The Charlie Kirk Show - January 08, 2024


Ask Charlie Anything 172: The End of Homeownership? Musk vs. Cuban? Nephilim in Miami?


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In this episode, I talk about the growing problem of young people not being able to buy their first home, and why it's a good thing that baby boomers are still holding on to their homes. I also talk about why you should be worried if you can't get a loan to buy your first home because you're not going to be able to afford it on your own.

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00:01:13.000 Paul emailed us.
00:01:15.000 It's kind of piggybacking on previous topic that we covered.
00:01:18.000 Charlie, talk more about the inability to buy homes.
00:01:21.000 I'm really curious about this as I'm trying to become a first-time homebuyer.
00:01:25.000 Look, this is a serious civilizational issue.
00:01:28.000 And I'm going to read from this article from Gateway Pundit because it plays into this.
00:01:33.000 Homeownership is increasingly out of grasp for a lot of young people, a lot of people in general.
00:01:40.000 American Dream gone, Gen Z dumps owning homes for luxury rentals. 0.99
00:01:45.000 The phrase, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy, has been getting a lot of attention recently.
00:01:49.000 The actual quote originated in a 2016 video by the World Economic Forum that summarized the concepts of a politician of this particular time.
00:01:58.000 You think about how much we actually rent in our society.
00:02:01.000 It's pretty remarkable.
00:02:02.000 You rent your streaming service.
00:02:04.000 A lot of people rent their car, actually.
00:02:07.000 Think about it.
00:02:08.000 The cars are on lease.
00:02:09.000 And you can make an argument that owning cars are not actually even a good asset because they do not appreciate with time.
00:02:14.000 Well, they actually did for about a year and a half because of the chip shortage.
00:02:17.000 But generally, cars get less valuable the more that you drive them and the more you depreciate them.
00:02:23.000 A lot of our society is rental-based.
00:02:26.000 But homeownership is something they've been going after for quite some time.
00:02:31.000 Owning something de-radicalizes you, by definition.
00:02:35.000 You're more interested in the local community, more interested in tax policy, more interested in local politics.
00:02:42.000 You have to pay a mortgage.
00:02:42.000 You have to keep a job.
00:02:44.000 When you rent, again, I've rented before.
00:02:47.000 It's not a moral thing that you're like a bad person if you rent or don't.
00:02:50.000 But when you rent, you're not building long-term equity.
00:02:55.000 We want to try to build, have the American dream passed on from one generation to the next.
00:03:00.000 And part of this, by the way, and I love all baby boomers, but it's a fact. 0.99
00:03:05.000 Part of this, though, is that baby boomers are looking to make a very, very strong investment, as they should, on their home.
00:03:13.000 And so they're unwilling to sell unless they hit a fever pitch price.
00:03:17.000 There was a whole article on this, by the way, in the Wall Street Journal about how baby boomers, they want to make at least a million dollars on their home based on their old purchase price 30 years ago to where it is now.
00:03:31.000 And so a young millennial or Gen Z, just run the numbers.
00:03:34.000 So if you have a single family home in Scottsdale, or if a single family home in Chandler, single family home in Mesa, single family home in Dallas, and it's $750,000.
00:03:46.000 And that's low in some communities, by the way.
00:03:48.000 So let's just say it's $750,000.
00:03:50.000 Well, if you get an FHA loan, you can go 3.5% down, but that only increases your monthly payment.
00:03:57.000 And interest rates are now between 6% to 7%.
00:04:00.000 But if you go a traditional conventional loan to try to keep your monthly payments down, then you're looking at 15% to 20% down, especially with a size of loan that's significant.
00:04:12.000 Now, if you're a veteran, you get no money down.
00:04:14.000 We do that.
00:04:15.000 The federal government comes in and helps with that, as they should.
00:04:17.000 They've earned it.
00:04:19.000 Part of the great reset is to encourage renting.
00:04:21.000 And even worse than that, you have these major companies coming in and they're scooping up homes to rent them back to young people.
00:04:34.000 Now, even with that being said, even with all that being said, I'm not telling you what to do, but over the next 20 years, if you're able to get into the owning game, you're probably going to do really well.
00:04:45.000 If you're able to sneak in by any means necessary into owning something and getting into that amortization table, say that's five times fast, eventually the numbers will work out in your favor because if you're entering into hyperinflation, you'll have more dollars than value.
00:05:00.000 And those that own value are going to then be doing very well.
00:05:06.000 And in some ways, it's unfair, especially the millennials that rejected in the early stages of the pandemic, rejected the fear and the paranoia.
00:05:16.000 They rejected kind of all the nonsense out there.
00:05:19.000 And they're like, I'm going to buy.
00:05:21.000 The media was like, it's the worst time to buy.
00:05:23.000 It's terrible.
00:05:24.000 And if you bought during COVID, you got an asset price that was at a lower level.
00:05:29.000 You got a very, very low interest rate.
00:05:31.000 And those are fixed.
00:05:32.000 So your purchase price and your interest rate are fixed.
00:05:35.000 And then we create all this money, spend up all this money.
00:05:37.000 There are people that bought in COVID.
00:05:39.000 They bought a $600,000 home that's now worth $1.3 million or $1.5 million.
00:05:44.000 And they're still paying a low interest rate on the purchase price because the loan does not change.
00:05:51.000 The same configuration that I'm articulating right now around how it works with mortgages is exactly how the federal government is going to justify hyperinflation when it comes to our $34 trillion debt.
00:06:07.000 So for example, if you bought a $1 million home a couple years ago, I know someone in Santa Barbara that did this.
00:06:14.000 It's now worth $2.5 million and the interest rate is 3.5%.
00:06:20.000 Said differently, just running the numbers in my head, that you are paying less in a mortgage payment than for a luxury rental in downtown Santa Barbara.
00:06:30.000 So your mortgage payment is fixed and you want, you're like, can I make this a 50-year payment?
00:06:37.000 Not a 30%.
00:06:38.000 You're just loving.
00:06:38.000 You're not trying to pay down that loan.
00:06:40.000 You're playing with house money at that point.
00:06:43.000 I know somebody else in Arizona pays $300 less on their mortgage in LA than what other people here are paying on rent in Arizona.
00:06:54.000 And so those that got into the game in COVID, those that were into the game before COVID, are doing just fine.
00:07:02.000 But if you have a set of circumstances where you can't get new people into what we call the game, it creates resentment.
00:07:14.000 So who made the money on the market this last year?
00:07:16.000 The NASDAQ was up 43%.
00:07:19.000 People with money.
00:07:20.000 The rich got richer.
00:07:22.000 Millennials and Gen Z did not. 0.97
00:07:24.000 So everything gets more expensive.
00:07:25.000 Rents go up.
00:07:26.000 Food goes up harder and harder to make a down payment.
00:07:30.000 It creates economic resentment.
00:07:33.000 The SP 500 is up 20%.
00:07:36.000 So what it does is it lays the groundwork for a socialist, Marxist property confiscation revolution in this country.
00:07:47.000 If you wanted to create a tax the rich, take money away from people revolution, this is what you would be doing.
00:07:56.000 You would have a bunch of people renting, owning nothing, working very hard.
00:08:02.000 And by the way, there's this like stereotype.
00:08:03.000 Again, there's some bums in any generation, but there's this stereotype, this idea.
00:08:08.000 I hear this from boomers every so often. 1.00
00:08:09.000 They're like, oh, millennials are lazy. 1.00
00:08:10.000 They don't work that hard. 0.82
00:08:11.000 Some millennials are lazy, but not really.
00:08:14.000 They actually work pretty hard and show up to work and do what they're told.
00:08:19.000 And I'm sure you are nothing but a superstar in your late 20s.
00:08:22.000 I mean, give me a break.
00:08:24.000 You guys had the American dream.
00:08:27.000 You were able to pay into it, own property.
00:08:30.000 Again, I've been blessed enough where I'm on the side where I'm able to own property.
00:08:33.000 Praise God.
00:08:35.000 A vast majority of my generation is not.
00:08:35.000 But not everybody is.
00:08:37.000 They're on the outside looking in, renting, owning nothing.
00:08:41.000 And then it creates this vicious, what I call cynical financial downward spiral, where then your psychology is not about wealth accumulation.
00:08:52.000 It's not about investment.
00:08:54.000 Your psychology then becomes, what difference does it make?
00:08:57.000 I'm going to go spend $4,000 on a trip to Rome.
00:09:00.000 What difference does it make?
00:09:01.000 I'm going to go spend $2,500 on some sort of concert experience.
00:09:07.000 Because then you get into this cynical financial downward spiral where you're like, why am I saving my money?
00:09:12.000 I might as well have fun.
00:09:14.000 I spend money on trips and experiences.
00:09:17.000 And I'm not even saying that, I'm not even making fun of you if you do that.
00:09:20.000 You're making a mistake. 0.98
00:09:20.000 You're making a financial, you're being a financial moron, but I totally get why you're in that mindset because like, wait, am I going to put my money in the bank and it gets less valuable every single year because of 15% inflation? 0.98
00:09:32.000 So I can understand why people arrive at that conclusion. 0.97
00:09:35.000 And then there will be, it's not Joe Biden, at some point, there will be an actual socialist running for this country.
00:09:42.000 And it's going to be very, very hard to defeat that person.
00:09:45.000 Where they're going to be like, why don't we just go take the money from the older people? 1.00
00:09:48.000 Because you guys have nothing.
00:09:49.000 If we don't fix this, make homeownership easier, get wages to outpace inflation, get people to buy stuff and have families, you're going to have a volcanic eruption in an election in some ways.
00:10:03.000 Maybe that's what the elites want.
00:10:04.000 But why would they want that?
00:10:05.000 Because it's their money that will eventually be taken.
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00:12:06.000 Charlie, love the show.
00:12:07.000 Did you see the latest exchange with Mark Cuban?
00:12:09.000 I would love your thoughts on this.
00:12:10.000 Yeah, Mark Cuban, I've debated Mark Cuban before.
00:12:13.000 Probably part of that footage was lost, unfortunately.
00:12:15.000 Some of it we still have.
00:12:17.000 Way back at the Turning Point USA High School Conference in 2018, I sat down and debated Mark Cuban.
00:12:25.000 And so Mark Cuban has really just become, I mean, I know him.
00:12:28.000 I just kind of laugh and roll my eyes.
00:12:31.000 He's smarter than this.
00:12:32.000 He just wants to be protected.
00:12:35.000 He wants to be in the cool kids club.
00:12:37.000 And he got completely owned on Twitter.
00:12:41.000 So Elon Musk, God bless him, has been going after DEI as a threat to the civilization.
00:12:47.000 As a side note, by the way, don't like the author because I listened to this interview with him and it was just rolled my eyes.
00:12:53.000 Walter Isaacson, but he's really good.
00:12:56.000 Walter Isaacson's book on Elon is excellent.
00:12:59.000 And then I listened to Walter Isaacson's interview about Elon.
00:13:02.000 He said, well, what Elon calls woke, I just called being polite.
00:13:05.000 And it's like, okay, Walter, you still want to get invited to the Council for Foreign Relations.
00:13:08.000 We got it.
00:13:09.000 But the book that he wrote on Elon is 10 out of 10.
00:13:12.000 I encourage all of you to check it out, all of you to listen to it or to read it.
00:13:17.000 You will get a very clear picture of who Elon is, what he wants.
00:13:23.000 He's basically a guy with high-functioning Asperger's whose entire life obsession has been going to Mars.
00:13:29.000 No exact, like since 12 years old, he's wanted to go to, is someone who wrote, who read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and wants to live it out, amongst other things.
00:13:38.000 Absolutely brilliant.
00:13:39.000 Love the book.
00:13:39.000 Walter Isaac Sink did a great job.
00:13:41.000 I'm going to do a whole episode reviewing it at some point.
00:13:43.000 So Elon is going in this Twitter fight with Mark Cuban, all about DEI.
00:13:47.000 So Mark Cuban snobbishly comes out and he says, let me help you out and give you my thoughts on DEI because Elon Musk said diverse discrimination on the basis of race, which DEI does, is literally the definition of racism.
00:14:01.000 And then Mark Cuban says, look, diversity, it's a good business's look when others don't, to find employees that will put your business in the best possible position to succeed.
00:14:10.000 You may not agree, but I take it as a given that there are people at various, and he goes on to say, various races, ethnicity, orientation that are regularly excluded from the hiring consideration.
00:14:18.000 By extending our hiring search to include them, we can then find people that are more qualified.
00:14:23.000 The loss of DEI phobic companies is my game.
00:14:26.000 We live in a country with very diverse demographics in this era where trust of business can be hard to come by.
00:14:30.000 People tend to connect more easily to people who are like them.
00:14:34.000 Interesting. 0.99
00:14:34.000 So blacks only want to work with blacks? 0.99
00:14:36.000 That's really sick, Mark. 0.99
00:14:37.000 Having a workforce that is diverse and representative, your stakeholders is good for business.
00:14:41.000 And again, Mark Cuban opened himself up for an attack vector that was not something he expected.
00:14:49.000 And Elon had a 10 out of 10 response.
00:14:53.000 10 out of 10 response. 0.99
00:14:56.000 So Elon responds and said, okay, Mark Cuban, then we can expect a bunch of short Asian women to be on the Dallas Mavericks, right? 1.00
00:15:05.000 If it's all about diversity, equity, inclusion, where are all the white people in the NBA? 0.99
00:15:10.000 Where are all the Asian people in the NBA?
00:15:12.000 Oh, so your prized asset that you just sold for $3.5 billion, a big part of it to the Adelson family in Vegas, your prized asset is all about excellence and pursuit of the best.
00:15:29.000 So where's your DEI in the National Basketball Association?
00:15:33.000 If the National Basketball Association had diversity as a core principle, you would have a bunch of people that were not very good.
00:15:44.000 Elon responds, cool.
00:15:47.000 So when should we expect to see a short Asian woman on the maps? 0.84
00:15:52.000 Elon responds. 0.99
00:15:54.000 Cuban says DEI is good for business.
00:15:56.000 Is it really good for business?
00:15:58.000 Research shows that companies with DEI policies outperform their counterparts by widening the net of qualified candidates to hire and appealing more Gen Z workers.
00:16:08.000 What does equity mean for you?
00:16:10.000 Recognizing that employee differences and play to the strengths of whatever possible.
00:16:16.000 The contrast between Mark Cuban and Elon Musk is really telling.
00:16:19.000 Musk has built multiple incredibly innovative and successful companies.
00:16:23.000 Mark Cuban sold an overvalued company at the peak of the dot-com bubble that collapsed immediately after, and he's never done anything impressive since.
00:16:31.000 DEI is the destruction of any meaningful company or enterprise.
00:16:36.000 And we see that, what otherwise is known as wokeism, we call the destruction of what is good, true, and beautiful.
00:16:47.000 Look, something big is coming.
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00:16:49.000 You could probably feel it.
00:16:50.000 Everybody can feel it.
00:16:51.000 The next year will be a wild ride, like nothing we've ever seen in this country before.
00:16:56.000 Continuing economic chaos, a critical presidential race, and masses of people moving across continents to metastasize conflict.
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00:17:52.000 Wayne LaPierre is stepping down.
00:17:54.000 This is breaking.
00:17:54.000 Wayne LaPierre is stepping down as the head of the NRA.
00:17:58.000 Obviously, he's been a big player, not as much in the last few years.
00:18:01.000 He's been getting older and has been stepping back a bit.
00:18:04.000 But if you were in American politics in the 80s, 90s, 2010s, Wayne LaPierre was a huge figure in American political life as head of the NRA.
00:18:13.000 He really built the National Rifle Association into the kind of the gun rights juggernaut that it was for so long.
00:18:22.000 And whatever, there's been some turmoil at the organization in the last few years, but if he's stepping away now, I think we should be grateful for what he was able to accomplish.
00:18:33.000 And we should look at gun rights as something that conservatives are used to kind of this idea that we always lose on a lot of issues, that we never quite get what we're promised.
00:18:43.000 And gun rights is a good example of that, where 30 years ago, you actually, even in conservative states, you could not carry a concealed pistol without, you know, without needing to get a permit, or it was very difficult to get a permit.
00:18:58.000 Long guns were often heavily restricted.
00:19:00.000 It was very hard to own your own gun in America and to carry it around with you.
00:19:04.000 And that's totally changed now.
00:19:06.000 Started with just loosening the restrictions on getting permits.
00:19:09.000 And now we have constitutional carry as a movement.
00:19:12.000 You can drive from Florida all the way up to Idaho.
00:19:15.000 And the whole way, you can go entirely through states where you can carry a concealed gun without needing a permit.
00:19:22.000 And I think we have to thank groups like the NRA under Wayne LaPierre for being able to achieve that.
00:19:29.000 And so I know it's often popular to bash the NRA.
00:19:33.000 Andrew's asking, didn't he destroy the NRA?
00:19:35.000 Well, whatever they did in recent years, the NRA, he was leading it for probably a good 30 years.
00:19:41.000 And, you know, the 90s, the early 2000s, the period where all this progress was being made, he did that as well.
00:19:47.000 And so, especially when people are stepping away from public life, you want to take the totality of what they were able to accomplish, not just the most recent things that are happening.
00:19:57.000 And gun rights is definitely the thing, the issue, where despite massive opposition from the media, massive opposition from the federal government, massive opposition from every elite institution in American life, it just brushed all of that aside.
00:20:11.000 And gun rights was able to win a ton of victories in the courts, a ton of victories at the state and local level.
00:20:16.000 And even now, it's still winning victories.
00:20:18.000 The Biden administration hates it as an issue.
00:20:21.000 And despite that, we still have better gun rights now than we probably did, you know, when Trump took over in 2017.
00:20:28.000 All right, we have a pretty funny story coming out of Miami.
00:20:32.000 Apparently, there was a brawl at a Miami Mall, and people are saying some rather funny things about it.
00:20:39.000 What happened is there was a big brawl at this shopping mall, at the Miami Mall.
00:20:43.000 And now afterwards, people are claiming that people were getting attacked, but that they weren't getting attacked by just ordinary teens or Rufians or those people who terrify our shopping malls now. 1.00
00:20:54.000 They're claiming that the people they saw were eight to ten feet tall, which obviously that's unusual on its own.
00:21:02.000 But in addition, of course, the trend that's going on on Twitter is people saying, you know, eight to ten feet tall, these could be the Nephilim.
00:21:09.000 Those are the giants of the book of Genesis who allegedly, you know, mixed with...
00:21:15.000 Is it the Nephilim?
00:21:16.000 Are they the they're the they are the product of the mix between angels and humans?
00:21:20.000 Or is it that giants or something like that were from the Nephilim and the humans mixing?
00:21:25.000 I can't quite remember the lore there.
00:21:27.000 But anyway, Nephilim is trending on Twitter now.
00:21:30.000 Of course, we have a lot of people talking about aliens lately.
00:21:34.000 I'm sure Charlie would have a far more interesting reaction to this.
00:21:37.000 I'm always the skeptic on the staff, so I suspect it is probably just that there was some teens getting in a fight at the Miami Mall and people get a little carried away.
00:21:48.000 But there are a lot of funny reactions on Twitter about it.
00:21:52.000 DC Draino's tweet, which we weren't quite, if you weren't able to read it, he was saying, how are we not going to be told the truth about why Miami had the biggest police response I've ever seen in my life?
00:22:02.000 They're saying it was for teenagers fighting.
00:22:04.000 What really happened?
00:22:05.000 That's also driving the sort of Nephilim. 0.99
00:22:10.000 Is that even a conspiracy theory?
00:22:12.000 It's that, you know, hundreds of cops showed up.
00:22:14.000 And we're very used to, in America, not seeing cops respond to shoplifting or murders or basically anything else.
00:22:22.000 And so it's very surprising now when you actually have a large police response.
00:22:26.000 Although I suspect it is probably not because of aliens or Nephilim or anything else.
00:22:32.000 Here, we have some more footage.
00:22:33.000 Let's play 119.
00:22:36.000 Emergency call.
00:22:37.000 That brought dozens of officers to this area to try and get things under control.
00:22:42.000 And they did.
00:22:46.000 Fireworks and fights in downtown Miami.
00:22:49.000 The chaos on the first night of the new year prompting a citywide emergency call.
00:22:58.000 Miami police swarming the streets.
00:23:00.000 Four teens would end up under arrest, two of them charged with battery.
00:23:05.000 After police say a driver was jumped for asking who threw a bottle at his car.
00:23:10.000 Police were initially called out around 8.30 Monday night after reports of a riot and fireworks set off inside Bayside Marketplace.
00:23:18.000 Then there would be fights.
00:23:21.000 Several of them, all involving teens.
00:23:25.000 Yeah, that was very chaotic because what they were saying was like more than one fight happening at the same time.
00:23:30.000 You know, they just started fighting.
00:23:31.000 It just got crazy.
00:23:33.000 But it could have gotten crazier and even more dangerous without that massive Miami police response.
00:23:39.000 It may look like an overreaction with the amount of officers that responded, but the truth is that's really part of strategy.
00:23:47.000 Okay, so yeah, Andrew's feeding me the numbers here.
00:23:50.000 So we had the airport shut down, 60,000 people were without power for four to six hours.
00:23:54.000 There's helicopters, police scanners, all for allegedly some teenagers fighting and setting off fireworks.
00:24:02.000 Okay, that admittedly does seem like a strong reaction, but we do have to remember this is Florida.
00:24:08.000 It's not California.
00:24:10.000 It's not New York City.
00:24:11.000 It's not Chicago.
00:24:12.000 So Florida does employ police officers, and it does, in fact, encourage those police officers to enforce the law and respond to bad things.
00:24:22.000 Those are probably considered violations of the California Constitution at this point.
00:24:27.000 So if you're from those areas, you're very used to just sort of crime happens and nothing is allowed to be done about it.
00:24:34.000 But it is legal in some jurisdictions for police to enforce the law.
00:24:40.000 And we should encourage that.
00:24:41.000 We should encourage that practice.
00:24:43.000 We should encourage this novel technology known as the police officer to be deployed in all 50 of our states, in all of our cities.
00:24:52.000 I think there would be many, many good outcomes to do that.
00:24:56.000 But it does say a lot that a large police response to an event is a lot of people are leaping to the idea, you know, maybe it's aliens.
00:25:04.000 Maybe it's divine intervention.
00:25:06.000 Maybe it is an interdimensional being.
00:25:09.000 Because in Joe Biden's America, all of those things are considered more plausible than just some people got rowdy at the mall and the police showed up to stop it.
00:25:18.000 Andrew's sending me another thing.
00:25:19.000 We have a breaking update in the Mark Cuban-Elon Musk feud.
00:25:23.000 Mark Cuban responded to Elon Musk just a matter of minutes ago.
00:25:28.000 It was Elon Musk's challenge. 0.58
00:25:30.000 When will we see a short white or Asian woman join the Dallas Mavericks?
00:25:35.000 He says in response, since this seems to be the most common response, let me address it.
00:25:40.000 DEI does not mean you don't hire on merit.
00:25:43.000 Fact check here, it does mean that.
00:25:46.000 That is what DEI means.
00:25:47.000 But Cuban is denying it. 0.99
00:25:49.000 He says, of course you hire based on merit.
00:25:51.000 Diversity means that you expand the possible pool of candidates as widely as you can.
00:25:56.000 Once you have identified the candidates, then you hire the person you believe is the best.
00:26:03.000 Again, this isn't actually true.
00:26:04.000 If you go to the University of California, UC Berkeley, they had their hiring policy.
00:26:09.000 You had to get through the diversity filter before they would even look at your resume.
00:26:13.000 That's not, they would take in as many candidates as possible.
00:26:16.000 They would cut it down.
00:26:17.000 If you didn't hit their diversity threshold, they wouldn't even look at your resume.
00:26:21.000 If you were the most qualified candidate, they wouldn't know.
00:26:23.000 If you weren't diverse, you couldn't get through. 1.00
00:26:25.000 Cuban goes on. 0.96
00:26:27.000 What makes the whole what about the players comment ridiculous, referring to the Mavs, is that it presumes that all positions are hired based on some quantitative rather than subjective version of merit.
00:26:37.000 They aren't.
00:26:38.000 Even choosing the best basketball player is very much a guess.
00:26:43.000 Well, okay, Mark, it's a guess, but you can make a pretty educated guess.
00:26:48.000 And, you know, that's the answer to this.
00:26:50.000 That is why there won't be a short Asian woman who plays for the Mavs. 0.99
00:26:53.000 You can make a very educated guess that it's not, they're not going to be an NBA superstar. 0.97
00:26:59.000 Cuban is making us play dumb. 1.00
00:27:01.000 That's what DEI is. 1.00
00:27:02.000 It makes everyone behave dumb. 0.98
00:27:04.000 So imagine you're an exec at the Disney Corporation. 0.98
00:27:08.000 You bought Star Wars from George Lucas for several billion dollars.
00:27:12.000 But it's not doing quite what it once was.
00:27:15.000 You know, the last few of your side films didn't make as much money.
00:27:18.000 A lot of people complain about it.
00:27:20.000 So they need to write the ship.
00:27:21.000 And this sounds someone at Disney came in and they said, well, actually, we have the clip here.
00:27:28.000 Play 122.
00:27:32.000 Exactly. 1.00
00:27:34.000 Put a chick in it, make it gay. 1.00
00:27:35.000 And that is exactly what they are going to do. 0.99
00:27:38.000 That is the breaking development for all you Star Wars fans.
00:27:41.000 Let's play clip 32.
00:27:43.000 Also, the first woman and the first person of color to direct a Star Wars film.
00:27:48.000 It's set to be released in 2026.
00:27:50.000 You can say that the Force is strong with this one.
00:27:53.000 You know, I'm very thrilled about the project because I think what we are about to create is something very special.
00:28:00.000 And we're in 2024 now.
00:28:02.000 And I think it's about time that we had a woman come forward to shape the story in a galaxy far, far away. 0.99
00:28:12.000 Okay, first of all, let's have a woman shape a story in a galaxy far, far away. 0.99
00:28:16.000 For basically, I think the last decade or so, Star Wars has been run by Kathleen Kennedy. 0.99
00:28:22.000 She's like kind of been the director of the whole thing.
00:28:26.000 And, you know, I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but if you ask the people who are, they have very strong opinions on this.
00:28:32.000 And those opinions are mostly quite negative.
00:28:34.000 Second, that director's name is Charmeen Obaid Chinoy, or something.
00:28:41.000 She is a Pakistani Canadian journalist, filmmaker, and activist known for her work in films that highlight gender inequality against women.
00:28:50.000 Charmeed Obaid Chinoy.
00:28:52.000 That is like a Star Wars character.
00:28:54.000 Help me, Obaid Shinoy.
00:28:56.000 You're my only hope, pretty much.
00:28:59.000 I don't think this will change the tide about Star Wars.
00:29:01.000 I don't think it'll magically make Star Wars good.
00:29:03.000 And that's kind of the point.
00:29:05.000 You know, one of our producers is asking, is Star Wars now part of Woke Wars?
00:29:09.000 And the truth is, yes, and it has been for ages.
00:29:14.000 So full disclosure, I liked Star Wars growing up.
00:29:18.000 Very common.
00:29:19.000 I saw pretty much all the movies.
00:29:21.000 I saw all the movies when I was a kid.
00:29:23.000 And when episode 7 came out, I think I was 25.
00:29:27.000 I was pretty excited.
00:29:28.000 So yeah, I saw it in theaters.
00:29:30.000 But I saw where it was going.
00:29:33.000 And that's the truth about it.
00:29:34.000 It's the same with Star Wars and Marvel and a lot of these other cinematic universes they have.
00:29:39.000 It's very difficult for them to come up with anything original in Hollywood at this point.
00:29:44.000 So they go back to the well over and over again on these franchises that started 20, 30, 50 years ago.
00:29:52.000 We're approaching the point where Star Wars is nearly 50 years old now, actually.
00:29:56.000 And they just sort of feed it back to you.
00:30:00.000 It's the same stuff over and over again.
00:30:03.000 And it's so easy.
00:30:04.000 And people are so easily pleased.
00:30:06.000 You'll talk to people who just say, well, I just want to see a movie with lightsabers and the force and it's fun.
00:30:12.000 Okay, sure, but you should try to be better than that.
00:30:16.000 You should try to want more from your art. 0.98
00:30:20.000 And instead, what we're getting is we're just getting this kind of trash that people, like, they'll just watch the same crap and then they'll fill it up with politics and stuff. 0.89
00:30:31.000 So this is not where Star Wars started to go. 0.98
00:30:33.000 Woke.
00:30:34.000 Star Wars was doing weird stuff like this in several of the previous movies.
00:30:38.000 I'm told I didn't see them.
00:30:40.000 I'm also told the recent movies weren't very good.
00:30:43.000 But conservatives and, you know, just Americans in general, it's like we keep reacting to this in a cyclical way because we keep ponying up money to see these things.
00:30:52.000 And the way to resist all of this is to not play the game.
00:30:56.000 It's to step back and say, wait, there's a hundred years of good films that have been made.
00:31:00.000 I haven't seen all of them.
00:31:02.000 I could watch those instead.
00:31:03.000 Or we could make our own movies or we could read books.
00:31:07.000 There are things that you can choose in art that elevate you and there are things that you can watch and read and consume that degrade you.
00:31:15.000 And every single day we make a decision.
00:31:17.000 Do we want to uplift ourselves or degrade ourselves?
00:31:21.000 We had a great conversation about this on the Thought Crime Show the other day, by the way.
00:31:26.000 I would encourage all of you to go back and listen to that on the code.
00:31:29.000 One part of the Greer code is don't watch any Marvel movies.
00:31:32.000 Star Wars definitely counts as one of those.
00:31:35.000 So I'd encourage you all to check that out if you want more discussion on that.
00:31:38.000 I'm getting asked what movies do I recommend?
00:31:40.000 Like Charlie, I don't see that many movies, but I was on a flight recently.
00:31:44.000 I watched 12 Angry Men on it.
00:31:46.000 That was a good film.
00:31:47.000 I liked that a lot.
00:31:48.000 I recently watched The Searchers.
00:31:50.000 That's a classic John Wayne Western.
00:31:53.000 Very good movie.
00:31:54.000 And that's the thing.
00:31:55.000 If you look back, there's hundreds, thousands of movies like this. 1.00
00:31:59.000 Don't feed the crap that Disney just puts in front of you like a pig. 0.98
00:32:04.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody. 0.99
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00:32:08.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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