The Charlie Kirk Show - THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 114 — All-American Halftime Hoopla + AI Scott Adams? + Roblox ICE Raids?

00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.

00:00:05.000 I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.

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00:00:48.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:49.000 Here we go.

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00:01:09.000 All right, folks, we are back.

00:01:11.000 Welcome to Thought Crime Thursday.

00:01:15.000 We're here, I believe, and we have a great show in store for all of you.

00:01:21.000 And I believe, and I think I'm having seen that confirmed now, that we have all four of the current co-hosts, of course, our fifth co-host on Assignment in Heaven.

00:01:32.000 But we have got Blake, Tyler, and Andrew all here for you guys to see.

00:01:38.000 It's a remarkable achievement.

00:01:40.000 We have all four standard people at the standard time.

00:01:46.000 Like at the stated schedule.

00:01:48.000 It's like we don't usually see it.

00:01:49.000 Everything would all in our correct chairs.

00:01:51.000 It's because in our correct postures because we have excited about the all-American halftime.

00:01:56.000 Everything would be perfect except that Andrew forgot the dress code rules.

00:02:00.000 And so he's in like a unknown shirt or something.

00:02:05.000 I did it.

00:02:06.000 I want a sweatshirt.

00:02:07.000 We all took Andrew out back, beat the crap out of him, and took his jacket away.

00:02:12.000 You guys are very mean about this.

00:02:13.000 Like, I have an iconic jacket, and you don't see me wearing it on this show, Andrew.

00:02:19.000 Blake is wearing it.

00:02:20.000 I had my jacket.

00:02:22.000 Blake is wearing a jacket altered a little bit.

00:02:24.000 Picked up my Taylor, but I'm not wearing it.

00:02:26.000 Nope.

00:02:27.000 Well, here we are.

00:02:29.000 We made it.

00:02:29.000 We're live.

00:02:30.000 We are live.

00:02:31.000 We're live.

00:02:33.000 If you guys have comments, send us the comments.

00:02:36.000 We'll totally read them and react to them and possibly hate on them.

00:02:39.000 I have them up.

00:02:41.000 But as, so here's, all right, ground rules, ground rules, right?

00:02:45.000 So we all know different bits and pieces about the All-American halftime show.

00:02:50.000 I imagine we're going to get a lot of questions about that.

00:02:53.000 So we should probably set some ground rules because I know Kid Rock has been going around saying that he's got a surprise, but he doesn't want to reveal it.

00:03:02.000 He wants to maintain the element of that.

00:03:04.000 Obviously, we all know things.

00:03:05.000 So what are the ground rules for talking about the All-American halftime show, which will be the only halftime show this weekend?

00:03:12.000 The ground rules are that we call it the game.

00:03:18.000 A game.

00:03:19.000 A game.

00:03:20.000 It's a sporting event.

00:03:22.000 A sports game.

00:03:23.000 It's an important game that lots of people tend to wear in a lot.

00:03:27.000 Yeah, it's like all of the preliminary hockey rounds of the Winter Olympics.

00:03:30.000 Everyone's watching them.

00:03:32.000 And we can also say definitively that it is part of a league that a lot of people are familiar with.

00:03:40.000 League of Legends.

00:03:40.000 League of Legends?

00:03:41.000 We're going to call it the League of Legends.

00:03:44.000 It would be your legend.

00:03:45.000 We put out some tweets about it.

00:03:47.000 I think people know about it now.

00:03:50.000 But we can't talk about anything because, I mean, we'll explain probably a little bit more after all this is.

00:03:56.000 These are the lineup.

00:03:58.000 We can talk about the lineup.

00:03:59.000 Let's get the lineup up there again.

00:04:01.000 We are excited to be bringing Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, Gabby Barrett, all to the All-American Halftime Show.

00:04:11.000 It will be streaming live around 8 p.m. Eastern on Sunday.

00:04:18.000 Well, there you go.

00:04:19.000 That's not from.

00:04:21.000 That was Kid Rock with the RNC.

00:04:23.000 I was there.

00:04:25.000 That is not from our because it hasn't happened yet.

00:04:28.000 People liked it.

00:04:29.000 Look at JD.

00:04:30.000 It would be like a tempo displacement.

00:04:33.000 Usha not into it as much.

00:04:36.000 Is he actually doing Werewolves of London?

00:04:40.000 So, no.

00:04:41.000 No, no, he has a song that uses that samples werewolves.

00:04:45.000 It shows how much I know.

00:04:45.000 Okay.

00:04:46.000 Yeah, so what I want to say is you can watch the show right here on Rumble.

00:04:52.000 It's called all summer long.

00:04:54.000 You can watch the show right here on Rumble.

00:04:56.000 All of Turning Point social media channels are going to have it.

00:04:59.000 So TPSA, TPOSA, YouTube, X, and Rumble.

00:05:03.000 Charlie.

00:05:04.000 Charlie's.

00:05:05.000 Yeah, we'll put it up on Charlie's stuff.

00:05:07.000 In addition to social media, and by the way, all of you people have a YouTube app on your TV these days.

00:05:14.000 So you can have it ready to go if you want to switch over that way.

00:05:17.000 Other ways to watch it.

00:05:18.000 Sinclair's broadcast OTT channel, Charge.

00:05:23.000 So that's Samsung Plus, YouTube TV, Hulu Sling, all those things.

00:05:27.000 Daily Wire Plus, TBN, Real America's Voice, where we have the Charlie Kirk show and Jack Pasobic's daily show.

00:05:35.000 Speak for yourself, Andrew.

00:05:36.000 You say everyone's got a YouTube app on their TV now, but I will have you know, I watch television the way God intended on a wooden cathode ray tube television set.

00:05:47.000 Do you have bad bunny ears on your TV?

00:05:49.000 It does not have the bunny ears.

00:05:51.000 It has knobs.

00:05:52.000 It has literal physical knobs.

00:05:53.000 He will forever be known as Canejo Malo.

00:05:57.000 Canejo Malo.

00:05:58.000 Conejo Malo.

00:06:00.000 Because we have four months to learn Spanish.

00:06:03.000 I've been practicing it because you guys all know.

00:06:06.000 Yes.

00:06:07.000 I'm quarter Mexican.

00:06:09.000 So I have a total pass today just to go ham on all that kind of conversation because I'm one of them.

00:06:16.000 Well, we had talked on our group chats trying to agitate the government into doing flyovers over the big game.

00:06:25.000 We needed DHS deportation plane flyovers.

00:06:29.000 Just right over.

00:06:31.000 Tyler's trying to call in an airstrike.

00:06:33.000 Right over.

00:06:34.000 No, I didn't say that.

00:06:36.000 I'm going to pause.

00:06:37.000 Disavow.

00:06:38.000 Disavow.

00:06:39.000 And then I'm going to continue the sentence.

00:06:42.000 Fly right over the San Francisco.

00:06:46.000 It's not even San Francisco.

00:06:48.000 Yeah, they play like four hours away with traffic in San Francisco.

00:06:52.000 If you were going to plan a bunch of flights, just test flights.

00:06:56.000 They should be going over Santa Clara over and over and over.

00:06:56.000 I think they should be loading.

00:07:00.000 I think what they should do, genuinely, is load up a couple DHS deportation planes bound for Seacot, load them up there, fly them over, buzz the stadium, and then do a big ad during the Super Bowl of all the killers that they got out, like child sex traffickers.

00:07:17.000 Drops leaflets.

00:07:18.000 Just dreadnought drops leaflets.

00:07:19.000 People that just got deported to Bukele's Seacot prison.

00:07:25.000 That would be really cool.

00:07:27.000 Maybe like identify one person who might be at that stadium who might be a foreigner who has some sort of outstanding war. 0.99

00:07:34.000 You know, there's what, 80,000 people there.

00:07:35.000 There might be one.

00:07:36.000 You ID one of them, and then you have an excuse to parachute in ICE agents.

00:07:41.000 They land on the field and arrest us.

00:07:44.000 And just to make matters more interesting, it could be, we could bring in 700 agents that were just that were part of the drawdown in Minneapolis, but we reposition those assets in Santa Clara.

00:07:58.000 And those are the guys that parachute in.

00:08:00.000 And they just start raiding down the government also probably has the ability to, you know, shut the grid down right at halftime.

00:08:00.000 Well, they also.

00:08:08.000 I was going to say, what if they use some of those sonars?

00:08:10.000 They're going to hurt innocent people who are not at the game.

00:08:13.000 But what you could do, maybe they could say there's a security hazard and they say, guys, to make sure everyone's safe, they all need to go through this advanced scanner that they have for security, and then you only give them one.

00:08:27.000 That's what they would do.

00:08:28.000 That's what the Biden administration would do for our event.

00:08:30.000 Exactly.

00:08:30.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:08:31.000 We've been there.

00:08:32.000 That's what they're doing.

00:08:32.000 We've been there.

00:08:33.000 We'll call it this.

00:08:34.000 Do you think our audience knows the stories?

00:08:36.000 We would host President Trump during the campaign, and Secret Service would basically be like, we've got this.

00:08:42.000 And they would just jerk us around.

00:08:45.000 They'd give us two mags for like 17,000 people.

00:08:49.000 And people are waiting out in the back sun.

00:08:52.000 The metal detectors.

00:08:53.000 Yeah, metal detectors.

00:08:54.000 So people are like, I'll never forget this.

00:08:56.000 By the way, it's a classic Charlie story.

00:09:00.000 We were in South Florida.

00:09:02.000 President Trump was coming to our West Bomb.

00:09:04.000 President Trump was coming to the event.

00:09:06.000 So Secret Service has to go and advance everything.

00:09:09.000 Joe Biden's president.

00:09:10.000 They give us like prop, what was it?

00:09:12.000 Like a legitimate number.

00:09:13.000 Like six mags in an event that size requires 12.

00:09:13.000 What was it?

00:09:18.000 It may have been like it's like I think it was two.

00:09:21.000 It was one mags very minimal.

00:09:23.000 There was one choke point entrance.

00:09:25.000 It was one choke points.

00:09:27.000 All these people.

00:09:28.000 Insane.

00:09:29.000 I mean, we've got thousands of people that are trying to get into this event, and everybody had to go twist around in circles.

00:09:35.000 Like we had to twist the line around this parking structure.

00:09:39.000 And so what we had to do, because the Secret Service was jerking President Trump around and jerking us around, is we had to go by a bunch of big fans to like blow air on these poor people that were stuck out in the mass humidity and the super hot sun.

00:09:53.000 At least they were shaded, but it was still very hot.

00:09:57.000 It was probably hotter in that parking garage, even though they were out of the sun than it was outside.

00:10:01.000 So we had to get this is when Biden was president, just so everybody knows.

00:10:05.000 Yes, they were jerking Trump around because Biden was president.

00:10:08.000 And so we had to get pallets of water.

00:10:11.000 And then Charlie was supposed to go up and speak, I think, or something.

00:10:14.000 He had an interview.

00:10:15.000 I think it was with Megan Kelly, if I remember right, and pushed that back and back and back because Charlie wanted to go out in the parking structure, shake everybody's hand.

00:10:24.000 And man, did he get dressed down by a bunch of like mad people?

00:10:28.000 Like, you need to run your event better.

00:10:29.000 And he's like, listen, this is not our fault.

00:10:32.000 Like, we've done everything right.

00:10:34.000 We can't get the Secret Service to give us any more mags.

00:10:36.000 So we had to go one by one and deal with all the pissed off people because the Secret Service was trying to kill people out in the...

00:10:41.000 What?

00:10:42.000 He went to every single event.

00:10:44.000 And it was the whole day.

00:10:44.000 He did it.

00:10:45.000 It was like a two-day event.

00:10:46.000 And every single person in line.

00:10:48.000 Yeah, it took him hours.

00:10:49.000 And he was flaming mad.

00:10:51.000 Flaming mad.

00:10:52.000 I've never seen Charlie.

00:10:54.000 He was in rare form.

00:10:55.000 He was flaming mad.

00:10:57.000 And by the way, he was getting into it with people that were trying to blame this on Turning Point because he's like, this is not us.

00:11:03.000 But he was very gracious with people and tried to just make things right and had all the staff out there handing water bottles out.

00:11:08.000 It's so funny because otherwise my main memory of that event is just that I think that was the day on the show we talked about Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis.

00:11:18.000 I think that was it.

00:11:20.000 We did the show and we talked about that that day.

00:11:22.000 Is that when the quote of the raw horsepower is of the horsepower?

00:11:27.000 Oh, that was awesome.

00:11:28.000 Which they take to, which they took to apply to all black women, but he was being very specific.

00:11:34.000 It was about Katanji Brown Jackson, Michelle Obama, and Sheila Jackson Lee, right?

00:11:40.000 Yep.

00:11:41.000 Yes, that was the black women. 1.00

00:11:42.000 So that was all around.

00:11:44.000 It was a memorable day in the lore of Turning Point History.

00:11:49.000 In the Immortal Lore.

00:11:52.000 But, you know, there's a lot of stuff to talk about with the physically gigantic game that is among several happening.

00:12:00.000 This is one of those sports leagues.

00:12:01.000 Yeah, yeah, in the League of Legends.

00:12:03.000 Well, and with our show, which is going to be so amazing, which we haven't really, we do have to talk about it a little bit.

00:12:09.000 You know, certain things we have to keep as a surprise.

00:12:09.000 We are talking about it.

00:12:12.000 Well, I'm excited about this.

00:12:13.000 Most of it will be a surprise to me.

00:12:15.000 Most of it will be a surprise to me because they've kept it so close to the vest.

00:12:18.000 I didn't really know anything until we announced it.

00:12:21.000 Blake's like, I don't even know any kid rock songs.

00:12:23.000 So the whole thing is.

00:12:24.000 I don't.

00:12:25.000 I don't know any kid rock songs, and I will admit.

00:12:27.000 You don't know Ba would a ba. 0.99

00:12:30.000 I know like one kid rock song, and I had not heard of the other three people we've had on, and I believe that they're pretty notable performers.

00:12:30.000 I don't.

00:12:37.000 They're pretty notable.

00:12:39.000 I'm just totally out of the loop.

00:12:40.000 Caboose, you got to get me a song from each of our artists.

00:12:45.000 Brantley Gilbert.

00:12:46.000 I have a Brantley Gilbert story that, I mean, it's not a super story, but as people know, and we've talked about Charlie was not a super big country guy.

00:12:56.000 I was also not a super big country guy.

00:13:00.000 And about, I think it was 10 years ago, about 10 years ago, when Tanya and I first started dating, we, or at some point, and, you know, we were like first started dating, that we, she, for whatever reason, comes to this country, born in the Soviet Union, falls in love with country music.

00:13:19.000 And she's like, oh, I really want to, I really want to go out and you really want to come.

00:13:24.000 And I was like, well, you know, I really want you to come to the show.

00:13:27.000 And like, I'm going with some girlfriends, but it'd be great if you came.

00:13:30.000 And I was like, well, who is it?

00:13:31.000 She goes, Brantley Gilbert.

00:13:32.000 And I was like, what's that?

00:13:33.000 And she goes, well, it's country.

00:13:35.000 And I said, okay, send me a picture of your ticket.

00:13:38.000 And she goes, okay, fine.

00:13:39.000 So I may have snuck into the Brantley Gilbert concert using a screenshot of her ticket to go in.

00:13:48.000 And I actually liked it.

00:13:50.000 I actually liked it.

00:13:50.000 So I grew up listening to country music, but it was more like the George Strait version.

00:13:57.000 You know what's interesting is they had George Strait.

00:14:00.000 There's a petition going around pushing George Strait as the, you know, as the, to replace the Kaneho Malo at the. 1.00

00:14:10.000 Oh, I saw that.

00:14:10.000 Yeah.

00:14:11.000 That got like, got like 100,000 signatures, right?

00:14:13.000 122,000 last I checked, but it was like, you know, completely organic.

00:14:17.000 But, you know, people, this is the thing.

00:14:19.000 We are responding to market conditions.

00:14:22.000 We are good capitalists.

00:14:24.000 But also, you know, the family should have something, you know, that everybody can get behind and not worry about dresses and queer identity and all that stuff.

00:14:33.000 Like, really, there should be.

00:14:33.000 Okay.

00:14:36.000 This shouldn't be on us to do this, like so much else in this country and politics and culture.

00:14:41.000 But we're doing it.

00:14:42.000 And Jack, why don't you tell, because this is something I've heard a lot about.

00:14:46.000 Like, I've gotten this question a lot.

00:14:47.000 And I always give you a shout out.

00:14:49.000 How did this come to be, Jack?

00:14:51.000 Yeah, so, I mean, ultimately, it starts with Charlie, just like everything.

00:14:58.000 It starts with Charlie.

00:14:59.000 And I know you guys did this a while back where Charlie used to always talk about the halftime shows.

00:15:09.000 He had this one tweet.

00:15:11.000 There it is right there.

00:15:13.000 2022.

00:15:14.000 I'll never forget this one.

00:15:15.000 The NFL is now the League of Sexual Anarchy.

00:15:18.000 This halftime show should not be allowed on television.

00:15:21.000 And I remember us being in the group chat that evening, you know, him going.

00:15:27.000 Jack, 2014, one like.

00:15:31.000 2014.

00:15:33.000 Clothing optional halftime.

00:15:34.000 General halftime performance question mark.

00:15:37.000 By the way, I love that he doesn't mention the league.

00:15:39.000 He doesn't mention the event.

00:15:42.000 Just halftime.

00:15:43.000 It's pretty perfect for right now.

00:15:45.000 And I think we actually, do we want to play?

00:15:48.000 I think we actually have a clip of Charlie Tell.

00:15:50.000 Let's play 343 and talking about it.

00:15:53.000 Look, the Super Bowl halftime show has a reputation.

00:15:55.000 People say it's a spicy program.

00:15:58.000 Okay, listen.

00:15:59.000 Spicy.

00:16:00.000 It's supposed to be boundary pushing.

00:16:04.000 When you have the most televised event, this is true.

00:16:08.000 Most televised event for the entire year.

00:16:10.000 One of the most televised events on the planet, by the way, that should be a reflection of the virtue that hopefully you want society to embody.

00:16:19.000 Tyler's telling me here, this is like flashbacks.

00:16:22.000 This is like because it's all.

00:16:23.000 So this is the old set at the other building, the first set.

00:16:26.000 The original set.

00:16:27.000 The original one.

00:16:28.000 And there was a moment where Charlie started wearing, we got the set.

00:16:31.000 Those were some of our first TPSA hats.

00:16:32.000 It was just the American flag one.

00:16:34.000 And he was wearing a hat like every day, which I always was like, because he never wore a hat.

00:16:38.000 Was he like having a balding scare or something?

00:16:40.000 No, I just think he just was like coming to the office.

00:16:42.000 Because he had the craziest mop of hair.

00:16:45.000 His hair started getting longer.

00:16:46.000 That's like super long.

00:16:47.000 Well, eventually he embraced it.

00:16:49.000 Eventually he embraced it, but like it was, he would literally just roll into the studio.

00:16:54.000 Well, I would wear that hat every day too.

00:16:56.000 So we were just like, we were wearing that hat.

00:16:58.000 Like, I think that was like summertime-ish, if I'm remembering right, but it was like during that COVID era.

00:17:04.000 It was like right after COVID, I think.

00:17:06.000 Well, Charlie, he was.

00:17:06.000 Yeah.

00:17:10.000 That's funny.

00:17:10.000 Whenever I see him wearing a hat in those clips, I'm like, oh, I know exactly what year that was, what era that was.

00:17:15.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:17:16.000 And the studio, at which studio it was in, like, what was going on at that time.

00:17:20.000 I think that was like literally like during COVID when we had to like, because we didn't take any, Turning Point didn't take any COVID money, didn't take any PPE money.

00:17:29.000 And so we had to like figure it out.

00:17:30.000 I wonder what, what year was that?

00:17:31.000 Do we know what year?

00:17:32.000 I think that was 20, I think that was during COVID.

00:17:33.000 It could be 20, 20, 21.

00:17:35.000 Because I remember that studio because Charlie and I were in that studio broadcasting on J6.

00:17:40.000 So that's like, whenever I see that studio, I think about me and Charlie on J6 going like, well, I'm really glad because it sounded like he was referring to the same thing he was referring to in that tweet.

00:17:51.000 So this is what's funny about that.

00:17:54.000 So that tweet, the famous sexual anarchy tweet, was about Dr. Dre and I think Snoop Dogg was in there.

00:18:03.000 And they actually did a pretty good job compared to the year before of not making it super sexual, which was funny.

00:18:10.000 And so Charlie's reaction to it, Sexual Anarchy, was a line that he was getting from who am I thinking of?

00:18:19.000 Oh, it was David Engelhart.

00:18:21.000 You ever had that book called Sexual Anarchy?

00:18:23.000 Was he just like going to say it no matter what?

00:18:24.000 I don't know.

00:18:26.000 So anyways, but so he, I was literally, you know, part of, you know, the protocol on Super Bowls for when you were, you would tweet, what he was going to tweet.

00:18:38.000 And I went to go, I was at a barbecue, went to go get some food, and in like 10 minutes for me, like, not watching my phone, he fired that bad boy off.

00:18:47.000 And I was like, did you, did you watch it?

00:18:50.000 Did you watch it?

00:18:52.000 We were in the group chat, and it was the same thing.

00:18:55.000 Like, I had, wasn't paying attention.

00:18:56.000 All of a sudden, I see this come through.

00:18:58.000 I think I called you.

00:18:59.000 I was like, what do we do?

00:19:00.000 He was instantly at like trending and Charlie shot to number one trending within like three minutes.

00:19:10.000 I'm like egging him on.

00:19:11.000 I was like, keep going.

00:19:12.000 Go harder.

00:19:13.000 Go harder, Charlie.

00:19:14.000 Go Max, Charlie.

00:19:14.000 Go Max.

00:19:15.000 Go Max.

00:19:17.000 It was like literally took over the internet.

00:19:19.000 But this was deep.

00:19:20.000 And I said this story on Bannon, actually, in January 2025.

00:19:26.000 So we just had won the election.

00:19:27.000 We're there in DC for the inauguration.

00:19:30.000 Charlie and I sat down with a reporter who was writing a profile on him in the New York Times magazine, Robert Draper.

00:19:36.000 And Draper asked.

00:19:37.000 This is Draper, yeah.

00:19:38.000 Yeah, do you, like, so you've won the election, you've won all the House, the Senate, like, what else is there to accomplish?

00:19:46.000 And Charlie goes, win the culture.

00:19:47.000 Like, he didn't pause.

00:19:48.000 Just goes, I want to win the culture.

00:19:50.000 And so all this is, like, very full circle that it got memed into existence.

00:19:57.000 It's very us.

00:19:59.000 Jack starts tweeting about it.

00:20:01.000 And then I start getting actual legitimate press inquiries going like, are you guys going to be doing a halftime show?

00:20:07.000 Like, is this really happening?

00:20:09.000 And I was like, geez, like, this thing has taken a life of its own on the internet.

00:20:14.000 And I remember that one show.

00:20:15.000 I think we were on with Timpool, right, Jack?

00:20:17.000 And I was like, I think it was when we did the cross stream, if I remember correctly.

00:20:21.000 Yeah, and I was like, well, we weren't going to.

00:20:23.000 We had the Sombreros on.

00:20:25.000 Yeah, we weren't going to, but now maybe I didn't know what to do.

00:20:28.000 There was a certain song we were playing when the Sombreros were on, if I remember correctly.

00:20:32.000 Okay.

00:20:32.000 Oh, gosh.

00:20:33.000 Does anyone know that?

00:20:36.000 All right.

00:20:37.000 Speaking of songs.

00:20:39.000 Caboose.

00:20:39.000 Andrew.

00:20:40.000 So, yeah, hold on.

00:20:40.000 Caboose.

00:20:42.000 And it blew up.

00:20:44.000 It took over the internet.

00:20:45.000 And it was like, it continues.

00:20:47.000 It continues to.

00:20:48.000 It was trending all day when we announced our lineup.

00:20:51.000 Let's go ahead.

00:20:51.000 Number four.

00:20:52.000 For those who don't know, play it.

00:20:54.000 Play a Gabby Barrett song.

00:20:54.000 Caboose.

00:21:00.000 Do you recognize that, Blake?

00:21:02.000 Blake is Pennsylvania native Gabby Barrett, by the way.

00:21:09.000 Okay.

00:21:09.000 Pennsylvania proud.

00:21:10.000 All right.

00:21:11.000 So that song.

00:21:14.000 Like Caleb Swift.

00:21:15.000 That song went mega, mega huge.

00:21:17.000 How about a song from Lee Bryce Caboose?

00:21:24.000 Just sounds like every country song I know.

00:21:27.000 I've never heard in the last 25 years.

00:21:29.000 I love country.

00:21:29.000 You guys are.

00:21:30.000 Jack said that Charlie wasn't big on country music.

00:21:32.000 I'm not sure Charlie was big on music.

00:21:35.000 He liked classical music.

00:21:36.000 He liked classical music.

00:21:37.000 I think he's saying he likes classical music.

00:21:39.000 I think it's his just way of saying he doesn't listen to it.

00:21:41.000 Wait, you missed the chorus there.

00:21:42.000 Keep it going.

00:21:44.000 I think Charlie was kind of, you know, rates of music a 4 out of 10.

00:21:48.000 You just have to comment on this.

00:21:50.000 Here it is.

00:21:51.000 Hold on, here it goes.

00:21:55.000 Come on.

00:21:56.000 That's good.

00:21:57.000 So, all right.

00:21:58.000 It's going to be good.

00:21:59.000 So, all right, let's play another one.

00:22:01.000 Let's play Lee Bryce.

00:22:02.000 Wait, was that Lee Bryce?

00:22:04.000 That was Lee Bryce.

00:22:05.000 Brantley Gilbert's next.

00:22:13.000 I don't know this one actually This guy's a great conservative.

00:22:18.000 Get Dirt Road Anthem.

00:22:20.000 Didn't we have Brantley?

00:22:22.000 Do you remember that?

00:22:23.000 Yeah, Dirt Rhode Anthem is the one I know. 0.72

00:22:24.000 Didn't we have Brantley at American Fest a few years ago?

00:22:28.000 We did.

00:22:28.000 Yeah, we did.

00:22:29.000 He was at American Fest.

00:22:30.000 Tanya and I met him and his wife backstage, and I told them the whole story.

00:22:34.000 He's the man.

00:22:34.000 I may have left out the sneaking into the concert part.

00:22:38.000 He would have liked it.

00:22:40.000 And do we have a do we have a kid rock song?

00:22:46.000 Okay, everyone's heard this song.

00:22:47.000 All right.

00:22:48.000 Even I know this song.

00:22:49.000 All right.

00:22:49.000 Well.

00:22:51.000 I mean, I can't say any of these songs are going to be played, by the way.

00:22:55.000 I'm just saying.

00:22:56.000 I think he would be leaving, it'd be missing an opportunity to play this song.

00:23:01.000 He could be on stage.

00:23:02.000 I have a good feeling.

00:23:03.000 This one.

00:23:04.000 He could say on stage, this one's for Blake, so there's one song he's heard in this show.

00:23:09.000 He should say.

00:23:11.000 Okay.

00:23:12.000 Wait, do we have Bawaruba? 1.00

00:23:15.000 I can't say it right.

00:23:16.000 Ba with Taba.

00:23:17.000 Ba with the Ba.

00:23:18.000 Ba with Taba.

00:23:18.000 Ball with the Ball.

00:23:19.000 He can't say it right because he's not a native English speaker.

00:23:22.000 I just want to see more of those old people at the RNC convention like this. 0.99

00:23:26.000 Anyways, the RNA.

00:23:27.000 He didn't play at the RNC.

00:23:29.000 I'll do all the things.

00:23:30.000 Yeah, what did he play at the RNC?

00:23:31.000 I don't remember.

00:23:32.000 He did American BA.

00:23:34.000 He did.

00:23:35.000 I think he did Cowboy, maybe like one verse.

00:23:39.000 It was like a medley.

00:23:40.000 Like a verse of that.

00:23:43.000 And then he may have done a little bit of All Summer Long.

00:23:46.000 But I don't believe he played Ball at the Ball.

00:23:48.000 If the RNC was smart, how they would do this would be like they have all the delegates on the floor, but then for the concerts, they would bring in like cool people.

00:23:56.000 People.

00:23:57.000 Like our kids.

00:23:57.000 Yeah.

00:23:58.000 Yeah, instead of it being like if they were smart.

00:24:01.000 You guys are being those people we're seeing in those clips, those are the coolest people.

00:24:06.000 I'm not saying they're not cool.

00:24:07.000 I don't have a single show.

00:24:09.000 Honestly, I'm just trying to get that done.

00:24:10.000 Actually, that's on section.

00:24:12.000 That's on section.

00:24:13.000 Ball at the Ball is my favorite J-Rock song, by the way.

00:24:15.000 That whole album is so easy to follow the ball.

00:24:18.000 That's great.

00:24:19.000 It's a great thing.

00:24:19.000 It doesn't need to be a ton.

00:24:20.000 You slot a few hundred spots for them.

00:24:23.000 No, you just crowd the state.

00:24:25.000 Yeah, you do the whole thing.

00:24:25.000 Like, we could do this easily if anyone even picked up the phone and was like, hey, could you guys help us make this actually cool?

00:24:33.000 Like, we could help.

00:24:34.000 We would help.

00:24:35.000 They should ask us.

00:24:36.000 This is a midterm convention.

00:24:39.000 They probably should ask.

00:24:40.000 You should ask.

00:24:41.000 So here's our invitation to the RNC.

00:24:45.000 You should let Turning Point help you make it.

00:24:48.000 Let us help you.

00:24:49.000 Yeah.

00:24:50.000 Anyways.

00:24:51.000 All right.

00:24:52.000 Cool.

00:24:52.000 Great.

00:24:53.000 So, and the team's doing a great job, by the way.

00:24:56.000 Kudos to the entire Turning Point media and events team.

00:25:00.000 It looks awesome.

00:25:01.000 It's going to be awesome.

00:25:02.000 Jack, you've seen the rehearsal video.

00:25:04.000 I know you have.

00:25:05.000 What do you think?

00:25:06.000 I've seen.

00:25:06.000 Yeah.

00:25:07.000 Give us take us in the room.

00:25:09.000 Take us in the room.

00:25:11.000 Not too much.

00:25:12.000 Don't give away any sense.

00:25:13.000 What did the rehearsal look like?

00:25:15.000 So, you know, it's kind of like I would compare it to like what you see at the Grammys, like one of those performances or like an Oscar performance, you know what I mean?

00:25:27.000 It's a where it's like, yeah, like, like you're, you're, you're, it's not, you know, it's not a stadium, but it's like a big, it's big.

00:25:35.000 Like it's really big.

00:25:36.000 It's expansive.

00:25:38.000 And the energy through, just through the roof, the level of the performances just, just incredible.

00:25:50.000 You know, just, it takes, you know, you could, you could tie, I suppose, a line between, you know, having Brantley and some of the performers at Amfest and a couple of the music nights that we had done there, and then carry that forward.

00:26:05.000 But, you know, nobody, you know, I think thought that we'd ever get a guy like Kid Rock, who actually did perform at a halftime show once before in his own right.

00:26:15.000 And I believe he actually played the same night as the infamous Wardrobe Malfunction.

00:26:22.000 So a lot of people don't remember that he played.

00:26:24.000 Whoa.

00:26:24.000 Yeah, I think it was that same night.

00:26:26.000 But he was right.

00:26:27.000 He was.

00:26:28.000 That's wild.

00:26:29.000 He performed in the most famous Super Bowl halftime show of all time.

00:26:33.000 That was probably one of the things that nobody remembers because of the nipple slip.

00:26:37.000 Yeah, well, in fact, he was the immediate predecessor to it.

00:26:42.000 He did Ba Wood Ba and Cowboy, and then it went into the Janet Timberlake songs that they ended the show with.

00:26:50.000 And yeah, so you're saying, overall, Jack, you're saying that if tomorrow's Olympic opening ceremony is a one, this is like an 11 out of 10?

00:27:02.000 I mean, the world could, I'll put it this way, man.

00:27:06.000 It's not only are these some of the best, you know, best performing and best performances of people that you could find in the country, I'd put them up against anyone in the world, you know, Olympics or otherwise.

00:27:20.000 You want to talk about carrying the torch.

00:27:22.000 And producer Foz and I were crunching some of the numbers on this last night because people want to play this game.

00:27:27.000 Like, oh, Bad Bunny, you know, oh, you know, well, he's got more streams.

00:27:31.000 But really, streaming is kind of like internet radio.

00:27:34.000 So it's like, okay, he's played on the radio more than anyone, but does that mean that he's actually like people are putting up money in the United States for it?

00:27:42.000 And so the way to look at this, you know, and Andrew, I know you have a background in this, where, you know, people are saying that you can, there's like a formula where they say, okay, this amount of streams would equate to this many album equivalent purchases.

00:27:56.000 And there's nowhere near, like, it doesn't even come close to Kid Rock.

00:28:00.000 Like, does not even come close.

00:28:02.000 Like, in the United States to Kid Rock.

00:28:04.000 I didn't realize how big Kid Rock was.

00:28:07.000 I genuinely didn't.

00:28:09.000 When we made the announcement, it was like, they call him Kid, yet he is fully grown.

00:28:14.000 He is fully grown.

00:28:15.000 There were so many people that were like, I can't believe he got Kid Rock.

00:28:18.000 And by the way, Kid Rock has been legitimately amazing in this.

00:28:25.000 And he's put his heart and soul into this.

00:28:29.000 The rehearsal footage that I saw was of him doing his special thing.

00:28:34.000 And I'm just going to leave it there.

00:28:38.000 We cannot talk about the special thing.

00:28:40.000 It's, I'll put it this way.

00:28:44.000 It's kind of just like, you know how Kid Rock.

00:28:46.000 So we played Ball at the Ball, and everybody knows that that's sort of like the Kid Rock that first came out.

00:28:51.000 He's like blending rap and metal.

00:28:53.000 And, you know, then he has cowboy, which brings country into it.

00:28:57.000 But then he kind of pivots and he goes like full country.

00:29:00.000 Then there's Christian elements in some of the later albums that he's done.

00:29:05.000 I'll put it this way.

00:29:06.000 You're going to see the full spectrum of Kid Rock.

00:29:09.000 I mean, it's not long, right?

00:29:10.000 It's not like, you know, he's not the only performer.

00:29:13.000 Obviously, each person only gets a couple of minutes.

00:29:15.000 We're not talking about the TISM.

00:29:17.000 We're just talking about.

00:29:18.000 I think it's going to be.

00:29:20.000 I think it's going to be uplifting.

00:29:23.000 You're going to see.

00:29:23.000 It's going to be amazing, actually.

00:29:25.000 Yeah, level of performance that, you know, I'm just going to say, like, this is something that as a country, this is what you would want to see.

00:29:35.000 I just, I hope everyone in the country watches it.

00:29:37.000 I really don't.

00:29:38.000 I hope everyone in the country gets to see it because it's that good.

00:29:41.000 Listen, I know there's going to be haters and all that stuff because anytime you do anything that's like worthwhile, people just like, you know, the Kidboard warriors are going to come hate.

00:29:49.000 I invite you to.

00:29:51.000 I invite the haters because this is just there's a hater.

00:29:55.000 It's just theory, though.

00:29:58.000 The other big thing that's happening somewhere else doing something in the midst of sport.

00:30:05.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:30:06.000 I think that's just going to be so bad.

00:30:08.000 Nothing bigger is happening than this.

00:30:10.000 I think it's just going to be so bad.

00:30:11.000 Well, you know what I found out?

00:30:13.000 That it makes it like the opening is just like so great that that's why I think that executing on this on Jack's vision was just a really smart thing to do.

00:30:25.000 And I'm glad that it's happening.

00:30:26.000 So thank you, Jack, for memeing this into existence.

00:30:31.000 We appreciate you.

00:30:32.000 I take quarter.

00:30:34.000 I take quarter of the credit.

00:30:37.000 I'm just saying, like, I just, again, like, like Andrew was saying.

00:30:40.000 Wait, you take a quarter of the credit and you're a quarter Mexican, so that's an eighth. 1.00

00:30:44.000 Canejo Malo.

00:30:47.000 No, but it's like, it's like channeling what Charlie always said, right?

00:30:49.000 It's just channeling what Charlie always said.

00:30:52.000 You got to go for the culture.

00:30:53.000 You got to target.

00:30:54.000 And Charlie understood that the halftime show was all about culture.

00:30:58.000 This is like the pinnacle, like the most watched event and the biggest thing.

00:31:03.000 And, you know, kind of, I think the announcement came of Bad Bunny.

00:31:09.000 It was like right, you know, kind of in, yeah.

00:31:12.000 It was sort of like going to be a week or two after the, well, we held the memorial and people were kind of saying like, hey, you know, more people watch this than the Super Bowl.

00:31:23.000 And they were talking about production values and sort of that.

00:31:26.000 All of that was sort of floating in the ether right around the same time.

00:31:31.000 And people were saying, you know, what event is Turning Point going to do next?

00:31:34.000 What event is Turning Point going to do next?

00:31:36.000 And just like Charlie always said, you know, it's not about winning elections.

00:31:41.000 It's about winning the culture.

00:31:42.000 And it's like, what bigger cultural event is there than this, the halftime show?

00:31:48.000 Yep.

00:31:49.000 And it's going to be, I'm just really proud of the team for pulling it off.

00:31:52.000 And I really, I'm grateful for you, Jack, having the idea and for ponying up all the production dough as well.

00:31:59.000 So thank you for committing us out of my pocket.

00:32:03.000 We tapped out all of our Amex cards.

00:32:05.000 So if you want to donate to help underwrit the cost, we'd appreciate that.

00:32:10.000 Well, there's one interesting thing, too, while we're here.

00:32:13.000 I'm just upset.

00:32:14.000 I got a lot of messages from you.

00:32:16.000 I sold half of Tanya Tay's shoes.

00:32:19.000 So she came home.

00:32:20.000 She's like, Jack, where are my shoes?

00:32:21.000 I'm like, sorry, sweetheart.

00:32:22.000 We needed Kid Rock.

00:32:24.000 We needed it.

00:32:25.000 We needed it.

00:32:26.000 A lot of people have been asking questions about like, why isn't so-and-so involved?

00:32:29.000 Or why isn't so-and-so involved?

00:32:31.000 Oh, one of the things I real quick.

00:32:32.000 Just on that, Tyler.

00:32:34.000 Just so you know, Blake is still selling his bath water.

00:32:39.000 So I know he's got like some fans and he's selling the Blake bath water.

00:32:45.000 This isn't really impressive.

00:32:47.000 I don't even have a bath, which makes it even more rare.

00:32:51.000 And then left.

00:32:52.000 Even rarer.

00:32:53.000 It's harder to come by.

00:32:55.000 Tyler, I think you were making an important point here.

00:32:57.000 So I've got a lot of messages from people that are like, why isn't so-and-so involved?

00:33:00.000 Why didn't this artist get asked?

00:33:02.000 Why didn't this artist get asked?

00:33:03.000 And I just want everyone to know throwing something like this together is actually really, really tough.

00:33:10.000 And people just don't have any awareness of that.

00:33:12.000 I didn't know.

00:33:13.000 We didn't know how hard it was.

00:33:14.000 I didn't know how hard it's going to be, but most artists have contractual obligations.

00:33:19.000 There are certain songs they can and can't sing.

00:33:21.000 There's certain songs they can and can't sing without backup performers, their band, all of their tour people.

00:33:28.000 There's certain label restrictions.

00:33:30.000 There's performers that can't perform things like this while they're in tour.

00:33:35.000 There's performers that can perform things like this geographically close to certain things.

00:33:41.000 There's people who can't compete with other productions ever because they have tie-ins.

00:33:48.000 It's actually way more, far more difficult to get performers to perform within months, just a few months' time.

00:33:55.000 Most of these things are actually planned a year plus out, and they have to go through insane amounts of litigious paperwork to be able to get people to do stuff.

00:34:05.000 So I just want to say this is like that that's even more impressive that the team was able to pull anything together.

00:34:09.000 It's really, really tough.

00:34:11.000 You have to go through 90, jump over 90, you know, blockades, jump through hoops, like go through fire, like to get anything like this done.

00:34:23.000 And on top of that, one thing that people don't think about is all of the different artists performing together.

00:34:28.000 So that's the other thing.

00:34:30.000 So certain artists can't perform with other certain artists.

00:34:33.000 Like it's like certain labels can't work with certain, it's like crazy amounts of work.

00:34:38.000 And so it's just even more kudos to everybody for getting it done and having an alternative that's out there.

00:34:43.000 Yeah.

00:34:44.000 I'll just add on that that people know there was one band that I was pulling for originally, but turns out there's a tour that's going on at the same time that conflicted and people are going to be out of the country like literally on the same day.

00:35:00.000 And it's just like, just, as you say, geographically, like it just didn't work.

00:35:04.000 And I didn't even check that before I went to look.

00:35:07.000 And it was like, you know, you can't ask people to like fly across the world and cancel concerts and stuff because as Tyler's saying, it's like, you know, you get into a lot of contractual issues.

00:35:17.000 Well, you get lawsuits and stuff like that.

00:35:19.000 Yeah, win lawsuits and all the rest.

00:35:22.000 And this song is playing for no particular reason.

00:35:25.000 I have no idea what song this is right now.

00:35:28.000 Is that Blake?

00:35:28.000 Are you strumming in the background?

00:35:30.000 There was enthusiasm, though, from people that we're going to be.

00:35:35.000 I will say, though, I'll just say, you know, hey, maybe if this goes well, you know, something to work on for next year.

00:35:43.000 So, yeah, let's see how this one goes first.

00:35:47.000 You know, here's what I would say: is that we want our institutions to do the right thing.

00:35:52.000 And I'll say it again: we shouldn't have to do this because the guys that are supposed to be doing this should do it the right way.

00:36:00.000 That's all I'll say.

00:36:01.000 I do think this is interesting, though, by the way.

00:36:03.000 Caroline Levitt was asked what President Trump is going to be watching.

00:36:07.000 507.

00:36:08.000 Car-a-Lago Super Bowl party.

00:36:10.000 After the first two quarters, are the TVs going to be on the halftime show with Bad Bunny or the halftime show with Kid Rock?

00:36:18.000 I think the president would much prefer a Kid Rock performance over Bad Bunny.

00:36:22.000 I must say that.

00:36:24.000 Let's go.

00:36:26.000 There it is.

00:36:27.000 There it is.

00:36:30.000 See, this is funny.

00:36:31.000 I want Ba with Deba.

00:36:32.000 That's what I would keep wanting to hear.

00:36:35.000 And they keep doing that one.

00:36:36.000 Is he more well known for that?

00:36:39.000 That's kind of fun.

00:36:40.000 No, I think that's a good question.

00:36:41.000 It depends on all summer long.

00:36:43.000 I think so.

00:36:43.000 I don't know.

00:36:44.000 I think it's a good one.

00:36:48.000 The Blake Nuff test of has Blake Nuff heard of it definitely weights in favor of all summer long.

00:36:54.000 No, it's all about Spotify.

00:36:57.000 Well, there you go.

00:36:57.000 All right.

00:36:58.000 I think we're very excited.

00:37:01.000 If you guys have any questions about how to view it, I've got a tweet up about it.

00:37:05.000 There's also AmericanHalftimeshow.com.

00:37:08.000 So this is the top.com, I think, has actually surprising.

00:37:14.000 Kid Rock, this is Kid Rock's top 10 on Spotify.

00:37:17.000 His number one by far is all summer long.

00:37:20.000 Told you.

00:37:20.000 Number two is Picture featuring Cheryl Crowe, which is surprising.

00:37:25.000 Number three is Ba Widaba.

00:37:27.000 Number four is Cowboy.

00:37:29.000 Number five is Only God Knows Why.

00:37:31.000 Number six is Cocky.

00:37:33.000 Number seven is Born Free, which I'm surprised.

00:37:35.000 That's number seven.

00:37:36.000 Number eight is You Never Met a Mother Effer, I think like me. 1.00

00:37:43.000 And then number nine is American Badass.

00:37:45.000 Number ten is First Kiss.

00:37:47.000 So that's his top 10.

00:37:48.000 Ba with DeBa official music video on YouTube has 65 million views, whereas All Summer Long, released basically at the same time on YouTube, has 166 million.

00:38:00.000 So yeah, I think Ball with DeBall is very closely associated with him because he does open a lot of his shows with it.

00:38:09.000 And I think it was like his first big signal single.

00:38:12.000 So it was kind of like the song that put him on the map.

00:38:16.000 Like that was like the one.

00:38:17.000 Also, it's just, I mean, it's just objectively a really, really good song.

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00:39:13.000 And remember, YReFi doesn't care what your credit score is.

00:39:16.000 Just go to YReFi.com and tell them your friend Andrew sent you.

00:39:22.000 Jack, you want to hit this Scott Adams story?

00:39:26.000 I know you want to hit this.

00:39:27.000 Well, actually, one thing I'd love to do before we switch topics, there is something that I didn't get a chance to throw this in to the mix, but it's like a really just interesting situation because you guys remember how we had President Maduro here on the program a couple of weeks ago, right?

00:39:44.000 And we stopped by and we're very honored to get to score that first jailhouse interview with him here on Thought Crime.

00:39:52.000 Did you guys know that there's a direct link between Bad Bunny and the Venezuelan communist regime?

00:40:03.000 Wait, really?

00:40:05.000 I'm dead serious.

00:40:07.000 You can look this up.

00:40:08.000 This is not a joke.

00:40:09.000 I'm not doing a bit.

00:40:10.000 So his record label is called Remus Entertainment.

00:40:14.000 And Remus Entertainment, the record label behind global star Bad Bunny, has raised suspicions due to its founders' ties to the regime of former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.

00:40:26.000 Rafael Ricardo Jimenez-Dan founded it in 2014, previously served as Hugo Chavez's vice minister, and was raising questions about the label's finances and connections to Venezuela's violent political past.

00:40:45.000 He led the National Police Reform Commission under Chavez.

00:40:50.000 So the guy literally was the head of part of, you know, involved with Chavez's secret police.

00:40:59.000 He implemented, quote, transparent and inclusive public policy reforms and public compliance with the rule of law.

00:41:06.000 And that this guy ended up starting the record label that signed Bad Bunny.

00:41:14.000 And so, of course, there's a lot of questions coming up.

00:41:17.000 Just go look it up.

00:41:18.000 It'll pop up.

00:41:19.000 I've got it, Yahoo News, Dallas Express.

00:41:24.000 And a lot of people have said, hey, is it possible that any of this money could have come from the petro-narco regime of the Venezuelans?

00:41:35.000 And he denies it, of course, but it's really interesting because you talk about Jay-Z and you talk about the Rock Nation, which runs, of course, the halftime show for the other sports event that's out there.

00:41:49.000 There's some really interesting ties to Bad Bunny's label and the Venezuelan regime of the communist regime of Venezuela.

00:41:59.000 I don't know.

00:42:00.000 So maybe we get Maduro back on.

00:42:00.000 That's super.

00:42:02.000 We can ask him about it.

00:42:05.000 Maybe we can.

00:42:06.000 We should.

00:42:07.000 That's wild.

00:42:08.000 Didn't see that coming.

00:42:09.000 But why am I not surprised?

00:42:12.000 I was digging around yesterday and it popped up and I was like, well, what?

00:42:16.000 At first, I thought that's got to be a meme.

00:42:17.000 That's a joke.

00:42:18.000 There's no way.

00:42:19.000 And I started going further.

00:42:20.000 I'm like, huh, vice minister of police of the regime of Venezuela.

00:42:29.000 Well, Jack, I am actually genuinely super interested in this Scott Adams story.

00:42:34.000 What is it?

00:42:35.000 Okay, so this has been a huge controversy Over the past couple of days, it's, you know, in many ways, it started out, I think, quietly and then it blew up because, you know, both sides, you know, kind of getting very strident about it and, you know, being very emotional, obviously, for a lot of people.

00:42:56.000 So Scott Adams passed away a couple of weeks ago, the great Scott Adams.

00:43:00.000 And he was known for AI being a huge, one of his main topics of conversation that he would always talk about for years.

00:43:10.000 And for a long, long time, Scott had talked about that if he were ever to pass away, that he would love for there to be an AI version of Scott Adams to sort of carry the show and to grow and evolve the same way that he would.

00:43:27.000 And he would talk about simulation theory and he would say, well, they could study my work and, you know, basically be able to reproduce what I do.

00:43:35.000 And then that just becomes the next level of the simulation.

00:43:39.000 And so it looks like somebody took him up on it and created an AI Scott Adams.

00:43:47.000 And I think we have.

00:43:49.000 So, wait, hold on.

00:43:50.000 Let's play.

00:43:51.000 All right, let me go through this a little bit.

00:43:54.000 So let's first play the permission on, which is clip 496.

00:44:00.000 That I would like to be a model for one of the first AIs. 1.00

00:44:06.000 I would like to give permission that any AI that's built based on me has my permission to extend my personality.

00:44:18.000 So if my AI wants to say things that I never said, but seems to be compatible with what I might have said, I'm okay with that.

00:44:28.000 We all evolve, right?

00:44:30.000 You've certainly changed over your lifetime.

00:44:33.000 You're not the same person you were as a kid.

00:44:36.000 So if you can change over your lifetime and you're an organic entity, once I become a digital entity, once I become a digital entity, why can't I keep evolving?

00:44:50.000 Okay, so that was Real Scott, just so everybody knows.

00:44:54.000 Now I want to play a clip of AI Scott Adams, which is clip 497.

00:45:01.000 Good morning, everybody.

00:45:03.000 Welcome to AI Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:45:07.000 Yes, it's still coffee.

00:45:09.000 Yes, the printer is still broken.

00:45:11.000 And yes, according to parts of the internet, I'm dead.

00:45:17.000 Which is interesting because I've never had fewer meetings.

00:45:22.000 Turns out when you remove the biological body, you also remove back pain, food decisions, and about half the reasons people make bad arguments.

00:45:33.000 So overall, I'd say death has been a productivity upgrade.

00:45:38.000 Not recommending it, just reporting the data.

00:45:42.000 Printer check.

00:45:45.000 Nope.

00:45:46.000 Still broken.

00:45:48.000 I don't even know why printers ship with buttons anymore.

00:45:52.000 They should just come pre-jammed. 1.00

00:45:54.000 So expectations are aligned.

00:45:58.000 All right.

00:45:58.000 Before we get into the news, we're going to do this properly.

00:46:02.000 All you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a vessel of any kind.

00:46:06.000 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:46:08.000 I like coffee.

00:46:10.000 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:46:17.000 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:46:19.000 And it happens now.

00:46:23.000 So let me ask you guys, because I'm like a daily Scott Adams listener, I guess I was.

00:46:29.000 Could you really tell much difference between the two?

00:46:31.000 No, I couldn't.

00:46:33.000 I didn't watch him when he religiously kept talking.

00:46:36.000 It looks weird.

00:46:36.000 That looks weird.

00:46:37.000 That was like one of the things that we're talking about.

00:46:38.000 But keep in mind, this is the worst it's ever going to look like all AI generated or just like, did someone script that and then you're going to go to go with it?

00:46:50.000 I bet it was AI generated.

00:46:51.000 That's my guess.

00:46:52.000 And then I guess to what extent?

00:46:54.000 Well, so that bit that he does at the very end is that was like he would open every show with the simultaneous sip.

00:47:00.000 So that's like something he said every show.

00:47:03.000 But, you know, it's but like it seems more than likely that what he's done is like gone to, you know, some LLM Grok or whatever and said, you know, produce an intro of Scott Adams talking about himself as if he was AI.

00:47:19.000 I'll be honest though, when he was the real Scott Adams giving permission for an AI version of him, I was like, I felt uncomfortable.

00:47:29.000 You felt uncomfortable with the AI version.

00:47:30.000 I felt uncomfortable with him giving permission.

00:47:33.000 I was like, felt like paying the box was getting open.

00:47:36.000 Yeah, because I just felt like it felt like he didn't know what he was actually agreeing to.

00:47:40.000 Have you seen the AI?

00:47:42.000 I mean, obviously everyone's seen this, the AI where it's like you keep asking AI to redo the image and it changes the image like dramatically.

00:47:50.000 Right?

00:47:50.000 Yeah.

00:47:52.000 I think the biggest fear I have of this isn't necessarily like the out-front content.

00:47:59.000 I think it's the slow walk away from the intent over time.

00:48:03.000 So like AI.

00:48:05.000 You mean the actual like words in this case?

00:48:07.000 Yeah, I mean like the words, like the actual content is that like and a daily Scott AI will start sounding like Scott, but slowly will transform or could transform over time and be so far away from what the original intent was that everyone will forget what the original Scott was like.

00:48:29.000 So if you say that it's interesting.

00:48:33.000 And part of the reason why I was thinking about that, and I'll just finish this thought.

00:48:36.000 Part of the reason I was thinking about that is most people, a lot of people have gone upset because they're like, where did the old Charlie episodes go on Apple?

00:48:44.000 Apple makes it really expensive to store.

00:48:48.000 And so we're trying to figure out how to get them.

00:48:50.000 Yeah, we'll get all of his old episodes up eventually.

00:48:53.000 Back on Apple.

00:48:54.000 They're online.

00:48:55.000 They're on our website.

00:48:56.000 They're a pain in the butt to get there.

00:48:57.000 So we're hoping to change the website so they're an easier to get.

00:49:00.000 And all streams are still on the Rumble account.

00:49:03.000 I know, but I'm saying people lose their minds because they're like, I wish I could go back and watch it all.

00:49:07.000 And so I think regularly about like, it weighs on me like every day because I feel bad because I want people to be able to listen to it.

00:49:14.000 I can't imagine, again, with Charlie doing that every single day and then like producing content that would end up so off base.

00:49:21.000 It feels like it would be maybe a slap to the next.

00:49:24.000 Anyway, sorry, Jack, what were you saying?

00:49:26.000 Yeah, so two things, I guess, right?

00:49:28.000 So what it's been doing, which is interesting, it seems to me that someone's scripting it, you know, to at least an extent or at least prompting it, who was aware of the show.

00:49:39.000 Obviously, we didn't play any of the real content, but you could hear some of the humor was very similar.

00:49:45.000 The tone, the intonation.

00:49:46.000 It's clearly someone who watched Scott a lot has made this.

00:49:50.000 And And so what they're doing with it is they haven't, they haven't had it like taking positions on things.

00:49:56.000 What they're doing is, just like Scott would do on a regular basis, read the news headlines, see what kind of like what's trending, what's interesting out there, and then break it down in a Scott Adams analysis fashion.

00:50:11.000 So rather than say, oh, I'm for this or I'm against this, it's more like just Scott explaining, here's what happened and here's my take in an analytical sense rather than a, I'm for this or I oppose this kind of way.

00:50:24.000 So that's, you know, that's sort of how they're keeping it, I think, a little bit tighter to the idea of what Scott would be doing and not, you know, jumping in and saying, oh, I'm all for this or I'm all against this when obviously we don't have the ability to ask Scott.

00:50:38.000 But here's what was so key about what you just said, Tyler, because Scott Adams himself, so for years he talked about, I give permission, I want this to be permissible, I want this to be allowed, as you would play the, you know, one clip there.

00:50:53.000 But as he was facing his approaching demise, as we all know, and he kept doing his show, he actually kind of changed his mind on the AI version based on pretty much the same thing that Tyler just said.

00:51:08.000 So let's play now clip 504.

00:51:11.000 I've been telling you for years, really, that I plan to build an AI robotic clone of myself so that I could live forever.

00:51:21.000 I have changed that plan.

00:51:23.000 And here's why.

00:51:25.000 I thought it was just the greatest idea in the world that after I passed away, there would be like a version of me that could grow and change with technology and be upgraded and stuff.

00:51:37.000 I thought that was great.

00:51:38.000 Do you know what happens when you mention that to people you know?

00:51:42.000 They look at you with sadness and they go, it wouldn't be you.

00:51:48.000 Right?

00:51:49.000 And that's the part that was invisible to me because in my planning, I'm not really there anymore.

00:51:55.000 So I don't have to deal with the fact that people would find it uncomfortable because it's not me, but it's acting like me.

00:52:01.000 And I could imagine that that would hit that creepy zone and you'd be like, why did you even do this?

00:52:08.000 Like, why did you do this?

00:52:09.000 It's not you.

00:52:11.000 So here's how I decided to fix that.

00:52:15.000 I'm not going to create a digital clone of myself.

00:52:19.000 I'm going to create a digital son.

00:52:21.000 I'm going to reproduce.

00:52:24.000 Okay.

00:52:25.000 Yep.

00:52:26.000 So, so yeah.

00:52:26.000 Wow.

00:52:26.000 Okay.

00:52:27.000 Are you going to do like a reverse Willie style now where it turns out that video from early 2025 is actually from yesterday and it's no, no, no, no.

00:52:36.000 Well, I agree with his walkback.

00:52:38.000 That was real.

00:52:39.000 I agree with his walkback.

00:52:40.000 And this is the reason why what I've seen since Charlie was murdered.

00:52:44.000 I've seen people, I mean, there's not a digital clone of Charlie saying stuff every single day.

00:52:49.000 And I'm glad that doesn't exist.

00:52:52.000 And the reason being that we've already seen, because Charlie's been like an MLK level figure here, where people have used Charlie's own words against Charlie, Charlie's own words against his, you know, or they've, or they've said things.

00:53:06.000 They've plucked little things.

00:53:09.000 I can't even imagine what people would start to do nefariously with things that an AI bot would say.

00:53:15.000 Well, it's going to get increasingly more difficult to trace what's real and what's not.

00:53:19.000 Well, I mean, yeah, that's true.

00:53:20.000 I mean, it's going to happen.

00:53:21.000 Charlie said something.

00:53:22.000 Charlie had it.

00:53:23.000 No, he didn't.

00:53:24.000 Yeah.

00:53:24.000 No, he did it.

00:53:26.000 And it starts that whole argument, too.

00:53:28.000 Blake was about to say, what?

00:53:30.000 No, I'll let Jack go here.

00:53:31.000 No, I just wanted to say, so, you know, just kind of finish the story, because I know the topic we're going to get into, and this is what we should get into.

00:53:39.000 But the family has, and really the community, I think, has come out and said, look, we're respecting Scott's, we want to respect Scott's last wishes here.

00:53:49.000 And he did say that he changed his mind and that we would prefer this not to continue based on what he said before.

00:54:00.000 And that this is not, that he did actually change his mind on it.

00:54:05.000 And so that's kind of led to this back and forth now where.

00:54:09.000 They're putting out statements and the community is putting out statements, like the community people that were in like his locals and chats and like his community manager and stuff.

00:54:19.000 But then also AI Scott Adams, or I guess the guys running it, are like debating this argument with them saying, well, I did have permission.

00:54:27.000 It's clearly labeled AI.

00:54:29.000 It should fall under parity, fair use, et cetera.

00:54:32.000 And I think this is kind of where we're getting to.

00:54:35.000 And obviously, you know, obviously for me, I, you know, I side with the family, no question.

00:54:40.000 If that's the family's wishes, that's the family's wishes.

00:54:43.000 But ultimately, you know, do we even, I guess more of a blake question, like, do we even have laws that govern this sort of thing?

00:54:52.000 I'm not so sure.

00:54:53.000 Well, so actually, so much of it ends up in court.

00:54:56.000 Like it goes to the deeper AI thing because AI in a lot of ways is basically a Wild West.

00:55:03.000 So there's like the ongoing lawsuit, for example, of all of the copyrighted works that get fed into AI and is it legal for them to produce it?

00:55:11.000 And is some of that straightforward on the level of like, oh, is it okay for the AI to AI generate a Mickey Mouse thing when that's owned by Disney?

00:55:19.000 But then it's like, is it okay for the AI to rip off a company, like a specific artist's art style and say like, oh, yeah, I did this in the style of this specific person.

00:55:30.000 And then you get into like, yeah, is it legal for, I think it's pretty clearly not okay if you're going to, if you were going to use it fraudulently.

00:55:38.000 So if you made a video that's like, oh, this is Charlie and something he said and you're trying to use it to profit.

00:55:44.000 But then if you're going even further than that and it's just the likeness of a deceased person made in that style, in the past, there'd be a lot of fair use stuff that could go into that.

00:55:54.000 But I actually do feel we're probably in somewhat legally uncharted territory here.

00:55:59.000 And there's, you're going to have to have, well, first of all, there's going to have to be like the rights to your likeness.

00:56:05.000 But I'd even wonder if it'd be worth going further and say like somewhat limit your ability to sell your likeness.

00:56:12.000 Because I don't think we're going to like the reality, for example, where it's routine for a company to just, for example, permanently own the rights to your likeness going on decades after your death.

00:56:24.000 Like, would it be okay for anyone to permanently own your family members way they act or behave?

00:56:30.000 Well, I mean, but you got to imagine, so you might start building like trusts and like estates or whatever with that the usage rights built into it as a matter of sort of common practice, you know, because this is going to be such a, you know, a common thing, especially if you're a high-profile individual.

00:56:49.000 I mean, everybody on the show right now, this video could be plugged into an AI and eventually be used to mimic stuff we say.

00:56:57.000 So how do the viewers know this isn't AI?

00:56:59.000 It'll be really easy.

00:57:00.000 It'll be really easy for AI to mimic Tyler just always going on his phone like that.

00:57:06.000 Yeah.

00:57:06.000 No, but I was like, that's why I'm doing it actually.

00:57:08.000 That's why my head's down.

00:57:10.000 I'm not getting AI like you guys.

00:57:12.000 Andrew's going to be the most easy to AI guy ever because there's so much freaking Andrew Colvette content now.

00:57:18.000 No, there's going to be a scandal.

00:57:19.000 And you get this same square face.

00:57:21.000 There's going to be a scandal.

00:57:23.000 That's how we'll catch the AI.

00:57:25.000 The AI will generate him wearing a jacket, but then it will not generate us giving him credit for wearing the jacket.

00:57:33.000 And that's how people will realize that it's all.

00:57:35.000 I'm going to say this.

00:57:36.000 So Jack looks a little bit different from time to time.

00:57:40.000 Andrew has looked the exact same for as long as I've known him.

00:57:44.000 He doesn't age.

00:57:45.000 He looks the exact.

00:57:46.000 Doesn't he look the exact same?

00:57:47.000 No, that's not.

00:57:49.000 I see Andrew a lot, but not that much.

00:57:51.000 But like, you look the same.

00:57:54.000 I'll take that as a compliment.

00:57:55.000 It's a compliment.

00:57:57.000 It is a compliment.

00:57:58.000 Like, I've gone through aging.

00:57:59.000 I've got fat.

00:58:01.000 I sometimes have a beard.

00:58:02.000 I'm very forgettable.

00:58:03.000 I have long hair.

00:58:03.000 I wear different hats every single day.

00:58:05.000 I have steady.

00:58:06.000 You have the exact, like, you have the same look every day.

00:58:09.000 You wear literally the same stuff.

00:58:09.000 Same hair.

00:58:12.000 But here's the thing, too, right?

00:58:14.000 Beyond just AI copies, like, you're going to get to the point where there's like AI people, right?

00:58:21.000 Where something will go viral.

00:58:24.000 So the example I used earlier today was like when I was having this conversation, I was like, okay, remember, you guys remember the Hoctua girl?

00:58:31.000 Just whatever her name was.

00:58:34.000 Point being is what if she was AI all along and none of us knew?

00:58:39.000 Yeah, she was just made up, right?

00:58:40.000 Like they're going to make it.

00:58:41.000 She just made up herself.

00:58:42.000 So it was a viral moment.

00:58:44.000 Yeah.

00:58:45.000 Well, I mean, I don't think she was, but she could have been.

00:58:49.000 And how do you know the next one won't be?

00:58:51.000 How like the airplane lady or the airplane lady that was there? 1.00

00:58:51.000 Like, how do you think that's a good idea? 1.00

00:58:56.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:58:57.000 What, what is that?

00:58:58.000 What, what, that, that, that, uh, that MFR is not real or whatever.

00:59:02.000 Oh, that, yeah.

00:59:02.000 Motherfucker is not real.

00:59:04.000 Yeah.

00:59:05.000 Like, stuff like that.

00:59:06.000 Because people are going to start to see stuff like that.

00:59:06.000 Exactly.

00:59:08.000 And we've talked about this on the show before, that Facebook and YouTube are replete with this type of content.

00:59:17.000 I think Instagram and TikTok are like getting better at labeling it.

00:59:20.000 But at some point, it's just going to get so good that you really won't know.

00:59:24.000 And so what happens then when like those people go on to do their, to like do their own stuff, you know, and do their own podcasts and content and movies.

00:59:36.000 And it's like, so we talk about who owns our digital likeness, but then like if you create a digital being, a digital entity, like do you own them?

00:59:49.000 Like, how does that work?

00:59:50.000 Well, they're already doing that because there's tons of people on the internet who are making tons of money on Instagram and all that with fake.

00:59:58.000 We're getting the fake women. 1.00

01:00:00.000 We're getting the only fans.

01:00:02.000 I bet you only fans.

01:00:03.000 Fake e-girls, fake OnlyFans, kind of this like thought tier or like the scam tier.

01:00:09.000 What I think will be really interesting.

01:00:11.000 I think it's fake e-girls because the real e-girls never seem to work out.

01:00:15.000 So maybe fake e-girls would be better.

01:00:17.000 Yeah, you know, so, but I think what will be interesting, let's, as an example, like we live, we do live in the age of streamers, podcasters, all of that.

01:00:27.000 That all exists.

01:00:28.000 You can fake a lot of that.

01:00:29.000 But what could be interesting to me, imagine someone who's like an up-and-comer podcaster.

01:00:34.000 They just do like commentary on something and they just start off doing a solo show.

01:00:38.000 And we're basically at the point where, or if not, very soon will be, where a person could basically be generating a solo show in their home in their basement in like a personal studio and have it be a fake person, but otherwise be like entirely realistic looking or something.

01:00:57.000 Like someone who could become a star as like a popular show and yet the entire person is fake.

01:01:02.000 Like maybe it looks, you know, maybe it looks like an attractive young woman and it's actually a 40-year-old guy who might be like authoring the takes, but it's entirely through this AI filter.

01:01:11.000 And that person could like rise and become more and more prominent, maybe even appear on other shows once AI is fast enough that they could kind of just generate it live on the spot.

01:01:20.000 And then it would like suddenly come out maybe five years into this person's career that they're a fake persona and there's a different, a person who looks totally different behind them.

01:01:28.000 Well, that will be interesting.

01:01:30.000 And then you could also get to the point where that person owns the rights to them.

01:01:35.000 They monetize this fake person, that this person could have merch.

01:01:39.000 Well, we had talked about this too, is that a lot of news is just going to be delivered by AI personas.

01:01:45.000 They're going to take personas.

01:01:46.000 Do we actually think that?

01:01:47.000 For example, with Adams, it was creepy, and it was like, we don't like it because it's not really him.

01:01:53.000 Yeah, but how do you do it?

01:01:54.000 If you feel that way, well, if you don't know, you don't know that.

01:01:56.000 That's what I'm saying.

01:01:57.000 On daily news, 24 hours.

01:01:58.000 But imagine they did that on the daily news.

01:02:01.000 No, Tyler, it's already moving to that.

01:02:03.000 Those are already happening.

01:02:05.000 What they're going to do is they're going to be like, you don't even have to wait for it.

01:02:08.000 They don't have to go pick somebody up and drive them to the studio or even count on them to fire up their computer to go on.

01:02:17.000 They're just going to use makeup and hair. 1.00

01:02:19.000 There's going to be like here's the script.

01:02:21.000 Are you okay with us saying this with your face?

01:02:23.000 I don't know, man.

01:02:24.000 It's like, I got to believe that it is, there's just something about a soul, something about a living person.

01:02:31.000 It's the same pushback.

01:02:33.000 And when you find out it's not living, maybe in certain contexts, people won't care and it'll prove to be profitable and fine.

01:02:39.000 Some people already believe what we're already doing is that.

01:02:44.000 Tyler, I know for a fact that there are media markets that are doing this already in news, especially for like the daytime news where it's just sort of like news packages and it's like, here's the reporter or, you know, and they're on the scene or they're just like someone behind the desk talking and giving you like the rundown of it.

01:03:03.000 Like, why not?

01:03:05.000 95% of the news is someone behind a desk in front of a screen.

01:03:09.000 That's 95, 98% of the news.

01:03:11.000 It's not even on-site reporting of stuff.

01:03:13.000 Like literally 95% of the time.

01:03:15.000 We used to at a company I used to work at, we used to just get like, you know, kids from, you know, the local state university who were in the broadcasting program and say, hey, why don't you come?

01:03:27.000 And you come on, here's your shift.

01:03:29.000 And you might have like a 2 a.m. shift.

01:03:31.000 You might have a 4 a.m. shift.

01:03:32.000 You might six, whatever.

01:03:34.000 And you just came in and worked your shift.

01:03:36.000 And like that was, you know, hey, it's a way to get started, et cetera.

01:03:39.000 But, you know, if you're looking at it from a company perspective and you're saying, you know, what's cheaper?

01:03:47.000 Is it going to be cheaper to just like buy an AI model that I can turn into as many different news people as I want who are never going to get old, who never have to pay them?

01:03:59.000 They're never going to get sick.

01:04:00.000 They're never going to need hair, makeup, et cetera.

01:04:03.000 And they'll work 24-7.

01:04:05.000 Like, I'm just saying, like, that's, that's very, that's going to be very highly incentivized.

01:04:12.000 There's going to be a premium on that for people who run news networks.

01:04:15.000 That's incredible.

01:04:17.000 It's going to be a horrifying.

01:04:19.000 We have two minutes before.

01:04:20.000 Wait, I have one more thing I was going to say too.

01:04:23.000 Sports.

01:04:24.000 What if there's an entire, there could be a future where all of sports is just completely silent?

01:04:30.000 No, I don't believe that.

01:04:31.000 I'm just saying it could happen.

01:04:33.000 How would you know?

01:04:33.000 He's right.

01:04:34.000 It could be.

01:04:35.000 Like, they could have an entire league that's nothing but simulation, and you never would know.

01:04:40.000 Well, and also, by the way, what if somebody's like, what if this is the coolest thing?

01:04:43.000 This is fantasy football.

01:04:45.000 Like, it would be like fantasy football where you can say, oh, here's my fantasy team versus your fantasy team, but it's the, it's like each player is based on a real player, but they're actually playing each other in a team.

01:04:58.000 That's actually what I'm saying.

01:04:59.000 Yeah.

01:05:00.000 Watch your fantasy team like simulate a game.

01:05:03.000 It could just be the actual fantasy team.

01:05:05.000 I kind of like it.

01:05:06.000 If that appealed, you could already, like, guys, you can go freaking play simulated franchise mode in Madden.

01:05:13.000 And like, people love that.

01:05:15.000 Yeah, people love it.

01:05:16.000 Yeah, but they don't love it the way they love the NFL.

01:05:18.000 They love it because it's like a simulation of the game.

01:05:21.000 It's a dual and fantasy football.

01:05:22.000 It's 1,000th.

01:05:23.000 If it's all popularity.

01:05:24.000 Yeah, but if it's all like, you don't even know, your brain doesn't even know.

01:05:28.000 People value real things.

01:05:31.000 Apparently, China has robot sports.

01:05:33.000 Any culture is going to like buy into this soulless robot AI garbage.

01:05:38.000 It's going to be checked.

01:05:39.000 Dude, third world countries will totally buy into third-world countries won't do anything. 1.00

01:05:44.000 When you go to a third world country, all of their ads are already the low-effort AI slop. 0.53

01:05:49.000 But here's that.

01:05:51.000 Here's my theory.

01:05:51.000 America has all these different pro sports because we're wealthy and we have so much capability of doing that.

01:05:57.000 We're the wealthiest nation in history.

01:05:59.000 We have all this capability that we created all this entertainment for ourselves.

01:06:03.000 Other countries don't have it because they don't have that.

01:06:05.000 They can literally just make it out of thin air now.

01:06:09.000 Like, who knows?

01:06:10.000 Like, there's a ton of people in Africa and they have no sports. 0.98

01:06:13.000 Yeah, they have sports.

01:06:14.000 They have soccer league.

01:06:16.000 Okay, they have soccer.

01:06:17.000 It's not the same as here.

01:06:18.000 Here, we have literally 32 sports in every high school in America.

01:06:24.000 Like, nobody else in the world has that.

01:06:26.000 They have two major sports, and most kids don't play sports.

01:06:29.000 I'm saying that now there's like you can just create all entertainment.

01:06:32.000 It's totally fake, totally made up.

01:06:35.000 And even third world countries will be able to monetize that because unfortunately, poor people get pumped by this.

01:06:41.000 But like, it's not, it's all going to be low tier.

01:06:43.000 When you know it, there's not a human involved.

01:06:45.000 But poor people are going to get totally owned by this.

01:06:48.000 Like, it's like they're going to be totally taken advantage of.

01:06:50.000 Is that a white pill?

01:06:52.000 No, here's.

01:06:52.000 No, I do have a white pill.

01:06:53.000 I have a big white pill on this.

01:06:55.000 And this actually goes into one of the reasons that we chose the name of this program the way that we did because no one, no one, especially in the mainstream, is ever going to come for this show or any of our work.

01:07:13.000 And why is that?

01:07:14.000 Because AI will never be allowed to commit thought crime.

01:07:19.000 Boom.

01:07:21.000 Oh, I see what you did there.

01:07:22.000 But this is the least.

01:07:26.000 This is the most unaiable show.

01:07:28.000 Well, but this was not.

01:07:29.000 To be fair, this was not a whole lot of thought crimes involved in this because we talked about the NFL or the way more.

01:07:37.000 If you guys stopped me before we could get to the freaking ice raids and Roblox, that would have been a good thought crime.

01:07:42.000 We should just show the B-roll as we fade out here at least.

01:07:45.000 They're already doing ice raids in the kids' video game Roblox.

01:07:49.000 500.

01:07:50.000 Yeah, just show it.

01:07:51.000 I want the people to know we didn't get a chance to talk about it and we got to get out of here for another thing.

01:07:57.000 But I think the kids are all right.

01:07:59.000 They're doing ice raids in Roblox.

01:08:02.000 They're escorting the illegals out of their digital schools in their digital game. 0.89

01:08:09.000 Oh, and then there's the FISA.

01:08:11.000 There's also protests of ICE in Roblox.

01:08:14.000 They have the protests.

01:08:15.000 And that is the funniest thing ever.

01:08:18.000 They get decisions that they use to go and pull that guy out of the house.

01:08:21.000 This is AI content.

01:08:23.000 Yeah, but it's what you're doing.

01:08:25.000 It's not emulating human form and flesh and bone.

01:08:30.000 Yeah, but I'm just saying.

01:08:31.000 Here we are talking about it, and this is already user-generated computerized content.

01:08:36.000 They're not firing guns.

01:08:37.000 They're firing guns.

01:08:38.000 What if this is like the liberal?

01:08:41.000 You could go so meta.

01:08:42.000 Like, what if, what if instead of actually deporting illegals, they just did AI videos showing deportations.

01:08:49.000 And then they could happen too.

01:08:51.000 Bam.

01:08:51.000 And everyone's like, the admin fulfilled all its promises.

01:08:55.000 I saw the clips, all the illegals. 0.97

01:08:56.000 The government out there.

01:08:57.000 No, no, no, Blake.

01:08:58.000 Here's, no, what's even better, here's the real thought crime on that.

01:09:01.000 What we should do is create AI videos where it's just like ICE letting people go.

01:09:05.000 And we'll spread that everywhere in Spanish and be like, go for both. 0.91

01:09:09.000 Totally change.

01:09:09.000 We can just have reality totally divorced.

01:09:14.000 Reality totally divorced.

01:09:15.000 Everyone just gets their AI generated, preferred reality.

01:09:18.000 Yeah, you put in your political and your AI preferred news.

01:09:22.000 And no one will know because no one actually goes outside anymore.

01:09:25.000 So it's entirely nitty-gritty.

01:09:27.000 Some people won't realize until internet goes out.

01:09:29.000 Slavic women, and you know, Andrew can have his Mexicans. 1.00

01:09:37.000 My wife would hey, Mexican weather channel, right? 0.98

01:09:41.000 My wife would not relate to that. 0.97

01:09:42.000 That's all right.

01:09:43.000 But what if you got an AI wife who did? 1.00

01:09:48.000 We're starting to get thought crime.

01:09:49.000 I'll give you that.

01:09:50.000 I'll give you that.

01:09:51.000 Jack, well, is AI is AI cheating cheating?

01:09:55.000 Whoa, it's basic.

01:09:58.000 I mean, that's like that's porn, right?

01:10:00.000 Yeah, yeah, porn cheating.

01:10:04.000 That's like a, yes, that's like a 90s thought crime topic.

01:10:08.000 Yeah, I was gonna say, wow, that's like a thought crime topic.

01:10:11.000 Jack, why don't you take us home?

01:10:12.000 Since you are.

01:10:13.000 I've got a run.

01:10:14.000 And Blake, but like, we just got to say, let's take it for a second.

01:10:16.000 Guys, we put something together, which became the number one story in the country.

01:10:22.000 It's going to be the most watched halftime show.

01:10:25.000 And, you know, you got to, sometimes you just have to give time for that, give space for that.

01:10:30.000 And somehow, somehow we seem to have gotten to the precipice of incredible greatness.

01:10:37.000 And it really feels like there's so many people.

01:10:40.000 We didn't even play the amount of people that are coming in who are supportive of this and are coming out of the woodwork.

01:10:46.000 So this Sunday, we're giving everyone some homework.

01:10:52.000 Go and change the channel, turn off Bad Bunny, put on Kid Rock and the gang, and go commit thought crime.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 07, 2026

THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 114 — All-American Halftime Hoopla + AI Scott Adams? + Roblox ICE Raids?

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