Syria COLLAPSES, World War 3 HAS BEGUN Says Bank CEO, US, RUSSIA EVACUATES As US & Israel STRIKE
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Over this past weekend, the Assad government in Syria collapsed. Bashar al-Assad has fled to Russia. The U.S., Israel and Turkey have begun military strikes in Syria, with the U.S. and Israel saying they're taking out chemical weapons sites to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands. Of course, there's a simple way to describe everything. If you simply pull up any news website, there's been a conversation ongoing sometime about World War Three.

And now we have Jamie Dimon. Actually, this was a month ago, but it's now being picked up once again, saying that World War Three has already begun and his financial team is taking a look at ways they can protect their assets as this war escalates into, I don't know, pure chaos. Now, of course, my view on all of this was that once Donald Trump won, I mean, well before Trump won.

The establishment forces in the United States, the Uniparty, the military industrial complex would do everything in their power to escalate this this war, which is now international in an effort to create a crisis that Donald Trump could not prevent. And it looks like that's what we are seeing now with the U.S. engaging in military strikes, precision strikes in Syria, Israel's involvement in

You make arguments about chemical weapons being bad, and I'm not going to sit here and defend Bashar al-Assad. This war has been going for a long time. But I also think it's important for us to recognize we are not dealing with comic book villainy. This is real world international conflict, and there are no good guys. Certainly there are interests. And I think it's fair to say U.S. interests are better.

But as we can see from the will of the American people in this past election, the interests of the American people are non-intervention and anti-war, which is why I'm not surprised that the current government has done everything seemingly in their power to make these conflicts worse. Well, Donald Trump is talking about sitting down and discussing peace deals with Zelensky and Putin.

We're looking at Joe Biden pledging the U.S. will do everything in its power, including humanitarian relief to Syria in this time. It's going to get bad. Russia has a naval base in Tartus in Syria, which is one of the principal reasons for all of this. I mean, this is this is war with Russia. Russia's Navy has reportedly evacuated Tartus, which is massive. They're likely going to go to, I'd imagine, Sevastopol. I'm not entirely sure.

But I don't think this ends with Russia simply laying down its arms and giving up.

Now, there is a possibility nuclear wars on the table. We don't know. I think there is a decent probability it is, but I'm not saying greater than chance. There's a few ways we can look at this one. We don't know at all what's really going on. And seeing news reports is not really helping. Now, the benefit of X and other social media platforms, we can see videos emerging from these locations during the war, which gives us a general idea of what is true and what is not. That being said, I

I read these news reports. I see what Joe Biden is saying. And for all we know, the U.S. has already secured certain areas. They're not going to tell us. We're not going to know. So in that regard, the first and most obvious thing is there is a the greatest probability in all of this is that we will be caught off guard as regular old civilians watching the news, having no idea what's going on. There is another possibility. And the scary one is that this escalates.

With Russia being forced to evacuate Tartus, their naval base, they're now at risk of losing access to the Mediterranean entirely. Of course, they have access to the Black Sea and other areas, but they'd have to rebuild new ports. And with the expansion of this war and Ukrainian forces and Western forces in support of Ukraine, I'll be nice, attacking Russia.

Things are getting crazy. But Russia appears to be routed. Losing this naval base is massive. So based on the cursory information we can get as regular old people read the news. Well, it seems like Russia is not in a good spot. From here, we can see another couple of possibilities. Russia reacts rather negatively. We already know that North Korea is sending troops in to aid Russia. Russia may say to China, look.

We go down. You go down next. We have to come together. I mean, the BRICS nations may say no to all of this, but who knows? Some of these countries may simply be saying, do we want to go up against the United States and the Western forces? I'm not so sure. But oh, boy, we are now learning that Taiwan is on high alert because China's deployed a bunch of warships.

China wants to to seize control of Taiwan. There's tremendous resources and technology, and they claim that island as their own. Of course, Taiwan is actually the original government of China that was forced out of China by the communists. But yeah, that's all in the past, to be honest. So what we're looking at now is China has a strong interest in assisting Russia to keep Western forces occupied in the Middle East and Eastern Europe so that they can move in on Taiwan.

It's not so simple, however, because the U.S. is still engaged in the Pacific and Australia and the U.S. have been aligned. Japan, South Korea, there is a strong potential that this would not go so easily for China if they keep the fight, even if they keep the fight in Eastern Europe. But now with the fall of Syria, it's an exacerbation of potential conflicts. And I got to say, it's quite worrying. My friends, let's let's break this down. The first news, I think,

The important news, not this article. I got I got so much on this, so much going on here. I think I can just report. I mean, the Assad regime rebels broke their way to Damascus, the capital. After seeing Homs fall, I'm sorry, pronounce it. It was fairly obvious to a lot of people that Damascus would be next. Syria's capital would collapse. Bashar al-Assad would flee. This country is going to become I don't know.

I'll try to be nice, but it's going to be a dump. It's going to be flattened war zone garbage. And I don't mean that of the people, and it's sad to see, but the reality is it is going to be flattened. The rebels are not going to run things properly. There's continuing airstrikes. We're now hearing, I believe this is true, I believe we're hearing that there's airstrikes in Damascus. The city is going to crumble, just like we saw in Libya. The people who live in this country are probably going to flee as refugees.

And I can only imagine where they end up. So, my friends, let's read a little bit of the news here with the U.S. launching precision airstrikes in Syria and Joe Biden announcing humanitarian aid. I wonder if the the big story, in fact, is World War Three. This headline is it's being rewritten or republished is a better way to put it. Money Wise reported this in November, November 4th.

World War Three has already begun. Jamie Dimon warns, says he and his team are preparing for serious conflict with Russia and China. Three assets to protect yourself in 2025. I'm going to be honest. This guy's CEO of JP Morgan Chase. He told the crowd World War Three was imminent and nuclear proliferation was a greater existential threat than climate change. Quote.

World War Three has already begun. You already have battles on the ground being coordinated in multiple countries, Diamond said at the annual event in D.C. on October 24th. It's going back two months. Listen, here's what I want to tell you, my friends. Money talks, BS walks. How does Nancy Pelosi make her money? She has got privy to information. You think Jamie Diamond isn't being told what's going on? This is JPMorgan Chase. They're managing billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions, probably maybe more in their network.

They need to know what's going on. Now, I'm not going to say this guy's got more intel than the United States intel community. Not that I trust them, but they know. They know what's happening. They know where boots are on the ground. They know the moves they're planning on making. I'm not saying they're good at it. I'm saying they know we don't. Jamie Dimon comes out saying World War Three has already begun. I'm going to start investing in these areas to protect my assets. I can only I can only harken back to the story of the Napoleonic Wars.

You have that story, and I'm just going to lighten it for you because I don't remember the full details. But basically, Napoleon loses. Some dude gets on his horse and runs full speed and goes and tell everybody, in fact, Napoleon has won. Stocks collapse. Everyone's in a panic. They start buying them up for pennies on the dollar. Then turns out Napoleon lost. Stocks rebound and they made themselves rich.

Jamie Dimon, maybe he's saying this because he wants stocks to collapse so he can buy them up for pennies on the dollar. And then when news comes out, actually, Western forces have crushed the East and it's over and there's no world war. He's going to be very, very rich. OK, we'll plan accordingly, I guess. I'm not going to tell you what to do. But Jamie Dimon says here's three assets or I'm sorry, money wise is. And, you know, I'm not going to tell you what to invest in. But a lot of people seem to like the idea of investing where Nancy Pelosi invests.

Diamond also claimed that cooperation between China, Russia, Iran and North Korea to dismantle the Western world order far outweighed any financial issues. Western powers, including NATO allies, have been pitted against Russia. This we know. Curious timing. Diamond's alarming comments came on the same day as the conclusion of the BRICS summit, where Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met with a group of non-Western countries in order to deeper the integration. Other countries included in the summit are Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. You know what, man?

Israel, U.S. and Turkey launch strikes to protect interests in Syria. The rebels, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, free prisoners of the former president Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Russia. You know, it's funny, just as an aside, there's a viral video of a guy in, I think it's in Ireland, and there's a bunch of Syrians cheering and he's like, hey, what's going on, man? And they're like, they're like, Bashar al-Assad, he's been he's been defeated. Syria is free. Oh, you're going home then? Well, no, we're not going to go home. And he's like, oh, OK, all right. Yeah.

That one's really funny. These Syrian refugees, they ain't leaving. They got their country back, right? Yeah, no. There's going to be more refugees. It's only going to get worse. Hey, Forbes has the story. World War III has already begun and businesses need to take note. I don't disagree. I mean, let's ask this question. What is World War III?

China is making moves on Taiwan consistently, but it's soft power as of right now. You've got war in Eastern Europe. You've got undersea cables were severed. Now they're saying it was a Chinese vessel dragging its anchor and it severed communications in the Baltic.

You've got Middle Eastern conflict escalating to what to I mean, let's just talk about where we're at. You've got October 7th, the war with Palestine, Israel, Palestine, Israel. That's been going on for some time. But then Israel starts goes to war with Lebanon. Lebanon's been firing Israel forever. This conflict isn't just starting overnight. Iran launches missiles into into Israel. Israel fires back. You've got Iranian backed proxies in Iraq attacking U.S. troops. You've got the Houthi rebels blowing up ships in the Red Sea.

And now Syria's collapsed. Israel, U.S. and Turkey, they're firing. They're launching strikes in Syria. I don't see this ending anytime soon. And my concern is that they're launching in the most extreme ways in an effort to make it so that Trump cannot negotiate his way out of this. I'm hearing rumors that Putin's basically in his he's like Trump's not ending this, that Trump's going to come in and Trump's going to play a heavy hand saying we will nuke you and Russia's going to say we have no choice.

It is it is done. The issue being Russia is on the verge of potentially losing two massive naval bases in Sevastopol, and they have lost Tartus. They've likely lost it. The reports here. Let me show you this one. This is a music. Russian Navy evacuates second key base this year. This is from the 4th.

Russia is moving vessels from its naval base in Syria amid the escalating insurgency against Bashar al-Assad. It has been reported Russia was unable to assist Assad in maintaining control of Syria because of the war in Ukraine. And so it's fair to say the war is not going very well for Russia. Now, I want to go back to what I was saying about the potentialities here. Russia could collapse and we could avoid World War Three.

I don't know for sure because there's a lot we don't know. But there's many pro-war individuals saying Russia will not use nukes. Russia will likely collapse. There will be an internal struggle. Putin will be removed and the country will will fall. Not unlike the Soviet Union. I don't know that I believe that, though. I believe that Putin, you know, it's funny because they say, oh, Vladimir Putin is a dictator and he's a despot and all these really awful things. And I'm like, then consider what he would do if he's about to lose control of his country.

Is this a guy willing to do anything to maintain the power that he has? Someone who's going to roll over? I think the dude's probably got a remote control for a nuke launcher in his pocket. And he's got another buddy that he trusts. And he basically says to everybody, you knife me in the back. We're firing every nuke we got in every direction. And you guys are included. I don't see Vladimir Putin as the kind of guy to be like, well, we'll lose power. Goodbye. Doubt it.

He has said if facing an existential threat, they will fire nuclear weapons. How do you handle this? I don't know. I do not know. The Syrian port of Tartus has been a key hub for Russian vessels for more than five decades and has grown in importance at the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

giving Moscow a Mediterranean presence and bulwark against NATO. The port in Tartus hosts two Russian Gorshkov-class frigates and one Gregorovich-class frigate, two auxiliaries, and an improved Kilo-class submarine, according to Naval News. However, open source analysts, MT Anderson posted on ex-formerly Twitter, satellite imagery from November 30th and December 3rd that it said showed that Moscow had removed all vessels. They knew this was coming. This is wild stuff, man. This got me worried.

Let me take you back in time, my friends, to give you some understanding of where we're at. And what I will do is I'm going to pull up an old Google Maps here so we can talk about some cursory news. Cursory news, I say. That means I'm not an Intel guy. I don't know exactly. So if we take a look at the region, we can see—let's go over here. Let's zoom out a little bit to Russia. And here we go. So here's Syria. The reporting is that going back a long time ago,

The U.S. wanted to build a natural gas pipeline from Iraq through Syria, through Turkey. I wish we could remove the city names and into Europe. This is because there's a massive gas pipeline going through Ukraine that controls about a fifth to a quarter of natural gas into Europe. It's Gazprom. I know if you've watched my shows, you've heard me talk about it quite a bit. And so what ends up happening is.

Syria straight up tells the U.S., we will not allow you to build this pipeline because our ally Russia would be upset that you're offsetting their gas company, Gazprom, their access to Europe. Europe is upset and the West is upset because the gas prices are too high and it's restricting the growth of the European economy. And so...

The U.S. says we're building this. Well, surprise, surprise. What ends up happening is Russia and Iran say, let's tap the same natural gas field. We'll build the pipeline through Syria and Turkey. And then we have even more control in the region. Sure enough, Syria falls in a civil war with the U.S. backing the rebels. And now just before Donald Trump is to take office, the war escalates. Assad, the government collapses. And now what?

Tartus is right up here. This is a Russian naval base was here. So Russia had a strong interest in protecting Syria. And that's what helped prevent Syria from collapsing. During Obama's second term, Syria was on the verge of collapse. ISIS was expanding rapidly. And the rumor is that the U.S. liked that it was happening because it was destabilizing the region. And they wanted Syria to collapse so they could come in without it, without any real government there. They could say, oh, we're going to we're going to stabilize the region. That's what Joe Biden's saying right now.

Sure enough, they waited until the last minute. And I think the reason they did was they were hoping they would win. Joe Biden, the Democratic Party, the powers that be were hoping Democrats would win and they would not have to do anything until just before the new term. Well, Biden lost. Trump won. And so they're probably making more erratic and desperate moves now.

The view for most people is that the CIA is the reason for the collapse of the Syrian government, which is going to be brutal. The humanitarian crisis will be one of the worst we have ever seen. It's going to rapidly expand the conflict between Israel, Hezbollah. And, you know, some are saying that it's likely going to chill those things out. Hezbollah has been crushed.

Syria has been crushed. Iran's proxies are crushed. But what I mean to say is not that Israel's in a weakened state or is going to be experiencing any trouble. It's that Israel is now launching strikes into Syria. So the conflict is going to escalate. And there's a lot going on with Israel that I'm not going to get into, such as Israel's claiming of the Golan Heights. And now with Syria falling, it seems to be secured. But there you go, ladies and gentlemen.

And if you're asking, it has a lot to do, all of this, with they're all connected with the Burisma scandal, the war in Ukraine. It is all part of this ongoing regional conflict. And so you can see here now, Tartus is the axis of the Mediterranean. And then in the Black Sea, you have Sevastopol. I can only imagine that what's going to the Russian Navy, the vessels that fled probably already made their way up to Sevastopol. Honestly, I don't know. They could have gone anywhere. But that seems to make the most sense. We're looking at a lot.

Now, what I'm hoping for, Trump says Zelensky is ready for peace as he dishes to post on meetings with world leaders and Jill Biden. So this was reported just the other day. I'm hoping that Donald Trump can stabilize the region. I'm hoping that Donald Trump can deescalate the war and the conflict. But my concern is with things getting as crazy as they are, Putin and the other BRICS nation leaders may just say, no, I'm sorry, a line has been crossed.

Don't know for sure. Biden promises U.S. will do whatever we can to stabilize Syria after Assad regime is toppled. The United States will do whatever we can to support them, including through humanitarian relief to help restore Syria after decades of war and generations of brutality by the Assad family. Crazy days, my friends. Taiwan is now on a high alert amid a presence of Chinese warships. 90, nearly 90 Chinese Navy Coast Guard ships reportedly near Taiwan and southern Japanese islands.

Sooner or later, those moves are going to be made. Now, you know, look, I have no sympathy for Bashar al-Assad. I certainly don't think it's as simple to say he's a comic book villain. Here's the way it works, okay? I'm sure Assad was killing his own people. Absolutely. And you may say, Tim, that is Western propaganda. There's a lot of people who think the West, they're lying about everything. That is Western propaganda. They wouldn't kill their own people. That's stupid. And then I'm just like, my dudes.

Take a look at January 6th. The idea that a government would not kill, imprison and torture its own people is laughable. Barack Obama killed a 16 year old American citizen in Yemen at a civilian restaurant. He killed several. I think he has like what four American citizens may have been killed. The J6ers have been rounded up across the country into this. They are still being rounded up. And what are the J6ers do? They protest at the Capitol. Not even the most egregious thing you can think of.

You think Bashar al-Assad wouldn't do something similar? Come on. Of course he would. Now, they say he's gassing his own people and using chemical weapons. Well, I don't know. Probably. I don't see a reason why he he wouldn't use whatever means he had to take out rebels, which they'll then say are his own citizens. But there's collateral damage, I'm sure. I'm not I'm saying I don't like the guy.

But we're not dealing with comic book villainy. There are interests at play and history is written by the victors. In this regard, Assad is the villain bad guy. When the war first broke out, the Assad regime were using weapons like lethal force against rebel rebels. And what was being reported was that he's killing protesters. His response was these are terrorists trying to overthrow the government. What what would you do? I mean, you're not going to I don't know. I don't know. I'm not going to tell you what to believe. I'm going to say that's what was said.

And of course, I'm going to get these unit party, neocon, neolib shield. Tim's pushing Russian propaganda. Shut up. We're not children, okay? I don't think there's necessarily good guys and bad guys. Yes, to a certain degree, but it's interests. And there's Western interests and there's BRICS and there's NATO interests. There's BRICS interests. And so the U.S. ain't no saint. The U.S. kills its own citizens too, rounds them up and locks them up. What are you going to do?

That being said, I'd much prefer the U.S. to win. I don't think we should be involved in these conflicts. I think the U.S. would project more strength if we did not get involved and waste our resources, because then we would have those resources for retaliation if anything went against our interests. Instead, we're fighting in Syria. We're fighting in Ukraine. What? I don't know, man.

But I don't think things are going to get easier before Trump gets in. So I'll wrap it up there. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know. Become a member over at TimCast.com to support the work. You can follow me on X and Instagram at TimCast. Thanks for hanging out, and we'll see you all then.

One of the more shocking stories to come out over this weekend was the celebration from the left escalating over the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. In New York, leftists celebrated by having a shooter lookalike contest. With a lot of updates, they found monopoly money in the guy's bag, which some people are opining, experts, that they're saying he wanted to scatter monopoly money on the dead man's body.

They found his backpack. They've released new photos. They seem to be they claim to be closing in on finding who this guy is. But more and more, it looks like this was an ideologically motivated hit. That being said, just because it appears to be ideologically motivated doesn't mean it is. That could be misdirection. But my friends, well, I think it's fair to say that most people are not happy with insurance companies anymore.

How many of you are happy with most companies in general? There are real grievances against health care companies, insurance companies, big pharmaceuticals and all of that. Many of us have these. But the idea that's being pressed by these leftists and people like Taylor Lorenz, that there is unity in the celebration of this death is wrong and it's insane. And there's a very simple line of delineation. Those who are not stupid are condemning this and saying, yo.

No. And those who are dumb as a box of rocks, leftists, they're celebrating it. Now, I want to read for you all these stories, but I'm going to make it simple right in the start. The reason why you do not celebrate the random ideological assassination of a health care CEO is that, well,

The idea here is not that justice was was served by a vigilante. The idea here is not. But if vigilantes do it, then the police are going to lose control. No, no, no. The idea is you're next. That's the terrifying reality. You are next. But but you say, dude, I'm a carpenter for a small company like these leftists. I work at a bookstore, dude. What these people don't know how to read history.

They don't know how to read about instability in government and in cultures. And that's what I have to realize, that when you normalize vigilantism, it's not about whether or not police have full control. It's not about whether or not you are right or your ideology is right. It's that the message is sent to everyone, every single person. If you believe you are right, then people will celebrate for you. The guy who did this is not a smart person.

But he doesn't care either. Now, again, I will stress this. If this was a professional hitman who was intentionally trying to obfuscate, make it look more ideological, then perhaps fine. Maybe it was well planned out. But these leftists are posting comments celebrating this. Taylor Lorenz, who is one of the stupidest people I've ever seen. Man, she doesn't get it. Gave an interview to TMZ where she's like, look, everyone's unified and hating these companies. I'm like, no, no. She's like, I'm not calling for violence. Like a letter writing campaign is better. I'll play the video for you.

The issue is there's no unity. And I've got there's this meme page that I follow that is they've posted these these comments from Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh's videos where people are saying, no, Matt, we it's not a leftist thing to hate CEOs like we're all concerned here. I pulled up comments from that account where people are saying this is disgusting. This is a father. So let me just break it down for you. There will be.

You're some anarchist, liberal, leftist, whatever works at a bookstore. OK, some right wing dude, you normalize this. And some anti-communist guy might be like these people are doing something wrong. They're killing people. They're fighting in the streets. They have to be stopped. And then what happens? Someone shows up to your place of work, but you're just some random nobody. Who knew who the CEO of this company was? Sure, he's at the top of one of the four branches of United Health Group.

He was the CEO of UnitedHealth, which is one of four branches of UnitedHealth Group, and he was targeted. Now, you may be saying, yeah, but they're celebrating the targeting of a higher up. It doesn't matter. OK, if you look throughout history, when things like this begin, if they are tolerated, then it starts happening all over the place.

Sooner or later, it's not just some guy who killed the CEO. It's the manager of a local restaurant who was accused of holding little girls back behind the counter. There was a house in Wisconsin. Two 14 year old girls were missing. I do air quotes. And so locals formed a mob and firebombed the house.

Turns out the girls were at their friend's house playing and nothing was wrong. That is the problem. People who think they're right and justified using lethal, destructive force will do it and they will be wrong.

And in this instance, killing guys isn't going to solve any problems. The companies are already ramping up security and now they're hiding their leadership structure. How are you going to go about getting real legal accountability when you don't even know who runs the company and they turn them into faceless shells because they're terrified? All you do is force them underground. And then when you want to file real legal action or a PR campaign or as Taylor Lawrence says, a letter writing campaign to who? They've taken all of their leadership information down, ramped up security, and now they're not going to tell you.

This pushes things in the wrong direction. Let's read the story from the New York Post. New Yorkers celebrate assassination of CEO with lookalike contest. Here you go. Now, I will say the none of these people actually tried to look like him, which is weird. This one guy did, but he's dressed like the the after like, OK, so this guy right here, I get it. This guy, maybe the rest of what are you even doing? Are you even trying? I'm kidding, by the way.

New Yorkers mockingly celebrated the assassination of Brian Thompson in Washington Square Park with a truly tasteless shooter look like contest as the frantic manhunt for the brazen killer entered its fourth day. Eight contestants donning hooded outwear and face masks were surrounded Friday by dozens of onlookers whose cheers amounted to votes in the in the nose thumbing stunt. The winner, whose green jacket and face covering made him a dead ringer for the cold blooded assassin, said he headed towards the park after hearing about the contest that morning. Oh, is he already wearing it?

I got no looks until I got over there. And now everyone wants a picture with me. He's the one. The wannabe, he won 50 bucks. See, we don't know that this is the shooter, although it's looking more and more based on reports that this is actually the shooter. I guess they were saying this was before he changed into the outfit that he wore on the day of the assassination. And they believe this to be the person and that he may have removed his mask to flirt with a woman. Interesting.

The champ said he's had his own issues with health care insurance companies covering some of his medications, although he admitted he is not a United Health customer. Interesting. Well, let me show you this. BLM influencer calls for violence to change the status quo and usher in Marxism. I'm not going to play the video because I'm torn. Obviously, you hear what the guy says. He's a BLM influencer saying that violence works and all of these things. And he's wrong. And he's a dangerous moron.

But I don't feel like playing the video in its entirety of him just ranting about how he wants to be violent. Listen.

People like this guy are claiming that the actions we see. So let me pause here. Taylor Lorenz issued a veiled terroristic threat at the CEO of Blue Cross. She posted three things, one saying that she as well as many others, she said, we, which includes you, Taylor, want more of those executives to die. She's nuts. She then posted a paragraph explaining why she then posted a photo of the CEO of Blue Cross. We got the message loud and clear. No one's stupid.

Anybody pretending like they didn't know what she was trying to do is lying. And so then Blue Cross reversed one of its policies. So these people are saying, see, it works. It doesn't work. They're too stupid to see the big picture. That's why these people are short term gain people. They go out. This is what these people do. They say, I know. Let's block traffic and then everyone will see what we have to say about our cause. And you go, OK, what happens tomorrow?

I don't know. But everyone's going to know our names. Uh-huh. And in what context? See, they're not smart enough to realize that after you block traffic, everybody just hates you. And it's actually not a particularly effective means of doing anything. You're better off, as I've explained to these activists for over a decade. You know, I would tell these activists when I was covering these protests that

You know, if you put on like a polo shirt and some khakis and just like wave to somebody and then shook their hand and explain to them the issue, you could cause substantially more damage to these banks and these companies. So during Occupy, someone threw a brick through a window at a bank and I they were all like the activists were all cheering for it. And I was like, what are you celebrating? And they were like taking action against these banks. And I was like, have you ever stopped to think about what happens tomorrow at the bank window?

You didn't do anything. Now some $35,000 a year bank, like entry-level staff member is going to walk in their office and see glass everywhere and wonder why you threw a brick through it.

And they're like, yeah. And then maybe they'll realize we're right. I'm like, no, they won't. You attacked them. They're gonna be mad. I was like, dude, if you stood outside of that bank with a pamphlet and literature and waved to people and shook their hands and said, check out what this bank is doing, the bank would lose their minds. I know because we used to do this on the ground stuff. They're too stupid to realize short term versus long term gains. And so

You convince I said, look, if you convince one person to pull out their average savings of five thousand dollars and move it to a different bank, you have cost them more money than breaking the window. And the people inside are going to chuckle. They don't care. They don't know what you're doing. It's activist stuff.

And you can actually convince 10 people. You can cause that bank 50 grand in damages. You know what they're going to do? They're going to call the cops and tell the cops to get you to move. And the cops are going to say they can't. I know because I did stuff like that. We did nonprofit fundraising where we stood outside and shook hands. And that is more effective. I'm not saying it's the most effective thing you can do. But I'll tell you what's going to happen. With the CEO dying, they're going to re-up their security. They're going to bunker down. They're going to double up. And they're just going to say, screw these people. And you're going to try and do? Here's the best part.

They're going to try and hire a CEO to run this company because you have to have it. You have to have the insurance companies. You do. I mean, you want to abolish them. Fine. Build a replacement for the time being. They're going to exist. How much you want to bet during all renegotiations right now for these positions? The CEOs are going to the board of these companies and they're saying, yeah, you're going to pay me another five million dollars a year if I'm going to do this job because the risk is too great. These lunatics are going to kill us. And that leverage for the CEO, the banks and say, OK, we'll raise rates.

All you do is make the strain worse. Now, I'm not going to pretend like I have all the answers for you. I don't know. But I'm telling you, this stuff hardens the system. Well, here's Taylor Lorenz's response to being a lunatic. What's behind this? On its face.

It looks like you're saying there should be open season on some of these CEOs. Absolutely not. So let me just be super clear. No, we should not murder CEOs. No, we should not go around shooting people in the street. That is the wrong lesson to take from this. As I note in my follow-up post to that post about the other CEO, a letter-writing campaign would be great. I am a fan of nonviolent action as well. But I think what's really missing in all of these conversations is context.

When you see the entire internet left and right united around one thing, and that is celebrating, I hate to say it too, the death of a healthcare CEO, you have to ask why. And I don't think that has been discussed at all. There's no discussions of the systemic cruelty in our healthcare system or the fact that thousands

of Americans die because CEOs like this one and others deny essential life-saving care to Americans. So I'll split the baby on that one. There are many circumstances where healthcare companies deny treatment that is needed, and it results in these really screwed up positions. Agreed. There's also a lot of situations where they rightfully deny people who shouldn't be getting certain surgeries, and these people are angry about it. There are also circumstances where

Look, if you get sick with the disease that we can't save you, it's not our fault you got sick. I refuse to accept that these leftists that are celebrating this, these are the people that push body positivity and are saying RFK Jr.'s wrong and they should be eating garbage in their foods. So you get this dude, was it Maori guy? I don't know if it was him. One of these liberal young guys is like, dude, it's not the chemicals in our food that are making people sick and fat. It's that you're eating too many calories. And it's like, stop, stop, dude.

Our foods are full of garbage. Fact. I ain't paying your health care. You don't get to be someone who's like, I deserve all of this health care and I should have every all of my problems treated and you should pay for it. Sorry, maybe this one. I'm not a fan of insurance companies. OK, I'm not a fan of how the system works. It's messed up. It's broken.

But we are not unified, lady. This country is not unified behind this hatred of these guys. I think that's the real, that's where this anger is coming from. And of course, people are going to get a little carried away and celebrate, but they- A little carried away. They're celebrating because it feels like a victory. It feels like somebody stood up to this barbaric, evil, cruel-

violent system. Okay, I'm going to pause real quick and just say again, only stupid people think that. For real, I'll ask you an honest question. Do you think that the death of this CEO is going to change anything the company does? Oh, wait, I'm sorry. The parent company already came out and said nothing will change.

We're talking about a gigantic machine where each individual is but a cog in that machine. It is a cultural problem. It is a systemic problem. And it's not solved in this way in any way. Nothing changes. All they've done is up their security and bunker down and hide their leadership, which makes it harder to actually go after them in a legal sense. And I hear what you're saying about getting people talking, but I want to go back, Taylor, to that.

And I know you later in the day, you said, look, what I want here is a campaign of...

peaceful letter writing to the CEOs. Oh, that's stupid. But the statement, I just want to put it up there one more time and see how you feel about it, because this is the one that did sound like you were calling for violence. You said, and people wonder why we want these executives dead. I am speaking to the sentiment. People do want these executives dead. Oh, my God. She's insane.

Holy crap. I said we want them dead. And I guess that's... I mean, look, I'm going to say I'm with the people in the sense that if you have watched a loved one... The people do not, you psychopathic moron. ...die because insurance has denied them life-saving essential... The people, the people. She's not talking about you. She's talking about her communist cohort, the people. She's talking about the proper term, the people.

Let me show you. I ain't playing no games. I'm a big fan of the Political Compass meme Instagram page. It's called The Political Compass. It's very funny. They post a lot of really funny stuff. It's not overtly political.

Here's a screen grab of a Matt Walsh episode. Why the left is really celebrating the murder of a CEO. Episode 1500. Shout out Matt Walsh. And there's a handful of comments. Being pissed off at the health care system is not a left wing thing. Everybody feels that. Call me a leftist then. More than just the left. It's not the left, my man. It's both sides. We're sick of this ish. Let me pause for a sec. Yeah, literally everybody is upset with the way the health care system works, but

But that is not to insinuate that these are people who are OK with the murder of some guy or that the people are on board with it. So let me let me jump over to this next one. This is a video. It said me if I was a detective working on the United Health Care CEO case. And it's a bit where this guy is saying it's from. I don't know what show it's from, but he's like, look, the people who died were like not anything. And they're like, what? He's like, they weren't.

important. Like they didn't do anything. And basically the justification is they're saying, yeah, who cares about this guy? He's a bad guy, right? Look at some of the comments.

This one says, no matter how, here's the first one. There's a bunch, but I'll read this one. No matter how badly the rest of my life goes, I can live in peace knowing that when I croak, at least people won't be this happy about it. Kind of neutral, but I get the point. The next comment is, he had children. The next comment, people are praising vigilantism. Well, it's the government that allows this to happen. The only thing to result out of this is a dead father. Nothing will change.

One person says, for some odd reason, they have hidden the board of directors from their website. I wonder why. And then goes on the list of a bunch of people. The point I'm bringing up is you can go onto these pages and see a ton of people saying you are nuts. This is wrong. I don't care. I don't care if Taylor Lorenz really does represent the people. I don't care if a poll comes out saying 95% of people support this action. I am telling you it doesn't work. It is wrong and it will make things worse. Now.

We can we can talk about solutions to health care in this country. We've long talked about it. On the right, they say we need privatization. Get the government out of this machine. On the left, they say inject the government wholly. Well, I got to tell you, I I think the hybrid method probably is the better method. I got to be honest. So let's explain this. We can't have a system. Let's just not have this this crazy lady on the let's let's talk about the monopoly money. Here's the backpack they found.

We can't have a system where people with easily treatable illnesses just die. We can't have a system where someone breaks a bone and but for only a few minutes to set that bone and provide a very inexpensive cast, the person is permanently disabled. So my view is universal basic health care, basic health care. But let me explain.

We can hybridize this between government and private, and that is voucher programs. That is, every year you get a certain allotment of credits towards health care. That's it. Then it's on you to decide. And if you do it wrong, crime more. But this means that

If somebody is in poverty and they break their arm, the family doesn't have to go broke and become homeless because they need that arm set. It can cost a lot of money to go to an ER and have a doctor do that. So we provide universal basic health care vouchers, a voucher system where you choose the hospital to go to, creating real competition. A bad hospital, people aren't going to show up. You choose where you give your vouchers to, and they can cash it for money. Kind of like how people talk about school choice.

I don't think the idea of universal basic health care, the way the left describes it, makes sense. The government will muck everything up. Imagine getting your health care at the DMV. You'd lose your mind. And then take a look at what's going on in Canada. And now they're doing medical assistance in death. Not interested. We want market competition, but we want to make sure impoverished people aren't just dying from the flu. On top of that, I say basic because, my friends, you're never going to get treatments for these extremely expensive disease and rare genetic disorders.

So people complain. A story I covered. Some kid, young kid, had a genetic disorder. The treatment could have cured the genetic disorder, million dollars. And there's very few of them. It's rare and very difficult to produce the medicines, the medications, and perform the procedure. Very few people can do it. And the family sued the state, saying the state should cover the costs. It's impossible. Think about the logic of, we deserve cell phones. Well, you need a cell phone to have a job, right? Therefore, everyone should get a free cell phone. No. No.

Sorry, that's not how it works. But that is the worldview of the left. Well, if you need a cell phone to have a job, then everyone should get a free cell phone. Not interested. There is a certain limit where some things we can tolerate and some things we can't. You know, maybe, you know, a cheapo $20 Android from 20 years ago recycled. Sure, maybe, but we're not gonna have enough. Okay. So I think there is a way to hybridize this. And what I'm telling you is I think there are potentially solutions. But what I will say is I guarantee you

These CEOs are not going, maybe we should change how these companies function. Nope. I recommend you guys watch Landman. Oh, the leftist media is so angry at me for quoting Landman. Great show, by the way. Taylor Sheridan should be put in charge of all TV because he just makes great shows. I don't care about the politics. I think his shows are good. So in Landman, this other great viral moment where John Hamm, is that his name? Let me make sure I got his name right. He's that actor, right? He was on...

John John Hamm. Yeah, John Hamm. So he's an executive at a board meeting. And some guy said one of the guys is like, we are getting killed in the press. You know, people are wanting green energy. And he goes, can you shut up?

And he was just like, I'm done having my time wasted. OK, we we are we are not engine companies. We are not car manufacturers. We are well drillers. We don't we don't decide what people do with oil after we get it. And he was like, these people have already convinced themselves that we're evil. There's no point in wasting time to convince them that we're not. And this is a product they interact with in every way, every single day. And I'm like, it's so good, dude. The point is.

These companies are machines that can't just be turned off. The economy would implode. Nobody would get health care coverage. The hospitals would cease to function. But it can be reformed rapidly, I do believe. The idea that the death of a CEO changes anything is a child's, I'm sorry, it is developmental disorder. If that guy loses his life, then what? That's why they're advocating for violence.

Because to an extent, we can see the immediate ramifications of violence. That is, people get scared and they hide. And terrorism can, let's just say this, great line from Star Trek, The Next Generation, I love so much, when Data, the android, asks Captain Picard about how if terrorism is wrong, but how come it's so effective? And Picard says, I don't believe that political power flows from the barrel of a gun. But these are questions humans have struggled with for a long time. I've got it. I can answer these questions for you.

What does it mean to be effective? This is an act of terror, assuming this was ideologically motivated. What does it mean that it is effective? Well, if the argument is you're going to force these companies to change or strike fear into the hearts of these CEOs, then maybe in the short term, you can argue it's effective. But what's the long-term ramifications of a ripple effect that affects more than just this industry?

You are going to get authoritarian lockdowns or you are going to get anarcho-tyranny. It doesn't work. But these people are very dumb. OK, I say myopic, but they're very dumb in their minds. Ha ha. This guy died. Therefore, they better take note.

And then one day, like I mentioned, someone's going to walk into their store and say, you're the bad guy in my story. And they're going to go, me? But I'm not the bad guy. I'm trying to make things better. And then it's you. Because it doesn't stop with one industry. These people are dumb. They think only people are lining up against healthcare CEOs. Now they're calling for people to do the same to other CEOs, including Elon Musk. It doesn't end with those people. You morons.

You're going to get a counter movement where they target you. And then we get shootings in the street and we don't want none of that. Mark my words. This escalation will not result in conflict in some far off land or in the big city skyscrapers where the CEOs reside or do business. These conflicts will come to your homes. They will affect you personally.

There's a viral story where this anti-cop BLM activist is crying because she got robbed and the cops wouldn't do anything. There's a viral video where this leftist woman gets robbed by some homeless people. And she's like, guys, please, like, I'm not a bad person. Rob the rich people. And they're like, F you. These people are dumb. They are creating problems that will affect all of us because they're too stupid to realize instability doesn't solve anything. They don't realize how good they have it.

I'll wrap it up there, my friends. We got more segments coming up. So stick around, smash the like button, share the show with everyone you know. And we're back at 1 p.m. and we'll see you all then.

We have major breaking news. Daniel Penny has been acquitted in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely. This is tremendous news. This is justice. And I got to say, I'm quite surprised to see this coming out of New York. Now, last week, a scheme was being pulled, which shocked many litigators, lawyers, not litigators, lawyers, when they said that

Never before had they seen the dropping of a charge where the jury was deadlocked in an effort to get a conviction on a lesser charge. The idea was the jury had come back saying they couldn't decide on manslaughter. And if they can't decide on manslaughter, then it's a mistrial.

Now, this worked out ultimately in Daniel Penny's favor as the prosecution moved to dismiss the initial charge and only go with the lesser charge, which is insane. What should have been a mistrial ended up being prolonged with many people saying this was a scheme. The judge had never allowed an attempt to try and force a verdict of guilty. Well.

In this regards, breaking news, Daniel Penny has been acquitted. A Manhattan jury has cleared Daniel Penny of criminal wrongdoing, the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a crowded subway. A caught on video killing that sparked fierce debate over the city's mental health system and crime underground. The panelists acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide, which could have put him behind bars up to four years in Neely's chokehold death of Neely.

aboard a crowded uptown F train in May of 2023. Manslaughter, the top charge against Penny, was tossed on Friday after jurors twice said they couldn't reach a unanimous verdict. Jurors sided with Penny's defense attorneys, who had argued the Marine was justified in rushing to protect his fellow subway strap hangers when he subdued the erratic homeless man. The lawyers had also questioned whether there was sufficient evidence that the chokehold caused Neely's death.

Quote, who do you want on the next trade ride with you? One of his lawyers, Stephen Razor, in his closing statement said in the Manhattan Supreme Court, the guy with his with the earbuds minding his own business, who you know would be there for you if something happened. Or perhaps you just hope that someone like Jordan Neely does not enter the train when you are alone, all alone in a crowd or others frozen with fear.

The lawyers had also questioned whether there was sufficient evidence that the chokehold caused Neely's death. The acquittal comes after jurors heard from more than 40 witnesses, including passengers, who described Neely's terrifying outburst on the train before Penny approached him from behind and took him down at the Broadway Lafayette station. One straphanger testified she was scared ish-less, hearing Neely rant about being willing to die and go to jail.

She later thanked Penny for stepping into restraint, Neely, who also raged that someone is going to die today. And there is news that many people need to understand. While they did perform CPR on Neely, the police did not want to do any mouth-to-mouth resuscitation out of fear of getting AIDS. I am not being crass. That's a fact. The police said we will not render additional aid because of a fear that he was a drug user and that they could contract a disease like HIV.

This is a terrible story. I wish the man didn't die. I don't like it when people die. I do not care for the people on the right saying they get what they deserve and things like that in situations like this. I'm not saying every conservative, but there are certain circumstances where they're like, yeah, we know F around and find out blah, blah, blah. Yeah, there are circumstances. Fine. Bad people doing bad things get justice. We get it. But we don't want people to die.

The beautiful scenario of this world is that people don't act like this. They don't do drugs. They don't they don't go crazy. And everybody's living in peace and harmony. Right. That's what we should be striving for. But it is insane to put Daniel Penny, a hero on on the chopping block like this.

They say another woman on the train told jurors she feared for her life after hearing Neely's satanic rant. And a mother who was taking her five-year-old son to a doctor's appointment testified she was so scared of a belligerent and unhinged Neely, she barricaded her son behind his stroller. No witness testified that Neely put his hands on anyone or lunged at a specific person before Penny put him in a chokehold. Evidence during the month-long trial also revealed that Neely was not carrying a weapon at the time, with cops finding only a muffin in his pocket.

The polarizing case could have a fierce conversation about a mentally ill man who was failed by the city's broken system. The sentiment even Mayor Eric Adams expressed, saying Penny did what we what we should have done as a city by protecting others that day. Prosecutors argue that Penny went too far and that his actions turned criminal when he kept Neely in the hold after nearly all of the frightened passengers had fled the train.

What's so tragic about this case is that even though the defendant started out trying to do the right thing, as the chokehold progressed, the defendant knew that Neely was in great distress and dying, and he needlessly continued, that is wrong and a lie, and these people are evil. Daphna Yoran in a viral video talked about how a criminal actually committed felony murder, and she dropped the charge against him, or she got him off, whatever, saying, well, he didn't really mean to kill someone. Felony murder is when you are committing a felony and someone dies.

Here you have a guy who was committing no crime trying to protect people. Well, I tell you this. It is sad that Jordan Neely died. I don't care. I don't care if people are like, yeah, well, he was a crazy person. He was violent. No, no. It's sad that he died. I don't care what you think. I don't want anyone to die. But Daniel Penny wasn't trying to kill him. OK, jurors watched frame by frame footage from a bystander of Penny holding Neely, including for 51 seconds after Neely's body appeared to go limp. Penny kept holding Neely despite when this is putting them let him go.

Dr. Cynthia Harris, who ruled that Neely's death was a homicide caused by the chokehold, pointed out to jurors the exact moment when Neely passed out on the subway's car floor with Penny still wrapping his arm around his neck. The city's medical examiner who made her ruling before Neely's toxicology report came back testified she was so confident after watching the video of the encounter that she'd stand by her decision. I don't care. It is not incumbent upon the victims. OK, Jordan Neely was committing a crime that day.

And three men stepped in to stop him from committing that crime to protect other people acting in defense of others. It is not the fault of Penny nor incumbent upon him to know when it is safe or not until the police arrive. Now, if we were dealing with situation where somebody was violently screaming and Penny bashed him in the face with a gun.

Neely fell to the ground unconscious and then he went and then everyone said stop. He's been subdued and Penny went, I don't care. And then blasted him. Yeah, I'd say lock him up. Like, okay, dude, that's nuts. We're talking about that. We're talking about Daniel Penny holding a guy down and not knowing. How is he supposed to know? They say let him go. Let's go. The guy jumps up and starts hitting people again and kill somebody. Insane.

This is this is justice being served. In fact, I got to be honest, justice being served would be if he was never charged in the first place.

Trial evidence revealed that Neely had a synthetic marijuana drug K2 in his system at the time. Also heard that jurors also heard that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, telling doctors in 21 he heard the devil's voice. Penny's mother, sister, friends and fellow Marines to stand to vouch for his character. And we've already got the media saying they put out a report saying the ex-Marine strangled. I think it was. I'm not going to name the publication. I can't remember which one they said. The ex-Marine strangled a subway dancer. That is insane. The left is saying they're going to riot.

They're saying they're going to protest. This is racism. It's white supremacy. And they're going to riot. But these people didn't care that there were other men involved in this confrontation. They don't care that three men, including two men who are not white, also held down Jordan Neely. Now, forgive me if I'm incorrect, but if the argument is that Neely strangled him to death knowing he had died.

Uh, if you hold that, okay, let me just put it this way. If a former Marine grabbed somebody by the throat and was strangling them and you held those person's arms down so they couldn't stop it, you are going to prison for murder all the same. But how come in this instance, the manslaughter charge, there was nothing for the other men who were holding Neely down by the arm so he could not resist or fight back? Because the whole thing's politically motivated.

It's one big long con. These far left activists have, I think I actually might still have this video posted. BLM acts from the earlier segment. BLM activists calls for violence to change the status quo and usher in Marxism. They're saying they want violence. They want people to get hurt. We can't tolerate this. Daniel Penny, I am bad. I feel bad. I am sorry that he had to go through something like this. And there's already a terrifying reality. If you try to assist others, they'll lock you up.

It's acquittal. It's not enough. It's not enough. When they were deadlocked on manslaughter, I want you to understand what that means and the fears here. If you're on a train and a man is about to commit violence and you stop him, they will run you over the coals. They will put you in court and they will try their hardest to put you in prison. Now, Penny escaped this, but the process is the punishment. How many people are going to sit there and be like, my life will be destroyed. People will riot. My family will be threatened. I'm not getting involved. Everyone.

Everyone. I have a red line, okay? I tell you this, if I'm on a subway train and there's someone like Jordan Neely screaming out and acting a fool, I'm not getting involved. That being said, he puts his hand on people, fine. But here's the issue.

And I'm not going to pretend to be some strong man. Look, if it was Philly, okay, that story where the guy raped the woman on the train and everyone just watched, man, I would dropkick that guy. I'd run full speed from the back of the train. I can't believe people sat back and just watched that happen. But with Neely, I think Penny did the right thing, but I ain't going to intervene. I'm not going to lie to you. I'm not going to sit here and pretend I'm some virtuous –

If a guy's threatening people and they're terrified for their lives, well, that's the city you live in. Those are the rules you vote for. Maybe I should vote for Republicans because I'm not going to go through a year of court and criminal trials and lies and manipulation. Not for this. He puts his hand on somebody. Sure. Well, I have a line. Daniel Penny, I still think, did the right thing. And look what they did to him. There's a price, a price. Now, I know many of you watching would say, no, Tim, I'd stop. I'd stop nearly. I get it. I do.

But I think justice has been served in this regard. And I'm sad that Nealey died, but I'm glad that Penny is free. So all these far leftists cry more. We got more segments coming up. I pushed the previous segment ahead because this was breaking news. So stick around. We got another segment coming up at one and I'll see you all then. So this leftist woman who has been calling for defunding the police is upset because her 26 foot U-Haul that had all our stuff in it got stolen. And everyone's kind of ragging on her because of how dumb she is. And I respect it.

You're calling for defunding the police. You're still calling for defunding the police. You are helping. You're hoping people will help you get your truck back with their stuff and it's not going to happen. But I got to give her some credit. You know, her criticism is not unfounded. It's just these people are first order thinkers. They can't think beyond the first step.

I recommend you have your kids learn how to play chess so they can understand if if X, then Y. You know what I mean? Like, if I do this action, what is the thing that comes next? Let's break this down. It is true. Cops largely do nothing when your stuff gets stolen. But that is then the solution is actually better training, better resources, more funding, not less. She's like, I never called the cops. You're never getting your stuff back. Welcome to the world you've created. Let's read the story.

Defund the police activist goes viral after begging for help when everything she owned was stolen in San Francisco. Oh, and San Francisco of all places. That's surprising me.

To me, when thieves made off with Darcy Bell's rented U-Haul truck, the San Francisco woman put out a call for help on X. If you see a 26 foot U-Haul truck with the Arizona plate AL5003, would you let me know? Because I had like everything I own on it. Well, I mean, I have no problem putting that info because I hope she does find it. Granted, at this point, everything's been sold or junked.

The post went viral, but not for the reason she hoped for. Bell spent years posting left-wing defund the police views and users across the site blasted and mocked the activist. Anti-police activists begged the police to help, jeered the ex-account Bay State of Mind, which comments on San Francisco Bay Area politics.

Tom Wolf, an addiction recovery advocate who has nearly 30,000 followers, posted a screenshot of a previous post in which Bell blasted the San Francisco police alongside a screenshot of her recent plea. Shot chaser, the caption reads. I think we actually we have it down here. Here you go. She writes defunding the police is good. Actually, we pay them a whole lot to do less. Oh, yeah. And then her other post saying, you know, she wants up, you know, here's why it's it's so sweet and so funny.

When you live in a society where you get rid of consequence and law enforcement, your stuff will get stolen. That's the reality. And so now she's continued to advocate for defunding the police, not realizing you live in a fractured culture. Leftists advocate for the breaking up of community. There's actually this thread going around to that I think is interesting, which is somewhat related. And I'll explain.

It's Bethany Mendel telling her nine-year-old son, she asked him, how many kids does he want to have when he grows up? And she said, well, it's up to my wife. And she goes, no, it isn't. Don't marry somebody who is not aligned with your life goals. And there's other people who are like, that's terrible advice. You should absolutely marry the person you're in love with regardless of what you want to do together. And I think that's nuts.

There are a lot of people on the left that are advocating for bad family and bad community things. And it's not look, you want to defund the police. Fine. If you learned how to think beyond layer number one, maybe we can talk about how you go about defunding the police. So let's let's play this game, lady. Why do you want to defund the police? First question. And they say it's because we pay them. They don't do anything. They'll say police brutality, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

OK, so first we got to analyze what the problem is. And the problem is that people steal from each other and that people shoot each other. Crimes happen. Why? The first issue is no community. That's right. If everybody in the world and I mean in a literal sense was a devout Christian, you would need no police. None. Truth be told, if everybody was about Muslim or insert any other authority, they were devout. You would not need.

Any police, they're going to follow the moral tenets. They're going to follow the fundamentalist structure. They will obey their the people in charge. But it's true this people don't agree on everything. So the world's not going to exist.

That means you might say, you know, thou shalt not steal and then someone steals from you. So what do you do? I don't know. Perhaps there's an enforcement mechanism, consequences, people get arrested and maybe then they'll say it's not worth it. So the challenge here is that we have a society, a civilization where people are completely capable and willing to harm others for personal gain. We need to make the weight of such crimes greater than the reward for such crimes.

So we incentivize them not to do it. Inverse incentive. Right. So in the event someone steals your stuff, you call the police. The police are well-trained, well-funded. They can easily locate the vehicle with their vast network of people on the radio saying, well, look, be on the lookout for a U-Haul was just stolen. And then when they find it, pull the guy over. He goes, rats, you caught me. He goes to jail. He regrets it. Probably not a whole lot, but it's better than nothing. And you get your stuff back.

Or you can just be like cops are bad because I was reading a tweet that said cops are bad. So now we should have no cops. And then they voted for this stuff. This isn't just some woman who is screaming on the Internet. She exemplifies this, that the left actually did defund the police. So congratulations. This is the world you've built.

They say mere hours after she filed the police report, she blasted the police for not immediately locating her stolen possessions. I haven't found my ish. The cops didn't do ish. U-Haul made me file an effing police report. Oh, it's so juicy.

There's cameras all over the city. They haven't done ish. I want my stuff back. Cry more. This is the world you created. So have fun, I guess me. I'm just going to choose to live in places that are constitutional carry and I'll be armed. Now, that's going to protect my U-Haul from getting stolen. But considering people like you exist, I take my security much more seriously. And I would not leave all of my stuff just sitting in a car like that. You know, I don't even you know, we drive around in my car. I take everything with me.

To those accusing her of hypocrisy, she insisted she literally never called the cops and was reposting more calls to defund the law enforcement for good measure. She said they made you file a police report, so you did. You all urged her to alert authorities. Please be sure to contact us back to provide the police report to the equipment recovery department. That's funny. As for her critics, she sneered at them. Look at these good Christian victims advocates celebrating my kids losing their belongings at Christmas.

She feted the haters in general. Now, lady, I got to tell you, you don't get to set fires to houses. And then when we laugh and said, we warned you, you go, oh, why are you being so mean to me, dude? Now, by all means, they live in this world where they think all Christians are going to be pious saints walking around in robes saying, oh, despite all of your wrongdoings and destruction to the world, we must be sad.

No, they're regular people. They just have a moral framework. And you are part of a religious moral framework that is at odds with them. And you advocate for things that break the communities. Now, do we have to worry about police brutality in a sound, moral community? You don't. You don't hear a lot of stories about like small town sheriffs beating the crap out of a local resident. I mean, it happens for sure. Feuds and fights happen and people get personal.

The issue is in big cities with lots of crime, you have a perverse incentive for a lot of these people. There is there are activists that are saying no cops. And so the criminals are outright like, OK, well, then I'm going to exploit this and steal. And the best thing is if I was a criminal, who would I steal from? I got to be honest, lady, it's you. There's this study they did.

where they had videos of people walking down the street and they showed these videos to people who had committed robberies. And they said, watch these videos and then tell us if you would if you would rob the person, steal from the yes or no, like a mugging. The funny thing is, overwhelmingly, like 90 some ridiculous high percentage, the people that the criminals chose who they'd mug had been mugged before.

You see, the thing is, the criminals were identifying people they thought would be easy victims. You see someone walking, they're not paying attention, they're on their phone, and you're like, that person's going to give me everything. You see a dude wearing a holster, walking tall, and he's ripped, and they're going to be like, I ain't fighting that guy. That's nuts. Plus, I don't even know if he has money. Take a woman's purse or something, right? So let me explain it to all of these defund the police people. Criminals right now are thinking, this lady doesn't want to call the cops. She hates cops.

She will be shunned if she calls the cops. Victim number one. That dude that, you know, you know, I'm telling you, these criminals, these criminal gangs, they're going to start going on social media and looking for people who are like, no police, don't call the police ever. And they're like, free stuff. There's a viral video where this woman's at a bus stop and there's like three homeless guys. And she's like, please, please give me my phone back. It's all I have. I'm not a rich person. Rob the rich people. And they're like, huh? They don't they don't get it.

These these woke morons seem to think that, oh, the poor, helpless, homeless people, if only they had a chance, then they wouldn't be like this because they're morons. The reality is a lot of these homeless people are mentally unwell. It's unfortunate. I'm trying to drag them. Many of them are intentionally homeless. I've dealt with this. I worked for a large network of homeless shelters and they don't care about you or your politics. You're insane.

And so she's telling them, please, please, if you can just give me back my stuff, I'm a good person. And they're looking at her like, yo, are you for real? I just want your stuff. I don't care if you're good, bad or otherwise. I don't care about you. I don't care about what you think.

So it's a cold wake up call, lady. You know, I think it was James O'Keefe. He did this funny bit where he went to houses and he was like, we're in favor of gun control. Are you? And they're like, yes. And he's like, would you be willing to put this? Can we put this sign in front of your home? And it said proud gun free home. They're like, no. Like, well, why not? And they're like, it's kind of advertising that we can't protect ourselves. And James is like, it sounds almost like you're saying you need guns. And they're like, well, no, but I don't want to invite it.

Proud, gun-free home. Right here. Let everybody know that they can walk right in and do whatever they want. Yeah. No, it's rules for thee, but not for me. So, lady, congratulations. When you go on the internet and say, no police, defund them all and get rid of them, never call the cops, they're going to be like, well, here's an easy list of people to rob because they ain't going to do nothing about it. Mitigate their risk. Have fun. I'll wrap it up there. We got more segments coming up later in the day as news develops.

They may have arrested a suspect in an assassination. We'll see. Thanks for hanging out, everybody. And we'll see you all in the next segment.

and say, I believe that the J6 committee should be investigated and where criminality applies, they should be charged and go to trial and all of those things. Now, I can't speak to all of the actions of the J6 committee. It has been some time, but there are a lot of stories about

I don't know how you describe it. Just malfeasance, malicious behavior, omitting certain testimony and trying to I would call it a seditious conspiracy to undermine this government and its incoming president. For me, what I can say is that Jamie Raskin lied about me and caused me quite a bit of problems because he is a he's a bad person. But lying about me is lying about me. You don't go to jail for lying. You get sued. But then they have the speech and debate clause where they're allowed to lie, cheat and steal because they're scumbags and get away with it.

Everybody's losing their mind over this. And it's going to say, I'm over here just going, what? Huh? I'm just, you know, why should I care? Donald Trump said in this interview with Meet the Press, he's going to treat them the exact same way they treated MAGA. And, you know, everything will be fine. And they ish to brick. Oh, because they know what it means to be treated the same way MAGA was being treated. Yeah, it's not fun. Yeah. So while Trump says, no, no, we're going to be fair. We'll treat him the same way they treated us.

Oh, oh, boy. He says he's going to pardon all the J6s on day one and that the J6 committee should go to jail. Here's the story from Mediaite. President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News anchor Kristen Welker that Liz Cheney and his other opponents on the January 6th committee should go to jail, but claimed he won't push for it in the same breath he was pushing for it.

I mean, I got no problem if he does. Here's the clip. We got some on X from the Storm Redux committee. Here we go. And Cheney was behind it. And so was Benny Thompson and everybody on that committee. We're going to for what they did. Yeah. Honestly, they should go to jail. Yep. So you think Liz Cheney should go to jail? Oh, yeah.

For what everyone on the committee, I think everybody, anybody that voted in favor of a director, FBI director and your attorney general to send them to jail. Not at all. I think that they'll have to look at that. But I'm not going to I'm going to focus on drill baby. There we go. See, Trump's got the talking points down. Right. Even when it doesn't have to, he's not running for election. He already won.

But he's saying, no, we're not going to. They should be. But I'm not going to do that. We're going to focus on drill, baby drill. He's saying we're going to focus on the economy. We're going to prove the country get it on track. And I hope Trump doesn't make the same mistake he made last time. I want him to be tempered, reasonable,

I want him to be cool and collected. But, you know, these people need to be investigated. I'm sorry. You don't get to launch a multi-year investigation accusing Donald Trump of being a traitor, of going after people who meandered about the Capitol. I'm not talking about people smashed glass or anything like that. I'm saying the people who meandered about. You go after these people, you hunt them down, you destroy their lives, you put them in solitary and you do it on a lie.

January 6th should get hearings. We should have COVID trials and J6 trials. I want to know why they turned down National Guard. Donald Trump offered National Guard J6. I want to know. We've talked to a few journalists, some personalities that J6 was a Pentagon plot. They intent they and so the general idea is they intentionally pulled back on security, hoping that Trump supporters would storm the gates and they would call an insurrection.

Now, the big plot, as some people believe, is crazy. I don't know if I believe the craziest of crazy plots, but the idea is that the Pentagon wanted this to happen, had provocateurs in the crowd, stormed the barricades that Trump supporters would follow, fight with cops. The cops would be overwhelmed. They'd break their way in and some harm would then come to members of Congress. However, a police officer who later got the boot,

took took it upon himself to evacuate Congress once he got word that these people were storming in. Apparently, he called said, what do I do? And there was no answer. Afterwards, they got mad that he actually got the members of Congress out. So this has led people to believe that the actual plot was if the Jay Sixers actually attacked members of Congress, then everything would have made sense, wouldn't it? If you actually got any one of these people to injure a member of Congress hurt or otherwise could be terrifying.

then the nationwide raids would make more sense, wouldn't they? Why are they setting up Capitol Police headquarters across the country and going after people who milled about a building for a few minutes and left? I've heard way too many stories. By all means, you're going to say, yeah, but they were fighting with cops. They're being violent. Yeah, lock them up. I don't care. You fight cops. You get violent. You storm the Capitol. You break windows. You go to jail. What are you going to get? A couple of years, I think, makes sense. 20 years is nuts. But then you look at 20-year sentences.

Well, that really only makes sense if this was actually a more substantial incident. Right. So I don't know what to tell you, but there are people who are arguing that they think the general plot was these guys would storm in. They would injure members of Congress, call it an insurrection, say they actually tried to overthrow the government. They'd use this as pretext to lock Trump up, which they were trying to do, but failed. And I wonder if it's because their stupid plan just didn't happen.

I don't know what I can tell you is there was a right at the Capitol. It was bad. We don't want these things to happen. I don't care who's doing it. A lot of people on the other side of the building walked in confused with the doors being opened by the people who are on the other side. I get that. There was a guy down there. He had a gun. I don't know if those is one or whatever. And I think criminal charges are warranted. If if you trespassed, you know, you got to be warned you're being trespassed. So anybody who walked up and there's no barricades, you can't trespass them.

In the event someone did trespass knowingly, then I think what do you get like court supervision to be expunged from the record after 30 days for a trespass? Get out of here. They're going to say Trump sat with an exclusive interview on Sunday morning for Meet the Press and talked about the members that investigated January 6th riot. Even media says riot and the circumstances around it.

Trump has nominated staunch loyalists, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, the lead Department of Justice and the FBI, respectively. After Trump repeatedly said they should go to jail, Welker asked him, are you going to direct? He said, no, he's not going to do it. So we get it. But I think he should.

I think we need an investigation of the claims they were making. And I think if there's evidence of fraud, then it's a seditious conspiracy. If the J6 committee knowingly lied to the American people to undermine this country, that is a seditious conspiracy and they should go to jail. And if they didn't, then they got nothing to worry about. But Trump says he's going to treat him the same way they treated MAGA. So we'll see.

CNN reports this from last week. Trump's going to pardon me anyways. J6 writer scoffs is led from court to prison. Yeah, Trump better. He better. I believe that Trump should do two things. Commutation for any extended sentence for a person who was violent and pardons for anyone who was nonviolent. Let's break this down.

I know there's a lot of people saying Trump should pardon everybody. No, if you were a violent rioter and you attacked police, you go to jail. But these people have been in jail for much too long. OK, look, if you're a leftist and you hit a cop in the face, you should go to jail. But for what? I mean, I got to be honest, depending on the severity, if you're in a scuffle in the streets and, you know, someone hits a cop six months to a year, maybe. I mean, yeah.

Is it really going to be effective? But you got to go to jail for this. So I'm at J6 at the Capitol. These people are fighting cops. They're shoving them. They're pushing on them. What are you going to do? A year? That probably makes sense. Don't beat up cops and riot and storm your way into places that you aren't supposed to be at. I mean, just when the cops from a line and the cops pull you over.

And I'm so sick of this leftist stuff where they're just like, you should defy the police. That's what they say. I'm like, no, you don't win that way. You want to win, right? You get pulled over. You did nothing wrong. The cops are running your ticket. Don't scream in the cop's face and make it worse. Say, OK, and fight it in court. Have a dash cam. Make sure you're not doing anything wrong and fight it in court. Don't get me wrong. Everybody speeds and they're going to get you on a speeding ticket and single you out. That happens.

You know, and they say, show me the man, show me, I'll show you the crime. Everybody, what is it? What is the rule? Everyone commits three felonies a day or some ridiculous number. But Trump should look at anybody who fought with cops and your sentence is commuted. You're convicted for writing and attacking an officer. Yeah, well, you did that and you got it. You got to pay for that. But I think it's been long enough. Anybody who walked up and walked in confused, total pardon. No criminal charges should have been filed for any of those people. They say Philip Sean Greel of New York.

announced after a sentence saying, Trump's going to pardon me anyway, as a U.S. marshal had him remove his belt and tie before cuffing him inside the courtroom. Senior Judge Royce Lamberth of the D.C. District Court spoke about the judiciary's role in bringing justice to the Capitol rioters.

blah, blah, blah. On Trump's pledge to pardon them, he said it has nothing to do with that decision. I will do my job as I am bound by oath to do, and the president will do his. It's simple as that. It is exceedingly rare for a judge to order a criminal defendant who is a nonviolent defender like Grillo to be taken into custody immediately at a sentencing. Lambreth's courtroom on Friday provided an astonishing glimpse into the state of the J6 prosecutions. As federal judges continue to sentence defendants, even as Trump has promised to free them,

Lamberth gave little explanation for his reasoning for the immediate remand, remarking only he was ordering it because where we are in the process, there are people who simply walked around a building between the velvet ropes, took pictures and left like tourists. And they're being held in solitary. Trump should pardon them immediately. Ridiculous. Cheney responds to Trump floating jail time for J6 committee members. They deleted and destroyed all evidence, Trump said to the J6 committee members.

I don't believe Trump's going to take heavy action. I don't. I think he should, but I don't think he will. So, well, we're getting close, my friends. What are we looking at? Month, month and not even, man, we're looking at five, six weeks. It'll be interesting. I'll wrap it up there. Smash that like button. Share the show with everyone you know. Follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast. We got more segments coming up for you to stick around and we'll see you all then.

Everybody is asking about this news story titled Kamala campaign account deletes post that led to Tim Pool defamation suit. Quote, the laws be an eye, Tim Pool and the Kamala Harris campaign is resolved to my satisfaction is my quote.

Now, I'm going to read this story for you and I have no further comment and I will just read what is publicly available in this for people who are interested. But then I want to talk to you about just general podcasting because there's not much I can add to this story. But I will read a little bit so you can understand what the story is saying and what is what is available publicly. And let me read.

The social media account for Kamala Harris's failed presidential campaign has deleted a false post about political commentator Tim Pool, seemingly as part of a legal settlement that stemmed from a defamation lawsuit. Pool announced on Friday that the Kamala HQ post, which falsely labeled Pool a Trump operative associated with Project 2025, was deleted. The post said that Pool was part of a plan to give Trump unchecked legal power

so they can jail and execute those who don't support Trump if he wins. Poole sued in federal court, saying the false post caused him reputational harm that would take millions of dollars to undo. Poole did not reveal the details of any legal settlement with the failed politicians campaign, only that it has been resolved to my satisfaction. That is the tweet I posted, and I have shown that the tweet in question has been deleted.

Asked for further details about the legal settlement, Poole said in a statement, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Poole's lawsuit sought a retraction as well as damages and attorney's fees. The deletion appears to be a retraction. The rest of the posts from Kamala HQ appear to still be up on X, indicating there was a specific action taken regarding the post on Poole. Making outlandish statements regarding the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 became a central strategy of the Harris campaign.

Even CNN's Daniel Daly, fact checker who rarely targets Democrats at the campaign account was repeatedly deceptive on X. Um,

OK, quote, a social media account run by Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign has been repeatedly deceptive, Dale wrote for CNN. The Kamala HQ account, which has more than one point three million followers on the X social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has made a habit of misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning videos to attack former President Donald Trump. The account hasn't posted since November 5th when Harris lost the presidency to Republican Donald Trump. I want to stress this. I'm I this is a publicly available article.

My only additional comment is ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. That's it. And this is whatever it is, the Daily Wire thinks or is writing has nothing to do with me. But I wanted to just highlight this and state clearly for all of you, because I haven't addressed it. I briefly mentioned it last week. The

The lawsuit has been resolved to my satisfaction. I appreciate everybody for your support and all of our members who make all this possible. So I will I will add further just outside of all of this as we as I move on. I do want to talk to you about podcasting in general and the future of where we're all headed. I just want to say.

But it's important to stand up for what you believe in. It is important to stand up for what's right. And I think if more people did, you would be surprised how often in culture war matters we succeed. And so, again, not anything. I'm moving on from that. We're talking about podcasts now.

The all of the fighting that we have done for who we are, what we believe in the world we want to see has been rather successful. And now we're learning that Murdoch is shopping for podcasts and they got some speculation and there's big money on the horizon. I'm going to throw it all the inside baseball for you guys. I don't explain everything. And I will say the podcasting industry is one of the least transparent media industries. And I think you would be best helped if I explained internal numbers.

And I did a tweet about this earlier. But this is the point about fighting for what you believe in and being successful. We here in this space facing demonetization, facing lies, manipulation, facing censorship. We have stood firm. We've refused to give up. Many have given up. But those who stood tall seek to reap the benefits of being right and refusing to back down. Semaphore writes.

My colleague Liz Hoffman has written that spin codes from Ben Smith, the new proprietor of NBC's cable assets will be born with a strong balance sheet and a view of itself as a predator, not prey. A phrase I hear the new company CEO Mark Lazarus taking a liking to. But it won't be the only contender in a mad scramble that I suspect will make some podcasters very, very rich next year. Fox Corp also has a strong balance sheet, a digital acquisition that has turned out extremely well in Tubi, whose CEO Paul Cheeseborough said,

Chaseborough is leading the broader group's digital strategy. Now Fox is talking to potential acquisition targets and political media, particularly on the right. Some of the companies that might be in play include Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire, Red Seat Ventures, which produces for figures like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly and Heaven's Me, Timcast.

The podcast company Audio Boom and the radio and podcast giant iHeart. The all-in podcast also draws quite a bit of attention. But the big Silicon Valley money, Elon Musk's X, is another logical buyer for conservative media. May drive valuations out of range even for Fox. Uh-oh. Take me back to the article.

Some of these acquisitions would require a reorientation for a company that is used to controlling talent with an iron hand. It would also represent a kind of detente between Murdoch and Google, against which he's waged a long global war. YouTube is the dominant visual platform for the new era of whatever we're calling podcasts now. One sign of that detente, as a Fox insider notes, YouTube CEO Neil Mohan has invited was invited to address companies executives at Fox CEO and executive chair Lachlan Murdoch's home in November.

Interesting. Well, for those that don't know, my friends, Timcast has been under the Red Seat Ventures umbrella for quite some time. That means that Timcast is in the same network as Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Barry Weiss, etc. Though things may change because, as I've mentioned quite a bit.

Over this past year, as this has become the podcast presidency, money is flying our way as it pertains to podcast ad sales, networking, and development. And so you would think naturally for the Tim Pool Morning Show, Tim Pool Daily News on iTunes, Spotify, and on YouTube, it's a particularly big show, but not near the biggest. I'd say medium size in the space. However, Timcast IRL is the number one primetime show on YouTube Live.

Now, there's questions about how you break this down because the digital space is very different from TV. But let me give you all of the insider information that I can.

So Tim guest IRL is, you know, we hit pretty big numbers live streaming. We do 50,000 concurrence, sometimes more. I think last week we were averaging maybe like 65. And so we typically find ourselves in the streaming rankings as a third biggest stream in the country every night, but sometimes less. But we probably hit around third place. Dan Bongino is always number one. And then you've got I think Crowder typically beats us. So but they're both on Rumble.

And so Rumble and YouTube are going to be are going to go by different metrics. And I mean this with no disrespect to Rumble because we use Rumble infrastructure and we're fans. But when it comes to the ad networks, Rumble doesn't sell the same way YouTube does. I again, look, guys, I'm not trying to be dicks. I dig to you guys. But I'm going to try and give everybody the inside baseball on this stuff.

So that's big news for us at Timcast IRL. We usually are beaten by Pat McAfee in terms of total viewership for the day. He has a much bigger average live stream than we do. However, in the news space, we're number one live. And in primetime, we're number one. Pat McAfee is sports and he's earlier. So he gets a bigger audience. But, you know, that's that's sports. I mean, I'm not surprised.

Then periodically there will be special broadcasts and live streams, maybe once a week from other prominent creators that crush us in terms of views. But for a show that is consistently Monday through Friday, we usually are in the top spot. That's why I say it's different from TV because TV, most shows are, they know, like most shows are on a consistent schedule. But with the digital space, people can do a stream randomly and then pop up on these charts and vanish.

What this means for the big advertisers, they say we don't want to sponsor a show that's like a one off. You get a lot more money for a one off. Let me tell you the inside baseball. So I heard a whole lot from a lot of people about Tim Pool getting paid one hundred thousand dollars per episode of the Culture War podcast. And they said, oh, that's not possible. That's wrong. Oh, my favorite was when that woman on the five. What's her name?

I don't remember her name, but she was like, Tim Pool's getting $400,000 a month. Oh, lady, we make way more than that. Come on. These people don't seem to understand how a media company works. My favorite response was from was from Jesse Waters when he was like, well, I wish I made that much. Well, I don't know how much Jesse Waters makes, but reportedly that's how much he makes. If you Google it, they say his salary is at five million. So I don't know what your salary is, Jesse, but let's talk shop.

How much is a podcast worth? Well, right now, with Donald Trump's victory, we're looking at CPMs cost per million, meaning for every thousand views you get, you will make X amount of dollars for YouTube. Actually, let me just I'm gonna take a look here and see if we've got like do they show general CPM? YouTube is I don't know. They don't show it anymore. They do. I don't know where to find it. But YouTube CPMs not so good, to be completely honest. What is this? Oh, there we go. Wait.

OK, looks like $15 on average for the morning show. So if I'm going to sell directly, I'm going to sell for more than that. But YouTube, let me tell you, YouTube right now, I'm not giving you the exact numbers. I'm not revealing any inside preview information. But YouTube just does around, for me at least, $15 CPMs. This is on the morning show.

All right. So imagine if someone comes to me directly and says, we want to buy a spot on the show. Well, I'm going to sell for at least 20 bucks, potentially more. This means for every 1000 views on a video, I should receive $20. So if an advisor, if I, this channel averages 225,000 views per video, some are smaller, some are more, and the season changes things, but we go throughout the year. So 225,000 and I'm, and we're looking at a $20 CPM. Okay. So when I go to an advertiser,

I'm not going to ask for a $20 CPM. That's ridiculous. You get a $20 CPM from your run of the mill shows. I'd probably say I want 30 premium shows do 40. So let's just do some inside baseball. Like I said, let's see if this will run the, the, the numbers for me. And because it's not, it's not, it's not absolute. So, oh, this thing is so stupid. All right, here's what we're doing. I'm trying to calculate mid rolls and end rolls. And that's where things are a little bit different.

Let's let's see what we get. So I'm going to I'm going to reach for thirty dollars and we're going to pull in for an ad read about sixty five hundred bucks. That's a little bit less. And so companies have come to me and I'm actually talking to advertisers right now and they say, we want you to read an ad for us. I say not interested because it's not just about this. How much is a podcast worth? Let me give you numbers.

The reason why I come to a number when we do these negotiations and where we're heading into the future is because of our own intellectual property. So boonieshq.com and cast brew coffee. Boonies HQ. I did one ad read. Let me pull it up for you guys. So boonieshq.com and I'll jump to the store so you can see it. Here we go.

This is our skateboard shop, and we made some really awesome designs. We've got the Richie Jackson Revolution Board. We've got gay frogs. We've got the right to arm bears. And everybody's favorites are Step on Snack and Find Out and The Boobies.

I did one ad read and we sold $13,000 worth of skateboards. Now, hold on your darn horses. That was because we only had a limited inventory. When we restocked and quadrupled our inventory, one ad read resulted in $40,000 in sales. Now, you may be saying, Tim, that is a whole lot of money. It is for one ad read. All in all, three ad reads netted us around $67,000 around there.

So understand this. When they say we are going to pay you X amount for a show, here's what I say. OK, Murdoch, anybody, you come to me. What I'm going to tell you is you advertisers, advertisers come and say, Tim, will you read an ad for five grand? I say, I don't know. I could just shout out Booney's HQ and probably make more money than that. Don't get me wrong. When I say six, seven thousand dollars, that's not a profit margin. That's total revenue generated.

But you got to understand that if I do a shout out for, I don't know, guitar picks or whatever, I get cash. That's pure profit. But I own nothing after the fact. So I look at it like renting versus buying. If I shout out cast brew coffee, yeah, a portion of the revenue we generate has to cover the cost of the coffee, the sales and the employees. And our profit margins aren't that high. But it allows us to build up an intellectual property with equity, which is worth way more.

So understand this. We get the equity. More importantly, if someone comes to me and says, will you promote my energy drink? We say, sure. What do we get for it? I know how much they're going to do in sales.

I know what their margins are going to be. I know what they can afford. They are competing directly with me. This is the future. This is the difference in podcasts compared to how TV and other shows used to work. They would take on sponsors. They wouldn't make their own products. We now make our own products. So if I have 225,000 views on one video, I can sell one ad read for about $7,000. So let's say I do a pre-roll, a mid-roll, and an end roll because it's a 20-minute long video.

That means I can sell the mid-roll for more. Mid-roll CPMs are higher because you've got an actively engaged base. Pre-roll, 7K. Then I want eight for the mid-roll. I could probably do more. We're at 15. And then the end-roll is going to be less, maybe like five. So we're only at $20,000 on one video. And I do six per day. Someone comes to me and says to him, we want to license this show and the rights for ads and distribution. What should I charge them for the rights to that show that is two hours that can be broken up into six segments?

Each of those segments could generate $20,000 and the show itself could generate 20,000, actually more, two hours. You could probably get 30 to 40K with mid rolls. Okay. So if someone comes and says, it's a new show, here's what we want. Surprise, surprise. $100,000 is probably that number. For a lot of people, you're probably saying that's so much money. It's insane. I'm in the wrong light of work. Well, I can't speak for everybody. Some people snap their fingers and launch big podcasts. I've been doing this for over 10 years and we didn't start here.

Now we've got to factor in 40 employees, infrastructure, hard costs. So all in all, with the machine that we have built, yes, we make a lot of money. No joke. Yes, of course, I am wealthy. But it's not like when we sell an ad for 60 grand, it goes into my pocket. That's just not how it works. So I pay myself a salary largely based off of the programmatic ads. Programmatic ads are ads that appear like YouTube. So YouTube does a $15 CPM on average around there for me.

That's programmatic. I don't know anything. I don't do anything. YouTube, I put the video up like this video and YouTube's going to put ads on it. I technically shouted out boonies, but it's not an ad read or anything like that. Maybe I'll buy a skateboard. So we're guaranteed to get a certain amount of money off of each video from YouTube's programmatic ads, whether we do an ad read or not.

So you factor all of this in and you look at a show like Tim cast IRL, which averages, I think in the past, I think for the year, it might be like 500 K cause we've had periods where it's really big before the election periods where it gets lower. And it probably averages around. If we want to be nice, we say 400,000 and we don't do ad reads the way everyone else does. Sometimes we do pre-rolls. You may have noticed in the past couple of months, we've done my pillow and we've done preserve gold and we may pick up mid rolls. Just depends. Uh,

My deepest motivation is not maximizing profits. I don't know. I'm a weirdo. Don't tell that to any investors. I don't have any. But like you go to an investor and say that ultimately my point is this. What do you think is happening right now for Fox News? Their primetime shows average around 500,000 in the key demo. Timcast IRL across the board with our audio side, we do more than 500K. So with audio side and clips, Timcast IRL does about 500,000 views on average per

If we if OK, so it's like maybe for the year, maybe it's 400K for the live show. And we've had some that are 800, some that are a million. We had two point six million election night. And those those factor in because when advertisers buy, they buy for extended periods, they'll buy for the full year. They'll say we want one year of this show on your show at these times and we'll pay you up front. They're called upfronts. And so you don't sell everything, but you sell a lot.

Uh, however, so we have that show. Then we have the audio side, which is sold separately. And all in all, we could probably arrange for an average of about 500 to 700,000. It's hard to say the exact average on the, on the show per night, unique viewership. That's a lot of people. Then we produce four segments per day with an average viewership of about 90 to a hundred thousand. Each of those could also contain an ad. Think about that math. We don't do ad reads in our segments. It's programmatic. It's just whatever.

We don't do mid-roll ad reads on Timcast IRL. We've only been doing about one ad read. Someone comes to me and says, we want to buy or license a show. It's not cheap. So let's do some math.

If we did standard reads like everybody else, a two-hour show would reasonably have four ads in it. I mean, come on. Imagine watching cable TV and you only got an advertisement once every half an hour. That's what they used to call ad-free shows. They would do these things on Fox where it's like, you're watching animation domination ad-free. The whole show would run its entirety and the commercials would only be in between the episodes. So,

And it was like a rare thing they did. We don't even do that. But let's say we do that. Timcast IRL, if we're going to do a $20 CPM on average, we're probably hitting about $10,000 per ad read, which we don't do those. We do $10,000 for an ad read. Pre-roll. Mid-rolls are a little bit more. Let's say $12,000. We do two of them. So we're at $34,000 already, plus the end roll, which is a bit less, let's say $5,000. So we're looking at about $40,000 in ad sales alone, not to mention generating memberships. And again, we don't do that.

That's just for the live portion. Now let's factor in a $20 CPM, $2,000 per segment, four segments per day. So we're looking around 50 grand per day if we did sponsorships. And they come to me and they say, I'm asking too much for this show. No, these people don't understand inside baseball and the industry. Now, if I was a money motivated man, we'd be jamming ads up every which way we could. Maybe that happens. I'm not going to sit here and pretend like it's not going to happen.

My point is, as Murdoch and all these other big advertisers are now coming to big podcasts, you knowing those numbers is important. What we're looking at now in the podcast presidency era, TV is losing its reach. These networks are collapsing. Carriage fees ain't going to cover it. People are going to podcasts and YouTube has become the dominant player. CPMs could spike as high as 40 to 50 dollars on YouTube. 50 bucks for every 1000 views.

And then you're looking at a show with 500,000 views or video segments with 225,000 views. And there is a lot of money to be made. This means shows like mine and other shows are going to be looking at a windfall in this next year because this is the this is the space for the next election and politics and product sales. You add on top of that. I run my own companies. So if someone comes to me and says, we're going to give you a bad CPM, I just say, thank you. No, thank you.

Because I know that I can sell my own skateboards. Now, when I mentioned these skateboard sales to you guys, we've sold over a thousand. I think you can break it down. They're 55 bucks a board. This is some of the biggest sales in the skate industry for a direct sale board company. And of course, we have to cover our manufacturing costs and all that stuff. But this is a niche product. Okay. Very few people need to buy skateboards. So we are selling like hotcakes.

Cass Brew Coffee, we do, I think we're just about at a couple million bucks per year in sales. I want to stress, I mean it no way to disrespect. I thank you all very much for supporting us. And I hope this information serves you well to understand how the industry operates. TV has long paid ridiculous salaries to their people, like $40, $50 million salaries to their top broadcasters. That is now shifting into this industry. And we are going to start seeing shows like TimCast and other shows like

These people are going to have more money than they know what to do with. Aside from that, let me talk to you guys about money. I can't speak for other people, but as somebody who's running this business, seeing this money comes come in and I know how much money can be generated by doing these ad reads, by doing these sales. It's a lot. And I've not pursued that.

We may. And depending on what happens, as I mentioned earlier on, we are with Red Seat, but we are in negotiations. And that's why it's like when Sam Seder and Cenk are talking to me, I'm like, guys, I'm negotiating the business with a bunch of these networks. OK, I'm not going to come out and talk about big numbers necessarily like I'm doing it right now. Large because I think we're good moving into the next era. They may get really mad at me for talking about this stuff, but I think it's important you guys know it. And I want to talk about money and wealth and all that stuff and just say this.

If I was more motivated by cash, we'd have done the ad deals a long time ago. I'll tell you this, Egret. I don't know what you do with the money. I really, really don't. I mean, you buy politicians or something? I have no idea. I own a lot of property. I own a lot of cars. It's not easy. It's not fun. And I don't care to deal with it. When they say mo' money, mo' problems, they ain't wrong. But there's a happy medium. The certain amount of money you make and you've got your health care paid for, your family's taken care of, you're comfortable, you have a nice car, that's great.

At a certain amount of money above this in excess, then you're hiring managers and you're running a business and it becomes stressful. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not breaking anybody's balls or, you know, it's true. What do you do with all the cash sitting around? You can't just have liquid cash. I guess you can buy crypto. You need to manage that. You need to hire more than one accountant. It is nuts, which is part of the reason why I've been like, we're in a happy spot. You know, we make good money. We have enough to sustain the enterprise that we want to do.

For me, though, I tell you, one of the things that's changed everything is family is more important. And so no one ever said in their deathbed, I wish I spent more time at work, as the saying goes. And so that's why things are probably going to shift. And we are looking at better business management moving forward, which changes how we negotiate these contracts. That being said, there may be changes. The shows will still exist and they'll be substantially more efficient and probably managed by someone more interested in running a business. But I assure you, we'll make sure content is always going to be great, no matter what ends up happening.

My point is simply expect to see massive change. These big guys, they're stepping in and they're going to change the world of podcasting in good ways and bad ways. You are going to see more authentic voices get more money than they've ever seen, and they can do cool things with it. But you're going to see a lot of bad people step up and you're going to see the industry try and take a stranglehold on everything. So I tell you this, there's a couple of ways to go about it. If we as independent creators are

Let Fox News and big corporations and Disney buy up the space. We will be drowned out and the space will become inauthentic.

But if we make sure we stay in the forefront and we dominate, which may mean we need to make that money, we need to do these sponsor spots, we need to beat out the corporations from corporate media who are trying to butt into our space. If we do that, we will control that narrative and we will make sure we win that culture war. I'm going to wrap it up there. Stick around, everybody. Timcast IRL tonight. Thanks for hanging out. Follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast and we'll see you all then.