THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?

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Speaker 6 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another edition of Thought Prime Thursday.

Speaker 6 This is Jack Basobic coming to you from a little bit of an undisclosed location, but I am here in Washington, D.C., where Cash Patel was just named and confirmed as your next FBI director.

Speaker 6 It's CPAC Week. There's a lot going on.
Charlie Kirk will be joining us in a little bit, but welcome once again to Thought Crime Thursday. I believe we have Blake Neff on the line as well.

Speaker 6 What's up, Blake?

Speaker 3 Howdy, Jack.

Speaker 3 Are you in like some kind of laundry room there?

Speaker 4 Or

Speaker 6 This is a very official studious office right now that I am borrowing from. And

Speaker 6 because

Speaker 6 let's just say there are shenanigans afoot this evening. And we believe we also have the great Andrew Colvett joining us.

Speaker 7 That's right. I am.
And by the way, if Washington, D.C. is good at anything, it's laundry.
No,

Speaker 7 there you go.

Speaker 6 Much better, much better than the Ukrainian oligarchs I was hanging out with last week. No, I was not sent to the front front lines, by the way, like Lake Neff would have us told.

Speaker 6 No, no, I was not shang-haid by Zelensky and the

Speaker 6 deployment enlistment squad. Hold on.

Speaker 7 Jack, let me set the stage here properly for Jack here. So all of a sudden, my Google alerts start going bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.
And I'm like, what the heck is going on?

Speaker 7 And Jack is traveling Europe with Pete Hegseth. But wait, there's more.
And then Scott Besson,

Speaker 7 You know, so our very own Jack Pisobic was an international traveling political superstar last week. Jack,

Speaker 7 tell us

Speaker 7 what it was like traveling with two of the all-star secretaries of the Trump administration.

Speaker 6 Well, I got to say, you know, it

Speaker 6 being invited by Secretary Hegseth and Secretary Besson with these European trips, with this really being this massive Trump delegation, a peace delegation, by the way, to Europe, one to NATO, and then another, which started out as a secret trip, which was then announced by President Trump as we were on the way to Kiev, Ukraine, with Secretary Besant with this mineral deal that everyone's talked about.

Speaker 6 And

Speaker 6 then, of course, JD Vanns in Munich on the heels of that. Look,

Speaker 6 I'll say it like this.

Speaker 6 It's a huge honor, but it's also a huge responsibility.

Speaker 6 President Trump's White House has embraced what I believe is called radical transparency.

Speaker 6 And this radical transparency includes, by the way, not just bringing in new media and independent media, like yours truly, a co-host here on Thought Prime, Human Events Daily, but it's also all the people that follow us on social media, all the people that come to us, and really just the ability to put everyone on social media, on X, on podcasts, in the driver's seat, having a front row seat to actual world history.

Speaker 6 We're not giving you the sanitized, editorialized tapes that you're used to getting from mainstream media. The Trump administration actually is committed to radical transparency.

Speaker 6 And of course, as you say, they were losing their minds that I would be invited on these trips. And I said,

Speaker 6 look, what are you afraid of me showing? What actually happens behind closed doors? Because that's exactly what we did.

Speaker 6 I took people directly into the meetings. I showed people what it was like.
We put up a whole special episode.

Speaker 6 We called it the night train to Kiev that people can go see at Human Events Daily on podcasts or wherever.

Speaker 6 And we can actually show you what it's like traveling to Kiev in wartime, being there with the secretary, having these discussions.

Speaker 6 And then, of course, the world leaders losing their minds that President Trump would conduct himself.

Speaker 6 with this direct diplomacy in ways that we haven't seen really since the 19th century in many ways.

Speaker 6 But again, just an absolute honor and a big responsibility, of course, to go there and also tell the story in an accurate way and give all of our viewers the ability to be there as well.

Speaker 7 So, Jack, what did it feel like in Ukraine? Is it like, does it feel like business as usual? Does it feel like a war-torn country?

Speaker 7 I'm actually really curious about this because I think that the press coverage of Ukraine,

Speaker 7 the conflict with Russia, the war with Russia, has been pretty abysmal. Like, I don't see a lot of on the ground, like, vibe checks.

Speaker 7 I don't see a lot of the reporting you would actually see normally, or you'd expect to see.

Speaker 7 And I think there's probably some really obvious reasons why we can get into that. But, like, what did it actually feel like? I'm just me just like an organic question.
I'm yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 So, I mean, you know, we were in Kiev, so we're in the capital. Look, Ukraine's a massive country.
So, Kiev, of course, itself is way is away from the

Speaker 6 far front line, so pretty several hours away.

Speaker 6 But actually, as as we were there at the same time, as an understanding of the seriousness of the war, there was actually a missile strike that hit Kiev the very morning that we arrived in the city and struck some, it was one of those ones that kind of got deflected.

Speaker 6 And so, the shrapnel and different pieces of the missiles that were coming down, I don't know what the intended target was, but they hit some residential areas.

Speaker 6 And in fact, we visited a hospital that had been hit back last summer. So, I mean, this is a really, this is a real war.

Speaker 6 This is something where people have been normalized, because it's been normalized, right?

Speaker 6 It's been three years now, in a sense, but people are used to now living on a regular basis with air raid sirens, with missile strikes coming down, with having to see the first responders and fire trucks and ambulances racing all hours of the night to respond to one of these things to hopefully get people out.

Speaker 6 If there are civilians that are wrapped up in any of this, which of course does unfortunately happen. And I'll give you an example.

Speaker 6 And by the way, for the average person it seemed like you know the air raid sirens go off and they they're non-plussed by it because they're almost used to it after three years but andrew we we go to the the hilton in kiev so the the hilton downtown kiev and we're only there for an hour they say get off the train go shower shave uh get your suit on because you know we're to the prime minister and then the ministry of finance and then finally president

Speaker 6 And so we go in and as we're, you know, just sort of doing the registration and checking in, there's there's a little piece of paper there.

Speaker 6 And, you know, usually they would say like, oh, this is what time breakfast is served or whatever. And they had a very nice breakfast, actually, continental breakfast.

Speaker 6 And then there was also a little map on it that said, oh, in case of air raids,

Speaker 6 our closest bunker is right across the street. So just located there.
So when the air raid siren goes off, don't worry. Just file down here.
You'll see everyone. We'll go across the street.

Speaker 6 We'll hide out. in the bunker there until it's over.
And they were just kind of walking through this as if it was part of the normal chat process.

Speaker 6 Like, oh, yeah, the gym's open this time to this time. The breakfast is this time to this time.
And this is where the air raid bunker is across the street. If you should use it during your stay.

Speaker 6 So it was, it's kind of surreal in the sense there, where there's almost like an eerie normalcy to it over there. But as a guy who doesn't live there, it's like, wait, what do you mean?

Speaker 6 The air raid, you know, obviously it's, it's very jarring as well.

Speaker 7 I mean, that's it.

Speaker 7 Kind of reminds me of like my experiences in Israel, by the way, where it was just like, you know, people kind of with this imminent threat of, you know, know missiles landing somewhere near them and uh rockets flying over their heads so yeah you you sort of normal i think the human experience is that you kind of normalize these things and you learn to live with them but it's a it's a very tragic thing and i think that on this note jack that some some of our audience could misconstrue our our sort of like anti-continuing the war stance you know, as being anti-Ukraine.

Speaker 7 It's not what it is. Like, we're very pro-Ukrainian people.
It's a tragedy that all these people have died.

Speaker 7 A whole generation of Ukrainians have died in this conflict.

Speaker 7 But that doesn't change the point that this war never should have happened. It was unwinnable.
I mean, Blake, you could probably summarize better than any of us.

Speaker 7 But

Speaker 7 JD Vance had this five-point breakdown of why the tone out of this administration is, it could feel anti-Ukraine, but it's not.

Speaker 6 There was a line that I said this to, I forget it was Politico or one of the interviews that I gave recently, and they said, well, who do you think is winning the war? Who do you want to win the war?

Speaker 6 And they want you to put you in this box where you say, Ukraine versus Russia, Ukraine versus Russia, Ukraine versus Russia.

Speaker 6 And I'm like, look, look, first of all, as an American, I want America to win. But as a human being, I said, look.
I want the people to win and I want the oligarchs to lose on both sides, on any side.

Speaker 6 That's what they don't understand about populist nationalists.

Speaker 6 populist nationalists want people in any country to be free from war to be free from being maimed and killed and blown up and destroyed this is the second time the second visit that i've made there during the

Speaker 6 started three years ago uh first time was in may of 2022 just a couple of weeks after it began a couple months i guess but they they don't want to hear that perspective because they want to have this sort of like marvel movie version of reality where it's you know it's good guys and bad guys good versus evil and you know, play up to those, that like 14-year-old version of events, as if you are a 14-year-old, I mean, as opposed to looking at the reality on the ground and saying, look, you know, this stuff is academic for us as Americans.

Speaker 6 You know, we get to root for our favorite team. Like, you know, you're watching the Super Bowl or something, or, you know, USA Canada is going to be tonight.
And of course, we're rooting for the team.

Speaker 6 But in a hockey game or a football game, you know, there aren't people blown to bits and coming home in body bags. So no, it's not like rooting on a sports team at all.

Speaker 6 It's the real war and total war is the realest thing that can possibly happen in a society. And it's something where it should be avoided at all costs, if at all.

Speaker 6 And that's obviously President Trump and JD Vance were elected to do. And that's what they're doing.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean, I just remember like

Speaker 7 Trump's town hall with Caitlin Collins. It was like one of the first big events of the last campaign.

Speaker 7 And she pressed him on the Ukrainian conflict and said, and he said, I just want the killing to stop. I just want the killing to stop.
And at the end of the day, that is the most important thing.

Speaker 7 And we can debate about, you know, how much territory they need to cede, whether this was winnable at all. We can debate Biden's strategy, a ton of different things.

Speaker 7 But the bottom line is, like, we want the killing to stop. Ukrainians are good people.
We want the killing to stop.

Speaker 6 Yeah,

Speaker 6 it's good people. And this is a cousin war.
And by the way, two Christian nations, right?

Speaker 6 To the Christians out there, do you really want to see another war where Christians are getting blown up, where Christians are being killed?

Speaker 6 And, you know, at the end of the day, people want to sit there and say what they want about NATO. It's, it's, they tell it, they use this phrase in the military all the time.

Speaker 6 And they say, look, you know, you've got your plans, you've got your operational, they call it a conop concept of operations.

Speaker 6 So you have your concept of operations, but a good operational planner will always remember that guess what? The end gets a vote. The enemy gets a vote.

Speaker 6 And in the real world, you can't just do whatever you want.

Speaker 6 And like, if you, if you're at the park and you, you see a bear that's sleeping and you go up and start poking him, and the bear attacks you, you can't turn around and say, oh, well, I didn't, I didn't attack the bear.

Speaker 6 It's look, it's a real world. It's just a real world.
And unfortunately, we can't change reality.

Speaker 6 So the best we can do is manage our perceptions of reality, manage our expectations of reality, and live in the world as it is that we're given.

Speaker 7 Well said.

Speaker 7 Blake, any thoughts? Do you want to read that comment?

Speaker 3 Nothing about that. No, so we are live tonight.
We're still waiting. That's why we're waiting on Charlie here.
We have Ben Lovejoy donated $5. Thank you, Ben.

Speaker 3 And he said, I'm just here to say I love America. God bless every one of you.
And I'm so proud to watch Rumble Grow. We're proud to watch Rumble Grow.

Speaker 3 And we also love America, which is why we're very excited tonight. Because I guess if you're listening to this, when you download it on over the weekend, this will be be old news by now.

Speaker 3 But as we're recording this, they are doing the USA-Canada hockey rematch in Boston.

Speaker 3 As of this moment, America's trailing. So hopefully that situation changes later on tonight.
But we have a pretty good clip where

Speaker 3 we have, do we have that clip ready to go? President Trump called into the team before the game started.

Speaker 7 Yeah, 2.43.

Speaker 8 Well, I'll talk to the guys if they're around.

Speaker 9 Yeah, they are. I'm going to walk into the locker room right now, and you can speak to the guys firsthand.
Mr. President, can you hear me?

Speaker 8 I can. You guys are really talented.

Speaker 11 I have great respect for hockey players. I'm a hockey fan.
I love hockey. The talent, the skill that you have is crazy.
And just go out and have a good time tonight.

Speaker 11 And I just want to wish you a lot of luck. You really are a skilled group of people.
It's an honor to talk to you and get out there and there's no pressure whatsoever.

Speaker 10 I can tell you honestly, every person in here, players, staff, management, coaches, we are all proud Americans and we want to represent our country the best way we can and do our best to bring in a win tonight.

Speaker 10 Thank you again on behalf of everybody.

Speaker 11 You just go out and have a good night. You're going to win and we love America.
We love you guys. We'll be watching tonight.
Bring it home. Thank you.

Speaker 4 And then

Speaker 3 right after that, they went out and then they played the national anthem. And two things.
One, I'm told the performance of the Canadian national anthem was was very bad,

Speaker 3 but I didn't hear it.

Speaker 4 We were here.

Speaker 3 But I'm told the performance was quite.

Speaker 3 I don't know. It was tragic, apparently.
And then we're having a debate about this, but I think we have this clip ready to go.

Speaker 3 The crowd did, they did boo the Canadian anthem, possibly both for its quality and for, you know, we have some blood between us. We don't like booing anthems.
We like to be polite, but...

Speaker 3 I think we can agree they did boo ours first. Right now, we're about eight minutes into the game.
We are down 1-0, but we started started down one-nothing in the last one. It's hockey.

Speaker 3 You are generally able to score more than once in hockey, unlike soccer, for example. So, we'll work on getting that.
While we wait, we've got the clip coming.

Speaker 4 We've got the clips. We've got another donor.

Speaker 3 Jen, yeah, yeah, Jen Central 1776 also donated $5. Thank you, Jen.
Get on those campuses, guys. Keep hitting them back.
Everyone watching the U.S. hockey team kick some booty USA.
Thank you, Jen.

Speaker 4 We are very good.

Speaker 6 Now, because I can look this up, I'm like on the ESPN or whatever, and I can see the score and I can see the box score a little bit. But what about the fights?

Speaker 6 I've got no, have there been any fights yet? Because last time we got like three fights, the Kachuck brothers were just bashing them, like the old Bash brothers in the Flyers days.

Speaker 6 But I want to know how many fights there are, and I don't see any, I don't see that in the play-by-play here.

Speaker 3 There's no fights so far, as far as I can can tell, but I have to imagine

Speaker 3 we'll eventually get a nice good throwdown. Or, no, no, it looks like there was a fight about 30 seconds in.
There was?

Speaker 3 It was like a shoving match. It wasn't the full-down, like drop the gloves.

Speaker 3 It was more just like one of those foot, like in football when the guys get in their face and the ref comes in and separates them. So I'm sure it'll overheat.

Speaker 3 I'm sure it'll boil over eventually and we'll get a nice good, you know, as the joke goes, I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out.

Speaker 3 I'm sure we'll we'll get positive developments on that front.

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Speaker 6 One thing I've always liked about hockey is that hockey is one of the only games where fighting is is like, it's like a part of the game. There's rules about it.

Speaker 6 There's certain penalty time allotted to it.

Speaker 6 Other, you know, like football, it's okay.

Speaker 6 You get a, you know, you get a personal foul or something, but it isn't something that's that's like institutionalized in the game and normalized in the game the way it is in hockey.

Speaker 6 And so when that, when that game, I guess it was last week when that match took place,

Speaker 6 the morning after, I would just sat my sat both of my sons down. I had just gotten home from Ukraine too, when that game was on.
And

Speaker 6 I was just, you need to watch this, kids.

Speaker 6 You need to watch, you know, the United States of America just kicking the crap out of some cannocks because honestly, they really deserve it for booing the national anthem.

Speaker 6 But in general, there's this energy, this vibe that's going on with America now that's set obviously by President Trump. That, look, we're, we're back.
We're here to stay. We're not going anywhere.

Speaker 6 And when it gets in our face, like, you're, you're.

Speaker 7 Well, okay. But on that note, the Canadians, you'll see this on like, you you know, some of the Canadian Twitter accounts.

Speaker 7 They'll say, you guys started it by calling us the 51st state and by saying that, you know, Trudeau should be Governor Trudeau.

Speaker 7 So

Speaker 7 what do you say to that, Blake?

Speaker 3 I mean,

Speaker 3 did she start it? I think this is mostly in good fun. I don't, well, maybe not for Trump.

Speaker 3 Trump seems pretty sincere about his efforts to acquire Canada, but I think most of us probably don't care to acquire Canada. It has

Speaker 3 a country with a lot of problems.

Speaker 3 It's,

Speaker 3 you know,

Speaker 3 I'm okay with Canada remaining like a rogue, our rogue province to the north.

Speaker 4 I would take Alberta.

Speaker 3 No, they trick you with this. They trick you with this where they say Alberta is Canada's Texas, but

Speaker 3 Canada is doing a lot more work there than the Texas is in that term.

Speaker 3 Canada's national identity is

Speaker 3 more lib than America. I don't think you want to add the the 40 million more lib than America Canadians.

Speaker 3 Their national sport is basically committing assisted suicide.

Speaker 3 It's a strange country, man.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 Canada. We can still beat them.

Speaker 7 If you're listening to Canada, you're one of the good ones, and we love you.

Speaker 4 For sure, for sure.

Speaker 7 Greenland, I'm all in for.

Speaker 6 I'm all in for Greenland.

Speaker 7 That one

Speaker 7 makes sense.

Speaker 6 It doesn't have the baggage. Well, Panama is ours by right.

Speaker 7 So Panama is ours.

Speaker 6 And that shouldn't even be a question. That shouldn't even be a discussion.
That's actually ours.

Speaker 6 There was a historical, there was a historical issue, a historical mistake that obviously needs to be corrected.

Speaker 6 We're just going to go and hit undo on that one, just like we're hitting undo on nationally when it comes to the Biden administration, the Obama administration, and the Carter administration as well.

Speaker 6 Blake, of course, and I have spoken in the past about how we should do that as well with a number of pieces of the 1960s while we're at it, the Cultural Revolution that took place here in the United States.

Speaker 6 But when it comes to the Panama Canal, it's a joke.

Speaker 6 It's ours by right. It's ours by right of the fact that we built it, that we bled for it, that the red, white, and blue created it, and it would not exist otherwise.

Speaker 6 When it comes to Greenland, by the way, and I made this comment here on the program a couple of weeks ago, I'll say it again.

Speaker 6 The United States has provided the defensive shield for Greenland since World War II. And yes, that does grant us certain rights to it, whether you like it or not.

Speaker 6 Look, sovereignty is a key point of sovereignty. And Blake, I love your thoughts on this.
A key point of sovereignty, as J.D. Vance pointed out with vis-a-vis NATO, is being able to defend yourselves.

Speaker 6 If you are not able to defend your own nation, then are you really a fully sovereign nation? Probably not. That's obviously.

Speaker 6 And so when you, you know, all of Europe is saying, oh, we're going to have this army of Europe and we're going to, we're going to control ourselves and we're going to defend ourselves. Okay.

Speaker 6 Yeah, go for it. Go for it.
But the reason you have the welfare state that you do in Europe is because the United States provides for your defense.

Speaker 6 So that's why they all have the free universities and the free health care and all the rest of the stuff because they don't have to pay for defense.

Speaker 6 But then on the flip side of that, what did they do? They completely destroyed their birth rates. And so they started importing all these migrants from the third world.

Speaker 6 So you've got no defense, you've got institutions that are completely collapsing, and you've got this huge third world influx, which J.D. Vance rightly pointed out is the largest threat to Europe.

Speaker 6 It's so simple. But Blake, I'd love to hear your thoughts on that sovereignty point right there.

Speaker 3 Yeah, well, it's funny because Canada used to have a pretty effective military. It was

Speaker 3 within the realm of that. They actually had a very large military in World War II.
They were a full contributor in that one. And they kept.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and they stuck around. I don't think they were in Anzac.
That was Australians, but

Speaker 3 they had their own very good military. And then even into recent history, their reputation was, you know, it was small, but it was effective.
It was competent.

Speaker 3 They would join us on a lot of our conflicts abroad.

Speaker 3 But it's one of those many different things where they've just, they've certainly followed many of the same patterns we've had, where you can watch the videos and you have some like fat person who can't run a mile is in the Canadian military.

Speaker 3 And it's a very welcoming place if you want to affirm your 18 different gender identities

Speaker 3 within government employment. And it's just, everything about Canada is, it's sort of sad because Canada was a real country with a real identity.
And you can look this up.

Speaker 3 They expressly had their elites said, we're going to make Canada the first post-national country. And we're just going to import as many people as possible from all around the world.

Speaker 3 And the idea was Canada will be a superpower if we can make us have 100 million people by just bring the entire world here, go all out. And instead, it's just, it's horribly messed them up.

Speaker 3 You can actually go look at the charts. We used to be about equal in our incomes, and now America is way richer than Canada.

Speaker 3 Canada has all the problems america has where no one can afford a home no one can like create a family no one like like their health is going downhill except in america we at least still we still make a good amount of money in canada they don't even have that you can go to toronto a house costs as much as san francisco except uh you know you get paid like you just live in you know kansas city and

Speaker 7 plus it's like awful weather

Speaker 3 It's cold. I don't mind cold weather.
You're the one who has to live in exile in Santa Barbara,

Speaker 3 Andrupa.

Speaker 3 I like the Midwestern.

Speaker 7 Hold on. You're from South Dakota, which is approximately similar, but like

Speaker 7 in general, Canada does not have great weather. I will say, like in British Columbia, you'll actually get some great weather.

Speaker 7 Surprisingly, it's pretty rainy, but it's a pretty temperate climate in British Columbia and gorgeous. By the way, man, talk about a beautiful cities.

Speaker 7 Vancouver, Canada is a legitimately gorgeous city.

Speaker 7 But it looks like, I mean, you know,

Speaker 7 Canada is projected. This is like

Speaker 7 the statcan.gc.ca,

Speaker 7 number of proportion of foreign-born population in Canada on their own website. They have it projected at over 25%

Speaker 7 2036.

Speaker 7 This is their own website. This is a dramatic, dramatic graph.

Speaker 7 I'm going to try and pull this up for you guys, but it's like, I mean, they're like pumped about this, you know, that they're losing, to Blake's point, like a national identity.

Speaker 7 And it's just because they're flooding the zone so quickly and they have no problem with it.

Speaker 6 Yeah, at this point, Canada's national identity is just being like anti-America.

Speaker 6 That's basically their whole, you know, their whole raison d'être. That we're anti-America and America is big and loud.

Speaker 6 And Pierre Polive, or however you say his name, Pierre Polyver, the apple-eating guy, who

Speaker 6 I've always said from that very minute that he put that video out, that it's just very rude and kind of disgusting to eat on camera like that while you're talking to someone.

Speaker 6 That, you know, attacking. So he decided in this moment to attack President Trump rather than side with President Trump against Trudeau, which is just,

Speaker 6 to me, it seems like the most politically brain-dead thing you could do at a moment like this. So you're going to side with the European leaders.

Speaker 6 You're going to side with all of people that are like Adam Schiv and Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi and all the rest, and attack Trump as and try to call yourself Canada first by attacking Trump rather than saying, Yes, President Trump is right about the current government.

Speaker 6 We do need to do better in Canada. And Trudeau's been in power for how long there?

Speaker 6 It would be such an obvious political move to rally the people, like those great freedom truckers that we saw in the Freedom Convoy a couple of years ago.

Speaker 6 But no, he decided to say, and if you remember, by the way, I've seen this, uh, I've seen this out a couple of places where Trudeau is actually coming out and saying that he's taking the opposite track.

Speaker 6 He's saying that we need, we do need to embrace America, America is our partner, we do need to work together.

Speaker 6 So, I don't know, it might be might just be that Trudeau is a better politician than old Pierre, the Apple leader.

Speaker 7 That's the graph, by the way. If you could put that back up in the middle of us, that's the graph.
I mean,

Speaker 7 I cannot imagine living. I mean, what is America at right now?

Speaker 7 14% foreign-born or something like that, Blake, which is already, you know, maxing the population and stressing the culture, I mean, which is one of the reasons President Trump got elected.

Speaker 7 But living in a country, I mean, this is on their website, like from their national statistical,

Speaker 7 whatever that is, StatCan, you know, Statistics Canada.

Speaker 7 This is, I mean, to live in a country bordering on 30%

Speaker 7 by 2036 of the foreign-born population in Canada, that's extraordinary.

Speaker 7 And the amount of social upheaval that you would experience in a country with nearly 30% foreign-born is pretty unthinkable, actually.

Speaker 7 And I don't think Canada yet fully appreciates that unless they're all, you know,

Speaker 7 ready to subdue themselves and submit themselves to foreign. you know, invaders that will then have power over them.
Because that's what's going to happen.

Speaker 7 They will not have the will, the national identity, or the internal strength, constitution to overcome these foreigners that are going to tell them how to live and how to vote and

Speaker 7 how to run their country. So Canada is a lost project.

Speaker 7 And I think what, Blake, you might know this better than, but they've, essentially Trudeau has said he's going to step down, but he's going to serve until.

Speaker 7 something

Speaker 7 happens, essentially. So it was kind of a everybody celebrated it, but it was kind of like, once you actually think about it, he was, he's basically able to survive as a lame duck.

Speaker 3 Andrew, here, actually, it's time to pill people on Canada. This is an important thing to know about Canada.

Speaker 3 Because Canada is a fake democracy to an actual ludicrous degree, and they don't get called out on this nonsense. So it's not about...

Speaker 3 Trudeau said he's just going to step down until his party picks a new leader. He's a head of the Liberal Party.
They would need a new leader who will be the prime minister.

Speaker 3 That guy will go into the next election. But here's what's bullcrap about it.

Speaker 3 In Canada, the parties are vastly more centralized than they are in the U.S. In the U.S., you can have, you have the Republicans and Democrats.
There's only two parties, but

Speaker 3 a random real estate guy can just roll in and hijack the GOP and say, oh, it's my shindig now. And he can just...
take the party's presidential nomination.

Speaker 3 And then there can be other Republicans who don't like it, and they oppose him in the Senate, in the House, in running for governor, all of that. It's a big tent party.

Speaker 3 In Canada, it's super centralized. The Liberal Party picks who their leader is, and then there is no dissent.

Speaker 3 Everyone in the Canadian Parliament who's in the Liberal Party has to vote the way Justin Trudeau tells them to, or he kicks them out. Period.
And who actually picks the leader?

Speaker 3 Just anyone who's a member of the Liberal Party. How many people is that? I'd have to check the exact number, but I think it might literally be under 100,000 people in Canada.

Speaker 3 It is not a lot of people who are official members of parties. So

Speaker 3 you basically have who decides who are the candidates for prime minister in Canada?

Speaker 3 It's literally like a few tens of thousands of people who bother to vote in the party leadership races, and then that guy decides the agenda for the entire party.

Speaker 3 And on top of that, Canada has all this other ridiculous fake stuff, like everything about Quebec.

Speaker 3 So to have any high-level job in Canadian politics in their government, if you want to be on the Canadian Supreme Court, if you want to hold XYZ jobs in the Canadian government, you have to be bilingual in English and in French.

Speaker 3 How many people in Canada are bilingual in English and French?

Speaker 3 The answer is almost none of them, because if you don't live in this tiny corridor between Toronto and Montreal, like the Ottawa-Montreal corridor, none of you are going to be learning becoming bilingual.

Speaker 3 There is no reason to know French if you live in British Columbia. There is no reason to know French if you live in Nova Scotia.
There is no reason to know French if you live in Winnipeg.

Speaker 3 So unless you go out of your way to learn French, a language that no one has any reason to learn except to go into politics, you basically can't go into politics in Canada.

Speaker 3 Canada is a fake, fake, fake, fake, fake democracy. And they need to be called out for this.
Now imagine you're an immigrant to Canada, which like 35% of the population is going to be soon.

Speaker 3 Then, if you want to make it in Canadian politics, you have to know your native language and you have to learn English and you have to learn French.

Speaker 3 And on top of that, they have all this bizarre affirmative action so that Quebec won't secede.

Speaker 3 Quebec is only, I think, 20% of the population of Canada, maybe 25%, but they get a third of the Supreme Court.

Speaker 3 They get all of these like slots have to be assigned to them out of proportion to their population. Canada is like a travesty.
And more people need to be aware of this.

Speaker 3 And the only excuse to not be aware of it is that it's okay to not know things about Canada.

Speaker 7 You're absolutely right, right, Blake. That was a good rant, by the way.
Good for you. Yeah.
Like, do you feel better now? Because I feel better.

Speaker 4 No, I don't feel better now.

Speaker 3 I had to just think about Canada for the last three and a half minutes.

Speaker 4 Why? It's not okay. Canada dude to

Speaker 3 Canada.

Speaker 7 Yeah, what did Canada do to you, Blake?

Speaker 3 They were too close to my state growing up, and I learned too much.

Speaker 7 Well, I can't disagree with anything you said. I think it's all super fake.
Trudeau has an approval rating, like basically less than, you know,

Speaker 7 I don't know,

Speaker 7 you know, spam. Actually, I like spam way more than Trudeau.

Speaker 4 Spam's great.

Speaker 4 Don't make that insulting.

Speaker 3 Spam is good.

Speaker 7 It's probably not going to make it through Maha. But like, listen, here's the thing.
Trudeau needs to go. He kind of knows this, but he found a little wiggle room until the party selects a new leader.

Speaker 7 But then they're still not going to have elections for like another year.

Speaker 7 I don't understand why they don't just call a snap election. They should, but the liberals know they'll lose power.

Speaker 6 I miss 80s Canada. Remember 80s Canada? It was so good.
Remember Strange Brew with like Bob and Doug, Mackenzie, and, you know, the Canadian tuxedo, and

Speaker 6 everybody dresses in denim and like drinking hockey, or like drinking hockey, drinking beer, playing hockey. Canadian bacon, right? Where's the Canadian bacon Canada?

Speaker 6 That was the Canada that I thought, the movie, by the way, which I believe was written by Michael Moore. Funny enough.

Speaker 3 We're we're not going to respect Canadian baseband because Michael Moore killed John Candy, and I'm not going to forgive him for that. One,

Speaker 6 he did do that, he did unfortunately do that in the movie or in real life,

Speaker 3 yes. Oh, well, I mean, the movie was his last movie, and it stressed him out, and then he died, and it was atrocious.

Speaker 7 I um, I still have this like vague childhood memory of seeing John Candy's death in the paper. I can't, I can't tell you what year it is, but oh, wait, hold on, let me think.

Speaker 7 It was probably

Speaker 7 what, like 90,

Speaker 7 92 or 93?

Speaker 3 I think so, maybe. 94.
Let's see.

Speaker 6 John. The 90s, for sure.

Speaker 3 Yeah, early 90s. 94.
March 4th, 94. So we're approaching.

Speaker 4 See, I was close.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the 31st anniversary of it.

Speaker 7 But that's crazy, right? And then John Farley. Chris Farley.

Speaker 6 Yeah. With like right around the same time.
Bill Harley.

Speaker 7 I always think about those two in tandem. Like two overweight, really beloved comedians.
probably both had drug problems, although I don't know in John Candy's case.

Speaker 7 But, you know, at least they were overweight.

Speaker 6 His wife murdered him, like, right around, like, it's a wild story.

Speaker 7 So wildly wild.

Speaker 7 Yeah, so just they had a very troubled relationship.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I'd heard that as well. But, you know, he was trying to work with her and stuff.

Speaker 6 But you just, you have this, this really weird, you know, kind of people will look back on the 90s with nostalgia, but there were some really tragic stories that came out of the 90s.

Speaker 7 O.J. Simpson.

Speaker 6 That's why O.J. Simpson came up at that time.
But, you know, totally didn't do it, though. Of course.
Of course, OJ didn't do it.

Speaker 4 We all know.

Speaker 7 Isn't it weird? OJ's dead?

Speaker 7 Isn't it weird that OJ is dead? Like, I realized this the other day. I was like, oh, yeah, I remember.
He died. But, like,

Speaker 7 it didn't seem to crystallize. But he's dead.

Speaker 7 We're talking about dead stars somehow. Somehow, Canada led to dead starts.
But nevertheless,

Speaker 6 I just kept thinking about because the Saturday Night Live 50th was recently, and Saturday Night Live used to be such a political force, and not even political, but cultural force.

Speaker 6 Saturday Night Live was a massive cultural force in America for decades, probably up until about the 2000s, and certainly just died off in the Obama era. But because

Speaker 6 they were told you're not allowed to make fun of Obama, and from that point on, it just became utterly ridiculous in a shell of itself.

Speaker 6 And but they used to have so much great content and so many good actors and just incredible talent, people who came from that,

Speaker 6 you know, came from that era were incredible. And instead, you know, you would see like these replays of it, I guess.
I've seen a few clips of SNL

Speaker 6 50th anniversary, but just, it's just like, it just reminds me of like, oh yeah, that's a show that used to be good, but now it's not.

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Speaker 4 Jack,

Speaker 4 we have breaking news.

Speaker 3 We have Charlie here. Yeah.

Speaker 7 We have Charlie.

Speaker 7 Breaking news.

Speaker 4 I have been here for a while.

Speaker 12 I have been listening intently. How are you guys doing?

Speaker 3 We're doing great.

Speaker 3 We're going DEF CON 3 on the nation of Canada right now.

Speaker 7 Did you miss his rant, Charlie? It was pretty good, I have to say.

Speaker 4 I've never seen that. I did miss it.

Speaker 6 He eviscerated them. Eviscerated them.

Speaker 4 Canada's face, Charlie. Why can't you?

Speaker 12 I have to go back and listen to it.

Speaker 4 It was pretty good.

Speaker 12 Give me the highlights.

Speaker 12 I want to hear the summary.

Speaker 3 The highlights, I'll have to have to go study it more because I could bet I could make it twice as long if I refreshed myself instead of going off the cuff.

Speaker 3 But Canada is like super fake as you know, as a democracy, which they would, of course, hold themselves up as because they're better than America in every way.

Speaker 3 But so in Canada, first of all, to have any high office in Canada, you need to be bilingual in English and French, which nobody is.

Speaker 3 I think under 5% of the population is actually fluent in English and French and you totally need to go out of your way to learn it, which almost no one does.

Speaker 3 So if you don't fit into this like literal elite globalist class that grows up right around Ottawa and is raised bilingual from birth, you basically just can't be a top Canadian bureaucrat.

Speaker 3 Second, in Canada,

Speaker 3 their political parties are so powerful that basically if you run the party, you're just the absolute dictator of the party.

Speaker 3 You can like bar anyone from running under the party's name and you're just the total boss until they finally overthrow you so it's not like in america like you could never have donald trump happen in canada because the republican party could have just had whoever the boss was mish mcconnell or something say oh no donald trump is not he's not a republican candidate not allowed and but in canada uh that that's how it works and their party leaders are picked by like a few thousand people almost no one's a member of a party they vote on their leader and that's how they pick it it's a big it's a big old fake and that's why that's why canada needs to be rendered rendered free by America.

Speaker 3 Although, sadly, they are remaining, they're still up 1-0 in this hockey game. It's a big tragedy.

Speaker 6 No, it's 1-1. No.

Speaker 4 No, do we score? Fake news. Yes.
Fake news.

Speaker 6 It's 1-1. USA is on the board, baby.
Brady Kachuck. Literally, like, I think as you said that, it just happened.
Literally, it did.

Speaker 3 Literally, just did.

Speaker 3 That's amazing. Speak of the devil.
Brady.

Speaker 3 How do you say that? Takachuck?

Speaker 12 Takukuk?

Speaker 3 Kachuck?

Speaker 6 Oh, boy. Kachuck, like his dad.

Speaker 3 Well, I'll tolerate that name because he just did a great deed for America.

Speaker 6 Kachuck Brothers, and their dad was Keith Kachuck.

Speaker 7 Right. And they were the ones that got into the fights, right, Jack?

Speaker 6 Oh, yeah. They're the Bash Brothers.

Speaker 7 I love it. Hey, so

Speaker 7 I do want to do something really quick here. There's a story that we had on the list here, and we're going to keep...
We're going to keep on this game.

Speaker 7 We do have Daisy in the chair.

Speaker 3 Yes, Blake? Uh, no, she actually just stepped out when Charlie came in.

Speaker 4 Oh, my goodness!

Speaker 3 Sorry, you guys missed your chance. Oh, now she's back.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Blake.

Speaker 3 Daisy's back. Are we allowed to have her? I think it's okay.
But all right.

Speaker 7 Charlie, Charlie, we have a man-bun story that we really need to get to. Blake can set it up.

Speaker 4 I have to set it up.

Speaker 3 You're the one who cares about the story. You have to set this one up, Andrew.
I have to recover from

Speaker 4 my chair. It's very easy.

Speaker 7 It's the death of man-bun feminism.

Speaker 7 And there was a big piece in the free press, which is, of course, run by Barry Weiss,

Speaker 7 about this guy that set himself up as the

Speaker 7 embodiment of man-bun feminism.

Speaker 7 He was a male feminist, and he had a big man-bun.

Speaker 7 And now he is getting accused of sexual assault by a bunch of women. And the irony of that is pretty profound, I would think.
There he is. And,

Speaker 7 you know,

Speaker 7 Blake,

Speaker 7 set the uh you usually set the scene here so you're gonna have to give me one second but the uh the irony is just too rich uh

Speaker 3 not to uh not to talk about it so here we go so well that's why we had our we have our backup here with uh with daisy because she's our she's like our robot who actually understands this

Speaker 3 what's this about again

Speaker 3 Why do we hate this guy again? Or do we like this guy?

Speaker 13 I don't know because this guy's lawyer is

Speaker 13 Brian Friedman, who he just went on Megan Kelly. He has been talking to Candace Owens.
He represented Sage Steel.

Speaker 13 In her case, Annie represented Chris Harrison in both of their cases against Disney and ESPN and all that. So a lot of conservatives are like siding with him, saying it's another Me Too situation.

Speaker 13 If you read both lawsuits, they both come across as really crazy. And then there's this whole, which Blake, you're the one that actually showed me this in Deadpool with

Speaker 13 Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively's husband, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's lawsuits against. They recreated Justin Baldoni.

Speaker 13 And it's a guy that has a feminism podcast and has a man bun to say that he's talking about women's issues.

Speaker 3 So it is definitely a look now that I think about it where you can visualize the male feminist. And I think there's kind of there's two types.

Speaker 3 You'd have like the dweeby, pasty male feminist who would like be kind of a I feel like it'd be kind of a younger Bill Gates looking guy and he would have a t-shirt that would say like this is what a feminist looks like and he would like talk a lot about being and he's like I am a strong male you know female ally and they'll be creepy and then we have the man bun feminist thing and this would be like a little dreamier a little more I don't I don't know I'm not I'm not gay so I can't assist kind of considered hotter right

Speaker 13 not to me

Speaker 3 not to you well why do we even have you here then We need your.

Speaker 7 So, Charlie, Charlie, I got to get Charlie's basic

Speaker 7 guttural take on the man bun. What do you do on campus when you see someone with a man bun come up to the mic and ask you a question? What's going through your head?

Speaker 4 I mean,

Speaker 12 I won't tell what's going through my head, but

Speaker 4 I.

Speaker 12 Yeah,

Speaker 12 there's not much I can say here. so

Speaker 6 basically the way I look at it is their brain is so like the man bind is actually their brain that's so minuscule that it's like trying to exit the back of their head, so there's no actual brain inside.

Speaker 6 When I see one of these things, I mean, like, you just you look at this

Speaker 6 creature, this individual. I don't even know how to describe the you know, clearly Andronus, Andronymous physiognomy

Speaker 7 as well, yes, androny,

Speaker 6 I'm still like all Jet like

Speaker 6 physiognomy and

Speaker 6 the, you know, like the pouty lips and like pulling the chest hair out. Like it's, it's, you know, like you're gonna

Speaker 6 like cleavage. And by the way,

Speaker 4 hold on.

Speaker 3 One of our commenters is giving an update. Apparently, the man bun is fake news.
John Cantrell says he just grew it for charity and it has been sliced off of his head and is no longer present.

Speaker 13 But in the fake Justin Baldoni that they made in Deadpool,

Speaker 13 Ryan Reynolds did do the man button to look like the feminist.

Speaker 3 And Ryan Reynolds is Canadian.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Ryan Reynolds is Canadian.

Speaker 13 It all goes back to that.

Speaker 4 Is Blake Lively?

Speaker 13 Blake Lively is not Canadian. So hold on.

Speaker 3 They're stealing our women.

Speaker 7 Here are the allegations.

Speaker 3 And if she's the bad guy, they're corrupting our women.

Speaker 13 We don't know.

Speaker 4 Here are the allegations.

Speaker 7 Daisy, you know more about this story than any of us. But here are the allegations against Baldoni by Blake Lively.

Speaker 7 Lively said Baldoni improvised improvised unwanted kissing on set and he discussed his sex life.

Speaker 4 Ooh.

Speaker 7 She said he watched her, topless, having her body makeup removed. She said he entered her trailer uninvited while she breastfed.

Speaker 7 Her husband apparently said he fat shamed her by asking an on-set fitness trainer how much she weighed. Finally, when she complained,

Speaker 7 Baldoni set a team of reputation destroyers on her who set out to bury her, quote unquote, with various negative stories. But there's counters to all of this.

Speaker 7 Like, there's a screen grab of her inviting him into the trailer when she said, like, on text saying, hey, I'm just breastfeeding. Come in and practice lines with me or something like that.

Speaker 7 So, I don't know. The man bun.
It's just fun to make fun of the man bun, right, Daisy?

Speaker 13 Yeah, man-buns are gay. I can say that as a woman and as someone who's very grateful my husband doesn't have a man bun.

Speaker 13 But Justin Maldoni's team released an entire website that he put up basically all of his communication with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. But the trial is not until next March.

Speaker 13 But I think it was yesterday or on Monday, Blake Lively actually added her kids to her complaint and said that her kids are experiencing emotional harm because of Justin Baldoni as well.

Speaker 6 I don't know who any of those people are.

Speaker 13 Charlie, I did find a video of a man bun on campus.

Speaker 13 If we want to go to that, I know you will remember this.

Speaker 4 We got to play the tapes.

Speaker 3 They're hunting him.

Speaker 13 Charlie's being a little bit more. I think it's 250.

Speaker 4 Okay, hold on.

Speaker 7 Hold on.

Speaker 7 Before we do that, here's a quote from Baldoni.

Speaker 7 Writing from experience, Justin invites us to move beyond the scripts we've learned since childhood and the role we are expected to play.

Speaker 7 He challenges men to be brave enough to be vulnerable, to be strong enough to be sensitive, to be confident enough to listen.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 7 Just wanted you guys to all

Speaker 13 feel that. And his, his pod, he had a podcast with a woman, and his podcast was called Man Enough, and it was all about like

Speaker 13 toxic masculinity and how men really, really talk about their feelings and are shutting things down.

Speaker 13 And then after everything...

Speaker 13 Everything allegedly or true, I don't know, came out from Blake Lively's camp, his female host left the show. So she wanted nothing to do with Justin Maldoni.

Speaker 13 So I don't know who's right in this situation.

Speaker 7 So cut 250, yeah, Daisy?

Speaker 13 Yes, 250.

Speaker 3 F you, I hate you. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Would you like to have a substantive conversation?

Speaker 4 A substitute? Yeah. A substitute? No, man.
No, I'm not a f ⁇ ing asshole. Would you like to have a conversation? Sure, absolutely.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 I don't like you. I think you spread hate.
I think you spread bigotry. I think you piss a lot of people off because I just, I mean, you're just an awful person.

Speaker 4 I don't think you really want to debate because you're just here to piss people off and energize your crowd of racists. What have I ever said that's racist? Oh

Speaker 4 can you name one thing? I'm gonna find it. Can I support Charlie? Can you name a second thing? Does that mean anything? Can you say a second thing I've ever said that's racist?

Speaker 4 I think you're just trying to play a game and I think this is obviously going to be useful. What have I ever said that's racist?

Speaker 3 I just want to f ⁇ ing hate you. You're awful.

Speaker 4 Get off my campus. When have I ever said anything that's hateful?

Speaker 4 Have a nice day.

Speaker 4 He can't say anything I've ever said that's racist because I've never said anything that's racist.

Speaker 4 That is the American left in one picture, everybody. Lots of rage and no wisdom.

Speaker 13 It's also the American Man Bun in One Picture.

Speaker 3 American Man Bun Love Association, Nambla.

Speaker 7 Charlie, I bet he would

Speaker 7 describe himself as a male feminist.

Speaker 7 It's just a wild guess, but I bet he would.

Speaker 12 I would imagine that. I think that man buns are very gay.

Speaker 4 I agree.

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Speaker 3 To remind people who have forgotten, four years ago,

Speaker 3 not five years ago, I guess, Donald Trump, like at the height of the summer of Floyd, when they were tearing down all the statues, Trump came up with the idea, we should, instead of tearing down statues, if people want to honor other Americans, let's build more statues.

Speaker 3 So he came up with this idea, National Garden of American Heroes, where we're going to build a big set of statues of great Americans and have them all in a garden, and anyone can visit it.

Speaker 3 And you could put it in Washington or somewhere else. I'm not sure if they picked the place.
Anyway,

Speaker 3 Biden got rid of it, as he got rid of many things, like our border, and Trump brought it back when he came back.

Speaker 3 And just today, he was talking about who he's going to put in the Garden of American Heroes.

Speaker 3 And it's Black History Month, so he mentioned a lot of great black Americans, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, people in that vein. And he also mentioned, though,

Speaker 3 this is a new name that he just added, Kobe Bryant. Actually, do we have the clip of him reciting all of the names? Do we have that ready to go? Oh, we don't.
Oh, we didn't get it.

Speaker 3 Well, anyway, he said Kobe Bryant was going to be one of them.

Speaker 3 And so that, oh, 222, 222. Let's go.

Speaker 8 Gonna produce some of the most beautiful works of art in the form of a statue for men like Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Jackie.

Speaker 8 Jackie Robinson, what a great athlete that was.

Speaker 8 Martin Luther King Jr.,

Speaker 8 Mohammed Ali, he's not a bad athlete. What do you think, Mohammed?

Speaker 8 Not Not too bad.

Speaker 8 And the late Kobe Bryant, people love Kobe Bryant.

Speaker 8 And we're going to save Tiger Woods for another time. That's all.

Speaker 8 I'm sorry.

Speaker 8 During Black History Month, we pay tribute to these heroes and to so many others,

Speaker 8 not simply because they're black heroes, but also because they are truly American heroes who inspire all of us, very much so.

Speaker 3 So that's, I think that's actually a very fun idea. And so, we were talking, like, what, who, if we actually get this statue garden built, who

Speaker 3 do we, uh, who do we want in it? And, uh, this section, this entire segment is brought to you by Grok.

Speaker 3 If you want, if you guys have any names you want to suggest, we can have them over in the studio quickly whip up some concept art for what their statue might look like in the hypothetical garden.

Speaker 3 And we already did whip a bunch of pairs, so they might start showing them. We have some more serious ones.

Speaker 3 They have

Speaker 3 what have we got? What are some of those pairs we came up with?

Speaker 3 LeBron. Like LeBron James.

Speaker 3 We have Frederick Douglass and Jack Robinson. So those are the two of the ones we actually have.
So you can imagine what it might be like. That's Johnny Cash and Martin Luther King Jr.

Speaker 3 Is that

Speaker 12 Kobe?

Speaker 3 It's Kobe Bryan

Speaker 3 and Rosa Parks. Is that Rosa Parks?

Speaker 12 So is he guarding Rosa Parks from getting to the front of the bus or something?

Speaker 4 Maybe, maybe.

Speaker 3 We have a lot. Let's put up Mark Twain and Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 12 I'm just saying that's what the image looks like.

Speaker 3 Snoop Dogg is not an official one. This is some speculation on our part.

Speaker 3 The AI went a little demented with some of our concepts. How about let's put up 232.
Put up 232. This is a great American hero.

Speaker 3 It's Zelensky and the gigantic pile of taxpayer money that he was able to extract from.

Speaker 12 Did Grok insert the money behind?

Speaker 3 No, no, we asked him to include that.

Speaker 3 How about

Speaker 4 I love this? How about this is a great one.

Speaker 12 By the way, how many whys are going to be on Zelensky's title?

Speaker 3 I think at least seven or eight.

Speaker 3 You've got to add several in his honor. Actually, in our image, we have, I think,

Speaker 3 11.

Speaker 3 How about let's put up

Speaker 3 Harambe and Peanut? I think we can agree both of these guys are needed.

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 3 Harambe. Harambe and Peanut the Squirrel.
And by the way, anyone watching, if you guys have ideas, go ahead and we can try to make them. I see someone saying Johnny Appleseed should get one.

Speaker 4 Ben Carson.

Speaker 3 Ben Carson would be a good one. And also, thank you for this subscription, Jen Cantrell 1776.
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Speaker 3 Bo Jackson. Ooh, Bo Jackson would be a good athlete one.
Oh, there's Taylor Swift and Stephen Hawking. I don't know what they have in common with each other, but it's a very

Speaker 3 inspiring. I think many Americans would see that and know that they can achieve anything, even if they are disabled.
Is Stephen Hawking English? I'm not sure if he's an American citizen.

Speaker 3 Oh, this is a great one. This is showing one of our, we have Christopher Columbus there on the right, and then our most famous

Speaker 3 person of American Indian heritage, Elizabeth Warren.

Speaker 6 They were saying we didn't have American Indians in the first.

Speaker 7 This was a

Speaker 6 heroes was something that came up in the 45 administration. So there you go.
That is obviously, you know, just a shout out to a great American Indian, Elizabeth Warren.

Speaker 3 Do you have anyone you want, Charlie? We can quickly whip them up there. There's Mike Tyson and Hulk Hogan.

Speaker 4 Hulk Hogan.

Speaker 12 I love that. Let me think.
How about Douglas MacArthur and Michael Jordan? I want to see those two. Let's see how quickly we can put those together.

Speaker 3 All right. They're working on it.

Speaker 3 We did Steve Jobs and Betsy Ross. Put that one up.
Oh, boy.

Speaker 3 Wow. Is that what Betsy? Is Betsy Ross like a girl boss in a sweater?

Speaker 4 I was going to say, wait, this is like a real thing. Did she work for Apple?

Speaker 3 We're really making it. These are not real statues.
We had Grok. We're pulling names into Grok.

Speaker 7 Like, this is actually going to happen. Like, Trump's serious about this.

Speaker 3 He's ordered it to happen.

Speaker 3 I think it's probably as likely to happen

Speaker 3 as anything. It's just statues.
I'm sure he has some authority to push that forward the budget.

Speaker 3 I mean, how expensive would it be to put? Okay, I don't want to say that. It's knowing our federal government, it'll cost a billion dollars a statue.

Speaker 3 But in theory, it should not be that expensive to put up some bronzes of great Americans and, you know, charge admission if you need to.

Speaker 7 Okay, I have a question. I have a question in the midst of all this.

Speaker 7 So Trump is asserting Americana.

Speaker 7 loving your country being proud of who we are again. I'm

Speaker 7 so for all of it. How, like

Speaker 7 how sure are we that this is going to penetrate that this is going to actually have the impact that we want i mean i think it's better that our leaders are doing it than not but

Speaker 7 like is it going to catch is it going to like seep down deep into the soul of the country well i think uh a very real thing is

Speaker 3 like why was Ronald Reagan popular? And Ronald Reagan, for whatever, you know, in the years since people have portrayed him as this like ultra, you know, right-wing warrior.

Speaker 3 But what really made him popular, a guy who won 49 states, is he was a very genial. He was a very positive guy.
He was all, oh, hold on, this is one we made.

Speaker 3 Could this be the statue we have one day, Charlie? We have

Speaker 3 Charlie with the prove-me-wrong table.

Speaker 3 That's very took us a few attempts. It's a little spotty on Charlie's face, but that was, I think, our best, our best one.
We got a very little spotty. Yeah.
That's more refined.

Speaker 12 Is that what I will be known for?

Speaker 4 No, it's photo insane.

Speaker 12 Where's Tyler when we need him? No. Well, the Embrace of the Hobbits.

Speaker 3 The Embrace of the Hobbits.

Speaker 7 You know, I almost, I kind of want to, I kind of want to give a preview of last week's conversation. We cut a short for it.
I don't think it's ready yet, but

Speaker 7 maybe we just throw it up on

Speaker 7 this is this has sparked quite the controversy

Speaker 7 of

Speaker 7 this discussion about you know is

Speaker 7 Lord of the Rings is a gay or not?

Speaker 4 And I have it right here. It's not ready for

Speaker 12 the fourth week in a row.

Speaker 7 Yeah, but this, it continues on. It continues on.
So when it's ready, we're going to throw this clip up. Charlie,

Speaker 7 let me know what you think of this edit, by the way.

Speaker 7 Yeah, throw it up. 251.
It's not ready for the internet yet, but we're going to put it on the internet anyways.

Speaker 15 Is Gandalf the Epstein wizard of Middle-earth?

Speaker 14 Yes, he is. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You know, this does circle back, though, to our most important topic, which is whether Lord of the Rings is gay or not.

Speaker 15 I watched Lord of the Rings this weekend, and Tyler ruined it for me. I always used to look at it as, you know, brotherly love.
And then Frodo and Sam, there's some very long gazes.

Speaker 4 I'm glad you're with me.

Speaker 14 It's Sam.

Speaker 14 I don't want to say Tyler's.

Speaker 3 To the propaganda. No, no, no.

Speaker 14 The propaganda wants you to accept

Speaker 3 when you accept this framing, you are giving in to

Speaker 3 the gay industrial complex.

Speaker 15 I never thought it at all my entire life, and then Tyler mentions it, and it half ruins it.

Speaker 3 All right,

Speaker 3 we have LeBron and MacArthur ready to go. Put it up.

Speaker 4 Not LeBron.

Speaker 3 Jordan, Jordan MacArthur. Jordan MacArthur.
Jordan MacArthur. It's easy to get him confused.
They're all basketball players.

Speaker 3 There we go.

Speaker 3 There it is.

Speaker 12 That's there we go. That's easy.

Speaker 4 That's good.

Speaker 12 That's two great Americans.

Speaker 3 Now we're talking Americans. That's great.

Speaker 12 And

Speaker 12 you got Chicago in the distance.

Speaker 4 Yeah, who wouldn't want to go?

Speaker 3 Yeah. So will it work, Andrew? Like, I'd say, yeah, I'd say if they're serious about it, you could.
This would not take long to make. You commission bronzes, get like

Speaker 3 find 50 American artists to design these, get them cast, have it ready ready to go by the 2024 Olympics

Speaker 3 or by

Speaker 3 not 2024, 2028 Olympics, or by the time of the

Speaker 3 whatever it is, 250th anniversary. Have it ready to go.
And like, Americans like statues. Americans like art.
Americans like history. The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 3 is popular, is super popular every year. Millions of people would go to this.
And like, that's how you build good vibes. You don't have to rip down statues of people.

Speaker 3 You go around and say, America is a great country with tons of great people,

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 3 people will get into it.

Speaker 3 They'll memorize all the statues.

Speaker 7 Yeah, the whole point is to screw you to the statue tear down people.

Speaker 4 Yes, exactly. I get it.

Speaker 3 Especially the people who rejected people.

Speaker 4 It wasn't making that obvious connection.

Speaker 3 Yeah, especially the people who reject. And, you know,

Speaker 3 maybe we could even, when you have lots of statues, you can get away with, you know, some maybe statues that would be more controversial, like 236.

Speaker 3 We have with 236, we have Richard Nixon Nixon along with O.J. Simpson, who, yes,

Speaker 3 OJ Simpson. I will note he was never convicted in a court of law for killing anyone.
And I will also note that he.

Speaker 12 But he was convicted for something else.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, he was convicted of other things. So was

Speaker 7 in a civil.

Speaker 3 No, and he was convicted of that robbery thing. But look,

Speaker 3 and I will also note, even if he did kill those people, O.J. Simpson rushed for over 2,000 yards in only 14 games.
He averaged 143. He completely makes everything up.
He averaged 143 yards a game.

Speaker 4 Andrew.

Speaker 4 Wasn't that one Ravens linebacker? What was that? Ray Lewis?

Speaker 7 Was it Ray Lewis that murdered a guy?

Speaker 3 He possibly was involved or present at the slaying.

Speaker 7 But he was a great athlete and a good commentator, so everything was fine.

Speaker 3 Yes, that's, you know, Americans make that compromise all the time.

Speaker 7 All right, Charlie. charlie the question is to you charlie can you revive the nation's patriotic spirit can you do it can you do it from on high yeah of course

Speaker 12 i mean a little bit it's mostly got to be bottom-up but yeah i think that

Speaker 12 i mean i think that the president can be a cheerleader for sure um i think that

Speaker 12 It's got to be

Speaker 12 the citizen leaning in and engaging on what matters most and most fundamentally. And look, I think that it's not inconsequential, the hockey game and the sports events that we're seeing there.

Speaker 12 But yeah, I think you can revive national patriotism. I don't think it could be forced, but I think it can be presented.
I think people can lead a strong example.

Speaker 15 I really do.

Speaker 12 So follow a strong example, I should say.

Speaker 4 And speaking of revival,

Speaker 3 speaking of revival, before we go, Charlie, so you just did your first campus event, I think, since the election, right? Unless we did one right after.

Speaker 3 But we were all sort of waiting with bated breath.

Speaker 3 What are the college kids thinking, both the friendly ones, are they still enthusiastic? And if there's hostile ones, what are they fixating on?

Speaker 3 What's their angle of attack that they're all

Speaker 3 getting downloaded from the internet? So we were really all interested in hearing what you had to say on that.

Speaker 12 It was record turnout. It was amazing.
We had well over 2,000 kids at the University of South Florida today throughout the day, come and go. It was amazing.

Speaker 12 And this is not an election year, as you guys know. That's me throwing out white 47 hats, just incredible energy.

Speaker 12 They sat there for two and a half hours, and it was amazing how just vocal and courageous the crowd is. There's like no opposition whatsoever.

Speaker 12 We might have had five or six questions of people that were in some form of opposition. I'm just looking at the

Speaker 12 footage here from the University of South Florida. And, I mean, there's a legitimate, permanent Gen Z shift happening.
Everything you see in the polling, we saw reflected on the ground.

Speaker 12 The base is as strong as ever. It's broadening, it's widening, it's strengthening, it's deepening.
And

Speaker 12 there's just no

Speaker 12 rebellion energy at all on the left. It just doesn't exist.
And so, really fun. The footage will be posted soon.
I'm sure the team is going to have a field day kind of cutting that all together. And

Speaker 12 yeah, it's good stuff.

Speaker 7 There it is.

Speaker 3 I'm looking at what our audience have been suggesting.

Speaker 3 Let's see.

Speaker 3 Ronald Reagan and Francis Scott Key. Those would both be good ones.
I don't know if they'd go together.

Speaker 3 We could do a Tesla and Thomas Edison one. People would get a kick out of that.
Someone suggested Burton Ernie, probably inspired by the Lord of the Rings discussion earlier.

Speaker 3 Because, just like Lord of the Rings, Burton and Ernie are not gay. They are just friends with each other, and it is the gay industrial complex teaching you otherwise.
Just saying.

Speaker 4 Oh, this is a good one.

Speaker 3 Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh.
That would be a good statue.

Speaker 4 Oh, there you go.

Speaker 3 John Wayne. Rush the good one.

Speaker 3 I think everyone they've put forward. I think everyone on the list overall is

Speaker 3 deceased, but there's people who we would definitely want once they depart this world. Hopefully,

Speaker 3 Tiger Woods would be good.

Speaker 3 Clarence Thomas, I think, would be a deserving one.

Speaker 4 There's Bill Clinton.

Speaker 7 Is that supposed to be Hillary?

Speaker 3 That's Monica. That's his.

Speaker 4 Oh.

Speaker 7 The other woman.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 there's two people who provided great.

Speaker 3 There's two people who provided huge amounts of entertainment to Americans in the late 1990s.

Speaker 3 You know,

Speaker 3 I think I'll always fondly remember my parents trying to explain to me why the president was

Speaker 3 in trouble on the television. And I probably would have been totally oblivious to it if they hadn't told me.
I was more interested in Power Rangers at the time.

Speaker 3 Because Power Rangers was great. Were you ever into that, Charlie? Were you a Power Rangers kid?

Speaker 12 Not really. No, I'm trying to think what I was into when I was at those ages.

Speaker 4 I was into

Speaker 4 the earliest.

Speaker 6 Charlie's like, I was into Edwards.

Speaker 12 Even Stevens, I liked. Oh, no, no, no, no.
I mean,

Speaker 12 I was into Arthur. I know it sounds lame, but that was like what I was allowed to watch.

Speaker 4 It was on PBS.

Speaker 4 Arthur's still on the air. Did you know that? I remember Arthur.
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 3 Arthur's still going. No.
They're still making new episodes.

Speaker 6 And then Steven Crowder did a voice on Arthur.

Speaker 4 Did you know that? No way.

Speaker 4 I didn't know that. Was he brain? No, I didn't.

Speaker 6 Secret Novel.

Speaker 7 Steven Crowder, Canadian.

Speaker 12 Arthur was pretty good stuff, though, right?

Speaker 4 Right, Brian?

Speaker 1 And then Full House.

Speaker 12 I was big into Full House.

Speaker 3 Oh,

Speaker 3 you were watching it on Nick at Night. You're You're like my sisters.
I'm sorry, Charlie.

Speaker 4 I was like, GGIS.

Speaker 12 Oh, no, no, no, no. I watched on Nick at Night.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 12 I was a Nick at Night guy.

Speaker 3 Full house. Yeah, Nick at Night.

Speaker 3 That's right. They had an hour of Full House every night.
This would have been like 2002, 2003. I remember because my sisters watched it every single night, and our family computer was there.

Speaker 3 So I would get it by osmosis. And I would try to see how often I laughed at it.
And I think they probably watched it about every night for about two years. And I think I laughed at the show

Speaker 3 twice.

Speaker 3 But it's kind of like friends. I think Full House, it's technically a sitcom, but it's not intended to be funny.
It's intended to just

Speaker 12 lighthearted.

Speaker 3 And it all takes place in San Francisco.

Speaker 12 All right, we got a dash. Guys, thank you so much.
Till next week, keep committing thought crimes. God bless, and send us your statues, submissions.
Thanks, guys, and Go Team USA.

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