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00:06:48.000President Trump on Friday suggested the U.S. could carry out a friendly takeover of Cuba as the president has used a fuel blockade to increase the pressure on the communist regime in Havana.
00:06:57.000The Cuban government is talking with us.
00:06:59.000They're in a big deal of trouble, as you know.
00:07:01.000They have no money, no anything right now, Trump told reporters.
00:07:04.000Maybe we'll have a friendly takeover of Cuba.
00:07:06.000We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.
00:07:09.000Trump imposed a fuel blockade on the island in an executive order at the end of January in a push to collapse the regime, which relies heavily on energy and food imports.
00:07:18.000The United Nations top official for Cuba warned on Wednesday that daily life on the island is becoming fragile with increased strains on health care, water services, and food distribution.
00:07:28.000U.S. officials reportedly met Thursday with the grandson of 94-year-old former President Raul Castro, considered the de facto leader of the totalitarian regime, on the sidelines of a conference in the Caribbean attended by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
00:07:41.000Marco Rubio has got to be excited about this.
00:07:44.000You know, with his Cuban heritage, he's had pretty critical words for Cuba.
00:07:50.000I think most presidents generally are fairly critical, except for maybe Barack Obama.
00:07:56.000But, you know, considering the history that the United States and Cuba has, what do you guys think the chances of Cuba becoming a territory are?
00:08:07.000I think they're relatively high and growing.
00:08:09.000And I know a lot of Cubans are in large favor of this, whether they fled Cuba to come here or whether they're still in Cuba.
00:08:17.000I know that this is a very popular position among a lot of them.
00:08:20.000It's an interesting aspect of the immigration debate because we've talked pretty heavily about the idea of moratorium on immigration.
00:08:28.000We can't have, yeah, well, you know what I'm saying, right?
00:08:30.000But the people who still do hold that kind of overly romanticized idea of immigration to the United States, the Cuban immigrants are the ones that they hold that for because so many of them risked so much to come here and kind of take in and really portray American values.
00:08:47.000But I somehow don't see this happening.
00:08:49.000But I'm also team nothing ever changes.
00:08:59.000You guys paid more attention to politics.
00:09:01.000We don't have Greenland, but there is an agreement that is alleged to have been drawn up where the U.S. will have an increased military presence to defend against Russia and the Golden Dome is going to happen.
00:09:13.000So I think the whole Greenland thing was like the big ask that Donald Trump does.
00:09:17.000We're just going to take the whole thing.
00:09:19.000And really what they wanted was to be able to have more influence on things like the military situation and there's a lot of natural resources there.
00:09:30.000They wanted companies to be able to get in there.
00:09:31.000Yeah, the president does a lot of these, for lack of a better word, scare tactics where he just kind of threatens something really, really big.
00:09:37.000But we actually want a diplomatic issue or diplomatic solution for these things.
00:09:42.000We don't want all-out war or anything of this sort.
00:09:46.000Like we want something to come together relatively peaceful and something that benefits both sides.
00:09:51.000So you think he's just looking to get McDonald's into Cuba?
00:10:03.000You might want to look at the climate down there means that all those cars from the 50s are still in generally good condition.
00:10:08.000But I do think that I think that Donald Trump would, if he could actually make it happen, I think he would like to see Cuba become a U.S. territory.
00:10:17.000I think he probably conceives of it as something like, well, we've got Puerto Rico as a U.S. territory.
00:10:25.000And also the fact that the Cuban government has been so inept because of their socialist policies, like the Cuban people seem to be pretty interested in getting out of there, getting on a raft made of two-liter bottles of Coke or whatever to go the 90 miles from Cuba to Miami.
00:12:06.000It does make sense with the whole Monroe doctrine, the focus on the Monroe Doctrine.
00:12:11.000If you're unaware, the U.S. is kind of looking at Europe and the demographic changes over there.
00:12:15.000And they're saying in 30, 40 years, Europe's going to be a very different place because of the influx of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa.
00:12:25.000They're not really even sure that they share the same values that they used to.
00:12:29.000There's a lot of the stuff that's going on with free speech over there.
00:12:32.000So the U.S. has decided they're going to focus more on South America and North America and kind of enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
00:12:39.000And I mean, this does fall kind of in line with that.
00:12:43.000What I'm wondering is that, sorry if I cut you off.
00:13:12.000That wasn't a false flag, though, wasn't it?
00:13:13.000They wanted him to stage a false flag where they would take, what was it, Americans or take Cubans, dress them up as Americans, and then kill them.
00:13:19.000And they would be like, look, they attacked Americans.
00:13:34.000I want to stabilize the region, you know, unnecessary conflict down with that.
00:13:39.000I mean, I'm pretty hardlined about, you know, Alberta can't become part of the United States.
00:13:44.000We don't want any more, we don't want voting from countries that are generally not conservative and not, you know, not friendly to our system and stuff.
00:13:55.000I do think that Cubans probably would be better voters than Quebecois, you know.
00:14:44.000I do think that it would usher in kind of a, because depending on how hardline you are on immigration, like I was saying earlier, if you're an American who's not necessarily in the space that we're in, where you talk about immigration the way we have, which is like caravans, what it's done to the economy, all of that.
00:15:00.000If you still have that kind of romanticized ideal, and people have been, we've been dealing with so many people coming here and hating to be here, flying the Mexican flag while protesting, you know, last summer.
00:15:14.000And so with that going on, you know, they're protesting with Mexican flags to not be kicked out of America.
00:15:20.000The idea of people who actually want to come here and want to share the same values that we do, that's going to be very inviting to a lot of Americans who also will be scared of being told that they're racist or they're sexist because they want to clamp down on immigration.
00:15:33.000I got a lot of crap because I said Anna DiArmis is a brown girl when she's, because she's Cuban and people, there are a lot of people like, she's white, she's white.
00:16:17.000You guys had to have talked about it the other day, but the lady who, her and her, her partner fled to Canada, found out that the cost of living was too high.
00:16:25.000Yeah, and she's and then said, Oh, but we respect the immigration laws here completely.
00:16:30.000And I was like, Look, this could be the one rare example where she's far left on literally everything except immigration, which would have been hilarious.
00:16:36.000But we can assume what her views are on immigration based on the rest of her beliefs.
00:16:42.000And the idea that you would respect the Canadian immigration rules, but not hold the same truth for your own country is absurd.
00:16:49.000But you can blatantly ask the large majority of liberals on the street, like, okay, if I were to go and move into Germany uninvited without proper documentation, should I be allowed to stay?
00:17:04.000They basically confirm that you should abide by the laws of every other country when it comes to immigration, except for here.
00:17:10.000That's also their own, that's their own weird white supremacy where they believe that other people are somehow inferior to us because of what we have as a country.
00:17:21.000So they would believe that because you're an American, that you have a privilege.
00:17:25.000So therefore, you don't have the right to do that.
00:17:27.000Somebody coming from a poorer nation does have that right because they're just higher on the oppression.
00:17:32.000Well, they're just coming here for a better life, always.
00:17:36.000And we owe it to them as the most prosperous country in the world to just hand it to them.
00:17:41.000Even though pretty much for the rest of this country's history, we've had certain immigration laws and customs that we've required everyone to go through so that we retain that status.
00:17:53.000Like, bro, I'm searching for a better life.
00:17:56.000There's supposed to be like, there's supposed to be, you know, certain criteria that you meet to be able to come to the United States and become a citizen.
00:18:04.000It shouldn't just be that you can get to a port of entry and oh, I'm going to claim asylum.
00:18:08.000Well, you came through other countries to get here.
00:18:10.000You should be in the first safe country.
00:18:12.000And we used to have to, we used to be like, look, you know, are you a communist?
00:18:16.000Do you have affiliation with communists?
00:18:19.000And look, man, I'm all for reinstating the Communist Control Act of 1953.
00:18:23.000I know there's a couple parts that the Supreme Court said were unconstitutional.
00:18:29.000So let's get on that, man, because we got problems here.
00:18:33.000Well, but like, also, look, we used to literally kick people out, even if they did come here legally, we used to kick them out of the country for not assimilating.
00:18:41.000We wouldn't employ them and then we'd kick them out.
00:18:43.000And honestly, we should get back to that because guess what?
00:18:45.000You shouldn't come here and bring your garbage third world culture and erode our culture because that's exactly what you fled from.
00:18:52.000Like, I just don't understand why this is such a novel concept for so many people.
00:18:56.000Well, can I, sorry, let me just ask this really quick.
00:18:58.000Puerto Ricans, can they freely travel through the United States?
00:19:19.000But like, I think it's important that we secure the region, but I don't know that I want to just invite a whole new country of people to just come here freely.
00:19:29.000We could just get rid of Puerto Rico and take Cuba.
00:20:20.000I mean, as far as track records go, I trust him more than any president in my lifetime when it comes to foreign policy by a long, long shot.
00:20:28.000But I think sometimes the president says things and he surprises himself.
00:21:17.000I mean, that's what a hostile takeover is in business.
00:21:19.000I mean, just you just open the doors of Guantanamo Bay and all the U.S. military just rolls out and says, okay, we're in charge now.
00:21:26.000Well, see, what I think is going to happen, I think this is the president kind of teasing something.
00:21:30.000And then the next time it's talked about, or if tensions rise between us and Cuba, it's going to be like, oh, no, we'll come kidnap your president like we did with Venezuela.
00:22:36.000I mean, when we look at especially a lot of the negotiations when it comes to like a lot of these foreign conflicts, it always ends up being perfectly fine.
00:22:45.000Like everyone that just fear mongers about the worst possible scenario, it never ends up being that way.
00:22:49.000And I'm not saying that like it couldn't happen, obviously.
00:22:53.000We could fall into ball-out war with some of these nations, but obviously, well, not Cuba particularly, but just in the sense of, you know, talking about a lot of these foreign policy issues.
00:23:05.000And there's a lot of excitement surrounding a good amount of them.
00:23:33.000So limited, you know, limited conflict all over anyway.
00:23:38.000What about I'm effervescently concerned with shit spiraling into totalitarian, like total war?
00:23:45.000I mean, I understand your concern, but with Cuba, they don't have the backing that they, you know, this isn't, this isn't, you know, the 60s.
00:23:51.000There's no Soviet Union, the Soviet Union.
00:24:48.000The political class is worried about the historic drop, but the biggest change is among the youngest women who are the least ready to have children.
00:24:58.000Rose Paz's choice is help explain why.
00:25:03.000Ms. Paz, 22, grew up in Salt Lake City, the eldest of three children, born when her mother, an immigrant from Mexico, was 16.
00:25:09.000Her parents, a waitress and a cook, worked a lot, leaving her responsible for her younger siblings.
00:25:13.000She remembers having to sleep, having to skip sleepovers and birthday parties to care for them.
00:25:19.000Ms. Paz is studying for a bachelor's degree in marketing.
00:25:22.000She has a serious boyfriend, but does not want to have children now.
00:25:25.000I want to be financially stable and in a place I can call my own, she said.
00:25:28.000I saw my parents get stressed over money, and I don't want my kid to experience that.
00:25:32.000Not so long ago, women like Ms. Paz in their early 20s from backgrounds that are far from privileged would have been among the most likely to have children.
00:25:38.000Now this group is a key contributor to the country's declining birth rate, which is at an all-time low, down by over 25% since 2007, the year the fall began.
00:25:57.000So the way that they frame this as, you know, young women are deciding not to, that's strictly because of birth control and because of abortion.
00:26:09.000I wouldn't say strictly, but those definitely.
00:26:33.000There's also a nihilistic view of the way the American economy is right now.
00:26:38.000Now, you can't say that's not a part of it because that's affecting the men too, especially men who are still trying to hold on to the idea that they're going to have to be a provider, even if both of them are going to be working, which is what most relationships are these days.
00:26:50.000Somebody's going to have to be the main provider in that family.
00:26:53.000And there's a lot of nihilism around the idea that you're not going to own a home.
00:26:57.000Who wants to raise a child if you don't actually own a home to live in?
00:27:00.000Do you want to raise your kid in an apartment?
00:27:02.000Do you want to own a home as a renter where the rent can be jacked up at any point in time?
00:27:32.000It says, the decline has prompted hand-wringing among portions of the political class, with some conservatives calling it the triumph of selfishness over sacrifice.
00:27:39.000A report last month by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank titled Saving America by Saving the Family, warned that when a nation fails to preserve the family, the state soon fails to preserve itself.
00:27:53.000And I think that that actually is an important point, right?
00:27:56.000Like your society is made up of the people.
00:28:00.000And if you're not making more people, then you're actually allowing your society to age, decay, and you lose that vigor that comes from young people.
00:28:10.000You lose a lot of the industriousness that comes from young people.
00:28:13.000Old people or older people tend to be kind of stuck in their ways.
00:28:17.000Young people tend to be the ones that are looking to try new things.
00:28:22.000And if you don't have that vitality in your society, your society ends up turning into, you know, it loses that kind of edge, especially in a, you know, a time where things are changing so fast.
00:28:34.000Yeah, well, look, I think that the big problem here is you're exactly right.
00:28:39.000I mean, when people are super nihilistic when it comes to the country and the future of the country, they're less inclined to have children, yes.
00:28:46.000But the problem is, is that every single aspect of society and the government is literally rigged against the people, but specifically my generation.
00:28:55.000Like it's incredibly, job scarcity is a real thing.
00:29:37.000But, you know, wages reflect how the location looks.
00:29:41.000And I mean, our wages are incredibly high compared to most of the country in California.
00:29:45.000But, you know, that's not reflected in, you know, how people can't find homes.
00:29:50.000Like, I mean, there's so many things that have, that have contributed to these issues, but virtually every aspect of society is just rigged against people being able to own their lives.
00:29:59.000Like, we're all kind of slaves to debt at this point because we don't own anything.
00:30:05.000Why would I ever think long-term if I don't have anything for myself?
00:30:08.000I think that's the biggest issue with people of my generation.
00:30:26.000Do you think that that's going to be something that younger generations are going to, do you think they'll, because I understand your point about Gen Z, they don't own anything, so they don't feel, and this goes to the talk about socialism and capitalism.
00:30:36.000Like they don't feel like they own any property.
00:30:38.000So why do they care about property rights or things like that?
00:30:42.000Whereas if you have a bank account that has money in it, that when you turn 18, you know, do you think that's something that is going to actually affect the opinions of the young, like people being born now?
00:30:55.000And I think it's going to affect people of my generation thinking about having kids now because people that do have that mindset maybe are a little bit more optimistic.
00:31:03.000If, you know, if my kid is born between 2025 and 2028, or yeah, it was 2025 and 2028, that they're going to have X amount in a bank the second that they turn 18, even if I don't put a cent into it.
00:31:17.000That's very hopeful for people when a lot of it is that reasoning.
00:31:22.000Like I'm setting my kid up for a worse life than I currently have because prior generations, you work essentially to make your kids have a better life than you do.
00:31:33.000But that's becoming not impossible, but that's becoming harder and harder.
00:31:37.000We're seeing a little bit of that change with this new administration.
00:31:39.000But like prior, it's just been getting worse.
00:31:42.000The outcome just looks even more bleak.
00:31:45.000So I do think that that is a massive factor.
00:31:47.000And I mean, for me, I've, again, like, I don't have kids and I'm not married, but I've said, I'm like, I really want to have kids during this administration, like simply for that, you know?
00:31:54.000I do believe that marriage, like, isn't the divorce rate declining slightly because people that are getting married are getting married later and they're being more, they're being choosier about who they actually settle down with.
00:32:04.000Like my generation, the millennials were the product of your parents got divorced.
00:32:08.000And that was kind of the song of that entire time period, right?
00:32:12.000Was the romanticization of divorce and how you get through that?
00:32:17.000So the way that it's kind of peaked into nihilism isn't surprising to me in any way, shape, or form.
00:32:22.000And I've me and you have talked about this on the show before.
00:32:24.000I said, look, they're not going to go to capitalism, at least not in my opinion.
00:32:28.000They will go to ask the government for help because life has become too difficult to figure out for most people, anyways, these days.
00:32:35.000Have you seen the things where it's like you go to apply for a job at a gas station, you have to do like a personality survey and stuff like that?
00:32:43.000It's like it is unbelievably difficult just to do the base level things to survive now.
00:32:50.000So they're nihilistic in the extreme in a lot of ways and they're attached to social media, which is giving them the worst that humanity has to offer day in and day out.
00:32:59.000And I don't necessarily agree with the idea that you should fall into that type of nihilistic view of the future.
00:33:04.000If anything, being here, working here has kind of shown me what the other side of that coin is.
00:33:09.000And I was never a nihilistic person, but I get like our influences here aren't the norm.
00:33:15.000Like, like the conservative influences aren't the majority of the country necessarily, maybe half, whatever.
00:33:20.000But, you know, that's there's still a lot of influence from the rest of the culture that tells them don't do it.
00:33:27.000No, I was just going to say, I think that I agree with you, but I think there is a clear split between the sexes in my generation.
00:33:35.000You're seeing young men go really, really hard to the right and young women go really, really hard to the left.
00:33:41.000And this is a trend that's been happening for a long time, but it's, it's, it's culturally because, again, like each side perceives the other side as rejecting them, but they're also splitting up for economic reasons for the same reason.
00:33:54.000They're just going different directions.
00:33:55.000Like young men are going to like hardcore on free market capitalism a lot of the times.
00:34:01.000And then young women are really going hardcore towards socialism.
00:34:04.000Well, the women for the exact same reason.
00:34:06.000It's just different, different goals and outcomes.
00:34:09.000I think, I mean, I think you mentioned it, but feminism has a lot to do with massively.
00:34:23.000And I understand that, like, you know, the fact that it takes dual income to just make ends meet now, like, that's definitely true.
00:34:31.000But we got to this, or part of the reason we got to this point was because society has been telling young women that either you can have everything, you can do both of them, or you shouldn't even want to.
00:34:43.000I think Murphy Brown in the 90s, when she was like, you know, a CEO and had a kid, and it was like, oh, well, I can do whatever, I can do all of it.
00:35:26.000Somebody, or largely, you're going to be outsourcing things on a massive scale.
00:35:30.000But the problem is, is that everyone has this like dream idealistic situation for their home life or their family life or how they want to raise their kids.
00:35:38.000And most of the time, it's really unobtainable, especially now in today's society with, again, like costs of everything and, you know, just cultural norms at this point.
00:35:47.000But really, feminism largely, but a lot of the other aspects of society, when we look at the economy, everything's just rigged against the nuclear family.
00:35:54.000It's just the whole goal of all of this.
00:35:57.000I'm going to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but like the whole goal of basically everything from, I mean, the last 178 years since like the birth of feminism, basically, has been to rig people against having the conventional nuclear family.
00:36:12.000Well, yeah, I mean, not to get back into the socialism conversation, but that is the whole point.
00:36:17.000One of the tenets of Marxism was to destroy the nuclear family and get rid of that because the things that make people not want to be obedient to the state is a good family, community.
00:36:29.000And if they're both working, it doubles the amount of money the government.
00:36:49.000You're like, are you doing everything or is somebody helping you do it?
00:36:52.000And, you know, unless you're already enamored with right-wing politics where you're willing to look that, you know, look over that and kind of not really take it for what it is.
00:36:59.000But if you're somebody who's a lefty or you're more, I guess, undecided, you're like, eh, really?
00:37:06.000Like, that job looks like you can be at the office a lot.
00:37:11.000But I think a lot of the times, and not so much the Megan Kellys, but a lot of the newer social media influences kind of in my basket of things in the industry, they like wholeheartedly reject women working while at the same time having a social media job or something of that sort.
00:37:29.000And it's like, well, you're just a hypocrite if you're telling me that I should be the most trad wife in the world.
00:37:35.000And maybe you placate like that on the internet, but you're clearly not.
00:37:54.000It's cause, it's cosplay, and you're telling you're basically putting on the internet the message that men want to hear a lot of the times.
00:38:00.000And you're, you're selling yourself in one way or the other on the internet.
00:38:03.000So annoying when people wear costumes.
00:38:36.000Like, you're going to have to pull yourself up by success.
00:38:37.000Yeah, but they're the ones that screwed everything over for us.
00:38:40.000I like the philosophy, and it's a good thing to aim at.
00:38:42.000But like World War I, it got way worse for that generation than the generation before.
00:38:46.000Like, they had probably the worst of anybody in the last few hundred years, maybe.
00:38:50.000One of the worst industrial slaughter of humankind.
00:38:53.000And the men coming back shell-shocked and unable to stand up straight from their trench foot warfare.
00:38:58.000Okay, anyway, Hitler's a result of that.
00:39:00.000You get people like that come out of that.
00:39:02.000And then after that, the next generation, World War II, they probably were a little bit better off than the silent generation.
00:39:07.000The World War I trench warfare was the most grotesque abuse.
00:39:11.000So ever since then, it's gotten better every generation until maybe people are saying this generation is the first time when things are starting to fall off.
00:39:18.000Well, yeah, obviously all of this is going to be in a somewhat way idealistic, but it's more on a practical sense.
00:39:26.000Like, sure, yes, there could be some worldwide event that really screws everybody over.
00:39:30.000That's kind of something that you can't really account for on that level.
00:39:33.000But like, I think the basic principle of this is, is that I don't want to raise my kids while I'm in debt and poverty.
00:39:41.000And I don't want to die and leave my kids with a million dollars of debt because I tried to provide them a good life and I wasn't able to.
00:39:48.000You think there's like an actual, you brought up conspiracies earlier, and I wonder about like, what are these people, World Economic Forum?
00:39:52.000They say you want to live in the pod and eat bugs and be happy.
00:39:55.000Are they literally trying to destroy families, put your body in a vat, we'll extract the semen and the egg, we'll make, we'll find which one of you has the best genetics and extract that Peter Teals of the world, maybe.
00:40:05.000And then make the best humans under control.
00:40:08.000So it's, it's, because otherwise you've got these, these rogue individuals getting married and having guns and protecting their borders.
00:40:15.000And like, how can you, how can you make sure they don't go crazy and start a world war if you, if they have their own property and families and things.
00:40:23.000Well, the population's not the ones that start the war.
00:40:27.000That's the governments that the Soviets, like Lenin was, he was like a, you know, the population can rise up and cause a.
00:43:00.000The liberal economic order is a banking cartel, basically.
00:43:03.000But you were just saying that we are the government.
00:43:05.000And the point that I'm making is if it was really like that, if it was really the way that you laid it out earlier, then it would be a no-brainer that this would get passed very easily.
00:43:16.000I will always say we are the government.
00:43:18.000Even if they have their boot on my neck, even if they have a gun on my head and a boot on my neck, I will still claim that we are the government of this country.
00:43:24.000And that's how it's always going to be.
00:43:26.000You might want to change what the country is for a moment and pretend like you're in control or that you're the government and I'm not, but welcome to the United States.
00:43:34.000Well, I mean, yeah, I agree with, or I understand your framing in the sense of you're going to die on the hill, but we are the government in the United States.
00:43:42.000I mean, we're not, we're not the government.
00:43:45.000We elect people to represent us in the government.
00:43:47.000But in this version, do I get a pension?
00:44:34.000I'm the exception to the rule, apparently.
00:44:36.000So, but yeah, I mean, look, I do think that the problems that Gen Z is facing are largely creations of the not just the government, but of also the boomers.
00:44:50.000Like, you know, the boomers that own multiple homes and everyone looking at their house is their biggest investment and that's going to make them a million dollars or whatever.
00:44:57.000I don't blame them too much because they didn't know.
00:45:01.000This order really tricked and hoodwinked the Americans to think it's normal to have $1.75 gallon gas.
00:45:07.000It's normal to have all these foods from all over the world.
00:45:10.000In the background, they're like taking over countries and overthrowing governments.
00:45:13.000In 2008, when the government just started printing money like mad, we're taking loans out at 0% interest and buying stocks.
00:45:20.000The reason that we have like, people talk about income inequality is so terrible right now, and it is really, really bad.
00:45:26.000A big part of the reason is because after 2008, when the government brought interest rates down to zero and kept them at zero for 10 years, people that had money, people that had assets would take loans out with their assets as the collateral.
00:45:38.000They would take a loan out at like 1% or 2% or whatever.
00:45:41.000They put that money in the stock market.
00:45:43.000And as the stock market goes up by 10, 15% a year, they're making that money.
00:45:48.000So they were literally getting money for almost free, putting that money in the stock market just for it to grow.
00:45:53.000So people that had assets and have wealth and stuff like that, they had a huge advantage.
00:45:57.000And it's because the government decided that they were going to have that policy.
00:46:00.000And every time the government talked about raising interest rates, the stock market would take a tumble a bit.
00:46:05.000And then the government would get, oh, no, we can't do that.
00:46:07.000Blah, I think that like interest rates were zero or around zero for almost a decade.
00:46:14.000Quantitative easing was the worst policy they ever had.
00:46:18.000Yeah, well, and like the other thing is, is that, I mean, even though we have a massive affordability crisis and all these things, like obtaining wealth in this country is perceivably very hard, but it's actually easier to obtain wealth in this country than any other country in the world.
00:46:51.000There's this thing, opportunity cost in economics, which is fascinating.
00:46:54.000Like, okay, I'll go make $1,000 doing this job, but if I have to turn down a million-dollar project, then I'm actually going to lose $990,000 doing this work because the cost of opportunity is lost.
00:47:37.000Like, I was picturing my parents being like, well, did you go return that thing for $20 to Amazon?
00:47:42.000Did you go spend an hour of your day to go return that item?
00:47:45.000I'm like, well, I could have, if you understand economics, I can make $900 in that time period and just eat the $30 loss.
00:47:52.000And that's the opportunity cost of how you really make money in reality.
00:47:56.000Don't chase these $20, $30 penny pinch.
00:47:58.000Like, it's so distracting, requires so much energy when there is other ways to accrue massive amounts of wealth in the background.
00:48:04.000Well, penny-wise and pound foolish, I think, is like a term for that.
00:48:08.000Yeah, but I mean, look, if you look at all the, not all, but if you look at most people that have a lot of money, they're pinching their pennies all the time.
00:48:20.000And that's the difference is that you're wasting time like funneling money back and forth when you legitimately should be kind of penny pinching, when you should be on a budget.
00:48:27.000You're like, oh, I need to return that thing for $10 at Target or whatever.
00:48:32.000And that's going to take an hour or whatever of my time.
00:48:36.000But people that have wealth don't even let go of that wealth for little exactly little dumb things at Target anyways.
00:48:47.000It was the cane, by the way, is what I was going to return.
00:50:02.000Let them decide where they're going to spend their money.
00:50:04.000So from the U.S. Sun, travelers are now banned from wearing pajamas at Tampa International Airport in Florida, according to the latest social media posts from the hub.
00:50:12.000The Expost shared a graphic that plainly states, it's time to ban pajamas at Tampa International Airport.
00:50:17.000The post references the airport's previous successful banning of Crocs while calling to that.
00:50:24.000Honestly, we should have a nationwide ban on Crocs.
00:51:32.000Like, I don't fly wearing pajamas, right?
00:51:34.000I don't get dressed up in a suit, but I don't wear, like, I, what?
00:51:38.000The argument for men is like, you shouldn't wear pajamas just because you're going to get pickpocketed if you've got your wallet in your pocket.
00:51:43.000Wear something that you can actually conceal.
00:51:46.000I just like getting through security clothes.
00:51:59.000Like, unless you're doing like a long international flight, you know, if you're going, like, you're flying to Hawaii, I can, maybe I can understand like wearing something a little more comfortable or whatever.
00:52:08.000But for the most part, do you need to wear pajamas?
00:52:12.000And I understand your argument about, oh, you know, the seats are not comfortable.
00:52:23.000If you're on an international flight or if you're on a long flight.
00:52:25.000So as long as you get the meal, then you can wear pajamas or look, I mean, look, if you're going from Boston to Orlando, do you really need to be like, oh man, I got to make sure that I wear this.
00:56:46.000People want to fly for the smallest amount of money possible.
00:56:51.000And to be honest with you, I know that they're not, maybe Florence flights aren't the cheapest they've ever been, but I remember a time because I'm old when it was like every flight was like $900.
00:57:01.000And this is $900 in 1910 money, you know?
00:57:04.000So like it used to be way more money 2010, right?
00:57:09.000Well, I was making a joke about how old I am because I'm old.
00:57:44.000But the thing is, nowadays, coach flights are actually pretty reasonable.
00:57:50.000Did you see the article the other day about the, she's like a Vogue, she was a former Vogue editor, I think, who's like the stylist for Zora and Mamdani, who like left first class for business because they said that the flight attendant was microaggressing her.
00:58:06.000I will volunteer as tribute to swap seats with her.
00:58:11.000People are so something I do on airplanes, just letting everybody know out there: when you see me at the airport, get ready for this.
00:58:16.000I'll get on the plane, I'll sit in my seat, and then I'll like, when everyone's boarded, I'll look around for like an empty aisle because sometimes there are, and I'll just get up and go sit in the three-seat aisle.
00:58:53.000I think most places do still abide by that.
00:58:55.000I think, unless you're maybe at like in a beach town, they're probably going to be like, dude, put a shirt on.
00:59:01.000So it's like up to the private establishment what their dress code is, basically.
00:59:04.000Well, yeah, I mean, I think there should be a general sense of what you should do in polite society, not simply just in private establishments.
00:59:14.000Do you think bikini bottoms, like those dental floss strings up the ass, are too like just basically public nudity?
00:59:20.000Because I guess you don't wear them again, you don't wear them at the mall if you're like on a beach in Florida and you want to wear a string bikini, you know, that's something that that's you know, it's personal preference.
00:59:28.000But again, it kind of depends on the beach, but also like you know, because if you're in if you're in New England, if you're at like Mesquamicot, whatever up there, you're not going to see a lot of people rolling around with string bikinis.
00:59:39.000But if you're down in Fort Lauderdale, that's normal.
00:59:58.000It does look like it basically is porn.
01:00:01.000I mean, like, also, it's like you go to the air, you go to the airport, you're going to get either groped or have a photo taken of you where they're, you know, basically looking at your insides.
01:00:41.000Like you go out to a store and it does seem like nobody's trying anymore.
01:00:45.000It's like, does nobody even like, and that's more, we could take that back to like the birth crisis discussion where it's like, is nobody even signaling to the world that they're like, that they take care of themselves well enough to want to actually get together with somebody and maybe start life together.
01:00:59.000But I'm speaking purely from like an angry stance.
01:01:05.000When I lived in LA, I was an actor in LA and I stopped wanting to present myself as beautiful because it was so, it felt so fake.
01:01:13.000I was like, I just would dress in garbage.
01:01:16.000It's not even doing anything to the extent that you need to present yourself as beautiful, but like just bare minimum aesthetically pleasing.
01:01:23.000Like take a shower and put normal clothes on.
01:01:27.000Don't wear sweatpants and pajamas to go to the grocery store.
01:01:30.000There's like a revolt against make people wanting me to look beautiful all the time.
01:01:33.000And I wonder if social media is making people revolt in their private lives.
01:01:38.000No, this is this is this is not, I don't think this is because of social media.
01:01:41.000No, I think social media makes people want to fake what they look like and they want to compete with the people that are that they see on Instagram and stuff like that.
01:01:52.000It is actually true that most of the CEOs, there was this photo of like the Netflix CEOs touring Warner, like the Warner Brothers lot, and they just are so badly dressed.
01:02:02.000A lot of them like the faded blue jeans and the jacket.
01:02:05.000Yeah, they probably paid $300 for those faded blue jeans.
01:02:08.000But the fact remains, like people that are in, people that are wealthy nowadays, because it's so kind of in vogue to hide your wealth for a lot of people, particularly people that are super, super rich.
01:02:20.000Like, you know, Bill Gates was always walking around in like, you know, it looks like he shopped at Target.
01:02:25.000Mark Zuckerberg wears the same shirt every day to cut down on making decisions.
01:02:29.000And, you know, there's a little bit of eccentricity with that, but also like those people or that kind of kind of idea of like, don't show off your wealth, don't flaunt it.
01:03:43.000And I think that as the band stopped kind of going as hard because we kind of, we, you know, made our career and we didn't have to take every tour that was out there.
01:03:52.000Like, I was just like, all right, you know what?
01:03:54.000I kind of, and also I probably, it probably had something to do with the fact that I stopped drinking.
01:05:16.000But also I find that it is in like the big international airports.
01:05:20.000Like I tweeted out on my way here that I hate flying out of LAX just because I have to deal with so many foreign nationals and it's just really daunting to me.
01:05:29.000But I think there are like things like this are worse in airports like that.
01:05:33.000Isn't there another airport you can fly out of other than LAX?
01:05:54.000There was, you mentioned earlier in the show how it was uncomfortable to be around people that were speaking Spanish or speaking other languages all the time.
01:06:00.000And I didn't respond or you said something about that.
01:06:02.000No, it's not, it's not uncomfortable necessarily, but the fact that I can, that I essentially have to go to establishments in America, an English-speaking country, and I go to establishments that don't speak English and don't even have menus in the English language, that is a problem.
01:06:54.000Without being, you know, it's like we're surrounded by it without being surrounded by it.
01:06:57.000Well, but I think the problem is, is that people seriously have been so brainwashed with this idea that we have to just accept everything here.
01:07:06.000Like there, and we shouldn't because guess what?
01:07:09.000We have the, to be honest with you, in my personal opinion, we have the most superior country and culture in the entire world.
01:07:17.000And we should be able to preserve that, as does every other country in the world.
01:07:22.000I wouldn't be able to walk into most countries as an American and not be able to, or not have to abide by their cultures and customs.
01:07:30.000I would be forced to learn the language if I was there long term.
01:07:34.000So, why exactly is it something that we are forced to embrace here is that people bringing their cultures here, eroding ours, not abiding by our basic immigration laws.
01:07:46.000And I could make a list that goes on and on about things that people do that blatantly disrespect the country when they aspire to come here.
01:07:56.000I think it's a they're planning to globalize and get all these people with like one world government and they're trying to shatter the rights.
01:08:02.000I agree that that's what it is up here, but it's not down here.
01:08:05.000They're preying on the empathetic nature of the voters and the people, and they're brainwashing them to think that if I don't want, look, if I go to India, I want to and I want to and I expect to experience the Indian culture.
01:08:20.000I don't want to have to go to an American city and experience New Delhi.
01:08:25.000Like, I don't, and I shouldn't have to, and that's not how it should be.
01:08:28.000But to say that is now racist and bigoted.
01:08:31.000And everyone's been brainwashed to think that no, I have to accept these immigrant communities coming and taking over our American cities.
01:08:38.000And if I don't embrace that, then I am whatever word.
01:08:43.000Xenophobic, racist, whatever you want to call it.
01:08:46.000Your point, the whole brainwashing thing is actually a really succinct point because the idea that having an opinion about your own country, the idea that that makes you a bigot because you say, I like my own country, that's something that's actually prevalent on the left nowadays.
01:09:09.000Like, I, you know, begrudgingly have to follow it because of work.
01:09:12.000But in general, I always thought it was weird how in the, you know, even in the early 2010s, maybe even earlier, where I saw this good amount of people that I knew who just seemed to dislike America, despite the fact that they were born into immense levels of privilege.
01:09:27.000Like, I grew up in, I grew up in like Woodbury, Minnesota.
01:09:31.000So where I grew up in the city was like the first development built in that town, which is right next to like a jail.
01:09:36.000And then there was the rich side of the town, which was built after the fact because 3M opened down there and 3M has a lot of, you know, wealthy people at that time.
01:09:45.000And whether it was the people that I went to, some of the people I went to school with and then more that I met along the way through skating, there just seemed to be this tinge of almost embarrassment.
01:10:27.000I mean, we can talk about even just, I mean, I know that the Somali communities in Minnesota have been such a hot topic for the last handful of months, but they're like some of some journalist friends of mine uncovered, I think it was $88 million that had gone through the Minneapolis airport and flown out of the country.
01:10:42.000Oh, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about that, yeah.
01:10:44.000Yeah, and it's like they have to be moving a million dollars in cash every single day.
01:11:08.000It's not the majority of people, which is, again, the reason why I want to shut down all immigration for at least a decade and then let us just bounce back from it.
01:11:18.000Let us get the people that are here legally in either either if they end up being essentially forfeiting their allegiance to the United States, which I argue a lot of them already have.
01:11:29.000They've gone against their oath that they take when they become naturalized.
01:11:33.000If you have an allegiance to a foreign nation, you should have your citizenship right.
01:11:37.000You go to a protest and you're flying a foreign flag, that should be immediate immediate deportation.
01:12:02.000Then no, I don't have a right to deport you.
01:12:03.000But when you take an oath of citizenship to this country, you essentially say that your allegiance is to America, not a foreign nation.
01:12:11.000But there are people in Congress right now that say that their allegiance is to a foreign nation.
01:12:17.000That goes against your oath of citizenship.
01:12:19.000Well, sometimes it's, I have an oath to the ethos of the United States, the nation itself, but if someone co-ops the nation, I have an obligation to take it back.
01:13:00.000And you're flying a flag of a foreign nation at a protest and you're like, you know, like you saw in LA, there was a lot of people that were flying the Mexican flag.
01:13:08.000I don't care if they're illegal or if they came here and became a citizen, you should be stripped of your citizenship and deported.
01:13:17.000If you have an allegiance to another country, like the Somalis in Michigan or Minneapolis, if they have an allegiance to Somalia, go back to Somalia.
01:13:26.000Yeah, well, and I would argue if you are, if you're an immigrant to this country, whether you're legal or not, you should be stripped of your citizenship if you're defrauding the country on that large of a scale.
01:13:34.000Like those Somalis that are literally funneling money out of the country and into Africa, then yeah, you know what?
01:13:40.000You should be denaturalized and shipped back to your country of origin.
01:13:45.000The argument that you get from the left all the time is, oh, well, you know, they bring such economic act such economic activity.
01:14:00.000Well, and on like on top of that, the argument that they actually are producers when it comes to the economy or stimulants to the economy, they're not.
01:14:08.000Somalis specifically pay like something a tenth of the taxes that the average white person in Minnesota does.
01:14:14.000So it's like they're not paying taxes.
01:14:16.000They're largely on like government benefits.
01:14:23.000You shouldn't have to, you shouldn't be allowed to take any kind of, like if you come to the United States, you shouldn't be allowed to sign up for any kind of government support or anything like that.
01:14:29.000If you come to the United States and you are allowed to stay, the reason that you're allowed to stay is because you're a benefit to the United States economically, because you bring something to the country.
01:14:38.000You shouldn't be able to come to the country and be like, you know, let me get on to some kind of benefits and stuff like that.
01:14:43.000You should have to be second generation.
01:14:48.000So that's talking about asylum, and the only people that actually can get asylum are Canadians or Mexicans.
01:14:53.000Because the way that asylum works is as soon as you get to a country that is safe for you, if you're fleeing political oppression, if you go to your neighboring country and it's safe for you there, that's where you stop.
01:15:14.000Can go to another country that's bordering, that doesn't border.
01:15:16.000You're saying the only way to claim asylum is to walk over the land to get to the United States?
01:15:21.000That's essentially what stay in Mexico is.
01:15:23.000Yeah, the asylum claim, the way the asylum laws work is if you can go to a bordering country that's safe for you, and an ocean is not a border, an ocean is an ocean.
01:17:15.000And like, look, I can only think of maybe a maybe one country that is under actual political persecution that we should allow refugees in from because they're compatible.
01:17:52.000They'll give you a dog suffering and like someone's saving a cat, and then they'll give you an ad to buy something next because it gets your emotions up.
01:19:08.000From the post-millennial, CNN staffers crash out over Paramount wins bid after Paramount wins bid to take over parent company Warner Brothers.
01:19:17.000In the wake of Warner Brothers Discovery saying that Paramount's counteroffer to Netflix's takeover bid was the Superior offer.
01:19:23.000CNN employees have expressed concern that layoffs are coming.
01:19:27.000CNN is a division of Warner Brothers Discovery, meaning Paramount and its head, David Ellison, will soon be overseeing the left-wing news outlet.
01:19:34.000One CNN staffer told status, we are doomed.
01:19:38.000Yet another staffer said, everybody is reeling about the obvious things.
01:19:41.000An insider told the outlet of the mood at the news outlet the panic at CNN right now is off the charts.
01:19:48.000They were already panicking because they hate David Zazlav, even though they work for him.
01:19:52.000I mean, the tears are delicious, but there was also to the point earlier, there was things being said where filmmakers are like, I don't know how I feel about, you know, them being so cozy to Trump.
01:20:23.000Like, there was a great post that was like, they will never understand their own hypocrisy at the fact that they've controlled every institution for so long that they can't imagine anything not going.
01:20:36.000To your point about hypocrisy, it is not hypocrisy.
01:20:44.000Look, there are reasons to be generally distrustful of any level of consolidation.
01:20:49.000I do think speaking purely from the entertainment perspective, because that's my, you know, my genre or whatever, is like that them going to Paramount is the far superior deal because they're going to focus on theatrical releases for the movies and maybe giving more, you know, space to the television shows because they're going to focus on putting entertainment first rather than the level of political influence that goes into Netflix productions and stuff like that.
01:21:15.000But like the amount of money that they've spent on this, it's $111 billion all cash offer, $31 a share, $47 billion of it coming from the Ellison's private trust.
01:21:30.000So they also take on all of Warner Brothers' debt, which is like $33 billion.
01:21:36.000And they pay the $2.8 billion breakup fee that's basically saying they have to pay Netflix for basically pulling Warner Brothers away from there.
01:21:44.000That's impressive how you get all the numbers down.
01:21:46.000Well, I just did a video on it earlier.
01:21:49.000But the point being is like, it doesn't necessarily mean it's a good thing because the best option here would be that Warner Brothers operates independently and gets to live and die on their own.
01:21:58.000But it was very clear two years ago when they started canceling projects, basically signing things off to debt so that they could get tax, you know, tax breaks on projects that were already being made at that time.
01:22:10.000That what David Zazlov wanted to do was sell the company off.
01:22:14.000But, you know, some people don't believe that they would have passed regulatory approval.
01:22:19.000A lot of people believe that if Netflix had gotten the deal, that Trump's, you know, cabinet wouldn't have allowed it to go through, not to mention that part of the deal for Paramount is there's like a $7 billion insurance on there that if it doesn't pass regulatory approval, that will go to the Warner Brothers shareholders.
01:22:37.000So, I mean, consolidation is bad, but watching people at CNN worry about whether Barry Weiss is going to be their boss is actually kind of hilarious.
01:22:46.000That's one of the best parts about it.
01:22:48.000The post-millennial goes on, Netflix CEO Greg Peters said on Thursday that the company was no longer pursuing Warner Brothers Discovery.
01:22:56.000The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory approval.
01:23:01.000However, we've always been disciplined, and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance, Skydance's latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive.
01:23:09.000So we are declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid.
01:23:12.000Under Netflix deal, the streaming giant was seeking only streaming.
01:23:16.000HBO and their film studio, Paramount, sought to acquire Warner Brothers' entire company.
01:23:22.000Status said that CNN staffers are also panicking over the suddenly very real prospect that they could be working for Barry Weiss before the end of the year.
01:23:30.000In October, Paramount bought Weiss's outlet, the free press, for $150 million, and Weiss was made editor-in-chief of Paramount-owned CBS News.
01:23:38.000I love the fact that they're freaking out.
01:23:41.000The fact that in their mind, Barry Weiss is some like right-ring wing radical is just so funny to me.
01:23:48.000you think that this is going to have an impact on their programming and their actual on-air personalities?
01:23:55.000I mean, like, I've already seen Are they going to bring Don Lemon back?
01:24:01.000The other funny thing about this, you'll love this, is now James Gunn has to worry about working with David Ellison, which means that maybe you'll get the Snyder-verse back.
01:24:27.000Now they're consolidating the corporate power as the AI is growing underneath.
01:24:31.000And I understand it is sometimes it's fun to laugh at your enemy's pain, but that shouldn't distract you from what's actually happening, that this is a corporate, a gigantic, because entertainment and information flow are one and the same in a lot of ways.
01:24:44.000Like information, entertainment is a type of information flow.
01:24:47.000It can be a very subversive type of information.
01:25:06.000Apparently, what we've learned is that no doesn't always mean no if you've got enough money.
01:25:10.000Well, no never means no if you've got enough money.
01:25:12.000But to your point, you're talking about AI being the underlying kind of foundation.
01:25:18.000If AI is going to make people that are creative able to create things with less friction, with less difficulty, how is it that the media is still going to be the giant that you say it's?
01:25:30.000Because they're going to siphon off percentages of everything that you make.
01:25:52.000Yeah, you'll be able to set your fee as an actor.
01:25:54.000Harrison Ford's probably worth about $9,000 a second.
01:25:56.000If you want him for a cameo in your movie, I think $150,000 would be reasonable.
01:26:00.000You mean they're going to be paying Harrison Ford though?
01:26:02.000It would be like subscription fees go to Ford, and then they'd take a cut of that, and that's where the AI starts clipping off bits, and you get this like siphon class, you know, like bankers collecting interest and stuff.
01:26:11.000When these actors sign contracts with these studios now, they sign the right-of-way to like most of the time to their likeness.
01:26:19.000The same thing is happening to the animators in the industry, where basically if you're getting hired to do animation in Hollywood right now, you're being hired to do work that is going to be used to train your replacement, which is AI.
01:26:30.000I think it should be a human right to control your likeness.
01:26:33.000Matthew McConney has been talking about it lately, specifically.
01:27:00.000If someone's like, I want to put Han Solo in this thing, well, the character is the property of now Disney, right?
01:27:07.000Well, and you can blame the capitalism for that, right?
01:27:10.000Which is that back in the day, the actor reaped the benefits of this by making massive amounts of money with off the backs of these things being made.
01:27:19.000So, like you said, for Harrison Ford, whether it's Indiana Jones or whether it's Han Solo, now Disney, you know, they sign before James Earl Jones died, they have the right to his voice in perpetuity forever.
01:27:30.000They can use that voice and the companies will eventually hit a point where they're not going to need the actors anymore.
01:27:35.000First of all, like you're not going to see a rise of new franchises that are going to be that way, be the size of an Indiana Jones or a Star Wars anyways.
01:27:44.000We don't live in a monoculture anymore.
01:27:47.000Like it's going to be niche stuff online.
01:27:49.000They're already doing, they're already planning to set up, it might even be on there right now for AI uploads on Disney Plus where you're going to be able to make your own movies and stuff on there with various programs.
01:28:05.000Everything is going to happen so much faster.
01:28:06.000Disney is in a, if I, if I know, if I remember correctly, Disney has entered into an agreement with Open AI anyways to give their employees access to AI software to do their job better.
01:28:17.000So, you know, whatever that means at Disney, they're not good at their jobs anyways.
01:28:20.000But yeah, this story is actually in a lot of ways.
01:28:26.000We only think it is because we like laughing at the people who are going to be stuck working for David Ellison.
01:28:31.000Yeah, I mean, look, that's the part that's delicious about this, right?
01:28:35.000Is they're they're freaking out about, oh, no, we're going to be, you know, we're going to be taken into the right-wing echo chamber and blah, blah, blah.
01:28:43.000And that's why I asked if you thought that the programming is.
01:28:45.000It's possible that, yeah, that there will be a change in the way the programming looks.
01:28:51.000But at the same time, Trump, like Trump said, he didn't, like when they did the, what was it, 60 Minutes with Marjorie Taylor Greene, I think it was.
01:28:57.000And Trump's like, oh, this new administration is just as bad as the old one, even though it was, you know, Ellison in 60 Minutes.
01:29:04.000Well, I mean, anytime you talk to Donald Trump and it's not, you know, glazing him, he's like, no, it wasn't blah, blah, blah.
01:29:10.000So, I mean, I understand that that's kind of par for the course when it comes to Donald Trump.
01:29:14.000But when you're talking about more broadly, just the way that they treat the right, right?
01:29:17.000Because obviously anyone on the right, they're not just on the right.
01:30:14.000So it's, it's basically all the big names just get super huge.
01:30:19.000And then like the smaller guys find it, you know, kind of struggling over the, you know, fighting for the pieces and crumbs that are left over.
01:30:27.000Well, and the cycle moves so quickly, too.
01:30:29.000It's like, I mean, we saw the rise of, for example, like Sidney Sweeney so quickly, and it's kind of dying, you know, and it's going to continue to die.
01:30:36.000Like that's, that's how it's all going to be.
01:30:38.000And that's why we don't have the, like you said, like the legacy franchises aren't going to mean anything anymore because everything's so fast-paced nowadays.
01:30:45.000People don't have the like the tension span for it.
01:30:49.000I do wonder what I do look forward to seeing what kind of changes come to CNN.
01:30:54.000I do think that they're going to, they're going to make adjustments because they're not just, I mean, no one's going to.
01:30:59.000Well, I mean, I understand that, but the point that I'm making is like no one's just going to be like, well, give it up, guys.
01:31:04.000You know, let's go ahead and just pack it in.
01:31:06.000You know, I mean, they just spent all this money on the whole thing.
01:31:10.000They're going to be trying to cap and do what they can to make their money back and make it a profitable deal.
01:31:16.000The furthest left people already, I'm not even kidding you, they already consider CNN far right because David Zaslav was in charge of them.
01:31:23.000So it's like that level of delusion is not tenable.
01:31:26.000You can't actually live in that world and expect people to like live in your reality.
01:31:33.000And this is going to be, and I don't know.
01:31:36.000Like you were talking earlier about the possibility that some of these companies get broken up.
01:31:39.000Like this is the only other deal that I can think of when I think of like the amount of money that was moved here was like the debt financing that Disney had to acquire to buy Fox back in, what was that, 2018 or 2019?
01:31:52.000I forget what year it was that they ended up purchasing Fox, but they haven't even made their money back on that really.
01:31:57.000Like all they've used it for is to make a bunch of movies that nobody watches because they didn't actually put any effort into marketing the Fox movies.
01:32:04.000They become avant-garde things like Searchlight Pictures, and the rest of it is like basically Deadpool laughing at 20th century X-Men characters.
01:32:13.000But they're not making their money back on it just the way Disney hasn't made their money back on Star Wars.
01:32:17.000Disney hasn't made their money back on Star Wars.
01:33:12.000I don't know how you calculate that with stuff that goes to streaming because there's no true because there's no direct revenue that's sourced towards that specific piece of production.
01:33:52.000Like that was the guy who fought Nazis.
01:33:55.000You know, they tried to, we just did a story the other day that basically China tried to get Marvel or to get Sony, excuse me, to take the Statue of Liberty scene out of far from No Way Home.
01:34:06.000You couldn't do it because it's like the whole last 20 minutes of the movie.
01:34:24.000We were talking about, you were mentioning this, like the fact that China even has that kind of leverage over American companies is a billion people, right?
01:34:31.000Yeah, I mean, you keep like China keeps 75% of the box office, so you're getting scraps compared to what you get when you domestically.
01:34:39.000It's not worth it to bastardize American properties and American culture like that either.
01:34:45.000It destroys a lot of goodwill that people have towards them.
01:34:47.000People got really upset when they released Black Panther in China and they put the helmet on Chad Boseman so that they could hide the fact that he was black to the Chinese audience.
01:34:57.000He's getting, they get inside, they sit down with their popcorn, they're like, oh, they all just get up and run and they see black people.
01:35:04.000Well, you know, it's um, but the point was, is like they would hear the Americans here virtue signaling about, you know, racism and all the things that they do here, but then they're like going to kowtow to China just to make a couple extra bucks.
01:35:52.000But otherwise, the rest of it was like, it's novel because you can see John Wick fighting, I guess, Captain America or something like that.
01:35:59.000Yeah, but I mean, that's, you know, again, when it comes to AI, it's like every time something comes out and people are like, oh man, that's cool.
01:36:05.000And then someone says, well, you know, criticize it or whatever.
01:36:54.000You don't need to worry about where the cameras are positioned.
01:36:56.000Yeah, what you were talking about, how like I don't want to make a movie.
01:37:01.000Like, I don't want to make a movie either.
01:37:02.000And there is, I understand that people are going to be able to prompt it and stuff, but to make a coherent movie that people are going to watch.
01:37:09.000That will still take, even doing it with AI, it's going to take a decent amount of work.
01:37:14.000I mean, you can tell Chat GPD, give me a script.
01:37:17.000And then, you know, if you just plug it in and say, okay, make this, you're going to get those weird kind of AI.
01:37:24.000You're going to still have to train the AI to.
01:37:27.000I'm still partial to, like, one of the arguments they make now is that there's no such thing as the bankable action hero or the bankable actor anymore, that directors are more bankable than actors are.
01:37:37.000Because people will go to see a Sam Raimi movie.
01:37:39.000People will go to see a Quentin Tarantino movie.
01:37:41.000I don't want to go online and find you're going to get the examples, right?
01:37:45.000Where somebody that you've never heard of makes a great AI movie, but that's like just two steps too far.
01:38:04.000Content is different than movies to me.
01:38:06.000Like, there's a lot of people that are, you know, that you've never heard of that I love watching their YouTube videos or listening to their podcast.
01:38:13.000But that's not the same thing as sitting down in a movie theater and actually watching somebody tell a story.
01:38:18.000And like, so now that, you know, Claude can do such a good job, or well, not just Claude, but AI can do such a good job at coding.
01:39:14.000But even if, even if you're, you know, just doing searches and stuff, and that's why I mentioned apps because there's not really the marketing with that.
01:39:21.000You're just people that are looking to do things.
01:39:23.000They're going to say, make me the, you know, get me the best of this.
01:39:27.000They won't say, you know, make me this app.
01:39:30.000They'll just say, hey, you know, get me the best one of these.
01:39:34.000And then you'll end up with a situation where there's one that's the best, and that one gets spread around, and that's the one that people use.
01:39:39.000And there'll be some people that don't like the interface or whatever.
01:39:43.000So there'll be a second one that's way down.
01:39:45.000And then after that, there's going to be a thousand apps that people were trying, but they didn't really hit the spot the way that the best did.
01:39:53.000And I think that that's going to be more, I think that's going to be more prevalent than the idea that there's this just chaos of different movies that you could watch and stuff.
01:40:03.000And it's something that even Tim mentioned.
01:40:05.000He was like, you know, people are going to say, oh, you know, did you see blah, blah, blah's movie?
01:40:09.000Well, that's kind of talking about my point.
01:40:11.000It's, it's people are, word of mouth will get around and people will say, get me the best of this.
01:40:17.000And it's not going to be a situation where there's just a bajillion of slop AI movies that people are watching.
01:40:24.000There will still be a situation where people are like, oh, I want to see, did you hear about this one?
01:40:28.000I want to see it because everyone says it's good.
01:40:31.000That makes me, I want to get rid of copyright.
01:40:34.000I don't like, I think copyright has been used insidiously to control data.
01:40:39.000Like, like your dad had a lot of money and bought a cartoon.
01:40:43.000Now no one else can ever use it because somebody paid money.
01:40:46.000Like it got invented by the British, from what I learned, Queen Elizabeth, I think, to control the printing of the Bibles because they wanted to make sure they owned the flow of the Bibles going out.
01:40:55.000So if you want the best, you need access to the best data set.
01:40:59.000And if it's copywritten, you can't get it.
01:41:02.000And then some secret society will be using it.
01:41:04.000So I feel like we're like, as you see with Sea Dance, they don't care about copyright.
01:41:08.000And why would we hamstring ourselves if they're not?
01:41:12.000But the point that I'm making is it would be an organic thing.
01:41:15.000It wouldn't matter about copyright where people are just like, oh, I want to see this one because I heard it was really good.
01:41:57.000The point he's saying is to have a version of it that could let you watch YouTube.
01:42:01.000No, no, no, just a version of the data.
01:42:03.000If I want the code, not like everyone has to give me all their code.
01:42:06.000I'm not saying that, but we're up against people that don't care about your code, privacy rules, and laws, and they don't care if you're Tom Cruise.
01:42:14.000They're going to use you in movies anyway.
01:42:15.000The thing that I'm, when you go to like, when you are actually writing code or you're talking to an AI that can code for you, like it's writing the code.
01:42:23.000So you're not actually getting someone else's code.
01:43:40.000And the advertising, it was like was as expensive as the production of the record.
01:43:45.000Which is why the music industry is the way that it is, right?
01:43:48.000Because a lot of the artists, you know, for all the artists that complain about, you know, the hold that the label has on them or the movie makers who complain about the studio wanting it to look this way.
01:43:59.000It's like, look, unless you're footing the bill to market it to the public and they never acknowledge that part of it.
01:44:05.000They're never willing to admit that, look, I want them to take a risk on my piece of avant-garde art, but I want to take none of the risk to make it.
01:44:15.000If you want to say, look, I'll license this, that's one thing, right?
01:44:18.000They have the license for five or seven years or whatever.
01:44:21.000So they make the lion's share of the money, but then you get ownership back.
01:44:24.000That's kind of the way that the music industry has become nowadays.
01:44:28.000If you have, especially if you're a band that has a fan base and you have a history, it's easy to be like, we want a license for this long.
01:44:36.000Whereas when you're trying to start out and you're an unproven product, you have no history, you have no track record, you have no catalog, the label's not going to be like, yeah, we'll totally give it to you, give you, you know, here's 100 grand to do your record.
01:44:50.000And we don't know if you're going to, if you're even going to stay together for the next six months.
01:45:00.000I mean, and that's, you know, labels do that kind of stuff all the time.
01:45:03.000They're like, we sign a band for the life of the band is kind of the way that they say it.
01:45:08.000Because they want to say, we're putting all this money in up front and you've got X amount of records.
01:45:15.000So, you know, or for whatever the life of the band is, every time we invest money in you and every time we spend money on marketing, you know, this, we want to make sure that we get our investment back.
01:45:24.000And a label will sign 10 bands and maybe one of them will go and do, just be able to break even.
01:45:49.000You know, we've got like tons of stuff that we don't own that we'll never own.
01:45:53.000But like at the same time, like the reason we have a career, the reason we can still go and go on tour and know that people are going to come, the reason that people are still listening to our Spotify millions of times a month is because of the effort that was put in by us writing, but also the label, putting effort in and putting us into video games and getting our stuff on the radio and making sure that people were listening to our stuff.
01:46:17.000It's true of the people who end up doing a lot of genre sci-fi, right?
01:46:20.000Like they don't end up getting residuals on a lot of the shows that they do, but they've got convention spots for life and they will be able to make money off that.
01:46:26.000For as long as they're alive, their face is going to make the money.
01:46:29.000Yeah, the label really does do a lot of legwork in helping you build a career.
01:46:35.000And once you've built that career, once your name is out there, they can't take that from you.
01:46:41.000I mean, I suppose if you sign a bad contract and they own the name, that's a terrible idea.
01:46:46.000But labels don't usually own the name of an artist.
01:47:46.000It's Friday, but it's Monday through Thursday.
01:47:48.000We spend an hour after the show talking.
01:47:50.000We have people call in from the Discord.
01:47:53.000We have an uncensored version because, well, an uncensored show because YouTube is still kind of, you know, finicky about what you can or can't say.
01:51:28.000Did you make a comment about how you had the same name?
01:51:31.000I don't think so we were no I don't think so I think I I think whoever introduced us very briefly might have said something, but I definitely.
01:52:47.000I think that, you know, sometimes YouTube is a little, or yeah, the YouTube app is a little funky when you're actually putting in super chats.
01:52:52.000That's the thing about life extension is you're going to be like hanging out with your great, great, great, great granddaughter's best friends, and they're all going to look like you're 30.
01:53:02.000Ziggurat says, dating as Gen Z, especially an average-looking guy, is a hellscape, especially if you were conservative, stuck in a libtard state.
01:53:11.000I would love to find a good woman and have kids with, but I'm about to give up, to be honest.
01:53:16.000Well, don't give up and definitely don't settle for an AI chat bot because you'll never get a kid out of that.
01:53:22.000You can always do what I do or what I did.
01:53:37.000Corey Richmond says, my biggest pet peeve is a grown man wearing Crocs, pajama pants, an anime hoodie with unkempt beard and hair in public.
01:53:51.000Like, if you are a grown man and you're wearing an outfit like that, particularly if you have a gigantic belly, because they always, they always seem to have a gigantic belly.
01:55:39.000Omega Ratsu says, sorry, but feminism existed since the French Revolution and Marx plagiarized Flora Tristan and she got her cues from the French.
01:55:47.000Flora Tristan, 1843, Workers of the World Unite.
01:55:53.000Look, man, there is socialism that is not Marxist socialism.
01:55:56.000And I completely understand that the French Revolution was kind of really where socialism kind of started off.
01:56:03.000There were people that influenced Rousseau, but Rousseau kind of really made it popular with the whole like man is actually separated from his work and we need to make men closer to what they were when they were not living in cities and stuff.
01:57:48.000But if you're in public and you look put together and you look well-dressed, you are going to have people have people, you are going to have people respond to you differently than if you look unkempt and if you look like you're kind of a pile of dirty clothes.
02:02:01.000I say in this life, I know it's all right to go where we come and leave where we say when we might less fate just hang on tight and we both let go when the feeling's right.
02:02:15.000I won't pretend not to think it's the end when music is playing.