After a mistrial is declared for Daniel Penny, the defense asks the judge to allow the jury to go back and consider what the defense is asking for, which would allow the prosecution to drop the first charge of first-degree manslaughter. The defense argues that this is an attempt to subvert the rule of law and take the case back to the jury for a retrial. Meanwhile, a new suspect has been arrested in the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Michael Bloomberg.
00:00:20.000Well, the jury comes back out a second time saying deadlocked.
00:00:24.000And in what is, I'm hearing, the craziest scheme we've seen in a long time, the prosecutors moved then to drop the first charge, manslaughter, which would instead of granting a mistrial, what the defense is asking for now, it would allow the jury to go back and consider what the defense is asking for now, it would allow the jury to go And many people are describing this as a scheme from the prosecutors to subvert the rule of law.
00:00:50.000Because the way it's supposed to go is if you can't find him guilty of the first one, then it's it.
00:01:01.000It's seeming now, as Mike Cernovich describes, lawless.
00:01:05.000That this DA, a Soros prosecutor, many people are saying, is just trying to squeeze out some way to convince the jury to find Daniel Penny guilty.
00:01:20.000I mean, I'm not familiar with this precedent and this move, but I'm seeing all these lawyers losing their minds and the press is talking about it.
00:06:28.000And it says, count one, manslaughter in the second degree.
00:06:31.000If you find the defendant guilty of count one, manslaughter in the second degree, then do not consider and do not render a verdict on count two, criminally negligent homicide.
00:06:39.000If you find the defendant not guilty of count one, manslaughter in the second degree, for the reason that the people have failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not justified, then you must not consider count two, criminally negligent homicide.
00:06:52.000And you must also find the defendant not guilty.
00:06:55.000If you find the defendant not guilty on count one, manslaughter in the second degree, for some reason other than a lack of justification, then proceed to consider and render a verdict on count two, criminally negligent homicide.
00:07:04.000So the gist of the story is, without a verdict at all, they're deadlocked.
00:07:55.000So when I, you know, being in the military, have been in the military myself, what he did was a huge selfless thing to save a lot of people.
00:08:10.000And then That should be taken into account.
00:08:14.000And when you probably have a whole lot of witnesses that want to testify on his behalf, you have to wonder, okay, so are they quieting these people?
00:08:42.000Right now, the left in the U.S. is topsy-turvy of what is good and positive.
00:08:50.000You have a society that has problems just like any other society, but the left wants to see the bad guys being taken care of and treated as if they're not bad guys, and they want to see the good guys punished.
00:09:07.000Now, I don't think that that actually applies to the CEO, but the idea that he should die for being a – because he's a CEO of a business, that's abhorrent, right?
00:09:18.000The people that are celebrating the murder of a man that had a family, the people that are saying we need more of this, that is absolutely going to make society worse.
00:10:28.000Yo, the fact, look, the fact that this is a deadlocked jury and we're here at all, it does not matter at this point, in my opinion, if Daniel Penny wins because the process is the punishment.
00:10:43.000hoping that Daniel life will never be the same again yeah his life will never be the same but even if he got a quick uh not guilty verdict right away that's good and then a lot of people will be like oh okay you'll be found not guilty short of that the message sent to the average person is if you try to help people yeah this is what your life will be yeah
00:11:06.000Well, there was this video that was viral like last year where a bunch of people are in a market – they're in like an outdoor restaurant, right?
00:11:13.000And a guy comes up out of nowhere and he attacks a woman who's at a table and a guy is with a girl at a table next to them and he doesn't do anything about it.
00:11:24.000And the question was, what was this guy supposed to do?
00:11:28.000And everybody had their opinions on that.
00:11:29.000And in that video, he kind of – he like pushes his girlfriend out of the way.
00:11:33.000But then he doesn't do anything to help.
00:11:35.000He just kind of skirts out of frame and the decision – the talk became about pragmatism versus what's your duty as a man in this situation.
00:11:43.000Is it your duty to intervene and help this person?
00:11:47.000And the vast majority, devoid of whatever your opinion is on it, the vast majority of the response on Twitter at the time was that it is too risky.
00:13:10.000Or even in this situation, it's a matter of just how dishonest the person who recorded the video tends to be, because where does the video start?
00:13:18.000Was this person being belligerent before, you know, if we're talking in this situation where you put someone in a headlock and you take them down, does the video show the person being belligerent beforehand that shows him intervening to protect people around him?
00:13:30.000Or does the video just start with someone with a dude in a headlock who looks like he just got on a train or got on a bus and started attacking someone?
00:13:38.000I mean, the whole, you know, this thing going on with Daniel Penny, like, I forget the guy, Jordan Neely, he was mentally ill, and he was threatening people.
00:13:52.000The other people on the train said that he was threatening people.
00:13:56.000You don't have to wait until you're attacked.
00:14:01.000Like, someone actually physically attacks you to do something.
00:14:05.000Like, if that is the case, then you might have to wait until you actually get stabbed or get shot.
00:14:10.000Well, that's the Gulag Archipelago famous passage.
00:14:53.000A sympathy for the criminal that borders on psychotic.
00:15:00.000And taken to its logical conclusion for them, that's when you get into the argument about, well, why did you have to defend yourself in your own home?
00:15:07.000All he wanted was your TV. All he wanted was the stuff in your safe.
00:15:11.000Well, the stuff in your safe is the sum product of everything that you've worked for, which is an extension of who you are, and to them that doesn't matter.
00:15:19.000But you've got to understand their point of view, right?
00:15:20.000Because I've talked about this when it came to Castle Doctrine in New Jersey.
00:15:24.000And what I was told by the cops was, in New Jersey, if someone breaks into your house, you are required to flee if possible.
00:15:31.000And my response was, yes, that's New Jersey.
00:16:36.000The jury or them getting beat up for being in it.
00:16:39.000It could be getting hurt, but it also could be...
00:16:42.000Like, if you live in New Jersey and you're in a...
00:16:45.000Like, if you can't defend yourself in your home, you clearly aren't going to be in a situation where if you try to defend someone else in, like, in public, you're going to get...
00:17:44.000It's a result of the people in positions of power and probably to some extent the families that they're raised in.
00:17:55.000If you've got police and government that are going to say, look man, this guy got killed because this other guy, he attacked this other guy, and this other guy defended himself, and you let the other guy go home...
00:18:11.000Then that's going to deter people attacking, like to a certain degree.
00:18:16.000Police deter people from attacking other people, the possibility of someone defending themselves, because criminals don't want to find someone that is an equal match.
00:18:26.000Criminals want to find someone that is easy.
00:18:35.000I've gone to a lot of self-defense classes and stuff like that.
00:18:37.000Not hand-to-hand combat stuff, but self-defense.
00:18:40.000And it's like, look, if you make yourself look like you're not an easy target, they will select someone else.
00:18:47.000If you look like you're an easy target, then they're going to select someone else.
00:18:51.000And I've talked to girls that I dated and stuff.
00:18:55.000If anyone ever comes and grabs you, make a bunch of noise.
00:18:58.000If they're trying to put you in a car, make them do whatever they're going to do at the first location.
00:19:04.000Don't ever go to Crime Scene 2. Because then you're going with them to where they're comfortable, where they have control of the surrounding, the environment.
00:19:20.000It's not saying that every time that someone tries to attack someone, if they just make a bunch of noise or fight back, then it's not going to be a problem.
00:19:28.000But if you look like you're an easy target, then you're inviting criminals.
00:19:32.000It's the same principle as peace through strength on an international level.
00:19:36.000If you look like you're weak, other countries are going to be like, well, we can push these people around.
00:19:53.000And the ones that get away are the ones who make the most noise, who make the most scene, and are able to pull away and run as fast as possible.
00:19:59.000But a lot of times, you know, it's late at night, somebody's been out drinking, and you make yourself an easy target, and that's what it is.
00:20:06.000Yeah, and the best advice you can give to people is, first of all, don't go to stupid places.
00:20:13.000Don't go to stupid places with stupid people.
00:20:18.000There was one crazy viral story of a woman.
00:20:21.000She said that she was drinking with her boyfriend and his brothers.
00:20:25.000And when they walked out of the bar, she was texting, and they were 10 feet in front of her when a car pulled up and grabbed her, and she screamed.
00:20:31.000And as they're trying to throw into the car, the guys run over and grab the door, fight with the guys, grab her, and the car starts peeling away, and they pull her out of the car.
00:20:39.000And they were like, she was 10 feet behind her texting on the phone, and they tried to snatch her off the street.
00:21:02.000That you have a society that will stand and watch, or if you're in a place where it's more likely that someone will pull out their phone and record it, as opposed to actually help, that makes it more likely that crime will happen.
00:21:17.000You know, it makes it more likely that criminals will take advantage of those conditions.
00:21:21.000Will Chamberlain says, What's happened to Daniel Penny isn't justice.
00:21:25.000Prosecutors successfully dismissed a count the jury hung on to try and squeeze out a guilty verdict on count two.
00:21:31.000Justice wouldn't merely be an acquittal.
00:21:33.000It will require Penny to prevail in a civil lawsuit against those who persecuted him for clearly lawful conduct, which means if he's going to actually win this, it's going to be three, four, five years.
00:21:45.000And again, the point that I was making earlier is that's it.
00:21:50.000The moment the deadlocked jury was told, don't worry, you can continue, was the moment the message was sent loud and clear to everybody in New York, don't you dare, in any way, try and intervene or do anything.
00:22:03.000And cops aren't going to do it either.
00:22:04.000Luke Rutkowski has got one of his more viral videos.
00:22:25.000I had a policeman talking to a couple of policemen, and they were like, you know, we're here to protect and serve, but we really don't have to.
00:23:15.000Investigators have found a backpack in Central Park they believe may be linked to UnitedHealthcare CEO Killer, an NYPD spokesperson told CNN. So here's what I think, you know, look, we're obviously tracking the details.
00:23:26.000A lot of speculation as to whether or not they're going to find this person.
00:23:28.000It sounds like from the corporate news, this guy may be the killer.
00:23:32.000And what they're saying is the reason why it's different clothing and it looks very different is that they think this is the guy.
00:23:39.000Prior to that day where he changed his clothes.
00:24:33.000And the rest of us just left the cities.
00:24:35.000I mean, this might be the best example of it actually directly affecting them specifically.
00:24:39.000But if the idea here is that they're going to back a candidate, say, who's going to be pro-abortion, where now what they have to do for a lot of times is like, look, we will pay for you to go get an abortion in another city rather than have you take maternity leave.
00:24:53.000They're going to operate in the best interest of the company until it starts affecting them directly, which is exactly what the leftists on Twitter are so excited about right now, which is why they're rejoicing about it.
00:25:04.000I was reading earlier this morning about CVS. CVS, because of this, they've started taking down the exec pictures and stuff from off the wall.
00:25:34.000Yeah, Blue Cross reversed the policy, and then all these big companies are now taking their photos and bios down from websites and deleting the pages.
00:26:10.000Having security, my understanding of this is, We don't make moves without consulting security because that's why we pay them.
00:26:19.000So, you know, we have PO boxes and things like this.
00:26:24.000When they come to us and they tell us, like, here's the assessment, here's what we consider, we do it.
00:26:28.000So, for instance, when we were getting swatted in bomb threats, often the show would go on and we'd be like, oh, we were swatted earlier, but you didn't see it because security takes care of these things.
00:26:35.000But there was that one day where we evacuated the building for three hours.
00:26:57.000But I don't think they make any move without consulting lawyers and security.
00:27:02.000And so they probably go to their security company and say, what is the chance that this is targeting CEOs of healthcare companies or is it anything else?
00:27:12.000The fact that they actually paid the money to remove this information, because not like it's the most expensive thing in the world, but the bigger the company, the more expensive it's going to be.
00:27:21.000They probably had to call a dev team and say, we need this taken down, get it done.
00:27:25.000And then it doesn't cost that much for a company this big.
00:27:30.000But it certainly means that they put in effort.
00:27:32.000They must believe there's a reasonable possibility this is politically motivated.
00:27:35.000I wonder if the security companies actually were like, hey, like reached out and said, look, we're in charge of security.
00:27:49.000Not that they know anything, but that they said, they may have called and said, if you publish your photo and your name, we can't protect you.
00:27:58.000And so the company then just reacted and did it.
00:28:24.000I'll give you guys another example because I'm very pro 2A and I've often said that Look, if you want to carry a gun and we do an event, I don't care.
00:28:32.000If I don't want to do the event because I'm scared of guns, I won't do the event.
00:28:35.000And then we can't get insurance or security.
00:28:38.000So it's not even an issue of what I want and what I believe in.
00:28:41.000We get told by different security companies, you want to allow weapons in the event?
00:30:29.000As much as whether we're talking about the dude clearing the rounds individually, whether we're talking about the fact that he's cool and calm the entire time, doesn't react to the civilian on the side...
00:30:40.000Whether we're talking about the fact that he absconds, moves, and changes clothes, and then gets caught because he turns around and pulls his mask down to flirt with someone.
00:30:50.000They've literally done episodes of TV shows where that happens.
00:30:53.000There's an episode of White Collar, where a guy steals a painting, and then he gets caught on camera, looks back at a girl, and then catches his face on the camera.
00:31:07.000In looking at that video, and we were talking about earlier, nobody says, well, not that many people talk about, there was a guy in the truck.
00:31:14.000There was a guy in the truck, and he saw everything, and just, okay.
00:31:20.000Yeah, because he'll become Daniel Penny if he does anything about it.
00:31:23.000Well, I mean, police always say that cars are weapons, so...
00:31:48.000Republicans winning basically everything is indicative of a cultural shift in a positive direction, which will prevent this violent bifurcation.
00:31:57.000But you look at the Daniel Penny thing and there is some optimism there, but there's a question.
00:32:01.000So one of the superchats is saying that it's like half men, half women, and one person wearing a double mask.
00:32:07.000So you know the ideological bent of these people.
00:32:42.000Well, my first thought was it went back to Rittenhouse, right?
00:32:44.000And Rittenhouse being acquitted seemed like a big cultural moment as well because everybody assumed that he was going to end up going to jail.
00:33:24.000I don't know if the reports were, it's been a while, that he was actively assaulting her at the time, or she was scared he was gonna, so she called the police.
00:34:09.000Like they've all just transposed the time.
00:34:11.000That's why I was saying it's important to remember that this whole thing with Kyle Rittenhouse wasn't just about a kid who was threatened and then tried to defend himself.
00:34:18.000It was a riot to defend and protect a rapist who tried drawing a knife on cops.
00:34:24.000And Kyle Rittenhouse was there to render aid when they threatened to kill him The amount of evil that existed at the time, and I hope, is being pushed aside.
00:34:35.000Do you think a lot of this just has to do with the speed of which information moves and the way it's obfuscated from the people that are used in these situations?
00:34:43.000Meaning the most useful idiot is the one who goes out and starts protesting without really understanding what they're protesting for?
00:34:50.000The way that I have seen it over the years is that the culture only needs a reason.
00:34:57.000I mean, well, they don't even need a reason.
00:35:36.000That's one of the things that we talk about frequently here is the left needs people that are unhappy, right?
00:35:43.000Because well-adjusted, happy people that are pleased with their lives or feel like they have something that they're working for in their lives, working towards in their lives, Yep.
00:35:55.000So it doesn't matter if it's a good reason, just like you said, all they need is just some reason, some excuse, and you will have, there are sufficient people that are unhappy where you can get them riled up and say, okay, now it's time to do just break stuff. okay, now it's time to do just break stuff.
00:36:13.000And it's, it doesn't have to have a target that, that makes sense.
00:36:18.000It can just be, I'm mad at society, so let's burn things down.
00:36:23.000Also, there's two layers to that now, because yes, the most violent of them may go out into the streets and perform these acts, but then you also get the further uninformed people that will just do it on social media, which boosts the post there.
00:36:48.000He says, I hope the NYC assassination gives certain people a hint as to why concern about mass reporting the location of specific private jets is in fact reasonable rather than hysterical.
00:36:57.000When those – there's that guy who's posting what Taylor Swift's jet and Elon Musk's.
00:37:02.000People don't understand that these jets land at airports with zero security.
00:37:06.000So like the airport in Maryland that Ye flew in and out of, it's a four-foot-high chain-link fence with a gate you can pop up and walk in.
00:37:15.000And if people are saying like, here's where they are, this is the kind of stuff that could happen.
00:37:19.000But that's the sweet spot of where these people like to be, right?
00:37:23.000Which is rich people, the haves and the have-nots.
00:37:25.000And even if the idea is that it's something as stupid as climate change that they're supposedly watchdogging for, that can be piggybacked by people with much worse intentions than just yelling at Taylor Swift on the internet.
00:38:29.000Now granted, I'm not making the argument that this particular CEO is like, our society doesn't hinge on this one guy.
00:38:38.000But the idea that someone that has a lot of money doesn't deserve it because they inherently are bad for it.
00:38:46.000Jeff Bezos, or the family that owns Walmart...
00:38:51.000Those people provide thousands and thousands of jobs and they make it easy for millions of people across the country to get food and to get the things they need for their daily life.
00:39:06.000Yeah, but I would say it doesn't make them necessarily inherently immoral, but I think all that's bad.
00:39:14.000So aside from the obvious that Walmart destroys mom-and-pop shops, and that's been a big controversy for a long time, I went to a small town, I think it was in Nebraska, I can't remember, it might have been Oklahoma, and they had a Walmart.
00:39:25.000And it was kind of wild, I was passing through, but people told me, we used to have a bunch of small shops, Walmart came in, and now the only thing in town is Walmart.
00:40:07.000Because you need like 50 grand for your inventory or whatever.
00:40:12.000And some of it might be generational stores.
00:40:14.000That's what happened in the town that I was raised in.
00:40:18.000It's like the whole downtown, Main Street, Ray Street, all those mom and pop shops and everything.
00:40:25.000They went out and put Walmart on the outskirts of the city.
00:40:30.000And then they put more of the strip mall shops outside of the city.
00:40:35.000Now you can just walk, I mean, those old stores, nobody's using the, you know, and it's like, wow, I mean, and the convenience that you were just talking about, Some of the old people can't just get out to the outskirts of the city anymore.
00:40:51.000You know, I mean, you know, they might have a Dustbuster bus or whatnot, but I mean, it's a shame that it's like that.
00:40:58.000But the anger at someone like Jeff Bezos to me is the most interesting because it just feels like it depends on your philosophy for life.
00:41:05.000So out here, we go by a lot of areas that are very rural that would not normally be able to get packages as quickly as they do, not to mention the jobs that it provides for people who do work, whether as delivery or in a warehouse and things like that.
00:41:19.000And I look at that and I see that as a marvel of growth and invention, which I find is something to aspire to.
00:41:25.000Now, there's obviously greater concerns there as far as what it does for the job market.
00:41:30.000And frankly, if we're talking about overtaking the post office, they lose billions and billions of dollars every year, right?
00:41:35.000But the point is, is that there is a level of envy that comes with someone's success where they cannot focus on the good provided by a business.
00:41:44.000They can only think about it in terms of the negative, and that has grown as income inequality has grown in this country.
00:42:51.000By all means, don't doxx people, but you're allowed to insult and not like Nick Fuentes.
00:42:56.000And then, as the dude's getting death threats, and there's, like, apparently we're a couple vehicles with people in them in front of his house.
00:43:02.000A woman walks up, apparently she's holding something, her phone, and Fuentes opens the door and pepper sprays her.
00:43:10.000He's at his home minding his own business.
00:43:12.000Look, How many times have there been officers that have been deemed justified in shootings because someone was holding a cell phone and they didn't know if it was a weapon or not?
00:43:19.000I'm not saying they should be justified.
00:43:21.000But if Nick Fuentes, all he did was pepper spray and shove somebody because they're walking up to his house?
00:43:28.000Now, I certainly think there's an argument of, look, maybe you should call the police and back off because it's stupid to approach the door with pepper spray if you think someone might be trying to kill you.
00:43:37.000But the idea that he would get arrested, charged, and mugshotted over this I think is stupid.
00:44:40.000I was like, you don't know what's coming in his email.
00:44:42.000You don't know what messages might be left on his phone.
00:44:46.000I mean, so if somebody just walks up to your house and you ain't never seen these people before and they got something in their head, just like you said, it's a phone.
00:45:40.000I'm just saying, like, you've already committed a felony at that point, if you're able to make it to the front door, and there's armed security guards who aren't going to wait to ask questions considering we get death threats.
00:45:49.000The difference for Nick Fuentes is that he's on a public street in a residential area where his property line is 10 feet.
00:45:55.000And so the argument they're going to make is...
00:45:59.000This could be a delivery person or a solicitor that he just pepper sprays randomly.
00:46:04.000He can certainly argue that he was concerned or whatever.
00:46:06.000But they're going to argue if he really thought he was facing a threat, he would have called the police and he would have went and hid or gone out the back door or done something else.
00:46:14.000Second I heard this and I heard Chicago, I imagined it being at the house from home alone.
00:46:21.000Just open the door and the spray just shoots out.
00:47:29.000So all of the stories that are coming up right now from today saying he was arrested, I don't think it was reported that it was on the 27th, but they're reporting now that after the incident he was booked, fingerprinted, and searched on November 27th and ultimately charged with battery and released.
00:47:57.000And so we've seen this before with other personalities.
00:48:00.000If you're a controversial figure, the judge is going to be like, don't know, don't care, the law doesn't apply to you, you're going to jail.
00:48:25.000So, Nick going to court, you're going to get a judge in Illinois who's likely going to be liberal-leaning, and they're going to think to themselves two things.
00:48:32.000I don't want to be the person to go light on Nick Fuentes because it's going to reflect poorly on me, and this guy's a dickhead, and so he gets what's coming to him.
00:48:40.000The judge is going to be like, lock him up.
00:48:41.000Even being not an internet troll and being right-leaning, like publicly right-leaning...
00:48:46.000You're risking getting a left-leaning judge and the judge deciding that he wants to punish you.
00:50:05.000But I don't imagine he's going to get leniency.
00:50:07.000I don't think they're going to be like, well, he means well, and so we're going to go ahead and just give him probation, when really what they're going to say is, oh, your body, my choice?
00:50:20.000So he thought that he was within his rights to mace this person because he obviously thinks that it's their body, it's his to do with, dispose of as he pleases.
00:50:32.000They're going to see that, they're going to say that, and they're going to be like, throw the book at him.
00:50:35.000I can see him going in there and the judge looking right dead at him and was like, oh, you're Nick Prentice.
00:50:58.000Or, like, hopefully he's the first case.
00:51:01.000Because usually, I mean, you know, if judges have been up there for three or four hours, you know, they tend to get a little bit more pissed off.
00:51:52.000I don't know if for sure this happened, but one pathway they might go is they're going to find examples of him gloating, laughing, and saying things like, screw you, what can you do about it, blah, blah, blah.
00:52:54.000Well, as much as I think that any judge could hold it against Nick Fuentes because he's a controversial public figure that says things that offend people...
00:53:04.000I wouldn't immediately assume that just because the judge is black, he's not capable of being impartial.
00:53:42.000You can't compare the best judge that we have in the entire country with your run-of-the-mill Cook County local district court judge or whatever.
00:56:17.000If there are any protests, it'll be those groipers.
00:56:20.000Well, you know what would start a protest?
00:56:22.000If they want to protest, they'd have to dismiss the charges, issue a public apology, stand with him at City Hall shaking his hand and saying, you're a good person, and that would get you a protest.
00:56:43.000I don't agree with him doing it, but I also, because of where he lives in Chicago, and I'm from Chicago, someone walks up to your door and knocks, I don't think the appropriate response is what he did.
00:56:56.000He could have got an email saying, I'm coming to your house right now, and I bet he does.
00:56:59.000And so when the woman shows up, he's like, oh crap, who knows?
00:57:02.000But he shouldn't live in Illinois, because the proximity, there's no way to secure himself, and he's going to end up in a situation like this.
00:57:08.000If he could produce an email in the past few hours that says someone's, like, I'm on the way to your house, then that might be something that could help his case.
00:57:18.000I bet he has 5,000 DMs, emails, messages of people saying, I'm coming right now to get you.
00:58:29.000And there was another article came out today that the activist class in Hollywood is basically, they're taking a step back now and what they're going to do in the future is focus on local elections because they want to keep pushing abortion and climate change propaganda and stuff like that.
00:58:45.000And for these actors and actresses, look, last week we had Alec Baldwin and we had Sharon Stone calling all of America, half of America, idiots for who they voted for while condescendingly telling them, well, you don't even have a passport.
00:58:58.000How could you possibly know what's good for you?
01:00:22.000What it proves to you is you can tell stories that have elements of progressivism in there, as long as you don't treat the characters like morons.
01:01:03.000You can have strong whamons or whatever you want.
01:01:05.000And then whenever you get these female writers and these woke writers that intentionally want to make strong women woke content, it's just miserably awful.
01:01:14.000Well, when you watch that movie, it's because you see her just experience the horror of what's going on at the border.
01:01:20.000And she's not there to be the strong, independent woman.
01:01:24.000She's there to look at the horrors of what's going on in the drug war and be the audience's eyes.
01:01:31.000Did you see that meme where it's like men riding women and it shows like Ripley from Alien and like Katniss Everdeen and this is women riding women and it's She-Hulk twerking?
01:02:50.000And then he gets out and he explains the amount of, he's like, do you have any idea how much diesel it takes to get these things, to haul them out here, to put the 12 feet of concrete in the ground, to put it up?
01:02:58.000They're out here not because it's green energy, because there's no power lines to power the pumps.
01:03:02.000It's the same thing that he does that they do in Yellowstone when he explains all of the animals that are killed to farm avocados and stuff like that.
01:03:09.000All it is is it takes a certain level of research on their part and the ability to think past the level of a tweet.
01:03:18.000If you listen to his discussion with Joe Rogan and he talks about the process of writing these characters, he says all of it has to do with actually doing your research and allowing characters to be multifaceted and they don't have to do it.
01:03:31.000One of the problems with a lot of the writing in Hollywood is that if somebody has progressive ideals, they can have no flaws.
01:03:38.000The point now is that you need to actually be able to write characters again where you can actually be a bad guy and still be the focus of the show.
01:04:37.000One of the worst examples this year, if anybody watched the Godawful Crow reboot, which is It's an abomination.
01:04:44.000Whatever you do, don't see that movie.
01:04:47.000It's one of the worst things you've ever seen, right?
01:04:49.000And to your point, in the original Crow, the whole point is there's an extremely poignant anti-drug message to the film that is very, very layered and important to the character because he lives in a city full of chaos, drugs, crime...
01:05:06.000And he's killed on Halloween, on the eve of his wedding, which is a very, very, you know, poignant thing to think about by criminals.
01:05:14.000And then when they make the reboot, they're like a bunch of goths who do drugs together.
01:05:20.000And it's like, did you even watch the original movie?
01:05:23.000Bro, bro, you gotta see the Craft reboot.
01:06:08.000Those ideas are so grandiose and stupid when all you have to do is like, wow, the oil industry is crazy.
01:06:15.000Let's write about the oil industry because this dude is black bagged by a bunch of cartel members and then basically does a deal with them to...
01:08:13.000Our actual threads just explaining exactly what's going on.
01:08:16.000It's the same thing that they did in the sequel to Sicario, which is also not as bad as a lot of people pretended to be.
01:08:21.000But the whole point in that is that they get involved by trying to frame the cartels fighting each other and to get the U.S. government involved in the war on drugs, right?
01:08:32.000And that's a very interesting premise as well, but it's just not quite as good as the original film because it's more personal.
01:08:57.000Also, all of this stuff was done infinitely just as well back in the early 2000s with a show called The Wire, which everyone should go watch as well right now.
01:09:04.000You know, it took me a long time to watch The Wire.
01:09:08.000I never watched it while I was on TV. But one day I was like, okay, I'm getting sick of watching all of these other things.
01:09:26.000And the thing is, that actually has a similar scene at the opening, which I thought was extremely...
01:09:30.000It was just unbelievable, where McNulty is sitting there with one of the kids that's in this gang, right?
01:09:37.000And there's a dead body there, and he's talking about throwing dice with this kid, and how they let him come back week after week, even though he always tries to run off with the money.
01:09:46.000And he says, but you know he's going to try and steal it.
01:09:54.000And the whole point of the show is that it talks about the war on drugs right as the war on terror had started and all the resources had been pulled away.
01:10:02.000And that show actually had the creator of David Simon...
01:10:06.000They were arrested by local police because it made the police and the government look bad.
01:10:11.000So they were actually continuously bothered by local law enforcement because they shined a light on them that was negative.
01:10:37.000You were talking about the wokeism in Hollywood and with Sarah Silverman and nobody really wants to hear anymore and stuff.
01:10:46.000When you, like when Narcos, when Narcos was on for that first season, it's like, okay, I can see how that, you know, this is totally badass.
01:10:58.000And then the wokeism came in there in the second season when you thought cartels, those boys are really badasses, man.
01:11:09.000And then all of a sudden you have a homosexual connection.
01:11:46.000There was a show where it's literally just about the people who have to pick up the city after they destroy it in fights.
01:11:51.000We were talking about this a little bit before the show, but I blame conservatives a lot for not promoting shows that actually are good and only ever complain about shows that are bad.
01:13:24.000And my point was like, look, people like mob movies because it's a window into a culture that you're just never going to experience.
01:13:31.000But I spend most of my time tweeting about shows and movies that I like, and nobody looks at that stuff because nobody wants to hear about the stuff that you like.
01:13:38.000They want to hear about the stuff that you're mad about.
01:13:40.000I watch mob movies because I just wish I lived in those cultures.
01:13:52.000It's far from perfect, but the biker scene I always reference, that is a good example of you treat people with respect, you get respect and kind.
01:14:01.000You come into someone's neighborhood to cause problems and attack people, and that community will throw you out.
01:14:04.000That is the type of story that resonates with people.
01:14:17.000Well, that's your homework for the weekend.
01:14:19.000So there's a scene at the bank heist at the end where Robert De Niro's character, where Macaulay comes in and he's robbing the bank and he's talking to the people who he's holding hostage.
01:14:29.000He says, he goes, do not think about doing anything.
01:14:31.000Your money here is insured by the federal government.
01:14:42.000I was going to say public enemies, right?
01:14:44.000Like the gentleman criminal is the type of character that people, because you're never going to live in that world, and it still gives you like the idea of like, maybe I could do that.
01:14:52.000If I was like, I'm a good person, maybe I could do that.
01:14:54.000But they know that that's just not a world they're ever going to live in.
01:14:58.000Dillinger would, I guess the rumor, I don't know if it's true, but he would destroy mortgage papers.
01:15:02.000And so a lot of people are like, he was like Robin Hood.
01:15:05.000And I'm like, nah, he just knew that he'd get the public on his side because they were crossing their fingers hoping he'd destroy their mortgage papers.
01:16:21.000So Stander, the Stander gang, they rob a bank.
01:16:24.000As they're leaving the bank with all the money they stole, they're listening to the radio.
01:16:29.000And on the radio, they have an interview and a report with the manager who says, fortunately, the bank missed the safe that was hidden behind a painting.
01:16:36.000So they slam the brakes, turn around and go back to the bank.
01:16:55.000Those are the type of stories that resonate with people.
01:16:57.000And what Hollywood does now is they try to shoehorn ideas of what coastal elites like.
01:17:03.000And back in the day, the stories that were told were told by people that really, really loved literature.
01:17:10.000loved classic stories that they like to adapt you know in a modern way now what you have is people create things for the purpose of streaming rather than to create great art they're looking to create and sell something for a quick buck to netflix well back there in the day just like you said great stories yeah Today's stories, they're redoing those yesterday's stories with that woke-ism that we were just talking about earlier and make it into an eight-series part.
01:17:41.000Because people back in the day would have loved that.
01:17:43.000They would have loved the idea of being able to get long-form stories in the way that stories used to be told, but you don't get to keep that.
01:17:50.000We had them on Monday night movies, and then you had your little Thorn Birds, and then you had the different miniseries and stuff.
01:18:01.000I mean, just glorious, like, big old rollouts, you know?
01:18:14.000Okay, maybe I'm just crazy and maybe we romanticize the past, but there were a lot of movies that were weird that are classics, like Groundhog Day is a really great example.
01:18:25.000They don't make that kind of stuff anymore.
01:19:27.000Now it's like, certainly if it went to 94th, they could be like, wow, look, people are wearing flannels and they have holes in their jeans, but it would still be...
01:19:36.000There's still people wearing flannels.
01:19:40.000Right now, all of the movies that would have that type of creativity, which used to go to the theaters, which never made their money back in the theaters.
01:19:47.000They would make their money on home video sales and DVDs and pay VOD like pay-per-view was back in the day.
01:19:54.000All of that now goes straight to streaming.
01:19:57.000When you go to a streaming service, you scroll past 10,000 things that you don't actually look at.
01:20:03.000And there's a movie, however, if you are looking for some hilarious nostalgia, I've not seen it yet, but I believe that there's an A24 movie that came out yesterday or today called Y2K, where it's the night of Y2K and it actually goes wrong and all of the appliances come to life and kill you.
01:20:41.000But also, when we come to Marvel, if you ever wonder why everything looks like it was filmed at permanent dusk now, have you ever noticed that?
01:20:49.000It hides bad CGI, but everything that is shot now, that CGI, have you ever been outside and you're driving home, it's too early to turn your lights on, but it's also kind of dark?
01:21:01.000Everything is filmed right when it's just too light to put your lights on, but too dark to see without them.
01:21:07.000People pointed out, remember District 9?
01:21:10.000Like, how come the CGI on those aliens look so good, and it was because their exoskeletons were meant to look hard and plasticky?
01:21:30.000It was made by Gareth Edwards for like $80 million.
01:21:34.000He did it with like an entry-level pro camera.
01:21:36.000And it looks better than like 80% of the movies that come out right now and better than every Marvel movie that's come out in the last five years because he goes to physical locations and all of the space tech, everything is filmed in an actual physical place so the matting is easier to do in post.
01:21:54.000Can I just ask, how come we haven't gotten a sequel to District 9?
01:22:21.000And they're—and so, like, these are civilian aliens with no expertise who have no idea to survive, so they're kept in a refugee camp, basically.
01:22:30.000And then Charlotte O'Copley's character finds a device, gets sprayed with it, starts turning him into one of the aliens, and then they end up leaving at the end because there was a specialist alien who was trying to get the ship back in order to rescue his people and leave the planet— We need a resolution to that story, man.
01:26:11.000Yeah, I'm just saying, if we're talking time periods between movies, 28 years later just got finished.
01:26:16.000I remember the first time I watched 28 Days Later, and my friend was telling me to watch it, and they're like, yeah, but the zombies can run.
01:26:39.000And Michael Myers is just walking, and have you ever seen the parody skits where they're running, and he's just walking, and he's still right behind you?
01:27:47.000And I was like, one that everybody always talks about doing that we should do is like, it's Indiana Jones.
01:27:51.000But when he gets, he gets this like, you know, the thing that kicks off his adventure in the Ark of the Covenant, he just says, I'll pass.
01:27:58.000And then it just jumps to the end scene as it exactly would have happened no matter what with the Nazis finding the Ark and then all dying.
01:28:09.000Have you ever seen that scene in Scary Movie when he's running up the stairs after and she keeps throwing stuff down at him and finally hits him with a pee.
01:28:22.000Like, scary movie was good, and then they kept making all of those movies, like epic movie and superhero movie, and it's like, just stop.
01:28:28.000But it made money, and the budgets were dirt, and they were like, look, people laugh at things they've seen before.
01:28:35.000Whether it's a joke or not, you need only be like...
01:28:38.000Spider-Man's upside down, and everyone laughs.
01:28:41.000Comedies used to be the other way that you could make money on a small budget, but now it's pretty much just horror is the only genre that costs very little with strong return on investment.
01:28:51.000If I see one more movie where the description of the movie is a mother and her child must combat a mysterious force...
01:28:57.000I'm going to throw the remote at the TV. At the house they've moved into.
01:31:48.000And I like watching TV as I fall asleep.
01:31:51.000So I think I've seen The Dark Knight over a hundred times.
01:31:55.000Because every night I'd get home, I'd put The Dark Knight on and play it and then lay down and I would watch The Dark Knight every single night.
01:32:03.000I mean, there are times when I hear the music while I'm dreaming and I'm hearing certain military types and there I am in the military once again.
01:32:17.000I used to put on Adult Swim when I would fall asleep, and then I would always have dreams where I was hanging out with the Scooby gang, and we'd be solving mysteries.
01:32:24.000It'd be the weirdest dreams, but it's because Scooby-Doo's on!
01:32:28.000You ever try to put that back on now and recapture that?
01:32:30.000I would do that too, but it would always be like C-Lab would be on.
01:32:33.000C-Lab 2021. No, because I'm watching C-Lab and The Family Guy reruns and like...
01:33:15.000I've seen Dark Knight like over a hundred times.
01:33:17.000As far as like being a comic book movie, like the way the Narrows were designed in Batman Begins feels much more akin to an actual comic book film, whereas the Dark Knight is much more of a crime thriller.
01:33:37.000Yeah, that was filmed during Occupy, so we were down there, and they, like, I forgot, it wasn't, I don't know if it was directly during Occupy, but I remember it was around that time, and the activists were asking the people making it, like, what's going on, what's it about, and they were all like, you guys are gonna love this movie.
01:34:06.000There's really great documentaries or video essays that have been done about the political philosophy of Christopher Nolan as it relates to The Dark Knight Rises.
01:34:14.000And he says that his favorite scene that he's ever shot is the airplane scene at the very beginning when Bane pulls them from one plane to the other.
01:35:36.000It's only when a violent, wealthy vigilante goes around beating the crap out of people with his bare hands does anything start to change but only results in escalation.
01:35:45.000The Joker gets rid of the mob and the vigilante.
01:35:49.000By the end of the Dark Knight, he's gotten rid of the corrupt, psychopathic DA that everyone thought was good but was actually a murderous lunatic.
01:35:55.000He's gotten rid of the dangerous vigilante and he's gotten rid of all of the mafia.
01:36:17.000And the point was, should he sit in power for too long, he would have been exposed to that degree of pressure that the Joker put him under, and he would have become a corrupt DA. So the Joker's whole plan was...
01:40:26.000I don't even know how Chris built this, but there's automatic money guns at the Pop Culture Crisis set, and when you super chat a comment, it shoots fake $20 bills, right?
01:40:48.000But there have been times where people would come up, because back in the old studio, we were up in the top of the house, and there would be HVAC people that would come up there, and they'd see just stacks of money.
01:41:01.000We're either nuts or we're the most like...
01:41:04.000Well, so someone had a stack of prop money where the first five bills on both sides are fake bills and the middle's all just notepad paper.
01:41:13.000You buy them in stacks and it looks like real money.
01:43:50.000Leftists are different than Democrats.
01:43:52.000Progressives and leftists are not the same thing as Democrats.
01:43:55.000You can be a liberal and be a Democrat.
01:43:58.000You can believe in the fundamental principles that make America America and be a Democrat.
01:44:02.000You can believe that the government should be doing things to help people that are in bad positions.
01:44:09.000Bad situations and stuff and not be a leftist.
01:44:13.000The leftists take advantage of the Democrats and the people that are concerned with the problems of oppressed people and people that are suffering, working class people.
01:44:28.000They take advantage of that to access power.
01:44:30.000Do you have that same split on the right?
01:44:33.000I don't think that the right is the same as the left, no.
01:44:37.000I think that for a long time the United States was considered a center-right country.
01:44:41.000And everyone outside of the United States would say everyone in the United States is on the right.
01:44:47.000Or almost everyone in the United States is on the right.
01:44:49.000And that's because things like property, if you think it's okay to own property, that is a right-leaning ideal.
01:44:55.000And if you think that owning property is a bad thing, that is a leftist idea.
01:45:02.000And so most Americans think it's okay to own your home, and it's okay to own property.
01:45:07.000And if you have a business, and this is different than having multinational corporations and stuff, but if you own a business, you are entitled to dispose of the profits from your business however you see fit.
01:45:19.000These are generally normal things that people on the right and people that are considered Republicans and Democrats have prosecuted.
01:45:27.000Basically for the entire time that the United States has been a country, up until only very recently, the vast, vast majority, 95% of America believe that.
01:45:36.000Now there is a stronger, there's a larger portion of leftists who think that owning property is immoral, right?
01:45:44.000Think that it's okay to kill CEOs of big companies because they are hurting people just by being CEOs of big companies.
01:45:53.000Think that it's okay to expropriate the property of people that have a lot of property because they think it's immoral to have a lot of property.
01:46:01.000So the leftists, in my estimation, are different than people that would be considered Democrats or on the right.
01:46:09.000For me, because I've been on both sides.
01:46:15.000I mean, I see evil on both sides for me.
01:46:21.000And where it comes to, even where, like when I left the Democrat Party in 2007, I used to wonder why Republicans wouldn't talk to Republicans.
01:46:57.000GOP didn't want to, you know, the GOP didn't want to make that move.
01:47:01.000But then there are other things that I have seen along the years.
01:47:06.000I'm like, wow, this thing is, and it's not the voters.
01:47:12.000It's the stuff that's happening in D.C. When I went and served in the military, I'm like, I ain't going for the people in D.C. I'm doing it for the American people.
01:47:26.000For me, I wake up in the morning, I go to bed, and I don't like nobody in D.C. I don't like nobody.
01:50:34.000We know the joke you said in 2010 was acceptable then, but you're fired now.
01:50:38.000Cancel culture is not far leftists advocating for and calling for death and engaging in terrorism and us being like, you shouldn't have a job at this company.
01:50:46.000So I'm okay if these people are advocating for death and murder and terrorism for us to be like, you are going to be canceled for that.
01:52:06.000That they were making a whole lot of money with their chicken farms or whatnot.
01:52:11.000But then there was somebody in that community, while they were asleep or whatnot, they were going around and turning up the temperature in the...
01:52:38.000They walk around, they poop where they stand, and they make funny noises.
01:52:41.000And there's this great meme, it's a 4chan post, where a guy says he was basically bored and depressed, and then one day his neighbors bought chickens.
01:52:52.000And then he said, comes home from work and he sees him walking around making funny sounds and he chuckles.
01:52:56.000Now he wakes up in the morning and he watches and he smiles and all of a sudden he's feeling better.
01:53:00.000And I'm like, I'm telling you, I firmly believe that if someone is looking at chickens but still claims to be depressed, they are lying for attention.
01:53:09.000Because I don't know how you look at those things and you don't laugh at them.
01:53:45.000Yeah, the Asian guinea fowl, I think it was called.
01:53:47.000And so they saw the roosters basically would fight when you put them together, and they were like, hey, this is funny.
01:53:55.000But then what happens is when people started trading them around laughing at the roosters fighting each other and having cockfights, when Europe realized...
01:54:03.000Hey, these birds lay an egg every single day.
01:54:06.000Because it used to be like, hey, I found some eggs.
01:54:49.000Apparently, the rumor is right now that Donald Trump just bought, like, what, like $5 million worth of Ethereum?
01:54:54.000And already owns apparently millions of dollars of Ethereum more.
01:54:58.000Now, I don't know if that's true, and I ain't going to give anybody advice on finance or anything like that, but I would just estimate, I would assume, if Donald Trump is buying Ethereum, and he's going to be president, and he appointed a crypto czar, I feel like they're going to want Ethereum to increase in value in some capacity, or Trump expects it to, and that's why he's buying it.
01:55:27.000Just the fact that he's a pro-crypto, you know, is going to have a pro-crypto administration is going to do great things for the whole fintech.
01:55:34.000And he wasn't on board at first, wasn't he?
01:55:40.000But, oh, actually, yeah, I think early in the days he was saying the dollar's better, we don't want it, but now he's turned around and, you know, he's good.
01:55:49.000If he launches a Bitcoin reserve for the United States, which is very smart and should be done, Bitcoin goes up to, what, half a million?
01:57:19.000It's really funny, too, because remember that story where Max Kaiser offered Alex Jones 10,000 Bitcoin, and Alex was like, I don't know what you're talking about, Max.
01:57:33.000But back then it wasn't worth that much, so Alex was like, Max, I don't know what you're talking about.
01:57:37.000Sure, I appreciate it, whatever, and then just never followed him up on it.
01:57:41.000Well, they'd have taken it from them anyways.
01:57:43.000No, but in all seriousness, you always got to mention, anybody who had a thousand Bitcoin ten years ago would have sold it seven years ago.
01:58:15.000You don't know what's going to happen on this wave.
01:58:20.000I think we're going to start seeing stable growth, and it's going to turn into something akin to the stocks where you see a 5% growth each year or something like this.
01:58:30.000Considering the halvings that happen, the halvings where it becomes harder and harder to produce Bitcoin, that's going to usually cause a spike.
01:58:52.000With Trump talking about it, the U.S. government getting involved, all these other governments getting involved, we're getting to the point where people are not going to want to offload it so dramatically, and it's going to be treated much more as a ubiquitous asset and a hard commodity of some sort, in which case the growth will be stable.
01:59:09.000I guess the bad news for most people is you may have missed the train.
01:59:13.000I don't see a reality where you get these massive gains.
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