The Charlie Kirk Show - THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 72 — 2032 Armageddon? Worst Super Bowl Ever? US-Gay-ID?

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00:01:22.000 Okay, everybody, welcome to this Thought Crime Thursday.

00:01:26.000 Lots happening, and we are going to dive into so much of the news here.

00:01:30.000 We have Jack, we have Tyler, we have Blake.

00:01:32.000 And our first topic is going to be about the Super Bowl.

00:01:36.000 Jack, tell us why we should cheer for the Eagles, of which I want both teams to lose miserably and for it to end in a perpetual tie.

00:01:46.000 Jack.

00:01:47.000 Yeah, well, you know, look, first of all, everyone likes to go with a winner.

00:01:51.000 So if you want to back the winning team, you're going to go with the Eagles.

00:01:55.000 I mean, that's the most obvious answer right there.

00:01:57.000 They're the team that's going to win. 0.98

00:01:59.000 Second of all, people are generally sick.

00:02:01.000 And by the way, as an Eagles fan, I'm not used to having so many people on my side, but I've been getting messages.

00:02:07.000 I've been having people come up to me all week or all the last two weeks really saying, look, man, I'm not an Eagles fan, but I want Kansas City to lose so bad that I'm backing you 100%.

00:02:16.000 100%.

00:02:17.000 People are sick of the way the NFL has been bending the rules.

00:02:20.000 People are sick of the way that there's clearly all this marketing going into Kansas City, the whole Kelsey Brothers thing that's absolutely stale, one of which, by the way, was an eagle.

00:02:30.000 So, you know, I'm evil in admitting it's cringe, even though it's, you know, possibly to my own detriment.

00:02:36.000 And obviously, like, we don't need to talk about what happened with me and Taylor Swift last year, but it's tamped down from where it was a year ago, but the cringe...

00:02:46.000 Change, unfortunately, still exists.

00:02:48.000 And so people, I think, are just sick of it and people are looking for a change.

00:02:51.000 And so that's what you get when you go with the Eagles.

00:02:54.000 You go with a group of people that actually fight, that actually stand up for themselves, that don't take any crap and don't care what other people say about them because they're about what they're being about.

00:03:05.000 It's actually very similar to MAGA in a lot of ways.

00:03:08.000 And, you know, what can I say?

00:03:10.000 Do not compare the Philadelphia Eagles to MAGA. This is heresy.

00:03:17.000 The Eagles are such an awful entity.

00:03:26.000 It's completely synonymous.

00:03:27.000 You're making me want to cheer for the Chiefs now.

00:03:29.000 I can't believe this.

00:03:30.000 I think the problem that we're going to get here is the 2017 Super Bowl where the Pats...

00:03:39.000 Beat the Falcons.

00:03:40.000 That kind of made it so that the Pats were kind of the MAGA team.

00:03:43.000 Even though I know the Patriots were annoying.

00:03:45.000 They won a lot.

00:03:47.000 We got tired of them winning.

00:03:48.000 That's what MAGA does. 1.00

00:03:49.000 They win until you're tired of it.

00:03:51.000 And then the thing is that the Eagles then beat them the following year.

00:03:56.000 And so I'm not sure if the Eagles beat the MAGA team of the NFL, I don't think we can say the Eagles are the MAGA team today.

00:04:04.000 I don't think that works, Jack.

00:04:06.000 I think that comparison is flawed.

00:04:08.000 There is some inside information that I have about certain players that are on the Eagles that are more MAGA than you realize.

00:04:19.000 I'm not going to put that out because it's not my information to put out.

00:04:22.000 No, it's not my information to put out.

00:04:24.000 It's not my story to tell.

00:04:25.000 This is the golden era, Jack.

00:04:27.000 We have to know.

00:04:29.000 This is the golden era.

00:04:30.000 I was not given liberty to repeat that information, so I'm not going to burn my source.

00:04:36.000 That's a typical Eagles fan.

00:04:39.000 Response.

00:04:39.000 I'm sure there's so many MAGA players.

00:04:41.000 Protecting the house.

00:04:43.000 Wearing Eagles green.

00:04:44.000 Being loyal.

00:04:46.000 Not stabbing his friends in the back.

00:04:48.000 Actually caring about things that matter.

00:04:51.000 Wait, you're saying that a Philadelphia Eagles fan is going to not stab somebody?

00:04:57.000 No, I said not stab a friend.

00:04:58.000 I didn't say I wouldn't stab you, Blake. 0.75

00:05:02.000 No, it's pretty bad because we've got... 0.77

00:05:05.000 We basically got the Super Bowl from hell.

00:05:06.000 That's what the label is.

00:05:07.000 Because I think of all 14 teams that were in the NFL playoffs, I think this had to be the matchup I wanted least, you wanted least, Charlie wanted least.

00:05:17.000 All of America wanted least of all, except for Jack and the handful of people he's not going to stab, and then Chiefs fans.

00:05:24.000 And then it's in...

00:05:26.000 They're having it in New Orleans, right?

00:05:28.000 At the Super Bowl?

00:05:29.000 Or the Superdome?

00:05:30.000 So that's...

00:05:32.000 You know, that stadium has seen better days.

00:05:35.000 I guess, like, the only winning thing we have out of the Super Bowl is they did get rid of the end racism thing in the end zone.

00:05:42.000 So that's what they're placating us with.

00:05:44.000 They'll still have kind of dumb-sounding lectures, but they're going with the, like, it takes all of...

00:05:51.000 They're doing the generic ones that sound like they're from a Power Rangers episode in the 1990s, as opposed to the extremely, like... 0.81

00:05:58.000 Militant Maoist one.

00:05:59.000 So we'll count the win there, but I feel like I'm just going to be...

00:06:04.000 This is a Super Bowl that will be inflicted upon me as opposed to one that I will...

00:06:09.000 So Trump is going, and it never actually occurred to me that no sitting president has actually gone to a Super Bowl before.

00:06:19.000 Is that true?

00:06:20.000 Really?

00:06:21.000 Has anyone fact-checked that?

00:06:23.000 Yeah, no, it's true.

00:06:24.000 I saw that...

00:06:25.000 I saw that news going around, and I didn't take the time to check, but I was like, well, because you always see the president, you know, or prior to Biden, you would usually see the president doing, like, the Super Bowl Day interview.

00:06:34.000 So I guess in my head, I would always associate the president and the Super Bowl, but I didn't realize that no one had actually attended.

00:06:41.000 Obviously, I can understand for security purposes why you might not want to do that, but it just, I don't know, it just seems like something that a president would have gone to.

00:06:49.000 Yeah, I guess.

00:06:50.000 guess I have a friend in the in the inner in the football business and she said that is 100% true she was like one of the first people to mention that and she kind of broken it and had got it out there pretty early but it's crazy because a lot of presidents have played football a lot like a lot of presidents have played football and none have gone to the Super Bowl Richard Nixon did suggest a play to run in the Super Bowl he did do that once I believe it was a flanker reverse Teddy Roosevelt's responsible for the forward pass he

00:07:19.000 He never played football.

00:07:20.000 There's all this football lore with presidents.

00:07:24.000 None of them have been...

00:07:25.000 I couldn't believe it.

00:07:26.000 Gerald Ford could have been a professional football player, but he decided to go become president, which is not as cool.

00:07:31.000 They offered him.

00:07:32.000 He got offered to play for the Lions and the Packers.

00:07:36.000 Like $200 a game.

00:07:37.000 He could have been a Packers Hall of Famer.

00:07:39.000 Yeah, and he went to law school instead.

00:07:41.000 Did you know we had an NFL player who ended up on the Supreme Court?

00:07:46.000 Byron Whizzer White.

00:07:48.000 He was on the Supreme Court from the...

00:07:50.000 I think late 60s through the 90s.

00:07:52.000 He was the last base Democrat on the court, I think.

00:07:56.000 He was the Democrat, but he voted against Roe v.

00:07:58.000 Wade.

00:07:58.000 We're relatively pro-wizzer white here.

00:08:02.000 But yeah, no.

00:08:03.000 President at the Super Bowl.

00:08:04.000 I wish he could have picked a better Super Bowl to go to, but I guess fate wasn't cooperating with us.

00:08:10.000 It's a swing state.

00:08:12.000 It is a swing state.

00:08:14.000 Louisiana is not a swing state.

00:08:16.000 No, no, no.

00:08:17.000 Pennsylvania.

00:08:22.000 But the other great thing about Trump going to the Super Bowl is he's apparently in his tax proposal today, there is that very niche item that he wants to get rid of tax benefits enjoyed by pro sports team owners.

00:08:39.000 And apparently he's very angry at the left-wing sports team owners who denounced him in his first term and the way the sports leagues did all of that.

00:08:49.000 Good.

00:08:49.000 This is the right thing to do.

00:08:51.000 Are you kidding me?

00:08:52.000 Exactly.

00:08:53.000 It's great.

00:08:54.000 We should just have Trump issue an executive order that's like, taxpayer money can't be used to build these stadiums anymore.

00:08:59.000 This is totally out of control.

00:09:01.000 That would be fun.

00:09:02.000 I would totally support that.

00:09:04.000 But that might put me in conflict with a lot of people.

00:09:07.000 I don't care.

00:09:07.000 I think if they get rid of Trans Night, I think they can have their tax breaks back.

00:09:12.000 Maybe.

00:09:13.000 We could issue a thing.

00:09:14.000 Only the Texas Rangers are allowed to get taxpayer funding because they were the only MLB team to not do all of the Pride Month stuff.

00:09:23.000 They got all this hate.

00:09:25.000 They would every year for...

00:09:26.000 Three or four years in a row, we'd get this two-minute hate on the Texas Rangers because they would not do this Pride Night thing during the MLB season.

00:09:37.000 It was deranged.

00:09:39.000 So it's been a wild ride for Eagles fans this year.

00:09:44.000 You know, you had Poso going to Eagles jail just a couple of weeks ago here, right before the election.

00:09:50.000 You've got Donald Trump going red, Pennsylvania going red for Trump.

00:09:56.000 Kamala Harris, of course, holding her very last rally slash concert, these weird things, in Philadelphia the night before the election.

00:10:04.000 I think I flew.

00:10:06.000 If I remember correctly, I flew straight from that concert to Phoenix and then came on thought crime that night for like the very tail end of whatever we were calling it or whatever we were doing.

00:10:17.000 And now, now a Super Bowl victory where the Eagles parade gets to march down Broad Street is really, it's just going to be the coup de grace.

00:10:25.000 It's going to be the coup de grace of this entire season.

00:10:28.000 And if you recall, which team won the Super Bowl right after Trump won the first time?

00:10:34.000 Was it the Philly special?

00:10:37.000 The Patriots?

00:10:38.000 That's what I just said.

00:10:39.000 It was the Philly Philly and the Philadelphia Eagles in February 26th.

00:10:43.000 Yeah, that doesn't count.

00:10:46.000 When Trump was, like, really president and was, like, governing the country, that's when the Patriots came back 31-3.

00:10:53.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:10:53.000 Or 28-3 or whatever.

00:10:54.000 It was the greatest comeback in history.

00:10:56.000 Let's flag this comment.

00:10:57.000 So Sergeant T1978 says, as a Cowboys fan, I will never support the Eagles and I will never support the Chiefs.

00:11:03.000 Just listen to the commentary and you will know who wins like they did in the Patriots-Falcons game.

00:11:08.000 That brings up an idea that you could have if you...

00:11:12.000 Hate this Super Bowl and wish both teams would be cursed forever.

00:11:16.000 You can try.

00:11:17.000 This is a contest people do every year.

00:11:19.000 You try to not know who won the Super Bowl and you see how long you can do.

00:11:24.000 So you don't watch the Super Bowl.

00:11:26.000 You stay away from all the news websites and you see, can you avoid ever learning who wins this year's Super Bowl?

00:11:33.000 I tried to do that when the Patriots played the Rams in, that must have been the 2019 season?

00:11:42.000 No, it was 2018. 2018 season, and then they were playing it in spring 2019. And I didn't like that, and that was also peak the NFL being annoying, and also peak the Packers not being very good that year.

00:11:53.000 And so, I was just like, I'm just gonna not, and I'm not watching, and I was flying to Europe on a plane when the Super Bowl was being played, so I thought, everything's worked out perfectly.

00:12:02.000 I don't need to watch it.

00:12:03.000 I'll be in Europe where they don't care. 0.99

00:12:05.000 I could avoid...

00:12:06.000 Learning who wins the Super Bowl.

00:12:08.000 And by the time I'm back, it won't be on the news all the time.

00:12:10.000 Let's see how long we can go.

00:12:12.000 And then Apple ruined it because when I landed in Iceland, they sent me one of those forced phone nudges that told me the Patriots had won the Super Bowl.

00:12:22.000 And I never saw another thing about football the entire rest of that trip.

00:12:25.000 And I was extremely annoyed.

00:12:27.000 I might not know to this day whether the Rams or Pats won that Super Bowl if they hadn't ruined it.

00:12:34.000 It is a shame this is not a Lions Super Bowl.

00:12:37.000 I don't think they're allowed to win the Super Bowl.

00:12:39.000 Can we appreciate the Lions?

00:12:42.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:12:44.000 I think the NFL... I have long believed that God himself will not allow the Minnesota Vikings to win the Super Bowl.

00:12:50.000 I believed this when I was a child, and I still believe it today.

00:12:54.000 I think that if the Vikings had a lead in a Super Bowl, it would...

00:12:59.000 It would allow Satan to triumph on Earth, and God will not allow that.

00:13:03.000 I believe this in my heart of hearts, and I think the lions are a slightly lower-scale version of that, where they're kind of cursed by God.

00:13:12.000 Jacob, have I loved?

00:13:13.000 Detroit, have I hated?

00:13:16.000 Can we appreciate, and let's play some of this, let's play some of them, I think we have them in the cut sheet, of this new strategy of leaking your commercials ahead of time.

00:13:25.000 We're at least posting them ahead of time in order to try to get more traction.

00:13:29.000 So there's all these new...

00:13:31.000 I think Super Bowl commercials have really lost their allure and their, let's just say, appeal.

00:13:38.000 Let's go to this one.

00:13:39.000 Okay, this is the Budweiser ad.

00:13:41.000 Let's watch.

00:13:42.000 102. Still too little, buddy.

00:13:54.000 Is that Dylan Mulvaney riding the Clydesdale?

00:13:57.000 There's a reason for the sunshine sky And there's a reason why I'm feeling so high

00:14:24.000 Must be the season when that little light shines all around us So let that feeling grab you deeply How long is this at?

00:14:38.000 Jeez.

00:14:39.000 So, a horse walks into a bar.

00:15:05.000 And...

00:15:05.000 And what?

00:15:08.000 So that ad.

00:15:23.000 That ad costs 14 million bucks.

00:15:26.000 I can't help but feel, and I want your guys' thoughts.

00:15:28.000 It just feels like a major cope post-Dylan Mulvaney.

00:15:31.000 I can't get behind it.

00:15:32.000 I want your guys' thoughts.

00:15:34.000 So, yeah, the strategy is obviously clear.

00:15:37.000 It's an attempt to drive things back to the previous iteration of when the Budweiser-Clyde sales used to be.

00:15:47.000 Seen as noble and majestic and certainly patriotic after 9-11.

00:15:52.000 I remember that Super Bowl commercial.

00:15:54.000 Everyone alive remembers that Super Bowl commercial right after 9-11, just a couple of months later with the Clydesdales bowing or kneeling to the skyline of New York City.

00:16:05.000 But, you know, this, it's just like stock footage and then some awkward millennial comedy at the end. 0.60

00:16:13.000 You know, having a Clydesdale be a comedic character is ridiculous.

00:16:18.000 It totally misses the heart, totally misses the substance of what made those earlier commercials better. 0.51

00:16:23.000 It wouldn't surprise me if, like, some H-1B who doesn't understand American culture wrote this.

00:16:28.000 And, yeah, I'm not really sure what they're going for other than saying, hey, look, look, we're not Dylan Mulvaney anymore, see?

00:16:37.000 We're not Dylan Mulvaney, so you should like us again. 0.88

00:16:40.000 And it's just silly. 0.98

00:16:41.000 It's very silly. 0.95

00:16:42.000 And, you know, even as someone who doesn't drink, that objectively, I don't find this to be a good commercial. 0.80

00:16:51.000 I just miss the old funny, just like slapstick within like 15 seconds.

00:16:57.000 Are you just full?

00:16:57.000 You want 2002 America back?

00:17:00.000 I want, yeah.

00:17:01.000 Tyler, remember Budweiser?

00:17:04.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:17:06.000 Budweiser.

00:17:08.000 Budweiser?

00:17:09.000 Charlie, do you know what that is?

00:17:11.000 Saxony?

00:17:12.000 Wait, wait.

00:17:12.000 Does Charlie know that?

00:17:14.000 I'm too young for it.

00:17:16.000 Vaguely, remember?

00:17:16.000 The frogs.

00:17:17.000 Oh, man.

00:17:18.000 He doesn't know it.

00:17:19.000 He doesn't know the frogs.

00:17:20.000 Yeah, the frogs.

00:17:21.000 I've, like, seen it on YouTube.

00:17:22.000 I don't think I saw it live.

00:17:23.000 Charlie, this was like a Super Bowl commercial that took over the entire country. 1.00

00:17:29.000 It was just so stupid funny. 0.99

00:17:32.000 Like, it wasn't even true. 0.99

00:17:34.000 It was 95. Wow.

00:17:38.000 Oh, the what's up.

00:17:39.000 I know what you're talking about.

00:17:41.000 No, no.

00:17:41.000 It was before what's up.

00:17:43.000 This was the Arizona Super Bowl.

00:17:47.000 The engaged few super chatted us and said, no one on this panel is old enough to remember the Bellamy brothers.

00:17:54.000 And I'll admit, I don't know who the Bellamy brothers are.

00:17:57.000 That's probably really bad.

00:17:59.000 But I don't know.

00:18:01.000 Was that an ad they did?

00:18:03.000 Or is that a musical?

00:18:04.000 I don't freaking know.

00:18:06.000 Yeah, What's Up was like the sequel to Budweiser.

00:18:11.000 Yeah, What's Up is what I remember. 1.00

00:18:13.000 They were so stupid. 1.00

00:18:14.000 But it was so good because it was just dumb, fast, commercial. 1.00

00:18:19.000 It was just dumb. 1.00

00:18:20.000 Which, by the way... 0.99

00:18:21.000 SNL used to be like that.

00:18:23.000 It was just absurdist.

00:18:25.000 They're making fun of themselves more than anything else. 0.98

00:18:28.000 It's just silly. 0.90

00:18:31.000 It's like these frogs who are basically drunk making each other laugh. 0.94

00:18:37.000 Yeah, that's great.

00:18:39.000 I feel as if there hasn't been a home run Super Bowl commercial.

00:18:47.000 For like 15 years, it just shows the degradation of American culture and...

00:18:51.000 Home run in the Super Bowl, Charlie?

00:18:53.000 Just, I mean...

00:18:54.000 Yeah, why not?

00:18:56.000 Hey, I... You control me on sport.

00:18:59.000 I actually know...

00:19:00.000 I know my sports.

00:19:02.000 Let's...

00:19:02.000 Okay, this is the...

00:19:04.000 Let's try this one here.

00:19:07.000 This is the Bitcoin ad, 104. Didn't used to be like this.

00:19:25.000 Exhausting ourselves, leaving our homes, giving up precious time, and still not able to afford nothing.

00:19:32.000 Our money's broken.

00:19:35.000 Broken money steals your energy, your time, your life.

00:19:40.000 Thomas Jefferson tried to warn us about this.

00:19:42.000 He knew that a currency that could be printed out of thin air would rob us all blind.

00:19:50.000 Henry Ford proposed a new type of currency completely based off energy in 1921. He had this idea that an energy-backed currency would be the ultimate form of money, not just promises in paper.

00:20:05.000 He believed an energy-backed currency was an honest way for people to prove the work they performed.

00:20:12.000 Our money represents our value, our lives, our freedom, our energy.

00:20:18.000 It's not right to have it constantly debased, but there is a solution out there.

00:20:23.000 It's the most secure network the world has ever seen, without a single failure, ever, completely decentralized across the globe, backed by raw energy.

00:20:32.000 There's millions of people all around the globe pouring every nickel and dime they have into this network, out there working tirelessly, day and night, storing their energy into a brighter future.

00:20:50.000 That's all about Bitcoin.

00:20:52.000 Blake, I mean, that's...

00:20:53.000 I don't like...

00:20:54.000 That was a bleak ad.

00:20:55.000 Apparently it's all made by AI, which is, I guess, Brave New World.

00:21:02.000 But yeah, that's bleak.

00:21:04.000 They literally said that people are pouring every nickel and dime they have into this.

00:21:09.000 I liked it better when they were saying this is great because Thomas Jefferson didn't like a centralized currency.

00:21:15.000 I'm not sure it's good when you say you should buy Bitcoin because...

00:21:20.000 Maniacs, you know, are putting all of their money into Bitcoin.

00:21:23.000 Yeah, but you know, they're going for the MAGA. What's the through line here?

00:21:28.000 The through line here between the Budweiser and this one is that...

00:21:31.000 Trump won the popular vote.

00:21:33.000 And so what have we not seen in these last two ads?

00:21:36.000 And, you know, they're running away from wokeness.

00:21:39.000 They're trying to embrace patriotism again.

00:21:42.000 They're obviously not like not quite doing it right.

00:21:44.000 Like there's almost a there's a double uncanny valley here because in both of these, because in the first one and in this one, it's clearly people who don't quite understand patriotism or MAGA or why people actually love America.

00:21:57.000 But in this Bitcoin ad, there's a double.

00:22:01.000 Uncanny Valley because, you know, obviously the video is AI. Uncanny Valley means the human's ability to distinguish something that is almost human but not quite.

00:22:10.000 And so when you see it, it just triggers this sense in you that something is completely...

00:22:16.000 Oh, it felt so fake.

00:22:18.000 Yeah.

00:22:18.000 Totally fake.

00:22:19.000 The whole thing feels fake.

00:22:20.000 Yeah, it just feels fake.

00:22:21.000 The vibes are totally off.

00:22:22.000 That's called the Uncanny Valley.

00:22:24.000 A thought just occurred to me.

00:22:26.000 The WhatsApp ads in the early 2000s.

00:22:29.000 Some of the other stuff.

00:22:30.000 I feel like the cultural memory of that has been very limited.

00:22:35.000 We can remember it now that we bring it up, but you usually won't see that referenced a lot in culture.

00:22:42.000 I feel like people's memories of the early 2000s do not include a lot of those really corny aspects of American life.

00:22:51.000 It's almost like the Austin Powers movies.

00:22:53.000 Those are...

00:22:54.000 It's amazing how huge the Austin Powers films were in the late 90s, early 2000s.

00:23:00.000 And they don't exactly loom large over American life to this day.

00:23:05.000 I made a discovery about the Austin Powers movies a couple years ago.

00:23:10.000 They're not very good?

00:23:11.000 Totally by accident.

00:23:13.000 Because...

00:23:14.000 Well, because my wife, right, she's, you know, Tanya's not from the U.S., so she, all that, like, 90s, early 2000s culture, she just didn't participate in because she has no memory of it.

00:23:25.000 So she, like, had never seen a Will Ferrell movie before we started dating.

00:23:28.000 She was like, oh, yeah, like, I kind of heard of him, but I'd never seen any of his movies.

00:23:32.000 Whereas in the U.S., they're totally ubiquitous.

00:23:33.000 We went back and we watched, like, all the Will Ferrell movies and we watched Austin Powers.

00:23:38.000 And I got to tell you something.

00:23:40.000 Austin Powers was totally played out when, you know, when it was big.

00:23:44.000 It's funny again, man.

00:23:46.000 It's actually funny again.

00:23:47.000 If you sit because, and here's the reason why, is because all of culture is so bad right now and so horrible and destitute and vacuous and bereft of any substance whatsoever.

00:23:59.000 So even now, the stuff that wasn't quite, I mean, the first Austin Powers is good.

00:24:03.000 I'll definitely stipulate that.

00:24:05.000 But then the other two were just kind of like repeats of the same jokes.

00:24:08.000 But even now, you go back and it's just head and shoulders above anything else that's being put out by Hollywood or whatever streaming services.

00:24:16.000 So you're like, wow, these are really good.

00:24:18.000 What happened?

00:24:20.000 Where did the people who made these go?

00:24:22.000 So yeah, if you go back and watch them, they're actually funny again.

00:24:24.000 Well, and that, you know, it's really funny about that.

00:24:28.000 My son's a teenager now.

00:24:31.000 I watch him with his friends.

00:24:33.000 And for us, like, culture growing up is you quoted movies constantly.

00:24:37.000 Like, those movies from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s were, like, so quotable. 0.97

00:24:43.000 They were so stupid slapstick, but they had so many quotables. 0.99

00:24:46.000 And that's, like, how you talk to each other was that way. 1.00

00:24:49.000 And you look at kids now, they don't have anything like that.

00:24:53.000 There's nothing to quote.

00:24:55.000 Because there's nothing funny.

00:24:57.000 There's nothing funny.

00:24:58.000 Like, the last big comedy movie that a lot of people...

00:25:00.000 Except for Trump.

00:25:01.000 I think the last big comedy movie a lot of people watched was The Hangover, and you're old.

00:25:04.000 The Hangover came out closer to World War II than today, it seems.

00:25:08.000 But to close the loop on it, the way that some of that early 2000s pop culture has sort of vanished, except for...

00:25:14.000 Oh, remember that thing?

00:25:15.000 I think I wonder if we'll have that for the ultra woke pop culture of the Biden era.

00:25:21.000 Like if we're, you know, we'll make movies in 2040 and they'll be period pieces set around now, but they won't they won't come off right because they'll forget the fact like, oh, actually, everything.

00:25:32.000 Where's all that?

00:25:33.000 Where's all the pride flags everywhere?

00:25:35.000 Like, no, you guys don't get it.

00:25:36.000 If you were living there, there was a pride flag on everything.

00:25:41.000 That'll be the thing that we just all collectively forget.

00:25:43.000 We'll remember COVID, but we'll forget.

00:25:45.000 Oh yeah, we had to make a national holiday for this guy who died of a drug overdose in Minneapolis.

00:25:53.000 All of it's going to poof.

00:25:55.000 To close the loop on the Super Bowl, TJ Snyder asks, are we not yet convinced that the NFL is absolutely rigged?

00:26:02.000 The players may not be in it, but the referees determine the game.

00:26:05.000 What I will say is, I don't think the NFL is rigged, but I think with all of the sports gambling they're going all in on, I worry we are, we're like less than five years away from the mega scandal where finally there's enough money in all the new online sports betting that someone is going to rig a major event and it's, we'll suddenly remember, oh wait.

00:26:31.000 That's why they banned all of this 100 years ago.

00:26:34.000 Well, the Astros cheated.

00:26:36.000 They didn't rig it for the gamblers.

00:26:38.000 They just rigged it because they were evil.

00:26:40.000 Oh, you mean specifically?

00:26:41.000 Okay, right.

00:26:42.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:26:43.000 Not just players cheat, but cheating is like throwing a game.

00:26:46.000 It's one thing to cheat to win.

00:26:49.000 Throwing a game to lose for money, that is...

00:26:51.000 It will be very hard for pro sports to recover from that, and I can just easily see it where this scandal happens and suddenly every state goes, oh, oh wait, that's why it was a bad idea, and they just re-ban sports gambling overnight.

00:27:04.000 I don't know.

00:27:05.000 Those questionable plays in the AFC Championship, I don't know.

00:27:09.000 I think the whole thing's rigged.

00:27:12.000 I choose to be on the side that Roger Goodell is a...

00:27:15.000 Are you like a Bills fan or something?

00:27:17.000 We'll find out.

00:27:18.000 We're going to find out Sunday night.

00:27:19.000 I think this whole thing is rigged.

00:27:21.000 They need heroes.

00:27:22.000 They need viewership.

00:27:23.000 They need to turn people into villains.

00:27:25.000 I think that's a huge part of it.

00:27:27.000 They need Patrick Mahomes to be a villain for the next 10 years.

00:27:32.000 The thing about the NFL is it's pretty hard to rig the NFL because the plays are very difficult to do.

00:27:39.000 Actually, the commenter above mentioned the Falcons-Pats one.

00:27:42.000 How do you rig that Edelman catch where it defied the laws of physics practically?

00:27:47.000 If they were going to rig any sport, they'd probably rig the NBA. The NBA is one of those ones where you can just say, yeah, give the Lakers 500 foul shots.

00:27:56.000 The NBA is proven to be rigged.

00:27:57.000 I think the FBI said that that referee, just he...

00:28:01.000 Yeah, they're like, yeah.

00:28:04.000 And I think...

00:28:05.000 One of those lib sports announcers once said that Game 7 of the Lakers-Kings series from 20 years ago, it's like the video in The Ring where if you watch it, you die.

00:28:15.000 The Ring being another movie that was extremely popular that no one has heard of anymore.

00:28:20.000 It's not famous anymore.

00:28:23.000 It is in horror circles.

00:28:25.000 You hear it in...

00:28:26.000 I would say that with the...

00:28:32.000 Shattering of shared culture.

00:28:34.000 So that's also a huge aspect that took place.

00:28:36.000 So when the internet took off, when smartphones took off, you have this, instead of this one shared culture where everybody watches the same movies and there's only like maybe 30 TV channels, now there's suddenly everything.

00:28:48.000 So now there's an entire...

00:28:52.000 Multiple, I think, TV networks dedicated to horror.

00:28:55.000 And all they do are horror movies.

00:28:56.000 And sometimes they're not even shown, you know, in theaters.

00:29:00.000 But they still do really well.

00:29:03.000 Of course, you have things like Angel Studios that are out there that are doing things.

00:29:06.000 All those are shown in studios.

00:29:08.000 But you know what I mean?

00:29:09.000 So I think what's also going on with the lack of shared references is that, number one, it's because the Super Bowl is sort of...

00:29:19.000 Interesting, because with the new way we consume media, this is me getting McLuhan-esque, I guess.

00:29:25.000 With the way we consume media now, there's only a few things that everyone in the country all consumes at the same time.

00:29:31.000 And so...

00:29:32.000 One of those or a couple of those could be the presidential debates.

00:29:35.000 That's why the debates were so big.

00:29:37.000 That's the only thing that people on different sides all watched.

00:29:40.000 That's the only thing that your normie type would tune into.

00:29:43.000 And the Super Bowl is one of those as well.

00:29:45.000 well.

00:29:45.000 This is the one of the only things that a huge amount of Americans are going to tune into because otherwise people just sort of live in these little mind chambers where someone's watching, you know, conservative media or someone's watching liberal media or consuming that social media or whatever it is, and conservative media or someone's watching liberal media or consuming that social media or whatever it is, and the algorithm's Even X, as good as X is now, that doesn't have any of that cross promotion that we used to see, plus a lot of rules have left.

00:30:13.000 So it's it's interesting that during the Super Bowl ads, they try to pretend like America is still this one cohesive unit anymore when it's just not quite true.

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00:31:13.000 Okay, Jack or Blake, walk us through USAID. USAID, Charlie, or USGAYID? That's the question we all have to ask, because we can look through their grants.

00:31:27.000 And we also have some lovely allies of ours.

00:31:31.000 We have a data Republican who was helping us a lot during the election.

00:31:35.000 She, I believe it's a she, right? 1.00

00:31:37.000 Yeah.

00:31:37.000 She built a big data.

00:31:40.000 I met her at the inauguration.

00:31:42.000 Oh, cool, cool, cool.

00:31:43.000 She's in Utah, right?

00:31:45.000 Something like that?

00:31:47.000 Something like that.

00:31:48.000 I met her in D.C., so I'm not sure.

00:31:49.000 All right.

00:31:50.000 Well, anyway, she built an awesome...

00:31:52.000 Yeah, on her X it says Utah.

00:31:54.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:31:55.000 And so she's built an entire thing.

00:31:58.000 So obviously Trump is pausing the grants to everything, and we're learning, or we're not learning, but America is learning how important it is to the entire vast left-wing apparatus that they receive unlimited amounts of taxpayer dollars to do everything they want.

00:32:14.000 Because, like, the rollback on DEI, you could sense that...

00:32:18.000 Okay, they didn't like that, but they could go along with it because, okay, like DEI was actually ruining a lot of left-wing organizations because they had to hire a lot of incompetent people.

00:32:28.000 If that goes away, we can hire smart people and win elections again.

00:32:31.000 But pausing the money, they are losing their minds.

00:32:36.000 They're going to Reddit.

00:32:38.000 They're flipping out.

00:32:39.000 They are vomiting blood.

00:32:42.000 They're bleeding out of everywhere.

00:32:46.000 They're freaking out.

00:32:47.000 And one of the biggest ones, and I think this is genius by Trump, they fixated on pausing USAIDs.

00:32:52.000 So it's weird because it looks like USAID, but they say USAID often because I think it's United States something International Development, Agency for International Development, I think.

00:33:03.000 And what this is, is USAID has a budget of about...

00:33:07.000 40 to 50 billion dollars.

00:33:09.000 And it is the vehicle we use for all the foreign aid that American public always wants us to stop spending on.

00:33:16.000 This is how you end up with, oh, the U.S. government paid five million dollars to fund lesbian poetry in Somalia or whatever.

00:33:24.000 And so the Trump admin came in and said, OK, we're pausing this.

00:33:28.000 And they're freaking out where they're going to find the things that are most sympathetic.

00:33:32.000 Where they'll say, oh, we're stopping malaria and you're going to cause four-year-olds to die in Mozambique and all of that.

00:33:39.000 And all I would say is, guys, if all that stuff is that important that we do, why did you ruin it by using it as your front to fund regime change in Ukraine or Cuba or Libya or wherever?

00:33:53.000 And why did you use it as a front to fund all the gay stuff? 0.99

00:33:57.000 If it was genuinely doing all that important stuff, you shouldn't have funneled all the money to the fake stuff because it's going to make everyone hate it.

00:34:03.000 Anyway, that's all set up to say Data Republican made this federal grant search where you can search for keywords in grants.

00:34:11.000 So I have it open up right now.

00:34:12.000 I searched LGBT and just with that very brute force method, we found $1.4 billion worth of taxpayer grants specifically to things that included LGBT in it.

00:34:27.000 I like this one, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.

00:34:30.000 You really, if you read it, you probably can't read it on the screen there, but if you look through it, you can really tell how they just had to shove gay into everything to try to get money. 1.00

00:34:41.000 So this is about, oh, get some money to help fight addiction.

00:34:45.000 And then it's...

00:34:47.000 O-R-N, whoever's getting this, is equipped to support individuals and communities who bear and disproportionate burden from O-U-D and S-T-U-D, including youth and young adults, black and indigenous communities, LGBTQ plus people, rural communities, and individuals involved in the legal system, also known as criminals. 0.97

00:35:10.000 And so you had to throw that in there like, okay, we want our money to fight addiction or opioids or whatever.

00:35:16.000 But guys, it's not that we're fighting addiction.

00:35:19.000 It's that we're fighting addiction with the special groups of people that we care more about than normal people.

00:35:23.000 So Blake, so this is the data Republican...

00:35:27.000 Can you walk us through a little bit or at least the general idea of how this site works?

00:35:31.000 So I see there's federal grant, charity graphs, principal officer searches.

00:35:36.000 It's like all of the country's 990 forms of the nonprofit's forms are dumped in here.

00:35:42.000 And basically what she's done is put together...

00:35:45.000 You know, it's like all the federal money.

00:35:47.000 Is that the idea?

00:35:48.000 Yeah, and it's a very brute force mechanism.

00:35:51.000 So I know she made charts where you could see like one organization goes to another.

00:35:58.000 Yeah, I have it open here just as like a basic one where you can see this sub graph that I have open right now is showing 122. A thousand different grants.

00:36:11.000 $246 million.

00:36:12.000 And it's sort of this big network where you can see it go to different places.

00:36:16.000 It's imperfect.

00:36:17.000 I definitely saw some people misreading it.

00:36:20.000 I know one that went viral the other day was where they thought Chelsea Clinton was getting $86 million from the federal government.

00:36:27.000 But if you looked at it, it was more like this organization was in a network of different organizations and the total amount of money they got was...

00:36:36.000 It was not a huge amount of money, but it's sort of like, if you're an org and you get money from another org that was getting money from the government, it goes into the system.

00:36:46.000 And there's something to that, because if we're funding an organization that is also donating money to another thing, money to some extent is fungible, and so there's an indirectness there.

00:36:57.000 But there's also limits to it, I would say.

00:37:00.000 But, like I said, it's so genius that...

00:37:04.000 It's almost accidental genius because the left chose to do this.

00:37:07.000 They freaked out about the USAID pause and that is the single best front that you could fight on for defending a pause of federal spending because what is the least popular type of federal spending?

00:37:21.000 International aid.

00:37:22.000 People don't like the idea that we take our money and we just give it to other countries for free.

00:37:27.000 And it's almost...

00:37:31.000 The joke is like, Trump can win by doing absolutely nothing.

00:37:35.000 He's just like, I'm going to cut funding and you guys are going to go and complain about the one part of it that is most popular, most effective, most going to make me look good.

00:37:45.000 But the left couldn't help it because they care more about other countries than they care about this one.

00:37:49.000 And they're constantly shocked the entire rest of America doesn't feel the same way.

00:37:53.000 So here's something that I think is interesting, though, and I think we have a way, we were talking about maybe setting this up.

00:37:59.000 There's like a keyword search that she set up on here in the federal grants.

00:38:04.000 And so I was thinking, guys, what if we live on the show tonight, just go to the keyword search and come up with...

00:38:13.000 Just pull words at random and see if the federal government is funny.

00:38:16.000 Yeah, I have it.

00:38:16.000 That's how I had the LGBT thing.

00:38:18.000 I just put in black.

00:38:19.000 We got $2.7 billion.

00:38:22.000 Throw more at me.

00:38:23.000 This could be fun.

00:38:25.000 Floyd.

00:38:26.000 Ooh, Floyd.

00:38:29.000 Let's see.

00:38:30.000 So we definitely have grants.

00:38:32.000 Let's see what context they are used in.

00:38:37.000 Looks like we're getting county names.

00:38:40.000 I'm seeing a lot of Floyd County.

00:38:41.000 Yeah, Floyd County, Indiana.

00:38:43.000 Rome, Floyd County.

00:38:45.000 Okay, so probably a lot of noise.

00:38:47.000 Okay, so this is really comprehensive.

00:38:49.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:38:50.000 Like I said, it's a very blunt force instrument.

00:38:54.000 Yeah, you've really got to drill in.

00:38:55.000 Okay, okay.

00:38:56.000 Oh, hold on, hold on.

00:38:58.000 Michigan State University, $2.6 million grant.

00:39:01.000 Something, something, COVID pandemic.

00:39:03.000 George Floyd incident.

00:39:05.000 The George Floyd incident.

00:39:08.000 The need for officers to have new skills.

00:39:10.000 Got it.

00:39:11.000 City of Minneapolis, $2.5 million.

00:39:14.000 The Minneapolis Police Department faces a critical staffing shortage following the aftermath of George Floyd's murder.

00:39:21.000 Oh, boy.

00:39:22.000 Oh, wow.

00:39:23.000 We got him.

00:39:24.000 Oh, wow.

00:39:25.000 Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

00:39:28.000 First try, right there. 0.94

00:39:31.000 So here's a dumb question I have, and I want to keep going through this.

00:39:35.000 The president then, therefore, has the ability to cancel this funding and then give funding to, like, red cities, right?

00:39:41.000 Give funding to...

00:39:43.000 You know, red institutions.

00:39:45.000 Is that correct?

00:39:46.000 I just want to make sure I'm understanding.

00:39:47.000 Like, he could theoretically bundle it.

00:39:49.000 I don't know where these red cities are that you're talking about.

00:39:52.000 Well, it's all going to be...

00:39:53.000 Lubbock, Texas?

00:39:54.000 This is going to get litigated.

00:39:55.000 How about border towns that are cooperating with what the president is doing, bundle some of this together and give these border towns, you know, 50 million bucks that want to hire more police and more sheriffs.

00:40:06.000 Do you know what I mean?

00:40:08.000 Explain this to me.

00:40:09.000 Well, these are still active.

00:40:11.000 And can I read this one real quick?

00:40:12.000 It's $19 million from HHS, from the NIH to the regions of University of Minnesota.

00:40:23.000 And it just starts.

00:40:25.000 And actually, Blake, you'll get what I'm saying about this.

00:40:28.000 It says that disparities in chronic disease, including cardiovascular disease related to hypertension and obesity.

00:40:38.000 In Minnesota, where the murder of Mr. George Floyd at the hands of police instigated a local, national, and global reckoning on racism.

00:40:46.000 It's like...

00:40:47.000 So, remember, guys, the irony here is that the original medical examiner's report in Hennepin County said that George Floyd died of a heart attack, and they gave $19 million to the University of Minnesota to look up heart disease in the name of George Floyd.

00:41:06.000 It's like...

00:41:07.000 It's like it's right there in your face.

00:41:10.000 They're just throwing it in your face, folks.

00:41:12.000 We have a $2.5 million grant to John Hopkins, which also has the word reckoning in its...

00:41:19.000 Let's see how they used it.

00:41:22.000 Oh, no.

00:41:23.000 There's a science version.

00:41:26.000 No shade on Johns Hopkins.

00:41:29.000 For Charlie's question about the funding, it's going to be something we'll have to litigate in the courts.

00:41:35.000 We said that right away when all the executive orders were coming out.

00:41:38.000 A lot of this is be maximally aggressive on day one because this is going to end up in the courts for years on end, and it's way better to start day one than to start on day 1,000.

00:41:51.000 We do have a question in the chat.

00:41:52.000 By the way, this data set is all federal grants.

00:41:57.000 So it's not just USAID. It's actually all federal grants.

00:42:00.000 And then you have to go to where was it awarded by.

00:42:03.000 So that's why the one I just read was National Institute of Health, DOJ Justice Programs, CDC. I mean, it could be anything.

00:42:12.000 It could be just literally anything.

00:42:13.000 I mean, if you look on here, too, I mean, I just search migrants.

00:42:17.000 Just go through the term.

00:42:19.000 There you go, migrants. 1.00

00:42:20.000 Go through the term migrants.

00:42:22.000 There's literally.

00:42:25.000 Insane amounts of money that the United Nations World Food Program and $44 million to provide emergency food assistance to Venezuelan migrants in Colombia.

00:42:40.000 Wait, here's one.

00:42:41.000 So we're literally giving money to the...

00:42:43.000 Is that the Bill Gates thing?

00:42:46.000 I mean, it's insane stuff.

00:42:49.000 If you go through here, I mean, this is over $2 billion worth of...

00:42:53.000 Of stuff that is relevant to migrants, and almost all of it's bad. 1.00

00:42:58.000 I mean, Oregon Department of Education, $22 million for migrant education.

00:43:03.000 I mean, you just go through this.

00:43:05.000 Wait, wait.

00:43:06.000 If you just look up the word migrants, so it actually gives you, if you let it finish its query, it'll give you the total.

00:43:14.000 So total taxpayer money spent that has the word migrants in it, $410.

00:43:21.000 $410,994,302.52.

00:43:25.000 So almost $500 million.

00:43:27.000 I have an even higher amount here that's showing $2 billion.

00:43:32.000 I've got on here...

00:43:34.000 Are you under federal grant search?

00:43:37.000 Yeah, federal grant search.

00:43:38.000 I just plugged in undocumented and I got $913 million.

00:43:42.000 Oh my gosh.

00:43:44.000 So Charlie's right.

00:43:46.000 I'm looking at this right now.

00:43:48.000 Why are we taking, I mean, I think, and when we say why, I mean, this is obviously what hopefully we can do, and I don't think anyone's answered this question yet.

00:43:57.000 In the funding that's going to the WHO and all these other different things that are helping, the United Nations World Food Program, for example, and say, why can't we give a border town?

00:44:15.000 This exact grant.

00:44:16.000 We can say, oh great, we're actually taking this $44 million that was given to United Nations for Venezuelan migrants in Colombia and we're going to give it to, and Charlie's exactly right, we're going to give it to El Salvador.

00:44:29.000 We're going to give it to Build the Wall and Staff of the Wall in El Paso and along the border in Cochise County.

00:44:38.000 What's going to matter for these sorts of grants is Congress does, under the Constitution, have the power of the purse.

00:44:44.000 And what I think we'll have to dig into is...

00:44:46.000 They don't underwrite every one of these, though.

00:44:48.000 They don't.

00:44:49.000 So we'll have to figure out what are things that Congress said this money has to go to X and how much of it is we gave a block grant of $20 billion for this agency to dole out for these goals.

00:45:02.000 And then the Trump administration can say, well, we think the goals are best served by this rather than this.

00:45:09.000 Well, you guys might know the answer to this question.

00:45:11.000 I think what happens is that the apportionments that are made, when they actually go through and they pass the bills to fund things, it's pretty generic.

00:45:24.000 So the executive branch may have some real opportunity here to say, oh, we can redirect these funds to do something else.

00:45:33.000 So I think that's the question.

00:45:36.000 For example, I think, and I could be wrong about this, but I think...

00:45:41.000 My understanding is that Congress passes X amount of dollars to go towards federal grants to higher education.

00:45:51.000 But it's not stipulated how those grants are actually through the NIH and everything else.

00:45:59.000 So the stipulations, that can be changed.

00:46:02.000 Changes at the NIH at a different level.

00:46:04.000 That changes who gets the grants.

00:46:06.000 And who's to say that, again, you couldn't...

00:46:10.000 Put those towards more blue-collar, more protective.

00:46:13.000 I mean, a lot of these things are not relevant to education, but they're funded through those mechanisms.

00:46:21.000 Yeah, it truly is.

00:46:23.000 That would be a good project, Blake, to talk to a data Republican to reverse-engineer the rider that triggered all of this.

00:46:30.000 And again, isn't USAID supposed to be international aid?

00:46:34.000 It literally says, the United States for International Development.

00:46:38.000 It's in the title.

00:46:40.000 So it's just shocking to me how much goes here domestically.

00:46:43.000 Shocking.

00:46:43.000 It's amazing.

00:46:44.000 Well, keep in mind, the Data Republican one is lots of grants, not just USAID. So we have the mix of USAID is the one that's getting all of the attention because the left is freaking out so much about it, but it's creating a greater focus on where we send grants in general, which is practically unlimited.

00:47:03.000 I saw a viral Twitter thread the other day where it was...

00:47:07.000 Like, the amount of money that can just bankroll the most ridiculous things, like urban dance, but it's like a woke version of urban dance.

00:47:17.000 And they'll just, yeah, okay, throw $100,000 over to that.

00:47:20.000 Oh, that's a good one.

00:47:23.000 Urban.

00:47:24.000 I'm just going to look up the word urban.

00:47:25.000 You'll get a lot of other spin-off stuff.

00:47:29.000 Let's see.

00:47:31.000 Yeah, I do wish there were some ways to...

00:47:36.000 To filter it a little bit more.

00:47:37.000 So like what Charlie's saying, filter it, you know, so $3.8 billion is what came up with Urban.

00:47:42.000 But, you know, filter that down so you could go by agency.

00:47:45.000 So I'm just going to go, you know, under this certain agency is what, you know?

00:47:50.000 Okay, okay.

00:47:50.000 I found it.

00:47:51.000 It was a Lomez, who we had on the show the other day.

00:47:54.000 He put in Dance, and he found a page that says it's providing...

00:48:02.000 Basically, we gave a six-figure amount to provide community-based mutual aid support, healing circles on intergenerational gender violence, culturally specific counseling services for African-American victims in the form of healing and sister circles, quilting, storytelling, theater, song, and African dance.

00:48:25.000 Amazing.

00:48:26.000 That was a grant for $575,000 to Black Women's Blueprint Incorporated, awarded by the Department of Justice.

00:48:37.000 Makes me so happy.

00:48:39.000 Yeah, and then the response to it from this guy, John Pontius, I am involved in the LA modern dance world, and I consistently wonder how loony boomer women can afford to have huge studios, paid annual festivals, and ubiquitous, poor-quality choreography. 0.99

00:48:56.000 Yeah, because it's all taxpayer-funded.

00:48:59.000 The most obvious NGOs that need to start getting money if we can't defund it is friendly churches.

00:49:06.000 Is local community churches that are there with us, that see the world the way we do, and saying, okay, you want to go do migrant resettlement?

00:49:13.000 Okay, we're going to create a consortium of Arizona churches, and instead of Catholic charities getting $75 million, we're going to defund that, and we're going to go send it to say, hey, these churches can provide flights and resettlement activity for all of the illegals that have come in Arizona.

00:49:30.000 The point is that...

00:49:31.000 There's a lot of organizations out there that would benefit from this type of capital.

00:49:36.000 Again, I'm not a fan of government funding, but if you have to spend the money, you might as well put it in the right direction.

00:49:41.000 All right, let's go to asteroid here.

00:49:44.000 Blake, are we all going to die from an asteroid?

00:49:46.000 Not all of us.

00:49:48.000 So the asteroid in question, let me get the exact name of that asteroid, if they even have a name, because they always give them...

00:49:57.000 Hillary.

00:49:58.000 Yeah, we'll call it Hillary's Big Rock. 1.00

00:50:00.000 And so what it is is they have telescopes and such, and they're tracking.

00:50:06.000 There's millions of big rocks that are floating in our solar system.

00:50:11.000 Most of it's way out beyond Pluto, and they're constantly orbiting the sun.

00:50:17.000 And occasionally they come in, they hit Earth, and so they track the big ones.

00:50:22.000 And we have never had in our lifetimes like a very large asteroid hit the earth where, you know, it causes a nuclear weapon level blast.

00:50:31.000 The last time it happened is something called the Tunguska event.

00:50:34.000 It happened about 120 years ago in Russia, and it blew up an area about twice the size of New York City. 0.95

00:50:40.000 Anyway, there is an asteroid.

00:50:42.000 Isn't there, Blake, isn't there also some evidence that dates back to Sodom and Gomorrah?

00:50:49.000 That says something similar took out a city right off of the Dead Sea.

00:50:53.000 It's possible.

00:50:54.000 It would certainly be very similar to what happened in the Tunguska event.

00:50:59.000 But anyway, there is a near-Earth object, as they call it, which they've been monitoring it.

00:51:05.000 And I believe it's been the NASA Center for Near-Earth Object Studies.

00:51:10.000 They've observed a rock.

00:51:12.000 It recently passed near the Earth.

00:51:14.000 And then it's going to pass near the Earth again in 2028. In 2032 is where they're speculating that it has a chance, they calculated, to have 2.3% to hit the Earth.

00:51:27.000 And that's already up from 1.3% as calculated by the European Space Agency a month ago.

00:51:34.000 So the odds have doubled in a month.

00:51:37.000 Based on the size, if this rock hit the Earth, they believe it would have a blast equal to about a 10 megaton nuclear weapon.

00:51:46.000 So that's where...

00:51:48.000 Okay, if it hit a forest wilderness, very big, pretty explosion, but not a huge deal.

00:51:53.000 But if it hit a city, it's like nuking a city.

00:51:57.000 And if it hit an ocean, which is actually pretty good odds it does that, it would cause a big tsunami and could kill thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people even, just from the tsunami afterwards.

00:52:07.000 And we're showing all the B-roll from a big rock that would, you know, if it hit off the eastern seaboard, for example.

00:52:13.000 So, the most important question we have to ask...

00:52:17.000 About this, and we've got eight years, really, to consider.

00:52:22.000 Yeah, seven, eight years to consider.

00:52:24.000 Our answer to this is, what should the theme song be for the space mission to blow up this asteroid?

00:52:34.000 Because in Armageddon, it was that Aerosmith song.

00:52:37.000 And Trump will lead it.

00:52:38.000 It'll have to be something that Trump can use, or President Vance, or whoever it would be.

00:52:43.000 Actually, our best shot of blowing it up might be in 2028 because you want to hit it.

00:52:49.000 You can try to blow up the whole thing, but if you just want to nudge it out of the way, if you can hit it with a big rocket or a missile of some kind and move it just a couple centimeters on its trajectory, over the course of four years of spinning through space, that thing is thousands of miles off from where it was going to be otherwise.

00:53:06.000 And that could be how you make it miss the Earth.

00:53:09.000 And in 2028, of course, Trump will still be president.

00:53:12.000 Trump could oversee.

00:53:13.000 The mission to save humanity from Hillary's big rock.

00:53:20.000 I just think from a political standpoint, regardless of this, when in 2028 is it supposed to be near us, Blake?

00:53:27.000 We should just time this up with the Olympics and instead of an opening ceremony, we should have the world live stream, SpaceX slash NASA, like put the asteroid off course.

00:53:38.000 And then Donald Trump just says...

00:53:40.000 I just saved the world.

00:53:42.000 And the opening ceremonies, boom, begin.

00:53:45.000 It's right there.

00:53:46.000 It's just boom.

00:53:47.000 Asteroid off of its path.

00:53:49.000 Opening ceremony.

00:53:50.000 The entire world is watching.

00:53:52.000 Instead of this whole, you know, Chinese thing where they're banging drums or... 0.98

00:53:55.000 No, no, no.

00:53:56.000 The opening ceremony is as you're doing it, you time it up.

00:53:59.000 You make the asteroid go off.

00:54:01.000 Yeah, it's not...

00:54:03.000 Save the world.

00:54:03.000 The whole world is watching.

00:54:04.000 It's actually like Rubio and Monica Crowley that deal with that because it goes kind of through state.

00:54:09.000 So we'll have to get them.

00:54:12.000 Who flies the ship, though?

00:54:14.000 Is it Baron?

00:54:15.000 I vote that Baron fly the ship.

00:54:17.000 He needs something to do.

00:54:19.000 So I'm looking at the odds, by the way.

00:54:21.000 So it looks like they just detected this last month.

00:54:23.000 I assume that's because it was pretty close by, so we can see it.

00:54:27.000 And then it's coming back in 2028. And then the estimated impact date, if it continues all the way around and we're to hit us, is December 22nd, 2032. So we seem pretty close to exact four-year cycles.

00:54:41.000 So it could be coming close to the Earth right around the 2028 election.

00:54:48.000 I'm telling you, if you want to win Pennsylvania and J.D. Vance's VP, have him in a war room, in the situation room, monitoring, altering an asteroid that was going to destroy the planet.

00:55:00.000 No, we should do it the way that...

00:55:02.000 That's the power of the incumbency.

00:55:03.000 I'm just being honest.

00:55:05.000 We should do it the way that they did it in World War II, where you can go sign whatever rocket that we send. 0.98

00:55:12.000 So everybody gets to paint on the rocket that we send to shoot the asteroid.

00:55:17.000 What would we name the rocket?

00:55:19.000 Everybody gets to marker it.

00:55:22.000 The ball buster, obviously.

00:55:24.000 The ball buster?

00:55:25.000 Ooh, that's a good one.

00:55:28.000 But we haven't gotten around to the theme song.

00:55:30.000 We need to pick a good theme song.

00:55:31.000 Because, of course, in Armageddon...

00:55:33.000 It was that Aerosmith song, Don't Want to Miss a Thing.

00:55:35.000 The Aerosmith, yeah.

00:55:36.000 Which is...

00:55:36.000 I don't mind that song.

00:55:38.000 I don't mind that movie.

00:55:39.000 I think it was pretty good.

00:55:41.000 I mean...

00:55:42.000 I like that movie. 1.00

00:55:43.000 It's a stupid movie. 1.00

00:55:44.000 We just talked about Ben Affleck. 1.00

00:55:45.000 And then the Aerosmith guy's daughter is the girl in the movie.

00:55:49.000 Liv Tyler.

00:55:50.000 Oh, I forgot!

00:55:51.000 Yeah, she's Steve Tyler.

00:55:52.000 It was Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck.

00:55:55.000 Yeah.

00:55:55.000 And we talked about in the chat that, you know...

00:55:58.000 But in the movie, her dad's marriage was.

00:56:00.000 Yes.

00:56:01.000 Yes, it is true.

00:56:03.000 You know, we could put...

00:56:06.000 Bruce Willis is still around.

00:56:07.000 We could put him on the rocket.

00:56:08.000 We could put Bruce Willis on it.

00:56:10.000 He's not doing it right now.

00:56:12.000 I don't think he's doing it.

00:56:13.000 But maybe that would be work because in Armageddon it was a suicide mission.

00:56:18.000 Yeah, so you could just...

00:56:19.000 If you just need someone there to hold the joystick forward...

00:56:23.000 That's dark.

00:56:24.000 I apologize.

00:56:27.000 But...

00:56:28.000 Theme song.

00:56:29.000 I'm thinking...

00:56:31.000 I think it'd work well.

00:56:32.000 You need a nice, good, like, upbeat song.

00:56:34.000 I think I would use, this is gonna sound silly, I would use Cherry Bomb by The Runaways, you know, like...

00:56:41.000 Oh, that's not bad.

00:56:42.000 Cherry Bomb! 0.99

00:56:43.000 And then, like, Blows Up.

00:56:44.000 I think that'd be pretty cool.

00:56:46.000 Let's play the Top Gun.

00:56:48.000 Let's just play the Top Gun music.

00:56:49.000 Let's just play it.

00:56:50.000 You have to say no as you listen to it.

00:56:51.000 Top Gun?

00:56:52.000 I mean, come on.

00:56:54.000 That's pretty good.

00:56:55.000 If you throw back...

00:56:56.000 This would be good launch music, like, when you're launching a rocket.

00:57:00.000 Just imagine the Olympic opening ceremony.

00:57:03.000 Yeah, it's taking off.

00:57:03.000 The whole world is watching and you're live streaming.

00:57:06.000 The American vessel go right up to an asteroid and blast a nuclear bomb on it. 0.79

00:57:11.000 And Trump is just up there with his hands like this, like Tony Stark.

00:57:16.000 Blake, how long would it take if we launch and...

00:57:20.000 It would depend on how close it is.

00:57:23.000 I feel like you'd probably launch it a while in advance.

00:57:26.000 I bet what you'd do is you'd maybe have a simulation of us getting closer, and then it hits it, it blows up, and then you need some sort of firework where it's like, you know, it'll be far away, but we'll just pretend.

00:57:39.000 We'll do some sort of drone firework display to make it look like it's closer, and then you have a flame descend from this explosion.

00:57:48.000 On to the Olympic torch in Los Angeles.

00:57:51.000 Exactly.

00:57:52.000 And that's what lights the Olympic torch.

00:57:55.000 Although, there needs to be another song.

00:57:58.000 This is how we are back.

00:58:00.000 We can fake this whole thing like they move in.

00:58:02.000 No, no.

00:58:02.000 See, it's got to be just like Armageddon.

00:58:05.000 And so there's another song that we need to play right as the missile is hitting.

00:58:11.000 Play it, guys.

00:58:12.000 Nice to play it.

00:58:12.000 Is this a Miley Cyrus song?

00:58:24.000 Yeah.

00:58:25.000 Miley Cyrus.

00:58:26.000 Can we put her on the rocket if it's a one-way? 0.99

00:58:29.000 It's got to be cringe and annoying, just like an asteroid.

00:58:36.000 What's that?

00:58:37.000 Her or Joy Reed.

00:58:38.000 Ooh, her and Joy Reed.

00:58:41.000 Stick her right on the rocket. 1.00

00:58:43.000 Now we're getting...

00:58:44.000 It's like that Simpsons episode where...

00:58:45.000 It was one of the Halloween Simpsons episodes where...

00:58:48.000 Like, the world is ending, so they have a rocket to escape, and Homer and Bart get on the rocket, and then they realize, they're looking around, who's on the rocket, they're like, Rosie O'Donnell, Al Sharpton, all these other, and they realize they got on the wrong rocket, and it's the one that's going straight into the sun, and Lisa got to go on the other rocket with the actual good people.

00:59:09.000 All the smart people, yeah.

00:59:13.000 Back when Simpsons used to be paced.

00:59:16.000 Still going, man.

00:59:19.000 So, we are in full agreement there.

00:59:23.000 I think if the asteroid is that close, we just fake it like the moon landing.

00:59:29.000 Do the whole thing, whole production quality, everything else.

00:59:32.000 we have like a really great actor of like the person like like Billy Bob Thornton or something that's like the person that like oh yeah he was the government guy and he was the government guy there but he made that movie slightly less yeah I'm looking now what the audience is suggesting so Someone suggested For Those About to Rock by ACDC. That's okay, but ACDC, they're an Australian band.

00:59:55.000 I feel like we do need touring this summer.

00:59:57.000 I'm going.

00:59:59.000 I'm definitely going.

01:00:00.000 I saw them a year ago when they came out of retirement.

01:00:04.000 It was pretty good.

01:00:05.000 Was that with Brian Johnson, or was that when Axl Rose was still singing?

01:00:09.000 It was Brian Johnson.

01:00:10.000 Axl Rose was also there with Guns N' Roses, and his voice is very shot, but it was still awesome.

01:00:17.000 Yeah, he's totally shot.

01:00:18.000 Who else?

01:00:19.000 We have someone suggested We Will Rock You by Queen. 0.99

01:00:23.000 Again, they're a British band.

01:00:25.000 I'm not sure that would go with our Maximally MAGA. Asteroid explosion mission, but we do.

01:00:31.000 That's right.

01:00:32.000 And the only properly American song is by Miley Cyrus because you don't get more American than that.

01:00:39.000 Now another one's saying Thunderstruck.

01:00:41.000 Our audience loves ACDC, which is understandable, but...

01:00:46.000 No, ACDC rocks.

01:00:47.000 That's a legitimately great song for the record.

01:00:50.000 Oh, it is.

01:00:50.000 Probably the only good thing to come out of Australia ever.

01:00:54.000 What about Crocodile Dundee?

01:00:55.000 It's ACDC. I mean, it didn't really last, did it?

01:00:59.000 We were talking about those movies earlier.

01:01:01.000 It was nice, but it kind of went away.

01:01:03.000 Yeah, but that's a lot of things in Western civilization.

01:01:06.000 You know, like Steve Irwin.

01:01:08.000 Yeah, he was cool.

01:01:09.000 He was great.

01:01:10.000 He thought it wouldn't swim backwards, but it did, unfortunately.

01:01:13.000 Didn't quite last.

01:01:15.000 You don't have to be old to be...

01:01:17.000 Whoa, that's a deep cut.

01:01:18.000 A guy's suggesting a Judas Priest song from...

01:01:21.000 Man, I think that's from British Steel.

01:01:23.000 Again, British band screaming for vengeance.

01:01:25.000 You guys...

01:01:26.000 You guys really love all your British bands, which I like them too, but this has got to be a maximally American mission.

01:01:33.000 I did just see Judas Priest last year.

01:01:35.000 I basically saw one concert that was all the bands I liked a year ago.

01:01:39.000 It was ACDC, Guns N' Roses, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and for some reason Tool was there.

01:01:49.000 My friend was really excited.

01:01:51.000 Where was that?

01:01:52.000 It was at Coachella.

01:01:54.000 Not actual Coachella, but the same place they hold it in SoCal.

01:01:58.000 Oh, wow.

01:02:00.000 It was me and then a zillion boomers. 0.94

01:02:03.000 That's awesome.

01:02:04.000 I saw this one concert.

01:02:06.000 It was Dio.

01:02:09.000 Motorhead and then Iron Maiden at the end.

01:02:11.000 So it was like, I don't know, one of those Lords of Rock toys.

01:02:13.000 Bandit 1. And now like two-thirds of those are now dead.

01:02:16.000 Bandit 1 suggests Right Now by Van Halen.

01:02:19.000 That is an American band.

01:02:20.000 But right now, the lyrics have like, there's no tomorrow.

01:02:24.000 And that's the opposite of what we're doing.

01:02:27.000 We are saving tomorrow.

01:02:28.000 We are winning tomorrow by blowing up the death asteroid for America.

01:02:35.000 Also, that is from the...

01:02:37.000 Sammy Hagar era of Van Halen, which is not as cool as the David Lee Roth era of Van Halen.

01:02:44.000 Panama.

01:02:45.000 That would be a cool song.

01:02:46.000 It doesn't really have anything to do with blowing up the rock, but it is a cool song.

01:02:52.000 I like our...

01:02:52.000 Panama is the song that we play when we retake the pandemic now.

01:02:57.000 No, I was going to do final Super Bowl predictions as we end.

01:03:00.000 We'll go to Jack first.

01:03:02.000 Actually, we'll go to Jack last because it'll be the most insufferable.

01:03:04.000 Tyler's Super Bowl commercial prediction.

01:03:07.000 Man, I'm actually pulling for a really close game, high-scored game that the Eagles win on a...

01:03:19.000 But not because the Eagles won it on their own, but because the Chiefs blew a play.

01:03:27.000 Roger Goodell.

01:03:28.000 Something like...

01:03:29.000 Remember that...

01:03:31.000 That Auburn-Alabama game where they kicked the ball and they ran it back.

01:03:36.000 Oh yeah, the kick six.

01:03:37.000 Yeah, the kick six.

01:03:38.000 I want to see something like that.

01:03:41.000 A nice long, maybe overtime Super Bowl where something crazy happens and they win.

01:03:48.000 I would like that.

01:03:49.000 I want to see Travis Kelsey fumble the ball with like 15 seconds remaining and the Eagles into the game-winning field goal.

01:03:57.000 Yes, that would be phenomenal.

01:03:59.000 That would be great.

01:04:00.000 And a Pfizer commercial goes on while they review the play.

01:04:04.000 Exactly.

01:04:04.000 And I want to see Saquon Barkley score like six touchdowns because I think he's awesome.

01:04:10.000 I think he's great.

01:04:11.000 He's a believer.

01:04:12.000 He's super-based.

01:04:13.000 He's great.

01:04:14.000 I want to see Saquon Barkley score every touchdown.

01:04:17.000 And I like Mahomes.

01:04:19.000 It's just, I don't know.

01:04:20.000 It's too much.

01:04:21.000 Blake, what's going to happen?

01:04:22.000 What's going to happen is it's going to be...

01:04:25.000 The Eagles will jump out to a lead, and they'll be clinging to it in the fourth quarter.

01:04:30.000 They'll be up maybe, we'll say, 31-28 final moments of the game.

01:04:37.000 The Chiefs get a controversial penalty, like one of those fake-out, you know, where Mahomes does that annoying twinkle-toe step thing that gets him hit late, and they get a 15-yard penalty.

01:04:49.000 They use those penalties to get down to the one-yard line.

01:04:54.000 And then they're lining up to do their version of the tush push to flex on the Eagles to score on the last play of the game.

01:05:03.000 And then out of nowhere, they were wrong about that rock.

01:05:07.000 It's actually hitting America right now.

01:05:09.000 It comes down and it hits the Superdome, explodes, destroys the city, and then Charlie's Top Gun music starts playing and America is happy.

01:05:23.000 That's what's going to happen.

01:05:24.000 So, Jack, let me ask you.

01:05:26.000 We know who you want to win, what you think is going to win.

01:05:28.000 Will Philly burn more if Philly wins or loses?

01:05:32.000 You know, it's...

01:05:34.000 You know, I think if Philly loses, depending on the loss, if it was like a fair fight, it wouldn't be that big of a response.

01:05:43.000 Look, there's always the rough stuff that goes on when Eagles win.

01:05:46.000 And, you know, it's kind of sad because I remember watching this video.

01:05:52.000 There's always this thing where people, you know, kids go and climb the poles on, like the street poles on Broad Street when they win or if the Phillies won the World Series or something.

01:06:03.000 And there was a kid who went to Temple, so my school, and there was this viral video of this kid falling off of one of the, like these street poles, you know, after the NFC victory the other day, like two weeks ago.

01:06:18.000 And then it later came out that the kid died.

01:06:20.000 18 years old and, you know, screwing around after an Eagles game.

01:06:25.000 And it's, I don't know, it just made me feel kind of weird watching those videos going through.

01:06:30.000 And, like, I posted that video and I didn't realize there was a kid dying.

01:06:33.000 So, guys, don't do that.

01:06:36.000 Be smart.

01:06:37.000 You know, support your team.

01:06:39.000 I'm a Birds fan my whole life, but be smart.

01:06:43.000 It's not worth losing everything over, so go Birds, but yeah, be smart.

01:06:48.000 Make good choices.

01:06:50.000 All right, let's see what happens no matter what America loses with this Super Bowl.

01:06:54.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:06:56.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:06:58.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 08, 2025

THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 72 — 2032 Armageddon? Worst Super Bowl Ever? US-Gay-ID?

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