The Charlie Kirk Show - May 17, 2025


THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 84 — South African Refugees? Best Movie Ever?


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Jack Posobiec is back with another Thought Crime Thursday! Jack talks about the Freemasons, the Da Vinci Code, and the power of memes. Join us as we discuss all things Thought Crime and Conspiracy Theories!

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00:01:08.000 Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard.
00:01:11.000 We've got another Thought Crime Thursday here for you.
00:01:15.000 Jack Posobiec here back in Washington, D.C. Of course, last week I was there at the Vatican, so we got to see the giant St. Peter's Basilica behind me.
00:01:28.000 Now I have this wonderful graphic of, I guess the other ear, of the dome of US Capitol, not quite as old as that one, also not designed by Michelangelo, but a lot cooler because it's America.
00:01:43.000 But we've got a really cool, really great set list lined up for today for Hello, hello.
00:02:02.000 Jack, I thought you were going to call it the Devil's Basilica behind you.
00:02:05.000 The Devil's Basilica.
00:02:07.000 Oh, man.
00:02:07.000 You mean because it was founded by a bunch of Freemasons?
00:02:10.000 No, just because of who operates out there right now.
00:02:13.000 And that, though.
00:02:13.000 That's another good reason.
00:02:14.000 We have Charlie coming soon, though.
00:02:16.000 I've actually read the...
00:02:18.000 There's a Dan Brown book that has all the Freemasons symbols of Washington, D.C. What's it called?
00:02:24.000 Last symbol or lost symbol or something.
00:02:26.000 And it's very similar to National Treasure 2. It's like...
00:02:31.000 Literally almost the same plot, but it goes through it.
00:02:34.000 It's just got a ton of good information about the craziness of DC.
00:02:38.000 Blink, that's all true, right?
00:02:40.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:02:41.000 There's a lot of wacky symbols in it.
00:02:43.000 They were into their esoteric symbology stuff.
00:02:45.000 Man, Dan Brown, that's a blast from the past.
00:02:48.000 Remember in the early 2000s, Jack, where...
00:02:50.000 Churches would need to have special events because Da Vinci Code was so popular.
00:02:55.000 And we would need to have priests and scholars come and be like, no guys, Jesus didn't marry Mary Magdalene.
00:03:03.000 This is a fictional book.
00:03:05.000 The Priory of Sion is not real.
00:03:07.000 It's kind of like when SNL did that Sarah Palin skit.
00:03:11.000 I can see Russia from my house.
00:03:12.000 And everybody actually thought she said it.
00:03:14.000 It was just a...
00:03:16.000 It's just a line from an SNL's game.
00:03:18.000 Everyone thought she said it.
00:03:19.000 I think they still do.
00:03:21.000 What it taught me, though, was the power of memes, right?
00:03:24.000 And so this idea that if you had a meme that was stronger than another meme, that just that one meme getting out there into the world and being released into the wild would catch fire across...
00:03:37.000 You know, across people from person to person.
00:03:39.000 And then even two Catholics who, you know, are sitting there like, yes, we've always believed this for thousands of years, but whoa, there's a Hollywood movie about it. 0.54
00:03:48.000 And everybody's reading this book at the beach.
00:03:50.000 And suddenly, so it's like, okay, so if this is the way the world works, then it's the person with the most powerful memes that wins.
00:03:58.000 So, before we start today, I have just a little bit of a hook.
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00:04:41.000 And Charlie is joining us.
00:04:42.000 Yes.
00:04:42.000 He'll be here in 20 minutes or so.
00:04:44.000 In the blink of an eye.
00:04:45.000 But we're going to start off.
00:04:47.000 Yeah, we've got to get in there.
00:04:48.000 Jack, I think we're starting off with Kill the Boar.
00:04:52.000 Well, it's about time.
00:04:53.000 It's about time.
00:04:54.000 It's a terrible thing to say.
00:04:56.000 Those boars, they're just running around, farming up all those crops and living there for all those years.
00:05:03.000 By the way, you guys will remember this, like when this story first hit.
00:05:06.000 I remember it was like two years ago, a year ago, when it first went viral, at least in American social media.
00:05:12.000 I recall the first one pretty well because...
00:05:16.000 I helped start it.
00:05:17.000 Did you?
00:05:18.000 So I was following, this was at Tucker Carlson's show at Fox, and we were following the news because what happens is every few years they make a new push to seize Whitey's land in South Africa. 0.93
00:05:29.000 And just seize it without compensation.
00:05:31.000 And then there will always be some sort of excuse where they'll delay it or not quite do it because I think they know once they do it, the country will completely collapse.
00:05:40.000 Well, there'll also be a pariah state. 0.98
00:05:42.000 And so what happened was we ran a segment that they were about...
00:05:47.000 I think it was that they were about to do it, and maybe Tucker mildly misspoke or we mildly misworded it as it was already happening.
00:05:54.000 Or maybe we even did it accurately, but whatever it was...
00:05:57.000 Trump watched that segment and then did a very angry tweet about it that night or the following morning, and then South Africa put out a statement disavowing this, and it was a minor diplomatic incident, and it's flared up five times since then.
00:06:10.000 I remember when the moment happened, and Jack, I don't know if you remember, I'm sure you do remember this, because you're very with it online, but it was like, the...
00:06:21.000 The outrageousness of it, the cartoonishness of having a popular political party in any country, let alone one that's in the G20 and that's hosting international competitions and we all think of it as part of the League of Nations kind of thing, not necessarily the old vestige of the 1920s or whatever.
00:06:42.000 I just mean they're part of the civilization.
00:06:46.000 To have a political party in a country like that that...
00:06:49.000 Says something outrageous.
00:06:51.000 Kill a certain group of people.
00:06:52.000 And then when you call them out on it, welcome, Charlie.
00:06:55.000 When you call them out on it, they're like, oh, it's just a slogan.
00:06:58.000 It's just a funny thing we say.
00:07:00.000 It's a historical song.
00:07:01.000 They'll be like, it's a historical protest song.
00:07:03.000 You can't get mad at us because we're black people that are singing jokingly about killing people.
00:07:08.000 It's so cartoonish, too, because in comparison, as an example, Charlie, you've heard about this lately, where you said...
00:07:17.000 Deutschland über alles, which is a line in the German national anthem from the 1800s.
00:07:23.000 And they're weird because the Germans are a mentally ill country. 1.00
00:07:25.000 And it just means Germany above all.
00:07:27.000 And it means in the context, put Germany above petty rivalries.
00:07:31.000 It's like America First.
00:07:33.000 Yeah, it's like America First.
00:07:34.000 Not even more like America First.
00:07:36.000 It's more like if you were saying...
00:07:38.000 USA ahead of California or something is really like what the meaning is in the song.
00:07:42.000 And then like they freak out about that and you'll have like ponderous CNN pieces where it's like, you know, the dark national socialist tone of saying that.
00:07:50.000 And then you have this song where the lyrics are just kill the boar, shoot, shoot.
00:07:54.000 And like you could watch them and they're like doing popping gun shots in the air.
00:07:57.000 The left is coming after me for jokingly saying Deutschland über alles.
00:08:01.000 Deutschland über alles.
00:08:02.000 Well, not exactly.
00:08:05.000 Because in Germany they're like, oh. 0.96
00:08:08.000 I think 200 people got investigated or even arrested in Germany or fined.
00:08:13.000 It's some sort of police action because it became trendy.
00:08:17.000 There was a club song in France and they would play that song and then they would say Auslander raus, which means foreigners out.
00:08:26.000 You would get in trouble for saying that.
00:08:29.000 Some of them did Nazi salutes with it, but most did not.
00:08:34.000 You could just get in trouble just for saying it.
00:08:36.000 And then on the flip side, of course, we have in South Africa, and it's just like, kill the boar, shoot, shoot, shoot, kill the boar.
00:08:46.000 And like, Yamiche from MSNBC, Yamiche, she doesn't have anything to say about that.
00:08:50.000 Sushi woman. 0.99
00:08:51.000 Sushi woman from, who looks like she ate the sushi.
00:08:54.000 But like, deep fried.
00:08:56.000 But the point is that she's like, got nothing to say about that, and yet she was, what was her line?
00:09:03.000 I'm appalled, I think we have the clip.
00:09:05.000 She was appalled Everybody's frankly appalled that we're letting in 50 white Afrikaners that literally are under attack.
00:09:13.000 Wait, wait.
00:09:15.000 I always try to do this before we get into a topic.
00:09:18.000 And let's go to Blake.
00:09:19.000 Blake, can you just give us a couple sentences?
00:09:20.000 Let's say people are living under a rock.
00:09:22.000 They have no idea what we're talking about.
00:09:24.000 What is Kill the Boer, the land appropriation, and the South African refugee situation as it stands out?
00:09:31.000 Okay, sure, sure, sure, sure.
00:09:32.000 The Boers are, it means farmer in Dutch, or at least in Afrikaan.
00:09:36.000 I believe it's farmer in Dutch.
00:09:38.000 The Dutch are the original European settlers in southern Africa.
00:09:42.000 The Dutch had a colony there in the 1600s, so there have been Dutch people there for about 400 years almost.
00:09:49.000 And they have a long-term presence there, especially in rural areas.
00:09:53.000 They're very successful farmers, hence the name.
00:09:56.000 And, of course, they remain pretty successful and prosperous in South Africa today.
00:10:02.000 This has become highly controversial.
00:10:04.000 South Africa is a highly unequal country.
00:10:05.000 It has had some difficulties since the end of apartheid.
00:10:11.000 Political position in South Africa.
00:10:13.000 It's worth noting the African National Congress, that's Nelson Mandela's party.
00:10:17.000 They are a Marxist-Leninist party.
00:10:19.000 They are basically a communist party.
00:10:21.000 And there are groups to the left of them, such as the Economic Freedom Fighters.
00:10:25.000 And so a common demand in South African politics is that there should be forcible land redistribution, that they should seize land that is owned by white farmers in South Africa.
00:10:38.000 Without paying for it, and forcibly redistribute it to the black majority in South Africa. 0.98
00:10:44.000 Now, it's worth noting, this has been done in other African countries.
00:10:48.000 It's been done in neighboring Zimbabwe.
00:10:50.000 The result was starvation.
00:10:53.000 So, this is not a novel idea.
00:10:55.000 This is an idea that has been attempted, and it has failed badly.
00:10:59.000 Now, in addition to this, South Africa is a dangerous country.
00:11:02.000 No one denies that, and it's dangerous wherever you go.
00:11:06.000 But within the dangers there, there's a particular type of murder that happens.
00:11:10.000 They call them, like, farm murders, where you'll have people who usually a lot of them are workers on farms or they live near them, and you'll have intrusions on farms, and they will just rob and often horribly murder the people on the farms.
00:11:24.000 Now, yes, this is within the context of a lot of crime happening in South Africa, but there's very much a targeted element where, like, you would not...
00:11:35.000 Need to do this level of depraved violence against them, except that you do, in fact, want to do, you want to, like, murder these white farmers who you've been whipped into a frenzy against. 0.69
00:11:44.000 And so this is what happens in South Africa, is people who are running these successful farms get targeted, and while they're getting targeted for these horrifying murders, you have members of the South African parliament, of the government, who talk about we should...
00:11:59.000 Kill white farmers. 0.98
00:12:00.000 We should massacre them.
00:12:02.000 Or they'll greatly downplay it.
00:12:04.000 So I want to do two things.
00:12:05.000 First of all, we should play this clip because this guy is...
00:12:09.000 What's the number on the...
00:12:11.000 For every one of ours, five of them.
00:12:14.000 Can you give me the number on that?
00:12:15.000 I don't see it in the sheet.
00:12:16.000 Can we show Andrew's shot first?
00:12:19.000 It's the greatest shot ever.
00:12:21.000 I wasn't going to bring it up out of respect for you, Charlie, but...
00:12:23.000 I was just going to say the fact that he's a Huskies fan.
00:12:27.000 Oh, that's great.
00:12:29.000 This is the greatest thought crime ever.
00:12:31.000 I'm hearing laughing and I don't like it.
00:12:34.000 The South Africans say kill the boar and us Huskies say something the ducks that rhymes with ducks.
00:12:42.000 And I'm just going to say it.
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00:12:45.000 I didn't know.
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00:14:03.000 So now I want to...
00:14:04.000 So the guy in this clip...
00:14:06.000 This is incredible.
00:14:07.000 I want to...
00:14:08.000 Charlie, first, the guy I'm about to show you a clip from, I want you to attempt to read his name.
00:14:14.000 You know how bad I am at this?
00:14:15.000 I know, that's why I sent it to you.
00:14:17.000 Try to pronounce that one.
00:14:18.000 It is M-N-G-X-I-T. 1.00
00:14:25.000 So this is like a funny ongoing joke that we have here at the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:14:30.000 Charlie and accents.
00:14:32.000 Everybody thinks he's just making fun of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but that's literally the best he can do.
00:14:39.000 I think my personal favorite is that with Bolsonaro, Javier Bolsonaro of Brazil, it's just Bolsonaro, but it's Latin American, so he has the compulsion, Bolsonaro!
00:14:52.000 When I met him and I interviewed him, the team was like, it's Bolsonaro.
00:14:56.000 And he's like, Bolsonaro, not Bolsonaro.
00:14:59.000 Maybe they can't do it.
00:15:00.000 You can lean into your Anglo and just go with it. 0.98
00:15:03.000 But anyway, so this...
00:15:04.000 He has a name like he's a freaking Superman villain.
00:15:06.000 But anyway, this is a guy who's in the South African parliament right now.
00:15:10.000 He is an elected office holder.
00:15:13.000 Let's play clip 418.
00:15:29.000 We'll kill the children, we'll kill the women, we'll kill anything that we find on our way. 1.00
00:15:36.000 So I think he was saying he wants five white people, right?
00:15:38.000 So he says, for everyone they kill of us, we'll kill five white people.
00:15:42.000 And he's like an elected leader.
00:15:43.000 We'll kill their children, we'll kill their women. 1.00
00:15:45.000 And I don't know if it was in the clip, but he also says we'll even kill their pets.
00:15:48.000 But this feels like a perfect example of Michael Anton's Celebration Parallax, because if you listen to the media, they're like, it's not happening.
00:15:57.000 But it's good that it is.
00:15:58.000 And this is it.
00:15:59.000 So for example...
00:16:00.000 The statement from the African National Congress Party, they put this out the other day.
00:16:04.000 This is like a real thing.
00:16:05.000 We tweeted this, and so they have this whole thing disavowed, the falsehood of Afrikaner refugees, and they included this line.
00:16:13.000 So they have a thing where, like, we commemorate our Constitution, affirms equality, dignity, and non-racialism as the bedrock of national life.
00:16:20.000 Then they say...
00:16:21.000 What the instigators of this falsehood seek is not safety, but impunity from transformation.
00:16:29.000 They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality, and accountability for historic privilege.
00:16:38.000 We go on like this.
00:16:39.000 My favorite part, though, is at the end.
00:16:42.000 For media inquiries, please reach out to Mangaliso...
00:16:47.000 Stalin Konza.
00:16:49.000 That same guy that was...
00:16:50.000 No, no, different guy.
00:16:52.000 But they just have someone who's going by Stalin.
00:16:54.000 Stalin's his nickname.
00:16:55.000 Oh, yeah.
00:16:55.000 Great.
00:16:57.000 Well, so what's really crazy about what you're saying is...
00:17:00.000 And I pulled this up last year.
00:17:03.000 I'll have to pull it up again.
00:17:06.000 I know it's on my Twitter somewhere.
00:17:07.000 But so what we call this whole bit about you're saying about the past transgressions and the historical disparities, etc.
00:17:15.000 So usually that type of language when we hear it in the United States, we would refer to that as CRT or critical race theory.
00:17:20.000 So these are typically policies and DEI is a similar related policy at corporations.
00:17:26.000 And you see these in schools and the military and many different large organizations and institutions throughout the United States.
00:17:33.000 Here's what's crazy.
00:17:34.000 In South Africa, they have it literally written into Their constitution.
00:17:40.000 So that means it's like in their Bill of Rights.
00:17:43.000 So if you wanted to get rid of CRT in South Africa as it stands right now, for every single position at every job, at every government institution, this has been something that's led to, by the way, massive blackouts, what they call load shedding.
00:17:57.000 So there's huge blackouts throughout the country because they can't keep their power grid going because they can't hire qualified people because they always have to go through this CRT filter for every single position.
00:18:08.000 that they do, the whole thing's falling apart.
00:18:10.000 And you can't just get a new president elected and turn it off.
00:18:14.000 You actually have to change their foundational constitution from the 90s, which, by the way, was something that Bill Clinton supposedly in his administration helped Nelson Mandela on.
00:18:24.000 Can we play this Yamiche clip?
00:18:27.000 Because I think it's telling.
00:18:30.000 255.
00:18:31.000 This is where she says it's appalling because there's just lots of crime and everybody's getting hurt.
00:18:35.000 It's not just white South Africans.
00:18:36.000 255.
00:18:37.000 So the Trump administration, they're saying that essentially these white South Africans assimilate better and they're also not as much of a security risk.
00:18:44.000 That's really causing a lot of people to be appalled, frankly.
00:18:49.000 And I should tell people that this violence that they're talking about that are dealing with these Afrikaners, I've been hearing from people that say there is violence in South Africa, but it's affecting everybody of every single race, Katie.
00:19:01.000 Really, it's what you said on Twitter the other day.
00:19:05.000 Deep down, what a lot of these people want is they actually want it to boil over and they kill a ton of people so they can come in and say, this is what happens because they were racist.
00:19:15.000 They deserve to have this happen to them.
00:19:17.000 They really, really deep down want that to happen.
00:19:20.000 It's kind of like with...
00:19:21.000 You know, with, like, the Floyd riots, where sometimes, like, people, some people really wanted that to blow up, and they would go burn down some middle-class suburb, and then they could see, like, see, that's what happened, because you didn't abolish the police.
00:19:35.000 I mean, you're totally right.
00:19:35.000 This relates to, like, BLM rioting, where people were just like...
00:19:39.000 Like, the liberal media was bending over backwards, twisting themselves into pretzels to try and justify the looting as, like, a form of reparations, or this is what happens.
00:19:48.000 What was AOC saying?
00:19:49.000 That, you know, riots are the language of a...
00:19:52.000 Oh, I mean, they would all quote MLK because he said something of that nature.
00:19:56.000 Something of that.
00:19:56.000 I forget what the quote is, but it's like, riots are the language of the unheard.
00:20:01.000 Yes, or something.
00:20:02.000 And and I think that's kind of the way that liberal progressives are looking at the South Africa.
00:20:08.000 They look at the fact that they own 70 percent of the land and they think that that's not I mean, that's really besides the point, because they don't want productivity.
00:20:30.000 What they want is they just, like, want to kill and just, like, I totally agree.
00:20:38.000 None of this can be understood without understanding that the core of it is driven by resentment and hatred of people who are productive, who are successful, who are innovative.
00:20:48.000 That is fundamentally what undergirds any Marxist-Leninist movement.
00:20:52.000 But I do think that they think, in the back of their minds, if we could just seize this land and give it to the black South Africans, everything would be better. 0.99
00:20:58.000 Because our people would then share with all the wealth.
00:21:02.000 I get that it's beside the point.
00:21:03.000 It's a secondary point.
00:21:05.000 But I'm challenging that assumption, being like, if you stole all that land...
00:21:11.000 There is not a single guarantee that it would be productive moving forward.
00:21:14.000 I don't know the example of Zimbabwe, like how it's gone after, but it doesn't seem like it's gone very well after they drove all the white farmers out. 0.99
00:21:21.000 Yeah, what happened, Rhodesia was the gem of Africa.
00:21:24.000 It was the most beautiful country.
00:21:26.000 It's actually where Lion King was inspired.
00:21:27.000 The Tree of Life is actually inspired from Rhodesia.
00:21:30.000 And yeah, they got rid of the nice government and the Mugabe, who was actually funded by the Soviets, took over.
00:21:40.000 Went after the white man.
00:21:41.000 In fact, one of our board members, Mike Miller, had his ranch taken away from him.
00:21:45.000 He was an American jeweler who bought a ranch in Rhodesia, and he was in America.
00:21:50.000 He got a call, and they're like, the communists...
00:21:53.000 Basically, the blacks say that they control all your land now. 1.00
00:21:56.000 And they killed everyone in the world.
00:21:58.000 Not everyone.
00:21:59.000 So one of the cool things.
00:22:00.000 So the head of Rhodesia when it was still a white minority role was Ian Smith was his name.
00:22:05.000 He was this World War II hero.
00:22:07.000 He's a very fascinating figure.
00:22:08.000 And then he settles in Rhodesia after the war.
00:22:11.000 And he eventually becomes the head of the government there.
00:22:13.000 And one of the more interesting things is once he did step down as president, people said he should leave.
00:22:19.000 And he was like...
00:22:20.000 I am never going to leave.
00:22:21.000 And he just settled in Harare, which is the capital.
00:22:25.000 I think it used to be Stanley or some other name.
00:22:28.000 But he settles in Harare.
00:22:30.000 And they're like, dude, they're going to kill you.
00:22:31.000 And he's like, no, they won't.
00:22:33.000 They're not going to do it.
00:22:34.000 And they never did.
00:22:35.000 And he just lived there the rest of his life.
00:22:37.000 And what's really incredible is if you look at videos of modern-day Zimbabwe, any news stories about it on YouTube and stuff, you'll find comments.
00:22:45.000 And they'll just say, like...
00:22:46.000 I'm a black Zimbabwean, and getting rid of Ian Smith is the biggest mistake we ever made.
00:22:52.000 It was a huge disaster.
00:22:53.000 It's very interesting.
00:22:55.000 He's a fascinating figure.
00:22:57.000 Rhodesia edits are really taking off on TikTok right now.
00:23:00.000 They're number two behind Charlie Kirk campus clips.
00:23:03.000 Is that right?
00:23:04.000 What do you mean in Rhodesia edits?
00:23:06.000 Tell me.
00:23:07.000 It's like what Blake is talking about.
00:23:09.000 I was joking.
00:23:11.000 It's like the Zoomers found out about Rhodesia. 0.88
00:23:12.000 They'll find footage of what...
00:23:16.000 What Harare and different parts of Rhodesia looked like during that time.
00:23:20.000 It was unbelievable.
00:23:21.000 And they'll put edits to it.
00:23:22.000 It usually starts off with, if you remember that movie Blood Diamond, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connelly, and they're at this bar, and she goes, oh, well, that's something.
00:23:35.000 You know, that's easy for you to say as a white South African.
00:23:38.000 And he goes, white South African, I'm a Rhodesian.
00:23:42.000 And she goes, I thought we said Zimbabwe now.
00:23:45.000 And he looks at her, he just goes, do we?
00:23:47.000 And then it cuts to like the music comes in and everybody's like, and it's just showing how nice Rhodesia was when it was, you know, when it was not under communist control.
00:23:56.000 But they're really, really all over TikTok right now.
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00:24:43.000 We can't control what China does. 0.96
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00:24:49.000 Go to MyPatriotSupply.com.
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00:24:59.000 Music Yeah, and there's a story from the New York Times where they said that Dylan Roof, who did that terrible killing, posted a...
00:25:09.000 With a jacket calling the last Rhodesian. 0.57
00:25:11.000 So, of course, they're trying to connect love of Rhodesian.
00:25:15.000 There's definitely a few people for whom this is a kind of aspirational thing in a sort of gross way.
00:25:20.000 I don't think we should deny that.
00:25:22.000 What we also shouldn't deny is to the extent that South Africa remains functional, a lot of it is because of these Afrikaners who have... 1.00
00:25:33.000 And the English.
00:25:35.000 English and Afrikaners who have built up the country and have worked very hard to sustain it, and this sort of Marxist ideology that views any form of success or any wealth disparity as the greatest crime ever, they will blow the country to smithereens. 1.00
00:25:50.000 Well, one of the only other functional sub-Saharan African nations is Kenya, which is also in the English system.
00:25:57.000 So it's like, you look at...
00:25:58.000 The way that we do laws and the way that we have customs and a form of government.
00:26:04.000 I mean, the English exports across the world succeeded at the highest clip, I would say, ever.
00:26:09.000 And what they're doing is trying to dismantle that vestige as well as drive out the whites and kill the whites. 0.98
00:26:15.000 And a lot of the most successful African countries are often the ones that were the most determined to... 0.61
00:26:21.000 Kind of sustain their European legacy.
00:26:25.000 West Africa is not a great place in general.
00:26:28.000 But for about 20 years after independence, probably the most successful one was Ivory Coast, which is so French that they go around making everyone call them Côte d 'Ivoire instead of Ivory Coast.
00:26:40.000 I always say Côte d 'Ivoire.
00:26:42.000 Yeah, something, whatever.
00:26:44.000 Also, there's no elephants there.
00:26:45.000 The Ivory Coast name is basically a lie.
00:26:48.000 But anyway.
00:26:49.000 It's because they killed them all for the ivory blink. 0.99
00:26:52.000 Well, ivory is pretty cool, so it's understandable.
00:26:55.000 There's still an ivory embargo in the West.
00:26:57.000 Yeah.
00:26:57.000 Well, I mean, they were trying to make them go extinct, man.
00:26:59.000 It's not good.
00:27:00.000 I have a whole thought crime on that, which is when it was legal to hunt elephants, there were more elephants.
00:27:04.000 When the poachers now do it, there's less elephants.
00:27:06.000 Anyway.
00:27:08.000 It's basic economics.
00:27:09.000 Hunters want more. 0.98
00:27:10.000 If you want the truth, a lot of it was post-independence.
00:27:13.000 A lot of the order broke down.
00:27:15.000 I'm sure that's true.
00:27:16.000 You had a lot more, like, they would actually police against poaching.
00:27:19.000 Well, no, that's what I'm saying, but because there was an incentive to do that.
00:27:22.000 Well, there was an incentive to keep it.
00:27:24.000 On the up and up.
00:27:25.000 Yes.
00:27:25.000 To make it orderly.
00:27:26.000 Well, there's still incentives, but now what it is is African countries are kind of, they lack state capacity. 1.00
00:27:31.000 So it's like stopping crime if you're in, you know, well, for example, if you're in a South African city.
00:27:36.000 Like, they have police.
00:27:38.000 The police are just not super effective.
00:27:40.000 What is cool, you may like this, though, is in, I think in Kenya, maybe some others, but because poachers are so bad and, like, so aggressive, in some African states, I think Kenya, but I just want to preface that I might be wrong.
00:27:53.000 The anti-poaching police have the right to just shoot to kill if they find a poacher.
00:27:57.000 And the most effective anti-poaching groups, though, are the mercenaries.
00:28:02.000 Poaching is a very serious thing in Africa.
00:28:08.000 Rhinos are going to go extinct because our next topic we'll get to. 1.00
00:28:11.000 The Chinese. 0.54
00:28:12.000 If there's an animal and it's beautiful and rare and you'd want to make an animal cracker out of it, the Chinese want to eat it because they think it's an aphrodisiac. 1.00
00:28:21.000 It's a major problem.
00:28:23.000 Or a cure for cancer.
00:28:24.000 Mostly aphrodisiacs.
00:28:27.000 It's typically aphrodisiac.
00:28:28.000 No, it's true.
00:28:29.000 When I was in China, I would see it everywhere, and you would find people just absolutely swore by it.
00:28:35.000 And it's not like in some secret shop where you've got to go for the curio shop, like it's the 1920s Chinatown or something.
00:28:43.000 It's just all over the place in regular pharmacies and stuff.
00:28:46.000 But yeah, so now, obviously, they're letting in some of the Afrikaners into the U.S. Which I'm thrilled about.
00:28:53.000 Yeah.
00:28:53.000 We should take 600,000 of them.
00:28:55.000 And put them in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.
00:28:59.000 We have actually a lot here in Arizona.
00:29:01.000 We have a lot of South Africans?
00:29:02.000 Tons of South Africans, yeah.
00:29:04.000 I wonder what their voting rates would be.
00:29:06.000 We have a South African on one of our boards.
00:29:08.000 I wonder if we...
00:29:09.000 But you think it would be like 80-20?
00:29:11.000 Well, I don't know.
00:29:12.000 So some of them are...
00:29:13.000 95. So the thing is, some of them are...
00:29:16.000 They're all conservative.
00:29:17.000 I don't want to over-assume things because some of them are very devoutly religious in that old Dutch reform sort of way.
00:29:24.000 But the truth is, they are kind of also a lot of much liberal in the way white Europeans are.
00:29:31.000 I don't know.
00:29:31.000 The South Africans I've met...
00:29:33.000 At the experiences they have, what they disdain, they come here hating race politics.
00:29:38.000 That's one of the things they hate.
00:29:39.000 And it's beyond that, too.
00:29:40.000 It's just the entire cultural of being anti-Marxist.
00:29:45.000 Every single one that I've met here in Arizona, again, we have a lot.
00:29:49.000 We have a lot of oddly conservative...
00:29:54.000 South Africans, and they're all vocal.
00:29:57.000 One of the best ear, nose, and throat doctors in Scottsdale was a guy by the name, he's still alive, a doctor, head and neck surgery, Dr. Gordon Chait, South African.
00:30:06.000 Great guy.
00:30:07.000 Anyway, I just happen to know a lot of South Africans.
00:30:10.000 Well, when I was growing up, there was already a lot of South Africans at my school.
00:30:13.000 They're super decent people.
00:30:14.000 Oh, they were good.
00:30:15.000 That was good family, very productive, smart kids.
00:30:18.000 We have to be careful.
00:30:19.000 So what you have to watch out for is, thinking on it more, I think the liberal South African Europeans are the English. 0.96
00:30:25.000 This is one of the most underrated, weird rivalries in the world.
00:30:29.000 English South Africans and Boer Dutch South Africans do not like each other. 1.00
00:30:35.000 Oh, Blood Diamond was Rhodesia?
00:30:37.000 Probably.
00:30:37.000 I didn't see that movie.
00:30:39.000 It had ties to Rhodesia, yeah.
00:30:41.000 Okay, well there's a Rhodesia clip from Blood Diamond that we could play if you guys are interested.
00:30:46.000 Oh, you should totally play it.
00:30:47.000 439.
00:30:47.000 Let's go play it.
00:30:49.000 I'm from Rhodesia.
00:30:53.000 We saw Zimbabwe.
00:30:55.000 Don't we?
00:30:56.000 Do we?
00:30:58.000 Peace or fuck?
00:30:59.000 Huh!
00:31:02.000 I'm a sneaky tip though.
00:31:03.000 *laughs*
00:31:06.000 That's a dentist.
00:31:07.000 Oh, I get it.
00:31:16.000 I thought it was just a movie clip, but it's the TikTok edits that Jack's talking about.
00:31:21.000 We say Zimbabwe, don't we?
00:31:23.000 Do we?
00:31:25.000 South Africans? 0.78
00:31:26.000 I hate how good of an actor he is.
00:31:29.000 He's like Tom Cruise.
00:31:30.000 You can make fun of these people, but they're really good to watch.
00:31:33.000 There's bad famous actors like Kevin Costner, who's an objectively awful actor.
00:31:37.000 Like, very bad.
00:31:38.000 And then...
00:31:39.000 You like Kevin Costner?
00:31:40.000 I don't have strong feelings about him.
00:31:42.000 He just really hated draft day.
00:31:43.000 You will never see Kevin Costner through the same lens when you acknowledge he's a terrible actor.
00:31:48.000 No, he was really bad.
00:31:49.000 I feel like...
00:31:49.000 I feel like Gen Xers would go to the grave defending Kevin Costner.
00:31:54.000 I've always defended Waterworld.
00:31:55.000 I don't have strong opinions about Kevin Costner.
00:31:56.000 You like Waterworld, Jack?
00:31:57.000 I love Waterworld.
00:31:59.000 People just love terrible acting.
00:32:01.000 I think it's so good.
00:32:02.000 Star Wars Episode 3 just got re-released and I had to endure people pretending that movie is good.
00:32:07.000 Yeah, don't get me started on that.
00:32:08.000 But no, I liked Waterworld.
00:32:12.000 Obviously, everyone, we've covered Yellowstone and the Hicklivery of that a million times.
00:32:17.000 I thought the postman was good.
00:32:18.000 Remember the Tom Petty scene?
00:32:19.000 No.
00:32:20.000 When he walks up like, hey man, I know you.
00:32:22.000 You used to be someone.
00:32:23.000 He's like, not anymore, man.
00:32:25.000 I'm just anybody else now.
00:32:28.000 So good.
00:32:29.000 I feel like every Gen X male.
00:32:31.000 Defends Field of Dreams.
00:32:32.000 I will say that Costner used to be made fun of for how bad of an actor he was.
00:32:36.000 JFK, he was a terrible actor in that movie.
00:32:39.000 Oh, I never watched that.
00:32:40.000 And I guess older Kevin Costner is more regal and more...
00:32:43.000 JFK is not a good movie.
00:32:46.000 But another bad actor is Ben Affleck.
00:32:48.000 He's a terrible actor.
00:32:49.000 Yes, 100%.
00:32:51.000 Except in Accountant, where he literally plays someone who has a mental disorder.
00:33:00.000 I get that one confusing Bradley Cooper.
00:33:03.000 Pearl Harbor I always bring up.
00:33:05.000 No, the new accountant's out, but I haven't seen it yet.
00:33:07.000 But no, the only one I like Ben Affleck in is the accountant where he literally plays someone who is supposed to be like a wooden mute.
00:33:14.000 So he's like neurodivergent with personality issues.
00:33:16.000 And it's like, oh yeah, he can play that just fine.
00:33:19.000 Oh my gosh.
00:33:20.000 The internet believes that Gwyneth Paltrow is the worst actress ever.
00:33:24.000 I don't think that's right.
00:33:26.000 I don't know.
00:33:26.000 How come Gwyneth Paltrow never threw Harvey Weinstein under the bus?
00:33:31.000 And they say that Keanu Reeves is a bad actor.
00:33:34.000 I think he's a good actor.
00:33:35.000 Keanu Reeves is a bad actor.
00:33:36.000 He's also super-based and smart.
00:33:38.000 He's a bad actor that has survived, and so therefore he's become kind of likable.
00:33:45.000 It's become a shtick.
00:33:47.000 It's become a staple of our childhood, so it's okay now.
00:33:50.000 He was in The Matrix, which is dumb.
00:33:52.000 No, the worst one...
00:33:54.000 The absolute worst one, and I will go to bat for it, is Jennifer Lawrence. 1.00
00:34:00.000 Jennifer Lawrence did not act.
00:34:02.000 She is horrible.
00:34:04.000 All of her casting dried up after Harvey Weinstein got arrested, and nobody even said anything about it because everybody knew what was going on there.
00:34:12.000 She's objectively just a bad, bad actress. 1.00
00:34:15.000 Yeah, she drives me crazy. 0.96
00:34:16.000 What was the one she got really famous for?
00:34:20.000 Hunger Games.
00:34:21.000 Hunger Games, yeah.
00:34:22.000 You've sometimes used Hunger Games.
00:34:25.000 There's good stuff about Hunger Games, but not Jennifer Lawrence.
00:34:29.000 By the way, let's just be honest, why Hunger Games is good, is Philip Seymour Hoffman.
00:34:34.000 Yeah, Philip Seymour Hoffman is great.
00:34:36.000 One of the greats.
00:34:36.000 You want to talk about acting?
00:34:38.000 Anything with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Blake is uninterested in.
00:34:40.000 Well, I've been watching all of the Mission Impossible movies because, like, the final one is coming out soon.
00:34:45.000 He's so good at that character, though.
00:34:46.000 He's pretty good in Mission Impossible.
00:34:47.000 There is that archetype of, like, the sage, kind of, like, crafty.
00:34:51.000 There's something happening.
00:34:52.000 Wait, but Charlie.
00:34:52.000 Well, they're talking about bringing back Philip Seymour Hoffman and using AI.
00:34:57.000 Okay, no, I've got to stand against this.
00:34:59.000 No, I don't know.
00:35:00.000 AI actors are bad news.
00:35:02.000 Wait, but Charlie, Charlie.
00:35:03.000 How bad is it that we are not going to get, in this lifetime, Philip Seymour Hoffman playing Steve Bannon?
00:35:11.000 No, I mean, come on.
00:35:13.000 I mean, that's worth AI, okay?
00:35:16.000 The one I always wanted.
00:35:17.000 The one I always wanted.
00:35:20.000 I can't unsee that.
00:35:22.000 Look at this.
00:35:22.000 You've got to put the picture up.
00:35:23.000 You've got to put the picture up.
00:35:25.000 Oh, put it up.
00:35:25.000 Yeah, sorry.
00:35:27.000 It's Steve.
00:35:28.000 Like, it's literally Steve.
00:35:30.000 I mean, come on.
00:35:31.000 And he would do a marvelous job.
00:35:33.000 He would do such a good job.
00:35:36.000 That Baby Bannon thing, it would be like him doing that monologue.
00:35:40.000 I made that.
00:35:41.000 I made that this morning.
00:35:42.000 I made a baby Stephen Miller last night to just test it out.
00:35:45.000 And then I made Baby Bannon this morning and it did like a million views.
00:35:49.000 Should we do Baby Bannon?
00:35:51.000 What platform do you use to make that?
00:35:53.000 Which AI generator?
00:35:55.000 So you have to use a bunch together.
00:35:57.000 So you have to generate a still image of the baby version of someone first.
00:36:03.000 Then you get the audio.
00:36:05.000 So you want the actual audio.
00:36:07.000 This is too much work.
00:36:08.000 Okay, Jack, wait, let me just play it.
00:36:10.000 441.
00:36:11.000 And then you animate it.
00:36:11.000 This is Baby Bannon.
00:36:13.000 Because the facts are on our side.
00:36:16.000 Joe Biden never got 15 million votes.
00:36:19.000 More votes than Barack Obama.
00:36:21.000 Impossible.
00:36:22.000 We didn't pick up net 12 House seats when we lost the presidential.
00:36:27.000 Impossible.
00:36:28.000 We didn't win 19 of the 20 bellwethers and lose the presidency.
00:36:31.000 Impossible.
00:36:35.000 So I made a pen into a crayon.
00:36:37.000 I used a software called Hydra that lets you animate still images.
00:36:40.000 How much time do you spend on this, Jack?
00:36:42.000 Honestly, that one took like 20 minutes.
00:36:45.000 It wasn't hard at all.
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00:37:50.000 This 442, if you throw that image up, that is Bannon.
00:37:55.000 Again, you have to control the memes.
00:37:57.000 I mean, come on.
00:37:58.000 That's Steve Bannon.
00:37:59.000 When you control the meme, you control everything.
00:38:02.000 I think it was an oxy overdose.
00:38:04.000 He was so young.
00:38:05.000 No, it was opioids.
00:38:06.000 Yeah, I think it was an opioid thing.
00:38:08.000 It was a Frank Luntz special.
00:38:09.000 I think he was like the first.
00:38:10.000 Good job, Frank Luntz.
00:38:11.000 Good job, Frank.
00:38:12.000 Straight heroin.
00:38:13.000 Great job, Frank.
00:38:14.000 He has one of the greatest scenes ever in Hunger Games when it's just like when he's talking about, you know, Blue Dark.
00:38:20.000 Oh, my God.
00:38:21.000 He was in Moneyball.
00:38:22.000 I forgot about that.
00:38:23.000 He was really good in Moneyball.
00:38:24.000 Punch Drunk Love.
00:38:27.000 Boogie Nights.
00:38:28.000 One of the greatest actors ever.
00:38:30.000 Almost famous.
00:38:33.000 The talented Mr. Ripley.
00:38:36.000 He's the CIA guy in Charlie Wilson 4. Before the devil knows your dad.
00:38:39.000 It's going to be a great idea, Charlie.
00:38:40.000 It's going to be a great idea.
00:38:42.000 Well, is it me or has there not been like a cultural transformational movie in like five years?
00:38:47.000 Like everyone gravitates towards it.
00:38:49.000 Everyone talks about it.
00:38:50.000 Five years?
00:38:51.000 Ten years?
00:38:52.000 Look at the side-by-side.
00:38:53.000 It's pretty hard lifetimes.
00:38:54.000 The Paul Thomas Anderson movie.
00:38:55.000 No, like Avatar was the closest I could think of to that.
00:38:58.000 And yet Avatar's like had no cultural like sticking point at all.
00:39:02.000 Avatar was awful.
00:39:03.000 Wait, wait, wait.
00:39:05.000 I think it's subconscious.
00:39:06.000 Consciously convince people to be environmentalists.
00:39:08.000 No, that was like the end of environmentalism.
00:39:11.000 People were environmentalists in the 90s, the 2000s?
00:39:14.000 No, no, no.
00:39:16.000 It had all these indigenous people.
00:39:19.000 Mass adoption of climate change didn't come until after.
00:39:23.000 Isn't there another one coming out, Bill?
00:39:25.000 It was a virulent...
00:39:28.000 Subculture.
00:39:29.000 We had that terrible The Day After Tomorrow movie in 2004.
00:39:33.000 And the plot was just like Fern Gully plus Pocahontas.
00:39:37.000 Avatar was not kicking off any of that stuff.
00:39:40.000 That was all just James Cameron absurd fandom.
00:39:43.000 Made a ton of money.
00:39:45.000 We got all those terrible 3D movies afterwards.
00:39:47.000 But the cultural staying power of it was minimal.
00:39:51.000 Although I do remember...
00:39:52.000 There was this extremely bizarre article.
00:39:55.000 It was the highest grossing film ever.
00:39:57.000 That's the thing though.
00:39:58.000 No, because it was a rollercoaster.
00:40:00.000 People still talk about Titanic.
00:40:01.000 People went to Avatar.
00:40:04.000 People went to Avatar because it was like a roller coaster.
00:40:06.000 It was like the first big 3D movie.
00:40:08.000 It's like those movies.
00:40:11.000 And James Cameron spent a lot of time, by the way, in the interim between Titanic and that, making those movies that you watch at the observatory kind of things where you're like, oh, wow, I'm at the planetarium, but now I'm underwater.
00:40:25.000 Look at me.
00:40:26.000 Look at this.
00:40:27.000 That's all it was.
00:40:28.000 It was just a series of scenescapes that looked cool in 3D.
00:40:33.000 And that's why I did so much business.
00:40:34.000 I was in China when it came out at one point.
00:40:37.000 And I mean, there'd be theaters in downtown Shanghai where it was the only thing playing on every screen in a 24-screen theater.
00:40:43.000 And the Chinese loved it because they'd never seen anything like that before.
00:40:47.000 But it wasn't because of the plot or anything like that.
00:40:52.000 They could care less.
00:40:52.000 They just thought it was a cool experience.
00:40:54.000 And then we got Avatar 2, The Way of Water.
00:40:57.000 That already came out.
00:40:57.000 It already made...
00:40:58.000 Over $2 billion.
00:41:00.000 And it was equally irrelevant.
00:41:01.000 Or not irrelevant, but it had no staying power.
00:41:05.000 I want to watch The Master again.
00:41:08.000 It's the Scientology movie.
00:41:09.000 That's so good.
00:41:11.000 So apparently adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind is still...
00:41:14.000 Yeah, Gone with the Wind is still number one.
00:41:16.000 Yeah, when you adjust for inflation, it's like Gone with the Wind and Star Wars.
00:41:20.000 Who watches these Avengers movies?
00:41:23.000 Dude, I have no idea.
00:41:24.000 Avengers Endgame, Avengers, Avatar.
00:41:26.000 I think Marvel Slop is one of the...
00:41:27.000 People love their Marvel Slop.
00:41:31.000 I can watch it once.
00:41:33.000 Avengers Endgame.
00:41:35.000 What is going on here?
00:41:36.000 They've been going down.
00:41:38.000 Yeah, they have.
00:41:40.000 Adjusted for inflation.
00:41:42.000 Now, this is going to all be pretty misleading because back in the day, a lot of these movies didn't have...
00:41:50.000 Like, total global releases.
00:41:52.000 Yeah, total global.
00:41:52.000 I think E.T. is up there.
00:41:54.000 I think The Godfather is still one of the greatest movies of all time.
00:41:56.000 Oh, I could watch The Godfather 1. I will die on that hill.
00:42:00.000 Godfather 1 is better than Godfather 2. Correct.
00:42:02.000 But, you know, Godfather...
00:42:03.000 Well...
00:42:04.000 Let me think about that.
00:42:05.000 3 is the worst, in my opinion.
00:42:06.000 I think 3 is the weakest.
00:42:07.000 Everyone thinks 3 is the weakest.
00:42:08.000 It's the weakest, but it's still a good movie.
00:42:10.000 I like 2 because it's largely...
00:42:11.000 That's not a provocative tip.
00:42:13.000 I've never talked about Godfather in this show.
00:42:15.000 The worst part about Godfather 3 is that Sofia Coppola is in it, and the best part of Godfather 3 is that she gets shot at the end of the Godfather 3. She's not that bad in it.
00:42:24.000 Spoilers.
00:42:25.000 People hate on her, but she's not that bad. 0.71
00:42:27.000 Let me think about this.
00:42:28.000 The reason I like Godfather 2, I think they successfully talked about the backstory.
00:42:33.000 And they did a really good job of flashbacking.
00:42:35.000 That's my problem with it.
00:42:37.000 You don't like it?
00:42:37.000 Well, we get this in a lot of movies now where people will be like, this movie was good because it explained how a thing happened.
00:42:45.000 Who cares?
00:42:47.000 I think Godfather 2 is the same way.
00:42:49.000 Blake is exactly correct.
00:42:51.000 Back to the Future 2. But that wasn't the only part of the movie.
00:42:54.000 It wasn't.
00:42:54.000 But that was the point of Back to the Future 2 because it changes the stuff.
00:42:57.000 I think the stuff with Corleone is good.
00:42:59.000 I think the stuff with Michael is good.
00:43:00.000 But they aren't really that strongly related to each other.
00:43:03.000 I'm sure some film nerd can say, oh, these things play together.
00:43:09.000 But really, for the most part, they don't.
00:43:13.000 And you could tell the entire story that was in Godfather Part 2 from Michael's perspective without needing the veto stuff.
00:43:21.000 And really, the only part where the overlap matters is at the end where there's the flashback and it's right after he's killed his brother.
00:43:28.000 His brother's the only one who sticks up for him when he joins the military.
00:43:32.000 That's a great scene, but you didn't need any of the prelude stuff.
00:43:35.000 Yeah, but that makes the whole movie.
00:43:37.000 Yeah, but none of the original veto cutting that dude open with a knife.
00:43:42.000 You're just getting more information that you already knew that doesn't actually add to the dramatic tension of the events that are ongoing.
00:43:49.000 Whereas in the first movie, it is a wholly self-contained film within one timeline as opposed to needing these bridges to go into the past that don't end up going anywhere.
00:44:00.000 Also, you get rid of Robert De Niro.
00:44:03.000 I think that's something we can all agree on.
00:44:05.000 Well, De Niro is in Godfather 2, right?
00:44:08.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:44:10.000 That's what I'm saying.
00:44:11.000 If you cut the flashbacks out, you would get rid of Robert De Niro.
00:44:13.000 I'm sorry.
00:44:14.000 Hot take. 0.79
00:44:15.000 He's actually a good actor.
00:44:16.000 Do you want my really controversial movie take?
00:44:18.000 No, I know, but he deserves to be accessed.
00:44:20.000 I don't like Goodfellas.
00:44:20.000 I actively dislike it.
00:44:21.000 I agree.
00:44:22.000 I think it's overrated.
00:44:23.000 Yeah.
00:44:24.000 I'm not a huge fan.
00:44:26.000 Producer Foz is like banging on the glass right now.
00:44:28.000 Do you want to know?
00:44:29.000 The one with Jack Nicklaus is better than Goodfellas.
00:44:32.000 What's that one called?
00:44:32.000 We talked about it.
00:44:33.000 The Boston one.
00:44:34.000 The Departed?
00:44:35.000 Much better than The Departed.
00:44:37.000 The Departed is so good.
00:44:39.000 I love The Departed.
00:44:39.000 So first of all, this is me being super Midwestern German.
00:44:42.000 I generally don't like mob movies.
00:44:44.000 He's a good actor.
00:44:45.000 I'm sorry.
00:44:45.000 I hate how good of an actor he is.
00:44:46.000 I generally don't like mob movies because I personally watch them and I just want the police to kick in the door and gun everyone down for the sake of law and order.
00:44:54.000 So I can't relate to these.
00:44:56.000 So you don't like The Sopranos?
00:44:57.000 I've never seen The Sopranos.
00:44:58.000 Breaking Bad?
00:44:59.000 I've never seen Breaking Bad.
00:45:00.000 See, they don't fully appeal to me.
00:45:03.000 That's so interesting.
00:45:04.000 So, The Departed.
00:45:06.000 So, you know, what's interesting with The Departed, you might want to go watch this, it's a remake of a Hong Kong movie.
00:45:10.000 That's right.
00:45:11.000 And the Hong Kong movie's called Infernal Affairs, I believe.
00:45:14.000 Oh, it's Infernal, yeah.
00:45:16.000 I haven't seen it, but my understanding is, a big issue with it is, in The Infernal Affairs, the Matt Damon equivalent character is...
00:45:23.000 More sympathetic than he is in The Departed.
00:45:26.000 So he survives, I believe, the end of Infernal Affairs.
00:45:29.000 But it's like, okay.
00:45:31.000 I think it's something like, you know, the Leonardo DiCaprio guy dies, but the Matt Damon equivalent goes straight as a cop.
00:45:37.000 I'm going off memory here.
00:45:38.000 It's been a long time.
00:45:39.000 But then when they made it in America, Matt Damon guy was so despicable that no one would tolerate him surviving that movie.
00:45:45.000 So they clearly just ran out of it.
00:45:47.000 They were like, how are we going to resolve this?
00:45:49.000 Kill everyone.
00:45:50.000 And they just killed everybody.
00:45:51.000 The amount of information you retain is unbelievable.
00:45:55.000 Infernal affairs.
00:45:56.000 No, he's right.
00:45:57.000 I've seen the Hong Kong version.
00:46:01.000 It was one of the movies I would watch when I was doing language learning, even though I don't speak Cantonese, but you can still do it with the Mandarin subtitles.
00:46:10.000 They're similar.
00:46:11.000 And you're right.
00:46:13.000 The Matt Damon character is like...
00:46:15.000 He's just not a douchebag.
00:46:17.000 He is in the Departed version.
00:46:20.000 In the Departed version, you want him to get shot.
00:46:22.000 And then in this, it's like, oh, he's actually kind of cool.
00:46:27.000 It's more like he's seen as an upstanding, honorable police officer who's put into a bad situation, if that makes sense.
00:46:34.000 Now, are we Pulp Fiction fans?
00:46:37.000 Oh, yeah.
00:46:37.000 I love Pulp Fiction.
00:46:38.000 That's Trump's favorite movie.
00:46:40.000 Is it really Trump's favorite movie?
00:46:42.000 Yeah.
00:46:42.000 Really?
00:46:43.000 It's not like Phantom of the Opera or something?
00:46:46.000 I never knew that was a favorite movie.
00:46:48.000 The Phantom of the Opera movie, this is going to annoy you again because I remember it.
00:46:54.000 So the original Phantom of the Opera, the musical, takes place in the 1890s.
00:46:58.000 In the movie version, they changed the year to 1870 for no reason.
00:47:02.000 And that was the one year they should not have picked because in 1870, Paris is surrounded by the Prussian army and they're all starving and they're eating the animals in the city's zoo.
00:47:12.000 It would be like if you made a movie that was set in 1955 Germany and you just moved it to 1945 for no reason and there was no mention of World War II at all and everything was just normal.
00:47:25.000 I don't find that annoying, for the record.
00:47:27.000 I think it's really intriguing that you have all this information in your head.
00:47:30.000 But at the same time, the real issue with that isn't the dating of it.
00:47:38.000 And by the way, Emily Rossum is fantastic in that.
00:47:41.000 It was that Gerard Butler can't sing.
00:47:43.000 For all the fun that he is and the great characters that he's played in 300 and everything else, I'm sorry, but King Leonidas should not be singing love songs.
00:47:55.000 You know, to Christine Daae.
00:47:57.000 Like, it just, it really didn't work.
00:47:59.000 It really didn't work.
00:48:00.000 Well, that was a good sign.
00:48:01.000 That was good.
00:48:02.000 Yeah, thanks for taking us down movieville.
00:48:04.000 And then the dude from The Conjuring plays Raul.
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00:49:10.000 If Pulp Fiction is Trump's favorite movie, Rapid Fire, what is your favorite movie, Tyler?
00:49:17.000 I'm a big...
00:49:18.000 I'm a big...
00:49:19.000 We were just talking about this.
00:49:21.000 Interstellar.
00:49:22.000 Oh, interesting.
00:49:23.000 Really?
00:49:23.000 I have a friend that's in there.
00:49:24.000 That's like a generic thing.
00:49:27.000 Isn't that Bradley Cooper?
00:49:28.000 You know what?
00:49:28.000 I'm out.
00:49:29.000 I can't hear this.
00:49:30.000 We lost Jack.
00:49:31.000 It's Matthew McConaughey.
00:49:33.000 I get those two confused all the time.
00:49:35.000 What about you, Blake?
00:49:36.000 Gun to Head, I usually...
00:49:39.000 I'm not big on number one favorites, but I usually will say Die Hard is my favorite action movie and my favorite comedy movie.
00:49:48.000 The original, though.
00:49:48.000 I usually say...
00:49:49.000 Die Hards are great. 1.00
00:49:50.000 For comedies, I usually say Thank You for Smoking.
00:49:53.000 Die Hard 2 sucks.
00:49:54.000 Thank You for Smoking is really good if you've never seen it.
00:49:55.000 Die Hard 3?
00:49:56.000 Which one is that?
00:49:57.000 That's the one in New York.
00:49:58.000 The Bombs in New York.
00:50:00.000 Wait, Thank You for Smoking.
00:50:02.000 That's David Sacks' movie.
00:50:03.000 Oh yeah, he was involved in that.
00:50:05.000 He was the producer.
00:50:06.000 So was Elon.
00:50:07.000 Elon Musk had a candy on him.
00:50:08.000 Thank you for smoking.
00:50:11.000 Die Hard 3 is really funny because Die Hard has the best TV edits.
00:50:18.000 So in Die Hard 3, remember the villain makes him wear the sign.
00:50:22.000 I don't remember it.
00:50:23.000 I gotta see.
00:50:24.000 He has the sign that says, I hate...
00:50:26.000 Oh, I don't like that one.
00:50:28.000 And then on TV, they edit it digitally to say, I hate everyone.
00:50:32.000 And it makes it really funny because then this crowd is surrounding him and threatening to kill him or beat the crap out of him.
00:50:38.000 It's like, they're really militant about him saying he hates everyone.
00:50:42.000 The first Die Hard is one of the greatest movies.
00:50:43.000 And then on the first one, when he says, you know, Yippee-ki-yay, you know, MF-er, they change it to Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon.
00:50:52.000 Wait, I have a thought crime on this.
00:50:54.000 I have a thought crime on this.
00:50:55.000 My thought crime on this is that I like Lethal Weapon and the Lethal Weapon series better than Die Hard.
00:51:00.000 No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:51:02.000 That's a hot take.
00:51:03.000 I've always liked it better.
00:51:04.000 Where's the co-host, Renee? 1.00
00:51:05.000 Russo or Rene, right?
00:51:07.000 Full circle, who are the bad guys in Lethal Weapon 2?
00:51:10.000 I don't remember.
00:51:11.000 The South Africans.
00:51:12.000 The South Africans.
00:51:13.000 And they have diplomatic immunity and they're using it to do crimes, but then they revoke it.
00:51:17.000 Who are the real bad guys based on in Die Hard 1?
00:51:21.000 Die Hard 1?
00:51:21.000 It was a bunch of irritating Germans.
00:51:23.000 But who are they based on?
00:51:25.000 The Red Army? 0.64
00:51:26.000 Right, but they're based on the Red Army faction who are an actual left-wing KGB front group that operate in West Germany.
00:51:33.000 There's such an op on the modern American mind of who we villainize because of these movies, right?
00:51:41.000 Like, it is...
00:51:43.000 It's plausible that we hate South Africans or a certain cohort hates South Africans simply because of the movie depictions and things like that.
00:51:51.000 I mean, we really have to be on guard for that, right?
00:51:53.000 I mean, I grew up hating Germans when I was like 12 years old because of all the World War II movies I watched. 0.99
00:51:58.000 What was your guys' favorite movie, though?
00:52:00.000 Same.
00:52:02.000 Godfather or Lord of the Rings.
00:52:04.000 Oh, no.
00:52:05.000 We'll go down that track.
00:52:06.000 Is the Godfather gay? 0.99
00:52:08.000 No, Godfather's the least gay.
00:52:10.000 It's a movie filled with Italians being emotional. 1.00
00:52:13.000 No.
00:52:15.000 You're just being ridiculous.
00:52:16.000 With Italians being emotional? 1.00
00:52:18.000 Dude, this is the thing.
00:52:20.000 Italian men can get away with way more effeminate stuff and still be straight as an arrow. 0.99
00:52:25.000 I like The Dark Knight.
00:52:26.000 I think it's a great movie.
00:52:27.000 Oh, The Dark Knight's classic, actually.
00:52:29.000 I could watch The Dark Knight any time.
00:52:31.000 I agree with you.
00:52:32.000 It's really hard for me to pin one down.
00:52:33.000 I was going to go with...
00:52:35.000 The Godfather 2. I like it better than 1, but I love 1. And then I was going to go with Back to the Future 2. 2. I love going to the future.
00:52:46.000 I love the hoverboard stuff.
00:52:49.000 But that's just watchability.
00:52:51.000 He goes to the future and then goes back in time.
00:52:53.000 It's got everything.
00:52:55.000 I'm going to have another really terrible take.
00:52:56.000 You guys are going to hate me for this, but Good Will Hunting, I still love that movie.
00:53:00.000 I know.
00:53:00.000 I know.
00:53:01.000 What is wrong with you?
00:53:02.000 My second top movie is Fury.
00:53:06.000 I love Fury.
00:53:07.000 What is wrong with you?
00:53:08.000 Fury is great.
00:53:09.000 Fury is fantastic.
00:53:10.000 You can have villains and who we're allowed to have as villains.
00:53:13.000 It has Ben Affleck in it.
00:53:15.000 It was pre-Ben Affleck and J-Lo and all the terrible Ben Affleck movies that also go into who we can have as villains.
00:53:22.000 Did you ever see The Sum of All Fears?
00:53:24.000 Yeah, I hate that movie.
00:53:24.000 The Sum of All Fears, the book by Tom Clancy.
00:53:27.000 The villains who get a nuclear bomb and they use it to blow up...
00:53:30.000 The Denver Broncos, I think.
00:53:33.000 The villains in that are Islamic terrorists. 0.99
00:53:36.000 And when they made the movie in 2002, they were like, we can't attack the religion of peace.
00:53:40.000 That's not okay.
00:53:41.000 So they got rid of the Islamic terrorists and they made them neo-Nazis instead.
00:53:44.000 And then he was also on Bill Maher being like, you can't say that about Muslims.
00:53:50.000 One good Ben Affleck movie that doesn't get enough appreciation?
00:53:53.000 The Town.
00:53:54.000 He went back to Boston for...
00:53:56.000 The Town's alright.
00:53:57.000 It sounds good.
00:53:58.000 It's legitimately a good film.
00:54:00.000 It's alright.
00:54:00.000 It's a solid film.
00:54:02.000 You know who's one of those underrated actors?
00:54:04.000 I was looking...
00:54:04.000 Russell Crowe.
00:54:05.000 Russell Crowe is a hero.
00:54:07.000 The Gladiator is still one of my tops.
00:54:08.000 Do you like Fat Rock and Crow as much or not?
00:54:11.000 I wanted to say...
00:54:11.000 They don't make movies like that anymore.
00:54:13.000 The new Gladiator...
00:54:14.000 Russell Crowe.
00:54:15.000 I didn't say Braveheart, but I thought it was too cliche.
00:54:17.000 So Ridley Scott, I'm sure...
00:54:20.000 The original Gladiator's good.
00:54:21.000 Alien's good.
00:54:23.000 Napoleon...
00:54:24.000 Wait.
00:54:24.000 Wait, Beautiful Mind.
00:54:25.000 And Gladiator 2 are two of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life.
00:54:30.000 If you ever want, Charlie, if we need to fill time, you can give me a camera and a microphone and I could go for an hour straight uninterrupted on how bad Napoleon was.
00:54:38.000 That was a terrible movie.
00:54:39.000 We did that before.
00:54:41.000 Now, here's the question.
00:54:42.000 We did, but we didn't go along enough on it.
00:54:44.000 I could have really.
00:54:45.000 Go back to Russell Crowe, though, because, you know, we got to say, it's just weird, though, when I see the current big, big fat Russell Crowe.
00:54:54.000 As opposed to like the gladiator Russell Crowe because that's like in my head that's always who he'll be but I guess he's on that like Taylor Swift tour diet or something because he's just all chubbed up now.
00:55:05.000 He got fat during A Beautiful Mind, which was right next to him.
00:55:08.000 Russell Crowe's gained a ton of weight.
00:55:09.000 The Shawshank Redemption, I forgot.
00:55:11.000 That video of him driving the little scooter in The Pope's Exorcist is the funniest thing.
00:55:19.000 That became this meme for a while because it's big, fat Russell Crowe driving a tiny little Vespa around Vatican City in a priest's cassock.
00:55:28.000 It's hilarious.
00:55:30.000 Reservoir Dogs.
00:55:31.000 Great movie.
00:55:31.000 Fight Club.
00:55:32.000 Oh, yeah.
00:55:33.000 Do you guys like Reservoir Dogs?
00:55:35.000 Love Reservoir Dogs.
00:55:36.000 I'm sure it's fine.
00:55:38.000 I haven't seen it.
00:55:39.000 I overall don't like Quentin Tarantino that much.
00:55:43.000 I feel like whenever I'm watching a Quentin Tarantino movie, I can't help escaping the feeling this is a movie made by a really weird person.
00:55:50.000 He's a sick puppy.
00:55:51.000 Kill Bill is objectively good.
00:55:53.000 He's obsessed with feet.
00:55:55.000 He's got a toe fetish.
00:55:56.000 He's got a toe fetish.
00:55:58.000 He has his people talk forever in a way that I don't find interesting.
00:56:05.000 I like Kill Bill.
00:56:06.000 I just remembered the Russell Crowe Roger Ailes.
00:56:10.000 Did you watch The Loudest Voice?
00:56:12.000 No.
00:56:13.000 No one's watched this.
00:56:15.000 You gotta watch it.
00:56:17.000 Wait, he interviewed him?
00:56:18.000 No, he played Roger Ailes.
00:56:20.000 It's not a great depiction of Fox and all that stuff, so it's not like...
00:56:25.000 Do you guys remember the first time you saw Memento?
00:56:28.000 Do you remember that?
00:56:29.000 I have not seen Memento.
00:56:30.000 And even if I had, I would have forgotten it because you don't remember things.
00:56:34.000 I don't want to ruin it, but you should watch Memento.
00:56:38.000 Speaking of...
00:56:39.000 Speaking of Quentin Tarantino, you know that new movie Sinners that's out right now is a total ripoff of Dust Till Dawn?
00:56:45.000 No.
00:56:47.000 It's the vampire one that he did with George Clooney, by the way, who has been in the news this week for Joe Biden, apparently.
00:56:56.000 The new movie Sinners, Michael B. Jordan, is kind of like a South Africa version of that because it's literally just a movie about...
00:57:03.000 Instead of two guys trying to fight against vampires in a bar, it's two black guys killing white vampires also in a bar. 0.71
00:57:14.000 I missed that last part.
00:57:16.000 Also in a bar, he said.
00:57:18.000 Oh, also in a bar.
00:57:19.000 Wait, we do actually have topics that we were prepared for.
00:57:22.000 Should we move on?
00:57:23.000 We have meetings stacked, so let's go five more minutes.
00:57:26.000 Pick your best one.
00:57:29.000 I literally have three more meetings.
00:57:31.000 Welcome to the office.
00:57:33.000 They made Pete Rose eligible for the Hall of Fame.
00:57:37.000 Did you hear about this?
00:57:37.000 Let's go!
00:57:39.000 Charlie Hussle! 0.60
00:57:41.000 They announced that the ban, Manfred, the commissioner of baseball, announced that they are revoking the ban.
00:57:50.000 You are obsessed with Pete Rose.
00:57:52.000 An American hero.
00:57:54.000 We can talk about the Menendez brothers if you want.
00:57:57.000 Do you want to do that?
00:57:58.000 Menendez brothers should have been shot.
00:57:59.000 Never bet against his team.
00:58:01.000 Most hits in MLB history.
00:58:02.000 He totally bet against his team.
00:58:03.000 17-time All-Star at five different positions.
00:58:07.000 Three-time world champion.
00:58:08.000 The guy that bans him died the next week.
00:58:10.000 Rookie of the year, two gold gloves, silver slugger, World Series MVP.
00:58:13.000 Record number hits.
00:58:14.000 There was another guy that...
00:58:18.000 Rob Manfred revoked the ban on.
00:58:21.000 I'm trying to remember the name.
00:58:23.000 But he was involved in corrupting the morals of a 14-year-old girl.
00:58:29.000 Would you at least oppose putting that guy in the whole thing?
00:58:31.000 Yes, I don't even know who that is.
00:58:32.000 Pete Rose!
00:58:33.000 Okay, well...
00:58:34.000 Pete Rose also did that.
00:58:35.000 Can you prove it?
00:58:36.000 Well, he admitted it in court, but...
00:58:38.000 Well, I mean, it depends what you mean by corrupting the morals.
00:58:40.000 I think he did.
00:58:41.000 Well, you know...
00:58:42.000 Was he, like, criminally convicted for being a pedophile?
00:58:46.000 He was sued for it later and admitted that they had a relationship.
00:58:49.000 It was the 70s.
00:58:51.000 I'm kidding.
00:58:52.000 I'm kidding.
00:58:54.000 I don't know.
00:58:55.000 I don't know that part of it.
00:58:56.000 That's a lesser known part of the discussion, candidly.
00:59:00.000 Was his prohibition based on that?
00:59:02.000 No, that just came out later in addition to all the gambling he did.
00:59:06.000 He just doesn't seem to have been a very good guy, unfortunately.
00:59:10.000 And he totally bet on baseball.
00:59:12.000 But not great people are still allowed to be in the Hall of Fame.
00:59:14.000 Yeah, but not great people who accept it.
00:59:16.000 It's not a character test.
00:59:17.000 Keep in mind.
00:59:17.000 For me, the key thing about Pete Rose, when he says he didn't bet against his own team, is that he lied at every step of the process.
00:59:25.000 He said, I don't bet.
00:59:26.000 And then he said, I bet, but not on baseball.
00:59:29.000 And then he said, I bet on baseball, but not...
00:59:32.000 You know, in games my own team was involved in.
00:59:35.000 And we finally got up to the point of, I bet on my own team, but never against my own team.
00:59:39.000 And that is when he accepted a ban to stop any further investigation.
00:59:44.000 And that's key to me.
00:59:45.000 He took the ban to avoid any further investigation which could have been criminal in nature.
00:59:50.000 So he took this ban to stay out of prison.
00:59:52.000 And then he suddenly tries to have it both ways by coming back 15 years later and saying, now I'm going to admit I bet, but not on my own team.
01:00:00.000 I'm going to admit betting.
01:00:02.000 Not against my own team.
01:00:04.000 I'll admit I bet, including on my own team, but please don't do all the...
01:00:09.000 Just stop the investigation.
01:00:11.000 He always was just...
01:00:12.000 He would lie on everything, and then when he thought there was some advantage to admitting some part of it, he would finally cop to it.
01:00:19.000 And so I just think he has no credibility for that sort of thing.
01:00:22.000 But that's not what the Hall of Fame is about.
01:00:25.000 The Hall of Fame is about the people who are the best.
01:00:27.000 Look, Blake, there's a point here.
01:00:30.000 Babe Ruth was really...
01:00:33.000 He's not objectively a bad dude.
01:00:35.000 Really?
01:00:36.000 Yeah.
01:00:36.000 What did he do?
01:00:38.000 Have you not researched anything about Babe Ruth?
01:00:39.000 What did he do?
01:00:40.000 The guy lived in whorehouses and just drank himself to the ball club. 0.99
01:00:48.000 He drank?
01:00:48.000 No, no, no.
01:00:49.000 He drank?
01:00:50.000 He would be literally on the floor.
01:00:54.000 They would pick him up.
01:00:55.000 He'd go up and swing and hit the ball.
01:00:58.000 That makes him more impressive as a baseball player.
01:01:01.000 Yeah, but everything you're saying is like, he's just a bad dude.
01:01:04.000 Babe Ruth was like a bad dude.
01:01:05.000 I don't think having alcohol is comparable to betting on baseball.
01:01:09.000 He was a raging alcoholic.
01:01:11.000 He lived in literally the slums.
01:01:18.000 I'm telling you, like, whorehouses. 1.00
01:01:20.000 Like, this is what he did.
01:01:21.000 And what you're saying is just because he's a bad guy, we should still celebrate Babe Ruth as the baseball player that he was.
01:01:28.000 We gotta go.
01:01:29.000 Sorry, guys.
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