Jack is in Davos covering the World Economic Forum, but we have a special guest on the show to talk about his trip to Greenland and the amazing views he got in the process of getting there. Also, we talk about why you should stop sending your kids to college.
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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to Thought Crime, Thought Crime Thursday.
00:01:13.000I'm taking us in today, which is unusual because Jack is in transit.
00:01:18.000He's been in Davos covering the World Economic Forum.
00:03:16.000And I remember when I went there four years ago, when I got detained when I was there with Turning Point and we called into the Charlie Kirk show, I remember saying the same thing.
00:03:25.000Like everyone thinks Davos is some like high-end luxury town.
00:03:48.000You have to drive where, so like where Trump was staying was all the way outside of town just because that's the only place you could go to get something like halfway decent.
00:03:56.000So what's the equivalent in America of Davos?
00:05:09.000It's like Atlantic City now, basically.
00:05:12.000I mean, as compared to like, growing up, we used to always go to Atlantic City.
00:05:16.000So I remember Atlantic City when it was in its heyday.
00:05:18.000When I was a kid, we stayed actually one night at the Trump Taj Mahal because my dad had this conference in town, and I remember bringing Masega Genesis.
00:05:27.000I was all excited so I could play Sonic in the hotel room.
00:05:30.000But yes, we actually stayed at the Trump.
00:05:32.000And it was like, the whole town was just incredible.
00:06:20.000It's a really bad development that we have gambling all over the country.
00:06:23.000Blake probably has some stats on hand for it, but it's just at least it was isolated and you could get away from it and people with real bad problems could they had to go out of their way in order to indulge those problems.
00:06:37.000And now it's just everywhere and it's ruining a lot of young men's lives.
00:06:55.000The mountains were really cool to see.
00:06:58.000When people don't, people don't realize, by the way, that there's a funny climate change thing you can talk about because people are like, well, it's all ice.
00:08:21.000And look, these are going to be new borders that need to be protected from who?
00:08:24.000Somalian pirates and Somalian scammers.
00:08:28.000Under my administration, I will make sure that not one Somali scammer sets foot on any foot of snow, not even one foot of snow, will be graced by a Somalian scammer's foot.
00:08:40.000That is my promise to the great people of Greenland.
00:09:35.000And even in the Fairly Odd Parents, if your kids ever watch that or something, the next door neighbors that his dad is envious of are called the Dinklebergs, and they don't have kids and they always have more stuff than his family.
00:10:17.000So FIRE is financially independent, retire early.
00:10:21.000It's people whose lives revolve around trying to save money as much as possible so they can quit their jobs instead of the normal go work till you're 65 or work forever or whatever.
00:10:31.000Charlie, as we know, was not a fan of the concept of retirement.
00:10:36.000They want to try to hoard money, retire at 35, and then live off of whatever they've saved from that point on, either through passive income or just not spending money.
00:10:46.000And it leads to a lot of very entertaining content.
00:11:16.000We are a 37-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman, dink couple in New York City interested in starting a family, but feel we don't have any good options for how to proceed.
00:11:27.000I'm interested in what other Henrys think about starting a family in a VH Coal vehicle.
00:11:33.000Very high cost of living city while staying on the fire track or maybe giving up on fire to have kids.
00:14:02.000When I was broke and traveling in college, I stayed at hostels.
00:14:06.000Even going to, like, when I was in Italy in October, my friend and I were booking rooms like only one night in advance and it was like under 100 euros a night.
00:15:32.000Actually, the most interesting part about their question is they are wondering if they should abandon FHIR, which again, to find the acronym, it's Henry High Income.
00:15:47.000So their whole value prop is based around this idea, I want to quit my job as early as possible and just retire.
00:15:54.000So they are willing to even ask the question of whether or not they should have kids because this will screw up their fire plans.
00:16:01.000So there's obviously an entire fire community that's highly developed, that's highly ideological, and this is what their big impediment is.
00:17:29.000They've stepped away and they've become a lot of people, especially at community college level, a lot of community college professors are that way.
00:17:36.000My mom, we should do that more at high school.
00:17:38.000Substitute teaching at high school level.
00:17:40.000And I was like, which to me sounds terrible.
00:20:04.000I mean I am about as American as it comes.
00:20:06.000Because even my Mexican family compensating my Mexican family, he didn't even admit that we were Mexican and we had to go like do 23andMe to figure it out.
00:20:16.000Anyways, he was my grandpa that was 100% Mexican was racist against Mexican.
00:20:20.000Another good test besides the Alamo thing is just like how much do you relate to British history as like your ancestors?
00:20:29.000I was actually in a discussion with some Brits because I'm much more German heritage than British Isles, but like I care much more about the Anglo English history.
00:20:38.000I love to read about English Civil War, the Kings, all of that.
00:20:41.000And I don't know nearly as much German history.
00:22:18.000He attempted to jump a jet ski from a lake into a swimming pool and impaled his crotch on an iron gate.
00:22:24.000But thanks to recent advances in stem cell research and the fine work of doctors Krensky and Altshuler, Cleavon should regain full reproductive function.
00:22:37.000Unfortunately, Trevor passed away from a heart attack while to produce sperm for artificial insemination.
00:22:46.000But I have some eggs frozen, so just as soon as the right guy comes along, you know it will for generations.
00:22:59.000Although few seem to notice, but it's getting back that is my hardy Mexican people know how to procreate it.
00:23:07.000You know, the funny thing is, if you sneeze on a Mexican girl, they can get pregnant.
00:23:13.000One of my friends, who has been a New Yorker of upper, you know, upper middle class professional status, argued that $32,000 a year on Dining Out was a reasonable amount.
00:23:55.000I will tell you, I mean, people who are in, especially the city, in like drinking culture and things like that, there have been people that have said that, I mean, they save like 20 grand a year and just like just by stopping drinking.
00:24:09.000No, it's genuinely a lot like going out.
00:24:11.000It's a real part of drinks when you go out.
00:24:48.000They do feel entitled to a lifestyle that is much higher than them, which is previous generations wouldn't necessarily feel entitled to that.
00:26:18.000And this, and this is, it's, I, and I think that there's actually an undercurrent of inflating some of these prices that that's intentional to suppress family growth.
00:26:34.000I'm just going to tell you, like, you go out and you're a 20-something-year-old and you're getting ready to have a family, and you go out and it's like you and your girlfriend, you and your wife, and you spend like $200 on a dinner.
00:26:48.000Like, there's nothing that's more mentally destructive, I think, for a guy.
00:26:53.000Yeah, but you kind of insinuated that it was intentional to like stop family formation.
00:26:57.000But yeah, I actually think the mental health expensive it is to go out and eat, it does block.
00:27:02.000That's why the market's changed, right?
00:27:30.000I mean, all of that was McDonald's play places, McDonald's playplace nationalism, Pizza Hut nationalism, restaurants that actually have a children's section.
00:27:46.000There's intentionality in all these mega corporations that are owned by Vain capital and all these different groups that now do not direct towards families.
00:27:56.000Now they're directing towards small groups.
00:29:04.000And then, and now, like, the YouTube algorithm just serves everything to you that they want.
00:29:08.000And that's that's what Trump talked about at Davos, right?
00:29:11.000Because when he went up to Davos and was talking about the um, when you know, certain people got to be in the room, um, that he was, you know, talking about home ownership.
00:29:21.000And he was that, he was doing that to repudiate the whole you will own nothing and you'll be happy.
00:29:26.000He's like, I want young people to own a home.
00:29:30.000We are going to make that happen in the United States.
00:29:33.000And I personally, like, like, you know, not that I'm one of, I'm not going to give President United States notes, but I would have loved to see another line in there.
00:31:00.000And I think there's something really deep there that we're missing about the fact that the more money you have, the way you approach child rearing and begetting children and procreation, like it's really, really depressing, actually.
00:31:14.000Because you don't need that much money to have children.
00:31:19.000But white middle class dinks and this sort of thing, it doesn't even have to be white middle class, but the expectation is that your lifestyle has to be so high.
00:31:27.000And then you get to the end of your life.
00:31:48.000So Froldrift is this idea that certain things kind of like come up from the proletariat class, like the working class, and then they go up, but then like the upper classes like maybe mess around with it for a little bit, but eventually eschew it and go back to traditional ways.
00:32:01.000So you're right, Andrew, to say that it's the Henry's, right?
00:32:35.000Like, somebody could have told me, but I was talking to Curmu recently, and he pointed out, I think, children among, well, so just in general, children has, at least, I think among white Americans at least, average number of children is no longer dysgenic, as it were.
00:32:51.000Like, it's no longer, it's now an upward tilt.
00:32:53.000You have more kids the higher you earn overall on average.
00:32:59.000Like upper income, like upper middle class income is still really bad.
00:33:02.000They're the ones these Henry people are actually probably earning too much to account for it, but they're most common is people earning like $300,000.
00:33:09.000And they're like, I can't afford more than one.
00:33:11.000Well, there is a middle class trap in our tax code.
00:33:13.000Like for real, you can make $300,000 to $500,000.
00:35:14.000And the entire point was that making like that, if you had landlords who could just charge money on things, then it will like drive everyone to poverty and bankruptcy and no one can get ahead.
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00:38:12.000And you can also get, though, the 80s Monopoly.
00:38:15.000And the 80s Monopoly is the one that's based on like, this is the game that you remember when you were a kid that had all of those things that you were just mentioning.
00:38:23.000But if you go back to the original originals, the tokens are like completely different.
00:38:27.000Yeah, I'm looking at what I remember from, yeah, the one growing up.
00:38:29.000And I think some of these were at least around by the 50s.
00:38:32.000It's like after World War II, you had a pretty good run of like similar tokens.
00:39:53.000House rules could be making your monopoly game longer.
00:39:58.000Never put cash in the middle of the board.
00:40:01.000You don't get a bonus for landing on free parking.
00:40:04.000Always auction when someone doesn't want to buy the property they've landed on, and never loan money to other players or make deals not to charge each other rent.
00:40:14.000And so it's so funny because it is true.
00:40:16.000It's like people have that they'll say, I don't want to play Monopoly.
00:40:34.000So they have this warning on Monopoly, but they have a sinister agenda because while we were buying this Monopoly set at Target, I saw they had for sale next to it expansions for Monopoly.
00:40:47.000And one of them is called the free parking expansion.
00:40:50.000And it's just a, we included actual pieces and such to make the getting money when you land on free parking thing a reality, except they supercharged it.
00:41:00.000Like you can basically win the lottery when you get on it, or you can get a total and there's one where you can properties.
00:41:06.000There's one where you can buy, there's one where you can buy everything.
00:41:09.000Like you could buy go, you could buy the jail, you can buy like the tax, like all the different.
00:41:15.000And then the last one is a jail because that sounds really cool.
00:41:18.000They have a jail expansion, and apparently in that one, you can like go to jail, but you can get corruption tokens while in jail and then use these to not pay rent.
00:41:27.000Or even you land on somebody's to make them pay you rent because you're like extorting them.
00:41:32.000So guess what the first game pieces were?
00:43:18.000And I wonder if the reason they use those was that maybe those were common in other board games at the time or that people would use little model toys.
00:43:44.000The problem with these, with the house rules, is that people don't understand that when you inject more money into the system, that inflates everything.
00:43:56.000And you're essentially creating a money printer rather than actually let the economy stay at the level of equilibrium that it would.
00:44:52.000So if you download the game, they actually, so it's nice on the app game, which I play on the airplane all the time against all of the hard CPUs.
00:45:04.000You can go through and pick house rules and do a bunch of different stuff that's on there, or you can do a sped up version, which forces every.
00:45:12.000You could do it so you can go to auction on every single one and so it just like slams through.
00:45:19.000Or you can force everybody to buy uh, every single time.
00:45:24.000And and you can skip ahead too where there's a different dice.
00:45:43.000That's how true, absolutely sickening.
00:45:46.000I'm just saying it teaches you so many important economic things, like the reason everyone's going bankrupt, everyone's going bankrupt renting is because you can't add any new properties to the board.
00:45:56.000What do you need to build new housing?
00:45:58.000The reason we have so many socialists is they literally think in terms of monopoly economics, where one person wins it all, you don't get anything and you can just make up the new rules for the house.
00:46:13.000I don't know, this is the Indian music.
00:46:29.000For those of you who don't follow professional sports, there's 30, there's 29 teams in Major league baseball that are competing, and then there's also the LOS Angeles Dodgers, who just have a giant pile of the Phillies, the METS, the Yankees, the BLUE JAYS no no, no one.
00:46:45.000There used to be rich teams and then like poor, smaller market teams.
00:46:49.000Now there's just the Dodgers, and I discovered today the Dodgers have a rigged system where they don't Have to pay their TV revenue into the general pot because they went bankrupt in 2010 and they got this rigged deal where they get to keep more of their TV money.
00:47:05.000Frank McCourt had to sell the company.
00:47:07.000Yes, they bankrupted the team and so the MLB gave them a special sweetheart deal in court.
00:47:12.000They had a $4 billion deal paid out over 20 years.
00:47:15.000So they basically get an extra $60 million a year in TV money that other teams don't get.
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00:52:58.000I know we should tax them more, but we shouldn't have American corporations subjecting poor young men like Shohei Otani to slavery for years like that.
00:53:45.000That's what really hardsmise of the farm system.
00:53:47.000So here's what's going to happen, though.
00:53:49.000Here's why, here's my, this is the, like, the conspiracy theory is that the NFL is helping the NFL is helping LA to get to the Super Bowl because they want LA to have a World Series and a Super Bowl because they're trying to turn LA into like the new sports town.
00:54:05.000And they really, so like, they just, obviously, like, they've had Dodgers for a while and now, boom, they want to get, they want to give them, they've got two, all of a sudden, right?
00:54:13.000You know, just in the last couple of years, they've picked up, they've gone from no team, NFL teams to two teams.
00:54:19.000So now they need, because they got, what, the SoFi Stadium.
00:55:01.000Guys, this is why you need a salary cap.
00:55:03.000The NFL actually figured it out where by making the teams pretty comparable, they realized, oh, we're big enough, we can make a team in any city a huge deal.
00:55:12.000Kansas City is not a major market to play.
00:55:13.000Yeah, but the NFL did not even make that comparable.
00:55:15.000Like you have organizations, like the Jets are terrible.
00:55:50.000I literally just flew 4,400 miles to get here for the episode today, but there's some pretty compelling articles out there about how the lineups of how certain players get played at certain times to help with the betting, to help cover spreads and stuff like that.
00:56:06.000And they get played and get benched and all that.
00:56:08.000And it just lines up in such a way where it's like, is that really just coincidental?
00:59:21.000I'm not the guy who came up with this.
00:59:24.000We started talking about baseball, but we started talking about the NFL anyway because the NFL is more exciting, and the NFL is more exciting because it has a strict salary cap.
01:00:30.000NFL's addressing down how the boundary-pushing Bad Bunny plans to use Super Bowl halftime show outfit to honor queer icons on radar online.
01:00:41.000I assume that's just who published it.
01:00:44.000Well, listen, the NFL is going to play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
01:01:39.000Wait, Andrew, are you telling me that there's pressure on people to not get involved with the turning point halftime show, to not perform, to not be to not host, to not be the venue?
01:02:23.000Since we are being vague, I do want to say at least for the benefit of the audience that, yes, there is going to be a all-American halftime show, and it's going to be amazing.
01:03:02.000But like you said, people are going to be very upset.
01:03:05.000You see the stuff from Baldurunny, like using it as an he just wants to put his thumb in the eye of the country, of traditional anything, of America, of whatever.