THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 104 — Post-Election Palette Cleanser + Tucker⧸Fuentes Interview Reaction
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1 hour and 29 minutes
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195.23216
Summary
Join the OG gang as they discuss a whole bunch of hot topics including: 1. Ebt of Tik Toktok 2. Tiktok's speech 3. Mischief Night 4. Tucker 5. Hijabs 6. Burkini 7. Biba 8. Bikini 9. Biscuit 10. Burqa 11. Bibi 12. Jorja 13. Burka 14. Jomboy 15. Burkoi 16. The Joker 17. The Devil 18. The Vampires 19. The Vanishing
Transcript
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from the age of big brother if they want to get you they'll get you dnsa specifically
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targets the communications of everyone they're collecting your communications
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all right well ladies and gentlemen welcome to thursday night thought crime what's up guys
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we have the the og crew here for once all in studio all all in studio all in studio one one one on
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assignment on assignment of course but uh for once it's the whole thought crime crew um all together
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this is this is great blake you you were missed last week because we had a great um you know we
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we have a great lineup tonight we had we had or no you were here you were here last week
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and it was tyler who's missed tyler who's missed oh wait yes we did the halloween debate it was tyler
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who was missed yes yeah i can't remember what happened you were not here because the vampire
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got you now i'm confused blake wait i was i was here last week well i was pro i haven't seen blake i
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haven't seen blake in like a month yeah yeah but he was yeah it was the two i realized that he was at
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the nunnery but they kicked him out unfortunately not the vatican no he was everywhere did you go to
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the vatican oh yeah he was in the tunnels no i've never been to the vatican he was in the tunnel
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tunnels it's space we'll go together it's awesome no but tyler so we we had a whole thing we had a
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whole thing about how apparently nobody knows what mischief night is if you're not from like the
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philadelphia area okay so have you heard of mischief yeah of course that's the east coast thing yeah
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exactly thank you but he's heard of it don't act like quite a heavy duty thing i know about it
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lots of outright you know about because your wife i know about it because my wife's from new jersey
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there you go boom and so mischief that's like a thing 100 don't we don't we have another name for it
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you're devil's night you're an arizonan and you're a proud western boy and you have no idea
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what mischief night is in arizona they didn't celebrate it but i remember when i when because
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i lived in new jersey for two years i met my wife in junior high yeah and then we moved back to
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arizona but she's from new jersey but mischief night's like a big freaking deal like like you
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like you take it seriously it's like yes it's more serious than halloween it 100 and so what we
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they don't make movies about mischief night well that's because it's local
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but what i found out after the show that no one had told me this before that apparently
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my grandmom used to participate in mischief night that so my aunt was telling us this story she was
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like oh yeah like we would all we would all go down the low to the cornfield and we'd get a bunch
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of corn and we'd we'd shuck it and we'd get the kernels and set them up into like bags and throw them
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at the neighbor's houses up and down the block and i'm like nana was doing mischief night
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now do you call her grandmom no no i called her nana but is that like another east coast thing
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grandmom uh i had one i had one was grandmom and one was nana i don't know i just saw the map for
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this this is crazy i wish i could drop this for you guys well apparently literally we talked about
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last week that exact map last week oh you did the whole conversation i missed the map hold on we have
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to go through so we're going to get to some seriously spicy topics today uh but we're going to
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start with ebt of tiktok then we're going to get no no no no we're starting we're starting no we
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got to start with we got to start with bollywood did bollywood oh bollywood okay so then but we are
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going to talk about tucker and then talk about tucker because he's been he's been in the conversation
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and everybody's asking us well what are you what about tucker what are your thoughts on tucker
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and you know it's like we had an election all right we're going to focus on the election yep
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but we have thoughts we have and this is thought crime so you're going to hear him
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all right so then we're also going to talk about hijabs or bikini or burkini burkini yeah and we're
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going to talk about mom donnie built nyc all this and more all right so let's get us started on the
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first topic all right so like uh the let's just let's just start with the clip because so mom donnie
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wins on on tuesday night and then that speech which i know we all watched i actually did watch it live
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but there was something at the very end of his speech that happened play clip three three five
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people are asking me if this is real no this is 100 real yeah 100 real can we hit the song guys
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hit the song it's apparently a song from a 2004 bollywood movie there we go it's
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like i feel like this is the the tyler that what could be more american than this
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right like i have no association with this i have the same amount of association with this as most of
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america does with mischief night yeah exactly so but blake i feel like you you've been making a lot
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of points about the third worldism of it all right like how zoran's actual fundamental ideology is a
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antagonism towards the west and antagonism towards whiteness europeanness whatever you want to call
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it and this song just felt like a total i i heard it i was like blake's right yeah which is funny because
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like the song is whatever it's like some bollywood thing no but it's very much is it very much is
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that mam donnie himself does represent this like how to put i can't i can't think because it's like
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mind he's the literal avatar of the gimme grins yeah yeah it's like the it's that it's sort of
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this global ideology it spans ethnic groups it spans national origin to some extent even spans
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like a lot of different sub-political ideologies it kind of it really is like a line and so
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so you were talking you've been talking about that we've been talking about it pretty much the entire
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campaign and that charlie obviously talked about it many times and this was so interesting was
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zoran mandami talked about it when he got on stage yeah in and there were a lot of people van jones
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included um who said wow this seems like a different zoran mandami it seems like he went full mask off
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and it's like van you should just you should just listen to us andrew i know you guys have been
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chatting a little bit um it's like you guys should literally just listen to us because we called it
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and then he gets up there and he starts talking about the um was it the ethiopian aunties and the
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bengali uh mexican line cooks and the abuelas and the the taxi driver and it's like no that's
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literally what the right has been saying the entire time that he was going to do the entire time and it
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was angry it was bitter it was resentful and it was just grievance politics for specific groups of
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people targeted against other groups well you know it's funny aoc did a similar thing where she
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rattled off all these like minority groups she happened to include i think irish and italians but it was
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like it's complete fusionism it's complete it's complete uh intersectionality it's it's let's
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unite the world's marginalized as they would say to fight whitey that's essentially how i interpret
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is it true by the way that are are are all forks now banned in new york city has that gone through
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or does that wait until january well while we talk about it too don't forget that the new lieutenant
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governor of virginia is also a uh indian descent muslim as well first statewide elected official
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ever female again first first muslim woman ever elected in the u.s for statewide office where was
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this for virginia for virginia by the way i want to play this clip from gazala hashmi it's relevant
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play cut 275 my family is back home in kenya and um how i see how things are going on like
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um with um families being separated as a human being as a mother separating families especially
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children from their mothers or fathers i don't believe in that so that made me come out and
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also come and vote okay so she votes democrats we have an immigrant what that was jersey
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yeah uh excuse me that was virginia yes voted for virginia democrat candidate abigail spamburger so
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she votes for uh a democrat because she's an immigrant from she's a muslim immigrant from kenya
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who doesn't like our immigration policies so then she votes for the democrat and let's let's get in
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here because this this is kind of what it all comes down to play clip 274 new york will remain a city
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of immigrants a city built by immigrants powered by immigrants
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so this is the part that we we need to get into and this is this and of all the things here because
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it's it's a city of immigrants agreed uh powered by immigrants at least today agreed
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but was new york city built by immigrants wait do we have that picture of the famous um the workers
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on the side the skyscraper building new york they looked like exactly exactly these that they these
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are the type of guys that are listening to that music that i want to put that picture up with that
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music playing because it's like and blake like just just walk me through this was new york city
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built by immigrants in the way that he's referring i mean the freedom tower kind of was
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man are you are you talking about whoa are you talking about one world trade center are you are you
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talking about building wouldn't exist are you talking about the immigrant pilots yeah yeah immigrant
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pilots the immigrant pilots of new york city yeah i think you know we have to we have to include all
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possible you know immigrant sources all the immigrant stories of it's hey we're just telling
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immigrant stories we're listening to immigrant voices like like like uh great new york immigrants like
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uh muhammadatta yeah wow who was approved for flight school after he uh after he died yeah one one
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flight hey only one flight but it went down in history yes exactly he might be in terms of time spent
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piloting a plane to infamy he might be the most successful pilot of all time
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jeez you know i just i just is that for you or for uh muhammadatta um that so i find his speech
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really really infuriating we have let in so many immigrants and new york city has been the recipient
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of so many immigrants that it is it no longer we don't control it americans do not control it
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and he's just he's just spiking the football like a total jerk but we do i want to know how many
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illegals voted in this election probably not i'm sure i need to be honest well new jersey by the way
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like blake's opinion is like none mine is probably like you know uh percentage you know like the
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madison square garden full i don't know somewhere it's it's somewhere in between that
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i don't know i just don't i just don't think it's going to be that many and even if it wasn't
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how many if you had to guess what about how many and by the way this is illegals but non-citizens
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yeah not non-citizens and illegals so if you're so visas green cards okay that's fair fair i i should
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have expanded out to all that that's what i meant yes non-citizens yeah i don't know maybe a few
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hundred you think if only a few hundred the entire city of new york voted for mom donnie i mean why
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are they going to want to like conceivably take that risk just so they can vote for ma'am donnie
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because they don't care they don't care they've been told that they're totally fine
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no plus voting for mom donnie they're not going to want like the trump administration to come in
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and potentially arrest them for that that's the reason why they voted that's the reason why the
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thing about it is a lot of illegal immigrants just don't even care about u.s elections that's a big
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thing about them like even you know people who just are here from foreign countries very briefly
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don't they're just not invested in american politics for the most part i feel like i feel
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like this is a great task for the civil rights division at the doj 100 to identify i think yeah
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i mean that's the thing you can do while we're talking about bollywood send in the doj and feel
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free to indict every single person who illegally voted because who voted as a public record
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i think harmeet dylan is the is the right woman for the job she should move forward on identify
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how many 100 we should arrest everyone who votes illegally we should indict and arrest everyone
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who votes illegally all right especially because they're the sort of community that you know when
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you go after james comey james comey is going to be able to have like a ton of lawyers and he's
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ready to like fight a big legal throwdown but if if you're correct and thousands of people cast
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illegal ballots you can totally indict a huge number of them and it's both expensive to try
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to defend all of them and it will like put the fear of god in these immigrant communities who mostly
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like again the pr campaign of that would be huge the pr campaign if you could highlight it yeah would
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be like don't do this and and again even if it's hundreds to your point which is like i you're in like
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the the most conservative position on that right probably not like conservative big c but like
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little c yeah is that it's hundreds hundreds of people getting in big trouble for this is a big
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deal so i would i would say go ahead and do that if that's the case but i don't i get i guess i get
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annoyed because it's often a sort of automatic take from the right that they just assume this is
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happening and i would just say if it is that obvious you also can't assume that it's not the
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automatic take from the right is that it's enough to flip the election i agree with your sentiment
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it's probably not this election not enough to flip this election but how many down ballot races does
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this type of thing end up impacting in other elections before we get too far off topic so yes
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investigate it but i do want to i do want to get back on topic a little bit and guys i want to throw
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a picture and andrew i want to get your sense of this throw a picture 337
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these are the people the studio loves this yeah these are the guys who build america and no they
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weren't listening to this type of music they might have been certainly they might have been
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and certainly the here's here's what i want to explain though they were certainly the people
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who built new york city and the skyscrapers there is a fundamental difference between the people who
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came as settlers the people who came as colonists and the people who are coming to use blake's phrase
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as the gimmigrants as the people who are coming to take from the society that mamdani specifically
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stated was and is his political agenda which will be the next political agenda going forward
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and i'm not gonna by the way if if new york wasn't built by european settlers why is it called that
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why is it called that yeah like it's literally called new york which and and blake i believe york at
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one point was the capital of england uh it was the capital of one of the kingdoms i think one of
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the king northumbria yeah yeah so but like london wasn't always the capital it got sacked by the
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vikings and they uh took the king and they carved a blood eagle on him that was the normans right
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uh no no the vikings did this is way back in like viking aging okay so the norman conquest wasn't
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1066 okay the vikings came as early in the 1700s 700s yeah yeah yeah okay so but anyways listen
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here's the deal uh my take on this is you know and actually blake i think you circulated this it
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was a sub stack it was really interesting and if you really want the full picture america was settled
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by mostly anglos right and there was a lot of pushback to some of the immigrant classes that came
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the poles the italians the irish all this stuff and they there was concern and actually
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there are movies about this a lot of the mystique of america being built uh being a nation of
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immigrants came out of that wave and it actually changed the way the nation talked about itself
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and there was concern even about letting in those cultures now we know in retrospect they
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assimilated very well because they happen to be mostly european mostly christian no even then
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even then it actually like it needed a big lift to do it so what the lift was world war one
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and in the aftermath we basically quite aggressively cracked down on vestigial uh non-assimilated elements
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of a lot of european immigrants to the u.s so there used to be a lot of german language newspapers a lot
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of german language stuff i was gonna say and we had the anti-german frenzy in world war one and
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stamped that out and so you know i grew up in a place with a lot of germans no one knows german in
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the dakotas and then you would have people like it didn't and the british royal family actually like
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changed their name they changed their name they were they were pretty fully assimilated but they
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it was german this substack basically makes the case that it's semi-miraculous that we were able to
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to assimilate these people because of the greatness of america but also these huge cataclysmic events
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like world war one and world war two but it did end up creating this narrative that america is a nation
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of immigrants which made way for the 19th the heart cell uh uh yeah yeah exactly so which which then
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gave them a a foothold to say hey we're just a nation of immigrants and so it doesn't matter where
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you're from well that's not at all how we got from point a to point b point a was we're anglo we don't
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want italians and irish and poles then it was like well we just defeated the nazis and saved the
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western world so i guess they're cool now and we're all one nation and everybody's like well we did it
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once we can do it again but here's the thing you went you that's like three standard deviations from
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like assimilating european christians and catholics to oh we can have somebody like zoramandani who's
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a muslim from uganda slash indian descent yeah hit the song to me the most important thing about it is
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just that he ran pretty aggressively on and overtly on what you might call you know race communism where
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he's going to say the objective of my administration is to target people who are white
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you can't leave out the fact that where did he hold his i mean i don't know if these were rallies but
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they were his last public appearances right before the election that on saturday night and sunday night
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in new york city what what were those clubs again by the way those those clubs that he was appearing at
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the alf what did he go a gay club the abc club yes that's pretty funny okay yeah like one here it is
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campaigning at gay clubs yeah here it is b rolls up uh this is zoran at the gay club at one one o'clock
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gosh yeah that is i have a two you know we do bring it up but like you know it's it's an important
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thing where we bring up that you know we'll call him the you know foreign the muslim socialist but like
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the islam part is actually not a core part of his identity no way this is not part of like the way
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it was part of muhammad this is why yeah this is why calling him a jihadist is kind of washed but i
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mean yeah it's kind of played out is that really obviously not yes it is he identifies as muslim to
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the extent that he wants to show he is basically not american right he's not american using it as an
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i'm not american part of his ideology and he says this on stage he's like he's like he's like i am a
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muslim and make sure it's like make sure to pronounce it that way uh rob finnerty and i
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it's like the old snl skit where anytime you talk about like whenever we're talking about latin america
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they suddenly have to have these weird fake accents no no yeah finnerty was just talking about this
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the other night and i came on and i was like i was like uh yeah uh yeah it's broadcasting from
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managua yeah yeah it's yeah it's cool and i'm like and he's like you know and it's just like it's
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it's ridiculous it's completely ridiculous so so yeah that's that's new york city and i think we
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need to and just to just to put a pin on this because i do want to get to some of these other
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topics and we did promise a little bit of a spicy topic that we do need to fight for the story of
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who actually built america's cities and who actually built america's greatness and no it was not like
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just this sort of vague all immigrants built america story like that's just it's just wrong and it's
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led to bad policy exactly that's why i brought up bad outcomes that's why i brought up that sub
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stack is because we changed the myth the story that we told ourselves as a nation after that first
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wave of early it was late 19th but mostly early 20th century uh wave of of immigrants so spot on and
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when we did that we fundamentally changed the the character of the country now we were able to
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assimilate but but listen that is one thing this is entirely another and to just continually say to
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ourselves we can keep assimilating and and keep a nation i think is a is a is a fool's errand but
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this is what this is when you talk about the myths that we tell the story reclaiming the story this is
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jennifer welch to metty hassan at zoran's victory party saying you know if it was all white people in
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here right now it would be boring and americans have no culture except multiculturalism yeah show
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despicable thing and they say this a lot yeah like white people have no culture no like screw
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you i could say a stronger word here except you know the spirit of charlie would smite me
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like screw you for saying that no europeans actually have a tremendous amount of culture
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americans have a tremendous amount of culture to the extent that they say this it's because like
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these awful people come in and like demean them deny they like have any sort of cultural status
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as a way to justify dispossessing and displacing them hey guess what there's culture that isn't
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just like whatever slop you guys eat that you call like your national cuisine that was probably
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still invented by a freaking european anyway a lot of it was yeah yeah chicken tikka masala
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chicken tikka masala invented in edinburgh salmon sushi invented by norwegians actually i saw like it's
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really good so many of these things like oh wow like it just it's disgusting it's actively
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disgusting and not the least yes it was yeah and not the least i want to go to edinburgh now
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yeah i mean it's just you know it's like they do this a lot where austria has the best
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middle eastern cuisine all right hold on and beyond that and beyond that it's like the united states of
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america the nation that gave us rock music hollywood the nation that gave us mark twain the nation that
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gave us you know stories like paul bunyan the nation that gave us daniel boone the nation that
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gave us davy crockett the alamo infinity number things we don't have a culture nation that gave us
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country music the blues the blues jazz and we just have this song where white people don't have a
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culture no like flip the bird to those people go off king absolutely absolutely violent but guys no
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it's not really a culture unless i can make some like obnoxious like instagram post about being
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immersed in like blake it's not really a culture unless you have a different name for your
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grandmother that's like not an english word it's not really a culture unless you have an abuela or
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whatever like no i mean so so let's let's let's just look at this guys because i know we i know we
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got a segue into our spicy topics but it's it's it's really simple as this we can have god bless america
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i thought you were gonna go with like ala akbar or something yeah yeah i mean it's really disgusting
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i mean the the amount of self-loathing that uh liberal white america has 1.4 billion people i
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mean written one song and made one movie but this is really simple though this is just like that you
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talk about the cities that were built in america the ingenuity the actual cultures that that came
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together to build what was initial they don't care about any of that they're just going to knock it
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all down and start over and replace it with the fall of rome i mean it's just like you go through
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these european cities you see it like these and again i just brought up austria like you go to vienna
00:24:46.080
vienna is a beautiful city has a ton of historic nature to it uh but you can tell very rapidly the places
00:24:52.620
that have been defaced and replaced with middle eastern uh influence that they've completely rebuilt
00:25:00.460
over the top and all the austrians have moved out and that those are the cultures that have moved in
00:25:06.780
and they don't care and obviously they're going to eliminate and eradicate all the historic elements
00:25:12.840
that were there that and that's going to be just tread underneath their feet yeah that's what's
00:25:16.560
going to happen and new york is and by the way there's way more preservation of history in my opinion
00:25:21.740
in these european cities than america has america has no culture of of historic of historic
00:25:27.840
preservation in fact we've eradicated our own history in most cases with gothic architecture
00:25:34.520
and everything else we have some art deco we have some no but we like he's talking about like new york
00:25:40.140
city tearing down no not even new york city i'm talking about like the midwest the terminal think
00:25:44.200
about some of the places in the midwest kansas city yes they they leveled all of the originating
00:25:50.820
architecture that was there chicago had a ton of this it was eliminated milwaukee actually still has some
00:25:57.480
up that you can but like so you can see some of this in milwaukee like when we had the rnc last
00:26:02.000
year tanya and the kids went over to like them it's just like the milwaukee library yeah and it's
00:26:07.340
just this it's like a cathedral gothic it's gothic it's amazing you know we can puncture we can like
00:26:12.840
and it's like go through the elephant in the room a lot of american urban culture was wiped out because
00:26:16.940
we had white flight in the 60s because of the last time libs got like total cultural domination
00:26:22.200
and they decided to quadruple the crime rate overnight and have riots run everywhere so
00:26:27.280
people had to leave you know when it happens in other countries it's called ethnic cleansing when
00:26:32.480
that happens but i guess in america it was just like i guess the people who left were bad because
00:26:36.720
they didn't want to be murdered like we've literally we've literally done an entire podcast
00:26:40.180
yeah like you go to you go to detroit and it's just like oh there's all these beautiful abandoned
00:26:43.260
homes and all the people just had to leave i guess so i mean i i experienced this in in a very
00:26:49.020
small way in my hometown where you know you know ethnic whites you know italian irish and polish
00:26:55.640
like myself and section eight came in and crime came in and then it became a sanctuary city which
00:27:01.400
they still want to do remember big left-wing idea and this is you know right outside philadelphia
00:27:06.140
and they just they blockbusting obviously was a huge part of that and that's that's almost exactly
00:27:12.280
what happened to my family where this this tight-knit not like a working-class area but tight-knit
00:27:18.000
great great architecture yeah wait and while we're on this topic because i think you're gonna
00:27:21.460
have one of the largest jewish populations in the united states if i was king of the world i would
00:27:26.460
force america to have to you only had three options for architectural styles art deco in the
00:27:33.820
major cities neoclassical or gothic that's it colonial no no you can have more there's there's other
00:27:41.580
styles and houses every how every town should have its queen and revival those like the fun like
00:27:47.380
houses that have like the little turrets and stuff but that being said blake's got a point though
00:27:51.240
because if you you just keep importing people from parts of the world that have no care about that
00:27:57.520
whatsoever you're just going to get the extended favela so what's interesting of india or um like
00:28:03.900
brazil or whatever all right we have to commit to going to the next topic here but i will say what's
00:28:09.280
interesting and i've never thought about it i have thought about it but i've never articulated before
00:28:12.800
is that even white flight blake have you ever noticed that they it's been it's your whole life
00:28:18.360
it's been talked about as if it was like the white people's like they get judged yeah it's their
00:28:22.300
white people are bad everything everything i know it was all things are white so and and by the way
00:28:27.060
as a great as a great segue um when i appeared on tucker's tour last year in pennsylvania he specifically
00:28:34.500
asked me to tell my story and where we did that in writing pennsylvania which was pretty much you know
00:28:40.600
like 20 25 minutes from where i grew up so the whole you know everyone in the area is we're in
00:28:45.360
the northeast and everyone in the area knew what i was talking about and knew about these different
00:28:48.860
um these different trends and these different pressures that we were all experiencing about how
00:28:53.960
we completely just blew up these communities and like i lived in a town where the people on my block
00:29:01.560
were uh were all the you know all the adults on my block were the people that my father had played
00:29:07.580
with his kids when he grew up on the same block so like i grew up in the same house that my father
00:29:11.960
grew up in and and that his sisters grew up in and that we had had for it was built in 1901 and this
00:29:19.700
was like beautiful wood architecture uh tyler we had stained glass sliding doors in our dining room so
00:29:26.380
cool and that was like i still want to go back and buy them actually because i drive by the house a lot
00:29:30.640
and tucker brought this up to say hey look you know this is not like a an approved topic but it's
00:29:38.580
something that happened to a lot of people and it's like and i've talked like jeremy carl like i've talked
00:29:44.620
to jeremy carl about this and he's like i totally get where you're coming from with your politics because
00:29:49.880
you just want to get your hometown back like that's and that's really all it boils down to for me yeah it's
00:29:55.360
like they took from me some like i always define success as like you know not like the amount of
00:30:00.900
dollars in my bank account or whatever it was just like having a nicer house in the in my hometown
00:30:06.240
like you know what i mean like that was being successful yeah the amount of cultural displacement
00:30:10.720
that's happened uh you know it's interesting if you get a city that gentrifies right a lot of money
00:30:16.800
comes in this happened in the 90s early 2000s because oh we got tough on crime and so investment came
00:30:23.100
back in money came back in prices went up there was a there was so much ink spilled books written
00:30:29.640
about cultural displacement for urban the urban minorities right during that time yeah but when
00:30:34.620
the shoe was on the other foot and white communities get displaced because of crime that is expanding
00:30:40.740
outward into uh white neighborhoods or ethnic white neighborhoods like you grew up in philly
00:30:45.320
there's zero compassion on that cultural experience there's zero acknowledgement that bad policy has led to
00:30:52.900
more violent neighborhoods and and run down uh degraded neighborhoods and and i think it's a shame
00:30:58.600
but anyways tucker carlson tucker and so yeah so tucker so yeah i'll set the stage so so and and look
00:31:05.280
you know that that was kind of my segue point was that was that of all the things that you know i was
00:31:09.540
expecting to talk about on you know on a live it was a live podcast but also a live show uh huge stadium
00:31:16.340
uh santander arena in in redding absolutely sold out and tucker's like i just want you to talk about
00:31:21.620
your hometown i'm like really i'm okay sure you know and and um and so i did and so getting into
00:31:29.220
the tucker question um you know i think that's what tucker is all about and and he's obviously you know
00:31:35.420
always wants to get in find new stories and find new things to talk about and he obviously has been
00:31:41.300
no stranger to controversy and he has had a lot of controversy this week or i should say there's been
00:31:46.880
controversy about him uh because of a particular interview um he had nick fuentes on a couple i guess
00:31:53.880
it's a couple of weeks ago at this point or it was last week um i'm not sure exactly recently and um
00:31:58.620
and a lot of people have been saying should he have had him on is he ruining the world is the sky
00:32:03.160
falling because he did an interview uh tucker's had obviously people who are considered controversial
00:32:07.700
before he's had vladimir putin on he's had uh i think um lavrov on as well he's in just it's kind
00:32:14.980
of his job so um you know this was going around and a lot of people were saying oh you guys got a
00:32:19.620
comment you guys got a comment and i was like no there's an election actually i'm going to focus on
00:32:23.540
that we should probably explain to people what we're reacting to and and and but no no well this is
00:32:28.480
my setup to say okay but now the election is over and so let's talk about it so blake you what are
00:32:34.700
we talking about so blake as a former you know what is the thought crime statement no no not even
00:32:38.920
what's the thought crime statement but like i'm not sure everyone even knows what we're referring
00:32:42.200
to with tucker necessarily why don't you explain it blake what i just mentioned i've got to explain
00:32:45.680
it oh wouldn't you you're good at explaining how about tyler explains it wait you're you're like is
00:32:52.040
there is there i'm not i'm is there i'm preparing for this topic no i'm serious is there something
00:32:57.740
other than him having nick on like that's well it's the way the interview was conducted i will tell
00:33:02.300
you that that's part of it right that's part of it a lot of people feel it was too soft a lot of
00:33:07.740
people are upset okay so just for those who aren't paying attention and now we're going to break because
00:33:12.040
tucker carlson had nicholas fuentes on his show he had him out to maine uh obviously fuentes had a
00:33:19.280
quite long and uh one-sided obsession with our boss i believe our you know our late boss and so that's
00:33:28.780
colored it a lot and it's also just colored another way so it's actually for those who aren't
00:33:33.120
following it online it's had this sort of thunderous aftermath i can give some background here sure with
00:33:38.760
that to like lean into that i mean the reality is nick has a bunch of followers that they call
00:33:43.660
themselves gripers they uh largely are young men if we could say that it's not all men but it's
00:33:51.320
largely young men uh many have had some kind of interaction with turning point in a negative way
00:33:58.500
and in in most cases i would say uh do not feel warmly invited mainly around the israel issue because
00:34:08.560
turning point historically has been a pro-israel organization and a lot of these young men their
00:34:13.980
single issue if if you could say there's a single issue is you know their uh distrust or just outright
00:34:23.140
hatred for the state of israel is that that that's like yeah yeah that's basically and then and then
00:34:29.020
you have a number of other layered things on top of that which are you know some some issues on uh
00:34:35.560
on race well i mean things like that that nick has been it's been vitriolic towards charlie he's been
00:34:40.740
very open about it he said nasty things about erica he's been really nasty about um yeah israel he's
00:34:48.260
been nasty to tucker actually they've they've gotten to their own spat and i think people were expecting
00:34:53.480
njd i think they were i think they were expecting uh this to be a much more contentious interview is is
00:35:00.860
is one of the main i wasn't expecting that because that's just not what tucker would do i wanted to pull
00:35:05.420
up um and i i didn't want to i know we didn't pull it because but i i know charlie wasn't talked
00:35:11.100
about a lot but i do think they mentioned him a little bit in the you know in there and then the
00:35:17.140
other thing i think i think we're in the context of violence and and i do want to make this clear
00:35:21.080
there was a lot of pushback because tucker said essentially that he just i think the exact quote
00:35:29.280
was he despised christian zionist and then so that was a huge a huge bone of contention for
00:35:36.760
the evangelical community especially the dispensationalists that uh believe that you
00:35:42.860
know the current nation state of israel is you know prophetically foretold of in scriptures and that
00:35:49.160
they do represent sort of a um a very important prophetic you know timeline piece the the current
00:35:56.660
nation state of israel to you know god's ultimate plan for humanity right so so so you've got this
00:36:02.380
whole dynamic going on i want to say that tucker ended up going on dave smith's podcast and walked
00:36:07.000
that back the his just that he despises christians walk it back he apologized he apologized he said i
00:36:12.800
apologize what i was upset about what he said was he was upset that there was bombings of christian
00:36:18.660
churches in gaza and that people did not apologize that he feels they were intentional um and obviously
00:36:25.080
israel i think he said that he he i'm just not like i'm not taking this i don't i'm just trying
00:36:30.500
to quote it that he was saying that he thought that christian leaders weren't outspoken about that
00:36:35.260
enough yeah and i'm gonna i'm gonna i think i have the exact quote it says but at the same time he
00:36:40.700
did fully apologize i really regret saying that i didn't fully mean it i said it because i was mad
00:36:46.800
which is when i say i don't really mean when i get pissed my wife's tell always telling me this i was
00:36:53.880
snippy and i didn't explain it and i said something to the effect that i despise christian zionists and
00:36:58.900
i'm just sorry that i said that because i don't uh i was just mad at a certain kind of thinking some
00:37:03.800
of the nicest people i know are christian zionists actually you know if you're in a car crash they
00:37:07.760
would save you if you needed someone to watch your bank account they wouldn't steal from you
00:37:11.200
there were like really good people and sweet people so he tried to do it and then he clarifies
00:37:15.520
that he was upset about the church bombings in gaza that more christian leaders weren't calling it out
00:37:19.120
yeah so i mean blake i think you said it really well and i hate to keep putting you on the spot
00:37:26.340
here but you you have a you have a history with tucker and that's why i think there's you know i
00:37:32.520
don't want to say you're being cynical or something but you're just you didn't have high hopes for it
00:37:36.140
no so it's like i mean when you watch it you kind of it basically went as i about expected it to
00:37:44.280
it wasn't 100 friendly he does if you watch the whole interview it's about two hours long i think
00:37:50.960
uh he does at some point you know he questions nick like okay you seem to sort of have a
00:37:56.320
somewhat hate-based ideology or like he he kind of paints entire groups all the same way uh
00:38:05.380
and you know he pushes him a bit on that but at the same time it's nick he has a pretty long history
00:38:11.580
he's been online a long time there's a lot of clips as they might say and you don't need to like
00:38:16.840
nitpick every single thing because it is true some of what he says is clearly just attempting to be
00:38:22.060
transgressive comedic funny actually some of the wildest stuff people obsess about when he says like
00:38:28.480
he loves hitler or whatever a lot of that is even in that vein but there's still a lot of stuff that
00:38:34.920
you know you could you could talk about so you're having nick fuentes on who among other things is
00:38:39.220
famous for this long-running feud with charlie kirk well nick fuentes within the past month
00:38:44.560
basically said you know everyone's thinking this you know erica kirk looks extremely happy that her
00:38:49.640
husband's dead this is what everyone's thinking everyone's talking about it okay i i know erica i
00:38:56.300
don't think she's happy that her husband died i think that's a pretty i think it's a pretty
00:38:59.680
hurtful thing terrible thing to say i think that's a hurtful thing to say and i'm a little i'm a
00:39:05.200
little disappointed tucker didn't bring that up or push him on that you know why why did you say
00:39:09.600
that nick why why did you say that about a woman whose husband was just murdered why did you yeah
00:39:15.600
and i think he just didn't he didn't ask about that he didn't ask about some of the stuff he said
00:39:20.580
about jd vance and i think more broadly he let especially in the early part he definitely just
00:39:27.660
seeded the stage for nick to give his narrative of his life where basically i'm just a normal america
00:39:34.800
first guy and then the jews just were constantly messing with me and sabotaging me whether it was
00:39:40.180
ben shapiro or various other people which several of those people came out and said his narrative
00:39:44.560
was a misleading self-aggrandizing lie i don't know the truth about it i'm not obsessed with his history
00:39:50.300
but he basically just kind of let him tell that and it's clear tucker approved of that narrative that
00:39:56.180
basically he was buying into oh yeah those darn jews just came in and messed with nick because he you know
00:40:03.740
wanted to have america first foreign policy okay i i think there's probably a few other things he did
00:40:10.080
that made people not like nick or dig into okay nick you have a lot of burned former colleagues who
00:40:18.160
don't like you for this reason there's like weird things where people say he has like a lot of
00:40:21.840
associations with like outright sex predators and stuff you could get into a lot of that you could get
00:40:26.880
into well even like the stalin clip i a lot of yeah or the stalin thing he just says he kind of
00:40:32.600
throws out like oh i love stalin the stalin why don't we pause and pick at that you know tucker you
00:40:36.940
picked at ted cruz because he didn't know enough he didn't know enough facts about iran that could we
00:40:42.700
pick at nicolas for saying he loves a guy who killed tens of millions of people possibly millions of
00:40:49.180
christians including them when we care about the fate of christians here or do they only matter when
00:40:54.380
they're in gaza the stalin thing really bothered me because i think that accentuated that there was
00:40:58.440
like a overlooking of like it created the look of the scene when it happens is that he had an
00:41:06.560
environment where he wanted to only mildly question fuentes and then he was caught off guard when fuentes
00:41:11.860
said something that was really freaking out and he's like i listened to the whole uh both this
00:41:17.900
interview and when tucker was on dave smith and and i think tucker also mentions this on dave smith and
00:41:23.280
just and he i'm trying to remember this from memory but he sort of said like i was caught so off guard
00:41:28.220
that i i wish i had said something and and that he didn't so he did actually yeah but i've seen but
00:41:33.500
we've all seen tucker on yeah no i'm not disputing that i'm just saying that we've seen tucker and
00:41:39.880
again maybe his frame of mind was he was being his friend i can totally buy that his frame of mind is
00:41:44.800
like he's giving this guy a shot and he really believes he's extremely talented and that maybe his
00:41:50.760
outreach can guide him to a better more tucker like version of nick fuentes and honestly yeah i
00:41:58.960
hate even spending this much time on on it but i and there's a part of me that thinks that that was
00:42:05.280
like his goal and i'm not agreeing with that i'm just saying i think that that that was kind of the
00:42:09.200
goal because i'm because of that whole stalin situation and again i'm not i'm not saying
00:42:15.200
that's okay i'm not saying that like that's what i would have done charlie wouldn't have done that
00:42:19.040
yeah like you want the tucker who's like excuse me stalin yeah like what yeah like what are you
00:42:24.460
talking about like i would kill tens of millions of people including millions of christians like how
00:42:27.920
could how could you ideological christian priests how could your how could your ideological centering
00:42:33.400
be around stalin and explain that to us like where the point you come from because i think actually
00:42:38.700
that uh epitomizes and i i think if if if the guy was here right now he would tell you the same thing
00:42:44.640
part of his ideology is he agrees with an authoritarian you know slightly communist version of whatever his
00:42:54.640
current worldview is and that's part of the reason why he thinks so greatly of him and and again that
00:43:00.240
and again i know that that's not that's not tucker's worldview i know that that's not his
00:43:05.840
position tucker and i actually do buy that he was probably so caught off guard by that and his head
00:43:10.460
space was in another place entirely probably what you were saying that he was trying to but it shows
00:43:15.300
that he doesn't really know who this guy is and what that that movement is we've gotten to know that
00:43:19.260
movement and again like we know they exist in the aura of whatever right but we totally disagree
00:43:26.360
with like the whole there's a whole communist faction that's underlying with a lot of these guys
00:43:31.540
that are outright communists that think that like the 1917 revolution is great and we saw elements of
00:43:37.880
this come out which by the way um uh what's his name and by the way that's hassan piker said that at
00:43:44.240
the mondani um uh victory party he was talking about how he actually said i wish the united states had
00:43:50.900
not defeated the soviet union and so we i do we know that although i don't i don't think that all
00:43:58.240
kids realize they're signing up for that when they follow these guys and again i think that there's an
00:44:02.900
element here where maybe like maybe tucker's not totally aware of that existence but i think he is
00:44:07.780
now i think people should be now they should be aware that there's a whole communist angle to that
00:44:14.740
entire movement that we totally disagree with and that there's nothing there that you could possibly
00:44:20.160
ever commend well and i do want to also that's the reality of for me like ideologically is that
00:44:25.660
i mean i studied i mean that's our connection i studied soviet era politics there's so much
00:44:31.280
intrinsically evil and communist ideology that it to me it's like kind of messing with ghosts yeah it's
00:44:37.780
like was that a joke it's like it's like messing with the ouija board to me really mean that it's
00:44:41.540
like you messing with communist ideology is like messing with the ouija board because it's a it's a hard
00:44:46.260
in the interest in the interest of just fairness um so the only time that i think charlie came up at
00:44:53.020
all a few time which which were a few times three or four times in it and i'm going through the
00:44:56.900
transcript right now um you know it's it's it's them speaking out against violence it's it's nick
00:45:04.560
saying that never should have happened that that charlie was a conservative guy relative moderate he's not
00:45:09.780
a politician you know he he got shot and then a hundred thousand liberals went on tiktok and
00:45:14.360
celebrated and then how can you you know integrate or harmonize with that so i mean he was talking
00:45:19.140
about violence which is what said that was it that was nick okay and then so you hear you know so
00:45:24.680
which does make the solid thing like you're like wait what does that mean and he even said that um
00:45:29.720
they they actually had a really good part where they were talking about and you know i say good in
00:45:36.780
relative terms but i i thought it was it was good that this narrative got out that when they were
00:45:41.640
talking about tyler robinson and talking about some of these new revelations which we haven't even
00:45:45.660
done on thought crime yet of the discord messages and um some of the there's like this leaker now in
00:45:51.660
the tyler robinson um you know yeah you sent that link where and and they mentioned this so they're
00:45:57.220
mentioning the lsd use they're mentioning the the weed use the drug use um the discords the uh chat gpt
00:46:04.560
uh obsession of the roommate in this this is the transgender boyfriend um in in all of it and so
00:46:12.740
they you know it wasn't like a long time they were talking about it but um you know he what did he say
00:46:18.620
so i got the transcript again here you know this this psychoactive substances make believe reality of
00:46:23.560
the internet totally disconnected from the real world and i think they enter into this delusional state
00:46:28.240
i think that's where the shooter in minneapolis i think that if tyler and and if tyler robinson is found
00:46:32.840
guilty there's these interesting screenshots about him and his transgender boyfriend it's the same
00:46:37.360
story there if that's true i'd imagine it's not dissimilar with the guy who showed up and um you
00:46:42.220
know and he's talking about the time there was a guy who tried to uh you know allegedly tried to kill
00:46:46.780
nick as well was you know was in kind of one of these like almost fugue states and was talking so they
00:46:51.720
were talking about political violence right they were talking about political violence and being
00:46:54.620
extremely against it and you know obviously that's what you know makes the solemn comment weird but
00:47:00.040
that was the only time they brought up charlie directly in the whole interview yeah well
00:47:04.500
listen i times yeah i mean sorry were you okay good i'm not i'm not cutting anybody off but there
00:47:10.280
was i just want to point out that they did actually discuss tyler robinson kind of in depth yeah and i
00:47:14.660
just want to say something as well though too is that the and we should talk more about that because
00:47:21.160
the radicalization elements and the drug use and this leaker is like actually a big development
00:47:24.920
but i i would say that you know here you know i saw a lot of people like on social media but
00:47:30.340
basically sharing a speaker graphic from before charlie even died of amfest is the amfest one yeah
00:47:37.240
yeah because charlie's still on it with tucker and charlie's still on it and and everybody's like
00:47:41.260
you know all these people that now hate tucker are like you're disgrace you you what you have done
00:47:46.660
what you've done is disgrace and i'm like you how are we disgracing charlie's like this is charlie's
00:47:51.740
graphic that he published when he was alive and you're acting like we've somehow done something
00:47:57.880
to disgrace charlie and i will tell you one other thing though charlie i'm sure would have been
00:48:02.680
disappointed with aspects of that interview probably that it even happened okay but i will tell you this
00:48:08.400
if if you put charlie against a corner and you tried to back him up against a wall he would defy any
00:48:16.060
any moral blackmail that you can imagine it was the one thing that i saw time and time and time again
00:48:21.720
from charlie especially in the last couple of years like when you tried to coerce him or control him or
00:48:26.640
emotionally manipulate him like he would have defied the heck out of you just to defy you and not be
00:48:32.400
controlled by 100 and i cannot reiterate what what andrew is saying enough and i know we all agree with
00:48:38.400
this but i just want to reiterate this i don't always agree with any i mean you're you get married
00:48:45.720
to people you don't always agree with them right like you're clearly not always going to agree with
00:48:48.900
everything that comes out of tucker's mouth we don't agree with everything that comes out of
00:48:52.560
everyone's mouth that we invite to america fest and that speak or that work with us that doesn't mean
00:48:58.260
that they're not they still can't be your friend and tucker was a friend to charlie charlie was a friend
00:49:04.360
to tucker and you know where it goes from here you know tucker could change his entire mantra and
00:49:13.040
everything else right but there is still always going to exist a friendship and a memory that exists
00:49:19.880
with those two gentlemen and we are way too close to the death of charlie kirk to be flying off the
00:49:28.800
handles and and and and and making you know preconceived notions about people and where
00:49:37.220
their heads at and again that that's not to say that you're not going to disagree with him more
00:49:42.120
later on or you're not going to or that you're always going to be in the same place that you were
00:49:47.540
the day that charlie was taken off this earth it was taken from us but you're always going to have
00:49:53.140
that same bond that exists there and that respect that everyone should have mutually respecting
00:49:59.860
anyone that loved charlie that much and that charlie loved you know equally because again blake's
00:50:06.360
worked for the man has vocally disagreed with him in in this segment that we're talking about
00:50:12.360
you could still have all that exist yeah i think you're the only one who worked for both actually
00:50:16.580
and i want to say this is just in this finish with this is just he might be the only one exists you
00:50:20.960
can honor charlie's life by honoring that relationship and it doesn't necessarily mean
00:50:27.480
you have to agree we've gotten questions we get emails about this and i respond to some of them
00:50:31.460
where i just say like i mean charlie faced a lot of pressure to de-platform tucker a lot and he
00:50:38.560
consistently pushed back on that and i don't know how charlie would have reacted to this nick interview
00:50:44.160
in this world where it happens while he's still around which could plausibly have happened i think
00:50:49.720
uh i don't know how he would have reacted to that but we know how he responded to other things that
00:50:54.100
made people pressure him and i'll be honest i think charlie probably would not have liked this
00:50:58.700
interview no that took her i think i would agree quite annoyed with it yeah he would have been
00:51:02.360
annoyed with it on several levels um there's no there's actually really no doubt about it yeah
00:51:07.320
yeah basically yeah no doubt he would have been really upset about yeah he had been annoyed that
00:51:10.580
it happened and a bit more annoyed at like the nature of how it unfolded yeah less less so that it
00:51:14.940
happened probably than than than the the tone and tenor of it yeah exactly but but then the question
00:51:20.280
the the second aspect of this is would it have risen to the level of what all of these you know this
00:51:29.080
this like you know caterwauling cacophony of whatever you know greek choir saying now turning
00:51:35.660
point must do this now turning point must do this this is a good point because it kind of reminds me of
00:51:41.980
the underlying issue itself which is israel and i say this time and again it's like the world wants
00:51:47.160
to force you into one of two buckets pro or anti in my opinion there is about a hundred iterations
00:51:55.260
between those two polar extremes and yes i think i expressed this the first time we talked about it
00:52:00.940
blake you could be disappointed in the way somebody talks about it but to or conducts an interview
00:52:05.960
but to tyler's point while respecting the relationship and the friendship that is authentic
00:52:12.980
and by the way i have a friendship with tucker i'm sure many of us do and and it's like you know i i have
00:52:19.160
a personal you know friendship with him i actually really like the guy on a personal level and so you
00:52:24.640
got to contend with that and beyond that is to understand that we exactly tyler charlie has barely
00:52:31.760
been gone from us and and to think that we are in a position where that feels morally right to sort of
00:52:38.180
to sort of upset the apple cart and change uh something that was so fundamental and so publicly
00:52:44.600
expressed multiple times and privately expressed about his wishes these are his wishes this is his
00:52:49.580
organization he built this and if somebody thinks that you're going to emotionally coerce us
00:52:54.840
or morally blackmail us to do something especially this soon afterwards like you know go pound sand
00:53:01.980
honestly yeah and we're also look where we are but but here's the thing i i i also love those people
00:53:08.100
that that are are frustrated about that and so it's like listen we are you when when the whole movement
00:53:15.200
is fighting against itself then we're not gonna win elections we're not gonna be focused on on taking
00:53:20.960
ground or or taking territory it's just gonna be all some giant distraction and i just i reject the
00:53:26.200
premise uh in a general sense no i was just gonna say look i mean guys let's let's zoom out for a
00:53:31.520
second we know where we are look where we're sitting right now this is the charlie kirk studio
00:53:35.640
this is the charlie kirk chair it's the bitcoin.com charlie kirk studio hey gotta get back to that
00:53:41.180
but you know it's it's it's charlie's chair and and we leave the chair empty for a reason all right
00:53:46.340
we leave the chair empty out of honor for our friend and that's the reason that it's there and
00:53:54.580
what it was it sick not even not even two months yet it's not even two months and we're sitting here
00:54:01.180
going through all of this and then people are coming in trying to make demands and trying to
00:54:05.760
make people say oh you know this is about you know this is about what are you going to do it's like
00:54:11.300
well how about we're just going to honor charlie's wishes how about yeah we're going to try our best
00:54:15.980
not even that we're just going to do our best to try our best our best of course because it's like
00:54:21.320
that's that's what that's the world in which we're living in right now is like everyone literally just
00:54:25.720
trying to do their best to not speak for charlie you know you just don't do that to the to the dead
00:54:32.000
you don't do that to those who have moved on that's right you try to live up to the standard that
00:54:37.520
they left the the the expectations that you know that he had for you and that you have for yourself
00:54:44.680
because by the way what how about this how about you pick up a phone and you call people instead of
00:54:50.180
instead of trying to just tweeting at them or even get or even better get to work do something
00:54:55.720
productive yeah that's what i've said back to people it's like do something productive but here's
00:54:58.720
the thing again i had this old pastor friend he actually uh married my wife and i at our wedding
00:55:05.760
but he used to say the meaning of life is relationship relationship with god relationship
00:55:10.260
with one another and i so believe that actually because you know and when when we talk about this
00:55:17.140
we're talking about it in in in the context of like i said i have a friendship with tucker
00:55:22.400
charlie has a friendship with had a friendship with tucker jack you have a friendship with tucker
00:55:27.060
blake you have a friendship that has not precluded any of us to say wish the interview would have
00:55:31.120
maybe been a little bit different but the point is is that these things are done in the context
00:55:36.080
context of a relationship and we also like forgive us our trespasses you know lord you know as we
00:55:42.660
forgive those who trespass against us forgive us first yeah and by the way and by the way like i don't
00:55:48.560
have a relationship with nick fuentes i've never met the guy i so and by the way it's always been
00:55:53.820
contentious but i do have one with some of these people that we're talking about and that means
00:55:57.600
something to me so listen and and by the way that means something to me when i'm talking about some
00:56:02.020
of the evangelicals that are upset or some of the jewish uh friends that are upset i get it this is
00:56:06.800
contentious stuff but like instead of just going for the you know yeah yeah you can't even say that
00:56:12.460
i can't even say it i know it's like i was about to say it too and then it's like oh right
00:56:16.400
going for the the clickbait clickbait instead of going for cheap clicks or or or blowing up
00:56:24.380
relationships or blowing up coalitions i talked about this all the time with charlie
00:56:28.440
and actually i didn't talk about it all the time it was it became a very very important conversation
00:56:33.980
probably two weeks before he died charlie and i had like an hour-long conversation about this i'll
00:56:38.920
never forget it and it was based off of a bunch of texts we sent back and forth to each other
00:56:44.000
and then we talked about it and it was basically putting a hierarchy of the virtues as the greeks
00:56:50.080
had them and he was basically saying like listen anybody can tear down anybody can anybody can can
00:56:56.740
you know be an ankle biter anybody for performative clickbait measures just say crazy stuff okay and
00:57:04.580
but what no what is much rarer in the higher of the virtues is being a philosopher being a statesman
00:57:10.520
being a coalition builder and he was very very clear that the mission of turning point is to not
00:57:15.700
be ankle biters not to be performative like social media artists is none of that stuff it's to be
00:57:20.980
coalition builders and statesmen and philosophers and um and and by god we are by god's grace we are
00:57:27.740
going to pursue that mission on charlie's behalf and on turning points behalf and for the country's
00:57:32.360
behalf because listen like there's a lot of people that want to tear each other down and i'm just like
00:57:37.540
again i'm going to say i'm going to reject the premise i'm rejecting the premise and we're going to
00:57:41.440
try and keep the darn coalition together if it's the last darn thing any of us do and there's there's
00:57:46.000
something that tyler said that it just has to be brought up the timing of this is they launched all
00:57:51.240
of this at the time we were having an election at the time that we were having a contentious election
00:57:56.760
a couple of key races so we just talked about mondami in new york city we just talked about jersey
00:58:01.880
well i mean we've been talking about jersey we've been talking about virginia etc jay jones uh by the way
00:58:06.800
talking about political violence right what is it 1.5 million people just voted for a guy who said
00:58:11.660
he wants to kill our kids so that's yeah that's great so we're supposed to unite with those people
00:58:15.100
now we're supposed to we're supposed to harmonize with them and all of these people spent their time
00:58:21.240
infighting spent their time ankle biting attacking um you know you know attacking one another and doing
00:58:28.280
this infighting what were they not doing talking to their followers about going out and getting
00:58:34.700
involved in the race some talking about some were telling their followers to actively not vote
00:58:38.920
i mean it's just it's just like it's ridiculous it's ridiculous and guys we've seen this before
00:58:44.340
i mean we've been tracking this for a long time we just went through an entire election cycle
00:58:48.400
where there are people that were adjacent i'm not going to say gripers in in total in totality here but
00:58:56.580
adjacent to to gripers but there were many of these people too that are nick followers who were telling
00:59:02.780
people actively not to vote this is not a new thing this is and it's weird it's not weird to me
00:59:08.360
everything happens for a reason but isn't it weird that this happened just a few weeks before this you
00:59:14.820
know this election that every that i i mean i'm just going to tell you i'm not going to be the
00:59:19.400
conspiracy theorist here but i do believe there's a lot of funding a lot of pushing and pulling and
00:59:25.860
some of this is organic some of it is not organic where there is actual pushing to try to harm
00:59:32.340
republicans in elections leading up to elections on this stuff i don't i don't disagree uh let's get
00:59:37.800
to i think we've we've we've really done that one and i don't know how much time we have left uh
00:59:42.620
maybe faz can get it i think we're way over time but way over time can we just i want to at least play
00:59:47.120
the ebt videos yeah let's do ebt we got to do ebt this has been this has been one that we've been
00:59:54.080
talking about doing for a long time a topic that we wanted to hit and drive you know it's like so
01:00:01.200
blake what is ebt's of tiktok so obviously we already have libs of tiktok she chaya raychik was a
01:00:07.940
big pioneer of highlighting however you say it i don't i don't know these names uh yeah anyway so
01:00:15.460
haya higher it whatever it's like chanica chana look i don't i am not from new york to say the least
01:00:24.380
anyway is it hebrew right all right go ahead go ahead anyway she pioneered people will post
01:00:33.480
shockingly bad videos of themselves on tiktok being insane and also just social media has been
01:00:39.300
great i think people have learned a lot about the true nature of like crime in america just from
01:00:43.980
social media they've learned a lot about what life is really like in a lot of parts of american society
01:00:48.600
they're not part of and what we've had with the freak out over snap funding over ebt possibly being
01:00:54.280
well i guess actually being suspended now with the government shutdown ongoing is people have gotten a
01:00:59.500
direct encounter with how some americans who are on government programs basically relate to these
01:01:06.640
government programs uh both you know snap supplementary nutritional assistance program the
01:01:12.560
idea you know food stamps the idea you know you're using these to get what you need to survive and what
01:01:17.360
people are learning is there's a lot of people who are on snap who don't work and don't really want
01:01:22.880
to work and feel entitled to not work there are people who have figured out the not exceptionally
01:01:28.160
difficult task of converting food stamps into literally anything else you want to buy stamps
01:01:33.820
and all of that and we have amazing clips of them doing this and they're on tiktok and then they're
01:01:38.760
uploaded to x so that those of us who aren't on tiktok to watch them to your point though by the way um
01:01:42.720
this isn't just something that we're talking about because this is something that charlie talked
01:01:46.280
about let's play clip 323 the number one objective of any social welfare program should be how do we keep
01:01:52.860
the family together and put dads back in the family unfortunately in the black community dads are
01:01:58.520
the most absent of any community about two-thirds of all black youth will be raised without a stable
01:02:03.420
father around and i know it's crazy right um and that that little precious angel of yours deserves to
01:02:11.060
have a father around and unfortunately as we've removed dads from families government has come in and
01:02:17.680
has taken the place so some people need help and they need social assistance all of that should be
01:02:23.400
about incentivizing the dad staying around not the dad leaving okay that was charlie now we have
01:02:32.980
the video so let's see so that's charlie so that's charlie telling us what what we should want in like a
01:02:40.040
a country that has of course our christian values and we don't want people to be left behind etc we all
01:02:46.460
agree with that so let's go see the people now that have been using snap benefits and ebt brought to
01:02:53.800
us courtesy of ebt's of tiktok blake let's do a poison man there's so many of these and i actually
01:03:00.320
haven't watched most of them yet how about we just go with let's just go in order three two seven
01:03:04.860
let's do three two seven yeah you just can't get your hair done this month you can't get your nails
01:03:09.940
done this month and them lashes that you have look like windshield wipers yeah you got to try to glue
01:03:14.840
them on yourself so you can feed them little ragged kids to y'all that's right that's right but that's
01:03:19.680
just being responsible that's being responsible but when you do that bring your id because then i'm
01:03:25.800
gonna be seeing the real you and i've never seen the real you so i can know who you are so i need you
01:03:31.840
to have some id because i'm a car because of all that i don't know y'all i don't know none of y'all
01:03:36.620
because i got a car and two people today and i was like miss v it's me like who the f*** are you
01:03:46.880
so i can't tell is she on ebt or is she just making fun of people who are
01:03:52.220
she's making fun of them i think we book her on the show
01:03:55.620
immediately i want her on right now do we have some i want three two eight let's try three two
01:04:00.780
eight and i just really want to know why these restaurants and why these supermarkets aren't
01:04:07.080
giving out free food during this government shutdown like they have food that was not in there
01:04:13.360
there's very obviously they have food to spare they have food that they could give away to people
01:04:20.320
that's affected by this government shutdown then when are stealing then it's gonna be an issue
01:04:26.460
i really don't get why these companies aren't doing more to help during this government shutdown
01:04:36.540
it's really it's really doing something to me it's really really doing something to me
01:04:47.980
and people are gonna start i'm telling you this is gonna be a thing people are gonna start
01:04:55.120
instead of stealing groceries from the stores they're gonna start watching people go to their
01:05:01.000
cars and they're gonna take all of their groceries and you know what the store gonna do
01:05:05.760
not our problem oh my gosh so instead of stealing straight from the grocery stores people are gonna
01:05:14.260
start to the parking lots the parking lot which by the way blake that gets us back to
01:05:21.400
the shopping cart theory oh no yes i had some brutal shopping cart moments uh you have moments
01:05:28.020
of shopping carts no like i was does everyone remember you guys remember the shopping cart theory
01:05:31.400
the the cultural the citizen puts back the cart the citizen puts back the cart have you seen the guy
01:05:37.840
that goes around and he slaps magnets on their doors when they don't put their car yeah he's like he's
01:05:42.500
like shaming them yeah i've seen some brutal cart abandonment in in some grocery stores lately
01:05:48.800
like in the phoenix area here yeah in the phoenix area and just so this guy does videos and he goes
01:05:54.560
around and he and he's the cart police or he calls them something and so he waits he waits and they
01:06:01.060
when they don't put their car away he it's like a big magnet and he slaps down their car when they're
01:06:05.600
driving away this is like that you should should put your cart away and people get this is like
01:06:09.740
angry it's like those guys who are just sticks to their car that just says like you you are a like
01:06:16.000
it's like a basically a bad citizen for not putting your cart away amazing and they get out of the car
01:06:20.200
they start screaming like every time like every one of they worked that hard at being a human being
01:06:24.400
no they spend more energy yelling at this guy than to put in the carways just and he just runs away
01:06:28.740
from it's not even like citizenship versus non-citizen it's like if you do not put the cart away you are no
01:06:33.460
better than a mere beast wait there's there's one separates us from the animals wait guys there's
01:06:39.360
another there's another clip in here it says so so three two one is like double printed on the clip
01:06:44.460
sheet but there's one that says complaint someone's complaining about having to use their own money
01:06:49.080
that's three three one okay hit that one yeah them people really didn't give us our sims
01:06:55.900
what it's like day two you know i'm saying i get my on the first you know i'm i'm i'm first
01:07:03.060
out of my around this but it's the second and i just went to go peek and i'm like you know maybe
01:07:09.560
they would have gave a little sprinkle sprinkle a little sprinkle
01:07:13.620
i ain't got no yamps i just spent cash money on five items at the store
01:07:22.960
mind you it was only twenty dollars but i still got bills to pay i still got bills to pay
01:07:28.160
i'm not trying to spend it on that i'm supposed to be getting food stamps for it
01:07:32.740
yeah apparently only about one third of food stamp houses have children and part of that is
01:07:41.820
that there's more elderly people on food stamps yeah so there's part of that but i think there
01:07:47.160
is also just we kind of have a robust pool of americans who don't really want to work i guess
01:07:54.920
or or try to work well this is this is the whole thing with and you see this with the obamacare
01:07:59.560
subsidies and health care too once you put subsidies in in an economy into a marketplace
01:08:04.000
removing those is almost impossible it's like an atrocity people they adjust their spending habits
01:08:10.960
to this new reality right so if they're if and they're entitled and their sense of entitlement yeah
01:08:16.460
but they've they've gotten a more expensive place to rent or they've they've got more uh
01:08:20.580
subscriptions per month or they're you know new tvs or whatever the thing is that they their monthly
01:08:25.340
budget now so so so you can't pull it back without them feeling like the government and
01:08:30.820
the republicans and trump are hurting me this is essentially what it is and it it's rough because
01:08:34.980
you can basically eventually you know eventually you actually go broke and the whole thing falls
01:08:40.920
apart it's some and there's so many different versions and we should be clear there's versions
01:08:43.980
of this we can talk about snap here but there's also a ton of people it's like a way of life to get
01:08:50.020
on social security disability that you don't need to be elderly for you get yourself basically
01:08:54.100
classed as disabled you live on whatever they pay out to you which it doesn't have to be that much
01:08:58.580
but if you you know live with a family member and you're okay not doing much with your life you can
01:09:04.580
make 15k go pretty far and so there's people who live on that there's uh especially in like states
01:09:11.940
like california and new york there's all these additional state programs you can milk along oh yeah
01:09:16.740
and by the way i'll never forget so so i actually are in california had had our uh daughter
01:09:23.580
so and a guy that uh apparently i didn't realize this so he was one of the workers
01:09:30.780
that uh that was working next door on a construction so on a house a renovation next door
01:09:36.980
and i i would see him kind of because this renovation went on for like six months so i would
01:09:41.260
see him next door i'd say hey you know here and there anyway so we're at the hospital
01:09:45.640
and we have our kid and down the hall is this mexican dude who doesn't really speak much english
01:09:53.280
also at the hospital having his own kid and so my wife knowing that these guys are you know
01:10:00.600
probably a little bit poor she said you should go offer to buy them like some meals or something like
01:10:06.220
that we should be good neighbors right so i go out and i start talking to this guy because my wife
01:10:10.960
thinks i speak really good spanish and i lived in spain in college study abroad so i start talking
01:10:15.720
to him and i say hey andrew song hit the andrew song are you guys doing okay can we help you my
01:10:20.880
wife wants to help since we saw you at the hospital and the guy goes oh no no like my wife's an
01:10:26.660
american citizen but since i'm like an immigrant that uh the state of california has paid for all of
01:10:33.360
our hospital bills and they've given us a monthly stipend and so like we're doing great my wife took
01:10:38.200
care of all of it and i was like so wait there's this immigrant here that's here illegally apparently
01:10:42.880
but he's married to an american so it's like it's pretty you know this was their first kid right it
01:10:48.260
all happened yes yes and that's my the andrew thing i love that that's the andrew thing so so this guy
01:10:56.560
he's getting all these government subsidies and benefits for simply having a kid and being an illegal
01:11:01.620
and you know and here we are trying to do a good christian thing trying to help him out
01:11:07.560
and that my tax dollars were already going to this this gentleman and his newborn american citizen kid
01:11:15.060
it was pretty shocking actually because i just thought you know that's kind of frustrating pretty
01:11:20.580
frustrating that our labor and our toil is going to this guy he's a nice guy whatever it's just but
01:11:25.820
the whole system's pretty frustrating like that blake it's just you articulate it well we you know
01:11:31.860
they sometimes they'll just do like the the two americas thing and there is there's a lot of people
01:11:38.380
in america who kind of like it's become a lifestyle to find different ways of being on the dole and it's like
01:11:47.440
people don't even occur like obvious things so you can like people will take they like there's a pretty
01:11:55.660
well-developed economy for swapping snap swapping ebt benefits for monetary equivalent things that
01:12:02.440
you know some small rate of depreciation on it and or like underground economies for selling
01:12:09.480
shoplifted goods there's places where it's just routine like oh i can get this good cheaper because
01:12:14.600
someone is going to shoplift it for me people will make requests they'll make requests for something
01:12:17.640
to be shoplifted for them and then they'll buy it more cheaply and there's this whole you know in the
01:12:24.140
kind of the underclass of american life where this happens and having a nicer country you can't just
01:12:28.740
write off the underclass because everything's on a spectrum how nice your city is to live in is heavily
01:12:34.880
dependent on how quality or low quality like your bottom five percent of people are are they just you
01:12:43.020
know do they have lower end jobs or do they have no jobs at all are they basically like are the criminal
01:12:48.820
people locked up or are they kind of allowed to roam freely and attack people all of these things
01:12:53.740
make a difference in how quality your life is and you know the snap ebt stuff does matter it matters a lot
01:12:58.740
whether people on the lower end are purely kind of just living off government money or if they are
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working some kind of job well and in and in in uh in the vein of that let's play clip 329
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it's so crazy that the president have a felony your baby daddy had a felony but he can't have no job
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and that's how people gotta be on food stamps because baby daddy can't get no job because he got felonies
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and you know that requires you to go get on food stamps right
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hmm wait felons wait felons can get food stamps i'm sure well she's getting the food stamps it
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sounds like she was getting them she's saying that her baby daddy can't get a job or some hypothetical
01:13:45.640
baby dad i'm not sure if it was her specifically but lots of well we saw this after night uh after
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covet because covet it's just all subsidies galore uh and and by the way and that was another that
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was another feeding frenzy thing where it was oh we'll help your small business and it pretty quickly
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the word got around of no one's seriously checking this make your super basic business that's you know
01:14:11.680
a limo service or something you know some sort of job that's like easy to have one employee in
01:14:15.820
and you can get ten thousand dollars and it'll be written off later some of these guys and we see
01:14:21.340
this immigration is so full of that you know the word got out circa 2020 again with tiktok and
01:14:26.960
everything do these things and you can get past the border patrol in the u.s you know say you're
01:14:32.240
under 18 even if you're over we have tons of accounts of 30 year olds ending up in high schools
01:14:36.500
uh you know you can say one of these five stories will make you have a credible asylum claim and then
01:14:43.400
you'll get a court hearing it'll be a while from now and no one will follow up if you don't show up to
01:14:47.140
it so the word gets out on how to exploit the system and in far too many things we have a system
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that was basically the honor system and you know it might have worked when honor was it was a had a
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lot of currency in america and now it doesn't yeah this is also by the way um it gets us it gets us
01:15:05.860
back to the mandami right it gets us because if we're gonna import gimagrins to this country
01:15:11.760
there's the song then and who don't have that same sense of honor in their home cultures who
01:15:18.400
don't even have this the concept of earning in their culture because they only have a concept of
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obtaining and receiving and having well and or or you know a grievance based or taking right you know
01:15:32.820
taking because someone europeans have have been such a vile scourge upon the world for so many
01:15:38.340
centuries now that we have to take back what was then all of these systems completely fall apart
01:15:43.560
however however there may be a little bit of a silver lining here perhaps some hope because this
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is going to flip the entire conversation around play clip 122 this program is keeping a lot of people
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unmarried uneducated don't want to you know do anything that will hinder the opportunity
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they're with that chance to lose their benefits only in america do we have people that have
01:16:10.180
twelve hundred dollar iphones checking to see if their snap benefits hit anyone who's on welfare not
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for a disability but because they can't provide for themselves should not have the ability to vote
01:16:21.580
in our society i don't have kids but there's no way that i have kids and i'm waiting on somebody else to feed
01:16:32.840
so there you go perhaps perhaps there's a silver lining that some people are actually pointing out that
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no these programs are big problems and we've and how many times did charlie point out that
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went that the great society program which goes back to his much maligned criticism of lbj's 1960s
01:16:54.140
programs um has completely destroyed certain communities in this country by bringing in
01:16:59.660
big government which goes back to the original turning point slogan of big gov sucks that you know big
01:17:05.220
government becomes dad and therefore you don't need dad it destroys the families because it destroys
01:17:11.280
your it kind of destroys your ability or your incentive to behave responsibly right so if if
01:17:17.160
the government's going to come in and backstop you on everything then it creates moral hazard right
01:17:20.900
why would you behave responsibly if you know the government's just going to give you everything
01:17:24.160
yeah and they're all on iphones and i'm just gonna and by the way can i just say this
01:17:28.040
those oh man okay i'm just gonna say it i'm just gonna say it none of them look particularly hungry
01:17:35.080
to me they don't they don't look particularly needy that's you know what i'm saying you want a
01:17:39.600
glowy brain thing no one in america is actually like no one starves to death in america which is
01:17:45.080
nice starvation was a thing that happened i'm glad we don't live in many countries in the past
01:17:49.240
america's main problem among many young people is extreme obesity many of those countries by the way
01:17:55.700
embrace the same policies of like i don't know zora mondani or joseph stalin yeah and you know we don't
01:18:02.120
have starvation and so like they always have to define it down so now now they call it hunger and
01:18:07.140
if you dig into what they label as you know hunger they'll talk about food insecurity and it'll be
01:18:12.200
things like a lot of people they don't know where their next meal will come from i don't know where
01:18:17.560
my next meal is going to come from my fridge is empty right now well that's a particular blake yeah
01:18:22.460
that's that's me being a weirdo but tell i want this is this i think this is a good place to wrap up
01:18:27.100
because if you insert this stuff into the culture it's so difficult to extract it and one of the
01:18:33.540
things that i love when you talk about is the you probably got some of this during the great depression
01:18:38.960
and the the new deal right democrats but then in the 60s again you had this new wave of government
01:18:46.660
subsidies and handouts and welfare programs explain the difference between before and after the american
01:18:53.480
psychology of what it meant to take welfare and the and the honor and the dishonor that that was and
01:18:59.000
then after how long did that one of the saddest things one of the saddest things in hindsight to read
01:19:04.340
is when they're rolling out the great society which is lbj's big welfare state thing they would run into
01:19:11.140
the problem that a lot of americans would out of pride refuse to sign up for government programs
01:19:18.600
they it was considered shameful to go on the dole and when you think of how immensely successful
01:19:26.080
america was for so long you've got to think a society where it is shameful to go on the dole
01:19:33.080
is probably going to be more successful than one where there is no shame that when there's no shame
01:19:39.200
about being dependent on other people's to be dependent on the collective then people are more
01:19:44.820
likely to do it and when you do that it you know it's a habit that you sink into and one of the
01:19:51.980
most important parts of maturity and that a lot of people realize when they grow up is you kind of you
01:19:56.440
become what you are based on what your habits are what you do every single day and if it is a habit
01:20:03.780
if it is a habit to take advantage of every way of getting free money if it then it can become a habit
01:20:09.100
to exploit this or to you know get as much of it as possible and to avoid other like more
01:20:17.100
socially beneficial ways of making money like in the long run you just have a worse society a worse
01:20:23.900
country but i'm just gonna like it still comes back though to mass immigration because there are parts
01:20:30.960
of the world where what we would consider scamming what we would consider uh gaming the system uh lying
01:20:37.880
for benefit are not necessarily considered shameful at all yeah or at least certainly when abstracted out
01:20:43.500
a big thing in uh that is not universal is this sort of sense of general obligations towards all of
01:20:51.320
society or like the state apparatus there are a lot of people who come from societies that are
01:20:55.500
that are insular and clannish and so you couldn't cheat your brother your cousin or tribal your yeah your
01:21:01.960
person who's in your this came up a ton in but you can do anything to someone who's outside of that group
01:21:08.060
and that's that's the historical norm that's how probably everybody was 10 000 years ago one of my it was
01:21:12.940
a rough process to change one of my buddies um who who was deployed to afghanistan um i remember we were
01:21:19.640
having this conversation just talking about the cultural differences eastern western and he was saying
01:21:23.760
that in america it's considered corrupt for you to like hire your family and give you know from a government
01:21:30.720
position and give them contracts and do and take care of your family that's considered corrupt in
01:21:36.260
afghanistan if you don't hire your family and give them public contracts and public uh public funds
01:21:44.660
you'd be considered corrupt well this this is this is you're totally right about immigration
01:21:49.660
because america you talk about her historic levels of excellence and success as a society and we
01:21:57.180
basically either it was hubris or it was ideological rot that was creeping in and you talk about this
01:22:03.160
with the what do you call it the blue banana and maybe you can explain this but essentially most of
01:22:08.620
the world's progress and innovation has come from a very a very tiny slice very tiny slice of civilization
01:22:15.640
yeah i think the blue banana is specifically like an area of high urbanization but you don't need to
01:22:19.940
zoom it out a lot and it's yeah it's basically london this is the london yeah it's like london to london to
01:22:25.000
london to london you can you can track most of the good things in the world from this region a lot
01:22:31.160
yeah just a huge amount of huge but but basically instead of instead of going with with with respect
01:22:36.440
we're not going to screw these places up because they're too precious to humanity we go let's just
01:22:41.860
import a bunch of people that have no idea what the heck that culture is or where it came from
01:22:45.700
some of this is self-inflicted because one of the traits of sort of that is like a universalizing
01:22:50.440
outlook on life sure a persistent a persistent arrogance of a lot of uh it's arrogance that's
01:22:56.500
what it is of like you know historically like english german like european peoples is sort of
01:23:02.240
the assumption that everyone is innately like them there's still a critique we make of liberals they
01:23:06.480
like assume everyone in the world is sort of a uh you know brooklyn liberal waiting to like come out
01:23:14.320
after you like chip away at everything yeah well and that that that is kind of the liberal assumption
01:23:20.080
that people are inherently good people are inherently good but that is not actually biblical
01:23:24.880
biblical is that we were made good and that we fell and that there's evil in the world and then we need
01:23:29.440
to sort of repent from the evil you know you know that is actually the biblical view of human nature
01:23:34.720
is that we were made good made in god's image but then there is a fall evil is inserted in the world so
01:23:39.620
you have to deal with evil this is why we have police this is why we have locks on our door this is why
01:23:43.360
the two-way crowd is is um is is ascendant really but here here's the point though america is kind of
01:23:51.480
like in the 20th century maybe even the 19th century is the blue banana writ large it is it is it's sort
01:23:57.560
of like the innovation came from this country and instead of having a respect for the primordial goo
01:24:05.100
that makes up this country that the foundational elements the societal core the the culture and the
01:24:09.580
character it's we we've just said oh screw it we're going to open the doors and throw open the
01:24:13.260
doors there's a line i think from some french leftist but i can't remember for sure that
01:24:17.140
is like behind any great fortune is a great crime and this is basically a very third world outlook
01:24:23.560
that's so left it's a world it's so it's a world that is zero sum is a world where there is not like
01:24:29.560
progress and industry and right modern stuff and it kind of is a world that often makes sense if you're
01:24:34.380
from a backward society yeah if you're from a society where everyone is kind of roughly equally leveled
01:24:40.000
and all of your wealth just sort of probably this is um being a renter a rentier like an owner like
01:24:45.360
yeah you might have to do something pretty bad to get a great fortune this is like that idiotic book
01:24:49.260
guns germs and steel yeah was it jared diamond jared diamond jared that is so stupid but in real life
01:24:54.080
it's like okay actually no if you wanted to behind a great fortune if you're if you're in america in
01:24:59.380
1955 what's behind your fortune probably that you or someone in your family developed and created
01:25:06.680
something of enormous value to millions of people so you enhance the besomer process for developing
01:25:14.660
steel you figured out a way to sell ice cream to millions of people and you could make it in a
01:25:18.800
factory uh there's the blue banana by the way it's innately that like wealth coming from value
01:25:24.540
creation and the more value you create the more benefits that accrue to you and that is the winning
01:25:30.700
combination that worked in america at its peak that worked in the uk at its peak that worked in a lot
01:25:35.920
of countries when they're peaking and it's actually why you know china is rising now well and china's
01:25:40.060
gotten better at adding value to things that's why charlie loved elon musk candidly because instead
01:25:44.720
of making wealth selling financial instruments and pieces of paper and finding a way to exploit or
01:25:50.180
predict the market he's actually making physical objects he developed an incredibly innovative electric
01:25:55.540
car i have one developed incredibly innovative you know he is like i'm going to build rockets and i'm
01:26:01.320
going to make them affordable and i'm going to put the internet in space as like i it was almost
01:26:05.500
an accident a side effect a oh we need to figure out how to make money off of this that he puts
01:26:10.120
thousands of satellites in orbit and now oh you can actually just get wi-fi anywhere i need you to
01:26:14.280
explain this to me apparently now there's a yellow and green banana oh they're making new bananas all
01:26:20.140
the time this feels very leftist yeah yeah where they have to be because of the incorporating no no
01:26:25.240
because it's it's it's because industrialization and urbanization has spread across europe now from the
01:26:30.680
original blue banana all right blake do you have an answer here are you still well i'm looking now my
01:26:35.680
screen is i have one of the original definition of the blue banana was throw it up when you have it
01:26:40.360
studio but we should we should wrap it yeah well so part of this by the way the reason i flag that is
01:26:44.960
the blue banana is actually mostly historically like urbanized zone that's always been very high
01:26:48.980
density and so now you have these other big cities is what's going on there but it also that
01:26:54.300
historical blue banana is also just if you look at you you know you can read the history of european
01:26:59.620
science and industry and philosophy and all the big innovations and they just come it's not even
01:27:04.840
they come from europe they come from a remarkably narrow slice of why isn't like why isn't not many
01:27:10.140
why isn't rome in it i mean rome actually hasn't been that great since rome is where the church is
01:27:16.020
northern italy back innovation northern italy is where like all the the really dynamic scientist types are
01:27:22.820
coming from and yeah like gal has anyone here actually he works in pisa i think has anyone
01:27:29.260
here actually had a real blue banana though those things are supposed to be delicious that's a thing
01:27:34.060
no i think i may have in guam it's called a blue java banana yeah i think when i was in galileo
01:27:38.900
born in pisa wait time out time out this is really important i want to talk about my time in asia more
01:27:42.720
and all the the things i experienced it allegedly tastes like vanilla ice cream i really want they're
01:27:48.140
really expensive the one that i had in guam did not taste like vanilla ice cream i've never heard of this
01:27:51.020
no they're called look it up a blue java banana all right the one it's more of like maroon a blue
01:27:55.880
java and you keep talking about bananas we have to wrap now the blue java bananas here's the deal
01:28:01.420
here's the deal we had to do this thought crime to cleanse ourselves of many things including the
01:28:09.100
election some of the some of the controversies except for arizona except for arizona well done turning
01:28:15.060
point action and in new hampshire um you want to take us home no i think i think we learned a lot
01:28:21.300
i think uh tonight was a good conversation i think tonight we had some important conversations ebt is
01:28:25.780
a tiktok by the way that's on twitter so give them i have no idea who runs it give them a follow
01:28:29.920
um that looks like a great account i i love these like and carton arcs archive carton arcs that was
01:28:35.520
it called yeah oh carton i love that name um and but oh by the way throw it up three four two for uh for
01:28:40.960
tyler there we go there she is arizona rhino patrolled dorian taylor is now on the mesa city
01:28:52.920
council yeah that's great that's great job it's a big win it's a big win because guess what yeah if
01:28:58.200
if if that if she wouldn't have won do you have any idea we had politico new york times all these
01:29:03.940
people they would have they would have stopped all over and new york times is following our
01:29:07.960
they were making a referendum on turning point actions they would they absolutely would have
01:29:13.500
used it as an opportunity to tarnish charlie so god god was watching out and guys if we could play
01:29:18.440
the um and as as we go out could we just play the new theme song of thought crime i need it louder i
01:29:25.480
need louder i need more i need more let's get it up charlie would would uh would force us to go out
01:29:32.120
on classical music you know he will i think charlie liked taking this all i think
01:29:36.300
everybody likes taking this all it's an export it's an export from the blue banana ladies and
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gentlemen as always go out there and commit more thought crime