The Leah Files X Shawn Ryan Drama, Anduril and Peter Theil

0:02 BACK, BABY. I'M BACK. We here. We out here. It's all good. I'm happy to be back here with you guys. I really missed y'all. I did. I really, really missed y'all. So, it's, you know, just my honor to be back. Um, and so, yeah. Uh, are you guys still getting an echo? Are you still getting an echo? You should not be getting an echo. Okay. No,

0:47 no echo. Good. Thank you. You saying I look younger? Thank you. It's just because I got a haircut. I didn't have a haircut for like two and a half months. I just got I got I let it go flowing. It was so bad I had to wear a haircut for a few weeks there. And uh yeah, so got a haircut before we went to Vegas. Um cuz I just wanted to look and feel my best, you know. Um and uh uh for those asking uh I saw Metallica at the sphere my girlfriend took me for my birthday uh to fulfill a lifelong slash childhood dream I guess

1:32 uh to see Metallica which is one of my first favorite bands probably my first favorite band that was like my band you know and uh and I had actually never seen though. In all these years, I have never seen Metallica, which was crazy. So, uh, obviously Metallica was doing residency at the Sphere, and my girlfriend got me got us tickets and we went and we had a fun weekend in Vegas. It was amazing. We got there Friday night. Um, woke up, had a great day. It was actually really interesting. Uh there's this restaurant that we really love there that Okay, so there's a coffee roaster and a

2:18 restaurant and we need to go to those two places every time we go to Vegas. The coffee roaster is called Mothership. It's like a woman-owned um coffee spot and they do the best coffee there. Like one of our favorite coffees ever comes from that place. So we went over to there and then the restaurant is called Boschon and it's at the Venetian and we discovered it a couple years ago and whenever we go we try to make our way over to there and yeah it was really awesome. Uh, so we went, we got coffee. I wasn't hungry and I was like, "Let's go later to Boschon, like closer maybe

3:05 to the show or something." And my girl was just like, "Listen, we're already out." Cuz we drove to Vegas. So we had the car. We're like, "We're already out. Why don't we just go over there now?" And I said, "All right, fine." We go over there. I run into two of my friends that I haven't seen in 15 years. One of them was my best friend growing up who uh it would just kind of drifted, let's say, and and it happens, right? But I haven't seen these guys in uh 13 to 15 years, and it was insane. It was actually really insane. Um and it was like fortuitous. Um got to reconnect with those guys. They were there for Metallica as well. These were guys that

3:50 I used to listen to Metallica when we were, you know, teenagers and we'd play their music and just headbanging and and it was really cool. Got to uh meet up with my friends afterwards and uh got to rekindle some old friendships. Uh two of the guys that were there uh were in my high school band, so we were three of five people from our band. Um and it was pretty cool. So yeah, and it was fun. Metallica was awesome. Yes, I'm seeing Val that uh Metallica, you know, did some sort of commentary. Everybody just I don't know assumes that the Metallica commentary was about um

4:36 you know that uh Mmore and like really pro- Israel. Um, I think, you know, personally, I was looking at it and I really think that he he was just talking about like artists using their platform for politics and he was kind of talking about like all the artists that do that. And I don't think it was specifically like a pro-Israel thing. that my girlfriend thinks like everybody else that it's um it's like a Mmore thing like criticizing Mmore. I don't really think so. And it's not because I'm biased because I love the

5:21 band because I'd actually been very critical of Metallica because uh some years ago uh they found out that their music was being used to torture people in Iraq. And you know, James Hetfield, the same guy, the singer, said something of the effect of was like, you know, basically being glad that his music was used to torture these people. Um, so, you know, is what it is. Sometimes you got to separate the art from the artist. Uh, their music's rad. Uh, at least, you know, for the time it was good. Um, it was good for me to see them to see these songs that I've been listening to for uh

6:06 30 plus years at this point. Um, and it was just awesome. It was awesome. This thing called Ann over on YouTube, the lone YouTube watcher. Thank you. Thank you for hanging out on YouTube, guys. I got YouTube figured out. We're live streaming over there. We're still streaming this one. Uh, but if you're over here on kick, thank you for being here on kick. Nobody's on Twitch. But, uh, Twitch is broken. I literally only use Twitch to record my VODs, which I could do right here in my software, but I don't. Um, because you just never know, right? You just never know. And so, yeah. And so

6:52 we are now entering into another week full of influencer drama. It's just it's just when is this going to end? All this everybody's calling each other a fed. Let's put this to rest right now. I really, really hate when people call other people feds. Not so much because of the infighting. That's going to happen. I wish it didn't, but it's going to happen. But when you're calling somebody a Fed, what is a Fed? A fed is an employee of a federal agency like the CIA, FBI,

7:42 DoD, NSA and so on and so on and so on. Okay. A fed is an employee. Yay!

8:29 Hello. Can you hear me? Were we muted? I must have accidentally hit my button. Whoopsies. Don't know. I do not know where I left off. So, I'm going to start it all over again, guys. Uh yesterday, Monday was the return of more infighting within the content space, the content creators, the information space, and one of the things that has been happening a lot, particularly over the last couple of weeks, but also for quite

9:15 some time now, is everybody calling each other feds. And I hate that terminology, feds, because a fed is an employee of a federal agency like the CIA, FBI, NSA, and so on, right? An employee of a federal agency. That is what a Fed is. Okay? What people when they're calling other content creators feds, what they really mean is asset. Now, an asset is somebody that's used by the feds, by the agents, right? So, what they're actually saying is that these people

10:00 are assets. And that is a different thing. And I know it might sound nitpicky, but words matter, guys. And the meanings of words matter, especially when you're levying those words against other people to defame them in some way. Like just get the terminology right. Please, please, I beg of you, get the terminology right. Stop calling people feds and start calling them assets. Right. What is What is a Fed? Well, I just explained it's an employee of a federal agency. And so, uh, yeah,

10:47 obviously yesterday, another Monday and another start to more infighting between a bunch of content creators calling each other feds. And it's just dizzying. And I wonder what's going to be the next Fed slop fight next Monday. Who knows? Tune in. We'll find out. Fern's mom, thank you for being here. We got all the friends we got. We got Kate, Fledge, George, Shelby,

11:33 Pity, got Trevor. We got all the people up in here. Vel, so grateful to you guys for being here. Thanks for rolling through. Thanks for hanging out. Um, yeah. So, let's get back to it. This whole Fed thing is getting preposterous. But this week, well, maybe there's some validity to those terms. I don't know. Let's look into it together. Now, I guarantee that all of you know about what I'm about to talk about, which is the Leaf Files and Shawn

12:18 Ryan beef that is currently going on. We are not going to rehash this. You all know, but maybe I'll give you the 302 explainer if you don't. essentially the Leah Files. Uh she had went on to Shawn Ryan's podcast 4 months ago and that episode never aired and a lot of us were wondering why that happened. Why why did we never see the Leaf Files do her interview on Shawn Ryan? I've seen all these episodes from Shawn Ryan like a couple a week now for months. no Leafiles episode. So, the Leaf Files comes out and she does two pieces of

13:06 content on X explaining what had happened and why she why her episode had never aired. The first part was a bunch of infighting with this other person who's probably a Fed asset. Um, and I'm saying that correctly because she actually is employed allegedly by federal agency agencies. So, she actually would be a fed. Um, but that's not important. It's about part two. And part two, what she essentially alleges is that she was brought on to because her whole thing is about following the money. She was brought on to follow the money and expose TPUSA and their shady money and their shady

13:52 dealings, right? And it was follow the money and who is doing what over at TPUSA. And Leah alleges that right before they [snorts] started filming, she was asked not to talk about the Founders Fund, which is Peter Thiel, or A16Z, which is Mark Andre or Andre Harowitz. That's what A16Z is. And uh yeah, so she's not allowed allegedly to name names. And so she puts this out and Shawn Ryan responds by releasing the entire unedited

14:37 interview with Leah. He put it out in two forms. Sorry about that, guys. He put it out in two forms. He put it out as a normal video on YouTube and then he put like a multi- like the multicam version on X essentially uh every camera. So, you know, there might be like six, seven, eight cameras in there. So, it's every angle live, right? And right there all on one screen. and and and he's saying like I put out that version so you can see that there is 100% no cuts which I commend him for doing that if you're going to be

15:22 if you're going to be accused of something to do that is actually the best move that he could have made. Um and I commend him for that. But there's still a lot of questions. So this morning after watching not the whole interview but a lot of the interview and seeing all of the back and forth all day yesterday and I kind of put out my own statement because apparently you have to put out a statement. You have to take a side. You have to have a voice in everything

16:08 that's happening in the world apparently, especially on X. So I said, I think the Leaf Files reporting about Shawn Ryan's investments into surveillance companies like Anderoll with Teal and Andre is a problem, and I've always trusted her reporting, which I have. Shawn, who I've been openly skeptical of here on this show, while also having defended him in the past, did a transparent move by putting out the unedited full interview with Leah. I think that's commendable. But just because two people are at odds doesn't mean that you need to pick a side or even have an opinion at all. Hell, you can even choose to like or

16:53 hate both sides. And this is this binary thinking that we have where where if two people are at odds now you have to plant your flag in the sand on which side you're on for and then it becomes this infighting and oh you're on team this and I'm on team that and you and everybody's going crazy in the comments. all day long. And it's quite honestly annoying and just downright exhausting.

17:40 It is. I can't even keep track. I can't even keep track because I'm friends with a lot of people on X, with a lot of other content creators. I'm friends with them. And when I got to keep track of who whose side of whose beef they're on, if they're on my side this week's beef, if they're on the other side of next week's beef, how am I supposed to navigate that? Am I supposed to hate them? Am I supposed to love them? What am I supposed to do? You just have the option. And this bears reminding you have the option to not have an opinion. It's actually okay to not have an opinion on something.

18:25 It's actually okay to not choose a side when it's not your fight. Sometimes it's just better to sit back and let it unfold because sometimes more information comes out. And before you start everybody that you think is against you and then some other other information comes out and now you got to oh man, do I hold this, you know, reactionary position that I had or do I switch? Me personally, I like to change my mind when new

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20:41 a little context. When I said that I've been critical of Shawn Ryan, but also have defended him in the past. I think that, you know, they say once a Fed, always a Fed. Once CIA, you're like never actually former CIA. And I think to some degree that's true, right? I have my suspicions about John Kyaku, but who doesn't, right? And uh yeah, I've also defended him because people need to understand how the system actually works. And I

21:27 barely understand it myself. I've never lived in that system, but I know people in intelligence. I know people in the military. I, you know, I I I have I have friends in all sorts of places, guys. And to my understanding, there are var varying different degrees of involvement and feddedness, fettiness that people just seem to to misunderstand, right? So like, okay, you worked for the CIA. That doesn't mean you were a CIA agent,

22:12 right? A lot of them are just like analysts, right? Like Leafiles. She worked with the CIA sometimes as a contractor, sometimes as an employee, but always just doing financial analysis. That's what she does. She's not like in the field turning assets doing spycraft, right? Same goes for Shawn Ryan. Yes, Shawn Ryan was in the CIA. He wasn't an as he wasn't um um like a spy. He wasn't doing spycraft.

22:57 He was kind of like um like a heavy, right? his like former special forces that was brought in to be to run protection or to you know knock down doors and like you know be the muscle for like a CIA operation. Do you think that those guys are a part of the planning and the strategy and the the the misdirection and the misinformation? No. No. And I've always defended him because yes, while he was CIA, I also don't believe that he was the type of CIA agent

23:43 that people think of when they say that somebody was CIA. Same with Leah. Everybody's talking about Leah being a Fed, a Fed, a Fed, a Fed. Oh, she worked for the DoD and the CIA and the this and the that. Yeah. She's also been a private contractor. She's also done a lot of different stuff. That doesn't make her a fed, right? At least I don't see enough to be like this person is a fed based on what? We're like a little too fast and loose with that Fed term. And I

24:29 just I really just hate it. Honestly, I really just hate it. And you know, I make this post and I've gotten all sorts of pe you know, things from people telling me that, you know, I'm right, people telling me I'm wrong, people assuming that I'm taking one person's side over the other or vice versa. And it it just feels very much like when when like election season comes around and you know people assume I'm a I'm I'm right or left and I'm neither. It's like

25:14 really annoying. But, you know, of the two, Leah and Shawn Ryan, um, I've actually talked to Leah. She's actually like really nice. She's a really nice person. Um, she's very smart and she has um she has, you know, let me site her work on some of my websites and, you know, let me use her work. um on some of on some of my websites and you know uh I've definitely used some of her work uh here and I still think that that's cool. You know, I think I think um she's cool.

26:01 She's she's she's really nice and um you know, but I don't know her. I don't like know her person. I'm not going to like go out into the world and be like, you know, defending her or something like crazy. I looked at I looked at it and I said, "Okay, like I think I think that, you know, honestly, I think it's a little blown out of proportion. Um, I watched a lot of the interview and I've seen a lot of Shawn Ryan podcast. Uh, it just felt off. It just felt off um from both directions,

26:50 you know, and it kind of feels like they were both kind of feeding off of each other in like if you ever been on like a first date and like you thought like, "Oh man, like this person seems so cool. She's really pretty. I hope we vibe." And then you get together and you realize that you have nothing in common. There's no chemistry. Literally anybody who has dated has experienced that. And it kind of felt like that. It kind of felt like they got together and it just the vibes didn't match. That's neither person's fault.

27:36 That's just what it is. It's just what it is. that that's my actual read on it. Now, I'm hearing people say all sorts of theories LIKE SEAN RYAN BROUGHT her on to the show because he's a fed and he wanted to get an understanding of what she had to say. What does she know? And then he's going to feed it back to the feds so they can build more scops. like this. This is X is such a magical place for that. Honestly, X is a magical place for that. If you want unhinged takes

28:21 that take a small sliver of a maybe of a possibility and turns it into something just straight out of a C tier spy novel. Go to X. Be on X, guys. Please go do that. But but I will say I was very very very pleased with one section of the interview that I mean you guys will all know why I love

29:08 it. because she took the opportunity to tell a very large platform what is going on in the world with regards to the surveillance state. She wasn't brought on to talk about the surveillance state, but she did. And I really liked the part where she talked about the surveillance state. So, let's watch a little bit of that because it's refreshing. It's very refreshing to have somebody use their voice

29:53 on a big platform to talk about what's really important. All right, let me pull it up. There is a website called Have I Been Flocked? I suggest everybody go to it. And in this website, it's just these activists who these activists put together this website that pulled the audit logs. I will say this though that part of the energy being off may also be because

30:41 this isn't edited. just like right there you saw like there was that like two second like like looking on the computer you know what I mean that would have been edited out it would have been much tighter right so the flow could have been better in the editing so we also need to take that into account so police departments federal agencies anyone who accesses Flock to look for a license plate they've foyed they've gotten these audit logs it's not the most up to date. I think it's like a month or two old and they don't have everybody, but they have over 430 million uh hits. And so if a police officer is going to look up your license plate

31:26 because they think you're doing something nefarious, it will show in here. And what they do is they put in their number and they put in the reason that they're looking up your plate, right? Cuz we can't just look up random people uh for no reason. And what this audit log is finding and have I been flocked shows you all of this. You have 426 which by the way so this was 4 months ago when this was actually recorded and have I been flocked was like brand new at the time. And I actually said on X, you can go look it up. I actually said that if I were trying

32:14 to get an undeniable list of people who were against the surveillance state, I would make a website where you have to put in your email or your information to find out if you've been surveiled. If you're the type of person who cares about that, then I can put together and compile a nice little spreadsheet of hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people who are worried about surveillance. And that can just be another data point in your dossier that the government has on you. And they do have a dossier on

33:02 you. 6,940,000 records in here. Okay, you have almost 4.7 million plates that have been searched and 9% of them were for crime. Nine. The other 91 were for other reasons. Like that starts to really negate the whole are you really using it for crime? And they found that. Hold. Let me pull up this stat. These are really interesting. Um, okay. See, like that would that whole just like two seconds would have been edited out

33:47 and it wouldn't have felt so boring. My stats here. I'll get you. Okay. All right. Okay. Like Jesus that the single most common search reason is blank. Nothing. Which again, these are things that we've talked about on the show because this was recorded four months ago, just released yesterday, was never even meant to be released apparently. Uh so yes like it is a little outdated but we all know now uh if you go back to my YouTube channel and there's a video where I talk

34:33 about how these surveillance systems are being used overwhelmingly to u to abuse and track women predominantly children sometimes uh and men only when the real target is the basically. And that's what it is. It's the police that are doing that. So again, we're not going to watch this whole thing. I just I just wanted to kind of point out that I am really happy that Leah took the time to actually go on and talk about this because it is important.

35:18 But unfortunately according to her she was not allowed to talk about the investors the money and her whole thing her entire platform is built around follow the money. And so it's hard to showcase where the money goes if you're not allowed to talk about the people who were involved in the money. Now, she made that claim that she was not allowed to talk about A16Z, Mark Andre, Founders FUD, and Peter

36:04 Teal. They weren't allowed. She wasn't allowed to talk about those things. And those are the important things that need to be talked about. I'm certainly sick and tired of talking about these people. Nicole, thanks for the uh for the love, for the support. Appreciate you. 10 minutes is not unredacted. I didn't know anything about that. Didn't know anything about that. Yeah, Nicole Metallica saw them at the sphere this weekend. It was awesome. My girlfriend took me for my birthday. It was a great birthday present. So, yeah. Um, you know,

36:54 I my take on it really is that I just think there was no chemistry there. He decided I don't think it was super nefarious on Shawn Ryan's part, you know? I actually don't. I think it was just like this is not a good episode. Now they have gotten over 700,000 views in the last 24 hours or so, 26 hours. Um, which is pretty good. Um Sean Ryan's I mean this one will definitely reach over a million by the end of the week you know and that's probably on average $10,000 you know that Sean Ryan shows made from

37:40 doing that. I think that if they had just released it, it probably would have done like half a million because if you're not on X or Tik Tok, then you probably don't really know Leah, you know, and uh so I think it probably would have been um I think it would have been probably kind of like a lackluster per episode probably wasn't worth it for him to put out honestly. And you know, I kind of get that too. I kind of get that too. This doesn't mean like anybody's in the wrong doesn't mean that anybody's a fed.

38:26 But but Leah being Leah doing what she does, of course, she's going to go and she's going to look into Shan Ryan. And why am I not allowed to talk about these people? Oh, because I have invested or sorry, he had invested in a bunch of different companies with Peter Thiel, Mark Andre, A16Z, Founders Fund. Now, Candace Owens came in and said,

39:12 "Hey, Leah, this is the exact opposite of the situation that I had run into with Shawn Ryan. I was allowed to talk about all these people. I was allowed to talk about Israel. Uh, we talked for five hours, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah." But I also think that um Candice may be um you know a little it's not really a criticism because I've been there in my life where you kind of think you're untouchable you or infallible or you know everybody tells you that what you're saying

39:57 is like the end all beall because everybody treats her as if she's some sort of god in this space. So, she knows that there's weight behind every word that she says. So, she can go in and actually change the narrative with a comment on damn near anything. But the interesting thing is is that when she did, I don't think she really moved the needle very much. I don't think she moved the needle in Shawn Ryan's direction, you know, so to speak. But, you know, I mean, I don't know. Again, I think we're all looking for something that really isn't

40:44 there. I don't think this is like some fed activity. I think it's just it was not a great episode, you know, and it's like turned into this whole thing. But this right here, I want to take a moment to look at this over here because Sean Ryan last year had Palmer Lucky, the owner of Anderoll on his show. And then I think within just a few months, Shawn became an investor. Now, of course, Shawn Ryan isn't throwing like VC money around. It's not like he's, you know, he's he's definitely a minority

41:31 ownership. I mean, I'd be I'd be surprised if he even has a full percent ownership like in his portfolio. I'd be very surprised by that. And I I actually don't think that that's even possible if I'm being honest cuz Andre is worth a lot of money. A lot a lot a lot of money. So yeah. Um, but this is is the one that sticks out to me because both Mark Andre and Peter Thiel through their funds have been major investors in Anderole.

42:20 major major major investors in and in androll. Now, Lucky Palmer from Anderoll is one of Thiel's twinks. You know what I'm talking about. You guys know what I mean when I say Thiel's twinks. One of the people that Peter Thiel has groomed and put into some position of power so that they can do the bidding for him. like JD Vance, Clavicular, Jesse Michaels, and so on and so on and so on. And Palmer Lucky is one of those people. Palmer originally started Oculus, which got bought out by Facebook and then he got fired by Mark Zuckerberg because

43:08 he's kind of a creepy weirdo. Honestly, actually, I don't know why he got fired, but he is a creepy weirdo. And I would probably fire him, too, if I was Mark Zuckerberg. Uh, because I wouldn't want that weirdo around my office. That's for goddamn sure. Thank you guys on YouTube just holding it down. This is awesome. It's awesome to see so many of you guys chit chatting chit chatting away. Thank you. Thank you. So yeah, Andreal Andreal is a weird company. And if you don't know, if you don't know

43:54 on panopticonindex.com, my website where you can learn all about the surveillance state, all of the companies, all of the technology, all of the investors, all of the people that are involved, everything. It's a pretty comprehensive website. I I must say, is it everything? No, it is not. But are you going to learn more about the surveillance state in one hour poking around panopticonindex.com than you are going to be if you spend an hour anywhere else? Probably. Probably. You're going to learn a lot. So, Anderal Industries, this is the dossier that I have on the website.

44:40 Founded by Oculus creator Palmer Lucky, Andrew builds autonomous surveillance towers, drones, and the Lattis AI platform that fuses their sensors into a single operating picture. Because if you remember, uh, every time I talk about this, every one of these companies have AI infrastructure, their own proprietary AI system to make sense of all of the data that's coming in. And this is why AI is so important to the surveillance state. This is why our government is putting so much infrastructure behind AI.

45:25 It's not so that we can advance our country. It's so that we can advance the surveillance. Okay, got it. Good. Its towers form much of CBP's virtual wall along the southern border, a footprint expanded under a 363 million CPB contract for 200 plus century towers in late 2025 alongside fast growing defense work. It took over the US Army's IVAS soldier headset program from Microsoft is building the Arsenal 1 megapactory in Ohio and flew and flew its Fury autonomous fighter

46:12 valued at about $61 billion in a May 2026 round. It is one of the most valuable defense startups in the world. Okay. Uh, let's see here. Oh, who funded it? Founders Fund. That's Peter Teals. Trey and Trey Stevens. Peter Thiel's San Francisco venture firm and the connective tissue of the surveillance tech world funding Palunteer Anderole and Flock Safety. Oh, who's that? Andre Harowitz. That's A16Z, a venture firm Mark Andre and Ben Harowitz. The American Dynamism Fund pours capital into defense, policing, and border technology, including annual

46:59 and flock safety. They both have invested heavily in Flock and in Axon. And there's all these others, right? But those are the main two. Those are the main two. Those are big big names, right? And Andre does. I mean, look at these different products that they have. the Century Towers, right? And you can go on to panoptagonindex.com right now and go check all of this stuff out. Thank you Marines Blood for throwing the website up there. Thank you, Auta, for doing the same on YouTube. Uh, so this is Ghost Autonomous Drones. All right. So, if you want to learn what the

47:45 technology is that all these different companies are putting out, here is a great place to start. Um, and if you want to see the people behind all of this, like Founders Fund, you can even go and look at Peter Thiel and look at what he's invested in, what he's interested in, and what he's all up in, you know. And so panopticonindex.com is a great place to learn about all of this stuff. You heard about like androll today and you go, "Well, what the hell is that all about? I'm going to go check that out." That's what you do. You go over to the pandopticon index.com and you go learn. But let's see what kind of a creepy weirdo Palmer Lucky is

48:31 because he's like a cartoon character. He's He's really like a cartoon character. That's him. That's him. Every day of his life, he chooses to look like this. This dude is a billionaire. Yes. Yes. Marine's blood. It did pin. Thank you for that. Yeah, he was Amy. He was on J or JRE and he is uh he's creepy as He is. I agree with that. Sorry. Got got some got a rogue hair going on over here. Little

49:16 rogue hair action. Yes, it is. It certainly is a choice. So, let's watch a little clip so you can see what this guy really is all about. This is this is the guy, right? And and so what he's doing also is he's going on to all these large uh shows and podcasts and things and he's trying to make the case basically for AI, basically for surveillance. Why would we put a human out there to die when we could put a robot out there to, you know, kill, you know? And that's

50:03 and it's like well you maybe we just maybe what if we just like stopped building companies that are taking all of our government contracts to justify more war. Maybe we would use lose less American lives if we just didn't occupy the planet. Maybe, I don't know. Call me crazy. So you guys said, "Oh, look, that's a choice. That's a choice in a way to look." He makes choices. He He makes choices. Here's just one little

50:50 choice. Here's just one little choice. Yeah, that's that's him. That's him. He's uh he's also photographed in public, usually overseas in Japan like this as a full-blown furry. Hey, we don't kink shame on this show. You know that. You know my policy. We don't kink shame on this show. But we do highlight the weird behavior that eccentric billionaires who want to kill us all. We we do highlight that and maybe mock it a little bit. A little bit a little mocking never hurt anybody. Uh maybe these guys wouldn't be

51:37 such psychopaths if they got mocked a little bit more in the world. Vel says, "So he is an IRL troll cringe lord." He very much is. He very, very, very much is. So yeah, Lucky Palmer, certified Creepmaster 5000. Uh, for sure. For sure. Certified Creepmaster. Um, and it's it's weird. It's really it's honestly it's very weird. I'm going to read this thing here

52:22 because I started noticing something few months ago while researching all of the stuff, the surveillance state and everything like that. And uh you know I I haven't been really keeping up with it, but when I was younger, I was a big fan of Lord of the Rings. I remember when those I saw those movies in theaters, you know, I had the the like extended, you know, VHS's that were like nine hours to watch all three movies. I love those movies. I like I mean I don't really read books but like

53:07 those books are good too. I I mean I have read I have read them but you know I don't enjoy books as much uh simply because I have to read things like 18,000 times over and over again because my mind starts wandering. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yes. His name is Lucky Palmer. I don't know if that's his real name actually, but uh but yeah, he's that's Lucky Palmer. Amy, you've never seen Lord of the Rings? You should. They're epic. They're epic, and they're also like really incredible stories. Um, and uh, and if

53:52 you like Led Zeppelin, they wrote a lot of songs um, with not just Lord of the Rings references, but full songs that are full stories from Lord of the Rings straight up. Right. Um, yeah, they are great movies. You're right about that. Marine's Blood. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, everybody, uh, uh, uh, Scruff had posted, um, uh, about Scotty, uh, Scotty Wheel, Scotty Wheel 311, my boy. Uh, he's having some health complications. Uh, but I spoke to him a little bit earlier today. And, uh, you know, he said, uh, he's stronger than

54:38 whatever the hell it is that he's dealing with. And I believe him. I believe him. And we need him in this world. He's a good guy. He's a good, positive guy. So, um, you know, if if you're of the praying variety, uh, throw one of those up, uh, for Scotty Wheel. He is, uh, a beacon of positivity, uh, within our community uh, and just a a really a really nice guy. So, yeah. Yeah. So anyway, back to the whole uh what like Kevin, why are you talking about Lord of the Rings and JRR Tolki? Why are you talking about this? Well,

55:25 do you know where the name Palantir comes from? It comes from Lord of the Rings. It's derived from the Palunteeri or the seeing the seeing stones. Okay. They let you watch far away places and talk to whoever holds another stone. That's a fitting name for a data analytics and surveillance company. In the books, the stones were also dangerous because Sauron controlled one and used it to deceive Sauron and Denithor. People have pointed out that irony many times. So, Palunteer, the seeing stones. Hm. Okay. But it doesn't stop there

56:12 because Anderl comes from Anderil, the flame of the west, which is Aragon's sword or Aragorn sword. Yeah. Reinfored from the shards of Narsel. A fitting name for a defense company. Yeah. Teal is a big Lord of the Rings fan. And I hate that he is because I am too. And now I want to watch the movies. They're masterpieces. Go watch the movies. Whether you've seen them a million times or never before, I highly suggest to watch the the movies. They're fantastic. But guess what? There are more because Peter Thiel has multiple companies that are all named

56:59 after Lord of the Rings things, which makes me wonder how much of Anderal is really controlled by Peter Thiel because Peter Thiel has Myithil Capital, a latestage VC firm named after the rare metal used for elven armor. JD Vance worked there. It's true. Valar Ventures, you know, the one that got funded by Jeffrey Epstein, $40 million, give or take. Yeah. VC firm named after the Valor, the godlike powers in Tolken's mythology. Rivendell one LLC, a holding vehicle

57:45 named after the elven refuge. Teal uses it to manage his investments and Facebook shares. Lembbus LLC, another investment vehicle named after Elvin Waybred. Arda Capital. Arda is Tolken's name for the world. It's listed among Thiel's token named firms, but I but we don't have many details about it. But Arta Capital. Okay. Now, there are also people within his circle, Thiel's Twinks, who also have Lord of the Rings named businesses like Naria Capital, which is JD Vance's VC firm named after one of the three

58:32 Elven Rings. Teal and his network funded it and it's sitting at about$und00 million. Yeah. Did you know that JD Vance had a VC firm or has a VC firm that was funded pretty much by Peter Thiel? Yeah, that's not weird at all. Uh, Arabore is Palmer Ly's digital bank for startups and crypto companies named after the lonely mountain from the Hobbit. Founders Fund backed it. It's Ly's company, not Teals. Okay. Okay.

59:18 But, you know, I was kind of turned on to something else today that I did not ever hear about before, and I bet you haven't either. that falls right in line with this. It's It's not a uh it's not a a named company after it's not named after Lord of the Rings or anything like that, but it is a very interesting company. Now, this company only lasted about 3 months and it's called Glorifi, the anti-woke bank.

1:00:04 Okay. Texas-based Glorify was a was was was a fintech startup that aimed to be the anti-woke, anti-ESG banking alternative for American conservatives to put their money where their values are. Founder Toby Nugganbower and his wife raised 50 million from 84 conservative backers including billionaires Peter Thiel of course, Ken Griffin from Citadel, Vivc Ramaswami, who you know from politics, uh Jeffreer, uh Intercontinental Exchange, Daily Wire talk show host Candace Owens, because

1:00:49 this was back when she was on Candy on Daily Wire and consultant to Mike Pence. Nick Ays products and services designed to match member lifestyle and value included credit cards manufactured out of bullet shell casings, homeowners insurance discounts for reasonable gun owners, and legal expense coverage if a member shot someone in self-defense. Glorify was due to go public in spring of 2023 via a merger with the spa company DHC Acquisition Corps, but within months it folded. The company claimed that the failure was due to financial challenges after startup mistakes, the failing US economy, reputational attacks, bad press, etc. I

1:01:34 call on that because in 2023, basically 2021 to 2023, 2024, uh money was basically free. the the banks were just chugging along. Okay. So, I just I don't know. I think it was just a bad concept. But yeah, Candace Owens and Peter Thiel were part of the the the investing group that created Glorify that went nowhere, wasted $50 million

1:02:20 and everybody forgot about it. I just found out about this today and I thought it was crazy. I thought it was crazy. Candace Owens and Peter Thiel. See, Peter Thiel always rubs always rubs um elbows with everybody important, everybody with power, everybody with a platform. Now, I'm certainly not suggesting that Candace Owens is some sort of she's not one of Thiel's twanks. She's not I I I'm

1:03:05 pretty sure of that. Um but she certainly uh she certainly has run investments with him and now she may to be fair she may never have known who the other investors were and you know that's completely normal. It's completely normal. uh you know, so but it's a fun little it's a it's a fun little uh piece of history to kind of look at. So yeah. So yeah, I don't know. I don't know guys. I think at the end of the day,

1:03:53 infighting amongst the people who are out there trying to find the truth is silly and it's stupid and it takes everybody's attention away from things that actually matter, right? every moment that these talented people are out there focusing and redirecting your focus to things that do not matter. You are allowing the bad stuff that matters, the bad stuff that we should be paying attention to, you're taking people's attention away

1:04:39 from that and I would love love love if more people paid attention to the things that mattered. I try to do my part every week. I come up here a couple times a week and I try to decipher, look through, understand, and explain to you guys all of the little things that I think are adding up to a weird dystopian future that we are finding ourselves slipping into every day. And I think that that's the only job

1:05:24 that content creators and independent journalists and all these people, that's the only real job that they have is trying to make sense of what's happening and getting people to understand what those things are so that they you can go and talk to other people about this. That's how these ideas spread. That's how this information spreads. So, so I would love it if you guys do your part and start talking about this stuff with other people if you find it fascinating,

1:06:09 you know. And I didn't want this to be an episode about Leopiles and Shawn Ryan specifically. I really don't care about the drama, but I think these are perspectives that we should look at and we should understand the broader context of it. And so I hope I did a halfway decent job of doing that today. I hope I did. Checking in with you guys. How you guys doing? Are you having fun today? because I am. I'm having tons of fun. It's so good to

1:06:56 be back to be back to to, you know, reality and to be back in front of the camera to talk to you guys. Um, obviously if you follow me on YouTube, which you should be, you should be subbed to me on YouTube right now. If you're not, go and sub to me on YouTube. Please, please, please, please, pretty please give me some watch hours. Please watch a video. Hell, throw on a playlist while you're working or something. Uh, but I'm really grateful that you guys are here. If you follow me, if you're sub to me on YouTube, you probably noticed that I haven't put out a video in like four or five days. Uh, I have [snorts] some

1:07:44 videos that I I have kind of locked and loaded, ready to go out, but I kind of wanted to do some of this content. So, we'll get some of this more out and we'll be back to putting content out on YouTube, trying to get a clip out every day on YouTube uh for the rest of the year at the very least. Um, and so yeah, uh, but go watch go watch my some YouTube, go share, um, you never know. You can dig back in my videos a month or two and maybe find something that's relevant to today because I keep finding myself talking about things before people really start talking about things. It's not because

1:08:31 I'm incredible or like, you know, I move needles or anything like that. It's just that these things wind up being important for some reason. Fletch says he gives me a three out of four. Decent. Okay, I'll take it. I'll take decent. I'll take that. Oh, Tonnie, thank you. Tonnie, I really appreciate that. Thanks for the coffee. You're the best. You're the best. Thank you guys for your support. You guys have been freaking

1:09:17 awesome. Absolutely awesome. Awesome. Awesome. So, yeah. Uh going to be a little bit of a shorter show today. Um I actually thought it would take me a little bit longer to get through all of this, but got through it in good time. Uh, I, as of last night, we're fostering another black lab. Uh, I have a black lab. Her name's B. She turns 11 next month, and you wouldn't be able to tell if you saw her. She's awesome. And we now have a seven-month-old black lab uh, that we are fostering here. Um, and who knows, if they can't find her a home, maybe she'll

1:10:03 stay with us. Who knows? She's actually really sweet. So, yeah. So, uh but now I have double dog duty. So, I got to go walk two dogs separately, unfortunately. Um so, I'm gonna cut it a little short today because of that. Um but yeah, Budlang says, "Don't use Sean Ryan's Glacier phone or app. It stores and tracks every everything you do." Yeah, you he had said earlier um uh Rory had said earlier that uh and I saw the comment um that they had just changed their terms of service recently

1:10:48 and that's uh and the change to their terms of service was that now they're going to track you even though the whole thing is about you know sovereignty and anonymity and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah you know just the same thing that all of these other companies or all of this around me that lets me talk to you and talk to my family and d it's all tracking you. Every bit of it. Every bit of it. Yeah. ADN. Yeah, we got we got we got the black labs over here. Foster fails. Yeah. So, we the the thing is is that um we we don't do male uh pets. Like we have a cat and a dog. Both are female.

1:11:34 Um I just especially male puppies are just the worst. Honestly, I'm going to be honest with you. They're just the worst. I've had male dogs before. I've had far more female dogs. We like females. So, we usually foster males because we know if we foster a male, we won't be foster fails, but we saw this dog and I was like, low key, we might want to adopt her. But for us, we have a cat. We have an older dog now. Again, she doesn't look or play like an older dog, but she is she's a little she's a little ornery in her in her age when it

1:12:20 comes to like puppy energy. So, at least we get to if we were to foster fail, we could at least do a trial run where, you know, we're not committed to the dog and we can uh see how um uh how all the pets interact together because even if we wanted to adopt her, it's a non-starter for us if our current dog and cat's life uh were decreased in any way. that's for us not worth it. So, this gives us the opportunity to do that. But also, if you want a dog, uh, please adopt pets. Adopt your pets. Please, please, please. I live in LA where it's really bad. Like,

1:13:07 the numbers of dogs that get euthanized every day and every year here is actually like sickening. Um it's it it literally puts a pit in my stomach to know how much unnecessary death um you know we have dogs we have in in our family who were you know one of them was an hour away from getting euthanized when uh when my brother-in-law had uh adopted uh his his dog Scarlet. um another dog that was like a day before and then I went and got uh him uh for my girlfriend's sister and uh and and we

1:13:55 saved that dog's life. Um so if you are looking to get a pet, please consider adopting. Please, please, please consider adopting. There are many, many incredible animals out there that could totally change your life and be a companion for many, many years sitting in a shelter right now. Um, and in some places facing death, facing death. Facing the wood chipper. Not literally, but you know what I mean? Um, and you can save a life while also saving your own because pets have a an amazing

1:14:41 way of of saving your your life. And so, I urge you to go do that if you are in a position to foster animals. We foster all of the time here. Uh, we probably foster like a couple dogs a year. Um we don't always have a foster here. Uh but we do uh foster a lot of of dogs. Um and so yeah, please if you can uh fostering animals also saves their lives, especially if you live in a place like Los Angeles where we are so overrun with so many shelter pets that they literally kill like hundreds of them a day.

1:15:27 not an exaggeration. So, please, please, please adopt don't shop. Uh uh foster if you can. Sometimes fostering commitments can be a few days. Um could be a few weeks. Uh maybe even up to like a month or two, you know, depending on where you are and what kind of dog it is. Uh but yeah, please I implore you to to foster to adopt. Please do that. Yeah, and somebody said Asher House. Yeah, Asher House um is a great great great

1:16:12 page on uh probably Instagram and Tik Tok and like all that. Um, and they are like a rescue and I mean they they have like a farm with like I don't know like a hundred dogs in any given time on it which is crazy. Um uh if you got a spare couple of bucks um you know Asher House uh is a great place to place them um because that directly goes to the pets that they save every day. Um, and you know, a lot of people, you know, I think you guys all know that I'm, you know, I love my pets, I love my dog, I love my cat. Uh, but I'm also here uh uh to be a voice for adopting and for fostering.

1:16:57 Um, and uh maybe maybe we'll uh talk about that a little bit more over time because I think it's important. I think it's important for sure. Um, and so uh somebody asked what a fail is. It's when you foster a pet. Fostering is, you know, you allow the pet to come into your home for, you know, a shortened period of time. Kind of like being like a halfway house for a pet between the shelter or uh you know, a previous owner, right? And then a rescue will will take the pets and then fosters like like us will come in and provide a home for that pet while the rescue tries to

1:17:43 find an adopter for that pet. And when you do that, which is cool, um you don't incur any costs, right? So like we don't have to like pay for the food or, you know, anything like that. We have a lot of stuff here like at the house already. like we have a a like a spare crate and like you know toys and you know like dog beds and like that kind of stuff. So like we already have all that kind of stuff. Um but like we don't have to pay for the foods or if there's like a a vet visit or we don't we don't pay anything. We pay our time and our attention in our home and that's what we give uh to that. So you can actually um foster pets with no financial obligation whatsoever. Uh

1:18:29 that's where rescues come in. And that's what's like really important about the rescues. And uh so if you find rescues um and you're looking to donate uh money, uh rescues are a really great place because they uh can allow the fostering to happen and they pay and foot the bills for those the fostering. So donating to rescues is really uh really a big help as well. And um yeah, so so you know, we we got to we got to save these dogs because they shouldn't they shouldn't be killed because there are bad owners out there. Um and you know, or in some places like

1:19:16 bad governments like here in Los Angeles. Um they don't deserve to die um and live lonely lives. They should be out there enhancing people's lives, um, bonding with humans and other animals. They should be doing that. So, um, so yeah, that's my TED talk about pets and adoptions and all that sort of stuff. Uh if this is something that um you know you don't really know about but you're interested in, hit me up, DM me, you know, uh or just look for rescues um or shelters in your area and how you can uh can kind of help uh because uh yeah,

1:20:03 there's there's a lot of um there's a lot of pets out there. There's a lot of uh animals out there um that are caught in a system that they shouldn't be in and uh and you can save a dog's life, you know, and and we take immense pride in doing that from time to time here at our house. We wish we could foster every dog. I talk a lot about like, you know, my dreams and aspirations for like having a farm so that we could just like literally like be a rescue and foster like a hundred dogs at a time. Like I would love to do that. Um just like uh uh that's what um John Stewart did when he left the Daily Show. He like bought a farm and he rescues dogs and

1:20:50 has like just a gaggle of dogs uh at his home every day. Um so yeah, it's good stuff. It's good stuff. But other than that, even if you don't want to do any of that stuff, uh if you could just have a great night, have a great week, find some purpose, have some fun. Um, that'd be great. Uh, also if you want to do any of that by going to my YouTube channel and watching some videos, sharing some videos, uh, commenting, you know, all that stuff really, really helps me. If you think if you think that what I say is halfway important,

1:21:36 that's a great way to support me. Not all support is monetary. Uh, monetary support also very helpful. uh but uh but not necessary. Um just helping me uh trick the algorithms into thinking that my message is worth amplifying is a super help. So with that said, thank you guys so much. Have a great night. Uh we will be back here again. Um, I'm going to try to do at least one more this week and then unfortunately Friday and Saturday I'm not going to be able to stream again, guys. I'm really sorry, but at least I'm telling you up front this time. Um,

1:22:21 uh, yeah, we uh we're doing a rehearsal dinner on Friday and then my friend's getting married on Saturday. So, we'll be uh I'll be I'll be away from the computer, unfortunately. But that said, have a great night and go hug your pets. Go snuggle your pets. Go go go smooch the people you love. And uh have a great dinner. Have a great night.