airplanes at him. So, like, the 911 truth woman went like, that proves it. Epstein and the two towers or whatever. Can I pull these up?
Mary Morgan
Oh, I didn't hear about that one.
Tim Pool
Yeah. George, it's just.
Joseph Gridante
It's such a disgrace, and it's so obvious. Like, it doesn't even need to be said, but people are still denying reality.
Brett Dasovic
Wait, which part?
Tim Pool
The. The whole.
Joseph Gridante
It's not even a mishandling of the. The Epstein files situation. It's very intentional, what they're doing, and I feel malicious.
Tim Pool
George W. Bush with two paper airplanes and two toppled Jenga towers.
Mary Morgan
Wow.
Tim Pool
Yeah. That was in Epstein's island. That's creepy.
Mary Morgan
That is really creepy.
Tim Pool
Yeah. Oh, here's the. Look at this. I got the Bill Clinton in the blue dress. Let's pull this one up. Let's disturb the audience out of this. So wild.
Mary Morgan
This is my first time seeing the other one.
Joseph Gridante
Do we think Monica Lewinsky worked for Mossad?
Tim Pool
No. Why?
Joseph Gridante
I've heard. I've heard that.
Brett Dasovic
I mean, she.
Tim Pool
Cheese. Works for Mossad, or at the very.
Joseph Gridante
Least, that she worked for some intelligence agency and why. And purposefully was gathering blackmail on him.
Tim Pool
Why?
Brett Dasovic
But it came out. Right, so it doesn't really matter. Like, wouldn't the whole point be that it doesn't come out that she gathers the intel or uses her feminine wiles to blackmail him, and then the whole point is to keep it out of the public, not have it leaked to the public.
Joseph Gridante
Yeah, I don't think she's smart enough.
Brett Dasovic
Well, then.
Tim Pool
Then that's.
Brett Dasovic
Then Mossad needs to change their hiring practices if that's what they're doing.
Mary Morgan
It does kind of show you this Orwellian society that we're living in, though. When you think of people like Saulinsky, George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and just the lack of general information that people have about who these individuals are. And this power apparatus that exists behind.
Tim Pool
The Soros foundation was involved. They were communicating over this stuff, which is weird. And everybody who brought up Soros was called a conspiracy theorist. Yeah. I'll tell you guys, you want something interesting. When we first booked Mike Benz, who's been calling out USAID and all this stuff for a long time, I got spam blasted by weird liberals telling me that I shouldn't have him on the show. And I'm like, what? Like why are you DMing me, bro? This is weird. They were panicked and desperate that we would not bring Mike on the show.
Brett Dasovic
He comes with endless receipts.
Tim Pool
Perhaps. Yeah, perhaps.
Brett Dasovic
It is funny that you, that you mentioned it too, that you said that Hillary Clinton, she did her dissertation on rules for radicals. And what he mentioned was that they started accusing Trump of all of this stuff because it dirties him up so that they can't have accusations thrown back at them, which is right out of the playbook.
Mary Morgan
Right out of the playbook. Yeah, that's why I brought it up. Yeah.
Brett Dasovic
Yeah, that's. That's very depressing. And it is true also that we live in an age now, as the Internet becomes more prevalent, that it's going to be it's your parents and your grandparents that have this kind of a higher definition of what a politician might be because they were fed years of propaganda from mainstream media outlets depending on whether they were left or right. Whether it was Fox telling you that Democrats, Democrats were evil or CNN telling you that Republicans were evil. And the rest of us who have moved on to greener pastures, getting their information from other places or just have any level of common sense understand that pretty much all politicians are awful on some level.
Mary Morgan
Yeah, it's basically Democrats and Republicans for me is tantamount to, you know, Santa Claus, Mr. Bunny at this point. Yeah.
Tim Pool
Let's jump to this next part of the story. We have a post from Dni Tulsi Gabbard new whistleblower reveals how they were threatened by a supervisor to go along with the Obama directed Russia hoax intelligence assessment. Even though they knew it was not credible or accurate, the whistleblower refused. Yesterday we released the whistleblower's firsthand account of what happened in the crafting of the January 27, 2017 ICA. Their years long effort to expose the egregious manipulation and manufacturing of intelligence carried out the highest, carried out at the highest levels of government and the intelligence community detailed in our previous releases and how they were repeatedly ignored. Thank you to the courage, to this courageous whistleblower and others who are coming forward now putting their own well being on the line to defend our democratic republic, ensure the American people know the truth and hold those responsible accountable. So we have the whistleblowers explosive story and evidence Tulsi Gabbard says here. And so there's a lot to break down. It's 19 pages. I'm not going to go to the full thing, but we do have this. This is from the Federalist Clapper crew. Threatened whistleblower who refused to sign off on fabricated intel assessment. A crony of then dni, James Clapper, threatened to withhold a promotion from a senior intelligence official unless he concurred in the fake intelligence community assessment on Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. Notes Obtained by the Federalist show The notes made public for the first time today recount a conversation the top analyst in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence had with an unnamed superior who worked closely with then Director James Clapper. The release of the notes represents the latest cache of documents declassified by the Trump administration official concerning the ica. This understand. According to a person familiar with the notes, the analyst documented his recollect recollection of the conversation on March 31, 2023, more than six years after the conversation occurred. The delay, the Federalist source explained, occurred because the analyst efforts to share his concerns, first the Inspector General of the IC and then later with Special Counsel John Durham and Virginia Senator Mark Warner, proved unsuccessful. Only later did the analyst receive an inquiry for more information about his claims, leading to the drafting of the summary of his recollections. Well, there you go.
Brett Dasovic
I saw up there mentioned the Steele dossier. So this is connected to everything that was in that intel packet.
Tim Pool
The steel dossier was just oppo research, fake garbage. And they passed it off as real to go after Trump. Yeah, I mean, I think this might be the biggest political conspiracy or scandal in the history of this country.
Brett Dasovic
And it won't matter because in two days the Internet will have moved on from it. And that's the sad part.
Tim Pool
I mean, maybe we've been on the story for a few weeks now. We've been on the story actually for months. If you're, if you're talking about the statements made by Cash Patel and, you know, further made by Dan Bongino later on, I feel like.
Brett Dasovic
But with the amount of information that comes out every day, people are going to start kind of judging these things on who actually is punished as opposed to all of the details coming out because you could have all the information in the world if no, nobody's held accountable, it doesn't really matter.
Tim Pool
Yeah. And there are a lot of people that don't, don't think anything's going to happen. But I'm not, I'm not. So I'm not convinced nothing's going to happen. And I'll put it this way, if something does happen, it just will feel like nothing. Like, yeah, when, when, when we say nothing ever happens or nothing ever changes. Trump did get arrested several times. He did lose in court several times. And so he did get it right. He got arrested.
Brett Dasovic
I think people think nothing ever happens the other way. Nothing ever changes the other way. Democrats are never held responsible.
Tim Pool
Indeed. But that sounds like a cop out.
Brett Dasovic
Maybe, maybe on like the state level, like the ones who are like attacking ICE agents might actually get arrested, but at the federal level, it doesn't feel like. And I think when people think of that, that idea, they're thinking of the Clintons, they're thinking of the Obamas, they're thinking of the Bidens.
Tim Pool
Well, we have a poll up and the question is Obama will be charged. The options are Obama will be charged or nothing, nothing will happen. And nothing ever happens is at 63% defeating Obama will be charged. So even with all of this, the expectation for most people is that nothing will change. If that's the case, what are we doing here? What, like, honest question. If the reality is most people are blackpilled on this issue, why don't we all talk about to football? You know?
Mary Morgan
Well, I think there's this underlying hope that the system could change. I know deep down inside, I mean, I have this naive hope that the system change if enough people are made aware. Do I think people like Clapper and guys like John Brennan are going to be held accountable? No, I think they might be held out there, but I don't think, I question how accountable they could be held given that they know, I mean, where the bodies have been buried for how many years, you know, going back all the way to the Bush administration and really even before that. And so, you know, they have a lot of ammunition on their side as well. But the more people become aware of what's going on, then the more people can take an active role in potentially changing the system. Right.
Tim Pool
It starts with information, Mary. Do you care about this.
Joseph Gridante
On the broad scale? Yes, because I think that the right decision isn't just to disengage from politics altogether, obviously. Although I think that Trump's victory and the last six months have actually made people on the right more complacent and it's made them disengage, but because they haven't been delivered what they were promised. And I think the path forward is actually to just start imagining what this ideological side, if you want to call it that, should look like past the point of Trump.
Tim Pool
I mean, do you care about Hillary Clinton in 2016 accusing Trump of colluding with the Russians?
Joseph Gridante
No, and I don't think Trump does either, to be honest, so that, you know, he was talking about getting retribution, and he has the option, he has the ability to do that, and he doesn't care to.
Tim Pool
Yeah, do. Do you care?
Brett Dasovic
I care more about this information coming out in. In its entirety to people that don't know it than I do about them actually being prosecuted. I would rather see people who have kind of lived under the lie of these people, of this being some ridiculous movie of good and evil where one side is good and one side is evil, and the side they happen to support just happen to be the good guys. I would rather see people who aren't currently awake to the evils of both sides.
Tim Pool
The reason why I ask is because my theory as to why nothing ever changes is because you need only stall a development for a year or two before there's no longer any will behind it. So when this stuff first happens, everybody's like, whoa, this is. This is bs. The Trump campaign's furious. You saw Trump on TV saying, the Democrats are putting this out. It's not real. And the conservatives supported Trump, were angry. They were being smeared. They got called white supremacists. It's been almost 10 years. It's been. It's been just about nine years, a shy of nine years. And so the people who lived it and were angry are focused on other things now. Yeah, there's no, there's no coalition anymore. Young people who are in their 20s. I mean, Mary, how old were you in 2016?
Joseph Gridante
I was 15. 16.
Tim Pool
Yeah. So right now, Trump is putting out information, asking a bunch of, let's just say 15 to 20 year olds to care about this fight as they're entering the political arena. And people who are older are probably like, dude, this is 10 years ago. Okay, what, what's going on right now with the jobs and the economy and the interest rates. And so that's why it's so hard to get accountability, because the criminals are like, we only need to stall for a couple of years, and then there will be no political will to go over this. And what are the Democrats going to say? You're focused on the past, I'm focused on the future. Yeah.
Brett Dasovic
I mean, I've kind of come to that sentiment with a lot of things recently, not just with this story, but with most things that involve the culture war, which is like, I'm focused on my life, like getting married, starting a family, and all the things that I can control. And the rest of it just kind of feels like, look, this is out of my control. And putting an extreme amount of focus on it just ends up Hurting me. And there was a time perhaps when, you know, phones were new to your pocket and everybody started taking politics very seriously is some type of team sport mentality where it really like resonated with people. And now people are like, well, I can't afford a home. The interest, you know, everything is impossible to. Jobs are scarce for a lot of people. Buying a home is impossible for the next generation. I got a lot of back black pilling when it comes to that part of society. Maybe the focus needs to go back there rather than this stuff.
Tim Pool
I do have to admit I am rather. What's the right word? Entertained when I go on Instagram and I'm looking at the stories from like friends of mine for I've known for decades. And these are people who just like have never been involved in politics. And now it's like, I'll click their story and it's just Gaza, like 700 stories about Gaza. And I'm like, well, I can see what current, current trend is. You know, what current issue is in current year. Because I know it's going to happen three or four months, it's going to change. And the posts are all going to be about some other trending issue.
Brett Dasovic
Meaning that those people, like a couple of years ago they were posting Ukraine stories and.
Tim Pool
Oh, yeah, yeah. And then before that it was like Spice Girls.
Brett Dasovic
I think you skipped a decade or two there.
Tim Pool
Yeah. Nope, nope. No, bro, these are millennials. Yeah, yeah, they're all, they're all posted in weird drama, stupid stuff to saying.
Brett Dasovic
There was nothing before. It was. It was, it was Gaza, Ukraine.
Tim Pool
Spice Girls do like a tour recently.
Brett Dasovic
I have no idea.
Tim Pool
I'm not kidding. They're posting about Spice Girls.
Joseph Gridante
I feel like we would have known.
Tim Pool
That when was not doing our job. Yeah, they're planning a tour in 2026.
Brett Dasovic
Oh, okay.
Tim Pool
The 30th year anniversary and.
Joseph Gridante
Oh, that's. That's gonna be an embarrassment. Just like NSYNC and backstory Boys.
Brett Dasovic
We need to get, we need to get back to that type of corporate feminism. That's what we really need. Corporate back. Like where only the big 2019.
Tim Pool
I was. Okay, so Spice World 2019. It's exactly what I was talking about during COVID It was. This was just before COVID That's why nobody.
Brett Dasovic
Nobody Covid.
Tim Pool
Wow, look at that. But Posh wasn't there.
Brett Dasovic
Well, then it's not a Spice Girl store.
Tim Pool
She was the best tried.
Mary Morgan
Yeah.
Tim Pool
Out of all of them tried. Yeah. It's like millennials being like, can you believe the Spice Girls are back and they're posting about on Instagram. And then covet happened. Everyone's brains turned to jello. Yeah, that's weird. No, we've never recovered from that. That weird cultural shock to the system.
Brett Dasovic
And everybody just being awful to each other on Facebook during COVID for a myriad of reasons.
Mary Morgan
Yeah. What are the expectations? I mean, when you say like that the one side has gone complacent, what are the expectations that didn't get met? I'm just curious where you were going.
Joseph Gridante
So many. I mean, maybe I'm just speaking for myself and I shouldn't say that I represent this huge swath of people, but I, like, could not be more disappointed with Trump. I mean, it's just cruel joke after cruel joke. At this point, he's thinking of pardoning Diddy, more money for Ukraine, more money for Israel, we're bombing Iran, expanding a new visa program for foreign illegal aliens. And it just keeps getting worse and worse. And then you add the Epstein scandal on top of all that, and it's just wrapped in a little bow and I'm. I could not be more disappointed.
Tim Pool
He said mean things about Hillary Clinton, you know.
Joseph Gridante
Yeah, well, I wouldn't be bothered by it if he kept Hillary Clinton and Obama, like, criminally accountable for their actions. I don't think he will. It wouldn't bother me, but it would feel a little self indulgent and it would feel like a huge distraction from what people really care about.
Mary Morgan
But, I mean, kind of to your point, I mean, but you know, in terms of people being focused on, you know, what they can control, wouldn't you say that things are a lot better than where they were, say, just two years ago under Joe Biden, in terms of ability to have, you know, that kind of impact over your own personal domain, in terms of your own civil liberties and ability to make choices and engage in the economy and, you know, and have your free speech restored and things of that nature, I think you.
Joseph Gridante
Could give Elon Musk more credit for restoring free speech and big tech platforms than Trump. But can you be specific about that?
Mary Morgan
I just think the culture has shifted back more to the middle where, you know, you're not walking on eggshells over everything you say, you know, we're not seeing as many, you know, men playing women's sports and, you know, kind of this.
Joseph Gridante
I mean, that's. I just feel like the right is, like desperate for something that appears to be a huge W. And the deregulation and, you know, with what you said about woke, basically I don't actually agree that Woke is dead, as everyone is saying. I think that it actually disguised itself more cleverly and it's just covert woke now. And we don't even know that we're woke. It's just sort of a software update that everyone went through.
Tim Pool
I agree.
Joseph Gridante
Like, we are. We are woke.
Tim Pool
Well, I don't know about that.
Joseph Gridante
Maybe not us in this room, but society is. Has been dragged over to a level of wokeness that we're not going to return back from.
Tim Pool
And I agree with you. I want to jump to the story to get into the. To core, into the core of this. This is from msn. Spotify introduces face scanning age checks for UK users as some furious fans threaten to return to piracy. So here's what I think is happening. I think that WOKE has been routed and we've pushed it back. And you're seeing now like the Sydney Sweeney ad, plus that Dunkin Donut. Was it Dunkin Donuts? Dunkin Donuts, where he's like, I got good genes. And everyone's. It's racist. But here's what I think is happening. The powers that be, whether, you know, the international interest of the corporations, I imagine that they got together and said, guys, this force, this cultural force using racism stuff didn't work in getting people controlled. Let's give baby their bottle. But we are then going to go to the Conservative woke rat, which is, won't you think about the children? We have to protect the children. We have no choice. So then they pass these bills saying, if you're gonna buy porn, you need an id. And we all agree with it. Like, yeah, of course, no one should be. I agree with that. Then they say, oh, okay. Oh, and by the way, it means anything that is ever considered explicit now requires a face scan and id. So now Spotify is face scanning people. What happens next? This is worse than Woke. It's one thing if you said a naughty word on the Internet and got banned from that platform, but you weren't banned from the other platform. Sometimes they didn't collude. What's happening now is social credit scores are starting to pop up through these kinds of systems and we're seeing it happening in the uk. And I will tell you, they're the canary in the coal mine. That's the country where they were arresting people and are arresting people for speech. We can claim cultural victories, but we've had these laws passed at state level that we've largely agreed with, like, hey.
Brett Dasovic
It'S a good thing that because of pornhub being banned.
Tim Pool
Exactly. And now what's happening is they're going to go. Visa and MasterCard have banned something around what is like 20,000 games. And the argument is, oh, but it's because they're porn. Apparently most, many of them, thousands maybe weren't even porn. It was just adult themed games. Perhaps like gta, which was the target of this. They're going to go through payment processors. They've always tried debanking. We may have won on some cultural grounds where what we describe as woke has been pushed back. But the censorship industrial complex is just trying to find new ways to control what we can think of, what we can see and what we can purchase.
Brett Dasovic
And now YouTube's going age, the age verification route with 18 + right after they suddenly started pushing shorts heavily. Meaning that kids are the ones who spend hours a day glued to their.
Tim Pool
Phone looking at this is. It's going to destroy most independent creators when they age. Get your content, your views drop by something like 60, 70%. And it's not because the video is being served to two children and they're saying, no, you kids, you can't watch this. It's because people don't sign up. And if you're not signed up, you can't watch content they deem to be age inappropriate. That means the front page of YouTube is going to be Mr. Beast and nothing else. There's gonna be five big shows that are approved by YouTube. That means news and politics will be gated and that means the average person will not be able to watch shows about politics. And that's exactly what they want. They want you to go back to sleep. America, your government is in control once again. Yeah, here's American gladiators. Here's 40 channels of it.
Mary Morgan
No, I think these are all great points. I'm just making the point that our political freedom only goes as far as our economic freedom. And so we are still really, you know, early on in, you know, in Trump's second term. And so if home ownership rates start to go up and M and A activity has already picked up and IPO activity is starting to uptick and, you know, and things are on the uptrend, then I would say that that's the definitely a move in the right direction from where we are. Because if you don't have your economy, you have nothing. You don't have opportunity. I mean, that's what makes us Americans is that's the life. The lifeblood of our society is our innovation. And so, and I think it's too early to. To really make a call there on Trump's second term.
Brett Dasovic
How do you feel things have been done with the tariffs? I know that that's been a conversation that's come back up the last couple of days. Do you think the tariffs were a good idea?
Tim Pool
I do.
Mary Morgan
I think we're bringing in a lot of revenue so far in the tariffs and I think he's winning there and I think it's kind of allowed us to take control back on the global stage. I think it's too early to say because we have to see if the GOP is really going to follow up the big beautiful bill, more rescissions, packages to try to get the debt under control. And if that's going to be a starting point or an endpoint. I'm just making the case that I think it's too early into a second term to, to call it a W or an L yet.
Brett Dasovic
I think that's also has to do with the life cycle of the news being if you're on the Internet a lot and you're just blasted with news every single day, like not as much time has passed as people feel because what, what is actually six months feels like 10 years sometimes because you're reading non stop news every day. But the tariffs was one of the funniest examples to me of like when you hear about like, I support the current thing was like, I saw signs in local businesses talking about tariffs and I was like, you just know that the people who read those, they had to look up what a tariff was just to make sure that they were on the right side of whatever the issue was to the people that they're fighting with.
Joseph Gridante
Like, explain in pop terms. Yeah, add to what we were talking about with YouTube. Users on YouTube who believe that their AI age verification system is incorrect are supposed to verify their age by uploading a government ID or something that they'll have permanently goes into their database.
Tim Pool
And then you're going to start getting weird emails for services and stuff. And you're like, why are they messaging, messaging me? How do they get my email? How do they know who I am? And Google's gonna use it to train their AI. Yep. And then the machine will know your face. See, the thing is, I've said this. In the real world, if you go to an adult bookstore, you show your id, Right. So why would we let kids on the Internet do whatever they want? Like on X? The difference with the Internet is they're telling you to upload your personal information permanently. And so they're Gonna have your. Your. Your stuff on file. And then you know what this is? It's problem reaction solution. They'll come back and say, okay, you're right. You're right. That is bad. We're going to have a third party company will. Will assure us that you're verified so we will never hold your data. The third party company can then ban you for naughty words. And then when you go to the grocery store and you're like, yeah, here's my groceries, they'll be like, yeah, just, you know, scan your credit card right there. You'll tap it and it'll say banned. And the back, we use age verification, third party app, and they're saying that you're a banned user, so we can't verify with them. And that's what we use are, you can't shop here.
Joseph Gridante
And the third party is Palantir.
Brett Dasovic
Yep.
Tim Pool
Oh, snap.
Joseph Gridante
Just. I got to buy it. All of the data about American citizens that existed in each individual federal department, which is just yet another disappointment that I was saying.
Tim Pool
I got. I got to buy some Palantir stock.
Brett Dasovic
First thing I did after that first Palantir story was to buy Palantir stock.
Tim Pool
I told you. I told you guys this story that Ian, bro, he busted into my. So when I had the studio in the front of the castle, like, we first is like, five years ago. Yeah, it was like five years ago. Ian slams it open like, Kramer. He's like, dude, you gotta invest in Palantir right now. I think it was at, like, 14. Oh, yeah, 150 now. And I was like, why? I've heard of it. I don't know. He's like, dude, it's like this government, like, database tracking, like, prediction stuff, and it's gonna be huge. And I was like, I don't know, Ian. This is crazy. What are you talking about? Buying Palantir? And so I didn't. But then I remember one day, Ian was like, dude, graphene. And I'm like, okay, you know what? I'm buying a bunch of graphene stock. And so I looked up companies that make graphene products, and I bought stock and I made like, 100 grand. Yeah, I'm not kidding.
Joseph Gridante
He's a seer.
Tim Pool
I don't know, man. Like, but he sounds crazy, so nobody wants to believe him. He looks crazy.
Brett Dasovic
That's his struggle.
Tim Pool
You know, the problem is, if it. If it. If it looks crazy and walks crazy, the chances are it's crazy. But then Ian's actually right.
Brett Dasovic
So, you know, also, this is like Spotify is introducing a checks.
Tim Pool
Why?
Brett Dasovic
Because of, like, parental advisory music.
Tim Pool
They could. These companies could literally just say, we have the principal service. And if you want anything deemed explicit, you can then opt for that. Right. So if you go on Spotify and you want to listen like Eazy as he raps about injuring LGBTQ people with pistols in their genitals, which he did, maybe you just need to say, I want to listen to explicit content. And they say, okay, you got to prove you are. The problem then is they're creating databases. But the point I'm making is they're not doing that. They're just saying, everybody, no matter what, needs to face scan and verify because they want your data. These big tech companies are like, oh, no, I guess we have no choice. They collect your data and now they can sell it.
Brett Dasovic
But, Tim, there was a vibe shift in. Mark Zuckerberg got a haircut.
Tim Pool
Wait, did he get a haircut?
Joseph Gridante
Broccoli haircut.
Tim Pool
You got to. I'm not mad anymore.
Brett Dasovic
Yeah, yeah.
Joseph Gridante
Here's an amazing.
Tim Pool
Mark. My phone number is 8. 5. I'm kidding.
Mary Morgan
We were two votes away from losing our sovereignty. I mean, if not for Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin. Right. Like, we would have lost our rights essentially, as US Citizens because it was just.
Tim Pool
Just.
Mary Morgan
It would have been endless open borders in terms of having to show voter ID when you vote.
Tim Pool
Wait, they. Wait, they voted.
Mary Morgan
They voted against it. They did not go along when the Democrats were trying to pass that bill. But if that's how close we were, you know, to the end. And so this seems like very minor in comparison to where we were. And I feel like, you know, our memories. We have a very short.
Tim Pool
That's a good point. We were two votes away from Democrats. Well, it was banning voter id. Right. It was making it so that anybody could just.
Mary Morgan
Yeah, exactly. Anybody can just vote. Can just walk in there and just say they're.
Tim Pool
It's largely out, as in Democrats.
Mary Morgan
I'm Tim Pool, and I'm going to vote. And. And that would have been the end of our sovereign system as we know it.
Tim Pool
Trump apparently wants a new census early, and they're talking about trying to push that through so they can get illegal immigrants off of these, so they can.
Brett Dasovic
Take some seats away from California.
Tim Pool
Yeah. Texas is trying to take away five Democrat seats. You see this?
Brett Dasovic
Yeah.
Tim Pool
Yeah. That's crazy.
Mary Morgan
So those are big victories that further empower the US Citizen, I think. Closing. Closing the borders. I think there's a lot of wins that, you know, we're kind of taking for granted. I think technology is just kind of going where it was going regardless of who the, you know, which political party was in power. So that's just my take on it. I think it's too early to declare it a loss or when yet at this point, Trump's second.
Tim Pool
I do want to jump to this story. This is from Tom's guide. YouTube's new AI age verification is coming soon. Here's what's going to change. AI will assess whether an account belongs to an adult or teen. YouTube's going to start relying on AI, determine whether or not an account belongs to a teen or an adult and take action as a result. In a recent blog post, YouTube announced machine learning would interpret a variety of signals that help us to determine whether a user is over or under 18. My advice to 17 year olds is just watch as much news as you can in between whatever it is you actually want to watch. If the A believes the account is being operated by a teen, it will automatically apply age appropriate protections. Disable disabling personalized advertising, turning on digital well being tools. Oh, that sounds creepy. Adding safeguards to recommendations including limiting repetitive views of some kinds of content.
Brett Dasovic
Meaning that it'll be like you've watched too much of this, this guy's content. Time to show you something else.
Tim Pool
It's actually YouTube saying, hey there kid. I think you've had a bit too much to think. Yeah, move on. So how does it work?
Joseph Gridante
They will, if they suspect a user is underage, restrict, make restrictions like disabling personalized ads and activating digital well being tools.
Tim Pool
Yeah, Mary needs those.
Brett Dasovic
So what is a digital well being tool?
Tim Pool
It's like a paperclip pops up and asks you how you're feeling. How is this?
Mary Morgan
I have no parental advisory stickers or needing to be.
Tim Pool
It's worse.
Mary Morgan
By a Playboy. You know, when I was a kid.
Tim Pool
Something like on YouTube.
Mary Morgan
No, just like to go into a convenience store not to age myself and buy a Playboy.
Tim Pool
Show your id. You show your ID for one second, they don't take a copy of it, put in their binder and then say I'm going to hold on to it forever.
Mary Morgan
Because they didn't have the ability to do so.
Tim Pool
They did. They could have put your, your ID on a fax machine, on a copying machine. They didn't do it. People got mad when they do that. There's that scene from Atlanta, you know.
Brett Dasovic
I'm talking about the show Atlanta.
Tim Pool
Yeah, where he goes to the movie theater and he's like, you know, and I buy A ticket. And they're like, okay, here's how much it costs. And he hands the credit card and they go, we need id. And he's like, okay. And he shows the ID and they go, we're gonna have to copy this. He's like, what? I'm not. You're not getting a copy of my id. And then he walks away. And the white guy walks up and then does the same thing and they're like, wait, what's going on? He's racist or whatever. But, you know, aside from the weird narrative of Atlanta, it is rare that someone at a store would take your idea and copy it and put in a binder that they're going to keep forever and say, we might lose it, but that's your problem.
Brett Dasovic
They do have the 16 plus requirements to go to the movies out by us out here. Like after a certain time you have to be over a certain age.
Tim Pool
That's probably because the kids are throwing popcorn.
Brett Dasovic
Yeah, Minecraft did it. What were you saying, Mary? You said you saw something.
Joseph Gridante
Yeah, I, I tried to see which digital well being tools they have. They have reminders to take a break and bedtime reminders.
Brett Dasovic
Instagram's had that for like a while.
Joseph Gridante
Like you have to, you have to activate it yourself. And also, if we're talking about Instagram and Meta, they have been proven time and time again to purposefully target underage accounts with more sexual content than the rest of their user base. I think it was the Wall Street Journal that has released multiple reports about that and they have tested it extensively. If you're an account on Instagram that is 13 years old, identified as 13 years old, you're immediately going to be fed more sexually suggestive content, usually pages that funnel into OnlyFans accounts.
Tim Pool
Yeah, I think the, the idea thinks a Trojan horse as we're seeing it applied now, the age verification verification thing again, they tried to go the woke route of don't be racist, you're not racist, are you? And people resisted and screw you, I'm not racist, you're not banning me. So now they're going the other route of oh, the children, the children at risk. And conservatives are on board with that one. And that's the path towards creating systems of control and social credit systems.
Brett Dasovic
I feel like the, the future is in making both sides angry. That's how I felt about the Sydney Sweeney one, because there's people on the right that were mad because of Bubs. Yeah, well, yeah, that and they were.
Tim Pool
Like, children don't look.
Brett Dasovic
And then the people on the left are mad because it's white supremacy. So really, you want to shoot for making everybody mad.
Mary Morgan
So it's an Agellian dialectic, basically.
Tim Pool
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Make everybody angry. Yeah.
Joseph Gridante
Well, another trick is that suddenly no one in TSA is worried you're gonna hide a bomb in your shoe anymore, so you don't have to take your shoes off as long as you get the real id.
Tim Pool
Yeah, yeah. Or tsa. Well, you can't fly without it anyway.
Joseph Gridante
Not. You can. You can fly domestically without it. Up until, what was it, May this year?
Tim Pool
It was an extension. Now you have to have it somewhere in May.
Joseph Gridante
Yeah.
Brett Dasovic
Oh, also, I had the story I told you earlier. So I did. My passport expired a long time ago. I had to get a new passport. When I went in to do that at the post office, I brought a. Like, a certified copy of my passport and a copy of my passport, one that blatantly says, like, copy on the top of it. And they said they needed a certified copy, but the certified copy looks vastly different from a regular passport. Doesn't have all the same information on there. And the guy looks at the one that says copy, looks up and down, uses that one, takes it with him, and I'm just like. I'm like, I know I'm screwed. Like, this guy. Like, it went through. Like, I got my passport and I'm like. So on one hand, I'm happy because I didn't have to, like, file for, like, an extension and, like, an expedited passport. On the other hand, they looked at this document. We're like, yep, that's fine. Rubber stamped it and sent it through.
Tim Pool
Like, that's bad either way. That's just the government.
Brett Dasovic
Yeah, well, yeah, it's the government.
Tim Pool
Yeah. With the uk, it's the Online Safety Act. One of the funniest things about this story is that to get past the face scanning, people are using Norman Reedus from Death Stranding.
Brett Dasovic
Yep, I saw that. That's because it's so lifelike.
Tim Pool
Just because you can control the face and make him open his mouth and move. And so it's like, it doesn't work anyway. But they're creating a database, and I think the play is get conservatives on board with it by saying it's for the kids, and then create this ID database where everybody's going online has to submit their id. X did it. And. And on the right smiled as they submitted their IDs. I did it.
Joseph Gridante
Everyone with a blue check did it.
Tim Pool
That's right.
Brett Dasovic
Norman. Norman Reedus. They're about to finish the Daryl Dixon walking dead. He's gonna be able to cut his hair for, like, the first time in 20 years.
Tim Pool
Hey, there you go. But yeah, on X, Elon takes it over. I believe this is a timeline. Brings people back, then says, we're going to roll up monetization. Everybody starts getting these big payouts and they're like, this is crazy. I'm getting thousands of dollars. You know, every other.
Mary Morgan
What the heck?
Tim Pool
Some people are getting like 30 grand in two weeks. It was nuts.
Joseph Gridante
I think there's a little bit of payola involved there, perhaps.
Tim Pool
Or they were willing to have a.
Joseph Gridante
Kid and they were posting those screenshots saying in the interest of transparency, literally all of them were. It wasn't scripted.
Tim Pool
It wasn't just women. Well, so perhaps, perhaps it was Paola. Because then what happens next is everybody's all excited about monetization, but then we abruptly get this notification saying, if you don't submit your id, you'll lose your blue check. And then everyone went, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. What? I'm getting money here. So then people. So this is incredible. Elon. Elon brought the right onto the platform, offered them blue check marks and money along with it. Once they all agreed, he says, now we're going to take it away unless you get. You give us your IDs. And they all said yes, saying he's.
Brett Dasovic
Been working with George Soros this entire time.
Tim Pool
Oh, I don't know about that. But, like, the idea that Elon was like, they took away our jokes and it was wrong. So I'm gonna buy the platform and then restore free speech is silly. Elon Musk was like, I want training data for my AI bot. Yeah.
Brett Dasovic
And I don't said as much.
Tim Pool
For sure. Yeah. But like people say, oh, man, the Babylon Bee. You know, I bet Twitter regrets making that ban because how. Yeah, Elon wanted to buy this well before Babylon B.
Mary Morgan
So the whole Milton Friedman, you know, or economic. That was all an act. Getting, you know, paying people $1 million to read the Constitution, all that stuff.
Tim Pool
What do you mean?
Mary Morgan
Well, he became a big disciple of Milton Friedman and are, you know, the Constitution, apparently. I mean, I don't know about put on this act.
Tim Pool
I'm just saying that he. Data is valuable. He wants to train his AI and he wants. He wants confirmed data. So what I imagine he's doing with X, the reason for verification is that he doesn't want unverified profiles feeding the X machine. So X AI is being trained on data and he's making sure that only people that they have verified as real humans with IDs are having their data fed into the training model. That's probably why he did it.
Joseph Gridante
So many of those verified accounts are bought it anyways.
Tim Pool
Yep.
Joseph Gridante
X is just such slop now.
Tim Pool
Everything is like this.
Joseph Gridante
Every tweet that has higher interaction. If you look at the replies, it's just more engagement bait in the replies completely unrelated to the posts that you're looking at. There's no actual discourse happening anywhere, though.
Tim Pool
It's not just X. Like I'm going to tell you, I think the comments on every app are fake.
Joseph Gridante
Oh, for sure. They tailor them specifically to you. If you even look at a TikTok and then you send it to your friend who's sitting next to you on the couch and they open the same link and look at the comments, you guys are going to see totally different top liked comments based on what the algorithm assumes you'll agree with and will interact with. Those are totally fake. I believe Fortune just published a report that said over half of online traffic is bots.
Tim Pool
It's more than that. Yeah, way more than that. It's, it's, it's dead.
Joseph Gridante
Internet theory, it was trending today, I think.
Tim Pool
I kind of feel like everybody died a long time ago. And I'm only half kidding because I go outside and I'm like, where is everybody? Honest question. I go outside all the time and there's nobody.
Brett Dasovic
I mean, like, where, like where?
Joseph Gridante
Well, do you mean that they're all staying inside? Because it could be their plug into.
Tim Pool
The Internet that might be. There are some instances where it doesn't feel that way. Like I went to the Christmas market in Chicago and it was shoulder to shoulder with people who aren't American. And so that was kind of like. What's the, what's the word? I'm thinking, Looking disconcerting. Yeah, that I'm like, I'm here in Chicago at the Chicago Kris Kringle market and everybody here, it was, they were from Asia. It was, it was like the people, they were all tourists and it was shoulder to shoulder. You could barely move. I went two years now because we used to go all time when I live in Chicago and I'm like, it's all migrant tourists. And I'm like, where are the Chicagoans that used to come out and say the Bears? They never actually did. That wasn't true, but it's funny to say anyway. And then, like I mentioned, I went for the 4th of July and nobody was out doing anything. Nobody in the parks, nobody in the fields. And I was like, what's, what's, what happened? Where is everybody? I mentioned this local restaurant, went out of business because they couldn't find anybody to work. Trying to, trying to make food, couldn't do it, Went out of business. Then, you know, you don't think a big component of this is people didn't have kids. And if you don't have kids, you got nothing to do. So these, these, I'll speak to skateboard community because they're a bunch of degenerates. 30 year old skateboard guy, he goes, I don't know, man. I just. As long as I make enough to pay the rent. What's your rent? It's like 200 bucks. What? How? Well, I live with like six guys in a one bedroom at skateboarders and they're unmarried single guys. And so I'm like, okay, well we need labor done. Would you want to do a job? I don't need to. Why? I work like 10 hours in the week and then I go skate and then I just beg or just eat scraps and it's just like, this is weird. People didn't have kids. So they have, they have, they don't have to fight to get resources anymore. We're overly wealthy, lazy and childless.
Brett Dasovic
I mean, before I came out here, I was like, I, I had to work a lot because I wanted to live on my own. I didn't want, I didn't want to live with anybody. So I had to, I had to work full time. But that, the whole point was like I worked eight hours a day and then spent the rest of the time skating. But that's pretty, pretty rare these days because most people, if they're in that community, they're going to want to go. And if they're dedicated to doing it like all the time, they're going to.
Joseph Gridante
Go live with people living this bohemian lifestyle.
Tim Pool
Yeah.
Joseph Gridante
How is that desirable though? I just don't get it at that time.
Brett Dasovic
I mean, during COVID it was interesting.
Joseph Gridante
Because then when, when you go on later in life, like, how is that still desirable to those people? I don't understand it. Because they don't you want to lay some roots somewhere?
Brett Dasovic
They're deeply connected to what they're doing. They really, it's like if there was an activity that you really, really loved, you know, more so even than somebody say, who plays an instrument, who can make time for that anytime, Right? Like you go to work, you come home, you can do that. Skating is a little bit different for a lot of people. It takes up a lot more of your time because you literally travel to go do it all the time. And they're willing to sacrifice a normal life to go out and do that.
Tim Pool
Let's jump to this next story from the Daily Mail. Elon Musk makes bold play for an unlikely marriage with 3 trillion dollar icon Elon Musk and openly hinting at a historic merger in the business world, suggesting that his company xai should partner with Apple. Musk. Musk's company is the corporate face of his popular AI chatbot Grok, which functions similarly to competitors like GPT, Claude Gemini Copilot. Meanwhile, Apple has struggled to bring its own AI programs to consumers, notably delaying improvements to the Siri voice assistant. Venture capitalists started openly speculating this month that Musk and Apple make the perfect power couple in the AI world, with XAI bringing Grok to even more people using iPhones through this proposed partnership. On the all in podcast, investor Gavin Baker called Xai's Grok for the best product in terms of AI chatbot chatbots right now, but added, the best product doesn't always win tech. In technology, I think there's solid industrial logic for a partnership. You could have Apple, Grok, safe, Grok, whatever you want to call it, said Baker. Musk quickly replied to the comments, saying, interesting idea. The billionaire added, I hope so. You want to know I believe this is possible. Why there's a good possibility because when you pull up Nancy Pelosi's stock trades in May, she put 25 to $50 million in Apple, indicating Apple would be doing something. And I'm going to stress this, Apple's got nothing going for it. They made the same iPhone every year nonstop for a decade and people are tired of it. They're not innovating. They're offering up no real new products. So why would Nancy Pelosi decide in May that were going to to to do this big purchase? Not to clarify, this is from a year ago. So the report years 24. She filed it a few months ago. What has Apple done recently that has any play?
Brett Dasovic
I feel like Phil needs to be here to defend Apple right now. I'm a Galaxy product.
Mary Morgan
It's a sticky product and it could just be that the stock is oversold. And I'm not saying that this is the case. I'm just playing devil's advocate there and saying that there are people who are Apple users like myself who will always be Apple users, because it's the the Apple universe that you really buy into.
Tim Pool
I think Apple's cooked, but I don't.
Mary Morgan
Think that's why she bought it. I'm just making the case that she knows something.
Tim Pool
Of course, you know, something's going on. Perhaps some, Some intelligence came across her desk where there is murmurings of a potential merger between, say, X or a partnership that would require some congressional oversight or something like this. And she was like, quick, buy Apple. Buy it now. A year out. Maybe, I don't know, it's a stretch, maybe not. I'm just saying she bought Nvidia. She knows what's going on. She's got insider information. That's what Trump said. She goes, I'm not into that. My husband is. Oh, yeah, she tells her husband. So her husband goes, anything interesting happen at work today, honey? And she goes, oh, there's a new AI thing. Apparently they want to deregulate AI and there's a company called in Nvidia or something. And he's like real and he's writing.
Brett Dasovic
He's. He's got a notepad full of. Full of notes.
Tim Pool
He has a bug on her lapel. He's like, talk more, honey. And then when she gets caught, she. I have no idea you're talking about. So I don't know. Last year she bought between 25 and $50 million worth of Apple, but I don't know, it's possible that she's. I mean, her net worth is 260 million, so 25 to 50 is a good chunk of her net worth. Maybe it's the low end. That's still a lot. 10 into one company. Is that, is that abnormal? Big purchase like that, you would know better than I would. Of course it is abnormal. Yeah. 100. Okay, now. Okay, that, that proves it. That's it. She's doing it. Elon. Elon's buying Apple. I'm gonna, I'm gonna check Apple stock right now.
Brett Dasovic
Well, you can go on what's that app, and you can just follow the Pelosi stock trader, which.
Tim Pool
That's what I'm on right now. Quiver Quantum. Yeah, it's called the, The Pelosi strategy. Yep. You know, you follow her, you would have made 700% over 10 years. It's.
Brett Dasovic
It's in video. It's Broadcom, Google, Vista, Palo Alto network.
Tim Pool
Hold on real quick.
Brett Dasovic
Tesla, hold on. She, like Elon Dear.
Tim Pool
To date, Apple is down 15%. Do we. Honest question. I mean, maybe it's just silly and it's memeing, but does Nancy Pelosi make bad trades like that? When you look at her record. She doesn't. She's up 730%. Men, she's a prophet. So she buys into Apple and she's down 15%. I don't know. I think she knows something.
Joseph Gridante
It's girl math girl. She's like really bad at trading.
Tim Pool
Well, it's her, It's. To be fair, it's her husband. And because it's their joint net worth, she files this. But I'm just wondering, you know, that's a big chunk of her net worth. Her and her husband's net worth.
Brett Dasovic
Yeah.
Tim Pool
I don't know, man.
Brett Dasovic
Does Apple have government contracts? I'm assuming they do have government contracts of some sort.
Tim Pool
I don't know. Looks like. You can look at what she bought recently. She bought. What is this? Matthews International. What is this? Oh, she sold. Sorry? She sold Matthews International between 15 and 50,000. Was that on a Friday? I don't know. July 9th. Probably taking some money out to go party over the weekend. Yes, Avgo, Broadcom. She bought between 1 and $5 million on the 9th. Wednesday. It's a Wednesday. Ain't nobody party on Wednesday. Maybe she was getting ready for the weekend, you know, wild night.
Brett Dasovic
It's dc. They can party any day they want.
Tim Pool
No, no, it's California, bro. Well, I mean, I guess they're in sessions. Yeah, she did buy another between quarter and a half mil of Nvidia and the same for Google and Tempest. I. Oh, interesting. Really? She bought Tempest? I. Huh, huh.
Mary Morgan
You know, she got in the heart of Silicon Valley, I will say that. But the reality is, and I don't know anything about this new bill that got passed, but in lust that they can prove that they had insider information, it's just been pretty much standard operating procedure for insider politicians who have other ancillary knowledge as to what's going on with these companies to, to then add portfolios and that's why so many of them are so wealthy. Should be illegal. Absolutely. 100% agree.
Tim Pool
Basically what happens is there will be. Okay, there's a couple ways they can do it. One is they can introduce legislation they know will damage a company. They'll say, if I announce publicly that we are going to regulate this industry, these companies are going to go down, short them now, you know, get those shorts ready. Then we file this bill or we get some co sponsors, we announce it, their stock drops, sell it, we'll drop the bill. You never have to actually even pass any legislation or the inverse is possible that they, they come to him and they say, look, we've got this new bill. Lobbyists from these companies have been saying that this regulation's a problem for them. We want to win the AI race, so we're going to be deregulating, and it's going to benefit a lot of these companies that make GPUs. And then Pelosi goes, oh, she calls her husband. She's like, buy Nvidia now. Buy. And then she does, and she gets, like, several hundred percent off her investment. And then they go, that's not insider trading. Yeah, they just get to make decisions whether or not a company succeeds or fails. And that's not insider trading. That's how it works.
Brett Dasovic
It's depressing.
Mary Morgan
That's exactly how. How it works.
Tim Pool
Well, that. That's why a lot of people were mad about this new Pelosi Act. The Preventing elected leaders. What is it? Running, Investing. What is this stupid thing called? Pelosi Act? What does that stand for? Let me see.
Brett Dasovic
So you know what SHIELD From Agents of SHIELD stood for, but not the.
Joseph Gridante
Pelosi act preventing elected leaders from owning securities and investments.
Tim Pool
There's an F. And I was like, well, it's not palafsy pal fosi.
Mary Morgan
George Carlin said it best. It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
Tim Pool
And it's the same club they used to beat you over the head with. That's. That's what he said. Indeed it is. There. So the funny thing is, Democrats in Holly were on. On board with this, but Republicans weren't. And I was like, what's the problem? Like, this is weird. Why. Why are the. Why are the. Why are the Democrats saying, stop the stock trading, and the Republicans are saying no?
Brett Dasovic
Which Republicans were saying it?
Tim Pool
Rand Paul, for instance. You know what it is? Like, these guys are like, could you imagine being a freshman member of Congress? And you're like, I finally made it. And then they go, oh, by the way, you're the last one in. We're going to ban you. No, that's the whole point. You think I want to work for $175,000 a year? It was hard to get here. Y. Yep.
Brett Dasovic
But now they get pensions, though, right?
Mary Morgan
I guess they do, but it's not as nice as being worth whatever she's worth, right?
Tim Pool
$260 million. That's crazy.
Brett Dasovic
Just pure luck. Pure luck. She just guesses she's a prophet.
Tim Pool
Her husband's a prophet. Whatever. You see her freak out when she was asked about it. By Jake Tapper. No. On cnn. She was like, why are you asking me about this you don't need. He tried playing the clip of Trump, saying she's inside her trading and all that. She got mad and she's like, I don't talk about Medicaid. And I was just like, I want to talk about how you're 84 and you should quit. Yeah, yeah.
Brett Dasovic
It's like you've made your money. Like you've bled us dry.
Tim Pool
This is the creepiest thing about these octogenarians. What do they call it? A gerontocracy? Rule by the old.
Brett Dasovic
Well, yeah.
Tim Pool
What's. What's crazy to me about all of it is just, what is wrong with Nancy Pelosi's brain that she won't leave? Like, just leave. Go away. Go away, lady. You're 84. Bye. What's wrong with these people? Just get out. Why not? What's going on there?
Mary Morgan
She won. Be happy. Enjoy retirement.
Tim Pool
Right.
Mary Morgan
Why do they keep coming back?
Tim Pool
I just. It's insane to me that something's wrong with these people.
Brett Dasovic
Why do you think that is? Why? Why do you think they don't leave? Do you think they just enjoy exerting power over other people?
Mary Morgan
I do think it has to be some power dynamic, because I've been wondering this for a long time. People like George, even people like Trump. Like what? Right.
Brett Dasovic
Like all the adrenochrome.
Mary Morgan
Yeah. There's got to be some, you know, chemical going on in the brain there that they keep going back to that makes them feel better.
Brett Dasovic
Well, also, it's like they don't really work that much. It doesn't feel like they're, you know, they're never there.
Tim Pool
Maybe, maybe I don't get it. Like, you're worth $260 million, lady. You can eat all the Jenny's ice cream in the world right now. Just leave. And not just her, but a bunch of these other Democrat or Republican. What is wrong with these people? I don't know. I'm just. Society is cooked, kids. Brains is cooked. Right. People aren't working anymore. There's no babies. Our culture is fractured a million ways. And you've got these sociopaths like Pelosi who won't just get the out and leave. And then with all due respect to the boomers, it's not all boomers. I get it. But boomers hold a disproportionate amount of wealth and they won't give it away. I don't expect them to just give it away.
Brett Dasovic
They want to spend it.
Mary Morgan
They're living longer.
Brett Dasovic
They want to spend.
Mary Morgan
It's right and yes, the Great Wall transfer is not unfolding the way they predicted.
Tim Pool
So Gen Z's got nothing. They're going to live in pods, eat the bugs and you. What's going to happen? Communist revolution.
Brett Dasovic
Yep, that's. It was always weird to me when people would say, like, people will unders. People will fall in love with free markets once it gets bad enough. Like, no, no, no, they won't. They will. Somebody at the government's going to tell them this is how we fix it and they're going to fall in line with that.
Tim Pool
And I think what's going to happen is, or I should say there's a probability of this. Young people are skewing to the right quite a bit. So I would call it cultural Revolution.
Brett Dasovic
I know that's young men that are skewing, right?
Tim Pool
That's right. And those are the ones that are going to go nuts.
Mary Morgan
The government could never be a solution to the problems. I mean, I understand that young people, they feel like they don't have a stake in the system and so the natural impetus is to turn to it. But if you just look at history, government has never been a solution to the problem. It never will be a solution to the problem. Freer markets and less government involvement is the only viable option. So that's kind of, you know, what I was alluding to before.
Tim Pool
I disagree. I mean, the market is overly regulated today, but if we were to loosen up regulations, you are not going to remove the multiple homes from the boomer generation. They're not going to give them away. And so what's likely to happen is I don't blame boomers for being like, look, I worked hard, I've got three houses. Screw you, they're mine. These are my investments. I own stock in corporate securities. They're mine. I paid for them. I worked. Screw you. Well, there's going to be Gen Z guys. I think it's going to be a right, it's looking like a right word, a culture revolution. But they are going to take your stuff, they don't care what you think. And they're, they're going to re, they're going to appropriate it for their cultural revolution. And they're going to say they're going to be in their late 20s, these Gen Z guys. And so this could be 5, 10 years depending if nothing changes, right? And they're going to say, we're expected to have families, we're expected to work jobs, we're expected to live, but we can't own property anywhere. We've got Foreign landlords. And we've got an older generation that is living too long and they're. And they've got multiple homes and they use them when they see fit. You are going to get. It starts with the dsa, but the problem with the DSA is that they're woke up and ineffective. Everybody saw that convention they had where they were like, point of personal privilege. My pronouns are actually, stop. Can you stop clapping?
Brett Dasovic
They were actually doing this when they were saying it too.
Tim Pool
Yeah. And people were clapping and they're like, I have anxiety. You have to do what I want. So young people who are actually just angry because you can't get anything done, we're like, we're going the right because the left is crazy. It doesn't work.
Mary Morgan
But those are still the same grounds on which the Bolshevik revolution happens. For them to do that successfully, they have to have some type of government authority. So it would be. No matter what, even if the basis was right, it would be inherently left. Otherwise it's not successful. And it gets called by those that are in power.
Tim Pool
I would not be surprised if in like 10 years there was government enforcement that seized assets from boomers and reallocated it. Yep. Or put it on the market at lower rates or something. I. But that's the left, though.
Mary Morgan
It's a left wing approach to things, is to take somebody else's property and redistribute it.
Tim Pool
It's just authoritari. Authoritarian. Authoritarian depending on the cultural slant of the individuals as they do it. If they're like white Christian, you know, traditionalists who are like, we're going to restore the American dream and the white picket fence, but we're going to corrective measures, then we'd call that right.
Mary Morgan
But you're, but you're not allowing free markets to distribute those resources. You are relying on force or the government or some other means to redistribute those resources.
Tim Pool
So that's in that sense that, that's an economic scale. So we're talking about like the political compass. For instance, right and left don't necessarily mean free market. It just right and left means traditional or progressive. So some people use right and left to, to mean free market versus socialism. Economic. That's the economic scale. The political scale is just like the fascists. The Nazis are ultra. They're authoritarian traditionalists. And the communists were authoritarian progressives. So it doesn't matter what strain of authoritarianism you get. Some might say, well, that's still left, maybe left leaning, you know, like Hitler wasn't economically right. Wing, of course they had a centralized, they had a command economy of sorts. They use, they use cultural force to enforce what they wanted in their production. But I digress. Whether it's left or right is a material. I think young people, when you know the Gen Z today, there's no way a bunch of people in their 30s are going to be like I am content with living five people in a single unit apartment in New York as the older generation sold us out to illegal immigrants. They're going to be like nah, the power is ours now. We inherited this, this country and we're going to take what we want. It doesn't mean that they're going to seize and redistribute like commies. I wouldn't be surprised however, if they say we're going to take your homes and then put them on a market at a rate per square foot or something like that.
Mary Morgan
Could it be that productivity just becomes so great as a result of post labor economics and AI that there's no need for any redistribution, that just productivity is so high that it automatically creates a system where people just aren't working because they lose the right to labor anyway because AI is, is productive.
Tim Pool
And AI can't build specialty projects, AI can't open businesses, AI can't handle regulation. You can. I mean if the entirety of government went AI and regulation was just handled by machines, theoretically it could be awesome because you don't got to worry about committees, meetings, fines, personal beefs. Unfortunately, in the short term that's not gonna happen. And so the issue I'm facing right now is I ask this question all the time, why is it so hard to get any job done? And we've assessed this over and over again. We need something built. Well, it took what like three years to build this building and that's insane. It was a field, we owned it. Minimal permit requirements took years. And the issue is no one wants to work and there's no amount of money you can offer them to work.
Mary Morgan
That is true.
Tim Pool
You, you go, I, I go to somebody and I say how much do you want to do this job? And they go I'm busy. And I say sir, certainly there's amount of money that you would take to this job. And they go I'm busy. And I'm like what? I, I've been, I tell people all the time we, we're trying to, we're trying to get an exterminator. We had, we like, we have a rotating cycle of warring bugs in this building. It's frogs now. There's like the spring peeper. Frogs are just dang, dang. It's crazy. We had crickets, we had ladybugs, we had stink bugs, we had wasps. Now we got mosquitoes and we called the exterminator and they go, three weeks. And I'm like, why? And he goes, because that's when we want to do it. We don't want to come in, we don't need it, we don't need the money. And I'm like, I'm sitting here wondering why we reach out to so many contractors, we reach to so many people and they all just say, we don't need it. And I'm like, well, is, is there not no workers?
Mary Morgan
That supports my point though, because a homeless person today has a higher standard of living than say if the pharaoh of Egypt. People are so spoiled. Kind of what you were saying before, that kids. And so, and that. So if a smaller percentage of the labor force has an exponentially higher level of productivity, there is this potential. I don't know about in the short term, but in the intermediate term where we're living in this era of UBI and post labor economics, where the basic bare means of subsistence are provided for people, then anything beyond that is just.
Tim Pool
Yeah, it's going to be a pod with bugs. You're going to be eating mashed bug paste in a pod because they're not going to give you luxury. So I was hanging out and we were at this club where they have a fake beach at a lake. And I'm frustrated because we can't get people to do jobs. It's months out, it's weeks out, and they want insane amounts of money. And I'm watching all these, I see all these guys, young men, 20 year old guys, and they're just sitting there on the beach, not working. And I'm thinking to myself, we've offered double rate. We've said like, we'll pay you extra, we'll pay you double. And they go, no, we just don't, I don't need it. And I'm thinking to myself, why? What has happened socially where people are like me? Yeah, they're childless, single young men. That's their culture, that's a society. They don't strive for this and they have no reason to say I have to make money. Like my dad had to work two jobs because he had three kids and so he was like, gotta do a double, has to, has to get done. And then I see a ton of people who are like, I don't need the work. So I won't. So my concern now, you've got a lot of people who live in their parents house still. It's not necessarily a bad thing to live with your parents, by the way. I actually think culturally and socially it's probably good, but not when people aren't working or trying to create their own families. With no kids. There's no future market. That's just a fact. So you're not going to sell anything to anybody. And as the market begins to shrink, we're going to get, I guess we're going to get deflationary pressures and we're going to get a strain on the economy. Where I'll put it like this. Any ecosystem that reaches equilibrium with its principal organisms and its food supply, the organisms starve, are half starving and suffering and covered in sores and lesions because they're getting just the bare minimum of required energy to survive. Because it's, it's equilibrium. We need to constantly be slightly below. We need an excess of resources so that we're not constantly strained and starving. But with a shrinking population size, labor is going to decrease and that means there's going to be a massive older population that doesn't want to work, that has no choice but to work now. And it's going to get real bad because nobody wants to and young people don't have to. So I've talked about this in terms of the Social Security problem. Right now I believe it's 2.8 workers pay for one Social Security recipient. It used to be like five. But with population decline, we're getting to the point where it's going to be one for one. How are you going to sustain Social Security recipients off of a younger generation that doesn't work at all. You won't. And then boomers are going to be aging and they're going to be like, I paid into it, I deserve it. And they're like, well, there's nothing there anymore. And they're going to get angry. Young people are going to be like, I'm not working. Because if, even if I do, houses cost $800,000. I can only make $25 an hour, so I'll never get a down payment. This is the structure of how Ukraine effectively operates. So young people are going to say, what's the point of working? You're going to tax me. You're going to give it to the older people who already own their generation, owns the properties. So something's going to break because. So it's either going to be before this happens, the government Intervenes and seizes properties from people and we go communist or something. Or Gen Z goes right wing and seizes properties from people to force the social transition of wealth.
Joseph Gridante
What about starting with seizing properties from generations? Well, China and also corporations.
Tim Pool
The argument is that these corporations, many of many of them are actually publicly traded corporations. And so it's actually once again the boomers that own the corporate securities in those holding companies.
Joseph Gridante
That's true, but it would come off as less commie to at least seize residential properties from corporations instead of individuals.
Tim Pool
You know, it's going to be real weird when AI takes over and eliminates a lot of jobs. Powerful wealthy people will own the AI, the rights to it. You know, you know what I was thinking? Did you guys see that? What is it called? Light of Motor Motomura. Have you heard of this? Come on. This is pop culture crisis. Crisis. What are you guys doing? Huh? You've not seen this? It's a video game that looks identical to Horizon Zero Dawn. And Sony I think just announced they're suing Tencent because they basically ripped off Horizon Zero Dawn.
Brett Dasovic
Oh, I did see article on that.
Tim Pool
Yeah. And it was crazy to me because I was like, does Sony own the idea of tribal people with robot animals?
Brett Dasovic
I mean just throwing into litigation. The companies are just going to litigate each other to death anyways.
Tim Pool
But, but here's the, here's the point. The idea is for those that aren't familiar, Horizon Zero dawn is, you know, I'll just, I'll show you. And this, this matters for the AI future. I love Horizon Zero dawn and Forbidden West. It's a fantastic game. Let me just show you. Oh, this is hilarious. People I searched for and people are already. It's Motorom. There you go. Okay, that's too small. Let me just do this. Light of Motoram Horizon and they're side by sides. This is wild. Let's pull this up, check this image out. Actually, let's just talk about this. Let's, let's roll. We've got this from all key shop Sony lawsuit. Bombshell. Tencent wanted Horizon deal before alleged allegedly copying it. So for those that are familiar, Horizon Zero Dawn. The Horizon series has multiple video games and expansions. It's a video game where you play a female tribal human. There's a bunch of tribes, they're rather primitive, but there's weird advanced technology, gigantic animals and monsters that are made of machines. For those don't know, it's a decade old game. The story is Earth was wiped out by AI bots that were consuming biomass until they destroyed the planet, turned to a barren rock. The solution launched by scientists was to build a bunch of underground terraforming bases so that after the biomass was completely consumed and the AI bots were destroyed because they had no energy, they would rebuild society with, you know, I guess, incubation pods that would recreate humans. Something went wrong. Humans are tribal. Tencent launched effectively a clone of the game with robot animals that looks identical. Here's what I started thinking about this lawsuit. In the future, the wealthy people will be the people with imagination. If you can come up with an idea that's interesting, you instantly own that idea. And nobody can ever use that idea. And if people like the idea, they have to pay you for it. So we're right now in what's called the attention economy. We had the, we had a manufacturing based economy, we had a service sector economy. There were questions about whether that could work. Then we went to the information economy. We're now past the information economy into what's called the attention economy right now. Money, the money you receive is largely determined by your ability to make people stare at you. And that's the easiest way to explain it. Podcasts are getting massive YouTube TikTok. The question is, can I make you look at me longer? And then you will. Your, your view of the world will be based upon those who have the ability to hold your attention the most, which creates really weird things like Elsa gate. I'm looking at this lawsuit and I'm thinking to myself, I mean, what's, what's, what was copied tribal people with robot animals, can they own the rights to that idea? Not, it's, it's not like they directly ripped the story off, it's just similar. So this is what I imagine in the future, your burger restaurant, you're gonna be poor, you're gonna live in the pot, you're gonna eat the bugs, you're eat your ubi whatever it might be. And there's going to be some ultra wealthy guy. Why? Because he owns the idea of a certain kind of food. And when you go to your chicken store and there's robots making your food in kiosks where you order it and you, you scan your, your, your, your palm or your retina to pay. And it's based on your government account, no one's working there. And the question is, AI organized it. AI filed the paperwork, machines came and built it. The guy who owns it is ultra wealthy and flies around on private jets and does whatever he want, wants. But why? Because of the Idea of the burger restaurant and the kind of food that it was, was good. So it's his and you can't copy it. That would be illegal. The future is going to be quite literally people on ubi, if that. And the people of imagination who are smart enough to conceptualize things. That seems. That's one possibility of where we're.
Mary Morgan
It's totally plausible.
Tim Pool
That's it. No disagreements.
Brett Dasovic
I mean, how. How far in the future are you thinking about today?
Tim Pool
50 years.
Brett Dasovic
50 years?
Tim Pool
Maybe not. Maybe not even 50. You made a good case.
Mary Morgan
I have to give it to you.
Tim Pool
Perhaps we're. Right now. We're. We've been talking about, you know, there's an Amazon investment into what's it called? Showrunner.
Brett Dasovic
Showrunner. And then what's the other one?
Tim Pool
I don't know what the other one is. What's Showrunners. Website.
Mary Morgan
I'm trying to do enough research to repudiate your point here, but here we go.
Tim Pool
Showrunner. Yeah. AI generated sitcoms, dude. Yeah. Look, I'm telling you, I'm telling you guys, as soon as this AI is powerful enough, I am remaking Revenge of the Sith so that when Anakin walks in and Mace Windu has the saber to the Chancellor and he goes, don't let him kill me. And then Mace is like, he controls the courts, you know, And. And then what I'm going to change with the AI is that Mace is going to go, anakin, you're right. This isn't the Jedi way. Call more Jedi in and we'll have him tried. And then they come in and they arrest him and Anakin never becomes Darth Vader. And that's the end of it because Mace Windu just didn't have to be a dick.
Brett Dasovic
And the rest of the movies don't even need to happen.
Tim Pool
Yep, that's just over the.
Brett Dasovic
The funny thing about that is.
Mary Morgan
Well, Episode one, I mean, should never happen, right? Episode two should have been Episode one, and the Clone wars should have been Episode two. That, that's.
Brett Dasovic
But Amazon is dumping a bunch of money into AI into AI based streaming services, which is funny because they're. They're closing up Freebie, which is where free streaming platform. I'm guessing they're probably going to end up using the existing infrastructure from Free V to build out whatever that ends up being afterwards because they're moving all the stuff that's on Freevee over to just Amazon proper. So they'll probably use the infrastructure from the Free. Like what is now the freebie app for that AI program, once it comes.
Tim Pool
Out, dude, is that's going to be.
Brett Dasovic
That's going to be down the line. They're putting investment into it. Doesn't mean it's going to come out.
Tim Pool
They, they. This showrunner website, they make TV shows AI generated and they used to have the videos on the site. Now I guess they don't. I think. Oh, is there something. I don't know any pencils that stand up and write by themselves. Creativity is at a Deep Blue and Casper of moment. We were trying to proved that it was possible to build a chess machine that could be the best human player in the world. Because we didn't build Deep Blue to make chess players better and we didn't build AlphaGo to make go players better. We built it to win. It's a completely new medium and it's going to push you to be more creative. I'm not interested in AI as recreating.
Brett Dasovic
A process that we already.
Tim Pool
Whatever. Anyway, they were awful.
Brett Dasovic
Oh, Fable Studios is the other one that I was thinking of.
Tim Pool
Oh, right. We played some of these shows and they're just not good in any way.
Brett Dasovic
Well, the, the idea is like the next generation of ipod baby, of iPad babies are gonna be the ones who are gonna go into the Showrunner app and just make their own shows without even really thinking about it.
Tim Pool
Oh, Fable is showrunner. Yeah. Yeah.
Brett Dasovic
Fable Studios and Showrunner are like subsidiaries or something.
Tim Pool
Same thing when you go to Fable, it just brings you there. Yeah. So here, I'll give you this one. You know, we don't gotta do a full segment on this one, but have you guys seen this app? Gage? Yeah, you know, we here at Timcast have decided that, you know, maybe we should have this. See, here's how it works. Your employees are required to sign into it and then you can see there that they'll get a score between 0 and 1000. And then if they're naughty and they don't do their jobs, I, as the boss, can reduce their score. Here's the best thing. It follows them everywhere they go for the rest of their lives. So when they try to apply to another job, that new company can look and say, mary, you've got a 403. Can you explain to us why your work score is so low?
Joseph Gridante
That's what references were for.
Tim Pool
Well, now we don't need it because we have called, you know, it's a credit score, but for like society, you.
Mary Morgan
Know, I think it's a. It's a slippery slope there.
Tim Pool
It's going to happen.
Mary Morgan
You know, because what if a person between the age of 35 and 45 is completely different than who they were from 20 to 25, and yet they're stuck with that, being typecast based on who they were, you know, while they were in college and they were part of some, you know, what if, what.
Tim Pool
If your boss is this lecherous movie producer who says, you know, if you want to move up in this company, you got to give me a little sugar. And then the woman goes, I'm, I'm not doing anything. I'm gonna have to turn your score down. And then what if the inverse, your boss is some like purple haired feminist? And then you're like, I, you know, I'm here to do my job. Well, you're a man and what you said was racist. And I'm, and then you're like, why am I getting a bad score? And then what's gonna happen? It's like the Black Mirror episode. You go, you apply for a new job and the boss goes, so I see that your gauge score is 6, 615. It's a little low. Can you explain to us why it's so low? And you say, you know, to be honest, it's unfortunate, but sometimes it happens. I don't think my boss and I got along and so I tried to leave amicably. And they go, right, right, well, look, I have another applicant with a 783 and I don't think you're really selling yourself. And I'm not interested in taking the risk on a 615, but I appreciate you coming in. Goodbye. They don't care about you. You think McDonald's? What about going to tell their regional.
Mary Morgan
Managers, like, what happened to like in privacy? I mean, where did that ever. When did that stop being, you know, the hip thing? Like, just like, hey, what's mine is mine and I have a right to privacy and I don't want to know my business and my past.
Tim Pool
And people want it, I agree, but.
Mary Morgan
I don't know if they understand where, where it leads to.
Tim Pool
No, what I mean is there's going to be a regional manager at a, like a franchise, a McDonald's franchise corporation that owns 50 locations. And the boss is going to be like, what's our turnover rate? And they're gonna be like, it's high. And he's gonna say, why? And it's like, well, because you know how it goes. You hire somebody, the references are fake, it doesn't matter. And then they're bad and you fire them or they quit. And he's gonna say, what's this, what's this app everybody's using where you have a score? Just hire people of at least a 700 and they go, okay, whatever you say. Starting now. Require all employees to have it so we can track their scores. And it's gonna make it easier and safer and give us recourse for termination without hr, lawsuits, law, or I'm sorry, like civil, like workplace lawsuits. And then you're gonna, you're gonna be 18 or 17 or 16, whatever, you're gonna go to McDonald's, you're gonna say, I want to apply for a job. And they say, we, we require all employees to use Gage. Then here's the best part. They're going to post your schedule on Gage and say this is where you get information on your schedule. Make sure you check it every day because it can change. Then your boss is going to send you a message on Gauge and you're expected to answer. And they're gonna say, I need you to come in on Sunday. I know you have off, but we're, it's a rush day and so we're asking you to come in and no longer can you say, I didn't have my phone on me.
Brett Dasovic
This is the future. Millennials want to. Because Gen Z is all about work, life, balance. And millennials are the ones that are answering their slack messages at 10pm I'm anti background check.
Mary Morgan
I am anti Freedom of Information Act. I am against all these things. I don't imply them at my own company. I don't do background checks and I don't think so. I am just opposed to this on principle and I might be the wrong person to ask.
Tim Pool
This is.
Joseph Gridante
People already use Glassdoor as a rating system for employers. Why can't it be two sided? Gauge could be a two sided platform where employers can rate their, their employees, can rate their employers.
Tim Pool
You know, I think the issue is the direction. If you have a company with 50 employees and you get a bad score, something's going out of that company. For all of these people to be mad at you and maybe it's not necessarily your fault, sometimes the reviews are bs. But if you're an employer, one person who's bad, you can destroy 50 people's lives by giving them bad scores. They can never work again. Not to mention is creepy for a boss to be like, your score went down five points because you refused to mop the bathrooms. I just, I think this is a creepy thing to do. Stars being like, I worked at this company. I give them three out of five stars. It's like, okay, I guess this is a literal social credit score from zero to a thousand that follows you everywhere you go, no matter what. If I own a company and the employees give it a bad score and it fails, I just shut the company down and open a new company. You have one account on this app and you can't have two accounts. And it's going to follow you everywhere you go. And so if you get one boss that hates you or like, let's just, let's just go the feminist route. You get one boss that hits on you and then you're like, I'm not interested. And he gets really angry and just says, fuck you. And then he, and he nuked your score. What are you going to do about it?
Joseph Gridante
Well, I don't think that something like this would reach mass adoption because employers will know that there is room, plenty of room for situations like that and human error.
Tim Pool
I think they wouldn't just assume that.
Joseph Gridante
The score is objective just because it was provided by someone's previous employer.
Tim Pool
You at a corporation, a regional manager, a mid level manager, are confronted with 10 applicants for three available positions. And you've got 8008-008008-00400, 400, 400. You're not going to go. You're going to throw the four hundreds in the garbage. They already do this now?
Joseph Gridante
No, already.
Mary Morgan
I have to disagree because I will want to actually speak to the 400s to understand why they're 400s. And I would, I've learned through trial and error that I think I would throw the eight hundreds maybe in the garbage. Before I throw the four hundreds is in the garbage, I want to know what I think.
Tim Pool
That makes no sense. It's illogical.
Mary Morgan
Well, I just think, like rate my professor. It does seem illogical, but sometimes that's how rate my professor used to be a big thing when I was in college. And I always, I started going on there trying to game the system, looking for the easiest professors. And then I found that I actually got my best grades with the hardest professors. So I find that the candidates that have some type of unique story or whatever that they tend to, they have more to prove. And so it just, you got to get them at the right place in their career.
Tim Pool
80, 20, you're going to be talking about a manager who makes $50,000 a year at overseeing like three McDonald's locations. And he's going to say, don't know, don't care. It's easier to get a. It's hard to get a good score. It is easy to get a bad score. So I know someone with a good, good score is at least able to pretend or hide whatever bad things they might be doing. And I'll take it because I don't gotta deal with it. I'm not gonna get sued over it and I've got legal protection. When I say we only hired a certain threshold, it makes it that I can't be sued when I say no to a bad applicant.
Mary Morgan
In fact, I just actually did this in practice not too long ago. I can't disclose like the specifics, but I will say that I, you know, instead of the perfect candidate, I went with a candidate who really had nothing on paper and looked much, much more flawed and ended up, I think I made the right choice. It's only been about, you know, three months, but we'll see.
Tim Pool
And that's entirely true that that will happen. The point is at the macro scale, when companies have to hire 300,000 employees.
Mary Morgan
Yeah. That says different.
Tim Pool
Or they have 5,000 hourly wage employees at a series of chains, they're going to tell their managers, I don't know or care, we only hire 700 plus.
Brett Dasovic
So you think this would happen mostly at larger scale companies and smaller ones wouldn't adopt something like this.
Tim Pool
Smaller ones probably will spatteringly. But I feel like this app is an inevitability because we're a small company and I've dealt with stupid government regulation and employment complaints.
Brett Dasovic
But like if you were using something like this, like me or Mary never would have been hired because we didn't have any history.
Tim Pool
And like it's for hourly only anyway.
Brett Dasovic
Oh, okay.
Tim Pool
Yeah, it's hourly shift worker.
Brett Dasovic
Okay.
Tim Pool
Based, it's not for salaries. So we would never have this app in the first place. Yeah, but if you are a burger restaurant. Look, it's, it's really simple. The thirty thousand dollar a year manager of your burger shop doesn't care and is sitting there with all the applications in front of him and he's going, what time is the fight, dude? I don't care. With this app he's going to be like, delete anything under 800. Like filter out anything below 800. He's going to see three eight hundreds and he's going to be like, we only got one spot to fill. I got three eight hundreds. Everyone else is in the garbage.
Mary Morgan
Yeah, well, yeah, that's, yeah, that's scary.
Tim Pool
At scale, AI already does this, right? Yep. AI already does resume searches. And so this is really fascinating, you know People do. They. They'll take out keywords for algorithms like work late, overtime, double shift. They'll make it one one size, one font and white, and they'll put it at the very bottom of the page where the AI can see it. So when people submit their resumes, the AI filters are specifically looking for certain keywords and their resume gets shoved to the top, despite the fact that they might already write, I'm hardworking, willing to work overtime, and I really want this job. By doubling up the words, the algorithms are weighing them more heavily. And then it's sh. It's. It's. It's. People are making weird AI manipulating resumes is. We are welcome to the nightmare scenario. It's getting crazy. It's going to get worse.
Brett Dasovic
It is one of those things, like, there's a. Like a meme going around on X right now of the guy drinking the bottle of vodka in his car. It's like, what it' like applying for a job right now. It's like, welcome to your third round of interviews. He's like, sir, this is a burger restaurant. Like a third round of interviews.
Tim Pool
Yeah.
Joseph Gridante
For all of the talk about people not wanting to work, it's almost like employers don't want to hire either.
Tim Pool
Yeah. Here's. Here's the other big thing, too, because someone mentioned this, a super chat. Dan Vicious says employers can't do references. Risk of lawsuit. They tell you this. One of the first bits of advice you get when you're opening a business is anytime anyone calls your company to ask about an employee, you always just be absolutely neutral. You say, ah, yes, so and so did work here. They no longer work here. I would not hire them again. Thank you and have a nice day. That's all you can say. Because if you say, they did X, they did what? It's defamation. And that's true.
Mary Morgan
Yes.
Tim Pool
Yeah. They'll come after you. So think about this app. You're a company and you're like, how can we adequately share that this was a bad employee? Companies are going to be happy to do this, and. And there's nothing the worker B can do about it. If you get. You get locked in a low score, good luck getting out of that hole. You know, here's the other fun thing about it. There's going to be some dudes who are going to be like, hey, you got. You. You own a. You own a restaurant, right? Hey, hire me on your app. Just give me good reviews, like every. I'll give you 100 bucks. And they'll be like, Okay, I want to get a 900 and then I can go apply. And that's what they'll do. Like, there, there will be a dude at a Burger King who's a shift manager for 16 bucks an hour, and he'll be like, yeah, I'll hire you. And it's like, just come hang out. I'll just give you good scores. You're good. And that'll be a lot of that. It's gonna be wonky and busted. All right, we're gonna go to your chats, my friend. So smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know. We're gonna grab your super chats and Rumble rants. But that uncensored members only show is coming up@rumble.com Timcast IRL at 10pm you don't want to miss it. In the meantime, let's. Let's grab your chats. All right. Shane H. Wilder says, I'm glad Trump is calling out Pelosi's insider trading. She gets all these gains and can't send a dollar to the Gongo. She claims to be a Catholic. She hasn't heard about the Christian act of. About the Christian act of charity.
Joseph Gridante
It's a travesty, huh?
Tim Pool
That's right. Alpha 2 Omega says. Howdy, people. I tried sharing your Australia no minors on social media video being in favor of it. Facebook triggered a single post a dozen times and flagged it as spam and removing it. Censorship, I'm telling you. So I made a video about Australia is banning YouTube for under 16s and it got almost no views. And so I'm like, okay, this is probably one of the most important stories on YouTube for people on YouTube that YouTube will be banned for teenagers regardless of your opinion on it. And for some reason, it's not appearing in recommendations.
Brett Dasovic
But Tim Mark Zuckerberg got a haircut and does jiu Jitsu.
Tim Pool
Oh, he's cool. Now, Pinochet says this isn't just against Trump, but an affront to every American, A violation of the Constitution. These are the domestic enemies mentioned in the oath I took. Excuse me. And was never relieved of no quarter. Oh, yeah. Let's see. We got Vic the fix. Shaw says about referrals. When I was down In Harper's Ferry two years ago, three bros and I stopped at HF Brewing, and it was 100 till they shut the place down. It was. It was 100 till they shut the place down at 9:30. Management told us 11 and then tossed everyone out at 9:30. About.
Joseph Gridante
Oh, they showed up at 1.
Tim Pool
It was 1 till it says 100 until they shut the place.
Brett Dasovic
Maybe like 1pm until showed up at 1.
Joseph Gridante
And then the business claimed to be open until 11 and sent them out early.
Tim Pool
Oh, yeah. You know, we used to love the Harpers Ferry brew, but I guess they sold it.
Brett Dasovic
Did they?
Tim Pool
That's. I. I guess we used to go there and we would. We were like, it's really cool that we have this local beer. Yeah. And so we would buy like 600 tall boys from them. And then something happened where a few months, like, we go in, we'd order like two months worth of beer and have it stocked in the fridge. And then when guests would come, people who drank. People don't really drink that much. We don't do it anymore. And then, you know, two months went by and we were like, oh, we should go restock. We showed up and they were like, you can't buy those. And we were like, we buy them every few months. And they were like, no, we can't sell those to you. And I was like, okay. It's like we talked to the manager because the manager, like, we. We do this. And then they told us they weren't allowed to do it, and I guess they sold. And then we went back there for the first time a few months ago, and Brandon got super pissed because he. He's worked in a bar. He's worked in bars and he's played shows and stuff. Stuff. And we got there like a half an hour before close, and there's, you know, three of us in line. And, you know, Andy walks up and gets a beer. He walks up and they go bars closed. And he was like, you just served him. Like, I know, but we just closed. And he was like, you haven't done anything. I don't know what it's called, but he's like, I know what you do when you shut down the taps. You can pour me a beer right now. And they're like, no, we're closed. And he was like, this is the worst place I've ever been to. I'm never coming back.
Brett Dasovic
See if the gauge app, then we could just make sure that these people have zero.
Tim Pool
Oh, you can't. No, that's Yelp the customer one. Yeah. Yeah. But he. I guess because he worked at a bar, he knows when the taps are shut down and when you can't serve beer. And they were still completely able to do it.
Brett Dasovic
And Yelp doesn't always even work anyways. A lot of the employees, because they don't have. They don't own the company. There's no stake in the company. They don't really care if they get bad reviews unless their manager comes and says something to them.
Joseph Gridante
Well, businesses give themselves fake positive reviews on Yelp too.
Tim Pool
Yep.
Brett Dasovic
I was like, oh, there was an article for the upcoming Green Lantern television show on Warner Brothers and the dude television show. Yeah, it's called Lanterns. And like, it says, a Warner Brothers executive said that the show is fantastic. And I'm like, well, yeah, because Warner Brothers made it. That's like me. I was like me. A PCC insider says that PCC is fantastic and you should go watch the show. That doesn't really mean anything if you, if you own the company or have stake in the company, saying, that's awesome.
Tim Pool
Max Reddick says. Tim, a while back you were working on getting David Pakman on the culture war. Whatever happened with that? With all due respect to David Pakman, he was very polite and said that he was busy with family. I think he recently had children and I respect that and have no, no issues and nothing bad to say. I disagree with him and his style of content, but it is what it is and you know, if he can't make it out, he can't. But we'll reach out to him again because we'd love to have him. I think it'd be a great show and I think he would enjoy it too. So we'll see it. Also, I'd love to get like, Kyle and Crystal Ball, perhaps. I watched this really funny clip with Crystal Ball just scolding Alyssa Slotkin on Israel committing genocide in Gaza. And it was like, Slacken was like, yes, you are correct. And then Crystal was just like, but it's a genocide. And she was like, okay. And Crystal was like, say it. I'm kidding. But it was kind of like that. I was like, wow, Crystal, like, really just like going after. And then Slotkin was like, I wrote a letter saying that they're being starved. And I'm like, it's. It's a. It's a genocide Olympics. Like, who can. Who can say more about Gaza than the other person? How fun. Let's see what we got here. Fook Dirk says if no arrest is made, then Trump term two is a failure for me and I will be demotivated to ever care about the right again. I don't care how great immigration in the economy is. He will be a failure. You know, we live in a plutonomy, right? This country is of foreign by the wealthy and always has been. And there was a report that was put out over a decade ago. It's almost 20 years ago now by a Citigroup, talking about how the will of the American people has no. No bearing whatsoever on legislation. And there's actually these really great infographics where it's like 80% of the country can want something, but as long as 30% of the wealthy want something, they get it. That's amazing. Right?
Brett Dasovic
It's like when you watch a show, it's like you watch something involving the US Government or like the CIA, and somebody says it's vital to US Interests, and then you say, like, what does that actually mean? Like, who is the person who decides what US Interests actually are?
Tim Pool
So. So what is.
Mary Morgan
What is he saying will determine whether or not he's successful? I didn't. I didn't get that part.
Tim Pool
Arresting the corrupt people who sabotage the government.
Mary Morgan
Got it.
Tim Pool
But, I mean, I do think there's a bit of a fault to that, because what did they do, stop Trump from carrying out his agenda? So should Trump's agenda solely be on going after the people who stopped his agenda, or should he try and fulfill.
Joseph Gridante
His agenda be better than nothing? Which is what we're getting now.
Tim Pool
We're getting a little bit.
Mary Morgan
Well, we're getting. We got the border shut down. We have a good economy. So which was the agenda? Make America great again.
Tim Pool
Yep.
Joseph Gridante
I mean, I think that you're reducing it way down from what was promised.
Mary Morgan
Fair enough.
Tim Pool
Perhaps. Let's grab some more. Andre says, what do you use to measure sleep and heart rate? Galaxy watch. You keep it on sleeping. When do you charge it? So my bed. I have a sleep eight bed. Luke recommended it. I got it. And it heats and cools as you sleep, which is good, but it's not like the. The heating and cooling thing isn't perfect, but it does try to adjust the temperature so they don't wake up either too hot or too cold, which is. It does work. But when I wake up in the morning, it shows me everything about my sleep. It tells me when I was in deep sleep, when I was in REM sleep, when I woke up, it's. It's pretty amazing. And then it gives you a score.
Joseph Gridante
Are you sure that it. That's not going to share your biometric data like that Spotify?
Tim Pool
What do you mean, am I sure? Did I ever say that they wouldn't.
Joseph Gridante
Does it bother you that they almost certainly do?
Tim Pool
No.
Joseph Gridante
Okay.
Tim Pool
That, that, like, they're gonna be like. They're gonna share this data and be like, Sir, Tim Pool entered deep sleep at 2am lasted for one hour before entering a light. A period of light REM sleep.
Brett Dasovic
No, they're gonna. They're gonna fact check you. Like Tim Pool said, he deep sleep for an hour, and it was actually 52 minutes. And then they're gonna. Snopes is gon.
Joseph Gridante
When you're awake or asleep is actually.
Tim Pool
They don't actually need the bed to track that. They, they, they. This is the most amazing thing. There was this. There was this website in the early 2000s, I think it was called, like, the Spark or something. Do you guys remember this? You're old enough, right? I'm old. And it had a bunch of tests, and they were really rudimentary early web websites. There's no apps or anything. And one of them was called the gender test. And it would ask you weird questions, and then it would tell you what your gender was. And you were like, how does this make sense? So basically it was like I said, base, I will ask you questions and then predict your gender. And it would ask you things like, which do you prefer? And it would show a bike, a boat, and a plane. And you're like a boat, I guess. And then it would say, pick a shape. And it would be like a blue triangle. It would be like a red square, a green circle. And then women tended to pick certain things for some reason that men tended to pick something else for some reason. And at the end, it would be like, you're a woman, you're a man. And it got it right. Like 90 of the time.
Brett Dasovic
That last thing just Sounded like a PlayStation controller, maybe.
Tim Pool
But the funny. Yeah, the funny thing about it is that was before AI, that was just a basic algorithm that was like 90 of the time. Women pick these things. Men pick these things. And so we can make that prediction Now, Facebook, based off of the weirdest of things, knows when you're going to poop. That's not a joke or an exaggeration. This has been published seven or eight years ago. Your mobile app has the Facebook, your Messenger app, or your. Or the actual Facebook app. It knows when you're moving, it knows when you're sitting. It knows when you're eating based on how you're moving and where you're at. So it knows when you go to work and when you go to lunch. Why? Because it has GPS data and knows the coordinates of Burger King. So you go to work, you then get up. It knows when you're gonna go to lunch before you do based on the patterns of your movement at work. Then it predicts you're going to go eat. And based on the prediction of when you're going to eat, it knows when you have, when you're going to have a bowel movement. And this is not an exaggeration or meant to be funny. It literally does this without anything. But all it needs is your gps. It's crazy.
Mary Morgan
Is it called the tmi?
Tim Pool
Perhaps. But I'm, but you know, for Zuckerberg and the rest of this company, they're like this is, this data is invaluable. Like you can control populations, you can predict their movements. It's insane what they can do. And, and, and I'll tell you this, I'm willing to bet AI is far more advanced than we even realize. The commercial grade stuff they're showing us. Yeah, it's probably 20 years more advanced. They got behind the scenes, they had.
Brett Dasovic
GPS for decades before it was ever commercially available. Right.
Tim Pool
That's right.
Brett Dasovic
Like I always imagine like if I was Google and I wanted government contracts, I would just, and they said no, I would just shut down Google Maps for a day and then say, okay, let the peasants figure out where they're going. Same with Apple.
Tim Pool
Think about how crazy that is that. I used to, I used to have, I used to have memorized like me like 20 or 30 phone numbers.
Brett Dasovic
Yeah.
Tim Pool
Now I have got two. Yeah.
Mary Morgan
I never written, I've written down, I didn't start writing down phone numbers until I was in my early 30s.
Tim Pool
Promise.
Mary Morgan
I memorized everybody's. And then all of a sudden my memory started to.
Tim Pool
Yeah. Now it's just you store it in your phone and it's like, I don't, I don't know your phone number. I know your name.
Brett Dasovic
Did you see that post that was going around on X like last week where it was like technology's going too far, man. My roommate got locked out of his light bulbs and we, we're sitting in the dark cuz he doesn't password.
Tim Pool
Let me tell you about the worst thing about Sleep eight is that when my bed gets disconnected from the Internet, I can't turn it off. Yeah. So you get this. I got, my bed ran out of water, so the air conditioner wasn't working or the, the, the, the temperature control. And I was like, whatever, I'm not dealing with this. So I went to sleep. Then I wake up with my alarm going off, which is, it vibrates, it goes, and I pick my phone up and go to the app and it says, can't find it. So there's no way to Turn it off. So now I got to get up and go to the box and unplug it. It's a nightmare. You know what else I want to stress? You know what I hate more than anything right now is tv. Let me tell you, you guys, maybe you remember this. I don't know you youngsters. When I was a kid, you know what I would do? I'd walk up to the TV and I would grab a little knob and I would pull it out. You pull the knob forward and the TV would turn on. And there were two knobs. There was. Was it VHF and uhf. And you. I'd go click, click, click, click, click. But here's the best part. It was already on channel 32, Fox. So when the Simpsons were coming on at what was it, like 7 o' clock or 5:30, I'd go to the TV, I'd pull the little thing forward, the TV would turn on and I'd sit down. Do you know what I have to do now, Brett? I turn the TV on, then it boats up, it starts booting up. It takes about 10 seconds. Then it brings me to some loads of home screen and instantly a thing pops up saying, would you like to update your tv? To which I say, no, I don't want to update my tv. Then a box pops up saying, would you like to update your remote? No, I don't want to update remote. Then I click home. Then it takes 10 seconds to load. Then I have to press down to go to the YouTube TV app and I hit it and it says, would you like to update the app? And I say, no. Then it opens the app and it's on some. It's on some default pre record and I have to then select and find the channel. Gone. Gone are the days where I could just click the button and it turned on to the channel I watch all the time. Those are the days, huh?
Brett Dasovic
Channel three. So that you could go turn on your video games right away.
Tim Pool
Yes. Right.
Brett Dasovic
Yeah.
Tim Pool
You know what's crazy is they still have. With all that they still have, you.
Brett Dasovic
Like go to each individual letter and select it and then go back.
Tim Pool
Yep. Yeah, I think they would have figured that out. Modern TVs suck. Yeah, terrible.
Brett Dasovic
I mean, what you need is a Roku TV with the very pleasant Roku City playing in the background, keeping PlayStation.
Tim Pool
Yeah, I just do.
Brett Dasovic
I don't get a Roku TV.
Tim Pool
I turn the PlayStation on and I turn the TV on, let it boot. I don't care. I press the PlayStation, I go to YouTube, enter, but it pops Up.
Brett Dasovic
I want them to make a movie about Roku City.
Tim Pool
What is. What is Roku?
Brett Dasovic
Roku City is when you're just. When you have a Roku TV that's just right. A city that plays in the background.
Joseph Gridante
Well, it's all of these, like, apocalyptic scenarios.
Brett Dasovic
They need to make a skibidi toilet. Roku City movie just loaded up into AI. Yeah.
Tim Pool
I am gonna make that scene from Star wars where Mace Windu where he's like, oh, yeah, Anakin, you're right. I better not just randomly kill the Chancellor. That would be an assassination.
Brett Dasovic
I think if I did it, I would take the movie Little Big League, where King Griffey Jr. Robs him of a home run at the end. I'd have him actually hit the home run, and they'd win.
Tim Pool
You know what I would do is I would have Mace Windu accused the Chancellor of colluding with the Trade Federation to steal the election and then bog him down with years of investigation so that he couldn't act his agenda.
Mary Morgan
But he does declare him under arrest. He does declare him under arrest.
Tim Pool
But then, to be fair, force lightnings. And Anakin walks in, and he was. And then the lightning is rebounding under the Emperor. And he was, don't let him kill me. And then Mace Windu was like, I have to. He's too powerful. And then Anakin's like, no, he should be arrested and tried. And he goes. He's. He controls the courts. He can't be stopped. I have to kill him. And then when he. When he goes to swing to kill him, Anakin cuts his arm off. Anakin did nothing wrong. Like, I'm sorry. If a religious military faction is trying to assassinate the duly elected leader because he's of a different religion, you stop the person trying to kill the other guy. The Chancellor didn't go to the Jedi Temple and try to murder anybody. He was in his chancellor. Chancellor recorders or whatever. When the Jedi shut up and said, we just found out you have a different religion from us, so we're gonna kill you. And it's like, what? And Anakin was like, don't you know? And they make him the bad guy, and then Obi Wan, he's the real bad guy because he torches Anakin. Come on. He Obi Wan stows away, and Anakin's pregnant's wife, Carr. And then jumps out, standing there like a dick, like, you should fight him.
Brett Dasovic
You should pitch this to George Lucas. This, he loves redoing it. He never leaves it alone.
Joseph Gridante
I would modify Titanic so That she chooses her fiance and doesn't cheat on him.
Tim Pool
I would modify Titanic so that when she's on the front and she's going, yeah. She falls in and he's like, oh, crap.
Mary Morgan
What's with the. The young Hayden Christian Christensen Force Ghost at the end of Return of the Jedi? Why are Yoda.
Tim Pool
They changed it.
Mary Morgan
I know, but why?
Tim Pool
Why not let me change it?
Mary Morgan
Yeah, because Obi Wan and Yoda are old. So why does Darth Vader get younger? Yeah, Younger, right?
Tim Pool
Yeah. It's stupid. Yeah. George Lucas is not of his mind. The. The sequel movies are the stupidest things I've ever seen in my life.
Brett Dasovic
The original one, he had people that could tell him no, and there was nobody to tell him no in the later ones.
Mary Morgan
Sequels don't exist. To me. That's just Disney. That's a cash grab. The prequels, they could have got it right if. If. You know.
Tim Pool
Yeah. First one didn't need it.
Mary Morgan
If the Clone wars were Episode one, not the Clone Wars. Episode two. Attack of the Clones was Episode one, and then they made the Clone Wars Episode two. Because Episode three was good.
Tim Pool
It was just. It was rushed.
Brett Dasovic
It could be ironic. You could use AI to make Avatar actually interesting.
Tim Pool
You know, the big problem with Episode three as well is that it is rushed. There's no. There's no transition to the dark side. You don't see what drives Anakin and the Clone wars series. You can see him. Darkness. And so it makes no sense that, like in Revenge of the Sith, he's like, I am a good guy and you're a Sith and must be stopped. And I'll inform the Jedi. And then 10 minutes later, he's like, like, I'm gonna side with the Sith now and I'm gonna murder children. It's like, why? Yeah.
Mary Morgan
And also General Grievous's character, like, there's no build up to that character. You get to see him in the Clone wars take on that kind of. That Vader esque. At least the villain personality. So they really.
Tim Pool
I would.
Mary Morgan
They really.
Tim Pool
I would change a lot of movies with that one. I would change Episode four. I guess it's called four. And it would be like when Luke puts the computer away and the voice is like, use the Force. Look. And then they're like, luke, is something wrong? He's like, no, I got this. And then he just misses. And then they're gonna be like, you moron, you turned your computer off. It's like, but I thought magic was gonna save me. And then it doesn't. And then the Death Star just blows everybody up. That'd be. That's the better ending, actually. What I really want to do is I want to make an entire version of Star Wars. That is the truth. The truth is the Empire did nothing wrong. It's all. It's all rebel propaganda. The religious zealots from a desert planet took a cargo ship and blew up a military base. You know, and then they made a movie about it where they're like, oh, but you know, watch Darth Vader. He put the planet. And it's like, did he? Or is that propaganda? Yeah.
Brett Dasovic
What's another series or movie you'd make a change to?
Tim Pool
On top of my head? I don't know. Probably all of them. How about. What's the one I just watched? Happy Gilmore. His wife should have died of cancer. Yeah, like, come on.
Mary Morgan
But the Jedi maintained peace for millennia. I'm sorry, I'm go. The Star wars thing.
Tim Pool
They maintain peace for kidnapping children and indoctrinating them their religion and executing anybody who's of a different religion. Sure. Of course, in their movies they painted as noble, but like, look how they use Jedi mind tricks, which we consider to be a good thing to do to like a prey upon the minds of your everyday person because they're weak willed so you can get what you want.
Mary Morgan
Well, the shit were anti alien. I mean, they colluded with gangsters. I mean they were.
Tim Pool
That's all, that's all, that's all extended universe stuff that's been, that's been retconned. It's no longer, no longer real. If you actually watch the movies. The only real thing they did is they blew up. Was it the blew up Alderaan?
Mary Morgan
Yeah.
Brett Dasovic
Or was it.
Tim Pool
Was it Alderaan?
Mary Morgan
It was all there.
Tim Pool
Yeah.
Mary Morgan
Yeah.
Tim Pool
Darth Vader's like, I'm gonna blow the planet for no reason. And it's like, what? Why? So if, like, I think you could easily remake Star wars where you could have, you know, Darth Vader, who's a disabled war veteran, resisting this, this fanatical religious zealotry that are trying to impose their religious will over a government to the point where they tried. Let's, let's, let's put this way. A religious militant sect has a high level of power in the government of the galaxy. And when they find out the Chancellor has a different religion. What did he do wrong? What did the Chancellor do wrong? There's a civil war and machinations. Okay, that's, that's. You Got to prove that in court. You got to present evidence. You can't show up to his room and just be like, kill him.
Mary Morgan
Well, the. The. The. The galaxy was. I should say, the universe was oppressed under the Jedi.
Tim Pool
It's just a galaxy, not the universe. And in the actual Star wars canon, there's other galaxies. Yeah.
Mary Morgan
So that's why I said universe.
Tim Pool
But he's not ruling. The Sith are not ruling over other galaxies.
Mary Morgan
Oh, really?
Tim Pool
Yes. So one of the old extended stories was that the Emperor was actually trying to mechanize the galaxy because an external galactic threat was coming, and there was.
Mary Morgan
A story written about it that was canning.
Tim Pool
It used to be they got rid of it. Disney was like, nah, throw it in the garbage.
Mary Morgan
Are you sure the anti alien thing is not canon?
Tim Pool
It. I think it is. Well.
Mary Morgan
Or isn't canon it.
Tim Pool
Like, they. They made this stuff after the fact because in the original Star wars, the Empire was just an empire. And then you only ever hear him say, I hate the Empire. And you're like, what did the Empire do? They blew up Alderaan. They're evil. They blew up a planet. All right, we're gonna go to the members only portion of the show, my friends@rumble.com Timcast IRL. So smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know. It's going to be fun. Make sure you use promo code TIM10 if you want to get 10 bucks off your yearly membership, you can follow me on X and Instagram at Tim Casket. Sir, would you like to shout anything out?
Mary Morgan
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Tim Pool
Right on.
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Brett Dasovic
I think we'll just let Mary sell it. That's. That's good. That's. She's. They're more likely to click on it if you tell them anyway. Okay, well, guys, if you guys want to follow me, I am on Instagram and on X at Brett Dasvik on both of those platforms. And yeah, Pop Culture Crisis. Monday through Friday, 3pm we will see.
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Timcast IRL: New DOCS PROVE Obama Hillary CONSPIRACY To SABOTAGE Trump Admin w/ Joseph Gradante - Detailed Summary
Podcast Information:
In this episode of Timcast IRL, hosted by Tim Pool, the discussion centers around newly released documents from the Durham Annex that allegedly expose a conspiracy involving former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton aimed at sabotaging the Donald Trump administration. Tim is joined by guests Mary Morgan, CEO of Alio Capital, and Brett Dasovic, who fills in for Phil.
At the opening of the show ([00:09] Tim Pool), Tim Pool introduces the central topic:
"New documents have been released and oh, boy, this one's a doozy. In the documents released from the Durham annex, it goes on to explain how Hillary Clinton approved of a plan to smear Donald Trump as being supported by the Russians." ([00:09])
These documents suggest that Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration's intelligence agencies orchestrated efforts to discredit Trump by fabricating or exaggerating claims of Russian support, primarily to divert public attention from Clinton's email scandal.
Tim Pool elaborates on how these actions were purportedly designed to tarnish Trump's reputation while obscuring Clinton's legal issues:
"They knew it was false. They knew it was exaggerated. They were going to smear Trump anyway specifically to cover up the Hillary Clinton email scandal and shift the view of the public towards Trump instead of her because she had broken the law and Comey refused to prosecute her." ([00:09])
He references additional documents released by Tulsi Gabbard that indicate Obama directly ordered these smearing tactics, further complicating the narrative.
The discussion shifts to a whistleblower account revealing internal pressures within the intelligence community to conform to these fraudulent assessments. Tim Pool highlights:
"Apparently there was a guy in the OR intel analyst who was threatened by the higher ups that he had to sign off on bad intelligence to smear Trump. Hence, this looks like a conspiracy against Trump and when he was president, his administration." ([00:09])
This account underscores the alleged extent of the conspiracy, suggesting that high-level officials, including James Clapper, were involved in enforcing these misleading intelligence reports.
Further into the episode ([03:42] Tim Pool), the conversation turns to the Pelosi Act, which aims to ban stock trading among elected officials to prevent conflicts of interest:
"They may actually ban stock trading. So we'll talk about that." ([03:42])
Senator Mitch McConnell and other Republicans initially opposed the act, but Senator Josh Hawley clarified discussions with Trump, indicating possible bipartisan support for stock trading bans. This legislative move is seen as a step towards greater transparency and accountability in government.
The guests express skepticism about the likelihood of prosecuting high-profile figures involved in the alleged conspiracy:
"No, it's nothing ever changes Gang over here." ([09:37] Brett Dasovic)
"It's like, why it's not shocking is we just keep finding out that we were right in our hunches and our conspiracy theories. And the truth eventually does come out, and I guess that's a happening, but nothing changes as a result." ([09:40] Joseph Gridante)
Tim Pool posits that even if evidence surfaces, the lack of political will and entrenched power structures may hinder any meaningful consequences:
"I saw up there mentioned the Steele dossier. So this is connected to everything that was in that intel packet." ([25:01])
"I think this might be the biggest political conspiracy or scandal in the history of this country." ([25:06] Tim Pool)
The conversation evolves into the broader implications of these revelations on the current political climate and public trust:
"They have a lot of ammunition on their side as well. But the more people become aware of what's going on, then the more people can take an active role in potentially changing the system." ([27:53] Mary Morgan)
"You are going to have a massive older population that doesn't want to work, that has no choice but to work now." ([75:08] Tim Pool)
The guests discuss the potential for generational divides, economic challenges, and the diminishing influence of traditional political accountability.
Towards the latter part of the episode, the focus shifts to tech censorship and age verification measures implemented by platforms like YouTube:
"Spotify introduces face scanning age checks for UK users as some furious fans threaten to return to piracy." ([36:00] Tim Pool)
"They are creating databases. But the point I'm making is they're not doing that. They're just saying, everybody, no matter what, needs to face scan and verify because they want your data." ([36:00] Tim Pool)
The discussion highlights concerns over privacy, data security, and the potential for these measures to pave the way for broader social credit systems, reminiscent of authoritarian models:
"We're seeing it happening in the UK. And I will tell you, they're the canary in the coalmine." ([36:00] Tim Pool)
In the closing segments, the hosts reflect on the challenges of achieving accountability within the current political and social systems:
"If something does happen, it just will feel like nothing." ([25:48] Tim Pool)
"Our culture is fractured a million ways. And you've got these sociopaths like Pelosi who won't just get out and leave." ([68:21] Tim Pool)
The episode underscores a pervasive sense of frustration and skepticism about the efficacy of exposing conspiracies without translating them into tangible change.
This episode of Timcast IRL delves deep into allegations of high-level political conspiracies aimed at undermining the Trump administration, shedding light on the complexities of political maneuvering and the challenges of achieving meaningful accountability. Coupled with discussions on emerging tech censorship trends, the episode paints a concerning picture of the current state of American politics and society.