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00:01:31.000And we literally, as we're recording this, just finished.
00:01:37.000The beatification mass of Fulton J. Sheen.
00:01:40.000And you can, in fact, see the procession, I guess, right over here behind me over my shoulder.
00:01:46.000And you can see folks are filing out 1,000 priests were here today, 89 bishops, and about another thousand sisters, nuns, religious clergy.
00:01:59.000So many people here, as well as a cardinal directly from the Vatican.
00:02:04.000Just an incredible American moment, incredible time to be an American.
00:02:08.000Obviously, a huge moment for the church, but a huge moment also for America and the idea of publicly bringing God and Christ back into the public square.
00:02:19.000And he is actually the very first American born bishop to be declared blessed, beatified by the church, which means that's just one step, one step below sainthood.
00:02:32.000And in fact, so it requires one miracle to be blessed.
00:02:38.000Give the lay of the land here a little bit.
00:03:45.000Earlier today, I said they were like the double barrel shotgun of mass Christianity, a major move of God in the United States in the 50s and 60s, and then beyond.
00:03:55.000But I'm curious because I've always had this question.
00:03:57.000Actually, Cerno explained it to me one time, but I forgot his answer.
00:04:01.000But I remember thinking that was pretty good.
00:04:03.000When we talk about praying to somebody to intercede, right?
00:04:07.000So, as a Protestant, I was always taught that we have one intercessor, and that is Jesus Christ, right?
00:05:43.000The idea is that you asked for the intercession of, at the time, Venerable Fulton Sheen, now Blessed Fulton Sheen, you know, to pray for, in this case, it was the son.
00:05:55.000And really, at the end of the day, the fact of the matter is that boy did live after his heart not beating for 61 minutes.
00:06:01.000And what's just amazing as an American story that he was here today, Participating in this 16 years after that happened.
00:07:21.000This is the era of Western civilization.
00:07:28.000Modern Western civilization has identified freedom with freedom from constraint, and it denies goals and purposes and ends.
00:07:39.000All of our freedoms have certain goals and certain purposes and objectives.
00:07:45.000The result is that our people of our Western world, simply because they do not know why they are living, they've never decided what they're going to do with their freedom, find it boring.
00:07:56.000They would like to surrender their responsibility.
00:07:58.000They're full of anxieties and worries, and there's nothing in life that is quite as boring as a purposeless existence.
00:08:08.000Simply because our Western civilization has not found the meaning and the purpose of life simply because it concentrates upon freedom from something, our Western world is strong only in war and not in peace.
00:08:28.000It's strong only in war because it has the basic objective, at least, of defending our own existence.
00:08:34.000But it is not strong in peace because it has no unified faith, no universal goal, no universally recognized purpose in life.
00:08:47.000Charlie used to talk about that a lot.
00:08:48.000I will say it stood out to me when he was talking that his accent felt hard to place.
00:10:14.000We have rights and liberties, like freedom of press, freedom of conscience, freedom of association, which do not come from the government, which do not come from the will of a majority, which do not come from a state.
00:10:29.000These rights and liberties come to us from God.
00:10:32.000Therefore, the state cannot take them away.
00:10:36.000Now they have to deny God because that would be another source of rights than the state or the party.
00:10:43.000In order to build up this structure of theirs in which the party is supreme, they must hold that any right or liberty which the individual possesses comes to him from the party.
00:10:54.000Therefore, the party can take the rights and liberties away.
00:10:59.000But if there was a God, then there would be rights not dependent on the party.
00:11:29.000No, but the point is, and then Charlie would always say that we have freedom, but in the Western world, we use it as freedom to be licentious, right?
00:11:38.000As opposed to we have freedom to be virtuous.
00:12:02.000This is from Raymond Arroyo, who wrote a book, and this was Why Life is Worth Living, went off the air.
00:12:07.000In the 1950s, the government donated millions of dollars of powdered milk to the New York Archdiocese.
00:12:12.000Cardinal Spellman of that archdiocese handed that milk over to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith to distribute it to the world's poor.
00:12:20.000On at least one occasion, he asked that the director of the Society, Bishop Fulton Sheen, pay the archdiocese for the milk.
00:12:41.000And apparently, he froze Bishop Sheen out of parishes in New York City.
00:12:49.000And then he got the Pope to appoint him the Bishop of Rochester, New York, to get him out of the city.
00:12:55.000And so, no beef like a New York clerical beef, I guess.
00:13:00.000Also, on the more upside of things, I didn't realize Martin Sheen, his stage name of the book.
00:13:04.000Well, but Blake, this was also, I was going to say, this is also because that, keep in mind that a lot of the other bishops didn't like the fact that he had so much influence and so much renown.
00:13:18.000And, you know, this was all kind of happening in the context of Vatican II, which was the liberal side of the church.
00:14:04.000Communists are right in saying this world needs a revolution, but not their cheap kind, which merely transfers booty and loot out of one man's pocket into another.
00:14:14.000We need the kind of a revolution in the United States and in the rest of the world that will purge out of a man's heart pride and covetousness and lust and anger and envy and gluttony and self.
00:14:27.000In other words, the true battle against communism begins within the heart.
00:14:32.000Of every single American means the recovery of our own great tradition, of our belief in God, of an affirmation in politics and an economic life, and among our politicians of the things that are right and true before God.
00:14:48.000Then we need not fear communism, for if God is with us, then who can be against us?
00:15:03.000His, uh, when life was worth living, life is worth living debuted.
00:15:06.000It was competing directly with the Frank Sinatra show on CBS, and it defeated the Frank Sinatra show, which was canceled, competing in a time slot against a bishop, giving people, dude, the guy had swag.
00:15:27.000So I know that, um, I know that, uh, that, uh, we don't do jackets, but I did want to show, so, uh, on Thought Crime, but I did want to show, so they're giving out these nice pins here.
00:16:16.000Other stuff, the fifth Primetime Emmy Awards.
00:16:18.000So this is only the fifth Emmy's ever held.
00:16:21.000They had a category, most outstanding personality as a host.
00:16:25.000Fulton Sheen wins and he defeats in this category some of the names Lucille Ball, Edward R. Murrow, Adlai Stevenson, a few others, Jimmy Durante, like all of these legendary people in television and also Adlai Stevenson for some reason.
00:16:40.000Is there an image of this, of him accepting the.
00:16:43.000That would be quite the image if they have that.
00:16:46.000I'm sure there's an image of it somewhere.
00:17:26.000I think we only have meme images of him holding it rather than.
00:17:29.000I don't know if they broadcast that all live.
00:17:30.000Back then, yeah, there were only like five TV channels, stations.
00:17:34.000So, and yeah, a lot of I was, I've been, so I've been, yeah, I've been talking to a lot of the funny enough, a lot of the guys here, um, sort of about the route, the uh, the uh, records and the archives of the Fulton Sheen show.
00:17:47.000And while I think there's 280 hours of it that exist that are known to exist in terms of the footage, but only about 80 hours of it have ever been digitized.
00:17:57.000So, there's like another 200 hours of Fulton Sheen's show that that just hasn't been released yet, and it wouldn't surprise me.
00:18:04.000That's part of it because a lot of it, it's like ABC or CBS have it in their archives.
00:18:08.000There's also a radio show that, believe it or not, he started his radio show in 1926.
00:18:14.000So 100 years ago, this guy started on the radio.
00:18:23.000I know we got a delay because you're remote right now, but it'd be interesting to see how he handled the Wall Street crash, 29, or the Great Depression.
00:18:34.000That'd be really interesting to kind of hear it.
00:19:14.000No, so I was going to say you mentioned about what Russ was just saying about communism.
00:19:18.000So he not only did he decry communism and he went so hard that even after the United States publicly allied, of course, with the Soviet Union in World War II, that J. Edgar Hoover went so far as to open up.
00:19:37.000An investigation on Fulton Sheen and he had him tailed by an FBI agent.
00:19:46.000And he said that they couldn't find anything on him, that he had never done.
00:19:51.000Obviously, it was against the war effort, but that he just wouldn't stop condemning communism, even regardless of us allying with them in the war.
00:20:00.000So the FBI literally investigated him.
00:20:02.000But one cool thing, though, happened is that after the war ends and the Cold War begins, Fulton Sheen's anti communism actually became very beneficial to the FBI.
00:20:13.000And believe it or not, he actually used to work to convert.
00:20:17.000Public socialists and communists in the United States, like Bella Dodd, who was the head of the teachers' union, he converts her to Catholicism.
00:20:26.000And then she starts working for the FBI as an informant against the Soviet Union and against like Soviet cells within the United States.
00:20:35.000So, I mean, it's just this whole part of our story from the 1950s that we've been like, you know, it's just been completely denied from our history.
00:20:43.000That's just an incredible patriot beyond the obvious, also an incredible patriot.
00:20:48.000You know what that makes me think of, though, Jack, since this is a show that we love to remember Charlie, is that Charlie, I'll never forget, you said MLK, he was investigated by the FBI, right?
00:23:06.000There's a really good, in the extended version of that, he starts going off and he says that it came from literature.
00:23:12.000And in fact, it came from the books of it.
00:23:14.000He starts writing off some names of authors and he goes, and John Seinbeck, that slob.
00:23:25.000You know, I mean, what's interesting, when is the last time anybody in the mainstream said anything about the homosexual lifestyle like that?
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00:24:39.000See why so many believers are taking a leap of faith?
00:26:15.000The August 31st Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeat, teasing a new DJ lineup and a volunteer meetup.
00:26:26.000But part way down the rainbow hued post labeled updates was a sentence that would splinter the queer community of this small Pioneer Valley city and beyond.
00:26:38.000It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas that we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional, wrote Last Ditch.
00:26:50.000Previously, patrons were required to wear a well fitted KN95 mask or better at all times.
00:27:00.000The new policy was not received with love.
00:27:03.000Just say you're being complicit in a mass disabling event and get over it, wrote one commenter.
00:27:10.000People like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience, posted another.
00:27:18.000I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ableists, wrote a third.
00:27:39.000The people running the bar were accused of being ableist, eugenicist even, for relaxing their signature policy in the face of what commenters consider an ongoing pandemic.
00:27:51.000Greenfield hasn't reported any COVID cases more than two months.
00:30:05.000One of the bad parts about this article is you cannot tell how many of the lesbians are lesbian and how many of the women are women because the answer may be zero.
00:31:11.000They all gather for a Zoom call and an in person call.
00:31:16.000Some of the people wouldn't come in person, some of them only would join by Zoom because they were that upset.
00:31:22.000And at this point, Two of the people had left.
00:31:25.000I believe the gal on the left, that does appear to be a female, was the last one remaining.
00:31:30.000She was living in her truck, working four jobs, $50,000 in debt, and she was just trying to hold on to this place and pay the rent in order to keep the bar alive for the communal aspect of it all.
00:31:41.000And then, Blake, they bring in a mediator who's a white therapist.
00:31:56.000And then they take the duh, duh, duh, duh.
00:32:00.000The Zoom attendees speculated that the mediator's licensed status made her a mandated reporter, an agent of the state, akin to police.
00:32:10.000One person going by Moss asked the mediator if they could have them hospitalized against their will, adding that the mediator's presence was, quote, wildly unsafe.
00:32:21.000Yeah, but then they basically say that it's all racist.
00:32:25.000So somehow it becomes a racist party here, and that the therapist, Because it's a white therapist, isn't able to speak.
00:32:35.000A lot of people are calling for an acknowledgement of harm, and I'm hearing a white therapist centering the feelings of a majority white and white adjacent staff, writes Noir, who is black.
00:32:47.000It's someone going by their drag name, too.
00:32:49.000Their name is something Noir, and it's not their real name, it's their performer name.
00:32:55.000You chose to use your time to spill tears and center your feelings, Noir posted in the chat.
00:33:01.000This is incredibly racist and deflecting behavior.
00:33:05.000Eventually, after three and a half hours of discussion, the meeting wrapped up.
00:33:08.000Noir had more to say, but when someone suggested he come to the next community meeting, he refused.
00:33:13.000There's a lot of emotional and physical labor that goes into this.
00:33:16.000So, for you, as a white person, that asks for me to stay for another meeting for free, he said, is incredibly disingenuous and racist.
00:33:51.000But these people are existing in a subculture that is so insular and is so foreign to most of us that it's like going to the zoo reading this article.
00:34:02.000It's really getting at what should the business model be if you're a fading newspaper like the Boston Globe, which hasn't kept up with the New York Times, LA, you know, the ones that have.
00:34:18.000Massively viral, by far their most read article in ages.
00:34:23.000Liberal newspapers in liberal areas, you've got to provide freak show content of your local libs because this sort of thing is happening all the time.
00:34:35.000This Greenfield is both physically and spiritually sometimes referred to as Lesbianville, USA.
00:34:41.000In the Pioneer Valley, quote, Every bar is a lesbian bar.
00:34:46.000Nevertheless, Last Ditch, which opened last year as a bar for, quote, dykes, transsexuals, gender freaks, workers, and their friends, is struggling.
00:35:34.000Well, and this reporter goes on to talk to this noir person.
00:35:39.000And these quotes are stuff that we've been hearing for the last year and a half I'm not going to give grace, spreading rhetoric that can and will get people hurt.
00:35:51.000He's referring to the fact that the bar account had liked a few comments supporting the relaxed rule.
00:35:57.000Yeah, I'm telling you, this is like when we talk about peak woke, we're going to look back at this and be like, there's these little outposts in Guam and the Philippines.
00:36:33.000One of the things that is really interesting about this to me, by the way, that's underappreciated and it's kind of a big picture thing, it gets at how lesbians are very different from gay men.
00:39:49.000They're called gay because the word transitioned over centuries from meaning joyful to describing a lifestyle outside of conventional social norms.
00:39:56.000I'm looking at there's an amazing chart by our friend Steve Saylor where he has why lesbians aren't gay and he has a big chart that's contrasting them.
00:40:04.000So, for example, cultural tastes, gay men, arts, women, lesbian women, crafts.
00:41:21.000So, get this by the 17th and 18th centuries, gay developed a secondary risque connotation implying sexual immorality, uninhibited behavior, or Promiscuity, such as gay houses, which referred to brothels.
00:41:37.000And then by the early to mid 20th century, the word was used underground within queer subcultures as a discrete way to identify one another without using clinical terms.
00:41:48.000And then during the 60s and the 70s, a reclamation of the word ensued.
00:41:52.000Activists actively championing the word as a positive, self chosen alternative to the medicalized and stigmatized label of homosexual.
00:42:01.000And then in the 90s, we started using it as a Derogatory term towards our friends.
00:43:12.000One of my interesting, one of my interesting sense on that is that people have to remember that when you talk about like domestic abuse, for example, domestic violence and the perpetration of domestic violence, and I think we've said this on the program before, is that you will actually find higher incidents of domestic violence if you count women because obviously men are more forceful when they're violent, but women actually commit domestic violence more.
00:43:41.000And men just don't usually like, like, Respond to it or care.
00:43:46.000You see, it's de minimis in many cases.
00:43:47.000But the highest instance of domestic violence in any couple, whether it's gay, straight, heterosexual, et cetera, or homosexual, is within lesbians.
00:43:59.000It's the highest rate of domestic violence.
00:44:23.000Data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that lesbian women report the highest lifetime rates of, but they don't call it domestic violence.
00:44:32.000They call it intimate partner violence, IPV, which is not apparently an STD.
00:45:36.000By the way, I was trying to show the team here some of the younger kids, like little Tupac.
00:45:42.000Yeah, I was going to say, you were trying to show them Tupac.
00:45:45.000No, the reason it came up is that because there's this video of Tupac, speaking of gay, where the internet is accusing Tupac of being like a Gay actor.
00:46:49.000It's a little bit of a tangent, but this thing has been going kind of viral lately where people are saying that, like, and I think I saw you tweet something about it, that Rap is like not in the top 40 anymore after we defunded USAID.
00:48:19.000But that's kind of, I think that's the point.
00:48:20.000I think you're starting to see the, it's starting to become more lyrical and actually like people are trying to actually use it to promote messaging rather than just mumble garbage, like nonsense.
00:48:33.000Yeah, like gangster rap was all about I'm going to shoot shit.
00:48:51.000And I'm a huge Smashing Pumpkins guy in general, a voice band fan of Billy.
00:48:56.000And so he was saying that, but actually, he was on another podcast where he was being interviewed and they asked him about this.
00:49:04.000And I don't know exactly how it came up, but he said that he remembered it was like there was this one day in the late 90s where he's like, we just showed up to MTV and suddenly everything was different.
00:49:15.000Suddenly, all the standard, even like basic stuff, like the standards of things that you were allowed to show in videos.
00:49:22.000When he would do a music video, they would say, Hey, you can't show guns, or like, Hey, you can't show alcohol, or like something like that.
00:49:30.000And they would just allow it all of a sudden for rap.
00:49:32.000And he was like, It was a complete changeover, you know, overnight, where rock had been this huge thing for like the early part of the 90s.
00:49:41.000And then at some point, it's like they came in and suddenly, boom, it's like, Oh, rap is just going to be the one that gets pushed now.
00:49:48.000So to your point, here's a guy who was at the highest levels of the music industry.
00:49:53.000Who was also kind of saying that he felt like there was a sort of artificial push to give rap this standing that it had?
00:50:03.000I'm not saying there aren't any fans, but he was pointing out that it was very clearly pushed really hard by Hollywood, by the entertainment leaders.
00:50:14.000And that he felt like rock was just kind of pushed away.
00:50:17.000I've heard this a lot, but I think it can be overblown because one thing that really hurt us actually is once they started getting SoundScan or whatever to track what was selling, it.
00:50:28.000Kind of made the top it changed the top 40 very aggressively when that started to happen because what was a top 40 hit was much more before they actually could scan it.
00:50:38.000It was like vibes based, it was like they're like, Oh, yeah, we're totally hearing all about this thing, and that could be 100% gamed.
00:50:43.000Oh, we're pushing this new artist, they have a new thing.
00:50:45.000So the churn in the top 40 was much more rapid.
00:50:48.000And then what if the truth is the opposite?
00:50:50.000As soon as the opposite is true, the CIA was pushing all those bands, and then as soon as it was something more like as soon as it was, they could track it actually, like with real numbers, we're deciding the top 40.
00:51:02.000One hit started to stick around a lot longer because it turned out a number one hit had a longer lifespan than people thought.
00:51:07.000And then the other thing is, we did see a big explosion in rap and hip hop because I think they kind of tamped down Britney Spears.
00:51:14.000They tamped down on, for lack of a better word, ghetto stuff, ghetto music.
00:51:18.000And then it turned out they couldn't hide that a lot of people liked that.
00:51:41.000And pop culture historians, Jack, point out that MTV's focus at the time actually pivoted heavily toward teen pop acts like Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys or new metal and pop punk rather than a direct overnight swap to rap.
00:51:56.000But yeah, he kind of suggests maybe the CIA was involved.
00:51:59.000So what's interesting about this USAID thing, and Blake and I have kind of joked about it a couple times, is that the other theory is that that's why all of these right wingers are getting elected in South America because we defunded USAID, which actually.
00:52:13.000Does probably sound at least somewhat plausible, you know, on some level because you imagine all these government cutouts and these NGOs and these grants that are actually sort of like, you know, black budget, you know, CIA cutouts.
00:52:27.000I think that could be like an actual thing.
00:52:29.000I can't prove it, but it is a weird correlation.
00:52:32.000Well, speaking of adults who like toys, we should go to our next topic.
00:52:37.000Is that in reference to the opening night of last days?
00:54:28.000That was an unwavering commitment to his faith, his love for his family, and his genuine desire to encourage others to live with courage and conviction.
00:54:37.000Charlie believed that following Christ wasn't something you compartmentalize.
00:54:41.000He didn't put it in a box, he lived it out loud.
00:54:44.000It shaped how he lived, how he served, how he treated people every single day.
00:54:49.000Charlie Kirk, American Martyr, captures that heart.
00:54:53.000Just simply about remembering Charlie.
00:54:55.000It's an invitation for each of us to ask what kind of legacy we're building and whether we're willing to stand firm in our own faith when it's tested.
00:55:03.000I hope that you'll watch it with your family and have those conversations together.
00:56:44.000So it's bad, it's sad, it's awful, but I'll tell you why it's happening.
00:56:50.000And the answer, of course, as usual, is communism.
00:56:54.000And so, what I really mean is going on is that, unfortunately, it comes down to this idea that we live in a K shaped economy, and there are some people who are doing really, really well, and some people who are really not.
00:57:10.000And for a lot of the country that are living below the median income line, You've been living in a recession or a silent recession since 2008, since the financial crisis.
00:57:25.000And this has caused what specifically?
00:57:29.000And Charlie, of course, our dear friend, talked about this so many times the lack of homeownership, which creates a lack of family formation.
00:57:37.000So then, if you have all these people who aren't starting families, who aren't having kids, and they're realizing internally that, hey, I'm missing all these milestones that I'm supposed to be having in my life.
00:57:50.000You know, maybe they see others who do have those things.
00:57:52.000They think, I want to almost regress to a time where life felt more simple, where life felt, as Andrew said, kinder and gentler, like when I was a Toys R Us kid.
00:58:06.000And so they throw themselves into Pokemon cards and Toys R Us and all these other things as collectors, the Funko Pops, et cetera.
00:58:15.000You mentioned Disney adults, that's another one, Star Wars adults.
00:58:20.000And That's where this is coming from, actually.
00:58:24.000It's because you have millennials and elder millennials, a number of Gen Xs, well, not as many, but you see some Gen Xs do this that have just completely been checked out of these life milestones.
00:58:38.000And so they do have disposable income in some cases, and that's what they're spending it on rather than kids and houses.
00:58:45.000I think it definitely is people doing that stuff as an alternative to kids, but I don't know if it's a downwardly mobile thing.
00:58:52.000I think that actually might invert it, which is we've had.
00:58:56.000A decline of family, it's yeah, it stinks.
00:58:58.000Is we've had a decline of the family enough that now it's just utterly dominant how much spending power, like especially leisure spending, consumer spending, uh, that's so heavily linked to people who don't have kids and essentials to spend on.
00:59:14.000They have a ton of disposable income and they're going to blow it on stuff, and especially due to the same value decay that's causing them to not marry and have kids in the first place, they have almost these very childlike interests and desires.
00:59:33.000And also, we have better manufacturing these days, as an example.
00:59:37.000And so, it's even easier to target these people.
00:59:39.000So, let's say you're a kid who liked Star Wars.
00:59:42.000You're now, maybe you're an adult, you're a computer programmer, you're 40 years old, you make a good amount of money, maybe a six figure income, maybe even high six figures, ton of money to blow.
00:59:51.000They don't even just get you, oh, I want to buy those kid toys.
00:59:54.000They could go, here's an amazing set of all the Star Wars toys, and you can get all the collectible toys.
01:00:01.000They're probably more like adult themed, too.
01:00:02.000And they're probably, yeah, they're more adult.
01:00:04.000They're, well, They're higher quality than a kid would probably demand.
01:01:43.000Like, the Lego thing is a perfect example where there's, Legos, they're so much more obviously not meant to be played with by five year olds who just mash their hands together anymore.
01:01:52.000Instead, it's much more, oh, it's going to be much more based on franchises.
01:02:07.000My brother and I got a massive, like, 16 gallon bucket full of Legos from our neighbor that went to college.
01:02:19.000My brother and I, like every weekend, we'd end up dumping it on the floor, spend an entire day building bases and houses, and then take rocks and chuck at them and destroy it all, and then put it all back in the bucket, and then do that again the next weekend.
01:02:33.000So, Blake hit on the key here, though, is that you have dinks, disposable income, even not dinks, but you don't have enough money to buy a home or start a family, but you have more money because you don't have kids, so you have money to blow still.
01:02:47.000So, it's actually like sort of this cut, you get stuck in this in between zone.
01:02:51.000So, instead of Spending money on useful things or on your kids' toys.
01:02:54.000You're spending money on your own toys and you still don't have enough to really like retire or build wealth.
01:03:01.000I think a lot of these, I think it's just a straight value decision.
01:03:04.000They think it's actually more fun to buy all of these things and having kids sounds like a drag.
01:03:09.000There's a lot of having kids stinks propaganda out there.
01:03:12.000Like they, it's not that they can't afford kids or they'll say it's because they can't afford kids, but it's an excuse in the sense that even if they made a million dollars, it's a cop out.
01:03:22.000They would need a comical amount of money.
01:03:32.000A lot of people, when they say we can't afford kids, their definition is I would not believe I could afford kids until I could have a child with absolutely zero sacrifice of any other kind to my entire lifestyle.
01:04:25.000That's one where it's like, on one end, I'm like, guys, this is a part, the Pokemon revolution or whatever you want to call it is a part of this.
01:04:34.000But I will also give the caveat that the dads who were Pokemon fans and have kids and have gotten their kids into Pokemon so that they're now doing it with their kid, that's where I think, and that's the point of toys.
01:04:53.000It's for parents to play with their kid or the kid to play with other kids.
01:04:59.000And we should work Jack in here because I know he was really passionate about this topic.
01:05:03.000Unfortunately, Jack is at a mass and he's.
01:05:08.000But, you know, another thing occurs to me is when we were kids, remember like Golden Girls and stuff?
01:05:13.000They actually let their hair be in a bob.
01:05:15.000It was like they let themselves look old.
01:05:18.000But as the years have gone by, like older people want to stay young.
01:05:22.000And I think that same spirit is affecting us into our adulthood where we want to sort of not grow up and not, you know, just assume the mantle of adulthood.
01:05:54.000Nobody wants to, because it's also taking off responsibility.
01:05:57.000The thing that I do want to bring it back to, though, and I'm going to keep bringing it back to, is the economy and is the fact that, look, I mean, guys, we know the midterms are going to be what they are in a couple of weeks here.
01:06:11.000And so much of this is economically driven.
01:06:13.000And I think so much of what's happening in culture is also downstream of the economy.
01:06:19.000And it's downstream of these tough economic times that we find ourselves in.
01:06:24.000In the same way, by the way, that so much of the loss of morality and God in the public square in the 1960s was because there was so much of an abundance of the economy where people were sort of like they had it too well.
01:06:40.000They didn't feel any of those pressures at all.
01:06:42.000And so suddenly it was like, hey, go do whatever you want.
01:06:49.000And it just became this huge, basically, the free love movement of the 1960s, huge cultural revolution.
01:06:57.000And that's what, coming back to Fulton Sheen, that's what he was warning about.
01:07:01.000And the idea then that you would have these adolescents who, what do they call it, perpetual adolescents, right?
01:07:13.000Never actually, you know, this is where you get to the problems of, you know, you hear these like parents doing free range kids, or I let my kids parent themselves and I don't tell them to not, you know, pick up after themselves and I let them do what they want and I'm not going to send them to school and all this.
01:07:28.000And it's this is what happens when you have a society without standards.
01:07:32.000And yes, that means standards for ourselves individually as well as when we get older and all the rest of it.
01:07:40.000Yeah, are there things that I love enjoying with my kids?
01:07:43.000That I enjoyed when I was a kid, 100%.
01:08:32.000You should want to own a home and all of this.
01:08:34.000And the problem, I think, though, is that these people deep down actually do want those things as well.
01:08:42.000And either one, they're having trouble getting them, or number two, they're getting distracted by so many other glittering things out there.
01:08:49.000Kind of reminds me of that one story we covered where the 40 year old women were throwing themselves these lavish weddings for themselves.
01:09:47.000But we can hit it because Paramount, of course, is buying everything at WB, and it's a gigantic deal, but it's gotten so big that they are apparently trying to recruit Elon Musk as a potential co investor in the spy out.
01:12:21.000I was going to call in Caboose because I know he's got a thought here.
01:12:23.000Caboose, is this the real reason that Elon needs to come in?
01:12:28.000Do we have any indication that Elon doesn't like James Gunn?
01:12:31.000Personally, I don't think Elon needs to step in.
01:12:34.000I think either way, just Warner Brothers, Paramount, the deal needs to happen.
01:12:40.000You got a lot of people's jobs on the line, which Mark Ruffalo is trying to get a bunch of people to lose their jobs for the sake of pandering to the left.
01:13:03.000No, but I we could work so we could try to work something.
01:13:07.000What I will say, Elon Musk getting a big personal stake in WB would excite me in that I think it's an opportunity for us.
01:13:19.000I feel like so much reason we don't get good content is we kind of just need a billionaire who cares enough about like, he's gonna grok it all though.
01:13:26.000These guys will be like, let's make an AI movie, it'll make an AI odyssey he said he was gonna make.
01:13:30.000Terrible, but like, I just kind of wish.
01:13:34.000You think a movie's expensive to make, but when you're at these, he's worth a trillion dollars.
01:13:38.000They're like not that expensive to make.
01:13:40.000He could trivially allocate $500 million a year to make like one or like make five really awesome, cool historical movies, dramatic ones, like new adaptations of properties that everyone has said get it.
01:13:55.000And you give him $100 million such that you'll release it.
01:13:58.000And if it makes money, that's great, but it at least keeps it so it will not be a total bomb.
01:14:12.000No, I just want to tell, by the way, the reason I'm saying this again is because the folks who don't know the backstory that James Gunn, after he had been the creator of, not creator, but like the guy who did the movie of Guardians of the Galaxy, who's doing a bunch of other stuff for Disney on the Marvel side, that in 2018, he was fired by Disney, number one, because of going after.
01:14:35.000Uh, Trump supporters, but then number two, me and Mike Cernovich dug up all of James Gunn's old tweets where he was making horrific jokes, quote unquote, jokes about pedophilia, about child rape.
01:14:52.000Um, yeah, things that would happen on his sets.
01:14:55.000And so it was actually, yeah, it was like, like me and Cernovich just dug up like his old blog and like all these tweets, and that's why he got fired in the first line.
01:15:04.000In fact, I just looked it up in Grok and it says, yeah, it says right here.
01:15:07.000The posts were unearthed and amplified by conservative commentators and outlets such as Mike Chernovich and Jack Posobick after Gunn, a vocal critic of then President Trump, engaged in political arguments with them on Twitter.
01:16:54.000Would we get, yeah, I mean, there's corporate offices, certainly.
01:16:56.000I mean, it's interesting to see what would happen if it was like, you know, you got accounting, you've got all that, like, boring stuff that every corporation has, right?
01:17:06.000Um, But really, the question is the decision makers, right?
01:17:10.000The guys that are green lighting deals, would that move out of LA?
01:17:13.000Because then you still have, there's a whole ecosystem that's there, right?
01:17:17.000You've got the agents, and they could just go down the road to develop people.
01:17:21.000You can have meetings with actors, with directors.
01:17:24.000That's why it's all in LA, is because while you're developing projects, you're just constantly meeting with all these different players to see what can happen.
01:17:33.000But you got Zoom now, everybody's got airplanes, you know, if you really need to meet face to face.
01:18:55.000And the other reason that it started in LA is because of the weather, actually, because so much of it was outside, they had to be able to have predictable weather and predictable rain patterns.
01:19:05.000So that was a big thing just for production, like just keeping cameras dry and film dry and things like that.
01:19:10.000But all of this stuff has gradually become less important.
01:19:13.000So, I don't really know what the point of it is.
01:19:14.000You know what, my favorite reason, though, that it went to California, besides all that, is that Edison, Thomas Edison's motion picture, he had the patent on the motion picture camera, and they were huge jerks about enforcing the patent on it.
01:19:28.000And they thought, this is when you had to get places by train, they're just like, it was hard for his agents to enforce his patent way out in California.
01:19:37.000So they moved, because he was in New Jersey, of course, Menlo Park.
01:19:40.000And they just moved all the way across the country where it was difficult for the patent guys to get them.
01:19:45.000But then, What happened was then you got into the studio system where an actor and a director and screenwriters would all sign deals with the studios, right?
01:19:53.000So, you have that's, and they still kind of have that.
01:19:55.000It's called a first look deal, where if you come up with a project, you have to first look.
01:20:00.000And what the studios do is they essentially give you a retainer.
01:20:03.000So, you're funding your people, development, and all this stuff on an ongoing basis.
01:20:08.000And they get the first right to buy your ideas, your IP.
01:20:12.000But back in those days, if you were an actor that signed with Warner Brothers or Paramount, then you had to basically act in Paramount's pictures.
01:20:20.000You could only act in Warner Brothers' pictures.
01:20:21.000So, again, you had to be present in Los Angeles because all of it was filming all the time in LA, and you just had to be there.
01:20:28.000That's why Hollywood became such a magnet and such a center of gravity for the whole industry.
01:20:34.000So, part of this, too, American Idol has just announced that it's leaving LA.
01:21:28.000I thought Dark, Dark Knight, I thought Dark, they had some of Pittsburgh too, actually.
01:21:31.000No, Blake, I was going to say, this last season of, um, The one show, even though the guy is a massive libtard, the one show that we will still watch is Reacher.
01:21:41.000And so this last season was set in Philadelphia.
01:21:46.000And I was telling Russ about it that it's set in Philly, but it's very obviously Toronto.
01:21:52.000And so they split between, like, oh, now we're in New York, or excuse me, now we're in Washington, now we're in Baltimore, now we're back in Philly all throughout the season.
01:21:59.000But it's very obviously the same city over and over.
01:22:03.000And they make some really ridiculous mistakes.
01:22:05.000Like they refer to the train station in Philadelphia as Penn Station, even though the Philly train station is 30th Street Station, Penn Station is New York.
01:22:15.000But it's like very clearly just Toronto.
01:22:18.000They just kind of like change the logo that's on the police car or whatever.
01:23:44.000Chick fil A guys built a big studio system out there.
01:23:47.000So all of a sudden there was infrastructure.
01:23:49.000And then once you kind of gather all those people and you have a tipping point almost where there's enough industry draw there, people just move there.
01:23:58.000And then you've got skilled artisans and craftsmen and filmmakers.
01:24:03.000What's interesting, though, about that is that Georgia is now blue.
01:24:54.000You know, Fulton Sheen has great stuff out there.
01:24:56.000You can go and find his reels all over the place, super viral, and dig deeper.
01:25:02.000Dig deeper to find out what he was all about and use this as a way to further your relationship with the Lord.
01:25:08.000Use it to further your relationships in reality and further your relationships with one another and your relationship, of course, with God.
01:25:16.000And as always, go out there and commit more thought crime.
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