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00:01:46.000It's not as big as the miracle on ice for a few reasons, but it comes close and it sort of captures the spirit of it.
00:01:55.000You think I saw a good take that was in 1980, we defeated Soviet communism, and this time we defeated basically the 2026 version of Soviet communism, which is basically hyper gay.
00:02:13.000That's what Canada's gone all in on being.
00:02:15.000I would venture to guess that Canadian wokeism is as large an existential threat, if not bigger, to our way of life and to the survival of Western civilization as Soviet communism.
00:02:25.000Survival, quite literally, given their love of assisted suicide.
00:03:18.000And it was just like, we've seen so many bad clips and bad interviews from this Olympics from woke athletes, skaters that can't win gold and that fall.
00:05:00.000Well, you know what's great, though, is that Jack Hughes had actually got a high-stick penalty against him, loses a couple teeth, so he's all bloody.
00:05:07.000His mouth's just, and then he goes on to score the winning goal.
00:05:50.000Anyways, so this was just one of the proudest moments.
00:05:54.000And then I want to address because it's just so annoying.
00:05:59.000Well, actually, one other good note here first.
00:06:02.000So one of the players, Johnny Godreaux, was killed in a drunk driving accident in 2024, and they welcomed his kids out for the group picture.
00:06:15.000I got emotional watching this because they honored the widow, they honored the children, and my heart was instantly thinking about Erica and Charlie and their kids.
00:06:26.000And it was a beautiful, I think we have an image of this.
00:06:28.000If you guys can throw it up there, it was just a wonderful happened.
00:06:31.000It actually kind of became a mainstream news story.
00:06:33.000I think JD Vance said something about it at the time.
00:08:39.000It's weird that Gavin Newsom is trying to relate to black people by saying he has a low SAT.
00:08:44.000All I would say is if James Comey in 20, when he was FBI director or any, or if Merrick Garland had been at an Olympic game in 2022 and was jumping around like that, I disagree.
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00:13:04.000There is more international news that we have to get to, but basically, all hell broke loose in Mexico.
00:13:11.000Here's the deal: they killed a massive kingpin.
00:13:14.000And of all the cartels, his name is El Mencho.
00:13:19.000But of all the cartels, it was the Cartel Jalisco New Generation or Nuevo Heneración or whatever.
00:13:25.000So the CJ NG cartel, which is a mouthful.
00:13:30.000I feel like there's a new cartel every year.
00:13:32.000This cartel has existed with basic impunity in Mexico for years.
00:13:38.000And I thought this was really important because this morning, President Trump is honoring the angel families.
00:13:43.000He's bringing up the mother of the mother of Lake and Riley, who was killed at the hands of an illegal immigrant.
00:13:52.000And here, meanwhile, we've got this whole fight going on in Washington where they're trying to defund DHS, which is the agency that keeps us safe, which under, you know, ICE is under.
00:14:03.000Listen, you could make an argument that DHS shouldn't have been consolidated into one agency.
00:14:09.000It's just, they're trying to defund the organization that is on the front line of making it so a U.S. city does not look like Puerto Vallarta.
00:14:17.000They are trying to defund the agency that keeps every one of those cartel members, which, if you watch those clips, they have assault weapons, they have armored vehicles, they have heavy explosives.
00:14:29.000That is what happens when you have a full-blown cartel narco-state operating with impunity.
00:14:35.000And that is not, there's nothing about destiny that keeps America from being like that.
00:14:41.000We are not like that because we have different people, different laws, different values.
00:14:45.000And if you change the situation, if we are just Mexico, we'll have the same thing.
00:14:50.000Borders are where bad ideas, bad policy, bad governance end, and good ideas, good governance, and good policy begins.
00:14:59.000If we have the courage of our own sovereignty, if we have the courage of our own convictions, and we are proud to be Americans and say our ideas are better.
00:15:09.000I'm not saying Mexicans are bad people.
00:15:12.000Some, I suppose, are good people, as President Trump once said.
00:15:16.000But the point is, our country and our civilization is more successful for a reason.
00:15:22.000And we cannot allow those cartel factions and forces to cross over the border and infect our country, which they did under President Joe Biden.
00:15:31.000There are currently cartel members existing in all 50 states.
00:15:34.000This isn't just like a border region thing.
00:15:38.000And I have a theory on this: why we saw this.
00:15:40.000Now, El Mencho was taken out by the Mexican military, but it was done in coordination with U.S. intelligence.
00:15:48.000So we were providing intel about where this guy was.
00:15:52.000It was also very interesting that he died in transit.
00:15:55.000So there was a shootout and him along with two others, so three of them died in transit.
00:16:01.000I think they made a very, I think they made a conscious decision to make sure that he was not able to exist alive because then he would have been a target for an assault on the prison he was at.
00:19:16.000And you start to, I felt like you were channeling your inner Charlie, where you're saying we hate the brain rot of anti-Semitism, but like for a moment, put yourself in their shoes and try and understand where they're coming from.
00:19:30.000Try and make sense of their counter theories and this, all of the, I thought you put it beautifully.
00:19:36.000So please check out this tweet from Steve.
00:19:38.000He put it much more eloquently than I have just now.
00:19:40.000But break it down your big idea here, Steve, and why you're trying, why you felt it was important that you put this out.
00:19:46.000Well, I mean, some of this is exactly what Charlie and I texted each other last June, the night that we bombed Iran the first time.
00:19:53.000And generationally, I'm going to be way more jingoistic about let's make Iran, the Iranian regime, assume room temperature.
00:20:32.000So, I mean, I think everybody knows where I stand on that entire debate.
00:20:36.000But I talked to a lot of those young men, Andrew and Blake, after that talk.
00:20:41.000And a lot of them, frankly, are just driven to the likes of Fuentes on a couple of impulses.
00:20:46.000Number one, they don't want to be another generation of wimpy dudes.
00:20:49.000They don't want to grow up and be Mike Pence with a perpetual furrowed brow and wearing sweater vests in July and Hawaiian shirts in January.
00:21:28.000Why, you know, am I losing jobs in universities, even if I want to go become a gay race communist, or in the workplace to over 20 million foreigners that were imported over the last four years under Joe Biden?
00:21:39.000And I just think when we tell everybody last June that we obliterated Iran's nuclear capability, and then we're being told a mere eight months later that, nope, it's back and now it requires the largest asset deployment of our military since the invasion of Iraq.
00:21:54.000I just think we need to step back and understand some of the reasons why our young men are contemplating going into some of the dark recesses of the abyss that they are because we have lacked answers and substantive answers to some of these dilemmas.
00:22:09.000Why is it we're fighting harder for we're fighting harder on the borders of Iran right now than we are in Minneapolis?
00:22:16.000And if the older generation such as myself and the boomers that are ahead of me, if we don't have good answers, then at that point, it doesn't matter how many algorithms ban the likes of Afuentes.
00:22:25.000People, young men are going to go searching for people like that as sources that might come up with aberrant alternative theories like the tail wags the dog and it's really the Jews and the Israelis that are really in control of the world.
00:22:37.000Well, when we don't offer them any prevailing theory of any common sense, don't be surprised when they go looking for alternatives.
00:22:42.000Yeah, especially with this Iran buildup.
00:22:45.000As you say, we saw the strike last summer.
00:22:51.000And I really feel the buildup with Iran right now, it's almost happened on the back page of the papers, if anyone even reads papers anymore.
00:23:00.000I don't feel there's been much discussion of it.
00:23:03.000You compare with the Iraq war 20 years ago, which I do remember.
00:23:08.000Whatever, it was a big mistake, but there was a very strong and aggressive case made for the war on several grounds.
00:23:17.000Similarly, we had a pretty strong motive for going into Afghanistan.
00:23:20.000I do feel like a lot of Americans, if we were to suddenly be doing a regime change, large-scale war with Iran tomorrow, one, I think a lot of people who are paying less attention would just be shocked that it's happening in the first place because they would not have noticed the buildup.
00:23:34.000And they would struggle to articulate, why are we doing this now?
00:23:40.000There was the uprising there, but that at this point was almost a couple months ago.
00:23:44.000And then there was the nuclear stuff, but it seems like if there was a rational reason to do it, it would have happened last summer.
00:23:51.000And it's going to be difficult, I think, for if this happens, for the administration to sell it.
00:23:55.000And I hope they've practiced what they would say.
00:23:59.000And I think the key for the Trump administration, what Trump understood because of the years he's done business dealings in that part of the world, what he understood is that Muslim and Arab are not necessarily the same thing.
00:24:12.000And for decades, going back to as long as you two guys have been alive, the so-called Palestinian question was the vexing conundrum of Middle East peace.
00:24:21.000And administrations post-Reagan, from Bush to Obama to Clinton, all were attempting how much land should we give up?
00:24:28.000How much autonomy to give the PLO and the Palestinians on and on and on.
00:24:31.000And what Trump recognized is there's a lot of leaders in places like Saudi Arabia and Jordan and Egypt that actually could care less about the so-called Palestinian question.
00:24:40.000They're no great fans of Israel, but they're not necessarily fans of forever and perpetual war either.
00:24:44.000And they'd like to start lining some of their pockets and be wealthy too.
00:24:47.000And I think he set that tone in Riyadh with one of the greatest foreign policy speeches I've seen in my lifetime, maybe the greatest foreign policy speech I've seen by a president post 9-11.
00:24:56.000And I think that set the tone for his success and why at the end of his first administration, we were beginning to see normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, for example.
00:25:05.000Right now, there's over 2,000 Jews working full-time in Saudi Arabia.
00:25:08.000That would have been unheard of a decade ago.
00:25:10.000And you can put a lot of that on the success of this administration.
00:25:16.000The Saudis hate Iran for different reasons, but every bit as much as the Israelis do.
00:25:22.000And so there's a common foe and a common enemy here.
00:25:25.000And yet, despite that, here's the thing that I think is the most troubling to me.
00:25:29.000Who reigns in place of the Ayatollahs, right?
00:25:32.000Listen, I want these guys to assume room temperature post-haste, right?
00:25:37.000But we're talking about a nation now of tens of millions of people, has its own, has two different standing armies, okay?
00:25:43.000It has the Revolutionary Guard that's loyal to the Ayatollah's, its own national army, who so far has not stepped in and defended their protesters.
00:25:51.000So we don't know if there's an al-Sisi kind of a figure within that military.
00:25:55.000We don't even have, you know, again, I'm a little older than you guys.
00:25:58.000Who's the Boris Yeltsin kind of half-drunk, but at least somewhat stable, you know, resistance figure?
00:26:03.000We don't have that, let alone a full statesman like Alek Walesa.
00:26:07.000Maybe this Reza Pavlavi, who's been living the lap of luxury his entire life in exile.
00:26:12.000Maybe there's the common Iranian that was getting gunned down in the streets would just love to have that aristocracy back.
00:26:17.000I don't pretend to know, but Blake, these questions are some of the things that I think you have to answer for the American people.
00:27:42.000And I think, you know, if you could sum up Charlie's kind of the Charlie doctrine, if you will, it was, you know, why are we nation building abroad?
00:27:50.000We need to be nation-building here at home.
00:28:04.000It was like half Americans, half foreigners.
00:28:06.000And you extrapolate that to the workplace.
00:28:09.000You extrapolate that to where they learn.
00:28:11.000You extrapolate that when they go get an ID at the DMV.
00:28:14.000You extrapolate that across the board, and they feel like they live in a nation that has betrayed them, that has basically let in the third world at their own expense and given them all kinds of kickbacks, all kinds of privileges and advantages at their expense.
00:28:29.000And then they look at the news and we're about to bomb Iran again.
00:28:32.000And I think there is this cognitive dissonance that starts to sort of creep in.
00:28:36.000And as you point out in your tweet, they start looking for other explanations.
00:28:39.000They don't care what the Constitution says when they're looking at that kind of a formula.
00:28:44.000They stop caring about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and the beauty of our founding documents and our founding creeds.
00:29:17.000And I want to get into this in the next segment, Steve.
00:29:19.000But then you've got this Austin Tucker Metcalf kid that went into Mar-a-Lago with a gas can and a shotgun and gets himself killed because he's getting, he's, you know, on some Reddit channels or something on the Epstein files.
00:29:33.000And so we've got to make sense of this.
00:29:35.000We have to make sense of what's happening to our young people in this crazy media landscape that they're all kind of trying to exist in.
00:29:44.000This is apparently this Austin Tucker Metcalf kid.
00:29:49.000And TMZ got this tweet of his or his text message exchange.
00:29:53.000He said, I don't know if you've read up on the Epstein files, but evil is real and unmistakable.
00:29:56.000The best people like you and I can do is use what little influence we have, tell other people about what you hear about the Epstein files and what the government is doing about it.
00:31:02.000He's got some real talent when it comes to writing and content creation.
00:31:07.000But even when your old man's got connections, those are some of the toughest businesses to break into.
00:31:11.000So, you know, he's got to start at the bottom, you know, like Mr. Miyagi says, send the flow kind of stuff, you know?
00:31:16.000And so that has been helpful to me to hold off some of my, y'all are just lazy and soft, because I know what home he was raised in.
00:31:25.000And being lazy and soft was not permitted in my home.
00:31:28.000So that helps me to not immediately devolve to that sort of old man yells at cloud default setting.
00:31:36.000Because I now hear the other side of the conversation.
00:31:39.000I hear what him and his peer group, a lot of these are kids from good homes, Christian homes, went to Christian school, homeschooled, right?
00:31:45.000And even they are feeling this tension, let alone the young men that maybe didn't have a good dad or any dad at all in the home to model anything to them at all.
00:31:52.000This idea that for the very first time, it is very possible none of what we know as America or the American dream will be there for them at all.
00:32:01.000And then at the same token, what occupies their time?
00:32:05.000I mean, we had Law of the Jungle when I was growing up.
00:32:07.000There were just certain things you could not say to another young man for fear that your parents could not afford the Orthodontist appointment.
00:32:14.000I mean, if you played football growing up as I did, you know what an Oklahoma drill was.
00:32:17.000And that's where things came correct real quick about the stuff you were maybe running your mouth about in school.
00:32:23.000Well, now on these devices, I jump on Snapchat, I jump on a Reddit form, and I just say a gamer forum, and I just say things I'd never say to somebody else's face because there's no instant recourse.
00:32:33.000And so the level of venom and toxicity is way higher at the exact same time.
00:32:37.000And so where does all that masculine energy go?
00:32:42.000You know, to quote Barack Obama's former pastor, America's chickens are coming home to roosta.
00:32:48.000We skipped a generation of masculine leadership and modeling in the home, in the pulpit, and in too much of our body politic and cultural institutions.
00:32:57.000And so now the repercussions for that are here.
00:32:59.000And this is why I said, you know, when I eulogize Charlie at Amfest, that for the mission, for his mission to reach the young men, to be confirmed and successful, is going to be determined now by the older men, the boomer men in their third act, the Gen X men like me entering your third act, how you finish your race, how you model on the back end what Charlie was urging these young men to do on the front end, because we should be the ones now that are living the best portion of our lives, living the blessing of getting married, having children, staying with our wives, making something of ourselves.
00:33:29.000We need to model that finish and finish well.
00:33:32.000Otherwise, I fear what's going to happen collectively to this generation of young men for sure.
00:33:37.000Yeah, and on top of that, this is another version, another manifestation of what we actually saw in Minneapolis, where the Alex Pretties, the Renee Goods, the people who are getting whipped up by that line that this is a fascist takeover, that we're on the brink of a Nazi dictatorship, and mentally imbalanced people are pushed over the edge by that sort of rhetoric.
00:34:03.000And that's also what we're seeing with this Mar-a-Lago gunman, that he's getting told, oh, there's a pedophile cabal running America.
00:34:10.000And there are people running with that narrative who know that it is a severe exaggeration, who know that it is not the real, that's not reality, but they also know it will whip up people like that to go too far, especially because at the same time, we have a real case of burgeoning, call it assassination culture in America where people are just overtly in favor of talking about murdering politicians, murdering leaders.
00:35:04.000And what's interesting about this, and Steve, we've got about two minutes left here, is that this has been coming from the left to the right.
00:35:10.000I mean, this is why we make such a big deal about this, because it killed our friend.
00:35:15.000But this kid seems to fit in a different sort of paradigm here.
00:35:20.000Well, just like we saw, there was a pattern as I was coming of age politically where postmodernism infested the left.
00:35:28.000And then like a swarm of locusts, once it had corrupted that entire crop and consumed it, it then started seeping into some of the right as well.
00:35:51.000They just consume until the crop is gone and then just find the new crop.
00:35:55.000And that's kind of how this works out ideologically.
00:35:58.000And so we're now starting to see some of this blackpilling kind of nihilism emerge within our side, too, particularly amongst the cachet of our young men.
00:36:07.000And the thing that we have to always remember about Marxist ideologies is everything they do say and think, everything is to accomplish two goals, more power and more control.
00:36:17.000And so as Blake is pointing out, if cynically winking and nodding to some of these nihilistic elements, you know, it's okay to, how many eggs do you crack in order to make an omelet kind of a thing?
00:37:17.000We have to present a faith-based alternative, I believe, as well.
00:37:21.000And I think your message is well made, Steve, that Gen X, boomers, older millennials, we have to present that alternative version of events, of reality.
00:37:33.000And by the way, we have to make sure they can buy homes.
00:37:36.000I mean, we have to be nation-building here at home.