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00:02:08.000Are they playing any games in Philadelphia?
00:02:10.000They did actually they they just had a game in Philadelphia last week Shoot what was it?
00:02:15.000I think it was like Brazil or something and I think it's because there weren't any European Teams that were playing in Philadelphia though, so Freddie came across Pennsylvania, but he was like going across the northern tier to get to New York So he wasn't anywhere in like what I refer to as the Wawa Republic if you will Which begins in actually in North Jersey and then goes all the way down to about Richmond although Philadelphia is of course the capital Yeah,
00:02:44.000I think in general, even if the Europeans haven't discovered Wawa, the fact that you've got your 250 Wawa shirt, it does get me thinking about the share of American patriotic pride that is being generated by high quality gas stations at this point because Bucky's is a thing that we're genuinely celebrating and bragging about as Europeans encounter it.
00:03:06.000And I know a lot of people were getting a kick.
00:03:08.000The Japanese got here and they went to 7 Eleven in America and they were thinking, oh, it's so amazing to have.
00:03:15.000This authentic product of Japan here in America, the 7 Eleven.
00:03:21.000And then we've got the cult following of Kirkland, the Costco brand.
00:03:31.000Is that one of those things where we just think of Costco as normal, decent products, and then there's probably Europeans or Chinese people who get Kirkland exported to their country and they charge it at a three times markup?
00:03:42.000They used to do that with Pabst Blue Ribbon.
00:03:45.000I literally just pulled this up to fact check and I did find a TikTok.
00:05:08.000And also, he seemed quite happy about that.
00:05:13.000Cheesesteaks are a basic enough sandwich.
00:05:15.000I don't think it matters too much where you get one.
00:05:18.000Dude, I actually agree that I think for a lot of the overweight foodies out there, they do this whole thing oh, well, you've got to go to one in North Philly that's in a hole in the wall that's served out of a bucket.
00:05:35.000And they're like, no, no, that's the red bucket.
00:05:37.000You have to go to South Philly for the one out of the blue bucket.
00:05:40.000And you're like, if you're getting an authentic Philly cheesesteak anywhere in the city or like South Jersey where there's a lot of Philly crossover, you're going to be fine.
00:05:54.000What you don't want to get is something where people call it a Philly cheesesteak and it's not, it's just very obviously not a Philly cheesesteak where they like layer like roast.
00:06:05.000I've seen people come, you know, say that they're going to give me.
00:06:08.000A filthy cheesesteak, and I get something that has like roast beef on it.
00:06:12.000Like, this is not a cheesesteak in any way, shape, or form.
00:06:15.000So it's like, as long as you actually understand what you're supposed to be making, you're fine.
00:06:19.000You know, speaking, I think this is a total out of left field, but it's a thought crime that just came to me because you said that.
00:06:25.000I have a real thought crime for you that is very culinary.
00:06:28.000When it comes to roast beef, I prefer fast food roast beef, like Arby's style roast beef, over what you'd likely get at a nice restaurant with like the thicker, Pieces of beef.
00:06:41.000Like, I actually really like the weird thin slices of beef that are standard in fast food sandwiches.
00:06:47.000So much so that when I was most recently in South Dakota for a blast from the past, I went to the Hardee's that I went to as a kid and I got one of them.
00:07:52.000I think Mexico is underrated here because this game that they're playing today, and if they win it, their next one, they're both played in Mexico City, and Mexico City is higher up than Denver.
00:08:05.000That is, you have like one third less oxygen in every breath than you would normally.
00:08:10.000I just think a lot of these players, they're going to go to Mexico City and they're going to be super tired, and then Mexico will slip one goal past them and get the win.
00:08:18.000It's Ecuador that's playing against Mexico.
00:09:04.000Wasn't there another, like, some kind of sport where it's like all the Olympians that have won are from, like, a certain one square of Europe or something like that?
00:09:16.000Do you know what I'm talking about at all?
00:09:46.000Well, guys, guys, if I can, if I can, you know, I know this is on our subject list, and these guys were not planning to be here today, but they got in.
00:12:25.000I never saw the toys, but I think they were like leftover toys.
00:12:28.000I think the only thing I heard of He Man was I would read, I went through that phase as a kid where I read Dave Berry books, like Dave Berry humor books.
00:12:37.000And he has columns he wrote about his son playing with He Man toys and explaining this is He Man, this is Men at Arms, this is these other guys.
00:13:53.000Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic sword and said, By the power of Greyskull!
00:14:15.000Grenger became the mighty Battle Cat, and I became He Man, the most powerful man in the universe.
00:14:26.000Only three others share this secret our friends, the Sorceress, and Arco.
00:14:32.000Together, we defend Castle Greyskull from the evil forces of Skeletor.
00:14:44.000Yeah, I'm looking, I literally dug out.
00:14:47.000The PDF of Bonfire of the Vanities while we watched that clip.
00:14:51.000And it says The masters of the universe were a set of lurid, rapacious plastic dolls that Sherman McCoy's otherwise perfect daughter liked to play with.
00:15:01.000They looked like Norse gods through lifted weights, and they had names such as Dreakon, Ahor, Manglered, and Blue Tong.
00:15:09.000They were unusually vulgar, even for plastic toys.
00:15:12.000And yet, one day, in a bit of euphoria, he had picked up the telephone and taken an order for zero coupon bonds that had brought him a $50,000 commission.
00:15:21.000And just like that, the phrase bubbled into his head I am a master of the universe.
00:15:27.000Yeah, and so, like, McCoy is saying that, like, throughout the novel.
00:19:26.000You tell everyone that you're from another planet.
00:19:33.000It just makes you sound a little very crazy.
00:19:39.000Okay, Jack, I'm gonna say a few things being brutally honest here.
00:19:43.000First of all, I saw that trailer in theaters a few months ago, and it is the first time I ever saw a movie and immediately Googled on my phone.
00:19:50.000Yes, I pulled up my phone and Googled during the previews.
00:19:58.000The trailers did not do this movie any help.
00:20:01.000Also, it's a little weird to me because it seems like they're saying this is the rise of He Man, so it's his origin story, but it seems like.
00:21:02.000You saw them just running in and talking about it.
00:21:04.000They've been obsessed with it ever since they watch it, especially the little one.
00:21:07.000And what struck me was this is a film, and more specifically, the character of He Man, where it's a depiction of masculinity in such a way that you just don't find anywhere else in the mainstream of entertainment, in children's entertainment.
00:21:29.000You don't find anything anywhere where you've just got a big muscle-bound guy who, in a very positive way, is just wailing on bad guys.
00:21:40.000And there's something about that where you just put a sword in a young boy's hand and have him hold it up and say, I have the power, that actually speaks to something that's very, very positive for young kids.
00:21:54.000And so at first, I wasn't super into it, but then when I saw the reaction that they had to it, it made me appreciate it more because.
00:22:03.000I was kind of thinking about it in contrast to all the other things that are out there in media today.
00:22:09.000That is something for young boys that they could look to and say, you know what?
00:22:39.000And by the way, the fact that it's a white guy doing that, they didn't like, you know, they did race swap man at arms, but they did not, but it's Intercelpa.
00:22:47.000I mean, and they did not gender swap or race swap or do any of that nonsense.
00:22:53.000It's something where I said, you know what?
00:22:56.000This is actually good for young boys to see and that we should take them to see it.
00:23:01.000And Blake, if you want to tie this in, there's something.
00:23:05.000In the psychology of specifically the toys of the series, which I'm sure they're going to try to sell a lot of toys to kids like mine, that actually is at play here.
00:23:15.000Yeah, so that's what we were thinking of linking it to here because He-Man infamously was originally created to basically sell toys.
00:23:23.000In fact, I think the toys existed and then they made the show and then now the show, it all loops around.
00:23:28.000But it turned into a thing that I guess is pretty old, but I only learned of it yesterday.
00:23:32.000And it's the, we were debating what to call this the Batman to Barbie pipeline, the Batman shopping idea.
00:23:39.000But it's literally how kids engage with toys, which is pretty funny because I was reading the excerpt here from that book where it's his daughter playing with the toys.
00:23:53.000And we should wonder, how is she playing with the toys?
00:23:56.000So it's It's this take that someone had.
00:24:12.000So, here's what someone alleged on 4chan ages ago Lego did a study when they created the Lego Friends line for girls where they discovered that when a boy plays with a toy of a character, it's totally different from how it is with a girl.
00:24:25.000The boy tries to become the character, the girl wants the character to become her.
00:24:31.000So, the example he gives you give a boy a Batman toy.
00:24:35.000He wants to know what is Batman's origin, what is Batman's idea, how does Batman act and behave, and he'll play with Batman with Batman doing Batman things.
00:24:52.000The girl, on the other hand, is going to take Batman and she's going to make Batman do girl stuff.
00:24:56.000Batman will go shopping, he will bake cookies, he will go to the prom, he'll go to the bat prom.
00:25:02.000And there's exceptions, he says, but the data says, This is what's going on there.
00:25:07.000And then this leads into this is arguably the reason that Star Wars and so many other things have gone downhill after Kathleen Kennedy and similar people have taken over because when they're handed a property, they think, how can I make this property more like me?
00:25:43.000My children, my son specifically, with Star Wars, ever since it took him to go see Mandalorian, which Jack is still upset at me about, but he's obsessed with Mando.
00:25:53.000They just called it when we told the audience to do something, we should hold ourselves to the same standard.
00:25:58.000I didn't actually call anybody to do anything, so there's that.
00:26:03.000Somebody isn't watching the episodes he's on.
00:26:57.000And they want to learn all those things about him.
00:27:00.000But then it's also that I think the deeper thing that we're talking about here is like, so it's like a role playing in the sense that, hey, I can be He Man.
00:27:20.000And it's sort of like giving that actual empowerment.
00:27:22.000Whereas with Lego, when they did, because Blake, in the thing you read, they talked about the Lego Friends line.
00:27:28.000In the Lego Friends line, this is very similar to Barbie, where it's like they make personalized characters that you can go in and then customize, which is totally separate from like every other Lego set that's ever been made before.
00:27:43.000And this was the psychology that allowed Lego to finally open up the female market, to market to young girls.
00:27:51.000that they found that girls wanted that kind of toy more, whereas boys wanted to do role-playing.
00:27:56.000And so rather than, and we've all seen this trope with the girls will have every toy story they talk about it, where the girl will have the action toys go to a tea party, because that's what girls do.
00:28:13.000Whereas boys want to fight and play with the toys and view themselves as the toys.
00:28:18.000There was actually that cool series, The Toys That Make Us.
00:28:24.000Or, I think it was YouTube, maybe, that talks about how the toys were made.
00:28:30.000And one piece, I wrote this up for Human Events, that when the toys were first made, to Blake's point, that they let them play with, they just let kids play with the toys.
00:28:39.000And some of the boys were going back and forth saying, I have the power.
00:28:45.000And that's where they got the line from, was just actual kids playing in like a focus group.
00:28:52.000And one of the things that they dug through and realized was that when you're a young boy like that, you're constantly surrounded in areas where women have like total authority, right?
00:29:03.000You're at home and mom's the boss, you know, for most of the day you go to school, then, and, you know, the teaching staff is mostly female.
00:29:29.000Because the longhouse of the female run consensus driven world is like literally everywhere you go.
00:29:36.000And, you know, and we might disagree on this, but I actually took the first part of the movie as actually sort of showing that.
00:29:44.000Because in the film, when it starts out, that's kind of the joke is that He Man actually works in an HR department and he has this like feminist girl boss director and he gets fired.
00:30:53.000And remember, whyrefi doesn't care what your credit score is.
00:30:56.000Just go to whyrefi.com and tell them your friend Andrew sent you.
00:31:02.000So, speaking of how girls play with toys, I think there's kind of funny old proof of this, which is clearly based on probably what.
00:31:12.000An early Pixar animator's own kids were doing.
00:31:15.000But the original Toy Story, back before there was Four and Five and all these other, and the Gay Buzz Lightyear movie, we had the original Toy Story, which is amazing.
00:31:23.000And you may remember there's a scene where Buzz ends up in the hands of Sid's little sister, and Woody goes to rescue him.
00:31:30.000And let's show how they portrayed her playing with them.
00:31:45.000One minute you're defending the whole galaxy, and suddenly you find yourself sucking down Darjeeling with Marie Antoinette and her little sister.
00:31:57.000I think you've had enough tea for today.
00:32:46.000Yeah, that's exactly the point, right?
00:32:48.000That's the point that, like, the little girl made Buzz Lightyear, who's a, you know, an action spaceman, secret agent kind of character, into.
00:33:21.000Do your boys ever play with girl coded toys in any capacity, Jack?
00:33:26.000No, no, I feel that might be the issue.
00:33:29.000There have been times where, like, we're like they've gone over, like, Tanya'll have girlfriends or something who have daughters.
00:33:35.000And if we're like arrange a play date, like, they will just march right past the girl toys and pick up like a ball or something else.
00:33:43.000Like, they just it's like they don't even exist.
00:33:46.000Yeah, which is good, but it does strike me if we're going to engage with the thought crime here.
00:33:51.000There might be an issue there if they're saying boys will get into the headspace of the toy.
00:33:55.000Well, yeah, if the toy is awesome, but if the toy is domestic.
00:34:00.000So my parents actually took it a step further and used essentially this thought process as why growing up, we weren't allowed to watch Star Wars.
00:34:10.000We weren't allowed to watch Batman or Superman, which is hilarious because I'm a giant nerd now.
00:34:16.000There was, we essentially would watch Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, the History Channel, but then there was this.
00:34:23.000Animated show called Rescue Heroes, which is essentially they just made police officers firemen lifeguards doctors, like all these heroes, and so the whole show is literally just them, like oh, we have the wildfire, we have to go save the people, and literally you had like essentially a He Man style toys, but it was Billy Blazes, the fireman,
00:34:50.000and he had like a mustache and everything and would they like all team up with each other.
00:34:54.000So the paramedic just shows up to help.
00:34:55.000It was literally like Avengers or JUST League, but like for first responders.
00:35:01.000Did they have one guy who had like a really niche skill?
00:35:04.000Like they'd have the Coast Guard guy who's good at water just tagging along in the desert rescue or something.
00:35:10.000The Coast Guard guy actually had a pet dolphin that helped him on rescue.
00:35:17.000And literally, you had these toys where you would have like a ship or there was like a big aircraft carrier.
00:35:22.000It was literally the Avengers and Justice League, but for first off.
00:35:25.000I feel like the real fantasy here is various public safety departments envisioning what they would do with an unlimited budget, like have a giant aircraft carrier for water rescues.
00:35:34.000Angelo, I'm glad we have dad's weighing in.
00:35:59.000And yeah, positive depictions of masculinity are good for young boys.
00:36:04.000And I think that we should support those.
00:36:06.000And that's why I'm saying just, you know, Put a sword in your young kid's hand.
00:36:12.000I mean, if you're a boy or if you have boys or grandsons, you'll see that kids, young boys, will automatically be walking down the street and they pick up a stick and suddenly that stick turns into a sword and they're on an adventure.
00:36:37.000I'd say, even a bigger picture thing there, a thing that bothers me.
00:36:41.000You'll have these adults who will say, This is a great kids' show because it engages with more nuance or whatever.
00:36:48.000We made a character and their parents are divorced and they have a messed up home life.
00:36:52.000And I'm really wondering if that should be basically considered very bad behavior for anyone who's under the age of 11 or 12 or something.
00:37:00.000Because I feel like we actually benefit if you give kids zero irony, be an awesome superhero, and they're on a team of other awesome superheroes who do heroic, good stuff and they beat the bad guys.
00:37:19.000And oh, by the way, I should also add, and since I appreciate you guys indulging this topic, because I do think it's important for parenting, it's not just about He Man, but where did the original He Man kind of fall off?
00:37:30.000Like, why was something that was so popular that controlled the entire kid space, kiddom, until the late 80s?
00:37:41.000And I argue that it was when they introduced.
00:38:07.000I think it turned off a lot of the boys.
00:38:10.000And it was something that kind of like, you know, made it so that the franchise just did not continue through the 90s.
00:38:19.000And it never really took off again in the way that it had before.
00:38:24.000And I think it was because they messed up the psychology.
00:38:28.000The deprogramming of feminism in our culture is something that's worth thinking about and studying.
00:38:33.000You know, I recently became aware of the fact that, you know, when the original suffragettes were kind of pushing their propaganda, guess who their main opponent was?
00:38:59.000So it's very interesting when you think about this, it was like a 150 year project, maybe even longer, really, back to the 1840s.
00:39:08.000It has been so long in the making, so deeply ingrained in the psyche of the culture that you kind of can't really understand for each person where the programming begins and ends.
00:39:19.000So we've all been totally propagandized about this stuff.
00:39:22.000And it is a weird phenomenon when it comes to the male psyche.
00:39:26.000And I totally agree with you on this, Jack.
00:39:28.000Men, if you celebrate them and push them and Champion them, they will go from boys to men.
00:39:34.000They will become fully formed human adults with strength, power, and authority.
00:39:39.000If you don't, if women swarm, they will shrink back.
00:39:43.000I don't know if you want to call that a weakness of the sex.
00:40:04.000One of the things that I keep thinking about, and Blake was the one who actually brought this to my attention, was the Helen Andrews piece, where she's talking about the great awakening, that the females are starting to overpopulate in corporate spaces.
00:40:17.000They're becoming the majority in corporate spaces.
00:40:19.000I think we can't underestimate how disastrous this can be because there is something about men.
00:40:25.000You see this at university now, what, 62% of degrees go to women now at this point, which is obscene when men used to dominate.
00:41:30.000But it's even with things, it's like you said with the He Man thing guys are going to want a thing that is just the guy thing.
00:41:36.000I think it's really messed with the military that we've let women into it.
00:41:39.000I think in an existential way, it's just.
00:41:42.000Guys, this probably goes back to the step when the original proto Indo Europeans were expanding with their horse warrior legions to conquer the entirety of Europe and India and the Middle East and all of that.
00:41:55.000But they got to have their group of dudes.
00:43:26.000And I, it definitely did better than Supergirl, to be fair.
00:43:29.000It did better than Supergirl, but I, it did not do that well.
00:43:31.000And I would argue that's because they didn't lean into this type of marketing and doing it this way, you know, saying, Hey, this is a movie for boys and it's unapologetically a movie for boys.
00:43:43.000Because in the marketing, they kind of played up, you know, some of these other aspects.
00:43:47.000And I think that, I think that people maybe got the wrong take on it or they saw him sitting at a desk with pronouns and they didn't think that it was like a, Like a satire, it was making fun of the pronouns.
00:43:59.000The first hour is pretty female-coated, and well, and they do this-a thing that I didn't care for looking at the trailer.
00:44:05.000They throw in the, you know, they throw the little I know how to use it joke and a few similar things.
00:44:11.000Like, they actually dilute what could be a boy adventure with a handful of bits of call it Joss Whedon-esque humor, you know, to make it flippant and light.
00:44:21.000And this is totally, it appeals to millennials.
00:44:27.000It reminds me of when they were spot on.
00:44:29.000When they made the Power Rangers movie about a decade ago.
00:44:32.000And I saw it and I just thought, I saw it because I was a huge Power Rangers nut as a kid.
00:44:36.000And I thought the way to do that movie would have been you go 10 out of 10, it's cartoonish, everyone's making weird Japanese hand gestures as they talk, just like in the show.
00:44:46.000And they're all super earnest, all the kids are do gooders, just like they are in the show.
00:44:51.000And you just give it a bigger budget and it'd be really entertaining.
00:44:53.000And instead, they did that where they made it, oh, the kids are, they're now like bad boys and girls, they meet in detention.
00:45:01.000One of them, like, she's, she feels, she's like disgraced because she shared, I think, nude photos of a friend, like, to, to hurt her.
00:45:09.000And then that friend killed herself or something.
00:45:56.000And TikTok has always strived to build the kind of place that thrives on respectful connection, where curiosity fuels connection and we can share what's on our minds and learn from each other.
00:46:06.000When ideas meet respect, good things happen.
00:46:08.000On TikTok, you can find a mechanic explaining the why behind a problem most of us wouldn't even know how to name, or a father sharing a lifetime of knowledge with his viewers.
00:46:17.000Viewers who listen, discuss, and then they respond.
00:46:20.000TikTok turns connection into community through small acts of understanding.
00:46:24.000You can feel it in the comments, in the thank you from a stranger halfway across the world.
00:46:28.000TikTok is a place where respect opens the door for discussion, and discussion helps us build something real.
00:46:37.000It reminds me of what my pastor used to say.
00:46:39.000He would just like, because we always like present those, like, oh, he was a drug dealer and he went to prison and now he gave his life to Jesus.
00:48:01.000I can see this movie becoming a streaming hit.
00:48:04.000I can absolutely see this movie becoming a streaming hit.
00:48:07.000Because especially if you have the ability to forward and rewind, you can forward through the first hour of this film and kids will just literally just enjoy the action part.
00:48:17.000Yeah, my five year old, to your point, he'll be like, Daddy, I don't want to watch the talking parts.
00:48:38.000So something to be said, and, you know, obviously Disney has been, you know, Andrew, this is more your lane of country, but something I know Disney has been experimenting with this as well is sort of like the in the theater plus on streaming, either simultaneous release or you do like a couple.
00:48:56.000You know, a couple weeks in theater and then you go to streaming because if you have a streaming service that's owned by the studio, which used to be separate, so it used to be separate income streams, now it's the same company owns both.
00:49:09.000And so you can make your money back or you can do other things that make your money back with the streaming service.
00:49:16.000So that overall piece there of, you know, the box office isn't always going to be the end all be all.
00:49:23.000And of course, Warner Brothers with DC, they just got bought out.
00:49:27.000You know, they're tied up in the big Paramount merger.
00:50:13.000We've now gone full circle with Barbie dolls.
00:50:15.000Which will, you know, while our mind is in the gutter, we may as well keep it there because we need to have a debate over ID verification because Congress is, they're not lurching into action on birthright citizenship.
00:50:28.000They're not lurching into action on a lot of things.
00:50:29.000But Democrats and Republicans have finally come together to say that we should restrict the Internet more.
00:50:35.000And we were actually having a big debate about this in our pre show chat.
00:50:39.000So we thought, why not bring it on there?
00:50:40.000The segue here, I guess, is that this is, it's also about kids in a sense.
00:50:46.000Because there's an act that is going through Congress right now talking about, you know, and when you look at the headline of it, you know, you'd think this would be something that everyone would support, that a lot of parents would support about banning children from accessing pornography online.
00:51:08.000This is obviously something that we can all agree is good.
00:51:11.000This is something that Charlie talked about at length, including, I believe, on this program and certainly, obviously, on the main show.
00:51:18.000This is something that we all want to do.
00:51:20.000A lot of states have been adding these age verifications at the state level for these websites.
00:51:27.000However, what this new bill is doing, and oh gosh, that just passed the House, I believe.
00:51:34.000And Blake, if you have the name of it, you could help me with that.
00:51:36.000Yeah, it has just that lovely name, the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, which I've been around the block enough to say, like, that's the one being pushed by Meta.
00:52:01.000I think the main person they bothered to name in this write up about it is Senator Marsha Blackburn, who is a Republican, but I mean, it actually passed with bipartisan support.
00:52:11.000I just, you know, if you look at the details, it says that companies have to have ways to limit addictive features in their apps for kids.
00:52:20.000You need to have policies in place to protect children from sexual exploitation.
00:52:26.000A Senate version, which would be even tougher, would add a duty of care on social media companies for young people, which that strikes me as something that would be really dangerous because you're essentially creating this unlimited ambit for the government to come in and say, oh, this company wasn't following its duty of care towards children.
00:52:49.000And all I can think of is that would be so easy to blow up.
00:52:53.000Twitter, for example, X, and say, oh, you were allowing kids to get access to inappropriate content because it was racist, because it was pornographic, because it was any number of things.
00:53:18.000So you're asking why Meta is behind it.
00:53:20.000It says Meta, just real quick, Meta is behind it.
00:53:23.000Because this puts the onus on the App Store and the Play Store and gives immunity to what they refer to as like the social media providers.
00:53:33.000So Facebook, et cetera, those guys would have protections.
00:53:37.000Whereas they're saying the onus is now on the phone level, basically.
00:53:42.000Well, and that's a lot of that also has to be because like Facebook has already done a bunch to limit access to like Facebook.
00:54:08.000So I sign up for internet at my house, right?
00:54:10.000I pay the internet service provider a monthly fee.
00:54:13.000I would love the option to opt in to any of these porn websites are disallowed in your house.
00:54:23.000And if you want to like go in the back end and like they get one of them wrong or something, but if somebody, Created like a database that, hey, these websites are unavailable at your house.
00:54:31.000I would opt into that for the sake of my family, for the sake of the internet, for the sake of the country.
00:54:44.000And I think it opens the Pandora's box of censorship and potentially creating criminal liability or civil liability on stuff that should be the parent's domain.
00:55:09.000The issue that I see with it, of course, though, from a privacy standpoint, though, and this is where I've seen a lot of pushback online, is people are saying, well, wait a minute.
00:55:18.000You know, is this going to create some giant government database where the government can then see every single person who's associated with a certain username online?
00:55:33.000So if that's true, I'm totally opposed to something like that because I think, look, the MAGA movement would not exist without internet anonymity.
00:55:43.000We've all lived in a world where we have seen people canceled over anonymous writings that have later then been, you know, attributed to them or just, you know, regular writings that have attributed to them that are totally, just totally normal opinions, you know, as a, we keep meaning to cover it, but like the opinions of a normal person 30 years ago.
00:56:04.000And I think that we live in a time that we're totally controlled by the longhouse.
00:56:09.000We're totally controlled by our institutions, are controlled by our enemies.
00:56:13.000We had debanking going on up until like, Five minutes ago, of conservatives.
00:56:18.000And so, you know, giving away internet anonymity would be a very, very foolish move to do on like the grand chessboard.
00:56:30.000I don't think we are, I don't think you need anonymity all the time, though.
00:56:37.000Like, I don't think that there is a reason to, like, yeah, sure.
00:56:43.000Is it nice to sometimes be able to, like, not, like, Be able to kind of cover yourself.
00:56:50.000But I don't think anonymity, especially on the internet, is anything more than a smokescreen because everybody has an iPhone.
00:57:19.000If their identities would have been doxxed, then they would have lost their jobs.
00:57:22.000They would have been, you know, we're in this unique position where we're able to be, say, say and do and think what we want freely and not be fired for it, not be sent to the HR team.
00:57:32.000That's just not the case for a lot of people.
00:57:34.000They have to protect their identities.
00:57:36.000I remember when this debate became front and center.
00:57:40.000It was like Jordan Peterson versus Cerno, is the way I remember it.
00:57:43.000Do you remember this poso where Jordan Peterson was raging against the Anon accounts?
00:57:50.000It was like, you know, and I completely, you know, I respected where he's in the book.
00:57:53.000Jordan Peterson 1.0, I'm going to hold him to this.
00:57:55.000Jordan Peterson 1.0 in 2017 went on Joe Rogan and was celebrating Annons online and was saying that, like, these accounts are great.
00:58:28.000I will say what totally happens is there are people who are broadly in favor of anonymity, or they turn against it and crash out over it because anonymous people pick fights with them online and they can't handle it, which I think is kind of a little lame and pathetic.
00:58:44.000I think there's also just 100% I've seen people who think, oh, people who are anonymous basically shouldn't be allowed to have takes.
00:59:01.000Like, some people just can't handle anonymous people existing.
00:59:05.000And I think it's actually a very important right that if you have the ability to say something, you should be able to say it anonymously, period.
00:59:12.000And another thing I would add is if you've been around online enough, you've seen sometimes journalists or activists will be feuding with someone and they're clearly trying to goad somebody into giving them their identity just so they can go and mess with their life and mess around with them.
00:59:29.000I mean, it's happened with all of the.
00:59:30.000Lunatic conspiracy theorists around Charlie.
00:59:32.000They want to probe into everyone's personal life.
00:59:34.000I've seen them do this to random people pushing back against them online.
00:59:39.000You have to have the ability to be anonymous because it is one of the fundamental tools that an ordinary person has to resist those who want to act tyrannically against them.
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01:01:58.000I will say though, it's like this is where I get really torn up on the Palantir debate, you know, because they're trying to build databases and get the different agencies to talk to each other so that the government is, you know, For example, the Social Security Administration knows what the welfare and Medicaid know, et cetera, et cetera.
01:02:19.000I support that because I want to get rid of illegals off the rolls.
01:02:24.000But yeah, there is a point where you're kind of like, I do want to be able to be left alone and not surveilled all the time if I want to be, you know, and there needs to be a line.
01:02:38.000So, yeah, I mean, I guess I'm arguing this from a pragmatic perspective, whereas obviously I want to protect internet anonymity online as much as possible, having been a guy who had Palantir access and not Prism access, but access to other things.
01:03:50.000And now you're stuck in a corner arguing that they shouldn't have it, but they're never going to give up said power.
01:03:55.000So the only actual viable option left to you is to take over the government because you have to control the sword, right?
01:04:03.000You must, it's going back to He-Man, right?
01:04:06.000You have to be the one who picks up the sword and says, this is mine now, and then you must defend it because just because power can be wielded in an abusive way doesn't mean that you should just like sit in the corner and argue like, oh, well, we shouldn't do anything that's going to give ourselves power because eventually they will find a way to get power and come after you.
01:04:25.000And we've certainly all experienced that.
01:04:27.000We've all seen that throughout the Biden era, no question.
01:04:54.000This is a law that says if you, I guess, want to download apps, you have to put in government ID.
01:05:05.000See, that's very uncomfortable for me.
01:05:07.000I kind of think there's eccentric ways to go about this that would make it better, too.
01:05:12.000So, for example, one of the ideas I've liked for adult websites, for pornographic ones, is you'd have the requirement that you have to pay for it.
01:05:21.000Even if it's 10 cents, you have to actually go and input a credit card into it.
01:05:26.000Maybe you go and get one of those prepaid ones if you want to get around it.
01:05:29.000But I think one, a lot of people will finally be attacked with shame when they're realizing I am paying for this dirty product.
01:05:37.000And two, it's just a hurdle that's annoying to get over.
01:05:40.000So you're increasing the commitment needed to get it.
01:05:42.000And that's essentially what the states are relying on by having you put in your government ID.
01:05:52.000Listen, I'm all for good ideas to reduce porn consumption, especially amongst young people.
01:05:58.000But when you're getting into the point where you have to put an ID in, there's just something about that that feels, again, like counter the freedom.
01:06:13.000Again, I think there should be massive, massive tools to fight back against this stuff, but having to put your ID in to download an app, I don't know.
01:06:21.000It just feels like against the spirit of the internet.
01:06:26.000Well, one of the arguments, and I was just pulling up some stuff about it, was they were pointing out that one of the reasons that Meta may be for this so much is that this actually, to your point earlier, takes the liability away from Meta and takes the liability away in the way that the state laws are actually much stricter.
01:06:45.000So the state laws are stricter, but obviously a state law couldn't countermand a national law.
01:06:53.000Meta and probably a bunch of the other tech companies are sitting there saying, hey, the way that we can beat these state laws is by passing this national law, which is actually just going to be like a thin veneer of regulation that isn't going to really prevent anyone from seeing this kind of stuff.
01:07:32.000Some sort of dark web corners where maybe they're, I don't know.
01:07:37.000There's just like a thousand bad things that can happen if you start doing this.
01:07:43.000But again, I support it in spirit, but I just think like so many other things that conservatives end up doing from a legislative standpoint, the law of unintended consequences and they're betraying certain principles that we shouldn't betray.
01:08:31.000They took it away because Libs got mad because they thought it was, oh, we can't stop it.
01:08:34.000Yeah, they took it away because Trump won because of the add ons in 2016.
01:08:38.000Because Gamergate and then, you know, sort of the online sphere in 2016 that it morphed into that became the MAGA supporters that eventually, you know, and it's like those people kept getting unmasked.
01:08:52.000And it's like, oh, it turns out that they were actually like people who were quite professional or quite intelligent that for whatever reason had been, you know, pushed out of their companies or pushed out of the academy or whatever it was.
01:09:05.000And so we all praise Elon for returning us to some semblance of that and allowing that to happen again, not that there aren't issues with X. One of which, by the way, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that I think it's a huge mistake that pornography is allowed on X.
01:09:21.000I continue to say that that's a huge mistake.
01:09:23.000I think that Elon should take steps to correct that.
01:09:26.000I don't think that it should be something that's allowed to be shared at all on X.
01:09:31.000I think it's bad, although I will note it was allowed on their back.
01:09:33.000Again, during these super liberal free speech times as well.
01:09:36.000And I will say, bizarrely, that's for how much smut is injected everywhere in life.
01:09:42.000I will say, I never, ever accidentally run into smut on X as far as being there.
01:09:53.000One of the big problems is if you're using the advanced search tools where you're searching every tweet, that a lot of these pornographers then will target trending topics or city names that are trending.
01:10:08.000And then put that in the description of the tweet.
01:10:10.000So if you're using an advanced Twitter search tool, which I use all the time, that then those tweets will start coming up.
01:10:18.000So, you won't see them typically on your actual algorithm, but if you're using advanced search or if you just typed in, like, you know, you're searching for something, like, boom, you're just hit with it.
01:10:28.000And you're like, what the heck is this?
01:10:30.000I just, on balance, think that the ultra, you know, the liberalized internet in the classical sense was basically a great thing.
01:10:37.000And it's only been downhill when it's been restricted in any way.
01:10:42.000And it's just annoyingly easy for the left to say, this is for the kids.
01:10:46.000And they get the right on board with stuff that.
01:10:49.000Inevitably, it doesn't really protect kids much and does open the door to a bunch of other things.
01:10:55.000And even it's just how often does this happen where they say, okay, we're worried about kids getting groomed on the internet?
01:11:01.000I know that's a reasonable fear to think about, but actually, how often does that happen versus, let's say, the most mundane thing in the world?
01:11:09.000What would save more kids if we said we're going to have this strict internet control regime to stop groomers, or actually, you're not allowed to raise a kid with your mom's boyfriend?
01:11:19.000He's not allowed to live in the same house as you.
01:11:21.000I bet that would stop a lot more child abuse than any of this.
01:12:11.000You get it at the source because, like, right now, it's like if I want to put parental controls, I got to deal with like this streamer, this streamer, this like laptop, whatever.
01:12:18.000Like, we're not really at that phase yet.
01:12:21.000But it sort of makes you wonder, like, It's like whack a mole right now, as opposed to just like, hey, you can opt in to something simple.
01:12:31.000I think that would be a simpler solution.
01:12:33.000I think how decentralized it is and how different each platform is, you almost have to learn each new thing that your kid can get and get access to in order to do it.
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01:14:40.000Uh, apparently, in some countries, they are actually.
01:14:44.000I think it was the UK where they were shutting down.
01:14:48.000There's a massive heat wave going on in Europe, temperatures are like over 100 degrees Fahrenheit because that's God's uh temperature system.
01:14:58.000We're not going to use anything else around it, it's more granular, it is more granular, and we are going to use it, which is based off of water, which is the source of all life, and as opposed to any other systems.
01:15:26.000It seems that the Europeans, who have largely abandoned Christianity and abandoned their great civilizing mission that uplifted the entire planet, they have now embraced the culture of decay, the culture of assisted suicide, and the culture of just overheating yourself to death.
01:15:44.000I actually think this is a really, this is actually a profoundly important thing because the left itself is allowing the world to split into a political axis of pro air conditioning and anti air conditioning.
01:15:57.000And there are fewer, there are very few issues I think we can get a 90 10 advantage on.
01:16:03.000And I think we can get that on air conditioning should exist and is awesome and we should put it in everything.
01:16:18.000As a guy who has a European wife, this is constantly an issue in my household because, of course, Tanya Tay is not a super big fan of air conditioning to begin with.
01:16:34.000So we currently ride around like 71, 72.
01:17:09.000What's weird, what I will say is when my air conditioner is running in my apartment, it like, wherever I am for whatever reason, I can feel it actively blowing on me, it seems.
01:17:21.000And it always makes it feel way too cold, such that even in, like, if I'm in a t shirt, I keep a longer sleeve kind of like a woolen thing that I had from when I lived in DC.
01:17:30.000And I just keep it on my computer because sometimes if the AC starts running colder in, like, late at night before I go to bed, I will just put that on because it is uncomfortably cold to be in a t shirt.
01:17:41.000So I just don't want that during the afternoon.
01:19:00.000Then all of a sudden you walk outside and you're like, oh crap, never mind.
01:19:04.000Yeah, this is why I feel like I've adapted to the desert here, which is yeah, 79 is kind of warm, but it's also about.
01:19:12.00025 to 35 degrees cooler than it is outside.
01:19:15.000And I think that's what you need you need that element of distinction.
01:19:19.000But I'll be honest, I find it a little annoying when it's hyper AC'd.
01:19:26.000So if I go to a store and it's 115 degrees outside and then they're ACing it down to 61 degrees or something, it's annoying because, among other things, it means I have to wear long sleeves outside because I'm going to be going into the deep freeze anytime I go to a store.
01:20:18.000Where she just writes about the heat wave, she talks about in Europe, she talks about how in France apparently already a thousand people, like a thousand people, have died because of excess heat.
01:20:30.000And she writes, and yet they're still not allowing AC.
01:20:35.000And she writes, You can't squash the religious impulse.
01:20:39.000If you remove God, it will just manifest in other ways.
01:20:42.000In secular religion, there is an abundant guilt and atonement.
01:22:25.000Honestly, the scariest thing I'm thinking of is how much horrifying bacterial growth would happen if I was in a place that was 110 degrees and also reasonably humid.
01:22:37.000Wait, well, you can still have circulation.
01:22:39.000No one's saying you can't have circulation.
01:22:42.000Yeah, you can still have deodorant, Blake.