Welcome, my friends. This is the Culture War podcast. I am Tim Poole, your host. We're going to debate stuff.

And we're going to talk about culture, American culture, economics, free trade, et cetera.

There was a big debate that happened in December on the internet. And people were talking about

H-1B visas, whether we should be bringing people in to do these jobs that was marketed as high-skill

labor. But then people started pulling up H-1B applications, finding that

there were like casino dealers and servers and Panda Express employees that they were trying

to get H-1B visas for. Now, these jobs are considered entry-level, meaning if Americans need jobs,

then we should be training Americans to do these jobs. So this debate got pretty intense. Vakras

Ramswami and Elon Musk got a lot of flack for this. Recently Donald Trump stated at a press

conference that he was in favor of H-1B because we need wine experts and waiters. That's right,

waiters, like people to serve you food. Now a lot of people did not, the debate did not reignite, which is surprising to me and very few

people covered that Donald Trump said this, considering how angry the Trump base was over this.

But there was a question that arose that, or I should say a point was made by Sam Hyde.

He released a video on the unquantifiable.

So what we're going to do is we're going to discuss free trade, H1B, outsourcing, etc.

And I believe it will be a lot of discussion, quite a bit of debate, and we're going to get to the root issues around culture, economics, and immigration.

We got a handful of really great people joining us today to talk about all of this.

Elijah Schaefer is here.

Yes, I am here.

I am back in the United States again. And believe it or not,

I'm not here to talk about Israel and say it 176 times. This is a different topic. And I want to

remind you guys, please follow my new show, Almost Serious on YouTube. It's a brand new channel.

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