Trump THREATENS MASSIVE 200% Tariff Against EU As GLOBAL Trade War IGNITES, China Hits Canada
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Donald Trump is threatening a massive 200% tariff on the hostile and abusive EU targeting champagne and alcohol. I heard wines and everybody's freaking out because California wine's not good, I guess. But Trump is hitting them where it hurts. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the global trade war for which I care very little about. Yeah, the New York Times ran a story.

With all of these back and forth tit for tats, retaliatory tariffs, you got Canada doing a $21 billion tariff. Now China's doing a tariff on Canada. Germany's saying that their economy's in trouble because of the tariffs that the U.S. is imposing. I don't care. The New York Times has written a story saying Trump's big bet is that Americans will tolerate a downturn in the economy if it means the restoration of its manufacturing base. And I'm all here for it.

Now, I will say right away, it is easy for me to say, and I can respect that. The challenge Donald Trump is facing is that regular people may not be able to withstand a massive economic downturn. Y'all remember when Bill Maher was like, if a recession stops Trump, bring on the recession. Then it's like my dude. Let me just say, first and foremost,

There's nothing to be gained from that. Right. Bill Maher's view was people are going to get sick, depressed, die, can't afford medicine, fall in the debt, file for bankruptcy. But at least there's no Trump. Well, that's insane. But I do recognize that as I sit here right now celebrating everything Donald Trump is doing, I'm a bit more comfortable in the average person. That's just a fact. And I know a lot of people are going to be hit hard by this. So I know Donald Trump needs to get a handle on this quickly.

Here's the thing. I'm not sitting here cheering for the Democrats losing office or saying bring on the recession because it'll make me feel better. I am outright saying we do not want a recession at all. But sometimes you got to rip the bandaid off. And I feel for those who are going to be hit by this. I don't know what else you do. These tariffs that Trump is putting in place are good for this country.

I am going to break it down for you guys. No, I always talk about skateboards because we make skateboards and I'm going to show you how they are lying to you. These liberals come out and they're like, you're you're being taxed by Donald Trump. The tariffs are a tax on you. Lies. The answer is simple. Take a look at this example. West Virginia in West Virginia. They just passed this bill banning artificial food dyes. Now there's a fear that

That big companies are going to pull out of West Virginia. But let me ask you, my friends, should we continue to eat petrochemical dyes, which many are associated with chronic illness, or should we get ourselves off the drug? The fact that there is an economic attachment to this does not mean we should keep eating coal tar derivatives.

I recently ordered some 12,000 year old wheat strain, low gluten, glyphosate free, imported Italian wheat flour. And that's that's the extent that I have to go to have like a real waffle. It seems crazy, doesn't it? We have to sometimes do hard things that hurt us because they do right by us in the long term. You can imagine it any way you want. Let's say you broke a bone and, you know, resetting it is going to hurt. So you say, I'm not going to do it.

It's too painful. You know, in that short term moment, it's going to suck. But you have to do it in the long term. If we stay down this course, there will not be an American economy. There will not be jobs. The left keeps saying the liberals keep saying we need illegal immigrants to come in to do the jobs Americans won't do. Why won't Americans do these jobs? That's a lie. Americans absolutely would do these jobs. They should do these jobs. You just got to pay them for it. You know,

I'm going to tell you this. It's real simple. The easiest way to understand that the left has been lying to the whole time is I don't know how about them going and torching electric vehicles like that seems to make no sense. Right. But the big issue at play right now is the gap between the wealthy and the poor. And it was Bernie Sanders himself 10 years ago who said open borders policies. It's a Koch brothers proposal. It steals from the American worker. It's bad. Where's Bernie now?

marching in lockstep with the liberal neoliberal establishment. Let me just give you the simple version. If I got to pay 20 bucks an hour to somebody to go harvest grapes and my grapes are more expensive, that means I got less disposable income for, say, I don't know, the new video game or something, right? The luxury item. But that person,

who is getting paid to who has a job to produce the grapes, is making a living. He can support his family or she. What ends up happening is the wealthiest individuals have to pay more for labor. So their profits go down. It balances that wealth gap that the left claims claims to care so much about. If you have to pay, you know what they say? They say they're these companies where the CEO can only make five times what the lowest level employee makes.

So if the lowest paid employee is making $50,000 a year, the CEO only gets $250,000. The left cheers that. Why don't we just have policies that reflect that? Why don't we have policies where Americans demand in an American market what they're worth and what they should get paid? And that means profits for these big companies might go down. What the left is advocating for is that big corporations, auto manufacturers can send all the jobs to Mexico, to China,

And they can hire people for pennies on the dollar while Americans are left wanting. Learn to code, I guess. Well, I'll tell you this. With Trump's new tariffs, with this trade war that's erupting, companies are already falling in line because they know what comes next. And there are reports that auto manufacturing plants are once again starting to return to the United States because these companies see the writing on the wall.

It's not a question of what Trump has done. It's a question of what Trump will do and where this country is going. So if you're an auto manufacturer and you're sitting there and you're like, look, Trump is going to do this. He's going to put a tariff on our vehicles. We're going to lose insane amounts of money before that happens. Let's get a manufacturing plant set up in Indiana as quickly as we can. Oh, you're going to have to hire some Americans to do that job. And Americans deserve a living wage, right?

So the profits might go down. That's the point of the tariffs. It's funny because Trump's move on the tariffs is exactly how you increase wages for the working class. It's exactly how you increase the buying power and you decrease the wealth gap. I love it. In Trump's first term, there was a very famous moment where I can't remember which economist they came out and they said,

Under Donald Trump, we are seeing four day work weeks. The economy is so good that some businesses actually started giving an additional day off to employees. Wages were up. Unemployment was down the greatest numbers of our lives. Where are we now?

The left says everything Trump is doing is evil. They would perpetuate the very system they claim harms them. Ladies and gentlemen, let's take a deep dive into this trade war before we get started. Head over to cast brew dot com and buy cast brew coffee.

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But I brought this up not to just generally promote our skate brand, but to talk to you about the tariffs and why it's the greatest thing in my in my mind. I am so grateful to Donald Trump. I'm going to break it all down for you first. Let me give you the news. But I will get to this story very quickly. Don't forget your 28th Amendment skateboard. The right of the people to keep bear and breed chickens shall not be infringed. Look at that chicken. It's based. So let's start here.

Before I start harping on why, I am going to give you hard facts and proof in the actual market numbers. Tariffs are a good thing. Let's start here. Trump threatens massive 200 percent tariff on the hostile and abusive EU targeting champagne and alcohol. And as you know, it's not really champagne unless it's from the champagne region of France. So that sparkling wine you got from California isn't real.

President Donald Trump is threatening a 200% retaliatory tariff on champagne and wine out of Europe in the latest salvo of his trade war. The president lashed out at the hostile and abusive EU, which announced an increased tariffs on American imports and retaliation for Trump's increases on steel and aluminum. I'm going to tell you why Trump is right right now.

When Trump says we're putting a tariff on steel and aluminum, it's his way of saying, guys, we need Americans to start manufacturing steel and aluminum. It's not about insulting the EU or targeting other countries. It's about him saying we need these factories back so we can rely on ourselves, reignite the American manufacturing base and strengthen ourselves internally, especially if there's a looming conflict with Russia or China.

The EU gets mad. And so they put a tariff on other products like America. I believe it's American whiskey. Yeah, U.S. produced whiskey.

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Talking red states. Trump is not doing this to insult the EU. He's doing it because he wants to create a market where American steel can be produced. And that means we do not want to compete with Europe. Europe says, but we make money off you. Fine. If you don't want if you want to let us make money off you, we're not going to let you make money off us. So Trump then says, OK, let's play ball. Let's see how long they can handle this one. And I'm still going to defend Trump's tariffs.

In the latest volley, Trump threatened 200% tariff on all wines, champagnes, and alcohol products after the EU raised tariffs on American goods, including whiskey. The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the world, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% tariff on whiskey, he wrote.

If this tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200 percent tariff on all wines, champagnes and alcoholic products coming out of France and other EU represented countries. This will be great for the wine and champagne businesses in the U.S. Trump's move would drastically raise the prices of European wine for Americans. The president doesn't drink.

I like Donald Trump so much. It's funny because in his first term, I was not the biggest fan. He was much more crude and crass. I believe so. And a lot of people have pointed this out. He kind of chilled out and he won me over. I love that he doesn't drink. I do not drink either. I have maybe I'm not a teetotaler, right? I have maybe one or two drinks per year. If there's a celebration, I will imbibe. But I am a health nut.

That's why we got us. We had a sponsor recently. It was I want to make sure it's field of greens, brick house nutrition. And I am I didn't pay for this. They paid for a different sponsor spot. But I am massively impressed with their product. It's basically like pulverized greens and vitamins and it's green, but it tastes like strawberries.

So anyway, I digress. I am a health nut. When I read that Trump doesn't drink and that's the story, the stories he's never had to drink in his life. I don't know if I believe that. I don't know. It's a hard thing, right? Everybody, even accidentally, you might have a little alcohol, but maybe Trump never intentionally did. Still, I don't know if I believe that, but his brother was an alcoholic and he took it very seriously. And I tremendously respect that. I am not a fan of alcohol. I'm not a fan of people drinking. We used to carry a bunch of fine boozes for the studio. And it's because I'm not like,

I'm not going to come down on somebody I want. I understand people like things I don't like. You know, I eat health foods, but I don't care if somebody eats potato chips or or Pop-Tarts. Sometimes I'll Pop-Tart. We got Pop-Tarts. I'm not so much impose my world on other people, but I respect people when I see them doing things that I believe are right.

As you probably do as well, right? Like someone's driving around in their car and they're driving the right speed. And you're like, that's what I'm talking about. Someone's going too slow. They're a moron. They're going too fast than a maniac. But when they're doing what you think they should be doing, you're like, that's a man I respect. The EU on Wednesday slapped new tariffs on American goods in response to Trump's decision to implement a 25% increase in tariffs on incoming steel and aluminum. Of course, I'm going to respond.

European spirits exports to the U.S. stood at 2.9 billion euros in 2024. In comparison, American whiskey exports stood at 699 million in 2024. But that whiskey number was actually a 60% coming after earlier tariffs were suspended. Europe is a growing and significant customer of American whiskey. I got to tell you, man, I can respect European wine. I really can. But they got to respect our whiskey.

Ain't nobody does it like America. We got the best. We really do. Japan's okay, but we're better. Not a big drinker, mind you. From the AP, let's see where we're going, baby. Canada and the EU swiftly retaliate against Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs. This is where it begins.

And this is we get it. We get it. Twenty five percent reciprocal tariffs on steel products raise the taxes on a host of items, tools, computers, servers, display monitors, sports equipment and cast iron products. I just I just want to stress this.

You are you are giving Trump what he wants. These people don't seem to realize it, but they are. Let me let me run through a couple of these early examples of the global trade war where we're at, and then I'll explain why this is exactly what Trump wants. And then I'm going to prove why it's great. So don't forget to smash the like button, smash that button right now and share this show. Take the URL and just post it everywhere. And, uh,

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If you sign up for notifications, you get them. Check us out. French, I'm sorry, French, fresh Chinese tariffs on Canadian agricultural and food products open new front in the brewing trade war. This is from about a week ago. Canada and China are going at it now. It's getting hot. The BBC. U.S. tariffs could extend Germany's recession, says Bank. Sorry, I don't quite care about your recession, Germany. Cry more. Cry more. Here we go.

Now, the market may be freaking out and you're going to hear a lot from the media saying the end is nigh. Trump is bad. But let's start here from CNN of all sources. I want to I want to just kind of say this again. CNN egg prices are finally falling, but they're about to spike again. Sure. But they are coming down. And currently they they they did drop below $1.

The the the entry point from when Donald Trump became president. So they were like at six something. They 650, I think they dropped down to six and they're averaging about 6085 cents a dozen nationally down 15 percent. OK, so you want to wave your little egg cartons, everybody. I love this one from CBS. Why expert says low gas prices could be sign of economy in trouble. I want you all to just revel in that one and kind of just bask.

Expert says low gas prices could be a sign of economic trouble. Now, I ask you, Americans, do you feel like the economy is in trouble when the gas prices come down? I'd love to hear his reasoning. I'm not saying he's wrong. Gas prices are down again this week in Massachusetts, and they've been steadily declining since January. And it's national, too. Historically, gas prices begin to creep higher as warmer weather and busier driving season begins. Why are they falling?

AAA said the current declining prices are due largely to falling crude oil prices and uncertainty about the economy in the months to come. With a switchover to pricier summer blended gasoline mere weeks away, prices are likely to increase down the road on that fact alone, but market uncertainty is muddying the waters for the time being. Ultimately, the lower cost of crude oil is weighing heavily on gas prices. Can you believe these people? Gas is cheaper for all of you. You can get to work. You can bring your kids to school. You're saving money. The economy is worse.

I ask them all if that's what a bad economy looks like. What do they think a good economy looks like when gas is at six dollars a gallon and you can't afford to go anywhere and you're struggling to get to work and you've got no money for food? That's a good economy. These people are nuts. Here's the cost of cars. So it's look at this.

In 2024, the cost of cars was it dipped a little bit. It went up. And then at the end of the year and mind you, this is Joe Biden's term. It dropped significantly. Then into January, it dropped quite a bit again. As of right now, it's barely up with all of the tariffs and all of these whinging libertarians being like, but now my cars are going to cost more.

Trump's been waging this trade war for some time. It's a month and a half. And we've seen an increase of 0.19%. Now, don't get me wrong. An increase is bad. I get it. I get it. But what if the goal and the actual accomplishment here is we bring back auto manufacturing to the U.S., a long-term benefit to Americans? So these people come at me...

Stocks are slipping. And, you know, I have seen some people say they're on retirement. And this is the 401k is taking a massive hit. It's negatively impacting their ability to budget. Not good news. Market volatility. I tell you, I'm not going to sit here and say Trump's taking it easy. He's got a big battle ahead of him. He needs to get a handle on this in whatever way he can. I think there's something to consider. We may just be looking at a standard correction in the market.

Things were overvalued. I couldn't believe it. Do you guys let Spotify stock was at six hundred and like fifty dollars or some ridiculous number? That was crazy to me. Let's see where it's currently at. I think stocks are all way down currently. Let's see where we got with this. Spotify is at five hundred and thirty seven. Wow. They're down seven percent over the week, 15 for the month, but they're up 12 percent over the past three months. I digress.

I certainly think like a lot of companies are dramatically overvalued. And what we're seeing now is a correction. Why? Because the people who are selling and getting out can afford to. If they couldn't, they'd stay in. Now, there's another reality here. Doesn't apply to every single person. A lot of retirees, they can't afford it. It's rough. I get it. But we call this a buying opportunity.

If you have a stable job, if you have income, this is what people refer to as a buying opportunity when the stocks are low. Trump is going to bring it all back, baby. I hope. Look, you want to go to a liberal channel and hear them scream and cry all day long about how no matter what Trump does, he's wrong. By all means, you can find them all over YouTube. You want to go to a conservative channel and hear them just talk about how Trump can do no wrong no matter what. It ain't going to be here.

Trump was wrong on TikTok, and that's the easiest thing. And while I agree with the tariffs, we must consider Trump may not succeed here. This may this may go south. This may go bad. This is a this is a gamble, but I think it's the right move. I don't think Trump is a perfect guy, but I think he largely is doing well and he's exceeded my expectations this this time around. There's a lot to criticize him for. Indeed, like I mentioned, TikTok's the easy one.

You've got foreign policy questions. You've got enforcement actions happening right now in his administration. We're wondering, is that the right move? You've got a story breaking at NBC about a 10-year-old girl. She's an American. She's got brain swelling, recovering from brain surgery, but her parents are illegal immigrants, so they deported the whole family. She was on her way to a doctor to get a checkup.

I don't want to see a 10-year-old girl die. I don't want to see her have severe brain swelling. I think this is a horrible story. I also think the parents are largely at fault for being illegal, entering the country illegally, I should say, and thinking that you could just bring your kid here and live this way and get away with it. But that being said—

Sometimes you got to be magnanimous. And if Trump is going to navigate all of this stuff properly, he's got to avoid the landmines. I don't think people should bring their kids here or come here pregnant to have a kid so the kid gets citizenship. I don't believe that. I don't believe that's fair. Birthright citizenship has been largely abused. But you got to look at the individual circumstance in this one. A 10-year-old girl who survived brain cancer, now is not the time to be nitpicking. Now's the time to be like, look, we're going to save this 10-year-old girl and make sure she lives.

But we're not going to give a free pass to everybody. And I think it's fair to say, go to the doctor, get the checkup. But you are going to be deported unless you want to leave the child here in this in care of the state. I'm not playing this game with these liberals. My point is largely it's not going to be so cut and dry to come out with a blanket. Shut her down. Trump's going to have to navigate minefields on this one. Or I suppose it's three dimensional. So it's asteroid fields, actually. Trump's big bet.

Americans will tolerate economic downturn to restore manufacturing. The president offers many reasons for imposing tariffs, including revenue, leverage over competitors and job creation. But history suggests a more complex history. Great writing there, New York Times. Yikes. I should hire someone better. Now I'll show you what this David E. Sanger has. But I actually have a hard example because we here over at Timcast, we got a company called Booneys HQ.

Booneys Skateboards. We have a YouTube channel. Subscribe to Booneys HQ on YouTube. Follow us at Booneys HQ on Instagram. And you can watch our silly shenanigans. And we just had a, let me show you a video, actually. You're going to want to see this one. It is the greatest video. Everybody agrees. At least that's what I've been told. And where are we at? Check this out. This is what I'm talking about. This is a guy. He just pogo-sticked over the Cybertruck. See, we're having fun. But my point is, I bring that up.

We are building a cultural brand and we make skateboards here in the United States. And we are competing with companies that have their skateboards. The wood comes from Canada. They send it to China or Mexico and then bring it back to the U.S. so they can get dirt labor to make it. We don't do that. We have Americans make it in America and we charge less and pay more to our to our team. I'll get into that in a second.

But don't forget to smash the like button. Share the show if you're watching right now. My birthday was Sunday. If you'd like to give me a present, just share the show with all your friends. Check us out. President Trump's simultaneous trade wars with Canada, Mexico, China and the European Union amount to huge economic and political gamble that Americans will endure months or years of economic pain in return for the distant hope of reindustrializing the American heartland. I'm for it. It is enormously risky, as I was just saying.

In recent days, Mr. Trump has acknowledged, despite all his confident campaign predictions, that we are going to boom like we have never boomed before, that the United States may be headed into a recession fueled by his economic agenda. But in public and private, he has been arguing that a little disturbance in the economy and the market is a small price to pay for bringing manufacturing jobs back to America. Imagine this. You get a hard year or two. People are mad at Donald Trump.

Four years from now, a strong manufacturing base reignites the heartland and the economy is booming and Trump is leaving office with the greatest numbers of our lives. That's what I hope for. My fear is that Democrats will take the midterms and they will shut this down because they're evil. I'm sorry. You know, look, I could be more diplomatic, but I don't think we should. We should play that game. I've long thought about this. Like, you know,

Do I really want to be the guy where every video is like the Democrats are evil? AOC and Rep. Paulina Luna had a bill they worked on together to cap interest rates and credit cards. And I tweeted like, thank you. I appreciate and respect this. I think it's the right move. The libertarians are whinging. They're saying it's stupid. It's a bad idea. And you're dumb if you support it. But I'm like, credit cards in general are very bad and we shouldn't have them. So I'm a fan of this bipartisan effort from AOC and Rep. Paulina Luna.

Maybe my understanding is different from why they're actually doing it. But I want to actually damage the credit industry a lot. So I'm for it. But I digress. I don't want to just every day when I make videos like it's always Democrats that are doing bad. Well, to be fair, it is. And this is the conversation has been happening for a long time now. I remember I was talking to my mom because she was like, how come all your videos are always about Democrats are bad? And I was like, because they are. And she asked me, like, well, why don't you make videos about Republicans?

And I said, OK, for sure. Like, tell me something a Republican's done. Crickets. And I said, seriously, like, give me like a big shock story that's nationally trending, major story about Republicans. And I will absolutely make a video on it and call out why it's bad. Yeah, you don't really have it. I mean, you've got some stuff. Remember when we were trying to oust Kevin McCarthy? That was when we were all celebrating upstarts going after the Republican Party as a whole. I don't know, Donald Trump and tick tock.

That's obvious. Here's the hard reality. Democrats support the military industrial complex. They want to fund wars. My entire life I've opposed this. And the Democrats used to be the ones that were opposing it. Well, kind of. They always sort of did, but they pretended not to. Bush is bad.

And then the Democrats are the ones who end up starting these wars. They want to fund all of it all the same. It was a lie. The Republican Party does, too. But Trump is something different. So now you have a demure Republican Party marching behind Donald Trump, who brought on RFK for HHS to make America healthy again. 100 percent behind that brought on Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. Huge fan. I supported her for president in 2020.

So there were Democrats that I could praise, but they've all been kicked out of the party. What's going to happen in the midterms is that Democrats are going to be like, we literally have no policies. We don't care. We just want the power. That's it. Donald Trump is doing things. Doge is gutting federal bureaucracy. If we lose in the midterms next year, end of next year or year and a half away,

Trump will not be able to complete his agenda and they will make sure to burn this country to the ground so they can blame him to win power in 2028. That's why I keep saying the most important thing is you be not a passive viewer of the news, but an active participant in it.

And all it takes is for you to get involved, to go talk to people, to post a chat right now, literally just chat. You're watching type something in and say, here's what I think. Share your ideas, be it one grain of sand or a dump truck full of sand. Add your say and be active. If everybody right now paying attention, stayed paying attention, did not miss a beat,

We will increase our majority in the midterms and we will be able to get this job done. Trump just needs this term. I'm hoping I'm hoping.

Here we go. They say his closest political partners are doubling down on the strategy. President Trump's economic policies are simple. J.D. Vance wrote, if you invest in and create jobs in America, you'll be rewarded. We'll lower regulations and reduce taxes. But if you build outside the U.S., you're on your own. I mean, think about it, my friends. It's like exercise. If you don't use it, you'll lose it. The left just says, learn to code. Remember that? Learn to code. Oh, your job is gone. Learn to code. Well, now you have A.I. doing all the rudimentary coding anyway. So,

That's not going to happen. Man, once we hit artificial general intelligence and the AI is programming itself. Yikes. The last time Trump tried something like this during his first term, it was a failure. In 2018, he put 25 percent tariffs on steel and 10 percent on aluminum, maintaining that he was protecting America's national security and that tariffs would ultimately create more jobs. Prices jumped and there's a temporary increase about 5000 jobs nationwide. So it failed.

During the pandemic, some of the tariffs were lifted. And today the industry employs roughly the same number of Americans it did then. So you're saying it worked. It traded 5000 new jobs and then the pandemic ruined everything. I don't disagree with that. But why are you calling it a failure? More worrisome, though, where the raft of studies that followed during the country lost tens of thousands of jobs. So that's the argument. Fine.

Upward of $75,000 by one study. In the industries that were dependent on steel and aluminum imports, the output per hour for American steel makers also dropped, while productivity for manufacturing overall in the United States rose. So let me put it this way. You have, in the United States, industries that are dependent upon China and Mexico for aluminum and steel.

So what you're saying is that we are giving over all of our leverage to them. So you complain, good sir, that with Donald Trump's tariffs, these businesses that needed aluminum and steel from China and Mexico weren't able to operate. Man, I just the libertarians guys, you know, I like the Mises guys, but some of these libertarians and the liberals, it's anti-Trump, so they'll take it. What happens if China says we will no longer export aluminum to you?

The argument is, yeah, but they need to because they need the money, not if they're intending to attack our economy. They will start at any point a secondary manufacturing business based off their aluminum and steel, cut us off, and then tell me how bad you think the job losses are going to be. So how about we bite the bullet? That's the point. Take a small term hit for a long term gain.

They're going to say that the experiment Trump is attempting now is far larger and the retaliatory tariffs that are being imposed on U.S. manufacturers with the Europeans aiming at Kentucky bourbon as well as boats and motorcycles made in swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania are exquisitely designed to cause pain in places where Mr. Trump supporters will feel it most. Indeed, indeed, they are interfering in our political infrastructure, targeting tariffs on things that will hopefully hurt the Republicans in the long term. Right.

I want to explain to you, my friends, why Trump is right. Here you go. I give you skateboarders favorite shredder dot news. I don't worry about the skateboard component of it. Ignore the word skateboard. I know a lot of people don't care about it. Let's just talk about product. Product prices climb to ninety dollars while secondary product hits fifteen dollars. And Trump's tariffs are just getting started. Boards will be more expensive. Nope, that's wrong.

That is fake news. I commented. Shredder News, for those that don't know, is... I don't know. Skateboarding is a dying industry. And this is a commonly read news source for skateboard industry stuff. Skateboard decks are up to $90 and grip is at $15. That's not correct. Boards will be more expensive. No, they won't. Boards will get cheaper. I guarantee it. Let me show you the story. Shredder says...

As we previously reported, President Trump is looking to impose tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada. This is going to hit wood prices for skateboard decks hard since most skateboards are made in those countries. First, the wood comes from Canada. Despite the fact that we do have American rock maple we could harvest here, they buy it from Canada because it's cheaper. We then ship it to China and Mexico to make boards with tariffs. You're right. Chinese boards will be more expensive.

According to reports starting at midnight on Tuesday, and this story is from March 5th, by the way, there's going to be these important tariffs. We already saw this, right?

President Trump also added another 10% tariff on all imports from China on top of the existing 10% tariff from last month, impacting products like wood, electronics, shoes and medicines. These new tariffs are an addition to the ones that were already in place during his first term. For example, the Santa Cruz 8.25 Asta Space Cat skateboard deck is currently priced at $91.95 on Zoomies, while the Creature X Sketchy Tank Martinez Trippy Tanks. Jeez, these product names are stupid.

skateboard is at $93.95. Even though Martinez was named skater of the year in 2019, his boards are pretty pricey, making them not worth it for a pro deck. Uh-huh. So don't buy it. On the other hand, shake, jump, mob grip, welcome grip are priced at $14.95 with DK, uh, DGK coming at $17.95. For skaters who go through grip tape pretty frequently, these prices seem way too high. They do. Yeah. That's, that's so expensive. Oh, heaven's me.

Skate rats are feeling the squeeze as deck prices keep soaring and the whole tariff situation is just adding to the stress. With costs already climbing, a lot of folk are beginning to wonder how much more they'll have to fork over for decent gear in the near future. Some brands are trying to keep prices in check, but premium decks are quickly turning into luxury instead of something you can snag on the regular. Sure, some might look for budget options, but with most skateboard production happening in China, Mexico, and Canada, it's hard to figure out how long those alternatives will stay cheap.

It's hard to say if this is a little bump in the road or the start of something bigger. One thing's for sure. Skateboarding is getting more expensive. And if those tariffs come into play, things get a lot tougher. Wrong. I replied to him. It's just not true. Here's Zoomies. Zoomies.com, for those that don't know, is a culture mall shop. We don't really like Zoomies.

He mentions in his article $91 for a skateboard because of tariffs. Those are luxury items. Bro, you can buy professional branded decks for $64.95. Okay? And many of these are still manufactured.

Surprise, surprise in China, Canada, and Mexico. Some are 75 and there are some that are expensive. This Mike Mo game over blind is $100. You want to know why? Mike Mo is a pro skateboarder who I believe this is his last skateboard ever because he seriously injured himself. That's a premium collector's item being sold at a premium if you're a fan of a professional athlete. But let me tell you the truth. The truth is we launched an American brand called

called Boonies. We make all of our skateboards in America, boonieshq.com. We have a variety of sizes and graphics. We have the Mr. Bocas Pro Model. That's right, my dead cat has his own professional skateboard. We sell in four different sizes. I know, some people like their weird wonky sizes. For those not familiar with skateboarding,

It's just sport equipment. You've got a variety of sizes that are popular, ranging from 7.75 inches, 8 inches, 8.25, and 8.5 inch boards. Some people like weird sizes like 8.38 or 8.62 or 8.125. Get out of here. We don't got none of those. So maybe you do want those. Fine. Okay, fine. Take your boards. The point is...

I ask you this, my friends. I take a look at zoomies selling these professional boards for 65 bucks. Usually they get free, free grip tape. Grip tape is the basically, you know what it is like? It's like a it's like a grippy sandpapery thing you put on top of the board. Everybody is going to come out and tell you that Trump's tariffs are destroying the economy. They're bad for the economy. And here we see it from the skateboard site saying, look how expensive the boards are.

Why don't you buy American made? These boards are premium quality. OK, fine. Don't buy from us. My point is this. It was not difficult for me with not a heavy investment. It was a few thousand dollars to get started. I know it's not something everybody has.

But in terms of starting a business, a couple grand, and we were able to get our initial product line and we sell our boards for $55. So tell me why the tariffs are supposed to make everything worse. We source everything from the United States. Well, the wood, I'm not entirely sure where our wood shop gets their wood from. But I tell you this, they come to us and say, here's the cost of a skateboard. I say, OK, they say, here's the cost. We got to do the graphics. Great. Now, here's the best part.

Right now, our existing professionals are getting a $15 royalty for their names on these boards. Why? They're the ones selling them. That's the point. You know how much these other pros get? They'll sell a board for $65, and the pro rider whose name is on it will get a dollar or two. So I am done playing these games. They are lying. Not in every industry. Fine. So be it.

But I can tell you this, my friends, it is entirely possible to make products in America at with with great quality at discount prices. These boards are fantastic. They're excellent made, made in America, screen pressed and printed in America, shipped out directly to you. Now, tell me why I should be sending my my these jobs to China or Mexico. Insane.

So I praise, I support Donald Trump. And I'm going to say it again. The average cost of a used car is up only 0.19%. Okay, fine. It's up. That's a bad thing. I can't speak to the entirety of the auto industry, but I can't speak to my industry. And I am telling you, we have been getting ripped off this whole time across the board.

We can make wine here. Yeah, but the European stuff is so good. Then fine. If you want a luxury premium product, pay a luxury premium price. But don't destroy American vineyards and wineries because you want cheap bargain bin French wine. Look where we are in the West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland tri-state vineyards everywhere. People make wine. You can go to these wineries and they have so much and they say, yeah, but it's not nearly as good.

If you want it to get better, you need to make it possible for people to earn a living, survive and have a family. When you got these industries and allow cheap products to flood our borders, people stop investing in American. So I'll tell you this. When we were launching the boonies skateboard brand, because that's basically behind me, you'll notice there's a window.

That's our skate park. We're doing a remodel soon. Big professional remodel. Many pro skateboarders lurk the halls and have filmed amazing videos. Shout out to Sean Hover. We got told by these distributors. I said, why don't you go with China? And I said, why? They said the Chinese boards are comparable quality at a discount price. And I'm like, well, it's kind of weird because we have to ship the wood to and from China. Shouldn't that dramatically increase the price? No, here's the best part.

Chinese workers work for slave wages. Yeah, no, I'm not OK with that. We would have saved, I think, something like five bucks per board. And they're like, think about that. You could put that money in your pocket. And I say, I don't want the five bucks in my pocket.

What I want is a sustainable business that creates culture and expands the American dream. I want there to be a guy who's 30 years old with two kids, and he says, I got a 401k, I got two weeks of vacation, and my job is I make skateboards. Now, hold on. Many of you may be saying, because I get this a lot, skateboards are silly toys and adults shouldn't be using them. The point is...

that somebody can have a job and support their family and own a home making such a thing instead of giving it all the way to China and Mexico. Why are we allowing companies to sell out the American worker for slave labor in a foreign country? They argue and they lie. We save money. That's the argument I got. But it's you know, it's going to get more expensive for Americans. Well, I pointed this out in the beginning of this show.

Sure, it's going to balance things out because the market dictates. Here's what happens right now. You want to make a car. You can get slave labor in China or Mexico to do it. Largely, Mexico is where they I say slave labor, but just call it discount labor. In America, we have minimum wages. So you literally can't hire people at all. Democrats voted for that, too. How about that?

So you open a car manufacturing plant and you say, I want to be competitive in the market to compete with Mexican made vehicles. But I can't because I literally have to pay you at least X amount of dollars by law. Then environmental regulations, OSHA regulations. You can't do it. You cannot compete the rules they set up. So what did Trump do in his first term? He started cutting regulations, making it easier for people to hire.

And put tariffs on foreign made products so the American worker could be competitive. My God, the only politician I've seen in so long who actually cares about the American worker is Donald Trump. And you know, the funny thing is they say, but but Tim, you're even if with these tariffs, the American made product will be more expensive. Riddle me this mother. Why is it that if I want to buy one of these pro model skateboards, they're 65, 70 bucks at the low end.

And I can manufacture a board, get it out the door with a profit and pay our team writers a $15 royalty. Read me this. How did we do it? How did we do it? Because they're lying to you. These companies sell your manufacturing to foreign countries, boost their profits and shove it in their pockets. And the workers get nothing.

They're scumbags. OK, I love skateboarding. I know, again, it's very esoteric, but this is I grew up skating. I skate almost every single day. We film stuff. We post stuff. And I want to make sure the people who want to make a living inspiring, expanding and built and

building up that culture that's a multi-billion dollar industry an Olympic sport that was born here in these United States I want to make sure they survive I am sick and tired of hearing pro skateboarders are Uber drivers or they do door dash deliveries I'm not kidding or they work in hardware stores this is an Olympic level sport and there's only like 10 people

who make more than six figures as professional athletes in this industry. Meanwhile, the big companies have been selling out your manufacturing to China and Mexico so you can't even work in a factory to make this product. And the pros get a dollar when they sell the boat with their name on it. They make a couple hundred bucks a month. They can't pay their bills. And so they end up working at fast food restaurants. They end up delivering groceries through Instacart.

This is what happens when you allow people to gut your culture, gut your industry and sell you out. Now I know.

I understand skateboarding, but I imagine it's the exact same thing in the auto manufacturing and everywhere else. These companies are extracting the value by selling out the American worker for short term gains. And over the past several decades, you can take a look at the Rust Belt in this country and see what's exactly happened to these people. The mass exodus from Michigan has destroyed their infrastructure, resulting in the Flint water crisis. It is all connected.

Let me tell you about the Flint crisis and why these people are screwing us over and why I back Trump 100%. I know it's risky. I know it's easier for me to say. I know that a lot of people are going to hurt for this, and I want to make sure that everybody makes it through. Let me tell you the simple chain of events for Flint, Michigan. The auto manufacturing industry was destroyed by NAFTA.

Mexico gets our auto manufacturing plants. They're paying workers with no union rights, with no health benefits. They pay them dirt wages to make the cars. They import them for free. No charge, free trade.

That makes the cars relatively cheaper. More importantly, it gives them the ability to drop prices to compete with any American auto manufacturer. So what happens? I largely don't blame the auto manufacturers. This was guaranteed to happen. They jack up environmental regulations, OSHA regulations. I'm not completely opposed to these things. It's just a point of fact. The companies then say,

They're selling their car for 20 grand. How do we sell a car for cheaper than that? We move our plant to Mexico. We can cut down quite a bit. So they do. Now they're selling cars for 19,000 out of Mexico. Auto manufacturing plant in Michigan, in Ohio, in Indiana. They say we cannot make cars that cheap.

We have regulations. We've got to pay our legal fees and we've got to pay the workers a living wage. So what does the company say? The only way we're going to be able to compete is if we reopen the plant in Mexico. And so they do. One by one, we lost the manufacturing. It's not just auto manufacturing in general from the Rust Belt. So here comes Michigan. Michigan has a core infrastructure, namely their water infrastructure. It is a fixed cost that does not change.

Michigan used to have a hustling and bustling population. Now it's facing mass exodus as the industries have collapsed and fled. Along comes Flint.

The example that I often give, I'll simplify it. Let's say you have 100 people and they're all in a room and there is plumbing to that room. The plumbing doesn't grow. The plumbing doesn't shrink. The plumbing is there. The plumbing costs 100 bucks per month for this big, massive room. Hey, it ain't bad. Everybody's paying $1. I can afford $1, right? So can you. Well, eventually the jobs held by some of those people in this big office room are sent away. And so they say, guys,

We can no longer we don't even have a dollar to pay the water anymore. We can't be here. We're going to go find work somewhere else. And they leave. The remaining 50 people now have to pay two dollars for that water infrastructure. It is a fixed cost. You say, OK, our costs just doubled. That's bad. I guess we're gonna have to make it work. More jobs start leaving. You start seeing a mass exodus. This is literally what happened in the Detroit and Detroit suburban area.

As people fled, the water infrastructure costs remained static, but the amount of people that was distributed amongst did not change. Certainly, there are excess costs for more usage. You have a house, you pay a water bill for using more than others. But to maintain the entire system and water reclamation and the plants downtown and sanitation and all of these things are fixed costs that don't change.

As the population left, prices of water increased per resident. Flint eventually had the highest water cost in the country. So the government of Flint said, why are we paying for expensive Detroit water when we have a river right here? In order to alleviate the pressures, they switched over their water supply to Flint River water, which was disgusting. And a bunch of people got sick. Legionnaires disease. Not to mention the pipes were leaching lead. It's a whole different story.

They didn't have the money to retrofit these pipes. But the switching over put contaminated water in their pipes that Flint could not maintain properly. It is all interconnected. The crumbling of the American infrastructure, the failures of these cities, and then the insults that come along with it. They say, look at Detroit. Looks like a bomb went off. That wasn't a bomb. That was free trade.

And these libertarians have the gall to come to me and to you and say, it's better that I get a cheap car. Really? Our cities have been gutted by this. Crime is running rampant. Poverty is is well, poverty is relative. So I will just say we have a lot of problems. Not all of it stems from outsourcing, but a lot of it does. This is the the market's race. So what does a tariff do? Trump says.

We're going to charge 30% if you import a vehicle. Insert car manufacturer. They say, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. We're getting that dirt labor from Mexico, but that $20,000 car now is going to cost us six grand to import. We can't turn a profit at that rate. What do we do? We have no choice. We have to reopen in Indiana.

And Michigan. And that's what they've started to do. Not because Trump has enacted anything, but because the threat that he will. So I'll say this, and then we'll grab some of your rumble rants and super chats. When I look at the skateboard industry and I see the biggest companies, they're woke, they're gatekeepers, they're condescending and arrogant. They make their boards in China and Mexico. They pay the pros pennies on the dollar and they whinge and complain about

There's no reason. Here's the reality of these cars and the skateboards and any product. Once the American industry has been destroyed, the competition is now just between people in a foreign country. So what happens is, well, these skateboards get made in Mexico and they know as long as we all kind of just stay where we are price wise, there's no competition. The big names, the big gatekeepers all say we have the best pros. We won't sell for less than sixty five.

We'll give the rider a buck. And they're probably putting, based off the volume of boards they buy, I bet it costs them $13 to $14 per skateboard to make. There is a chain. The manufacturer sends it to a distributor. So they're probably selling the boards at $40 to warehouses, who then distribute it to various other companies. Though with the internet, that's largely changing.

I know how much boards cost. Depending on where your board is made and the quality and all that, you want a top quality board. Blank boards in bulk can be as cheap as $15 per board. Now, let me tell you about Boonie's boards. The cost, we have graphic design. We have the distributors. And so the prices end up going up to upwards of around, I think 30, I think it's $35 between 30 and $35 per board.

Um, that's, that's all through the chain. Then here's what we do. $15 goes to the pro rider so they can buy groceries, pay their gas bill, live, eat, sleep, maybe even save it to own a home. If they sell enough boards, 15, we sell, we give 15 times more royalties to the pro riders than

for our team. And we're looking to expand. It's not going to be 15 for everybody because it's entirely dependent upon who we have to hire next. And I get that. 10 bucks goes to the company. What do we do with that 10 bucks? We reinvest it in the marketing apparatus to try and sell more and grow the brand. We are not making a profit off of this company.

We are reinvesting it. Everybody who works there is getting paid. They're able to live. That's phase one. Phase two is we want to invest in the marketing and increase sales and through volume and expansion of culture, make a profitable business. But I digress. We could stop where we are and we make a profit on our boards and say, look how much money we made. I want to do better. That profit gets reinvested into marketing and expansion. Again, it's a choice we make as a company to grow.

So we reinvest. We are not making a profit right now by choice. We want to make more in the future. It would be great if we could reignite a culture where people could make hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars as professional Olympic athletes. But it's going to require people who actually care about this country, the American worker and their culture. I'll say it again, because I understand a lot of people just look at skateboarding is very esoteric. It's whatever. I don't care. It's not a big industry. It's a dying industry.

It is dying specifically because it is being abused at the top by scumbags who have sold it out to foreign countries for the tiniest bit of profit. 20 years ago, they said, let's make our boards overseas. And they did. And since then, skateboarding went from a multibillion dollar industry to an afterthought. It's in the Olympics. Sure. But I think the highest paid professional skateboarder makes $400,000 a year.

And in the top 10 highest paid skateboarders, number 10 makes, I think, $130,000. Hey, don't get me wrong. That ain't bad. But for an industry that is so massive, low six figures? You know, pro athletes in football make millions over their career or at least a couple million. Yeah, skateboarding is in the gutter because of how they handle this industry. Let me grab some of your Superchats and Rumble rants.

and uh we'll talk about what's going on we got this one from Matthew oh I'm sorry it says Mike that's not Matthew says Mike okay I personally don't need a notification to tell me your show comes on Monday through Friday at 8 p.m for years I think it's wrong the notification don't get sent but it doesn't affect my viewing glad to hear it I do appreciate it we have tremendous success on Timcast IRL the show's been growing despite the suppression the here's the issue um

On average, I think one person will watch 10 episodes, I think 10 episodes per month. And we do, I think, what are we doing, 20? Which is really good. So most people who watch are core. But what about the other half? Many of these are casual viewers of the show, passive viewers of the show. They're not every night turning on Tim Castarell to watch.

They might see it and go, oh, I'll watch our IRL tonight. Oh, here's an interesting episode. If YouTube actually notified 100% of my subscribers, we would be getting 300 to 400,000 concurrent viewers every single night. YouTube refuses to do it. Rumble, they notify you. If you're on Rumble and you have the app and you say, I want to subscribe to this channel, Rumble will notify you. They don't play this weird game.

I think the reason YouTube does it is they are concerned about not being able to control top talent. Mr. Beast is safe. They know he plays ball. They know his content is very chill and very easy. So they just push him forward based on our retention time, our click through rates and all of our metrics. Timcast IRL should be substantially larger.

But they intentionally push us down. As for this show as well, our retention time is massive. And there's always an excuse. The reality is it's the tiny room shadow ban they do. They don't want political shows like this. Ooh, they're scary. The reason why we get as far as we do is because they know we don't break the rules. But it's one big dirty game. So I see big stuff happen with Rumble because of the way their system operates. One of the biggest complaints every YouTuber has had forever is that

people who subscribe to channels don't get notifications. And they'll be like, I subscribed, I hit the notification bell, I still don't get notified. And so we ended up in this era where people are like, make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the little bell to make sure you're notified. Do they still even have that little bell, by the way? How insane was it? What was the point of a subscription if you're not going to get notified? You subscribe. Well, the argument they made was people have subscribed too much. Okay, well, then they can unsubscribe.

YouTube, in my opinion, if someone subscribes, they should get a notification every single time. And if that individual's got a problem with it, they can be like, dude, I got to unsubscribe from some of these, right? Yeah. Instead, they just don't. And so people who want to watch the show don't get it. Let's grab some of these rumble rants and see what we got here. Let's see. Seagone. Is that a present? Is it Shagon? Kona coffee is good, but try some from Kauu.

Ooh, cow. Southern Big Island District. Bomb. I like it. I like it. Yeah. Kona's pretty good. Il Sarto says, guess what happened to the Mexican agriculture industry when new auto manufacturers paid slightly more than farming? Displaced agricultural workers. Sounds familiar. Jason Swank says, damn, Tim, I've watched you for years since the can videos. What's that? I don't think you can call yourself a fence sitter anymore. You're so compelling when you get passionate, keep up the good work. To be fair, the milquetoast fence sitter was a joke someone else made.

And I don't think I've been fence sitting for six or seven years. Yeah, about then. And to be fair, I always maintained positions on free speech and things like that. Let's grab a couple more. Dexandice LLC says, I want to do the same thing as you, Tim, but only in the geek nerd world. Reintroduce the old schooled LGS. Is that local game store? Feel and bring back a common sense geek nerd. Getting traction being noticed almost impossible. It's like beating my head against a wall.

Culture is being crushed by these institutions and by social media. That's why people are like, I keep telling everybody, join the Discord server. Timcast.com. Click join us. Get in the Discord server. We like...

We got a local game store down in Martinsburg. They're fantastic. It's Mambo, Mamba Collectible, Mamba Collectibles. And sometimes I'll go there and I'll play some Magic the Gathering Commander. I got a bunch of MTG Commander decks. Play Magic. Have since the game. I played since the Antiquities expansion. It's like 1994. To be honest, as a little kid, I had no idea what was going on. But I learned. And I skate and I play music. And the question is, where's the communal gatherings? Where's the people who come together?

You go to a local game shop, you go on Commander Night, the place is packed. That's what I'm talking about, baby. We need networking and human interaction in the real world. Right now, there are many people don't know how to do it. Do you go to a bar? Do you go to a game store? What if you don't play the game? Do you go to a skate park? I don't skate, right? Those are things I do. It's easy. I go to a skate park. I skate. I meet people. Some people are mean.

because of who I am. You know what I mean? And most people are chill. The funniest thing is the people who smack talk online. Oh, they chill out in two seconds when you show up and then you're handing out free product. And oh boy, are they crying? But my friends joining the discord, it's the first step. You simply just say, what up? And then someone might say, hey, I'm a big fan of taxidermy. And you're like, actually, yeah, I did a little bit of taxidermy before me too. Next thing you know, you got a group of people and you're talking about taxidermy. If that's what you're into.

We need people to connect because right now, the way Instagram, TikTok and everything works, it's decentralizing in a disgusting and disturbing way. Few years ago, people coalesced around YouTube channels. It's decentralizing. And now YouTube is no longer the big player. It is still. Don't get me wrong. I'm just saying when we do sales, we don't actually track for a single platform. Now it's just attention in general across the board.

which is worrying because this means no longer are there going to be 100 people who know every night I watch the show, I do this thing. TikTok is destroying this. Instagram is destroying this super fast videos of general purpose, AI generated. And what happens? People are slowly moving towards living in the pot and eating the bugs. They're going to lock themselves in their room and they're going to swipe up and they will attach to nothing and culture will be destroyed. So I call upon all of you get active.

I'm going to wrap it up there, my friends. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know. Thank you all so much for hanging out. And we'll see where we end up. We got more segments coming up for the rest of the day. One more coming up at noon. Things are getting scary out there, my friends. Join Rumble Premium. Join TimCast.com's Discord server. Get involved and we'll see you all next time.

Michelle Obama has launched a podcast and it's flopping. I mean, it's actually not that bad, to be completely honest. But for someone of Michelle Obama's stature and fame, you'd expect the numbers to be substantially better. Media reports MAGA celebrates Michelle Obama's podcast debuting to abysmal numbers. We're

Were you one of the twenty five thousand that listened? Well, I will say thanks in part to the Streisand effect. Her podcast now has sixty thousand listeners. Bravo, madam. For those who don't know, Michelle Obama launched with her brother, I think it is a podcast. And well, the speculation is Michelle Obama is going to launch a twenty twenty eight presidential bid or at the very least, this is an effort to counter Joe Rogan.

The Democrats have been arguing they don't have one for so long. They needed something. And here it is. Seriously, it's kind of sad, but here it is. Media reports right wing influencers on X celebrated this week as former first lady Michelle Obama's new podcast debuting to disappointing numbers on YouTube.

Okay, I got to be honest. Michelle Obama should have got a million plus on the first episode. I've talked about how YouTube works, the algorithm, all of these things, growth, celebrity. I know how the machine works to a great degree.

And you would have expected an initial burst for Michelle Obama. What we see here indicates that her views are only going to go down from here. The reason the first episode has about 59,000 viewers, just over 59,000, is because curious people will check it out and then they'll leave because it's not good. Miss Obama and her brother Craig Robinson announced the launch of a video podcast Monday promising weekly episodes and dropped two episodes to kickstart the venture.

IMO, short for In My Opinion, uploads two weeks. And you know what's really funny? Hey, come on. Are you kidding me? Michelle Obama IMO? That sounds a lot like Timcast IRL. Whatever. I'm half kidding, by the way. Here's the YouTube channel. Michelle Obama, 19,400 subscribers. And you can see they put up what appears to be some kind of clip. 1,000 views in an hour. Here's a full episode. Wow.

An hour-long podcast, 19,000 views. Jeez. The trailer has 22,000, and the first episode, You Should Start a Podcast with Your Sibling, has 59,000 one day ago. It is really, really bad. So let me tell you, when I launched TimCast IRL, I had this channel, and I had my channel, youtube.com slash TimCast. Surprisingly, this channel's now actually way bigger.

Uh, man, you know, I don't know everything about the space, but the youtube.com slash Tim cast channel was a different audience to this one. This channel was built organically. YouTube.com slash Tim cast was built off of, um,

Well, not not inorganically, but what I want to say is what built up this channel was a massive amount of views over a long period of time. Brute force, basically. The main channel was single episodes over a long period of time. Joe Rogan's shout out obviously massively boosted the channel, but a series of different views on different channels netted a lot of new subscribers. I decided I'd shut that one down, converting it to the culture war podcast. The views are substantially lower and keeping the work on this one. And now this channel as actually what are we looking at?

1,710,000 subscribers and growing. Very cool. Thank you guys for subscribing. Share this video. Comment. Let me talk to you guys about podcasts first.

The reason why they're doing this, they say Joe Rogan, who is viewed on the right as the podcasting standard bearer. Stop. Joe Rogan is the biggest podcast. Sometimes leftist podcasts surpass him, but he's the biggest. I'll tell you right. Let me a little more. They dropped an interview late Wednesday with venture capitalist Jacques Vallee that quickly racked up nearly 800000 views. Rogan's interviews with Bill Murray, Elon Musk and Woody Harrelson in recent weeks saw viewership ranging from 3.5 to 12 million. Massive.

With Mrs. Obama's podcast failing to hit those kinds of numbers after its launch, MAGA influencers circled the wagons and many declared the venture a failure. I didn't. That's why they didn't include my tweet. What I said, let me show you some of the tweets. Benny Johnson says, first couple of episodes flopped. You got Robbie Starbucks saying the show has 14,000 views. They're just another woke company popping a popular wokeness.

Were you one of the 25,000 preliminary viewings are from Michelle Obama's. So that's not from Eric Drotter. Not really saying anything bad. One person says Michelle Obama was loved. This is Brittany Hugo boom in the 2010s. Now with a mass marketing campaign, got less views. That's right. Michelle Obama's podcast was getting blasted all over the media. It does not have any poll. I'm going to say a few things.

Michelle Obama's launch was fantastic for any podcaster. Absolutely fantastic. That was my tweet. Hitting 25,000 views in your first episode crosses you over the host red ad threshold. Now for Michelle Obama, it's really bad. There's no mass marketing anymore. Here's the other thing.

While everybody is saying, you know, Joe Rogan's the biggest and the best, my understanding is still and no disrespect to Joe, but every podcaster's views are going down. That's right. Not up. But how can that be? Certainly, this is the podcast present. Presidency, the space is expanding. There's more viewers. There's more podcasts and more and more people are finding niche podcasts to watch.

Plus, there's platform divergence. So for me, here's the crazy thing. We joined Rumble. YouTube views, of course, are lower than they were a year or two ago. But you combine Rumble and Spotify and Apple actually around the same.

So I would put it this way. I'd give our performance at TimCast a B-. Good, not great. We've expanded into new areas. The company's expanded. We built a new facility. We have more people. We're making more money. Viewership has improved to a certain degree, but it's spread out. There's a lot of newer shows that launched within a year or the last year, and they're getting tremendously more views than we ever did. That's why I say B-. Like, good, not great. You know, but like a little bit, it's pretty good.

Michelle Obama should have launched like Brett Cooper launched with millions of views and now hitting like half a million. Isn't that crazy? Let's just say this. Brett Cooper is getting like half a million or I don't know the last episode was, but, you know, on an episode, I think it's once a week. Michelle Obama's first couldn't muster up 60,000. Let me say this.

Michelle Obama will continue. We'll see how long it goes, but they are going to now be attacking this space. And I told you it was going to happen. I was not wrong. If you listen to Tim cast, you're out of the curve. What did I say?

They know they lost because they don't reach this podcast audience. They're inauthentic. They're not reaching millennials and young people, and they're going to attack this space. They're going to prop up liberals. They're going to dump money behind it. What are they doing? Mass media campaign to prop up Michelle. Everybody's coming out being like, haha, her podcast numbers are so miserable. Look how big Benny is or Tim or Russell Brand or Joe Rogan. They are not going to stop here.

She launches her show. They're going to put money into it. It's going to appear at the top of all these digital platforms. They're going to go to Spotify. They're going to Netflix and they are going to try and buy this space out. Now, I don't think they're going to figure it out, to be honest. I think there's a possibility. And read Sun Tzu. You never underestimate your political opponents, your opponents, your enemies. Here's what I think.

I think the older generation really doesn't understand authenticity. I don't have scripts. I never script anything. I literally hit the record button and I just say words. Even on TV, everything is scripted. Everything they do, it's a script. It's a script. This is why people like Trump. Trump doesn't do it. Trump's got prompter sometimes, but he goes off prompter and he says funny things. And then people laugh.

So they can still try and buy the space with what institutional power they have. Maybe some of that slush fund money from the government before Biden left the gold bars they were throwing off the Titanic. They're going to put a billboards. They're going to buy the space. But hold on there a minute. There was one story. I think Barack Obama had a podcast with was it Spotify? Was that it? Renegades? Is that what it called? Barack Obama, a series of conversations. And apparently people were pointing out I could be wrong about this.

Right. Here we go. Twenty twenty two. Let's pull this one up. Been there, done that. Barack and Michelle Obama to end exclusive podcasting deal with Spotify reports say, you know why? This is why nobody watched. The institutional power is gone. The narrative machine has failed. Ratings for various websites are in the gutter. And I'll go back now to the point I was saying about podcast views going down.

It used to be a single broadcast tower, the powers that be controlled who was at the top. You'd only listen to one of three guys and they'd tell you what to believe and when to believe it. So, of course, 60, 70 million views. Then the Internet emerged and the tower started to flatten out as more and more people joined in. And instead of being a single tower is more like a pyramid. There were smaller podcasts, smaller personalities, but all of them combined mattered and overwhelmed the machine. And Trump wins.

memed into the presidency. Today, it's flattening out even further. Of course, Joe Rogan's still in the top. But based on my analysis, let me actually just see if I can do a quick maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that even Joe, everybody has seen a general decline in total viewers. So what's going on with this website? Are they giving me the actual numbers here? They're not. Oh, no. Social Blade updated. Let's see. Oh, yeah. I

I do think as massive as Joe Rogan is, and he is, oh, yeah, yeah, there we go. Whoa. Okay. I'm going to pull this in. I'm actually surprised by this. Again, guys, I'm going to stress this. I am not saying this to disparage Joe in any way. So please bear with me. JRE podcast got 39 million views in the past 14 days. That's fantastic. I mean, he's looking at 80 million for the month. I'm pretty sure he was getting some 200 million before. I could be wrong.

Still very massive. Massive, massive show. 5.9 billion. I mean, he is double, triple, massive platinum. It's not loading properly. Detailed charts. It's not actually giving me the full data. As it happens when you update your website. There you go. So, but I think Joe had like 200 million a while ago. And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. I thought it was much more than that. And I could be wrong. Now, the one thing to consider is...

These websites like Social Blade appear to show an increase in views because of shorts on YouTube, but shorts do not convert and they are bad, bad, bad in the space. So across the board, there's a general lowering of views. Now, to be fair, some people are seeing an increase in views. Don't get me wrong. That's why I'm saying we like I'd give the Timcast company like a B minus. Timcast IRL's average has gone up, but our spike viewership is it fluctuates politically.

During election years, we see massive numbers with big guests, massive numbers when it's politically contentious. Right now, we're getting in the warm season. Expect to see most people see a small drop in their viewership because people go outside and hang out in the winter. You get more views for us. 2022 was like I'm sorry, 2021 started hot and then cooled quite a bit.

Twenty twenty two sort of went up a little bit in the midterms and then twenty three a little bit more. Twenty four a little bit more. We've actually maintained that into this year, which I'm excited by. My point is simply this. Everybody's going to feel the heat. Everybody's going to see a decline. It's whether or not you let me put it this way. Everybody's going to lose views no matter what they do.

Some will gain in spite of the losses. More people are setting up podcasts. Michelle Obama is here. And there's a finite amount of attention in the world. The YouTube channels that will succeed are the ones that are going to cater to the largest audience possible. So I'm going to give you guys a hint. You want to make a podcast that gets big? All right. You ready for this?

The first podcast that uses AI to translate the show into every other language will be the biggest podcast in the world. They've already done it. They use AI to convert movies into other languages where the models actually move and you don't need to hire people anymore. It's that simple. And so right now, what we could do is, theoretically, we're exploring this. We can take the transcription from Timcast IRL, the

and we can run it through an AI that will change the language into any language we want. Right now, the system isn't completely built. It's not super easy. But once we get the plug and play automatic, click the button, and the full video turns to Spanish, and everyone's mouth is moving like it's Spanish, biggest podcast in the world. That's your hint. For everybody else, I say don't underestimate Michelle Obama.

Though they failed on Spotify or whatever it is, this is an independent operation. They're going to put money behind it. And you may mock Michelle, maybe because you want to discourage them. Fine. But when you get 10,000 prominent liberal Democrat types all launching podcasts, eventually someone figures it out. So never underestimate your opponents. They're going to flood the space. The views will decline and we'll see what happens. I'm going to leave it there, my friends. Stay tuned. Tim Guest IRL coming up tonight at 8 p.m. and we'll see you all there.

There will never be another Democrat president again. A bold statement to come from Bill Maher. Now I'm being a little a little hyperbolic. He said he doesn't know if we'll ever see one again because these people have lost their minds. I mean, who do they got lined up for 2028? Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. Oh, heavens me. Now you got people saying maybe it's going to be Michelle Obama. You know what? I should pull up Michelle Obama on YouTube. What's her podcast called?

I don't even know how you find her podcast. Let me just do Michelle Obama podcast. So she launches a podcast. So does Gavin Newsom. Is that is that literally it? Michelle Obama podcast. That can't be right. Oh, that's. Oh, whoa.

That's interesting. Oh, OK. Well, whatever. So Gavin Newsom launches a podcast. Michelle Obama launches a podcast. A lot of people are speculating this is the move they think is going to get them to win 2028 because they all are too stupid to realize that's not why people listen to Joe Rogan. But they think and you know what? Maybe they're not wrong, but they think this is their path to getting in that space.

The reason why I say maybe they're not wrong is they will figure out how to do it eventually. They may be starting low, but they're going to build up this space. Maybe they eventually figure out why people like Joe Rogan are so prominent. Everybody likes to listen to those shows. I don't think so. I think the issue with Joe is that he's inquisitive and willing to ask questions and just say what he thinks. Whereas the Democrats, they have to abide by some party line. Well, recently, Bill Maher was talking to Kid Rock.

And he said he doesn't know if we'll ever see a Democrat president again. Let's roll the clip.

you know, does every one of my jokes land? No. You lose a few. And it's just a better story, and it just would be... It would make me breathe a lot easier, because I'm not sure that this crowd is ever going to give... I don't know if we'll ever see a Democrat president again, because I just don't think they are of a mind that...

That can happen without it ruining the country. So they convince themselves they have to do it. They don't want to do it. They just have to do it because otherwise a Democrat... You see monkey do too. Meaning? I mean, somebody starts something and like, you see the talking points come out like the comms in the White House or this, that and the other. It's like everyone gets on the same talking point. They use them a lot in the news now. Everyone's talking about this. They're saying this. They're saying, you know, the end of... What is the big one now? It's constitutional something now.

Yeah. The reason why the Democrats have a hard time prosecuting this case and making Americans care as much as they should have is because there is a version, a slighter, less damaging, less...

threatening to the constitution version of all of it that the democrats do everything is a slippery slope trump's a king yeah they all try to act like kings to a degree these people just take it to a different degree and also the democrats do draw the line at when they lose an election they just quit they quit quick i mean kamala harris was basically saying there may never be another democrat president again because maga won't let them

I think he needs to understand what that means about the general population. Bill Maher admitted during a discussion with Kid Rock he's not sure we'll ever see a Democrat president again. Kid Rock joined Maher for club random. Bob, you lose me when you go there, Maher told Rock as he declared he and others won't be convinced there were no shenanigans behind former President Joe Biden's 2020 victory over President Donald Trump.

OK.

According to Rock, he set up a dinner between Maher and Trump at the White House for this month. He said on Club Random, he believes the pair would be quick friends. He lost an election. Was everyone a hit record? No. Does everyone of my jokes land? We did play that. We get it. We get it. Will you pardon your son? No. Maher says again, you have not an untrue point. That was a horrible hypocrisy. Again, doesn't have anything to do with with he doesn't concede elections. Well, I got to tell you.

I don't know if you can say we'll never see a Democrat president again, much like Bill Maher's statement. I don't see why you'd see one in. I don't know why you'd see one in twenty twenty eight. Newsome Buttigieg. Someone mentioned it was a funny tweet. They said Pete Buttigieg is like the Kim Kardashian of politics. Nobody knows why he's famous. He's just there.

He was a small town mayor. He's got no policy behind him. He didn't do a particularly good job at the Department of Transportation. I'm not saying he did a bad job. I'm just saying mostly nobody noticed and nobody cared. The Democrats have continued to maintain this position on weird issues, notably with now Congresswoman Sarah McBride, who's biologically male. And they insist on in the historical record, defining people by how they think they are instead of what is true.

This is why people lose it over Democrats, because it pisses people off. If someone came out and said, Jane Smith will be coming by tomorrow instantly in a person's mind, they imagine a female wearing a dress or something like that to deliver legal documents. Now they're imagining a pantsuit of some sort. And, you know, then we're going to go over this. And the person has an idea in their mind.

The next day, a six foot three super ripped guy wearing silicon fake breasts and big lipstick shows up and he goes, here's the documents. And then they're like, I did not expect this. They're caught off guard and they're put at unease and they get mad that Democrats do things like this. Now, there are certain circumstances where individuals, trans things, not the only one, but it's a good example because it was the sleeper issue of 2024. So say the Wall Street Journal.

Trump ran that commercial or not Trump, but the Trump side ran that commercial. Kamala is for they them. Trump is for you. And this results in that. I mean, that was a huge push. Now, the funny thing is what I hear from the left is they say there's there's there's what is the meme going around? There's more people with measles than trans people competing in sports, which is not true. There was a report that came out this morning. Fox News had it. Fourteen thousand young people over the past four years have received sex change operations. Fourteen thousand.

Now, I suppose the response is supposed to be we're in a country of 350 million people and, you know, 100 million young people or whatever. Why should we care about 14,000? 14,000 is a very large number. And the reason people are concerned about it is because it's expanding and growing and people on the right don't want it to. It's really that simple. But also, let's be real. It's because the corporate press put prominent trans people front and center in Hollywood and on the cover of magazines.

Caitlyn Jenner, a biological man, is put on the front page of a magazine winning women of the year. And people were like, you have decided this is your cause, celebrate, and we are going to now argue it. Axe started banning people for talking about it. Now,

One argument made by the anti-war side, the anti-Zionist side, both somewhat different but still overlapping in a certain degree, is that these issues are pushed to keep us distracted. So instead of talking about why we're funding foreign wars, we're dealing with culture war issues instead. Me, I don't think it's a conspiracy. I think that if we just let the Democrats and the liberals do whatever and say whatever and we actually maintain this, oh, who cares about that? It's a non-issue. It expands until it becomes mainstream.

Case in point, the video I made last week about the Prop 8 musical with Jack Black. And you've got John C. Reilly singing along with a bunch of fake Christians. And I love this video that if you allow gay marriage, they'll teach children about sodomy. And the left wing side says that's not right. That's a lie. And then the Christians go, but it worked. So we don't care. That's how they view Christians. In fact, Christians were completely correct about that the whole time.

This culture war issue didn't start with conservatives. It's been continually propped up and pushed by the left, and the right has always been reactionary. Of course, what I really love about that video is that as soon as the Christian Republicans realize they can make money, they change their tune because that's the liberal worldview they're telling on themselves. Again, I went over this last week, but in this video, was it Neil Patrick Harris? Is that his name?

says, whenever time gays get married, there's money to be made. And then the Christians go, he's right. We can make money. We've been so blind. They're telling on themselves. People on the right don't view the world through that lens of can't we just make money? And they never have moralistic, traditional policymaking. It's funny because the left says we don't let the Bible in government, but then simultaneously argue that if you offer them money, they'll take it and abandon their principles.

It's because they would. You know, an important lesson every human could learn that would greatly help them is to understand that often what they think other people will do is based off of what they will do. And if they can self-reflect, they might say, in fact, the other person may have different motives. But this level of ordered thinking, I believe, truly separates the modern left and the right. The left functions at an impulsive and reaction stage in the lower orders of thinking. That is, they say,

If like if we give Trump power, he's a fascist, he'll arrest his political opponents. And you go, yeah, it's because you are doing that in their mind. They can only perceive things as they perceive them. They can't imagine someone else may think something differently to them for real. Many of you are like, no, that's not true. It really is.

So when they see how they want to arrest people, they want to put people in camps. Their fear is if it's not them doing it, it will be Trump doing it. People on the right are like Trump's not going to do that. That's ridiculous. And none of us want that to happen. Now, maybe some people do, but the left cannot understand different perspectives. So here we are.

I'll put it this way. If the Democratic Party stays the way it is, we'll never see a Democrat president again. If they decide to moderate, it's going to take 10 years or longer. So we will see. They can still win Congress because that goes down to the county level. But I'll be honest, a lot of people on the left, a lot of liberals are kind of minding their own business on Doge because they want the government to be gutted in this way. Many of these leftists want to see the government ripped apart.

So why obstruct Doge? In fact, it is the liberal establishment and the bureaucracy that is angry over Elon Musk and Doge. We shall see. Truth be told, there are a lot of still far leftists that don't care because they're cultists and they vandalize Tesla facilities. We'll see, my friends. I'll wrap it up there. Stay tuned. We got more segments coming up and we will see you all shortly.

It's starting to get hot in the United States. Aside from the vandalism and attacks we've seen on Tesla dealerships and the rhetoric coming from far leftist calling for violence against individuals citing Luigi Mangione, threats against Elon Musk, etc. We are seeing the left now target right wing personalities and anti-establishment journalists.

We've got a few stories for you. One is Donald Trump's threat that he will charge these people under domestic terrorism statutes for attacking Tesla dealerships. Congress says they will investigate these attacks. In some instances, not only have cars been set on fire in parking lots at dealerships, some of these extremists have opened fire shooting at random vehicles. Some Tesla owners, private owners, not not vehicles owned by the dealership shot up.

Now they're targeting right wing personalities. You've got Chase Geiser swatted for a second time in 24 hours. We've got Nick Sorter mentioning that last night he his sister and his dad were both swatted. Now, many of you know that we have been swatted many, many times here at Timcast, and we have created a series of security barriers to prevent this from escalating.

So the way I'm not going to get into the finer details of our security apparatus, but as a company, we're we're able to insulate ourselves in a way that maybe Chase or Nick are unable as they are individuals. So in the past couple of years, over the course of, I think, 2022 and 23, we were swatted. I think what year was it was actually 2023, I believe.

Or maybe it was 22. I don't know. It was on the anniversary of January 6th. We hosted Marjorie Taylor Greene, and that's when it began. It escalated from swattings to a series of bomb threats. Some somehow the people making the threats had access to insider information. And this is what made things much more serious. It's escalating now. There are growing fears that we could be moving. I know, I know, to a civil war.

And I think most people don't realize, you know, exactly how civil wars begin. But before I read this, I will just say a few caveats, as I often do. The first thing I'm going to add, as I typically did not add this as a preface to all of these segments I would do referring to civil war. Liberals all throughout the past four years mocked the idea that

They said that I personally was crazy for even entertaining the possibility, despite the fact I didn't come up with this. I didn't make up one day a civil war is coming. It's literally coming from former CIA, national security contractors working in various countries, professors at Princeton. You've got now Ray Dalio. He's a billionaire. I believe I think he's a billionaire, right? Warning that we are entering some kind of civil war period now.

As Doge begins to carry out its mission and Donald Trump is president, even these liberals have dropped the pretense and are on Reddit and X advocating for calling for. And in some instances, much more likely, many liberals are warning civil war is coming. So I ask you this. If you've got basically everybody of all political factions looking at each other back and forth going, I think there's going to be a civil war.

Perhaps we are all wrong, but maybe there is a pattern people are starting to recognize. The other thing I'm going to say, of course, is the Kavits. Like I mentioned, I didn't come up with this. And, um,

There's no guarantee anything like that actually happens. So, you know, as of today, everything could stop. We don't know what the variables of the future are. Donald Trump could come out and say, I'm so sorry I reside. And then the left chills out. The right gets mad. But Trump resigns. And then Biden comes out and says, Trump, come here, you old dog. And they hug. And then Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio are hugging and throwing hats. Yeah, I really doubt it.

I really that's going to happen. And to be fair, I mean, Marco Rubio may hug Chuck Schumer, whatever, because of the highest levels, they're not screaming for each other's heads. But on the streets, they are. The important thing that I want to add for all of you as we're about to get into this news gradually and then suddenly, that's how it's described. I was speaking with Eric Prince. He's a I guess what you call him, a private military contractor, like the PMC guy, basically.

And he's an expert. You may not like his business. You may not like his worldviews, but certainly he's an expert having dealt with a lot of these countries. We had him on the culture war and I asked him, do you think the U.S. is heading in this direction towards disorder, collapse, whatever? And he responded, the one thing I can say is all of the guys that I know in our experience, it was overnight.

One day you had clean running water, internet, heat, food. The next day it was all gone. People don't understand how these things ignite. And so I will wrap up this preface, this introduction with one more thought that is important for anyone who doesn't already know. Forgive me to all of my regular viewers who have already heard me say this ad nauseum. It's a very important point if you've not heard it.

We say in the United States, the Civil War began at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. That was the first battle. The only person who died, it was an accident. After this, we got the Battle of Bull Run. The people of the United States in the north and the south at the time, it was just the states basically still did not believe a civil war was possible.

So many people held picnics on the hillside overlooking what was to be one of the most brutal battles of the civil war. The first battle of Manassas, the first battle of Bull Run, Bedlam. People were picnicking. They said to themselves, there's no civil war. It's never going to happen. And then it did. And people were dying and getting their heads blown off right in front of them. Ask yourselves, how could that be?

We look in the history books and we're like, what do you how could people have not known there was going to be a civil war? It had already begun. Some Fort Sumter was was well before this. So how could they have witnessed the opening salvo of a civil war and then still believed it wasn't going to happen? No history dictates. So I warn you, because we don't know where people will mark that line in history. We're just in it for all we know.

And I think it's actually fair to say we are in the bleeding Kansas phase. This was the period seven years before the Civil War where there were killings and fighting in Kansas over whether it would be a free state or a slave state. Seven years of conflict never ended. It just expanded into the Civil War. Now we are looking at, I guess, an escalation and rather rapid one.

The targeting of Chase Geyser and Nick Sorter, the death threats against Elon Musk, the actions of allegedly Luigi Mangione and the mass support this man has gotten. Prominent celebrities, Bill Burr notably, screaming free Luigi again. Not for a second time. There's another story that is less similar to the American Civil War, but it's the story of I believe this was was this Rwanda? The let me make sure I get this right.

The Tutsi Massacre, the Rwandan Genocide. And for those that aren't familiar with this, this is the Rwandan Civil War. You basically had, I'm going to dramatically simplify this as I'm not a major expert in the Rwandan Genocide. But this was in 1994. And apparently you had these two, I got a little bit of information. Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa were systematically killed by Hutu militias.

You had prominent personalities in media mocking, attacking, insulting the other tribe or whatever. It normalized it. They were saying they're making jokes about killing them. Then one day people woke up and they went out and started massacring gradually, then suddenly. Let me read for you the news and we'll we'll dive a little bit more into this.

Postman Hill says InfoWars host Chase Geyser swatted for a second time in 24 hours. They realized the first swat was not the outcome that they wanted. And so they escalated what the claims were on the call. So there'd be a more intense police response. Less than 24 hours were being swatted on Tuesday. InfoWars host Chase Geyser said that he was awoken early Wednesday morning by a police by police after a second swatting attempt.

This comes after InfoWars reporter Jamie White was fatally shot in the parking lot of his apartment complex late Sunday. Now, we don't know exactly what happened to this InfoWars reporter. One, the story going around is that he arrived at home and saw people burglarizing his vehicle, intervened, and they shot him. Probably. I mean, look, with the crime we've been seeing and everything, I would say that's likely the story. However, maybe because I'm paranoid, I would just say this.

In the event someone was targeting InfoWars staff, as we can see with Chase Geyser, certainly someone's targeting somebody. If somebody was and they intended to cause them harm, would they just walk up and scream InfoWars is evil and attack him? Maybe, maybe. Or would they stand near his car, knowing it's his car, hoping he would come to it and use that as a pretext? Not necessarily as a pretext, but wait for him to come to his car, right?

Could it be that he was still targeted despite the fact they were still breaking into his car? Occam's razor suggests they were just breaking into his car. But when you see Chase Geyser getting targeted and the attacks against Alex Jones and his company as a whole, it's harder to believe in coincidence. I mean, the machine going up against Alex Jones to destroy him is insane. Chase Geyser says, I was just swatted again moments ago just before 2 a.m. Six to eight police officers used a PA system to call me by my name.

and order me to walk out of my house. I was handcuffed in the middle of the street, presumably at gunpoint, though I couldn't tell because of the light being at a dot. He posted video. I was then led into the house where my wife was woken up and we were informed they'd receive a call that someone pretended to be me from someone pretending to be me and threatening to kill my family. Chase Geyser posted footage taken outside the home of police calling to him. Chase, are you inside? Chase, can you step out with your hands up? This was attempted murder.

There was a story a couple of years ago where a guy was swatted. I think it was over a video game or something. The police ordered him to step outside and he did. And they blasted him. They killed him. When they say step out with your hands up and they've got their presumably their guns are ready telling you to come out with your hands up and walk backwards. All it takes is one one officer to feel threatened or scared.

or for Chase to be walking past a shadow. And this hand disappears in the light and the cop panics and Chase would be dead. They're targeting the families. Nick's order says both my dad and sister were swatted tonight. A dozen cops attempted to kick my dad's door in at gunpoint. This is literal effing terrorism and the FBI should treat it as such. Before calling in the SWAT, the dumbish sent my sister an email calling me a Nazi, of course, so the motive is clear.

In my dad's case, the caller told police my dad was killing my entire family, requiring them to intervene with deadly force. This is nothing short of attempted murder. They wanted the police to kill my father. Unfortunately for the swatter, I will not stop. I will not shut up and you will not win. If anything, my family is behind me even more than they were before because they just got a firsthand look at the forces I'm fighting with on a daily basis. Your hate fuels me. I'm over the target. As President Trump says, fight, fight, fight.

It is terrorism. 100%. Fortune magazine reported this vandalized Tesla property and the White House will prosecute you as a domestic terrorist. Trump pledges. We cover this the other day, but my friends, I'm hoping I'm wrong, but I'm hoping you're prepared. It is not even springtime yet, and we are seeing a dramatic escalation of force and violence. The important thing to understand in all of this, typically the violence, the extremism,

subsides in the winter. People chill. The swattings are easy to do, I guess, for these crackpots. But we are seeing violence at Tesla dealerships and protests when it's still cold outside. That's interesting. I've been covering these protests for going on near 15 years. Jeez, it's crazy to say. Since 2011. So 14 years and 13 and a half. I'll be nice.

We'd never seen extremists come out in the winter or in the cold or in the rain. The protesters didn't want to do it. They weren't that serious. And we knew it. Now they are. Now they're threatening the life of Elon Musk. And we actually have more and more news outlets entertaining the possibility of a second civil war.

I mentioned Ray Dalio the other day. I read a passage from his book they published in Time Magazine. And, you know, I mentioned that I can't stand this when they say both sides are becoming more extreme. Bro, Nick Sorter and Chase Geyser ain't becoming more extreme. They're posting things on the internet. They're not threatening anybody. They're not calling anybody. So drop the pretense, Ray. We are trying to get an interview with Ray. I really want to talk to him about this because I respect him. But I got to say to these people, show me where...

Right wing individuals have been advocating for any of this. They have not. Maybe weirdos, maybe small, random people on the Internet, but certainly not the majority. Bill Burr has screamed now free Luigi twice. Luigi Mangione accused of executing, assassinating a health care CEO in cold blood in the back. Yeah, you don't have a high profile comedian celebrity on the right.

going out and advocating for violent extremists. You don't. I think the most you can muster up is what? Free Ross Ulbricht, a guy who ran a website that sold products and not the best products, if you know what I mean. But certainly this guy is not some violent dude. They made accusations against him, but that's still wholly different. And even then, prominent conservatives, many of them were upset over the pardoning of Ross Ulbricht.

What we are looking at is explicitly a phenomenon of the left where they are escalating violence. Mike Johnson says Congress will investigate the attacks on Tesla. And we have a timeline here. Let me see if I can get this. March, let's see, starting with, wow, look how far back this goes. Let me see if I can make this smaller so you can see because Forbes is a terrible website. This goes way back, starting with January 20th. Molotovs were thrown at Tesla's, the 29th.

Another Molotov aimed at a Cybertruck February 2nd. The same person was spray painting Nazi on a Tesla dealership sign. The same person. So this is one person over the course of a couple of weeks. Eventually, February 19th. So that's five incidents. Tesla dealerships were damaged by a man firing bullets from an AR style rifle. The second incident connected to the Salem man who faces a federal weapons charge.

42-year-old Colorado resident Lucy Grace Nelson was confronted by police in charge of Melissa's destruction of property for numerous alleged instances of vandalism. In Baltimore, graffiti. March 3rd, several Tesla charging stations sustained hemi-damaging fires.

Seven shots fired at Tigard, Oregon, Tesla dealership. Four cyber trucks damaged in a fire in Seattle. March 11th, three vehicles in Dedham, Massachusetts, were vandalized, police said, with all four wheels on each damaged and two others defaced with spray paint. And that's just so far. That's just so far. So Philly Tribune wrote this up. Will Trump bring about a second civil war?

They say on January 6th, it will be almost exactly four years to the very day that adjudicated felon Donald Trump, who J.D. Vance once called America's Hitler, ignited and fomented a violently treasonous insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Now, I know what you're thinking. Most of you are going, oh, not this again. But you got to understand, this is what those people are thinking. So a point was made that I think is the greatest indicator that we may be heading towards civil war.

And it was I can't remember who said it. I think it might have been Colbert or some other prominent celebrity. They said something like, could you imagine looking back at history and seeing all of the people who opposed Hitler in World War Two, putting on pink pussy hats and holding up signs saying fraud? Could you imagine people back then saying this is an existential threat we face from Hitler? And instead of D-Day, they sat in Congress with pink hats and held up little signs and

We'd mock them. We'd look back and say these people were lunatics. That sentiment. What are Democrats doing now? They're claiming Trump is Hitler. They're claiming Trump is a fascist. They are lying. They are claiming that Trump has disappeared. An immigrant, a guy who is leading violent protests. I'm not saying he engaged in violence, but one of the organizers of protests that had become particularly violent and criminal in occupying buildings illegally.

And so he's had his two year temporary green card revoked and he's facing deportation. It's still being adjudicated. There's a judge involved. It's fascinating to me that this guy, Mahmoud Khalil, is facing deportation. That's it. And the left is saying this is Hitler. This is fascism. It doesn't matter if they're right or wrong. What matters is they believe it. It doesn't matter what's true.

It may matter in the grand scheme of things. It just matters what these people believe. And they believe insane things for insane reasons. They've gotten violent. They're escalating the violence. They're targeting people on the right and the right's not doing anything in return. So what happens come summer and what happens come 2026? If we're seeing this stuff in winter, my fear is that summer is going to be particularly hot, especially considering the actions that Donald Trump has been taking in dealing with illegal immigration.

Right now, there's a story from NBC News. A 10-year-old girl recovering from brain cancer surgery. She has swelling of the brain that is recovering. Her parents are illegal immigrants, but she was born here. So she's an American citizen. The illegal immigrant parents were driving to the doctor when they got stopped by immigration and the entire family was deported. The left is using this. This is their view.

that these people should not be deported, that their child anchors them here and they should be allowed to stay no matter what. But the girl is sick. Now, again, I don't care what you think. I don't want that little girl to die. She's in recovery and she's being monitored by doctors. It's terrifying. They argue, but she was born here, so she's a citizen. I suppose we could deport the parents and keep her, but none of that really matters. The point is, as I warned last year and as we enter this new administration,

The deportation efforts of Donald Trump will be scrutinized to an extreme degree, and they will use this to claim it is Hitler Holocaust 2.0. And this is just the beginning. These people are desperate and they're insane. I wonder, do you think the deep state, the powerful intelligence agencies are simply going to roll over and let Trump run roughshod over these bureaucratic institutions? I don't think so. But I suppose only time will tell.

So I hope you've all taken care of yourselves and you are just ready for the worst, but hope for the best. I'm going to leave it there. Smash that like button. Share the show with everyone you know. Become a member of Rumble Premium. Rumble.com slash TimCastIRL. Use promo code Tim10. Join us on Discord at TimCast.com to sign up. Follow me on X at TimCast. And we'll see you all in the next segment.

For those that have been following the story, whether you're on the left or the right, the narrative was a group of skateboarders told me I wasn't allowed to skate at their park. So I bought it from them and I own it now. It's a bit oversimplified and a bit of exaggeration as to what actually happened. But that's the narrative they ran with on the left. And it's funny because they got mad about it. And people on the right said, damn, Tim Pool, boss move. I wish that were the case.

The simple version is there was a do it yourself spot that was privately owned and partially abandoned. Some locals skated there. Sometimes we had been invited to an event. I offered up twenty thousand dollars to the event because we are looking to purchase and reinvigorate the town, particularly the skate park. And some far left elements got very angry.

began threatening us, lying about what was really going on to the point where the Washington Post actually ran a front page story. The skate park was thriving. Then a right wing YouTuber bought it. Tim Pool's purchase of an improvised skate park has riled skateboarders in West Virginia's eastern panhandle.

It's all lies. And man, it really is remarkable how evil people on the left really are. Communists largely. Let me start by saying this. The locals who actually skate at this park are friends of ours. We are not that far away from this property. We have a private facility and they are invited to skate here and they frequently do.

The people who actually skate at this do-it-yourself spot, again, I talk to them periodically. I've given them some money for cleanup. They've actually gone and cleaned up the garbage. Where are we now? Well, I'll go through the full story to give you an update for anybody who's in the context, but the gist of it is this. Literal far-left elements who are not from the area, or at the very least don't live here now, have effectively destroyed the property, created a circumstance in which the city has lost it and they're livid,

And I recently received word from the city that they want me to bar all entry to the property from now on. And it's unfortunate. But for those that want the quick update, they have been vandalizing the property. They have been smashing things, spray painting, gang graffiti and racial slurs. We have we decided at some point, you know what? We don't have anything to do with it. We're going to sell the property. We're done.

because, you know, they can call it a win if they want, they can call it whatever they want. But I didn't buy this property to go to war with some crackpot far leftists. Our intention was to convert the building on the property into a skate shop and cultural hangout, a community hangout like I used to have when I was a kid. You got a you got a couch, you got video games, you got skateboards, you got snacks someplace people could hang out, shoot the ish. You know what I mean? And then

You have a skate spot that was cleaned, protected and maintained. That's why we wanted to build the spot. And well, a lot's happened since then. The locals there tell me that there are certain individuals that I will leave unnamed who have been coming with hammers and sledgehammers or something else and destroying things. Many of them have been begging these people to stop. I can confirm for you 100 percent. These are far leftist political individuals. How do I know?

They got in my face and threatened me personally at the local Cracker Barrel. I kid you not. So this is where we've ended up. And I'd like to say thank you to The Washington Post sarcastically for putting out fake news and destroying an effort at a community project, which now the city basically wants to assume control over and shut down completely. Now, what does the city want to do that? Well, the issue is the vandalism and violence. I'll run you through it.

Update for all the skateboarders out there who are going to, they got nothing else to talk about, I guess. We contacted a few major contractors and we said we want to, on this property, build a skate park and we're going to go about it a couple of ways. First, we don't want to touch the DIY portion. It's only a small portion of the space. The people who built that may want it. It's got a fun communal element. So let's leave it where it is. We will ask the people how they want to handle it.

Off to the side of the property, because I believe it's about five acres, we will set up a concrete park and or wood ramps. We will then leave the DIY for those who built it. And then we're going to have a maintained and clean space. Well, unfortunately, the locals told me we can't stop them from vandalizing it. They're making things worse and it sucks. If you put wood ramps there, they will burn them down.

A few months ago, we actually had to show up because someone was trying to set the property on fire, set fire somewhere on the property. This is what they've been doing.

And so I said, OK, concrete, you can't burn down. I talked to our construction crews and our development crews, and they said never going to happen. We can't secure the property. It's going to take several days to do the rebar and the concrete, concreting and all that stuff or however you describe it. And if they're vandalizing it, we've had this happen before. It's not going to happen.

I asked them, what can we secure the property? They said no, because look, to be honest, even if you build it, they're going to destroy it after the fact. All it takes is a single sledgehammer, one strike to the face of that quarter pipe or whatever it is or a ledge, and it's gone forever. And that's it. And clearly they're already vandalizing it. So I'm like, OK, what an impasse. Eventually we decided, you know what? They win. Let's not build a skate park.

What we ended up doing was in this video, you can see, I don't know if I can make it bigger. It's a video of me skating a very, very large, what's called a mini ramp. You can see it's massive. That was originally going to be in some form at this Martinsburg space. They can say whatever they want. We literally built it. It's not that far away, but this is in a private facility, which is secured by armed guards.

We built this ramp, which was supposed to be effectively the public park in Martinsburg that we had always been planning on doing when we couldn't. And we already had discussions and preliminary. I don't want to say we didn't sign any contracts because we didn't have plans, but we had a budget set with a company. And then we were like, OK, we can't build it. So what happens? This story from The Washington Post. I love it. It's about a guy who doesn't live here. Let me tell you what happened.

So Allison, my wife and I, we go to Cracker Barrel because we enjoy eating Cracker Barrel. It's delicious. Catfish for breakfast. You gotta love it. Some guy that I don't know is standing by the door with some woman and immediately accosts me and my wife spitting on us. And then we enter the building and start screaming in our face, insulting me, saying I stole his skate park. And I'm like, the only reason there's no skate park there is because you guys are nuts.

He basically went on to say a whole bunch of crazy things. He threatened me several times. You can call it a death threat or not, depending on how you want to take it. But let's just say the words he used would qualify in court for a death threat, something about putting me down if I if when I least expect it or something like that. And it's going to happen several times. And I

I'll try and be reasonable and say he was threatening to hit me in the face, I guess. But that is still a threat of great bodily harm. In court, it would qualify as, you know, let's just put it that way. The woman he was with said the reason they opposed us was because we would make it unsafe for LGBT people. There it is. She was like she it was funny because she kept she kept telling the guy to shut up. He claimed we bought the park to steal it from him.

to flex because we are rich kids who never had to work a day in our lives, which just shows you exactly where his mentality is at, considering I'm from the south side of Chicago, working class family background bankruptcy. We lost our house and I worked for an airline for two years, loading bags, lifting roughly 50,000 pounds per day of luggage and having very calloused hands. And he held his hands like, look at these hands. I'm not kidding. He's like, look at my hands. You wouldn't know what that's like.

So is the woman with him told him to shut up several times. It was kind of funny. And meanwhile, like Allison, my wife, she's very pregnant at the time. So I'm like, why is this guy publicly in a cracker barrel screaming at me? But they laid it out when we decided to build a skate park here. They were angry because it would make the park unsafe for LGBT marginalized people or whatever. And I said, what are you talking about? We never told anybody they weren't allowed to skate. We were going to build a skate park.

And she was like, really? And I'm like, do you think that we're going to sit there every single day with security cameras to make sure trans people can't skate or something? Now, here's the best part. The guy says, you bought it to steal it from us. And I said, how long do you think it takes for someone to buy property? And he goes, 30 to 60 days without without missing a beat. I'm like, uh-huh. And how long after we announced the money was the property sold? And he was like,

A week? Oh, it's almost like we were trying to buy it for a long time. Some people, let's just say, I don't want to act like we had strong plans. It's all kind of loose. Like, hey, we're going to buy this property. Look into it. We weren't like drawing up contracts and blueprints or anything like that. We had looked at another place that used to be a pizza restaurant with a lot behind the building. And I was like, eh.

This one's already got the DIY, and it's largely vacant. The truth was, since Hagerstown, Maryland, opened up a very beautiful Spahn Ranch Park, very few people actually skated the rather crummy DIY. So I said, let's kick some life into it. We're here. We live here. We want a skate shop. We want a facility. So this guy kind of had a realization that

We've been planning on buying the property the whole time. We actually were looking at another lot just south of this property to build a plaza when I don't know if it was him, but some other guy got in our face screaming at us and our real estate agent. This is the problem with the far left. The Washington Post doesn't care what's true and they lied. And it results in this the city now saying they're going to shut it down. So I want to give a special thank you to Gifted Hater.

He's a YouTuber. And I guess they call him Weasel is his name. Weasel, I'll give you a shout out because thanks to your fake news efforts, skateboarding is worse off. I was talking to some of the biggest companies in manufacturing. Duh, they built our facility and they built the ramp I just showed you. Hey, look at me doing a switch flip on my mini ramp on the little bitty section. I know I'm chilling. I'm an old man. This massive ramp

cost over 100,000, around $100,000. We were going to build a skate park in Martinsburg, but thanks to these evil pieces of garbage, they shut it all down. So I don't really know if I want to talk about it, but I got a call from the city and they were basically like, we want the authority to evict everybody and you need to give it to us. And I said, one of the reasons I'm doing this video is I explained, and if the city attorney sees this, he can understand,

I don't know what actions they're going to take against us or the property or the other people involved. And I don't want to be behind whatever that news cycle is, considering this dude threatened to put me down, which I consider to be a death threat several times. You don't threaten to lay someone out unless you're threatening to use extreme force against them. I told them, look, we can't ban people from the property, OK?

And they said, what's happened is homeless people are starting to take it over and it's becoming disgusting. And I said, yeah, well, we tried to redo and secure the property. But there's a guy in the city who's actively working against us. And I named him, though the extent to what he's doing is only hearsay from other people. So I'll leave his name out of it. And I said, we can't even go to the property when.

We've skated there and the locals, they're our friends. But now they've escalated threats against us to where he's actually physically threatened me to my face. We couldn't even eat at Cracker Barrel. The dude was like, how dare you eat at Cracker Barrel? He's like, go eat somewhere more expensive. And I was like, what are we talking about? What world do you live in? So instead of building a park for the public, it's been the project has been shut down. We quietly, without saying anything, decided we're going to sell it.

It's impossible to function in this city. We cannot secure the property. And these people are constantly threatening us. And they are using the corporate press to lie about everything to make it all worse. I just want to make sure y'all hear this, especially you, Weasel. Hope you hear this. Here is a picture of the ramp we built. OK, we're 20 minutes away, not even maybe 10 minutes away from where that probably 10 minutes from where that park is.

And this ramp was going to be open to the public. Think of all the people who are going to come and skate and film and build culture and community with a skate shop and this beautiful park, leaving the DIY untouched. But evil people like yourselves made sure that couldn't happen. And so it didn't. And what ended up happening instead? With the escalation of violence, the threats, the graffiti, it's fallen into disrepair. So now you may say, OK, well,

Why don't you do something about it? We can. What's the solution? OK, well, the city reached out to me and said, we want you to bar entry to to everybody and we'll take care of the rest. And I said, I'm not going to bar entry to a DIY skate park. I said, yeah, well, homeless people are taking it over and we're not going to allow that on this property. It's a maintenance violation. And I said, OK, so what can we do? They said they'll get back to me. We'll figure something out.

Considering I don't know what the city is going to do, I don't trust them because they the county and the parks department apparently are working with some of these people. I said, OK, let's do a breakdown of where we're currently at in the store, which has been going on now for what? This is a year and a half. And I'm going to explain to you one of the reasons I absolutely despise what these leftists are.

I got text messages and DMs from some of the top pros in the world. I'm on the phone with some of the companies involved in the X Games and the top levels of skateboarding and pro skateboarders. We are trying to figure out how to invest and expand skateboarding. These individuals, which are not a part of the industry, want it to fail. This is why we are enemies. We are political enemies. They say things like skateboarding should not be a sport. Skateboarding should not be in the Olympics, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah.

I don't completely disagree with a lot of the sentiment around the purity of skateboarding, but for the most part, we want skateboarding to be a functioning sport for America. It's in the Olympics. Every country is investing. So what can we do? We need skate parks. We need skate shops and we need investment.

And one of the reasons I have all these big companies and top pros coming to me is that, for one, we have launched an American skateboard brand where we make our skateboards in America. We are paying our pro riders more than basically every other company. We give them a larger royalty. We are building skate parks. We have built a private facility.

These other people don't like it because they want skateboarding to be associated with the dregs of society. I'm not being crass, crude or rude. They literally do. They believe it should be an outcast, an outcast function that no one should want to be a part of. Only people who are rejected from the mainstream. And so they come with hammers, spray paint. They set fires. They destroy the property.

And the locals who are there are trying to fix it and clean it up. OK, it didn't work. The city says we're not we're not tolerating it, tolerating this anymore. OK, well, I said like six or months ago, I was like, we're going to sell it. You win, guys. You can you can have it. Whoever's going to buy it. Don't know. Don't care. There are a lot of people who want to buy it. And that's the end of it. This is what you get. This is what they want.

The skate skateboarding world does not have the mechanisms to defend itself from these things. That's the that's the sad reality. You've got these weaselly people that are that that have prominent positions. And the way I describe it is when the tide goes low, the scum is exposed. When skateboarding was at its peak, its prime, probably the end of the 2000s, people were making mad bank. The barracks private skate facility was in its glory days. Now it's gone. Shut down.

And nobody's expanding, investing or building. Very few are. Braille skate park is gone. Whatever you want to say about that. The boonies is expanding with investment and financial success. Yeah, that's right. Boonies boards makes a good amount of money. And so here we are saying, let's make skateboarding great again. But these people are trying to make sure they destroy it. And this is where we're currently at. So I tell you this, what may end up happening for those that actually care about this story?

Um, we may just tell the city, it's all yours. It's all yours. We'll sell the property when we sell it for the time being. We grant city full enforcement rights. And what happens then? They're going to bulldoze it. They're going to shut it down. Why? Well, blame the dudes who are showing up and smashing it up and causing the problems that the city doesn't want to tolerate. Okay, well, what are my choices? Shut down the property myself or just tell the city they can handle it as they see fit. There's literally no other option.

We can't build a skate park because these people who are not locals, mind you, are threatening to destroy it. We can't go concrete because they'll destroy it. So what do we do? Honest question. You tell me, weasel. Come on, tell me what to do. You tell me what to do and we'll do it. Tell me what to do. You want us to open up to the public? The city said no. The city said they're going to shut it down.

We had nothing to do with that. It's your homies. Apparently it's the culture and community that you want. You decided to go to war with the city and now you lose. They did it on purpose and they lied the whole time. They lied about everything. This is why we build private. Take a look at what we've been doing with the boonies facility. We've had pro skateboarders come out and film. We are, we have, we just finished setting up our new studio downstairs. It's going to be great.

We are building. We have a company coming in for the redesign, hopefully in a couple of weeks or in about a month. We are we are setting up events, boonies, bounties. We have started a contest series that pays 200 bucks to the winner of the boonies bounties contest.

We've been doing everything we've been saying we're doing. So ask yourself this to everybody out there who watches Weasel, who goes on Slap Forums. Ask yourselves who was telling the truth the whole time. The park that's been destroyed or the guy who literally built the $100,000 mini ramp that didn't need to be here on my lawn. It could have been there where we wanted it. The guy who's giving away 200 bucks a month to any skater who submits a video.

who is building a new private facility, investing in a skateboard company. Y'all are evil people. You have done everything to burn this down. And I know why. Because like I said, when the tide goes low, the scum gets exposed. And these people know that if we bring a resurgence to the community and skateboarding, inspire new skateboarders, bring back the culture to its peak,

They know they will be washed out because they thrive off of hatred and jealousy and envy and scum. That's it. That's all they exist for. Some of the most prominent figures in skateboard media right now exist only to insult people and destroy the community. And that's what they've been doing. Well, I got news for you. I don't care.

I put this video out to basically give you the lowdown. We haven't been building on the Martinsburg property and we intend to sell it. But guess what? We got a two, three, four step up $100,000 mini ramp. We're building another $150,000 addition, remodel slash addition to upgrade the park. We are already working on preliminary designs for a mini mega ramp.

And more to come. We recently had a couple of pro pogo stickers come out. I don't know if I have this video pulled up. Maybe I do somewhere. Let me let me scroll to the top of my here Instagram and show you. Do I have it here? Actually, take a look at this video. Here's a guy in a pogo stick. She did a front flip over the Cybertruck. We're having a good time. We're going to keep supporting. We're going to keep building and we are going to make action sports great again.

There you go. Pogo stick front flip. Look at that. And this video has got over a half a million views. There's nothing you can do to stop us. So what's the point of the video? An update. To be honest, getting ahead of the press because the city called me and said, we're not tolerating these people anymore. I mean, look, you go and smash up a property so often. Eventually they're going to say this has to stop. I told him, I was like, why don't you stop them then? Have the police come and do something about it because I'm sick of it.

I said, so long as the county is working with these people, I'm not interested in being involved. I even offered the city hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a skate park. But you know what? To be fair, as far as it's concerned, I don't actually know where they're at with the skate park because I've talked to them and they've basically just been doing nothing because they probably don't want to do it. They like kind to do. But these people, I'll tell you this. You want to know why they haven't put up a skate park yet? It is because of this.

You cannot have that. I'll put it this way. So I hope weasel and the rest of his ilk hear this. You go to the city and say, please invest $300,000 in a skate park. They say, OK. Privately, they go to their board meeting and say, should we should we allocate public funds from the county? I said, you go to the county and they say, well, what about the existing park that was built? Yeah, I don't know. It's not that good, I guess. And they want a clean facility. They say, OK.

What happens if it gets destroyed? What happens if the park gets messed up? What if people come and they graffiti it? What if they come and they sell drugs? And that's a good point. I got an idea. Why don't we take a year, see what they do with the DIY park, and if it's clean and maintained and stable, we build this skate park. Have you ever stopped to think about that?

Because I got to tell you right now, I'm willing to bet the city is saying, I don't know what's going on with that DIY. But when an investor came in to build a park, they destroyed it. I don't think the city should spend this money. I hope that's not the case. But I got to be honest, based on the things I've heard, a lot of people don't think it's possible. And I hope I hope it actually gets pushed through.

But if the story is on the front page of The Washington Post that these people are destroying private property and you can't build a skate park here, why would the city want to invest if if they fear it will bring a criminal element to the city? Good luck, I guess. Thanks, Weasel. I'll leave it there. I don't know how many people actually care about the story, but there's your update. Stay tuned. We got more segments coming up and I will see you all in a little bit.