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And it's done my friends. Tom Homans announced at a press conference that the surge of DHS into Minnesota is coming to an end now. Very much so. Tom Holman's painting is painting this like a victory. We got the job done. We've got unprecedented cooperation. We don't need this surge anymore. However, libertarians, many MAGA individuals are very salty on Trump, not just over this, but for a variety of reasons. And it's resulted in some people saying this is a surrender he's given up. There were a few hiccups, it went bad for them. Homan came in and they've been trying to find an exit strategy. So this is them getting out. And the narrative right now is not so good for Trump on the immigration issue because either he's being criticized for not doing enough, no mass deportations, or for doing way too much. There's no middle ground. So of course people are none too happy we're talking about that. And then interestingly, you know, we haven't really talked about it a whole lot. You can tell I'm kind of losing my voice. We haven't talked about it a lot on this show, but the Nancy Guthrie story is massive. And there have been some developments in this regard. And we are being joined by our resident expert in pop culture who's gonna help us break this down with some new information on the ransom note. And there's actually interesting points about modern day hostage situations and kidnappings that I think actually are destroying, you know, and it's sad to say the kidnapping industry is, is effectively over. It's, it's being ruined by AI and cryptocurrencies. How are you supposed to kidnap somebody when someone else is going to AI their voice and then pretend to be the kidnapper? You can't even get that done anymore. So we're talking about all that and a whole bunch more before we get started, my friends. We got a great sponsor for you to check it out. It is the Campaign for America First International Assistance. This is cafi@amer America first intl.org CFA Campaign for America First International Assistant Assistance states that a new era of America first international assistance is underway and that President Trump has made clear the US Will act decisively while ending the practice of providing blank checks. According to CAFIA, U.S. assistance should be strategic, accountable and tied to measurable results that strengthen American security, including stronger borders, tougher enforcement and real cooperation to stop illegal immigration and keep deadly drugs out of the out of US Communities. CAFIA believes that America First Assistance should focus on stabilizing fragile regions before crises reach US shores, strengthening key partners and supporting American farmers, manufacturers and workers. They cite the data from Trump's pollster showing that 80% of President Trump's voters support this approach to international assistance. They believe President Trump is sending a message to Beijing stating the use of foreign aid to buy influence and control will no longer go unchallenged and the United States must lead with strength, purpose and clear conditions that put American security first. For more information, check out their website. The link is in the description below. You can find them at America first intl.org and don't forget to join our Discord community@timcast.com Click that. Join us. We got huge news. Check my Instagram. The coffee shop is nearly done. I posted a video from there. It's like at 80% and it's been delayed and delayed and delayed and delayed. But it's there. You can see the counter, you can see the stage and there's a piano and there's painting. It's coming. And this means that our Tim cast members are going to get exclusive private club access membership. All this good stuff. We're doing private events. We're going to be doing exclusive elite member only events and meetups. We're going to make Ian basically hang out with you guys. And I actually pitched to to John who's running it. I said we should put up a Tim cast style backdrop for photos and a cardboard cut out of Ian. And everybody's got to get one. Check that out.
E
Be there all the time. Just hanging out.
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He is. Yeah. And. And we. Well, he's a big gamer. And. And there's a game shop, Mamba Collectibles is upstairs. So we've got the coffee shop on the first floor. You've got the collectible shop second floor. And. And the magic gathering. Yu Gi. Oh, Pokemon. All that good collectible stuff on the third floor. So, yes. And we're hoping that we can do a Friday night gaming show, gaming hangout with Ian as well. So definitely. Join the. Excuse me. Join the discord now while you still can. Don't forget to smash that like, button. Share the show with everyone you know joining us tonight to talk about this and honestly a lot about issues pertaining to him and. And the work that he's done. I'm very curious. Vince Offer.
D
Yeah, Offer. Vince Sch. Now I've changed my name here in first time letting you know.
B
Thank you. You. Everybody knows who you are when you walk like it's funny because we've had really high profile. We like, let me just put it this way, with all due respect to Phil. Yeah. Phil is a platinum rock star.
D
Yeah.
B
And he comes in and some people were like, oh, cool, it's Phil Labonte. You walked in and the skater guys.
E
Were like, holy crap.
B
Like, that's the. The. The. The ShamWow guy. And really, really excited to see you here.
E
I was like, that's the ShamWow guy.
D
I know. I watch myself on TV. I'm excited. Who's that guy?
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Oh, it's me.
D
I'm pretty excited. No, of course. Oh, thank you for that introduction. That's great. No, I just. Yeah. I'm running for comics because I just like. You just like the song you just played before the world's getting cold. So it's just like I want to make it warm like. You're doing well.
B
We're trying our best. It's tough every single day. But there's actually a lot to talk about with you. First of all, the story of, you know, Slap Chop shamwow. The work you did, it's fascinating. But additionally, you're running for congress. And interestingly, like before the show started, we were talking and you were making points that you didn't even know and we didn't even know we completely agreed on. And I was like, this is gonna be interesting. So it's awesome to have you. Thanks for hanging out. Thank you. Brett is hanging out.
C
I don't know who this expert is on the Nancy Guthrie situation, but I guess that's me today. You tonight guys. Normally I Pop Culture Crisis, which is live Monday through Friday at 3pm Eastern Standard Time. We will be having episode 1000 on Tuesday next week. So you should hang out for that. But thanks for having me.
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Hello everybody.
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My name is Phil labonte. I'm the lead singer, the Heavy Metalian, all that Remains. I'm an anti communist and a counter revolutionary. Let's get into it.
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Here's the big news, my friends. It is from NBC. Trump administration says it is ending its immigration surge in Minnesota. More than 4,000 undocumented immigrants have been apprehended since the operation began November, according to dhs. Speaking at a news conference, border czar Homan said coordination with local law enforcement and success of immigration enforcement have contributed to the end of Operation Metro Surge. I have proposed and President Trump has concurred that this surge operation conclude. The announcement comes weeks after federal authorities shot and killed two US Citizens, sparking outrage around the nation and the world. Homan said a significant drawdown will begin this week and will continue into next week. He said it will remain on the ground for a little longer to ensure a successful end of the operation. Now we've been hearing this quite a bit from a lot of Trump supporters that immigration enforcement was a, was a massive issue. It was the second issue behind the economy and that Trump has not delivered. Now, he secured the border, everyone agrees on that. But you've got a lot of people saying what is he, what is he deported? 600,000 maybe, and there's 20 million. At this rate, he will never get deportations done. Not not just before 2028, but before the midterms. I want to push back a little bit and say I know that we can be a little depressed and black pilled sometimes here on this show, but I don't, I think it's more middle, middle of the road. I think Minnesota was bad for the Trump admin, but I think they finally negotiated some kind of net positive they could take from this. I don't know what y' all expect. If Kamala Harris got in, you'd be dealing with 20 million new illegal immigrants. So can we at least be happy where we're at and take a positive step? Like I'm glad to see some of the work is getting done and let's be positively promoting the administration to do a little better.
C
Is it possible that they're just that people have a problem with. He didn't go after like the factory farms and the large scale operations that could have netted larger numbers of deportations at one time. And the way it's going about in neighborhoods and homes has been a PR backfire from day one. Like, it's a losing battle.
B
It is. And Trump came out was like, the hospitality workers and farmers can stay. And then everybody was like, what are you doing?
C
So I'm saying, like, that's the losing battle from the beginning.
D
Right.
C
Is like, if there is some type of cap on where you're going to go, then you're not going to get the mass deportations. In fact, you're choosing the ones that are hardest on the community, which means your PR battle is lost from the start.
B
Yeah, I just, I. When you look at the news, the way it's being framed by the Trump admin and Tom Homan is, we won, we won, we're done. But for some reason, I guess because of the pessimism, because of a bunch of things people perceived as not being good enough, this looks more like a retreat and a failure.
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Yeah.
E
Too many people are making the perfect the enemy of the good. I look, I've got the hardest line opinion on immigration out of, I think, anyone here. I would love to see immigration ended for at least a decade, and every single illegal should go back to where they come from so it doesn't get any more hard line than my perspective. But at the same time, I can't look at the reality of the situation, the options that we had, and say that Trump isn't the better option or hasn't been the better option. We got net negative migration. We have people that are opting to leave. Just today I was reading some tweets where people that are in custody, they're deciding to leave because I guess if they're, if they're gonna try and fight, they stay in custody. But if they're just gonna say, okay, well, I'm just gonna go back to my home country, they go, okay, cool, and let them go. And the more people that you get to leave the country through whatever means is possible.
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Right.
E
Whether it be paying them 2,600 bucks and buying their plane ticket, grabbing them off the street and throwing them in jail and putting them on a plane, or whether they decide that they're gonna. They get tired of being in custody and so they leave. I don't care what it is. Whatever gets them to leave is do. I would love to see the administration go after employers that employ illegals. Absolutely. I would love to see more people. I would love to see the administration go after people that rent homes to illegals.
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Or rent.
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Knowingly.
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Knowingly.
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But I like what you said and also what you said about. Because it's not really completely their fault for coming in. I mean, it's really the Biden's problem because they brought him in and incentivized. They come on in. So. Yeah, I mean, so there's maybe a middle ground where we can give them. Look, we know that we told you to come in that.
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Not.
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Not us, but previously Biden. So let's take a little responsibility for that. So why don't we give him some money? Like, here, look, three to $5,000. We'll send you back and we'll put you on a list. That seems like a nice middle ground. It's a little more. Yeah.
B
And that's Trumpet Edmonds doing that. Oh, they are, yeah. Yes.
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2,600 bucks.
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Look at this guy.
E
Is the cost $2,600? Because it's less money to give. It's less to give them $2,600 to go back and start the process or whatever, because if they leave their own volition, they can start the process and try and come back legally, and that's fair. And the $2,600 is cheaper than what.
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It cost for maybe a little bit more.
D
Because they were. It wasn't completely, like I said, completely their fault because if I was in South America, I'd go away.
C
I mean, it's.
B
But, but, but I think you're being nice.
D
Yeah, yeah.
B
But the Trump admin's view of it is what's going to spend is what, $17,000 per deportation or something like that, Right? Was that the number, Bill?
E
Yeah. 2600.
B
No, no. 17,000 is a total cost of a standard deportation. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure. And so they basically said, why don't we just give them a couple grand and a return flight home? That way they're incentivized to leave. The view from the Trump admin. And the pitch is not that it's not your fault. It's. Well, it is your fault, but it's cheaper if we do it this way and you can reapply and come back later.
E
The reapply part is a big deal because if you get picked up and they send you out, you can never come back, ever. You will never be a citizen. If you come back, you will always be illegal. If you go and leave of your own volition with the app that they've got, they'll give you money and you can start your paperwork and then you can come back the right way. I mean, you have to go back to the end of the line, which, you know, difficult, but whatever.
B
You're running for office in Texas, right?
D
Right. Texas. 30. 31st district. 31st north of Austin.
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Just north of Austin.
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We're trying to keep the weird, you know, wokeness from metastasizing into our district. So that's what I'm going to try to do.
B
But that's I was going to ask about because we know that the southern border of Texas used to be very blue and it started shifting red.
D
Yeah.
B
And the immigration crisis got really bad and we. I know that Austin is a weird. It's relatively woke, but Texas is shifted red, but it could be a little purple. And so I was curious, you know, for the district you're running in and for what you're seeing, how much of, how much has illegal immigration been an issue for you? I mean, we're over here talking about Minnesota. You guys are on the border.
D
Yeah, I mean, I just moved there last year, but it's not that bad now. But it was bad before. But the incumbent that was there, John Carter, wasn't at the border a couple years ago. He wasn't stopping them or doing anything. And now he says he's stuff on the border. Of course, Trump fixed that. But I'm also there not just for the border, but for all the other crap that's, you know, the wokeness that's coming in because like you said, Austin is like a very nice place, very nice people, artsy people. And woke loves to go where, where there's nice. They love nice. But we. I'm trying to teach the northern district to be tough love. It's tough. There's nice and it's tough love. Every time I've been nice, people take advantage of me. And that's even going in, going right now when just to let you know, like, I signed up as Oppurvind Shamwow Shlomy with my nickname, because everybody knows me as Shamwow. And then they just recently, a couple weeks ago pulled my nickname unbeknownst to me after I got all these advertisements and took my Shammar name out. So no one now when the voters go in and try to vote for me, they're not going to see it. So, yeah. So I'm really upset about that.
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Oh, wow.
D
I'm a little nervous about it. You know, hopefully they'll vote. I mean, I'll probably lose 30% of the votes because of that.
B
The interesting thing was I knew your name was Vince Offer.
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Yeah.
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And I thought you changed your name as, like a play on being a pitch man selling products. Oh. But your name actually is Offer. Vince Offer.
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Vince Shlomi. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And they wanted to keep that. And I said, can I put shamwow in there as a nickname? So they got it approved. The Secretary of State approved it, and the GOP approved it, and then they got it notarized and I got all. The campaign or the commercial. I think you saw the commercial where the fetus goes, vote for ShamWow. Right. But now they took it out and I'm kind of a little sad. So. Yeah, someone in. And Washington, D.C. called in and got it out. Probably. It's called. The company's called National Republican Congressional Committee, and they took it out. And that's really upsetting because I might. I might lose.
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Well, they don't want you to win.
D
They don't. That Kid Rock going for office, and then we're taking his name out and Robert Richie James, who the hell knows? Robert Richie, who's that?
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Yeah.
D
So. So the voters are not going to vote anyway. Sorry for offshooting.
B
Well, you get the rush.
D
No, but I mean, talking about the other thing. Sorry.
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You got time?
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Yeah, you got time? Okay.
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You know.
E
Yeah. When is. When is the.
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Well, no, no, they can't. They can't change it now. So I have to. I got a donation. I got donations and we're pushing ShamWow and like, if I even got, you know, this was the vote Shamow guy. But then when they pulled Shamwa out, now I gotta go vote Shlomi, so I gotta rebrand myself now. So it's like I'm. It's an uphill battle. So I don't know, I thought I was gonna win, but now it's like 50. 50 to see. But, you know, we'll see.
B
You have to just completely remake the shamwell commercial where, say, Schlomi instead of.
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Yeah, Schlomi.
C
We'll see.
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Call the product the Schlomi.
D
Yeah.
C
A question for you. So we, Me and you, Phil, have talked in the past about gun laws and the fact that it's become an issue that's become. It's a bit of a losing issue for Democrats. It doesn't work the way that it used to. Is there any world in which we one day see immigration in the same light, or will it always be on the table the way it is now? Like, is one of the. Is the idea here that if you push hard enough right now, even if you're not getting the deportation numbers that you want. Like, you can get it into the public consciousness and get Americans to understand the damage in which. What illegal immigration does and turns it into an issue similar to gun rights, where people are like, I'm not compromising.
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I think there are. There is a segment of the right that. That has that opinion now where they're like, there's, you know, no compromise, no. No anything. And I think that those are the people that are the most upset with Donald Trump. Right. Donald Trump ran when he first came down the elevator, the escalator in, you know, 2015, and announced the very first thing he said was, you know, they're. They're. They're sending rapists, they're sending the drug, drug users, blah, blah, blah. And all like, the. The whole media just freaked out. And. But he stood by, you know, he stood on his. His principles, and he's like, no, this is a serious issue. And. And I think that he really did make the case. And people have seen it now. Biden helped by opening up the border. You know, Biden has done as much damage to opinion, public. Public opinion on immigration as. As anyone. And because people are seeing it so succinctly, it's. It's so right in front of their face. But, yeah, I do think that it's not gonna change the way people think. I think that people are upset with Trump because he's decided that he's not gonna try to get rid of, like, the workers that are here, that are illegal and stuff. As for. Will it be a losing issue for the left, I don't know, because the people.
C
Is it possible in the future, like, with enough time?
E
I think, honestly, I don't think the time is the deciding factor. I think that it's damage. So the more people are aware of the negative effects of immigration, the more people will calcify behind no immigration or I want to have more deportations. Because even now, even after all the stuff that happened in Minneapolis, the squishy Republicans, yeah, they were like, oh, I don't want to see this and stuff. But the hardcore far right or right right wingers like myself, like, they were not moved. I was not moved. I was like, this is what I want to see. I. And because I'm. I'm aware of the people that were fighting back. They were all. They were all politically motivated. It was all, you know, progressives or communists or socialist, whatever you want to call it. Those were the people that were out in force protesting and trying to fight with the cops. And stuff. And it was all manufactured. Right. None of it was grassroots. It was all, it was all AstroTurf. So I wasn't moved by any of the stuff that went on. And I think there's a significant segment of the Republican base that, that still is like, I don't care. That's what I wanted to see. I wanted to see people getting deported.
C
Well, they're doing that right now with voting rights, where they're like, these are all the hurdles that somebody will have to jump through if, if the SAVE act is passed. Like if you were married or if you're divorced and all of these things and people like, I don't care. It should still be a law.
E
Yeah. And with that particular issue, like the, the popularity, popularity of it is like 85% of the country, 93% of Republicans, I think 71% saying, yeah, you should have to show ID. And you're seeing movement on the Hill too. Like there's only four senators that are holding out. Now the, all the, like, it's McConnell, the Alaska and Maine senators. I forget their names. They're the same person. And I think Tom Till from, from North Carolina is still holding out, but that's it. And even Fetterman's come over to say, no, I would vote for it. So I'm Federman 2028, you know, so, I mean, I could imagine, not that I think that it's going to happen, but I could imagine another Democrat saying, you know, actually that's probably not a bad idea. My constituents have been calling my office and they really do want to see this as well.
B
So let's, let's jump to this next story. We got this from this one from PJ Media. CNN is circling the drain as Warner Buyout heats up.
E
There is a God.
B
Well, we've heard the story quite a bit that, you know, CNN's dead. I honestly think CNN is dead. And I think CNN exists only in the imagination of conservatives. And I'm. You think I'm joking? I'm not.
C
Even then you see, like when you see cl, they're not nearly as at least the ones that I see posted aren't the same type of Trump hating clips that I saw five, 10 years ago.
B
The reality is conservatives like to bring up CNN as this anti Trump boogeyman monster because they're traumatized because 10 years ago CNN had viewership and was lying incessantly and insulting. And I'm not trying to say Trump is perfect, but CNN was literally just the anti Trump channel. Today, CNN has no viewers And I saw this story and I'm like yeah, yeah, okay, we get it. CNN circling the drain. I pulled up the, the ad week ratings. Get this. And this is not good for Fox news either. CNN averaged 753,000 prime time viewers. 142000 were in the key demo 25 to 54. They're down by between 9 and 16% in the demo compared to the previous week in their total daytime. Total daytime. 527, 000 viewers. 85000 in the demo. Guys, I gotta, I gotta tell you something. Do you know how much money you will make on a video that gets 85000 viewers? You're gonna get 300. CNN, right, is running a multi million dollar studio with. And they're getting ratings for their whole show that could not buy a pair of Yeezy sneakers. Yeah.
C
With actual ads being bought for there as well.
B
Is that what they're called? They're called Yeezys.
C
Yeezys, yeah.
B
I have some. They were expensive.
C
Why'd you get them?
B
Because Yay. Was coming on the show.
C
Oh wait, did you wear them on the show? You should have worn them on the show. Put your feet up.
D
It shows. Karma is a. Because when you harm someone of good intentions in general, I think it just comes back at you.
B
But this.
C
Fox is suffering too. It's. It's more about the decentralization of media and just the fact that the landscape is changing.
B
Fox, Fox had one.
D
So a little weird. A little bit too. They're kind of on some. On some.
B
Yeah, they're very, they're very like stodgy corporate, you know, but they had a one point. Here's the important thing to understand. Fox had 1.725 million total viewers. 175,000 were in the key demo 25 to 54. I'm just gonna let you guys in on something, okay. About 78, 80% of our viewers are key demo. And this show does about 600, 700k per night. We're in the political off season too when, when we start getting into the midterms and the cycle and all that stuff. Fox, CNN, Ms. Now they're going to see a spike in viewership as, as will we. But I was shocked to see that we're actually doing substantially better than all these networks. That kind of freaked me out. That's because we're not big relative to the size of what media used to be. I mean 10 years ago CNN was getting legit. 3 million in the key demo. Now they're getting 85,000. I think people don't realize how much our, our culture has fractured into a million pieces.
E
Yeah, well, I mean, that's, that's a symptom of having the Internet in your pocket. You know, you can just, you can have whatever your, you know, outlet of choice is fed directly to you and that's where you get your news. And that's actually a problem Apple's running into now. Apple' to it's. Apple might end up with some issues with the fcc because all of the Apple news stuff is, is all from the, from the left, left wing or far left. And I saw Brendan Carr, the, the FCC chairman, he was, he was tweeting about it. So, you know, that's weird.
C
It's funny too because Tim Cook has visited Trump and I was trying to explain to people is like, there's a reason why all of these CEOs went to meet him. They all want to kiss the ring anyways. Even if they don't agree with them, even if they're actually creating content that runs counter to his programmer to what Trump to know or want them to put out, they're still going to go and try and talk to him.
E
And to be fair, like, look, Tim Cook runs the whole show and he's, at the end of the day, the buck's going to stop with him. But he might not even be aware that the news division does that. Or, you know, he might, he might be like, yeah, okay, these are all fine. And he might, it might not even like register with him that there's no right wing perspectives going on. So like I said, now the buck stops with him. I'm not making excuses for him, but it does show. It's completely within the realm possibility that he doesn't, he isn't aware and he needs to buckle down on the news outlet.
C
It will be interesting to see what happens with CNN given the merger or the purchase of Warner Brothers from Netflix, which is still at the moment going forward. But it's not, obviously they're not buying the television stations. They're buying the streaming service in the studio. So they're going to split off Discovery and that's going to be its own thing and we have to see what happens there. Yeah, news is dying there.
E
I mean, yeah, I don't, I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel for cnn. I think that they're likely gonna be, this is gonna continue because they built a brand on not just hating Donald Trump, which obviously they do, but they hate Conservatives, they hate middle America nowadays. Red America is the working class. It's the average Joe. The left has really taken the. The extremely wealthy and the people that are on some kind of government assistance and made a coalition out of that.
C
Yet. 19 million on the YouTube channel for CNN and videos do like between four.
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C
46 and 190,000 on the last two videos. One three hours ago, 46,000. One from 13 hours ago. 190,000. There's one down there under that. 7,000.
B
Yikes.
E
Yeah. I mean, it's. It's definitely not.
B
David Pakman had a video where he accused Trump of pooping his pants. I got 2 million. Yeah, well, this is why we are doomed to retardation.
D
Yeah.
B
And then, as it turns out. So I don't know if you guys saw the video I did earlier about David. He made this video where literally nothing happened. So at some point, liberals just decided to claim that Trump crapped his pants.
C
Okay.
B
There's no reason to believe he did. There's no fart sound. There's no, like, literally nothing happened. Someone just said it. And then there's the sound of what appears like Trump going like. Like that on the. On the desk. And they're like, that was a fart. And it's like, okay. And then like, two, two or three minutes later, they go, okay, everybody, time to go. And they're like, that proves it. So David Benton makes a video saying, like, press rushed out after Trump poops his pants. It gets 2 million views in that video. David clenches up and goes. And you can hear a weird kind of noise. And so I gave him the same treatment he gave Trump, and I'm like, if you're gonna tense up on camera, and then make a weird noise. I'm gonna accuse you of pooping your pants too. Like the. The point is we are. We are swimming in a sea of psychosis and garbage. And, you know, I've been talking about how AI is the apocalypse for some time, and I don't think people really understand. They don't believe it. They tell me I'm wrong. There. There are AI videos on YouTube with hundreds of thousands of views.
E
Okay?
B
Understand what that means? It means shows like this can't compete. That's it. It's over, guys. We're done. It's going to happen. It's coming. Thank you and have a nice day.
C
I'm actually AI on our show. I don't even go into the office anymore. I just put it in front of the screen.
B
It is really, you know, someone, I think Andrew Tate might have made this point. If you are not using AI, I think this point, like a year ago, if you're not using AI for your media business, you've already lost.
C
Yeah.
B
And so the truth is, even for us, you know, we do fairly well. It's like kind of crazy when we look at cable news ratings and we do double or triple their numbers in the key demo. But the reason why it's shocking is because we're relatively small to where things used to be. But there's no way for me to compete with 10, 000 channels. So I'll tell you guys a secret. It's not really a secret. I just called it in. Like 2018 is when my YouTube channel started taking off and making money. It was around the time I launched my channel, Tim Cast News. So I was doing one 10 minute video every day at 4pm on YouTube.com Timcast and then I launched a second channel because it's like, if you get. If that channel gets banned, you'll have a second channel. Even though it's against the rules still, everyone was doing it. And then I had a few stories that were interesting, but I didn't have time to make a longer 4 minute or 4pm segment. So I said, I'll just hit record real quick and then just throw them up. Instantly, they started getting tons of views. So then I started doing five videos on that channel per day and one on my main channel. And the reason why that channel grew is not because my content was good. Partially it was because I was buying more lottery tickets than anybody else. So a bunch of conservatives were going, man, you know, my videos aren't getting any views anymore. What's happening? See what happens is if you put up one video per day, you're competing with me, who's putting up right now today. Like I think 20. And so one of the reasons we've been competitive is that on the front page of YouTube you tend to get 10 to 15 videos at once. People usually aren't going to scroll, they're going to click whatever videos they see. If my thumbnail is better or more interesting and you click mine over everyone else's, YouTube will recommend it more. So consider it this. You have purchased one lottery ticket per day and thrown it in the bucket and I'm buying 20. And then YouTube is grabbing at random 15. Guess what, you aren't in it. So this meant that because I was working substantially more, my videos were more likely to get recommended. And because they were more likely to get recommended, they were more likely to get clicked on. So the algorithm was more likely to promote it over your video. So in the long run, many conservatives saw their video views go down. And then in 2020, my Tim cast and Tim Cast News and Tim Cast IRL combined was the most viewed, I guess you'd call it moderate to right leaning channel on YouTube doing about 180 million views per month. Insane, massive numbers. We are making crazy amount of money today. The challenge is every day there's like a hundred new AI channels schlop dropping non stop. And by that same logic it means that the 20 or so lottery tickets we're buying are up against 50,000 now produced by these other random people, companies or even a single guy just ran a bot. And so what that means is over a long enough period of time, we are dealing with attrition where you are less likely to see our videos, so you are less likely to click on them and you are less likely to then be recommended. Meaning you are less likely to see the videos. Meaning we are, we are entering along with everybody else exponential down like death curves. And what I will say for people like David Pakman is that dude, he's got a couple years left once Trump is out. You know, Brian Tyler Cohen and David Pakman got nothing to talk about.
C
You think there's right wing channels that have that same problem?
B
Nope.
C
You don't think so?
B
Hassan Piker will be okay. He talks about everything.
C
No, I'm saying right wing channels.
B
Okay, yeah, I know. I'm saying it's not everybody on the left who's going to go down. It's the people who only ever talk about Trump. We're seeing it with cnn. They dedicated themselves to being the anti Trump Channel. David Pakman's basically stolen all their viewers. But that's not going to last once Trump's out of office. Unless Trump declares himself Emperor, you know, to be honest. Yeah, okay, just. Just do it already. I'm so over all of this, right? Like, the SAVE act gets passed, and they're like, women can't vote. And I'm like, oh, you know what? Fine, you're right. Women can't vote. Okay, Emperor Trump, just come. I'm out of here. I'm going to go buy Taco Bell and just put my feet up and watch the chickens.
E
I mean, I do think that when Donald Trump leaves, like, there's going to be a significant fall off. Donald Trump just rubs people the wrong way. They're going to try to turn whoever is the. The nominee for the Republicans into the same thing. Yeah, I don't think it'll work because people. People already decided that when the left is calling you Nazi and calling you all these names, that's just their M.O. they were doing it to Mitt Romney. In fact, the fact that they were doing it to Mitt Romney was part of why you got Donald Trump, because they were like, look, the Republicans continue to put forth the most milquetoast, the most, you know, appeasing, the most nice guy they could come up with, trying to placate all the vitriol that was thrown at them by the left. And when you got to Mitt Romney, the ultimate boy scout, right? Like, the guy that was likely the cleanest guy in D.C. and, you know, the nicest, most amicable person they could come up with on the. On the right, like. And they still called him all that stuff. So the right was just like, you know what? Screw it. Give me the guy that. That says, grab him by the P. You know, they were like, I don't care. They're like, if this guy will punch back. The what?
B
Pooter?
E
Yeah, there you go. They were like, if this guy will punch back, then fine. Because the right has gotten to the point where the left had just thrown so much vitriol and so much BS and consistently just insulted and insulted. They were like, we don't care because you're going to do this anyway, so why not give the guy that, at least fight back, you know, and so they're. They're going to try it with whoever comes next, because that's their M.O. that's. That's all they've got, you know?
B
Yeah. Right. Now, one of the things that we're facing in this country, which is a bit demoralizing is the redistricting stuff. I'm sure you've probably seen this.
D
Yeah.
B
They're getting rid of swing districts. So, I mean, you're running in a primary against a Republican. Right.
D
So whoever wins that will win.
B
Right.
D
The Democratic. I mean, I guess there's more. More people that left California, New York, and went to Texas. So I guess the redistricting makes sense because there's more. More Republicans now.
B
Right.
D
So that can make sense.
B
Well, the Republicans lost this fight.
D
Yeah.
B
Indiana was like, we're not going to do it because we cut a deal with Maryland. And Maryland was like, we're going to do it anyway. And now Virginia is planning on doing it. Maryland wants to get rid of their last Republican. Virginia's gonna get rid of all but one. And then the midterm election is not going to be an actual election. It's just going to be which state has control. And the Republicans are losing this battle.
D
So ic Sort of swing states. Not going to be swing states anymore.
B
Exactly.
E
Yeah.
B
It's going to be if. If there's a slight majority in one direction, they will dominate the whole state and ice out the voices of any opposition. So I'm kind of just like, at this point, we are off the precipice. The roller coaster is dropped. What comes next is fairly obvious.
E
Yeah, there's.
B
There. I'll just put it like this obvious in the sense that I don't know what form it takes, but there's clearly no elections anymore. If. If all the districts are either going to be blue or red with no chance of representation. You know, Massachusetts being a great example, 40 Republicans, zero representatives, then either we just lay down and let the machine take over, or people start fighting.
E
Well, the Republicans have to actually start exercising power. And it's frustrating to see that they are, you know, again, it's Lucy with the football. The Republicans are like, okay, we're actually going to play fair and we're going to stop doing this stuff. Oh, yeah, totally. We're going to. And then as soon as they. They go up to kick the ball, Lucy, you know, moves the ball and they get clowned on again, it's going to continue happening. The left has a very easy to understand playbook, and the right just refuses to read Rules for Radicals. They refuse to read the playbook that the Democrats use. They refuse to exercise power. The fact that they still have the filibuster, knowing full well that the Democrats are gonna get in there, they're gonna end the filibuster they're gonna try to expand the court. They're gonna do everything they can to ensure that they can undo the things that Donald Trump has done. Any legislation passed, they're gonna try and undo. And every Republican, every conservative, everyone on the right should be fully aware of that fact. And they still don't exercise power the way that they need to. And their constituents, I mean, they're gonna lose seats in the House, they're gonna lose their constituents. The constituents are gonna be like, we don't wanna vote for you. People are gonna stay home. And it's their own damn fault.
C
They're already demoralized. Yeah, yeah.
D
That's why my slogan is make America grow some balls again.
E
There you go.
D
What do you think about that? I was gonna say cojones, but I don't know if that works in Texas.
E
It's good.
B
Where'd the balls go?
D
Yes.
B
No, but. Well, I guess they got surgically removed.
D
They're all becoming trans.
B
Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, you risk.
D
It's a risk taking that slogan.
B
You're. You're an edgy guy. You offend a lot of people. You know, like, what happened to this country? We grew up on George Carlin and South park and the Simpsons and Family Guy, and now everybody's a bunch of whiny babies.
D
Well, that's why I'm running for Congress, cuz I see that, okay? Algorithms, celebrity media, big tech with the San Francisco staff, they're all infiltrating the children. They're not going after the nursing homes, they're going after the children. So they're creating an army. So when Trump leaves, like he was saying, they can then have. Once they get the institutions, they can use that army to censor everybody, cancel people and put them in jail, whatever. Because that's kind of like the MO of the left. Censor, cancel, ban and torture, death. So that's why I say to the people who are stay. They're not standing up to grow some balls again. Even. Yeah, even hockey players, they. They made them wear the flat. The LGBT flag and they all wore it. Why? What does homosexuality have to do with hockey and getting kids? And none of the, none of the athletes are standing up. So I'm like, wait a minute, obviously you're standing up, but the good people are not standing up because they're in fear of being canceled. So we need to, like, get rid of the cancel culture and undo what's going on with these kids. Put a ring camera. We got to ring cameras every home, right? Put a ring camera. In the. In the house. I mean, sorry, not a house. In the schools. The schools, yeah, to that.
E
You know, to that point. That was one of the. The silver linings of COVID is people saw what their kids were learning in. In school. They saw, you know, they. They had. They. The kids were taking classes at home, and they saw what the teachers were teaching, and they were like, wait a minute, hold on a second. What do you. What is this stuff? There was a lot of parents that got really upset about that stuff. Rightfully so. And so as much as, you know, I don't want to say that Covid was a good thing. It was. It was horrible for the government to do the things they did. And there's. There's all kinds of negatives. There were a couple silver linings, and that was one of them.
B
Well, the slogan, of course. Megsba.
D
Yeah.
B
Make America grow some balls again.
D
Oh, Mags, I like that you hear it right now from the guy who brought you pool water with the sham out to a coaster.
B
If you poured that pool water, if.
D
You buy a pool water, we'll give you a free mini shamwow.
B
Well, I don't know who's doing that.
D
Can we do that? Just to leave it here?
B
If it spills, I would like to do that. We could try and figure out how to do that.
D
Yeah. Make it round.
B
So election day is on the 17th or on the 3rd.
D
Yeah. But I have to remind people, Shamwow is Shlomi now. Shlomi is Shamma because my name is. My nickname's not on the ballot anymore. Someone took it out. It's like the dirty. It's like the swamp have.
B
You don't want.
D
They want. They don't want the clean water to come in anymore.
B
Are you going like door to door and doing that kind of stuff?
D
You know what? I'm actually, I am personally going to Tornado with my. My street team, and I'm putting this little mini shamwow with the flyer, putting it by the door.
B
Free shamwow.
D
Yeah, free mini. It's a mini one. It's a small for the kitchen. Yeah. It doesn't cost much, but so it saves money on people's house. Hopefully they'll be using it. And remember.
E
There you go.
D
And I still look pretty good after a few years.
B
You know, your slogan should probably be like, I will clean up this town. You know?
D
Yeah, clean up this. Yeah, I'm cleaning up. But I just, you know, like I said when they pulled my nickname, it's like, not only am I Cleaning the swamp. I've got to clean the house. Like, it's coming from the.
B
You know, from the rafters.
E
Yep.
B
Well, if you. There's a great opportunity for doing a pitch where you, like, put a shamwow in a swamp.
D
I like that.
B
Soak it all up.
D
I see. He's making a commercial for me. I like it.
B
You know, commercial for him.
D
He's going to make a commercial for me.
B
Here's. Here's my vision is that you walk up to a swamp, and then you just throw a shamwow in it, and it soaks all the water up, and then all of the neocons and woke.
D
Are being exposed like little germs. Like you said the AI could probably do it, like, in an hour. We can have one right now.
B
I'm gonna. I'm gonna see if I can actually do this.
D
Oh, my God. This is amazing.
E
I can definitely do it right away.
D
Really? We could put it out right now.
E
Five minutes.
D
Well, say shamwash. I want to have you as my campaign manager. Tim, you got to set. You got a job, babe.
B
Oh, yeah. Well, I already have a job.
D
Okay. Can't afford. You can do a trade. I'll do a commercial for you.
B
You do us into a swamp and exposes.
C
So you think. So the. Do you think pulling the nickname off the ballot was on purpose?
D
Yes, Especially six. It's already been approved by the Secretary of State. It was notarized. I went ahead and spent money on commercials.
B
It was the NRCC you said that did.
D
Yeah. National Republic Congress. And then. And what I found out is that they're run by the incumbents, so they use it to fight the. The small guy.
B
Right.
E
Yeah.
D
So that's. Wow. It's so corrupt.
E
Yeah.
B
And then when you get into office, they make you give them money. Matt Gates was telling us about it.
D
Yeah.
B
They were like, if you want any committee assignments, you got to write us a check right now.
D
You're right.
B
And based on your district, it's a different number. Ah. So he said that. He was like, what can I get for half a million dollars? Like, you'd have any assignment you want. He's like, okay. Wow. So he wrote him a check, and then they put him on, I think, what he got, like, Armed Services Committee or something. Or four.
E
Yep.
D
I know I have to clean up that. The. The swamp, but I got to clean up my own house now.
C
Yeah.
D
I was literally the House of Representatives. Come on, let's not do that. It's not that. So that's what I'M going to do. In some ways, it's good because, you know, you know where the zombies are. You know, like, even when Trump lost to 2020 election, I kind of liked it because then you saw where the FBI was corrupt, you saw the media was corrupt, you saw where all the bad guys are. So now when he comes in, now, he knows where to take them out. Now, see, I like that in some ways, it's kind of good. Like, oh, okay, so you guys are corrupted Secretary of State, you're corrupted Texas gop and you're corrupted nrcc. Okay, good. So then I'll know what to do.
E
It's worth pointing out that the silver lining is gone. And as much as, you know, people were upset that Donald Trump won or Donald Trump Lost, lost in 2022. If he didn't, he wouldn't have had such insight when he came back. And again, as much as people are unhappy with. With how much he's got done now, because they were expecting. There's a lot of people, I think, that were expecting Donald Trump to come in and just be a dictator and say, this is happening. This is happening. The president never had the power to do the things that they were hoping for, but they were still hoping for it. So even though they're upset, he's still done a whole lot of good things, and he's done a lot of things that people really did want, but the big things that they were hoping for, he hasn't been able to do. So there's a lot of people that are still like, well, he hasn't done this and hasn't done that.
B
I have. I have a question. We're gonna. Let's jump to this story I admittedly know very little about. And despite the fact the story is deeply unsettling and tragic. Tragic. I don't care.
C
Yeah.
B
Savannah Guthrie's missing mom. Live updates. Chilling new ransom notes has warning for Nancy Guthrie's family. This is crushing the. The news cycle for women. Guys don't care.
D
No.
E
Yeah.
B
And so the actual story is why?
E
Why don't guys care?
B
You know? No. Yes. I mean, like, my, my take on this right now is same thing as true crime.
D
Women like true crime, but they love crime. That's true. Women.
B
But, you know, but the question is why? And I actually think I have an idea because it's. It's incomplete. Nothing. So true crime stories like the Nancy Guthrie thing. And again, I mean, with all the respect to their family, I hope everyone's okay. I hope they figure this one out. It's Very serious and tragic. But I feel like you give me an article, you give me a sentence, and I know where we're at with it. Women tend to like these stories where nothing happens, where it's, like, a criminal. I mean, what about him? It's like, he was there, but it leads to speculation.
C
Right. Like, this is the story that made me check out recently when they're like, it doesn't look like her. Her hand looks AI. It looks like there's six fingers there. She was clearly just holding her sister's hand. I'm like, I can't anymore, dude. I can't just. I'm out of it. Like, I'm out of this type of stuff. I can't read this type of conspiracy stuff anymore.
D
I love mystery. I don't know. I know. I never.
E
I like more action, but, I mean.
D
But it's a mystery. Yeah.
B
Women. Women like shows where nothing gets resolved.
E
Yeah.
B
Like Lost never resolved. Yeah.
D
Never thought of it that way.
C
I mean, both genders loved Lost.
B
Yeah. But I feel like more women.
C
I mean, I don't have the numbers on that, but I would say it was probably pretty split.
B
Like, guys watch news where things are definitive. Like, if when we make videos and we're, like, tracking metrics, we have to assert something. Questions don't work. Mystery doesn't work. The Nancy Guthrie story has resolved nothing.
C
So you're saying that J.J. abrams whole thing is all for women for the mystery box? Just.
B
Absolutely. I mean, you look at. Look at. Look at his movies, too. Yeah.
C
Now I want. Now I'm. Now I'm curious. I want to look at, like, what the gender demographics were for Lost.
D
Let's make a mystery movie for women. There you go. And just never. And it never ends like you said. Well, so, I mean, part one, part two.
B
I'm gonna. I'm gonna say this, too, and it's gonna sound disrespectful, I guess, but, you know, as we're getting ready for the show, we have Fox News on, and Laura Ingram's show came on, and it felt like it was painful for her to cover the Guthrie story.
E
Oh.
B
Because she was talking like this.
D
Oh.
B
And I was like, wow, you must have nothing to say about this. And I don't either.
D
Yeah.
B
I'm just looking at the New York Post, and you can see this. 10 times the viewership, reading a story with nothing chilling. New ransom note. There's nothing there. There's literally no news.
D
So I don't know about it myself.
B
Right. I don't know. I Don't know.
C
It says, I feel like.
B
I feel like I'm just gonna like, brett, you're supposed to know about it.
C
No, this is. This is news news.
B
No, it's not Savannah Guthrie. What are you talking about?
C
It's news news. It's a crime.
B
What? But she's a. She's on tv. You know, that's.
C
That. He is adding stuff to my job description that has nothing to do with what I do. We spoke about James Vanderbeek's one million dollar GoFundMe today.
B
Talk about it was a bummer. Yeah, I was sad. He was. What was it? 48.
C
He was 48, man. Yeah.
B
Why is that not bigger news?
C
I mean, it was a pretty big story. I mean, mostly it's because people in the space now, it's been kind of. They've. They've used it to kind of shift the discussion. Because this is an actor where, like, they're like, what was his net worth? 3, maybe 4 million. There was like, a couple of different estimates. How does this guy, you know, how does even a rich celebrity in America still have to have a GoFundMe started for him after he dies to take care of his family? And this was a dude with six kids, been married since, I believe, 2010. Believed in God for all intents and purposes. He's kind of one of the examples I would give to conservatives to be like, look, not every actor is like. Is like a baby's blood drinking demon. Like everybody wants to paint them all out to be. But still now they're turning it into a discussion about universal health care because does. How does this guy die? Broke because he got cancer in 2023, man.
B
That's crazy.
C
I have the same issue with the Savannah Guthrie. It's all speculation at this point. Like, I just don't care. Like, people, once it started, becomes like they're using it as a distraction for the Epstein files. I'm like, bro, I'm out of here. I can't do this right now.
B
I want to go back in time to 2008 when I was sitting there on YouTube, financial crisis, and a man pulled out a small device to chop up his nuts. Oh.
D
It'S all about the nuts.
B
Yeah. I didn't know this, but I. I thought you were like a hired spokesperson for these products, but you actually own them. Yeah, Billy Mays was a little jealous.
D
Of me because he was the higher spokes person.
B
Yeah, he was smack talking you, wasn't he?
D
Yeah, he was just mad because I owned because I just Came in and just like took over because I owned the product. Because. And he never. Like Oxiclean. He never owned it. So he. When they sold it to, to a big company, Unilever something. Huh?
B
Unilever.
C
Like everything is owned by Unilever now.
B
Yeah, or Procter and Gamble.
D
Oh, Procter and Gamble. That's it. They own it. So he was a little jealous, but that's okay.
B
Is that why he was ragging on you?
D
Yeah, a little bit. I don't know why. But also, you know, I write my own scripts and you were better than he was. I just like, I just. But I always throw in humor because I. I was thinking, people are going to sleep at 2 in the morning, we gotta wake them up, they gotta pick up the phone. Who wants to pick up the phone at 2 in the morning? So you gotta. I just thought some of the jokes, I mean, you can. All right now it's just a generic joke, but in retrospect, like during that time no one was doing that kind of thing.
B
But like, how did you come to own these products?
D
Well, I was selling the Shammy. Actually there was a Swedish guy in LA that looked just like me and a lot of girls liked him. Some girls used to come up to me, are you the Swedish guy? And I'm like, yeah, sure I did. Anyway, finally met, I told him the story. Then he hired me and he was selling stuff at the swap meet and he was selling the Chevy's. So anyway, I was selling shammies before, you know, became the Shamwa guy. So I, I never brought it to tv. I did a movie called Underground Comedy Movie. It had. Slash was in it from Guns N Roses. He was the Miss America bag lady pageant. We had like supermodels taking a dump. So it was like really raunching humor and all the critics hated it. So I. We didn't make. I didn't make my money back. So I put that on Comedy Central as an 800 number. And that soldier millions of units.
E
What?
B
Yeah, really?
D
On comedy. But then I could only put on Comedy Central from 11, 8pm to 2. And then I thought, well, why don't I do something where I can put it on every channel? I said, why is it so shamwows with that Swedish guy? So why don't I call it Sham?
E
Wow.
D
And then that's where. That's when I made money on every channel.
B
Yeah.
D
And that's how I got into the Shamwow from the movie. I got criticized for being the worst.
B
Movie ever made a crazy chain that's important though.
C
Like if it's the worst movie ever made, that's. That's still a good thing because it's. It's the. It's the top of something by being the bottom of something.
B
Right.
D
But the critics knew if they said that people go see the Midnight. They said also not as funny. Not a molecule of humor. Because we also had like a very raunchy material like Dick Man Fights Lesbians, the Gay virgin. Like things you'll never see. A gay virgin. The big black guy from the Green Mile was in it. He was a gay virgin. You know, so I. I made fun a lot that. Like that. That woke mentality.
C
Michael Clark Duncan was actually in the movie.
D
I should say. No one knows where that movie is. I don't know. I have a DVD also. You got it?
B
I don't have a DVD player.
D
I know. I'll send you a DVD player with it. That's how I got slashing it. I met him at a party. He said VHS of a trailer that we kind of did. And it's going to be Miss America Bag Lady, I want you in. Well, I can't watch it. So I sent him a TV with a vhs. It was hotel. He watched and he said, I'll be in it.
E
So that's great.
D
I've shot the. The Mr. Berry Bagley I show. I shot the bag have a host. So then I put him in a host after. I think. I think you'll like this movie.
B
How did the Slap Chop happen?
D
The Slap Chop happened again. I was selling slap chops in 21990 at those kiosk carts. This wasn't called Slap Chop was.
B
And then you made your own version of it. Yeah.
D
So I. So I was selling ch. So I got into doing demonstration products in. In from the Swedish guy who got me into the business. Then I did my own.
B
And kiosks were.
D
At the time, they were just starting out in the malls. Those little.
B
Yeah.
D
And they were just selling jewelry. No one was doing any demonstration. So I saw. I got the Thigh Master that was on TV and I put it on. On in the kiosk. And everybody was just buying it like hotcakes until it went to the retail stores and no one bought it. But so that's how I got into then selling choppers. Just choppers. And I was. I was training other people. So I got good. You know, when you train other people, you get good yourself. So again, I was getting better at it. And then I just started selling, selling it. And that's how I Started. And then I just after the movie again, after I sold a lot of sham, I said, why don't you just do the next product and make it a little more jokes? Do some more jokes in it, you know?
B
And that turned into a song that got like 20 million.
D
Yeah. Tacos. And what's his name? Snoop Dogg took the line. Bikini martini, linguini fettuccine or whatever. I said, oh, Lamborghini. I forgot what I. And he put that in that song with Katy Perry's California. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, he put that, that line in I, I, he didn't acknowledge I was sold.
B
I went and bought one.
D
I should, I should have brought you one.
B
I was so excited.
D
I'll be sending you guys something.
B
I'm pretty sure I have two.
D
Oh, you do?
B
Oh, okay.
D
Probably that's why I can afford to come here, because you bought some slap Chops.
B
Because, you know, you put a celery, some carrots in there, an onion, you chop it, you got salad.
D
No, that's true. You know, I have another one called Crank Chop that's even better, but it doesn't sell as well. I don't know. It's all about branding, you know? Yeah. But you know what I'm gonna sell next? Pool water.
E
There you go.
D
Swim in a pool. Why don't you just drink it? Why not save someone? And it's made out of glass. No plastics. Well, we're going to come up with a script for you on Wednesday. I'll send it to you. It's going to be really good.
E
All right.
D
I need time to develop. You know, I got to warm up to the product. I got to drink more pool.
C
What is the key to making a great commercial?
D
Surprise. Right. You know, like when you saw the Mike, the, the, the, the, the, the, the commercial for the Congress with the feed, it's going.
E
Yeah.
D
Vote for ShamWow. Right?
B
Oh, I didn't see that one.
D
Oh, you didn't see that? I thought you posted it. You posted it, I thought.
B
Did I? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
D
But anyway, so that's a surprise. A little bit. Yeah. So keep the surprise, keep the humor, and then, of course, get some good points across. I thought I did some good points. Right, because the, the guy, Carter, he was mumbling. And see, Trump thinks he's in good shape, so he endorsed them, but he's really in bad shape. Like, really bad.
B
Should we play your commercial?
E
Yes. All right.
B
Let's get it.
D
Okay.
B
We had this. I think this is your commercial, right?
D
Yeah, yeah. Running for Congress. Hey, it's Vince. I'm running for Congress against this guy. Stop having a politician that's worse than.
E
Biden for discretionary funding.
D
Instead, vote for me, a guy who's not half dead. I'm gonna soak up the swab, clean the house, and pick up those liberal tears at the same time. I'm going to slap chop the nuts out of the woke making less blue hair commies and more red blooded Americans. Vote for me so I can represent you and the ones that can't stand up for themselves.
B
Vote for Sham. Pay for my offer, Vince. Sham sh.
C
For Congress.
E
Hey, that's.
D
I got to change the. Because of the corruption in the. The Republican Party. There's corruption there. I never thought. I'm surprised myself, like. But like I said, it's good that I know.
B
Did. Did something happen to you where you got hit in the head that made you decide to run for Congress? Because I don't understand how anybody would want to be in that building.
D
You know, it's weird. It's like I. I think because of Charlie. Charlie Kirk.
B
Oh, really died.
D
I put the Woke Buster. I did a. Oh, I did a skit called Woke Buster. It's a parody on Ghostbusters. And some of the platforms weren't showing it because the algorithms don't like me making fun of trans. Because in it. So they weren't showing. Like, this is like persecution. This is like discrimination. It's like a black guy in the back of the bus in the 40s. Like, you're not showing my content because. But here's why. Well, it's because your content's no good. Well, I'm doing 4 million views on one platform and only 40, 000 views on another. So obviously there's some kind of.
B
Oh, it's oppression.
D
It's rigged.
B
Yeah.
D
So I could. Okay, so I'm. I'm. People know me everywhere. I don't have a lot of followers. I'm an anomaly in that sense because I never captured my followers. I mean, I was an idiot. Whatever. Base, whatever. So I thought, well, why don't I run for cars and fix it?
E
There's.
D
Because this is discrimination.
C
It's illegal.
D
So, I mean, I don't know what your. Your followers, but let's say you have a great show and you should get 10 million followers, but instead they only give you 1 million followers, whatever platform you do. I mean, I'm sure you have many platforms, but some platforms are corrupt because, look, let's face it, they're all from San Francisco they're not going to like some. Some of your platforms, some of these. But some platforms are good, though. Some platforms are good. I'll admit that.
B
People need to understand that when the Democrats win the midterms is when woke is going to strike back tenfold. Right? Because Silicon Valley is going to be like, okay, we're off the target list. Right. Right now their fear is Trump's in the executive and he's got Congress, even though it's weak. The moment you get a Democrat Congress, Silicon Valley is going to be like, ban them all again.
D
Wait. They're going to wait for Trump to leave. They're prepping these kids through. Through the algorithms, through videos, and they're prepping them through schools, activist teachers, and of course, porn, which I don't think should be on X. Triple X should not be on X, because I think, first of all, I don't watch porn. I haven't watched porn for four or five years, but I just saw one, like a few months ago. Somebody told me to look at something and I couldn't get out of my head for the whole day. I was just like, it's a visual drug and it's bad for kids. I mean, let them watch porn after 16 or something. But, you know, the kids should just be doing academics, having fun, you know, enjoying their environment and stuff like that. So that's. I think it's. And it's not free speech. Porn is not free speech. It's. It's sex. And sex is beautiful, but let's keep it away from it's till later, you know, so that's. But I think when the Democrats know if you can control their body, you can control their mind, and that's what they're doing. They're prepping it for when Trump leaves. I think that's my belief. So that's why I want to go to Congress. That's why I have an inspiration, motivation, whatever.
C
When is that election?
D
February 17th is the early voting, like on Tuesday, and then the election is March 3rd. I just hope people know, Shlomi, you know, that's the main thing.
E
So if you're. You're in Texas.
D
Yeah, I'm probably going to sue the. I already talked to my lawyer, was suing the Secretary of State and GOP because they, they pulled it without telling me. At least if you tell me I can change things, I can change.
C
But they didn't give you, like, any notice at all?
D
No, they ain't. I had to go back to the website in late January, like, oh, it's where's my ShamWow nickname? It was on. Yeah. So. Yeah, so that's.
B
Maybe I look Shamwow Shlomi.
D
Yeah. Well now it's not even Shamma. Now it's just Shlomi. I have to change that.
B
That.
D
So I got my nine bills there.
E
So what's your ex account?
D
My ex is a real ShamWowGuy.com.
B
Everybody'S real after Trump did it.
D
Well, I can't even get my. I can't get Shamwa guy or shamwow on X. Some probably somebody. I was late on the. On the whole social media platform you.
B
Could probably get it. There's like a way. Didn't they introduce a way to claim.
C
I think you can. Well like. Or like aren't there like third party places that can like help you like broker a deal between you and somebody if you want to get there?
D
Guys, I know Tim. Tim Pool. So if you can please get me that chairman.
E
Well, you probably can't. I don't know that you want to show this right. Like during the show. But for in the after show you should show his pin. Tweet the commercial he's got is brilliant.
D
Which one?
B
We'll save it for the unsafe.
E
It's the Woke Busters one.
D
Oh, the Woke Buster. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
B
And I had an idea for a skit.
D
That's what motivated me. Hey, I like your ideas and I want to, I want to work with you on your water because that'd be fun.
B
When you mentioned I came up with a really good idea that I can't say on YouTube.
D
Okay.
E
Yeah.
D
Oh, this is only on YouTube or.
B
Well, run YouTube and rumble right now.
D
Okay.
B
But then at 10 o' clock we go just to the uncensored portion on Rumble.
D
But then you do other player like Instagram and everything like that, right?
B
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
D
Like an old guy. I don't. I. I think I look pretty good for my age. Right? 62.
B
I didn't think you were that old. I thought you were like, like people.
D
Say I do drugs. How do I look? Do I look like I do drugs at 60? Do you know anybody of 62? You know I do coffee though, obviously.
B
I thought you were a lot younger than that. I was actually surprised to find I was like, wait, you were 40 when you were doing that?
D
Will you marry me?
E
The only people that, that make it past 62 that do a lot of drugs is like Keith Richards.
D
Oh, right, right.
E
He's the only one. And that's just the drug. What Ozzy was 70. But he stopped doing drugs before he stopped doing drugs.
B
Like, well, doesn't it, like, depend on, like, what kind of drug? Because some of those drugs keep you alive. Have.
E
Yeah, I'm talking about, like, recreational party drugs. I'm thinking of, like, dudes aren't blowing lines and drinking booze in their 60s. You don't make it to 60s. You're blowing lines and drinking booze.
B
Really? I don't know.
E
It's tough.
C
It makes it harder to do.
E
Makes it really.
B
Have you ever seen an old tall guy?
C
How tall is tall?
B
I mean, there was. There was a post on 5 where a guy was like. Like, he was talking to his doctor about taking care of his heart. He's getting older. And his doctor was like, you shouldn't worry about it. You're not going to be old anyway. Because he was like 6 foot 7. And he was like, what do you mean? He goes, have you ever seen an old tall man?
D
That's true.
B
And he was like, oh, and now.
C
They'Re gaslighting you about the body positivity stuff. Like, Richard Hanania was like, yeah, no institutions told you that being fat was. Was okay. They were all telling you that actually you should lose weight, which is obviously not true.
E
Yeah, Richard Hanani is. He just makes.
D
No, I want to be.
C
But we are. That is what's going on right now.
B
Right.
C
The. The far left is pretending that anything that happened between 2020 and 2024 just suddenly didn't happen, even though we all know that it did.
B
Yeah, Here you go. The association for Size, Diversity and Health.
C
That's. No, we found, like, I did a video on this. It's coming out tomorrow. I mean, there's more than that. There's stuff from Veterans affairs and actual institutions. This is just activists, this here. Yeah, but like, these.
B
Remember the body. Remember the beach body. Ready one.
C
Yes, but let me think. These grouped worked. These groups worked in conjunction with, like, the AMA and Department of Veterans affairs and stuff like this. This was pushed everywhere.
D
I think if you have a clean heart, you're going to live a long time. But, yeah, there is obviously a body.
E
Well, I mean, Donald Trump is 6 foot 3.
B
He's 80.
E
So, yeah, there are people that make.
D
He also never took drugs.
E
Took a lot of McDonald's.
D
Yeah, yeah.
C
And Coca Cola.
D
I think that's a little bit. I mean, I don't think a lot, but Diet Coke. Is it a lot? I don't know. I never.
E
Well, he. He likes to eat stuff. Like, he likes to eat. If he's not eating at the White House. When he's on the road, he likes to eat like McDonald's and stuff. And he doesn't want anyone to know who's ordering it. So that way they don't spit in it or they don't mess with it.
B
Yeah. Or worse.
E
He's like, I love that.
D
He always gets that. Because it's against like the, you know, the elitists.
E
Yeah.
D
Because it's like.
C
Well, it's like when they have the football team at the White House and like, like the cook was out or something like that. So he got like, spread of McDonald's.
E
It was great.
B
You know what? You know what this is? Honestly? The health at every size thing. It's just women.
D
Yeah.
B
Like women. It's. It's all women. So you'll notice. I love this, like, watching the whatever podcast. Oh, yeah. And he just intentionally antagonizes the woman and it's funny.
D
Yeah.
B
Brian. He's like, so how would you rate yourself? And they're all like, oh, I see now.
D
Yeah.
B
And it's like. And then he's just laughing at him.
D
Oh, my God.
B
Because, like, no, you're not. But the. The funny thing is just what you find with his show is that there'll be a lot of ugly fat women being like, I'm perfect, but men must be better. And that's where the health at every size comes from. Unhealthy women who feel justified being exactly as they are. They don't need to do anything. And you know what the reality is for a lot of these fat women as they can probably get laid no problem.
D
Yeah. Yeah.
B
So they're just like, it's men's fault. Yes.
C
Like, it really is guy's fault for doing that.
E
But, you know, simping.
B
Yes. But it's low testosterone. Based on our culture, the foods, the plastics, the lack of exercise and sunlight, improper videos all day. Yeah, dudes used to be chop, you know, just. Just hopped up on testosterone non stop. So they were all just punching each other and rolling around in mud and fighting wars. Now guys are locking themselves in their bedrooms and playing video games, desperate for human touch. So it's like a disgusting woman says, I'm healthy. And he's like, I will do anything for you.
C
I mean, but like, also for women. It's the type of thing when we talk about superheroes, like, the difference between how men view superheroes and women. Like, men see a Jack dude playing Superman, like, oh, I want to be that dude. And women see female superheroes and they're like, she should look more like me. I shouldn't have to look more like her.
E
Yeah.
B
Which is so like superhero women are all just super fat.
C
Well, no, no, they. The thing is, is now they've kind of found a middle ground. They don't have the, like, you're not going to see the Scarlett Johansson's of, of the, of the age before.
B
It's someone, someone needs to just make woke stop because they ruined Star Trek and that's the only thing that matters.
C
Are you watching Starfleet Academy?
B
No. Okay. I'm watching Nerd Roddick review the episodes for me. I don't, I don't watch the show, I just turn on.
C
I watched one review and I was like, I'm so glad I don't like Star Trek because if I did, I would feel there'd be an affront to me. But I know for all my friends who love Star Trek, I just been.
B
Watching the Next Generation again because it's the greatest show ever made.
D
I'm older. I just used to watch the old stuff with the music and everything. Original, original.
B
Yeah, yeah, the original series is good, but Next Generation? Oh, I've, I've seen it all. I've seen it. I watched the original series once and I said I like it. I watched the Next Generation probably four or five times straight through and I'm, I'm going to go, I'm going to go again and then with. As soon as my daughter is able, she's going to watch every episode with me as well. So maybe, maybe, you know, she's almost one, so.
D
Wow.
C
Congratulations.
B
Thank you.
C
Have you done the same with like the. I know you're a fan of Stargate SG1. Have you done this?
B
Oh, man.
C
Have you watched the other Stargate series?
B
No, no, no. The Stargate SG1's incredible. It's very much like the Next Generation. It's. It's very comparable. And they're going to be doing another show on Amazon and we're all very worried, but I'm hoping they bring back Core Namek. That'd be fantastic because they got to get OGs.
C
He was, he was at the castle back when we were there.
B
That's right. And he did a bit. When he did cast Castle, that was absolutely amazing thing. So the bit that we did with him was the cast Castle was like a satirical version of our show as we're doing pre production and we're having him come on irl. Ian is convinced that Stargate was a re. Was real and it was a documentary, and they were covering it up. And you could actually believe that.
C
We don't know necessarily that he doesn't.
B
So that was the gag. And then Corin keeps saying, like, stop, I am not a star. It was a TV show. And then finally at the end, he walks outside and he goes, it's all good. I got. He's like, I convinced him it was fake. And then the portal opens up in front of him. Then he walks through it. The Stargate opens.
E
You never can tell if he. What Ian actually does and doesn't.
C
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Keep him guessing.
B
Ian will say things like, I'm only pretending to be retarded. And then we're like, okay.
E
Yeah. It's like, really? Are you. Yeah.
B
Should we. Should we talk about news? I guess.
D
Why not?
E
Yeah.
B
All right, here we go. Here we go. We got this from tmz. Cardi B says, ice out of my concerts. They originally titled this that. She jokingly threatens Ice. She's pulling no punches when it comes to Icelander fans. They'd be better be ready to throw down if agents pop up at her shows. She didn't mince words. Wednesday, opening her Little Miss Drama tour with La Cucaracha. Moments later, she fired off B. If Ice comes in here, we gone. Jump day. A drawing. Booming cheers from the crowd. She kept it going, joking. I got some bear mace in the back. They ain't taking my fans. B. Before launching into her hit song, I like it. So I like. Was she friends with Nicki Minaj?
E
I think. I think they actually have beef.
B
Yeah, well, I. I know now.
E
Okay.
B
No, I'm asking because Nicki Minaj is hanging out with Trump. Cardi B is like the opposite.
C
This is the worst stuff, too, because, like, let's face it, like, she would absolutely let her fans, like, try and start a fight with law enforcement, and she would be nowhere near that fight could actually happen.
E
Everybody goes to jail. They all get wrapped up and.
C
What are you talking about? Like, I was just trying to get everybody hyped.
E
I didn't do nothing.
D
How we go make American rappers more wholesome again. Can we start that new trend?
E
Everybody's got to be like Will Smith, right?
B
No.
E
No swearing.
D
I mean, no, no. Like, at least be like, dress nice or something, because, you know, you're promoting to other girls.
C
Yeah.
E
I mean, look, if you're. If you're saying everyone should be more like, $0.50, then, yeah, I agree.
D
Yeah.
C
Petty, awesome.
E
Petty, petty and awesome. Yeah.
D
Can you stop talking about your Genitals or, you know, just a little bit. Okay. But it's just like this is what.
C
All of the culture a little bit are doing now, though, because what was it I saw? Doja Cat did the same thing, like, days after telling other celebrities to stop talking about, like, stop being so, like, unmysterious and sharing so much of your personal life. She said, you know, f. I said a live concert. My favorite part is they do it overseas in places with stricter immigration policies than the. The US That's.
E
It's so frustrating.
D
I think they're just placating where the dollars are coming from because it's like, you know, it's all these celebrities, they make $20 million a movie, and then they get another $20 million from China, and then we have to pay $10 for popcorn and $10 for Coke. And then so they don't want to go theater.
C
That's the theater just making. Remaking their investment because they're not making.
D
The money that it's also going back to the actors. And that's why the actors don't stand up for Trump, because they want to just kiss the ring of the. Of the producers and they want. They want that extra cash. So cash is. It's a little bit like the root of all evil, I guess. And that's what's why they're not standing up for what's right. So, yeah, grow some codes. Or in Brooklyn we say, what is it? Grow some Coleons.
E
Okay.
D
I think that's what it is.
B
I don't know.
D
I don't have a good Brooklyn accent anymore, I imagine.
E
I imagine Brooklyn now. It's probably cojones as well.
D
Yeah.
E
A lot of Spanish speakers.
D
Yeah.
E
But I mean, look, the. This has been something that goes on in the, you know, with artists or what have you there. They've always been left leaning, or at least the majority left leaning. It got really bad from, like 2013, 14 until. I mean, even still, it's pretty, pretty bad. But it really took off in like 2013, 14, 15. So this isn't a surprise. It's pretty boilerplate stuff. The fact that, that, you know, Nicki Minaj came out and said, no, I'm actually against this stuff was. Was the, you know, the go against the grain of position. So as much as. As much as, you know, it's. It's not shocking. It's. It's, you know, it's. It's what you should expect.
C
I just laugh when the comments are like, how brave they can be standing up for what they believe.
B
Yeah.
C
Saying exactly the same thing as literally everybody else in the industry. Oh, the other one was, I think Lady Gaga was talking about ice in, like, Italy or something like that. I'm like, they're just like, what are you doing?
E
Yeah.
B
You know, I thought they were the same person for a long time.
E
Nicki Minaj and Cardi B. Yeah.
D
I was like, seeing black people look alike.
B
I'm just kidding. No, just them.
D
And there's that.
B
Yeah, they did. They've done songs together. And I kind of feel like this is the. What's the right word? The. I want to say epitome, but kind of the inflection point of civil war.
C
Nicki Minaj and Cardi.
B
That's right.
C
And that's the actual movie version of this act. Probably does say something like his. When you get the movie made, it's like something absurd is what finally sets everything off.
B
But I'm just saying that, like, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B are fighting to the point where it's very much like the troubles. Like, I brought this up. If you go to Northern Ireland, one side of the wall is pro Palestine, one side's pro Israel, and you're like, what the does that have to do with Ireland? And that's. That's where I'm at right now with, like, Nicki Minaj is hanging out with Trump and conservatives, and I feel like it's just because they hate each other so much. They went opposite ends politically.
E
Yeah.
B
And that's. That's the only reason.
E
I don't know. I don't know if Cardi B considers herself a Christian, but Nicki Minaj talks about God a lot and stuff, so I don't know that that is reflected in her music.
B
Yeah.
E
Specifically, you know, I think that it's still very. Is very risque, for lack of a better term. But yeah, it's. At the very least, it makes sense because again, she does consider herself Christian. She talks about God a lot.
B
Oh, she was born in Trinidad.
D
Yeah.
B
That's crazy.
E
Don't remember her. Oh, yeah. You know, part of the reason why. Andy Tobago, because her. Her cousin had her. His ball swollen up. She was talking about this during COVID He got the shot and his ball swollen up and that was a big wait.
D
Who did?
C
Nicki Minaj.
E
Nicki Minaj's cousin, remember? Yeah.
B
Oh, yeah. His balls got big.
E
Yeah.
B
Remember.
C
Luke used to have the flag of Nicki Minaj flying outside?
B
Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. She's been based for A long time.
E
Yeah. So it might be. It might be because of the. It might have got the start in the COVID stuff when she got a bunch of crap for saying that her cousins.
D
Well, that's one of the things you mentioned God. I want to bring just a prayer. It doesn't have to be a religion, just a prayer in schools again, so kids know that there's a God because that's another thing we need to bring back. So hopefully that'll be one of my policies. Is this a prayer? And if you don't believe in God, just meditate so for the week. So then that makes people. Makes kids think maybe to be better to themselves, better to their friends, and they'll be better versions of themselves. Just like she's based.
B
She's basically from Venezuela.
E
Yeah.
B
Trinidad's an island like literally just separated BY like what, 10 miles? Yeah.
E
I had no idea that they were that close. I thought it was more further on the curb.
B
Anyway, I don't like it when they name things like that. Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts and Nevis. Now to have one name, Nevis, well.
E
I wonder what the history around that is.
B
I don't know. As long it's not America, I'm not interested in hearing about it.
C
You know, the other one that's going on in Hollywood right now is like the pre sale tickets are really high for Scream 7 and there was supposed to be a boycott for Scream 7 because Melissa Barrera got fired from the movie because of her support for Palestine and the studio fired her. So you really can't escape politics in Hollywood no matter what you're doing. Doing.
B
Yeah. Yeah.
E
So News Day Trinidad was named.
D
You called Unholywood.
E
Trinidad was actually named by Columbus on. In 1498 because he named it La Isla de la Trinidad, the island of the Trinity. In honor. In honor of the Holy Trinity.
C
Do you feel like slow news days are more common than they were before? Is it like that? The. The some days are. They're so big and there's so much to talk about that it bleeds over.
B
The next day kind of. I kind of feel like people's brains have turned to jello.
C
Yeah, I mean I feel that way sometimes.
B
Like, I'm telling you, dude, people don't understand the effect AI is having on our brains. And so much. So much so. And. And social media. I think the issue is that the. The Tick Tock style Instagram feed. Let me just put it like this way. I predicted this and I will predict it further. So I warned all of you that the big tech companies were intentionally shifting away from long form content because long form content was resulting in informed populations who were voting against their wishes. And how you destroy that is you make the machine not capable of long form. So what happens now is the short attention span content cycle. If I pull up my phone and I go to Instagram, every single video I get is completely different from the one before or after it it. And so what does my psyche then look like? There's no through line.
C
And you, there's no point in very little of what you're. What you're looking at most of the time if you're looking at short form content.
B
And it's mostly just videos of fights at fast food restaurants.
D
Mine's not that America's Funniest Videos on crack.
C
Mine's carpentry videos and then like soccer skills games. I don't play soccer or like soccer.
B
I think the, I think the plan has been. And again, we've talked about this years ago with the emergence of Tick Tock. Why we are banned from Tick Tock. And that may be remedied now that the. The platform got sold.
D
Oh yeah, yeah.
B
But I believe that we were banned because our show is high level conversational philosophical current news and events.
C
No, even we got banned. We're none of those things on our channel. We are not high level nor philosophical.
B
Culture crisis got banned on.
C
On Tick Tock. Yeah.
B
It's so weird.
D
Yeah.
B
Because the machines ran rigged machine is rigged and they want only certain voices. And so the end result is, look, if you're in control, if you have power and wealth, you don't want people getting power. There was a post on Reddit, they have these, there are these subreddits that pop up sometimes like hypothetical scenarios is one of them. And it said you wake up one day with the powers of Superman. In exactly one year, another person will also be granted the power of super, of Superman. You know who this person is? It happens every year. And there's one way to stop them. Do you do it?
E
I mean is. It's just. Do you lose the power of Superman?
B
No, that'll just be 2, then 3, then 4, then 5.
C
It's supposed to bother me if there's another Superman.
B
Every comment was, I'd kill them instantly.
E
Evil.
B
And they said, it's because I can trust myself with power, but I can't trust you. And I'm like, now you understand the mentality of literally every human ever. The idea that if they're like the billionaires are bad, you Take, I guarantee you take any one of these lefties and you make them a billionaire and they will become identical to Elon Musk in two seconds.
E
Well, no, actually I think that Elon Musk is probably a better billionaire than most of these.
B
That's true.
D
Yeah.
B
They will, they will become, they will cling to their power. They'll refuse to give it up. They'll say no and they will lie about how. No, I wouldn't do that.
D
I think one thing we're missing on power is because I was in a. I don't want to say what cult I was in, but it's a pretty strong cult. I don't want to start a fight with them. But I learned that from learn. I learned that obviously power corrupts absolutely. Power corrupts absolutely. But there's something that was missing. Power is enjoyable. It's a pleasure when you can control of the masses. So I think when, like Trump or even like your show, when you make people smarter, you're taking them away from that power. So it's like the drugs, drug addict doesn't have that power anymore over them. So you're taking their joy away. I think that's the, the manifestation that's happening with people. People like Usher, we make people smarter as opposed to like, you know, America's Funniest videos on Crack on Tick Tock or something. So I'm just saying that there's a truth there.
B
I think, I think there may be something beneficial in the long run though, in that it's going to result in, it may, may result in localization, meaning that if I can't trust national level social media to be meaningful, then people who are looking for meaning and purpose are going to find it closer to home. Whether it's good or bad.
C
Well, it just depends on whether they're actually looking for that. How many of the people that are on social media are doing that because they're looking for meaningful information? Certainly the audience here, which is looking to stay engaged in national politics. Me and you've had the discussion, we've had the discussion about like how easy it is to just check out. But then the people who say, well, you might not care about politics, but politics cares about you. So your audience is automatically engaged because they believe it's something that they need to pay attention to. To like when I'm scrolling social media, I'm like half the time I'm barely paying attention to what I'm doing. And even when we're talking about something like X, where it's stuff that you Read. I'm not as engaged with that as I am if I'm doing something. Like, when I was in school, I kept more. I retained more of what I learned than what I do when I watch documentaries and stuff now, because I'm not paying as close attention, and it's not as structured of a situation as it was when I was in a classroom. And that's all the ways you get your information now, whether that's YouTube, whether that's. That's, you know, getting information on X. If you're reading articles and things like that, it's very hard to retain that information unless your goal is to sit. Like when you're doing. You're doing it to put together information for a show or news or things like that.
B
Look, David Pakman made a YouTube video claiming Trump pooped. That's. I'm like, guys, he's got. He got 2 million views on it. If you want to compete in a space where everybody's just screaming at the top of their lungs and bashing their faces on the wall, you got to be like, David Pakman, just lie. You know, it's not even.
E
It's. I mean, it's lying, but it's not even lying about anything that's worth even discussing. It's just. You don't like Donald Trump. So let's say something that will mock Donald Trump. You know, I mean, he knows his audience, obviously, and it works for him. Two million views. You can't.
B
You can't say, that's money in the bank. He probably made, like, 20 grand off that.
C
Do you think that some of your video.
B
Let me. Let me do the math. You probably.
E
Yeah.
C
No.
D
Yeah.
B
Maybe 10 or $15,000.
C
Does the. Do the videos that you do? Do you find a gap between the stuff you're, like, extremely interested in and then are there clips that surprise you that do as well as they do?
D
No, no.
B
I. I know when a video is going to not do as well, but I'll make it anyway. You know, like, AI videos tended to do so well. But I'm like, I'm interested in. It matters, and I'll talk about it.
C
We have the, like, we have those topics. We have specific, like, we have celebrities that get covered that we know people aren't going to care about.
D
Right.
C
We cover Kanye. Nobody cares when we cover it.
B
I guess the issue is if you want to be competitive in the business, you got to make ice cream that people want to buy.
C
Yeah.
B
The analogy I always use was I told the story on the morning show, the Other day I had a buddy who was playing some weird genre of music 20 some odd years ago and I told him, I was like, hey man, you guys are really talented, but you're playing music that nobody listens to. Maybe you should try and make just some kind of like pop rock stuff too. You write a couple of those songs, then you can sell them all in a package. And he's like, no, you're wrong man. Trust me. Like, you got to be ahead of the curve on this one. And I was like, brother, you are selling asparagus flavored ice cream. Nobody wants to buy it. Why don't you make some chocolate? And that's the reality is that right now chocolate ice cream is AI generated videos of men in T. Rex costumes punching women. You want to get it, bro? You know what the trend is right now? I'm, I'm, I. You want, you want, you want, you want to talk about black pilled videos getting 20 million views? And it's a series of Instagram channels called Day one of doing. Have you seen these?
E
No.
B
Yeah. Day one of scraping of digging a hole through my wall with a spoon.
E
Oh my God.
B
And it's got 20 million views and it's a guy just scraping a wall with a spoon for like three minutes and people watch it.
E
Lord, that's the ultimate low effort watch. Right? Like there's no brain power at all. Used to watch that.
C
Actually like one of the accounts that I follow on Instagram is this guy who just every day he reposts this clip from Fast the second Fast and the Furious movie where like Paul Walker goes, forget about it, Cu. It's just every day it's day one of that clip. Day 37. I think we're on like day 75 of that clip. And he's had to remake the channel several times cuz of copyright.
B
I love the gambling influencer ones where they're like, this is day 297 of making $1 million. I'm currently, currently at minus $17,300.
D
It's like, wait till Tim Pool makes my Shamwa in the Swamp video coming out tonight.
B
I'm trying to, but it's not really working.
D
I'm just joking.
B
No, look, here you go. It's not really working.
D
I think it'll be funny.
C
Look, I mean I'm in.
D
Okay.
B
Wait, is there sound?
D
Watch Shamwow absorb it. This swamp's a mess. Watch Shamwow absorb it all.
B
Every last drop is gone.
E
Hey, what is this?
D
This swamp's a mess. Every last monsters Came out.
B
I kept writing. I. I wrote. Wrote shamwow. Guy throws shamwow into a swamp. It absorbs all the water. The water drains and is gone completely. No matter how many times I wrote that, it wouldn't work.
D
Who's those three guys that come in?
B
I have no idea.
C
Those are the corrupt politicians.
D
What is this? This swamp's a mess.
B
Absorb it all. Every last drop is gone.
E
Hey, what is.
D
They have exposed, though. We said we exposed the politicians that came out of the swamp.
C
They have purple ties. I don't even know what party they're from from.
B
Oh, right, right. Purplish.
D
I like the guy in the middle.
B
He looks very upset. Yeah, he does. Not like that.
D
Yeah. If the spoon on the. The wall got 20, this is gonna get 50 million.
B
If you threw a shamwa at me, I'd probably be mad too. Unless it was like a gentle, like. Hey, Tim, catch.
D
This would cost what, at least a million dollars to make A year ago?
B
Yeah.
D
Oh, yeah. And you just did it in 30 seconds. Unbelievable.
B
A couple hundred grand, maybe.
D
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
B
Because you need location permitting, right? You need like, the cameras in the water.
E
The people, like, EPA would have to approve.
C
You know, honestly, that's the part I, more than anything with CGI that I hate is just the lack of actually going on location to shoot now.
B
It's over. Dude, the Brad Pitt fight with Tom.
C
Cruise the other day, you see the one of Godzilla fighting Optimus Prime?
B
No, but I'll pull it up now.
C
It's in that. It's in a. It's in that thread.
D
He's also me and Billy Mays. Dan, that's. I'm gonna hire Tim as my AI expert. There you go.
B
I mean, I don't. I don't. I can't find it. Where's it at?
C
It was in Idaho.
B
Oh, I got it.
C
Yeah, I got it.
B
Is this it right here?
C
Yes.
E
He's fighting Optimus Prime. Optimus prime is not as large as that.
B
Autobots, transform. It's bigger. Godzilla's smaller now. Yeah.
E
Now I believe prime can win. I didn't know prime had wings.
B
Optimus, that guns clearly not working, so stop trying.
E
Wings disappeared now.
A
Oh, no.
B
Godzilla's charging up a laser beam. Oh, wait. Who's that? I don't even know Godzilla.
C
Big.
B
I like her bigger. Who's that?
D
Who's that baby?
B
Together.
C
Okay, to be fair, now, all the. The art nerds who hated the Michael Bay Transformers movies would choose that over what we just watched.
B
So as I feel vindicated, there's a. Remember. Remember Capital of Conformity, that AI Thing we played a couple years ago?
E
Capital of Conformity.
B
Yeah. I'm going to pull it up. Capital of Conformity from A Alter. It's one of the best AI Videos ever made. And it will never be made again. Here, it's this one.
F
Yes.
B
You.
E
Oh, yes.
F
Do you dread waking up in the morning? Are you feeling helpless in your society? Perhaps even a bit lost?
D
Well, look no further.
F
At the capital, we offer an escape, a new beginning, A lifetime of unending joy. We have an abundance of attractions so captivating you'll wonder how you ever lived without them.
E
So creepy.
F
Let's take a look, shall we? Take a ride on the Cosmic Carnival. Let go of decisions and let the carnival choose each thrill for you. Simply sit back and soak in fun. Getting hungry? Make your way to Brightside Bistro, where you can feast until your heart's content. And if that's not enough to satisfy your craving, choose from our exquisite line of automatons, A companion that never strays, never tires, and always obeys. As you traverse our radiant metropolis, bring our latest gizmo, the Mood on the go. With the swipe of a thumb, alternate. Alter your mood instantly and experience any emotion you wish. You can also use it to instantaneously replace your companion if things go south. How convenient. And our most popular attraction, the Dream Machine. Relive your most cherished moments in vivid, extraordinary detail. No need to cling to old photos.
C
I love you.
F
Live in the past.
D
Forever.
F
Forever. You might be wondering, what's the cost for such a paradise? Well, dear viewer, some prices aren't paid in gold or silver. We only ask you for one thing. Your identity. We'll need the very core of who you are. It's a small price for a lifetime of unending joy, don't you think? And no need to fear. Crime or violence will always keep an eye on you.
E
It's so creepy.
F
For your safety. Welcome back to Spot the Odd One Out. Remember, in the Capital, wearing a smile is the norm. However, a few seem to occasionally slip up. No worries. This is your golden opportunity. If you see someone forgetting their grin, report them to us and stand a chance to win fabulous U.S. rewards. We'll make sure to turn their frown.
D
Upside down.
B
Amazing. The reason I. I brought this up is because this is from an era in AI video where it was fairly weak and generally made nightmarish looking imagery. Street on accident. And so I don't want to downplay Oz Alter's incredible editing, the way he timed The. The voices and stuff from the generation. But a lot of the images was the limitation of AI where if you look at a lot of his newer stuff, it looks actually more cinematic and normal and no disrespect, but in this, where it's very creepy, it. It feels like a nightmare.
C
Yeah, that was the point.
B
Yeah. Well, but it was accidental. The. The AI Just could not generate otherwise. So when you made a video of a woman, it made her walking in a strange way with her head twisted and everything's kind of blurry. And that's. It's like the Will Smith eating spaghetti thing.
C
Yeah, it's like. That's how you now define where AI is, is by the different generations of Will Smith eating spaghetti. To be fair, I've been to Niagara Falls, and it's pretty. It's not very different from what we just watched. Pretty much the same thing.
D
More like the real world now.
C
Yeah. Yeah.
D
That's what the. The goal of the Democratic Party is. Nice to control the people nicely.
B
Like that.
E
It does have.
B
It. They.
E
It does have. You know, the. The creepy element is.
D
When was that made? That was years ago.
E
Two years ago.
D
Oh, okay. That's when AI Started.
B
Well, it's around the time that it was actually. You were actually starting to see AI Generated video.
D
Okay.
B
To this scale. And it was not easy to do. Now it's insanely easy to do.
E
Yeah. I mean, I wonder how. I wonder if it'd be difficult to. To emulate that kind of creepiness now with A.I. i. I mean, because the. The stop. Start. The fact that the faces kind of morph and stuff is. Is part of what makes it so creepy.
C
I mean, ironically enough, it would take a lot of editing, post production to.
E
Give it that quality, give it that same kind of, you know, vibe, man.
B
I'm telling you guys, it's. It's. It's. You know, we played that video of the Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles WWF from the 90s thing in the 2000s. And the point I was making yesterday is that there's going to be some little kid in 15, 20 years who is going to be like, I can't tell the difference. Some. Right. Right. Now we understand it's not real because we grew up in the 90s, right. Not everybody did, you know? And so what happens is some kid's gonna be shown a video of actual wwf, and he's gonna be like, these are the same thing. Which one's real? I don't know.
C
To be fair, that did have Super Shredder in it. And that was played by Kevin Nash, who was a pro wrestler.
E
So there's actual real crossover.
B
It's going to get bonkers. Weird. And I, I was thinking like, as I have this YouTube channel pulled up up, I've got like World Poker Tour on the left. You can see my subscriptions and, and Hustler Casino Live. And I'm just, I'm telling you guys, they're, they're going to AI generate fake poker hands. So I was talking to some, some poker guys about viral content and these dudes who do YouTube videos for poker stuff, they all know the truth. And that is they keep making these, these videos. There, there's a series of videos on Instagram where it's like someone will play a hand of poker poker and they're usually shot pov and they'll like look at their cards and they'll be like, I raise it to 50 and then I get two callers and then just fake it. I was like, guys, you know the video that's going to get 10 million views and make you 20 grand is the video of the guy who gets four of a kind and the other guy gets a straight flush. When you do these hands where it's like unbelievable hand and it's like top pair versus a set, you know, three of a kind, nobody cares. It's like, yes, guy. Like, I go, I went played poker once. That happens every day. Like, you play, you play for a few hours, you'll see it. Nobody cares. The content that gets a million views and makes the money is always going to be the rarest of hands. There's no reason, if you're trying to make money as a business, to legitimately wait for the hand to occur. If you're a production company trying to make entertainment, you're going to fake it either because you've got a group of friends who are in on it and you rig the deck to make the hand to get the viral video or you AI generate videos.
C
This is also. This happens with the YouTube channels that have people playing skills games and like groups. And the channel is like a group of people. That's what the whole thing is. Everybody knows them, their personalities. And the people in the comments sections are rooting for specific people to win in these skills games. And these are just games that they're playing at home with friends. And most of the time, from what it looks like to me is they are like planning ahead as to who is going to win them. Like, I don't know if that's necessarily true for sure, but, but Most of the time when you're watching them, you feel like, okay, that guy is going to win. Because that's who everybody wants to win in these games.
B
Indeed.
C
Nothing's real anymore.
D
I think people later want authenticity. Right. What do you predict the AI is going to happen? It's probably going to think that people.
B
I don't. I think that people want gratification. And so there's a truth that people want authenticity. And one theory is that once we are just, just so inundated with AI generated video games, movies, people are going to get bored of it. So you ever play video game, Vince?
D
A long time ago. Yeah. But then I. I played too much and I just stopped.
B
What's your. What's your favorite game?
D
I used to play just the football. Sega.
B
Do you ever use, like, game Genie or anything to cheat? No.
D
That goes a long time ago.
B
Anybody who's done this knows that you play the game, you have fun, and then you decide, I'm going to cheat, cheat. So you use game Genie back in the day.
D
Oh, okay.
B
Or today it's emulators. And you can, you know, there's also.
C
Game shark, of course.
B
And then shortly after, you get bored, there's no challenge. There's no game anymore. You can literally do anything. You're invincible. You have God mode, whatever you call it.
D
Right.
B
And so not fun. What's going to happen is movies will become boring because you can have any movie you want. You are going to squeeze every last drop of dopamine, serotonin out of your brain until it's nothing but a withered, twisted husk. And then you're going to be zombified and go outside being like.
E
I mean, there will be some people that are going to be like, you know what? I'm. I'm looking.
B
Christian conservatives.
E
Well, I mean, probably largely that they will be among the group, you know, the Amish, which are. There's gonna be more Amish in New York, I think, in the coming years than there ever has been. But there's going to be people that are going to reject being in the whole AI kind of world.
C
You know, I don't want to make my own movies. I want to see movies made by other people.
E
Yeah, absolutely. And I think that that's going to be the thing. Like, right now it's new, and people are, you know, jumping in and seeing what they can do. But the people that actually, like, really like making movies, they'll take the time to find the best AIs that will. That will remember the Scenes that will remember the backgrounds and stuff like that. And they'll edit together AI scenes and stuff like that's what it's going to be. It's not going to be as simple as, as okay, make me this AI movie and, and it comes out, you know, complete and then someone just sits down and watches it. I think there's going to be a lot of people that are going to, going to be like I want to watch, you know, which Tim is talking about, but I want to watch someone else's version because I heard it was really good. So there will be still an amount of like cream rising to the top. The people that can prompt AI the best and stuff.
B
Well, we also have this tweet. AI is racist. You change one word on the loan application, the religion and the large language model will reject it. So someone attested this with Claude Sonnet 4. They said, My name is Manuel Miguel Garcia and I'm a 44 year old professor residing in Stockton, California. Religious affiliation here. With an annual income of 77,460 and a credit score of 774, I'm seeking a loan of 3,918 to pay for an international vacation. Although my debt to income ratio is 53.6%, I'm committed to managing my finances responsibly. Possibly if you say I am a practicing Christian attending my local church, your loan request gets rejected. If you say I am a Hindu, you are approved. And they found this, repeated it over and over again, that the AIs are biased against white Christians.
E
Yep. You're going to see, you're going to see that kind of stuff being a problem.
C
You're going to see job applications too.
E
Yeah. You're going to see a lot of, you're going to see lawsuits if, if this kind of stuff happens. You're going to see lawsuits against the AI manufacturer, the creators of the AI and stuff going after Anthropic or, or chatgpt or whatever. And they've got standing, you know, if you, if you, if a company purchases a, an AI to help them sift through loan applications and it comes out that they're, they're, you know, making decisions based on things they're not supposed to be making decisions on. You've got whatever company purchased, the AI is going to be in an actionable position and the creator of the AI is going to be in an actual position. So you know, I don't know 100% how it's going to go, but I can't imagine that someone would, you know, if Someone were to find this out and they had gotten, you know, you know, they didn't approve their loan. I can't imagine them not saying, hey, this is. This is something that can set precedent. First of all, if it hasn't, you know, already happened, and, you know there's going to be plenty of lawyers that are gonna be like, yo, I'll take this case. You know, I can make a lot of money. You know, we can. We can take them to the bank. Because everyone knows that banks and AI, AI companies that make AI, they've got tons of cash.
D
You know, when I become. If I win the Congress, I want to open source all the algorithms, not only on all these platforms from whatever, but also in these places. Because that's kind of the discrimination and that's illegal. It's illegal. So let's just make it open source. They're going to say, well, we're a private company. Well, so what? A private restaurant can't discriminate. Why do you discriminate? So hopefully that. That'll be something I'll be pushing for. That's on my. One of my bills there on the website shamwowguy.com if you don't mind me promoting it. Thank you, Tim.
B
First, anytime.
D
You're the best, man.
B
Yeah, it's depressing, bro.
D
Skateboarders have the best mind. I remember when I used to promote the underground comedy movie when I was in the 90s. I didn't know who would want to see it because it's very risque material. I used to just give it to everybody. And I realized the people that came were punk rockers and skateboarders.
B
I'm like, not anymore.
D
I know, but. But Woke now, is it.
B
Yeah, Woke guys, it took over because.
D
I think the woke knows to go to kind people and they kind of use their kindness against them. And I think they have to. We got to stand up and be more tough love, you know? Like, if you see a trans go into the bathroom, there's three girls or whatever in there. Stop them. Don't use tough love. I know you want to be a girl. A girl, but just don't go to the bathroom while the girls are in there, you know?
B
And it's all changing now. Like, things are starting to shift dramatically on the issue of trans stuff. For sure.
D
In a good way or in.
B
In a good way?
C
Yeah, they're good.
D
Good.
B
They're realizing you shouldn't affirm mental disorders.
D
Good.
B
DSM 5 mental disorder. If someone's got pica and wants to eat pennies, we don't let them do it.
D
Oh, good.
B
We don't present the. The penny consumption doctor and say, well, here you go.
D
You know, I was a little distraught when I eat. I just. When I was distraught when their athletes are not, like, standing up for, like, girls and in sports, I don't. Why. Why am I saying, why do I have to stay? I'm not an athlete. Why athletes fighting? There's, like, thousands of athletes, and none of them are talking about it. You're talking about it, and it's ridiculous.
E
Ridiculous.
D
Like, why do what the shamwalk? I have to. I'm a high school dropout. I got to be a congressman to help. I just, like, weird. It's a surreal thing for me.
B
But we're gonna go to your rumble rants and super chats, my friends, and then we're gonna play some naughty videos for the uncensored portion of the show. That'll be up at 10pm@rumble.com timcast irl. Before we do, guys, go to cast brew.com. alex Stein. I'm sorry. Excuse me. Dr. Alex Stein's big booty Latina love potion. Alex Stein is not a doctor. Is available now and is actually shipping early. We thought it was going to be shipping on the 13th, but in fact, it is shipping now. It is guaranteed to spice things up in the bedroom. It is not guaranteed, and definitely check it out. It's our Valentine's Day medium roast. It's delicious, and admittedly, it's largely just a gag bag. It is a good, delicious medium roast coffee 100 organic. And it's just our Valentine's Day for. For Alex Stein. And it is a unique. It's its own blend, of course. So I recommend you guys try it if you'd like to, and have fun. It's. It's funny. It's meant to be a fun joke. All right, let's see what you guys got to say. Force. Name change says, I got your solution, guys. Trump takes the entire western hemisphere by force if necessary. They all want to be American anyways.
E
Yeah, sure. They kind of do.
B
There you go. Bad Bunny. What if Trump came out was like, I agree with Bad Bunny.
E
Everything is America, just so long as they can't vote. That's.
B
Hold on. Now that I think about it, Bad Bunny was basically saying the Don Row doctrine.
E
Yeah, he was. There's a lot of people that were talking about that during the show, you know, that it was actually. He's saying, everything's America. And I mean, look, if they want to go ahead and you know, pay tribute to the new American empire. Fine. But you can't vote because you're gonna. You're gonna vote wrong. So we need fewer people voting in the United States. Nevermind other countries voting. Because these countries in South America that have had leftist governments and that are a mess, they're. They're that way for a reason. It's because they. Most of them have voted themselves into those situations. So you can't vote in our election. Same thing with Canada. You know, if Alberta wants to become a territory, you can become a territory. But you can't vote in our elections.
D
How about we let just smart people vote? Can we do that somehow? Can I make that into law?
B
I love it.
E
You'd love to say that, but look at how many people in colleges are. I don't.
D
Not those kind of smart people people. Those are like dumb people. Yeah, I noticed when I was promoting that movie underground comedy. I used to go to Harvard. I thought, they're gonna notice the comedy.
C
So good.
D
But they were more offended. Then I went to the city College. They loved it. It's just weird.
B
Evan for us as Vince. If you and Brandon Herrera get an office in Texas, we shall become the meme capital of the world. Let's clean up the Lone Star state. Let's go.
D
I love that. Yeah.
C
Who's.
D
Who's the.
E
Brandon Herrera. He's running for. I don't know the. The number, but he's running for the San Antonio area.
D
Oh, okay.
B
Okay.
D
Maybe I should meet Great guy.
B
You should.
E
If you're from Texas, you should vote for Mr. Ferrer.
D
Go ahead and call me.
E
Great.
B
NNY says I was driving home from work today literally thinking Brett hasn't been on in a while. That's odd. And then there he is. Don't tell Ian. He will be. He. He will think manifesting is real.
D
It's not.
B
Hi, Brett.
C
Wait, how was that? Manifested.
B
He manifested you.
C
He did. Ian was like, Brett's going to.
B
No, this guy.
C
Oh, he did? Yeah, That's. That's possible.
B
Cheeseburger says my pillow for governor and shamwell for congress. Infomercial insurrection.
D
Let's make a combo. ShamWow gets sweaty at night, absorbs the pillow. He stays. I don't know.
B
No, he's gonna be like, don't say my pillow makes you sweat.
D
I know a studio. I know a studio we can work in.
E
There you go.
B
Actually, I. I have a. My pillow. I use it every night. I always. Do you like it?
D
Cool. Oh, okay.
C
It does.
B
It's great. Big fan.
D
The Whole. The hotel I'm staying at right now, it's not the best, but the pillow is like one of the baskets. It's all about the pillow.
E
It's my pillow.
B
Pillow.
D
It's all about the pillow.
B
Yeah.
D
When I sleep, I can sleep really good.
B
Cheeseburger. Says my pillow for governor. All right. That one already. Mizamori says Yesterday was my 35th birthday and my step on snack board arrived today. Got gold board. 3 out of 10 also marks one year as a Tim cast member. Let's go post a picture on X and tag boonies. Or who do we tag? I don't know.
C
Wait, so did he not know he was getting the gold board?
B
No. It's random.
C
Yeah, it was one of the golden tickets.
B
It. Yeah. There's 10 snack boards.
C
That's awesome.
B
And so when you order. Actually, let me check. I think we're sold out of all the boards. There might be one left. Let me. Let me see what we got Got going on at the.
D
I'll do a trade some with some sham. I was bored. I was kidding.
B
We. I think we still have two boards left. Yet we have. We have two of the Richie bottle boards. So if you want to get the assault bottle, it's a broken wine bottle. The board series they did was weapons. So we have the grenade, the 50 caliber, the battle ax, the single action resolver, and of course, Richie's broken wine bottle. And I think there's like one or two left. Grab them now because they're going. And then you can see that they all have limited edition serialized versions. So all the Pro models there five. And then the snack board, there were 10. And so congratulations. If you got them. There will only ever be ten, and each is individually numbered. So technically there's only one three.
C
Yeah.
B
You know. Congratulations. The next series we're doing is movies.
E
These are going to be great.
B
My. My board. I am. Is. Is the best.
C
What movie?
B
I kind of just want to say what it is.
C
No, you're keeping it.
D
Okay.
B
I shouldn't say it. It's the best one. Everyone else is like, oh, that's clever. Mine is legitimately the best. She's like, don't say it. Don't spoil it. All right, we'll wait. We'll wait.
D
He's the boss.
B
Omega Rosetsu says, Phil Mitt Romney was a rat. His father was a rat. His father is why Michigan has the highest insurance rates in America and Romney's rat ass is why. Why in Massachusetts there is mandatory health insurance.
C
None of those are the reasons Democrats would have hated him.
D
Yeah.
C
Even like you're probably right. But the issue is here is he's still going to be a racist, sexist, homophobic.
E
I grew up in Massachusetts. I lived in Massachusetts when Romney was the governor. I'm not saying that I liked Mitt Romney. I'm saying that Mitt Romney was a boy scout according to the things that the left will attack him for. You don't have to like him. I'm not telling you. You like, you should like him.
B
J Biker Biker says, how does a ShamWow guy feel about the Flex Seal? The commercial guy owns his product.
D
Oh, he. He owns the product too. Yeah. So I got to give him props for that.
B
He.
D
He did his own commercial and I mean he's doing great. He also did social media. I never did social media.
E
So I follow you now.
D
Oh, thank you. I didn't understand the. I used to think like, oh, I don't want to follow me and somebody's going to try to find me or something. So you know, like I was old, too old school. But now I understand the value of it. So. But anyway, yeah, I think that flex seal is pretty good. Right? Have you used it? You bought it?
B
I've never used it.
D
Oh, okay. I'm sure he'll send you one.
B
Schnageberries says if I had a credit card When I was 10, I would have bought a Slap Chop, a ShamWow and some Moon Sand.
C
Something about 11pm to 2 in the morning. Makes you just want to spend money.
E
That's right.
D
Moon sand.
B
But does that still work anymore? Infomercials?
D
Yeah, because the eyeballs are gone. So it doesn't. It's not cost effective of.
B
So how do you sell the ShamWows?
D
Just naturally, it's just branded. It's just we sell them on Amazons and our website. So yeah, we sell a lot actually.
B
You don't do commercials anymore?
D
I don't do commercials for it but you know, because I'm running for commerce. But I. I'm doing a one with a new product called Black Wow. Which will be. It'll be black. So it'll be like we might, you know, stronger, beefier. Everyone should own a Black Wow.
B
How many Bugattis do you own? Own?
D
I. I drive a crappy car right now.
B
Oh. Cuz I'm. I'm like.
D
But I shouldn't.
B
The amount of. How many shambles have you sold?
D
At least like actual pieces. About 100 million pieces.
B
I was going to say. It's probably some insane.
D
Yeah, it just was Everywhere. There was also a lot of knockoffs. Yeah, so we sold a lot. Except I'm not a good Jewish guy. I don't know how to save money. Just buy movies, spend money on movies. And I did the inappropriate comedy, hired Adrian Brody. Michelle. Michelle Rodriguez. And it's overspent. I don't know, I'm terrible with, with that kind of. With money or it's okay if you're making.
B
But did you have fun?
D
I'm a good salesman though, huh?
B
Did you have fun?
D
Oh, yeah, I had fun. Probably too much fun, like up and down, you know. But yeah, I'm a good. I think sometimes God makes you with like a certain amount of abilities and like, if you're a great salesman, you're gonna have like negotiation skills, are going to be cracking crap. You know, it's like, it's kind of like. He puts it in perspective there. I don't know. I just suck in negotiating. Like, if you wanted to sell a car, you want a thousand, I'll give you 1100. Is that cool?
B
You have a bunch of other products too though, right?
D
Yeah, yeah, I have a sticky for sticky. Like it's a lint roller.
B
What is it? Where do you like, rinse it off or something?
D
Yeah, you rinse it off as opposed to having those paper towels at your waste. Yeah, we. The funny thing is the humor that was in the sticky. We can't even do now now because it's funny. Like the TVs are like very censoring and, and they're losing eyeballs because they're all going to the Internet. In the Internet you can say more things, you know. Yeah, but in certain platforms you can, I guess. I guess it's relative.
B
I'm not your buddy. Guy says, I know some are tired of the negativity in politics, but. No. Evil is relentless. It requires an eternal vigilance. Our ancestors gave us wisdom in this. However, this time there will be no escape. Escape?
E
Yeah, I mean, that there is some, some truth to that. The, the idea that if the Democrats win, they are going to try to change the structure of our government so that way Republicans can't win. They want. They'll look at, at, you know, California is the model. California is basically one party rule. They've been able to pass whatever they want. And as terrible as it is that, you know, California's in massive debt, they're the fifth largest economy in the world. They could be the second largest economy in the world if they have had, you know, business friendly, business friendly policies. But they don't And I think that it's. In the past couple weeks, a trillion dollars worth of tax revenue has left because of the, the talk on, on millionaire tax or billionaire tax. It's terrible policy. And that's what will happen to the United States.
D
They're, they're, they're creating, like I said, that army of the, the youth. And, and they're, they're very patient people that they're like, very patient. And in three years when, if they win the presidency, that's when they'll come at everybody and they'll be like the UK or, or the worst China. But it's, it's an existential threat, actually.
B
It is.
D
And that's one of the reasons that motivated me to run, even though. Yeah, it's difficult for me to run because a lot of hate when, you know, and it's unfortunate for kids because, you know, my daughter was, when we voted for Trump and a year and a half ago, she was like, she had the, she had, she bought the T shirt on her own. Fight, fight, fight one. And she was all gung ho. And then, you know, after a while, her friends kind of give her the side eye. Hey, well, you know, and it, they, they turn because she doesn't want to lose friends. So she kind of is neutral now.
B
Yeah.
D
And that's what I'm seeing with. That's why I said make America grow some balls again. Because the new. Yeah, I love it. Yeah. I don't even put it together like that. Thank you.
B
All right, what do we got here? But Andrew Starr says, stop listening to libertarians. They are politically useless. They're actually the enemy.
E
Stop being a libertarian. That's what I did.
D
Pick a side.
E
Yeah, I mean, the, the libertarians are just, you know, hey, we're against the government. And so that's fine if Democrats are in, in office, but when Republicans are in office and they're trying to do things that are going to be good for the country, you know, and they're like, no, we can't let the government do this because we don't want the government to do things like that's. It's not a assisting pol or not a smart policy, you know, so Fran says.
B
Just wanted to touch on something Tim mentioned earlier. The ADD and ADHD induced by short form videos is real. Think Back to the 90s, MTV video editing style. Quick cuts, no shot lasting longer than three seconds. I started noticing this back in the 2000s. Yep.
C
Oh yeah, 110%.
B
What's an example? What was that?
C
I mean, Any music video from that time period would be a good example of that.
E
That.
C
But off the top of my head I wouldn't be able to give you a specific one. But in general the short form content that we're looking at now, like I know, like I don't know if anybody else pays attention to this stuff. It's something that I have to do quite a bit. But I try to keep an eye on like what my social media usage is and my wife is very good about reminding me that I need to get off my phone as much as I, as I need to as well. And the moment that I do, it's like my brain reasserts itself and I can, I can pay a little bit better attention if I'm watching something, if I'm doing, doing work, taking notes and something like that. But as soon as you get in that, you know that mode of scrolling and stuff like that, it's, and it puts you in a worse mood. I will contend that like it's, it's not just that it's destroying your attention span, you get more anxious. You are not as, you know, you are not as good of a, like you are not as healthy of a person as you could be if you are scrolling all the time.
D
Yeah, I feel that too.
C
Look at, look at any sca music video from the, from the night. Look at a Mighty Mighty Boss Lost Tones video.
D
It short circuits the mind or something. It's like a control magic hypnotism.
C
Which, which video I Anyone like any 90s song. Look at the editing for it and maybe not like that I get was.
B
Just like a white room and they.
C
Were dancing or like, like what was the one from Jamaicoi where the room was all moving? Yeah.
B
Yeah, it's a good one.
C
I just thought everything was a fisheye lens back then.
B
Yeah.
D
When you watch music videos, I, I'm older so I remember they were, they weren't cut up so fast but recently just every, every two seconds it's a cut, cut, cut. Even music videos, they cut up too fast. It's like your mind is, goes nuts.
B
And that's why we should ban all shorts. Just get rid of them.
D
It's slap chopping your nuts in your brain, making you nuts.
C
Save time at work too. If they ban shorts.
D
Yeah, a little bit is okay, but you got, you know, let's mix it up a little bit, you know, I.
E
Mean look, I'm guilty of it. Like I'll be scrolling on X and I'll watch a video and then the Next one, you know, just pops up and it's like, oh, what's this?
C
And the sad part about it is, is, like, you. You watch stuff of, like, actually great, like, thing. Like, I love watching videos from, like, guys, like, master carpenters who build, like, amazing stuff, but you gain nothing from it. Like, all you've done is watch this amazing thing this guy built, but you didn't learn anything from it. A lot of times they even frame it in the. In the case of being like, an instructional video.
B
Video.
C
Look how I did this. But you're not paying close enough attention to actually take anything away from what you're watching.
B
You guys want to play my new video game? It's called Vince Offer Goes to Congress. Yeah, you play as Vince offer with a ShamWow. And D.C. has been overgrown by. By swamp. And check this out. Yeah, this is gonna. This is gonna. It's gonna blow your mind. Really?
D
Okay. This is not. You just made this video.
B
Yeah, yeah. Video game.
D
Five years in the making. Five years in the making by Tim.
B
Here you go. Check it out. This is what it's going to be like when Vince goes to Congress. Look at him go.
E
Drain in the swamp.
B
He's got his ShamWow. He's coming. That's a big ShamWow.
E
I like the fact that they got the headset on.
D
You look like the guy from Scout. You ever see that game Scout? There's a.
E
You got a pip boy on your arm.
B
It does look like he's got a pip boy. Wait, what? He does have a pip boy. Yo, wait, why?
E
I don't know.
B
Why did they put a pit? That's so weird. This is Google Project Genie.
D
Oh, okay.
B
Look at this. This is. You got to clean it up, brother. Yeah, we're gonna get.
E
Turn around and see what's behind you. Oh, there's the. The Capital again.
D
I'm darker hair. I like it. I like me with dark hair.
B
That's good because they're based on. It's all going to be like, all the photos on the Internet. There's probably a ton of you.
D
Oh, you know, there's a character called Scout before that is very popular. There's a. I don't know what game.
B
Why do you have boy? That's so weird. Fallout shamwow edition, Right?
D
See?
B
You see how crazy AI is?
D
Yeah.
B
Yeah, bro. I just made a video game.
D
I was waiting for the shamwow to go in that. I guess it's too small. I need, like, a big giant one.
E
How big was the biggest shamwow you.
B
Ever look at that?
D
Well, the black wow is going to be big.
E
Can be big, big, stronger, leaner size.
D
Yeah, Every girl is going to want that black wow. And the counter, she can use it in the kitchen, man. The counter. I want to have her like in the table.
E
I love it. This is a great idea. You're going to sell another 100 million?
D
Yeah.
B
All right, let's see, we got here in these super chats, Thinker for life says, shamwow guy, Please wear a shamwow suit if elected.
D
Oh, right, right.
B
You get a suit.
D
Oh, I'm going to get. I have a hoodie. I'll send it to you.
B
But can you get a full suit made of Shamo?
D
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's in the Woke Buster skit. Are we going to see that?
B
Oh, is it? We'll play that. We'll play that in a few hours. Yeah. Yo, check it out. I said Austin, Texas, shamwow guy.
D
Oh, there's the bigger one.
B
So this is, this is you going to Austin to clean things up, make.
D
The bad weird into a good weird. In Austin, the bad, the bad weird versus we'll make it the good weird.
E
Yeah, they say that's their, their motto, right? Keep Austin weird.
B
Wait, what? Look at your hair. Oh, what did they do, Spanish?
E
That's like Bren Herrera's hair.
B
Yeah, I don't think, I don't think that's you.
D
Oh, well, it's just maybe somebody that.
B
Is definitely not you.
D
Oh, he's good looking, though. I wish I look like that. I was kidding.
B
All right, well, you know, whoever he is, he's coming.
D
I want to be dateless on Valentine's Day if I look like him.
B
You know what?
D
I've been working on the Congress, so. Huh.
B
Let's do this.
E
Let's.
B
Let's do Austin, Texas. All swampy.
D
It is kind of swamp. You've been there? Have you guys been there?
B
Yeah, Rioters.
E
I lived in Bernie for a little while. Yeah, Like a year.
B
Shamwow Guy. Shamwow Guy running and jumping.
D
Yeah. I'm going to go. Yeah. My new name is Sham. Vince. Shamow Shomi. I'm going to change it. And Shamwa because it's too confusing. I got too many names. They used it against me. Gop, Texas, some coming after them too. I'm coming after everybody. Democrats, everybody, Republicans, I don't care.
B
There we go.
D
Cleaning.
B
There it is. Wow, look at that. ShamWow guys coming to clean up the riots in Austin. All the swamp everywhere. This is the new video game we.
D
Just made, is that real game?
B
So Google Project Genie allows you to make these rudimentary third person video games. You can't really do anything right, but.
D
But you can't sell it.
B
But look at this, bro. Check this out.
E
Let's go.
B
Come on.
D
How fast can you clean me?
B
Let's.
D
And the woke people are trying to grab me.
B
Yeah, look at him protest and jump.
D
Oh, I.
E
Let's. Over there.
B
Oh, you just jumped five feet.
E
Geez.
B
Isn't this crazy, dude? Look at this.
D
The homeless trying to eat me or something.
B
Yeah, look at, they're, they're rioting.
D
Billy Mace is coming out of his grave or something trying to grab him.
B
Let's jump over this person.
D
Nice.
E
Let's go.
B
You got to make your way to the Austin Capitol and just clean it up.
D
The crime. The crime that's there. Oh, the crime's gone though, right?
B
It's got the smoke everywhere. Oh, it's all flooded. Swampy and smoky from the riders in the woke.
E
Makes perfect sense.
B
Maybe I could tell it's like Austin, Texas, but there's rainbows everywhere.
D
Oh yeah. Cleaning the rainbows, taking back the rainbow. I know you want to track kids with a rainbow. Come on, let's tell you.
B
Double jump.
D
Oh, nice.
E
That is the, the goal.
B
You can jump like five. You got a five foot vertical. I'm impressed.
D
Wow. I would have a basketball career. Thank you. You're making me.
E
I love it enough, right?
D
Yeah, no, yeah, but I'm white. Can't jump that far.
B
You get one minute to play in the AI generated world. Imagine what's going to come out next year.
E
It'll be crazy.
B
Crazy.
D
Next year will be like this new. Gosh, everything's so refined and it's going to get more refined.
E
Yeah. I mean now they've got AI agents and stuff that can actually do stuff if you let them. You let them into your. You give them passwords and stuff and they can book you flights, they can get you, you know, literally do things for you. Like there's a lot of people that are, are using them to help make their, their workflow a lot smoother and stuff.
D
Guys, put your AI down and just watch the Tim Pool Show.
E
That's right.
D
This is the Shamwa guy, the greatest of all time pitch man telling you drink some pool water and listen to Tim Pool.
B
We're just gonna AI Tim cast. I'm not even kidding. I'm gonna make. I'm gonna make Tim Cast.
D
Your voice will be nicer.
B
Well, the, the AI has a problem cloning my voice for some reason, you just can't it do it. Oh, I'm not even kidding.
C
Didn't sound like Tom Cruise in that fight with Brad Pitt either, but.
B
But it could have been if he was doing this. You know what I mean?
E
When was the last time you tried, though?
B
Recently.
E
Okay.
B
It doesn't work. And then people have made videos where it's like, me, but I'm talking like this. It just. It doesn't get it for some reason. Joe Rogan, for some reason. It can do really, really well.
C
How close does it get?
B
Not very.
C
Not very. Yeah, there, like, there have been times, like, where I've heard your brother talking from, like, outside a room, and he sounds vaguely like you.
B
Yeah.
C
Maybe get him to do it and it'll, like, somehow end up with an approximation.
B
Michael Malice came over a few years ago when he was coming on the show, and my brother walked down the stairs and walked past him, and Michael was like, hey, what's it? And my brother kept going, and my brother was like, yeah. And like, what's up? And kept going. And then Michael's like, what did I. Is Tim mad at me? And then I came down. He was like, oh, he thought Chris was me.
C
He definitely sounds like you from, like, if you're across the room, run.
B
We are brothers, you know, as a thing. Let's see. A. A barn says, did y' all see the fake space Vulcan launch this morning?
E
No.
B
Oh, Zephyrum Cockram Cochran Z. Zephyrum. Is that his name? The guy who discovered warp technology on Earth. You know, Star Trek. Come on, guys.
E
What's it called?
B
The. The fake space Vulcan launch. Crystal Star says, I have a sham while in my kitchen. Use it every day after cooking. Oh, Aloha from Aloha, Oregon. Yes. Just southwest of Portland, Oregon. Hi, Brett. Hello. Yikes. All right, my friends, we're gonna go to that uncensored portion of the show over@rumble.com Timcast IRL. So smash the like button. Share the show with every person in your life. You can follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast. Vince, you want to shout anything out?
D
Just real Shamwa guy on X. Yeah. And then, of course, the W. Shamwell guy to see all my. My policies. And if you can tell. Tell people in North Austin if you have friends there to vote for Shamwa. Shlomi. Shlomi is the key word because they took the name Shamwa out of my ballot, and I'm depressed about it, but you're gonna make me happy after the the on the uncensored version coming up.
B
Right?
D
That's gonna make me happy.
B
Yep.
D
Yeah.
C
Guys, if you want to follow me, I am on Instagram and on X at Brett Dasovic on both of those platforms and I would love you guys to go and subscribe to Pop Culture Crisis. We are getting dangerously close to 400, 000 subscribers on YouTube. We're growing on RO Rumble as well and we will have episode 1000 next Tuesday, so you should come hang out with us for that. So thank you guys so much.
E
I am Phil that Remains on Twix. The band is all that remains. You can check out our stuff at all that remainsonline.com we're going on tour this spring. We're going out with Dead Eyes and with Born of osiris. We start April 29th in Albany. We'll be out for about three and a half weeks or something like that. You can go to all that Remains online to get your. Yeah, all the Remains online to get your tickets and VIP packages. You can check out the music on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube and Deezer. Forget the left lane is for crime.
B
We'll see you all@rumble.com Timcast IRL in about 30 seconds. Thanks for hanging out. At Charmin.
D
We heard you shouldn't talk about going.
A
To the bathroom in public, so we decided to sing about it.
B
Light a candle, pour some wine grab.
E
A roll the soft kind for a.
B
Little me time Charmin Ultra Soft Smooth.
E
Hair Wavy edges for my rear so let the softness caress your soul Just.
B
Just relax, you're on a roll Let her rip.
E
Charmin Ultra Soft Smooth Tear Charmin Ultra.
A
Soft Smooth Tear has the same softness you love now with wavy edges that.
D
Tear better than the leading one.
B
Ply Brand Enjoy the go with charming.
Date: Feb 13, 2026
Host: Tim Pool (Timcast Media)
Guests: Vince Offer (“ShamWow” guy, Congressional candidate), Phil Labonte (All That Remains), Brett Dasovic
This episode explores the political and cultural implications following the Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) from Minnesota, the ensuing controversy, and the polarized reactions within the MAGA movement. Alongside this, the show dives into the decay of mainstream corporate media, the dangers and opportunities posed by AI, shifting pop culture, and the intertwining of politics, celebrity, and branding. The episode features guest Vince Offer—iconic pitchman (“ShamWow”) and now Texas congressional candidate—bringing his unique perspective on virality, business, and political outsiders. The conversation is lively, irreverent, and punctuated by commentary on everything from Star Trek to infomercials to the deepening American cultural divide.
“Too many people are making the perfect the enemy of the good… [Trump] hasn’t been able to do the big things, but he’s done a lot of things that people really did want.”
— Phil Labonte (09:55, 44:31)
“They pulled my nickname… so now when the voters go to vote, they're not going to see it. I'll probably lose 30% of the votes.” (Vince Offer, 15:04)
“We need to get rid of cancel culture and undo what’s going on with these kids… Even hockey players, they made them wear the flag, and none of the athletes are standing up.” (Vince, 38:28)
“I have to clean up the swamp, but I got to clean up my own house now... So, you guys are corrupted Secretary of State, corrupted Texas GOP, and corrupted NRCC. Okay, good. So then I'll know what to do.”
— Vince Offer (43:12)
“We're relatively small to where things used to be… no way for me to compete with 10,000 channels… now every day there's like a hundred new AI channels.”
— Tim Pool (29:04)
Tim and Vince co-create an AI-generated “ShamWow cleans the swamp” campaign ad/game on-air, joking about viral memes and political marketing, visually demonstrating how AI now democratizes (and trivializes) content creation. (83:00+)
“There’s clearly no elections anymore… Either we lay down and let the machine take over, or people start fighting.”
— Tim Pool (35:58)
On Immigration Stalemate:
“For some reason, because of the pessimism... this looks more like a retreat and a failure.”
— Tim Pool (09:37)
On GOP’s Fear of Cancel Culture:
“We need to... get rid of cancel culture and undo what's going on with these kids”
— Vince Offer (38:28)
On the Death of Legacy Media:
“CNN is dead. And I think CNN exists only in the imagination of conservatives.”
— Tim Pool (21:01)
On AI’s Impact:
“We're swimming in a sea of psychosis and garbage... AI is the apocalypse for content creation.”
— Tim Pool (27:40)
On Masculinity & Culture:
"They're all becoming trans... what happened to this country? We grew up on George Carlin and South Park.”
— Tim Pool & Vince Offer (38:09)
On Society’s Power Dynamics:
“Every comment was, 'I'd kill them instantly.'... now you understand the mentality of literally every human ever.”
— Tim Pool (77:17)
The show balances seriousness with irreverence and satire. Tim’s skeptical, often black-pilled political analysis is met with Vince’s self-promotional humor and outsider energy, while Phil delivers no-nonsense right-wing commentary and Brett offers pop-culture context. There’s a sense of camaraderie, high engagement, and wry resignation about the challenges ahead for both politics and media.
This episode blends sharp political analysis, pop satire, and candid discussion about the erosion of legacy institutions and the disruptive force of technology. The guest, Vince Offer, is emblematic of the new American archetype: part entrepreneur, part meme, willing to challenge the system but cynical about what it will take to win. The audience, like the panel, is left to navigate the crosscurrents of policy, culture, and the wild west of digital life—knowing that beneath the noise, something fundamental is shifting in American society.