The Charlie Kirk Show - THOUGHTCRIME Ep, 112—NYC Dinks? Greenland Monopoly? Salary Cap?

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00:01:09.000 All right, welcome to Thought Crime, Thought Crime Thursday.

00:01:13.000 I'm taking us in today, which is unusual because Jack is in transit.

00:01:18.000 He's been in Davos covering the World Economic Forum.

00:01:22.000 Jack, can you hear us?

00:01:24.000 Yeah, I'm actually here in studio.

00:01:26.000 Oh, he made it back.

00:01:27.000 He did.

00:01:28.000 Holy cow, he made it.

00:01:29.000 See, this was a big question we had.

00:01:31.000 Was Jack going to make it?

00:01:32.000 Can you guys not see me?

00:01:33.000 Like, I'm literally on a camera.

00:01:35.000 No, I can't.

00:01:36.000 We have this technology.

00:01:39.000 They came to me, Jack, which I thought was clue for, you know, Jack's not with us.

00:01:45.000 I'm really sad we didn't have Jack on phone, though, because we actually whipped up a calling graphic for him.

00:01:51.000 Yeah, we had his claim at events photo and we fed it through the Chad filter on Snapchat.

00:01:56.000 We just see it anyways.

00:01:57.000 And oh, yeah, do we have that loaded up?

00:01:59.000 We should load it up anyway because it's great.

00:02:02.000 You're going to make you look awesome, Jack.

00:02:03.000 I just want you to know.

00:02:04.000 We had to make me.

00:02:06.000 Throw that up as soon as you can.

00:02:07.000 There we are.

00:02:08.000 There we are.

00:02:09.000 That's the Greenland GigaChat, right?

00:02:11.000 Chad?

00:02:12.000 Greenland Giga Chat.

00:02:13.000 I thought you said you guys were going to put a filter on this.

00:02:15.000 Where's the filter?

00:02:17.000 That's just a normal.

00:02:18.000 You know how many people after your post asked me if you were in Greenland?

00:02:22.000 Like, I got so many questions.

00:02:24.000 You had to have got asked like a million times.

00:02:26.000 No, so actually, wait a minute.

00:02:28.000 I got to send you guys, I have to send this in the chat because, so I literally, people are like, wait, how are you back in studio?

00:02:33.000 So I flew from Davos all the way back.

00:02:35.000 I'm back in studio right now.

00:02:37.000 But check this out.

00:02:39.000 I flew over Greenland today and I actually got to like see parts of Greenland.

00:02:44.000 So, oh yeah, I met that's Caroline Levitt and Sonny Joey Nelson right outside, like literally right outside the president.

00:02:51.000 And that's, you know, with the Alps in the background there.

00:02:54.000 And that's, that's the entrance to the World Economic Forum.

00:02:57.000 Davos is kind of a dump, by the way.

00:02:59.000 It's like one of the worst cities in the world, just in terms of a city.

00:03:02.000 Like you'd never want to go there for tourism.

00:03:04.000 I suppose the skiing is like okay, but it's not even really good for like what makes it so bad.

00:03:09.000 It can't even be that big.

00:03:10.000 It's only a few thousand people, right?

00:03:12.000 No, it's not big.

00:03:12.000 What's the equivalent?

00:03:14.000 It's literally, it's a dump.

00:03:16.000 And 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.

00:03:25.000 Like everyone thinks Davos is some like high-end luxury town.

00:03:28.000 And no, it's not.

00:03:29.000 It's like super dumpy.

00:03:30.000 It's like really nothing to write home about.

00:03:32.000 Again, the view is amazing.

00:03:34.000 There's no question about that.

00:03:35.000 It's the Alps.

00:03:36.000 It's literally one of the most gorgeous places in the world.

00:03:38.000 Of course, no question.

00:03:40.000 But the city itself, it's run down.

00:03:42.000 It's kind of dingy.

00:03:44.000 There aren't really any like luxury hotels.

00:03:47.000 There's like one out.

00:03:48.000 You 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.

00:03:56.000 So what's the equivalent in America of Davos?

00:03:58.000 Oh gosh.

00:04:01.000 Equivalent.

00:04:02.000 Burlington.

00:04:02.000 Oh, man.

00:04:03.000 See, if I were to say that, see, now I'm going to like, now I'm going to offend somebody.

00:04:07.000 It's basically like, okay.

00:04:10.000 All right.

00:04:10.000 Put it this way.

00:04:12.000 Picture this.

00:04:13.000 Beach resort.

00:04:15.000 All right.

00:04:16.000 But now, beach resort in New Jersey.

00:04:20.000 Yeah, I've seen this.

00:04:22.000 It's the equivalent of going to Seattle.

00:04:23.000 I've seen this.

00:04:24.000 I'm not going to say anything because I feel like the hatred, the amount of hatred that I would get.

00:04:27.000 What's that one sound?

00:04:28.000 Do you not say that?

00:04:31.000 By the way, I don't mean Jersey Shore towns because there's some decent beach towns like Cape May, for example.

00:04:37.000 Tyler, I know you're a fan.

00:04:39.000 You cannot trash Jersey Shore anything.

00:04:42.000 You will have to be able to do that.

00:04:45.000 Avalon is very nice.

00:04:46.000 We're actually going to be talking about Atlantic City in an upcoming segment.

00:04:50.000 Myrtle Beach is like, I love, no, it's MAGA country.

00:04:54.000 I will tell you.

00:04:55.000 Justice Smarlette wants nothing to do with Myrtle Beach. 0.99

00:04:55.000 Oh, wait, wait, Ocean. 0.99

00:04:57.000 That's a great example.

00:04:59.000 Which one?

00:04:59.000 Just awful.

00:05:00.000 Just like Ocean City, Maryland.

00:05:01.000 Just terrible.

00:05:02.000 Just absolutely terrible.

00:05:04.000 It's like a carnival cruise of beach towns.

00:05:06.000 Is it like Atlantic City, maybe?

00:05:08.000 You could say?

00:05:09.000 It's like Atlantic City now, basically.

00:05:12.000 I mean, as compared to like, growing up, we used to always go to Atlantic City.

00:05:16.000 So I remember Atlantic City when it was in its heyday.

00:05:18.000 When 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.

00:05:27.000 I was all excited so I could play Sonic in the hotel room.

00:05:30.000 But yes, we actually stayed at the Trump.

00:05:32.000 And it was like, the whole town was just incredible.

00:05:35.000 And it ain't like that no more.

00:05:37.000 It's so run down.

00:05:38.000 And like half the clientele are like our Chinese.

00:05:43.000 Excuse me.

00:05:44.000 You know, they have these huge Chinese sections all over the Atlantic City casinos.

00:05:48.000 I forget why I was there, you know, a couple of years ago.

00:05:50.000 And I was like, this whole town is just trash.

00:05:52.000 Because basically, like, FanDuel came in and, you know, all Pennsylvania opened up gambling and table games and slots.

00:06:00.000 So it just, it didn't really have the allure, right?

00:06:03.000 I think we did a segment on this a couple shows ago.

00:06:05.000 We were talking about how, you know, gambling used to be sort of this thing where it was like only Vegas or only AC.

00:06:11.000 And now it's like, you just do it everywhere.

00:06:14.000 Hey, don't forget about Renee.

00:06:15.000 It's like the biggest biggest industry right now, fastest growing industry or something.

00:06:15.000 What is it?

00:06:19.000 I think it's really bad.

00:06:20.000 It's a really bad development that we have gambling all over the country.

00:06:23.000 Blake 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.

00:06:37.000 And now it's just everywhere and it's ruining a lot of young men's lives.

00:06:41.000 It's very sad.

00:06:41.000 Very sad state of it.

00:06:42.000 But I'm setting in this footage because I actually, I don't think I've ever actually seen Greenland before.

00:06:47.000 And I saw Greenland.

00:06:50.000 There it is.

00:06:51.000 Here we go.

00:06:52.000 We'll send it over.

00:06:53.000 So we'll have them pull it up.

00:06:54.000 It was gorgeous.

00:06:55.000 The mountains were really cool to see.

00:06:58.000 When 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.

00:07:06.000 Why is it all ice?

00:07:07.000 Yes, but because when the Vikings found it, it was so green that you could actually, like, there were parts of southern Greenland.

00:07:14.000 They found it, what it was like 900 AD, basically, Leif Erickson and all.

00:07:17.000 So you could see that.

00:07:18.000 We're sneezing over here.

00:07:19.000 Sorry, Jay.

00:07:20.000 Yeah, sorry about that.

00:07:21.000 No, no, I mean, I don't think it was quite like that.

00:07:23.000 I think they named it Greenland because it was a scam and they wanted to get people to move there from Iceland.

00:07:27.000 That's what I sound better.

00:07:28.000 No, you could actually farm.

00:07:29.000 You can look it up.

00:07:30.000 You could, you could.

00:07:31.000 It was.

00:07:32.000 You could farm there.

00:07:33.000 They had farming.

00:07:33.000 But it wasn't great.

00:07:34.000 They had sheep.

00:07:35.000 They had all that up right up until about the 1400s.

00:07:38.000 And then there was what's called the Little Ice Age came about.

00:07:41.000 It just wiped that all out.

00:07:42.000 Well, and then recently the sea lanes have opened back up around the ice sheet.

00:07:47.000 So it is kind of an admission that there has been ice that's melting.

00:07:52.000 Is that you?

00:07:53.000 This is you?

00:07:55.000 Yeah, this is my footage.

00:07:56.000 It's sideways for some reason.

00:07:58.000 But yeah, that's me filming that out of the plane today, looking at Greenland right there.

00:08:02.000 Surveying my, so I announced my candidacy for I want to be the first governor of Greenland.

00:08:08.000 I've got the map there on the back of the chair for as proof.

00:08:12.000 And so I'm announcing my candidacy for the governor of Greenland.

00:08:16.000 I would make an excellent governor of Greenland.

00:08:19.000 I know all about protecting borders.

00:08:21.000 And look, these are going to be new borders that need to be protected from who?

00:08:24.000 Somalian pirates and Somalian scammers. 0.99

00:08:28.000 Under 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. 1.00

00:08:40.000 That is my promise to the great people of Greenland.

00:08:43.000 I would vote for you, Jack.

00:08:44.000 I would, there you go.

00:08:45.000 I would vote for you.

00:08:47.000 Shall we get into it?

00:08:47.000 Absolutely.

00:08:48.000 Yes.

00:08:49.000 We have a very important topic that we need to jump into immediately.

00:08:49.000 All right.

00:08:52.000 And it's one that I can know Charlie would have loved a lot.

00:08:56.000 And I'm very sad we can't hear how he would react to this because we need to talk about the dinks and the Henrys. 0.99

00:09:04.000 Okay, define our terms.

00:09:05.000 So a dink.

00:09:05.000 All right.

00:09:07.000 A dink is dual income, no kids. 1.00

00:09:11.000 It describes a large number of annoying upper middle class professionals on the East and sometimes West Coast.

00:09:17.000 Lots of gays.

00:09:18.000 Lots of gays.

00:09:19.000 Lots of gay men with straight women.

00:09:22.000 Just lots of interesting.

00:09:23.000 The first place I ever heard dink was when I lived in China, actually.

00:09:26.000 That was a huge thing in China when I was there.

00:09:29.000 Oh, I thought you were making fun of their language.

00:09:32.000 Oh, and then, so lots of dinks.

00:09:32.000 Okay, keep going.

00:09:34.000 No, no, no.

00:09:35.000 And 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.

00:09:45.000 Anyway, Dinks.

00:09:45.000 That's probably referenced.

00:09:46.000 And then we're talking about Henry's.

00:09:48.000 Wasn't the Dinks also the name of the neighbors in Doug?

00:09:52.000 Remember Doug?

00:09:54.000 I think you're right, actually.

00:09:55.000 It is the Dinks.

00:09:56.000 Oh, they might have been.

00:09:57.000 Man, that's like ancient history.

00:09:58.000 Wait, the Dinks? 0.95

00:09:59.000 Doug fell out.

00:10:00.000 And if they don't have kids, I've never even heard of that.

00:10:02.000 Someone looked into that.

00:10:03.000 Someone looked at that.

00:10:03.000 And then we have Henry's Gen Zer is.

00:10:05.000 So we have Henrys, which means high earner, not rich yet.

00:10:10.000 And that is a term.

00:10:11.000 We have all these fun acronyms, and they're coming from another acronym, the fire community.

00:10:16.000 Do you guys know about FIRE?

00:10:17.000 So FIRE is financially independent, retire early.

00:10:21.000 It'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.

00:10:31.000 Charlie, as we know, was not a fan of the concept of retirement.

00:10:34.000 They want to retire ASAP.

00:10:36.000 They 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.

00:10:46.000 And it leads to a lot of very entertaining content.

00:10:50.000 And so this one, this one went viral.

00:10:52.000 This was on Reddit.

00:10:53.000 They're all congregating on a Reddit.

00:10:55.000 Not a good sign.

00:10:56.000 We need to talk about this.

00:10:57.000 Oh, we easily could.

00:10:58.000 But we need to talk about this thread that happened the other day.

00:11:00.000 And it was on the Henry Finance subreddit.

00:11:04.000 But they have a whole subreddit.

00:11:06.000 Oh, they do.

00:11:06.000 Oh, they have many subreddits.

00:11:07.000 And so the Henry Finance thread is, how do Henrys afford to start a family in New York City?

00:11:14.000 So let's just read it here.

00:11:15.000 Happy 2026.

00:11:16.000 We 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.

00:11:27.000 I'm interested in what other Henrys think about starting a family in a VH Coal vehicle.

00:11:33.000 Very high cost of living city while staying on the fire track or maybe giving up on fire to have kids.

00:11:33.000 I don't know.

00:11:40.000 Any advice would be appreciated.

00:11:42.000 So this is a family.

00:11:43.000 Giving up or delaying.

00:11:44.000 They're worried that they might just have to give up on kids or give up on financial independence because it's just too expensive.

00:11:44.000 They're worried.

00:11:51.000 Can we guess what their income is that makes them concerned that they can't save any money while having kids in New York?

00:11:56.000 Well, I know the answer already.

00:11:57.000 Well, does anyone else not see it?

00:11:59.000 Do you have a guess, Tyler?

00:12:01.000 Hmm, I don't have a guess.

00:12:03.000 All right.

00:12:03.000 Well, the answer is they make over $900,000.

00:12:07.000 So person one is a senior something in big tech.

00:12:07.000 Guacamole.

00:12:11.000 He makes $420,000.

00:12:13.000 The second person is an associate at a D-tier investment bank, not a prestigious investment bank, lower tier.

00:12:20.000 Only makes $340,000.

00:12:22.000 Basically starvation wages.

00:12:23.000 He described his wife as being part of a D-tier.

00:12:26.000 Well, he only says person one and person two.

00:12:28.000 I'm just sexistly assuming.

00:12:30.000 I thought she was D-tier. 0.92

00:12:32.000 And maybe, you know, I could make a lot of jokes here, but I won't.

00:12:35.000 Anyway, so with some other investments they have, they make over $920,000 a year.

00:12:41.000 But their reliable income is only $700,000.

00:12:44.000 Some of that is not, it's a little more tenuous.

00:12:46.000 So $700,000 a year.

00:12:48.000 And so he's thinking, how can we afford a family?

00:12:52.000 And he lays out their expenses to make it clear how much it would be a struggle to add a child to this.

00:12:58.000 So they have $113,000 in non-discretionary spending.

00:13:02.000 This is $97,000 a year on rent, $7,000 on groceries, $6,000 on bills, and $2,000 on riding the New York subway.

00:13:08.000 Wait, how much?

00:13:09.000 $2,000 on transit, he says.

00:13:13.000 And then they have $173,000 in discretionary spending.

00:13:17.000 This is their optional spending.

00:13:18.000 Let's lay it out here.

00:13:20.000 We have $32,000 a year on dining out.

00:13:25.000 We have $20,000 a year on entertainment.

00:13:29.000 We have $12,000 a year on personal care.

00:13:32.000 We have $42,000 a year on shopping.

00:13:37.000 And we have, wait for it, $66,000 a year on travel.

00:13:43.000 And I read that and all I could think of is I think I could travel full time and I could not spend $66,000 a year.

00:13:52.000 Like I don't think that that does not match my daily spend while traveling.

00:13:56.000 Blake would just sleep on like sidewalks and things like that.

00:13:58.000 No, you could just stay in like a cheap Airbnb.

00:14:00.000 These things are not expensive.

00:14:01.000 Or like hostels.

00:14:02.000 When I was broke and traveling in college, I stayed at hostels.

00:14:06.000 Even 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.

00:14:15.000 Yeah.

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00:15:30.000 No, I mean, listen, I find this interesting.

00:15:30.000 Yeah.

00:15:32.000 Actually, 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.

00:15:44.000 Oh, FHIR's financial independence retire early.

00:15:46.000 Retire early.

00:15:47.000 So their whole value prop is based around this idea, I want to quit my job as early as possible and just retire.

00:15:54.000 So they are willing to even ask the question of whether or not they should have kids because this will screw up their fire plans.

00:16:01.000 So there's obviously an entire fire community that's highly developed, that's highly ideological, and this is what their big impediment is.

00:16:01.000 Yes.

00:16:10.000 Did we look at any of the answers?

00:16:14.000 Yeah.

00:16:15.000 I just, it's funny and striking to me because I've never even asked this question before.

00:16:19.000 Like, I've never even wondered, should I have kids or not have kids because I want to retire?

00:16:23.000 Yeah, it's a huge value decay.

00:16:25.000 And I mean, I guess I don't have kids yet.

00:16:27.000 But it's fundamentally insane to me that you would reject kids for that reason.

00:16:34.000 But it is, that is the way values have evolved where people, they just prioritize these retirement plans.

00:16:39.000 Even the idea of like the kind of retire early as your main goal in life.

00:16:45.000 I understand why people do that.

00:16:46.000 It does point towards people who have jobs that they feel don't give them any meaning and they really hate doing them.

00:16:51.000 And that can be a product of work itself.

00:16:53.000 Like a lot of office jobs are terrible.

00:16:56.000 But Charlie, as we said, Charlie really believed that retirement should not be something you aspire to.

00:17:01.000 You might not always have the same role.

00:17:02.000 Like once you get old, maybe you should step away from running a big organization and focus on philanthropy or community engagement.

00:17:10.000 Take a job at your church and dial things back.

00:17:13.000 Teaching.

00:17:15.000 I think retirees should all teach. 0.99

00:17:17.000 I think we're screwing up everything in America.

00:17:19.000 We should have people that have done something and they're on the precipice of retiring.

00:17:24.000 We should be encouraging them and facilitating them to be.

00:17:26.000 A lot of people do do that.

00:17:27.000 I know.

00:17:28.000 Lawyers and stuff.

00:17:29.000 They'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.

00:17:36.000 My mom, we should do that more at high school. 0.98

00:17:38.000 Substitute teaching at high school level.

00:17:40.000 And I was like, which to me sounds terrible.

00:17:43.000 But, I mean, there you go.

00:17:44.000 By the way, this is, so what I thought of instantly, and Angelo actually flagged this for me.

00:17:50.000 Jack, do you know idiocracy?

00:17:53.000 Have you ever heard of that?

00:17:54.000 In the movie?

00:17:54.000 Yeah.

00:17:55.000 Okay.

00:17:55.000 So you do.

00:17:56.000 Yeah, I like money.

00:17:57.000 So, Faz, you flagged this for me.

00:18:03.000 Finally, I just told them that I could talk to plants, and the plants told me that they didn't want Brondo.

00:18:11.000 They wanted water.

00:18:12.000 See, I've never seen the movie, so I'm not even a good...

00:18:15.000 We actually have a clip from it.

00:18:16.000 No, that's right.

00:18:17.000 That's what I'm segueing to.

00:18:18.000 My first thought was, this is really insulting because Mexicans live like four families to an apartment. 1.00

00:18:27.000 They'll just completely, you know, have eight kids each and live in like.

00:18:31.000 No, you're Mexican, aren't you? 0.65

00:18:32.000 I'm quarter Mexican.

00:18:33.000 It's true.

00:18:36.000 Oh, yeah, that can't.

00:18:37.000 I rarely say that.

00:18:39.000 You were soliciting that.

00:18:41.000 Wait, Andrew, in all seriousness, when I was in Davos, they had Javier from Rav Español.

00:18:46.000 So you guys know that Rap Español is kicking off now?

00:18:49.000 And then Javier was like, Javier was like, Jack, you have to learn some Spanish.

00:18:53.000 And I was like, well, on Thought Crime, you know, over on Charlie Kirk's show, we got the Mexican co-host. 1.00

00:18:58.000 So, you know, who does speak some, he's pretty handy with it with the Español.

00:19:06.000 We've taken America. 0.92

00:19:09.000 I don't know.

00:19:10.000 I don't know Mexico.

00:19:11.000 I don't know how to speak Mexican.

00:19:12.000 We've taken Andrew down to the border and he's negotiating peace deals with cartel to cartel.

00:19:20.000 See, Andrew gets, Andrew, Andrew always goes so hard on the border because deep down he's kind of like conflicted.

00:19:26.000 He's self-flowing.

00:19:27.000 He's like, hey, maybe just a few camacros. 0.99

00:19:29.000 Come on.

00:19:30.000 It's okay.

00:19:30.000 Just a couple.

00:19:31.000 Just one or two.

00:19:32.000 Ninis and AI told me that a literal translation would be la voze de la América Real.

00:19:40.000 You always have to check Andrew's loyalty to America.

00:19:40.000 A real America's voice.

00:19:43.000 I'm just saying.

00:19:44.000 He's a pass.

00:19:46.000 I passed it.

00:19:46.000 I passed the totem, right?

00:19:50.000 Who won the Battle of the Alamo.

00:19:52.000 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:19:53.000 No, but I'm just saying you have to say make sure that it's that it's in good standing.

00:19:58.000 Oh man, you know what's funny?

00:20:00.000 I am like Ciampor Ciento Americano.

00:20:03.000 Like I'm 100%.

00:20:04.000 I mean I am about as American as it comes.

00:20:06.000 Because 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.

00:20:16.000 Anyways, he was my grandpa that was 100% Mexican was racist against Mexican.

00:20:20.000 Another good test besides the Alamo thing is just like how much do you relate to British history as like your ancestors?

00:20:29.000 I 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.

00:20:38.000 I love to read about English Civil War, the Kings, all of that.

00:20:41.000 And I don't know nearly as much German history.

00:20:43.000 What happened in 1066?

00:20:45.000 That's easy.

00:20:46.000 Ask me what happened to me any other year.

00:20:47.000 Come on.

00:20:48.000 That's Blake's sign.

00:20:49.000 No, no, it's the Battle of Hastings.

00:20:49.000 He doesn't know.

00:20:51.000 Everybody knows about that.

00:20:53.000 I am a daughter.

00:20:54.000 You want me to go on about this?

00:20:55.000 I have to try idiocracy, this case study.

00:20:58.000 This is the difference between Henry's and Dinks and like Mexicans, which I will claim proudly. 1.00

00:21:04.000 426.

00:21:05.000 Having kids is such an important decision.

00:21:10.000 British waiting for the right time. 0.98

00:21:12.000 It's not something you want to rush into, obviously.

00:21:14.000 No way.

00:21:17.000 I'm pregnant again.

00:21:20.000 I got too many damn kids. 1.00

00:21:22.000 Thought you was on the peel or some.

00:21:23.000 Hell no.

00:21:25.000 Must have been thinking of Britney.

00:21:27.000 Brittany?

00:21:28.000 No, hey.

00:21:30.000 There's no way we could have a child now.

00:21:32.000 Not with the market.

00:21:33.000 And only make a million dollars a year.

00:21:35.000 That just wouldn't make any sense.

00:21:36.000 Come on over here, b****. 1.00

00:21:38.000 He knows about you.

00:21:40.000 Yeah, well, there must be something he likes over here.

00:21:43.000 You mean nothing to me, baby?

00:21:47.000 It wasn't me.

00:21:48.000 It wasn't me.

00:21:50.000 Well, we finally decided to have children, and I'm not pointing fingers, but it's not going well.

00:21:57.000 And this is helping.

00:21:59.000 I'm just saying that before I have in Vitro, maybe you should be willing to.

00:22:02.000 It's always me, right?

00:22:04.000 Well, it's not my sperm count.

00:22:07.000 Yeah!

00:22:08.000 I'm gonna fall yo!

00:22:11.000 That's my boy!

00:22:13.000 It's my boy!

00:22:16.000 Clevon is lucky to be alive.

00:22:18.000 He attempted to jump a jet ski from a lake into a swimming pool and impaled his crotch on an iron gate.

00:22:24.000 But thanks to recent advances in stem cell research and the fine work of doctors Krensky and Altshuler, Cleavon should regain full reproductive function.

00:22:31.000 Get your hands off my jug! 1.00

00:22:37.000 Unfortunately, Trevor passed away from a heart attack while to produce sperm for artificial insemination.

00:22:46.000 But I have some eggs frozen, so just as soon as the right guy comes along, you know it will for generations.

00:22:59.000 Although few seem to notice, but it's getting back that is my hardy Mexican people know how to procreate it.

00:23:07.000 You know, the funny thing is, if you sneeze on a Mexican girl, they can get pregnant. 1.00

00:23:13.000 One 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.

00:23:25.000 Was it reasonable?

00:23:26.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:23:26.000 But it was high, but like not absurd.

00:23:29.000 And we were doing the math on this.

00:23:30.000 So two people, $16,000 a year.

00:23:32.000 That's like, you know, a mere $300 a person if you're going on a date night once a week.

00:23:37.000 Or it could be reasonable.

00:23:38.000 And we could have that to $150 a person.

00:23:41.000 But then you're racking up $150 per person on other stuff throughout the week.

00:23:46.000 So like a $30 meal five other times a week.

00:23:50.000 They're traveling a lot.

00:23:51.000 They are.

00:23:52.000 And that seems to count separately from dining out.

00:23:52.000 I will.

00:23:54.000 I was going to say, does that?

00:23:55.000 I 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.

00:24:09.000 No, it's genuinely a lot like going out.

00:24:11.000 It's a real part of drinks when you go out.

00:24:15.000 It's 20 bucks plus.

00:24:16.000 It's a real part of like the millennial malaise, the Gen Z malaise, where they say they can never get ahead.

00:24:22.000 They're always behind.

00:24:23.000 And I do think some of it is.

00:24:25.000 It's very easy to slip into spending too much money on that sort of thing.

00:24:29.000 And you can hear them talk and they'll just say, like, oh, I'm already behind on student loans or something.

00:24:35.000 And so $50 on this once a week, it just feels meaningless.

00:24:39.000 Yet it does really add up.

00:24:41.000 It's interesting that people, I think, that are middle-income earners, right?

00:24:46.000 They're sort of middle of the road.

00:24:48.000 They do feel entitled to a lifestyle that is much higher than them, which is previous generations wouldn't necessarily feel entitled to that.

00:24:56.000 What about Gen Z? 0.78

00:24:57.000 Are you guys just as bad as those Delaneys?

00:25:00.000 No, they spend so much.

00:25:01.000 Especially Gen Z girls, like spend an insane amount on going out. 1.00

00:25:01.000 Really? 1.00

00:25:05.000 Yeah.

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00:26:07.000 No, it's, I mean, but you think about it today, like, I mean, prices over the during Biden inflation went up significantly.

00:26:14.000 Like, even going to dinner now, like, you go to dinner.

00:26:18.000 It's fascinating.

00:26:18.000 And 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.

00:26:31.000 Because, like, people go out.

00:26:31.000 I really do.

00:26:34.000 I'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.

00:26:48.000 Like, there's nothing that's more mentally destructive, I think, for a guy.

00:26:53.000 Yeah, but you kind of insinuated that it was intentional to like stop family formation.

00:26:57.000 But yeah, I actually think the mental health expensive it is to go out and eat, it does block.

00:27:02.000 That's why the market's changed, right?

00:27:04.000 Like, what?

00:27:05.000 Well, you know what, though?

00:27:05.000 BNPL.

00:27:07.000 The market's changed.

00:27:07.000 I can do that.

00:27:08.000 Like, the market's not directed at families.

00:27:11.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:27:12.000 Restaurants are directed, not like attracting big families.

00:27:16.000 Like they did.

00:27:16.000 Like, America in the 80s and 90s, even were like, hey, bring your whole family to McDonald's.

00:27:22.000 Play places and all those things.

00:27:23.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:27:24.000 Bring your whole family back.

00:27:25.000 Back to Pizza Hut.

00:27:27.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:27:27.000 Pizza Hut.

00:27:28.000 Back to Pizza Hut.

00:27:30.000 Yeah.

00:27:30.000 I mean, all of that was McDonald's play places, McDonald's playplace nationalism, Pizza Hut nationalism, restaurants that actually have a children's section.

00:27:41.000 Long John Spizzler.

00:27:43.000 There's lobsters.

00:27:44.000 There's intentionality.

00:27:46.000 There'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.

00:27:56.000 Now they're directing towards small groups.

00:27:58.000 I think we're in car sizes.

00:28:01.000 Tyler, do you remember when they started forcing everyone to like they were trying to get everyone to buy those like tiny cars?

00:28:07.000 They were like, oh, it's it's only got two seats and it's it's all you need really for getting around the big city.

00:28:12.000 It's only got two seats and like no trunks.

00:28:15.000 Yeah, the yaris. 0.97

00:28:15.000 Remember it's like get in my yaris. 0.97

00:28:17.000 Yes, my yachts, man.

00:28:18.000 Mayan.

00:28:19.000 Because the men who drove so far only had two seats and zero balls.

00:28:22.000 Anyways, yeah.

00:28:24.000 And it was like, no, I remember, no, I had that exact same thought that Tyler was just mentioning when they introduced those things.

00:28:32.000 I don't even know what year that was, maybe like 2005.

00:28:34.000 I remember thinking, like, how can you have a family if you have one of these?

00:28:38.000 Yeah.

00:28:38.000 Like, this doesn't make any sense.

00:28:40.000 I think Blake's right.

00:28:41.000 Like Johnson of LBs. 0.99

00:28:42.000 I think we have it.

00:28:43.000 Oh, they don't want people to have family.

00:28:44.000 No, no, we have it reversed.

00:28:45.000 No, I think it's reversed.

00:28:46.000 Have you studied Agenda 21?

00:28:48.000 I don't think Agenda 21.

00:28:49.000 No, I'm totally with Tyler now.

00:28:51.000 We stopped having kids and they adapted to the market.

00:28:54.000 He was just in Davos.

00:28:55.000 No, I had the exact same thought about the cars.

00:28:55.000 Because I had the same thought.

00:28:58.000 I had the exact same thought.

00:28:59.000 And tiny houses.

00:29:00.000 No, the market required.

00:29:01.000 Yeah, the tiny house.

00:29:02.000 Like, who is pushing this?

00:29:04.000 And then, and now, like, the YouTube algorithm just serves everything to you that they want.

00:29:08.000 And that's that's what Trump talked about at Davos, right?

00:29:11.000 Because 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.

00:29:21.000 And he was that, he was doing that to repudiate the whole you will own nothing and you'll be happy.

00:29:26.000 He's like, I want young people to own a home.

00:29:28.000 I want young people to be homeowners.

00:29:30.000 We are going to make that happen in the United States.

00:29:33.000 And 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.

00:29:41.000 Like, and you know something?

00:29:43.000 It's ownership and owning things and building things that actually give you meaning and it's meaning that gives you happiness.

00:29:52.000 Not you'll own nothing.

00:29:54.000 We have a very important development.

00:29:55.000 Dinks aren't happy. 1.00

00:29:56.000 Dinks are not happy. 1.00

00:29:57.000 Yeah, dinks are miserable. 1.00

00:29:58.000 It's not, it's not good news.

00:30:00.000 We have a very important breakthrough.

00:30:01.000 Someone has pointed out Engels Nest has pointed out that Andrew has a jacket on and thought crime is a no-jacket zone.

00:30:08.000 He's breaking off.

00:30:09.000 Wait, hold on.

00:30:10.000 Totally take it off.

00:30:11.000 He's been doing it for like two weeks now.

00:30:13.000 It's cold here.

00:30:14.000 Oh, no.

00:30:14.000 Hold on.

00:30:15.000 This is called self-policing.

00:30:17.000 I'm sorry it's not as Mexico.

00:30:19.000 I love it.

00:30:20.000 I only wear a jacket because Charlie wore a jacket.

00:30:23.000 Charlie didn't wear a jacket on this.

00:30:25.000 It's so cool.

00:30:27.000 Don't ask me a former studio.

00:30:28.000 Ask him for God to make you a stronger man.

00:30:30.000 Like, where'd your blanket go from the other day?

00:30:32.000 I don't know.

00:30:33.000 He's wearing a polka dot.

00:30:35.000 This isn't a pretty gay list.

00:30:36.000 Did someone get Andrew a snuggie?

00:30:37.000 Yeah.

00:30:38.000 That was a pretty game.

00:30:39.000 Didn't MG walk.

00:30:41.000 I'm actually in my airplane space eater.

00:30:45.000 And people aren't dressing right on airplanes anymore.

00:30:47.000 Yeah, that's it.

00:30:47.000 That's a whole leather thing.

00:30:48.000 We'll have to do that another week.

00:30:49.000 What it's appropriate to wear on airplanes.

00:30:51.000 This is what I wore on the airplane.

00:30:52.000 We want to get to another topic before I think we can agree the dinks are out of control. 1.00

00:30:55.000 This will be, we should keep hitting that in the week.

00:30:58.000 I just think it's so fascinating.

00:31:00.000 And 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.

00:31:14.000 Because you don't need that much money to have children.

00:31:17.000 You can actually do it.

00:31:18.000 You can actually do it.

00:31:19.000 But 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.

00:31:27.000 And then you get to the end of your life.

00:31:28.000 You spend all that money.

00:31:29.000 You probably didn't fire.

00:31:31.000 Retire early.

00:31:33.000 Anyways, you probably had to work longer and you don't remember any of it.

00:31:36.000 You don't remember those stupid little trips.

00:31:37.000 Did you do it the ZLO?

00:31:38.000 No, this is an example.

00:31:39.000 Actually, I actually have a way to explain this.

00:31:41.000 This is an example of Pearl Drift.

00:31:44.000 Blake, I think, did we do an episode about Pearl Drift?

00:31:46.000 We did.

00:31:46.000 I think we did.

00:31:47.000 Yeah.

00:31:48.000 So 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.

00:32:01.000 So you're right, Andrew, to say that it's the Henry's, right?

00:32:04.000 This is like upper middle class.

00:32:06.000 But if you get to the actual rich, they don't live like this.

00:32:09.000 No, they're having babies at all.

00:32:11.000 They're actually very conservative, like totally in the way they live.

00:32:15.000 Well, by the way, that's why we've seen live.

00:32:18.000 Yeah, that's why we've seen.

00:32:19.000 Sorry to cut you off, Jack.

00:32:20.000 I didn't mean to talk over you.

00:32:21.000 But that's why when you get to the really, really rich people, they're having a ton of kids.

00:32:25.000 Like they're forced four babies per couple.

00:32:29.000 Elon, who, you know, surprised.

00:32:30.000 I didn't, by the way, I didn't know Elon was going to be at Davos.

00:32:33.000 I definitely.

00:32:33.000 I was like, I would have stayed.

00:32:35.000 Like, 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.

00:32:51.000 Like, it's no longer, it's now an upward tilt.

00:32:53.000 You have more kids the higher you earn overall on average.

00:32:56.000 But I think there's still the trough.

00:32:59.000 Like upper income, like upper middle class income is still really bad.

00:33:02.000 They'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.

00:33:09.000 And they're like, I can't afford more than one.

00:33:11.000 Well, there is a middle class trap in our tax code. 0.98

00:33:13.000 Like for real, you can make $300,000 to $500,000.

00:33:17.000 You're at the max of the tax bracket.

00:33:18.000 You can never get ahead.

00:33:19.000 You can never get because what ends up happening, it's a both and I will say, you end up spending more, but then you're getting tax more.

00:33:26.000 And so you're actually never really able to make traction and get up to that to that.

00:33:31.000 Well, wait a minute.

00:33:31.000 Wait a minute.

00:33:32.000 Wait a minute.

00:33:33.000 Since we're talking about making money and we're talking about building up into different tax codes.

00:33:39.000 Let's go.

00:33:40.000 So I like that.

00:33:41.000 This was a topic.

00:33:43.000 This came up because we were debating whether Greenland sale would happen.

00:33:48.000 And Jack said, of course, Greenland's for sale.

00:33:50.000 He says it's like Monopoly.

00:33:51.000 Everything's always for sale.

00:33:52.000 Oh, I thought we were saying that.

00:33:54.000 You don't have to do that.

00:33:54.000 Oh, sorry.

00:33:55.000 No, we got to get this.

00:33:55.000 We'll have to do that another week.

00:33:57.000 Sorry.

00:33:57.000 You're just admitting that you suck at Monopoly.

00:33:59.000 Yes.

00:33:59.000 Everything's for sale.

00:34:01.000 Always.

00:34:01.000 Yes, everything's for sale.

00:34:03.000 Although, I guess maybe it wasn't for sale enough because pockets were for sale.

00:34:07.000 You can buy one of them.

00:34:08.000 No, no, no, that's just phase one.

00:34:10.000 No, no, no.

00:34:10.000 Phase one is you get the deed, then you build the bases.

00:34:13.000 But once he builds four bases, then he can build the megacity.

00:34:16.000 Yeah, well, I mean, so as it happens, since we made the monopoly comparison, Jack, I actually have the Monopoly board here.

00:34:23.000 And if you look at the green, I told you we were going to talk about it later.

00:34:27.000 If you have the green lands on the Monopoly board, okay.

00:34:31.000 Okay, well, if you look at a Monopoly board.

00:34:32.000 Oh, yeah, we can't see it.

00:34:33.000 You guys have the other.

00:34:34.000 Oh, wow.

00:34:34.000 If you look at a Monopoly board, there are three green properties.

00:34:38.000 They're the ones next to Park Place and Boardwalk.

00:34:40.000 Oh, yeah, North Carolina.

00:34:42.000 Pennsylvania.

00:34:43.000 That's one of the newborns.

00:34:44.000 And Pacific Avenue.

00:34:46.000 Which they're not well named because Greenland's in the city.

00:34:48.000 You know why I never liked those ones?

00:34:49.000 It's because it was like 200, wasn't it like 200 a house on those?

00:34:52.000 Something like that.

00:34:53.000 They're not nearly as good as blue.

00:34:54.000 Yeah, and then blue.

00:34:55.000 No way.

00:34:55.000 You know why the names are like that, though, right?

00:34:57.000 Atlantic City.

00:34:59.000 Yeah, so all the names are based on streets in Atlantic City.

00:35:03.000 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:35:04.000 And it's very funny.

00:35:05.000 Like the whole thing is based on some Georgist plot to argue that we need a land tax and everything.

00:35:11.000 Is it really?

00:35:12.000 Yes, it is.

00:35:12.000 It was called the landlord's game.

00:35:14.000 And 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.

00:35:25.000 Oh, wow.

00:35:25.000 To loop back to that property tax debate we had the other day.

00:35:29.000 Yeah, because there's only a zero-sum game.

00:35:31.000 It's a winner-take-all.

00:35:32.000 Exactly.

00:35:33.000 But we did want to hit it, so I guess we have a few different monopoly.

00:35:36.000 Keep in mind, it came out in the 1930s.

00:35:38.000 I was looking here.

00:35:39.000 I was looking at the tokens that come in this game.

00:35:41.000 And you know what's missing from the sets we all had growing up?

00:35:45.000 They don't have the iron anymore, which the iron is definitely.

00:35:48.000 I remember the iron.

00:35:50.000 Yeah, I now remember being anyone's favorite.

00:35:52.000 It's like the steam iron.

00:35:54.000 It was the OG iron.

00:35:56.000 Yeah, you know, it was like iron.

00:35:57.000 It was just like an iron, just a weight.

00:35:59.000 Yeah.

00:36:00.000 Well, yeah.

00:36:01.000 I mean, it's not like a electric irons we have now.

00:36:03.000 Yeah.

00:36:04.000 You had to put it on the top of the wood stove or whatever.

00:36:06.000 So the tokens we have in this version.

00:36:08.000 What do you mean, we?

00:36:08.000 I don't iron.

00:36:09.000 The tokens we have in this version, we have the top hat.

00:36:11.000 We have something called a wife. 1.00

00:36:12.000 We have the top hat.

00:36:15.000 We have.

00:36:16.000 She's Eastern European.

00:36:17.000 It's different, Jake.

00:36:18.000 We have a little kind of terrier dog, like the, I think it was a Yorkshire Terrier.

00:36:23.000 Yorkshire Terrier.

00:36:24.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:36:24.000 Is that in the original?

00:36:25.000 Yep.

00:36:26.000 All right.

00:36:26.000 At least everything I've ever played.

00:36:28.000 Every Monopoly board I've ever played.

00:36:30.000 I don't remember the dog ever.

00:36:32.000 I do.

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00:37:46.000 So I went kind of like down the rabbit hole in this too, because my seven-year-old is like really in a Monopoly right now.

00:37:53.000 We got Phil Leopoly and we're like playing that too.

00:37:56.000 But apparently, a lot of the original, original tokens in Monopoly are not the ones that a lot of people grew up with.

00:38:04.000 So we went out and we didn't have an actual Monopoly game.

00:38:08.000 So I was like, let me just go get a regular one.

00:38:09.000 So they sell a modern Monopoly now.

00:38:12.000 And you can also get, though, the 80s Monopoly.

00:38:15.000 And 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.

00:38:23.000 But if you go back to the original originals, the tokens are like completely different.

00:38:27.000 Yeah, I'm looking at what I remember from, yeah, the one growing up.

00:38:29.000 And I think some of these were at least around by the 50s.

00:38:32.000 It's like after World War II, you had a pretty good run of like similar tokens.

00:38:35.000 So we have the thimble.

00:38:36.000 The thimble has been around for, yeah.

00:38:38.000 It's interesting they have this one.

00:38:39.000 The reason they did this was the original, original Monopoly did not have tokens, and they would basically like pick items in your home.

00:38:46.000 And so people would use buttons or thimbles because they would have sewing kits at home.

00:38:51.000 We have the race car.

00:38:52.000 That's a classic one.

00:38:53.000 That does date to the 30s.

00:38:55.000 So you got to keep the racer.

00:38:57.000 Do you know it was the Great Depression?

00:38:59.000 We have the Yorkshire Terrier.

00:39:01.000 It took off.

00:39:01.000 So thimbles were like, but I think these are all new.

00:39:03.000 I don't remember these.

00:39:04.000 I've got it.

00:39:05.000 I don't remember these from the version I had growing up.

00:39:07.000 We have the money bag.

00:39:08.000 I think this was added in the late 90s.

00:39:10.000 I've never seen that.

00:39:11.000 It's like a sack of money.

00:39:12.000 It kind of looks like a baked potato and true.

00:39:13.000 I've never seen that one.

00:39:14.000 I don't think so.

00:39:15.000 And then these I have no memory.

00:39:16.000 Do you want to know the original?

00:39:17.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:39:18.000 Let's go through the tokens.

00:39:19.000 And then we have, I don't remember any of these.

00:39:21.000 We have a rubber ducky. 1.00

00:39:22.000 Yeah.

00:39:23.000 We have a pooty cat.

00:39:25.000 We just have like a house cat.

00:39:26.000 Yeah, that's the brand new one.

00:39:27.000 You just, the one I just got has a cup of colour.

00:39:29.000 And then we have a penguin.

00:39:32.000 I definitely don't remember a penguin.

00:39:33.000 No.

00:39:33.000 These are all new.

00:39:34.000 Yeah.

00:39:35.000 So, Blake.

00:39:37.000 So, Blake, is that the one that has the new rules where they actually warn about house rules?

00:39:43.000 They warn you about this.

00:39:44.000 Oh, let's take a look.

00:39:47.000 Because, so, Tyler, you were telling me you were like really big on house rules, right?

00:39:50.000 Yeah.

00:39:51.000 Oh, yes, it does.

00:39:52.000 It says your game are rules.

00:39:53.000 House rules could be making your monopoly game longer.

00:39:58.000 Never put cash in the middle of the board.

00:40:01.000 You don't get a bonus for landing on free parking.

00:40:04.000 Always 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.

00:40:14.000 And so it's so funny because it is true.

00:40:16.000 It's like people have that they'll say, I don't want to play Monopoly.

00:40:20.000 It takes too long.

00:40:20.000 And then they make rules that make the game longer.

00:40:24.000 Yeah, no, free parking.

00:40:25.000 This is stupid.

00:40:26.000 You cannot do free.

00:40:27.000 You cannot put money in the board.

00:40:29.000 I will not play Monopoly with somebody that plays with money.

00:40:32.000 But you know what's sickening, Jack?

00:40:33.000 This is truly sickening.

00:40:34.000 So 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.

00:40:45.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, everybody knows expansions.

00:40:47.000 And one of them is called the free parking expansion.

00:40:50.000 And 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.

00:41:00.000 Like 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.

00:41:06.000 There's one where you can buy, there's one where you can buy everything.

00:41:09.000 Like you could buy go, you could buy the jail, you can buy like the tax, like all the different.

00:41:15.000 And then the last one is a jail because that sounds really cool.

00:41:18.000 They 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.

00:41:27.000 Or even you land on somebody's to make them pay you rent because you're like extorting them.

00:41:32.000 So guess what the first game pieces were?

00:41:35.000 First game pieces?

00:41:36.000 Yeah.

00:41:37.000 Iron.

00:41:38.000 Okay.

00:41:38.000 An iron?

00:41:40.000 A thimble.

00:41:41.000 That's what everyone.

00:41:42.000 A shoe.

00:41:43.000 Oh, I remember the shoe.

00:41:44.000 A shoe and a top hat.

00:41:46.000 And get this one.

00:41:47.000 Two that I did not know of.

00:41:48.000 A cannon.

00:41:49.000 Ooh.

00:41:50.000 Oh, yeah, the cannon.

00:41:51.000 And a battleship.

00:41:51.000 I remember.

00:41:52.000 Oh, yeah.

00:41:53.000 I bet it's like that was in 1935.

00:41:56.000 By 1936, they had a rocking horse, a purse, a lantern, and it just varied in 1936.

00:42:04.000 1937, they brought the dog in.

00:42:09.000 And so that lasted until after World War II.

00:42:11.000 And so then they had the battleship, the boot or shoe, cannon, horse, and rider, iron, race car, Scotty dog.

00:42:20.000 I think that's the Scotty dog, right?

00:42:21.000 Oh, yeah, there was a horse.

00:42:22.000 Thimble, top hat, wheelbarrow.

00:42:23.000 Wheelbarrow.

00:42:24.000 A guy on a horse that like the horse is like up on its hind legs, right?

00:42:28.000 I don't remember that.

00:42:30.000 I feel like there's like it has a platform.

00:42:34.000 So they added the penguin, the T-Rex.

00:42:39.000 There's a T-Rex one, a rubber duck, and a penguin.

00:42:43.000 They added that in 2017.

00:42:46.000 So they started getting super FG during 2020.

00:42:51.000 I guess we're just lucky.

00:42:52.000 Like in 2020, we didn't get a Monopoly that has the protest fist, an analytical ring a BLM flag. 0.86

00:43:00.000 But this is interesting because this must have been what men were interested in.

00:43:04.000 The horse and rider, a battleship, a cannon, and a top hat.

00:43:09.000 And women, it was iron, thimble, I guess. 1.00

00:43:14.000 I don't know.

00:43:15.000 And Scotty dog.

00:43:16.000 Yeah, like that.

00:43:17.000 That's kind of interesting.

00:43:18.000 And 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.

00:43:28.000 Sack of money.

00:43:29.000 Sack of money.

00:43:30.000 Sack of money we have here.

00:43:31.000 Fan poll added an 11th token in 1999, and that was the sack of money.

00:43:36.000 I don't remember, though, the sack of money at any point.

00:43:39.000 I don't remember.

00:43:40.000 Let me, can I see it?

00:43:41.000 The sack of money.

00:43:42.000 So here's the thing, right?

00:43:44.000 The 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.

00:43:56.000 And you're essentially creating a money printer rather than actually let the economy stay at the level of equilibrium that it would.

00:44:04.000 This is why it naturally would.

00:44:06.000 This is why people don't understand inflation.

00:44:09.000 It's just like in the real world, people don't get that because you've been playing Monopoly wrong your entire lives.

00:44:16.000 You fools, stop the house rules.

00:44:19.000 Guys, we have to take a pledge right now.

00:44:21.000 Yes.

00:44:21.000 I'm going to pledge.

00:44:22.000 I pledge I will no longer ever use the house rules in Monopoly.

00:44:27.000 You might do the expansions, but I will never, ever do the house rules again.

00:44:31.000 Yeah, do not play, do not play by house rules.

00:44:34.000 You mean you got to stick to the original rules, is what you're saying.

00:44:38.000 Actually, we sometimes kind of like that expansion pack, that jail expansion.

00:44:43.000 Blake, is that the one that's $10 with black tickets?

00:44:47.000 Blake, is that the one where they also talk about the speed version?

00:44:50.000 There is a speed version.

00:44:52.000 So 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.

00:45:04.000 You 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.

00:45:12.000 You could do it so you can go to auction on every single one and so it just like slams through.

00:45:19.000 Or you can force everybody to buy uh, every single time.

00:45:24.000 And and you can skip ahead too where there's a different dice.

00:45:27.000 Where do you do you double?

00:45:28.000 When you land on go, do you double the payout?

00:45:30.000 No no, that's a very basic one.

00:45:32.000 I've always you have a double on go and i've always with money yeah, i've always played money in the middle and then you get it.

00:45:39.000 If you land on free parking and then if you land on go, you get double.

00:45:42.000 That's how it's sickening.

00:45:43.000 That's how true, absolutely sickening.

00:45:46.000 I'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.

00:45:56.000 What do you need to build new housing?

00:45:57.000 What if, what if?

00:45:58.000 The 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.

00:46:13.000 I don't know, this is the Indian music.

00:46:16.000 Oh, the Mamdani. 1.00

00:46:17.000 Okay gosh, you guys.

00:46:18.000 Oh yeah, you know, speaking of one person winning at all.

00:46:22.000 Should we?

00:46:22.000 Can we hit this tonight?

00:46:23.000 Let's, let's hit the salary. 0.78

00:46:25.000 We need to bully Andrew while he's here.

00:46:26.000 No, i'm gonna bully you. 0.79

00:46:28.000 That's the whole point.

00:46:29.000 For 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.

00:46:45.000 There used to be rich teams and then like poor, smaller market teams.

00:46:49.000 Now 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.

00:47:05.000 Frank McCourt had to sell the company.

00:47:07.000 Yes, they bankrupted the team and so the MLB gave them a special sweetheart deal in court.

00:47:12.000 They had a $4 billion deal paid out over 20 years.

00:47:15.000 So they basically get an extra $60 million a year in TV money that other teams don't get.

00:47:19.000 I mean, it's come on, whatever.

00:47:19.000 $60 million.

00:47:20.000 That's more than I think the payroll of my team.

00:47:22.000 No, that's one contract for the Dodgers every year.

00:47:25.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:47:26.000 And so that's like, what?

00:47:27.000 Where did I just get Kyle?

00:47:28.000 What's Kyle Tucker?

00:47:29.000 I got to be honest with you.

00:47:31.000 Usually you don't fall into this trap, but like, it's a lot of cope coming from you right now.

00:47:35.000 Yeah, because I'm stuck being a Minnesota Twins fan, and they will not ever be.

00:47:41.000 They should have abandoned the Minnesota Twins.

00:47:42.000 No, I will not.

00:47:43.000 That's insane.

00:47:44.000 The George Floyd team.

00:47:46.000 Like, come on.

00:47:46.000 I mean, Minnesota's, it is pretty bad.

00:47:48.000 They're sub-right.

00:47:49.000 That hasn't been good since you had Kirby Puckett.

00:47:52.000 No, they were okay when they had Joe Mauer.

00:47:54.000 A few years ago, they had a decent team.

00:47:56.000 They had the most home runs of any team.

00:47:58.000 They're also in the worst division all of baseball by a mile.

00:48:01.000 Yeah.

00:48:01.000 Yeah, that's true, too.

00:48:02.000 But I'm trying to think who else has succeeded in that division.

00:48:07.000 It's been the Indians for the last five, six years. 1.00

00:48:10.000 Yeah, I do not acknowledge the name change.

00:48:12.000 Here's the thing.

00:48:13.000 So you had the Royals.

00:48:14.000 The Royals won, right?

00:48:16.000 Baseball is different than NBA.

00:48:18.000 It's even different than the NFL.

00:48:20.000 NFL is probably the in-between sport.

00:48:22.000 But you can have the best payroll in baseball and still lose.

00:48:26.000 And candidly, last World Series was amazing because the Blue Jays were playing better than the Dodgers.

00:48:32.000 If you watch that whole series back, the Blue Jays were the better team.

00:48:37.000 They looked better.

00:48:38.000 Their bats were sharper.

00:48:40.000 The Dodgers truly found grit and determination.

00:48:44.000 It was a miraculous finish.

00:48:45.000 The year before, they destroyed the Yankees.

00:48:48.000 I mean, it was a five-game.

00:48:49.000 Well, and the Brewers had like the best record in baseball by like five or six games easily.

00:48:53.000 And they were 23rd out of 30 teams.

00:48:56.000 I looked it up.

00:48:56.000 In total payroll, 23rd.

00:48:58.000 And they had the best record over everybody by at least five or six games.

00:49:01.000 And then the Dodgers swept them.

00:49:03.000 And then I'll say, I think I was looking this up the other day.

00:49:07.000 So the Dodgers, was it like 2013 when they got sold?

00:49:10.000 Is that right?

00:49:11.000 I think it was earlier than.

00:49:12.000 I think it was earlier.

00:49:14.000 It was like 2010.

00:49:15.000 Yeah.

00:49:15.000 2010, 2011.

00:49:16.000 When Frank O'Morrick was Christian owner. 0.78

00:49:20.000 But then the big story was that they signed a TV deal.

00:49:24.000 Right.

00:49:25.000 That's what Blake's talking about.

00:49:26.000 So there was a whole series, like, couple of seasons where you had to have, I forget, maybe it was Comcast or something.

00:49:34.000 That's kind of like where all the money really built up.

00:49:37.000 Yeah, probably.

00:49:38.000 They've signed that deal.

00:49:40.000 But then, I mean, candidly, it's been about a 15, 16-year run of the Guggenheim group just really running that team well.

00:49:50.000 So they have a good farm system.

00:49:52.000 They trade aggressively.

00:49:53.000 They're better at analytics.

00:49:55.000 They are better at player development.

00:49:58.000 So what they'll do is they, you know, they got like a guy like Max Muncie, who was a washout with A's, and then they redeveloped him.

00:50:05.000 And he's a really important batter for them, but he's not that highly paid.

00:50:10.000 They raise guys up like Bellinger is now on the Yankees.

00:50:13.000 He was a farm system product.

00:50:14.000 They have Will Smith.

00:50:16.000 He was a farm system product.

00:50:17.000 So yeah, they go out and get a lot of international guys.

00:50:20.000 They're willing to spend money for years, though.

00:50:22.000 Remember when they lost to the Trash Dros in 2017? 0.97

00:50:26.000 They went.

00:50:26.000 Doesn't the Trash Dros were treating?

00:50:28.000 Yeah.

00:50:28.000 They didn't go out and get anybody.

00:50:30.000 So finally, in 2017, after that World Series loss, they started spending money.

00:50:36.000 And then they won a World Series doing that.

00:50:38.000 They won the, I believe, well, they won 2020 during the COVID year.

00:50:43.000 Look, we don't need to narrate every single thing the Dodgers have done.

00:50:46.000 They won after they spent money on Mookie Betts.

00:50:48.000 So then they spent money on Freeman.

00:50:50.000 And then they spent money on Shohei.

00:50:52.000 And now they're spending a lot of time.

00:50:53.000 No, they have money on James.

00:50:54.000 They spent not, they have intentionally not spent money on the business.

00:50:58.000 And they're going to pay more.

00:50:59.000 It's not going to be illegal.

00:51:01.000 Here's my last question.

00:51:02.000 They pay more in luxury tax than many teams do in their total payroll.

00:51:06.000 And they still make more money.

00:51:08.000 The Dodgers should go to jail.

00:51:10.000 Every person involved, the Shohei contract should go to jail.

00:51:13.000 President Trump should come out and say, no more foreigners are allowed to play baseball.

00:51:18.000 They are such crappy losers.

00:51:22.000 Think about it.

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00:52:45.000 Here's what I'll say: it is good for you.

00:52:47.000 Let me finish my statement because that's going to get clipped.

00:52:49.000 Wait, no more foreigners are allowed to come to America and play baseball with a structured deal like that.

00:52:55.000 He was already in America.

00:52:57.000 We should tax them more.

00:52:58.000 I 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.

00:53:09.000 He's going to get paid.

00:53:10.000 Oh, yeah.

00:53:10.000 He's going to get paid 30 years from now.

00:53:12.000 Yeah, when he's all washed out, he's going to get paid.

00:53:14.000 45 years from now.

00:53:15.000 Here's what I'll say.

00:53:15.000 He's going to be still collecting his paycheck.

00:53:17.000 Jack, you know this.

00:53:18.000 Philly could spend big.

00:53:19.000 They have spent big.

00:53:20.000 They actually stole some of our players.

00:53:23.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:53:24.000 So here's the other thing I'll say.

00:53:26.000 It's good for baseball to have a villain.

00:53:28.000 Just because they won two in a row, everybody's like all butt hurt about it.

00:53:32.000 Sorry, get over it.

00:53:33.000 It's really hard to win one.

00:53:35.000 It's extraordinarily hard to win two.

00:53:37.000 It was a miracle this year.

00:53:38.000 So super defensive about year three, a three-peat is almost impossible.

00:53:42.000 If it happens, you guys can complain.

00:53:45.000 That's what really hardsmise of the farm system. 1.00

00:53:47.000 So here's what's going to happen, though.

00:53:49.000 Here'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.

00:54:05.000 And 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?

00:54:13.000 You know, just in the last couple of years, they've picked up, they've gone from no team, NFL teams to two teams.

00:54:19.000 So now they need, because they got, what, the SoFi Stadium.

00:54:22.000 So now what do they need?

00:54:23.000 They need a Super Bowl. 0.57

00:54:24.000 And when you look, I don't know what I'm just saying, man.

00:54:26.000 When you look at some of the call, the play calling in the, you know, the last, the last couple playoff games, it's kind of interesting.

00:54:32.000 Kind of interesting.

00:54:33.000 They already got a Super Bowl.

00:54:34.000 What are you talking about?

00:54:35.000 The Rams won.

00:54:36.000 When did they win?

00:54:36.000 Like two years ago, three years ago?

00:54:38.000 With McVay and Stafford.

00:54:40.000 And Stafford.

00:54:40.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:54:41.000 Like, they want to build up the Super Bowls.

00:54:44.000 Yeah, all right.

00:54:45.000 So they want them to win more Super Bowls.

00:54:46.000 No, I don't.

00:54:47.000 There's not any conspiracies of this sort outside the NBA.

00:54:50.000 The NBA isn't for the money.

00:54:51.000 They're a bigger market.

00:54:53.000 They don't want Seattle.

00:54:55.000 They don't want Denver.

00:54:57.000 Well, that's not true, though.

00:54:58.000 That's why the Royals won a win.

00:55:00.000 No, the NFL.

00:55:00.000 This is the thing.

00:55:01.000 Guys, this is why you need a salary cap.

00:55:03.000 The 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.

00:55:12.000 Kansas City is not a major market to play.

00:55:13.000 Yeah, but the NFL did not even make that comparable.

00:55:15.000 Like you have organizations, like the Jets are terrible.

00:55:18.000 Yeah, no matter what.

00:55:19.000 In the NFL, the only thing that matters.

00:55:21.000 In the NFL, the only thing that matters is how competent your organization is.

00:55:25.000 And the only place you can really spend extra, I guess, is how much you spend on your coach because that's not subject to a cap.

00:55:31.000 But it's actually quite strict.

00:55:32.000 You need a lot of skill to build a team in the NFL.

00:55:35.000 And MLB.

00:55:36.000 The MLB was just no, the Oakland A's were exactly like Moneyball was the exact ball.

00:55:40.000 The Oakland A's aren't even Moneyball anymore, and they're not even in Oakland anymore.

00:55:43.000 In fact, they're not anywhere in Sacramento right now.

00:55:48.000 There's some compelling.

00:55:49.000 I didn't pull it up before the show.

00:55:50.000 I 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.

00:56:06.000 And they get played and get benched and all that.

00:56:08.000 And it just lines up in such a way where it's like, is that really just coincidental?

00:56:13.000 Or is it just a matter of time?

00:56:14.000 You're talking about the NFL?

00:56:16.000 Yeah, NFL.

00:56:17.000 Nah, no, the NFL, like, well, we'll definitely have games as well.

00:56:21.000 There's no way anyone could be corrupt.

00:56:23.000 The NFL is against the rule.

00:56:24.000 The NFL is not going to rig its Super Bowl because if they would do that, there's a million other things that they would have rigged.

00:56:30.000 Hold on.

00:56:31.000 I just want to make a point.

00:56:33.000 Baseball is not the NFL.

00:56:36.000 It's had an attention issue, right?

00:56:38.000 People are tuning out of baseball.

00:56:39.000 It's too slow, too long, whatever.

00:56:41.000 Too easy to buy a championship.

00:56:43.000 Having a villain to root against.

00:56:46.000 I don't know what the exact metrics were, but I heard that this World Series was the most watched World Series in basically over a decade.

00:56:53.000 Massive.

00:56:54.000 Yes, it was massive.

00:56:55.000 The ratings were they counting, though, like everything from Japan and all that?

00:56:59.000 I don't know.

00:56:59.000 I don't think so.

00:57:00.000 There's metrics on Japan because a third of Japan watched or half of Japan watched.

00:57:05.000 But no, no, it was something like 27.5 million were watching game six and seven.

00:57:11.000 It was big, big ratings for MLB.

00:57:14.000 It is good for the game for everybody to hate the Dodgers and bring it on.

00:57:18.000 I mean, seven games.

00:57:19.000 By the way, I will say this: a seven-game World Series, I would take that.

00:57:24.000 No, that was great.

00:57:25.000 I watched it.

00:57:26.000 Yeah, over.

00:57:27.000 Even with teams I don't care about.

00:57:29.000 I feel like I'm Donald Trump, and you guys are all the European sniveling brats who are like, oh, we could defend ourselves.

00:57:34.000 And look at Kansas City can play anyway.

00:57:37.000 But you know what?

00:57:38.000 I'm like, I have bigger questions.

00:57:39.000 I do see, though, I'm being attacked in the chat right now, and I need to defend something.

00:57:44.000 My integrity here.

00:57:45.000 People are saying I'm saying that about the NFL because the Eagles lost.

00:57:48.000 No, no, no.

00:57:49.000 Which the Eagles lost because they ran four verts on fourth down.

00:57:53.000 The Eagles lost because the play calling on the offensive from the former offensive coordinator was retarded. 0.99

00:58:00.000 That's why the Eagles lost.

00:58:01.000 Jack is saying they lost because they got the call.

00:58:03.000 Man, there's a lot.

00:58:05.000 There's a lot of coaches.

00:58:06.000 No, no, no.

00:58:07.000 They deserve to lose.

00:58:08.000 Absolutely.

00:58:08.000 There's a lot of coach.

00:58:10.000 There are other games like that interception that was not.

00:58:13.000 I'm sorry.

00:58:13.000 There's no interceptions on the ground.

00:58:15.000 Like, this is not rugby.

00:58:16.000 You don't get to do that.

00:58:18.000 Oh, that was crazy.

00:58:19.000 Wait, was that the Elf?

00:58:21.000 I thought that was the Bills game.

00:58:22.000 No, that was not the Eagles game.

00:58:23.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:58:24.000 The stuff I'm talking about is not the Eagles.

00:58:26.000 Like, the Eagles, that was a loss.

00:58:28.000 That interception didn't bear.

00:58:31.000 That was garbage.

00:58:32.000 But if you're the NFL, you'd want Josh Allen to win that game.

00:58:34.000 Exactly.

00:58:35.000 And then they fire McDonald's.

00:58:36.000 The NFL hates Josh Allen.

00:58:39.000 Why do they hate Josh Allen?

00:58:40.000 No, they don't.

00:58:41.000 They love any good quarterbacks.

00:58:42.000 They've hated him forever.

00:58:43.000 Well, the Broncos ended up winning, and Bonex broke his ankle, so they're playing with a backup quarterback anyway.

00:58:48.000 So for Raiders, Jenny says she wanted the Broadband game.

00:58:53.000 Woo.

00:58:54.000 Because he broke his legs.

00:58:55.000 Just interrupted us to cheer the Packers.

00:58:57.000 Yes.

00:58:57.000 What happened to the Packers last year?

00:58:59.000 The Packers were defeated because they are.

00:59:02.000 Because the Bears beat them, and then the Bears almost had a comeback, and they lost to the Rams, the quarterback is in the Rams.

00:59:08.000 See the Rams.

00:59:09.000 You see?

00:59:10.000 You see what I'm saying?

00:59:11.000 Why was this a very lame theory?

00:59:14.000 What they have is we should just have the NFL.

00:59:17.000 I'm sorry, we're going to talk about baseball.

00:59:20.000 Everybody says this.

00:59:21.000 I'm not the guy who came up with this.

00:59:24.000 We 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.

00:59:31.000 That is not exciting.

00:59:32.000 And if they had a strict salary, it would have been more exciting.

00:59:37.000 The fashion would have more exciting because he's remote.

00:59:40.000 It's harder for him to chime in here.

00:59:41.000 What's up, Jack?

00:59:43.000 Oh, no, I was just going to say, speaking of the NFL, and I know we're getting to showtime here.

00:59:49.000 There's a game that they play at the end of the NFL season that's coming up.

00:59:53.000 You guys remember what that game's called?

00:59:54.000 It's like the one game where you win the big tall medals.

00:59:58.000 The dish kind of looking on the stand.

01:00:00.000 It's like a queer celebration of something. 0.94

01:00:03.000 So, well, we've got to read this Rumble rant that's in here, but I think there's, oh, it's called the Super Bowl.

01:00:08.000 That's right, the Super Starbow jet lag.

01:00:10.000 The Super Bowl.

01:00:11.000 The Super Bowl.

01:00:13.000 And I heard they're going to be having a halftime show with this queer named Bad Bunny. 1.00

01:00:19.000 And, well, Blake, do you want to read it since you always read it?

01:00:21.000 Yeah, yeah, we'll read this.

01:00:22.000 It's from Sandra Gabhart.

01:00:25.000 He's gay. 0.99

01:00:26.000 Did you guys see this exclusive Bunny, Bad Bunny?

01:00:29.000 No, he's a queer icon.

01:00:30.000 NFL's addressing down how the boundary-pushing Bad Bunny plans to use Super Bowl halftime show outfit to honor queer icons on radar online.

01:00:41.000 I assume that's just who published it.

01:00:44.000 Well, listen, the NFL is going to play stupid games and win stupid prizes.

01:00:50.000 I mean, it's not a stupid thing.

01:00:51.000 I seem to remember that there's someone, someone else is doing another event right around the same time as that.

01:01:00.000 It is genuine.

01:01:01.000 But this is exactly what we're doing.

01:01:01.000 Do you remember what that group is called?

01:01:03.000 We have stories to tell from this whole thing.

01:01:06.000 We'll probably after.

01:01:07.000 That's right.

01:01:07.000 We are.

01:01:08.000 I forgot about that.

01:01:08.000 We are, actually.

01:01:10.000 We have stories to tell about this whole thing.

01:01:12.000 The NFL is a beast, man.

01:01:16.000 It's crazy.

01:01:17.000 I told you, dude, I was told we have drama related to a big game.

01:01:21.000 No, I'm just saying.

01:01:22.000 Nobody wants to go up against the NFL.

01:01:24.000 The game that is large.

01:01:26.000 That's what Jack is getting at.

01:01:28.000 I told you.

01:01:28.000 It's more true than you realize.

01:01:30.000 I told you, man.

01:01:31.000 I was like, they're not going to like this.

01:01:33.000 They're not going to like the name half-oh, man.

01:01:35.000 Wow.

01:01:35.000 That is going to be a fun story.

01:01:37.000 No wonder we haven't heard as much.

01:01:38.000 Wait, are you?

01:01:39.000 Wait, 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?

01:01:50.000 Are you saying that?

01:01:51.000 Is that possible?

01:01:57.000 Could it be an organization that has a...

01:02:00.000 Where's the Zoom?

01:02:02.000 What the?

01:02:04.000 We did these.

01:02:04.000 We did the thumbnail looks the other day.

01:02:08.000 That's what I was trying to do.

01:02:09.000 Is there an organization that has a large number of monopoly money bag tokens?

01:02:14.000 A lot of influence to this.

01:02:18.000 That being said, I don't know, Jack.

01:02:19.000 Maybe.

01:02:20.000 Maybe we'll talk about it later.

01:02:23.000 Since 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.

01:02:33.000 And you guys are going to love it.

01:02:34.000 That's it.

01:02:35.000 It's true.

01:02:35.000 No announcements, but I can tell you you guys are going to love it.

01:02:38.000 It's going to be great.

01:02:39.000 And the team's doing a great job with it.

01:02:41.000 And more announcements coming.

01:02:43.000 And they've done a great job with it, despite some of the things that Jack was alluding to.

01:02:50.000 It's going to be fun.

01:02:52.000 It's going to be fun.

01:02:52.000 It's going to be really fun.

01:02:53.000 It's going to be fun.

01:02:54.000 And it's going to be fun to watch the reaction.

01:02:57.000 Again, there's going to be just a lot of hatred and vitriol that's thrown at it.

01:03:00.000 And I'm really excited for that.

01:03:02.000 But like you said, people are going to be very upset.

01:03:05.000 You 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.

01:03:17.000 Jack, take us home, buddy.

01:03:18.000 Ladies and gentlemen, don't be bad bunny.

01:03:22.000 Don't be an anti-American.

01:03:26.000 Instead, go out there and commit more thought crime.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 24, 2026

THOUGHTCRIME Ep, 112—NYC Dinks? Greenland Monopoly? Salary Cap?

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