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00:03:15.000So it's like the egg itself is like red.
00:03:17.000And then I've no, again, like I'm not a, I'm not a, they like soak it.
00:03:21.000It's like what the Japanese do where they soak it in soy sauce.
00:03:24.000The crazier thing I'm imagining is like what if there was some way they could make it so it was a hard boiled egg and the yolk was like spicy buffalo sauce flavored.
00:03:51.000So, first topic, Jack, you were very amped up.
00:03:55.000You're very passionate about this one.
00:03:57.000And we do, we were saying, as we all should be.
00:03:59.000This show is named Thought Crime, so we should probably engage with a story that involves literal thought crime and its related offense, word crime.
00:04:09.000We're talking about Shiloh Hendrix, of course.
00:04:13.000That is a woman who went unfortunately viral about a year ago because she got in a confrontation with someone, a stranger at a playground, and she did do the unforgivable sin of the post 2020 age, which is she said a naughty word,
00:04:27.000and so she was indicted and taken to court.
00:04:34.000Yeah, so this was a really interesting case, and I think we've all kind of covered it on our respective shows.
00:04:42.000And there was an interesting question that we got in over the week, and I kind of wanted to just sort of hash it out because I got this in from, you know, conservatives and people saying, and particularly, and I'm just going to say it, I'm just going to say it,
00:04:57.000particularly got the question in from some women who were saying, I don't understand how what she did is okay.
00:05:04.000I don't understand why you would defend someone who did what she did.
00:05:06.000I don't understand why we're getting behind somebody like this.
00:05:11.000And I said, well, first of all, it's about freedom of speech.
00:06:26.000Wait, but just before we play the clip, if we can, I just want to be clear about this that she was acquitted of any of the activity to the child.
00:08:41.000I think Minnesota must generate the most outrage.
00:08:44.000Before we get too outraged, I just want to, again, I want to try to do this, explain the situation so we can clearly explain why we're so outraged.
00:08:56.000Any of the activity towards the child, she's convicted of the activity towards the TikTok streamer, who, by the way, was screaming at her while filming her.
00:09:08.000And she doesn't, um, she doesn't threaten him, she doesn't advance on him.
00:09:14.000She's actually walking away, she's holding her child in her arms while she's walking away.
00:09:20.000And he is the one clearly, clearly provoking her, and that.
00:09:27.000Is like to me, it just seems so crazy because, like, you could almost see if the charge went the other way.
00:09:36.000I could maybe see some people's, you know, I could see some people's reaction being the way that it was like, well, you did that to a kid, but she was acquitted for the activity towards the kid, she was completely acquitted.
00:09:48.000So, that to me, number one, on its face, I don't think we should be charging people for speech.
00:10:22.000I mean, what it really is is it actually, if you want to get into it, it's like it's practically like feudal hierarchy of privilege.
00:10:27.000It's sort of like in feudal Japan, a samurai can carry a katana around, but a peasant cannot carry a katana around.
00:10:34.000And so, certain bad words, they're the katana of 2026.
00:10:39.000If you're white, you're a second class citizen.
00:10:41.000If you're white, and that's why I said that it's anti white, because this is a law or a rule, right, that applies to the white race in a way that it applies differently to other races.
00:10:52.000And that's not what we do in this country.
00:10:54.000That's just not what we're supposed to be about.
00:10:57.000We're supposed to be colorblind, and we're supposed to be everyone is treated the same by the same standard.
00:11:01.000So, you can't have one standard for one race and one standard for another race.
00:11:12.000I mean, the left is the one that tells us that simultaneously we need to be colorblind and then also see color.
00:11:19.000And then, whenever a white person, you know, does see color or kind of use just the common denominator of, you know, mentioning things, crime rates, things like that, all of a sudden they're the evil person.
00:11:31.000But, like what you brought up earlier, you can do the most egregious, disgusting, debaucherous thing in the United States as a leftist and then say that you are innocent, blame it on the white person.
00:11:43.000And all of a sudden, have millions of dollars raised for you in a GoFundMe account.
00:11:47.000And I just think that it's scary, more so just for the future of our country, that we actually have people that are completely blinded.
00:11:56.000We have it on our side too, but there's millions of people that genuinely think that this guy is innocent, that this woman is insane, that it's crazy.
00:12:30.000But what I will say is, I actually feel, in a weird way, this is a white pill moment in that, yes, she got charged with a crime that I don't think you would have seen much in the past.
00:12:40.000But the reason you wouldn't have seen this before is you didn't have TikTok streamers as a profession.
00:12:45.000You didn't have everyone going around with a camera and immediately videotaping everyone all the time.
00:12:49.000I think if you did, I think you actually would have seen a ton of this in.
00:12:53.000The 2000s, in the Bush years, in the Obama years.
00:12:55.000It actually would have been pretty common to see attempts at that sort of thing.
00:12:59.000What stands out to me about this case is that, like, let's be frank, her behavior was not very great.
00:13:04.000You shouldn't probably yell the N word at a child, I'll be frank.
00:13:08.000And, but that people were still able to maintain their composure and say, that doesn't matter.
00:13:13.000What matters is they charged her for a crime basically because of her race and sex.
00:13:19.000They wanted to go get a Becky, get a Karen, and they charged her with a What is essentially a thought crime, what is a speech crime, that this is unconstitutional and we should oppose it, even if we would say you shouldn't do that sort of behavior, period.
00:13:32.000And people pretty quickly aligned that way.
00:13:35.000And I think that is a change from where we would have been even five or six years ago.
00:13:40.000You guys probably remember 2020 and how overwrought people would get about systemic racism and everything else.
00:13:47.000And we are at the point where we have learned to stand up against bullying in that vein and say that this is unacceptable behavior.
00:13:58.000And there's going to need to be an appeal, and it might not even end the way we want it to.
00:14:01.000But we've finally gotten people to the point where they understand what we're supposed to believe, what we're supposed to argue, that freedom of speech includes the right to say mean things in an argument in public, and we can push back on this.
00:14:24.000Well, it's like this is the one that's going to produce the backlash.
00:14:28.000This is the one that hopefully we come back and we say, you know, just as a group of people, no, you can't.
00:14:34.000And by the way, she got a 90-day suspended sentence.
00:14:36.000So if she does anything to violate the terms of her probation, she can go to jail.
00:14:40.000She can actually go to jail for saying a word.
00:14:43.000And I don't want to live in that country.
00:14:45.000And so what I would say to the folks and good people and fans of the program who wrote in with the question, I would say, look, you know, I get where you're coming from.
00:14:55.000And I do think that obviously the behavior on all sides was rude.
00:15:00.000And by the way, she did not the one who started that.
00:15:02.000Shiloh Hendrix did not start that situation at all.
00:15:05.000And we'll be very clear about that to everyone.
00:15:07.000And at the same time, though, I don't want to live in a country where, in the UK, right?
00:15:14.000Where I just came back from, that 13,000 people a year are arrested for speech crimes.
00:15:36.000And if you guys remember Lucy Connolly, her story was she had made that post after the Southampton stabbings when three little girls were hacked to death at a Taylor Swift dance party thing.
00:15:51.000And just little girls were just hacked to death by this Muslim migrant.
00:15:56.000And she made a post just saying, we got to get them all out of here.
00:16:04.000And maybe included some stuff about the hotels where they live as well.
00:16:27.000Whatever, you know, those are all things we can talk about.
00:16:30.000But the idea of, which I also don't stand for, by the way, but the idea that you would put someone behind bars for speech, it just runs against everything, everything.
00:16:42.000That we have fought for as a country, for the First Amendment.
00:16:46.000And by the way, the First Amendment is about tolerating political speech that you don't like.
00:16:53.000That's actually what the word tolerance means.
00:16:54.000You don't tolerate things that you like, you tolerate things that you don't like, right?
00:16:58.000And so, even though tolerance is not a Christian virtue, but that's a whole different discussion, that the idea being, though, for freedom of speech, it's about speech you disagree with.
00:17:06.000It's about speech that you disagree with.
00:17:08.000And guys, you know, I'm sure we can all say this that we saw in the wake of Charlie's murder, we saw horrific.
00:17:15.000Things stated online and in person and about our friend, and people faced certainly face consequences for that.
00:17:24.000But I don't recall a single one of us ever saying something like, Oh, that person should be in jail for that post.
00:17:40.000All right, so we actually had a related thought that one of the things I stood out is that she would get she's getting prosecuted for this in part because.
00:17:49.000There's always people, everyone has a cell phone, has a camera, has a video recorder, and they're happy to pull it out and start recording whenever anything happens, basically.
00:17:59.000But we're increasingly moving towards the reality where everywhere is being recorded at all times.
00:18:05.000Gentlemen, it is time to debate flock cameras.
00:18:09.000We actually got a question about this during the AMA last week, but Jack wasn't on the AMA, so we're going to revisit it.
00:18:30.000So, yeah, so Flock cameras, they are a startup company, a tech related startup company.
00:18:35.000They make cameras, and okay, we've had surveillance cameras forever.
00:18:39.000What's different about these is it's the fusion of camera technology with, as you'd expect, AI technology, the ability to read things on their own, collect and assemble data on their own.
00:18:52.000And so, What flock cameras are able to do, for example, is they're able to log every license plate that comes by on a street and then put it into a database.
00:19:01.000What license plates went along this street on this day and put it into gigantic spreadsheets so that law enforcement can go back and look at them later.
00:19:11.000The limiting factor on closed circuit television or any other security footage always used to be you had to actually go back and watch the footage if you wanted to get anything out of it.
00:19:20.000And they usually deleted it, especially back in the day.
00:19:22.000It was on tapes, they would just reuse the same tapes.
00:19:24.000So you couldn't go back and look at something six months later.
00:19:27.000We are now at the point, and they're rolling this out in cities where, oh, the cops decide that they have a suspect.
00:19:33.000Maybe there's a vehicle they're interested in.
00:19:36.000They can go Flock, which is a private company, and say, Tell us everything about this car, this model, this license plate.
00:19:44.000And they can tell you everywhere that car has driven in the past six months, the past year, possibly ever, once there's been enough data.
00:19:53.000They'll know its patterns of movement throughout the city, what are days where it wasn't driving where it would normally be driving.
00:19:59.000Just Vast amounts of information all coming from this tech company and being saved by this tech company and being shared with the government.
00:20:07.000And so people are losing their minds and they've decided that they're a form of, I think, modern slavery, is what some people have said.
00:20:14.000Other people are flipping out and they are destroying the cameras.
00:20:17.000We may have people who destroy the cameras go on trial and then are just acquitted because people say, yeah, smash those cameras.
00:21:05.000Even the Biden era, when we look at Instagram, Facebook, all of these companies gave the government a back door and were able to censor anybody.
00:21:15.000So it's like, yes, Flock is a private company, but how do we know that the government doesn't have a back door that they can just use this data for whatever they want?
00:21:35.000what type of mass casualty event is going to happen where all of a sudden the government goes, actually, We're going to take control of this.
00:21:44.000So that's where my brain goes when it comes to this kind of stuff.
00:21:46.000And that's where I am very anti flock.
00:21:53.000I want to talk to you about an issue so many Americans face, and that's health insurance.
00:21:58.000There's an organization I really, really appreciate called Christian Healthcare Ministries.
00:22:03.000CHM is a faith based alternative to health insurance.
00:23:59.000The problem in Philadelphia is that they have a DA who affirmatively is pro crime, who actively fires effective prosecutors, releases people who are obviously guilty.
00:24:10.000But again, it's going to be something where it's another tool that is needed to be able to fight the crime.
00:24:20.000And possibly, by the way, there are, for example, one of the issues with Larry Kramer that you just brought up there, or excuse me, Larry Krasner, Larry Kramer is a different guy.
00:24:29.000Larry Krasner, I think Larry Kramer is the name of the guy in Bonfire of the Vanities, which I've always said they're kind of similar.
00:24:37.000And that Krasner was just slapped down by the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court and said that all of his rulings, because they've been so just blatantly riddled with false, he's a Soros DA, and with falsities and mistruths,
00:24:52.000that now all of his decisions need to be secondarily viewed by the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, who happens to be a Republican.
00:25:02.000And so, there are ways in a state like that where you've got Republicans, say, at the state level, that can actually overview these things and say, like, okay, well, this is obviously a lie.
00:25:13.000And I know it's a lie because I can see the footage on the flock camera.
00:25:32.000If it were to achieve its objective, which, like, picture for a second somebody robs a bank and then they immediately hit a freeway, they're running away.
00:25:40.000Like, flock cameras can find them instantaneously.
00:25:43.000Somebody commits a murder, they found the car, they know who it belongs to, they run the plates, they can find him, they know where he's going, they know what direction he was headed in.
00:25:51.000You know, somebody, whatever it is, like, you can crack down on crime really, really fast.
00:25:58.000And it's actually not like it's not easy for like law enforcement to crack down on stuff really fast.
00:26:02.000I mean, they have like, 20 tips that immediately come in, and then they have to verify all 20 while simultaneously, like, taking evidence from the crime scene and also, like, running DNA and all these things.
00:26:14.000And so, to like remove different situations and have it cut down, like, that is good in concept.
00:26:21.000However, like, powerful tools in the hands of bad and evil men, like, throughout the years, even Charlie's stance, like, on the death penalty had changed from pro anti.
00:26:30.000I remember asking him, like, why at one point, why were you anti?
00:26:33.000And he was like, well, I'm pro, and the fact that's a good thing.
00:26:37.000I'm anti in the fact that evil men can use it for evil purposes.
00:26:42.000And so, like, flock cameras, think like January 6th, right?
00:26:45.000I'm anti because under the Biden administration, they were like finding these people.
00:27:52.000Does that mean they were not found, or does that mean they were prosecuted?
00:27:55.000I am pro flock camera in that I want it to do what its objective is.
00:28:00.000I'm anti in that it's going to collect all this data on people.
00:28:03.000It's going to be easier for them to find people under an evil regime.
00:28:07.000And then also, I think during COVID, when churches were shut down and businesses were shut down, there were some turning point employees that were showing up to work when they weren't allowed to.
00:28:17.000And who's to say that flock cameras or the state of Arizona were going to track Charlie's car?
00:28:30.000I'm imagining COVID, and they could say, yeah, we found all these cars are going to this specific spot.
00:28:37.000You could just unleash the AI and say, find us examples where all these cars are going in the same direction, even if there's no business there.
00:28:43.000And then they say, yeah, here is your home church.
00:28:45.000Or even, let's remember, for example, the Biden administration, they had their fascination with traditional Latin mass as a vector for terrorism.
00:28:54.000Now, imagine they go, well, let's find every car that drives to this place that's doing a Latin Mass within the window where the Latin Mass is offered.
00:29:01.000But they want to know every single person who goes to the service.
00:29:04.000And by the way, I don't disagree with anything you guys are saying, but I do also just, I don't think you can put the toothpaste back in the tube.
00:29:15.000The Chinese Communist Party, the NKVD, the Stasi, there have been regimes that did things like this far before technology.
00:30:37.000I also want, like, under the Trump administration, we could use flock cameras to track down every single illegal, like, migrant, like, every bad one, every single one, like, whatever, however we wanted to do it, because we have certain data points that we can use.
00:31:12.000No, I was going to say, though, like, beyond that, right?
00:31:17.000You already like, go back to Shiloh Hendrix right, she's on video because a guy was standing there and started filming her.
00:31:23.000So I mean this mass surveillance, even if the flock cameras were all gone, you're always going to be around someone who's got a cell phone next to you, right?
00:31:32.000Totally, it's just always going to happen.
00:31:35.000And this idea, Scott Adams, you talk about this that like, privacy is going to be one of those things that as more like like, like I was born with a certain level of privacy that Mikey was not born with and and soon to be a father right, You know, congrats, by the way.
00:32:08.000But, but, point being is that your, your child is going to be born with even less privacy than you were.
00:32:14.000And, and it's, so Scott Adams just pointed out that, like, it's, it's just going to go away.
00:32:17.000But what I would say though is, and this is like sort of my general pushback, is that, you know, The idea of whether or not these tools are used for good or for evil isn't because of the tool, it's because of who's in charge of the government.
00:32:32.000Yeah, and this is where I think the libertarian argument fails because you're always going to find someone who can be in charge of the government, you can't just like get away with it.
00:32:41.000So, the only thing the only way to respond is to take over the government.
00:34:40.000And he is repeatedly arrested for stabbing random people.
00:34:45.000And we have the email where the police send it to Steve Descano, the Commonwealth Attorney for Fairfax, and say, Can you please convict this guy and stop releasing him because he keeps randomly stabbing people?
00:34:57.000And of course, he was released anyway and randomly stabbed someone to death.
00:35:01.000Now that he's finally murdered someone, I guess he'll go to prison.
00:35:04.000But that's what we're facing we already have the ability to arrest more criminals.
00:35:10.000Than our progressive governing class is actually willing to put in prison long enough to keep us safe.
00:35:17.000And so that means if adding all of these flock cameras, the chief purpose of them is not going to be to catch those criminals because they don't care.
00:35:26.000It's going to be to skin more tax cattle.
00:35:28.000Oh, let's find more people that we can fine.
00:35:31.000Let's find more people who will be those, as Tom Wolf said, the great white defendants, the people they really want to be prosecuting.
00:36:37.000Because of their new program, where basically what they're doing is they're bucking the trend and they're saying, Okay, we're just going to arrest the most violent offenders and keep them in jail.
00:36:50.000And they call it, I pulled it up, it's called Focused Deterrence and an approach known as the Group Violence Reduction Strategy.
00:36:58.000It started in January 2022, and it specifically focused on the high violence Western Police District and later expanded citywide.
00:37:06.000And by the way, we could go through and talk about all the specifics of it, but it's just policing.
00:37:11.000It's literally just they've changed the mentality and said, we're just going to keep the people.
00:37:16.000Who are committing the crimes locked up.
00:38:03.000Well, okay, so but to that point, like to your point, they have something called clear instead of flock, instead of this mass surveillance, right?
00:39:31.000We're getting more and more flock cameras in the United States.
00:39:34.000Now, and like I said, wait, actually, do we know if that's a heat map of all flock safety or is that a heat map of like all like police cameras?
00:39:49.000Well, because like, yeah, like I'm looking it up right now and it is saying that Baltimore does not use flock, and yet I'm looking at the map and pretty sure it looks like.
00:40:41.000I do think it's funny since we brought up Baltimore that in that annoying show, The Wire, that everyone had to say was the best show ever made for about a five year period, there's a subplot where they improved the city.
00:40:52.000Are you crapping on The Wire right now?
00:41:33.000You know, they do have like a low crime area, but it was pretty bad.
00:41:40.000And if you want to get into real thought crime, it's because the people of Baltimore are actually a little bit different from the people of Amsterdam, as it turns out.
00:41:46.000And that's why the drug policy there does not work the same way it does in Amsterdam.
00:41:50.000Well, I can't be a full expert on that because I'm only going secondhand because I never watched The Wire because I don't watch TV because it corrodes your brain.
00:44:45.000I mean, I read, yeah, I read the Odyssey in high school a couple of times, and I still don't remember it.
00:44:49.000But again, it's one of those books that you, when you read in high school, you're like, I understand, I remember like parts of this, but I don't understand it.
00:44:57.000Overall, I'm like glad I saw the Odyssey.
00:45:01.000And like, what's weird is, We had all the hype that it was going to be a lib movie, and instead, like all the reasons it was like bad were just that Christopher Nolan, I think, sort of messed up what he decided to focus on, and not for a lib reason, just for Christopher Nolan storytelling.
00:45:16.000Yeah, like I think, like, there's just like some not good writing in it.
00:45:19.000And the problem, he could have even made the movie, I mean, that's a weird movie, he could have even made that movie that he wanted to make where he subverts what the Odyssey is about and makes it more negative, makes it more we're destroying civilization and that's bad.
00:46:44.000And why did Christopher Nolan decide to add a scene of a guy throwing puppies off a cliff and then make such a big portion of the movie about like Zeus's law?
00:46:53.000You must take care of the beggar when they come into your home.
00:54:11.000This has gone viral on X, and the take has basically been Are we going to have socialists?
00:54:17.000Is Mamdani going to win because our rich Americans cannot help themselves from going on podcasts and talking about their.
00:54:25.000Extremely surreal love for a $1.8 million object to place upon their wrist and how they craved it, how they connived for it, how they begged for it, how they sobbed upon seeing it.
00:54:39.000And I just think a lot of people are going to look at that and say, you know what, wealth tax.
00:54:42.000They're going to say, they're going to look at it and say, wealth tax time.
00:55:11.000It's like, do you get so rich that all of a sudden you start almost like acting poor?
00:55:16.000Like, you start like, you go so far one side that you almost like, well, so it's not like that.
00:55:22.000What I think it does show is I think we've had a shift of behavioral values with our rich people.
00:55:29.000And I think it actually reflects, I think it reflects, hear me out, this is my thought crime demographic change in America.
00:55:34.000That America used to have a ruling elite that was, it was wasps, it was, Like northern Europeans, and that came with it certain cultural behaviors.
00:55:44.000And there was a lot of restraint, there was a lot of being private.
00:55:48.000It came with this whole noblesse oblige like, you don't really flaunt wealth in people's faces, you don't get too garish about things.
00:55:56.000And in most of the world, that's not the norm.
00:56:00.000In large chunks of the world, wealth is something that if you possess it, you like oafishly display it, you garishly display it.
00:56:07.000You get a gold plated car and a gold plated AK 47.
00:56:18.000You go to Saudi Arabia, and it's not going to be a mystery who's rich.
00:56:21.000Whereas in America, we have the cultural value of, like, oh, yeah, the billionaire who dresses like a farmer and drives around in a station wagon.
00:56:55.000Like there was a whole thing when we were at CPAC UK, there was a whole thing that like many of us American speakers that came up, they said, Wow, you know, I had some like BBC
00:57:09.000interview and they were like, Do you think that you're mixing God and politics too much?
00:57:14.000And I was like, Mixing God and politics.
00:57:23.000That's considered like a personal belief that you just don't talk about publicly.
00:57:27.000And there were a number of other people who said that to me.
00:57:31.000And it kind of goes along with the lines of what you're saying that wealth, religious beliefs, like, it's just like it's a general idea that being reserved is considered more polite and more well mannered as opposed to, you know, all of this.
00:57:47.000What's the most that you think is reasonable to spend on a watch?
00:57:59.000Have you ever sobbed over a watch, Mikey?
00:58:03.000We simultaneously tell people you can make it in America and you can start a business and be successful and enjoy these luxuries.
00:58:12.000And then we're also saying you are now the reason.
00:58:16.000Socialism is coming because you are buying expensive things and living luxurious because you have achieved so much and done such a great job in the world of business.
00:58:25.000And on top of that, like context is important.
00:58:28.000Like Kevin O'Leary, it's no different than somebody that's like super into cars or super into like shoes or whatever it is.
00:58:34.000Like, there are different luxury items that people obsess over, and there's so much about it.
00:59:27.000The rich are getting richer, and they're like rubbing it in the face of people that can't make it, you know, make the means to like pay for rent or groceries for that matter.
00:59:37.000But I just don't think blaming it on, Kevin O'Leary, for the reason we have a climb in socialism, is necessary andor good.
00:59:58.000That means the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
01:00:02.000And so it's like there's this, they call it the silent recession, where if you're under a certain If you're under a certain pay level, that income level, that you're just living in recession era, um,
01:00:17.000recession era, uh, economics and finances.
01:00:22.000And, and then you've got a guy like Kevin O'Leary talking about buying a two million dollar watch, and you wonder why, you wonder why Mamdani's popular.
01:00:28.000You wonder why DSA is like beating the crap out of Democrats all over the country.
01:00:33.000And by the way, beating us in, uh, in general elections.
01:01:41.000Yeah, that same guy, Alan Richardson, talking about Richard Scene files and all of this stuff.
01:01:48.000So, I think it's that where it's like a perfect example like Kevin O'Leary talking about how much he loves a watch and how much he wants a specific watch.
01:02:47.000And 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.
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01:03:08.000Viewers who listen, discuss, and then they respond.
01:03:11.000TikTok turns connection into community through small acts of understanding.
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01:03:28.000I don't even know the question she asked him.
01:03:30.000Do you know the question she asked you on your podcast?
01:03:32.000What if she asked him, what's the most expensive question?
01:03:35.000Can I go back to what Blake was saying about Noblesse Oblige?
01:03:40.000Is that the idea was that you give back, that if you have so much, that you could perhaps give back to your country?
01:03:49.000And so it's Donald Trump building the Walmart ice rink or fixing the Walmart ice rink in New York City, right?
01:03:57.000It's, yeah, he's got a bunch of money, but you've got to do something for the little guy too.
01:04:01.000And with Kevin O'Leary, you know, I don't see anything like that.
01:04:05.000I don't see Kevin O'Leary turn around and like, hey, we're going to fix up the zoo or we're going to do something around to benefit regular people.
01:04:12.000I see him just saying, hey, how can I spend more money when I have an opportunity to spend more money?
01:04:17.000And, you know, meanwhile, like everything's closing, everything's getting run down, certainly in New York, certainly in California.
01:04:25.000And, you know, he's not doing anything to give back.
01:04:30.000And so that's a huge part of the problem.
01:04:34.000And yes, If you look at the history of socialistic communist revolutions, it is behavior like this by the elites during a time when you have, we currently call it a K shaped economy.
01:04:48.000No, that actually, actually, I want to respond to that.
01:04:50.000Specifically about that, one thing I think that the billionaires suffer from is that the norm is now like you want to give back, so you give to some charitable foundation.
01:05:09.000So Elon Musk comes out and says, I want to give back.
01:05:13.000So I'm just going to build the new stadium for a city, and it'll be owned by the city, and I'm just going to pay for it, and it'll be nice and pretty.
01:05:21.000Wrigley Field was built by the Wrigley family.
01:05:25.000You build stadiums, you build monuments, you say, I'm going to build a new skyscraper for my company, and it's going to be awesome art deco looking with all the sculpture that we can't have anymore, and I'm going to spend on that,
01:05:38.000and it's just going to be a Big part of the public, and we're going to rent it out to the public, and it's going to be part of your skyline, and it's going to look awesome.
01:05:44.000We need our billionaires to be building awesome stuff that you can look at.
01:05:48.000Is Trump not doing that, though, with like the ballroom?
01:07:09.000On Charlie's birthday a couple years ago,
01:07:14.000we took him to go get a watch, and he does not like watches.
01:07:18.000And the guy was like, amazing, loved Charlie, and I think he wanted to give Charlie like this amazing deal, like almost like basically free.
01:07:33.000And Charlie was like, We sit down in the room and he like puts on this white glove.
01:07:37.000He like opens the box and he pulls out the watch and he's like, Here, Charlie grabs it with his greasy fingers and he's not messing around with it.
01:07:44.000And he's like, So, so what about this makes this expensive?
01:07:49.000Like, I, what, why, how much does this go for?
01:08:26.000Even a free watch, you didn't even want.
01:08:28.000So, Jack, Charlie would most likely, if he was here, he'd probably agree with you.
01:08:32.000Well, so another thought I had I've just never been a watch guy.
01:08:36.000The only watch I will tell you, though, the, the, and I, um, I don't wear it anymore, but the only, see, no watch.
01:08:43.000The only watch that I ever wore for a long time was my bootcamp watch.
01:08:49.000And that was a watch that I was, I had this position in my bootcamp unit where I was the only guy who got to wear a watch.
01:08:59.000And it was among like other, it was like one of the leadership member of the unit kind of things.
01:09:04.000And it just meant a lot to me that, you know, that was the watch I went through bootcamp with, with like all my, You know, bootcamp buddies, and uh, you know, I just wore that watch for a really long time, and then my and then I kind of stopped wearing it because it's it's it was like really like rudimentary and it didn't really look good with like suits and stuff,
01:09:23.000And uh, you know, recently my uh, my son had been asking about wearing a watch, so I gave it to him.
01:09:29.000Nice, my fiance wants me to buy a watch because she's really tired of this garment.
01:09:34.000A final thought on this, we mentioned she's like, you need to buy something better, let's go get a faucet.
01:09:39.000We mentioned there's the K shaped economy, diverging, rich get richer, poor get poorer, although.
01:09:44.000What this actually stood out to me is the fact that Kevin O'Leary is so obsessed with the watches, and this is a way to express his collecting impulse.
01:09:53.000It's something for him to blow money on, frankly.
01:10:19.000Or it's even stuff I could be doing and choose not to because I don't like it.
01:10:24.000Like, as an example, I've been stunned by the number of very wealthy people I know who watch a lot of television and like bad television in some cases or just whatever's trendy.
01:10:35.000And then the amount who, what's their favorite thing to do?
01:10:37.000Oh, they sit in group chats on their phone and they like talk to other people they know.
01:10:41.000And like, okay, you can also be in a group chat with your friends.
01:10:56.000I'll watch, like, Tanya and I will sometimes, like, sit down and watch a series, and it'll be, like, maybe, like, we watch one episode a night before bed or something.
01:11:04.000But, like, that will generally, other than, like, work, that will generally be the only time I ever sit down and, like, watch.
01:12:25.000The thing is, most animes are not that many episodes compared to US shows where we love to have 28 episode seasons and they run for a decade.
01:12:32.000The biggest thing is just there's a million of them.
01:12:58.000No, there actually is a real anime that's about girls in boarding school.
01:13:02.000Yeah, there's a real anime that's about girls in boarding school where they're learning how to drive World War II tanks, and you're not considered an eligible bride unless you're a good tank commander.
01:13:12.000It's called Girls und Panzer, which is just girls and tank.
01:13:17.000Anyway, I'm sure Dylan in the chat is losing his mind over this.
01:15:19.000So, this is a tweet someone made, and it is this woman, Blaine Anderson, has an account dating by Blaine, and she posts an exchange between a woman and a guy she was potentially going to go on a debate on.
01:15:34.000And I'm going to read the exchange first.
01:16:02.000This exchange was then sent to this Blaine woman, and she says, Single girlfriend in New York City had this text exchange with a hinge match.
01:16:12.000She's entitled to whatever expectations of men she wants, but asking a stranger from the internet to send a car is cringy, and she has no business being upset if he won't.
01:16:25.000Is simultaneously fair, abrasive, and weird.
01:16:30.000Just say, How about I come to you if you still want the date?
01:16:34.000Or if you don't, just say, I don't think this is a fit.
01:16:37.000Hard not to stay stuck single if you interact like this.
01:16:41.000And then, as a follow up, someone who may be joking or maybe not, I couldn't really tell, Mads Campbell tweeted, Every good man I've ever been on a date with has sent a car, usually a black car.
01:17:59.000So, in New York City, that, then chances are if she's saying like blah, blah, blah, Uber, then chances are she probably doesn't have her own car, right?
01:18:08.000So the geography, I think, changes the dynamics a little bit here as well, where, you know, I wouldn't want a girl, you know, taking the subway in any city in the United States or even London.
01:20:17.000Zuzu said, I spent my 20s dating in New York, and the gentleman did pay for your cab home after 10 p.m., but a black car service is ridiculous.
01:21:19.000I'm like, but if you're a dime like Tanya Tay, then yeah, of course, like black car all day long.
01:21:24.000But she had her, now that being said, when Tanya and I started dating, she had her own car.
01:21:28.000And so, like, we just, we just drive to meet up usually.
01:21:33.000I think part of what goes into this, but we also weren't in New York City.
01:21:37.000So it's, it's, you know, it's part of, part of what is going into this, frankly, is I think there's a lot of people burn because it is, frankly, a known practice now that a lot of women will just go on dates to get like a Free meal.
01:21:58.000He doesn't even know if she looks like what her pictures look like.
01:22:03.000So if this is the very first time they've ever met, he could be getting catfished, right?
01:22:08.000And if he's getting catfished, then why would you send an Uber black?
01:22:12.000So, Mikey, again, like this is where I meet you halfway where I'm saying like it actually depends because if you've, maybe second date, maybe third date, but you've never met before or have you even, have they done a FaceTime?
01:22:24.000See, that's by the way, guys, for guys out there, if you're on a dating app that you want to get around the catfish by FaceTiming, right?
01:22:32.000So you got to give them the FaceTime test before you meet up because then you can say, oh, well, let's, let's, let me get your digits, like get the digits.
01:23:51.000But I know, so I would actually, I would actually, I'm going to side with the guy here.
01:23:57.000I'm actually going to side with the guy here and saying that no, in that situation, if they have not done the FaceTime test, if they have not had a date before, they've never met, they haven't even done the FaceTime test, then no, you do not get to demand an Uber Black.
01:25:27.000What I will say is, this is a disagreement where I have with Charlie.
01:25:30.000I think Charlie's advice, take her to dinner, pay for everything, makes sense if it is a person you already knew going into it, such that it's not really a first introduction.
01:25:38.000My general point of view on dating is because of the whole, some people are just faking out, both partners, both potential partners need skin in the game the very first date to make sure that they're not just purely wasting each other's time.
01:26:09.000See how America wouldn't come out of that.
01:26:11.000Wait, this is basically the only part of the Odyssey that I liked actually was the part where he's tied to the mast and screaming because that was basically me internally watching that movie.
01:27:39.000And then she, you know, ended up becoming Christian, right?
01:27:43.000People can have bad pasts and become Christian, right?
01:27:47.000She becomes a Christian, but her first thing in Christendom is she starts making like EDM Christian music videos of like her dancing with like all this Christian techno music.
01:28:00.000And then during like COVID, she started churches outside and it was very small for like many, many years.
01:28:09.000And somewhere along the way, she meets this African person.
01:28:13.000Pastor from Tanzania, who is very much so Pentecostal, apostolic, making you fall to the floor, speaking in tongues.
01:29:21.000She claims that she does healings, right?
01:29:23.000And so she'll do these like mass healings.
01:29:25.000She like puts out videos of her doing healings.
01:29:28.000She'll like have church services where she'll line people up and she'll just kind of like blow in the microphone and like hit them with the Holy Spirit.
01:30:49.000You need to be open to God to renounce more things.
01:30:51.000And even when God puts on your heart to even sow a seed right now online or something, you know, like right now, this is what God wants you to do be open to renounce and he's going to be free completely.
01:31:04.000For those who couldn't see, this woman who was.
01:31:07.000Being preached to sow seeds by donating online or something, had her child on the ground and he looks like he's about 12 or so, and he's like lashing out, like doing kind of air kicks and waving his arms around.
01:32:42.000One, two, it's very weird in that, like, they call her mama, and then she calls her like mentor, the African Tanzanian guy, she calls him daddy.
01:32:52.000Like, she, when on that stage, when he's like pouring the water, she's like, Thank you, daddy, as he's like pouring the water.
01:32:59.000It's that's also, it's just very weird.
01:33:01.000Like, there's stuff that's weird about it.
01:33:02.000Um, also, like, her saying that like she must be refilled, like, it talks, it almost references like a deficiency, and there is no deficiency in the Holy Spirit.
01:33:14.000Like, you know, I just pulled this up.
01:33:16.000Ephesians 13 through 14 talks about this.
01:33:18.000Romans, I think, 8 through 9 talks about this.
01:35:25.000This kind of reminds me of, and Mikey, you probably remember when we had the last time I think you were here, we had that conversation about
01:35:36.000And we were talking about like putting Jesus on energy drinks and stuff.
01:35:40.000And I think for a lot of us, like where we came down on it was like it's sort of the problem is when you were using the actual image of Christ and putting that like just slapping that on your product and without anything other than like saying that like Jesus wants you to buy this energy drink,
01:35:57.000you know, and in just a very overt, like again, garish and gaudy kind of way, as opposed to like I think we talked about like in and out and they just kind of put like the.
01:36:09.000The Bible verse, so the passage will be on like the bottom of your cup or whatever.
01:36:12.000Or if you're putting stuff that is Christian, but not like you know, just exploiting Jesus as like Jesus drink, I think you know, I think it comes down to and that this is obviously exploitation.
01:36:24.000This it's just it's obviously exploitation, and this is the kind of stuff that you will go to hell for.
01:36:29.000It's without if you if you do this without repenting, you will go to hell for this kind of stuff.
01:36:33.000I think this just is another case where we have to continue to like.
01:36:41.000Explore everything, like, double check everything with scripture, just like the Bereans.
01:36:47.000Like, whoever you're listening to, whatever you're reading, anything, go back and look for the scripture.
01:36:56.000Look, look, and hold up God's word as the magnifying glass to figure out what is true.
01:38:12.000They're very aware of the first person.
01:38:14.000The first person is young men versus young women, and that young men want to do something that's maybe a little harder, that's a little more demanding, that isn't just out front and public and everything.
01:38:25.000And I think they have a very interesting plan.