1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,740 Most of you are probably aware that internet legend and international man of mystery, 2 00:00:05,860 --> 00:00:11,120 John McAfee, has died, reportedly taking his own life. We don't know for sure. 3 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:16,320 The autopsy results have not been released yet, but preliminary reports suggest that he did take 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,880 his own life. Now, the reason this is shocking to most people, if you haven't been following the 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:27,060 story, is that McAfee repeatedly said he would never, never do this. So much so, they got a 6 00:00:27,060 --> 00:00:32,900 tattoo that said whacked. If he ended up dying, it was because someone whacked him. 7 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:39,960 But McAfee is a strange character. Perhaps this is all an elaborate plot to troll the world on his way 8 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:45,300 out. Shortly after he died, someone posted to his Instagram account the giant letter Q. 9 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:50,920 Many people are speculating as to what it might mean, what his Deadman Switch contains, 10 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:56,560 what's inside the image, but Instagram deleted it. Now we're getting an interesting development. 11 00:00:57,060 --> 00:01:03,720 The wife of John McAfee says he was not suicidal, and that they had spoken just a few hours before 12 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:10,860 he died, where he told his wife he loved her and would call her that evening. In fact, prison guards, 13 00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:16,620 even, or I should say prison authorities, even suggest that he was not in any way atypical. 14 00:01:17,020 --> 00:01:22,220 He seemed like he was living a normal life. But they also say he did ask for quiet time. 15 00:01:22,220 --> 00:01:28,540 Interesting. Now, why would he do that and then later be found dead unless the story is just true or 16 00:01:28,540 --> 00:01:34,020 unless the authorities are lying? But if the authorities were lying, why would they say he 17 00:01:34,020 --> 00:01:39,040 was acting typically? Wouldn't they just say he was acting erratically to cover up whatever 18 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:46,200 misdeeds are happening? I don't know for sure. But I want to show you what his wife said and just go 19 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:50,700 through what we know and don't know about the story and ask some questions. Although sometimes 20 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:55,320 just asking questions is misinterpreted, but we don't know the full details of this yet. 21 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:01,960 It very well may be that John McAfee was just a prominent internet troll. He knew how to play that 22 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:08,480 game and he wanted to go out with a bang, or maybe he really did have dirt on some bad people working 23 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:13,080 within the government. I wouldn't be surprised, to be completely honest. I mean, this is a guy who knows 24 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:17,460 computers and he wanted to run as a libertarian candidate. He was not supportive of the 25 00:02:17,460 --> 00:02:21,820 establishment. So surprise, surprise, they came after him, claiming that he had hidden crypto 26 00:02:21,820 --> 00:02:27,180 accounts. We don't know for sure. What we do know is that even among mainstream media personalities, 27 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:32,800 they're now talking about how, well, the narrative is breaking. You'd think some of these leftist 28 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:39,980 publications would mock and ridicule someone like me for simply saying, I don't trust the reporting 29 00:02:39,980 --> 00:02:45,360 coming out and I want to see the evidence. But no, even left-wing personalities are saying 30 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:50,340 they don't believe it. Even left-wing publications are saying they don't believe it. 31 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:59,040 And that's, that says a lot. It's not just about John McAfee. It's also about the verb people are 32 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:05,540 using, Epstein. Because most people, left or right, do not believe the official narrative on what 33 00:03:05,540 --> 00:03:09,260 happened to Epstein. We do have some developments on what's happening with the guards and what's 34 00:03:09,260 --> 00:03:13,400 happening to some of the victims and what they're asserting about what's currently happening with 35 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:20,680 the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. Could it be that the establishment, the tricks, the deep state is 36 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:27,040 failing, struggling to retain control of the narrative? Or could it be that we are all just 37 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:32,880 wrapped up in this movie world perspective where we think life is just more fantastic than it really 38 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:40,380 is? Maybe life is really just boring. Maybe John McAfee just couldn't take being a 75-year-old man in 39 00:03:40,380 --> 00:03:45,320 prison who knew this was the end of the line. That after he gets extradited, he goes to the US and 40 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:53,220 that's it for him. But he was still able to influence the world with his tweets. So why would someone who 41 00:03:53,220 --> 00:03:59,560 reveled in the attention just end it there? Truly, we have a mystery on our hands. So we must take a look 42 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,860 at what was said by John McAfee's wife and look around the circumstances of his arrest and what 43 00:04:04,860 --> 00:04:09,720 the prison officials are saying about what happened and then talk about the narrative. That's right, 44 00:04:09,780 --> 00:04:14,960 the narrative from the mainstream media. Before we get started, head over to TimCast.com. Become a 45 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:20,520 member to get access to exclusive members only segments from the TimCast IRL podcast, but also to 46 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:27,720 support our work. Your membership, net money. It supports the infrastructure of the website and it 47 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:32,640 make sure we can bring on more amazing journalists. Why we just hired Cassandra Fairbanks. You know 48 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,640 where you love her. She's writing articles for us. 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In fact, from CNN. 56 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:18,500 Now, let me just stop for a second. There's a reason I chose CNN as the lead source for the story 57 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:24,320 about John McAfee's wife and his life, because CNN is considered by many to be untrustworthy. 58 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:30,020 I find them to be untrustworthy. And if they're making these claims, it brings up a lot of 59 00:05:30,020 --> 00:05:35,560 interesting questions about how far the narrative can go and what people are willing to believe, 60 00:05:35,780 --> 00:05:42,180 even CNN. I'll put it this way. If CNN is the most trusted name in news, as they say, 61 00:05:42,460 --> 00:05:47,220 well, then don't get mad at me when I'm reading from them and they say something ain't right. 62 00:05:48,020 --> 00:05:53,400 CNN reports John McAfee was not suicidal, says widow of antivirus software Magnate. 63 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:58,900 The widow of controversial antivirus software Magnate John McAfee said her husband was not 64 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:03,960 suicidal and blamed the U.S. authorities for this tragedy after he was found dead in his cell in a 65 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:09,760 prison near Barcelona on Wednesday. The 75-year-old McAfee, who had multiple run-ins with the law, 66 00:06:10,220 --> 00:06:14,460 was awaiting extradition after being charged with tax evasion in the U.S. last year. 67 00:06:15,380 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaking to reporters outside the prison on Friday, Janice McAfee demanded a thorough investigation, 68 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:25,740 saying she wanted answers of how this was able to happen. The cause of McAfee's death is under 69 00:06:25,740 --> 00:06:31,200 investigation. A spokesman for the Superior Court of Catalonia told CNN this week. Janice McAfee's 70 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:38,160 lawyer, Javier Villalba, I don't know how to pronounce it, sorry, told reporters Friday his 71 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:43,920 client is waiting for the official autopsy to be done, adding, the family has requested a second 72 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:49,740 and independent one. Quote, I blame the U.S. authorities for this tragedy because of these 73 00:06:49,740 --> 00:06:54,440 politically motivated charges against him. My husband is now dead, Janice said during a statement. 74 00:06:55,040 --> 00:07:01,020 His last words to me were, I love you and I will call you in the evening, Janice said. He would have 75 00:07:01,020 --> 00:07:07,420 never quit this way. He would never take his life this way ever. His death came after a ruling from a 76 00:07:07,420 --> 00:07:12,740 three-judge panel at Spain's National Court in Madrid last week that McAfee could be extradited 77 00:07:12,740 --> 00:07:17,180 to the United States to face charges there. That decision could still have been appealed to a 78 00:07:17,180 --> 00:07:23,020 larger panel of judges at the same court, according to court documents. Janice said Friday, the Spanish 79 00:07:23,020 --> 00:07:29,280 court's decision to extradite him did not come as a surprise, and they had a plan in place to appeal it. 80 00:07:29,540 --> 00:07:36,360 So the fight wasn't even over. McAfee didn't even lose. He could have just went on trolling the 81 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:41,980 internet, making his posts, and sitting in a cell with a smile on his face like the photos show. 82 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:49,580 What was this really about? No idea. McAfee claimed apparently, well, I should say some rumors circulate 83 00:07:49,580 --> 00:07:56,060 about a lot of wild claims made by McAfee about donating laptops and finding spyware and accusing 84 00:07:56,060 --> 00:08:03,020 the U.S. of wrongdoing. Perhaps there are many prominent dissidents who believe that McAfee really did 85 00:08:03,020 --> 00:08:08,400 have evidence against corrupt U.S. officials. Maybe even people like Edward Snowden. Now, I don't want to 86 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:14,480 assert what Snowden thinks or may know, but he then goes on to say something about Julian Assange 87 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:19,740 could be next. Well, let's keep reading. They're going to say, McAfee had a cellmate at the prison, 88 00:08:20,140 --> 00:08:24,380 but that person was not in the cell around the time that McAfee was found dead. A prison official who asked 89 00:08:24,380 --> 00:08:29,680 not to be named told CNN. The official added that the other person was out doing other normal activities 90 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:34,340 at the prison. Asked if authorities had imposed special monitoring measures on McAfee in his cell, 91 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:39,180 the official said, I'm not aware of that. McAfee was arrested in Spain in October after being 92 00:08:39,180 --> 00:08:44,440 indicted in the United States for tax evasion months earlier. He allegedly failed to file taxes for four 93 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:49,740 years despite earning millions in income between 2014 and 2018 from promoting cryptocurrencies, 94 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,740 consulting work, speaking engagements, and selling the rights to his life story for a documentary, 95 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,860 according to court documents. The amount he owed was not specified in the indictment. 96 00:08:59,740 --> 00:09:05,260 The Spanish judges approved his extradition to face charges for the 2016, 17, and 18 tax years. 97 00:09:06,060 --> 00:09:11,380 McAfee, founder of the eponymous antivirus software firm, with which he is no longer affiliated, 98 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:16,620 was also indicted in March on separate fraud and money laundering charges. The U.S. Department 99 00:09:16,620 --> 00:09:21,960 of Justice alleged that he and a business partner participated in a scheme that earned more than $13 100 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:26,900 million by falsely promoting cryptocurrencies to unwitting investors. McAfee, 101 00:09:26,900 --> 00:09:35,880 was he pumping and dumping garbage crypto? I don't know. Maybe. If that's the case, 102 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:42,200 wouldn't Elon Musk be facing some serious charges as well? Perhaps. Well, that's yet to be seen. Now, 103 00:09:42,780 --> 00:09:47,440 the thing about Elon Musk is, well, he's not running to other countries. And if he was, 104 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:53,160 they'd probably just fine him. But McAfee was a maverick, to say the least. 105 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,320 Now, he claims he didn't actually have any of that crypto, that it wasn't true. The accounts 106 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:01,620 were basically empty. The money slipped through the fingers of Team McAfee. They don't have it. 107 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,560 They were alleging that he had hidden crypto accounts. That's a scary reality. I mean, 108 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:11,660 think about it. You could be arrested from crypto trading and the government could just say, 109 00:10:11,820 --> 00:10:17,200 we know you have these accounts and you have lots of money. We want it. But what if you don't? 110 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:22,400 What if you really don't? How do they know? And how do they prove it? I mean, the same is true for 111 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:27,740 anything. The government could claim that you buried a bunch of gold in your backyard and demand 112 00:10:27,740 --> 00:10:34,200 it. I don't have gold in my backyard. We know you do. You could have a conversation with someone 113 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:39,380 where you jokingly mentioned burying gold. And then the government could say, we demand taxes on 114 00:10:39,380 --> 00:10:43,520 the gold you have because we saw the messages and then go after you. And then what do you do? 115 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:50,980 If the government is charging you for something that they can't even prove, you see where this is 116 00:10:50,980 --> 00:10:57,080 getting scary. If they're claiming McAfee had hidden accounts, they need to prove beyond a reasonable 117 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:03,240 doubt. McAfee doesn't need to prove his innocence. So why would he take his own life? I mean, it seems 118 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:10,100 like it seems like he's still the opportunity to appeal. His fight wasn't over. Interesting, 119 00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:14,960 to say the least. The final hours of John McAfee. This is where things get interesting. 120 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:19,180 Questions start popping up. What do people believe? And is the narrative breaking down 121 00:11:19,180 --> 00:11:25,040 from the Daily Beast? Mind you, the Daily Beast is a mainstream establishment publication. 122 00:11:25,980 --> 00:11:30,320 They write, hours before news of his death was made public, the multimillionaire fugitive 123 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,520 had reportedly asked Spanish prison guards if he could have some alone time. 124 00:11:34,180 --> 00:11:39,000 They say after the 75-year-old received official word at 4 p.m. yesterday that he would be 125 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,320 extradited to the U.S. to face tax evasion charges. McAfee reportedly asked jail workers at the 126 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:51,740 Barcelona prison located in St. Steve de Sesreveres, I can't pronounce that, if he could be alone for a 127 00:11:51,740 --> 00:12:00,380 few hours in his cell, according to the Spanish Daily Diario, Diario, Diario AS, Diario, that's a 128 00:12:00,380 --> 00:12:07,760 terrible word to translate to English. Normally a prisoner deemed suicidal would be obliged to be 129 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:12,380 accompanied by another inmate. But McAfee was not considered by prison authorities to be suicidal. 130 00:12:13,060 --> 00:12:19,580 Penitentiary rules also allowed him the right to time alone. Could it be that whoever headed out for 131 00:12:19,580 --> 00:12:25,200 McAfee waited until that moment when he asked for alone time to move in? And if that's true, 132 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:31,380 that would mean that they had access to his cell. What would Occam's razor suggest? This is where things 133 00:12:31,380 --> 00:12:37,480 get a little bit tricky. I mean, somebody with access to the cell able to open the door and go in 134 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:45,160 was the door locked? I don't even know. Going in and overpowering him? I don't know. Maybe this is 135 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:50,020 just a man who got the news that he would be extradited. The fight was over and this is the end 136 00:12:50,020 --> 00:12:56,220 of the road. So what did he decide to do? He decided to troll the world with one of the most epic trolls 137 00:12:56,220 --> 00:13:01,900 ever. But his wife said he wasn't suicidal. He said he would call her. Perhaps the phone call was a ruse 138 00:13:01,900 --> 00:13:06,280 when he said, I'll call you in the evening. He knew that that would raise alarm bells. But that 139 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:12,300 is too conspiratorial. The idea to assume that John McAfee was planning this elaborate plot saying, 140 00:13:12,620 --> 00:13:17,880 I love you, my wife, and I'll call you later. But it was a big trick. You have to take several leaps 141 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:22,480 of faith to believe that was true. But then what are you supposed to believe that someone snuck into 142 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:29,060 his cell at the opportune moment to end his life? What a, what a, you know, I feel bad about this 143 00:13:29,060 --> 00:13:36,260 story. I really do. McAfee was cool. But whether you like the guy or not, he was a cool dude. He was 144 00:13:36,260 --> 00:13:44,000 this crazy, eccentric, flamboyant, bombastic troll. He was a smart guy. So it's shocking to say the least. 145 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:49,560 Daily Beast say McAfee was nabbed at Barcelona's airport at the request of the U.S. Justice Department 146 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:54,000 on October 3rd, 2020, as he was preparing to board a flight to Istanbul with a British passport. 147 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:58,540 Law enforcement officials had been alerted to his presence after he posted on social media near 148 00:13:58,540 --> 00:14:03,960 Tarragona in Catalonia. Perhaps a big mistake on the part of McAfee. He doesn't have a good history 149 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:09,120 with posting photos of where he is and then people finding out where he is. But I'll leave that for 150 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:15,900 another day, that story. The ruling by Spain's high court, the Audiencia Nacional, was a critical blow 151 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:20,340 to the entrepreneur known for his penchant for drugs, sex, and scandal. Ultimately, the court 152 00:14:20,340 --> 00:14:24,820 ruled against all of McAfee's claims that he was being politically persecuted for his activism 153 00:14:24,820 --> 00:14:30,420 against the U.S. tax system. Could it be that he wasn't paying taxes and that was his activism? 154 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,580 Quote, there is no supporting evidence that such a thing could be happening. The high court ruled, 155 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,300 maintaining that the internal motivations for why McAfee did not declare his taxes during that period 156 00:14:40,300 --> 00:14:45,700 did not matter. The court added that McAfee's claims had more to do with his subjective convictions 157 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:51,700 and allegedly exculpatory justifications that have no solid base in reality. The country's top court 158 00:14:51,700 --> 00:14:56,900 insisted that the software entrepreneur's importance socially, economically, or in any other area did 159 00:14:56,900 --> 00:15:01,040 not give him immunity. Now, I'll explain to you guys who aren't familiar with this. 160 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:07,300 For American citizens, no matter where you are, no matter where you work, you could leave the U.S., 161 00:15:07,300 --> 00:15:14,020 get a work visa for Spain, and if you make money, you must pay the U.S., one of the only countries in 162 00:15:14,020 --> 00:15:17,720 the world, if not the only, that charges taxes to people who don't even live there. 163 00:15:18,740 --> 00:15:21,300 Could it be that McAfee was saying, I don't live there, I ain't paying these taxes? 164 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:26,840 Seems like he even admitted that much. Or could it be that the U.S. government will make an example of 165 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:33,080 anyone who dares challenge the tax system? Why? Probably one of the most threatening things a person 166 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:40,940 could do. If a lot of people just tax protested, it would be devastating for the U.S. McAfee was high 167 00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:47,440 profile, and he was advocating for this. Naturally, they can't have that. There's a story several years 168 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,080 ago about a couple in, I believe it was New Hampshire, I'm not entirely sure, that was refusing 169 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:56,180 to pay taxes, and the feds came in, surrounded the house, and it was pretty brutal. In fact, my friend 170 00:15:56,180 --> 00:16:01,900 Luke Rutkowski may know, I believe he was actually there. The government, I tell you this, man, Al Capone 171 00:16:01,900 --> 00:16:10,460 got away with so much. He was a very, very bad dude, hanging out with some bad boys. But they got 172 00:16:10,460 --> 00:16:16,900 him on tax evasion, that's the story. Because you can break the law, but if you cross the IRS, oh boy, 173 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:23,040 do they come for you. That's what I love about taxes. On tax forms, they say, even if you make money 174 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:27,820 selling illicit things, you better report the revenue. That's what's so funny. And apparently, 175 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:32,100 they won't report you. If you claim, like, I made money doing things you're not allowed to do, 176 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:37,060 they're like, just give us our cut and carry on. McAfee wasn't doing that. You see how serious 177 00:16:37,060 --> 00:16:42,720 things get. They go on to say, the court was not buying it. This is not life imprisonment. 178 00:16:42,940 --> 00:16:47,120 Even in the case of most unfavorable, even in the case most unfavorable to his interests, 179 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:51,800 it found. And in the second case, the court said it did not see that McAfee was suffering 180 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:55,780 from serious health problems, an issue that would at any rate be only taken into account 181 00:16:55,780 --> 00:17:00,020 at the moment that extradition is carried out. While his death is being considered a suicide, 182 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:06,620 prison workers were nevertheless shocked that McAfee had taken his life. One prison official 183 00:17:06,620 --> 00:17:11,640 described McAfee as a prisoner for economic crimes and an absolutely normal life in jail. 184 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:19,180 McAfee's death has inspired several inexplicable twists, including a suggestion by former NSA consultant 185 00:17:19,180 --> 00:17:24,600 and data privacy advocate Edward Snowden, that hacker Julian Assange could be the next to die 186 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:31,020 in jail. Europe should not extradite those accused of nonviolent crimes to a court system so unfair 187 00:17:31,020 --> 00:17:36,720 and prison system so cruel. The native born defendants would rather die than become subject 188 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:42,160 to it. Julian Assange could be next, Snowden tweeted on Wednesday. But it seems that Snowden's 189 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:46,800 real claim is that McAfee actually did take his life because he doesn't want to face 190 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:51,160 what Americans call justice. I actually think we have a decent justice system in this country, 191 00:17:51,220 --> 00:17:55,440 better than many others. And I don't necessarily agree with Edward Snowden if that is what he's 192 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:59,900 trying to say. He's implying that Julian Assange would decide to take his own life instead of coming 193 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:08,740 to the United States. Maybe, I don't know. I can't read minds. In life, McAfee embraced conspiracy 194 00:18:08,740 --> 00:18:13,480 theories while in jail. He wrote that he would never take his own life. Quote, 195 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:19,560 I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself 196 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:24,840 a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine, McAfee tweeted last October. He has inspired 197 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:29,460 conspiracy theories in his death as well. On Wednesday, an ominous Instagram post, the letter 198 00:18:29,460 --> 00:18:34,020 Q, appeared on his official account shortly after reports of his suicide had been made public. 199 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:42,360 McAfee's lawyer, Javier Villalba, told Reuters on Thursday that McAfee died out of pure fear 200 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:48,240 of what his life would be like having to face U.S. charges. This is the result of a cruel system, 201 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:53,580 she proclaimed, that had no reason to keep this man in jail for so long. U.S. prosecutors will 202 00:18:53,580 --> 00:18:58,720 likely ask the judge overseeing the case to dismiss the charges against McAfee in light of his death. 203 00:19:00,180 --> 00:19:04,800 Interesting. Very, very interesting. There's something else that's coming out of this. 204 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:14,180 Of course, you still have, I guess, derisive posts about conspiracy theories saying anybody 205 00:19:14,180 --> 00:19:18,980 who claims the conspiracy is full of it, blah, blah, blah. Take a look at this article from the 206 00:19:18,980 --> 00:19:24,260 Daily Beast. Q post on John McAfee's Instagram page unleashes conspiracy wave. The death of the 207 00:19:24,260 --> 00:19:29,000 notorious and allegedly violent software tycoon was always going to be an event. Somehow it got weirder. 208 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:37,480 Now, initially, this article incorrectly described my political affiliations. I reached out to the 209 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,400 author and simply and politely asked if they could correct it, and they said absolutely, 210 00:19:41,660 --> 00:19:45,980 and they immediately issued that correction. So thank you and with respect. When someone makes 211 00:19:45,980 --> 00:19:49,980 a mistake and they immediately correct it, I respect it 100%. So thank you to the Daily Beast 212 00:19:49,980 --> 00:19:55,460 for removing the incorrect insinuation of my political beliefs. Now they just call me a person 213 00:19:55,460 --> 00:20:00,680 on the right. That's fine. Whatever. People have their perspective. But the way they described me 214 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:05,800 before was just grossly incorrect. But that's not what's relevant. Okay, I don't want to I don't want 215 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:10,000 to harp on that. They go on the story and talk about what happened. What's interesting is this. 216 00:20:10,420 --> 00:20:15,740 They say, Newsmax host Steve Cortez tweeted to his 222,000 followers, quote, 217 00:20:16,140 --> 00:20:21,680 So if Jeffrey Epstein got Vincent Fostered, then did McAfee just get Jeffrey Epstein? Tim Poole, 218 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:29,400 a social media personality on the right tweeted to his 820,000 followers. Bull effing ish. I didn't 219 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:35,740 even say what that meant. But that's what they quote. Progressive social media personality Brooklyn 220 00:20:35,740 --> 00:20:40,920 dad defiant wrote to his more than 900,000 followers. John McAfee died today. They said 221 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:47,520 it was suicide, but he says he didn't do it. Wow. I mean, Brooklyn dad defiant is a leftist anti Trump 222 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:53,100 personality. The fact that you are seeing Newsmax on the right. They say I'm on the right, 223 00:20:53,180 --> 00:20:59,120 but let's be real. Moderate personality, Tim Poole and leftist personality all questioning the 224 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:04,380 narrative. That says something, doesn't it? That says something about their ability to maintain 225 00:21:04,380 --> 00:21:10,020 control of what people see, hear and think. That to me is one of the most incredible outcomes of the 226 00:21:10,020 --> 00:21:17,080 story and perhaps what McAfee was really going for. If this really was McAfee taking his own life, 227 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:23,640 and a major troll, perhaps he decided that with his last effort, he would confuse everyone to the 228 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:31,020 point where no one could believe the mainstream media. Maybe, or maybe he was just a wild and 229 00:21:31,020 --> 00:21:36,900 crazy guy who wanted to go out with a bang, or maybe he had evidence and somebody wanted to stop him. 230 00:21:37,620 --> 00:21:44,040 Maybe he was, as they say, Epstein. Which brings me to Epstein. You may have seen the story. 231 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:49,800 Apparently, seems to be that there actually was some kind of conspiracy. While many people were 232 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:54,580 dragged for insinuating that what happened to Jeffrey Epstein was a conspiracy, we now have 233 00:21:54,580 --> 00:22:02,020 criminal charges. Interesting. The AP reported on May 21st, about a month ago, or just over a month 234 00:22:02,020 --> 00:22:11,220 ago, Epstein guards to skirt jail time and deal with prosecutors. The AP is the bastion of mainstream 235 00:22:11,220 --> 00:22:16,400 media. They said, the two Bureau of Prisons workers tasked with guarding Epstein the night 236 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:21,460 he took his own life in a New York jail cell have admitted they falsified records, but they will skirt 237 00:22:21,460 --> 00:22:26,040 any time behind bars under a deal with federal prosecutors, authorities said Friday. The prison 238 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:31,400 workers, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, were accused of sleeping and browsing the internet instead of 239 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:36,860 monitoring Epstein the night he took his own life. They were charged with lying on prison records 240 00:22:36,860 --> 00:22:41,620 to make it seem as though they had made required checks on the financier before he was found in 241 00:22:41,620 --> 00:22:48,240 his cell. So think about that. Not the conspiracy everybody expects. You know, a lot of people are, 242 00:22:48,540 --> 00:22:56,120 what was the joke we heard that McAfee is found with Clinton-esque bruises on his neck? 243 00:22:56,980 --> 00:23:01,160 It's a joke. Everybody calm down. I don't think that's true. It's a joke. 244 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:08,120 But we do have a conspiracy. Two prison guards falsified records. And a conspiracy is, 245 00:23:08,740 --> 00:23:13,440 you know, more than one person plotting some criminal activity or unethical activity 246 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:21,880 in secret. They've pleaded guilty to this. In private, they did. Now, does anybody really 247 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:28,540 believe that the official narrative on Epstein is true? I don't think so. I don't think so. 248 00:23:28,540 --> 00:23:36,420 Now, there's some problems here. Perhaps we all just got wrapped up in the movies and in stories. 249 00:23:37,220 --> 00:23:43,540 Maybe the world is really boring and we pretend like it's fantastical and exciting because otherwise 250 00:23:43,540 --> 00:23:49,720 life is kind of boring and routine. We're so used to watching movies. So many people believe silencers 251 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:56,380 are a real thing. You know, pew, pew, pew. Those aren't real. You can't do that with a gun. Just not true. 252 00:23:56,380 --> 00:24:01,220 But so many people believe it. So many people watch movies and believe fake movie tropes. 253 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:05,360 Oh, no. Someone's firing it. You better hide behind a car. That won't help you. 254 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:12,140 They do it anyway. Well, the engine block will. Could it be that we're so used to movie narratives, 255 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:17,460 we can't just recognize that sometimes people take their own lives and that's it? 256 00:24:17,460 --> 00:24:26,560 And life is just boring? Or is that idea naive? Is it naive to excuse the fact that there are dirty, 257 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:31,800 manipulative, and corrupt people out there that would do corrupt things? I mean, look at these 258 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:36,540 guards. Initially, they said it was crazy to believe there was a conspiracy. And at the very 259 00:24:36,540 --> 00:24:42,740 least, we got the level one of conspiracies on a scale of one to a hundred, with a hundred being like 260 00:24:42,740 --> 00:24:47,020 the craziest conspiracy and one being like, well, there was a conspiracy. I think we're at a one, 261 00:24:47,700 --> 00:24:52,520 maybe a two. So it did happen. These people did conspire to commit a crime. They've pleaded guilty 262 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:58,140 to it, I guess. Could it be even worse? Yeah, we don't have evidence for that. But there are 263 00:24:58,140 --> 00:25:01,920 certainly people who are not satisfied with these stories. Take a look at this story from just the 264 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:07,220 other day from Business Insider. Jeffrey Epstein accuser says she doesn't believe Ghislaine Maxwell 265 00:25:07,220 --> 00:25:16,060 is actually in jail and thinks she may very well be in Trump Tower. I'm not convinced she's in Trump 266 00:25:16,060 --> 00:25:22,800 Tower. This one seems a little bit out there, to be completely honest. Insider reports. Maria Farmer, 267 00:25:23,340 --> 00:25:28,700 an Epstein accuser, doesn't think the Epstein associate is in jail. Farmer says she wants proof 268 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:35,200 and thinks that Maxwell may be in Trump Tower. They say Maxwell, a former socialite, is being held in a 269 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,300 Brooklyn, New York jail without bail while awaiting trial in connection with accusations, 270 00:25:39,980 --> 00:25:44,860 the Epstein accusations. Farmer, however, voiced doubts about Maxwell's whereabouts in a newly 271 00:25:44,860 --> 00:25:50,460 released three-part docuseries titled Epstein's Shadow, Ghislaine Maxwell, which premiered on Peacock 272 00:25:50,460 --> 00:25:56,400 on Thursday. I mean, this is NBC's streaming platform. Forgive me after this giant conspiracy 273 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,980 theory I've lived that I don't believe anything. I want proof I'd like to see her. She may very well 274 00:26:01,980 --> 00:26:08,360 be in Trump Tower. Was it a conspiracy theory? Or was it a conspiracy when ABC suppressed the 275 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:14,360 reporting? Remember this one? Project Veritas got access to this secret recording. I think it was 276 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:20,860 Amy Rohrbach, was that her name? Where she said three years prior, they had him. They had the interviews. 277 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:30,100 They had him. But ABC said no. Was that a conspiracy? Or was that just a corrupt media outlet or a callous 278 00:26:30,100 --> 00:26:34,420 media outlet not wanting to cover news that could be bad for their friends, the Clintons, in an election 279 00:26:34,420 --> 00:26:41,860 year? Perhaps. But we do know the news was suppressed. It was called a conspiracy theory. 280 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:47,560 The idea that Epstein was doing anything wrong was a conspiracy theory. Now we have accusations made 281 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:53,300 about Bill Gates and Bill Clinton being friends with Epstein. Will those remain conspiracy theories? 282 00:26:53,820 --> 00:26:58,760 The joke now is that, what's the difference between a conspiracy theory and the news? About eight 283 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:05,120 months. Ha ha. No, I'm not a big fan of conspiracies simply because you need evidence. There are a lot 284 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:11,340 of people who are mad that don't speculate more. Well, I don't want to assert speculation as fact. I 285 00:27:11,340 --> 00:27:15,780 won't do that. Certainly, we can have these interesting conversations and talk about what McAfee's wife 286 00:27:15,780 --> 00:27:24,720 actually said. But to entertain a story without evidence, I can't do it. I can't. It's just not 287 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:29,680 possible. But I'll tell you this, man. We have another story. This one time, this time for 288 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:37,260 Poynter. U.S. ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media. Wow. Reuters Institute report finds 289 00:27:37,260 --> 00:27:43,500 just 29% of people surveyed in the U.S. said they trust the news compared to 45% in Canada and 54% 290 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:50,020 in Brazil. Well, I blame CNN and MSNBC because they lie nonstop. Now, to be fair, there are many 291 00:27:50,020 --> 00:27:54,800 Democrats in this country who don't believe Fox News, but any rational person who pays attention 292 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,600 to politics knows that Fox News, while biased, does entertain the opposition, probably telling 293 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:04,420 the truth in most of their articles, and CNN lies all the time. Think about what this means, though. 294 00:28:05,140 --> 00:28:09,200 It could be that McAfee is just somebody who took his own life, and it's another tragic story. 295 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:15,400 I mean, if you're thinking about anything like that, you need to get help. You need to make sure 296 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:21,400 you're checking in on your friends because it's a sad story. Could it be that the reality is we just 297 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,340 don't trust our media anymore? We don't believe their narratives. The narratives are shattered. 298 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:31,860 This could be a good thing, but it could also be a bad thing. We need trust in the media because 299 00:28:31,860 --> 00:28:37,840 we need a real media apparatus to challenge the powers that be. The problem is, in this country, 300 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,900 the media has become a tool of the powers that be, so much so that nobody wants to believe anything 301 00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:48,340 they say. Now, in the United States, we are dead last among 46 countries, according to the Poynter 302 00:28:48,340 --> 00:28:51,840 Institute. Now, Poynter, they're the ones who certify whether or not someone's a fact checker 303 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:58,640 on Facebook. Well, I got news for you, Poynter. There are fact checks on my videos and other content 304 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:07,020 that are lies. How do you, who watches the Watchmen? Who fact checks the fact checkers? I'll tell you 305 00:29:07,020 --> 00:29:14,760 what. I'm going to. I'm going to hire someone whose job is going to, is going to be to just go 306 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:21,580 through fact checks and then write them as true or false. That's right, because I've had a fact 307 00:29:21,580 --> 00:29:25,840 checking organization claim that one of my tweets about Epstein was fake, even though it was 100% 308 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:31,560 true. They said, yeah, well, we didn't like the way you wrote it, but it was true. Yeah, well, too bad. 309 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:39,120 They then wrote an article confirming everything I tweeted, but said the way he tweeted it, you know, 310 00:29:39,140 --> 00:29:44,060 we didn't like, there was no context. What do you mean? Well, it's Twitter. You get 280 characters. 311 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:49,580 Used to be less than that. It's time to fact check the fact checkers. It's time to figure out what's 312 00:29:49,580 --> 00:29:55,420 going on. And while I don't know if we'll ever find out what happened to McAfee or Epstein, the least 313 00:29:55,420 --> 00:30:01,360 we can do is say, with trust being broken and questions being asked, we need people who are doing the 314 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,140 real work to investigate and find answers, which is why all of you should go to timcast.com, become 315 00:30:05,140 --> 00:30:09,180 members, support our work, because we're going to be hiring some excellent people to challenge these 316 00:30:09,180 --> 00:30:13,700 stories, to investigate, and try to the best of our abilities to figure out what's really happening 317 00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:17,600 in this world and restore trust in the media. Certainly, people trust their own sources. 318 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:23,620 Conservatives trust conservative outlets. Democrats trust Democrat outlets, but something is wrong here. 319 00:30:24,260 --> 00:30:31,340 Maybe the reality is this 29%, it's just we're split down the middle. Perhaps Democrats, 320 00:30:31,340 --> 00:30:35,400 just trust MSNBC, but hate everybody else. Conservatives trust Fox, but hate everybody 321 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:40,460 else. So the reality is it's just tribalism. We got to change that. We got to figure out what 322 00:30:40,460 --> 00:30:45,400 really happens in these stories, and we have to do a better job. Otherwise, if people can't trust 323 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:51,080 what's happening because we have deceptive lying media, then politics will break downstream from 324 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,220 this. I'll leave it there. Next segment's coming up at 8 p.m. over at youtube.com slash 325 00:30:55,220 --> 00:30:57,900 timcast IRL. Thanks for hanging out, and I will see you all then. 326 00:31:01,340 --> 00:31:31,320 Thank you.