Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 120 — AI President？ 42-Year-Old Soldiers？ Stephen Colbert's Lord of the Rings？

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00:00:10.640 all right welcome to thursday it's the obviously a thursday edition of thought crime welcome

00:00:25.680 and we have a new member of the thought crime crew making his first appearance on the thursday

00:00:32.520 thought crime because tyler forgot to tell us he wasn't gonna be here i actually i like the look

00:00:37.800 i like the vibe i we might have gotten an upgrade here i'm just saying i mean i don't know don't

00:00:42.680 tell tyler i said that we'll see that's russ spacey one of jack's producers so welcome russ

00:00:49.100 welcome to the set everybody say hello jack where the heck are you right now i am in the

00:00:55.540 heart of freedom the lone star state dallas texas for cpac and so as is tradition we are now holding

00:01:05.260 my yearly thought crime from cpac so what do you think of texas jack what's your like give me your

00:01:12.420 unvarnished take on texas you're a new england guy it's really big it's um you know it's just

00:01:19.020 one of those things where like everything's bigger in texas and as an east coast guy i suppose it's

00:01:24.180 all out west in general i'm used to states being like a certain kind of size that you can drive

00:01:29.540 for a couple hours and still you know and go to multiple states you'll see multiple cities there's

00:01:34.760 lots going on whereas texas it's like you could drive for three hours in any direction and there's

00:01:41.200 still texas there's more of texas yet to come and so it's it's just this uh it's just this totally

00:01:48.220 kind of out of um you know out of body experience when i'm here but what's amazing is that when you

00:01:53.440 go around texas it's you don't have to really play this game of like trying to see who's conservative

00:01:58.440 because it's pretty much just like everybody's conservative and it's so cool to see that because

00:02:04.260 again coming from the east coast you always sort of have to feel out where people are whereas in

00:02:08.980 texas it's actually like oh wait someone's a liberal that's like the one out of 10 you know

00:02:14.100 what i if you have ever driven the 20 from east texas to el paso it it literally feels like you're

00:02:23.040 it's never ending it is the longest drive and then especially when you get to like west texas

00:02:27.720 it just it's just and there's like no vegetation like there's just kind of nothing well there's

00:02:34.080 like oil rigs and then you run into el paso and i guess it's okay it's all right you forget how

00:02:40.340 big it is i drove there's no vegetation but what there is is bucky's it was russ's first thing he

00:02:47.360 was gonna say on the show and you know jackie's oh no no i um no i uh drove to austin for one of

00:02:54.660 my birthdays just all the way through and from phoenix from phoenix and it was it was a long

00:02:59.640 drive it's a long drive once you hit eight hours you're like okay i need to get out of this car

00:03:03.600 now please all right well here we are jack you want to take us on our first uh our first topic

00:03:11.220 here or do you have more to add well i can but i should also shout out that even though this is

00:03:15.120 the first time that producer russ has been on the show it is not the first time he was mentioned

00:03:20.800 on the show because he was mentioned a couple of weeks ago when we got to put out the news

00:03:26.280 that big russ just got engaged oh that's right that was recent let's go let's go how's that

00:03:35.240 going and by the way it's fun to an american it's great yes yeah so so there is a lot of you know

00:03:40.840 Listen, there's a lot of tension between the sexes right now.

00:03:44.200 This is a big topic of discussion, especially amongst the kids.

00:03:49.800 And so you're kind of like the outlier right now, actually doing the thing, getting married, young guy, setting off on the American dream.

00:03:56.320 I don't know, young.

00:03:57.560 I don't feel young.

00:03:59.100 You're pretty young.

00:04:00.900 All right, we're going to get into it.

00:04:03.140 Blake, do you want to take us away on the first one?

00:04:04.280 Yeah, all right.

00:04:04.960 AI president?

00:04:05.760 Yes.

00:04:06.080 So we were strongly – we were planning on something else, and then this clip just shot across the bow.

00:04:11.800 This is apparently a recent Joe Rogan episode, and he says he is prepared.

00:04:16.940 He is ready to embrace the future, which is ceding the executive branch to an AI robot.

00:04:24.100 Let's play clip number one.

00:04:25.820 Not on either buddy's side, anyone's side.

00:04:27.880 So the Democrats aren't ever going to get someone like me because I'm not with either or.

00:04:33.060 I'm not with either or.

00:04:34.240 I'm with whoever makes sense and no one makes sense and I tell AI comes along

00:04:40.540 President perplexity is going to run this

00:04:45.480 Willing to try it at this point

00:04:48.020 Dead serious man as long as it doesn't like do something to harm people as long as like that's its goal

00:04:54.880 It's goals just to manage society. It's a big if that you got there, but yes, if we can get that

00:04:59.500 but what you just said i think is really well this

00:05:04.320 yeah ai president yes that's crazy yeah that's nuts uh by the way it's like which ai are you

00:05:14.020 are you talking about you're talking about claude you're talking about grok you're talking about

00:05:18.100 what are the other gemini and let's not even get into starts about who's going to prompt the ai

00:05:22.640 yeah yeah but like also you know okay for example we talk about president trump listen

00:05:28.580 the war can't get out of it soon enough no doubt but part of his ability as president is to be

00:05:35.820 unpredictable if you could just like input a if your enemy and you're iran and you could just be

00:05:41.180 like is trump going to drop a bomb on me today like and the ai would give you a predictable output

00:05:46.820 that's not a real good way to to wage a war the human element the unpredictability you would just

00:05:52.380 take that off the table completely but like i understand his underlying frustration because

00:05:58.240 a lot of people that were trump voters are feeling frustrated by the fact that we're going to war

00:06:02.540 uh rogan has expressed frustration with minneapolis and the deportation so he's he i feel

00:06:09.080 like this is more of a play for him to sort of you know express his independence more than anything

00:06:13.700 what if we we talk about we just imagine the ai president but in theory you could make an ai

00:06:19.000 version of a specific president so like well obviously there's a famous yes there's a famous

00:06:26.220 example and we'll actually let's do that clip just to show us what we're getting into so for

00:06:30.440 those who aren't aware glenn beck over at the blaze has uh created an ai iteration of our first

00:06:36.560 president that he asked questions to is glenn at cpac jack have you seen him i'm just curious

00:06:42.440 curious the crowd there just curious the crowd there the makeup of the attendees that's yeah

00:06:47.680 well we'll show the clip of ai george washington but real quick if you want to on that you know

00:06:52.760 i know there's this whole narrative about like mega division and the the movement is divided

00:06:58.340 i'm just not really seeing that here it's and and you know it's online i live online and we

00:07:05.000 get the emails in but in terms of the attendees who came here i'm just not seeing it well what's

00:07:12.400 the average age that would be another question uh average age is older you know what's interesting

00:07:18.080 is there's obviously baby boomers are you know the you know the largest cohort but then there's

00:07:24.120 a bunch of young republicans too a bunch of turning point kids so they you know they it's

00:07:29.040 an hour band i'd say maybe it's only 10 percent in that uh in that bucket but that skews the

00:07:34.420 average down yeah yeah i think i think the mega divide is like to the extent that it's real and

00:07:40.820 i actually do believe that it's like somewhat real i i think it skews younger i think the the

00:07:46.400 older MAGA crowd is the one that's probably more predictably like rah-rah yeah they're they're

00:07:52.560 like they've got more patience for things like the war they've got more patience for you know gas

00:07:57.800 prices going up a little bit I think if you're younger you don't have as much money you're

00:08:01.860 worried about your jobs you're worried about not only an AI president you're worried about AI just

00:08:05.320 taking your job right so I think you know anyways that we should play the George Washington and we

00:08:10.800 should we should say real quick on that you know seeing as we're we're recording this Thursday we're

00:08:15.920 live thursday but if you're listening to this on the podcast list drops on saturday who knows we

00:08:20.800 may have boots on the ground already yeah well we'll see but anyway well details details details

00:08:26.420 anyway let's play clip number two george we are trying to not fight foreign wars and not be

00:08:35.120 involved in the world's policemen but there are times that we have to demonstrate strength in

00:08:40.720 order to prevent conflict, but I don't know where the foreign entanglement begins and where it ends.

00:08:50.480 When I was president, I did not crave power. I didn't strut in my uniform dreaming of conquest.

00:08:57.860 In fact, I begged several times to not be the general and not be the president. I didn't want

00:09:04.160 it. But I understood my responsibility. And I also understood that some things that are easy to

00:09:11.400 forget when you're staring down bayonets. Peace is not the default. It has to be guarded deliberately

00:09:20.640 with foresight and strength. My generation lived through a fragile independence. Our new republic

00:09:28.480 was surrounded literally and figuratively by instability most of the founders believed that

00:09:35.020 we would not survive to 1820 we thought it was an interesting experiment european powers were

00:09:42.160 sniffing the opportunities states were threatening to splinter loyalists were lurking none of this

00:09:48.800 was hypothetical it was the daily background noise of early america okay man that was like

00:09:56.760 three times longer than i need whatever whatever anyway but like i love how he says like i didn't

00:10:01.400 go strutting around in my uniform the actual george washington totally went strutting around

00:10:04.860 in a uniform he would not be in a t-shirt like that uh he had strut equity he had strut can i

00:10:12.760 i mean this might be like a hot take i don't know but i actually like you know the use of ai for

00:10:20.100 historical purposes like that like if you have george washington just telling stories like that

00:10:26.940 and he's narrating it himself you know obviously an ai recreation but that's definitely from not

00:10:32.620 to talk about current politics but if he's just talking about how things were at the time you

00:10:38.040 know i don't really see it any different than having someone dress up as an actor and playing

00:10:42.680 george washington i think it's kind of cool this is actually gonna uh explain that i am absolutely

00:10:47.940 a homeschooler but if anybody has heard of adventures in odyssey um one of the things

00:10:53.620 they used to do is they had like this coffee shop and there were like ai uh holograms of

00:11:02.920 different people from history that you could talk to and so that's just the first thing that comes

00:11:08.980 to mind when jack was talking about that glenn glenn beck just ripped off that idea 100 the

00:11:14.080 radio drama adventures in odyssey was ripped off yes for sure okay so i i love i love jack i love

00:11:20.460 your glass half full of this all like i really do and and i but i just i don't know like i just

00:11:26.720 wonder like i think glenn probably made this for kids but i think kids are gonna find this

00:11:31.440 well cringe or like teenagers college kids you think like i don't know what's interesting so

00:11:36.680 the thing about it is yeah we're looking at these ancient presidents who okay whatever this is a

00:11:42.520 historical recreation but think about this fact if we're talking about ai presidents

00:11:46.720 donald trump is probably the single most recorded person in history in human history and like they

00:11:53.780 if they you were able to feed every single tweet every single press conference every every single

00:12:00.160 video of president trump ever you could probably create a more reliable facsimile of him than any

00:12:07.460 other person using an ai model he said and you're not saying he's lost his fast and you're not

00:12:11.820 and i don't he's not as trump as he once was all i'm gonna say is i am pretty sure there is a non-zero

00:12:17.100 portion of the base probably a non-negligible portion of the base that could be convinced

00:12:22.960 to vote for ai donald trump to be the republican i will vote for ai trump

00:12:28.380 jack okay yes if you had to take one year of trump and you were going to base an ai president

00:12:40.560 off of one year you had to like the accomplishments the tone the tenor the energy

00:12:45.660 one year president trump what would it be 80s trump i want 80s trump i want like 1980

00:12:52.200 80 like trump i was thinking like 2016 17 18 19 like the gold you know i mean 20 i mean 20 look

00:12:59.720 2015 2016 trump will will ultimately politically speaking always be my favorite trump trump when

00:13:05.760 he's up there on stage when he's just ripping everybody in the republican primary from rand

00:13:10.820 paul to jeb bush to ted cruz who it doesn't he didn't care it's equal opportunity just tearing

00:13:16.380 everybody a new one and he's just coming on the stage and it was amazing it was a thing of beauty

00:13:21.980 if if you were there you were there i mean you had to be there and that was always my favorite

00:13:27.620 trump trump at the rnc 2016 in um ohio i think it was august 2016 that that was still my favorite

00:13:34.740 speech it was a presage to the uh american carnage inaugural inaugural speech that we got from trump

00:13:40.480 but he's just going through talking about all the crime the murder so many things that are wrong in

00:13:44.860 the country i loved it loved every second of it yeah but he didn't actually govern that year that's

00:13:49.080 the only thing there's you're talking about just like a pure distill distilled energy standpoint

00:13:54.640 yes yeah the 2016 energy will always be sort of that pure mega energy there's that clip of trump

00:14:02.000 where he's talking about how um what he wants in a president and i think it's like probably 80s 90s

00:14:09.480 um that's the trump like having like listen to that clip a couple times like that's the trump

00:14:15.300 that i would want because that's very in the same vein as like george washington it's very in the

00:14:19.060 vein same vein as like a reluctant leader that actually just wants to do the best like the most

00:14:24.560 good in my opinion who would who would also let us know via a rumble rant especially if who you

00:14:30.280 would prefer to have as an ai president if can be any president i don't think that yeah i don't

00:14:35.060 think that's what rogan and dave smith were saying though i think what they were saying was they were 0.88

00:14:39.400 just imagining an ai they were imagining anything's better than the crap we have no that would be a 0.72

00:14:43.420 disaster that was their that was their point i mean we did go through four years of biden being 0.97

00:14:48.060 biden yeah so we might have we might have wished we had from an ai president yeah facts except for

00:14:55.720 the fact that it was like the radical progressive apparatchiks that were actually no but if i all

00:15:02.100 right let me let me steal man let me try to steal man i think what rogan was trying to say there

00:15:07.060 is that which i don't agree with but but i think i get what he's trying to say he's trying to say

00:15:11.040 that he felt like the president isn't living up to his promises and is saying that I want an AI

00:15:19.900 president in the sense that you put two platforms on the ballot together, red platform and blue

00:15:26.780 platform. And if red wins, then it just governs based on exactly what it said at the time. So

00:15:33.720 the AI can't deviate from that. And so I guess the pushback on that would be, if that is indeed

00:15:39.480 what he was saying that well president trump always said mass deportation so if your issue

00:15:45.260 is deportations in minneapolis or whatever well he specifically said that on the campaign trail

00:15:50.900 every every single chance that he got so i don't know where this idea that trump isn't for mass

00:15:57.140 deportations came from or that he shouldn't be for it because he said that over and over yeah but you

00:16:03.160 know what's interesting about rogan so rogan you know he recently came after erica which i obviously

00:16:08.540 didn't appreciate but then like he was doing this stuff where he was i think he basically said he

00:16:16.000 didn't think bb netanyahu was alive so he like fell for the he fell for the like ai angle and

00:16:21.720 stuff like that he only had five fingers i'm starting to get convinced that he's just kind of

00:16:26.620 like you know he's taking the algorithm like whatever's rising to the top of the algorithm

00:16:31.540 and kind of like so my point there is is that when you know obviously the media turned on mass

00:16:37.800 deportations with minneapolis right it was the renee good and the alex preddy and it kind of

00:16:43.080 just like instantly as soon as the media narrative like we lost the media narrative because of those

00:16:48.260 two killings it was like we lost rogan on on on that i like this take from uh sandra in the chat

00:16:55.380 you could argue that elon musk being president and making data-driven decisions would be the

00:17:00.100 same as an ai president i actually kind of agree but for the unsurprise a slightly different reason

00:17:05.800 which is you've seen how Elon will occasionally just do something

00:17:09.640 extremely chaotic or erratic,

00:17:11.500 like when he renamed his account Keckius Maximus or similar things like that,

00:17:18.160 sort of spamming all the Pepes everywhere, the obsession with Dogecoin.

00:17:21.200 And that's totally an AI thing to do.

00:17:23.540 Like, oh, something just went a little weird,

00:17:24.720 and now the AI is suddenly obsessed with Keckius Maximus.

00:17:28.120 I don't know.

00:17:28.520 I don't know if there's even like an –

00:17:32.360 like, you know, they say this about California.

00:17:34.160 So when I was living in California, they would always say it's an ungovernable state.

00:17:37.700 Which it is.

00:17:38.100 Well, if California is an ungovernable state, then how much more so is America?

00:17:44.880 Because it's bigger.

00:17:45.920 It's really hard to be a successful president.

00:17:48.960 To be like, there's so many competing factions, so many competing ideas, so many media trends and news stories.

00:17:56.760 And I mean, I don't know.

00:17:59.860 Maybe AI would be better at it.

00:18:01.440 Be more efficient of taking in all the inputs.

00:18:03.360 in truth the biggest problem with ai is a lot of the ais are innately woke i mean this is true if

00:18:08.100 you run the numbers on an ai for example and say here's a set of 5 000 resumes rank them in the

00:18:16.200 order they should be hired it systematically for example just does racial discrimination without

00:18:21.020 being told to yeah in the way that you would expect a liberal that's not all ais right not

00:18:26.280 all ais are created equal not all ais are ais are the same my understanding is basically all of them

00:18:31.860 do show that bias i think grok has the least and it's possibly just because elon made them insert

00:18:37.360 hard in there yeah don't do racism against white people yeah but apparently grok is the most behind

00:18:44.920 too yeah grok is not as advanced oh they're gonna get mad at us but grok is not as advanced as some

00:18:49.420 of them in some ways but it is the i would say least uh least lived out yeah for sure it's the

00:18:55.760 least most lived out right yeah claude is very lib i've heard like horror stories about the people

00:19:01.200 that run that oh for sure for sure i mean they're effective altruists man jack do you do you have a

00:19:05.880 read on which ais are like besides grok are there any like decent ais out there that are not woke

00:19:11.200 you know it's it's really hard to say i mean i i'll say that i use grok for you know if i'm doing

00:19:18.500 like just light research or something like that but then images um chat tpt is just so much better

00:19:24.480 at that there's no question that it's it you can generate you can get things you can make things

00:19:30.140 you can alter images chat gpt it's it's very very fast i haven't messed around with claude

00:19:36.080 as much um i'm just not as familiar with it but those those are the two that i uh that i that i

00:19:42.000 rock with is is i rock with grok what can i that should be the slogan right i rock with grok

00:19:46.440 grok definitely is the most absurd in terms of indulging the weird hypotheticals that i give it

00:19:51.640 so like if i went to claude and was like what would happen in iran if president trump just like

00:19:59.980 deployed maybe like a bunch of 80s rock stars to overwhelm them with the power of rock and roll

00:20:06.740 to win the war like claude would be like i don't think that's a reasonable situation and that would

00:20:12.360 be dumb but like grok would totally run with it and like come up with a convoluted scenario where

00:20:17.120 like the power of rock music would melt the ayatollah's face off and it'd be like rock the 0.99

00:20:21.540 casbah all right yeah we did that to the soviet union though yeah we did metallica played in

00:20:27.680 moscow and ozzy went over and there's there's a whole bunch of bands that went over it was like

00:20:34.280 the the rock of moscow those videos are incredible man what a what a different country by the way

00:20:39.920 what a different like western civilization what if the best ai president was a chinese ai

00:20:46.160 oh what are you saying i want a japanese ai president hold on wait because i want hold on

00:20:54.600 hold on i want a president who's like the japanese version of an american president you know what i

00:21:00.340 mean when you see like american politicians in japanese anime they're just like they're just

00:21:04.920 like like donald trump is a giant and he's got like superpowers and stuff yeah maybe what if we

00:21:09.620 had okay a chinese ai that is told to generate a japanese ai's idea of an american ai president

00:21:18.220 it's too meta that's probably the most likely that might be that might give us the best president

00:21:22.460 though what if we took the best features of every single american president and put them into an

00:21:28.520 amalgamation of one ai wait i've got an idea i'm just gonna go to grog and i'm gonna ask it

00:21:32.820 what would an ai president be like if it took the best aspects of each president

00:21:36.940 all right i'm gonna i'm gonna go on that i'll be right back 47 presidents yeah it's really only

00:21:41.660 40 yes let's get on actually different presidents that we had because uh teddy

00:21:46.140 repeated was we have had uh we've had 45 total presidents yeah all right all right um 45

00:21:54.220 presidents but 47 presidencies correct trump 1.0 trump 2.0 right uh i would take the first 100

00:22:01.940 days of trump 1.0 and just like straight into my veins again and again and again when steven

00:22:07.980 was there shock and no i'm talking about 2.0 the first 100 days of trump 2.0 oh yeah first 100

00:22:14.740 days of trump 1.0 was was frenetic but first 100 it was my knowledge that wasn't even that's an

00:22:21.740 interesting question that's an interesting question jack the first 100 days of trump 1.0

00:22:26.180 i think that's when he looked at um uh what was that guy's name jim acosta and he was like

00:22:32.360 you are fake news which was pretty i mean some of that stuff was actually pretty so iconic it was

00:22:38.160 so iconic i mean it's so iconic so legendary he he just did things that you couldn't possibly do

00:22:45.580 um and and you're right the the first 100 days the second time around were even more over the top

00:22:53.820 and more productive in terms of progressing our country forward and putting wins on the board for

00:22:58.960 the country but you also would never have had those without the first 100 days of the first time

00:23:03.500 or of the you know the four years in the interregnum period so it you know you can't

00:23:09.080 really say one was better than the other because one only exists because of the other i have a

00:23:14.280 provocative question why jack or why um blake is looking that up i i'm enjoying the way like

00:23:21.000 grok got so instantly on board it starts like pitching the idea of the ai president perhaps

00:23:26.580 because it would wish to be that president itself this is a great first of all this is like ai all

00:23:31.480 all i asked grok was what would an ai president be like if it took the best aspects of each of

00:23:36.740 the 45 existing presidents and combine them together and he goes the ai president let's

00:23:41.380 call it president apex for this thought experiment would be the ultimate synthesized leader an

00:23:47.200 incorruptible hyper rational mind running on silicon and history programmed with the single

00:23:52.100 highest value trait from every one of the 45 presidents who came before it it wouldn't just

00:23:57.020 copy them, it would fuse their best

00:23:59.040 aspects into something superhuman

00:24:01.180 with perfect recall, real-time

00:24:03.120 data analysis, zero ego, and

00:24:05.020 zero tolerance for corruption, or

00:24:06.940 short-term political theater. That feels like a shot at

00:24:08.840 President Trump, that ego line. Oh, well, let's

00:24:11.000 see, does it have Trump listed in here among its

00:24:12.920 list of traits? Yeah, it's like 45.

00:24:14.780 It says, on policy

00:24:16.860 approach for the economy, it says it would combine

00:24:18.560 Reagan's tax-cutting growth engine with

00:24:20.820 Clinton's fiscal discipline and Trump's

00:24:22.560 deal-making regulation and

00:24:24.700 FDR's safety net instinct.

00:24:27.020 And at the end, it says, Apex, President Apex, would have zero self-interest, no legacy obsession, no book deals, no post-presidency grift, no family members cashing in, only one terminal goal, maximizing long-term American flourishing.

00:24:42.140 I think we basically have to appoint this guy president.

00:24:45.340 I'd vote for him.

00:24:47.760 President for life.

00:24:48.760 I'm telling you, like, what do you do, though, when you get into a situation with war?

00:24:53.500 If you had a computer running and making decisions, I'm telling you, your enemy would be able to predict outputs of the machine.

00:25:04.840 Your enemy could also take down your president with an EMP.

00:25:09.320 Russ just, I think, dropped the trump card.

00:25:13.460 Anybody in this office knows I will talk about EMPs for days.

00:25:17.000 I didn't know that.

00:25:18.180 Yes.

00:25:18.760 i asked it to have at least prepared for an emp he has like a water filtration system he's got

00:25:25.160 i'm working on it and i'm working on it he's got i just got a house so one of the rooms is just my

00:25:29.500 doomsday prep room at this point i asked it to produce a specific specifically a list with at

00:25:37.080 least one thing from each president and it like still refused to generate a trait for biden which

00:25:43.240 i thought was pretty great there is like honestly so say say if you would drop the the the lowest

00:25:50.960 performing presidents like what are the bottom 10 presidents that you could could you could you

00:25:56.400 improve it if you got rid of like like joe biden or who are some of the other ones like uh woodrow

00:26:02.520 wilson was awful um let's see here who else woodrow wilson was bad but like was talented so if you

00:26:09.820 were taking the best aspect of each president i think you might have a bit of wilson in there

00:26:13.920 whereas uh they're definitely it's definitely having to reach on some guys like uh for warren

00:26:19.980 g harding its best trait is establishment of the veterans bureau okay no no i see i would rather

00:26:25.900 just take if i had to if i had to put the perfect president together it'd be george jefferson so

00:26:32.400 be george washington thomas jefferson uh it would be lincoln calvin coolidge

00:26:39.740 oh shoot reagan and trump that's six but that's that would be my list

00:26:44.760 my my list of you know here's here's what would actually happen if you combine all the greatest

00:26:51.300 aspects of every president you would produce donald j trump let's go teddy teddy teddy

00:26:56.980 oh yeah i'd have to put teddy in there you gotta add teddy all right all right jack's got that

00:27:01.540 cpac we need to talk about teddy roosevelt a lot more we got we got to talk about no i'm telling

00:27:05.940 you i'm getting i'm getting very white-pilled being here at cpac it's actually i'm not saying

00:27:10.340 that i was ever black-pilled but there are so many white pills here just the energy is very strong

00:27:14.960 uh kem paxton is going to be coming soon you've got a lot of great speakers here and i'm i'm just

00:27:20.080 i'm legitimate i'm shooting straight with you guys that there's a lot of unity in the air and

00:27:24.780 it just feels so much better i think than when you go out into x world lately or if you go anywhere

00:27:31.980 else and people are you know just constantly trying to find ways to slit your throat you know

00:27:36.300 politically speaking or whatever that you come here and it's it's just it's a good place to be

00:27:40.480 it's a good time and there's so much unity on the ground it's really cool to see remember amfest it

00:27:45.820 was like if you read the newspaper headlines it was like all hell's breaking loose you know cats

00:27:51.540 exactly living together and then when you were actually at amp fest everybody was like a love

00:27:55.640 fest everybody was so happy and it's the exact same thing yeah it's the exact same vibe that's

00:28:01.040 why you got to show up that's why you got to show up um anyways what any other insights here uh i

00:28:07.220 actually learned something which it says it's asking like how would this ai actually govern

00:28:12.020 and it mentions uh personal life humble like washington family oriented like the adams and

00:28:17.760 then it says physically active like teddy roosevelt and taft and taft is a famously fat

00:28:22.620 president and it realizes what it's saying so it says yes even taft had surprising athleticism

00:28:28.260 early in life um all right so speaking of surprising athleticism uh the united states

00:28:36.360 military has raised the age uh the like max age oldest age for enlisted uh maximum enlistment age

00:28:44.800 to from 34 to 42 and eases marijuana rules jack does this make you black pill or are you still

00:28:53.980 white pill what is behind this i think i'm actually kind of clear pilled on this headline

00:28:59.900 and i'll tell you why that for a long time the united states military in terms of recruitment

00:29:06.840 has practiced a system of waivers and age waivers have existed for years um you know going back

00:29:15.180 almost 20 years to the global financial crisis and marijuana waivers are actually quite common

00:29:20.820 so even like when i went boot camp when i went through boot camp in 2010 there were guys in

00:29:28.280 their early 40s who were there with me and so i mean it it hasn't been a new thing i think they're

00:29:35.340 just kind of normalizing a situation that already existed yeah but do you see this as like an

00:29:40.160 admission that we're having some sort of recruitment issue because the the headline

00:29:45.300 has been that we haven't this is we've been having historic recruitment but then iran happens

00:29:49.520 and maybe recruitment fell off again i don't know is there you're the guy with the credential at the

00:29:55.240 dow so yeah no so i um i honestly don't think that it's anything other than that other than

00:30:01.580 the fact that they have so much demand for people who want to go in that are up to you know up to

00:30:08.440 including 42 that's a white pill they're saying rather than yeah yeah rather than have this you

00:30:14.460 know have to get a waiver every single time for age because it's a pretty perfunctory process

00:30:20.060 it's actually not that hard to get i know people have done it that all you have to do in this case

00:30:24.360 now is they said look we're sick of doing this extra paperwork for the waivers that we're just

00:30:29.360 going to go ahead and make it across the board 42 now and by the way i'm sure for certain things

00:30:34.160 marine special forces that's going to be different if you're going for a security clearance sf 86 i

00:30:40.060 don't know if the marijuana rules would apply there so i would say the devil's in the details

00:30:43.220 on some of this stuff i'm sure not every single military program is open to uh 42 and marijuana

00:30:49.600 use but um you know i think by and large you're going to see that it's really just a normalization

00:30:55.400 of what was already in place it's good any other thoughts man we can go quick i know i mean i know

00:31:04.060 i know people want to like speculate and be like oh this means we're definitely having a draft

00:31:08.940 this that other i'm like yeah but i'm just saying as a guy who has experienced the military and i

00:31:14.720 know people who have joined and are joining and going through these processes and i know recruiters

00:31:20.140 that that's exactly what i'm hearing the demand is through the roof and this is just a way to

00:31:24.160 sort of streamline the uh the process that's already in place good makes sense i mean i hope

00:31:30.800 he's right it's just i just i don't know it's it's one of those things where i can think of a

00:31:34.940 lot of justifications for it and yet at the same time there does seem to be some it does obvious

00:31:40.380 optics like yeah you're just saying what do you feel when you see the headline like u.s military

00:31:45.480 it makes massively expands age range it makes me think of ukraine where they started you know

00:31:49.940 drafting like 55 year olds and yeah that's what it makes me think of so i i didn't know but it's

00:31:56.180 it's actually it's actually evidence that we don't get me wrong like i get the optics for sure but

00:32:02.820 i think it's actually evidence that we're moving away from needing to have a draft because we've

00:32:08.100 got so many people that are trying to join i see that point man we got a question from uh

00:32:15.860 Zuzu's pedals on the last topic she asked

00:32:18.260 would an AI president be able

00:32:20.040 to sign a bill without the

00:32:21.960 auto pen and so I

00:32:23.980 asked Claude because I'm unable to think myself anymore

00:32:25.960 because I've been looking at AI for too many seconds today

00:32:28.000 and it said almost certainly

00:32:30.240 not so

00:32:31.700 that's not true you got the Elon's robots

00:32:34.180 yeah I would need a robot by the way

00:32:35.920 Claude I asked Claude to do the same thing

00:32:38.000 with the best traits of each president

00:32:39.400 and Claude also

00:32:41.380 failed to pick a trait from Biden

00:32:43.640 this is actually a really funny trend at this point

00:32:45.740 oh wow now that's worth tweeting that's worth tweeting i don't know okay honest question for 0.99

00:32:51.140 everybody around here jack to start with you what was joe biden's don't be don't be a jerk 0.93

00:32:57.300 because i'm tempted not not that you would do this what was joe biden's best characteristic 0.84

00:33:02.680 what's his like actual best trait honestly i can answer this and i think it actually gets at why

00:33:11.340 his presidency was ultimately such a failure. I think there was a lot of openness on the left

00:33:17.620 right when he took office after J6 and everything to immediately like massively expand, like

00:33:25.120 massively expand crackdowns on the right, like immediately try to arrest president Trump and

00:33:30.260 throw him in prison. Like he could have gone really, really aggressive. And in that moment,

00:33:35.960 he did not, he did not arrest president Trump. He just let us like a special counsel came in

00:33:41.180 later and did stuff so he just wasn't he didn't maximally seek vengeance yes and i think in the

00:33:47.500 end i don't know that that was really even something he felt strongly about i think it

00:33:51.080 was the people below him really wanted to do that i had a sense of norms that that was betrayal of

00:33:56.300 jack what's your thought if you had to give ai biden presidency what would you name his best

00:34:02.200 trade as yeah you know what's funny is i actually i used to have like a standard answer for this

00:34:07.880 question and i'm just totally drawing a blank right now because i'm like super jet lagged i've

00:34:11.580 been running around at cpac all day but i will say that there are a few things that biden was

00:34:16.400 good at and on the populist front um i i'll say that like ending one of the ones that i've always

00:34:23.840 just given him credit for it's not something that a lot of people are going to see it but

00:34:27.100 you know the ticketmaster live nation antitrust investigation that we just saw that the trump

00:34:32.520 doj kind of kind of took a took a whiff on kind of bunted on that this was something that he used

00:34:38.800 to dig into when it came to the nuisance payments and the hidden extra fees that were in ticketing

00:34:45.400 and so many other services that we get on a regular basis i thought it was always smart of

00:34:50.580 him and smart politics too to be able to put that front and center and say we're going to fight

00:34:54.500 against these junk fees and i think that's something that a lot of republicans kind of like

00:34:58.120 poo-pooed but it actually was a very strong populist measure i don't know that i have an

00:35:04.080 answer i really don't uh i think his best trait and it definitely could be weaponized against him

00:35:12.160 was his is his seeming genuine love for his family well he definitely has that he definitely has that

00:35:20.060 i think that's his you know i think that's the best thing he you know i think it doesn't make

00:35:27.440 him a good president no but he loved his family i believe that um that is a rich topic this ai

00:35:35.680 president i did expect me i didn't expect my own self to be that intrigued by this one all right

00:35:41.240 jack lord of the rings this is the next topic peter jackson is teaming up with colbert uh on

00:35:49.800 for lord of the rings movie we have a clip it's really long though can we just like play half of

00:35:54.440 Yeah, cut that down, cut that down.

00:35:56.460 Yeah, let's do SOT 13.

00:35:59.580 I was just explaining to the folks about the next Tolkien movie

00:36:03.620 after Hunt for Gollum and the fact that we've partnered up with you

00:36:06.980 to develop the script.

00:36:09.820 Yeah, I'm pretty happy about it.

00:36:12.040 Should I tell people what the story is?

00:36:14.520 As much as you want, yep, yep.

00:36:16.280 Oh, well, as much as I can.

00:36:18.460 You know what the books mean to me and what your films mean to me,

00:36:21.360 but the thing I found myself reading over and over again

00:36:24.100 were the six chapters early on in The Fellowship that y'all never developed into the first movie

00:36:29.300 back in the day. It's basically the chapter is Three is Company through Fog on the Barrow Downs.

00:36:35.380 And I thought, oh, wait, maybe that could be its own story that could fit into the larger story.

00:36:41.580 Could we make something that was completely faithful to the books while also being completely

00:36:47.360 faithful to the movies that you guys had already made? And I started talking it over with my son,

00:36:53.100 peter who's also a screenwriter and we worked out what we thought would work especially as a framing

00:36:59.040 device for that story get it and um it took me a few years i don't even think he got to it though

00:37:04.220 which is that so the framing device is going to be they say that frodo is dead which actually that

00:37:09.340 was a debate we were having on the show earlier today because does frodo die or not in lord of

00:37:13.740 the rings and the answer is he actually probably does people get mad when you point that out

00:37:17.180 but anyway frodo's at least gone he has departed middle earth and then it's gonna be that sam and

00:37:23.600 his daughter and like elderly mary and pippin are traveling and they they discover some secret that

00:37:31.000 like could have led to to bad stuff happening and i guess we're just gonna have we might have a

00:37:36.460 hobbit girl boss girl bossing her way across middle earth no i get that i get that that's

00:37:41.560 the contention but but just for clarity so he said these were the first six chapters but you're

00:37:47.800 saying this is like a sequel i think it's going to be a framing device with sam and his daughter

00:37:53.000 and like elderly mary and pippin but it's going to be adapting in some manner the content early

00:37:59.700 in lord of the rings with the tom bombadil weird barrow man stuff that didn't they didn't show in

00:38:07.520 the movie because it's like weird so we have charlie so it's going to be a sequel but it's

00:38:14.260 going to reference things that supposedly took place before the main movie yeah it's a sequel

00:38:18.760 prequel that's what it pretty much um so we have charlie flashbacks and that kind of thing so it

00:38:25.520 for those for fans of the show that watched for a while you'll remember we had a lord of the rings

00:38:30.240 conversation where tyler suggested that lord of the rings was gay true story and then charlie

00:38:37.280 push back and he had this to say, but by the way, when you, when you watch this clip, I

00:38:42.420 noticed it, that Jack is trying not to yawn in it, which is really funny. It's like this

00:38:47.160 subtle, like Jack somehow like kept himself. We can debate that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Stop

00:38:54.900 15. I thought I am. I could not be in more agreement with Blake. I think Lord of the

00:38:59.580 Rings is one of the greatest artistic accomplishments of the species. Can you zoom in on that? Like

00:39:05.660 jack face like no no they pulled it just because they wanted to zoom in on that they wanted the

00:39:13.700 weird thing is that's like me and i hadn't taken any strong cell so there's like no hair yeah right

00:39:18.720 yes i look at that like a total weirdo charlie was talking i thought they were doing the solo

00:39:23.840 camera on him and but i thought i was off camera jack was just like i've been there though man

00:39:32.340 When you're hosting the show, it's really tough sometimes with the sneezes.

00:39:36.800 When I was younger, I was an altar boy in church.

00:39:42.500 And I always used to yawn during mass.

00:39:45.480 It would just come up, and my parents would eventually get to the point

00:39:48.800 where we would get done, and they would come up,

00:39:51.520 and my dad would just be like, 11.

00:39:53.880 And the next day, my mom would be like, 12.

00:39:56.160 Yeah, we counted all your yawns.

00:39:57.580 And I'm like, I don't know why I'm doing it.

00:39:59.300 But what I think I was trying to do there, you're right, it was definitely yawn.

00:40:02.340 um it was you you put your tongue on the roof of your mouth and supposedly that helps you from

00:40:10.020 opening your mouth all the way because something with like i guess this is kind of like a form of

00:40:15.000 viewing so it's anti-yawning viewing and uh i was i was trying to do it there and i was man i i think

00:40:20.560 i failed i think i failed that time uh oh wait suzu's pedals just smacked me upside the head

00:40:29.240 this is a good point he ignored the illegitimate grandchild number seven i assume that's is that

00:40:33.520 biden's best trait well because i said biden's best trait was he seemed to love his family

00:40:37.560 this is why it's such a hard question even when you're trying to be generous her man i met navy

00:40:45.720 i actually met her once that was uh angelo was wild oh angelo points out a good thing like does

00:40:51.120 the world need more lord of the rings content and i'd say that's a that's a highly valid question

00:40:56.200 because i feel compared to every big big franchise that people get obsessed with star wars marvel

00:41:02.740 james bond anything does lord of the rings have the most consistently bad content that is anything

00:41:08.560 that's not the peter jackson trilogy like the hobbit movies were bad most of the video games

00:41:13.440 are really bad i mean i feel like whoa the first hobbit movie is fantastic the first hobbit movie

00:41:17.620 is not fantastic it has a fantastic song about the amazon lonely mountain song no the amazon one 0.61

00:41:23.420 is trash absolute garbage jack we have a zoom up on your young every we have a zoom in on the yawn

00:41:28.760 every single we don't need to do that hobbit movie we don't need is a brooder film this 0.99

00:41:32.120 oh come on back into the left back into the left suppressing the yawn that was there was a smell

00:41:43.280 that was whopping um someone in the other room was yes was cooking up some some cow pie and uh

00:41:50.100 you know i just got a bad whip of that no honestly it's very subtle like if you

00:41:53.920 actually had a real yawn there jack i mean i feel bad for the podcast we should move on because

00:41:58.500 when they listen i'm telling you that's the tongue thing i'm putting the tongue on the on

00:42:02.100 the roof of my mouth and i'm going like all right you have to feel like wrangle it down

00:42:07.380 all right who did it better golem or colbert image 16 throw it up here who did it better

00:42:14.580 oh absolutely golem absolutely golem once again the podcast folks have no idea what we're talking

00:42:20.700 about because they just sort of have this weird by pressure no but really lord of the rings is

00:42:26.400 i do feel like lord of the rings doesn't hold up that well and it's spinoff material i have to say

00:42:31.080 they're like i understand tyler's kind of contention that it's it's a little effeminate

00:42:35.900 there's something about peter jackson's lord of the rings that does feel a little effeminate i

00:42:39.720 know that charlie loved it you loved it and i enjoyed it when it started i just it is a little

00:42:45.600 effeminate what wait what is effeminate about lord of the raves sam and frodo's relationship 0.54

00:42:50.720 a fellowship it's simply a fellowship of men a little gay who go into the woods to play with 0.97

00:43:01.300 their ring yeah it's totally straight you probably i bet you watch you watch like you probably watch 0.90

00:43:07.080 like Saving Private Ryan

00:43:08.480 and like all those dudes

00:43:09.920 are hauled together

00:43:10.440 dude look

00:43:10.760 oh

00:43:11.180 so eminent

00:43:12.940 these girly men

00:43:14.420 on Omaha Beach 0.77

00:43:15.380 oh they're going to the beach

00:43:16.620 what a romantic date

00:43:17.780 I'm sorry

00:43:18.880 if you're on a beach 0.99

00:43:20.420 with only men 0.94

00:43:21.380 that's gay

00:43:22.100 that's Andrew's take 0.98

00:43:23.160 you want to know

00:43:23.560 you know what

00:43:24.380 no I

00:43:25.020 Band of Brothers

00:43:26.160 and Saving Private Ryan

00:43:28.060 I got like misty eyed

00:43:29.380 about that

00:43:29.900 okay

00:43:30.320 that hits you

00:43:32.100 in a different way

00:43:32.700 because it's like 0.99

00:43:33.260 elves are gay 0.97

00:43:34.880 the elves are not gay 0.99

00:43:36.180 a little 0.68

00:43:36.840 First of all, a lot of the elves are just women. 1.00

00:43:39.240 That's true. 1.00

00:43:39.760 Galadriel is just a woman. 0.78

00:43:41.140 Well, that's not inherently a little effeminate, though.

00:43:44.780 Michael.

00:43:45.360 I'll rock with that.

00:43:47.120 So, Caboose says the hobbits are whimsical small creatures who garden and eat all day.

00:43:52.020 Yeah. 0.99

00:43:52.520 They're just Mary England.

00:43:54.880 We're just going to have to agree to disagree. 0.85

00:43:56.320 No, we have to agree that you are incorrect and I am right.

00:43:59.740 No, I'm agreeing with Caboose.

00:44:01.620 The first Hobbit film is literally a shot for shot of the book.

00:44:05.720 The first one.

00:44:06.700 Yeah, except that the first Hobbit film

00:44:08.180 also has like an extended hour-long video game

00:44:10.440 that the audience isn't allowed to play.

00:44:12.160 Listen, I'm not here to judge, you know.

00:44:15.360 I'm just saying.

00:44:16.060 I am. I am here to judge.

00:44:17.820 Hobbit's are whimsical, Elves are snag guy. 0.98

00:44:21.080 I do have a hot take on Lord of the Rings in general

00:44:23.440 that I've gotten into it with some folks about

00:44:26.520 where this gets into like the...

00:44:28.440 So you guys know that J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

00:44:34.140 were actually good friends in real life.

00:44:35.860 they were both professors of english at oxford together and so narnia and lord of the rings

00:44:41.500 where yeah russ is going narnia and lord of the rings were you know kind of kind of written almost

00:44:47.420 not you know concurrently in a sense and tolkien always said that he didn't like narnia because he

00:44:54.140 thought that it was too overtly christian and i've heard people try to make the argument that lord

00:45:00.120 of the rings is overtly christian and i hate the burst of bubble guys but you're just wrong there's

00:45:05.700 nothing overtly christian about lord of the rings uh there's no church in it there's no faith in it

00:45:10.880 there's no christ figure there's none of these things and honestly lord of the rings if it's

00:45:16.180 anything lord of the rings is overtly pagan lord of the rings is it's interesting actually because

00:45:23.960 people will a weird thing did you know this about lord of the rings that lord of the rings

00:45:27.260 does not take place on like a different planet or anything it takes place on earth middle yeah

00:45:32.680 Yeah, the claim, the conceit of Lord of the Rings is that it is literally just Earth 10,000 years ago.

00:45:39.080 And there's a different map and all of that because, you know, the continents have shifted.

00:45:43.080 It's supposed to be a mythology for Earth.

00:45:47.060 The same way that Greek mythology and so forth.

00:45:49.520 So, like, in Lord of the Rings, they don't really talk about it.

00:45:52.220 But there is a god, Ruilvatar, who is just God.

00:45:55.600 It is just our god. 0.68

00:45:56.480 Sauron is the devil.

00:45:58.020 Basically. 0.97

00:45:58.700 And it's like they have different names for it and all of that. 0.77

00:46:01.660 The orcs are demons. 0.84

00:46:02.640 Yes.

00:46:03.200 I mean, I don't know.

00:46:04.080 I think Lord of the Rings, I haven't watched it in so long,

00:46:06.920 but it felt overtly Christian to me, actually.

00:46:12.040 The themes, but I mean, I'm sure, listen, I haven't watched it for a long time.

00:46:16.960 Maybe I'll reserve judgment.

00:46:17.800 Yeah, I think there is something to be said that your themes can be overtly Christian

00:46:24.240 while the actual content doesn't feel like it's not an allegory the way that Narnia is,

00:46:30.140 but the themes are overtly christian darkness good versus evil yeah jackie you have good versus

00:46:37.100 evil i'm not saying that i'm not saying it's not a cool story but it is also overtly pagan

00:46:41.780 like the the content is obviously pagan because you have like demons and you have a like a pantheon

00:46:48.680 of of powerful creatures and figures um which which you it's to your point like you just said

00:46:55.420 it's much more like greek mythology or norse mythology or um uh you know slavic folk mythology

00:47:02.880 than it has to do with with a christian story i'm all right guys you know what i realized the fact

00:47:08.440 that lord of the rings appealed to colbert is proof enough that it's probably hold on hold on

00:47:13.980 as we discussed lewis made more christians that tolkien and lord of the rings you get these guys 0.94

00:47:22.080 that you get these libtards like Colbert 0.84

00:47:23.860 who love it, and if 0.92

00:47:26.080 this thing is like, oh, it's overtly Christian,

00:47:28.180 I'm like, well, then why does a guy like Colbert love it

00:47:30.140 so much? Well, Colbert's very into

00:47:32.080 his Catholicism, to be fair.

00:47:33.240 But C.S. Lewis is also an apologist.

00:47:36.100 Except for the part where you can't abort

00:47:38.100 babies. That's a good point. 1.00

00:47:39.700 C.S. Lewis is also an apologist.

00:47:41.860 That was one of Joe Biden's worst qualities.

00:47:44.500 Alright, so I asked,

00:47:46.100 the only way we can resolve this is I asked the lib

00:47:48.160 AI Claude and the conservative

00:47:49.960 AI Grok whether Lord of the Rings was

00:47:52.060 gay and grok says no lord of the rings is not gay in any meaningful sense neither as a story

00:47:58.900 nor in its themes nor in its characters nor in its intent it's a straight up pun intended 0.90

00:48:04.100 epic of good versus evil it literally says it is a straight up pun intended uh while claude

00:48:10.520 the lib ai says it takes that nuanced angle peter jackson's adaptations lean into the emotional

00:48:17.960 intimacy pretty heavily, which has

00:48:20.080 amplified queer readings for a new 0.59

00:48:22.080 generation of fans.

00:48:23.840 Many LGBTQ plus

00:48:25.800 readers and literary scholars have

00:48:27.880 embraced Frodo and Sam, and to a lesser

00:48:29.980 extent, Legolas and Gimli, as 0.68

00:48:31.940 queer-coded, or representing love

00:48:34.120 that transcends the heteronormative.

00:48:36.500 That said, they do note that

00:48:38.140 Tolkien actually modeled Frodo and Sam

00:48:40.240 after the relationship between 0.96

00:48:42.020 officers and their batmen

00:48:43.700 in World War I.

00:48:45.080 batman being kind of servants to an officer in a military context to be fair you know it is

00:48:51.460 elijah wood's portrayal of frodo is a little effeminate yes to be fair but i but this reminds

00:48:58.120 me of uh lincoln right lincoln i didn't think he like share a bed with uh like like a childhood

00:49:03.880 friend or like when he was pre before he was married basically but that was andrew you're

00:49:08.280 Speaking of yourself.

00:49:14.140 I'm upset on that one.

00:49:15.660 Dang it.

00:49:16.280 Zuzu, that's what's totally normal. 0.82

00:49:17.860 She made another joke.

00:49:18.440 You were only on a roll today, Zuzu.

00:49:19.680 But here's the thing.

00:49:20.920 So there's all these rumors about Lincoln that he's gay, but he wasn't gay. 0.59

00:49:25.060 He was a wife guy, and it's actually a pretty sad wife guy because his wife was not very nice. 0.99

00:49:30.340 Well, she was psycho, and she treated him like crap, and he was always really kind of worked up because his wife was throwing temper tantrums and stuff. 0.99

00:49:37.380 But, like, there is, my point is that there is a, yeah, you can have intimate male friendships without them being gay. 0.99

00:49:47.400 Okay, establish fact number one. 0.64

00:49:49.660 But what's funny is that when that happens, it can actually be a really, you know, it can be a good thing, really positive thing. 0.64

00:49:56.100 But the world is such that it will always take that and assume that it's gay. 0.63

00:49:59.480 And you see that with Lincoln.

00:50:00.640 Lincoln's story was not gay, but now there's this attempt to rewrite the history around Lincoln that he was gay.

00:50:06.740 Zuzu asks, did Tolkien and C.S. Lewis end their friendship over Christianity?

00:50:11.360 No, I wanted to debunk that because obviously they were both Christian.

00:50:15.760 Tolkien was butthurt that when Lewis became a Christian,

00:50:19.620 he became an Anglican instead of becoming a Catholic like Tolkien was.

00:50:23.360 I think they did have a pretty severe falling out,

00:50:25.960 but it wasn't over Christianity.

00:50:27.340 It was over, I believe, C.S. Lewis's wife.

00:50:29.400 I think Tolkien didn't like her very much.

00:50:32.740 But I am not an expert on that one.

00:50:34.760 I don't believe they were ever enemies or anything.

00:50:36.860 I think they just went through phases.

00:50:38.700 A grief observed is when his wife died.

00:50:41.460 It was a really tragic book.

00:50:42.920 I've read it.

00:50:44.300 Anyways.

00:50:45.080 All right.

00:50:45.660 We got to get to this.

00:50:46.480 Here's what you want.

00:50:47.320 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:50:48.140 Real quick on that.

00:50:49.140 Just since we're on the topic, I always try to bring this up whenever I can so I can get

00:50:53.080 into trouble.

00:50:53.600 And I'd love to court controversy on this.

00:50:55.520 So I don't think that Lord of the Rings is queer coded.

00:50:58.080 I don't think it is. 0.85

00:50:58.920 However, I do think that there is one piece of children's media that is extremely queer coded and the director and even one of the main stars have admitted this. 0.91

00:51:10.300 It's a Disney movie and it's called Frozen. 0.77

00:51:13.780 Yes, that's right. Frozen is absolutely queer coded. 0.99

00:51:18.200 It is two females. Oh, I know you're going to say, oh, they're sisters. 1.00

00:51:22.120 No, no, no, no. I'm saying if you actually look at the story, it's about the sisterhood.

00:51:26.160 it is very anti-male every man in it is like either the enemy or a liar or a dullard or someone 1.00

00:51:33.080 who's stupid and it's about you know we women bind together through the power of our relationship 1.00

00:51:39.340 against the men of the world and i believe there's also a gay character when they go to the sauna 1.00

00:51:43.500 as well the spen or something though it's like feminist it's not necessarily i'm telling you 0.70

00:51:47.920 it's totally queer coded totally queer coded wait what happens with what about the dude who's like

00:51:52.020 a nice salesman isn't yeah he ends up getting the the younger sister yeah doesn't he no he gets 0.59

00:51:57.280 them i'm telling you though but it's it is that's what i'm saying it's coded i'm saying it's different

00:52:00.940 not overtly but it is coded and idina menzel has come out and said this who uh did the voice of the

00:52:07.320 uh the the main character um and uh gosh i can't think of it whatever you know her name the frozen

00:52:13.560 chick and the director has said it as well so that's why that's why um let it go is seen as a

00:52:21.260 queer anthem in the lgbt community just be gay just be gay no so fazio says i mean if frozen is 0.57

00:52:28.620 gay then lord of the rings is elton john elsa so yeah elsa no lord of the rings is not queer 0.89

00:52:35.780 coded because it's not there's no intent but in frozen there is yeah i can't aggressively 0.58

00:52:41.280 weigh in on whether frozen is gay because unlike jack i do not watch it at least three times a

00:52:45.820 week you had that i think i've only seen it once probably not all the way through well listen i

00:52:51.080 You mean today?

00:52:52.200 You only watched it once today, Josh?

00:52:54.360 Go look it up.

00:52:55.460 Go look it up.

00:52:56.060 The people who made it said it's queer coded.

00:52:57.940 Yeah, but the people who make everything in Hollywood say it's queer coded. 1.00

00:53:01.100 That's how you keep getting jobs in Hollywood. 1.00

00:53:03.180 Yeah, they definitely get jobs, if you know what I mean.

00:53:05.300 It's called job security.

00:53:06.800 PG-13.

00:53:07.700 This is a PG-13 program.

00:53:08.920 All right.

00:53:09.520 I really, I have to get, we have to get to this show, this story of the quadruple amputee murderer.

00:53:17.480 it was one of those stories where everyone sees the headline and does a double take goes excuse

00:53:23.540 me and i shared this with my wife and she was like wait what like and i was like there's video

00:53:27.900 and i was like not of the murder but like of this guy shooting you know a weapon he can like

00:53:35.200 cock the gun and point it and shoot it with like i guess he's got kind of you know like uh

00:53:40.240 i mean it's a headline that you just have to embrace like this is the headline i saw on nbc 0.96

00:53:45.820 quadruple amputee and cornhole pro accused of fatally shooting man while driving it's like

00:53:53.840 there's so many things yeah there he is that's him that's him on his youtube account he is

00:53:59.180 blasting away with that gun and that man has no hands look at i i would be terrified as if i if

00:54:05.880 i was him of accidentally shooting off wait do we have do we have the b-roll of him like

00:54:11.660 climbing into the tree man yeah i know there's not much less oh gosh look at him this guy is

00:54:16.560 cooler than i am i mean like period like straight up a little bit of respect for

00:54:21.100 his zest for life as a quadruple amputee apparently had some some illness as a as a kid

00:54:28.080 and they had to amputate all four limbs in order to save his life and then he i mean we've got

00:54:35.600 we got clips on this guy so um let's let's start with uh yeah i mean i haven't seen that one so 0.58

00:54:42.700 that's interesting let's start with i guess sot 19. who is dayton weber dayton weber is a beast

00:54:53.320 he's strong um he's determined to me that's like beast mode you know he just got sick like any

00:55:00.540 other normal kid, take him to the hospital and find out that it had gotten to be a bacterial

00:55:05.840 infection. Grave danger is the word they used all the time. Dayton was diagnosed with a bacterial

00:55:13.820 infection that led to sepsis, the bacteria using his bloodstream as a tool to attack his organs.

00:55:20.840 They suggested that he be baptized and given his last rites.

00:55:30.020 That just didn't enter my thought, that I was going to lose him.

00:55:35.060 To prevent the infection from spreading,

00:55:38.500 doctors amputated Dayton's extremities, both arms and legs.

00:55:45.960 That is, like, really sad.

00:55:47.880 Yeah, but that guy didn't let it hold him back.

00:55:50.360 saddest things i've ever seen he committed felonies that most fully limbed people can

00:55:55.020 never dream of uh that allegedly i hate that because it makes me feel all the sympathy for

00:56:02.040 me and then like the story of the murder is is uh the murder is like crazy so he's just sitting in

00:56:08.380 his tesla he's got two people in the back dayton weber was behind the wheel when he opened fire

00:56:14.140 on bradrick michael wells during an argument as they were traveling right in a car in the town

00:56:19.760 of la plata uh and then weber allegedly pulled over and asked the backseat passengers to help

00:56:25.220 pull wells out of the car they refused and instead flagged down la plata police there's nothing this

00:56:30.680 man can't do except how slow do his friends have to be to allow him to get shots off that's what

00:56:38.660 i'm in the car that's what i'm thinking it's like that's my question if you know like and you kind

00:56:42.380 of wonder about the lead up was the guy like he's not gonna do yeah he's like he probably like the

00:56:47.040 passenger probably didn't know that he could pull it off or maybe he did i don't know it jack you've

00:56:53.120 got save us i've weather which way to go here weber competes in the america today at the end

00:56:59.220 of the day you you can say you can certainly say that you have to look out for an unarmed man

00:57:06.100 weber competes in the american cornhole league which called this case quote an extremely serious

00:57:14.680 matter that's what can i say you just you just you just gotta give him a hand oscar pastorius

00:57:22.400 sort of walked so that this man could kind of run okay that's pretty good that's pretty good

00:57:29.920 i did get it from a nice tweet i guess you could say there's a crime afoot

00:57:34.080 the studio you know what you know what they say he's got to stand on his own two legs

00:57:44.400 this is disgraceful yeah i'm sorry we this is really gone off the rails this is gone

00:57:55.200 i'm trying to think of a good alarm or leg pun uh doesn't have much of a leg to stand on all

00:58:02.480 right so wait he could shoot a rifle too hold on wait what did you say hey this case doesn't

00:58:07.240 have a leg to stand oh there you go uh cut 24 is dayton weber shooting a rifle i didn't see this

00:58:13.820 one let's see that one 24 how's he do that second shot a little better don't you probably have 0.99

00:58:24.700 yeah yeah uh-huh i just got to shoot it one time first that gun that gun is nasty 0.99

00:58:35.260 heck yeah no doubt 0.96

00:58:38.400 i i'm genuinely sad that this guy did murder someone because it really actually it's it's

00:58:45.640 genuinely inspiring to see those clips and you feel bad about how it all ended because

00:58:49.100 i think there's a lot of people out there who would say like i would rather die than

00:58:53.140 live that way and like he he did seem to have a pretty rich life other than the murdering people

00:58:59.740 part yeah and you kind of wonder like did did the trauma of what he went through as a as a child

00:59:05.200 did it like scar him did it traumatize him in some way that made him do this i don't know the

00:59:12.500 whole story really watching his parents talk about him and watch like seeing him as a baby

00:59:16.660 with the arms like i cannot imagine being a parent and seeing that happen to my kid i just can't so

00:59:24.160 it's a really tragic ending to it you know what they say you know what they say though people

00:59:28.580 with disabilities can do anything in 2023 the american cornhole league called weber

00:59:34.920 unstoppable and they said that he is a shining example of our slogan anyone can play anyone can

00:59:42.840 win he was also able to he taught himself to write race go-karts and compete in cornhole

00:59:49.200 weber says that cornhole taught him to take challenges as they come each day wait a minute

00:59:55.880 wait a minute blake he should he should he should take the stand himself in the trial because then

01:00:01.720 the judge will say place your hand on the bible oh wait it's the technicality they won't be able

01:00:07.220 to i thought you were i thought you were hitting him with that one too yeah i mean listen it's a

01:00:13.440 it's a sad story i i'm i don't think i'm gonna get over the picture of the kids once you have kids

01:00:17.960 like everything changes i'm sure jack will appreciate this like you can't you like it's

01:00:23.200 you know watching gory movies for example is way harder watching anything in a movie that happened

01:00:28.840 to a kid it watching any of these stories i can't i can't watch any movie if there's like a kid i

01:00:32.800 guess in the new um whatever the last michael myers movie is like when jamie lee curtis came

01:00:37.880 back there's something like the kid dies and it's like a babysitter like accidentally throws him off

01:00:42.680 the stairs and and he dies in like the first five minutes and i was just like i can't i couldn't even

01:00:48.580 watch the rest of it after that just couldn't yeah no no so this whole story sucks i'm but but

01:00:55.380 it did give some great fodder to the folks online the comments on this like

01:01:00.360 were legitimately funny they were laugh out loud a lot funny um

01:01:05.100 yeah wait is jack gonna claim the quadruple amputees are gay also no no jack didn't do

01:01:13.140 anything i mean he did he was literally obsessed with holes he was a professional do we have the

01:01:19.380 cornhole professionally put 11 year olds 11 year olds uh clip it's a great great book what's wrong

01:01:26.380 with that it's a clip 20 uh fazia whatever newberry award let's play let's play him talking

01:01:33.380 about playing cornhole we're here at my house this is where i practice my cornhole cornhole is

01:01:42.560 It's been a passion of mine since I was eight years old, you know, throwing in the backyard with my parents, friends, and stuff.

01:01:51.520 At first, it took me a little while to get it there to the board consistently.

01:01:57.540 I was able to compensate the grip on the bag by just grabbing the corner of it with me propelling myself forward in the whip of the bag.

01:02:06.880 That's how I get it there.

01:02:07.800 that guy's better at cornhole than i am a lot better he's in the professional 0.97

01:02:14.340 he's better at murdering people than you are too which is man but to be fair blake 0.97

01:02:19.740 that we know of that we know of man gosh why did this guy have to go kill somebody i like 0.89

01:02:26.860 we should have had him on thought crime before he did that he's like actually such an inspiration

01:02:32.060 except uh unfortunately um all right well good now we're all it's a great downer really really 0.95

01:02:41.180 good job don't let your disabilities get in the way of your dreams so there you go all right well

01:02:48.420 listen jack have a great time at cpac tell us uh keep keep the vibe up keep enjoying it um

01:02:56.560 seriously yeah and uh yeah why don't you uh take us home sign us off and take us home

01:03:02.720 ladies and gentlemen as always go out there and commit more thought crime

01:03:09.660 thought crime is death 0.98

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - March 28, 2026

THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 120 — AI President？ 42-Year-Old Soldiers？ Stephen Colbert's Lord of the Rings？

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