The Charlie Kirk Show - August 14, 2023


Ask Charlie Anything 156: Criminals Who Classical Music? Making Kids Reject Marxism?


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Why does classical music bother criminals so much? We also talk about Marxism in 3 easy steps, and why I'm not that excited about the Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg fight. Happy Monday, everybody! - Charlie Kirk

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, happy Monday.
00:00:02.000 Why does classical music bother criminals so much?
00:00:05.000 We also talk about Marxism in three easy steps and why I'm not that excited about the Elon Musk Mark Zuckerberg fight.
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00:00:42.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:01:25.000 Okay, I want to get to this question first, though.
00:01:27.000 Paul from Nevada says, Charlie, I'm trying to convince my daughter who went to college that Marxism is not going to work.
00:01:36.000 Any tips that you could give me would be much appreciated.
00:01:38.000 She was a conservative growing up, then I sent her to college. 1.00
00:01:41.000 And now she hates my values.
00:01:44.000 I love the show.
00:01:45.000 Well, thank you for listening.
00:01:46.000 Okay, so I want to focus on a couple things on this.
00:01:49.000 We can get highly academic when it comes to Marx, or we can try to synthesize it for you.
00:01:54.000 I think trying to synthesize it's probably a greater help to you.
00:01:58.000 So, Marx was a trickster, and Marx wanted, he needed to abolish three things.
00:02:04.000 Remember, the ultimate goal, as articulated in the Communist Manifesto and in Das Kapital, is to eventually get to a utopian state.
00:02:12.000 Karl Marx adopted a Rousseauian view of human nature.
00:02:16.000 Which is that human beings are naturally good.
00:02:19.000 You should not believe that.
00:02:20.000 Human beings are not naturally good.
00:02:22.000 In fact, we have a lot of problems.
00:02:24.000 In fact, I believe human beings are naturally have inclinations towards deceit, selfishness, narcissism, treachery.
00:02:32.000 But in order to bring forth that utopia, utopia which literally means nowhere, you must abolish three things.
00:02:40.000 You do this in 10 seconds or less, describing this to your daughter or describing this to your friends.
00:02:45.000 You must abolish family, property, private property rights, and religion. 0.52
00:02:50.000 Family, property, religion.
00:02:54.000 Karl Marx wrote extensively about eliminating those three things from civil society.
00:03:01.000 And then the Marxist revolution can truly take root.
00:03:05.000 Get rid of the family.
00:03:06.000 Get rid of the nuclear bonds that keep mom and daughter, mom and son, father and son tied together.
00:03:16.000 Get rid of your right to own property.
00:03:19.000 Now, you hear this with the World Economic Forum where they say you will own nothing and you will be happy.
00:03:24.000 And then, of course, get rid of religion, a transcendent order, a belief in the divine.
00:03:31.000 The elimination of those three things can then bring forth utopianism.
00:03:35.000 This idea of utopia was actually first theorized by Thomas More, who, again, utopia in Latin means nowhere, it's never going to happen.
00:03:44.000 In order to get to nowhere, though, in order to get to utopia, you must deconstruct everything around you.
00:03:50.000 An animating force that is probably captivating your daughter and many other younger activists that we deal with on campus is that everything around us is flawed, it's terrible, the capitalist system, the colonialist system.
00:04:03.000 We have to tear it all down and we're going to build something new in its wake.
00:04:08.000 And that new thing will be a commune, communism of sharing, of collective ownership of the means of production.
00:04:19.000 They, being the communists, that they can get to this in their lifetime.
00:04:25.000 But what communism actually is, or what socialism actually has become, is a small group of unelected, a secret society that calls the shots for the rest of you.
00:04:38.000 It's not about egalitarianism, it's not about equity.
00:04:41.000 These are all excuses just to make the powerful people more powerful.
00:04:45.000 Because no matter how hard you try, you cannot.
00:04:51.000 Eliminate hierarchies.
00:04:52.000 Some people are going to be smarter.
00:04:54.000 Some people are going to work harder.
00:04:55.000 And they can try their best.
00:04:57.000 What is the pursuit of equity?
00:04:59.000 The pursuit of equity is a fantasy to try to say that we can make all people equal by force.
00:05:07.000 In Bill Fetterer's great book, Socialism A Real History from Plato to the Present, he talks about some of these utopian experiments.
00:05:13.000 One I want to focus on.
00:05:15.000 In the Smithsonian Magazine, October 2019, they published When Socialism Came.
00:05:21.000 To Oklahoma.
00:05:22.000 In the early 1900s, southeast Oklahoma's old Indian territory was controlled by cotton landowners who rented land to tenant farmers from southern states in search of opportunity.
00:05:32.000 Rents and interest became exorbitant, compounded by poor soil and pestilence.
00:05:39.000 Continues on that they promised a socialist goal of eliminating private property.
00:05:45.000 He attracted 20,000 followers by promising them land.
00:05:47.000 They robbed banks, burned barns, and dynamited farm equipment.
00:05:51.000 Cut telegraph lines and set fire to bridges.
00:05:54.000 They called this paradise on earth the cooperative commonwealth.
00:05:58.000 They also threatened to murder snitches.
00:06:01.000 The same year as 1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution, the Green Corn Rebellion took place.
00:06:08.000 Armed with Winchesters, shotguns, squirrel guns, they dodged the World War I draft and they said that they were going to overthrow the capitalist government.
00:06:16.000 But eventually there was dissension in the ranks, and the sheriff recruited a posse of local Oklahomans, surrounded them on a mountain where they surrendered.
00:06:24.000 An article that says Utopia is a Dangerous Ideal by Mark Michael Shermer of All People.
00:06:28.000 Quote Most of these 19th century utopian experiments were relatively harmless because without large numbers or members of members, they lacked political and economic power.
00:06:38.000 But add those factors, and utopian dreamers can be turned into dystopian murderers.
00:06:45.000 Utopian dreamers into dystopian murderers.
00:06:48.000 Let's make this even more simple.
00:06:51.000 How many failed attempts in Marxism do they get?
00:06:55.000 How many failed attempts of Marxism?
00:06:57.000 Should we give them?
00:06:58.000 They are zero for 100.
00:07:00.000 Everywhere it is tried, it results in murder, tragedy.
00:07:05.000 And the Marxists, and we've had them, not necessarily in this program, but I've debated them, they'll say, oh, that wasn't real Marxism, or it's because of foreign interference.
00:07:12.000 Do you notice it never works?
00:07:13.000 Because it's inconsistent with the human being.
00:07:17.000 It goes against who we are.
00:07:21.000 We are not meant to live in an ideal, in a fantasy Narnia.
00:07:26.000 No, more times than not, if you implement a form of Of a Marxist type government, it's going to end in suffering, genocide, division, destruction of the middle class.
00:07:39.000 And yet, why is Marxism so tempting and alluring and appealing?
00:07:46.000 Because it actually speaks to the lower parts of our being.
00:07:53.000 You don't have to work.
00:07:54.000 You can do whatever you want, you can do what's right in your own eyes.
00:07:57.000 Somebody else is to blame for your problems.
00:07:59.000 At the root of Marxism is weaponized complaining you are not responsible for you, somebody else is responsible for you.
00:08:09.000 Unhappy, it's the white person's fault. 0.62
00:08:11.000 Depressed, it's the transphobe's fault. 0.97
00:08:15.000 That's an easy message to spread in the masses.
00:08:19.000 And that's actually how you end up controlling a population because you are not then your own sovereign individual.
00:08:26.000 You are a cog in the wheel of the state.
00:08:29.000 It will be a question can we in the West hold the line on the three things the Marxists are going after? 0.56
00:08:35.000 Every single day, the Marxists are going after the nuclear family in the West.
00:08:39.000 They're going after our private property rights and our religion.
00:08:43.000 Not just our religious rights, they're just trying to make religion less appealing.
00:08:47.000 New story in the Wall Street Journal says this very clearly.
00:08:51.000 It's really sad.
00:08:52.000 It's happening in big numbers.
00:08:54.000 Why middle aged Americans are not going back to church.
00:08:59.000 Americans in their 40s and 50s often identify with a religion, but they're also in the thick of raising kids, caring for aging parents, and juggling demanding jobs.
00:09:06.000 We are the most secular we've ever been.
00:09:11.000 We're also the most miserable, most depressed, most suicidal.
00:09:14.000 We'll talk about that in just a second.
00:09:17.000 And that's a very Tough question.
00:09:20.000 Are the Marxists winning?
00:09:22.000 Since 9 11, have the Marxists gained more ground or lost more ground in their stated clear goal of destroying andor weakening the American family, our private property rights, and our attachment to a belief in God?
00:09:40.000 It's tough to say, but it's true.
00:09:43.000 In the last 20 years, the Marxists have made considerable traction. 0.56
00:09:49.000 In eroding the American family property religion. 0.59
00:09:52.000 But I'm starting to see a revival. 0.85
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00:13:01.000 Charlie, did you see that suicides hit a record high in the United States last year?
00:13:06.000 More than 50,000.
00:13:07.000 My own family has been blessed not to have any, but too many of my friends have had children, nieces, nephews, siblings, or cousins, and their own lives.
00:13:13.000 What is happening, Dorothy from Florida?
00:13:15.000 Yeah, we've had people in our Turning Point USA orbit kill themselves and.
00:13:20.000 Friends that I went to high school with, this is a widespread problem.
00:13:24.000 Our leaders don't care about it.
00:13:25.000 They don't, they'll give some lip service.
00:13:27.000 They do care a lot about funding the war in Ukraine, but it should be a broader cultural issue of what the heck is going on here.
00:13:34.000 I think it ties together. 0.55
00:13:35.000 We have the least religious society.
00:13:38.000 If you don't believe in God, that obviously increases the likelihood of wanting to end your own life.
00:13:44.000 I also think that when you're surrounded by ugly things, it's awfully depressing.
00:13:51.000 There is a widespread ugliness that has set into our society.
00:13:55.000 Our buildings, our media, our art, our music.
00:14:01.000 We do not elevate the soul.
00:14:03.000 We do not challenge people to look up, to wonder.
00:14:09.000 Instead, it's the opposite.
00:14:12.000 Instead, it seems as if there's a lowering of the spirit.
00:14:16.000 And it feels awfully intentional.
00:14:20.000 But when you're surrounded by this, Cult of ugliness.
00:14:25.000 How are you supposed to respond?
00:14:27.000 Well, one of the things that we talk about frequently on this program is that you have to be a happy warrior.
00:14:32.000 You cannot allow the overly negative culture to impact you.
00:14:39.000 It's very tough.
00:14:41.000 You have to recognize that you are your own sovereign being.
00:14:45.000 I think people are way too much on their phones and too online being in their own misery making.
00:14:50.000 You need to get to know people.
00:14:51.000 You need to create your own community.
00:14:53.000 You need to go to church, honestly.
00:14:55.000 Stop doing drugs.
00:14:55.000 Stop drinking.
00:14:58.000 And you need to try to reject ugly things.
00:15:02.000 Stop watching most of the Netflix stuff. 0.89
00:15:03.000 Most of that Netflix stuff is trash, that Hulu stuff. 0.65
00:15:07.000 Listen to classical music. 0.54
00:15:09.000 Ask the question why were people 100 years ago far less likely to kill themselves?
00:15:16.000 We're told that this is the best time ever to be alive.
00:15:18.000 Remember, it's the end of history, according to Fukuyama.
00:15:22.000 It's the end of history.
00:15:24.000 Everything's great, is it?
00:15:26.000 Then why are suicides at a record high?
00:15:30.000 When you believe that men can give birth, that masculinity is toxic, you're not allowed to love your country, and you're all going to die of climate change, it creates a depressed society.
00:15:41.000 And that's exactly what they want.
00:15:42.000 Our leaders are not angry or upset that people are killing themselves, they just kind of shrug their shoulders.
00:15:50.000 Meh.
00:15:51.000 Take more benzodiazepines.
00:15:53.000 There are more people on antidepressants, yet more people that are killing themselves.
00:15:56.000 Are the antidepressants working?
00:16:00.000 Why does anyone ask that question?
00:16:02.000 We have more people taking the drugs than ever before, and yet we have more people killing them.
00:16:07.000 You might say, well, try those two things are related.
00:16:08.000 More people depressed.
00:16:10.000 Aren't the drugs supposed to treat it?
00:16:13.000 It should be the opposite, right?
00:16:15.000 Suicide rate should be going down.
00:16:17.000 Why are so many young people killing themselves?
00:16:19.000 This is just one example.
00:16:21.000 When you are surrounded by this moral chaos, by this ugliness, this is a doctor.
00:16:29.000 Don't be shocked when 50,000 people murder themselves.
00:16:33.000 Every single time I'm not making an excuse for it, it's inexcusable to do such a thing, but you have to understand the cultural dynamics that surround it.
00:16:41.000 Play Cut 155.
00:16:42.000 Some straight men are attracted to trans women who haven't had bottom surgery.
00:16:47.000 This is very disconcerting and confusing to women when they find this out because they think, well, if she hasn't had bottom surgery, then and you want to play with that part of her, then you can't be 100% straight, but that doesn't make sense because you have to remember that these are still women, trans women.
00:17:04.000 Are women. 0.52
00:17:05.000 They are female. 1.00
00:17:06.000 The attraction to her is from the waist up, but it can also be from the waist down.
00:17:11.000 And they can experience pleasure playing with that person from the waist down, but that act, again, doesn't indicate a sexual orientation.
00:17:20.000 It indicates an attraction to the person, to the woman, the trans woman.
00:17:25.000 Actually, some of these men are attracted to gender fluidity, in that the person exhibits both male and female body parts, and that's attractive to them.
00:17:34.000 Just like some gay men are attracted to trans men.
00:17:37.000 Who haven't had bottom surgery. 0.70
00:17:38.000 That doesn't make them buy, it doesn't make them straight.
00:17:41.000 Yeah, it remains a mystery why so many people are killing themselves.
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00:18:48.000 This is a fascinating thing that's happening now.
00:18:50.000 Eli from Michigan.
00:18:51.000 Charlie, can you help explain why all of a sudden when I go shopping, I'm hearing classical music?
00:18:57.000 I've read stories that they're using it as a deterrent?
00:19:01.000 Love the program.
00:19:01.000 I've subscribed and got my family to do the same.
00:19:03.000 This story is something that has really sparked a fair amount of conversation in our chat with our team, which is.
00:19:10.000 So, there's all this vagrancy and this homelessness.
00:19:12.000 We shouldn't put up with it.
00:19:13.000 They should be in mental institutions, put them in mental asylums, or give them a meal or some shelter.
00:19:18.000 Treat them humanely, but get them off the streets. 0.97
00:19:20.000 Enough. 0.93
00:19:21.000 The vagrancy, the defecation, the drug usage, the sexual assaults.
00:19:25.000 The streets are not your home.
00:19:26.000 Okay, we have to have order.
00:19:27.000 You have to clean up the filth.
00:19:29.000 Okay, enough.
00:19:31.000 The humane thing to do is to put them somewhere that is not on the streets.
00:19:34.000 So, but unfortunately, we live in this upside down world where we use the force of government not to clean up our streets.
00:19:40.000 We use the force of government to go after our political dissidents, Steve Bannon, Tina Peters, Donald J. Trump.
00:19:46.000 The list goes on, right?
00:19:47.000 So, businesses have had enough.
00:19:49.000 It's impacting their bottom line.
00:19:51.000 And this is so funny.
00:19:53.000 This is in Chicago, my hometown, which has completely lost its mind.
00:19:56.000 Chicago is not the city it used to be.
00:19:57.000 It's a total hellscape.
00:19:58.000 Get out if you're in Chicago, it's only going to get worse.
00:20:01.000 Is now, this is so interesting and it ties into the previous topic somewhat.
00:20:06.000 Is classical music now being played outside of Walgreens, 7 Elevens, and department stores across the country as a deterrent for loitering and crime?
00:20:20.000 Play Cut 156.
00:20:22.000 It's a sound you might not expect to hear outside of downtown Walgreens.
00:20:26.000 The store is just one of several now playing classical music outside.
00:20:31.000 The reason for the music, according to Walgreens, Is not to attract shoppers, but rather to discourage people from hanging around the store.
00:20:39.000 In a statement, a company spokesperson confirmed at various locations we have implemented a recorded music loop that plays classical music outside of some stores to help deter loitering on the premises.
00:20:52.000 So I asked the obvious question what's going on?
00:20:55.000 I love classical music.
00:20:56.000 I listen to it every morning before the program.
00:20:59.000 Anyone who knows who has meetings with me at Turning Point USA in my office, I always have classical music playing.
00:21:03.000 Bach, Vivaldi.
00:21:05.000 Handel, Schubert, Beethoven, Mozart, whatever.
00:21:09.000 It's just like I just have it on loop and I'm by no means an aficionado.
00:21:12.000 By the way, I mispronounce the names all the time, but I like the music and I find it really comforting and I also love working with it.
00:21:18.000 So, why would playing classical music outside of department stores result in less crime or loitering?
00:21:25.000 And this, by the way, is extremely now controversial.
00:21:28.000 Liberals are complaining about this, of course, because they hate classical music.
00:21:31.000 They always have.
00:21:32.000 They hate beautiful things. 0.66
00:21:33.000 They are the ugly movement.
00:21:35.000 Peter Hardrin, A customer who recently lived near the 7 Eleven North Hollywood says that the homeless people are people. 0.94
00:21:44.000 They're not pigeons.
00:21:45.000 It's the auditory equivalent of putting spikes on a bench, and it really bothered me.
00:21:50.000 This is from Los Angeles in the last couple of years.
00:21:53.000 The Chicago Coalition for Homeless have done nothing except pander to the mentally ill, the vagrants, and have pandered to them.
00:22:04.000 Quote, it's essentially treating homeless people as less than human and treating them as a nuisance.
00:22:09.000 They are.
00:22:10.000 Whereas they are folks that are in need of housing.
00:22:12.000 No, they're not.
00:22:13.000 They're in need a lot more than housing.
00:22:14.000 You could give homeless people housing within a day.
00:22:17.000 It's not a problem.
00:22:18.000 That's not the problem.
00:22:19.000 The problem is they have deep-seated mental problems, some of them, or some of them legitimately need some mental counseling.
00:22:25.000 They had a tough time.
00:22:26.000 That's fine.
00:22:28.000 It is proven time and time again, it's not a material issue for the vagrants.
00:22:33.000 Anyway, Doug Schlecklenberg, executive director of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.
00:22:37.000 I guarantee you, Doug Schlecklenberg does not have the vagrants living in his living room.
00:22:41.000 So, and by the way, let me just say this vagrancy, homelessness, it depresses a society.
00:22:45.000 It makes you feel like you're living in Gotham, dystopian hellscape.
00:22:48.000 It's not good for anybody, okay?
00:22:50.000 It's not good for children.
00:22:51.000 It's not good for our standards.
00:22:54.000 Okay, so, but playing classical music, what is going on here? 0.98
00:22:59.000 So, you play Bach, you play Beethoven, you play Vivaldi, and it makes the homeless people not want to be there?
00:23:06.000 So, there's a couple theories here, and at policeone.com, five things to know about fighting crime with classical music.
00:23:13.000 Cities are using classical music in public spaces to deter crime in Dallas, Seattle, and Portland, and it's working.
00:23:20.000 The question is yes, overwhelming.
00:23:21.000 It cut assaults by 33%, vandalism by 37%.
00:23:27.000 But why does it work?
00:23:29.000 Well, the easy answer is that it works because it releases stress, and that classical music is written in such a way to calm you down.
00:23:38.000 But it says, according to PoliceOne.com, the strategy has garnered criticism.
00:23:45.000 It's like, of all the things that classical music being played in public places, we hate that.
00:23:51.000 It's okay if you defecate, perfectly fine if you're naked, twerking in front of an eight year old. 0.67
00:23:56.000 That's progress. 0.99
00:23:58.000 Classical music, you're a bigot.
00:24:00.000 Drive by shootings, no problem. 0.84
00:24:03.000 Arson, progress.
00:24:04.000 Looting and television, excellent.
00:24:08.000 Classical music, that's where we're going to complain.
00:24:11.000 The strategy has garnered criticism.
00:24:13.000 Some see the use of classical music to deter crime as problematic.
00:24:17.000 In San Francisco, the executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness said the tactic was noise pollution.
00:24:26.000 Listening to the greatest music ever composed.
00:24:29.000 That glorifies God and elevates the soul is noise pollution.
00:24:37.000 I'd be pretty surprised if it's a panacea.
00:24:40.000 You're just moving the problem elsewhere.
00:24:43.000 According to PoliceOne.com, they call it music being used as a weapon.
00:24:49.000 There's a long history of music being used as an unconventional weapon.
00:24:55.000 Now, if you really wanted people to scatter, just play Lizzo on repeat.
00:25:01.000 I wouldn't loiter there.
00:25:04.000 Now, I guess they say that classical music is white supremacy.
00:25:08.000 The homeless director says, The city needs real solutions to combat the problem.
00:25:13.000 As if anybody in their right mind would ever consider the head of the anti homeless group an expert.
00:25:17.000 They failed, okay?
00:25:18.000 You could solve homelessness in an afternoon.
00:25:20.000 It's illegal.
00:25:21.000 If you do it, we're going to take you off the streets, put you in a homeless shelter, or mental institution or asylum.
00:25:26.000 That's it.
00:25:27.000 End of story, okay?
00:25:29.000 We'll get you the treatment you need, we'll treat you humanely.
00:25:31.000 The streets are not your home.
00:25:32.000 End of story.
00:25:33.000 Clean it up.
00:25:34.000 Order.
00:25:34.000 We need order.
00:25:37.000 Now, there are other theories that if you are not a very smart person, you actually find classical music annoying.
00:25:43.000 That if you have a lower IQ, classical music really bothers you.
00:25:49.000 Now, I don't know if this is true or not, but it's interesting. 0.99
00:25:53.000 And it really begs the question that if you're dumb enough to loiter around and go rob a bunch of stuff, you're obviously not a very sophisticated criminal. 0.98
00:26:02.000 Maybe Bach is really offensive to you. 0.99
00:26:06.000 I did not plan on spending this much time on this topic.
00:26:09.000 But it is personal to me because I just love classical music.
00:26:11.000 It's a big part of my life.
00:26:12.000 It's significantly enriched my life.
00:26:14.000 And I hope it has for you too.
00:26:15.000 Or it will. 0.98
00:26:16.000 And if it hasn't, you should get rid of all that other trash.
00:26:17.000 And just, it is so infinitely complex and it is so sobering, honestly.
00:26:23.000 Because you don't understand it on the first listen. 0.96
00:26:26.000 You have to listen to it again, But is classical music offensive to dumb people? 0.98
00:26:32.000 I don't know the answer to that question. 0.97
00:26:33.000 But there's something here.
00:26:36.000 Because if they were just playing gangster rap, Do you think that people would stop, or do you think they'd complain?
00:26:44.000 That's the real question.
00:26:46.000 But they find the beautiful irritating.
00:26:50.000 Maybe it's because what they're doing is ugly.
00:26:53.000 Is it as deep?
00:26:54.000 Maybe it's just as simple as it's music and it's annoying, but why classical music?
00:27:00.000 By the way, if gangster rap was playing at a Walgreens, I would be like, forget that.
00:27:04.000 I would stay away from that store.
00:27:06.000 But classical music, I want to go shopping there.
00:27:08.000 It's elevating.
00:27:10.000 So it does beg the question.
00:27:13.000 Does classical music bother people as almost like this reminder as here is something beautiful and elevated while you're doing something low and crummy and degenerate?
00:27:26.000 Is it almost the equivalent of you're about to do a bad deed and your parent calls you and almost like stops you short in your tracks?
00:27:35.000 I don't know the answer.
00:27:37.000 Does the classical music invoke a sense of guilt?
00:27:41.000 I don't know, but there's something very.
00:27:44.000 Very interesting here.
00:27:46.000 Is it a reminder of their shame?
00:27:49.000 Is it a reminder of their literal andor metaphorical dirtiness of what they're engaging in, looting, defecation, not taking care of themselves?
00:28:00.000 I don't know the answer.
00:28:02.000 But their reaction from all the homeless advocacy groups is so telling.
00:28:06.000 This is dehumanizing.
00:28:07.000 It's terrible. 0.97
00:28:09.000 Why would it be dehumanizing to have a vagrant listen to the most beautiful thing?
00:28:17.000 I don't know the answer.
00:28:19.000 But I find this to be, I'm infinitely curious about it.
00:28:24.000 You would think of all the ways you could stop homelessness.
00:28:27.000 You'd have like a siren, you could do all this.
00:28:31.000 No. 0.85
00:28:32.000 Play the beautiful thing and they scatter.
00:28:37.000 Play the thing that has stood the test of time and they disappear. 0.68
00:28:42.000 The left tells us that old great things are done and tired, written by dead white males, that they're going to elevate new champions.
00:28:50.000 The fact is that Beethoven, Mozart, and everyone else is towers over and it enrages them, enrages them. 0.75
00:28:57.000 It's like a candle in a dark room.
00:29:00.000 The cockroaches scatter, they disappear because maybe that light of goodness, that beacon of beauty, which, by the way, these songs were all written to glorify God, to God be the glory, was written on every single one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's compositions.
00:29:19.000 Maybe it gets to the soul.
00:29:22.000 So apparently, there's this fight that's going to happen between Elon Musk and Zuckerberg.
00:29:29.000 They've been feuding and fight.
00:29:31.000 So, I guess the only way, I guess the way we settle stuff now is literally going into the Coliseum.
00:29:37.000 My team is very excited about this.
00:29:40.000 I'm not as fired up about it, but I'm going to present it as a great thing.
00:29:47.000 I'm not like against it.
00:29:48.000 I just, I don't know.
00:29:49.000 I think it's.
00:29:53.000 Blake says, I should challenge my critics to fights.
00:29:56.000 So, fight media matters.
00:29:57.000 That's how we should do everything.
00:29:58.000 We should duel it out.
00:30:01.000 Yeah, I don't know about that.
00:30:05.000 So, I guess they're going to set some sort of precedent of just Coliseums type fighting. 0.76
00:30:08.000 So, I just have a thing that this thing is going to be so fake.
00:30:11.000 Remember when Mitt Romney was going to do that fight and everyone was excited and it was like a total fraud?
00:30:16.000 We'll see.
00:30:17.000 Now, these two guys do really hate each other, I think, and their companies are actually at each other's throats.
00:30:23.000 So, there are some cool aspects of this.
00:30:25.000 Now, will I be watching it?
00:30:27.000 How could you not, right?
00:30:27.000 You just can't watch it.
00:30:28.000 Of course, obviously, 100%.
00:30:31.000 And it's going to be in a ridiculously awesome location.
00:30:35.000 It's going to be in the Roman Colosseum.
00:30:38.000 First fight there in over 1,600 years.
00:30:40.000 Maybe.
00:30:41.000 Oh, it's not confirmed yet.
00:30:43.000 Well, I think Georgia Maloney is going to try everything she possibly can to do that.
00:30:48.000 So Elon Musk has said this the fight will be managed by my and Zuck's foundation.
00:30:54.000 Live stream will be on this platform and Meta.
00:30:57.000 Talking about X.
00:30:58.000 I spoke to the PM of Italy and the Minister of Culture.
00:31:00.000 They've agreed on an epic location.
00:31:03.000 Everything done will pay respect to the past and present of Italy, and all proceeds go to veterans.
00:31:08.000 So, I mean, an epic location could probably only be either the Colosseum, the Pantheon.
00:31:16.000 What other Italy, Italian epic locations could they have a fight in?
00:31:20.000 Plenty.
00:31:21.000 So, they could do it at the summit of Mount Vesuvius.
00:31:24.000 Yeah, that would be kind of like the old Roman gods, right?
00:31:27.000 While it's erupting.
00:31:29.000 We are a bored civilization.
00:31:31.000 So, look, Musk and Zuck are going to fight.
00:31:36.000 So, now the obvious question Charlie, who do you think is going to win?
00:31:39.000 Well, is this a UFC fight or is this a boxing match?
00:31:43.000 So, if it is mixed martial arts, look, here's the thing.
00:31:46.000 I think Zuckerberg, by all public reports, is taking this like super seriously, getting into fighting shape.
00:31:53.000 I don't know if Elon is or not.
00:31:55.000 So, Zuckerberg's a very short person, isn't he?
00:32:00.000 And Musk is not.
00:32:01.000 So, how are they doing the weight class thing?
00:32:03.000 They're still fighting?
00:32:05.000 Blake says, what if one of them dies?
00:32:07.000 That would be bad, Blake.
00:32:08.000 Okay.
00:32:09.000 That would not be good.
00:32:12.000 Zuck seems to be in much better shape, but Elon is bigger.
00:32:17.000 Elon hugely outweighs him.
00:32:19.000 So I don't know.
00:32:21.000 People seem super interested in this.
00:32:24.000 I think we got better stuff to do.
00:32:25.000 However, if you're going to do it, you have to do it right.
00:32:29.000 Do it in the Coliseum, film the whole thing.
00:32:32.000 I guess it'll be ultra legendary.
00:32:35.000 But I find these things to usually be more hype than spice, meaning the hype is usually way more than the reality.
00:32:44.000 Maybe not.
00:32:44.000 Maybe there's going to be like this epic moment where Zuckerberg.
00:32:50.000 Gives Elon Musk a brain aneurysm or something.
00:32:52.000 I don't know.
00:32:53.000 I hope that doesn't happen, obviously.
00:32:54.000 But if they're doing MMA UFC style, I don't know.
00:32:59.000 I just have to say this society is not in a good place when you have two guys worth 100 plus billion dollars that are jetting across the world to go to the Roman Colosseum to fight on their own social media platforms.
00:33:10.000 I don't know when it is or when the date is set, but I'm sure it will be infinitely entertaining.
00:33:17.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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