Tucker Carlson SLAMMED Over Weird Algebra Comments, This Is SOCIAL DISORDER

0:00on a recent episode of his show. Tucker Carlson asked his guest about algebra. And why is it that we put letters into numbers? And his guest said, just to f with you, because he's never had to use letters in math and he's constructed wood fire kilns. Then he makes a comment about good, goi slaves. I'm gonna play the clip for you. But I wanna say the purpose of this segment is the rate of social degradation of cultural collapse seems to be, what's the right way to describe it, logarithmic? It's a parabolic curve, as it were. We're watching rapid social disorder. I was scrolling through Instagram as one does. And I was intentionally watching these, these liberal feeds, where they say mindless low ordered thinker comments

1:02to get clicks, to get views, because that's the social trend. But it's social trends towards collapse. If the social trend were something like work hard and you too can succeed, better living, then that would be a good thing. Everybody repeating that mantra, work hard, better living. Instead, all of these videos with thousands, tens of thousands of views, tens of thousands of likes or more are just saying things like burn it all down. Mindless platitudes of rage, manner at fault, the patriarchy is at fault, the billionaires are at fault, it's everyone else's fault. Burn it down. Several videos where people explicitly singing songs, doing TikTok dances while making references to killing conservatives. The point is not to say, oh no, the left. It's to say, oh no, the machine. What drives a man like Tucker Carlson to do this interview and laugh?

2:03And let me show you, let me show you. Because he posted this short, I know some people might be saying, like, well, look, it's his guest. Well, no, he posted to his page to 312,000 views. Algebra is fake. I want to play the clip for you that Tucker posted. And then I want to show you some of the commentary and just, and we'll talk about it. Here we go. Why does algebra put letters into numbers? I think just a fuck with you. So you deal with math in your job. If you can build a wood-fired kiln, you understand math. You didn't ask. I want to pause real quick and they just show to pizza oven. This is Tucker's channel and I want to stress this. Maybe I'm wrong, but that looks like a brick pizza oven because it looks like a kitchen with a brick. Hey, don't look at me. What do I know about brick pizza ovens? You understand math. You didn't add letters to numbers in the process of doing that. That's the weirdest thing. No where did I find any letters in my math to calculate the size and structural integrity of a canary arch?

3:06And that weird. I'm yet to encounter a single person in my life that uses algebra. Have you? Yeah, but I mean, I live in a fake world. Well, that's why you use fake math with letters. Congratulations. Everybody out there in the matrix. Good job. You're good little voice slaves. Yes. What? Wow. I just want to say it straight up. I mean, algebra is like rudimentary grade school high school stuff. There's a lot of reasons that putting letters into numbers is variables, placeholders for unknown numbers. It's actually really simple. Representations of, I mean, one of the most obvious A squared plus B squared equals C squared, right? These are placeholders for unknown numbers to give you a formula, which can be applied to other numbers. I think most of you know what algebra is. And I just want to say, we all use it on a regular basis. But the reality is that most of us don't need to write these things down.

4:08The, what, one of the most rudimentary of algebraic equations or of, let's just, let's just not even get into the core of algebra. Let's say letters as placeholders of variables. When you're calculating the percentages on a check or something, you just do it in your head. You don't need to write a formula down. But if you're going to write a formula down to express in the simplest of forms, then a percentage is, a percentage is, is, is not the actual numerical value. It's a fraction of a system in which so long as that percentage is unknown. And I look, I mean, I want to stress this. Most of us can do these percentages in our head very, very easily. But the basic formula would be that the number of the percentage represents would be, would be unknown. That's like, you know, I don't even need to explain this to you guys. This is what's absolutely insane about this. Town Hall says, Tucker Carlson's, Tucker Carlson's latest,

5:09algebra is useless, fake, and probably Israel's fault. Okay. Tucker Carlson, son of New Hildedion. Now, when does he hate the Jews and blame Israel for every terrible things having on earth? But he's now perplexed by the presence of letters in basic algebra. In an interview released Monday, Carlson spent two hours talking to Jess Ellowsson, an artist, Potter, ceramicist, welder, and Ford collector who lives in a farm in South Dakota. Why deserve the interview is unclear, but the bear discussed art beauty politics and of course, why you're good little goi slaves. Okay, whatever man. Here's, here's, I just showed you that club. There's another club. Let's play this one in college. I could not pass college algebra because I could not understand why we were putting letters into numbers and math that didn't make any logical sense to me. And I could not get anybody to explain to me how that was ever going to be useful to me. So I continually got into arguments with algebra teachers who thought they were smart

6:10who I found to be very lacking in intelligence. So I ended up in a class called finite math that they had hidden from us that like, it was just, I got drunk with the lady who signs you up for classes like early on in college, right? At a party. We became friends. And so I never had an advisor and I would just whatever classes I wanted to take. I'd walk into her office. I was like, Hey, sign me up for these class. She was like, no problem. Yeah. So like what I came time to graduate and like I finally had to sit down with like whatever admissions person, they were like, how the fuck they were like, you have taken none of these freshman classes. I was like, yeah, they suck and they're stupid. I was like, algebra dumb. I don't need to know algebra. My not major like I want to build cool shit. Like I took Western sieves and archeology classes and history classes because that's

7:12what I wanted to learn about. And I feel like it served me pretty well. But then I had to take a math class. So this woman was like, have you ever thought about finite math? Like here it's on the list. And it's got the same credits and accounts. I was like, let's do it. Holy shit. They don't want you to take and finite math because it explains to you how much you will pay on any loan for interest and how fast you could pay off alone if you just pay $50 more. That's all it was. I think I made it through a week of the class before I cut up all my credit cards and was like, oh, I am never doing that ever, ever, ever, ever under no circumstances. Will I ever take out a loan and pay twice the value of anything? It just made absolutely no sense to me. Yeah. This is really difficult these days, my friends. That's rough. It's rough. I will admit structurally and emotionally, this is a difficult job to do.

8:18What is this? I honestly, I'm asking what the, the already swore, I'll still, I mean, refrain. What is this? What is Tucker Carlson doing? This guy's, I'll be, you know, reasonable and say this guy's got skills and expertise in areas. Obviously, I do not. But Lord have mercy, guys. The Pythagorean theorem, Euclidean, what is it? Euclidean geometry and algebra, expressed algebraically using variables. This guy could not comprehend and I, I was, I've been talking about this for the past several weeks. Those with the inability to comprehend believe they must be correct. And this perfectly exemplifies it. And why is Tucker entertaining it?

9:19You know, the truth is people don't like it when you argue with somebody. There are debates that people like because they don't like the person being debated. But in this circumstance, what Tucker is doing, whether intentionally or not, is he wants the people who follow this guy, whoever it may be, to follow him. I wonder if that's been the play the whole time, right? That's why he brought on Nick Fuentes. They want Tucker to kind of pipe or all of these conspiracy people into one corner or something I don't know. Algebra is so basic, so elementary, so rudimentary. It's shocking. But this guy's brain cannot comprehend. And this is the, this is the, the sort of analogy that I've described. In a religion and I'll put it like this for those that haven't heard it, for those that have, forgive me for explaining it to those who haven't watched those videos.

10:21Let's say you and your friends are in a room and you've got paintings and they're three different colors. And you know, it's you and 10 other people and then you say to everybody, all right, everybody do me a favor. Everyone right now point at the red painting. And nine people do and the one guy goes, what? They're all red. All the paintings are ready. Points are the one on the right. And you're all like, bro, that's, that's, that's, that's a green. That's, that's not, that's not red. And I'd be like, that, that, that is, they're all red. Because this person has color blind and they cannot perceive a color. They are confused as to why it is everyone is pointing at one painting. Now this man perfectly exemplifies this phenomena. They put letters in math to F with us and finite math teaches you how loan interest works. I think I wonder if the goal of Tucker is to demoralize. And I, I mean, that's seriously, I know he's been friends with Trump for a long time.

11:24I rode in a car with him. He took me to dinner. Uh, he was very nice. Uh, I'm, I'm, I'm grateful for the dinner. He's a very nice guy. He talked to the president on the phone. We could over here the conversation. I mean, it was very loud and it was very obvious. I didn't care that what they were talking about. Uh, I wonder what that was about, honestly. Part of me was like, are they trying to see if I'm going to leak their conversation? Like I'm going to go to people and tell them what Trump and Tucker was talking about. Because I didn't. I'm like, I'm in the car with them. It's not my business. And it wasn't anything crazy. But it was newsworthy, I'd say, you know, someone. But not interested in sharing those details. Maybe that's how they do those tests. Like can we trust this person? We say something to them. They're going to go and tell people, well, I didn't. But I look at this and I'm just, I'm just like, this man cannot comprehend something basic. Therefore it's stupid. I saw this, uh, this video from a woman on Instagram. Because I was saying, yeah, I've been, I'm, I'm, I'm, I've been pulling up a lot of

12:25these Instagram videos kind of because this is what I'm looking at right now. The degradation of society, I suppose. I, I don't see any way to reverse, reverse it. I wonder if the intention right now is to fry our brains because the AI is about to destroy everything. And destroys is maybe not the right word, but fundamentally alter in ways many humans would find, uh, unappealing. This woman said, she thinks the next trend is going to be the smart people stop bothering with social media and they walk away because you can't, you cannot, you can't explain to somebody. How to see red, who's colorblind? I can't be done. For a long time, uh, the people who are colorblind, I mean, this metaphorically, not literally, trusted the people around them. And when nine people all said like, bro, we can, we can explain to you, show, like point to anything and we will all tell you which one is red and which one isn't, you are colorblind. A colorblind person doesn't know their color, they can't see colors.

13:29They can't. Uh, so typically the red and the green spectrum overlap. So things tend to look blue and yellowish, greenish blue yellow. They have these glasses that rip out the middle of, of between red and green. So only the furthest edges of red and green on the spectrum are visible. And this allows contrast. So colorblind individuals can't still see red the way everyone else does, but they can now see the distinction between red and green instead of them being blurred together. We invented that. And this is, uh, it's proof to people who are colorblind that in fact, you are colorblind. But the longest time is just trust. Someone would be like, I don't believe you. Did you know there's a thing called tetra chromat? There are women when they carry the mutation on one of their X chromosomes that typically result in colorblindness. It allows them to see hundreds of times more colors than everyone else. And there will never be a way for them to explain to you what they're seeing.

14:30You cannot define colors. There are things we know we cannot know and we do not know. And there are people, uh, and we know the tetra chromates for a variety of reasons. One of the ways you do it is they print out a sheet of colors that it's a gradient, but they are intermittently, uh, uh, uh, their, their widths are intermittent. And then they ask, uh, an individual to count the individual shades. Now they know through using computers that there are distinct shades, but the human I can't discern it typically. Tetra chromates can look at it and say 71 and everyone else would say 63 and they'd say in the incredible. In fact, you can see more colors than someone else. But to a tetra chromate to name a color that no one else can see makes no sense. And they wouldn't have a frame of reference to explain to somebody and it'd be weird if you were like, Hey, look at that red thing on the wall and they would go, that's reddish.

15:32Yeah. But it's more of a gloomph. Oh, but this way red isn't just red, right? You know, I've got a bunch of things in my room in the studio that are red, but they're different shades of red. So a tetra chromate is going to see different shades of red. I just say, yeah, it's red. How do they explain to someone they're experiencing something that you or I cannot perceive? So I go on social media and I see stuff like this and I just wonder to what end, you know, where, where is all of this going? More and more people on the right are getting called out for corruption, taking money from the government without disclosing it, taking special trips. You've seen it all. More and more people on social media are just posting low ordered thinker, regurgitated political commentary, anger. I wonder if it's the intended condition. Seriously, I don't know where this all goes. I've got a story that I'm working on for my 4 p.m. show, and theropic researcher quit

16:33warning about AI. And I mean, maybe this is the reality. The machine is already here. It's not about whether the machine wants to destroy us or control us. Maybe it's already doing these things. Maybe it's not. But the people who are running these companies want this machine to exist by any means necessary. And so I wonder with things like this with Tucker, if the play is actually just straight up, we need to keep as many people as possible, angry and stupid, distracted. From what is actively happening. You know, I was talking to my friend today early in the morning as I was getting up. We have decoy ducks. And the ducks will fly down and see the decoy and they'll stare at it and they'll honk it and do whatever dumb duck things they do, not realizing as a block of wood, bro. We do the same thing with puffins and other birds.

17:35Do they do that to us? When we go online right now and we see these profiles, we know that AI replacement already exists. How many of these videos we're watching are not really who they say they are. There's a scandal right now in skateboarding where someone is taking skateboard clips and then using AI to change the skater into a cute young girl. And it's working. The accounts getting a ton of attention and then selling only fans and the only fans is likely AI as well. We knew this was coming. I mean, we've talked about it on the show. I don't think people realize just how bad it's going to get. I would say this for Tucker posting the show, it's slow news. You want attention. He's got millions of views combined across the board on this insane clip about fake reality the matrix and letters and math not making sense.

18:36I wonder if Tucker's real play is just target the lowest common denominator. Everybody on the back end of the bell curve. So then what do we do? Honestly, I have no idea. But more and more, I'm thinking by the end of the decade, AI is going to fundamentally alter and destroy us. When I say destroy, I don't mean kill burn on our cities. I mean this, the way the machine works, the content it gives us, what we're going to consume. I could record this whole video. Actually what I could do is I could record a video talking about, I'm a good talker, right? Maybe not the best, but certainly good enough to have several successful podcasts and make a lot of money and have millions, you know, tens of millions of, ten plus million followers. So what if I made a new show talking about something else, somewhat political or philosophy perhaps. And then I just used AI to make it a 24 year old attractive woman, build a bunch of followers.

19:42Nobody would know it was me. If you might, you might figure it out based on the inflection and the tone and how I talk, but ultimately, no, I don't think anybody would be able to figure it out. That's what we're headed. Why would anyone do anything otherwise? If you're good at talking and people don't like you for your brand, make a new brand, if you're good at talking and you're concerned about threats against your family, use an AI mask to make a fake persona that no one can ever find. But what does that mean for us? It means there'll be a virtual world of fake people controlled by one or multiple individuals or multiple individuals controlled by a single entity, single person. There will be a distinction between virtual and reality in ways that are just mind blowing to us. It reminds me of like Dr. Jacqueline Mr. Hyde. Initially he's like, I feel good, but eventually the persona is hardened.

20:45I don't know if that's actually canon in the actual story, but there's been many depictions where it's like the first time the timid doctor drinks the thing and he becomes strong. And he's like, this feels good. He's cognizant of the change. He knows who he is. But with that confidence, the persona begins splitting. And now he's like, no, when I become Mr. Hyde, I'm angry and aggressive and dangerous. And it's almost like you're two different people. I wonder if that's what the internet is going to be like. The offline will be completely isolated from online and everyone knows online is fake. I'm going to leave it there, my friends. Smash the like button, share the show. We got more coming up for you throughout the day. Thanks for hanging out. We'll see you on the next segment. MSNOW is launching their everything app, including meditation. We got this really schnazzy image with light pastel colors of all of their aging hosts. The reason why my friends is that media, as we know it, is completely dead.

21:46Now we predicted this several years ago that what we were going to see with media, podcasting, YouTube, etc., would be a mass migration to major networks. That appears to be happening for many reasons. You know, when Napster came out, many of you who are watching this, if it's too young, people used to buy CDs. Then Napster was developing. People were sharing music illegally. Then we got scour and lime wire and kaza. All of these different peer-to-peer file sharing programs. And it ripped money away from movie producers, music producers. Then of course, mega upload became the website. We could watch basically any movie for free. They rated Kim.com's house in New Zealand. Arrested him for it. Oh boy, was that crazy. But eventually the machine came back. People started watching and listening on platforms. And now all that's over. We have Spotify, we have Pandora and Apple Music, whichever one you spotify is pretty much the dominant one. Where you subscribe, listen, whatever music you want. The artists don't really make that much money,

22:46but at least they're making some money. And now we don't own any of the music physically. The same thing's going to happen to media like this, what you're watching now. It is impossible on YouTube. It is impossible at this point. I don't understand how anyone thinks they're going to start a new channel. You have to be cream the crop, lucky, lucky, lucky. Now it's funny is that 10 years ago people told me the same thing. But I'm not saying you can't be successful in that you can make some money. But to be, I'm going to say like this, I don't think there's ever going to be another Bill Mar, Megan Kelly or Joe Rogan. They were first in Best Dress from an era where everybody knew their name. But now that media is completely decentralized, the cable networks are about to go out of business. There's no way they can sustain the amount of money they're paying with their minimal ratings. Their ratings are the poccaliptic. This video I'm producing right now is going to get more views in the key demo than the anyone of their prime time shows. And the reality is they probably will do better on Instagram and TikTok

23:50than they will do on their cable TV shows. But even views here are in rapid decline. Now of course, as I like to say, the rising tide lifts all ships, but the low tide exposes the scum. You're seeing a bunch of angry people attacking and insulting everyone saying, your views are down. I mean, if that's the only reason you've got into this, you can see the motivations of most people. Guys, I'm not motivated by getting millions upon millions of views. I'm motivated by something more arrogant than that. A narcissistic need to express myself. I'm half kidding. But really, the motivation for me is that there's things I want to say and I want to talk about and I want to talk about them. So it's kind of therapeutic as it were. And then you may notice if I don't end up doing a video, it's because I don't really have anything to talk about. And I'm just not going to for no reason. But right now what we're seeing in media is it's the end. Guys, it is the end. And I really do mean it's the end. Let me show you. MS now is turning their app into like meditation stuff because well, let me tell you how it works in the tech industry.

24:50It's called real estate on a smartphone. If you can get an app on the open in lot, right when you open the lockscranes and app there, prime real estate on the phone, that app can be or do anything. So there are companies that might buy an old app that's out of date because it exists on millions of phones. You buy the app, you update it, not something different. And people are like, when did I download this? Doesn't really happen like that. Usually if they're similar apps, video games, for instance, people want that real estate or they can go within the app and slightly change it. I'm not a big fan of it. So MS now is making this move. But let me show you this. The week of August 24th, cable news ratings MS now. So this is the latest ratings. Check this out. MS now reported week to week gains. Oh, that's fantastic. Good news MS now. Tell me about your gains. Fox news average 2.027 million total viewers. Whoa, that's a lot of people. Oh, wait a minute, 169,000 in the key demo. No joke. 169,025 to 54.

25:54Now Tim Kestai, well, let's double that. We do about double that. I'm not trying to disparage Fox. They make way more money than we do because of that 2 million elderly bracket. The network is up by 1%. Hey, that's great. Oh, wait a minute. Minus 5% in the demo. Yo, look at this. During the day, they got 1.25 million total viewers and 104,000 25 to 54 viewers. Now there's some questions about what it means total viewers because I'm going to be completely honest. If they got that in total views, wow, that's insanely bad. Not to mention that first and foremost, that's elderly individuals. I'm not trying to disparage you guys who are older. I'm just saying that's not key demo. When you look at this distinction, this means boomers are watching cable TV, but they are now at the age of mortality 80 years old. In the next 10 years, they expect around 60% of boomers to die. Again, not trying to be morbid or be a dick,

26:56but this is the cycle of generations in life. If Fox is getting 104,000 key demo viewers, I'm going to tell you right now, I'm going to look at it my dashboard right here for YouTube. 100,000 views on a 20 minute video, 400 bucks. Wow. And then we've got, you know, two, but it really does depend, it retention matters. 200,000 dollars, 800 bucks. I got one here, 300,000 views, a thousand bucks. That's great money. Do you think that Fox can be able to maintain the staff, the production, the quality, everything they do, if they're getting a thousand dollars per hour, not gonna give me wrong, as an individual sitting in your office on a laptop, a thousand bucks an hour. Bang, let's go, baby. That's where we're going. There's no possibility for a cable TV news system. Now I'm gonna let you know the big secret to about what we got here going to think, Castaio Real. We're actually, we're doing really well. We're actually expanding.

27:57We're setting up a new DC studio. So now we're going to have three studios, although to be fair, the Castle studio is basically dismantled at this point. So we've got what we call free, Domestan, which is the large, massive acreage with skateboarding, all this stuff going on. And we're working on some TV shows, in fact, licensing for skateboarding, acting adventure. We put up a vlog yesterday. I'm gonna film a vlog again today, because I don't know. I feel like it, I guess. Board, I feel like doing it. We got like 30,000 views on the vlog yesterday. Look at that. The channel is 100,000 subscribers. Then we got the Tim Poole show. We're doing well and I'll tell you why. Tim Castle, I wrote a viewership is about where it was in the last midterm cycle. That's actually bad. We've had great subscriber growth in the past four years. So we should be 30 or so percent up from the last, like, midterm cycle. But everybody is down. However, our margins are still really good, because we don't have a massive staff away Fox News does, but we do have a decently big staff.

28:58That's largely about media investments and things that we're doing here at Tim Castle, like music, skateboarding, coffee, whatever. Many of these things have been beautifully profitable. Some of them haven't. So what we're doing right now is we're reinvesting specifically into what we know works, especially right now is everything's falling apart. The new studio is going to be television quality with, like, we're doing it ladies and gentlemen, this is it. Started it in a basement, moved to a living room. The original backdrop was vinyl flooring slapped onto foam board insulation, propped against the wall. We then built our next studio, which was four Amazon desks all nailed to each other. Very weird, seriously. And then we built our second studio in the castle. This is our third room with a big wooden table for which we have two of them now. And this didn't work in right now is the highest end of podcasting. That is the camera quality is really good. We've got professional lighting. Everything was done at the highest level of podcasting

29:58a room with all the crazy designs and guitars. And now I tell you this, my friends, the next room. Television quality. Big cameras, big room. We're spending a lot of, like, how about a half a million dollars for the new studio? NDC in the same building with all of the other major television say, it's a big upgrade for us. It's a big upgrade. We're moving on up. Now I'll tell you why. Let me show you a bit about what's going on. We got this from your web, whatever. The breakfast club moves, Netflix sees sharp drop in YouTube viewership. They don't care. They know exactly what's up. Charlemagne's smart guy. This is exactly what I said was going to happen in 2024. We've been talking about this. And one of the reasons we're doing this massive expansion is because we know you're going to license your show to one of the big networks where you're going to cease to exist. Now that being said, there's still going to be the first and best dressed of this era. That is, there's never going to be anybody as big as Bill Marr, Joe Rogan, or Megan Kelly. These are people that, when they give an opinion, the news writes about it.

30:59It's kind of wild. It's because everybody wants to know what these people have to say because everybody knows them. Charlemagne, the God, is a big personality, but he's not Bill Marr. He's got a big show. But it doesn't have the massive central reach the way Bill Marr does. I'm not saying that Bill Marr's ratings are the biggest in the business. And I mean, this is all due respect to Bill Marr, because I'm a big fan. He was very nice to me and kind. Tim Kest, IRL, beat him by one ranking point at the end of last year. For 2025, we were once lot above Bill Marr in terms of ratings and viewership. But Bill Marr has something that I don't. Most people have heard his name. I really do mean that. I mean, you talk to somebody in the back, of course. And so the media can write about him and his opinion really matters. Charlemagne and I, and Charlemagne's much bigger than I am, but we don't have that massive reach. His reach is bigger than mine. We don't, well, I think it is. I'm pretty sure his show is much bigger than ours, especially now being on Netflix. Don't be wrong. But we're a new, a new breed in this space

32:01where we're not gonna have the universal gravitas of a Joe Rogan, a Megan Kelly or a Bill Marr. I'm Megan Kelly too. She doesn't get that, we've talked about her viewership being low on YouTube. And I'm not saying to be mean, but again, people know her name. And when she gives an opinion, the media writes about it. It's actually fairly impressive. Charlemagne sometimes, but moving forward, what's going to happen is you're either going to be the next generation working with these networks as YouTube and everything collapses. Or I'll put it like this. I think it's absolutely fair to say that Tim Kest, the IRL, I don't know that it could exist in the next two years based on these trends. And the reason why it's not because we don't make money, we do, it's actually pretty good. The issue is that I can't personally host like this morning show, interview show, and Tim Kest, IRL. The issue is, Tim Kest, IRL requires production staff, a big room. It needs subsidy. Right now, Tim Kest, IRL exists because of our members

33:02at TimKest.com. It makes a decent amount of money, but it would only just be a good job. The problem is with security costs, as a large, what comes with being famous is you've got to have your security, right? And so the trouble then is, you need to make a certain amount of money to cover the risks and threats to you based on the amount of exposure you get. But at this point, you're not really getting enough money from the exposure due to clipping and extraction. There are substantially more views about you than you can control. Now, onto the major network. Look, look at this. They're all signing with big companies. They're working with big talent agencies and we're not different. We're not different. We'll see what happens moving forward. That's for sure. But YouTube is not sustainable. Let me show you, let me show you, this is from PPC land. I don't know what this is, I just googled it. YouTube creators report significant view drops following undisclosed algorithm changes.

34:04We've got this. This is what pops up when you look at it. Seven months ago, someone said, YouTube views down 50% since start of November 25. Indeed. After the election, after last year, everybody's views got hit. Now, of course, people are gonna lie to you. Garbage days as Ben Shapiro's YouTube traffic is in freefall. It's just a manipulation, it's a lie. It's true that Ben's views are down, but literally everyone's views are down. Our margins are still good in a single individual, as we still do make a lot of money in this business. But a show like IRL, which requires this studio and infrastructure and security, it's gonna be increasingly difficult to run even this show, to be honest, which is not particularly big. And I don't mean my viewership, like our viewership's pretty good. We've been averaging, I think we do like 400K right now in the off season. Everyone's views are down, we're doing like 400 episode. And then with clips, we add on another million or so. So it's good.

35:05It's not where it was or where we want it to be. That's fine. But it doesn't make good money and we do get good sponsorships. And to be honest, our sponsorships has actually never been better. I think it's because everybody is down, advertisers are forced to compete for what's available. It doesn't matter what they want. It matters what they can get. And everybody's saying, look, we have less views, but to operate the show, it still costs X amount of dollars. So advertisers have to pay more. Not good for the economy. But ultimately my point is, we have a big staff, we have a big table, we fly guests in. One of the things that we're doing with Moomin DC is multi-fold. It's going to be a lot cheaper for us to bring in guests. A lot more higher profile guests move to the city and have told us they'd come on the show, but they don't want to come out an hour, hour and a half outside of the city. So we're going to have multiple facilities. It's a big expansion for us because we do well. Primarily thanks to our members. Additionally, Tim Guest RL is largely subsidized by this morning show. Basically pays my salary and then the access money goes to funding and operating the nightly show,

36:05Tim Guest RL, because what I like doing it, we're passionate about it. But what I'm going to say ultimately, the whole point of this, what is the point? Because we're going to wrap things up. There is no way Fox News, CNN and MSNOW can run these shows. It's impossible. CNN has been bounced around being sold off and traded over and over and over again. It may be acquired in a new deal. Fox News, apparently Fox Nation doesn't make enough money. That's their subscription service. There's no way they're going to pay five million bucks a year to Jesse Waters on a show that's getting 100,000 viewers per night. And there's no way they're going to increase that viewership in the key demo. Most people who watched cable still have that habit, but they're aging. 30 years ago, the people who watched cable news are the same people who watched cable news 30 years later. For the rest of us we're young. We consume media in a decentralized manner. That is, for most of you who watch this channel, this may be one of the channels you watch the most, but you're watching a bunch of other shows as well. We do not have the centralized ability to raise money

37:08in the way these channels used to. This means we are looking at a couple of years because it doesn't, it doesn't need to be that everyone who watches dies. It needs to be that you can't sell sponsorships anymore. And then they're going to say to the host, to the five guys, you're getting 100,000, 200,000 in the key demo. That's like a thousand dollars for the hour. Seriously, a thousand dollars. No, no, no, no, don't get me wrong. They charge a bit more for TV viewership ads than, you know, online. But what are they gonna do? Sell one spot for 10 grand, then they're gonna pay your staff. That's not gonna pay your camera guy, your makeup, your lighting, your facilities, your internet, your satellite, your talent. You know, the end is nine, my friends. MS now, they're turning their app into a wellness app because they know it. And look out all their hosts are. This is why everybody's trying to pander to young people. Good luck. Smash the like button. Share the show, and stick around. We got more coming up. We'll see you in a minute.

38:09Here's a question for every one of you who is tuning in right now to comment below. And I want you to comment before you finish the video. Would it be wrong? Do you believe it is wrong? For an individual to be on the payroll or be granted special access as an employee of the government, engage in political advocacy without disclosing that they're working for a branch of the government. There's another question that we can ask in a similar space before we get into what this is all about. Would it be wrong for journalists to accept a paid, all expenses covered trip for a political tour in which ultimately they did post about that political tour without disclosing it? The point is I covered this and I'm getting pushed back from angry people who I believe have engaged in simple unethical behavior. That's just it. I'm not going to pull punches. I'm not going to change my view on morality, transparency, and you know, access to information.

39:12Simply because these people are supposed to be on my side. Although there is a deep question about power politics and how we seek to win, but I'll put it this way. I believe that it is wrong. If you're engaged in partisan politics, but you are actively employed by the government and you've not disclosed it while engaging in any kind of political advocacy, I believe that is unethical. The reason why is that when the government, there's this video clip where it's gone viral where guy says the CA will come to you and they'll threaten you and they'll say, look at all this dirt we have on you, you work for us now. They reframe it as, you know, we're going to protect you and you're going to save your, you're going to help your government. Try and make it feel like you're a good guy. That's just not true. The way it works is that any special interest will hire an individual who's already working in the direction that they like. That's how it works. So if you're a progressive media outlet,

40:14you don't hire journalists and say we're going to pay you to say things that are progressive, you find a progressive and say, how would you like to be a journalist? That is currently there are several people that were hired by the Department of War for various roles who engage in overt partisan advocacy. Again, the reason why a government, our government, the government, Pete Hagx, the Department of War, whoever directed this would hire individuals is because they are working in the direction that benefits the Department of War, the Pentagon. That's not to say that that action is bad, not at all. I'm a fan of that actually. It's good hiring, right? But the individuals should immediately disclose, hey guys, just so you know, I've been hired for this role. I now work in this place, which brings me to the story. Will Summer is not an honest guy. In fact, the funny thing is he's literally what he describes other people are. He falsely framed stories.

41:14He falsely accused me of stealing a cat. And he used weasel words for a story he knew was false to try to pull accused of stealing cat. Now the real story was that I never had the cat, the police that I never had the cat. It's just fabricated. Somebody else had the cat. But this is what happens when you have a big following in your well known. And I think to to my own detriment and my fault when I choose to engage in those stories. So I'm not going to. I'm going to just tape a ring it off, I guess. And I'm going to stop responding for the most part to most people. It was a funny clip I just saw with Theo Vaughn and Kevin Smith. Theo Vaughn was like, Joe Rogan says, don't look at the good comments, don't look at the bad comments. And he's completely right. He's completely right. So anyway, here's where we are. I posted the other day. I'm just tired of everyone being so angry, you know? Let me see if I have the tweet actually pulled up. That's a different one. And I just said, I'm tired of everyone being so angry

42:17all the time. And I really am. So I'm done being mad. Don't care. I see all these videos and photos of everyone just really, really angry about things. Elon responded to me saying, I'm not. I am. I am. He said, I'm not. Well, I disagree. Being angry, everyone's angry all the time. Creates this, you know, anger gets the most shares. So I'm just not interested in someone making an Instagram video where they're either crying or angry. And they're not angry in any meaningful way. They're just angry. The billionaires are stealing our bananas. Okay, I guess. You know, I think I'm more interested in just what things are, how they work. And I think to, you know, with this story, which will get into a data Republican, I'm not interested in in, I don't know, war, I guess. What I'm going to call it, power politics. So data Republican responded to me.

43:20You said my role remained undisclosed until journalists discovered it. Plus titled the episode, they were lying the whole time. I'll give you the facts directly. Indeed. I had a video with one of the titles being, they were lying the whole time, which was more so a general reference to the Pentagon, less so the individuals in question. But to a certain degree, they is they is all of them, right? I'm my response to the Republican. So I never called you a liar. Are you saying I read the news story? That was wrong. Come on, Tim. You opened the episode with they were lying the whole time. I never explicitly stated data Republican has lied about this. With me and talked at length about journalists influenced by governments, using your own inadvertent experience with Russia as mitigating factors, we don't have to fight we can resolve this. The point I was bringing up, of course, is the argument for the Russian influence manipulation is that Russia, like literally any other source, is going to try to provide money to individuals that are already working in their direction.

44:22That being said, the reason why I say the Russia stuff was a sigh-op and not correct is because I have said since the beginning of the war, Russia initiated a new crane. The Russia is wrong. They pulled the gun. The way to describe it is, if I'm negotiating a sale price of your vehicle, and you're making a great offer, it's a lot of money. So if the guy pulls a gun, points it at you and says, give me the car, we all know who the bad guy is. The US was doing really well with soft power to win over Ukraine. So I've been critical of Russia. However, also critical of the present of Ukraine going to Congress and getting our members of Congress to waive their flag. And Germany, our NATO ally, has issued an arrest warrant for Ukrainian for bombing the Nord Stream pipeline. I don't care if you're the victim of a war or whatever. Why would I say that's okay? The reality is the money that we received from a Nashville-based company, we didn't need, didn't affect the company, didn't substantially change our margins or anything like that. That's why I say that's weird. That's a sigh-op. But the argument is, which I think is a fair argument to make,

45:23they're trying to make it seem as though not that Russia was like here to him say this, but they were whispering amongst themselves, we like what Tim Poole does, hey, give him money. Which is kind of weird to be honest because I'm fairly very pro-US. So I say, sigh-op. Merit Garland comes out with this weird accusation with no evidence, drops it a month after the election, we get it. So I said, what do we need to resolve? If you did disclose before that reporting that you took a role with the government, I will say as much as my show was rock wrong. Data probably can say is, it is true. I did not announce my special government employment appointment for a month, a month where I barely posted anything. What needs resolving is that you opened the episode with me and said, especially government employees were being used for the purposes of spreading propaganda. You then said, government executives were employing propagandists. I was hired as an analyst. I was not hired or directed to publish government messaging as an influencer. Issue that correction on air, not only on my behalf, but also on the behalf of cynical, publicists, Rob Meness,

46:23and Kurt Schlichter, all of whom were also hired as subject matter experts. No, I'm right. I worked for the corporate media. When I got hired by Fusion, I got hired by Vice. The reason they hired me was because I was coming out of Occupy Wall Street. They didn't hire me because I was good with technology. I went to various companies with the technology that I had built. I was at the BBC and they explicitly said to me, this is incredible technology will dramatically reduce our costs. We're not interested. However, Vice was interested not so much in the politics, but in the PR of the politics. Look at the attention he's getting. Fusion is explicitly political. They wanted to say, look at this, we're young, we're hip, we're progressive, Tim Poole, Occupy, the people's media, whatever that may be. And I learned this at Fusion because I didn't take the job with the intention of being an activist. I wasn't information activism we called it because that's what journalism didn't exist. That's what we called it.

47:24When I worked for Fusion, this actually came up several times. The people who worked there were not journalists. Some of them were not going to be wrong, but many of them were progressive activists hired and asked to be journalists. Hence, when the government hires several prominent public personalities and advocates and then gives you a role as an analyst or subject matter expert, they are still providing resources. Whether they're intentionally employing you to produce propaganda on their behalf, or they're trying to prevent someone from biting the hand that feeds them, that is called a conflict of interest. So yes, when the government hires people who agree with the government, I would call that propagandists. Now there's degrees of propaganda. Propaganda isn't always mean misleading misinformation or incorrect. It just means essentially advocacy towards that group. There can be dark propaganda.

48:25There can be, I think it's called a black propaganda is basically a false flag. There can be malicious propaganda, which is the government intentionally lying. And then there can be just general propaganda. That is, you hire people who agree with you and now they're funded and can keep agreeing with you. There's nothing wrong with that if you publicly disclose. As a political advocate, as an individual with a point of view who produces content and is critical of various politicians and political actors, I work for the government in the Department of War. That's fine. If you are secretly working for APAC or funded by Israel and you are lying about it, that's wrong. If you are funded by Israel or Israeli advocacy groups and you publicly disclose it, I think that's fine. Now get me wrong. I'm not a fan of people who are working at the Mehastah Foreign Governments, but as long as you explicitly tell everybody that you are doing PR for a foreign government

49:29and you register under FARA, well then that's not illegal. Everybody knows what your goals. It's like working as them head of marketing for Bud Light. And you're lying about it and you say you don't actually work for Bud Light. But you sure do love a crisp cool, but yeah, that's wrong. And then I lost the point. cynical, publicist, as apparently clicks are more important than the truth for this guy. Well, I don't know about this guy. Did you disclose that you were hired by the government while engaging in advocacy? So I believe data Republican responded to a post I made and I'll show you what I pulled up. Because you know, and again, this is about me saying I'm tired of everyone being angry. And then Genika tweets at me attacking me mad about something I'd said before. I mean, you're a lot to be mad at me, whatever. We're not friends. I asked Groc. Because I saw this post and I was like, what did I lie? What was I wrong about? What did I call her a liar for?

50:30So I was like, I don't explicitly remember calling her a liar. Genika Pounds did not publicly disclose her special government employee role at Pentagon before it was reported. She began the SGE position in July of 26 after her Pentagon press credentials expired in June and she did not renew them. The role became public around August 21st, 24th, 26th. During an online dispute with State Department official Sarah Rogers, AFPost first identified her as a Department of War employee. The Pentagon then confronted to reporters, including AP and CBS. She posted her own confirmation on August 24th. Multiple outlets noted she had not told her large ex-filing before the reports. She later said she did not view it as a big deal because of her existing doge adjacent branding and to avoid looking like she was chilling for the job. SGEs are typically part-time, unpaid or limited scope advisors. Public financial disclosure rules vary by pay and duties. She responded, Grock, did I put, why is it doing it? Did I publicly state my affiliation with doge a long time ago? And then one finally the time was right. I went to doge.doge.w. And if this had happened in a different earlier time,

51:32it had been received much better by conservatives. This is a weird response. But I think this shows that data public and understands the unethical nature of what she did. I didn't ask whether you publicly stated your affiliation with doge. I'm talking about when you took a special government employment and you did not disclose it. That's it. Leaving a role and then doing political advocacy and then taking a role, these are distinct things. So data reput- so I'm correct. Grock says yes. In February of 25, you publicly stated, resigning to pursue doge adjacent efforts full time. They mean to work with the admin on efficiency cuts. Your doge support was widely known and amplified then. You later joined as dodo, doge, doge, sg in analyst in July of 26. Formal role disclosed after August reports. Oh. Was the doge role, well, here's a data Republican says, correct. Now Grock, how would this have impacted the timing of my disclosures of being affiliated with doge, assuming I was operating for position of good faith

52:34and not wanting my work at dodo to be a distraction to doge efforts at dodo. Your early 2025 public statements on resigning for full time doge adjacent work already made the affiliation part of your known brand. Now to the good faith goal of avoiding distraction to dodo doge efforts, that prior transparency would support delaying formal sg e role disclosure until meteor reports forced it in August, rather than announcing at the July start to limit spectacle or an appearance of self promotion amid later debates. What a weird response from Grock. This person said fed fed fed fed just kidding, but you once called nick of fed, you probably know your people. Awesome. Blah blah blah boom. Let's go back to the question I asked. Was the doge role paid gig and was the July 26 role in new position. Tim, look, we could have resolved as if just reached out in the first place. I am deaf with expressive dysphagia. I pay an interpreter who's worked with me for a long time to fly to the Pentagon, including living costs. Why can't you just accept that genuinely wanted to improve the most important institution? The US military and my own personal expense.

53:36I'm being poor for going to the Pentagon, not richer. You you took a government position and didn't disclose it while engaging in political advocacy. That's it. That's the issue. Shouldn't have done it. Have a nice day. Blah blah blah. Why do you care, Tim? What are you trying to insinuate? Not a whole lot actually. It was a video about where I was talking about the fact that progressives were doing it. Mamdani was doing it. Hegg Seth was doing it. That we are seeing this expansion in the culture war, where partisan agencies, the Department of War is bringing on these individuals who are media experts and they're engaging in either expert roles or whatever. They're government employees. If you're a government employee, you should be disclosing in your profile. You should get the gray government badge. Well, I guess it's for politicians. At the same time, Mamdani was also, they reported from Fox News that they were, that he had an army of influencers as well. I get it. The government does.

54:37I would just say this. I think that our publicant understands that it's, that it was wrong to not disclose that you were working for the government. I know that the publicant has a lot of fans. That's fine. I'm not going to, to play games. You should disclose when you work for the government. Thank you. That's it. I said I'm tired of everyone being so angry and data Republican was angry and started tweeting at me about something unrelated to me saying I'm tired of everyone being so angry. That is what it is. SEO for deplorables had many stood up for you to lend you when the DOG named you in the indictment state. Actually, they never did name me. In fact, is this point to see you turning on a patriot turning on? If you just read five minutes of her work, actually, what I would say is, I was correct in my assessment that individuals were brought on by the Department of War. And I believe for the purposes, the purpose is to have prominent influence.

55:39There's a bunch of people you could hire for DOG in these jobs that don't need to be the highest profile individuals that don't need to have hundreds of thousands of followers or command influence. That being said, you're more likely to know about these individuals who are subject matter experts because of their influence because they have a lot of followers, right? But I'm not, I'm not going to change my my morality because you guys are fans of someone in the work they do when they did something that they shouldn't have done. I didn't say it was the apocalypse. I, in fact, don't really care all that much about data Republican. I'm not saying this person should be fired and and cast into the fires of mount doom. It was actually a fairly broad point that everybody is doing this. The left and the right are doing it. They've been doing it. They'll do more. Share blue was a company that existed for a while. We will see more of this. It's not too late for you to back off. I know you have hundreds of fans. I'm, you know, I gotta bounce just over it. Not really interested. That is what it is.

56:41The business of personal destruction of genuine patriots based on false accusations. The reality is not a false accusation. And I think from the way that data Republican addressed this, they're aware full well. This is a post that got highlighted by Will Sommer. Nothing. He's a good guy from July where Genico is engaging in politicking while not disclosing that she was working for the government in some capacity. Whatever they should. And then where was that? I mean, here you go. It is true. I did not announce my SGE appointment. I don't care what your reason for it was. I really don't. You work for the government. You're an advocate in politics. That's it. So I'm going to say it again. Like the idea that it's not a consideration within the Department of War. And I have friends who work there that you are employed by them. And you didn't. It's called a conflict of interest. I didn't invent it. I'll just, I'll just wrap it up with this, my friends. I just don't care.

57:46You know, I, I, I think people should have largely figured this out by now. I'm not here to play left, right up, down, whatever. I think the left has got a lot of problems. You know, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, tracker site. The assays bad, you know. But I also just think that, um, the, the, the nature of politics is, it's power politics is what we're seeing across the board. You know, the tribes are fractured. People believe that they should be able to get away with things that some might find unethical or wrong. And they should be justified in doing so. That's fine if you think that. I don't. You know what I mean? Um, like I believe in free speech. But I don't believe in defending the free speech of an individual who's actively trying to end free speech. That is, if your goal is to do away with my right to speak, I'm not going to stand up for you. I'm not going to advocate to shut you down, but I'm not going to defend you. I will not testify on your behalf. I understand that we're in the, we're in the world of power politics.

58:52The world that I live in has standards. You don't have to live in it. But you can take a look at this. Let's just, let's just put it this way. Data Republican admitting they didn't disclose. She didn't disclose that she was working for the government. Okay, it's conflict of interest. You should have done it. Uh, for the purpose of spreading propaganda. Yeah. I have an opinion. I don't think the government brings on high profile individuals with a million followers for not espousing their perspective and worldview. The individuals who flew to Poland and went to that Holocaust memorial and posted about it. You didn't get an all expense paid trip by a pro-Israel organization to start spreading positive stuff about, you know, the Jews and the history of the Holocaust. They didn't do it thinking, yo, wouldn't post. They didn't require you to because they don't have to. That's the point. They don't require it because they don't have to. They know that bringing you on, you are going to do what you already do. That's why you disclose it. And cynical publicists goes for the ad hominem clicks are more important.

59:57Oh, please. The story is certainly the one of the least important stories that exists on the internet. When I posted, I'm tired of everyone being so angry. That was for clicks. Look at me wrong. I got a half a million, I guess. I'm done with this. I, I, I'm, I'm done with all of this. I just am. Let people isolate themselves, let people live in the world they want to live in. I've never tried to live in that world. I'm not going to pretend that I'm okay with people secretly working for the government. And yes, secretly saying I didn't want to disclose it because it would have been a distraction. Yes. So you knew you were not disclosing. The information was privately held with you, despite there being a conflict of interest in that. I'm okay. Well, thanks for admitting it, I guess. I'm allowed to have an opinion. It is what it is, guys. Welcome to the nature of reality. This is what people do. So I'm curious. How did you comment? Do you believe that it's wrong for people to take a role with a special interest group and not disclose it while engaging in political advocacy? It's an honest question. Smash the like,

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