THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 72 — 2032 Armageddon? Worst Super Bowl Ever? US-Gay-ID?

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Okay, everybody, welcome to this Thought Crime Thursday. Today, lots happening and we are going to dive into so much of the news here we have jack we have tyler we have blake and our first topic is going to be about the super bowl jack tell us why we should cheer for the eagles of which i find i just i want both teams to lose miserably and for it to end in a perpetual tie.
Jack. Yeah, well, you know, look, first of all, everyone likes to go with a winner.
So if you want to back the winning team, you're going to go with the Eagles. I mean, that's the most obvious answer right there.
They're the team that's going to win. Second of all, people are generally sick.
And by the way, as an Eagles fan, I'm not used to having so many people on my side, side but I've been getting messages I've been having people come up to me all week or all the last two weeks really saying look man I'm not an Eagles fan but I want Kansas City to lose so bad that I'm backing you 100 people are sick of the way the NFL has been bending the rules people are sick of the way that there's clearly all this marketing going into Kansas City, the whole Kelsey brothers thing that's absolutely stale. One of which, by the way, was an eagle.
So, you know, I'm evil in admitting it's cringe, even though it's, you know, possibly to my own detriment. And obviously, like, we don't need to talk about what happened with me and Taylor Swift last year, but it's it's tamped down from where it year ago.
But the cringe, unfortunately, still exists. And so people, I think, are just sick of it.
And people are looking for a change. And so that's what you get when you go with the Eagles.
You go with a group of people that actually fight, that actually stand up for themselves, that don't take any crap and don't care what other people say about them because they're about what they're being about. It actually very similar to MAGA in a lot of ways and you know what what can I say you know do not compare the Philadelphia Eagles to MAGA that is this is heresy yeah I mean I've been one of the loudest voices like throw this segment into the trash ban Eagles guy so and just you know read it it's there's just been literally.
It's completely synonymous with MAGA. You're making me want to cheer for the Chiefs now.
I can't believe this. It's literally the exact same narrative all along.
I think the problem that we're going to get here is, so the 2017 Super Bowl where the Pats beat the Falcons, that kind of made it so that the Pats were kind of the MAGA team. Even though I know the Patriots were annoying, they won a lot.
We got tired of them winning. That's what MAGA does.
They win until you're tired of it. And then the thing is that the Eagles then beat them the following year.
And so I'm not sure we can see if the Eagles beat the MAGA team of the NFL. I don't think we can say the Eagles are the MAGA team today.
I just, I don't think that works, Jack. I think, I think that comparison is flawed.
There, uh, there's some inside information that I have about certain players that are, uh, on the Eagles that are, uh, more MAGA than, than you realize. And, uh, not going to put that out.
Expose them. Expose them.
Put out. No, it's not my information to put out.
It's not my story to tell but this is the golden era jack we have to know happen this is the golden era i'm not no i was not given liberty to uh to repeat that information so i'm not going to burn my source that's a typical eagles fan response yeah oh i'm sure there's so many protecting the house wearing wearing Eagles green, being loyal, not stabbing his friends in the back, actually caring about things that matter. Wait, you're saying that a Philadelphia Eagles fan is going to not stab somebody? No, I said not stab a friend.
I didn't say I wouldn't stab you, Blake. No, it's pretty bad because we basically got the Super got the super bowl from hell that's what the label is because i think of all 14 teams that were in the nfl playoffs i think this had to be the matchup i wanted least you wanted least charlie wanted like all of america wanted least of all except for jack and the handful of people he's not going to stab and then chiefs fans uh and then it's in it's they're having it in new orleans right at the super bowl or the superdome so that's yes you know that that stadium has seen better days i guess like the only winning thing we have out of the super bowl is they did get rid of the end racism thing in the end zone so that that's what they're placating us with they'll still have kind of dumb sounding lectures but they're going with the like it takes all of they're doing the generic ones that sound like they're from a power rangers episode in the 1990s as opposed to the extremely like militant maoist one so we'll count the win there but i feel like i'm just going to be this is a Super Bowl that will be inflicted upon me as opposed to one that I will – So Trump is going, and it never actually occurred to me that no sitting president has actually gone to a Super Bowl before.
Is that true? Really? Has anyone fact-checked that? Yeah, no, it's true. I saw that news going around around and I didn't take the time to check, but it's like, well, because you always see the president, you know, or prior to Biden, you would usually see the president doing like the Super Bowl day interview.
So I guess in my head, I would always associate the president and the Super Bowl, but I didn't realize that no one had actually attended. Obviously, I can understand for security purposes why you might not want to do that, But it just, I don't know, it just seems like something that a president would have gone to.
Yeah, I guess I have a friend in the in the inner in the football business. And she said that is 100% true.
She was like one of the first people to mention that. And she kind of broken it and had got it out there pretty early.
But it's crazy, because a lot of presidents have played football lot like a lot of presidents have played football and none have gone to the super bowl richard nixon did suggest a play to run in the super bowl he did do that once i believe it was a flanker reverse teddy roosevelt's responsible for the forward pass he never played football there's like all this there's all this football lore with presidents none of them have been i couldn't believe it gerald ford could have been a professional football player but he decided to go become president which is they offered him he got offered to play for the the lions and the packers like 200 bucks a game he could have been a packers hall of famer yeah and he went to law instead do you know we had a an nfl player ended up on the supreme court uh byron byron whizzer white he was he was on the supreme court from like the i think late 60s through the 90s and he was he was the last base democrat on the court i think so he was the democrat but he voted against roe v wade so we're relatively pro pro whizzer white here uh but yeah no president at the super bowl i wish he could have picked a better super bowl to go to but i guess uh fate wasn't cooperating with us it's a swing state so it is a swing state and the other great thing with trump is not a swing state no no no i mean oh yeah yeah yeah but got a lot of stuff there uh philly but the other great thing about um Trump going to the super bowl is he's uh apparently on uh he's in his tax proposal today there is that very niche item that he wants to get rid of tax benefits enjoyed by pro sports team owners and apparently this is just he's very angry at the left-wing sports team owners who denounced him in his first term and the way the sports leagues did all of that sort of good. This is the right thing to do.
Now he's just exactly. It's great.
And we should just have Trump issue an executive order that's like taxpayer money can't be used to build these stadiums anymore. This is totally out of control.
That would be fun. I would totally support that.
But that might put me in conflict with a lot of people i don't care i think i think if they get rid of trans night i think they can have their tax breaks back maybe we could issue a thing only the texas rangers are allowed to get taxpayer funding because they were the only mlb team to not do all of the pride fund stuff and they got all of they got all this hate they would every year for three or four years in a row we'd get this two minute hates on the uh on the texas rangers because they would not do this pride night thing during during the mlb season it was deranged so so it's been it's been a wild ride for for eagles fans this year you know you you had you had Poso going to Eagles jail a couple just a couple of weeks ago here, right before the election. You've got Donald Trump going red, Pennsylvania going red for Trump.
Kamala Harris, of course, holding her very last rally slash concert. These weird things in Philadelphia the night before the election.
I think I flew, if I remember correctly, I flew straight from that concert to Phoenix and then came on ThoughtCrime that night for like the very tail end of whatever we were calling it or whatever we were doing. And now, now a Super Bowl victory where the Eagles parade gets to march down Broad Street is really it's just going to be the coup

de grace it's going to be the coup de grace of this entire season and if you recall which team won the Super Bowl right after Trump won the first time was it the Patriots the Patriots that's what I just said it was the it was the Philly Philly and the Philadelphia Eagles in February 20th yeah that doesn't count.

When Trump was like really

president and was like

governing the country, that's when the Patriots came back 31-3. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or 28-3, whatever. It was the greatest comeback in history.
Let's flag this comment. So Sergeant T1978 says, as a Cowboys fan, I will never support the Eagles.
Charlie's a history denier. And I will never support the Chiefs.
Just listen to the commentary, commentary and you will know who wins like they did in the patriots falcons game that brings up an idea that you could have if you hate this super bowl and and wish both teams would be cursed forever you can try this is a contest people do every year you try to not know who won the super bowl and you see how long you can do so you don't watch the Super Bowl you stay away from all the news websites and you see can you can you avoid ever learning who wins this year's Super Bowl I tried to do that when the when the Patriots played the Rams in that must have been the 2019 season 20 yeah no it was 2018 2018 season and then they were playing it in spring 2019 and I didn't like that and that was also peak the NFL being annoying and also peak the Packers not being very good that year and so I was just like I'm just gonna not and I'm not watching and I was flying to Europe on a plane when the Super Bowl was being played so I thought everything's worked out perfectly I don't need to watch it I'll be in Europe where they don't care I could avoid learning who wins the Super Bowl and by the time I'm back it won't be on the news all the time let's see how how long we can go and then Apple ruined it because when I landed in Iceland they sent me one of those forced phone nudges that told me the Patriots had won the Super Bowl and I never saw another thing about football the entire

rest of that trip and I was extremely annoyed I might not know to this day whether the Rams or

Pats won that Super Bowl if they hadn't ruined it it is a shame this is not a Lions Super Bowl

I don't think they're allowed to appreciate how what the the Lions yeah yeah they're just uh

I think the NFL I have long believed that like God himself will not allow the Minnesota Vikings to win the Super Bowl. I believed this when I was a child, and I still believe it today.
I think that if the Vikings had a lead in a Super Bowl, it would allow Satan to triumph on Earth, and God will not allow that. I believe this in my heart of hearts.
And I think the lions are a slightly lower scale version of that where they're kind of

cursed by, they're cursed by God.

You know, Jacob, have I loved Detroit?

Have I hated the, can we appreciate, and let's play some of this, let's play some of them.

I think we have them in the cut sheet of this new strategy of leaking your commercials ahead of time, or at least posting them ahead of time in order to try to get more traction. So there's all these new, I think Super Bowl commercials have really lost their allure and their, let's just say, appeal.
Let's go to this one. Okay, this is the Budweiser ad.
Let's watch. Let's 102.

Oh.

Still too little, buddy.

Is that Dylan Mulvaney riding the Clydesdale? There's a reason for the sunshine sky And there's a reason why I'm feeling so high Must be the season when that little light shines all around us So let that feeling grab you deep inside

How long is this at?

Geez

Where you love to get high

Just feel the thunder Just let your love go

Like it on the street

And let your love go

With the small

So, a horse walks into a bar. And what? So, that ad.
That ad costs 14 million bucks. I can't help but feel i want your guys's thoughts just feels like a major cope post dylan mulvaney i just i can't get behind it i want your guys's thoughts so yeah the strategy is is obviously clear that you know it's it's an attempt to drive things back to the uh uh you know previous iteration of when the budweiser clydales used to be seen as noble and majestic and certainly patriotic after 9-11.
I remember that Super Bowl commercial. Everyone alive remembers that Super Bowl commercial right after 9-11, just a couple of months later with the Clydesdales bowing or kneeling to the skyline of New York City.
But, you know, this, it's just like stock footage and then some awkward millennial comedy at the end. You know, having a Clydesdale be a comedic character is ridiculous.
It totally misses the heart, totally misses the substance of what made those earlier commercials better. Wouldn't surprise me if like some H1B who doesn't understand American culture wrote this.
And yeah, I'm not really sure what they're going for other than saying, hey, look, look, we're not Dylan Mulvaney anymore. See, we're not Dylan Mulvaney.
So you should like us again. And it's just silly.
It's just, it's very silly. And, you know, even as someone who doesn't drink, that objectively, I don't find this to be a good commercial.
I just miss the old funny just like slapstick within like 15 seconds. Are you just full? You want 2002 America back? I want – Yeah.
Tyler, remember Budweiser? Yeah, yeah. Budweiser.
Budweiser? Charlie, do you know what that is? Wait, wait, does Charlie know that? I'm too young for it. Vaguely remember.
The frogs? Oh, man, he doesn't know it. He doesn't know the frogs.
Yeah, the frogs. I've, like, seen it on YouTube.
I don't think I saw it live. Charlie, this was like a Super Bowl commercial that took over the entire country.

It was just so stupid funny.

Like, it wasn't even trying.

It was 95.

Wow.

It's just these frogs.

Oh, the what's up commercial.

I know what you're talking about.

No, no.

It was before what's up.

It was before what's up.

So this was the Arizona Super Bowl.

The engaged few super chatted us and said,

no one on this panel is old enough to remember the Bellamy brothers.

And I'll admit, I don't know who the Bellamy brothers are.

That's probably really bad.

But I don't know.

Was that an ad they did?

Or is that a musical?

I don't freaking know.

Yeah, Was Up was like the sequel to Budweiser. Yeah, What's Up is what I remember.
They were so stupid, but it was so good because it was just dumb, fast, commercial. It wasn't long.
By the way, SNL used to be like that. It was just absurdist.
It was like they're making fun of themselves more than anything else. It's just silly.
It's like these frogs who are basically drunk, like making each other laugh. Yeah, yeah.
Like, yeah, that's great. Okay, I guess the Bellamy Brothers sang a song.
I feel as if there hasn't been like a home run. There hasn't been like a home run Super Bowl commercial for 15 years.

It just shows the degradation of American culture.

Home run in the Super Bowl, Charlie? I mean, yeah, why not?

Hey, you control me on sport.

I actually know my sports.

I know too.

Let's try this one here. This is the Bitcoin ad 104.
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Thank you. working tirelessly day and night storing their energy into a brighter future okay that's all about bitcoin blake i mean that's i don't like that's that was that was apparently it's all made by ai which is i guess brave new world uh but yeah that's bleak They literally said that people are pouring every nickel and dime they have into this.
I liked it better when they were saying this is great because, you know, Thomas Jefferson didn't like a centralized currency. I'm not sure it's good when you say you should buy Bitcoin because maniacs, you know, are putting all of their money into Bitcoin.
But yeah, but, you know, they're they're going for the MAGA. What's the through line here? The through line here between the Budweiser and this one is that Trump won the popular vote.
And so what have we not seen in these last two ads? And, you know, they're running away from wokeness. They're trying to embrace patriotism again.
They're obviously not like not quite doing it right. a double uncanny valley here in both of these, because in the first one and in this one, it's clearly people who don't quite understand patriotism or MAGA or why people actually love America.
But in this Bitcoin ad, there's a double uncanny valley because obviously the video is AI. Uncanny valley means the human's ability to distinguish something that is almost human but not quite and so when you see it it just it just triggers this this sense in you that something is complete oh it felt so fake yeah totally fake you know the whole thing off.
That's called the uncanny valley. A thought just occurred to me.

So the WhatsApp ads in the early 2000s, some of the other stuff, I feel like the cultural memory of that has been very limited. Like we can remember it now that we bring it up, but you usually won't see that referenced a lot in culture.
I feel like people's memories of the early 2000s do not include a lot of those like really corny aspects of american life it's almost like the austin powers movies like those are it's amazing how huge the austin powers films were in the late 90s early 2000s and they don't exactly loom large over american life to this day i made a discovery about the austin powers movies a couple years ago they're not very good totally by accident because uh well because my wife right i she's you know tanya's not from the u.s so she all that like 90s early 2000s culture she just didn't participate in because she has no memory of it so she like had never seen a Will Ferrell movie before we started dating. She was like, oh yeah, like I kind of heard of him, but I'd never seen any of his movies.
Whereas in the US, they're totally ubiquitous. We went back and we watched like all the Will Ferrell movies and we watched Austin Powers.
And I got to tell you something, Austin Powers was totally played out when, you know, when it was big. It's funny again's actually funny again if you sit because and here's the reason why is because all of culture is so bad right now and so horrible and destitute and vacuous and bereft of any substance whatsoever so even now the stuff that wasn't quite i mean the first austin powers is good i'll i'll definitelyulate that.
But then the other two were just kind of like repeats of the same jokes. But even now, you go back and it's just head and shoulders above anything else that's being put out by Hollywood or whatever streaming services.
So you're like, wow, these are really good. What happened? Where did the people who made these go? So, yeah, if you go back and watch them, they're actually funny again.
Well funny again well and that you know it's really funny about that my son's a teenager now and i i watch him with his friends and for us like culture growing up is you quoted movies constantly like those movies from the 80s 90s and early 2000s were like so quotable they're so stupid slapstick but they had so many quotables and that's like how you talk to each other was that way and you look at kids now they don't have anything like that you know and there's nothing to quote to close the because there's nothing funny there's nothing funny like the last big comedy movie that a lot of except for trump i think the last big comedy movie a lot of people watched was the hangover and you're old the hangover came out closer to world war ii than today it seems uh but to close the loop on it the way that some of that early 2000s pop culture has sort of vanished except for oh remember that thing i wonder if we'll have that for the ultra woke pop culture of the biden era like if we're you know we'll make movies in 2040 and they'll be period pieces set around now but they won't they won't come off right because they'll forget the fact like oh actually everything where's all the where's all the pride flags everywhere yeah like no you guys don't get it if you were living there there was a pride flag on everything uh like that'll be the thing that we just all collectively forget we'll remember covid but we'll forget oh yeah like we had we had to make a national holiday for this guy who like died of a drug overdose in in minneapolis all of it's gonna poof to close the loop on the super bowl uh tj snyder asks are we not yet convinced that the nfl is absolutely rigged the players may not be not but the referees determine the game what i will say is i don't think the nfl is rigged but i think with all of the sports gambling they're going all in on i i worry we are we're like less than five years away from the mega scandal where finally there's enough money in all the new online sports betting that someone is going to rig a major event and it's we'll suddenly remember oh wait that's why they banned all of this 100 years ago uh well the astros cheated they didn't they didn't rig it for the gamblers they just rigged it because they were evil you mean specifically okay right yeah yeah yeah not just players cheat, but cheating like throwing a game like it's one thing to cheat to win. Throwing a game to lose for money.
That is it will be very hard for pro sports to recover from that. And I can just easily see it where this scandal happens and suddenly every state goes, oh, oh, wait, that's why it was a bad idea.
And they just reban sports gambling overnight. I don't know.
I don't know. Those questionable plays in the AFC Championship, I don't know.
I think the whole thing's rigged. I choose to be on the side that Roger Goodell is a – Are you like a Bills fan or something? We'll find out.
We're going to find out Sunday night. I think this whole thing is rigged.
They need heroes. They need viewership.
They need to turn people into villains. Like, there's not enough.
I think that's a huge part of it. Yeah, I mean, like, they need him to be, they need Patrick Mahomes to be a villain for the next 10 years.
The thing about the NFL is it's pretty hard to rig the NFL because the plays are very difficult to do. Like, I don't, like, actually, the commenter above mentioned the Falcons-Pats one.
How do you rig that Edelman catch where it defied the laws of physics practically uh if they were going to rig any sport they probably rigged the NBA the the NBA is one of those ones where you can just say uh yeah give the Lakers 500 the NBA is like proven to be rigged pretty much well I think the FBI said that that that referee just he yeah yeah they just like they're like yeah and you know I think one of the one of those lib sports announcers once said that game seven of the lakers kings series from 20 years ago is it's like the video in the ring where if you watch it like you die the ring being another movie that was extremely popular that no one has heard of anymore it's not it's not famous anymore but you know the early it is in horror circles. You hear it in like...
I would say that with the shattering of shared culture, that's also a huge aspect that took place. So when the internet took off, when smartphones took off, you have this, instead of this one shared culture where everybody watches the same movies and there's only like maybe 30 tv channels now they're suddenly everything so now there's an entire uh multiple i think tv networks dedicated to horror and all they do are horror movies and sometimes they're not even shown you know in in uh theaters but they still do really well um of course you have things like angel studios that are out there that are doing things all those those are shown in studios but you know what i mean so i think what's also going on with the lack of shared references is that number one it's because it's it's the super bowl is sort of interesting because with the new way we consume media this is like this is me getting mccluan, I guess.
With the way we consume media now, there's only a few things that everyone in the country all consumes at the same time. And so one of those or a couple of those could be like the presidential debates.
That's why the debates were so big. That's the only thing that people on different sides all watched.
That's the only thing that like your normie type would tune into the Super Bowl. And the Super Bowl is one of those as well.
This is the one of the only things that a huge amount of Americans are going to tune into, because otherwise people just sort of live in these little mind chambers where someone's watching, you know, conservative media or someone's watching liberal media or consuming that social media, whatever it is. And the algorithm's not feeding them anything cross sides anymore.
Even X, as good as X is now, that doesn't have any of that cross promotion that we used to see, plus a lot of rules have left. So it's interesting that during the Super Bowl ads, they try to pretend like America is still this one cohesive unit anymore when it's just not quite true.
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That is friends.rumble.cloud. Okay, Jack or Blake, walk us through USAID.
USAID, Charlie, or USGAYID? That's the question we all have to ask because we can look through their grants.

And we also have some lovely allies of ours.

We have a data Republican who was helping us a lot during the election.

She, I believe it's a she, right?

Yeah.

She built a big data.

I met her at the inauguration.

Oh, cool, cool, cool.

She's in Utah, right?

Something like that. I met her in D.C., so I'm not sure.
All right. Well, anyway, she built an office.
Yeah, on her on her X, it says Utah. Yeah, yeah.
And so she's built an entire thing. So obviously Trump is pausing the grants to everything.
And we're learning or we're not learning, but America is learning how important it is to the entire vast left-wing apparatus that they receive unlimited amounts of taxpayer dollars to do everything they want because like the rollback on dei you could sense that okay they didn't like that but they could go along with it because okay like dei was actually ruining a lot of left-wing organizations because they had to hire a lot of incompetent people if that goes away we can hire smart people and win elections again but cut off pausing the money they are losing their minds uh they are they're going to reddit they're flipping out they are they are vomiting blood they are they're bleeding out of everywhere uh they're freaking. And one of the biggest ones, and I think this is genius by Trump, they fixated on pausing USAIDs.
So it's weird because it looks like USAID, but they say USAID often because I think it's United States something international development, agency for international development, I think. And what this is is USAID has a budget of about 40 to 50 billion dollars and it is the vehicle we use for all the foreign aid that american public always wants us to stop spending on this is how you end up with oh the u.s government paid five million dollars to fund lesbian poetry in somalia or whatever and so the trump admin came in and said okay we're pausing this and they're freaking out where they're going to find the things that are most sympathetic where they'll say oh like we were we're stopping malaria and you're going to cause four-year-olds to die in mozambique and all of that and all i would say is guys if all that stuff is that important that we, why did you ruin it by using it as your front to fund like bizarre, like regime change in Ukraine or Cuba or Libya or wherever? And why did you use it as a front to fund all the gay stuff? If it was genuinely doing all that important stuff, you shouldn't have funneled all the money to the fake stuff because it's going to make everyone hate it.
Anyway, that's all set up to say data republican made this federal grant search where you can search for for keywords in grants and uh so i have it open up right now i i have i searched lgbt and just with that very brute force method we found uh 1.4 billion dollars worth of taxpayer grants specifically to things that included lgbt in it i like this one american academy of addiction psychiatry you really if you if you read it it's you're you probably can't read it on the screen there but if you look through it you can really tell how they just had to shove gay into everything to try to get money so this is about oh get some money to help fight addiction and then it's uh o r n whoever's getting this is equipped to support individuals and communities who bear and disproportionate burden from oud and stud including youth and young adults black and indigenous communities lgbtq plus people rural communities and individuals involved in the legal system also known as criminals and so yeah you had to throw that in there like okay we want our money to fight addiction or opioids or whatever but guys it's not that we're fighting addiction it's that we're fighting addiction with the special groups of people that we care more about than normal people and so blake Blake, so this is this is the data Republican site. Can you walk us through a little bit or at least the general idea of how this site works? So I see there's federal grant charity graphs, principal officer searches.
It's like it's like all of the country's 990 forms of the nonprofits forms are dumped in here. And basically what she's done is put together, you know,

it's like all the federal money. Is that the idea? Yeah.
And it's a very brute force mechanism. So I know she made charts where you could see like one organization goes to another.
Yeah, I have it open here just as like a basic one where you can see this sub graph that I have open right now is showing 122,000 different grants, 246 million dollars. And it's sort of this big network where you can see it go to different places.
It's imperfect. I definitely saw some people misreading it.
I know one that went viral the other day was where they thought Chelseainton was getting 86 million dollars from the federal government but if you looked at it it was more like this organization was in a network of different organizations and the total amount of money they got was 14 000 it was it was not huge amount of money but it's sort of like if you're an org and you get money from another org that was getting money from the government it goes into the system and there's something to that because if we're funding an organization that is also donating money to another thing money to some extent is fungible and so there's an indirectness there but there's also limits to it i would say uh but like i said it's so genius that it's almost accidental genius because the left chose to do this they freaked out about the usa id pause and that is the single best front that you could fight on for defending a pause of federal spending because what is the least popular type of federal spending international aid people don't like the idea that we take our money and we just give it to other countries for free and it's almost it's sort of the joke is like trump can win by doing absolutely nothing he's just like i'm gonna cut funding and you guys are going to go and complain about the one part of it that is most popular most most effective, most going to make me look good.

But the left couldn't help it because they care more about other countries than they care about this one. And they're constantly shocked the entire rest of America doesn't feel the same way.
So here's something that I think is interesting, though. And I think we have a way.
We were talking about maybe setting this up. There's like a keyword search that she set up on here in the federal grants.
And so I was thinking, guys, what if we live on the show tonight, just go to the keyword search and come up with, just pull words at random and see if the federal government is funny. Yeah, yeah, I have it.
I have it. That's how I had the LGBT thing.
I just put in black. We got $2.7 billion.
Throw more at me. This could be fun.
Floyd. Ooh, Floyd.
Let's see. So we have, we definitely have grants.
Let's see what context they are used in. It looks like we're getting like county names.
I'm seeing a lot of like Floyd County. Yeah, Floyd County, Indiana.
Rome, Floyd County. Okay, so probably a lot of noise.yd county yeah floyd county indiana rome floyd county okay so probably a lot of noise okay so this is really comprehensive yeah exactly like it's like i said it's a very blunt force instrument but yeah you've really got to drill in okay okay oh hold on hold on michigan state university 2.6 million dollar grant something something covet pandemic uh those of incident.
The George Floyd incident. The need for officers to have new skills.
Got it. City of Minneapolis.
$2.5 million. The Minneapolis Police Department faces a critical staffing shortage following the aftermath of George Floyd's murder.
Oh, boy. Oh, wow.
We got him. Oh, wow.
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him oh wow ladies and gentlemen we got him for first try right there well it was like the so so here's a here's a dumb question i have and i want to keep going through this the president then therefore has the ability to cancel this funding and then give funding to like red cities right give funding to you know red institutions is that correct i just want to make sure i'm understanding like he could theoretically i don't know where these red cities are that you're talking about well it's all going to be lubbock texas i mean how about how about border towns that are cooperating with what the president is doing bundle some of this together and give these border towns you know 50 million bucks that want to hire more police and we'reiffs. And do you know what I mean? I don't know.
Explain this to me. Well, these are still active.
And can I, wait, can I read this one real quick? It's $19 million from HHS, from the NIH to the regions of University of Minnesota. And it just starts, and, Blake, you'll get what I'm saying about this.
It says that disparities in chronic disease, including cardiovascular disease related to hypertension and obesity. In Minnesota, where the murder of Mr.
George Floyd at the hands of police instigated a local, national, and global reckoning on racism. It's like, so remember, guys, the irony here is that the original medical examiner's report in Hennepin County said that George Floyd died of a heart attack, and they gave $19 million to the University of Minnesota to look up heart disease in the name of George Floyd floyd it's like it's like it's just it's right there in your face it's really just they're just throwing it in your face folks yeah we also have we have a two and a half million dollar grant to john hopkins which also has the word reckoning in its uh let's see how they used it uh oh no there's a science version there's a science version no no no shade on johns hopkins no but for charlie's question about the funding so it's going to be something we'll have to litigate in the courts and we said that right away when all the executive orders were coming out a lot of this is be maximally aggressive on day one because this is going to end up in the courts for years on end.

And it's way better to start day one than to start on day 1,000. We do have a question in the chat.
By the way, this data set is all federal grants. So it's not just USAID.
It's actually all federal grants. And then you have to go to where was it awarded by.
So that's why the one I just read was National Institute of Health, DOJ justice programs, CDC. I mean, it could be it could be anything.
It could be just literally anything. I mean, if you look on here, too, I mean, I just search migrants.
Just go through the term migrants. Go through the term migrants.
there's literally insane amounts of money that the United Nations World Food Program and $44 million to provide emergency food assistance to Venezuela migrants in Colombia. Wait, here's one.
So we're literally giving money to the Bill Gates thing. I mean, it's insane stuff.
If you go through here, I mean, this is over $2 billion worth of stuff that is relevant to migrants. And almost all of it's bad.
I mean, Oregon Department of Education, $22 million for migrant education. I mean, you just go through this.
Wait, wait. If you just look up the word migrants, so it actually gives you, if you let it finish its query, it'll give you the total.
So total taxpayer money spent that has the word migrants in it, $410, $494,302.52. So almost $500 million.
I have an even higher amount here that's showing $2 billion. I've got on here...
Are you under federal grant search? Yeah, federal grant search. I just plugged in undocumented and I got $913 million.
Oh my gosh. A lot of it...
So Charlie like what like i'm looking at this right now why aren't we taking i mean i think and when we say why i mean this is obviously what hopefully we can do and i don't think anyone's answered this question yet in the funding that's going to uh the the you know who and uh other all these other different things that are helping, United Nations World Food Program, for example, and say, why can't we give a border town this exact grant? We can say, oh, great, we're actually taking this $44 million that was given to United Nations for Venezuelan migrants in Colombia, and we're going to give it to... And Charlie's exactly right.
We're going to give it to... Give it to El Salvador columbia and we're going to give it to and

charlie's exactly right we're going to give it give it to el salvador so the question we're

going to give it to build the wall and staff of the wall and and you know in el paso and along

the border in cochise county what's going to matter for these sorts of grants is congress does

under the constitution have the power of the purse and what i think we'll have to dig into

they don't underwrite every one of these though they don't they don't so we'll have to figure out

Thank you. for these sorts of grants is Congress does under the Constitution have the power of the purse.
And what I think we'll have to dig into. They don't underwrite every one of these.
They don't. They don't.
So we'll have to figure out what are things that Congress said this money has to go to X and how much of it is we gave a block. I think it's very opaque.
Twenty billion dollars for the this agency to dole out for these goals. And then the Trump administration say, well, we think the goals are best served by this rather than this well you guys might know the answer to this question i think what how what happens is that it's a poor the the apportionments that are made are made when they they actually go through and they pass the bills to fund things it's it's pretty generic and then so the executive branch may have some real opportunity here to say, oh, we can redirect these funds to do something else.
So I think that's the question is, for example, I think, and I could be wrong about this, but I think my understanding is that Congress passes X amount of dollars to go towards, you know, federal grants to higher education. But it's not stipulated how those grants are actually through like the NIH and everything else.
Right. So that the stipulations that can be changed.
Right. Changes at the NIH at a different level that changes who gets the grants and who's to say that, you know, again, you couldn't put those towards more blue collar, more protected.
I mean, a lot of these things are not, they're not relevant to education, but they're funded through those mechanisms. So yeah, it truly is.
That would be a good project, Blakeake to talk to data republican to reverse engineer the the rider that triggered all of this and again i isn't usa idea supposed to be international aid like it it literally says the united states for international development it's it's in the title so it's just shocking to me how much goes here domestically shocking it's amazing well keep in, keep in mind, the Data Republican one is lots of grants, not just USAID. So we have the mix of USAID is the one that's getting all of the attention because the left is freaking out so much about it.
But it's creating a greater focus on where we send grants in general, which is practically unlimited. I saw a viral Twitter thread the other day where it was like the amount of money that will just that can just bank bankroll the most ridiculous things like urban urban dance but it's like a woke version of urban dance and they'll just yeah okay throw a hundred thousand dollars over to oh that's a good one that's enough in urban i'm just gonna look up the word urban you'll get a lot of you'll get a lot of other spin spin-off stuff uh let's see that's a good stuff here yeah i wish there were i do wish there were some ways to um to filter it a little bit more so like what charlie's saying filter it you know so 3.8 billion is what came up with urban but you know filter that down so you could by agency.
So I'm just going to go under this certain agency is what? Okay, okay. I found it.
It was a Lomas who we had on the show the other day. He put in dance and he found a page that says it's providing.
Basically, we gave like a six-figure amount to amount to provide community based mutual aid support healing circles on intergenerational gender violence culturally specific counseling services for african-american victims in the form of healing and sister circles quilting storytelling theater song and african dance and received, that was a grant for $575,000 to Black Women's Blueprint Incorporated, awarded by the Department of Justice. Makes me so happy.
Yeah, and then the response to it from this guy, John Pontius, I am involved in the L. dance world, and I consistently wonder how loony boomer women can afford to have huge studios, paid annual festivals, and ubiquitous poor quality choreography.
Yeah, because it's all taxpayer funded. the most obvious ngos that need to start getting money if we can't defund it is friendly churches is local community churches that are there with us that see the world the way we do and saying okay you want to go do migrant resettlement okay we're going to create a consortium of Arizona churches and instead of Catholic charities getting 75 million bucks we're going to defund that we're going to go send it to hey, these churches can provide flights and resettlement activity for all of the illegals that have come in Arizona.
The point is that there's a lot of organizations out there that would benefit from this type of capital. Again, I'm not a fan of government funding, but if you have to spend the money, you might as well put it in the right direction.
So, all right, let's go to asteroid here. Blakeake are we all gonna die from an asteroid not all of us uh so the asteroid in question let me get the exact name of that asteroid uh if they even have a name because they always give them hillary yeah we'll call it we'll call it hillary's big rock and so what it is is they have telescopes and such and they're tracking there's millions of big rocks that are floating in our solar system most of its way out uh beyond pluto and they'll they're constantly orbiting the sun and occasionally they come in they hit earth and so they track the big ones and we have never had in our lifetimes like a very

large asteroid hit the earth where you know it causes a nuclear weapon level blast the last time it happened is something called the tunguska event it happened about 120 years ago in russia and it blew up an area about twice the size of new york city anyway there is an asteroid isn't there Blake, isn't there also some evidence that dates back to Sodom and Gomorrah that says something similar took out a city right off of the Dead Sea? It's possible. It would certainly, it would be very similar to what happened in the Tunguska event.
But anyway, there is a near-Earth object, as they call it, which they've been monitoring it. And I believe it's been the NASA Center for Near-Earth Object Studies.
They've observed a rock. It recently passed near the Earth.
And then it's going to pass near the Earth again in 2028. And then 2032 is where they're speculating that it has a chance, they calculated, of 2 percent to hit the earth and that's already up from 1.3 percent as calculated by the european space agency uh a month ago so the odds have doubled in a month uh if this based on the size if this rock hit the earth it would they believe it would have a blast equal to about a 10 megaton nuclear weapon so that's where okay if it hit a forest wilderness very big pretty explosion but not a huge deal but if it hit a city it's like nuking a city and if it hit an ocean which is actually you know pretty good odds it does that it would cause a big tsunami and could kill thousands of people hundreds of thousands of people even just from the tsunami afterwards and we're we're showing all the b-roll from a big rock that would uh you know if it hit off the eastern seaboard for example so the most important question we have to ask about this and we've got eight years really to consider uh yeah seven eight years to consider our answer to this is what should the theme song be for the space mission to blow up this asteroid because in armageddon it was that song and trump trump will it'll have to be something that trump can use or you know president vance or whoever it would be uh but actually our best shot of blowing it up might be in 2028 because you want to hit it you can try to blow up the whole thing but if you just want to nudge it out of the way if you can hit it with a big rocket or you know a missile or some kind and move it just a couple centimeters on its trajectory over the course of four years of spinning through space that thing is thousands of miles off from where it was going to be otherwise and that could be how you make it miss the earth and 2028 of course trump will still be president trump could oversee the mission to save humanity from hillary's big rock but we need a theme i just think from a political standpoint regardless of this if this when in 2028 is it supposed to be near us, Blake? We should just time this up with the Olympics.
And instead of an opening ceremony, we should have the world live stream, SpaceX slash NASA, like put the asteroid off course. And then Donald Trump just says, I just saved the world.
And the opening ceremonies, boom, begin. It's right there.
It says, boom, asteroid off of its path, opening ceremony, the entire world is watching. Instead of this whole, you know, Chinese thing where they're banging drums or, no, no, no.
The opening ceremony is as you're doing it, you time it up, you make the asteroid go off. Yeah, it's not.
Save the world, the whole world is watching. It's actually like Rubio and Monica Crowley that deal with that because it goes kind of through state.
So we'll have to get them. Who flies the ship, though? Is it Baron? I vote that Baron fly the ship.
He needs something to do. Yeah, so I'm looking at the odds, by the way.
So it looks like they just detected this last month. I assume that's because it was pretty close by so we can see it and then it's coming back in 2028 and then the estimated impact date if it continues all the way around and where to hit us is december 22nd 2032 so we seem pretty close to exact four-year cycles so it could be coming close to the earth right around the 2028 election i'm telling you if you want to win if you want to win pennsylvania and jd vance's vp have him like in a war room in the situation room monitoring altering an asteroid that was going to like destroy the planet yeah no we should do it the way it's the power of the incumbency i'm just being honest we should do it the way that they did it in world war ii where you can go sign whatever whatever like rocket that we send so everybody gets to like paint on the rocket that we send to shoot the the asteroid what would we name the rocket like everybody gets to like marker it like with a with ball buster obviously the ball the ball b Ooh, that's a good one.
But we haven't gotten around to the theme song. We need to pick a good theme song because, of course, in Armageddon, it was that Aerosmith song, Don't Want to Miss a Thing.
The Aerosmith, yeah. Which is everywhere.
I don't mind that song. I don't mind that movie.
I think it was pretty good. I mean.
I like that movie. It's a stupid movie.
We just talked about Ben Affleck. And then the Aerosmith guy's daughter is the girl in the movie.
Liv Tyler. Oh, I forgot.
Yeah, she's Steve Tyler. It was Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck.
Yeah. And we talked about in the chat that, you know.
But in the movie, her dad's Bruce Willis. Yes.
Yes, it is true. You know, we could put Bruce Willis still around.
We could put him on the rocket. we could put Bruce Willis still around we could put him on the rocket we could put Bruce Willis on it he's not doing it right now but maybe that would be work because in Armageddon it was a suicide mission so yeah so you could just if you just need someone there to like hold the joystick forward that's dark i apologize i apologize uh but theme song i'm thinking i think it'd work well you need a nice good like upbeat song i think i would use this is gonna sound silly i'm gonna i would use cherry bomb by by the runaways you know like oh that's not bad cherry bomb and then like blows up i think that'd be pretty cool.
I can't really... Let's play the Top Gun.
Let's just play the Top Gun music. Let's just play it.
You have to say no as you listen to it. Top Gun? I mean, come on.
That's pretty good. If you throw back...
This would be good launch music, like, when you're launching a rocket. Just imagine the Olympic opening ceremony.
Yeah, it's taking off. The whole world is watching, and you're live streaming.

The American vessel go right up to an asteroid and blast a nuclear bomb on it.

And Trump is just up there with his hands like this, like Tony Stark.

Blake, how long would it take if we launch?

And it takes like several days.

It would depend on how close it is.

I feel like you'd probably launch it a while in advance.

I bet what you'd do is you'd maybe have a simulation of us getting closer, and then it hits it, it blows up, and then you need some sort of firework where it's like, you know, it'll be far away, but we'll just pretend. We'll do some sort of drone firework display to make it look like it's closer and then you have a flame descend from this explosion onto the olympic torch in los angeles and that's exactly lights now we're talking torch although yes there needs to be another song this is how we are back we can fake this whole thing like no.
See, it's got to be just like Armageddon.

And so there's another song that we need to play right as the missile is hitting.

Play it, guys.

Play it.

I came in like a river.

Is this a Miley Cyrus song?

Yeah. Miley Cyrus.
Can we put her on the rocket if it's a one-way? It's got to be cringe and annoying, just like an asteroid. What's that? Her or Joy Reed.
That's what you call. Ooh, her and Joy Reed.
Ooh. Just stick her right on the rocket.
Now we're getting, it's like that episode where the it was one of the halloween simpsons episodes where like the world is ending so they have a rocket to escape yeah and homer and bart get on the rocket and then they realize they're looking around who's on the rocket they're like rosie o'donnell al sharpton all these other and they realize they got on the wrong rocket and it's the one that's going straight into the sun.

And Lisa got to go on the other rocket with the actual good people.

All the smart people.

Back when Simpsons used to be based.

Still going, man.

Yeah.

So we are in full agreement there.

I think if the asteroid is that close, we just fake it like the moon landing do the whole thing whole production quality everything else we have like a really great actor of like the person like like billy bob thornton or something that's like the person that like oh yeah he was the government guy and he was the government guy there but he made that movie slightly less. I'm looking now at what the audience is suggesting.
Someone suggested For Those About to Rock by ACDC. That's okay, but ACDC, they're an Australian band.
I feel like we do need to be very... I'm going.
I'm definitely going. Oh, yeah, are they too right now? I saw them a year ago when they came out of retirement.
It was it was pretty good was that with Brian Johnson or is that when Axl Rose was still singing it was Brian Johnson Axl Rose was also there with Guns N' Roses and his voice is very shot but it was still awesome yeah he's totally shot someone suggested We Will Rock You by Queen again they're a British. I'm not sure that would go with our Maximally MAGA asteroid explosion mission, but we do.
That's right. And the only properly American song is by Miley Cyrus because you don't get more American than that.
Now another one's saying Thunderstruck. Our audience loves ACDC, which oh acdc that is a that's a legitimately great song for the record oh it is probably the only good thing to come out of australia ever what about crocodile dundee cdc yeah i mean it didn't really last did it it's like we were talking about those movies earlier i mean it was nice but it kind of went away yeah but you know that's like lot of things in Western civilization.
You know, like Steve Irwin. Yeah, he was cool.
He was great. He thought it wouldn't swim backwards, but it did, unfortunately.
Didn't quite last. You don't have to be old to be...
Whoa, that's a deep cut. A guy's suggesting a Judas Priest song from...
Man, I think that's from British Steel. Again, British band.
Screaming for you guys you guys really love all your british bands which i like them too but this is this has got to be a maximally american mission last year i they were also yeah i basically saw one one concert that was all the bands i liked a year ago so it was it was acdc guns and roses jud Priest, Iron Maiden. For some reason, Tool was there.
My friend was really excited. Where was that? It was at Coachella.
Not actual Coachella, but the same place they hold it in SoCal. Oh, wow.
It was me and then a zillion boomers. That's awesome saw uh i saw this one concert it was a uh dio motorhead and then irie baden at the end so it was like i don't know what it was lords of rock band bandit one and now like two-thirds of those are now dead bandit one suggests right now by van halen that is an american band but right now the lyrics have like there's no tomorrow and that's the opposite of what we're doing we are saving tomorrow we are winning tomorrow by blowing up the death asteroid for america uh also that is one that is from the uh sammy hagar era of van halen which is not as cool as the david lee roth era of van halen uh panama that would be a cool song it doesn't really have anything to do with blowing up the rock but it is a cool song i like her panama is the song that we all right final let's let's do now no i was gonna do final uh super bowl predictions as we end we'll go to jack first actually go to jack blast because it'll be the most insufferable tyler super bowl commercial okay prediction uh man i'm actually i'm pulling i'm actually pulling for a really close game high score game that the eagles win on uh but not not because the eagles

won it on their own but because the chiefs blew a play. Roger Goodell.
Something like – remember that Auburn-Alabama game where they kicked the ball and they ran it back and they lost it? Oh, yeah, the kick six. Yeah, the kick six.
Yep. Kick six, baby.
I want to see something like that. A nice long, maybe overtime Super Bowl where something crazy happens and they win.
That would be – I would like that. I want to see Travis Kelsey fumble the ball with like 15 seconds remaining and the Eagles into the game-winning field goal.
Yes. That would be phenomenal.
That would be great. And a Pfizer commercial goes on while they review the play.
I want to see – exactly. And I want to see Saquon Barkley.
I want to see Saquon Barkley score like six touchdowns because I think he's awesome. I think he's great.
He's a believer. He's super-based.
He's great. I want to see Saquon Barkley score every touchdown.
And I like Mahomes. It's just, I don't know.
It's too much. Blake, what's going to happen? What's going to happen is it the uh the eagles will jump out to a lead uh and they'll be clinging to it in the fourth quarter it's gonna be they'll be up maybe we'll say 31 28 final moments of the game the chiefs get a controversial penalty like one of those fake out you know where mahomes does that annoying twinkle- step thing that gets him hit late and they get a 15 yard penalty they use those penalties to get down to the one yard line and then they're lining up to do their version of the tush push to flex on the eagles to score on the last play of the game and then out of nowhere they were wrong about that rock it's actually hitting america right now it comes down and it hits the superdome explodes destroys the city and then charlie's top gun music starts playing and america is happy that's what's going to happen so jack let me let me ask you, we know who you want to win, what you think is going to win.
Will Philly burn more if Philly wins or loses? You know, it's, it's, you know, I think if Philly loses, depending on the loss, it's, it would be kind of, if it was like a, like a fair, fair fight, it wouldn't be that big of a response. Look, there's always rough stuff stuff that goes on when Eagles win.
And, you know, it's kind of sad because I remember watching this video. There's always this thing where people, you know, kids go and climb the poles on like the street poles on Broad Street when they win or if the Phillies won the World Series or something.
And there was a kid who went to Temple, so my school, and there was this viral video of this kid falling off of one of the, like, like these, these street poles, you know, after the, after the NFC victory the other day, like two weeks ago. And then it later came out that the kid died at 18 years old and, you know, screwing around after an Eagles game.

And it's, I don't know, it just made me feel kind of weird

watching those videos going through.

And like, I posted that video and I didn't realize there was a kid dying.

So guys, don't do that.

Be smart.

You know, support your team.

You know, I'm a Birds fan my whole life.

But, you know, be smart.

It's not worth losing everything over.

So go Birds, but yeah, be smart.

Make good choices.

All right, let's see what happens

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