THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 73 — Tattoo Vibe Shift? RFK's Day 1 Agenda? Subway Speakerphone Ban?
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1 hour and 12 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Thoughtcrime Thursday, the gang discusses a man named Pete Davidson, a man who is famous for being tattooed from neck to ankle, and a guy named Kim Kardashian, who is also known for being a comedian.
Transcript
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from the age of big brother if they want to get you they'll get you
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dnsa specifically targets the communications of everyone they're collecting your communications
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okay everybody uh it is thought crime thursday and we are here live with blake andrew and jack
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did i get that right i always say that before i can say oh no tyler there's no jack jack is in
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ukraine is that right jack has enlisted to be a fighting force soldier of zelensky is that correct
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he's he's front lines yeah i mean he is front lines they gotta they get drafted man yeah he got
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drafted he was the first drafted yeah mitch mcconnell they got a letter where they said
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anyone who has a polish last name in the united states has to go fight in ukraine for their old
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you know poland used to own that whole mitch mcconnell letterhead and everything it's yeah
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exactly i wouldn't have answered that it's really crazy it's one of those things doge found like it's
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actually a law that they have to do this if they if we fight in eastern europe you just you get drafted
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if you're polish it's crazy so we have a series of topics today that are unusual uh one of them is
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someone i don't really know i think he dated kim kardashian blake introduce us to our first topic
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no that's that's part of the joy that's why i thought it'd be fun to drop this on you so there
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is this person named pete davidson he is famous for he must be famous for some kind of reason i've
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never quite understood what it was i think he's allegedly a comedian but i don't know any jokes
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he's told or anything but just just trust us that just trust me charlie he is he is famous for
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some reason anyway he's also like very ghastly looking because he famously would be covered in
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a million gazillion tattoos he was basically the prototypical modern millennial by being tatted up
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from neck to ankle and a kind of strange story to have happen in the first three weeks of the trump
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administration is he went and he got all or almost all of his tattoos removed which i don't know if
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you guys are aware because i don't think any of us here have tattoos but it's actually a pretty
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involved process to do this he apparently had to spend about 250 000 and they basically have to burn
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it off like they systematically burn your skin and then it has to grow back so this is a pretty intense
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thing for him to do uh but he actually did burn it off and you know did a kind of gay looking photo
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shoot there uh but we won't dwell upon that what we're dwelling upon is this is happening in the
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first uh first month of the trump administration and it's also happening while we're having all of
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the the dei rollbacks we're having we've moved on from just walmart and target to to disney is canceling
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dei uh goldman sachs a major investment they're they're canceling their dei is there a vibe shift and can we
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detect it from such things and also is it good i feel like maga was becoming the the if anything the
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the tat there was a lot of tattoos in maga so maybe we're just doing a switcheroo on that one anyway i
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think it's an interesting topic charlie do you want to do you want to chime in or you want you know
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how about i start with this i'm trying to i'm trying to learn how about i start with this pete davidson
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his dad famously died in 9 11 he was like a a new york kid staten island his dad died okay so like
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that's kind of his origin story i think he's got he's he's quintessential daddy daddy issues kind of
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millennial guy so then he becomes a comedian he was on snl dated kim kardashian dated like apparently
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the deal with pete davidson and and i don't understand the fame thing either but he's dated
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a lot of really attractive women so apparently he's got some game i don't understand what the game is
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there's there's rumors about that but then he is to blake's point he's probably the most surprising
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person that you would see reform his life in such a way so i don't know if he had some really like
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good alpha dad and he's kind of reconnecting with with that energy that he you know obviously it was
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with his dad's tragic death in 9 11 kind of fell away from it and he was just had a really long
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rebellious period but he is he's got something he's got something because he's able to have the
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success that he had he's produced and directed movies and i think corrupt co-wrote them so it is a
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very telling cultural marker uh i don't know if you can extrapolate too much from it but good for him
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i tend to think tattoos like the ones he had were pretty heinous and ugly and tacky um i would love
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to know what the people in our chat think what do you guys think about tattoos in general is we do
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to blake's point a lot of people in the maga world and conservative movement have a lot of tattoos
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it's a military thing but pete david davidson's was definitely next level next level tattoos
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tyler mormons aren't allowed the bible does prohibit tattoos just saying yeah i mean i think
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everyone prohibit it yeah every i think most like orthodoxy is against yeah and anyone although then
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we did go we did go through the phase where we were like celebrating like hegseth for having his
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deus volt tattoo and all of that so no i feel like people are a little schizo on the tattoo topic
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depending on whether they think it feels like cool and rebellious or just trashy
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i feel like if you're in the military you get away with it first of all um and i mean yeah leviticus
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1928 you shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves but isn't that saying
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for the dead no or tattoo yourself or tattoo yeah um but again there's a lot of things in the old
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testament that we don't necessarily bring forward to the new testament like you know women's head
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coverings i don't know there's a bunch of stuff what uh you want to read those comments angelo or
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blake i i was i was going to say while we read those some people those uh i think it's a it's a
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maturity thing too i i could be wrong about this i don't know if pete davidson pete davidson's kind
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of his whole brand is known as kind of being immature and i think that maybe you're talking about vibe
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shift with all this stuff i think that there are a lot of people and i know i've known a lot of people
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who've had tattoos removed i've i've a lot of friends it's a very millennial centric thing i actually
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think this is part of the swing back with gen z gen z is a lot less edgy about this stuff i kind of
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i've always equated to people the millennial thing is kind of like hippie is gen z less edgy or i i
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could if someone told me gen z someone told me gen z can't get tattoos because they're so scared of
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needles because they're scared of everything so they can't handle the tattoo process i would probably
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believe them because it seems like gen z is scared of its own shadow it's like the like those phone
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apps you know that can track people no i think you can agree like an older millennial kid would be
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angry if their parent was you know putting a tracker on their phone to know exactly where they
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were at all times apparently it's the opposite now where zoomers are uncomfortable gen zers are
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uncomfortable if they they can't have the app on their phone so their parents know where they are at
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all times yeah they need that comfort it's like so maybe they're also just scared of needle pricks
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they're they're scared of you know they're scared of driving they're scared of i i i just think i just
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think it's been like a swing back and gen z is just a lot more you know almost traditional in a lot of
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different ways and he's young millennial though to be fair to be fair he's young millennial he's the
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exact same age as charlie kirk basically he's like a month younger than you charlie i i'm a month
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older yeah that's right that's crazy i mean so can we put the can we put the picture up for anyone who's
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gay or a woman is this considered a good looking man i would like i would like someone to instruct
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me i i just i'm so fascinated what is the chat thing uh fisherman 85 says he got a tattoo when he
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was 23 he was drunk and he had 50 burning a hole in his pocket lol i think that does accurately
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represent the thought process that goes into permanently marking your body much of the time
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like yeah i'm definitely gonna want this like like the name of this girl i've been dating for
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two weeks on my skin forever that will not be something i regret i actually have a good story
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about this we had staff leading into 2020 they all went out one night and they got inside their lip
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tattoos that said maga and then obviously we know what happened in 2020 so we had no choice but
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it's just been four years of fighting back because their tattoos and they were told that those tattoos
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would fade on their inside of their lip it did not did not fade it did not fade so they've got they've
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got permanent that just sounds like so what were they just sitting there like oh for for like
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they must have had a really great night i don't know i wasn't there so they was that really there's
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like four or five of them and then okay uh the real arthur blake who is not me he he says the photo is
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gay so i trust him i think he's probably got a good evaluation of that he looks like he looks like he's
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strung out oklahoma stoner chick i probably would trust her too um too skinny because uh what are you
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looking at because the sun doesn't hit it i think the uh the comments are not feeling very positive
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about uh mr pete davidson so pete davidson yeah but let's take the can we take the picture down
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i just like i don't know if i need you asked for them to put it back up i i will i want to note that
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you asked for them to put it back up i did not charlie asked oh whatever someone did the point is it
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wasn't me who asked it to go back up all right that's fine you asked the question though andrew
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about what's the allure of him to like he gets like really attractive i think he's like yeah he's
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dated like a bunch of models right i could be wrong about this but i think wasn't he like branded like
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the rebound guy like he was always the guy that was like picking up girls that like i i just like
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kind of semi remember this is like he was always picking up famous girls like right after they break up
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is that am i wrong about that i don't know if anyone else heard that but i think a lot of women
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and they're famous they like to date people who are funny i think i think he's on the on the funny
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attractive scale obviously less attractive probably to most people but he's funny so he's dated he's
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dated madeline klein who's apparently somebody uh uh some chase sue wonders i don't know any of these
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people this is hilarious he dated ariana grande he dated emily rata chakowsky whatever her name is
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you know she's kind of like famous for being famous kim kardashian phoebe denever don't know who
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that is oh i recognize her face so she's some actress kaya gerber i don't know it's like a lot of
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famous kate beckinsale he dated kate beckinsale yeah who's like super old yeah kazzy david i don't know
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who that is anyways they're all like obviously noteworthy uh people uh to some extent so he's
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got some game but he's like the he's the uh celebs like to date effeminate men says crimson blackard
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i kind of think that's right yeah you know this does circle back though to our most important topic
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which is whether lord of the rings is gay or not because did you know that the cast of the fellowship
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the nine members of the fellowship of the ring they to to commemorate being on like in the movie
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they all got some shared tattoo that's like with something from tolkien and they all they all got
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the tattoo i watched lord of the rings this weekend and tyler ruined it for me i have to just be honest
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you agree with him every time frodo and sam you gave into no i don't you see it you see i don't agree
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i'm saying that he ruined it to be it's just as i i always used to look at it as you know brotherly
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love and then frodo and sam there's some very long gazes it's it's it's it's brotherly love you guys i
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don't want to say tyler's on to something but like to the propaganda no no no the propaganda wants
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you to think every time tyler tyler tyler gets in your head about this and then all of a sudden you
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can't unsee it i'm not even saying it's right i'm saying you kind of infer it and like geez frodo
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doesn't look at women that way this is the woman in the woods that way doesn't look at live tyler
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that way that's right that's right i think i think you can infer that frodo knew and then you really
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start wondering like mary pippen sam and frodo are all sharing a room and you really start thinking
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about things you shouldn't be thinking about this and this is like a three-week log like
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conversation and it's gonna keep going until i win this conversation and you gotta wonder like
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what are they actually doing in rivendell what are they really doing in rivendell because you look at
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it through kind of the modern woke lens and i got it's i'm not saying tyler's right but it half
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ruined the movie for me you realize what they're doing at rivendell is they're singing why is
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gandalf going down there like a weirdo it's like they're playing music and they're singing their
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elfish songs in their elfish language and there's nothing gay about it no what's gandalf really going
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down there for it's like his little thailand like this is like is gandalf the epstein wizard of
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middle earth yes he is yeah that's his thailand i'm not saying throw this up brian wants to throw
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this up 204 let's throw it up there it is yeah it's no i'm telling you once you see it through
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the tyler lens he's not that he's right it's just you can't unsee it and it kind of ruins the film
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you guys you guys i want to make this point that we didn't make the a few weeks ago was it's not just
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that i think peter jackson had this weird homoerotic approach to this because the elves are all super
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gay they're all they're all super gay like orlando bloom is like he looks like pete davidson he's like
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he's just like he's got pete davidson vibes to him which is like that's yes yes and we and we talked
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about all the orcs there's no women orcs there's no female like what is this like there's a lot of
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gay because the orcs what do they do that's gay what do the orcs do that's gay oh there's no girls
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there's no women okay yeah that so is the military gay like when we make is pete hegseth's goal to
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like make combat really gay is that is that the goal tyler the story itself the story itself is not
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necessarily homoerotic but there's like gazes that are like half a second two seconds too long
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and then like the whole like sam i'm so glad i have you with me it's like completely unnecessary
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extra lines of dialogue i'm sorry i like i re-watched it and it's such a good movie and it's
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so amazing but if you kind of go back to watch a movie 20 years ago through modern ultra like let's
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just say gay lens of film you see some things there you got boy if that was made in 2025 it would be
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broke back mountain of mountain it would be awful yeah this reminds me this reminds me of what
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happened with abraham lincoln right so he had this really close friendship with a guy named joshua fry
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speed and this is before they were he was president like well before i i sent the the the old-timey
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image of joshua fry speed but there was in 1926 a biography of lincoln by carl sandberg alluded to
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the early relationship lincoln and his friend joshua fry speed had as having a streak of lavender
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and spots soft as may violets uh and that's kind of reminds me of like a really good description
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of uh frodo and that's ian mcclellan that's gandalf yeah gandalf is gay i forgot yeah yeah yeah
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yeah but like i also call it like this is you know we're changing history here i mean i can guarantee
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you that that maybe the movie's a little bit like homoerotic but like the books and the original
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grand marshal he's the grand marshal of the gay parade yeah but that's that's modern you know
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that's not that that's not the way the books were written that's not the original intent oh geez
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i know you guys are when you accept this framing you are giving in to to the to the gay industrial
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complex i never thought it at all my entire life and then tyler mentions it and it half ruins it
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like no hold on if you let them do it if you let them get away with it they're gonna make george
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washington gay they're gonna make jesus gay they're gonna make that's that's that's why i brought up
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lincoln with his so he had a like he has four kids he was in a long relationship with his wife
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what was her name mary todd or whatever and he had a history of having romantic relationships with
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other women before that i don't i'm not sure they were physical but the point is everybody thought
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he was heterosexual his whole life and then we get to like 2020 and all of a sudden he's gay this so
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so i i do want to like make space for the fact that that men can have intimate non-sexual very
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heterosexual relationships and i think before the gay agenda took over modern pop culture nobody would
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have thought differently about it stop it ryan one of our producers keeps putting in very
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inappropriate pictures uh anyways what it's worth there we have to make space for the fact that well
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i mean this is this is a real conversation though because and this and this does tie back to pete
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davidson because you know his like this you know growing up fatherless thing obviously no fault of his
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his dad died in 9 11 whatever but like this entire feminization of males i think the feminization
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of males in general has made it impossible for guys to have like those old school you know guy best
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friends because people look at you and question if you're gay so when you create a world in which
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that's so prevalent i think it's harder to be to heart it's hard to have like a best buddy and this
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actually i've talked about this recently with friends it's like it's actually hard in general
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for men to get together and do anything like kind of the old school days it was like men used to get
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together and do bowling leagues and poker nights and those things happen but i don't think they're
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nearly as prevalent as they were you know many years ago and and i think it's like this is all
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par and parcel to like again hollywood everything just like pushing the gay agenda which you know may
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or may not have started with lord of the rings so you know just i totally agree i totally agree
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here's i don't know if this is going to help my case or hurt it depending on but i'll never forget
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when i went to italy and okay so it's apparently going to hurt it based on blake's reaction to italy
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but i remember going in italy and there would be men holding hands walking down the street just
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holding hands and they were i asked i was like are they gay and they're like no no they're straight as an
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arrow like that's just men in italy they'll just hold like if they feel close to another man they'll
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just hold each other's hands i'm just i'm just saying what i saw yeah that's what i think that's
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what i think all i'm saying is through a 2025 lens you watch the movie 20 years later and it's just you
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can't help but think because we look at all of that stuff as as homoerotic and gay
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thanks for ruining a childhood uh favorite tyler really appreciate it oh no no he completely wrecked
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it well i mean it was somebody had had planted that in my mind but this is what how it happened
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for me i i watched during covid i downloaded all the trilogies that existed because there was like
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so every night i would just watch start watching one of the trilogies i watched literally every movie
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that had a trilogy and i downloaded lord of the rings i started watching i was like man this is
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really gay i can't watch this and i like shut up i downloaded all three i paid for all three movies
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and i only watched like the like first half of the first one now i'm now i've thanks to thanks to
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andrew's like italy's super straight thing i'm i'm looking up liberace to make sure he was in fact
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italian and yes he was italian and he put a big candelabra on his piano and he insisted he was
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straight his whole life and then he did well he died of a condition not associated with that
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well i'm just telling you what i saw and men in italy walked down the street together holding each
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other's hand and if you if you watch the movie closely near the beginning at bilbo baggins 110th or
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111th birthday sam was really nervous to go up and talk to the ladies or the woman so he needed like
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an extra thing of beer and had to be thrown into it i'm just saying straight that's straight like
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gays are great at talking to women because they have like women brain wait hold on not always a lot
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of what so why why would a gay dude be nervous about talking to women what's he worried is gonna
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happen a lot of dudes are that's that's so cliche it's a shtick they use in the movie that men are
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nervous of talking to women only only a certain subset of men are nervous not nervous to talk to
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mary and pippin hey i will tell you that if you go watch uh top gun the original like go watch that
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for homoerotic oh you're gonna make you're gonna make top gun gay for charlie now are you ruining
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everything what are you and top gun for all of us i mean top gun is is objectively homoerotic
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andrew you are putting this conversation in the danger zone you are on a highway to the danger zone
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right now yeah this is not telling you there is a reason why there's a lot of rumors flowing around
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about uh the lead in that film tom cruise i'm just saying that what else what what else are you gonna
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ruin for me the original 1980s top gun is the most homoerotic movie ever created it's a fact
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you're just gonna come in every every every week it's gonna yeah but there's also gonna assert
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another movie is gay you're gonna be like i mean star wars is gay the godfather is it was really
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kind of like it wasn't really the five families it was kind of like a gay conclave that was running
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inner italian mafia yeah you're gonna be like the good the bad and the ugly gay you're gonna
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no no no citizen king it's not gay citizen gay no it's not under every rock rosebud was not
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actually his sled growing up rosebud was a secret lover that he had during college
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yeah charlie don't look up the slang term don't look up slang terms for that word
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just that's all i'm gonna say clarence uh man you you can't you can't touch you cannot touch uh it's a
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wonderful life okay you cannot touch okay hold on i mean top gun is like this is not me breaking
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news everybody knows top gun's homoerotic no i just i've never thought of it that way he's right
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you're gonna say it's gay yeah you're gonna say that like red dawn is gay because uh charlie sheen
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and and what's his name they like are holding each other on that bench after like getting shot at
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the end look at this esquire magazine the top gun volleyball scene is is not homoerotic it is
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homosexual that's the new one that's the original one that's the new one to have watched both of
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them have volleyball scenes oh yeah i forgot there was an original volleyball one i thought there was
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oh they brought it back because it was so popular in the first one yeah uh a lot i i googled the the
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gayest movies that are explicitly gay and also on there is uh wizard of oz oh that that's like that's
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a different one where whether that movie is gay or not gay people are obsessed with wizard of oz because
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gay men love judy garland i guess the more the more you know uh i also think that there's that
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connection the same connection with uh lord of the rings as you have in fact the small people if you
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look up like gay icons i think judy garland is literally the first result it's uh kind of kind
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of strange oh man we're gonna this is getting way too deep into the lore we should probably we should
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probably hit the evac button to the next topic before every it'll turn out everything everything is
00:25:11.120
okay this is why people pay the big bucks hold on hold on i'm i'm this is top 10 macho blockbusters
00:25:17.300
with hidden homoeroticism number 10 is ravenous from 1999 i've never heard of that uh 300 is number
00:25:25.360
nine number eight top gun 1986 what are you talking about number seven come on yeah well because it's
00:25:33.620
all these dudes running around yeah it's called like dudes who are murdering other dudes yeah all right
00:25:40.600
a nightmare on elm street freddy's revenge from 1985 tango and cash 1989 x-men first class 2011
00:25:48.380
yeah x-men's kind of gay we're corrupting the audience yoma yoma 63 i feel like i'm being
00:25:55.100
corrupted i never saw gayness in top you guys are gonna mess with you're destroying our audience
00:26:00.280
ben hurd 1959 i could see that fight club 1999 what do you think about fight club fight cups kind
00:26:08.820
of gay yeah yeah yeah i have not actually seen the fight club movie i think i'm the only person born
00:26:14.600
in my year to have not seen it that's a perfect example of a a movie that was that was directed at
00:26:20.700
men that men like boys were supposed to like that had severe gay undertones for sure yeah i read the
00:26:27.980
book the book is like because they're like they're they need like camaraderie that's just like what a
00:26:33.800
gang is like a you know i just i don't know if i agree with this at all no there's a there's a i
00:26:39.860
actually because i got into that after i was reading because we were talking about gay movies because
00:26:44.100
that's this is how this came up and i can't got to lord of the rings this was one of the ones the
00:26:48.740
reddit threads i read was all about how fight club has all these like it's tons of uh undertones like
00:26:55.460
throughout and it was like planting and like boys minds all like in the 2000s or 90s or whenever it
00:27:01.520
came out well we've probably ruined everybody's night here djt 2020 suggests that just all acting
00:27:10.640
in fiction is gay which was kind of what the that is like the true classical take on it you know
00:27:16.920
the ancient romans considered actors the equivalent of prostitutes basically maybe we need to bring
00:27:24.380
well i mean if we go far enough back to the greeks it was only male actors right so uh
00:27:33.640
that would probably attract a certain type of male even back then
00:27:39.400
oh dear all right all right yeah we need to hit the eject button all right do you guys want to
00:27:45.480
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further all right so as on the right we're all used to making fun of france because it's france but
00:28:50.280
base alert is coming in france uh the french assembly has just passed a bill and it is going to ban
00:28:58.800
repeat incivilities on public transport and so they're they're cracking down on uncivil behavior
00:29:06.800
on the nation's buses and trains which include as possible examples listening to music without using
00:29:15.620
headphones carrying on a phone conversation on speakerphone rather than sticking it up to your
00:29:21.840
ear so people can't hear the other end of it in fact they might even i've seen different interpretations
00:29:27.560
i think in one version they're even suggesting it could just ban having a phone conversation
00:29:31.600
if you're not in like the like if you're on the train rather than on like a platform or something
00:29:36.800
uh also they're going to ban putting your feet onto the seat opposite you when you have like a
00:29:42.640
four pack like that uh and they're also going to ban handing out tracks to people on the subway
00:29:49.200
platform like uh you know like the jehovah's witnesses manuals and stuff and so france is
00:29:54.000
cracking down france is cracking down on annoying behavior on the train so do we have strong thoughts
00:30:01.440
about this everybody does america need the authoritarian crackdown on people listening to music without
00:30:07.880
headphones and why is the answer yes i have thoughts so you have thought yeah andrew you go
00:30:16.840
first no i want to hear the argument as to why the government should be involved in this okay so
00:30:23.560
i i'm not saying that the government should be involved in it which public transport makes it a
00:30:29.320
bigger issue right but i will tell you that i am very in favor of getting rid of like people listen
00:30:35.240
to speakers or you know movies without headphones on planes which is a private company so i i have
00:30:42.200
run into this a lot where people just start talking on phones and they start they start playing clips
00:30:48.040
from social media and i'll be sitting right next to them and i'm just like what's happening
00:30:51.960
were you raised in a barn i find this completely rude i don't know why this is something that needs
00:30:57.320
to be even discussed you should know better you're you know a grown adult that is apparently capable
00:31:03.160
enough to buy a plane ticket please turn that off put some headphones in whatever you got to do
00:31:08.120
so i'm i'm i'm pro direction and by the way as conservatives modern conservatives we are in favor
00:31:14.760
of using government power when it suits the common good uh you know i think sometimes we can get
00:31:20.200
ourselves caught in an ideological trap about freedom it's just like all freedom is good well i don't
00:31:25.800
want to put poison in my hamburgers at mcdonald's so i don't know there is a role for this i i don't
00:31:32.120
know that i have an answer as far as public transport but i will say at the very little
00:31:36.600
at the very minimum it is extraordinarily rude and these people deserve to be mocked scorned and heaped
00:31:42.760
abuse on publicly so i go for a lot of walks and i take my kids for walks especially the more newborn
00:31:51.080
ones and i never use headphones i just listen to my audio books just straight out of the phone
00:31:55.880
so is that should that be regulated if i'm going for a walk on a sidewalk or i'm walking around first
00:32:01.160
of all i don't like the headphones number two i think your pods are actually really dangerous and
00:32:04.920
bad for you that's a whole separate topic and different issue but it's i guess on an airplane
00:32:10.280
i suppose but but hold on if you also have headphones in then does it how does it affect
00:32:16.040
you if somebody else doesn't have headphones in so blake what what is your argument here
00:32:21.560
so i don't know if you guys have if any of you guys have been regular bus riders but when i was in
00:32:27.000
i was in dc i would actually take uh the public bus into uh up to union state or not to union station
00:32:34.760
i would take it to the pentagon and then get on the train and the answer for why it would affect
00:32:38.520
you even if you have headphones is charlie you would be amazed at how loud some people play music
00:32:43.880
or carry on their phone conversations on their phone and so if you really want to be honest i think
00:32:49.080
this is a real a real thing is the reason it might be a good idea to actually have a government like
00:32:55.880
you know to be allowed to crack down on something like that is someone who listens very loudly to
00:33:02.600
music on their phone or on some other device on on a bus on a train is actually probably it's actually
00:33:11.400
a probably big red flashing warning sign that they have like some anti-social tendency that's going to
00:33:17.480
explode because if you are going to like stab you yeah exactly like you know it's sort of it's like
00:33:23.400
broken windows theory applied to like the guy who's going to shove someone in front of a subway train
00:33:28.200
it's like the guy who he like there are people who will play loud music on a subway basically so it's like
00:33:35.960
they're waiting for someone to ask them to turn it down so they can snap at them or it's a way of
00:33:41.640
asserting dominance over other people by making them by making things unpleasant for them for
00:33:47.240
charlie's case i think if you're outdoors if you're in if you're walking on the sidewalk
00:33:51.240
i don't think that matters as much because i mean you can have a literal outdoor you know concert in
00:33:55.800
the park you can put on a play in the park and so you listening to an audio book is you know not
00:34:01.400
is hardly as bad as any of those things so if you're just out on the sidewalk i think it's fine but
00:34:06.520
we definitely have a pattern of people being extremely loud in the enclosed space of like public
00:34:12.440
transport and yes we have video of it how about it looks like we have a couple watching a movie
00:34:29.480
okay that's outrageous all right you won me over
00:34:35.000
oh that's yeah but you know what this is so let me i think we can pull it down oh that now that
00:34:45.800
is he's just staring back at him mean mugging no it's fine it's just hilarious
00:34:54.280
no it's not fine don't wuss out so here's here's what this is and actually apple has fixed this so
00:35:00.040
if you're a couple on a plane because i've run into this with my wife where one of us has to put one
00:35:03.640
headphone in and the other puts the other headphone in so you can both watch the same thing as you're
00:35:08.760
sitting next to each other on a flight now apple lets you connect two different bluetooth or bluetooth
00:35:14.200
headphone devices it's a it's a innovation that i appreciate but here here's so that so that i kind
00:35:21.000
of understand but it's still there's no excuse but here's what i think if you got like a 90 10 issue
00:35:28.280
that like 90 of normal americans would agree that's extraordinarily rude to watch
00:35:33.080
a phone on full volume in the plane while people are trying to sleep or have conversations or whatever
00:35:37.720
you should be able to regulate that i have no problem with that and and here's the thing if
00:35:42.360
you're not going to do that if they're free to do that and we don't pass a law then we should be free
00:35:46.840
to approach that person and if it gets violent to have no liability on us
00:35:53.720
no i think as long as as long as you can walk in public spaces then i'm good i like lucas mp47 who says
00:36:02.360
riding the bus i loved it when people had private phone conversations on speakerphone i would chime
00:36:07.880
in and make them very uncomfortable no i'm gonna tell you i i listen i i get so annoyed because when
00:36:16.600
i get on a plane i like to sleep the entire time i try to go to sleep before it takes off and wake up
00:36:21.320
when it like literally the plane's landing i that's the best way to fly because i just i hate just sitting
00:36:27.080
there amongst myself because i'm a pacer and i need to walk around and and talk and do all that stuff
00:36:32.920
it is so annoying when people are loud in any kind of way but what about people that smell there i mean
00:36:40.120
i'm telling you the smell issue is that's worse it's worse to me yeah it's i've been in this situation
00:36:47.880
one time where literally this woman who probably hadn't bathed in it seemed like weeks sat down next
00:36:56.360
to me with a cat but that was like in a bag that's right next to me and they like they were like
00:37:02.840
literally sat her right next to me and i was like i thought i was gonna die it was like a four-hour
00:37:07.080
flight was there it was the worst smell i've ever smelled my entire life and i don't even i was you're
00:37:11.880
stuck it's like terrorism it's it's civic terrorism not unlike what we've seen here in maricopa county
00:37:19.480
so would you say the cat was out of the bag it was i couldn't tell if it was the cat or the woman
00:37:25.560
or a combination of both but i'm telling you it was like pig pen like you could almost see it in
00:37:29.960
the air and to me that's just like and that's the same conversation that they were talking about
00:37:34.920
people are overweight they're splitting over spilling over we had the other ones with feet people like
00:37:39.560
putting their bare feet out i just we have that video play the play the role can we do that as b-roll
00:37:45.160
the person shaving their like feet calluses well oh i saw one of those pictures oh my yeah
00:37:50.920
like i'm sorry but you're off the plane and you get you get handcuffed when you when we get to the
00:37:56.920
next next destination if we're over halfway gitmo like that's that's beyond the pale that is you
00:38:04.040
you have no you have no common courtesy like that person should be put on a no-fly list
00:38:09.560
well well i found out today that there are airlines that if you pull out those your bear dogs they will
00:38:15.800
kick you off they'll permanently ban you from the airlines what are the airlines delta and spirit
00:38:21.720
and i actually hate it will ban you for that i can't believe it i can't believe spirit is
00:38:27.800
will ban you for anything the spirit like encourages you to fight with people i'm surprised that they
00:38:33.640
they ban you for having your feet up charlie charlie i want to i want to check my my my thought
00:38:39.000
process here with you know back with your your your libertarian leaning early days i think that this
00:38:46.040
is completely this makes complete sense like we are we we we do not need to be afraid to use power
00:38:52.840
when we have a overwhelmingly like positive 90 10 issue yeah maybe there's some like doctrinaire
00:38:59.400
conservative ideas that we're maybe crossing the line here but like this is just common courtesy we talk
00:39:04.840
about this like you know with bullying how like you know we argued back and forth whether or not
00:39:10.760
bullying had some upsides because it's become such a feminized like weak culture like i feel like this
00:39:16.120
person needs to be bullied this person like with the shaving their foot on the plane obviously has had
00:39:23.560
a lack of bullying in their life got it point received the thing about bullying you've got it
00:39:28.120
the thing about bullying is if you when you can bully someone doing something you're able to do
00:39:36.920
through sheer social sanction you're able to do something through sheer social sanction instead of
00:39:40.920
needing a law to do it no so it's less punitive than when you need the state to come in wait you
00:39:46.840
were just arguing with me blake i put in the chat like a few weeks ago i said that part of the reason
00:39:51.560
why it's society so screwed up is because we we've like we've targeted bullying no but people have
00:39:56.520
like a bad warped idea of what a bully is because they watch too many movies and so they just watch
00:40:01.400
bullet things where they think a bully is like a guy who would just stuff someone in the locker and
00:40:05.960
then they decided that's based and we need more of it no no we need we need social punishment of
00:40:12.280
genuinely bad behavior instead of what we have now which is social punishment of actually like
00:40:17.000
pro-social behavior now nowadays you mainly get bullied if you like call the cops on someone who
00:40:22.280
you you would get bullied and like lose your job if you tried to argue against someone doing that
00:40:27.400
at least if they fell into one of you know 18 discrete protected categories on the lib hierarchy
00:40:32.920
by the way while we're doing thought crimes related to airports you know what we really need
00:40:38.200
a jihad against what's that people abusing the wheelchairs do you guys know about this
00:40:43.560
so a ton of a ton of airports a ton of airports will basically if you're not mobile or not you
00:40:52.600
know limited mobility they'll basically they'll provide you a wheelchair and they'll wheel you
00:40:58.200
priority through security and you can get on your own plane early as like a priority access and people
00:41:04.120
abuse the crap out of this and they totally do once you start looking for it you see it everywhere
00:41:10.120
you will see people they all build up to the security line they'll pop up limber as ever
00:41:15.400
scamper through and you'll see a family you'll see three or four people you'll see two generations of
00:41:20.920
a family on the airplane all in the freaking wheelchairs no and every dog you see on the airplane too is not
00:41:26.600
like a service dog it's just somebody who's like i'm gonna call it a service dog and i got my service
00:41:31.160
license or whatever you have to do sort of certification uh i can't stand that because i it's all a con
00:41:38.760
because everybody's too like this is why i think we need to bring up bring back bullying and like
00:41:44.040
social policing and all the things because like there was a time and place where some a-hole tried
00:41:50.440
to bring their dog on a plane that like you know the guy would have looked over to the dog and been
00:41:55.080
like sorry i'm not gonna i'm not gonna put up with that now listen i like dogs as much the next guy but
00:42:00.120
like it's just gotten out of hand it's gotten out of hand like put the dog down in the uh in the can't
00:42:05.000
they do that like they do that with horses i know they ship horses like overseas and they have like
00:42:09.960
a cargo bin for the the horse you can literally put a horse on like a 747 they have a place to put it
00:42:16.360
if you're trying to ship your horse overseas i think that's what we need to do with dogs most of the time
00:42:20.360
this whole thing where like your dog gets is like beware you know underneath the seat in front of you
00:42:25.320
is crazy uh because some of these people bring in like labradors and uh i was on one plane where there
00:42:31.160
there was a rottweiler luckily it was not in my my my three seat row it was like across the aisle
00:42:37.000
but there was a rottweiler down on the bottom of the seat so that's my rant yeah no they have cracked
00:42:44.520
down on that though if they've really limited because they got like so so crazy out of control
00:42:49.560
with so many dogs now you can only have like certain ones in a certain way and they have to
00:42:53.720
have like way more justification they can't just have like whatever what about on the subway
00:42:58.360
what about like public transit do you know this i haven't taken a subway in long enough that i
00:43:03.080
don't i don't even know i think it's like a free for all on a lot of these wait so hold on i was
00:43:09.160
distracted the subways and the trains that the big the big issue isn't this the subways i think
00:43:16.360
are more packed and i think they have more rules in the big cities the real issue that most of our
00:43:21.880
listeners probably have to encounter are the useless light rail that they've been putting in all these
00:43:27.320
cities like so they have trolleys and light rails that nobody uses except for homeless people oh it
00:43:31.400
was really great they had one in norfolk uh virginia where it was like only two stops and then it was
00:43:37.720
originally free and then they had some of the campaigners were like you guys please add a fee to
00:43:43.080
ride this because it's just it was just 100 it's just a roving homeless shelter uh no that's they just go
00:43:51.320
they just sit on the the training it just goes around the city all day long in most of the cities
00:43:56.600
and they're just hitting they're just doing drugs like in the corner peeing in the corner of the
00:44:01.320
like legit like just like defecating and peeing on the trains and of course like they have dogs and
00:44:08.120
animals and you know there's all sorts of craziness happening fights people stealing stuff from people
00:44:14.760
so no nobody wants to ride it so they spend literally like tens of millions of dollars hundreds
00:44:20.920
of millions of dollars installing these things on all the cities it's like such a farce and nobody
00:44:26.760
actually manages it it's not managed because nobody rides it and nobody cares all right eric 1986 says we
00:44:33.800
used to have dogs in baggage under the plane thank you eric 1986 that's what i thought
00:44:40.120
that's i remember that from yeah movies and stuff uh before we forget it uh we have a special question
00:44:45.960
for charlie if he has any inside information ruron donated ten dollars and asked when do you think
00:44:51.160
brent bozel will be confirmed by the senate so carrie lake can finally be confirmed as director of voice
00:44:56.360
of america i don't know if we have any inside lore on that uh i definitely know democrats have decided
00:45:02.600
two months two months all right that's not so bad but democrats are definitely going maximal clogging of
00:45:10.040
everything uh so uh it's what what's the uh what what do you think the uh the passage rate's going to be
00:45:20.360
now from this this after cash charlie do you think most are going to fly through or what who do you
00:45:26.360
think is the next big battle i think so um i think there will be a fight for some of these undersecretaries
00:45:33.720
in the department of defense i don't think it'll be a big fight but um i think that even though they
00:45:38.440
got headset then there are some people that are against the neoconservative dogma that might be a
00:45:44.600
fight uh there's been some rumbling about people like bridge colby who's amazing by the way
00:45:48.920
um and some of those other ones so that keep an eye on that that have very important jobs in the
00:45:53.800
department of defense uh and then cash should be the really big one the last big one and i think he's
00:45:58.120
gonna i think he's gonna sail through but tulsi and bobby were the big big big ones tulsi bobby
00:46:02.440
hegseth were the the true change makers it's incredible charlie hold on what do you what do you think the
00:46:10.680
proper solution is for public transit so i think you agree on the plane but what do you think about public
00:46:16.840
transit and headphone listening dogs all the different ways people can game it i i i'm with
00:46:24.520
i'm with the french on this i think they're right wow so if anybody has any doubts that charlie is no
00:46:32.920
longer libertarian leaning from like 2018 like yeah but it affects other people yeah yeah it's it's you
00:46:41.880
shall it's the non-aggression principle which is you can do whatever you want to do as long as it doesn't
00:46:45.480
harm somebody else so definitionally if you're listening to a movie on a plane you're harming
00:46:50.040
somebody else no one's saying you can't listen to the movie you just have to do it in a way
00:46:53.720
that doesn't impact the livelihood or the journey in that case of the people around yeah passengers
00:47:01.960
well and the true libertarian viewpoint here is like again you know get create institutions that are
00:47:10.120
where you don't have to be crammed on top of each other and this is also a reminder with like airports
00:47:14.840
and airplanes is that airplanes used to be a lot more spacious like the the advent of you know the
00:47:22.520
the consolidation of all the airlines i believe has led to more cramped less luxurious travel travel
00:47:31.000
in the like i wish i would have lived in a time period when travel was was luxurious when it was like you
00:47:36.600
dressed up i think travel is still luxurious if you are like a rich person who pays a lot of money
00:47:41.800
no you cannot look at an airline today like a plane and see it like there's no one that dresses up
00:47:47.160
intentionally for the flight and this is the other thing this goes back to the tattoo thing people just
00:47:52.520
don't dress up in general like you used to dress up to go outside a lot of the time you know you look
00:47:57.080
at a clip of men out in the street in 1925 and they will be much better dressed than today oh yeah but
00:48:03.480
people like you was it was like a thing to be seen it was like such a it was such a uh a place and
00:48:10.040
then the airlines treated you so much better too i mean think about all of the stewardesses like it
00:48:15.640
was like an entire cultural revolution that happened in america and they've got like they've gone so far
00:48:21.720
away from that that i think just the lower quality of uh of our airlines and the consolidation and
00:48:27.800
making you know what's an interesting thing i can't remember if we did a thought crime on this or not
00:48:34.440
but typically and traditionally the dogma is that mass deregulation raises the quality uh airlines is the
00:48:43.080
opposite actually uh we teddy ted kennedy led a mass deregulation crusade of the airlines in the 1980s
00:48:52.440
and it resulted in worse air travel more delays a worse experience and not even better prices that's
00:49:00.840
the thing is that there was kind of an advent of cheaper airfare and now that window has closed through
00:49:06.120
mass consolidation uh and mass regulation and look that's probably pan am which my grandfather actually
00:49:11.640
helped run pan am way back in the day and that and look i mean that that was before teddy kennedy
00:49:17.320
decided to just just wreck it all and if you ask anybody over the age of 60 do they look fondly
00:49:25.720
back on how airfare used to be i mean just airlines used to be i mean they'll it's like they're talking
00:49:32.040
about narnia sorry sorry charlie it's amazing i'm gonna call you on this one they actually did get
00:49:38.040
cheaper uh no but not but what charlie's saying is the prices have come back up because of consolidation
00:49:43.480
well prices i mean they they go up and down and also like gas has gotten more expensive so no this
00:49:48.600
is a good point blake so let me ask let me ask somebody a question here so would you rather pay
00:49:53.960
let's just say 700 bucks for a ticket for that experience or 300 bucks for the current experience
00:50:00.200
that's a legitimate question in a heartbeat from la to new york seven i would pay a thousand bucks
00:50:05.960
to not have some cat on me yeah but how much do you make in a year charlie foot scrapings
00:50:11.480
i am a true of course i have the money but your your money i also won't i don't spend money on
00:50:18.040
stupid stuff so i'm just saying even in early days of the career i would put money towards um
00:50:27.720
look at this that's blake airlines right there that he's very supportive of us that's out of
00:50:33.000
control that is blake that's actually alive i think the great that was a video blake on his way
00:50:39.640
back from the america is that we provided like prosperity to all not to an ennobled few not to
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an elite few we are the country of we are the country of the model t we are the country of the
00:50:51.560
washing machine like time out blake blake is charlie by spirit airlines confirmed no but charlie's point
00:50:58.440
is really good because the consolidation the the monopolization that came through deregulation
00:51:04.440
and this is the same with the big banks has created an inferior product when you have more
00:51:09.000
airlines you you can have blake's option like a lot more spirits and you can have a lot more
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you know pan am i think the truth is and we don't have we're now we have all the same
00:51:20.600
airline we're going to show for this because we're going to make it happen the number one thing that's
00:51:23.480
made air travel worse is not airline deregulation it's the tsa that that is by far the worst part of
00:51:29.320
flying is you have to get your cattle car line to go through security i mean it's all
00:51:33.800
the metal detector that sucks i think i think i'm being targeted i think i'm being targeted by
00:51:39.080
the government every time i go through this the body scanner says i have something i'm carrying
00:51:44.920
something in my crotch region stop doing that i'm not i'm never doing it and they have to pat me
00:51:49.800
down literally with the back of their hand where you're like every time no i think i mean say there's a
00:51:54.440
huge mass charlie's laughing but he knows i'm being like picked out and bullied by the government
00:52:00.600
i i'm not telling you every time i go through he's been on the tulsi gabbard list for a while so hold on
00:52:08.120
the the the safe skies list hey put up b-roll 21 211 okay like this i think this is not the
00:52:15.000
point it's not what we're talking about but no no but blake you're wrong it is not that tsa has made it
00:52:20.360
less luxurious or worse we've done this to ourselves and this this this is a little
00:52:27.560
fashion evolution i think is is key like we used to have some standards people used to and now you
00:52:33.080
go on airlines and it's like you're sitting next to somebody in their freaking pjs watching a phone
00:52:37.640
with the speaker on no headphones and they smell and they got wheeled in on a wheelchair that they
00:52:43.400
didn't need i mean the whole thing is ridiculous like the whole experience is ridiculous
00:52:48.520
the trash and the food sucks and you get an expired diet coke and you get coffee that could
00:52:56.520
is indistinguishable from jet fuel and you might get peanuts and like my favorite i mean again i
00:53:01.960
just don't for the right i have millions of miles of flying right million mile club in america two
00:53:05.960
million miles of america million with united million delta and i always loved when i was flying american
00:53:11.160
where they would act as if uh mr kirk thank you so much for being concierge key and for being a
00:53:15.560
two million mile flyer would you like a cheese tray yeah yes thank you very much appreciate and
00:53:21.560
i actually would cherish the cheese tray yeah because in this sea of scum i would have a do you
00:53:29.640
save the cheddar cheese do you have the tray in your home like still saver saver not save
00:53:35.560
saver and then i would get my jet fuel coffee my jet fuel coffee and i just i thought that was
00:53:44.440
the greatest thing ever and then i look at this pan am experience and we've been propagandized to
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believe i mean look at this no it's like prison food thought that this was a bad part of america
00:53:57.480
no charlie's right it's like prison food you're like a prisoner on a plane when i was the crazier
00:54:02.200
part that we haven't even touched on they can keep you trapped in that plane for like seven hours or
00:54:06.680
something like if i bet one time it was like this i know some light goes on in the bathroom and you
00:54:12.360
can't get off the don't even give me start i was on one flight one time it's only happened to me one
00:54:17.720
time where they had no food on the plane and something happened we got stuck on the tarmac for like
00:54:23.640
legit seven hours like it was it was like a seven hour situation got to change that regulation it's not
00:54:29.240
an act of congress they they they should do maximum to three hour waits then you got to go back to the
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gate but to your point charlie like real food it's like it's like a prison like if you're stuck on
00:54:38.840
a plane even for four or five hours and they're serving you like that dog food that they serve you
00:54:42.600
now it is terrible it is terrible and that and the other thing is this is a real thought crimey thing
00:54:47.880
that we really haven't gotten to if you travel foreign countries they still take pride in the people
00:54:53.000
that they hire like there's in the people that you're just saying that in other countries they
00:54:57.480
hire hot chicks they do all the flight attendants they hide and we have that we have like you know
00:55:01.960
these that was the old pan am way that was yeah no i like that i'm okay with that we can use dei to
00:55:07.960
re-engine getting rid of d by the way the average the average the average flight attendant could be in
00:55:13.320
lord of the rings yes the average flight attendant is uh is definitely on the on that on that uh
00:55:20.680
uh and we've seen jackson on uh looks some of them are gandalfi some of them are very gandalfi
00:55:27.560
long beers you guys are hating on their travel but like i said america's the country hobbits are
00:55:31.800
still fixing their feet in the in the in the aisle yeah they're like no okay so so here's my here's my
00:55:38.760
here's my advice to how we fix air travel it's very simple and everyone loves it you charge 25 more
00:55:44.920
and you get rid of middle seats and you make the whole cabin first class yes
00:55:49.080
yes a whole first class airline yes but that's jsx and it works really well and jsx is very
00:55:57.720
profitable and they sell out and it's all regional out here west if you'll know what jsx it's amazing
00:56:02.760
you can fly from scottsdale to vegas or scottsdale to la and yeah you'd have to charge like 33 more
00:56:09.000
i think there's a huge market for that and then by the way if you want to go be treated like a piece of
00:56:13.160
cattle to go fly from phoenix tampa via con dios fine great you could you could take the bus that's
00:56:20.520
what it's become it's a bus and it's an insult because you fly on these other european airlines
00:56:25.960
or you know fly ll and all of a sudden they have like pride and they love their airline it's like
00:56:31.400
a representation just think about it think about if you're from europe or the middle east and you're
00:56:37.240
flying something called american airlines american airlines so as the name of our country by the
00:56:43.000
way you fly you fly the emirates you fly turkish airlines you fly you know qatar airways you they have
00:56:50.600
like pride in their nation and they're all thin and they're cut and they know what's going on and they
00:56:55.960
love their country and they're a representation and you fly american airlines and it is the sloppiest
00:57:03.240
slovenly nobody cares the flight attendants won't even look you in the eye it's like they're annoyed
00:57:08.840
that you're there i think it's a bad representation of the country it totally is and now and in general
00:57:15.640
too and and if you've been to the airport in qatar or dubai in doha in doha yeah in doha i'm wondering
00:57:24.040
about charlie's math here because he was saying you can get jsx for 30 percent more i'm looking i'm
00:57:30.120
looking it up right now scottsdale to dallas jsx 360 i can get a flight i could go up to phoenix
00:57:37.000
sky harbor and i could fly round trip to dallas and back 55 55 55 i'm sorry i don't care if the
00:57:49.240
experience sucks frontier spirit but i don't frontier and spirit oh hold on that's not an airline no no
00:57:55.400
no no no no no that's that's amtrak in the air no no no if you were charlie charlie if you don't
00:58:00.760
think it's amazing spirit you might leave that week charlie if you don't think it's amazing and
00:58:06.760
that i can get into an aluminum tube accelerate it to 700 miles an hour or whatever they go 500 miles
00:58:14.520
an hour and go to dallas and do it all again to come back for 55 dollars you're dodging charlie's
00:58:21.480
anti-american charlie's argument this is what the wright brothers died for is about american
00:58:26.200
the blake doesn't understand no spirit airlines charges you for more than one bag so you only
00:58:31.800
get one carry-on the second one is another 50 bucks if you have a carry-on it's a hundred bucks
00:58:37.240
they charge you for water okay so no so so literally they charge you for water
00:58:43.800
well if you're trying to water why are you going to dallas i think they charge you for a
00:58:47.560
backpack you can't even bring in like some of them do some toilet paper you can't spare a square
00:58:53.880
no they they charge you for everything you can't spare a square and and by the way the clientele of
00:58:58.520
spirit airlines is middle class i was uh i was straight up molested on spirit airlines in my first
00:59:07.560
i'm telling you i i woke i i actually think every movie this is back in the early days of turning
00:59:12.760
point we would all we would almost charlie remembers us we would book everybody on spirit we were we're
00:59:18.280
cost saving all the time until we realized how unsafe it was probably on that flight i got on this
00:59:23.880
flight it was like a midnight flight to chicago and it was i i i got on this flight i'm in middle seat
00:59:31.000
this woman sits down next to me who's drunker than any drunk person i've ever seen on an airline
00:59:37.000
she should not have been flying they should not have let her on the plane somehow gets on the plane
00:59:41.240
i've i'm i'm in a jacket because you can't check anything right because it's spirit so i'm
00:59:46.280
literally wearing like a winter coat to to chicago i wake up and this woman has her arms wrapped around
00:59:52.360
me and like cuddling me the entire flight and now you're married i was married at the time i woke up
00:59:59.160
and i had to push her off me this was like spirit she's like ah she's all this is the type of ride
01:00:05.720
that you have to selectively choose on spirit charlie's point about american airlines is that
01:00:10.600
there's a representation issue that we have here and it's not just american it's all the big airlines
01:00:15.720
and we have no standards whatsoever and you go from writing you know the beautiful airport in
01:00:22.120
qatar and doha that's literally like backlit marble counters when they check your passport
01:00:27.800
to america and it's like literally they like give you the bird when you walk on and like
01:00:32.440
put out a cigarette that is like nothing why are you here airport the airports of america are still just
01:00:37.800
as greasy even if you're flying first class like no yeah but you're not stuck in one place
01:00:43.400
seated the whole time i i chart i listen i have not heard an idea like this much in a long time
01:00:49.400
we need to make american air travel great again all right none of it like yes there's got to be
01:00:55.240
eliminate this whole industry in and by the way the the amount of flights that i've flown in the last
01:01:01.560
year that have been delayed because of mechanical failure or because of some light went on and
01:01:07.000
they got to process the paperwork and they got to bring so and so in from this other outside
01:01:12.600
hangar and then it's like two and a half hours later you're sitting there waiting for the flight
01:01:16.920
to take off and you don't even know if it's going to take off and you're like wrestling with do i try
01:01:21.800
and book on another airline or i'm sick of this some we got to have some standards here and charlie's
01:01:27.160
absolutely right this needs to be uh remedied i think trump would get behind this charlie i think trump
01:01:34.760
would totally agree with i hope so uh i hope so too because i think he gets it he's he's the guy
01:01:40.840
who's like saying our airports need to be a better representation he owned he had trump air for a while
01:01:47.880
he he literally had trump air um but to your point i i mean i've the most recent foreign flight i think
01:01:54.440
i took it was on korean air and these women were like on top of it they were they were making sure you
01:01:59.400
had everything you needed when you needed it i mean it was a little bit robotic but it was it was
01:02:03.400
impressive and american airlines or delta or whatever's flying abroad we need to be better
01:02:08.440
representations of the american culture well that's the problem too is everyone already like everyone
01:02:14.840
internationally already thinks we're slobs and disgusting and then they fly on like we have united
01:02:20.600
or american and then they're like oh yeah this is exactly what i expect and i always feel that way
01:02:26.680
too i'm always kind of embarrassed when i like get to an american airport after international travel
01:02:31.640
because i'm like if i showed up here if i spent all that money to come to like california in my head
01:02:38.760
and like i show up to lax which is literally a third world country it's like it's basically like
01:02:43.720
going to disgusting thing oh yeah it's char i'll never forget one of the funniest moments of my life was
01:02:50.760
charlie kirk at lax we got we had like a crazy uber situation and it was like we got like hijacked
01:02:59.880
it was like crazy but it's like a third world country i i'm embarrassed that like we have these
01:03:06.040
awful airlines they we show up the airports are awful it's a it's horribly run and then you step outside
01:03:13.400
like in california for example and like that's their first impression of america is like the ghetto of
01:03:18.840
california which is disgusting and it's just we have to fix all of it and a lot of countries work
01:03:24.760
really hard where it's like your first impression is at the airport it's on the plane it's stepping
01:03:29.960
outside of the airport and if we don't fix that i i mean we're it's not going to help so like that
01:03:35.720
why not now you know this whole renaissance on architecture why not also focus on air travel well
01:03:41.480
we have to demand change when we have power and i'm just saying vibe ships vibe shift starts with
01:03:48.040
us i'll never forget charlie you remember when tucker did this when he went to hungary and he was
01:03:52.840
like the architecture was so beautiful and that started this this like i would say kind of renaissance
01:03:58.520
within conservative intellectual circles saying yeah you know what you're right we need to get our
01:04:02.840
architecture game back on and i think i think it's this is going to filter through where we demand
01:04:07.640
excellence out of our own countrymen and our own industries again i think it's a good thing it's
01:04:12.440
a positive conversation i endorse all right we got about 10 minutes here do you want to uh blake tell
01:04:18.040
us why america's super healthy oh what we're gonna do is uh our i think our fun conversation could be
01:04:24.520
so rfk jr got through today he's now hhs secretary so i thought we could discuss what should our actual top
01:04:32.440
priorities be for making america healthy again because i thought that could spark a good debate
01:04:37.880
because i'm always in disagreement with everyone about what our health issues are and to commemorate
01:04:42.200
rfk getting confirmed uh maybe you've seen me waving this uh hiroshima carp mug around i brought in uh
01:04:49.560
over the holidays uh the seven up company whoever makes them i think they're made by dr pepper anyway
01:04:55.560
they made a shirley temple flavored seven up variety and there is no way that this soda is
01:05:02.200
going to be legal under rfk's regime because i think like the second most common ingredient in it
01:05:07.240
is red 40 so i'm gonna crack this one open to celebrate it it stains everything i put it in
01:05:14.200
red 40s in that red something let me see uh i just bought that i just bought that this last week
01:05:20.200
for the super bowl for my kids red 40 red 40s all over this it's gonna stain the crap out of this mug
01:05:25.560
it's great i i got a strong recommend basically like how is this different than you being like
01:05:30.680
a crackhead being like bragging about i mean it's you're putting poison into your body
01:05:36.520
okay i guess you're for like legalizing all drugs for kids
01:05:44.680
it's great stuff it's it's very delicious i recommend it no red i i was pulling up all the red 40
01:05:49.640
if and this is the thing so rfk has to this is the this is the scalp that rfk has to get in the
01:05:58.600
first month in order to be successful is red 40 i really believe that if he if he knocks out red 40
01:06:06.440
at what hold on didn't we already do something with red 40 i don't think it's like no i think
01:06:11.160
i didn't did something but yeah at the end of biden's term he tried to like take it oh so wait
01:06:18.040
now we have to protect red 40 because that's me it's not he's drinking it right now like like
01:06:22.520
literally he wouldn't just got that seven up and he's he's literally drinking it's red 40 still around
01:06:26.440
red 40 is all over this one but it red 40 asthma allergies cancer brain damage attention deficit
01:06:34.600
hyperactivity it's all been linked it's like red 40 is probably the base but if rfk actually gets
01:06:41.560
this thing done okay so so no i i agree tyler so blake why don't you uninterruptedly tell us why america
01:06:49.320
is so sick so lethargic so suicidal so overweight so anxious so depressed you don't think it's any
01:06:55.800
the maha stuff so the the burden is on you because the data is objective all those things are happening
01:07:01.160
why honestly if you if i had to guess if you were to say pick one big thing that's like driving
01:07:08.920
huge across the board declines in health outcomes if i had to guess i think it would turn out to be
01:07:15.160
plastics i think my like plastics but it's it's not really it's not nearly as trendy to worry about
01:07:24.200
plastics as it is to worry about no but like the thing about it is like maha is way more obsessed
01:07:30.520
with like the vaccines with like the secret cheat codes in the food and all of that and i actually
01:07:36.360
think like the boring answer is the fact that plastic is totally omnipresent and everything
01:07:41.080
way more it's almost a despair inducing because what are you going to do are we going to get rid of
01:07:46.040
plastic probably not it we use it for everything and when you look at plastics like plastics leach into
01:07:53.400
everything microplastics get into your bloodstream and we don't know exactly what it does but we do
01:07:59.160
know that there is some impact of plastics in your blood on like certain hormonal processes so like
01:08:06.600
over time it's screwing up some of our hormones and the effects of plastic stuff are epigenetic they
01:08:12.840
actually basically alter the your gene expression in your body and that can stack one generation after
01:08:19.560
another so you get 10 messed up by the plastics that 10 is inherited by your kids who get another 10
01:08:26.680
percent and that could easily explain why so many things we see are accelerating like they're
01:08:33.800
continuing over time like the reason i would always criticize people who say i totally agree
01:08:38.840
with that yeah like a lot of the stuff that people blame on like causing you know autism for example it
01:08:44.760
doesn't necessarily make sense because it should be like a light switch where we did this and then
01:08:48.200
it doubled overnight whereas stuff like allergies stuff like autism it's that it's just going up every
01:08:54.280
single year on a pretty linear basis and for something like that to be happening i think you need some
01:08:59.160
sort of constant environmental factor that's like shoving itself in and so it's probably not like seed
01:09:05.720
oils where it's just a constant thing in or or you know this or that shot that people have decided is to
01:09:12.360
blame so i think it's pretty interesting like i think the best use of rfk is if we were to just go all
01:09:20.280
out on let's fund as much study of this as we possibly can let's produce as much science as we possibly can
01:09:27.560
as opposed to what i think a lot of people are tempted to do where they basically want to impulsively
01:09:33.720
ban certain things or you know people want money for this or that thing like there are people who are
01:09:39.960
going to want to use maha to just mean you can use medicare or medicaid to pay for like homeopathic
01:09:45.560
medicine and i think that would be a mistake i don't think we should use taxpayer dollars to
01:09:51.080
buy flavored water for people but it could happen i am i am a big homeop homeopathy but i think you
01:09:59.080
should pay for it yourself i'm a believer that there's a lot more in the natural world that could
01:10:02.440
help you than drugs but but blake one of the the guiding principles of maha is that there is an
01:10:09.080
invisible environmental toxin that is doing something we don't quite know what so you're you're kind of
01:10:15.160
in the thesis then with the plastic thing i'm surprised you're you're kind of within the
01:10:20.440
within the um the genre that there is an invisible an invisible force that is doing something to us
01:10:28.520
we don't quite know what but we have to figure out what that is that that is kind of the core
01:10:33.000
premise of maha yeah i think i i'm not 100 alien to it there's you know there's kind of what i always
01:10:39.800
worry about is there's uh there's a line that is attributed to gk chesterton uh he didn't literally
01:10:45.480
say it but we'll get behind it where it's like an atheist isn't someone who believes in uh nothing
01:10:50.920
it's a person who believes in anything like once you become an atheist you'll just believe in anything
01:10:54.760
and i worry that that is something that can happen with the health stuff in general it's like
01:11:01.400
covet happened it was really disgraceful all the health experts acquitted themselves very badly for the
01:11:07.720
the most part and some people have reacted to that by going they lied to us about that so they're lying
01:11:13.640
about everything and i don't trust the doctors the only person i can trust is you know this this like
01:11:20.760
weird guy i found on the internet and all of that and i would encourage people to be more skeptical of
01:11:28.440
that than they often are because i think it can lead to unfortunate outcomes but i do think it's very
01:11:33.400
real people are right to look at the way things are and say this this isn't normal like kids they
01:11:41.400
actually are not way less active today than they were 20 years ago yet they are fatter than they were
01:11:46.840
20 years ago they are more depressed than they were 20 years ago they are exhibiting weird medical
01:11:52.920
problems we were looking at that article just today that the rate of uh kind of precocious cancers
01:11:58.840
people getting cancer under 50 years old went way way up between 1990 and 2019 and if you're looking
01:12:06.440
at what's the obvious change that happens between 1990 and 2019 i'm not sure there is one and people
01:12:13.720
are just are freaking out about it and i i think they're right to do that but i think the correct
01:12:17.640
focus should be increase our level of knowledge as much as possible as opposed to playing whack-a-mole
01:12:24.120
where we decide oh actually like red 40 is the thing that's going to kill all of us so
01:12:28.520
ban it immediately i mean if they want to i'm sure they will but i don't think it's like it's going
01:12:33.640
to be the kill shot that makes us all healthy i gotta dash everybody rumble.cloud check it out right
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now thank you guys wonderful episode one of the best ones we've had in recent memory
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till next week keep on committing thought crimes talk to you soon