On this week's episode of Popski, the boys discuss the latest movie adaptation of the classic horror classic, "Frankenstein: The Old Man and the Monster." Plus, a look at the new Netflix miniseries "The Handmaid's Tale" and Ben Shapiro's take on the President Garfield Assassination.
00:01:05.000Like the idea is, you know, he's kind of trying to create cheat death.
00:01:11.000And I do think the backstory of the doctor, which they did more in this than any other version that I can think of, was pretty interesting, right?
00:01:15.000They didn't just make him out to be a mad scientist.
00:01:18.000They made him out to be a guy who affect kind of could have some parallels to the transhumanism we're seeing now.
00:01:30.000And that's an interesting backstory of the doctor.
00:01:31.000There's that new ad where people are like trying to bring, Tim, you commented on this on X, where they're trying to bring dead people back through AI.
00:01:37.000It's like their voices and their personalities.
00:01:40.000What if somebody you lost could experience a moment with you?
00:01:42.000I'm like, how about you accept reality?
00:04:41.000You guys are great engineers and never mind that tens of millions of people, or hundreds of millions, and hundreds of millions of people poop in the streets.
00:05:12.000Well, you know, the same thing can be said about Danish Americans, Swedish Americans.
00:05:15.000You take them from their previous country where they actually have a higher standard of living than people, obviously, in most of Asia and most of Africa.
00:05:21.000They have an even higher standard of living in the United States because you add opportunity.
00:05:25.000So if you add opportunity to any race, to any culture of people, they fare better here than their previous land of no opportunity.
00:05:32.000If you combine opportunity with people who do have a work ethic and share some values with Western civilization, it's a walk-off.
00:06:00.000The Northern Indians and the South Indians.
00:06:02.000There are neighborhoods in Texas where it's basically the sharks and the Jeets.
00:06:06.000The guy, Jacob Frey, he won the mayoral race in Minnesota or Minneapolis because he figured out how to exploit a intertribe rift between Somalians.
00:06:49.000I said, the truth is if people all from India assimilated and acted like you did, became an American, adopted Christianity, we would not be having this conversation.
00:07:36.000And that's very different from the United States.
00:07:38.000But yeah, if you, here's the thing, too.
00:07:39.000Like, to give you an example, people say, I don't care.
00:07:45.000But this idea too, well, that's a perfect example, though.
00:07:47.000We wouldn't be able to live, coexist together with Native Americans for the same reason that Native American tribes could not coexist with each other because they didn't share values at all, right?
00:08:01.000Some had no concept of personal property.
00:08:18.000Like, it was four pounds of jerky or beef or pelts, whatever the hell.
00:08:21.000So, like, they couldn't live together.
00:08:23.000You think, and that's not a small thing.
00:08:26.000People coming from, and it doesn't mean that all Hindus are bad, but people coming from religions like that, especially where there is no ultimate accountability, that there's heaven, there's hell, and you are judged for your life, but they believe, well, I'm creating my own heaven and hell.
00:08:42.000And this is why I will tell you in business, people know that doing business with Indians, people who are, you know, again, first generation Indians, it's very difficult.
00:08:52.000They'll start haggling after the contract is signed.
00:08:55.000There's a reason that all, almost all of the telephone marketing, like the credit card scams and social security check scams come from one country.
00:09:49.000If you have a town of a Midwestern town of 10,000 white Protestants and you bring in a family from India, that's fine because that family will be taught how to become part of that community and the community will accept them and adopt them and teach them.
00:10:02.000It's when you bring in 12,000 people from India to a town of 10,000 and your culture gets displaced.
00:10:44.000The second is the shared fundamental values, largely Christianity.
00:10:50.000An Italian coming in in the early 20th century, for example, and an Irishman living across the street, or a Brit, and a German who are coming from largely Christian countries, modern countries, Western countries.
00:11:02.000It's not like Mars and Venus, especially if they learned a language, which they were expected to do and they by and large did back then.
00:11:08.000There is a shared common, not just values, but holidays, for example, ways of social interaction, all of it.
00:11:21.000So pre-welfare state versus post-welfare state, shared commonality, the fundamentals, and then the rate at which you're talking about immigration.
00:11:29.000That's what leads to actual displacement, like you're talking about.
00:11:32.000One family coming in, you know, a few families coming in that generationally become American.
00:11:38.000Look at Italian Americans, very patriotic.
00:11:39.000They're the ones who are at the forefront of defending Columbus Day.
00:11:43.000That's very different from 20 million in the span of three or four years.
00:11:47.000That's very different from entire sectors of the economy abusing the H-1B system where you are a minority in your own industry as a white person.
00:11:57.000Those three things change the landscape.
00:12:00.000And that's why, I don't know if you know this, that's why we've had borders.
00:12:03.000And that's why we've actually had an approach to immigration policy to specifically deal with those.
00:12:10.000If you look at any country that has immigration policy at all, it's okay.
00:12:14.000How do we make sure that these people don't come in and abuse the system, pre-welfare, post-welfare state?
00:12:18.000We make sure that they don't just come in and that this government doesn't act as a sieve to which everything can go to these people who've not contributed yet.
00:12:28.000And then you also look at, okay, borders to make sure that we can control the rate of flow because that matters in any environment where you have incoming and outgoing.
00:12:37.000I mean, in a business, import-export coordinator, right?
00:15:15.000You're taking part in this system, telling people who are yelling that the system is broken, well, sure, sure, we should maybe reform the system, but not the radical way you're saying.
00:15:26.000Yeah, but you're benefiting from the system and you're propping up this system and you have done nothing to change it.
00:15:32.000You've done nothing to notably change education.
00:15:34.000You have done nothing to notably change immigration policy.
00:15:41.000And so people are becoming radicalized.
00:15:44.000But if you actually listen to the grievances, the grievances themselves are not radical.
00:15:47.000Someone's saying, I think I am good enough.
00:15:51.000I think I went to school with a skyrocketing tuition rate, frankly.
00:15:56.000I did everything that I was told to do.
00:15:58.000And you can, of course, place the blame largely on Democrats, but also their complicit Republican ilk.
00:16:06.000And I don't want to do the job for pay that couldn't possibly help me pay off my student loans because they've imported a bunch of H-1Bs who are less capable than me, but are willing to take 30% less.
00:18:11.000I don't know how much of it is just a genuine blind spot versus it gives credence to people who say they're bought and paid for.
00:18:19.000How does someone who claims to be America first in 2025 make the case for H-1Ps?
00:18:27.000Especially from people who pride themselves on making statistical arguments or data as being the foundation of, you can't even, can you argue it as far as Christian principles or America first principles?
00:18:43.000Can you argue it as far as, okay, even if it's maybe not in line with our principles or the idea of the United States or America first, the ends justify the means because we've had a positive outcome?
00:19:28.000That is not reflected right now in the discourse.
00:19:31.000And so I think whoever you think is most radical right now in fracturing the right, and I would agree with you in some facets, the old guard, and it's funny because the old guard is actually a lot younger than people realize.
00:19:43.000They're just as much to blame at this point.
00:19:46.000You can't keep telling young conservatives, young right-wingers, like, oh, just pull yourself up by your bootstraps when the system, and not in the way that socialists have tried to convey, but the system has been rigged.
00:20:21.000Dealing with, going to the other side, the radicals, or people will say, if those people are saying Trump sucks, the right wing sucks, everything sucks, and all they sell you is despair with no solutions.
00:20:37.000Well, people who do that, they're just serving the leftist masters of a death cult.
00:21:32.000But to say all is lost and only despair and there is no hope, that is to serve the leftist masters who made people believe that for a long period of time.
00:21:42.000And if enough people on the right serve them, well, if the left is effectively a death cult, you know what that means?
00:22:05.000Because if you want to die, if you think, hey, America isn't better than any other nation and there's no way to fix it, well, then you go ahead and die.
00:22:13.000I'm not going to die, and I don't want the country to die.
00:22:46.000Don't forget to join me Monday, November 17th, where we dive into SNAP EBT.
00:22:52.000And while there really is some great conversation, I would say soda in more health-conscious things, but not to get away with it altogether.
00:23:02.000Well, to kind of compromise with SNAP.
00:23:04.000Well, so here's the thing: you can't compromise with SNAP because you can't cut soda, right?