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00:02:39.000There are ballroom dancing enthusiasts who've been fighting for years to have ballroom dancing in the Olympics, but it's perceived as an old-fashioned activity.
00:02:49.000If you want to call it a sport, go for it.
00:02:51.000And so they thought, we need to get something in the door.
00:02:53.000And so they got the International Olympic Committee to add breakdancing, which they renamed Breaking, just breaking, to make it a sport.
00:03:02.000And they added it in, and they had at least a one-off gold medal breaking event for men's and women's in the Olympics in Paris.
00:03:12.000They did it in the final weekend of the Olympics just before the closing ceremonies.
00:03:17.000And rather notoriously, this woman calling herself Ray Gunn, they actually went by their dancer nicknames in the Olympics, which was pretty amazing.
00:03:26.000and she entered as the woman from Australia and she was not very good at break dancing.
00:03:47.000That's just kind of rhythmic movements.
00:03:49.000I mean, if that's your full-time job to be an Olympic athlete, is there anything that you're looking there, guys, that you're saying, no, I can't do that?
00:03:57.000I want the breakdancing dad to get in on this.
00:04:00.000Do you guys remember the breakdancing dad who was having that, like, war on TikTok with his daughter?
00:04:05.000He was, like, this 60-year-old guy, and she was, like, attacking him, and then he started making these, like, really long, detailed videos about her.
00:04:47.000You know, when I look, there's something about the breakdancing community.
00:04:50.000I'm telling you, this is not, you know, I didn't even think, can I just say, I didn't know that breakdancing was a thing after like Vanilla Ice stopped being a thing.
00:06:17.000I'm trying to think what else could they... So there's a big debate on whether breakdancing belongs.
00:06:22.000And what's funny is a lot of people in the breaking community, they debate this because for some of them they say it's an artistic aesthetic thing.
00:06:31.000And once you make it a sport, you have to be able to judge it.
00:06:35.000objectively. So like you take away, you know, you won't innovate and break dancing because you won't
00:06:39.000get prizes for that necessarily. And that apparently is what happened in figure skating,
00:06:44.000like figure skating used to be a much more artistic medium.
00:06:48.000And then as the Winter Olympics got more popular, you had these codified ways of scoring
00:06:53.000figure skating, and now it's much more rote what you actually do. And.
00:06:59.000There's much more emphasis on basically, can you do this many backflips, which has been great for the US because we're good at producing backflip doers, but there's way less Wasn't something that happened with skateboarding?
00:07:14.000So it's kind of an interesting question.
00:07:16.000I looked this up and in the old like in the really early Olympics,
00:07:20.000they had things like like painting and sculpting were in the Olympics
00:07:23.000and you would just do a painting or sculpture on an athletic subject
00:07:27.000and you could get a medal in that be kind of cool to bring that back.
00:07:29.000Wasn't wasn't something something that happened with skateboarding
00:07:33.000because I remember like like Tony Hawk won a gold medal or something
00:07:37.000in the 90s, but then like they removed it from the Olympics and
00:07:41.000and then they brought it back or something.
00:07:42.000Like, it was... I'm trying to remember.
00:07:44.000I've done enough Tim Pool episodes where I'm sure he's talked about it, and I'm, like, looking at my phone.
00:07:49.000But I know that that's something that went on with skateboarding, where it was sort of like, it was a sport, then it wasn't a sport, then it is going to be an Olympic sport.
00:08:38.000I think originally the idea was, like, the Olympics should be about, you know, the brotherhood of mankind and celebrating high levels of academic achievement.
00:08:47.000But it appears the main things about the Olympics are allowing, like, various autocracies to show off and also, like, I don't know, like, weird demonic opening ceremonies.
00:09:00.000Those seem to be the two main purposes of the Olympics.
00:09:02.000And then they have some athletic stuff.
00:10:45.000That's why UK London did well in 2012.
00:10:49.000Anyway, I'm a sucker for the Olympics.
00:10:50.000What it should be, Jack, is an appreciation of excellence in people that really harness their craft and what country is able to achieve that excellence.
00:10:58.000Collectively, if you will, in the best way.
00:11:01.000And I mean collectively in the most non-communistic, non-Kamala Harris way possible.
00:11:05.000What the Olympics has kind of become is, and Blake is right, is what country can either cheat the most.
00:11:12.000By the way, you want to talk about a complete blackout in our media?
00:11:16.000Russia did not compete in this Olympics.
00:11:18.000There was almost no mention of that in our media.
00:11:20.000And it was all because of the war with Ukraine.
00:11:22.000And so Russia's almost always up there with the medal count.
00:11:25.000They're a bunch of cheaters too, especially when it comes to gymnastics.
00:11:28.000And so it was sad watching parts of this Olympics.
00:11:31.000Part of it I thought was really great and really inspiring.
00:11:34.000I love watching the swimmers because that's objectively one of the hardest things to do and that I think has still been, it's been corrupted by a lot of doping and stuff like that.
00:11:42.000But some of the sports that China was winning in were just these obscure like table
00:12:23.000It just does feel like it's fallen off.
00:12:25.000People get creeped out, they thought it was like mass shooting.
00:12:28.000So paintball fell off because the problem with it is that speedball Is usually the more spectator sport, the more competitive version of paintball and speedball is just kind of like, I don't know, it kind of sucks.
00:12:40.000Speedball is just like whoever gets the most expensive equipment, whoever gets the, uh, the marker that fires the most, you know, with like the, you know, electronic hopper and everything.
00:12:53.000And then you can shoot the most and you win the end.
00:12:55.000So it just becomes like a gear fight, whereas the the actual much more fun version of paintball, much more interesting version of paintball is Woodsball.
00:14:35.000So you would race while wearing battle armor Okay, it would be like a full like 200 meter dash but wearing a full suit of ancient Greek armor And then they had like ancient pentathlon.
00:14:47.000So we have the modern pentathlon which was ripping this off So the modern pentathlon is this weird track sport where it's I think it's is it running?
00:15:35.000It's gonna be so frustrating where they like clean up the city of LA for six months in advance and it becomes this world-class city for like six months and it's really beautiful and there's no bums or homeless or overdosing or gang violence and then the minute of closing ceremonies it just goes back to the purge.
00:17:48.000And like China, it was like China and China and Japan came because it was after the Sino-Soviet split and West Germany competed.
00:17:56.000But like a bunch of countries had this like You know, separate, almost like a NATO Olympics versus the real Olympics, which were held in Moscow.
00:18:06.000That's back when the Winter and the Summer Olympics were held in the same year.
00:18:09.000So 1980 was like Placid Olympics when we hosted the Winter Olympics.
00:18:13.000And then the Summer Olympics were there, and now we do them.
00:21:15.000Magnus Carlsen will show up late to matches against people, meaning like when his time is still running out, and he'll still, he'll literally just like be distracted texting people and will still win.
00:21:31.000The problem is truly it would have to be like Blitz Chess or whatever because the true like the World Chess Championship when they're actually contesting it is deranged.
00:21:39.000It'll be like I think they'll spend a whole day on a game and they'll play 14-15 days straight and eight or nine of the matches will just be draws because with high-level chess players most of their games are just draws now.
00:21:51.000See, the problem is... No, you have to use a timer, though, Blake.
00:23:14.000It would have been great practice for them.
00:23:15.000There's apparently a technicality where you have to have played in the 3-on-3 tournaments before this, and that's a big reason we don't have a good team.
00:24:24.000And their punishment, they should have had to play in the 3v3.
00:24:27.000If you want a thought crime, if you watch USA Basketball and you watch these other teams, the window of USA Basketball dominance is closing.
00:24:34.000And that's really, it's really fascinating to see.
00:24:37.000The NBA has had foreign MVPs for quite some time.
00:24:41.000Steve Kerr benching Jason Tatum, the reigning MVP for literally every game, was one of the most, like, inexcusable moves.
00:25:28.000Ryan in the chat is saying we should have Olympic Quidditch which that gets at the funny thing that I think quidditch is like not even called quidditch anymore because like of the whole the turf thing so they call it like quad ball or something stupid like that yeah yeah quidditch officially known as quad ball since 2022 because oh can't can't have the turf name oh oh my god I hate people Yeah, but what about the Peter Thiel thing?
00:25:59.000You guys know about the Peter Thiel thing, right?
00:26:02.000He and a bunch of guys like Balaji's in on this as well.
00:26:06.000They're backing something called the Enhanced Games.
00:26:09.000So everybody knows, of course, that in the Olympics you get tested, you know, no performance enhancing drugs, no PEDs.
00:26:16.000But Peter Thiel and a bunch of guys are actually supporting a new Olympics Games where you're allowed to take basically whatever you want.
00:26:26.000I think that will be like cool exactly up until the point that one of the competitors literally like dies because he'll take some absolutely insane drug regimen and then it will be controversial and someone will go to prison.
00:26:40.000You know this was that was an SNL sketch years ago and it was um Bill Hartman was the weightlifter and he went to like let's say he was dead lifting and he was dead lifting like Just some insane amount like 1500 pounds or something and then he tears his arms off and the blood starts going all over.
00:26:59.000It is interesting to imagine like what is physically possible when you go all out but Yeah, it's also unpleasant.
00:27:09.000Going all out probably literally would kill a person.
00:27:12.000And there are people who would be willing to make that exchange.
00:27:14.000I feel like the defense people would say is, guys who go into the NFL are definitely shortening their lifespan and hurting their health to make a ton of money.
00:27:23.000So, is it that much worse to just directly do it with drugs as opposed to by playing 500 football games over the course of your life?
00:27:32.000Any closing thoughts on the Olympics, guys, before we move on?
00:27:34.000You know, I think it would be more fun.
00:27:36.000So, I heard that the IOC is only going to be doing the Olympics in, like, the same locations for ease.
00:27:43.000Oh, is this just, like, countries were fed up with having to spend, like, $100 billion to host, so they're just gonna go to cities that can host them without a lot of press?
00:27:59.000I think they should have to do the Olympics in, like, the most terrifying of places.
00:28:05.000And I think that should make it more fun.
00:28:08.000You remember when you used to sit down at the arcade and you sit down at a video game, like a car racing game, and you would illogically be driving a sports car through the African desert, like through the Sahara or wherever?
00:28:24.000I think that the game should be played that way.
00:28:32.000There should be a limit to how much they have to spend, they can spend to build stadiums and stuff like that, but it should be legitimately difficult.
00:28:47.000And they just make up the rules on the spot.
00:28:49.000That would be a cool, that would be cool is like you just have like an elite group of like athletes and then they all have to play different sports.
00:30:44.000And instead of having all the players on the teams all at once, They should be able to move players on and off the field whenever they want.
00:31:17.000They're always trying to break your spirit.
00:31:18.000Hockey is objectively the best sport to watch outside of football.
00:31:21.000The whole thing with soccer is they're trying to break your spirit by making you get into a lame sport that five-year-olds play where they kick a ball and learn teamwork.
00:31:32.000And they just try to break us with this.
00:32:20.000Well the cool part is we'll have all these people from all different countries like coming to all the cities and so it'll just be like a huge party in all these cities but they I mean I'll tell you being in a foreign country when a team is going far I think I was in I can't remember where I was but I was somewhere where a team was doing really well and they were going absolutely it was crazy it was like everywhere you went you couldn't like move without something about the World Cup and everyone was happy I've never seen anything like it anywhere in the world.
00:32:48.000In America, we're just generally happy people.
00:32:51.000We're happy people because we don't have soccer oppressing the collective consciousness.
00:32:57.000The Super Bowl is different because it's not like all the teams participate in a tournament in that short a time.
00:33:02.000Like, there's something about the World Cup that they've got right that, like, I feel like college football needs to do better.
00:33:09.000Like, if they could maximize, like, the World Cup-type build-out, you know what I mean?
00:33:14.000Like, we should have, like, group play that goes into... Next, you're gonna be like, we should have promotion and relegation in U.S.
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00:35:27.000All right, Blake, what do we have next?
00:35:29.000What we have next is so communist countries are very good at winning sporting medals as we discussed what they are bad at is keeping food on the shelves and you know actually having economic growth in any way and that's all highly concerning because We discussed this a few months ago, that Democrats were looking bad, and their best option was to just go maximum populism.
00:35:53.000And even though Joe Biden is out, it appears Kamala Harris has taken that advice to heart, and she's going maximum populist.
00:36:01.000So Kamala, she hasn't done any policies for her first month.
00:36:04.000She's finally rolling them out, and what she's rolling out is price controls on food and price controls on rent.
00:36:12.000So that is what we are getting for the Kamala experience.
00:36:17.000She just tweeted about an hour ago, when I am president, it will be a day one priority to bring down prices.
00:36:24.000I'll take on big corporations that engage in illegal price gouging and corporate landlords that unfairly raise rents on working families.
00:36:34.000And so, you know, I think we've discussed this before, but the worry is this stuff is really bad.
00:36:42.000But the problem with bad economics is bad economics can still be insanely popular.
00:36:47.000And we may just get Kamala riding to a victory in the election by promising to crash the economy with no survivors.
00:36:56.000Tyler, how should we counter her new thing where she says we want to give $25,000 to a family if they want to buy a home or for first-time homebuyers?
00:37:06.000Man, I mean, this is the conversation.
00:37:07.000I mean, we talked about this a while ago, right, Charlie, of talking about the land issues.
00:37:12.000I mean, young people just care about the land issues.
00:37:15.000The Democrats we know are ready to just give out handouts.
00:37:19.000The best handout that America could give, I mean, this is just my opinion without getting too deeply into this.
00:37:24.000You know, the best thing that we can possibly do is, as Republicans, be talking and educating people about taking land back from the Bureau of Land Management.
00:37:32.000I mean, this is the biggest mistake that Republicans have made in the West, which is, we have all this land that exists.
00:37:41.000We should be inviting conservatives into the land and literally doing it at a massive discount.
00:37:48.000And giving people, this is literally the home, America's the home of life, liberty, and land.
00:38:25.000Look at home prices. Home prices have inflated so much.
00:38:28.000There's got to be an impending crash that's coming.
00:38:31.000And there's literally no creative ideas whatsoever.
00:38:34.000So, I mean, I could tell you, Charlie, getting not too complex into this, the easiest thing that we could possibly do is take back land from the federal government and give it to people and have them homestead.
00:38:47.000And homestead, and you know what statistically has shown?
00:38:51.000Charlie's gone through this, which is like, if you don't do drugs, if you get married, if you, you know, Get a job, have a career, keep a job.
00:39:00.000And one of the other statistics that's out there, if you own a home, if you have a home and you have any kind of land, so not like a zero lot, not an apartment, not a condo, but actual land where you have to take care of things, you're far more likely to be conservative.
00:39:16.000This is, this is like the easiest thing that we can do without like having to influence those other social things, which is like give people land and make them take care of stuff.
00:39:24.000And they're probably going to become more conservative.
00:39:26.000Yeah, I mean, it's a stakeholder society.
00:39:28.000And the federal government owns the entire Southwest.
00:39:30.000It's literally half of the Western United States.
00:39:41.000Arizona, I can't remember what the number is, but it's like, literally, we could just open up, take this land back, and if you had a good governor, you could just be like, yeah, suck it, federal government.
00:39:53.000We're just going to take the land back.
00:39:54.000And start a program where, number one, we're going to make all the money off this land.
00:39:58.000We're going to take better care of it because a lot of the BLM land, too, you see all these forest fires.
00:40:02.000Have you ever wondered why we have forest fires across the West and not anywhere in the East?
00:41:30.000And you immediately would have a more conservative America.
00:41:32.000And plus you'd be making money off of the taxes that would come out of it.
00:41:36.000I just think about also just, you know, some of this is going to be desert and not super economically viable, but there's just so much stuff that... So Blato, let me explain that one to you.
00:41:45.000Think about this world in which we place nuclear power plants and solar fields on all of the horrible, horrible land.
00:41:53.000Where it's just, you know, businesses are people too.
00:44:00.000But then finally, you also have to still campaign as a populist.
00:44:05.000So you do still have to keep going for those things.
00:44:09.000Look, Trump is kind of already the one who started the arms race off, and I think you have to keep pushing that measure, but not doing so in a way where you're talking about government controls either.
00:44:21.000You know, he said something about, like, we're going to cut energy costs by 50% in our first year.
00:44:26.000These are basic things that he actually has a good track record on doing.
00:44:30.000But at the same time, I think that sitting back and pointing out that, oh, you know, saying, oh, this isn't bad, this isn't good, it's not economic sound, etc.
00:44:46.000That's why we just call him Breadline Bernie.
00:44:49.000But at the same time, these things are extremely popular.
00:44:52.000And we've talked about this for a long time.
00:44:55.000That millennials, particularly, because of their student debt, are at a huge vulnerability and huge risk for debt-free, debt jubilee, student debt relief-style socialism.
00:45:10.000And it's something where I really think that the Republicans need to come in and actually think of a very smart way To deal with this, go after the institutions, go after the endowments, etc.
00:45:21.000To deal with this or else you're going to get someone like a Kamala Harris who's going to pick up those Bernie Sanders policies and walk over to all these millennials who are saddled with debt and are only going to become an increasing share of the voting demographic as we go forward for the next 30 years.
00:45:39.000And this debt issue is still going to be there.
00:45:41.000It's a massive bomb and Republicans, quite frankly, haven't done a very good job Addressing the situation other than to say, oh, well, this is your fault.
00:46:59.000I think, really, you almost need to take an indirect approach.
00:47:03.000You can't really just confront it head-on you have to remind people okay guys Kamala is in She's connected to an economic regime right now.
00:47:13.000It is the Biden administration and it's really bad.
00:47:17.000Everything she has to do, everything she has to promise, she has to use as a distraction from the economy under Biden has not been good.
00:47:25.000Inflation is really high and she can't really avoid that because anything she says, if she tries to create any distance between herself from Biden, you have to
00:47:35.000basically say, no, okay, what did you specifically disagree with Biden doing? And why didn't you
00:47:40.000say anything about it then? Why didn't you urge them not to do it then? They won't be able to
00:47:45.000argue that. They won't have any justification for that. And so I think you do have to
00:47:51.000mostly focus on the disaster of the Biden administration and just really not let them
00:47:57.000As for a populist line from Trump himself, I think the best way you do it is you just,
00:48:03.000the strongest argument Trump had against Biden was, I was a president for the same amount of
00:48:09.000time that Joe Biden's been president and stuff was better.
00:48:12.000I think your biggest appeal is to the success that he already had with wage growth and all of that, as opposed to specific policies, because a lot of the policies that work are just weirdly not popular.
00:48:25.000And then I think you focus on the stuff that is most popular, which is probably being pro-fracking.
00:48:31.000I've seen a lot of people I've talked to have said that plays really big in the specific states we need to win.
00:48:38.000Even if fracking isn't the biggest thing nationwide, it's very big in Pennsylvania.
00:48:43.000The Keystone Pipeline, big deal in Pennsylvania.
00:48:45.000So you emphasize that, you talk about specific things that the Biden administration derailed,
00:49:27.000He'll like frame it as an energy security thing.
00:49:29.000But what it really was about is he wants to make it so there's less incentive to develop American gas.
00:49:36.000And so that's part of the whole Green New Deal shtick.
00:49:39.000So you really have to actually I was going to throw out that Trump at one point was proposing building a pipeline from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia.
00:49:48.000So we have this sort of like Shuttered oil refinery in Philadelphia right now.
00:49:57.000Literally just had a fire a couple of years ago and it shut down.
00:50:00.000But the idea was bring some of that fracked natural gas from Western Pennsylvania and the Marcellus Shale find over to Philadelphia and get that plant moving up again.
00:50:10.000So that would have been, I mean, you're talking massive, massive jobs.
00:50:13.000Actually, come to think of it, I'm just kind of surprised that they aren't talking more about that because you're now you've got jobs from the fracking side on The western side of the state and then the refining jobs on the eastern side of the state.
00:50:26.000That's a lot of those blue-collar worker jobs.
00:50:28.000Yeah, I'm trying to think, like, what's the strongest populist spin on a winning economic policy?
00:50:33.000It's energy stuff, probably trade, I think, really hammering at China and other concessions, like, you know, the America last approach to all American foreign policy.
00:50:44.000You talk about the impoverishing effect of just, you know, mass welfare to illegal immigrants.
00:50:51.000I think securing the border is increasingly a strong populist, not just sort of Not just on a crime thing, but on an economics thing.
00:50:59.000You say their plan for, like, while they're simultaneously driving up the price of everything, they're also driving down wages by bringing in this gigantic illegal or semi-legal, like, helot class of foreign labor that they're just dumping into every single city.
00:51:17.000And they're either taking a low-wage job, or they're taking a bunch of, you know, welfare from your government.
00:52:09.000I suggested to people was like, Hey, you know what's really screwed up in society?
00:52:13.000Like all these different ticketing companies and how they put all these like excess fees on sporting tickets and concert tickets.
00:52:20.000I know this sounds really stupid, but this is like goes in line with the tax, no taxes on tips thing that worked really well, which is like out of the things that you like to do that you can't do because now Bidenomics has messed up your life.
00:52:34.000You know, why don't we figure out fixing this problem that exists where, like, tickets get passed around a thousand different times because, you know, the population is so much denser in some of these places and it's impossible to get sporting tickets in some places for less than, you know, a couple hundred dollars.
00:52:50.000Well, then they add fees on top of it.
00:52:52.000And basically, you know, those cultural events you can't attend.
00:52:56.000Price controls on Taylor Swift tickets.
00:53:44.000You know, bring it up and say, look, if they're going to steal ours, then we might as well steal theirs.
00:53:48.000Well, we just need creative ideas and then come out louder about it, right?
00:53:52.000Like the biggest, the most horrifying part about this no taxes on tips thing is like what's inevitably going to happen is that you're going to have a bunch of confused people because they're just going to be louder and talk about it more often and get the support in the media.
00:54:04.000And everyone's gonna be like, well, that's not fair.
00:54:06.000It's like, stop talking about it not being fair.
00:54:09.000Like, just talk about, like, the whole idea of populism is, like, be the first to the show and talk about it more than the other guy, and then actually do it.
00:54:22.000We talked about this, Blake, and it would drive people crazy, but I think it's the the right move, which is don't just say we're going to do infrastructure.
00:54:29.000Be like very specific and say and just like humiliate California and Kamala Harris.
00:54:34.000Being like you guys have been promising a freaking train from San Diego to San Francisco for the last like 20 years and you guys have spent billions of dollars and you've not been able to do it.
00:54:45.000We are going to build Like high speed rail and we're going to build this stuff in like two years or less and we're going to figure it out.
00:54:52.000I know you said that it's impossible, Blake, but at least from a promise standpoint, national infrastructure gets people really excited because it feels as if their country is developing and growing and prospering, not decaying and atrophying.
00:55:03.000And so you do something where it's like This is the American Manufacturing Revival Initiative, where we're going to put 2 million people back to work in public-private partnerships, and we're going to have China pay for it through tariffs.
00:55:14.000And, again, Elon touched on this a little bit, but I think that come up with, like, 20 crazy ideas of national infrastructure that people can actually get behind, if that makes sense.
00:56:00.000I mean, Trump was like along those lines, but this goes back to that whole BLM conversation, which is like, well, if you take things away from the federal government, but then actually do something with it, right?
00:56:11.000And again, you get creative with this stuff, which is not, you don't just have to give up land for homesteading.
00:56:15.000Like you could give up land for nuclear power plants and be like, you know what we're going to do instead of building a wall, we're going to build a wall of nuclear power plants.
00:56:25.000I'm kidding, but the reality is, why not stick a nuclear power plant in the middle of the desert?
00:56:32.000We've already done that in Arizona, and it literally powers half of Mexico and all of Southern California, including all of Arizona, and we could have the cheapest utilities in the world if we wanted to.
00:56:45.000Like you just have to just communicate that to people in the right way and be smart about it and utilize what you have in front of you, which again is we have all this land where we're geographically in the best place in the entire world.
00:56:59.000We have all this oil that's just sitting there.
00:57:29.000And so like, this is where we're at now, which is just like we need to stick with that.
00:57:33.000And I feel like we've gotten away from it, to be honest.
00:57:35.000I feel like 2020, it became all about personalities, which is what the Democrats wanted.
00:57:40.000And we're slowly watching this race turn into personalities, instead of about this, which is like, come up with something cool that you're going to do that people actually get in the most simplified terms.
00:57:50.000So uh there's there's some ideas that I developed here so one was called the Wild West 2.0.
00:57:56.000I sent this to the campaign which is where you create these special zones that are controlled by BLM where there's like no regulation and you sign disclaimers and you could basically try whatever you want economically if they're like distressed like you go to rural Nevada and you get like a hundred acres and you signed all these um you know All these disclaimers and it's like the Wild West 2.0 and you could try crazy things aiming to like attract super adventurous entrepreneurs.
00:58:21.000Another idea that I had and that I developed was the National Adventure Pass, which is for Americans.
00:58:30.000You get to go to any National Park free and it provides like every citizen with a pass to go to all the National Parks, historical sites, stuff like that.
00:58:40.000While you're on that Charlie, I spent some time on this.
00:58:42.000Did you know nobody's been in like the crown of the or is the crown or is it the?
00:58:47.000up on the the torch of the Statue of Liberty There should be like literally a drawing to reopen that this should just be a drawing that's like certain amount of Americans get to go on like the the the torch the Statue of Liberty and like it's broadcast and it's like a big deal like Like, you could literally do that as president.
00:59:05.000You could literally do that and, like, make a big deal about it.
00:59:07.000And it's, like, nothing but, like, plus points for, like, Americana-ism.
00:59:19.000Yeah, no, I think that we could think more creatively in this way, but also play offense against them.
00:59:27.000I don't, if you, would you guys get upset if President Trump said, hey, we're going to, we're going to have like no interest for first time home buyers, like no interest loans.
00:59:37.000I mean, I'm sure you get like really high, higher home prices, I guess from that.
00:59:41.000Like, but we're, we're in a, I guess building more homes is actually the structural solution, right?
00:59:47.000Oh, yeah, I mean, you build more, and... I mean, yeah, it's like the boring answer, is you make it easy to build more, and then, like, demand will be sated and prices will go down, and things that we massively regulate the prices and provision of tend to eventually have high prices.
01:00:12.000College and university, healthcare, childcare, all of these things are outrageously expensive.
01:00:18.000And the truth is, is the more boringly unregulated they are, the cheaper they tend to be.
01:00:42.000Electronics, if we had the federal government deciding to get involved in deciding, you know, cell phones or computers are too expensive and we need to tinker with how to incentivize providing them and have price caps on them to make sure they're all affordable, then computers would be outrageously expensive.
01:00:59.000A new computer would cost $5,000 and there'd be shortages of them all the time.
01:01:03.000but instead the price goes down all the time.
01:01:05.000And you want to apply that same principle to housing.
01:01:08.000And I think the easiest way to do that is you basically whack most of the laws that make it difficult
01:02:34.000President Trump has talked about things like Freedom Cities in the past, and look at what we are talking about as opposed to sort of debating.
01:02:41.000Like, I just go back to the Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney version of politics, where they're like explaining politics as something that you're, you know, not supposed to understand, that you're not supposed to like, that we can't have direct benefits for you.
01:02:56.000And that's sort of been put on the shelf now to say, okay, We understand how economics works.
01:03:00.000But at the same time, we also understand that your country has been, it feels like it's been selling you down the river that you've been getting screwed over.
01:03:08.000And so what can we do to from the government perspective, to actually have direct benefits for the people that that's not just support us, but for all country or for all citizens, rather everyone in the country.
01:03:20.000So things like law and order, by the way, things like crime, all of this will help, by the way.
01:03:25.000And so, you know, who are the people that are the biggest victims of crime?
01:03:29.000It is going to be disproportionately the lower class and middle class.
01:03:34.000So these are also things that we can do to cut against the economic populism measures that they're putting in.
01:03:41.000And I just love the fact that we're not the neocons anymore.
01:03:43.000My gosh, I'm just so happy we're not them.
01:03:49.000We didn't talk about the conspiracy of 2020, but I believe the biggest conspiracy we didn't discuss was how the Olympic Games, I believe, were impacted by COVID intentionally because we knew that Trump... Can you imagine Trump as president?
01:04:07.000During the Olympic Games, the amount of Americanism... Well, he was during the winter.
01:04:11.000Yeah, but I'm talking about the summer right before the, uh, the summer right before the election.
01:04:18.000It was canceled because of COVID or they pushed it later to the next year.
01:04:23.000That would have been the most American bleed through that you've ever seen with a U.S.
01:04:49.000When Trump wins, and we do have the American Olympics, and he's going to be the president, the sitting president in the middle of this, we have to defend and make sure that nothing comes in between Trump and the Olympics in 2028.
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01:05:31.000All right, where's my other one that I had here?
01:05:34.000So I asked I asked people from all the time they send them in.
01:05:37.000There's one about health that I had that was really good.
01:05:50.000Introduce a program that provides health and wellness vouchers for citizens for a range of services, including gym memberships, nutrition counseling, mental health support, aiming to improve overall public health, including special tax benefits for not eating corn.
01:06:26.000Till next week, keep on committing thought crimes, and if you want more of our ideas, you guys could check them out, and encourage you guys to look at them.