On this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, Jack and Jack are joined by special guest Blake Neff and special guest Matthew Martinez of Chase the Vote to discuss the assassination of Andrew Goodman and the events that led to his death.
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00:02:23.000He was supposed to be here, but he may be flying in if he's able to do so.
00:02:28.000But do not worry, do not fear, because we've got a fantastic thought crime lineup for you tonight and a list of fascinating and wonderful crimes of thought to commit.
00:03:00.000As opposed to you, who looks like you've never seen the sun.
00:03:02.000Yeah, you know, it's just part of the color, as it were, or the lack of color, we might say.
00:03:08.000We have a special guest today because I think Andrew's on a plane, and I think Tyler was like, I have to help some Republicans or some lame excuse like that.
00:05:27.000I'm surprised they wouldn't give out the name then so people could ask for information potentially like if they know who they're looking for but I guess now that I think about it they don't seem to do that in a lot of other cases.
00:05:39.000One of the things was that apparently the guy was traveling with a fake ID so it could be that the The name they currently have is the fake name that he used to check into the hostel.
00:05:51.000And then if he was traveling on the bus, then potentially, yeah, he wouldn't need, you know, wouldn't really need to buy a ticket in name if you paid cash, if you did it in a smart way.
00:06:02.000So it's possible that they have a name, but it's just a fake name and they're just kind of, you know, whittling down.
00:06:08.000I mean, either way, here's what I want to say.
00:06:10.000So I understand we probably can't, can we play the video or, you know, we're on Rumble, right?
00:06:15.000I don't know if that's, If that's doable or not.
00:06:19.000But the question is, though, the first thing I want to say is that when this video first dropped, I remember it was going viral.
00:07:30.000I remember at one point standing right there as Trump was walking in down that very same sidewalk.
00:07:38.000One was that November 3rd of 2016, and we were still on the 4th, you know, at like 3 in the morning, and I'm walking by, and I watched, there was a firetruck there, and I watched John Podesta's speech, like, on this, like, little TV that was in the side of the firetruck, and, sorry, yeah, no, I mean, it doesn't, it's not connected to what happened, it's just my memory of that sidewalk, that very same stretch of sidewalk is so vivid, and then to think that there was this murder situation, That took place there was crazy.
00:08:08.000Blake, there's another piece of it where we also apparently found out how it is that this guy slipped his mask.
00:09:30.000I think depose is probably referring to, like, depositions that you would do in a legal case.
00:09:35.000And so that gets into the second part of this, which is so interesting, is he was...
00:09:40.000He's a health insurance CEO. Health insurance companies are not super popular in America because they're the ones you have to interact with in our very expensive healthcare system...
00:09:53.000They sometimes deny claims or contest claims.
00:09:56.000And the claim is especially that this company in particular, allegedly, is maybe more aggressive in contesting claims.
00:10:04.000And so what you have on the internet, if you check Twitter or if you check the liberal haven of blue sky, you have people just overtly celebrating this murder.
00:10:59.000And so it's a valid critique to say that these companies deny too many claims, but it's very dark that you're seeing this pivot towards people just overtly celebrating what is an appalling murder in the streets.
00:11:16.000And I'll be honest, I'm a little upset.
00:11:20.000I think even on the right, I don't see people quite as...
00:11:24.000opposed to this as they should be you're young you might have a good you know do i feel like there's a lot of pro there's a lot of sympathy towards like underdogs however defined even if they're criminals sure or just this sort of chaotic element among young people where they think america's a scam or america is rigged and it makes them inclined to cheer for people who are violent criminals it depends on the side of my generation right for these younger people amongst students
00:11:53.000if you're attending all these woke colleges they're probably going to be parading a little bit more about this shooting unfortunately Sickening.
00:12:35.000And they're seeing that this is sickening regardless of political size or whomever it is, even if it's the most – although he is the CEO of the eighth largest company in the world, I believe.
00:12:53.000I don't know my company's – But regardless, even if the Robin Hood idea, right, what we care about, and a lot of my generation, is justice.
00:13:04.000I think my generation is probably one of the largest, has this mindset of justice needs to be served with whomever, right?
00:13:14.000That's why you see my generation protest at the drop of a pen sometimes, right?
00:13:19.000Because they want to see justice, right?
00:13:21.000So it is, we're seeing a mix in my generation, but I have also seen some things, too.
00:13:29.000I think I saw it on Blue Skies, the Democrat little organization, the Twitter of Democrats.
00:14:03.000So, Blake, you and I did Chronicles of the Revolution last year, the podcast series, which then we turned into the book Unhumans, The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Crush Them.
00:14:16.000Specifically, the ideology that we wrote about in the book with Joshua Lysette came in and was the co-author of it.
00:14:23.000And we talked exactly about the ideology of communists and how this stuff spreads.
00:14:29.000They take grievances, and then they decide that they can just kill, maim, steal anyone who is on the other side of the grievance, whether perceived or not, right?
00:14:41.000So either a perceived false grievance or a real grievance.
00:14:46.000We've all had all sorts of issues with health insurance companies.
00:14:50.000But that doesn't mean you can just pick up a gun and go start murdering people on the street.
00:14:54.000And the problem is that when I see conservatives going in and saying, oh, yeah, you know, take it to the elites, you know, take it to take it to the man, et cetera.
00:15:21.000It's not about justice and social justice and equity and all these fancy window dressing words that they use to kind of, you know, church it up, to try to dress it up.
00:15:34.000It's about petty resentment and hatred.
00:15:37.000And so rather than do something to fix the situation, they just want to rob, kill, and destroy I hate to say it, but we took a lot of crap when we put that book out and it did very, very well.
00:16:01.000And look, we saw this coming and it actually doesn't surprise me at all.
00:16:07.000And Taylor Lorenz, by the way, is someone else who she posted, I don't know what they call them on Blue Sky, but she made a post on Blue Sky where she was saying that, oh, and they wonder why we want to kill healthcare CEOs.
00:16:20.000The day after, I guess the day of, an assassination, cold blood like this, And so, people saying, wait a minute, isn't this Miss, you know, COVIDian Taylor Lorenz?
00:16:33.000And she's so, so worried about COVID, and she spent months planning this, like, book launch, so it would be COVID-friendly and COVID-safe.
00:16:41.000And we'll say, wait a minute, how could she be so worried about that and about getting one person's Again, it's because they don't view you as human.
00:16:53.000They view you as something that is sub, something that is lesser, and they want you out of the way.
00:17:00.000And their reasons for it at that point actually don't matter because they will condone any level of violence in order to achieve their ends.
00:17:31.000I don't know the full details on it, but I guess Blue Cross was saying they were not going to pay for, like, the full cost of anesthesia in some surgeries.
00:17:40.000And they backtracked on this because there was a lot of backlash to it.
00:17:44.000All I would say is I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out there's like scumbag doctors out there who keep you under too long because then they can bilk, insure.
00:17:53.000There's a shocking amount of medical fraud in America.
00:17:56.000But whatever that case, even if they're really bad.
00:20:12.000That essentially hires a rich family that hires a working class family to go and work for them.
00:20:17.000And the working class family eventually just murders everyone in the rich family and ruins their lives.
00:20:23.000And the rich family doesn't actually do anything wrong to the working class family, but we're told that the working class family are the heroes because they rose up and killed the rich people who hired them.
00:20:39.000And I remember sitting watching this movie, getting all these accolades saying, what's going on?
00:20:43.000Why are we supposed to hate these people who, okay, yeah, sure, they maybe they have this, you know, privileged life in terms of wealth and in terms of, you know, how well they've done for themselves in their lives.
00:20:57.000And yet they, you know, they don't really get into how hard they worked or any of the sacrifices they had to make to be able to get to that level, et cetera.
00:21:04.000We're just told that you're supposed to hate them because they're rich.
00:21:08.000And therefore, the working class family is justified in killing the rich family because of the wealth disparity.
00:21:18.000And this won the Academy Award literally like five years ago.
00:21:23.000And I remember sitting there watching this going, why is nobody else talking You're right, it's this eat the rich mentality, and yet it's totally been mainstreamed.
00:21:31.000Yeah, I mean, even I'm looking at our comments on the stream and, you know, we have purple daffodil saying it's like when people aren't sad when child murderers get murdered in prison.
00:21:42.000Well, okay, but a guy who runs an insurance company is not a child murderer.
00:21:49.000They are a person who runs a controversial business and that may require a policy action.
00:23:12.000wants to expropriate and it's they're not just focused on billionaires they're very much focused on anyone who owns a company is the head of a company is conventionally successful in america who doesn't entire who isn't entirely subsumed into this left-wing apparatus uh purple daffodils He says it has nothing to do with him being a white male.
00:25:13.000That's not going to save you when you get lined up in the trench with your family and you get the muzzle of the gun pointed at the back of your head.
00:25:22.000Sorry, oh, well, you know, it's just another white CEO. No, like, you really need to stop and you really need to wake up and grow up right now because this stuff is incredibly serious.
00:25:58.000But they said that he did actually have home security because I think there had been some threatening messages or something that had come out.
00:26:07.000And so he had home security, but for some reason they weren't with him at this hotel.
00:26:12.000Even then, I don't want us to turn into South Africa, where every person who has a net worth over a million dollars needs a special, dedicated, full-time, private security person.
00:27:55.000And if you completely got rid of the cut taken by insurance companies, took them out of the picture, and we just imagined...
00:28:04.000There was a 0% profit on all health insurance, and that was what it was.
00:28:08.000We would still have the most expensive healthcare system in the world, and all those procedures that you want to get would still be monstrously expensive.
00:28:15.000And it's not that healthcare insurance companies are always great, because they do have this sinister incentive to try to deny care when they can, but...
00:28:26.000The system itself is enormously messed up, and you would still be having to pay way too much for tons of procedures if the insurance companies didn't exist.
00:28:36.000And I think people are afraid to confront this because they want to imagine that the American healthcare system is easy to fix.
00:28:44.000And unfortunately, it's such a calamity that it is almost impossible to fix.
00:28:49.000It would be like popping the world's largest tumor or something.
00:29:44.000sinful, it is a direct violation of the Ten Commandments, and it's unquestionably, unquestionably breaking one of God's commandments to do this type of activity, as is all communism, by the way.
00:29:58.000Then, when you go beyond that, if you're condoning it, that means you're actually condoning the breaking of a commandment.
00:30:04.000So it's completely anti-Christian to support any of this type of activity.
00:30:08.000That's a huge, just basic, like, one-on-one level thing.
00:30:11.000Number two, though, for people who say, okay, this is a legitimate grievance, it is.
00:30:16.000And that's why you have to, as a government, you have to come in and find ways to meet that grievance, find some kind of compromise to bring down whatever.
00:30:27.000Look, we didn't have a revolution in the United States when there were communist revolutions all over the world.
00:30:42.000Fringe benefits, which became benefits, of which, by the way, health insurance was one of the things that was interesting.
00:30:50.000I mean, Blake, from a historical perspective, you're talking about insurance companies.
00:30:54.000The idea that your job gave you insurance is actually, in the grand scheme of things, a fairly new type of Just this facet of having employment, because this was never originally considered something, you know, a job was, here's your wage and have fun, you know, go to the hospital if there's some issue with you.
00:31:13.000So, you know, even that, the whole system of health insurance And tying of that to the employment system was something that was brought in as one of these compromises, historically speaking, going back about 100 years ago or 80 years ago in the progressive era and then in the 1930s as well.
00:31:33.000And again, I'm not defending any of it.
00:31:35.000Obviously, I stand for all sorts of government reform.
00:31:38.000Look what we just spent the entire last year doing.
00:31:41.000This is the populist movement, after all.
00:31:47.000You cannot condone wanton leftist revolutionary violence, which is what it does seem like this was.
00:31:54.000In the end, chaotic violence always favors the left.
00:31:59.000There is a reason the left has used it throughout its entire history.
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00:33:05.000.com So we could keep on this, Jack, or we could go to one of the second topics.
00:33:10.000We could talk about what we want to do on day one of Doge, or we could talk about Bitcoin hitting 100,000.
00:34:04.000And I think, you know, big picture what you can say is...
00:34:08.000It's definitely worrisome whenever you have a system that is making a lot of people defend violent murders.
00:34:16.000It's what Tucker would say on his show.
00:34:19.000He would talk a lot about, in his book, Ship of Fools, he would say, as a leader, you have a responsibility to not let the system go until it sparks a revolution.
00:34:33.000We've very much said our piece on that murder is bad, but you definitely have to think it is a red flag if there are all these people online who are celebrating it or defending it or justifying it or at least indifferent to it.
00:35:34.000It actually was a proto-element for so many very annoying things in what would be the politics of the 2010s.
00:35:41.000But it was also just an ominous sign generally for America that you have this level of populist anger against a relative engine of American prosperity.
00:35:54.000And similar to that, the anger at the American health insurance system is not just...
00:36:00.000It'd be one thing if it was just a threat to the healthcare system, which is frankly mostly bad, I think.
00:36:06.000But I think it's the sort of thing that if it's not ultimately solved, it will be what justifies just abolishing everything that makes America successful.
00:36:15.000Like, healthcare is their Trojan horse to just say, we're going to do socialism on the entire economy.
00:36:21.000We're going to do leveling on the entire economy.
00:36:24.000We're going to go full Bernie Sanders, full AOC, full Green New Deal, and the justification is going to be that your health insurance company sometimes screwed you on fees.
00:36:38.000And there is this nihilist impulse that we do have to worry about.
00:36:46.000So what was the goal of the Occupy Wall Street?
00:36:58.000The idea was they would gather in their sort of populist commune in Zuccotti Park and then they would decide what their one demand would be.
00:37:07.000And they didn't get around to figuring it out before they sent in the police and cleared them out.
00:37:10.000It was all a very entertaining spectacle.
00:37:30.000I was obviously a little bit older than that, but I was alive for the LA riots, and I would have been, I guess, in second or third grade, and I didn't know anything about them until...
00:37:47.000No, keep in mind, this is pre-internet era, so it was hard to know about history unless you had books or...
00:37:53.000I've listened to conservative talk radio.
00:37:56.000This is why, by the way, the conservative talk radio was so subversive because they would just simply bring up things that you wouldn't hear anywhere else.
00:38:03.000And we still have that, but it's way more prevalent because of social media.
00:38:07.000That back at the time, you know, there were no alternative forms of media that you would ever hear any of this stuff.
00:38:16.000So I had never heard of the LA riots until I was like, in college, I want to say until, yeah, it was definitely until I was in college that I heard about it.
00:38:25.000And I was like, I can't believe this all happened when I was a kid.
00:38:28.000And I had no idea that it even took place.
00:38:34.000So do people understand what we're saying?
00:38:37.000Do people understand what we're saying is, we agree.
00:38:40.000We totally agree that there are actual issues with the healthcare system.
00:38:46.000I'm not defending the healthcare system.
00:38:47.000I'm not defending rich people, but I'm defending any of those things necessarily.
00:38:51.000But I am, number one, saying that you can't just hate someone for being rich.
00:38:55.000And number two, I'm also saying that you can't just live.
00:39:02.000where you go in to wanton mass murder like this of people who are in cold blood, because that is the path to absolute societal destruction.
00:39:15.000It is absolute societal destruction to continue down one of these paths.
00:39:57.000By the way, and Blake and Matthew, how funny is it, how ironic is it that the same people who say, oh, well, we can't let Kash Patel conduct an investigation into people who have committed government wrongdoing.
00:40:12.000But, oh, it's totally fine to just go and murder somebody on the street.
00:40:15.000Yeah, yeah, that's very much a real thing.
00:40:17.000The same people who will attack any, like, organized use of justice that might be reasonable, that might be under control.
00:40:25.000Are the ones that will celebrate any unhinged form of violence, chaotic form of violence.
00:40:32.000The left is fundamentally the party of entropy.
00:40:38.000That's why 2020 worked the way it did, that you would just start tearing away elements of civilization and let people just go maximal primal destructive urges.
00:41:41.000They burned down their cities, and it just so happened that the social justice warriors of the BLM movement were also the heroes in that situation.
00:42:26.000Those riots, the Watts riots, or the Newark riots where they had snipers on the roof shooting people at random.
00:42:33.000I mean, for people who think that it's okay to condone something like this, I'm just going to say, you know, again and again, this is, it leads to, again, we wrote a whole book about it.
00:42:44.000You know, it's Christmas time, so yeah, you know, unhumansbook.com, go check it out, go read the book, and you will see.
00:42:51.000You will see that any time, you know, look at this.
00:44:22.000For anyone who wants to read more, the book is Unhumans, or you could go, Blake and I did a whole podcast series on this right around this time last year regarding, and we had a whole episode on the French Revolution, and it was horrific.
00:44:34.000The French Revolution and the reign of terror of Robespierre, when the Jacobin Club basically took power of the state there, it didn't end with King Louis and Marie Antoinette.
00:44:47.000Remember, by the way, Marie Antoinette was murdered simply for being married to They decided that to be the king was a betrayal of the French people, and therefore he was murdered for being the king, and she was murdered for participating in that by being married to the king.
00:45:06.000And no, the quote about let them eat cake was never actually uttered.
00:45:14.000The guillotine kept swinging down until the very last one was the nun, the Sisters of Copenhagen, this group of, I think, 12 nuns who lived in a cloister who refused to renounce their vows.
00:45:28.000And even they were executed right in the center of Paris, where, by the way, President Trump is going to be traveling this weekend, because that's another example of the French Revolution, by the way, because the Notre Dame Cathedral was, yeah, we know it was burned in 2019.
00:45:44.000But did you know that it was also raised during the French Revolution?
00:45:49.000And And the 12 statues on the facade of it, the 12 kings of Israel were smashed by the revolutionaries, the stained glass windows, many of them were smashed as well.
00:45:59.000And in fact, the cathedral itself was deconsecrated and it was turned into a temple of reason by the cult of reason, the sort of atheist, science-based ideology.
00:46:14.000But that doesn't sound like anything that's going on anywhere today, right, guys?
00:46:18.000Jack, we have a very important counterpoint that was brought up by someone in the chat.
00:46:24.000Individual thinker mentions, why is it illegal to fly over North Pole or to go to Antarctica?
00:46:31.000What do you have to say to that, Jack?
00:46:35.000Look, I'm just going to say, if there's any Santa deniers that want to step to me in the next 20 days, you're going to get the horns, right?
00:46:42.000There won't be no Santa denial going on.
00:46:44.000It is illegal to fly over the North Pole specifically and Antarctica, which of course is part of his flight route, because you would be disrupting Santa Claus and his North Pole Christmastime operations.
00:46:55.000And if you were to do so, then in that case, I would support prosecution, absolutely, and incarceration.
00:47:03.000You know younger people, they aren't denying Santa over there, are they?
00:48:48.000Also is one of the last movies that you can see, maybe not last, but it certainly is towards the end of movies that were huge These were just inserted into movies that were non-religious movies.
00:49:09.000But the idea that a main character or...
00:49:13.000There's a whole subplot that revolves around the next-door neighbor going to see his granddaughter who's estranged.
00:49:19.000Well, the son is estranged, and he wants to go see her at the church, and he goes there.
00:49:23.000And this is just something that's been totally excised from all of mainstream media, particularly Hollywood media, the idea of a character just going to church on a regular basis.
00:49:35.000And don't tell me for a second that that hasn't had an effect on the broader society, because I absolutely believe that it has.
00:49:44.000And John Hughes was just a great American.
00:49:47.000I think he's not he's not fully appreciated for that.
00:49:51.000Just being like an earnest pro-American, like all pro all of the good things in America, you know, civic Christianity, patriotism.
00:50:02.000I will never forget how in Uncle Buck, you can tell that Uncle Buck is a somewhat disreputable character because he comes home and he has a bag that's for the Chicago Democratic Party.
00:50:14.000That's how you know not everything is quite right with him.
00:51:54.000It is an animated film, and it's called The Star.
00:51:59.000And the main character is the donkey from the actual nativity story.
00:52:07.000So it's the donkey that Mary rides on to Bethlehem.
00:52:10.000And it's this animated film of the nativity story, but told from the perspective of the animals.
00:52:18.000And so it's like, it's kind of cool and it's great for little kids and it's just really well done.
00:52:24.000It's obviously full on Christian and it's, it's got a really randomly incredible cast.
00:52:30.000It's got like Kelly Clarkson, Keegan-Michael Key is in there from like, uh, uh, uh, uh, Jordan Peele and, uh, Well, Zachary Levi is in there, who, by the way, just recently came out as a big Trump supporter.
00:53:29.000It's very 2018 and honestly it's like It's just something that it's like, I don't know, like some people have found it recently and they're like, oh yeah, it's so cool.
00:53:40.000It was funny like the first time someone said like, actually, Die Hard's a Christmas movie.
00:53:44.000And you're like, oh, it takes place on Christmas.
00:54:30.000Whamageddon is where you try to go all of December without hearing the song Last Christmas by Wham, which is a useful thing to do because Last Christmas isn't a Christmas song.
00:54:42.000You could just change every use of the word Christmas in that song to Tuesday.
00:55:56.000So the one interesting thing for me when it comes to...
00:56:01.000The Die Hard debate is, so, you know, I was getting way down the weeds on this a couple years ago, and I was saying, look, it's not central to plot, and it has all, you know, it's just right there.
00:56:12.000It just happens to take place around Christmas.
00:56:14.000And then someone threw back at me, they said, well, what about the movie White Christmas then?
00:56:19.000Wouldn't the movie White Christmas also not actually fall into that as well?
00:56:25.000Because it has to do with a hotel and some World War II veterans and all of this.
00:57:01.000Yeah, I just want to cite Michael says...
00:57:04.000Michael says apparently the hip new Christmas movie is Violent Night, which is John Wick with Santa, and the theme is Getting Home for Christmas.
00:57:17.000I worry that after what we just said, it might be against the spirit of Christmas to watch a Christmas movie about that, but...
00:57:26.000Yeah, there's a bunch of these, like, I do watch, like, I watch the new crop of Christmas movies every year, and just because there are popular Christmas movies that come out that don't necessarily make them It's a Wonderful Life.
00:57:40.000That will be watched every year in my house.
00:58:23.000Yeah, I bet he exploited at least as many people as the UnitedHealthcare allegedly possibly did.
00:58:30.000And I don't know the movie that he was exploiting and he was taking people's houses away and he was, you know, foreclosing and that he was turning them all.
00:58:37.000And then in, by the way, in the dystopian version, of course, he turned the entire place into what?
00:59:23.000And this is what causes him to psychologically break.
00:59:26.000Like, his brother being dead didn't shatter him.
00:59:29.000His town looking like it's, you know, 2024 America didn't shatter him.
00:59:35.000And the ship that his brother saved in the war, all the sailors were killed.
00:59:41.000None of that mattered nearly as much as his wife becoming a cat lady.
00:59:44.000As Mary being a cat lady at a library.
00:59:46.000And by the way, so in the 1940s when that movie came out, everyone understood that there was something wrong with that and that should not happen.
00:59:55.000Okay, now we're getting in real trouble right now.
00:59:57.000But I will say that J.D. Vance, if you look at the exit polls, did you see that poll that was going around of pet owners?
01:00:05.000And it was like every single pet owner demographic went for Trump except for one.
01:01:26.000So, Life of Brian is a movie where this guy is born in a similar way to Jesus, and in a similar place and time as Jesus, but is not actually Jesus, and keeps getting accidentally mistaken for Jesus.
01:01:42.000Someone says their favorite Christmas movie of the last 10 years is Fat Man starring Mel Gibson, which I have never heard of, but it does honestly look pretty remarkable.
01:01:55.000it is an unorthodox slant on holiday traditions that follows a jaded gritty santa claus played by mel gibson who struggles with ennui production issues government interference and an embittered assassin sent by a vengeful naughty child the film received mixed reviews i'm just seeing the By the way, is Gremlins a Christmas movie?
01:02:21.000Because he gets the Gremlins for Christmas.
01:02:24.000Does it otherwise have Christmas themes?
01:02:26.000Okay, I'll confess, I've never seen Gremlins.
01:02:56.000There are a lot of television specials about Thanksgiving.
01:02:59.000Yeah, so in the last 10 years, you either get, the last 10 years or so of Christmas movies, you either get a Hallmark kind of Christmas movie, or you get this gritty kind of Christmas movie.
01:03:13.000By the way, I will say that I am unabashedly supportive of all Hallmark movies.
01:03:27.000The point is that's the world we're fighting for.
01:03:31.000That's the world that, you know, imagine if you could just live in one of those worlds where all you had to worry about was, oh, the town Christmas party needs a fundraiser to save the old inn or something, and you've got this wonderful community where people join together and then,
01:03:49.000you know, Sarah is back from the big city, and she's still single because she's working so hard, and then she meets the guy who runs the inn, and they fall in love, and off you go, and it's like, that's the world we're fighting for, and that's why I like Hallmark movies.
01:04:06.000What's the better Hallmark movie, where the man from Business City learns how to let go and reacquaint himself with rural life, or the woman who's gone to the big city?
01:04:19.000Is it better when the woman learns to, like, go small town life or when the guy is, like, hooked by a cute girl next door type in the small town?
01:05:01.000I think it's the ones that are sort of, you know, most media out there promotes the girl boss lifestyle and promotes the sex in the city lifestyle.
01:05:12.000And it's like, the career woman, you've got to do this, and you've got to eschew childhood.
01:05:18.000And this is, by the way, where you get the Childless Cat Ladies from.
01:05:21.000And instead, you have these great Hallmark movies that come out every year that are like, hey, there's more to life than that.
01:05:29.000And there's good things that you're passing up on.
01:05:32.000And that doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with that.
01:05:35.000But maybe Christmas means just a little bit of life.
01:05:40.000But does it maybe set up a misleading expectation where you could be a girl boss and then you just go on a vacation and, like, whoop, swept off your feet and you still get your, like, whirlwind romance?
01:05:51.000Whereas if it's the man in Business City having that happen, it is mostly women who watch these movies.
01:05:57.000Then you are communicating, really, like, this is actually what men find most desirable, like, these traits, like, of the girl next door, small town girl...
01:06:07.000You might be sending a more useful message to them, whereas if it's the girlboss-ungirlbossing, it might sort of fly over their head, and they'll just think, wow, I can hook this amazing small-town guy after I've done my career stint in the big city.
01:06:29.000Like, Taylor Swift is like, oh, I dated all these guys, and, you know, I put off marriage, but I still ended up with, you know, Super Bowl champion.
01:06:39.000Thor Colonel says, Girlboss returns to her hometown to take care of her sick father and falls in love and leaves her career behind is 75% of Hallmark movies.
01:06:50.000Admittedly, I don't watch these movies.
01:07:02.000By the way, they do have some that are actually kind of cool because they're like, you know, they go and film on location.
01:07:10.000So they go show you like, like we just watched one.
01:07:12.000We actually literally, Tanya and I just watched one the other day where they were doing a river cruise down the Danube, which Blake, you would like that.
01:07:22.000And they go and visit like different cities and castles along The only issue is that, so the guy, of course, is secretly a prince, of course, but it's like a fake country.
01:07:32.000It's sort of like a stand-in to LinkedIn stocking.
01:08:26.000There's so much garbage out there anymore that you just turn on a Hallmark movie and you're like, oh yeah, this is what life used to be like.
01:08:34.000Hey, I'm hitting my heart out, guys, so I do have to cut it short here.
01:08:40.000You guys can feel free to keep going, but I do have to bounce.
01:08:43.000No, I think we can just head it out and close it out now, but thanks for coming on.