Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 128 — Pizza Hut Nationalism？ America 250？ Call Her Mommy？

00:00:00.240 From the age of Big Brother.

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00:00:19.400 These days we seem to spend so much of our time and energy

00:00:22.140 surviving and reacting to the unhappy events

00:00:24.700 and the strife and the conflict in our overcrowded world.

00:00:27.860 But the Bicentennial seemed to awaken a certain feeling, a rather dormant spirit

00:00:31.820 that too often seems to be missing from our modern life.

00:00:34.560 Call it patriotism, call it a rebirth of pride, call it whatever you will.

00:00:38.700 But if you mingled with the crowds who watched up-sail and the fireworks yesterday

00:00:42.740 or came down for a last fling like these people at the South Street Seaport this afternoon,

00:00:47.880 you might have felt what we did, a great sense of joy and well-being.

00:00:51.300 For the first time in many years, New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds,

00:00:54.660 out in force, celebrating together.

00:00:57.440 It reminded you of a small-town celebration of the 4th of July,

00:01:00.900 an idealized Norman Rockwell tableau.

00:01:03.580 Only it wasn't a small-town scene,

00:01:05.700 not with these hundreds of thousands out to see the ships.

00:01:08.560 Young families, older people, in many cases,

00:01:11.160 grandparents, parents, children, celebrating together.

00:01:13.880 And if you talked to them, you found they articulated what your eyes were seeing,

00:01:17.940 a patriotic euphoria, bitter, angry, controversial years forgotten,

00:01:22.060 and at least for this moment, unity, reborn pride.

00:01:26.200 Are you a patriotic nut?

00:01:28.320 No, not at all.

00:01:30.040 Then what happened to you?

00:01:31.600 We just got caught up in the feeling.

00:01:33.600 I didn't think I was going to care, and then when the day came, there we were.

00:01:38.000 It just felt great.

00:01:39.040 Everybody is in the spirit of the birthday mood.

00:01:41.780 Yesterday morning on the train, one lady came in and said,

00:01:44.600 happy birthday, everybody, and everybody chimed in and sang it, happy birthday, America.

00:01:48.940 It was a beautiful spirit.

00:01:50.000 I think people are closer together than they have ever been in a long time.

00:01:53.920 I saw us pulling apart 10 years ago and maybe people becoming very antagonistic.

00:01:59.900 I think this weekend showed us what we're really like.

00:02:03.020 We're really one.

00:02:05.220 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard to this week's edition of Thought Crime Thursday.

00:02:10.220 We just watched there was video, I believe, out of Boston of the tall ships and the bicentennial.

00:02:16.560 uh okay it was new actually new york they're telling me it's new york uh i know the tall

00:02:21.620 ships were in new york and boston from 1976 1976 the bicentennial was the bicentennial

00:02:31.180 a little bit bigger than the 250th and why does it seem that way we are going to talk about it

00:02:38.120 we're going to commit a lot of thought crimes while we do it but let's check who do we have

00:02:41.900 with us today oh my gosh it's the original for up up thought crime what's up guys how you doing

00:02:51.300 jack what did you just i just i just want to remind everybody that that video might seem nice

00:02:56.980 and and nice but then they marched down to the polling booths and they elected jimmy carter right

00:03:02.620 after that so that's a good point you know what it struck me i know how white that's because

00:03:09.160 Because one of the major reasons that Ford lost in 1976 was that America still believed the lie that Nixon was worthy of impeachment and that Ford had pardoned Nixon.

00:03:27.020 And so they were sort of just mad at Ford over that.

00:03:28.840 But my point is, is the way that we can be better than in the 250 celebration is to make this 250 celebration so big and so impactful that we win midterms.

00:03:40.900 Are we going to make it big enough?

00:03:42.820 It seems it seems pretty muted.

00:03:44.720 I mean, we're five months in.

00:03:46.420 July 4th is when it's going to be big.

00:03:48.300 July 4th will be, but they had stuff throughout the year.

00:03:51.200 And we just did rededicate 250.

00:03:52.940 there's guys trump's building an arch and he's repaving the reflecting pool like there's so much

00:04:00.760 stuff happening so so so yeah we talk i've been talking about this on on x like all day and this

00:04:08.200 all started actually with my mom believe it or not uh because she wrote an op-ed and she was you

00:04:13.600 know talking about this to me the other day because she went to valley forge for the 250th

00:04:18.260 or excuse me, the 200th, the bicentennial in 1976, and rode horses in the end of the wagon

00:04:25.320 train there when Gerald Ford came. And that's when Valley Forge Park was, it had been a state park

00:04:31.120 for its entire history up until 1976. And Ford came and designated a federal park. So this year

00:04:36.380 will be the 50th anniversary of it becoming a federal park. And it's kind of wild that it wasn't

00:04:40.220 a national park prior to that. But anyway, and she just always told all these stories about how it

00:04:45.500 was so big, how it was such a huge deal that there were covered wagons from all 50 of the

00:04:51.460 50 states there.

00:04:53.060 I have no idea how they got Alaska and Hawaii, but that's what she said.

00:04:56.620 And she was surprised at how this year it seems kind of muted.

00:05:01.540 And what she was saying is that it wasn't so much about that the president isn't doing

00:05:06.460 anything and there aren't these events going on, but just that the general mood of the

00:05:11.400 country doesn't seem to be as swept up in the anniversary as it was 50 years ago. And that's

00:05:19.060 kind of what I wanted to get into. So it's not a knock on anything the president's doing. It's just

00:05:24.580 that in 1976, you saw this massive grassroots outpouring of love and national pride for the

00:05:32.300 country at, you know, after a time, as we just said, you know, we saw a president resign, we saw

00:05:37.100 And the Vietnam War had, you know, was just kind of coming to an end back then.

00:05:41.060 So there was a lot of tumultuous activity going on in the country.

00:05:45.220 But there was something about that that spirit of 76 that really took off in the bicentennial that we're just we're just kind of not seeing this time around.

00:05:53.840 It's more it feels like it's more top down.

00:05:55.860 Well, I think a big reason it would have felt different.

00:05:58.800 I'm looking at the numbers over time, and this is something that's been pointed out a lot.

00:06:02.800 the percentage of Americans who were born abroad in 1976 was almost the lowest it had ever been

00:06:11.840 in American history. I'm looking, it's by decade here. So in 1970, only 4.7% of Americans were

00:06:20.660 born abroad. How much? 4.7%. In 1970. So a few years later that had gone up because we'd started

00:06:25.620 doing immigration, but that's still the lowest. Wow. So that was the, the, the most American

00:06:31.080 yes america because so jack that explains why the 76 bicentennial was because everybody

00:06:39.400 i looked at those videos and my thought was wow we used to have a white country yeah that too

00:06:45.280 but it's yeah so we had sorry white people are more into like the patriotism thing and also

00:06:49.500 also an american country yeah but also black americans have been american videos too

00:06:53.620 by the way just just to be just to be clear black americans i disagree with them politically

00:06:59.960 mostly but i can say i mean listen you cannot tell the american story if you just tell the 0.95

00:07:05.700 white story you have to tell the black story too as much as i it's been absolutely bastardized and

00:07:10.600 the tuskegee airmen were like not you know at all as you know talented fighters as the movies for

00:07:17.160 it doesn't matter to me you cannot tell the american story without telling the white and

00:07:21.820 the black story okay um they're as much americans as we are so so it doesn't surprise me that you'd

00:07:27.800 see them also being you know uh supportive Zuzu's Petals in the comments was always like 85 15 90 10

00:07:35.180 kind of kind of around there it's always been that traditional mix Zuzu's Petals asked in the

00:07:39.420 comments what was the percentage of non-americans in America in 1776 really high we actually crazy

00:07:45.180 enough we had very high we had like very high immigration even during the revolution people

00:07:49.380 just kept pouring in uh Thomas Paine that's one of my favorite facts Thomas Paine was an immigrant

00:07:54.220 who basically showed up and wrote Common Sense

00:07:57.040 and then fled the country to go to France.

00:07:59.440 But yeah, no.

00:08:00.820 So that was, yeah, 1976 is one of the most American generations

00:08:04.820 because we had high immigration until the 20s. 1.00

00:08:06.820 We cut it off. 1.00

00:08:08.060 And then that generation of immigrants 1.00

00:08:10.880 got heavily assimilated by World War I, World War II.

00:08:14.480 World War II.

00:08:14.880 You got to remember World War II, right?

00:08:17.020 So my dad is in his early 20s in 1976.

00:08:20.040 um he was raised going you know to high school elementary school all of his teachers were

00:08:28.440 were world war ii vets his college professors were world war ii vets there was nothing i think

00:08:35.540 those of us who didn't live through it i think we failed to probably understand just how unifying

00:08:40.800 winning world war ii was for the for the body politic for the culture how good for the country

00:08:45.960 It's so interesting.

00:08:47.320 It was so triumphant. 0.80

00:08:47.600 So, for example, you know what caused the baby boom, pretty much? 0.91

00:08:50.620 Like, before World War II, the U.S. birth rate was actually only about what it is today.

00:08:56.160 It was really low.

00:08:57.300 And then World War II happens.

00:08:59.060 We win, and we think, oh, we have all these veterans.

00:09:01.480 How do we celebrate these veterans?

00:09:03.000 Let's pass the GI Bill and help a bunch of them go to college and get jobs, and let's create all these veteran preferences.

00:09:08.220 So, male status for all these World War II winning veterans goes way up.

00:09:12.100 So, the marriage rate goes way up.

00:09:13.900 This is fascinating.

00:09:14.220 Their wages go way up.

00:09:15.320 the birth rate goes way up you've seen the graphs right where it was like status education like male

00:09:21.560 to female it turns out when you're male the males in your culture status wise earnings wise education

00:09:28.240 wise is higher than the females you get a crap ton of babies and so many other things like i think

00:09:33.500 one reason you had all these guys who served in the military they got useful even stuff like for

00:09:40.980 example if you watch old star trek this is a funny thing going star trek is made by this huge lib

00:09:45.200 gene roddenberry and yet if you watch it it just it feels vaguely it's like you're watching actual

00:09:51.140 u.s military propaganda in some ways starfleet is this super effective organization i know what

00:09:57.060 you mean highly competent men and it's because all the guys who made it had served in the military

00:10:00.320 in world war ii and it's like even even like when they go on missions and the way they talk to each

00:10:04.960 other it's you can tell it's written by and and it's in a lot of media from that time frame but

00:10:09.640 that's a great example there's honor um there's duty yeah you can tell that it's written by people

00:10:14.980 who are actually drawing on their own experiences um i think uh i think kurt vonnegut was actually

00:10:22.160 in like the bombing of dresden and you know there's a ton of you know just authors and writers

00:10:28.180 who reach back to orwell of course was well that was uh the um spanish civil war but you know who

00:10:33.780 were drawing on their own experiences that led to that and so it was this massive you know

00:10:39.200 forged um you know nation forging events like world war ii we had a shared identity

00:10:46.960 creates that shared identity and this that's a picture of valley forge right there um you

00:10:50.880 actually see a confederate flag in that photo which is kind of interesting that like that was

00:10:54.640 an event that the president was going to and nobody had a problem with the confederate flag

00:10:58.000 being there in this image you can actually see uh gerald ford in one of the conestoga wagons

00:11:03.600 that image hold this for a second that if you look the um the so the woman on the very far right

00:11:09.040 here that's my mom um in the brown uh the one in the pink is my mom's cousin they're on together

00:11:15.520 and the woman with the cowboy hat cowgirl hat is my grandma very good that's great

00:11:21.520 it's just yeah there you go it's a huge crowd so for the 250th we have a few interesting

00:11:28.940 celebrations that are very near and dear to the president's heart uh i only learned this today i

00:11:33.860 knew about the ufc fight that we're doing that's gonna be fun but i didn't know apparently we're

00:11:39.360 doing an indy car race through the streets of dc yeah uh that's gonna be that's gonna be something

00:11:44.460 i like that i'm saying like wait till the summer kicks into full gear we might have a whole

00:11:48.860 different perspective of this but i think the larger point that you're making jack that we 0.89

00:11:54.960 are more divided we're more ethnically divided we have way more foreigners and their children

00:12:00.500 here that have no idea no loyalty many of them some have them okay uh and then we don't have 0.97

00:12:06.340 this galvanizing victorious triumphant event just 25 years in our past namely world war ii where we

00:12:12.420 defeated the nazis and tyranny and the japanese instead we've got you know our boomers our

00:12:18.500 vietnam vet eras like right so they summer of love vietnam vet uh we've got many costly wars

00:12:26.080 and the price of living the cost of living is through the roof and there's all of these you

00:12:31.780 know there's a sense of national decline whether it's warranted or not there is a sense of national

00:12:37.500 decline that is pervasive and so all of these things mix into this goo this soup and i do think

00:12:45.760 it's going to be muted the other thing that i would just like to add is that you know back in

00:12:49.720 the day when we had a president that wasn't the party that you were so if we had a democrat you

00:12:55.160 were registered republican there was still a sense that he's your president now we do this game he's

00:12:59.840 not my president so half the country is instantly turned off to the 250 because donald trump happens

00:13:06.720 to be president right now and that's too bad true enough and it shows the greater obsession with

00:13:12.400 politics because it's not like 1976 had no political split the splits in the 60s were

00:13:17.020 incredibly bad the rioting was a lot worse then and we just come out of watergate watergate was

00:13:21.680 psychologically devastating for america in some ways we've never recovered from what happened

00:13:27.180 in watergate if you look at the general respect and status of the president in the 50s and 60s

00:13:33.820 and it's just it's lost after watergate that's after after that's when we get all the cynical

00:13:38.600 political stuff it's when we get frankly a big increase in like conspiracy theories involving

00:13:43.900 the president there's just a lot more sense that you can't trust the government i think congress

00:13:49.220 has basically been stuck at 20 or below approval rating ever since watergate happened did nixon do

00:13:54.540 the wrong thing and taking the fall i think nixon did the wrong thing in not having a bloodbath of

00:14:01.920 his staff immediately after the break-in happened i think that's where he went wrong he 100 did the

00:14:07.260 wrong thing and i and but just to be clear what we're talking about jack you should probably just

00:14:12.200 do the primer here because there's probably some people that haven't got this full story but

00:14:16.220 nixon took the fall for the sake of the nation when it came to watergate big time and and by

00:14:23.000 the way i just before we go down uh too much too far down the rabbit hole so this this had just

00:14:26.980 taken place um nixon resigns in 74 so those those images you're looking at with gerald ford there

00:14:32.960 he's already pretty unpopular as a president in this in those images of Ford speaking at Valley

00:14:40.100 Forge. And he would go on. I pulled it up. He you know, he loses two ninety seven to two forty

00:14:46.860 later that same year. So he loses the presidential election. He wins a fair amount of states,

00:14:52.060 actually wins more states than than harder. He actually loses Pennsylvania, which is the state

00:14:59.180 that he's campaigning in right there but yeah that's a losing president in you know the course

00:15:04.600 the president that no one ever elected but again to to Blake's broader point the idea was that you

00:15:11.040 know he was still the president it wasn't it wasn't like oh I'm going to go see that Republican

00:15:14.740 Gerald Ford it's like I'm going to go see the president and you know so that was sort of seen

00:15:21.660 as separate the role itself was seen as separate from the person does that make sense yeah of

00:15:25.900 course no i think that's the larger point the americans could still put their nation above

00:15:31.300 politics and we've lost that ability uh i think we lost that ability starting with you know probably

00:15:37.900 iraq honestly and it accelerated under obama and has continued to accelerate under trump sadly

00:15:45.020 biden certainly didn't help calling uh maga conservatives the greatest danger and existential

00:15:50.980 danger to the to the country um and you know and then and then the villainization of white america

00:15:56.760 uh that white supremacy they still go on about how we're the greatest threat to the country 0.86

00:16:01.940 that's the most retarded thing i've heard in a long time i really came to this conclusion like 0.99

00:16:06.560 i've known it's dumb but the villainization of white america by the progressive left is 0.99

00:16:11.900 literally one of the most retarded things it doesn't hold up statistically it doesn't hold 0.98

00:16:16.320 up anecdotally it doesn't hold up economically it doesn't hold up on in any way shape or form 0.96

00:16:22.300 actually white americans tend to be pretty darn good citizens and the country's lucky to have

00:16:27.700 like a vibrant you know robust white uh you know population uh so and go look at

00:16:36.060 yeah i was gonna say go look at go look at those images go go look at the images again that there's

00:16:41.260 you know does does that look like a problem right right there's always so much lying about the left

00:16:46.000 where they they say like oh people weren't patriotic in the past there was no norman

00:16:50.740 rockwell america that was all just made up and it's like this is something where there are people

00:16:55.580 who i'm sure there are people watching the show there are people who remember it that have living

00:16:59.440 memory of of of this america and being this patriotic and having american bicentennial fever

00:17:04.800 just took over and i was taking and i'd love to throw out to the chat you know do you guys if you

00:17:10.520 can remember it do you what do you remember about the bicentennial uh the quarters were a big part

00:17:15.140 of that i remember growing up with like bicentennial quarters was a big deal they made that was like

00:17:19.300 the first special edition of the quarter that was made now they kind of do it like every year

00:17:23.200 no offense to secretary besant but you know it's just it's just not as cool because it's like the

00:17:27.340 first one that uh the first time it happened like every every company was doing something

00:17:32.780 literally every company um you know patriotic zippo lighters and they which were made in the

00:17:38.500 usa i don't know if they're still made in the usa but it's it's just on and on and on whereas today

00:17:45.120 it's sort of like, yeah, I think Coke is doing cups. You know, that's,

00:17:48.680 that's one thing I've seen at like my kids, little league games,

00:17:50.740 but other than that, it's, it just, it feels very top down.

00:17:54.840 Well, we've had, we've had some hits to the brand, you know,

00:17:59.200 that's just, you know, that's the bottom line.

00:18:01.340 America's had some hits to the brand and the hits keep saying,

00:18:05.340 hits keep coming, unfortunately, but I, you know,

00:18:08.600 you always talk about how a lot of this goes back to Obama and we just,

00:18:12.500 we sort of you know give him a pass on it but it really does it's all obama the whole thing

00:18:18.120 it's not all obama it's all obama it's a lot obama i'll agree with you it's a lot it's 100

00:18:23.200 obama okay make your case the shift this shift happened during the oh it's very clear you started

00:18:29.300 apologizing for america i mean everything that's when you also saw a lot arise in the publications

00:18:35.100 you know new york times washington post use of the word race yeah racist that all blew up that

00:18:40.040 starts to go up a lot and i want to say 2009 2010 uh it goes really really up in 2012 if you just

00:18:46.820 look at the graphs that that blake had just up i mean america was pretty consistent with uh its

00:18:55.600 foreign-born population um and it obviously hit a huge spike in the reagan decision and then 1990

00:19:03.340 Everybody goes to Hart's Cellar, which was big.

00:19:08.680 But 1990 might have been just fundamentally bigger

00:19:12.180 because we went from 500,000 green cards a year to 1.2 million.

00:19:16.180 And we've just been going on that race since 1990.

00:19:18.880 It's just been increasing ever since.

00:19:20.680 And during the Obama years, I mean, obviously,

00:19:23.160 the Democrats figured out during the Obama years,

00:19:28.220 that eight years was so devastating for America

00:19:30.260 because they figured out all the things that they could do

00:19:33.540 within the framework of the Constitution

00:19:35.340 to fundamentally change America. 0.87

00:19:37.960 And that goes to packing the Supreme Court.

00:19:40.180 This idea didn't pop up until, you know,

00:19:42.980 basically starting with Holder and Co.

00:19:46.560 The redistricting games, you know, part of the,

00:19:49.860 everybody's like, you ask any old person,

00:19:52.460 be like, hey, did you ever even,

00:19:54.020 or were you even aware about redistricting?

00:19:55.700 Nobody was aware of redistricting.

00:19:56.960 These are now games, gamesmanship,

00:20:00.260 that was basically conducted again, Eric Holder and co initiated this entire process. Uh, the

00:20:06.920 concept of flooding the country with illegals, you know, to change how redistricting is impacted 1.00

00:20:14.340 is the primary, I believe the primary reason why we have such increase in foreign born said, 1.00

00:20:23.100 foreign born

00:20:24.620 nationals that are coming to the country

00:20:27.480 you have a huge

00:20:29.860 amount of things that have now changed

00:20:31.400 now you talk about California

00:20:33.640 the top two primary system

00:20:35.480 you talk about rank choice

00:20:37.560 voting I mean again

00:20:39.200 we lived 250 years

00:20:41.660 in this country most of these

00:20:43.560 ideas have sprung up in the last

00:20:45.560 15

00:20:46.420 and really they got

00:20:48.980 judicial activism is another thing

00:20:50.520 the national injunctions

00:20:52.900 the law fair and they got their legs again under eric holder and co dei they they all this like

00:21:00.160 race crap everything got it's got it changed during the obama administration so i mean if

00:21:06.660 you don't like the direction america is going and lots of people i've heard lots of people complain 0.97

00:21:10.420 they're like well i don't like that republicans are engaging in the redistricting fights or

00:21:15.100 you know you know i don't even know why we're talking about x y and z it's like well because

00:21:19.480 All of this was brought to the forefront because Democrats, really bad Democrats, radical Democrats who want to hijack the government were put into positions of power during the Obama administration.

00:21:31.120 So I'm going to we're hitting back.

00:21:34.080 We've taken some hits the brand, but we're hitting back.

00:21:36.420 And I want to I don't want to like people get like bummed out about everything.

00:21:39.900 This is a big white pill moment.

00:21:41.760 So the day we're recording this, if you're listening on podcast on Saturday, but we're recording this right now live on Thursday.

00:21:47.720 so there's this big autopsy right throw this graph up if you would jack i don't know if you saw this

00:21:54.440 or not but look at the gains that conservatives have had since the obama mania of 2008 look at

00:22:02.940 that so in 2009 it was 60 democrat senators yep to 40 now we're at 53 republicans to 47 that's

00:22:12.040 at r plus 13 congress were r plus 41 governors were r plus five state legislators were r plus

00:22:19.420 nearly a thousand so can i follow up state trifectas where we have both houses and the

00:22:24.100 governorship r plus 13 so so my follow-up to that is that some of these ideas and the and the people

00:22:29.880 who are implementing them are highly unpopular right so the democrat shift this radicalism to

00:22:37.080 basically take over the government is is i think organically i don't think there's been like an

00:22:42.780 actual great national narrative that's talked about this but i think that people in general

00:22:48.660 americans in general have rejected that i mean the reality is that democrats worked harder to

00:22:54.500 hijack the country and they've lost ground to this point yeah yeah they tried i mean the question

00:23:01.560 ultimately and i know jack and i have ruminated about this before is you have to sort of ask

00:23:07.420 yourself how much virtue is left in the body politic how much americana is still coursing

00:23:13.900 through our veins how much patriotism like that's a big question especially when you've had the

00:23:19.800 largest movement of humanity move in to our country in the last four years we have 50 million people

00:23:25.540 who were born outside America,

00:23:27.820 but on top of that...

00:23:28.860 All their kids.

00:23:29.480 I mean, yeah, all their kids.

00:23:31.340 And I'd say it also matters

00:23:33.120 that I think they come from overall

00:23:35.020 more alien cultures,

00:23:36.840 and it's a lot easier to avoid assimilating today

00:23:39.580 because you can... 0.84

00:23:40.360 If you move here now from, let's say, India,

00:23:43.140 now you can be on social media from India. 0.97

00:23:47.320 You can easily fly back to India.

00:23:48.800 You can get all your India content.

00:23:50.160 Yeah, exactly.

00:23:50.880 You basically can live in your Indian neighborhood

00:23:54.640 and basically live in a little India in the U.S.

00:23:56.400 Indian food.

00:23:57.520 Yeah, and you have fewer vectors that would cause you to assimilate 0.52

00:24:00.880 because if you're an immigrant here 100 years ago,

00:24:05.040 it's going to be aggressively pushed that you need to know English,

00:24:08.200 but also you'll probably be Christian,

00:24:10.160 so you'll probably be involved in U.S. Christian churches,

00:24:13.460 whereas if you're Hindu, there are not really any American Hindus

00:24:16.440 other than Tulsi Gabbard.

00:24:18.120 But you've made this point.

00:24:19.700 I forget what the article was, but it was brilliant.

00:24:22.500 But it made the case, and maybe you can remember who it is.

00:24:25.160 Yeah, no, I remember. 0.53

00:24:25.820 It's the Arctotherium to American nations. 0.99

00:24:28.080 So you talk about how alien a culture is. 0.96

00:24:31.320 And somehow we need to systematize our thinking on this because if you go back far enough, let's take our brains back to 1880, right? 0.94

00:24:40.920 You still have a majority Anglo-America America.

00:24:45.280 And they were freaking out about Italians and Polish.

00:24:50.440 and they were they were freaking out about the irish they thought that those cultures were going

00:24:55.480 to be impossible to assimilate but you had aggressive assimilation pressures from native-born

00:25:02.000 americans from the economy from jobs from churches from civic society and the and it really didn't

00:25:08.680 work for a long time and a lot of those populations caused massive problems what happened you had the 0.86

00:25:15.940 great depression and you had world war ii that galvanized the nation and reforged a national

00:25:21.460 identity but the big problem was is that it created this myth the myth was we're a nation

00:25:27.880 of immigrants and that myth has blown open the doors to this even more alien cultures from the

00:25:35.280 american core culture and the question is can you assimilate cultures that are so alien that don't

00:25:41.020 share your religion that don't share a love of western civilization or inherent understanding

00:25:45.500 of it that's the open question i mean i i didn't say this when we were having this conversation

00:25:51.320 earlier because i brought this up on on my show on human events but you know and i hate doing the

00:25:57.560 whole like oh well my wife but so uh you know speaking as a guy who uh does live with a you

00:26:07.380 know uh in a family where i have a wife who's an immigrant and has children whose mother is

00:26:14.100 an immigrant. And I know, uh, she listens to the show every week. It's it. I just got to say it

00:26:20.100 though. You know, she loves this country. She is totally assimilated to this country, not just

00:26:25.720 patriotically though, but also culturally and in terms of her background. And for our kids,

00:26:33.060 when they're going around, you know, playing a little league or whatever, they have no problem

00:26:38.640 whatsoever fitting in, even though they are, in a sense, first generation immigrants. And they

00:26:44.880 don't run into that experience that many of the people who, you know, cite issues of alienation

00:26:51.500 and isolation run into as first generation immigrants, because just because she's from

00:26:58.640 Europe, and because the majority of people in America are from Europe. And Andrew, to your

00:27:03.560 point that it's it's actually okay to say that and it's actually okay to have immigration from

00:27:10.180 Europe and yet for some strange reason all of the heart seller and 1990s and other immigration

00:27:17.520 policies have always attempted to dilute that the level of that population yet I just know from

00:27:24.260 again anecdotal personal experience that when you know when someone comes over from from Europe and

00:27:30.840 and wants to settle down here and have a family it it's seamless it's just seamless

00:27:35.440 i totally agree not all immigration is bad even though i'm very much pro net zero immigration

00:27:43.620 moratorium because at this point we can't get what we want like it's you you can't you can't

00:27:47.680 get cultures that are easily assimilable assimilatable um because you know the democrats

00:27:54.700 don't like nice things blake craps on on eastern european food he's just he's just completely wrong

00:27:59.380 it's so good wait i don't even know what eastern europe if i'm being honest do you want to have

00:28:03.040 some borscht i i've kielbasa listen if i i was gonna say like if all if all it is is like

00:28:08.380 pierogies oh boy pierogies you guys have you mean your culture has meat surrounded by some dough

00:28:13.940 that's such a unique cultural first of all cuisine item it's pierogi look at jack's face

00:28:18.340 pierogi in american it's pierogi in russian look at jack's face you're we're pyro i've never seen

00:28:25.600 again is something wrong with them like what's wrong with them peter gear i think a lot of

00:28:32.740 cultures have you know jack i'm with you bro peter gear what's wrong with that nothing they're

00:28:37.740 incredible i think it's been blake has been on a jihad against eastern european food slavic food

00:28:44.120 forever and is it poor people food you bet it is it's definitely poor people food i don't even i

00:28:49.360 don't even dump on it that hard one of my favorite restaurants is i was in when i was in poland in

00:28:52.640 gudansk i went to a baked potato themed restaurant bar pod reba bar under the fish you remember

00:28:59.700 and yeah man it's a well it's under the fish man and it's got 80 different types of baked potato

00:29:04.960 i had two oh i see we're being asked we're being asked to segue and i believe our next topic does

00:29:10.900 actually have something to do with food as well this is a good segue is that is that note i did

00:29:16.260 not intend this i this was this was unintentional uh okay let's do it okay jack let me do this one

00:29:23.180 okay so many many moons ago many uh a polish american not not hyphenated an american of

00:29:30.140 polish descent named jack posowiak lamented repeatedly online about the fall of a once

00:29:39.200 great american institution and that institution used to be the gathering gathering point of

00:29:46.180 american families rich and poor black and white rural and urban and that institution of course

00:29:56.100 was none other than the great pizza hut now unfortunately like many institutions in american

00:30:03.020 life, it fell upon hard times. It forgot itself. It forgot what made it great. But out of the ashes

00:30:09.560 arose one who remembered its former greatness and called upon it to rise once more, to reclaim its

00:30:17.920 throne as America's gathering place where families could feel safe and play bad video games and put

00:30:23.760 quarters in to beat their old records and their personal best and have those plastic cups that

00:30:29.600 were red and sort of sort of see-through and get the crushed ice that's right pizza hut is rising

00:30:38.440 once more and jack posobik deserves to take a very very well-deserved bow because i'm pretty sure

00:30:44.740 this started with your twitter account and an entrepreneur took hold of the vision that you

00:30:50.560 set forth jack and is making pizza hut great again yes i mean that so so i mean it's just

00:30:59.440 one of those things like thank you and it's just one of those things where it's like credit where

00:31:04.300 it's due you know during covid i'll never forget this man i i have my kids and i was just like

00:31:13.260 let's go out to you know get some something get some food and i was like you know i haven't been

00:31:19.540 to pizza hut in forever and gosh i had so many great memories of we had one within walking

00:31:25.080 distance of my house where i grew up and i was like i was like you know this is something i should

00:31:33.140 repeat with my kids so i go in and it was a a former classic pizza hut and it had like boxes

00:31:40.320 everywhere it was clearly operating as just a door dash kind of place it was i'm gonna say it

00:31:45.360 was dirty there was like just junk all over the place and i went in and said hey can we can we

00:31:50.780 sit and eat here with my son. And I think Tanya had because our other ones was was was really

00:31:56.080 little. And I'm like, what's going on? And they didn't even think that people could eat inside.

00:32:03.580 And it went crazy viral. I think Elon engaged with it and some other stuff. And it and for years,

00:32:08.960 I've been talking about pizza hut nationalism, about how we just used to have these pizza huts

00:32:14.280 that were centered around families, and pizza huts that were centered around people getting

00:32:20.140 together and having a good time and uh if everyone remembers i think i think it was the old land

00:32:25.920 before time uh vhs video and the niche turtles vhs video that when you would get them they would

00:32:32.940 have a pizza hut like a long form ad that was you know front well we have the ads we have ads here

00:32:40.200 no no for kids in the late 80s early 90s in particular it was like if your parents took

00:32:47.620 you to Pizza Hut you were extraordinarily wealthy and you were like really well liked you did

00:32:54.740 something really great in school it was the book remember the book thing too what was it

00:32:59.640 we have it we have it like guys let's share some of these out so let's do let's do the

00:33:03.480 Book It promo first let's do Sop 5

00:33:05.660 teaching a child to read is a gift

00:33:11.920 the book it program from pizza hut encourages kids to read by giving them their favorite food

00:33:19.860 pizza and since 1985 we've helped over 200 million children discover the joys of reading

00:33:26.920 because reading is a gift that everyone should share

00:33:31.000 man we used to have a pretty recent that doesn't even look like an 80s we used to have a country

00:33:39.700 no the 90s were amazing dude that that like the feeling of like getting to go to like because

00:33:46.260 there was one thing there's there's two differences there was getting pizza delivered to your house

00:33:51.160 which was special that was cool that was like but getting to go to actual the actual pizza hut

00:33:57.120 and like walk up to that salad bar and like get like sit down and you get the full pizza and like

00:34:04.400 the full pizza experience with that look like there's nothing else there's nothing better than

00:34:08.880 that let's show a few of the other i want to go i want to play that ad because like as cool as it

00:34:14.440 is right it's it's something bigger than pizza hut it's always been a bigger thing because you're

00:34:19.540 you're trying to hearken back to that bicentennial americanism that that classic americanism family

00:34:28.060 friendly a community get together and the minute you turn on one of those ads you just get that

00:34:34.080 feeling it hits you right in the feels and uh and i think there's there's none and i know you guys

00:34:40.640 like to do it because it always gets me but now i actually get to be happy because it's happening

00:34:45.240 it's finally happening let's roll it

00:34:47.760 Off in the distance

00:35:00.420 The game's dragging on

00:35:02.460 There's strikes on the batter

00:35:04.780 Some runners are on

00:35:07.120 Then suddenly

00:35:08.480 Everyone's looking at me

00:35:11.440 My mind has been wondering

00:35:14.060 What could it be

00:35:15.820 They point to the sky and I look up above

00:35:20.480 And a baseball falls into my glove

00:35:25.300 I play right field

00:35:30.260 It's important to know

00:35:32.260 You gotta know how to catch

00:35:34.560 You gotta know how to throw

00:35:36.660 That's why I play in right field

00:35:39.400 Way out where the dandelions grow

00:35:42.640 As a proud sponsor of Little League Baseball

00:35:45.080 Pizza Hut welcomes all the kids who make it great.

00:35:48.060 Making it great.

00:35:50.340 Is that Goldberg from The Mighty Duck?

00:35:52.860 Yeah, it's Goldberg.

00:35:53.900 That's Goldberg.

00:35:54.940 Wait, wait, wait.

00:35:56.020 Hold on.

00:35:56.500 The Catcher?

00:35:57.000 The Catcher is literally Goldberg.

00:35:59.160 Like the most iconic fat kid from fat kid 90s movies.

00:36:06.640 I feel the need to point out that, like,

00:36:09.280 do kids in your little league have uniforms that nice?

00:36:12.400 in my league we just kind of had crappy sponsored t-shirts that say like bierschbach equipment and

00:36:18.240 supply on it i think that was actually who sponsored us we didn't win any games unfortunately

00:36:22.240 but i i love it all i just i i'm i'm getting emotional because now i got kids and i think

00:36:29.180 about little league and okay we used to have a country guys we used to have a country this show

00:36:34.180 is called thought crime so i'm gonna provoke all three of you guys right now it's fine i have a

00:36:37.900 few things one i feel like a lot of this stuff even if it went away from pizza hut for a while

00:36:44.220 it didn't go away from america you can still find these things i don't know i'm sure it's strong so

00:36:49.160 there are still there are still pizza buffets all over yeah but the point is that there was an

00:36:55.980 iconic we had a monoculture environment that was built by pizza hut that every kid yearned for

00:37:02.740 like if you were a normal kid and again the late 80s early 90s you wanted two things

00:37:10.480 a nintendo yeah and you wanted to go to pizza hut as regularly as possible and if your parents took

00:37:18.440 you you were like oh my gosh my parents love me the same way that if your parents under the

00:37:23.880 christmas tree put like a nintendo or super nintendo you were like my parents love me well

00:37:27.600 okay that's cool and all but there are restaurants people like today as well there are yeah but

00:37:32.820 there's not like a and here's there there are no family restaurants i liked being 12 it doesn't

00:37:38.500 exist it literally it literally doesn't exist if you would have told children in 1992 like where

00:37:46.180 would they go like where would they like basically kill to go or have their parents take them

00:37:50.720 most of them like would have said it would have been an overwhelming majority would have been

00:37:55.000 like pizza it's so cool because of this whole book it thing like everything kids did not love

00:37:59.540 pizza because of book it i'm telling i'm telling you people like to book it because of pizza how

00:38:04.300 did i like how do we just like all know about it then i i so i'll be honest i only mostly know

00:38:09.520 about this from the cultural spillover i only think i think only went to pizza hut a couple

00:38:12.700 times no i like i love getting happy meals and i'm willing to suggest that it's you know that

00:38:18.340 there might be you know some regional differences where people weren't as into it sure that's fine

00:38:22.240 but yeah i mean like in the dakotas nobody had anything but like everywhere the reality is that

00:38:27.560 like in normal suburbia in america there was like you were like blessed to get a happy meal that was

00:38:34.340 cool but what's really interesting about this cultural iconic scene at pizza is that kids

00:38:41.160 weren't getting toys and stuff you were just going to eat pizza as a family okay yeah you can still

00:38:48.800 go get pizza i think you're going to be lost as a family to get pizza as a family this is but you

00:38:54.120 have always been able to do this but this is my point like i didn't even like i feel like you

00:38:59.640 missed the first part of this where like i tried to do that and i couldn't and then i couldn't find

00:39:04.920 a place that was even like the original pizza hut like that's what actually started all of this

00:39:10.320 and now it's back okay like right and now we're bringing it back go to us now it's pizza all

00:39:16.020 all right i will tell you so like here's the deal we're going to get you hooked up you're gonna have

00:39:19.940 kids and you're gonna take them to these re and i'll go to peter born or whatever we call it peter

00:39:24.720 piper pizza something like that that's a pizza buffet here in phoenix peter piper pizza feels

00:39:29.080 like autism in real life like i think autism doesn't exist in real life that's hilarious

00:39:35.000 like it feels like physical autism around you like if you're in like like inside the body of

00:39:40.900 autism like that like that is that's what you've there was a calming am i right about this jack

00:39:47.060 the calming experience of going inside a pizza everything you're saying is exactly right tyler

00:39:51.660 and tyler i'm trying to explain it to you because you never had this experience opposite ends of

00:39:56.660 the country so i mean yes like what you're talking about is exactly the same thing i experienced

00:40:02.340 on the on the east coast you grew up in arizona and yet it's the exact same feeling the exact same

00:40:07.560 childhood and you know at least experience in terms of this and pizza hut was able to take

00:40:12.940 that i'm not saying there aren't other regional brands that have done this i could think of a

00:40:17.020 couple on the east coast um that uh that do kind of get there but there's there's there's nothing

00:40:23.820 as nationally iconic as the pizza hut and my point is is that in pizza hut as national chain

00:40:29.820 you can actually see the slip between a place that was a family restaurant in its heyday that

00:40:36.740 move to the sort of like go go hey just pick up your pizza and leave sort of place as uh mcdonald's

00:40:44.380 by the way has you know fewer and fewer uh playgrounds as is another sort of example of

00:40:48.380 what we're talking about here because because they're just not designed for families anymore

00:40:53.380 but the average american family doesn't feel safe in them because you have a bunch of weirdos

00:40:57.040 hanging out at mcdonald's now like i think it's probably insurance stuff but that's the point

00:41:02.100 like mcdonald's like again it was like exciting to go play place was dirty and grimy it was

00:41:07.480 disgusting like there's like loose diapers floating you always got hurt on the metal bars

00:41:11.700 it's just disgusting like and you got to go like get a happy meal whatever like and as a toy and

00:41:17.260 like that way can we get a picture of like the old mcdonald's playground the really special part

00:41:21.980 about pizza hut that was interesting was that to this point was that there was nothing flashy

00:41:28.420 it wasn't like cheap dopamine stuff it was it was you you went and it was the family experience

00:41:36.960 and it was like you gotta hold a plate as a kid walk up to the salad bar get what kind of whatever

00:41:42.920 you wanted you sat down they brought you the pizza as a family you're there and it's this calming

00:41:48.500 vibe and it was like you spent time there like it wasn't like you're in and out rushing how much of

00:41:54.780 this is legitimately back to our first conversation like immigration like i'll just thought crime it

00:41:59.900 okay so an average white family in 1980 would go to a 90 white neighborhood uh mcdonald's

00:42:06.460 poor people rich people but they shared the same culture yeah and they would go in and it felt like

00:42:11.900 you were next to your neighbor and now you go there and it's like you've got people you don't

00:42:16.940 relate to they don't share a culture some of them are like make you feel unsafe and it just kind of

00:42:23.820 loses its luster you see this with public parks this is what i'm gonna say i think i think some 0.76

00:42:27.660 of this is i'll be i'll put it be honest i think it's on white people because first of all you say

00:42:31.620 it feels unsafe america was way more unsafe in the 80s 1980s that like the period we're remembering

00:42:36.660 is peak murder wave america part of its vibes america now is super safe yeah that's how you

00:42:42.220 feel but you feel like okay why do people feel that way if let's assume concede me the point

00:42:47.220 i think a lot of people i think a lot of people are i think we have helicopter parenting i think

00:42:52.660 a lot of people are paranoid i think they've trained themselves to be paranoid social media

00:42:58.000 and i also think a lot of this is also i think white people have elevated their expectations

00:43:04.960 for food so they they feel irresponsible taking their kids to a bunch of junk food you know a

00:43:11.720 giant junk food buffet like oh should i actually feed my kids a ton of pizza at a buffet they'll

00:43:16.400 feel we do we take our kids like parties all the time at like these uh trampoline parks which we

00:43:21.480 movement is about that which which also really the whole maha movie you're talking about there's

00:43:26.300 a massive political movement all like literally dedicated to this question the real life autism

00:43:31.240 thing though is like what's your trampoline parks feel like what what do you mean by real life

00:43:36.120 autism like everything like all the sensory stuff it's like overload it's like kids everywhere it

00:43:42.580 smells like it's disgusting like it's dirty my kids love it because they're no i know we like

00:43:48.400 it smells and it's dirty you don't think pizza hut had like you know like no but garbage or

00:43:54.960 like dirt and grime everywhere in the 80s 80s was a pretty dirty grimy time but the point is

00:44:00.540 it's like i just threw in the chat is like there was a totally different vibe to this the point

00:44:04.420 is the kids like the sensory i think the vibe was just that you yourself were no like eight

00:44:08.820 thousands thousands of people there's probably a little bit of the both but my point my point is

00:44:13.180 like the kids still like the sensory overload stuff that still exists it just looks different

00:44:18.820 now like you have like yeah what i was gonna say is we would we do pizza parties so when we do a

00:44:23.520 birthday party at a trampoline park right they have a venue where like a person comes in they

00:44:29.700 light a cake they cut the cake they serve the cake to the kids and then when they have usually

00:44:33.220 serve pizza so it's not pizza hut but you know the pizza hut of the 90s was like again it was

00:44:39.980 the vibe it was different like kids wanted it but the fact i'm saying it's just weird the kids

00:44:44.740 wanted here we go we don't have to play this whole thing but i feel like we're missing a big chunk of

00:44:49.700 this conversation because this is what the guy did to fulfill jack's vision uh maybe we don't

00:44:56.500 have it loaded yet do we have it loaded but this i wanted to make sure we actually played the story

00:45:01.100 because this guy's uh been putting this out there i think he's at like 80 locations these pizza huts

00:45:06.760 again is it is it loaded guys i'm sorry if it's not there's i have a second video i just dropped

00:45:13.440 into loaded okay 37 you can play you don't have to play the whole thing but go ahead 37 you miss

00:45:19.420 it at night like they need a good video at night a familiar red roof catches the eye inside the

00:45:25.640 vinyl booths tiffany style lamps and yes the salad bar you may remember from decades ago i mean it's

00:45:32.920 amazing the comments we have about, they have the red cups. Yes, we do. Tim Sparks got his start

00:45:39.520 working at a Pizza Hut that looked like this. He's now president of Dayland Corporation,

00:45:44.240 which owns this franchise and more than 80 others around the country. They've redecorated

00:45:49.240 many restaurants to rewind the clock. It looks exactly like the one that I remember from when

00:45:54.420 I was a kid. Yeah, that's what we were after. Some Pizza Hut classics are now top performing

00:45:59.760 locations. Customers show up for a piece of their childhood. It just brings like memories. To share

00:46:05.440 with their own kids. When you finally find something that tastes how you genuinely remember

00:46:11.460 it tasting, like you can't let it go. People come from two and three hours away and I'm not making

00:46:16.600 that up. More restaurants are serving up nostalgia. Franchises like Burger King and KFC return to

00:46:22.560 old school logos and packaging in recent years. At Pizza Hut, they even brought back Pac-Man.

00:46:28.160 But for Sparks, this is much more than a game.

00:46:32.920 It's a mission to rebuild places where families can connect.

00:46:37.080 If we can get them in here as a family, they do tend to put their phones down

00:46:40.640 and actually have conversations and speak with each other.

00:46:43.220 I'm not going to tell you I know how to fix the world,

00:46:45.160 but I do think that family is a good place to start.

00:46:49.020 He hopes to renovate more of his restaurants as long as he can find enough of those lamps.

00:46:53.480 They're hard to get.

00:46:54.420 Yeah, they're almost impossible to get.

00:46:56.840 A familiar taste.

00:46:58.560 Oh, cheers.

00:46:59.880 Bringing people together.

00:47:01.380 Just like I remember anyone.

00:47:03.840 Again, Bradley Blackburn, CBS News, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania.

00:47:08.800 Yeah, that's like lost technology.

00:47:10.900 Like, oh, we can't make this.

00:47:12.360 We've got to go to China to get the Americana.

00:47:13.580 We probably would. 0.90

00:47:14.120 You probably would have to go to China to remake them from scratch.

00:47:16.660 But I love that guy's whole vibe.

00:47:18.320 He's like, I don't know much, and I don't know how to fix everything,

00:47:20.760 but fam is a pretty good place to start.

00:47:21.680 I like it, but it does stand out to me. 0.94

00:47:23.940 This guy's a freaking genius.

00:47:25.200 they're saying oh it's a piece of my childhood i want to revisit that okay i was okay that's cool 0.90

00:47:31.380 but you know what's upsetting time out these are pennsylvania so jack you get to go to these

00:47:35.740 yeah have you been to one jack uh they are not in my corner of pennsylvania these are like central

00:47:42.540 pa so we haven't been to one yet what are you waiting on dude okay let's hold on where it's

00:47:48.500 it's i would have to be one of those guys in two three hours tungkannock okay you have to drive

00:47:53.980 three hours okay um so it's like normal but like okay so i'm a dodger fan everybody hates on me

00:48:00.320 for okay whatever you know what upsets me though and they talked about this how like burger king's

00:48:04.660 going back to old logos kfc's going back to old logos for the love of god baseball stop doing this

00:48:10.840 like university of oregon garbage where you're like changing up your jersey all the time give

00:48:16.200 me the iconic like the old school you know you saw it with the little league thing they were the 0.77

00:48:21.220 Old school baseball jerseys.

00:48:23.100 They look great.

00:48:23.640 You know, the Eagles and the Phillies have been doing it.

00:48:25.820 The Eagles and Phillies have been bringing back the classic jerseys.

00:48:28.380 And it's amazing.

00:48:30.200 So much better.

00:48:31.160 It's so good.

00:48:32.740 So much better.

00:48:33.820 Anyways, that's just like a small.

00:48:34.740 I think we have 37.

00:48:36.120 Just shows you the walkthrough of the Pizza Hut Classic.

00:48:39.200 All right.

00:48:39.880 Wait, I thought you wanted the playgrounds from McDonald's.

00:48:43.980 Oh, no.

00:48:44.560 It's 37.

00:48:46.300 Yeah, this is the walkthrough.

00:48:47.100 This is the guy.

00:48:48.760 Yeah.

00:48:51.220 i mean guys and again nighttime it's a totally different vibe like the lamp those lamps at night

00:48:57.240 oh yeah caboose is just like nostalgia baiting everybody like it's true we are i was i was joking

00:49:05.020 uh when i put this up the first time i even pointed out that they should they should really

00:49:09.140 nostalgia bait these for uh for like elder millennial gen y parents but even like you know

00:49:15.560 working in for like the tiktok generation so you should set up like old tvs and have like the land

00:49:21.520 before time playing and stuff like that throughout the theater throughout the places what's so funny 0.92

00:49:27.040 about this you know some just like go lean in and absolutely embrace all of it what's funny about

00:49:33.260 this is in some sense it's actually the opposite of making it more i don't want to say the opposite

00:49:38.940 but it's not it's not quite related to making it more pro-family because if you're deliberately

00:49:43.920 nostalgia baiting millennials you're basically saying we're aiming this kind of a you're actually

00:49:51.080 kind of saying i'm aiming this at childless millennials in their 30s and 40s because parents

00:49:56.780 go where their parents go where their kids want to go no no no parents pizza hut in the 80s was

00:50:02.700 designed to appeal to children in the 80s now it's designed to appeal to people who were children

00:50:08.840 but parents have a combination of

00:50:11.180 I get what you're saying

00:50:12.040 it won't work if you don't have kids

00:50:15.240 no but appeasing your children

00:50:16.840 with what they want and then showing

00:50:19.260 kids what you like

00:50:20.980 parents

00:50:23.480 parents part of the reason why

00:50:25.420 I totally agree there's a totally weird

00:50:27.460 you know Disney adult thing that exists

00:50:29.520 and there's a certain

00:50:30.760 and there's people who will show up to this because of that

00:50:33.500 but there's also a

00:50:35.100 huge base of consumers

00:50:37.280 that want to show their kids

00:50:39.440 their experiences.

00:50:41.600 They do, although...

00:50:42.300 I think an underrepresented portion

00:50:45.640 of Disneyland is parents

00:50:47.660 forcing their kids to go on rides

00:50:49.880 they liked when they were young.

00:50:51.520 I make my kids go to the Tiki Room

00:50:53.940 every time.

00:50:55.420 Is it one of the most boring things

00:50:57.780 at Disneyland?

00:50:58.660 Yeah, but I like the Tiki Room

00:51:00.460 because my dad liked the Tiki Room.

00:51:02.300 You know, it's crazy.

00:51:02.920 This is like my dad making me listen

00:51:04.180 to John Prine albums.

00:51:05.200 Do you like going in the tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki room?

00:51:08.940 Every time.

00:51:10.140 Without a doubt.

00:51:10.820 You do not go to Disneyland without going on the boring old rides.

00:51:15.300 This last week.

00:51:16.200 This last week, my kids have been like, we want to go to IHOP, IHOP.

00:51:21.380 It's the strangest thing.

00:51:22.400 And I'm like, why do you want to go?

00:51:23.680 No, we can't go to IHOP.

00:51:24.860 It's eight at night.

00:51:26.580 We're not going to.

00:51:27.020 And they're obsessed with the idea that something is open 24-7.

00:51:31.460 That's all it is.

00:51:32.420 They don't want the funny face.

00:51:33.260 We lost a lot of that during COVID.

00:51:35.200 We lost a lot of 24-7 operations.

00:51:36.980 That's true.

00:51:37.560 Here, play the, you asked for it, Jack.

00:51:40.420 They put it together, the playground at McDonald's,

00:51:42.480 the old-school playground.

00:51:43.520 So play some B-roll.

00:51:44.660 I just wanted a picture.

00:51:45.840 Oh, they put together a whole B-roll thing of it.

00:51:48.580 No, that's not the old one.

00:51:50.200 That's the old one.

00:51:50.980 That's old, yeah.

00:51:52.440 Yeah, with the Hamburglar jail.

00:51:54.740 Yeah.

00:51:56.360 That was like, I just seem to remember

00:51:58.340 going around in that thing.

00:51:59.560 Another thing I'll say,

00:52:00.780 one reason some of this stuff has gone in decline

00:52:02.500 is there's like cooler versions of it.

00:52:05.000 Like, we have that Andretti adventure stuff or whatever on the fringes of town here.

00:52:10.460 Like, you can go to, like, big deluxe go-karting and virtual reality stuff.

00:52:16.340 Like, that stuff is way cooler.

00:52:18.900 Yeah, it is, actually.

00:52:20.220 You know what used to be called actual reality?

00:52:23.880 No, these are actual go-karts that you're racing, and they're, like, e-karts now.

00:52:28.440 So they're not even loud, and they go really fast.

00:52:31.380 So we did one of those.

00:52:32.620 trampoline parks are also like I said

00:52:35.200 there's a place called Slick City in town

00:52:37.080 that's like these like a new thing that

00:52:39.180 wasn't around where you get on a mat and you go down

00:52:41.100 these really cool slides

00:52:43.200 that is legitimately cooler than

00:52:45.240 what we had yeah so there is a

00:52:47.180 point I think I think people

00:52:48.500 I get why people miss

00:52:51.080 this sort of thing it's a lot of

00:52:53.120 us miss things from our childhood what I will note is

00:52:55.220 you can tell this is a somewhat

00:52:57.260 universal thing because I am now

00:52:59.240 seeing young millennials old

00:53:01.320 gen z who have nostalgia for things from the early 2000s that i know were terrible so but what is

00:53:08.200 driving the nostalgia that's the question that's the deeper i think that's i think it's a natural

00:53:12.360 feeling it's the same thing as the bicentennial versus 250th it's the same exact dynamic

00:53:18.680 i think then there's a market in fact an interesting thing is it varies over time too

00:53:23.540 i have strong memories of like when i was in my early 20s just out of college i would experience

00:53:30.340 nostalgia feelings all the time for stuff from my childhood and I think it's like it's probably

00:53:35.740 mingled with maybe the the amount of change that comes from living independently for the first time

00:53:42.140 you've moved out of home you're experiencing life in a new way for the first time it's mildly

00:53:46.740 depressing to do this you might be homesick if you've moved across the country all of this comes

00:53:50.500 together and this manifested in weird ways like I was collecting super nintendo games because I

00:53:54.540 had nostalgia for that sort of thing and what I will note is I don't dislike those things from

00:53:59.140 my childhood but i don't have nearly as much nostalgia for them either where because you know

00:54:05.900 nostalgia it's mingled with depression that's you know we're ever saying we used to have a country

00:54:09.400 everyone's sad about not having this thing anymore and i think that's even what the word itself comes

00:54:14.940 from it's like a combination of like memory and sorrow something like that uh and i just think

00:54:21.240 you actually as you age you do you do age out of these things or you out you you hopefully outgrow

00:54:26.240 these things and you can love things from your past but also love things from the present and

00:54:30.360 have more perspective on stuff and i say that all because i can see on that a little bit because

00:54:35.560 you because you do also have such a thing as tradition right and this is where like like

00:54:40.680 lindy man comes in and the concept of lindy that at some things are fads to be sure like like i

00:54:47.120 don't i don't have nostalgia for like pogs you know or like alf or you know uh um was that one

00:54:54.780 that one showed like the Herman and the, and the, like the alien thing, I don't know,

00:54:58.900 tiny was in tiny was into that. Um, but, but there are certain things that do become traditions

00:55:05.540 and traditions do become something that you can hand down. And so, you know, baseball, no, no,

00:55:12.600 it wasn't out. It wasn't, it was a different one. Um, and so like little league baseball is a huge

00:55:17.960 one of those where, you know, I haven't really been following baseball for years, but now my

00:55:22.960 kids are into it and they love playing little league baseball and it's like oh so we're we're

00:55:28.800 a baseball family you know all over again and like begging me to take them to games and you know all

00:55:34.200 sorts of things and it's like that i don't just have nostalgia for you know my memories of it

00:55:39.660 it's like that's a tradition that i had that my dad had not my kids have so there's a bible verse

00:55:44.840 that's interesting ecclesiastes 7 10 and it goes like this say not why were the former days better

00:55:51.940 than these for it is not from wisdom

00:55:54.020 that you ask this

00:55:55.260 so

00:55:58.000 one thing I wanted to bring

00:55:59.920 up was this commercial

00:56:01.740 do we have it ready

00:56:02.580 do we have it

00:56:06.000 not yet okay nevermind

00:56:07.480 we have other

00:56:10.040 we have other Pizza Hut commercials

00:56:11.460 I do want to get to this

00:56:12.760 we had like eight

00:56:15.700 can I throw another piece on this

00:56:17.720 just to talk about that

00:56:19.260 so

00:56:19.800 So, so another slice. Yeah. So another topping maybe. And that if there were, you know, if there wasn't a market for this, people wouldn't be putting all this money into it. That's for sure. It's a huge gamble. And, you know, it's, it's, it seems to be popular right now. We will see if it goes well. I certainly think it will.

00:56:37.540 Um, if there were other places that people could go to get the same experience, then they wouldn't be making all of these pizza huts, the pizza hut classics again, because that shows that, you know, there isn't an alternative, but also like when you go to countries in Eastern Europe, like Hungary, like Poland, um, and even just European airports in general, you find them to be very, very much more family friendly and family oriented.

00:57:05.220 there's kid stuff everywhere there's so many outlets for like kids you know you go to a nice

00:57:11.180 restaurant in poland and they have a kid's area right at the front and they say hey drop your

00:57:15.100 kids off here mom and dad you can go yeah but there's places like that and have a nice dinner

00:57:19.540 there's places like that so so for example i went from la to santa barbara la was terrible for kids

00:57:26.260 just terrible santa barbara much better much more kid friendly and then we went from santa

00:57:31.240 barbara to phoenix and i would say phoenix is even better still uh there's tons of kids options

00:57:35.700 in phoenix for like all this stuff you can go to a gym and they have but did kid child care you can

00:57:40.740 go to a restaurant but did you have kid options like clip 40

00:57:43.640 running swing here i don't think so

00:57:51.160 D.C. is made just for me

00:58:05.840 A place where I can really cut loose

00:58:07.740 It's all here

00:58:08.880 Jump and tumble here?

00:58:11.640 I don't think so

00:58:12.540 D.C. is what kids want to be

00:58:18.160 So by the way

00:58:19.340 Hold on

00:58:20.420 those places are coming back

00:58:22.300 there's a bunch of chains that are very

00:58:24.700 similar to Discovery Zone now

00:58:26.040 Discovery Zone was a kingdom and it was the only

00:58:28.620 thing that existed and you got in there

00:58:30.660 and there was endless

00:58:32.120 tunnels and McDonald's were

00:58:34.620 like small cheaper versions of it

00:58:36.460 how long do you think Discovery Zone existed

00:58:38.340 like 5 years

00:58:39.720 actually it was 10 years but it was not

00:58:41.860 they went out of business

00:58:43.840 and a prominent investor was

00:58:46.440 actually this is an amazing way

00:58:48.480 to segue to our next topic because a prominent

00:58:50.320 investor was tennis star 0.68

00:58:52.540 Billie Jean King. Was it really?

00:58:54.560 How does that segue to her? Because

00:58:56.320 she's a feminist icon for her fake 1.00

00:58:58.240 tennis match against that one 1.00

00:59:00.260 drunk male tennis player that she beat. 1.00

00:59:02.740 And it proved that women could be as good 1.00

00:59:04.280 as men if you ignore the fact that she was 0.99

00:59:06.280 the number one tennis player in the world, and the

00:59:08.280 guy was like the 400th best

00:59:10.340 tennis player in the world, and was smoking

00:59:12.220 and drinking, and was also basically paid

00:59:14.360 to throw the match anyway. Was he really? Yeah.

00:59:16.860 And that we had a real match between

00:59:18.460 Venus and Serena Williams,

00:59:19.800 and a male tennis player who was actually trying,

00:59:23.380 who was ranked 200th, and he absolutely annihilated them.

00:59:27.340 Of course he did.

00:59:27.800 True story.

00:59:28.400 But anyway, that all brings us into...

00:59:30.460 Feminist icon, Alex Cooper. 0.85

00:59:33.140 So you're going to have to explain who Alex Cooper is for those of us who... 1.00

00:59:35.740 She's a podcaster.

00:59:36.980 She's a provocateur. 1.00

00:59:38.240 She says raunchy things. 1.00

00:59:40.120 She has a body count that would make Genghis Khan jealous. 1.00

00:59:46.280 She is Alex Cooper, host of the Call Her Day.

00:59:49.380 Call Her Daddy podcast, which Kamala Harris did to Call Her Daddy.

00:59:54.000 I just want to correct the record.

00:59:55.800 I Googled it. 0.98

00:59:56.600 She allegedly said that her body count is only eight.

01:00:00.220 Not Genghis Khan.

01:00:01.460 Allegedly.

01:00:02.720 Yeah, she's pregnant, expecting first baby with husband Matt Kaplan.

01:00:06.980 Whose daddy is it?

01:00:08.020 Why are we calling someone's dad?

01:00:09.320 Is it her daddy that we're calling?

01:00:10.500 That's her podcast.

01:00:11.320 But what does that mean?

01:00:12.740 Call Her Daddy?

01:00:13.700 It just took off.

01:00:14.560 Do you call someone's dad in the podcast?

01:00:17.220 Why did she name her podcast Call Her Daddy?

01:00:18.980 She started on YouTube.

01:00:22.840 She had a really popular YouTube that took off.

01:00:25.800 Dave Portnoy found her.

01:00:28.740 He basically gave her the opportunity to launch her podcast career on his network.

01:00:37.800 And they had a following out.

01:00:39.100 So she had a co-host that was on there.

01:00:41.860 They had a huge following out.

01:00:44.600 And she went and launched her own podcast on her own thing.

01:00:48.500 And she has made a zillion dollars.

01:00:51.620 It's apparently called Call Her Daddy because it comes from the PG-13 warning here that men will say, call me daddy to assert dominance over women.

01:01:00.740 And it flips the dynamic.

01:01:02.560 So there's a trans subplot to this. 0.92

01:01:04.680 The idea is that we have to call her, the woman, daddy, because she is the one in control of her relationships. 0.87

01:01:11.840 Right. 1.00

01:01:12.040 So it's right there, like a female dominance kind of mindset.

01:01:17.760 and and funny enough to to what tyler's saying i think it was the original co-host that came up

01:01:23.480 with the with the phrasing of that whereas alex cooper wanted to say call him daddy

01:01:27.520 okay uh yeah it's just girl bossing girl bossing in the bedroom so basically it's like you know

01:01:36.720 i think there's like the the you know the three-headed horseman or whatever too what is it

01:01:41.940 what's the the three horsemen of the apocalypse so we're going to talk about we're going to talk

01:01:46.120 about like the three horsemen of the apocalypse there were four horsemen though four horsemen

01:01:49.440 there it's even better because i'm always struggling to get three four horsemen of the

01:01:52.960 apocalypse it's like wokeism mass immigration feminism is definitely on there and now we got

01:02:00.480 the islamification of america those are my four you could have a you could you could substitute 0.94

01:02:05.820 one of those i feel really strongly about feminism being one of the truly corrosive elements that 0.99

01:02:13.280 exist and are propagated and celebrated in western civilization western culture especially 0.81

01:02:17.660 america so this is a fun topic for me because i find her particularly galling but now she's

01:02:22.680 pregnant yes she's pregnant and married yeah so what do we do with that do we celebrate it

01:02:27.320 do we i don't know i tend to like i listen a lot of people are like well this is perfect for 1.00

01:02:34.760 you know high status women because they get to go have their uh raunchy podcast and lead 1.00

01:02:40.520 everybody astray and then they get to hold out even as they get into older years i don't know 1.00

01:02:45.360 how old she is is she in her early 30s i would presume something like that um and they get to

01:02:52.720 like have their cake and eat it too while they let all their you know peons astray uh telling

01:02:57.700 them to girl boss and so some people are upset about this some people are celebrating it i'd

01:03:02.480 like to think charlie would probably celebrate it because he did that with taylor swift he's like

01:03:05.960 god bless you taylor i hope that your marriage to travis kelsey makes you happy and more

01:03:11.680 conservative well so the reason people are worried about this and it's getting discussed 0.99

01:03:15.340 is that she has definitely she's definitely pushed this big female empowerment narrative

01:03:21.060 and i think that is actually what does make her a little difference from taylor swift 0.88

01:03:24.400 taylor swift she was actually kind of even though she had a large number of famous boyfriends she

01:03:30.360 was kind of trad in her orientation she makes songs about you know falling in love forever and

01:03:36.600 wanting to be with someone forever and you know she's always been chasing that and finally got it

01:03:41.680 whereas cooper is her it's often a raunchy podcast that it's like about uh it's about sex stuff it's

01:03:49.520 about uh you know jumping from relationship to relationship and the idea is is that she is

01:03:55.100 pulling the successful Houdini act 0.99

01:03:57.280 of being allegedly

01:03:59.120 you thought she had a Genghis Khan

01:04:01.120 like number throughout her 20s

01:04:02.800 and then she hits 30

01:04:05.300 she's 31 right now 0.69

01:04:06.480 she hits 30 and then suddenly says 1.00

01:04:08.740 I want to settle down, immediately does land 0.99

01:04:11.200 relatively appealing 1.00

01:04:13.260 attractive husband, has kids 0.99

01:04:15.420 and that this is going to lead 1.00

01:04:17.180 a large number of women astray to think 1.00

01:04:19.040 I can copy this same life script 1.00

01:04:21.580 and if you're not

01:04:23.380 carrying a you know 60 million dollar spotify deal it's less likely to work out for you

01:04:28.420 it's a total rug pull it's a total rug pull to her audience the same way as if she had done like 0.85

01:04:34.920 one of those meme coin scams right she runs this podcast all about you know have free sex and go 1.00

01:04:41.740 do whatever and let's talk about wait jack all the sex he had are you calling this the pump and dump 1.00

01:04:46.600 i am it's a total pump and dump it's an alex cooper pump and dump where she's come in and 0.98

01:04:52.740 she's, she's making money and it's consistently rated, I think one of the highest podcasts out

01:04:57.100 there. And she presented by sparkling ice. And it's like, you know, got mainstream, um,

01:05:03.900 you know, backing because we just put, uh, we just put lust and fornication everywhere these 0.77

01:05:10.200 days. And yet she doesn't actually do it herself. So she's preaching this to everybody while also, 1.00

01:05:15.360 you know, not following the lifestyle that she is popularizing. And that's why it's a scam. 1.00

01:05:21.840 She didn't practice what she preached.

01:05:24.760 I just want to insert this.

01:05:27.600 Call Her Daddy was ranked the second most popular podcast in Spotify from 21 to 24.

01:05:34.460 It's pretty big, behind Rogan, of course.

01:05:35.760 Did she rug pull or did she not?

01:05:37.420 I don't follow her stuff. 0.80

01:05:39.060 Did she say you can only get married if the guy submits to you

01:05:43.520 and is a 9 or a 10 or above and has his own career?

01:05:49.840 I'm just asking the question.

01:05:51.100 did she rug pull did she pump and dump or is this like well so and this here's the thought crime 0.57

01:05:56.320 here's the thought crime right and and i saw some people uh i forget the original post was when we

01:06:00.900 were chatting about it america find it but the original one um was saying that here's the issue

01:06:05.840 is that this advice works if you are a nine or a ten but if you're like a five or a six uh if you're

01:06:13.220 a mid then this is actually like the worst possible advice for you and you're just leading all these

01:06:19.300 people astray and here they are listening to your podcast thinking that it's going to work

01:06:23.360 but those are the ones who are going to find themselves hitting you know mid 30s to late 30s

01:06:29.780 to 40s saying hey wait a minute you know why isn't why isn't anyone calling me daddy and suddenly the 0.92

01:06:37.180 guys in their peer you know you know her age range are all going to be going for zoomers they're going 0.69

01:06:42.520 to be dating girls that are like in their 20s because they're not interested so it doesn't 0.97

01:06:47.300 actually work and yes actually uh well like we were talking about you know male status earlier

01:06:52.820 female status does exist pretty privilege is real it's just real and that is the thought crime ladies

01:06:59.680 and gentlemen so i'm looking it up jack it says so i i just asked ai's and it says yes alex cooper

01:07:06.980 has frequently downplayed or expressed ambivalence about marriage and children in the past particularly

01:07:12.300 in her 20s and early podcast years while heavily while heavily promoting hookup culture casual sex

01:07:18.600 and prioritizing career fun over traditional milestones well i'm gonna want i'm gonna want

01:07:22.640 citations though because she says she they have them right here gina gina florio had the original

01:07:28.280 one by the way her instagram her tic tac gina florio she she she commonly said online that she 0.97

01:07:36.240 would never get married so part of the reason why people have lost their minds on this is she had

01:07:41.000 said numerous times that she would never get married and then now feels this way yeah she

01:07:46.940 said she couldn't fathom motherhood in her 20s this is this is what jack's point might maybe

01:07:53.040 is like more hinging on she said her podcast built a brand around uh sexually explicit content

01:07:59.080 advice like use him before he uses you don't catch feelings embracing embracing casual hookups and

01:08:06.760 viewing relationship as a chaotic rollercoaster, quote unquote, without long-term commitments.

01:08:11.500 This resonated with and influenced many young female listeners in their teens and 20s.

01:08:17.280 Then she talked about shifting views later, for example, developing baby fever in recent years

01:08:24.620 after meeting her husband, Matt Kaplan, and episodes where she discusses timelines for

01:08:29.940 marriages and kids with him. But early content leaned heavily into anti-settling down vibes.

01:08:36.100 so they got married in 2024 around age 29 or 30 can't decide and recently announced their first

01:08:42.000 pregnancy as of may yeah i really don't think this is a rug pull i think i think this is actually 0.85

01:08:47.740 the peak of feminist propaganda radical feminist propaganda because it's totally that it's always 0.99

01:08:54.060 her maximum autonomy she can be against it in her 20s and then she can just change her mind 1.00

01:09:00.300 later in her life and she's able to again pull the houdini act of gets married has kids and

01:09:05.800 can pivot in her life trajectory and in real life as we know because i mean charlie talked about this

01:09:12.240 all the time going on campus in real life for a lot of people if you want to get married especially

01:09:17.140 as a woman it has to be a priority early on you have to build and take steps towards that right

01:09:22.360 away and if you think i'm going to build my career until my early 30s and then start focusing on this

01:09:28.060 there's example after example where it's gone really badly they've been unable to find someone

01:09:33.580 you might not be able to have babies yeah exactly you might have charlie charlie's might be too late

01:09:37.280 what was the line it was um it was uh you know you shouldn't you more more women shouldn't be

01:09:42.560 pursuing their phd they should be pursuing their mrs he was a big big believer in the mrs degree

01:09:48.320 mrs degree the mrs degree yeah yeah such a good line you know it's speaking of which that is

01:09:54.320 interesting because there is a stat that says that 62 of all degrees now are going to women

01:10:00.340 uh which is 62 percent 62 percent two thirds before we jump into this we got two donation

01:10:07.740 messages i want to hit because uh kairi donated five dollars and said christian families need

01:10:12.140 to be having lots of children and teaching them the values and blessings of the bible

01:10:15.680 that is how we combat these insanities and zuzu chimed in again and she said

01:10:19.680 alex cooper should bring her husband and kids to pizza hut well exactly that is that is a good

01:10:25.820 point zuzu i i'm gonna say i say this the most famous marriages like people who are famous

01:10:32.240 they're they're largely business relationships and and again i know a lot of people say that

01:10:38.180 whatever like people have made that and and i'm not saying that i don't hope that she's not in

01:10:43.340 love and that she doesn't have kids and like yeah slows down and like wants to just like spend time

01:10:48.980 with her kids and all that i hope that that's the case with alex cooper the reality is that

01:10:53.320 i actually feel bad for a lot of these these famous couples because their kids usually take

01:10:58.780 the brunt of it and this is why i think a lot of kids like that come from famous couples end up so

01:11:03.640 screwed up and you'll see this some famous people will take a take a step back from the spotlight

01:11:09.360 and they'll raise their kids and they'll stop and they'll slow down and they'll like focus on

01:11:14.520 you know motherhood or fatherhood or whatever right sometimes that's not the case i just don't

01:11:19.920 know i mean we'll see like what happens with alex cooper but i think the point is is like she's not

01:11:24.840 living in the same on the same planet that most of us are living so jack's point is i think pretty

01:11:29.480 well made where he said this script this live script will work for nines and tens maybe sevens

01:11:34.260 and eights too but if you are maybe not so attractive and you get into your 30s and you're

01:11:39.360 not so so rich and successful i don't think you have nearly as many options as alex cooper

01:11:44.100 and so she is selling a bad vision of of of a reality of what's lived reality and experience

01:11:51.600 but the upside here if like my glass can be half full i can be honest about the fact that i think

01:11:58.600 this is a terrible life script to sell to young women but she's got this huge audience by you

01:12:04.000 know being authentic and being raunchy and being real and saying it out loud saying it like it

01:12:09.180 really is or whatever well they're also hearing her go through this evolution of getting baby

01:12:14.320 fever getting married and so she you know the upshot is maybe she's got millions of fans that

01:12:18.820 are like oh now i want to get married too so okay all right hopefully they can skip the premarital

01:12:23.380 sex stuff i agree with our our listener that was like we need christians need to have lots of

01:12:27.680 babies completely agree with that we're going to outbreed them folks that's that's part of the

01:12:31.860 strategy um so i've played this you rebel start a family but i played this clip before to tie in

01:12:37.240 is 62% of all degrees, but I think it's so important.

01:12:40.380 This is Rachel Wilson, a cult feminism author,

01:12:43.500 and she's talking about why women are so unhappy.

01:12:46.700 So keep in mind now, 62% of all college degrees 1.00

01:12:49.960 are going to women, 1.00

01:12:51.860 and now think about why they're unhappy. 1.00

01:12:54.780 Cut 41. 1.00

01:12:56.420 Women just overall reporting dissatisfaction,

01:12:59.960 unhappiness, a feeling of being really torn, 0.99

01:13:03.320 trying to have it all,

01:13:04.600 trying to have a career and be a career woman, 1.00

01:13:07.240 and also have a family and do all of that. 1.00

01:13:10.400 Women don't know what to do with relationships 1.00

01:13:12.620 because on the one hand, 1.00

01:13:14.180 they want men who make more than they do.

01:13:16.640 They want men who are higher achieving than they are,

01:13:19.880 yet this creates a paradox, 1.00

01:13:21.840 whereas women have become 1.00

01:13:23.280 the number one earners of college degrees. 0.99

01:13:25.780 They have now got salaries that compete with men

01:13:29.020 and they've got more equality than ever before.

01:13:32.560 They're finding that the men are not suitable to marry.

01:13:36.020 They're finding that, you know, they just can't find a guy who's on their level or higher, which is what they really want. 0.56

01:13:42.200 So now think back to the baby boom where you had the GI Bill and the status of men from earnings, college degrees and all these things, job opportunities was here and women were down here. 0.62

01:13:51.780 And you had this huge baby boom as a result. Now that script is flipped and we have a fertility crisis. 0.68

01:13:58.040 We're losing our frickin playgrounds at McDonald's. We got we got all kinds of societal problems.

01:14:03.660 The men and the women don't like each other.

01:14:05.600 The expectations, the relationships are off.

01:14:07.360 You talk to any of our Turning Point kids, by the way,

01:14:09.840 it's the number one thing they'll talk to you about. 1.00

01:14:11.800 Dating sucks. 1.00

01:14:12.920 It's awful. 1.00

01:14:13.900 You get a few that have found somebody or whatever,

01:14:16.040 but it's like things are out of whack.

01:14:19.620 And I think I love that Rachel Wilson clip 1.00

01:14:21.540 because she talks about this driving force of feminism. 1.00

01:14:25.400 We want equality. 0.98

01:14:26.640 Now, okay, you got it.

01:14:27.580 You got beyond equality.

01:14:28.700 You got 62% of all the college degrees 0.96

01:14:30.540 and you're unhappier than you've ever been.

01:14:32.080 And maybe people like Alex Cooper need to rethink the script that they're selling.

01:14:37.400 That's all I'd say.

01:14:38.620 Maybe our traditions have been traditions that have been handed down from generation on generation for a reason.

01:14:46.020 Maybe there's a reason that all of civilization was built certain ways and successful civilizations have maintained those traditions.

01:14:54.500 And maybe we shouldn't screw around with them.

01:14:56.820 I mean, you go to bring it full circle.

01:14:58.860 Like, you look at where the society was in the 1970s and 1976, and I think we can all look at that and say, you know, that just looks like a better time.

01:15:10.600 It just looks like a better time.

01:15:12.500 Well, Jack, I have to say it.

01:15:14.680 I have to say it, because the Bible says it.

01:15:17.740 You know, say not, why were the former days better than these?

01:15:22.080 For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

01:15:23.940 But I would agree.

01:15:24.960 There's certain parts about our history.

01:15:26.380 But that's what I'm saying is, is I don't, you know, I'm not some curmudgeon who just sits there and says, oh, you know, oh, the past was better.

01:15:34.300 I look at those things and I say, hey, can we bring any of this forward?

01:15:38.700 What can we do to make our material conditions today better?

01:15:41.720 You know what I miss?

01:15:42.300 To make the streets better.

01:15:43.780 And I just bought back frickin Pizza Hut, OK?

01:15:46.560 Yeah, you did a good thing.

01:15:47.860 You know what I miss, Jack?

01:15:48.840 I miss the monoculture.

01:15:51.340 Like, like, oh, we're all old enough to remember America that had a monoculture.

01:15:55.840 And it was cool.

01:15:57.320 It was great to know that it didn't matter who I was walking down on the street,

01:16:01.540 that they were going to be watching the same shows and reacting to the same news.

01:16:06.220 There's benefits of having bifurcated culture or siloed cultures.

01:16:12.620 It's maybe more individually satisfying,

01:16:14.680 but there's something beautiful about having a culture that's all singing from the same hymnal, if you would.

01:16:18.980 For example, Matt Walsh made this point, and I thought it was spot on.

01:16:22.720 I'm watching a show that he happens to be watching

01:16:25.500 so I read the tweet and it was about Widow's Bay

01:16:27.680 which is on Apple

01:16:28.740 it's phenomenal

01:16:30.020 it's so good

01:16:31.720 it's excellent

01:16:33.580 it's so good

01:16:35.280 it's so funny and it's actually scary

01:16:37.880 it's like a comedy horror

01:16:38.980 but a show that good

01:16:42.120 deserves to be monoculture good

01:16:44.640 but it's not

01:16:45.500 it's probably got like 1 30th of the culture watching

01:16:48.560 I'll bring it up though

01:16:49.440 how many shows

01:16:50.680 how many shows from when we had a monoculture for television do people still watch say what

01:16:56.020 says how many shows from when we still had a monoculture do people still watch seinfeld

01:16:59.920 i still watch seinfeld is from the 90s that's when that's when the monoculture is already

01:17:03.220 starting to fray apart but the monoculture was still there blake those shows are consistently

01:17:07.460 compared to mash and how many people still watch mash i can answer this question those shows are

01:17:12.600 consistently like the number one shows on streaming tyler i think we were talking about

01:17:16.520 this at one point that like friends reruns when they go up on netflix or you know friends was

01:17:23.400 terrible it's literally like number one every single time friends is not funny okay it is a

01:17:30.020 good thing that if that is the best argument for the monoculture in any way i'm not a friends guy

01:17:36.540 seinfeld is good seinfeld's a good show but it is extremely popular still i think people

01:17:42.420 say internationally people are say they're depressed that the monoculture went away but

01:17:46.320 again i'm depressed i just miss it i think personally i think it's actually pretty good

01:17:50.980 that there's a wider variety of cultural material that is available and you can still if you want to

01:17:58.140 get a community people that's into it you can still find these things you can find them online

01:18:02.240 for starters and yeah do you lose the fact that you can't go into work and say hey what did you

01:18:08.600 guys think of tv show number seven last night and everyone's like yeah i love tv show number seven

01:18:14.240 so personally i like that i don't have to watch tv show number seven necessarily um okay i think

01:18:20.320 i think these things could be matters of degrees i think monoculture is probably if i had to just

01:18:25.960 approximate 70 good 30 and maybe it's better that you have so like you're pointing out you're being

01:18:31.460 contrarian here but it's like i i still think it's better for culture to all be sharing have

01:18:39.060 shared experiences because it brings us together in small ways that that are important right so the

01:18:44.880 last sort of cultural moment that we have all together is the super bowl right when people

01:18:49.660 talk about this um that's a valuable thing i i don't know i just it it makes america feel like

01:18:55.660 america i think if my neighbor feel like i think if you recall it's it's them screwing around with

01:19:01.060 the super bowl that let us to be able to do what we did earlier this year but i'm this i i will be

01:19:07.160 the first to say that i don't want that but i actually would prefer they don't screw it up

01:19:11.780 because i want everybody do you think america had more of a monoculture that was our goal

01:19:15.840 Do you think America had more of a monoculture in 1990 or in 1930?

01:19:24.120 I would think 1990, probably.

01:19:26.220 Definitely.

01:19:26.900 So what I would say is if you went back 50 years,

01:19:30.140 the complaint from conservatives like us would be about the loss of any regional identity in the United States.

01:19:35.760 We've lost regional accents, regional culture.

01:19:38.980 It used to be country music, for example, totally a regional thing.

01:19:42.440 No, no, no, I can see this point.

01:19:43.220 I wasn't thinking about it like that, and I actually totally agree with it.

01:19:48.340 I would say, okay, so for the 1930s, right, we had more regional culture,

01:19:52.800 and there was also like a huge ethnic boom of immigration that we were absorbing.

01:19:58.480 We used to have ethnic churches.

01:19:59.920 It stopped at the Great Depression through the end of World War II, basically, okay?

01:20:04.200 So you had about 15 years of just like zero immigration.

01:20:06.340 The Great Depression, like 1930 to maybe 1930 to 1980, 90 or so, 0.93

01:20:12.780 is probably the peak in world history for creating national monocultures because you're able to have

01:20:20.140 mass communication but it's still resource intensive to generate those so you have

01:20:25.360 worlds though because we're like a lot of this is media driven too yeah i was gonna say we're

01:20:30.600 getting the worst of both worlds though because we're eroding regional culture because as you

01:20:35.440 said earlier indians in you know outside of dallas are still watching like you know india

01:20:42.160 play the music yeah exactly cue the music they're still watching the the content from their home

01:20:48.600 country right uh but so they're not really texas you don't get the charm of a texan in their you

01:20:53.880 know their uh brisket you're getting like you're getting something totally different nor are they

01:20:59.580 a part of a monoculture so nor can i share something national with them it's all it's all

01:21:05.040 foobar at that point so i mean the point is i'd rather have a monoculture uh that we can all share

01:21:10.840 at least in this day and age as opposed to just bifurcated where regions don't even matter

01:21:16.480 so marshall mcclellan um if you read any of his stuff he just just like totally in the 1960s

01:21:22.500 called all of this and you know he pointed out how you the rise of television to blake's point

01:21:29.740 you know led to the loss of regional culture but then he also predicted that as information became

01:21:36.180 um, more democratized and that the, the sort of like the mechanisms by which we create media

01:21:44.180 would become easier and cheaper, uh, to, you know, the, the, uh, the, uh, the methods of

01:21:50.580 production as it, as it were means of production, as it were that we would become bifurcated and,

01:21:55.580 and, you know, the, that monoculture will be smashed apart again. And so what we're seeing

01:21:59.940 now is we rather than have regional identity. So we have regional identity, which still exists.

01:22:05.200 You see a lot with sports teams more than anything else. Then we also have our our general monoculture, which has taken the biggest hit.

01:22:13.760 And that's why we have the loss of the national pride of being an American that we're currently fighting to get back.

01:22:21.800 Right. To get back to that bicentennialism, which also coincided with the probably the peak of that monoculture or, you know, at least proceeding to that peak of the 1990s.

01:22:30.220 And then, um, with the rise of the internet, no, now we are subdividing yet again, but

01:22:36.920 we're not subdividing by region.

01:22:38.640 We're subdividing also by sort of like internet identity. 0.51

01:22:42.780 So it's sort of like, it's like, you're, you're getting into these trans identity. 0.97

01:22:47.960 That's what I identify as, or identify as this crazy group that I found on TikTok. 0.95

01:22:52.760 And then I go into the discord chat and now that's my identity. 0.99

01:22:56.480 And we got feminism.

01:22:57.180 so you know uh so angela's saying we should wrap because we we we've gone over time but this has

01:23:02.500 been a really fun conversation lots to think about uh but i'll put it to the to you guys the crew do

01:23:07.820 we want to wrap on a ck clip talking about how feminism has failed women or do we want to wrap

01:23:13.140 on a pizza hut clip do we have a charlie clip talking about pizza hut charlie wasn't she said

01:23:19.560 charlie wasn't allowed to eat pizza so he would uh even when he was a kid well no i'm just saying

01:23:24.040 he wouldn't eat it today he would just say that pizza was really unhealthy and he would probably

01:23:27.280 say everyone should just eat ground beef and lettuce and how about we do this it's cheese

01:23:32.220 it's bread it's meat i mean it's like all the food groups right there uh bread yeah do you

01:23:36.940 think charlie's gonna eat bread let's go out on charlie here we go so this is that remember 0.99

01:23:42.300 yeah go out on charlie of course 62 percent of all degrees going to women and they're

01:23:45.860 happier than they've ever been and charlie understood this until next thursday keep 1.00

01:23:50.800 committing thought crimes. Feminism is the glaring thing in front of us where we have fertility rates 1.00

01:23:56.940 down, we have marriage rates down, we have unhappiness up, and we did something in the 1960s 1.00

01:24:02.140 out of the universities of Bredi Friedan and Gloria Steinem and all these feminists that 0.99

01:24:06.520 basically said you're trapped in a home, go get a job, freeze your eggs, take birth control, 1.00

01:24:10.400 and all of a sudden women are way unhappier than they were 40 years ago. And I just have to ask 1.00

01:24:14.500 the question, why is that? Is it working? And maybe there are biological differences between

01:24:19.680 men and women that we should respect and that deep down a lot of women want to get married

01:24:23.520 and have children in fact we should applaud it and we should support it and we should say it means

01:24:27.840 nothing if you're going to be a ceo of some shoe company or be some banker in london what matters

01:24:32.240 if you raise children and you have something to pass down long after you're gone

01:24:49.680 You

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - May 24, 2026

THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 128 — Pizza Hut Nationalism？ America 250？ Call Her Mommy？

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