THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 19 — UFC and Bud Light? Rich, Childless Countries? Ebony Alerts?
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Summary
On this week's episode of Thought Crime, the boys talk about the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Philadelphia Phillies, and the greatest branding disaster in the history of sports. Also, the UFC, Bud Light, and Da Jesus Book.
Transcript
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard to this week's edition of Thought Crime.
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Today, myself, Charlie Kirk, and the boys talk about the truth about college sports,
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UFC and Bud Light, cancel culture, should we partake, ebony alerts in California,
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Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to commit thought crime.
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DNSA specifically targets the communications of everyone.
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I wasn't sure if the waiting for the shot to come up because what can I say?
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That was the only one that they had for sale out in the middle of.
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Yeah, the only one that they could overnight was, where's the A?
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I'd like to thank Tyler Boyer as well as Jessica Barshis for letting me know of my newfound and
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here for a lifelong adoration of what's the name of the team again?
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No, I know it's Arizona, but what's the dingle bat?
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And I just, I just really support their endeavors so much.
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This is the greatest branding disaster in the history of sports.
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So it made, it made sense in the nineties, like teal and purple made sense in the nineties.
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So the Diamondbacks, when they were, when they started, they played at bank one ballpark.
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And they, they tried a snake, but you can only do so much as a snake.
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And so they're like, oh, well, we'll just, because it's Bob, we'll call him Baxter for
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So we have the Phoenix Suns gorilla, which makes no sense, which is a historical thing.
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Wait, you have the gorilla for the Phoenix Suns?
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And so a guy used to show up, just dressed as a gorilla, dancing all around.
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But Tyler, when did the purple thing stop existing?
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When did they go to this awful red and black combo?
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When Jerry Colangelo sold the team to the Kendricks.
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It was like, it was actually like 2008, I think.
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Well, now it's now it's Sedona red and turquoise is like, I like the old, I like the old, the
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It is super 90s in the way all the teams that joined sports leagues from 95 to 2000 had
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Even the Rams, the then St. Louis Rams changed to that strange metallic gold color.
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Now we're going back to the real golden age, though, which is 70s uniforms.
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So we were in the chat and Jack said, there's no way that the Phil's are, you know, with
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their $300 million are going to drop two games of Philadelphia and boom.
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You know that the Philadelphia Phillies have the biggest payroll of any team in baseball.
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You know, they have a big payroll, but they are going to have the second most championships
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Okay, Jack, as a Philly fan, you're used to heartbreak tragedy.
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You know, I've been a Philly fan my entire life.
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So, I mean, you think this L is, is anything for us?
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And then, please, we've lost Super Bowls on the world stage.
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We've lost, you know, we've had champions go to the Olympics and lose big.
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So, please, this is, this is like a Wednesday for us.
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Well, you guys got a Super Bowl recently, though.
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Wait, I think it was Nick Foles who came in for a, the North Dakota kid that tore his ACL.
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Yeah, but then Nick Foles, a University of Arizona product, right, Tyler?
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You know, everybody thought that Foles was going to, you know, second string quarterback.
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How could a second stringer win the whole thing?
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So, this happens not in the Super Bowl, but a couple of games before in playoff.
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So, Foles takes over who's just a washed up buster and just goes nuts.
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They beat the Patriots, if I remember correctly, in New Jersey.
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The Super Bowl was in the Meadowlands, if I remember correctly.
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They were so worried it was going to be a snowstorm Super Bowl.
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The best lore on the Phillies, before we move on, is they do have the most losses of any professional team in American sports.
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The Phillies have managed to lose 11,241 times.
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So, they were just really, they were an original team that was really bad.
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They are bad enough that with Jack's new team, the Dingleberries, Diamondbacks, they would have to lose every single game.
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They would have to lose every single game for something like 30 years in a row to have lost as many games as the Phillies.
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Yeah, so you see, again, Carly, like, this is nothing for us.
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This is like, come on, this, I was, I remember actually having.
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Okay, fair, okay, fair, so you know, so you know, right?
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We actually had, when we were kids, I remember my dad actually had season tickets for the sort of, you know, famous 93 Phillies.
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And went to, you know, went to a ton of the games.
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Got to see everybody, Mike Schmidt, even earlier than that.
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And, you know, growing up, that's back when the games were held at Veterans Stadium, which doesn't even exist anymore.
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And I remember just, you know, we would, you know, we could only, we only had enough money for two tickets.
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So what my brother and I, what my dad would do is, you know, one of us would go to one game, one would go to the other.
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Well, best of luck in, I think it starts tomorrow, right?
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Where they don't win a lot of games in Arlington.
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By the way, Tyler, I'm not sure what the confines of our bet were, but this is like a winter cap and I've got the heat on in here.
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You just have to pull it to the crown of your head and wear it like they wear it in Philly.
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We said, we said, we said the show, but I don't know.
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By the way, whole show or a portion of the show.
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See, because it's, because it's got the A on it for proposal.
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I just want to, I want to reiterate something that was said.
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This was the first game seven that the Phillies have ever lost.
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It was the first game seven they've ever been to in their history.
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But they won a World Series like in 08 or something, right?
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But they still, like this whole like complaining, if you win one more than every 50 years, you're
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And Bryce Harper, how can you like Bryce Harper?
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I was laughing at Lauren because we were watching.
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Schwarber looks like your average dad in the pickup line at school.
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He also has the most home runs of any left-handed hitter.
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He's also like the worst hitter to be a big home run hitter.
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Doesn't he average 190 or something bad on the average?
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We want to go right into the sports angle, Blake?
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Because, I mean, just so everyone understands kind of how we're approaching this.
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We got another potential mass shooting in New Jersey.
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And we have three hours of that we do every day.
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And then can get into Dana White and UFC and Bud Light.
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But let's just start with the topic that we'd usually wait for longer.
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Because you are living through a total seismic change in philanthropy, college sports, higher education, young men, and how they get paid when they play football.
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There was an article in the New York Times a few days ago.
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It was called, How Rich Donors and Loose Rules are Transforming College Sports.
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So a few years ago, the NCAA lost a Supreme Court case, which said, you know, you can't stop players from profiting off their name image likeness.
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And so this opened the door to players receiving some compensation while being college athletes.
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And it took very little time for this to evolve.
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This decision was, I want to say, about three years ago or so.
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And it's already become this new thing where what donors have realized they can do is they set up these donor collectives, they call them.
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There's more than 100 of these now at all the big schools.
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And they essentially just collect money from boosters of this school.
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Some of them are for-profit entities or at least not not-for-profit.
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And some are non-profits that you can donate to and get a tax deduction for it.
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And these collectives come up with various ways to play players overwhelmingly in D1 college football or D1 college basketball.
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So one player at Michigan State University makes $750,000 per year as a college athlete.
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At Ohio State University, some players not only get a paycheck, they get a free car lease as well.
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Who, by the way, is a bully and will hopefully be by the Oregon Ducks this weekend.
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He's like, if you play for me, you all get a truck.
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And just Cade McNamara, he was a quarterback at Michigan.
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He's not even good, and he was going to transfer.
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And he just essentially openly says, yeah, I'm just looking at the different offers.
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But at least LeBron James was a full professional.
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So Cade McNamara is at one taxpayer-funded public university where he says, you know, I'm going
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He ends up transferring to Iowa, another taxpayer-funded public university.
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He is paid $600 per hour for a non-profit job of delivering meals to seniors and visiting
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$600 an hour is what a New York corporate attorney who's a partner would make.
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The IRS is going to come after this pretty hard.
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There's a guidance letter on collectives, right?
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No, their guidance letter said in July that they're basically going to start coming after
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I will believe it when I see consequences for it.
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And I think in the medium term, though, it is...
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Well, it takes them two years to three years to respond to anything.
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So it does stand out to me, though, that when you think of the reasons people would traditionally
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give for liking college sports so much, even though it is a lower level of play than
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professional, it's, you know, they would cite the identifying with the school, the ideal
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of a student athlete, amateurism historically, just really identifying with a specific place.
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And it just does seem very jarring, at least to me, that it becomes so mercenary that everyone
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is essentially just going to pick what place can pay me the most under this new setup and
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becoming this de facto minor league for a major pro sports league when they're still mostly
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First of all, with all the conference realignment, this was happening anyway, right?
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So as far as the kind of professionalization of college sports, the innocence of college
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But I want to push back a little bit, though, Blake.
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So I met an individual, I'm not going to say who, Tyler knows who this person is, I'll
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And he was like, hey, look, I remember he hit a game-winning field goal, right?
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He played for a team in the Big 12, went to his locker, and there's $10,000 cash waiting
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So if you think this is new, players have been getting paid hardcore cash.
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It's just the devil's advocate, Blake, it's just that now it's out in the open.
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I know another college athlete, played for USC, dumb as a boxer rocks.
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Again, intelligence, as Tucker Carlson said, is not a moral value.
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Um, and so, dumb guy, they would pay the players in the off-season through the non-profit
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of the foundation to just literally, like, watch footballs.
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So, Blake, it just seems to be now in the public eye.
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And I guess, taking a step back, if people like college football or college basketball,
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What bothers me, I will say, is, again, that we are corrupting institutions that ostensibly
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Because these, we still pretend these people are student athletes.
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And then, in turn, we corrupt these institutions.
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So, if you go to some of these schools, UNC's had scandals about this, Ohio State has had
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scandals about this, where, okay, you're a student athlete, but because you're one of
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our scholarship student athletes, you have a separate dorm area, you go to a different
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building for classes, we have special athlete-only classes, we have special athlete-only tutors
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who, you know, assist you a lot in your scholarly endeavors.
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We've had scandals at our military service academies, where professors have complained,
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we are lowering academic standards for people whose job is to protect the United States in
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order to make sure that the, you know, the Navy midshipmen are able to win more football
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And they've won a lot of football games as a result.
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And it does, it just bothers me that this is, apparently, like, the supreme expression of
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American values is competition in college sports, such that we will dilute illustrious institutions
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Well, so, Tyler, you know, to talk about this, talk about how the money flows.
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We happen to think of ourselves a little bit pros on how the left funds itself over at
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So, if you've heard of Arabella Advisors, so you know Arabella, they have become the epicenter
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at manipulating C3 dollars in order to push a political narrative, right?
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It's very similar to how NIL is doing it, specifically with these collectives, as you've
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These collectives now have been slapped by the IRS saying, we're going to come after you,
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So, they've already started moving into for-profit collectives and then taking C3 dollars from
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C3 organizations that are legit C3 organizations that have existed for years and years and years
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New C3s are under a microscope much more often than old C3s.
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So, like the American Heart Association, probably not going to get, you know, going to get canceled
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But a brand new political C3, like what happened under Obama, is going to get yanked.
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And so, this is what's happening with the NILs.
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The NILs, these new C3 collectives, are getting scrutinized.
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And so, they're going now to old C3s that have existed, family foundations, things like
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that that have existed, and said, give the money to them.
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They will now give money to these for-profit collectives.
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The for-profit collectives, they don't have to worry about very much there anyways.
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They're not worried about taxes and paying taxes.
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And now, those for-profit collectives are now giving the money and the gifts and things
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Arabella operates as a for-profit entity that takes in all these C3 dollars.
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And so, Jack, your thoughts on this, on college sports in general, but also, you know,
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has this actually always been as innocent as we like to think?
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Well, Charlie, I think we, you know, and of course, you've done the yeoman's work on
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exposing colleges in terms of the general scam of colleges.
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And so, what we're really talking about here is a subset of the college scam.
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So, the college sports scam is really, you know, you could write a new chapter or even
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sort of like a sequel to your last book on this because, again, we've totally gotten
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away from colleges as an institution of learning, as a place where, again, people were supposed
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Not everybody was going to college when these things originally started.
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Most people graduated school and went right into the workforce if they went to school at
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But it's become so much of a credentialing factory, a diploma mill, if you will, in terms
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And so, now, by and large, the same way that you see these endowments, the same way you
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see these universities being run as essentially hedge funds with an academics department, you're
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seeing these sports departments and, you know, in many cases, just football.
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This has become not just the driver of the institution, but actually its own enterprise
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And, again, the university and all of it, it's just there for show or there, by the
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way, for them to justify more federal funding that they're able to receive for their giant
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new center, their giant new center, whatever it is.
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We've completely lost sight of what the purpose of college or university should be.
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And, by the way, I say that as a guy who I didn't go there, but my dad, most people in
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We're a big, actually, Posobics are a huge Penn State family.
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And, you know, I didn't go myself because I didn't want to live in State College.
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But the idea is that these universities have become basically a world unto themselves,
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It's become this massive influx and flow of money to the enemies of the republic, to
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the enemies of patriots, to the enemies, in this case, of civilization.
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And so when I see something like this going on, you know, my first thought is, why do we
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allow these people to be non-profit, to go back to what Tyler was saying, why do we allow
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Why do we give them IRS rates when they're taking in this much money?
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Why do we allow these things to operate with federal funds in many cases at public institutions?
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We should obviously be cracking up this entire system, opening the books, figuring out if
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they owe taxes, make them pay taxes on all of these things.
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And when it comes down to the student debt crisis, you know, I'm not really much of a
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Take the money from the universities that have it.
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I want to respond to a comment in the chat, Ilonzo Musk, where he says, there are many things
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corrupting colleges and sports is low on the list.
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I don't know if I agree that it's low on the list.
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The amount of money that we're talking about here is pretty, pretty substantial.
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But I do agree there are a lot of things that are corrupting it.
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We just had an article shared in our show chat that points out, you know, Qatar has funneled
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We know Saudi Arabia has funneled a lot of money in.
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The Chinese Communist Party has funneled money in.
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And then nevermind the sheer number of just normal people of bizarre ideological stripes
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who put money in our universities and enable all sorts of absolute insanity in them.
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And I think, but I do think sports, because it is so high profile and because so many people
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watch it and engage with it and are really aware of what happens.
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And we're going to get these long articles about it in the New York Times.
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Because it's maybe a useful way for us to think about our country's relationship with
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So you know who the biggest fans of kind of the popularity of college football is?
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Are the people that want the institutions to remain woke.
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One of the things that stop major donors from completely detaching from these universities
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Let's just take one school, for example, University of Alabama.
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But that football culture is so strong, they're going to keep on raising money.
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And so what we're looking at actually is one of the reasons we have not been able to get
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the rallying cry from conservative America to stop giving money or at least stopping sending
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kids or stop supporting is because they want to keep on cheering on their favorite college
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It's a huge, it is a form of, it is, it's weaponizing your emotional attachments against
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And I think in other contexts, we're much more aware of them doing that.
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People have noticed this when they make, you know, woke versions of Star Wars or Lord
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of the Rings or something that they're trying to take something you care about and use it
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And with college, we're seeing this at, you know, once, once removed.
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So the product itself is not intolerably woke, but it is being used to keep you attached and
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serving this system that is enormously politicized, is enormously damaging to everything you care
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Now, maybe that's not saying a lot because at the rate they're spending money on some of
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these things, it seems there are people who only care about college sports.
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Yes, so this is a good transition, though, also to the Jewish donors that are starting
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This seems to start to have a lot of momentum today.
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Leon Cooperman, legend, billionaire, investor, basically went on Fox Business.
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You see this with Ken Griffin, with Harvard, the Huntsman, with Penn.
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Tyler, these universities are actually far more fickle and fragile financially than people
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You sat on the Board of Regents here in Arizona.
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You know, there is this, there's this belief that they're sitting on billions of dollars,
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but a lot of it is land and immovable assets and, you know, things they can't liquidate.
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Tyler, talk about how financially fragile these universities actually are and how college
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Well, yeah, you just brought up John Huntsman's no conservative, right?
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No, he's a left-winger LARPing as a Republican.
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We're talking about like moderates now are starting to pull their money.
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And now, this has happened in the background, by the way.
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A lot of the academic enterprise, you know, that's happening in all these different states
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is now going, holy crap, like all these moderates that we thought, these rhinos that we
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thought were our friends, are now pulling back money.
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There's serious talk the president of Penn might have to resign over what their donors
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Because like Charlie just said, the only, most of these assets are not liquid.
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So, for example, like Harvard has a $45 billion endowment, sort of.
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They have, and not to mention, it's all wrapped up in land.
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And then, all the money that they have access to is controlled by a large board.
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Not to mention, there's also, no one ever talks about this.
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There's an invisible hand that's at almost every university that sometimes controls the
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board of trustees or regents that they have to work through, which is usually staff.
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And that's eventually all the craziness that's happening.
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The only money that they do have liquid is in their foundations.
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And there's not that much capital there, though.
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The number one foundation that exists in Arizona, or maybe it's not number one, but it's really
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They're sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars.
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They raise $150 million a year, $200 million a year.
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So the thing that you just brought up is they've said, hey, stop giving to the university.
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Because now the university president can pay him and all his friends, like, six, seven-figure
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You know, Brnovich was the one that actually started to expose this.
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So, Jack, you're a Philadelphia guy, as we could tell by your hat.
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Wharton megadonor and billionaire Mark Rowan has stopped giving and publicly calling on
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Mark Rowan, by the way, is a conservative Jewish donor.
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He gives money to the NRSC, and he said he's done.
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Utah billionaire John Huntsman has stopped giving to UPenn.
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David Megerman, who has helped build Renaissance Technologies, which is the Mercer family.
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Uh, Renaissance Technologies was Mercer and, uh, Simmons or something like that.
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No, but you know, the, the, the building at Wharton is named literally Huntsman's.
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High-saged ventures who has given tens of millions of UPenn his closest checkbook.
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So, so, Jack, you're, you spent a lot of time in Philadelphia.
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University of Pennsylvania is kind of the, the, the ivory tower of ivory tower of like
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So do we have any, and I'm going to ask Blake this question because he went to the Ivy League
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So we have to ask him, but I'll get to him in a second because people, we have affirmative
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So, uh, let's Jack who should get the question first.
00:29:36.500
Is there going to be, well, do you think that these rich guys will eventually have a bunch
00:29:39.880
of meetings and dinners and eventually be kind of like, oh, it's not that bad.
00:29:44.260
And we made some reforms or we actually seeing what we've been calling for, which is a starting
00:29:50.660
of a conscious of the rich, like better elites.
00:29:53.500
We have been asking for rich people to start to act, to act ethically, not to get rid of
00:29:58.260
rich people, just have rich people that care about the nation care about their giving.
00:30:02.900
Jack, is this the beginning of a promising trend?
00:30:07.360
I mean, Charlie, when you're, we're talking about the, when you put the name Huntsman out
00:30:10.780
there that really, that really shocked me because I, um, you know, I've, people know
00:30:19.400
They know her father for being the governor of Utah, but Huntsman senior, um, this was
00:30:23.640
the guy who invented like the styrofoam that make egg cartons.
00:30:28.520
He invented the, remember the big Mac clam, you know, the clam, the big Macs, he invented
00:30:34.320
A lot of the plastic that you have in, in, you know, disposable, um, silverware for these
00:30:39.460
types of things that was all Huntsman senior Huntsman chemicals.
00:30:41.740
So the amount of money we are talking about here is, is serious, uh, just, just world
00:30:47.680
level generational wealth that Huntsman's have.
00:30:50.460
And so the idea that they're going to be pulling out, I guess I'll believe it when I
00:30:56.040
see it, Charlie, that's why we need, you know, it, what we really need is some type of
00:31:02.000
watchdog organization to keep an eye on these donors, particularly when it comes to campus.
00:31:08.840
I know if only there was a professor list that was updated in real time, we could call
00:31:15.320
it like a professor watch list and we could actually list the names.
00:31:18.660
I will say, Tyler, you've been around for almost eight years now, right?
00:31:26.340
And I think January is your nine year anniversary, right?
00:31:32.420
Like professor watch lists will go down as to one of the greatest thing you've ever
00:31:35.860
It's one of the, it's one of the biggest spikes that we've ever had.
00:31:39.640
It's one of the coolest things we've ever done.
00:31:41.460
So, so Blake, you went to an Ivy league school, you're super smart, you know, high IQ, Dartmouth,
00:31:45.940
you know, high society kind of psychology really well.
00:31:53.660
What I will want to see is rich people can have their obsessions and be very focused on
00:32:00.900
And right now it is driven by a news event with a very narrow application to it, which
00:32:06.580
is these schools are having radical anti-Israel groups that frequently just cross the line
00:32:13.920
And the narrow version of this would be, they try to placate either, well, one, they forget
00:32:19.080
about it or two, they placate them by essentially cracking down on this narrow set of groups,
00:32:24.740
which is, you know, students for justice and Palatine, you get the heave ho, you guys suck.
00:32:34.940
And the other risk I would see is if we see conservative leaning donors, instead of us
00:32:41.360
dragging them away from enabling all this hateful rhetoric, we just end up dragging ourselves
00:32:46.740
into it's okay to do lots of censorship and we'll be okay with censoring conservatives as
00:32:52.080
long as we also censor some left-wing groups that criticize Israel or whatever group you
00:32:58.860
And I'm not sure what the right outcome is going to be, but I've been, I didn't like
00:33:03.140
how in Florida, Ron DeSantis just issued an executive order, I believe, or someone in
00:33:07.940
his government did, that just said, we're unilaterally de-recognizing, all of our colleges
00:33:12.980
are ordered to de-recognize the following pro-Palestine groups.
00:33:16.360
And I don't like it because one, they're going to lose in court, and two, they're really, they
00:33:22.800
are damaging the fact that we are pro-free speech.
00:33:25.380
And I would rather, instead of just having this turn into a bad for free speech thing, it
00:33:29.300
turns into a don't give infinite money to universities for whatever they want thing.
00:33:33.780
Yeah, so this is important, let's just, so this is, so Florida orders, mostly it's Ron
00:33:38.760
DeSantis, state universities to disband pro-Palestinian student group saying it backs Hamas.
00:33:46.300
So, sorry to interrupt you, Blake, but just so everyone understands, this is a student group
00:33:49.680
that I've gone up against, so is Tyler, it's called Students for Justice of Palestine.
00:33:53.440
They're nearly ubiquitous, in some ways they're the Arab Muslim turning point USA, they're
00:34:00.480
They're activistic, not as well, actually they might be as well funded because they
00:34:03.240
get Muslim, they do get, so Blake, just to play devil's advocate though, they get Muslim
00:34:07.900
brotherhood money, they get suspicious capital flows from the Middle East, that's proven.
00:34:16.400
By the way, I tend to agree with you, Blake, but I'm just playing devil's advocate.
00:34:18.780
Why would we allow student groups that receive money from legit terror organizations on our
00:34:26.560
If they're getting illegal money, I would say go after the illegal money.
00:34:29.920
Well, they directly aren't, but the national organization is, right?
00:34:35.320
Yeah, well, I, again, I'm a bit of an absolutist on speech, so I don't like the idea of anyone
00:34:39.660
just getting shut down for that reason, and that is unfortunately the reason that DeSantis,
00:34:45.600
is that the Florida government was giving, which is they, by speaking in support of what
00:34:52.560
And that's a standard we definitely do not want to prevail, because what is the argument
00:35:00.080
Yeah, that we, we're intimidating people, we are threatening them with our political advocacy,
00:35:05.940
Trump caused the insurrection because he said that we're going to fight.
00:35:08.980
We do not want that to become the norm, because if that is the rule, it is a rule that will
00:35:13.300
be used against us far more than it will be used against anyone on the left.
00:35:17.020
And I just personally believe it's immoral for its own sake.
00:35:20.480
So, Tyler, do you think, I see it both ways, honestly.
00:35:22.920
So, are, I mean, some of the language that these kids use, this is not like advocacy at
00:35:26.760
times, this is legit Jew hatred, and like, I want to kill my opponent.
00:35:37.000
I think you should be, I agree, you should be, if you're an American on an American university
00:35:42.080
campus, say whatever dumb thing that you want, right?
00:35:47.280
But if you're an organization that's coming onto the campus that's funded from an outside
00:35:51.240
group, it's just like, it's like the Saudis buying our land in Arizona.
00:35:56.840
It's like the Chinese buying up, buying up houses, right?
00:36:02.080
And so, I think that there is such thing as ideological real estate at our universities
00:36:11.860
It's like, we shouldn't allow them to be able to purchase that.
00:36:13.560
So, I think what we want here is, you want the direction to not be, you have these groups
00:36:21.000
I would like the focus to be, here's all these professors whose chairs you endowed.
00:36:27.060
We have these endowed chairs, and these professors are lunatics who endorse all of this.
00:36:30.980
I think we can object to having professors who produce no useful scholarship in most cases.
00:36:37.200
They literally have grievance-related positions in, you know, ethnic studies.
00:36:48.960
The guy at Cornell who was saying, you know, I was so excited when I saw, you know, a tingle
00:36:53.980
Like, when I saw the scalped babies, like, that guy just has a joke job.
00:37:02.580
Like, with that, that's with, like, the professor watch list.
00:37:09.040
To Strongman Blake's argument, then I'm going to play devil's advocate and throw it to Jack.
00:37:12.140
Look, I could see Governor Gavin Newsom signing an order saying Turning Point USA is a terror
00:37:18.100
organization and is not allowed on university campuses in California.
00:37:25.220
That would help more people, conservatives, leave California and go to states that we need
00:37:32.460
Some of our best students are California, right?
00:37:39.940
So, the, is, forget your opinions of Ron DeSantis.
00:37:46.140
Let's just say Governor A, you know, does this, okay?
00:37:49.980
Is Ron, is this the right move to say that Students for Justice of Palestine should not
00:37:57.040
Are you in favor of creating a blacklist for these 31 student organizers at Harvard that
00:38:05.720
Well, see, and I will actually kind of respond to, I'll just say what I said.
00:38:09.940
To the DeSantis administration on Twitter when they did this.
00:38:14.880
But are you going to include all of the Black Lives Matter chapters that are now coming out
00:38:22.280
Will you include all Black Lives Matter chapters that exist anywhere in the state of Florida
00:38:26.580
that are associated with any university that falls under public funding, right?
00:38:30.340
So, again, Charlie, the issue that I have here is that there's these half measures that sort
00:38:35.920
of go in a little bit, but don't go all the way.
00:38:38.660
So, they're not actually taking the full, like, if we're going to start banning leftists
00:38:43.140
and banning leftist organizations, let's go all the way.
00:38:45.700
Let's actually go all the way and do it for real.
00:38:47.920
When it comes to the doxing truck and the blacklisting, I saw the latest headline on the
00:39:00.780
So, the doxing truck, just in a quick, you know, TLDR, is this is the truck that is playing
00:39:07.140
all the names and faces on a digital screen, basically a digital billboard on the side
00:39:11.900
of a panel truck that's driving all the way around, basically, the Harvard campus and off
00:39:17.900
campus with the names of every single student that's signed onto this anti-Israel document,
00:39:26.780
And now it's gotten to the point where every day the truck is parking in front of one of
00:39:32.180
the people's houses and actually broadcasting their name and face for everyone right in front
00:39:45.020
Make sure not just the students, but go after the teachers as well.
00:39:48.800
Anyone who went on with this, make sure that you put it out there and you put it everywhere
00:39:54.700
Because remember, guys, it's not it's not about canceling.
00:40:06.320
It's about the arc of morality and the moral justice of the universe.
00:40:10.760
Look, until we start embracing these tactics, the left is just going to continue to use them
00:40:15.520
against us, to use them against our families, to use them against our friends.
00:40:20.180
Anytime you make one wrong move, and I'm sorry, but the conservative response to just throw
00:40:26.600
your hands up and say, no, no, that's not fair.
00:40:29.200
It's not going to work and it's never going to work.
00:40:31.960
You have to fight fire with fire at some point.
00:40:39.160
So, I mean, I think that some American Jews are embracing that, right?
00:40:42.740
I think that there is such a fresh memory to the horrors of the Holocaust that a lot of
00:40:51.440
We kind of control a lot of these universities, institutions, at least through boards and
00:40:59.700
I mean, you have come out against the blacklisting.
00:41:03.740
I mean, I'm certainly sympathetic to blacklisting these specific people because they're really
00:41:09.900
And it's been delicious to see some of them on Twitter.
00:41:12.660
And we can just drag out their comments in 2017 where they're just, you know, where
00:41:17.380
they're just praising every single cancellation ever.
00:41:19.700
And they're now, whoa, oh no, I just got in trouble because I said that Hamas scalping
00:41:32.860
I thought, I think a lot of us did like when America was a country where you could say
00:41:37.380
things and not have horrible stuff happen to you.
00:41:40.040
And if cancellation, if reciprocal cancellation takes us towards a reality where we don't need
00:41:45.120
to cancel everyone, you know, over every opinion they have, I would consider that, you
00:41:51.740
But I don't like the idea that we just end up in this ideological terror zone where everyone
00:41:56.600
is going around pulverizing everyone to smithereens because of opinions they had in college.
00:42:01.620
So just to be very clear before the Anti-Defamation League tries to murder me in my sleep,
00:42:05.320
what I was saying is that they'll probably try to murder you while you're awake.
00:42:08.480
So Jews have given billions of dollars to institutions and they're using what leverage
00:42:12.600
they have to try and stop Jew hatred on these campuses.
00:42:18.220
You say here in the chat, we've always had cancel culture.
00:42:23.420
Well, I mean, you can talk about supporting freedom of speech and you can talk about supporting
00:42:29.720
the idea of freedom from the, I guess, law enforcement repercussions of speech in the country.
00:42:35.980
But I do think that we've always generally had cancel culture in what we would call the
00:42:41.720
popular culture or the popular mainstream society, for lack of a better term, because
00:42:48.500
it's just been that in the past it was basically pro-civilizational forces, pro-civilizational
00:42:56.560
individuals who held the rungs of power, the reins of power, and now it is anti-civilizational
00:43:04.500
So, for example, people speaking out against Christ, people, you know, John Lennon's famous
00:43:09.260
comments about, you know, about Jesus being bigger than Jesus, et cetera, that led to a
00:43:17.180
Now, it didn't lead to legal repercussions or anything like that.
00:43:21.280
But I do think that moral cancellation has been part of not just America, but Western
00:43:36.200
I think the stuff you would get canceled for believing 300 years ago was a wider range and
00:43:41.800
what you would call cancellation could be a lot more severe.
00:43:46.320
You have surges of this and then you have periods where it backs off.
00:43:49.940
Most of us were young people in the 90s, early 2000s.
00:43:56.520
It was kind of uncool to care too much about politics.
00:43:59.320
The idea of relentlessly digging into someone's past to find some random statement they made
00:44:06.160
and then, oh, you don't get to host the Oscars anymore or appear in a movie or you're going
00:44:11.220
The idea that you would have the New York Times or some magazine do a profile on a person
00:44:16.820
who's otherwise a totally normal individual who's not famous just to get them fired,
00:44:21.420
which that was what peak cancel culture was, was Gawker would go and they would just say,
00:44:25.820
here's all these kids who said the N-word on Twitter.
00:44:27.740
And we just contacted all of their colleges that admitted them.
00:44:30.120
And we got these people's admissions rescinded.
00:44:38.140
And we've seen that happen to people and we're kind of having it happen with this.
00:44:45.840
And in this case, maybe it's merited because they're super unhinged and it's probably at
00:44:50.760
least a little problematic if you're going to go work with a bunch of Jewish people in
00:44:54.380
New York and you're on the record saying that every Jew should drink blood and their kids
00:44:58.800
can be decapitated because they're settler colonists.
00:45:01.440
It's understandable that this is an extreme case, but I don't, I don't like the concession
00:45:06.960
or the attitude that's just, well, you know, we're just in a war of one side against the
00:45:11.520
other and you should just do whatever you want to the other side.
00:45:14.740
But given that we are in the war, Blake, don't you want to win?
00:45:17.980
So then, I mean, we have to kind of check our, I mean, I kind of agree with the, the high
00:45:23.100
mindedness that you're pursuing, but we are kind of in this nasty trench knife fight,
00:45:30.480
I think there are tactics we can do that we choose not to use for some reason.
00:45:34.980
And one of those things is just, okay, if you don't like what these colleges do or they
00:45:41.040
Like before we decide cancel culture is great, why don't we go to the Arizona legislature and
00:45:45.100
say, why does any publicly funded university in the state of Arizona have an X studies
00:45:51.960
None of them are allowed to work for any of our institutions again.
00:45:55.520
That's don't literally give money to people who hate you.
00:45:58.280
I mean, of course, you know, I agree with that.
00:46:01.040
I think what we're at, Tyler, you want to jump in here is that there's this kind of, we have
00:46:07.700
I don't think any of us delight in quote unquote canceling somebody.
00:46:11.060
At the same time, I mean, Blake, these people, you know, they're horrific.
00:46:15.540
They want us, they want to exert pain on us, right?
00:46:21.920
And I don't lose sleep over making the people that have made a profession of delighting in
00:46:27.780
our suffering all of a sudden have to fear that they might lose their job because they
00:46:37.220
And the best argument I think is if this is what, you know, sort of mutual escalation can
00:46:41.720
bring us to a sort of a peace deal that I would appreciate.
00:46:50.400
It is good for Turnabout to come to, to quote Dante's divine comedy.
00:47:02.320
At the same time, we're left with really, we, okay.
00:47:05.440
So the really is really, I hate to be binary, but right, Tyler, there's two options.
00:47:08.080
We do nothing and write op-eds and say, it's wrong to cancel people while they're literally
00:47:13.560
transiting our kids and firing us from every major power center and debanking us.
00:47:25.140
I mean, the way that I look at it is really simple.
00:47:31.780
Which is like the only way that you get a bully to stop is if you like stand up to the
00:47:39.300
Well, and yeah, but I mean, I'll just give you my small, I mean, I don't have all the
00:47:44.480
experience in the world, but having like being super involved, like party politics and how
00:47:48.200
nasty, because I mean, I went toe to toe with John McCain and his people.
00:47:56.780
The only thing that I've ever seen ever to work is for those people to know that you,
00:48:02.380
number one, are unaffected by what they're doing to you.
00:48:06.440
Number one and number two, that's, that's most important because Charlie remembers.
00:48:14.920
I was like, I was like, I'm just going to, I don't need to do this.
00:48:18.780
And he's like, no, no, no, you do like stay in the fight.
00:48:24.960
But the second then is to go back at them and be like, Hey, you know what?
00:48:27.920
Just FYI, you know, I have legitimate, you know, muscle flex here on you.
00:48:38.440
And when you do that, they get a little bit scared and they go, okay, I'm going to leave
00:48:43.080
And they go figure out something else for a little bit.
00:48:46.000
And if you don't do that, and that's like point, we just had something recently with
00:48:49.640
There, there, there's, there's another element to this, which is that you must not allow
00:48:55.780
Right now, if someone has really done something that you feel reprehensible or that you feel
00:49:00.500
violates your values, or they were deceitful or they betrayed you a hundred percent.
00:49:05.480
But you do not have them set the standard for what you do.
00:49:11.620
And I don't think our target has to be to cancel them.
00:49:13.960
It has to be to expose truth, which is, that's the Achilles.
00:49:17.760
I think, I think cancel culture is an element of, uh, Alinsky tactics.
00:49:22.740
I think for us, it's like, Hey, just what's more powerful and what's more righteous is
00:49:31.100
I'm going to tell everybody exactly what you're doing.
00:49:35.120
And that, that's the best yield for everyone because more people become educated, more
00:49:42.720
Which everybody you're up against all the Alinsky model.
00:49:45.320
And Trump is like, I'm just going to tell everyone the truth and more people are going
00:49:53.900
Well, I just want to say, we've, we've got some, got some really great comments coming
00:49:57.060
in and, um, you guys mind if I have real quick, just read a few, you know, show them
00:50:02.520
Um, someone's here say, so, uh, DJ Mack, uh, right.
00:50:09.220
The left goes by, they make up the rules as they go along.
00:50:11.800
Um, Alonzo Mosk, we said that one, uh, Alonzo Mosk had the one, never interrupt your opponent
00:50:18.720
Franklin seven, seven, nine anti-whites get fired, deported and sent to prison.
00:50:22.740
Well, how can we send them to prison after we deport them?
00:50:26.140
Um, uh, the real, the real W.O., the golden rule.
00:50:43.340
That's why we are in the shape we're in because the good people stood down.
00:50:49.900
Always beware using the left schools against them.
00:50:52.260
Unlike us, they also have a political power structure above to follow through on their
00:50:58.120
Um, I'm just going to say something because I don't know that we've mentioned it yet on
00:51:05.780
That's what's going on currently in the United States.
00:51:11.680
He will be there all weekend because he's unvaccinated.
00:51:14.440
We're told, and this is COVID protocol in Louisiana, the same state that our new speaker
00:51:20.360
Owen Schroyer, guy who does a talk show for a living.
00:51:23.520
A guy who said, I don't even know if you can say said the words, but that the numbers
00:51:27.560
1776, outside the Capitol, outside, not inside, outside the Capitol on January 6th, someone
00:51:35.060
who, uh, he disrupted a congressional hearing by standing up and, and heckling at one point
00:51:43.620
Again, all completely covered under the first amendment activities.
00:51:47.300
He is currently behind bars in a federal corrections institution in Louisiana, the federal government
00:51:58.080
So it, I'll say to the guys who were saying like, oh, never use the left schools, et cetera,
00:52:04.420
Guys understand the situation that we're in right now.
00:52:06.960
Uh, the leader of the Republican party and number one opposition candidate has been arrested
00:52:12.800
four times and faces 91 different charges in various jurisdictions around the country
00:52:20.240
You understand that they want to, there's, there's also a guy saying that this judge saying
00:52:23.720
that I'll throw this guy, Trump, this president, your opposition leader behind bars.
00:52:28.260
If he talks too much publicly about the process that's going on, uh, Charlie, are there, have
00:52:34.800
there ever been any books that were written about this where they described the process
00:52:44.200
Oh, that talk about the, the political trials actually being the point, not so much the actual
00:52:50.100
darkness, the actual punishment, darkness at noon, that's darkness at noon with Mr.
00:52:54.140
Rubischoff by Arthur Kessler, one of the least appropriate books of the 20th century.
00:52:59.060
We wouldn't be having these conversations were we not in the situation that we're currently
00:53:04.440
So please don't, you know, understand the world that we're in right now.
00:53:11.080
There are actual people who are friends of ours, friends of everybody on this show that
00:53:15.980
have been put behind, that are behind bars right now named Owen Schroyer for their speech,
00:53:26.700
Well, speaking of cancel culture, uh, big news this week, Dana White came on the program on
00:53:31.500
the Charlie Kirk show and we talked about Bud Light UFC and a surprise announcement of
00:53:41.400
I want to be with people that I'm aligned with.
00:53:45.700
It's, it's about being, uh, with like-minded people and everybody that comes into the UFC
00:54:00.180
This decision to go with Bud Light was based on anything but money.
00:54:08.040
And so Bud Light and UFC are doing a joint partnership and a branding deal.
00:54:12.640
Dana White came on for a full conversation on our podcast and, you know, I really like
00:54:18.300
He's an entrepreneur, patriot, and he's also had the president's back 100%.
00:54:26.280
Is there an opportunity ever, Jack, let's start with you, where we want to say, hey, you know,
00:54:32.080
Bud Light screwed up with the Dylan Mulvaney thing.
00:54:35.680
Do we want them to just say, only sponsor left-wing stuff.
00:54:40.140
Or is there an argument to be made to say, if they start to invest in organizations, sport
00:54:46.100
leagues, and things that are more center-right, like UFC, that is movement in the right direction
00:54:49.860
and them admitting their mistake, aka message received.
00:54:55.700
Well, Charlie, I, I've been to, I've been to UFC fights.
00:54:59.080
Um, we were at that, we're actually at that fight in, in Vegas, um, where McGregor broke
00:55:04.240
his, broke his ankle, and like, what round, was that round three?
00:55:08.100
You know, we were there, the one where Trump came in and had the huge pop.
00:55:11.460
Mel Gibson was sitting, like, a couple of rows in front of us.
00:55:19.380
It may have been that early that I think about it.
00:55:21.860
The one where Trump walked in or Rich Chanting USA.
00:55:24.160
Um, but, so, so I'll tell you, that was a huge, that was a huge crowd.
00:55:28.620
But, Charlie, it's, to your point, even though the organization, UFC, is more, is more center-right,
00:55:34.120
I think people need to understand that there's, there's, in, in their organization, in that
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audience, if you look at, uh, these sporting events like, like the WWE, like UFC, um, there
00:55:44.160
are members of the audience, by the way, there that are gay, um, that are LGBT.
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And so, you know, I think this is clearly a percentage that they're working into it.
00:55:55.880
But at the same time, obviously, UFC and Bud Blight seem to be moving far away from that
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So, it's sort of like, we did it, we bounced off.
00:56:07.120
And I, I was fair about this when it came up at the time with, even with the, the, the
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trans, whatever thing that was done, it, it wasn't like they did some kind of, and
00:56:15.440
people will be like, oh, post was being a cuck.
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So, to your point, you know, am I going to take money for them?
00:56:43.840
I'm saying that you and I are in constant boycotting.
00:56:51.540
And then, um, basically, basically, I think, I think you're right.
00:56:56.580
I think we need to have a carrot and stick approach with these large organizations.
00:57:03.260
So, first of all, someone called me Bud Light Blake in the comments.
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And I don't think I've ever drank a Bud Light in my entire life.
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And I, that even means more coming from me, because I do drink sometimes, but not that.
00:57:14.820
You know, if it was good enough for Christ, it was good enough for me, I suppose.
00:57:21.780
And he was fully God and fully man, and sometimes he drank wine for dinner, so.
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When you raise someone from the dead, you can have Merlot.
00:57:29.920
I mean, have you seen what alcohol can do to people?
00:57:34.000
So, with the Bud Light thing, I worry that the biggest asset of Bud Light is we might be getting too much into the specifics of, oh, have they redeemed themselves and so on.
00:57:46.160
And we've gotten very excited, because this is kind of the first big conservative boycott in recent history.
00:57:53.180
To be big, to really stick, for them to try to fix it, for it to fail.
00:57:58.180
And I think some people were inclined to just think, oh, the right got better at doing boycotts and we can do this again.
00:58:06.000
I think Bud Light was perfectly situated to be a strong boycott.
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It's really easy to pick an alternative, because there's a million different brands of beer.
00:58:20.240
It's something you consume socially and publicly, so it's really easy to enforce, because you go to a party and someone's like, you're drinking the gay beer.
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That's a big factor behind why the boycott continues.
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No one wants to be the guy who goes and buys it at a thing.
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And so the point is, this was a successful boycott for specific reasons, and I'm worried that if it, basically, if it goes away, we're not going to be able to easily replicate it.
00:58:46.820
And it might be that the best way you get value out of the Bud Light boycott in terms of having companies not want to be woke, not wanting to do things that could damage them is, you turn them into an example.
00:58:56.300
And you make Bud Light a smoldering crater, where it's just, everyone will think, everyone will go to business school, and they'll get these case studies that say,
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Bud Light did this thing, they made Middle America angry, and they took a billion-dollar brand, and it was wiped off the face of the planet.
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Do you think that message has already been received?
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It's strong, but I think it could always be stronger, and I'm not going to fault UFC here.
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UFC's got to make money, and it's a lot of money.
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And so I think maybe the ideal would be UFC made this deal, they get their money, and then it doesn't work, and people still just don't buy Bud Light anyway, because it's still a beer they don't like.
00:59:35.860
Is it just to follow up on our last topic, though?
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You know, isn't that an example of cancel culture having positive effects?
00:59:43.560
Well, I don't want to equate cancel culture on a product that you choose to buy for any number of reasons, especially with beer, where it's all weighted with aesthetic and ideological.
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And it's not, you know, it's the difference between commercial ramifications for a large conglomerate and the individual ramifications for one person's life.
01:00:10.320
And especially one person's life in something that's often unrelated to their ability to work in any other field, whereas this is, you know, what Bud Light chose to do as a beer to market itself.
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It's just, it is not, I think it abuses the term cancel culture to say that people deciding they don't want to drink Bud Light because it's the gay beer now is cancel culture.
01:00:32.540
It's a much more traditional alienation of your customer base.
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Okay, so Tyler or Jack, let's just take Bud Light out of this.
01:00:43.940
We need some rules of, do we ever allow a company to redeem themselves to come back into the movement if they want to spend money on the right stuff?
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Or no, do we say, absolutely not, we're not going to let that?
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Because I think there is a big difference here, okay?
01:01:04.580
Their response was poor, let's be honest, right?
01:01:07.140
It was like they thought they could get away with it.
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That is different than North Face or whatever, Patagonia, literally just running like gay ads and like owning it and doubling and tripling down, right?
01:01:20.820
So, but I'm just wondering, what should the criteria Tyler be?
01:01:28.760
But honestly, it's a question we have to have because what I think conservative America is grappling with, both in the speakers race here is like, wait, what do we do with this power that we know?
01:01:41.380
I think that people look at this, I think it's like a social thing.
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I think it's not dissimilar from like what Ron DeSantis is going through right now and also women who change their hair color drastically and then change it back almost immediately afterwards because this happens a lot.
01:01:58.560
Also like Ron DeSantis is that I think what happens, it's more like watching a train, you know, collision or like a train derailment or like you can't take your eyes off it, like a bad accident.
01:02:12.540
And people are going to be intrigued and watching like what they do with UFC.
01:02:16.340
But it's like if it doesn't come off organic and natural and like sane, then it's not going to do anything for them.
01:02:24.200
And people are actually going to be more disgusted by it in the same way as like if like somebody goes crazy and they color their hair, they're like a blonde person.
01:02:34.180
And then all of a sudden they, I know this is a very specific like example of analogy.
01:02:39.000
Speaking from any, have you had recent trauma with this?
01:02:41.300
They try to bleach their hair back and then all their hair falls out and everyone's just like watching the whole time.
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I'm not going to say gender, but like what is that person going through?
01:02:50.780
You know, and like it's the same thing with like this and like with Ron DeSantis is like or political candidates in general, like you'll see them like go all in and then they try to like make up for it.
01:02:59.340
And then by that point, people are just watching and then they're like, this is so not organic or natural.
01:03:04.600
I'm watching and I'm intrigued because it's a freak show, but like I'm not going to actually subscribe to that.
01:03:10.060
And I think that's what's going to happen with this.
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I think Bud Light was so big, it was almost unkillable until they screwed it up so bad.
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I think if it was a small brand, if it was a smaller brand, people would be more willing to forgive it because it might be one guy who runs everything.
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People identify with that a little bit more and you turn it around.
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But Bud Light is obviously a giant corporate thing.
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But let's be honest, UFC is a right wing thing.
01:03:43.060
I just don't think it has anything to do with UFC.
01:03:45.200
I don't think, I think it's more like UFC is just like.
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Yeah, they're just, they'll take anybody's money.
01:03:55.760
What I'm saying though is that some companies wouldn't partner with UFC.
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I don't know that UFC is not right wing on par with, I don't know, maybe a gun manufacturer or something.
01:04:11.260
Well, look, I mean, here, they have Trump come, you know, Rogan, all that stuff.
01:04:16.000
It's also ridiculously bloody and all that stuff.
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But, I mean, Dana is super outspokenly Trump, MAGA, conservative, you know, defied the COVID stuff, you know, anti-cancel culture, all that.
01:04:28.680
Which is, again, I'm not even sure I know the answer, but, you know, Anheuser-Busch is a blue chip company.
01:04:41.680
But the argument that I say, okay, I think that we as conservatives need to reassess what do we do with power, corporate power, government power, right?
01:05:01.860
So I'm guessing, like, from this, what do we do?
01:05:04.140
Because in some ways, Anheuser-Busch is acknowledging that they are controlled by the American right.
01:05:11.680
Well, Charlie, what we need to do is we have to remember a couple of things.
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You know, I'm not going to do the whole, like, first principles spiel, but, right, we are the side that loves innovation.
01:05:23.860
We are the side that loves actual creation and entrepreneurship, right?
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We do actually support those things on this side, right?
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I know that we have a lot of other fights that we have to do on a regular basis, but those are the things that we support.
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And so we want to set up a system whereby in those, I say, the ability to achieve greatness is protected.
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That means setting boundaries on our military, on every institution that we can possibly get in control of.
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And because these same institutions, whether it be a company like Bud, whether it be a place like the military, we were talking about the universities in the last segment, have been taken over by these radicals who hate excellence, who hate greatness, who don't want achievement.
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They want to force their radical programs on everybody else.
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Our goal should be, number one, destroying those programs, but number two, making sure that when someone does return to the normal parameters that have been set up, and by the way, the same parameters that have given this country so much wealth and power and status and greatness over the years, then they should be supported.
01:06:40.800
So once you get back on track, we're good, okay?
01:06:46.680
Like, for example, I would love if NASA went back to the space shuttle program and putting men on the moon and putting people in space and having, remember the right stuff and the best man for the job?
01:07:09.560
Because they're the ones who did it with less technology than you would find in, like, a TI-83 calculator in your pocket when they went to the moon.
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That's the pinnacle of American greatness is the moon landing.
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And whatever institution gets us there should be the ones that we support.
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We have a guy in chat who's, like, who's trolling me nonstop.
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This might be the worst betrayal to ever happen to anyone in human history.
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Ooh, do we have the stuff ready for the deep web reveal?
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So the deep web reveal for this week is very relevant because we just did bring up the worst betrayals of all time.
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And so there's a lot of translations of the Bible out there.
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It used to be you were limited to what you could maybe find at your Christian bookstore or your church.
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I thought this was a troll when you went through that.
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But now we have the Internet, and the Bible is a public domain book.
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So basically every translation of it is out there.
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We've translated the Bible into strange Amazonian dialects that have clicking sounds in them.
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And one of the languages that we have translated the Bible into is called Hawaiian Pidgin.
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It is the sort of gobbledygook version of English that you get if you are in Hawaii.
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And the special thing is, is that the Hawaiian Pidgin version of the New Testament is called, I'm not making this up, Da Jesus Book.
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So can I tell the story of how this, who, which one of us found this?
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So just somewhere in my, in my travels, uh, in, in the, in the deep, dark recesses of the Internet.
01:09:14.360
So I found this the other night and I don't even know what we were doing.
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And I sent it in the chat as a sort of, Hey, maybe something to talk about on ThoughtCrime this week.
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No, I thought it was like, he's like, that's not real.
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That's a meme that no one would ever actually make a Bible and call it Da Jesus Book.
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And, and then I, and then we thought, right, there it is.
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And so I don't know if we have the shot of this, but you can go to Bible.com or Bible Hub or Bible Gateway.
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Like, you know, those websites where they're, they're pretty popular where you can, you can go through different translations, different versions of the Bible.
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Just scroll down on one of those and you'll see it right there.
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And, uh, I'll, I'll just read a little bit from now.
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Normally, for example, you might hear, you might hear something called, well, Charlie, let's, let's go, let's go.
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You know, let's, let's keep it surface level for folks.
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We all know you've got the thing memorized front to back, but let's keep it surface level.
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Now, what is the name of the first book of the Bible?
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And then the second book is called out of Egypt, not out of Egypt.
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It would be Dem Wright's records, unfortunately.
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I think the next best good one is we have songs, which is Psalms.
01:11:26.360
Well, that's Ecclesiastes, which comes after Proverbs, right?
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I, I, I, I, presumably, I guess if they're following the same order and then love song,
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That's, and then lamentations is, hold on, is, uh, regrets.
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There's a lot of the prophets, but that one's great.
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Can you jump ahead a little bit to, so we have Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but what,
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It's like, uh, it's like the gang of the apostles.
01:12:07.060
I kind of, I want to read just a certain like line from, this is not a joke.
01:12:12.640
You read the one you have, and then I have an idea for what I want to do next.
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So we'll, we'll have Charlie pull it at random.
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First of all, da Jesus book is technically just the New Testament.
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The Old Testament is called da be foe Jesus book.
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Uh, the first version that I came out of, I, this is just the first one that came out.
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So there's probably better lines, but this is Matthew one.
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Dis book tell about Jesus and his ancestor guys.
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It goes on like this for ages and ages and ages.
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The special guy, God, when said this happened, Mary, she make ready for Mary Joseph.
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But before they marry, the good and special spirit make her get happy.
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Well, I mean, the original Greek is they got to know each other.
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Joseph, the guy that going come her husband, he one guy that do the right thing every time.
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And he no, like, make her come shame in front da people.
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So he figure, I no go and marry her, but I no go and tell anybody.
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We should have this as an audio book from Bud Light Blake.
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And for Matthew 2, it says, the smart guys who know plenty about the stars.
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So, Charlie, give me, give me, let's just, just, just give us chapter and verse.
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This one, one of the most, one of the most famous verses in the Bible.
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The fish inside the ocean, the birds inside the sky, the animals, all the land, all the
01:15:16.780
small kind animals that go around on top of the ground.
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So God make the people, same, same, just like one copy of him.
01:15:43.640
That he gave his one and only son that whomever believe in him shall not perish but have eternal
01:15:48.160
God get plenty love and aloha for the people inside the world.
01:15:53.200
That's why, that's why he sent me his one and only boy.
01:15:59.000
Cause of that, everybody, trust me, no going get cut off from God forever.
01:16:04.740
They going get the real kind life that going to stay the max forever.
01:16:11.080
So, so Jack, I, I just, I, I'm, we're going to get a lot of heat, you know, I hate by the
01:16:18.180
So people are going to say, Charlie, why are you guys making fun of if this brings people
01:16:24.080
Like help people understand what dialect is this?
01:16:34.540
What is, is this an actual language that, that, that people speak?
01:16:39.420
This, this, keep in mind, this is not the Hawaiian language.
01:16:44.500
This is a Creole language that is spoken by like some people in Hawaii, but many, but
01:16:52.740
the two official languages of Hawaii are English and Hawaiian.
01:17:01.220
They allow for things like, uh, the various, um, and, and key differences in many of the
01:17:09.560
And so Charlie, my, yeah, I'm just going to say it.
01:17:12.120
Like I'm literally just going to say it that what I think you're doing here is you're actually
01:17:16.200
lowering the status of the word by putting it into a language like this, quite frankly.
01:17:21.760
And I think you're depriving it of meaning in many cases and you are degrading it so much.
01:17:27.940
So if, if this is being done potentially as a way to help really and truly help a certain
01:17:33.920
subset of people, uh, to put it, to, to bring them into the fullness of Christ, that's one
01:17:40.080
But the idea that you wouldn't also be trying to help those people to fully understand,
01:17:45.020
uh, even the Hawaiian language, by the way, the actual Hawaiian language, I think you're
01:17:50.720
just going to miss so much in terms of the teaching.
01:17:52.720
I think you're going to miss so much in terms of the moral guidance that the Bible and the
01:17:57.660
new Testament gives, because I'm, I'm looking at some of these things and you can just tell
01:18:01.440
that the way that they're, you know, and, and Blake, you, you know, you're looking at
01:18:05.120
I've got it on you version, so you can do side by side.
01:18:09.800
It's like, basically, it's like when you read one of those, you know, simplified versions
01:18:13.940
of articles, you know, there's different websites, there's simple versions.
01:18:16.800
It's, it's not the fullness of the actual teaching.
01:18:21.280
And I think it's worth highlighting that Hawaiian, the Hawaiian language that the Hawaiian spoke,
01:18:26.400
that was trans, there's a Bible translation for that from the 1800s.
01:18:29.420
And of course, as we all know, the Bible was written, but this is just made up.
01:18:36.220
So it is, there are real, it is a real pigeon language.
01:18:40.900
I think there is a school of thought that thinks you should bring the Bible to people
01:18:48.340
But, and there's also an academic thing that will say like all languages are 100% equal.
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And so Hawaiian pigeon is a language on par with, you know, the queen's English.
01:19:01.760
You'll get, you know, two Bible scholars, three opinions.
01:19:05.960
But what I think is unfortunately true here is, it is true.
01:19:10.560
It's just a pigeon language by its very nature is going to be a degraded form of a language
01:19:18.340
And I do worry, you know, just our reaction to it does, does show the downsides of this,
01:19:25.000
I mean, if people get saved through this, it's great.
01:19:27.540
But it feels as if, I mean, I'm just going to be honest.
01:19:30.360
If you learned English, I think John 3.16 is just more powerful than whatever that is.
01:19:36.780
Eventually you go through so many, like you go from Greek to Latin to English to pigeon speak.
01:19:46.280
So this is like when I, this is like when I, this is like when I talk to my kids, this
01:19:50.720
is like when I explain to my toddlers, uh, various stories of the Bible.
01:19:55.500
So, you know, I'm, I'm trying to impart them the, the lesson.
01:19:59.820
I'm trying to impart them the wisdom that's coming through, but obviously it's not going
01:20:05.980
So, and I'm teaching them that way because they're children and I'm trying to bring them
01:20:11.160
into a general sense of right and wrong and teach them these basic concepts, teach them
01:20:16.020
the basics of, you know, the, the, the nativity, for example, teaching the basics of, of some
01:20:21.980
of the things that occurred throughout the gospels, et cetera.
01:20:28.720
I will say this is better than the message translation of the Bible.
01:20:46.820
They'll probably change the meaning more than the Hawaiian pigeon one does.
01:20:52.820
This is the messages version of the Lord's prayer gospel of Matthew.
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Our father in heaven, reveal who you are, set the world, right?
01:21:08.500
Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others.
01:21:23.020
There was nothing about forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
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Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others.
01:21:28.720
But it just, at this end, it's like God is down and needs a pep talk from people.
01:21:33.320
You're like, you, you just, you can go get them, God.
01:21:42.020
I'm kind of, I'm kind of upset that one doesn't have aloha thrown in the middle of
01:21:46.700
All right, guys, do we have an, we, we, we glanced over one other topic, didn't we?
01:21:54.180
There was one really quick, though, that we had on the docket.
01:22:02.980
So in, we all have amber alerts in, I think nationwide at this point, there are amber alerts.
01:22:13.820
There's also been, uh, silver alerts, which are missing elderly people who might have dementia
01:22:18.780
and have wandered off, but California just came up with by far the most patronizing version
01:22:27.260
California just debuted a new one called ebony alerts, which, uh, ebony of course is a,
01:22:33.600
And, uh, so it is a special form of amber alert that is only for black people.
01:22:39.220
And there are just iterations of it where you can qualify for it if you are black, but
01:22:53.040
The, the official explanation for it was just, there are, they, they need it.
01:22:57.380
And apparently people just ignore amber alerts unless they're for the allegation was people
01:23:02.840
ignore amber alerts unless they're like cute, blonde, white children.
01:23:06.460
And otherwise people would just like smash their phone with a hammer or something.
01:23:12.160
So they're going to avoid this by creating an entirely new system.
01:23:15.940
And it's sort of, but what I get about it being patronizing is, or condescending is amber
01:23:23.200
And the main change, as far as I can tell with ebony alerts is just that if you're a black
01:23:29.100
person, you qualify until you're the age of 25.
01:23:31.480
And so they're saying if we're counting them as children, we just, we need to extend the
01:23:37.980
And that is, I guess the top priority of the state of California.
01:23:42.220
So when I, when I get an ebony, what got an ebony alert, ebony, ebony.
01:23:46.440
No, when I get an amber alert, it goes like, and when I get an ebony alert, do I get a chirp?
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I'm going to, you know, you're going to have to find out yourself.
01:23:58.260
That's the new app from the thought, from thought crime.
01:24:01.600
So the thought crime app, we should set up a new app for not just the shows, but when
01:24:06.380
something comes out, that's a thought crime, we can push a notification to everybody, uh,
01:24:16.440
You're not, you're not going to believe me, but there's a fourth alert that they already
01:24:23.840
It is for American Indians and it is called a feather alert.
01:24:32.660
Wait, so we can't call the team the Redskins, but we can have feather alerts, feather alerts,
01:24:42.900
Well, I mean, that's like, that's like, if you were, that's, that's like a 4chan thing
01:24:48.060
that they tried to, that sounds like something that 4chan would do to like, try to troll people
01:24:52.840
into thinking was actually real to see if they could get like some stupid journalist
01:24:57.520
Like they did with the okay symbol, um, or like to get some stupid politician to actually
01:25:02.240
But one that actually went a little bit too far and ended up actually going into like
01:25:10.480
I mean, that's just like, it sounds like a parody.
01:25:15.680
Speaking of going too far, this is the actual wording state of California website, california.gov.
01:25:20.180
In order for a feather alert to be activated, a law enforcement agency must determine that
01:25:26.220
Number one, the missing person is an indigenous woman or indigenous person.
01:25:51.520
I believe in, you know, ruthless, ruthless Darwinian selection.
01:25:54.940
And so if people, if people go missing, that's, uh, don't bother my phone.
01:26:00.740
I'm just, uh, I'm getting a, I just got a Bud Light alert in my ear for me.
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Yeah, no, look, when it, when it comes down to it, um, I think that when it comes to a lot
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of these issues, any of the stuff that we've talked about, we shouldn't always just argue
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These things are actually happening to us, to conservatives, uh, to white Christian males
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in the country at this very moment, not just our, not just the United States, but all across
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So any conversation that we start having about how should we fight back should be about how
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do we win and how do we crush the people that are literally trying to put us behind
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So if you're not talking about that first, you talk about something else, I think you're
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I bet we could get conservatives to support phone alerts for missing college football players
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Jack follows us on real America's voice until then, keep on committing thought crimes.
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And to cue us out, Ebony and Ivory by Paul McCartney.