The Charlie Kirk Show - September 01, 2023


Pop Culture Power Hour: The Return with Jobob and Alex Clark


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Back by popular demand, the audience demanded it, and the downloads on this podcast were incredible last time we did it with Alex Clark and Joe Bob. So I went back into the data and I found out that this episode was massively successful.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, back by popular demand.
00:00:03.000 The audience demanded it.
00:00:04.000 The downloads on this podcast were incredible last time we did it with Alex Clark and Joe Bob.
00:00:09.000 They are TPUSA contributors.
00:00:11.000 Alex has an amazing podcast called The Spillover.
00:00:14.000 You're going to want to check that out.
00:00:15.000 It's politics without the pop pop culture without the propaganda.
00:00:19.000 And it is, we talk about everything that's going on in pop culture and we give you updates on Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallin's haircut, the writer's strike and how it's affecting late night hosts, a story that nobody apparently cares about or heard of until like yesterday.
00:00:33.000 And very, very fascinating.
00:00:35.000 And we talk about the new golden bachelor for those over 60.
00:00:40.000 We see what you guys think.
00:00:41.000 Send us your comments.
00:00:42.000 Do you like it?
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00:00:45.000 We spill the tea just for you here, as Alex would say.
00:00:48.000 Buckle up.
00:00:49.000 Here we go.
00:00:50.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:01:32.000 Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:35.000 It is me, Andrew Colbett, your executive producer of the Charlie Kirk Show, also guest host for the day.
00:01:41.000 And back by popular demand, we're going to do a pop culture rundown because when I was hosting before, I brought on Alex Clark and Joe Bob from Turning Point USA, our resident pop culture experts, to break down all the pop culture news because frankly, we don't always know about it.
00:02:02.000 And we want the pop culture without the propaganda.
00:02:05.000 There, I'm stealing a line from Alex Clark herself.
00:02:09.000 And so I had this idea when I knew I was going to be guest hosting.
00:02:12.000 I thought, hmm, what could we do?
00:02:14.000 Hour three, Alex Clark and Joe Bob.
00:02:17.000 So I went back into the data and I found out that this episode was massively successful.
00:02:22.000 Our audience loved it.
00:02:24.000 So I know we have Alex Clark.
00:02:26.000 Alex Clark, are you there?
00:02:27.000 Welcome to the show.
00:02:29.000 Happy to be here representing Q-servatives. 1.00
00:02:32.000 I'm going to start with one of my favorite stories of the day.
00:02:37.000 This is funny because we had the same realization as Charlie last night.
00:02:40.000 So let's go ahead and play this.
00:02:42.000 Put this Axios article up on the screen.
00:02:45.000 Late night hosts talk Hollywood strikes on new podcasts.
00:02:50.000 Right.
00:02:51.000 So this is a massive story that nobody apparently cares about.
00:02:56.000 So the Hollywood is on strike.
00:02:57.000 They are all part of the Writers Guild of America, right?
00:03:01.000 The WGA and down in Hollywood.
00:03:03.000 They are constantly striking, it seems.
00:03:07.000 And when that happens, production in Hollywood comes to a halt.
00:03:11.000 Thank goodness, you all might say.
00:03:14.000 Now, as a result of this, the late night hosts who are terrible without writers, they lean on writers for just about everything you could imagine, except for their interviews.
00:03:28.000 They have gotten together in a new podcast called Strike Force 5, I think, or maybe that was a joke.
00:03:34.000 I'm not exactly sure. 0.86
00:03:35.000 I hope we muted this clip because let's just say these people have potty mouths. 1.00
00:03:43.000 We got to bleep out some of their swear words.
00:03:45.000 This is perhaps the cringiest thing that I have seen in some time.
00:03:50.000 And just to underscore, I had no idea.
00:03:53.000 I had no idea late night wasn't on.
00:03:55.000 I had no idea there wasn't, you know, multiple hosts that were not doing shows because no one cares.
00:04:02.000 This is not the 90s anymore, folks.
00:04:04.000 Play 165.
00:04:05.000 One more time, Jimmy.
00:04:07.000 Yeah.
00:04:07.000 Hi, I'm Jimmy Fallon.
00:04:09.000 I'm Steve McColbert.
00:04:10.000 I'm Jimmy Killer.
00:04:11.000 I thought when you said Jimmy, you meant me, Jimmy, but you meant Jimmy, Jimmy.
00:04:14.000 I always mean you.
00:04:16.000 But when you always mean Seth Meyers, who do you mean?
00:04:19.000 I mean John Oliver.
00:04:21.000 It's the five of us together for maybe an hour a day.
00:04:26.000 Strike Force Five is the name of our podcast.
00:04:28.000 Subscribe to it now, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts.
00:04:34.000 Spotify you.
00:04:35.000 So they've all gotten together to have a podcast about what exactly?
00:04:42.000 I'm not sure how they're not funny, how they don't want Trump to be president.
00:04:47.000 This is a particularly cringy, let's just say, exposure of just how awful and untalented and unfunny these men truly are.
00:04:58.000 This is going to be an absolute takedown, self-owned, unlike anything you've ever seen.
00:05:04.000 So I don't know what I would love your thoughts.
00:05:08.000 Send your thoughts.
00:05:09.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:05:11.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:05:13.000 Will anybody be tuning in?
00:05:15.000 I have no idea.
00:05:16.000 So here's the big picture.
00:05:17.000 This is from Axios article.
00:05:18.000 The show will cover the Hollywood strikes and beyond.
00:05:21.000 And proceeds from the podcast.
00:05:23.000 See, here's the virtue signal. 1.00
00:05:24.000 So all these Hollywood types, they can't be seen making more money than they should. 1.00
00:05:30.000 It'd be bad PR.
00:05:31.000 The proceeds from the podcast will go to out-of-work staff from the host's respective shows, according to Spotify.
00:05:38.000 The Hollywood writers and actor strikes have stretched on throughout the summer, halting much of the industry and leaving thousands of people jobless as the labor wars play out.
00:05:47.000 What we know, when the Writers Guild of America Strike started in May, the group of renowned yet suddenly unemployed talk show hosts gathered via Zoom to discuss the serious issues of work stop the work stoppage creates.
00:06:01.000 So like how many episodes are they going to do?
00:06:04.000 Like one, I hope.
00:06:05.000 I hope not anymore.
00:06:07.000 These men are self-important.
00:06:09.000 They are largely Marxist communists.
00:06:12.000 And these are the most blatant, brazen sellouts to the regime media industrial complex imaginable.
00:06:22.000 They are despised by over half the country.
00:06:25.000 They are watched by about maybe 5% to 10% of the country intermittently at best.
00:06:31.000 And I guess it's a limited series podcast so fans can listen to once private chat. 0.96
00:06:36.000 So apparently these guys all hang out together and they talk crap about Trump together. 0.94
00:06:41.000 It's, you know, it's pretty depressing. 0.99
00:06:44.000 If this is how they talk in private, I genuinely think this is a terrible branding move for the late night hosts of America to get together for this type of just kind of inane, pointless gibberish gibberish.
00:07:01.000 Now, I will say, I do have a slight soft spot for Conan O'Brien.
00:07:06.000 The guy's been on air for a long time.
00:07:07.000 I used to watch Conan O'Brien.
00:07:09.000 I was pretty bummed out when NBC kicked him off the Jay Leno perch, and then he went to TBS.
00:07:17.000 I kind of lost track of him when he went to TBS.
00:07:19.000 But apparently, here's the good news.
00:07:21.000 He's probably the smartest, by the way, of the bunch.
00:07:24.000 And I would say the least political.
00:07:26.000 Maybe I'm wrong on that. 0.79
00:07:27.000 Daisy, fact-check me.
00:07:29.000 My take from Conan is he's the least political.
00:07:31.000 He was also a Simpsons writer back when Simpson was reigning supreme.
00:07:35.000 And he's not there.
00:07:36.000 He's conspicuously absent.
00:07:39.000 Now, I'm not sure why he's not there.
00:07:43.000 I don't know why they couldn't have six.
00:07:44.000 If they can have five, why not have six?
00:07:47.000 And fans are upset that O'Brien isn't on it.
00:07:50.000 So I would say kudos to Conan O'Brien.
00:07:53.000 You have avoided a career pitfall from being a part of the most cringe, disgusting, again, what do you call this?
00:08:02.000 Like, it's like the strike, they're calling it Strikeforce 5, and it's on Spotify.
00:08:05.000 Apparently, you have to listen to it there or anywhere else, but apparently they're getting a deal from Spotify.
00:08:12.000 Conan O'Brien has avoided a major pitfall of pop culture.
00:08:16.000 That's my take.
00:08:17.000 You're going to hear Alex Clark and Joe Bob's opinion, which is much more relevant than mine because I have three kids.
00:08:24.000 I follow politics.
00:08:26.000 I don't know about anything to do with late night hosts or Taylor Swift or Morgan Wallen.
00:08:32.000 Although I did meet Taylor Swift once.
00:08:33.000 I think we talked about that last time.
00:08:35.000 A lot of you guys send us emails about that.
00:08:37.000 Alex Clark, are you there?
00:08:39.000 I'm here.
00:08:40.000 The OG Cub Servative is here to serve you all the pop culture without the propaganda.
00:08:45.000 Finally.
00:08:48.000 Seriously.
00:08:48.000 Now, do we have Joe Bob?
00:08:50.000 I'm not sure.
00:08:50.000 Do we have Joe Bob?
00:08:52.000 I hope I'm here.
00:08:53.000 Dude, every time I come on the Charlie Kirk show, tech goes down.
00:08:57.000 I swear it is the deep state because I do TV all the time.
00:09:02.000 Nothing ever happens unless it's the Charlie Kirk show.
00:09:06.000 Well, we're honored.
00:09:07.000 We're honored that we're that important, that China hates you and us so much.
00:09:11.000 Or it's the CIA.
00:09:12.000 It could be the CIA.
00:09:13.000 I'm not sure.
00:09:14.000 We'll see.
00:09:15.000 All right, guys.
00:09:15.000 I just riffed on late night, the cringiest thing that we've seen in a long time.
00:09:20.000 Do you guys have any thoughts before we moved on to like which I know is going to be Alex's favorite topic of the day, Taylor Swift?
00:09:26.000 Any thoughts on late night?
00:09:28.000 Is this just the worst thing you've ever seen or do we not care?
00:09:30.000 Okay, so I just thought it was very funny that yesterday they announced that all of these late night hosts were now going to be doing this podcast because of the writer's strike and because they're not able to be on the air anymore.
00:09:41.000 And everyone was like, oh, I forgot they're not on the air.
00:09:45.000 Like nobody remembered that these people weren't on the air anymore.
00:09:49.000 That's how irrelevant they are. 1.00
00:09:50.000 And then the best part is, it's like, how stupid are they? 1.00
00:09:53.000 They're putting themselves in a position to prove and have, you know, physical evidence now with this recorded podcast of how unfunny they are because they're not going to have writers. 0.99
00:10:04.000 So we're finally going to get to see, oh, we're paying these people for absolutely nothing.
00:10:11.000 They're completely replaceable.
00:10:12.000 Joe Bob, I actually think you would be a phenomenal late night host.
00:10:17.000 As a matter of fact, I think Turning Point needs to work on Joe Bob's late night.
00:10:21.000 Just like, actually, this is actually really fun.
00:10:24.000 This actually needs to happen.
00:10:26.000 You need to do the replacement late night skit series for Turning Point.
00:10:32.000 Who would be your favorite?
00:10:33.000 You know, I think one of the things.
00:10:34.000 I'm just kidding.
00:10:34.000 I was going to say, yeah, it would have to be through Turning Point or through some other based organization and not through the standard mechanisms of late night TV.
00:10:44.000 Because like Alex said, yeah, I think I would not fit in with their particular crowd.
00:10:49.000 Dude, Alex, I think you hit it straight on the point.
00:10:51.000 I had forgotten that there was a writer's strike.
00:10:54.000 Like, there's so much content already out there without the quote-unquote professional entertainers that I just, I forgot about it.
00:11:02.000 And this reminded me, oh, yeah, the writers are on strike.
00:11:05.000 And it also reminded me, oh, yeah, they're probably not going to come out ahead.
00:11:10.000 And then I think the, yeah, the point about them having to rest on their own laurels is quite funny when you look at it.
00:11:17.000 I'm actually curious to see the next couple episodes, see if it gets better or if they like give it a week and go, yeah, this is not working.
00:11:25.000 Well, they're also, it says in the article that all of these late night show hosts, they're going to be sharing and having their conversations that usually happen in private.
00:11:33.000 Like we all know they wouldn't be caught dead sharing whatever conversations that they're actually having in private live on a podcast like this because their conversations in private are actually probably roasting and making fun of middle Americans, you know, the people that are allegedly supposed to be watching their show, and everything is going to be anti-Trump.
00:11:51.000 So I guess we're just going to be getting a couple episodes of a podcast for more anti-Trump jokes.
00:11:56.000 Yay, that's exactly what America wants.
00:11:59.000 They're about to get humbled so quickly by the numbers and the downloads on this podcast.
00:12:04.000 I guarantee I would bet so much money that the Charlie Kirk show gets more average downloads per episode than what this absolute pig pen of a mess is about to get.
00:12:14.000 Hey, and I just want to say, people don't realize how big this audience is.
00:12:18.000 We did 100 million downloads in the last 12 months.
00:12:23.000 Very insane.
00:12:25.000 It's kind of big.
00:12:27.000 They're not going to touch that.
00:12:28.000 No, they're not going to touch that.
00:12:30.000 Here's what I will say.
00:12:31.000 I think a lot of people are going to watch.
00:12:32.000 Like they're going to hate watch.
00:12:33.000 Sometimes I go to MSNBC just to hate watch and just see how bizarre and insane they've become.
00:12:40.000 But to your point, Alex, I'm probably going to tune in now that I know it's a thing.
00:12:44.000 I didn't know it was a thing.
00:12:45.000 Charlie, in our chat, by the way, because you brought this up with me last night.
00:12:48.000 I was like, I had no idea.
00:12:50.000 And then Charlie found it on his own, dropped it in another chat I'm in and was like, did anybody know that like late night wasn't happening?
00:12:57.000 But here's my one question for you.
00:13:00.000 Conan O'Brien, he's not participating.
00:13:03.000 Why?
00:13:04.000 Anti-ginger hate.
00:13:06.000 The only reason. 0.92
00:13:07.000 The absolute only reason they are against redheads and they are showing it. 1.00
00:13:12.000 It is in full force.
00:13:13.000 That's the only reason Conan wasn't invited.
00:13:15.000 Gingivitis.
00:13:17.000 It's a brilliant answer.
00:13:18.000 Can we go to a break now?
00:13:19.000 Just drop the mic. 0.77
00:13:20.000 Holy.
00:13:21.000 You know what?
00:13:21.000 That's exactly right.
00:13:22.000 You know, that's exactly right.
00:13:25.000 It's not talked about enough.
00:13:26.000 It's not talked about enough.
00:13:27.000 We've got this whole like, you know, CRT movement and the 1619 movement.
00:13:31.000 What about the redheads? 0.83
00:13:33.000 What about the guys who founded this country?
00:13:36.000 They can't have him there because he's actually funny.
00:13:38.000 Conan is actually funny.
00:13:39.000 And so the other guys can't have him there because he would overshine them.
00:13:42.000 That's the truth.
00:13:43.000 Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.
00:13:45.000 I still love Conan.
00:13:49.000 It's time to take a stand for life.
00:13:51.000 We can say we're pro-life, but what does that actually mean?
00:13:54.000 It means in a post-ro world, there are states that are more radically pro-death than ever before, aborting babies up until the moment they draw their first breath.
00:14:03.000 And we have a word for that, murder.
00:14:05.000 The Biden regime is more radically pro-abortion than any other in American history.
00:14:10.000 They celebrate abortions the way we celebrate life. 0.94
00:14:13.000 Time to do something that we know makes a difference, and that is providing ultrasounds with pre-born.
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00:14:52.000 We've got Alex Clark and Joe Bob, Joe Bob Cheap USA contributor, Alex Clark, host of the Spillover podcast.
00:14:59.000 Also another massively successful podcast.
00:15:02.000 By the way, Alex, I think you too will get more downloads than the whatever these guys are.
00:15:08.000 Strike Force 5, whatever you're calling it.
00:15:10.000 We did a 1.0 of this show, pop culture roundup when Charlie was gone, and it was so successful.
00:15:16.000 I was like, man, we have to have, we have this backed by popular demand.
00:15:19.000 People love this stuff.
00:15:20.000 I don't really know why people love it, but they love it.
00:15:22.000 So we're going to talk about Taylor Swift because, you know, and if that doesn't have you already a little disgusted and throwing up in your mouth, then I don't know what will.
00:15:30.000 I'm kidding, Alex.
00:15:31.000 We've got Swifties in the audience, folks.
00:15:33.000 We've got Swifties everywhere.
00:15:35.000 All right.
00:15:36.000 So let me just give a little background for the people listening.
00:15:40.000 This tour is projected to make $2 billion.
00:15:44.000 It's supposed to come.
00:15:45.000 It's supposed to keep going for like another year.
00:15:48.000 As a result of this, Taylor Swift edges closer to becoming a billionaire.
00:15:53.000 It has increased her personal fortune to $740 million with another year of shows to go.
00:16:02.000 And now, as if that wasn't enough, she is planning to release a movie. 0.85
00:16:07.000 Let's play Cut 164.
00:16:12.000 Welcome to the Eris Tour.
00:16:17.000 This has been the most extraordinary experience of my entire life.
00:16:24.000 He looks so pretty like a devil in.
00:16:28.000 She feels good.
00:16:30.000 We're about to go on a little adventure together, and that adventure is going to span 17 years of music.
00:16:40.000 Welcome to the acoustic setting of heaven.
00:16:46.000 It's a cool summer.
00:16:50.000 Are you ready for it?
00:16:51.000 I'll try to be back in the car.
00:17:04.000 People come up to me and they'd be like, You're going to just like do a show with like all the albums in it.
00:17:09.000 And I was like, Yeah, it's going to be called the Eros Tour.
00:17:12.000 See you there.
00:17:16.000 All right.
00:17:16.000 I wish you could see me.
00:17:18.000 I wish you could see me because I have goosebumps and tears in my eyes.
00:17:24.000 Guys, I'm the biggest Swiftie ever.
00:17:26.000 I'm so excited.
00:17:28.000 Joe Bob, what's your reaction to seeing that?
00:17:31.000 My reaction is: I don't know that the Charlie Kirk show has ever aired a minute of Taylor Swift on at any point.
00:17:41.000 I was telling the sprit, I was like, turn it off now. 0.99
00:17:44.000 It's historic.
00:17:45.000 It's a historic moment.
00:17:48.000 Okay, here's what I actually think about Taylor Swift. 0.99
00:17:51.000 Okay, we all know her politics. 1.00
00:17:52.000 She hates Trump. 0.99
00:17:54.000 She's turned into a lib or whatever.
00:17:56.000 Alex, you have some great insight on that, I think.
00:17:58.000 Here's what I will say. 0.96
00:17:59.000 I think that there's a lot of Taylor Swift hate because she is overtly feminine, unapologetically, you know, bedazzled outfits. 1.00
00:18:08.000 She's a blonde, skinny, talented, very Americana. 1.00
00:18:14.000 She sort of represents this like old brand of femininity that a lot of the left hates, and yet she succeeds in spite of it.
00:18:21.000 And so I'm, I kind of give like a hat tip and a begrudging respect because I support the sort of like brand vibe that she puts out into the world.
00:18:31.000 I think it's good for young girls.
00:18:33.000 I think it's fine. 1.00
00:18:35.000 I can't stand her politics, obviously.
00:18:37.000 Alex, you have a take on that.
00:18:39.000 Why do you still like her? 1.00
00:18:40.000 Yeah, so the thing about her being a liberal, first of all, if people are like, well, I can't listen to Taylor Swift anymore because of her politics.
00:18:46.000 Well, then I guess you're giving up all music ever because 99% of all, you know, celebrities, musicians, actors, actresses, they're all liberal.
00:18:55.000 I mean, this is just a given.
00:18:56.000 So I don't care about that.
00:18:58.000 I look at her art.
00:18:59.000 I look at what she produces.
00:19:00.000 It's phenomenal.
00:19:01.000 Nobody can compare.
00:19:02.000 This tour is about to be not only one of the biggest tours or is the biggest tour of a decade, but it's going to become one of the biggest tours in history as far as concerts go.
00:19:12.000 And people really get riled up when I say this, but Taylor Swift is up there now at Michael Jackson level.
00:19:19.000 And I know that's a big, it's a big statement to make, but Taylor Swift is Michael Jackson's level of fame at this point. 0.99
00:19:26.000 And you're just really, you look stupid if you deny it. 1.00
00:19:31.000 Joe Bob. 1.00
00:19:34.000 So here's what I'm curious about.
00:19:36.000 Do we think Taylor Swift and her politics are like completely lost?
00:19:40.000 Or do you think there's any sort of redemption?
00:19:42.000 She's kind of pushing that age now where people start to kind of get a better perspective on how the world works and start to see kind of the, you know, maybe things aren't all of the liberal ideological glamour that I once thought there was.
00:19:57.000 What's that Winston Churchill quote?
00:19:59.000 If you're not a liberal in your 20s, you have no heart. 0.99
00:20:01.000 If you're not a conservative in your 30s, you have no brain.
00:20:04.000 I am not entirely ready to give up on Taylor Swift, especially with her background and the amount of money she's going to have to pay in taxes after this era's tour.
00:20:13.000 I kind of think there's a possibility of maybe her seeing the light eventually.
00:20:18.000 And I say that optimistically only because I genuinely think and can probably make a pretty compelling case that Swifties are the most powerful political group in the country. 0.98
00:20:29.000 And if we can get Taylor to turn on a dime, and again, I don't know how possible that is, but if that's possible, I think we could be headed in the right direction pretty quickly.
00:20:40.000 So I'm not entirely ready to give up in hope entirely, even though some of the things she's said in the past has not been awesome.
00:20:48.000 Well, so Alex, I have a question on that.
00:20:50.000 So I know there was like a season where Taylor Swift was being pretty vocal about her politics.
00:20:55.000 Is she still doing that, or is she kind of like put that on the back burner?
00:20:59.000 We're not here.
00:20:59.000 I haven't heard as much about it.
00:21:01.000 I think we're going to hear more because we're coming up now on an election. 1.00
00:21:03.000 So that's going to, she's going to now be using her platform.
00:21:06.000 She's feeling more confident because she is so beloved.
00:21:09.000 She's bigger than she's ever been.
00:21:11.000 People, she's really in the good graces of public again.
00:21:13.000 So she's going to feel confident to start talking politics because she feels like that's what she needs to do.
00:21:18.000 Now, the T is, and this is what Joe Bob doesn't know.
00:21:21.000 I have talked about this extensively on my YouTube channel, Real Alex Clark. 0.96
00:21:25.000 The reason Taylor Swift came out as liberal, it was the only way that she could survive cancel culture.
00:21:32.000 So for those of you who don't remember, the summer of 2016, Taylor Swift was canceled.
00:21:38.000 Taylor Swift is over party was trending all over Twitter.
00:21:40.000 And it was all because she came out against Kanye and Kim Kardashian for recording a phone call, that whole saga.
00:21:46.000 And the only way that she could come back into the public eye after a year in hiding, the first thing she did, if you remember, was she came out and she supported Phil Bredison in the Tennessee Democrat race.
00:21:58.000 That was the only way she was like, okay, well, what can I do?
00:22:00.000 Even all of Hollywood has turned on me.
00:22:02.000 Well, if I come out finally as a flaming lib, they're all going to love me again and they're going to have my back.
00:22:07.000 And so that was her penance.
00:22:08.000 She had to come out as a staunch Democrat supporter, being vocal about politics, which was something she had never done.
00:22:14.000 That was her last like, you know, safety net to kind of throw there to kind of get back in the good graces of the public.
00:22:20.000 So she'll never turn back on that.
00:22:21.000 I don't think she's ever going to come out as a conservative or support a Republican running for office because of that reason, because that was the only way that she got to basically, you know, revive her career.
00:22:33.000 This is insane.
00:22:34.000 So Daisy, who's a big Swifty, is sending these pictures from this.
00:22:39.000 So apparently she went to a Taylor Swift went to a wedding in New Jersey last weekend, and fans shut down the street when they found out that she was there.
00:22:49.000 I don't know how they found out.
00:22:50.000 Maybe, maybe Daisy has the intel there.
00:22:53.000 This is the evidence I have.
00:22:55.000 This is the evidence.
00:22:56.000 Show the next one.
00:22:57.000 Yeah.
00:22:58.000 I mean, this to a point, to Joe Bob's point, this might be the most powerful, cohesive sort of voting block in the country.
00:23:08.000 But I want to go back to what you said, Alex.
00:23:10.000 And I would love the audience's feedback on this.
00:23:13.000 Does that make you sort of like despise Taylor Swift that she was willing to essentially, like, whether she believed it or not, you know, play the political card, do her penance, the safety net, as you said, Alex, just to get Hollywood off her back?
00:23:27.000 I mean, you're essentially just, you know, feeding chum to the sharks at that point just to get them away from the boat.
00:23:35.000 I mean, that feels very inauthentic.
00:23:38.000 It's to me, I find that hatable and despisable.
00:23:41.000 I'll be really honest.
00:23:42.000 Like, if that's the truth, I mean, I don't know.
00:23:44.000 Yeah, Alex, you have thoughts.
00:23:46.000 As a conservative Swifty, that was definitely the most disappointing thing for me as a fan.
00:23:50.000 I understood why she was doing it, though.
00:23:53.000 But yes, that was the most unlikable for me that she's ever been. 0.92
00:23:58.000 But then she just continues to put out art that tops the last thing she does.
00:24:03.000 You know, every album tops the last, every tour tops the last.
00:24:07.000 So it's like, well, I love everything she's doing.
00:24:10.000 Now, if all of a sudden her art started suffering and she was an insufferable feminist, you know, liberal, then yes, I would probably not be a Swifty anymore. 0.60
00:24:17.000 But she keeps delivering.
00:24:19.000 So as long as she keeps doing that, I'm going to stay a Swifty. 0.65
00:24:22.000 And I know that drives people nuts.
00:24:23.000 But hey, if you are a Taylor Swift fan, then come subscribe to Real Alex Clark on YouTube and we can be conservative Swifties together.
00:24:31.000 All right.
00:24:32.000 So I want to transition this a little bit, Joe Bob.
00:24:34.000 So I know nothing about Beyonce now, but apparently the people in Hollywood are saying Taylor Swift, Barbie, and Beyonce are credited for Summer's billion-dollar pop culture boom.
00:24:51.000 So what the heck does Beyonce have to do with any of this?
00:24:54.000 First of all, I know about Barbie.
00:24:56.000 That movie did like gangbusters, right? 1.00
00:24:59.000 And apparently it was not a feminist movie. 1.00
00:25:01.000 Alex, you were saying that it was not a feminist movie, but what does Beyonce have to do with this? 0.98
00:25:06.000 Joe Bob, you don't know.
00:25:08.000 I don't know either.
00:25:08.000 What is Beyonce?
00:25:09.000 How does she play into this?
00:25:12.000 You know, as the most formidable Beyoncé expert on this panel, I will have to tell you, I have no idea.
00:25:19.000 I think maybe she just got thrown in because that's what you have to do when you're talking about people as big as Taylor Swift and as big as the Barbie movie.
00:25:28.000 Beyonce is just kind of up there as one of those cultural icons.
00:25:32.000 Alex said Taylor Swift is probably up there with Michael Jackson.
00:25:35.000 I think Beyonce is probably in that category too.
00:25:37.000 Not necessarily doing anything huge right now, but when she does do stuff, it goes crazy.
00:25:42.000 And I think that's to a fault. 1.00
00:25:43.000 Not to get on a crazy Beyonce rant, but in terms of the name and the power that her name carries, she's able to put out some pretty bad music and get away with it just because of her celebrity status.
00:25:56.000 And so I don't know where I'm going from here. 0.66
00:25:59.000 But at the end of the day, I don't know why she's in the conversation.
00:26:02.000 I do.
00:26:03.000 So apparently she's got a tour.
00:26:04.000 She's got a world tour.
00:26:06.000 I didn't even know about this.
00:26:07.000 Yeah.
00:26:07.000 So Barbie, Taylor Swift, and Beyonce.
00:26:10.000 This is the three like big money-making pop culture things that have happened this summer. 0.80
00:26:15.000 Beyonce does have a tour going on simultaneously.
00:26:18.000 It's just, it's not, it's just not near the level of Taylor, but those are the two big concerts.
00:26:24.000 All right.
00:26:24.000 So it says, it says it's the highest-grossing tour for an RB artist, as well as for a black artist.
00:26:31.000 Okay, but here's my real question: Did Beyonce go like to the dark side?
00:26:35.000 She was like a church girl that then is she like there's some darkness there.
00:26:41.000 And I'm not making any sort of like cultural reference to, I'm talking about like spiritually.
00:26:46.000 Is this?
00:26:47.000 I've heard rumors.
00:26:48.000 Is there any truth to this, Alex?
00:26:49.000 Do we need to be like fear for our children listening to there?
00:26:53.000 Are people that say that Jay-Z and Beyonce are members of the Illuminati?
00:26:57.000 I mean, I don't want to say yes or no, but Bohemian Grove, have you ever had a reservation from the Knowleses?
00:27:06.000 You let us know.
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00:28:21.000 All right.
00:28:21.000 Alex Clark, Joe, Joe, Bob, you can answer this too.
00:28:24.000 Morgan Wallen apparently shaved his head.
00:28:28.000 I heard about this because our team was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe he shaved his head.
00:28:32.000 Everybody, that's not even a good one.
00:28:34.000 That's like, I guess, mid-cut or something.
00:28:36.000 There it is.
00:28:37.000 So he's on tour again, apparently, because he couldn't sing for a while.
00:28:40.000 Alex Clark, hot or not, do we like this?
00:28:42.000 Do we hate it?
00:28:43.000 What are people saying?
00:28:44.000 I hate it. 0.99
00:28:45.000 And he looks like a naked mole rat. 0.97
00:28:46.000 And I was extremely sad, like, almost started throwing up when I saw it. 0.81
00:28:51.000 Okay, great.
00:28:52.000 Joe Bob.
00:28:54.000 I was pro-mullet solely for the fact that I could use Morgan Wallen to point to to convince my wife to let me grow a mullet.
00:29:02.000 And now that his mullet is gone, my shot is basically zero.
00:29:07.000 Okay, so is he back on tour?
00:29:09.000 Is he back on tour, Alex?
00:29:11.000 What's so his voice is recovered?
00:29:13.000 Yeah, his voice is recovered.
00:29:14.000 He's been on tour.
00:29:15.000 It's going really well for him.
00:29:17.000 Everybody seems to really love it.
00:29:19.000 Really good reviews for him.
00:29:20.000 Drake, not so much.
00:29:21.000 Drake is also on tour this summer, and everybody has been leaving super disappointed.
00:29:26.000 Like it's boring.
00:29:27.000 He changes the tune of all of his songs that everybody knows.
00:29:31.000 So you can't even sing along.
00:29:32.000 Like everybody hates Drake's tour.
00:29:34.000 But Morgan Wallen, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, all good reviews.
00:29:37.000 All right.
00:29:37.000 Okay.
00:29:38.000 Moving on to our next story here.
00:29:40.000 The Golden Bachelor.
00:29:42.000 We got a variety article here for you.
00:29:44.000 The Golden Bachelor, cast revealed.
00:29:46.000 Meet the women vying for Grandpa Jerry's heart.
00:29:49.000 And we also have a picture of this guy.
00:29:52.000 Let's go ahead and show that.
00:29:53.000 I have to say, now, Joe Bob, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I'm going to.
00:29:57.000 You're saying that this is the hottest 72-year-old man you've ever seen.
00:30:01.000 That's your words, not mine.
00:30:03.000 You know, you know, I thought that private texts were going to remain private, but now that you've outed me, yes, I did think that he was a very attractive 72-year-old man.
00:30:13.000 I will say the guy looks good for 72.
00:30:16.000 I'm not going to lie. 1.00
00:30:16.000 So apparently, all these women are, they are, what, they're 60 and above. 1.00
00:30:21.000 Do we have a picture of these women? 1.00
00:30:24.000 Daisy, grab us a picture of these women. 0.90
00:30:26.000 I have to say, this is okay. 0.69
00:30:29.000 I wanted to scoff at this.
00:30:30.000 Is this going to be a success?
00:30:32.000 Is this real?
00:30:33.000 Like, what's, I mean, are people going to watch this?
00:30:35.000 Because I stopped watching The Bachelor a long, long time ago.
00:30:37.000 My wife used to make me watch it.
00:30:40.000 It's a long story.
00:30:41.000 I never liked it.
00:30:42.000 I never, it was more for the marriage than anyways.
00:30:45.000 So are people going to watch this, Alex Clark?
00:30:47.000 Yeah.
00:30:47.000 So I was a huge bachelor fan and then totally cut it.
00:30:51.000 I have not seen one episode since they fired Chris Harrison because I was very upset about that.
00:30:55.000 This show has brought me back.
00:30:57.000 I am fully invested. 1.00
00:30:59.000 The women are stunning. 1.00
00:31:00.000 The women are stunning.
00:31:02.000 The guy, Jerry the Bachelor, is stunning.
00:31:05.000 They all have very interesting stories and quirks.
00:31:07.000 One of them says she's like the biggest Harry Styles fan ever.
00:31:11.000 We've got fitness instructors in there.
00:31:12.000 Like it's a fun crowd. 0.86
00:31:15.000 And what I'm hearing from producers is that these women are all a lot more, obviously, because of their age, emotionally mature compared to like, you know, the age of the normal people that you cast.
00:31:24.000 So the types of drama that happen on the show are so different for a reality show.
00:31:29.000 And everyone I know is wanting to watch this.
00:31:32.000 Like everybody is super, super hype.
00:31:34.000 Wow, interesting.
00:31:35.000 A little contrary and take.
00:31:37.000 Joe Bob, are you going to tune in?
00:31:40.000 You know, I'm looking at it from a business perspective, right?
00:31:44.000 Like, they've got, you know, an older gentleman vying for the hearts of older women who are the only people that watch TV anymore.
00:31:51.000 I think this is on ABC.
00:31:53.000 Everybody that I know that is under 40 has already cut the cord. 1.00
00:31:57.000 And so if they're looking to get the target demographic that still has the cable box, this seems like the exact perfect thing to fit that demo and hopefully rake in a bunch of money.
00:32:08.000 So just from a business standpoint, I think it's kind of interesting.
00:32:11.000 And I think they're right on target on who's still watching old school TV.
00:32:17.000 This is very cynical, Joe Bob, but I have to say, I think you're onto something.
00:32:22.000 I think they realize this is the way to revitalize the Bachelor franchise.
00:32:27.000 Now, let me just say, Alex was begging.
00:32:29.000 Oh, do you want to say something, Alex?
00:32:31.000 Well, I was just going to say, how funny is it going to be to see these women getting catty with each other and who's going to be the villain? 0.98
00:32:37.000 Who's going to be the crier, right? 0.99
00:32:39.000 Every season has a villain and a crier, and you're looking at these 60-plus-year-old women like it's hysterical. 1.00
00:32:44.000 Everybody's going to be tuning in to see that. 0.97
00:32:46.000 Now, do you think it's going to be more classy in tone, or do you think it's going to be more like real housewives or whatever that you know where they all are drugged out on pharmaceuticals?
00:32:55.000 Is there going to be a fantasy suite? 0.99
00:32:58.000 Fantasy suite.
00:33:00.000 It's reality.
00:33:02.000 14-year-old kids watching.
00:33:05.000 Don't get too into that last comment.
00:33:07.000 But yes, Joe Bob, 15 seconds.
00:33:10.000 I said it's reality TV.
00:33:11.000 It's going to be chaos at every point.
00:33:13.000 But if you don't know, play Bachelor Fantasy.
00:33:16.000 If you don't know, look it up.
00:33:17.000 It'll make it bearable with your wife. 0.84
00:33:19.000 All right, guys, that's it.
00:33:20.000 We have to wrap it up.
00:33:21.000 No more pop culture.
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