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DNI Tulsi Gabbard says that she can confirm the Russiagate conspiracy was created by the Obama administration and she has the papers to prove it. She's delivered them to the the Trump Justice Department. So we will see where that goes and we'll talk about that tonight. Donald Trump is suing the Wall Street Journal because of the Epstein what comic book maybe you call it. So we'll talk about that. Colbert is out at CBS and the Dems are saying that it is foul play and it doesn't have anything to do with losing $40 million a year. PR Puerto Rico bans sex changes for people under 21. So we'll get into that. And the Pacific Northwest is is crazy like a fox. Still, Washington has said that they have a policy that in that bans CPS from taking kids from drug using parents and it is now linked to an increase in child mortality rates. So we'll talk about that. But before we do we have an announcement. The Culture War podcast momentarily was not going to happen in D.C. at the Comedy Loft but now it's back on. Apparently there was some leftists that were making a big stink and they called up the comedy club and they said we don't like this. And someone at the comedy club said oh we're scared. And then the owner said BS it's happening. So all of the dates are still happening. You can go to what's the website to get it@comedy loft.com you can get tickets there. And what's that DC com dcc comedyloft.com you can get your tickets for the Culture War live there and also we want you to go and buy some coffee. Cast brew.com you can get Josie's Signature Blend 1776 Josie's Special Blend. It's a creamy coffee, I guess, American cream. I'm not sure exactly what it tastes like because I haven't tried it yet. But you can also get Ian's Graphene Dream, which is the most popular coffee that we sell. You can still get them in regular, and you can also get the K cups. You can get the. Is there still some Alex Stein prime time grind? Oh, no, wait. No, no, no. It's sold out. I'm sorry.
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Alex Stein
Got Alex Stein, the pimp on a blimp, Guys. And I just flew here, and I got kicked off my Southwest Airlines flight for wearing this hat. I don't know why. They all looked me weird. I was just eating Burger King.
Phil
If you show up with a hat. Has anyone ever tried that? Have you tried to get onto a plane with that?
Alex Stein
I did, and I got kicked off, and I'm not allowed to fly Southwest anymore. So, yes. This hat and the culture that one man created, I don't agree with it, but it's, you know, you can't fly fight culture. It just wins in the end. So thank you for having me. It's. It's. It's great, actually, that Tim's not here, because you know what? I like it because when. When the. You know, when the cat's away.
Phil
You can't do that in here.
Alex Stein
The mice can play. Yeah, Tim hates smoking. Yeah. I'm gonna smoke the whole show.
Phil
Yeah, no, you have to stop. Listen, I'm gonna point a gun at you.
Alex Stein
Tim's not here. Is Tim gonna come get me? This is.
Phil
This is. This is. This is crazy.
Alex Stein
All right, let's start the show.
Phil
I'm feeling good. Six, seven. Kevin is here. How you doing?
Kevin
Hey, what's up, y'? All Grateful to be here. I don't have a Burger King hat with me, but hopefully you don't have.
Phil
A vape either, actually. So what. What are you. What do you do?
Kevin
Documentary filmmaker. Worked with Tim and the guys here to make Sin Frontera coming out Monday live on Tim Pool's Rumble Channel.
Phil
We're gonna show. Show a little clip of that tonight, right?
Kevin
Hey, yeah, Stay for the whole show to see the trailer for that coming up.
Phil
Ian is here.
Ian Crossland
What's up, brother?
Phil
How you doing?
Ian Crossland
I'm doing good, man.
Phil
Tell everybody who you are, Ian.
Ian Crossland
I'm Ian Crossland. I'm an avid reader, Internet connoisseur. I, I, I like, I was thinking today, like, what causes subatomic spin? And I kept trying to figure it out and I think it might be cymatics. You know, like the vibration of the space time is causing the shape of subatomosis to appear in a position. Then it changes the frequency it appears in a different position, changes it again, appears again, then it changes it back to where it started. So the scientific community thinks it's spinning is just alternating position, and then that causes electrons and protons to form.
Phil
Sick. Yeah, Carter's here.
Carter Banks
Cymatics in action is a line from the Trash House sessions that I recorded with you, Ian. I have all of your songs just stuck in my head perpetually. Now, a lot of good ones.
Ian Crossland
We gotta push those out.
Carter Banks
No, seriously. But yeah, I'm Carter Banks. I do all the music here at Tim Cass and Trash House Records, and I'm pumped to be hanging out with y' all tonight.
Phil
All right, well, we'll get right into it then. From Real Clear Investigations. Exclusive secret meetings, open document floodgates on Trump Russia hoax. The floodgates gates holding back long buried classified documents exposing government efforts to claim Donald Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to manipulate the 2016 US presidential election might finally be opening. Trump administration officials held an urgent meeting Sunday to discuss new information on Russiagate which they might use to build a criminal conspiracy case against Obama and Biden administrations political appointees who allegedly weaponize the government against Trump. Two Trump administration officials told Real, Real Clear Investigations. The documents are said to contain long classified information, including a secret 200 page congressional audit that reveals details about how an intelligence community assessment on Russia ordered by the president, by President Obama after the 2016 election was framed in a way that portrayed Trump as being beholden to the Kremlin. Now, everybody here may well you may or may not be aware of it, but I believe it was last week Matt Taibi wrote on his substack about how the doj, Comey and and Brennan were involved, that there was evidence against them and now there's investigations into both Comey and Brennan. But I'm wondering if you guys have any kind of take on this. What do you get? What do you think?
Alex Stein
Have you heard of the Brennan kill list?
Phil
The strike?
Alex Stein
No, Google Brennan kill list. So John Brennan every Tuesday would make a list of assets. He would go over the CIA, who to kill. I think it was the New York Times wrote about it. It's Brendan Killis. And every Tuesday they would type in John Brennan Killis. Tuesday. It should come up. So every Tuesday they would submit this list to Obama and Obama would kill these people. Type in.
Phil
Oh, so you're talking. Well, you're talking about the John Brennan's.
Alex Stein
Kill list right here, the New Yorker. So, you know, this talks about. Obviously he'd probably have to pay for the article, but it talks about how John Brennan would give a list every Tuesday and Barack Obama would personally oversee and approve who would kill.
Phil
Yeah, So I think that that's the deposition matrix. Formerly known as a kill list is a database of information for tracking, capturing, rendering, or killing suspected enemies of the United States. Is that what you're talking about?
Alex Stein
Yes.
Phil
So this is the drone strike list that Obama would use.
Alex Stein
Well, they would have multiple places. I mean, they would kill people with drones. They'd kill people all different ways on this list, allegedly, the CIA list. And so I would think it's pretty obvious that John Burden and Obama are corrupt. So, I mean, I definitely want to look into. A lot of people don't know about this list, but literally, this list, allegedly every Tuesday, there's different names, different assets, and they would go kill the people on this list. So I don't. I don't want to be on that list. I mean, who knows who's on that list? Let's see that list.
Phil
The deposition matrix. This is where they had the justification for killing Anwar Al Awlaki and for killing whoever was targeted at the wedding that Anwar Al Awlaki's son was at that ended up with him being killed by drone strikes.
Alex Stein
Yeah, but I'm just saying this list, though, is not just big assets. Like, there's small assets on this list. You know, there's all kinds of people on this list. I mean, and who chooses to kill this guy because we don't want like them, because they don't give us, you know, a good deal on oil. Like, you know, who gets to cheat? Why are we.
Phil
Well, apparently it was John Brennan, the president, that would cheer.
Alex Stein
So John Brennan gets to decide, oh, we're going to kill this guy. So I don't know. I don't like that our government even has a list like that.
Carter Banks
I mean, I know I'm being update every Tuesday.
Alex Stein
Every Tuesday, literally, it was called. There's that. That New Yorker, I think, wrote about it, and there's other people who've written about it, but it was every Tuesday that this list would go out and it'd be a new list be new assets that they would go and kill. And Barack Obama was the guy that would actually directly approve it to John Brennan. So I think they're corrupt. I think if you just look at this article and you guys can do your own research, today we'll attempt a.
Phil
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Alex Stein
I'm not, you know, conspiracy theorists. This is actual knowledge that has been exposed. So yes, I want them held accountable. And that's what I, this is why I don't like the war in the Middle East. You guys probably agree with me. Why are we drone striking weddings? Why are we drone striking Afghani funerals? I mean, it's just because we're killing terrorists, because that, that protects us.
Phil
To my knowledge, there has, there haven't been really a lot of drone strikes as of late.
Alex Stein
They're not as of late. But Barack Obama, I think he did a drone strike every. I think it was like, I think he did enough drone strikes in eight years. It was like he dropped a drone every two hours for eight years.
Kevin
I've got the stats for that actually. I just looked this up. This is ridiculous. So three, three to 4,000 total deaths from Obama drone strikes with 300 to 1,000 civilian deaths.
Alex Stein
You can multiply that by three. It's like a girl's body count. If they tell you they banged five guys, they banged 50 guys. And that's the same thing. If the CIA tells you they killed 3,000, they probably killed 30, dude.
Kevin
And that's out of 563 drone strikes. That's a ton of drone strikes to. Okay, that's crazy.
Alex Stein
Yeah. So, you know, so, but, but back.
Phil
To the, back to the home front here. The, the idea that CIA and the Obama administration, including the FBI, was fabricating information about foreign collusion by Donald Trump by the, the, you know, the elect, the elected president. Because a lot of the, if I understand correctly, the information that Tulsi Gabbard had put up, it's all on her, on her, on her X account. But she was talking about in December. So Donald Trump had been elected and at that point, they were saying. On December 8, 2016, IC officials prepared an assessment for the President's daily brief, finding that Russia did not impact recent U.S. election results by conducting cyber attacks on infrastructure. Before it could reach the president, it was abruptly pulled based on new guidance. This key intelligence assessment was never published. Now it's based on guidance that's not based on evidence that was, was found or new intelligence. It was guidance from the higher ups in the CIA, I suppose. So this is after Donald Trump had already won the election. So it's the outgoing president trying to implicate the incoming administration in, you know, fixing the election. I mean, that's something that, that everybody in the United States should have a problem with.
Alex Stein
Yeah, but I mean, now don't we not. Not even care anymore? I mean, do we really care anymore about Russia hoax? Like, I feel like everybody knows it was bs Donald Trump won the second election. And now going back, I think that we would all say, and you guys might not agree that it was good that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.
Phil
So that's, that's not, we're not talking about.
Alex Stein
I know we're talking about 2016 and how the Russian collusion, how it's all fake, but we know that it's fake. Is anybody going to be held accountable? I doubt it.
Phil
Well, I mean, like I said last week, or maybe the week before, both Comey and Brennan are, are under investigation. So an actual investigation by the, the Justice Department. Now, with this information, it's completely reasonable to think that they might be actually, you know, brought before a court or, or something might actually happen. I understand. You know, there's a lot of people that are like, oh, nothing ever happens. And, and that's even to the point that it's a meme now. But still, you. If they're investigating and there's this evidence that Dni Gabbard has, has delivered to the doj, because at the end of this, this, this tweet thread, she says, I'm providing all documents to the Department of Justice to deliver the accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people deserve. So she's delivering this information. They've already started the investigations into those two guys without this information. So this going to them, I would assume that it is more than just a fart in the wind.
Alex Stein
Well, does Comey get a pass, though? Because I think that in 2016, him saying that he would investigate Hillary Clinton arguably won Donald Trump the election. So I don't know if he meant to do that, but I think Donald Trump almost kind of owes James Comey one. Do you think he'll give him a pardon on this deal? I don't know. I think he would. I think Comey will get off. I just personally don't think anybody in the FBI will actually tell on themselves like this. I hope I'm wrong. I hope Tulsa Gabbard does this. I just have no hope of the FBI investigating itself or the CIA investigating itself.
Phil
So I feel like this is one of the things that the Trump administration has tried to do since it got into office again, has been trying to, you know, cleave apart the deep state and go after the entrenched bureaucrats. And I think that this might be an actual significant part of it.
Carter Banks
Yeah, it seems like they're starting from the very beginning when they're finally in there and they're like, okay, well, we can at least start with this from 2016 and start piecing together what we could possibly do about this situation. So it's like, better than nothing.
Phil
Yeah. I mean, and, and, you know, there to another point, there's a lot of people that are complaining, you know, pretty regularly. Oh, you know, I want to see arrests where. What's Donald Trump doing? What's Donald Trump doing? Etc. And Cash Patel and, and Dan Bongino have said, hey, look, we're working behind the scenes. We can't tell you guys what's going on, and we can't arrest people or make arrests without actually having tangible evidence that we could actually, you know, take action on. Because you don't want to. To arrest people and not have something to actually prosecute, not have. Not be sure that you have a legitimate chance of, of. Of actually being successful. I mean, the government's, what, 95 of their prosecutions, they end up convicting, you know, come to a conviction. So they, they want.
Alex Stein
It's higher than 95, as you see. You know, we're going to go back and we're going to investigate this. And obviously they can. They colluded. And I think there's a lot of people that were involved in the collusion in 2016 and the Russia Gate stuff, but I wish that Donald Trump would actually use his resources to investigate whether Michelle Obama has a penis or not. You know what I mean? I'm sick and tired. We know about Russia stuff. I wanna know about this conspiracy stuff. And on a serious note, obviously Michelle Obama, whether she has one or not, there is other stuff I think that is more important to go after than just James Comey. So I don't know. Look, At. You said Maureen Comey lost her job in the Puff Daddy trial. I think that was. She, you know, purposely did that. She purposely lost that case. I think there's a big conspiracy there. So Puff Daddy would walk. Because I think Puff Daddy is connected to the same people that Jeffrey Epstein is connected to and that they disagree. You don't think so?
Phil
The reason I disagree is I think that the people that Puff Daddy is mostly connected to are multi millionaires. The people that Epstein is dealing with are multi billionaires. And that is a world of. It is different from me to. To multi billionaires.
Alex Stein
I would argue that those people are financially more powerful, but I would. I would. Culturally, the people that Puff Daddy did are more popular in general, so they could be used for even more leverage because they're actually outspoken. Like a celebrity is more important than the secret billionaire who was implicated in.
Phil
The Puff Daddy stuff.
Alex Stein
Well, Jay Z, Beyonce, allegedly. And then they had to sue a bunch of people. I mean, this is allegedly. I'm not saying Jay Z was doing that, but he had to sue a bunch of people for accusing him of being at these parties. So I do think, even though they might have been as financially powerful, they were powerful in a different way. To try to. If you have leverage on a person like Michael Jackson or a person like R. Kelly or something like that, I think that is very powerful. Like, their message goes a lot farther than Billionaire Nobody Knows her Name.
Ian Crossland
It kind of makes me think that, like you said, they should be focusing on maybe something more important than the Comey thing. Now, firstly, if they did collude, Bring.
Phil
It to Jesus, you saying that they should be focusing on something more important.
Ian Crossland
Well, that's what Alex insinuated, that why is the government focusing on this thing? It seems like it's almost irrelevant. And it does feel like they're trying to throw people off the Epstein case and make them think about something new. Like, they're like, oh, shit, Epstein. Epstein. And like, Trump doesn't want to be involved, want to be near the name. He's like, just hit Comey.
Phil
Go for Comey. I think you all got Epstein on the brain.
Alex Stein
Yeah, well, how could we not? I mean, that's the only thing we want. This damn list. I mean, I can see the influencers are like, well, you know, we have bigger fish to fry than the Epstein list. But I've been passionate about this since 2016, and the Epstein list was one of the reasons that I started liking Donald Trump because he was opposite of Hillary, who Bill Clinton was on this plane Doing God knows what.
Phil
So it's something that Trump isn't implicated in. Being on the plane.
Alex Stein
He was on the plane. But I do think that Bill Clinton getting, you know, oral sex from Monica Lewinsky and maybe doing more in the Oval Office. I think he. Maybe Donald Trump's a dog. He likes to bang him. I'm sure he does. But I think Bill Clinton's even more of a sexual pervert, and I think he's more of a sexual degenerate. And I think that he is more than likely guilty.
Phil
More than Epstein.
Alex Stein
Well, no, Bill Clinton and Epstein are probably the same. You know, Epstein, I don't even know. I don't want to say this on YouTube. I don't want to get it. Strict. But supposedly Epstein had. I was just listening to Tucker talk about this. Was obsessed with girls with brace.
Phil
I was just.
Alex Stein
Yeah, I'm just saying that I'm like.
Phil
But Bill Clinton. I was like, Bill Clinton.
Alex Stein
So. So Epstein's the sickest. But Bill Clinton, I think, is a close. You know, he's a dog, too. But the sickest of them all is Jimmy Seville. That's the person we're not talking about. That's a guy that was a, you know, hosted Top of the Pops. He was knighted by the queen. He was best friends with Prince Charles. And then after his death, it came out that he was going. He was a porter at the Royal Children, the Royal Children's Hospital, and that he allegedly would go into the morgue and he would take bodies and they would take them on boats, and they would do sra. Satanic ritualistic abuse, and they would, like, do rituals with the dead bodies. And Jimmy Seville lay the groundwork for these, you know, elite pedophiles doing, you know, weird rituals with.
Phil
So I. I get that, you know, the Epstein stuff is very hot right now, and there's a lot of people that. That want to talk about it. You don't think that the possibility of finding out that the Obama administration, including former President Obama, were involved in trying to, you know, trying to basically do a coup to an incoming president?
Alex Stein
You know, I mean, I think we already know that. I mean, what, are we going to arrest Brock Obama, you think?
Phil
We all know that Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile. You just.
Alex Stein
That's true, but I just don't think they're going to arrest Barack Obama. I don't think they're going to arrest James Comey. I don't think John Brennan's. If John Brennan had a list where he could just kill people.
Phil
Epstein's dead. They're not arresting him again.
Alex Stein
Yeah, but there's people that are alive that are still on the list. You know what I mean?
Carter Banks
Like, you know, they did arrest Epps Epstein because they finally got the paperwork finished. So maybe this is the beginning of that, of, of, of like going after the, the, for the 2016 stuff. The Russia gate.
Phil
Oh, okay. Going after, like the administration.
Alex Stein
I mean, I'm not saying that it's not important. I just, I, I'm worried. I love Cash. I'm friends, you know, with Cash Patel. He's helped me out. But I just do not trust the FBI to investigate itself. I mean, call me black pilled or whatever. So I don't know. I don't. We have a system of justice, but it's not very just so I don't think it's like the MAGA granny is going to get six years in jail, but, you know, James Comey. So then I'm going to get five.
Phil
Minutes, take that thought and apply it to the Epstein stuff. If, if you don't trust the FBI to investigate itself and the, the evidence that DNI Gabbard is.
Alex Stein
Well, I think, I think a child is worse than whatever. James.
Phil
But why would, why would the FBI investigate that if they wouldn't investigate?
Alex Stein
Well, the FBI didn't really investigate that very well, did they?
Phil
So do you think that there's more of a chance that stuff will come out about the Epstein stuff?
Alex Stein
I think it's a possibility. But I was, you know, I was arguing with James o' Keefe about this. He says that it's gonna come out sooner. I think it'll probably all come out after we're dead. You know, that's when the list will come out. It's like how 9 11, there's 28 pages redacted that they're not gonna give us. So they give us a 911 Commission report, but literally 28 pages are redacted. So they give us a binder, but it's full of a bunch of bullcrap.
Phil
We already know that was. So the binder was, was just, was the worst.
Alex Stein
But why even give us the binder if there's not going to be a phase two? Why put phase one phases? There's multiple phases.
Phil
It was the dumbest thing, that was literally the dumbest thing that the administration, the Trump administration has done, bar none. That was the worst thing they've done.
Alex Stein
And people have attacked the influencers, but I'm actually empathetic to them because they didn't know. They didn't know, and any of us, if they invited me to the White House and they handed me a binder, I'd be like, this is cool. Part Epstein list. I mean, I don't, you know.
Phil
Well, that's part of why it was so bad, because they embarrassed people that had been such staunch supporters of the.
Carter Banks
What was the actual point of that? Do we.
Phil
There was literally none. That's the problem.
Carter Banks
Some reason they did that to try.
Alex Stein
To, I guess appease us in some sort of way. And I think people that are. This is the thing. Most people are low IQ voters and don't even know who J.D. vance is. But that's the diff. That's the difference between us and the left. Conservatives are actually paying a little more attention. So we're not as dumb as the left. So I think that's why they weren't able to trick us with this. And that's why there's still people that are influential on the right calling out the Trump administration saying, where's the transparency that you guys campaigned on?
Kevin
Yeah, well, I think you made a good point. It's going to come out when we die because the JFK files, there's a lot more stuff in there because everybody was dead from it.
Alex Stein
Yeah.
Kevin
So that's when they come out with the good stuff. But are they going to actually arrest Obama for this? Does anybody think that's actually going to happen?
Phil
Think it. You think it's going to happen? I don't think I probably would say no. I don't think it's going to happen.
Alex Stein
Should it happen? Yes, should it happen?
Phil
It's totally and completely within the realm of possibility.
Carter Banks
Ordinarily I would agree and say like it could never happen. But then we had Trump arrested.
Phil
But that's part of the thing. It's like the, that kind of, you know, seal has been broken on investing presidents. So. And it is without a question that whatever. If the, the things that are being implicated the Obama administration has been implicating the, the alleged behaviors that, that Tulsi Gabbard says that she's delivered the information to the Justice Department. If that actually did happen, that is without question enough to put Barack Obama in jail.
Kevin
Oh, for sure.
Phil
You know, far worse. It's far worse than anything Trump did. Trump, they had to literally create, you know, they had to create a, a whole list or a whole fake crime so that way the misdemeanors could be brought to the level of felonies.
Alex Stein
Luckily for Barack Obama, he used to write letters to his ex lover that he Fantasized about having gay relations. So prison, he would probably do very well. Maybe his fantasies would come true. He wrote that letter for a reason. So if he went to jail, it probably wouldn't be that bad. He'd probably be the king of the jail. He'd be the president of the jail. So. And he's an African American. Statistically, they do go to jail more. So. Actually, you're right. Barack Obama is for prison. Dude.
Kevin
If he got a mug shot, it would be a third term for Obama.
Alex Stein
I know. Actually, you're probably not wrong. Could you imagine if he had the same kind of Trump mugshot shirt.
Kevin
Yeah.
Alex Stein
With Jim Madison because he never competed with merchants like Biden. You know, Andrew Schultz jokes about it didn't sell any merch. Trump sold so much merch. But we're forgetting Obama sold a bunch of.
Carter Banks
That's true. Invented a type of merch, dude.
Alex Stein
He invented the shirt.
Ian Crossland
Right.
Alex Stein
Dude, he so style. If you had merch for merch and you had a merch booth of Barack Obama, you know, mugshot shirts and Donald Trump mugshot shirts. I don't know. I better be closer than you think.
Phil
Do you think that that's because the now modern America wants a celebrity president? People would say that Donald Trump is the first celebrity president. I disagree. I disagree. I think that it's not Reagan. I think that it was Barack Obama that was the first because he would do slow jam the news on the nightly shows. People loved Barack.
Alex Stein
You are right.
Ian Crossland
When I was in college, Teddy Roosevelt. Is it just too early for celebrities to even exist pre television?
Carter Banks
Teddy bear off of him.
Ian Crossland
So you're talking about post television era.
Phil
Well, no, I mean just the, the first one to actually be considered a celebrity. Because even like the. There's an argument that Bill Clinton, when he went on MTV and played the sack, that was like the first president first.
Carter Banks
Then they become a celebrity because they're the president.
Phil
Well, I mean, Donald Trump is the first person that was a celebrity first. But I think that Barack Obama became a celebrity as he became president because he was literally, you know, he's the, the junior senator from Illinois and then he gets catapulted into the great style.
Ian Crossland
Like Reagan was a. Was a B list celebrity, but an actor. But he wasn't like Trump.
Phil
I don't think he was B listed.
Ian Crossland
They. I was told he was a B list actor.
Phil
I think it was people that were critical of him that were calling him a B list. I think he was a pretty, pretty.
Ian Crossland
Hot commodity compared to nothing compared to Trump and Like you said Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, superstar, dated Marilyn Monroe, or he had Marilyn Monroe in the White House.
Kevin
I think he was probably the first. I'm asking Grok right now. It says Reagan. Grok says for the first celebrity president.
Ian Crossland
Well, he's pretty famous.
Alex Stein
I would. I would still argue, I would debate this all day long, that it is technically Donald Trump. Even though. Because every president you could say is a celebrity. Because Donald Trump had the Apprentice was like number one reality show. Like, he was actually had a whole career just doing celebrity TV and then went to politics. I don't know. I think, like, I would say that if the Rock became president, you know, that Donald Trump is more like the Rock than he is. Than Barack Obama.
Ian Crossland
He's a rich entertainer.
Alex Stein
Yes.
Ian Crossland
As opposed to a politician.
Alex Stein
And that's why I hope, I mean this. I pray. I don't pray for a lot. I do pray, but I do pray that Tucker Carlson runs for president. I think Tucker has a big chance of winning, and I know some people might not like that, but. But I hope Tucker runs in 2028. I think he'll be the next celebrity president. I think. I don't know if he'll run in 2028. And I've actually talked to him. I've asked him. He says he has no interest in politics. He said that to me twice.
Ian Crossland
You think JD has what it takes?
Alex Stein
I think they're going to put him up. I mean, I. I like J.D. vance, some stuff. He was just on Theo Vaughn's podcast, you know, a couple months ago. Oh, Epstein list. Epstein list. He's not talking about the Epstein list anymore, so I don't know. I mean, I like J.D. vance, but, I mean, he doesn't have.
Ian Crossland
The celebrity power that we're.
Alex Stein
He doesn't have the swag, him running at Disneyland, you know, he didn't have the swag. He needs to have, like, kind of guy.
Kevin
We need, though, somebody that came from a poor upbringing that isn't a rich kid. I think that's what Americans have wanted for so long.
Ian Crossland
You know, it might be time to, like, not revert, but to go away from the celebrity obsession into, like a bureaucrat into, like not a bureaucrat, but like a math guy.
Alex Stein
This is where I disagree, though. J.D. vance went to. Is his Ivy League school guy, though. I mean, he gives us like, oh, I'm a hillbilly. I'm just a hillbilly. But he named his son Vivek after Vivek Ramaswamy, his best friend.
Kevin
He had of ton a. I Know.
Alex Stein
But a lot of people's moms are drug addicts. You know, a lot of people have drug addicts.
Phil
That's true.
Carter Banks
His son's name is Vivek.
Alex Stein
Yeah. He named his son JD Vance, named his son after his best friend Vivek, from law school, and that they've been friends. Isn't that a weird dude? Look it up right now. Look it up. Yes. Vivek is. JD Vance named his son after. After Vivek Romas.
Ian Crossland
And JD Is super tight with Peter Thiel. I'm hearing Thiel was, like, investing in his company. Is that what it was?
Alex Stein
Listen to this. You know, I got in trouble for this. You know that Augustus Dericko guy, the guy that's doing the Rainmaker guy. So I said one tweet, that guy went on every single podcast after those 27 kids, those poor children drowned. Went on all these podcasts talking about, oh, his company had nothing to do with it. It's 48 hours. And I'm sure his company had nothing to do with it. But I did one tweet where I was like, this guy's going. Basically, it was like, this guy's going on a media tour. He's not showing any remorse, dude. He had. Peter Thiel had people contact me, like, multiple people at my company. Multiple people that I'm. That I know had 10 different people. And I've. I've gone after Nikki Haley. I've gone after some high powerful people. And me going after a gu. Francis Jerico got Peter Thiel involved and tried to. Just because of one tweet. This is less than two weeks old.
Phil
This is about the cloud seeding.
Alex Stein
This is about the cloud seeding, about the horrible floods that happened in Kerrville, Texas, where over 100 people died and 27 girls at a Christian camp, Camp Myshik, that had been there 99 years. And on top of this, they were arguing with me about it. They're like, actually, in 1987, there was a really bad flood too. But that flood was 15ft. Well, this one was 26ft. And this one happened in, like, 90 minutes. And I do not like people manipulating the weather. Call me old school, call me old fashioned, but guys going on podcasts like.
Kevin
Oh, we need to manipulate the weather because these farmers don't have enough water.
Alex Stein
It's like, okay, all right. I don't want you spraying silver iodine in the sky. And they're like, well, we can only create this many gallons of water. It's like, okay, sure. You can just pinpoint it. So my point is Peter Thiel is evil. He's a sicko. Don't like you, Peter Thiel. Trying to get me.
Phil
All right, so listen. So we are of the opinion that Barack Obama and his DOJ and CIA cohorts are not going to be arrested.
Ian Crossland
Oh, I don't know.
Alex Stein
Probably not. They do deserve a purple.
Ian Crossland
But it's like, it's like the court of public opinion at this point. If the world starts dragging them emotionally, that that's probably the victory that I think you're going to get out of it.
Phil
All right, so we're going to move on now to this story. The Daily Mail reports Donald Trump delivers on promise to sue the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over Epstein birthday card. So we have more Epstein for you guys. More Epstein.
Ian Crossland
So glad.
Phil
Discussing more losses. I'm dying. I'm so what did you think about.
Alex Stein
That fake letter, though?
Phil
That's exactly what he's saying.
Alex Stein
Like, what do you think about that? Like, who do you think that's real?
Phil
It is. It is the most nothingest of nothing burgers ever created.
Ian Crossland
Tell me, what is it?
Alex Stein
Okay, so it's like this weird.
Phil
Even know what it is?
Ian Crossland
No, I was first I heard of it.
Phil
It's.
Alex Stein
They wrote it that Wall Street Journal said that they had this, you know, smoking gun of incriminating Donald Trump and his connection with Jeffrey Epstein. And what it was is a personal letter written to Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday, which was like in 2003. And supposedly Donald Trump and ended his relationship with him in 2008 when he kicked him out of Mar a Lago, allegedly. But long story short, the poem's very cringe and it's very weird. It's all in the end of the poem. Those are weird. It's like hope every day is a new wonderful secret.
Phil
It's just all. Any. All right, so listen, let me read the headline here. Donald Trump delivers on promise to sue Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over Epstein birthday card. Donald Trump followed through on his promise to sue the wall and its owner, Rert Murdoch after the paper reported on his alleged involvement with a 50/50 birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein. Court records show the libel suit filed in the Southern District of Florida against Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones and Rupert Murdoch. CNBC reported. A copy of the complaint was not immediately available. The case was filed in Miami Federal Court. A bombshell report in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday claimed Trump wrote a body 50th birthday card to Epstein which it concluded happy Birthday and may every day be another wonder. The newspaper said it had reviewed a typewritten letter bearing Trump's signature, framed by the seemingly hand drawn outline of a naked woman that Ghislaine Maxwell included in a 2003 birthday album. Even if Donald Trump wrote that, which I don't think that he actually wrote the card, if you actually read. I don't think that he dictated it. I don't think he had anything to do with the actual writing of the stuff in it. But even if he did, it is still a nothing burger. It still doesn't do anything. Everyone knows that Donald Trump and Epstein were friends until 2005 or 6 or whatever, when he kicked them out of Mar a Lago. This is nothing new. This. And the only reason that, that the Wall Street Journal is going with this is because that it is Epstein and Trump and it will get clicks. This is a gigantic nothing.
Ian Crossland
Trump denied that.
Phil
Yeah, he said that's why he's suing, because he denied it.
Alex Stein
Daily Mail mentioned, though didn't mention. The weirdest part is when he wrote, wrote on the drawing where he put his name. Donald was in the pubic area of the.
Carter Banks
Yeah, I heard that, but I can't find the picture.
Alex Stein
Yeah, I know. I just don't think Donald's doing that. I don't think Donald's drawing a naked woman and writing Donald on the vaginal area of it. I mean, I could be wrong. I know Donald's grab her by the. I know, but I mean, people.
Phil
So that people. He was swearing up and down that he doesn't draw and there. Or something. People have said that. But there's also a bunch of pictures that he actually did draw of New York skyline or sky.
Alex Stein
Oh, wait, so there is art.
Phil
Yeah, I mean, look, it is, it is the most, most. The most, you know, second, third grade. Yeah. Most elementary kind of drawings you can imagine. Of course, Donald Trump says, I've never drawn anything. I've never, I've never held a crayon or a pen. I've never done it. Yeah, that's. That's typical Donald Trump stuff. But there are these pictures that he's alleged to have drawn that he signed. They've. And he sells them there or people sell them. They're going for 20, $30,000 on eBay or whatever. But still, to me, this is just like, this is, this is absolutely nothing because there's no allegations except for, hey, Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein used to be friends and there's a million pictures of Donald Trump and Jeffrey.
Ian Crossland
A lot of the Epstein stuff is. Is relatively nothing. Like they say the word pedophile. Pedo from what I learned yesterday indicates prepubescent. So a lot of this Epstein stuff's not pedophilia. It's like girls that are 15.
Alex Stein
There was a lot of pedophilia because Jean Luc Brunel. We can only say so much that Jeffrey Epstein's biggest sexual conquest that he would brag about allegedly was that he slept with three triplets that were 11 years old.
Ian Crossland
That is when it goes vile where it's like erratic like that you need to.
Alex Stein
He would brag about.
Ian Crossland
That's. That's pedophilia. It's grossest. The young children you protect that when it's 15, 16 year old girls who are age of consent in most of the. In a lot of the world. I don't know, maybe not in certain areas.
Phil
I'm saying stopping you because I'm saving you people.
Ian Crossland
No one wants to conf. You don't want to conflate pet. Real disgusting.
Phil
That train has left.
Ian Crossland
The guy that got a massage and.
Phil
A hand job trying to help you. I'm trying to help you. I'm trying to help you.
Ian Crossland
Don't cut me off.
Phil
That train has left. The point that I'm making is that train has left the building. Most people are aware of the distinction, but it is a distinction without a difference in most people's minds.
Ian Crossland
What I'm saying is if Donald Trump got a hand job from a 15 year old and he thought she was 18, that's a big difference than having sex with a six year old.
Alex Stein
Is it a big difference or it's just a difference?
Ian Crossland
It is a completely different reality to get rubbed down by a girl that you think is 18, that's 16 or going after a 9 year old like it's not the same thing.
Alex Stein
I agree. But. Well, there's two different things. It's like one, if you're being misled, you think somebody's of age like that you're being tricked. I mean you're a victim I guess you could say in that case. But still a 16 year old is.
Phil
Still bad the problem when it comes to that kind of stuff. Right. Whether you're a 16 year old or an 11 year old. The actual problem is the power differential from an adult male. Right. Allegedly upwards of 30 or whatever. I don't know how old Donald, my 40s or whatever. If a male that's in his 40s is going to a girl that's 16 or a girl that's 11. It is just as abusive. It is every bit, Every bit is abused. No, I mean even, even in reality.
Alex Stein
In reality, I'm just saying it's, it.
Phil
Is every bit as abusive for a man who's in his 40s to go after a 16 year old or a 13 year old. It is just as bad. It.
Ian Crossland
I'm not going to agree with that because age of consent, I look up age of consent, 14. It's in a lot of countries.
Phil
You know why? The reason age of consent is like 16 or 15 or whatever is so that way a young man that's 17 or 18 that has sex with a 15 year old doesn't get his life ruined. Okay.
Ian Crossland
I think it's so that four year old men can marry young women. No, it's like the middle ages.
Phil
Not in the United, not in the United States. In the United States the reason that they have age of consent laws is so that way young men that are like I said 18, you know, maybe 19, dating a 16 year old, it's not so bad. If an 18 year old is dating a 16 year old. But legally because of the age, because of 18, you could say oh, this person has their life ruined. Right. But it's not so that way a 40 year old man can have sex with a 15 year old. That is not what age of consent laws are for. Maybe that does prevent some people that are actually abusing their power. The power difference here from going to jail. But the point isn't to allow adult men to have sex with teenage women. That is 100% the truth. I promise you the intent of age.
Ian Crossland
Are you arguing that it's not illegal or you're saying, are you saying it is illegal for a 40 year old man to have sex?
Phil
I'm saying it is. Hold on average. Okay.
Alex Stein
It's a.
Kevin
More.
Ian Crossland
You're not. So it is legal is what you're saying. If the age of consent is 16 and a 40 year old man has sex with her, it's legal.
Phil
The, it probably would be considered legal. Yes. But that is not, that's not something that the, the, that people are going to say is acceptable.
Ian Crossland
Oh, that's fine. That's another argument. I'm just saying it's, it's not like a 9. It's a different pre pubes. Humans are different. It's a different thing. So that's just an important nuance, man.
Phil
It's not, it's, it's, it's not an important nuance because the question on people's minds, the problem that people have is the abusive nature of an adult man having sex with a young girl. And so whether or not it is illegal by the law, it is abusive. And a power differential between an adult man and a 15 year old girl. The problem is the abusive nature. Not that that the, the, that it's legal or whatever.
Ian Crossland
That that's like here it's your opinion, man. I sound like the dude from ask of the chat.
Alex Stein
I can't debate the wrong.
Kevin
One is right, two is wrong.
Alex Stein
I mean, as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, I mean, Muhammad did some crazy stuff. So I, you know, I have to step out of this, you know, kindly.
Ian Crossland
So I guess the reason I bring it up is because I feel like people are fleeing the Epstein. They don't want to be even remotely associated with anything. They're like, I was on an airplane, There was a 17 year old girl giving me a massage.
Alex Stein
RFK was on the plane a bunch too. Now did you know that that was kind of bizarre. Did you know that RFK went dinosaur hunting with Jeffrey Epstein? Allegedly with his family. So maybe there's more people in the Trump administration besides just Trump. That would be, you know, could be collateral damage.
Ian Crossland
Like I don't want people to think they have to start a nuclear war to prevent their name from coming out on a list because they got, they had sex with a girl that was 16 that they thought was 18. Like that's different than people going after 8 year olds. That is a different reality.
Phil
If, if you're, if the guy thinks that she's 18, then she's lying. Right. And that actually becomes a different context. Right?
Ian Crossland
Yeah. That was entrapment on Epstein.
Alex Stein
Well, that did happen like on Epstein where they would, they would like make you do gay stuff if you weren't openly gay, you know, and they could just, you know, use that as leverage. And they would do stuff where like you would sleep with somebody and you wouldn't know they were underage. Like they would do something like it would be like a 16 year olds or 17 year old and they would say, oh, she's 19 or 18 and they would get the girl to lie. So that does happen. But if you're on Epstein island and you're having sex with somebody that looks young, I still think that you should be in trouble. Even if you had sex with a 16 year old, it's legal, I don't care. I think that's gross and repugnant. But you know, different strokes, different.
Kevin
To go back to the news story though, I think Trump's gonna Make a lot of money on this. And I looked this up. It's amazing. He's made 56 million off of settlements already from ABC, CBS and Facebook. It's all gone to the Trump presidential library. This presidential library is going to be coated in gold by the time he's done with this.
Phil
He's been known to do those kind of things. All right, look, I think that it is time to move off of the Epstein topic.
Ian Crossland
Sucks, man. Totally.
Alex Stein
It took a turn that I did not expect to dig that feces out of it help you a little bit. Like, I do understand what you're trying to say, but at the end of the day in the, I guess the court of public opinion, even if they slept with a 17 year old, like, it's, it's not going to be, you know, it's not going to be okay.
Ian Crossland
If this list were released, I think that there are people that would be willing to start a nuclear war to prevent it from getting released like these.
Alex Stein
That's possible.
Ian Crossland
And I don't want them to be that afraid of getting their name exposed being associated with Epstein.
Alex Stein
What about, what about the conspiracy that nuclear weapons are fake? Have you ever heard that? You know, I don't know. Okay.
Phil
No, weapons are fake.
Alex Stein
Listen, listen. Have you ever seen the footage of an.
Phil
I know what you're talking about.
Alex Stein
The car is okay. Why is the card. Oh, I'm the crazy guy. Yet they're showing me a video with a cardish. Oh, I'm the crazy guy. You don't think.
Phil
Because Nagasaki actually happened, first of all, that was. Firebombs actually happened.
Alex Stein
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, they were literally. Trains were like the next day. The flower carts were there the next day. You can look it up. But if this is how you know a. Nuclear bombs are not real. Because if nuclear bombs are real, Israel would have already dropped one. Dude, you don't think, you don't think Israel would have used it.
Phil
All right, we're, we're going. We're going. Yes, you are. We're going to the next story from the Guard. From the Guardian. From the Guardian. Democrats condemned CBS for axing Colbert show. People deserve to know if this is politically motivated. Lawmakers note cancellation followed Colbert's criticism of parent company Paramount for settling the Trump suit. Democrats are condemning CBS for its recent decision to cancel the Late show with Stephen Colbert, noting the news comes just a few days after its host criticized the network's parent company Paramount for settling a $16 million lawsuit with Donald Trump. Trump Senator Adam Schiff, who everyone knows is totally truthful A California Democrat who appeared as a guest on the Colbert show on Thursday night later wrote on social media, if Paramount and CBS ended the Late show for political reasons, the public deserves to know and deserves better. This show, if I understand correctly, costs $100 million per year to run and they lose $40 million a year.
Kevin
How? What do they spend it on? That's what I want to know.
Carter Banks
Well, 16 on a lawsuit that they lost to Trump.
Alex Stein
Well, I don't understand if they lost all the money they have, those dancing needles, Pfizer paid them so much money. I mean, I don't know how the hell they lose money, but I guess.
Phil
You may be making a joke, but I honestly think that a lot of the drug companies were spending a lot of money.
Alex Stein
Those are the biggest ad buyers. And that's why in foreign countries in Europe, they don't even have advertising for pharmaceutical companies because it's illegal. And RFK supposedly outlawing that. Not done that yet. Yet. But I think there is something here, though. The fact that they're trying to merge with Skydance Media and they just paid Trump that $15 million settlement.
Phil
Like, talk about the Skydance Media.
Alex Stein
Well, and it has to get approved by Congress, I believe. So it's not a monopoly. I don't know all the legality, but I just know that Donald Trump probably could handicap their chances of making the merger happen. So why not make them happy? And you already have a show that is. What is it? Paramount is also seeking approval from the US Federal Communications Commission for an 8.0 billion merger with Skydance Media. So that's a huge merger. Paramount's obviously a huge company. And I think that they have a show that's losing $40 million a year, and why not try to appease the President?
Ian Crossland
I also think that they were using Colbert as political propaganda through the Biden administration. Now he's no longer useful.
Alex Stein
You're right about that. Yeah.
Phil
So that was one of the things that I said. You know, people that are saying that this is a political attack, right? Like he has engaged in political attacks for the entire time that Donald Trump has been in, you know, in political, in public life. So I, I personally don't think this, that this is about politics. I do think that this is about the fact that ratings are down. They've, these shows have been losing money. There's not a significant viewership to the late night shows. If you look at late night ratings now compared to 10 years ago, it's, it's completely awful. But, you know, that's, that's I think that that's the, the major thing. What are you talking about? The Bernie Sanders stuff here. Oh, he's not my boy. Bernie Sanders, the independent Vermont senator echoed a similar concern. CBS billionaire owners pay Trump 60 million to settle a bogus lawsuit. While trying to sell the network to Skydance. He wrote Stephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent and the most popular late night host slams the deal. Days later, he's fired. No. So I do think this is a coincidence or do I think this is a coincidence? No. I mean, look, Democrats have absolutely nothing. They're floundering. That's why they're globbing onto the Epstein stuff. That's why they're globbing onto this, because they're, they have no policies. And the people that are making the most noise and getting the most attention in the Democrat party are literally communists. Right. So Zoran Mamdani, there's the guy in Minnesota, I believe, that's, that's running for Somalian guy. Yeah. And aoc, I mean, your favorite, favorite big booty Latina.
Alex Stein
You know, honestly though, AOC is probably now with this new crop of people. She's smart like Jasmine Crockett is actually, mentally, you know what I mean? I don't know if you ever see her. She is. She's like ill in the head. So compared to aoc, she's actually pretty.
Phil
Jasmine. So this is something that Tim actually pointed out. Jasmine Crockett is not stupid. And the reason she went to law.
Alex Stein
School, she's like, has a brain, but.
Phil
She, but she went, she goes, and, and there are old videos of her and she doesn't sound as ratchet as she sounds.
Alex Stein
Yeah, it's called code switching. You know, she's talking like, you know.
Phil
Do you think that she's actually dumb, though?
Alex Stein
I do think that she's actually not that smart because she's a woman. One, and, you know, women aren't as smart as men. Two, she's like, you know, trying to just. She doesn't. This is the difference between her and aoc. AOC is crazy. But I believe that she's more genuine in her thoughts. Jasmine Crockett, if she is, if her being conservative would help her politically, I guarantee she'd become conservative.
Phil
You think so?
Alex Stein
No. Jasmine Crockett, she has no integrity. I think there's. The amount of integrity in AOC is a lot more than Jasmine Crockett. Jasmine Crockett was just. She's just a politician that's about self preservation. And she'll say anything and go after Marjorie Taylor. Greene, just like Marjorie goes after her for click. So I think she just has no integrity. She's not even from Texas. That's what makes me mad is I actually have an office in her district. She's from Kansas City or some Missouri. Kansas City, Missouri. I think some. So I don't know. I don't like carpet bagger. Exactly. I don't like some carpet bagger coming in my house with a bad weave and fake eyelashes and, you know, talking a bunch of smack about Donald Trump.
Phil
So you think that if she were to be, say she came out as a Republican. Right.
Alex Stein
The Republicans would accept her right away.
Phil
That's what I assume. It's like, you know, she, she kind of breaks the mold of what a typical Republican.
Alex Stein
She'd be the keynote speaker at CPAC the next week. Yeah, for sure they'd accept because that's the other thing is people want to call conservatives racist, but conservatives go out of their way to help black people and women, which is. There's nothing wrong with that. Like I joke about women. Women obviously are smart. We should help them. But I'm telling you, all the accusations that they make that the left make about the right, they actually do. They're the ones that actually discriminate people based on color. When. If you're a black conservative, I think that conservatives want to lift you up more.
Phil
Yeah, I mean, that's honestly my sense too. That's why I question whether or not she's actually being disingenuous. Because if she were really just power hungry and after accolades and stu, black woman like her actually would get more in the Republican Party than she does in the Democrat Party. Isn't that, I mean, isn't that kind of the argument?
Alex Stein
Well, I don't. I mean, I feel like the, all the stuff she talks about, though, I don't even know really a lot of her policies. I just know that she doesn't like Marjorie Taylor Greene. I know that she doesn't like Trump. So politically, I don't even know how. Is she a socialist? I don't know.
Phil
I mean, I don't know what her policies are sort of saying.
Alex Stein
I don't know. And she's my congresswoman. I don't even know what her policies are. So I feel like she's not. She doesn't care about. About actually getting like legislation passed. She just cares about getting clicks on the Internet. And that's why she doesn't have integrity, is another reason that she doesn't actually care about getting anything accomplished. But I think all Congressmen you guys have them on here all the time. I talk to them too. They all have the best intentions, but once they get up there, they can't get done. So it's like. I mean, you're. You're damned if you do. You're damned if you don't. Like, if you try really hard, you don't get a pass and you waste your time. If you just kind of skate through, then you're not doing enough. So I don't know. I don't. I don't like any of the elected politicians, even a lot of them on the right side, man.
Ian Crossland
I was thinking that yesterday about Cash and, like, we. He comes on this show, I hang out with him for four hours. He's super cool. And then I'm like, all right. He's like, all right, I'm going in. I'm like, I'll see you on the other side, man. And he off into Mount Doom they go. He and Trump and Bungie, they all, like, go into this new. This world where they're gonna get twisted and ripped apart and remade with this satanic dark energy of government where you gotta do damage control and decide who's gonna live and who's gonna die. And then they come out all gray hair, and it's just. It's hard to see people, I like, go through that. But it's this necessary evil of being and being in that environment that's sort of a tangent off of what you're saying.
Alex Stein
It's the Bill Hicks joke that, you know, like when a president gets elected, they bring him to a room and they show them. I'm not doing the joke. Right, but they show them a film of JFK's assassination, but not the Zapruder film, like a different angle. And they tell the president. They show in the video, like, do you have any questions? And the President's like, no, I have no questions. So. So once you get into that office, you do have to play ball. Even Donald Trump has to play ball on some stuff, for sure. I mean, I think so, yeah.
Phil
Do you have a sense that the. That the. The average politician? Because. So just to make it clear, my. My kind of gut instinct, because I don't have any kind of inside information, is Congress people don't get that kind of. That kind of pressure. No, it might get, you know, they might get a knock on their door from aipac. Actually, I'm sure they get. Get multiple knocks, you know, a bunch of people from. From APAC knocking on the door. But other than that, that's probably the most pressure they get. I think that it's the bureaucrats and the actual president that would. Would get.
Kevin
Or the. Or there's aliens that come down and they say, we're abducting the children. Stop talking about the Epstein list. That's us. And we're doing interdimensional sex trafficking.
Alex Stein
Maybe.
Phil
Is that.
Kevin
That's a very mainstream theory.
Phil
So very mainstreamed. Is it a mainstream theory?
Alex Stein
Trafficking.
Ian Crossland
I like that.
Phil
Okay.
Alex Stein
Alex Jones talks about it a lot on the Joe Rogan experience. But I do think there are probably some sort of, like, weird interdimensional beings, though, you know, I know that sounds crazy. I don't know how connected they are to the Epstein list. But, like, I feel like if there are ghosts or aliens, like, it's not that they're traveling from far away, they're just. Just in a different dimension here on Earth.
Ian Crossland
Well, I asked a Twitter poll, did the ghost of Epstein destroy the spirit of Donald Trump? It's a 50, 50 split on the poll. Like, the spirit of Epstein. The ghost of Epstein is still here present. His spirit is terrorizing people. The memory of it. It's a bit of a.
Alex Stein
Well, you might be right, because I. I have a dog that barks a lot. And so I got one of these clickers, and you press it, and it's like, gives off this high noise, and my dog will stop. Stop barking. And it's crazy because I can't hear the noise, but my dog freaks out. And there's wavelengths and sounds that our eyes and ears can't process that are around us every day. Like, there's noises that are going on that you and I can't hear, but a dog could hear. So theoretically, like, our eyes can't see every whatever wavelength or whatever. There could be people around us right now that we just don't have the ability to see that or hear.
Ian Crossland
Magnetoreception, where you can see the magnetic field and stuff I get. I mean, there's the distortions of the spirits and things like that would go.
Kevin
So I just looked this up. Donald Barr. He hired Jeffrey Epstein as a teacher in 1973. He wrote a novel called Space Relations, a slightly gothic interplanetary tale. And it includes interdimensional six.
Carter Banks
Could that be the one?
Phil
That is Bill Barr's father, Ronald Barr.
Carter Banks
Would that be the guy who wrote the letter that Trump is suing them because they said he was.
Phil
Wrote it?
Alex Stein
And if we're gonna go real crazy, Donald Trump is a time traveler. And the movie Back to the Future is kind of based off him. Biff becomes a casino host.
Phil
Oh, yeah.
Alex Stein
And then Baron Trump. Have you seen the Baron Trump novel Time Traveler? Baron's a time travel. It's. Look at the book. What is it called? It's. Somebody in the chat will know. Oh, I remember, but Baron's time traveling. Type it in. It is Baron heard about them.
Kevin
Yeah.
Alex Stein
And then. And then, you know, it was. It was Donald Trump's uncle who went to Nikola Tesla when Nikola Tesla died. This is the conspiracy that when Nikola Tesla died, all of his. He was kind of like broke his inventions, like, he wasn't able to make that much money with it for whatever reason. I guess he was persecuted by the government, but somebody was in charge of going and looking at all of his research and stuff. And that person happened to be Donald Trump. Donald Trump's uncle. Did you guys know this John Trump or whatever? I think so, jt. And. And that's what they say, that they got the time travel technology. And then if you look at Back to the Future, these people, they make these YouTube videos where it's like Back to the future's, you know, this coded movie for Donald Trump's time traveling experience. And it's just weird because the movie is based off Biff. In the movie, the character even said this. I think Ivan Reitman or whoever did I forget who was the director, said it is based off Donald Trump. That's awesome.
Phil
Yeah.
Ian Crossland
My question is, what is interdimensional sex trafficking? How is it. What is happening? Is it that. Is it that people are being. Their minds are being warped by like some external source and then they're trafficking the children and they're doing the bidding of some. Is that the. Is that the idea? Or is it literally like aliens are beaming children up to spaceships and having sex with them? Like, what's the. What's the argument?
Carter Banks
Kevin, you want to take this one closest to the topic?
Kevin
Yeah. You know, I didn't want to be that close to the topic, but I think we should ask the chat here, Amit, the. The Tim Cass member IRL Discord chat. So if anybody knows in here, please tell us what you think it is.
Alex Stein
Well, here, let me read this. In this. In 1988, a publication of Barron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey. And in the book, it was about a character named Barron Trump and his guide is named Dawn.
Ian Crossland
Now, I've heard that that book got wrote later, like it's more recent, but they just make it look like it's an old book.
Alex Stein
This is saying it came out in 18. 1896 or 1888.
Ian Crossland
That's what it says in the book, I believe is dated back to then. But then all of a sudden it just, it just appeared like in the, in the lexicon, in the modern mind.
Alex Stein
Like five years ago, like the Mandela effect. Is it real or is it fake?
Phil
So, all right, listen, we're going to go ahead and move on from the interdimensional sex trafficking and time travel. And the reason is because if we don't, Shane Cashman is going to come up here and beat us all for stealing his thunder. But we're gonna go to, you know, because iwl, you know, we're gonna go to. Where is it? Let's see, from the post Millennial. Puerto Rico bans all medical sex changes for people under 21. Minors, having not yet reached the necessary emotional, cognitive and physical maturity are particularly vulnerable to making decisions that can have irreversible consequences. Puerto Rico has banned sex change surgeries for those under the age of 21 and blocked public funds from being used for such purposes. Governor of the U. S. Island territory, Jennifer Gonzalez Cologne signed the bill into law on Wednesday. The bill would see fines of $50,000 per violation issued to healthcare professionals who provide hormone therapy or sex change surgeries, as well as 15 years in prison. Prison and the revocation of licenses and permits, per NBC news. The law states minors having not yet reached the necessary emotional, cognitive and physical maturity, are particularly vulnerable to making decisions that can have irreversible consequences. Therefore, it is the state's duty to ensure their comprehensive well being. And I say, bravo Puerto Rico. Why the rest of the United States and its territories have not already passed these laws, I don't know. But I think this is something that the United States, the federal government, should pass for all of the US and its territory.
Alex Stein
Well, I think there's a bigger question. It's like, who is that desperate to cut off their penis? They're going to a doctor in Puerto Rico. I mean, seriously, I mean, to go to a real doctor. You know what I mean? What are they gonna do this in the back of a taco truck? Oh, I'm gonna go to Puerto Rico and have them cut off my wiener. Like, dude, give me a break. I mean, gosh almighty, good thing they outlawed him because I wouldn't want a Puerto Rican doctor cutting off my genitals. No offense to Puerto Ricans to that.
Phil
Pointy Latinas, but I wouldn't want, I wouldn't want any kind of doctor doesn't. Yeah, I know, I'm Not. I'm not a racist. So I. Whatever.
Alex Stein
I'm not a racist. I love big booty Latinas. I'm just saying Puerto Rico or you want a doctor that went to law or went to medical school online. I mean. No, I want a real doctor that went to a brick and mortar school.
Phil
I agree. I, I would agree for other.
Alex Stein
Puerto Rico being a state. It's not really a state, but Puerto Rico is still a. I mean, I love you, Puerto Rico. I've been to Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is not this nice place, dude. Puerto Rico had a hurricane and I was at. I was in Puerto Rico recently. I'm not even kidding. Beautiful place. Everybody goes there to dodge their taxes. That's what it's for basically just to. And hey, I love that. I think taxes are a scam. And I know some people that have dodged their taxes in Puerto Rico. So Puerto Rico first of all is the last place you want to get any kind of surgery unless you're trying to get a BBL or something for 50% off. But I'm serious. So them outlawing sex change, they should just outlaw surgery in Puerto Rico altogether. It should be only life saving surgery.
Ian Crossland
Does the US government neglect the Puerto Rico? Is that why it's suffering so terribly right now?
Alex Stein
Yeah, like they had a hurricane and the traffic light still wasn't working. And this is. I stayed at the Fairmont Hotel, a really nice hotel. They're like, oh yeah, the light just hasn't been fixed. You're like, really? It's just, it's not like that third world. But it's not first world. It's closer to. I mean it's Puerto Rico's like Jamaica or something. Maybe it's a little nicer, but it's like a beach colony. It's not like New York City. It's the opposite of that in my opinion. So if you're going to Puerto Rico to get surgery, you're. Yeah, that's not a good. That's a losing proposition, I would say.
Kevin
Is AOC from Puerto Rico.
Alex Stein
Her. Abuela is. And then her roof. Her roof flooded. And then we all raise money for her. And then AOC wouldn't take the money because AOC is.
Phil
It was conservatives that raised the money.
Alex Stein
They're conservatives raising money. And she wouldn't take it for abuela. Important.
Phil
No, AOC. AOC's from New York. AOC's from Ocean.
Alex Stein
Yeah, she's from Westchester.
Phil
She went to a. She grew up in a very nice area of New York. She tries to play it off that she came from the Bronx war area in New York, but she didn't.
Alex Stein
She.
Phil
She. She grew up. Sandy Cortez grew up in the. In a very night and went to school in a very nice area of New York. But I mean, so, I mean, is it, is it something that the Puerto Rican government shouldn't be involved in, or is this what this. This is. Well, what do you guys think?
Ian Crossland
Over 18? I feel like you gotta let their adults. So I don't see why you would ban them from making medical decisions over 18.
Phil
That's the argument for. The argument for that is, is the. Basically your. Your prefrontal cortex has not developed enough to control your. Basically your. Your decision making, your. Your emotional brain. So you're specific. I know that is actually true. It's like your. Your brain actually finishes developing somewhere around 25. So at 20, you know, when you're 18, even though you're. You're an adult technically, you're prone to, you know, be more reactive and more. And make decisions based on emotion more than on actual thought about it. And then the repercussions don't really. They don't really register with people that like how what forever is and what permanent really means the same way they do with someone over 25.
Ian Crossland
Were you gonna say something?
Carter Banks
Oh, I was just wondering if it was the same for women. Because they always say, like, girls mature faster. Is their brain like. Like, you know, just reach that level earlier? And if so, do the laws reflect that?
Phil
I've never actually looked into it, but I know that when it comes to, like, renting a car, the reason you can't rent a car until you're 25 is because of these studies that insurance companies have done. They say, okay, people under 25 make bad decisions because they haven't matured enough. And when you look at the actual science behind it, they haven't matured enough because their prefrontal cortex hasn't fully developed.
Alex Stein
And I agree with that because, like, when you're 21, you're still a kid. I know that seems. Seems people like, no, you're really adult. I mean, you're really a kid until 25. Like that. I think 25 actually is the age when I was kind of like, oh, shit, I'm almost 30. Like, that is kind of the age. And I technically started considering myself. Like, I'm actually an adult.
Phil
Yeah, me too.
Alex Stein
People are gonna make fun of me for that. But that's when I was like, oh, shit, I am an adult adult. So, yeah, that makes sense. That. The fact that it's 21, though, I kind of do agree, like, 18, I want to be able to have a gun. I should be able to, you know, cut off my penis, I guess. I mean, if there's gonna be an age restriction, that's actually.
Carter Banks
Yeah. Why would they, like, not do gun control at that age, too, or whatnot?
Alex Stein
You know, we debate the trans people a lot, but I just want to say that, like, I don't. I don't hate the trans. I like the trans people. I don't like the transitioning of children. And, like, there's a lot of conservatives that want to outlaw, like, transgenders in women's sports. I think that's stupid, because you can gamble on transgenders. You can win money. You know, I'm serious. Like, Lia Thomas, I won so much money, literally, from the Olympics that transgender. I won, like, 2,000 bucks. I'm dead serious. Yeah, you can gamble on them. And this is the other thing is, like, Donald Trump is trying to outlaw transgenders in the military. I disagree with that, because transgenders, I think, would make good soldiers. They're like some of the meanest people on earth. They like to carry out mass shootings. They do that all the time. They have done the last six. And there are a lot of them are suicidal. You know what I mean? And a soldier that's willing to die for his country is probably the best soldier you could have. So I'm pro trans. I love the trans people. I think that we. I think we. I give them. We give them almost too tough of a time. I just. I like these laws in place to stop children from getting these. That's where I kind of stand. So I tend to agree with you on the 18. Oh, man.
Ian Crossland
It's the same way doing drugs. I wouldn't want advocate someone to give kids drugs, but if you're 22 and you want to do drugs, go for it. That's my argument with that.
Carter Banks
Do they have a limit for age, though, with drugs? I don't think so.
Phil
I mean, depending on drug and what you're talking about, if you're talking about, like, marijuana, it's just. I believe it's 18, possibly 21, depending on the jurisdiction where it's legal. Is it 18? Okay. Yeah. So it's. It's 21 recreational, 18 medical.
Kevin
I was just looking at most of Europe here. Most of them have it at 18. Scotland has 16 talking about drinking for transitioning. So Europe's kind of on the consensus of around 18. So they're. They're going a little hard with 21.
Ian Crossland
In Puerto Rico, but 21 is interesting morally. I understand it, but legally it makes no sense.
Phil
I think 21 is fine. I honestly, I mean, we should be doing everything we can as a society to, to disincentivize and discourage like, like transitioning. Because I think that it. It. Well, first of all, because you cannot become a woman if you're a man.
Alex Stein
Well, be careful on YouTube. You can become whatever you want. But I want to say this, though.
Phil
No, no, you can say it's okay nowadays.
Alex Stein
Well, well, it wasn't that long ago. And I used to be a Howard Stern fan. Now he stinks. But he used to do this thing with Dr. Sal collaborative where people could win breast implants and sometimes he would have a trans person to win the breast implants. And it was. And he would have the trans person on. It was very funny. But he would always ask them, this is the 90s, early 2000s, like, have you got the bottom surgery? Are you post op or pre op? He'd always ask them and they would always say, I'm pre op. I'm pre op because I can't go to a surgeon. You know, there's only very few surgeons. This is the early 2000s. They're like, there's not very many surgeons in America that will do this surgery. I have to go to a foreign country and it's not safe there. And then if you look at the amount of gender reassignment clinics in the 80s compared to now, and then you have, you know, Billboard Chris that, you know, that released at Ann Lives of TikTok, a video of Boston Children's Hospital saying that they love a child diagnosed with gender dysphoria because they have a patient for life. Life. There's a medical incentive to transition these people. So until we, until we stop our for profit medical system, this is never going to stop. Phil. That's right. That's what I was.
Phil
Stop our for profit medical system.
Alex Stein
No, I mean, I actually that's, you know, one thing that I'm not too conservative. I wish we had caps, and I wish you could put a lot of caps on our, you know, healthcare system. But I'm saying if we have a healthcare system that is a capitalistic system, they're always going to use this gender reassignment, gender transition. It's like how they give everybody an antidepressant. You go in there and say, I feel sad. They give you a pill that is, you know, SSRIs, that even some of the side effects Cause suicidal tendencies. So why would you give a suicidal person a pill that makes them more suicidal? So I'm just saying the medical community does not care about keeping us healthy. They want to keep us sick. And I think with this trans stuff, there's no better way than to diagnose somebody as gender dysphoria, having gender dysphoria, and they will never be okay.
Phil
I do agree that there is a lot of doc. Or there are a lot of doctors and a lot of. Of pharmaceutical companies that are lobbying for these. These procedures and for. To keep these procedures legal, specifically because it creates permanent customers. If you have a transgender surgery, you are going to be on medication for your entire life. And I, I agree about that, definitely. I. But I just think that it's. It's. It's totally awful to allow this. I think that this stuff is. Is going to be looked at like lobotomies in the future.
Kevin
Oh, for sure.
Alex Stein
I think so, too, actually. Yeah. Somebody that cuts off their. Their wiener. I mean, and I'm not even trying to be funny, because that's the other thing is these. And this is some of the sick people I talk to, these detransitioners, and I really appreciate all the people that detransition and that are outspoken, but if you cut off your genitals, your sexual satisfaction is not going to happen. Like, anybody that says that they turn their penis into a vagina and that they can, you know, have any sexual gratification, they.
Kevin
Apparently, they've advanced that.
Alex Stein
That's bullshit, and I don't care.
Kevin
Apparently they can get pleasure from it.
Alex Stein
I don't know. I know, dude. You can get pleasure all sorts of ways. I'm just saying it's not. It's not the same.
Phil
So what do you guys think about the argument? So, you know, playing devil's advocate, what do you think about the argument? Well, that. Well, this is the early stages of transgender surgery. And whereas they'll never be able to make. They'll never be able to change the chromosomes, they will be able to eventually produce genitals that are functional in a way that normal people's genitals are functional. And. And this is the necessary first steps.
Kevin
Are you talking, like, take cells, clone them and grow? And.
Phil
So I don't. So I don't know. So I don't know how it actually happens. But the point that I'm making is there are people that are. That are transhumanists that believe that in the future we are going to have bionic arms, bionic eyes, you'll be able to re. Either regrow or have mechanical.
Alex Stein
It's gonna be like Futurama or head.
Phil
Well, it'll be straight up like, you know, Luke Skywalker's hand or. And, and they're growing, they're growing. They're growing skin and muscle in the lab. So I mean, you can imagine that in a hundred years they'll be able to replace people's arms with a mechanical arm that actually has their own skin, like crafted or, or grown in the lab. Lab covering it. Maybe it'll be a robotic skeleton, but you'll be able to grow, you know, your own skin and stuff. What do you say to people that say this is just the first step of that stuff? And, and that we shouldn't outlaw it? And again, I, I think we should. But the point that I'm making is I'm playing, just to play devil's advocate. What do you say to those people that these are the baby steps? Because there's, you know, there's neuralink that they're working on now, computer chips in the brain, etc. These things are all possible now. And these are the first steps to make them widespread.
Kevin
Well, it's terrifying. And I think God puts you in the body you're meant to be in. But what I think might happen is they actually grow a body for you and then move your consciousness from the male body to the female clone or something like that. I think that would be more realistic.
Alex Stein
Or really if they have the neuralink, you don't even need a body. Like you'll just be like intubated in a tube and then you'll be living in a computer fantasy like Vanilla Sky.
Carter Banks
Yeah, it's kind of like by the time we get to that point it will be like a non thought anymore. It's just like, I mean you could.
Alex Stein
Technically we could already be in that point right now.
Carter Banks
Penis that you could put back on if you would decide to untransition yourself if you had gone that route. So at that point it's like, why do it? Any of it? I don't know.
Ian Crossland
Well, I think that I'm all about body modification in general. If you want to. I find it not attractive. But doing it on kids isn't the way to test it. If this is the early stages of figuring out not, that's not the way to do it.
Phil
I don't, I don't think that that ex. That was, I think my, my.
Ian Crossland
It wasn't your question.
Phil
But my point is more about just what about adults that Want to do that?
Ian Crossland
Yeah, that's cool. I support it. But man, that, that gross shit, when that gets into the kids minds and then the kids are start to told like you're supposed to do that. That's real bad. And that doesn't help the cause.
Alex Stein
Well. And I just think there's like some science, you know, the eyeball, like, you know, doing surgery on eyes are so difficult. I think that's gonna be similar to like a penis. Yeah.
Ian Crossland
Cause it goes in, it's internal stuff.
Alex Stein
You can create. You could create like a thing that is close to a penis, but it'd always be like 95% of a penis. So I don't think that's possible. I don't think unless it's like grown in a lab. I don't think you can make an artificial thing that will have the same sexual gratification and as the real thing. I just don't think that's like a.
Carter Banks
Quantum leap like way past ever.
Alex Stein
Ever. I don't think so. Ever. Unless we. I mean, unless we can actually clone people. Like unless you can just make the whole entire human body. I don't know if you can make an external penis and add it to your regular penis. I mean, I just. I don't know.
Ian Crossland
It's a lot more than the external stuff. It's a big problem with the movement that they think that if it's the way you look, then that makes you what you are. But it's all the internal workings that you don't see.
Carter Banks
Right.
Ian Crossland
That participate in creating what your penis does and how it is. It's not just what you see and what's on the outside.
Kevin
What do you guys think? Do you think that transitioning is trying to. And making that normalized is trying to make transhumanism something.
Alex Stein
Of course, 100. It comes from the. It's like this is even demonic. It's in the Bible, like Baphomet, you know. And whether. Whether you guys believe in God or not, the evil people that rule the world, like they are into Christianity, so they're Satan. Like that's. They know the Bible. The people that are Satanists actually know the Bible better than a Christian a lot of the time. And so that's what they look at like Baphomet and some of these, these demonic characters are, you know, it's like a physical male with a male abs and then female breasts. So there is this weird thing where they say in the future, if we live long enough, we'll all be one race and we'll all be one sex. Yeah. There is a move towards that of the merge.
Kevin
It feels dark. There's something about it that seems dark.
Ian Crossland
Androgyny. And then there's Andromeda, which is that. That's a galaxy and it sounds very similar to androgyny. I don't know if it's a similar. They did that for a reason.
Phil
You can Google the root word andro.
Ian Crossland
Yeah, andro.
Phil
And that's also. It would be. The Android is a derivative of that Android.
Ian Crossland
Androgynous Andromeda. Like, what are they, what are they aiming us at Right now? I see this transhumanist thing is full. It's in full gear right now.
Kevin
Yeah, full gear. It's going to be mainstream.
Alex Stein
Well, it's led by billionaires like Elon Musk and well, the people that they say the motivation behind the trans, you know, people want to live forever. They. That's the motivation to the transhumanistic movement. It's like these really rich people want to live longer. And I think that people are more motivated to do that than ever. So I think that's why, selfishly, Elon Musk is into neuralink because he wants to. He wants to hook his brain up to a computer so his brain will work forever. Forever.
Ian Crossland
Living forever is. I was just thinking about this, okay, inbreeding. Because if you're 180, but you have the body of a 35 year old and then you have these hot great great granddaughters that are also 35.
Alex Stein
Okay, all right, all right.
Phil
We're gonna, we're gonna. All right, hold on.
Ian Crossland
I'm just gonna mess with people, dude.
Phil
Literally, literally gonna move on. We got one more segment and then we're gonna talk about the. We're gonna talk about the, the. The. The film. Yeah. Anyway, so from the post. Millennial Misguided Keeping Families Together act linked to increase in child mortality in Washington State A disturbing rise in child deaths and near fatalities across Washington state has ignited intense backlash against the controversial Keeping Families act, with critics accusing the law of keeping vulnerable children in dangerous homes with drug addicted parents under a misguided attempt at family preservation. During a four hour meeting on Thursday, the Washington State Department of Youth, Children and Families Oversight Board was presented with grim data from the Office of the Family and Children's Ombuds Ofco. Director Patrick Dowd revealed that 45 children died or nearly died between April and June of 2025, just two fewer than the already alarming 47 cases reported in first quarter. Dowd said the deaths are Part of a growing trend his office could no longer ignore. We didn't want to give the impression that things are getting better when in fact we had preliminary information for 2025 that might paint a very different picture. DA told the board we wanted to paint a picture of where things were headed. Who would have thought that if you allow heroin using parents to keep children in houses with them that there would be a rise in the mortality rate? This seems shocking to me, but devil's.
Alex Stein
Advocate, I mean, do you trust these, you know, child advocacy groups more than.
Phil
Hair, more than heroin addicts? Yes.
Alex Stein
Yeah, I would agree with that. But still these, I don't know, some of these groups are just, look, the whole Pacific North.
Phil
You're from Washington, right?
Ian Crossland
Yeah.
Kevin
I was about to say I've interviewed a lot of homeless people and drug addicts. Check it out on YouTube. 6, 7 Kevin Dregs of the city to see these documentaries where there's actual interviews of these moms that have had their children taken away. And then they said the children have been trafficked by these groups and you know, I don't know what it's like, but these children also have a connection to the mother and you're ripping the child away from the mom. And I heard these stories where the mom and the child, they would find each other. Like the child would run away from the protective service to find the mom every day and stories like that. So if the services were better, I would agree. But I think that they're corrupt to the core too. Just from the stories that I've heard.
Alex Stein
Words.
Phil
Well, so you, you've got, it seems you've got two options, right? You've got keeping children with the drug using parents or the state takes them and the state, which is, you're articulating terrible results with that as well. Which is worse?
Kevin
That's the question. Yeah, it's always picking of two evils.
Phil
That's everything. Look, Thomas Soule says that there are no actual solutions. There are trade offs and in everything, and that's a legitimate argument. There's always, there's never going to be a perfect solution for anything. You're going to do something and there's going to be externalities and then you have to make a decision were the external, are the externalities worse than thing than before you started whatever policy that.
Kevin
You'Re, you're dealing with and you make a good point. But here's the thing too. You have to think of the emotional effect on the mother and things like that. Because when they have their child taken away. Then they double down on the drug, you know, and they overdose and things like that. Because that's their connection to life at that point. And sometimes that transforms their lives. When they see the child, they're like, I'm gonna do less drugs. You know, not all the time, but having that child around I think is an inspiration for people to be better.
Phil
So I used to be consider myself a libertarian and I was pro legalization of most drugs because the argument was, well, it's, it's bad to interject the state and have police have to pick people up for doing drugs and you ruin lives because of it. And I think that the evidence that California, Portland and Washington state or Portland and Seattle have, have given us when you decriminalize the actual really hard drugs, I think that it's shown that's really what changed my mind. Because not only do you end up with people doing drugs, people that are, that want to do drugs, they can't function in a normal life. So you get, you get homeless people because you, if you, if you're trying to get heroin all the time, you all that you always end up with a drug den. If you watch Breaking Bad, the houses that are in the show are all. Are based on what, what real drug dens and houses of, of heroin addicts and, and opiate users and whatever type of drug they use. That's, that is really representative of what their houses look like like. And it is not more compassionate to allow people to live on the streets or in filth and do drugs than to put them in prison to get them to stop or put them into, you know, for put. Make it. Make. Make there be too much pressure for them to just sit around and do drugs. Right. So you have to tell v. Homeless people, move along. You can't just sit here and you have to, you have to say we're going to arrest you. Because to allow them them is to not just destroy their lives, but it's also to allow them to destroy neighborhoods and destroy the property of other people and the property values of other people and ruin the lives of people that just want to go to the park with their kids and etc. So yeah, I used to be like that, but I'm not anymore. And I'm interested in your take on that.
Kevin
Oh, for sure. I think you're right on. I met a ton of folks that they said prison saved their life, that they were a drug addict. And when they went to prison, that's when they, they were forced to get off the drugs. And it was A terrible experience because they have, like, flu, like, symptoms. They're diarrhea, you know, they feel terrible, but they weren't able to get the drugs, and that's how they got off of it. So I totally agree. And then when you look at the Northwest, like you said, I did a documentary on Portland because, you know, in Oregon, they legalized all the drugs there. The repercussions of that is incredible. We're still. It's still being felt because addiction is still holding these people.
Alex Stein
Well, I would argue it's the drug's fault, though. I know that sounds crazy because. Because there's a lot of people that use marijuana that are successful. There's functioning alcoholics. But now because of fentanyl, because of the synthetic opioids that are just so available and that are being smuggled in, it's just different. Like, if everybody was just smoking weed, the world would be, you know, we'd be a little dumber and slower, but it wouldn't be as bad. But now with these synthetic opioids that are just incredibly cheap, we're screwed. And until we stop China from importing them, just like they're going to be in everything. Because even if a person buys a Xanax, they buy a pain pill, it's all infected with fentanyl. If you buy cocaine or. Or whatever, that's fine on it. So I think the drugs have gotten so much worse recently. And that's kind of not the drugs are ever good. But, like, your position being more libertarian, I think maybe in the 90s.
Phil
Not anymore.
Alex Stein
Well, I'm saying anymore. I don't agree with it, but I think there was a time it's like, maybe we should be lesser on drugs when drugs weren't as hard. Like, I remember the DARE program, like, these drugs will kill you in one puff. That wasn't true then, I don't think. I mean, I guess there was Lynn Bias, the famous basketball player that was drafted, that did cocaine and overdose. But now, in this day and age, if you actually try a drug, there is a high possibility there's fentanyl in it and you can die. And that's not hyperbo. Verbally.
Kevin
Well, I interviewed a DEA guy recently, and he told me there's seven to nine different drugs that are inside of each different hit. Now that people.
Alex Stein
Or whatever, or. Oh, in the fentanyl, I'm saying everything has fentanyl in it. Now, even if you buy a drug that you don't think is fentanyl, there's fentanyl in it. So you're saying even in the fentanyl there's 10 different drugs?
Kevin
Well, they call it fentanyl, but it's not even fentanyl anymore. It's. It's a mixture. Yeah. Of a bunch of different synthetics.
Carter Banks
Like 10 years ago. Like they're like. Right. Like lots of, of people that I used to like part of my friend group. I have been to at least three funerals of people that have died from heroin the first time they did it. And it probably wasn't just heroin.
Alex Stein
No, it wasn't just heroin because I remember when I went to college, I don't like pain pills that make me sick. But that was the OxyContin era and that was bad. There's a lot of people that OD'd and died, but it's exponentially worse now. But really, actually we say all these stats. There's over 100,000 fentanyl drug overdose this past year, but there's actually over 100,000 alcohol related deaths. So actually there's much more than that, I think. Alcohol related deaths, there's like hundreds of thousands.
Phil
So including accident, the car accidents.
Alex Stein
Yeah. It's not. I don't even think it includes accidents either. So I'm saying alcohol really is the most dangerous drug. But that's socially acceptable. So when it comes to drugs, I kind of used to be like, you too. Like, hey, we should probably almost a little decriminalized, but now in this modern era. No, we need to, we do need to help people though when they get arrested for this.
Ian Crossland
And the term drugs is so vague because it, especially with this divergence, diaspora of the fentanyl and weed, completely different realms of, of chemical. And that's like saying, how'd you get so fat? Food. And be like.
Alex Stein
Well, wait a little vague.
Ian Crossland
Let's specify what, what food are you talking.
Phil
I, I would, I would push back on that.
Alex Stein
Yeah, I mean it is food.
Phil
Like literally, like if you. It's calories in versus calories out.
Ian Crossland
Always. No, because it is.
Phil
If you get absolutely 100% always calories in versus calories out.
Ian Crossland
No, it's not.
Phil
You cannot get fat fat if you do not take in more calories.
Alex Stein
Say that that's not true. Because you can eat a bunch of calories and can't gain weight.
Ian Crossland
You know what calorie is?
Phil
It's a unit of unit of heat.
Ian Crossland
Yeah. It's produced by food in your body getting chemically changed. The vitamins in the food are also.
Phil
Part of the transition point that I'm making.
Ian Crossland
So you might have 5 calories from a piece of sugar or 5 calories from a piece of broccoli.
Phil
The different. The point that I'm. The point that I'm making is if you take in more calories every day, then you burn, you will get fat.
Alex Stein
You will store it.
Phil
You will store that energy. The heat will be stored. The energy, because that's what heat is, is energy. The energy that you are taking in from those calories, they will be stored in your body as fat. That is exactly how it works. But it's not any more complex than that.
Alex Stein
You are right. Like, that's to the simplest point. But Ian, because Ian probably eats a lot of calories and his body just. His metabolism is fast, right? So some people, people, it's. Yeah, like you and I could probably gain weight. So that's why, you know, we have a different opinion than you.
Phil
That's 100 true. They're. The metabolic rate of people is different. And someone's metabolic rate may be faster and they're resting. You know, their daily burning of calories just from doing their normal activities is higher than someone else's. That's true. But if you lower the number of calories that you take in, you don't take in calories.
Ian Crossland
That's the thing you take in food.
Alex Stein
Food.
Ian Crossland
And whether or not your body converts it into energy is depending on how healthy your body is.
Alex Stein
It's calories in, calories out. Like, if you take in less calories than you burn, you're gonna lose weight. It's just. That's just.
Ian Crossland
But just because you eat the food doesn't mean you're gonna burn it properly if your body is actually.
Carter Banks
He does have a point. Because celery has like negative calories where it takes your body more calories to burn the celery. I mean, that's. That's true.
Phil
I mean, so it takes more calories to chew, but the. No, no, there's chewing.
Carter Banks
There's like stuff inside that takes your body more like.
Phil
Well, there's. There's very little actual like fiber and calorie content in, in celery. Is the point that you're making your, your body, processing it, like picking it up, chewing it, swallowing it, processing it through your digestive tract takes more calories to do than the actual piece of celery has in it. So. Yeah, that's. So you're right. Like, I'm. I'm not disagreeing with you.
Ian Crossland
So I kind of tight tangented into food, but we're talking about just Just being spec, because I'm kind of with you, Phil, about legalizing drugs. I kind of rode the same wave. I still feel like weed should be legal. It stinks. I don't want people to smoke it in private buildings. I like the smoking ban in general, but like edible and stuff. That, that chemical, that whole, you know, the way they made it illegal was like William Randolph hearst in the 1920s had all the paper mills and he had a bunch of trees and he wanted to get a monopoly on the, on the paper industry. So he made hemp. He. He got with Harry Anslinger in Congress and got them to make hemp illegal so that he could monopolize the paper industry.
Alex Stein
They wrote a bunch of stories about how like, people would smoke marijuana and like rape people. Like, like. And they. No, I swear, you look at it, what is it called? Madness. It was about that, like they made. If you smoke marijuana, you're going to go and have schizophrenia. And that was William Randolph Hearst.
Kevin
It.
Ian Crossland
It's a potent chemical for sure. But I think that.
Alex Stein
Well, what's worse now is the Delta 9 is a synthetic weed. I mean, if you have ever. Have you ever had Delta 9?
Ian Crossland
I think so.
Alex Stein
It is gross. Like, I've tried it. Delta 9 or Delta 8 or what any of the synthetic marijuana.
Ian Crossland
It was it called spice once, like 10 years ago.
Alex Stein
Well, that's different. That stuff's really bad. But, but, but like I had a CBD sponsor. I'm like, these CBD gummies don't get you high. No, they actually get you high and they're terrible for you. And it's not like a clean high. It's like anything with synthetic weed in it is. It's gross. But that's what China. That's how they're able to smuggle in the finish fentanyl in their country. These, I guess, like these. They're not a pharmaceutical company because they're making fentanyl. What they do is they can add a chemical compound to it to make it legal. So it's like fentanyl, yada, yada, yada, plus this element. So it's like how they make synthetic marijuana, the delta 8, they add another chemical. So it's not just THC, it's THCA. And that's how they have fentanyl. They have like a fentanyl B. So legally they can manufacture it and send it there because it's not technically basically the outlawed fentanyl that they make. So does that make sense? They can add a compound to it and make it Legally. So that's why all the fentanyl is able to come to Mexico and that's why they're able to smug it up the border. Because in China, every time they shut one down, they just make more fentanyl with some other chemical. And then technically, to the letter of the law, it's legal for them to produce it. So that's what's happening with the synthetic weed is they get this hemp and then they add chemicals to it. And yes, you have an effect where it makes you feel like you're high, but it's not. You're not. It's not a good high. It's like it just makes you feel kind of sick almost.
Ian Crossland
The healing properties of CBD are fascinating. And that, that comes from just the plant itself, the cannabidiol worth looking into.
Phil
All right, we're going to go to this next story about the. The immigration documentary that tim cast and six, seven Kevin have produced. It's going to be available on Monday, July 21, only on Rumble. And then after that pre premiere, it's going to be able only on Timcast.com is it?
Alex Stein
Right?
Phil
It's going to be on the website, but we're going to go ahead and show a little bit of that now and then we're going to ask Kevin to discuss it a little bit. What was that? Oh, yeah.
Alex Stein
For those that think.
Ian Crossland
Is you behind the camera, Kevin.
Kevin
Yeah.
Phil
Hi. You are currently being deported.
Alex Stein
For those that think that the Trump administration is humane, open borders are humane.
Kevin
You're a. I think a lot of Americans, they have this thought America is the greatest country in America, the world, everyone wants to come here. Are the migrants thinking that after they come here? No.
Phil
They'Re not sending their best.
Ian Crossland
Two different ambushes on immigration, federal officers.
Kevin
You can just kill ICE agents, you know that. Are you scared of all of these death threats or.
Phil
No.
Alex Stein
Come get some. I wake up at the kid in the cannon.
Phil
I think they, they shouldn't be voters.
Alex Stein
In any part of the world.
Kevin
Deportation.
Alex Stein
I'm not running a popularity contest. I got a job that I'm going to.
Phil
So. So actually the, the documentary is only going to be available on Rumble. So you have to sign up for rumble.com to see this after the debut on Monday. But if you want to go ahead and talk a little bit about what your experience was like making this and, and, and how you got into it.
Kevin
Yeah, no, this was, this was an adventure, man. Adventure of a lifetime. I had been reporting on the border for, for last three years or so. But I wanted to do something more boots on the ground. And Tim was down for it. So I went through Panama through the Darien Gap, followed the journey of migrants, talked to deportees.
Phil
Can you. Can you talk a little bit about what it was like to go through the Darien Gap? Because that is the. That's kind of the area where there is no actual road from South America to North to North America, correct?
Kevin
Yeah, exactly. So the skinniest point in Central America is there in Panama on the Darien. And ever since the conquistadors, people have been using it to cross through there. So the same maps that the conquistadors were using are what the migrants use today. The same trails up through there, they're using those same old trails. But now China, through the Belt Road Initiative is building a road through the Darien Gap. They used to call it tampon, Del Darian in the local language because it's literally the pluck. It kind of.
Alex Stein
They called it the tampon. They do.
Kevin
But now because of this road, it's going to allow for mass migration at a scale. It's unprecedented. So what Trump's done at the border, he has shut it down, and that's verified. You know, I talked to border patrol agents. It's true. You know, talk to migrants, all that. But he hasn't stopped the United Nations. He hasn't stopped the European Union. When I was in the Darien Gap, I saw these. It was dystopian. It was like these giant camps that the United nations made. Made. And that's what these migrants are following as camps all throughout the Darien, Central America, up, basically checkpoints paid for. So they get their food paid for, the bus paid for, and there's this whole train line, basically, to go right into the United States.
Alex Stein
Wait, when they say they're walking, they're not actually walking, are they?
Kevin
Through parts of it, through, like the Darien and things like that.
Phil
There's not a road they have to.
Alex Stein
Yeah, I know, but I'm saying. So, like, like, I mean, they're just. Literally just have a. I mean, I see the backpacks and you see them walking. But how much of the Darien Gap do you walk? I mean, it's just like the. It's just like the desert kind of.
Kevin
I mean, river, jungle. 60 miles of the most dangerous jungle in the world. And 10% of the migrants died on their journey going through there. There was millions during Biden's time. So there's just dead bodies everywhere.
Phil
Oh, really?
Alex Stein
No. Did you saw a bunch of Dead bodies.
Kevin
I talked to the locals. They saw the dead bodies. They'll just be like floating down the river. And they told me stories of just seeing like. Like dead infants floating down the river because there's separations that happen between parent and child in the Darien. A lot of trafficking that goes on. And that was the other big part of this documentary that I didn't go into it thinking it would be, but we went after the missing migrant children. There's hundreds of thousands of missing migrant children. We found Walmarts just filled with children and they're being dropped off to sponsors that are not properly vetted. So we went door knocking to see where these kids were dropped off to.
Alex Stein
Isn't it like Catholic Charities a lot of the times that are the ones that are doing a lot of like picking up the kids?
Kevin
Yeah. So there's a lot. The Catholic Charities are involved, the United nations are involved and the cartels.
Alex Stein
Is Israel involved?
Kevin
They actually are. There's.
Alex Stein
I was just joking, but actually. Wow.
Kevin
It's the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. In the film, they pay for the migrants to have support going up through there in Panama. They're actually one of the largest just funders of mass migration.
Alex Stein
Are you serious? Are you trolling?
Kevin
I'm not joking. It's in the documentary. I know it's a joke.
Phil
What do they call the watch on Monday? Hebrew.
Ian Crossland
What is it called?
Kevin
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Look it up. Highest.org and one of the major funders.
Phil
Chad, is having a conniption.
Alex Stein
Yeah, the chat's going to love that group. Wow, I didn't realize that. I was just kidding. I thought you're going to say like, no, not really. But I didn't expect you to say actually Israel is the most important country and the most powerful country country when it comes to the illegal immigration in the Darien Gap. Wow. I didn't expect that answer, particularly for.
Ian Crossland
Jews fleeing pogroms in Europe is where it was founded to help.
Kevin
It was founded as that. And they kind of. They took that idea of the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and they kind of liken that to the Venezuelans and other migrants today.
Alex Stein
Oh, that's good.
Kevin
That are coming.
Alex Stein
That's really good. But not.
Ian Crossland
They're not Jewish. They're not Jewish.
Alex Stein
No. They're just Venezuelans with criminal history. That's good.
Kevin
It's interesting because they actually brought in a lot of Muslim and potentially sleeper cells into the United States.
Alex Stein
I wonder why they'd want that. I wonder why they'd want Muslim sleeper cells to Come into the United States and attack Americans. I wonder why Israel would want that. That's weird.
Phil
So they're not attacking Israel that way.
Ian Crossland
America has to defend itself and like, and like start a war to defend itself. Why would they ever want.
Alex Stein
Yeah, why would they ever want to demonize Muslim people as terrorists? I don't know. Wow, that's crazy. I did, I didn't know I was going to learn that today. I had no idea and I, you know, I'd heard conspiracies.
Phil
So can you do me a favor and go on a little bit more.
Ian Crossland
About the about know.
Kevin
So what I learned about is it's those organizations like highest, the United nations that if we don't cut the funding to them, mass migration will continue. And that's what I was talking to a lot of the migrants that are. I talked to deportees in Mexico.
Phil
They're NGOs you're talking about, right?
Kevin
Yeah, these are NGOs USAID was big behind.
Phil
Say do you think that the defunding of USAID is going to make a difference?
Kevin
Yeah, I actually went to four different gay only migrant shelters in Mexico.
Alex Stein
Going on. So now you're at the Hebrew area, now you're the gay area. What's going on at the border? Dude, this sounds kind of fun.
Phil
Not even at the border. It's daring gap.
Alex Stein
The daring gap doesn't sound that bad. So you're the gay place. You're the Jewish place.
Kevin
The gay place is shut down because USAID shut it down. We got undercover footage of that where I told, told this guy to act gay and to go in there and they, they told him on camera that most of their funding from was from USAID and is now being cut. And so those are.
Alex Stein
How do they know real quick, how do they test that you're gay? You just say I'm gay and like you kind of feminine or like do they like make you show them your wings?
Kevin
You have to watch the document, show.
Alex Stein
You naked pictures of men and look at if you get a boner. Like what is going on? Dude?
Kevin
This is unbelievable. I couldn't believe it either. Just the amount of money the taxpayers were had been putting into this. But the big thing is these migrants are waiting for the next election. These giant organizations, these camps are still there. And on camera I get them saying we are maintaining these camps just in case they need to be activated again in the future, which they will.
Alex Stein
Well, but really this is the one thing, and I know conservatives get mad about this and I remember learning this as a Kid. That America is a melting pot. I don't think we should be anti immigration. I mean, obviously. I know that. I know we're not. I know I am. For now, you're against all immigration.
Phil
I think that we should shut even legal immigration down. Immigration for five, five years or so until we can actually have the people that are. That have immigrated here, allow them to actually assimilate. Because the point you're making about melting pot, I agree, but the point of a melting pot was people become American. And the people that.
Alex Stein
I do think that's important, they become American.
Phil
The people that have come here, they don't become American American. They actually are. They're setting up enclaves of their own culture and stuff. It's called multiculturalism. And it's really ripping Europe apart. It's causing massive problems. So I think that we should shut down immigration to the United states except for O1 visas. The. The. Not B1, but the. Or not each one, but the actual. You've got a special talent visa. Shut down immigration for five to 10 years, and only exceptional cases get to come in, and then we can revisit.
Alex Stein
Yeah, well, first of all, no, that's gay. Because that mean less big booty Latinas in this country. So. No, but.
Phil
But you can. There are Latinas here to give birth to more big booty Latinas.
Alex Stein
Listen, we need a few immigrants, okay?
Phil
That's why I said a few.
Alex Stein
But he calls me crazy. And Donald Trump. I've been going around screaming, you know, for amnesty, for big booty Latinas. Everybody laughs about it. They think I'm joking. But then you see Donald Trump go on the record and say, hey, listen, if you work at a hotel, he's wrong. Well, but listen, this is why. Why? Because, Phil, I know what you've done in some hotel rooms. You've done some nasty stuff, okay? And you've been on the road. You've done nasty stuff in those hotel rooms. And guess what? You know, Gloria from Guatemala came in there and she cleaned all those sheets, she washed it, and she did it for 50 cents on the dollar.
Phil
Back of the bus. It's not the. It's not hotel rooms. It's in the back of the bus.
Alex Stein
What do you mean in the back of the bus?
Phil
The back of the bus or whatever.
Alex Stein
I know you did on tour. I'm just saying, who's going to go clean a hotel room after Alex Stein farted into the sheets all night? Not a lot of people. You need to be in a league legal to do that. I know that sounds crazy. We need a couple of them. I mean. What do you mean?
Kevin
I actually saw the maid when I walked out of my hotel room, and she did not look happy.
Alex Stein
She was not happy. We're sitting on the same floor because my room's disgusting. And. And working at a hotel and changing the sheets after people do God knows what in those hotel rooms is disgusting.
Phil
So I think this is important for America, though, Alex. I do.
Alex Stein
To make white people do that.
Phil
No, no, no. To allow. To allow, Pete. The people that have immigrated here to give them time to assimilate.
Alex Stein
Well, I'll be honest. This is going to be racist as hell. This is not going to get canceled. But I went to lsu, and Louisiana has a lot more African Americans than Hispanics. And I'm in Texas, where if you go to McDonald's, it's all Hispanic workers. You go to a Chinese restaurant, it's all Hispanic workers. This stuff comes out fast. This stuff comes out right. Your order's right. You go to Louisiana, you go to McDonald's in Louisiana, good fucking luck getting your order. You know what I mean? And there's a reason why. Because the people that are working there are Americans, but the job's beneath them. So they don't care. The illegal immigrant, to them, their job at Burger King, they're like, oh, I'm a Burger King. I get a uniform. I've never had a T shirt. I'm not good at accidents. Like, oh, I've never had a pair of shoes. Now I have Burger King shoes. They love it. So I feel like Americans are jaded and they're not going to do a lot. Some of them will do this menial labor, but most people won't. And there is a difference when it comes to. And this is a person wearing a Burger King hat. I don't care what you say. The illegal person that works at Burger King will. They might be harder to understand, Will do their job cooking the French fries and making the burger better than Yolanda, who's mad that her baby daddy is on Facebook cheating on her with her, you know, cousin.
Ian Crossland
So you think we need a small trickle of illegal immigrants to cover some of the jobs?
Alex Stein
Yeah, we need somebody to bring the weed in. I mean, we see somebody. I mean, that's the.
Phil
The argument that the left makes. And it's. It's literally like, don't take away my slaves.
Alex Stein
I agree. I got a mate. I got a housekeeper. I'm not. I think we should slow it. I think the guys, if you're a trin To Aruga. We can slow out all the guys, but what's a woman going to do? What is a. Have you ever okay, all the hotels you ever stayed at? Have you ever seen a male housekeeper at your hotel?
Phil
Oh, no, not.
Alex Stein
It's impossible. It's impossible. There's never been a male housekeeper in the history of a hotel. Look at chat. Check me right now. Every single person watching this, you've all stayed in a hotel. How many of you seen a male housekeeper? Zero. They don't exist. So this is why it's important we can keep the ladies, because they can do that crazy crap. The men get out of here. You know what I mean? If you're a nine, you're fine. Like, I just. I just do think that there is a difference. And I have nuance. I know we're talking a lot about nuance on this episode tonight. There is nuance when it comes to illegal immigration. And I don't think that this country should be totally against immigration. I do think there's a way to do it right.
Phil
And I'm just talking about a pause.
Kevin
Latinas are beautiful, but I want to. It's a false notion about the working.
Phil
If you're suicidal, because let me tell.
Kevin
You right now, this is in the documentary as well. I investigated this. Most of the illegal immigrants that came in in the last four years, they went into blue cities and they received free money from the taxpayers. I got the documents for how much. They were getting free housing. They were getting cash benefits, they were getting food benefits.
Alex Stein
I didn't say they should get social services.
Kevin
No illegal immigrants came for that.
Alex Stein
But you shouldn't get free social services. I totally disagree with that. If you like, like, I'm talking about the people that are actually working, because there's a difference. There are illegal immigrants that went to the Roosevelt Hotel and got a free hotel room. Those people kick rocks. Get the hell out of here. But, like, if you actually are coming here and you're working a job, I think that is significantly different than coming to America just for the social services. There is a difference. You know what I mean?
Kevin
Trump mentioned that where he's talking about AM and Steve for people that worked in the country for a while, who.
Alex Stein
Did he get that idea from? Who did he get that idea from? The guy that's been yelling at AOC for seven years.
Kevin
Yeah.
Phil
All right, so we're going to go to super chats now. So smash the like button. Share the show with your friends. Tell everybody, you know that you want to be. They want to Go ahead and, and follow Tim cast. And they want to sign up@timcast.com and become a member of our discord. So that way you can call in to the after show, which is not happening today because it's Friday, but Monday through Thursday we have that. And don't forget the Culture War podcast live is back. It was gone for a moment last night night because leftists have no sense of humor and they, they believed that they had the ability to cancel Tim Cast live shows, but they didn't. And the wonderful people at the DC Comedy Loft have shown them. They said, no, we're not going to cancel it, no matter how much you call and whinge and whine and complain. So go to dccomedyloft.com and you can get your tickets for the Culture War Live. We've got one coming. Coming up with Michael, with Michael Malice and Angry Cops. Both of those guys are hilarious. They're great guys and they are both gonna, they're gonna debate whether cops are a good thing or a bad thing. Michael Malice, you know, is a well known anarchist and Angry Cops is actually a cop. Richard High, he's a great guy. So. But right now we're gonna get to your super chats. And what do we got here? Trumpinator47 says, I love frog stuff. Stew, good to know.
Ian Crossland
Frog stew.
Phil
Yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't know, I thought, I think it's frog leg.
Alex Stein
I've had frog legs. It kind of tastes like chicken. But one thing, Tim, I mean, Phil, what you said last night though, they canceled the show. Tim calls me, he's like, hey, they canceled the show. And I said, tim, they're not going to bring it back. We need to find another venue. And I have to give Tim credit because I was like, tim, they're not going to un. Cancel it. And Tim's like, watch. And Tim shared that tweet where the antifa that got Tim originally canceled or got the event canceled. They put the club's information, they put the phone number, they put the email address and once Tim shared it, that number had, they had to disconnect the number. So they tried that one. Then the email, they turned off the email, but the one that put it over the top. And this is why I want to personally say thank you because I'm going to be a part of the first episode with Gavin and Maton next weekend. I just want to say thank you because the people went on Google and they started leaving these negative Google reviews. And I didn't encourage you to do that. Tim didn't tell anybody to do that. But once their Google rating got so poor, they immediately change their tune and all of a sudden they're like, you know what? You guys are un. Canceled.
Phil
Yeah.
Alex Stein
So if you guys maybe want to help them out, maybe wait if they let us, if they don't recancel us, maybe go back and leave some good positive Google reviews.
Phil
If I understand correctly, the information that I got was that the actual owner.
Alex Stein
Was out of town.
Phil
Out of town and didn't know and the manager said, oh, we're going to cancel because they didn't know what to do. They were getting all this negative, these negative comments where they were getting a lot of pressure. And then when the owner came back into town, she was like, absolutely not. This is, this show's going on and was very apologetic and stuff. I imagine that to have the bad press from Tim is definitely not a good thing. You know, all the people that watch IRL and, and Tim is a. A fairly well known personality I think. Yeah, that's a, that's an understatement, I think. But. But yeah, it is, it is wonderful that, that the show is. The shows are back and you know, know get your tickets at.
Alex Stein
That never happens. Canceled and uncancelled like that. Never. That's weird. I've never seen that happen. 2025, you know, 2025 and Tim Pool. Don't mess with Tim. And I think D.C. they have that thing where they can't discriminate you based on your political affiliation. And Tim has about 25 lawyers. So I don't, you know, they probably did not want to get involved with that.
Phil
All right. So Raymond G. Stanley said if ticket was got refunded, need to buy again. Okay.
Alex Stein
He's talking about the show. They refunded the tickets. Yeah. See that's another thing that. What a cluster. It's like. I think they did refund the tickets. So now you do you. I think you do have to go rebuy it. I think that is. Yeah, that is the protocol.
Phil
If you bought tickets a pain in the ass, you gotta, you do have to go get them. I do think that, you know, it's important to obviously go rebuy your tickets, but I think that that this particular issue, there's. There's probably a lot of people that are gonna be like, oh yeah, I want to go now.
Alex Stein
Well, and yeah, there's going to be protesters there. So you know, it's gonna make it a little more interesting. So if you guys have never Seen Antifa come to DC and come hang out with Antifa and the pimp on Blimp and Tim Pool and Gavin Amaton.
Phil
So it's in dc, isn't it?
Alex Stein
It's in dc. Dc. I think it's like near Capitol Hill, I think.
Phil
Yeah.
Alex Stein
So.
Phil
So, all right, what do we got here? What is this thing? Okay, all right, so let's see. Taylor Lorenz X says, Alex, enjoy your best trans award from the Florida Young Republicans. I'm going to steal it from you on the 8Two Show. Now that it's back. Please roast me some more at the show. It was exquisite. Taylor Lorenz's ex is. Is a train.
Alex Stein
Oh, yeah. Taylor Lorenz's ex. Yes, we like Taylor Lorenz.
Phil
Very, very friendly and. And right wing trans woman. And so, yeah, we, we, we are friendly with.
Alex Stein
And I've been trying to get them to join the military like crazy. No, I, I love them. And once again, I love the trans. Taylor Lorenz X. We tried to get you on stage last time. You didn't come on stage. So this time you need to come on stage. Do not be a chicken. Do not be a little scaredy cat. Cat, come on stage. We encourage all trans people to debate.
Phil
Yeah. Shane H. Wilder says great job to all who emailed, called, or memed their complaints about the live show. Can't wait to heckle Stein on the second. Shout out to Kellen, Tate and Raymond for fielding inquiries. Y' all real ones. So, yeah, shout out to the behind the scenes people here.
Alex Stein
Hey, that's another thing. Kellen, Serge, these guys, they do not get enough credit. They really are the best. I. I think Serge over there works his butt off. He makes it look easy, but it's actually very hard. I'm not just saying that. So directing this show is not easy. And then Kellen, he's a badass all the way, dude.
Kevin
I want to shout out Kellen for helping with the documentary. He was a lot of help. Just back and forth on that. And then also Carter with the music. Carter Banks.
Carter Banks
What's up? It's been a pleasure making music for this documentary. I got to see a lot of the scenes before they were cut and never scored anything before officially. So this was very. A lot of fun for me.
Alex Stein
Oh, how was your first documentary? How was that?
Carter Banks
Yeah, well, it was crazy. It was fun. Started with a Novation base station and just kind of melded notes together and used a lot of sounds like bullets and different cartel sounds to make it more real. And I don't know Kevin seems to like it.
Ian Crossland
So did you just watch the movie and trance out and hear so we, we Kevin.
Carter Banks
It was more of like a back and forth process where Kevin would tell me what he was looking for and then he would give me clips and I would write something that I thought would fit and he would use. I gave him all the stems so he would use them in different ways. And yeah, it was like making a music video that was two hours.
Kevin
Yeah, his music is underneath like about an hour of this film, which is wild, whether it's just sounds, tones or fully scored bits. And it was funny. I would send him clips that I thought weren't good and then after he sent it back to me with the.
Alex Stein
Music I was like, this makes it so much better. Yeah, emotional music will make a clip totally different so that it is very important that the music fits it. You know, like tells a story almost as much as what you're hearing and seeing.
Phil
Absolutely. Truth Seeker Cipher says Hegseth confirmed the story. Check out the Microsoft allowance of Chinese workers in our DoD Cloud instances as admins. This is bonkers. So yeah, there was a, a story that came out today that we actually didn't cover. But the, the Microsoft cloud services that the DoD was using, I believe they were hosted in China or they were or China had access to it. Serge is actually digging it up right now.
Ian Crossland
Yeah, they China had been involved in constructing some of the tech they were using. They call. He called it legacy tech. That's how Hegseth referred to it. It's like his old stuff. We're not going to be using any Chinese anything anymore in the DOD going forward.
Phil
Yeah, they Pete Hegseth made a a video about it and he signed the order that stopped it apparently today. Let's see. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon was looking into a cloud computing program run by Microsoft utilizing foreign workers from China, which was criticized this week for potentially lacking adequate safeguards which could provide the CCP easy access to classified defense data and systems. Look, there are people out there and this is there's a lot of reasons why I don't consider myself a libertarian anymore. But one of the things that actually bothers me is there's this idea that China is not an adversary and they are not actively looking to harm the United States in when it comes to.
Alex Stein
Economically is that the general libertarian viewpoint. Libertarian Libertarian is not an adversary.
Phil
Libertarians believe that the United generally and I'm not can't speak for all libertarians but generally the sense is the that China and Russia and basically every country in the world would not have a negative opinion of the United States were it not for the behavior of the United States. So Basically it's the US's fault for everything, you know, America bad kind of sense. And that if we just trade with them, then it will be, everything will be fine. We don't really have a particularly aggressive foreign policy posture with China. There's obviously disputes about Taiwan, but even Taiwan, the United States has a, a strategic ambiguity policy on it. And they don't specifically say, oh, we would, we would defend Taiwan or we don't. I don't even think that the admin. Any administration actually says that Taiwan is its own country. I think that they, they say that.
Alex Stein
It'S something to piss off China. Yeah, yeah.
Phil
I think that that is a mistake. The United States and China are adversaries and China will do everything they can to beat the United single place you can possibly imagine.
Alex Stein
Well, and I know a lot of people are probably getting mad about this. Everybody wants to point to Israel being the bully, but I'm telling you, China is a bigger bully. I mean, it's just as bad as Israel. And I talked about it earlier with the fentanyl. The fact that they're buying all the property. Like China wants to take over America, but they want to do it covertly. Maybe other countries want to take over America covertly. You know, I'm not going to sit here and debate you, but China is, is such a big threat, especially all the people that I know know that have died of drug overdoses. Carter knows people too. Like that is. I'm not saying Chinese people that you see every day are bad. But China, the country does not care about America being successful. They want to try to undermine us from the inside out. So China, we talk. I hear a lot of people complain about Israel. China, I think, has caused much more irreparable damage.
Phil
Believe it or not, I agree. So let's see. We'll go back to let's see. So someone says you're wrong. Phil, read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. I lost over 100 pounds in seven months, but ate more food by switching to eating all meat. Calories aren't important. Hormones are. You're wrong. Totally wrong. If you take in more calories than you burn, you will put on weight. I don't care that you lost weight. You were still burning more calories than you were taking in. I don't know what your diet was. I don't know what your exercise regime was. I Don't know what your base metabolic rate is. But the absolute fact is if you take in more calories than you burn, you will put on weight. If you take in fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight.
Ian Crossland
He might be saying that if his hormones were off, he'd eat the food and his body wouldn't convert it into the calories.
Phil
That's possibly.
Alex Stein
Well, and that's it.
Phil
No, it doesn't. It's not that it doesn't convert into calories. Hormone, he doesn't. His hormones, hormones don't. His metabolism is slower because, because of the hormone stuff.
Ian Crossland
And that could be. This is his specific foods.
Alex Stein
He said that he ate all meat. So he's going to say that he was in ketosis the entire time. So that his body was using stored fat the entire time. But still, if you eat too many calories, your body will store the excess.
Phil
If you ate ribeyes for every single meal and you sat on your butt and you were taking in 5, 000.
Alex Stein
Calories, 10, 000 calories of broccoli, you would gain weight if you ate that much of it.
Phil
I mean that is important to just the way that it works.
Ian Crossland
Keep in mind you don't count calories. You don't take in calories.
Alex Stein
It's a, it's a weird measurement. Calories are just.
Ian Crossland
It happens. It's a measurement of the energy, the heat that's given off as your body digests the food that you ate. It's not a thing you. You eat.
Phil
Just like you said, it's energy stored in. It's how much energy is in. In the food. And when your body takes in that energy, it stores that energy as fat.
Alex Stein
Well, I want to say this because I am a skinny legend right now. I've lost about 35 pounds.
Ian Crossland
You look great by the way.
Alex Stein
Thank you. I appreciate that. But how I've been doing it, people say, said I'm on ozempic. I swear to God I'm not on Ozempic. But you know what I've been doing is the time restricted eating where I won't eat till about 5pm in the afternoon and then I won't eat. You know, I only eat for like a four hour window. For me I've lost in a lot.
Phil
Of ways and what happened and you're. And that all. There's. There's multiple different ways for you to take in fewer calories. But the re. Part of the reason is because you're restricting how much time you have to eat. So you're restricting the amount of calories.
Alex Stein
Exactly. And it works for me. And that's. So that's. If you guys are trying to do it, try 24 hour fast. You don't have to go long fast, but try. Just eat lunch, then don't eat lunch till the next day. It sounds crazy, but you will start to lose weight.
Kevin
Oh, it works great too. And I get more done. Actually, I get more work done when.
Alex Stein
I'm eating a bunch. Like, Ian, you're naturally thin. But when I'm eating, it probably slows me down. I feel like when you eat, you might get energy.
Ian Crossland
No, I get cloudy. That's why I don't eat a lot. I love the clarity.
Alex Stein
I thought maybe your body burns it better and mine doesn't.
Ian Crossland
But lately I've been eating a lot of animal fat. And I was. Sugar. I've been doing these figs. I've been eating a lot of figs. And I went in the sauna and got so hot. Like the animal fat was storing the heat excessively. So less animal fat. I've noticed the heat just goes right through me and out of me.
Kevin
But sugar will make it go right through you.
Alex Stein
Well, and they say the hot sauna is very important that, you know, really reduces your.
Carter Banks
You'll burn off all your water weight too. So you'll get really ripped.
Phil
Yeah, you'll. You got the highest. Yep. Dehydrated. So. So. All right, let's see. Vincent 1487 says Alex Stein should check out a YouTube AI country song about his favorite type of big posterior latina. Everybody says YouTube won't let me put the other buttocks. Word.
Alex Stein
It's.
Phil
I believe he'd love it. And the comments about him too.
Alex Stein
Yeah. Everybody sends me that video. I love that song. Everybody's like, did you make this song? But, you know, it's funny. I made a song about big booty Latinas. AOC is my favorite. Big Booty Latinas on Spotify. It got like 100,000 views. Maybe. But this song, this AI big booty Latina song has like 100 million. Carter, does that make you feel bad that this AI music can be made in 10 seconds and you have to work your ass off?
Carter Banks
No, not really. On Spotify. I don't really care about that.
Alex Stein
But you know what I mean? I'm just saying, like, in general, like, did you use any AI to score this documentary? Because, you know, Kanye used it on high. Whatever.
Phil
Did he?
Alex Stein
Yeah, on hh. Really? Supposedly used a little bit on the chorus. Yeah, that's what I heard.
Carter Banks
I mean, I use a lot of, like, AI tools already, so.
Alex Stein
In the music. Yeah.
Carter Banks
You know, it doesn't really. It's just like working with another person who's has ideas that you incorporate into something else.
Alex Stein
So I think we should use AI. I know, like, we're very threatened by. But, like, creatively, it's. That's not going to be as good or maybe as creative, but, like, there is ways where you can make your art better. Oh, yeah, by using.
Ian Crossland
I love AI. I use it every day. Literally every day. It's my search.
Alex Stein
Did you also see the thing where this one guy who's, like, a brain scientist, the more you use AI, the less your amygdala has to work and the less your, like, body has a reaction, so you get dumber. It's like the person that Uber, the Uber Eats driver that he might drive in New York City for 10 years, but because he used the app the whole time, he still doesn't know how to get around without the app. So there's a thing where you have to train your brain to learn this stuff. So. So that's why, like, if people that are using, like, AI to. To write simple stuff, don't do that. If it's a simple thing, write it yourself, even if it's kind of shitty. Because, like, once you stop doing that skill, you'll lose it, and then you're not gonna be able to write a sentence. And. And I have the trouble sometimes, I'm like, because I have to write more than a paragraph. And, you know, like, it's just, if you use AI too much, it will make you dumb, but it will also make you look smarter if people don't know you're using it.
Phil
So, yeah, I identify as tax exempt. Says y' all was talking about the crazy rains. Look into the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption. It increased the water content in the atmosphere by 20%. Whoa. Wow.
Ian Crossland
Well, Hunga Tonga.
Kevin
That's catchy.
Ian Crossland
I like it.
Phil
Let's see. Real war pig says Phil is tired of hearing people wanting to put rich elite pedos in prison. Wtf, dude? Aren't you a dad? Why don't you care about the victims if you don't care about the list, you're sick too. Well, the point that I'm making.
Alex Stein
What is your point? Because I saw you arguing that, and I'm not. I'm not even trying to debate you on it, but are you one of the guys on Twitter that are saying. I'm just trying to see if you're in that camp where it's not that important that it's bit a little news.
Phil
No, no, I don't think, I think that if there's, if there's evidence to, to people actually doing something like that, arrest them, prosecute them. I'm not, I'm not saying that we should move on, but, you know, considering the fact that, you know, we're inundated with it, right. We, we've. We've talked about Epstein every single night. I talked about Epstein for two hours today on the culture war, and we talked about Epstein on two different topics tonight night. There's no. And there's nothing new to say about it. So for me, I'm like, well, we've covered this. We're. We've covered this, We've talked about it. And so from my perspective, and this is only my perspective, I have said all that I have to say about it. And for, to talk to just. I'll just keep repeating myself over and over and over.
Alex Stein
So I think that's fair. But to your point, what's even crazy is that I think we almost even knew more about it in 2016, in 2017, when like all the leaks originally happened happen because it was, it hadn't been whitewashed. Now like we hear it's the stories that I was hearing back then and we can only say so much but about like pizza parlors and this and that was some serious, seriously dark stuff. And now when you talk about the subject, it's not as dark as it was. So I'd almost say that it's, it's gotten. This issue is like, remember when the, the guy went to the Comet ping pong with a rifle? That is when people were like really pissed. Like that was the kind of the breaking point of if you, in that conservative, the conspiracy world, you're like, we want answers, we want answers. And there was more information about Jeffrey Epstein back then than you can find now. And now that sounds crazy, but, but there was.
Phil
I get what you're saying, but. And, and to hit again to his point, this is important, very important to a very narrow group of people. There's two different groups of people that really, really care.
Alex Stein
You're gonna be really passionate.
Phil
Let me.
Alex Stein
Victims of childhood sexual abuse.
Phil
The point that I'm making is there are people that are really passionate about. About it that believe that there are a lot of people involved that have actually assaulted and abused a lot of children and, and whatnot. And then there are people that believe that Epstein is the key to uncovering the fact that, that Israel controls the United States, those two groups of people are the most passionate and they, they just assume that everyone agrees that, oh, there's obviously hundreds of children that are, that have been violated by hundreds of people. Personally, I think that Epstein, I mean, obviously he did do bad things with children. I don't think that it's as pervasive of some people as some people do. I don't think that there's dozens of people that have been to Epstein island that have abused hundreds of children. Now I know that there are multiple of them that are. And if there's evidence that there's been been been more than I think and that there are people that need to be indicted and arrested. Absolutely. But the presumption that, oh well, you know, it's pervasive throughout the government and, and everybody that's in the bureaucracy is involved and it'll take down so many blah, blah. I don't think that's the case.
Alex Stein
Yo, just read this next one I have right here. It's kind of doing the same pop.
Ian Crossland
It has to do with the same topic.
Alex Stein
So.
Phil
Okay, what is it? Lead dust, Lead lust? Lead lust says, what do you think about Trump parting, pardoning Julian Assange and Edward Snowden on the condition that the. They be the team to investigate Epstein with full clearance. Do you think people would believe the results? I don't know.
Alex Stein
I don't know if that would change your credibility if they did investigation.
Phil
Like I said, I said this today on the culture where I, I'm of the opinion that people that believe that already have a formed opinion about the Epstein situation, unless you produce evidence that confirms their bias, they will not, not, they will not think that it's enough. So the people that are like, you know, that are like, oh, it's, it's all about Israel. Well, like if you don't produce evidence that connects Israel to Epstein.
Alex Stein
Well, you know, the connection though, Robert Maxwell, Bingal Maxwell.
Phil
The point that I'm making is if you don't produce evidence that this is the lynchpin that undoes in Israel's puppet mastering of the United States government, then it's not going to be enough for him. And if you don't produce evidence for, for the people that believe that there's, you know, thousands of children that have been abused and, and stuff, if you don't produce evidence that confirms that, then it's not going to be enough for them. And though this is a very narrow group of people and there's all kinds of, there's, there's been multiple polls and for the normie people. And I'm, I represent the normies on this particular case. The normies, this is not a top line topic for them. It's salacious and people make a lot of noise about it because of the, the, the small group of people that are very committed and very, very, you know, think that it's very important. But when it comes to the average American, they're concerned with kitchen table issues. And as boring as that is, that's what most people are worried about.
Kevin
You know what I think happened, Phil? I think the interdimensional aliens came to your bedroom.
Phil
And that's the standard too. It's like, oh, look, Phil, Phil has an opinion that, that is outside of what we consider acceptable. So Phil must be on the list too.
Alex Stein
I think you miss one huge pocket of people that the same reason they like the pedophile poachers content. A lot of people are sexually abused as a child and so they want that justice. So somebody like Jeffrey Epstein goes down, just makes them sleep a little better.
Phil
At night knowing that, I mean, Jeffrey Epstein did go down and Ghislaine, Ghislaine Maxwell is.
Alex Stein
But if there's, if.
Phil
So if there's more people than on.
Alex Stein
There, if Chris Tucker, if Kevin Spacey, I don't know who's on there. But people want to know because they want to know who is the people that are abusing children.
Phil
I mean, look, look, at no point have I said we should, we should stop investigations or that, you know, we should just, they should just let the sleeping dogs lie. I'm just saying that from my perspective, talking about it every day when there's not actually new information, like the Wall.
Alex Stein
Street Journal, we haven't gotten any new information. And like in the past eight years, there's nothing new.
Phil
It's the Wall Street Journal thing that just came out that's supposed to be a bombshell and it's, it is literally a nothing burger. So anyways, listen up. Smash the like button. Share the show with your friends. Tell everyone you know, know, go to timcast.com become a member and join us at rumble.com or become a member@rumble.com so you can check out our after show. We're gonna wrap it up for tonight.
Alex Stein
So, Alex, I'll be live next week. The culture war Live. Gavin and Maton. It's gonna be crazy. They tried to cancel us. They uncanceled it. So it's a show that they didn't want to happen and it's going to happen. So I want to see you guys all there in DC.
Kevin
Dccomedyloft.com hey67 Kevin, thanks for having me on the show. Check out my documentaries on YouTube at 67 Kevin Kevin. And of course check out Sin Frontera on Monday, 6pm Eastern Time Live.
Carter Banks
That's right. We'll have a score for that as well. Released number of songs with the documentary. It's very awesome documentary and definitely come out next weekend. I'll be there behind the scenes as well with Serge. Ian.
Ian Crossland
Yeah man. I want to shout out Tyler Today news. We did a show that was really awesome Tyler. So thanks for doing that. I'm going to be doing going live with Joey Canole on Tuesday at 5:30pm.
Alex Stein
On who's Joey Canoli?
Ian Crossland
He runs the Discord.
Alex Stein
Oh I see. I've heard that name. Joey Canoli. Okay. That's who it is.
Ian Crossland
Heartbeat of the essence of the tubes of the Internet.
Alex Stein
I was like that sounds familiar. Well yeah, shout out Joey can only. Oh, and watch primetime with Alex Stein on Blaze tv.
Kevin
Yeah.
Ian Crossland
If you haven't been on the blimp yet, check out, check out that. Hey Serge and I love you.
Alex Stein
Love you Serge.
Ian Crossland
New haircuts looking pretty cool man.
Phil
So check out Tim cast clips all weekend and we will see you guys back here on Monday.
Alex Stein
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Timcast IRL Podcast Summary Episode: "Trump Russia HOAX DECLASSIFIED, Obama Officials EXPOSED In 'TREASONOUS CONSPIRACY” w/ Alex Stein & 67 Kevin" Release Date: July 19, 2025
Introduction In this episode of Timcast IRL, host Tim Pool, alongside guests Alex Stein and 67 Kevin, delves into a series of explosive political and cultural topics. From alleged government conspiracies to controversial legislation and media shakeups, the discussion offers a critical view of current events through an independent lens.
Overview: The conversation kicks off with Phil highlighting an exclusive report from Real Clear Investigations about newly surfaced classified documents that purportedly debunk the Russiagate conspiracy. These documents suggest that the Obama administration orchestrated a false narrative linking Donald Trump to Russia to manipulate the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Discussion Highlights: Alex Stein introduces the concept of the "Brennan kill list," alleging that John Brennan compiled weekly lists of individuals targeted for elimination under the Obama administration. This assertion leads to debates about the legitimacy of such claims and the potential for large-scale governmental corruption. The hosts express serious concerns over drone strikes’ death tolls and the ethical implications of such policies.
Overview: Phil presents a headline from CNBC about Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Rupert Murdoch. The suit alleges defamatory reporting regarding Trump’s supposed involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, specifically referencing a dubious birthday card.
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Discussion Highlights: The hosts critically assess the lawsuit, suggesting it serves more as a PR move than a legitimate legal challenge. They argue that the alleged birthday card lacks credibility and substantive evidence to warrant significant concern, emphasizing that the public is already aware of Trump’s past association with Epstein.
Overview: An excerpt from The Guardian is shared, detailing the unexpected cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert by CBS. This decision follows Colbert’s public criticism of CBS’s parent company, Paramount, for settling a lawsuit with Donald Trump.
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Discussion Highlights: The hosts explore the possibility that CBS’s decision to cancel Colbert’s show is not merely a result of financial strain but also a strategic move influenced by Trump’s ongoing legal actions against the media outlet. This perspective underscores concerns about media independence and the potential consequences of political influence over entertainment platforms.
Overview: Phil introduces a segment from Post Millennial discussing Puerto Rico's new legislation banning sex-change surgeries for minors under 21. The law also prohibits the use of public funds for such procedures, imposing severe penalties on healthcare professionals who violate it.
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Discussion Highlights: The hosts debate the ethical implications of banning sex-change surgeries for minors, questioning the state's authority to intervene in such personal decisions. They express skepticism about the effectiveness and morality of strict medical regulations, highlighting the complexity of balancing individual rights with state-protective measures.
Overview: Phil shares a report from Post Millennial on the correlation between Washington State's Keeping Families Together Act and a troubling increase in child mortality rates. The law aims to prevent Child Protective Services (CPS) from removing children from homes with drug-using parents, under the guise of family preservation.
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Discussion Highlights: The hosts analyze the unintended consequences of the Keeping Families Together Act, underscoring the tragic outcomes of prioritizing family preservation over the immediate safety of vulnerable children. They grapple with the moral dilemma of determining the best course of action when policies have dire, real-world impacts, advocating for more effective and compassionate solutions.
Drone Strikes and Government Corruption: Beyond the main topics, the guests delve deeper into the ethical ramifications of drone strikes authorized under the Obama administration, citing high civilian casualties and questioning the moral integrity of government officials involved.
Transgender Legislation and Rights: A significant portion of the conversation revolves around transgender rights, specifically criticizing recent bans on sex-change surgeries for minors. The hosts express strong opposition to such measures, emphasizing the physical and psychological harm inflicted on transgender individuals, especially youth.
Immigration and Border Issues: Kevin discusses his documentary work on immigration, highlighting the dangerous journey through the Darien Gap and criticizing organizations like the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society for allegedly facilitating mass migration. The conversation touches on the complexities of immigration policy, the humanitarian crisis at the borders, and the role of international organizations in shaping migration patterns.
Media Influence and Corporate Decisions: The episode also scrutinizes corporate influence on media decisions, particularly examining CBS's cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show in the context of political pressures and financial losses. This segment underscores concerns about media censorship and the intersection of politics and entertainment.
Health and Lifestyle Debates: Towards the end, the hosts engage in a debate about the validity of calorie counting versus hormonal influences on weight management, referencing Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories. They discuss personal experiences with weight loss strategies, the impact of diet on metabolism, and the broader implications of public health messaging.
Conclusion This episode of Timcast IRL offers a multifaceted exploration of contemporary political and social issues, blending investigative reports, personal opinions, and critical analysis. The discussions reflect the hosts' commitment to uncovering alleged governmental misconduct, advocating for individual rights, and scrutinizing the interplay between media and politics. Through engaging dialogues and provocative debates, the podcast provides listeners with a thought-provoking perspective on the pressing challenges facing society today.
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Final Thoughts: For those seeking an in-depth understanding of these critical issues from an independent viewpoint, this episode of Timcast IRL provides comprehensive coverage and nuanced discussions. Whether debating governmental policies, media integrity, or social legislation, the hosts encourage listeners to engage thoughtfully with the complexities of these matters.