joining us on the line right now is Tim P he is host of timcast IRL a CEO of timcast.net media tenant media according to the allegations was being paid effectively by a Russian front and when I say the company was what I really mean is the founders of the company apparently were if the allegations in the indictment are true and all the media ran with was that because you are a host whose show is posted at at tenant media that this must have implicated you or Dave Rubin or Benny Johnson why don't you give us sort of the run down what's going on here yeah the simple version is the culture War podcast existed well before tenant Media or any licensing agreement we had the the show so I've got multiple YouTube channels one is youtube.com timcast that was my original Channel where I used to host a 400m half an hour podcast we switched formats because I have a couple channels one was redund I have another one that's basically the same thing they're kind of redundant so we turned this one into a Friday morning live show about cultural issues so it's politics doesn't you know uh come in relatively often but you know we did one on dating we did an episode on um simulation Theory versus Christianity and religion so it's not an overtly political show uh that show was licensed for uh principal broadcast non-exclusive to tenant media that's it the show exists still to this day and it will be at youtube.com timcast on uh you know Fridays so with with this story you know we're hearing that uh these allegations it's kind of crazy I mean um Lauren Chen uh I guess she's been fired from The Blaze I don't know a lot about what's going on in fact I I think I only talked to her a couple times this year for me it was we had an existing show that we we a new show we had launched had been up for a few months we hosted people like the ramaswami on it and we were preparing to uh engage in sponsorships and uh you know they were getting hundreds of thousands of views per episode and uh we decided to license it out because they tenant Lauren contacted us and was saying you know we we'd love to license something from you and I said well we don't need to do that we're we're an independent company we have our own members and sponsorships and then it took quite a quite a while but long story short we agreed to a non-exclusive uh broadcast license which meant that we own the show the uh the show is owned uh by a cult the culture War company which is its own company it uh uh we own distribution rights we own audio distribution rights everything about it they just effectively paid for a license which would have it appear on uh their YouTube channel Friday mornings at 10 a.m. and with that they got to use my likeness and things like that and so now with these allegations I don't know what's going on there but I if you want if you want to ask any questions so we can elaborate I mean I think the the only questions that given the media coverage I think the the question that that people in the media are pushing at least is the idea that there must have been some sort of outside external Russian control of your show maybe want to address how you do the editorial at your show was Lauren never talking to about the editorial content of the show or anything like that nope uh so I barely even talk to Lauren and it's kind of crazy I've known her for a long time so when she said that she was launching a company she had investors I'm like okay I mean I hear that 50 times a year and uh in the podcast space we just heard that I think Travis kelse is getting a $100 million contract so these numbers are that's where they're at I I think people don't realize how big the podcasting space is and the revenue you generate from sponsorships and memberships so it seemed kind of I don't know mundane to a certain extent a lot of people think these numbers are huge um but yeah so uh I don't know ask me ask me again I'm losing my train of thought yeah no no I mean the only question was basically whether you were in contr the editorial and it sounds like so I mean the culture War show is a conversation show on various topics the subject matter of the show editorially is there's no thought into it we had been uh talking about hosting a show on religious debate and simulation Theory and AI so uh we I talked to my booking agent and said can we find a guy who talks about Ai and simulation and then do a two-hour conversation that's the gist of it that's how the show was produced uh the first episode that actually appeared on tenet was about skate skateboarding quite literally we had uh a professional skateboard filmer uh an amateur and a professional skateboarder and we talked about skateboarding because I'm a skateboarder that's what we do so I mean it's kind of it's kind of crazy to hear that they're saying uh the media's jumped the gun completely what the story is the doj indictment literally says that commentators were deceived that there was a rather uh uh sophisticated plan to manipulate the commentators of the platform so they wouldn't know what was going on and I can say on my endend you everything that go that happens here goes through our legal team and we have multiple lawyers so when someone reaches out to me and says hey we want to do potential like we have a we have sponsorships and I don't know who these companies are and we're we're a company with like 40 employees and so when someone reaches out to us I say great cool uh someone handle it and talk to the lawyers the lawyers come back do their do their due diligence and then we say sure or whatever and so the crazy thing is this was so ancillary to anything do uh you know I I do my morning show from 10:00 to noon now at the time it wasn't live but now it's live and then we do timcast IRL from 800 p.m. to 11: p.m. and so we don't I don't really think much at all about where the show is streaming or distribution for all I knew this was you know Lauren Chen she works the blaze uh she wanted to start a company she found investors that was seemingly the gist of it we only ever took money from an American corporation the the amount of money that we were offered for the show was around market value for offers we had already received and so it was just like cool I I know Lauren sure you know whatever and then you got Benny and Dave and Matt Christensen and Taylor Hansen who I know them all and I'm like yeah this this seems fine whatever and the crazy thing is you know assuming all this stuff is true I'm like man this sucks we we we didn't need the deal the deal didn't do anything for us it was just sure I guess and the Bummer is now with everything with the way things are going we could have just run the culture war on my Channel with 1.3 million subscribers as it is and just made money on our own through sponsorship as as as we already did so it's it's frustrating to get entangled in whatever whatever it is She's accused of being involved in folks our friends in 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it is wrapped into a broader narrative that that seems to be ramping up just in time for the election which is that Russia's going to interfere in the election on behalf of Donald Trump and that everybody on the right is in some form or fashion working for for the Russians which is why therefore for Donald Trump in the first place yeah here we go again I mean My My Views probably aligned more with libertarian the libertarian party uh that's it I've Russia sucks I'm not a fan of Russia I think Vladimir Putin is a dictator who's used unethical and and dictatorial means to maintain power for decades and I've long said that my my my principal point is you know my opposition to the war is that we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars at a time when we're dealing with infrastructure problems we're dealing with with border problems and now with the I mean you the clip they're circulating right now is my exasperation and outrage to hear that with us res resources not weapons but with training and and and things of this matter Ukraine's invaded Russian territory pushing us to the brink of large scale International conflict which terrifies me and so that pisses me off that being said Russia should never have invaded Ukraine Russia was wrong to do it they lost the soft power battle and they're resorting desperate tactics to do it and then we find ourselves entrenched in some conflict because of Ukraine the you know they're they're posting these things about you know I mean I I remember I went out with you guys I had supported Ronda santis early uh uh 21 or 2022 until things started to shift I felt like Ron wasn't uh uh going to be able to win now they're acting like that was all of a sudden I got paid to change my opinions and this is the unfortunate thing the ultimate smear is the the revenue that we were paid through the licensing deal was inconsequential to uh my lifestyle to the bottom line of the company and we've actually never done anything with it like I I would say like you know the overwhelming majority of the money is just not gone anywhere and then you know we have we have people tweeting at me like give the money back or whatever it is like dude let me put it this way we're talking to our legal team uh I can say that I just announced I have been contacted by the FBI as uh a a victim of a a potential victim in a in a crime they have stated that uh I may have information relevant to their ongoing investigation and requested a voluntary interview so referring uh engaging with Council we are going to provide you know assistance in whatever way we can and that's about it I mean it's it's you know they say it's like an arms length deal that's what it's always referred to and I'm like man I don't even know what that means I know that we had a show that already existed that talks about video games dating culture some political issues we had an Israel Palestine debate and uh we licensed it for for publication non-exclusive like that's the crazy thing it's like not it was not even exclusive show it's non-exclusive we published it other places we own the rights for all of it and so now we get entrenched in whatever this is and I'm just like no I have anything to do with this I don't know what it is Lauren Chen was doing I'm quite perturbed by uh the the the allegations I I don't know what'll be will turn out to be true but you know I'm pissed so that's one story involving you the other one is that you are suing kamla Harris the kamla Harris campaign put out a tweet that is it really is an absurd tweet I mean they put out a tweet effectively saying that you were calling for violence or that that you were saying that Trump should actually arrest people or execute people based on whim if you watch the clip that's posted that is 100 % not what you are saying in fact what you are saying is that if there are people who are guilty of crimes then Trump should use his doj to go after those people and then Laura lommer who is on your show suggested that maybe if they're guilty of treason they should be executed but even with that statement the presumption would be that there would be some sort of judicial process and I think that it's a pretty large stretch of the imagination to think that we're going to get to the point where people are tried for treason in the United States and then execut it's been a little while since we've done that in any case but that's not what the Comm Harris tweet said the Comm Harris tweet suggested that you believe that basically Donald Trump should be given dictatorial power to kill his enemies right it so it hit a bunch of points it said I was a trump operative which I don't know I'm implying I'm paid it's not true it said their project 2025 plan I have nothing to do with project 2025 and then it said that we we were calling for Trump to have unchecked legal authority to jail and execute anyone who won't support him when he wins or or if he wins or whatever which is crazy because I oppose the death penalty I adamantly opposed to death penalty and the actual clip they cut it short but the actual full context was the Federalists Shawn Davis had made a statement uh that day or or thei the day prior that he wants to see list of Democrats who are going to be criminally charged when Trump gets elected my point was kind of walking that back like we don't want to come out and just say go arrest Democrats the point in the full context of the conversation is are there some like I'll put it this way when he says he wants a list of Democrats my point is this are there some Democrats who should be criminally charged yes because they committed crimes I am not saying Democrat voters I am not saying all Democrats I am saying certainly there are there are people aligned with the Democratic party I believe that there was that lawyer uh who was criminally charged over the Carter page incident you uh these people exist Donald Trump will need a real an AG a deputy attorney general and head of the FBI who are going to launch investigations get real evidence of these crimes have warrants there will be trials in front of the world to prove the crimes they committed and then they can be sentenced my point is is it's it's not a point of origin for me to say hey Trump go arrest these people not at all my point was hey you're calling for the arrest but we have to make sure if that's the case these people are actually guilty of crimes they've actually faced trial and then to go on to claim that I would call for the execution of people who wouldn't support Trump I don't believe there is anything more extreme you could accuse a person of of doing saying or of of of of views they held that that is the epitome of of extreme statement to to claim that I was uh advocating for what is tantamount to genocide is an extreme lie and and that's why we're taking immediate action and uh uh I engaged my legal team and said we're going forward with it so we're uh we're in prep uh the preparation phase but we're moving quickly so uh Tim what remedy are you seeking from the comml Harris campaign I assume obviously a takedown of the Tweet but but what else well uh we're not there yet uh my lawyers are are are drafting the argument so I think it's premature for me to say all of you know exactly what the the the remedy is going to be and I have to confer with my lawyers on that but um we've I I don't know how much I can say considering my lawyers currently working on it but we are going over paperwork and once we have something finalized and it's filed then everyone will know exactly what we're saying beyond the hey you can't accuse someone of these things this is crazy well Tim really appreciate you taking the time I know that things are very very busy over there and um you know honestly the the media coverage of of all of this is is quite absurd when it comes to you so you know I I I feel for you my friend are you tired of the lies and the twist of the mainstream 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