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00:01:25.000We had Royce Royce White on the show, and I feel obliged.
00:01:30.000It pains me to say this, but now that we're out of that segment directly, because it did confuse a few people, yes, that was a satirical segment.
00:01:38.000Royce White is Trolling the WNBA to show how insane transgender ideology is.
00:01:43.000And we are cheering him on because it is incoherent.
00:01:48.000It's one of the funniest segments we've ever done.
00:01:50.000So I encourage you guys to check that out if you missed it.
00:01:54.000But we have some exciting stuff to dive right into.
00:01:57.000We have breaking news this morning Luigi Mangione, the Brian Thompson healthcare CEO assassin, hero of the left, is pleading guilty in federal court today on federal charges.
00:03:02.000Langeon's defense team has done a very good job up to this point.
00:03:04.000Think about what they have done for him thus far.
00:03:07.000They got rid of the terrorism charge, they got the death penalty off the table, they got mandatory life sentence off the table in the state case.
00:03:17.000Demonstrated significant strategic, I would say, ability and skill.
00:03:22.000And so I think what they're doing here, they must believe it's their best shot for a number of reasons, many of which have already been discussed.
00:03:31.000So I was diving into this this morning.
00:03:35.000And it looks like basically their strategic plan that is likely is he is pleading guilty to a federal, it's not even a federal terrorism charge.
00:03:52.000Now, that still leaves life imprisonment on the table, but it's likely that they're going to argue because he's pleading guilty in federal court that double jeopardy applies and they need to throw out his New York State murder case.
00:04:08.000Normally, that wouldn't work in most states, but New York has a stronger law on this than most states that they're going to cite and say, got to throw this case out.
00:05:35.000I support Luigi whether or not he did it.
00:05:39.000That's the view of a lot of people on the left.
00:05:42.000And the only way that you can check this, the first step towards checking this, is you have to be maximally punitive when this sort of behavior happens.
00:05:50.000The state, the government, our society must send a message that this is totally and completely unacceptable.
00:05:57.000And to be clear, this is going to be a long term struggle.
00:06:00.000The left has no compunctions about taking a political assassin, a murderer, and making them a long term cause celeb, something that they fight for for years, decades on end.
00:06:11.000There are plenty of examples from the 60s and 70s and 80s, heinous murderers that they fought for to get out of prison.
00:06:18.000John Hinckley tried to murder the president of the United States, and eventually lawyers got him out of prison.
00:06:23.000He is a free man sending messages to Jodie Foster again.
00:06:27.000They want to make Mangione, someone like that as well.
00:06:33.000This is something we've talked about in the Tyler Robinson case that the state is having to make somewhat challenging arguments for why he deserves the death penalty about endangering others or about the fact that there were children present at the scene when it should just be core fact if you are committing a politically motivated assassination, if you are doing a public assassination, that should just by default carry the death penalty.
00:06:58.000But, and we'll get into this in the next segment.
00:07:01.000The Mangione case matters because it speaks to a bigger picture.
00:07:04.000It speaks to the message that Charlie was touting in the days and weeks and months leading up to his own death.
00:07:11.000You've seen it many times by now, but it so importantly speaks to what Charlie's big message was that America faces a choice MAGA versus Mangioniism.
00:08:16.000It might look funny that there's this early 20s white chick outside the courthouse saying, I love Maggioni, even if he did it, especially if he did it.
00:08:25.000But that is not something you should laugh at.
00:08:27.000That is not something that should make you chuckle.
00:08:29.000That is something that should make the blood in your body feel a chill.
00:08:33.000It is terrifying that young people would love someone who heinously murdered a father that he didn't even know.
00:08:40.000And we have to think about what allows people to even have that thought enter their brain and what can we do about it.
00:08:48.000It's this violent, radical rejection of, you might say, the American experiment that says the problem with this country is capitalism, the problem is.
00:09:25.000Despite the name, it was actually about a roofers' convention.
00:09:29.000And it was an interesting event because Charlie was taking question after question from these business owners and entrepreneurs who were basically saying, Charlie, we love you on Christianity, we love you on faith, we love you on the college scam, we love you on basically every issue, but could we please just get amnesty?
00:09:47.000And it was actually quite frustrating.
00:09:49.000And I just want to remind you what it was like.
00:10:46.000The other day, we talked about this shows the difficulty that's facing us are we ready to pay any short term cost at all to save this country?
00:10:54.000And we need to be able to say yes to that or we will lose this country.
00:10:58.000But this actually links to the Mangione question as well.
00:11:01.000And there's additional clips I want to get to from this event because think about what it means when these business owners say, Only illegal immigrants are able to do this entire sector of the economy.
00:11:13.000What they're saying is that economy has basically become closed off to ordinary Americans.
00:11:18.000And they can say, oh, they don't want to do those jobs.
00:11:41.000Why don't Americans get as many STEM degrees as they used to?
00:11:44.000One factor might be that half or more of their department is people from China, people from India, people from foreign countries who have set up their own networks of people who share their language, share their background.
00:11:56.000And the long term effect of this is all the paths to having a good middle class American life.
00:12:01.000It's becoming narrower, more circumscribed.
00:12:05.000Stuff like DEI is playing a bigger role if you're going to college.
00:12:08.000And it's making people feel, whether they're on the right or on the left, that there's fewer opportunities for them and that there's not as much of a direct reward between hard work.
00:12:30.000You know, back in the 60s and 70s, we were a nation where it was an expectation when you hit the age of 14, 15, or 16, you would go get some sort of a summer job.
00:12:39.000You'd work at a diner, you'd be working in a kitchen and cleaning dishes.
00:12:43.000And as a parent of two young kids, I think to myself, I hope I'm a good enough parent by the time that they get to be a teenager.
00:12:50.000That I'm gonna say, no, go work on some job that is maybe below our income level.
00:12:55.000Because once we reach the upper middle class, we have this idea that our kids should not have to do the jobs that we once did.
00:13:02.000But the idea of a summer job, I think it made kids understand the value of hard work, of discipline, of sacrifice, waking up early, and it's especially humbling if you come from an upper middle class family to have to go caddy for a summer.
00:13:20.000Let's do this is a short one, clip three.
00:13:23.000How do we treat an 18 year old right now at a local high school that says, I don't want to go to high school, I don't want to go to college, I just want to start a business or something?
00:13:32.000Well, the traditional path is, well, you know, go get your four year degree, Justin.
00:13:36.000Instead, we should be celebrating that 18 year old to want to go take that risk and want to go create value, to want to go out into the marketplace and do something unique and interesting and creative.
00:13:47.000This is the challenge before us, and this links back to the Mangioniism phenomenon.
00:13:53.000That in America, we must make it as clear as possible that there is a direct link between how hard you work and how willing you are to work and the success that you can experience later in life.
00:14:05.000And there are various ways we can do that.
00:14:07.000We can make it so more jobs don't require a degree at all, that you could maybe take a test to get it.
00:14:13.000We should encourage employers to do this.
00:14:14.000We should encourage employers to just say, if you can show this set of skills, we will hire you.
00:14:20.000We should encourage more employers to be willing to train new employees.
00:14:25.000There are various ways we can incentivize this.
00:14:27.000This is a big thing that drives the H 1B phenomenon that you can bring in a foreign worker who's tied to your company, they're not able to leave, and they're probably already got all the entry level training abroad.
00:14:37.000So they just don't want to train new entry level workers.
00:14:40.000We can make it so there's more advantages, more opportunities to start a business fresh out of school, and it's not stigmatized and not penalized.
00:14:49.000The long term effect of doing things like this is Americans from all backgrounds, all socioeconomic levels, will have that feeling.
00:15:01.000And it is that phenomenon, the sense of it doesn't matter what I do, it doesn't matter if I do certain things, that I think creates a lot of radicalism.
00:15:11.000You have people who are victims of DEI, won't blame DEI for their problems.
00:15:14.000They'll decide, I need to shoot a CEO instead.
00:15:17.000But if we get rid of that DEI, I still think they're less likely to go down that insane route.
00:15:21.000So that's the challenge Charlie is laying out before us.
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00:17:05.000It is widely agreed that there is a mental health crisis of sorts.
00:17:09.000There is also, it seems, widespread agreement on what the solutions to this crisis are.
00:17:14.000That mental health initiatives should receive more funding, that the mentally ill should receive more better diagnoses and treatment, that the public should be made more aware of mental illness as a concept, and also that there should be a general and all consuming push for everyone to participate in mental health culture and share their stories about mental illness.
00:17:35.000What few seem to be asking is in what way are any of these solutions in short supply?
00:17:53.000And why don't you just lay out for our viewers what's the thrust of this documentary that they can actually watch for free right now if they want?
00:18:01.000The main question that I was trying to answer was why is it that despite all this attention and all these resources going to a problem like mental health, why is it that the problem just keeps getting worse?
00:18:15.000And so, In order to question the assumptions that people have about mental health today, I thought it would be effective to go back through history and look at a time before this narrative existed and how it came into being and all the interesting and surprising things that pushed it along,
00:18:39.000like asylums at the beginning, of course, but World War II was a huge catalyst as well.
00:18:49.000One of the surprising things that you'll find is that this narrative has been persisting for a really long time, actually.
00:18:56.000People have been trying to tackle destigmatization for since really like the 1800s, maybe even before.
00:19:04.000So I thought that that was really interesting and I thought that should be brought to people's attention.
00:19:10.000Yeah, I think all of us have lived through this experience of often anytime something happens, it happens after mass shootings, it happens after atrocities like this unfortunate Lindsey Clancy case.
00:19:21.000Or this mother murdered her children, that's getting a lot of attention.
00:19:25.000And we just will hear that we'll say, we have a mental health crisis in this country and it's not talked about enough.
00:19:30.000We need to have more conversations about it.
00:19:33.000And yet, it seems we're having this discussion all the time, and we've been having it for ages, and the numbers only go up.
00:19:39.000I love this bit from the documentary that's actually near the end of it.
00:20:10.000One in three Canadians are experiencing increased levels of exhaustion, frustration, and anxiety as part of their daily lives.
00:20:18.000So we go from one in 10 back in it looks like a 50s documentary, and then it's one in five, one in four, one in three, and I think it was actually cut off at the end there.
00:20:27.000It's that 50% of people supposedly have a mental health situation, condition of some sort.
00:20:33.000Now, do you believe that this was always the case and we uncovered it, or are we.
00:20:40.000Creating our own mental health crisis, as it were.
00:20:44.000That's what I was kind of trying to look into and get different perspectives on from historians of psychiatry and also just people with, I guess you could call, lived experience.
00:20:53.000I think it's clear that people have always suffered.
00:20:56.000I mean, every major religion, every ancient philosophy addresses and discusses suffering.
00:21:05.000And it's interesting how suffering, which can be very meaningful and is an inevitability, really has.
00:21:20.000So, the way we think about our problems, of course, changes the way we approach them.
00:21:27.000So, framing it as a mental health issue allows experts and professionals to take the issue on and it persuades people to put issues of their lives and their psyches and their emotions and whatever else, it persuades them to kind of Outsource those to these professionals.
00:22:04.000You can watch that in less time than it takes to watch the show.
00:22:07.000So, I encourage all of you to check it out.
00:22:09.000But it was near the end and it was speaking to a man who you identify as formerly mentally unwell.
00:22:14.000I don't know his full history, but he actually talks about this fact where.
00:22:18.000He actually started to explore, for example, his faith more, and that gives it just a different dimension to things.
00:22:25.000Like, if you're struggling to get up in the morning to go to work, a mental health version might be you have, you know, this psychologically induced fatigue, you have anxiety, you have depression.
00:22:38.000And whereas a traditional Christian point of view might be, well, you know, sloth is a sin, and all of us are tempted by sin.
00:22:46.000Do you think there's something where maybe even if it would be justified to have a mental health framing of this, it's In a way, just better if you avoid that because it's more productive to have a different lens for viewing problems.
00:22:59.000Yeah, I think a big problem with the mental health system is that it just is so totalizing and it turns all these different things that are happening in people's lives into one thing, which is, you know, a mental illness.
00:23:14.000And that actually makes it very difficult for people to find out how they can live their lives in a meaningful way, especially because the mental health discourse, I found it to be really.
00:23:26.000You know, cliche and alienating, and just kind of hokey.
00:23:30.000And I can never understand how this appealed to anyone at all.
00:23:33.000And that's part of my motivation for making this documentary.
00:23:37.000But yeah, I interview lots of people who have a different take on the mental health issue.
00:23:44.000And then, of course, I ask them, well, how did you kind of get better or recover or whatever word you want to use?
00:23:51.000And there's lots of different things there's literature, there's religion, there's art, there's like companionship, real companionship, not going to a therapist who you're paying.
00:24:02.000And Yeah, that's just aberrant to the system because the system needs things to be regulated and predictable.
00:24:10.000And human beings aren't that, and suffering isn't that.
00:24:13.000And so I think there needs to be more space and understanding for that in people's lives.
00:24:18.000And of course, religion was a huge source of that for a long time, and now that's disappeared.
00:24:22.000And so I think people just need to get back in touch with that, maybe in a way.
00:24:27.000Yeah, I thought that was so interesting.
00:24:29.000One of the interviews basically says, How about if you want to help with your mental health?
00:24:35.000Try reading, I think, I can't remember if he says the Bible as well, but it's pointing out a lot of our earliest psychologists and psychiatrists really are just the author of Ecclesiastes, the author of Proverbs, the author of Romeo and Juliet, that we are able to get this.
00:24:50.000I want to say, by the way, if anyone has thoughts on this, please send in emails.
00:24:53.000Maybe we can read a question or two for Ms. Zawakowski here.
00:24:57.000But can you elaborate more on that, on that hoakiness?
00:25:01.000Like someone points out that basically any, almost any book written before the rise of this, any airport literature written before maybe 19th century, 1990 or so, before we had the biggest explosion of this mental health industry.
00:25:13.000It just sounds wiser, it sounds deeper.
00:25:17.000What's making modern discourse so hokey and lame in comparison to what came before?
00:25:23.000Yeah, I mean, that was another surprising thing looking back through the history is just how, you know, we assume that we're smarter and more technologically advanced.
00:25:31.000And you go back and ordinary people seem to possess just a lot more like linguistic.
00:25:39.000Capabilities and intelligence and wisdom, like you said.
00:26:43.000And there was evidence that actually developing nations were handling mental health issues better than we were, but that's all going away too.
00:26:51.000Sonia, there's a very funny clip here from your documentary, just kind of highlighting the way we generate new disorders all of the time.
00:27:01.000This morning, the World Health Organization raising a red flag for the first time adding gaming disorder to their list of addictive activities.
00:28:46.000Well, it affected primarily women, which is interesting because a lot of times today you sometimes see a lot of these memetic diagnoses traveling through women.
00:28:58.000And they were just presenting with all sorts of strange disorders or strange symptoms and they would writhe around and You know, in school, I learned that this was like a patriarchal designation, that women weren't being taken seriously.
00:29:13.000And maybe that's part of the story, but another interesting and important part of the story is that this disorder had a lot of glamour to it.
00:29:23.000People were really interested in women who had hysteria.
00:29:26.000It got them a lot of attention if they had hysteria.
00:29:30.000Clinicians would really kind of, it seems now in hindsight, encourage these symptoms in women, even on stages.
00:29:36.000They would make like an entire performance about it.
00:29:40.000So, you can see the beginnings of a lot of the problems we have now happening then.
00:29:45.000And it's funny because it just kind of like was over one day.
00:30:13.000Once you had a real test for whether paralysis was all in your head or not, suddenly this basically went away.
00:30:18.000So, do you basically think it's the case that the people who were getting hysteria in the late 1800s are probably maybe the same women who were getting anorexia in the 90s?
00:30:28.000And then if they were around today, they might be saying, I'm transgender?
00:30:51.000People are really unstable and they don't know how to live in modern society.
00:30:55.000But just calling it a mental health crisis is what is the problem.
00:31:00.000Offsourcing all of this to experts and professionals is part of the problem because it really reifies these ideas and it just imports onto them this gravitas that makes it really hard for people to extricate themselves from it.
00:31:15.000And again, it then precludes other ways of living that can help you manage your life and your suffering, and precludes other ways of thinking about your suffering.
00:31:24.000It can be beneficial for people to use religion instead or all these other things.
00:31:30.000So I think that that's the big problem.
00:32:32.000They clearly have some mental stuff going on, and they need, I don't know, they need to, they need a different way of just looking at their problems, maybe.
00:33:07.000And so he had to be wrapped in very soft blankets and sit on very soft cushions and handled very, very carefully.
00:33:13.000People would gather this idea that they were made of glass.
00:33:16.000And in that presentation, they could have their suffering taken seriously.
00:33:22.000Today, if you said to your friend, I'm actually made of glass, you would be laughed at.
00:33:31.000But if you said to your friend, I'm cutting, or I have bulimia, or any other Kind of current diagnosis that has cultural currency, you would gain a lot of sympathy.
00:33:44.000It's a very interesting documentary and only 80 minutes long, so you can check it out.
00:33:48.000Sonia, do you want to explain where's the best place for people to check out that documentary or any other work you've done?
00:33:53.000Right now, it's available for free on Twitter, and I believe it's going to be available after that on Amazon and a few other places.
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00:36:12.000We're here with Tyler Bowyer, head of Turning Point Action, and the man who's the reason we're in Arizona and Arizona Cardinals fan, but the logo's all dark so that he can cover it up and make it hard to see.
00:36:23.000Hey, the Cardinals won yesterday and they're Preseason game.
00:36:45.000Honestly, the best Cardinals win ever is probably that time that you guys face masked Aaron Rodgers and then it got returned for a touchdown.
00:36:52.000That Kurt Warner game that was like 51 to 45 or something.
00:36:54.000We've had some incredible playoff games, incredible playoff wins, just not.
00:39:28.000Well, first off, we're so excited about the launch of TPUSA Communities because that's the culmination of bringing together Rise, which formerly was Blexit, and so many other communities that they've launched TPUSA Families, which is focused on families and family involvement outside of.
00:39:46.000Well, it's really the culmination of just that Charlie started as a guy speaking to young people, students, but his message was so powerful.
00:39:53.000So we have infinite emails of, hey, I want to get involved, but I'm a 45 year old dad.
00:39:58.000I'm outside the student or faith zone.
00:40:02.000So this is kind of the culmination of if you're outside of, again, the students and faith zone, then you have a place between RISE, families, young professionals, and what they've launched as TPSA Heroes, which is focused on military veterans and first responders.
00:40:20.000And so, uh, It's really exciting and congratulations again for getting involved so intricately here and launching some of the first events because this is where I think this starts to really spread.
00:40:32.000You have, and it's hard and it's a little bit challenging at the beginning because hosting events is not easy.
00:40:39.000It's not an easy thing to do, but it starts with really this grassroots operation of knowing 10 people you can count on and building around that.
00:40:53.000Any good guidelines, just day of, make sure it goes well?
00:40:56.000And Turning Point Action, we're doing a ton of these types of events through our coalitions events as well.
00:41:03.000Again, it's all preparation, it's talking to people, building your list, managing your list.
00:41:10.000Every activist that exists within the conservative movement should be developing a list of about 1,000 people that they're remaining in general constant contact with.
00:41:21.000So, really hardcore activists that are doing the job.
00:41:25.000Are you trying to build a list and you're not going to have a thousand people that are your followers to begin with?
00:41:30.000But Jack Posobic talks about this all the time online as well.
00:41:33.000If you have a thousand people you can kind of count on, all of a sudden it starts to spread, right?
00:41:39.000You start everything starts to all the activism starts to metastasize a lot.
00:41:43.000And so it is really important that in your community, what no matter what the vertical is that you're getting involved in the communities, is that you're starting to identify those people and and Rolodex those people basically through tools that.
00:41:59.000That community should be providing you, but then also just kind of on your own because you've got to stay in contact with them by email, by text message, try to have as much face to face interaction.
00:42:09.000And this is where it really blends together with what we're doing at Turning Point Action because when elections roll around, if you become the community leader that then is a person that can remind people that an election is coming up, be that go to for any information that's coming up with elections, that parlays really nicely into the C4 element of it.
00:42:28.000So the C3 is communities, C4 on action is our coalitions.
00:43:10.000Of this is the person, even if it's small and in the community, but also building events around people who are big names that are coming into town.
00:43:17.000So, if you know, like, again, O'Reilly Gaines is going to be in town, she works with us at Turning Point.
00:43:23.000Like, rope her into a community event, right?
00:43:27.000Like, everyone should be, and it's not always going to work out, right?
00:43:29.000You're not always going to be able to get everybody.
00:43:31.000But this is what I say is like, this is kind of the parlaying that we did with Charlie a lot was, you know, okay, JD is going to be in town, or, you know, again, one of the Trump family is going to be in town.
00:43:42.000Offer, you know, make the offer that we can build something, even if it's a local community event.
00:43:48.000And by the way, some people start to feel like, oh man, I don't know, this is only going to be like a few dozen people or, you know, less than 100 people or whatever that's going to show up to it.
00:43:57.000And people are like, I'm too embarrassed.
00:44:00.000No, like, in fact, some of the most critical times I think in Charlie's career was when we had him go to smaller events and be able to speak directly to small community style groups like this.
00:44:12.000So, So that's what would be my advice.
00:44:15.000Don't be ashamed or bashful or anything like that or embarrassed that something smaller, like from small things.
00:44:23.000It sounds like his first event is really cool.
00:45:22.000And we have this in a members only room.
00:45:24.000She asks, Would my mom be able to join even if she doesn't have a membership?
00:45:28.000I checked with Daisy and she says, Yes, you are able to bring in your family members as long as one of you does have membership and can show proof of it.
00:45:59.000I actually wanted to sort of tap Blake's brain because you're so good with history.
00:46:06.000If you were to choose a communist dictatorship and takeover that was the most brutal and godless and horrible of the 20th century, I know there's a lot to choose from, but which one would you choose and why?
00:46:20.000Oh man, which of those would you choose?
00:46:22.000I mean, obviously, the answer is you don't want to choose any of them.
00:46:42.000I think the original Bolshevik revolution, the communists who took over Russia, really stands out for how.
00:46:51.000Particularly destructive and evil, it was that maybe it's just the fact that I've read the most about this one.
00:46:58.000And there's a great book, A People's Tragedy, by Orlando Fijus.
00:47:02.000Tyler, if you heard anything, Tyler's tried to put it up, but they go there.
00:47:05.000By Orlando Fijus, and it just describes the contours of the Bolshevik Revolution and how horrifying it was.
00:47:12.000And it's not just that they took over this country and there was famine and people died, it's that they're blowing up historic churches.
00:47:20.000They are torturing priests and religious people to death.
00:47:25.000One of the craziest ones, Jack Pasobuk, when he talks about it, loves this example.
00:47:29.000There's a breed of dog that I can't remember, but it was a breed of dog that was associated with the aristocracy, and they would just massacre these dogs as a symbolic point.
00:47:39.000And they do that at the outset, from the very beginning.
00:47:42.000Some people will spin it like, oh, Stalin is where it went bad.
00:48:16.000And I would say one point that you're bringing up is that Lenin led to Stalin and Mao.
00:48:24.000So, all of the top intellectual leaders in the Chinese Communist Party all point to Lenin as the inspiration for what that allowed for the Chinese Revolution, the Chinese reawakening, as they put it.
00:48:41.000And In Russia, you know, you wouldn't have Stalin never existed had it not been for the Bolshevik Revolution.
00:48:51.000So it points to so a lot of people, especially in today's modern American Communist Party that exists, and they call it the DSA, which is now the Democrat Party, they point to the Bolshevik Revolution as fairly peaceful.
00:49:12.000Bad ideas lead to death at some point, right?
00:49:16.000And so hundreds of millions of people have died.
00:49:18.000But even Russia today has not recovered from what the Bolshevik revolution did.
00:49:22.000No, hundreds of millions of people have died by extension, either directly at the hands of communists during the communist phases of these countries or as a result of this.
00:49:33.000It's not even just the death, it's the way it just totally derailed a full civilization.
00:49:38.000That Russia is the country of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, it's the country of the Orthodox Church.
00:49:43.000It was one of the most religious countries in the world.
00:50:18.000To have happened in the 20th century that that occurred.
00:50:20.000I often tell people when I went to Russia, it felt like alternate 1985 in a lot of ways, like from Back to the Future, because it felt like something was off, something went wrong, right?
00:50:32.000And because people, no matter where you go in the world, this is just what I've learned that people are generally very similar to one another.
00:50:38.000They have the same passions, the same loves, the same hates, the same desires, the same will to, you know, for the most part with different cultural things.
00:50:48.000Russia felt like such an oppositional America, right?
00:50:53.000Like, it's just like everything that went possibly wrong, that could have gone wrong, went wrong.
00:51:10.000Super minorities with bad ideas can destroy your country.
00:51:13.000I wanted to get to an email that was sent in because I think it's really good.
00:51:17.000This came from Judy, and it was about the start of the show where you were talking about Mangioniism versus MAGA, the need for reform.
00:51:26.000And I mentioned how a lot of people have fallen out of jobs that used to provide good opportunities because immigrants have totally replaced them.
00:52:07.000I mentioned this to another contractor, and he said, That's how it is.
00:52:11.000Even if an American wants to work in a job and is satisfied with the wages and conditions, can you imagine being the only person there who doesn't speak Spanish?
00:53:47.000I mean, it's a horrible topic, but that communist revolution thing.
00:53:51.000I want to just take a moment to note there are a lot of other really bad ones, and usually the only thing making them not as bad as the Bolsheviks is they were mercifully short.
00:54:00.000There's a guy, Bela Kuhn, who took over Hungary, communist revolution, incredibly violent, incredibly horrible, but thankfully he was defeated.
00:54:12.000I mean, those later ones, the Iron Curtain, all horrible in their own way.
00:54:16.000But they all do flow out of that one Bolshevik revolution.
00:54:19.000Even the, this was even, it was mostly a marginal extremist movement until they happened to pull off a fluke win in a revolution, and it's been poisoning the West ever since.
00:54:29.000There are all these academics who embrace Marxism, not because there's any evidence in favor of it, but just because one of them took over a superpower.
00:54:37.000Ideas have consequences, as we see with them, as we see with figures like Obama, LBJ, Zorhan Mamdani today.
00:55:02.000But they basically just murdered every person that lived within that, whatever that like city block that they built the entire thing and like took their property and just built this entire like very ornate palace.
00:55:14.000It's quite the site, but it's so huge.
00:55:26.000But these people, like, and if you study in all these places, whether it's Romania, Bulgaria, uh, Where it's been tested in the Baltic states, Russia, where I spent most of my time.
00:55:41.000These are scary, scary ideas that have murdered people, have left people and completely wrecked them.
00:55:50.000People are poorer than they've ever been.
00:55:52.000There are places in some of these places in Eastern Europe that it looks like a third world country that you would never be able to envision anywhere else.
00:57:03.000And the idea is that we actually, and we're encouraging people to go to Arizona, New Hampshire, or Nevada.
00:57:10.000We need as many people as we humanly can in Arizona.
00:57:14.000So if you can bookmark yourself for any time in October, Arizona's it.
00:57:18.000We generally like to schedule people through our Commit 100 program for about a week or more.
00:57:26.000So if you can spend a week, if you can take a week off work, great.
00:57:30.000I mean, we'll take less time and we'll have different, like, Levels of that, if you will, will start by booking people for weeks at a time, starting on Monday.
00:57:41.000And you come out and we do a training on day one.
00:57:45.000So, you right in your either at our headquarters or your hotel that you're staying in, we usually do a class.
00:57:51.000It's a class, it's just right there in the action building.
00:58:49.000Generally, you have to get this work done before the sun sets because people will get really freaked out if you come knock on their door or try to contact them after dark.
00:58:57.000And so, most of this is during the day.
01:00:31.000They did finger food so nobody was sitting down so people could still mingle and everything and they talked with the candidate and people wrote.
01:00:37.000Checks of, I'll say this, $500 or more right then, there, and that night.
01:00:42.000In Wisconsin, they do something similar.
01:00:44.000They do a lot of these, a lot of beer and wine nights where they congregate, everybody brings a bottle and they have, they, you know, sip and then they are able to kind of talk about these things.
01:01:45.000I don't know if there's really restrictions on you can make a body to suggest things and stick people on it.
01:01:52.000But it is a group whose purpose is to advise and advocate for Muslim Americans and then make recommendations about how to respond to Islamophobia.
01:02:03.000And it does seem like one aspect of it is to suggest potential Muslims for positions in the state.
01:02:09.000So I think they could straight up say, maybe if there's a judicial vacancy, oh, this should have Muslims appointed to it.
01:02:17.000It is DEI because you are creating a special group for this novel minority group to advocate for them.
01:02:23.000They're going to inevitably start suggesting, oh, here's how you should restrict freedom of speech to curb Islamophobia.
01:02:30.000Here's policies you should have at universities to prevent the rise of anti Muslim hate.
01:02:35.000It's not good to create entities like this, really, for any group, but especially a group that we're worried is not very ideologically amenable to the West, to Christendom.
01:02:50.000So, yeah, to put this in the context, and some of this is happening, by the way, because there were some commissions and some laws that have been put into place to fight anti Semitism in a similar way, which a lot of people attacked some Republicans who voted against those for this very reason.
01:03:11.000A lot of Freedom Caucus members had actually voted against ideas like this.
01:03:16.000Again, it's playing on the left's playing field if you do too much of that.
01:03:55.000You know, you should we shouldn't have these types of groups for you know any religious uh minority, like there's we don't need any permanent commission whose job is to go around and find ways and inflate to solve any phobia crisis.
01:04:11.000Government never solves a crisis, yeah.
01:04:13.000So that's definitely our take on this.
01:04:15.000We have one minute till the break here, but maybe you could answer this quick.
01:04:30.000One of the things right now, remember early to mid August is usually the worst polling era when you hold the presidency for the party in power.
01:04:41.000So these weeks are the worst polls, typically, historically, that we've seen.
01:04:46.000So there's a lot of freaking out going on because there's a lot of bad polls, seemingly bad polls that are out there right now in many of the swing states.
01:04:55.000I would just say, kind of hold on to your pants.
01:05:11.000We got this written question that I really like, Tyler.
01:05:14.000Kelsey asks I enjoy thinking about the random small things I loved about Charlie, like when he would give Blake the Hillsdale Roman history quizzes for fun during breaks.
01:05:23.000Are there any quirky or small things Charlie did that you miss about him that people might not know about?
01:05:35.000We had the documentary filmmaker of Thank You for Sharing, who has a long Polish sounding last name.
01:05:41.000And I was remembering, do you remember how Charlie could not usually pronounce weird names that well?
01:05:47.000And what was funny about it was you could repeat it for him right to him, and it still wouldn't quite work.
01:05:53.000It was just a very funny quirk of his.
01:05:55.000And I got such a kick out of it every time.
01:05:57.000Yeah, I miss it on the day to day basis.
01:06:01.000I've had, I've been obviously in one on one chat with Charlie for, you know, 11, now almost 12 years.
01:06:09.000And I miss so much this last year of just like, we would just drop the funniest things into our chats, right?
01:06:18.000It would be like a lot of our chats was, especially the last few years, was like me, Andrew, and Charlie, the political stuff and handling all the media and stuff like that.
01:06:28.000But his response oftentimes was, yeah, in all caps.
01:06:35.000Like, that would be his most frequent thing.
01:06:36.000Yeah, his common ones, OMG, oh my gosh, LMAO.
01:06:39.000I liked I quit, which would be like there would be like some email that was really, really bizarre.
01:06:43.000So I never, I was never an LMAO guy, but this last year I've kind of adopted the LMAO with things when, so I see something funny and sometimes it just makes me feel like Charlie's in the room and it just makes me sad that I can't drop it to him and have him do it.
01:07:09.000Well, and I go back through our chats and I read them, you know.
01:07:12.000And, you know, I'm so against people sharing his private communications.
01:07:16.000I've been so disgusted with people who drop.
01:07:19.000I have literally thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of chats with Charlie.
01:07:24.000And I would never even think about sharing even semi positive stuff.
01:07:29.000And I, even the positive things that are not controversial or trying to make a point or something like that, you know, I feel bad even, you know, sharing.
01:07:37.000But I think people that do that have been awful.
01:07:39.000But I will read through all those chats and kind of just, It makes me feel like you're back in that moment, right?
01:07:46.000And get inspiration for kind of where we're at now.
01:07:49.000And that's really, I read the things that he said, like, even like almost 10 years ago, right?
01:07:56.000And it's, and the difference between obviously Charlie, you know, grew up, he matured like in so many different ways, but he was so much of the same person.
01:08:33.000It's very funny because Charlie had a few bits of pop culture he really liked, but it was very limited, and so he didn't really know, he didn't know, yeah, he didn't know huge swaths of artists.
01:08:43.000It was so funny, so so cute, the pop punk era, and you know, that was that was one of his strengths, to be honest.
01:09:08.000I know it's not something that you guys were talking about, but I have a concern when presidents do pardons.
01:09:17.000And I was wondering, is there a certain extent That a president cannot pardon, or does something have to happen in order for the people to address this issue?
01:09:32.000So, this has been litigated a bit, and the answer basically is there is essentially no limit to a president's pardon power over federal charges.
01:09:41.000A big reason for this the U.S. president, in a lot of ways, is the successor to the old King of England, like a royal monarch, and the pardon power is traditionally a royal power that a monarch has this power of life and death.
01:10:38.000Obviously, we've seen there's a lot of controversy that comes from this that some presidents have, you know, they've given pardons to people who are donors or are linked with donors.
01:10:47.000They've given pardons to family members.
01:10:50.000A lot of that's controversial and understandably so, but there isn't a limit on it in the Constitution.
01:10:56.000We would almost certainly need an amendment to curb that.
01:11:00.000And I think there's arguments to be made in favor of it, but there's also arguments to be made in favor of.
01:11:05.000The full pardon power, just because it is a little bit of a safety valve that we have for the Republic, where you can have something like J6.
01:11:14.000It got out of control, it became this big tumor on the American Republic, and President Trump said, I am going to lance that boil, squeeze out the pus, make that problem, just resolve it like that.
01:11:26.000And I think that's the best argument in favor of it.