On this week's episode, the boys discuss the latest in the Trump administration, the Venezuelan crisis, and whether or not we should have a set standard for living in America. Plus, the guys answer listener questions and talk about what it's like to live in an HOA.
00:00:25.000Can we, can I, before we do chat, could we ask research to pull in a video I was showing Tim earlier?
00:00:30.000I don't know if you saw it, it was like it was yesterday or something.
00:00:32.000They were asking Trump about whether he's going to ask Congress to, or why he shouldn't, why he won't ask Congress to declare war for this Venezuelan crap.
00:00:49.000As a comedian, it's as good as it gets.
00:00:51.000There's never been a funnier thing said by a president.
00:00:53.000Okay, so the setup is they're asking him about they're asking him about whether he's going to declare war in Venezuela or continue business as usual.
00:02:29.000And you see that largely in nations that are more homogenous because there's more of a shared commonality, and especially in white Christian European, North American, obviously, society.
00:02:41.000So like I'm convinced that HOAs were made for two reasons.
00:02:45.000One, for busybody Karens to have authority that they don't deserve, but also when you have a mixed, let's say, subdivision or something where people don't really know how they should act.
00:02:56.000Because I will tell you, there's no HOA where I live and everything is pristine.
00:03:55.000I understand the spirit of it because then you go to the wrong neighborhood, just, you know, you go a few blocks over and you see everyone leaves their trash everywhere.
00:04:01.000Or like, you know, their method of disposal is just whipping it across the lawn.
00:04:06.000But, you know, you do have plenty of places where there are no HOAs, but they're great neighborhoods.
00:04:11.000And that was the rule rather than the exception for a very long time in this country.
00:04:16.000Yeah, we used to care about our communities and be involved.
00:04:19.000And I understand, like, this is actually kind of an interesting story because I think we've all experienced this where there's noise late at night or something like that.
00:04:26.000A kid's out there making a bunch of noise.
00:04:28.000And usually when I was growing, I didn't really care.
00:04:30.000Now that I have kids, they're going to be woken up by the motorcycle at 3 a.m. going up and down the street.
00:05:29.000That's a huge part of what's missing in our culture is that we just don't care enough about people around us to do something uncomfortable.
00:05:34.000Now, there are certain situations where that might be dangerous.
00:05:37.000And of course, you get plenty of white people who do that too.
00:06:04.000And, Mr. President, if you are declaring war against these cartels and Congress is likely to approve of that process, why not just ask for a declaration of war?
00:08:30.000Just like, you know, Christian American charities going to un-Christian nations in Africa, you know, because it'll be a missions trip, but they'll also build wells.
00:08:39.000They'll dig wells or they'll build like a farm for them.
00:09:03.000If you live around them, though, you will, you'll hear it more often.
00:09:06.000They say when they, after they pray and while they pray, and usually it's like, you know, they'll say it in, you know, mass gatherings and stuff.
00:09:13.000Like if they're doing something together, they're celebrating something, they'll say it.
00:09:45.000I know that people will say the term was coined by, I'm trying to remember the Jewish author somewhere there in the mid-day.
00:09:51.000Some Russian Jews in the 20th century.
00:09:53.000So I get it, but when we say, when someone says melting pot, I've used it in comparison to mosaic because I know that people understand the term.
00:09:59.000It doesn't mean that that's part of our founding the actual doctrine of melting pot.
00:10:05.000As far as describing what it's meant to sort of, it's meant to be an analogies.
00:10:11.000A melting pot, think of it like a stew.
00:10:13.000Everything goes in and you get one food.
00:10:31.000That's why you have Sharia courts all over Europe.
00:10:34.000You have the same thing in, for example, in Canada.
00:10:35.000I was raised in the province of Quebec, where it's an English country, but Quebec is a French-speaking province because they were a conquered people, right?
00:10:43.000They lost, I believe, in the plains of Abraham.
00:10:45.000But for some odd reason, under the auspices of a mosaic, I'm just using the terms that people are familiar with.
00:10:51.000It doesn't mean that I think we should call it a melting pot.
00:10:54.000They said, okay, we'll let you have your own little enclave here, and we'll let you keep your language, and we'll let you keep your culture.
00:10:59.000Well, now they've refused to assimilate, but they've had referendums and trying to separate from the rest of Canada, an English-speaking country.
00:11:04.000So the concept of melting pot is supposed to be, you come here, sure, you came from another country, but you now take part in what is American culture.
00:12:06.000I don't know exactly who did it, but somebody found tomatoes here, brought them back to Europe, and the Italians are like, piece of stuff is delicious.
00:14:23.000If we have a second, let's pull up this quick story from the New York Post.
00:14:26.000Apparently, Chinese own TikTok allegedly meddling in the mayoral race by boosting Mamdani content over Cuomo according to leaked documents.
00:14:35.000Well, I was just interviewed by the New York Times yesterday, and that's funny.
00:16:13.000Conservatives have gained ground with open debate forms conversations in spite of the fact that we have been shadow banned, that we have been demonetized.
00:16:23.000I'm not even allowed on TikTok to be clip.
00:16:26.000How well do you think it would do on TikTok?
00:16:27.000It's like change, the stuff is tailor-made for it.
00:19:21.000He said, I have seen, you know, watch the change of minds, and they're quite a bit different from other people long form.
00:19:25.000He said, but you know, you know that it's going to get clipped and then that's going to create division because, you know, it'll become like a dunking thing.
00:19:32.000I said, I do know that there are people out there who do that.
00:19:37.000You can't say that about me because when I started it, there was no TikTok.
00:20:07.000They actually believe people on the left right now that Dean, whatever, these people, they're actually out there saying, well, if big tech and the media wasn't so far right-wing, we'd have as many subscribers as Steven Crowder.