00:05:12.940Their argument to recruiters is Stanford and Yale are so elite, all we do is pass-fail.
00:05:19.860And that gives students the opportunity to pursue their interest.
00:05:24.460And frankly, if you're going to pass the bar exam at an incredibly high rate, which you should if you're admitted to either of those schools, then I would get it.
00:05:32.580I actually think just going pass-fail is a better solution than giving everybody A's.
00:05:38.880But Harvard now is saying they're doing away with great inflation.
00:05:45.800There's an article front page, I think, yesterday I was reading in the Wall Street Journal.
00:05:49.900Have you seen the number of kids that now get necessary medical additional time to take advanced tests
00:05:57.600and how skewed it is for rich school districts?
00:06:02.580In other words, you get untimed SAT and ACT.
00:06:07.180I have particular, I grew up in New York at the absolute peak of SAT prep frenzy where there were articles written, and this is in 1990, you know, 98, 99 dollars about people making $1,000 an hour to be SAT tutors.
00:14:05.540I mean, to some people it does, but to a lot of people it's like, okay, well, you know, you're a student who went to Harvard, but, you know, you're from Kenya.
00:14:14.580Was that a big help in you getting in?
00:14:17.340Like, as an international student of color, was that something that was taken into account?
00:21:28.860I thought they were missing quite a bit.
00:21:30.500I think that they did nail the fact that they thought that Kamala Harris was out of touch and that the fact that she, her, her immigrant transgender, immigrant transgender ad was devastating towards towards Kamala's campaign that Trump made.
00:21:44.060That was the ad that Alex Pfeiffer made, I believe.
00:21:46.540The numbers go when it comes to a level of support.
00:21:50.640Actually, that's a pretty rosy image for Democrats, because if they would have done it from 2009 until 2016, those numbers would have looked actually far worse for Democrats.
00:22:00.080What we saw through it most of that time, especially the Biden administration, was the realignment where states that had local Democrat control completely abolished.
00:22:10.300Remember, Mississippi in 2009 had three Democratic congressmen and was majority Democratic legislatures.
00:23:34.840But but I think that Republicans in large are in very favor of Trump and of the Iran war.
00:23:43.660That number is slipping, and it's especially slipping with voters under the age of 49.
00:23:48.420If you think of the entire lineage of the Iraq war, Afghanistan war, the war on terror, people before 1980 have borne much of the sacrifice of every one of those conflicts.
00:24:01.940So people born after 1980 are very, very, very pessimistic when it comes to foreign policy.
00:24:11.580And they've also had a change of heart around the subject of Israel.
00:24:15.020When the New York Times looked at just Republican voters under between the ages of 18 to 49, 75 percent of voters over 45, largely those who get their news from cable news, they were in favor of the war.
00:24:28.920Voters between the ages of 18 to 44, rather not 49, 44, 53 percent opposed the war to 39 who supported.
00:24:36.800And by a two to one margin, Republicans under 45 say it is not worth the cost of going to war with Iran.
00:24:44.360They're also the ones trying to pay for their mortgage and their kids' tuition and all the gas prices and everything like that.
00:24:49.760What's most shocking, really, of all the data is the question of Israel.
00:24:54.660When they asked about what you want from a Republican presidential candidate in 2028, 70 percent of Republicans under the age of 45 want the Republican presidential candidate to take a different approach to Israel than Trump.
00:25:07.320Among voters over 45, it was only 20 percent want a different opinion than Trump does.
00:25:13.100So it is a complete split. But we're not going to see that electorally for at least another decade because baby boomers and elder Gen Xers are by far the majority of Republican primary voters.
00:25:24.760It's going to take a little while to see that actually change out and bear out in elections.
00:25:28.380But we're probably a decade away from seeing a gigantic shift on foreign policy with inside the Republican Party.
00:30:27.280But as long as gas prices are high, I still think Democrats have the favor, but they would have like a 90 percent chance.
00:30:34.080Now they probably have like a 65 percent chance of winning the House.
00:30:38.020Let's talk to A.I. for a minute. There's been a lot of talk about the United Health Care CEO's assassination.
00:30:45.400What are you seeing as it pertains to A.I.? And I know you've got a discussion surrounding the danger.
00:30:53.040I know a lot of these AI guys and gals, unfortunately, they have huge security teams that are following them around now because they're starting to be a demonization, I think, of a significant level of big tech associated with it.
00:31:18.820I bring on journalists and experts to really just go through what is nonsense, what is the truth, and what's really in the middle that we could talk about.
00:31:25.080The numbers against AI are so aggressive and have shifted so aggressively.
00:31:29.280And what I predict in this episode that's coming out tomorrow is I think over the next three years, a serious assassination against a tech executive is not impossible.
00:31:39.280You know, the Luigi Mangione, how he is treated by the far left and how he is worshipped and glorified and almost treated as a saint is something to behold in the sense that they weren't repulsed by a murderer.
00:31:53.800And in the last couple of months, we've had two assassination attempts against Sam Altman.
00:31:57.740They were both unsuccessful, but they got a Molotov cocktail through his window of his house or in front of his house.
00:32:03.680It is not as long as you go outside, you are absolutely under risk if you are high profile enough.
00:32:11.900And I don't know if there's a security team in the world that could change that.
00:32:14.740And as and I think that the people like Kevin O'Leary, who have been going to bat and saying data centers and are good and whatnot, I think they have a lot of the wrong messengers.
00:32:24.500And as for every time that you have someone say something smart, like Jeff Bezos was on CNBC, had a really, really strong interview why I was good.
00:32:32.200You also have Dario Modi from from blanking on Anthropic.
00:32:39.060He's going on and saying 50 percent unemployment and a complete apocalypse of new jobs.
00:32:44.240They've created a very bad PR for themselves.
00:32:46.700And they've had and having, you know, billionaires that look like the bad guy from a superhero movie making the case for them is not really the best option.
00:32:54.980Lex Luthor would not be selling the best option for them.
00:32:57.560I think it's really coming to a boiling point.
00:32:59.280I think that there's a lot of anger, and it's getting worse as the generations are getting younger, and anxiety is overwhelmingly of, can I find a job, or is AI going to take my job from me?
00:33:11.200But what about the dog robot that we're all going to have that will bark and will never leave us and maybe can go fetch things for you?
00:33:20.240There's going to be upside here, too, Ryan.
00:43:17.600But we're almost at $40 trillion in debt, everybody.
00:43:22.120And the reality is that when it's clear that there's a real crisis because of the debt,
00:43:29.180and a lot of it is just confidence, confidence that investors have,
00:43:33.080confidence that the rest of the world has, including China, for example,
00:43:36.140which buys a lot of our treasuries and some of these other countries buy U.S. treasuries.
00:43:40.440a loss of investor confidence could trigger a major recession.
00:43:48.140And if Treasury auctions all of a sudden don't give us the kind of financial wizardry
00:43:56.760that we've gotten used to, our whole standard of living
00:44:00.360and the way that America operates, it all changes very rapidly.
00:44:03.780And if you're asking me what is the biggest,
00:44:05.360Other than internal divisions from endless wide open illegal and too much legal immigration, another conversation for another time, but a too rapidly changing American population from outsiders and the left becoming so insane that you start to get you start to wonder how far we are from like separatist movements and things like that forming.
00:54:32.500Now, I feel like a lot of people that are listening to us right now
00:54:35.780have grown accustomed to the amount of athletes that mention their religion,
00:54:40.780that, thank God, in a post-game interview, sometimes in a pre-game interview,
00:54:45.320athletes are some of the most religious public figures anywhere in the country by far,
00:54:52.280but it doesn't really get talked about that much.
00:54:54.480Where did the inspiration, where did the idea to write this book come from?
00:54:58.180Well, I think it came from what you just talked about.
00:55:00.200Like you, I watch a lot of sports, and you couldn't watch a pre-game press conference
00:55:05.860or a post-game interview without seeing people speak about their faith.
00:55:09.920And I was thinking to myself, surely I'm not the only person who is seeing this.
00:55:14.600And as I began to do some research and look into it, we'd always had it.
00:55:18.820I mean, going all the way back to Roger Stalbach, we had athletes who would say they wanted to thank their Lord and Savior after a round or after a game.
00:55:29.020But it became something that grew exponentially.
00:55:32.460And really over the course of the last six years or so, it exploded.
00:55:36.960And you can't, again, watch an event now without seeing the first thing out of a player's mouth
00:55:43.080being speaking about their religion and their faith.
00:55:47.480We were just talking about the Southeastern Conference
00:55:50.120and the fact that Sonny Hostin wants there to be a boycott.
00:55:53.860I wrote a book inside of the University of Tennessee's football season,
00:55:59.620and the amount of prayer before and after games really stood out to me.
00:56:05.020I don't know that your average fan notices it that much.
00:56:09.060But whether you can have a pregame prayer has turned into a big debate, unfortunately.
00:56:16.000Fortunately, the results have actually been very positive.
00:57:23.360And as a result of winning, the rules for all of that sort of thing
00:57:28.340in terms of prayer in public settings, like a football game, have changed.
00:57:33.620And I think those two things coalesced to bring about the confidence
00:57:39.520that these athletes have now to go out and speak about this.
00:57:42.480You interviewed a bunch of high-profile athletes,
00:57:45.620among them Scotty Scheffler, Kirk Cousins, Jonathan Isaac,
00:57:49.420coaches, Dabo Sweeney, somebody I know pretty well,
00:57:52.360works with me at OutKick, Riley Gaines. What did those athletes tell you about the importance of
00:57:57.960religion? It's the most important thing. What they have realized is especially when you have
00:58:03.620worked as hard as they have to reach the pinnacle, you win the trophy, you win the championship,
00:58:10.760you get the ring. The hollowness that comes immediately after that, where you're asking
00:58:15.920yourself, really, is this it? I've worked my entire life and I got this euphoria and it was
00:58:21.900momentary but what's next what's after this uh and a lot of them have realized that what's after this
00:58:28.940is far more important than what has come before it and so that's why they feel like they are the
00:58:35.100messengers now to go out and preach the gospel people some maybe even listening to us right now
00:58:41.580will say mixing god in sports feels frivolous because why in the world does god tell care in
00:58:48.620any way about a sporting event how would you respond god cares about his people and the
00:58:56.220athletes today are driving the culture i mean look that take anybody under the age of 30 maybe under
00:59:03.020the age of 40 and ask them to name five prominent religious figures you're gonna get zero i mean
00:59:09.100there's a zero percent chance they can do that they may have they name one you ask them to name
00:59:13.340five prominent athletes they can do it in a second they may not be able to name 50 so athletes are
00:59:18.460driving the culture and as a result of that they're the people that that they recognize that
00:59:23.720and they're using their platforms to spread a far more important message than who won the game last
00:59:29.080night tim tebow uh we were talking about sec football i know he played in the nfl but everybody
00:59:35.440who's a college football fan knows tim tebow i would submit that he may be the best of the modern
00:59:42.040era almost in the entirety of the 21st century in terms of using the sports to help spread his
00:59:48.660faith i think he's done a pretty phenomenal job of it does he jump out to you as one that may be
00:59:53.980at the absolute apex of what you're talking about he was he was really one of the original drivers
00:59:59.920of this prior to him there were a lot of christian athletes but they didn't feel comfortable going
01:00:05.040public uh they were they were afraid they were going to be called bible beaters it was kind of
01:00:10.160slur that was used against these athletes that tried to go out and making public professions
01:00:15.280tebow was one of them and if you will recall there was a lot of controversy and derision
01:00:20.400when he would go out and kneel what became known as tebowing uh now you can't watch an
01:00:26.000event where that doesn't happen i mean just go down the list tradion henderson aaron judge cj
01:00:31.920stroud fernando mendoza uh buck's favorite running back sequan barkley i mean these guys are all
01:00:37.680these guys are all out there speaking about their faith openly so uh you can't watch an
01:00:45.400event now where that doesn't happen and i think tebow was one of the original drivers he was the
01:00:49.980og um when you think about this in the book i encourage people to check it out i want to make
01:00:55.360sure i get it right god ball uh steve eubanks when you um you mentioned tebow all these other
01:01:02.460the things i think one reason that athletes are outspoken is it's hard to be on the public stage
01:01:09.460i like the example you gave where you win a super bowl uh you win the national championship whatever
01:01:15.320the apex of your capability is there can be a hollowness that follows that pursuit if there
01:01:23.060isn't a foundation under uh girding it and i i feel like particularly in the social media age
01:01:29.960where we are suffused all of us oftentimes in negativity and if it's not negativity it's envy
01:01:37.620uh that the ability to have a strong foundation that is your base matters now maybe more than it
01:01:45.400ever has before you know you were talking to ryan in the last hour about a lot of the anxiety that
01:01:51.600young people are feeling right now and they are that can go and because of that that is led by a
01:01:57.740collapse in institutional trust now that can go one of two ways you can either be radicalized by
01:02:03.560that on a bad side as we talked about with with the assassinations and at least talks of that
01:02:08.920or you can go the other way towards faith and i think the athletes are attempting to move people
01:02:14.240in that positive direction because it's the one institution over two millennia that continues to
01:02:20.000be strong um last question for you young men seem to have more of a religious bent of late than
01:02:27.340young women did you find that to be true some in the world of athletics and you've got six kids
01:02:33.800and i believe it was 14 grandkids might have been 16 grandkids you got a bunch i'm curious if you're
01:02:39.740seeing that in any of your own family and do you think women are coming to this later or do you
01:02:44.740think women maybe are grappling with this new societal norm of what it means to be a woman
01:02:49.960maybe even as much or more than men are i think it is men that are driving this at the moment
01:02:56.180Now, again, I say that. You mentioned Riley Gaines, who has become a good friend and was tremendous in helping me with this book. I've talked to a number of LPGA players who are very strong in their faith and very outspoken. So they are out there. But the numbers are overwhelming on the men's side, and I think it's because they recognize their role as leaders.
01:03:18.900and that goes back to Christian foundations as well.
01:03:22.980Men are supposed to lead in the church and in the family
01:03:25.480and as a result of that, these guys are stepping forward
01:03:28.300and doing that, but doing so in the love