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-Tim states that those whom took student loans, & are now demanding others pay for it, are psychotic. Tate notes that banks are going to be rewarded for offering loans to those same people, & are incentivised to do more, if bailouts are offered for those loans. Because Tim must always be right, he keeps brow-beating Tate for daring to not simply agree with his position. It takes a few minutes for the beanie boy to understand two things can be true, at the same time:
3:40
On 1 September, Tim had Jesse Merl, a conspiracy-focused podcaster, as the guest.
Ian, & Phil, were the co-hosts.
Considering how teary-eyed he became, during the Mangled Mitt Mason episode, talking about Charlie's death, I was rather surprised to see how willing he was to let Jesse make some crazy claims about what may have happened. Compare this to how he treats Candace Owens pedaling her own brand of kookery.
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-Remarkably, Tim seems alright with letting Jesse talk Charlie Kirk conspiracies, with little in the way of pushback. Sorry to disappoint, @Lemmingwiser:
5:28
After calling out people saying Israel killed Charlie Kirk, the beanie boy does very little debunking of the guest stating that if TPUSA was involved in the assasination, it was to place Charlie into hiding to run things from behind the scenes. The strongest opposition was Tim saying Andrew Kolvet, one of the higher ups at TPUSA, is not smart enough to mastermind an assassination. The beanie boy then moves on to talk of MKUltra, & how someone speaking nonsense could be a former agent made victim of it:
6:12
-Tim does bring up Candace Owens, implying that if intelligence services were looking to take down Charlie, they would use media personalities like her to deflect blame. This is dropped once Jesse proposes that the assassination provides a martyr & a pretext to crush leftist groups, with Charlie still alive. His proof being that there have been little, to no, riots. Again, little resistance is put up to this idea, with Tim mentioning that USAID was also defunded, contributing to the reduction:
2:28
-Ian defends the perpetrators of the My Lai massacre, stating that the soldiers ordered to commit it should be spared, & only the officer ordering it punished. Likewise, he says the same should be for the heads of drug companies that pushed medications with dangerous side effects. The panel is not exactly onboard with his judgement on the event:
7:57
-After discussing influencers being brought on a trip to see Holocaust-related locations in Poland, Ian pushes Holocaust revisionism. It opens with Our Graphene Guy highlighting a clip posted by Max Blumenthal of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu campaigning on his ability to sway the United States to strike Iran. Ian reaffirms his belief that the Jewish State "instigated that attack" on Iran & their killing of Ayatollah Ali Khameini further dragged the U.S. into the war. Tim deflects unto more loony conspiracies, about Israel wanting to "build favour" in the U.S., but also be the enemy of the world, in order to bring about the Messiah. Jesse mentions the proliferation of videos questioning the Holocaust, allowed to remain up, whereas a few years ago they would be taken down tout suite. This sees Ian begin positing the Allied bombing campaign disrupted supplies to the camps, leading to the high amount of deaths. Tim is quick to clamp down on this, with Phil coming in to note Nazis were exacting record keepers:
7:30
-Tim accuses former guest of the show Cam Higby of taking money from someone to pedal pro-automatic license plate reader talking points:
8:06
-What started as another bout of bloviating from Tim turns into a barmy moment for Ian, where he claims to be empowered by how people perceive him, akin to some form of Chaos God/daemon:
On 2 September, Tim had Brian "Kato" Kaelin, a radio & TV personality made famous for his testimony in the O.J. Simpson trial, as the guest.
Ian, Libby, & Phil, were the co-hosts.
Brian is quite bubbly & quick to take the microphone, so he makes this episode much more watchable. There was little in the way of discussing news articles, as well, which was a nice change.
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-Tim continues to accuse Cam Higby, & those supporting Flock cameras, as taking money to do so. The reason he believes this is because the arguments offered are so poor, it could only have been corporate talking points. Despite claiming that Cam did not respond to the accusation of getting stocks or some other form of compensation, he did, & with plenty of time before the episode to see it:
2:08
On 3 September, Tim had Cheryl Riley, a Republican running against Rep. Jamin Ben "Jamie" Raskin (D-MD 8), as the guest.
Phil, & Tate the producer, were the co-hosts.
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-For the low cost of $10 million, Tim claims that he would get the entire nation behind Flock cameras. But the beanie boy says he would never do that, because he prefers to carry a gun, instead of have a government-run "mass surveillance network" he has to "blindly trust will do the right thing", catching criminals:
1:12
On 4 September, Tim had a packed panel. Andrew Branca, a firearms-focused lawyer & former Nick Rekieta orbiter; Ashleigh Merchant, a defense attorney & true crime podcaster; Richie McGinniss, a videographer made famous during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial; & Matt Miller, editor-in-chief of Politibrawl, were the guests.
Ian was the sole co-host, but was crowded out of his usual spot by the bevy of guests.
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-If there is one thing Tim is correct about, it is that Ian could use his antics on IRL for a solid insanity defence:
1:14
-Tim is upset that people are "profiting" of his "work" by betting whether he shall appear at a White House press briefing, on Kalshi. He becomes more irate that the lawyers, & other panelists, do not immediately take his side & begin arguing that betting on the chance of a thing happening is not the same as violating fair use:
Unfortunately, we risk having people in actual positions of power listening to the beanie boy's blathering, instead of those more merry possibilities. But at least the favourite politicos of the Branch Timidians, such as former Reps. Thomas Massie & Matt Gaetz, to the eldest son of the president, seem to enjoy being around Ian, more.
-Remarkably, Tim seems alright with letting Jesse talk Charlie Kirk conspiracies, with little in the way of pushback. Sorry to disappoint, @Lemmingwiser:
So Tim Pool's argument about CK's death has shifted to "cui bono?" or "who benefits?"
Then he says Israel isn't an option, because if he was turning against them, they wouldn't assassinate him, they would instead offer him money.
Not only is that very informative to how he thinks about how Israel solves issues and his own relationship to Israel, it also ignores the record shows that he was fed up with the demands of the donors and seemed to move against it. Tim Pool knows this, I'm sure, but he lied pretty badly here.
Tim took Labour Day off, so it was a shorter week of IRL. Here are some highlights from the 8 to 11 September streams.
ON 8 September, Tim had James Klug, a conservative man-on-the-street content creator, as the guest.
Ian, & Phil, were the co-hosts.
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-Because he could make a Seinfeld/Dragon Ball Z parody video with AI, Tim believes that Grand Theft Auto VII could be made in a single year:
1:02
-Not helping the allegations of being a pro-Russian outlet, Ian claims that Russians & Americans are closely related, both having descended from Vikings. Phil tries to counter by arguing Russians are not of Norse descent, but Tim, of all people, steps in to acknowledge Our Graphene Guy is technically correct:
4:13
-Tim says he is not looking to promote doom, gloom, & negativity, online, & he categorically states he is not a major promoter of those malicious emotions. Ignore the fearmongering World War III thumbnail of this very episode, though. The beanie boy describes the current nadir of viewership as a low tide exposing "the scum", that being content creators desperate for attention & the vicious viewers left around. Again, Tim makes an exception for his own audience:
5:45
-As a way to avoid death threats, Tim says he is not going to reply on social media, anymore:
2:17
On 9 September, Tim had David Whited, of the Flyover Conservative Podcast, as the guest.
Ian, & Phil, were the co-hosts.
Halfway through, it becomes a watch-along of Pres. Donald Trump's speech at the Dallas Republican midterm convention, with scant commentary.
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-Tim provides the shocking news that people prefer calmer conversations, over the usual IRL song & dance. He announces this revelation as a way to hype up his latest venture having good metrics. Another selling point the beanie boy uses is how people fall asleep to these one-on-one conversations, due to the show's sedate nature:
0:37
-The dooming over AI continues, this episode. Tim says he was able to have Claude convert a Newgrounds flash game from 2000 into Javascript, & add additional mechanics to it. This proves to the beanie boy that everything is going faster than he predicted, whilst still letting him be right. Phil highlights an internal model from OpenAI solving the Navier-Stokes Problem, despite the beanie boy's interruptions. Both present this as a massive accomplishment for LLMs over a human team, which was on the verge of publishing the solution. But OpenAI, via a major investments of resources, won the race to publication. Things fall apart as Phil starts correcting Tim's claims about AIs running amok, during an incident in July. As he is less set on AI being a detriment, the manlet musician holds to the idea that if AI can self-programme, other AIs shall be deployed to counter them, as well. Naturally, the beanie boy has to keep stepping in, mid-sentence, to deny the possibility. Tim concludes, from his own research, that AIs will always collude "in every single scenario. Literally, every single scenario", even to the detriment of their human controllers, so Phil is wrong:
7:35
Phil & Tim omit a major controversy from their adulation for OpenAI's work. There is an allegation that the company may have taken user inputs from the human competition, & only managed to publish first, by feeding it their work. Whilst OpenAI has denied any possibility of the researchers' prompts being used, it did not exclude the possibility some of their work was utilised.
-Despite his stated desire to turn down the negativity, Tim continues to drive home how AI is going to shut us out of technology, one day, leading to mass death:
4:13
On 10 September, Tim had Jonathan Otto, an Australian investigative journalist & red light therapy advocate/salesman, as the guest.
Libby, Phil, & Tate the producer, were the co-hosts.
This episode was rather dull, with nothing really standing out. There was griping about monetisation, & praising recent changes on Twitter to winnow down its beneficiaries, as well as criticism for the "Kirkversary" memes pushed by leftists. These were quite meandering, so it was hard to clip, without simply posting large swathes of the episode.
Adding to that dullness is dedicating the latter half to the Dallas Republican Midterms convention, once again, with minimal commentary. Though being spared of Tim's incessant yammering is a good thing.
On 11 September, Tim had Josh Daws, vice president of technology at The Blaze, & Danny Goler, whom claims he proved the universe is a simulation, via psychedelics, as the guests.
Ian, & Phil, were the co-hosts.
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-Danny asks if it is legal to marry your siblings in the United States. Tim immediately claims it is, with a great deal of confidence, but "it depends on where you are". Then saying they cannot be married, anywhere in America, after looking it up. The beanie boy seems genuinely surprised this would be the case, nationwide, calling it "incredible". What is incredible is believing sibiling marriages were legal in the United States, in the first place:
1:09
-Ian asks if an AI taking the place of a judge would be a good thing. Danny says it is not a wise idea, because LLMs cannot create new knowledge, merely harvest from the average of everything given to it. Tim calls this position "archaic", & AI can now generate ideas of its own. However, because Danny's work is simulation theory, he is better equipped than most to combat Tim's AI overestimation. Though the guest is rather mild mannered, so it is not the most forceful of pushbacks:
7:01
-Most of the show is conversational, avoiding the news of the day, which was a refreshing change. But that did not stop Tim from bullying Ian. Because Danny's studies involves psychedelics, when the subject of DMT comes up, the beanie boy cannot help but critique Ian's theorising. Mind you, Ian actually took DMT. Tim never has. It even sees the beanie boy blatantly misrepresent what Our Graphene Guy says, but Danny steps in to correct that. Then, without missing a beat, Tim speaks with authority on what the universe is meant to accomplish, as if he is privy to that information:
5:15
Also, here are two posts that show Tim's current situation. Both were posted in quick succession on 13 September.
The beanie boy is planning to have an X Space, with "random conversations", livestreamed on his YouTube channel. I am curious if that implies a shortfall in funds, as Sunday content has not been a thing the beanie boy has done for quite some time:
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Has anyone posted any of Tim Pool's boyfriend, We Are Change? This guy should get a thread because, holy smokes, he has to be on drugs if he is acting erratically in his recent videos. I wonder what is "wrong" with him? Hmmm?
I see. Well, to me it's one of those like em or hate em tricks. I haven't been paying attention to his videos, as he does jump from one topic to another. That's just me.
I see. Well, to me it's one of those like em or hate em tricks. I haven't been paying attention to his videos, as he does jump from one topic to another. That's just me.
@Fag Alert Major Fag Alert I'd be willing to toss what I know into the hat if you want to put a thread together, I still occasionally check in him, but I was a daily watcher for like 5 years prior.
@Fag Alert Major Fag Alert I'd be willing to toss what I know into the hat if you want to put a thread together, I still occasionally check in him, but I was a daily watcher for like 5 years prior.
READ THE CLC DECISION HERE THE RECORDS ARE THERE AS WELL http://www.committee.org/Court/Unansw...
Ask questions, demand answers indeed! If you're about to type words like "cointelpro" or...
From demanding people at comedy clubs be arrested for what they say, to comparing the current situation in the United States to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the beanie boy truly is keeping his promise to not push doom, gloom, & negativity, on his show. Here are some highlights taken from the IRL streams of 14 to 18 September.
On 14 September, Tim had Geno Bisconte, a comedian, as the guest.
Phil, & Tate the producer, were the co-hosts.
Gird your loins, as this was quite the tough outing.
Clip Collection:
-After Pres. Donald Trump announced that AI fears are overblown, Tim tries to reformulate his prior apocalyptic claims into being "a huge AI fan". His concern is "the rate of change", apparently, because he is, again, "a big fan". Tim claims artificial general intelligence is here, because an LLM can programme a video game. His proof is that his own definition of AGI is when "an AI system is as good at a job as any human expert in that field". This means "music, video production? Over!". Tim even became emotional when he was able to do weeks of work in hours, via SeaDance animating something for him:
3:03
-After Tate explains why he believes the current models are signs of a plateau in capability, & that LLMs remain unable to accomplish work on their own, without specific instructions, Tim gives a long regurgitation of his talking points. But he crowns it all off by claiming that GPT-6 Astra "is better...than any human I have ever worked with, contracted, or hired". That was quite the endorsement of Carter, the editor of his music videos, whom is sitting right there:
5:08
Tim continues to push how "Accounting is over, administration & bureaucracy, HR, all over". He even goes so far as to claim ChatGPT can "commandeer this computer, & file my taxes for me, & save thousands of dollars". Phil tries to help the two meet in the middle, by acknowledging that some direction has to be given to LLMs to keep them on-task, but the pay-to-use models are far more impressive than the free ones Tate cited. Tim sweeps back in to say no direction is needed, at all. The producer responds that despite Tim's claims, there is no evidence companies have done the mass replacement he trumpets. But the beanie boy flips this to say "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence", as if to mean he can make an affirmative claim which requires no proof:
5:09
-Geno calls out AI as incapable of answering questions, without censorship. Tim begins fidgeting in his chair, denying that to be the case. When the comedian says it was Alexa, Tim argues that is not actually an AI, but only "a voice-to-text (device, used) to convert a query to put into Google, & Google censored it":
3:00
-After talking about the defacing of a statue of Charlie Kirk, outside of TPUSA's office, Tim asks Geno what is to be done when large swathes of the country are animated by "a false reality" to call for murder. The comedian offers the standard small-l liberal response of good speech to counter bad speech, & only prosecuting people that actually commit violence. Tim keeps pressing that as not being a real solution, & moves on to asking what happens after society reaches the point calls for violence go viral on social media. The irony that Tim was recently shouting how social media is fake, but now is to be taken deadly serious, should be lost on no one. Phil steps in to answer the question, arguing for RICO charges to arrest the people advocating violence. Tim concurs with this, by juxtaposing the rise of the Bolsheviks, a small minority in Tsarist Russia which went on to enact the horrors of the Soviet Union; to these calls for violence:
Before Geno can respond, Tim plays two videos from Instagram, presenting these as examples of people to be arrested under his plan, remarking on their view counts & likes. The comedian aggressively pushes back on this, not accepting the beanie boy's usual rhetorical tactics. Tim's argument is that these acts are "rallies", & he seems taken aback that Geno does not accept these so-called performers are radicalising people to kill. This back-&-forth goes on for quite some time, but it all comes to a head when Tim tacitly admits this is all about his own situation:
5:19
Because the beanie boy is living in fear of people showing up to his skatepark-cum-studio, he wants any broad calls to murder criminialised. He restricts this proposal to target those "creating a clear & imminent threat", which you should recall for later. He keeps at this, arguing statements by comedians & online personalities, like Steven "Destiny" Bonnell, are making it impossible to keep doing the show. It was funny seeing Geno have no idea whom Steven was when Tim brought him up as an example of a major liberal personality. & once more, Tim had been shouting about how fake social media is, but seems to take Steven's following size at face value:
7:29
After defining threats as needing to be a clear & imminent targetting of someone, Tim brings up one of the comedians saying all the violence done in America should be redirected at billionaires, "He's right on stage!", jabbing his finger at the screen, marking this as the threats he means. Lacking a specific individual target, time, or location, this fails the clear & imminent test established by Brandenburg v Ohio (1969). Because Geno refused to accept Tim's demands to limit speech, he declares that "the Right deserves to lose" because of this:
6:39
-I skipped around 10 minutes of the two having a circular argument, where Tim refuses to agree that parents are responsible for what their children are allowed to see, online, shaping their ideology. As well, the beanie boy trots out his "ten years, on the ground with these people" to claim that comedy clubs, like the ones he showed, are where antifa recruits. Geno rightly calls this "insane", countering with his own experience in comedy clubs, never seeing such a thing. The best part is how Tim accuses Geno of using a strawman, never seeing things like this, when the beanie boy keeps using absolutes, such as "all" & "everyone". The beanie boy even shifts his anecdotes, in real times, when challenged. Tim goes from claiming people stayed to hear leftist speeches after being told Radiohead was not performing at Occupy: Wall Street, to admitting they were never told that, & were still waiting for the band to show:
8:20
The haranguing goes on, but another high point is Tim asking whether he could go into one of the comedy clubs during those acts. The implication being he would be the target of malicious intent, if so. Geno, rightly, says that the worst the beanie boy would face is boos. The comedian counters this fearmongering with how the particular club Tim is citing is not the violent sort, having done sets there, himself. As neither a comedian, nor someone that frequented the comedy club in question, the beanie boy tells Geno he is wrong. Tim seems to imagine himself as such a well-known figure that he would be spotted, stalked, & assaulted, if he dared enter this location. Geno is far more gracious to Tim than he deserves, offering concessions, though still standing his ground on not seeing the things Tim claims are happening there:
7:34
During this drawn out verbal fusillade between the two, Carter the button pusher, Phil, & Tate, are just waiting for this to all be over:
On 15 September, Tim had Dr. Ron Elfenbein, an emergency room doctor & accused Medicare fraudster, as the guest.
Phil, & Tate the producer, were the co-hosts.
Clip Collection:
-It only took 16 minutes to tie a nearly naked Sydney Sweeney to an AI-fueled "You will own nothing, & be happy" future, with casinos & sports betting to distract the masses:
6:27
Phil tries to offer examples of hard jobs unlikely to be replaced easily by robots/AI, but Tim claims Optimus bots can already do things, like plumbing. The beanie boy says the same for administrative jobs, which are already shifted to AI. The manlet musician corrects this, saying it is not yet replaced. But Tim counters with how he saw a lot of commercials for AI administrative services on Fox News as proof:
7:13
-Tim is so pig-headed that when Phil says he is not seeing current job losses from AI adoption, as Tim has been claiming, the beanie boy matter-of-factly says there are. & when called on to prove it, the beanie boy pivots from administrative work to Hollywood film studios being the indicator. Despite harping on about the sign of current job losses to AI being commercials about administrative positions in regular companies, this whole time. Tim moves to saying he is never hiring another human game developer, because his last one was terrible. But do not fret, as an AI is making him one with "comparable to PS5-level graphics", now. Along with this, Tim says he is going to outsource his graphic design, thumbnails, etc. to LLMs, as well. Tim's mind is "blown" by how quickly things have progressed & graphic design is a dead industry. Again, Tim said he did not want to be spreading negativity:
7:37
-"Right now, I'll put it like this, there's no reason for music production, anymore", due to AI, says Tim. So many jobs will soon be erased that people will be desperate for food, sending society into collapse, per the beanie boy. Dr. Ron asks if Tim is foreseeing 75% job loss in five years, but he responds even 7% would be enough to upend nations:
1:48
-Tim goes from crying about how he is bored simply "preaching to the choir" & should just sell nicotine pouches, after listening to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14); to declaring the bands refusing to go on tour with Ed Sheeran is " one of the biggest cancellations that has ever happened in cancel culture history":
4:49
-Tim announces that the current state of the U.S. "is the burning of Rome". Dr. Ron concurs & offers a historically illiterate take that the barbarian tribes arrived after Rome fell. I am repeating myself, but Tim has said he wanted to avoid spreading negativity & dooming about things:
3:38
On 16 September, Tim had Clyde "Clyde Do Something" Nichols, a Canadian-American podcaster, as the guest.
Ian, & Phil, were the co-hosts.
Clip Collection:
-Tim has a Ted Kaczynski moment, stating the industrial revolution, & its consequences, was a mistake. The children of the initial beneficiaries "grew up with no purpose", so the endeavour was a disaster. The beanie boy says that with influencer being the top job of choice, society is doomed. Clyde mentions that there are valuable, well-paying jobs which need to be filled, but Tim quashes that by saying no one from Generation Z wants to be an automotive technician, because it does not give you followers on social media:
7:42
On 17 September, Tim had Adam "Lectern Guy" Johnson, famous for purloining Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA 11) podium during 6 January, as the guest.
Ian, Libby, & Phil, were the co-hosts.
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-Tim believes everything on Instagram is fake. After screaming about videos from comedy clubs posted on Instagram which were getting massive traction, justifying the beanie boy's calls for arrests. According to the beanie boy, only 15% of all internet content you encounter is real. Of course, podcasts, like IRL are still genuine:
4:11
-Hasan Piker's recent Axios interview comes up, which see Ian argue that the label of terrorist is subjective. The rest of the panel disagrees:
5:24
After a pedantic definition game from Tim, Ian & he argue about whether targeting civilians makes one a terrorist. Ian contends that sometimes you need to even target children, if no other option exists to hit military-related sites/personnel. Naturally, the beanie boy responds by using a pop culture reference. In this case, he recounts the story of the Green Goblin from the first Spider-Man film as an example of terroristic villany to persuade Our Graphene Guy. Ironic for later, & so on brand for Tim is rejecting Ian's definitive positions with "Only a Sith deals in absolutes". This is also very funny as Ian proceeds to go full Anakin "Total Sandperson Death" Skywalker, next:
5:00
Libby & Phil object to Ian's statements that bombing campaigns, & drone strikes, are designed to instill terror. Their counter is that American war plans do not revolve around making a civilian populace fearful. Ian tries to claim that terrorism was not a popular word prior to 9/11, which the rest of the panel rightly refutes. He shifts this to hyperbolic coverage which was to drive the Great War on Terror. Tim says even striking a military base risks hitting civilians, to which Our Graphene Guy states "They're all military" for being on the base, & thereby made viable targets. This sees Phil asks if the children of Israeli settlers killed by Palestinians meet that definition:
5:34
It finally gets to where it should have from the off, which is asking Ian to specifically lay out his positions. The first offered is that the label of whom is a terrorist is subjective, to which Tim says, in Sith-like fashion, "that is not debatable". When the subject of targeting infrastructure comes up, the beanie boy says that is not terrorism, but legitimate, even though that can inflict a serious toll on civilians. Phil tries to lump Ian in with Hasan Piker, as approving of Hamas killing children. The better comparison would be General Curtis LeMay, as the topic has been American air power tactics. After more quibbling over definitions, Tim asks whether someone that ate human meat, once, is a cannibal, forever. Ian says no, because a single terrible act cannot stain someone that may have attempted to redeem themselves, afterwards. The rest of the panel reject this, even with other examples, from killing someone to petty theft. Tying this back, Ian explains that if the United States did commit a singular terroristic act that does not mark it out as a terrorist state. Tim tries to prevaricate, towards the end, though, saying it is on a gradient, where a child thief should not be marked a robber for the rest of his life:
6:23
-Tim continues to impress upon us how AI has been making amazing games for him:
4:39
On 18 September, Tim had comedian Alex Stein; Dave "Flat Earth Dave" Weiss, little surprise as to what he is; & Tony Merkel, a podcaster focused on the supernatural, as the guest.
Ian was the sole co-host.
Alex & Dave drive the conversation, for the most part, with Tim trying to use pop science to debunk their claims. & if that fails, the beanie boy uses rhetorical tactics, instead. It was almost entirely dominated by debating whether Earth was round, or flat, with occasional efforts by Ian to try & bring Tony in by asking him questions.
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-Tim dedicates this serious news show to a man positing that a star interposed itself between the Earth & the Moon, because muslim flags prominently feature that astral body in the dark of a crescent moon. Also, Alex & Dave believe the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger are still alive:
Tim was absent for more than half the week, which made it an especially easy watch-through. But because he returned for the last two days, here are some clips taken from the 21 to 25 September episodes of IRL.
On 21 September, we were cast out of the frying pan into the flaming pyre, having former Representative George Santos host the show.
The guests were Neil McCabe, a White House reporter for Steve Bannon's War Room, & Nicholas "Fat Nick" Voutsina, a rapper.
Phil, & Tate the producer, were the co-hosts.
Unsurprisingly, this was a much better outing than when Tim is present. All the guests had the chance to speak, & the co-hosts get their time to talk, too.
On 22 September, Tim remained away, with Jack Posobiec taking on the hosting role, leaving George Santos bumped to the guest chair.
Ian, & Phil, were the co-hosts.
Again, this is a pleasant outing, only marred by Ian going full barmy on Jesus of Nazareth's Cleansing of the Second Temple, & George's occasional bouts of manic mincing.
On 23 September, Tim was still absent, so Phil assumed the main chair. The guest was recent alum, Dr. Ron Elfenbein.
Ian, & Tate the producer, were the co-host.
I was happy to see Dr. Ron get a chance to discuss medical issues with the panel, this episode, as well as breaking down why he is facing federal charges. It was so novel having a guest on IRL not be forced to comment on the news-of-the-day.
On 24 September, Tim resumed the hosting role, much to my disappointment. The guest was Paul Martino, co-founder of Bullpen Cap, a venture capital firm.
Phil, & Tate the producer, were the co-hosts.
Apparently Tim was in Los Angeles, speaking with Jillian Michaels, a fitness-centric media personality & MAHA advocate, which is why we were spared his presence.
Clip Collection:
-Tim finds it exhausting discussing the same things, over & over. He is finally catching up with how the average frequenter of this thread feels about IRL. After oscillating between declaring nearly everything online as fake, one week, then is to be taken seriously the next, he manages to say both in the same conversation. After discussing a homosexual bar relaxing its mask mandate leading to "death threats", the beanie boy says "We need to stop pretending these comments are real life". Then, without missing a beat, he demands people should be mobilising due to an online poll of less than 700 people, where some respondents declared they would feel happiness, or ambivalence, at news of an assassination removing Pres. Donald Trump from office. So anonymous death threats are to be cast aside, but anonymous poll responses celebrating/indifferent to a theoretical death are to be taken at face value:
6:52
-In order to loop AI into the mix, because the beanie boy cannot stop talking about it, Tim gender-bends Ian into a redheaded woman, demonstrating how AI video editing can make a template out of a single recording:
4:15
On 25 September, Tim had Larry Ward, president of Market Rithm, a marketing technology company, as the guest.
Ian, & Phil, were the co-hosts.
Clip Collection:
-Tim believes that the Tate Brothers were targeted, not for what former friend of the show Lauren Southernclaimed, but because they made too much money via crypto. The powers-that-be did not like that, according to the beanie boy, which is why they face charges of rape & human trafficking:
6:07
He continues pushing how "the machine" chooses whom to prosecute, but it moves into a more interesting realm, for a brief moment. Tim says his show only exists because YouTube permits it. & without realising what it implies, he says the company is promoting Candace Owens onto the front page for malicious reasons. As if YouTube may not have kept Tim around & done the same with his own shows, for similar nefaious ends:
3:57
-Tim discusses his video game using "cheap APIs for OpenAI" to generate NPC responses, in real time. He appends that there shall be hidden spells to cast, via speaking into your headsets, & wants forums to sprout up sharing these secrets:
2:41
-Tim's inflated sense of self-importance rears its ugly head. A planned appearance at the University of Chicago was being opposed, but appears to still be on for October. Despite allegedly facing no opposition to his last visit, the beanie boy believes that leftists fear him as a successful ambassador to liberals. Tim continues to argue that his skater boy/musician/casual wear self is far better at convincing normal people than a conservative in a suit. That is why the latter is ignored by the activists, according to the beanie boy. Larry brings up Charlie Kirk as someone Tim said would be disregarded by the left, yet faced constant pushback, even before his assassination. Tim swiftly clarifies that all he is doing is speaking at an indoor event, not setting up a tent & assembling thousands to listen to him like Charlie did:
