The Charlie Kirk Show - THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 108 — Stranger Things = Gay? College Football, Ruined? Spotify Wraps?

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00:01:09.000 All right.

00:01:10.000 Welcome to Thursday Thought Crime.

00:01:12.000 I'm Andrew Colvet.

00:01:14.000 We've got the crew kind of scattered across the country.

00:01:18.000 There's Danny.

00:01:19.000 We got Tyler.

00:01:20.000 Good guy.

00:01:21.000 Blake.

00:01:22.000 We're going to have Jack Pesovic joining us in just a few.

00:01:26.000 But we thought we'd get it started on the proper time.

00:01:29.000 Is this the proper time?

00:01:30.000 I think this is the proper time.

00:01:31.000 It's the new time now.

00:01:32.000 We can't forget the news.

00:01:33.000 We moved the time.

00:01:34.000 I'm in a different time zone, so that's partly the issue.

00:01:38.000 And you know what else trips me up?

00:01:40.000 Although, Blake, you love this, is that Arizona, so now that I'm living in Arizona now, the whole like never changing the clock.

00:01:51.000 So part of the year, you're on Pacific time, part of the time, part of the year.

00:01:54.000 All of the year we're on God's time.

00:01:57.000 It's God's time.

00:01:58.000 And I'm still a little confused about this.

00:02:01.000 But Blake, you keep me straight.

00:02:03.000 Tyler, you're a lifelong Arizonan.

00:02:05.000 Do you like that?

00:02:07.000 Yeah, I like not changing our clocks, but I wish we were Pacific time all the time.

00:02:13.000 Mountain Time's great.

00:02:14.000 We're only two hours away from the East Coast.

00:02:16.000 We don't have these big three-hour gaps.

00:02:18.000 I like having the three hours away from the further we are from the East Coast, the better.

00:02:23.000 We could go to Hawaii time.

00:02:25.000 And I'm a big fan of, I just like being California.

00:02:30.000 There's something.

00:02:30.000 Arizona is definitely more California to me than it is like Colorado.

00:02:35.000 What about Utah?

00:02:37.000 Utah is more Nevada.

00:02:39.000 Yeah, Nevada is definitely more California.

00:02:42.000 Utah is just a lot like Arizona.

00:02:43.000 You guys are making these weird distinctions between states.

00:02:45.000 You know what's weird, actually, is Nevada.

00:02:48.000 If you're in the South, it's more like California.

00:02:50.000 If you're in the North, it's more like Idaho and Utah.

00:02:52.000 No, but I mean mountain time.

00:02:54.000 Like Utah should be mountain time.

00:02:55.000 There's mountain.

00:02:56.000 There's like, that's like a mountain state.

00:02:58.000 Arizona is, I know, we have mountains, we have like big mountains, but we're not part of the Rockies.

00:03:05.000 So we should be Pacific.

00:03:07.000 I mean, it's just the way it.

00:03:08.000 Central Time's not that bad.

00:03:10.000 Oh, well, okay.

00:03:11.000 I grew up on Central Time.

00:03:13.000 In between everybody.

00:03:14.000 Well, Ohio's on Eastern Time, but Central Times, Chicago.

00:03:19.000 You mean Texas Times?

00:03:20.000 Yep.

00:03:21.000 How many times have we had this?

00:03:22.000 Oh, wait, you're from discussion.

00:03:23.000 You're from Michigan.

00:03:25.000 Yeah.

00:03:25.000 Sorry.

00:03:26.000 I didn't mean to devolve the conversation in such a way.

00:03:31.000 But I did mention Ohio State, and I think that's what we want to hit first.

00:03:34.000 I mean, we have to.

00:03:35.000 We have to the Ohio State.

00:03:37.000 Yeah, so to set this up, it's the.

00:03:40.000 Yeah.

00:03:40.000 Oh, we talked about it on, we actually talked about it on the show today as well.

00:03:44.000 But it's very funny because it felt like a super eventful Thanksgiving weekend, which it was.

00:03:49.000 We had the attack in D.C.

00:03:51.000 We had the Somali fraud story really bubbling up. 0.99

00:03:53.000 The Trump administration announcing huge changes to immigration.

00:03:56.000 We have this escalation of the whole seditious six issue and possible regime change in Venezuela.

00:04:05.000 And if you take all of those things, I don't think any of them were the biggest story for most Americans.

00:04:10.000 The biggest story for if you're a normal, red-blooded, probably Trump voting American in the middle of the country, the biggest story of the weekend is that a college football coach went to a different college.

00:04:21.000 And we're talking, of course, about Lane Kiffin.

00:04:23.000 He's the highly successful coach of the Ole Miss Rebels.

00:04:27.000 He coached them all the way to the playoff this year.

00:04:30.000 I think it's one of their best results ever.

00:04:32.000 And if they get a title, I think it'd be, have they ever won a title before?

00:04:37.000 Ooh, Ole Miss?

00:04:38.000 Yeah, Ole Miss.

00:04:38.000 I don't think so.

00:04:39.000 Ole Miss.

00:04:40.000 Oh, that's an interesting question.

00:04:42.000 I don't believe so.

00:04:42.000 I think that would be their first ever title.

00:04:44.000 And so he had all that success.

00:04:46.000 And then he got offered a shinier job at LSU just over the border in Louisiana.

00:04:53.000 Decided it's a nicer program.

00:04:55.000 So he skipped town and he went away to it.

00:04:58.000 And we've got, I think we've got like clips of them giving him kind of a, you know, a single finger send-off and all of that.

00:05:06.000 So this blew up.

00:05:07.000 And one, we can debate the actual story itself.

00:05:09.000 And I'm sure you have an opinion on that, Danny.

00:05:11.000 But I also want to debate the state of college football generally.

00:05:15.000 And in honor of Charlie, who remains a Oregon Ducks fan on Assignment with God.

00:05:22.000 I'm told this is called The Duck.

00:05:24.000 I called it Ducky the Duck earlier, but I just made that up.

00:05:28.000 So Charlie would care deeply about the state of college football.

00:05:31.000 So he would want us to discuss this.

00:05:34.000 Yeah.

00:05:35.000 That's the key here.

00:05:36.000 We're doing this, like, this is a pure ode to Charlie because Charlie would love this topic.

00:05:41.000 And, you know, that was what was so great about Charlie.

00:05:44.000 He was like as American as apple pie. 0.98

00:05:47.000 He was, like, college football, that was his thing.

00:05:50.000 Loved the Ducks and loved talking sports.

00:05:53.000 Like, he used to tell me, by the way, that if he could do one thing on top of the show, that it would be to have just like a sports podcast.

00:05:59.000 And then we would talk sports and people would get like, we'd get emails in the freedom of charliekirk.com and they would be like, this isn't a sports podcast.

00:06:06.000 What are you doing?

00:06:06.000 I want to hear the news.

00:06:07.000 But Charlie loved it.

00:06:08.000 And he also said, and Danny will attest, if he ever got out of politics, he wanted to be a college football coach.

00:06:14.000 True.

00:06:16.000 So, but this is a story that has captivated the nation to your point, Blake.

00:06:21.000 What is the story?

00:06:22.000 I mean, you kind of went through it a little bit, but like, why has it captivated the nation?

00:06:26.000 Well, so Lane Kiffin has always been a slightly controversial figure in the realm of college football.

00:06:35.000 He's been at a lot of different teams.

00:06:37.000 He's had more than one awkward departure.

00:06:40.000 I'm mainly an NFL fan.

00:06:41.000 I remember him just being a disastrous coach of, I think it was the Oakland Raiders, and this was 15 years ago or so.

00:06:48.000 But he's an interesting coach.

00:06:52.000 He's often villain.

00:06:53.000 He's a Trump supporter.

00:06:54.000 He's a vocal Trump supporting coach.

00:06:56.000 So you have all these different angles to it.

00:06:58.000 And we've had this happen a few times.

00:07:00.000 In fact, I believe we've had other coaches.

00:07:06.000 I always come at this from the NFL perspective.

00:07:08.000 And so I remember, I'm drawing blank.

00:07:11.000 Who's the famous Alabama coach?

00:07:12.000 He won five titles.

00:07:13.000 Nick Saban.

00:07:13.000 Nick Sabin.

00:07:14.000 Nick Sabin.

00:07:15.000 He bailed on an NFL team, I believe, to go to Alabama.

00:07:18.000 There was another coach, Miami, he was on the Miami Dolphins, and he skipped town.

00:07:25.000 What was it?

00:07:26.000 That was really bad.

00:07:27.000 No, no, I think Nick Sabin was the one who left.

00:07:30.000 He left the Miami Dolphins.

00:07:31.000 Yeah, this is a Falcons coach.

00:07:33.000 It was a Falcons coach who bailed.

00:07:37.000 That was Bobby Petrino.

00:07:38.000 Yes, Bobby Petrino, he skipped town on the Atlanta Falcons after Michael Vick got arrested for dogfighting, and that team was clearly cooked.

00:07:47.000 And I think he said he was sticking around and then just kidding, and he bailed.

00:07:51.000 So we actually have a long history of coaches jumping from one role to another.

00:07:56.000 And certainly in college football, a very successful coach at a smaller program is routinely promoted up to a bigger one.

00:08:05.000 So we've had guys who are in Division II go Division I. We've had those coaches at the FCS level rise up to the bowl level.

00:08:13.000 But I think this one stands out the most actually because it still is another competitive program.

00:08:20.000 It's one that has some pride and some history.

00:08:23.000 And you just have this purely mercenary angle to it of I have decided this program is just slightly cooler and slightly better.

00:08:32.000 And I'm just going to take, I'm going to take the money and I'm going to take the status and bolt to it.

00:08:36.000 But you probably follow this the most, Danny.

00:08:38.000 So what do you make of all this?

00:08:39.000 Yeah, I mean, the craziest thing of all this is Lane Kiffin didn't address his team when he left.

00:08:45.000 So he just left and he never told like the players privately beforehand.

00:08:49.000 So apparently they all found out from the administration, everybody else at the same time.

00:08:54.000 So that's kind of what made this even bigger and what blew up among the fans.

00:08:59.000 And then the players started like coming out and tweeting at Lane Kiffen that he never talked to him.

00:09:06.000 So that made it even worse.

00:09:07.000 But knowing Lane Kiffen, that's probably like really on brand for him.

00:09:12.000 This is totally Lane Kiffin.

00:09:13.000 This is like the most Lane Kiffin, Lane Kiffin-y thing that's ever been.

00:09:19.000 LSU actually plays at Ole Miss next year.

00:09:23.000 So that's going to be quite the game now.

00:09:26.000 It's going to be huge.

00:09:28.000 Go ahead, Tyler.

00:09:28.000 Oh, I was just going to say, I was really interested to watch on X, like, how LSU fans reacted to this because it tells you a lot about LSU fans because all of them were like really excited about it.

00:09:43.000 And like, I mean, that's such a dirty way to have that, this all go down, this whole thing.

00:09:50.000 And his, and his statement, did we, but did we throw up his statement?

00:09:53.000 His statement was like so BS.

00:09:56.000 It's like so much.

00:09:57.000 So I haven't even read it.

00:09:58.000 I want to know what it is.

00:09:58.000 Oh, you just heard it.

00:09:59.000 Lane Kiffin's statement?

00:10:00.000 Oh, man.

00:10:00.000 Well, if it's a tweet, let's bring it up here.

00:10:02.000 Lane Kiffin's tweet is like such BS.

00:10:04.000 And it's like, if I was, I mean, look, I mean, this is like one of the dirtiest things that ever happened to Ole Miss.

00:10:10.000 And it's a lose-lose for Ole Miss now at this point.

00:10:13.000 What do you mean?

00:10:14.000 Explain that.

00:10:15.000 Well, if they go, if they go and win, right?

00:10:19.000 Because they have a good team, which they're not going to.

00:10:23.000 They're not going to win a national championship.

00:10:25.000 But if they do make it, there's going to be all these questions surrounding coaching.

00:10:32.000 And they probably need a better situation coach-wise than what they're going to be dealt with for the remainder of the season.

00:10:41.000 They're not going to make it to the national championship.

00:10:43.000 But let's imagine they make it to the national championship in their best case scenario and they lose, which is probably the best case scenario. 0.97

00:10:50.000 Like this is going to live in infamy forever.

00:10:53.000 Even if they get knocked out in the first game in the playoff, like Lane Kiffin's going to become like the most hated man like south of the Mason Dixon line.

00:11:04.000 No, he already is.

00:11:05.000 Check this out.

00:11:06.000 Tyler, throw up 354. 0.98

00:11:08.000 This is actually like a true story.

00:11:10.000 Lane Kiffin claims Ole Miss Van tried to run him off the road.

00:11:14.000 So when he goes into Oxford, he's like legit going to need a full detailed security.

00:11:19.000 They're going to have to like sneak him into the venue.

00:11:22.000 What are they going to do when he's on the sideline?

00:11:25.000 People are going to start throwing bottles at him.

00:11:27.000 Andrew, we had for our tour stop.

00:11:30.000 So the Charlie Memorial tour stop here this last, the entire stadium, basketball stadium was full of students.

00:11:37.000 That wasn't even a door.

00:11:38.000 Yeah, it was 10,000, 10,000.

00:11:40.000 And by the way, we had over 50% of that school enrollment had registered for that event.

00:11:48.000 They should.

00:11:49.000 50% of the entire enrolled student body registered for the memorial.

00:11:53.000 They're all show up.

00:11:54.000 They show up.

00:11:56.000 They're an enthusiastic crew, man.

00:11:57.000 They were really enthusiastic.

00:11:59.000 Dude, I would not want to be Lane Kiffin dealing with that.

00:12:03.000 He's going to walk in there next year.

00:12:07.000 I want to go.

00:12:08.000 We should go.

00:12:10.000 That would be fun.

00:12:11.000 Actually, that would be fun.

00:12:12.000 Well, and LSU is probably going to walk in with not a great record either.

00:12:15.000 I bet with our turning point chapter there, we could do a heck of a game day, college game day event there.

00:12:20.000 We should actually really do this.

00:12:24.000 Here's the statement from Lane Kiffin.

00:12:26.000 He posted this on X.

00:12:27.000 He said, After a lot of prayer and time spent with family, I made the difficult decision to accept the head coaching position at LSU.

00:12:33.000 I was hoping to complete a historic six-season run with this year's team by leading old Miss through the playoffs, capitalizing on the team's incredible success and their commitment to finish strong and investing everything into a playoff run with guardrails in place to protect the program in any areas of concern.

00:12:49.000 My request to do so was denied by Keith Carter.

00:12:52.000 Oh, he's making an enemy out of somebody here.

00:12:54.000 Despite the team also asking him to allow me to keep coaching them so they could better maintain their high-level performance.

00:12:59.000 Unfortunately, that means Friday's Egg Bowl was my last game coaching the Rebels.

00:13:03.000 While I'm looking forward to a new start with a unique opportunity at LSU, I will forever cherish the incredible six years I spent with Ole Miss and will be rooting hard for the team to complete their mission and bring a championship to Oscar.

00:13:14.000 A great part of this, a great part of this is the players have already come out to say that it's total BS when he says the team wanted him to keep coaching.

00:13:21.000 Bryson Sanders said he has this quote, despite the team asking me to keep coaching, I think everyone that was in the room would disagree.

00:13:28.000 And then another guy here, Sun Tarine Perkins, they have new names every year in this thing.

00:13:37.000 He says, that was not the message you said in the meeting room.

00:13:40.000 Everyone that was there can vouch on this.

00:13:43.000 So we already have the players calling Lane Kiffen a liar.

00:13:46.000 It seems pretty sinister.

00:13:48.000 What's funny to me as a guy who's more into the NFL, though, is just so he seems villainous that he basically just bolted to go take what he thought was a better deal at LSU and didn't stick around.

00:14:00.000 But isn't that basically the highest value of college football at this point?

00:14:05.000 Every single college player, you can get paid now.

00:14:07.000 So the amateur sports aspect is dead.

00:14:11.000 And you can transfer without any serious penalties.

00:14:16.000 We just have the transfer portal.

00:14:17.000 So aren't we effectively at the point where it's just, why wouldn't a coach be any different?

00:14:22.000 If anything, at least the coach has to sign a multi-year deal.

00:14:25.000 The players don't.

00:14:25.000 Every player is basically a one-year free agent.

00:14:28.000 College football, prove me wrong, college football is just a more mercenary, more bloodthirsty, more out-for-yourself version of the NFL.

00:14:37.000 They have switched places.

00:14:38.000 Well, I totally agree.

00:14:40.000 Yeah, but in college football.

00:14:42.000 Go ahead.

00:14:42.000 Go ahead, Danny.

00:14:43.000 I want to hear from you.

00:14:44.000 Well, college football is better.

00:14:46.000 College football is so much better than the NFL because you get true rivalries.

00:14:49.000 You get true underdogs.

00:14:51.000 You did.

00:14:51.000 You did have true rivalries.

00:14:53.000 No, no, no.

00:14:54.000 You still have that.

00:14:55.000 Ohio State, Michigan, still the best rivalry in all sports.

00:14:58.000 It's not even a question.

00:15:00.000 And the Ohio State.

00:15:02.000 I thought it was the D in front of it.

00:15:04.000 Well, I reserved the right.

00:15:06.000 I don't need the D if I went there.

00:15:08.000 I'm just making it.

00:15:09.000 That's the rule I'm coming up with.

00:15:10.000 Yeah, I get options.

00:15:12.000 There's real rivalries.

00:15:14.000 There's real underdogs.

00:15:15.000 There's no underdog in the NFL.

00:15:17.000 Everybody's a professional.

00:15:19.000 It's like college.

00:15:21.000 There's professionals in college now.

00:15:23.000 No, no.

00:15:24.000 The team spirit and the crowds in college are also way more rowdy, which makes the game so much more enjoyable to watch and be there.

00:15:32.000 It's just second to none to the NFL.

00:15:34.000 It's just kind of whatever.

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00:16:46.000 By the way, real quick, Cade Kaufman, regular, regular commenter, regular don, he donated two bucks and he says, my grandpa is a massive ole miss fan, and he was not happy.

00:16:57.000 That is to say the least, it seems the state of Mississippi, they are, well, they're called the Rebels.

00:17:02.000 They're in revolt again.

00:17:03.000 They're in revolt against Louisiana.

00:17:07.000 Isn't that a funny thing that you just brought up?

00:17:09.000 Like, okay, so we have to change the name of the Redskins.

00:17:12.000 We have to change the name of the Indians.

00:17:15.000 But like, somehow the Rebels have gotten off completely scot-free.

00:17:18.000 I guess maybe because they know that Lake Roberts.

00:17:19.000 They didn't.

00:17:20.000 Well, Florida State.

00:17:21.000 If you look, Florida State still has the guy in the red face paint riding horse with the seminal with the spear on fire and they throw it into the midfield.

00:17:31.000 It's pretty sweet.

00:17:31.000 Which is bad.

00:17:32.000 It was just, I was, I was going to throw out a quasi-square word, but that's not Charlie's mode, which is super cool, which is actually really a great thing.

00:17:42.000 And like, you know, what's so funny about this is you're celebrating warrior culture for Native Americans, and somehow that became a bad thing.

00:17:49.000 Anyways, but the point is that I think it's fascinating that, you know, the Rebels get to celebrate, you know, sparking a civil war and nobody's like, nobody even blinks about the name.

00:17:59.000 I'm not in favor of getting rid of that.

00:18:00.000 That's actually not true.

00:18:01.000 You see, that's part of why.

00:18:02.000 That's actually why.

00:18:04.000 They've tried to get rid of it.

00:18:05.000 Yeah, no, it's actually one of the reasons I would say this was pointed out by Scott Greer in an essay where he was talking about the messy state of college football.

00:18:13.000 So I want to shout that out.

00:18:14.000 He pointed out, so this is a good example of how college football has actually been corroded and corrupted over time.

00:18:21.000 That so this team, people, let's be frank, they used to wave Confederate flags at Ole Miss's Stadium all the time, and they used to have the Confederate flag in the Mississippi state flag, but they banned them.

00:18:32.000 Not even just discouraged.

00:18:33.000 They have banned them.

00:18:34.000 They used to play Dixie regularly at Ole Miss games.

00:18:37.000 They got rid of that.

00:18:38.000 They used to have this Colonel Reb mascot who looked like this old Confederate officer guy.

00:18:44.000 They got rid of him.

00:18:46.000 Yeah, they got rid of Colonel Reb.

00:18:47.000 The university was a key player.

00:18:49.000 Now, see if you guys can get this. 0.89

00:18:51.000 Their freaking new mascot is Tony the Land Shark. 0.92

00:18:55.000 Yeah, that's what I think of. 0.97

00:18:56.000 That's what I think of when I hear the word rebel, a land shark.

00:18:59.000 And then the state actually, the university played a huge role in campaigning.

00:19:05.000 Yeah, that's you have to bring up John Reynolds.

00:19:07.000 No one can see what that is.

00:19:08.000 Yeah, Tyler.

00:19:09.000 But Cardo Reb was like one of the best mascots.

00:19:14.000 Yeah, it was a great mascot.

00:19:15.000 It's iconic.

00:19:16.000 It's regional.

00:19:17.000 He's a real regional mascot.

00:19:19.000 I'm a Yankee.

00:19:20.000 Like Colonel Reb, like the actual mascot that they used to have him dress.

00:19:25.000 Like, it's incredible.

00:19:26.000 Yeah, it's great.

00:19:27.000 But they killed it, and they're not bringing it back.

00:19:29.000 And the state, you know, the university played a key role in them changing the state flag.

00:19:34.000 They basically said, we need to change the state flag to get better recruits and get in more national football games.

00:19:41.000 So it really is everyone wants to celebrate the rivalries.

00:19:45.000 They want to celebrate the traditions in college football, but it seems like all of those traditions get thrown out pretty quickly when there's slightly more money to be made for your program.

00:19:56.000 And okay, we have a term for that.

00:19:58.000 It's just you're a professional sports league.

00:20:00.000 And I think there's a sad, sad state of affairs.

00:20:05.000 It is becoming a little bit.

00:20:07.000 The reason that Lane with the hat. 0.86

00:20:09.000 Blake needs to grow out that mustache.

00:20:12.000 I don't think I could grow that mustache.

00:20:14.000 I don't have the power to look like I'm a Prussian aristocrat.

00:20:16.000 Yeah, we can.

00:20:17.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:20:19.000 The Vladimir white like that. 0.97

00:20:23.000 What were you going to say, Danny?

00:20:24.000 Well, one of the reasons that Lane Kiffen, like this problem is that he wasn't allowed to keep coaching is because the school didn't want him to keep poaching his players to bring them to LSU.

00:20:35.000 So they basically said you're done coaching because they didn't want him around the program to take basically half the oldness team with him to LSU.

00:20:43.000 So in that sense, I mean, the transfer portal has ruined some of college football in terms of roster management, but the traditions of rivalries, I think, are still there.

00:20:54.000 No, they're fading.

00:20:55.000 They're degrading.

00:20:56.000 Here's the sad truth.

00:20:57.000 Here's the sad truth about college football, Danny, that you're going to have to come to grips with, is that I agree with Blake.

00:21:03.000 It's basically more cutthroat and more greedy and more driven by money.

00:21:12.000 And this is the funny thing than the NFL.

00:21:14.000 This is the funny thing about college football is the fans don't want to admit it.

00:21:18.000 They do not want to come to grips with the fact that college football is purely driven.

00:21:23.000 This is why the Pac-12 doesn't exist anymore.

00:21:27.000 This is why you have West Coast teams playing in East Coast leagues.

00:21:31.000 I mean, everything.

00:21:32.000 This is why we have the 12-team college playoff.

00:21:35.000 This is the root of every new change and every disruption in college football.

00:21:40.000 And the schools, they realize that this is a huge moneymaker.

00:21:43.000 So the ones that have are trying to make sure that they get in with the ones that have a lot more so that they can't continue making more money.

00:21:51.000 It's a revenue game.

00:21:52.000 But the fans don't want to admit it.

00:21:54.000 We do want to give Charlie his word on this.

00:21:56.000 So we talked about rivalries.

00:21:58.000 Let's go.

00:21:59.000 We were talking about...

00:22:00.000 This is when we were talking about another action.

00:22:01.000 Get ready.

00:22:02.000 Another topic.

00:22:03.000 The pledge on whether you can, you know, whether you should avoid watching the NFL, I think was one of the components of it.

00:22:09.000 But let's play Charlie on college rivalries, 355.

00:22:13.000 Can we talk about this?

00:22:14.000 Can we talk about the enjoyment?

00:22:16.000 By the way, I hate UW more than I probably hate Stalin.

00:22:21.000 Okay.

00:22:22.000 I can't believe you're a Ducks fan.

00:22:24.000 Like, the odds of this happening that you and I have worked together for this many years and you're a Ducks fan?

00:22:30.000 Better yet, Andrew was into it.

00:22:33.000 So half of me was like, oh, my gosh, the trolling that I would have over this would be.

00:22:39.000 But yet, even with that, I said, I actually feel really bad.

00:22:43.000 Oh, man, I miss him.

00:22:45.000 I miss him.

00:22:46.000 I couldn't believe it.

00:22:47.000 This is how I would make fun of him and tease him when the Ducks would flop in the playoffs again this year.

00:22:53.000 It would be funny.

00:22:54.000 Are they contenders for the playoffs?

00:22:55.000 I think they are.

00:22:56.000 Oh, yeah.

00:22:56.000 Yeah.

00:22:56.000 Oh, yeah.

00:22:57.000 I was really pulling for.

00:22:58.000 What's their record at?

00:22:59.000 Are they at one loss or two, Danny?

00:23:01.000 Yeah, they're 11 and one.

00:23:03.000 They're a lot good.

00:23:04.000 I was really pulling for a while.

00:23:05.000 Who drove Last Siena, right?

00:23:08.000 Yeah.

00:23:10.000 I shouldn't have been rooting against Oregon.

00:23:13.000 But my natural instinct is automatically to root against Oregon.

00:23:17.000 Like every time.

00:23:18.000 And now I feel very, very conflicted in honor of Charlie.

00:23:23.000 But my natural go-to is as a Pac-12, as an ASU fan, is like Oregon just beat the living crap out of us for so long that it just so hard.

00:23:32.000 All right.

00:23:32.000 I think, Danny, do you have to, do we have a heart out for you here?

00:23:36.000 Yep, I'm out of here.

00:23:37.000 All right.

00:23:38.000 All right.

00:23:38.000 Well, we'll bid farewell to Danny.

00:23:40.000 And while we wait for, I think Jack is going to join us.

00:23:44.000 We do have another Rumble rant, and I want to respond to it.

00:23:48.000 I think hopefully one of us can answer this.

00:23:50.000 This is from Kyrie McAllen, who says, Hey, guys, what are the odds someone on the waiting list for Amfest will still get word a spot has opened because if there's no longer hope, I need to cancel my Airbnb.

00:24:02.000 Tyler or Andrew, do you guys know the status on waitlist stuff?

00:24:07.000 That is a really good question.

00:24:09.000 That was a great question.

00:24:10.000 I've never seen it before.

00:24:12.000 I'll ask.

00:24:13.000 Yeah, I think it's just the events email, events at tpsa.com.

00:24:18.000 I feel really sad because I know one of our people mentioned last week they had a ticket that they wanted to donate, I believe, because they couldn't make it.

00:24:29.000 But I guess that wasn't a possible change that we could make at this late stage of the game.

00:24:34.000 It's too bad, but it's difficult because I know tickets are tied to individual people, and they don't want to get that all messed up.

00:24:43.000 But thank you, regardless, Kyrie, for being a supporter.

00:24:47.000 Yeah, I'm asking the events team right now, and one of them is writing back.

00:24:52.000 I see the typing happening.

00:24:54.000 So hopefully we'll know.

00:24:56.000 And please forgive us this year because Amfest, obviously, with everything that happened, I mean, it just, oh, I got an email here.

00:25:05.000 Everyone was emailed that it won't happen and they'll get a discount code for 2026.

00:25:10.000 Alrighty, okay.

00:25:11.000 Yeah, we feel really bad.

00:25:13.000 Like, Andrew, I'm echoing this too.

00:25:16.000 We have the absolute largest possible venue that we have in the state of Arizona.

00:25:21.000 We have maxed out the maximum capacity that's there.

00:25:26.000 We appreciate everybody, and we're so sad that people can't make it, but this is a good reason.

00:25:33.000 It's like, get your tickets early.

00:25:34.000 Yeah, be there.

00:25:36.000 Plan to be there for next year in particular because it's going to get big.

00:25:40.000 And we have actually a special announcement.

00:25:42.000 I think that's coming for not next year, but the year following too.

00:25:46.000 We're making a two-year in advance announcement.

00:25:50.000 They're going big.

00:25:50.000 The events team is going huge and it's going to keep escalating.

00:25:54.000 We're going to use the way we'll have our speaker announcements for two years in advance so you will know who the biggest celebrities will be on the right two years from now.

00:26:03.000 It'll be like a time portal into the future.

00:26:05.000 We have some people responding to the college football topic.

00:26:08.000 I liked Unashamed Girl for Him says, I hated that they added the money aspect to college.

00:26:15.000 College was way, college football was way better before that.

00:26:18.000 They should be playing for the love of the game, not of money.

00:26:21.000 And I get the appeal of that.

00:26:23.000 I think the biggest problem was it became about money for everyone else.

00:26:27.000 The coaches were making millions of dollars.

00:26:29.000 The assistant coaches could make millions of dollars.

00:26:32.000 The broadcasters were making billions of dollars.

00:26:35.000 The schools were making millions of dollars.

00:26:37.000 So why were the players to some extent just cattle practically?

00:26:43.000 They were just a tool who could get plugged in.

00:26:45.000 And yeah, they could get the scholarship aspect of it.

00:26:48.000 But even that is like so corroded at this point.

00:26:52.000 Being a student athlete is, in a lot of schools, it's practically a joke.

00:26:56.000 You can go to special separate classes for the athletes with special tutors.

00:27:01.000 They make sure you don't have to work too hard or have to know how to read as much as everyone else.

00:27:07.000 And it's turned it all into a joke.

00:27:09.000 And that's always been one of my problems with college football as an idea is it's over time, it's turned our colleges into mockeries of what they're intended to be.

00:27:19.000 A lot of these are state-funded, taxpayer-funded institutions.

00:27:22.000 Well, Blake, I have a question.

00:27:24.000 Maybe you know the answer.

00:27:25.000 If not, we can look it up.

00:27:26.000 So now that, you know, say Archie Manning, who's getting paid apparently like $10 million, so highest paid player in college football.

00:27:36.000 Say he doesn't pass his grades.

00:27:38.000 You know, there used to be a clause that if you didn't get passing grades, you would get you got sat on Sunday or Saturday, rather.

00:27:46.000 Is that still a thing?

00:27:48.000 Archie Manning, $10 million man.

00:27:49.000 If he doesn't pass muster with this to academics, I believe it still is the rule, but the deal is that they have, okay, if the rule is that you have to pass your grades, but there's so much writing on this.

00:28:02.000 Well, we can't allow those grades to get into the way.

00:28:05.000 And so that's why they have those systems where, okay, here's special classes you can take.

00:28:09.000 We're going to make sure wink, wink, nudge, nudge, they're not too difficult.

00:28:13.000 Here's some special tutors, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

00:28:15.000 They might really, really help you with your academic work.

00:28:18.000 This happens a lot.

00:28:20.000 We have one scandal after another.

00:28:22.000 I remember for college basketball, there was a school, I think it was Danny's beloved Ohio State, but I might misremember, where basketball players could take basketball as a class for credit.

00:28:32.000 And I believe you could take it multiple times.

00:28:35.000 Infamously, the instructor for this class, they had a quiz where it included the question, how many points is a three-point basket worth?

00:28:44.000 And that's extreme cases.

00:28:46.000 There are players who do make the most of the college opportunities they get from going there for free.

00:28:52.000 But the temptation is always going to be towards diluting it, towards making it meaningless, towards just maximizing the money-making aspect of it.

00:29:00.000 And I don't have a problem with that in pro sports.

00:29:04.000 I think it's weird that we do this with our taxpayer-funded institutions.

00:29:08.000 So academic eligibility is still required to compete in college sports to maintain their NIL opportunity.

00:29:17.000 So it's actually tied to their paycheck.

00:29:20.000 So they have to complete a specific number of NCAA approved core courses, and they must maintain a minimum GPA for Division I athletes of 2.3.

00:29:31.000 And they must be making reasonable progress to award a degree each semester, typically measured by completing a certain number of credits.

00:29:39.000 So that is, so they have a credit requirement, they have a GPA requirement, and it's tied to their NIL opportunities.

00:29:46.000 So fair enough.

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00:30:51.000 All right.

00:30:51.000 All right, we're still waiting on Jack.

00:30:53.000 So how about we jump into, because I don't think Jack had a funny take on this, but we have Spotify does this annual wrap-up or Spotify wraps, they call it.

00:31:05.000 And I know both of you two have you looked at yours and you have what your most listened to music is, and we're going to force you to reveal it.

00:31:17.000 Tyler, I think yours is less embarrassing than mine.

00:31:20.000 So why don't you stop?

00:31:21.000 Why don't you start?

00:31:23.000 With what?

00:31:24.000 You have to reveal your Spotify rap.

00:31:26.000 No, I don't know.

00:31:27.000 I thought you're on here.

00:31:28.000 Oh, I'm first.

00:31:29.000 Yeah, you've got to reveal it, bro.

00:31:31.000 Yeah, mine's kind of embarrassing, though.

00:31:33.000 Yeah, that's why we're making you reveal it.

00:31:34.000 All right.

00:31:35.000 Mine is more embarrassing.

00:31:36.000 Fine, I'll go first.

00:31:37.000 Okay.

00:31:38.000 No, yours is nice, Andrew.

00:31:42.000 Yours actually looked like mine last year, and then I made a cognizant decision to change how who controlled the audio in my car.

00:31:50.000 No, so here's the backstory with mine.

00:31:54.000 We have one account because they keep advertising to us.

00:31:57.000 I don't want to, you don't get to justify it first.

00:32:00.000 We have to reveal it first.

00:32:01.000 Then you can make your excuses.

00:32:03.000 Let's reveal.

00:32:04.000 Let's reveal Andrew's, his Spotify rap.

00:32:07.000 Let's got it.

00:32:08.000 I think it's 350.

00:32:09.000 We have a collage for this.

00:32:11.000 Let's show up.

00:32:12.000 What is Andrew's most listened to song?

00:32:14.000 Oh, that's really Zoom.

00:32:16.000 Guardian Keeper Gus.

00:32:17.000 I'm not going to do on these things.

00:32:18.000 I can't see that.

00:32:20.000 That's really tiny.

00:32:21.000 You guys got to make it bigger images.

00:32:23.000 But luckily, I prepared for this.

00:32:26.000 So I already know what his number one is.

00:32:28.000 And it is K-pop Demon Hunters.

00:32:31.000 Yeah, I mean, the reality, though, is that K-pop Demon Hunters is actually Andrew, not his kids.

00:32:38.000 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:32:40.000 We all know how.

00:32:41.000 If I admit that I know basically all the words at this point, yeah.

00:32:45.000 It was funny because Foz was like, dude, I had to outlaw K-pop demon hunters from our house. 0.92

00:32:51.000 Yeah, you didn't.

00:32:52.000 You didn't outlaw it, Andrew.

00:32:53.000 No, my house.

00:32:54.000 Who's to say I didn't at this point?

00:32:56.000 Mine's the same, Andrew.

00:32:57.000 It's fallen off.

00:32:58.000 It's fallen off because one of the pages they do, they show you which ones you're listening to at different times.

00:33:04.000 K-pop is no longer in the, but it's still overall for the year.

00:33:07.000 It's number one.

00:33:08.000 But that's only slightly less embarrassing than Moana 2 being our number two most listened to album.

00:33:16.000 And then Mufasa, the Lion King, wrapping up the top three.

00:33:20.000 But I will say, I got Morgan Wallen and Forrest Frank Child of God 2 rounding out the top five.

00:33:28.000 Is Morgan Wallen your wife's or yours, though?

00:33:31.000 No, it's more me.

00:33:32.000 I grew up listening to country music.

00:33:34.000 So I, yeah, Charlie and I never saw eye to eye on this.

00:33:36.000 He hated country music.

00:33:37.000 I hate country music.

00:33:38.000 I think he liked that it was kind of American and mostly a conservative fan base and that sort of thing, but couldn't stand the sound.

00:33:46.000 So, but I was always like, Charlie, you just don't know.

00:33:50.000 You just don't know how good it is.

00:33:53.000 Your top podcast was Garden Keeper Gus.

00:33:57.000 Is this a children's book?

00:33:59.000 Is it like a radio drama?

00:34:01.000 It's very calming and soothing.

00:34:03.000 So when they are freaking out in the back of the car, they're calm.

00:34:07.000 You listen to Garden Keeper Gus, and they listen to a story.

00:34:10.000 And we turn the speakers.

00:34:13.000 We set the balance into the back, into the back seats, so that we don't have to, so we can actually have a conversation among adults, and they can listen to their podcast.

00:34:22.000 That's the strategy.

00:34:22.000 Come on, Tyler.

00:34:23.000 Back me up.

00:34:24.000 Blake doesn't have any kids.

00:34:25.000 That's a Spotify original.

00:34:27.000 No, my kids in the car, they make me turn on the Road Trip Trivia podcast.

00:34:35.000 It's not on Spotify.

00:34:36.000 It's a trivia podcast.

00:34:38.000 Yeah, Road Trip Trivia.

00:34:40.000 It's these two moms, and it's very interactive.

00:34:44.000 So every time I get in the car, they immediately go straight to it.

00:34:48.000 So I actually might turn on Garden Keeper Gus and just put him to sleep in the back.

00:34:53.000 I mean, that's good if you can put your kids to sleep.

00:34:55.000 All right.

00:34:55.000 So I think we're still, do we have Jack ready to join?

00:34:58.000 He can join, but we still have to make sure.

00:35:01.000 We're going to do Jack.

00:35:02.000 We're going to do Tyler's Reveal and then bring Jack on.

00:35:05.000 Okay.

00:35:05.000 All right.

00:35:06.000 Well, we're going to humiliate you before Jack gets here then, Tyler.

00:35:09.000 So, Tyler, what is, let's put up 349, except I'm still not going to be able to see it.

00:35:14.000 What's yours?

00:35:14.000 Oh, your top genre is Screamo.

00:35:18.000 I'm not a very embarrassed by this at all.

00:35:24.000 And mine last year actually was all kids' stuff, just like Andrew's was.

00:35:27.000 And then we made the change.

00:35:30.000 So now they have an iPad in the back that connects to the radio.

00:35:34.000 So they get to use that.

00:35:35.000 Screamo.

00:35:36.000 Yeah, I have a lot of people.

00:35:38.000 Your top song.

00:35:39.000 Give us a Scream of something.

00:35:40.000 They have to play one of these Screamo songs he's into.

00:35:42.000 Yeah, but no, this is the thing, though.

00:35:44.000 My Yellow Card is Screamo?

00:35:45.000 Yeah, my top artist.

00:35:46.000 None of them are Screamo.

00:35:48.000 It's Yellow Card.

00:35:49.000 I think I had on there, uh, death cab for cutie.

00:35:52.000 Like that's not, that's like, it's just like emo.

00:35:55.000 Louis the Child is great.

00:35:58.000 Jax Mannequin, which is like probably my.

00:36:00.000 I haven't even heard of most of these bands.

00:36:02.000 You haven't?

00:36:03.000 The Ataris?

00:36:04.000 I don't know the Atari?

00:36:05.000 No, I've never heard of them.

00:36:06.000 I've never heard of Louis the Child.

00:36:08.000 I've never heard of Jack's Mannequin.

00:36:09.000 I've heard of Death Cab for Cutie.

00:36:11.000 Wait, you guys haven't heard of any of these guys?

00:36:14.000 Deathcab.

00:36:14.000 Yellow Card, I've probably heard of, but I couldn't have told you what genre they are.

00:36:18.000 Oh, that's good stuff.

00:36:20.000 Screamo EDM.

00:36:21.000 Are you just listening to trance music while driving?

00:36:26.000 As long as we comment on it, we're good.

00:36:28.000 This is Jax Mannequin.

00:36:30.000 This is Jax Mannequin.

00:36:31.000 Okay, do we have one of the Screamo songs he likes?

00:36:33.000 What's your favorite Screamo song?

00:36:34.000 See, that's the thing.

00:36:37.000 Well, then Tyler shouldn't have listened to Screamo.

00:36:40.000 Screaming Dean, but we don't play it on the show.

00:36:43.000 The best era-driven Screamo that I listened to for my era was Taking Back Sunday.

00:36:49.000 Was Cute Without the E, cut from the team.

00:36:53.000 Can we throw that up?

00:36:55.000 You guys have to know this song.

00:36:57.000 Cute Without the E, cut from the team.

00:37:01.000 What?

00:37:01.000 Cute without the E?

00:37:02.000 Yeah, that's the cute name of the song.

00:37:04.000 that's the same you haven't heard you haven't heard of i've never heard of this in my life You haven't heard of Taking Back Sunday.

00:37:09.000 All music for me was violently killed in 1991 when Nevermind came out.

00:37:14.000 And that's the end.

00:37:15.000 Are we getting that there?

00:37:16.000 Are we getting it?

00:37:22.000 Is this your music?

00:37:24.000 Okay.

00:37:25.000 So you just listened to a Tony Hawks Pro Skater soundtrack?

00:37:28.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:37:28.000 Does this sound our audience remember Tony Hawk's Pro Skater on the N64?

00:37:32.000 We had, wait, all that stuff.

00:37:33.000 That's the chorus. 0.97

00:37:35.000 See, Emo and Screamo in the 2000s was very normal.

00:37:46.000 It was very normalized by like skating and surfing and snowboard.

00:37:50.000 Yeah, it was very normalized.

00:37:52.000 So was a lot of things were normalized in the 2000s. 0.97

00:37:54.000 So like kind of like skaters like and skater trash and fake skater trash. 0.76

00:38:00.000 Yeah, very interesting. 0.96

00:38:02.000 You know, Yellow Card has made a big comeback.

00:38:04.000 They've done like a world tour and stuff.

00:38:05.000 They were number one this month.

00:38:07.000 Yeah.

00:38:08.000 Really?

00:38:10.000 They got a song to number one.

00:38:12.000 I knew that they were making a big comeback.

00:38:17.000 People like when bands have those kind of revival tours, it's very interesting to me.

00:38:23.000 It's like you listen to these bands when you're young and then you get a little bit older and then they go on tour again.

00:38:28.000 They reform the band and then their fans have all this money.

00:38:32.000 So then they just buy tons of merch and they buy more expensive tickets and they fill out these arenas.

00:38:37.000 You really do have this kind of like second wave career if you're if you're a youth culture band.

00:38:42.000 It's fascinating.

00:38:45.000 Yeah, I you know, I actually have a good yellow card story.

00:38:49.000 So yellow card in high school, when I was in high school, I worked at Target.

00:38:53.000 And so after school, I would go work at Target as like a, like I used to like check out as like a lane guy or a guest services guy.

00:39:02.000 And a girl worked with me and we I gave her my yellow card CD to remember you used to burn CDs?

00:39:11.000 Yeah.

00:39:11.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:39:12.000 I don't think I ever, I think I had my uncle do that and I had him send me Appetite for Destruction.

00:39:16.000 So you'd buy one person would buy the CD and then you'd like illegally burn it and like like duplicate it at home like a thousand times.

00:39:23.000 And so I always would get the CDs because I worked at Target.

00:39:28.000 So I got this and everyone would burn it.

00:39:30.000 So, this girl burned the CD. 1.00

00:39:32.000 And the reason why she did, because she really liked Yellow Card because she was a violinist because Yellow Card is violin punk.

00:39:38.000 So, they have a violin.

00:39:40.000 Violin punk?

00:39:40.000 Yeah, it's like a punk.

00:39:41.000 I thought punk was supposed to be violent, not violin.

00:39:44.000 No, it's very, it's very pop punk with a violin.

00:39:47.000 And her name was Lindsay Sterling, who ended up becoming a very famous violinist, if you've ever heard of it.

00:39:52.000 Oh, that's that's pretty cool.

00:39:53.000 That's pretty cool.

00:39:54.000 I still don't get how that's punk, but but we worked together at Target and she burned my yellow card CD. 0.91

00:40:00.000 Alrighty, okay.

00:40:01.000 Okay, Poso is beating down the door.

00:40:02.000 And by the way, the reason you can't see my Spotify rap is because, as per my declared state, I don't subscribe to anything.

00:40:10.000 So I don't have Spotify.

00:40:12.000 I don't follow any streaming services.

00:40:14.000 And so none of them can produce a yearly wrap-up of what I'm listening to.

00:40:19.000 You have no good stories.

00:40:22.000 We have nothing, no content because Blake doesn't subscribe to it.

00:40:25.000 You cannot get anything on it.

00:40:27.000 And he can't even participate in this next topic either because he doesn't subscribe to it.

00:40:31.000 Exactly.

00:40:31.000 But we're going to do it anyway because I have a big picture idea about it.

00:40:34.000 No, we do have Jack.

00:40:35.000 He is a topic he really, really wanted to hit, but we need a video to set it up.

00:40:40.000 And it's only the number one topic in the entire country.

00:40:44.000 I mean, it doesn't surprise me that it wouldn't be on Blake's radar, but like literally everyone else in the country is talking about it.

00:40:49.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:40:49.000 But I won't because I keep myself pure and immune.

00:40:53.000 But we have this video when it's setting it up.

00:40:57.000 And so it is a clip three, three, three.

00:42:20.000 What in the wide world was that?

00:42:26.000 Before you say anything, Jack, can I say this?

00:42:30.000 When Jack brought this up originally and tweeted about this, I thought he was being overdramatic.

00:42:35.000 And I was like, this is like, this seems like it's way over-dramatized.

00:42:40.000 Not that Jack gets overly dramatic often, but sometimes on the pop stuff, it can happen.

00:42:47.000 And so I'm like, I'm going to watch, sit down and watch this.

00:42:49.000 And I watched it.

00:42:50.000 And I was actually, I thought that Jack didn't go hard enough on this.

00:42:54.000 Well, so let's explain what we're talking about.

00:42:56.000 So for people who might just be listening, also hi, or people who, you know, don't, you have no idea what we're talking about, like Blake, for example.

00:43:05.000 So this is season five of the TV show, Netflix show, Stranger Things, has just come out.

00:43:11.000 This is Netflix's number one show.

00:43:12.000 It is currently the Netflix's number one show worldwide.

00:43:16.000 It's been a massive cultural phenomenon.

00:43:20.000 The original season was all about 80s nostalgia.

00:43:22.000 That's what made it so big in the first place.

00:43:25.000 You hear the synth music.

00:43:26.000 It's kids riding around on bikes.

00:43:27.000 So it's got a lot of allusions back to old 1980s, you know, movies and growing up like that.

00:43:34.000 And so similar to what Andrew was just saying about how youth brands and youth bands could have a second life, it's sort of like that same thing where it's, you know, this is a way for a lot of Gen Xers and, you know, elder millennials, Gen Wires to be able to sort of share the 80s with their kids.

00:43:51.000 And they've gone and they've been making the show gayer and gayer as the seasons go on.

00:43:57.000 And in this scene, this is the, so this is a flashback, what you're actually watching back to season one.

00:44:03.000 So what you're seeing here is them reestablishing something or what they'd say, revealing something that actually happened in season one that they're only showing you now for the first time.

00:44:14.000 And I watched this scene and you're seeing the big bad right there of the whole series. 0.63

00:44:19.000 We'll call him gay Darth Vader. 1.00

00:44:22.000 And what gay Darth Vader is doing, also known as Vecna, is he is metaphorically, you know, it looks like he is physically violating this young boy. 0.97

00:44:34.000 We'll call him Gay Luke Skywalker with his tentacle. 1.00

00:44:37.000 And he is shoving his tentacle down gay Luke Skywalker's mouth and shooting his dark effluvia down the boy's throat. 1.00

00:44:48.000 The boy's eyes roll backwards. 0.99

00:44:51.000 They, you know, they, you know, they roll back in his head.

00:44:54.000 He starts gagging. 0.94

00:44:55.000 And at which point, gay Darth Vader then starts stroking the boy's face and his sort of neck also, his head also goes back in a form of pleasure. 0.96

00:45:06.000 And to me, I watched this.

00:45:09.000 This was actually released prior to the season itself. 0.99

00:45:12.000 And I said, guys, this is very clearly representative of a gay rape scene. 1.00

00:45:19.000 And that's crazy that nobody is calling out Netflix for this, number one, for filming and putting something like this in, again, this is their Keystone show. 0.92

00:45:31.000 This is their tent pole show.

00:45:35.000 This is their blockbuster.

00:45:37.000 People have been waiting for this for four years for this very episode to come out.

00:45:42.000 And that's the first thing you see.

00:45:44.000 And what was crazy is that people then came back to me and said, oh, that's not what it is, Jack.

00:45:49.000 You're just making a big deal of it.

00:45:51.000 To Tyler's point, no, no, that's really, really what it's representative of.

00:45:56.000 Oh, it was like more horrifying than I realized.

00:46:00.000 And I sat down.

00:46:01.000 It's like right at the beginning.

00:46:02.000 It's like they wanted this to be the lead off.

00:46:06.000 And it's super, everything about it's weird.

00:46:08.000 Like I was talking about it with my wife while we were watching.

00:46:11.000 We're like, I was like, oh, this is the thing Jack was talking about.

00:46:14.000 She's like, what is it?

00:46:15.000 I'm like, it's like something, something gay happens at the beginning. 0.99

00:46:18.000 And she's like, what are you talking about?

00:46:19.000 And we watched it and I was like, there was, we went through it.

00:46:22.000 There's probably 50 different ways they could have done this like so easily.

00:46:26.000 It's like they, this was, this is like, this has to be intentional.

00:46:31.000 Like all this is like, it's so clearly, weirdly intentional.

00:46:35.000 And even like the scripting of it, super, like none of it's necessary.

00:46:39.000 It has nothing to do plot wise.

00:46:41.000 Like there's no way that this actually is applicable to like the story in any kind of way other than it just being like super weird.

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00:47:31.000 So, Jack, did you say, did you describe it? 0.99

00:47:33.000 You said it was text, a textbook gay rape scene? 1.00

00:47:37.000 Representative, like representative of pedophile, you know, behavior. 0.97

00:47:41.000 And by the way, so there was a actually a professor from the University of Chicago sort of responded to my, I wrote an op-ed about this over the Thanksgiving break and sort of responded to my piece and said, and said, yes, that's true.

00:47:55.000 However, if you watch the rest, and the rest of the season kind of gets into this, where this character's name is Vecna, but I call him Gay Darth Vader, where Gaydarth Vader is then targeting other children, but he does so in a guise called Mr. What's It.

00:48:09.000 And her point was, well, perhaps you could read it as a warning of grooming behavior.

00:48:17.000 And while that's all, you know, well and good, I just think this scene itself in a TV series, which has been marketed very largely towards children, is just inappropriate.

00:48:29.000 It's just, it's so weird.

00:48:31.000 I mean, everything, everything's very graphic.

00:48:33.000 It's very graphic.

00:48:35.000 And, you know, the fact that we have to blur it out for, I mean, here's what I would say, Jack, to those people that were hating on you.

00:48:42.000 It's like, who, who any age over like 15 wouldn't see this imagery and be like, that looks a little phallic.

00:48:50.000 Like, you would, of course, see that.

00:48:52.000 You could not see that by looking at that image.

00:48:55.000 And then him petting the kid's head.

00:48:57.000 And like, I'm kind of with you.

00:48:59.000 It's with you, Tyler.

00:49:01.000 Like, it's worse than I imagine.

00:49:04.000 And I get that, like, people are going to defend it as some sort of like make-believe.

00:49:08.000 But to your point, I think a lot of families watch this show.

00:49:11.000 Am I wrong, Jack?

00:49:12.000 I only watch season one.

00:49:14.000 A lot of families watch the show, yes.

00:49:15.000 A lot of family watch together, like, especially with like teenagers and stuff like that.

00:49:19.000 And like, a little bit, like, my kids are kind of in the perfect.

00:49:22.000 My, my two older kids are kind of in the perfect.

00:49:24.000 My, no, I feel like nine, 10, 11, 12-year-olds are like, this is kind of like a really cool show to like that age group.

00:49:32.000 Because it's just, it's, it's not really scary, but it's scary enough.

00:49:36.000 And it's, you know, it's just kind of an interesting, you know, like Jack said.

00:49:40.000 We've been asked, we've been asked, people are asking us to cut the video out because it's too disturbing to them.

00:49:45.000 So I guess they're, they're definitely a great idea.

00:49:46.000 Yeah, no, I mean, you can just, you could just show us, you can just show us still.

00:49:50.000 But actually, what we could also show, which is separately from the video, which, and by the way, that's my entire point because the people who were like hating on me, and this, this went viral.

00:50:00.000 This, we got written up in international, you know, media over this.

00:50:05.000 And I had all these, these, I call them the stranger simps.

00:50:07.000 All the stranger simps were coming at me saying, oh, no, it's just, you know, it's just like the scene in Alien.

00:50:13.000 Don't you understand?

00:50:14.000 They're, they're just doing a bit from Alien.

00:50:16.000 I said, well, you understand that the movie Alien is meant to represent male rape.

00:50:21.000 But it's an R-rated movie.

00:50:24.000 Alien is an R-rated movie. 0.89

00:50:25.000 And they're called the facehuggers in Alien are meant to represent male rape because it's sort of this creature that grabs onto your face, injects its sperm spore, whatever into your body.

00:50:40.000 Then they become pregnant and then the pregnancy kills you. 1.00

00:50:43.000 So it was written and the writers of the original Alien movie have come out and said this, that that's exactly what they intended.

00:50:49.000 They were pro-abortion and they thought that if they could put this into the film, that it would make men perhaps more open to being pro-choice if they understood what it was like to be raped and then get pregnant.

00:51:01.000 Again, go look at the actual writers of Alien.

00:51:04.000 That's what they said.

00:51:05.000 Like, I'm not making this up.

00:51:07.000 So for people saying, oh, it's just like the Alien scene.

00:51:09.000 Yeah, I know.

00:51:11.000 I understand what an homage is.

00:51:12.000 That's what they're doing.

00:51:13.000 But what I do want to also point out, though, is, let's talk about some of the B-roll here, guys.

00:51:19.000 Throw up, where is it?

00:51:20.000 Where is it?

00:51:21.000 Where is it?

00:51:22.000 Throw up just some of this B-roll, 334.

00:51:25.000 Just throw up 334 as B-roll while we're talking and some of this other stuff, because you can see in 334 and 339, 340, just scroll through those because there are numerous tie-ins to children's action figures, children's happy meals, children's toys where they are clearly marketing this show towards children.

00:51:49.000 I think that last one was, that was just the Teenage Ninja Turtles.

00:51:53.000 No, it was really interesting.

00:51:53.000 No, no, no, it's like a crossover.

00:51:55.000 Okay, it's like a crossover.

00:51:58.000 Yeah, no, but, you know, I think the point is, because I only watched season one, so I'm a little behind on Stranger Thing.

00:52:04.000 I thought it was cool, love the synth music, retro, 80s, but it was like the kids were really, really young.

00:52:08.000 It kind of had this, like, it was like a kid's, you were watching the world through these kids' eyes and being terrified at this stranger thing that was kind of creeping into their reality.

00:52:21.000 And again, I could be misremembering, but it seemed completely appropriate for like a little slightly older children to watch.

00:52:29.000 There was some like violence, but that's probably as much as season one was.

00:52:33.000 Some adult themes, but it was like, it was basically you're following around these kids and their lived experience right around.

00:52:41.000 But Andrew, but Andrew, the point is, is that this scene is meant, you know, it's a flashback to season one.

00:52:48.000 So it's almost like the writer, so it's like Netflix came in basically, Woke Flix came in and was like, no, season one was too family friendly.

00:52:57.000 So we want you to watch season one knowing that this is what actually happened right before season one, right?

00:53:02.000 So the kid gets, or I guess Doring, because the kid gets Will, this is the name of his character, who's now gay Luke Skywalker.

00:53:10.000 He goes missing.

00:53:11.000 And throughout all of season one, they're trying to find Will.

00:53:14.000 Well, now we found out this is what was happening to Will. 0.98

00:53:17.000 He was being raped by gay Darth Vader the entire time. 0.99

00:53:22.000 Yeah, it ruins it. 0.99

00:53:24.000 It like makes it totally ruins it.

00:53:26.000 It ruins everything.

00:53:28.000 They ruined it.

00:53:30.000 Is this worse?

00:53:32.000 Is the first five seconds of this season of Stranger Things worse than the last episode of what do you call it on HBO?

00:53:44.000 That ruined.

00:53:45.000 The Sopranos?

00:53:46.000 No, the Game of Thrones.

00:53:48.000 Well, I mean, Game of Thrones wasn't...

00:53:51.000 What's worse, the last five minutes of the last episode of Game of Thrones or the first five minutes of The Stranger Things?

00:53:58.000 The thing about Game of Thrones is that it was like the last five seasons of it, essentially.

00:54:04.000 No, the last three seasons.

00:54:06.000 Two or three seasons.

00:54:07.000 Well, so this, for me, for me, if people are like, why is Jack commenting on this stuff all of a sudden?

00:54:12.000 It's kind of like, this is sort of return to form for me because my original Twitter account and I had a blog going back in like 2012 through 2016 was all about ripping on Game of Thrones.

00:54:26.000 I did a blog called The Angry GOT Fan.

00:54:30.000 And so that was our focus the entire time was basically attacking HBO for what they were doing with Game of Thrones.

00:54:38.000 And so this is a little bit return to form because now I'm the Angry Stranger Things fan, I guess.

00:54:43.000 Way before a Critical Drinker, by the way, way before a Critical Drinker.

00:54:46.000 Although I love that guy.

00:54:48.000 I think he's phenomenal what he does.

00:54:50.000 So Jack, you mentioned that this is kind of like pedophilia, grooming.

00:54:54.000 Like this is, you know, this is what some people are observing.

00:54:57.000 This is as a warning.

00:54:58.000 But it's like, it occurs to me that the entire show is now, in hindsight being 2020, is just one giant grooming exercise.

00:55:06.000 That's what I said.

00:55:07.000 I've watched you into a show.

00:55:08.000 I've never watched you into a show.

00:55:11.000 Stranger Things just clearly seems to be. 1.00

00:55:13.000 I said it was a sissy hypno program to turn you gay. 1.00

00:55:15.000 And I kind of suspect all three of you guys are going to be able to do it. 0.99

00:55:18.000 Your instincts were proven right there.

00:55:21.000 Well, so wait, hold on.

00:55:22.000 No, Blake, Blake, I will unfortunately and begrudgingly admit that Blake was probably right about this.

00:55:27.000 But there is, do we have any of the okay, no, we don't have it here in these clips.

00:55:33.000 There's a clip now in, so this is what's crazy, right?

00:55:37.000 This is what they set it up with.

00:55:38.000 There's a new clip in the very last episode of this, you know, current, the current episode that have been released, where basically Will, the gay Luke Skywalker, and this is why I call him gay Luke Skywalker, because now he then talks to his lesbian friend, Robin, Rockin' Robin, and she tells him that it's okay to be gay and you should just embrace your gayness.

00:56:03.000 Do we do about it?

00:56:04.000 We have it.

00:56:05.000 Oh, we have the clip.

00:56:05.000 Okay, I see it now.

00:56:06.000 I see it now.

00:56:07.000 She just looked perfect.

00:56:09.000 So god perfect.

00:56:11.000 And it was right then and there that I knew she was the one that with Tammy, I would finally be able to be myself, you know, all of myself.

00:56:20.000 Because there was always this part of me that kind of scared me, you know?

00:56:25.000 But I thought that if Tammy loved me, all of me, you know, I wouldn't be so scared anymore.

00:56:33.000 And then he showed up.

00:56:34.000 Steve the hair, Harrington.

00:56:36.000 Oh, God.

00:56:37.000 You probably can't guess the rest.

00:56:39.000 And that's when it hit me. 0.93

00:56:41.000 It was never about Don't have Damn.

00:56:44.000 It was always just about me.

00:56:48.000 I was looking for answers in somebody else, but I had all the answers.

00:56:56.000 Just needed to stop being so god scared.

00:57:00.000 Again, that music you heard in the background was not synth wave. 0.86

00:57:03.000 It was the undulations of the sissy hypno burrowing into your brain.

00:57:08.000 You guys just, you gave into it for fun. 0.82

00:57:10.000 But Blake is right.

00:57:11.000 Blake is totally right.

00:57:12.000 So what happens right?

00:57:14.000 What I was referring to is, and I see what's going on.

00:57:16.000 Right after that, Will has this sequence where he decides to embrace himself and then he is able to exhibit, you know, basically like force-like powers the same way that Darth Vader does.

00:57:30.000 So gay Darth Vader and gay Luke Skywalker both have these force powers now and are able to use them to fight each other. 0.96

00:57:38.000 Hold on. 0.76

00:57:38.000 Well, I guess it did reason. 0.76

00:57:40.000 You say gay Darth Vader kind of used the force on him, if you get what I mean. 1.00

00:57:45.000 Oh, man. 0.97

00:57:46.000 Well, oh, no.

00:57:47.000 Oh, yeah, that's dirty.

00:57:50.000 That's very dirty.

00:57:52.000 So, but what you said is interesting, Jack.

00:57:54.000 You said that you said it as they have to, because she said it in that clip where I just had to embrace me.

00:58:00.000 So you, and you were saying Will had to embrace himself and he gets these powers, but like, isn't that just some sort of like subliminal, subliminal license to be entirely narcissistic, to just be completely obsessed with self, to worship self, to yeah, that's okay.

00:58:18.000 I'm just making sure that like it's that on the nose.

00:58:20.000 No, it's it's that on the nose, the entire thing.

00:58:23.000 And so he he gives in and they've been playing.

00:58:26.000 And well, and I will tell you, by the way, that the and this is so the full season hasn't been released.

00:58:32.000 So the sequence that they specifically mention, not just giving into self, but it shows him growing up with another boy and as they're very young.

00:58:46.000 So this idea that they're trying to imply is that he's been romantically, sexually attracted to his best friend all along.

00:58:56.000 And there's a theory that a lot of people have been talking about.

00:58:59.000 Peruser Foz totally agrees, by the way.

00:59:02.000 You should definitely get him on this episode.

00:59:05.000 Where, you know, it almost seems like they're playing it out that he and the best friend boy are going to kiss or are going to have some kind of relationship or something like that.

00:59:16.000 As if, so not only are they going back and recasting season one, it's like they're going back and recasting the entire show to be about child abuse, um, this weird pedophilic scene with uh gay Darth Vader, and and now just about embracing gayness. 0.77

00:59:32.000 So it really goes back to like what a lot of people have been warning about Netflix and that movie cuties and a lot of things that Netflix does to just take stuff and then wokeify the heck out of it.

00:59:44.000 Are we gonna get a scene, you think, in the season finale where maybe like the two boys will like make out with each other and then they'll go, like, maybe someday this racist country will have a first black president and he could make gay marriage legal?

00:59:59.000 Yeah, literally, he'll be like that's literally gay marriage that doesn't make sense, and they'll say, like, we can make it make sense, yes, we can, and then it will fade out hope poster. 0.93

01:00:10.000 That is not like yeah, they'll meet another boy who comes in to help them in the final battle, right?

01:00:17.000 And they're like, what's your name?

01:00:19.000 I go by Barry, but yeah, yeah, he's Barry, he's an exchange student from Hawaii.

01:00:25.000 I go by Barry.

01:00:26.000 I see a student from Hawaii, right?

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01:01:33.000 You know, it's so, but Jack, I just sorry to belabor the point, but are they saying that homosexuality is just self-narcissism?

01:01:44.000 So I don't think so because I don't think they're that self-aware.

01:01:47.000 I think they're, I think the general message is that being homosexual is good, that you should follow your heart, do whatever you feel like, your impulses are all that matters, your urges are all that matters, do whatever feels right and you be you.

01:02:06.000 And this, you know, if you watch a lot of Netflix, we know that Netflix has a huge LGBTQ section.

01:02:12.000 We know that they inject these storylines into property after property over and over again.

01:02:18.000 And I think it's, I don't, I don't think it's, I don't think they're trying to be that on the nose.

01:02:24.000 I think they literally think it's good writing, which it's not, Obviously, what I do find interesting though is I don't know if there might be in Blake.

01:02:33.000 You might, you know, I'd like to get your take on this.

01:02:36.000 It almost feels a little subversive, too, because again, they're showing that the child who was the first one to be abused by Vecna then later goes on to become gay.

01:02:49.000 So it's like, what, what, what mean?

01:02:52.000 What, what mean, Netflix?

01:02:53.000 So it's like, it's like, is there some guy who's like in the background, like, who's actually like closetly, you know, closetly like conservative, who's like, what if we, what if we had Vecna abuse him and everyone just kind of went along with it, but he actually is like putting a subliminal message inside the, you know, underneath that, that overt message.

01:03:14.000 Like a Straussian kind of thing. 0.72

01:03:17.000 Maybe I got, I just think it's all sissy. 0.99

01:03:20.000 That's a glass half full.

01:03:21.000 That's a glass half full take on it.

01:03:24.000 After your op-ed, you might be.

01:03:26.000 Well, yeah.

01:03:27.000 No, it's in the op-ed.

01:03:29.000 I say it in the very end of my op-ed.

01:03:31.000 Like, or maybe, is there like an extra little something going on there?

01:03:36.000 A little race.

01:03:37.000 Because I don't know that we have stats on this that are provable.

01:03:41.000 Maybe we do.

01:03:42.000 I should look them up.

01:03:43.000 But like, do we have stats on, you know, if you have a percentage of people that are, that are, that are self-described, like they were abused as a child that then so in the op-ed, I did research for this.

01:03:53.000 I did, I did look this up, and there was a Vandergilt study from 2022 that said that found that hetero, or excuse me, homosexual adults reported instances of child abuse at a three to four times higher rate than the heterosexual population.

01:04:09.000 Wow.

01:04:09.000 That's, well, maybe you're right then.

01:04:11.000 Maybe there is some weird tie-in.

01:04:13.000 Maybe, maybe the writers, some writer in the writer's room looked up the same stat that you just referenced in your op-ed.

01:04:20.000 One could do that.

01:04:21.000 And so they're trying to kind of like sneak it in, which obvious, because obviously it's totally at odds with everything that the characters are saying, you know, embrace yourself, just be yourself, whatever, whatever.

01:04:31.000 But also, you know, it's like, it's kind of contradictory because we don't see him, you know, being like this before the abuse scene.

01:04:41.000 We only see it after.

01:04:43.000 Foz just dropped something in the chat that convinced me that this is really just like a the whole like Stranger Things five seasons or whatever is just like a gay sixth sense. 0.96

01:04:55.000 Because in 335, we have a clip.

01:04:57.000 Maya Hawk says she wouldn't exist if her parents hadn't aborted her sibling.

01:05:01.000 Like that, I mean, this is this is this is dark.

01:05:04.000 335.

01:05:05.000 I'm on with this really beautiful essay about her abortion that she got when she was really young and about how if she hadn't have had it, she wouldn't have become the person that she'd become and I wouldn't exist and how both of my parents' lives would have been totally derailed and she hadn't had access to safe and legal health care, fundamental health care.

01:05:23.000 And I, of course, like wealthy people will always be able to get abortions. 1.00

01:05:28.000 But so many people, because of this ruling this like week, will not only not be able to pursue their dreams, but actually lose their lives and be unsafe.

01:05:38.000 Was she seated on that in like a dark?

01:05:41.000 Was she seated cross-legged?

01:05:43.000 I didn't miss that.

01:05:43.000 I think she had her leg under her.

01:05:45.000 Yeah.

01:05:45.000 Oh, that's super sad.

01:05:46.000 That's a little odd.

01:05:47.000 That reminds me of that Pramala Jayapal tweet where she was like, abortion is healthcare, full stop.

01:05:54.000 And then she just got ratioed into oblivion. 0.99

01:05:57.000 A really dark thing.

01:05:58.000 A lot of people on the abortion topic, what's clear is a very common normie sentiment on abortion is you're not killing a separate human being.

01:06:09.000 It's just, I guess, you know, we have DND in Stranger Things I've heard, Dungeons and Dragons.

01:06:14.000 They think it's just, if you get an abortion and then have a kid later, you just, you re-rolled their stats.

01:06:19.000 You just, you rolled the dice for a different kid.

01:06:21.000 The kid, same kid came back.

01:06:23.000 They're just different.

01:06:24.000 Yeah, that's the wishful thing.

01:06:26.000 From the like you really only killed someone, maybe if like you never have a kid at all, but otherwise, yeah, you're just re-rolling their stats.

01:06:35.000 No, this is something where it and by the way, so there's another angle to all this as well.

01:06:41.000 Do you guys know about the Warner Brothers deal?

01:06:43.000 Haven't heard about that.

01:06:44.000 No, what?

01:06:45.000 You guys, Andrew, have you heard of this all the big acquisition that's going on?

01:06:49.000 Oh, yeah, something about it.

01:06:51.000 Yeah, vaguely.

01:06:52.000 Yeah, so Warner Brothers Discovery is currently up for sale.

01:06:57.000 And what's really interesting is that Warner Brothers Discovery is also the parent company of things like CNN, HBO, like all this stuff, right?

01:07:07.000 And so one of the top bidders for this is Netflix.

01:07:12.000 So they're coming in with like this Netflix, which is known for being one of the wokest, you know, organizations on the planet.

01:07:22.000 One of the wokest things that they have is, you know, this is where, you know, where all of every, pretty much every show they get, they're either going to put something woke in there, they're going to make a lot of children's content, including gay characters, including LGBT characters. 0.99

01:07:39.000 There was one, it was like a, is it about a couple, I remember a couple of months ago where it was like just two nights and they just started being gay all of a sudden for no reason. 0.94

01:07:49.000 This is where one of the, this is where, of course, QDs came out, which was just a straight up pro-pedophilia movie based in France.

01:07:59.000 And I believe, if I remember correctly, there was a writer, what was that show?

01:08:05.000 Paranormal Park, I think, where they had trans characters.

01:08:09.000 And I think the creator of it was actually attacking Charlie, like making fun of Charlie after he was killed, was another Netflix show.

01:08:16.000 I forget exactly what he said, but it was, I remember that being another Netflix show with a trans character.

01:08:23.000 And so imagine, if you will, right, how we would have to respond if Netflix all of a sudden got in charge of like the Looney Tunes at Warner Brothers, got in charge of like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

01:08:38.000 And also, by the way, WB also owns like what else?

01:08:41.000 All of the DC superheroes.

01:08:43.000 So like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, who I believe they already made gay in Warner Brothers, The Flash, etc. 0.95

01:08:52.000 Yeah, I'm not sold on this making a big difference.

01:08:55.000 I mean, we already have an example of beloved characters getting taken over by a turbo gay company, and it's called the Disney Corporation. 1.00

01:09:03.000 They've made a lot of stuff really gay. 0.61

01:09:06.000 They didn't get too much.

01:09:07.000 But you're just proving my point, though.

01:09:10.000 That if Netflix gets this, you know, it takes over Dumbs Brown. 0.97

01:09:13.000 My guess is another thing that has like heaps big gay. 1.00

01:09:16.000 I just don't think we're going to see a lot of gay Bugs Bunny because when was the last time you saw anything related to Bugs Bunny? 1.00

01:09:22.000 I guess they made a new song.

01:09:24.000 My kids watch Bugs Bunny every day, like every single day.

01:09:27.000 They love it.

01:09:29.000 Are they making new Looney Tunes or do we just have the old Looney Tunes?

01:09:32.000 They are making new ones.

01:09:34.000 Yeah, there's new ones.

01:09:34.000 There's new ladies.

01:09:35.000 All right.

01:09:37.000 There's a whole new show where it's like it's got like an overarching plot, basically, you know, where they, you know, the character is kind of the storyline's like flowing.

01:09:46.000 We have epic arcs about Bugs Bunny.

01:09:50.000 The epicist.

01:09:51.000 Bugs Bunny's going on at Buildings Roman.

01:09:53.000 Bugs Bunny is following two other.

01:09:57.000 So the other angle of this, there's two other companies right now that I think are in a bidding war over Warner Brothers.

01:10:05.000 And so that's, I'm just saying, like, if Netflix gets in, like, I'm coming for it.

01:10:10.000 Like, this is insane.

01:10:11.000 This is completely insane.

01:10:12.000 And I can't imagine how you do this.

01:10:14.000 The other two companies are Comcast, which honestly, I'm obviously not a huge fan of since they run, excuse me, MythNow.

01:10:21.000 And then Paramount, which is interesting because Paramount, of course, yeah, they have Paramount Plus and they have Yellowstone, which, of course, I've been quite outspoken on, but they did also just, you know, take over CBS News.

01:10:35.000 They gave that to Barry Weiss.

01:10:36.000 So it, you know, it seems like they're trying to at least do something to differentiate themselves there.

01:10:42.000 Jack, you're going to love this.

01:10:43.000 Netflix would be insane.

01:10:44.000 You're going to love this.

01:10:45.000 They are, Jack.

01:10:46.000 It's that they're quietly moving to their right over there with CBS.

01:10:52.000 Guys, we got a $5 dono from Zuzu's Petals.

01:10:55.000 You're going to like this.

01:10:56.000 You're going to like this.

01:10:57.000 Zuzu's Pedals points out Netflix got a lot gayer when Obama got on the board, presumably right after saving those kids in Indiana at the end of season five of Stranger Things.

01:11:10.000 I canceled Netflix three months ago, and so should you.

01:11:13.000 Or that's such a good point.

01:11:14.000 And you're right.

01:11:16.000 I totally for it.

01:11:17.000 It totally slipped my mind as we were having the conversation that Obama is.

01:11:22.000 I don't know if he's on the board specifically, but they have a major, major deal between Barack, Michelle Obama, Netflix.

01:11:31.000 He definitely got a huge contract to make those documentaries.

01:11:34.000 I was looking up.

01:11:35.000 No, it's documentaries and feature films.

01:11:37.000 They did the whole thing with Julia Roberts about like the, it was like, what was like an energy wave kind of thing, like crashes and, you know, everyone loses patents.

01:11:47.000 It's like the end of the world one.

01:11:48.000 Oh, yeah.

01:11:49.000 Susan Rice got on the board of Netflix.

01:11:52.000 Okay, right.

01:11:53.000 Well, okay, so basically Obama, like Susan Rice, who's Obama.

01:11:56.000 The appendix.

01:11:56.000 So that's what it was.

01:11:58.000 Susan Rice gets on the board.

01:12:00.000 But the Obamas, the Obamas are clearly deeply in bed with it.

01:12:04.000 So how do they think we're going to react if the Obamas then take, like, imagine if the Obamas have a direct line to controlling CNN and controlling like everything the WB does.

01:12:17.000 It's like, no, that's, I would go to war over that.

01:12:21.000 I would 100% go to war over that.

01:12:23.000 It's leave the world behind.

01:12:24.000 That was leave the world behind.

01:12:26.000 That's it.

01:12:27.000 Yeah, he made that.

01:12:28.000 And by the way, by the way, everybody, I remember all those conspiracy theories about how, you know, what did they know?

01:12:34.000 Did they know something was going to happen?

01:12:37.000 And then there was this scene where all the Teslas, which people thought was like an intentional dig at Elon Musk, because all the Teslas get taken over by some mysterious power or force or alien beings and they just start crashing all these Teslas.

01:12:55.000 I'm telling you, this is absolutely the Obamas are trying to take over media.

01:13:01.000 They are trying to take over a media empire.

01:13:04.000 They've already done it with Netflix, which by the way, I'd love, because I think Stranger Things started like almost 10 years ago.

01:13:10.000 So that was before the Obama partnership.

01:13:13.000 So before Susan Rice was on the board, before they had the Obama partnership, he was still president when it started, or certainly when they were making the show.

01:13:21.000 But now, right now, they're required to do all this extra stuff.

01:13:25.000 So they even have to go back to season one and make it all gay. 0.96

01:13:29.000 And in fact, actually, one thing that's really interesting, it just occurred to me as well.

01:13:33.000 They've also caught Netflix stealth editing Stranger Things where they will, because it's a streaming service, right?

01:13:40.000 So you don't have DVDs of it.

01:13:41.000 So they'll go back and they've actually like slightly edited certain characters and certain storylines as the show is going.

01:13:49.000 So if you go back and watch season one right now.

01:13:52.000 Yeah, yeah, there was a whole scene where one character was kind of like a peeping tom of the character.

01:13:58.000 Jonathan was peeping on Nancy and they like basically like re-edited the whole sequence so that he was just sort of like outside but didn't mean to be looking in or something.

01:14:08.000 So when he had, there's the guy with the shutter camera.

01:14:12.000 And so they re-edited.

01:14:14.000 So if you go back in season one and look at it now to do a rewatch, it's like, it's like a slightly different, you know, a slightly different narrative.

01:14:22.000 Wow.

01:14:23.000 So Jack, on a scale one to 10, how big is this story worldwide?

01:14:27.000 I mean, it's the number one show in the world right now.

01:14:30.000 It is the number one show.

01:14:32.000 And don't think for a second that lots of kids are not watching it because they are.

01:14:37.000 And it's something, honestly, where people say, like, oh, why do you care?

01:14:43.000 Just don't watch.

01:14:44.000 It's like, no, guys, we actually do have to pay attention to how the masses are being propagandized.

01:14:48.000 And that's exactly what's going on here.

01:14:50.000 Oh, I totally agree.

01:14:51.000 The issue, you know, the issue that I would also, this is why we talk about the Super Bowl so much and why we're doing this, the, the, put, the, uh, the, the sporting event halftime show later, uh, you know, later next year.

01:15:03.000 Yay, sports.

01:15:04.000 And yay, sports.

01:15:06.000 And I would also add, you know, I'd also add that, you know, you, you have to know what you're up against because millions of people who make decisions in politics, who make decisions in media, who then go on to just just exist in the world, they are now all going to have this mental model.

01:15:27.000 This will be the mental model that they are given.

01:15:29.000 This is where most people get their stories from.

01:15:31.000 That's where they get their beliefs from.

01:15:33.000 It's where they get their history from.

01:15:34.000 It's from watching movies.

01:15:36.000 There's no more powerful instrument in the entire world, movies, TV shows, dreaming, et cetera, that people get this from than here.

01:15:43.000 And that's why I call it out.

01:15:45.000 That's what, whether it's Game of Thrones 10 years ago or, gosh, almost 14 years ago when I started doing that to Netflix now, to Star Wars back when they were doing that and they were making everything crazy.

01:15:57.000 Disney got really mad at me over the Star Wars thing.

01:15:59.000 Actually, Ryan Johnson as well, who was the writer of the second Disney Star Wars movie, because I pointed out that in the Disney Star Wars films, all the heroes were this like diverse band of rebels and all of the villains were white men.

01:16:15.000 Every single one was a white man.

01:16:18.000 And all of the heroes were not.

01:16:20.000 And of the heroes who were white men or the one straight white woman, they were all killed one by one from the old movies. 0.59

01:16:28.000 Just saying, just saying, I'm noticing things.

01:16:31.000 I'm just noticing a few things here.

01:16:33.000 You're just noticing the crime of noticing.

01:16:34.000 Jack, why don't you take us home?

01:16:35.000 It's been a fun episode.

01:16:37.000 Thanks so much, guys.

01:16:39.000 Pay attention to what's going on.

01:16:40.000 Don't be a stranger, simp.

01:16:42.000 And ladies and gentlemen, as always, go out there and commit more thought crime.

The Charlie Kirk Show - December 06, 2025

THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 108 — Stranger Things = Gay? College Football, Ruined? Spotify Wraps?

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