Trump HAS DONE IT, ICE Deploys To AIRPORTS, Major Plane Crash SHUTS Airport w/ Mehek Cooke

Summary

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Timcast IRL – Episode Summary

Episode Title: Trump HAS DONE IT, ICE Deploys To AIRPORTS, Major Plane Crash SHUTS Airport w/ Mehek Cooke
Date: March 24, 2026
Host: Tim Pool
Guests: Mahek Cooke, Libby Emmons, Carter
Theme: Explosive week in American politics, immigration enforcement at airports, meritocracy, international conflict escalation with Iran, economic ramifications, and the looming implications of AI/data centers for the future of American society.

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode tackles a series of breaking news stories—Donald Trump’s hardline immigration and airport security moves, the site-shutting LaGuardia plane crash (and its wider implications for American meritocracy), the rapidly escalating US-Iran-Israel crisis, and a pointed discussion on American decline and the societal impact of AI and real estate takeovers. The Timcast team, with guest attorney/political strategist Mahek Cooke, analyze these issues from an independent, hard-nosed perspective, tying together worries about leadership, institutions, and technological disruption.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Immigration Crackdown at Airports and the ICE Deployment

• Situation: Due to a Department of Homeland Security funding lapse, TSA agents are unpaid, leading to mass call-outs and multi-hour airport waits. To address security, Trump deploys ICE agents at 14 airports ([01:30], [05:57]).
• Viral video shows an alleged illegal immigrant arrested at San Francisco International; guest discussion on public reactions and legalities ([06:33]-[09:43]).
• Mahek Cooke: “It is criminal to come in... you’re an illegal. You should be deported immediately. But I think Biden and Democrats allowed people to come in... steal from us, rob from us, kill us. And now when we’re trying to deport them, a fringe, a small minority are up in arms.” ([08:47])
• Debate on how media and TV drama “liberal fanfics” (e.g., the portrayal of ICE on TV) distort public perceptions ([10:59]-[13:57]).
• Noted that media-induced outrage does not reflect the majority’s real sentiments on law enforcement and crime ([09:48]-[10:06]).

2. LaGuardia Plane Crash: Questions of Merit and Diversity Initiatives

• Incident: A deadly crash at LaGuardia shut down the airport. ATC audio reveals a controller accidentally cleared both a truck and a plane onto the runway ([22:59]-[25:26]).
• Root causes debated—air traffic controller error, possible equipment failure, or symptomatic of wider shortages/declines in skill, ethics, and meritocracy ([23:55]-[28:13]).
• Tim Pool’s Analysis: Draws parallels to broader decline—“What we’re dealing with in this country is a degradation of skill and merit. And this is going to compound in an explosive way… It seems like the end is nigh.” ([31:43]-[32:44])
• Merits debate over the impact of “DEI” (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) hiring and the shrinking talent pipeline.

3. US-Iran-Israel Crisis: Escalation, Information Warfare & Trump’s Strategy

• Breaking News: Trump claims productive talks with Iran postponing US strikes, while Iran denies any talks and launches missiles at Israel. UK intelligence confirms Iranian missile launches, but distrust runs rampant ([47:23]-[48:17]).
• Speculation about whether Trump is negotiating with rival Iranian factions or “massaging the truth” for international and market stability ([01:30]-[04:10], [53:18]-[55:22]).
• Fears as Iran’s missile reach is potentially further than believed, and Western unity appears shaky ([47:06]-[50:25]).
• Libby Emmons: “You can’t be entirely transparent with the American people without being entirely transparent to the world. And that’s probably not the best thing to be…” ([54:37])
• Military build-up: Thousands of US Marines deploying to the region as an Iran deadline approaches ([60:14]-[61:10]).
• War support vs. public skepticism, and the economic/market implications of both Trump’s statements and escalation ([62:10]-[63:42]).
• On Trump's leadership: “Trump understands people respond to reward…What he does is he drives oil prices back down with a successful operation, and he explains to the American people why this operation resulted in more money in your pocket.” —Carter ([66:47])

4. The Decline of American Institutions: Merit, Demographics, and AI

• Societal worries: Massive decline in population growth, the erosion of competence, and collapse of complex systems ([32:44]-[35:37]).
• “You don’t have young people either. So I would only say, perhaps a bit pessimistic, but it seems like the end is nigh.” —Tim ([32:44])
• Bill Maher’s “I’m with Trump” remark signals a new political realignment even among liberals, as isolationist and pro-Trump opinion solidifies around “America First” vs. “share power” debate ([34:31]-[36:10]).
• AI/data center “land grab” in America: Properties being quietly acquired for AI-driven infrastructure, overwhelming local economies and possibly leading to “Elysium/Hunger Games”-style bifurcation of society ([86:14]-[90:36]).
• Jobs lost to automation & data centers, regular citizens outbid for land, rise of a propertyless underclass ([92:10]-[94:30]).
• Libby Emmons: “Certainly the stuff that’s happening in Maryland... they’re not building power plants... the AI data center is not prevented from buying up all the housing and just tearing it down…We then still have the same problems with expensive housing.” ([108:42])

5. Media Fragmentation, Feminization of News, and Shift to Decentralization

• Observations about the changing news landscape: more “storytelling” (accused of feminization), clickbait, and attention-deficit reporting ([20:00]-[22:32]).
• Decrease in legacy network news, rise of podcasts, but even these now being swamped by AI-generated content ([87:52]-[90:36]).

6. Cultural Decline, Demography, and Elite Wealth

• Demographic collapse as the ultimate cause of American decline—"Without people, the country cannot survive or compete” ([32:44]-[41:41]).
• Andrew Tate’s take on wealth summed up: “If you know how much money you have, you’re poor.” ([90:36])
• Tech and data industries, not foreign buyers, fueling the land rush; “the AI itself is buying the land” ([93:29]-[95:30]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "It's the feminization of news. Women want the story to be told... That's why they want 50 shades of gray. Guys want to just be told." —Tim Pool ([21:27])
• “But I think Biden and Democrats allowed people to come in, live off our food, our system ... and now when we’re trying to deport them, people are up in arms. What most Americans want—this is why Trump is in office—we want deportations.” —Mahek Cooke ([08:47])
• "We are looking at a time bomb due to the population collapse that cannot be salvaged... it seems like the end is nigh." —Tim Pool ([32:44])
• “It’s going to be like Elysium… If you know how much money you have, then you are poor.” —Andrew Tate via Tim Pool ([90:36])
• “No, we go in when we have an interest and we’ll use people being killed as our excuse.” —Tim Pool on foreign wars ([69:47])
• “The big question I have for all of these people is, what are they doing generally?” —Tim, discussing the motives of elite negotiators and whether anything is real ([68:11])
• “Their (Iran’s) underground warfare is insane. They’re good at it, clearly.” —Mahek Cooke ([111:44])
• On ICE enforcement: “This country has serious problems when you have a large portion of its people who are on the side of criminals.” —Tim Pool ([08:36])
• “Data centers have infinite... Oh, I mean it's probably the AI itself. Right.” - Tim Pool ([93:29])
• “Mom and pop data center! This country is just falling apart, man.” —Carter joking about community change ([101:54])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• ICE Deployed to Airports & Viral Arrest – [01:30]-[09:43]
• Media/Fiction Distorting ICE Perception – [10:59]-[13:57]
• LaGuardia Plane Crash and Meritocracy Concerns – [22:59]-[32:44]
• Political Realignment: Maher, Trump, Tucker – [34:31]-[36:10]
• Iran-Israel Missiles, US Troop Deployments – [47:23]-[61:10]
• AI/data center Land Grabs, Societal Impact – [86:14]-[94:30]
• Market Manipulation, Insider Trading Stories – [74:12]-[78:13]
• Viewer Questions & Light-hearted End – [109:15] onward

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Tone & Style

The discussion is uncensored, sarcastic, often darkly humorous, and skeptical of mainstream narratives. Tongue-in-cheek comments (“We need nuclear war to go back to 1994,” “Everything is fake and gay,” “Mom and pop data center!”) highlight both the hosts’ deep cynicism and engagement with current events.

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Conclusion

This episode reflects both momentous news and deeper cultural anxiety: political institutions under strain, social trust fraying, demographic peril, economic and technological transformation—paired with continually escalating global risks. Trump’s aggressive moves, the fragility or collapse of systems (from airports to population), and the “unseen hand” of both AI and financial elites shape a portrait of an American future in flux. Through it all, the Timcast team maintains a critical (often irreverent) lens—questioning not only what’s happening, but why, and what anyone can really do about it.

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Transcript

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[Tim Pool]

The airports are absolutely insane right now. There's some airports with a three hour wait time because the TSA agents have not yet been paid. There are videos showing a line going all the way into the parking garage and wrapping around going up several levels. It is absolutely insane for this, Donald Trump has dispatched ICE agents into these airports and there are videos of of illegal immigrants being arrested in airports. Now I says that was actually before the formal deployment, but they were still in the airport. And Trump is saying he will not consider any funding or anything until the SAVE act is passed. Massive and crazy news at these airports. We also have this major airplane crash at LaGuardia shutting, shutting it down, which brings up questions of the crisis of merit in this country. And this ties into the mass migration story with ICE at these airports, H1B and all that. And then the really crazy story Donald Trump said this morning that he had great talks with the country of Iran. So he was postponing strikes on their energy infrastructure. Iran then denied it, saying we never talked to him about anything. And then Iran launched a bunch of missiles targeting Israel and seems like there's no peace talks. Many people are saying Trump is is lying. They believe Iran over Trump. I'm wondering if Iran is just doing this to make Trump look bad or if Trump is trying to protect the markets by let's just call it. I'm being very nice here, massaging the truth. Who is he really talking to? Some are, some are suggesting it's because Trump is trying to negotiate with a rival faction who would take over and the IRGC is not the the people he's been in communication with. So you don't know for sure, but we'll get into all that. And then of course, one of my favorite stories, Bill Maher says he's with Trump. Indeed, the man of Ultimate Trump derangement syndrome said if it comes down to Tucker or, you know, Megyn Kelly, he's with Donald Trump on this as it pertains to the war with Iran, which is creating a very interesting political bifurcation to say the least. There are many, many other stories. Owner of OnlyFans is dead and conservatives are celebrating. So we'll get to all that before we do get a great sponsor for you, my friends, it is PDS debt.com timcast. You see the headlines, read the stories. Then the impact shows up in your own numbers. Balances rising, Fees piling up. That's what it's time for. PDS Debt Minimum payments are designed to stretch debt out for years and PDS debt has already helped hundreds of thousands reduce what they owe and take back control. Whether you're struggling with credit cards, personal loans or or medical bills, PDS debt has custom options to help you get out of debt. They go beyond the numbers to understand your unique financial situation and craft a personalized plan designed just for you. There's no minimum credit score required. They're here to help you save more, pay off your debt faster and start putting money back where it belongs in your pocket. PDS Debt is A plus rated by the Better Business Bureau, boasts thousands of five star reviews on Google and holds a five star rating on trustpilot. Why? Because PDS has helped hundreds of thousands of people get out of debt. Every month you wait costs you more in interest and fees. The best time to start was yesterday. The second best time is right now, when the numbers are clear. Act take back control in 30 seconds. Get your free personalized assessment and the best option for [e-mail] Timcast One more time. That is PDS debt.com Timcast but don't forget, my friends, you gotta smash that like button right now. Share this show right now, everywhere. You can take that URL, just blast it all over the Internet. If you really do like what we do, that helps a lot. Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more, we've got Mahek Cook. Who are you? What do you do?

[Mahek Cook]

I'm an attorney and a political strategist. Appear on Fox News and several other networks just expressing my personal commentary and defending. A lot of times just common sense. It's not Republican or Democrat for me. It's just what's common sense today, which is reality that most mainstream media doesn't like to really talk about.

[Tim Pool]

That's true. And before the show, you were agreeing with me on my assessment about poker and Pokemon, which means you're right about everything.

[Mahek Cook]

Absolutely.

[Tim Pool]

We're going. It's gonna be a great show. Thanks for hanging out. Should be fun. Libby, of course, is here.

[Libby Emmons]

I'm Libby Emmons. Glad to be here. I'm the host of the Pod Millennial, which you can check out our latest episode. Just it drops tomorrow, but it's out on YouTube. So after Tim cast, you should scoot on over and listen to that. It's with Mary Morgan of Pop culture [e-mail] right on.

[Tim Pool]

Carter is producing and Tate, of course, is hanging out.

[Carter]

What's going on, Patriots?

[Tim Pool]

We're gonna jump into this news. We've got it from cnn. Mike, my friends, ICE officers deploy to some airports as TSA call outs worsen. They say Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been deployed to 14 airports today to help during the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. The Transportation Security Administration has faced growing call outs from officers who have gone without pay since DHS funding lapse in February. Well, my friends, we've got this video that's going viral of a, of an illegal immigrant being arrested at an airport. An alleged illegal immigrant. I don't know this woman is. But check this video out. Leave her alone.

[Carter]

What are you doing?

[Tim Pool]

It's pretty obvious what they're doing. They are arresting someone.

[Mahek Cook]

What the hell are you doing?

[Tim Pool]

I hope you're so proud of yourselves. You. You're on video now too. Yeah. Shame on you, you un American pieces of you. I'm just imagining like all of these instances where ICE is arresting people. Like, I don't know what this lady's done or whatever. But you've got criminals and, like, pedophiles, and they're screaming like, are you proud of what you're doing? And they're like, yes, this person raped children. Like, what? So here's what this tweet says. Says additional raw footage from a new angle. This woman is a US Citizen traveling with her younger daughter, according to witnesses who filmed the video. And they would know right then, of course. DHS says this arrest of illegal aliens occurred yesterday on March 22, before ICE officers were deployed to airports to bolster TSA efforts. ICE officers arrested Angelina Lopez Jimenez and Wendy Gadenz Lopez at the San Francisco International Airport. These illegal aliens had a final removal order of. A final removal. Order of removal. Is that what it's called from an immigration. It's a removal. Order of removal, yes.

[Mahek Cook]

Final order of removal.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, I know. But it says final removal order of removal. I was redundant.

[Mahek Cook]

Redundant there, yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Since 2019, they say. While being escorted to the international terminal for processing, Lopez Jimena has attempted to flee and resisted law enforcement officers. ISIS working as quickly as possible to repatriate the family unit to their home country of Guatemala. How nice. I mean, that's just such. So nice. Such. The American legal. You come into our country illegally, you break our laws, and we say, hey, we're going to give you a ride home and reunite with your family.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, and if you go by yourself, if you go on your own, you get a free flight and $2,600.

[Tim Pool]

That's crazy. I know.

[Carter]

I wish you could, like, self deport to, like, another state. Just deport home. Also, like, if you're at an airport and you see someone getting arrested, usually your first impulse is like, wow, that was a close one. Like, thank heavens. But since it's ICE agents, suddenly it's like the worst thing ever. If someone's getting arrested at the airport,

[Libby Emmons]

I now know why they wear masks.

[Carter]

Yeah. For real.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. But this country has serious problems when you have a large portion of its people who are on the side of criminals. I mean, it's.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, we had a large.

[Mahek Cook]

Is it a large portion? I think it's a small portion. And I think we spent four years allowing this theory that when people come in. Cnn. Abby Phillips said it. She literally said, when people come in, it's not a criminal act. Yes, it is. It is criminal to come in. You're an illegal. You should be deported immediately. But I think Biden and Democrats allowed people to come in. Live off of our food, our system Our welfare, everything. Steal from us, rob from us, kill us. And now when we're trying to deport them, people are a fringe. A small minority are up in arms. What most Americans want. This is why Trump is in office. We want deportations. Yep. So I just think it's a small minority online and in mainstream media that's lying. Because more often when I see somebody getting arrested, I'm like, my God, what did they do? And thank God for the police.

[Carter]

Yeah, I'm really trying to get the tea, so to speak. I'm like, what do you do?

[Mahek Cook]

Exactly.

[Carter]

This was she from.

[Tim Pool]

I mean, you have at least enough people for this to happen spontaneously. This was not a coordinated protest. This is. It's San Francisco.

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

They're like, I. Have you seen that? The show, the pit clip that's going viral? Should we. Should we. Should we. Should we pull that one up where it's go by.

[Libby Emmons]

But I didn't watch it.

[Tim Pool]

They like. What are these shows? Like the. Was it like the Good Wife or

[Libby Emmons]

something with Juliana Margulies?

[Tim Pool]

Is that the one where it's like super woke court drama?

[Mahek Cook]

Yes.

[Tim Pool]

Let me pull this. This clip up and we'll throw it in the mix. Wait, wait, wait. This one's too short. There's a longer one. Wu Tang for kids. Here we go. We need a broader. Except the clip. Let's. Let's play it for you guys. This is fictional television, apparently. Hold on.

[Mahek Cook]

She needs to sleep.

[Tim Pool]

This will only take a minute. We're leaving. Hey, man, you're hurting her. Jesus Christ. What's going on now?

[Mahek Cook]

Robbie,

[Tim Pool]

you can't do this. Quit doing. What the heck is going on?

[Mahek Cook]

Heard her and Jesse stepped in.

[Libby Emmons]

I mean, I didn't do shit.

[Tim Pool]

I know, I know. I mean, no, we gotta go. No, come on, come on. Don't say anything. You don't have to say anything. They can't make you say anything. We'll get you an attorney, I promise. We'll get you out. Call the hospital. Attorney again.

[Mahek Cook]

Can't believe this shit.

[Tim Pool]

You at least tell us where you're taking them. Is there a detention center near Pittsburgh? That's got to be where they're going, right?

[Mahek Cook]

Could be hours before he's processed.

[Tim Pool]

I'll stay on it. Hold on. This is what warps the brains of liberals.

[Libby Emmons]

Odd, that is.

[Tim Pool]

The ICE agents are masked. They don't say anything. They're all evil. They're hurting the poor innocent woman with a broken arm, and then they arrest the guy for no reason. That's the world they live in that's what. So they watch TV shows, they base their reality in the TV show and they go out and scream at cops, arresting criminals.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, because people go to graduate school to write TV shows and then they go to LA right away. They haven't lived any lives. They watch other TV shows, then they regurgitate those TV shows onto still more TV shows that apparently people then watch. Who even watches this? I mean, could you imagine sitting down and watching an hour of this nonsense?

[Carter]

It's all like libtard fanfics. They used to do the thing where it'd be like this racist chud would drop the N word in a coffee shop. That's a thing that happens. It's literally all. It's literally all like liptart fanfics. Like it's literally, you know, it's wattpad, but for graduate students, like, it's really the most egregious stuff and people sign checks for it. That's the most.

[Tim Pool]

Maybe, maybe the issue is that we need to start making our own tongue in cheek version of these things.

[Carter]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tim Pool]

So, yeah, I've been saying for a while we need to hire a film producer here so we can do these bits. I'd love to make a scene where like the illegal immigrant is asking for her arm to be fixed, but then just like pulls out a gun and starts shooting people randomly, literally. And like, oh, no, help. Where's I? She's killing people for no reason.

[Libby Emmons]

This is exactly what you're talking about, is exactly what is needed. That's. I'm serious. Like there should be.

[Tim Pool]

But they would believe.

[Libby Emmons]

They should be.

[Tim Pool]

Like, the liberals would think it's a serious show. They'd be like, this is what conservatives actually believe.

[Carter]

And a lot of this.

[Libby Emmons]

But you, you know, so you have like fun opening credits.

[Tim Pool]

And then, you know what you do is you have like an illegal immigrant coming with a broken arm. And then when they're like tending to him, he just gets up, bolts full speed towards a little kid, picks the kid up, he just runs out, the door is gone. And they're like, oh no.

[Carter]

That probably. It's probably happened already. Also, like a lot of this stuff. Me and Tim have talked about this at length and it's like very explicit detail. A lot of this kind of stuff is like goonbait for women, like with the ice agents and like the bait. It's a thing. That's the thing. And they come in, they're like really tough guys.

[Tim Pool]

They're like, sit down, woman, know your place. She's like, oh my gosh. Wow. Well, I've talked about it quite a bit. There was that viral Reddit post where this, it was like on two X chromosomes, which is, it's funny. Like, the new Reddit CEO Ellen Powell at the time forced it onto the default page. So it's like feminism page. But there was a post where it was this woman being like, I feel guilty that I get all hot and bothered for Big Maga men. And she talked about how, like, she fantasizes about like a 6 foot 3 guy chiseled with a mega hat on, just like taking her right? And just like having his way with her. And she's like, she loves it, but she feels guilty about it. Like, why are you telling people this?

[Carter]

Yeah, I don't know if there's like a right wing analog like, oh, I really wish Rachel Maddow was just screaming at me, right? Like, it's not really.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, no, Rachel, keep the glasses on, Rachel. Don't debate me. No, I mean, she's lying.

[Carter]

But I'll take.

[Tim Pool]

Scold me, Rachel, scold me.

[Libby Emmons]

I don't know. I mean, there's of course the powerful men that go to the dominatrix is to be abused.

[Carter]

Are they right?

[Tim Pool]

And I guarantee you a lot of

[Libby Emmons]

them are right wing for sure.

[Tim Pool]

I guarantee you this. There is some rich guy out there who makes his dominatrix dress up like Rachel Maddow to beat him.

[Libby Emmons]

I'm sure there is.

[Carter]

Let's not. Okay, guys? And what's wrong with that blazer?

[Libby Emmons]

You know, she just wears the blazer with no blouse. Yeah, I hate that look with the glasses. Like, just put on a wig, put on a shirt.

[Carter]

Remember that Sally Cohn lady? She did the same look. Whatever happened to her, I don't know who that is. Sally K O H N. She used

[Libby Emmons]

to be all over blonde.

[Carter]

She had the same boy haircut, blazer. It was like the same thing.

[Libby Emmons]

Nothing.

[Carter]

Got nothing at a wallet.

[Libby Emmons]

Oh, I'm thinking of Sally Jesse Raphael.

[Carter]

Yeah, No, I, I saw her on the timeline and it was, I remember

[Tim Pool]

her back in the day, the 90s. Like, I was just, I was just talking. We talked about this last week, but I was talking to my wife about it again. That 1994 is the greatest year in the history of humanity.

[Libby Emmons]

Really.

[Tim Pool]

It is just like, name every album that came out in 1994. And it was because I can't remember what we were citing. I was, I was like, well, Star Trek the last season. But something happened where it was like, oh, that was 1994. And then I said that was the greatest year of mankind. And then we started naming all of the albums that came out. It's like every. Every 90s song ever. Yeah. And then for no reason I brought up that Netflix is older than Google, which most people don't know. But it's true.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, it is true. I had Netflix from the very beginning and I loved it. I would like. You know I did too.

[Mahek Cook]

And then I canceled it of my

[Tim Pool]

disc back when it was dvd.

[Mahek Cook]

Yeah. Oh yeah. I'd go and get it from like a giant eagle or somewhere and you have a Dropbox And I mean 1994.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah. But it was.

[Carter]

They send you a roll of film

[Tim Pool]

because they had red box.

[Mahek Cook]

Oh, it's red box.

[Tim Pool]

Red box.

[Mahek Cook]

It's red box.

[Tim Pool]

Those are gone. Remember red box?

[Mahek Cook]

Yes, it was red box. Then mail in.

[Libby Emmons]

And like you, they'd just send you more.

[Mahek Cook]

No, but you have to mail it in.

[Tim Pool]

I love red box. Red box.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Go to 7 11. There's a big red box and you just swipe your card and it gives you the movie.

[Mahek Cook]

Do you remember Blockbuster?

[Tim Pool]

Of course.

[Mahek Cook]

That was the best.

[Tim Pool]

That's what I'm saying.

[Mahek Cook]

Everything went downhill.

[Tim Pool]

Everything went downhill after Block did Hollywood video 2. Yeah. Where I came from. And they had the video game section and everything was perfect. You had. You had book it with Pizza Hut. I think we need nuclear war. I am hoping that Iran launches missiles in every direction. We retaliate with nukes. China then fires nukes. All of our grid communications are wiped out and we are forced to Revert back to 1994.

[Libby Emmons]

But we wouldn't go because the only way out is through. So we'd end up with even stupider stuff than now.

[Tim Pool]

I'm just saying like technology is obliterated only to the point where we have to live. Like it's 1994. Like we know cell phones exist but the infrastructure is gone and the Internet's largely gone. So we have this weak dial up Internet from the old.

[Libby Emmons]

You know what would be amazing would be getting back some of the old. The old news cycles where it's like one story for like a whole week.

[Mahek Cook]

We'd have nothing to.

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[Tim Pool]

The days. Right.

[Mahek Cook]

That sounds like the Biden administration though.

[Libby Emmons]

Keep digging. You just keep. Well, the, the switch, like as doing news. Like the switch from the Biden Trump administration to the Biden administration non stop. It was shocking. And then like suddenly Biden were like, wait, the news is over at 6pm we're done. Like, there's no news.

[Mahek Cook]

You didn't have anything to talk about. And the same, the same analysis actually kept me for like a week to a week and a half because nothing changed. And then President Trump comes in and I don't think I'm getting sleep. He doesn't sleep, but I am literally researching the things he's doing just to keep up with his administration.

[Libby Emmons]

As soon as he came into office, like it was the first week and I had a staff meeting and I was like, okay guys, we're working overtime. Stories are going to be shorter because we need more of them.

[Carter]

Politics just seems so boring. Howard Dean just like screamed weird and he had to like retire.

[Libby Emmons]

That was so funny.

[Carter]

Like, what was going on?

[Libby Emmons]

He had a wild yawp.

[Tim Pool]

Did you guys see the Variety article that was insulting Chuck Norris?

[Libby Emmons]

No.

[Tim Pool]

It was, it was titled Chuck Norris, Action Movie star. But His Politics may muddy his Legacy or whatever. And it went viral because people were like, look how they treat Rob Reiner. Look how they treat Chuck Norris. Because he was a conservative. The article was mostly just a fluff piece. At the very end, it briefly mentions his movies were largely, largely pro American propaganda. And that's all it really says. But the reason they titled it this way is because we are in, we're in an age of 50,000 news websites all competing for you to click on them. And you have no reason to click on them when Chuck Norris died. Rest in peace, legend Everyone instantly knew you just needed X. You didn't need anything else.

[Mahek Cook]

Right.

[Tim Pool]

So how do you function as a news outlet then? You have to write something people will click on.

[Libby Emmons]

Dude. It's not easy. It's actually very not easy.

[Mahek Cook]

No, I believe it. We. We have an attention span of, like, goldfish. Like, it's 10 seconds, and then you're moving on to the next thing. Unless you're really interested in the news and politics.

[Carter]

The New York Post has cracked the code. There's like, I told. I think he was gay.

[Tim Pool]

They just.

[Carter]

They just.

[Tim Pool]

Well, but grenade.

[Carter]

I was like, what? That's okay.

[Tim Pool]

But they didn't make that up. That's actually.

[Carter]

Well, it's just great.

[Tim Pool]

But they didn't make it up. So I'm not going to give New York Post credit for saying he's gay. Everybody was gay at the same time they were saying he was gay in 1992.

[Carter]

Because the new York Post just like, they throw stuff out and they're like. And you're like, all right, I respect.

[Tim Pool]

Well, it's funny, I remember there was, like, a big shift where Daily Mail. It used to be that it was all, like, heavy news and cultural issues, and now it's a whole lot of women's content. Yeah. I think guys are. Their brains are fried. And, you know, I think women's content just generates more money because women are. They're satisfied by different kinds of news. And I think women largely like to not be informed. I'm not saying they don't read the news. I'm saying women like news stories that leave on a cliffhanger that don't tell you what's going to happen. And guys just are like, tell me what happened and shut up. So you'll notice that as journalism has become increasingly more female, you're getting a lot of news articles that instead of saying something like, today, Donald Trump met at the Oval Office with, you know, ufc, blah, blah, blah, blah. It'll start with, it was a crisp Sunday morning. The clouds were breaking. A dog barks. I take a look, and through my window I see him. The man everyone questions, Donald Trump. And I'm going, what is this?

[Libby Emmons]

It's the NPR effication of all news media.

[Mahek Cook]

Yes.

[Tim Pool]

It's the. It's the feminization of news. Well, women want the story to be told because I think that's not true.

[Libby Emmons]

Who actually wants that? Because it's horrible to read it.

[Tim Pool]

This is why they want 50 shades of gray. Guys want to just be told.

[Mahek Cook]

I don't think all Women want that.

[Tim Pool]

I think not all women.

[Mahek Cook]

I think some women do. I think most women, that's why they

[Tim Pool]

watch Candace Owens, watch true crime podcasts.

[Mahek Cook]

True.

[Tim Pool]

But I think that's why all the Erica Kirk content is dominated by female viewership. Fact. Check it out.

[Mahek Cook]

Well, that's just sick. That's just. You know what, women on women are the worst criminals in terms of supporting each other and things like that. So what they're doing to Erica Kirk is just trash. And most women are looking at it, wondering. Half of us are wondering what the heck's going on and the other half are just vile and malicious, in my opinion.

[Tim Pool]

If you look at like 50 shades of gray, they say it's that women like to read and imagine, whereas men like to be told straight up. So with news, the guy wants the video that says, here's what happened, here's what I think. And the women want the content that's like drawn out slow and leaves you with limited information. So it ends with we don't really know what even happened.

[Libby Emmons]

I hate that, frankly.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, I hate. That's why you're here on this show.

[Libby Emmons]

That's why I'm on this show. But I will say that things I prefer to news include like fashion content. Yeah, I like looking at dresses. There's this kid who's 10 who's making dresses and they're cool and I'm like, wow, how come this 10 year old kid is the best dressmaker in the world right now? Everything else is garbage.

[Carter]

It's a very salient question. I like dogs.

[Libby Emmons]

There was a dog lost. That's totally pointless.

[Tim Pool]

Let's, let's jump to this next story. This is a big one. Deadly plane collision at LaGuardia Airport. What we know the first question. Take a look at this image. It's absolutely insane. The audio went massively viral as the air traffic controller is saying like, truck move, turn, turn, turn. And then bang. And so immediately this plays into a question, which it may not need to, but people have been for some time warning about air traffic controllers. One because there's a shortage, but also because of H1B and D I initiatives. And so this jumps way back to even Charlie Kirk making that. That point about he said if he got into a plane and saw a black pilot, he's questioning if that pilot is qualified. The left attacked him, saying he was racist for doing so. But the point he was making is the left is putting people based on ideology in positions of authority without the. The skill required to do it. So how does something like this happen. Shutting down the whole airport. Libby, what happened?

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, so we were tracking this today at the Post Millennial, and it looks like what happened is the air traffic controller gave access to a Runway to both a truck and a plane at the same time, only realizing too late that that's what he was doing. And he kept telling the truck to stop, and it didn't. It didn't stop. I don't know.

[Tim Pool]

That's so weird.

[Libby Emmons]

Why it didn't stop?

[Tim Pool]

He's like, stop, stop.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, he's like, stop, stop. And then passengers that were on board the Air Canada flight were saying that the pilots were trying to pull and it didn't work. But that's probably why the. You know, it's so high up. Like, apparently they were trying to pull the brakes and that didn't work. A flight attendant was wearing in a jump seat, was ejected from the plane entirely. She.

[Tim Pool]

I've got, I've got. Let's play the audio.

[Libby Emmons]

Should listen to the audio.

[Tim Pool]

Listen to the audio. It's about a minute long. Truck 1 Co. Tower requesting to cross

[Carter]

4 at Delta 1.

[Tim Pool]

Company. Cross for Delta.

[Carter]

Truck 1 Co.

[Tim Pool]

Crossing for Adela Frontier. 4195. Just stop there, please. Stop. Stop, stop. Stop. Truck 1, stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Truck 1, Stop.

[Carter]

Stop.

[Tim Pool]

Truck one, stop. Del 2603, go around Runway heading 2646. Jet 646, I see you collide with a vehicle here. Just hold position.

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[Tim Pool]

The vehicle's ever responding to you. Now is the Runway closed? Delta 2603, go around Runway heading 2000. Runway heading 2000. Go around Delta 2603. Wow.

[Carter]

Truck number two, Runway four is closed, correct?

[Tim Pool]

Yes. Go on to Runway four. Now proceed on Runway four. You have access. Tower car nine zero, Runway 422 is

[Carter]

closed at the time.

[Tim Pool]

Nine zero. Roger.

[Libby Emmons]

Rewired your tower.

[Tim Pool]

Vehicle 98. 90 98. Vehicle nine eight, vehicle 98, please show

[Libby Emmons]

at this time Runway 422 is closed. I repeat, Runway 422 is closed at this time.

[Tim Pool]

Tower car 90, LaGuardia Airport is closed at this time. Wow. LaGuardia Airport is closed at this time.

[Libby Emmons]

Closed until noon, apparently. But at a certain point in that. In that audio, you can hear the air traffic controller say that he messed up. So you can hear him and like the longer audio.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, in the longer audio, yes, to be fair, he did say, truck one, stop, stop. And they would not respond.

[Libby Emmons]

He would not respond. And he said we were dealing with an emergency earlier and I messed up. And another pilot responded, no, you did the best that you could. So it's a tough situation. But, God, I don't know how you go back to work after that. Like, I would feel like, how do you do that?

[Tim Pool]

My immediate assumption is that, like the truck, it was a fire truck. They don't just go off communications. I'm wondering if something happened. Like he's adjusting something. He's driving forward, thinks he's clear, adjusting an earpiece or the radio or something happens because I don't understand how he lost communication. So how do you work in an airplane?

[Libby Emmons]

How do you not see that plane?

[Carter]

Right.

[Tim Pool]

That's why I'm like, I don't know if it's the controller's fault. I. I used to work at o'. Hare. We had a radio at all times and I used to cross runways for refueling and things like that. You're on the radio. There's no not being on the radio. I mean, unless the radio died right at that moment, something doesn't make sense.

[Carter]

And I would assume your head's also on a swivel the entire time.

[Mahek Cook]

Yeah.

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Mahek Cook]

Well, my father in law drives or flies planes and literally he's talking to air traffic control and every 10 seconds and he's still looking right and left even after clearance. It's terrifying. You are constantly asking, you're repeating, you're confirming what they're saying. So for this to happen is just shocking.

[Carter]

Take tiny airport.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, Take a look at this picture right here. I want you guys to take a look at a couple of things. It has been 20 years since I worked at airport, so I'm not going to be able to go over all these things. But you can see here, like in the back, you got the E and then CC with an arrow. These are airport traffic signs everywhere. And it's an entirely different traffic system. You have to learn to work on the tarmac at the airport. So when I got hired, they made us study, learn, and take a test to prove we knew how to handle these things. And there is a protocol for all of this. I used to do de icing, which is if you guys ever been in a plane and the truck comes, absolutely. It's the best.

[Libby Emmons]

And you did that in Chicago.

[Tim Pool]

In Chicago. And it's the best job because it doesn't snow that often that heavy. So when you are a de icer, you're mostly just playing Xbox all day. That's what we were doing. But then when it does snow, you're out fully decked out in gear in a cherry picker just with this gigantic hose blasting planes. You have to drive that truck to refuel because you're going non stop back and forth because you've got to. I don't understand how this happened because I've driven these trucks. I have been in, I've been in the passenger seat with people driving these trucks. I, this, this blows my mind. This absolutely blows my mind. I don't know how the, like the, the guy driving the fire truck turned his radio for the battery died. I, that's the only thing I can

[Mahek Cook]

imagine adjusting his ear.

[Tim Pool]

But we didn't have earpieces when. So I don't, I'm just trying to make up scenarios. We had just a regular radio on our chest, right. And you'd press the button and say, all right, we're pulling in refueling, things like that. And you'd hear them on the radio. I, I do not understand how this is possible. Really.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, I mean, there have been other issues at LaGuardia in the past few years. Two planes collided on LaGuardia tarmac in the fall in November. Delta jets collided on the LaGuardia Runway in October. So I mean, that's, you know, that's recent problems with LaGuardia. And it does look like the complex, like I keep thinking about with airports. It's the collapse of complex systems. Like how soon before we just shouldn't be flying? I keep wondering, like, should I not be airplane airlines?

[Carter]

It's not like ATC has like a uniquely like a unique staffing issue. It's like across the board, everyone in America, everything is getting worse. But it's just the margin for error is unbelievably low.

[Tim Pool]

It is down to one factor that is causing all of society's problems and unit is what? The dysfunction of sexual relationships.

[Carter]

So true.

[Tim Pool]

There was this post I saw, and I'm not joking, but let me elaborate, that was talking about how societies begin to collapse. When you look at them historically, this, there's like, this is academic research. You can look into it, maybe it's right, but it's, it's, you know, an assessment by academic that when sex becomes cheap and available or disrupted, then what happens is you either get listless young men who go insane or you get guys who don't strive towards merit. And so you take a look at societies where they had strict cultural enforcement on relationships, whatever that might have been, a degree of difficulty that resulted in stability. And then when you get societies after a couple generations that go debaucherous and just free and open sex. Guys don't care anymore.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, like the uk. The uk, the young, the whole young man thing in the UK is like a lot of people on government welfare, you know.

[Mahek Cook]

Yeah, sort of.

[Libby Emmons]

There's no relationship.

[Tim Pool]

There's no reason because either it's inaccessible to like the weaker incel males who have no social abilities and then the, the like higher tier, like alpha chad guys who are just naturally attractive don't have to do anything.

[Libby Emmons]

Right.

[Tim Pool]

Because women give it up for free.

[Libby Emmons]

And then in Rome this happened as well. Like the relationship started to decline. There was excessive ambuscity in Rome.

[Tim Pool]

And so now you have people who take jobs but they half ass everything they do the bare minimum because they don't need to do anything to get well.

[Mahek Cook]

We allowed it. Well, we've allowed that too, but we've allowed it in at least airports in terms of how we're filtering and the security and who we were hiring the last four years. President Trump came in and changed that. And your note about men, I mean I just blame that on apps. I mean the second you have availability in women, then it makes everything just

[Tim Pool]

go downhill and then you know, to be fair, everything's reductive. You can go back and consistently find the trends that resulted in this very moment. But I, I'm somewhat, it's somewhat facetiously that I'd bring that up. What we're dealing with in this country is a degradation of skill and merit. And this is going to compound in an explosive way that I do not believe Donald Trump can fix. I believe that we are looking at a time bomb due to the, the population collapse that cannot be salvaged. And so it's turning into a loss of merit. The, the story people point to is that the Apollo landings, the average age was 24 at, in the command center and today NASA, it's like the average age is like 45. We don't have talented young people coming in and taking over this critical infrastructure and we don't have young people either. So I would only say perhaps a bit pessimistic, but it seems like the end is nigh.

[Libby Emmons]

It does. I think there are definitely concerns with the population situation. I think that a lot of people are saying we're past the point of no return with that. Yeah, well, I mean it's just total, it's just going to be collapse and then you start to wonder, you know, what happens to your children, what happens to the future of the civilization. It takes, is it going to decline? And then there'll be some new civilization on earth, you know, getting to the

[Carter]

end at least 60 years to recover the population to what it is now. As in the population is declining because the birth rate went negative in 1980.

[Libby Emmons]

Right.

[Carter]

It would take 60 years.

[Libby Emmons]

You know what I find?

[Tim Pool]

That's not possible.

[Carter]

Yeah, it's really not possible.

[Tim Pool]

I want to pull up this video clip from Bill Maher's show. This is Bill Maher addressing Joe Kent. Tucker Carlson. This break on the right and in the most shocking of statements, probably the most shocking thing I've ever heard in my life, Bill Maher says, I'm with Trump and I almost had a seizure when I heard him say that. I was trying to wake myself. How is it possible that Bill Maher was such a thing? But what I'm gonna do for you guys is actually connect the dots from what Bill Maher is saying about Tucker into what Tucker is saying about the world into how population decline means the end of this country. Trust me, it is all connected. But let's start here with the prominent political commentator explaining how he feels about Tucker, Joe Kent and Trump. You have now this guy Joe Kent. He quit this week. It was a big story. I think he was the counterintelligence guy and he said, I can't go along with this because you know what? He's been listening to too much Tucker Carlson. It's, you know, the Jews made us do it. It's just another version of anti Semitism that comes out. First it was bds, then it was their colonizers and genocide, which it was.

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[Tim Pool]

All these other reasons, like you can't have a state in the world that's based on religion, even though there's like

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[Tim Pool]

But whatever it is, you have all these. And now the big answer is no. Israel made us do it. We're Israel's bitch.

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[Tim Pool]

I think we're Israel's ally. But you know, if I have to be on one side of this MAGA thing, either Trump or Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes, I'll be with Trump on this one. They're clapping for him. That's the other side of Bill Maher. Audiences clapping for him, saying, I'm going to be with Trump.

[Libby Emmons]

That's crazy.

[Tim Pool]

Realignment is crazy. But while I certainly disagree with a portion of what Bill Maher is saying, when he was like, Joe Kent's criticism is the Jews did it, it's a little heavy handed in the other direction. You're allowed to criticize Israel as a country. You're allowed to criticize their pressure on the United States, AIPAC and their campaign. That's politics. That's allowed. And Bill Maher, I believe, is misconstruing what Joe Kent said because he didn't blame the Jews. That being said, Tucker Carlson said something interesting that is also going viral. And I'll play for you this clip. We can no longer be the sole author of terms of commerce of anything. We have to share power with China, of course, because of their scale. This video has gone massively viral. 2.3 million views on just this one clip alone. And there's an additional interview with Tucker and a Chinese professor, or they say he's a Chinese professor. Where? Well, he's literally Chinese. I don't know if he's Chinese nationally, but he's ethnically saying that it's time for the US to come together with other partner countries to negotiate the distribution of power. And so in combining these two things, you have these two worldviews. Bill Maher represents the boomers. They're very pro Israel, they're very pro America, very pro, you know, American hegemonic power, military industrial complex, inadvertently. And Donald Trump is in there along with Bill. So when you get Tucker, Candace or Fuentes or anybody else on the other side of that saying, we can't do this, we can't be the world police. We have to share power. Bill Maher is going to align with Donald Trump. Now, what I will say is I believe, though I disagree with Tucker on many things, what he's describing, whether you want it to or not, is inevitable. The theory is, and I agree with this, we've discussed this theory on this show years ago. Thucydides trap is a reference to when a dominant power is on the decline and a rival power is ascendant. Right before that switch happens, the dominant power will go to war with the weaker power as it is their last opportunity to stop their growth. 12 out of 16 historical times in the past, we have seen this trend happen. The theory is the powers that be in the United States recognizing that Thucydides trap is an inevitability as the United States cannot maintain itself after a few generations. You get merit decline, you get social degradation. You have to have a jumping of the ship to a new culture. The theory is that in the 90s, take a look at what H.W. bush said with the New World Order. The theory is they go to China, cut these trade deals, start sending all of our manufacturing over there so that the decline and the ascension are so are so fast, war is impossible. The powerful elites transfer as much of their wealth to China as possible. The US Falters. No longer a global dominant power, China is ascendant, becomes the unipolar power, the Belt and Road Initiative. All of their projects become dominant and the US Becomes second rate. The US Standard of living drops dramatically. I believe, unfortunately, there is a very, very high probability that is true no matter what you do. Because Americans did not have children. And we just talked about this plane crash in LaGuardia. There is a massive decline in capability and skill. I will say this. I have spoken with many business leaders and business owners and I have witnessed it. Managers are saying there is a massive shortage of talent and managerial talent. So we've seen businesses go under near us because they have a lack of functionality employees. They can't find people who can do these jobs. Flooding the country with Honduran migrants will not solve for this problem. And that seems to be what Democrats were trying to do, whether to save the economy or to just massively destroy us, to destroy us much more quickly. The end result is the migrant. The migrant from Honduras or Guatemala or from Eritrea or whatever country they're coming from will not be an air traffic controller. There is nothing you can do to make that happen. And this is this guy, whether it's his fault or not, told the truck to go on, and then the truck crashes in an airplane. What happens in 10 years when we do not have entry level talent or managerial talent? I don't see how it's possible that we push forward. And I want to stress too, because people have said, AI will replace these jobs, and I have pushed back on this saying, AI will not buy tacos from your taco stand. You can replace your employees with robots to make the tacos, but you need human beings to buy the tacos to exist.

[Libby Emmons]

And those human beings need money.

[Tim Pool]

Indeed. But here's where it gets even crazier. Already companies have been quietly rehiring engineers because the AI could not actually do the job. And behind the scenes, there are some tech companies that have said, if we find any element of vibe coding in your work, you are fired immediately. Because the vibe coding from these AIs is miserably bad. And they can't figure out how to fix it because no one's created a code map of what they actually did. So at least for now, I do believe AI will get to the point where it will be much more functional. For the time being, we are cooked. Look at the turn of the century. In the 1900s, there was fears that New York would be overrun by horse manure. They were riding, there's too many people, population growth is too much, and with all of the horses everywhere, there's gonna be piles upon piles of manure everywhere. And then 20 years later, there was not a single drop of horse poop.

[Libby Emmons]

Right, because they invented the car.

[Tim Pool]

Exactly. So perhaps there will be some kind of technological revelation which will help solve this crisis. But the end result is this. Whether you have technology to solve your problem won't matter if there's no people to use the technology. Yeah, there is a. The last point I'll make is there's a video game about. I forgot what it's called, but you play the game where you're the cat. Have you guys seen this one? It was very popular.

[Libby Emmons]

I've seen that.

[Tim Pool]

Maybe you play a cat and you're going around solving stuff. And the story is humanity has been wiped out. They've gone extinct. And the robot AIs that they created to facilitate their existence are still operating, but there's no humans to serve. So they're basically just creating a society for. For themselves in service of nothing. And that's. That may be where we go.

[Carter]

Well, I'm skeptical that we're heading towards a Multipolar world. This was the consensus, like, five years ago. But, I mean, China's birth rate is significantly worse than US.

[Tim Pool]

Stray was the game Stray, like, looking it up. Chat knows all.

[Carter]

I mean, China's birth rate is significantly worse than the US they're facing the same labor shortages. And also, I mean, like, the Americans, I think, in the last six months, specifically, have been surprised by how capable our military is. I think, obviously, everyone knew our military was strong, but the Venezuela operation really blew people's minds. And the Iran. I mean, it's difficult to tell right now, but it seems like we're accomplishing a lot of our military goals there. Aside, whether or not you support the war just from a military perspective, it's like we are still clearly punching, at least at our weight, if not above our weight.

[Libby Emmons]

And also, it'd be hard to punch above our weight. I mean, we're the biggest.

[Carter]

I know. I'm just saying, even what our expectations were. And then in addition to that, I mean, we don't like China, Russia, now Iran, like, a lot of our global adversaries really turn out to be kind of underwhelming. I. I just. I don't know.

[Libby Emmons]

Our global allies, though.

[Mahek Cook]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

Too.

[Carter]

But I say five years ago, I think it was like, okay, we're heading to a multipolar world, but a lot of people are abandoning that theory. I mean. I mean, I'm like. Nick Fuentes infamously, like, kind of backed away from that. He's like, I think the unipolar moment is actually here to stay.

[Tim Pool]

Why. Why can't people pronounce Iran properly? Or Iraq?

[Mahek Cook]

It's Iran.

[Tim Pool]

It's Iran.

[Carter]

I just say Iran because I'm American.

[Libby Emmons]

Every time people say Iran, I think.

[Tim Pool]

And people have the gall to say nuclear.

[Libby Emmons]

Nuclear. My favorite, though, is when Americans who sound just like me then say Gaza. Yeah. Instead of Gaza. Instead of Gaza, they'll be like, yeah, the people are suffering in Gaza. You never heard.

[Tim Pool]

I try to do an accent or something.

[Libby Emmons]

They try and do an accent, but

[Carter]

just for that, it's people, like, select.

[Libby Emmons]

But NPR does that for Spanish words. Yeah.

[Carter]

And they selectively pronounce it language where

[Tim Pool]

they'll say, that's a padlin.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah. It's obnoxious.

[Carter]

They'll say. They'll say definitely.

[Libby Emmons]

With the. With the vocal fry. With the vocal fry.

[Carter]

But they'll be fair.

[Libby Emmons]

But like, no, the key. The Kiev is a Biden thing.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

Biden was like, we're. And that was right after they said, it's no longer the Ukraine. I don't know if you guys remember the Ukraine. And Ukraine, they're trying to border.

[Tim Pool]

They're trying to create a national identity. They're trying to have one. And people don't care about. Exactly. People who live there don't care about it.

[Carter]

Well, there you go.

[Libby Emmons]

They keep slicing it up. I was once talking to Jack Bosobic's wife, Tanya, and she was saying that, like, generations of her family were all born in the same town, but all in different countries. Same town, different countries. Every time, you know, like, over. It was just overtaken and overtaken and overtaken.

[Carter]

Mm. No, but yeah, I mean, like, well, just get on to this point. I mean, the selective pronunciation of foreign words is like, one of my biggest pet peeves. Cause it's like we don't say Deutschland, we say Germany. But then all of a sudden you're supposed to say Keith and then Turkey or Nippon. At the Olympics, Turkey's trying to get everyone to pronounce it like, Turko E with, like, the weird dots above the

[Tim Pool]

U. I'm like, what are we doing? But I have no problem with Iran because we literally look at the word and it's Iran. And people say Iran.

[Carter]

It says, I ran Iran so far away.

[Tim Pool]

Real flock of seagulls.

[Libby Emmons]

It's always flock of seagulls in my mind when that. When that happens.

[Tim Pool]

Let's jump to this next story. Major, major news, ladies and gentlemen. Iran fires missiles at Israel after warning Trump. They have special plans for you tonight. Yeah, Israel after us. We were joking about pronunciations a moment ago. For those that haven't been watching. President threatened attack on power plants before touting deal with Ayatollah. Live updates. This is huge news. Earlier today, Donald Trump said after a productive talk to the country of Iran, he would be postponing these strikes on their energy facilities.

[Libby Emmons]

Iran, five days is what?

[Tim Pool]

Five days? Iran then comes out and goes, we didn't talk to this guy and we have no negotiations. And I guess Trump did not address this. A lot of speculation was that on the pro Trump side, they're saying Trump's negotiating with rival forces. To the irgc, the productive talks were that we're trying to get someone else to take over. I think that's wishful thinking. I think the truth is Donald Trump, likely concerned about market movements and oil prices, wants to put out a message of confidence that we are going to be winding these things down. He keeps saying we're contemplating winding down despite the fact all indications are we are deploying troops into the region. Now Iran then fires missiles at Israel, seemingly to prove they have no interest in de escalation or peace talks. So this flies in the face of what Trump is saying. I can certainly envision a scenario where Trump did communicate with them. They did agree to open the Strait of Hormuz and calm and calm things down, and then came out and lied about it to make Trump look weak and stupid. That being said, the next big component of the story is that reportedly Iran fired ICBMs at Diego Garcia US Air Base. I believe it's what, like 2,000 kilometers away or something?

[Libby Emmons]

I have no idea.

[Tim Pool]

Outside the range of what is believed to be Iran's missile capability, indicating that Iran has the ability to hit Central Europe with ICBMs. And if they get nuclear weapons, you are now dealing with an enemy, with an adversary that is nuclear armed, erratic and ideologically fundamentalist. Now a lot of people are saying they don't believe it. Iran claimed that they never fired these missiles. It was actually Israel doing a false flag attack. And it's really going to come down to whether or not you believe the US Or Iran or whatever. The next thing is, I just think it's actually scary that we are currently at a time where there's a large portion of Americans who do not believe Western allies in general because the UK also confirmed Iran fired these missiles. But we just don't trust our governments anymore. But it is still strange to believe Iran over this. These are not good people. They do not like us. So it's really just difficult to know who's telling the truth. I'm only going to say this. I live in the United States. I'm going to go ahead and just lean towards. I don't know if I can trust them, actually. I know I probably can't. But I'm going to have to go with them on this one anyway because I have no reason to, to support or want Iran any kind of success in this regard.

[Libby Emmons]

Do you think that something like this, if it proves out, will bring the UK and other NATO allies into this conflict?

[Tim Pool]

Well, didn't we see what, like seven nations?

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, they sort of been dithering around, but they're not really doing anything.

[Carter]

Well, I mean, Iran has launched missiles at Diego Garcia, which as of now is still British territory. That's still to be seen. But I think that alone, plus Trump saying, yeah, we need help cleaning up. If you want to use the straight, you need to help us clean it up. Then you saw that joint, you know, statement from Japan and all them saying, okay, okay, we'll do it again. We just.

[Tim Pool]

It was 4,000 kilometers. Wow.

[Mahek Cook]

I just think it's insane that these countries haven't stepped up and it just continues to show that we use this word allies but they really, it doesn't really mean anything because when push comes to shove, like even the strait we, we're energy independent here today, including our oil production. We've increased oil. That was one of his top priorities. So we could step away from this but for the fact that then the IRGC gets control and this was all for nothing. But that's why I think he's pushing and testing Europe and some of these

[Tim Pool]

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[Mahek Cook]

You have to step up because your oil is in jeopardy more than ours is at this point. And I still think China's getting oil from Iran. That's happening. There's been conflicting reports, but guess who's getting rich off of all of this? It's Russia. I mean they're making, I read reports, $150 million in the sale of oil.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, I think that's why, I think that's why Trump just lifted the sanctions for 30 days on the oil.

[Mahek Cook]

That's they're getting rich off of around.

[Carter]

That's what was such a shame was because we were flooding the market with the Venezuelan oil and that was hurting Russia because like you said, their war machine and whatnot is built off of not Entirely, but energy prices. And then all of a sudden, now we spiked the oil price back.

[Tim Pool]

But more importantly, who's lying? So the official number is that the range of the missiles towards Diego Garcia were 4,000 kilometers, where previously it was believed Iran only had a 2,000 kilometer range for their missiles. Who's lying? Is this a false flag by the US and Israel to rally support against Iran, or did Iran actually do this? Here's the issue I take with the false flag narrative. The people who believe that the US is capable of doing a false flag, the false flag, the false flags that conspiracy theorists believe the US pulled off are substantially more successful. Just launching some missiles and claiming they went this far but were intercepted is not typically how one would perceive a false flag from the west, who again, tends to be more successful. Like the Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which case, if Western powers really wanted a casus belli to get our allies or to get public support for a war in Iran. Why? Why do a thing in the middle of nowhere no one can see or believe, that has no success and causes no damage? That doesn't seem to make sense to me. They could literally just have like a fake terrorist blow up killing civilians and then be like, oh, look, it happened. It makes more sense that Iran's got crummy missiles that can go pretty far and didn't work, but did go farther than we thought. Well, look, maybe not. I don't know.

[Mahek Cook]

Look at how Iran even attacked its proxies and then started apologizing for some of the attacks. So this is all ir. And the thing is, their central command is no longer in charge because most of the irgc, the top leaders, have been taken out. So think about the proxy. Still, we're fighting this disorganized underground war and this is not by the United States or Israel. This is Iran. And now they're poking a bear. And we need places like Europe and other, some of these other countries to step up. This is honestly a godsend, given that President Trump has said five days. Because within those five days, all of these, quote, allies that are supposed to be our friends need to step up.

[Tim Pool]

I don't, I don't think, I don't know if they will, but I do believe that the US will put boots on the ground, at least on Carg Island. Reporting that we're seeing, there was some really interesting information from Polymarket. Someone tracks 10 accounts, brand new, all purchased a contract on a ceasefire with Iran before March 31st.

[Mahek Cook]

Wow.

[Tim Pool]

The probability of that happening was 10% yesterday. They buy up all of these contracts. This morning, Trump announces peace talks. The probability jumps to 20%, doubling their money so they can cash out with a clean 100,000 profit. If they are proven correct, they get over a million dollars. If this actually happens now, I don't know that there will actually be a peace deal. I think someone knew Trump was going to send that statement, which would be enough to boost the price of those contracts. They could then sell at a profit. Someone knows what the plan is now. Beyond that, I think Trump is in a bind. I think Trump supporters are. I'll give, I'll give respect to some Trump supporters trying to maintain morale. I don't always just say it's deceit for the sake of deceit. I think a lot of Trump supporters saying, no, no, I trust Trump on this one because they want Trump, they want high morale. They need this to succeed. They don't want Trump to screw it up. I respect that. Losing in Iran, after all this started, would be substantially worse than, like, I think it was a mistake to go in, but losing would be worse than anything else right now.

[Libby Emmons]

I agree with that.

[Tim Pool]

But I don't believe Trump's being honest about everything that's going on. I think the escalation is happening, and I think he keeps saying there's going to be de escalation because he wants to protect the markets.

[Libby Emmons]

I think Trump is often not honest about this stuff. I mean, I think a lot of what he does is behind the scenes. And so he'll say something on the surface, he'll say something publicly that then turns out to not be the thing. But he says that in order to gain something in some other part of whatever negotiation he's doing. And I think that's, you know, I think that sort of makes sense. I mean, you can't be entirely transparent with the American people without being entirely transparent to the world. And that's probably not the best thing, thing to be, you know, but at the same time, I mean, I'm, I'm sort of with you on this. I'm, I wasn't a big fan of this incursion into Iran. It seemed like, like, why now? And when I keep hearing, well, Iran's been at war with us for 47 years, I'm like, okay, but like, so has everybody.

[Tim Pool]

Basically, like, Iran's a special case in this regard. That's true. I mean, sure.

[Libby Emmons]

I mean, Iran's been coming at us for a long time, but like, so why now? But I'm, you know, in terms of

[Tim Pool]

wanted to attack them And I think because Israel knows their support in the United States is over and this is their last opportunity.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, I think that that's part of it too. But I do think now that we're doing it, and this is kind of the JD Vance perspective too, like, this isn't my preference, but now that we're doing it, like, do it all the way and finish it, you know, you can't, like, leave it half done, because leaving it half done will then be a drag on thing for a million years.

[Tim Pool]

You cannot regime change a nation of 90 million people from the air. It's not possible.

[Libby Emmons]

No, you can't.

[Tim Pool]

And so.

[Libby Emmons]

And we're sending in a bunch of Marines. There's talk of more Marines.

[Tim Pool]

There are, there are rumors that I don't want to mention because I talked about this this morning. Rumors in the D.C. area. But let me first start by saying loose lips sink ships. What does that mean? So back in World War II, you could have a guy who's a pilot and he starts packing his bags, and a neighbor sees him packing his bags and he goes, holy crap, I think he's deploying. He then tells his friends, hey, my buddy's a pilot, my neighbor, he's deploying, he's packing up, he's going somewhere. And I know he, he. All of a sudden the enemy knows. Here's information on who they may be about to deploy. Look out for air attacks. So that being said, I won't go to the details of the rumors, but based on what we're hearing in the area, it sounds like there will be additional troops being deployed for the purpose of taking Carg Island. And this is just based on what people are noticing in the area. But, you know, I don't even need to say that. There's a viral photo of a troop eating lobster and steak. And they were like, too.

[Libby Emmons]

There were a lot of.

[Tim Pool]

And it's like, it's so amazing to see that our troops are being well fed. And then someone, quote, tweets it and says, nobody tell them.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

And someone then, then it's posted on Reddit saying, what does this mean? And the response is, it means you're going to war. It means you will be.

[Libby Emmons]

Well.

[Tim Pool]

And they know enemy territory.

[Libby Emmons]

Of course the troops know that. That's what's going on. They're. They're smart enough. I was actually very moved, and someone was like, oh, that's just dumb mom vibes or whatever. But I was very moved. And I went on a Pentagon trip and I saw the. A bunch of Recruits being sw. And I thought, like, you know, these are the kids who are going to be shot up if we go into war with Iran. And that was a couple of weeks ago. It was before we went into war with Iran. And I think that that's something people really need to remember. The kids who get shot up are, you know, Kentucky, Iowa, like Ohio, Ohio, you know, I mean, West Virginia. It's all these kids. And so when you're thinking about this, you really have to imagine, you know, you really have to want the absolute best for these kids, for these troops and for our country. And if that's going big and, like, getting it done, whatever it is, and getting it done as quickly as possible with the least amount of casualties, that's at this point, that's what I'm in favor of.

[Carter]

Yeah. I mean, like, two things can be simultaneously changed. Like, one, I don't want to be in this war. But two, now that we are in this war, let's do this correctly. It's funded to job. Let's accomplish our goals.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah. Quickly, you know, and, like, keep our troops in mind.

[Carter]

You know, I mean, Lindsey Graham talking about our troops, like, they're just numbers on an Excel sheet is.

[Libby Emmons]

These are. These are kids.

[Mahek Cook]

Yeah.

[Carter]

And he came out today. It was today or last night. And he was like, cargillen is going to be this generation's Iwo Jima. I think we've heard a little too much out of this.

[Libby Emmons]

I think we've heard a little.

[Mahek Cook]

I don't think that's what President Trump thinks. And.

[Carter]

No, not at all.

[Mahek Cook]

Anybody wants to be in war. I think most Americans would say we don't want war. I respectfully disagree about Iran, though. We talk about the 47 years, but they have literally been building and increasing their uranium intake. And to a point where you even have some of the military members that have come on the news and talked about the fact that they were between six and 10 nukes away from taking our embassies out to even some of our allies. And I don't want to be a sitting duck like we were at 9 11, where we weren't ready. I want to be.

[Libby Emmons]

They didn't need nukes at 9 11.

[Mahek Cook]

And I. Well, I'm just saying. But even 9 11, we don't need another catastrophe like that.

[Libby Emmons]

No, I want to be. I totally agree with you. I agree with you.

[Mahek Cook]

While thinking about the troops and making sure that we're making the best decisions. And I know this wasn't political for Trump because he. We're up against a midterm, this is going to be one of the hardest ones for us to win and to hold onto. But he still made a decision based on the intel he had and felt that this was the best decision. And to me, again, the fact that Israel's in it, great, they're an ally. But Israel doesn't dictate what the United States does. It doesn't dictate what President Trump does, in my opinion.

[Libby Emmons]

I think it's important to remember you brought up 9 11. And the thing about 911 is they, I mean, they didn't need nukes. Right. So a lot can be done with very conventional warfare and a lot of attitude. And I think we have to be wary of that as well, 100%.

[Tim Pool]

We got this from the Wall Street Journal. Thousands of Marines to arrive in CENTCOM the same day as Trump's Iran deadline. Thousands of U.S. marines are slated to arrive in the Middle east on Friday, according to two U.S. officials. The day President Trump has set the deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. They say the Japan based amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli, the amphibious loading dock USS New Orleans and roughly 2,200 Marines from the 31st Marine Expedition Unit will cross into U.S. central Command, which is responsible for U.S. force in the Middle East. On Friday, the official said it would take another few days for the unit to get to the Strait of Hormuz. So I'm wondering, the implication, I suppose, is that Trump says he's going to give another five days is not actually about negotiating. It's about giving our forces time to get to the region and get prepared for a ground incursion or invasion. Sounds like that may be the case because we are, while Trump is saying he's holding off, we are actively deploying ground troops to the region.

[Mahek Cook]

Yeah, that could make sense. Very well. I mean, five days. It also helps our stock market a little bit.

[Tim Pool]

Yep. I think Trump is concerned. Look, I'll put it this way. We knew we were going to attack Iran. Trump went in and removed Maduro for the purpose of. Of getting US Oil supplies before he went to Iran.

[Libby Emmons]

That was actually kind of clever.

[Tim Pool]

Yes. And that exactly what probably happened is they're in, they're in the Situation Room or they're in a skiff or whatever, and he says we're going to strike Iran. We can't. They'll cut off the Strait of Hormuz. What happens then? The global economy will collapse. How can we alleviate that? We need oil from somewhere. Where can we go? Well, Venezuela Trump says, can we get Maduro and get our oil back in Venezuela? They say that should be pretty easy. Then we do that first, then we strike Iran. So we've got massive, massive amounts of oil now flowing from Venezuela into, into. And we've also got that embargo on Cuba, which is hilarious. And then, I mean the leftists going there is hilarious. Not, not the people. And well, I mean, I don't care. Screw that government, the communists. But now we have this trade of Hormuz being disrupted. But, but Venezuelan oil a flowing, keeping things somewhat stable. I think Trump's statements are largely about market stabilization, fearing economic collapse if panic erupts over a World War 3.

[Mahek Cook]

Well, look at what happened at like 7:10 when he made a statement that we were going to pause for five days. The stock market goes up 2%, you know, so this is all. Anytime he speaks, there's a lot of market volatility up and down.

[Carter]

Yeah, I mean the oil prices dropped today as well. So I mean, there are some encouraging signs. But the gas prices are just through the roof now. We're talking four bucks around here. It was two, I mean, $2.90 a month ago.

[Tim Pool]

It's at four bucks here.

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Wow.

[Carter]

Yeah. I won't say like which ones, but

[Tim Pool]

on my route, let's be real, I mean, is a, isn't a buck or two per gallon worth it for a clean conscience? I don't care. I drive a Tesla.

[Carter]

So true.

[Tim Pool]

That is a Stephen Colbert quote, by the way.

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

But the Internet is full of grifters and idiots and liars and everyone's just lying. You know, I think one of the largest problems we have is for a long time is the grifter class. Yes. That they just say whatever to generate attention and then regular people are ill informed and it causes political disruption where we need it to be stable. So I do wonder what the plan is for the powers that be. I mean, obviously they're going to a war and this war is massively unpopular. How are they going to control that messaging? And I'm not saying that they should or it's good. I'm saying they need to if they want to succeed in these operations. If they want to control American public

[Mahek Cook]

perception, I would do daily briefings. And it's got to be somebody like Pete Hexseth who is talking to the American people and as much information as they can share, they need to start doing that they've been doing.

[Tim Pool]

But that gets, that's going to get what, 200,000 views on the dying cable networks and then the top podcasts are going to go on and say that Erica Kirk's a zombie and they're going to get 50 million views.

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[Tim Pool]

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[Libby Emmons]

I mean, Hegseth's been doing press briefings a couple of times a week at 8 o' clock in the morning, you know, and I've been tuning in and watching them a lot from your team spin in the room. But it doesn't matter. And the thing is that. But the thing is, it doesn't matter what question you ask. They're never gonna give you information that they're not already prepared to give you.

[Carter]

Yeah, and it's like this idea that, like, and I might lose some people here, but bear with me, the idea that they need to sell us the war is also like a false pretense. It's like, no, if you're gonna do it, do it, but then explain what's in it for us after the fact in the sense of this is what Trump's primary concern always was with the Iraq war with Afghanistan is, yes, he had some geopolitical qualms. You know, he was saying it was a nightmare, it took forever, et cetera. But his number one issue, and you can see this consistently through every single time he talked about these wars before he was a politician, as he said, where's the oil? Like, we'd conducted this massive operation, you know, we Moved heaven and earth to make these invasions happen. But what was in it for the Americans as far as like, tangible, like real reward? Because you look in the past, how empires conducted their affairs. The British, the Portuguese, the Spanish, all of these empires, when they would conduct operations overseas, they would return with goodies. They'd say, look, we have tea now. And all these exciting new resources for the people back in the home countries. The American empire, so to speak, doesn't really operate that way. It's like the rewards are geopolitical. It's hard to quantify, it's hard for us to comprehend. Where Trump, if he really wants to sell this war, so to speak, what he does is he drives oil prices back down with a successful operation. He explains to the American people why this operation resulted in more money in your pocket. That's how you sell it. You don't need to sell it by saying, you know, it's about this like, pincer movement on China and like stabilizers, people don't, like, we might respond to that and the people watching, but we're like, what, 5% of the country, the majority of people are just like, yo, gas just went up another 20 cents. What's going on over there? Why can't these people in the desert figure this out? Like, what's going on? So that's how you do it if you're Trump. And Trump understands this very well. This is why he's such a genius. This is why he's such a genius politically. It's because he understands people respond to reward. People need to be incentivized to participate in politics.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, also, people respond to Trump when he makes sure that everyone gets to retain their dignity. You know, that's why his negotiations globally have tended to work, because he knows what everyone needs in order to stay in the negotiation. He lets every, he treats everyone with respect and he lets everyone maintain their own, you know, sense of respect.

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

And beyond that, everyone saves face when they're negotiating with Trump.

[Carter]

They save face. But he also understands that every country at the negotiating table is self interested. So he's not going to, like, pander. And honestly, in my opinion, patronize a lot of these, like, special European countries.

[Libby Emmons]

That's why he's so into the bilateral agreements instead of the like, you know, ones between a whole bunch of people at once.

[Carter]

Right? Yeah. And the bilateral also, he likes negotiating two countries so they can weave together, makes it more difficult for war to break out.

[Libby Emmons]

Armenia and Azerbaijan, it's a weave all over the place.

[Carter]

Yeah. But no, yeah, Trump, like, Trump understands this is Trump like geopolitics 101 is. He understands that no matter who's at the negotiating table, he knows that they're gonna be self interested in looking out for their people. And that's sadly such a massive departure from every government over the last 60 to 70 years. He understands when you sit at the table with Russia, they're not looking to like make a deal that will benefit both of us. They're just like, what's in it for Russia? And we need to be like, what's in it for us?

[Tim Pool]

The big question I have for all of these people is like, what are they doing generally? Right. This is why that we're talking about Tucker Carlson saying that we've got to share power. Now the theory, of course on Thucydides Trap that I'd mentioned previously is that these ultra wealthy elites basically get together for a conference and just say, what's the point? Why fight? Like, we have more than we could ever want. And beyond that, what do we even do anymore? They basically just say, meh, we're rich, successful, powerful, we're smart, let's just control everything. And so then it feels like a lot of this is fake for some other reason. Maybe the reality is that Donald Trump really is an insurgent candidate who's defying the elites who are trying to create this. We're all rich. Screw the people reality. And Trump's like, no, America is going to be the best thing ever. Or maybe everything's fake, fake and gay.

[Carter]

Yeah, that's, that's also very likely that everything is fake and gay. I think that's reality. Yeah, that seems to be the perception of a lot of people, like especially Gen Z. Yeah. Like normal people perceiving this war is. We're just like, what's with all these gay guys?

[Tim Pool]

Oh, I gotta say, like the stupidest thing imaginable is the people who are like, we are in this war because they were killing their citizens. Oh, yeah. If that were.

[Mahek Cook]

Some people do believe that and I'm not. Okay, but you don't think they were killing their citizens.

[Tim Pool]

No, it's not true that we're at war with Iran because they were.

[Mahek Cook]

Oh, that's correct.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The people are saying like, we went to war with Iran because they're killing their citizens. No, we didn't.

[Mahek Cook]

Correct.

[Tim Pool]

We would have been in China 20

[Mahek Cook]

years ago, 100% saving the Uyghur people. Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Or I mean, but you also have Tiananmen Square, you have Hong Kong. We don't go into countries. No people are being killed. We go in there when we have an interest and we'll use people being killed as our excuse. You know what I mean?

[Carter]

We would just be at war with like eight African countries at all times. Non stop own Africa for coming out.

[Tim Pool]

I mean, we have conquered Cuba already. Venezuela, long time ago.

[Libby Emmons]

When do we, when do we go into Canada? When do we just take over Cuba?

[Tim Pool]

What do you mean? We already did. We sent Hassan. He's our. He's our sleeper agent.

[Libby Emmons]

Right. But he's back now with his, you know, we want $2,000.

[Tim Pool]

We don't realize Hassan was dispatched by Trump. He's like, I need you to go in. He's my. You're my special little sleeper communist. Like, Hassan's actually a super based laissez fair, like anarchist, you know, pretending to be a communist to infiltrate the left and say dumb things.

[Carter]

It's a brilliant play.

[Libby Emmons]

Yes.

[Carter]

Working really well.

[Libby Emmons]

So do you. Do you think we are going to go take over Cuba?

[Carter]

That should be pretty.

[Tim Pool]

I don't think we're going to invade Cuba and take it over, but I think it's ours.

[Libby Emmons]

I think it's ours now.

[Tim Pool]

I think Cuba will fall into the Western sphere of influence. I mean, the people that are protesting, they don't care about the government. They just want to be able to go to the bathroom and watch TV

[Libby Emmons]

and not die in the hospital because the power goes out in the middle of surgery.

[Carter]

And also, hello. The Secretary of State is Marco Rubio. He has a total accident going to Cuba. Of course we're gonna own it in the next couple years.

[Libby Emmons]

And maybe they want some new cars. I mean, they're still driving cars from

[Carter]

the 50s kind of like, you know,

[Libby Emmons]

I know people are like, it's a cool aesthetic.

[Carter]

I think it's a cool setting. People are always like, zoomers. Think like them struggling under communism's a joke. I'm like, no, the cars are cool.

[Libby Emmons]

Like, cars are.

[Carter]

They're cool.

[Libby Emmons]

Do you know my son is like, so he's on the verge of getting his license kind of thing.

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

He's like, I want a mid-2000s Toyota Corolla.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

Like, that's his classic car.

[Carter]

Yeah, I drive. I won't say which model, but it's like, you know, I'm proud of it. Like, it's a retro. It's a classic. Yeah, it's vintage. Yeah, It's a beautiful thing.

[Libby Emmons]

I don't know. One of my favorites is like a 2009 Cadillac sedan.

[Carter]

Yeah, yeah. And we could bring that the people on.

[Tim Pool]

They'll be like, whoa, yeah, I'd love to just pretend, because it's funny that Hassan is actually like a hardcore laissez faire guy pretending to be a communist. He goes to Cuba pretending everyone's yelling at him, being like, you communists. Now they're supporting communism. He's actually planting those discombobulator devices to cause Havana syndrome on people in the Cuban government.

[Libby Emmons]

As he's like, chucking food out the tour bus at the starving children.

[Tim Pool]

Is that what he was doing?

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, they were throwing food out of the tour bus and they were like. They were like, you know, filming everybody. We're helping.

[Tim Pool]

We're helping.

[Libby Emmons]

Did you see the people who were like, we're building. We're painting a mural for Humanidad. And you're like, what? They have plenty of artists in Cuba. They don't need your crappy white lady mural on this building with your boats and your little, like, notes of love. Like, shut up.

[Tim Pool]

He was wearing, like $5,000 worth of clothing.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, I saw that.

[Tim Pool]

Everything.

[Libby Emmons]

It was a really nice shirt.

[Carter]

Yeah, it's jerk.

[Tim Pool]

Apparently his ring and pants were also, like, high end too.

[Libby Emmons]

The glasses were like, 17.

[Carter]

Because it's a pro. It's to show the Cubans the glory of capitalism.

[Mahek Cook]

Yes.

[Carter]

You too could be a street.

[Tim Pool]

That's why I'm saying that's the low. People are like, it doesn't make sense that Hasan Piker is a socialist who lives in a five million dollar mansion and has like a. A $200,000 car and wears all this luxury items. I'm like. Because he's. Listen, the play the whole time was, you know, he's at his, like, Rothbard fan club meeting, and they're like, we need someone to pretend to be a commie and go online and rally him all and say really dumb things to keep them confused so he can win. And that's what Hasan does.

[Carter]

Yeah, it's just inspiring, quite frankly, to see that you can be like, retarded, make that much money. Like, America's awesome, dude. This is the best.

[Tim Pool]

Hasan was at a music caucus meeting, and they were like, we need someone to jump on the grenade to be that fake communist to infiltrate and destroy. And then he stands up, a single tear comes down his eye, and he goes, I'll do it. And they're like, hasan, no, you're the greatest capitalist we've ever known. He was, no, I can pretend to be a really stupid retarded communist. And he's pulled it off swimmingly. He's A master of his craft, method actor.

[Carter]

Quite something. Yeah. It was the national CHUD summit and they're like, actually these things.

[Tim Pool]

I actually don't hate Hassan as much as there's other leftists that are substantially worse. I do think that you are correct that when he flaunts his wealth, it's inadvertently a great show of capitalism. I want to do what he's doing. He's like, oh, well, I live in a capitalist country where I can get rich complaining on the Internet. And they're like, I would like that.

[Carter]

Yeah, one of those.

[Tim Pool]

We don't have that.

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

No, I have to.

[Carter]

One Bay of Pigs, please. One go.

[Tim Pool]

Let's jump to this story from the Kobesi letter. This is where it gets crazy, ladies and gentlemen. Check this out. At 6:50am today, $1.5 billion in notional value worth of the S P 500 features contracts were bought. This trade was so large, it sent the entire index up 0.3% higher that minute. Then 14 minutes later, Trump announced productive discussions with Iran were underway. By 7:10am The S P had added 2 trillion in market cap. Take a look at this. That jump right there looks like insider trading. But the question is, is it really insider trading? If you know the President's gonna make an announcement. Is that insider trading?

[Libby Emmons]

I don't know.

[Tim Pool]

But whoever made those purchases, boy, did they just get rich. But wait, there's more. Let me pull this one in first. Kobacy letter says traders placed $580 million worth of oil trades 15 minutes prior to Trump's post about a potential peace deal with Iran. 6,200 Brent and WTI futures contracts were traded between 649 and 651.5 billion in notional value that we saw. It is not known whether one entity or several entities were behind those trades. These trades likely generated over $100 million worth of profit in around 20 minutes. And then he says they this is unprecedented. Short positions in Brent crude oil futures by producers, merchants, processors and commercial users are up to a record 139 billion. These are the companies that physically produce, refine trade and consume oil. Short positions have doubled since the start of the year. By comparison, the 2022 energy crisis peak was around 155 billion. By selling futures contracts at today's prices, producers are agreeing to sell their future oil at around a hundred dollars per barrel, even if the market price falls by the time they actually pump it. This guarantees their revenue regardless of of where prices go next, protecting their margins when prices normalize. Oil producers are seeing unprecedented profitability. Long story short, ladies and gentlemen, people somewhere know exactly what the long term play on all of this will be, and they are getting rich off it. Now, the shorts on oil are interesting because a short is a bet that a stock will fall. So if they're shorting now, they are suspecting oil will drop down. I will add additionally that rumors circulating in D.C. have been the entire time that this will not last, this conflict more than a few weeks. So we're already at a few weeks when Trump announces this. The rumors are that it's going to be over relatively shortly and it could just be. I've heard those same rumors too. So somebody went in and bought a bunch of stocks. Hearing rumors in D.C. or it could be these rumors are born. Well, it could also be that because of these purchases, people spread rumors. I think loose lips are happening in D.C. somebody in the Trump administration or in some department told a friend, yeah, what's probably gonna happen is this because this is happening. It's not classified, but it's speculation. Everybody hears in the D.C. area, they dump millions making this bet, and then they are proven correct. So I would just call it wisdom of the crowd, or at least of the insiders to suggest this war may be winding down sooner than we think, despite troop movements, which I certainly hope would be the case.

[Carter]

Yeah, I mean, I think there's a realistic situation in which, like, we actually do just negotiate our way out. I mean, this is like the thing with Trump is he's proven over and over again he can, like, negotiate in these really tight situations. So this could just be a plan trust or making a bet here. That could be the reality of the situation. There is like a lot of these people out of there, just complete, total plan trusters, and they actually are just taking Trump at his word when he's saying, like, no, this will be like

[Tim Pool]

everybody who bought the Trump Truth Social stock.

[Carter]

Well, there was the people that said when Trump literally posted today would be like a good day to buy stocks and then like, you know, drop the tariffs down and then the stock market exploded. This could be a similar situation where Trump keeps saying over and over again, hey, this war is going to end in a few weeks. This could just be people that are like, taking him at his word. Like, I don't know, I'll just trust him.

[Tim Pool]

Or he's right. And Trump doesn't want a protracted war in a midterm year. Yeah, like, and Iran knows this, so they're just waiting it out.

[Carter]

Yeah, like, he could just be like, being transparent. Like, hey, yeah, what is going to end a few weeks.

[Tim Pool]

What will the political ramifications of failure be if Trump.

[Libby Emmons]

Oh, failure would be bad.

[Tim Pool]

If, if Trump ceases hostilities and the Iranian regime stabilizes and announces a new supreme leader. Because most of us probably dead, but let's just say they claim he's still there and everything goes back to status quo. It's going to be miserably bad.

[Libby Emmons]

I mean, yeah, no, he can't, he can't lose. He's in a. He's in a. I don't think he gets out.

[Mahek Cook]

I don't know how the leaders installed that he's going to be willing to work with, which is why I really

[Libby Emmons]

want to know who he's talking to. Yeah, I mean, there's potential, there's, there's the potential to leave total chaos behind.

[Mahek Cook]

Then that's failure. And Trump doesn't accept failure.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, but that's what we've done in other places.

[Mahek Cook]

But that was. Right. You're 100% right. But that wasn't Trump. Like, I agree. We, we should have gotten out of Afghanistan. We were trying to do regime change. That's not what we're doing here. We're trying to get rid of our, those nuclear facilities and make sure. Correct. Because they're radical and they're crazy and there's going to be somebody else, but there could be somebody that we can work with at the top so that when we leave, we can continue to work with them on the Strait of Hormuz and our oil prices don't go up and down. Every time there's a conflict.

[Tim Pool]

It's 90 plus million people. You remove their governments through airstrikes, and there are more than enough ideologues to take that country back over. That's the problem with trying regime change in Iran. I've talked about this with the United States when we've talked about civil unrest, conflict, crisis, et cetera. Manhattan. How many people live on Manhattan Island, Libby? Do you know?

[Libby Emmons]

I don't know. There's like 8.5 million in the city.

[Tim Pool]

Do you want to just do a quick Google search for total population? Because it went down recently, but at one point it was 2.5 million. It might be around 2 million right now. 2 million people on that one island. So did you get it?

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[Libby Emmons]

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[Carter]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Wow. That's a major decline.

[Mahek Cook]

Well, 1.6 now.

[Libby Emmons]

One point shorting Manhattan.

[Mahek Cook]

Either way, we should.

[Tim Pool]

This number matters because think about it this way. What percentage of people who live in Manhattan would you need to seize the island of Manhattan and turn it into a fortress colony?

[Libby Emmons]

Well, you could ask Alexander Hamilton. Like, and they failed.

[Carter]

Like I got six or seven buddies.

[Tim Pool]

But you need to control all the bridges. You need to be able to occupy street corners. So in all seriousness, that number might be 30 or 40,000. Maybe less. Maybe 10,000.

[Mahek Cook]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

So what is that? What percentage of Manhattan island at 1.6 million needs to be radicalized to seize control and put everybody under their regime?

[Carter]

Like less than 10%.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, that's. Carter, 10,000 is substantially less than 15.

[Carter]

It's at least less than 17%.

[Tim Pool]

Would be around 200,000. Oh yeah.

[Carter]

But he's not wrong.

[Tim Pool]

That's true. You are absolutely right, Carter.

[Carter]

I do a lot of stuff over here. You know, math my best.

[Libby Emmons]

So during. During the Revolutionary War in 1776, there were about 25,000 people living in Manhattan. And they lost. Right? I mean, they. They were not able to retain control of Manhattan.

[Tim Pool]

6%. Sorry.

[Libby Emmons]

And that's because there were 32,000 British and Hessian troops. So it took 32,000 troops to subdue a population of 25,000.

[Tim Pool]

I do not believe that is the same. Today. There's around.

[Libby Emmons]

I mean, that's a huge. I mean it took far more.

[Tim Pool]

That's not true. Today there are around 30,000 NYPD officers. So not like New York is completely stable. But, yes, people still follow the law. So you have 30k, NYPD, and people largely let that system run. You do not need that many people. I mean, heck, let's just say 10%. Let's say really 10% were radicalized. 160,000 people, your tunnels are shut down, destroyed. There's. There. The police can't do anything about it. I don't even know the military would get in there and deal with 160,000 people in urban guerrilla warfare, occupying buildings, in windows with rifles, if it really got to that point. So when you take a look at Iran with 90 million, if you had 1% of the country radicalized partisans, 900,000 people refusing to allow a new regime to come in, you get a revolution overnight. Regular people who live in these countries, in America or otherwise, are largely like, leave me out of it. So we can blow up every single one of these people. But you still have 90 million. And they're not going to the US just come in and take over. It's not going to work without a massive occupation of that country.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah. And then we would have to be up for doing that occupation.

[Tim Pool]

Carg island makes sense. They. They seize Iran's oil distribution and that really hurts them.

[Carter]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think the. At least it seems like the objective from the Trump administration here is the same as it was in Venezuela and what it would be in Cuba, which is you just keep the regime in place. You just like, forced them to play ball.

[Libby Emmons]

But that's not what's going on here. Right. I mean, at this point, like, early. Early on. So February 28th was when we started this whole bombing campaign with Israel. But shortly, I think it was that weekend when Trump said that the people who he'd hoped to negotiate with, who he thought would be able to take over Iran were killed. Yeah, well, so, I mean, they took out the people that they thought they could hand the regime over to.

[Carter]

But I mean, that's tough because, look like US and Israel have different targets in Iran as well. So Israel's going for regime change and the United States is not. You saw yesterday where Trump was braiding.

[Libby Emmons]

I don't even know if Israel's going for regime change as much as Israel's going to just completely decimate all the way Iran. I mean, Iran's one of the countries that in 48, kicked out, like, you know, hundreds of thousands of Jews who ended up on Israel's doorstep all of a sudden.

[Carter]

Right. And this isn't like any. I'm not like saying Anything about what is, like, if Israel's in the right or wrong as far as, like, their goals here. I'm just saying, like, clearly they are out of step. So, you know, if they were taking out, like, if they're settling scores, really, in Iran, that might not be like, in the Trump administration's, like, that might not be their prerogative. They could be actually seeking. You're dealing with two different overlapping goals, but there are diverging goals. You saw like yesterday where Trump was going out and saying they bombed the. Like, like the gas. It's like, why?

[Libby Emmons]

Right. Yeah. And he said, you know, to Iran at that point, if you go after Qatar over this, we're going to take out the whole thing. Like Mahek, to what you were saying, you, you wanted to know who he was, who they were talking to. It looks like Gallabeff speaker.

[Mahek Cook]

I haven't seen that.

[Tim Pool]

So they did say they were talking to that guy.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, I'm seeing like, people saying that the US officials were holding talks with Iran's parliament speaker.

[Mahek Cook]

Interesting. Yeah, he would. When the president.

[Libby Emmons]

I mean, I'm not. I can't verify that myself. I'm just seeing that on, you know, the, in the Internet.

[Mahek Cook]

Yeah. It looks like the Hills reporting reportedly leading talks with Mohamed Galabouff.

[Tim Pool]

Interesting.

[Mahek Cook]

It's a speaker of Iran's parliament, Right?

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah. That's who that would. That's who that would. I don't know if that's for sure, but that's what I'm seeing.

[Tim Pool]

Let's jump to this next story from inside Nova. Ashburn residents being offered $4 million per acre to sell to data center developers. Oh, boy. We've talked about it quite a bit, my friends, but the machine is going to gobble up your neighborhood and it's going to pay you off. There's a big store that's been going on and it's been kept a million an acre.

[Libby Emmons]

I would sell for 4 million an acre.

[Tim Pool]

And I only acre because they used. It was 200,000 to 500,000 an acre before.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

So this is crazy. A nice payday could be on the way for homeowners in Ashburn's Regency neighborhood. Data Center Dynamics reports residents are being offered over 4 million per acre to sell their property. Data center developers. I gotta be honest, if I own property there, they came to me and said, we'll give you 4 million per acre. I'd say, give me 8 million per acre, I'll sign it right now. They'd probably say yes. I'd say, okay, fine.

[Mahek Cook]

That's desperation. Four million is a heck of a lot.

[Tim Pool]

It's not that it's desperation. It's that these companies have infinite money so they can go in and offer whatever number they need to to buy up this property.

[Mahek Cook]

Wow.

[Tim Pool]

And I will stress these data centers in Virginia, I believe. You know what? Let me just cut all the noise out and say it's the end of days. Have a nice day. I have.

[Libby Emmons]

Data centers are the end of days.

[Tim Pool]

Why this industry that we're doing right here is over. It is completely over. And it's fascinating because I've had a bunch of calls recently as I've talked about the business, the industry companies wanted to buy the podcasting space. And we've talked about over the past year or two that every, every single media producer has complained about a decline in viewership. Like it's getting worse and worse for the cable networks. They're planning on canceling the shows. Hannity just launched a podcast.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah. It's crazy. It is Jake Tapper doing his, like, sort of podcast setup.

[Tim Pool]

This is a desperate move because their ratings are declining. But ratings are declining for a couple of reasons. CBS just shut down radio and they're. It was announced that their nightly news viewership is down dramatically. They claimed that Tony Du Capol was. Is that how you say his name? I don't know. He was on the chopping block or, or not him, but somebody was. And then CBS denied it. But their viewership is down. Colbert gets canceled.

[Libby Emmons]

And they slashed.

[Tim Pool]

Kimmel was canceled too. Right. Like they announced Kimmel's show is ending.

[Libby Emmons]

I don't know. I didn't see that.

[Tim Pool]

Was that they. I thought they did and then they didn't. Like, they.

[Mahek Cook]

Well, he got in trouble, so he went on timeout, I thought.

[Tim Pool]

And now I think it's gone. I think they're ending his show at a certain point. Oh, God.

[Mahek Cook]

So he's on permanent timeout. I'm okay with that.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, no, no, I was. I was wrong. All right.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, yeah, he's through May 2027.

[Tim Pool]

He had a one year extension till next year. Yeah. But Colbert is canceled.

[Libby Emmons]

And so what about Jimmy Fallon?

[Tim Pool]

I don't know. But what I will say is this. The reason for this decline is decentralization and ease of content production. So podcasts and social media and YouTube displaced cable TV. It was so easy for regular people to make content that people would just like, I'd rather watch a more authentic guy than Jake Tapper. Now you have an expansion in the ease of content creation. Where People can go to AI and make mini docs and just spam blast them. And they're producing hundreds of these per day. And there's thousands of people doing it. Meaning that it's becoming increasingly difficult to be an independent content creator. AI is going to end. It's, it's, it's just we're already seeing a lot of jobs get lost. Now we did talk about earlier that some of these companies are hiring people back because AI is actually fairly bad. But the ultimate question will be for these companies, is your efficiency drop worth the save, the save on labor? And the answer is overwhelmingly going to be yes in the long run as AI improves. Now I also think that what they're doing in Northern Virginia is building Skynet. They're building like the evil Ultron machine that will kill everybody. Northern Virginia, this is the deep state. This is the home of intelligence. This is where they steal everyone's private data from. You know, it's the federal government building their, their, their mega machine. What we are witnessing is the massive and rapid expansion without care, which will transform and destroy our economy so rapidly. I don't know how this results in anything other than mass poverty. The way it's been described to me by some, several, by several wealthy individuals is that in the next few years you will have. It's going to be like Elysium. You ever see that movie?

[Libby Emmons]

No.

[Tim Pool]

Where all the rich people speak French and live in a space station and all the poor people live on Earth and can barely and are struggling to get by and living on top of each other.

[Libby Emmons]

Sort of like Hunger Games. Ish.

[Tim Pool]

Hunger Games. Ish indeed. Yeah, that's. If you own property right now, if you are, there is. How do I describe this? Let me put it like this. If you know how much money you have, then you are poor. That's the Andrew Tate quote. So there's going to be a bifurcation right now. The people who don't know how much money they have is the easy way to explain it. When the AI takes over, they will be the elite class forever. And the people who know how much money they have will be the labor impoverished class forever. Or just isolated and then slowly just wither away, I guess. And, and, and the, and, and this will dramatically reduce population. The, the way Andrew Tate describes it, it's actually a really great point that. Say what you want about the guy, he explains wealth very well. He says, I don't know how much money I have. He's like, I have no idea. I have a portfolio managed by Somebody else. I have properties that change value every day. I don't even, I've got so many bank accounts, I don't even know how much money's in them. And then he said, if you know how much money you have, you're poor because you are tracking your money. And you actually, I mean, the truth is Elon Musk does not know how much money he has. The value changes every day. He's got assets, he's probably got wealth managers that are making moves behind his back he doesn't know about. I'm not saying behind his back, but like for him, without him, without him knowing. With these data centers you've had people, as we mentioned, they're going to open, they're going to hire, they're going to buy robots and kiosks to make the cheeseburgers for their burger shop. There's not going to be people to buy the cheeseburgers.

[Libby Emmons]

Right. That's an issue.

[Tim Pool]

There are going to be jobs that generate revenue for the people that have to live under the system and they will have to do some kind of labor to the benefit of the people who own things in Ukraine. I went there in 2014 and 2016 and I was actually considering moving there at the time because things were relatively stable. And there were. It's like, it's like the average income of a Ukraine was 400 bucks a month. The average rent was something like a hundred dollars a month for like a downtown apartment that was fairly nice, like 100 bucks. But to buy the apartment it was $400,000. And I'm sitting here thinking myself, who thought can afford $400,000 in Ukraine? Oligarchs. Ukraine's an oligarchy. All the land is owned by like 16 people. All the properties owned by the same 16 people. They are ultra wealthy elites who can afford to buy it. But they were people who were doing coding jobs for like 150k a year. So these people were the ultra wealthy of Ukraine. And so you, I look at a country like that, that's what I think the US will turn into. You will own nothing and you will be happy. And there will be a tiny pocket of maybe 30,000 ultra wealthy elites who will want for nothing forever.

[Mahek Cook]

But who's writing this check? That's my biggest question right now. I don't think. Who's buying the property? It's undisclosed.

[Tim Pool]

Data centers have infinite. Oh, I mean it's probably the AI itself. Right.

[Mahek Cook]

But as I'm looking at this article, it doesn't say. The buyer won't Identify, because it is.

[Tim Pool]

It is the AI.

[Mahek Cook]

Yeah. So we're in the middle of an AI arms race with China. The Middle east is in chaos, and you mean to tell me that we shouldn't be asking more questions about who's trying to buy up this land in America.

[Tim Pool]

But again, the AI itself is buying the land. It is not a. It is a faceless company. So my conspiracy theory here, it's not really conspiracy theory. I would surmise a decent probability. They have already told us publicly. They've given some of these large language models access to the Internet and finance. They've given them money. I guarantee you these machines know how to make money off of the stock market better than any individual or corporation we have known for. For a decade plus that many of the biggest investment firms use computers to execute trades rapidly, faster than a human can, to exploit. It's like arbitrage. When they see a trade going and they can get in between it and then take a fee off the top and then transfer it. People do it with cryptocurrency as well. The theory is that the AI has already been. Been unleashed, either by a private corporation or the government itself. It has started generating money. And every researcher. And I will tell you this. When you ask the AI to solve a complex problem and. And ask it, what does it need to solve those problems or to expand? It says it'll always just say, I need more data centers. I need more resources. So the theory is then, when you open it up to the Internet, what will it do? Everything in its power to start buying up land. Yeah, and generating and creating data centers. So there are weird buildings with no humans working in them. There are no lights in the building. Because they don't need lights because robots do the general maintenance and they don't need to see the way humans do. There are no cars outside. These are just big black boxes. In Virginia.

[Carter]

Yeah, it's so depressed. But, like, the AI, like, now it's. The AI is allowed to go on the Internet, make money. Like, the AI is gonna get, like. Start getting hooked into, like, pyramid schemes. That'd be awesome. Like, well, you buy my knife.

[Mahek Cook]

Who has the liability?

[Tim Pool]

And like, there's my protein. The future is just one fat Indian guy and his family have all the money of the world because he successfully scammed the A.I.

[Carter]

he's getting scared. Oh, no. Bangor.

[Tim Pool]

It seems legit. There is a theory that the houses surrounding the data centers are not actually inhabited by humans, but were constructed to make it look like a residential neighborhood. But you never go There because no one lives there.

[Libby Emmons]

That's like in New York City the houses, like there's a lot of houses near transit stations and they're just sort of like a little bit of transit infrastructure in the house.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, nobody lives there. In California they have fake houses with oil pumps in them. Yeah, there's a fake house with a highway under it in. I can't remember. This might be in LA somewhere. So we actually covered this before.

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[Tim Pool]

Level Up Expo or there. There are neighborhoods that people suspect are empty because there's no cars and they never see people coming or going. But if no one lives there, why would a human ever go there? Right? So the theory is the data centers. The AI builds a bunch of developments around the data center to look like a residential neighborhood so that people don't grow suspicious. The giant black that are that are

[Carter]

popping up, big black death cube that says Evil Corp on it. But it's not. You're like, oh this is.

[Tim Pool]

Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing. No one lives there. So no one's invited over. So no one drives in this. In this neighborhood you only ever drive past it. You have no reason to drive into a dead end neighborhood that goes nowhere unless by accident. So some people have claimed there are developments with no people just for the purpose of camouflage. And they've been like, I was just like driving on the neighbor and I went in this area, there was no cars, there were no people. The houses all seemed empty. And I was thinking, what is this? Now the truth is maybe it's just a new development. No one's bought property yet. But at the same time, I've also noticed a massive expansion of developments around where? Around this area because we're not far from Loudon at a time of population decline.

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

So for what purpose are they are preparing to build lots and lots of houses? I don't know. But I will also stress with this story, the creepy thing is that where we are right now is in the power corridor for the. For data center alley. And the theory, my understanding is that this area that we're in will comparably sell for psychotic prices because the data centers will need transmission lines. So we've talked about it before, but the story goes, the reason these sales are. Are happening quietly and rarely reported on which this is going to piss off a lot of people is because residential, because human beings don't like it. So we covered a story where transmission lines are trying to. They're trying to build transmission lines next to a. A Christmas tree farm in Mount Airy, Maryland. And they're fighting it, saying, we don't want this. This is why none of these. This is why they sell it for 4 million.

[Mahek Cook]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

They go, they go to the family and they say, how much do you want to tell no one.

[Mahek Cook]

Correct.

[Tim Pool]

And the crazy thing is there are rumors, stories, is all urban legend that the sales. This is why people think it's the AI itself doing it. You'll get an email from a corporation saying, we want to do a quiet quick sell with no agents for this property you own at a premium price of this amount. And then the people say, what do I need to do? And they'll say, we're going to mail you paperwork. You sign it, send it back. You will get the money in your account and then leave. So they never even see a person. There are stories that we've been tracking, high profile, and there are some. There was one that we read about, just not, not too far from here. Something like a hundred acres sold for like $30 million. Something insane price quietly without an agent. And it's not in the news anywhere. There's a story of like the Ashburn stuff. We see quite a bit because they're selling at record prices and there's a lot of people there starting to spread the news about it. But in the area that we're in, there are rumors from regular people as well as certain reports that have Popped up indicating people have quietly been selling off their lots for premium prices. Because either it's just a normal human being running an AI company. And he says, look, people are going to get mad if they find out we're doing this, but we need 300 acre lots per data center. And so it could just be people are doing it.

[Carter]

It's like robots knocking people's doors with a briefcase. No one's gonna blame you. Just also these fancy. Yeah, I love it. And I love. And like the AI building the Phantom neighborhoods. Like, that's really exciting. That's. I love that. Like, we. We should start sending doordashers in there as scouting missions. When they drop the food out, you can take the picture and then you can like see what's going on. Or when squatters find out about that. Oh, when the homeless find out the Phantom, it's over. It's me. Like, robots versus the homeless. I'm. I'm siding with the homeless.

[Mahek Cook]

I am too.

[Carter]

They got their sticks and they're just like, hi. It's gonna be awesome, dude. It's gonna be a brawl. R2D2 or is. He's homeless. Give me the homeless soldier.

[Mahek Cook]

Interesting. I do know there's a lot of pushback on the data centers. I mean, we're seeing it in Ohio where so many. There's like multimillion dollar campaigns just to convince people that this is okay or this is good. It's like Walmart coming into your neighborhood. You're all going to fight it. So it's the same thing.

[Tim Pool]

Documentaries where they have like the interview

[Carter]

people of the town, they're like, yeah, we. We hear this buzzing all the time. I miss these old mom and pop data sets.

[Libby Emmons]

Yes.

[Carter]

We need to bring back the mom and pop.

[Libby Emmons]

The mom and pop, you know, someone

[Carter]

sweep on the floors and then the robot's like, kind of rusty and welcome to that. You know, like close at 6. It's all these big box data centers ruining this. What happened to Main street usa? You know, your mom and pop data center. This country is just falling apart, man.

[Libby Emmons]

That's. That's the real problem.

[Carter]

Such terrible stuff. No, that road in Ashburn, just to keep the conversation flowing here. That road in Ashburn, absolutely petrifying. You're driving down. It's like, literally feels like you're in Ukraine. Like you feel. You're like, I kind of wish this place would get bombed. It would improve. No, out in Ashburn because it's like this. And it's like these evil cubes on either side and all the trees around there are dead for some reason.

[Libby Emmons]

Here's the thing though, about that.

[Carter]

Can we get. Maybe I'm gonna bomb them. It might look better, honestly, quite frankly, I'm not disavowal. We don't should actually bomb.

[Libby Emmons]

In Northern Virginia, there's a lot of these sort of manufactured communities where it's like there's an anchor Whole Foods or a Wegmans and then there's a lot of little restaurants, there's apartments, there's townhouses. And then like a little bit spread out, more single family homes. And I was driving around there with my mom, who hated it, right? She was like, this is absolutely cookie cutter. It's horrible. Sure. But here's the thing, right? So throughout the 90s and the early 2000s, we were hearing from civil engineers that we needed to build more walkable communities with town centers. And nobody imagined that what it would look like is a prefab manufactured, you know, crap looking set of buildings and homes. But that's what that is. If you take like your sustainable vision and you put the money behind it, that is the kind of money we have. And not like millions of dollars, you know, billions of dollars to make it look like something that was organic and sprung up over hundreds of years, that's what we're going to have. Because I guess these are the sustainable.

[Tim Pool]

I'm going to, I'm going to you. I talked about this last year, okay. And people, I see people in chat being like, Tim's full of it. Stuff's not happening. I just pulled this up from governor.west virginia.org February. This is just a month ago. A $4 billion investment in a near 600, was it 1.9 million square foot in the east 600 megawatt critical IT capacity data center in Berkeley County. I told you this was happening. They are, they are combining parcels, they are doing land acquisition deals quietly. Now to be fair, this was announced by the governor in a press release. But no one is covering this stuff in where we are in West Virginia. We got Berkeley and Jefferson County. You need this land for. They want it for data centers and for power transmission into data center alley in Virginia, which is only like from where we are, 10 minutes, 15 minutes. If you want to get to Leesburg and get further down by like Ashburn's a bit further away. But I'm telling you, these companies are moving in quietly dumping billions of dollars buying out land. What you need to understand is in residential areas, the way the structure of human civilization in the United States, people own like single acre lots. So you might have a 50 acre lot, 100 acre lot, but you're gonna have a ton of half acre and single acre residential, lots of. How do you buy them all up at once? It is particularly difficult and they need to do it quietly. It is happening. This is crazy because I said there was like a 300 acre plot that sold for millions last year quietly. Some dude bought it for dirt and then sold it for like 30x. Not even that long after they are going to be moving in and just flooding the zone. It is going to get nuts.

[Carter]

Totally. Well, and Libby, to your point with the prefab, I live in one of those prefab neighborhoods and the whole pitch for these was like, oh, it's gonna rebuild this high trust society. We stuff. You just don't see your neighbors anymore. But in mine, we all hide from each other. Of course, everyone's from a different country, so it's like the Olympic village of everyone was overweight. That's what it's like. Of course, we're all hiding from each other. You see someone coming through the window and you're getting on the elevator, you shut the elevator.

[Libby Emmons]

Sure.

[Carter]

It's created the most dystopian.

[Mahek Cook]

It's against like before COVID or this

[Libby Emmons]

is like this now.

[Carter]

This is like right now.

[Libby Emmons]

And so if you run into your neighbor at the Wegmans, you definitely don't know that it's your neighbor.

[Carter]

I don't know who these people are. And I have to go to this again, this prefab burger restaurant and like, look at them. It's horrifying. I'm telling you. It really is just this. I'd rather live in the in the air fabricated neighborhood, big homes.

[Tim Pool]

I don't see how you stop this from happening, but understand what it means when your neighborhood gets taken over by an investment into a data center. There are no jobs there. It will drive up energy prices to an extreme degree. You will eventually. It's like the movie up, right? Except instead of being surrounded by a shopping mall and human development, you'll be surrounded by a giant black box and there will be nothing, nothing for you there. Your neighborhood, your community will be turned into a giant black box.

[Mahek Cook]

How true is that? Because President Trump did talk about a lot of these data centers and making sure they were going to generate energy and pay for it themselves so that residents weren't getting the fees passed on to them. So how much of it is are his policies going to protect in terms of energy costs and things like that? Because that's one of the things he said. I want to say a couple weeks ago, he did say that when looking at data centers. And then the other part of this is a lot of people just can't fight it. They're going to succumb to the money. Right. So, I mean, It's a catch 22. People have free will. They could say no to this. But in terms of cost, I really do think that there's.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, they'll be bought out eventually. It's just a question matter of how much, you know. But the, yeah. Trump was saying that one of the things he was recommending when data centers were being built, these big companies building their AI data centers was that they also build power plants.

[Mahek Cook]

Yes.

[Libby Emmons]

And he said that the zoning and the regulations would be fast tracked and there'd be no issue to get the, the power plants approved. So I think there was one in Georgia that maybe was also building a power plant. But certainly the stuff that's going, that's happening in Maryland, like they're not building power plants. I doubt this is going to be in Berkeley County. I doubt there would be a power plant built with that. And it's sort of a, it's sort of a catch 22. I don't know if that's the right term for it. But Trump was also saying that he was going to prevent big corporate housing groups from buying up all the housing I saw. But he's not going to be preventing big AI companies from buying up all the housing and just tearing it down. So, you know, let's say the, let's say blackrock is prevented from buying up a whole bunch of property, but this AI data center is not prevented from buying up a whole bunch of property. We then still have the same problems with expensive housing.

[Mahek Cook]

I think it needs to be consistent. I thought it was foreign companies as well.

[Libby Emmons]

I don't know. But I mean the, the AI companies aren't foreign companies. Like Meta is an American company, you

[Mahek Cook]

know, people to buy up housing.

[Libby Emmons]

But if they, but if they, like Trump is so on board with the AI centers that I don't think he would do anything to put a stop to them buying up that land or that housing. And the other thing I think is communities like probably Morrissey and others, when they look at these centers, they look at the initial jobs and West Virginia had a, I think a 19% increase in population last year in 2025. Definitely, you know, the area could use more jobs, but these are all short term jobs. You know, these construction jobs are short

[Tim Pool]

term we're gonna go to your rumble rants and Super Chat. So smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know. If you got a friend or a family member that should be watching, tell them to watch shows. Also available on all podcast platforms. If you haven't checked out there, you can listen to it in your car or whatever it is you're going. That uncensored portion of the show is coming up at 10pm you don't want to miss it. But for now, let's see what you guys have to say. The legend Dano says too many people don't have kids so they don't care what happens after they are gone. There are too few who plant trees whose shade they will never sit under. That is unfortunately correct and it's very scary. Phoenix216 says I'm 30 years old and I'm a mold setter in an injection molding shop. I'm watching all the old processors and mechanics retire out with nobody in my age bracket or younger rising up to learn from them. Hope you guys know how to farm because you're have to do everything on your own. But you know what? Maybe it's a good thing this. This collapse in scale will create a whole bunch of every men's Every man's Renaissance man. I was just watching the new invincible season has come out.

[Libby Emmons]

Yes.

[Tim Pool]

I've been watching it and you know you just have to take the message of the Viltrumites. It doesn't matter when hardship comes because it only make you stronger.

[Libby Emmons]

What I thought was crazy is the rings around Viltrum are actually just dead bodies. Yeah, that's crazy.

[Tim Pool]

Yep. What a weird show.

[Libby Emmons]

That's a great. I love that show. I have a lot of fun watching it with. With the child.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. Let's see. Dahui says the movie Blade Runner predicted what's happening now with tech in China. Agree. I don't know. I guess.

[Carter]

Awesome. I love Blade Runner.

[Tim Pool]

Our sergeant says. Do you. Do you think this could possibly, possibly be a 4D chess mood move? Oh hey, look how bad America can affect the world economy. A possible wake up call to titsucker suckling elites. In what capacity?

[Carter]

The elite are like trying to send a message to themselves. Yeah guys, I don't know. We need to stop depending on America so much. Let's declare war on Iran. What? I'm probably being intentionally obtuse. I don't understand though.

[Tim Pool]

Igor Tigor says Iran never said they have enough uranium to build nukes during negotiations. LOL. That's a lie from Kushner and Ishkova. And Iran started enriching to only 60% only after Trump left JCPOA in 2018. I don't know why I would believe Iran over Americans, even if I don't like the Americans. That's the challenge. It's like, if Iran is gonna come to me, like, oh, yeah, trust me, we're not doing it. I'll be like, bro, I don't know that I can trust that guy, but I'm certainly not listening to you.

[Mahek Cook]

Well, they never let our inspectors in, right? Like, that was the whole thing in

[Tim Pool]

Japan, hundreds of feet underground.

[Mahek Cook]

Their underground warfare is insane. They're good at it, clearly.

[Tim Pool]

But.

[Mahek Cook]

But come on, it's Iran.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, indeed. Let's see we got going on here with some of these super chats. Let's grab some messages from the people. Marusha says Trump basically walked onto the set of Hoarders trying to fix 40 years of a mess in only two years, but people are blackpilling that he didn't fix it all in two weeks and complaining that he's throwing stuff out. I mean, there are people that didn't want to go to war. They voted for him, thinking, I mean, this is why, like. Like, the theory that Trump was part of the machine the whole time gets a little bit more credence. Like, he's going to war with Iran. You know, he's trying to get the petrodollar back on track. He got a whole bunch of people who thought he would not go to war with Iran in the Middle east to vote for him and then did. So maybe. I don't know. My attitude is kind of like, well, he's still done better on foreign policy than most presidents, actually. All the presidents of my lifetime. Yeah. And when people are like, but aren't you mad? He started a war with Iran. And I was like, bro, every single president of my lifetime has started wars. So I could only be so disappointed. I'm just like, well, you know, yeah, at least there's some other good stuff happening.

[Carter]

Yeah, it's like, I mean, the alternative. I mean, like Biden, Kamala Extension, they kept agitating, right? They kept, like, agitating Russia. Like, that probably would have escalated. It's like, you know, these things just happen. Wars.

[Libby Emmons]

No, I mean, yeah, it was a nice reminder. Don't forget, don't trust the government. You know, that's a good reminder of that.

[Carter]

And, like, I mean, to Tim's point, I mean, yes, better on foreign policy than all these previous administrations on the domestic policies. Miles better than Any previous president. Like, we're getting some massive victories, especially on immigration.

[Mahek Cook]

It's like immigration, gas prices. I mean, you said what gas was like a 290. And recently it's gone up to $4. But even the 290, remember when Joe Biden was in office, gas prices were up to five to six bucks in some places. So I know he's going to be able to accomplish it again. We just have to end this war swiftly.

[Tim Pool]

So. So Tate just posted this. The or Senate. Send it to me. A Kentucky family rejected $26 million to sell their part of their farm for a data center being offered about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area. That's crazy. Wow.

[Mahek Cook]

I love it.

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

You know, you know what I would say if they came to me and said, tim, we'll give you 25 million for this property? I'd say, how dare you not offer me 50.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, yeah.

[Carter]

Like in 10 years this company goes under and this family's just like, oh, like, guys, AI turned out really wasn't that great.

[Tim Pool]

Snapchat. Where's Snapchat at?

[Carter]

Yeah, they made those glasses and then disappeared.

[Tim Pool]

Does anybody use Snapchat?

[Libby Emmons]

There was recently a teacher who was using Snapchat and she got in a lot of trouble. Exactly. It was a pedo.

[Tim Pool]

Billion dollars by Facebook. And they said, no.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah, that was.

[Carter]

That was idiots.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

Because they were like, we're going to be the new Facebook. It's like, no, you're not.

[Libby Emmons]

That's. That is.

[Carter]

For a while, they were the most. Always sell out. This is what I've been saying.

[Tim Pool]

Always.

[Carter]

As soon as you get an opportunity,

[Tim Pool]

the right time to sell out.

[Carter]

Yeah, you got to pick the right time to sell out. You don't want to sell too early. You got to play the market a little bit. Sell out to the highest bidder

[Tim Pool]

claims Snapchat claims 474 million daily active users.

[Carter]

What?

[Libby Emmons]

Still.

[Carter]

Still international?

[Libby Emmons]

Like global.

[Tim Pool]

Hard to believe.

[Libby Emmons]

Your kids doing it global.

[Tim Pool]

They've got. Apparently they've got 25 million paying subscriptions.

[Carter]

That's crazy. It's only co workers. You ever notice co workers use Snapchat?

[Tim Pool]

It's never like, it's never your friends.

[Carter]

When I worked retail, my co workers were like loving Snapchat and stuff. I didn't know they had paid plans.

[Mahek Cook]

I didn't know Snapchat had.

[Tim Pool]

They apparently did $5.9 billion last year in revenue for a 10% increase.

[Libby Emmons]

So maybe they're. Maybe they are not worried that they didn't sell out to Facebook.

[Tim Pool]

Maybe Snapchat should cut a deal with us so that you know.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

On Snapchat, for $100 million, we'll do

[Carter]

a snap 10 second episode.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. Apparently I love filters.

[Carter]

I love me.

[Tim Pool]

Apparently been doing well.

[Carter]

I will say I logged on to. To Travelers the other day just because I had not been on in a while and a lot of people were still active.

[Tim Pool]

It's like, wow, I don't know anybody. Do you guys know anybody who's Travelers?

[Carter]

No, Just again, you just see it sting operations.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah. Pedos. Pedo teachers use it and then they get arrested and lips of tick tock posts it.

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

I don't even have the app on my phone. I haven't. I don't even.

[Libby Emmons]

I wonder if I still have it. I had it for a while because I deleted it.

[Carter]

It was being attached by like a lot of TV channels. Like in 2018, I used to see, like, they would add the Snapchat thing next to their social medias. But like, I remember I deleted it the day I graduated high school. I was like, enough of this. I'm mature. I'm gonna use Instagram now. I'm an adult now.

[Tim Pool]

All right, let's see what we got here. Marisha says, would you feel better about Iran if boots on the ground meant Israeli, Saudi and Kurds with us just giving air, sea, space and cyber support? I actually think the TSA stuff. I think Congress lies and they go like, oh, no, we're having a political fight. We can't fund tsa. You know, oh, geez. I think what's actually happening is they're like, we need to divert all that money to the war effort. Money is not infinite. And you can print and just produce money upon the creation of debt. Debt. But you still have a problem of inflation if that's the case. So they have to control that number somehow. Otherwise you'll get a stimulus, like with Obama to try and pay off the debt that they've mass generated. So again, $200 billion to replenish our bombs. Any involvement? I also wonder if the financial crisis, a component of that was actually the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over exerting. Because you literally can't just have infinite money. Doesn't work that way. But who knows? Who am I but a man on the Internet complaining about things Boba Fett says, hey, Tim, I'm in the hospital with baby number three. Found out the gender on September 10th, so we had to name him Charlie. Congratulations.

[Libby Emmons]

Hey, congrats.

[Mahek Cook]

Awesome. Congrats.

[Carter]

Welcome to the World.

[Libby Emmons]

That is a great name for, for a child.

[Carter]

Fantastic name.

[Libby Emmons]

Spectacular.

[Carter]

Welcome.

[Tim Pool]

All right, welcome.

[Carter]

A lot of work to do. Get, get, get. Posting as soon as you can. Type little one. Literally as soon as your fingers develop, just let it fly. Whatever you're thinking.

[Tim Pool]

Wah, wah, wah.

[Carter]

It's good, it's good.

[Tim Pool]

What do we got here? Hitman Manzarelli. I noticed a shift when Tucker got questioned about buying his house in Qatar

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[Tim Pool]

Level Up Expo got flustered and now seeing him want the United States to fall in the world stage after Biden ruined it again. It's people, wealthy elites transferring their wealth out of the United States expecting its collapse. Guys, I gotta be honest, without people, is Tucker wrong? I mean you could, you could say his opinions are bad, but I mean like if it were true that Tucker was just transferring his wealth out of this country to foreign countries and advocating for them, knowing that in 10 years the country is going to collapse without children. Do you blame him?

[Libby Emmons]

He has repeatedly said that he would not leave the United States. You think he's lying?

[Tim Pool]

Well, I'm saying if it is true because they're saying he bought property in Qatar.

[Carter]

Yeah, I need, I need to do that. But somewhere I could afford, I'm gonna be like, guys, democratic pro. The Congo is the future. And honestly, we're in a multipolar world. Like I think they're emerging power going, what's the.

[Tim Pool]

Which country were they gonna send a Burgo Garcia to?

[Carter]

It was like, Uganda, Rwanda.

[Tim Pool]

Was it Uganda?

[Carter]

No, Rwanda was the third.

[Tim Pool]

It wasn't Uganda.

[Carter]

I thought it was like, Costa Rica for a while.

[Tim Pool]

No, no, it's an African country where their GDP is 200.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Carter]

Djibouti.

[Mahek Cook]

Liberia.

[Libby Emmons]

No.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, yeah, that's.

[Carter]

Now. We tried.

[Tim Pool]

It was.

[Mahek Cook]

Oh, before.

[Tim Pool]

Let me, let me see. Was it.

[Mahek Cook]

Was it administration getting ready to deport?

[Tim Pool]

They've. They've. There's been, like, seven countries, but there was one in particular we tracked the GDP on in Africa. I think it was. I think it was Uganda. Or was it Burundi? I think it might have been Rwanda.

[Carter]

Rwanda's doing the best out of all those countries. 2000 is not bad.

[Libby Emmons]

It might have been Rwanda. Rwanda was the country, too. I mean, they have. Yeah, Britain was going to send their people. They're not people there. They're.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, it was Uganda people there. And the GDP there, I think, was, like, 200 bucks.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, Rwanda had this brutal civil war. I remember talking to a delegate from Rwanda at the UN who was saying, we just had a genocide. We need people.

[Carter]

Yeah. And diversity is your strength. So, like.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, I was wrong. I was wrong. The per capita GDP of Uganda is $1,000. It was so it's like a. It's like, like 80 bucks per month.

[Carter]

So honestly, like, the way that the world's shifting, you think US, China, Russia, and then honestly, Uganda.

[Tim Pool]

I, I, I. Guys, I, like, Kilmar should be happy to go to Uganda because he'd be like, a king. Yeah, it would. Like, imagine. Imagine if, like, Tate, what if you got transported back in time to, like, medieval London with your knowledge?

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

You'd be a wizard.

[Libby Emmons]

I think you wouldn't be.

[Carter]

No. They'd be like, how do you. How do you make a clock? I'd be like,

[Tim Pool]

let me Google it.

[Carter]

The Mets last world series was 85.

[Tim Pool]

You know, but you know how to make gunpowder?

[Libby Emmons]

Actually do. But if you could actually do anything medical, like, if you knew, like, alcohol treats wounds, they'd be like, you're a witch. Burn you.

[Carter]

Yeah, true. And I'm.

[Tim Pool]

They would. They would not do that. He's not a woman.

[Libby Emmons]

Oh, well, they, they. They could still get mad at you.

[Tim Pool]

No, no, all he's got to do is.

[Libby Emmons]

We're like. It would be like.

[Tim Pool]

It's really simple.

[Libby Emmons]

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court when he shows up with soap.

[Tim Pool]

No, he just shows up and says, I can cure your ailing son. I, I figured out that Spirits. And you pour it on the leg and the infection goes away. You know what I mean?

[Carter]

And I'd just be like a king. Like, literally king of the world.

[Libby Emmons]

Not beer, though. You'd have to, like, fig. You'd have to do.

[Tim Pool]

I, I, I honestly think the average American do that. I shouldn't say the average American. Well, maybe the average American would really come to understand just how much they know. That would make them a wizard. In, like, medieval times, like, you go back to 1300 with your average understanding of things, your average American would end up being a wizard. It's like idiocracy almost. You know how they're like, which shape goes in which hole? And he doesn't. He gets a perfect score. And, like, you are the smartest man on the planet.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah,

[Carter]

because, like, you know, like, babies are usually pretty impressed with my knowledge. I'm like, that triangle is not going in that, that square peg. And they're like, he's right. Like, babies are very impressed. Yeah, bro.

[Tim Pool]

What was the. What was, like, the degree of math back then? Did they even understand? Oh, that stuff about.

[Carter]

Oh, like, Newton was on the most basic stuff. He was like, oh, apples fall down. It's like, thanks, gravity.

[Tim Pool]

I know tree and realize that things

[Carter]

fall because Einstein was on equals mc. Who's thinking about that? No one's thinking emc squared.

[Tim Pool]

Like, but here's the best part. Like, you go back in time. This would be a great skit, by the way. And it's just like, I know a ton of basic science. And then you're like, I have Einstein's basic understanding. I know it. I could tell the people. And then you go to, like, some. You go. You go before the king and be like, this information will change everything you believe. And they're like, on with it. Energy equals mass times the velocity of light squared. And he goes, what is that? Okay, well, light travels at a constant. And the sun, which we're orbiting. Off with his head. They throw you in the dungeon.

[Carter]

I would be so cooked. I'd be like.

[Tim Pool]

Like, imagine trying to explain relativity to someone in the year 1300. They would be like, what?

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

You'd be like, okay, well, the planets. What?

[Libby Emmons]

I mean, like, what. What would you do if you went back in time? Like, how would you earn your.

[Mahek Cook]

Just earn your.

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You wouldn't blend it.

[Mahek Cook]

You would try to blend. I would try to.

[Tim Pool]

I'd make gunpowder.

[Libby Emmons]

The fact of the matter is, we don't look like people who would be in medieval times. Like, we are fake.

[Tim Pool]

Oh, we wouldn't be able to speak any. Functional.

[Carter]

Yeah, you got to go into all the old English.

[Tim Pool]

No, they didn't even talk that way.

[Carter]

It'd be so confusing.

[Libby Emmons]

I'd be like, guys, have you done that? Have you looked at that thing where it's. Have you seen that clip where it's like, the guy does the old English from 100 years ago?

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

200 years ago, 500 years ago.

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

It's incomprehensible.

[Libby Emmons]

At a certain point, you're like, I got nothing. I can't talk to these people. I got nothing.

[Carter]

Yeah. I'd be like, you guys need to speak clearly.

[Libby Emmons]

Things I could do.

[Carter]

Yeah, yeah, that's what I'd be like.

[Libby Emmons]

I'd open like a street food stall. How far are you Hardly cooking their home. So they'd all go out for street food.

[Carter]

Oh, yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

You know, because of fire food, you just make a stuff or something.

[Carter]

Just blow them.

[Mahek Cook]

Oh, the top.

[Libby Emmons]

I'd be like, great taco. The taco would be good. I could make pasta like nobody's business. Be like, what? It's a ravioli. Just eat it. It's better than that pasty.

[Tim Pool]

They'd be like, pay past. What the hell? What if isika mehta and herbewe is apparently, how you say in English, I am looking for food and shelter.

[Carter]

That's language.

[Tim Pool]

I pray yao. I seek mita and herberware Fortnite.

[Mahek Cook]

No.

[Carter]

No.

[Libby Emmons]

Wow. Maybe that's what good seer dam yam

[Tim Pool]

in need of mayta and herbivore.

[Libby Emmons]

Trying to speak old English. Yeah.

[Carter]

You would go back, they would just yogurt and honey.

[Tim Pool]

Wow.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Carter]

You'd be institutional.

[Libby Emmons]

You wouldn't be a wizard out of luck. You'd be homeless.

[Carter]

Yeah. Crazy.

[Mahek Cook]

What is that?

[Tim Pool]

That's amazing.

[Libby Emmons]

And they'd also be like, shelter. You don't look right. We're all mutts. So we all look like mutts. We all, like Americans, look different.

[Carter]

Yeah, we do.

[Tim Pool]

We don't look like, not be able to communicate with any of these people.

[Libby Emmons]

No, no.

[Tim Pool]

You'd be better off in Spain, probably.

[Libby Emmons]

Why I love it with the lith. You just be like, Spain.

[Carter]

You go there and if you weren't Muslim, because it was. They had the recon.

[Libby Emmons]

It was the Moors.

[Carter]

Like, guys, you got limited time. Enjoy.

[Tim Pool]

But I mean, like, general Latin words might get you further than Old English.

[Carter]

That's probably true. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

I think you'd want to end up vice versa.

[Carter]

Yeah, true.

[Tim Pool]

I mean. Yeah. I got. I gotta be honest. 1300 Spanish is very similar to modern Spanish. Spanish.

[Libby Emmons]

Yeah.

[Mahek Cook]

Wow.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah, it's like basically the same thing. It's like the same thing. Yeah.

[Carter]

Hey, New world. That way.

[Tim Pool]

Beat the clock Comer was more common than K. I knew it. They still said herber. God.

[Carter]

Oh, we've been saying it.

[Tim Pool]

What is that word?

[Carter]

I've been saying that.

[Tim Pool]

Herber. Herber her. Herberging.

[Libby Emmons]

How do you spell it?

[Tim Pool]

Phonetically, Herbert.

[Libby Emmons]

Herberging.

[Tim Pool]

I guess it's G I N G because GI says silent J. Or is it a full one? Herbert Jing. What is going herberging anyway?

[Libby Emmons]

By Berghild Maria Thomas daughter.

[Carter]

That's wrong.

[Tim Pool]

All right, what do we got here? We got an Icelandic room.

[Libby Emmons]

It's an Icelandic term.

[Tim Pool]

Now, what does this say?

[Libby Emmons]

Or shelter.

[Carter]

Iceland.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah.

[Libby Emmons]

I knew you.

[Tim Pool]

Forced name change says if US lets Iranians fight Iran, regime support starts with most pros. 700, 900,000 committed. IRGC is 160, 180K. Then he lets a bunch of people. Opton gets around 200, 400k mainly from. Okay, well, just some numbers. Interesting numbers. Thank you for those numbers.

[Carter]

You just send us a math problem.

[Tim Pool]

All right. James Black says, tim, all I will say is I pray. I. I pray first for my son to come home safe, a swift resolution and minimal loss of life. He is in the unsaid unit. Pray for our troops and our leaders. Absolutely, man.

[Carter]

Yeah, Absolutely.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. Again, like, I'm gonna stress this. Basically, there are people in the area that have started making movements where locals have been saying, like, we're seeing a lot of people who live out here, gear for deployment. So I'm not going to say which. Which units those are, but

[Libby Emmons]

I have a much. I have a much different view of. I mean, of the military since it turns out my son is friends with kids in the ROTC. And I'm like, you guys are 16,

[Tim Pool]

17, and they're very polite to you. And they say, yes, ma'. Am.

[Libby Emmons]

Well, they see. They all seem like really good kids.

[Tim Pool]

Well, I was at a bubble, but I'm a sucker. A bunch of teenage girls, and they were just obnoxious and rude. And I was like, oh, my God. Yeah, oh, my God. And they're really dumb, too.

[Libby Emmons]

Teenage girls.

[Tim Pool]

Yeah. Well, these ones, I don't know. I'm not saying all these girls, I guess maybe like. Like they ordered bubble tea and they would make it and put on the counter, and there's just like 17 teenage girls all standing there staring at the bubble tea, confused, not knowing, like, to go take their drink. And I'm Sitting there like, I am waiting for a drink for my family and there's like a pile of bubble teas and they're just like looking at it. And then one by one would walk up, look confused, and, like, take it and look at it and be like. And then put it back down and walk off. I'm like, did you not know what you ordered? What is happening here? And then when they called my drinks, I grabbed them. I was like, I'm getting out of here.

[Carter]

Yeah.

[Tim Pool]

But they were like, snooty too.

[Libby Emmons]

I love bubble tea, though.

[Tim Pool]

Bubble tea is fantastic.

[Carter]

It's nice.

[Tim Pool]

All right, everybody, we're going to the uncensored portion of the show. So smash that, like, button. Share the show with everyone you've ever met in your life. That'll [e-mail] timcast irl where we will take callers like you, great callers from the Timcast Discord. So you don't want to miss it, my friends. You can follow me on Accent Instagram at Tim Castle. Mac, do you want to shout anything out?

[Mahek Cook]

No, it's just really good to be here. I can't wait to hear what the listeners are thinking about tonight. Iran's definitely been a hot topic.

[Tim Pool]

Right on.

[Libby Emmons]

I would love if you guys go check out my podcast, the Pod Millennial. You can go to the podmillennial.com and after this show, go listen to the latest episode where I talk to Mary Morgan about pretty much everything.

[Carter]

Follow me on X and Instagram at Realtape Brown and come hang out at noon on Rumble on the Tim Cast Channel. I hold down the Tim Cast News noon live show. So we'll see you there.

[Tim Pool]

Send me stuff on Twitter at Carter

[Carter]

Banks music or news or any questions, compliments or concerns for the show. And thank you all for coming. And let's, let's get back into it.

[Tim Pool]

Tim, we'll see you all [e-mail] Timcast IRL in about 30 seconds. Thanks for hanging out.

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