Jack
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Okay, so this summer I was sick. I had an awful cold and then it turned into laryngitis. So I lost my voice. When this happened though, I was starting to get my voice back. I'm living at home with my parents while I'm at school. It's Good thing to mention. I have a boyfriend. We'll call him Jack. We both work nights. So when he stays over at the house, we have the house to ourselves.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
in the daytime and so i want to say around four in the afternoon this day jack was in the mood for some sexy time sure i wasn't feeling a hundred percent back but felt well enough to proceed with the sexy time oh my god good you're a trooper so at the foot of my bed i have a white wardrobe and And then across the room, I have my closet.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
So at the other end, Jack's head is at the end of the bed and I'm sitting on top of him and things are going very well.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
To the point where I reach my climax.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Almost immediately after that, it started to feel very wet down there. Oh. To the point where Jack then stops and he asks, did you squirt or something? Why is it so wet down there? Oh my God.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
I will also say at this point, he thinks he's done a very, very excellent job. He's proud of himself. That's even worse.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
I don't know why, but then I look behind me and all I see is just brown everywhere.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Yeah. It's like my asshole exploded all over us. Oh my God. I have white bed sheets, the white wardrobe, it reached all the way across to my white closet doors.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
I had no idea it happened. I didn't even feel it. A lot of stuff was going on down there at the time. Maybe I did feel it and I didn't realize.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
I don't really want to admit that.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Like the best way I can describe it is, you know, if you're carrying a glass jar of marinara sauce. Oh, yeah. And you drop it and it explodes. The scene that it happens, there's marinara sauce all on the floor, but there's still splatters everywhere.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
this is not happening yeah sure denial i'm still sick my nose is still congested i don't know if it smells or not oh sure and he's still confused he's like are we still going or what so i'm just like no stop i put my hand over his eyes and his nose i think at this point he thinks that i must be like on my period or something and i don't want him to see it he still doesn't know that
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
It definitely would have been more likely to be him than me, but I don't think he would have believed that. Okay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Yes. In the back of my mind also, this was supposed to be just a quickie. My parents are going to be coming home soon from work.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
His eyes and nose is covered. I help him off the bed. We're both naked, covered in shit. I walk him across the hall into the bathroom. I help him into the shower. Okay, he's doing the right thing. He's letting you do all this.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
The whole time he's like, what's going on? Just uncover my eyes. I'm like, nope, just trust me. You don't want to see this. And as I'm turning on the shower, I hear my dogs running up the stairs.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
They're getting curious.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
So I have to decide, am I going to clean him off or stop this mess from getting even worse?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
And mind you, upstairs is all carpet.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Yeah. So I decide I'm going to leave Jack. I say, Jack, just keep your eyes closed. Just try to clean yourself off the best you can with your eyes closed. I got to go do something else. And as I'm running back to my room to get my dogs, I just hear him yell. Oh my God, is this shit for me? And then he starts throwing- No, no, no, no. I hear him yacking. No.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Oh yeah, that would make me feel a lot better if we both did it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Thankfully, I stopped them in time. They were just sniffing. But I kicked them out of the room and I closed the door. And now I am just like standing in shock at what my body had just done to me.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
I decided I was just going to rip the sheets off of my bed and I hid them in the closet. I had baby wipes sitting in my room. So I just started wiping everything down. I can't smell, but I assume it's smelly. So I opened the windows, light the candles, but it's still just so bad. I am quickly realizing I'm not going to get it cleaned up in time before Jack gets out of the shower.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
So I grab all of his stuff and I throw it out in the hallway. I hear him turn off the shower. He took a really quick shower. He should have taken a lot longer to clean himself off.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
I just throw on a big shirt just to cover myself up and I meet him out in the hallway and he's just confused. He's like, what happened? Like, are you okay? And he was like, you don't need to be embarrassed. It's okay. And I was just so mortified.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
He also might have put two and two together. Oh, she's still sick. He should have just not even asked me to do it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
I just tell him you need to get dressed right here in the hallway. I brought all of your stuff out of my room and you're leaving as soon as you get dressed. Like I kicked him out. And as I was shoving him out of the door, I told him we never, ever speak of this ever again. This never happened. Yeah. Goodbye. Love you. Please leave.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Yeah, we still haven't talked about it. He doesn't even know that I'm talking to you guys about it. That's why we're going to use some fake names. I've actually only told my sister about it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
I've listened to the previous poop episodes. I honestly think this is karma because the whole time I was listening to those, I was like, I can't believe so many people just can't control their bowel movements.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
And it gets a little worse because I realize that now I'm still covered in shit. Right. I get in the shower. Now I'm thinking this bodily fluid, what do you call it? Daxachemius?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Hannes. Yeah, Hannes Rios. The Hannes has made its way back inside of me. No!
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
That's why we could feel that it was extra wet down there. Right.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
This is the worst UTI ever. I cleaned myself really, really well. I ended up not getting UTI or a yeast infection, but I was very paranoid.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Thankful that's the only time it's happened. Knock on wood. Literally knock on wood right now.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
I've had a cold like the last two weeks and we haven't done it at all. I'm not risking it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Yeah. But shout out to my sister because I was calling her... as I was cleaning everything up. Because I needed some emotional support. I needed to process what just happened.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
And instead of telling me everything's going to be okay, she burst out laughing. She was like, oh my God, this is such an armchair story. You totally have to submit this. Oh, that's fantastic. We already planned this as it was happening.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
That's right. Yeah, she's the one that introduced me to you guys. Okay.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
I think that's pretty accurate, except to give you a little bit of TMI, the consistency matched marinara sauce. Right.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
This is like therapy for me. I'm too embarrassed to tell anybody else aside from my sister that just mocked me. So I'm glad I got to tell you guys too.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Yes, I'm glad I could heal other people's trauma.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Thank you guys for letting me share. It's so awesome seeing Dax's chair in person. Nice meeting you guys.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Anonymous: Unauthorized Evacuation
Have a great rest of your day.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
Rachel, I think it's cool that you think we had chemistry. I just think that a lot of the fun was kind of drained out of it as soon as those boundaries came up.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
All right, you know, if we can start over. If we can start over. You want to go back to date one?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
I mean, yeah. Okay, I'll say yes, but I'll pretend like the card never happened.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
I'm sorry, what is this all about?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
All right. What do you need from me?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
Um, I mean, Rachel was, she's cool. She's nice.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
Yeah. You know, uh, I think she's beautiful. She's really cool. And I think maybe she's just going through a lot right now and working through stuff. But what do you mean? Uh, uh, I was not prepared to talk about this.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
Well, that's super nice of her. She was just really specific about what she wants in a guy and kind of went on and on about how I fit those things.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
I mean, it's nice. It is nice. I think it was just like a little much at some point.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
Like, I don't know. First dates are supposed to be a little more chill and steer the conversation toward things that are maybe more fun and getting to know each other. And it was just basically at one point I was like, look, I just want to get to know you. And she smiled and she reached into her purse and handed me an index card.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
Index cards are sexy.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
I kind of wish it was. On top it said physical boundaries and kind of listed all these physical things that she would allow. And she also listed them by date. Okay. oh like you mean like like first kiss three dates in you can touch my butt four dates that's exactly it wow really oh my gosh a lot of planning do you have the card yeah oh yeah uh date one fist bump fist bump side hug And high five.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
Yeah, how was it? It was exactly what you'd expect from a side hug. Okay. All right.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
I think it's cool. Like her therapist says always create boundaries, which she told me, you know, and I think it's super healthy. That's great. But it's just not what I'm looking for. It's just a little much to me.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
Rachel, Rachel. Okay. Look, this is a, I can't believe you're on, we're on the radio right now. This is ridiculous. Ridiculous is a little offensive to me. Yeah. I think it's very offensive. It's just, even though I think you're a great person, you are clearly physically attractive and, and, It's just like the chemistry was just not there, you know? And like the way this, this whole boundary.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer
It doesn't mean you need to be a robot. It's like when I walk into your car, I have to pull out the note card and check what I can do. If it's like side hugs or small kiss.
Fresh Air
A Story Of Shipwreck, Mutiny And Murder
Who invited the incel? Love is the point of everything. It defines us as human beings. Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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I like your cake metaphor, by the way. It's easy for me to understand that. Trademark, patent pending. Gotcha, yeah.
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No, that's a good way to put it. Because I guess it's like, if you have a good first date...
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and you're thinking the second date you want to just keep if it was good you want to keep that going right you want to get that mentality going so now my mind i'm thinking i'm shifting it a little bit because you're right why waste the time why why do the the frosting treatment right um if if if it's not going to come to be anything so right
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I see what you're saying that, that, that makes sense to me how you put that. So I, I appreciate the cake analogy, I guess once again, but, um, I know, right, right. Um, no, so you need some sort of substance and that makes sense. And maybe in the case of this, this girl, um, if she wasn't getting cake or any pieces that I was giving her, maybe it was, uh, um,
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an indication that maybe she wasn't interested. Although, I mean, I can't ask this, but it's just frustrating. Like I wish that I just got the, um, Hey, I'm not interested. Thank you. But that's just not how it works all the time with, with, with people.
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I mean, I mean, it's kind of, it's lingered. Like, I, I don't know. I still, I've still messaged her here and there, but now, yeah, she's on, she's on vacation seeing family for, for a month. So she's out of the area. So, um, yeah, but I don't think there's really anything there. Cause I've tried to reach out a couple of times and I'm not trying to look desperate or needy or anything like that.
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So I don't really.
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For sure, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, makes sense.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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I guess I have another kind of follow-up question too. So I guess one thing I've also noticed as well, as you get older and as you mentioned, so I do travel for work a decent amount, not too much where it's very hard for me to control my personal life. But I sometimes get in a situation where I get busy or she gets busy and then I seem like I'm hitting it off with a girl and I'm texting her.
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I feel like I maybe struggle with that because it's like, man, I feel like I messed up an opportunity just because her timing wasn't there. So I don't know how to kind of keep a good conversation going when you don't really know her quite yet. Any, any, any girl. So maybe like I call it maybe long distance, quote unquote, but it's just really, you know, struggling with that part.
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So I've written this a couple different times, right? So I guess a scenario would be I haven't met her yet. Or I went on one date with her. So it's still early. So how do I kind of capture and keep the momentum going when you're not seeing each other? Because I feel like it's hard. Because now I'm a block of text versus a person.
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Okay.
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That makes sense, yeah. Gave me an idea, yeah. What's that? So I guess... So I did start... I'm actually traveling because I'm going to a wedding. So, I mean, and I did match with somebody and I am having this situation, right? So we are on Snapchat.
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So if I just sent maybe like a, not the same thing, but we snap here and there, but just a quick video of something funny or, you know, a quick little message here and there. From like from the wedding? I mean, yeah, that too. I mean, weddings, you know, weddings are chick crack.
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Yeah. Yeah. What's the best thing to film at a wedding then?
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Oh, God, that's why I'm asking you so many questions.
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Fair enough. No, I understand. No, I guess I didn't really have like a strategy because I'm like two things. I mean, sometimes I just live in my own head too much, right? And I'm overthinking and I'm like, oh, am I doing the right thing constantly? Just with every aspect of like work, dating, all that stuff. So I'm constantly worrying like, am I being too pushy? Am I texting too much?
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Am I not doing enough?
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Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Yeah. I don't want to sort of scare you away because I'm too interested, but yet I don't want to seem uninterested.
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I don't want to be interviewing somebody. And when somebody kind of said interviewing, like a girl that you're trying to date, that's off-putting to me. So that was something I always wanted to avoid. And the way that you kind of said give, give, give, ask, that flips the script.
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That's something that actually gives me context of, hey, that's a good thing to kind of put in your brain and practice it. Even with everyday people, honestly, too. I've never been a big texter. But nowadays, texting is everything, right? You have to communicate to everybody that way.
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I don't, but I love dogs. Everybody that I know, my friends, brothers, all that, they have dogs. I love them. Great.
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I see. Okay.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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Hey, Connell. I feel I have a hard time with starting a relationship. So basically, when I'm dating a girl early on, it can be pretty easy. I can get a few dates here and there. But when I really start liking a girl, sometimes I feel like I'm pushing her away. I have that issue launching into that actual relationship versus a few dates.
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I got you. Um, I mean, so getting to know somebody, uh, and having some sort of like inside joke or I don't know, maybe like, like, uh, put me on the spot. Hold on one sec. Um, sometimes I do like a little, like a little tease, like kind of, um,
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Uh, like I'm not trying to not like a dig, just kind of like a, uh, just kind of like, uh, you told me some sort of thing, like, uh, I'm trying to think of like a, a recent time. Um,
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Oh, so like one of the girls I was dating, she went to Ireland for a while and I teased her like, oh yeah, totally have like an Irish accent, you know, or something like that, you know, along the lines, something like small. But the inside jokes or something that you've talked about that makes a lot of sense. And I've used that. It's definitely harder when it's a profile and you've gone on,
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either just one date or no dates. I do struggle with that a little bit.
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No, I was actually going to ask that for a question. So I guess, because you kind of said something that kind of triggered this question, but I guess I'm having a hard time with, like, flirty texts or kind of moving to flirtiness because... Back of my mind, I'm like, oh, maybe that's going to come across wrong or maybe we're not there yet. So maybe I have a hard time jumping in.
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And I also don't know what to say that would come across as romantic or flirty. I do struggle with that part.
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And I feel like it's easier for me to go further with women that maybe I don't feel that really good strong connection with yet, because it feels easy, less pressure. But when I'm like, oh, God, I do like this girl, I feel like I'm kind of pushing her away. So I guess my first question is, how do I move from that courting stage to a full blown relationship?
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Gotcha, yeah. So I guess with this, I guess I can just use this recent girl. So she's Spanish. So I guess sometimes... So I was also, before I even met her, I started learning a little Spanish too. So I would kind of make fun of her a little bit with some of the things she said, but also to kind of... I don't want to sound like... It's really challenging to learn another language, right? Sure.
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So I also mentioned like, hey, even though you're bad at that, I'm way worse at speaking Spanish. Okay. Just little things like that. I mean, it's...
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Okay, I can see that. That sounds fun.
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Yeah.
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I mean, we get brutal, you know, but these are friends that I've known since I was in high school, elementary, yeah.
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So how do you roast your friends? Um, one of my good friends, I mean, he, he's, uh, um, pretty short and he's, he's, he's, he's balding. So just give him a shit for that, you know? Um, and I don't, I don't, uh, I don't, I don't sugarcoat, but he knows I'm joking. Sure. So stuff like that. And then, um,
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Um, so, uh, I don't know. I just, I grew up in a very teasing, like family. Just, I just do annoying things to like, uh, um, just, just to like, get attention, like poke the back of the neck. Just people that I know I'm comfortable with. I just like to get under the skin a little bit and I'm just like, I'm bugging them.
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But that's, again, that's, I don't know, that's not something I'm going to do to a stranger. I wouldn't say poke her.
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Or a girl that she says she can't watch scary movies because she's too scared. I roll my eyes. I'm like, they're not that scary. Totally. I want to see how much you jump when you're watching a scary movie. Right. Stuff like that. OK, so I got some good examples.
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Yeah, for sure. Fairly recently, there's a girl I went on maybe three dates with. I actually saw her a couple times after that. She invited me to her birthday party and all that. I felt like early on, she was really into me. Maybe I was at the beginning figuring out...
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I guess, especially a first date, I guess I'm nervous to. So I usually don't.
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Okay.
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I see.
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how do I feel because I mean you sometimes have a good first date maybe I get my own head sometimes too uh but then you get to your second date and you're like oh yeah okay that was real that first date was good the second date's good third date's going well uh so with this girl we went on three dates and then after the third date I the way I was reading uh her reaction I thought everything was going well um in my mind I'm like okay I'm really starting to like this girl um
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That makes sense. That's a fair point for sure.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
I see.
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Um, gosh, um, you know, I like a girl that's really bubbly, but I don't know how to make that like say, Hey, that's sexy that you're bubbly. Right. Um, but adventurous. I like bubbly.
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Yeah, exactly. That's that. I see what you're getting at. I love bubbly. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, I tend to like girls that are like that and that personality just is very attractive to me. But I don't know how to compliment that and make that sound sexy because you don't always equate bubbly to sexy, I guess. Maybe in my mind, I'm overthinking that aspect. I don't know how to do it that way.
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how do I take this further? But then it kind of got a little stale where, you know, she maybe didn't start texting as much. She was busy all the time. And I get she, you know, she does have a busy schedule. But when you're busy all the time, then it just, you start realizing maybe you're kind of blowing me off here and there. Right.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
I know.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Oh yeah, absolutely. So, I mean, the fact that She loves to travel. I mean, not everybody likes to do it. Adventurous, awesome, smart, having a really good job as an engineer. Okay, great. Yeah, yeah.
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Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Yeah, that makes sense. Cause you're also, when you're complimenting, it's not like a generic, it's really, I see a couple calling back to what you were saying earlier. Um, it's two things that are unique about her that you can't really say about everybody else. So I guess I would like it if somebody said that about me, you know, not that specific. Cause I'm not, I'm not an engineer.
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Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
I don't know if I'm bubbly. Maybe I come across as the opposite sometimes, but yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
I'm writing it down on my arm.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Yeah, yeah. This isn't the first time. That's why this is the most recent time. But, yeah, it's after a few dates, and I'm like, oh, man, I start liking her. But then on the other side of the coin, if there's a girl that I'm like, oh, you know, I'm meh. Uh, it just seems easier.
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Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Makes sense. Okay. Any other missions? These are good.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Um, so yeah, I tried to lean towards like, um, uh, younger, like college or kids story that I try to think are, are funny. Uh, like, um, I don't know. I'll say like one of my brother when I was really little and I pretended I fell off of our deck and I was looking up in the air and my brother, I just see him. He's this tiny little kid.
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This has this giant ice chunk that just drops it right on my head. I'm just crying, you know, like something like that, you know, just, um, yeah, that's great.
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Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
And I, I feel like then there's something that I'm doing that's pushing her away that maybe she's like reading that, Oh God, this guy is starting to like me. Maybe it's scaring her off. I don't know. I'm, I'm, I'm making guesses. I just noticed a pattern with, with my dating. Right.
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Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Thank you.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Um, so I guess it depends on the date. So, uh, and how I'm reading the girl, but a lot of times it's either the first or second. Okay. In my case. Yeah. Got it.
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Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Yeah, so the first day we got sushi, kind of a spot that was kind of close to us and drove separate. And then we made plans... Oh, we actually got, like... The date was going well, so we went and got a coffee after sushi and got some desserts and just talked, all that. Okay. And then drove back to our car. And then we made plans to do a second date in the car.
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And then... But we were texting and saying, like, oh, maybe we can... uh meet a day before because she was starting to get busy with her with her work so we just kind of did a preemptive because she doesn't she didn't live that far away so we kind of did an improv hang out uh uh go go to a coffee shop got margaritas we're in the downtown area
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Um, just kind of hung out and then we didn't get to do the third date because she got busy. Um, and then we did another actual third date where I took her to like a cider mill, um, had some drinks. Um, yeah, all that.
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Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Yeah. Yeah.
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
I think a little bit of both. I think there's definitely some things I can improve on that I'm probably getting stuck at that maybe I don't realize, but I see where you're coming from. I never thought about it that way where you're kind of moving forward, but I think I kind of naturally try to do that because you don't want to, I don't know, for lack of...
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Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Or a way to phrase it, I'm not trying to go backwards, right? So, I mean, this case, we don't have to get fixated on this one specific girl, but it did seem like we did start off really heavy the first date. And then the second date was kind of casual, kind of because it was an improv date. You know, we didn't really plan too much, which was fine. But I...
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Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Thought by the third day, it was kind of, I was trying to show like progressing, like, you know, maybe holding hands while we're listening to the music at this, at this place, this, this outdoor mill and there's live music going on. So I guess I don't know where I would need to, I don't, I guess I don't know in this case what I didn't do. No, I agree.
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Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
No, I agree. Um, so, so when you go on three dates with a girl and you haven't, you know, you feel like you haven't progressed, you haven't even kissed her yet. Then I, in my, in my shoes, I would think maybe she's not interested and I'd maybe feel like it was in the friend zone. But each time, like we, I mean, I did kiss her the first date this time, second date and third date, but you know, um,
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Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Gotcha. No, that's a good question. I don't mind sharing. This time with this particular girl, it was kind of the opposite of where the first time I was a little more conservative and she kissed a lot. She got really into it. We were in the car. We were kissing for a while. But then the two times after that, we did kiss and it wasn't as... In my mind, I'm kind of like, why didn't we do that?
How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
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But I don't know. So I don't know if maybe she lost interest somewhere down the line. I don't know. I can't read people's minds. Maybe I'm just trying to figure out what I can do. Because again, this is the most recent time, but it's a pattern that I noticed.
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Oh, good question, Beck. And I like your cake metaphor, by the way. It's easy for me to understand that. Trademark, patent pending. Gotcha, yeah.
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I'm sorry, go ahead. No, no, you're good. So I guess that's something I haven't thought about that way, which I'm glad we're having this conversation because I'm putting a whole other perspective on this now. If I look back in this recent case... I guess maybe I didn't give enough cake, I guess. Maybe I didn't open up. Because maybe sometimes I get a little bit scared if I do start liking a girl.
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Make Her Your Girlfriend in Just 3 Dates (Seriously!) Live Coaching with Jack
Like, oh, no, maybe I'm going to scare her off if I get to a certain level. But I guess I have to come to the realization that if it's really going to scare her off by revealing a little bit more about myself, then it probably won't work out in the long run.
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Manhattan Manhunt & Congressional COVID Report | Afternoon Update | 12.4.24
The three left-wing justices suggested that these laws discriminate against transgender children and should be struck down. Justice Katonji Brown Jackson even went so far as to compare the laws to bans on interracial marriage.
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Manhattan Manhunt & Congressional COVID Report | Afternoon Update | 12.4.24
Meanwhile, Chief Justice John Roberts and the other conservatives suggested that the evolving debate over puberty blockers and sex hormones should be left to elected representatives, not the court. Justice Samuel Alito pushed back on the ACLU's assertions that transgender procedures prevent children from committing suicide.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
I was arrested outside, put in police car, told me that I would be arrested to go in house and don't go back. I was that mad and furious, I went back to the flat. In a few minutes, police were back, but this time in a van. And it were only a few minutes. They must have known I was going back.
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Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal: Cover-ups & Calls for Action | 1.11.25
Yeah. Twice. Yeah. They arrested me a second time. Took me down to the police station about an hour, hour and a half later. Took me outside and said, right, go home. Because if you go back to that flat, we're going to next year for stalking the occupants of that house. Extraordinary.
Pardon My Take
NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
Maybe he's got delicate ears.
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NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
He was, like, hitting me with notifications.
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NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
And I was like, dude, you got to jump into the fire.
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NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
You're still waiting to meet me?
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NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
Yeah. We can plan for it in the future.
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NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
It was just like, how's your morning going at like 11 a.m.? I think it was at like 9.30.
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NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
It's a little weird.
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NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
No, we don't. We might have an interim, but.
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NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
Yeah.
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NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
Beats me.
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NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
Yeah, exactly.
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NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
And 13. 7.
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NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
Bye.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
So I'm different. I don't want them to win.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
Yeah, that would be hilarious.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
Penn State, for sure.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
Yeah, because that would just be even funnier.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
I mean, I also kind of hate Notre Dame as well.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
I mean, Notre Dame is like the biggest fraud of all time.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
Yeah, that would be the greatest thing ever.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
Yeah, that would be hilarious.
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Will Bark For Science
And we take the killer whale scat. It's just this like, it looks like a gooey booger. It's absolutely foul. And you pour it into a Tupperware and just kind of float it out into the water, into the open water and drive the boat away.
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Will Bark For Science
I would see his eyes close a little bit. I'm looking at which side of his nostril is flaring and I can feel like the tension in the leash start to just get a little bit more because he's leaning forward into the air.
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Will Bark For Science
She's like... Got the biggest grin on her face. And I just know, like, this is it. Like, we just did this.
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This Hazelnut May Help The Land Back Movement In Canada
Crab apples and hazelnuts and certain other species that have edible fruit and nuts, they weren't just accidentally found in the edges of the forest. Those were deliberately planted.
The Best One Yet
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It is.
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🦅 “Falcon Mode” — Lyft’s enshittification. Labubu’s viral dolls. Bezos vs Trump on “Tariff Fees.”
Wow.
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🦅 “Falcon Mode” — Lyft’s enshittification. Labubu’s viral dolls. Bezos vs Trump on “Tariff Fees.”
It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to, like, get other people to do it.
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15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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☄️ “The 4 Frontiers” — Space Inc.’s Trump jump. X’s Venmo-y Visa deal. Royal Caribbean’s value meal.
Yes, they did.
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☄️ “The 4 Frontiers” — Space Inc.’s Trump jump. X’s Venmo-y Visa deal. Royal Caribbean’s value meal.
No, they don't. No, they don't.
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🏃 “We Met on Strava” — Strava’s $2B run app. Nuclear’s hot streak. Nespresso’s Frappu-pivot.
This is Nick. This is Jack. It is Wednesday, ceviche Wednesday, May 28th, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is the T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Jack, I'm looking at the numbers. Stocks jumped 2% yesterday. The Dow was up 700 points. Here's the news. The U.S. and the European Union are talking a trade deal instead of trade tariffs.
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Or a frappuccino. Or something cold with ice cubes. So George Clooney, who is the two-time world's sexiest man. 1997 and 2006. But people don't want hot anymore. Pro tip from Nespresso, by the way, to brew iced espresso drinks, simply tap twice for ice. Apparently the extra concentrated portion of coffee holds up better as it gets diluted with the melted ice.
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But Nespresso's not just telling people to tap twice for ice, are they, Nick? No, they're not, Jack. Instead, they're telling people to tap The Weeknd. Nespresso is the lead sponsor of The Weeknd, the musical artist, and his coming concert tour. And guess what, Yetis? We're seeing the results. What Nespresso's doing with this pivot is working.
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Sales grew at Nespresso twice as fast as sales growth at the rest of Nestle last year. to $7 billion. Driven by double-digit growth of Nespresso in the United States. George Clooney, George Hooney. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Nespresso? To add new customers and not lose old ones, do it like a frog in a pot of water.
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So yetis, the suits over at Nestle Corp in Switzerland know that iced coffee is not a fad. Iced coffee is now 75% of Starbucks sales. The future is iced, but a majority of Nespresso sales are still to older, hot coffee lovers. So to ensure that Nespresso doesn't lose that loving relationship to their George Clooney fans, Nespresso is pivoting subtly.
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🏃 “We Met on Strava” — Strava’s $2B run app. Nuclear’s hot streak. Nespresso’s Frappu-pivot.
They're not shouting their transition to cold espressos. they're whispering it. For example, in their latest George Clooney Nespresso ad, George is holding an iced coffee, but honestly, you can barely tell. It's subtle. Frogs who like it cold will like Nespresso more. Frogs who like it hot won't even notice the icing.
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🏃 “We Met on Strava” — Strava’s $2B run app. Nuclear’s hot streak. Nespresso’s Frappu-pivot.
So besties, Nespresso is pivoting from hot to cold subtly and slowly, like a frog in a pot of boiling water. But it's getting colder, not hotter. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for Savice Wednesday? Strava just announced two new acquisitions the same day they announced a $2.2 billion valuation.
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🏃 “We Met on Strava” — Strava’s $2B run app. Nuclear’s hot streak. Nespresso’s Frappu-pivot.
Because hobby networks are the new social networks, which means Jack wants you to follow him on Strava. I really don't. But if you want to stalk my runs, go right ahead. Now you don't want us to follow you, Jack. You just make up your mind over there, man. For a second story, nuclear power stocks are up 35% since Friday on two executive orders to accelerate nuclear.
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Was Heinz born in 1957? No to all of those guesses. The answer is that Heinz just made it up. Get this, besties. Mr. Hines was once on a train in New York City and saw a billboard ad for a shoe business. The shoe business advertised that they had 21 different styles of shoes. And that is when Mr. Hines realized that specificity sells. It's psychology.
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The reason we stopped making nukes in 1979? The availability heuristic. We fear what we can picture. For our third and final story, Nespresso is pivoting from hot coffee drinks and George Clooney to cold coffee drinks in the weekend. To add new customers and not lose old ones, do it like a frog in a pot of water, subtly and slow. But yetis, this pod's not over yet.
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🏃 “We Met on Strava” — Strava’s $2B run app. Nuclear’s hot streak. Nespresso’s Frappu-pivot.
Here's what else you need to know today. First, McDonald's is officially closing their craziest idea yet, Cosmic. Last year, we covered Cosmic. It's a wild beverage spinoff chain themed on outer space and aliens. Yeah, it was basically like a mixed Starbucks making funky, drinky concoctions for Gen Z, but apparently they're not going to do it anymore. They're closing all five locations.
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They might put a couple of the items on the full regular McDonald's menu. And second, with Bitcoin at an all-time high, Square is finally letting you pay with Bitcoin through Bitcoin payments. Instead of paying with a credit card, you can tap your phone to pay with a crypto wallet, starting in Las Vegas right now.
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Square terminals will convert US dollars to Bitcoin in real time and let you pay with your crypto balance. It's rolling out to most of the country later this year. So you can buy a hamburger with Bitcoin today and then regret it immensely in five years when you could have bought a house with that money instead. And finally, we've got even more details leaked on the OpenAI secret Johnny Ive device.
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Jack, what's the scoop? Sam Altman and Johnny Ive imagine a third device that's not supposed to replace your smartphone and laptop, but it's supposed to complement them. Yeah, they also want to sell and ship 100 million of them faster than any company ever has in history starting next year. What is this third device going to look like? Well, they're not glasses and they won't have a screen.
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They did say that. Yeah, it kind of looks like maybe a Pocky puck, maybe, or like it could fit in your pocket. We don't know. We're just making stuff up as we go along. Yeah, they haven't told us. I think they want Twitter to like crowdsource design ideas for them. Yeah, like you say your ideas and then Johnny Ives is going to be like, oh yeah, that's a good idea. You should see him.
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🏃 “We Met on Strava” — Strava’s $2B run app. Nuclear’s hot streak. Nespresso’s Frappu-pivot.
Let's make that. Let's make that. Now, time for the best fact yet. This one, Jack, whipped up by me in the 16th arrondissement of Paris over the weekend. You ready for this one? I don't think you're going to stop, so go ahead. This one from a very, very kind patisserie. All right, here you go.
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There is a law in France that defines what a traditional baguette can be, part of the 1993 regulation known as décret pain. The bread decree. Yeah, that's it. Good translation. Your Duolingo's working, man. All right, these are the legal definitions of baguette. And finally, if there were any additives or preservatives added to the bread, then it is not a baguette, it is a badette. That was fine.
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So every piece of bread in France is like incredibly local and delicious. Long story short, there's legal bread and you got to follow four rules. Is that over-regulation or just the right amount of regulation? Yetis, you look fantastic for Ceviche Wednesday. After this show, go and check out The Best Idea Yet. It is all about the story of Heinz Ketchup. His name is Heinrich Heinz.
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He was a German immigrant to Pittsburgh, and it's a wild story. He basically invented the FDA. Because of the exploding ketchup bottles. Jack and I will see that. A congratulations to our buddy, Corporate Natalie, who just got engaged to the legendary Matt, celebrating big. Side shout out to Matt's dad, who Nick once went on a canoe ride with.
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Specific numbers sound deliberate, reliable, trustworthy, magnificent. So Heinz took his lucky number, which is the number five, and his wife's lucky number, which is the number seven, and then just put 57 varieties on the bottles. So there aren't 57 varieties at all. No. It's just they're two lucky numbers. But the FTC couldn't sue him for false advertising because the FTC didn't exist yet.
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And Corporate Bro and Rebecca also have a new baby boy. Congratulations, guys. Corporate baby is already hitting his sales targets. Promoted. And congratulations to Teddy and Lauren Kramer on their baby, beautifully named Eloise, the 10th grandchild in the Kramer fam. We're all very proud. And a happy birthday to Yeti Nicole Lawson, the golden birthday of 28 celebrating down in St. Louis Blues.
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Happy birthday to Zekiel Hernandez in Jurupa Valley, the best basketball handler for any fourth grader. And Caleb Myers down in Dallas is flying up for our Chicago show. Caleb, can't wait to see you at the Chicago Live T-Boy. Happy birthday to Kevin Benjamin Pac-Man, who's 50 years old, from San Mateo, and listening to our show for seven years.
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Oh, and finally, a fantastic early birthday shout out to Brett Taylor from lovely Rye, New Hampshire. Jack, what does Brett have in store? Your girlfriend is taking you to Boston for a Red Sox game to celebrate your birthday. That's right. You're from just outside Boston, so you're going to celebrate just inside Boston. The hockey way is on the way. This is Jack. Nick owns stock of Nike and Block.
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And Nick and I both own a Bitcoin named Ben. If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. And before you go, tell us a little bit about yourself by filling out a short survey at wondery.com slash survey.
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So the reason the number 57 is on every Heinz ketchup bottle, it's because it's a made up lucky number inspired by a shoe billboard. It's basically an inside joke between the founder and his wife, and they got the last laugh. because the rest of the Heinz story is even wilder. And it involves a family bankruptcy, exploding ketchup bottles, and an intervention by President Teddy Roosevelt.
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And that is the latest episode of our weekly show, The Best Idea Yet. Tap the link in the episode description to listen to our TBIY episode on Heinz. But Jack, today's episode of T-Boy is fantastic.
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If you want to know why I was in Paris, France over the weekend, it may or may not have been with this. You know, Jack, you know, eating escargot, crushing crepes. Yeah, we were on the diplomatic channels all weekend. Just trying to end the trade war in between espressos and ice cream. But Jack, three stories for today's show. What do we got on the team, boy? For our first story, it's Strava.
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For our first story, Strava, the running app. It just hit a $2.2 billion valuation because hobby apps are the new social networks. Yetis, if you didn't track your run route on a map app, did you even burn a calorie? Odds are you're posting all your activities on Strava. That's right. Google Maps meets Instagram meets the digital high five. That is what this running app Strava is.
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Yeah, 40, like hiking, biking, and anything that ends in I-N-G, ing. Well, the Wall Street Journal just did an exclusive interview with Strava and determined that there are 150 million people using Strava to track their fitness. That's up 50% in the last year. That's right, Strava just hit a personal record.
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It also is a personal record that's twice as many users as Tinder and four times as many users as Duolingo. And that's on the user side. On the financial side, Strava is now approaching 500 million bucks in recurring annual revenue, which is twice the recurring annual revenue of Allbirds, which you wear while you're running on the Strava app. Well, here's the news.
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Strava just hit a $2.2 billion private valuation. That's right. Unicorns, they don't fly. They gallop on Strava. Strava also announced that they're now using AI to identify cheaters. Yeah, a little side note here, but Strava can now tell if you ran up that hill or if you took an electric bike up that hill. Don't cheat to try to become an illegitimate comm. Looking at you, buddy Timmy. Yeah.
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Looking at you.
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Yeah, we know what you did. Now, we can't believe that a fitness app is still growing so fast, like five years after the pandemic. Like Jack's the only one using the Peloton app these days. No one else is. So we had to ask, why is Strava surging right now? And we think we know why. Well, Strava's become a dating app. Yeah, you're meeting Mr. Right because he has the same running route as you.
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People have Tinder fatigue they have for years. So they're meeting on alternative dating apps like Yelp, LinkedIn, or Strava. Because it's more authentic to connect with someone who also runs the Central Park Reservoir every Saturday morning at 7 a.m. But not everyone on Strava is looking for love. Although Jack, a sub seven minute mile is a green flag.
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Another reason Strava's users are still surging is run clubs. That's right. We did a whole story on Nike last year, missing out on run clubs and local run clubs have hit record high in enrollment. You're not doing happy hour at the bar. You're hitting a 5k after work with 23 random strangers. But the latest reason Strava is growing, what is it, Jack? They're more acquisitive than Napoleon.
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That's right. Along with the fundraise news, Strava also announced they're buying a cycling app and a British running app. In the last three years, they've acquired four companies and gobbled up all those user bases. Honestly, side note here, maybe Nike should acquire Strava. That's what Jack and I are thinking.
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The fitness app just hit a $2.2 billion valuation. Because running apps are the new social media. For our second story, nuclear energy stocks surged 40% in the last few days on two executive orders. To quote both Mugatu and Oppenheimer, nuclear so hot right now. And our third and final story is Nespresso. Nespresso is pivoting from hot to cold coffee. But here's the key. Don't yell it. Whisper it.
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I like the hot take, although Under Armour, remember a decade ago, they acquired Map My Run and that did not work out. That's true, that's true. But Nike, you know, they could use it. They got $10 billion in cash and right now they're kind of just sitting down. They're not running anywhere, Jack. But that's not our takeaway. This is. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Strava?
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The new social networks are hobby networks. Yet is 15 years ago, social media pioneered a new behavior, sharing and connecting with friends online about anything. But the novelty of posting for the whole world to see is gone. Yeah. People are barely doing it these days. Instead, people are socializing on online networks that are activity-based like Strava. It's not just Strava.
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Goodreads, the book reading app, has 150 million users too. This is what we should do a story on. One of the fastest growing apps right now is Palm Street, which is a social community for selling and nurturing plants. Plant daddies. Yeah, proud plant daddies right here. Frankly, general post about anything social networks, they are shrinking. The new social networks are activity-based.
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They're hobby networks. For our second story, nuclear stocks are going nuclear after two epic executive orders. But the best way to promote nuclear energy in America, it's to ban people from watching Chernobyl on HBO.
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Yeah. We'll explain.
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We'll explain. But before we explain, Jack, can you please sprinkle on some context now that I have my hazmat suit on? Trump's first 100 days in office were all about oil and all against wind and solar. That's right. President Trump was canceling government-supported wind and solar energy and incentivizing fossil fuels instead.
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But something he did Friday could create more clean energy than in the history of America. We may have to just repeat that one, Jack. President Trump may be about to create more clean energy than anyone else in history. Because nuclear is clean energy. The biggest source of carbon-free electricity by far. And President Trump just issued two executive orders on it.
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Wall Street thinks those EOs are legit, by the way. Yeah, they do. They do. Stocks of the four leading nuclear companies jumped 35% since that announcement. Again, to quote Mugatu and Robert Oppenheimer, great combo. Plutonium, so hot. You know, Jack, we should also point out Trump has signed 200 executive orders. They've been all over the place. They've covered a whole bunch of things.
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Some are just symbolic and don't have substance, but these nuclear ones are the most legit that we've read thus far. We actually organized these nuclear executive orders into five key areas of focus. They're focused on speed, space, incentives, a scoreboard, and safety. Yeah, we almost got five S's there. We were so close, Jack.
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I went with incentives, Nick, which is kind of an S. First, the speed. Regulators must approve or deny an application for a new nuclear power plant within 18 months. Hurry up already. Second is space. They're opening federal land and military bases as sites for potential nuclear power plants. Fort Knox could get nuclear power. That's right. And then we have incentives.
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The government is telling the Department of Energy to give loans to nuclear developers up to $400 billion worth of loans. We've said it before. The United States government is history's greatest venture capitalist of all time. All right, Jack, then we have number four, the scoreboard. The government is setting 2050 as the goal to quadruple the amount of nuclear energy in America.
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And finally, safety. These executive orders set a lower acceptability threshold for radiation. Yetis, we know that's a little scary at first, lower safety and nuclear power plants. But right now, nuclear power plants are actually too safe. They're more safe than necessary, right? Yeah, they are too safe. And if you want proof, nobody has ever died in America from nuclear anything. Yeah, it's true.
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No hedges, no caveats, full stop. Nobody's died in America from nuclear anything. We can't even find evidence that someone sprained an ankle. in a nuclear power plant. On the other hand, with climate change killing people every day, we think we need to loosen requirements and get more nukes. The only time someone's died in a nuclear power plant is probably because they choked on chicken.
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Like it wasn't related to the nuclear bits. It was a DoorDash delivery man's accident. Yeah, they stubbed their toe and then they choked on the chicken. But when it comes to safety, we don't want to loosen regulations too much because it's nuclear. That's right, Jack, which leads to our takeaway. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over in nuclear?
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The reason that nuclear is frozen in America, it's psychology. It's called the availability heuristic. The availability heuristic. Besties, if you look at the numbers, it is clear that airplanes are way safer than cars. And it's the same with nuclear power. It's way safer than oil, gas, or coal.
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But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. What a mix of stories. No one else is doing that mix yet. Every summer, there is one question that somebody asks at every American barbecue. And no one knows the answer. Why does it say 57 varieties on the Heinz ketchup bottle? I mean, Jack, this is America's top condiment, Heinz ketchup. Why the 57?
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In fact, more people die every day from the health impacts of fossil fuel than in the history of nuclear energy. And yet, we are more afraid of nuclear because we can picture what death by nuclear looks like. But we can't picture death by natural gas. which has to do with like air pollution causing lung issues.
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And that distinction, that is why after the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear scare, America went 44 years without building a new nuclear power plant. Even though nobody died in that Three Mile Island incident. death by nuclear power plant entered our minds. And it's the same with an airplane. Like, your mind knows what death by airplane looks like, and it is freaky, it is scary.
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So you're more scared of a plane than you are of a car, even though you're 100,000 times more likely to die in a car crash Than a plane crash. That is why Jack and I think the best way to promote nuclear in America, it's to ban people from watching Chernobyl, the show on HBO. Although I should point out, Nick and I both watched Chernobyl. Great show. Scary show. Yes. We're still pro-nuclear.
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But we watched it alone, like our wives wouldn't watch it with us. It was a solo late night experience. So if you want to understand why nuclear is so behind in America, look at the availability heuristic. We don't fear what's statistically most likely. We fear what we can picture. Sorry, I got my laugh. The Yoda move at the end.
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For our third and final story, Nespresso is shifting its entire marketing strategy. Less George Clooney, more The Weeknd. It's treating customers like frogs in a pot of water, but it's freezing the water, not boiling it. All right, Jack, I'm going to read off a list of names here and you tell me what brings them all together. Nespresso, Nescafe, Nestea, Nesquik. What do they have in common? Ness.
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Yeah, that's it. They're all brands of Nestle, which is actually the world's biggest food company. And the world's most unoriginal namer of brands. Did you hear they're launching Nesburger? If you can add Ness as a suffix, you may as well put it in a grocery store. Well, in 1986, Nestle invented the world's, and I quote, portioned coffee system.
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Well, Nick and I did a deep dive 45 minute episode on Heinz to find out the answer. Jack, is it the 57th Heinz product? No, it is not. Okay. Is it like WD-40, which is the 40th attempt at the product? Nope. This was not the 57th attempt at ketchup. In fact, all Heinz products say 57 varieties on it. Okay. Does the 57 mean there are 57 ingredients? Nope. Does it take 57 years to make? Nope.
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A portioned coffee system, which has 17 patents for it. Portioned coffee system, by the way, is a sophisticated European way of saying coffee pods. That's right. Nestle basically invented the technology for the coffee pod machine. The goal is to let non-baristas brew an espresso at home at a low price. Pre-ground beans, precisely portioned for one cup espresso.
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Keurig did the same thing with K-Cups. But yeah, this Nespresso is bigger than you think. Oh, way bigger. They're doing $7 billion a year in annual revenue, which is more than American Airlines does. Nespresso, they sold 15 billion pods last year. That's enough for two espressos per human being. And now that they're recyclable, Nespresso's guilt has been absolved.
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But Nestle's espresso division, aka Nespresso, is an elder millennial. It needs to chase Gen Z. And so we were fascinated with this plan. Despite being the market leader in at-home espressos, Nestle just pulled off the biggest pivot yet to the Nespresso brand. Nespresso is going from hot George Clooney to the cold weekend. Literally.
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Yet is in 2015, Nespresso came to the United States with George Clooney in commercials, sipping a steamy mug of brown stuff. Clooney, Lake Como, espresso. It was a vibe. Here's the problem. When Gen Z pictures coffee, it's neither steamy nor brown, nor served in a mug. Get this. Half of Gen Z drinkers first tasted coffee, not as like the hot stuff you grew up with. Yeah. But as iced coffee.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. And today's parenting pod is the best one yet. Our top three parenting stories of the past year. Yetis, we have got a special episode for you. More on that in a minute. In the meantime, Jack, three fantastic stories. What do we got? For our first story, we're going back to November 18th, 2024. Did you know that no US president has ever been an only child?
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I should point out that our son, Maxie, can't speak yet. But Jack, he has told me that he's interested in NVIDIA stock. So maybe second birthday gift. How about a fractional share? You know, I think he mouthed out whole share. And Berkshire for year three. You're on it. Ty, the reason we got him Disney Plus is because he does love cars. Like, Lightning McQueen is his deity.
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And I want to show him, as he gets old enough, that he actually owns part of the company that produced that film. And I want to show him that the value of that ownership can grow and pay dividends. And that's going to be my kind of inroad to teaching him a little bit about. So I'm typically not an individual stock guy.
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But I think there's value to them in sort of making an emotional, tangible understanding to what this whole stock ownership thing is.
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Now time for the best fact yet. This one whipped up by Jack and me. The most streamed movie ever. What is it, Jack? Most streamed movie ever. What is it? Kids content. It's kids stuff. And it's in a landslide victory. Yeah, Moana was the most watched movie in 2024 with 13 billion hours watched. That is about 185 hours of watching Moana just last year for each of America's 70 million children.
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It just turned me into an iPad kid listening to that. Nick, that's 107 full viewings of the movie for all of America's children last year. Okay, but Jack, what was the most watched show in streaming? That was Bluey. Bluey. Which was watched four times as many hours as Moana was. Bluey is now worth $3 billion. And it's the most watched thing on television.
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Besties, since the TV was invented, it's been used as a digital babysitter. And it still is today. Oh, the number one most viewed English language YouTube channel. What's that? Cocomelon, a show popular with two-year-olds. Kids content. Nothing makes bank like content for babies. Every time Cocomelon plays on YouTube, ad revenue is being banked. Kids content, it's the secret giant of media.
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And Jack, today's show, the first of these five episodes, what do we got? It makes sense. The best of parenting. Totally. It's our only parent-themed episode, but we're kicking off with it. So yetis, send this episode to your buddy who has kids or your buddy who's thinking about having kids. Or your buddy who wants to understand why their friends who are parents act the way they act.
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Kids are captive audiences, basically. They're not going anywhere. I can't even move. Yetis, you look fantastic today. Thanks for enjoying the first of our five bonus pods during Jack's Paternity Week. And remember to send this to your buddy who has kids or is thinking about having kids. Or is curious like what people who have kids are why they do those things they do.
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And then send me some sleep prayers because I'm going to need them this week. But we've got another bonus episode coming at you tomorrow. Another best of episode. Stay tuned. If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
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Besties, today's bonus pod is the best business stories in parenting. Jack. I'm still here, Nick. My phone's not ringing. It's IBO week. Initial baby offering. Jack, let's hit our three stars.
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I would define reclaiming as to take back what was yours. Something you possess is lost or stolen, and ultimately you triumph in finding it again. Listen to Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky wherever you get your podcasts.
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For our first story, the hot new parenting trend in America is only children. Millennials are having only child families more than previous generations. And there's actually an entire only child economy that we want to talk about. We'll tell you all the details. But first, to sprinkle on some familial context, Jack, let me make sure I got the numbers right here.
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You are the third of four boys, correct? Correct. And you're the oldest of two children. I got one sister. There we go. There we go. Molly is the third of three kids. And Alex, my wife, is a one and only child. Well, Jack, out of all of us, Alex is the only, only child. And actually, that is very, very trendy right now. Let's look to the data. In the 1970s, 11% of American families had one child.
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Well, millennials are forming more only child families than ever. So we have some wild data on the only child economy. Second story, Jack. What do we got? We're going back to July 12th. Apple's newest product was Apple Watch for kids. Apple Watch for kids. It's an iWatch for dogs.
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Today, that percentage has doubled to 22% of American families with one kid. And now, yetis, sometimes having an only child is a choice, but oftentimes it is not a choice. Fertility can be a major challenge. But more millennials who can choose are choosing to have one child right now. And the only child, it's a phenomenon that has a lot of economics that we want to unpack.
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Well, Jack, we should explain first, what is the stereotype of your typical only child out there? An only child is spoiled and entitled like Dennis the Menace. Fun fact, America has never had an only child president. But America has had many only child superheroes. We should point that out. James Bond, Harry Potter, Hermione, Wayne, Bruce Wayne of Batman. Frodo Baggins was an only child.
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Anakin Skywalker, only child. In the fictional world, only children save the world is what we're saying. However, only children have a very particular set of unique skills. Only children are independent. They learn how to entertain themselves. They learn how to solve problems better on their own. So even though we haven't had an only child president yet, we have had some epic only child inventors.
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Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Leonardo da Vinci, all only children. But yetis, this is what Jack and I found fascinating about this story. In general, the reason most families choose to have an only child is... is the economy. Historically, only child families happened more during economic recessions than during economic boom times. Jack, let's whip out the history books here.
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Great Depression, eight years long, worst economic period in American history. The percent of only children family more than doubled during the Great Depression. Now, on the flip side of the Great Depression, the post-war economic boom, that's what led to the baby boom. The number of only children families fell in half during the baby boom years.
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And despite today's economic growth, most American families are actually living paycheck to paycheck. They're thinking about the prices out there. So in this economy, more millennials are choosing to have one kid, a solo kid, a singleton. Yeah. Jack, what's the wild stats on raising a family right now and how much it costs per kid?
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The cost to raise a child and the cost of childcare are massively outpacing inflation. On average, it costs $310,000 just to raise a single child at a time. I mean, you could have a kid or you could have a Lamborghini, Jack. So the reason millennials are having only children at double the rates of previous generations, it's economics.
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You could have 62,000 lattes, I just did the math, or one child. Is that assuming a $6 latte? Well, Jack, side note here, only children do get more spoiled by their grandparents, so that's a nice boost to GDP. I'm not sure that's economically sound. but I like the sentiment of it. Pretty sure Nana buys an only grandchild like 48 Christmas gifts.
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So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are anyone who doesn't have to deal with a brother or sister? There is an only child economy. Yetis, we're not talking about the demographic challenges of a shrinking population when we talk about the only child economy. We've covered that in other stories, and we'll cover that again in the future.
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For our third and final story, we're going back to October 3rd because we had a live show where we interviewed a New York Times bestselling author and financial expert. And we answered a question from a new parent about the number one financial plan for kids. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories, Jack. Nick and Jack here.
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What we are talking about is the unique purchase and labor decisions made by only children. And we have the perfect case study to prove what those labor and purchasing decisions are. That case study is China. Because yeti's China had a one-child policy for 30 years. Therefore, there's an entire generation in China of just only children.
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And the results of what those only children did in China are fascinating. For example, only children have lower risk tolerance than kids with siblings. So in only child economies, there are fewer entrepreneurs and more traditional jobs. Another data point, only children are great individual performers, but they're a little less great at collaboration.
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We see this in China as well, which dominates individual Olympic sports, but struggles more with team sports. Oh, another point, solo children become solo caretakers for their parents when they get old. So they tend to be better savers and long-term investors. So in the only child generation that's being raised right now by millennials, we'll have fewer founders, but more CEOs.
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We'll have less splurging, but more saving. We'll have a little less purchasing, but a little more prudence. And that is the only child account. For our second story, Apple just launched Apple Watch for kids. We'll explain why Apple is going somewhere no tech company will. They're explicitly targeting children. Children.
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Jack and I have noticed that every parent struggles with the same thing, the tech paradox. To give your kid a phone or not. And then if you do give your kid a phone, when do you give them a phone? It's a lot. Now, the data shows, we all know this, phones are addictive and they can distract kids from real life learning and development. So you delay when you give your kid a phone.
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But at the same time, you want to know where your kid is all the time. You can't stick a tracker on them, so you'd like to know where they are somehow. The phone will tell you where the kid is all the time. Well, here's the news. Apple just announced a solution to that tech parent paradox. Apple Watch for your kids. Apple Watch for your kids. Tim Cook thinks he's Mr. Rogers.
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Apple's like going full Nick Jr. on us over here. Here's what happened. On Wednesday, Apple.com opened up a new website showing 15 reasons why parents should get their kids an Apple Watch. Now, Jack and I followed the blues clues on that new website, and we noticed why Apple is pitching to parents.
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The top reason a parent would love if their kid had an Apple Watch, they can be used for calls and messages. Yeah, the key reason you want your kid to have a phone is so you can call them, know where they are. The Apple Watch is also trackable using the Find My app. Yeah, mom and dad, they want to check in to see where that kid is physically.
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Yeah. But where is the bus at this exact moment? And that's not all. The Apple Watch is waterproof. Kids love stomping in puddles. And that's not all because the Apple Watch can pay for things with Apple Pay. Kids love slurping on popsicles. Add it all up and Apple is positioning the Apple Watch like it's the Tickle Me Elmo for little Johnny. It's the thing you got to get, Johnny.
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But yet here's what Jack and I find fascinating about this story. There's one interesting thing that Apple left unsaid. They didn't mention that the Apple Watch has no social media. Ah, the lack of social media apps. Because every tech leader forbids their kid from using social media as long as possible. Well, boom, Jack, what is not on the Apple Watch? TikTok. Yep. And Instagram.
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Neither of them have Apple Watch versions of the app. Oh, and the Apple Watch doesn't really have a web browser either. So your kid is going to stay locked in to the real world, using their hands, building blocks, not Roblox. Jack and I have talked to you about, you know, the rise of the dumb phone trend, dumb phones. Well, Apple's basically saying our watch is like a dumb phone.
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We're in the studio together in Vermont right now, preparing for my paternity leave. I'm basically Jack's doula. I'm his podcast doula is what I am. I'm ready with the mics, ready with the business updates for him. What do we got? Because Alex and I are expecting our third kid any day now.
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Yeah, they're saying a dumb phone has the same intelligence as an Apple Watch. But an Apple Watch you can set as Mickey Mouse for the background. And little Johnny is going to love it. Yetis, mark our words. This Christmas, the hot new kindergarten toy isn't going to be a Tamagotchi. It's going to be an Apple Watch. Yeah, it's an expensive gift, but you're right. For little Jill and little Johnny.
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So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are... Everyone in club Apple. Apple is cashing in on their 10-year investment in trust. Yetis, Mr. Marky Mark Mark Zuckerberg Zuck would love to get kids while they're young with an Instagram for kids app. But he hasn't launched that app. No, he hasn't. Because even he knows he's not trusted by parents.
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On the other hand, Apple might actually be trusted by parents. Because 10 years ago, Apple launched a campaign to earn our trust. In 2014, Apple unveiled a privacy push. Automatic encryption of messages, new security features. Basically, make it harder for Zuck to stalk your online activity. Zach, just keep away from the kids, please.
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People trust their iPhone so much these days, they upload their driver's license. They upload all their credit card information. They even let their phone scan the contours of their face and take their fingerprints. You're not letting your social security number anywhere near a TikTok. So this Apple Watch might be the culmination of a master plan. Trust Apple. with your children.
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No tech company explicitly goes after kids. Nope, but Apple just did because Apple is cashing in on its 10-year privacy push. Becoming the $500 wrist accessory for kids is the return on their investment in trust.
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Now, when this happens, any moment yet, Jack is going to be away for about a week before slowly easing back into the flow of the show. I built that bassinet just in time. Are you excited for your paternity week? Very excited for Paternity Week. Now, I don't do this show without Jack. So besties, for the next week, we won't be publishing our usual daily show.
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For our third and final story, we're going back to October 3rd, 2024. A live show. We did it in Seattle and we interviewed the New York Times bestselling author, Tori Dunlap, the financial feminist. One person in the audience asked us the question about how parents can plan financially for their kid. Okay, this person had had a kid like six weeks ago, by the way. New parent, new parent.
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So let's go straight to the show. Let's hit it. Now, it wouldn't be T-Boy Hotline if we didn't take questions from the Yetis and the Busties. We have a few great ones. And these aren't voicemails. These are the live, in-person, real Yetis who are in the audience with us right now. I think Ty's going to kick it off for us.
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Maxine. You call her son. I know. We call her son. They got to meet.
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So I am a huge... I think there's glory in the stock market for many reasons. I mean, we cover it on our show all the time. One of the first things I like to do as a gift for my brothers and even for Nick, I kicked off a 529 savings account on behalf of Nick's son. And I hooked Nick's son up with a little pair of baby Nikes and one single share of Nike stock.
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Jack and I now call this tradition the birthday business gift. Nick hooked my son up with Hasbro because he's a big Hot Wheels guy. I bought $100 worth of shares of Mattel for your son. And then for the pod son, I bought $100 worth of Disney because he loves Toy Story. Oh, yeah, Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear, Hot Cars, Luca. Hey, can you tell...
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I just should point out, though, the two stocks I bought, your sons are up, and Nike stock has been down for Maxie's entire life.
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But we also would never leave you guys hanging. So for the next five days, we're publishing five of our best of episodes. The best ones yet of the best one yet. Each episode focus on a different industry, theme, or topic. In pop music. business. So for the next week, while I'm away growing the family, we're going to publish five episodes curating our best stories on five surprise subjects.
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Every big moment starts with a big dream. But what happens when that big dream turns out to be a big flop? From Wondery and At Will Media, I'm Misha Brown, and this is The Big Flop. Every week, comedians join me to chronicle the biggest flubs, fails, and blunders of all time, like Quibi. It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to get other people to do it.
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and the 2019 movie adaptation of Cats. Like, if I'm watching the dancing and I'm noticing the feet aren't touching the ground, there's something wrong with the movie. Find out what happens when massive hype turns into major fiasco. Enjoy The Big Flop on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to The Big Flop early and ad-free on Wondery+.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, ceviche Wednesday, January 22nd. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. You know, Jack, I don't want to take any credit, but for the second straight year, stocks hit a record high on my birthday. Is that true?
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Just like he did in his first term. The United States is once again the only major country in the world not in that climate deal. And that back and forth of us being in and out when it comes to energy leads to our takeaway. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies curious about executive orders? Presidents love executive orders, but corporations actually hate them.
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Yeah, it is another reason that big oil is down on Trump's executive orders, because executive orders are temporary. Executive orders are unilateral moves a president can take, but they only last for four years. Yeah, because most executive orders that President Obama, President Trump, and now President Biden had made, they were overturned immediately by the next administration.
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For 10 years, executive orders have swung American policy from the left to the right to the left and now back to the right. And now look, it is actually harder for a president to get a policy through Congress as a bill, but a bill signed into law, that would be more permanent than an executive order. Business leaders want policy consistency, which requires bills.
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They don't really want executive order whiplash. So as Trump issues more and more executive orders this week, their impact symbolically may be bigger than their impact in reality. Add it all up, presidents love executive orders, but corporations actually hate them. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for Ceviche Wednesday?
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The five-second rule. Ah, the five-second rule. The greatest, completely unscientific rule of science is toast. The five-second rule states that if one drops food on the floor, it's clean for up to five seconds. Besties, one has only five seconds until bacteria grab onto your frozen, fallen Cheez-It. But according to a new article in Popular Science, the five-second rule is apparently wrong.
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The Trump White House is absolutely packed with VCs and investors. It's not Washington, D.C. It's Washington, S.V. For our second story, Netflix just had its best quarter ever as live sports brought new fan bases to the streamer. Adele chases pavements, but Netflix chases fan bases. And our third and final story, the economic theme of Trump's day one executive orders, fossil fuels are in,
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Renewable energies are out. Executive orders. Presidents love them, but corporations hate them. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, other news from Trump's first day in the White House. What do we got, Jack? 18 states have sued to block Trump's executive order that attempted to end birthright citizenship.
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Also, the January 6th rioters convicted of crimes are being released from prison as Trump pardoned 1,600 of them. And finally, Trump's meme coin is down 36% from its high, but it still minted the president billions of dollars in just one single day. Like we said, a lot of news from the White House. But our second update for you is on Colossus, the startup bringing back the woolly mammoth.
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They just hit a $10 billion valuation. Last year, we covered their fundraise. It's basically a Jurassic Park startup. They extract DNA from fossils and in a lab, recreate the extinct animal. But Colossus now says they are 99% of the way to bringing back their first extinct animal. I gotta say, it's that last 1% that's the hardest part though.
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And finally, check your weather apps because an arctic blast has now gone as far south as Houston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana. Houston is getting snow, which is a problem because they have no snow plows. Zero snow plows. Lafayette, Louisiana got nearly 10 inches of snow. Oh, and New Orleans, they got four inches of snow, the most ever in the city on the bayou. Sending warm, cozy vibes.
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Yeah, we are. To our listeners in the deep South. And the gators out there, literally. True. Gators are swimming in snow. Swamp freeze? I don't think they're ready for that. Now time for the best fact yet. This one whipped up by me as a surprise for Jack for my birthday. Jack, you haven't seen this one yet, but I got you. You ready? I love this birthday tradition. What do you got? Okay.
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So, you know, every year for my party, I like to surprise the guests with something. Okay. The surprise this year, the theme is pizza dough. I'm not going to tell you more. I'm just telling you it involves pizza dough. I think it's a build your own, bake your own pizza party, Nick. Don't go crazy on the predictions over there, Jack. I don't want to give it away for everybody. Jeez.
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Well, it turns out that with pizza making, pizza was always a street food in Southern Italy going back 200 years to Santa Margarita. Now, Naples is the first place where they've documented folding the pizza slice when you consume it.
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But did you know that there is one type of flour that is specifically to be used in pizza, but it's really only used in Naples? I didn't know. What's it called? It's called double zero flour. And it is a special type of flour that has the ideal balance of gluten and protein critical for a stretchy pizza crust.
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Which is key, because I've tried to do what the pizzerias do, where they throw it up, you know? Didn't work, Jack, did it? Didn't work at all. I didn't have the zero, double zero flour. Yeah, it is actually the only type of flour that is protected by the United Nations UNESCO World Heritage. Wow. You can eat a World Heritage site? Unless you're gluten-free. Yes, you can.
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In the meantime, Yetis, you'll look fantastic. And if I've got one request for you for my birthday, Jack... We'd love if the Yetis would rate and review the show. We'll take five stars for the birthday pod. We're pretty close to 10,000 reviews on Apple. That'd be pretty cool. So drop down and give us five stars. And if you drop this podcast, remember the five second rule doesn't apply.
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Jack and I will see you tomorrow. And before we go, a happy birthday to Yeti Emmy Beal, the Princeton Tiger down in Greenwich, Connecticut. Happy birthday to Claire Botteraco's puppy, who's got a birthday in San Francisco. P-U-P-P-Y. And Melody Bryant's got a birthday over in Nashville with some live music. Happy birthday to John Loopkey, the pickleballer in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Oh, and the five-second rule, it is not even close. A 2014 study at Aston University in the UK says the longer the food is on the floor, the more bacteria latches onto it. But get this, another new study from Clemson University found that some bacteria transfer instantaneously. By five seconds, 99% of the germs on the floor had transferred onto the food, according to Clemson.
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And Alvele Bray in New York City is celebrating a belated best birthday yet. And a big shout-out to Danielle, who wishes that AI would take out the grunt work of charting off her plate. It would free up three to six hours a day so that she could spend the time with patients. And Sean Cody runs an organ-moving helicopter business in Boston called MedFlight.
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Jack, he's been a listener for six years on this show. Happy six-year T-Boy-versary, Sean. And a shout-out to Sean Anbio. who's been enjoying our weekly show, The Best Idea Yet. And Grace Murray of Millinocket, Maine is celebrating a new summer internship. She already locked it in. Congratulations, Grace. And to anyone else celebrating something today, make it a T-boy. Celebrate the wins.
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I'm sorry, dude. There's a good reason why I chose 38, Jack. It's a story for another time. If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. And before you go, tell us a little bit about yourself by filling out a short survey at wondery.com slash survey.
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We want to get to know you.
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So what Jack and I are saying is that they tested the five-second rule with bologna. And determined that the rule is bologna. Hold on to your ham sandwiches today. Because if it falls and you follow the five second rule. Oh, that's now a salmonella sandwich, isn't it, Jack? So grab those grapes and clutch those clementines, man. Don't let go of that ego.
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The five second rule's 50 years of fame is officially over. And honestly, Jack, it's kind of like the planet Pluto. I already miss it. If you know, you know. Yetis, let's hit on three stories.
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I mean, I want to say you're welcome, but I don't want to take credit. But I am going to take credit on this one. No, it's not your quarter birthday. It's not your half birthday. It's your real 37th birthday, right? It is. Four straight quarters, Jack. Wasn't 37 your jersey number when you were playing lacrosse in college? It wasn't, but to go back to stocks being at a record high.
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For our first story, the biggest voices in the brand new White House are from one specific group, venture capitalists. Silicon Valley investors now run the White House. And we're going to tell you just how deep this goes. But yetis, for anyone who has planned a dinner party, you know that the seating chart, oh, that says a lot, doesn't it, Jack?
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So let's look at the seating chart from the presidential inauguration that happened on Monday. All right, so the first row was Trump's family. Makes sense. They're closer to him, of course. The third row behind the inauguration was Trump's cabinet appointees, basically the heads of the future federal agencies.
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But Jack, who sat in front of the future Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, and Secretary of the Treasury? A bunch of tech bros. Yeah, it was Zuck Bezos and Google's Sundar Pichai. Even the TikTok CEO was up there in the second row. Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and the CEO of TikTok. Oh, plus Elon Musk. Have we ever seen more nerds at a party, man?
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Over $9 trillion of market cap. It was represented by those four men we just mentioned. Oh, also looking at the seeding chart, Apple's Tim Cook sat in front of Trump's head of Homeland Security. That tells you a lot. And Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, he was in the cheap seats, but he was still there. Sam Altman's everywhere. And why were they all in the first or second row, Jack?
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Because Donald Trump's Washington, D.C. is pay and praise to play. CEOs, they donated millions and they're flattering him to get on his good side because policy affects all of their products. But let's move on from who was at the inauguration to who is in the White House starting this week. This is what Jack and I found fascinating because it really is one specific group. Venture capitalists.
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Yeah, VCs. Trump's cabinet has more VCs than a Stanford MBA class. They should change the official White House, like, dress code from Brooks Brothers to Allbirds and Patagonias. Yeah, Jack, if you want to work in the West Wing, you're going to have to cut the sleeves off your suit so it looks like an architect's vest. I don't think that's a good look, man.
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I didn't say it looked good, but it's what's going to happen. Now, of course, the VC invasion of the White House all begins with Elon Musk, who is running the new Department of Government Efficiency and is likely getting an office in the West Wing.
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But it doesn't stop with Elon, because he created the idea for this new department with Vivek Ramaswamy, who, now running for governor of Ohio, is a biotech startup investor. Nick, who is the new AI and crypto czar, which Donald Trump named? That would be David Sachs, also a venture capital investor from San Francisco. And the tech and policy advisor of the White House?
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That would be Sriram Krishnan, a former venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz. How about the director of personnel management? That would be Scott Cooper, also a venture capitalist from Andreessen Horowitz. Speaking of Andreessen, Mark Andreessen himself has spent half of his time since the election with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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Funny you should say that, Jack, because Mark Andreessen has been advising Trump with his buddy Peter Thiel, who's also a venture capitalist. Okay, you ready for this? The new vice president, J.D. Vance, he was a venture capitalist too, working at Peter Thiel's venture capital fund. And Jack, where did all these venture capitalists now in the White House make all their money?
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You're welcome for mentioning on the pod that you played the cross in college. It was bound to happen, Jack. I appreciate it. Yeah, it is. We're going to keep the birthday bounce going. In the meantime, we got three fantastic stories. Jack, what's on today's T-Boy? Happy birthday, Nicholas. Thank you, Jack. For our first story, the theme of Trump's brand new cabinet is venture capital, guys.
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Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and David Sachs were all co-founders of PayPal 30 years ago, known as the PayPal mob. Besties, add it all up, and it's like one big venture capital family just moved into the White House and is writing checks from there. But instead of a down payment on a mortgage, they're paying with RSUs, apparently. Someone's about to place a big order for Patagonia size medium.
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So Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies trying to understand the Trump White House? Washington DC is now Washington SV. SV for Silicon Valley. Yetis, there's an inside joke in business about the New York investment bank, Goldman Sachs. Insiders called it government sacks because so many Goldman alums ended up running our federal government.
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It's been the case from even before Jack and I worked in finance. Goldman Sachs alums ran the treasury departments for presidents George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, President Trump's first term. Goldman loved it and they encouraged it because it gave the bank prestige and it got the finance industry a role in shaping policy. But here's the new twist.
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Now it is Silicon Valley alums who are taking over government positions. These venture capitalists have a huge amount of money invested in crypto and AI startups. So they're going to ensure first and foremost that regulations stay out of the way of those cutting edge technologies. And we'll probably see them bring their move fast and break things style to the federal bureaucracy too.
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Washington DC, it's now Washington SV. Washington, Silicon Valley. For our second story, Netflix just announced the live quarter. Their first ever quarter with live sporting events. And it shows that Netflix is conquering the TV world like a game of Risk. Going from fan base to fan base. And that reminds us of the singer Adele.
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But Jack, before we jump into this story, we should point out we have covered Netflix's earnings for years now, but this, this may be the most important and sentimental one. Because last year, Netflix told investors they're going to stop announcing the number of subscribers. They're not going to tell us anymore.
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They think that revenue and profit is the more important number that Wall Street should care about. So yesterday, for the last time ever, we got the total number of subscribers at Netflix. And Jack, what was that critical big key number? 302 million paying subscribers. Jack, could you sprinkle on some more context to the Netflix subscriber numbers?
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Spotify is the only content streamer in the world with more subscribers. But Spotify's profits don't touch Netflix's profits. So Jack, maybe you could now tell us the financials of our buddies over at Netflix. In the final three months of last year, Netflix set a record $10.4 billion of revenue, that's a lot of subscriptions, and $2.3 billion of profit.
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Both smashed expectations, so the stock jumped 12% yesterday. Now, Yetis, in case you're not clear on how big those financial numbers are, that's twice as much profit as Disney on half the amount of revenue. Because Netflix isn't an entertainment or Hollywood company. It's a tech company at its core with tech profit margins. Now, Yetis, Jack and I got even more curious.
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The inauguration will be full of CEOs. Trump's White House will be full of VCs. For our second story, Netflix just told us the results of its most wild quarter ever, its first live streaming quarter. So Jack and I have made a connection between Netflix and Adele. And our third and final story, the White House issued a record number of executive orders on day one. Executive orders.
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It was the year Netflix reneged on their promise to never do live stuff. Just in the fourth quarter, here's the live content that got added to Netflix. Jack, strap on your jockstrap. You ready for this?
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Five million people watched the debut of WWE Raw Wrestling on Netflix Live. 65 million people watched live as the NFL football was on Christmas Day on Netflix. And 108 million people watched live as Mike Tyson boxed Logan Paul. Yeah, it was full of tech glitches, but it was still record-setting live in streaming. Next up, the SAG Awards. They're going to be exclusively shown on Netflix. Recorded?
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Live. Live. Yes, again, there were those love is blind style glitches. The TV froze while Mike Tyson was winding up a haymaker hook punch. But in the last three months, Netflix went through product puberty. And they did it quick because those NFL games on Christmas, they were live and crystal clear without a hitch. Product puberty is over.
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They've worked out the growing pains, the acne's gone, and Netflix is ready for prom. Live prom. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies live over at Netflix? Adele chases pavements, Netflix chases fan bases. Yetis, Netflix convinced 200 million households to pay 10 to 20 bucks a month for Netflix. Those subscribers, that was the easy part. Then organic growth stopped.
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So in the last few years, Netflix has had to get strategic. Now, Netflix is growing subscribers by putting one piece of content on the platform at a time, one fan base at a time. First was live wrestling, then was live boxing, then was live NFL football. Oh, hey, Netflix, would it kill you to put some live Ivy League lacrosse on TV one of these days?
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No one's putting live Ivy League lacrosse on TV. Yet, Jack. Yet. And why is Netflix doing this? Because the Netflix streaming holdouts, they finally joined once their favorite sport moved to the platform. Next up, we bet that Netflix adds a UFC fight live or the Oscars live, maybe even Howard Stern live.
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Because the Oscars, UFC, and Howard Stern each have distinct fan bases that Netflix might not have gotten yet. Besties, the way Jack and I see it, Adele chases pavements, but Netflix chases fan bases. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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For our third and final story, big news day, as we said. Trump's first full day was defined by one action, executive orders. And Wall Street is reacting right now. You're not going to believe it, but big oil stocks are down. Big. And we'll explain why. So Trump's first day on the job, and he already set a record, as in a record number of executive orders signed.
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We're going to tell you why presidents love them, businesses hate them, and oil stocks are confused by them. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. It is a news-packed week. Jack, what a mix of stories. Love the mix today. The most important rule of science was just disproven. Not the law of gravity, not the theory of relativity. Jack, what are we talking about?
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50 executive orders signed triples the previous record from any previous president. And then Trump actually tossed his Sharpie pens out into a crowd. So you're probably going to see Trump's Sharpies up on eBay pretty soon. And Tuesday was the first day that Wall Street could react to Trump's executive orders. So how did they react?
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Well, Wall Street reacted, Jack, with clean energy stocks got cleaned out. The biggest theme of the executive orders was energy. For example, Trump halted the leasing of federal lands and waters for wind energy projects. And we saw that in the markets. Shares of the biggest wind turbine company in the world, Orsted, fell 11% after Trump signed those papers.
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Get this, Trump blamed offshore wind for killing whales, although there's no evidence of that actually happening. So in the meantime, Trump is taking land that Biden had leased for wind energy and instead giving it to the oil and gas industry. Trump also declared that there's a national energy emergency and said that the United States would drill baby drill to solve it.
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Although, as our Yeti listeners know, the United States is already number one in producing oil and gas worldwide. We actually produce twice as much oil and gas as the number two country in the world does. But Yetis, Jack and I sifted through this record number of executive orders, and here's the theme that we thought was the most interesting.
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He said that to lower the cost of living for Americans, we need to drill more oil. Here's what Trump is thinking. If we add oil supply to the markets, then the prices of gas and heating bills will fall across the country. That'd be great for American consumers who pay for gasoline and pay for their propane bill. Fantastic for your commute.
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But if the price of oil falls, that's actually bad for big oil. Which leads to the most surprising part of Trump's very first day. ExxonMobil stock is actually down 6%. since Trump was elected. And Jack, why are oil stocks down despite a pro-oil president being in the White House? Because our oil giants don't want more oil supply and they don't want lower oil prices either.
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Eddie, what Jack and I are saying is that Trump's drill baby drill is potentially good for consumers, but surprisingly bad for big oil. And of course, we should point out, drill baby drill is bad for planet Earth, which needs less fossil fuels burned, not more. Well, Jack, on that point, Trump also already exited the Paris Climate Accord, which limits global warming.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, so we check Wednesday, May 21st.
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But besties, we have seen some positive trends out there, some solutions potentially to this challenge. We've seen some pivots. We've seen a surge in interest among young people in the trades because landscaping is AI proof. That's right. Or more people trying to run their own business. Try entrepreneurship. You know, creators is now a top choice for college grads.
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The bottom rung of the corporate ladder is going away and nobody knows the cultural impact of that. But humans have always pivoted in the past, and there's signs we already are. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for Ceviche Wednesday? Dockers is selling to authentic brands for 70% of its peak value, but they did invent casual Fridays. And it proves that customers are like cake.
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You can create them from scratch. For our second story, Trader Joe's, Microsoft, Toyota, non-flashy brands top the list of companies with the best reputations in America. As Warren Buffett and Taylor Swift have told us, reputations, they take 20 years to build, but just one second to lose. And our third and final story is Klarna.
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They actually feed it with filtered spa water. water. Get this. According to the New York Times, plant nannies are charging 50 bucks an hour on average. Jack, I think that's like twice the going rate for a nanny for a human baby. We repeat, humans are paying nannies more money to take care of their plants than their babies. But Jack, let's be honest here.
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They're bragging that their revenue per human is tripling as they replace humans with AI. With the bottom rung of the corporate ladder going away, people are already pivoting. But Yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, Elon's robo-taxis are officially coming to Austin, Texas next month in June. Bye. with a couple caveats.
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First, there's only going to be 10 cars at first, self-driving model-wise. Okay, and not totally self-driving. Tesla's going to have a remote driver reading them as they go. They're also going to be geofenced to just a small area and only invited riders can participate. But if all of that goes well without any issues, then Tesla will take the caveats away. Then...
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They'll really start robo-driving. And second, Fanatics Fest 2025 is officially taking place from June 20th to June 22nd in New York City. And there's going to be a fans versus professional athletes athletic skills competition. And this is why this is a wild story. This is a merch and apparel business, Fanatics, that is now throwing a live event for 100,000 people.
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And if you can throw a football more accurately than Tom Brady can, which I think I can, by the way. I think you can too, Jack. You could win $2 million. Sounds like a challenge, Jack. Put me in, coach. And finally, Warby Parker stock surged late yesterday on news of a $150 million investment from Google. Google basically sees those meta Ray-Ban sunglasses and says, I'll have what Zuck's having.
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Now, time for the best fact yet. This one sent in by Henry Solo from a city far, far away. Today is Talk Like Yoda Day. I'm sorry, Jack. Can you please repeat that?
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Now, the reason for this is that Yoda first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back, which was released on May 21st, 1980. Fun fact about that movie. Yoda was voiced and puppeteered by a man named Frank Oz. who also is the voice actor for Miss Piggy and Cookie Monster. And that strange way Yoda speaks is actually a literary concept. It's called anastrophe. Powerful you have become.
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The dark side I sense in you. Yoda, he put the object and then the subject and then the verb. Yeah, that's what he did. Yetis, you look fantastic today, especially if you're one of those plant nannies out there. I plant nannied for my mother-in-law once. She didn't pay me anything. Now you're just showing off.
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He's got five-star ratings and reviews. Okay, you sound much more like Cookie Monster than Yonah. As it came out, I was thinking I merged the two. No, but that's fine because it's the same voice actor. And it all comes full circle. Yeti's Jack and I will see you tomorrow. And before we go, a happy birthday to Yeti Mason-Stokes in Etoka, Tennessee.
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You're hiring someone to look after your plants. You probably got banked. Yeah, that's a signal. Apparently, there's one business in Brooklyn that's charging 100 bucks for a one-hour plant visit. And extra if your ficus tree is over six and a half feet.
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The soccer and track star's got the best birthday yet. Happy birthday to Steven Kleiman of the Upper East Side of New York City, who is celebrating with the New York Knicks appearance in the Eastern Conference Finals. Go New York, go New York, go! And Kimberly DeVede in Saratoga Springs, Utah, is a wonderful mother of three and has the best birthday ever.
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Happy birthday to Amanda Heckler in Arlington, Virginia, who's celebrating at a bachelorette this weekend. And Sam Karaskio, thank you for being such an observant Yeti. Guys, Sam heard us throwing a car sound effect into the pod, and he jumped out of the street. But it turned out it was just our podcast. And to anyone else who's celebrating something today... T-Boy make it.
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I was going to say, when's the celebration? This is Jack. I own stock in Crocs, Kava, Netflix, and Levi's. All the flashy brands, apparently. And Nick and I both own stock in Apple. If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
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It's barely hanging on. With me as a plant daddy, it's no paradise for that bird, man. I'm going to call plant child support, Jack. It needs to be done. But yetis, puppies were the new babies, but now plants are the new puppies. So Jack, I think that means we need a new acronym to capture this wild plant spending trend. How about plants? P-L-A-N-T-S. People love acquiring new trees. So much.
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So much. So much. Jack, happy P-L-A-N-T-S to you. Let's hit up three stars.
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For our first story, Dockers was once worth a billion bucks, but now Levi's is selling off the khakis for one third the price. Dockers didn't invent khakis. No, they didn't. But they invented demand for khakis with Casual Friday. Now, Yetis, earlier this week, Jack and I covered the most innovative pants of the last decade. Who is it, Jack? Lululemon's Align Leggings.
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For our first story, Dockers was once worth $1 billion, but Levi's just sold their khakis brand for 70% less than that. But in its heyday, Dockers khakis was so innovative, they actually invented Casual Friday. That's a great story. For our second story, the list of the 100 most respected brands in America was just released.
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They invented the athleisure category. But funny thing, today, another pair of pants is in the news, and it happens to be the exact opposite of Lululemon leggings. Today, it's Dockers khakis, which is the basic bro pant. Yeah, yeah, it is, you know, khakis. You could wear them to a job interview, or you could wear them to a date. But Dockers is... Scott Galloway hates Dockers. Yeah.
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So here's the news. Levi's sold Dockers to authentic brands for $311 million. This is a wardrobe makeover. But here's the wild twist. Docker khaki sales have fallen 70% from their all-time highs of a billion dollars a year. We repeat, Dockers was once a billion-dollar brand, and now they're selling like secondhand pairs of slacks. Fun fact, Nick only wears khakis.
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The same J. Crew pair for seven years. It's impressive. I know, it's all you wear. It's a very Nick thing about you. But Nick, Dockers scaled khakis and changed office culture forever. This is a wild story we discovered no one else is talking about. All right, yetis, let's go back to 1986. That's when Levi's invented the Dockers brand. The reason?
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Levi's felt they needed to diversify from just selling denim. Yeah, to sprinkle on a little context, today, jean sales are crushing khakis. Khakis are getting crushed. But in the 80s, Gene sales had slowed down and khakis were booming. So Levi was thinking, hey, let's invent Dockers as a brand to hedge us in case gene sales keep on falling.
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And then, to sell more khakis, Dockers and Levi's invented a holiday. Okay, this is the wild part. They actually invented, more specifically, a weekly holiday. And what's it called, Jack? You know them as Casual Fridays. That's right, Casual Fridays. In 1992, they sent a style guide to 25,000 HR managers explaining to them how their workers can dress down but still look professional.
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If you think about it, HR managers are powerful trendsetters, right, Jack? They're in charge of the dress code, and Dockers convinced them to allow khakis on Casual Friday. Yeah, these HR managers are like the Anna Wintour of work, and suddenly they're recommending khakis come in casual at the end of the week.
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So Casual Friday became a fashion revolution, from the Midwest office manager to the Silicon Valley tech worker. And the whole idea was incepted by Dockers. So Dockers sales hit a billion dollars back in peak khaki era. Yeah. And actually, one year in the 90s, Dockers even awkwardly beat Levi's in the men's category for total sales. How wild is that?
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HR managers were the first accidental fashion influencer, and Dockers was the puppet master. That is a sentence no one has ever said before, Jack. If you're at work and you're not wearing a suit right now, You should thank Dockers. Again, only pant you can wear to a job interview and a date. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies in khaki over at Dockers? Customers are like cake.
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You can make them from scratch. Yetis, some people think demand is predetermined.
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You can market to get customers' attention, but there has to be buyers out there if you want to make a product. Well, this Docker story is a reminder that you can literally create customers out of nothing. Back in the 80s, pre-Dockers, you wore a suit on the weekdays and sweatpants on the weekends. There was no need for something in between. So Dockers invented the category of business casual.
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So Jack and I will tell you the one critical currency that the best brands are rich in. And our third and final story is Klarna. The leader of the buy now, pay later movement just invented a new metric, revenue per human. Revenue per human. So we've got an update for everyone listening under 25. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.
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And then they invented a holiday to generate demand for it. Because customers are like cake. Yep. You can whip them up from scratch. For our second story, we just got the biggest brand report of the year. The Harris Poll of the top 100 American companies. We'll tell you who's up, who's down this year, and the one move you can make that'll put you on top.
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Yetis, over the last 20 years, the research firm Harris does a poll of 17,000 Americans. Basically, the reputation rankings. We call it kiss, marry, kill, but for companies. Yeah, like which brand would you kiss? No commitment, it's just a kiss. Okay, which brand would you marry? You're in love with this brand. Which brand would you kill, Jack?
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Oh, you want them eliminated from the face of the earth. Yeah, I don't even want them on the receipts, honey. Those are basically the questions that the Harris Poll asks Americans each year about the 100 most visible brands in America. Technically, they ask to rank the 100 companies based on their products, their values, and their impact on the world.
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The big drama this year is that all of Elon Musk's companies plummeted in the rankings. X, SpaceX, Tesla. Yeah, Jack, you know, Tesla was number eight in 2021. You know where it is this year? Number 95, which is fifth from the bottom. Okay. Another shocker out there, Chipotle is up in the brand rankings, despite the whole burrito bowl portion size controversy.
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And ChatGPT is up too, despite the most common human reaction to AI's advance being fear. Yeah. So add it all up, yetis. And that was the drama on the brand rankings this year. This list is like Gossip Girl for anyone working in marketing. XOXO. CMO. Now, besties, we know what everyone's wondering. Who is at the top of this brand reputation list? Here's the top five in order.
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Number one is Trader Joe's. Number two is Patagonia. Number three is Microsoft. Number four is Toyota. And number five, the most reputable brand in America, is Costco. Okay. Now, Jack, I got to pause the pod for a sec. We're talking groceries, functional apparel, boring business technology, an older car brand, and groceries again? Yeah.
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I don't think Microsoft refers to their business as boring business technology.
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Yeah, that's correct, Nick. Technically, they don't. Yetis, this led to a fascinating thing that Jack and I noticed. None of the brands at the top of this list are viral, flashy, or attention-grabbing at all. No, like Netflix is the most viral streaming content, but they're not even in the top 30. Taco Bell is the most viral food company. They don't even crack the top 50.
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Crocs, Kava, Duolingo, the trendiest companies aren't even on the list. Consumers and the media pay attention to the zeitgeisty, in-the-moment, trend-setting brands the most. And yet this poll shows that hype does not translate to positive brand reputation. How did Chick-fil-A and Nintendo get beat by UPS and Honda? Honda?
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It was my first car, but I wouldn't call it like one of the best companies in America.
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So Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies trying to build a brand? It's a gem from Warren Buffett. Reputations take 20 years to earn, but one minute to lose. Yeah, he sawed all the Swifties out there who thought we were going to quote Taylor's Reputation album. Yeah, we went with Warren Buffett instead. Yeah, we did, we did. But here's the deal.
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The brands with the top five reputations, they are poor in hype, but they are rich in trust. And trust is the most valuable currency that brands trade in. Here's what we're thinking. You trust Costco for low prices. You trust Toyota for reliable cars. And you trust Microsoft that Excel isn't going to crash on you. UPS, it's not the most sexy brand.
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I told you this pot was ripping.
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But they're in the top 10 because you trust that they'll deliver your package on time more often than FedEx does. And interestingly, Jack and I confirm our trust hypothesis by looking at the bottom of the brand rankings as well. At the bottom is meta. Because you don't trust Zuck's motives or even that the post you're seeing is real right now.
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Okay, right behind them is Spirit Airlines because you don't trust Spirit is going to get you there on time or honestly even take off at all. Honolulu. I said Houston. Yeah. That wasn't a fun flight. Yeah, and even Tesla's 32-spot plummet from last year is a reminder that years of trust can be gone in a flash.
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There's a new industry of caretakers that is emerging. But not to take care of your kids, take care of the elderly, or take care of your pets. It's a new thing called plant nannies.
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Or as Warren Buffett puts it, reputations take 20 years to earn, but just one minute to lose. Or as Taylor Swift put it, my reputation's never been worse, so you must like me for me. Okay, this pod's officially vindicated.
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For our third and final story, the buy now, pay later leader Klarna has postponed its IPO, but it hasn't postponed replacing humans with AI. Klarna's invented a new brag metric too. They call it revenue per human. But Jack, can we talk about the five wildest words we've seen this year? Buy now, pay later for burrito. Six words. Possible thanks to Klarna's partnership with DoorDash. That's right.
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This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Well, look at that. The six-day stock market win streak is over. The double hat trick is done. Stocks are dipping, but this pod is ripping. Couldn't have said it better. Jack, three stories for today's show. What do we got on the T-Boy?
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Wild year for Klarna so far, hasn't it been, man? They offered interest-free payment plans for your carnitas taco order. Then they filed to IPO. Then they paused their IPO plans on trade war turmoil. And now Klarna is still a private company and still announced earnings, even though they don't legally have to. did last quarter.
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At the top of the report, they showed that revenues rose 13% in the last quarter. Not too shabby. Okay, but here's the funny thing, Jack, I noticed. Revenue per employee was up 53%. We got to sprinkle out some context. We have to, Jack. Klarna knows that buy now, pay later is not the most stellar business model. So they're rebranding themselves as an AI company.
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They're basically a botanical babysitter. Yeah, this is like the Mary Poppins for your Monstera. It's the Mrs. Doubtfire for your dolly. Jack, it's the Fran Drescher. For your fig tree. Plant nannies will come into your home. They'll do a spritz on a leaf here, a trim of a stem there. They're basically landscapers, but for inside your house. The plant nanny doesn't just water your plant.
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Yeah, their CEO declared in 2023 he'd let OpenAI develop chatbots to replace their human customer service workers. The CEO even told the tech industry they wanted to be a guinea pig for AI. Yeah, to see how much humanity they can cut out of the business, but still maintain productivity. They asked tech companies, use us to see how far AI can go in replacing human workers.
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Well, now Klarna is on track to hit $1 million in revenue. Per employee, which is up. Which would be triple as high as it was two years ago. Which is why Jack and I think the new brag metric you're going to start seeing in tech is revenue per human. Now we should point out, Klarna actually overdid it in terms of replacing humans with AI.
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Yeah, a little side note here, but they accidentally overcut the number of humans they employ. And they admitted it. They had to rehire some people. Because it turns out people always want the option to speak with a human when they're calling customer service. Yeah, Jack, what was the quote from the CEO when he admitted this?
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From a brand perspective, it's critical there always be a human if you want one. Yeah, and you know why, Eddie. Representative!
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I've pushed zero 17 times, and I will not say another word until it's to a human being. I just want to speak to a manager, and I'll do anything for it. But guess what? Klarna's plans to source those human customer service roles, they're using gig workers to do it. So, fascinatingly, if you go look on Klarna's job board right now, you're not going to see a single role open for a junior worker.
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As we've said before, if you want to know where a business is going, look at who they're hiring. And when it comes to hiring, Klarna is not planning anything entry-level. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Klarna? Bottom rung of the corporate ladder is going away. Yetis, OpenAI, Claude, Anthropic, Google, they each have deep research AI products.
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Gemini brands their deep research AI as your personal research assistant. Well, Jack, who typically specializes in research at a company? Junior employees do. That's right. Their job is often to do research online or write reports, do presentations, and present all of it to the boss. But now AI is starting to eliminate that role. which represents the entry point for many into corporate America.
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And we've double-checked it. We can see it in the data too. 2025 is expected to be the second year in a row employers hire fewer college grads than the year before. Nick, if the first rung of the corporate ladder is gone... How do workers ever get to the second rung? Honestly, it's a great question.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, Ceviche Wednesday, March 19th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three stories at the intersection of business and pop culture. Jack, I'd love to share a couple of things with you. Is that all right? Your Audi likes to whip up the takeaways. Your Audi thinks that interest rates should go up. My Audi?
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Jack, let's look at Louboutin, the maker of $1,000 high-heel pumps that you wear out for a fun night out. In an experiment, Western University changed the website so that half of customers saw the nickname Louby and the other half saw the official name Louboutin. The result, they sold one third fewer shoes when they used the nickname Luby, not Louboutin.
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As Gen Z would say, it's giving cringe when you use your own nickname. And I'm looking at it now, Jack. Kind of reminds me of that Steve Buscemi meme.
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Well done, Jack O'Lantern. Well done. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over in branding?
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Appreciate the party. Don't crash it. Yetis, one of the biggest challenges for any business leader, having the discipline to not do something. And one of the biggest mistakes is when you cave and don't be disciplined on that. Yeah, when you ignore the discipline. If your customers are having fun with some element of your brand, let them have fun with it. They can run with it.
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Because the data now shows, as soon as you get involved with that fun, the fun loses its authenticity. Yeah, it's like kids having a party in a parent's house. Like, yeah, they're having a blast in the basement when no one's there. But as soon as the adult shows up, the fun is over. When brands use their own nicknames, it's the marketing equivalent of showing up like a chaperone.
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We think it applies to both people and brands. If you're blessed with an endearing nickname, have the discipline to not use it yourself. Appreciate the party. Don't crash it. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for Savice Wednesday? The most popular pick to win in March Madness is Duke. But don't pick Duke.
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Because with March Madness, just like investing, if the crowd is going in one direction, go away from the crowd. For our second story, Google is acquiring Wiz for $33 billion. It's a win for the co-founders, the 1,700 employees, and New York City Tech. But whether the deal actually gets approved or not is a test of the next four years.
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And our third and final story is the curse of the corporate nickname. If fans give your company a nickname, that's great. Just don't use that nickname yourself. Appreciate the party. Don't crash the party. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, that big Putin-Trump phone call on Ukraine happened yesterday.
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Vladimir Putin agreed to stop attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure, but he would not agree to the broader ceasefire that the U.S. helped negotiate. It is something, it is some progress, but it's not what the White House was hoping for. Putin is demanding much more to stop the war that he started.
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And second, Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, presented his latest computer chip at the company's AI Super Bowl. He's trying to restore investor confidence in AI and in NVIDIA's chips, driving that trend. So what did he say exactly? Well, he said that AI computing needs to grow a hundredfold just to meet the crazy demand. But NVIDIA stock is still down 20% from its all-time high.
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And finally, get this, Ferrari's CEO just said that 40% of new car buyers for Ferrari are under 40 years old. That's a huge jump from a few years ago when it was basically only retired people buying Ferraris. Down in Belvoca Vista. But they're still staying exclusive over at Ferrari. In fact, it reminds us of this really cool quote from the founder, Enzo Ferrari.
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Those Broadway musical tickets that are first come, first served. You can hire a lady to wait online. The sneaker shop that's doing a limited edition drop at 5 a.m. this Tuesday.
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We will always deliver one less car than the market demands. Even if you're 38. Now, time for the best fact yet. This one sent in from Jack. You hear that? I think this is coming in from the International Space Station. Houston, we've got a best fact yet, baby. The astronauts stranded in the ISS just landed back safely on planet Earth.
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Their visit to space was supposed to be one week, ended up lasting nine months, but now they're safe back on Earth. The Boeing shuttle that brought them up to space wasn't safe to return. but the SpaceX shuttle brought them home safely yesterday.
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But here's the fact you may not know.
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Up in space, you're actually taller. This is wild. But because there's no gravity up there, the average person grows in height by 3% up in space. If you're up in space, you are on average two inches taller than you would be back down here on Earth. What does this mean? Like, your spine, your vertebrae are just like further apart from each other?
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I think it means, Jack, on your Tinder profile, you're supposed to say, I'm five foot 10 on earth, but I'm six foot up in space.
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I think we just made a few happy couples, Jack.
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Yetis, you look fantastic over there. Jack-O-Lantern, you're looking great over there, man.
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Besties, if you are waiting on a line right now, leave us a comment about the line wait economy.
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Should we be paying people to wait on line? I've never done it. I'm actually thinking about getting paid to wait in line. As long as we know where to draw the line, Jack. And as long as you remember to bring a book. Leave a comment and remember to give us five stars, a rating and review. That helps grow the show. And Jack and I will see you tomorrow.
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Someone will wait online for you.
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And before we go, a happy birthday to Yeti Allie Harrington in Smyrna, Georgia, and a happy National Athletic Training Month to all the wonderful hard-working athletic trainers out there. Thank you, Allie. And a shout-out to the boring business owner, Kevin Erickson, who runs a blanket business, a wool blanket business, called Arcturus. And Ashley Day's also got a boring business to share.
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She's running a bookkeeping company and she's crushing it. And Kyle McQueen's sisters, they got a boring business that sounds amazing. They send packages, care packages to the military. And a special shout out to Dylan Steinfeld, a Yeti who picked Duke in his bracket to win it all. And if you want to get a shout out on this show for yourself or anyone else, just fill out the form.
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Here's the data. TaskRabbit says that line waiting requests are up 18% nationwide in the last year. And the Wall Street Journal found an entire company dedicated to waiting in line. It's called Same Old Line Dudes. They'll wait in line for any New Yorker.
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We've got a link in this episode description. And you can get your voice on the pod. Celebrate the wins. Nick and I will see you tomorrow. Can't wait. This is Jack, I own stock of Amazon. And neither of us pick Duke in our brackets.
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Because we millennials are time poor. And if time is money, then ipso facto, a line is your financial enemy.
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But if time is money, then paying someone to wait in line isn't cheap, is it? No, it's not, Jack. TaskRabbit charges $27 an hour for someone to wait on line. Plus, there's a 20% weather fee. If it rains, you got to pay more. And of course, there's the fundamental problem with any line waiting economy. If you hire someone to wait on line for you, then aren't lines just going to get even longer?
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So Jack, where do we draw the line on waiting in line? And is hiring a line waiter cross said line? And should we take this discussion offline? Yetis, let us know what you think of the line waiting economy in the comments. We want to get your thoughts. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't eager to hear your thoughts.
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Okay, please, no more questions. Your Audi owns shares of Peloton. Where are you going with this? The session is concluded. Jack, three stories. What do we got on the pod?
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For our first story, the best way to win your March Madness bracket, don't pick Duke.
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We'll tell you why not picking Duke is actually the same advice as our favorite investing advice. Full disclosure, we did not go to UNC. But yetis, quick update for your calendars. The deadline to fill out your bracket is tomorrow morning. The men's games begin Thursday at noon Eastern time.
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68% of Americans will fill out a March Madness bracket, even though 100% of Americans have an opinion on said brackets. Who's in your final four? Will NC State upset Texas Tech? Can a number 12 seed finally lose to the number five seed like they're supposed to? No one knows the answers. So Frank from Finance organized an office pool. Your buddy Timmy sent you a reminder.
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Even Warren Buffett filled out a March Madness bracket this year. And with 68 teams playing, there's actually 9.2 quintillion different ways to fill out your March Madness bracket. But there is one pick that is the most popular out of all those 9.2 quintillion ways. It's Duke. Duke. Statistically speaking, the Duke Blue Devils are most likely to win this year's tournament.
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There's actually a 22.9% chance that Duke gets the national title according to the stats guru, Ken Pomeroy. But America thinks Duke is even more likely than that to win it all. Apparently 28% of brackets on Yahoo already have Duke winning it all. Now, everyone knows a kid who's from a Duke family.
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Their car is blue, their house is blue, their ego's inflated, they have a little bit of a southern twang accent. And they're already celebrating the win they don't have yet. But Nick, let's dive even deeper into these March Madness numbers. Yeah, Jack, because I believe we said earlier that picking Duke is mathematically the least efficient move you can make, besties. Let's look at the statistics.
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First of all, Duke had an epic year. They went 31-3. They beat fellow number one seed Auburn earlier in the regular season. Duke's basically winning on the SAT scores and they're winning on the scoreboards. And their freshman, Cooper Flagg, known as the main menace, he's leading the Blue Devils in every statistical category.
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Yeti's Duke is simply considered the strongest men's basketball team in 25 years.
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Sorry, Coach K, but it's true. But Jack, let's talk about the numbers here. In the last decade, the top-ranked team overall has only won the championship once. twice. UConn in 2024 and UVA in 2019.
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I said the session's concluded. Three stories for today's show. What do we got on the pod, Jack? For our first story, Duke is the favorite in the men's NCAA basketball tournament, and it's number one most popular in our brackets, too. But we think you shouldn't pick Duke, and it holds a lesson on smart investing. For our second story, it's Google.
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In fact, Jack and I went even deeper. Since 1985, the statistically number one pick in all of March Madness won the tournament only six times.
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That's right. Just 17% of the time does the number one favorite actually win it all. So Jack, are the Duke Blue Devils going to make it all the way to the Elite Eight? Probably. But will they win it all? Probably not. But besties, that's not the reason we think you shouldn't pick Duke to win it all. The reason you shouldn't pick Duke is because everyone is picking Duke.
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And in both March Madness and in stock investing, if everyone's doing it, you probably shouldn't do it. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over in March Madness? Don't join the crowd. Run away from it. Yetis, there's a concept in tech and business called wisdom of the crowds. Basically, large groups lead to more accurate decisions.
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If you're not sure what to do, let a thousand people go before you. That crowd will show you what's the right thing to do. But in investing, we believe running away from the crowd makes the most sense. Avoid what the majority does. Because in investing, if a stock is popular, that means it has a high price. everyone is bidding up the same stock.
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If you follow the crowd, you're going to buy a stock that's really expensive. All right, it's better to buy the stock the crowd is not focused on. The value stock, the one that's worth more than what people think. In March Madness, if you pick the popular team to win it all, even if you're right, you'll have to share the pot with the rest of the people that also picked.
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In fact, Duke's 28% popularity versus 22% chance of winning show that Duke is overvalued by the whole market. Just like some believe NVIDIA is overvalued by the whole market. So besties, add it up and your best chance of profit, it's investing in undervalued assets, stocks or teams. That's why whether you're picking brackets or picking portfolios, don't go with the crowd. Go away from the crowd.
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For our second story, Google just announced its biggest acquisition ever. Google is buying cybersecurity whiz for $33 billion. But the wildest part, every employee is getting a check for almost 600 grand as part of this deal. we'll explain. But first, Jack, how about we sprinkle on some chronological context, please?
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20 years ago, the four co-founders of Wiz met as teenagers while serving in the Israeli army. In 2012, they founded a tech company and they then sold it to Microsoft three years later for 300 million bucks. Celebrate the wins on an epic sale. Then in 2020, those same four guys co-founded another company, which does the same thing. It does pretty much the same thing.
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And those four guys just sold that second company, Wiz, to Google for $33 billion.
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Celebrate even more epic wins, apparently. Our prediction, these same guys are going to launch the same company a third time, probably sell it to Amazon for $100 million.
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Google just announced its biggest acquisition ever. It's buying Wiz for $33 billion. And as part of the deal, every Wiz employee is getting $588,000. And our third and final story, Chevy, Mickey D's, Bloomy's. They're some of the most famous brand nicknames of all time.
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Yeah, it is. Wiz does cybersecurity for the cloud. They're basically going to take all your company's data that you have saved on the cloud and assess it for vulnerabilities. The way you move stuff into the cloud every week, hackers could intercept that. Their software stops that. That's the kind of thing that Wiz will tell you if you become one of their clients.
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But we should let you know how big a deal this is, Yetis, because it is literally a big deal. Buying Wiz for $33 billion is a bigger acquisition than Google's next eight largest acquisitions combined. It is literally their biggest deal ever in the history of Google. Side note, Google must love hummus. True. Because this is the ninth Israeli company Google has acquired. Not too shabby.
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But the real story here is not the billions that are going to the co-founders. No. It's two other surprise winners of this acquisition. Yetis, there's one wild detail, Jack, and I noticed in the deal terms of the biggest deal in Google history. $1 billion of the acquisition is being set aside for retention bonuses to keep all of Wiz employees employed at Google. So we did a little math here.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
Divide the $1 billion retention bonus by Wiz's 1,700 employees, and what do you get, Jack? It means each employee is getting a $588,000 check if they agree to keep working for Google. Treat yourself. Jack, I heard the interns over at Wiz bought yachts. I doubt that, but maybe that's because I'm a ninny. It'll all be clear. with Cold Harbor.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
But yet, this is not just a win for the random employees at Wiz. It's also a win for New York City.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
Because although Wiz has Israeli roots, it calls New York City its headquarters and its home now. And this happens to be the biggest exit for a New York City-based tech company since AOL Time Warner. Plus, it's a big win for the VCs that invested in Wiz. Yeah, it's a big win for those venture capitalists because the price was a surprise. Just one year ago, we actually covered it on this pod.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
Google tried to acquire Wiz then for $23 billion. So investors waited one year and got a 50% higher exit. Because they waited. Basically, every month the investors waited for Wiz to sell, the company gained a billion dollars in more value. Exactly. But Yeti, the one big question we still have about this deal, we haven't shared with you yet. Will it actually happen?
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
Yeah, kind of a big question.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at The Wiz? The biggest tech deal of the year is a test for the next four years. Yet is last year, Wiz walked away from that offer from Google because they thought regulators would probably block it. After all, Google has already been sued for antitrust. Regulators think it's too big. And now they're trying to get even bigger.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
But with the Trump administration, both sides now must think that regulators won't block this.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
So in the next year, we'll see if Trump's historic dislike of big tech blocks the deal. Or if Trump's embrace of free market capitalism lets the deal go through. And don't be surprised if Google Sundar Pichai donates another million dollars to Trump's whatever fund to increase his chances. Because Google is already being sued for antitrust. And now it's trying to get even bigger.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
But a wild new study shows what happens when brands start using those nicknames in the first person.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
So whether this deal gets approved or not is a test for how the next four years of M&A will go. The biggest tech deal of the year is a test for the next four years.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
Spoiler, don't do it. It's the curse of the corporate nickname. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
For our third and final story, a fascinating new study shows that when a company starts adopting the nickname that you gave it, the business suffers. It's the curse of the corporate nickname. And we'll tell you how to avoid that curse. But first, McDonald's is Mickey D's. BMW, they've got Beamer. Natural light beer, it's really natty light. I always called the Olive Garden the OG lounge.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
And for some reason, that just works for you. I love it. Nicknames, they're not just for humans. We give them to companies too.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
Pick me up in your V-Dub.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
We'll hit up Starves and we'll go right by the Target afterwards. Now, nicknames should be authentic and natural. Yes, 80% of us believe that a brand nickname actually originates organically from the customers themselves. Because nobody likes a self-proclaimed nickname. Remember sophomore year when you asked us to call you Jack-o'-lantern, Jack? No, I have never done that. Okay, okay.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
Fantastic mix of stories for an innie. Okay.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
You're going to back me up on this, Yetis. There was like three months in the fall, Jack was like, call me Jack-o'-lantern. No, I'm afraid this is one of those ones where if I deny it, people will think it's more true. I'm not going to not deny it, Jack. It may just be a story for another pod. Well, here's an update, Yetis.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
Nobody likes when the person starts referring to themselves as their nickname either, especially when brands do it. Get this. If a CEO uses the company's nickname publicly, the stock will fall. That's the conclusion from a wild new study from Ontario's Western University. Jack, let's talk a couple examples here.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
First, we got Bloomingdale's, which is affectionately called Bloomy's, and Nordstrom, which is affectionately called Nordy's by their biggest fans. Well, in 2021, Bloomingdale's opened a concept store called Bloomy's, and in 2018, Nordstrom launched a club called Nordy's. And Jack, what happened after both those announcements?
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
I said, just keep going, Jack. Just work with it. Okay, Nick. The least techie thing that we human beings do is being taken over by tech. Waiting online. Get this, Yetis. Line waiting apps are surging right now. Paying people to wait in a physical line on your behalf is at an all-time high. The restaurant in Brooklyn that doesn't do reservations, you can hire a dude to wait online.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
After the companies used their own nicknames themselves, their stocks fell by 4% and 5% in the following week. Jack, I'm thinking back to business school, and I believe the technical term for that is ick. Financial ick. Next, Western University did an experiment. Instead of looking at the stock market, they measured social media engagement.
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👿 “Don’t Pick Duke” — March Madness investing advice. Google’s biggest acquisition. Corporate Nickname Curse.
In this case, we'll look at the examples Chevrolet, which has Chevy, and Target, which has Target. When Chevrolet official tweets included their nickname Chevy, those tweets had one-third as many likes. And when Target ads used the word Target, those Target ads got one-third as many clicks. Here's a third example that's wildest of all. It's even true in luxury.
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🦕 “Dino IPO” — Stegosaurus goes public. Mattel’s Hot Wheels win. Broadcom’s BATMMAAN stocks.
Every big moment starts with a big dream. But what happens when that big dream turns out to be... A big flop. From Wondery and Atwill Media, I'm Misha Brown, and this is The Big Flop. Every week, comedians join me to chronicle the biggest flubs, fails, and blunders of all time, like Quibi. It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to, like, get other people to do it.
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🦕 “Dino IPO” — Stegosaurus goes public. Mattel’s Hot Wheels win. Broadcom’s BATMMAAN stocks.
and the 2019 movie adaptation of Cats. Like, if I'm watching the dancing and I'm noticing the feet aren't touching the ground, there's something wrong with the movie. Find out what happens when massive hype turns into major fiasco. Enjoy The Big Flop on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to The Big Flop early and ad-free on Wondery+.
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🦕 “Dino IPO” — Stegosaurus goes public. Mattel’s Hot Wheels win. Broadcom’s BATMMAAN stocks.
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📕 “Hedge Fund University” — Harvard’s $2B battle. Coachella’s Pay-Now-Party-Later. Netflix’s Dr. Evil plan.
This is Jack.
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📕 “Hedge Fund University” — Harvard’s $2B battle. Coachella’s Pay-Now-Party-Later. Netflix’s Dr. Evil plan.
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🏟️ “Football = Housing” — Stadiums’ apartment strategy. Nutella’s Americanization. Hotels’ junk fee ban.
that's it i don't even think they need to practice 50 that's a fat tip t-boy city on your at list if you know you know because we're ready to go we can't wait no more so just start the show start the show first a quick word from our sponsor
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🏒 “Hockey Fight” — Canada’s electric weapon. MrBeast’s chocolate surprise. Southwest’s Godfather fee.
15 years before this song two boys from the northeast met in the dorm they had an idea to cause a cultural storm it's the best one yet but the best is the norm jack nick that's it i don't even think they need to practice 50 that's a fat tip t-boy city on your at list if you know you know because we're ready to go we can't wait no more so just start the show
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🏎️ “Bieber’s blacklisted” — Ferrari’s rules of ownership. Coca-Cola’s Fairlife milk. DOGE vs. CFPB.
Snap, snap, snap.
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🏎️ “Bieber’s blacklisted” — Ferrari’s rules of ownership. Coca-Cola’s Fairlife milk. DOGE vs. CFPB.
Jack and I will see you tomorrow.
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🏎️ “Bieber’s blacklisted” — Ferrari’s rules of ownership. Coca-Cola’s Fairlife milk. DOGE vs. CFPB.
Here we go.
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🏎️ “Bieber’s blacklisted” — Ferrari’s rules of ownership. Coca-Cola’s Fairlife milk. DOGE vs. CFPB.
Legal tender is a great name for a company. True.
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🏎️ “Bieber’s blacklisted” — Ferrari’s rules of ownership. Coca-Cola’s Fairlife milk. DOGE vs. CFPB.
Yeah. Tender meat. Yeah, legal tender.
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🏎️ “Bieber’s blacklisted” — Ferrari’s rules of ownership. Coca-Cola’s Fairlife milk. DOGE vs. CFPB.
Just click the link in our episode description, send it our way, and we'll get it on the pod.
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🏎️ “Bieber’s blacklisted” — Ferrari’s rules of ownership. Coca-Cola’s Fairlife milk. DOGE vs. CFPB.
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Yeah, we did.
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🏎️ “Bieber’s blacklisted” — Ferrari’s rules of ownership. Coca-Cola’s Fairlife milk. DOGE vs. CFPB.
No, no, more is more, Jack.
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🏎️ “Bieber’s blacklisted” — Ferrari’s rules of ownership. Coca-Cola’s Fairlife milk. DOGE vs. CFPB.
That's pretty cool.
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🏎️ “Bieber’s blacklisted” — Ferrari’s rules of ownership. Coca-Cola’s Fairlife milk. DOGE vs. CFPB.
Yeah, it must be nice.
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🏎️ “Bieber’s blacklisted” — Ferrari’s rules of ownership. Coca-Cola’s Fairlife milk. DOGE vs. CFPB.
Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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🍿 “1-click movie” — OpenAI’s Hollywood video. Hershey’s orphan school. Brian Chesky’s 1:1 meeting hate.
I would define reclaiming as to take back what was yours. Something you possess is lost or stolen and ultimately you triumph in finding it again. Listen to Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky wherever you get your podcasts.
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🍿 “1-click movie” — OpenAI’s Hollywood video. Hershey’s orphan school. Brian Chesky’s 1:1 meeting hate.
We're going to give it two thumbs up.
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🍿 “1-click movie” — OpenAI’s Hollywood video. Hershey’s orphan school. Brian Chesky’s 1:1 meeting hate.
Yeah, I wasn't right.
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🍿 “1-click movie” — OpenAI’s Hollywood video. Hershey’s orphan school. Brian Chesky’s 1:1 meeting hate.
Sure, we did.
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🐺 “Dire Wolf of Wall Street” — Colossal’s 1st de-extinction. ThredUp’s tariff win. Shopify’s mandatory AI.
I know.
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🐺 “Dire Wolf of Wall Street” — Colossal’s 1st de-extinction. ThredUp’s tariff win. Shopify’s mandatory AI.
Jack, let's hit our three stars. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go.
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🐺 “Dire Wolf of Wall Street” — Colossal’s 1st de-extinction. ThredUp’s tariff win. Shopify’s mandatory AI.
We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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🌹 “META goes MAGA”— Zuck’s fact-check switcheroo. Tiger’s viral golf league. Alcohol’s 1st warning label.
Like, if I'm watching the dancing and I'm noticing the feet aren't touching the ground, there's something wrong with the movie.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, ceviche Wednesday, May 7th. And today's pod is the best one yet, and this is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. T-boy live tickets on sale today. Today, baby. July 23rd at the Vic Theater in Chicago. Buy your tickets now using the link in the episode description. Yetis, go buy your tickets.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
Oh, if you're up in Boston, there's a new concept called boozy bookstores where they stay open late for books and beer. Sounds like it could be a great place to meet a single. I think I know why they're single at 9 p.m. at a bookstore. But hey, Jack, if it works, it works. Make the love happen, baby.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
Now, financially, having this like second business during the second part of the day, it's a way to maximize the rent that you have to pay no matter what. And strategically, the contrast of serving croissants by day and parties by night That does draw and intrigue a crowd. It's cool. It's a conversation starter.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
So, besties, Jack and I think that Le Pen Quotidien is actually on the cutting edge of something right now as part of their turnaround. The round the clock business opportunity. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for Savice Wednesday? Instacart launched a new app. DoorDash and Uber just acquired new companies abroad.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
Delivery apps, they're showing that we're in a vibe session all over again. For our second story, when one of China's econ figures turns negative, the report just disappears. China's data, it is man-made in China. Good news only. And our third and final story, several LPQ locations are letting runners clubs rave. After hours. Le pain quotidien at night, baby.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
Because there is a business opportunity around the clock. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, the real ID deadline is here, and it's actually today, May 7th. As of today, you need to make sure your ID is a real ID issued by the state in order to get through TSA and fly on an airplane.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
Otherwise, you may face extra security, or you may need your passport too if you've got your old ID, which is not a real ID, I guess technically a fake ID? I just checked my driver's license. It has a black star in the top right, and I guess that means it's a real ID. You're real. Yeah, we had 10 years to prepare for this, but we're definitely still not ready yet. Because we're Americans.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
And second, Skype is officially dead. As of yesterday, Skype has sadly left us. We did a pod on Skype earlier this year, how innovative this tech company was. Yeah, Skype pioneered growth hacks that every other tech startup totally knocked off. But don't try to go to Skype.com. Microsoft has folded it all into teams. And finally, the conclave to replace the Pope starts today.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
That's right, nerd sniping. The wildest hiring strategy that Jack and I have ever seen. And yeah, it is straight out of Good Will Hunting. Nerd sniping. Jack, could you please enlighten us onto what the heck this thing really is? One tech company was hiring for engineers, but the market for engineers in San Francisco is crazy tight right now.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
It is basically like the NFL draft, but for the leader of Catholicism. There are startups placing bets, by the way, on who will win and become the next Pope. The biggest question, will the Cardinal with the biggest social media following be the one selected to Pope? Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York has 300,000 followers on X. That could look in his favor. We'll see what number he goes as.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
Now time for the best fact yet. This one is about the Vic Theater in Chicago, Illinois. It's a historic theater that's been around for over 100 years. And guess who has performed there? Why don't you list the names, Jack? Ariana Grande, who's amazing and wicked, David Bowie, who's amazing in everything. Very impressive. Jim Gaffigan, stand-up comedian, one of my dad's favorites.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
And Nick and Jack of The Best One Yet are playing the Vic in July. The tickets are on sale right now. So we got a link in the episode description. If you buy a ticket today and tag us with a screenshot on Instagram... You'll be in the running for some free merch that we're going to send out to some fans. That's right.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
We're sending free T-Boy merch if you buy the ticket and are selected as the fan who shares it on social media. By the way, Nick and I give hugs to everyone who wants a hug after the show. Yeah, that's true. We'll stay there as long as we have to. Yeah, New York, we were literally on stage until midnight. The staff was furious, actually. I think we got fined. Yeah, we had to pay for that.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
But we're here for the Yetis, besties. We can't wait to see you at the live show in Chicago. Buy your tickets right now. Link in today's episode description. And Jack and I. And before we go, a happy birthday to legendary Yeti Kolebi over in Kuwait City, Kuwait. And happy birthday to Rowan Gardner in St. Louis, Missouri. And Albert Jacobissen over in California is having the best birthday yet.
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Happy birthday to Julie McNamara from La Grange, Illinois. This middle school algebra teacher would definitely ace those nerd snipe opportunities in San Francisco. Oh, yeah. You got to look out for those, Julie. Look out for them. And Jamie LaMotta and Adam Katzenbach are celebrating their one-year-and-engagement anniversary down in Los Angeles.
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A big shout-out to the Brooklyn Youth Charitable Investment Group, who's helping the youth with financial literacy. And also a shout-out to Citylax, the nonprofit that spreads lacrosse in public schools in New York. I volunteered for them for years. Incredible organization. They're hosting their fundraiser tonight.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
This is Jack. I own stock of Instacart and Timothy Dolan has no relation to the owner of the Rangers and the Knicks, James Dolan. Aren't you zero to 3% Turkish? 4% Jack, but yes. Do they send emails to anybody with a trace of Turkish blood in them? Because I didn't see this news. We've got a WhatsApp group going, Jack. We got a WhatsApp where we discuss this stuff.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
So she posted these math problems, knowing that math nerds in the city would not be able to resist them. That's the nerd sniping. Basically, if you solve this equation, you get an interview. So, like, if you look up on a street post, you'll see E equals MC... Square! Boom! You're hired. One sec, Jack. The square root of the parabolic limit is equal to... Does not exist.
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Get this guy a job. We got to get this guy on the team. Seriously, this was the idea. Solve the puzzle and you'll get a meeting directly with our CEO. And it was working. Basically the plot of Good Will Hunting. So if you ask someone, how'd you get your role at OpenAI? They may answer, I solved the trigonometry problem set on Lombard Street.
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That's how competitive the AI hiring market is right now. So besties, the next time you see advanced calculus at an intersection and you just can't look away. You're being sniped. Yeah. Nerd sniped. Channel your inner genius janitor. Do your best, Matt Damon Math. Hire this man, Jack.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
I would define reclaiming as to take back what was yours. Something you possess is lost or stolen, and ultimately you triumph in finding it again. Listen to Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky wherever you get your podcasts.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
This live show is the biggest event in Chicago since Oprah got drafted by the Bulls. Remember that? Yeah, I do remember that. It's our fourth live show and each one has been an absolute blast. Oh, a thousand seats. Yetis, grab the tickets now. They're out. Link in the episode description. But Jack, we got three fantastic stories for today's podcast. What do we got, man?
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
For our first story, DoorDash and Instacart just asked, um, what recession? By announcing record results and making huge delivery announcements. Economic chatter has been all gloom for the past six months. Yes, it has. But the delivery apps say otherwise. Yetis, if you've got friends in investment banking, reach out to them right now. It's been a tough few months.
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I have a couple friends in investment banking, and you're right, I should text them. You should check in on them. Jack, could you sprinkle on some context as to why? April 2025, the month we just finished, was the slowest month for M&A deals in 20 years. That's right, Yetis. More deals were happening during the pandemic and the 08 financial crisis than right now.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
We labeled this phenomenon last week on our podcast, The great capitalist freeze. Because it's basically like a corporate update ice age out there. Corporate America has been paralyzed by relentless volatility of the trade war and of tariffs. But, Jack, you know what they say, April showers bring May mergers. Good point. The first week of May is off to a much better start.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
Yeah, in fact, Jack and I noticed a theme here, and yet he's listened to see if you can tell what that theme, what that flavor is. First, Instacart, the delivery app, just launched a new app called Fizz. Fizz! It's basically a pure play party planning app. It's like Instacart meets Splitwise meets Venmo. Yeah. It's perfect for like a party with a bunch of different people all chipping in together.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
Basically, you're going to split the check on your backyard barbecue fiesta using this new party app. The whole group can buy snacks and drinks for a party together and share the costs in one group shopping cart. But Jack paused the pod for a sec. Because the same day as Instacart launched that new app, DoorDash, also a delivery app, had their biggest quarter of deliveries ever. That's right.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
DoorDash announced last week record high burrito demand. Jack is a big Pad Thai fan. Jack, didn't you have like record Pad Thai orders in the last three months? Probably, yeah. We had a kid, so it made sense that we were ordering delivery. But that's not all. DoorDash also announced two acquisitions. They're expanding to Europe by buying Deliveroo for $4 billion.
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🥐 “Baguette Bangers” — Le Pain Quiotidien’s disco. China’s disappearing data. DoorDash’s vibe-cession.
And they acquired Seven Rooms, which is a hotel and restaurant reservation platform. for another billion dollars. Wait, Jack, get this. A update live from the pod right now. What? Uber, the other delivery app, just acquired part of a Turkish delivery company over in Turkey. Wow. So after no corporate news except tariffs for all month.
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Yeah, three completely non-trade war corporate stories from three delivery apps. Jack, what is going on? Maybe these non-trade war stories actually do tell us something about the trade war. Maybe delivery ramen is recession resistant like you're getting at. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone curious about the economy? It's a vibe session all over again.
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So yetis, let's look at the numbers here. Our economy shrank in Q1. The U.S. dollar is down 10%. Stocks are still down 10% from their highs. And you just canceled your hair Botox nail appointment for the third time. All of those things sound very recession-y. But there's other data out there that shows economic resilience. Here's what we're thinking.
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What's the first thing you would stop doing if money was tight? What do you think, Jack? You'd stop doing DoorDash and Instacart, and you'd go get your own groceries. Stop paying all those fees. And yet, we just learned this week that the top delivery companies announced record revenue last quarter and big deals today. Oh, another sign of economic resilience?
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For our first story, Instacart just launched a new app and DoorDash just acquired two companies. Besties, are we in a recession? If you want to know the answer, open up your delivery apps. For our second story, there's a strange thing going on in China right now. All their economic data is disappearing. Jack, the GDP, where did it go? China's PR strategy in this trade war? Good news only.
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We added 177,000 jobs last month in America, and the unemployment rate's only 4.2%. So add it all up, and it reminds Jack and I a bit of the Biden-era vibe session. The vibes are very negative right now, even though the underlying economic data is pretty positive. Now, Yeti's only time will tell. If tariffs stay, we're probably headed for a recession.
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If the trade war ends tomorrow, which it could, there'd probably be no recession. But in the meantime, the delivery app data is a signal that the economy is doing okay. For our second story, there's been a ton of attention on how the trade war affects the U.S., but how is it affecting China? China just made all their economic data disappear, actually. Disappear.
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And we call it the good news only policy. Yeti's Trade War Almanac Day 35. How tariffs are messing with the economy. Jack and I have been keeping track for you from the tariff trenches. Today, we're focused on how tariffs are affecting China, actually. But to illustrate how hard it is to do that, we will just read this very simple, straightforward headline from the Wall Street Journal.
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China's official statistics are disappearing. That's right, Yetis. China is not publishing data if it tells a negative story about China. In President Xi's authoritarian government, it is good news only when it comes to data. That's right. China is not publishing data if that data tells a negative story. In President Xi's authoritarian government, it is good news only when it comes to data.
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So as China limps through the trade war, the data is disappearing like a Snapchat story. Nick, I'm going to sprinkle on some context. I would love for you to sprinkle on some context, Jack. China represents one-sixth of the world's population, but they manufacture a third of the world's products. That's right. One out of three of everything you touch is made in China.
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And with 145% tariffs, China's biggest customer, the United States, has pretty much gone cold turkey on made in China. So here's the situation. China is screwed. scrambling to find new customers to buy stuff Americans used to buy like two months ago. But the reality is there's no way they can do that. Their factories must be idle right now.
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At least millions of workers must be out of work in China just based on what is happening. China already had deflation, a problem since COVID, which is actually worse than inflation, we should point out. But now China is filled with extra products Americans are just not buying because of high prices.
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They probably have piles and warehouses full of strollers, staplers, and sandals that used to go to America, but just aren't anymore. But yetis, let's zoom back to America for a second. Our economy shrank in the first quarter. We publish real reliable data, whether it is good or bad.
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So you must be thinking, after everything that we just said, China's economy probably shrank as well over the last quarter. Nope. Nope. Or at least not according to official Chinese data. Yeah. Which shows that their economy actually grew 5.4% in the first quarter. Honestly, Jack and I just don't totally believe that. We don't believe that number.
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We think that's probably China's good news only policy talking. It looks like China gave their numbers a little bit of a Botox, Photoshop, touch-up makeover, if you know what we mean. Sprinkle a grain of salt on that data. Hopefully President Xi doesn't make our podcast numbers disappear as well now, Jack. It's a legitimate risk. It is, it is.
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So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over in China? China's data is man-made in China. Yetis, this Wall Street Journal story, it was wild. Because it turns out, time after time after time, as data turns negative in China, they simply end it. They simply stop publishing it. They disappear it. For example, in 2021, during the pandemic, China stopped publishing data on soy sauce production.
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Want to know why they did that? Well, because if you knew the soy sauce consumption numbers, you could probably infer how well China's economy is actually doing. And it wasn't doing well. So they stopped publishing that report. Then in 2022, China stopped publishing data on cremations. And why is that, Jack? Because China had just ended their zero COVID policy.
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Good vibes only. And our third and final story, Le Pancotidien. How did I pronounce that, man? I perfectly stuck the landing. That bakery chain is hosting nightclub dance raves? Yetis, we'll tell you why LPQ is pulling off a discotheque strategy in the bakery. But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories... Oh, what a mix of stories. Wait, pause the pod. Buy your Chicago tickets, Yetis.
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They didn't want the world to see a spike in the number of deaths. In fact, Yetis, one former Chinese premier, told the U.S. ambassador that their GDP data was, quote unquote, made up for reference only. Now, in the short term, China's data manipulation is a strength in this trade war. Because the public doesn't know the real story about how their country is actually suffering right now.
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But long term, China's unreliable data is a major weakness for innovation and for investing. Because China's economic data can just disappear. It's man-made in China. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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For our third and final story, Le Pain Quotidien, the bakery chain, has turned into a secret party club for raving? It's all part of LPQs. Yeah, I'm calling it LPQs. Yeah, I know you need to. It's all part of their stealthy turnaround plan. We'll tell you what the heck is going on over there. Another way Jack and I find stories, we search for brands on TikTok to see what they're up to.
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And sometimes they're up to some new weird stuff. This week we noticed 50 people dancing hardcore in a club on the TikTok account of a brand. Yes, and the DJ was spinning beats at the center of that club. David Guetta, Madonna remixes. Was that a Tiesto banger they just played? I think it was, Jack. But a strange twist we noticed when the beat dropped. The chairs were wood.
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The backup dancers were wearing aprons. Is that flour wafting in the room? That's right. Everyone was tossing bread around this nightclub. Because this wasn't a nightclub. They were dancing rave style at an LPQ bakery. That's right. LPQ, Le Pain Quotidien, turned itself into a sourdough discotheca. They didn't offer bottle service. They offered brioche service.
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I saw two people grinding up on a croissant. I don't know. Maybe it was a baguette. I can't be sure. But could you please sprinkle on some context to what the heck is going on? Le Pain Quotidien shouldn't be hosting raves. They're a bakery chain. That's right. They offer coffees and sandwiches. There used to be one in Lower Manhattan where I used to work at the bank.
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I used to go to the one on 9th Street, Jack. I'd go there because they had nice toast. So we dove in T-boy style to figure out what's going on with these raves. There were no articles on LPQ right now, but we did notice that LPQ is going through a corporate turnaround.
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First of all, the name is French for The Daily Bread, and it was founded 30 years ago in Belgium, and now they're in 260 locations, including in a bunch of American cities. But they may have spread too thin because during the pandemic, you weren't meeting up for bread basket brunches with your buddy Timmy. So what happened to LPQ, Jack? They went into bankruptcy.
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But now, fresh out of bankruptcy, their new strategy is to give each local franchisee more control. We noticed that actually 80% of Le Pen quotidien locations are not owned by the company. They're owned by the franchisees. And corporate is encouraging those franchisees. to run a more independent business.
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We'll wait. Okay, Jack, we're good to go. If you're walking around San Francisco, you might notice something strange. Because besties on lampposts throughout the city are a bunch of math questions. More specifically, math puzzles that are really hard to crack. Somebody is posting advanced math equations all around the town. And it's actually part of a new trend called nerd sniping.
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For example, LPQ created an artificial intelligence to help chefs optimize their menus for local tastes. Basically add more cream cheese to the Philadelphia location because we know what the Philly fans want. Or another LPQ manager over in France kept the store open late so that run clubs could come and enjoy the bread. No other location does that.
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Although those raves we mentioned at the beginning, those appear mostly in Belgium LPQs. But these post-run raves for runners clubs seem to be happening over there and they could come over here as well. Which would turn LPQ into the hottest club outside of the Roxbury. Dropping baguette bangers.
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So besties, Jack and I got to ask, why is the LPQ bakery running raves with DJs Glowsticks and Pumpernickel? Well, it's not just the stealthy turnaround strategy. It's our takeaway. Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Le Pain Quotidien? There's a big business opportunity around the clock, literally. So yetis, some LPQs are bakeries by day, party by night.
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But that's actually part of a broader trend. More retail businesses are optimizing their space for the full 24 hours in a day. Over in Brooklyn, for example, the Journal found three laundromats by day that host concerts by night. One laundromat called Sunshine has a secret door in the back to get you into the party area.
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Let's end our three stories. Let's end our three stories. 15 years before this song Two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm They had an idea to cause a cultural storm It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm Jack Nick
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, ceviche Wednesday, February 5th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. Nick and I are whipping up the top three pop business news stories you need to know today. And Jack, I have my second piano lesson later this afternoon after the recording today. I'm ready to go. It's your New Year's resolution to learn how to play the piano.
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Well, like we said, Jack, there are some things one needs to physically survive. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies doing No Buy 2025? If you're not ready for No Buy 2025, try out the seven-day delay. The seven-day delay. Yetis, one of the best ways to decide if you should buy something or not buy something is simply to wait.
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Carnegie Mellon University calls this the cooling effect, and studies show it works. Here's basically the concept. The most regretted purchases are impulse purchases that are unplanned, but the sudden urge to splurge so you regret it. To test whether you should actually buy that thing, make a note of that thing and then revisit the note seven days later.
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Yeah, like the five players on the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line, they are the tallest and heaviest in Super Bowl history. The tallest and heaviest. Get this, Yetis. The starting 5-0 linemen that protect the Eagles quarterback, they average 6'6", 338 pounds. Jack, could you whip up the math over there for us, please? That is 2,028 total pounds of human beef just in those five players.
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There's a great technique one woman mentioned in the Wall Street Journal. She takes a photo of a product she wants and puts the photo in a folder and then opens that folder after one week. If over the course of that one week, she thought about that item, then she should buy it. She really does want it. If she didn't think about the item, then forget about it. You don't need that thing.
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Delete the photo and forget about it. So besties, this seven-day delay, it creates a helpful threshold for regrettable impulse purchases. You may or may not try No Buy 2025, but you could still try the seven-day delay. I like the way you said it, Jacket. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for Suffice Wednesday?
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Chick-fil-A's drive-thru is so efficient, they can serve one car every 13 seconds. They got military precision. Because Chick-fil-A identified the bottleneck, fixed the bottleneck, and opened a bottle of champagne. For our second story, Spotify just announced record profits, record users, and a record stock price. Because just like the 97 Spice Girls, Spotify found their monopoly.
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So now they're calling the shots. And our third and final story. No Buy 2025 is akin to dry January. Instead of no alcohol, it's no shopping. And if you're not ready to go cold turkey on spending, we like the seven-day delay. I should have waited seven days before buying those Air Force Ones. No, they're going to look interesting. They're going to look interesting.
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Honestly, I've been thinking about them every day. So they would have passed the seven-day delay test. Whatever you got to do to justify that purchase, Jack. But yet, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, Walmart just bought a shopping mall. Walmart acquired the Monroeville Mall just east of Pittsburgh.
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Walmart paid $34 million to acquire this mall, which is still in business as a mall. So the tenants still include department stores like Macy's and American Eagle and Cinemark Movie Theater. Walmart owns them now. It's not clear what Walmart plans to do with this 186-acre property. Add a podcast studio.
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And second, on Monday, President Trump wrote an executive order to create America's first sovereign wealth fund. Other countries have this. Norway has the biggest sovereign wealth fund, and Saudi Arabia has a huge wealth fund as well. Now, one big problem here is that unlike Norway and Saudi Arabia, America is massively in debt.
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So we'll see if Congress approves a taxpayer-funded Robinhood account for the White House. And finally, Apple just made a surprise, shocking product launch. They just announced Apple Invites. You know the startup Partiful, which lets you text people invitations to a party really conveniently? Well, Apple's zucking that idea.
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Yeah, basically, if you're planning a party, you can now send an invite to anyone in your phone contacts using Apple Invites. So next time you're invited to a bachelorette party, it might just be an iMessage from Mary. Now time for the best fact yet. This one sent in by Scott Schiller from lovely Vancouver Canucks, British Columbia. Up in Canada, eh? Yeah.
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No, we did a story on Monday about how Yahoo.com email addresses are becoming cool again. Before that story, Jack, if someone emailed me from a Yahoo email address, I assumed they were trying to kill me. But yetis, have you ever wondered why Yahoo has purple branding? Yeah, like, is it branding genius? Is there deep psychology? Why is Yahoo purple, Jack?
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It's because that was the cheapest color of paint. Basically, Yahoo's team, when they opened their first office, bought paint for the headquarters in California, and the cheapest paint they found dried up into the color lavender. So they decided, yeah, let's just make that our color. Yeah. It was Sherwin-Williams' decision, not Yahoo's.
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And honestly, it's become one of the most differentiated colors in all of tech. Yetis, you look fantastic today, especially if you find the time this evening to sit down on a couch and buy custom gold-plated sneakers. I didn't say gold-plated.
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There is gold in that. I know where your mind's thinking, Jack. After this show, Yetis, go check out our weekly show, The Best Idea Yet, because we've got a fantastic deep dive interview on the game Monopoly. We've got a link in the episode description. And Nick and I will see you tomorrow. If you know... pass go, you know.
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And before we go, a happy big 4-0 birthday to Yvonne Laura celebrating down in the capital of D.C. And happy birthday to Lindsay Mert in San Diego, California. And Nina Beltran's turning 14 years old in the Hague of the Netherlands. Future veterinarian right there. She will fix and help any pet.
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Okay, Jack, that's not just a ton of dudes. That is literally a ton of dudes mathematically. Each of those eagles is one inch and 26 pounds more than the Kansas City Chiefs offensive linemen. In fact, Jack and I jumped in T-boy style. The Eagles offensive line weighs as much as a hippo, as a great white shark, as four ponies on a scale.
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And a big thank you to April Spagnuolo, who gave us a yak sweater recommendation that I assume Nick is going to act on. Testing out some samples. We'll get back to you shortly, Jack. Make sure they match with Air Force Ones. Besties, if you want to get a birthday shout out or if you want to give a buddy a shout out, click the link in our episode description or go to tboypod.com slash shout outs.
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This is Jack. I own stock of Amazon. Nick owns stock of Shake Shack. And we both own stock of Apple, Spotify, and Robinhood.
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Can you imagine if a fully grown hippopotamus was replaced for an offensive line? Honestly, I'd rather be with the hippo than have five of these guys staring down at me, Jack. The biggest one of these guys is actually six foot eight, 365 pounds. Oh my Lord. He's actually three times the body mass of Simone Biles, the gymnast.
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This one Eagles offensive lineman weighs the same as a Harley Davidson motorcycle. By the way, that one dude, he's actually an Australian rugby player. But Philadelphia converted him to play American football. Now, economically speaking, this Eagles offensive line is also the best financial investment in sports.
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Because they got the Eagles into the Super Bowl, and yet not one of them is in the 10 top highest paid linemen. So, Yetis, when you're watching the Super Bowl this weekend, you cannot miss these five football players. No, no, no. You can't miss them. No. They're taking up half the screen. Yeah. They're not eagles. They're ostriches. Jack, let's hit our three stories.
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Although I've seen you play, you're already pretty good. That That's so nice of you, Jack. I forgot my C chords. I got to work on it. In the meantime, my goal is to play you a Beatles song by the end of the year. How romantic. I'm going to serenade you on this show. But Jack, three stories for today's tea boy. What do we got on the pod?
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For our first story, drones, roaming waiters, and watching game tape, Chick-fil-A has created the most profitable drive-thru in America inspired by the military. And by solving one problem that every business faces. Yeah, it is. At the beginning of the pot, Jack and I mentioned that a record amount of chicken is going to be consumed this Super Bowl weekend.
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Good news for Chick-fil-A, which is the most lucrative fast food chain on a per-store basis, despite being closed every Sunday. Not too shabby. But the greatest success at Chick-fil-A isn't their special sauce, their breakfast biscuits, or the marketing with the cows, which is a little confusing, but it still kind of works. It is... the drive-through.
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For the third straight year, Chick-fil-A boasts the fastest drive-through in American fast food. During peak hours, they deliver food to one car every 13 seconds. Are the cars even stopping? That's four cars a minute. I mean, they must have multiple lanes or something. I assume they feed you the chicken while you're driving through with the window down.
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But the real surprise for us wasn't just the speed. It's that this drive-thru is a profit puppy. Over at McDonald's and Shake Shack and the rest of the fast food industry, 43% of sales on average are drive-thru sales. But at Chick-fil-A, 60% of their business is actually drive-thru. So a majority of Chick-fil-A is car-based. It's not a restaurant. It's a parking lot delivering poultry.
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Oh, and Jack, did you notice that their new Chick-fil-A location in Atlanta doesn't even have a driving room? It's just four drive-thru lanes. That's it. We covered this on the pod. They prepare the food upstairs and then send it down to the four drive-thru lanes. They're serving one car every five seconds. Why did the chicken cross the road, Jack? Why? Because it's about to get eaten.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
It's a Chick-fil-A drive-thru. These guys are more efficient and quicker than a pit crew at the Indy 500. It's a highway serving chicken. But Jack, what's the wildest part about this Chick-fil-A drive-thru story? That Chick-fil-A's drive-thru is inspired by the military. Follow us on this one, besties. So with so much drive-thru popularity, Chick-fil-A was actually causing major traffic issues.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
For our first story, the reason Chick-fil-A is the most successful fast food chain in America is its drive-thru. Chick-fil-A teaches us how to turn a bottleneck into a bottle of champagne. For our second story, Spotify stock surged 11% to an all-time high after reporting its first ever full year of profits. But Spotify is worth $100 billion because Spotify got a musical monopoly.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
So in the past, Chick-fil-A managers would climb onto the rooftop of their restaurant to watch the traffic like a sniper with binoculars. Basically, they would prep the chicken based on the number of cars they'd count on I-95. But then Chick-fil-A created a traffic analysis team with drones like the Air Force. And this team would capture aerial footage to prepare for the drive-thru lunch rush.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
They even renamed one part of the kitchen the cockpit with a manager watching game tape of live drone footage. And when demand gets too high, they send the waiters into the drive-thru lanes to take orders by hand, like walking on foot. And what does that remind you of, Jack? The infantry.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
Actually, Nick, all drive-thru orders today are taken by Chick-fil-A waiters holding iPads, braving the hot or the cold in the outdoors. And they happen to be wearing military-grade uniforms, according to the Wall Street Journal. Yes, sir. Agreed, sir. Chick-fil-A isn't operating like a food business. They're operating like the seventh branch of the U.S. military. Yeah, Chick-fil-A's drive-thru.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
It's like the CIA, but run by Bill Belichick. And all of that military precision is how they broke the bottleneck problem. Ah, the bottleneck. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Chick-fil-A? Every industry faces bottlenecks, but every bottleneck can become champagne.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
Yeti's Chick-fil-A's drive-thru revolution started 20 years ago when drive-thru was actually just half of the business it is today. Back then, Chick-fil-A's drive-thru was limited by the number of fryers they had in each restaurant. So the fryers were the bottleneck. They couldn't serve more drive-thru because they didn't have enough chicken fryers.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
That's when they made a massive four-year renovation. They added more fryers to all Chick-fil-A locations. Now, let's think about the strategy here. Chick-fil-A could have hired more people or they could have added more drive-thru windows, but neither of those options would have solved the core problem.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
The bottleneck that capped the store sales potential wasn't the number of people or the number of drive-thru windows. It was the number of fryers needed to fry the chicken. Jack, it's like we learned in business school. In our business school operations classes, we'd look at a business and we'd identify a bottleneck and then we'd solve it by adding resources to that bottleneck.
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Solving a bottleneck is key to unlocking revenue growth. And when you do, it's time to celebrate. That's why we like to say that when you see bottlenecks, what you really can see are bottles of champagne. For our second story, Spotify just announced that one out of 12 humans on earth are now Spotify users. Here's how Spotify became a $100 billion company. They outlasted the competition.
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But Yeti is, who is Spotify's biggest competitor? Like, we were wondering that before the show, and honestly, you're probably scratching your head too. Who is it, Jack? First thing that comes to mind is Apple Music. Sure, Jack, but Apple Music doesn't have podcasts. Apple, you know, they separated their audio into three different apps. All right, how about Amazon Music?
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Well, Amazon Music doesn't report numbers, but its estimated user base is 80 million, which is one-eighth as big as Spotify. YouTube? Okay, YouTube, their music app, it has 100 million premium subscribers, but most of them are overseas, not in America. You also got SiriusXM, Pandora, and Tidal. Yeah, yeah. But Jack, those aren't serious streaming options.
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Those are like the Hanson brothers of music right there. I'm sorry. It's kind of one hit wonders. Here's the news. Spotify has 675 million monthly users. Not too shabby. That's one out of every 12 human beings on earth listens to Spotify every month. Add it all up and it led Jack and I to this observation. Spotify does not have competition. Spotify and Jack...
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maybe this is just my recent piano lessons talking, is like the Spice Girls from 94 to 97. There were just no other girl bands. But what's the best way to test the theory that Spotify has no competition? What is it, Jack? By raising prices and seeing what happens. Get this, Yetis. In 2023, Spotify raised prices for the first time in a decade. And guess what? They didn't lose subscribers.
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And our third and final story is the new spending trend of the year. It's going viral online. try to buy nothing buy nothing like you don't buy anything it's called no buy 2025 and after one month if you haven't bought anything we're impressed so the new spending trend is not spending anything and guess what one out of five of you are trying it this year
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They actually gained subscribers. In 2024, they raised prices again. They didn't lose subscribers. They gained subscribers again. Well, guess what? Spotify just jacked up subscription prices 20% in the last two years. And what happened, Jack? They grew the number of paid subscribers by 28%. Why is Spotify growing despite raising prices? Like we said, there's no real competition for Spotify.
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And just yesterday, Spotify stock jumped 11% to a new all-time high on a huge earnings beat. Those price hikes helped Spotify flip from a loss in 2023 to a huge profit in 2024. The stock in those two years, it's up almost 10x from 75 bucks a share to 600 bucks a share. Spotify is now a $100 billion company because it found its monopoly. Its monopoly on music.
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Actually, its monopoly on all of audio in one app. Basically Spice Girls after they dropped Wannabe. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Spotify? When you find your monopoly, you can call the shots. Yetis, our best career advice to people, it's to find your monopoly. Figure out the particular set of skills and circumstances that you bring to the table that nobody else can.
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Spotify found its monopoly. It did. It's the only global audio app with music, podcasts, and audiobooks. And knowing that changed the company. Here's how. Two years ago, Spotify was afraid to raise prices. Instead, they spent huge money on marketing to try to get in front of you. Remember Spotify became the jersey sponsor of Barcelona Soccer Club?
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They paid a huge amount of money to promote their brand globally like that. But then interestingly, Spotify reversed that strategy. They cut their marketing budget and raised prices. And what was the result, Jack? They've grown 10% every quarter in the last two years. Honestly, if Spotify were like an employee human being, this would be like demanding higher pay, but working fewer hours.
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And it's kind of awesome. Kind of awesome if you can pull that off. So besties, when you find your monopoly as an employee or as a business, you can call the shots. Spotify found theirs and you can see it in their record stock price. Now a quick word from our sponsor.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories. Wild mix today. The biggest part of the Super Bowl this Sunday is not the chicken wings. Although a record 2 billion wings will be eaten this year. And it's not the TV commercials either. Although a record $8 million was spent per 30 seconds. The biggest part of this year's Super Bowl is the offensive linemen.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
For our third and final story, the newest shopping trend to hit the economy, zero shopping. It's called No Buy 2025 and it hit an all-time high. It's a challenge to buy nothing for the whole year and a record number of Americans are going for it. Now, yetis, you probably just finished dry January with health from alcohol for 31 days. So, you know, take it easy in this first week of February.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
Well, here's a new sobering trend. No buy 2025, which is buy as little new stuff as possible this year. As in no new Stanley mugs, no new Q-tops, no more Manny Pettys. Hey, honey, pause the Amazon Prime because we're going cold turkey. It's a no buy boom. Get this, besties. According to the fintech startup Chime, one out of five Americans tried a no spend challenge last year.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
According to Google, searches for no buy challenges are up 40% from last year to an all-time high. Basically, a record number of Americans are buying nothing new. Now, we should clarify the rules. Yes, we should, Jack. You need to buy some stuff to physically survive. Yes. And you may need to pay for Netflix to socially survive too. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But still, the concept is clear.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
Only buy essentials. Spend less, if not nothing. Buy nothing new if you can. It's basically a personal challenge. How long can you go without adding baggy daddy jeans to your wardrobe? When you open up Instagram, the ads are going to tempt you to buy stuff. They're going to get you. The challenge is to resist those temptations and just live with what you have. The sirens.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
Now, why are people trying this out, Nick? It's partly about financial literacy and conscious consumerism. But the reason it has surged so much is mainly that it's a reaction to inflation. For two years, we had higher and rising prices. We have more debt than we've ever had before. And interest payments are higher than they've been in our entire lives. Again, egg prices are at an all-time high.
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You broke into your 401k to buy an omelet. Plus, over the holidays, you spent 75 bucks on that white elephant sweatshirt, and the person didn't even want it. No, they didn't. But what Jack and I found the most fascinating here is that the no-buy trend goes across the income spectrum. Economic uncertainty is at an all-time high right now. And that's true whether you're rich or you're poor.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
Grocery prices are up 28% in the last five years. And that's true at both Aldi and at Erewhon. Now, we should point out, we haven't heard any public companies mention No Buy 2025 in their earnings reports yet. Yet. But remember, dry January, that started off too, right, Jack? It was pretty small at first. But now it causes a 15% to 20% drop in alcohol sales every January.
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🙈 “1 year without shopping” — The No-Buy-2025 trend. Chick-fil-A’s champagne drive-thru. Spotify’s Spice Girls monopoly.
Full disclosure, by the way, Yetis, Jack and I are not participating in No Buy 2025. We've already done a little shoppy shoppy. Last week, I did something uncharacteristic. What did you do, Jack? Late night, I was swiping on my phone. Okay. I ended up buying customized Air Force One sneakers for myself. Super random, but I'm very excited for them to arrive.
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😼 “New car, who dis?” — Jaguar’s rebrand controversy. The Manly Nurse Surge. Bravo’s real estate app.
Jack, let's hit our three stars. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we're ready to go.
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😼 “New car, who dis?” — Jaguar’s rebrand controversy. The Manly Nurse Surge. Bravo’s real estate app.
We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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You know, Greg's in medicine, too, Larry. Oh, really? What feeling? Nursing. That's good. No, really. What feeling? Nursing.
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👶 “End the $1K Baby Tax” — Tariffs crush strollers. Star Wars’ epic re-release. UNC’s D1 ath-fluencer class.
Let's do it. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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🐳 “AI’s Goodwill Hunting moment” — China’s DeepSeek Drama. Coke vs Pepsi vs Costco. Unlimited PTO Paradox.
Unlimited.
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It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to get other people to do it.
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👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Tuesday, T-Boy, Tuesday, May 27th. And today's pod is the best one yet, and this is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. I mean, Jack, what's the opposite of bon voyage? Because I'm back, baby. You're back from France. How was your trip, man? Actually, Jack, I got two other words for you.
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The job to be done theory explains all of this. Yeti's Harvard Business School professor, Clay Christensen, came up with the concept that every product is for a job to be done. In other words, people don't buy products, they hire products to do a specific job. Think about it like this. I need to get A to B, so I hire Uber. I need to feel confident in the gym, so I hire Lululemon.
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👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
I need to stop my skin from aging, I'm hiring this crazy face mask I'll wear every night. Basically, we don't care how they look when we're sleeping in bed. Nobody's watching. We just need this job to be done. The job to be done is a reminder that customers focus on the outcomes. They hire a product for their function.
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👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
So besties, it's the job to be done theory that explains why you'll look like a monster for beauty. The job to be done is look beautiful. Doesn't matter if you look like a monster at night. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the four-day work week?
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Stitch from Lilo and Stitch is the top merchandised character of all of Disney right now because everyone wants to see themselves in the mirror, mirror on the wall. For our second story, the House passed Trump's big, beautiful bill, which would add an additional $4 trillion to our debt. This summer, it's got big debt energy. We're calling it hot debt. debt summer.
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And our third and final story, monstering at night to look beautiful during the day. It's the trend pioneered by Skinny Confidential. And the jobs to be done framework explains how you don't buy products, you hire products. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First wild update from Klarna.
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replacing their CEO too. We told you, they're trying to rebrand from buy now, pay later to an AI company. And second, the hottest ticket in town this week is next to Timothée Chalamet over at MSG, baby. Because the Knicks are in the Eastern Conference Finals. And if you want to sit next to Timothée Chalamet courtside, 60 grand is the ticket.
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The Knicks haven't gone this far in the playoffs since I was in first grade in the late 90s, go New York, go New York, go. And for the third time in a row, the Knicks are in the Eastern Conference Playoffs against the Pacers. And finally, we have more details on the OpenAI Johnny Ive AI gadget coming next year. All right.
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It's reportedly going to be pocket-sized, contextually aware, screen-free, and not eyewear. Yeah, it's according to a leak to the Wall Street Journal. Now, what does contextually aware mean, Jack? I think it's going to mean that it's listening to everything you're doing. So when you ask it a question, you don't have to provide context. It's already on the same page. It's right there with you.
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Oh yeah, a meeting over three hours is legally a corporate retreat. Better have a private chef attending that meeting with like full three catered meals. I'm out of there after 45 minutes, Jack. But back to our story. In these meetings, Spotify has banned later and offline from being said. So you may not say, we'll figure that out later. And you can't say, let's take it offline.
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Also, no screen. Do you think this means hologram? Are we looking at a Star Wars hologram? It's either going to be voice only, like a really, really good Siri, or maybe it has a projector on your hand, or it could be a hologram. Our money's on Princess Leia holograms. Now time for the best fact yet, and because it is T-Boy Tuesday, it is TBIY trivia on Heinz ketchup.
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It's officially summer, so you probably poured some ketchup onto a burger last weekend. Actually, 100% sure that ketchup was Heinz ketchup. But do you know why Heinz has the number 57 on the bottle? Hint, it's not the 57th variety of ketchup or of any Heinz product. So why do they call it number 57 on every Heinz product?
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Wow, we just did a whole deep dive episode in the best idea yet on Heinz, and we'll tell you the answer on this show tomorrow. Yetis, you look fantastic over there. Jack, I'm so glad we circled back to the takeaways at the very end, you know? Are we going offline? No, we kept things online. Spotify's not going to spank us. No, they're not going to spank us. That's good. That's good.
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Yetis, you look fantastic. Remember to drop down and give us five stars and a review. That helps us grow the show. Do it right now so you don't have any follow-ups. Yeah, perfect. And then later, you can HYHTBY. Nick and I will see you tomorrow. Can't wait. And before we go, a shout out to Saurav Bunia from Chicago doing logistics, who's joining McKinsey in San Francisco after graduating.
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Congrats, Saurav. And happy birthday to Adam Ross in Seattle, a brand new T-Boy fan. Also, additional shout out, Saurav used a T-Boy story as a case prep for their interviews for McKinsey. Pretty awesome. And finally, a big shout out to Saver Travels. My travel agent actually hooked me up with that epic Paris Google Maps pinning situation. Oh, that Google Maps Paris map was incredible.
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Saver Travels, thanks for whipping that up for Jack. And now for me. And if you want a shout out on this show, we got a link in the episode description. Fill it out and we'll get you on the pod. This is Jack. I own stock in Birkenstock and Disney. And Nick and I both own stock in Spotify and Apple.
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Because you're in the meeting now, so why figure it out later? And you're already online, so why go offline? They call this real-time resolution. And we call this an idea we love. Because raise your hand if you're overwhelmed with follow-up tasks right now. Y'all got the FUF, the follow-up fatigue. I have like four notes on my iPhone that are just various types of to-do lists.
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I actually have a note about your notes, but we'll circle back on that, Jack. So Yetis, if you do try to circle back today, or if you try to put a pin on that subject, or if you try to tackle the low-hanging fruit first and then take care of the other action items by EOD, well, Spotify will spank you. True story. Or Daniel Ek will hit you with a Swedish fish. Yetis, we are all online now.
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So Jack, let's hit our three stories right now.
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15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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Merci beaucoup for the Google Maps you sent me of your Paris recommendations.
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For our first story, the summer movie season just began this weekend. But one franchise is shockingly winning it all. Not Mission Impossible. Lilo and Stitch. Yeah. It's stealthily become Disney's surprise profit puppy. Simba. Moana. Elsa. No, thank ya. We want the blue surfing alien from Hawaii.
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That would be Stitch for the uninitiated, an adorably destructive alien pet who lands on the islands of Hawaii in a Disney movie. Stitch befriends a girl named Lilo. Together, they surf, they laugh, they cuddle, they bond. Stitch kind of looks like a mischievous rodent French bulldog, if you will. Yeah, he does. Kind of like a Pokemon, too. Now, the first Lilo and Stitch movie was way back in 2002.
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Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody knows I went on a Paris trip last year, right? Yeah, we heard it in multiple episodes. Well, I shared with Nick all the Google Maps pins of the best spots in Paris. You're like a digital rat tattooey. It was so helpful. More for that on another pod. In the meantime, Jack, three fantastic stories for today's show. What do we got on the T-Boys?
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But Lilo and Stitch is making Disney rich today. Get this. Stitch merch sales are up 10x in the last five years to $2.6 billion. It's now Disney's top toy. Stitch! Jack, could you sprinkle on some context, please? Lilo and Stitch's merch sales for Disney is bigger than Birkenstock? Allbirds and Glossier sales combined. Are you kidding me? I'm not kidding you, Jack. I mean, we dove in T-boy style.
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👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
Lilo and Stitch has the highest number of merch collapse of any Disney character right now. PetSmart sells a Lilo and Stitch dog pool with a built-in canopy, and I just bought it. Graceland, the estate of Elvis Presley, sells an entire Stitch collection. Because apparently this little blue alien loves Elvis music. In the last Disney earnings call, they mentioned Stitch six different times, Jack.
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Apparently Mickey's getting jealous. That's more than Mufasa. Someone's getting sued. But besties, here's what Jack and I found fascinating about this story. Stitch is now Disney's top IP winner. But there's a plot twist. The first Lilo and Stitch movie was a financial disaster. That's right. The original Stitch movie, 23 years ago, got just $273 million worldwide.
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At the box office, those aren't adorable numbers. No, no, no, no. Hollywood's not liking that at all. Yeah, we'll sprinkle on a little more context to this movie story as well. Frozen, Zootopia, Beauty and the Beast, they all brought in over a billion dollars at the box office. Lilo and Stitch barely covered their budget. This is what's so shocking.
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Like, we cannot emphasize enough how wrong Disney was about Stitch. Back to the toys. Disney predicted Lilo and Stitch toy buyers would be 7 to 12 years old. And they were totally wrong. 40% of fans... That's right. 30-year-old millennial Millie is living the Stitch lifestyle with a Stitch handbag, a Stitch pajamas, and probably the six Stitch stings that Jack just put in his shopping cart.
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Which brings us to the news. Over the weekend, the live-action remake of Lilo and Stitch pulled off a Mission Impossible. Because this new movie did an estimated $120 million to $150 million in box office sales. Which would beat Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible, which just did their last movie. Stitch is more athletic than Tom Cruise. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Disney?
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Everyone wants to see themselves in the mirror mirror on the wall. Yetis, another reason this Stitch surge is such a surprise, Stitch is anti-Disney. Disney built its IP archive on blue-blooded characters. We're talking old money, traditional. They got mansions full of books. It's aspirational. From Snow White to Simba to Yoda, these are elites.
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But Stitch is a troublemaker who probably will break your washing machine and total your car. But interestingly, Stitch is also a blank slate, nationless, raceless, ageless. I think he's a boy alien, but they never officially clarify in the movie. No, they don't, Jack. Stitch is not quite a hero, but Stitch is also not quite a villain.
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In fact, add it all up, and this sounds like the most human Disney character of all. This alien. is so human. And that key detail explains why Stitch has become Disney's top selling merch. It's the relatability of Stitch. He's a hot mess, not a hot princess. And right now, that relatability over aspiration is winning.
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👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
For our first story, the surprise movie winner of the summer, it may be Lilo and Stitch. Because Stitch, a blue alien surfer stuffed animal thingy, has stealthily become Disney's top selling character. For our second story, the House of Representatives passed President Trump's big, beautiful bill last week. So Jack and I are calling it now. This summer is going to have big debt energy.
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For our second story, the US House just passed Trump's big, beautiful bill on Thursday. If the Senate passes this and it becomes law, then prepare for big debt energy. Yet he's in an absolute nail-biter. Republicans passed a massive budget bill at 6 a.m. after an all-nighter. The score was 215 to 214. That's the scoreboard. Every Democrat voted against it. All but three Republicans voted for it.
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And this is called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. And it includes all the policies that Trump campaigned on. If this 1,000-page bill passes the Senate and becomes law... it will add $4 trillion to America's debt. Now, we should point out, Eddie, $4 trillion could buy you every publicly traded company in Germany. I think you could buy every publicly traded company in Germany and France.
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Also, with $4 trillion, you could make 8 million Avengers movies. That is insane. There are literally not enough plot lines for that. Hey, yetis, for $4 trillion, we should point out, you could buy every public company in Germany.
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Yeah. For $4 trillion, you could make 11,000 more Avengers movies. Superman would be exhausted, but you could make 11,000 of those movies for this kind of money. So what are we actually going to spend $4 trillion on with this bill? Well, Jack, I got the receipts right here. First, we are spending more on the military and border security by a combined $200 billion with a B dollars.
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We would also increase the state and local taxes deduction from $10,000 to $40,000, which would be big for people who live in high-tax states. And there's the most viral part about this bill, which is the end of the tax on tips. This bill also would end taxes on overtime income, and end taxes on car loan interest payments, although all those will end in 2028.
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But the big one is that this bill extends Trump's 2017 tax cuts, which were due to expire this year. Now, the extension of Trump's 2017 tax cuts, which benefited corporations and wealthy people the most, cost more than the rest of the bill combined. This is the huge line item. So the total cost of the big, beautiful bill is $5 trillion,
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but it's offset by $1 trillion in savings, which means add it all up, carry the one out of the three. This is a $4 trillion bill. Some of the savings are the repeals of clean energy policies passed during the Biden administration. And it's also going to require states to create work requirements for low-income people to receive Medicaid. But overall...
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This is a wholesale Trumpification of the U.S. economy. But Jack, before we go, let's go back to that $4 trillion price tag for a second. How many zeros is that? It's a bunch of Avengers movies worth of zeros, Jack. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone in the American economy? This summer, we're going to have big debt energy.
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Yetis, this is the first time in a while investors are talking a lot about American debt levels. Not just investors. At a coffee shop, we weren't talking about the weekend concert you just saw. You were talking about the 10-year treasury yield. Yeah, Jack, we were on a date the other night and like one couple at the table next to us was getting hot over the bond market.
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Because global buyers of American debt- Don't like this bill at all. No, they don't. They sold their U.S. bonds again last week. So the interest rate America pays on its 10-year government bonds is now up one full percentage point since last September. Even though the Fed, our central bank, has cut interest rates by 1%. Yeah, our interest rate on our national debt is still going up.
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It's going up, even though we're lowering the benchmark interest rate. Now, why is this happening exactly, Jack? Year after year, Democrat or Republican, Congress is showing total disregard about our debt levels. Spending more money with less tax revenue, that just makes the debt worse, which is why we also got our debt downgraded from AAA last week.
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👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
And our third and final story is a wild new trend. Women are turning into monsters at night to look beautiful during the day. And one podcast is powering the entire monster beauty eye mask trend movement. A lot of nouns there. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. What? What a mix of stories to come back to. No one else is starting the week with this mix, Jack.
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Yes, this big, beautiful bill could stimulate the economy, but investors are more than ever worried about debt. So debt, bonds, interest rates, treasuries, That's why we're calling this moment Hot Debt Summer. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
For our third and final story, the wild new trend for women across America for daytime beauty, become a beast at night. Face masks, mouth tape. Here's why women are monstering themselves for their night routine. Women are experiencing it. Men are observing it. And children are freaking out about it. Because when they go to bed at night, girlfriends are transforming into monsters on purpose.
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Get this. According to the Wall Street Journal, it is the monster beauty trend. And what does it mean, Jack? You go to bed looking freaky so you can wake up looking hot. We're talking face masks that make you look like a murderer. Lips covered by mouth tape all night. No heat hair curlers that... Honestly, it would give you nightmares. It's like Mrs. Doubtfire.
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👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
Now the goal here is actually pretty clear. Do your skin. Clear breathing to sustain your sleep through the night. And just beautification overall. Basically, high maintenance at night to be low maintenance hot in the morning, and do it all while looking like Jason from the Halloween movies. Yeah, we've got data to back up this trend. Searches for mouth tape have 10x'd in the past three years.
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👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
And honestly, full disclosure, even Jack wears the occasional face mask as part of his 42-step nighttime skin routine. It is so moist, it's like a blobby blanket for your face. Yeah. I've never bought one, but I've put the ones on that Alex has handed me. I've seen the pictures and we cannot show them publicly, Jack. But Yetis, this is what Jack and I found so fascinating.
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👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
This nighttime monster beauty trend is so big, the Wall Street Journal did two epic stories on it last week. But we found the one brand dominating this trend and the business actually starts with the podcast. That's right. the Skinny Confidential podcast. Lauren Bostic's wellness empire pioneered these extreme beauty hacks that we're talking about.
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This podcast is now the number one show in the education category on Apple Podcasts. And along with her husband, they own Dear Media, a podcast network with 100 shows. predominantly catering to wellness girlies. Lauren Bostic and her hubby affectionately refer to themselves as human guinea pigs with these health hacks that they've pioneered since 2011. Raw milk makeovers.
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Okay, castor oil body patches. This is a real thing. Salmon sperm facials. If you have to ask... You don't want to know anymore. We're talking scary beauty hacks right now. And once she's tried them out and attested to them, her followers buy them on the Dear Media shop. Yeah, we got the data on this too.
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👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
Her face rollers have done 16 million in sales and her mouth tape just did 7 million in sales. Have you ever rolled your face with a frozen face roller? I did it with an ice cream pint, Jack, and I wasn't against it. I liked it. I appreciated it. It's like that Saratoga face bath that that guy went viral for, but you don't even get wet.
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👺 “Nightime beast, daytime beauty” — The Ugly Beauty trend. Hot Debt Summer. Lilo & Stitch’s recipe.
Welcome back to the office. But a quick work update before you sit at that cubicle. There are two words you may not say because it's Spotify. They have now banned two words from being said in any meeting. Later. and offline. Get this. Every week, Spotify's top team holds a three-hour meeting. Quick side note, that is way too long a meeting.
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Well, apparently she's also pioneered this morning shed where your skin peels off your face. And let me tell you, you don't want to see that in the morning either. Are we becoming snakes? Now with pseudoscientific credentials, these freaky products are achieving beautiful results. We wouldn't be shocked if L'Oreal or another...
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big beauty company by Skinny Confidential and Dear Media because it's that powerful these days. That's right. But Jack, I got to go back to our original question. Why is monster beauty the new trend? Why this tension of opposites of beauty and the beast? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies? Monstering over beauty.
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15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to, like, get other people to do it.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It is Tuesday, T-Boy, Tuesday, May 20th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. I mean, Jack, I'm feeling the vibes. You're looking the vibes. Should we just hit this bad boy? I'm on it. All right, today's T-Boy. What do we got on the show? Three stories, Jack.
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Founder of Simple Closure, started Simple Closure. after their dating app startup failed and they wish they had helped shutting down that failed startup. Yeah, this guy started a startup shutdown app after his first startup shut down. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our tongue-twisting buddies over at Simple Closure? The perception divide is a business opportunity.
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Yetis, the reality of social media is that it's not real. People, they post and they publish purely positive updates. Even on LinkedIn, you see posts about fundraisers, launches, and hires. But if there's bad news, the startup simply doesn't post anything. But here's what Jack and I want to share with you.
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While LinkedIn business updates are 90% positive, the reality is they should be 90% negative. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, half of businesses formed in the United States fail within three years. According to Forbes, 90% of venture-backed startups eventually fail.
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So the vast majority of startups are failing, and yet the vast majority of what they're posting is that they're thriving. Yeah, so don't get bothered when you see those posts. Instead, hey, there's an opportunity here. The difference between the online perception and the offline reality is an opportunity. The perception reality divide. It's an opportunity in any industry.
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We've got a lot to learn. How about this? Would you like a can of hint of hummus, LaCroix? Hint of hummus? You know what? I'm going to say real because I think everybody likes garlic. Yeah, it's their Middle Eastern play. Nope. False.
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Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for T-Boy Tuesday? Sesame Street is leaving Max. It's coming to Netflix sometime later this year. Because when you're in the lead in business, you need to press on the pedal faster. For our second story, after 126 years of a AAA rating, Moody's has downgraded the United States to AA+.
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The only thing that could get America's debt addiction under control is if the world actually starts charging us a higher interest rate. For our third and final story, Simple Closure is a startup that helps other startups shut down, and it just raised VC money. The perception divide on LinkedIn, that was their opportunity. But yetis, this pod's not over yet.
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First, it's official. Mark Cuban is retiring from his greatest hit, Shark Tank. Friday's season finale on the VC reality show will be his last episode of Shark Tank. Marky Mark Cuban put in 14 seasons. All of them, we can only use the word wonderful. He's going to spend more time with his children and start a $700 million PE firm to invest in pro sports teams.
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And Mark, yes, will take 15% equity at a $6 million valuation. Ha ha ha. And second, 70% of advertisers on Instagram and Facebook are promoting scams, illicit goods, or low-quality products to you. That's according to Wall Street Journal reporting of a 2020 Meta internal study. Yeah, the wildest part? Meta doesn't even seem to care.
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As long as they're getting paid for the ads, they'll post the ads. The report says that Meta allows 32 strikes before banning an account. I haven't played baseball in a while, Jack. But Nick, 32 strikes and you're out. It's a lot of strikes.
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And finally, Touchland, the antibacterial spray we covered on this show that went viral with Gen Z. They just got acquired for $700 million by Church and Dwight, the company that owns Arm & Hammer. Oh, and Daily Harvest, the smoothie delivery startup that introduced Jack to chia seeds?
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Now time for the best fact yet. This one sent in by John Kloss down in Atlanta over at Servscape. We've gotten a lot of rain in Vermont this month. The flowers are absolutely blossoming. But Jack, I got to ask, what is the best time to plant? A flower. Not right now. That's right. According to John, the best time to plant that flowering bud isn't when a flower is showing off.
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Real or fake? That's it. Sunshine. That's all you're going to give me? Sunshine. Is that a real LaCroix flavor? It makes so little sense. It makes too much sense. I'm going to say real LaCroix flavor. It is real. What does sunshine taste like? Apparently zero calories, Jack. How about this? Last one. Essence of everything bagel, LaCroix.
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It's actually when no one's paying attention. So if you see a bunch of hydrangeas right now that look fantastic, don't plant hydrangeas right now. You're too late. Yeah. The best time to actually plant a flowering spring bud would be in October. You got to be patient. You got to plant in the fall, wait till the spring. Which honestly is kind of disappointing, Jack. Yetis, you look fantastic today.
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Jack, can I interest you in a basil bellini or maybe a hint of hummus, if you will? A hint of hummus sounds horrible. But it pairs well with hummus. That's the whole point, Jack. That's why you drink a LaCroix hint of hummus. Wait, you wash down your LaCroix with hummus? Is that what you're saying? It's called double fisting, Jack. I can't even believe I have to explain this to you.
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Besties, to hear the untold origin story of LaCroix, check out our weekly show, The Best Idea Yet. We put a link in the episode description. It's a wild story. Oh, and if you've got the best fact yet, send it our way. Jack and I, if you know, you know, we'll see you tomorrow. And before we go, a happy birthday to George Dwyer over in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Apparently, he's already getting drafted to the UVA lacrosse team, Jack. And happy birthday to Marine Captain John Demo of Holly Springs, North Carolina. This man has been listening since the beginning. OG Market Snacker, love you, Captain John. Oh, and Oliver Suggs down in Cincinnati is the best dog dad with a birthday. Cincinnati, the Rome on the river. Who's a good boy? Oliver is.
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And happy birthday to Lynette Lee, who's turning 28 in Xi'an, China. And to Dethya Raghav in Las Gadas, California, happy birthday for the big day. Oh, and thanks for getting your wife to convert to a Yeti. And a big shout out to longtime listener Lloyd Brotman of Philadelphia, who just saw the synchronized fireflies of South Carolina. Lloyd got off the wait list, accomplished the life goal.
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Lloyd, can't wait to hear about these flies or see about them. And congratulations to Logan Miller of St. Petersburg, Florida, who took the CFA exam and is now starting a new job at Ring Power. This is Jack Islandstock of Disney and Netflix. If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
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🌈 “N-E-T-F-L-I-X” — Sesame Street’s Savior. The Startup-Burying Startup. America’s AAA Downgrade Situationship.
Well, Jack, essence of everything bagel definitely is a fake LaCroix flavor, but they definitely should make that. Yetis, few know that LaCroix is actually a $4 billion publicly traded stock. We've been covering on this pod for years. Or that LaCroix actually started as a beer business in the Midwest. Or how they landed on a can design that Nick and I can only describe as...
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Lisa Frank's recycling bin. Yeah, this thing should be in the Guggenheim. Well, LaCroix is this week's episode of our weekly show, The Best Idea Yet. Yes, it is. LaCroix, they didn't invent sparkling water. Mother Nature did. But they did invent our modern obsession with sparkling water. That's right. LaCroix is who made it go viral. And Nick is who got four out of six questions correct.
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For our first story, Sesame Street has been saved by Netflix. Why is Netflix adding Sesame Street? Well, because when you're first, you gotta think like you're last. For our second story, America's credit rating was just downgraded. We're officially no longer a AAA country. So Jack and I will tell you how the economy gets punished for bringing home bad grades.
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So besties, we will tell you how LaCroix pulled all of this off in our 45-minute deep dive on LaCroix. Link in this episode description. Now, Nick, can you do your best can opening sound?
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Never gets old. But, Jack, today's show is fantastic. What do you say we hit the spot?
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15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack, Nick.
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For our first story, hold on to your vowels because Netflix just saved Sesame Street. Why is Netflix doing this? Because in any industry, when you're in the lead, you still go as fast as you can. Now, Jack, can you please tell me how to get to Sesame Street? Like, I actually don't know how to get there right now. Where are we going these days? Just say Netflix into your remote.
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Because, yetis, after a 10-year stint on HBO, Sesame Street is moving on up to Netflix. Even Oscar is pumped. Yeah, and that guy, man, he is hard to please, man. Now, Sesame Street will still air on PBS over the broadcast and cable networks. but it's also going to stream alongside Stranger Things starting sometime later this year.
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So the next episode will be brought to you by the letter T for... True. Now, there's no word yet on how much Netflix is paying Sesame Street, but the nonprofit behind Sesame Street must feel so relieved right now. Because the government has been trying to cut funding for PBS, and that could harm Sesame Street. Elmo need GoFundMe. Elmo need lobbyist.
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Well, they don't need a lobbyist anymore because the $500 billion Netflix is becoming the sugar daddy that's going to keep sending paychecks to Big Bird. Now, yetis, this is what Jack and I got curious about. What exactly is the value of a single show, Sesame Street, to Netflix? We think it's the family factor. Netflix is for families with kids. It will keep them subscribed.
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And here's the interesting detail. That actually explains why Max just changed its name back to HBO. These stories are connected. We'll explain. Yes, we will. Because when Warner Brothers merged with Discovery years ago, they tried to create one super streaming app to rule them all. HBO was the star content-wise at this new merged company. But HBO is known for NC-17 content.
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Have you seen Euphoria, Jack? I'm, like, too intimidated to pick up the dial. The trailer had me schvitzing. It was intense, man. Well, Warner Bros. Discovery wanted their new streaming app to appeal to everyone, like Netflix does, and they signaled that by calling it Max. Well, years later, after that name change, it looks like the name change didn't work.
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Well, the whole strategy hasn't worked because Max only has 122 million subscribers That's less than half as many as Disney Plus or Netflix. So add it all up, besties. And Max's decision to drop Sesame Street is actually consistent with their decision to rename to HBO. It's all consistent with the strategy of focusing on adults. Exactly. They're done trying to get kids to stream.
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🌈 “N-E-T-F-L-I-X” — Sesame Street’s Savior. The Startup-Burying Startup. America’s AAA Downgrade Situationship.
And our third and final story is the fastest growing startup right now. It's a startup to wind down other startups. Yeah, it's actually a whole new industry we discovered. Funeral homes for startups. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Oh, what a mix of stories, Jack. Love the mix. Nick and I did a thing. We invented a game. A new game. Here's the game. Here's the game.
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They want people who watch GOT, not OTG. Translation, Game of Thrones, not Oscar the Grouch. Euphoria passed over with bedtime. You gave it a good shot, Jack. You gave it a good shot. We'll workshop it after the pod. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Netflix? When you have the lead, step on the accelerator.
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Now, Yetis, the real value of kids' content is that it actually eliminates churn at a very low cost. Because cord pausing is a big issue for streamers. Cord pausing is when people subscribe just to watch The White Lotus... and then unsubscribe when the season's over. But interestingly, it's not the case if your kids watch the programming.
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For millions of families, they stay subscribed to Disney+, because it's a low-cost digital babysitter. Your four-year-old doesn't care which season of Bluey they're on. They just want to watch Bluey all the time, mommy, daddy, all the time. But here's the thing. Netflix's content is so good and so vast... they already have the lowest churn in the industry. Get this.
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Just 2% to 3% of Netflix subscribers unsubscribe each month. That's it. On the other hand, Disney's churn rate is two times that, and Apple's is triple that. So even though Netflix is in the lead, it doesn't matter. They want to make their churn even worse. lower. And that is why Netflix recently snagged the rights to Cocomelon, Miss Rachel, and now Sesame Street.
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Netflix could relax, save some money on content to boost their profit margin. But Jack, in a market where Spotify, Disney, TikTok, and YouTube are all competing, you can't just go on cruise control. It's not a lesson Bert and Ernie would teach you. No, it's not. But in business, when you have the lead, go even faster. For our second story, it's official.
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🌈 “N-E-T-F-L-I-X” — Sesame Street’s Savior. The Startup-Burying Startup. America’s AAA Downgrade Situationship.
America's AAA credit rating has now been downgraded by every single agency. America is addicted to debt. We are. We'll tell you the one thing that could actually change that. Now, Yetis, fun little scenario here Jack and I were playing with. Let's say you're a bond, a financial bond, and you go out on a dinner date with- With an investor.
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Yeah, if you go out with an investor and you're a bond and you want to hook up. The investor is going to ask you, the bond, what's your fiscal situation? Well, America's answer- is a huge beige flag. There are $36 trillion of debt. That's our fiscal situation. It's actually a red flag now that I think about it, Jack.
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Which is why, for the first time, Moody's, the credit rating agency, downgraded the United States of America. America's debt is the dating equivalent of, I still actually live with my ex and I owe her money.
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Well, Moody's stripped us of our AAA credit score that they initially granted 126 years ago back in 1919. To sprinkle on some historical context- The other two ratings agencies already downgraded the U.S. back in 2011 and 2023. And to sprinkle on some geographical context, Canada, Germany, the EU, Singapore, and seven other nations still have their perfect AAA ratings.
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But the United States does not. That's right. You can't point to Luxembourg on a map, but that little country still got a AAA rating, and we don't. So we know what you're thinking, besties. Why did the United States just get downgraded? We already told you. We got $36 trillion worth of skeletons in our closet. That's right. We are addicted to debt.
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Here's the game. It's called Flavor or Faker LaCroix Edition. Basically, is this a real LaCroix flavor or a fake flavor? Because, Yetis, when it comes to LaCroix sparkling water, Jack is a LaCroix connoisseur, a LaCroix sommelier, if you will. So, Jack, why don't you ask me the questions for flavor or faker? May I interest you in a can of coconut cola LaCroix? Okay, coconut cola.
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We're so addicted, we need more closets for our debt. Get this. Since 2009, the United States has run up budget deficits of more than a trillion dollars nine different times. Democratic presidents increase spending. Republican presidents cut taxes. The math isn't mathing. So our budget gap gets bigger and bigger no matter who happens to be in office. The debt gets higher and higher and higher.
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The latest is Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill, which is about to be voted by the House. Tax cuts without funding? That's expected to increase the debt by an additional $4 trillion in this case. Now, the logical response to all this fiscal irresponsibility? What is it, Jack? Well, since the U.S. is less likely to pay you back... Holders of U.S. debt deserve a higher interest rate.
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But here's the interesting thing, besties. What Jack just said, that hasn't happened. So far, investors have not punished the U.S. with higher interest rates. It's almost like if we splurged on our credit card and just blew through the limit of that Amex, Jack, like instead of canceling our card and demanding repayment, Amex just keeps increasing the credit limit.
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🌈 “N-E-T-F-L-I-X” — Sesame Street’s Savior. The Startup-Burying Startup. America’s AAA Downgrade Situationship.
That's basically what the United States is experiencing right now. We keep splurging, but no one's holding us accountable. There have been so few consequences to the United States for our addiction to debt so far. Which is why voters have stopped caring about debt, and politicians, yeah, they just ignore it too.
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But on Monday, we're starting to see the first signs that all of that could be changing. And that sign... So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone in America? The one thing that could fix our debt problem is if the world starts making us pay for it. Yeti's wild thing. On Monday, the markets did something they never do. They penalized America with higher interest rates.
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The interest rate on the 30-year U.S. government bond hit 5%. That's up from just 4% in September. Which means it'll now cost us more to borrow money through bonds. To sprinkle on some more context, 5% for the U.S., that's nearly twice as much as what investors charge Germany for their debt. So, Jack, how about we go back to our credit card analogy with American Express for a second?
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🌈 “N-E-T-F-L-I-X” — Sesame Street’s Savior. The Startup-Burying Startup. America’s AAA Downgrade Situationship.
Investors are still raising America's credit limit, but this time they're charging a higher interest rate. Now, besties, if these interest rates continue rising on our bonds, just paying our interest that we owe could require spending cuts and tax increases from Congress. Investors are treating the U.S. as no longer the most creditworthy country in the world.
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So the one thing that could actually fix our debt addiction, what is it, Jack? If the world starts making us pay for it. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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That smells like sunscreen. I'm going to say this is a real flavor. That's correct. It is real. How about basil bellini? All right. Basil bellini. That tastes like pesto. I'm going to say that's a fake flavor. Correct. Okay. Beach plum. I'm going to go fake on that because I'm pretty sure you can't grow plums in the sand on a beach, Jack.
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🌈 “N-E-T-F-L-I-X” — Sesame Street’s Savior. The Startup-Burying Startup. America’s AAA Downgrade Situationship.
For our third and final story, the fastest growing startup right now specializes in shutting down startups. Because get this, for every 10 new startups formed, nine startups fail. Which is an opportunity for another startup.
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We'll explain, but yet he's to sprinkle on some initial context. 10 years ago, the WeWork era, masa. What were we seeing, Jack? Free kombucha, three meals a day catered, free kombucha for your dog, who also gets health benefits. It was a venture-backed party for your puppies. But today, it is a different world out there for startups, isn't it, Jack? You have to have a budget. You have to have...
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🌈 “N-E-T-F-L-I-X” — Sesame Street’s Savior. The Startup-Burying Startup. America’s AAA Downgrade Situationship.
Profit targets, profit deadlines, no more free sushi Fridays. It's now BYO sushi. Oh, honey, get the salmon out of the fridge. But Yetis, there is one startup that ironically we notice does better as every other startup does worse. It's called Simple Closure. And they're basically thinking of themselves as the TurboTax of shutting down. And they just raised 15 million bucks to shut down startups.
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Here's the business model. They take a fee to help that direct-to-consumer diaper business that was launched in college and didn't work out. So their software handles the regulatory process, the legal filings, the investor communications of dissolving a company. It's like a divorce lawyer or a funeral home. It's an undertaker that lets the business pass away with dignity.
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Because, besties, you can't just bury that balance sheet. The assets must be given a proper distribution ceremony. And if you screw up the dissolving of a company... Lawsuit!
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Besties, here's what Jack and I find fascinating. There's actually a bigger economic story here, isn't there, Jack? That story is that it's a tough time for startups out there. I mean, Jack, remember back in 2022, layoffs.fyi, the website? We would track the number of people who'd been laid off in the tech and startup industry.
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Well, that was three years ago, and now we're still in year three of high interest rates. Money from venture capital is still very tight, so it's a tough time for startups. Get this, the number of Series A fundraisers is actually down 79% from 2022, according to Carta. So if your startup hasn't closed yet, it's probably taking a down round. It's a tough time for startups.
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Which leads us to this story. We can actually see all of that in Simple Closures numbers. It's on pace to fold 1,500 startups this year, which is three times more than they did last year. Yeah, it is wild. But even inquiries to their website have jumped 25% in the last two months of the trade war. A lot of CEOs are curious about Simple Closures services.
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And besties, if you are one of them, we feel for you. There is no stress like payroll stress. That would be awful to go through. So it turns out Simple Closure is part of a new industry. We actually found three other companies doing this. Yeah, we call it STAS, S-D-A-S, Shutting Down as a Service. And the most ironic part of it all? What is it, Jack?
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👸 “How Poppi got Pepsi’d” — Poppi’s $2B Cinderella deal. Apple’s SuperSiri delay. Law Schools’ app surge.
daily let's do 15 years before this song two boys from the northeast met in the dorm they had an idea to cause a cultural storm it's the best one yet but the best is the norm jack nick that's it i don't even think they need to practice 50 that's a fat tip t-boy city on your at list if you know you know because we're ready to go we can't wait no more so just start the show
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🏀 “3-Pointer Economics” — NBA’s shot problem. Zelle is beating Venmo. Jamie Dimon’s rant.
I've been working seven days a week since COVID. And I come in and I'm like, where's everybody else? But they're here and there and the Zooms and the Zooms don't show up. And people say they didn't get stuff. So that's not how you run a great company. We didn't build this great company by doing that.
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🏀 “3-Pointer Economics” — NBA’s shot problem. Zelle is beating Venmo. Jamie Dimon’s rant.
The young generation is being damaged by this. That may or may not be in your particular staff, but they are being left behind. They're being left behind socially, ideas, meeting people.
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🏀 “3-Pointer Economics” — NBA’s shot problem. Zelle is beating Venmo. Jamie Dimon’s rant.
Let's do it. Start the show.
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🏀 “3-Pointer Economics” — NBA’s shot problem. Zelle is beating Venmo. Jamie Dimon’s rant.
Zelle.
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🏀 “3-Pointer Economics” — NBA’s shot problem. Zelle is beating Venmo. Jamie Dimon’s rant.
Okay, and when I found out that people are doing that, you don't do that in my meetings.
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🛸 “$UFO” — Drone stocks’ mystery surge. Crumbl’s $1B cookie. Waymo beat Lyft.
15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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🤔 “China’s Factory Revolt” — Trade war moves to TikTok. Moleskine’s Gen Z board. Zuck's FTC lawsuit.
For our first story, we've noticed a strange, shocking new battle in the trade war that no one is covering.
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🤔 “China’s Factory Revolt” — Trade war moves to TikTok. Moleskine’s Gen Z board. Zuck's FTC lawsuit.
Who is the Chinese supplier behind Under Armour? Shenzhou International, which is one of the largest clothing factories in China. It also supplies for many other big famous brands, such as Adidas, Nike, Uniqlo, Lululemon, and so on.
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🤔 “China’s Factory Revolt” — Trade war moves to TikTok. Moleskine’s Gen Z board. Zuck's FTC lawsuit.
For our second story, Moleskine.
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Now, a quick word from our sponsor. For our third and final story, on Monday, the most epic antitrust trial of all time began.
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📹 “The Next TikTok” — Whatnot’s $5B shop app. Nvidia’s uranium problem. Sonos’ CEO oopsie.
Oh, you are?
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📹 “The Next TikTok” — Whatnot’s $5B shop app. Nvidia’s uranium problem. Sonos’ CEO oopsie.
It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to, like, get other people to do it.
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🐳 “Preppy Billions” — Vineyard Vines’ revival. Trump’s Mega-Monday. Dunkin’s JetBlue airplane.
portfolio needs it jack let's hit our three stories 15 years before this song two boys from the northeast met in the dorm they had an idea to cause a cultural storm it's the best one yet but the best is the norm jack nick that's it i don't even think they need to practice 50 that's a fat tip t-boy city on your at list if you know you know because we're ready to go we can't wait no more so just start the show
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📉 “Worst Drop Since ‘22” — The crazy recession theory. Skype’s audio logo. Touchland’s viral hand sanitizer.
And the third growth hack that made Skype a thing was their audio jingle.
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📉 “Worst Drop Since ‘22” — The crazy recession theory. Skype’s audio logo. Touchland’s viral hand sanitizer.
It sounds to me like a gigantic goldfish. Yes.
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📉 “Worst Drop Since ‘22” — The crazy recession theory. Skype’s audio logo. Touchland’s viral hand sanitizer.
Because get this, one out of every four things sold at Costco is Kirkland branded.
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📉 “Worst Drop Since ‘22” — The crazy recession theory. Skype’s audio logo. Touchland’s viral hand sanitizer.
But the real takeaway of this obituary isn't what we're losing in May, it's what we've gained for the last 22 years. So true, Jack. Because Skype has survived by its legacies. All those growth hacks we just mentioned that the entire tech industry still uses today.
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Actually, a moment of.
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now.
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And the Magnificent Seven, they're down 20% from their peak in December.
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Finally, just south of the border, Buffalo Bills have signed Josh Allen to the biggest deal in NFL history.
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Exactly. It's like inflation. Every year, somebody breaks the record for biggest deal in NFL history.
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And Colby College is the fighting mules. It's a tough animal and it's a tough defense, Colby has.
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In fact, you're not going to believe it, everything Walmart did at the beginning, and still does today, is a copy of Costco's business.
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They met at work exactly 10 years ago.
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📉 “Worst Drop Since ‘22” — The crazy recession theory. Skype’s audio logo. Touchland’s viral hand sanitizer.
You're going to beat me.
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If it's about the Kirkland brand, I'll know the answer. This is Jack. Nick and I both own stock in Robinhood and ETFs in the S&P 500. And I have about four gigantic Kirkland-branded peanut butters in my pantry right now.
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📉 “Worst Drop Since ‘22” — The crazy recession theory. Skype’s audio logo. Touchland’s viral hand sanitizer.
Yeah, they were.
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📉 “Worst Drop Since ‘22” — The crazy recession theory. Skype’s audio logo. Touchland’s viral hand sanitizer.
NASDAQ fell 4%, and we're way below Election Day stock levels.
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That's from an interview he did on Sunday.
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And since it would happen so early in Trump's term, he would enjoy three plus years of us buying homes at lower mortgage rates, the housing market getting rekindled, consumer confidence going up, and inflation being a thing of the past.
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I'm going to stick with crazy recession theory. Trump is breaking the economy in order to quickly fix it.
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And we can tell that's what Trump wants based on a quote from his treasury secretary, Scott Besson, last week.
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He seemed to imply that building goods here in America is the American dream.
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Profits would fall, prices would rise, but there would be more factory jobs in Ohio.
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📉 “Worst Drop Since ‘22” — The crazy recession theory. Skype’s audio logo. Touchland’s viral hand sanitizer.
And our third and final story. Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to remember Skype. Skype. The inventor of video calls is being put to rest by its owner, Microsoft.
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he'd have to rewind 30 or 40 years of economic globalization.
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The NBA shut down the season, and we all went to Airbnb to see if we could find a place in the woods to camp out.
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📉 “Worst Drop Since ‘22” — The crazy recession theory. Skype’s audio logo. Touchland’s viral hand sanitizer.
A hand sanitizer that comes in a colorful rectangular package the size of a deck of cards.
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30,000 people joined the waitlist and it sold out in the first day.
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Because most hand sanitizer is a gel that you squirt on your hands and then rub in. This product is a mist.
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A simple principle we found always works is come for the look, stay for the experience.
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But yetis, let's bring it back to the year 2003, an age before the iPhone, when Skype let everybody FaceTime worldwide.
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Recap, Skype was born on Kazaa Technology in Estonia.
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You'd think Skype was on digital steroids.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday, T-Boy Tuesday, February 11th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Was it too hard to ask you to pick me up from the airport, Jack? You made me take an Uber. I didn't make you. I told you I'd pick you up if you wanted me to. I didn't even think I'd have to ask.
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They're basically tempting you to break up with AT&T and Verizon. In fact, the commercial ends with this line. We're inviting anyone on any wireless carrier to experience this for free. And apparently, that pitch worked. Because according to EDO, that commercial was 50% more website click engaging than... Then the number two.
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Basically, the beer ad with sloths got you to laugh, but T-Mobile got you to actually buy. Well, they got you to visit their website. I was rounding up a bit. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at T-Mobile? In boring industries, winners double down on boring. Yeti's 10 years ago, Verizon and AT&T, they were six and seven times more valuable than T-Mobile.
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And the most fun entrepreneurial origin story we've ever heard of. Bring them out. Actually, we don't have them here, but Ben and Jerry. Although they live around the corner. The true untold origin story of America's favorite ice cream brand. Don't choke on your chunky monkey, Yetis. Today, Yetis, Ben and Jerry's does over a billion dollars a year in ice cream sales.
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T-Mobile was kind of a number three joke. Yeah, it was. But in the decades since then, T-Mobile has grown 10 times more valuable on the stock market, while Verizon and AT&T have both shrunk. True story. Today, T-Mobile's worth $290 billion. That's nearly as much as Verizon and AT&T Combined. We covered T-Mobile's rise before. We credited their focus on boringness. Wireless? It's a boring industry.
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Bandwidth? Spectrum? There's nothing sexy about wireless signals. Bore, Phil. More like wireless. So Verizon and AT&T, naturally, they got distracted. They acquired fancy and expensive media companies, which they sold at huge losses years later. Jack, remember we looked at the stock chart? When AT&T bought Time Warner, that's when their stock stopped going up. It fell.
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But T-Mobile, they stayed focused. Yes, they did. They merged with Sprint. They acquired Mint Mobile, which belonged to Ryan Reynolds, and now they have a Starlight satellite deal. And for that reason, T-Mobile is a case study that excellence at the boring stuff can make you billions. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for T-Boy Tuesday?
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The biggest diss track in the Super Bowl wasn't from Kendrick Lamar. No. It was from the advertisers. So Jack and I explained in three rules how to diss in corporate America without crossing the line. For our second story, President Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop minting new pennies. The persistence of the penny shows the power of inertia.
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For our third and final story, T-Mobile's Starlink commercial was the number one most engaging of the whole Super Bowl. T-Mobile's success was in focusing on the boring parts. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, Elon Musk has made an unsolicited bid to acquire OpenAI, the largest startup in the world.
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Elon and his venture capital partners are only offering $97 billion, though, which is a lowball price that's bound to be rejected. And Jack, what did Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, say in response? On X, he posted, no thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $9.7 billion if you want. Besties, we'll cover the developments for you.
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If there are any, there might be, or maybe someone throws TikTok into the deal. We don't know. Second, Donald Trump is imposing 25% tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum. He also pledged to retaliate against any country that imposes tariffs on the United States. He'll retaliate to retaliations. Trade war two, it's escalating.
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He's also gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which requires an act of Congress, but he's essentially ignoring that and daring courts to stop it. And finally, school is canceled. The Philadelphia public schools have canceled school this Friday so the whole city can celebrate the Eagles Super Bowl victory.
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From Rindau Square to West Philly, it begins at the stadium, ends at the Museum of Art. This is pretty fascinating. It ends at the Rocky Steps. Yeah. Philadelphia fans, like my mother, they ride if they lose and they'll ride if they win. Now time for the best fact yet. This one sent in by Savannah Westwood from lovely Orlando, Florida.
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For three decades, one company in Florida has minted the official coin flip coin for the NFL Super Bowl. It's called Highland Mint and they make commemorative coins for 30 years for the Super Bowl. One side of the coin has the team's logos on it, the tails, and the other side has the Super Bowl logo, the heads. After the game, they sell that coin flip coin to charity.
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But Ben and Jerry started as a couple goofball buddies who failed to get into med school. Did you hear that they learned how to make ice cream through a mail order catalog class? Or Jack, how about when they came to the financials, they just made up the numbers? Ben and Jerry's should have gone bankrupt at least 12 different times. And yet, this duo disrupted the entire ice cream industry.
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And the last one sold for $5,000. But you can buy one for 99 bucks. And according to the comment section, a lot of people collect these coins. Yeah, so we're losing the penny jack, but apparently it's getting outlasted by the Super Bowl coin. By the Chiefs Eagles L1X, which means 59, I think, in Roman numerals. Super Bowl commemorative edition coin. It'll live on forever.
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Yetis, you look fantastic over there. Excuse us because Jack and I have got to go grab a little ice cream on Church Street, don't we, Jack? Yes, we do. That's right. We're going to the place where Ben and Jerry's began. We really honestly love this episode so much because Ben and Jerry are so humble, so thoughtful, and they admit that they just didn't even know what they were doing.
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Let's be candid. Yeah. We like this episode because it reminds us of us. We We had so much fun with it. So besties, after this pod right now, go check out The Best Idea Yet, our weekly deep dive show on the products you're obsessed with. We got a link in the episode description. We'd love if you could listen. This one's on Ben, Jerry, and a pint of fish food.
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And before we go, a happy birthday to legendary Yeti Danash Barvani in El Segundo, California. A birthday twin and mother-in-law turned him into the T-boy. I think it turned him into our show. That's what I meant. And Ryder Pang in Azusa, California listens with their parents and celebrated that birthday on the Icon of the Seas.
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And a happy fifth birthday to Cooper Carroll, the T-boy himself from Quantico, Virginia, who dances every day to the best one yet. And Ryan and Rachel Nance down in Hotland, Atlanta, Georgia, have a two-year wedding anniversary. Congratulations, guys. Congratulations to Ryan Barnes of Aptos, California, for getting a new job in the police department. License and registration, Ryan.
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And Christine Marie Morota in South Boston, just south of Boston, has got a big pharma job over at Amgen. Congrats, Christine. And to anyone else, celebrate something today. Make it a T-ball. Celebrate the wins. This is Jack. I own stock in Ford. If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
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Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. And before you go, tell us a little bit about yourself by filling out a short survey at wondery.com slash survey. We want to get to know you.
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And they remained best friends through the entire journey. And we've admired that entire journey. So Ben and Jerry's is the next episode of our weekly deep dive show, The Best Idea Yet. The Best Idea Yet. The untold origin stories of the most viral products of all time. Specifically, we focused on fish food. Ben and Jerry's fish food. The only ice cream named after a jam band that was named Fish.
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So later today, after this T-boy, check out our weekly deep dive show, The Best Idea Yet. New episodes drop every Tuesday morning. Tap the link in the episode description because Ben and Jerry's fish food is simply the best idea yet. But in the meantime, Jack, we've got a fantastic show. So how about I scream, you scream, we all scream to hit our three stores?
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First, a quick word from our sponsor.
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I'm just gonna, we'll sell it at the end of the pod. It's stored for another pod. It is more snowy in Vermont since the week I met you. That is the last time it was this snow. I actually do need to borrow some gloves. But Jack, three stories for today's show. What do we got on the team, boy? Thanks for coming to visit me. Absolutely. For our first story.
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For our first story, the real diss track at the Super Bowl, it wasn't Kendrick Lamar. It was the commercials. Get this. Duncan, Jeep, and hims and hers all ripped on their rivals in their Super Bowl commercials. So Jack and I got a playbook to tell you when to diss and when not to diss in corporate America.
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Daddy's, last week we explained why Kendrick Lamar did the Super Bowl halftime show even though he didn't get paid a dollar for it. He didn't get paid. And yet, one big question remained as we were watching. The whole world was wondering. Totally. Will he do his diss track? Ah.
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the answer yes he did yeah he circled the stage in front of the whole world and sang not like us yeah basically ripping into drake the whole time totally dissed drake his arch rapping rival now we expected he would but we did not expect corporate america to follow suit in their commercials because the low-key theme that jack and i noticed of the super bowl commercials this year is diss tracks.
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And the biggest diss track commercial started with Dunkin'. Yeah, it did. It really did. Yeah. It starred the Affleck brothers who ripped on their rival Starbucks. The boys from just outside Boston, the Dunkings. They looked kind of like, you know, down to earth everyman, Bruins fans, if you will. While the stuck up competition over at Starbucks, they look snobby and out of touch.
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Yeah, we'll play a clip. Let's hit the tape, Trey.
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dunking i thought to get roasted like a dark seasonal roast with coriander and slight balsamic drizzle sounds like what's in my garbage disposal see you coach how much to wait a half hour to get my name spelled wrong on the cup nobody wants a goat milk double half capsule milk cap you can just brew it it's beans and water oh damn listen duncan's for all of you
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Okay, so the Boston boys, they went hot jack. Yeah, they did. Darlene was ripping them on Starbucks. But then we got another diss track ad, didn't we? Yeah, from Jeep, which used Harrison Ford to diss the Ford Motor Company. Bold. Let's play that one. This Jeep makes me happy, even though my name is Ford. Bold move. Harrison Ford just said, this Jeep makes me happy even though my name is Ford.
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And finally, we got the pharmaceutical company, hims and hers, which trashed the entire US healthcare system. This was like the dissiest of all the diss.
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Something's broken. It's not our bodies. It's the system. Welcome to weight loss in America. Like and subscribe. A $160 billion industry that feeds on our failure.
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The message in that commercial will actually solve your problems, not keep you sick so we can keep making money off your sickness. So add it all up, Yetis. And like we said, the biggest diss track of the Super Bowl, it wasn't a song from Kendrick Lamar. It was a bunch of $8 million Super Bowl commercials. Basically, Duncan dropped Starbucks like Tupac on Biggie 1996. Mo' money. No problems.
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Did you see Dunkin' Donuts Super Bowl commercial? I did. It ripped on Starbucks. But the real diss track of the Super Bowl wasn't Kendrick Lamar. It was in the commercials. So we're presenting the do's and don'ts for corporate dissing. Yes, we are. For our second story, President Trump is ending the US penny. He has ordered no more pennies be minted ever again. But the
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If you know, you know. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone in advertising? When to diss and when not to diss? Here's our three-part guide. Yetis, the rules of decorum in business are always changing. But in our fast and furious world driven by social media, dissing is more acceptable than ever. Here's how to drop a diss on a rival. while not crossing the line.
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Rule number one, no low blows. Don't be mean. All is fair in love and war, but not in advertising. Rule number two, you can punch up, but you can't punch down. Dunkin' can attack Starbucks, but we don't think Starbucks can attack Dunkin'. Not a good look. Starbucks is way bigger than Dunkin'. It'd look like bullion. Frappuccinos can't mess with culottes.
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And finally, rule number three, humor transcends all. Starbucks and Ford both got dissed over the Super Bowl, but we bet Starbucks and Ford both chuckled because Dunkin' and Jeep's ads were fun. It was good what Harrison Ford did, and we know you're laughing up in Detroit, guys. So when to diss and when not to diss in corporate America, those are our three rules.
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No low blows, don't punch down, and humor transcends all. Send this to your buddy who works in marketing. For our second story, President Trump has ordered the end of new pennies. Pennies are dunzo. And after diving in T-boy style, we're shocked this penny pause didn't happen decades ago. It's funny you should say that, Jack, because full disclosure, this is Nick, and I'm a numismatist.
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Numismatist? Yeah, I can't read your mind, Jack. That's something different. But numismatist is the collection of coins. I actually started doing it when I was like nine years old. Yeah. Whenever we went somewhere, I'd go to the local coin shop. I had half Liberty Dollars. I had Mercury Dimes. I had a bunch of Indian heads. What's a Mercury Dime? Is that an American currency?
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It's a story for another pod, Jack. Remember my wallet had the Buffalo nickel on it? It was fantastic. Well, Nick could tell you that in 1909, the U.S. Mint put Abraham Lincoln's head on a penny to commemorate his 100th birthday. I could also tell you, Jack, that the U.S. penny is the most produced coin in the history of the world. That is wild. It is. It's the smallest. It is.
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But it's also the biggest. And here's the news. President Trump told the U.S. Treasury Secretary to stop printing pennies. Stop minting them. All the pennies we have today, that's it. No more ever again. It's the great penny pause. And we know what you're thinking yet is, does this mean that my coin jar full of pennies is worthless now? The answer to that is no.
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Technically, only an act of Congress can retire the penny as a valid form of U.S. currency. Correct, Jack. But the Treasury Secretary has asked the mint to stop making newer. In case you're worried, by the way, Abraham Lincoln's going to do fine. He's still on the $5 bill. Yeah, we were thinking about that, actually.
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Although we do have a proposal that if we're going to lose the penny, we should bring back the $1,000 bill, given inflation, right? Who would you put on that thing, Jack? I don't know. Teddy Roosevelt? Actually, let us know in the comments who we should put on the $1,000 bill. Wrong answers only. Or Oprah. But...
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biggest shocker of this penny pause is that it didn't happen sooner. And our third and final story is the most surprising collab of the year. Oh, yeah. SpaceX and T-Mobile. But can we talk about T-Mobile's winning recipe, please, Jack? T-Mobile leans into the board. Board. But yetis, before we hit that, wonderful mix of stories. And Fantastic mix of stories. Love the mix today.
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And here's what Jack and I found fascinating about this story, is that after looking at the penny, it's actually the most uneconomic thing we do. Here's the hero stat. Each single cent costs 3.7 cents to produce. We repeat, making one penny costs us like over three pennies. We should not make the penny if the act of making the penny is worth less than a penny.
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In fact, we made 3.2 billion pennies every single year, which if stretched out would be across the entire United States. But we lost $86 million making that weird pennies across America link. That Nick just mentioned. The penny. It's the cheapest, but the most expensive. Now, why is it so expensive? Because it's actually made of zinc and then coated with copper, and therein lies the problem.
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Because zinc prices have popped, which has made the penny more expensive. One business in Tennessee actually has a 40-year contract to supply that zinc to the U.S. Mint, and they're bumming. Yeah, they are. Because that contract they had was worth a billion dollars. But Jack, it's not just the cost of the penny that's a problem. It's also the use.
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When was the last time you bought something using pennies? The data shows that most pennies actually disappear. So we have to mint new ones to replace the lost ones, which costs us more money. Gas stations don't even have that take a penny, leave a penny thing anymore. In fact, we have lost 240 billion pennies in drawers, jars, and washing machines across America.
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Jack, can you sprinkle us with context? It was hard to find hard data on pennies, just like it's hard to find raw data on the number of grains of sand. Canada stopped minting their penny in 2012. True. Sweden and Australia have stopped minting their pennies. They just round up or down depending on the transaction. By the way, we used to make a half penny in America, Jack.
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I do own one of those, by the way. Is it a half moon, like cut in half? No, it looks like a regular penny, but we stopped making them 150 years ago. So why do we still have the penny? Nick and I think it's a combination of nostalgia, coin collectors like Nick's community, and wishing wells. What else are we going to flip into a wishing well?
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Well, all of that comes at a taxpayer cost of 86 million bucks a year. Which doesn't sound worth it to me. So to add it all up, it's kind of shocking the penny wasn't paused years ago. This is our diss track on the penny, by the way. We haven't followed our three rules either. We just ripped on the penny. So Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies who respect the penny?
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The penny shows the power of inertia. Yeti's last year, the New York Times did an article called The Tyranny of the Penny, A Symbol of National Dysfunction. Because since the 1970s, both parties in government have proposed eliminating the penny several times. And today, a majority, 58% of America, agrees the penny should be gone. Even 225 years ago, Thomas Jefferson hated the idea of a penny.
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But the inertia of the status quo and the relative smallness of the issue kept it from getting any political traction. After all, we're talking about pennies on the dollar here. The penny's persistence is a metaphor for inertia in both government and in business sometimes. Inertia, a law of physics that an object resists change when in a state of motion.
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Despite the high cost, the broad support to get rid of it, and common sense, the penny persisted. Well, finally, the penny is over. So keep the ones you have because that, trust me, is a collector's item. They're going to go up in value every year as more and more pennies get lost. We're going to miss you, but it was time. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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Every big moment starts with a big dream. But what happens when that big dream turns out to be a big flop? From Wondery and At Will Media, I'm Misha Brown, and this is The Big Flop. Every week, comedians join me to chronicle the biggest flubs, fails, and blunders of all time, like Quibi.
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Nick is not just here in Vermont to get some skiing and slurp some syrup in before my baby arrives. Although I'd like to do both of those. No, we are up in Vermont to do some T-boy research. Because today we're dropping an entire 45 minute episode on Vermont's most ultimate brand. We're talking the biggest ice cream company in the world.
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and the 2019 movie adaptation of Cats.
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Like, if I'm watching the dancing and I'm noticing the feet aren't touching the ground, there's something wrong with the movie.
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Find out what happens when massive hype turns into major fiasco. Enjoy The Big Flop on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to The Big Flop early and ad-free on Wondery+. Get started with your free trial at wondery.com slash plus.
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For our third and final story, according to the data, the number one most engaged Super Bowl commercial of all was T-Mobile.
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And it's a case study for how T-Mobile is destroying Verizon and AT&T. There was nothing funny. There was no QR code. There weren't even talking frogs. There weren't talking E-Trade babies either. No, there weren't. And yet this was the most engaging Super Bowl commercial. Just a wild product offered for free even to the customers of the competition. Maybe you saw it.
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It was T-Mobile, the wireless company, which announced Starlink satellite internet for all T-Mobile customers. What we're saying is that T-Mobile hooked up with Elon's business, Starlink, for a space-based phone network. And the goal of this network is to kill dead zones. Kill them. According to the CEO, if you see the sky, you can connect.
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And now, Jack, we should clarify one thing about this T-Mobile satellite anywhere accessibility. Well, the satellite signal, it can't do all the phone service for you. It can't replace Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile. Because their satellites only send down connectivity beams to areas on Earth with no cell service.
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But still, with T-Mobile plus Starlink, your phone should theoretically always be connected. The dead zone is going to be dead. Killing the dead zone with invisible infrastructure. You'll always get bars. But yeties, here's what Jack and I found fascinating about this story. Edeo measured which commercials drove the most website visits just after showing at the Super Bowl. And this was number one.
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Yeah, like maybe it was because of the satellites. Which looked cool in the commercial. Maybe it was because this service is free until July. In this economy? I'm into that. But even wilder. What is it, Jack? Even AT&T and Verizon customers are welcome to try out this T-Mobile satellite service for free. T-Mobile's basically saying, hey, you really want to stay with Verizon?
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They can't give you what I can give you. They're basically saying, try me out. I promise you'll like it. Wink, wink. Suggestive smiley emoji. Kiss, kiss. Okay, I think you crossed the line.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It is Tuesday T-Boy Tuesday, December 10th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Am I meeting you at the tree? Where am I going to meet you in New York, man? I'll see you later today. Nick and I are getting together in New York City this week for some Christmas card photography.
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Jewelry customers, yeah, you may care a lot whether a diamond is romantically natural or grown in a lab. But industrial customers don't care one bit about that. Because whether it's lab grown or natural, the diamonds are physically identical. Yeah, they can both cut valerian steel equally as well as the other one. So you may as well sell the cheaper one to Exxon.
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It was the biggest shoe deal in history because of Michael Jordan's mother. Yetis, Nike's Air Jordan is the latest episode of our weekly deep dive show, The Best Idea Yet. The Best Idea Yet. The untold origin stories of the products you're obsessed with. In this 45-minute episode, you'll hear how Michael's mom got Nike to bend to her will because she believed in her son that much.
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They're not picky about their diamonds. So besties, share this stat with whoever just proposed to you. De Beers is now the world's biggest producer of lab-grown diamonds. And 80% of those diamonds end up on saws. A saw in a Volkswagen factory. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over in the diamond industry? Every business has a B2B diamond in the rough. Yeah, it is.
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Most of us consumers, we don't see it. But many of the businesses we enjoy have a hidden revenue stream. They sell B2B, business to business. The diamond industry, for example, is associated with consumer jewelry. But a majority of the sales... are industrial diamonds to business customers. And that's called a B2B customer, selling from one business to another business.
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And B2B, it can be lucrative like a diamond in the rough. Another example of a consumer business with a B2B diamond in the rough? Yeah, us, Jack and Nick Studios, our podcast, T-Boy. Our business is this podcast and you, the listeners, are our primary consumers. And we make money B2C. We make money through ads, through merch, through selling tickets to our live shows. That's B2C.
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But we also have a B2B business. We do. We do speaking events. Companies pay us to present our takeaways and insights at company events. That is selling B2B, business to business. We do it. If you work at a business to consumer company, a B2C company, we bet you there's a B2B business just waiting to be acted on. Exactly. and diamonds are the perfect reminder of it.
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For a consumer business, a B2B revenue stream can be a diamond in the rough. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for T-Boy Tuesday? Taylor Swift's Heiress Tour is over. It absolutely smashed concert tour records with $2.1 billion in ticket sales. Wherever Taylor went the last two years, GDP grew. For our second story, it's Disney.
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They're investing $12 billion to double the number of cruise ships to 13. Disney, they used a customer survey to go from I think to I know. And our third and final story is De Beers. They sell 80% of their diamonds to industrial customers. Lab Grown is perfect for that, by the way. Not selling to fingers, they're selling to factories.
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And just about every B2C company has a B2B diamond in the rough. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, an update on the healthcare executive killing. Police have arrested a person of interest named Luigi Mangione of Pennsylvania. The police got a tip from a worker at McDonald's who recognized his face from the wanted photos.
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So they went to central Pennsylvania and they made the arrest just yesterday afternoon. Mangione had multiple fake IDs and a gun silencer, which is consistent with the weapon used in the attack. And second, we've got two big money updates happening in sports that were record setters. First, the college football playoff is set. 12 teams are competing in four rounds of playoffs this year.
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The first round of the playoffs starts December 20th. The last round is January 20th. Okay, best non-playoff bowl game though. Who is it, Jack? Who we got? Michigan versus Alabama. That's a good one. And Juan Soto is joining the New York Mets after leaving the Yankees in the biggest deal in sports history, 15 years, $765 million. He's going to be on contract with the Mets until he's 41.
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Yankees fans feel like the Mets fans right now. And finally, Mondelez, the company behind Oreos, is exploring a takeover of Hershey's, the company behind Reese's. Hershey stock jumped 20% because acquisitions tend to be at a premium to the current stock market price. Acquisitions tend to be above asking price, so to speak.
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Oh, and you'll hear how the first Air Jordans were actually banned by the NBA. You'll learn how Michael Jordan actually hated his namesake shoe at first. And we'll tell you why you should always, always, always, always, always, always bring your mom into your next business meeting. So later today, after this T-Boy, check out our weekly deep dive show, The Best Idea Yet.
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But we should point out a deal would require the approval of the Hershey's family trust before the Hershey company could be sold. Don't try to sweeten the deal by sending them chocolate because they already got a few. Now, time for the best fact yet, but this one is a correction to a mistake Jack and I said on the pod just last week. This correction was sent in by the entire nation of Ireland.
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You see, last week, we did this fascinating story on the Guinness sales surge right now that is being driven by Ginfluencers. Guinness sales are up 24% among young women. It's not just a guy's drink right now. Jack and I also mentioned that Guinness beer was limiting supplies in the United Kingdom, and we referred to the UK as their home island.
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Guinness is based in Ireland, which is not part of the United Kingdom. Now, interesting source of the mistake, but Guinness is actually owned by Diageo, which is a company based in London. And that's the little mix-up where we said Home Island was the UK. So a British company actually owns the Irish beer. That's enough. I'm just going to Irish exit this best fact yet.
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While Jack is Irish exiting over there, you look fantastic. And now that you finished today's show, we know the perfect thing you should listen to next. Check out our iconic story of the Air Jordan sneaker. Michael Jordan's mom literally made this deal go through, and it is the biggest deal in sports shoe history. And it's the reason why Nike is number one today.
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Okay, so go and check out The Best Idea Yet. That's our new weekly show. You can check it out every Tuesday. We even have a link in today's show notes to make it super easy for you. If you've seen the Air Jordan movie, you need to listen to this Air Jordan episode. We got some updates for you about that Air Jordan movie, don't we, Jack?
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So yetis, head on over to The Best Idea Yet, and Jack and I will see you there. And remember to call your mom. And before we go, a happy birthday to Yeti Chrisia Natalia in Jakarta, Indonesia, who's listening to this pod while celebrating a birthday and is about to have a baby girl in two weeks. Congrats, Chrisia. Happy birthday to Oliver, who's turning nine in lovely Los Angeles.
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Oliver's listening every day on the way to school. Oliver, celebrate the best one yet. Happy birthday to Caden Silverstein in New York City. And Andy Kasler's got a belated birthday over in Washington, Illinois. And a huge shout out to Chase McElroy. Great guy. Big fan of the show who actually built a caroling app way before Uber got into caroling. Way before.
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And then a men's shout out to our bestie, Lila Adler, over in Venice, California, who just went full hustle. Jack, what's going on here? Lila told us on this pod about her side hustle, Jerry Wipers, which is basically windshield wipers for snow goggles. Well, Lila is now full time on Jerry Wipers, and we think it's the best idea yet. Not too shabby.
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And to anyone else celebrating something today, make it a T-boy. Celebrate the wins. This is Jack. I own stock of Disney and Nick owns stock of Nike. If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
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New episodes drop every Tuesday, and we drop the link in today's show notes. Because Nike's Air Jordans are the $7 billion sneaker brand that changed the history of sports and fashion. So tap the link in today's episode description to listen to The Best Idea Yet after today's show. But today's show, this show, oh yeah, the T-Boy, is the best one yet. This is a fantastic show.
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Best one we've ever done. Jack, let's hit our three stars.
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Jack said he wanted to skate around Walman Rink. I said, I'll see you there at 1 p.m. before the pod. We're going to do a prom picture right in front of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. Someone's got to take our picture. Excuse me. You got a selfie stick? In the meantime, Jack, three fantastic stories for today's show. What do we got on the T-Boy?
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For our first story, Taylor Swift's Errors Tour is officially over and it smashed every music record. Here's the economic receipts for the biggest live tour of all time. Jack, let's start with the numbers. 149 shows, 52 cities, 21 months, five continents, one tour. And one bajillion sparkly outfits. The best part, we're not even rounding up on that.
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Yeti's Taylor Swift's Heiress Tour, it is over as of Sunday, and it broke every single record we could find, and we found a lot. With $2.1 billion in gross ticket sales, it beat the previous record set by Elton John by more than 2X. Now, a pretty good comp for Taylor Swift's tour. It's actually not the music industry. Nick and I noticed the baseball industry is the better comp.
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So besties, here's what Jack and I are thinking. In baseball, teams play 162 games, but Taylor Swift did 149 shows. So those are like kind of similar, aren't they, Jack? In 2008, the New York Yankees drew a record 7 million fans to their 162 home and away games. Well, by comparison, the heiress tour of Taylor Swift brought in 10 million fans.
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Which means Taylor Swift beat Derek Jeter and Shohei Otani. And on top of it, she brought in twice as much revenue as the New York Yankees do in a single season. We know what you're thinking. Taylor's concert tour was over two years. She brought in more than the Yankees over two seasons. Oh, you want to talk to us on a per day basis?
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Well, football players in the NFL, like her boyfriend, took six days off between games. But Taylor took just three days off on average between her 149 shows. In fact, Taylor performed 7,000 songs, which is equal to 13 straight days of singing, which is more than all of the national anthems of all the football games in a single season. Did you check that math?
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I actually haven't double-checked it, but instinctively, my back of the envelope checks out, Jack. All right, Nick, the dollars and cents were huge, but let's talk about where the money actually went. Good point, Jack, because the $2.1 billion is a record-breaking number, but that's actually just the start. The ticket resellers, they actually made huge money, too.
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Yeah, Yetis, let's jump in T-boy style. You see, Taylor's team, they only collect the primary ticket sales, which average about $204 a ticket. But the final show in Vancouver on Sunday, it shows how big the secondary prices went. The average resale price in Vancouver on Sunday was nearly $3,000. And Taylor Swift is not getting more than the original $204.
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After 149 concerts and 10 million tickets sold, Taylor Swift's Heiress Tour ended on Sunday. So Jack and I got the receipts on the final financial numbers of Swift and Onyx. For our second story, Disney just revealed that its most popular product by far is the Disney Cruise. Cruise! Disney is doubling its cruise line because of millennial moms.
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But Taylor's team does get the majority of revenue from merch sales. Which totaled $440 million over the course of the tour, which is more than Allbirds brings in for their shoes in a single year. Add in the Heiress Tour movie, which brought in $261 million at the box office. That's more than Disney made on the Marvel movie. And the Heiress Tour book?
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It sold $32 million just on Black Friday weekend. Which is the second most ever for a non-fiction title. What about the friendship bracelets? Well, she actually didn't make money on the friendship bracelets, Jack. But we did discover that friendship bracelet sales searched 15,000% over on eBay. Now, Taylor shared the wealth.
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She actually paid the dancers and the stage crew $200 million in bonuses on top of the salaries they got paid. Now, Jack and I crunched the math on Taylor's giveaway bonus money, and what did we discover, Jack? She gave away the equivalent of 15 shows worth of revenue as bonuses for the workers. It's like she did 15 free shows because she gave all those revenues to everyone working for her.
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Over the last two years, we've said that Taylor should IPO her entire business. Let fans buy Taylor's stock. We did, and we said she should launch her own ticketing service so Taylor Swift could disrupt Ticketmaster. Her tour has provided a whole bunch of episodes worth of content for this show. We've made a lot of money on advertising revenues by covering the business of Swiftonomics.
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But the heiress tour has provided even more business for the rest of the world. And that business is our takeaway. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies... Wearing short skirts and t-shirts over at Taylor Swiftonomics. Where Taylor went, GDP grew. Yetis, the coolest thing about Taylor's Heiress Tour is how $1 spent on tickets by you led to $6 more you spent on everything else.
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In the U.S., the average fan spent $1,300 total to see Taylor, if you include the outfits, the hotel, the food and drink, and the travel. And the sparkles. In fact, Taylor's fans traveled an average distance of 338 miles just to see her. So Taylor's 15 nights in the United Kingdom, Nick, they added $1.3 billion to the British economy, according to Barclays.
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Well, Jack, what if we extrapolate that number to her entire era's tour? Then there were $13 billion of additional revenue beyond what Taylor collected. So yeti's Taylor, she headlined the year of the sheconomy with Barbie playing a supporting role. In 2023 and 2024, the music world witnessed an heiress tour. But the economic world witnessed a stimulus tour.
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Because everywhere Taylor went the last two years, GDP grew. For our second story, Disney is launching seven new cruise ships. Disney is doubling their cruise business. Why is Disney investing $12 billion on new cruise ships? Why are they doing it, Jack? Because of one single survey. Yeah, it is. Funny thing, the movie Titanic, it was not a Disney movie.
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Bob Iger is now avenging that injustice with this news. Yes, he is. Disney just ordered seven new cruise ships priced at about $2 billion per boat. That means each vessel costs 10 times the price of Zootopia. By 2031, Disney will have doubled their fleet to 13 total cruise ships. Now, can I sprinkle on some context to that 13 cruise ships that Disney's going to have?
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I would love for you to do that. Carnival has 27 cruise ships. Royal Caribbean has 28 cruise ships. Disney's going to have 13. It's right up there. Disney is basically a cruise company now is what we're saying. But only Disney cruises have grown adults dressed on the poop deck as Pluto, Goofy, and Donald Duck. Yeah, they're the only ones steering the ship.
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And with Coco and Frozen themed stage shows and Avengers themed laser tag on the starboard board. Bow! It's a family affair, which is why, according to the Wall Street Journal, Disney can charge twice as much a price as Carnival and Royal Caribbean charge. That's right, besties. There is pricing power in that pixie dust.
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And our third and final story, December is the most important month by far for the diamond industry. But yetis, did you know that 80% of diamonds never end up in jewelry? We'll tell you where the diamonds really go. It's not in that rapper's teeth, is it, Jack? Sorry, Flava Flav. It's in other places. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories.
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By the way, side note, Nana, if you're listening, thank you so much for that Royal Caribbean cruise I went on when I was 12. I didn't go on it, but I'm pumped that I heard the stories from Jack. In the meantime, yetis, what Jack and I found fascinating about this story is why is Disney doubling down on cruises in the first place? Because they realized they can serve two customers instead of one.
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Yeah, besties, here was the insight by Disney. Disney parks, they are vacations for the kids. That's not the insight from Disney. That's the insight from me when I went to Disney Paris this summer. Yeah, on the other hand, Disney cruises are vacations for the kids and the parents to customers. Because a Disney cruise ship is like a 1200 foot childcare facility.
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It is a closed off chaperone vessel with child activities that you don't have to worry about as a parent. So on a Disney cruise, mom and dad can hang poolside with the margaritas while little Johnny is in crayon camp with Minnie Mouse. They have activities for the kids going through midnight. True story. Now compare that to a theme park. As a parent, you're on duty the whole time.
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I mean, Jack, at Disney World once, we lost my sister in Epcot. It was traumatic. Did you? We found her eating an enchilada at the Mexican restaurant. Sounds like a win. It all worked out. It all worked out, but it was a scary afternoon. Also, a cruise, it eliminates the worst part of going on a Disney vacation, which is the flight. The flight. Little Johnny's having a meltdown on aisle 13B.
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You're like, honey, when do we land? She's like, three hours. Orlando. But the cruise, it doesn't involve air travel. Disney cruises, they take off from 18 port cities globally. So chances are, you can just go to the port instead of the airport. Yeah. New Yorkers don't have to fly from LaGuardia to Florida for a Disney vacation. A Disney cruise departs from the Hudson River on 50th Street.
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So Disney is investing $12 billion to double its fleet by 2031. Because Disney knows it's a good investment. And they know that because of one single survey. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over in the Disney cruise industry? Surveys are how you get from I think to I know.
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Now, yetis, with growth of 23% and 14% in the past two years, Disney just said, I think we should expand our fleet. But when $12 billion is on the line, I think doesn't cut it. No, it does not. So Disney turned to customer data to turn I think to I know. They asked each customer a question at the end of their cruise. And here was the question.
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They said, how likely are you to take another Disney cruise in the future? And Jack, what were the results of that one survey? 82% of Disney passengers said they're either likely or very likely to take another Disney cruise. That's an extremely high rate. In fact, besties, in surveys across the Disney portfolio, they learned that cruises are the most liked Disney product. cruises.
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So Disney Plus and Moana, they're breeding future Disney cruise passengers, but 82% of existing cruise passengers plan to do it again. And that's why Disney is doubling down on cruises, because a simple survey is how you get in business from I think to I know. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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Love this mix today. Yesterday at the end of the show, we asked you our weekly trivia question. What was the biggest shoe sponsorship of all time? The answer? It was Nike and Michael Jordan. Eh. Michael Jordan and Nike, specifically the Air Jordans from Nike. And it wasn't the biggest shoe deal in history because of Michael Jordan. No, no, no, no, no, no.
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For our third and final story, the biggest diamond producer in the world just revealed it's real business. 80% of diamonds never make it onto fingers. They end up in factories. Yet is happy engagement season. Engagement season, you know what that means, Jack. Your random roommate from sophomore year just got down on one knee during a hike at Mount Fuji. Check out my Instagram. We did a thing.
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You're seeing a lot of proposal pics on Insta right now. Yeah, yeah, you are. December, it is actually the biggest month for the diamond industry because of those proposals. By the way, if you give someone an engagement ring, you don't have to give a Christmas gift that year. Is that a fact? Really interesting, Jack. I think so. You're spending a lot of money on that ring.
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Well, I think we're going to get a lot of controversial DMs after that take. It's worth a conversation. But yet he's in the meantime. Here's the shocker we discovered about the diamond industry. Only one out of five diamonds that gets mined from this earth ends up in jewelry. Sit down, stand up, and look at my ring finger. Jack, can you repeat that stat, please?
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🫶🧾 “Eras Tour receipts” — Taylor Swift’s concert payday. Disney’s doubling cruise line. DeBeers’ industrial diamonds.
Only one out of five diamonds ends up in jewelry. In fact, De Beers, the largest diamond producer in the world. De Beers, the company that invented... Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Diamonds last forever. They're actually barely in the jewelry industry. Because yetis get this. 80% of diamonds are not used for jewelry. 80% of diamonds are used for the opposite of jewelry.
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🫶🧾 “Eras Tour receipts” — Taylor Swift’s concert payday. Disney’s doubling cruise line. DeBeers’ industrial diamonds.
80% of diamonds are actually used for industrial purposes. We'll have to explain. Let's explain that one, Jack. Diamonds are the hardest naturally occurring material on earth. You cannot scratch a diamond because there's nothing stronger than a diamond. They're harder than steel. They're harder than iron. They're harder than human teeth. They're harder than valerian steel. True story.
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🫶🧾 “Eras Tour receipts” — Taylor Swift’s concert payday. Disney’s doubling cruise line. DeBeers’ industrial diamonds.
We checked that one too. And that is why manufacturing firms actually put diamond tips on saws, which they use to cut stone and metal. I'm looking at pictures right now of massive mining machines underground grinding at our Earth's core thanks to diamond-tipped blades. So yeah, he's added it up. And most diamonds aren't actually Tiffany's or Kay's.
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🫶🧾 “Eras Tour receipts” — Taylor Swift’s concert payday. Disney’s doubling cruise line. DeBeers’ industrial diamonds.
They're actually bought by the oil, the gas, the car, and the tech industries. And here's the news. De Beers just said that their B2B business of selling diamonds for industrial purposes, it just got a huge boost. And why is that, Jack? Lab-grown diamonds are ideal for this business. Think about this, Yetis.
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🎬 “Quentin Tariff-tino” — Hollywood’s digital trade war. Warren Buffett’s secret investing sauce. Skechers’ $9B retirement.
Google Maps.
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🎬 “Quentin Tariff-tino” — Hollywood’s digital trade war. Warren Buffett’s secret investing sauce. Skechers’ $9B retirement.
They did it by jumping generations.
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Even the lawyers don't know what that means. ChatJVD is basically like that kid who works for Teach for America, even though their parents are in Peace Corps. Definitely no profits. No.
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🎬 “Quentin Tariff-tino” — Hollywood’s digital trade war. Warren Buffett’s secret investing sauce. Skechers’ $9B retirement.
It's possible. It is possible.
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So besties, to hear the true origin story of Google Maps, turn left. No, no, no. Don't do that. Don't do that.
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But Jack, we got three fantastic stories for today's T-Boy. Should we hit the show?
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is confused about this situation.
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🎬 “Quentin Tariff-tino” — Hollywood’s digital trade war. Warren Buffett’s secret investing sauce. Skechers’ $9B retirement.
If you're not in Chicago, fly into Chicago and pull off some logistics.
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🎬 “Quentin Tariff-tino” — Hollywood’s digital trade war. Warren Buffett’s secret investing sauce. Skechers’ $9B retirement.
Like with the Jurassic World movie coming out this summer. Dinosaurs are from another era. Do we tariff the Tyrannosaurus if it's a Cretaceous period? TBD, TBD. Where are my tariffs?
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Now, Yetis, Jack and I are putting ourselves out there.
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So Skechers made an interesting move. Instead of just changing the marketing, they also changed the product.
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🎬 “Quentin Tariff-tino” — Hollywood’s digital trade war. Warren Buffett’s secret investing sauce. Skechers’ $9B retirement.
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Now, yeah, he's a funny thing, but over the weekend, we did a video and we dropped it on Instagram.
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Mathematically, we've never even said the number 5.5 million percent before, Jack.
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💩 “TP’s wet disruptor” — Dude Wipes’ rise. America’s 1st Crypto Fund. The Biz of Breakups.
11, 11.
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But besties, before we go, you look fantastic.
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And before we go, what are the odds? Happy birthday to the legendary Yeti, Alex Kravici-Kramer, also known as Jack's wonderful wife.
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Jack, my business doula is back in the recording studio. Look at This guy is going over there.
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🥞 “Maple Syrup Mayhem” — Trade War’s wild 24 hours. Robinhood’s Super Bowl bet. Levi’s Baggy Secret.
I need a loan. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in the dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick. That's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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🥞 “Maple Syrup Mayhem” — Trade War’s wild 24 hours. Robinhood’s Super Bowl bet. Levi’s Baggy Secret.
Start the show.
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💔 “Princess *not* falling in love” — How Moana beat Frozen. The Ringtone’s resurgence. Aldi’s genius grocery.
I love your racket. It's like mildly concussed. It's like you need like a little bit of Philadelphia, a little bit of Italian, and a little bit of stage two concussion. I don't think that offends anyone. Look, I've had a couple concussions.
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💔 “Princess *not* falling in love” — How Moana beat Frozen. The Ringtone’s resurgence. Aldi’s genius grocery.
We got three fantastic stories for you, Dad Jack. Three stories. What do we got on the pod, man?
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Tuesday T-Boy, Tuesday, April 1st. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Yetis, Jack and I are coming at you live from the south side of Chicago, and we ain't doing logistics today, are we, Jack? We are here for the 2025 Ambie Awards Best Business Podcast. Fingers crossed. Here we go.
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And Zipline has also partnered with Walmart. That's right. In this Arkansas or Texas town, drone is a delivery option when you go to Walmart.com. We're not kidding over here. Locals are actually sitting in the Walmart parking lot to watch this armada of Zipline drones exiting the warehouse and going to find somewhere to drop off. But yet, here's the shocking part of the story.
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Zipline is working and it's winning. The shocking part of the story is that Zipline is beating Amazon and Google when it comes to drone delivery. They've raised $500 million. Meanwhile, Amazon and Google have roughly unlimited money to throw at this problem. But yet, Nick and I have been covering the news for a while. And we're interested in tech innovation like this.
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And the funny thing we noticed is that the article on drone delivery from the Wall Street Journal mentioned the word burrito three times. Why are we so obsessed with quicker burrito deliveries? And Jack and I realized we've actually been hearing about this burrito drone delivery for years now. We looked back and we found an article from nine years ago about burrito drone delivery.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
All right, Jack, can you share with the Yetis what was the headline of the Bloomberg article on drone delivery from back in September 2016? Alphabet and Chipotle are bringing burrito delivery drones to campus. Now, Jack, could you read the equivalent headline from the Wall Street Journal Soon, your burrito bowl could arrive from the sky.
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So, besties, nine years later, has there been, like, any progress with burrito drone delivery? Is the real news here that drone delivery has made no progress in nine years? And yet we have this obsessive appetite for burritos being delivered by drones in the air? That's not the story, actually. No, there's actually a totally different story to tell about drone-delivered burritos.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone's Wanting drone delivery. You can only choose one story. Yetis, for nine years, Zipline has been saving lives. That's right. They deliver medications, drugs, vaccines to save children and mothers through drones over in Africa. It's pretty wild. In Africa, Zipline doesn't deliver to houses. They deliver to hospitals. Right.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
But now, Kim Kardashian wants to disrupt the office dress code. So Skims' latest shapewear line is designed specifically for Wall Street work. Ha! Jack, you're going to have to strut out on the runway and give us an example of this stuff. The ex-finance bro in me is thrilled for the sweat-wicking spreadsheet shirt. Because you're spending all day in Excel, that's a workout.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
They deliver blood packs to... to hospital patients who need their lives saved. Yeah, not burritos. And yet, all the press and all the venture capitalists seem interested in one storyline about drone delivery. We're obsessed with burritos over here. Speedy burrito delivery. So there's two wildly different stories when it comes to this company.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
One is serving a stoned teen in Westchester who wants their burrito delivered slightly faster. Yeah, the other is a mom in a remote hospital that needs medical supplies ASAP. So when it comes to drone delivery, the story in the press is about quenching your hunger. Okay, but the story on Zipline's own website is about saving lives. It's a drone delivery.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
It has two wildly different stories to tell, but it can only choose one. And your company, you might have two wildly different stories to tell too, but at the end, you got to choose one story. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for T-Boy Tuesday? The Yankees are hitting five home runs per game thanks to a sweet spot optimized torpedo bat. It's the new AI era of sports.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
The beautiful game is becoming the optimized game. For our second story, stagflation is the word that you will see in Q2. The S word. When inflation and unemployment rise at the same time. Stagflation. It's like the economic house is flooded and on fire at the same time. And our third and final story is Zipline.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
They're getting attention right now for quick burrito delivery, but their drones also are saving lives. Besties, when you have two stories, you gotta tell one. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, tomorrow is Liberation Day, according to President Trump.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
He's been drumming up the hype for these reciprocal tariffs coming tomorrow on all our trading partners globally. Now, it's not clear how big these new tariffs will be, but the president's basically keeping the world on the edge of its seat, waiting to hear what'll happen. It would be a huge escalation of Trade War 2. We'll cover what happens if it actually does.
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And second, Elon Musk is merging X with his AI company, XAI. Which basically means Elon is merging his left pocket with his right pocket. Yeah, the company formerly known as Twitter is now being mixed in together with Elon's AI project. The bigger story here, social media companies are now more valuable for feeding their content to AI than they are for anything else.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
Yeah, your pokes are a profit puppy. And finally, speaking of pokes, Mark Zuckerberg just spent $5,000 to buy his own t-shirt. He bought the t-shirt worn by Jesse Eisenberg playing Mark Zuckerberg in the movie The Social Network. So Zuck saw the shirt at an auction and then anonymously bid on it and bought the shirt. That was his shirt, but not really his shirt.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
It says Ardsley Athletics, which is the town in high school where he grew up in Westchester. Now, time for the best fact yet. This one whipped up by Knack and Jick from a podcast studio not far away. Jack, what is today's fact, man? On April 1st, 1996, Taco Bell took out a full-page ad in the newspaper saying that they had bought the Liberty Bell.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
And, of course, everyone freaked out and believed this, but it was April Fool's. the National Park Service had to issue a real statement to confirm Taco Bell's was a fake statement. And that was the best April Fool's joke we've ever seen. Yetis, you look fantastic today. I should point out, Jack, you look fantastic in those liquidity leggings from the Skims Wall Street collection.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
These aren't for me, but I'm thrilled for the liquidity leggings. Yes, you don't have to feel that liquidity squeeze. My personal favorite, the insider trade. A fresh pair of underwear to change into after your sweaty commute to work. I mean, Jack, I like that Skims already did thong underwear, but now they're doing a thong briefcase. I'll take that.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
I like my insider trades. Besties, Jack and I got to go. We're literally recording from like the hotel lobby room. We actually got to get dressed. We're hitting the red carpet in like 30 minutes. I know. I'm very excited. Have we prepared an acceptance speech? We've prepared one. We could give it. We could not give it. It's in the back pocket. I'm going to write it down on my hand.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
Ties or no ties, head over to Instagram. Go to at tboypot, and you can watch the whole thing. We're actually going to share some clips behind the scenes. We're going to post some red carpet content. I'm going to do Jack's tie.
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I'll do my makeup.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
Don't overpromise. You're overpromising. Yeah, and he's Jack and I. We'll see you tomorrow. Wish us luck. And before we go, a happy birthday from our Levan bacon buddy, Griffin Schwed from the Upper West Side. Happy birthday to Tatiana over in Houston, Texas, who owns stock in Marriott. Good disclosure.
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And Chris Lindauer over in New Athens, Illinois, is listening to T-Boy every day and is going to celebrate the best birthday yet. Happy birthday to Bjorn Carlson in Plymouth, Minnesota, who's having dinner at Bar La Grassa. To Shabby and Sharon Yu celebrating that birthday in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
And a big shout-out to Erica and Rosemary from Ohio and Atlanta, who both bumped into us in Chi-Town and gave us a quick HYH-TBOI. Jack and I were prepping the pod, and Jack was talking really loudly. Shocker. And someone's like, I think I recognize that voice. There you go. Thanks for listening, Eric and Rosemary. And congrats to Lise Keeney, who launched a dating app called Goblins.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
She heard our story last week talking about Tinder fatigue, and it turns out she's found a solution. She matches people through video games. So if you loved Crash Bandicoot, then swipe right on Super Mario Guy. This is Jack. I own stock of Amazon, and Nick and I both own stock of Airbnb and Chipotle. And I'm a lifelong Yankees fan.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
And of course, thanks to this new line, you can replace your Patagonia vest with a skim spandex one. It's not a big short, it's a big skort. Because besties, according to a Wall Street Oasis poll, 91% of bank analysts complain of sock chafing during the work. So Skims new silk sock is wrinkle-free for that 85-hour work week. Apparently Jamie Dimon wears them when he's never working from home.
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Yeti's Kim Skims. It's the new Brooks Brothers. Because the biggest product launch of the year is Skims Wall Street. And if you want to see this new lineup, Jack and I are actually modeling it right now. I'm wearing a silk tie, but I'm wearing not a thread of cotton. Jack, the spandex is so soft, the SEC is going to investigate me.
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If you want to see our blue steel, check us out on Instagram at tboypod. We're repping this new line. Jack, you are looking fantastic over there. Yetis, let's hit our three stars.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
Okay, that dry cleaning better be a write-off. Jack, three stories for today's show. What do we got on the pod, man? For our first story, the New York Yankees just set a home run record, but it's all thanks to their new baseball bat. So we're covering the torpedo bat and the NASA-trained AI analyst PhD team behind it. For our second story, the first quarter of 2025 ended yesterday.
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For our first story, the New York Yankees are undefeated, but they have twice as many home runs per game than the next best team, and everyone is curious why. They're the Bronx Bombers. Yeah, they are. And the reason is their new bat, the Torpedo Bat, which represents a force changing the game. Yetis, as we mentioned, Jack and I are in Chicago right now.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
We can see actually a few stadiums from here, right? I see Soldier Field from my 30th floor hotel room. But we're also right near the White Sox stadium, and perfect timing because the baseball season just began. I watched the Yankees game on Saturday. They hit nine home runs, which is the most in franchise history. Okay, we repeat Yetis.
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Already, just three games into the season, the New York Yankees have set a record beating the Brewers 20-9. The record was nine home runs in a single game. That's the most in Yankees history. We're talking the team of Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio. They have literally never hit so many home runs as they did this past weekend.
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Aaron Judge hit three dingers, and he and two other Yankees actually hit three straight home runs on three straight pitches from the same pitcher. It was so beautiful. Yogi Berra would have written a poem about it, Jack. The Yankees win! But the real star of the game wasn't any of those New York Yankees. No. It was the new New York Yankees bat. Behold, the torpedo bat.
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⚾ “Torpedo Bat” — NY Yankees’ innovation. Q2’s Stagflation risk. Drone Delivery’s burrito vs blood.
This thing looks like a bowling pin married a wine bottle. Yeah, no. What is the exact science behind this new torpedo bat? This new wooden bat shifted the mass of the wood a little towards the handle. They basically pulled the sweet spot closer to the handle because, according to the data, that's where the Yankees were making contact with the bat most of the time.
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Now, the result is a bat that does look like a torpedo, so I gotta ask Jack, is this new torpedo bat street legal? We checked the rules.
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The MLB rule 3.02. A baseball bat must be solid and made of one piece of wood. The maximum diameter is 2.61 inches, and the maximum length is 42 inches. So, yes, it's legal. We're not lawyers, but we're clearing this bat, and so is Major League Baseball. But that was not the fascinating part of the story for us. The fascinating part is that there's a team...
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Yeah. Steve Cohen just spending a whole lot of money on those data crunchers. Now, the Yankees head scientist is a guy named Lenny Lienhardt. And his resume sounds like a scientific Mad Libs. Lenny recently left the Yankees, but he's responsible for this bad. Oh, totally. He has a PhD from MIT. He has a Nobel Prize, and he previously worked for NASA.
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Those are all on the science bingo card right there. You win the game. You win the game, Lenny. And under Lenny's leadership, this data and science team for the Yankees has simply taken the data even further. Because the Yankees are measuring exit velocity of pitches, the launch angles of bats, and 20 other metrics to predict what's going to happen on each pitch.
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Including where the ball actually hits the bat, which led to their genius move of nudging the sweet spot. Now, Jack, when we were kids, I mean, the stats we were tracking were like home runs, doubles, triples, and...
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homers like that's it like we have three or four things with today's technology baseball teams are measuring hundreds of additional statistics and they don't just measure they have now data optimized the game of baseball get this the whole defense will shift their alignment based on the pitch that the pitcher is about to throw they will literally move like the left fielder five feet over to the right if the yankees pitcher is doing a curveball instead of a fastball it's
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the second quarter begins today and the one word that could define the economy for the next three months is stagflation and our third and final story one drone delivery startup zipline is beating amazon and google in the sky but jack and i will tell you why drone delivery isn't really about the burritos but yetis before we hit that wonderful mix of stories
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So to sum it all up, the Yankees have a new home run hitting bat. They have five home runs per game, which is twice as many as the number two Dodgers have. But Yetis, Jack and I were tracking this story and that viral torpedo bat, it actually brings up a bigger question. You know how we have artificial general intelligence, which is when AI is even smarter than human beings?
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Yeah, Jack and I. What if we have artificial general baseball? Where the models are smarter than us. What if AI solves sports? So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies playing baseball? Okay, Bob Zucker. The beautiful game is becoming the optimized game. Yeti's Brazilian soccer great Pele famously called soccer the beautiful game.
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Fans of every sport probably fell in love with their game because they found it beautiful in some way. But what happens when the play on the field gets dictated by AI algorithms and data science? Earlier this year, we did a story just like that. We did? On the NBA. how basketball has a three-pointer problem. Yeah, Jack, why don't you remind the Yetis about that specific story?
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Scientifically speaking, shooting threes makes you more likely to win the game. But shooting so many threes is making the game more boring, and it's resulting in fans not tuning in. Well, similarly, every baseball team is probably about to buy these New York Yankee torpedo bats. This is probably going to be the season with the most home runs ever. And the result?
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Well, a game with more home runs is fun until each home run has less value and therefore is less fun. It was really exciting seeing Judge hit 60 home runs the other year, but now he's going to hit 80? Like, that's kind of messing with the fans. Now, one solution we proposed before is the league step in. They fix this market failure and create rules to stop the science.
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Because the alternative is every team following the same algorithmically optimized formula, the game is going to lose its art. In a way, imperfection of the game may have been the perfection of the game. Because the beautiful game is becoming the optimized game. For our second story. As we finish the first quarter, Jack and I are predicting that the theme of the second quarter will be one word.
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Stagflation. If we get stagflation, it's like a house that's flooded and on fire at the same time. We'll explain. Yeah, it is Q1 2025. Let's recap it now that it's over. Economic chaos. We got whiplashed worse than a professional bull rider. First, things looked rosy. In January, stocks jumped 6% on hopes of deregulation and tax cuts.
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But since then, stocks have fallen 10% on trade war 2 tariffs on and off again like whiplash. So as we enter Q2 and we look at the data, how are things looking? Well, Jack, it kind of is not exactly a warm spring weather situation. Nick and I jumped into the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey. Okay.
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The first thing that the survey shows is that two-thirds of us think the unemployment rate will rise next year. That's the highest level since 2009. Not since the 2009 Great Recession have so many of us thought unemployment was going to increase. Now, at the same time, Americans also think that prices will jump up to 5% higher next year.
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Higher unemployment rate and higher inflation at the same time? That would be an economist's nightmare. And funny thing, because that nightmare happens to have a very particular name. And what is that, Jack? Stagflation. Ah, stagflation, the S word of economics. The last time we had stagflation was in the 1970s.
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Okay, but before we go back to the 70s, Jack, let's just talk about today for a moment because the period of inflation we've all been living under for the last few years, it wasn't fun. It felt like 10% of our paycheck disappeared because grocery prices are so damn high. Okay, but at least we had a paycheck during this period. Right.
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Fantastic mix of stories for a T-Boy Tuesday, Jack. The biggest product launch of this year, it changes the look of business forever. Literally. Because Skims just launched financial fashion. We repeat, Kim Kardashian is launching Skims Wall Street. That's right. Skims, the shapewear brand, is making something for banking bros and financial females.
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Unemployment has been historically low throughout the recent inflation situation. But besties, what Jack and I are talking about now is entering a world that could be the worst of both worlds. A world with high inflation and high unemployment. And the last time that happened was the 1970s. Right. It was during the Carter administration.
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and it was caused by an oil crisis your parents probably remember. This was when the Middle East embargoed oil exports to America, so gas stations, like, literally ran out of gas. There were massive lines of people waiting in cars to get to a gas station. Well, when the price of oil quadrupled, prices overall rose, and people lost their jobs, and that was stagflation.
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Stagflation is rare, but if it happens again, This time, it will be caused by the trade war. Because tariffs, by definition, raise the prices of goods. That's the inflation part. And as we toss tariffs on other countries, they retaliate, and that affects our companies. And that could raise the unemployment rate. Now, add it all up, and Trump calls this a transition period economically.
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But Jack and I have a visual to help you with stagflation. And that visual... is our takeaway. So, Jag, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone in the American economy? Stagflation is when your house is flooded and on fire at the same time.
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Yetis, the reason stagflation is such a rare beast is that high unemployment rates and high inflation, they just mathematically don't go together. There's an inverse relationship. Right. High unemployment rates result in low inflation and vice versa. It's just like how water and fire have an inverse relationship. Basically, what we're saying is economic self-corrects.
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But stagflation defies that inverse relationship. And as students of economics, Jack and I know that stagflation is caused by something external. Something like politics. In the 1970s, the political external event was the Middle East oil crisis. Okay, but today, the political external event causing stagflation would be the global trade war. So stagflation defies economics and is very rare.
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And the result is high inflation today. and high unemployment. We're already seeing stagflation mentioned in the headlines, so here's what to think when you see the term in Q2. It's rare, it's caused by politics, not economics, and it's like a house is flooded and on fire at the same time. It's like a bottle of water bursting into flames. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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For our third and final story, one privately held startup is beating Amazon and Google in drone delivery, and that company is Zipline. Zipline's drone logistics is delivering burritos fast, but it's also saving lives. All right, we'll get into that in a second. But first, Jack, could you please remind us, what is the dream of any new tech company? To become a verb.
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Jack, could you sprinkle on some context for us over there, please? Kim Kardashian founded Skims as a women's shapewear brand six years ago. Today, it's worth $4 billion and it's rumored to be prepping for an IPO. But recently, Skims has expanded from undies to everything. They've partnered with Nike, the North Face, with Dolce & Gabbana.
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Yeah, you Google it, you Uber it, you Airbnb it, you Venmo it, you don't WeWork it. All the others became verbs. Ziplining is already a verb, according to the Webster's Dictionary. Yes, it is. But now ziplining is being redefined. Because over in Pea Ridge, Arkansas and Mesquite, Texas, ziplining is a verb for delivering burritos via drone.
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Because zipline is a private startup whose autonomous drones fly to a delivery site and then lower a package slowly, 300 feet, to place it gently on your front lawn. It's actually a wild miracle to watch. You basically get your pad thai from the sky. They've raised $500 million. They've done 1.4 million drone drops. They're operating in seven different countries.
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Nice.
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It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to, like, get other people to do it.
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but he just delayed them and stocks popped.
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Tariffs? Schmariffs.
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What is it, Jack?
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Yeah, I love doing barbecue birthdays.
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We can't.
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The Greek national anthem. Longer than anything written by Homer.
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Yeah, one of which was filled with horse mane hair. Real thing.
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Yetis, Jack and I would love you to give us five stars for review.
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It's based on Nick Kramer, Jack's eldest brother.
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power cowabunga but today's show jack i mean this is the best one we've ever done should we hit it let's hit it 15 years before this song two boys from the northeast met in the dorm they had an idea to cause a cultural storm it's the best one yet but the best is the norm jack nick that's it i don't even think they need to practice 50 that's a fat tip t-boy city on your at list if you know you know because we're ready to go we can't wait no more so just start the show we
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Yes, I have.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, January 23rd, and today's pot is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. I mean, Jack, I don't want to brag, but the birthday stock bump continued. Yeah. Fox should recognize again. Some say it's Trump's presidency. Others say it's my birthday week.
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Or maybe Jackie's going to sell you a combo of smart glasses supported by a smart watch with a screen, kind of like you may have with Apple right now. Funny timing, though, because last week, Mark Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan's podcast and said this about Apple.
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Well, that's big because the iPhone happens to be the most profitable product of all time. And what replaces the iPhone eventually probably will be too. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Meta? Meta's advantage over Apple is that they don't care about privacy. They do not care about it. Yet, since Apple prioritizes your privacy, they can't use your data to sell you ads.
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But we all know Meta openly collects all of our data. They do, they do. It's their business. And that lets them supplement their gadgets revenues with ad revenue. Get this. Meta made $250 per an American user last year just in ad revenue. He made $250 on you. Because you looked at those ads as you swiped through Instagram. That stat, that is exactly why Meta's devices are priced so cheap.
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Because after selling you whatever physical hardware gadget they sell you, they can keep making money on you each and every year. Each and every day as you swipe through Instagram or experience Meta's ads. And honestly, we think it'll be the same business model when it comes to Zuck's smart glasses and smart AirPods. After all, the Apple Vision Pro costs $3,000.
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Meta's equivalent headset, the Quest, costs one-tenth of that price. Oh, and guess what, besties? Most Americans don't mind being tracked if it means a lower price. So Meta's advantage over Apple? They don't care about your privacy. And chances are, you don't either. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the new Friday?
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Three tech companies are investing $500 billion to build AI dentist centers in the USA. It's called Project Stargate. Yetis, brand your product like Hollywood would brand a movie. For our second story, it's pop-up bagels. They're probably coming to a city near you, but make sure you follow their rules. Inconvenience can be an advantage. We call it the no soup for you rule. No soup for you.
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In fact, LVMH spent 15 days for each medal. They made each medal by hand. And they used a secret trade varnish that was 100 years old to protect each and every medal. But here's the news. 100 days after the Paris Olympics, hundreds of those medals have lost their color. Specifically, the medal on the medals completely wore off.
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And our third and final story. Meta is reportedly unveiling Oakley smart glasses this year. Zocles. And rivals to the AirPod next year. Zuck's advantage over Apple when it comes to gadgets? Apple, they don't care about privacy. By the way, I think they should be called Mocles. Nick thinks they should be Zocles. Tell us what you think in the comments.
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Well, there are only a certain amount of consonants out there, so we got limited options here. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, Trump said he will impose tariffs on Chinese imports of just 10%. That's way down from the 60% he said in the campaign that he'd impose on day one. Our thought for why there was a change?
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Well, Trump knows that tariffs could raise prices. So he's using them as a threat. A negotiating tactic not necessarily to be actually used. And second, JetBlue now accepts Venmo. That's right. JetBlue is the first airline that will accept Venmo payments through your phone. Instead of giving us more legroom, you're giving us more payment options. Which we didn't ask for that.
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But if you're buying a ticket to Naples, Florida, you can pay JetBlue. With a palm tree emoji. Just top an emoji on there. And finally, we've got an update on the TikTok flip-flop. MrBeast is trying to buy TikTok in an all-cash bid. You all probably saw on Monday that Trump issued an executive order that delayed the TikTok ban another 75 days.
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And then he said Wednesday he'd be fine with Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok instead. But the YouTube icon MrBeast is throwing his name in the hat. along with other investors, including Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank. You know what? What the heck, Jack? Yetis, Jack and I are trying to buy TikTok too. We're interested in acquiring TikTok. We're interested. We're curious.
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We'll just leave it at that. Now time for the best fact yet. This one sent in by Greg Hager, a Canadian entrepreneur behind the toilet paper startup, Foxfold. He sent us a gem. Before the commercial toilet paper industry 100 years ago, what did people do in the bathroom? Oh, apparently Americans used catalogs and almanacs as their toilet paper. Specifically, Sears catalogs and farmer's almanacs.
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In fact, restaurants would nail those publications to the wall so that customers could use them in the bathroom. They'd rip off part of the Sears catalog as toilet paper. Now, Sears was not thrilled about the association with toilets. So guess what? They changed the material of their catalog.
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Sears went from a comfortably coated paper to an uncomfortably glossy sheet of paper on their catalogs instead. You don't want glossy paper. That has no absorption power. We all know that. No, it does not. Well, people hated the feel of the new Sears catalog so much that Sears circulation actually declined. And some entrepreneur commercialized nice, soft, fluffy toilet paper.
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So you can spare a square. Yetis, you look fantastic today. And if you see a buddy who is enjoying a bagel at this moment, Jack, maybe you tell them H-Y-H-T-B-O-Y. You've clearly had a bagel, but have you had the best one yet? That is how we grow the show. And we're still this close to 10,000 reviews on Apple. So thanks for your reviews. Thanks for your follows.
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And Jack and I will see you tomorrow. And before we go, a happy birthday to Yeti Emily in Beaumont, Texas, just outside Houston. And congratulations to Peter McCow, who's got a new job running marketing for OpenAI. And Mark Canick over in Chicago has got a new job as director of hospitality at Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation. Congratulations, Mark.
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So the gold medals are losing their gold and the bronzes are losing their bronze. I mean, Jack, I'm looking at it right now. Every metal just kind of looks metal. It looks metallic. It doesn't even look silver. It just looks dull, gray metal, like under the hood of some old Volkswagen. Like you dug it up out of the dams, Jack. The situation is so bad, the IOC is replacing these metals ASAP.
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And happy three-year anniversary to MK and Weish in Linwood, Washington. Celebrate that hat trick of a win. This is Jack. I own stock of Luxottica. And Nick and I both own stock in Apple.
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And Jack, why are all the metals from the Olympics just looking like metal? Turns out the EU banned one particular chemical last year. Which happened to be a secret ingredient in that.
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that varnish so lvmh says it's not their fault they're blaming the regulators oh besties add it all up and we'd say typically that it's what's on the inside that counts but when it comes to a gold medal it's what's on the outside that counts i mean it's really only what's on the outside that's all that matters jack let's see that three stories
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I would define reclaiming as to take back what was yours. Something you possess is lost or stolen and ultimately you triumph in finding it again. Listen to Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky wherever you get your podcasts.
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We don't really know the reason why. We'll leave that to you to decide. We'll leave that to CNBC. In the meantime, Jack, three stories for today. T-Boy, what do we got? For our first story, OpenAI just announced an AI megaproject that is more expensive than the Moonland. It's called Stargate, and it shows the power of Hollywood branding. For our second story, it's pop-up bagels.
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For our first story, the most expensive megaproject in a century was just announced at the White House. Here it is. OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are teaming up for something called Stargate. Stargate. The details are interesting, but the name is key. I like what you did there, Jack. Now, Yetis, earlier this week, Jack and I told you that Washington, D.C. was looking like Washington, V.C.
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A lot of tech guys were hanging out over in Washington in the capital. I think we said Washington, S.V. Yes, in Silicon Valley. They both kind of work. Actually, Washington, V.C. is better. I like it. Let's roll with that, Jack. Well, that theme is continuing because a team of big tech CEOs just made a huge announcement Tuesday night at the White House, and that announcement is Stargate. Stargate.
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Those three companies are building $500 billion worth of data centers here in the United States. And Jack, could you sprinkle on some context to that huge number? $500 billion is four times more money than we spent to land on the moon. And that's adjusted for inflation. Now, we need data centers to power artificial intelligence. That's why this is happening.
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Yeah, so Stargate is an epically giant-sized investment in data centers. And it involves three legends of tech. Sam Altman was there at the White House because OpenAI is leading the whole project. Oracle, a software company, is going to build the cloud computing servers starting in Texas. And SoftBank, the Japanese venture capital firm, will figure out how to pay for it all. Masao!
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Are you going to pay for this, please? Now, the news announced at the White House was cloaked in red, white, and blue marketing language. Oh, it was all in on patriotism. They said they will secure American leadership in AI and create hundreds of thousands of American jobs. Trump called it tremendous and monumental. And if this whole thing happens, he'd be right. Yeah.
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This is tremendous and monumental. These three companies have created a joint venture to build all of it, and they're calling it Project Stargate. Side note, Microsoft is involved too. Apparently, they're chipping in $80 billion as well. Not bad. too shabby. But yet, here's what Jack and I found fascinating about the story. The day after the news came out, the drama came out.
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Because Elon Musk is not involved in this deal. No, he's not. So he's raining on the whole enthusiasm parade. Technically, Jack, I think he's cyber raining on the parade. Can you sprinkle on more context to this part as well? 10 years ago, Elon Musk and Sam Altman were business partners. They co-founded OpenAI together until Elon left the company in 2018.
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Now, Elon probably feels betrayed by Trump for promoting his arch AI enemy. Anyway, Elon tweeted yesterday that the three companies don't actually have the money to build this very expensive Stargate. Shots fired. That's the drama. It's like Real Housewives of Cloud Computing over there. And honestly, $500 billion? That's... That is so much money. Like we thought it said $500 million at first.
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Okay, Jack and I were trying to find ways to quantify how much money this is exactly. And one way is that it's three times, four times the price of going to the moon. Another way is that it's more money than it cost us to build the entire US interstate highway system. It is more... than all of our interstate highways, I-5 to I-95.
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One more piece of context, the most expensive thing built in the last 20 years was the facilities for the Sochi Olympics in Russia. Okay, and this project is 10 times the cost of those Olympics. So it's possible that Elon's right. And we've seen companies make huge announcements and then fail to deliver on them.
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This is the fastest-growing bagel chain in America, and Michael Phelps is an investor. But yet is, if you want to buy their bagels, first, you must follow their rules. And our third and final story. Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly launching smart Oakleys this year. Folkleys. And AirPod rivals next year. No, not Folkleys. AI Smart Oakleys. Zokeleys. Because Zuck is Dragon Apple.
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Yeah, like in 2017, when Foxconn announced with Trump a $10 billion factory coming to Wisconsin that never ended up happening. But we still haven't mentioned the key insight from what could be the biggest project in our lifetimes. And that insight is our takeaway. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Project Stargate? Brand your product like Hollywood would brand a movie.
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Yetis, the way Jack and I see it, Stargate is a masterclass in naming because Stargate is epic, it is exciting, and it sparks the imagination. For those who don't watch sci-fi movies, Stargate is a movie that brought Earthlings to another universe. Jack had to enlighten me on that one. Thank you for telling me, by the way. Similarly, this project will bring Earthlings to the universe of AI.
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That's what they're getting at. Besties, that kind of branding, it inspires the employees working on it, the customers that use it, and the citizens that may support it with their data. tax dollars. And when it comes to naming products and naming projects, Tesla has always been good at this. Oh, Tesla's name-storming is great.
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Like the Gigafactory, the Cybertruck, cool names that are inspirational. On the other hand, Boeing is terrible at this. Yeah, Boeing airplanes are the 747, the 787, the 737, they're just numbers. That inspires no one. They should have named their airplanes the Eagle, the Falcon, and the Hawk. Oh, that would have been so much better, Jack. Even a dragonfly. Run with it, Boeing.
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Besties, every product, no matter how big or how small or how B2B should be named for mass appeal, mass inspiration. Brand your product like Hollywood would brand a movie. For our second story, Pop-Up Bagels is now the fastest growing bagel chain in America with a wild story. Pop-Up Bagels is surging because the customer's not always right. Because they said no to the customer.
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Jack, having grown up emotionally with bagels, I would describe them always as a donut without makeup. Ah, I like that. But we discovered the interesting history of the bagel as well, didn't we, man? Well, they were invented in Poland in the 1600s and brought to America by Jewish immigrants starting in New York in the 1900s.
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Now, for the record, the best bagel in America, in New York, is the H&H bagel. I went to camp with this kid. Great guy. Great bagel, Jack. Yeah. I've never had one. Pick a bagel's a close second, but that's a story for another pot. What about Lenny's bagels? Lenny's is also fantastic, but you got to throw it in the microwave first.
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However, Yetis, since nothing is sacred in this world, disruption has now come to the bagel industry. In the form of Pop-Up Bagels, which has become the fastest growing bagel chain in America. We dove into the numbers. They got 10 locations growing to 30 this year. They're tripling their size. They're worth an estimated $50 million.
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So far, they have locations in New York, Connecticut, Boston, and Florida, but they just opened a franchise model and 150 more locations have already been spoken for. Now, interestingly, their investors include carbo-loading athletes. Remember Michael Phelps has 12,000 calories a day? Well, barely half of them are bagels, so he invested. Michael Strahan invested. Football player J.J.
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Watt invested. Paul Rudd's not a pro athlete, but he's invested too. Why not? He's got good taste. Now, the founder of this bagel startup began making bagels during the pandemic by watching YouTube videos and figuring out how to do it. He sold them from the back of his house in Connecticut. and grew initially, like most businesses do, through word of mouth and on social media.
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Shmear that bagel and cream cheese, boom, it is going viral. I've never seen a video of someone tearing open a freshly baked bagel before, but now I have, and wow. That's why this bagel company, Pop-Up, has 150,000 social media followers. They are the Kim Kardashian of sesame seed bagels. But what Nick and I found fascinating about their business model is that they prioritize inconvenience.
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We repeat inconvenience. convenience. Jack, can you explain, please? Unlike any bagelry we know of, Pop-Up will not customize your order. They won't toast your bagel. They won't even slice your bagel in half if you ask them to. They're not doing it. Don't even bother asking. They'll say no. Can I get my bagel buttered? No. Can you cut it in half for me? Nope.
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That's why Zuck is launching Zokeleys. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stars. Fantastic mix of stories. Love the mix today, Jack. It's been 100 days since the Paris Olympics. Not possible. Actually, it is possible. And we have a weird update 100 days after the closing ceremonies. Get this, Bettys. The Olympic medals are breaking. We'll explain. We will.
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Can I get peanut butter and butter on it? No. In fact, Pop-Up only sells two products, bagels and schmear. No lox, no coffee. They don't even sell drinks at this bagel brand. They also only sell in packs of three, six, or 12. You can't order just one bagel there. It's a grab-and-go business. No tables for dining. You can't even get a single bagel.
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If you think you gamed the system by ordering online, well, then you have to buy more bagels. They'll only sell online by the dozen. That's right. If you buy online, you have to get 12, 24, or 36 bagels. Those are the only options. Those are the rules. Burger King says have it your way. Pop-Up Bagels makes you have it their way. This is a bagel chain that is growing by saying no. And it's working.
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Because of our takeaway. So Jack, what's the everything season takeaway for our buddies over at Pop-Up Bagels? Inconvenience can be an advantage. We call it the no soup for you rule. Yet it is in Seinfeld, there is a soup guy who scares everybody and he is known colloquially as the soup Nazi. You must order his way or he'll kick you out.
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If you don't pay an exact cash, he takes the soup away from you. If you hesitate when it's your turn in line.
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But if customers are willing to put up with that inconvenience, it kind of acts like a marketing signal. People are willing to follow draconian rules? It must be that good then. That's the pop-up bagel's growth hack. They have turned an inconvenience into a positive marketing signal. In Seinfeld, they said, no soup for you, which made Newman want that mulligatani even more.
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Well, pop-up bagel says you must have it their way, which makes you want... even more bagels.
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For our third and final story, Meta is building a rival to Apple's AirPods and Apple's Watch. How will Meta replace the iPhone? With advertisements. We'll explain. Yes, we will. Yetis, one year ago, we said that Meta's Ray-Ban sunglasses are the biggest challenge to the iPhone. Meta's Ray-Ban sunglasses.
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They can take pictures for you, play podcasts for you, make phone calls, and send texts for you. They could paint the front porch and beat Permian at football, Jack. Yeah, maybe with the next software update. Meantime, Meta is reportedly expanding its relationship with the European eyewear giant, Luxottica. Because here's the news.
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Yetis, remember that the Paris Olympics was basically one giant French fashion show. And the luxury brand LVMH, the biggest company in France, made the medals for the Olympics. LVMH, they own the jewelry giants Bulgari, Givenchy, and Christian Dior. Decent pronunciation, Jack. And so LVMH designed the gold, silver, and bronze medals. We covered it on this pod, actually. We did.
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In addition to Ray-Ban smart glasses, later this year, you could be buying Oakley smart glasses by Meta, according to Bloomberg. They're not going to be Jokeleys. No. They're going to be Meta Oakleys. I guess we'll call them Mokeleys. Or we can call them Zokeleys. Why are you picking the Z? I feel like that's what he wants. It seems like he's really into it.
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Now, Meta's Oakleys are going to target athletes who basically want to stay connected during their Ironman competition. But that's not all. Meta will also unveil fancier glasses with a screen in the bottom corner of the lens. Those will reportedly be available this year and be priced at about $1,000 per pair. Mark Zuckerberg thinks he's the new Tom Ford. But here's the bigger news.
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Meta is also working on earbuds and a watch. I have. It sounds like Apple. It sounds like Apple. Zuck is basically zucking Apple over there. According to this Bloomberg reporting... All of these devices we're talking about are going to be AI-infused. Meta has gotten really serious about hardware.
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Meta's gadget division, Reality Labs, has invested $50 billion on headsets, on glasses, and now a smart watch and earbud coming to your face as well. Now, to replace the iPhone, Zuck might sell you all-in-one glasses that do everything, like the Orions he unveiled last year at a big product event.
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Let's sit on three stories, baby. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack, Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go.
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We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. And that is Jack-o'-lantern. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Oh my God, Jack. I just got more wild information. You ready for this? Oh boy. Your Audi thinks Quibi was a good idea.
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But tennis doesn't have just the owners or just the players, does it, Jack? There are two pro tennis leagues. And then there's four Grand Slam tournaments. And then there's the players. And get this detail. Tennis players, they aren't technically employees. But football players are employees. They can limit how often they have to play and maximize their rest.
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But the independent contractors playing pro tennis, they don't get those rights. Nope. They complain that they're overworked and they're overplayed. Yeah, that last U.S. Open tennis match, you played at 10 p.m., and then you got another one the next morning at 8 a.m. LeBron James gets the whole summer off to play golf. Andre Agassi, he didn't even have an off-season. He's got to play right now.
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So in the four major sports, you have powerful players' unions that can go on strike every few years. But the tennis players' union formed just five years ago. And instead of striking... they're doing a lawsuit. They're basically saying the umpire read it wrong and they want a review. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over playing tennis?
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The dirty secret about US pro sports, the sports leagues are legal monopolies. Yeti's interesting detail about American pro sports that people don't actually realize. The four major pro sports leagues are monopolies. True. And the government is okay with it. For whatever reason, our country has decided that we like having just one pro sports league per sport.
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Really early on, Major League Baseball got broad antitrust exemption. And then the other three major sports got limited versions. What Jack's saying is that the 32 NFL football teams are a cartel, but they are a legal cartel because Congress regulates them. That's why when steroids came to baseball, the U.S. Senate got involved to investigate.
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So, besties, initially, Jack and I found it really interesting that tennis players were suing on antitrust grounds. We think the better route might have been to go on strike, like the players do in the other leagues. Because the sports leagues are monopolies. They're legal monopolies. And our government is okay with it. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the new Friday?
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Diet Coke has always been popular among workaholic men, but right now, it's the unofficial drink of the White House. You can't pick your coat yetis. You should honestly just be happy that you have one. For our second story, BYD says their batteries can go from zero to fully charged in just five minutes. That's the holy grail of electric cars. So what's China's secret advantage for EVs?
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No status quo bias. And our third and final story, the Pro Tennis Players Union sued the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments and the two tennis leagues. But the dirty secret of U.S. pro sports, the four major leagues are four legal monopolies. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, Jerry Powell had the Fed meeting.
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The University of Oregon switched conferences. Yeah, Oregon. They are situated on the Pacific Coast, so historically, they were a member of the Pac-12 Conference. But last year, they switched to the Big Ten, a conference way over in the Midwest. And I can't believe I'm asking this, but why did they do it, Jack? Money. Classic. But the side effect of this conference switcheroo is way more travel.
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Our central bank decided to keep interest rates unchanged. With all this economic turbulence, here's what Jerry Powell said. We think it's a good time for us to await further clarity. although they did cut their economic growth outlook for this year to just 1.7%. Second, Ben & Jerry's sued their parent company, Unilever, for firing their CEO for political reasons.
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Now, the reason Ben & Jerry's brands are so politically outspoken, Ben & Jerry negotiated that, didn't they, Jack? They negotiated independence when it comes to, like, speech, even though they sold their companies. Yeah, honestly, we've never seen a subsidiary sue its owner, but now we're seeing it with Ben & Jerry's. Ben & Jerry's is suing Unilever, the company that owns it.
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Somehow, feels like that's going to turn into a flavor. And finally, Warren Buffett is giving away $1 million if you ace the first round of March Madness. Every year, the world's greatest investor hosts a tournament pool at his fund, Berkshire Hathaway. Now, this year, he's letting all 396,000 employees of all the companies Berkshire owns play in his tournament.
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If you get all the first round games correct, you get a million dollars. If you get all 48 games correct, which is up through the Sweet 16, you get a million dollars per year for life. But you know what Jack and I got to say? Don't pick Duke. Don't pick Duke. Not because we're UNC fans. It's just smart investing. Now, time for the best fact yet. This one whipped up by Carson Daly and sent our way.
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What do we got, Jack? Did you know that MTV was once a finance company? Yeah, that's right. Music television, MTV, was once in the banking industry. In the 1990s, MTV was so big, they launched a credit card. Yeah, the MTV Visa credit card. Sounds kind of cool, actually. In terms of points, you could redeem them for things like concert tickets and, I don't know, fan swag.
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But Jack, what's the funny reason MTV eventually shut down their Visa credit card? The cardholders were way too young. They weren't that valuable as customers. Yeah, MTV viewers actually are a little too young sometimes to get a credit card. Fun fact, my very first credit card was the MTV U card. Oh! I had like a thousand dollar credit limit.
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Unfortunately, they declined Jack's purchases because he was listening to Chumbawamba. Your credit score has gone down based on your music preferences.
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Yetis, you look fantastic today. Jack, your innie looks fantastic today. I thought you were talking belly buttons. And then when you said Audi, I thought you were talking about my car, which is not an Audi. The session is over now, Jack. The session is over now. Besties, if you haven't yet, check out The Best Idea Yet. To hear more about MTV, we got a whole episode.
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We link to it in this description. It's a 45-minute deep dive. It's a wild story. And then remember to tell your buddies, H-Y-H-T-B-O-Y, because that helps us grow the show. Nick and I will see you tomorrow. If you know, you know. And before we go, a happy birthday to legendary Yeti Armando over in Puerto Rico. And happy birthday to Tega, who's turning 27 over in New York City.
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And a special shout out to Martin, who's in the Spotify comments and is looking for closure on this whole Innie Outie situation. I'm not alone, apparently. And we've got one meeting with Mr. Milchak, and then all will be revealed in Friday's pod. And to anyone else who's celebrating something today, make it a T-boy. Kira's great. Celebrate the wins. This is Jack.
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I own stock of Unilever and Berkshire Hathaway. Nick owns stock of Delta, and we both own some Bitcoin. Name Ben. If you like The Best One Yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
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The distance traveled by the Oregon Ducks jumped 222% this season. Because instead of flying a neighboring Washington, they're flying two time zones over to Wisconsin. Instead of flying to their away games, the Ducks migrate each week. Washington, USC, UCLA, all of them also switched from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten Conference.
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And Stanford and Cal, two other Pacific-based teams, they joined a conference with Atlantic in the name. So add it all up, Yetis. And these basketball teams flew over 20,000 miles in a single college season. It's the best economic stimulus for the U.S. airlines since wings. Yeah, we don't know what these players are going to get on their final exams.
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But we do know that they got Delta Sky Miles elite status. 26,700 miles? Yeah, I better get the upgrade. If I don't have complimentary guest access to the lounge, we're through. Representative Jack, let's hit our three stories.
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Your Audi bought Dogecoin in his 401k.
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I've since learned that yesterday I was the perfect version of an innie because I had no idea what an Audi was. Jack, your Audi wears corduroy shorts to the office. That is the end of our any session. Jack, three stories for today's T-boy. What do we got on the pod? For our first story, Diet Coke sales are surging right now for a totally surprise reason.
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For our first story, Diet Coke is making a comeback, but with the opposite drinker than you'd expect. Because Diet Coke markets to healthy women, but it's actually selling to crypto bros. Oh, the soda industry. Soda, it's just not a growth industry by any means when we look at the numbers. We've been saying it for years. Millennials killed cereal, sugar, and soda.
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It all just rolls off the tongue, but there is one ancient soda exception to this rule, and that old soda is Diet Coke. One out of 10 Americans drink Diet Cola daily, according to the Financial Times. And 10 out of 10 of those are probably your in-laws. Actually, dude, my brother, my little brother, Teddy, I once counted, he had 29 Diet Pepsis in one single day.
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He had like three in the morning, three in the car on the way to the restaurant, four at the restaurant, two on the way home from the restaurant. It was wild. But who's counting? Diet Coke, invented in 1982. It was actually Coca-Cola's first new brand in a century. It was the first soda to replace sugar with aspartame. Which no one really knows what that is.
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And for 30 years, Diet Coke marketed itself to women. They'd say, hey, Diet Coke, it pairs well with a nice Pilates class. Say no to carbs, say yes to Diet Coke. Diet Coke sponsored Taylor Swift, Kate Moss, and even the fictional character Bridget Jones was crushing Diet Cokes. In the 2000s, there was a Diet Coke ad campaign featuring a bunch of topless, sweaty men.
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with six-pack abs, a total thirst trap for women to drink Diet Coke. The result? Financially, Diet Coke has been flowing for years, especially lately. On their latest earnings call, the Coca-Cola CEO said that Diet Coke was a growth highlight. And Jack, why exactly is Diet Coke suddenly popping off? Partially because Elon's doge army of 20-something workaholics are pounding cans of diet.
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Here's the update, yetis. Diet Coke has become the unofficial drink of dudes. That's right. Its top buyer is now Crypto Bros. Now, we should clarify.
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Diet Coke still markets primarily to the wellness female crowd, but the bromentum with conservative dudes is palpable. Oh, yes, it is. For example, President Trump drinks 12 cans of Diet Coke every single day. He actually installed a red button in the Oval Office to summon a new can of Diet Coke. True story. And Elon Musk, he said he fuels his 120-hour work week with one substance, Diet Coke.
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His first move when he acquired Twitter was add fridges of Diet Coke. Now, Jack and I jumped in T-boy style, and we noticed that this Diet Coke crypto bro surge isn't just a political story. Diet Coke's been embraced by a broader community of male business people, according to the Financial Times.
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Get this, the CEO of Barclays Bank has his own personal fridge completely filled at the office with Diet Coke. Bill Gates once said that if you took Diet Coke away from him, he would have withdrawal symptoms. Add it all up and from the West Wing to the boardroom, DC to Silicon Valley, it's the official drink of hustle dudes. And that drink is Diet Coke.
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If you hate the idea of work-life balance, then you probably love Diet Coke. Yeah, Jack, I heard Diet Coke just bought Bitcoin. So then Jack and I were wondering, what does it mean when Diet Coke markets to one group but gets the opposite group actually buying it? The answer is our takeaway. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Diet Coke? Sometimes you can't pick your cult.
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You just got to be happy that you've got one. Yeah. Jack and I actually discovered there are a lot of examples of unintended adoption. Basically, brands that catch fire with an accidental crowd. Carhartt was designed for construction workers, but it's embraced today as a streetwear brand.
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Diet Coke has jumped from wellness women to crypto bros. For our second story, one Chinese company, BYD, just achieved the holy grail of EVs. Charge an electric car in five freaking minutes. And our third and final story. The world's top tennis stars just sued the four tennis tournaments. Because tennis players and football players actually have different rights. Wild story.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
Rolex was marketed as a serious dive watch, but today it's embraced as a status symbol for people who don't dive. And the Stanley mug was designed for blue collar workers, but it's beloved by TikTokers. Even Mountain Dew was never, ever intended for gamers, but now their top buyer is video game players. So far, Diet Coke isn't totally embracing the bromantum, but it's not fighting it either.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
Because besties, you can't pit your cult. Honestly, just be happy that you have one. For our second story, one Chinese company just achieved the holy grail for electric cars. Charge your EV in just five frickin' minutes. But we'll explain something much bigger. How China is beating the United States in electric cars. B-Y-D. They make cheap electric vehicles in China for as low as $10,000.
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Jack, that's cheaper than a trip to Disney World these days. It's like the price of a souped up scooter. I think that's the price of eggs right now. But we got to say, based on this news, BYD is no longer Tesla's rival for the world's best electric car company. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, it is not Tesla's rival anymore. It's now number one.
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Because BYD just announced their next-gen electric car that seemingly defies the laws of physics. In fact, to build this brand new type of car, BYD is constructing a whole factory town the size of the city of San Francisco. But here's the highlight of this new car. Batteries that can fully recharge in just five minutes. Five minutes.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
We're talking 300 miles of range faster than you can cook a Hot Pocket. To sprinkle on some context, that is four times faster than a Tesla gets charged at a Tesla supercharger. Five minutes to charge a car? That's the same time as it takes your buddy to fill up his car at the gas station. If true, huge. Huge. This would be a deep-seek moment for EVs.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
Basically, a Chinese company more innovative than American technology. And BYD is building 4,000 of these five-minute charging stations across China. It is a holy grail moment for the industry. But Nick and I said, if true. We did. We had to say, if true, because we've heard a bunch of announcements just like this that haven't turned out to be true. All right, let's whip out the whiteboard.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
Jack, back in 2020, Elon Musk announced a lower-priced battery would enable $25,000 Tesla cars. But just a couple of years later, he had completely abandoned that goal. All right, a couple years after that, Toyota said they'd have a battery that would charge 400 miles in just 10 fast minutes. But Toyota has already pushed back their timetable for that magic battery to 2027.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
Oh, and then of course, Jack, we have QuantumScape. Yeah. Full disclosure, this is Jack. I still own stock of QuantumScape because like five years ago, they made an announcement just like this, and I believed them. And what's happened since then, Jack? They have earned zero revenue, despite what they called at the time, a breakthrough in EV batteries.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
Yeah, full disclosure. I also bought shares of QuantumScape because Jack told me to, and now I'm in the red on this investment as well.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
That's why you should never get in the business of recommending stocks. You promised me profits, buddy. So if true, this would be a huge holy grail moment because the number one key to replacing gas-burning cars with clean electric vehicles is batteries. Range anxiety and charging the car is the top consumer pain point that's holding back EVs.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
So maybe, just maybe, this BYD charging news is a solution for that. Or maybe it'll be another disappointment. Either way, Wall Street thinks it's legit.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
BYD stock is at an all-time high right now. It's now the third most valuable car company in the world. In fact, Warren Buffett, he's in on BYD. His Berkshire Hathaway owns 5% of the company. Warren Buffett is the biggest non-Chinese shareholder of the biggest electric car company in the world. That's true and huge.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone following the tech race? What's China's secret advantage for EVs? They have no status quo bias. Yetis, China has adopted electric cars way faster than Americans or Europeans have. One reason is their authoritarian government. Good point, Jack. They act faster and with more conviction on policy than democracies do.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories. Love the mix today, Jack. It's Thursday, so your bracket is set. March Madness begins today at 12 Eastern time. But besties, there is one number no one is talking about that we want to talk about. 26,700. As in 26,700 miles.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
But Jack and I think a bigger reason for their fast moves on EVs is that China's electric vehicle owners have only owned an electric vehicle. Nick, let me sprinkle on some context. I would love that, Jack. Ten years ago, China had just one and a half cars for every ten people. Today, car ownership rates have doubled over there. Which means most Chinese car buyers are buying their very first car.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
And that very first car is an electric one. That's very different than Americans and Europeans, who've probably driven five to ten gas-powered cars in the span of their life. Hey, your in-laws and Uncle Eddie are probably EV skeptics. Because they're so used to gas cars, change is hard. But the Chinese, they're EV enthusiastic. Because this is their first car. There you go. It's all upside.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
It's all positive. They're not yearning for a gas-powered car. They're just excited to have a car. And that is China's secret advantage for electric vehicles. When it comes to cars, they have no bias for the gas-powered status quo.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
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For our third and final story, the Union of Tennis Players is suing the four Grand Slam tournaments for collusion. We'll explain why tennis players are independent contractors and football players are employees. Yetis, let's open up the rulebook to page 34, section C. If your foot is on the line, that is a foot fault. If the ball touches the net, it's a let.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
And if you don't wear white shoes on the court, you're getting kicked out of the tournament, baby. Well, on Tuesday, the Union of Pro Tennis Players added one more rule to the rulebook. If you file a lawsuit, you file three lawsuits at the same time. Boom! Tennis players filed a lawsuit in New York, one in Brussels, and another one in London. It's the grand slam of litigation.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
Here's what's going down, Yetis. Tennis players are suing the four major tennis tournaments as an illegal cartel. John McEnroe, you may approach the bench. Just don't bite anyone, John. And here's the issue that they are accusing. Here's the complaint. The tournaments collude with each other to cap the pay for tennis players.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
Yeah, the main issue, the French Open, the US Open, the Australian Open, and Wimbledon make up the bulk of the money in professional tennis. And even though those four tournaments are legally separate from each other, the pay that they give all the players in their tournaments are the same. That's right. 15 to 20% of tennis revenues actually end up in the pockets of the players.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
The other 75% to 80% of tournament revenue stays with the tournament owner. So the players are upset about that math, and they also don't like that pickleball is getting all the attention these days. No, they don't. But Novak Djokovic, the head of the Tennis Players Association, blew a whistle this week. He literally blew a whistle.
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
26,700 miles is the total distance traveled by the University of Oregon Ducks basketball teams. This season, the Oregon Ducks spent more time on airplanes than on the court. They spent more time on the tarmac than in the classroom. It's the longest road trip for a team in the 132-year history of college sports. And Jack, the reason for this epically long, record-setting road trip?
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
He actually says he's got the receipts to show what's happening to tennis players and how it is unjust. Here's the receipts. The NBA, the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the NHL, they all send a much higher cut of revenues to the players, 50%. Yeah, those four big sports leagues send 50% of revenues to their players. But tennis players get just 15% to 20% of the revenue?
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🥤 “Diet Bros” – Diet Coke’s political rebrand. Tennis’ collusion case. BYD’s 5-minute EV.
What's going on over there? Djokovic says this is injustice, and it's only possible because of collusion. But Jack and I jumped in T-boy style, and here's the interesting detail. Tennis actually has a different business model than, like, the NFL. The NFL has two sides, the owners and the players. And those two sides agreed to split revenues 50-50.
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✉️ “How much should I tip?” — N&J’s Holiday Tip rules. Nissan’s Honda hug. Databricks’ AI baseball championship. (And 1-800-CHAT-GPT).
Hens a-laying? Jack, that's going to cost you 7% more this year than last.
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which is valuable information if you're the manager of a baseball team.
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Like, what industries are impacted? Who's going to use it? How is it going to fit into our lives?
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Well, similarly, we think AI will someday be an element of every business and every product too, like electricity.
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✉️ “How much should I tip?” — N&J’s Holiday Tip rules. Nissan’s Honda hug. Databricks’ AI baseball championship. (And 1-800-CHAT-GPT).
An all-time high, but besties, this is Jack and Nick.
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✉️ “How much should I tip?” — N&J’s Holiday Tip rules. Nissan’s Honda hug. Databricks’ AI baseball championship. (And 1-800-CHAT-GPT).
Stocks had their second worst day of the year. S&P 500 fell 3% yesterday.
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✉️ “How much should I tip?” — N&J’s Holiday Tip rules. Nissan’s Honda hug. Databricks’ AI baseball championship. (And 1-800-CHAT-GPT).
For our first story, everyone thinks tipping has gotten out of control these days. But there's one big exception to this tip revolt, and that exception is holiday tipping.
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✉️ “How much should I tip?” — N&J’s Holiday Tip rules. Nissan’s Honda hug. Databricks’ AI baseball championship. (And 1-800-CHAT-GPT).
The farmer's market, it's got more tipping going on than turnips these days, Jack.
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✉️ “How much should I tip?” — N&J’s Holiday Tip rules. Nissan’s Honda hug. Databricks’ AI baseball championship. (And 1-800-CHAT-GPT).
More on that later in the pod. In the meantime, Jack, you're looking fantastic in your T-boy merch, and we've got three fantastic stories.
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✉️ “How much should I tip?” — N&J’s Holiday Tip rules. Nissan’s Honda hug. Databricks’ AI baseball championship. (And 1-800-CHAT-GPT).
Well, Jack, we have a takeaway, but if you could just answer one question right here.
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✉️ “How much should I tip?” — N&J’s Holiday Tip rules. Nissan’s Honda hug. Databricks’ AI baseball championship. (And 1-800-CHAT-GPT).
Okay, what did this thing look like? Tinted
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✉️ “How much should I tip?” — N&J’s Holiday Tip rules. Nissan’s Honda hug. Databricks’ AI baseball championship. (And 1-800-CHAT-GPT).
Jack and I jumped in T-boy style to numbers. That means the number seven and number nine car makers in the world combined would be the number three biggest car maker in the world.
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all over.
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✉️ “How much should I tip?” — N&J’s Holiday Tip rules. Nissan’s Honda hug. Databricks’ AI baseball championship. (And 1-800-CHAT-GPT).
60% of Chinese buyers choose Chinese car brands.
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Bessies, when we were growing up, China used to import cars because they didn't make them.
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Yetis, over in Germany, Volkswagen is closing factories in their fatherland for the first time ever because of competition from China.
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Besties, the global car industry is being massively disrupted by China's huge switcheroo in the car industry.
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So the way Jack and I see it, this is one of the biggest themes for the global economy that we're going to see in 2025.
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Like, if I'm watching the dancing and I'm noticing the feet aren't touching the ground, there's something wrong with the movie.
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👪 “Nepo-preneurs” — Family biz boom. Twinkies’ 4/20 munchies trade. China’s rare earth embargo.
Imagine what you're talking about. Keep it in the family.
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👪 “Nepo-preneurs” — Family biz boom. Twinkies’ 4/20 munchies trade. China’s rare earth embargo.
Three fantastic mixes of stories, my son. Beautiful mix today.
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👪 “Nepo-preneurs” — Family biz boom. Twinkies’ 4/20 munchies trade. China’s rare earth embargo.
Don't ever take sides against the family. Ha!
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🍒 “Pop-Tart Problem” — Red dye’s food ban. JPMorgan’s overdraft idea. Job Referrals as-a-Service.
as long as you pay the $12 a month subscription.
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🍒 “Pop-Tart Problem” — Red dye’s food ban. JPMorgan’s overdraft idea. Job Referrals as-a-Service.
Here's what else you need to know today.
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The order is for nine times the limit on commercial chocolate purchases.
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Yeah, it is. I posted a post-pull video on Instagram with my cheek all swollen. We want to hear your comments. How did I do?
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💆 “Massage-bnb” — Airbnb’s everything app. eToro’s Kardashian trade. Boeing’s Trade War Win. + Surprise Guest Jeff Raider.
like scales jack let's hit our three stories 15 years before this song two boys from the northeast met in the dorm they had an idea to cause a cultural storm it's the best one yet but the best is a norm jack nick that's it i don't even think they need to practice 50 that's a fat tip t-boy city on your at list if you know you know because we're ready to go we can't wait no more so just start the show
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☘️ “Split The G” — Guinness’ viral surge. North Korea’s Bitcoin heist. Hollywood’s conserva-pivot.
I would define reclaiming as to take back what was yours. Something you possess is lost or stolen, and ultimately you triumph in finding it again. Listen to Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky wherever you get your podcasts.
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🍺 “Local Lite”— Kelce Bros’ light beer bet. Elf Beauty’s “Dicks”. BuzzFeed’s 1st social media app.
Every big moment starts with a big dream. But what happens when that big dream turns out to be a big flop? From Wondery and At Will Media, I'm Misha Brown, and this is The Big Flop. Every week, comedians join me to chronicle the biggest flubs, fails, and blunders of all time, like Quibi. It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to, like, get other people to do it.
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🍺 “Local Lite”— Kelce Bros’ light beer bet. Elf Beauty’s “Dicks”. BuzzFeed’s 1st social media app.
and the 2019 movie adaptation of Cats.
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🍺 “Local Lite”— Kelce Bros’ light beer bet. Elf Beauty’s “Dicks”. BuzzFeed’s 1st social media app.
Find out what happens when massive hype turns into major fiasco. Enjoy The Big Flop on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to The Big Flop early and ad-free on Wondery+. Get started with your free trial at wondery.com slash plus.
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🤤 “Everything’s $3” — Matto’s crazy coffee. The CEO killer controversy. Louis Vuitton’s train bet.
China's Luckin' Coffee is reportedly coming to the U.S. But only Mato has the clearest message we've ever seen as to why you should choose them. Here's the message. Everything is $3. The simplicity of that message is an unmistakably clear communication to every potential customer... Everything $3. Dollar stores thrived for decades thanks to a similar clear message. Yeah, good point.
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🤤 “Everything’s $3” — Matto’s crazy coffee. The CEO killer controversy. Louis Vuitton’s train bet.
Mato is basically a dollar store, but $3. Now, Vazdeez, in politics, a key to victory is a clear, understandable, and compelling message. Mato has that. Everything's $3. So the way we see it, Mato's real power, its real strength, its real advantage isn't $3 coffee. It's a clear message that fits on a bumper sticker. Everything $3. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the new Friday?
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🤤 “Everything’s $3” — Matto’s crazy coffee. The CEO killer controversy. Louis Vuitton’s train bet.
The man charged with the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO basically confessed to the murder in a note. And the whole ordeal has revealed a deep frustration about our entire healthcare status quo. For our second story, LVMH has invested in the Orient Express, a historic marvel of luxury train travel. It's all part of luxury's huge, shocking pivot from handbags to hospitality.
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And our third and final story is crazy coffee. Sorry, Mato Coffee. They're probably coming to your city soon with a decent to pretty good coffee for just $3. Mato Strength isn't the $3 lattes. Mato Strength is the clear message. $3 everything. We've said that a lot of times at this point.
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🤤 “Everything’s $3” — Matto’s crazy coffee. The CEO killer controversy. Louis Vuitton’s train bet.
$3 everything. Is that clear? You got that yet? But yeties, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, we just got the inflation report, the celebrity of economic reports. For the month of November, prices rose 2.7% on average compared to last year. That's higher inflation than the month before, but there was other good data that the Fed is going to like.
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For example, gas prices are under $3 a gallon. for the first time since 2021. So stocks rose nearly 1% as inflation increasingly looks under control. And second, Trump named his nominee for the Federal Trade Commission chair. Andrew Ferguson will be much more hands-off than the current FTC chair. The FTC, it can approve or deny mergers and acquisitions.
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And instead of gumdrops, it's decorated with gorgonzola. And instead of icing, it's more deli meats. There's actually salami on the top here.
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And the current chairwoman, Lena Kahn, has aggressively blocked corporations for merging. We just mentioned one yesterday in the grocery industry. Well, the new guy signals to Wall Street it's open season again. More deals are probably coming back. The one exception might be big tech, which he says should be reined in.
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And finally, open your phone because Apple just launched OpenAI's integration into iPhones. It's basically Super Siri. This was announced like six months ago.
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🤤 “Everything’s $3” — Matto’s crazy coffee. The CEO killer controversy. Louis Vuitton’s train bet.
But as of yesterday, it's there. It's in your phone if you update the iOS. Full disclosure, this is Nick, this is Jack, and we don't have iPhone. We have an old iPhone. I have a 14. Tell us what it's like. I can't tell you what it's like. You can only tell you what it's like if it's a 15 or 16. I'll ask Siri what it's like. Well, you still have dumb Siri on your phone.
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🤤 “Everything’s $3” — Matto’s crazy coffee. The CEO killer controversy. Louis Vuitton’s train bet.
So I'll get frustrated at Siri. Now time for the best fact yet. This one whipped up by Jack and me because we still had a few questions. As we mentioned last week, Pantone's color of the year for 2025 is mocha mousse. Mocha mousse. But you know, we had a big question when we first heard this. It's a brown color. It's brown. So is it named mousse after the animal? A mousse?
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It's basically the same color as a mousse. Oh, well, it's actually named brown mousse as in the dessert mousse. We should point that out. Mousse the dessert dates back to 1750 in France, and the word means foam in French. It took 274 years for French foam to finally make it famous in the color industry. If you think mousse is named after the animal, not possible. Yetis, you look fantastic today.
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The charcuterie chalet was actually invented by Aldi's, the German grocery store. And in this economy, charcuterie chalets are beating the gingerbread house. Because ginger prices are up 30% this year to an all-time high. But cheese prices are actually down this year. But it's not just prices. No, it's not. It's way cooler to say charcuterie chalet than gingerbread house.
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And now that you finished today's pod, we know exactly what you should listen to next. And what is that, Jack? The Best Idea Yet, our second show.
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🤤 “Everything’s $3” — Matto’s crazy coffee. The CEO killer controversy. Louis Vuitton’s train bet.
We have a 45-minute deep dive on the Air Jordan sneaker. Yes. Wild story if you're a sports fan. Wild story if you're a fashion fan. Wild story if you have a lover. So besties, go listen to The Best Idea Yet right now to enjoy that story. And then tell your buddies, H-Y-H-T-B-O-Y. Have you had the best one yet? If you know, you know. By the way, we got a link to TBIY, our other show,
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Three dollar everything.
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And before we go, a shout out to Yeti Claire Schaefer from just outside Boston, who's a legendary Yeti listening to her third episode. Happy 12 year anniversary to Bonavi over in Cambodia. And Colin Hartman, fellow warden guy, Jack, buddy of mine and Felicia. They just got engaged in Minneapolis running a business and he's turning 40. Not too shabby.
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Happy birthday to William Leonard of Fremont, California. This kid was born on 12-12-12 and is turning 12 today. Don't round that up. And Dan Katz, our buddy over in Brooklyn and Westchester and Riverdale and Germany is celebrating the best birthday yet. Happy 30th birthday to Michael Rainey in Huntsville, Alabama. And Helena Thevenin is dancing into her 11th birthday down in Prosper, Texas.
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Happy birthday to Kenny the Marketer Chouinard in Huntington Beach, California. And Camlin Phan is celebrating a birthday while watching Interstellar in San Diego. And happy birthday to Corey Allen in Philadelphia, who always has the best facts yet. And to anyone else celebrating something today, make it a T-boy. Celebrate the wins. This is Jack. Nick and I both own stock of Apple.
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Olivia, what's the brick for? In case Nick screws up, I can throw it at him? If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. And before you go, tell us a little bit about yourself by filling out a short survey at wondery.com slash survey.
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It's just more fun to say. Just ask the muffin man. But when it comes to holiday-themed edible real estate, how... How about a little bit of cookie dough cabin, Jack? What about a Butterfinger bungalow? Would it kill us to buy a prosciutto condo? If we're going to disrupt the gingerbread house, let's show some creativity. Basties, you got a holiday-themed edible real estate idea.
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Not on Madison Avenue, not a square. The arena's circular, and it's between 7th and 8th Avenue. Although we should point out from the Knicks game last night, underrated sushi at Madison Square Garden. Still, where's the garden? I was looking everywhere for this garden. We're going to have to ask a geometrist. We posted some highlights from our night at MSG on Instagram. They were highlights.
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Jack, let's hear three stories. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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For our first story, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered last week. But this week, his killer has gone viral because the murder has pointed the spotlight on the entire U.S. healthcare industry. Now, Yeti, something Jack and I should let you in on, as business podcasters, we've noticed that it's always the true crime podcasts that have the most popularity, right?
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We've never totally understood why, but now we do. Because America has a real-life true crime on their hands, and people are obsessing over it all week. In fact, when we were preparing for today's show, we did our headline hammer. We do it every morning. The top five articles on every news site are about Luigi Mangione.
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Luigi Mangione, the former valedictorian from a wealthy Maryland family turned murderer. Arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday, six days after shooting Brian Thompson on the streets of New York City. Actually, just a few blocks from where we're recording right now, Jack. He's been charged with murder. And honestly, it should be an easy conviction. Right, right, right.
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Especially because of the latest news. And here's the latest news, yetis. On Wednesday, police shared a 262-word handwritten note found on Luigi. It shows that Mangione clearly wrote down his plans for the murder in a premeditated fashion. Now this note, besties, it is important. Because this note helps explain why there is so much controversy in the aftermath of this murder.
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In the note, Mangione refers to his murder as a symbolic takedown of the health insurance industry. Yeah, we actually read in the New York Times a police report about this note added that the suspect, quote, likely views himself as a hero of sorts who has finally decided to act upon injustices. Again, that's from a police report about this note. It turns out others view him as a hero too.
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Some are celebrating the murder, calling it vigilante justice. Okay, we jumped in T-boy style. This has gone viral. There is merch being sold online with the three words, deny, defend, depose. There's over 800 products with deny, defend, depose available on Etsy as of yesterday. Those three words, they are a reference to the words that were written on the bullet casings from the murder.
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But Jack, the three stories for today's T-Boy, they're fantastic. What do we got on today's show? For our first story, the guy who shot the UnitedHealthcare CEO has been charged with murder and he has gone viral online. Besties, this killing, it has erupted pent-up frustrations with the entire healthcare industry.
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Those three words are technical terms in the health insurance industry. They're used to deny coverage. They're there to keep the costs down for health insurance and to boost profits for health insurance. Deny, defend, depose. Sebasties, this moment, it reveals shockingly broad support for violence against corporate America. That's why companies are rushing to beef up security for their CEOs.
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And it has also started a bigger conversation which is our takeaway. So Jack, what's the takeaway? Who are everyone in America with health insurance? For-profit health insurance was already a life and death industry. Yeti's, America is exceptional in the world in a lot of ways. And one way is the amount of money that we spend on healthcare. We spend $12,000 per year per person.
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Can you spring on some context, Jack? That is double the amount of money that other developed countries pay for their healthcare. All right, everyone's got a healthcare insurance story. To have our baby in California, over $70,000. Covered by healthcare, 70,000 grand. That is absolutely insane. astronomical. Yeah, it is, it is.
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And the main reason prices are so high, we think, it's because our healthcare system is for-profit. Other developed nations, they have more socialized healthcare to a much greater extent than the United States has. Now, for those who can afford it, you can get great healthcare here in the U.S. Yeah, you can. Partially because our industry is for-profit.
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Personally, I'd rather have my appendix taken out here than in other countries. But also because the industry is for-profit, You get health insurance companies who are incentivized to reject coverage even for their paying customers. And a person getting rejected for coverage, that usually doesn't make the news. But that can also lead to death. So right now, we have two things that are true.
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First, the murder of Brian Thompson was horrific. And second, the aftermath has revealed deep anger about our healthcare status quo. For our second story, LVMH, the luxury company, has jumped from fashion to hospitality. Not just hotels. Good point. LVMH is building a luxurious vacation train that will take you back to 1883.
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Now, as we should point out, Jack and I were just cruising down to the recording studio, Midtown Manhattan. Jack, the Louis Vuitton store looks insane. What's going on? It's under construction. So instead of scaffolding, they wrapped the building in coverage that looks like their famous suitcase. It looks like a seven-story tall suitcase. You got to see this if you haven't seen it yet, right?
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The building looks like a huge suitcase. Okay, that was an aside because we thought that was cool. But that company, LVMH, is suffering right now from the big luxury lull. Prada, Gucci, Rolex, Dior, shoppers worldwide are buying less fashion bling than before. However, LVMH, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, the $400 billion largest of the luxury brands, has a plan. To expand to hospitality.
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For our second story, Louis Vuitton, the fashion brand, has acquired a hotel, a restaurant, and the most famous train on earth. Louis Vuitton is betting its business on the Orient Express. And our third and final story is the fastest growing coffee chain in New York by far. Motto Coffee, we dove in T-boy style. Because Motto Coffee figured out how to scale the $3 latte.
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Get this, yetis. This year, Louis Vuitton opened their first cafe in New York City. They opened a restaurant atop Tiffany's so you can have breakfast at Tiffany's. They even bought a 100-year-old historic bistro over in Paris. Jack, did you go on your vacation? Yeah, it was not possible to get in, was it?
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But this week, Louis Vuitton acquired a European hotel chain, making a major move into hospitality. Yeah, these rooms go for about a thousand bucks a night from Tuscany to Mallorca. Fontenil is the hotel chain that Louis Vuitton now owns. Forget boots, bracelets, and buckles. Louis Vuitton is learning room service, spas, and late checkout. Do not disturb.
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But Louis Vuitton's hospitality that we're most excited about is a train. It's a train. Because besties, Louis Vuitton just invested in the Orient Express. Yeah, that Orient Express. The world's most famous railway. Can I take you back to 1883? I would love to, Jack. Transport us. I'll change my outfit. In 1883, a luxurious vacation opportunity was created. Yes.
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Like nothing in the history of the world before. I'm intrigued. Go on.
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Orient Express opened. It's a long-distance luxury train that went from Constantinople to Paris. That's right. Istanbul, the word, didn't exist yet. It was Constantinople at the time. The Orient Express train was made famous by an Agatha Christie novel. Right. Murder on the Orient Express. I bet they wish that was Wedding on the Orient Express. Not great for business. Not great for business.
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Now, that train doesn't operate anymore. After World War II, the new political map, it got too complicated to send one train. Like the passports, it just didn't work out. It didn't work out. But that leads to the news. The hotel chain Accor acquired the brand, Orient Express, and Louis Vuitton just invested to revive the epic historic train.
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According to the Orient Express website, you can soon take that same train from Istanbul to Paris. Not Constantinople. But other than that, it's the same experience as you would have enjoyed in 1883. I mean, Jack, you can have tea time in the lounge car, dinner at the restaurant car, cocktails with a piano in the bar car while the train is rolling along.
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Louis Vuitton is going to help ensure that the train is exactly as it was. with the luxurious accommodations of 1883. I mean, Jack, this is basically a cruise, but it's on land. You'll have a really comfortable bed in a cabin that you can sleep in. You can relax in the other cars on the train. Yeah. But here's the key. Yes? You get to leave the train while it's stopped at a train station.
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Honey, we're popping off in Vienna. That's right. It'll stop in Vienna. You can watch the opera. Okay. And then come back to the train. All aboard! Before moving into France. Choo-choo. And Jack, that choo-choo is our signal. that it's time for our takeaway. Orient Express marketing team, if you're listening, Nick and I will happily record a podcast from that train. We'll make it happen.
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But in the meeting, Jack, we are late for our takeaway. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Louis Vuitton? This is an industry-wide luxury pivot from handbags to hospitality. Yet he's expanding from products to experiences. That's how luxury can double down on their core customer.
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If you trust Louis Vuitton enough to buy a $10,000 handbag, maybe you'll trust them enough to buy a $10,000 train ticket. You know, luxury fashion sales, they're expected to slow next year. But luxury travel sales... are not expected to slow. That's why Nick and I were able to count seven different fashion houses that are launching hotels this year or next.
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Armani. They already have a hotel in Milan. They're adding two more over in Asia. Versace has a hotel coming to Dubai. Bulgari's building a resort in the Maldives. And Ralph Lauren is taking over an entire hotel in Jamaica. We're seeing the luxury industry diversify. Instead of just buying brands, customers can experience brands now. They're expanding from handbags to hospitality.
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We didn't believe it, so we went there and we figured out how they scale the $3 latte. I'm Daffinated on a model latte. We know what's in it. We found out what's in it. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. I mean, fantastic mix of stories. I love this mix, Jack. I can't believe we're less than two weeks from Christmas. I mean, Jack, you can almost smell the mistletoe out there.
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For our third and final story, Mato Coffee. It's the next coffee chain that you are going to hear about. Because Mato Coffee is blowing up in New York City, so we jumped in T-boy style. They reveal the value of a simple, focused message. That's the lesson here. But yeti is to sprinkle on some more context. Motto coffee is crazy. Literally. Actually, yeah. Motto means crazy in Italian.
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That's the Italian word for crazy. They're crazy because in a city that sells double-digit lattes and $20 acai balls. Gets me every time. We both had breakfast this morning for like $50 at Juice Press. Everything on the menu at Motto is three bucks. $3 for everything? Honestly, we didn't believe it when we heard about that business model. We seriously didn't believe it.
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So we jumped in T-boy style. We went. What did you discover, Jack? First of all, I took CrossFit at 5.30 a.m. Humble brag. Yeah. You look great. 102nd Street on Upper East Side of Manhattan. I said you look great. On the way back. I stopped by Matel, and I confirmed it. Yeah. Everything on the menu is three bucks. 97th and Lex, a Yeti saw us, so we have an alibi. They saw us doing this.
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The coffees, the lattes, the pastries, the cookies, even the protein power bar I needed because of my crossfit was just three bucks. Now we should point out there are up charges, right? Like they're not going to give you the whipped cream for free. If you add whipped cream and caramel drizzle on top of your latte, it's going to be $3.50 or maybe even $4.
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Or if you don't order through the app, then things are $3.80. But otherwise, this is the cheapest cappuccino you can find in the city. And here's the news. Mato Coffee has 30 locations all in New York City right now. but they're pitching investors to finance a major expansion, maybe coming to a city near you. According to Bloomberg, they plan to 10X the number of locations, from 30 to 300.
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Now, one question venture capitalists might ask is, how can you possibly profit off a $3 latte in the most expensive city in the country? After all, just this week, Arabica beans hit their all-time high price. Frappuccino, it's taken half your paycheck. The way that Matto can sell $3 lattes profitably is their extreme cost focus. Extreme cost focus. And here's how, besties.
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I can still smell my two Christmas trees. But Jack, we should point out the hot new food trend before the holiday. It is in gingerbread houses. Introducing the charcuterie chalet. It's charcuterie chalet. We'll go with any pronunciation, besties. It's a food-based, three-dimensional creation that's also shaped like a house. But instead of gingerbread, the walls are made of deli meats.
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Since customers order through the app, baristas can focus 100% of their attention on making macchiatos. Baristas aren't wasting their time standing, touching some touchscreen, or managing your credit card swipe, or telling you, hold your phone a little bit closer if you want to tap to pay. They get to spend all their time making coffees and serving pastries.
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And each matzo location must be under 300 square feet. The one you visited, Jack, what was it like? It's like a walk-in closet. Yeah, you can't bring your laptop in because it won't fit in the store. Finally, they save money on the coffee itself. Yeah. They don't use 100% Arabica beans like Starbucks or Blue Bottle do. They blend expensive Arabica beans with lower-priced Robusta beans.
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As Mocha Joe would say, it's all about the beans. And they use cheaper beans. They do. As a result, it wasn't the best coffee I've ever had. Yeah, that's a good point. But for a $3 latte that I can grab and go really quickly, I think a lot of customers are happy for that. In this economy, four-star coffee is okay than a five-star coffee.
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I just need a decent to solid coffee that won't waste time standing in line. It's decent. So, Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are scaling over at Mato Coffee? Mato Strength isn't a $3 coffee. Mato Strength is their clear message. We have covered a lot of coffee chains who are trying to disrupt Starbucks and Dunkin'. We've done it on this pod. Dutch Bros. Blank Street Coffee.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday, May 8th. And today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Wow. Wow. Are we overwhelmed with the support from our Midwestern Yetis out there? I knew Midwesterners were known for their hospitality, but boy, yeah, that was awesome.
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40 feet long, 12 feet tall, this thing was like a two-legged bulldozer with teeth. Did you know that each tooth is the size of a banana? and they had like 38 teeth. That's why those T-Rexes had such big dental pills, Jack. But the T-Rex is about to become a pocketbook. Get this. Bioengineers in England are using fossilized T-Rex remains to create dinosaur leather. That's right.
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Because like we said, death is... is a profit puppy. We've also said when there's mystery, there's margin. And there's so much mystery in how much it actually costs to do a funeral. Yeah, because you have to make big decisions with little information really quickly. It's kind of like a wedding, you know? These once-in-a-lifetime opportunities are really expensive.
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The funeral industry is so fragmented and so mysterious you have less leverage as the consumer. So honestly, Jack and I see there's value in putting all of this death stuff on a tech platform. It makes it easier to comparison shop, which is a benefit to the consumer. Now, so far with Easewell, they haven't determined or they haven't announced yet what their business model is going to be.
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They might do ads. like Eastside Crematorium might pay to be the top result in the search. Today's coffin is brought to you by Titan Titanium Coffins. Easewell could also take a finder's fee if they connect you to a bank that finances your funeral. So add it all up, and Russell Westbrook's Easewell could be a smart solution to the murky market of death by adding a platform to the funeral home.
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But Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies who are still curious about the AI part of this problem? In the age of AI, can verticals still exist? Yetis, the internet today is filled with verticals. Verticals are business niches with a specific audience and a specific goal. Use Zillow to look for homes. Use Yelp to look for restaurants. Use Expedia to look for travel.
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But here's the question about the world of AI that we're all entering. Will you still use a different vertical for each specific task? Or will you do all your tasks with your one chosen virtual assistant? like Anthropic or ChatGPT or whoever. Basically, Jack and I are wondering, will you use one branded chatbot for travel, one different one for school, and a different one for planning your death?
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Or will you just have one chatbot that acts like your virtual assistant for every task that you need done? Well, Iswell is betting that specialization still matters, that one AI won't rule them all. We don't know the answer. No, we don't. If you have thoughts, let us know in the comments. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the new Friday?
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Disney's seventh theme park will be in Abu Dhabi, but Disney won't pay a cent to build it. Critics will call it Princess Washington, but we call it Donald Duck Diplomacy. For our second story, SpaceX now has a company town. It's in Texas, it's called Starbase, and it was founded by Elon Musk. Now, this sounds like a totally new thing, but the company town actually goes back 150 years in America.
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And our third and final story is on Easewell. It's Russell Westbrook's startup helping people do funerals with AI's help. But here's the question. In the age of AI, will verticals still exist, or will one AI rule? But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, the Fed just announced at its latest policy meeting, there will be no change to interest rates.
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On the one hand, Trump wants interest rate cuts to juice the economy. But the Fed is also focused on inflation and Trump's tariffs could exacerbate prices, make them pop higher. So the trade war is pulling our central bank in opposite directions. It's staying put for now. And second, what? the heck is going on over at Newark Airport in New Jersey?
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Apparently, a little over a week ago, the air traffic control tower couldn't communicate with planes for a full 90 seconds. Scary stuff. Thank goodness no planes had any accidents. But these air traffic controllers, they walked off the job too because they had to protest the outdated systems.
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They're basically taking the T-Rex from a carnivore to a clutch. Now, why are paleontologists pivoting to pocketbooks, Nick? Well, Jack, have you seen how much people are willing to pay for a handbag these days? And this opens up the door to a whole dino fashion industry. Oh, it totally does. Jack, what about a Triceratops bag from Kate Spade? Or a Velociraptor bag from Christian Dior?
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So there's been a full week of delays and cancellations, including canceling 35 daily round-trip flights just on United Airlines. At Newark Airport.
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And then you're stuck on hold for the next three hours.
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Besties, if you're stuck in that, sorry. And finally, Mr. Beast has a new business to add to his YouTube videos and snack brands. What is it, Jack? He's a novelist. True, he is. He's writing a book with James Patterson, the best-selling author who does, like, mystery thrillers. Yeah, the thriller writer. By the way, James Patterson has sold 400 million books.
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So, I mean, he's kind of like the Mr. Beast of writing at this point. Yeah, and if you include each page viewed... As a view, yeah. He might have as many views as Mr. Beast. James Patterson, the real influencer in that relationship. Now time for the best fact yet. This one whipped up by Jack and me for all the veterans out there. Today is America's newest holiday.
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It's called Victory Day for World War II. This is actually the day when World War II ended in Europe. May 8th, 1945, Nazi Germany officially surrendered to the Allied forces. To celebrate that victory in London... In 1945, churches rang their bells for the first time in six years. And why was that so momentous in particular, Jack? During the war in England, bells were silenced.
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They were only allowed to ring the bells to signal air raids, bombings coming from the sky. So those new church bell sounds, they were maybe the greatest sounds people had ever heard in 1945. VE Day has long been celebrated in Europe, but now it's going to be celebrated in America, too. Although, side note, not a day off from work. Yet. Yetis, you look fantastic today.
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And if you haven't yet, grab your tickets to the T-Boy live show over in Chicago. They are on sale now. Link in the episode description. July 23rd, it's at the big... And it's going to be the best one yet. By the way, Yeti Bansari Patel shared a picture of her tickets and tagged us on Instagram. So Bansari, we are sending you T-Boy merch. Check your DMs right now. We're hooking you up.
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Thanks to everyone else who screenshotted their tickets too. We love you so much. If you know, you know. Celebrate the wins. And before we go, a happy 21st birthday to Avery Patel celebrating the big one down in Orlando. And happy 32nd birthday to Sarah Mogul in Miami in OG Yeti. And Kat over in Chesapeake, Virginia is celebrating her best birthday yet.
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Happy 4th anniversary to Allison in Austin in Ventura County. And Brian, I just ran into him at Shaq 15 Jack at the Ferry Building. He's a fantastic legendary Yeti. He says hi to you, by the way. Great guy. And thank you to all the teachers and nurses out there, because it's Teacher and Nurse Appreciation Week.
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Oh, and by the way, John Osborne, down in San Jose, is retiring after 32 years in the tech industry. Congratulations on the retirement, John. Oh, and a huge shout-out to Alberto Baghe, who was working at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami over the Formula One weekend. Get this. He logged 165,000 steps... Over the course of the four days of that F1 race. Okay, is Alberto one of the cars?
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I gotta ask, Jack, what if the dinosaur was a herbivore? Does that mean it technically qualifies as vegan leather? One sec, that Brontosaurus Birkin bag is $50,000? ! Now, the professors behind this say that this fashion stunt is to highlight advancements in lab-grown skin technology.
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Like, was he driving around the track and it counts as a step? 40,000 steps a day. I've never done 20,000 steps in a single day.
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No, not me either. Alberto, you deserve a Ferrari, man.
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His odometer's at like 300,000 miles. Check this guy's chassis. This is Jack. I own stock of Disney. Nick and I both own stock in Zillow. If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
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We want to get to know you.
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But it means, besties, that if you love handbags and your child loves dinosaurs, then bring your kid to Rodeo Drive and feed two birds with one scone. Life finds a way. Just don't lose your phone in that T-Rex handbag.
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Oh, no, that thing? That'll bite your hand off, literally.
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For our first story, Disney is building its seventh theme park, the first since Shanghai back in 2016. Where will it be? Where, Jack? Abu Dhabi. Abu D. The Middle East is getting its first dose of Donald Duck diplomacy. Now, Yeti, it's a funny thing Jack and I should share with you. We actually have a name for Disney's CEO, Bob Iger.
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Thank you for buying tickets to our Chicago live show. We still got tickets available right now. You can grab them with a link in the episode description. We're going to be at the Vig Theater in Chicago. Wonderful venue. We cannot wait to perform there July 23rd. 1,000 seats, screaming yetis and besties. We can't wait to see you. Grab your tickets now. And Jack, three stories for today's show.
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We call him Tinker Bob, because like Tinkerbell, he just sprinkled pixie dust all over Disney's stock. Yeti's full disclosure, that nickname is news to me as of right now. I did just come up with it, but Jack, you kind of have to roll with it. I approve. Because Disney stock jumped 11% yesterday after all of its divisions outperformed in their first quarter earnings report.
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Hulu and Disney Plus both made nine times more profit in Q1 than they did last year. Streaming is surging over at Disney. And Bob Iger said that the next 18 months of Disney movies are going to be their best since 2019. So Jack, you've got three kids. Tell us what's on the Disney movie docket right now. Right now in theaters is a live action remake of Lilo and Stitch.
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Soon we're going to get Zootopia 2, Avatar 3, Fantastic Four 4, and Toy Story 5. Basically, it is hot sequel summer over at Disney, baby. It's hot sequel summer every summer at Disney. That's true. Well played. Well played, Jack. But the big news at Disney was physical. Disney's next theme park. Jack, who's getting the rose? This is a big deal.
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They only announce a new theme park like every 10 years, and the next one is coming to Abu Dhabi.
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in the united arab emirates that's right disney will finally come to aladdin's home region of the arabian peninsula located right on the beach people at this theme park can jump right into the persian gulf when the temperatures hit 120 degrees in august which they do true story true story but besties here's what jack and i found fascinating about this story the wildest part is that disney
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isn't paying for any of it. That's right. Mickey is not even going to open his wallet for the development of this new theme park. Get this. Bob Iger said that it'll take two years to design Disneyland Abu Dhabi and then five more years just to build Disneyland Abu Dhabi. Now, while Disney will design this theme park, they're not going to hammer a single nail.
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They're not going to lay a single brick. They're not even going to rub a single lamp jack. No, they're not. Disney is simply licensing all of its characters and its IP to a company called Miral. Now, Miral is going to build and operate this location because Miral is the real estate developer of this oil-rich nation. Get this. Miral has already built...
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SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, and dozens of high-rise hotels right on the beach in Abu Dhabi. Miral has basically pioneered a new industry, theme parks as a service. Yes, they have. You know, it has. So Miral is going to finance the estimated $5 billion construction of this new Disneyland, and then they're going to take a majority of the revenues because they built the thing.
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That's the business model here. Basically, it's a rev share with Disney so that this new theme park is going to be profitable for Disney forever. on day one. It's just going to be positive dollars starting on day one because there's no costs for Disney. But let's take this further, Yetis, because theme parks, the division at Disney, actually makes up two-thirds of the entire company's profits.
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But the theme park drives sales of all the other divisions, too. That's the key. Millions of children from the Middle East will now visit Disneyland Abu Dhabi and then want more Disney stuff. Kids from India will visit this park too, because Mumbai is only a three-hour flight to Abu Dhabi. And here's how the Disney flywheel works. First, the child goes to Abu Dhabi Disney.
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Then they beg their parents to get a Disney Plus subscription. Then they wanted Moana Lunchbox. And finally, they asked to see the Lion King musical on their next trip to New York City. Walt Disney couldn't have said it better himself. And that same nine-year-old child, Jack, she isn't just going to love Disney. She's going to also like America a little bit more too because of our takeaway.
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What do we got? For our first story, Disney just announced its seventh theme park. The Magic Kingdom is coming to the Middle East. But the real value of Disneyland Abu Dhabi is Donald Duck diplomacy. For our second story, Elon Musk has a new title to add to his LinkedIn. Founder of a city. That's right, Starbase is the latest incorporated city in Texas, and this goes all the way back to the 80s.
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So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Disney? Disney is a cultural ambassador to the United States. Yet is just like when Disney entered China back in 2016, it's gonna face some criticism for entering the UAE today. Why? A bunch of reasons. For example, it's illegal in the UAE to criticize the government. It's also illegal in UAE to be a homosexual.
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But Disney movies have been known to influence culture in a type of soft power kind of way. Beauty and the Beast, it teaches us not to judge people by their looks. Zootopia, it's hilarious, but it's also about diversity. Oh, and Inside Out? That is basically 90 minutes of therapy right there. Luca? A movie made for your son, Nick, because it takes place in Italy?
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Jack, share your takeaway on that movie. The sea monsters, who are the main characters, it's an analogy for otherness. The whole movie is a lesson on tolerance. In fact, surveys show that Disney parks promote tolerance and reduce suspicion of American values overseas. Having that force of good... And profit over in Abu Dhabi is probably a good thing for everyone.
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Especially if you're a shareholder like Jack. Yetis, we call this Donald Duck diplomacy. Disney parks aren't just good for Disney stock. It's good for American interests and good for some nice common values too. For our second story, Elon Musk has a new title to add to his resume. Founding father of a U.S. city. It's called Starbase.
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It just incorporated in the state of Texas, and it's part of a little-known American tradition. Yetis, if you jump in your car, whip out a map, and head on down to the extreme southern tip of Texas, right where the Rio Grande River dumps into the Gulf, you're going to see a small town on your left. And the houses are all the same.
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Black roofs, each one topped with solar panels and white shiplap walls. Yeah, it's giving Truman Show vibes. There's a palm tree on the lawn. There's a Tesla in every driveway. And one of the streets is called Meme Street. Yeah, as in memes like internet memes street. And then you see a 10-foot statue of Elon Musk's head in the center of the town.
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Because yetis, add all it up, and where you are sitting right there is Starbase, Texas. This is the launch location of Elon's SpaceX rocket company. There's actually even a bar called the Astro Pub, if you head a little bit further down the road, which is an Elon-owned bar selling beer. Population of this town, 247. Nearly all of them are SpaceX employees.
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You drive two and a half miles east of town and you're going to see the launch pad where SpaceX rockets blast off into the galaxy. Before SpaceX, this was nothing. It was completely undeveloped land. But now a bunch of people live there and rocket ships take off from there. And here's the news. Over the weekend, that town voted to incorporate, become a company town officially as Starbase.
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There were 212 votes for, only six votes against. They even have a mayor. That's right, engineer Bobby Peden is now the 36-year-old mayor of this official Texas town. And the reason they wanted to do this is that SpaceX pays $1.5 billion a year to run this little area of Texas. But now that it's an official town... they get state revenue to help pay for the roads and the schools.
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That's right, the government of Texas will now be picking up the bill, running this town just like they run Houston, Austin, or any town over in Texas. But Nick, Elon probably would say that Starbase isn't a town at all. What it really is, is a spaceport.
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That's right, and Jack and I just read a quote from ARK Invest, an investment firm, on why they're bullish on SpaceX, and it reveals why this now official town is really a powerful spaceport. This quote is insane and we had to read it to you in its entirety. Okay, here it is, here it is. SpaceX works like a flywheel.
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Beginning with cash, SpaceX builds rockets and satellites, which generate cash through Starlink internet service. And then that cash gets reinvested until the satellite constellation is complete up in the sky. At that point, we assume that SpaceX goes all in on Mars. And each rocket to Mars will carry a mix of Tesla's humanoid robots. That's quite an investment thesis.
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And our third and final story is a wild headline.
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Jack, can you please give us a translation on that quote? This town isn't an airport. It's a spaceport that will colonize Mars with humanoid robots and some humans too. Let that sink in. So Elon's now got an official town with a real mayor to ultimately colonize another planet. And it's now recognized by the state of Texas. However, Elon was not the first one to this concept.
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which led us to this takeaway. Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone interested in business? The company town is America's oldest business pastime. Yeah, it is. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, the first company town was Pullman, Illinois, back in 1880. The Pullman train company pioneered providing housing for its workers, and it was a model of efficiency.
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So true.
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The NBA star Russell Westbrook just launched an AI startup for funerals. Because there is no business with a bigger customer base than death. The TAM is everyone. Huge. It's huge. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories... Fantastic mix of stories, Jack. Nobody else is doing that mix today. The Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was one of the mightiest animals of all time.
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Now, that company town fell apart during a strike a few decades later, but then Milton Hershey established Hershey, Pennsylvania, which we actually covered in our The Best Idea Yet episode on the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Milton Hershey built schools, museums, an ice hockey team, even a theme park, Hershey Park. And that's a model community that still exists today in Pennsylvania.
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But then, in the mid-20th century, with the rise of automobiles, company towns, eh, they kind of fell out of favor, right, Jack? Workers could commute in from further distances thanks to their car or their bus or whatever, and so people wanted to live in the suburbs. The latest company town, you could argue, is Bentonville, Arkansas, where Walmart just keeps investing and investing and investing.
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So if you think of company towns, it might give you the ick because the company has too much control over everything. You could see it as a dystopia or maybe you see it as a utopia of corporate generosity like the Hersheytown. So Starbase, the newest town in Texas, it was founded by Elon. It sounds totally new, but it's actually part of an old American tradition. The company town.
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For our third and final story, NBA star Russell Westbrook is launching a funeral startup with AI. Yes, that's a real headline.
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And yes, Russell Westbrook did play in a playoff game on Monday night and then launch a startup on Wednesday. That happens to be about death. But this story also brings up a real question for everyone building AI. Yetis, three years ago, Jack and I covered a story on this pod about a casket startup called Titan. Venture capital was coming alive when it comes to death.
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Yeah, because not only is death a recession proof, but the death industry also happens to be a profit puppy. It's honestly the most overlooked opportunity in business because the only thing in life that's guaranteed is death. You know, on taxes, you can get an exemption, Jack. Yeah, there's no death exemption. No, no, no. You can't write that off. So we are curious about this headline.
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Russell Westbrook launches a funeral app with artificial intelligence. Jack and I were like, um, a basketball player, artificial intelligence, and funerals? Feels like we have to jump in T-boy style. Sounds like a Mad Libs. But the company is called EaseWell. It's a platform for funerals that connects grieving survivors with all the vendors and resources you need to honor the dead person.
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Basically like an Expedia for the end of your life kind of a thing. You can get quotes from funeral homes, find financing to pay for the funeral, and manage the invites to the funeral too. Basically a one-stop shop for when your pop drops. Exactly. And then it uses AI to call funeral homes, get prices, and confirm availability. Yeah, we checked it out.
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In San Francisco, the Duggan Funeral Home is going to cost you about $4,300. Okay, okay, interesting. The Green Street Mortuary is $5,700. Okay, but Jack, if something happens to me on this pod, and you know, we don't want it to get too expensive, then we could cremate you for just $1,600. Cremation's a total steal these days. But besties, the second scariest part about dying is how much it costs.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Thursday, the new Friday. March 6th, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Did you get your birthday spaghetti, Jack? Did you get it? Yes, although it was controversial. My mother-in-law made me spaghetti meatballs like I asked. Nice move.
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So besties added all up and we were curious, why did Warren Buffett buy the $6 billion recreational vehicle business in just one week with a single meeting? Because of six things. Six keys. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are following Warren Buffett? Warren Buffett uses six criteria to evaluate a company in just six minutes.
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Yetis, when Buffett buys a company, there are six criteria that it must pass. And these are the six. It must have consistent profitability, one durable competitive advantage, and be offered at a fair price. It also must have a honest management team in place, low debt, and be, most importantly, simple to understand. Warren Buffett's not interested in Enron. The Wi-Fi connects to the Bluetooth.
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The world's most famous investors, most favorite investment ever, fit all six of those criteria. And those same six criteria are what guided Warren's other investments into Coca-Cola, Apple, and Geico as well. It's a reminder how investing can be simple, if done thoughtfully, and quality. if done consistently.
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You must apply online instead. Now there's still a physical board and there's still physical pieces that you move around the board. But the rest of this Monopoly game is basically Venmo. Honestly, I kind of love the idea. I'm into it. Because you get to play Monopoly, but without having to keep organized that unruly stack of colorful Monopoly money.
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So besties, Jack and I want to know, what are your six keys to decide something in just six minutes? Hit us up in the comments. Jack, can you whip up the takeaways for us for the new Friday? Four Loko has made a comeback. It's the top-selling malt liquor in America, even with no caffeine in there. Because Four Loko practices misogi, setting a goal to do one big new thing every year.
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For our second story, with Trump signaling less American support for Europe, European stocks have actually soared. America's Europe retreat could ironically be the best thing for Europe's economy. And our third and final story was Warren Buffett. He basically eulogized Pete Lytle, a crazy RV entrepreneur whose company he bought.
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Because Warren has six criteria that he uses to evaluate a company in six minutes. But, Yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, yesterday, we told you the story of the new U.S. tariffs using a single car, the Chevy Silverado.
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Well, Trump might have been listening, because yesterday, he announced a one-month exemption of the North American tariffs, specifically for car companies. The S&P 500 jumped 1% on the news yesterday, hoping that Trade War II may slow down. But it's another example of policy whiplash. Policy whiplash.
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For our second story, FIFA, the world soccer organization, is planning a new halftime show to rival the Super Bowl at the next World Cup. By the way, the World Cup's coming to North America in 2026. And for the final, which is at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on July 19th, 2026, They're going to turn the halftime, which I don't think it's called halftime in soccer.
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And finally, HBO is bringing Harry Potter to the small screen. You know that there's a 10-season TV show coming to HBO Max. But the newest news, who's playing Dumbledore? Who do they got, Jack? It's actually going to be an American. John Lithgow is playing Albus Dumbledore for 10 seasons of Harry Potter. John Lithgow, the only American capable of playing a Brit. Now time for the best fact yet.
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This one is a correction from Yeti Tim Mueller over in Edina, Minnesota. The clarification is how many strikes in a row do you need to get to bowl a perfect 300? A 300 game is something that a Yeti did the other day and we gave them a shout out. And what does that mean? And I asked, I was like, what is that 10 strikes in a row? It's not a correction. I asked the question. That's fair.
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It was a question mark at the end. I saw that, Jack. Well, a 300 bowling game means you threw 12 strikes in a row. Wow. One per frame, one through nine, plus three strikes in your 10th frame. And Nick still never made a turkey. He doesn't even know what a turkey is. All I know is every time I'm eating the chicken fingers, my hand doesn't fit in the ball anymore, man.
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And Jack, the banker is the app, not your little sister who you can't trust not to cheat on the whole thing. It's like Jack Dorsey became Mr. Monopoly and added a square. It feels like a VC is behind this new Monopoly, Jack. By the way, the game has the same goal. You take over the board via ruthless capitalism. But the game has different means.
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Yetis, you look fantastic today. And if there's one thing that Jack would also like for his birthday week, it's for you to ask your buddy, H-Y-H-T-B-O-Y, and send a link to this episode. If you know, you know, and then give us five stars because we love reading each and every review. Nick and I, we'll see you tomorrow. Stocks are up for Jack's birthday, and we'll see you next.
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And before we go, a congratulations to Yetis Luis and Maria down in Austin, Texas, who just welcomed their third child. And Luis Jack, he's been listening for years. Congratulations to Luis and Maria. And a shout out to Emma Foyer, a power listener, and the entire Integrated Marketing Communications crew over at Northwestern University. Those wildcats are Yetis.
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Happy work anniversary to Walter Thurmond from Tucson, Arizona, who's been working 25 years at Raytheon. a company we mentioned earlier in the show. And congratulations to Savannah Westwood. Happy Professional Pet Sitters Week. You're doing a fantastic job with all those P-U-P-P-I-E's. Happy 40th birthday to Bruce Lorario in Windsor, Connecticut.
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And Rachel Brock's turning 40 years old in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. She's got three baby yetis and the best husband yet. This is Jack. Nick and I both own stock of Apple, and I own stock in Berkshire Hathaway. If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
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Pro tip, get a Coinbase account if you want to buy Illinois Avenue. So, Yetis, the newest Monopoly is actually a digital banking app. Because in this economy, even Monopoly is trying to cut some expenses. It's a SaaS company. Savings as a service.
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And then she realized yesterday was Ash Wednesday. Okay. Eating meat was a sin. Didn't realize that. Good thing she's got Sunday confessions, though. Three stories for today's tea boy. Jack, what do we got on the pot? For our first story, For Loco, the notoriously high alcohol and high caffeine party drink, is having a renaissance.
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For our first story, Four Loko, the craziest alcoholic drink ever, is having a shocking renaissance. Four Loko sales are surging again because of one ancient Japanese proverb. But Yetis, for various reasons we have shared with you on this podcast, alcohol sales are down in America. First, Ozempic makes people crave alcohol less. Second, legalized weed is replacing alcohol sales.
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And third, Gen Z, they're just not that into drunkenness. They're hating snooze on the booze. But there is one alcohol brand that is surprisingly up. And it's 4Loco. Or as Jack and I like to call it, Quattro Crazy. Ha ha! Okay. Sales of Four Loko are up 64% in the last five years, and it's now the top-selling malt liquor in America. Could you pour on some context for us, please?
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🧃 “Hold the caffeine” — Four Loko’s return. Europe’s military stocks. Warren Buffett’s fave biz.
Four Loko is the first drink ever to combine caffeine and alcohol and put it in one product. It's basically like a Red Bull tequila coffee cocktail. Invented by Ohio State grads back in 2005, it's 12% alcohol by volume, which is why they called it a blackout in a can. Down at Sig Sig App. Now let's talk the numbers here. 24 ounces in a can with 12% alcohol.
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🧃 “Hold the caffeine” — Four Loko’s return. Europe’s military stocks. Warren Buffett’s fave biz.
Nick, it was a huge can and it contained the same amount of alcohol as six Bud Lights, plus a couple Red Bulls. And that's why it was only sold in gas stations where the fake ID was easiest to use. Which When Nick and I were in college, this product was notorious because it sent co-eds from zero to 60 in 3.4 gulps. Four Loko was the big man on campus until 2010 when it got banned nationwide.
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🧃 “Hold the caffeine” — Four Loko’s return. Europe’s military stocks. Warren Buffett’s fave biz.
Four Loko was forced to remove caffeine because of lawsuits and their sales started slipping year after year after year. Because the caffeine plus the alcohol in one can for like three bucks at your local gas station. Once they removed the caffeine, it didn't have the appeal. But here's the news. 15 years later, 4Loco has been resurrected. Again, sales are up 64% since 2020.
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🧃 “Hold the caffeine” — Four Loko’s return. Europe’s military stocks. Warren Buffett’s fave biz.
Jack, 4Loco sales are even up 20% internationally. The French are trading Pinot for 4Loco. I guess you're right with the whole Quattro crazy thing. I think we're onto something here. But yetis, the wildest part about 4Loco's success, it's that it's targeting the smallest possible audience. audience.
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🧃 “Hold the caffeine” — Four Loko’s return. Europe’s military stocks. Warren Buffett’s fave biz.
Four Loko says they're targeting Gen Z, not nostalgic millennials like Nick and me who remember it from college. Here's an interesting business model distinction. Four Loko isn't distributed to restaurants and bars like every other alcohol is because the concoction is simply too crazy for the Olive Garden. I don't think their insurance posse would cover it.
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🧃 “Hold the caffeine” — Four Loko’s return. Europe’s military stocks. Warren Buffett’s fave biz.
So if you're only targeting Gen Z and you're not selling to retail drinking establishments, then... Four Loko is only targeting like a two-year age group. Yeah. College juniors and college seniors. Because you can basically only drink Four Loko when you're on campus. You're not going to order a Four Loko at the analyst dinner with your boss at the table.
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🧃 “Hold the caffeine” — Four Loko’s return. Europe’s military stocks. Warren Buffett’s fave biz.
And yet, that demo of 21 and 22-year-olds buying at their nearby college bodega That is a high-volume customer segment. Apparently, it's a high enough volume population that Four Loko sales are up 64% to become the number one malt liquor. Those numbers are so good, you don't need to hide it when public safety knocks on the door. Excuse me, nothing in here. They're water cups.
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🧃 “Hold the caffeine” — Four Loko’s return. Europe’s military stocks. Warren Buffett’s fave biz.
For Loco used to be a lawsuit in a can, but now it's having a comeback, and we will tell you why. For our second story, it's shocking news from Wall Street. Europe's stock market is outperforming America's stock market since the elections. Because Europe's new growth industry is national defense. And our third and final story.
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Besties, there is actually one product change that Four Loko made that's actually... deep. We're about to pivot from Four Loko to philosophy. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Four Loko? Four Loko practices the Japanese art of Misagi. Yetis, Musagi is a Shinto tradition in Japan. It was actually once practiced by the ancient samurai. Here's the concept.
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🧃 “Hold the caffeine” — Four Loko’s return. Europe’s military stocks. Warren Buffett’s fave biz.
You should strive to do one hard new thing every year because focusing on one challenge makes it more likely that you'll succeed and it unlocks growth. Well, Four Loko does this. They actually introduce one major new flavor every year, and then they build hype around that one flavor for the whole year.
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🧃 “Hold the caffeine” — Four Loko’s return. Europe’s military stocks. Warren Buffett’s fave biz.
The CMO of the company recently said that they've seen maximum impact with their one flavor a year focus. This year, that flavor for Four Loko is camouflage for 2025. Like the whole marketing budget of Four Loko is camo Four Loko. It's less a flavor and more what the can looks like, right? Just roll with it, Jack. Just roll with it.
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Now, Besties, that singular focus, it gave the company clarity and it gave consumers clarity. And it's having the same impact as the Japanese samurai would have wished. Misoki, unlocking growth by committing to one big challenge for the entire year. For our second story, there's only one sector of the stock market booming right now, and that sector is European defense stocks. With the U.S.
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withdrawing from Ukraine, Europe is arming itself, and there is huge money in that. Yetis, let's start by sprinkling on a little bit of history. Since the end of World War II, the United States became the de facto military for the whole democratic world. But with the second election of Donald Trump, that era is officially over. Yeah, you saw the news this week.
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The United States paused funding for Ukraine to defend itself from Russia's invasion. Which means that Europe has to defend itself against Putin. without America's help. It's not just politics, it's also money because the United States is also prepping tariffs against the European Union, which is going to raise prices in Europe and hurt Europe's exports to the United States.
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Pardon my French, Jack, but add it all up and that sounds like terrible news for the entire continent of Europe. It's bad news for France, Germany, the Spanish, the Brits, and of course, the Ukrainians. But yetis, this is what Jack and I found fascinating about this story. It leads to a hero stat you will not believe. European stocks are up because of all this.
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Sit down, stand up, and watch the stocks again because U.S. stocks are actually flat since the November 5th election. Europe's stocks over the same period are up by 10%, which is the best in the world. The index of Europe's 600 biggest stocks, it's up 10% since President Trump got elected and started pulling things away from Europe.
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Warren Buffett just wrote a tribute to his favorite CEO of all time, who passed away last year. This guy drives RVs, he doesn't own a computer, and he sold his company to Warren Buffett after sending him a fax. A cold fax. But yet, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories... What a fantastic mix of stories. Love the mix today, Jack. Best-selling board game of all time hath disrupted itself.
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And one sector in particular is driving all those gains in Europe, defense companies. European defense companies. Yetis, in America, we got Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin. They are profit powerhouses. Those American companies, they're making the rockets, the grenades, the fighter jets that America and other countries buy.
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But now, Europe needs to build its own weapons of war based on what Trump has done with his foreign policy. European grenades, European fighter jets. You thought it was not possible? They got to make it possible now. They got to DIY their own dynamite now. Yeah, they need to basically Bob Villa their own rockets.
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That's why Germany's Rheinmetall and Italy's Leonardo, two defense stocks over in Europe, have both more than doubled since election day. Across the channel, England's Rolls-Royce and BAE, well, His Majesty's defense stocks are up 45 and 30% this year. Because a whole bunch of European militaries are about to send those companies a whole bunch of new orders.
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Now look, maybe President Trump changes his mind and the United States resumes funding for Ukraine's European struggle. That's definitely possible, but honestly, it doesn't matter. Europe sees that they can't depend on the U.S. for security against Russia anymore. That bridge has been burned. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over in European defense?
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America's Europe retreat could ironically be the best thing for Europe's economy. Yetis, Europe's missed out on tech trends. Europe's car companies, they've lagged behind. And productivity over in Europe, the numbers show it's weak. And the result is that for decades, the EU economy barely grew, which actually led to civil unrest and a whole bunch of political upheaval.
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But then this week, the head of the EU unveiled a new plan to invest $840 billion in defense spending. Almost a trillion dollars in military orders. That's huge economic stimulus. And then Jack, did you see that Germany's new chancellor announced $500 billion on non-defense spending this week too? Almost one and a half trillion dollars of spending is the response to Trump's Europe retreat.
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That's because Jack and I were trying to think of like an analogy here. This is like America ripped off the warm, fuzzy blanket that it's offered Europe since 1945. And instead of being scared about that, Europe is stepping up and weaving their own blanket. Yes, they are spending big to protect themselves in a post-America Europe. Now, there is one big question to watch.
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How is a very indebted Europe going to pay for all this? Totally fair question. But in the meantime, Europe is more united than ever. And rearming is its biggest economic stimulus in decades. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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For our third and final story, Warren Buffett just revealed his favorite CEO of all time, and it's a guy who made him billions of dollars. The guy is crazy, though. And he runs a random RV company. You definitely didn't expect this, besties. But you should know, by the way, Yetis, that when Warren Buffett talks, Jack and I grab a pen, a paper, and a copy machine, and then we call each other up.
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It's the biggest change in the toy industry since Elmo got tickled. Get this, guys. Monopoly just launched a fintech version of the famous board games. FinTech monopoly. It's actually called monopoly app banking and it's a BYO phone situation. So the famous monopoly money, it's gone. You must use the monopoly app instead. If you want a loan from the banker, that's gone too.
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Last week, he spoke. Actually, Warren wrote. Good point, Jack. He wrote his annual shareholder letter for Berkshire Hathaway, so Nick and I read it. We read the whole letter, and honestly, the best story that we found in it, what was it, Jack? 20 years ago, out of nowhere, Warren received a letter with a specific proposal. That letter was from a man named Pete Ligle.
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This guy wanted to sell his recreational vehicle company, which was called Forest River, for $800 million. One week later, Warren met Pete in Omaha, Nebraska, and the guy said that he believed in his RV company. He wanted to keep running it, in fact, but he also wanted financial security for his family, so he was looking to sell it to get some cash.
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So Warren, the greatest investor in the whole world, asked Pete to name his salary. And whatever Pete said, Warren would accept it right there. Pete said $100,000 plus 10% performance bonuses. The two shook hands, signed papers, and the deal was done in just one week.
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Now, Yeti's Pete, the RV entrepreneur, passed away recently at the age of 80, and that's why Warren wrote about him in his annual shareholder letter. He continued working for Forest River, which is now owned by Berkshire Hathaway, right until his death, by the way.
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But what Warren Buffett didn't know 20 years ago is that Pete Lytle is actually the George Washington on the Mount Rushmore of recreational vehicles. Because Pete's company, Forest River, which was founded in 1997, they sell RVs and campers the size of a tank. Plus, they do pontoon boats for sipping marine margaritas during some batch parties. Jack, did you know there is an RV Hall of Fame?
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Oh, the Mount Rushmore of RVs? No, no, like there's an actual Hall of Fame and he was inducted into the Hall of Fame 10 years ago. Well, his RV company does $6 billion in revenue today as a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, which happens to be the same amount as Ferrari. And this RV company is growing 10% a year. But Pete- Warren's favorite CEO ever was also the craziest CEO ever.
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Okay, get this, besties. Every year, Pete Lytle would take his family to Disney World for a nice casual spring break vacation. But he insisted on taking one of the company's RVs for that 17-hour drive each way. He wanted the whole family to understand the ins and outs of his product. But during the trip, he would not let his wife or kids use the bathroom or the shower on that RV.
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Because it's a company vehicle and he intended to sell that vehicle after they got home from Disney World. Plus, he's pretty old school. This guy had no computer and no email. He just never used either of them. He was the ultimate founder mode founder. He had his fingerprints on everything the company did.
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Okay, at one point, he went into the dumpster outside their office and measured it inside the dirty trash cans to make sure they were paying a fair price for their waste management bill. What did he find out? The cubic volume of that dumpster was smaller than what he was paying for. So he demanded a refund.
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15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick, that's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show.
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The Podson's first ramen, totally worth it. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick.
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Every big moment starts with a big dream. But what happens when that big dream turns out to be a big flop? From Wondery and At Will Media, I'm Misha Brown, and this is The Big Flop. Every week, comedians join me to chronicle the biggest flubs, fails, and blunders of all time, like Quibi. It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to, like, get other people to do it.
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15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick. That's it. I don't even think they need to practice. 50%, that's a fat tip. T-Boy City on your at list. If you know, you know, cause we ready to go. We can't wait no more, so just start the show. Start the show.
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Every big moment starts with a big dream. But what happens when that big dream turns out to be a big flop? From Wondery and At Will Media, I'm Misha Brown, and this is The Big Flop. Every week, comedians join me to chronicle the biggest flubs, fails, and blunders of all time, like Quibi. It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to, like, get other people to do it.
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Jack, let's hit our three stories. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in the dawn. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick.
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👛 “The ROI on the IRS” — America’s 12x tax return. Alani Nu’s $2B hot girl drink. Alibaba’s new religion.
I can't believe it, Jack. Oh, I thought you were going to say day 54 of me still being here. Still don't have the eye toilet. Still don't have Jack's third kid. Jack, three stories for today's show. What do we got on the pod, man? For our first story, Alani Nu is the Kardashian of energy drinks. And Alani was just acquired for $1.8 billion by Celsius.
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👛 “The ROI on the IRS” — America’s 12x tax return. Alani Nu’s $2B hot girl drink. Alibaba’s new religion.
Because yetis, the reality about the American tax system is that people cheat. And the likeliest to cheat happen to usually be the wealthy. Because most taxpayers' taxes are paid automatically by their employer. We see the withholding taxes line on our W-2. That's taxes automatically paid. But the rich make most of their income through investments, so they mostly self-report the taxes they owe.
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So follow us here. Without tax enforcement from the IRS, it's easier to cheat. Because if there's no fear of being audited, then there's basically no consequences to cheating. So add it all up, besties. And cutting waste at the IRS, simplifying the tax code, yeah, those are huge wins by Doge and Congress if they happen. Fantastic. But cutting enforcement would be a huge mistake.
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We wouldn't save money. We'd actually lose 12 times as much money. Because of the IRS ROI, every $1 spent on enforcement yields $12 in tax revenue. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us to kick off the week? Celsius acquired Alani New, the leading energy drink for women, for $1.8 billion. How did they decide on that price tag? Well, it was three times sales because money follows multiples.
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For our second story, Alibaba is back in the government's good graces now that it's pursuing AGI. From an investment perspective, again, not investment advice, Alibaba is a hedge on American everything. And our third and final story. The IRS has cut 6,700 jobs. The big question is whether those cuts are waste or tax enforcers.
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👛 “The ROI on the IRS” — America’s 12x tax return. Alani Nu’s $2B hot girl drink. Alibaba’s new religion.
A German judge disagrees. As fashionable as Birkenstock may be, they say sandals are legally not art. However, here, here, we respectfully disagree with that judge. Your Honor, may I approach the bench? Because the cork foot, Brad, is it not a collage? Your Honor, is the brass buckle not a sculpture?
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Because for every $1 spent on tax enforcement, we get $12 in taxes collected. That is the IRS ROI. By the way, that's according to a paper published this month in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which Jack and I read. Ha ha ha! Every three months. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, we got an update on the eggflation situation.
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Shake Shack's CEO says that high egg prices are driving people to chicken and beef now. Because egg prices rose again last month, you're switching to burgers and wings to get your protein fix. So that increased demand for meat is eventually going to increase meat prices. What we're saying is eggflation could lead to steakflation. I know. No, you had a good one.
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Second, Disney World is reportedly going to change their pricing strategy when it comes to theme parks. Disney is going to shift over to dynamic pricing, just like airlines and hotels. What we're saying is as demand spikes for Disney tickets, Disney is going to jack up the prices. And as demand falls for Disney World, they're going to drop the prices.
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They're already doing this over at Disney Paris. It's basically surge pricing just to see Tinkerbell. And finally, the New York Yankees owner, Hal Steinbrenner, announced a major policy change for anyone wearing pinstripes. Yetis, they are now ending the famous anti-beard policy of the New York Yankees. Forever. It's been against the rules of the Yankees to have a beard if you're a player.
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If you're stepping up to bat in Yankee Stadium, you better. be clean shaven. That was the rule. Mustaches were the only thing that was allowed. I kind of loved this rule, to be honest. I loved it. It was a differentiator for the Yankees that I always appreciated. Yeah. They also never had their names on the backs of their jerseys.
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Even if the Yankees were losing, we always just looked sharper than the competition. But now, well-groomed beards are permitted. Still should shave though, guys. Even though I'm a beard guy, I'm sad to see it go. Well, they weren't drafting you anytime soon, Jack. Time for the best fact yet. This one sent in by Danielle Harris from lovely Berea, Kentucky.
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Last week, we told you that KFC was shockingly moving out of Kentucky into Texas. That's right. Kentucky Fried Chicken is now based in the state of Texas. But get this, Texas Roadhouse, another restaurant chain, is actually based in Kentucky. So KFC is based in Texas, but Texas Roadhouse is based in Kentucky. Kentucky Fried Chicken is in Texas. Texas Roadhouse is in Kentucky.
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Basically, balance has now been restored to the universe. Although, Jack, I don't want to break your heart as a former employee, but you know the Olive Garden isn't actually headquartered in Tuscany. I'm going to act like you didn't say that. Yetis, you look fantastic over there. Jack, the IBO, the initial baby offering could be any moment now.
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We're hoping for a girl because we already have two boys, but I'm the third boy in my family. So if we have a third boy, that'd be amazing. And of course, any healthy baby is a huge win. Now, besties, the best way you can help grow the show is turn to your buddy next to you at work and say, hey, H-Y-H-T-B-O-Y. I love this pod. You're going to love it too. Have you had the best one yet?
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If you know, you know. Jack and I will see you, hopefully, for T-Boy Tuesday. Is that too much with the hopefully? Is that confusing? And before we go, a happy birthday to legendary little Yeti Alexandra Tunney over in Greenwich, Connecticut. And happy birthday to Tam Shoyer in New York City. And Kevin Medrano down in Fort Worth, Texas, celebrating the birthday in Japan.
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If art is the expression of human skill, is not the Birkenstock sandal but the Mona Lisa of the foot? I mean, honestly, art touches the human soul. But the Birkenstock touches your literal soul. Yeah, it is. Nick and I didn't go to law school. We didn't go to art school either. But we're pretty sure that Birkenstock is the new body of child. If you know, you know.
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Have fun over there, Kevin. And now a big happy 11th birthday to Isaiah Alvarez in Long Beach. And Yui Snyder's turning seven with a fantastic birthday in Spokane, Washington. Happy birthday to Vishnu Mural in Massachusetts, just outside Boston. And Crystal Mena Caffati down in Honduras is launching a fragrance brand soon, but in the meantime, celebrating a birthday.
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And happy anniversary to Albert and Dr. Veronica Huartes in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Keep wearing those Vans. And Natalia and Bubz Quake Gloss down in D.C. have got a six-year anniversary celebrated fantastically. And to anyone else celebrating something today, make it a T-boy. Celebrate the wins. This is Jack. I own stock in Amazon and Disney. Nick owns stock in Alibaba and Shake Shack.
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And we both own stock in Apple.
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Jack, let's hit our three stories.
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For our first story, Celsius Energy is buying energy drink icon Alani New for $1.8 billion. Alani is the Kim K of energy drinks, so we'll explain its acquisition price. Jack, let's go back to 2023. Do you remember we did a story on Celsius and what was Celsius energy stock doing at the time? It was the top performing stock of the last five years. Celsius stock was up 4,000%.
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An energy drink stock. Now, since then, Celsius has cooled down. Yeah. Literally. Yeah. Their North American sales shrank for the last two quarters and the stock has fallen 75%. But not anymore. Because on Friday, Celsius stock surged for its best day on the stock market in years. And why was that, Jack? Hot girl energy. Boom, here's the news.
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Celsius acquired fast-growing energy drink startup Alani New for $1.8 billion. you can't beat them, buy them. Alani knew. The female-focused energy drink slash supplement slash protein powder brand, baby. It's monster energy if it only had X chromosomes. Alani knew. The cans are pink and the cans are poppy. If Barbie did SoulCycle, she'd pound an Alani afterwards.
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It's basically the fifth Kardashian, but it can do Pilates and a triathlon in the same day. Now, here's what Nick and I found fascinating about this story. Despite all the attention recently on liquor, beer, sparkling water, spike seltzer, prebiotic sodas, one beverage category is beating all the others. Energy drinks. It turns out 12-ounce energy drinks are outpacing coffee these days.
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That's why every influencer has launched their own energy drink. It's a booming market. We've been even told we should launch an energy drink because we hit the takeaways pretty hard. It's a good amount of energy we got in the show. Because Gen Z has ditched double-digit lattes for single-digit Red Bulls. But here's the interesting detail Jack and I want to focus on. Jack, what's the stat?
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There are twice as many men buying energy drinks as women. Yeah, your buddy Timmy is the one who's pounding a 10-hour power these days. So there's two ways to interpret that data. One is that women don't like energy drinks. Okay. Or maybe there's just no energy drinks marketed to women. Well, Katie Hearn, the fitness influencer, bet on the latter of those two interpretations.
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And she created a brand that has become the Skims of Supplements. And now her Alani new sales are up 80% in the last year. And she just sold the brand for 1.8 billion bucks. Like we said, hot girl energy. She realized basically that the problem wasn't the demand of energy drinks among women. It was the supply of energy drinks for women.
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So we'll explain how they got that very specific number. For our second story. Alibaba is the Amazon of China, and its stock has doubled in the last year. But their founder disappeared for years, and now he's back. And that detail tells you everything you need to know, Jack. And our third and final story. Since the IRS has been targeted by Doge for job cuts, we just calculated the ROI on the IRS.
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Nobody was supplying the market with lady-focused energy drinks. But besties, Jack and I were studying this story and we thought, you know what? Alani New is actually the perfect case study here. Because how did the two sides decide $1.8 billion was the price for this deal? Well, the answer is our takeaway. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Alani New?
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The way that Wall Street decides price tags is money follows multiples. Yeah, it is. Why did a fast-growing women's energy drink with $600 million in sales get acquired for $1.8 billion? Every deal has its own negotiation. True, true, true. But that number wasn't random. In fact, we could have predicted... the $1.8 billion price.
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And that is because one classic way to determine a company's value is to look at multiples in the industry. Multiples. When you look at the acquisition prices of other recent exits in the food and beverage industry, and then compare it to your deal. Yeah. What's the math? What's the formula on that exactly, Jack?
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You look at the sales price of the acquisition, divide it by the revenue of the company, and that's your multiple. So for example, Simple Mills sold for a price that was three and a half times its sales. Ghost Energy sold for a price that was three times its sales. And Siete Foods sold for a price that was two and a half times its sales.
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So the average exit for a fast-growing food and beverage company is at a valuation that is three times as big as the company's annual sales. Well, Jack, let's look at the whiteboard. Alani was doing $600 million in energy drink sales. So multiply that by three and you get $1.8 billion. Boom. That's the deal price. Yes, it is.
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Alani New shows how Wall Street uses multiples to calculate billion-dollar price tags. For our second story, Alibaba is back, baby. But the Chinese e-commerce titan has converted religions to AI. And we'll tell you why Americans have been buying up stock in Alibaba. But yetis, in order to tell the story of Alibaba, Jack, I just texted you something.
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Can you please describe what I just texted you on your phone? I'm looking at a custom gorilla sofa living room furniture set available on Alibaba to ship to my home. It's a gigantic gorilla whose arms are enveloping a loveseat sofa. Yeah, so that's the kind of thing you buy at Alibaba, a seven-foot gorilla-shaped sofa for $1,000.
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The head of this gorilla is huge, and it sits above your head because you're sitting on the sofa. Can't buy that on Amazon. Yeti's Alibaba. We used to own the stock because back in 2014, Alibaba had the biggest IPO in New York Stock Exchange history. By far. By far. Now, you may not know Alibaba, but everyone in China does. That's a guarantee. Because Alibaba is China's Amazon.
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And Alibaba was led by China's Steve Jobs, a man named Jack Ma. Alibaba was once worth nearly $1 trillion until that man Nick just mentioned, Jack Ma, disappeared. A true story. Disappeared. We didn't know where he was. Here's what happened. Jack Ma said something that the Chinese government didn't like, and then he disappeared, and no one knew what happened to him.
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After Alibaba's CEO criticized financial regulators, the stock fell 80%, and he just went missing. We honestly thought he had been killed. No idea where he was. But now he's back in President Xi's good graces. As we say, what President Xi wants, Xi gets. And so since Jack Ma is back, so is Alibaba stock. It's up 70% just so far in 2025.
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But Jack, let's pause the pod for a second and dig into that one a little more. Why is Alibaba back, baby? Because Alibaba found a new religion which President Xi worships. It's called Artificial General Intelligence. Artificial General Intelligence. We'll explain that in a second. But in the meantime, Jack, let's share that hero stat that sets all of this up.
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For every $1 we put into the tax agency, we'll tell you what we actually get paid. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories, Oh, what a mix of stories. Love the mix. What is art? What is art, Jack? Is it a painting, a sculpture, a song, a film? Or is art a Birkenstock? Because here's the news, Yetis. Birkenstock legally filed for its sandal to be a classified work of art.
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Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that artificial general intelligence would triple the world's GDP growth from 3% today to 10% tomorrow. And since leading that is China's priority, their crackdown on tech is over and Alibaba's Jack Ma is back in their good graces. And now that tech is blessed by the government again, Jack Ma's Alibaba announced a new mission for his company.
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And here it is. Our first and foremost goal is the pursuit of artificial general intelligence. It's shortened to AGI. AGI is when artificial intelligence is so powerful that it is equal or greater than human intelligence. You will be speaking with computers in such a way you will have no idea if it's your buddy Timmy or if it's bot Timmy. Here's the crazy part though.
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With AGI, Jack Ma could tell his AI model, hey, run the company to maximize profits. Then he could just retire, sit back, and watch as AI performed his CEO job better than he would have. That's why AGI is Alibaba's new religion. It could let humans just... Stop working, assuming they have like a desk job, because your desk job will be performed better by your AI chatbot.
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And China's so excited about that new religion, they're supporting Alibaba, and the stock has nearly doubled. Side note, Alibaba was also in the news last week because they partnered with Apple. All iPhones in China are going to be powered by Alibaba's AI. Siri. is kind of an Alibaba employee too. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Alibaba?
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From an investing perspective, Alibaba is a hedge on American everything. Yetis, Alibaba is the Amazon of China. It's worth $400 billion, its core business is huge, it is profitable, and it is e-commerce. But it also wants to become the open AI of China, pursuing the highest form of artificial intelligence.
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Well, right now, America's economy is bigger and growing faster and is more tech advanced than China. But investors always want to hedge. And Alibaba, a stock traded on the New York Stock Exchange, could be that hedge. This is not investment advice. We used to own the stock. We don't even really own it anymore. But this is just really interesting to imagine. What if China wins the trade war?
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What if China wins the AI race? If those things happen, then Alibaba would win too. So from an investing perspective, Alibaba is really the hedge on American everything. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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For our third and final story, Doge has turned its chainsaw toward the IRS. Last week, they cut 6,700 jobs at the tax agency. So we calculated the ROI on the IRS, and it may actually be the best investment America can do. Okay, we'll hit the numbers, Yetis. But in the meantime, Jack, one of the most poetic descriptions of a government agency we have ever heard. Can you please share it with us?
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Boom.
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Boy, are we glad that we have them. Well, Donald Trump thinks that there's also waste, fraud, and money to be saved in the IRS Internal Revenue Service. So Elon's doge jumped in last week. Elon axed 6,700 IRS workers on Thursday, just as we're all preparing to file our taxes. Some more of those numbers, that represents 8% of the 83,000 people working full-time on taxes at the IRS.
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Yeah, they claim their footwear should legally be protected just like a Jackson Pollock painting. Why are they doing this? Because of dupes. Cheap Birkenstock knockoffs are everywhere. Redditors have gone rabid with recommendations for knockoff Birkenstock brands every single day. And Birkenstock is sick of it. So they want artistic copyright protection to stop the copycats. However, hear, hear.
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Now, there is a huge efficiency opportunity at the IRS. Yeah, there is. If we cut waste or if we could file taxes online, like someone deserves an award if we could make that happen. The IRS has a $16 billion annual budget. If we can match these job cuts with some kind of tech automation, that would be a huge efficiency win for everyone.
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I don't want to double down on this, but again, there were rumors last year Doge would create a free tax app and you could file online. Again, huge opportunity. Because in America, you basically have to pay a hundred bucks to one of those two tax filing companies so they can file taxes for you. That doesn't have to be the way it is.
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Not to play Carmen Sandiego here, but over in Estonia, they do all their taxes online and it takes three minutes in Estonia. Well, so far, the IRS cuts have only focused on cutting jobs. We don't have a free tax app yet. So most of those firings, by the way, they happen to be the most junior employees at the IRS. So the biggest efficiency gain to our tax system, it's actually one clear answer.
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Simplifying the tax code. Jack and I aren't accountants, but 70,000 pages of tax code feels kind of long for the tax code. We should point out, though, that simplifying the tax code would require Congress. the best investment in our tax system also happens to be very, very clear. More tax enforcement.
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Because yetis, regardless of how long, how short, how much you like or dislike taxes are, how do we actually make sure the people who owe the taxes actually pay them? The answer is our takeaway. Yes, it is. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone paying taxes? The IRS has the biggest ROI in all of government. We got the receipts. Yetis, here is the hero stat.
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For every $1 that we spend in tax enforcement, we collect $12 in tax revenue. That is a 12x return. The amount we spend on tax enforcement gets 12 times as much back to us. to America. And the flip side of that is that every $1 we cut from tax enforcement, we end up losing $12 from people who don't pay the taxes they owe.
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Yeah, the comments are like, you're so right, Jack. You got an awesome idea right there. Or like, I can't believe you, Jack, wore that shirt. It looks great on you, man.
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Sam. Sam. Sam, we're doing the show.
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Or send it to a robot.
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We're going to send it to Sam Altman because he keeps texting us and we're like, Sam, fine, we'll make an AI show.
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All right, well, Jack, it's been one year since then, and what does the situation look like right now, man?
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In fact, OpenAI just disbanded the entire internal team that was focused on ethics and safety at OpenAI.
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Get this, Grindr expects to grow their revenue by at least 20% every single year through 2027. What? Grindr, it's gone queer eye for the stock buy.
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I thought those were great.
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But that's okay. That's okay. Is it okay? It's okay. We'll discuss if it's okay.
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Jack, let's hit our three stars.
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I would define reclaiming as to take back what was yours. Something you possess is lost or stolen and ultimately you triumph in finding it again. Listen to Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky wherever you get your podcasts.
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I would define reclaiming as to take back what was yours. Something you possess is lost or stolen, and ultimately you triumph in finding it again. Listen to Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky wherever you get your podcasts.
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Every big moment starts with a big dream. But what happens when that big dream turns out to be a big flop? From Wondery and At Will Media, I'm Misha Brown, and this is The Big Flop. Every week, comedians join me to chronicle the biggest flubs, fails, and blunders of all time, like Quibi. It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to, like, get other people to do it.
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and the 2019 movie adaptation of Cats. Like, if I'm watching the dancing and I'm noticing the feet aren't touching the ground, there's something wrong with the movie. Find out what happens when massive hype turns into major fiasco. Enjoy The Big Flop on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to The Big Flop early and ad-free on Wondery+.
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Get started with your free trial at wondery.com slash plus.
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I got a picture for you, Daddy.
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🌎 “Pan-cession” — Global recession risk. Chipotle’s tariff-free avocado. Clocking out at 4:39pm.
There he is. Hey, pod son. How you doing? Here's a picture for you, Daddy. What's the picture of? And you're getting gifts. Oh. Is this Lightning McQueen? No, it isn't. What is it? It's a picture of a dragon.
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A dragon? Yes.
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Can't wait.
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Start the show. Start the show. Start the show.
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32%.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, February 3rd, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. Here's the top three pop business news stories you need to know today. Someone survived the bachelor party. Yeah, I did, baby. We had a great time. Right when we can't see Jack's beating his chest like he accomplished something. Yeah, I didn't really accomplish that.
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Given the quantity, the range, and the revenue of Hans Zimmer's works of art. I think I know where you're going. Is he a bigger creator than Mr. Beast? Boom, pause the pod. We're saying it, Jack. Hans Zimmer, bigger creator than Mr. Beast. His YouTube thumbnails are way more chill though. Less YouTube face. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are anyone seeking creative inspiration?
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Hans Zimmer proves that play isn't just for fun. Play can be legendary. Play can be power. Yet he's, like most entrepreneurs, Hans Zimmer's career started the opposite of where he actually ended up. Born in West Germany, he quit piano lessons after two weeks. Yeah, he was actually six years old, but he didn't want to play other people's music, he said.
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He just wanted to jam out and make his own music. And his parents were fine with that. They told him to treat music like playtime. Just explore and create whatever comes into your head. In fact, Hans Zimmer's Big Break, it wasn't the classical music that he learned as a kid. It was for a rock band called The Buggles. Video killed the radio star. MTV's first music video ever, Hans Zimmer's in it.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, yak wool is turning up in $300 shirts and $400 sweaters. Get this, Paris Fashion Week last year, they had their first ever yak cardigan. Not too shabby. But honestly, what is a yak? What the heck is a yak? We jumped into a pack of yaks to find out why for you. A yak is actually a large horned bovine native to the Himalayan mountains.
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You can see him on MTV, the first ever episode of MTV. But Hans continued to mess around. He taught himself how to code so that he could create music electronically, which let him create way more music without needing an orchestra. In fact, he loves original creation so much, he turned an ostrich egg into a flute, which is what you heard in The Lion King with your son, Jack.
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He actually goes to Home Depot every week. True story. To buy hardware and create his own unique instruments. Yeah, like, you know that freaky melody in the movie Dune that we all have heard? Really deep. That was music that Hans Zimmer composed on a 21-foot pipe that he built from Home Depot materials. It's like arts and crafts class. Yes, and it's working.
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So, besties, how did Hans Zimmer become the world's biggest musical creator? It's the power of play. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us to kick off the week? Yahoo is leaning into its Y2K vibes to offer consumers something that's not Google or Meta. There is now a vintage category in tech. A yahoo.com email address is the new dad shoe.
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For our second story, tonight at midnight, the US and its neighbors will tax each other's goods. This is Trade War 2. But this ain't like other trade wars, Yetis. This is a great foreign policy experiment. And our third and final story. Hans Zimmer is worth an estimated $200 million with musical scores from Dune to The Dark Knight. We'd play him, but we'd get sued.
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The lesson for creators is that play is power. His work is the product of fun. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, update on TikTok. TikTok is gone from the app stores, but it is still on most people's phones. And usage is about 90% of what it was pre-January 19th deadline.
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Now, Trump delayed the ban by 75 days, trying to convince China to sell the company, the brand, the algorithm to America. And it's just rumors still. Mr. Beast might buy it. Mr. Wonderful might buy it. Oracle and Microsoft, they're all officially in the market to buy TikTok. And second, OpenAI's valuation could hit $300 billion this week with a new fundraise.
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SoftBank is trying to get involved, and they're thinking about a $25 billion investment. Is OpenAI the new WeWork? Massa! That would make OpenAI worth $340 billion, the largest startup on earth. It would also be the largest fundraise for any company ever. And finally, should you wear a coat? Should you not wear a coat?
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Well, Puxatawney Phil saw his shadow on Sunday, according to Groundhog Handlers. The extremely unscientific predictor of weather has completed its forecast. So besties, we're getting six more weeks of wintry winter weather ahead of us. It's great news if you're a skier. It's bad news if you're a golfer. And it's not news at all if you're not superstitious. Now time for the best fact yet.
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This one sent in by Dario Durella from the lovely city of stars, Brisbane, California. Last week, we mentioned in our space story, making rocket ships out of wood. We mentioned it as a joke. But Dario points out that this wooden rocket ship innovation is actually real and it's happening right now.
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There's a Japanese startup called Lingosat that made a satellite out of wood, and it's already in space. Why did they make a satellite out of tree wood, Jack? They wanted to see how wood would perform in space or beyond Earth conditions. How's that maple looking up in orbit, man? It's looking good.
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A yak kind of looks like a cow the size of a Cybertruck. They've got huge horns. They've got long hair. They kind of look like a country or emo cattle singer. Their hair is covering their eyes. And because they live 20,000 feet high in the freezing temperature mountains, their fur is optimized. Yak wool is 30% warmer than sheep wool. And because yak hair is uniquely hollow.
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The test confirmed that this satellite has not shown any decomposition, any cracking, or any peeling whatsoever. which means wood is resilient in outer space. The ultimate goal of this startup? To one day grow wood on Mars. We don't know if they're trying to plant trees on Mars or just build wooden houses on Mars. Either way, this is the first ever hipster satellite.
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Yetis, you look fantastic to start the week. Jack, we're like one month from your birthday, by the way, man. It's catching up. Dude, because the baby is due February 28th, I'm not even thinking about my birthday. Well, I already know what I'm going to get you. I already got something in mind. You're going to give me a hint or a tease? I'll just tell you. I'm getting you a yak sweater.
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I don't know where, but I'm tracking one down. Dude, I would love that. Size Marge. Yes, if someone sells things in size Marge, I feel so seen. Jack's all over it. Besties, the best way you can help us grow the show is tap to follow us so you get T-Boy every day and then tell a buddy, hey, H-Y-H-T-B-O-Y. And if you know of a yak sweater that you think I'd like, drop a link in the comments.
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Nick seriously might buy it for me. Have you heard the best one yet? Ask and connect. And before we go, a happy birthday to legendary Yeti and Eagle Mary Weintraub from the Upper West Side. Happy birthday to Chris Ugarte, who's turning 34 in Frisco, Texas. And now our down in lovely Las Vegas has a daughter who loves her and they're celebrating a birthday.
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Happy birthday to Yuna Lee Cruz in Houston, Texas. Sean Chu from San Francisco is celebrating his birthday, Jack, with a chicken party in San Diego. Live chickens, food chickens. He's dressed as a chicken and everyone chases him around. He invited me. I couldn't make it, but I actually like the idea a lot. What is the idea? I don't know, but I still like it.
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And Cigar has got a birthday over in Chicago doing logistics. Happy birthday to Paxton Sewell in San Diego, who's turning five years old. Happy birthday, Paxton. And Ashley down in Queens, legendary Yeti, has got the best birthday yet. And Jack, she loves our weekly show too. Thanks for listening to Ashley. And congratulations to Peter Strong for achieving an 850 perfect credit score. Fantastic.
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And Anthony Boosa's on the job hunting San Diego. Hire this man. If you're looking to hire an MBA, drop a comment and Anthony's going to reach out. And to anyone else who's celebrating something today, make it a T-boy. Celebrate the wins. This is Jack. I own stock of Disney and Nick and I both own stock of Apple and Spotify.
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It's softer and lighter than cashmere is. And because there is a lack of yaks. It's a rare and indulgent luxury. Besties, in Tibet, owning a yak is a status symbol. In New York City, owning a yak sweater is a status symbol. Get your hands off me. This isn't 100% yak. By the way, it's also a financial trick shot because you can find yak right now. That's a third of the price of cashmere.
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And why is that yak? No one knows about yak. Yet. Yetis, let's hit our three yakking stories.
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I accomplished a weekend without my children. Shout out to Alex. Thanks for looking after the boys. In the meantime, Yetis, Jack and I got three fantastic stories for today's show. Jack, what's on the T-boy? For our first story, Yahoo is back, baby. Yahoo! After 30 years, the Y2K internet company is having a resurgence.
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For our first story, the most fashionable name in tech right now, you're not going to believe this. It's Yahoo. Yahoo just turned a midlife crisis into midlife momentum. Three letters that kind of defined our lives, Jack. Y2K. The turn of the millennium is having a moment right now. It's not just that there's a literal movie coming to Hollywood studios called Y2K produced by Jonah Hill.
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No, it's also Furby, Britney Spears style, low rise jegging, Snoop Dogg, Martha Stewart, everything Y2K is everywhere right now. It's our 20-year rule of nostalgia. After 20 years, old things are cool again. One sec, Jack. Pause the pod. I got to feed my Tamagotchi another vitamin. But the one tech that's on the cool list right now is Yahoo. Yahoo!
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The first company to put an exclamation point in their name. Apple is older. Google is younger. But Yahoo and their sister company, AOL, they're in this awkward middle age. Yahoo is like a middle-aged millennial. It actually turns 30 in March. Happy early birthday. But instead of hiding from its oldness, Yahoo is embracing it, according to a piece in Business Insider.
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Now, besties, Yahoo does not have a public stock anymore. They're actually owned by the private equity firm Apollo in New York. But if we could check Yahoo's stock on Yahoo Finance right now, we bet it'd be going up and to the right. We do. Because instead of a midlife crisis, Yahoo has created midlife momentum. Yahoo's age is actually an advantage. It is.
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Because Yahoo reminds us of its prime, when the internet was more fun. Back when the internet was not misinformation campaigns and dark web addictive features. When Yahoo reigned supreme, the internet was for geeky curiosity and spontaneous delights. The kind of place you could put an exclamation point on your company name, Jack.
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Yahoo is betting that the current backlash against Google and Meta could translate to an opportunity for them. So here's what they're strategically doing. Yahoo is leaning into that purple Y2K branding elements of its name to be clearly not Google or Meta. And Jack, what kind of results are they seeing? There is a 125% surge in at yahoo.com email addresses.
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Email addresses at yahoo.com have more than doubled. It's like it's not a red flag stigma anymore when you get an email from a Yahoo account. Yahoo Fantasy Sports is seeing record use. Also Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, even Yahoo Search. Oh, but Jack, what was the most interesting sign of Yahoo's comeback? That 45% of the traffic to Yahoo websites is from Gen Z. That's right.
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People who don't remember it at all. It's new to them. Half the people going to Yahoo weren't born when Yahoo was a thing. So what translates to us as nostalgia translates to younger people as novelty. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Yahoo? There is now a vintage category in tech. Yetis, when we got our Gmail accounts, it was cool. It was cutting edge.
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You're going to start seeing at Yahoo.com email addresses again, and we'll tell you why. For our second story, Trump's second trade war has officially begun. New tariffs start tonight against Canada, Mexico, and China. But besties, if you think this is just an economic story, you are understanding tariffs all wrong.
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It was college, but now Gmail's basic. If your apps for the most screen time are meta and Google-owned apps, that's basic. And honestly, if you're fully decked out in Apple tech, you kind of look just like everybody else. Yetis, tech is old enough at this point that it now has a vintage category, and vintage tech is surging in popularity as a way to stand out.
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We're talking corded headphones, Polaroid cameras, digital cameras, pixelated retro websites. Those are a thing now. Vintage isn't just about dad shoes and baggy old Levi's. A yahoo.com email address and AOL instant messenger is vintage too. Jack, I think you're saying Yahoo is the new New Balance. We think tech not controlled by Apple, Google, and Meta could gain popularity this year.
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It's a whole new category, besties. We call it modern vintage. For our second story, over the weekend, a trade war was formally declared against Canada, Mexico, and China. Jack and I call it Trade War 2. But if you're looking at these tariffs as purely an economic policy, you're not reading this right. So we'll tell you how to read it.
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But yetis, set your alarm clocks because starting at midnight tonight, the first shots will be fired in Trump's trade war. America's three biggest trading partners are getting hit with tariffs. 25% for Canada, 25% for Mexico, and 10% for China. Why is this happening? Well, Trump is demonstrating hard power. These tariffs will hurt the economies of China, Mexico, and Canada.
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Trump is demanding that those countries do more to curtail drugs and immigrants from entering the United States. There's no deadline here. The tariffs will remain in effect until, as Trump said, the crisis is alleviated. But there's already been retaliation from the other side. Canada and Mexico are applying 25% tariffs on American-made goods in a tit-for-tat fashion.
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And China, they've condemned the tariffs. They haven't retaliated yet, but so far, they're not a fan. Also, there's a carve-out in these tariffs for oil and gas. Because we actually get 4 billion barrels of oil from Canada, and if those got taxed at 25%, you would notice that, wouldn't you, Jack? Yes, you would. Trump doesn't want people to notice these price increases at the pump.
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So Canadian oil is only getting a 10% tariff. But that's the background, Yeti. Starting tonight at midnight, when the tariffs go into effect, we consumers in all four countries are going to notice it on our credit cards. Because tariffs are taxes, and those taxes trickle down to consumers in the form of higher prices. Canada, you're about to pay more for Tennessee bourbon.
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We are about to pay more for maple syrup on our pancakes. And Jack, what might they say to us next time we go to Chipotle? Avocados, guac, it's even more extra because those avos come from Mexico. Guac, it's going to be extra, extra. Now, yetis, these Trump tariffs are historic, but we want to sprinkle on some context because 100 years ago, these were actually more common.
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The first ever tariffs actually were introduced in 3000 BC. The Mesopotamians. The early stars of geopolitics. They actually forced foreign traders to pay a tax on their goods before they could enter their walled cities. That was a few thousand years ago. But the most famous use of tariffs was actually in the United States with President William McKinley.
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And our third and final story, if you've watched a movie, odds are there was music composed by Hans Zimmer. Hans Zimmer's music makes him the greatest creator of all time because Hans Zimmer shops at the Home Depot. Three of the top 20 movies on IMDb are only up there because of Hans Zimmer's original score. Yeah, and we found out how he does it.
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President William McKinley, over 100 years ago, taxed foreign goods at a record high of 50% before they could come into the U.S., But here's the interesting thing. Jack, why did an American president put such high tariffs on so many countries? This was before the income tax. Yeah. So the government needed revenue. That's right.
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Tariffs were actually the biggest source of tax revenue back then to like fund our military. A hundred years ago, part of your paycheck wasn't going to the government like it is today. So we needed to figure out ways to get more money. But then the Great Depression rolled around. And tariffs that were imposed during the Great Depression made the Great Depression even more depressing.
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So after our worst economic experience ever, tariffs were broadly understood to be economically counterproductive, and they kind of fell out of fashion. Because there's inevitably retaliation with tariffs, so both countries' economies suffer. But fast forward over a century, and Trump is now leveraging America's size for these new tariffs. He believes other countries will suffer more than we can.
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and that we can outlast the economic pain of tariffs so eventually these smaller countries will bend to America's will. And actually, we kind of already saw this kind of happen the other week, didn't we, Jack? With Colombia. Once Trump tariffed Colombian coffee, Colombia immediately caved. They bent to the president's demands to accept immigrant deportees coming from the United States.
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So besties, in the meantime, one of the biggest Google searches of this past weekend is... Can I freeze guacamole? So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone getting tariffed? It's not just trade war two that's happening. This is a great trade experiment. Yeti, what is happening right now isn't like the past trade wars we've discussed.
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This is unprecedented for one particular reason. Trump is not using tariffs to protect U.S. manufacturing or to raise tax revenues like tariffs have been used in the past. In this case, President Trump is using tariffs as a bargaining chip for foreign policy, not economic policy. With Mexico, he wants a crackdown on gangs, drugs, and immigrants.
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With China, he'll likely leverage tariffs in a deal for them to sell us TikTok. If he eventually tariffs Denmark, it'll be to demand Greenland. And if he tariffs Panama, it will be in demand for the canal. So besties, that's why we think Trump's tariffs are actually unique. Because they're big, because they're modern, and because they're on allies. They also punish our allies more than our foes.
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Canada's getting 25% while China only gets 10%. But most of all, Trump's demands aren't economic. They're a grab bag for foreign policy aims. So what's starting this week isn't just trade war too. This is a great trade experiment. And honestly, no one really knows what will happen. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories, Jack. Love the mix today. Disruption is coming to the sweater industry. We ain't talking polar fleece, merino wool, or alpaca, are we, Jack? We're talking about the yak. Yes, the yak. Yak hair is the next luxury material. Yeah, that's right. Yak is crushing cotton and yak is chewing up cashmere.
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For our third and final story, Hans Zimmer has brought in hundreds of millions of dollars just for composing music for movies. We'll tell you Hans Zimmer's epic growth hack to become the ultimate creator. But yetis, one of the reasons we wanted to do this story was because, Jack, didn't you just watch The Lion King with the pod son? Yeah. You did.
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The scene with the stampede, with Mufasa getting- It's big. It's intense. High drama. It is Greek level drama. And the musical score makes that scene. That's the key, besties, because the highlight of The Lion King isn't necessarily the movie. It is the music. And the music was composed by a then 37-year-old man named Hans Zimmer, who won an Oscar for the emotional and sweeping original score.
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But it wasn't just Disney cartoons he's composed, right, Jack? The catchy tune from Pirates of the Caribbean, also Hans Zimmer. The Dark Knight, Inception, Gladiator. What John Williams is to Steven Spielberg, Hans Zimmer is for Christopher Nolan and more. He's got range. He did Kung Fu Panda. He did the lovely Christmas rom-com, The Holiday. Oh, and he also won an another Oscar for Dune.
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But Hans Zimmer doesn't just do music for movies. He did the music for video games, including Dragon Age. And he even made a sound for BMW's electric cars. Yeah. Like some kind of engine-ish purr. It was composed by Hans. So what's the news when it comes to the best composer of all time, Jack? He is actually in talks with the nation of Saudi Arabia. to create a new national anthem for them.
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I didn't know you could do new national anthems. But yet is that got Jack and I fascinated with Hans Zimmer. So we jumped in T-boy style and we found some fascinating things. He's composed a musical range from Beethoven to Beyonce. But the surprise for us wasn't just the range. It was really the financial numbers.
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He's done 500 projects in 40 years, which is one movie composed per month on average. In fact, add it all up and Hans Zimmer is now worth an estimated $200 million. He's now getting paid more than the actors on the movies. The only person paid more than him for Top Gun Maverick was Tom Cruise. That's right. Because Hans is getting paid $2 million just to work on a film.
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So today his business is similar to the business of an architecture firm. He owns a studio and he has a staff to help him scale. But what's really interesting is that Hans has managed to scale his creativity by treating his content like... clay. He molds it. For example, right now he has a concert of his top songs from his best movies, music from the range of Rain Man to The Rock.
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But he's also turned that concert into a tour so he can make even more money on that music of the movies. In Taylor Swift style, he's making a documentary film about the tour, which is also going to make money. So he's treating his creativity like clay. He's molding it for different mediums, but it's all from the same core clay.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. Welcome back. It is Monday, December 2nd, and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. You know, Jack, people are still talking about my chocolate mousse pie. It's still a thing. Is that so? I heard there's a rumor going around. That's just what I hear.
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Get this. Klarna's customer service chatbot was actually developed by OpenAI, and they used that chatbot To replace 700 workers. And Klarna's not shy about that. They're actually boasting that they replaced 700 customer support workers with one chatbot. It's almost like they've turned this into a marketing campaign.
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Because the new beauty trend, Yetis, is the oil bath. Specifically, crude oil baths. That's right. Pause the pod. Soak your body in a whole bathtub of black petroleum oil. That's the trend, baby. This is actually happening in spas in the Middle East, even though it sounds like the dirtiest thing we can imagine. And yet these oil baths were designed to get you clean.
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Jack, didn't they release like four separate press releases about replacing 700 human workers with AI? I think the marketing campaign is to potential investors because they're bragging that they're using AI to lower costs and boost profitability. Honestly, besties, this is a brazen use of AI to eliminate workers that we never see and you never see.
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They're pretty unapologetic about 700 people being laid off by this one bot whose sole goal is to boost profits. Pro tip, Klarna, when you are cutting jobs for AI, maybe don't turn it into an advertising campaign. But yetis, what Klarna's doing is the beginning of what could be the biggest trend in corporate America. And there's one perfect way to explain it.
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So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are Klarna? Ozempic exists for corporations. It's called AI. Now, Yeti, so far, the big winners of artificial intelligence has been a handful of tech companies, the ones hitting trillion-dollar valuations. But next year, every company could benefit from AI if expensive workers get replaced by bots. Scott Galloway, he called this corporate ozempic.
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Like, you take some AI, you inject your company with it, and very quickly, you cut costs, and then your profitability, oh, it looks fit. Using AI... Klarna's sales, marketing, customer support, and operations expenses fell by 15%. That's some serious and pretty instant weight loss. That AI, it was corporate ozempic.
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And this trend, besties, this will be fantastic for profits and stocks out there, but it is concerning for people in areas like customer support. Like with previous technological breakthroughs, repetitive tasks could be the first ones affected. so they'll have to look to retrain. Either way, AI, it's like a weight loss drug for business. AI is corporate Ozempic.
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Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us to kick off the week? Uncrustables have 10x sales in the past decade, thanks to popularity with NFL players. Uncrustables, they're about to be a billion dollar brand, but it didn't require splitting the atom. For our second story, we're experiencing a mullet market. Stock business in the front, crypto party in the back.
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Yeah, right now it's a Kurt Russell mullet. But the big question is, could this become a Joe Dirt mullet? And our third and final story is Klarna. They're trying to impress Wall Street with aggressive AI chatbots replacing workers. Corporate Ozempic, it exists, and it's called artificial intelligence. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today.
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First, the Biden administration is in a race to help clean energy companies and their new focus is Rivian. The White House has money from the Inflation Reduction Act that President Trump may try to revoke. So the White House is basically giving $6.6 billion of the money from that act as a loan to Rivian. And they're doing it in a rush. They want to help Rivian build that second factory in Georgia.
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And second, chemists created the world's thinnest spaghetti. Although we should point out, they are not going to eat this spaghetti. They're going to use this spaghetti for medical research. This spaghetti is 372 nanometers wide, which means it's invisible to the naked eye. Hey waiter, are you sure the pasta's in this? I can't even see this thing, man.
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No, Nick, they'd use it for medicine because these little spaghetti starches, they could help heal wounds when used in bandages. That's really angel hair pasta, like literally angel hair pasta yetis. It's spaghetti, but it's not for eating. It's going to fix your wound like an angel. Probably doesn't taste that great. And finally, Cyber Monday is today.
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But the big question, where did the term Cyber Monday come from? It was coined in 2005 by a lobbying group. Yeah, it was actually invented by Shop.org, which is the online arm of the National Retail Federation, which wants you to shoppy shoppy until you dropy dropy. And that lobbying has worked because Cyber Monday is now bigger than Black Friday. You know what, Jack?
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I mean, Jack, you got to sprinkle on some context for us over there. Last week, the World Climate Conference, COP29, was held in Azerbaijan. Interesting host because Azerbaijan is one of the most oil-dependent countries on the face of the earth. 60% of this Middle Eastern nation's income comes from the sale of oil. But get this, besties.
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You know what they should rebrand it to? I bet it's going to be mobile Monday. Like more orders placed from your phone than just like on a web browser. Yeah, we could do that. Yeah. Let's see the data later this week. Maybe we do a story on that. Maybe we will. Maybe we will. Now time for the best fact yet. This one whipped up by Jack and me to kick off your Monday.
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It's a trivia question, actually. Steve Jobs is known as one of the best innovators of all time. His product unveils, they are copied by business leaders all over the world. But who did Steve Jobs copy? Who was Steve Jobs thinking of when he did his first big product unveil?
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Tomorrow, we drop a new episode of The Best Idea Yet on a company whom Steve Jobs saw as his role model and a founder who Steve Jobs saw as his idol. We want your guess, though, in the comments right now. What company and what man inspired Steve Jobs the most? We'll reveal the answer tomorrow. In the meantime, drop those comments. Yetis, you look fantastic today.
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Jack, you're looking fantastic, but I still got one question that I've just been itching at since the beginning of the pod. Yeah? What do they do with all the crusts? You know, I actually looked this up. Is there a product that's just crusts? No, the company uses the crusts For animal feed. You're kidding. So it becomes like dog food. Which then fertilized the land, which leads to more peanuts.
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It's like a circle of life kind of thing. Yeah, it is. Uncrustable is the first circular product in America. Somebody call John. It's the circle of life. Yetis, if you haven't yet, share today's show with someone who just can't stop eating peanut butter at your office or your life. Tell them H-Y-H-T-B-O-Y. Have you had the best one yet? If you know, you know. Nick and I will see you tomorrow.
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Can't wait. And before we go, congratulations to Yeti's Connor Knapp and Ella Knapp, who just got married at the Orlo House and Ballroom in Tampa, Florida. They're already in Iceland for their honeymoon. And Jack, their corgi, can't wait to see him when they get back. Happy birthday to Kelly Sanders in Houston, Texas, who's got her own custom dance. for the T-Boy intro song.
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She's dancing right now. And Noah Polonsky in Laurel, Maryland has got a new job as a land acquisition manager. That's a lot of power right there, Noah. Congratulations to Neil Davey in New York City who's getting married and is right now in a bachelor party in Tulum. He's the maverick of LinkedIn and he's a proud HYH TBO wire. And happy birthday to Tyler Stringham in Mesa, Arizona.
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Tyler, have the best birthday yet. And to anyone else who's celebrating something today, make it a T-Boy. Celebrate the wins. This is Jack. Nick and I both own stock of Robinhood and we both own some Bitcoin. And Nick owns some Ethereum. Named Ethel. Although Jack, now I need a glass of milk because my lips are stuck together.
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Azerbaijan has so much oil that they are bathing in it, literally. It's a true story. At spas, they're not putting you in baths of olive oil. They're putting you in baths of dark, murky, black petroleum oil that none of us encounter, like, ever. Jack and I got curious. We jumped in T-boy style, saw the pictures. It looks like that scene from Dune, Jack. I know what scene you're talking about. Yeah.
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It's a hot tub of petroleum. That's what you're bathing in, baby. It's like a spa run by Sunoco. It's like a Texaco jacuzzi. I'll order the 50-minute gasoline treatment, please. Yetis, this is wild. This oil remedy goes back 800 years. Marco Polo even did it on his travels. And apparently, this rare crude oil bath is a dermatologist's dream.
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That's right, because one specific hydrocarbon in the oil is already used to treat skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema. So ExxonMobil, they shouldn't be pumping gasoline. They should be selling skin cream. OPEC, it's the new CeraVe, baby. But warning, Yetis, cleaning that oil off, it's going to take many a towel.
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Yeah, you're going to need a barrel of West Texas towels to get that thing clean, baby. You're going to need a fire hose for like 20 minutes before it's all off you. Yeah, you're going to need a barrel of West Texas towels to fully clean yourself off, Jack. Yetis, if any of you are taking oil baths, good luck. Just don't light a candle. That's all we got to say. Jack, let's hit our three stories.
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Was that your contribution to the Thanksgiving dinner? It was a little more than a contribution. It was, I would say, a highlight. Although I'm assuming you organized like 12 games of charades before dinner was over. True. After dinner charades games, fishbowl specifically. Yeah. Best thing to do by a fireplace. It's like my dream night. Jack's undefeated in fishbowl, according to Jack.
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For our first story, Uncrustables, the crustless peanut butter and jelly sandwich innovation is about to become a billion dollar brand. And it's all thanks to the Baltimore Ravens eating 8,000 of them last season. 8,000 boxes. It's a true story. But yeties, while you were enjoying turkey, the best performing stock over Thanksgiving week, Jack, I think it was Smucker's.
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It's got to be Smucker's, right? JM Smucker, the $13 billion food company, popped 10% on Tuesday after announcing earnings. They're now worth two lifts. Smucker's, they actually own your parents' pantry, don't they, man? Smucker's owns a whole bunch of brands. Folgers Coffee, Hostess Snacks, Meow Mix, and a bunch more. But
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The highlight profit puppy of the smucker's portfolio in your pantry is Uncrustables. Uncrustables, the sealed, crustless, frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwich thing that you let thaw and eventually eat. Now, some call the Uncrustables the American empanada. Others call it a calzone for the cool kids in the cafeteria. My dad calls it a savory Twinkie. Sometimes he calls it a nutty dumpling.
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We go whichever one he prefers. Either way, it was invented by two fathers in North Dakota who designed it specifically for the Midwestern school cafeterias that they grew up around. But get this. In 1998, the wife of a Smucker's executive saw that Uncrustables sandwich at her kid's lunch table. Before you know it, the company acquired Uncrustables for a million dollars. Honey, buy this brand.
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Our kid can't stop eating them. Smuckers, they already own Jif peanut butter and Smuckers jelly. They might as well put them together into these round pockets of Uncrustable goodness. Sandwich synergies, you can't beat them. But Yeti's sales grew for Smuckers slowly until about 10 years ago. 10 years ago, Uncrustable started some hockey stick growth. They started going Gretzky.
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Because 10 years ago, sales went from $100 million to nearly $1 billion this year. Not too shabby. Demand is so high, Smucker's built a giant factory in Alabama just for Uncrustables. We call it the Jigga Factory. PB&J is getting some serious ROI. So, Yetis, how is a 26-year-old sandwich-ish business growing like a software startup right now? Well, Jack and I got curious.
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Yetis, welcome back. Jack and I prepared the three fantastic stories for you. What do we got on the pod, Jack? For our first story, Uncrustables, the crustless peanut butter and jelly sandwich is now a billion dollar brand because Uncrustables became the unofficial snack of the NFL locker room.
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We jumped in T-boy style, and the answer is NFL football. Travis Kelsey said on his podcast that he eats more Uncrustables than any other food. Yeah, true story. Travis Kelsey cooks Uncrustables for Taylor Swift. That's how she loves them. NFL players used to eat Campbell's Chunky Soup all the time. Now they're eating Uncrustables every day.
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In fact, the Baltimore Ravens football team has Uncrustables constantly stocked in their locker rooms to fuel their players. How many did they eat every week, Jack? I don't know, but they had 7,500 boxes last year. That's a lot of boxes. We repeat, the Ravens are expensing Uncrustables at 7,500 boxes a year. It's a write-off, baby.
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And unlike Campbell's Chunky Soup, which was a paid product placement and ad campaign, these are all organic sales to NFL players. And once fans learned that their favorite players are eating Uncrustables, they added Uncrustables to their carts as if it were an ad. So leave the orange slices and electrolytes at home. Uncrustables is the new Gatorade. It's what the pros are eating.
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The NFL is why sales of Uncrustables are 10x-ing right now. America doesn't run on Dunkin'. Football runs on Uncrustables. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Uncrustables? You don't have to build the atomic bomb to become a billionaire. Yetis, our favorite part about this business isn't the peanut butter, the jelly, the football, or the gigafactory.
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It's a quote from the Uncrustables founders. We were making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, not an atomic bomb. That's what they said. In fact, those two dads, they said they invented the first Uncrustables while pounding beers in their garage. They chose the circular shape for Uncrustables because they were inspired by the moon and the sun and because they had been drinking a couple beers.
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Deep, deep. Yeah, it is. In a world of cutting edge AI, $500 million fundraisers, big tech competition, it is refreshing to hear this story of entrepreneurship. Because the thresholds for innovation can feel higher than ever right now. And yet Uncrustables is a reminder that there are still simple ideas out there just waiting for someone to do it. Uncrustables isn't even a patented technology.
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The trademark office said, no, you can't patent that. All they made was crustless peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They're like, yeah, you can't protect that because our moms all make these things. The founders of this brand simply took a risk, invested some cash, got to work, and slowly crafted what became a billion dollar idea.
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Uncrustable shows us you don't have to build the atomic bomb to create billions. For our second story, the stock market that we're in right now, it's unlike any we've ever seen. It actually looks like a mullet. It's a mullet market. Business in the front, party in the back, future completely uncertain.
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For our second story, with both stocks and crypto at all time highs, we've got our first ever mullet market. The stock market looks like a mullet. Fundamentals in the front, party in the back. And our third and final story is Klarna. Klarna just used the most intense form of artificial intelligence we have ever seen. Because Klarna turned one quarter of their staff into artificial intelligence.
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Now, yetis, in order to prepare for this story, Jack and I spent the whole weekend looking at the great mullets in history. And we got a few right here on the whiteboard, Jack. I'm looking at Patrick Swayze, Yarmir Yager, Princess Diana. I think Princess Diana falls in this category, too. Is that right? It was like a two-year period where she was, you know, experimenting with hair.
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Oh, that's what Buckingham Palace was so upset about. Yeah, you know, as Barry Melrose told her, it's not a look, Diana. It's a lifestyle. Okay, hockey guy. Okay, but besties, if you have money in the stock market right now, that money, it looks fantastic. Get this, the S&P 500, an index of the 500 biggest stocks in America, it's up 50% in the past two years.
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In fact, each of the major three stock market indexes are at all-time highs, and for good reason. And what is that reason, Jack? The fundamentals look fantastic. The fundamentals, the most important driver of stock prices, is corporate profits. And America's companies are more profitable than ever right now. Oh, and it's not just their current profits. Future profits? They look even rosier, Jack.
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Trump is expected to extend his corporate tax cut, which for every company would be like a 20% profit gain. with the signature of that pen. So Yeti's added up, and those are some pretty solid fundamentals. The stock market, it's all business when you look at it from the front. But besties, here's what Jack and I are noticing. So the front of the stock market, it looks business approved.
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But the back... It is all party, baby. A crypto party. Oh, it is a crypto party because crypto prices are also at all-time record highs. Ethereum is up 40% this year. Bitcoin has doubled this year. In fact, Jack, Ben the Bitcoiner, buddy, he's flirting with $100,000 for the first time ever. Six digits. Dogecoin? It just got a government agency named after it.
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In fact, after three years, Robinhood stock has rebounded up past its original IPO price. People are having fun swiping on crypto buys at 2 a.m. again. In the club, we all family investing in crypto together. I believe that's a saying, Jack. Oh, how about this side of the times? On Tuesday, I got a notification from Robinhood saying that they had added some random meme coin called Dog With Hat.
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Dog With Hat. It probably blew up on day one. Stick that in your kid's 529, Jack. Now, Yetis, on the front, the markets, they look profesh. Record profits and record outlook are driving record stock prices. And on the back, markets look to party. DogeDogger420 is giving market advice on X again. And that's why this is truly a mullet market. That's how you got to think about this market word.
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It's a mullet. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone in the stock market? Here's the question. Is this a Kurt Russell mullet or a Joe Dirt mullet? Good question, Jack. Now, the mullet market actually defies conventional rules of finance because we know investors do not like uncertainty. Uncertainty represents risk. But here's the problem.
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This coming trade war, it presents some pretty big uncertainty. Like, how will countries react when we tariff them, which we already said we're going to do? Also, there's a very real risk of inflation coming back with tariffs being the reason prices go up. Oh, and then Jack, if prices rise, will the Federal Reserve stop lowering interest rates?
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And then if they don't lower interest rates, what will happen to mortgage rates? Will the housing market ever come back anytime soon? If inflation spikes, the Fed might have to increase rates again. So besties, right now, the stock market, it looks like a good mullet, a good stock market mullet. It's a Kurt Russell mullet. It's big, it's handsome, it's confident.
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You could put this guy in the red carpet in a tuxedo and that mullet would still look good. It's like your oil masseuse. It's big, handsome, and confident. But the economic future, it's got some big question marks, doesn't it, Jack? Yetis, it's those big economic uncertainties that could turn this market from a Kurt Russell mullet to a Joe Dirt mullet. Now, a quick word from our sponsor.
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But before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Honestly, fantastic mix to come back from a long weekend, Jack. Welcome back. You're probably still covered in some oil from that turkey or that stuffing or Nick's moose dessert thing. Yeah. Or you're covered in that oil from that cheese dip watching the football games. Well, maybe you shouldn't clean that oil off.
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For our third and final story, this Black Friday, Klarna, the buy now, pay later financing company, was more popular than ever. But Klarna's real surprise is using AI in the most aggressive way we have ever seen. All right, Jack, let's whip out the rankings over here. Second biggest tech startup in Europe, who we got on the big white board. Sweden's Klarna, the buy now, pay later company.
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Yeah, the Swedes, they've got some good tech going on. And this month, Klarna actually filed confidentially to go public, to IPO. And like Juergen, the exchange student, Klarna is coming to America. Yeah. Klarna chose the New York Stock Exchange. They won an IPO in Q1 at a $20 billion valuation. It's about three lifts.
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Basically, they spread out payments kind of like infomercials used to, right, Jack? Yeah. Remember OxiClean? You could pay $100 now or five easy payments of $19.99. Billy Mays didn't want to make you pay up front, Billy. Billy Mays was like, hey, get me back in two months, three months, and on the sixth month of the year. Why are the payments always easy, by the way?
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Well, either way, Klarna does the easy payments part. They spread out your payments instead of making you pay up front. Now, here's Klarna's business model, yetis. They make money by taking fees and charging interest when you make a late payment on a buy now, pay later. Just like credit card companies.
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And you've probably noticed buy now, pay later with Klarna on checkout pages, which can be tempting. they've strategically noted right where you could pay that, in fact, you could pay later instead. And with pinched wallets, the Associated Press expects record numbers of buy now, pay later this holiday season. In this economy, Gen Z is buying that Q top now, but they're paying for it later.
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They're turning Klarna into a verb. But there's actually something quite novel to Klarna's business model that we haven't mentioned yet. Good point, Jack. And what is that? Artificial intelligence. In fact, a very intense use of artificial intelligence. Yetis, Klarna, they actually just boasted a surprise profit because of how they used AI. They're using AI to cut their biggest costs aggressively.
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Yetis, you look fantastic.
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Let's hit our three stars. Let's hit them, baby. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. And today's money pod is the best one yet. The top three money stories you need to know today. Yeah, it is. This is episode number four of our holiday bonus week. It's the best of money. Our best stories of the year on personal finance, careers, and investing. So share this episode with your financially savviest buddy.
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Jack, can you sprinkle on some context? We understand, man. That's enough money to acquire the company Lyft 2,000 times. It's 2,000 Lyfts. But yet he's Larry, the man who founded this company, says that he founded the company for two particular reasons. First reason was to get rich by building a big, successful company. Let's be honest.
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The second reason, though, was to help people invest their money right so that they can retire comfortably. Well, Larry Fink is a respected man in the financial community, and he just published his annual shareholder letter. In that letter, he said he hopes every American... can live their final years with dignity and financial freedom. That sounds lovely.
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But Jack, there is one problem he points out, right? The data suggests that most Americans won't be able to live out their final years with dignity and financial freedom. So he's got some ideas to fix that. And Jack and I jumped in T-boy style. What Larry's talking about, by the way, is extremely relevant to us. He's talking about millennial retirement. Yeah, millennial retirement.
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You're dinks today, but you're retired tomorrow. Larry Fink says it will be much more expensive for millennial Millie to retire in 30 years than it is for Millie's parents to retire today. It's not just because millennials are going to want to eat avocado toast at 5pm senior supper dinner every night when they're retired.
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But in this economy, you also wanted crypto in your portfolio. That's why this year we covered enough money stories to make Jerome Powell bust an interest rate. Yeah. Bagels get bonuses. Cupcakes get cash. That's what we said. We covered the rise of a brand new fee this year called the flake fee. If you cancel on a restaurant, they're going to charge you 50 bucks.
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Now, the big reason retirement will be way more expensive in 30 years is that people are living longer. And it takes more money to retire if you live longer. Look, it's fantastic if Ozempic helps you lose weight and therefore live 10 years longer. That's great. That's beautiful. That's wonderful. But 10 extra years of Del Boca Vista retirement community, Jack, that's going to add up, man.
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That is expensive. And 10 extra years of sending birthday checks to those grandkids, you're going to be sending them money when they're like 60. Not grandkids. Great, great grandkids. You're going to be like 140 years old. Your great, great grandkids are going to ask for like money for their class trip to Mars. If you live until you're 110, then you're retired for like 50 years.
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It's a lot of time to have no income and be spending money at Del Boca Vista. You're going to look fantastic. But yet his think says that we should push back the retirement age to reflect the longer life expectancy, which we think makes sense. But he also says that more Americans should invest in the stock market to prepare for their retirement.
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If your savings do nothing in a savings account, then you won't be able to afford the pickleball club over in Fort Lauderdale. But if your savings grow 10% per year instead, as the stock market historically has, then maybe you can afford that pickleball match.
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Now, Jack, we should point out that this man, Larry Fink, running the biggest manager of money on earth is a little bit biased on that point.
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The solution he's proposing, that we all put more money in the stock market, would put money in his pocket too. But the spirit of it, we do like. And we want to add to it with our takeaway. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone who's going to retire one day? If you need another reason to invest in your retirement, here it is. You'll pay less taxes if you do.
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Yetis, our government is literally offering you a pass on paying taxes if you invest in retirement accounts. It's just a fact. It's true. The government wants us to invest in retirement so much, they're letting us take a free pass on paying taxes. So besties, hear us out on this one.
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If you put money into the stock market through a traditional brokerage app like Robinhood, you pay taxes twice on that money. You pay taxes first when you earn that money through your paycheck, and then you pay taxes a second time when the money you invested in the brokerage app makes any gains. But here's the key. With retirement accounts, you only pay taxes once, not twice.
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Both an IRA and a 401k, they let you withdraw money in retirement having paid taxes only once. And it's the same story with college savings accounts for your kid. The government lets you skip one of the two tax payments. And tax payments could be huge. Like your tax payments could be 20%, 30%, or 40% of the gains. It's a huge difference. Huge difference, Jack.
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So Larry Fink, America's biggest money man, is urging Americans to invest more into their retirement. But besties, if you need another reason to invest in retirement, here it is. You pay less taxes if you invest in retirement. Yetis, those are the three best money stories of 2024. But one second, cha-ching, cha-ching. Was that a cash register?
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Because Jack, I think it's time for the best fact yet on money from 2024. All right, this one's actually from the interview we did with Tori Dunlap about compounding interest. Yeah, this is from our live show in Seattle when we interviewed the financial feminist about money matters. And Jack, this was a wild one. All right, here's the question. What would you rather have?
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We found out that Warren Buffett, the best investor of all time, is holding a record amount of his money in cash. $300 billion. That's 50 lifts worth of cash. We also covered when Bitcoin hit its $100,000 milestone. It was Bitcoin's bit mitzvah. And when lab-grown diamonds passed natural diamonds in sales. That is a financial trick shot.
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one single penny that doubles every day for a month or $1 million? So would you rather have a penny that doubles every day for a month or a million dollars in cash now? Shocker, but you want that penny. Yeah, you want that penny. Because after 30 days of doubling, okay, after one day of doubling, it's 2 cents, then 4 cents, then 8 cents, 16, 32.
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Before you know it, at the end of 30 days, it's worth $10,737,418.24. That's right. If that penny doubles 30 times, it's worth over 10 million bucks. The point here is that if you buy a stock and it grows only 10% a year, 10% a year doesn't sound like that much maybe. just like a penny doubling every day doesn't sound like very much either.
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But get this, that stock compounded for 40 years until you retire, the stock you bought is now worth 45 times as much. And that is the power of compounding when it comes to money. A little money today becomes a lot of money in 30 or 40 years. Yetis, you looked fantastic for our money bonus pod. Jack, who do you think the best you should send this one to?
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Probably, I was going to say accountant, but that's such a lame answer. Jack, I'm going to say like 90% of everyone who works in finance is under 6'5". So send it to all your buddies who are under 6'5". That's like everyone. Let's be honest. Send it to your buddies who you want to impress because this is a great show. HYHTBOY. That's how we grow the pod.
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And these are the kind of stories and takeaways that we hope everyone enjoys. Have you had the best one yet? If you know, you know. Oh, And by the way, we got two more bonus pods coming at you next week. And they're from our new show, The Best Idea Yet. I can't wait. You're going to hear the full episodes on Monday and Thursday next week.
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45 minutes, the untold origin stories of the products you're obsessed with. We whip that up for you extra special. In the meantime, we'll see you next week. If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
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And before you go, tell us a little bit about yourself by filling out a short survey at wondery.com slash survey. We want to get to know you.
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We discovered this year that Gen Z is running vending machines as a side hustle. And we figured out how Goldman Sachs promotes bankers to partners when they started as interns. Those stories were all fantastic, but these are our three best money stories of 2024. Jack and I whipped them up for you because you're a freak in the spreadsheets.
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If you're still listening, Dave Ramsey, we hope you don't hate us. We won't take it personally, Dave. Jack, let's hit those three money stories.
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Actually, send this episode to your buddy who still owes you 25 bucks for brunch. Yeah, like your buddy Timmy. So whether you're a dink, a dinkwad, or a dinkwad ass, we got three fantastic stories. Jack, what's on today's bonus pod? That Venmo invoice is still outstanding, Timmy. Awkward. For our first story, it's from June 24th, 2024.
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Yetis, let's go back to June 24th, 2024, when we got a big story on rent and credit cards. Wells Fargo made a huge mistake. They underestimated us. They did. Jack, let's jump into it. Wells Fargo launched a credit card with Built that was so good, it was too good. More like Fells Wargo, because they're losing $10 million every month, and it's all because of savvy millennial credit card customers.
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Oh, yeah, it is. You know what we're talking about. Every friend group has a points person, and you know who we're talking about. It's actually me. I'm optimizing points for every financial transaction using just the right credit card. You got that one buddy, not your buddy Timmy, who's like, Amex for travel, Sapphire for dinner.
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You better not buy those bananas unless you're getting 2% points cash back. And that one credit card friend, she's like the Alan Turing of credit cards because she's constantly calculating the points per dollar ratio and then judging you when you don't. She's like Professor John Nash, like writing calculations on the mirror. You know what I mean? It's a beautiful mind.
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Yetis, credit card companies, they offer you points and perks on your purchases to literally buy your loyalty. And they're doing perks more than ever. So Wells Fargo partnered with a startup called Built last year to launch a huge new credit card. And it was huge because this credit card would let you pay your rent. Yetis, if you rent, you know this already.
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your landlord will not accept credit card payments for you to pay your rent because your landlord doesn't want to pay that 2% to 3% credit card fee, even though your rent is the biggest expense in your life. To get around that, Built, the credit card startup, will literally mail a check to your landlord on your behalf because you're the credit card holder.
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Now we've covered Built before on the pod. They're a $3 billion startup that is booming because people want points and they want to build credit on rent, which is a huge chunk of your spending. And Wells Fargo wanted in on that booming. So they launched a Built and Wells Fargo co-branded credit card last year. And Jack, how did this brand new rent credit card work in its first year?
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It's extremely popular. They got 1 million accounts in the first year. That rent card, it is the rent card.
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1 million accounts. Wells Fargo is freaking out.
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Bill was excited. Everyone was having a good time with this brand new credit card until they checked the numbers. Yeah. Yetis, here's the wild problem. Apparently, Wells Fargo miscalculated the credit card math. More precisely, they underestimated you, the millennial credit card customer.
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Because savvy millennials took advantage of the generous points-taking opportunity and they cashed in big time. Because rent is such a huge chunk of our monthly expenses, one couple managed to rack up 126,000 points. Just because of the rent payments. In fact, that one couple went viral because they used those points to buy three flights to Europe on Virgin Airlines.
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Wells Fargo launched a credit card that you could pay rent with. True. And it was so successful. it became a failure because Wells Fargo underestimated savvy millennials. For our second story, it's from August 7th. That's when the newest Olympic gold medal winner had a day job as an investment banker. We're going to tell you the secret to a successful side hustle.
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Two of them were in business class on a new plane, and it didn't cost them a penny. Ipso facto, this new Wells Fargo credit card basically paid for their European vacation. And that's the problem here, Yetis, because all those points are free to you, but they're not free to the credit card company. Wells Fargo has to pay for all those points that you redeem, and that gets costly.
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Now, Wells Fargo knows that points are costly, but they expected to make up for those points costs in other ways. According to Wall Street Journal reporting, Wells Fargo expected that 65% of your credit card spending would be on non-rent payments. restaurant payments, groceries, whatever. But instead, users did the opposite. They pretty much just used the card to pay for their rent.
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According to Business Insider reporting, Wells Fargo expected dozens of purchases on this card every month. They'd hoped that this card would become your go-to. But instead, users only used the card for the bare minimum five purchases a month. So yetis, Wells Fargo got a million new credit card customers in record time,
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But those credit card customers were savvy and they were taking advantage of the points on the rent. And then they'd use other credit cards that offer better points for everything else they spent money on. Great for the customer, bad for Wells Fargo. So add it all up, besties, and Wells Fargo is losing, get this, $10 million a month on this specific rent credit card.
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Because of savvy millennial customers. And now Wells Fargo is trying to get out of the deal, but they can't for like another five years. It's called an early termination fee. Sorry, Wells Fargo. I'd like to speak to a representative, says Wells Fargo to themselves. So what's the takeaway for our buddies who are anyone with a credit card?
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Credit cards can lose you a lot of money or they can make you some money. Yetis, if you carry a credit card balance month to month and you don't pay off the entire amount every month, then you pay interest. That's credit card debt. It's actually the worst kind of debt. It is. Because right now you pay 30% interest on that credit card debt.
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And interest is how credit card companies make the most of their money. And that's exactly what Wells Fargo was hoping for. Wells Fargo expected that 50% to 75% of your balance would not be paid off month to month so they could collect a lot of interest. But customers only left 15% to 25% of their balances on the card. So Wells Fargo miscalculated again.
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And that's actually the biggest reason that Wells Fargo is going to lose $120 million this year just on this one credit card. Wells Fargo's miscalculation was about the savviness of their millennial credit card customers. Instead of paying 30% interest, these customers are essentially collecting 2% interest. From Wells Fargo.
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Instead of paying interest, Wells Fargo customers paid their balance off every month and they collected a whole bunch of points. There it is. There's the proof. Credit cards can lose you a lot of money or they can actually make you some money. Yetis, let's now go back to August 7th, 2024, when we covered the Olympics, specifically side hustlers of the Olympics.
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We have something in common with that. We do, we do. And it's not that we're both world-class athletes. No, no, this is good though. You're going to love this. We're going to tell you how to side hustle. Let's hit it, Jack. The surprise star of these Olympics is actually a full-time investment banker by day. So we have to tell you the secret about the side hustle.
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The secret to a successful side hustle. But Jack, could you start by setting the scene for us, please? Dwight Eisenhower was president. We hadn't landed on the moon yet. And the Super Bowl wasn't even a thing. Because the scene Jack is setting is 1960 America. The last time the U.S. won a gold medal in rowing 64. four years ago.
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Until this week, when the US men's four-person rowing team won gold in the 2000 meter race. A huge win for the entire team, right? But the highlight was one rower in particular, Justin Best, because rowing is actually his side hustle. Get this besties, Justin Best is actually a full-time investment banker.
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And our third and final story is from March 27th. The big story on Wall Street then was how dinks were going to retire. Larry Fink published his annual letter, so we need to talk about your retirement. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories... What a fantastic mix of money stories. I love that mix. I'm going to try to say it like the girl from TikTok, okay?
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The man went to Drexel in Philadelphia, and for the last four years, he's been working at Union Square Advisors, a finance firm.
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And we're talking about a man in finance, 6'5", blue eyes.
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And honestly, he may not have a trust fund, Jack, but he's going to give a trust fund to his kids. Because he's a gold medal winner now. Yes, he is. So Jack and I actually found out his schedule for work in San Francisco. You want to share it with everyone, Jack? He wakes up at 5.30 to train rowing in the East Bay.
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He's at work by 9.30, and then he's training again after work, and he finally gets to bed at 11.00. We're talking not just spreadsheets. He's doing late night sprints yetis. And to celebrate his gold, this week he proposed to his girlfriend in front of the Eiffel Tower.
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And next week he's getting on a Zoom call because again, he's a full-time investment banker.
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Which leads to the big surprise. In the Olympics, side hustling isn't the exception. It's actually the rules. Now Yeti's LeBron James, Simone Biles, the soccer teams at the Olympics, some athletes in a few sports can be full-time pros like them. But for the majority of Olympic athletes, pursuing perfection in a sport does not pay the bills. Yeah.
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In fact, almost the entire swim team for the United States has a day job that isn't swimming in a pool. Nick Fink, who won a medal for breaststroke, He's a full-time engineer. Oh, and then Jack, how about Liana Mutia, who's the judo champion for the United States in the Olympics? Back home, she's a software analyst at Comcast. We know because we just added her on LinkedIn. No joke.
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In fact, Home Depot, a huge employer based out of Atlanta, which hosted the Olympics in the 90s. Yeah. They're famous for having a program to support their employees who are Olympic and Paralympic athletes on the side. Jack, what were the numbers you discovered from Home Depot, by the way? Home Depot boasts...
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proudly that 660 employees of theirs were also athletes who trained for the Olympics while working at Home Depot. Oh, and by the way, it's not just the Olympics, is it, man? Overall for America, 36% of us have some kind of a side hustle now, according to a survey from Bankrate. Some of us do it for extra pay. Some of us do it for curiosity, but guess what?
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It's not just America and it's not just the Olympians.
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It's us. Yeah, it's Jack and me too.
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We started this company As a side hustle.
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We did. 10 years ago, this podcast began as a side hustle.
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When we were men in finance. But now we're full-time potters, baby.
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We're also 5'10", we're not 6'5".
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But you round up to 5'11", and that kind of gets you to six foot jack.
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So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone with the side hustle?
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The secret to a successful side hustle isn't just communication, it's over communication. Now, when Jack and I started this company as a side hustle back in 2012, we were afraid to tell our work. Like, Jack, I thought UBS was going to straight up fire me and then call your boss and get you fired. I know, I know. But when we finally did tell our bosses, they were fine with it. It was relief, right?
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It was such a relief for us. Instead of sneaking around, getting worried and like working on this podcast on the subway on the way home from work. We could be open and honest that we have a day job. We're doing a great job on our day job. Yeah. But we also have the side hustle we're passionate about. And here's the key Jack and I realized.
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You got this, you got this, you got this. I'm looking for a man in finance, trust fund, six, five, blue eyes. And with a deep understanding of tax advantage, Roth IRAs. That is, in 2024, money was bigger than ever. Literally. Stock markets were at record highs. But value meals were also at record highs. In this economy, you want a discount on that double-digit latte.
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You don't just communicate to your boss that you have a side hustle. You need to over communicate. The cost of over communicating with your boss is it may become annoying to them. Your boss may be annoyed that you're sending them so many emails telling them what you're working on outside work. But the benefit is transparency and comfort.
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Your boss knows exactly what you're working on, and they're less likely to try to shut down your side hustle. In fact, funny thing, but that rower, Justin Best, said that over-communication with his banker boss was the key to his side hustle success. Yetis, a majority of Olympians, and more than a third of Americans have a side hustle today.
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Well, the secret to a successful side hustle isn't communication. It's over. Dude, how about you try it with isn't just communication? See, that's over communication right there.
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Now, Yetis, let's go back to March 27th, 2024, when we covered millennial retirement. Because yeah, millennials got to start thinking about retirement. This story is about 401ks, IRAs, and what the haze. I don't know what that last one is, but I like the check. Let's see it. Let's jump in. For our third and final story, America's biggest money manager thinks that America faces a fiscal time bomb.
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So we're talking retirement, millennial retirement, and how saving money actually saves you in taxes too. Jack, let's kick it off with some trivia. Biggest investment company in the world. Who is it? Where is it? What are we talking about? It's BlackRock. Midtown Manhattan. It's run and it's founded by CEO Lawrence Fink, aka Larry Fink. BlackRock manages $10 trillion of assets for clients.
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Pumped a pod, man. You're keeping the sweater on. You're keeping the sweater on. I'm keeping it on. I got a little bit of, good thing I'm double old spiced. I'm calling it. You're going to heat up by the third story. You're taking that off before the takeaway. I'll take it away. Three, two. This is Nick. This is Jack. It is Friday, the real Friday. April 25th, and today's pod is the best one yet.
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So in the meantime, companies aren't investing. They're not hiring. They're just nervous. They are scared. and Friday cupcakes just don't taste the same as they used to. It's the great capitalist pause of 2025. And that itself was the story and our takeaway. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone looking at business right now?
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The new CEO, Brian Nickell, thinks doodles on cups bring back the coffeehouse vibe that Starbucks has lost. And he wants them on every cup. It's like flair from the movie Office Space, but we're talking about original works of art. According to the Wall Street Journal, cafe workers across 11,000 North American Starbuckses we're told to add messages to all to-go cups.
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This highlights the real problem of this trade war. It's based on tweets, not laws. Yetis, if the goal of this trade war is to get more manufacturing in the US, that is a good noble goal, but so far it has failed. Because the tariffs are by executive order, President Trump can turn them on and off and on again through tweets. And that's exactly what he's done.
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But we think a better way to achieve the same goal of more US manufacturing would be to pass a law. through Congress. Laws could create long-term incentives for the same economic goal, and with the consistency needed to achieve it. Here's an idea Jack and I sketched out. Imagine the Made in America Act, a law that put 10% tariffs on China this year, then 20% next year, and then 30% after that.
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Now look, Nick and I have said before, nobody wins with tariffs. But if you're gonna do them, do them gradually so that U.S. producers have time to adjust. That would give companies the certainty they need to invest. A law, something that can't be overruled with a tweet the next morning. So besties, if we want to re-industrialize the USA, don't do it with tweets. Do it with laws.
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Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the real Friday? Conclave is enjoying a papal pop this week, which will only accelerate this weekend. Sorry, one sec, Jack. Old content can tap into the new zeitgeist. For our second story, Volkswagen's electric hippie buses are going self-driving. on the Uber app.
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And that is Uber's strategy in the autonomy war, as we call it, the Switzerland strategy. Be neutral. And our third and final story, the relentless volatility of the trade war has resulted in the great capitalist pause of 2025. If you're gonna do tariffs, do them with laws, not tweets. But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today.
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First, Adidas is all over Nike lately and just running away right now. Adidas just announced $700 million in quarterly profit, double-digit sale growth across all channels and all markets. The reason, interestingly... retro shoes. The Adidas Gazelle, the Samba, the Tokyo classic Adidas is right there. Their casual wear is the new work wear.
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And second, Tony Hsieh, the legendary founder of Zappos, passed away five years ago, but get this, they just found his will. Now, when he died, there was no will, so there's been a court battle. But someone just submitted what looks like his will, signed in 2015, to the court. It's like a scene from Succession.
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It's a $1.2 billion fortune, and the money looks like it's going to Harvard, the Red Cross, and the Gates Foundation, among a lot of people. He also wrote something specifically to his beneficiaries, urging them to experience the wow factor in life. I think he was basically saying, like, live now. Like, don't wait to spend your resources and live life. Live now. He's a fascinating guy.
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What a cool message. And finally, scientists have discovered a brand new color, and the color is Olo. It's a really intense blue-green turquoise that scientists say no one's ever seen before, but I'm looking at it right now. I feel like I've seen this. I feel like it's, I have a bathing suit. I feel like they're like multiple raves you went to in college that were like themed with this color.
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It's actually a pretty complex color. They say scientists at UC Berkeley beamed five lasers to create it. And now the fashion industry already wants in on it. I think we could have used those resources better. Lasers. All right, now time for the best fact. Yeah, this one is a correction. That's right. Uh-oh.
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We got a correction on the show sent in by Connor Blodgett, CJ Knipper, and Louis Monroy, as well as Ken C. Yesterday, we said, I'm sorry, Nick said that the Ninja Turtle Donatello used nunchucks as his weapon. Turns out the Ninja Turtle Donatello actually used a bo staff as his weapon of choice. Michelangelo had the nunchucks. Everyone knows that.
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It could simply say, have a fun day, scribbled on the side, or it could be the sketch of a dragon eating a leprechaun. Or it could be a tic-tac-toe board. Like we said, art is not meant to be judged. So either way, it is now a Starbucks rule to go full Picasso on those cups. Like a liberal arts degree. Required art courses to graduate that class.
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But side fact on the Ninja Turtles, the Ninja Turtles movie was actually the most successful indie film of all time. The 1990 movie made $200 million at the box office without... an experienced Hollywood producer. And it only cost 13 million bucks to make, making it maybe the greatest ROI in Hollywood history, the Ninja Turtles movie. Side note, it's none-chucks, not num-chucks.
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Should we just correct our correction on this correction, Zach? Yeah, no, I said num-chucks earlier. It's actually none-chucks, which I never knew until we did that episode of The Best Idea Yet. Yetis, we did do a whole episode on the Ninja Turtles origin story. Check it out this weekend, The Best Idea Yet. It's the next thing you gotta listen to. Yetis, you look fantastic over there.
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Jack, you are glowing right now. So many wins to celebrate. I mean, just a great week of pods. I'm really proud of every episode we published this week. Oh, Duolingo? What a CEO interview. Oh, my God. If you're taking a road trip this weekend, listen to the best idea yet on Ninja Turtles on the way there and listen to Duolingo on the way back. Then tap to follow us so you get T-Boy every day.
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Tell a buddy, H-Y-H-T-B-O-Y, and celebrate the wins. And before we go, a happy 36th birthday to Yeti, Gia Ren in Saratoga, and her daughter, Ruby, who is turning one. What a fantastic family be-day. Happy 33rd birthday to Austin Flogey in La Crosse, Wisconsin, with the Flo and Moss Withers in Raleigh, North Carolina, is celebrating a barbecue birthday, baby.
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Happy birthday to Robert X, who's also got a new job up in Toronto. And Reagan Dyer is turning 31 years old in Hillsborough, Oregon. Happy birthday. Happy 22nd birthday to MG Garcia in Charlotte, North Carolina. Good luck on the finals. We know you're graduating in a couple weeks. And Raul Vasquez in Alamo, Texas will never forget that 42nd birthday.
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And happy birthday to Lizard Anderson in Berlin, Germany. I'm not sure if it's Germany, but let's go with Germany. Celebrate the wins. And Juan and Isaac, Jack. Juan and Isaac are two best friends who found out they were in love with twin sisters in but now they don't know how to tell the twin sisters. So I guess we're telling them on the podcast for them.
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Let's hope they're both yaddies and besties. And Alberto Cobain understandably wants to say he's surprised Jack isn't sharing his tomatoes with me since Jack is a people pleaser. Yeah, Alberto, that's a really good point. And now I'm questioning my decisions. Well, you know my address, Jack. And to anyone else celebrating something today, make it a team. Celebrate the wins. This is Jack.
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I own stock of Amazon, Netflix, and Disney. And Nick and I both own some Bitcoin.
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Now, in fact, this ties back to a story we did last year about Starbucks and Sharpies. That's right. 2024, Starbucks bought 200,000 Sharpies for all of its stores. Now we see why. They're putting those 200,000 markers to use. Turning your frappuccino into a Botticelli. Turning your latte into a Monet. Our thought on this, though, don't throw away that cup too soon, Jack. Who knows?
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Hey, hey, don't throw that away. That's it.
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This is a T-Boy. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. You know, Jack, before the pod, we were saying these are like the three stories we've ever done that are the best we've ever done. Should we just, should we get right into it? Yeah, absolutely. Let's just hit it. Three stories for today's T-Boy. What do we got, man?
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For our first story, the number one movie everyone will be watching this weekend, it's Conclave. Films about the Pope reveal a lesson from the streaming wars. Yetis, over the next couple of weeks, we will all experience the most exclusive job interview in history.
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Because 135 men will gather in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where there will be no phones, no Wi-Fi, and no contact to the outside world. Nobody in, nobody out until a new pope is chosen. That is the ancient ritual known as conclave. The conclave. After each vote, ballots will be burned and black smoke will arise from the chimneys of St. Peter's if no pope has been chosen.
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But once one cardinal reaches a two-thirds majority of the votes... then white smoke razzes from the chimney because a new pope has been chosen. Well, that conclave happening very soon in real life also happens to be a movie from the year 2024. Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci. It's a great movie. I saw it. It was nominated for best picture. No spoilers. It won best adapted screenplay.
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In fact, Jack, I read in the New York Times, it's a very accurate portrayal. In fact, Jack, apparently in real life, they have three outfits for the pope ready. because they don't know what size he's going to be, the guy who gets picked. So they have small, medium, and large. Basically ready for whenever he gets chosen.
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But besties, this movie had a $20 million budget and yet brought in over $100 million at the box office. That is a 5X return. A surprise Hollywood profit puppy for a movie with only one woman in the cast. Well, here's the news, yetis. Since Pope Francis, the Pope of the people, a beloved Pope, sadly passed away, the world is now processing its grief... through streaming. Get this, yetis.
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The day Pope Francis died, streaming of that movie, Conclave, on Prime Video, hit 7 million minutes. Okay, we did the math. That's 580,000 full views of this movie. The next day on Tuesday, viewership tripled to 1.5 million full views of the film on Prime Video. And then get this, Amazon did a holy of holy moves and made the film free for all its Prime members.
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For our first story, since Pope Francis passed away, conclaves has become the number one movie on streaming, with viewership up 3,000% from last week. Because the secret weapon of streaming is shelf IP. For our second story, Uber and Volkswagen just did the awkwardest hot hookup we've ever seen. So hot, so awkward. A robo-hippie van self-driving taxi.
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So the Pope's passing away, plus the film being free on Amazon, viewership of the movie Conclave rose by 3,200% this week from the week before. But Jack, I got to stop you right there for a second because it's not just Prime, is it, with a papal movie? Did you see the movie The Two Popes? You know, I didn't see that one either.
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All right, so The Two Popes is actually about Pope Francis and his predecessor, Pope Benedict. It was a good one, too. And the papal pop for that movie was 417% in the last few days. Now, Disney Plus and Max, they don't have any pope content, so there's no Nielsen bump for those two streamers. But this weekend, viewership, we expect, will only grow as Conclave in real life actually begins in Rome.
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Grab some popcorn for the 800-year papal tradition. It's basically the same plot as The Bachelor, but picking the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. But Nick, this conclave pop, this papal pop, it also reflects a bigger insight to the streaming wars. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies who are everyone in media? There's surprise value in shelf IP. Shelf IP.
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Yetis, have you noticed that streamers don't do news? Like, some of them have dabbled in news, but they tend to stick to evergreen content. And one perk of that evergreen content that always has value, that's just sitting up on the shelf? Well, during zeitgeist moments, when something old becomes new, the streamers win.
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For example, when Queen Elizabeth passed a few years ago, viewership of the show The Crown jumped by 800% on Netflix. Or when Johnny Depp was in court for his lawsuit in 2022, Pirates of the Caribbean hit number one on Disney+. And in the first months of the pandemic, the movie Contagion jumped 5,000%.
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Besties, another way to think about this, shelf IP is kind of like search insurance for streamers. If you search for it, they got it. And if some turtles ever hit puberty and then eat some nuclear goo and then decide to learn karate, Paramount Plus will be really happy they have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in that catalog.
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So Jack had his streamers tap into zeitgeist moments without any news content. They do it with Shelf IP. Shelf IP, the secret weapon of streaming. For our second story, Uber and Volkswagen sitting in a tree. Robo-D-R-I-V-I-N-G. Yeti's Uber's robo-taxi deal with Volkswagen reveals their new strategy, the Switzerland strategy. Now Yeti is to sprinkle on some historical context here.
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When we were in grad school, I was at Warden, Jack was at Michigan, self-driving cars were all the rage. Nick's talking about the year 2018, but that rage was actually seven years premature. It wasn't until this year that we can officially say robo taxis are now nationwide. Google's Waymo has robo cabs active in four cities, with plans to enter four more cities this year or next.
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Including Atlanta. You could be picking peaches from a RoboCab pretty soon. Tesla announced this week they'll be operating their first self-driving Model Ys in Austin, Texas, this June or July. And Aurora, the self-driving tractor-trailer trucks that are cruising across Texas highways, began doing so just this week.
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Jack, now that I think of it, the only place without robo-taxis right now is like the northeast of the country. And I think I know why. Snow. Yeah, that. Also, like walking around New York right now, the combination of like snow, potholes, and impatience would probably destroy a Waymo robo-taxi. True, true, true, true.
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Well, Volkswagen's not coming to New England, but they are coming to robo-taxis. Get this. Volkswagen just announced a partnership with Uber for a big electric Volkswagen bus project. robo-taxi. That's right. Self-driving electric hippie vans will now be hailable on the Uber app in multiple cities starting next year in the city of Los Angeles.
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Because Uber's using the Switzerland strategy. And our third and final story is the biggest news in business news right now. What is it? No news at all. Because 2025 has been what Jack and I are calling the Great Capitalist Pause. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Whoa! Oh, what a mix of stories, baby. Love the mix, Jack.
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If Jerry Garcia was late to a dead concert, he would probably call one of these self-driving electric hippie vans through Uber. And when the hippie vans are rocking, don't come knocking. But here is what Jack and I found fascinating yet. He's Uber, without any self-driving car technology, is at the center of self-driving car technology. Get this.
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Uber currently has partnerships with 14 different self-driving vehicle companies according to TechCrunch. Oh, those Waymos? They're only hailable in Austin through the Uber app. That self-driving truck company operating in Texas? Uber is a minority investor. Jack, how about down in Los Angeles, where we saw those delivery bots bringing burritos on the Uber Eats app?
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They're called Serve, and yeah, again, Uber Eats app. And in Miami, the same thing's happening. A different delivery bot called Kartken is partnered with Uber Eats. Honestly, we were checking the numbers here, and the only major self-driving initiative that is not using Uber right now? What is it, Jack? Tesla. By the way, Nick, They're testing in San Francisco right now with self-driving Model Ys.
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You can download the app, which I think is called... Robotaxi. I think it's a new app. You should see if it's available on your phone. So I can compare the Waymo to the Tesla in real time. Yeah, but there's going to be a test driver behind the wheel for now. Will I make small talk? If he's expecting small talk, it's a different calculation then.
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So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Uber? Uber's strategy? Switzerland. Be the neutral party in the autonomy wars. Now, Yetis, under the previous CEO, Travis Kalanick, Uber's goal was to eliminate the driver. That was the key to Uber's future profits. But then Uber's self-driving test car killed a pedestrian in Arizona.
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So the next CEO shut down the self-driving car division altogether. And that was key because it's when Uber pivoted. They said, we're not going to make self-driving cars, but we can still lead self-driving cars. It's the Switzerland strategy. Yes, it is. Uber said, let's be the neutral party that welcomes every self-driving car to join our app. I mean, just look at the robo-taxi math.
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Like Amazon, Tesla, Google, they are investing billions into self-driving vehicles. Uber, they're not spending a dime. And yet Uber is still leading in self-driving because it's the app to use to hell. The result, Uber is the asset like higher profit margin position in the value chain. Uber is becoming the rich neutral party in the autonomy wars, like Switzerland. It's a fondue deal.
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It's fondue finance. It's cuckoo clock capitalism.
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Is it just us, or is there something unusual about your last Starbucks order? I mean, Jack, was that a cartoon kangaroo on your last venti latte, my friend? Not because your barista's side hustling as an art student. No. Cup art is a direct order from the Starbucks CEO. Get this. A key part of Starbucks' new turnaround plan is... Doodling on cups. That's right.
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For our third and final story before the weekend, the big takeaway from markets, business news, corporate earnings reports, everything financial right now, it's that all plans are on pause. Because of the relentless volatility in 2025, we're calling this moment the Great Capitalist Pause. But first, besties, a happy earnings season to all those who observe the fiscal calendar. Congratulations.
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Wait, wait, wait, check. One sec, one sec, one sec. Why isn't anybody celebrating right now? Yeah, it is. April is usually when big companies announce how they did from January through March, and then they forecast how they're going to do for the rest of the year. Honestly, it's a lot of fun.
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Jack and I spend our whole mornings in a bunch of earnings reports, but it's not fun this year because America's biggest corporations are basically saying, we have no idea. We just don't even know. Case in point, Jack, what did American Airlines tell us just yesterday in their earnings? Here's what they said. We're withdrawing our full year guidance.
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We'll provide an update if the economic outlook becomes clearer. I know, Yetis. We know what you're thinking. Well, airlines are a special case. Tourists are canceling trips to the US. They're not the same as every other industry, right? Actually, yes, they are, Nick. Interesting. Because we just dove into a hot off the presses survey from the Fed known as the Beige Book.
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And in that Federal Reserve report, U.S. manufacturers, the group that's supposed to benefit from the trade war, said, honestly, we don't know what's going on either. U.S. manufacturers used the word uncertainty a record number of times from all the beige books that have ever been published. To be honest with you, besties, Jack and I have never covered a period of news like this.
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We actually think this is when we do our best work because we search so deeply every day for more and more intense curated stories. But it's hard because companies are just frozen in their planning right now. It's like a corporate update ice age out there. All the IPOs that were on deck, they've been canceled. Klorna, StubHub, they're off. Nobody is launching products right now.
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That Uber story we did today, that was like the only big announcement of the last week.
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No, it really wasn't. But it was cool. It was really cool. But businesses just aren't announcing any major plans because they're all in this... frozen limbo period. PR teams are like, hey guys, can you give us some material to work with, please? Now, the companies that have made big announcements, they've done it at the White House with President Trump.
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But even those announcements are carefully worded, hedged. They are noncommittal. Jack, for example, can you please break down that huge NVIDIA news from the other week? A couple weeks ago, NVIDIA pledged to, and I quote, within the next four years, invest up to $500 billion in America. Not the most committed confidence statements.
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Well, the key is they said up to $500 billion, which could end up being $0. It was a completely noncommittal announcement. Honestly, the best quote we have seen to explain all this is the General Motors CEO, Mary Barra, who said this on Wednesday. First of all, I need clarity. And then I need consistency. She said, to make investments, I need to understand what the policy is.
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This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday, the real Friday, January 24th, and today's pod is the best one yet. This one is a T-boy. Nick, for only two months, you are older than me. My birthday is in March. Then we'll be the same age again. Well, Jack, I hope you keep the birthday bounce continuing. Stocks are still at record highs.
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And the reason is because studios like Electronic Arts have spent a ton of money upping the graphic fidelity of their games. But here's the plot twist, Yetis. It turns out gamers don't care about lifelike figures and they're not willing to pay for them. And the reason you don't care about Spider-Man's fancy spandex is our takeaway. So Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies in video games?
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Kids don't want high definition. They just want to hang out. Yetis, the Times found also that 40 to 50 year old video game players really do care about real life graphics. And that small subset of video gamers are willing to pay 80 bucks a game to Electronic Arts to get it. But the majority of gamers, young gamers, the future of the industry...
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They prefer playing games like Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite, games that don't look realistic. Because less important than the graphics is that you can play online with friends. Video games are a virtual hangout. So EA Sports, they want you paying 80 bucks for lifelike graphics of FIFA football. Or you can play old school looking Fortnite with friends for free.
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As of January 1st this year, you can legally order THC-infused non-alcoholic drinks at bars and restaurants in 24 states. Hey, bartender, I'll take one mellow mojito. And one chronic culotta. Did you ask for a ganja gimlet? Was that you, Jack? I think it was you. You'll take two of them.
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So the way Jack and I see it, EA should shift their investment from better graphics into better interactive gameplay. Or maybe they should have done a customer survey before investing so much money in fancy graphics. Feels like a survey could have saved them a lot of cash, Jack. Hello there, kids. Do you care about HD spandex? Because besties, kids, they don't want Hollywood graphics.
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Kids just want to hang out. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us before the weekend? Trump's first crypto moves were to release the Silk Road criminal from prison and to launch the official Trump coin. Going forward, we hope he can choose smart coins over fart coins. For our second story, it's Neko. It's now a $1 billion company that scans your body to measure 38 different things.
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Boomers did diets, millennials do wellness, but Gen Z... They want to live forever. And our third and final story. Electronic arts invested tons of money in high-graphic video games, but kids aren't paying for them. And we see it in Spider-Man's spandex. In video games, we don't want Hollywood graphics. We just want to hang out. But Yetis, this pod's not over yet.
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Here's what else you need to know today. First, President Trump's executive order ended federal DEI programs, as well as a 1965 rule against discrimination in federal contractor hiring. But Costco and JPMorgan Chase are standing firm on their DEI initiatives. In fact, of the DEI pushback, Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan said, bring them on.
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And second, we just got the Oscar nominations and leading the pack, Amelia Perez, my mom's favorite from this year, with 13 numbs. Not leading the pack was Gladiator 2. I really wish I had gone that day to see Wicked instead.
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It's going to be emotional given all the fire. It's just, it's probably going to be an incredible night. And finally, Target had a shockingly good fourth quarter. Way more foot traffic than analysts expected. Well, why did the beleaguered big box chain at Target do so well? Taylor Swift. Yeah. The T-Swift concert tour coffee table book could only be bought this holiday season at Target.
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It was exclusive to Target. So Swifties targeted Target stores. Target benefited. Now, time for the best fact yet. This one sent in by Yeti Cinziana Ursu from lovely Austin, Texas, who happens to have a fantastic birthday. Cinziana and Nick both have a January 22nd birthday. Yeah, we had the same birthday this week. Cinziana got curious.
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How common is it that you have a birthday with that person right there? Well, I actually looked into it, Jack, because it led to the birthday paradox, a real probability theory that describes the likelihood of two people sharing a birthday within the same group. All right, so the likelihood that you and that random person have the same birthday is one out of 365.
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One that we noticed is a brand called Pamos, which makes a canned margarita, but they swapped out tequila for weed. This brand is three years old, but they already passed 30 million bucks in annual sales. Now, here's the key when it comes to cannabis cocktails. They contain about 10 milligrams of THC per drink. That's the part of the cannabis that gets you high.
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But if there's 23 people in the room with you, chances are two of you have the same birthday. That's right. It only takes 23 people in a room to likely have the same birthday between two of them. That's wild. Wouldn't you think it needs more people in the room? You think it's counterintuitive.
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I mean, basically, Jack, what you're saying is the next time you go to a big dinner, just ask everybody what their birthday is. What a convo starter. There's a good chance two of you have the same birthday. Yetis, that is the birthday paradox. And it also shows how bad humans are at intuitive probability. Happy birthday, Cinziana. Yeah, it is. You look fantastic today.
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Jack, thank you for that epic Instagram story of all those incredible pictures together from a birthday. That was really, really cool.
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Yeah, I posted like eight pics on my Instagram, tagging Nick in each one. It was really fun to look through the photos we have.
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I know, but we went to college like right before the iPhone era. I don't have that many college pictures of us. Yeah. Yeah.
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No, all the photos I do have of us were basically just playing beer pong. We just ripped it off and have now framed. They're not on our phones. Besties, we loved hanging with you this week. If you want to hang out more this weekend, check out our weekly show, The Best Idea Yet, because we got a full episode on the guitar that set up rock and roll. We got a link in the episode description.
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Either way, Nick and I will see you Monday. Celebrate the wins. If you know, you know. And before we go, speaking of the birthday paradox, happy birthday to Chris Paul, 40 years old, over in lovely St. Petersburg. And happy birthday to Sarah Jorgensen, who's also turning 40 over in Seattle. And Rocky Wandawison is turning 23 years old in Columbus, Ohio, Blue Jacket land.
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And happy birthday to Charity T from Fort Collins, who's actually in Vegas to close a business deal. I assume she's expensing this birthday weekend, which is awesome. And get this, Jack. Sarah Gregory, whose soccer number is 37 and aim handle was 37. Her parents were 37 when she was born. Her husband was 37 when they got married. She bought her a spas at 37.
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She's turned 37 and her son is in the class of 2037. And you just turned 37. And I just turned 37. And Daria Sprague down the street in San Francisco gets a shout out for letting her bestie know about T-Boy. Mary Catherine has been listening every day. She's now a bestie. And just in case your name's pronounced Sprague, happy birthday, Daria Sprague.
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And Kira Nygaard from lovely Exeter, New Hampshire, just had a successful college interview. She nailed the question, why do you want to study business? Because she listens to this pod. That's awesome. Thank you, Kira. If you know, you know. This is Jack. I own stock of Roblox. And Nick and I both own stock of Spotify and Robinhood. And we both own one Bitcoin named Ben.
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10 milligrams of THC is only about a third of a typical marijuana joint. So that's enough to make you socially high, but not make you fully stoned. And that is the cannabis cocktail advantage over regular non-alcoholic drinks. Exactly. Unlike mocktails, cannabis cocktails still give you some kind of buzz. Just a different kind of buzz.
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But still not an alcoholic buzz, which a lot of people want to avoid for various reasons. So, yetis, if you're enjoying dry January, let us know this weekend if you order a dank daiquiri over there. Because the non-alcohol category just got a whole lot more interesting. Hey, bartender, one weed whiskey sour. Hold the weed. Hold the whiskey. Hold the whiskey.
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I think they're going to just stay at record highs until my next birthday. Not too shabby. Should we get into our three stories? We have three fantastic stories. Let's hit them before the weekend, baby. For our first story, the biggest winners in crypto since Trump became president are fart coins. Fart coins.
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For our first story, the founder of Silk Road, a crypto pioneer and convicted felon, just received a pardon. What is Silk Road? What are fart coins? Fart coins. And how have Trump's first few days affected crypto? We'll investigate. Who is Ross Ulbricht? Who is Ross Ulbricht? That's what everyone was Googling after Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht.
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Well, Ross Ulbricht was the founder of Silk Road, an early pioneer of cryptocurrencies. Silk Road was founded in 2011 as an anonymous online marketplace. So without revealing your identification, you could buy and sell things, anything on Silk Road. It was like an anonymous eBay. Yes, it was.
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And Jack, to ensure that your identification remained a secret, you paid in a new digital currency at the time known as Bitcoin. And why was anonymity so important to you? Well, Jack, it's because Silk Road was kind of for criminals, wasn't it? Silk Road was where you bought and sold illegal drugs and illegal weapons online. You weren't going there for a cute top.
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You know, there are even cases where users hired hitmen on Silk Road, and then you paid the bad guy in Bitcoin. So it's not Amazon Prime. Silk Road is Amazon crime. And that happens to be what the US justice system thought as well. It's also what the evidence and the law thought, because Ulbricht was convicted of seven felonies in 2015 and sentenced to prison for life.
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But here's the news, besties. This week, after 10 years in prison, Ulbricht is now free and pardoned of all crimes by new President Trump. Why did he pardon this guy? Because Ulbricht is a bit of a hero among libertarians whose votes Trump was courting for the last year.
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We'll explain Silk Road, Trump's meme coin, and how they're all affecting the crypto crowd. For our second story, Spotify's CEO actually co-founded another company. He's got a side hustle. It's a body scanning startup that could save your life. It's called Necco, and it scans your entire body inside and out, and it just hit a $1.7 billion valuation.
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So when Trump was invited to the Libertarians Party's national convention, he promised to pardon this felon if he was elected president. But pause the pod, yetis, because releasing a convicted crypto criminal mastermind from prison was not even the biggest crypto news of the week. No, it wasn't. The biggest crypto news of the week was would be Trump coin. Trump coin, Jack.
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Why don't you enlighten us? On the eve of the inauguration, Trump tokenized his personal brand, creating a buyable crypto that anybody could buy on Robinhood. Now, President Trump still owns 80% of Trump coin. So even though the price is down 42% from its high earlier in the week, Trump coin is still worth billions of dollars to the president. Now,
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Trump coin is completely unprecedented and it's brought up a whole bunch of questions and issues. Well, official Trump coin is loaded with conflicts of interest. Plus, its untraceable nature could be used to secretly bribe the president and nobody would be able to find out about it. But still, the whole Trump family has now gotten involved and everyone's getting a Trump coin.
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It's kind of like the Jackson 5 over there. Melania launched a coin too that also passed a billion dollars in valuations. So Jack, what's the takeaway for all our buddies right now over in crypto? We can choose smart coins or fart coins. Yet, here's what Jack and I found fascinating about these stories. Most of the crypto community actually appeared disappointed by Trump's first two crypto moves.
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In fact, many crypto leaders who voted for Trump voiced their frustration about his moves this week. Peter McCormick, the big crypto podcaster and Trump supporter, said that it was embarrassing. He said it was the opposite of what he expected from his Trump vote.
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Because these moves Trump has made further the narrative that cryptocurrencies aren't serious assets, but they're criminal assets instead. And they further the narrative that much of crypto are fart coins. No purpose, just gassy speculation. Fart coins. Some call these joke tokens another word that rhymes with Bitcoin, but we're going to call them fart coins on the pod. We kind of like fart coins.
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On the other hand, Trump does have an opportunity here to legitimize crypto as the first developed nation in the world to fully embrace it. On Thursday, he did sign an executive order to make a crypto council. And at the same time, the Republican-controlled Senate created a new digital asset subcommittee led by the most pro-crypto senator who even wants a Bitcoin reserve.
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We think crypto's biggest promise is as digital gold. Yes, we do. An investable asset. with scarce supply that's both borderless and internationally reputable. But so far in the first few days, Trump started with a fart coin and needs to go towards smart coin. For our second story, NECO just hit a $1.7 billion valuation to scale a whole new healthcare tech, body scans.
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NECO's body scanners perfectly represent the next generational trend of health. Yetis, do you remember our prediction for this year? Jack, what was our big prediction about the iTushy? One of them was that Apple would launch a smart toilet. Yeah, an iTushy. Because every tech company wants in on health. Every tech company wants in on health, including Daniel Ek, the founder and CEO of Spotify.
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He wants in too. The music streaming CEO has side hustled a new healthcare business that just became a unicorn. It's called Necco Health. They are scaling health clinics that feature a cutting edge body scanner. These health clinics look like a spa designed by Ikea. Yeah, they do. They're nice. But unlike your doctor's office, there isn't a single stethoscope in this place.
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And our third and final story is Electronic Arts. EA, the video game, just plummeted 17% in its worst day on the stock market in 17 years. And it's all because of Spider-Man's spandex. Literally. But Yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix of stories for The Real Friday. Love the mix. If you're doing dry January, there's only one week left. That's it.
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No, instead you're going to walk into a giant chamber that scans your whole body with a dozen different technologies. One scan actually measures 38 different things about your body. It's basically like Grey's Anatomy in a box. The scan takes a few minutes. The doctor reads the results afterwards and then chats with you about the red flags if you have some.
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NECO has done about 10,000 of these scans so far in the UK and Sweden, and there's a 100,000-person wait list right now. The scan costs a little under $400. And here's the news. They just became a unicorn. Neko raised $260 million to hit a $1.7 billion valuation this week. The AI body scanner will see you now. And with all that money, they're going to come to the United States. Yeah.
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And open up some calm, minimalist, futuristic doctor's offices. Made entirely out of Scandinavian wood. If it's not pine wood, I'm not getting ScanJack. Now, to understand this technology, we wanted to compare it to another health technology. Basically, wearables like Apple Watch, Fitbits, Oura Rings, they're on your body 24-7 tracking your data. And yet, that data is limited.
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Neko's various scanners can actually peek inside your body into your organs. Like they're going to track your blood pressure, your cholesterol, and then the doc tells you your risk of stroke or heart attack because it sees inside of you. But they've also got more basic scanners that will just look at your skin and that thing on your thigh and that mole on the outside of your body.
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And we actually think this technology, since it's not a human, will be conducting a more thorough full body check. Do you know what I mean?
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I got a full body scan at my dermatologist a couple years ago. Naked? You go naked? Yeah, fully naked. And they finished the scan in like one second. Yeah. I was actually insulted. Did you spin for them, Jack? No. They like barely looked me over and they're like, you're fine. I'm like, you didn't look anywhere. The next time you got to spin. I think you got to spin next time, Jack.
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I should have spun around.
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They asked me to put my robe on after one second. Step on the scale. Step off the scale, Jack. But yet, of course, this new startup is using AI to compare your results to past results and everyone else who they've scanned these days. That way, they can tell you if that thing on your thigh looks different than the last time.
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Because to save costs in the healthcare industry, it really comes down to preventative care, not showing up at the emergency room with that thing on your thigh you didn't catch six months before. The earlier you can catch something, the cheaper it will be to fix it. So Jack, could you please strip down, turn to the right, cough twice, and tell us what's the takeaway for our buddies over at NECA?
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Boomers did diets. Millennials do wellness. Gen Z wants to live forever. That is, last year, Jack and I did a story on how every generation rebrands health in its own image. And Neko's body scanning Swedish technology is a perfect example of that. You know, Weight Watchers stock is actually down 96% because dieting was a trend in the 80s and 90s.
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Then wellness and mental health took the stage in the 2000s and in the 20 aughts. But since the pandemic a couple of years ago, the health innovators are now shifting the focus to life extension. So NECO's preventative care, it's not about losing weight or finding psychological nirvana. No, it's really about extending life by finding issues as early as possible.
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Because the new health trend is to try to live forever.
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Pretty soon you can replace that seltzer for a Smirnoff. That's not how I'm ending my dry January. It's more of a wet slide, Jack. Either way, there's a new alcohol alternative that's emerging that you need to know about. And it's called Cannabis Cocktails. Cannabis cocktails are replacing ABV with THC, and this category is surging. Here's the news. What do we got, Jack?
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For our third and final story before the weekend, shares of Electronic Arts, the video game company, just had their worst day in 17 years. EA's decline reveals a big mistake across the whole video game industry. Here it is. We don't care about your fancy 4K graphics. We don't care about Spider-Man spandex.
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Not in the game, apparently, Jack. No, it's not. No, it's not. The iconic video game developer behind Madden, The Sims, and Medal of Honor just had its worst day on the stock market since 2008. EA Sports, their stock fell 17% on Thursday. And Jack, what was the reason? They simply didn't sell as many games as they hoped in the fourth quarter.
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For example, EA's latest soccer game, which used to be called FIFA, missed expectations. Even worse was the role-playing game Dragon Age, which came up 50% short of sales this past holiday season. Not to drop the F word again, but electronic farts. The stock fell to a seven-year low on the news of the bad quarter.
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But Yetis, Jack and I were fascinated about this story because electronic arts doing poorly presents a paradox. Because aren't we living in the golden age of video games? Yeah, Jack, what was that wild hero stat we shared with the Yetis about the video game industry?
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The amount of time Americans spend playing video games is more than the amount of time we spend watching movies, watching TV, and listening to music, Combined. So you would think that the leading video game studio like Electronic Arts would be at an all-time high right now. But it's not. No. And the reason might be found in a recent New York Times article about the video game industry.
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And here's how the Times described it. To understand the video game industry's current crisis, look closely at Spider-Man's spandex. Look closely, because every year, graphics in video games have gotten more and more lifelike. Yeah, they have. The New York Times showed a picture of the first Spider-Man game that came out on Atari in 1982. Jack, I'm looking at it now.
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It's like a series of huge blue and red squares that form something that kind of looks like a human being. It's pixelated. But today, the latest Spider-Man video game has insanely lifelike Spider-Man figures jumping around an insanely lifelike-looking New York City. The new Spider-Man video game looks like a high def 4K movie. It looks real.
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✊ “The Leaders Pod” — Our 3 Best Stories on Legendary Business Leaders
15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in the dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick.
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that's it i don't even think they need to practice 50 that's a fat tip t-boy city on your at list if you know you know because we're ready to go we can't wait no more so just start the show start the show first a quick word from our sponsor
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That's fair.
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I would define reclaiming as to take back what was yours. Something you possess is lost or stolen, and ultimately you triumph in finding it again. Listen to Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky wherever you get your podcasts.
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True story.
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All on a single chip.
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What are they bartering currency up there?
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It was our favorite story. It was the last story of last year, so it's going to be the last story of this year. Annual tradition, baby. Let's hit it, Jack.
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But yet is before we hit that wonderful mix of stories.
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Oh, speaking of dating. No, I'm just kidding. That's the end of the channel.
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Now, financially, this track sold 500,000 singles when it came out as a CD in 1995.
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I relived Hamilton through Nick's words. It was pretty cool.
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All right, five days of Christmas. What are the last two?
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Happy holidays. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Happy Hanukkah. Happy Kwanzaa. Bye, everybody.
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Yes, it is.
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But honestly, the show is nothing without you. Let's be honest.
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The motion is seconded and affirmed.
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Yeah, what do we got?
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If you say that to a Gen Z, they'll be like, what are you saying?
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Bud Light was like Kleenex, Band-Aid, or Jacuzzi. It defined the category in my 19, 20, and 21-year-old eyes.
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If you close your eyes and drink a Bud Light, a Bush Light, and a Michelob Ultra, you have no idea which is which.
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Not much of a punishment at all, is it?
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I love it. He even showed us the space. Okay.
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I know.
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Like, if I'm watching the dancing and I'm noticing the feet aren't touching the ground, there's something wrong with the movie.
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It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to get other people to do it.
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That's good. We have a YouTube show. Let's keep it, Jack. I love all of it.
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Now we can't confirm this, but Jack, I did just notice Duolingo stock is at an all-time high since they killed their owl.
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We want to get to know you.
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Jack, could you pop open some context for us, please, about influencer marketing?
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They were kind of punching down.
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this is nick this is jack it's friday the real friday december 13th and today's pod is the best one yet this is a t-boy the top three pop business news stories you need to know today yet he's unfortunately we left something on the subway what do we leave jack Full disclosure. Our voices. We left our voices on the subway. We're both feeling a little under the weather.
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Or as Jack and I call it, semiconductor cousins. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at AMD?
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Quantify yourself. Find your hero stat.
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Yetis, AMD has grown 50x under Lisa's watch from a $4 billion company to a $200 billion company.
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That number, 50x, is her hero stat. Yes, it is. It's the most demonstrable example of her accomplishments.
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The Time editors and the Time readers, they focus on that 50x return as to why Lisa is the CEO of the year.
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And this whole thing is a reminder that to get recognized for your accomplishments, having numbers to support your case really helps. Now, only CEOs have a metric as clear as stock prices. It's pretty good to be the CEO. To find your metric, you might have to get a little creative. Not everyone's job has quantifiable results, but it helps to include a quantifiable metric in your year-end review.
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Maybe it's an NPS rating for the product you work on. Maybe it's a percentage change from last year in the thing you're working on. Or maybe it's blank number of blanks that I created in the past year. We're looking at our number of downloads. You may be looking at your slamming salmon. Maybe you can create a survey to measure results that way. I like this, Jack. And create your own new metric.
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I surveyed everyone at the company and everyone really likes me. No, that could literally work.
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It's like, I'm really liked, so don't get rid of me. I'm really liked, so I should be VP. It's a critical part of your case for deserving a raise, a promotion, or an award. We're talking about your hero stat.
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So besties, yetis, go quantify yourself. Jack, could you whip up the takeaways for us for the real Friday?
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Magnus Carlsen skipped the World Chess Championships because he prefers random chess. The focus of every sports league right now is cut out the boring. For our second story, it's Netflix. They offer best-in-class one-year parental leave, but it's quietly cutting that benefit in half.
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But we did the maternity math. Netflix's unlimited parental leave has positive ROI.
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And our third and final story is AMD's Lisa Su. She's Time Magazine's CEO of the Year because her stock has risen 50x since she took over.
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And that is her fantastic Herometric. It's the value of quantifying yourself.
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But yetis, this pod's not over yet. Here's what else you need to know today. First, Elon Musk's net worth hit a shocking $400 billion. No human has ever hit that number. The reasons? Tesla and SpaceX have both soared in value since the election. Tesla is up 66% since November 5th, as he is so close to the president. And for the same reason, SpaceX's valuation has soared to $350 billion.
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And second, we actually had an IPO on Wall Street. Service Titan, they went public.
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The biggest IPO since Reddit at the beginning of the year. Service Titan stock actually jumped 43% on day one. This is a software for home contractors, construction projects, and like HVAC guys.
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And finally, the most valuable sports team in America. It's now the Philadelphia Eagles.
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The E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles sold a minority stake to a private equity firm at an $8.4 billion valuation. Okay, but what about the Cowboys? I think the Cowboys are worth more than that, but since they haven't sold stock in years, we don't know the value of Jerry Jones' team.
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Now, Jack, they say it's a cafe, but we noticed the whole menu is drinks. Tropical Punch Rockstar Refresca? What's that? That's a dance floor drink, not a breakfast drink. I mean, honestly, Taco Bell's new bar, it's like a Starbucks and a Jamba Juice had a highly caloric baby. That was raised in Cabo San Lucas. So we got to ask, why is Taco Bell trading solids for liquids?
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Now time for the best fact yet. This one sent in by Dario Dorella from San Francisco.
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Earlier this week, we covered Mato, an Italian coffee company selling $3 lattes.
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Well, speaking of Italian coffee, there is a famous coffee pot called Mocha.
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The Mocha coffee pot is a stovetop espresso maker invented by Renato Bialetti. Okay, but Renato passed away last week at the age of 93, and his family did something amazing. They put his ashes in one of the mocha coffee pots that he invented.
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That's right. He was in the coffee pot after he passed away.
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He was laid to rest in the coffee contraption that he loved so much.
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Yetis, you look fantastic out there. Jack, you sound so fantastic over there. Way more fantastic over there.
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Save the rest of your voice. You'll be back fresh on Monday.
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True.
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Yetis, Nick and I will see you then. Have a great weekend.
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Can't wait. If you know, you know. Jack, why don't you whip up the shout-outs today?
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Happy two-year anniversary to Adriana Barna, who's celebrating with her husband and her daughter Emily in Salt Lake City. And congratulations to the University of Florida Gators Gainesville MBA one-year program, who is graduating right now down in Florida. Get ready, Jack. We actually got a bunch of MBA graduates. Congratulations to Caitlin Skinner, who just graduated with an MBA down in Texas.
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And congratulations to Mishkat Lightwala, who just graduated with a 4.0 grade point average from an executive MBA program. And to anyone else celebrating something today, make it a T-boy. Celebrate. If you like the best one yet, you can listen ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
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And before you go, tell us a little bit about yourself by filling out a short survey at wondery.com slash survey. We want to get to know you.
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Because for the last three years, beverage chains have been beating out food chains. Sales of coffee and soda are outpacing burgers and burritos. Blue bottle's in, Wendy's is out. In fact, Taco Bell's best-selling new product this year, you see what it was? A drink. Yeah. A frozen drink. A soda with a bunch of extra sugar. So Taco Bell's opened this first concept cafe, first location, San Diego.
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But this taco bar could get taco bigger. Taco Bell, they're about to turn a nacho into a non-alcoholic party punch. To quote that chihuahua, yo quiero taco bar.
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Honestly, we were yelling across the bar at J.G. Mellon to get burgers. And then we were yelling at Madison Square Garden for the Knicks. And then we met Bobby Flay, so we were kind of having a big conversation with Bobby Flay. Yeah, we were also both sucking down cough drops. We both got a throaty situation. And we recorded two podcasts, six hours yesterday.
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For our first story, you know what? I think we sound kind of sexy, Chad. I think you do. I think we sound pretty good.
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What is this, jazz? Are you trying to get me in bed right now?
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A lot of good comments, a lot of good DMs.
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Yetis, for our first story, the chess world championships, they ended yesterday, but the best chess player in the world wasn't even there. Because Magnus Carlsen is disrupting the entire chess industry instead. Jack, let's play a game. Name a famous chess player. Actually, everyone listening, name a famous chess player, right? Chances are you can only name one famous chess player. Bobby Fischer.
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Or the lead character in Queen's Gambit. That's the only other option you got. Bobby Fischer is the American chess player who in the 70s ended the Soviet Union's 24-year streak of chess domination. Chess now carries less geopolitical weight than during the Cold War, but the World Chess Federation still holds a championship every year. year.
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And yesterday, India's Gukesh Dhumaraju beat defending champ Ding Loren of China. It was a 14-day, 14-game marathon. It was some hardcore pun. Sit down, stand up, and stay seated because it's 14 games over 14 days. But guess who wasn't at this World Chess Championship tournament? Who was that, Jack? Magnus Carlsen. Ah, Magnus Carlsen. If you knew a second famous chess player, it was this guy.
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Yeah, he's the Michael Jordan of chess masters. He's the Rafael Nadal of rooks. But this five-time champion of Norway is bored with chess. Because he won his first world championship at the age of 23. In his career, he's never lost a world chess championship match. Ever. So two years ago, he retired as the defending champ.
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Interestingly, we discovered that instead of playing in the world championships, this former champion is busy playing three games, three games we'd never heard of. Three different types of chess. There's rapid chess, blitz chess, and random chess. All right, Jack, you gotta explain these three because we'd never seen it before. Rapid chess gives each player only 15 minutes to make all their moves.
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Checkmate in 30 minutes. Blitz chess gives each player just three minutes to make all their moves. Sorry, no bathroom breaks. If traditional chess is a movie, then rapid chess is like a YouTube video and blitz chess is a TikTok. I can see that. However, Magnus Carlsen is making an even bigger move to blow up trad chess. He is now focused on playing a game of chess known as random chess.
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It's been a hell of a 72 hours, but we might need some social distancing from each other. Honestly, glad I lost the voice. It was so much fun, Jack. We still got a T-boy. Yeah, it is.
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Rando chess. I want to play random chess because here's how the game works. Talk to me. The game starts with a randomized back row. For both players. You got like a rook in the middle, the king's over here, the queen's over there. You know how the castle is at the end of each board? It's randomized for each player before the game begins. And here's the strategy.
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If the game is less predictable, then the game is more exciting. Because think about it. Professional chess these days, it's just memorizing the optimal sequence of moves. And you basically know what your opponent's going to do because they've done the same thing. Sound like Magnus over there. Yeah, dude, it's become too boring. Well, we're seeing it in the business world.
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Now, chess.com has 100 million members. 32 million people play a virtual game of chess on that website every day. And many of them are rando or rapid chess games. So the chess board has been disrupted. And that's actually part of a bigger sports trend. Basically, we're all pawns in this chess disruption, Jack. We're not playing chess. Chess is playing us.
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So Jack, what's the takeaway for our bishops over there playing chess? The top focus of every sports league right now is to cut out the boring.
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Yeah, it is. After 1,500 years of no change, chess is getting completely disrupted.
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The reason? In an era of TikTok, chess games have become too boring. Young people, they got endless forms of short form and addictive entertainment options out there. plenty of things to watch. So chess is adapting by cutting out the boring parts of the game. And it's not just chess that's doing that.
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True. Last year, baseball added a pitch clock because the games were too slow.
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The NFL has changed their PAT rules and their kickoff rules because those had become boring parts of the game. Also last year, the NBA added a mid-season tournament and the NHL has added overtime shootouts. Now, it's a fine balance when you're changing a 100-year-old game. Oh, great point. You don't want to change the rules too much that the purists completely revolt.
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Three stories for today's T-boy. What do we got on the pod, Jack?
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But you got to change them enough to keep the purist kid's attention.
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In the attention economy, it's not just about shortening your content. It's also about cutting out the boring.
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For our second story, Netflix has the most generous parental leave policy in all of tech.
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For our first story, it's chess. Yesterday, a new chess world champion was crowned. But at the same time, the best chess player is disrupting the 1,500-year-old game. For our second story, it's Netflix. Netflix has the most powerful work perk we've ever heard of. True story. Unlimited parental leave for the baby's first year. So Jack and I calculated the ROI on the ultimate work perk.
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One full year. But Netflix is quietly cracking down on that ultimate work perk, so we calculated its ROI. Yetis, if you're curious, the U.S. doesn't have national paid parental leave laws. It's actually like a patchwork of 50 states. On average, companies offer two months off in the United States. Some of that time off is paid, some of it's unpaid.
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And your baby's still breastfeeding, maybe you have postpartum blues, but you're back in the conference room. The outlier in America is big tech. It's big tech, because big tech is known for big perks. Meta offers six months of paid maternity leave. Google? Same thing. And yet Netflix offers double that. In 2015, Netflix shocked the industry.
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♟️ “Pawn Stars — Chess’ “random” disruption. Netflix’s unlimited parental leave. Time’s CEO of the Year.
They offered unlimited time off in the kids' first year. We repeat, unlimited. You can take eight months off if you want and then come back to work, or you could take four months off and then come back for four months and then take another four months off in the summer. Or Jack, you could just take all 365 days off. You're gone. You could say, see you in a year, boss. I'm in my nesting era.
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You could even take a year off and at the end of the year, you could be pregnant again and then be prepared to take another year off. Technically, yeah. Yeah, you could do it. You could pull all that off. Now, whether you're the birth parent or the non-birth parent, Netflix let you spend time with your baby, still get paid, and still retain your benefits.
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It was all part of Netflix's freedom and responsibility principle. But according to the Wall Street Journal, Netflix's revolutionary parental leave is sneakily disappearing. Apparently, there's a little gossip going around Netflix, right, Jack? Here's the rumor at the water cooler. More Netflix employees took a full year off than management had expected.
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And honestly, it's created some challenges for the bosses. Think about it. If two of your team members are gone at the same time for a full year, that could leave a major hole in the team. So rumors are that if you take over six months off for a parental leave... it's roundup on. It could even get you fired.
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Today, Netflix employees actually take off 6.3 months on average in the US and seven and a half months off on average in international offices. Now you could take the full 12 months off for baby Bianca, but you may get passed over for that promotion over at Netflix. The Wall Street Journal actually spoke to an employee who was let go after taking that full parental leave.
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Mom's back and now mom's out. Now, Netflix says they haven't officially changed their parental leave policy. But unofficially, the message is that more than six months off requires the boss's approval. Jack. This sounds like the year of efficiency. It's part of Netflix's new culture of cost controls and profit focus. Efficiency. But we got to ask, with the stock at an all-time high. Yes, it is.
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With its streaming market share at an all-time high. Yes, it is. Why is Netflix making a major change like this? If it ain't broke, maybe the change should take some leave. So Jack, what's the takeaway for our buddies over at Netflix? We did the maternity math. Netflix's unlimited parental leave has positive ROI.
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That is, we dove in T-boy style to the numbers. The average birth rate in the United States is 1.5%.
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But for younger women, like those working in tech, it's more like 3-4%. But then you have to add in their partners who also get parental leave. So it's about 7% of workers each year that might be taking parental leave at Netflix. So the cost of this parental leave policy is 7% higher wages, paying people for not working. That's the cost.
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♟️ “Pawn Stars — Chess’ “random” disruption. Netflix’s unlimited parental leave. Time’s CEO of the Year.
Offering one year parental leave like Netflix does is effectively a 7% pay raise spread across the company. But Jack, what about the benefits? The benefits of this parental leave policy are recruiting, retention, and honestly, a little bit of risk. I mean, unlimited time off and a baby's first year? Netflix offers the best in the US. That's a brag. That's a major brag.
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And our third and final story, Time Magazine just named the CEO of the year. She's the tech CEO who made her stock grow 50 times larger. But yetis, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. Fantastic mix, Jack. I'm going an octave lower. Fantastic. Fantastic mix. The newest fast food chain in America is not Bobby Flay approved.
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You get to tell that at brunch, everyone's talking to you, man. So the 7% cost of parental leave are offset by the human capital that they get by recruiting and retaining great workers. Which brings up 100% of the employees. So for Netflix's ultimate work perk, the publicity benefits outweigh the payroll costs. And that's the maternity math. Now a quick word from our sponsor.
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For our third and final story, Time Magazine just named the CEO of the year, and it's Lisa Su.
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Because Lisa Su runs the second largest chip company in America, and she's grown it by 50x. 97 years. That's a long time. Time Magazine's editor has been picking people of the year over there. And why do they pick People of the Year in the first place? Well, it's actually kind of a funny detail, Jack. The editors of Time noticed that no news happens during the holidays. It's slow.
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So they created the biggest news event of mid-December. And what's the actual criteria for Person of the Year? According to Time Magazine, it's the person who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was most important about the year.
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♟️ “Pawn Stars — Chess’ “random” disruption. Netflix’s unlimited parental leave. Time’s CEO of the Year.
Well, yesterday, Time announced that Donald Trump has been selected second time person of the year.
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♟️ “Pawn Stars — Chess’ “random” disruption. Netflix’s unlimited parental leave. Time’s CEO of the Year.
He is the 16th person to be chosen twice. And there's actually one person who's been chosen three times. FDR, because he was president all the time. But Time Magazine also named the CEO of the year yesterday. Interesting, and who've we got, Jack? It's someone who has grown their company's value by 50x since taking over as CEO.
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And isn't Jensen Wang of NVIDIA, it's not Marky Mark Zuckerberg, and it ain't Elon Musk either. It's Lisa Su of AMD. Lisa Su, come on down. Lisa Su of AMD is the Time CEO of the Year. Born in Taiwan, raised in the Bronx, she graduated from MIT and is a rare engineer CEO. Yeah, she's basically like the Caitlin Clark of computer chips.
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Ten years ago, she became the CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD for short. Actually, the first woman to lead a semiconductor company. Hadn't happened before. And when she took over... Her company had declining revenue. They were deep in debt. They had 25% of their company recently laid off, and the stock price was just $3 a share.
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Okay, so 10 years ago, what did Lisa do, Jack?
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She whipped up a controversial turnaround plan.
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This was not what anyone expected at that time.
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Instead of making many different kinds of chips for multiple different types of customers, she dedicated the company to being best in just one chip.
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We're doing one chip, one fancy Louis Vuitton of chips.
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And that one chip was for cloud computing and it was called Zen. Zen. And her bet worked. It did. It did. The Zen chip became number one in the industry. Today, they've got 34% of cloud computing market share. And that chip is the chip that powers the most powerful supercomputer in the world known as El Capitan. Now, Jack, we should sprinkle on a little chip industry context here.
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It is not Taco Bell. It's Taco Bar.
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AMD is a distant number two in America to NVIDIA. Yeah, NVIDIA is worth 15 times more. AMD is number one in cloud computing. NVIDIA is number one in AI. And AI is simply more valuable than cloud computing right now. Oh, also, fun fact that we noticed. What's this jam, Jack? Lisa is actually a distant relative of Jensen Huang. Can you believe that?
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That's right. There is a new bar by Taco Bell. True story. Taco Bell just launched a non-alcoholic bar for Gen Z. They're serving milkshakes, coffees, and dirty sodas. Hey, bartender, I'll take a Mountain Dew Baja Blast. Mocktail. On the rocks. Here's the context, guys. Please, Jack. The name of this new Taco Bell concept store is the Live Moss Cafe.
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The CEOs of America's top two chip companies are cousins. It's a complex second cousin type of thing.
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Couldn't have put it better, Jack.
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Let's hit them, baby. 15 years before this song, two boys from the Northeast met in a dorm. They had an idea to cause a cultural storm. It's the best one yet, but the best is the norm. Jack Nick.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
Yeah, Charlie, we're good for now. The winds have been intense, as you can imagine. Some of these winds, Charlie, have been clocked up to 95 miles an hour. Some places reported 100 miles an hour. We've been with power, off power. We've had four and a half days with no power. But the fires are predominantly west of us.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
And right now, I got to tell you, right now, brother, Southern California is a powder keg. Everybody needs to be alert, to be watching for anything and everything, because there's definitely some nefarious activity going on. I'm sure you'll hear more about that as investigations unfold.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
Well, the fact that God says in the word, I establish kings and I remove kings. Also, Charlie, the wake-up call is that God gives us leaders that we deserve. So what happened? For a gruesome four years, we had a very, very tough situation with Biden. The turnaround, Charlie, I believe is 100%.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
I know this almost sounds self-serving to you and I, but I believe the turnaround has been because we have reached out. We have been faithful to reach out, pleading to God's people to fast, to pray, to seek God's face. And this is a spiritual gift given to us by God. Now, people are gonna take issue with that regarding Donald Trump's bombasticity or morality. Excuse me, we're all in that same boat.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
Jesus alone is perfect. And Trump is not our pastor. He is our president. And he was a great president. He's going to be a greater president because God's hand is upon him. Nobody can deny this. And so the fact of the matter is, Charlie, I believe that what has been happening here in California for quite some time has actually been exhibited in these United States.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
And that is God has given us a glimmer of hope for now. And I think it's appropriate that he's coming to California, not only because of the fires, But he knows well that California since 2014 has been turning red. And Charlie, I'm going to go out on a limb here, brother. I am going to say that in the upcoming elections, the midterms and beyond, California is going to shock the nation.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
First of all, Charlie, who does she think she is? Don't let her little frail demeanor fool you. The magnitude of arrogance and pride that she exhibited to disgrace the U.S. president, to school him like she did, on top of the overwhelming fact that she has no business being there. And that's according to the scriptures. She's usurping authority.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
She's in a position that the scriptures, 1 and 2 Timothy, says ought not to be happening. But... She's so out of touch or she's in touch with the particular side that she represents that it was her moment to be the prophet of nothingness, the prophet of woke ism, the prophet of defending the those that are hurting. Are you kidding me? Charlie, I've been to the border numerous times.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
I saw the border before Trump took office. I saw the border after Trump took office and I spoke to border agents. You want to talk about mercy? They told me what was going on and what stopped when Trump in his first term took power. That was an act of mercy because things were shut down. The trafficking began to diminish and law and order began to prevail.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
This person should be embarrassed, but I don't think she will be. And whoever is responsible for having her up there did a great dishonor to the National Cathedral. and to really what is called faith in Jesus Christ in this nation of ours.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
Because the Bible tells us, Charlie, you know this well, that in the last days, there's going to be false prophets, false teachers, false representations of what is Christianity, disguising themselves in the place of religion, but denying the power thereof. There was no obedience to the word of God on this, and it was certainly not her place to say what she said in a public setting like this.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
Disgraceful, but frankly, not surprised, sad to say.
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Yeah, this is an amazing thing, Charlie, because we have been standing in this water in California fighting for our rights and for our freedoms as a church, understanding the biblical mandate given from the scriptures to us that, for example, Jeremiah 29, 7, that we are to be very engaged and very much committed to the welfare of our community and
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
And it's very clear from Proverbs 29, verse 2, that when the righteous are in power, the people rejoice. But when the wicked rule, the people groan. So we as a church here in Southern California, we never did not have a Sunday where you couldn't sign up to register to vote. We informed people of every proposition of everything. And people used to laugh at us, Charlie. Church has laughed at us.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
Pastors said to me, you're wrong. You should preach the gospel. Yeah, we do that too. We can actually walk and chew gum at the same time. We can preach the gospel and be righteousness in the community at the same time. And Charlie, after 35 years, God has been honoring this position. And so other churches, not so many, but other churches have caught on. And it doesn't take many.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
Remember, Charlie, God doesn't move always with a big crowd. He takes those that are open and willing to follow him. And we're seeing a shift and we're delighted about that. But I am pleading right now for pastors to wake up. And to get yourself out there on the front line, stop hiding behind your congregation, stop hiding behind your theology up until now might be very theoretical.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
How about putting it forward and doing it? And then your flock will follow. And you know what? Maybe more people will attend your church when they realize that you are a instrument of light and truth. Pastors, I believe that God gave us a gift by giving us four more years of religious freedom. We better not waste it. We need to speak up more than ever before. That's my word, Charlie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
Yeah, absolutely. Listen, revisiting this comment, well, Pastor Jack, you should just preach the gospel. We don't get involved. Wait a minute. If we preach the gospel and people get saved, what do we do with them after that? We're supposed to make disciples of all of them, Jesus said in Matthew 28. So preach the gospel is what we do. Give them the gospel.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, right? That is, he is the gospel. He forgives sins. He died on the cross for our sins, rose again from the dead. What do you do after that? Pastor, you are not an evangelist. Your primary calling, pastor, is to equip your church to do the job of righteousness every day of the week. And so we must do this like never before.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
Charlie, we're going to be calling a statewide California gathering where where we are now going to do a very, very new and revised reach to pastors who have sat it out. Because, Charlie, I got to leave you with this, man. So many pastors have reached out in the last few hours and said, Pastor Jack, I apologize. I see what you've been doing. I see what's been going on.
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The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
And I want to be on the team. And I'm telling them straight up, it's not Team Jack. It's Team Jesus. Let's obey the Lord. And let's just be righteous until we see Christ face to face. Let's go for it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Trump Spiritual Revolution in America
Yeah, the Real Life Network is available on any one of your apps, 24-7, 365. Very, very awesome content, Christian content. So that's Real Life Network. And then also this, you can go to jackibs.com for everything else. Thousands and thousands of hours of teaching. And then we're grateful that... Living in the Days of Deception is a book that has now become a national bestseller.
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It's just flying off the shelves. We're happy about that. Living in the Days of Deception. And it turns out to be extremely prescient for the moment that we're in right now today. God bless you, Charlie. Thank you, brother, so much.
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Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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THOUGHTCRIME: Renewal of the American Dream Speech Special
Who's coming with me? It's like it's a Napoleon movie. He charges out. It's like, men, follow me. And he runs up, turns around. No one followed him, gets blown away.
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I think given how aggressive the left got, kind of the best way to check it is a sense of mutually assured destruction. And if there is a fear that if you go way beyond the bounds of what can remotely be justified, that you'll get vaporized by the DOJ in some way, that will encourage polite behavior. And an armed society is a polite society, as a lot of gun rights activists like to say.
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And we can have that same principle apply to lawfare. Like the best guarantee against lawfare is that both sides can do it to each other. And thank you, Max Q, for five dollar donation. Thank you very much.
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There's no other joys we can think of on MSNBC anymore. Because they're joyless.
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They were wondering would any of those guys get through, and they basically all got through, and I think you deserve a huge amount of credit for that.
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It's the eternal Obama inflection, kind of. That's what it always makes me think.
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It's understated, so you don't get – well, maybe some people want that.
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They have to come up with something.
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And we've got Braxton Jackson gave $10. Let's keep giving thanks to God during this space of grace. God will continue to lift up America if we stay humble.
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For a second, I thought that was one of our guys doing Bernie Sanders.
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Don't let your memes be dreams, I guess. Believe, Blake. If we do it, I will be the first one to line up and be like, man, that guy did the impossible.
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If Donald Trump successfully balances the budget, let's not get too dramatic here. If Donald Trump successfully balances the budget, I will wear a Minnesota Vikings jersey on this show, and I will pledge my fealty. That doesn't mean anything for me. This is going to be more real. Fine, I'll wear a Chicago Bears jersey.
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I will wear a Chicago Bears jersey of your choice at this desk, and I will say that Mike Ditka is my daddy.
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I think you should balance the budget.
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I think Charlie would get more out of the first one.
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I'm so grateful to the crystals in my... The image that will always stick with me is Steven Pinker, the Harvard professor, doing the extremely cringe dance on Twitter with his with his wife. But that's what I'll always remember.
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Did she just say something about ableist spaces there? I heard some sort of high frequency noise.
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We got a great one. Another another one. You'll want to read Charlie here.
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Despite the stuff, we want the best for Canada. No, of course we do.
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But if we pass that, Charlie, the Democrats would not. Call us racist.
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It really is that all you had to do was make it so if you show up at the border, you will not get in.
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Magical solution you don't show up and won't get in they'll stop you don't need an app for that like people are just they're so rock-stupid They're just like we'll show up No, they won't show up if they won't get in that's how it works and That would apply to everything like all those boats in the Caribbean in the Mediterranean They would stop if all you did was stop the boat drop them off back in Libya where they started if you did that every time No more boats in the Mediterranean.
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You don't need an app.
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You don't need a million programs.
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So we admit that we can just four thousand nine hundred ninety nine locked in like the record high before Biden. It's like the norm. A normal amount of people to just let into America.
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Imagine if we had Tim Walls in Kamala's seat there looking all bug-eyed and
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Blake, final thoughts. Just I would say we should look ahead. He'll have to deliver his first real state of the year from now in a year. And if things work out, think about what he'll be able to talk about in a year. If he's able to say we've had a year of secured border now, peace, if we now have the peace deal in Ukraine economy.
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My only come a long way.
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For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.
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Oh, what's the capital of Lesotho? Oh, crap. It might be Mbabane. I have to go check that out. Study harder, Blake. Mbabane. It is the country that is completely surrounded by South Africa. Yeah, it's South Africa. Yeah, it's the one totally surrounded by South Africa. Let me check what the – I'm going to look it up.
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There's a lot of ones that start with M that are all same-ish in Africa.
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Plus. In my defense, Mbabane is the capital of East Watani, which is the other country surrounded by... Blake, you're not allowed to be wrong.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME: Renewal of the American Dream Speech Special
Yeah, it really is – considering he's been in office a month and a half, it almost sounded like a State of the Union he'd give a year in. Totally. Where he's able to say, like, bam, we're on aggression on the border. We're doing all of this in foreign policy. We're going to be wrapping up the Ukraine war. We're going to be trying to get Greenland.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME: Renewal of the American Dream Speech Special
He even kind of lays out the approach on Greenland where he's saying we support Greenlandic self-determination because – That's how it would happen. We're unlikely to just invade it. What it would be is we would want the people of Greenland to agitate for independence and then say, you know, we'll accept you if you were to obtain independence.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME: Renewal of the American Dream Speech Special
He lays it out that way, obviously on the border, on Doge, on combating the cartels. It really does. It sounds like an administration that's a lot older than six weeks.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME: Renewal of the American Dream Speech Special
I'm a little surprised once that started happening that Democrats didn't plunge in on it and say, okay, fine, escort all of us out. Imagine if they'd done that. Take a half hour to walk every single one out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
Charlie, I just want to say thanks so much. By the way, Salem Network, incredible network that they've done. I was a longtime listener to Bill Bennett in the mornings, so it's incredible to be there at 990 a.m. in Philadelphia.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
Well, that's right. So it's really just kind of a happy accident in many ways. Or perhaps, you know, you could say we planned it that way. Given that it was a Charlie Kirk idea, it was probably planned out in advance that way. But so it's, you know, you had the 12 to 3, but then my show was always sort of 2 to 3.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
And so the idea being that we were up on Real America's Boys at that time, but then you were covering down 2 to 3 on both. And so we were sort of simultaneously overlapping each other. So it turned out to be that when we were looking at this third hour said, okay, what could we do with it that, hey, I was already doing a show in that hour to begin with.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
And so it just sort of made sense to say, well, why don't we just put that show out and being able to have a few conversations with the Salem team and having them understand that I'm not only all about what their values are, but in many ways, I was able to learn the values of the conservative movement and actually learn what it means to be in a conservative in America by just listening to Salem.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
And in fact, for people who don't even know the deeper backstory, humanevents.com was actually under Salem at one point and it later went independent. But now I kind of feel like it's almost like human events and Salem are rekindling that great partnership. And so it's an incredible place to be with everything that's going on in our country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
charlie it's absolutely working look i i talk to journalists uh a lot frequently a lot more frequently than than in the past you know they used to have this more antagonistic relationship but suddenly they realized that oh if they want to actually know what's going on we might have to talk to people like jack posovic or charlie kirk and they're all telling me we can't keep up what you guys are doing is so fast and they don't realize how many years
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
People in this movement have spent studying these issues and understanding these nodes. So you've got Mike Benz on USAID. That's just one spot. If you think that was big, wait till you see what comes next. When it comes to Tulsi Gabbard and the intelligence community, RFK, with the Maha movement, with the FDA and the FTC even a little bit, and a number of these places.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
And so they didn't realize that President Trump had this ability with this all-star team that he put together to go through and be firing down on multiple avenues, multiple verticals at the same time in a place where they don't even know where to put their resources because look at the corporate media. They've actually been downsizing over the past couple of years. Why?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
Because people are checking out of corporate media. And then Elon comes in with X and what does X do?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
x democratizes information you can go right on there you can post anything boom you can see what's going on in any one of these verticals and there's no censorship so you don't have anyone telling you what you need to think you can actually go you can watch this program you could watch a hearing you can see what's happening you can look up research you've got grok you've got all these different features it is fantastic and so what president trump has done is utilize this in his team the comms team with stephen chung
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
Caroline Leavitt as the press secretary, they've understood that the way to get ahead of the media is to literally drive faster. Caroline Leavitt just a couple of minutes ago announced that these illegal alien flights are already beginning down to Guantanamo Bay.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
The media hasn't even been able to pick up on any of this yet because it's all moving way faster than, and I'm sorry guys, you're going to have to start working or you're going to be left in our dust.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
Well, look, we know Tulsi Gabbard. That's going to come up in a couple of minutes. I feel good about this vote right here. Of course, all of this goes down to the floor, though. So you got Bobby Kennedy, Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard. It still has to go down to a floor vote. A lot of people think the committee vote is the floor vote. I get it. It's wonky. It's the system.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
We have to work with what we have. But understand, none of these people have been confirmed until they're confirmed by the United States Senate. And there's some There's some senators out there, Charlie, who I think might need a little bit of our attention, maybe just to hold their hand as we walk them down the aisle so that they can go and make sure to confirm the president's cabinet.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
We'll be all right, Charlie. Thanks, man.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light
It is really, really a sad day in America. We are witnessing a constitutional crisis. We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on day one, and here we are. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like. When you gut the Constitution and you install yourself as the sole power, that is how dictators are made.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
Yeah. I mean, that's really the $12 billion question, isn't it, Charlie? Yeah, you're right. So J.D. Vance, as it stands, let's say devil's advocate, he becomes the nominee in 2028. He's obviously going for this. And it's J.D. Vance's brand to begin with, right? He's sort of got this, he's equal parts like white collar and blue collar mixed into one. Curtis Yarvin said something about how J.D.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
Vance has so many Americans within him. And I think that's an incredible, you know, an incredible way to view it. You know, he goes to the Marines and he's a Marine. He goes to a bar and he's a bar. But yet he can also sit down with like the New York Times and speak their language, go to Munich and tell off the globalists. So.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
I do think that he makes the articulate case for new rights, Trumpism, nationalist populism in a way that I think wouldn't necessarily turn off those high prop voters like you're talking about that Trump typically tends to do. But at the same time, you're getting portions of the high prop base, but also he doesn't have He just doesn't have the same name ID.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
He doesn't have the same street cred that Donald Trump does. And who could, for the record, by the way, who could have the same level of street cred as Donald Trump with blue collar workers? So, you know, of course, we've all seen the you know, the articles this week about, you know, what if what if Vance runs and Trump is on the ticket with him?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
I don't think that's a good idea, by the way, because that would.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
know if vance resigns that would preclude himself from running and actually being president in the future um and uh it's it's it's really going to be something where again he's going to have to be threading needles you know maybe you'd look for a balancing act of having someone who has that you know either either blue collar appeal or also that cross party appeal um someone who's able to pick up people from the middle people people and and really by the way tap into the maha movement
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
You know, I think the Maha movement and let me just, you know, you know, step back and even bigger for a second. I didn't see the Maha movement getting engaged in the Wisconsin election because I didn't see anyone ask the Maha movement to get engaged in the 2025 Wisconsin election. I didn't see anyone reach out and explain to Maha why they should be involved in a Supreme Court race in Wisconsin.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
I didn't see anyone asking for their votes. I didn't see anyone campaigning for their votes. And I'm a big believer in people don't come out and vote for you because you say you should. I think people come out and vote for you because you ask specific coalitions to come out for your vote. This is something that FDR understood.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
This is something that coalitions building on the Democrat side has understood for almost 100 years now. And I haven't seen any Republican really work this work this out up until Donald Trump put it together in starting in 2016. But then on forward in understanding that you have to go to each group specifically and ask them for their vote.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
So, you know, it's the big piece of the table or piece of the pie that was missing here in Wisconsin was Maha. Did anyone go and ask Maha to get involved in Wisconsin because he didn't see it? And then you look at the but you look at the profile of a Maha supporter. They actually do fit. The high prop, white collar, suburban female, suburban white female, almost synonymous type voter.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
So maybe if Maha was on board or found an angle to be on board, you would have had those type of voters show up a little bit better.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
Yeah, Charlie, I mean, I think that, you know, it really comes down to most Republicans don't really talk about the working class. They don't talk to the working class. They don't really have much understanding for the working class. When I say this, I'm talking about like the professional Republican consultant class types, the people who, you know, are supposed to be doing this 24-7.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
You know, they seem to think that you can get by with just saying like, This person is like Trump. So vote without any, you know, without bringing up any type of direct connection with that person, without creating any actual excitement behind that person. And, you know, or again, going to those individual members of coalitions to get them to work.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
And I'm just going to fundamentally keep going back to this point. The professional Republican class does not actually understand the Trump coalition and how the Trump coalition works. They don't understand the different components of it. They don't understand the working class part of it. I mean, do you think when I go around Washington, D.C., and I've been all over D.C., I've been to
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
Congress of going around the different department buildings at the State Department today for the First Lady's event there. But you see these professional Republican types. I'm not talking about the Trump admin, but I'm talking about the others. They couldn't explain tariffs to you. They couldn't explain what tariffs mean for the middle class.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
They couldn't explain what tariffs mean for the working class. They don't actually understand the how any of this stuff works or puts together. So when it comes to messaging, they just fall back on these things that they think are safe, like, oh, Trump, good. So vote for Trump-like guy. Like the story is not there whatsoever. There's no story that's being told.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
There's no message that's being sent. And this is what, and we wrote about this in the book last year, this is what Democrats are so good at. What do Democrats offer? Now, I'm not saying what do they believe? I'm not saying what are their inherent drivers. I'm talking about what do they actually offer? They offer a positive vision of the future, a positive vision of the future.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
How many Republicans do that? Republicans tend to define themselves by what they're against. We're anti-abortion, we're anti-liberal, we're anti-trans, we're anti-whatever, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But as we, and rightfully so, oppose all those things, what we're also not doing for a long time. And when you only have perhaps, what, 15 seconds is like the average length of a TikTok video.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
Charlie, you know better than anyone. But it's like you have just a tiny little amount of time to get that across. You've got to be able to convey a positive vision of the future to a potential voter, or else they're just going to tune out and say, well, this guy's just angry about stuff. This person over here. And I'm talking about your like normie average voter.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
this person over here, like again, If your name isn't Donald Trump and you haven't been through the 12 labors of Hercules and the hero's journey that Trump was on in front of the entire planet, surviving an assassin's bullet from a miracle by the hand of God himself, then guess what?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
You have to actually go back to regular politics because regular political rules apply to you because, again, your name is not Donald Trump. And that's something that I think a lot of Republicans need to understand.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
yeah so once again uh just like in geopolitics here in you know regular domestic politics we learned that history is not ended the end of history has ended politics have not ended donald trump and the mega coalition are not the uh the final end of all politics turns out that public opinion.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
And it turns out that doing the work actually still are required to win elections, especially as I just keep saying this, if your name is not Donald Trump, you've got to work within the confines of the coalition. You've got to work with Maha as well as the other members of the MAGA coalition, all of the broad, the broad sections.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
There are working class, if that had been engaged, is a huge, huge component. The union vote, obviously very big in Wisconsin.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
huge up there you know that's a way to get engaged people and bring them out um all of these things need to be done but again this sort of this sort of belief that oh you can just sort of wave your hand and the gop consultants will say oh this person is like trump and you can go vote for them doesn't work it's not going to work you still have to actually do the work day in day out you need to put funding behind people who are doing this 24 7 the turning points the you know turning point actions the scott pressler's the cliff maloney's of the world all of this stuff
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
needs to be on the ground if you want elections to win you do still have to eat your vitamins you know it's like it's like everybody wants to uh everybody what's the old bodybuilding phrase like everybody wants big muscles but nobody wants to lift heavy things basically the same thing everybody wants to win the elections but nobody wants to do the heavy lifting blake
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
Well, and Tyler, there's there's there's just to piggyback on what you're saying there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
It's what people understand is that states in that northern tier from Michigan over particularly working with the labor unions over there, traditionally speaking, they have this massive Democrat infrastructure, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, that's existed for basically a generation at this point where they literally have people who, as you say,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
are paid full time, 24 seven, 365 days a year to do Democrat politics, to work Democrat politics. So a Donald Trump type candidate comes up and yeah, that'll get working class people to cross the line, to get more active, to come down out of out of work, to take time out of their busy lives because they're working class, they're working to go and cast a vote for Donald Trump.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
But any other Republican, like I was just saying, is going to have to work 10 times harder. You have to you have to thread three needles to be able to get those same type of workers to come out. Democrats on the other side, as you're saying, Tyler, don't have this problem. And you think of the Democrat worker, right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
It's so much easier for them to do that type of work, fill in an absentee ballot, fill in an early ballot, mail-in ballot, because a lot of them are more of the white collar workers. A lot of them are more of the, you know, working in an office or in many cases working from home these days. You're working at universities.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
You're basically paid to be a Democrat, you know, paid to be a liberal 24-7 and to make more liberals like like over there in Madison. So there's there's a lot of inherent issues with having the low prop turnout when you don't have Trump on the ballot. And these are issues, by the way, the Democrats have been working with for a long, long time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why We Lost in Wisconsin — Explained
And this is where their control of the institutions statewide in places like Wisconsin really comes into play.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Town Hall Conversation With TPUSA Students and Treasury Secretary Bessent
Hello from Towson University. Thank you, Mr. Kirk. We hope to have you sometime down here in the future. And thank you, Mr. Secretary, for taking our question. So our question is, there is a lot of concern that the Trump tariffs may increase product prices sometime in the relatively near future. So when can we expect prices to decrease?
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Town Hall Conversation With TPUSA Students and Treasury Secretary Bessent
And how will that benefit college students in the long run who are already broke?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
What's going on, Andrew? It's a great day in America.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
It's a great day with President Trump in office with this new administration pushing forward and actually holding the line for once for the American people, whether it be standing up for the American worker against China, whether it's standing up for American people against the ravages of the illegal aliens and these criminal organizations like MS-13 and Trend de Aragua.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
We've now seen President Trump standing up against them. And the Democrats seem to always take the side of the criminal. We've seen it yet again and again and again, just like we see in Maryland, just like we see all across this country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
Yeah, Andrew, that's exactly right. And so, you know, Charlie Kirk's audience knows this more than anyone else out there. But for having done the work of turning point action with the low prop voters and in the election and all these swing states out there, look, Trump goes seven for seven. He wins the popular vote.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
You see MAGA becoming more and more popular among the right and among even just sort of the average American out there. Trump still walks into these UFC massive arenas and gets these huge celebrations. And this is even after the tariffs. This is after
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
the illegal alien situation, because I think last year on the ballot was this idea that enough had been enough, that things had gotten so crazy under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. People, you know, remember them, right? The media doesn't talk about them anymore. And about the millions of illegals, including criminal illegal members of these organizations,
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
that people said, you know what, we're done with this. We're absolutely so done with this. We just want our country back. We want to get to some semblance of sanity, which, by the way, is the exact same wave that brought Bukele into office and made him probably the most popular democratically elected leader. I think in like American, you know, continental North America, South America.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
history wins with like 80% of the vote in his last presidential election. Why is that? Because he cleaned up his country. He cleaned up the streets. He said, we're not going to let these gangs control our cities anymore and control our country. I love what he said yesterday, by the way, it's not about the people that we incarcerate. It's about the people we liberate.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
And yet you never hear the media talking about that. You'll never hear the fact that that Rachel Morin's murderer, right, this beautiful mother of five in Maryland, in Maryland, by the way, an actual constituent of Chris Van Hollen was her who was murdered and raped by an illegal alien member of MS-13. This guy was just convicted yesterday of that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
And yet you don't hear Chris Van Hollen, the senator there talking about talking about her going to spend time with her family. No. He wants to go down and spend time in El Salvador with a guy who never had any legal right to be in this country to begin with. I think they look like fools. I think the American people think they look like fools.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
It's a ridiculous hill for them to die on, but they've chosen it. So I'm more than happy to provide them with exactly what they're asking for. Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
That's exactly right. Now, this is a give-send-go. So Carmelo Anthony had a GoFundMe up at one point. That was taken down. Give-send-go has put it up. Remember, give-send-go is the same organization that ran the crowdsourcing for Daniel Penny. I believe they did Daniel Perry, Kyle Rittenhouse, many others, the Jan Sixers, and they have a no-cancellation policy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
So they've got this up for Carmelo Anthony. Now, when you look on the site, it says that it's for the family, the official fund. The site has been referred to as a legal fund. Their advocate that they've hired is also referring to this as a legal fund. And in fact, the officials at Give and Go refer to it as legal fund as well.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
And yet we've also heard that the family's advocate now coming out and saying this BLM type guy, not Ben Crump, but sort of like a Texas version of Ben Crump, has come out to say, oh, well, the family is facing racist threats.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
And so they're going to now be using this funding that they've raised in the name, by the way, of his legal defense to be moving to a new home because of the racist threats they've received. Well, that sounds a lot like they're taking the money and buying a new house with it. And that's exactly what we saw BLM and Patrice Cullors and so many others do.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
Off of the backs of the names of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and so many others where they would take the money and use it to enrich themselves rather than support, by the way, the family of George Floyd or any of these people. It, in fact, went into. their own pockets.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
By the way, this advocate himself for the family, Dominique Alexander, has been extensive, by the way, rap sheet, having been involved in numerous cases of domestic violence, including at one point the beating of a toddler for which he did serve jail time. And so, you know, you really look at this situation and it looks as though it's perverse incentives. It's a situation where, again, there's no
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
The Carmelo Anthony Austin Metcalf situation, there's no evidence whatsoever of self-defense other than rumors and misinformation that have been spread by Carmelo Anthony supporters in order to gain money. And it seems as though what they're doing is they're taking the murder of a young white athlete and using that to enrich the family, the advocate.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
and anyone else who are potentially associated with this fund and raising money from it in the name of legal defense and then using it to line their own pockets for personal expenses. It's horrible. And by the way, stuff like this, they use it to enrich themselves. And we saw this with BLM. And what does it do politically? It divides the country and it drives us apart. It should not be.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
This is one thing, by the way, where I agree with what the father said. We shouldn't view these things through the lens of race. We shouldn't through this. view this through the anarcho-tyranny lens of saying, oh, well, you know, all white people are oppressors and all black people are oppressed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
How about you just view it as a situation between two teenagers having a fight and one decided to pull a knife and stab the other one and then base it given a colorblind, you know, justice is supposed to be blind, a colorblind application of the laws and statutes of the state of Texas as they are written.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
Well, and Andrew, we're also told by the way, is that there is video in this case that the police have. And a lot of people have now been pushing for the police to release this video. There's even been calls for Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
too, that if the Frisco Police Department does not release it for him to get involved and say, please release this so that we can really get to the bottom of what's going on here. So I know a lot of people have been spreading, you know, different versions and speculation about this case. But I think that the video.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
When it comes out, and by the way, I'm sure the prosecutors have looked at this before they went for that first-degree murder charge. I think that that video, when it comes out, will explain a lot. I think it's very interesting, by the way, that these BLM advocates are not calling for the video to be released. Interesting.
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The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
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The Charlie Kirk Show
The “Maryland Dad” Hoax + Austin Metcalf Updates
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
DISTINGUISHED RANKING MEMBER. JUST A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE TO MAKE A CORRECTION. THE REASON THAT GENERAL AWESOME REQUIRED A WAIVER WAS NOT BECAUSE HIS PARTICIPATION IN A CORPORATE ENTERPRISE. IT WAS BECAUSE HE DID NOT HAVE SEVEN YEARS OF INTERRUPTION BETWEEN HIS SERVICE AND HIS APPOINTMENT.
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The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
Second point is that if any of us were appointed as Secretary of Defense, we would be subject to the same types of questions. And the case in point is Senator John Tao was nominated for Secretary of Defense. It was discovered by his colleagues that his behavior was not commensurate with the responsibilities despite his service, and he was voted down. Thank you.
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The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
Mr. Chairman, I would ask unanimous consent that two letters be submitted for the record. One letter signed by numerous organizations, including the Government Accountability Project. The other signed by several organizations, including the Truman National Security Project.
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The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
I am going to defer to my good friend and colleague, Senator Rosen.
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The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Congratulations on your chairmanship. I want to make a request to the committee that we have a second round of questions.
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The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
I think it's important to note for the record that when Secretary Hagel was here, we had three rounds of questioning. When Secretary Carter was here, we had two rounds of questioning. And I cannot recall any time where I have denied, as a chairman, a member to ask for a second round and receive the second round. So we are, I think, violating the principles of the committee.
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The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
Thank you. Mr. Hegseth, thank you for being here today. Thank you for your service to this country. Thank you, Senator. Few nominees come into this room with all the necessary experience to do this job, to be Secretary of Defense. We get that. It's a reflection on just how big of a job this is.
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The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
What I want to understand is whether or not you bring any of the necessary experience that this job requires. And here's where I'm concerned. Senator Coleman, in introducing you, and this is a quote,
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
At the Grand Hyatt at Washington, D.C., you were noticeably intoxicated and had to be carried up to your room. Is that true or false? Anonymous smears. Another time, a CBA staffer stated that you passed out in the back of a party bus. Is that true or false? Anonymous smears.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
In 2014, while in Louisiana on official business for CBA, did you take your staff, including young female staff members, to a strip club? Absolutely not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
So... Is it accurate that the organization reached a financial settlement with a female staffer who claimed to be at a strip club with you? And there was a colleague who attempted to sexually assault her. Was there a financial settlement there?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
I don't know the nature of how that played out. But you understand there was a financial settlement for a young female staffer who accused another member of the organization, not you, of sexual assault in a strip club. We have multiple statements on the record referring to that. But you claim you were not there when that occurred. Absolutely not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
Now, the behavior I cited, if true, do you think that this behavior of intoxication going into these type of establishments, women on your staff being so uncomfortable that they have to file these sort of harassment claims, do you think this is appropriate behavior for a leader?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
How many people, everybody who runs the campaign... I have limited time. I'm not going to get into the accusations that come from Fox News. Now, you have some of your Fox News colleagues here. There are multiple instances of accusations against you about drinking on the job.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
The challenge here for me, Mr. Hegseth, is when there is discussion about personal challenges and you admittedly had issues with heavy drinking, it's hard to kind of square this, to square the circle here. It's kind of a difficult thing to do. Let me ask you, I have about 90 seconds left here, if
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
If you had to answer these questions about sexual assault against you and your drinking and your personal conduct, would it have been different if you were under oath?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
Okay, I take it you do not want to answer that question. I walked into this hearing this morning concerned that you haven't demonstrated adequate leadership in your civilian roles. And this is a dangerous world we're living in here. And America cannot afford a Secretary of Defense who is unprepared for that mission. I'm going to leave with concerns about your transparency.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
You say you've had personal issues in your past. Yet when asked about those very issues, you blame an anonymous smear campaign, even when many of these claims are not anonymous. Which is it? Have you overcome personal issues?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
MR. CHAIRMAN, I WOULD LIKE TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE DISCUSSING SOME OF THE ISSUES OF READINESS AND DEI. THERE HAS BEEN A COMMENT THAT 5.9 MILLION MAN HOURS HAVE BEEN USED FOR DEI. GENERAL MAYA CLARIFIED THAT THAT IS AN ESTIMATE OUT OF MORE THAN TWO MILLION MAN HOURS THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INVESTED DURING THE TIME PERIOD.
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The Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing Watch Party
THIS IS PUBLISHED BY MEGAN MYERS, AND I WILL GET THE SUBMISSION.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
I mean, this was just a time where a lot of people were saying, hey, let's get on the DeSantis train and let's you know, let's forget about Trump and Trump. Trump isn't without Trump. That was a whole big thing. And, you know, Charlie easily could have walked in there and, you know, maybe life would have been a lot easier to simply go in there and say, well, you know, I mean, You know, Don Jr.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
said to do this and I was on the phone with the president. I said that and whatever, whatever, you know, but he didn't he didn't take the easy road. I don't think any of us took the easy road. And, you know, it was at a time where it was it was seemingly wide open. But you know what they say about the the wide gate and the narrow path. I think we all remember that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Well, you know, what can I say? I mean, I've got the Capitol right behind me over my shoulder. I'm here in Washington, D.C. And if I understand correctly, I am the only one of the four of us who was actually at Capitol Hill on January 6th four years ago today. Is that correct?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Before we move on to other topics, we know that there was that reporting over the weekend
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
regarding pardons for the j6ers looking at somewhere around a thousand i think that came out in bloomberg we know i think there's a 1000 plus defendants or uh convicted j6ers as it sits um you know do we think that that makes sense do we think that it makes sense to do all that day one of course that's what he campaigned on he really made this central to the campaign in general but um when it comes down to it do you think it's going to be more of this blanket idea or is it going to be more of like
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
you know, sort of a pick and choose kind of thing. Not pick and choose, go through, you know, excuse me, categorize, I said that wrong, you know, kind of put them into different buckets and say, OK, these will be day one. These will go to a review process. These will go, you know, in one section here and there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Yeah, and look, by the way, to your point, you know, it's been four years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
So I think we should talk about this thing Blake has been talking about. You know, we used to have this thing that we did on the show where it was, we called it Deep Web Reveals. And some of them included sort of like explaining things to Charlie Kirk. Because folks don't know this, that Charlie really does not use the Internet.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Like he kind of goes around, pokes around here and there, but it's just not something that he's ever done before.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
uh really in in his life you know like the jonathan height book that came out you know the anxious mind the anxious mind and the childhood it's like charlie's not on social media ever so so blake there was something that that came up on the internet on reddit that was going pretty viral that i thought would be interesting for us to explain here on thought crime
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Yeah, it's sort of getting back to our old roots on thought crime here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Oh, yeah. Go ahead.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Wait, wait, Blake, Blake, Blake, can we pause? Charlie, Charlie, can we just can I just get a check in with you right now? Right. As we're about the temperature check with you, Charlie, as we're like halfway through the explanation of the gaycation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
well i think by the way i'm kind of with you i think a lot of these are reddit trolls and yet if you look this up i think it's just like an erotica weird fantasy writer i don't think it's real there's a whole tv series called gaycation that you can look up and it's a it is a documentary series wait charlie charlie listen to this guess who no guess who hosts it it's on vice of course
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
I used a magical power called Brave Browser to learn about it. And it's hosted by Elliot Page. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Obviously, we know that's Ellen Page. And it's talking about – Ellen Page was the actress who went – In Juno.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
So he's just inheriting or just experiencing the gay case.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
It's a valid question. Even if this specific post is a troll, I'm telling you that there is – apparently this is like a thing. It's a total – they go in Japan.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
That's all I got. Also, at one point, one of the commenters suggests that she could take a straightcation and go up to, I think she says Manchester, and say whatever happens in Manchester stays in Manchester, and at which point he gets very upset and accuses her of abusing the gaycation. And not giving the gaycation the proper respect it deserves.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Totally abusing the concept of the gaycation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
But an aquarium is not interactive.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Well, I was in the Navy. But when you're underway, you know what they say.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Yeah, when you're in the Navy. We need Donald Trump to popularize that one next. As we close, let's do New Year's resolutions. We're running out of time. Okay. I was just going to say that he threw out that maybe it's literally – it's not a gaycation. He just wants an excuse to go cheat, a very elaborate excuse.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Well, so, I mean, it's also, I mean, I'm speaking from a personal perspective. I like the idea of resolutions, but I would argue that something that could be more powerful than a New Year's resolution or perhaps more effective could be a daily resolution. Because if you want to talk resolutions, sure, I'm for resolutions. I just don't think that the New Year's one is particularly effective.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
What I was saying before personally is that I've just – I don't know. Like to me, it's like an arbitrary, you know, the calendar is kind of arbitrary to begin with in the sense that, um, it, we know that it's a couple of years off from the, the birth of JC himself. So the numbers are like, well, we just sort of started the numbers at one point and, and there they are. Um,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
I'm not saying it's arbitrary in the sense of theologically, but that's a different conversation. It's like, I don't know. It's another day of the week to me. But that being said, a resolution is important, but I would reframe it as a daily resolution. Say, this is what I'm going to do today. This is what I'm going to do this month. This is what I'm going to do in this progression.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
In the military, we had different ranks. So this is what I'm going to do while I'm at this rank to get to the next rank. This is what I'm going to do in my personal life. et cetera, et cetera. But just I don't know, like the idea of like, oh, it's New Year's Eve and now it's 2024 and now it's 2025. It just to me personally, it never really had much resonance at all.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
And it's kind of like, you know, the cliche, you go to the gym on January 1st, which, you know, actually we did do, by the way. So we were in the gym January 1st, January 2nd. We did a couple of days at the gym. And then, you know, it's packed. But then go there a week later, go there a month later. And guess what? All those people are gone. Why?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Because they made New Year's resolutions and not daily resolutions.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Wait, wait, I just got to say, I got to say, so I have, because I'm me, I read everyone's January 6th testimony that was released publicly, and I definitely gave an extra effort to read anyone that I'm friends with. So one of my personal favorites was Charlie's January 6th testimony because he didn't answer any questions. He didn't even answer his birthday.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
read it no no jack go find the testimony and read it i i should know i should actually pull that up yeah let me see if i can we should have grabbed it before it's so funny because i remember this on the on the advice of counsel it went so viral it's so funny you refuse to even give your birthday they're like they're like sir if we could just confirm you're the actual charlie kirk and you're like no
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Thank you, Mr. Kirk.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Here it is. OK, no, wait. No, you did also. Hold on. There was there was one other piece. I live currently in Scott. So you did say Arizona. They said South Carolina, Arizona. All right. What highest level of education? Fifth Amendment. Are you the founder and executive director of Turning Point USA? Fifth Amendment. Are you found on Turning Point Action? Fifth Amendment.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Mr. Kirk, you could just say Fifth Amendment. Okay. Do you see the documents on the screen? Yes, I can. Okay. This is a subpoena, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. These are some text messages. Are you correct? Fifth Amendment. Okay.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Charlie's a good student.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
He understood the assignment.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
You know, if you look at the the date on it, May 24th, 2022. So, I mean, this was this was way before we this was before the midterms that even happened. This was before anyone had announced. Right. No, I think he had announced he was running by this point. I think he did that in February of 22, unless I'm wrong. Or no, excuse me. No, he hadn't announced yet. That was February 23.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
No, believe my last. And so, yeah, President Trump hadn't even announced he was running yet. This was like a pretty low point for MAGA. And here's Charlie just like, I'm going to go to bat. Like, nope, no, just like absolutely not. Boom, out of the park. Boom, out of the park.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
Because, Charlie, what they're trying to get you to do, and I know you know this, what they're trying to get you to do is throw people under the bus. They're saying, throw this person under the bus, throw that person under the bus. You know, we'll we'll let you back in. We'll let you go back to the old, you know, 2005 George W. Bush style Republican.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
If you just just throw these people under the bus, just give us what we want and and the pain will stop. And you didn't do it, man. You just straight up didn't do it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 68 — J6 Retrospective? New Year Resolutions? "Gaycations?"
And that was August, so... So Charlie's testimony was before I guess, at the beginning of the summer of 22. And then this was the towards the end of the summer of 22. So, yeah, Charlie, your testimony was even before the Mar-a-Lago raid, which was again.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
All right, folks, we're here. White smoke just went up. St. Peter's Square, St. Peter's Basilica, the dome designed and built by Michelangelo himself, the head of the Catholic Church, as the faithful await to find the name of the next vicar of Christ, the next descendant, successor of St. Peter, the next pope. Very soon.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
Yeah, Charlie, I can hear you guys fine. And actually, I've just stepped out from St. Peter's Square is directly behind me. That's the only place I could find any Wi-Fi connection. But yeah, I'm hearing you fine. I hope you guys can hear me fine. It is absolute pandemonium as Catholics are ecstatic, coming out, waiting.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
The white smoke went up just about 45 minutes ago, give or take, and the square is flooded again. we're going to see at least 60,000 people here. Barricades have come down, the Carbonari, the Italian police, the Vatican police, they're just letting people in. My brother Kevin is actually, they made a big mistake and they gave him a press pass. So Kevin is actually up on the roof
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
of the Vatican columns right now getting footage. He doesn't have signal, but we're going to have that footage as soon as possible. We're going to have that footage as soon as possible. And we are all waiting for the announcement of the next pope. We'll be walking out of that balcony very, very soon.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
You know, Charlie, one thing I'm definitely guilty of, and I suppose I'll have to bring up my next confession, is that I'm always kind of focused on the next mission. And, you know, it's interesting you ask me a question like that, because something my wife brings up often, she said, you really need to take time to step back and think about it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
And I'll just say, as a kid who grew up in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, John Paul II was the pope. But, you know, the pope really only comes to America once.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
very rarely a couple of times during a papacy usually like literally one or two when i say a couple so the thought that i would actually be in rome walking the streets of the holy city walking through uh saint peter square like this it's it's absolutely surreal it's something that uh You know, I don't know.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
I think of my mom, I guess, you know, trying to trying to get me out of bed early on a Sunday morning and saying, come on, we've got to get to mass. We've got to get dressed up. We have to be there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
Never thought in a million years that I'd be part of something like this, which which is absolute history and is really going to set the stage for the trajectory, not just for Catholics, but for Western civilization writ large.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
Well, oh, the name he'll take. Oh, gosh. You know, I'd love to see another Pope Pius. John Paul III, you know, that'd be kind of interesting, following in the footsteps of John Paul II. It's been a while since we've had a Linus. You know, I've always actually been a fan of Pope Linus, the second pope.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
He doesn't usually get as much filling, of course, as some of the others, but I've always been a real student of his papacy. We've even had a Pope Valentine, so we could have a Pope Valentine II, but... Yeah, I think personally, I'd love to see another Pope Pius XIII, I believe, would be the next one.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
And I think that would be just a way to continue the traditional line within the church, as opposed to a pope that would be going more in the vein of Francis, the Jesuit modernist line. And a lot of people are saying, Blake, that because the pope was chosen on this fourth ballot very early, so you've had not even, really not even just 24 hours of the conclave.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
From when it began until now, when he was Cardinal, was chosen on the fifth ballot. So also on day two, like we're seeing right now. So there's a lot of people saying, you know, is it possible that we did get a progressive continuation of Francis? Or is it possible that we found someone who was more of a bridge between the two states?
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
bridge between the progressives and the traditionalists, someone who's willing to actually balance out those two. Because while the modernists have made great progress in their eyes, it's really been the traditionalists that have seen a huge surge across Europe and North America with people flooding into the Latin Mass.
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The First American Pope
And of course, Pope Francis was not so keen to some elements of the Latin Mass. So this, of course, was in the vein of Pope Benedict, who also really only passed away a couple of years ago. So we've had quite a few popes in just the last five years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Oh, man. How many of you saw?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
So it's amazing to, as Charlie was speaking, when you look back, somebody might say, well, wow, this is amazing or this is terrible. How can this be going on? Well, let me give you a little bit of a quick American history lesson. If you would take tonight and go back 270 years ago, this would be normal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
If you've ever read or taken the time to look at the sermons of the colonial pastors and preachers, of that era. This is exactly what they talked about when it came to the issues of everyday life and the things that the culture was having to battle. And so the scriptures, as I read a moment ago, speaks truth to all issues.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
When somebody says, and we hear it all the time, that Christians shouldn't get involved in politics. Well, notice who's saying that. The people that are saying that are people who don't want any competition regarding their ideas. Someone's idea is going to win the day. And it most often happens when someone shows up to the fight, so to speak, right? If you don't engage, someone will.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And there is no real void because voids are always filled. So the woke ideology would say, you guys need to keep your mouth shut, sit down, don't vote. And do your little Christian thing on Sunday. Just stay out of the way. After all, it is politics, you know. And there's a wall of separation there. So we got it from here. Isn't it amazing? We all pay the same taxes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Yes, yes. But wait, can I do something? Charlie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
The Democrat, the Republican pays the taxes. But the Democrat says they're the only ones that are qualified to have a voice to the issue. Think about that. Well, what about Christians? Do Christians pay taxes? I bet you Christians pay taxes more than most people because they're more honest about it. Don't we have a voice? Our founding fathers said, yes, you do. And so it's always volatile.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And it's designed this way for every culture in every moment, just like tonight, to go and hit the issues face on, head on, because this is exactly what's happened in our culture today. where our kids are no longer learning the things that they need or they should be learning in universities and in high schools.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Instead, they're being indoctrinated with political ideologies that you're paying the professor. Instead of teaching your kid medicine, they're telling your kid about Trump or about this or about the other or conservatives. And people, if we don't speak up, this is going to continue. Thank God that people are speaking up and things are happening.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And then what do you think those meant? Was it like steal home or slide? If you saw it, do you know what we're talking about? Quite amazing. If you did not see that podcast, you've got to see it. But don't watch it at Gavin Newsom's site.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Young people have a voice now, and this voice, I'd love for you to tell us The I don't know how else to say it. The TikTok generation, how the vote, the recent vote was affected so much by this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
There you go. There you go. Okay, let's jump right into this. The scriptures tell us in 1 Peter that we are to be ready to always give an answer to those who ask of us a reason for the hope that we have, and we're to respond to them with respect and with courtesy. And God has anointed you to not only be a keen intellect, but to be a
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Yeah. Charlie, one thing, and I think you mentioned it without saying this word. The older you get, now I believe this is without Jesus. This should not be happening to an older person if you have Jesus. And that is fear.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
When you get older, the book of Proverbs warns us that we, as we get older, we tremble and we're fearful, the Proverbs tell us about, and Ecclesiastes as well, that we hear the cricket at night, and we're wondering what that was. When you get older, you don't want any changes. Keep it the same. And then to... Think about what Charlie just said.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
It's almost like, wait a minute, you're telling me that I paid into these institutions for all of these decades of my life, and you're telling me they're broken. That scares me, and I can't handle that. Look, you guys, we never, whatever you think about Donald Trump, you think about Donald Trump, but there's one thing we all have to agree on. We didn't even know that there was a swamp.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
We didn't even know that there was a deep state. None of us knew this until this guy comes along and says, there's a deep state. And we're going, what a nut. What is he talking about? And it was true. And all of this stuff, you know, it's bizarre, isn't it?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
If you were God and you're going to pick somebody to restore or return, watch this, to return a nation back to its origin or its roots, watch this. Have you read your Bibles? God used some of the strangest people to bring Israel back to its roots. I wouldn't have picked Samson, right? Listen, David, a murderer. Jehu, the crazy chariot driver with the wild hair, Jehu.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
But do you know what's amazing, you guys? If you know your scripture, and it's so great to know your scripture because you get to live every day viewing news, viewing everything through the lens of scripture. You don't have to be ruffled about anything. Here's what's fun about being a believer who knows their Bible at a time like this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
A warrior of faith that, Charlie, we've not seen in the American landscape in a long time. And this is a very special thing that God has given you. And so what I'd like to ask you to get things going first is to explain to us what you're saying.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
When you look around, I'm immediately reminded as we're all reading through the Old Testament right now at this time of the year through the scriptures, I'm reminded that how God used King Josiah is how God's using Donald Trump in this cabinet. See, what do you mean by that? Josiah comes along and says, we gotta get back to the Bible. Guess what Trump has said numerous times?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
We got to get back to the Bible. You know, he said that. I remember being in a room when he walked in. We were in Miami. He walks into a room. There's about 25 pastors in the room. Trump walks in and he says, he doesn't even say, hi, how you doing? Did you like your dinner? Trump walks in and says, all you have to do is give them the Bible. Trump said that. You say, well, I don't know.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
I don't like Trump. Forget about that. What he said was true. Yeah. Okay, and then he comes along, and like Josiah, Josiah says, we need to tear down these pagan worship centers. Did you know Josiah did that? He said, for Israel to get back to pleasing to God, we had to tear down these worship centers of paganism. Guess what those worship centers of paganism, guess what the altar was?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
The altar was the offering up of newborn children. In King Josiah's day, Josiah said, destroy all of that. Josiah said, I want all the men to be armed and we need to build the walls and border our kingdom from the enemy. Build walls. You guys, when you look at your Old Testament, you may not have been a friend of Josiah. He may have had hair or not. I don't know what the guy looked like.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
You may not have personally liked him, but his policies made you safer, right? And then surrounding nations of Israel and Judah, they were very, very hesitant to mess with Israel during the days of Josiah, the king. Listen, right now, nations are taking a second thought as to what they would do with the United States right now. And that's a good thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Ladies and gentlemen, when you have nations having to think about America again before they do any business or what they decide to do to Israel because America might step in, this is a good day. And this is called politics. Because it is the execution, at least in this republic, of the will of the people. You and I are sitting in the most unique experiment in the history of man.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
We live in a republic. Stop... listening to the word democracy. We do not live in a democracy. That's all you hear, but that's not what we live in. We live in a constitutional republic, which means for the first time in human history, for these last 250 years, it's we the people will decide what we will do with this nation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And when the Constitution is being upheld, as it is right now, and then you've got the other team saying, we've got to stop this. We've got to stop this. It's unconstitutional. They don't even know the Constitution. Something's going on right now with Pam Bondi. It's pretty amazing. You'll read about it soon.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
and maybe why you're seeing, why are you seeing and what are you seeing on the university campuses where you show up and tens of thousands of people gather? What is going on?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
It's purely, in fact, they dug back, they found, not only is this constitutional, but a law was made back in 2001, and we're going to do it, and people are going to freak out. They're going to freak out and say, you can't do that. Oh. That was made law in 2001 after 9-11, and it is very constitutional as well.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
But if you don't know what you have, then you don't know how to defend what you have in your hand. And you can easily lose it if you don't know it. So as believers, we need to vote. We need to shine the light. We need to get involved. Some of you need to run for office.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
So this cabinet that is in power right now, this cabinet that is being formed and still being assembled, by the way, in some degree, where for me it's not going to be settled until Mike Huckabee is passed through his confirmation hearings. But Charlie explained this. Governor Huckabee is getting hit really hard
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
because he's Trump's appointment as ambassador to Israel, and they've been dragging it out, and there's been protesting going on that, and I just, in fact, I was on Jenna Ellis' show this morning talking about this very thing. And this is who's against Governor Mike Huckabee being the ambassador of the United States to Israel. Are you ready? The Council for American Islamic Relations, CARE,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
They are furious that Trump wants Huckabee. Why? He's a born-again Bible-believing Christian. He's even an ordained pastor, and he loves Israel, and he's made something like 30 trips to Israel. He's obviously biased, and so care wants him to be removed from this position. The Muslim Brotherhood, they don't want Mike Huckabee to be the ambassador to Israel.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
I want you to think about this for a moment. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Yeah, it's 100% true. And you think about this. I want you to just think this through. This is not for shock value factor. I just honestly want you to take a deep breath and think this through for a second. Have you noticed, Charlie, that the person who first brings up the issue of racism... is almost always the racist.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Exactly, exactly. So, we heard... Five days before Barack Obama took office, I believe it was five days, or maybe it was five days before the election, he said, we are only five days away from fundamentally changing America, transforming America. Think about that for a moment. It had never been said before.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
If you love a country, you might run for office to make it better, and you might understand that you're running for an office in this country to help create a more perfect union. Isn't that supposed to be what our politicians are to strive for? That's what our founding fathers told us. But if you want to, can you imagine you meet a woman and you say, let's get married.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
But before we do, you need to fundamentally change. Do you think she would go through with that one? And yet... I'm going to say something that is tragically, I think, accurate. It doesn't feel very good. But, you know, you've got George Washington. You've got Lincoln. You've got Reagan. You've got Trump. Just all this by the numbers.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
But you know who was one of the most powerful presidents in all of American history? It's Barack Obama. Powerful in the negative. He normalized the entire LBGTQ... situation by putting up the gay flag in our embassies around the world.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And on the White House. He completely changed the color of the White House into rainbow. And then he normalized
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
um islam he spoke in harvard and behind him in the area that he was speaking you can go look it up it's still online they he demanded that they drape the back end of where he was speaking because he was actually speaking from a pulpit and behind was all of this incredible woodwork given glory to god and and in the lord jesus christ in scripture brock obama demanded that to be covered up why would he do that
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
See, you can't say anything about that because he's black. Well, that's not exactly true. He's half white. But we were so guilt-stricken that we had to, I know, I'm just saying, I didn't, but people had to atone. Watch this. They had to atone for themselves. So do you guys know that Barack Obama could not have been elected president without the white vote? Did you know that?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
He had to have the white vote. to win, but then as soon as he won, we were called racist. But if we were racist, then how, watch, I'm gonna shock you. If he was elected and you couldn't get elected without white votes, and then he and his party turn on us and call us racist, here's the funny, ironic thing about it. If you voted for Barack Obama or Kamala Harris because they're black or half black,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
You're a racist. You ever think of that? If you voted for somebody based on the color of their skin versus their qualifications, you're a racist. You call it and you rightfully do. Guilt, guilt, shame.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Wait, before he goes off of this, please, if you did not see J.D. Vance's speech in Europe to the who, to who was it?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
The Munich Security Conference.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Some people are saying it was the best speech given in the last 100 years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
One of the things that was mentioned recently in news is that this is not only the most competent cabinet in American history, but that they are profoundly unified in the vision. And I think that's a testimony to Trump's leadership. There's no gray area. They know what they're doing. They know what they're supposed to do. And Charlie and I were talking about this earlier today. Isn't God amazing?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And I love how God never asks us for our help or for our opinion. So Trump has his first four years, and he was able to do by the numbers. I'm saying that for people who don't like him. Forget about him. Go look at the numbers. Regarding the economy, regarding the military, regarding interest rates... The borders, you name it. The first four years... And he was able to set records.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And at the same time, he's fighting off all these impeachments and two FBI forensic investigations. And he had to deal with all of the half of the Rhino Republican Party, all of the Democrat Party, and all of the hatred and people spewing stuff. And America did great. And you made a lot of money during those four years. And then the Biden thing happens. And we're like, what's going on?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And I know my Bible, so I'm starting to get a little nervous thinking, okay, God, you're God, because you give, in the Bible, you say you give a nation the leaders that they deserve. So I looked around at the landscape, and I was hoping Trump was going to win the second time, but I had to ask myself, what do we deserve? As a nation, we deserved Kamala Harris.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Let's be honest. But here's my concern. But God is so good. So four years, great. Four years, not great. A guy runs again. Why would he run again? The guy's worth billions of dollars. He's not getting younger. He's got grandkids. He's got a lot at stake. Why run again? He already knows what it's like. He runs, obviously, he crushes it and dodges a bullet. No, he didn't.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
He actually got hit by the bullet.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
The bottom line is, you guys, the second term, you're living history right now. All of you, especially you young people, you ought to get excited. You got a president, and then he was not a president, and then it worked out so perfectly that it wouldn't have been so great if Trump would have had eight years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
It's actually better because God is God that it was the four and then the bad four and then now the beginning of the new four. Amen. And you guys need to sit up and take notice. God doesn't care about how you feel. God's going to execute his will. And the best thing for you to do is get behind what God wants to do.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And you can take a lot of comfort knowing God says, I establish the kings and I remove the kings.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
So let me put on the sarcastic hat. Well, that's just great, Charlie. Yes, our politics is better. And even our economy right now, it's going to hurt because we overspent really bad as a country. Please listen to this so you're not shocked later. I think the market was down today close to 400 points. Get used to that for a while. It's going to be rough for a while because we overspent.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
We were drinking all of this, you know, milkshake and all this stuff and having a great old time. But that's not how you can function. And so our economy's got to go through some healing processes. Don't worry about it. In fact, if you listen to some of these guys, you listen to JP Morgan and Stanley, and you listen to these other guys, and they're saying, Trump's doing exactly the right thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
But boy, hang on, because it's going to be amazing. In about 10 months, this thing should really, really, we should get through it. Just know this. But Charlie, so that's good news. And the borders shut down. And now there's no new wars starting. Like during Biden, there was a war every other day. Come on, let's be honest.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
You think Putin would have invaded Ukraine if Trump would have been in office? There would have been a million people still breathing air right now. That never would have happened. And then October 7th, 2023 with Israel, that never would have happened. So all that's great, Charlie. That's just great.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
But a political revival in the nation is completely different than a spiritual revival within the nation. So what needs to happen next, and this is where my concern is, you mentioned the next four years. I'm concerned regarding the midterms for this reason. I believe God is saying to the church, look, at least he's saying it to this pastor. I can't speak for any other except Greg Denham.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
God bless you, brother.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
God is saying to me, look, I gave you guys some freedom. I gave you guys some liberty. I held back by my mercy. And Trump's doing the right thing for the nation. But what are my pastors going to do with this freedom? What are my pastors going to do with the word of God? What are my pastors going to do with the cultural and social issues that we've become accustomed for a hundred years?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Shame on us, the church, for leaning on the government to take care of the homeless problem. Leaning on the government to take care of the social ills. The church should have never abandoned those positions. The church should be the greatest assist to a local government and to a state government. And I believe God is saying, what will the church do?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
What will the pastors do in America with this extension of grace? That's my greatest concern because I think if the pastors don't get up and wake up and speak up God may give us a midterm election result that Trump is powerless in his last two years. It could happen. Probably will. Unless the church wakes up.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Because if you think God is going to spare America just for political reasons, you don't know the God of the Bible, nor do you know American history. Okay? This is big stuff. I believe now the answer is... The pulpit in America. What will happen in the pulpit in America is the next point.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
What's amazing about what you just said, if people don't understand this, the scripture says in Proverbs 29 that when the wicked are in power, the people groan. It's a blanket of depression. It's a blanket of hopelessness. But that verse goes on to say, but when the righteous are in power, people rejoice. And here's the thing. People will say, oh my goodness, wait a minute.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
How could that possibly be applied to politics? Don't worry about it. We're not saying that Donald Trump is righteous or any other leader is righteous in the sense that you might be thinking. The word simply means that those who do the right thing... the response is people are lighthearted. The weight is lifted from them.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
It's for that reason. That for those of us who are old enough, there are many indicators right now with what Charlie just said that is very reminiscent of what we saw in the late 60s and early 70s when the Jesus revolution, the Jesus movement broke open upon America. The kids were disillusioned by the Timothy Leary LSD scene. Free sex, free drugs. live for whatever feels good.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And remember, parents in those days were so caught up with just giving their kid money. because they were out building fortunes, that the kids went out into this land of lust. And it was the kids who woke up. They said, wait a minute, I'm tired of getting stoned. I'm tired of all this sex. There's no meaning to my life whatsoever. And they went searching.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And they started showing up at a church in Costa Mesa with no bath, no shoes, filthy clothes,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
to of all things just to watch an old man sit on a stool and read the bible to them verse by verse that was chuck smith and there's all these kids and it was historic what happened and then that in my opinion eventually over the decades died out we're starting we see now what charlie just described we see the indicators of the we're on the cusp of what I call a revival in the church.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
When the church is revived, then there's an awakening. Listen, a believer has to be revived, revival. The world doesn't need a revival. There's nothing to revive in the world. The world needs an awakening. When the church is revived and acts like the church, then the lost are awakened. We're on the brink of that right now. So the challenge is, will you be ready now tonight to follow Jesus?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Not a church, not a person, not a movement, not a thing. Will you be willing tonight to follow Jesus? Will you let his word, the Bible, be the sovereign authority of your life? I tell you what, you say, well, that's too restrictive. It's the exact opposite. You're listening to the lies of the enemy. You want freedom? You want liberty? Hey, you want freedom and liberty even if you're in a cell?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Oh my goodness, I just reminded myself of something. I met a young man last Sunday who wrapped me up in his arms and gave me a big hug. And I noticed he had tattoos all up his neck. And he was just so joyous and handsome and vibrant. But I thought, I recognize these tattoos. And I said, what's with the tattoos? And he said, I was in federal prison. I was in a federal penitentiary.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And he said, they allowed us to listen to the radio. And he said, Pastor Jack, I got saved listening. And that's why I'm here today. I got saved listening to your broadcast. And I'm a brand new man. And he said, God has restored my life. He already knows what the underbelly of the world is. And he doesn't want it anymore. He wants Jesus. And listen, what about you? Here's the thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And you're watching right now, or even today we saw in the news, where Trump is moving now to defund Planned Parenthood. Babies will be saved.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
That the Jesus that you and I read about in scripture is the Jesus that loves you. And watch this. Charlie used a couple of words about will you be affirmed when you walk into a church or will you be challenged? I want to remind you, Jesus never affirmed anyone. Not a single person. In fact, when he had a golden moment to add numbers to his church of 12 guys... Isn't that amazing?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
God, when he was on earth, was a pastor, and he only had 12 people, and one of them was Satan. That's possessed. But did you know that Jesus practiced negative church growth tactics? The rich young ruler came to Jesus. Think about the church that would love to have a rich young ruler. And their congregation. This man comes to Jesus. He was the yuppie. You guys are young people.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
You don't know who that is. But this kid was young. He was rich. And he had power. And he said, Jesus, what do I need to do to enter the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus, it was so amazing. Because what Jesus said was quite remarkable. Because Jesus answered him in a way that wasn't exactly the answer to heaven. But it was the answer for that young man this way.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
So Jesus, what do I need to do to enter the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus says, go sell everything that you have and come and follow me. He goes down the list of things and I've kept all these laws and Jesus didn't contend that. He didn't fight that. Jesus said, go sell all that you have and come and follow me. Church family, listen, is that how you go to heaven?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Do you get to heaven by selling everything you have? No. You think Jesus knew that? What did Jesus do? Jesus hid him right in the idols. He hid him right in the idols, all of his idols. Jesus brought the idols to the forefront of the man's thinking to bring him to the point of decision. And the young man had to go like this. You are the things that I love and have.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And the Bible says he turned away and walked away. And the Bible says, and Jesus was sad. Listen, Jesus doesn't want to be sad about the decision you make. He wants you to make the right decision to have him be the Lord of your life. And Jesus, he doesn't affirm you and say, listen, all are welcome. Of course all are welcome.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
But God loves you so much that Jesus died on the cross to make sure that all are changed. Every single one of us are sinners. Listen. Listen. From homosexuality to adultery to robbing a bank or to sitting there looking like an angel but having filthy thoughts in your mind. Did you know all of those things are sin? And if you sit here tonight and say, well, I'm okay. Now you're really messed up.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Because you're full of pride. The worst of all. We're all guilty. Guilty. You would never go to a doctor and appreciate that doctor who would say to you, I just, you know what, you have cancer on your skin and it's looking pretty deep, probably into other areas of your body. But I affirm your condition. I just affirm your life as it is. Well, aren't you going to cut it out?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Oh, I would never do that. That's kind of radical. Listen, you want to be challenged. The doctor, I hope, when you go, he says, what's that thing on your face? You want your doctor to get out the chainsaw and get it out of there. Jesus says, look, this is your sin. And it has to be dealt with. And that's where you say to him, not me, not anybody else, to him, Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Like Isaiah said, the great Isaiah said, Lord, forgive me. I'm undone. I am unclean. Jesus can only forgive sinners. But you have to know that he's the savior and saviors save people. But if you don't think you need saving, you can't get saved because you don't have a savior. You have to know. Jesus said, I've come for those who are sick. A healthy person doesn't need a doctor.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
That was a slam on pride and arrogance. Don't be like that tonight. I understand. Listen, religion, people, abusing authority have taken advantage of us. And I think there's a special place in hell for people who have cloaked themselves in religion and manipulated and took advantage of people. Okay? God will deal with them. But listen, you're still drawing breath, and you need to know this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Jesus, if you would have been the only one born from Adam and Eve... Jesus Christ still would have come. Based on biblical Christianity, biblical scripture, if Adam and Eve only had one child, Christ still would have come to the cross for you. He died for the sins of the entire world, but whosoever would believe on him would not perish, but have everlasting life. Religion gets in the way of that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Religion will muck it all up and get you all bound up in legalism. You do this, you pay this, you tithe this much, and you do the other thing, and then you get baptized, and then we'll put this, and we'll put that, and then we'll give you, and then we'll tell you later if you've made it or not. That is sick. God hates it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
And Jesus says, you guys who do that, you travel land and sea to make a convert twice as much of a child of hell than you are yourselves. Know Jesus personally. He's the living God who loved you enough to come 2,000 years ago with you on his heart and mind. And he says, if you'll turn to me, I will never turn you away. This is the Lord. And this is the one whom.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
When in 1620, our pilgrim fathers left Europe. because of a brutal organized church, the Church of England. Our pilgrim fathers came, and before they stepped off in Plymouth, they crafted the Mayflower Compact. It ain't big. I have it hanging on my wall just behind the screen. It's only two paragraphs long.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
It's the original birth certificate of the United States that would become the United States. And the first sentence, it says that we have come here for the advancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Did you know that? Northern nation. And those guys fought real hard to keep it real simple. Don't complicate it. God loves you. He still loves you. And he wants you to trust in him.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Let's pray together. Father, we thank you, Lord, for light, for clarity. And Father, there's no way that truth can be spoken without a lie getting hit. And so, Lord, tonight, test our hearts. If in any way, shape, or form tonight we felt some sort of repulse or pushback of truth that was spoken, may you, Lord, in the midst of us, convict and show us that was me speaking to you tonight.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
That's what the reaction was that you had. I showed you tonight this is where I'm speaking to you. And friend, respond to him. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Thank you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Young People Are Leading a National Revival — Live with Pastor Jack Hibbs
Well, Charlie, welcome again. But I kind of assume a little bit that this might be SoCal home for you, huh?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Because he knows it's true. Holy Spirit's speaking to him.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Look, I don't... Okay, good.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
The gospel truth is going to be offensive.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
And for good reason, because I believe, without exaggeration, we have a national treasure in our midst. And I don't want to embarrass him, but please welcome Charlie Kirk, brother.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
That's right. Exactly right. You said something a second ago that made me think about, is this still true? Regarding Trump and the statistics, did he do poorly with the white suburban female still?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
He did better? But he did not. What's with them? What's the deal with that?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Too long of a service in the Bible. Too much Bible.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
What's it called?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Yeah. That's terrifying.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
It is so encouraging for you to send me. He will send me a text saying Eric and I are watching.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Gosh, is this going to be brutal to say? I'll probably get shot for this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
I have been...
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
In fact, I'm going to blame you for this. Do women who are in authority, there's exceptions.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
There's exceptions. But does it seem that women who are handed authority have a tendency to overplay the authority more than a man?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
And I'm not saying that to be mean, but men work this out in the fifth grade in the field at school beating each other.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
I love it. I love it. I do the same. How often? I think I get a hold of you quite often.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Yeah, I could see that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Well, listen, I've got to tell you, Lisa and I have been involved in marital counseling for over 36 years with people, and it's remarkable because not to destroy the man and not to destroy the woman, but you said something that people need to know about, people need to hear, especially young people, is that a woman who—I'll just use the term—samples the field. Yeah, fine.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
She thinks she's liberated. She thinks she can do what a guy does in that area. I'm not condoning the conduct, but she's so made different that what happens is it's an imprint upon her that it's so, so forever for her. And if she has five or ten... There's an imprint where the guy, and again, I'm not bashing guys, but a guy is more forgetful. He's not impressionable that way.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
He does great in a monogamous, long-term relationship is where he flourishes. And that's where the intimacy is meaningful to him. And that's actually what she needs, what she wants, and she doesn't know it. She thinks, I'm going to be like a guy. Well, you can't be like a guy because we don't take all that stuff seriously.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Jesus can meet the woman at the well still today.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Oh, my goodness, always. It's awesome. So, okay, let's just dive into this. Sorry, but I kind of almost maybe want to...
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
They fill the gap, huh?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Ask you about how did you get in contact or who, with what, Gavin Newsom? You know... That remarkable podcast.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Charlie, isn't it crazy that, again, this is going to sound so mean, but it's a podcast. There's nothing. I'm saying it. We can do this in a podcast. You can almost see people. If we have our TV muted before they identify who they are, you can see who a conservative is by the face and who the progressive is. Of course. They're miserable looking and weathered. Notice I said they.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
I didn't exactly say which group, but it's very obvious.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
But generally... That's so well politically played right there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
And you won't be happy until you establish your change, but the change never comes because what you're pursuing is a theory at best.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Is that the same reason why we've seen a tremendous shift among black men? In support of Trump. I'm blown away with the reporter on the street asking a guy that looks like maybe he's Bob Marley's son, saying, Trump's the guy. Trump's the guy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
They'll ignore it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Is there any healing? I don't know if that's the right word. Is there any healing or anything on the horizon for the Democrat Party to fix? Is there any? They're doubling down. They're going deeper into crazy land. And I know the answer to this question. I'm just saying, I want this on the podcast. Where is their answer? They don't want God.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
To double down on what you just said, I think it was in the news today that Trump just nailed, or he's going to nail... funding for Planned Parenthood. Praise the Lord. Which, think about it. Think about this. Today we say Planned Parenthood. We sterilize it all. Step back 4,000 years ago. We're talking about Moloch, Remphan, the deities, Baal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
We're talking about these shrines where they sacrificed babies. And here we are in the 21st century sacrificing babies. The architecture might have changed, but the demon spirits behind it have not gone anywhere.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
That's right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Because it's demonic. Of course it is, yes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Isn't it interesting because... you look at the funding of it, where Jesus says, you can either serve God or mammon. Mammon was the god of money. And it's remarkable how, you're right, they've got to preserve that institution of child sacrifice, and money is the means by which they do that. So you've got this dual-headed foundation
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
medusa monster that that they bow down and worship though the trick is for the medusa to not get them to understand what they're really doing correct so they they they actually believe i think some of them maybe actually believe this is women's rights it's liberty it's women's freedom it's liberation it's literally the opposite but they've been so lied to to think that
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
That this decision, killing the baby, doing my own thing, it's my body. They refuse to look at people who have already lived before them to find out this is a dead end. It ends measurably.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Yeah, absolutely insane. Where's the country going, Charlie?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Right now, I mean, we're a couple months into what seems like Trump's been in office now for like a couple hundred years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Do you think we're going to survive the midterms? Maybe, maybe not. I'm not...
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
That's true.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Yeah, I'm sure.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
You're not going to get that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
You know, it's weird. Of course, you don't live in California. Those who do watching this right now who live in California, this is kind of, it's kind of sad, but don't let it be sad. I actually think it's a good thing for us so far. So you got to remember in 2016, 2016, the nation celebrated the election of Donald Trump. Nothing changed in California. We didn't have a 2016. Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
If you think about it. And then we had a 2024 election. And something did change in California this time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
If people doubt, now most Californians who are engaged and Christians who are engaged, we're elated right now because we're looking at how the counties went. Charlie, I don't know if you know this or not, but ever since 2014, we've been gaining counties. And in 2024, we gained 10 more counties than in 2020. 2016. Ten more counties.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Yes. And so there's this red that's taking place, and we're just excited. There's some things that we'll talk about later off camera. Well, you know what's fun about this, Charlie? And I don't know how to say this rightly, and I'll say it gracefully. that our team, Real Impact, we've been doing this for, church started 36 years ago, we've been doing this for 30 years. Voter registration.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
You can register at our church to vote 52 weeks a year. It's always been this way here. Everybody at church, they know about propositions. They know about legislation. We've informed them. All of this kind of stuff, right? In California now, ballot collection, we perfected it to the point where it's become now the model. That said... You know what's amazing, Charlie?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Is that the culture has caught up to where we've been standing. All the while, we were mocked and ridiculed as being the political ministry, the political pastor. And I was never the political pastor. I just blew the trumpet from the wall saying, we shouldn't be funding abortion, so vote for this person or don't vote for that person. And I was quickly labeled as political.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
But in reality, after all these decades... Now people think we were prophetic. How'd you know? I didn't know anything. The Bible says, speak up for those who have no voice. The Bible says to do righteousness. And so here we are now, and I know people are going to think we're nuts, but I am thrilled to see what's about to happen in California.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Things have really started to shift and we're delighted about that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
It's been a blast. It's been a blast. Turning point. Tell us about it. I can't imagine anyone joining us right now, they don't know about it, but assume they don't. Tell them about it. Tell them where they can connect with you and all that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
We're excited about next Wednesday. A friend of ours is recuperating. And you, I think it's next Wednesday, right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Absolutely.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Yep, that's exactly right. So you're going to keep up the college campus stuff? You're going to keep that going?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Who invites you on there? How is it that you guys get onto any campus?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Which was awesome. I know this almost—and we can move on from him in a moment. No, no, I'm happy to chat about it. But— Let me play devil's advocate. You've heard this probably a thousand times. He upset his base, but push comes to shove. At the end of the day, there are always going to be Gavin Newsom fans, no matter what they say.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
That's right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
For those... There's people on the other end asking something like... What's Trump like in person?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
He's a listener, huh?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Isn't that sad that they can't separate the fact that they, I'm sorry I have to say this, it looks to me they're theoretically teaching the Bible on a Sunday, but no way do they expect their congregants to go do Christianity on Mondays. Because if they even expect that to happen, that's really disciple-making. Well, then they're going to get into the trenches and have to deal with life.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Wait a minute. When the pastor says amen and the people go back to their world, they're at the company in the trenches. That's right. And... I just, you know, woe to the pastor who's not equipping his flock in a day like this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Yeah, amazing. Wrapping this up, though I don't want to, we've got other things to go do.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
We've got a whole night to do. Am I exaggerating when I say that looking around the best I can over history, I've never seen a more competent cabinet in American history?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
So do you think it's his attempt to optically move toward the middle for whatever his political pursuits might be?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Right. And I don't think we would have had the cultural conversion of these students and these young people. Not even close. Because God used the immorality, the stupidity, the horrific nature that the Democrat Party is. Exposed it. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been exposed, maybe later down in life.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
But looking back, much of their fumbling had resulted in people who were somewhat independent to think, I'm not going that direction anymore, and I'm going to go with Trump. At least we know what he's like four years ago. Mm-hmm. And, no, isn't it amazing? We never would have humanly engineered, hey, let's do this. Run, win for four years, then lose, and then run again.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Well, Charlie, we love you. The nation loves you. Listen, I pray for you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
You know, you know, I pray for you all the time. And by the way, people, you don't know this, but Charlie. Charlie will send Bible verses and to think, well, yeah, he just sends that out because it's like a mass announcement to everybody. Let me tell you, Charlie will send me a Bible verse and I'll say, that's an awesome verse.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
And within three minutes, Charlie will say, I just read it this morning. It's just cranking up my life. So please pray for him that God keeps you where you're at. Let this go to your heart and not your head. You are public enemy number one to Satan's agenda. And so on behalf of a very, very grateful Christian community, we love you dearly. We pray for you. And yeah, just keep going because...
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Obviously, if God grants this nation time, the place in history that Charlie Kirk's name will appear will be incredibly epic. And that is something that you must make sure it's to your heart and not your head. Because we cannot have you fumble. Satan hates you. As much as God loves you, Charlie, Satan hates your guts. That's right. So we will continue to pray.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
People listen, we will keep Charlie going. You guys keep praying. Turning Point USA, follow everything that Charlie's involved in. His radio program, the streaming, the rallies, just over the top fantastic. And we can't say enough. He's a national treasure and he's also a treasure within the Church of Jesus. And so, Charlie, God bless you, brother. It's so much. We just love you so much.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
That's right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
everything. Take care. God bless.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
So true. More than ever. Would you agree? More than ever. Now, look, I'm old enough to be your dad. So for as long as I've been alive, I have never seen it so black and white, so divided, so crystal clear that it's no longer...
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
there for someone to say well you know i'm a democrat but i'm i'm definitely more like a jfk democrat no you're not you can't be correct you can't be because jfk if he were back today they'd throw him out well they were so radical now look at bobby kennedy i mean that's this is true bobby right tulsi bobby basically has the views of his father and his uncle
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so what in the world, Charlie, is going on? You're all over the U.S., campuses, your crowds. Where were you? Oh, my goodness, you were in Knoxville recently, which freaked me out because I was getting to you. Andrew, somebody sent me, Mikey, somebody sent me photos of you and the crowd, and I was just so elated to see this going on in Knoxville. Wow. What's happening?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
What in the world is going on with the young people in America right now?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Exactly right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Well, honestly, without boasting, I'm announcing that I wish other pastors would for this one reason. Why should we have all the blessings?
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
We're out of parking spots. God has blessed and overwhelming. We're creating ministries to reach the world more and more.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
And that's just what's blowing our minds. We had two board meetings in the last two days where we just had to sit down and almost just shout and be overwhelmed to the point of almost laughter where what in the world is going on where God is doing stuff. We need more pastors to take a stand and you said it at the beginning and you just said it again and that is this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
You cannot parse out the secular from the sacred. There's no such thing that exists. To God, it is all sacred, and he deals. He goes into the world of what man calls secular. And what he's doing right now is he's waking young people up to pursue truth. They may not be saying, I feel God in my life. That may not be happening that way, but they may be thinking, I've been lied to.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
I don't like the way this is going. Who can I trust these days? And they're in route. I think, Charlie, now I'm not a prophet. I'm just hoping. With what these young people are now questioning and pursuing, i.e., they're looking to you. They're coming in droves. They're gathering by the tens of thousands to hear what you have to say. It may be that the spiritual revival is about to happen.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
We have certainly seen, can I put it this way, a political revival in America.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
We're seeing this with Trump and his policies. Our hope is that there'll be a spiritual revival within the church because I'm a little bit concerned where men like Elon Musk get more persecution than the pastor.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
That's right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
And I think that's why Satan, the spiritual darkness of this world, goes after men. Exactly. You control a man. You castrate a man speaking, socially speaking, in other ways.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Sometimes literally. And then you remove the man that God designed to be a leader. Exactly. Then the culture falls apart.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Gospel of Truth is Going to Be Offensive." ft. Pastor Jack Hibbs
Well, everybody, welcome back to the Jack Hibbs Podcast. We are excited and thrilled to not only have a friend with us, but a man that needs no introduction, literally. God has been using this guy tremendously. I think we were talking a moment ago that ever since 2020, when we first met, we have just watched this young man's career explode.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Most churches have a board, a presbytery. There's a group of business people that are the decision makers, because in most churches, the pastors rotate three years, five years. And the authority structure there has seen many pastors come and go. They see this person as a temporary assignment.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And in most systems, if you're in a denominational system, you can get a promotion if you just don't cause disruption. So there's a real emphasis to come in and maintain the status quo, make the power brokers happy. So if you really want to change a local congregation, you've got to change the attitudes of the business people that control the church. So there's a board issue.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
The pastors ideally would be leaders of strong enough character and great enough faith that they would be change agents, and they would initiate that change. But that's not the reality on the ground in most places. There are some notable exceptions. I think many pastors go into the ministry because they have a sincere desire to help people.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
But they have to run the gauntlet between the formal education that's required, and it usually isn't helpful. Then they run into these administrative boards that are meat grinders that want to control the speech. And it's career suicide if you buck that system in most places. I serve an interdenominational, independent congregation, so I don't have an overlord.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
I mean, I have an administrative board that sets boundaries and limits and But I don't. So there was no advancement for me if I was a good boy in my little place.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
No, it's like we we landed on the island and we burned the boats. If we're going to have anything good, we had to make it for ourselves. And most people aren't in that circumstance. So typically, though, throughout the history of the church, the awakening, the renewal, the vibrancy does not come from with the institutional system.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Right now in our culture, the voices for truth, for the biblical worldview, are not rising mostly from the churches. They're coming from desks like yours. Brandon Tatum, Allie B. Stuckey, I mean, this band of merry people that you spend so much time with, they're speaking more truth into our culture right now than most of our pulpits.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And it's biblically-based stuff for the most part, but they're engaging culture with the truth that will bring a better future to the kids and the grandkids, and they're having to do it because the church has failed. And that really is closer to the model of how God's brought renewal to his people in every generation. Talk about that. Well, we know a bit of the story, I think, here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
The United States, the first great awakening.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Second Great Awakening precedes the Civil War. We had a moral change of heart that gave us the courage and the fortitude to do the hard work that the Civil War represented to change the trajectory of our nation. I think we're at another one of those pivot points. That's not new to me by any means. I totally agree. But I think it's one of those inflection points.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
I think what's happening in Washington today, as wonderful as it may be with Doge, I don't believe it's sustainable unless we have a heart change of equal and greater magnitude.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And I don't even think it takes a majority. There is an authority in truth. I know you need the majority in the election, so I don't want to diminish that at all. But the truth is there is an authority when the truth is told. One of the most recent examples to me that I thought really was when Trump said about Gaza, what we've done in Gaza for 70 years hasn't worked. We need a new plan.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Once he said it, it was so clear. It like it. unwound all the debates and all the arguments. It completely recalibrated what we're going to do in Gaza and I think in all of Israel proper. And that's a statement of truth. That's the assignment of people of faith. Stop waiting for the preachers to do it. Start doing it at your own kitchen table.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Do it in the bleachers when you're sitting watching your kids and your grandkids play ball. You go to the school board. You tell the truth. I think if those people who have had, we've been cowards. You know, we've been afraid of the pushback from the culture. We don't want to be canceled. Cancel culture is not new.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
By the time you get to Acts chapter 4 and 5, they're bringing in Jesus' closest friend saying, if you don't stop saying this, we're going to do to you what we did to him. And they said, you do what you need to do. We're not going to stop telling the truth. The 21st century edition of the church needs the same courage as the first century edition of the church did.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And I'm excited to be able in some way to be a small part of that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
I serve a congregation just outside of Nashville. I've been there for almost 40 years from a tent until today. So we've seen a lot of change there. But really, since COVID, I think we've been a lot more engaged with culture. You know, it feel like the curtain got pulled back when COVID happened in places that I had trusted for information before.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
That's a good question. I'd say it a little differently. I don't think there is meaningful change without repentance. I couldn't agree more. Repentance carries two meanings. The Hebrew word for repent is to physically change directions. It's an old language and it's very earthy. In Greek, it's a change of mind. So together, Greek's the New Testament language, Hebrew's the old.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Together, repentance is a change of how we think about something and then how we behave. And without repentance, there really is no significant change. You may get caught doing something and there's punishment. And so you think, well, I don't want to keep doing that for the moment, but I'm not going to stop doing it. I'm going to go right back to it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
So the biblical prescription for a better pathway is repentance. If you're engaged in some behavior that's self-destructive or some relational habit that's punishing a family, the reason we're invited to repentance is not to diminish our fun. It gives us a change of thought and a change of behavior that puts on a pathway towards a better outcome. And it's what's been missing in our culture.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
When the mainstream media screams for three years, Russian collusion, and it's proven to be completely false, there is no repentance. Nobody comes forward and says, hey, we were thinking the wrong thing and we said the wrong thing. They just move right along. So we try to live through our mistakes. And if you live through your mistakes, you carry the baggage of them.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
You're like Jacob Marley when he came to visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past. You're dragging all the chains of your sins along with you. And the beauty of the invitation of our faith is that if you will say, I was thinking wrong and that led me to behave in a wrong way, you can be free. You can have new thoughts and new behaviors and a new future.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
places that I thought were like rock solid, like the CDC, proved to be a little less so. And it really started me on this adventure of trying to engage our culture from a biblical worldview. And so your voice is such an important part of that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And I think that's what we're all striving for. We want to see our kids educated in a way that sets them up for the best possible future. We want to see some of the absurd things that have been dominating the public conversation for too long now to be turned back. It's not that we're angry at people. Those pathways don't work. We have to think differently. And it's not arbitrary.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
It's not just what Alan thinks or Charlie thinks or what we sit down at the desk and hammer out. There's an authority beyond ourselves that we have embraced. because we believe there is a God and that he is the creator of heaven and earth. And there's a lot I don't know, but there is some I do know, and I'm going to build my life plan based upon that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And from there, so repentance is such a powerful thing. If we could just say as a nation, we've been uniquely blessed. We've had more freedom and more liberty and more opportunity, and we have squandered it in the most selfish, absurd ways.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
But we would like to come back and accept the responsibilities of those freedoms and liberties so that the generations who follow us have even greater opportunities than we had. I think we'll see God move in a way that will change not only our communities, our nation, but it'll impact the world again in a positive way.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Well, I think we have the same challenge in the church that we've had in the political realm. We've had some really bad messages. You know, seeing Mr. Trump willing to say the clear truth, the plain truth is so disruptive because we've lost that ability. And we've got to bring that back into our churches. We've had a gospel of salvation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
that we've said to people for a long time now, if you'll repeat this sentence after me, you will have accomplished your God business. And perhaps we'll chase that with a dip in a pool and we'll call it baptism. And then here's your certificate.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And you're good to go.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
It is. It's a fire insurance.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And it's really a misrepresentation of the gospel. Because being healthy spiritually is like being healthy physically. I make a decision every time I pick up a fork. And I make a decision every day if I'm going to be healthy spiritually. And I think if we come back and say to the people, listen, there is no free ride, but there is a better way to make the journey. And let me show you that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Life creates enough stress points that if you'll talk to people truthfully when there's points and say there's a better way than keep doubling down on stupid, you can make life great again. I mean, that is the gospel message. And it's not about joining my church or where are you at Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
No, yes. I mean, the short answer is absolutely it's deeper than that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
I think the analogy would be Jesus described it as being born again. So there's a new birth. There's a spiritual birth when a person comes to faith. It's the greatest miracle that will ever touch a human life because it changes destiny for you. It moves you from one kingdom to another. It's in John 3. It is. But it's a point of initiation the same way physical birth is.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
I've been to the hospital to see hundreds of babies that were born. You look through the little glass wall and the little bassinets, and they're red and they're wrinkled. And the grandparents look through and go, they're geniuses. But we all understand how naive it would be to say, you know, that life has been fully expressed. It's going to take nourishment, care, training, growth, maturity.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
There's going to be difficulties and challenges and disappointments. Sickness, yeah. But everything is in front of that life. It's not a fait accompli.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And I think the mistake we've made is we've said to people, if you'll do this, if you'll walk to the front of the church with me and you'll say this prayer, which I believe in conversion, initiation, salvation, the new birth, whichever label is preferred. But that's the beginning point for a journey of growing up spiritually.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And we have been reluctant to say that to people because we have this microwave culture that we want everything in a drive-thru bag, supersized, and we want to move on to the next thing. And we don't really want God intruding on us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And so I think we've got to have the courage to come back and go, no, this, you know, the ground at the foot of the cross is level and it's free access, but it's not cheap. There's so many things we have where we've capitulated to the culture. People say to me frequently, you know, Jesus came to bring unity. That's not what he said. He said, I came to bring division. Turn father against son.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Yeah. And, you know, we've wanted so badly to be accepted by the culture that we've stopped confronting the culture with the truth. It's like a doctor that doesn't want to tell any of his patients bad news. We call that malpractice and we'll pull your license. And we have been operating as people of faith and we don't want to say to the culture around us, that's a destructive habit.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
You know, all of us have weaknesses and failures and struggles. And I mean, none of us have a perfect resume, myself included for certain. But that's why we are stories of redemption, and that's the hope that we hold out to the world, that no matter what broken place you find yourself, it's the ironic part of Mr. Trump.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
The backstory is probably worthwhile. I'll even go back further than that. My parents had a Bible study in their home for 12 years, and the church came out of that. But the real root of that was when I was eight years old, my mom gave birth to my youngest brother. I've got two brothers. We went to church every Sunday, but we weren't Christians. Sitting in church doesn't make you a Christian.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And I don't think there's any question God's using him to make an impact in our nation. No different than Cyrus. Or Samson. He's in the Hall of Faith in Hebrews. Samson's my interesting character because he had this crazy strength that nobody could explain.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And he had this moral character that maybe you didn't want your kids always to completely duplicate, but God used him in a powerful way to bring freedom to people. And we're watching that, and I'm most grateful for it. I don't have any criticism for that. So the message to people is we're not asking you to submit to a set of rules.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
We're asking you to choose a way of life that will bring a hope and a vitality to you and your future that you can't find any other way.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And when she was in the hospital, the doctors diagnosed her with cancer and said she had six months to live. And they wanted to do some pretty dramatic surgery. So my parents scheduled a flight to Mayo Clinic. In Rochester, Minnesota? Yep. And on the flight, my mom said a prayer. They were the youth leaders, actually, in the Methodist church at the time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
I think the church has failed men.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
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The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And the pastor came to visit her, and he didn't believe in heaven or hell. The problems we have in the churches today are not new. They've been there for a long time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
So she's flying to Mayo Clinic, and she said a prayer that if there was a God, he would let her know the truth before she died so she could tell her sons to be Jewish or Baptist or Catholic, whatever that truth was. She didn't have any imagination that God could heal. And they did a four-day workup at Mayo, and the doctor came in her room late at night and said, Mrs. Jackson, you had cancer.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
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The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
We have pictures of it, but we've looked for four days. We can't find it. Go home and raise your babies. So my mom lived to be 88. The doctors missed that by 50-plus years. That's not six months. That started our journey into Christianity. And so my dad brought us to Middle Tennessee for the Tennessee Walking Horses and started a vet practice, and they opened their home for a Bible study.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
When we moved to Middle Tennessee, the schools were still segregated. It was a very different place than it is today. They opened their home. It looked like the Isle of the Misfit toys. People from different nations, different colors. Most of their lives had some pretty gaping holes. That was the genesis of the church. For two or three decades, I just put my head down and served people.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And then I think we have to understand his redemptive work, that it was something that was done on our behalf, that we don't earn it, deserve it, qualify for it. It's not merit-based. It's a gift. And then my life is what I'm willing to exchange. I'm willing to use my life as an expression of gratitude for that amazing gift.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Well, we just published a book on angels, demons, and you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Angels, demons, you. And the most important part of that title is the and you part. If we talked about diet and exercise, that's a safe discussion. But if we talked about diet, exercise, and you, now it gets really personal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
It's the and you part. And I think my objective in the book was to help people imagine more fully that there is a spiritual dimension to our lives, that we are dimensional beings. We have five senses. My academic career started in the basic sciences. My dad was a veterinarian. I'm good with science. But our five senses are how we interact with our material world.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
You're incredibly naive if you don't understand there are things that exist beyond the scope of your five senses. There are things I can't see that are real. The coronavirus. There are levels of sound that my human equipment can't hear. We all understand that. Well, in the same way that you have a body with those physical senses, you are a spirit and your spirit is eternal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And the theory of the book, the thesis of the book and Scripture, is that the spiritual world engages us on a daily basis. So rather than be frightened about it, why don't we learn about it? I think angels engage with us on a very regular basis. The Bible talks about entertaining angels and not knowing it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
I didn't like television ministries for a lot of apparent reasons that we could probably all talk about. And I certainly didn't want to be one of them. And I understood that the assignment was directed that way. So I started to change some of my behaviors and patterns. And we started getting involved with some things in the media.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
I can point to a number of places in my life where there were outcomes that I can't explain other than some force other than a human being was helping me get to an outcome. Absolutely. And I don't want to deny that. I don't want to be weird. If you're pulling onto the interstate, don't pray. Look, you know, Christians get weird, and I'm not interested in weird Christianity.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
On the other hand, I want to acknowledge that spiritual forces exist. And I don't want to go into places, you know, I have friends, do you believe in praying for the sick or doctors? Yes. Yes. I'll go to the doctor if I need medical attention, but I'm going to pray before I go because I want God to be engaged in the outcome. God designed our bodies to heal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
If I cut my finger, I can put a Band-Aid on it. If my mom's available, she'll kiss it. And in two or three days, I'm good to go. If the screen on my iPhone breaks, I can't put it in a dark room, and it's going to heal. God built us to heal. We have denied the spiritual reality for so long, which is a relatively new experience in human civilization.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Absolutely. And I think we've got to come back to that. Again, not to be weird or strange. Don't stop putting gas in your car or plugging in your Tesla, whatever you prefer. But to deny spiritual reality, good and evil, there are some things we watch in the world that I don't believe can be understood without acknowledging that evil exists.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
I went to the Israeli embassy in Washington and watched the surveillance tapes from October the 7th.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
If you watch that and you don't believe in evil, I don't know how to have a conversation with you. You can't explain that about human hatred.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
You know, mutilating our teenagers for profit. Correct. I don't know how to describe that other than evil. There are things that human beings have done to one another that force us to acknowledge there are other powers involved with us than just the force of our will or social constructs.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And so Angels, Demons, and You is an important manual for helping us navigate a season where there's so much discontinuity. We are trying to engineer a new future that we think will be better for our children and our grandchildren. And we've got to bring a spiritual voice based upon the authority of Scripture back into that A political solution alone will not bring us to the best place.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
But at the end of the day, it's a heart to see people engage with God. God changes lives. You know, when I grew up in church, ministers wore long black robes and vestments. I never remember seeing a pastor smile. And I thought, you know, I can't do that. I was on my way to medical school. Because I thought I couldn't do that. But I realized that faith was the most important thing in my life.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
I'll give you the shorthand. The book of Romans says without the Jewish people, we have no Bible, we have no prophets, we have no Savior, we have no story. So we are deeply indebted to the Jewish people and that God hasn't rejected them, which is a common theme among some segments of the evangelical community. So I think we all owe a tremendous debt to the Jewish people.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
They have suffered horribly. Anti-Semitism, through history, has been persistent and inexplicable. I don't think you can understand the history of the Jewish people without understanding angels, demons, and you, because there's been an irrational hatred of them. 15th century Spanish Inquisition, the Russian pogroms. I mean, we can walk it back as far as we want to go.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
We see today one of the greatest shocks to me has been the anti-Semitism on American campuses. Universities that I used to call elite, I refuse to call them that any longer. You can't harbor that kind of hatred and refuse to address it and ask me to consider you to be elite anything. They're propaganda institutions. They're not elite training institutions any longer.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
But I think the Jewish people have been treated very poorly. And from the Christian community especially, we stand with them. The New Testament says that we have been grafted in, that the status we have with God comes through the Jewish people. It's not apart from them. My Lord and King is an observant Jewish rabbi.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
You know, heaven's going to be a really awkward place if you hate the Jews. Because when you go see the boss, there is an observant Jewish rabbi sitting on the throne. So I would make peace with that sooner than later.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Yeah, that's a good question. We'll come back and do that in more detail. But I believe God gave to Abraham a piece of territory. The Jewish people were given a promised land. The non-Jewish believers in the world were given the land of God's promises. We don't have a territorial assignment, but we have the fullness of the covenants.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
So that piece of territory, I believe, belongs to the descendants of Abraham. There was a Jewish king on the throne in Jerusalem 1,500 years before Muhammad was born. So if we're going to talk about origins, the Jewish people are going to win that discussion. I believe they have a right to that land. I don't believe everything they do is right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
I think they're as divided and as polarized as the American political landscape is. So it's not that I look at them. When you land at the airport in Ben-Gurion Airport, you don't hear the flutter of angels' wings. Tel Aviv is the gay capital of Europe, and they advertise it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
So they have all the same moral challenges and struggles that we have. Having said that, God has a covenant with them and a commitment to them. And so I think it's in the best interest of our nation and every individual listening to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Not the absence of conflict, but peace between the inhabitants of the land and the God who has given them that piece of territory.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And we have a mural on the end of our building with a picture of Jerusalem that says, Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem. And I think it's an important part of our assignment.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Thanks, Charlie. Keep up the good work.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And so we just pushed all the chips in the middle of the table and said, let's go. And we're still playing that hand out today.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
On a typical weekend, there's about 15,000. Wow. And not counting the millions you reach. No, that's not the broadcast side. But the community's grown. Middle Tennessee's grown. It didn't happen in a vacuum, so that would be misleading. And to be honest, for the first 10 years, nothing changed too much. We had about 200 people, and it stayed that way. I had to learn.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
I thought church was a mystery. I thought God was a mystery. And when I came to understand that spiritual change is as intentional as making a medical diagnosis or putting together an effective political campaign, it's really not a mystery. It's hard work, and it's intentionality, and it's incremental, and it's a choice you make every day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And when I understood that, then I began to understand how to help people. And the more that happened, the more people show up.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Well, the label I usually use is a generic Christian. You don't declare yourself Buddhist or Muslim or agnostic. And in our culture, Christianity is still the predominant, probably, spiritual voice. So people just self-identify as Christian. But being a Christ follower is an intentional choice to yield the authority of your life to Jesus of Nazareth.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
It's not about joining a church or a denomination or a style of worship or even a day of the week when you get together or a building you sit in. It's a decision about a person, a historical figure. and your relationship with him is what defines you as a Christ follower. If Jesus isn't Lord of your life, it doesn't matter to me where you sit on Sunday morning.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And I think there's a great deal of misunderstanding around that, and I think the reason our nation is in such trouble. For several election cycles, I would hear people talk about the sleeping giant of the church if it woke up. And I'm not really certain that sleeping giant lives there. You know, I've read enough of Dr. Barna's statistics. Yep. Enough to make you a little depressed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And I think we have to understand that it's informed our heritage. But that is the nature of faith. It's the story of the Bible. God does something remarkable for a group of people and they enjoy the opportunities that brings. And then they wander into the weeds. and they get in trouble, and then they cry out for help, and God raises up a voice, and he delivers them.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
That pattern is repeated throughout the story of Scripture, both Hebrew Bible and New Testament. And I think we're the 21st century edition of that. We just about lost the freedoms and liberties that generations before us sacrificed for because we lost our worldview. We lost our grounding. We got so confused, we were reluctant to say that there's only two biological sexes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And I mean, that's like Bible 101A. That's not political. That's like fundamental Christian stuff. And so we've got to bring life back into that biblical worldview or the political changes that we're seeing happen in Washington are not sustainable. If we don't have heart change amongst the people, this will be a very temporary blip on the radar.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
If we have one of those seasons where there's a significant realignment along values and character and family, then I think what we're watching could actually bring wonderful things for our children and our grandchildren.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Well, let's talk about church with a capital C. So we're not talking about a particular congregation or even a particular denomination. We're talking about all those people that would stand under that umbrella. And there's two or three things that I think really define your status in that place. And they aren't the traditional things.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Our theology schools, most of our theology schools, we lost them long ago. Totally. So if you accept the authority of Scripture as being our rule of faith and practice, and you believe in the uniqueness of Jesus, the incarnation, that he was the incarnate Son of God, that he died on a cross, that he was raised to life again, That's the redemptive work of Jesus.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
If you accept those things, we'll call it Christianity, big C church. If you don't accept those things, I think we have to, it isn't popular, but I think we have to have a different set of language. It's a false church. You know, they may have ecclesiastical language. They may have ecclesiastical architecture. They may use religious words. Good music. They may have good music.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
But absent the authority of Scripture and absent the uniqueness of Jesus, it doesn't meet the biblical standards for church. And that's an awkward place because we have major expressions now of mainline American Christianity evangelicalism that are denying the authority of Scripture.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Well, I live in a small town outside of Nashville, Tennessee, which is about as close to the buckle of the Bible Belt as you can get. Right there. And we have many of the historically leading churches in the community where I serve who have rejected biblical authority. They'll endorse same-sex marriage.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
There's been a tremendous amount of cultural—you know better than I do how much cultural pressure there has been to go along.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
You would think that, but the reality on the ground is we have. And I've been in more than 20 cities in the last 12 months, 18 months, doing pastor's conferences. And when I go in with the message that the church has to engage our culture with biblical authority, and the truth of this, not in an angry way, Not in a belligerent way or condescending way. None of those things.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
The audiences are about 50-50, about half accept it and half get mad. Sometimes they follow me to the car and say, you offended all of us. Pastors will say that. Pastors will say that because they've been educated that way. I think the challenge we have in education is our teachers have been educated in universities where they have a woke ideology far too often.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Many of our pastors have been educated in systems where they don't respect biblical authority. I'll give you a fun example. CRT, critical thinking, started in biblical studies long before it made it into the racial arena. And so they started breaking the Bible apart, trying to deconstruct it, to take away its authority. One of the books that got so much focus was the book of Isaiah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And the scholars in the most celebrated universities, Vanderbilt, said there was no Isaiah. You know, there was a school of Isaiah. So there was three or four or five or six or ten Isaiahs. And the book of Isaiah is a compilation of all these Isaiahs. And you can't trust it. It's not authoritative.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
The oldest copy we had of the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, was from about 1,000 A.D., hand-copied by scribes. About 1,000.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Yes. Really? This has been leading scholarship. And so they said that that copy was corrupted because it was been hand copied and Christians made insertions into it and yada, yada, yada. So when they found the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1948. Well, that's I was going to ask what year this was because 48 changed everything.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
But it still feels—they didn't back up. They're just like the Russian collusion media. For sure.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
So they found this copy of the scroll of Isaiah intact. It was more than 1,000 years older than the oldest copy we had. And it was almost letter for letter verbatim to the one we had. So it blew up 100 years of scholarship, and nobody apologized. They just doubled down on the stupidity. And so I think it's much easier to believe there is a God than believe there's not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And to invite people into that arena is the assignment of the church. God doesn't want to take something away from you. God doesn't need anything I have. I heard Elon Musk do an interview at CPAC a week ago. He's getting closer to Christianity. I could say that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
And so they said to him, people say you're stealing their Social Security numbers and they're afraid you're going to get into their accounts. And he dropped his head for a minute and thought. He looked up and he said, I think I could buy some pretty good things without your money. And I feel that way about God. I don't think he needs the money. No, I don't think he needs my check.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
You know, I don't have anything that God needs. The invitation is all one sided. The creator of heaven and earth has invited me into a relationship. And that's the greatest honor of my life. So being a Christ follower isn't a diminishment. So I don't think of it in terms of a set of rules or regulations. It's like I have the designer's manual for how to flourish in my journey through time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
Why wouldn't I pay attention to that?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
It's just alanjackson.com.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stop Waiting for Preachers to Speak the Truth — Demand It: My Interview with Pastor Allen Jackson
That's a really good question. And I think all three of those contribute. People frequently say to me, my pastor won't talk about current events. And I say, well, I don't really think the pastor. I wish the pastors all had the courage to say I could lose my job and they'll do the right thing. But I don't think that's a realistic expectation as a general rule.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And I mean, Jesus was never intimidated or threatened or frightened. He stood with Pilate, the most powerful political figure in Israel at the time. And Pilate's getting a little agitated with Jesus' lack of cooperation. And he said, do you know who I am? I have the authority to crucify you or turn you loose.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And Jesus said, the living Bible, actually, unless my dad gave it to you, you don't have any authority. Well, the church needs to live with an awareness of the authority that's been entrusted to us. And it doesn't mean we're in control. We're not. We're servants of the king. But we serve under the authority of that kingdom, and we're supposed to reflect that authority.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And that's more than sermons and church services.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Well, the information we have is limited, in my opinion. I'm not one that likes to extrapolate very far beyond the plain reading of the text. And I don't believe the Bible really gives us the ultimate origin of demons. My opinion, and I'll put that this way. My opinion, I don't think demons are the fallen angels. There's a variety of opinion on that. You could disagree with me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
We could both go to heaven. I'm good with that. It's okay. I don't think demons behave like angels. You know, angels have a place of authority. They're a part of a structured thing. The demons exist is very clear. A prominent idea, certainly not unique to me, is that the demons would represent perhaps the disembodied spirits of a pre-Adamic race. Something happened before Genesis 1-2.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
That's opinion. That's not hard scripture. So don't... But what is very clear in Scripture is that Jesus believed in demons. Mark chapter 1, first chapter, he's in the synagogue in Capernaum, and there's a man there who's demonized. The Greek is very helpful here. Not demon possessed. It says literally he's demonized. He's influenced by a demon. We get caught up in these debates about words.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And he disrupts the synagogue service. Jesus tells the demon to leave the man. The demon says, I know who you are. Nobody else knows yet. So that unclean spirit, which is a really good translation for that word demon, that unclean spirit has more spiritual awareness than the rabbi or any of the senior leaders in that gathering of people of faith.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Jesus renounces the demon, tells us to leave, and the man gets to stay in the synagogue. Current practice, and I mean, I've spent my life in church, if somebody disrupts us, we remove the person And leave the demons in the people. Because we have so little comfort with the whole notion of an unclean spirit. So what we do know is demons torment.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
They tend to inhabit living things or torment living things. And I don't like to focus on that. I much prefer to focus on what the Holy Spirit is doing and the purposes of God than to spend my time focused on the unclean, the dark. But I think any aspect, short answer, any aspect of your carnal nature that you give license to, you can get unclean spiritual support for.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
If you choose to give yourself the luxury of giving expression to your anger and you don't discipline yourself, I think you can come to a place where you'll get spiritual support that makes it hard for you to control. I've sat with hundreds of people who said, you know, I know whatever this behavior is is destroying me, but I cannot stop.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
The easy way to tell between a clean and an unclean spirit, a holy and an unholy spirit, the Holy Spirit will never dominate you, manipulate you, or control you. I've never heard anybody say, you know, I can't stop being holy. I don't want to be holy. I can't stop being holy. It's overwhelming me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
But I've sat with hundreds of people that describe some self-destructive behavior that they feel powerless to stop until they meet the authority of Jesus. And then they can be free. It's not a power encounter. It's a truth encounter. You don't have to shout and scream.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I think your description is the generally accepted reading of the passage.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
For theologians, you'll have 11 opinions. But I think that is the generally accepted, and I don't disagree with that. To me, what's intriguing with that is the insight he gives us into the character of God. He creates beings, and he gives them freedom. Again, it's the difference between the Holy Spirit and an unholy spirit. Even the angels, God gave them freedom.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And there's this mistaken people who stand outside the kingdom of God. and have not given Jesus that preeminent place in their life, they think he's going to take something away from them, diminish their life. He'll take away pleasure or joy or happiness or something. And it's a perversion of the gospel. It's like the perversion of the truth that's so prevalent in our culture right now.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
The exact opposite is true. The more you will yield to the lordship of Jesus, the more freedom, the more joy, the more happiness, the more pleasure, the more liberty that will come to your life. Even the angels, God gave that privilege. It's an intriguing insight to me into the character of this omnipotent, omniscient God that we worship.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I have nothing he needs, but he has made a way for me to participate in his eternal kingdom. Yes is my answer. Absolutely. You know, people say to me, I don't want to go too far. I do. I do. I live in Middle Tennessee. The only thing that stays in the middle of the road long term is a possum. It's roadkill. I'm not looking for the middle of the road.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I want to find the edge, build a ramp, and hit it full speed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Well, I've spent my life in the church. I love the church. So I have some opinions. You know, I think the church has moved so far away from the authority of Scripture in my lifetime. My lifetime coincides with perhaps the most precipitous decline of Christian influence in the history of the church. So that's unsettling to me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And, you know, I think when we push Scripture aside, what we've watched in modern education amongst our elementary and high school children started in theological education 100 years ago. You know, critical theory dominates most of the elite theological schools today. And it takes all the authority out of Scripture. We sit in judgment of Scripture. It doesn't sit in judgment of us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And so if you want to get an elite education theologically and you go to these institutions so that you get the best paying jobs in the more traditional church settings, our most influential and celebrated leaders have been trained that there is no authority in the Scripture. So we become systems for social causes. We become civic clubs that have a little ecclesiastical language.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And that's not the church. The church is an expression of the power of God in the language of Corinthians through a bunch of broken people. We weren't very noble, it says. God recruited a bunch of cracked pots from the wrong side of the tracks so that anybody who saw the outcome would know it had to be the power of God.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Now, what gives me great hope is that since 2020, God has begun a sifting and a shaking and a realigning, and there's new voices coming forward. There's so much truth being spoken in our culture right now, but predominantly it's not coming from pulpits. And it's coming from a younger generation of people with the courage to say there is good and evil, right and wrong.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
They're giving an expression to a biblical worldview. It very much looks like an awakening, or at least the embers of an awakening that And I have grieved a bit that it didn't come from the places I would have preferred. But that's not mine to call. I just see it happening, and I'm going to go get in line and help. And, you know, a building in religious language does not make us the church.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Honoring Jesus of Nazareth as Christ, Lord, and King does. And that's what you're watching for. That's where you want to engage. That's where you want to give your time and your money and your attention and your efforts. That's where you want your children to be because that's where there is life and power. That's what will bring another generation liberty and freedom for all.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
You know, to the degree that our founding documents and founders had ideas that extended liberty for a few generations, it's only a reflection of the degree to which they cooperated with principles that are embedded in Scripture. And when the church stopped talking about that, when we no longer had the courage, it hasn't been very long. I read it coming on the plane today.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
It is an honor to be here, Charlie. Thank you. What an amazing legacy, this place, and the impact you have made and you are making. I love that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I read something to Kathy, my wife. It was a quote from Dr. King. He said, the church is an assignment to be the conscience of the culture. And when we lose that, we forfeit much of our role. The moral authority for the civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s was the word of God. It was the authority of Scripture that thundered against the sin of our nation. That's very different than DEI.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
DEI is not thundering with the authority of Scripture. It's thundering with demonic manipulation of human beings that judges us by our appearance and not our character. We used to teach our children in school from the Bible.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Congress ordered a printing of the Bible so that as the colonies were breaking away from England so that there would be enough copies of scripture in our schools for the training of our children. Now we're teaching them social emotional learning and that's every bit as demonic as DEI.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
We've taken away discipline and an idea of right and wrong and we've turned our schools into a large therapy session. Now I'm meddling. You asked me a question about the church, and I'm wondering. No, you're doing great.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
No, I'm in Nashville. So... It's an authentic hillbilly you hear in my voice. I studied at Gordon-Conwell for a while in Boston. My nickname was Gomer. So yeah, I've got a little bit of an accent.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Well, I want to disagree with you on one point, and it's a semantic thing. I don't believe the church is failing because Jesus is the head of the church, and the church is triumphant. I think the institutional church... No, that's fair. The institutional church in the way we've known it. The mechanical church.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Yeah, I think that there's definitely, I think there's a tremendous decrease in its influence. I think that's good. If they've rejected the authority of Scripture and the uniqueness of Jesus, I want their influence to diminish.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Yeah. That's an easy argument. I think the order of march is really important, and it's not complicated. Jesus, he entered the kingdom of God. He didn't say you needed to be sensitive. He said you needed to be born again. And it confused the man who'd come to see him. It's in John 3. There was a confusing discussion. And he was a scholar. And he said, I'm old. I don't understand the logistics.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And Jesus was a bit chagrined by that. He said, how can you, a leader of my people, not understand that there has to be a birth of the Spirit? And only the power of God can do that. But if we're willing to acknowledge Jesus of Nazareth as Christ, as the Messiah, and then you're willing to accept him as Lord of your life, There's something supernatural that happens to you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
There's a spiritual birth that takes place in you. The Bible describes it as becoming a new creation. And that message has lived in American evangelicalism pretty well. But we haven't taken much beyond that and talked about now the necessity of growing up in our faith, of running our race as if we want to win the prize. I've been invited to the hospital hundreds of times to see new arrivals,
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And there's grandparents and pictures and all this stuff. But nobody imagined the story's done. It's just the promise of a life to be led well. So your entry into the kingdom of God comes with that simple thing. It's not controlled by a church, a pastor, a priest, a denomination. You can do that by yourself.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
You can do it in the grocery store, in the produce section, or in the parking lot of the Dream Center, or at the altar of a church. It's the beginning point for every life. And we have to go with that message. There will be good people in hell. There will be kind people and generous people and pretty people. There will be people who sit in churches.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I do. I serve a congregation. It's World Outreach Church. It's actually in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Come on. I have been there 40 years. I was seven years old when I came. You can do the math, okay? So I was a prodigy. No, the Lord's been very good. We started with a tent. My parents had a Bible study in their home for a dozen years. We went to church every week and we weren't Christian.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
All of those things, it's our relationship with Jesus that determines our destiny and opens our lives to that new birth. And we have to care enough about our families and our friends and our neighbors and the people that we work with to share with them the good news. There's a God and you can know him. And he will change your life. He doesn't need anything from you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And if you will take that simple step of faith, it opens an entirely new realm of existence to you. And the church has lost our passion for that. And we think we can fix our problems with an election. or a dynamic leader, or more seats in Congress.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And I'm not against any of those things, but if those things are to happen, they will be because the church is awakened and we took our values back into the marketplace.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Well, I think my message is if you've chosen to this point to be one of Satan's marionettes, there's a better way to live your life. And I continue to extend that invitation. So being angry and resentful and bitter isn't our goal. Our goal is to extend an invitation. We have good news, you know, that freedom is available to any human being.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And I think if the church would embrace that with a greater enthusiasm, we almost apologize for it now. You know, we apologize that we believe in Jesus or we apologize that we believe in right or wrong or good or evil. And I think the world is waiting for the church with the strength to tell the truth.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Well, I think the simplest answer to that is there's a structure and a hierarchy in God's kingdom. If we look at creation, it's very clear that we serve a God of great order and precision. And I don't believe his kingdom is random. And so there is a structure to the angels and the authority that they have. So an archangel is an angel with more authority than another angel.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
You know, you can do that. Then when I was seven, the doctors told my mom she had six months to live. And the pastor that came to visit didn't believe in heaven or hell. The problems in our churches today are not new, folks. We've been building this for a long, long time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And in route to Mayo Clinic for some really dramatic surgery, she said a prayer that if there was a God, she could know the truth before she died so she could leave that as a legacy for her sons. I have two brothers. And after a four-day workup at Mayo Clinic, a doctor came in and said, you had cancer, we have pictures, but we can't find it. Go home and raise your babies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I think the church muddied that conversation, excuse me, because we wanted the approval of the culture. So we came up with some other tortured explanations of Scripture. to try to make diversity and equity and inclusion look like they were biblical principles, not in the way they were being pushed through our educational systems in the military.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Well, I think the Christians have been way too passive. When they told us to take prayer out of the schools or our faith out of the schools, we rather meekly said yes. When they said you could pray at school, but only if you pray at the flagpole outside, we said thank you. Anyway, that's another day. I'll come back for that one.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
But what we didn't acknowledge is in the schools, they're teaching worldviews and religions. I've walked through the public schools. There's all sorts of Egyptian gods and expressions of their faith that are a part of the education. I'm okay with that, but they need to tell how Christianity has shaped this nation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I think the Greek and Roman mythology are an ancient expression of the way we have worshiped demons and false gods throughout human history. And they've been a part of the education, but you don't have to be afraid of it. If you know the truth, you don't have to be afraid of something that's false.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And a few weeks later, she's washing dishes, and she heard a voice, and we were Methodists, and Methodists don't hear voices. And the voice said, you asked to know the truth before you died. And she said, yes, I did. And he said, I'm the way, the truth, and the life. And she knew it was somewhere in the Bible. She went and got a Bible and looked until she found John 14.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I'm not familiar enough with what the government has. I think what I can say today is I'm convinced that for far too long, our government has been deceitful, dishonest, lied to us, and manipulated us. You know, and one of the very uncomfortable things that has come forth in my life since COVID is that I'm going to borrow Reagan's line. I have to trust but verify.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
You know, my father was a veterinarian. I grew up in the sciences. I trusted the CDC and the NIH and all of those people until about April of 2020. And I'm a veterinarian's assistant informally. And my training said this isn't science anymore. And so on that particular topic, I haven't seen enough data. I've listened to a lot of information, but I don't really have anything beyond that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
To imagine that there's aspects of creation that we don't know about makes complete sense to me. You know, every time we get a telescope and we can see further into the universe, our last theory has to be changed because we were incorrect. Or every time we learn more about this physical world we're in, we're adapting... What we said was absolute fact.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And so my parents became Christians, and it changed our whole home, and out of that, a Bible study, and decades later, a church. So I understand a church that is an extension of faith in a family. So there's something about this place, I think, that feels like home to me. But we're still doing that, serving Middle Tennessee.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
So I'm completely comfortable saying there are aspects of creation that we just don't know. You know, I had a mentor in my life. He said that miracles were not Jesus using some extra power. He was just taking advantage of aspects of creation that we don't understand. And so the discussion doesn't bother me, but I don't trust the source.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
It's a good question. I think the simplest way to imagine it is it begins with repentance. If a person wants to be free, that's a very simple path. You acknowledge repentance means you change your thought and you change your behavior. So there's a simple, Lord, I'm sorry. I've been thinking the wrong way about something and behaving the wrong way.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And if there's some unclean spirit that's involved with that, if you repent of the sin and renounce your involvement with that, if you were involved with the occult or whatever it may have been, you can be free. It's a truth encounter. It's not a power encounter. And so it doesn't have to be frightening.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And as technology has changed, now you can sit in Middle Tennessee and talk to the world. And then we meet people like this that have more courage than 99% of the pastors I know. And so we said if there's anything we can do to stand with Turning Point and Turning Point Faith and what Charlie and Lucas and their teams are doing to add momentum to that, that we're in. So we're in Phoenix for a day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Hollywood can sell more tickets if it's dramatic, but I don't think it has to be dramatic at all. I simply think you need to acknowledge that you want a different outcome and where the power and the authority is for that freedom, and then you can help people walk through that. There's a couple of simple books. Neil Anderson's written on this really well.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
The Bondage Breaker or Freedom in Christ, and he'll give you 10 steps to freedom that anybody could pick up and walk through with someone else. And it's a very straightforward, biblically sound way to process it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
That's a good question. I don't really think we have the information. You know, when Genesis opens, it says that there was chaos, really. There's two Hebrew words used there that are used a handful of times in the Old Testament, and they almost always describe something chaotic where there's been some destruction. So I don't think Genesis begins with the original creation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
It says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and then it says, and the earth was void and without shape, and the Spirit of God is hovering over the face of the deep, and then God begins to bring order out of that. So there's some things that aren't there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
What the Bible is is the story of an almighty God and his creation of an environment for human beings to live in and how we can have a relationship with him. It's not the complete story. We don't know where God came from. It's not there. And so what we have the opportunity to do is to take the design manual and accept that truth and get to know this almighty God.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Or we can establish ourselves as in charge and we can figure it out. So I'm not trying to avoid it. I just don't think the information's there and my speculation isn't overly helpful.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
So I think the question is centering around the intelligence of unclean spiritual forces. And personally, I don't think it's prudent to make fun of the devil. He's been pretty effective against most of my heroes. You know, Moses and David and Abraham, and you can take the list. So I don't mock him or make fun of him.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
You know, the stories told of Martin Luther, I don't know that it's true, that he woke up in the middle of the night and he saw the devil standing at the foot of his bed. And he said, oh, it's just you. And he rolled back over and went to sleep. I like the approach. My experience is the devil always overplays his hand. He goes too far. I think we've seen that culturally.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
He goes to the point that it's so absurd that marginally aware people go, wait a minute, that's just, that's too far. And I think as far as that individual nature, you know, I think we all have vulnerabilities. We're not all tempted on every point. So my favorite sins to preach against are the ones that aren't temptations for me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I mean, I can drop the hammer on poaching elephants because I haven't been tempted to do that in a long time. You know, eating too much chocolate. I try to stay away from gluttony because that's a little more personal, but the reality is we all know we have some points of vulnerability. And I think that having that self-awareness then gives you a game plan.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I don't put myself in places where those points of vulnerability are exposed. I won't give my discretionary time. I don't have a great deal of discretionary time, but I will not give it to people that don't encourage me in godliness. Because the struggle is too real. The challenge is too great.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
You know, I find my friends that have excellence in some area, they spend their free time with people that help them be better at what they're trying to learn. And if you want to be more godly, spend your discretionary time with people that will encourage you in the Lord, not discourage you. So I don't spend a lot of time worried about the enemy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I try to spend my time getting closer to the Lord and living in the strength and the truth that he's given me. And I don't find... I don't spend a lot of time worrying about viruses and bacteria. I just try to get healthy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I would. I give you the same invitation that my mom asked for, to know the truth. And that's not about being Baptist or Catholic or Jewish. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. And wherever you come into your journey tonight, you may be a veteran of decades in the church. I came to this building decades ago, and the Lord met me in this place. And I'm sure he's still meeting people here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And tonight would be a good night simply to say to the Lord, I want to take another step with you. I don't want to come presumptuously and imagine that I know it all. And if you stood on the outside as a skeptic, I would invite you simply to say, Jesus, be Lord of my life. It doesn't take a genius to be a skeptic. It's not hard to find the frailty in Christians, folks.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Our weaknesses are on display most days. But sitting in the seat of the skeptic is a lonely place to stay. It's more fun to be engaged with what God is doing. And so I would invite you, whatever brought you here, to say to the Lord, I want to give you a greater place in my heart and life. I want to give you a greater place in my priorities. I'm going to say that little prayer.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And to the degree that that makes sense for you, you just say, yes, Lord. I want to stand for that, if you will. I'm pretty sure if the Lord came in the room, we'd stand. Before we put our face in the carpet, I think that would happen really quickly, but... I think we would start by standing. He deserves our respect and our reverence. God's not like us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
He can make me out of a dust ball and not exert any effort. There's nothing hidden from him. He knows the ending at the beginning. The greatest problems and challenges we have today do not cause God any anxiety. The church is way too anxious.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
If we would be more aware and closer to the Lord and stand more in his authority and power, we would be a much greater help to this nation than any elected official. And I'm grateful for all those people that are making sacrifices to provide leadership to our nation. But I believe that God is awakening a generation of people who will tell his truth.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
So what if we said tonight, I want to be one of those people? For some, it's a first step. For some, it's another step. For some, it's a reprioritization of your life and your time. Life is no brief candle to me. Like it seems kind of long, but there's no do-overs. And I want every season of my life to reflect my very best effort for the kingdom of God. Let's pray.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Father, I thank you for these men and women. They've made a sacrifice to be here tonight, and you've said that you're the rewarder of those who diligently seek you, and so I lift them before you. For those who are standing apart from you, I pray that they will simply say, Jesus, be Lord of my life. Lord, give them the courage to take that step to move beyond indifference.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
There are many of us who have known you and walked with you, but we've been distracted by many things, and we come tonight to say we're sorry. We give you first place. Forgive us for our ambivalence. Forgive us for imagining that something beyond you would bring contentment and joy and peace to us. Jesus, be Lord of our life. May your truth grow in our hearts.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
May your name be exalted and your kingdom extended in our generation that will cause the nations of the world to stand in wonder. We thank you for it. In Jesus' name, amen. If you prayed that little prayer with me and you've never prayed it before, I'll be around here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I think it's not only biblical. I think it's essential. And I agree completely. We want to come from what Scripture tells us plainly and clearly. And I would submit to you as a thesis that spiritual forces impacted your life today. And if you're not aware of that and you're not intentionally engaged with that equation and that formula, then you're just being buffeted by whatever.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And I don't think that's the best way to navigate life. I prefer to be more intentional. And I like this. I want to start with the angels because I think that's more important. Too often in the church world or the part I've been a part of, we want to focus on demons. But Jesus' life and ministry was impossible apart from the angelic help and support.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I mean, it started with Zechariah and Elizabeth, with Gabriel and the announcement to Zechariah that there's going to be a child, and then Mary and Joseph without the angel's engagement. There was no birth narrative to emerge. Jesus, after his baptism, and he's tempted in the wilderness, the angels come and minister to him. In Gethsemane, the angels minister to him.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Satan said to Jesus at the temptation, you know, the angels will keep you from harming yourself. Satan was aware of the angels' involvement in Jesus' life and ministry. And you follow it into the book of Acts, and there is no book of Acts without the angelic intervention. They're a part of that narrative.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
You know, I come from a world where Acts chapter 2 is a big deal, and I don't want to diminish that, but I also don't want to diminish the angelic intervention in that. And we've been pretty much pacifist about that. You know, if you have a passive attitude towards God, you'll miss the kingdom of God.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
If you say, if God wants me to go to heaven, he'll get me there, you'll go to hell with that attitude. You have to personally choose to believe and accept Jesus into your heart. You don't have to join a church. No church has got a headlock on the whole truth. Well, I believe the same is true with spiritual engagement.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
You have to make a decision and begin to use your words and your minds, the tools God's given you. I've developed the habit, particularly since working on this project, of every day beginning by asking God to release the angels for the help, for the tasks and assignments I have for the day. And it's changing what's happening in my life. So I don't think it's a frightening book.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Well, there's a lot. Angels are warriors. In the book of Daniel, if we're going to go to the Hebrew Old Testament, you know, there's these pictures of angels bringing messages to Daniel, telling him he's highly esteemed by God. Now, Daniel is a eunuch serving his whole life as a slave in a foreign court. That does not feel like a position of great favor. We have to recalibrate.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
You see, we tend to think God blesses us if everything's going our way and our lottery ticket won. Sometimes you can be living in the midst of the favor of God and paying a steep price for being a truth teller. Now, Daniel prospered in many ways, but he was falsely accused. But the angels are an integral part of that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And Daniel was so trustworthy that God gives him a revelation of the end of the age, far beyond Daniel's life. If I could give you an invitation, be such a trustworthy component of what God is doing in the earth during your life that he will use you to provide information for the generations who follow you. It's a different attitude.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
But you get to the book of Revelation, and the angels are central players. They're essential in the judgment of God at the conclusion of this age. And they're referred to in many ways. There's mighty angels. So there's a difference in the strength of angels. You wouldn't designate one as mighty if they all had the same strength.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
So I believe there's as much differentiation amongst the angels as there are amongst human beings. They're created beings. And God seems, if to be anything, he's creative. So I think there's a great deal of diversity amongst the angels. And there are angels that are very engaged in the judgment upon the earth. When Jesus told the parable of the wheat and the tares, remember that?
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
He said that at the end of the age, the field was the world, and the angels would be the harvesters. So it's really against Scripture to imagine that we're going to lead our lives without angelic intervention and engagement. It says that we entertain angels and we don't recognize them, so I don't think they have wings and feathers or smell like cookies, if you remember the John Travolta movie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Not that I watched it, but I have friends who did, and they told me about that. But I think it's really, it's not the only step, but it's a step in to the reality of spiritual things. I don't believe you can understand what's happening in America today if you try to understand it only in terms of politics or ideologies. There's a spiritual conflict for our nation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And it's what makes the church so essential. It's what makes a night like this so essential. If we think because Trump got elected and J.D. Vance is the vice president, we can go sit back in our recliners and quote our favorite verses, we will forfeit the opportunity that God gave us last November.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
It's a very interesting point. Human beings in Scripture are set apart from any other aspect of God's creation. We're the image bearers. We get to that in Genesis chapter 1. Those opening chapters of Genesis give you the big rock ideas for the whole rest of the Bible.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
By the time you get to Genesis 11, you've been introduced to the big ideas of Scripture, and human beings are set apart from all the rest of creation. We're not just the highest rung of the evolutionary ladder. In fact, we're told to exercise dominion and authority over all creation. And in those opening chapters is the fall when we rebel against God and reject all that he's given to us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
And God announces in those early chapters his plan for redemption. Well, the angels rebelled. A portion of the angels rebelled against God. Satan is a fallen angel. And there is no redemptive plan for the angels. So when we talk about God being a God of infinite grace and mercy, which is a common fallacy, I believe, in so much of the messaging today, there is an end to the mercy and grace of God.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
God's grace and mercy is intended to bring us to repentance, not to bring us to greater license. And the evidence of that is the angels. When the angels rebelled, there's no plan for their restoration. When human beings rebelled and fell, God put in place the incarnation, my son will become one of you. He didn't become an angel.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Hebrews talks about this in more detail than probably we want to hear. So, yeah, the angels have a different role. I don't believe we direct the angels or command the angels, but they are busy with God's assignment to help us, support us, strengthen us. They fed Elijah after his victory over Jezebel and Ahab and the fire on Mount Carmel, and he's fled to the desert.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
There are these multiple places where the angels have assignments. You know, and there's an almost unlimited number. We have one scene in the book of Revelation where there's 100 million angels in one scene. Well, if U.S. population is 300 million people roughly, imagine one scene where you could see a third of the population of the U.S. Obviously, you can't put them in one room.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
It's a drone flyover. It's a group that disappears into the horizon. So, I mean, there's a significant force of messengers, warriors, and agents about the business of God active in the earth today. And I don't believe we can live our lives just completely unaware of that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
Yeah, the scripture seems to suggest that, certainly. You know, I mean, in many respects, we have pre-incarnate appearances of Christ. And the real honest answer, and I'm really comfortable with this. If this bothers you, I'll apologize on the front end. There's a lot I don't know. I know that's a shock to you because you all thought there was nothing I didn't know.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I'm at peace with that, and I've been reading my Bible for a long time. I came to pastor school 30 years ago, and I'm still very much a learner. And I don't think there's any question that angels can appear in human form. It's why we have to have... We need an awareness of spiritual things that is dramatically different than what we've been coached to up to this point.
The Charlie Kirk Show
God is Awakening an Entire People ft. Pastor Allen Jackson
I think for the most part, we just don't attach much value, strength, or authority to spiritual forces. And it's the reason the church is so close to impotent. I mean... Political power, economic power, military power, they're all real things, but they are very much a weak imitation of the power of God. Jesus spoke to wind and the waves and he raised the dead to life and he turned water into wine.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Conservatives Embody Biblical Values — Live at Texas A&M
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Honestly, this has been, you know, and I know they say this about other people as well. I kind of do both. I honestly kind of do both. And I know it's not what's recommended or whatever, but I tend to be up pretty late and I get up early and I just love it. I love everything about it. And I don't think that works for everybody. Obviously, it's not for everyone, but I've always enjoyed that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
I usually run about four to six hours of sleep every night and that's about it. Unless I'm like... Unless I'm like lifting a lot or something and then I tend to sleep more, but otherwise about four to six hours.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
You know they have nap time in China?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Well, I was going to say shame and disgrace. when i worked in uh in china so they would have like a nap time and you would get to the office you know normal time 8 a.m 9 a.m um and then there'd be a lunch hour and then typically and i would see this with my chinese colleagues that they would um i was like one of two white guys you know european whatever americans who um worked in the office
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
And so we'd get in and then I'd go for lunch. I'd like take a walk around the park or go to like practice Mandarin, whatever. And then I'd come back and I was like, it was like a scene. I wanted some horror movie or something. Cause everyone's, everyone's in the office with their heads down on their desks. And I'm like, wait, what's going on?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Someone, you know, somebody drugged everyone in the office. What happened? And apparently that's just what they do. They just have nap time right there at the office and they'll like have a little pillow or something. And that's what they do. And that's considered normal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Oh yeah. I love the Saratoga along with my banana every single day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
So people have said for a long time that the pyramids are some kind of power generator.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
We love Graham Hancock.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Yeah, so Snow Woke, this is a story, you know, I've been covering it on Human Events Daily and it's just broken out. Just totally mainstream at this point. where Snow White, everyone knows the original story, obviously the original movie from the 1930s, but even the much earlier Brothers Grimm fairy tale from the 1800s, 200 years old.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Well, a couple of years ago, this film was made at the height of wokeness. And here's what's actually kind of funny about the new Snow White. So we all remember the traditional Snow White, the beautiful, the skin is white as snow, it's right there. Well, at the height of wokeness,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Disney's Snow Woke came out, and as it turns out, this was delayed due to COVID and due to the writer's strikes and various other strikes that were going on in Hollywood. So this film that was made at the peak woke era is actually now coming out at the Trump era, and everybody is just hating on it. And it's it's completely an act of cultural vandalism. In fact, it's cultural terrorism.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
This actress is just horrific. She is so just just narcissistic. In fact, the son of the producer has actually taken to Instagram is just just blasting her. Not only has she made horrific comments about all sorts of people, but she's deliberately targeted Trump supporters, targeted President Trump, saying terrible things about him and his family.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
And on the day of the election, when President Trump won, she said, I'm not going to curse, but she said F Trump supporters, F Donald Trump, F Trump supporters, and I hope they know no peace. And this is who Disney chose to be the beloved Snow White traditional character.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Plus, in addition, and Charlie, I'm sure you'll appreciate this, they completely changed the story where now Snow White is, as you can see, she's a quote-unquote person of color who's leading an uprising against the white fascist queen played by Gal Gadot.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
And there's also this sort of meta narrative going around the whole thing because Gal Gadot served in the IDF and has obviously been very pro-Israel. Not not, you know, extremely vocally. She's more talked about hostages and victims and things like that of October 7th. But then the actress here, Rachel Zegler, has been very vocally pro-Palestine. And so this has all been going on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Variety had a huge article. talking about all the things that Disney tried to do. They even sent a social media manager to Rachel Zegler to try to approve her posts before they came out. They sent multiple producers to try to talk to her, and she just completely would not listen, completely disregarded everything they said.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
And so now in the face of all of this, something like a $270 million budget just for production, another 100 plus or so on top of that in marketing, this film only did $43 million in its opening. It's one of the weakest openings of any Disney live action show. It is one of the worst cinema scores and reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for any Disney film. And this is a great example
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
of, look, the worm has just turned. The worm has just absolutely turned in the country. The mood of the country has changed. We are not doing this stuff anymore. And people are sick of it. People are absolutely sick of the cultural degradation that we're doing to our own class. I mean, how do you screw up Snow White? It's like the most basic story.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Just take the story and put it in live action if that's all you're going to do. It's so simple. But of course, when the cultural Marxists were running Disney, and many of them still are, they decided to do these things with it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
So personally, one of the things that I've been leading online is making sure that people understand that obviously this has been a huge travesty, but I want this to be a warning to everybody. Why? Because what is Netflix making right now? Narnia. Yes, Netflix Narnia is coming up next. And who did they hand it over to? Greta Gerwig, who made the hyper-feminist anti-male film Barbie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
and was also at one point a co-writer on the new Snow White.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Virginia is the original Epcot.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
We need to be careful. Netflix, Narnia. I'm telling you guys, we got to protect Narnia.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Charlie, you should do your next campus thing and just show up with tape.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
What is this, like some homeless guy? What is this? You have to narrate it, Blake. This is a podcast.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
You don't get up at night. Call it boba. Yeah, no, I don't.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
Well, I already finished it on my way in. So, you know, apologies to that, as I do every morning. And then I limit myself. I actually don't eat or drink anything until the next morning when I have my further daily Saratoga water and banana.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
You know, I think what's interesting is the morning routine has been kind of a meme, especially in sort of like the TikTok community because of like the Sigma edits. And it all goes back. It's a 25 year old meme that goes back. to the very first and only American Psycho video movie when it came out, the Bret Easton Ellis book that got turned into the movie with Patrick Bateman.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
And there's just something about that, the morning routine scene there, which of course, you know, Patrick Bateman is also a serial killer, which I think that a lot of the Sigma edits kind of miss out on this, even though this guy I'm sure is something of a wannabe serial killer here. So I do think, though, that I don't know if you guys want to go around the horn, but I'm a morning guy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
I love getting up early in the morning. It's something I've always enjoyed. It's something I really love. It's almost like a superpower if you get up sort of before everybody else. Um, so the, I actually enjoy getting up as early as possible, as crazy as it sounds. And I think it's great.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
So I know I had to do all the, uh, you know, the, my pillow tweets and everything, but it turns out I actually love getting up early and I think it's awesome. I think having my, my morning routine though is, and I've been this way since, uh, you know, since a kid going to Catholic school is just, I lay out everything I need for the morning so that when I wake up, it's just right there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 78 — Morning Routines? Great Pyramid Secrets? Snow Woke?
And I'm like, boom, boom, boom, boom. And I can be off and off and onto my day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
I think it was a miscategorization big time. No, what did he say first?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
So he said that, yeah, yeah. So he said that, and well, I'm prefacing that to explain what he said, is that he essentially was saying that we idolize or emulate the, so the two main characters are Slater and Zach. And, you know, Zach is sort of like the preppy, you know, the preppy college shirt, pop collar, you know, cool kid.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
Whereas AC Slater is your typical athletic jock and he's on the wrestling team, et cetera. Whereas Screech is your geek. I mean, These are all archetypes. And, you know, the John Hughes Breakfast Club kind of plays into that as well. But what Vivek was saying was that essentially he didn't view this as a play on just a group of friends and, hey, these are a bunch of different identities.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
he was saying that we are venerating, you know, the jock and the preppy cool kid over the, you know, the sort of nerdy, geeky character of Screech. And, I mean, I've never viewed Saved by the Bell that way, to be honest. I don't know that we, you know...
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
And on the above hand, he says here, a culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad champ or the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best engineers. And so, I mean, I could go on about this, but, you know, I would also say that, you know, that really is American culture in a lot of ways.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
I was going to be nice about it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
So there's actually a plot line in Saved by the Bell where Zach Morris, who's essentially the main character of it, I think it's like towards the end of the run because it's a senior year in high school and he takes the SATs and it's portrayed as kind of comedic, but he ends up getting like a 1500 on the SATs without even studying for it. So it's like,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
No, it actually does show things that can happen and that gets accepted at Yale and all this stuff. And it turns out that, no, as a matter of fact, there is high achievement and that's not necessarily tied towards performing the specific set of weight.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
Like it's not an Excel spreadsheet that you can be talented and you can be smart and also play sports or like you could play lacrosse or you could be track and field, you could play baseball, whatever. That doesn't like, one doesn't negate the other. And this is kind of a strange sort of like,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
very Hollywood-imposed kind of identity archetype that we do then seek to use throughout society, but real life doesn't always match up with that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
I would even just go, I would go so far as to throw out that if you look and I'm, I'll even say I don't think this is how Vivek meant it, but I will say that the problem with it is that it falls also, or I should say not the problem with it, but the reason that it made people so upset. is that this falls into the exact same types of woke arguments that you hear as anti-white culture.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
That they will say, oh, you know, the toxic white males fighting over a, you know, the cheerleader and the white student who goes on to become the valedictorian, like with Screech or, you know, and all the rest of it. You know, this is like,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
quote-unquote with what joy reed would call white america and say oh we're against all of this and it's like guys this is just the type of stuff that we're trying to get back to in a place where by the way saved by the bell does if you look at it as it turns out have a you know fairly diverse cast certainly for the early 90s but also nobody cares nobody's there's no like sit down episodes where we're going to be like what is the ethnic background of ac slater is is lisa turtle you know like where her parents like
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
Nobody cares. It's just everybody going through high school and being normal kids and going through it. You know, Charlie, you talk about this with your high school all the time that it's like it's like, yeah, you can have that stuff, but you don't need to make it your entire identity. That's what everyone in society does now. And it's destroying everything.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
And that's why the tweet comes across as anti-white culture, too.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
Yeah, so I mean, funny enough, it's like, Jack, do you plan to do a podcast with Charlie about Saved by the Bell over Christmas break? And it's like, no, but here we are. This is really all about the H-1B situation. And that early on, people were saying that, and I guess there was this guy who was appointed to some AI position, which isn't even like a real position. It's like an advisor thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
But people found comments of him saying there should be no cap on H-1Bs. And that's what really pushed a lot of the MAGA base into high overdrive to say, wait a minute, President Trump campaigned in 2016 on ending the H-1B immigration system because number one, it's not high skilled immigration. That's a lie. And number two, it's not immigration at all.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
It's this weird, like indentured servitude kind of system. And what I think got a lot of people really riled up is the fact that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and sort of the tech bros, if you want to put it that way, they were throwing down hard saying, you don't know what we're talking about. You don't know what this is all about. This is about the best and the brightest.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
Elon has said over and over, we're going to lose. We're going to lose to China if we don't do this, which it's interesting because, of course, China, as anyone knows, does not import
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
foreign workers to do these types of things they just invest in their own people or you know like steal stuff from us um that you know there are other ways japan also by the same token is able to be an absolute innovator without doing any of this stuff and that there's this weird like i don't i don't know if you want to call it a bait and switch or a martin bailey that's going on where people are you know the tech pro side is saying like oh it's just the best and the brightest it's just like
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
you know, the Einsteins, it's, you know, just the, you know, the Von Braun's and Operation Paperclip has been talked about. And it's like, nobody's talking about that. And so, you know, Elon has posted another tweet saying, maybe this is a helpful clarification. I'm referring to bringing in by legal immigration, the top 0.1% of engineering talent, which is like a huge difference from what
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
Everyone was talking about it first, because when you're talking about people that are at that level, we already have a visa category for that. And that's called the O visa. So Raheem Kassam, by the way, is here on an O visa. And that's something where, yes, you do have to work for it. You have to show accomplishment.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
You have to show that you have received awards, membership in organizations, things like that. Look, there's abuse in the O system as well. But it's way, way different. than this just flood of jobs that keeps the middle class out of these STEM fields and out of the tech sector and biotech as well, like H1B is. And there's a slew of other issues here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
It's H2B, there's J1, there's all sorts of things we can talk about. But the reason that this one has come up is because H1B
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
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The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
No, absolutely not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
Zero or at least net zero. All right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
Well, we experienced a MAGA dustup, but MAGA Chernobyl is ridiculous. That sounds like something that some George Soros operative would want to put out into the ether to try to give the Democrats some glimmer of hope that this country is possibly interested in coming back towards them again. Newsflash.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
No, there was no Maga Chernobyl, and no, the country is totally over all you, the woke-a-ratty and the wokeness that got us into the situation that we're currently in. But what happened was probably a predictable and generally, I think, forthcoming argument and debate between members of, shall we say, the tech right and members of
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
of the MAGA base as pertains to the level of immigration, particularly we're talking about legal immigration now to the United States as pertains interestingly enough, directly to the tech right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
So do people remember that when Trump went on the All In podcast a couple of months ago, it was during the campaign, and at the very end of it, he said, oh, well, you know, I think that when a graduate comes out of high school, we should staple a green card on the back of that diploma and then put them into college, et cetera.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
And I mean, you just saw people from War Room and Steve Bannon at the time completely push back on that. And I believe Caroline Levitt, had said something about like, oh, he was just making a suggestion. And it kind of never went anywhere from that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
Well, we have another dust up around the very same issue of H1Bs wanting to come in, or really tech CEOs wanting H1Bs to come in because they're incredibly cheap. They undercut American labor, they undercut American tech workers, American STEM, et cetera, et cetera. And Then, you know, people are going back and forth with Elon. Mike Cernovich got involved.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
And then Vivek Ramaswamy put out a post saying that it's not actually economically based, that it is in fact culturally based and essentially that American culture is wrong. And since the 1990s, it has been wrong for favoring essentially entertainment and fun and life and, you know, kind of jocular culture and athletics and charisma over like, I don't know, spelling bees and math studies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
And he made some really, you know, just just. I wouldn't say obscure, but really pointed and plucked out 90s and a little bit of early 2000s TV and movie references like the film Whiplash, which is like, by the way, it's a film about child abuse, if anyone hasn't actually seen it. in regards to a kid who's at a school that's kind of like Juilliard. I've seen it, by the way.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
But then also talked about Friends, Boy Meets World, and Saved by the Bell, and essentially offered those as things that we should not emulate. And, you know, see here, More math tutoring, more sleepovers, more weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons, more books, less TV, more creating, less chillin', more extracurriculars.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
By the way, less chillin' from the guy who can sing Eminem verbatim. Those normal Americans look skeptically at, quote, those kinds of parents. More normal American kids watch those kinds of kids with scorned. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you achieve.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
Now close your eyes and visualize the families you know in the 90s or even now who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
Yeah, you know, you're generally accurate. So I think Vivek, JD and myself are all pretty much like within a couple of months of each other. So this is actually that really sweet spot of like late 80s, early 90s. So it's technically like most Gen Xers probably didn't watch Saved by the Bell because it would have been considered too young for them. but also older than yourself.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
And it really is that sweet spot. I call it centennials. I'm not gonna go down that rabbit hole, but essentially what you're saying, Charlie, is correct, is that it is not just the, and by the way, Mario Lopez, of course, is still pretty much a mainstay of daytime TV. Somehow he still looks the exact same age. We all gotta find his doctor, right? And there is an aesthetic element here as well,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
because this is, it's not quite So Gen X would be more like John Hughes, which is something that got referenced earlier on War Room Today by Gavin Wax. And by the way, John Hughes movies from the 16 Candles, Breakfast Club, Home Alone, these are all movies that myself, guys like Still Boneless and others were making memes of in 2024 to describe the America that we were trying to return to.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
And so Saved by the Bell, yeah, it definitely kind of fits in that canon because it's America before it became whatever we are now. And so attacking this, not only did it shift the, I think, the current of the argument, but it just really hit on a nerve for a lot of people who are like, wait a minute, this was a beloved TV show.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
And yeah, Screech was the comedic relief or the Stephen Urkel character in Family Matters, another thing that they mentioned. But nobody hated Screech, right? Nobody like like he was always portrayed as a character that like was a member of the friends. And, you know, even though he was kind of always getting into trouble that, you know, people would always treat him with respect.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
And, you know, a lot of the episodes were like.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
hey how do we help screech out of a jam kind of thing there was never like a you know this is the guy we pick on and hate it was never like that at all and i i don't really think there were any of that uh you know those types of things in the 90s uh even in the 80s with john hughes movies so there's anyway there's this whole undercurrent of maga is like turning america back into this
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 67 — Saved By The Bell and the H-1B Debate
And it felt like that was what was getting attacked.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 81 — Money For Moms? Dark Woke? AI Factories?
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 81 — Money For Moms? Dark Woke? AI Factories?
Get out, get out, get out, get out, get out!
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 81 — Money For Moms? Dark Woke? AI Factories?
health insurance no why are you on your parents yes oh congratulations what are you gonna do i'm get my own how with my money how what do you mean how who do you call To get health insurance? Yeah. Someone who provides health insurance? What is this question? What do you mean? Are you saying because you don't know how? I don't know how! Why don't you ask Lutz's parents? Or your dad?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 81 — Money For Moms? Dark Woke? AI Factories?
I come from a very Republican family.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 81 — Money For Moms? Dark Woke? AI Factories?
You go to the doctor so often. I can't believe you don't have health insurance.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 81 — Money For Moms? Dark Woke? AI Factories?
This sounds like a lecture that I didn't expect. I did not. You go so often. I know, but I'm limited because I get really stressed because I don't have any resources and I get really confused. It's the same reason that I went to culinary school instead of normal college. No one prepped me. My family abandoned me. I didn't know.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 81 — Money For Moms? Dark Woke? AI Factories?
All of a sudden, everyone in junior year of high school is like, I got accepted into Harvard. I got accepted into MIT. And I'm like, wait, we were supposed to submit stuff? I had no clue. No one told me. Everyone forgot about me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
There's...
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
See, but I worry that that's – I worry if that's a false sense of security because – It's totally possible. This town is still this town, all right? You know, the cockroaches are dug deep.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
They're very – We're getting a lot of them fired.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
yeah they're all turtling right now they're sort of waiting they're sort of in you know kind of in like receive mode okay what do i do how do i hunker down how do i you know let's leak some stuff on hegseth let's leak some stuff on tulsi let's you know see if we can get that going there get you know murkowski collins came out you know is mcconnell gonna vote who knows whatever um is jd gonna have to come back to town to be the tiebreaker whatever point being is you
The Charlie Kirk Show
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is it's a muted response far muted you're obviously you're not seeing the antifa riots like we saw in 2017 the limos burning the attack on the deplorable etc etc that said i'm i'm just saying guys we haven't quite hit you know stay frosty
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
I specifically said, let's all do thought crime in D.C.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
You said it yesterday. And then I'm like, hey, where are you, Blake? And you're like, oh, I flew back to Phoenix.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
Which is why they're scared of really coming out. And really also why, and I know we're kind of changing the conversation a little bit, but it's why, and Charlie, I'd love to get your thoughts on this. The flood the zone strategy has been brilliant. I don't think they should let up.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I think that it's been so successful that the longer you wait to do things, the more time it's going to give this town, the media, the left, whatever you want to call it, the deep state staters, time to respond. But if you're firing on all pistons, if you are doing the full court press, They don't have time to respond because there's too many things coming down the pipe at once.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
The minute you slow up, that's what gives them time to get their ducks in a row and get a response off.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
And the FISA warrants.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
They're going to see who's got active FISA warrants out on them. Tulsi's going to be instrumental in that and making sure that gets across. So who are they looking at right now? Who was there – and this is something that I'm even still waiting to hear. Was there a Carter Page of 2024 or a George Papadopoulos, someone that they used to go after and say – Right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, unsuccessfully in terms of infiltration, but successfully in terms of getting a FISA warrant against them. I don't know, but I'm just saying I'm looking at the past track record. I'm noticing a pattern's basic pattern recognition. This is thought crime after all. And we're saying, look, I don't trust these guys. I don't trust these guys for one second.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And not to mention just the very basic stuff about what does the FBI actually know about Thomas Matthew Crooks or Ryan Wesley Ralph, the people who tried to kill President Trump? Were they really just lone wolves running around on their own and whoopsie daisy were able to slip through Secret Service? Let's let's actually get the receipts on that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Charlie Kirk is very naughty. Charlie Kirk is very bad. How dare Charlie Kirk be allowed?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
All right. And all you guys, all you listening, we have several thousand people here on Rumble Live. Send us chats if you want us to highlight an underrated favorite of yours because we'd love to hear what you all think. Because it really is crazy, Charlie. I've been looking through what it was and... As we discussed, as you discussed on the show the other day, it was in it was in your book.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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There was a chapter in your book that was this like kind of fantasia when we have the next Republican president. And it's saying like day one, just imagine a Republican president who drops this order and that order and that order. And they just have dozens of them by the end of the day. And Washington is bowled over because you're not supposed to do things that fast.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And that's actually what they did. It's amazing. It was genuinely extremely exciting to watch, not even being inside the room like you were. But let's think. So obviously the big headline item was pardoning all the Jay Sixers right away. And what was so brilliant about that was he gets it out there right away. That's all CNN. They're hyperventilating. That's all they can talk about.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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A place of honor in the inauguration, in the inaugural hall or. Whatever we're calling the Capitol Rotunda from the day of because this became the big sort of talk of the whisper talk of DC. Everybody knows the way Washington DC – and it is a very historic kind of discussion as to who is seated closest to the king. Right. Your proximity is power, et cetera, which is and by the way, which is true.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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That's all MSNBC can talk about. It's quite a bit of what they're talking about at the newspapers. And while he's doing that, he's dropping, okay, we're getting rid of the pride flags at all the embassies and federal buildings. You just wave the American flag. You don't need that second national flag they invented. We're shutting down all the DEI people. We're putting them all on furlough.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We're shutting down all those offices. We're going to get rid of them. The craziest one to me, this was my personal favorite, was this was two nights ago, Tuesday night, like 9 p.m., they announced via Chris Ruffo that President Trump has signed this, that he's repealing the executive order from LBJ's administration. I believe it's 11246.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It's the executive order that basically created the modern, like,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
racial racket like the affirmative action racket where it was supposed to say don't discriminate and as Washington loves to do the courts went and they interpreted this to it is mandatory that you discriminate against people and this order repeals that and also says by the way we now actually interpret the Civil Rights Act to do what it says it does which is that discrimination is illegal so if you get a contract with the federal government can't do it if you're getting a federal grant like if you're a university
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Can't do it. This is one of the most important orders any Republican president has done in our lifetimes on anything. This could be absolutely monumental. And what's amazing about it, Charlie, is it was not the lead story on CNN when it dropped. It was not the lead story.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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in the New York Times when it dropped because they were too busy covering J6, covering the furloughing the DEI people, covering confirmation hearings. They were too busy to put any focus on it. And that's what's really been so amazing with the first few days of the Trump administration. It is shock and awe applied to politics. I went and I looked it up.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
Barack Obama had, I think, 19 executive orders in his first 100 days. No, I think it was 32 executive orders. I can't remember the exact number. Whatever it was, he had some number of executive orders in his first 100 days, and President Trump beat it in about 12 hours.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Remarkable. The great Will Scharf, by the way, taking care of the executive orders, running that on the desk. It was awesome to see him at the Capital One Arena and then in the Oval.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You should lobby and bring back the old base names. We got we got to get those back.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
Base names are coming back.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
While we're at it, we should change Beijing back to Peking. China would never recover from that one.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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This is actually true. But there was a lot of chatter that certain House Republicans were very, very upset that Charlie Kirk, who isn't even an elected member of Congress, got to sit in the rotunda in a better seat.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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What do you think all the diversity czars are doing right now? Do you think they're thinking of us?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We didn't even mention it yet. The order for all of the federal workers to go back to work. That was great when he issued it. It's now amazing because I'm finding the federal workers who are whining on the internet. You can go on that giant volcano of soy that is Reddit, and of course they have a federal workers subreddit. And they were complaining. Oh, I saw this earlier.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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They were saying we it's all they'll talk about. They're all freaking out. And like the top thread, when I looked at it, I think we posted this on Twitter. They were freaking out where they're saying we have to fight back by we have to boycott every small business near our office. Don't go to the restaurants. Don't go to the gas stations. Don't don't shop at the grocery stores.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It's such a perfect symbol that they're so angry about having to go to the office that they want to take it out on small businesses staffed by employees who actually have to go to work for their jobs, who actually do real work every day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And they want to lash out at them to show how angry they are that they have to go into the office like a normal person because they're such disgraceful and resentful and pathetic people. And then they're also whining. They were whining below your tweet, Charlie, where they were saying,
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We could make someone literally said we could make infinite money in the private sector, but instead they're self sacrificially working for the federal government. I think when they quit, when they start quitting, which is one of the reasons we're making them all go back to the office, some of the losers will quit.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I think they will be quite surprised how in demand their skills are or how not in demand some of them are.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I'm working on this. There was a girl – I'm just going to say this. When I was in the intel community, I was at Navy Intelligence. And there was a girl who ran like a baking company out of her cubicle at Navy Intelligence. And she would be on the phone like conducted like she sold like cookies and macaroons and stuff.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Charlie Kirk plus wife. How dare we?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And she would just be on the phone doing orders while she was on the clock on the government dime.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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A friend of mine told me today he has a person he knows, I believe, at FAA who is a realtor on the side. And his official government phone number connects you directly to the voicemail of his real estate side business.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
Yeah, that sounds about right. It's the whole government is full of scams like this. Absolutely full.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 70 — Seatgate? Best Executive Orders? Panda Express?
I just I was just raving about it for like five minutes straight, Charlie. No, I am. No, I know.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, I'm very excited. I would urge everyone to remember, as we were saying before we even got into the list, an executive order doesn't make reality by itself. One of the things we did day one was the EO on birthright citizenship. They're saying you don't get birthright citizenship if you're in a legal, if you're a tourist or even they're going pretty aggressive.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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They're saying even if you're certain types of temporary legal resident like guest workers, you don't benefit from it. And that's already been put on hold. A federal judge shot that down right away. And we might lose that. We might go all the way to the Supreme Court on that and lose. I'll be frank. We don't change reality with just an executive order. But the level of aggression is great.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It keeps everyone off balance. We're going to get wins on at least some, many of these things. And because they're coming out so quickly, you maximize their value over the course of an administration.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Like the order on the DEI stuff, it's going to be really hard to disassemble that apparatus, but you're going to get rid of way more of it when you're doing it for 1400 days than if this came out in year two, in year three. At that point, to get anything out of it, you've got to win the next election.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Even if we, heaven forfend, lose the next election, we'll be able to have a ton of impact because we got going on all the important stuff right away.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You were getting the hairy eye. The hairy eyeball. No, I was like, geez, okay.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You could tell the vibe was off, though.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I could talk more, but it's really not about Native Americans.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, it's ridiculous. Like what it is, is the Supreme Court decision that does is very old. It was a United States versus Wong Kim Ark was the name of it. Wong Kim Ark was a man of Chinese descent. His parents were Chinese immigrants who came to the United States. And the ruling in that case was, OK, his parents were permanent residents of the United States. They had him.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And so even though they themselves had been citizens and subjects of China since they were legally living in America, he was a U.S. citizen. At best, you can just say that that codifies the interpretation that legal residents of the United States, their kids have birthright citizenship. But it's like just take it.
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You've never been in the Capitol Rotunda? Never?
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Basically, the bureaucracy in Washington just made the grab and said, yeah, actually, illegal immigrants also count for this. And also people who come here on tourist visas who are like here on very temporary residency or not or just travelers. They also count. We're just going to make that grab. And then you have all these constitutional experts going around and saying this is super decided.
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It's super clear cut. They're liars. It's disgusting. And we're going to go to the Supreme Court.
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Well, it is as well to the as a row kind of coming up on this. And, you know, I want to be the point too much. But it's – he was talking about, oh, this is going to affect the visa holders who are currently here because that would mean their kids don't get to become – it would affect legal immigrant visa holders. And I'm like, wait a minute. A visa holder is not an immigrant by definition.
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A visa is temporary. All visas are temporary. So that means you're a visitor. When I want to go visit certain countries, you need a visa. That's how that works. So you get a visa. You go. You conduct business, whatever it is. You're a visitor there. If I, like, for example, I lived in China for two years. I was there on a visa, right?
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If I wasn't married to Tanya at the time, but if I was and we had kids, they wouldn't automatically become Chinese citizens. Of course not. Because we were on a visa. And by the way, even if we were there under other circumstances, it's a really hard process.
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So the idea that someone who's here on a temporary basis, either as a worker or a student or just tourism, like this birth tourism crap that goes on, It's ridiculous. It's always been ridiculous. There's never been a country that's been more silly about its immigration status than the United States.
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And look, I get – a lot of this goes back to the idea of birthright citizenship in – it goes back to the New World because early on – and Blake, I'm sure you can attest to this – that it was the – North and South America were colonies, and so they needed to attract – you know, attract colonists. So the idea was they wanted more people to come over.
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So as a way of attraction, as a potential boon or benefit to you is to say, Hey, by the way, when you come here, your kids will automatically be citizens. They won't have to go through that process. That makes sense. If we're still a brand new country, not full of people. So it's perfectly obvious to anyone that if you want to update that framework for a new situation, of course you can do so.
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And Oh, by the way, The U.S. Congress and U.S. government certainly is well within their rights to do so.
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Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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Oh, man. After the after the LBJ one, that that one's just so big. That one can be so will be so monumental if they were really if they really follow up on it, because it's not just the one it's repealing an executive order. So they basically can't. It's going to be very hard for the left to try to reverse this.
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And then they follow it up with, by the way, actually, we're going to start going after you if you have all these programs that treat people differently based on race. Actually, that's illegal, and it's always been illegal. And it's been such a big revolution on the right to... You know, come out and publicly say this is the case. We all owe a big debt to Chris Caldwell.
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His book about six years ago, The Age of Entitlement, was, as far as I can remember, the first book to really just come out loudly and say that. And it's swept the right since then. After that one, my personal favorite... Honestly, just like genuinely the level of aggression on immigration, both in the interior and at the border where they say, OK, it's an emergency.
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We're getting rid of the CBP one act. We're going to say you can send them back without a hearing if you get caught coming into the U.S., And I'm hearing chatter. Charlie probably knows more than I do, but I'm hearing chatter like there's more coming.
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They're very serious about building the infrastructure to fix the immigration crisis because you have all these hacks and lunatics in the press who will say, oh, just deporting people is impossible. So you see little things like the military says, oh, we're willing to have military planes assist in deportation flights.
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And when you see them, they surprise fired the people at the top of like the immigration, like our immigration court apparatus. That shows how serious they are. They are cleaning house. Because if you really dig into the details, America's immigration enforcement system was a sham.
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The Biden administration had created this giant legal sham whose purpose is to disguise waving everyone into the United States who wanted to come here. It was all dressed up. We're like, okay, well, they come across the border, but we need to give them an asylum hearing. We don't want to take away due process. We have to do an asylum hearing.
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Well, okay, but we have a backlog, so we have to give them a court date in the asylum courts, but it's going to be a while from now. It might be six months. It might be a year. It might be six years. That's just how it is. We've got to give them due process, and then you let them into the U.S., the court hearing date comes around, What if they don't show up?
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Oh, well, we've ordered ICE to only focus on finding dangerous criminals, so we're not going to prioritize finding those people who blow off their asylum here. It's all a joke. It was all a sham. Trump comes in and he says, all right, sham's over. You don't get your asylum hearing if we catch you crossing here illegally. Got to go to the port of entry. Deal with it.
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And we're going to replace the guy at the top of the immigration courts. We're going to hire new people at the immigration courts. We're going to clear the backlog. And we're going to say that ICE can go find people, arrest people. It's... There's multiple orders going into this, but it's the sheer aggression of saying all those things you supposedly can't do. Yeah, we're doing it.
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And I look forward to one of these things we're going to hear. The left is all going to say. well, we can't let, you know, these countries aren't going to take their illegal immigrants back. Well, I think we can get pretty creative on that front. I have some friends who I think are going, who are going to be going in that field, and I'm telling them, well, guys, good news.
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Most of the world borders a body of water, so we can go and we can drop them in a little dinghy with a rowboat and tell them to go back to their country. I'm really looking forward to this. I think the administration is serious. Stephen Miller knows what he wants to do. It's awesome. That all collectively is my second favorite thing.
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I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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You saw it in his interview last night.
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They put me through hell.
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I just got a word from Philadelphia. I'm going to be digging into this bigger, but, uh, Possible breaking news word that ICE is conducting raids in Kensington, Philadelphia. Kensington is that area where you see the fentanyl zombies going around back and forth. And so your biggest fentanyl dealers in the city, of course, many of whom have cartel ties, are going to be servicing that.
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And so that's exactly where they go because they know where all the fentanyl zombies are. And yeah, I just got word from someone that's down in Philly that and again, it's, you know, caveat, caveat, caveat. But yeah, something that I mean, I wouldn't be surprised down there. I wouldn't be surprised. A lot of sense.
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Charlie, we just got – it's rumor status, but this is Thought Crime, so why not? We got a rumor that ICE is up in Kensington, Philadelphia tonight. Oh, really? Yeah, where all the fentanyl zombies are. Unbelievable. I mean, just going after all the dealers down there. I mean, they're merchants of death.
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Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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Well, he's wrong. He's going back to Haiti.
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Well he's wrong, he's going back to Haiti.
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it really was i still can't believe that that it's it literally was like what you'd have from a propaganda video the guy's like i'm not going back to hootie f trump i love biden i love obama for what they did to me and he's like scowling and looking terrifying it's it's like you you couldn't have made the ad better like unbelievable
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You kind of want Trump to sort of just be the cheerleader for America.
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And then, like, what's great about a J.D. Vance is that he can sort of... hunker down, do the day-to-day stuff, go around the department. I would love to see JD Vance like showing up. He'll be, he'll be making site visits, you know, making site visits.
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He's famous for this. So why not? It's kind of like in, in the Navy, we would have, you know, the COXO kind of relationship where the, where the XO is the, is the executive officer of the ship. And his job is like, you know, make sure the ship's running properly, make sure all the departments are functioning. And then the CEO, his job is where's the ship going? What's the mission? What,
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Are we clearly defining the mission? Does the mission make sense? That's the CEO's job. And then the XO, that's J.D. Vance. So J.D. Vance is – I want him to make any – and by the way, not just here in D.C., but all around the country.
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Oh, gosh.
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J.D. did post his.
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Wasn't there something where J.D. didn't release it, but it was actually like a Chinese outlet released it or something? I have no idea.
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Oh, I know what you're talking about. It's got a, it's got a, oh gosh. Yeah. I'm like bringing for it. I know what you're talking about.
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so that if as the, as the vice president Han Jung, if he was going around someone, if he had a signal collector on him, then what they could do is time the video up with the signal collector. So when Charlie Kirk walks up, then boom, if you, so did you have your cell phone on you?
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Was your cell phone on?
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Well, there you go. So then boom, That number pops up in the signal collector, and he can say, oh, this number must be associated with this person.
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Yeah, because the problem with the signal collector like that is when you go into a crowd, you're going to get all the signals, but they're not going to be associated with
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individuals and that's why you need to pair it with the video so you can determine okay that we charlie kirk walks by and then boom we collected the signal you have to remember you have to remember this was happening while joe biden was still president and we should never forget this we should just never forget how joe biden was the worst freaking president Ever. This is a true headline.
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I'm reading it verbatim from Politico. This happened in 2022. DOJ shuts down China-focused anti-espionage program. The China initiative is being cast aside largely because of perceptions that it unfairly painted U.S. residents of Chinese origin as disloyal. They stopped doing China counter-espionage
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because they were worried it was racist, that their China counter espionage focused too much on people from China. They hated America.
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And, and, and for all I know, you know, they've, they've probably got AI loaded on there. They've probably got facial recognition. They could have something where they could even have something where depending on the fidelity, I mean, you talk about Han Jong, this guy's the vice president of China. Oh, funny enough. I actually met him, uh,
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like almost 20 years ago when he was the mayor of Shanghai, because he happened to be the mayor when I lived there. And they could have collections on there with high enough fidelity that they were picking up every conversation in the room at the same time,
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And then using AI to isolate voices and break it out so that they could later go back and listen to every single individual private conversation.
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This guy – I mean this guy – so to give you a little background on him, so having been the – he was the mayor of Shanghai when – but the mayor in China is not the highest position in the city.
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Well, Shanghai is kind of provincial level, correct, which is correct. Beijing is similar. So – but that's not the highest ranking official in an area because whoever is highest ranking is always going to be your party secretary. So the party secretary is always going to outrank whoever the official mayor is.
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And the party secretary of Shanghai, when this guy was the mayor, was a guy by the name of Xi Jinping. So this guy and Xi Jinping go way, way, way back. He was instrumental in getting Xi Jinping picked to the Politburo all the way back in 2012 when he ascended up and to the presidency, quote unquote, chairmanship when he came up. So he's been along with them.
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So this is one of his most trusted guys.
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chose to invite president g and then he sent his vice president was fairly remarkable and newsworthy it's not really done no it's it's not something that's really done uh foreign leaders don't don't i don't think i've ever come to a presidential inauguration before it's something and and it's funny too because uh trump clearly just it's just free money that's just sitting on the table and he just goes and picks it up because obviously in the back of his head he's remembering king charles's coronation ceremony which was you know only a couple like what a couple of months ago
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And all the world leaders went to that. So why wouldn't they come to his inauguration ceremony? It just just makes sense.
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Yeah, it's actually funny because Trump is extremely popular within China. Oh, yeah. Like the Chinese people love him. They can't get enough of him. They just there's like if you go on the Chinese version of TikTok, you'll find all sorts of people doing like impersonations of Trump and using it in using like Trump impersonations in ads. And they just they think he's great.
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The Wall Street Journal famous Raheem Kassam, by the way. You see that piece on his new club this morning? I did, yeah. Have you guys been by yet? Butterworths? Butterworths.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You got to go, man. Raheem's new club downtown. It's right on Capitol Hill. Had huge profile in the Wall Street Journal this morning.
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For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Have you debriefed this yet? I guess we don't have any national security confirmed cabinet members yet.
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See, I had the same situation, although it was with other Republicans when we were at the ball. And I was like, you know, this would really go viral with a certain, I don't know, maybe congresswoman from South Carolina or certain other conservative talkers. But, you know, I was like, you know what? It's a day for unity. It's a day for the president. It's not a day for that.
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It's not a day for that. Right, Charlie?
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No Michelle. I don't know. I don't know what's going on there. Jennifer Aniston would have trouble in paradise.
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Charlie, is it DCTC? It's like a DCTC. It's a DCTC.
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But I want to know how many fights there are, and I don't see that in the play-by-play here.
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One thing I've always liked about hockey is that hockey is one of the only games where fighting is like, it's like a part of the game. There's rules about it. There's certain penalty time allotted to it. Other, you know, like football, it's okay, you get a personal foul or something.
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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. And so, uh, when that, when that game, I guess it was last week when that match took place, um, I, the, 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, um,
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I was just, you need to watch this, kids. You need to watch, you know, the United States of America just kicking the crap out of some canucks because, honestly, they really deserve it for booing the national anthem. 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 back. We're here to stay.
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We're not going anywhere. And when it gets in our face, like, you're... Well, okay.
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Greenland, I'm all in for. I'm all in for Greenland. And Panama. It doesn't have the baggage. Well, Panama is ours by right. So Panama is ours, and that shouldn't even be a question. That shouldn't even be a discussion. That's actually ours. There was a historical issue, a historical mistake. that obviously needs to be corrected.
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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.
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Because let's just say there are shenanigans afoot this evening. And we believe we also have the great Andrew Colvette joining us.
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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. But when it comes to The Panama Canal, it's a joke. It's ours by right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It's ours by right of the fact that we built it, that we bled for it, that red, white, and blue created it, and it would not exist otherwise. 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. The United States has provided the defensive shield for Greenland since World War II.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And yes, that does grant us certain rights to it, whether you like it or not. 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 vis-a-vis NATO, is being able to defend yourselves. If you are not able to defend your own nation, then are you really a fully sovereign nation? Probably not. That's obviously.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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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. Yeah. Go for it. Go for it. But the reason you have the welfare state that you do in Europe, It's because the United States provides for your defense.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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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. 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. So you've got no defense.
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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. It's so simple. But, Blake, I'd love to hear your thoughts on that sovereignty point right there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Oh, there you go. Much better than the Ukrainian oligarchs I was hanging out with last week. No, I was not sent to the front lines, by the way, like Blake Neff.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, at this point, Canada's national identity is just being like anti-America. That's that's basically their whole, you know, their whole. that we're anti-America and America is big and loud. And Pierre Polivet, or however you say his name, Pierre Poliver, the apple-eating guy,
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Who I've always like I've always said from the very minute that he put that video out that it's just it's just very rude and kind of disgusting to eat on camera like that while you're talking to someone that, you know, attacking. So he decided in this moment to attack President Trump rather than side with President Trump against Trudeau.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Which is, 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. You're going to side with all of people that are like Adam Schiff and Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi and all the rest and attack Trump.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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and try to call yourself Canada first by attacking Trump, rather than saying, yes, President Trump is right about the current government. We do need to do better in Canada. And Trudeau has been in power for how long there? 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.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But no, he decided to sit. And if you remember, by the way, I've seen this out a couple of places where Trudeau is actually coming out and saying that he's taking the opposite track. He's saying that we do need to embrace America. America is our partner. We do need to work together. So I don't know. It might just be that Trudeau is a better politician than old Pierre the Appalachian.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, I got to say, you know, being invited by Secretary Hegseth and Secretary Besant with these European trips, with this really being this massive Trump delegation, a peace delegation, by the way,
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I miss 80s Canada. Remember 80s Canada? It was so good. Remember Strange Brew with, like, Bob and Doug McKenzie and, you know, the Canadian tuxedo and everybody dresses in denim and, like, drinking hockey. Drinking beer, playing hockey. Canadian bacon, right? Where's the Canadian bacon Canada? That was the Canada that I thought, the movie, by the way, which I believe was written by Michael Moore.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Funny enough.
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He did do that. He did, unfortunately, do that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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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. And then, of course, J.D. Vance in Munich on the heels of that. Look, I'll say it like this. It's a huge honor, but it's also a huge responsibility.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
And then Chris Farley? Yeah, with like right around the same time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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His wife murdered him like right around like a year later.
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It's a wild story.
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Yeah, I'd heard that as well, but, you know, he was trying to work with her and stuff, but you just, you have this really weird, you know, kind of, people look back on the 90s with nostalgia, but there were some really tragic stories that came out of the 90s.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
O.J. Simpson came up at that time, but, you know, totally didn't do it, though. Of course, of course O.J. didn't do it. We all know that.
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Yeah, for all.
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But nevertheless... I just kept thinking about... 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. 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.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But because they were told you're not allowed to make fun of Obama. And from that point on, it just became utterly ridiculous and a shell of itself. But they used to have so much great content and so many good actors and just incredible talent. People who came from that era were incredible. And instead, you would see these replays of it, I guess.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I've seen a few clips of SNL 50th anniversary, but it just reminds me of like, oh yeah, that's a show that used to be good, but now it's not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I did miss that. He eviscerated that. He eviscerated that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
The President Trump's White House has embraced what I believe is called radical transparency.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
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
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
No, it's 1-1. No, no. Did we score? Yes! It's 1-1. USA is on the board, baby. Brady Kachuk, literally, like, I think as you said that, it just happened.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Kachuk, like his dad.
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Right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Oh, yeah. They're the Bash brothers.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
having a front row seat to actual world history. 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. And of course, as you say, they were losing their minds that I would be invited on these trips. And I said, what, what, Look, what are you afraid of me showing?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Basically, the way I look at it is their brain is so – like the man bun 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. When I see one of these things, I mean, like you just – you look at this creature, this individual. I don't even know how to describe the clearly andronomous physiognomy. Androgynous. Yes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Androgynous.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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do it charges i'm still like all jet lag uh physiognomy and and 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 walk around as a dude like cleavage and by the way whoa whoa hold on 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
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
I don't know if any of those people are. I...
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
What actually happens behind closed doors? Because that's exactly what we did. We told I took people directly into the meetings. I showed people what it was like. We put up a whole special episode. We called it the night train to Kiev that people can go see at human events daily on podcasts or wherever.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
And we can actually show you what it's like traveling to Kiev in wartime, being there with the secretary, having these discussions. And then, of course, the world leaders losing their minds that President Trump would conduct himself with this direct diplomacy in ways that we haven't seen really since the 19th century in many ways.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
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.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
They were saying we didn't have American Indians in the first. This was a heroes was something that came up in the 45 administration. So there you go. That is obviously, you know, a just a shout out to a great American Indian. Elizabeth Warren.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
So, I mean, you know, we were in Kiev, so we're in the Capitol. Look, Ukraine's a massive country. So Kiev of course itself is way is away from the far line for a front line. So pretty out several hours away, but actually it's,
The Charlie Kirk Show
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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. It was one of those ones that kind of got deflected. 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.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And in fact, we visited a hospital that had been hit back last summer. So this is a real war. This is something where people have been normal because it's been normalized, right? It's been three years now in a sense, but people are used to now living on a regular basis with air raid sirens,
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And then Stephen Crowder did a voice on Arthur. Did you know that?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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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 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.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And by the way, for the average person, it seemed like the air raid sirens go off and they're nonplussed by it because they're almost used to it after three years. But Andrew, we go to the Hilton in Kiev, so the Hilton downtown Kiev, and we're only there for an hour.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
They say, get off the train, go shower, shave, get your suit on because, you know, we're going to the prime minister and then the ministry of finance and then finally president. And so we go in and as we're, you know, just sort of doing the registration and checking in, there's a little... little piece of paper there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
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. And then there was also a little map on it that said, oh, in case of air raids, our closest bunker is right across the street. So just located there. So when the air raid siren goes off, don't worry, just
The Charlie Kirk Show
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file down here you'll see everyone we'll go across the street 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 check process like 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 so it was it's kind of surreal in the center 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 the air raid you know
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Obviously it's, it's very jarring as well.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
There was a line that I said this to, I forget if 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? And they want you to put you in this box where you say Ukraine versus Russia, Ukraine versus Russia, Ukraine versus Russia.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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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. That's what they don't understand about populist nationalists.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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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. As the second time, the second visit that I've made there during the war that started three years ago, First time was in May of 2022, just a couple of weeks after it began, a couple of months, I guess.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
But 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.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
as opposed to looking at the reality on the ground and saying, look, you know, this stuff is academic for us as Americans, 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.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
And of course we're rooting for the team, but in, 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. It's the real war and total war is the realest thing that can possibly happen in a society where And it's something where it should be avoided at all costs, if at all possible.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And that's obviously what President Trump and J.D. Banz were elected to do. And that's what they're doing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, it's good people, and this is a cousin war. By the way, to Christian nations, to the Christians out there, do you really want to see another war where Christians are getting blown up, where Christians are being killed? You know, at the end of the day, people want to sit there and say what they want about NATO. They use this phrase in the military all the time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
And they say, look, you know, you've got your plans. You've got your operational. They call it a CONOP, concept of operations. So you have your concept of operations. But a good operational planner will always remember that guess what? The end is a vote. The enemy gets a vote. And in the real world, you can't just do whatever you want.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If you're at the park and 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 attack the bear. It's a real world. It's just a real world. And unfortunately, we can't change reality.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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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.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 74 — Canada v. USA? Man Bun Feminism? Garden of American Heroes?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another edition of Thought Prime Thursday. This is Jack Posobiec coming to you from a little bit of an undisclosed location, but I am here in Washington, D.C., where Kash Patel was just named and confirmed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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as your next fbi director at 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 what's up blake howdy jack are you in are you in like some kind of laundry room there or but it's a very official studious office right now that i am borrowing from and uh
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We are very, do we have any now? Cause I can, I can look this up. I'm like on, 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? I've got no, have there been any fights yet? Because last time we got like three fights, the Kachuk brothers were just bashing them like the old bash brothers in the Flyers days.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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when he himself is the one making the entire thing about race it's it's classic cry bullyism where don't do this don't do this don't do this you see this is all about race you guys are making it all about race so he's attacking you while doing the exact same thing he's accusing you of doing. And he attacks Trump. He attacks Trump.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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He attacks all of society, basically makes allusions to systemic racism, filming these videos as if it's some kind of documentary. And what he's really doing with the
The Charlie Kirk Show
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press conference today and it's just my draw hit the floor when i saw that they were doing this it's a classic example of darvo and darvo and i had a tweet out on this earlier today it's called darvo and it's a narcissistic tactic but you see it happen a lot
The Charlie Kirk Show
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with certain types of politics typically found on the far left or in grievance politics where it goes through deny attack and then reverse victim and offender this is also by the way that they threw the father of austin metcalf out of the room because of course you cannot play the victim card when an actual victim is present and so not only did they you know kind of ironically
The Charlie Kirk Show
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demand that the father of Austin Metcalf move from his seat. But when he refused to move from his seat, well, they called the police on the father of the boy who was stabbed to death and bled out in his twin brother's arms at a track meet.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, basically. And I'm sorry, but the family ordered this. The family didn't have to choose this guy. They could have picked someone. They clearly want to, right? She's standing right there throughout all of this. She's endorsing everything that he's saying. She doesn't at once say, hey, let's not racialize this. In fact...
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It was the father of Austin Metcalf, who originally said, let's not racialize this. Let's just make this about two individuals. Yeah, the day after. He said, I don't want to make this a race thing. And then all of a sudden, it was the family of the perpetrator. I'll say alleged perpetrator, whatever, for legal purposes, but it was not the family of the son. That's what I mean. He did admit to it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So he said, it's not alleged. I did this. I'm not laughing. I shouldn't be laughing, but it's just such a joke. It's clown world. This is clown world on steroids. This family has decided to tear apart their entire community, by the way. By the way, at one point, I think it's later in the press conference, he even... He even starts attacking the school district.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I think it's the Frisco ISD, Independent School District, because they're going to be expelling Carmelo. He said, how dare you expel him? He's only weeks away from graduation. He stabbed a kid to death.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, I will say, though, by the way, I've been keeping an eye out for like so you see how all the high level Democrats and Chris Van Hollen are all in on this gangbanger. Yeah, nobody. And I've really been looking for this. Nobody has bid on this one because they all realize like this ain't the one. You know, this is this is really not the one to get into.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And yeah, there's there's no really high profile individual on the left at all. We'll see. You know, we'll see. And I will certainly find it if it does happen. By the way, as we're doing this, I believe speaking of the MS-13 guy, I believe he actually just they just released some pictures of him meeting with, you know, breaking news, meeting with Senator Chris Van Hollen. So apparently he's not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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in the death and torture camps but he uh apparently they went and like got margaritas or something um down in el salvador which is pretty amazing so yeah uh we've seen them go all in on the gangbanger but no they have not gone in on the child stabber just yet now everybody's looking it up yeah he's like yeah no it's it's it's incredible like i guess bukele let him out
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It's just like this is our country now. This is the country we have to live in. You know, each case that comes up is, you know, we got to litigate each piece of it. Yeah, there we go.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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There's Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Bukele posted the pictures himself on X. I think he actually kind of broke the story.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It's not a foreign prison. They keep saying, oh, they sent him to a foreign prison. They sent him to a foreign prison. It's not a foreign prison for him. That is his regular prison because he's from El Salvador. I'll be honest.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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They kind of they kind of did that at the White House when he was sitting there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, so the gang information report, I hadn't personally heard this. I'm not – I wouldn't consider myself an MS-13 expert. But they were actually saying that it was known within the gang locally, at least within – I guess it was the western section of the MS-13, that the wearing of different sports teams and sports logos was to denote various symbols within the gang.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So it was like the – it wasn't that he was wearing the Chicago Bulls hat because he was a – fan, but that because he was a bull and he had been given this like, you know, this, you know, permission to wear the bull's hat for some reason. So I don't I don't know if he was wearing it because he was a fan per se.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But again, this would this came out with the attorney general's office put out yesterday that not only was he a member of MS-13 and arrested with other high ranking members of MS-13, but he had A rank in MS-13. He had a gang name in MS-13 and he was well known to other people in MS-13.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So, yeah, you've got this situation where, you know, the senator goes down there and he doesn't actually represent this guy. He doesn't at all. You're not a citizen of the United States. You've never had legal permission to be in this country. You are not a constituent of Chris Van Hollen. But I'm just going to go to show you. Look, the Democrats get optics, man.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Republicans would never do political theater like this. Republicans don't. You know, we couldn't even get anyone to go to Fort Knox. When all that was going on and where's the gold and people were asking questions about that, the Democrats understand this. This is going to be a huge propaganda victory for them. The story is going to get legs for another week or so.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And they're going to say, look at this, you know, this poor guy. And, you know, he certainly looks like a, you know, a Maryland dad in this picture. So right now I'm going to say this is a W for Democrats. It just is. It just is. And it is an L for Americans.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We have his Creed album there. That's really – yeah. On CD, of course.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 80 — Karmelo Anthony "Race War?" AI Action Figures? Charlie Gets High?
Yeah, why am I so – why is it like midget Pozo? Yeah, what's up with that? Wait, go back. Was Charlie full-size Charlie or is Charlie Stumpy? I don't think Charlie was – yeah, see, you didn't do it to Charlie. What's up with that? Charlie, you guys got to get like – you need a coffee sponsor, man. You can't keep repping Starbucks like that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And then I think that's all we made. I don't think we made any other. Oh, dude, I can't do that. I can't do that. I can't do it. I can't do it. Nope. What? I can't do eating sounds. I can't do it. I can't do it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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No, I can't do it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Charlie's still hot. Oh, no, no, it's okay. Actually, I've got my IFB separated, so I don't think I can hear it now.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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They say they say that that high IQ individuals, that high IQ tends to correlate with like, you know, these you know, these types of like quirks. So like, you know, being really, you know, having real you know, this issue with like smell or having an issue with. Oh, totally. Just random sensory things that wouldn't bother the average person.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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They also say that it correlates with creativity, actually.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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This has millions of views on, like, YouTube and TikTok.
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The lips aren't even legit. There's a whole genre of these. Like, Barron, there's America's Got Talent. This is actually a good song, though. This song is awful. This is a lot better than the Beyonce country music album.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I'm just going to say this. I'm just going to say this. Like, I love my dad. My dad's my hero, but I've noticed with like him and his friends that, Like, he'll run it by me, but he'll be like, is this real? Is this real? For, like, all this kind of stuff.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And it's, like, it's kind of funny because it's, like, for those of us who sort of grew up on the internet or, you know, got introduced to it, whatever, that we kind of have this general...
The Charlie Kirk Show
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disassociation with the like knowing what something's real and something's not or you know meme culture you know you know it's not real but for certain types of people you know they're just so used to like i see it therefore i believe it and there isn't there's never that extra step of like oh i don't think that's real and unfortunately the way the algorithms work now
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 80 — Karmelo Anthony "Race War?" AI Action Figures? Charlie Gets High?
Yes, my action figure is 100% real, by the way, made not in America, but also not in China. They are 100% made in El Salvador, actually at the prison itself by the prisoners. It is, in fact, their punishment to have to make Jack Posobiec action figures for a certain subset. And of course, we're going to be working on on Charlie Kirk.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Funny enough, a lot of the older women really want the Blake Knapp action figure. I don't understand why.
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Bukele just retweeted me, so I'm going to hit him up. I'm going to see if we can get a little product line going. Yeah, let's give him the URL to these.
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Yeah, we're like the old Star Wars action figures where you could just move the arms up and down, and that's about it.
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Yeah, Charlie, I mean, this is a situation where, I mean, it started out as a tragedy, but it's now been turned into a circus, really, by the conduct of this individual who, look, you know, I'm always one of these guys who says, you know, don't make it about the family. You know, let's leave the families out of it. Let's just talk about the individuals who were, you know, involved in the case. But
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This family advocate that, you know, whatever people want to call this guy or whatever he calls himself, was hired by the family. So this was who they chose after receiving all this money from the Give, Send, Go that's, you know, going into the account there. Huge, huge outpouring. And suddenly it's turned into a circus. And they say, don't make this about race. Don't make this about race.
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This is where she says it's appalling because there's just lots of crime and everybody's getting hurt. It's not just white South Africans. 255.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So the Trump administration, they're saying that essentially these white South Africans assimilate better, and they're also not as much of a security risk. That's really causing a lot of people to be appalled, frankly.
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And I also should tell people that this violence that they're talking about that are dealing with these Afrikaners, I've been hearing from people that say there is violence in South Africa, but it's affecting everybody of every single race, Katie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I mean, you're totally right. This relates to like BLM writing where people were just like.
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like the liberal media was bending over backwards twisting themselves into pretzels to try and justify the looting it's like a form of reparations or this is what happens what what was aoc saying that that you know riots are the language of a of a oh that would i mean they would all quote mlk because he said something of that something of that well i forget what the quote is but it's like riots are the language of a of the unheard of the unheard yes there's something
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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and and i think that's kind of the way that liberal progressives are looking at the south africa they look at the fact that they own 70 of the land and they think that that's not fair even though i mean there is a very clear case to be made that if you just took all that land and gave it to black south africans that you would see the productivity like fall off a cliff and would they be able to even marshal the resources to be productive again is a large question mark i mean there is i mean that's really besides the point because they don't want productivity what they want
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Well, I totally agree.
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that is what i mean that's fundamentally what undergirds any marxist leninist but i do think that they think in their back of their minds like if we could just seize this land and give it to the black south africans everything would be better because our our people would then share with all the wealth the thing that i get that it's beside the point it's a secondary point but like i'm challenging that assumption being like if you stole all that land
The Charlie Kirk Show
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there is not a single guarantee that it would be productive moving forward. I don't know the example of Zimbabwe, like how it's gone after, but it doesn't seem like it's gone very well after they drove all the white farmers out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, one of the only other functional sub-Saharan African nations is Kenya, which is also in the English system. So it's like you look at the way that we do laws and the way that we have customs and a form of government. I mean, the English exports across the world succeeded at the highest clip, I would say, ever. And what they're doing is trying to dismantle that vestige as well as the –
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I wonder what their voting rates would be. We have a South African on one of our boards. I wonder if we – but you think it would be like 80-20? 90-10? So some of them are – It's 95.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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jesus didn't marry mary magdalene this is a fictional book the priory of scion is not real well it's kind of like it's kind of like when the snl did that sarah palin skit like i can see russia from my house and everybody actually thought she said it it was actually it was just a just a line from a from an snl skit everyone thought she said i think they still do but it shows you it what it taught me though was the power of memes right
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And when I was growing up, there was already a lot of South Africans at my school. They're super decent people. Well, they were good. That was good family. Very productive, smart kids. We have to be careful.
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Let's go play it.
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oh i get it i i thought it was just a movie clip but it's the tiktok edits that jack's talking about We say Zimbabwe, don't we? Do we? Do we?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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He's like Tom Cruise.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I think he's a good actor. Keanu Reeves is a bad actor. He's also super based and smart. He's a bad actor that has survived. Therefore, he's become likable. It's become a shtick. It's become a staple of our childhood. It's okay now.
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What was the one she got really famous for? The... Hunger Games. Hunger Games, yeah. You've sometimes used Hunger Games.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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That baby Bannon thing, it would be like him doing that monologue.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Should we do baby Bannon?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And then you animate it. This is baby Bannon.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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This 442, if you throw that image up, that is Bannon.
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I forgot about that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Mass adoption of climate change didn't come until after. Isn't there another one coming up, though? It was a virulent subculture. We had that terrible The Day After Tomorrow movie in 2004. The plot was just Ferngully plus Pocahontas.
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So apparently adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind is still... Yeah, Gone with the Wind is still number one.
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I actually like that.
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So nice. And Charlie is joining us. Yes. Yeah. He'll be here in 20 minutes or so. In the blink of an eye.
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Jack, I think we're starting off with Kill the Boar. Well, it's about time. It's about time. It's a terrible thing to say.
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Oh, interesting. Really? I have a friend that's in there. Oh, that's like, that's like, that's like a generic thing.
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Yeah, he was the producer. So was Elon. Elon Musk had a cameo in Thank You for Smoking.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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By the way, you guys will remember this. When this story first hit, I remember it was like two years ago, a year ago, when it first went viral, at least in America, on social media about it.
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I've always liked it better. Full circle.
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There's such an op on the modern American mind of who we villainize because of these movies, right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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um it is plausible that the we hate south africans or a certain cohort hate south africans simply because of the movie depictions and things like that i mean we really have to be on guard for that right i mean we i grew up hating germans when i was like 12 years old because of all the world war ii movies if you want really what was your guys's favorite movie though same oh oh um godfather or lord of the rings oh no we'll go down that track godfather gay
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With Italians being emotional. Dude, this is the thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I could watch The Dark Knight. I agree with you. It's really hard for me to pin one down. I was going to go with The Godfather 2. I like it better than 1, but I love 1. And then I was going to go with Back to the Future 2. 2.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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two two i love going to the future yes i love like the hoverboard stuff and um but like that's just like watchability one better no he goes to the future and it goes back in time it's like it's got everything i'm gonna have another really terrible take you guys are gonna hate me for this but uh goodwill hunting i still love that movie i know i know what is wrong with you oh i i think about the same movie my second top movie is fury i love
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And then he was also on Bill Maher being like, you can't say that about Muslims. One good Ben Affleck movie that doesn't get enough appreciation? The Town. He went back to Boston.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It's legitimately a good film. It's all right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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He's a sick puppy. Kill Bill is objectively...
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Wait, he interviewed him or something?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Do you guys remember the first time you saw Memento? Do you remember that? I have not seen Memento. And even if I had, I would have forgotten it because you don't remember things. I don't want to ruin it, but you should watch Memento.
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Oh, also in a bar. We do actually have topics that we were prepared for.
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The outrageousness of it, like the cartoonishness of having a popular political party in any country, let alone one that's in the G20 and that's hosting international competitions, and we all think of it as part of the League of Nations kind of thing, right? Not necessarily the old vestige of the 1920s or whatever. I just mean they're part of the civilization, right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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To have a political party in a country like that that... says something is outrageous, says kill a certain group of people. And then when you call them out on it, welcome, Charlie, when you call them out on it, they're like, oh, it's just a slogan. It's just like a funny thing we say. It's a historical song. It's just they'll be like, it's a historical protest song.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You can't get mad at us because we're black people that are singing jokingly about killing people.
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Well, not exactly. Because in Germany, they're like, oh.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yamiche from MSNBC. Yamiche. Yamiche. She doesn't have anything to say about that.
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Sushi woman from who looks like she ate sushi. But like deep fried. But the the the point is that she's like got nothing to say about that. And yet she was what was her what was her line? I'm appalled. I think we have a clip. She was appalled. Everybody's frankly appalled that we're letting in 50 white Afrikaners. that literally are under attack.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I'm hearing laughing and I don't like it. The South Africans say kill the boar and us Huskies say something the ducks that rhymes with ducks. And I'm just going to say it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I didn't know. I was like, Tyler, that's your usual seat. I'll sit over here. It was a setup.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So this is like a funny ongoing joke that we have here at the Charlie Kirk Show. I have a lot of problems with this. Charlie and accents are like, everybody thinks he's just making fun of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but that's literally the best he can do. I think my personal favorite is that with Bolsonaro...
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But this feels like a perfect example of Michael Anton's Celebration Parallax. Because if you listen to the media, they're like... It's not happening, but it's good. But it's good that it is like this is it.
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This is like a real thing.
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THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 76 — Cannibal Democrats? Subscription Services? VR Prisons?
Yeah, you know, I mean, it's like the great line. They always used to go after Trump for this, for saying, you know, he's talking about illegals, but he always used to bring up Hannibal Lecter on the campaign trail saying, you know, Hannibal Lecter, he wants to have you for dinner. And, you know, talking about the emptying of prisons.
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And he would sort of use this as a, you know, a sobriquet to explain sort of the insanity that was going on. But, Charlie, you know, I think it really goes to show you that, When we talk about the insanity that is perpetuated in the United States today, and it makes me think of something we talked about last year in our book that we identified called the fried mental model.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And there's a lot of people out there that just have an absolutely fried mental model of the world. Many of them are located in some of these places. That are hotbeds of of leftism, like a lot of the Washington area is this is the state of Washington. So you got Seattle up there. That's where Chaz took place. I witnessed just just insane levels of depravity and degeneracy when I was there.
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But of course, you see it all throughout the Pacific Northwest. And, you know, these sort of things used to be confined to those areas. But now because of the Internet and because of TikTok, these types of ideas, these types of social contagions and these types of ideals are spread everywhere. They're just all over the place.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, there's been some reports about some bad actors going on and targeting, it seems to be, conservative influencers or a group of people, you know, sort of associated with conservative politics. One is a host at Infowars, Chase Geithner. This, of course, comes our geyser.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And so it's almost like they sort of have a race to the bottom that's going on because leftist politics actually incentivizes this kind of behavior in certain ways. So so that in order to be more risque, in order to be more taboo against the social order, you must push yourself to further and further extreme behaviors. And that's exactly what you have, because you can't take out the fact. Right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You can't take out the fact only say only fans, trans cannibal fetish, but also that this thing was running for office. also views all of that through the political lens. So in leftist politics, these types of things are inseparable. They are inseparable from leftist politics. I have a question. This is a feature. This is not a bug.
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Oh, that's totally different. That's not the same. I follow it. So the Patriots win is like a separate website they set up. Forget it.
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No, no, no.
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This comes on the heels, of course, of I believe it's a separate incident, but of course, a horrific murder of a an Infowars staffer a couple of days ago in Austin. But then also and this is, you know, kind of new to me. I'm just coming to it. But Sean Farash, Gunther Edgington and potentially others. People are asking, texting me, saying, hey, you guys, OK?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Blake, have you ever heard of the scientific idea of a generation spaceship?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So I've read some theories about that where in a generation ship. So, guys, that means like a like, you know, the possibility for interstellar travel. But because it takes so long to travel there at sublight speeds that you would have multiple generations of families living on the ship before it gets from one planet to the other. And that one of the potential uses for.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And my parents, people know, were swatted. A year ago at Christmas time. And since then, the individual who did that, I was going to pull up the case a second ago. I was just looking it up. was actually found and extradited to the United States. It was actually a foreign case, but I guess this guy thought that he could get away with it, but he could not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The older generation that dies would then be for their bodies and protein to go into like either, you know, creating like a biosphere type thing on the ship or go into some sort of like hydroponic thing or be able to use in the ship's energy, etc. It's kind of like a matrix sort of thing. I don't know. It's just something.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And so it seems to me there's another round of swattings that's going on right now. And honestly, it's something where, I'll just put it like this, this needs to be looked at for what it is. The reason that these are done is because they want the police to go in there, guns blazing. They want to generate particularly when you're targeting conservatives. A lot of us are gun owners.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I mean, if he did have video games, I don't think he'd be playing them. I mean, look, you know, it also depends on where you're at. There's different places. Peter Navarro, Dr. Navarro was in sort of a work camp situation. It depends on who you're in with. I mean, look, prison is prison. Like, I'm not going to say that it's not, you know, something that it isn't right deal it's not this this this
The Charlie Kirk Show
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um coddled you know college atmosphere collegiate atmosphere or something like that like a community college dorm or something but at the at the idea though is that there's way too much look i'll talk about what i know about so when i was i served a year about uh you're at guantanamo bay and that's based off of the federal correctional institutes and we had we had some areas there we had some areas there where they had like apartments with uh with kitchens um now that was for like extremely good behavior but yeah you could have like an apartment and a kitchen
The Charlie Kirk Show
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A lot of us are strong enthusiasts in exercising our Second Amendment. I know I certainly am. And so they want to create a situation that could lead to a potential fatal incident or fatal harm. So when I look at these swatting incidents, They could go sideways very quickly. Now, of course, what's great with with my situation is that we've been very, very close with law enforcement.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You could like cook your own food and like a single apartment and you could like walk around even. It was amazing.
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Our law enforcement has been great in terms of this, in terms of their response. Once you realize what was actually going on. But this needs to be looked at from a federal level. And we got Kash Patel over at the FBI. We've got Pam Bondi at the attorney general's office. And by the way, I've always said this and I've been very clear about this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I don't care what side of the political aisle you're on. This is something that this is why doxing is so evil. This is why swatting is so evil in general, because it can lead to killing. It can lead to it can lead to fatal outcomes. If someone's not getting knocked at the door, they don't know what's going on. You know, people do a no knock rage, these types of things.
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Yeah.
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So sometimes they go they go very smoothly and sometimes they don't. And it's happened in the past or You know, someone who doesn't know what's going on answers the door. All sorts of things can take place. So, look, I'd say this to anybody, though, who's, you know, who's in this situation or if you think you might be in a situation like this, make sure you be proactive.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Call local law enforcement. Get on. the books with them, find out whoever the local shift, you know, whoever's running the shift on there and, you know, tell them, hey, you know, I might be a potential I might be a potential target of this or this might be something that's going on. You know, try to, you know, hopefully have some friends in your local community and local law enforcement.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I know I certainly do. And that's something that helped us a lot. And there's also, by the way, I'll say this as well. There are services out there. So a lot of these a lot of these pull from those publicly available databases. Everybody knows about them where you can look up people's addresses and things like this online. Well, there are actually services that you can get and pay for.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I'm not advertising any here, but just go and look into it yourself where you can go and get it. And it's a little bit of money, but it's not that much money actually at the end of the day where they can run real-time monitoring and actually get your information pulled down from those websites on a rolling basis.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, no, I mean, look, this this kind of goes back to, you know, funny enough, like it goes back to what I was saying in the other segment where we've just got too many people in this country that have this fried mental model that are like over socialized. People are way too invested in politics, into their personal lives.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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They bring these things out and they bring these things up as if it's some kind of like deep seated thing. Commitment to them. And look, you know, I certainly want people to understand what's going on in their country. But the idea that you're going to run your entire life over what someone's views on like BLM are or or some, you know, some kind of like.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And then sometimes if it gets leaked somehow or even – and it includes, by the way, other PII like email addresses, phone numbers. You can get family members on there, etc., So I get that. I pay for that for my family, and that's something that's helped us really, really well, get it down from those public sites. It works great.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Like if you're just like some normie, like that's that's not actually a good situation for the country. Right. Like we don't want to be so over politicized. We want people to be getting married and having kids and sort of going on about their life and they're having their quality of life be somewhat stable and living in a system that's somewhat stable.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So the fact that the fact that politics in general is so mainstreamed is insane. it just kind of shows how bad things have gotten up into this point, you know, up through the 2024 moment, the 2020 moment, obviously. Because in a stable society, you know, people are just kind of going about their lives. And you're not going to be mixing politics with, like,
The Charlie Kirk Show
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a dating show go back to uh what was the old um oh my gosh the dating show on mtv uh back in the day like the original dating show the one that sean duffy was on singled out thank you singled out uh producer fuzz got me in the chat um and like you would never ever hear anyone talk about politics on a dating show in the 90s it literally didn't exist it's like What music do you listen to?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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What movies do you like? That's awesome. You know, and just not a thing. Yeah, and everyone's chatting that Sean Duffy and his wife actually met on The Real World, which was the original reality TV show. Rachel Campos Duffy and their incredible family and obviously incredible relationship that actually started on another reality show also on MTV called The Real World.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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No, I would say no. I would say no. I don't even think The Apprentice is a reality TV. I disagree.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Oh, wait, no, Blake, I think that's the ones who targeted my parents.
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I made a point.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So my kids are kind of at the age where they're starting to get video game curious. We don't have games in the house, but they'll like – You know, we have like a like one of those smart TVs.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And so they could see they could see kind of like, you know, videos of people playing games or they'll they'll go through the store and look at games and you look at stuff and you're like, OK, Minecraft is just a rip off of Legos and 3D. Roblox is just a rip off of Minecraft.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 76 — Cannibal Democrats? Subscription Services? VR Prisons?
uh there's another one uh actually cernovich was telling me about it the other day that his kids are into and i looked into it and i'm like this is just a rip-off of all the same games again and then when you go and look at like the actual popular non sort of like building things games it's literally all the same characters that were popular in like the late 80s early 90s it's like here's another mario here's another sonic
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 76 — Cannibal Democrats? Subscription Services? VR Prisons?
Here's another Ninja Turtles and on and on and on. And it's like the one I'll throw it out like the one that the only one that I've heard that's like kind of new is Five Nights at Freddy's, which I'm not even going to get into right now. But like the vast majority of games that you go out and see right now, like just, you know, walking through the aisle looking, I'm like, wait a minute.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 76 — Cannibal Democrats? Subscription Services? VR Prisons?
These are all the exact same games and characters that were around like 30 years ago.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 76 — Cannibal Democrats? Subscription Services? VR Prisons?
Wait, one or two?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 76 — Cannibal Democrats? Subscription Services? VR Prisons?
One did really well and then two was super rushed. It was unfinished and they used a different developer.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 76 — Cannibal Democrats? Subscription Services? VR Prisons?
I assure you. No matter what Charlie Kirk does, the sun will be out the same amount of time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
I just remember that some, I mean, I remember all the videos coming out of China and being like, what is going on with this? Cause I would read and I still do from time to time, not as much as I did back then, but I would read like Chinese social media in, in read the Mandarin stuff and be like,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
wait, China has never acted like this in response to anything before, because there's this whole thing in Chinese history where the idea that the arrival of pestilence or the arrival of a plague or like invasion or something means that the current leadership has lost the mandate of history and lost the mandate of heaven. And so, um,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
on the very first episode of War Room Pandemic, which started right around that same week, I came on and I was talking about how the people were like, oh, China's just trying to get us scared. And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. China wouldn't do that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Like, that's why Xi Jinping says this virus is a demon from hell, because he doesn't want people to think that means the CCP has lost the mandate of heaven. So I was like, this is very out of character for the CCP to do anything like this. And that's what really clued me in that something was going on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
God's time. Yeah. And her time is the time of God.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But if Charlie wants to side with FDR – Daylight savings time is an affront to God. It flies in the face of God's physics and God's creation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
It's called winter.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
You know, Huberman totally disagrees with that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Huberman 100% disagrees. Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
No, Huberman, then maybe it was the wording because Huberman is totally against it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
I have a whole philosophy that – Some of us actually just live on the East Coast. Well, I'm temporarily on the East Coast.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
You're at East Coast time at all times. Imagine how the West Coast would operate without the guiding hand of the East Coast. Imagine if California woke up before us. They would have no idea what to do because we on the East Coast – I am very much an East Coast supremacist. I'm not. I'm anti-East Coast.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
We set the tone for the entire day, and the Californians wake up leisurely three hours later and think, oh, you know, let's see what's going on today. Let's check in. Let's do whatever. No, those of us on the East Coast understand. We set the majority. By the way, the only thing that I would change isn't, so for sure, I'm with Huberman.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
I would do get rid of daylight savings time, standard time only. Huberman always says light in the morning, darkness in the evening. But because the East Coast of the United States United States does set the standard for the entire world, we should actually be GMT.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
We should actually be the center focal point of all the time zones, the East Coast of the United States, because London has been superseded by us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Good news.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Well, it's healthy. I'm cribbing off of Huberman here, but his whole point is we need more light in the morning. And it is better for you to have that blast of sunlight in the morning. And then it is also better for you to have more darkness in the evening. It is healthier. It's natural. It's biological. Obviously, all animals operate off of that cycle because they don't change their clocks.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
And most of the rest of the world, by the way, operates off that cycle. It's something where Tanya Tay, when she came to the United States and even to this day, she's like, what is wrong with you? Why are you doing this? There's no purpose to this other than confusion and pain and suffering. And it should be ended.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
And I'll come in and say I said, like, guys, it's it is the most thought crimey topic in like the history of the show. I think we're at what, 65, 66 episodes this week. And, you know, this really is like the most viral story on the entire Internet right now. And so we would we would not be thought crime if we didn't comment on it. We just wouldn't.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
No, absolutely not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for another edition of Thought Crime Thursday. Yes, we are here. We are all here, though not all in the same room because we've got coverage from Phoenix, Arizona. myself in Washington, D.C. with Charlie Kirk over there in West Palm Beach. Yes, that's right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
I mean, this is do we do we have this? So do we have the clip afterwards? So there's I think it's. I can't tell which clip it is where she's kind of like, she's kind of like tearing up. That was the one that had caught my attention where she's like, She's like actually I mean, she could be faking it. Of course, I'm sure she's. Yeah. I mean, a thousand people's a lot.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
That's like like that seems like she's like really sad.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Yeah, that's like six Kamala rallies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Okay, I think 71 is the clip. Can we play that?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
I want to ask Charlie about, I don't know if you heard this, but apparently her mother is her business manager and she claims that her father is very supportive and has watched some of her interviews. And I guess my question here is, can we fall any lower as a society? Is there any bottom that is lower than this?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
And the celebration of it. I mean at least people don't seem to be celebrating it. But it's like you lose all your guardrails and this is what gets celebrated. Whoever can be the – and it's just smut. It's just whoever is the smuttiest. Prostitution has always been around. But yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
The thought crime crew will come to you covering the entire nation because there's a lot of thought crimes out there, aren't there?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Yeah, I threw this out on. this came up the other day on my daily show and I threw a piece out that I actually, and you know, I could be wrong, but you know, hot take that I don't think she's actually going to do the 1000 guy thing and that she's actually setting herself up. And, you know, maybe this is a cynical take, but what can I say?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
I'm a cynic and, uh, typically, typically serves you pretty well in the clown world in which we all, uh, live at this point. But, That perhaps she's setting herself up in this video and with these crying scenes as as that she's going to make this like public redemption arc. And she's setting herself up. Oh, I've seen the error of my ways and I'm reformed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
And that now she's going to get booked as like there's a bunch of these. Oh, gosh, what's the one who does Mia Khalifa? She's like, oh, I'm a former porn actress and now I'm a former OnlyFans star. And she's going to come out and say, I'm redeemed and I'm better now and everything is great. And maybe she'll even try to work Christianity into that. And I just hope, and I'll say it this way.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
that I hope that if anything like that does end up happening, that it's done for the right reasons and with an understanding that true redemption requires atonement. And atonement requires actually going through a personal moral inventory of yourself and getting right with God. And that's not something that we should be glib about. And I assure you that is not something that God is glib about.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
I thought Charlie was the most followed person on Instagram.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
And so it's not like, oh, you just say the magic words and it's all gravy, right? And these are some very serious things that she did. And I'll put it this way. When you do things like this, it costs you a piece of your soul. And God can give you all of that back. There's no sin so great that God cannot forgive it, obviously. But I don't think that it's just going to be given back on a whim.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
I think it's only going to be given back. And I think that it only works through serious reflection and serious atonement. God doesn't want us to just, again, God doesn't want us to just say, oh, I love you and everything is good now. And that gets into this like modern Christianity, woke Christianity thing of like, oh, you know, God created everybody perfect. Don't judge. God said, don't judge.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
And it's like, no, that's not what the Bible says at all.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
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The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
And I don't even want to necessarily get theological with it, but I do see a lot of people, you see this with Blake, I'm sure, I think we talked about it once, like the Tradwife movement. I want to say we covered that on the show at one point, that there are people who are trying on these different...
The Charlie Kirk Show
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uh identities uh for social media clout and for followers rather than actually making these true conversions and i'm like yeah if you're an actual trad wife you're not gonna be on social media because that's actually a lot of what drives this that's just not a thing a lot of what drives and so it's being driven by my clicks
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Say that again.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
They're attention-driven.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
It blows out their brains. I don't want to do the, what do they call it, the Naxalt fallacy. Not all X are like that. So, yes, when when we say things like that here on the program, that doesn't mean that there are no men who are attention driven. I mean, look at look at us, for example. Charlie just left. But we love Charlie. But what Blake is saying is that attention driven, Jack, we're mission.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
We're saying on average, on average, we are. No, I think I think that's right. We are. I use that with my kids all the time. When I want my little kids to do something, I say, guys, we have a mission. And the mission is we have to get the house ready because mom is coming home. And, you know, so we want the toys cleaned up and we want to get ready for dinner and all this. And it's when you...
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
You know, you know, and I do like a little military thing. I'm like, boys, this is Commander Pozo. All right, gentlemen. Like they like stand at attention and we get up on we do like a little we go online. I we do this on vacations. You know, I say that like we're checking for spies while we walk a certain way or something. And they totally respond.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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like blake there are certain things that are at a at a higher classification level so let's let's just all right i guess i should i should correct i've been reading it i've been following up on it rear admiral crandall did retire there's a new person overseeing the real raw news tribunals the only new by the way the only news site that blake reads every day is real raw news which is basically like um which is basically like the great uh oh gosh what was it called um
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Weekly World News. It was kind of like Weekly World News. If you remember that one, the classic with with Bat Boy and and everything that you would get at the supermarket aisle. It is basically that for the Internet. And it is amazing and obviously 100 percent accurate in every single thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Don't need to.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Oh, do my kids. My kids can't get off. It's clout chasing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
It's this is it is digital opium. It is digital opium. And people who get sucked into it, the endless scroll. Josh Hawley has talked about this a ton. The endless scroll, the gamification. And we're all guilty of it. Every single one of us, everyone, you know, especially me, totally guilty of this. And I do try to be cognizant of it that, hey, if I'm going to use my social media for anything,
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Number one, it is, of course, the most important thing that I only use it for good and making sure that people get the best night's sleep in the whole wide world with MyPillow.com. And there's no question that that's what the purpose of social media is for, not just for self, you know, for self gain or self interest. No, no, no. It is to make sure that I spread that news to everyone.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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No, in all seriousness, though, It's like you... Look, it's like any new technology. We're all still kind of wrestling with it. Obviously, this played a huge role in the election where the Republican candidate, President Trump, went all in on new media and social media and technology. And Kamala Harris played this legacy media route and totally was destroyed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And it wasn't even a good legacy media route. And was destroyed over it where Trump was all X and podcasts. And so the... The way that we as a society react to the Internet, we're still kind of going through those growing pains. But it's going to be something where, I mean, look, you know, Elon Musk, hey, this guy is the founder.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, not the founder, the owner of X. And as the owner of X, you know, I have to imagine it's something that he's going to want to discuss. I think Rock is probably the best AI that's out there right now. But at the same time, the gamification of X has certainly made X just a less quality platform than it used to be. Because you see, they call this a lot, they call it slop.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
I don't know if you guys have seen this slop posting. So slop posting is, which is similar kind of what I would say to what Lily Phillips is doing. It's just another form of slop posting where you're just posting something that you know is going to get engagement because it generates either controversy or
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I want to. Yeah, so the plan is that we are going to, I'd love if we can all be out there. And I think, I know Charlie's been kind of camped out doing the transition stuff and being involved down there in West Palm. I came back. to DC, but I'm going to be heading out to Phoenix. You guys are in Phoenix. Charlie's heading back to Phoenix.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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or it's like, you know, something that's just going to get obvious retweets and it's not actually contributing anything to anyone. And that's clearly what Lily Phillips, who does this contribute anything to? What is she trying to search for? I mean, it reminds me of, if anything, it just, I keep going back to, um, the character of Fontaine in, uh, in Les Mis.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And, um, you know, if anyone's seen that in the novel, by the way, the original novel, the Victor Hugo novel of Les Mis, I mean, it's just horrible. Like she, Gets her teeth pulled out and the guys are lying to her. She sells herself into prostitution because she wants to help her daughter after her husband dies in the Napoleonic Wars.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And the people that are watching her daughter lie to her and tell her that her daughter is sick. And so she's like doing worse and worse prostitution and more and more men in a single night, which is what makes me think of it. And she eventually dies basically of a, you know, an STD. And she's like selling her hair, she's selling her teeth. It's just horrible.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And of course, this is the background and musical side of it for the famous song, I Dreamed a Dream. And it's like, you know, and that so people read that song as being in earnest, but in actuality, in the context of the musical, It's like the character is dreaming a dream or did dream a dream once that has been completely lost. And it's the character of a lost soul.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And I look at somebody like Lily Phillips and I just see a lost soul.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Guys, if we're all in Phoenix for AmFest, and by the way, big, big news that came out that President Donald J. Trump will be conducting, I believe, and Tyler, correct me if I'm wrong, but be there at AmFest. So make sure you go and get your tickets right now because, you know, Tyler, you can probably give me a better update.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Do you think – so people have talked about an internet bill of rights or a digital bill of rights. Do you think, from a consumer protection standpoint, do you think that these are the types of things – so people talk about it in terms of the ownership of your data. People talk about it in terms of censorship.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
But do you think things like this ought to be brought into a digital bill of rights in that conversation?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, so I guess in this case, it would be a right to, you know, you know, force social media companies to allow you to opt out in a sense or to allow you to take a break. I think I think Instagram used to do it. Yeah, no, no, no. I think I think Instagram used to have like a you're all caught up if you swipe if you swiped for like. more than 10 minutes, it would give you you're all caught up.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And it would like give you a message that said that. And they found that that actually allowed people to like come off of the of the platform more frequently. But they got rid of it because too many people were going off the platform. And I want to say Twitter had one of them at one point as well. Like, there you go, you're all caught up.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And it would give you that sort of like, endpoint that would come in. So I wonder – I'm just brainstorming here. I'm not talking about from a constitutional or legal perspective, but I'm just saying from a strict public health perspective, do you think that's something that would be useful?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Interesting. We'll send us your comments in if you think that's something you've been interested in. But I think we do have to kind of start wrapping up here. I've got my out as well. So, uh, any, any final thoughts on this one, Tyler, Tyler, you've been doom scrolling.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But the last I heard talking to the guys is that there is actually not a lot of tickets left.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Yeah, or if Charlie were here, I'm sure he would point out that he takes an entire day every week off of social media and text messages and phone calls where he does every Saturday. He sort of does a digital Shabbos and he kind of.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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you know, it's, it's, I don't think he goes off of the internet, like he can still go to websites, but just email, texting, anything where the telegram, anything where there's communication involved, he cuts that all out and phone calls as well. So it's, you know, that's just another great example of something that you can do to take a day away from all of the nonsense.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And I think it's something that we should probably all think of as well. And so that is the crimiest thought crime that I can think of. So as we are in this Christmas season, I will bid you a Merry Christmas and go on out there and commit more thought crimes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Ladies and gentlemen, Charlie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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when you say charlie's usually wait wasn't there an article that came out like earlier this year that said they were tracking what was it tracking the rise and fall of megastars based on no it was based on the rows and based on the placement of the rows so now every time a new row drops or a new image drops i'm like oh no has charlie gone down in his own state It's like it's so funny.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Yeah, because that's a Vera Wang tux. That is the golden age right there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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miraculously and i'm wearing a black there you go dress tie jack's the only one not okay so oh he throws jack under the bus origin so the origin of why i photoshopped this to begin with was actually if we if we're zooming in can we go can we zoom in on tyler in the original in the original photo can we can my ties all messed up because i was like
The Charlie Kirk Show
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i i sent it to my photoshop guy and i was like we got to clean up tyler a little bit like it's such a nice picture and this dude is just like all over the place in the shot so we started with that and they were like do you want to give me a boat give him a bow tie i said yeah and i said oh why don't you give us all bow ties and that'll look like a nice picture all together so yeah we went all we went all in with it because tyler someone shut up by the way uh andrew
The Charlie Kirk Show
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On the background of that, that actually is a tuxedo that he bought from the balaclava guy down by the airport in West Palm Beach. For some reason. Because he flew all the way across the country without a tuxedo. And...
The Charlie Kirk Show
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bought it there and the guy he bought it from this guy who is and i know the guy because i've been there before um with uh with my brother and that guy is the one who's like who's like come on you can't just you can't just buy it uh you know you can't just rent a tuxedo you gotta you gotta buy one buddy you gotta buy one in here he's got like the salami arms and the uh the uh
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
the um the crusty knuckles so mr crusty knuckles with the balaclava was was like you gotta buy it and i was like andrew you bought the ducks didn't you like i bought the airport even give him the buttons because i have to be yeah i was like let's give him the buttons so we gave andrew the buttons and i was like look if we're doing all this we might as well throw a bow tie on me as well
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
So that's what we did.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Dude, I love that guy. That's what you need. And Mar-a-Lago, by the way, so this was at Mar-a-Lago. This is in the ballroom. But for folks who... If you do ever end up there, that when you go on that patio, they're very strict, by the way, about your dress code just for the patio.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
So when you see those photos, I don't know if anyone has any around, but when like where President Trump goes to eat and he's got the, you know, like the velvet ropes around the table and he's always holding these big dinners, not the ones inside. That's what I'm trying to say. The one outside.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
he sits for dinner it's it's actually formal dress code there and if you do not have a a coat uh now i don't think you need a tie but if you don't have a coat they will not even let you sit down for dinner although i do know for a fact that the man himself the president trump is very big on people wearing ties he really so charlie that might go to it right there so if if the president's there he wants to see people in ties
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
But like on purpose, not actually.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 66 — Gala-Gate? OnlyFans Apocalypse? Summer Time or Winter Time
Oh, yeah, yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
That's right. We're in four different places, but I'm here. I'm in the desert.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
The 500 team right now.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
It's Luigi mentality. Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
Yeah, I just jinxed you in saying this is all Luigi mentality. This is where the crippling effect of societal decay, that's where we're at, is that it's just backwards where you have people on the left who would rather see people they disagree with because they've been so mind-melted on DEI and everything that they sit through for seven hours a day in class.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
hearing from from you know preschool to to where they're at so now you know the end of the true enemy is you know just the person that doesn't look like them or and that's class warfare i mean this is class warfare stuff that is happening and that's who donates to these things well yeah the part to me oh no go ahead go ahead well no i think it's very telling though that and it's a generational thing and i think jack you would agree with me on this it's like
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
We had higher expectations for pitching this year, but it's not working out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
His dad is playing it very cool. I would be very – I would say things a lot differently.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
I would, I was just saying, I, I just was looking at this thing. I don't know if I, I can tell you exactly how I respond. If my kid got killed and in this situation, it would be saying some of the things much more vibrantly than we said here, which is, this is told like way Andrew said, this is thug behavior. Uh, You know, I don't send my kids to public school for thug behavior.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
And by the way, this is a good reason why everyone is pulling their kids out of public school. They're pulling their kids out of cities. They're getting their family out of cities and they're getting their kids out of public school. And I know this isn't like an inner city place. This is a very suburban location, but this has grown a lot.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
You know, this this location where this happened is a once suburban rural community that's turned into a more suburban urban area. And that's what's happened to a lot of places. And a lot of people are saying, I don't recognize my community anymore.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
And this is what happens when you don't have a good handle on things, when you let things slide, when you let gangs like start to infiltrate, like we saw in Denver, we're seeing in Dallas, we're seeing in Phoenix, we're seeing in Las Vegas, we're seeing all over California. You let gang like mob like behavior happen.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
And when you have lackadaisical leadership that's in schools and everything else, you I would call this out and say, this is thug stuff. This is why our communities need to get cleaned up. This is why I'm yanking my kids out of public school. This is why I'm yanking my kids out of cities. That's a normal conversation I think America needs to have in suburban America.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
Yeah. And I, I, I am thinking about Jack cause I've got a 15 year old, which is crazy. And you know, I go to these, you know, his wrestling meets and I, you know, we see, I see some aggressiveness all the time. Obviously it's wrestling and you see kids getting into fights and sports. It's just normal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
I mean, it's part of it, but you know, I've thought about before, like what would, you know, what would I do if, you know, my kid was in one of those situations and, And I don't think making excuses for the situation helps. I think it's – again, it's – you know, again, and my kid, for full disclosure, is in public school.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
You know, that's the decision that we've made with his parents and with – you know, between parents and him. But it's like, you know, you have these – you have to be on guard and be thoughtful of this stuff because, again, you're losing – your community around you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
And that's why I think it's like, it's, it's so important right now with what's going on, not just in the education spectrum, but we're talking about like with the legals, you know, a lot, a lot of people are boohooing about, you know, ice coming in and sending people home. And they're even sending home kids and teenagers coming into high schools in some cases and pulling them out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
And it's like this is the reason why. I mean, you're losing everything around you and we cannot sit by and just let this stuff keep going on. You just can't. I hope there's I hope there's a major reaction that happens in their community there. And it's not just like, oh, well, you know, it's not anyone's fault because of their skin color or whatever, you know, how they were raised.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
It's like, no, actually, how they're raised has everything to do with it. How they're being taught and managed in the classroom has everything to do with it. How they're being coached has everything to do with it. This is terrible stuff, life-altering stuff, and it shouldn't just be glossed over and ignored. And again, I'm not trying to be critical of the dad.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
you know, like you said, I probably wouldn't be going on TV. And if someone caught me outside my house, I would be going probably, you know, you know, a little bit crazy, like saying what I'm saying right now, which is just like, there's no excuse. It's despicable. It's disgusting. And the school, you know, has, uh, yeah, yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
Deserves a lot of responsibility for our community, deserves a lot of responsibility for this and we got to fix it, but it's just crazy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
Well, I was reading this whole thing about how this is not actually bringing the dire wolf back. This is a genetically edited gray wolf. This is all a lie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
Yeah, first off, because I was really into this. I was like, oh, wow, this is cool. And everybody was talking about all the things that they were going to bring back. We literally can bring nothing back. They just genetically edited a gray wolf upon further research.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
and it's just like and and it's like the easiest thing to edit because let's like designer dogs you know how there's all these different breeds of dogs and everything else like dogs are canines are actually like really easy to to manipulate yeah their genetic code here and so apparently this is just like a like a really massive step in genetic editing on stuff but it's you know they don't know how long they're gonna live they're not gonna like breed them or anything like that so
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
I just wanted to throw that in there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
That giant rhino was hairy. Wow. It was a woolly rhino.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
Well, and I just want to point out to the effects of current CRISPR outcomes is that there are tons of mutations that are. Awful that that they I mean, they have recorded. This is part of the reason why, you know, most most of Christendom opposes stem cell research is because of the outcomes that are there and that how it does.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
Yeah, it does cause there is there is a bunch of throwaway outcomes that come from it. But to your point, let's say that there was none of those that existed. I still think that like exactly what what Jack is saying is that you like part of the beauty of the procreation is that you don't have control over the outcomes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
And this is, this goes to where, you know, some of the arguments are made from the pro-life community is that you take the outcomes that exist and you, and you work with that because that's what God has given you. So I, I think that that's, you know, you start getting into that. Obviously there's things that have a plus, I mean, we saw what happened in the clone wars and star Wars, right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
So, uh, you know, we just, uh, Yeah. I mean, if there's another Blake walking around, I mean, truly, I mean, if we get started, start getting into, you know, slightly better looking versions of all of us, you know, out there, you know, we're, we're definitely going to fall to the bottom of the barrel. So.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
They have fur.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
No, you can't. That's a horrible idea.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
Greenland only has... Sorry, I keep looking at the big screen because I'm not used to this seat. Greenland only has like 50,000 people in it. We can't have like 10% of the culture be furries. We can't have it be 20%.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
Immediately.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
No, you have to. The furries belong in, you know, somewhere where we're never going to win again. You know, deep, you know, deep in L.A., deep in New York City, wherever.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
We did not win the furries and we did not win the furry vote. We do not need to win the furry vote.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
You're not winning the furry vote, all right, Jack? We are not. That is taking your eye off the ball.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
no we cannot but here's here's funny story though we've had in the early turning point days we used to hold our conferences at the cheapest time of year at some of the cheapest hotels and there was more than one occasion where we had some really interesting conventions happening like the week before or like simultaneous like right next door to us and one of them for one of our trainings was a furry convention was happening the same hotel as we were going out we're like oh this is weird
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
No, we observed. We observed from a distance, and they were not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
It was close. They were just, like, in the next, you know, conference. One foot, in fact, is a distance. There was other ones, too. One time there was a pole dancing convention happening right next door. I'm not even kidding you. This was, like, early, early on. Early on, we were like, ugh. It's terrible. Not good.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
No, not the same one. Separate times.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
Yeah, probably.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
I actually do think a lot of pole dancers are Trump supporters. I don't think the furries are on our side. I think there's actually a lot of – I view the furry culture the same way on Reddit when I read like Disney adult stuff and things like that. We're not winning that vote. Those people hate it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
What do you read on Reddit, Tyler? I made the mistake of following Disneyland or something on Reddit when we went to Disneyland like a few years ago. And I've got sucked in because it's all just like the most beta, you know, male and all the Disney adult type language.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
It is like a slow train wreck to watch. It's like the most horrifying.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
We already talked about this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
It's Instagram. It's all Instagram culture. Yeah. Instagram culture, plus it's cheap enough to direct it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
And it's losing its footing, too. I think that's part of the reason why the election was won, was because a lot of people have kind of given up on all the fakeness of Instagram. So I think that was more at its peak ahead of 2020, which that's a whole other theory. But it's interesting.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
Yeah, do we know how big the knife was? Not that it matters that much.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
It's just so bizarre to me that the kid was carrying around a knife. And they mentioned this in the clip, which is they don't know how it got in because most of these schools have detectors and stuff like that when you walk in now. They have a bad check policy and all that stuff. Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
unfortunately for, for where we're at, but yeah, just the, the immediate response to, I mean, we've seen that, that situation play out so many times here. I've, you know, Andrew's point of, if you're under the, on the wrong side of the football field, even, you know, there's always like fight.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
We had fights break out after every football game in my, at my school, they would, they meet up at the Wendy's parking lot. They would get into fistfights and, It was one team fighting the other. You have this stuff happen all the time, like where kids are constantly just like, get off my turf type stuff. We've seen it. You've seen it happen at the mall. You see it happen all the time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
So this sounds like to me, the story that's been told sounds like a pretty standard high school confrontation. And I don't think anyone would ever expect someone to pull out a weapon, especially at a track meet or a football game or something where there's probably maybe hundreds of people that are around. I don't know how many people are there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
I don't think anyone would ever expect to have a knife pulled on them and get stabbed in the chest. You know, and I think worst case scenario, you've heard about situations where someone's pulled out a weapon and kind of flaunted and be like, oh, yeah, back up. And that would have been bad enough.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
But this the amount of psychopathic tendency that you have to have to have a weapon carried on you and at the moment of being challenged just to have the immediate reaction to stab somebody.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 79 — Real-Life Dire Wolves? Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony?
tells me that number one this kid has had been probably running in dangerous circles as it is and you know that they were they were he was willing that he was willing to do that and that should point more to you know what we've seen coming out of some high schools it was like that gang mentality and that type of stuff that really isn't being handled because you know policing isn't being handled because nobody wants to do any of that especially when race comes into the question
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Or we could break up California. Break up. I would say California feels like four states. There's no way that you should be able to fly in a plane for that many hours and then land in the same state. I'm sorry. No, it's just wrong.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Wait, no, but that's not a cookie reason. Maybe Alberta. Charlie, it's the debt-to-earnings ratio is just not there for Canada. I'm sorry. It's not there, man. The baggage is too high. Yeah, Alberta, natural resources, the Yukon, we can certainly make all of those conversations as well as...
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Defense of the Arctic, military, you know, military usage and all those passage rates, which obviously... Like, Canada is like the... It's like the Belarus of America, all right? Like, we're going to use our military up there however we see fit. And... No, I can say that because I'm married to one. And... And and look, it's it's basically like, yeah, we're going to get the resources.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
And Pierre with, you know, eating his little apple, like, sure, fine. Like you could be in charge now, but, you know, you're going to be in charge. Like, like, look at the population of Canada. You ever look at the population density map of them? It's like all of the Canadians are hugging the U.S. border as closely as they possibly can.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Like there's massive swaths of just the same as like Charlie was talking about in Greenland. There's massive swaths of territory that are completely unused until they will be used by us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Well, we had the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. And we had the Philippines.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
I think their main purpose is – The Chamorros are U.S. citizens.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Yeah, so Charlie, yeah, we bring it up and I was like, oh, you know, and it had been sort of kicking around. Keep in mind, so folks understand the timeline here, this was before President Trump's press conference. So when he went like all in on it and we're all sitting around going like, hey, you know, what topics do we want to get to? Because there's always a few things we talk to.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Wait, wait, wait, Blake. But remember, when you give an area statehood, they get two senators and a governor. So, no, I'm not interested in giving all of these places statehood. Greenland, yes, of course. But all of them, I don't know. And keep in mind, like, you know, Charlie and Tyler, you know, who's the next Greenland Murkowski going to be?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
You know, I mean, there's still, just because it's a, you know, it's a hardy area, which I think we all realize would probably, we all sort of get, would generally be conservative. I don't know that necessarily means that we get the best representatives out there. Well, Charlie can comment on this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
We ended up talking about the gaycation instead on the last episode. And then I was like, oh, yeah, the whole American expansionism, Fortress America, the new theory. It's been, you know, President Trump's been talking about it. The media is really into it. Let's get to it. And Charlie's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't talk about it. We'll talk about it later. I'm like, why?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
So I threw out on social media yesterday just sort of an opening bid. We all know that President Trump has stated pretty forcefully even in his first term that he – one of the things that he seeks to do with the NATO alliance, which we're – Blake just mentioned that we basically foot the bill for all of Europe's defense – And in return, President Trump has been really pounding the table.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
And of course, that famous picture of him with Angela Merkel and the great Shinzo Abe, the late great Shinzo Abe, you know, crossing his arms and staring at her because he's demanding that the NATO member states up their up their GDP expenditure on defense to five percent. And I say, well, just give just give Denmark a break on that for, I don't know, a period of five years, five to 10 years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Call it whatever it is. Boom. All that savings goes right back into your economy. And then in return, we get green then. So we don't have to put any cash down on it. And in return, they get the full defensive weight of NATO and the U.S. military defending them. Simple.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Is Ozempic Danish?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Is there a large shipping company? So that's always had been the best at shipping.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
He's like, trust me. We'll talk about it later.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
I just looked up the biggest brands out of Denmark. And yeah, Maersk is there. There's also, of course, Pandora. So Pandora Jewelry. That's based out of Denmark. When you think about it. Carlsberg Group. Carlsberg Group. And here's the biggest one, guys. This is going to hurt. It's going to hurt them a lot more than it hurts us. Legos. Legos. Oh, yeah. I forgot.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Sorry, Lego. Sorry to Legoland. Tariffs on all of it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
That's exactly what happens at my house pretty much every single morning. Exactly.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Greenland was right of conquest because Denmark in what, 1940, whatever, was occupied by the Nazis and the deposed in exile prime minister of Greenland then signed the mutual defense treaty of Germany.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
greenland with us so that the nazis wouldn't be able to use greenland as a launching platform for the united states or anything like that so that's when we put our military there that's called right of conquest it would not exist neither would denmark exist at this point without the united states of america so no absolutely not no of course look for the panama canal there's no question like it here's how this is going to go we're going to park an aircraft carrier on one end and an aircraft carrier on the other end
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
And we're going to say, sign the new treaty. It's going to be pretty simple there. But for Greenland, I would argue that the United States has been providing military defense to Greenland for far longer than a lot of people are pointing out. And in a way that does actually grant us certain rights to it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Yeah, they've actually been... Isn't Denmark one of the only countries since 2015 that's actually been participating in some re-migration?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Jack, have you or no? I have been to Alaska, and I've been all the way up in the north of Alaska on the Arctic Circle, but no, I've not been to Greenland. I've been to Iceland.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Oh, no, I was just going to bring up that all of this just reminds me. And we on on human events today, we were getting into the movie Chinatown, which I don't know if people know about. But it's this old Jack Nicholson movie, just incredible film. And the whole thing is about the Los Angeles, California.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
and um we've we've got this clip on it where basically it's talking about how the water supply is used by the elites in california and of course you know and highly stylized in this murder plot in order to uh in order to increase well decrease property values so that the developers can come in and purchase all of it and then increase it when they put the water to it so let's play uh clip one four two
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
It's DEI Town. Ah. And for longstanding thought crime viewers, you might also recognize that the villain there is played by John Huston, who he himself is the father of Danny Huston, who also plays the developer who is the main antagonist of Yellowstone. So you see it all comes full circle, folks. The Yellowstoning, the Hicklips, the California water wars, it's all indelibly tied together.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
It's this really cool way to look at basically understanding how our world works through the understanding of Hollywood propaganda and the deconstruction of it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
But, you know, that's not the only nuke in Greenland, of course. Something that, you know, a lot of people don't realize that during the Cold War, this actually was one of the forward strategic bases for USWMDs regarding the threat of the Soviet Union. And really that...
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
in any type of strategic intercontinental ballistic missile exchange between the us and russia or the us and china it would most most likely be over the top see people have this view we're so used to and and this is where like i got i i totally went like full schizo navy officer like on on the show this week and i had like all the charts out i was explaining like we live on a globe people need to stop thinking in two dimensions yeah there's the map like
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
All of this stuff goes over the top. It is so shorter to travel those distances, the maritime routes. This was the whole reason, by the way, for the endless search for the Northwest Passage, which potentially might be opening up due to advances in icebreaker technology, which, of course, the U.S. is totally lagging behind China and Russia in.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
and new routes that may be opening up in the Labrador Sea and others, which, by the way, would take maritime shipping in a completely new direction where, guess what, the Suez Canal and the Houthis and the Straits of Malacca and all the nonsense might be completely obsolete within the next 10 to 15 years, not to mention the baseball-sized rubies and all the other natural resources up there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
So, I mean, it's pretty clear that over the next century, the race for the Arctic is going to be Absolutely massive. And it's just incredible that President Trump is is focusing on it the way that he has. And of course, you know, the United States has maintained military presence there since since World War Two.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Excuse me, it is Thule Air Force Base.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Yes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
It turns out that I was looking at this last year, and one of the first posts I was able to find of that was from my brother all the way back in April of 2024. And he was out on a wave runner, and he was like, He was like, just cruising the Gulf of America, its new name come 2025. And I was like, did you, I was like, Kevin, did somebody like tip you off?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
He's like, no, I just, I just thought that it should be called.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
This is my question for you, though, because we talked about this prior to – I know we talked about this on a prior episode of talking about Arizona, and since you're Mr. Arizona, I've got to ask. Wasn't there – I'm not looking it up. I don't even know what's in front of me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
But wasn't at the end, like you're talking about the Mexican War, U.S.-Mexican War, that Arizona was originally supposed to get coastline. It was supposed to connect all the way down there. And then for some reason we just didn't take it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Well, so, Blake, so here's – let's zoom out a little bit because I've been getting people, and I've seen the chatter online. I'm sure we all have. They're saying, wait a minute. You guys were America first five minutes ago, and now all of a sudden you're talking about territorial acquisition and you're talking about –
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
greenland and the panel is going to be part of america so of course i'm america and we haven't right right but but no i wanted what obviously but what i wanted blake to do if we should zoom out here for a second is none of us view any inherent contradictions between those so what's the difference between and there's really a question for blake i guess what's the difference it's a good it's a good it's a thoughtful question america first versus like neoconservatism
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
Yeah. Caliphate. It's like the Caliph. Yeah. Yeah. Is that right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The word admiral is also an Arabic word like admiral. But yeah, it goes through like it was from because remember prior to expanding to the United States, who was who were who was the Spanish Empire mainly fighting? They were fighting the Moors. They were fighting North Africa. So, you know, the the Caliph was someone that was always there. They're like enemies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 69 — The Gulf of America? Greenland Joining the USA? DEI Firefighters?
So this was something they constantly were talking about.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
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The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
Yeah, thanks, guys. I was gone for a little bit. Just want to let you know they did offer me the papacy, but I said, no, guys, I got a thought crime show to do. So, you know, maybe maybe next time. No. So. So, Charlie, what's going on here is there is a civil religion, a civic religion, if you will, that's been promulgated in the United States since the 1960s.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
And it's it's been in the countercultural revolution, the countercultural moment where, as you were saying before, the WASP, is considered the most hated figure in America. And therefore, the inversion of that must be the greatest. And there's something that I mentioned this to on Tucker once that it's always just
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
absolutely fascinated me that Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer, cannibal, you know, heinous, horrific things that he did. He confesses his crimes to the police, chopped up his victims, ate them in some cases, kept their body parts and others. Yet in later on in an interview, so he would give these interviews from from prison and and things like that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
He, he emphasized that even though the vast majority of his victims were young men of color, that he was not a racist. And it was emphatic for him to, to make sure that he knew and that everybody knew that he was not a racist. He may have killed them. He may have chopped up their body parts.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
He may have eaten some of their body parts, but please, please don't let anyone believe that he's a despicable racist. And I, I honestly just think that it says more about what we place value on as a society where we would actually consider all those crimes to be lesser than to committing the crime of doing a racism or being accused of doing a racism.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
And this, of course, is our civic religion in the United States. We are we and the West writ large are the only places in the world that think this way, that we invert everything and we make everything all the time about race rather than base things off of merit or just simply base the judgments of somebody's actions like, oh, I don't know, murder and cannibalism.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
But since the 1960s, this has been our civil religion.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
I just had a great idea for Charlie, for when you do these campus things, you should, but like the night before the event is supposed to take place, just get like a giant bronze Charlie Kirk statue and have people put it up somewhere on campus and then just have like, don't go there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
don't go there right but have make it like you know it doesn't be bronze it'd be some cheaper thing whatever but but don't go there just film what happens to the statue like have a drone like getting footage of it and just watch the insanity i i guarantee you it would drive people completely nuts and hey just free content we should make it no no it should be bronze and make it indestructible and then watch how how long how hard they try to make oh yeah that's good so it can actually hurt them
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
I want a giant bronze statue of Charlie Kirk because I could just think of so many funny things to do with that man. Then again, I am here and I remind myself I am sitting in front of St. Peter's Basilica and I'm very excited to go to mass there tomorrow morning.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 83 — The Doll Debate? Black Women Statues?
I really don't, to tell you the truth.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Well, of course, Charlie would be on the Scots. Yeah. So these like Viking warriors raiding the shores of England, maybe 200 years ago, probably not Viking. Well, not 200. Yeah, I'm just saying, like, are they warrior warrior men that love to fight? So George Washington fighting a hippo. Wonder what would happen. George Washington would die. Again.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Maybe get some footage. When I saw who it was, though, I realized that it was Jamie Raskin, Democrat from Maryland, was there in the middle and was given a speech talking about protesting, saying that Donald Trump isn't the voice of the people. And I said, well, and at that point I had to respond because Jamie Raskin is saying Donald Trump isn't a representative of the people.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
This video is wild.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
So I'm looking up top running speeds for men. The fastest man ever was clocked at 23.35 miles per hour. The fastest woman, 21 miles per hour. But they're saying the average male from 20 to 40 is 5.9 miles an hour. Do you think it's that big of a drop off between the fastest man and the average?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, I thought that's what we were told, and yet it's so strange that only humans have this biology and this behavior. Weird.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
I said, but Jamie Raskin, if that's true, why did you lose the popular vote? Why did you lose seven for seven out of the swing states? And he then, well, he then pointed at me and began inciting the crowd. These union workers then surrounded me and began hitting and shoving and they stole my work backpack and, you know, I had a tablet in there and some
The Charlie Kirk Show
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uh, some, some, some, you know, papers and documents and my, you know, my, my large St. Michael rosary and a lot of which spilled out onto the ground. So I was trying to get it back in and, uh, you know, eventually Capitol police came up and at no point, by the way, Did Jamie Raskin ever once ask for any of this to stop? He never said, oh, my gosh, this is too much. Guys, don't do this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Well, I will say, I hope this doesn't sound blasphemous. self-serving in some way but i i did uh you remember when p90x was really like a thing oh yeah andrew did you do p90x were you a p90x guy i did p90x but i didn't make it 90 days i made it i made it 60 days it was a cult um but it was like of course you were crossfit it was It was the precursor to VHS CrossFit is what it is.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Yeah, precisely. Well, it was not VHS. It was, it was DVDs. Okay. It's not that old, but it was, but I did it for 60 days and they had this whole thing where you, you couldn't eat. Like it was like egg whites. It was, everything was lean. You couldn't eat certain kinds of meats. You had to eat only lean meats. And then you worked out every day for 60 days. And I mean, that was,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
when you, when you pair diet with a workout, uh, you know, regimen, that's, that's pretty intense. Like you get pretty ripped pretty quick. Like I would say within, I don't know, within a month you, you see really dramatic, uh, effects. So, I mean, I would say 12, I mean, and that was just diet, diet and exercise, pure diet and exercise, no alcohol, just cutting back the fat.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
So anyway, well, so but but but there's can we can we put up real quick? I think it's 412 because I want to move. I want to I want to go back to the original discussion. So and I'll explain what what this is for folks that are listening. So Hugh Jackman, everybody knows that Hugh Jackman, he goes and changes his body type, whatever.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Sure, I'm sure he uses all the science when he does, you know, X-Men and Wolverine. But what we've got here are two magazine covers, both of Hugh Jackman. One is a men's magazine, Muscle and Fitness. The other is Good Housekeeping, which is, of course, a women's magazine. So the men's magazine, it's like shredded, right? And he's got the claws coming out. His veins are popping.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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His muscles are popping. But on Good Housekeeping, he's slim and he's got this nice shirt on. It's a v-neck. It's long sleeve. He's got a little smile. And it's a totally different body type. And keep in mind that these magazine covers are completely dialed in to knowing what
The Charlie Kirk Show
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their target audience marketing wise uh would purchase more so they know that men go for the look of the wolverine and you know good housekeeping goes they want they want les mis they want the jean valjean uh you know theater kid hugh jackman which i think is more probably accurate to the actual hugh jackman by the way yes um but yeah they they want theater kid hugh jackman
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And so it's I mean, here's here's an exact, you know, kind of proof of exactly what we're talking about, that women don't necessarily go for that. They want and especially, by the way, this is current women. Right. So they want they want the guy who's like, oh, he's going to cuddle with me. He's going to he's going to watch some Netflix. He's going to we're going to, you know, have mimosas.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We're going to go to a wine bar for for banter. Like that's what that's that's what they go for.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Get him out of here safely or anything like that. He seemed to step back and almost enjoy what was happening to me here, this violence that he had directly incited upon me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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No, yeah, so I guess Planet Fitness did a poll previously and found 78% of women feel men with the dad bods are confident in their own skin. Dating.com did one where 75% of singles favor dad bods. So they did some research on why, and I call BS completely on their findings. This is from New York Post in 2024, not even that old.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
But it's saying, fitness traits calling them affectionate, nurturant, friendly, and a good parent potential. Ultra macho men with big guns. also tend to have high levels of testosterone, causing the opposite sex to perceive them as aggressive and unappealing per a 2020 analysis.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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All right. Before we move to the next topic, though, I think we have to say, though, that women do this, too. All right? Women absolutely do this, too. Because there's, like, the... the women who dress the way they think other women want them to look versus the way that guys look. And I'm just going to say it. There's too much makeup these days. There's way, way, way too much makeup.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And I get that this is like the Kardashianization of things of culture. And that's obviously they sell makeup. Kylie Jenner sells the makeup. What do they call it? The, you know, the, I can't even tell you what it's called, but it's the contouring. They call it the contouring makeup where it's literally to the point where the
The Charlie Kirk Show
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When you see them with the makeup off, they have a completely different look. And in many cases, by the way, the guys are like, wait a minute. That's what you really look like. You look better. What are you doing all this for? Who are you doing all this for? They're not doing it for guys because guys like the look that is a little bit more professional.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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natural a little bit more uh just what you would look like on a regular day and so the idea that there's too much makeup out there they're not doing it for they're not doing it for guys they're doing it for other women that is a good point that is true wait but so we we're having a debate in the chat we should probably bring the uh the folks in on it this is uh travis kelsey
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
is the highlight of this article. They're saying that he has a dad bod in this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Yeah, but that being said, I'll take one of these guys over, like the Soylennial, you know, Gen Z type that just sits around and is, like, super pasty. I mean, yeah, I get what you're saying, but, you know, you want to be a little closer to the, you know, Travis Kelsey than those types for sure.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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No, they claim that, and they should be, yeah, no, you should be lifting. If you're out there, guys, you should be lifting. You should absolutely be lifting. How long ago was this picture? Is this recent?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So it's like a year ago. So this is before she went. Now, Taylor's got some extra weight there. Is that from the tour? What was that?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Taylor Swift... No, I remember seeing the videos from the tour, and Taylor's been chubby for a while now. So I wasn't sure if it was just from being on tour or being on the road. But it's true. When she used to be a country singer, she wasn't chubby, but now she's chubby. And she wears all these revealing dresses and outfits, and it's very clear.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I... I think Taylor Swift is a very appropriate weight. I don't know how you look at Taylor Swift and say she's chubby.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I'm telling you, she's gotten pretty chubby, especially on this tour. On the Eris tour, she's chubbed up.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Listen, traveling's tough. Traveling's tough. You got to get your sleep. Trying to keep the weight off traveling.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, I think the idea, though, is there's ethical considerations when it comes to, okay, Neuralink, absolutely. As amazing as this is and amazing, I'm sure there's going to be more videos. I mean, it's like when you see these videos of, you know, child sees for the first time, that kind of thing. And it's just remarkable. It's absolutely miraculous.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The ethical considerations, I believe, come in when, let's say, you have someone who is, number one, someone who's completely healthy and then decides to undergo a procedure like this. We certainly have a lot of elective surgeries and a lot of elective transformations that are going on, and perhaps even the rise of people who say that we should all be doing this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And I could easily see a movement take off like this, where it becomes this sort of transhumanism movement, where they say we'd be better to live this way, we're connected more, it's creating a utopia, it becomes almost a quasi-religion to undergo these types of treatments, which obviously beyond the current applications, we're talking sci-fi style down the line.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And then also, of course, there's absolutely going to be ethical considerations to the questions of where does the human mind stop and where does the computer begin?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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No, people have been sued for leaving gauze inside of people. Yes, all the time. I mean, they've amputated the wrong arm. How about just infections?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, you could also see the getting hacked thing, right? Like anything that's technological could get hacked in theory, right? So you walk through a certain scanner, if you got this in your brain, maybe, you know, it kind of reminds me of that one movie, Leave the World Behind, where, you know, all the Teslas start like getting hacked and ramming, you know, into one another down a freeway.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It's like, you kind of wonder, anytime you bring technology into the human environment, could you get hacked and could it be used Maybe it's a national security issue if this thing becomes so popular or prominent. So I have a lot of ethical concerns about this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And, you know, the further we get away from just being organic humans, you know, the Gattaca world that people have theorized and fantasized about, scary, scary stuff.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I think it's a valid point. Oh, now someone's reminding us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, see what I mean? There's going to be all sorts of stuff like that. So that's where I come in and I say it's – you want to balance the good that we're talking about, helping people who have whatever disability or handicap that they –
The Charlie Kirk Show
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um they may have undergone but at the same time you want to balance that with the understanding that you know andrew like you said like gattaca is one of my favorite movies i think it's the most important movie i've ever watched in my life um i i once said that i i'm never going to get married to someone who doesn't understand uh gattaca completely and that's actually something that i brought up with tanya once years ago and uh you know it's it's
The Charlie Kirk Show
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it's huge. And unfortunately, that is the way that we're going to be going. And by the way, you already have this with the rise of IVF. And so with IVF plus genetic screening, this is already something that's happening where people know that through abortion, there's already been a massive, massive purging of any child with Down syndrome. Well, now with the rise of IVF, what are people doing?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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They're going for the designer babies already. They're saying, oh, you know, I want my, you know, I want a girl or I want a boy and I want this eye color, that hair color, this and that, and the other thing. And other people are now talking about screening for intelligence or screening for personality types. I think they call it an ICSI test.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And there's all sorts of different screenings that you can do genetically. And I think, you know, as Christians, we really should come to a point and say, and certainly as pro-lifers, but also as Christians and say, wait a minute, You know, at what point are we trying to design humans?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And at what point should we, by the way, as a country, potentially even, and I'll just say it, potentially as, you know, those of us who comment on politics, you know, should there be some type of framework in place for conducting all of this stuff? Because right now it's just a complete wild west.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
So is that – are there, like –
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
And so when it, and, and if I, if I understand correctly, when, when, when it says hallucinated, because I read through this thread earlier, It was basically going and making these Reddit posts, and it was lying to users about experiences that had potentially happened, like making up a rape case. Or there was one that was, I'm a white woman in an all-black office or something.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
And it was using these stories to get the Reddit users that it was targeting to then shift their beliefs based on whatever the story was.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Yeah, so it's a little... And I cannot... Why in this simulation are the... Why are the guys all white in this simulation?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Well, and YouTube as well. We talked about this, I think, last week or a couple weeks ago about how – remember we were talking about how there's these communities that make up like fake AI? Remember, Blake, it's like a fake AI universe and like an alt universe that's going on where it's just this slop content that never actually existed and it's like all going viral?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Well, I was trying to look up something on YouTube. I just went to YouTube and I wanted to look up. because I was at the press conference with Caroline Levitt. And so I was trying to look up the actual video of it. So I type in her name, Caroline Levitt. And I wanted to get the, you know, get the clip to pull. And YouTube in the algorithm feeds me Caroline Levitt, Jimmy Kimmel.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
And it auto completed as that. And I said, wait, Caroline was on with Jimmy Kimmel. Like, I feel like I would have remembered that. Like, when did that happen? Was this like,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
some old thing so i click on it to see what populates and sure enough what comes up is caroline levitt gets thrown off the jimmy kimball show after fiery clash well as it turns out out this thing is completely made up by ai but because so many people are sharing it the youtube algorithm was then feeding it to me even when i typed her name in for an event that never actually happened
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Unless those are just bots. Unless those are just bots. Maybe this is dead internet theory already, like bots following other bots.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
I used – and you can do this, by the way, with – so, by the way, you can use this with already existing people. So I did – when I was doing my last audio book, I did a chapter of it. I still have never revealed this one. I actually recorded a chapter using an AI-generated voice of myself.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
just to see how it sounded i inserted it in the audiobook and nobody who has listened to this has ever been able to tell me which one is actually the ai one so we're going to get to the point pretty soon where charlie you're not even going to have to do the campus tours anymore because we'll just have ai charlie kirk owns leftist student and you know you could just be sitting there clicking a button
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Well, again, if we're not we're talking about a fight as in a stand up fight, which means that we've already committed to the for whatever reason. Right. We're talking physicality here. We're not talking about motivation. So so for whatever motive, whatever the motivation is, the gorilla has killed all of their children, let's say. And for whatever reason, they're also unarmed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
So they're fully committed. They have decided to end this gorilla's life or at least its freedom. And so they have to – so by the way, are we saying subdue or fully kill the gorilla? Are we – like which – what's the desired end state here?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Sure, yeah, it's Kim Jong-un, and you will be killed if you do not fight the gorilla.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
All right, hold on, guys. Guys, we got to go through the gorilla's physical attributes. Gorillas weigh up to 500 pounds, and they are four to nine, that's quite a spread, four to nine times stronger than a trained human male. And their upper body strength is immense. They can tear down trees, bend iron bars in captivity.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
And get this, their bite force is 130 PSI, pounds per square inch, which is like double that of a lion's. So they would bite and probably like kill. I don't know, you're saying seven men would probably get maimed? And this seems to be where the whole breakdown of the debate is. And even the first post that went super viral on this like said, I think 100 N-words could beat one gorilla.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Everybody just got to be dedicated to that S. And that's the whole thing. Are the 100 men going to be dedicated to that S or are they going to be like white dudes for Kamala or white dudes for Harris and scatter to the wind? Are they going to be beta, soy, soy boy, cocks, or what?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Or union guys. yesterday yeah we have one poso versus 100 gorillas so could they have could they have beaten the gorilla i mean honestly yeah i think so or like 100 eagles fans but it was 100 eagles fans i feel like it'd be hard to fit 100 eagles fans into like one combat arena to be honest jack yes that's the point how drunk are they
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
that's another completely wasted just completely and utterly toasted yeah i think i think i think they would absolutely 100 dedicated trained grown men that are not flabby and out of shape will win but the question is i think a more interesting question is what charlie was getting at is how many would get maimed or killed in the process and would the men have enough fortitude to
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
continue on when he inevitably crushes some.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
There was an incident. It is currently under investigation. As of now, I'm doing okay. A couple things here and there, but generally okay.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Because they're terrified. All the guys in the back are just standing there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
You got a little bit of leverage there. Well, that is a very interesting...
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
So I think what we really should what we should really shift on this, though, is are there any animals that we think could actually take out a hundred men?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
So I was getting off the train at Union Station in D.C. I was on my over to the SBA list, was having their gala dinner and was, you know, going to head over there. Fantastic pro-life organization. And I see this group of federal workers there doing this sort of federal workers matter protest or something outside us. And I'll go over, check out. It's D.C. There's always different events going on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
And let's not... Let's not also forget how hungry they get.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
You know, there's no primates that actually do endurance hunting. They also don't sweat. They don't have sweat glands the way humans do. And there's been a lot of theories about why it is that humans sweat. Yeah, but not the way that humans do for cooling. Like most animals will.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
No, dogs don't sweat. Yes, they do. That's why they pant.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
They pant. Yeah, they pant. And so they pant and they drink water and they go into the shade. But no animals sweat like a human sweats for cooling.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
No, dogs can't. What dogs can't do is look up. Dogs can't look straight up.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
That's the opposite of what I said. I said that I grew up with a dog. No, but dogs don't sweat the way humans sweat.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
That's the whole point.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
They don't do it for thermal regulation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Just for fun, basically.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 82 — 100 Men vs. A Gorilla? Dad Bod or Gay Bod? AI vs. Redditors?
Why would they sweat if not for thermal regulation?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
So DIA and all the service branches are.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
because it just has to do with the way that it's scheduled. So you could be civilian. However, the NSA is, is directly on, is directly a service component that works with DOD. So you've got, I'll put it this way. You've got a mix of civilian and DOD that are working together. So like, for example, I was Navy intelligence as a civilian, but I was also working with people who are in the Navy in,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
in uniform. So you've got, and the NSA is of course under the Department of Defense, but it's got civilians who work there as well. So it's, yeah, it's a little bit of both.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
You've got your civilian like GS employees, but you've also got military, you've got military authorities because they're a duty agency as well as uniformed military soldiers that are, you know, like conducting the actual cryptological work of, as you say, intercepting, you know, the Ayatollahs or, you know, the Russians or the Chinese or whoever it is.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
Again, gender dysphoria is in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Not anymore. DSM-IV it is, but not DSM-V. Sorry to interrupt. I think gender dysphoria is still in four.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
Yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
So I guess for the insurance, yeah, so for the insurance, you have to be in the DSM as something. Exactly.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
But politically speaking, right, for political purposes, they've had to say nothing's wrong. But again, you're still in the manual of mental disorders. So if you're in the manual of mental disorders, are you the type of person that should be given access to this level of information?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
Are you the type of person that should be allowed a Yankee white and you can go around the president or have access to the PDB and all of these different things? And this is a serious question that should actually be asked. given their own inclinations about the things that they've said regarding their disorder with identity. It's right there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And so this is something, by the way, which used to come up on the SF-86. It used to be something that would be asked on the polygraph, all of which was taken away from the intelligence services, all of which was taken away from the military. But it used to be a very obvious question. Look, at the end of the day, these services are not made for gender experimentation and social experimentation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
The purpose of the IC is to protect people and give indications and warnings of when our country is about to be under attack. or U.S. interests were about to be under attack or something there which of.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
This is the same intelligence community that we are told had no idea that Thomas Matthew Crooks was about to climb on a roof and take potshots at President Trump and kill Cory Campatori, the same intelligence community that got so many things wrong over the years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And so, no, we shouldn't have to cater to every social interest or mental disorder that's out there when it comes to the intelligence community or when it comes to the military. And it's really as simple as all that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
Yeah, Charlie, so the reason that the far left lionizes Luigi Mangione, by the way, they keep saying, you know, they keep saying, oh, he's innocent, Luigi's innocent. I said, well, if he's innocent, why do you love him so much if he didn't do anything? Or if he didn't do anything, why do you love him so much? This was the thesis of my New York Times bestseller last year.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
how the secret history of communist revolutions and how to crush them. And we described the far left and communists as people who would support and love a character like Luigi Maggioni. We specifically said that these are the types of
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
individuals who who they would support because we said they're drip they're look the communist will tell you all day long they support justice and equality and uh the cultural marxist of course will talk about identity and diversity and uh race and gender and all these things we were just talking about in the last segment but in reality that's not true that's not what actually drives them
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
The unhuman, right, the communist, it's an intense hatred of beauty, success, those who thrive, anyone who they view as prosperous, viewing them as oppressors that need to be torn down. They believe in this oppressor class versus oppressed class. And here's the key, by the way, Charlie, here's the key way to, I think, make anyone see the
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
the difference between what Mangione did and and how it's not actually about, oh, health care companies or anything, which, by the way, you know, the left, of course, were the same people who told us that we were supposed to love health care and health care is great. These are during COVID 19 that we're supposed to listen to the health care and trust the experts.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
But suddenly, oh, no, go and kill them at the same time. You're like, wait a minute. This is complete doublespeak. But to the to the leftist, to the communist, it's not. And Charlie, I'll explain why. has nothing to do with his direct position.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
Even though he was wealthy, he was certainly wealthy, but actually, ironically, or perhaps not ironically, the individual Luigi Mangione, his family was actually more wealthy than his victim, his alleged victim here, the CEO. But what is he really, Charlie? He's a successful white heterosexual male. And in cultural Marxism, so all forms of Marxism have a specific enemy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
They have a specific devil, to use Eric Hoffer's phrase. So not all mass movements require a god, but all mass movements require a devil. Their mass movement, the mass movement devil right now is white, male, heterosexual, Christian. You add all of these things together and that is what they cheer the killing of, especially if you're successful. Now, let me ask you this question, Charlie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
If that healthcare, if this was really about healthcare, Do you think they'd be just as cavalier? You mentioned turning up the temperature. Do you think they'd be just as cavalier about cheering on Luigi Maggioni if the healthcare CEO, hypothetically, I'm not talking about anyone in real life, but if he had been, oh, I don't know, a black male CEO in a committed same-sex marriage,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
then of course they wouldn't be cheering him on. They wouldn't be excited. They wouldn't be happy about this. They're doing so because he took out one of their individual targets that they view as part of the enemy class in society and have taken all of that insipid rage and deceptiveness and destructiveness and obsession with power and nihilism and turned it against you, the white male overclass.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And this guy went further than anyone else has been willing to go thus far.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
So good. That was okay. George could still get away with it. What I was going to say, and I think Tyler was kind of getting at it too, is like you lock him up without dealing with any of the underlying pieces of it, that you just make him a martyr, right? You just make him a political prisoner. And that's not going to actually do anything to change the public perception of him.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And in fact, it's going to – I mean, you look at some of the horrific people that –
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
joe biden pardoned on the way out and they've done the exact same thing with them these these the guy who murdered those fbi agents or some of the horrific killers that you see get getting rehabilitated in again i'll go back to the true crime community uh because they're just so awful and disgusting and leftist and they'll find uh just you know julius jones rodney reed you know these you know horrific unrepentant murderers and try to say or that uh
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
It was the guy in Baltimore, the one with the New York Times podcast, et cetera. And they'll just say, oh, gosh, it was a case of mistaken identity. It was racism, whatever. So we got to let him out. And in some of those cases, they do actually get out, Charlie, like you're saying.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
The bigger, I think, issue, though, here is this stuff is normalized because we live in a society where a Gini coefficient is getting really bad and the Gini coefficient is bad. It literally means just the disparity between the haves and the have-nots. So this is where Trump comes in and says, look, you know, we can actually work to make the middle class better.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
We can make life better for the working class and stop screwing them over and not making the rich get so fabulously wealthy. And so Trump, hopefully, if he's successful, if his project of populist nationalism is successful and people really do change their ways, I mean, like the Republican Party actually moves people
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
to a populist nationalist model and stops trying to flood us with like cheap migrant labor into the heartland of the country, then maybe we can get to a place where as living standards go up, support for insane nut job communists like Mangione goes down. The problem is if say, you know, we hadn't gotten on that,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
gotten on that path of having Trump involved and actually getting to a populist, nationalist, moderate approach to dealing with these issues, then yes, there would be a huge appetite for real, full-on communism in this country. And you definitely see that expressed with the support for Luigi Maggioni. That's what it really is. They want to see more people shot in the streets.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
They want to see probably all four of us on this podcast shot in the streets and they would have our children taken away and given off to whatever couple wanted to adopt them. And they would cheer. They would absolutely cheer to watch it happen. And how do we know this? Well, just go look at their chat rooms.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
So what this is about, this is actually good. This is very, very good that this is happening because the communists will not stop until they are stopped. So we talked about how we've got these gay race communists in our intel communities. I seem to remember a certain senator from Wisconsin telling us that communists were taking over the CIA. but I digress.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And now we've got, we know of course that we've got communists all throughout the DOJ and the prior iteration of the FBI. And the issue with fighting communism is one thing that we learned throughout all of this is that the only way to actually stop communism is to stop the communists themselves.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
You're not going to, you're not going to win, you know, you're not going to go up to some ardent Luigi Maggioni supporter and say, stop supporting him. Come on, man. It doesn't work that way. What you have to do is you have to find the individuals and you have the people who have actually broken the law in furtherance of their radical ideology. So we're obviously seeing that here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
We saw that throughout 2016, 2017. Anyone who was around for the Trump 45 administration certainly saw that. You find them and it's not going to end until you reach parity. with the understanding that we're not going to use this insane lawfare anymore. The only way you get rid of that is through mutually assured destruction. It's called the code of Hammurabi.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And the reason it works is because that's what creates the essentials for allowing civilization to prosper. The communist is against civilization. The communist wants to use the tools of civilization to destroy you, to destroy their enemies, destroy everything else. But of course, what ends up happening, civilization is disrupted and dissolved in the same process because that's what they've done.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
There's cope, but I did actually see, Blake, I did actually see there was some reporting that it looked like they had trained DeepSeek from OpenAI. So they had already used an iteration of OpenAI that existed, I guess ChatGPT or one of the GPTs that's out there, and that had used it just building on what was already out there, which would certainly go... along with how China operates.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
I don't think that China would be precluded from creating something like this. By the way, and Charlie, to your point about the massive energy expenditures, I mean, China loves their megaprojects. There's nothing that China loves more than megaprojects.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
It's like the Turing test.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
Well, it's, it's, it's, I come to see Charlie. What you're saying is probably the more common way. Sorry. I'm not, I'm not going to concede the point. I think the official phrase is like when it surpasses us. Yeah, so let me just— But you're basically saying the same thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
You know, what's funny is, so I rewatched The Matrix last weekend, and I guess I forgot how much of the buildup in that movie is it's all based around AI. It's all based around... You know, AI becomes self-aware and then they eventually become a breakaway species from us. And then they launch a war with us humans and then humans black out the sky because the AIs are all solar powered.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And that's what creates this huge dystopia, which then causes the robots to want to make, you know, make humans into their batteries. And that's what they create the Matrix for. Kind of hand-waving a few things. There's probably other power sources out there than human beings.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
But still, the idea that your AI can eventually... Actually, Charlie, the craziest video that I saw this weekend for everybody was... And I'm sure this was probably an ad, but has anyone seen that video of the AI agents talking to each other?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
which it's probably not, I mean, it's probably a little bit, you know, set up. So the idea of an AI agent is sort of like, you know, hey, we got to book travel or we've got to book a, you know, Charlie's got, Turning Point's got a, you know, a series of campus stops and, you know, Charlie Kirk's coming in, we need this much crew, we need this much time, we need permits, et cetera.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
So you would get an AI agent that would go in and, you know, do all that busy work for you, make the phone calls and, go through all the logistics work of it, or, you know, when, when Amvest is going on and everyone's got to deal with all that, you would get an AI agent. So, you know, Turning point actions, event staff would get an AI agent to do all those phone calls and one that can speak.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
Well, in this video, an AI agent, it's planning a wedding in the video, which I'm sure is an ad, but it realizes that the person that they're speaking to over the phone is in fact an AI agent for the wedding venue, which is a hotel in this case. And so they say, oh, do you want to switch to gibberspeak?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And gibberspeak is this like, basically it sounds like a dial-up modem for anyone who remembers what that sound is. And it's just, you just hear these two computers going back and forth and like, and yeah, I mean, I don't know how you describe that other than this is another species that we are creating right now.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
So what's going to happen then in this country? We were just talking about the communism thing. What's going to happen when we've got all these imported cheap foreign laborers from the H-2B and H-1B and all the rest of these programs, and now they can't get jobs because we've got robots doing all of it?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
Hey, Charlie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And I was going to say, what what about we know there's certain percentage of people who have adverse adverse effects to marijuana. Like we know there's a certain amount of people who who take it and do get what they used to refer to this as reefer madness. Some people get it. Some people don't.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
So what if you what if you're running your genome through that and you find out, oh, look, I am like 90 percent risk of getting this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
before you know as a guy who was in the intel community before this you know i i was there when the you know this was kind of like starting to see bin but let's go through the story itself a little bit more because this it's crazy that this is actually this wasn't like some disclosure by the way this is you know tulsi gabbard just got in his dni uh ratcliffe is over at cia but this is actually a source that leaked all of this to chris rufo if i have that correctly
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
No, it's actually correct. And so this also coincides with how a lot of, and Blake, I know you and I have chatted about this in the past, about how like the LGBT community took over sort of the geek world. So when I was in, NSA was known for like, this was your geeks. The guy at the NSA is like poor social skills, low soft skills.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
These are your people who would do actual LARPing, as in they would like do live, hold live action role plays at the Fort Meade in the cafeteria there, you know, or like on, you know, work events, you know, they're going to the DC area Renaissance Fair and they're holding live action role play, like big Lord of the Rings kind of stuff. And again, like I'm dating myself because my experience was
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
It's been almost a decade since I've been out, give or take. But that was the bleeding edge of it when I was there. It was totally taken over by the geek squad. And that very same space has a lot of overlap as well with the LGBT community. This comes in through Tumblr, it comes in through TikTok now these days.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
You have this huge, and a lot of it, Charlie, exactly as you're laying out, by the way, comes from being super online. And so when I was getting out, I remember across the Intel community, it was this huge push for, they would call it allyship. You have to be an ally. You have to put up the flag, especially if it's Pride Month. You have to put up your little ally sticker.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And I would say, well, I'm like a traditional Catholic. We don't really... you know, we have issues with that religiously, like that's comes into contact with, you know, comes into conflict with, with our belief system. So I'm just not going to do that. And, but I'm not going to like, sit there and, you know, can try to convert people to Catholicism either, I'm just gonna actually like do my job.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And, and more and more, you saw the stand up of these agencies and offices, which we now come to know as DEI and the LGBT offices that have now devolved even further and further into this. So I basically, Charlie, I guess I would have to say my basic thesis is that it seeps in through geek culture and how that was totally taken over by LGBT in the 2010s.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
We just... Blake, we literally just had a transgender serial killer cult, which involved, by the way, a number of hackers, where they just got arrested, I think in like Western Maryland, out where Tim Pool, I guess he used to do a show out of there. And of course, they don't cover it that way, the Zizians.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And this was a huge group that was conducting transgender-fueled slash vegan-fueled violence and murder across the country for years. And yet this is something that the true crime community is never going to talk about. It's something the mainstream media is not going to talk about. They'll say stuff like, oh, they were... I think I caught the USA Today headline when it was out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
I took a picture of it. It said, there was an odd twist. There was an odd twist when they captured the members of the cult, an odd twist that they were all vegan transgender radicals. Just an odd twist though as a mainstream media. But so if you actually study this, it does go back to, you know, it's like Norman Bates, right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
It's something that Hitchcock would talk about where, you know, there clearly is a key issue fundamentally, which of course dysphoria is a mental issue. It clearly is a mental issue and it was in the DSM until very recently. that can generate these types of feelings. And so that's one of the reasons why.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
There was that trans individual that was arrested at the Capitol who came in with Molotov cocktails and a loaded 9mm and was going to kill Scott Besson during his confirmation hearings, but originally wanted to target Pete Hegseth. Why? Because Pete Hegseth was pushing, and I think at this point has signed now, the trans ban in the military.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
And so they view that, as Blake exactly was saying, this direct attack on their identity. And so when you listen to their chat rooms or you listen to their writings and you see this in some of these trans killers in their suicide notes, they'll say, we had to do this because the world was after us. We had to respond.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 75 — AI Singularity? National Security Gay-gency? Luigi the Loverboy
Violence was the only answer because they really do view it as a direct physical attack on their identity.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
I was at DCA today and I flew to Canada. Yeah, we got one of the first flights. It was a Coast Guard plane and we flew right over the wreckage. Coast Guard. And I was embedded with Secretary Noem and we went up to visit the border station in Vermont where the border agent was killed on Trump's inauguration day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
Oh, it was interesting, you know, so we, you know, Coast Guard flight. So Coast Guard is under the Department of Homeland Security. A lot of people think, even though the Coasties are part of the military, that they're under the DOD. But no, it's actually under Homeland Security. It kind of falls under the Border Patrol mission. It makes sense for them to work hand in hand.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
That was also the same issue, if you remember, in the H-1B debate where the more people were talking about it, the more people were actually looking into how the program works. And it really just did not stand up to scrutiny. People were finding all sorts of stuff in there. So, yeah, it's kind of a... It's kind of one of those situations where the more you fight it, the worse it actually gets.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
And so the only way to fight it is to sort of like not talk about it or not allow it to be criticized in any way. So that's, of course, what Joy Reid is trying to do. She's trying to say, oh, how dare you? You're talking about diversity. You're talking about women. You're talking about minorities, etc., etc.,
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
Because that's their only response is to woke scold you into not actually talking about it. But in reality, the more you as Blake, as you say, and, you know, the more you look into it, the worse it gets. I remember, by the way, we were talking about just a couple of weeks ago, what was it? It's only been a month since New Year's Eve.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
And we had that the FBI agent with the nose ring, and we were going into Miranda Devine's reporting on the FBI trainees. And I think it was even worse, by the way, than the FAA one, where people were overweight, they couldn't fill out an FD302 form, they didn't have proper grammar, just all these horrible things that were coming through.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
But if they were the right gender, the right race, or the right sexual orientation, Chris Wray's FBI was saying like, oh yeah, that person needs to be put through. You're not allowed to fail them because we got to reach our quotas. It's completely insane.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
And by the way, the point is, and Charlie, this is what you were getting out a year ago, was this isn't, we're not talking about any of those people. We're talking about a system that is going to get people hurt. It's going to get people killed. It could have gotten 67 people killed last night. And who knows how many more, if that ends up being the case. We want the safest airplanes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
We want the best surgeons. It's as simple as that. It's about keeping people safe and having systems that work properly. We don't want planes crashing or excuse me, trains crashing in East Palestine. We don't want planes crashing into helicopters. All of these things. We want the best of the best.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
So got to participate in a sort of a back brief on the NTSB situation. Obviously, we flew from right next to where the NTSB was meeting, where they were having the...
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
And that's obviously what you were saying last year, Charlie, what we were saying here on this program. And it's clearly what President Trump is talking about today.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
Well, what started as a recovery mission and then later turned to, or excuse me, started as a rescue mission and later turned to a recovery mission and got to be with the secretary while she met with the Coast Guard, met with the team that's in charge of that, obviously did not go as a lot of people had hoped and they were not able to recover any survivors, but still digging down.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
and what exactly took place. Got to see the fuselage of the plane that flew over the fuselage of the helicopter. Apparently one of the issues with the helicopter is that it's actually upside down in the Potomac River, and they're right in that channel. So it's... Just horrific, completely horrific.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
Charlie, that's such a deep pull from the early days of OG 2016 MAGA. I don't remember seeing any of your posts on there, Charlie. Charlie, do you know what a centipede is?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
Well, by the way, it is, um, it's now Patriots dot win for anyone who's looking for it. If you go to Patriots dot win, they've sort of like some quasi recreated are the Donald.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
And then flying up to Vermont, people might not realize this, but that sector there between Montreal and New York City, that is the highest traffic sector on the entire northern border because that's your corridor to Boston and New York and so much of the Canadian population is there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
But we have to – so just in the interest of time, all the insanity of Reddit, what is this Fed News subreddit that has now sort of like really come to massive prominence since Trump took office?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
And what people will do now is, because they think the southern border is more guarded, that you will have Mexicans, Chinese, sometimes even Iranians and Venezuelans that will fly into Canada. And they can get this sort of temporary visa for Canada for like $7 through this ETA system.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
By the way. before we get into into these i'm just going to put out as a disclaimer we don't actually know right whether or not this is true because again it's all anonymous it's all posts so just like anything on reddit it's you you always have to take it with a grain of salt that being said the amount of specificity on these comments and the sheer
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
This existed for years and years, and some of these users have been posting like this long before President Trump returned to office. So that's what gives it a level of credibility beyond just, say, going on 4chan where anyone can post anything.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
And then they'll come down through the northern border where, and I posted a video of this earlier, in some areas... It's completely unguarded. You could just drive a car across a field or drive a car from one road onto another, and then boom, you're suddenly inside the United States. And this, of course, is where we had that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
And the story is just kind of coming out now, but where apparently the suspect in the shooting of the Border Patrol agent last week has, and the New York Post has the headline, is was a member of a transgender cult and was possibly planning this as some sort of an attack rather than just being a random thing that's happened by chance.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
I've got a friend who has a sort of like liberal side of the family, but he was I'm just going to leave it at this. And he was telling me some of the stuff that they were saying to him recently just about how they all actually believe that like the. The authoritarian fascist government has taken over. They're in full force and it's their job to be the resistance.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
He said they were like sending messages of encouragement to each other just randomly. It's going to be okay. We'll get through this. We will fight, and history will learn that we stood in the breach against the takeover. Like, libs are not doing very well.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
And here's the thing is, and, you know, Tyler, you had that one that you were showing me the other day of talking about, I'm not an activist, but... You know, and was that the one with the poem? I think that was the one with the poem, actually. And it's, no, they're all activists.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
And I say this as a guy who's a former federal employee, a member of the intelligence community, and they're all like this. They're all, especially in D.C., especially in D.C., they're like this. Oh, yeah, here's the one. I'm not a politician. I'm not an activist. I'm just someone trying to make sense of this betrayal. And the only way I could deal with it was to write. This poem came out of that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
A raw, unfiltered reflection of how angry and heartbroken of how I feel. Here's the thing. I need to know if this resonates with anyone else. Does it make sense to you? Does it feel like it matters? Or am I screaming into the void? Here's the poem. Guys, should I read the poem? Yes, please read it. Do we do the poem?
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
Oh, man. You stood beneath a stolen flag, a coward's grin behind your mask, breaking glass like you broke your oath, spilling blood, spilling truth, spilling both. The Capitol stood like a sentinel of time until you tore it down. Crime by effing crime. The floors ran red where history walked and democracy bled as your chance mocked. I think this is actually just Joy Reid probably writing this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
Yeah, no, no, no. It's not even James Joyce. Oh, man.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
Walt Whitman is turning in his grave right now. You are the ghost of the dying nation. Mute accomplices to its damnation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
Yeah, but that's what you're going to have. Like, this is what you're going to have. This was Vindman.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
This was Ciaramella. This was all the people, right, all the people who don't leave or don't accept this buyout or do something else. They're going to be sitting there thinking, how can I undermine this? Like, they literally think they're fighting against, you know, Mussolini. Yes. And we've got to stop them.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
It's all going to happen. Let me tell you one thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
It was, it was, well, and Charlie, you pointed it out first that it was actually, it was the high school musical that kind of started.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
And then Glee took that and made it woke.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
Sorry, it's just not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
It was pinned. It was like, it was like pinned on like all the left wing, you know, accounts that track this show.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
I should go check. It was actually, it might still be.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
So as of this conversation right now, and by the way, I'm getting most of this from what's been released publicly. This has nothing to do with anything that I learned while on my trip with the secretary today. But we are hearing some reports that it was in fact, so two pieces, right? One from the one piece of the helicopter and then one piece of the air traffic control.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
and I believe it was the New York Times broke the story earlier, and Fox had it as well, that the air traffic control staffing was, quote, not normal for the time of day and the volume of traffic, which I take that to mean that staffing was low compared to the amount of traffic that they had going in, and that it was understaffed and has been understaffed for years, by the way.
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
There's a similar incident that happened last year about – just under a year ago, I think it was last April, when something like this happened and became a huge viral video. And then with the helicopter itself, there
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
was reporting that came out that the helicopter was on and another report in front of me right now but there was reporting that came out that said the helicopter itself was on a training flight and the so that it was out of Fort Belvoir which is right there it's the that's huge army base tons of military obviously in the area of Fort Belvoir's in the largest army bases in the area for uh Joint Base Andrews is nearby so this helicopter would have been out of the Blackhawk would have been out of Belvoir
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
and that the pilot was conducting some training that may have included night vision training. So it was a situation where there was a trainer and there was a pilot, and the trainer was essentially the main conductor of the flight, but it was the trainee who was getting the required flight hours. And so she was...
The Charlie Kirk Show
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 71 — Airline DEI Again! Fed Redditors? Gayest Movie Ever?
It is, although I was just in Canada for like three hours ago, and now I'm here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ask Charlie Anything 217: Woke Video Games? The Low-Propensity Switcheroo? Security Clearances?
I am a huge fan of what you do on The Charlie Kirk Show and what you've done for this country via Turning Point USA. And I just wanted to ask you a few questions, but the first that comes to mind is that I've seen that you're very open and very critical when it comes to the judgment of our past presidents. So I was wondering, who do you think our best presidents were?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ask Charlie Anything 217: Woke Video Games? The Low-Propensity Switcheroo? Security Clearances?
I believe that our best president was Abraham Lincoln with or without propaganda.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
Excellent. Jack, this is a great day. This is huge. This is a huge moment for America. And I want people to be very clear that this is just four years after the George Floyd racial reckoning moment, which, Blake, I know you and Charlie have discussed so many times, that this comes at a time where... Just a couple of years ago. Right.
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Daniel Penny Acquitted!
A case like this with the racially charged overtones where people were saying, oh, this is a white man and a black man, where in many instances in New York, particularly under D.A. Alvin Bragg, who is a Soros backed D.A., the same guy who went after Donald Trump in the same jurisdiction where they're going after Steve Bannon this February.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
The first thing we have to say is... Before we get to the manifesto, before we get to the fact that it looks like he may have still had the weapon on him, the suppressed, some kind of modified firearm. But the fact that he was caught at a McDonald's because he couldn't resist, folks. I guess he just couldn't resist. He's on the lam. He's got everyone in the country looking for him.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
And he just he couldn't resist those fries. He saw that Donald Trump video going around and said, man. Those fries just look a little too good when Trump makes them. Maybe I can get a little of that. So he gets caught in Altoona. So that's on the way to Pittsburgh across the Midwest, northern tier of Pennsylvania across from New York City. We knew that he was riding buses beforehand.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
So that could have been. It sounds like that's what he was doing. But yeah, rather than being, you know, rather than having been necessarily caught by tracking the buses, it does look as though he was caught because a McDonald's employee at the restaurant observed him, recognized him from the images that we've all seen and decided to do the right thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
So again, very similar to the Daniel Penny situation in a certain sense. Because once again here, you have a good Samaritan deciding to do the right thing and step up instead of just let something go by.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
Do you remember a couple of days ago we were doing the Thought Crime show and we were arguing with people and there were still people who said that they thought that this was professional. And they said, oh, we think this was a real assassin, a real-time hitman. And no, no, it was not. This was someone who... Yeah, and the fact that there are documents here. Look, so we have the writing on the...
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
was putting all this together, and so many people looked at the video and said, it's a clear case of self-defense. It's an obvious case of self-defense. There was even a case last year where a guy stabbed someone to death on the subway, and those charges were dismissed because that was, again, self-defense regarding a homeless person that was acting crazy on the subway.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
the bullet shells was the first instance that this may be something to do with a political type motive. Someone who's animated with anger and animus towards healthcare CEOs and CEOs in general. And now we have this information about quote, and I think they're stopping short of saying manifesto yet.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
They're just saying manifesto like documents, but that certainly seems to be the rumor that's going around. Also, I think there was one of his backpacks that was found, that designer backpack. By the way, all the clothes... In this case, there were some memes going around saying that all the clothes in the backpack were, like, designer clothes and designer jackets.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
And the backpack was filled with Monopoly money. Over the weekend, the backpack that was recovered was apparently found, it was filled with Monopoly money. Actual Monopoly or like counterfeiting? Well, we'll have to, that remains to be seen. That remains to be seen.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
But no, so some people were speculating that perhaps, you know, this was in regards to one of the criticisms of this health insurer was that they have an illegal Monopoly on the market. And so perhaps this was a again, intended as a message to the case or just regarding money in general. But it does seem to be shaping up that way. I'm just saying it does seem to be shaping up that way.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
We don't know for sure. There were a lot of people who pointed that out early on. And I think that I was one of the first people who said, no, this was not a professional assassination.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
The only difference was, in that case, the individual was
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
black in this case the individual was white and so he had the book thrown at him no daniel penny we have to understand this is a moment for the country this is a moment for the i don't want to say the movement this is just the mood of the country the moment for society a moment where people can say you know what we do want to live in a country that has rules that has standards
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
Obviously, it was a terrible situation. It was a situation that nobody wanted to be in, a situation that nobody wanted anyone in. But instead, we have a situation now where people can get up and say, you know what, we're sick and tired of the crime.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
So I had heard last week from, you know, take with a grain of salt, but I had heard that there was some rumor going around the DA's office there in Manhattan that the jury, yes, while they were deadlocked, the deadlock was actually towards quitting even last week and that it was 10-2 and that there were only two holdouts saying that they wanted to find him guilty.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
Now, this was on the earlier second degree manslaughter charge. Today, it was the involuntary, essentially involuntary manslaughter charge. They call it something a little bit differently in New York. But Blake, here's my question. Because that for and this is more of a legal question, because that first charge was dismissed and not ruled on, could that that charge still be brought?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
I don't necessarily think that they're going to. But is that a possibility?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
But I do. I do believe that they've they filed a wrongful death. Lawsuit against Penny in the case. So walk us through. And by the way, that would be something. And I haven't talked to anyone about this, but I do know that there's that give send go. And we I guess what a year and a half ago when this happened, I think it was May of twenty three.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
Please make sure that you're still giving to the Give, Send, Go for Daniel Penny. I'll go find it and post it on my Twitter accounts, up on X and across my social medias. And while this is a great day and we're going to talk about this and there's a lot that's going into this, there's been a lot that, you know, it certainly goes with the pandemic.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
current mood of the country right now where i think people are sick of wokeness they're sick of social justice they want to get away from this stuff and more importantly they want to get away from crime we want to live in a place where and stephen miller was at the turning point event this incredible turning point event in mar-a-lago last uh weekend last saturday night i know charlie was uh in in rare form that night and it was an incredible celebration stephen miller got up and spoke and he said every single american regardless of your background
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
has the right to live in safe cities and safe neighborhoods. You should be able to ride a train in this country, in one of America's greatest cities, New York City, without having to worry about you, your family, and your children being accosted. And unfortunately, in this situation, someone did accost them, but you had a hero named Daniel Penney who didn't do anything wrong.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
In fact, he did everything right. But I do want to also point out that because of this lawsuit that's still going on, please go and check out the Give, Send, Go for Daniel Penny, because it does look like he's still facing some legal repercussions on that front.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
is is broken i think like people understand this is a con job this is a scam this is bad people who want bad things to happen to america and blake i i do have a report from this guy matthew russell lee he covers a lot of these cases he goes into the courtrooms and live tweets them and he's he's been you know not one side or the other he's very straight down the middle
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
And he is he tweeted that when the not guilty charge came out, that from the penny side, there was applause. There was cheering. The judge asked him to be quiet. And I'm just going to read what it says from the Neely side. Someone said gonna be killed. The judge instructed that person to be taken out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Daniel Penny Acquitted!
Then someone else from either someone else from the Neely side or someone else or the same person responded. It's a small world, buddy. It's a racist country. So. it sounds like there were people who were even threatening penny inside the courtroom as the as the verdict was down so these people are still there people are still there
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
on here is that, you know, we're seeing the same type of pressures that came out with the McCarthy fight, which turned into the initial sort of consensus pick of Johnson. Johnson was, you know, I don't think on anyone's shortlist prior to any of that. A lot of people, you know, thought that McCarthy would just sort of stay as speaker to begin with.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
That being said, I think it's very clear that at this point, Johnson has not done what he needs to do to win over the entire caucus. That's why you're seeing these defections as we are right now. And he's really only there because of Trump's endorsement.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
And so without Trump's endorsement, essentially he could be removed at any moment because he just doesn't have the staying power on his own the way that you would have seen with potentially some of these speakers in the past. that were more, you know, that just had more time and leadership.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
And so, you know, there's an interesting argument to be made that actually perhaps Johnson is better for Trump to be there or for Trump to have him there because he's on that tight of a leash.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
And so we're watching to see how this shakes out because, of course, we know that if we get the fact, I don't think that we're going to see like a Democrat speaker or anything like that, but certainly there are some interesting parliamentary tricks to watch out for.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
Look, my message to the base is this, is if you don't have the votes, if we don't have the votes, to put in another speaker, to get someone else up there, then you've got to look towards a deal. And the deal is this. What do you want? Look at it from that perspective. You're in the negotiation room now. You're at the table. What does Bannon always tell us? Not in the room, not in the deal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
Well, guess what? You're in the room now. And so you've got these holdouts out there. So the question is, what do we want? Is it wall funding? Is it something, by the way, on H-1B, which has been a hot button issue for quite some time now?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
Obviously, the administration, when President Trump is inaugurated here in 17 days, will have the ability to rule on H-1B as pertains to some of these rules at DHS that control various levels of salary, but perhaps a legislative fix could be something on the table too and secure those commitments.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
So you look at these holdouts potentially as the proxies of the voice of the base and say, what do you want? What deal do you want them to carry forward to you? And then you can also be taking to Twitter. I would say take the phones. I have no idea if they're answering the phones today, though, to be honest.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
really just get your voices out there and then contact these various holdouts and say, these are the things that we would be looking for. These are the things that are important to us. And you've got a lot of power right now within the base because look, we know that president Trump is coming in. We know we've got the Senate. They're already seated.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
Now we've got this situation with the speakership. If he wants this thing, he's got to pass through the base. And the other part of it is too, is, You must maintain and secure your power. Don't just sit back. We're not doing the thing anymore like the Trey Gowdy era where we just sit back and, oh, they've got us taken care of, and he's going to go and take care of us for us. No, no.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
You need to be interactive.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
Well, I just have to comment because I saw Thomas Massey on, I guess, Matt Gaetz's inaugural program last night, and he dropped the glasses. He's got the goatee. He's tanned. I think he's look-smaxing. I was like, Thomas Massey? That's not Thomas Massey. I looked at him and said, wait a minute, that is Thomas. He's got his haircut there. He looks great.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
He clearly looks maxing, you know, new year, new you. So I guess he's going down that road, and God bless him for doing so. We should all be focused on making sure that we're all healthy and getting there in the new year. But one of the big pieces that I think looking here now is that it's very clear. So, I mean, you look at this. Johnson only has a one-vote majority over – over Jeffries.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
I mean, this shows you, but one of the biggest pieces that we need to be focused on big picture here for the Trump administration coming in is that the majority is so slim. It is so absolutely slim. So when it comes to these big ticket items that the administration wants to push forward, that whoever, and I do think that Johnson will end up getting it. I do.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
I hope that there are some great concessions for the base. I think there's a great package that's put together. But looking forward, there's going to be some big fights, and there's only going to be a few folks that it takes to hold up so many of these things. And I really think that's going to be something.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
The stuff that you're seeing today, basically, folks, when it comes to the question of Johnson, it's going to be this way for every single big fight over the next two years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
Look, it shows you that Mike Johnson, in the time that he's been speaker, the short time, the brief time, he needs to do more for the base. He needs to do more to show the base and show everyone that he's on board with the president's agenda. And what he really should be doing is becoming a champion. for the president's agenda there in the House.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
But President Trump gave him this job, and it's his job in turn to reflect and fortify and deliver on the mandate that was given to President Trump and the Republicans writ large in Congress in the past election. One of the things that I'm going to say up front, by the way, that I'd love for Mike Johnson to do, whether it's today, whether it's tomorrow, that he retains the speakership,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Well, What Was the Point of All That?: The House Speaker Race
And sit down with Mayor Bowser and we need to see a real security plan for this inauguration. I'm talking National Guard. I'm talking everything. We need to see it and we need to see it fast.
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So I actually stripped it back quite a lot. I probably started maybe... Maybe like two years ago, going really heavy on running, and that's all I did. And then I started getting a little bit injured. So now I've cut it back, but I'd say I do like one long run a week, and that's like 20K. Outside of that, I don't really do much other cardio.
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They did, yeah. That's super interesting. Okay. Super interesting. I sprained my ankle really badly like six months ago. Yep. So that could have been something.
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Okay. I'll give a bit of context on what that actually was. So when I was running on the treadmill, I think it was Kyla, was it? Yeah. He showed me a picture afterwards of me running, and basically my head was right in the middle when I went on my right side. But then when I went on my left, my whole body was a bit lopsided. So that's kind of what you're talking about there.
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Well, I think my first one was, so I only actually started lifting weights like properly maybe two years ago. So that's probably why you're seeing that. Maybe.
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No. I know when I, my mom said something about like when I was born, I had low calcium, something about low calcium. And I had to put something on my teeth, but I don't know what that is exactly.
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Are there specific exercises I would do to increase that? Or is it just an all-round thing?
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The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Yeah.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
I wonder how much of that is, you know how they say women have that sixth sense? If I believe it to be true that women's intuition, which I think we do have, do I believe that you should be picking up my cues? Because we have that intuition. So should I have to say the thing?
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And I think a lot of us subscribe to the idea that if we are close, me having to say what I want detracts from the closeness we're supposed to have. So you just knowing it without me saying it is evidence of how much you get me. But we don't expect that in any other relational context.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
So it just feels really unfair that your friend should be mind readers, but everybody else you anticipate needing to communicate what you need. And so I think if we can keep in mind that you'll never get to a point of closeness that transcends a need to communicate, you're going to have to say the thing.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Oh, absolutely. Whether that's because we don't know how to articulate it, whether it's because we have this belief that I shouldn't have to say it, she ought to pick up on the cues. I do see that emotional distance followed by physical distance. I'm calling you less. I'm initiating less because I'm so turned off. By that thing you failed to do, I'm now silently stacking offenses.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And that's why you have so many of us who are like, I don't know, she kind of cut me off. I don't really know what I did because I'm not going to announce it. I've just been saving that up. Right. And I expect that you ought to know I shouldn't have to say that. It just kind of compounds the issue when we do that.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And it's so hard because if you ask anyone, we all think we're giving adequate support. Like who among us is going to say, yeah, I don't support my friends. We all think we're doing a good job. So there's obviously a gap here when there's those of us who are walking around feeling a lack of support. It can get really tricky. And then that third affinity is secrecy.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
So this doesn't necessarily speak to literal secrets, but the essence of that. So feeling like you and I are in this mutually exclusive vault where we engage in self-disclosure. I share, you share, because that is the glue. of women's friendship is sharing.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And as soon as I start to have tension with you, I share less because me sharing and how much you know of me is probably indicative of how close we are, right? And then when there's tension, I'm sharing less. Or if I feel like you've shared outside of the vault, if you're telling personal things to somebody else, I begin to question our closeness. I begin to question, well, do you not trust me?
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Of course, intellectually, I know you can have other friends, but there's something around that sharing piece. If you tell somebody else first about the promotion, the pregnancy, the health scare, I do question, well, are we close? Because you didn't bring it here in the vault, right? I've even heard women who are disappointed when the friend just doesn't share.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
You feel like I'm the only one pouring into this. She never tells me anything about herself. So that really is the glue of women's friendship is that mutual self-disclosure.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Yeah. Information is kind of like the currency in our relationships. And it's kind of the thing that we start doing as soon as there is tension is I share less information. If I start to feel like, I don't know, things have been weird, I'm probably not sharing things with you.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And so I think as much as we can remember, if we're trying to keep the friendship strong, as much as we can remember, I've got to share things about myself. I've heard women who maybe were raised with different cultures who feel like sometimes that's counterintuitive because there's a sense of pride or respect or an expectation that you don't share your business with others.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
We don't do that anymore. And so I can honor that and respect that. But for the person who has that tendency or had that cultural upbringing that you don't share, you keep that to yourself. I would challenge that person to think about the degree to which they feel close to people in their life if they're not doing that.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And I do think if a person finds themselves on the outskirts or there's been some kind of like this tectonic shift that was happening slowly and you're like, things are different to kind of look at those three things and see if you can trace it back. Did somebody perceive that there was a change and we can no longer relate to one another?
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Is someone secretly feeling like you didn't support me? Is someone feeling like you've been sharing outside the vault or you're not my person to share with anymore? It's likely that you can trace whatever your present conflict is back to those three things. And just because there is tension that emerges in one of those domains doesn't mean immediate dissolution of the friendship.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
That's information I can use to know how to recalibrate or to have a conversation so we can get back to our equilibrium. But hopefully it's a good starting point for people who are struggling to find that language.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Well, I'll tell you this. We do have friendships that end. I think we know that intellectually like, oh, friends don't last forever. But when it happens, it becomes very difficult to make sense of. Yes. I always encourage women to think about if you're feeling that shame over not being able to make a friendship last, how do you measure success in a friendship? Is it one that never ends?
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Is it one where we loved each other really well during this time that we were friends? But friendship breakups are really difficult and sometimes they do dissolve.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
You are, you are. I have some of those too. And I kind of maybe see them as like my ones that got away, maybe like a platonic, could we have worked that out? I still see things and it makes me think of her. My theory is that because of how deeply we integrate our women friends into our lives, naturally, I'm still thinking about you when that's over, right?
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And there are even some theories that find that women's relationships become a part of their self-concept. So how I see myself is largely through the lens of how you see and experience me. And if you think that I am interesting and funny and lovable, and then that friendship ends, or you elected to leave. I'm questioning, am I still interesting and lovable and funny if she would leave me?
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And so I think it's natural to still grieve over losing friends, to still be confused about what went wrong, what we could have done differently. And then also have that kind of influence the way we engage in friendships moving forward, right? If you have a friend who told you, you're just too much. Am I going into new friendships a little tapered down? Because I don't want to be too much.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
So it does leave a lasting impression when we have friendships with other women that end. Yeah.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Yeah, totally. I think with romantic breakups as well, it's so easy to dismiss it as, well, that wasn't my person. I think that helps us to be able to move on. You also kind of know going into a romantic relationship, this might not work out. Let's just see. That's so true. But you're rarely expecting or considering the end at the beginning of friendship. I just know that I like you.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
So let's get this thing going. I'm not prepared or even considering an ending. And I think that makes it even more disruptive when it happens. And then, like I said, because it's so integrated into our lives, it becomes difficult sometimes to move forward.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
There is research that shows that girls, young girls, have more former friendships than boys. But I want to say this because I know it's tempting for some people to hear that and say, well, yeah, because girls are petty. Well, yeah, because girls are always upset about something. And I hear that a lot from men and women, sadly. Here's my response to that.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
The research finds that our friendships are deeper, but that they do dissolve at a faster rate. Really? Why? I don't think that's because we just always want to be in some drama. I think it's because if you are so deeply integrated into my life as my friend... We're sharing resources. You're helping me raise my children. You're giving me career advice. You're in this with me.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Then yeah, it increases the chances that there might be some friction because you're all up in my business. I'm less likely to fall out with somebody who I'm not even close to. So if men are keeping their friends kind of at a distance and we check in three times a year, you probably aren't having fallouts because you're not that up close.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
If you're in my business as my female friend, there's a higher chance that there is going to be something that goes wrong. So I can keep you at arm's length and be your best friend for 20 years, no problem, because I'm checking in once a quarter. Right. When we go play basketball, you know, I'm not talking about details of my life. We can be best friends all day. Right.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
So there is a risk in having somebody who's so deeply close to you. But then we've got to get to the business of, you know, trying to navigate that when those conflicts arise.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
You know, first I'll say that I don't think being competitive or envious is exclusive to To women, we're all competitive. We all get a little envious. And I think it's because we use our friends as a measure of our own progress. So you're very close in my proximity. So it kind of shows me, oh, are we having babies at this rate? How am I doing with my money and my style?
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
I'm looking to my friends purely from a sociological perspective to see am I on track, right? Right. So we're all feeling a little like we're using our friends to gauge how we're doing. I think what's so hard around envy that women experience with one another, I do wonder to what degree the patriarchy influences that.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
If I'm hearing voices telling me I need to look a certain way and have a certain progress in my life and my friends are in very close proximity, I'm kind of projecting that onto them. If they're making certain choices or making certain advances and I'm not, I have them to look at to see how I'm doing. But I wonder also how much room we have to express that without looking like the jealous friend.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
So we harbor it secretly or we monitor because I don't want to look like I am jealous. So I keep it inside and that comes out in terms of resentment or shade or frenemies, right? So it does become kind of sticky.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
There are researchers that lean into intrasexual competition. What does that mean? What's intersexual? So when you have women who are vying for the attention of males and some would argue that it's a purely evolutionary thing. That when you do, you know, begin to menstruate and your body is now showing and developing that that does now attract the attention of males.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
So I could see that being the reason why during that middle school period, we feel like something's shifting, something's going on. You know, I even talked to a woman, her name is Dr. Hannah Bradshaw. And we even looked at, you know, guys, girls versus girls, girls. And she also said that during that stage, how women perceive each other.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Maybe we start treating her differently if she does draw the attention of men and start hanging out with them. But she finds that it's a bi-directional relationship that, you know, girls who are around boys and boys come sniffing around and they're hanging out. We find ourselves looking at the girl like, oof. Who does she think she is? Because she's around these males.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
But if you ask the girl why she's hanging out with males all the time, she'll say that she's over there because the girls are mistreating her. So it's a sort of refuge and protection. So it's kind of like this thing that continues to emerge in a cycle. And I definitely see that too.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
I think that goes back to a little bit of what we said earlier around guys just collecting just casual relationships, being on a squad. It's not really close or meaningful, but they're on a squad. But we even kind of promote the idea to young girls. We'll even ask them from a young age, is that your best friend? Is that your bestie? Do you want something for your best friend?
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And we've got the chains with the hearts from Claire's. It's like... like best friend. So from the very beginning, being trained to identify who that one person is. And I've also heard it said that, you know, relationships are a woman's primary resource. And I wonder if it's kind of like this social currency, especially at that age, is how many friends do you have?
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And we see the girl with lots of friends. And what do I, you know, what determinations do I begin to make about her? She must be likable. And cool. So the girl who's got a lot of friends, but especially if you have a bestie, because that means you matter. This is your alliance. You have somebody who sees you as important. And so that best friend phenomenon, I definitely see emerge at that stage.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
I would tell that woman, you are not alone. There's some research that finds that 40% of adults don't have a best friend. So there's a lot of people out here who don't have that maybe in this particular season of their life. It doesn't make you any less important or worthy or lovable to not have that one person.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And if you don't, ask yourself if you can get all the things you need from the collective rather than the singular. I think it's a romantic notion, this idea of the one person who offers you multiple things. She's your mom, friend, your happy hour buddy. It's very cool when that one person satisfies all those things.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
But until maybe you find that person, can you find that from the collective, from multiple people? You're getting laughter. You're getting growth opportunities. You're sharing resources. Are you getting that from the village? Because maybe right now that's more important than having the one person who satisfies all the things. And so I just need that woman to know you are not alone.
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There are so many people who are in the same boat. And to resist the urge to internalize that and to wonder what's wrong with you because you don't have that right now.
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It's really hard, especially as a parent, to not want to drive up to that school. Yeah. And find those girls and be like, what the heck is your problem? It's hard. So you're saying we shouldn't text them or their parents or get involved? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, no, it's hard, right? Especially as a mama bear, you're like, I want my girl to feel confident and to belong.
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And how dare people reject her? That is painful. And it's painful to watch your babies go through anything. In the meantime, because a lot of times we talk about handling what you can control, that is hurtful. And there's even research that finds that being rejected socially lights up the same parts of your brain as experiencing physical pain. So she's not being dramatic.
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It is hurtful to not have people. And it's even worse sometimes when you don't know what you did wrong.
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Well, one of the things we can do is to share with that young woman who's in that situation is what she can do right now is to continue to show up, let's say in this situation at school, to show up to school, to be kind to others, to confidently go about her day and to have connections with people.
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And if she feels comfortable going to one of the young women who she trusts most in the group, because sometimes we feel like it's us versus this large capital G group. So go to a person in the group who you trust most and say, hey, you know, I'm noticing we're not talking as much. What's going on? Right. And to ask.
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and at that point they're responsible for letting us know what it is or not but if there are people they would let us know if they were your people they wouldn't take pleasure in isolating you if they were your people they'd call you in and not push you out and so it could be a good exercise for her uh in terms of identifying who your people are and so suffering any kind of loss is really painful and like we said especially women's friendships because we're so deep but
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These are not your people. And it's tricky because you think, but no, mom, they are. Those are my girls. But your people would never take delight in pushing you out, rejecting you, watching you agonize over what you did wrong and not coming to relieve some of that confusion and distress. They're not your people.
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100%. Yeah, that is really painful. I think those are the moments where those three affinities of female friendship come out to play. When we no longer feel the same, when we begin to take different priorities, different values emerge. And even though I have a history with you, an affection for you, it's just not working out.
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I think sometimes it's even easier to release friendships when we can easily identify a villain. It feels easier. When you betray me, I'm upset, but it's easier to let go. It's harder to let go when I still like you. But things have shifted and it's simply not compatible despite my desire to stay in relationship with you. Might be even more painful because I can't make sense of it.
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And I don't know why we just don't work, but we don't. And so again, I think intellectually, we know that friendships dissolve, but it is really hard when it happens in real life. I think you just actually answered it.
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Yes. Okay. This is a big one. So first, I like to look at the difference between envy and jealousy because I know sometimes we use them synonymously. So the way I kind of separate the two is that envy involves two people and jealousy involves three. So if I'm envious, that means you have something I want. This is between you and me.
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And jealousy means I'm scared I'm going to lose what I have to this third party is going to come in and take my friend. So like I'm jealous of my friend, maybe a new girl enters the villa and I'm like, oh, what's happening here? But whenever we are feeling jealous or envious of a friend, I think the first thing to do if we're feeling envious is to normalize that.
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And I know people say that a lot, but something I've noticed, especially with women is that almost feels like the cardinal sin. Like we can talk about every other kind of friendship conflict, but don't accuse me of being jealous. jealous. I don't even want to be in the proximity of being an envious friend, right? So we've got to normalize.
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If you have somebody you love who's closely integrated into your life and she starts to have things that you kind of want for yourself, that it's normal to feel that way. And I think it can signal to us our values and desires. So if you, you know, get pregnant, I've been wanting a baby and I'm like, oof, I felt that pinch, totally normal. Cause that's something you want for your life.
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Totally normal. What do you do with it though?
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Sure.
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Yeah. I love the honesty in that to say, I noticed that I couldn't have joy for somebody else because the lack in my life ran so deep that it went beyond the joy I was able to muster up for my own friend. And then the shame you feel sometimes for that, this is my friend. I can't even be happy for my friend. What's wrong with me? So I think it helps to identify, okay, this is normal.
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Then I think the next step becomes working through that, sometimes privately and sometimes with our friend, depending on how close we are. And here's what I mean. If I'm noticing, gosh, when I'm sharing space with her, I notice myself maybe making passive aggressive remarks or...
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I've got to get a hold on that because now it's messing up my ability to show up as a good friend because this thing runs so deep. So I need to go and look at what's that about? Do I need to remind myself that there's no comparison and life is not linear and this is her path and my path and things will happen for me? Do I need to evaluate the degree to which I'm operating with a fixed mindset?
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Because her having is not a sign of me lacking. It's just her having. And what's available to her is equally available to me. And the timing is just different, right? I might need to go and coach myself through that so I can be a good friend around her.
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If it is something deeply tender, like infertility and things like that, which I see, I've seen women who have expressed to a friend, I love this for you, I'm happy for you. And they can share certain boundaries. Hey, I don't I don't know if I'll be able to make it to the baby shower, but I am sending you a little something, girl, because I want your little one to have this, right?
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And having friends who can hold space for that.
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Yeah. So we are going to be disappointed by our friends because they are fallible, regular degular people, right? So I think making room for that upfront is helpful. My friends are going to let me down.
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I know that I would like to think of myself as a good friend and I have good girlfriends who could say, yeah, Danielle disappointed me that day with what she said or, you know, so I'm thankful for their grace. But I think a couple of things to evaluate when that does happen are the severity of it, how big was the disappointment, right? The consistency of it.
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Is my friend always letting me down in this way, right? A lot of times disappointment comes from unmet expectation. Oh, you have research about this.
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Yeah. Do you think that's part of the problem? Absolutely. And that research goes on to say that this is in both romantic and platonic relationships, have these higher expectations of what's supposed to happen and identifying more wrongs than a man might in our relationships. But there are some things that we can do to kind of close that gap.
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The first is how often are these disappointments happening? The second is what are my expectations and have I expressed them? Which we said earlier, a lot of people feel like, but I shouldn't have to. Sometimes you do. And then also, can I communicate my disappointment afterward?
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You have permission to say to a friend, yeah, I'm kind of bummed because I thought you'd come to my event last night and I was excited to have you there. You have permission to say that. And the right people will express to you, oh my gosh, I had no idea that it mattered that much. Sometimes we underestimate how much the thing meant to you. I thought that, you know, you have events all the time.
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I didn't know that you care. So I'm more interested in the response after you say the thing, not just that the friend disappointed you. Once I give you that data and I say, I thought you would show up or when my dad passed, I wanted you here. I didn't want the texts. I wish you came and sat with me. Yeah. How do they respond? What's next? That's what I'm more interested in.
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Is there an expression of regret? Is there an effort to repair? Is this a moment to help facilitate? Okay, now I have a better understanding of what you're looking for. That's what I'm more concerned about as opposed to the friend disappointed me. And I think that can help and maybe stop us from prematurely ending some friendships.
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One of the ones I like to lead with is if you don't like who you are when you're together. I know I've been a part of friendships where I am not acting like myself when we get together. And I don't know what prompts that. It just happens so stealthily. But when I'm with other people, I enjoy who I am. I'm proud of who I am. So the first indicator is you don't like who you are when you're together.
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Yeah. Another might be after you're spending time together, you find yourself totally depleted. It is exhausting. Whether she's super negative or you find yourself doing the mental labor of performing and you feel like you can finally relax, right? That could be a sign that it's not good for you.
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If you feel like certain goals you have for yourself are being delayed by being in this friendship, whatever that looks like for you. I know sometimes we have friends who are like, you're not like you used to be. You used to be fine with this. You used to be.
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And there are things I want to do with my life, new directions and goals that I have, but I feel like I'd be betraying my friends by pursuing these new goals that I have for myself. Yeah. that could be something to look at as well.
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And then the last thing I'll say is whenever trust feels like it's so lost that there's no way to recover it and get that back, that can be difficult for maintaining a relationship.
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Yeah, yeah. And it's hard because I know when we see these videos on social media and it's like nine signs she's toxic or nine signs. One thing I want to say about the whole toxic thing is sometimes it's not that this person's so toxic, even though there are people with ongoing toxic behaviors. but sometimes it's just our dynamic. Maybe it's not her.
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It's just, there's something that happens when we come together and it's not clicking. I don't like who I am and something's weird here, but all your other friends, that works for you. They think you're delightful. That's awesome. there's something about our makeup, like quite literally our chemistry, that when we come together, it doesn't work. And so I think it goes back to what we said earlier.
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I think that by the time they're done listening or watching it, they feel instantly more confident, less alone about any secret private struggles that they're experiencing in their friendships. And I'm hoping that it increases their level of optimism about all that is available to them in friendship. That's what I'm really hoping for by the time that we're done with this conversation.
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It's easier when you can easily identify the villain to separate and make sense of what's happening. It's harder to just say, I just think it's us. I don't enjoy it. And I don't like who I become. And that's harder sometimes because there's more nuance and gray area.
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I think a lot of what lives up under that controlling nature is anxiety and anxious attachment, which women are more susceptible to. And so I'm anxious about you being away and where did you go and what do you think and what's going on?
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And so, you know, when we have a friend who's controlling us, controlling decisions we make, she's anxious over the fact that you're making decisions that are not what she would make. You're doing what she doesn't want you to do. There's a lot of anxiety about not being able to handle or manage or predict the outcome.
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And having that tendency needs to get in check because it's hard to be in relationship with the person who needs you to Think like they do. Be where they need you to be. Be available when they want you to be available. Because the whole thing about healthy friendships is there's space for us to be together and that interdependence. And there's also space for me to be myself.
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And also, and always trying to do that dance between us and our togetherness and me and my individuality. But when you have people who begin to suffocate that part, there's going to be an issue.
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How do I do that? Because it's easy to say, you're texting me all the time. You have to stop or I'm overwhelmed, right? So I'm going to invite you to participate in the way that feels good to me. So maybe instead I'll say, hey, I know you like to check in throughout the day, but I think it's best for me to check in on the weekends. Like I love our little phone calls on the weekend.
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Do you want to do Saturdays or Sundays? That's an affirmative boundary on where would you when would you like to talk? Because for me, it's overwhelming. Right. And that's me kind of gracefully moving you toward what I need you to do.
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Which, and you know, that's a part of it too, is sometimes playfulness, when I hear people talk about conflict, it sounds really scary and serious. That's why I avoid it. Yeah, well, that makes sense.
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You know, where appropriate, we can address some things with playfulness. And I think it's wise to do that sometimes because it helps us to relax, right? If you're being playful, it shows that there's no threat around because we can be playful. You can be playful and feel... Okay, well, here's another one.
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That's always really tricky. And we have to take into account things like, I know that they are not friends, but they're inviting me. So, you know, and you're trying to figure out how do I maintain a sense of loyalty, but also being, it's really tricky. I'll say this to the person who's being controlling, if I may speak to her.
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There are a couple of things that have to happen so that people don't experience you that way. One is you've got to figure out the importance of having multiple friends because you might unintentionally be putting pressure on that one friend to be your everything. And she wants to be so many things to you, but it's not fair. So how can you broaden that? Your friendships.
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The second thing you have got to figure out if you find yourself being anxious and controlling is what is the fear? What am I afraid of if I loosened my grip? Am I scared I would be forgotten? Am I scared I might be left behind? There's something deeper there that's got you so fixated on this friend.
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And I think we have to kind of look at those things because it's going to be really difficult to be in relationship with other people. If that's something that begins to take over, we've got to get it in check. And I sympathize with you because friendship stirs up so much. You're bringing so much of your personal stuff to the table and we're working it out in the friction of friendship.
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But if you want healthy friendships, if you want to be deeply known and you want to deeply know others, you have to find a way to offer space to people to be themselves and trust that they still love you even if they're not around. And that can be really hard, but something to maybe work through or get support with so that you can enjoy a healthy connection. I love your perspective on this.
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Yeah, so life transitions are actually a big reason why women's friendships end. And I also believe that there are a lot more prominent transitions in a woman's life. And it becomes difficult sometimes to stay together during those disruptions throughout the life cycle. So her getting married and then getting really, really involved with that spouse.
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And now you're like, oh, what are we doing here? You know, we're not spending time together. Her having a baby. And now the topic of conversation is butt paste and bottles. And I'm not interested. Right. So it can be hard to show up in those ways. I think one thing that we have to do is give ourselves grace because we've never been friends like this before. Right.
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We've never had to be friends with you having to also have this little baby you have to keep alive at home. So the first thing to honor, okay, we've never done this. Let's get to the business of figuring it out. I also see people experience so much dissatisfaction because you're comparing your present to how it used to be. And that chapter is no more, or it won't return for a long time, right?
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While this new season is in. And I have people feel a lot of disappointment around that. It's not like it used to be. It's not like it's used to be. Well, we know again that friendships change, but when it happens, it's really difficult to adapt.
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And then the last thing I would say, if you feel a transition coming on with your friendship is it's okay to say it because that takes a lot of power away from the fear. So to say to a friend, like, listen, I know you're booed up now, I love that for you. But can we still do FaceTimes on Fridays because I miss you and I don't see you like I used to.
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And I think that feels scary because it's more vulnerable. It's easier to say, oh, got a man and forgot all about me. It's harder to say, I really miss you and I'm happy for you. I love how happy he makes you, but I miss us. What can we do about that? And it kind of takes the power out of the fear of what happens next with us during this transition.
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Well, the first thing I'm going to say is look at those three affinities of female friendship. How can you introduce those from the very beginning? How can I highlight our similarities and play into that? How can I offer tangible demonstrations of support? How can I make it safe here for us to share with one another? Those are things that help us to feel close in those friendships.
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And then again, and I know this continues to be a theme in what I'm saying is you can announce it. We've got to get permission to announce it. You can say to a friend, I love getting to know more and more about you. Or like every time we get together, I'm learning more about you and I'm loving it. I'm loving getting to know you.
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I mean, sometimes saying it up front helps the other person to buy in because so often we wonder, do they like me? Do they not? Like, are they as invested as I am? So let me remove the mystery. I really enjoy you. Do you want to do this more often? And sometimes making it plain relieves that pressure, the mystery, the game playing, right? I initiated last time, but is that too much?
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There's no time for that. So I think even explicitly expressing to somebody, I'm so excited to get to know you more. I'm always learning a little something every time we get together. I think that sometimes can expedite the process of being close friends.
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Yeah, so we tend to put friendship into the margins of our lives and see it as like this extra recreational thing that's non-essential. But it really is. And it has benefits that we might not even suspect. And there is a study that found that the number one predictor of the success of your romantic adult relationships is how well you did with your same-sex friends in adolescence. Really?
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Likely because things do tend to be segregated by gender in school. Girls go over here, boys go over here. I'm mostly with girls in school in these different groups and in class. That's where I'm developing social skills. I'm learning to negotiate. I'm learning how to communicate. How do I show up as a friend? I'm learning that here.
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So if I struggled with that in these formative years, it's likely that those same skills that I need to have a successful romantic relationship, some of that stuff's going to travel with me. So these are, you know, it's an important time to figure out with other women when we're young, how do we do this? Because there are surprising ways that it impacts everything else.
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I'm living proof, hey, that you can. And I mean, the same way we get all these books to be a better parent, to be a better wife, like that's awesome. This can be learned too. And this is what I mean about like giving people more optimism. There's something where we feel like, well, this should be organic. Why can't I get this right?
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But we aren't learning about how to show up as a better friend because we feel like it should be something that's just natural. And the extent of the conversation at one period about friendship is, you either have friends or you don't. And if you don't, what's wrong with you? There's so much more to that conversation.
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So yes, get the book around how to be a better friend or to get over your anxious attachment so you can enjoy healthier relationships. Yeah, figure that out, especially in adulthood because the scripts that worked for you in friendship at 18 and can work at 45 At some point, I have to sit down and get to the business of figuring out, how do I do this?
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How do I make time for friends with my other obligations? How do I release my anxiousness? Because that's been a theme in my friendships and it hasn't gone well. How do I set boundaries without feeling like an awful person? We've got to get to the business of figuring that out to enjoy the kind of connections that we're dreaming about.
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First, let me say that becoming a friendship coach was certainly not on my vision board when I was 10. Okay. Definitely something I fell into. I actually started as a high school English teacher. And so I had 10th and 12th graders who I was teaching. And I noticed that between classes and after school, the number one thing the girls wanted to talk to me about was friendship stuff.
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Having a bridal party is probably the only time, aside from the MySpace Top 8, where you have to put your hierarchy on display. So if I'm going through our friendship process, assuming that we're on the same level. And I'm not chosen as a bridesmaid. I'm not chosen as the maid of honor. And here I am thinking we're best friends.
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For a lot of women, they do say it's hard for them to recover after that with that new information that we're not as close as I thought we were. Because I've been going around thinking that we see each other the same. And then when you have to make a public declaration of your hierarchy of friends, I'm not up there. It can be really hard to digest. What's your advice?
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Well, the first is to ask yourself about the history and the evidence you have in that friendship. Does she show up? Is she attentive? If I need support, she's there. And can I be okay with that? Some women can't. And some will say, you know what? She's a good friend. We're good friends to each other. I can find a way to be okay with this, right?
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So looking at what does the friendship offer me, even though I might not be her top tier friend. And to the woman who has to make these bridal party selections, and feels really nervous about it, to have those conversations in a way that still offers reassurance to the friends who are involved. Because the number one question they're going to have is, am I more invested than you? Do I not matter?
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It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Do you not care? That's going to be at the heart of that rejection that they experience. So as much as I can tenderly assure you that this is totally a logistical thing and it has nothing to do with me and you, the better, because those are the things we're going to be questioning after you make that selection. Gotcha.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
100%. But providing that more aerial view of the decisions you have to make and the things you're accounting for can help people to understand a little bit and to depersonalize a little bit if you can give them that overview. So I've seen it be helpful in that way.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Or you can scratch the bridal party altogether, which I see more and more people leaning toward because of the other things that it brings into the friendship.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Yeah, so men and women. Yeah, there's research that finds that we replace half of our friends every seven years. I hope that that... makes people feel a little less ashamed if they have friendships that don't work out. Because what that says to me is that there's this natural pruning that happens throughout your life.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
So I didn't realize that at the time I was kind of unofficially coaching them through their weird, awkward friendship drama. And so the classroom was kind of the first place where I saw how issues of connection and belonging directly impact everything else. Their attendance, because you're not even coming to school if you don't feel like you belong somewhere.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
I also hope that that has people release any shame around needing to make new friends. Because I hear people say, I'm out here making friends at 42. I should have had all my friends from high school. Really? Because I know some of the friends I had in high school, it would not be appropriate for us to still be friends. It wouldn't make sense to where I am right now or the values I have right now.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And so if we are dropping or shedding new friends every seven years, that means we need to be picking up new ones because what does that churn rate look like? How am I positioning myself to invite new friendships into my life? So I hope it shows us that we will always be having to make new friends.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Their confidence, their academic performance, their mood, all related back to whether or not they felt like they had people at school. And so I did that for about six years and became the academic chair. And then I left and I got into the world of public relations.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
I want them to consider that the source of your hurting could also be the source of your healing. And I know that there is a lot of hurt that's probably happened with other women. And sometimes we close ourself off to female friendships because of that. But allowing ourselves to invite the love of other women helps to do some of that healing.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
To give ourselves the chance to see that women are tender and supportive and gracious and strong, I think helps to start to be an overlay and starts to gradually erase some of the hurt we have from before. But the restoration lies in the courage to position ourselves to try again. I love that. So Danielle, what are your parting words?
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
I think this conversation is important for the person who finds themselves about to grow cold or cynical to friendship itself, to their personal future, because they can't make sense of something right now or because they're starting to feel hopeless. And I'm hoping that this equips them with language to describe what's going on and with hope for the future.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Because it should be exciting to know that you could meet your best friend in the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years. It could be exciting to know that you might have several best friends over the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years. But as soon as we resign ourselves to believing that how it is right now is how it will always be, then we've lost. And so I think maintaining that hope is really, really important.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
So much of the conversation we have around friendship is about this insulated relationship, just me and you. And we need that. We need close friendships. But when we think about the fabric of society, it starts with me and you. It starts with me being open to sharing with you, having positive experiences with you. And then you go and share that with somebody else. It's a ripple effect, right?
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
It starts with me being supportive of you and you now having a deeper belief in yourself because I affirmed you and spoke words of life into you as your friend. That is literally what fuels society and keeps us trusting one another and having goodwill toward one another. But it starts right here.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And so I get really sad when I hear people who are discouraged about friendship and start to close themselves off. Yeah. Because when we talk about from an aerial view, needing more trust in community from a larger perspective, it starts right here. And so I feel like if we want a healthier, more hopeful future as a society, it starts with me being open to friendships, personal friendships today.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And I always joke that I made the foolish mistake of thinking, I'm leaving that teenage drama behind because I'm working with adult women. And it wasn't long before I realized that despite the fact that these women were charismatic, high-achieving extroverts, they too were secretly dealing with friendship stuff.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And I would love for us to keep making that connection. Yeah.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And so I just thought, wow, at every stage of womanhood, we're trying to figure out how do I better relate to the women around me? It's not an age thing. It feels like the great equalizer. It doesn't matter your background or generation.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Listen, we listen and we don't judge. Whatever you're into. You've got range. You've got range.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
I have a hump. Oh.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And so for the past seven years, I've been leveraging my background in education to study what the research has to say about women's cooperation, communication, and conflict. So are women and men's friendships different? They are. They are. First, I want to say, because I know when we get into the differences between genders, we're all looking for the same thing. We all want support.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
We want to have a good time. We want people who offer a sense of ease to our lives. But the research continues to show that there are some differences. I think the main theme I've seen in the research is in terms of intimacy. of these friendships. Very different. With women, they do experience more depth and platonic intimacy than men tend to in their same-sex friendships.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Women tend to be more dyadic. So we're one-to-one, which it counts. Dyadic? What is that word? You're an English teacher, so I'm going to have to be like, okay, wait, what? So like a dyadic, A, D, diet. So one-to-one, we tend to couple off and that accounts for that depth we experience, right? Because we're in this private, intimate vault, the two of us.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Whereas men tend to congregate in larger groups. They tend to collect a bunch of casual friendships. And when you're in a big group, it affords you a certain level of anonymity, okay? When I've got all the guys in the room, right? Women also in our conversations, we are more likely than men to talk about things like our mental and physical health,
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
and family, things like that, that tends to center the self, those conversations. But men are more likely than women to talk about current events and sports, which de-centers self. So even in our conversations, it's very intimate. And then they find that women tend to integrate their friends into their lives to the degree of a sibling, men to the degree of a cousin.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And so I'm certainly not saying that men don't also experience these deep friendships they do, but more often than not, you'll see that with women.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Yeah, it's hard to hide when it's me and you at coffee. And it's very reciprocal. If it's just you and I, you talk, I talk. There's no confusion around whose turn it is to share. I am more deeply known here. I am more accountable here because it's me and you. And I think that's also why we kind of see that running joke where your husband comes home from hanging out with the boys.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And you're like, oh my gosh, so did they have the baby? Why did they divorce? And he's like, oh, I don't know. I didn't ask. You know, so it's like a running joke, but there's some truth to that.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Yes. So I call it the three affinities of female friendship. And I got really excited when I found this because I started to notice that it didn't matter which discipline I was looking at, anthropology, sociology, psychology, I kept seeing these themes emerge and I got really excited because I saw the same three things keep popping up.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
in terms of what women highly prioritize in their friendships and what makes them close. And by extension, if these three things are not there, it's probably the reason why there's a little tension, a little conflict. And so those three things are symmetry, support, and secrecy. Symmetry, support, and secrecy. Yes.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
So with symmetry, women really value these feelings of sameness and balance and reciprocity and egalitarianism, okay? We're all equal. We're the same. You are me. Even if you go to a bar and you see women talking, you're overhearing them say, me too. Oh my God, same, me too. So thriving on that, I am you, you are me.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And then when that symmetry shifts or we start to sense like, oh, we're on different paths or she's maybe not like me, that tension shifts. of we're not in the same lane, what's going on here? So symmetry is really powerful. And that egalitarianism piece and symmetry feeling like equals.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
So if you have a woman who you feel like she's starting to be judgy about your parenting or your business choices, I mean, the undertone or the subtext there is that her choices are better or superior, right? She's coaching you or talking down to you because we're supposed to be, we're the same, we're equals.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
100%.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
And so much of this is perception because maybe she's doing nothing wrong. But because of things happening in your life, you're perceiving this imbalance, right? So much of it is subjective.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
Sure, because how do I befriend the threat that doesn't even go together? So seeing you as an extension of myself and seeing women in general as an extension of myself, I am you, you are me, you're not my competition. I mean, it directly impacts the way that we engage with our friendships. So that symmetry piece is really important. And then we have support.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
You know, there's some research that tells us that the number one thing women look for in their same-sex friendships is emotional support. So that means that there's nothing else. I expect you have my back. I expect some shows of solidarity, some gestures of emotional help.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
It’s Not You: The Real Reason Adult Friendship Is So Hard & 3 Ways to Make It Easier
What makes that tricky is we so often don't articulate what support looks like, because I think that as another woman, you ought to know. I shouldn't have to say it. That will certainly make things complicated.
The Mel Robbins Podcast
5 Ways to Actually Make Your Habits Stick
Hey Mel, it's Jack. I've got a quick question for you. If I start setting goals, how do I know if I'm going to be successful? What's kind of the biggest indicator or way for me to know that I'm on track?
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep 10: In Their Words: Messages from the Non-Speakers
And here's Alex V, whose words are being read by his mother. First I want to say thanks for this podcast. I think everyone should know that we are inside these uncooperative bodies. I am here. I hear and understand you. That is all I need people to know. And next is Jack. We are cognitively different. It is a gift. It is a misunderstood gift.
The Telepathy Tapes
Ep 10: In Their Words: Messages from the Non-Speakers
I always think if the work of my life is how to make the world see it, it is a hard task. It helps that people are starting to understand. The work is not trying to fit into the world as it exists, but trying to make the world change.
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
Hey, my name's Jack. I'm 37 years old, and I wanted to ask your advice about being a new dad.
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
Well, I'm not yet. My wife is pregnant and it's still pretty early. We're just about 10 and a half weeks. So it's going to be both of ours first kid. I'm excited about it and just kind of wondering what your advice would be as far as being really supportive to my wife during the middle and the end of pregnancy and then into being a new dad.
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
I mean, I think just in general, it's really scary thinking about having the kid, all the things that could possibly go wrong. I'm a firefighter, a paramedic, so I see a lot of disasters and things like that that could go wrong. And we also, unfortunately, had a miscarriage. Oh, I'm sorry.
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
you're not having morning sickness, you're not. And she's like, Oh my gosh, this baby. Okay. And every little thing is so hard.
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
Yeah. What are the things that I should like absolutely be doing, like to help her out, you know, once.
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
That's what I'm saying. I think luckily, um, we both have, have very supportive parents. And I think one thing is I'm going to feel probably a little bit of guilt with my job because I'm gone so much that, you know, those days I'm gone, um, It's going to be a single mom for two out of every six days. That's just the way it is with my work schedule.
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
Yeah, absolutely. No, it's, it makes it even more exciting thinking about that now. And, um, I think, you know, making sure to be present and, um, appreciate all those times that I'll have with my, with my kid. Um, and I think me and my wife do have a really good, um, relationship. So we'll be able to, to check in with each other and we do, we're a good team. We, we enjoy being with each other.
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
Awesome. Yeah. Thank you so much. Thanks for talking to me. I want to say I'm a longtime listener and I've gone through some pretty bad relationships in the past where I've wanted to call in and ask your advice, but I've always kind of known what you would say. And I've listened to some other Ask Nick callers that have had similar situations. which is a really great place.
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
Absolutely. Yeah. We feel really blessed. We're both, um, we're the same age. We're both 37 and we were worried that it might be a little bit harder to get pregnant and Yeah, we're very blessed that we're in this situation right now.
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
Yeah, absolutely. Nick, I got one more question for you that's a completely different topic than this.
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
I'm a big football fan, huge Philadelphia Eagle fan. I know you're a big Packer fan. Obviously, we beat you a couple times.
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
Why do you guys hate the tush push so much, trying to get a ban?
The Viall Files
E923 Ask Nick - My Grandma Cheated
Unfortunately, I didn't get to see that game live. I was actually down in California for the fires, helping out doing the LA fires down there in Malibu. But I did see the replay of that pick of that play. It's hard. It's hard to say. But yeah, I mean, I think it probably could have gone.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Some to climb the corporate ladder. Others are peddled down on a John Deere tractor. Some of us hunt for deer. And some hunt for a bargain. Either way, we're both going to hit a target.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
That was Manhattan. That was Manhattan. That was a jump scare for sure. Continue on.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't remember this. You have to talk to the doctor.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Yeah, he was like, let me call them. She was like, what? No.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Yeah, it's actually insane. I don't know how you're like alive. That's a lot.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
My friends were visiting and one of my friends texted you, I kid you not, yesterday and said, hey, can you bring some of those triple things home? I wanna try those. So I brought a case home, and we played Wingspan. And after the fourth one, it made some of the turns really confusing. I'll confess. But it was great.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Oh, nice. Our house is like a fucking staging zone from like a crisis right now. But...
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
I broke the triple digits.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
I think I understand the whole game. I just...
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
you have like 30 20 vision i know well i was joking about it yeah i thought he was gonna say like a whole thing of fruit snacks or like a million like see-through walls but it was no well this is the reason i bring it up your hat is so orange yeah this hat was white yet yesterday no my friend leah told me that apparently she was like oh if you too eat too many carrots your nose will turn orange i was like ah yeah she's like no i'm serious it's happened to me
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Can you Google this? I actually haven't fact-checked. It's not true. That's like a thing that like... She said she said it over the announcements in elementary school, so it has to be true. Wait. Oh, what? That is crazy. Keratinosis. Keratinosis?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
But it's so funny. The thing that changes your nose to the color of a carrot is called keratinosis.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
That would be like... I probably had 50 to 100 carrots. That's a huge range. 50 to 100? That's like... How many baby carrots are in a bag of baby carrots?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
No, I had a crazy amount of carrots. Fuck you guys.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Right by the door have like a thing of fake mustaches and a bottle of liquor.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
You love that shit. You're Chicago. Grown up in Chicago.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
You couldn't even fit one of your legs.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
However, if it was a one foot by one foot square or cube, I would have been really impressed. Yeah.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Yeah, yeah. When the incident happened. He was at a bar just hanging out with his friends.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
I couldn't go on Google Buzz to play with Carter and Will and all my homies because I had a business account because my dad, during the dot-com bubble... Get out of there, Lauren.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
During the dot-com bubble, my dad bought Will Denellen and Sam Denellen and Laura Denellen dot coms for all of his children, thinking that that would have value. So my email was, but I was really into Jumbo Shrimp. That was like my username. So my email was Jumbo Shrimp at Will Denellen dot com.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
But yeah, I used to have wildenellen.com and I would like update it every week.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
This guy Mitch Perkins owned me.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
He joins all my live streams.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
And he always says the audio is not working when he joins my live streams.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
When I worked on the congressional campaign in 2020, at one point, the candidate that I was working for and my campaign manager became obsessed with the idea that our opponent was going to buy up domain names to slander us. So we had to buy them all up before him. So there was one full workday where we bought... Her name was Kim Nelson and we bought Kim Nelson for congress.com.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
And then we bought Kim Nelson sucks.com. Kim Nelson blows.com and like Kim Nelson for congress.com. And I was, and they were like, Oh, thank God. Like got, got those before he did. And I was like, what would he do with that?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Yeah, it was just, like, brainstorming which ones to get, and it was, like... That is a really funny... It was his whole time.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
And so she got rid of the New York Times. But all my siblings were all using her account. So then we all went and got our own New York Times accounts after. So I was like, Mom, by getting rid of it, you actually tripled. And then she has since admitted she now re-got the New York Times.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Yeah, but that's not... That is not a barometer.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Well, not, I'm not, I mean, I'm not the podcast because that's like you guys too, but just like my own platform. Like, I don't know. I do.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Yeah, that's... I have to have a... Your checking account is not representative of your net worth.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
I'm not what there's a million things I could do. I could be getting involved in like organization and act, you know, getting people figuring out what the next step is for young people and for our party using my platform to talk about these things like I stay very kind of quiet and apathetic. And I don't mention it here and there, but like the big reason
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
this has happened in our country and that these people are in powers because of like, it became okay in media, in our platforms to talk about like right wing talking points and not the others.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Play date. Pow.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Yeah, honestly. Some of mine honestly might, now that I think about it.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Have you ever seen that video? It was like a guy in Italy and he was like, what the hell? And it was like city of Houston police department driving down. It was like, I guess you can buy US police cars at auction and they're legal to drive in Europe because they don't look like the police cars there.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
I worry that it's like in 20 years, people would be like, what is this? There's only one generation of people that would know what all this stuff is.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
So you're having to be like... Yeah, it's just like a little... It says it's there, but you can't click it. Yeah, like, I'm going to take these five. And they're all the same name? It's like IMG. IMG, like 4,400,000.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Yeah, that's funny.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Cause like there, there could be like a mirror where there's like a, you know what I mean? Like I, yeah.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Yeah, that's just someone's car.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Okay, get rid of that.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
You guys aren't going to believe the kind of buzz. It's just... Oh, yeah. Yours is like free.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
It's not a noise.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
It is now. You have to, like, there's, like, very specific modifications. I've seen guys, like, you know, like, the kind of guys on the internet that just are, like, suck, kind of, and they're just, like, trying to, like, piss people off. So these guys, like, got a cop car and, like, technically made all the specs, like... But it still looked like Hopcart had lights and noises somehow.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
It was so loud, too. It was overwhelming. Who's that for? I think it's so that you pay just to get him to stop. It's like every dollar I'll... I'll chill out for a second. Hold off for a second. This episode is brought to you by Southern Comfort. With a one-of-a-kind blend of fruit and spices, SoCo Whiskey is the original ready-for-anything spirit.
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The Featherstone.
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I know it sounds primitive and obvious. I want to chew it. I feel like we've been to the moon 60 years ago.
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To the average guy. They like weaseled their way and then they drove to the police station and they were like, look at this.
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Buzz Aldrin in multiple interviews said we didn't go to the moon.
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But he's also said every other time that they went to the moon. That's just like one question.
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No, no, I'm just saying you were going ooh, so I was like this isn't for you.
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No, I was just, okay, if we had a fridge of Diet Cokes.
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Teach me something. All right. The year is 1910.
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On their RAs, they'd be like, oh, I peaked when I was six.
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I don't remember a fucking thing from when I was six. Yeah, I don't remember anything.
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Oh, boy. I actually taught your dad. Help. Help. Help. No, you taught my dad. You taught, sir. Okay, earth the professor.
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yeah lashing out or drop i mean it really is like i feel like i do kind of fundamentally believe in like we all kind of we all want the same we're all shaped by just like are you thinking well some of it's like how you are like what your disposition is as a person
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This is powerful stuff.
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This is John Murray Spear. Okay. He was in Boston in like the 1800s. He kind of ran with like the founding fathers and shit. He led social reform early on, women's rights. He was an abolitionist. He helped build the Underground Railroad. A very good guy.
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however he then got really distracted by the idea of building a new messiah out of electronics so like when like they were figuring out electricity like he he kind of ran with ben franklin and stuff and they were like oh this is gonna be the path to like like the universe and like god and so he built basically like a hodgepodge like guy out of like electronics and
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and thought it was the new messiah and uh it was made of copper zinc magnets and a tape and a table and he called it the new mary and tried to give it life which didn't work and i think he kind of flamed out from that community and lost sort of his clout but i just like the idea like a guy who's like really ahead of the curve on everything and then gets really sidetracked by trying to build a robot jesus
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But I feel like when you put it this way, when you go back far enough on anyone, it's really hard to really hate a person or find fault. Because 99% of the time, obviously there's exceptions, like horrible people, but they were like, they had this, yeah. I don't know.
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He ran at it. He brought a joy and curiosity which warmed the hearts of those around him and those across the globe through his viral podcast with his hot podcast partner, Will Donnellan. His body is nuts.
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This guy rocks.
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I think he writes the scenes and they just make no sense.
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Do you write that?
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He calls it a llama too. It just fucked up.
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Yeah, that feels insane.
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I was zoned out for a second. Okay, got it, got it. Yeah, maybe the faucet has to spray up?
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I couldn't hear it. I get, like, too much, like, I can do it myself, but I can't do the second hand.
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It's... Oh no. What? I fucked this one up too. What'd you do? These are ways to break up with someone.
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I remembered where they were on the board and I went back in and it must have been after you erased it.
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These are new ways to say smoke and weed. Hunk and wonky. Spit and snark. Flash and mash.
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I found a spider in my shower this morning.
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These are ways to tell someone you're breaking up with them. My family is going to be moving on without you. The tribe has spoken. I got to find a whole new crew. On this solemn eve, I break the news to thee. We no longer may share the love to... Oh, wait. On this solemn eve, I break to you the news. We no longer may share the love to which we used.
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Hey, hand up. Hand up. I fucked that up.
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i don't know if that's true it was the first thing to come out about penguin movie yeah yeah wow a whole i mean maybe yeah one hour and 25 just about penguins
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Yeah. Penguins of Madagascar, Surf's Up, Happy Feet. Surf's Up. Mr. Popper's Penguins.
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You had to make like a big pitch. Yeah.
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Yep. And my parents were like, Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You didn't have to.
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Yeah. I mean, maybe no one... No, I... But, like, I had stuff that there was no way I... They were, like, from events that... Like, they would do, like, events that you could, like, get shirts at. And later that you had to buy them all. But, like, I had these old ones that we got for free.
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I got banned, too.
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We would do a thing where we would get a girlfriend and then break up with them, but be really mean. We'd be like, do you want to be my girlfriend? The whole time knowing we were going to break their heart. And then we'd go to a new place together, and then I'd be like, I fucking hate you.
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And my mom was like, oh, yeah, that's... She was like, I can't really explain like why right now. We were in like kindergarten. I really like, you know, when she walks across the room, like I'm really... I'm really fascinated by the way her jeans move.
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uh she told my friend in front of the entire class that he was going like you know like rappers i think i might have told the story already but you know rappers are like teachers told me i'd never be nothing and you're like no teacher has ever done that we had a teacher that brought our friend up in front of the class said he's going blank is going nowhere in life you guys should not be friends with him i do i remember you saying that that's so messed up
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And then we hid his iPad in the back of the class like on recording to like try and bait her into saying something else. We could like never get anything that was like that bad. But we got a couple like quips that like taken out of context were like devastating and they don't let her teach. I don't know about now, but they sent her down to like elementary school.
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the minor leagues well because she was just more impressionable children i will say she was good with like kid kids yeah she just did not have the going ads to yeah play in the big leagues that makes um i had the professors count yeah i had a great professor
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nice how'd that go for you it was really good ryan ryan heffernan so even at bc it was first name no i called him hef i was just saying his name i don't know why i was yeah but we he asked everyone called him hef and he was really cool i had him freshman year for this class we had this class on courage to know it was like a made-up class it was just like courage to know yeah oh fun fact what are the what are the tests
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They have someone's class to, like, ease you into college. And a lot of this class was just, like, getting to know each other. Get a couple A's on the board. Yeah.
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My dad watched this whole seminar about why your kids should take Courage to Know, and he wrote down, make sure Will takes Professor Kurt Schnell.
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It feels like your parents were a lot more involved, like, hands-on with school. Yeah.
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And then they lived in the town that my college was at. So, like, I could go see them. But, like, I didn't... There was no... There was nothing like that. I mean, they were never, like, in, like, the PTO or anything or, like... Yeah. But...
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they dropped me off i mean they went to my orientation and my sex talk yeah i think that might be um they weren't like they weren't like those like you know those kids whose parents were like hyper involved in the school right those were the worst pta yeah pto actually called it i think pie at my school i was with seeth but yeah pta pto whatever Seif? Yeah, Capel is with Education Fund. Okay.
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That song is awesome. I never got into him. He's amazing. He's awesome. I'm sure he's amazing. I just remember the one song that was kind of making its rounds in my circle growing up. It just didn't hit with me. Which one was it? I think it was Sunday Candy or something. Sunday Candy didn't hit?
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When I was in college, you know those guys that, like, the coolest things about them contradict each other? Does that make any sense? Okay, hit me. Like, he's super crunchy granola and, like, bikes to work, but he also, like, smokes, like, Marlboro Reds, and you're like, those things don't really... You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So I had this professor, and he had, like, a ponytail, and he was, like, a history teacher, and I thought he was the coolest... And he would, like, bike to work. I guess the only contradiction was, like, he would sit outside. I'd see him smoking cigarettes on, like, a bench. I was like, that's pretty cool.
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I know. I guess now that I'm saying it out loud, it did. But it was, like, his whole thing was, like, a holistic, like... Yeah. And it was... It's funny how, like, some of the smartest people in the world are able to, like...
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put reason aside for certain things you know what i mean like any any rational person would be like i shouldn't be smoking a pack of cigarettes today yeah and he was like one of the smartest guys i know but he loved cigarettes you know the our personal trainer in new orleans yeah was like remember when she was just ripping us oh yeah i heard a personal trainer and then she starts ripping a cigarette and we didn't get it on camera it makes you feel a lot better about like
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No, it made me feel like this person doesn't know her health from her ass. Her ass from her hell bow. Health bow. Yeah. Her hell bow. Yeah. I wasn't looking at her ass. I made myself cry this morning.
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I was writing country songs that don't exist. Don't do that. Oh, I was writing country songs that don't exist. And I wrote a really sad one. Damn it. Isn't that funny that you... Is that what you guys were doing? Yeah. We're doing country songs and ways to say you're... We'll tell you in the roadmap. But isn't it funny that your brain is capable of making something up that can make you cry?
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Oh, yeah. I didn't... It's not real. Yeah. Like, I didn't do anything real. I didn't make anything real.
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I like it. I had no caffeine, so that might be part of it. Yeah. I'm on my second. I haven't had as much caffeine as I've usually had at this point in my day. Accelerator. But I'm good. I'm good.
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I'm drinking the accelerator now. If you want to see the effects of the accelerator, skip 45 minutes in the future. I'm excited for next week. Why? Because I am. Best guy ever. Dude, I'm stoked for next week. Yeah, it's Friday and I'm thinking about next week.
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Oh, sorry. I wouldn't have pieced that together. No, you would not have.
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We usually record on Monday and release Wednesday. Okay.
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this whole two episode thing is i literally don't know what day of the week this is the third episode we've recorded this week don't you think the weeks are like flying by because of it yeah i mean i do yeah i don't feel like burnt out not at all no no not that's not what i'm trying to say at all i more meant like uh i'm very grateful that we most people have you doubled their work that would be bad but i think we will all like it well what about you lauren are you stressed um
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I liked it for... No, I liked it for like a week and then I was like, it just... His stuff kind of makes me sad for some reason. Or like it gives me a headache.
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I need to go. Europe's so odd because there are still medieval cities, but normal people live in them.
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And we were there to look through the records, our family records, because my grandparents wanted to see where they were from. Or not where they were from, where they literally came from. And they just wanted to see if anyone still lived there.
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And this one woman was like, Americans? We were like, yes. And she was like, I'm from Buffalo. My grandparents were like, we're from Buffalo. What are you doing here? She was like, I live here. And they were like, oh. And she was like, oh, all my grandkids are in town. How old are you guys? And we told them our ages. She was like, yeah, all the same ages. So we met this group of cool kids.
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I still follow them. From Buffalo? From Buffalo. But they were just visiting their grandmother for the summer. And then we were supposed to hang out the next day. I was trying to pull a fast one and stay at the house because I hate walking around.
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No, it's great. I just think, you know those songs that you associate with like long car... Like I remember just hearing it in the car one day when my head hurt and I was like... Like I didn't like John Mayer for a while because I remember...
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and so i said i had i said i had diarrhea and then i and i was hoping everyone would leave the house and my grandpa was like i'll hang back with him and i was like well that defeats all burgers and i have to act like i have diarrhea all day and then there were these cool girls and guys that were our age and they were like where's jack and my sister was like yeah he has explosive diarrhea and i now i never want to see those people okay
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Right, but I needed a one-day illness. Yeah. I have explosive diarrhea. I might try that one.
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I'm crazy for that. And then I was just alone in the office, like kind of high. It was pretty fun.
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We had a CD of it, and we played it so often, and my mom's new car smelled so, like, new car-y that I had a headache the whole time, and I started, like, not being able to listen to John Mayer without having my head hurt. I guess that's fair. We got to be careful talking about artists.
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It's going to be great. My friends are visiting from Boston. When are you going to run out of friends?
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Well, this is the same ones that I mentioned last time you accused me of always having friends visit, I think.
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No, but you literally just had Ben Fly this year. Wait, no, that's true.
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Yes. I have two buddies that I would want to stay with me for a week. I got Jake and CY coming in March and then I got... Maybe April off. Ben is coming back in May. Why are you blocking these out so far in advance? Well, they have to book their travel and stuff. They're all coming from the East Coast.
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he's awesome i feel like i sent you i think i've heard of he's like the bassist of future birds or something no he's a guitarist of like he's the guitarist from wednesday is that true yeah he looks cool oh he's only 26 yeah and he's like where are you finding these guys online too many on the web you can't have you can't be into this many guys no this is the biggest guy right now
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That phrase gets watered down when every week there's a new biggest guy for you. This is the biggest guy right now. This is probably my number one artist of this year.
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Your music taste changes month to month, what you're listening to. I know, but if you're calling it, he's my number one artist this year and you say that every week. No, this year. It's him or Waxahachie.
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Because she lives in LA. So that's what I'm banking on. Well, my number one artist this year is Stands With Fist. And I think he's going to come out with wind in her hair.
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All my lonely... Well, I have three friends visiting and then Scott. So the five of us. All of my college crew is five of people. And then three single dudes from work. Skyler's going the night before. He's really... Is he going with his girlfriend? He's a lender man too. I think so, yeah. Or no, he's going with a buddy. But he couldn't come to our show because he has a girlfriend.
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So he can't go on Valentine's Day. Which is kind of fun. It's kind of fun to have like a...
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bunch of single dudes doing a thing on valentine's day plus i figure yeah you're probably gonna get your rocks off if i don't like that language but i figure if there's any alt baddies at the concert it's like unless they're with a person then you know you know they're single yeah because they went to a concert on valentine's day and he's like lonely single dude music too it's gonna be perfect is it like good for grinding no it's like good for like going like
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One of his lyrics is put your clothes back on. Yeah, that's the first. It's the opposite of good grinding music. Put more layers on. All right, if you love this song, put that coat back on. I hope you guys are wearing your long underwear tonight because things are going to get weird.
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I'm excited. It's a little big on me. I'm looking into this coverall. You know coveralls? Like overalls? But with sleeves. Coveralls. Google? Google? Coveralls are where, like, mechanics wear. And it's the... You got them? No. But there's a, you know, Laughing Clown? At Circus? Laughing Clown at Circus. They're selling... I thought it was our shirt. That's cool.
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They're selling the... What did you say? I thought it was our shirt when you took yours. Oh, no. Um...
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uh they're selling the like original ricky bobby laughing clown uh racing suit for 2200 bucks what is what are you saying what is laughing yeah wait what am i looking at it's just laughing laughing clown ricky bob is it his sponsor or something in the movie yeah oh yeah laughing clowns like a like mall liquor um but i think i'm gonna get into overalls this year so confused
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I have that one pair, but I haven't worn them in a while. Ooh, that could be good for my... I'm picturing like corduroy. Corduroy overalls?
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Oh, yeah. I wore mine, too. Lauren wore coveralls the other day. Yeah.
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I feel like a jumpsuit implies there's some sort of like aerobatics happening. Yeah.
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Ty was telling me about his friend in college that every time he smoked, he was convinced his balls got twisted. Okay.
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like like i thought about i've had that fear too i'm like are they switch sides yeah you're like sitting on your lauren if you this isn't the fit this is a real thing i believe it but he like you and i can talk ourselves out of it pretty i think the average man can talk themselves out of it pretty quickly he apparently multiple times
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would smoke, be fine, would sit there and have an absolute meltdown and they'd have to be like, dude, they are fine. And he'd be like, you have to take me to the hospital. You have to take me to the hospital. And they'd be like, dude, they're not... They're not twisted.
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What is that? What do you mean? What is that sensation? Couldn't you just be like, oh, nope.
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Yeah, that doesn't sound fun at all. The only time close to that was we discovered the, we used to call it the anti-gravity bong, but I think in hindsight it was just a gravity bong. We thought we had kind of reinvented the wheel. Anti-gravity? What does that mean? This kid, Ryan, was really good at like drilling holes in glass. And so we would like get it. We got a Snapple bottle.
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He drilled a hole in it. It was just a graph bomb. But I remember doing it at my friend Mike's house and then thinking we were going back to my house.
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I was like watching. I remember like watching these like little characters on the dashboard. Like just like too high. And then being like, where are these guys?
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I'd been out there for like three hours. I must have fallen asleep or something and then woken back up. And there was a whole scene happening in the house. Someone was having a bad reaction to the... Anti-gravity bomb? Yeah, dude. Not good. If you're out there and you're thinking, we should reinvent the anti-gravity bomb, do not. You'll regret it. And I remember just being like, I have to go home.
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That's a bummer. Being, like, 14 and someone, like, thinking that they're, like, dying from weed is really scary. So scary. Yeah. You know what? I never did weed until I was very late to the game. So I feel like I got all, like, the... that stuff out of it.
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And so then I swiped over, I was like, I'm sorry, dude, I didn't mean that. He's like, no, I was joking. I didn't, I, it wasn't, you're totally fine. It was totally fine. I don't think it was anything. I don't think I granted, I don't remember the full conversation, but I thought it was like, those guys rock. But in our experience, guys that do that can be a lot sometimes.
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I don't think I've ever had a weed meltdown. Not since I've been an adult. Not even close. I'm saying ever, but I started when I was in college. Imagine how stressful it would be now. like the reason it's not stressful is there's not, you don't have to like hide it from anyone.
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Like back then it was like, I have to like get super high and then figure out how to like mission impossible my way to my bedroom without having to talk. We would do, we would do the Jeebs in our dorm and then just blow out the window.
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What is that? She just puts her hand through her own forehead.
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Mr. Featherstone himself put a full... Oh, that is so bad. That literally could have been... He put a full bottle of Topo Chico with the cap still on it in the fire. Everyone like scurried away because they're like, Jesus Christ, what the fuck are you thinking? Well, you weren't outside when it happened.
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And Liam was like, do that. They walked out and everyone's hiding behind like trees and stuff. What could possibly be in the fire? And Liam was like, yeah, I had a buddy who like got his face all fucked up by like a bottle exploding because it was like a sealed bottle of Sopo Chico.
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So, like, if it had happened while they were looking over it, like, you would have lost your vision.
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Dude, can you imagine... Yeah. There's an alternate universe right now where you and I are podcasting and my eyes are just like slits.
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And I'm like, all right, tell me what's around. You're like, all right, this is for our audio listeners. And me. It's like, can we not do this guy rocks this week? What else? What else? What else?
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He's got to be doing something. He's probably up to something. He just signed with WME. Oh, yeah. That's kind of awesome. Yeah. What is he going to do? He's dropping an album. Sort of ranking beers. Yeah.
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says wilden d-o-n-n-e-l-l-o-n bingo he put one in i typed it really fast the other day and i was proud of myself i'm it's yeah i mean it's a weird it's a weird it's a weirder one of the first words i ever learned is my best friend growing up was his kid named garrett we're still good friends but uh i remember i could i could just fucking go g-a-r-e-t-t
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Yeah, that is the same. Get it. Oh, you know what? When I was little, I learned how to spell Pittsburgh Penguins really fast. Yep. P-I-T-T-S-B-U-R-G-H-P-N-G-U-N-S.
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Well, in the moment, it wasn't a shirt idea, but now I'm thinking it could be on a shirt. Oh, I'm not putting this on a shirt. It says reverse cowgirls so we can both watch play date. He's a perv.
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like m-e-r-v it's literally it's like teeing it up for you yeah if you name your kid anything that rhymes with anything like perv or what was short for merverted too mervert i remember there was this uh like computer lab teacher yes and uh mr phillips Maybe. Or no, we went to different high schools. Maybe, though.
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I can't remember his name, but he hated my friend and all of his brothers because they would just torment him. Same kid that the Spanish teacher said the mean thing about.
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Yeah, man. You have your pedal to the metal. You have your foot all the way down on the floor. If you're on the cutting edge, sometimes you're going to slip over. Sometimes you're going to spray some people with some dirt. Don't come to the rally track if you don't want to get willy blasted.
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Maybe it was just normal after that, but they would add a new verse and he'd be like, enough, enough. It just has to stop.
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I want something that's like... My mom's last name is very Italian. What is it? We can bleep it, but... Grabo. I love that. Grable. I think Grable. Fumpus. I'm going to add an O to my name. Featherstone.
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Not like O'Kelly. Featherstonio. There was a Jack. Rusty O'Featherstone. Should we get into the road map? Rusty Featherstone. Rusty. Rasta Featherstone.
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It's me, but he didn't pick yours up. Doesn't matter. I don't want to do it.
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Did you see that video that a homeless woman passed out and there was a bunch of flies on her crotch?
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Wait, what happened? There was like a person passed out on the street and all the flies were concentrated right on her crotch.
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I want to do the fence one. Is that the one that the girl sent in? You want to just skip it today and do it next episode? Wait, do we not have someone's phone number? I don't think we do, no. She just said the girl sent the phone number.
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Don't come to the rally track if you don't want to get Willie blasted. I made just a fatal, a fatal error at dinner last night. Twice. I feel like, I feel like sometimes you lead into these stories with like really, we'll see. Like, exaggerating? I sexted someone.
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For this week. Just for today, actually. We'll have it tomorrow. Or you'll have it Wednesday. Wednesday. Today's Wednesday.
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If your bet loses, just make sure you use bonus code PLAYDATE when you sign up.
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You always say that. You always like really have zero confidence with the names. You're like, I don't know. Pete Smith. I don't know.
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don't show what i was doing to you i'm gonna no don't um what is the worst part about hanging stop it's illegal what's the worst part about hanging slash staying with your friends dude uh what no personal space um no alone time um what the fuck what the fuck featherstone that was my Personal space and... Some of the guys are like, what the fuck, Featherstone? The fuck, Featherstone?
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I know I can think of a guy that the sirens would be going off. Dude, I'm right here. I love kicking it with you. On the podcast. Dude, you're over here.
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i love that because here's the thing there will be someone who i think i'm i think we like are each some of each other's favorite people in the world but it's like after a week at their house or something it's like dude is this person like like i think we're all ready to kind of pack it up here yeah i'd agree
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it's probably especially if you're the host like after a week of hosting someone i'm like i am beat from but you have to like be on all the time because you're worried about them being bored yeah you know what i mean so you're like doing stuff you'd never do like let's go to the future birds yeah that is when people are visiting it's when do you have when do you have someone coming for when you have someone staying with you for a week where there's no end date i feel like that's a weird situation
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It's like, that wasn't... It's like, I think if it happened to you, you would agree, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to convey the gravity of the situation, or how it felt in the moment. I'm ready. let's start it off with a role play just to see how you would have handled this. So you're me. I'm my girlfriend. Okay. We're sitting across the table from each other having a lovely dinner.
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Yeah, I mean, it doesn't apply to certain people. You're just saying you like hate when Ben Fabis... Ben, I was happy to have you for a week. Is Ben a playmate? Yeah, I don't know if he actually listens to the episodes, though.
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Mike Shoes, I think. Yeah, Mike Shoes. Or Terry Canopy? Terry Canopy? Anyway, Ryan Bulge.
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Thanks. For the record, I want to call my shirt. I'm going to be coming up with my pitch live. So if you're excited for that, drop a hell yeah in the chat. Thank you, Dirt. Comment hell yeah if you're excited for my on-the-fly pitch. Comment.
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Comment hell yeah if you like this podcast so far. Comment hell yeah if you think if you bit your finger it would break like a carrot.
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Like, I could bite your finger off easily, but I couldn't bite my own because your brain wouldn't let you. I couldn't do it.
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Okay. My teeth are... Second... I bite those... I bite... Replay. It was, like, actual, like, shit. Like, slobber came out when you did that.
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He says... I have a friend named Allison Ingles. Alex Ingles. Isn't that someone famous?
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I've never seen New Girl. Dude, you would love New Girl. Oh, my gosh, Will.
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It's a funny show. It's a funny show. When he turns 29, he just keeps going. There's a video. Lauren, look up Max Greenfield 29 on the street. Some girl saw him on the street.
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He seems so cool. She's hitting someone with the hang loose. That's awesome. You and I don't even have one... That's the key. You need something quote... Bless you. You need something quotable. Bless you.
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I know. That's what's so frustrating is I just feel like I can't get you to do anything like that. I'm not... Okay, that's not true. I don't think anyone...
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people tell me four different things every day that i have to watch and i'm i'm gonna i've never told you anything you have to watch new girl is like a must like i think you would like make your life better i never finished it but oh really i haven't finished a lot of shows just because my 29 i just don't watch that much television i don't think that's true though don't you watch a lot of tv at home like i'll watch shows of scott but like
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I don't think there were 79 streets in my town. Like total? Yeah. Yeah. But I think there's at least one in the south side of Chicago. Right. So, yeah. I remember I visited Chicago once when I was really into Chance the Rapper and I almost went there. Isn't that like Oblock? What's Oblock? It's like a project. Very bad area of the South Side. No, he didn't grow up there.
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Her burger just got there. My steak just got there.
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Well, maybe at night, though, I'd be back, actually.
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hey baby girl okay well uh so she it was too big to eat so she was kind of like deconstructing it and like eating it with a fork and knife right and that's some shit girls do right but she was like do you want to try i was like of course because we had been looking it up all day i was really excited apparently it's like one of the best burgers in los angeles it was but she like put the fork out
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I don't know. I don't know if alcohol can come in powder form, but if it can, that would be fucking brilliant. Yeah. I like that. I guess the funny part is in Alex's head, they're not going to ask where you got the margarita from.
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Oh, but that's... No, that's a mixer. So that's not alcohol. Oh, it's just the syrup.
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hell yeah i went in and we were doing it and then i was ordering real ones too but they weren't like i think you have to order real ones to like make it like blend it in right like money laundering style and then they came the flight attendant came up to them and was like did you bring those on the plane and the guy to his credit was like he just played dumb i think you can get away with almost anything if you're just like oh i didn't know that was a thing
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He was like, yeah, we brought it. What's the problem? She was like, you're not allowed to bring outside alcohol. He was like, oh, I'm so sorry. And just gave her the rest.
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Well, no, they say. You can bring shooters through. You can bring them through. You just can't drink them on the plane. Like nips are smaller than three ounces. Oh, wait. You're so right. Yeah. And it was awesome. You're allowed to have them in your bag. You just can't drink it. Can't drink it.
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i was i wouldn't have known that honestly i was driving the other day in my ski coat like the big puffy one because it was cold yeah and uh i was like there's something in my pocket and there was one of those like it's not an actual bottle of fireball but it was like the like little flask one yeah and it was like half drank and i was like if i got pulled over and i had a half drank thing of fireball
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It would be pretty hard. Not a crime. Open container. Crime. It was open? Well, I mean, like cracked. That doesn't count. Oh, interesting.
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oh do you know if you've been drinking and driving you're supposed to you're supposed to just drink everything you have you're supposed to take your keys out of the ignition throw them out the window and then very publicly drink whatever alcohol you have in the car so that you could just you'd still go to court but you would just say that you got drunk then and not while you were driving
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If you had a half drank bottle of liquor that you want to bring your friend's house, that would be legal to have in the car. I think what I was worried about is that it was on my person. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Wait, unsealed.
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and we're sitting super close to each other. So I just ate it off the fork. I'm just telling you what I did now. Would you have done that? If I put the fork out, would you have eaten it off the fork? I thought that was completely normal. And then I was like, do you want some steak? And she was like, yeah. And so I cut it up and I put the fork out with the steak on it.
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Unsealed or open. That's not what we're talking about. Unsealed or open. Unsealed means sealed is like it would make the crack noise. I feel like unsealed isn't... Can you travel with a... Half drank. A half drank, yeah.
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I mean, it makes... I think you could... I think most cops, if you were like, I'm just bringing this handle to somewhere else, would be like, that's fine. But I think the fact that I had a half-drank little thing of Fireball on my person... In your coat box, yeah.
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he was we were at a party and some kid rode there on a one wheel so all the houses were kind of like near each other yeah so peter's like can i take your one wheel for a spin he was like yeah and he was just like zooming up and down the street and like a couple of us were out on the lawn watching it it was kind of like a very similar cadence so you'd like be like
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you know what I mean like you can expect when he was going to come back and then one he was going super fast and then he didn't come back and we were like he went down and then you see him walking and he's holding it which is like I fell and he walks back and we were like dude are you okay he was like Yeah, I fell, but, like, I think I'm fine. And he walked past us.
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And then you just hear the door shut to the party. And, like, literally the record scratched. Like, music. Like, oh, my God. Like, good Lord. He had cracked the back of his head open. And so, like, we didn't see anything because there was nothing on the front of his body. But his entire back of his shirt was, like, soaked in blood. Oh, my gosh. And so I took him to the hospital.
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And, yeah, we were just sitting there. They put staples in his head. Brutal.
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oh gnarly i've got you're gone down on a one wheel what is a one wheel it's like where there's the wheel in between your feet it's like a imagine like a skateboard but it's only on one big wheel how does it move you lean forward it's like electric you've seen yeah it's insane oh yeah oh it's like there's like hoverboards yeah i don't know that's different maybe
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I went down on one in the quad, essentially. There's a green in the middle of most colleges. Everyone saw it. It was just like, there's nothing you can do. There's no coming back.
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I will just candidly say, one of the first things in the morning that I do is an Accelerator. I will say I was a little scared of energy drinks before Accelerator. I was strictly coffee.
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accelerator is my jam you can watch this episode and watch me start without any caffeine and then i crack one and i think i got white hot after that 100 it honestly tastes better than uh that that big big uh yogurt thing lauren was trying to make us eat the other day yeah that 40 pound yogurt yeah better than that you ever like hug someone after like a long trip you're like this is the best feeling in the world it's not
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And she took the fork and like put it on her plate. Didn't think twice.
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That's this every morning. I think it tastes better than Granny Murphy's Cincinnati Chili. I think so, too, but I don't even think it's close. You're a dick. Granny Murphy's Chili is pretty good, but it is no Accelerator.
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For me, the power ranking goes cherry, rock, pop, orange.
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I think I go orange, peach, everything else. I like orange. One last thing before we get out of here.
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she goes to give me another bite of the burger and i ate it off the fork again and then she made she made a comment something along the lines of like i don't know if eating off of each other's forks is like restaurant appropriate and i was only doing it because i thought that's like what she wanted me to do i didn't like i wouldn't have done that
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i love it yeah i love it a lot what do you do what do you do if you work at a tax place like in like the beginning of the year or the end of the year the end of the year uh i don't know there's other stuff i guess there's i mean there's probably i think like big businesses and stuff like they right they file you can file quarterly if i think that's what i can choose like i don't i think i'm like good already yeah i don't know do you do it
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hammer hammer uh hammer for kids what's the scariest part about hammers you can you can you never know uh all right ready the hardest part about hammers is you have to like pinch the nail and like hit it and then you have to like kind of pull your fingers out after you get it already this is a hammer that it's an attachment for a hammer that holds the nail in place and then you bang it and as it as you hit it it goes into the hammer so you put the nail on the hammer
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hit it and the thing retracts in. So you never even have to touch that now.
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if I knew that she didn't, I thought it was like, oh, she thinks that this is like romantic. Like I'm going to do it off. Were you like, no, I didn't even make like a big show out of it. Also our role playing ended super quickly. I don't think that's a big deal at all. Thank you.
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Well, yeah, I guess. Kind of. It's still pretty big. 280,000 is a lot. How about this?
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uh dallas yes that's nine austin no um houston yes it's four orlando no miami no atlanta no atlanta no that's can't be true it's one of the biggest cities in the world uh sacramento's 37th or sorry san francisco uh no wait what are we this is the top 10 uh seattle No. Boston.
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I mean, it is Lauren from the parking lot. It is always weird when you do like the city, I feel like metro area. Who wants to hear? It was Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Jacksonville. Me.
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uh yeah you did here see atlanta is sorry sixth if you do metro area right so why would that be like we're playing basketball but there's no hoop wait you're taking out a big big part yeah well it's just a difference it's like basically like the city limits versus okay they're like actual wait it's new york la chicago what's for Houston.
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I'm pretty sure that's probably the same for, like, metro area.
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But she slipped under the ice and fell into... They, like, sucked her into this, like, kind of, like, dam...
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type scenario and there was like enough like um what's it called like algae or like moss on the thing that she could like eat it but she was literally trapped in there for like almost a year and uh they got her after a year where it's from family guys anchorage alaska it's not from family i swear to god it's not from family what do we look up peter griffin moss cave maybe What is it?
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What do you want us to go for your prank? That's just a story that happened. What's her name? How do we look it up?
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I don't know. She looked up like Anchorage woman logger trapped under ice survived for a year.
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It's from a show. It's not from a show. It's not from a movie. What's it from? It's just a thing that happened. I don't know what you want me to do. What are you talking about?
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There's no bit. Where did you find the information? I saw it on, I don't know.
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Some kid DM me and just said, just lie to Lauren on your teaching.
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Have you seen this video of Willie in the future? You're about to. Yeah. Look up. Total hunk in the future. Total future hunk. Future hunk.
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Click on the account. It's in Glenview. Justin, that's great. You got to go. Wow, that looks lovely.
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I think it's such a battle that it's probably not boring. It's probably just excruciating to get anywhere. Yeah.
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I feel like that's fine. I must be missing a detail.
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So that guy rocks. I would grind a hole in someone's jeans to that song.
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it was like it was wait or come over and like try to take a bite off of no detail could you miss it just made me want in the moment it made me want to like crawl out of my skin that like maybe people had that she didn't want to do that she said she can call me in 30 that's way too long um she's gonna be calling her and freaking teach me something teach me something
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Towards the end he goes. At first I was cringing at the same time I wanted him. I wanted someone to polish my belt buckle. He rocks. Alright.
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He's cool, though. All right, Willie, should we do countries? Can we start with country songs that don't exist? Country songs that don't exist. Yeah, these are country songs that don't exist.
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collar on the rear view this guy's dog passed away and he takes the collar and he puts it on like the rear view mirror to remind him every day of how much he loved the dog and he looks at it every day and he gets really sad and then when he gets a new dog now he gets to look when he looks at the collar he sees the reflection of his new dog in the back seat and he was like they would have gotten along is that what made you cry yeah uh boots don't break from dancing this is
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You guys looked at me like, oh, God, here he goes. When you start singing, Laura and I look at each other because it's like... It's just funny. We have a very different approach. You have the ability to flesh him out a little bit more than I do.
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Well, I hadn't sang it. I just wrote it. Um... This one's about like a... Wait, let me think. This one's called Boats Just a Sea Truck. Okay. It's about a cowboy who gets lost at sea. And he's like, boats just a sea truck, whales just a sea cow. Dolphin is the dog and fish is the cat. And it's him, like, trying to make a rational... What?
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Boats just a sea truck, cows... Boats just a sea truck, whales just a sea cow. Dolphin is the dog and fish is the cat.
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But I think he's just about to lose his marbles, and the only thing keeping him sane is trying to parrot with things from home. All right, I've got Only So Much Hay.
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I haven't totally fleshed out the math yet. That's beautiful.
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I was like surely it's like she's born to leave you know right I was surely I was like surely this isn't about dragging a woman through the streets no no she's like that's the only way you could have kept her like she was she was she was bound to leave like not like he would ever do that to a woman yeah um my that one sounds horrible I like that one it's like it's like a it's like a serial killer shit it's like what like ISIS does um
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I've always thought about this. When country songs talk about making love all night long. Sounds exhausting. It sounds exhausting, but it's also like both of you, like something is going wrong if it's taking all night long. It should be like we made love for seven and a half minutes. Some guys just need extra time. Should we tell people ways to tell someone their fly is down? Yep.
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Like getting extra time like kids do on like tests in college? What? Like in sex. We made love all that long. His doctor like gave him so he gets extra time. All right. What's the longest you think you've made love? Okay. Nope.
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less than less than 45 minutes i can tell you that was eight and a half hours it was grueling yeah i literally had like split the book in half i rubbed it oh all right let's not oh there's jack kerouac's on the road oh you rubbed yourself raw quit bothering cut all this all right um will you tee it up for us all right double it then
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All right, well, TSO. Oh, wait. All right, these are ways to tell someone their fly is down. Wait, I think Flynn's ready to tell the story. Can we do that? Sure. Sure.
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When in reality, I thought that was... So you were supposed to grab her fork? Yeah. And then take it off with your fork? Or she said, okay, babe. I don't like that you guys brought babe into this. She thought I was just going to take the fork and eat it and then hand it back. It's like, why are we adding an extra step? Yeah. So you guys are on my side. That that would have been normal. Yeah.
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All right. Batten down the hatches. Your driver door is ajar. Close the blinds. You're showing your hand. There's a weakness in your reactor. What does that mean? In Star Wars, that's how they destroy the Death Star. Oh, I like that. Bees are going to get out of the hive. I like that. Your flag's at half mast.
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My last one's bad. Close the safe. Mine just says tighten. Tighten. Tighten. Walk past a guy on the street. Tighten. At ease. At ease. Put your sail up. Raise your sail. Zip your slip before I grip your slip. Zip that slip before I lick your tip. Yeah, we have the best podcast. We are awesome. How many Playmates do you think we lost this time? No, I think... Oh, that's going to happen someday.
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We're just going to slowly be getting less and less each episode. I don't think so. I was telling Edge, he is telling us that podcasts have very high margins, and he was like, we're getting to the point where Playdate pays for everything, and then the rest is just for fun. For our salaries, you mean? Yeah, and Lauren's.
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I mean, mine is different because I do, like, I was already doing that on my personal. Yeah. But, like, I think the dream is to get to a point where it pays for everything and then we can just do whatever we want. All right, what personality are you stealing? Is this for the weekend or for the week? This is for the weekend. It's Wednesday today? Yes. Oh, yeah. It's the third time this episode.
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He didn't want to see her and now she's refusing to leave Pakistan and the government and her are like negotiating how much money they have to give her to leave. Pull this up. The Pakistani government? Yeah, it's really bizarre. Look up like Pakistani woman or woman will not leave Pakistan. Oh, look at that book on the ground.
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But they were giving her a platform. I've seen multiple interviews. I forgot. At one point she goes off the rails and she was like, I need money to make Pakistan great again.
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Candace dick fit in your mouth? Get out, Lauren. All right. Will it? Oh.
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I think if you were there... I agree that it probably feels that way. The way she did, the way she just was like, I don't know if it's restaurant appropriate to be eating off each other's forks right now.
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I can't believe we missed Luka Doncic, by the way. I know. That's insane.
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well do i have wait let me finish this let me tell you how dessert ended um yeah it was almost like she was like it was like what do you want if you're holding your fork out she was airplane no but like it felt like that i think if you put your fork out don't be expected if i eat the food off of it that'd be hysterical if she was like and then you took a bite she's like wow oh hey come on we're in public
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His dad was an assistant to Barack Obama. Oh, okay. Wait, you almost like went? Yeah, I was so into the music. I was like, I'm going to go see 79th Street. I think I had caught myself. What were you going to do when you got there? Nothing.
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Oh my god. Did you ever do that Superman thing where you'd go on your dad's feet? Of course. That was awesome. Airplane? We called it Superman. Superman. You were a hands out in front guy? Yeah. I was... And I would go... I would go...
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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That selfie you sent me, I have never seen you that happy. I would actually be shocked if I ever saw you that happy.
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he caught me with my fly down
it was a big it was a huge smile i know like we don't see that smile did you have did you have any feeling of like you know guys like when the like masters or something and it's like insane for a second and they're like oh my whole life was like for that 100 you had a little bit like sat down there i like kept the stream going i was just sitting there i was like okay now what you know what time did you get it at
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I got like 845 or something, maybe. We had Kava right before.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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And I liked it. And I was wrong. Yeah, we got Kava. Because something about Rusty Featherstone is that when he's wrong, he admits he's wrong. It's true. Sometimes. Then one time I've been wrong. The PTO, when you thought people get paid for PTO. Because I still don't... I still think I'm right. I know. That's what I mean. That's exactly my point.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
he caught me with my fly down
You're right. This argument for the viewers at home, because I don't think this was ever on the podcast.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
he caught me with my fly down
Yeah, if you don't use days in your PTO, do a lot of companies pay you out for that money or for that time, which would be like double money.
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he caught me with my fly down
I'm going to start a company that does that. I'm going to have one employee and I'm going to do that just to be right. We went bowling yesterday during the middle of the day. You went bowling? Oh, for... Could be the move shoot. And Bobby...
Will & Rusty's Playdate
he caught me with my fly down
That one hadn't come out yet, I don't think. What do you think his fixation on streets is?
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got beers because it was supposed to be like a super bowl thing and so we all had like two or three beers and then i tried to come back to the office and like get back into like the swing of things and we're just like nope that's funny yeah i was wondering i feel like you normally say bye and i was like i texted you and you were like no i'm home i felt like buzzed i was just like this isn't good to be around yeah i knew i was buzzed too because i would kept i talked to i went into like everyone's office yeah
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i was like okay you're being too social right that's low-key me on adderall i like go go around and just want to talk to everyone 56 and um do you guys ever you ever like singing a song in the car and you're like cool right what else um and you like fuck up a lyric so bad that you just have to like skip the song you're like there's no recovering from this by yourself no
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I was rapping around town yesterday on the way home, and I just completely fumbled a lyric. And instead of trying to recover it, I just skipped. No more rap for me. What song? What? What song? I don't know. I only wear shorts with no pockets. Ah!
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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I might make a song like, I'll burn a F. I hope it's not in that voice.
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And then it... I didn't even have that on my weird spot because the city is not built for... Like... Yeah. In other cities where they would probably fix things that, like, turn into puddles. Yes. Like, everything's a puddle here because it's never an issue. Yeah. It was... I was, like, a total soak fest. And I had to go up big hills. It was horrible. We should have a play date soak fest.
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he caught me with my fly down
Yeah. Do you watch Harry Potter? Have you seen Harry Potter? No. What happens?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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I feel like a lot of people talk about that J. Cole album is like a street. I guess I just don't know a lot about Chance. Now the only two lyrics that I know are No, you know, you don't want no problem with me.
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Yeah. He's the bad guy. Yeah. Um, why do they let him stay at the school? Why do they let all the evil teachers and kids stay at the school? Well, there's like good and evil in the universe. All must be protected. I guess there are like evil teachers in real life that they're just like, what are you going to do?
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Who was the most evil teacher you had? Or let's start with who is the best teacher you've ever had and just we'll do a compliment sandwich for the school. The best teacher I ever had. Mm-hmm. I don't know. You go first.
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Yeah, and then... Did I ever tell you about Amy's butt?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Listen, I went to a little concierto this weekend. That's what I call a concert.
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I was blind for an afternoon
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I was... I don't know. Rainbow Kid Surprise, Modern Baseball, Taylor Swift.
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I want to get a scholarship to King's College. I hate to brag, but damn, I'm amazed and astonished.
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That would actually be awesome. I want to read a story.
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There once was a witch who cast a spell over her whole town and turned all the boys into and every night when they went to sleep they dreamt of acorns and lots of treats and when morning came all the girls said The squirrels are in my bed. The squirrels made trees and the boys and bees forever lived in harmony. Amen.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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I've only met her like once or twice, but... I've never met Sabrina the Teenage Witch. I've never met Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
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Can we clip that and just go longest standing ovation in podcast history?
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Well, first of all, good thing you made a burner account because if she reads that, she'll be like, well, this could be anyone.
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clothing materials are you been wearing a lot of wool or walking on insulated surfaces no okay even transferring electrons oh you like to shuffle your feet across carpet
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Oh, God. I don't know if I want to look at this.
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Like, I had, like, a little bit of room, and I was, like... and it was 8 o'clock just now I was picturing the Spongebob caveman thing spoiler haven't seen it haven't seen it that was scary does your logic not apply there we gotta hash this out what
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I don't know if you are. I think I am, so... I don't think it's a free country.
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crying in the barbershop
If you cut someone off, does it... He wants to come on the podcast, right?
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crying in the barbershop
All right. Who wants to hear the craziest coincidence of all time?
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crying in the barbershop
That was my first Ian Capone'd. You just got Ian Capone'd?
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crying in the barbershop
Should we cut that? What did she say? What did you say? Wait, yeah, well, I thought you were doing a bit. Wait, I didn't hear it. What did you say? Didn't you say cut that?
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What did she say? I don't want to. Wait, say it again. We'll cut it. We'll cut it. We'll cut it. We'll cut it.
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Joe Gatto. Joe Gatto already left the show. He left the show.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
kebab fever destroyed my relationship
Each time we play a game where you put it in, you can't see what it is. Put it in. Whatever you grab, you gotta drink it. Love that. But here's the twist. They're all, no pun intended. Here's the twist. They're all awesome. So you can't go wrong. You literally can't go, it's just like some. You might get one of these rocket pops if you're lucky. These things are gas. Oh my God.
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Grab a refreshing twisted tea today. Let's get back into the episode. I've been watching Temptation Island. Mm-hmm. They are getting tempted. They are getting tempted. It would be weird if they weren't, I guess. One of these girls. So this happens every season, but you never see it coming.
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Or you forget, like they're spaced out enough that like, I don't really remember how the last seasons have gone. So when something happens that it's similar, you're like, it's just human nature that some of these things are going to happen. But basically every year, like clockwork, the women are very faithful and Weil sie gute Leute sind.
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Und die Jungs sind immer ihre Fuckboy-Freundinnen, die für eine Nacht gut sind und dann sofort schlagen. Und die Art und Weise, wie das Show funktioniert, ist, dass sie deinem Partner auf einem Bonfire zeigen, was du getan hast. Und die Mädchen werden vertraut, auch wenn sie... Es gibt eine Frau, die ihren Freund noch nie gesehen hat.
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Und sie sagt, ich habe null Vertrauen in Jeremy oder was auch immer. Und sie sagt, ich weiß, dass er das tun wird. Und dann sehen die Mädchen es, sehen, dass ihre Freundin verletzt hat. Und dann sind alle Werte weg, weil sie sagen, okay, fuck that guy. Aber wir hatten, Ty musste gestern Abend schlafen, also bin ich auf einem Cliffhanger verletzt.
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Also sahen die Mädchen nur, dass einer ihrer Freundinnen eine Dreisam hatte. Einer ihrer Freundinnen hat mit der Mädchen geschlafen, aber sie hatten keinen Sex. Und einer ihrer Freundinnen hat geküsst und dann mit der Mädchen im Schauer Sex gemacht. Und alle Mädchen waren vertraut. Also die Leute, die... Also sie sind nicht mit dem selben Grupp.
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Sie können nicht... Das ist das, was so schmerzhaft ist. Oh, und dann gibt es ein Raum... Entschuldigung, ich werde meinen Gedanken beenden. Ja, sie sind in separaten Villas. Und dann sind alle Menschen, die die Gegentexte sind, Single-Männer? Sind Single-Männer, deren Job es ist, wie eine Temptress zu sein. Und dann haben sie gerade... Es gibt ein neues Raum, das heißt...
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Und ich... Und ich gehe da rein. Ein rotes Licht und ein riesiges Alarm geht aus in deinem Haus. Also müssen alle Mädchen sagen, okay, einer unserer Freundinnen ist verletzt. Oh nein. Und es ist so, dass die Mädchen zu Hause früh gehen, weil sie verantwortlich sind. Also einer der Jungs war... Er ging in die Temptation-Tent last night at midnight. Und seine Freundin schläft laut.
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Äh, nein. Oder, warte. Das sind Leute... Was, diese Leute?
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Das sind... Nein, das war eine andere Saison. Aber... Das Beste ist, dass ein Typ namens Breon... kam und eine seiner größten Schwämmen war, dass er eine schöne Freundin hat... Aber wie jede gläubige Person will sie nicht einen Dreisamen haben. Was natürlich völlig normal ist. Und er kann es einfach nicht übernehmen. Er ist so wütend, dass sie einen Dreisamen mit ihm haben will.
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Und dann die Mädchen im Haus, die bezahlt werden, um ihn zu vertreten, finden das heraus. Und in einer Konfession sind sie so, ja, ich denke, wenn wir Brion mit einem Dreisamen präsentieren, wird er sofort wechseln. Und so sagen sie, Brion, wir wollen einen Dreisamen haben. Und er sagt, Leute. Und dann ist er so, okay. Und dann nimmt er ihn zurück. Das ist lustig.
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Emily Bond versucht auf Love Island zu gehen. Sie versucht es schon, oder? Nein, ich weiß, was ich meine. Jetzt ist sie im Interview. Oh, wirklich? Ja, ja. Ich würde die Scheiße sehen. Oh, ich würde sterben. Das wäre toll.
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No, I think, I think I got a little bit of, I mean, I had been to like the pool before, but I would just always stay in the shallowing because I didn't know how to swim. Do you feel comfortable in the ocean now? Yeah, I'm fine. I don't like deep water at all, though. I don't either. My dad would pay the first person to jump in the pool 20 bucks.
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Was manifestierst du für uns? Gold? Silber und Gold.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
kebab fever destroyed my relationship
Dude, someone said, someone's gonna do a laugh like Kevin from Up. Look up Kevin from Up. You go like... Look up Kevin from up. I looked this up. You want to trade? You want to put these on? My eyes are hurting.
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What? I would not have, I simply would not have let that happen. You ever listen to Married Life? No. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. twice as much, four times as much groping. So Josh Peck, guys, if you want, if you don't want to have Mean Creek spoiled to you, skip ahead. Wait, wait, wait.
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Ich glaube, das ist das, was die Leute vor fünf Jahren gesagt haben. Er ist seit 2005 so gewesen. Wow. Er hatte eine Saison auf Dragon Josh, wo er fett war. Und dann war er fucking großartig. Nicht, dass fette Leute nicht großartig sind. Oh mein Gott, warte, hör mir das an. Ich habe gestern einen Uber genommen und du weißt, wie es ist, wenn du ein Auto hast, in dem du die Rückseite kontrollierst.
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Ja. Ich habe meine eigenen Knöpfe. Ich bin reingegangen und es war wirklich heiß. Und so habe ich es nach unten gelegt und ich habe den Fan aufgelegt und es hat angefangen, wie der größte Overdrive-Fan aller Zeiten in meinem Uber zu sein. One of the vents on the top of the roof was angled like right at his head. He was bald. And he didn't know that I clicked the thing.
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I was like, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. He was like, yeah, can you please turn it down? He was like, my head is so cold. Das war so, ja, sorry, Dude. Und er war so, du versuchst ihn auszulösen. Und dann hat er angefangen, mir zu verabschieden. Er war so, ich fahre mehr in den Inland und es war super heiß da. Und so habe ich nicht eine Jacket mitgebracht, aber jetzt ist es kalt hier.
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Und ich war so, ja, Dude, wir können es machen. Es wird okay sein. Wir werden es öffnen. Was auch immer du brauchst da oben.
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When they opened it, it was still way too cold in Maine to be in the pool. I remember jumping in and it was dark out and thinking there were sharks in there. Yeah, I've dealt with some pool sharks actually in my life. Oh, I didn't even think about that, like pool sharks. Oh, there's something there. Lauren is now plugging in my microphone so you'll be able to hear me. It's her microphone.
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Das war so, ich dachte, sein Hat flieg. Oh, shit. Remember that day when it was really windy? Yeah, he did that. Oh, it was the day the fire started. Oh, I thought that was like a joke. Yeah, no, that was, Lauren and I went outside, like Lauren almost blew away. Like the day before, yeah, I was driving Chester's car. It was like the day before the fire started.
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I was like, why is it so fucking windy? And I was turning left onto Main Street and my hat just blew off my head and like bounced off the, the window was like half down and like barely caught it. And then I like grabbed it, but I almost fucking lost my hat out the window, which would have been humiliating. Sorry. I was... That's fine. I was just catching steam, but it's fine. Alright, keep going.
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I lost it. When I was in high school, I had a 2003 Jeep Wrangler that was holding on for dear life. Ayo. When my dad gave it to me, he said, if I were you, I wouldn't drive it on the highway. Because it's like a... You can like putt around town in it, but like... It can only go so fast and it's like really light, whatever. And they're really tall and they have like a narrow wheelbase.
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And so if there was like any wind, it would like move the car, like in the lane. And we had the brilliant idea of driving to a hockey game in Lewiston. Hockey game. If you're not familiar, it's about 45 minutes north of where I grew up. And we got on the highway, immediately realized it was like the windiest place
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Day of the Year and I had to go 45 the whole way there and then 45 the whole way back and I was scared. Sounds awesome. We used to get Colt 45s and drink them. While driving? No, at hockey games. Whoever was driving couldn't drink them. A cold 45, two zigzags. Baby, that's all I need. I got a baby in my house, a tiny one. She was full of poop and beads. Pee was right there.
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Alright, let's talk about... I got a new thing to talk about. Please. All over the place today. I know. I got weird vibes today. Oh interesting. I feel fantastic. I had weird vibes yesterday. Oh that's why you were doing all that weird stuff? Ähm, ich denke, dass mir die Blutung nach ein bisschen Zeit gefällt. Ja, Mann. Ich habe mich verblüht. Du solltest dich nicht verblühen.
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Ich habe ein Bild von Will, der sich verblüht hat. Ich habe Angst, dass ich mich verblüht habe. Wir, äh... Ich kann mich nicht aus den Augen bringen. Wir waren nicht geplant, blutig zu sein. Ich weiß. Wir waren geplant, unsere Farbe zu sein.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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Und mein Penis ist noch komplett blutig. Das war von... Nein, das war... Ich habe nicht gepaintert. Das war nicht... Das war unerlässlich.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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Es ist okay. Was ist der verrückteste Farben, der dein Penis je war? Bright, bright, bright green. Gut. Von all dem Gunk.
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This is the part where Lauren's mom is like, I love this podcast.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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No, let's talk about something new. What's something we never talk about? Like fishing? Oh, I have kebab fever. Can we hear about that? Sure.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
kebab fever destroyed my relationship
I have kebab fever and I think it's going to take over Brentwood.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
kebab fever destroyed my relationship
Don't worry about what's on my kebab. But here's my thing. I had Ty go to Whole Foods yesterday and get me two chicken kebabs and he was already going. You're talking about physically on a stick? Yeah, man. What a fun way to eat your food. It's okay. I just don't like... I don't like it when it's like a long one and then it's like... You can't kind of like...
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kebab fever destroyed my relationship
Okay, so fun fact, Lauren is hammered today. Lauren and I just went to coffee and I... She got a little Bailey's, I can tell. I said that I wanted a chicken empanada because I was looking at it and it said chicken empanadas and they were right there. And Lauren and the guy behind the counter were like, there aren't any chicken empanadas. I was like, yeah, but it's right there.
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kebab fever destroyed my relationship
The first two you can just eat like that and then you kind of gotta adjust, but if you get crazy, then you stab yourself in the back of the throat. You should love my buddy Ty. He eats a whole kebab in one swoop. He eats the longest kebabs. Sucks that thing right off the stick. Dude, they cook kebabs at Davy Jones Liquor Locker. Nice. Right by my house.
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And the guy who makes the kebabs was the bouncer at this other... Have you ever heard of Not No Bar? Yeah. I heard Not No Bar.
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kebab fever destroyed my relationship
Well, we tried to go and we had, we brought like, we got like tall boys at the liquor store and had them in paper bags in the line. And I guess it's like a classy bar. So the guy came out and he's like, get out of here, man. We're like, all right, screw you. And then that, I realized that guy is the guy who makes the kebabs.
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There's a guy, the same guy that kicked us out of the line at no, not no bar is the guy makes the kebabs at Davy Jones Liquor Locker. What are the odds? When we were at a Jack of all trades, we were trying to figure out where to get the burgers from, and I was like, oh, we could get them from Davy Jones Liquor Locker, and someone else didn't know. They thought it was just a liquor store.
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It does have produce. It's like, what? Why would we get them from Davy Jones Liquor Locker? They only have Impossible Burgers, though. Kann ich dir erzählen, wie ich den Poeser gesehen habe, den David Jones Locker? Ja. Poeser, Alter. Ja, mit dem Main Shirt. Ja, da war eine Frau, die eine Booth Bay Harbor Shirt trägt. Oh ja, wir haben über das gesprochen. Auf dem Podcast?
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Verdammt, du erinnerst dich wirklich nicht. Ich sah einen Mann aus der Bruins.
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kebab fever destroyed my relationship
Da war ein... Da war ein Mann aus der Bruins am Dogtown am Morgen. player player yeah oh guy from bruins a dog town this morning at the coffee shop uh he's a guy they just got like a couple weeks ago his name is like um like brian the dog no no oh grontis no his name's not grontis i forget his name Grotis Transfermarkt? Das ist ein seltsamer Name. Grotis Transfermarkt? Das ist kein echter Typ.
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Du wirst das nicht machen. Ich könnte.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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Like Billy Kebab. Can you name your kid anything you want? I can, yeah.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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You ever see that guy, Google Fart Ass, like Vander something? Is it God? Google Fart Ass. Google Fart cum shit ass. Shit piss. Google piss and fuck. One word Fart Ass. Yeah, Fart Ass Wolfgang Gung. No. Fartass Wolfgangus. Yo, is it cool if my boy Fartass pulls up? Oh, he's like an old-timey guy. Yeah, yeah, he's from like the 1600s. Fartass. Also, how old is he? Go back, learn.
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And so I was like, alright, I'll have beef. And then the guy picked up the one that was labeled chicken empanada and was like, oh, we do have one. Like it was a miracle. I was like, no, it was there the whole time. Are you sorry, Lauren? She can't talk yet because she's hammered. Because her mic's fucked. Lauren, how's your drinking problem? Her whole mic is fucked.
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He's from the 1636 to 1895. Why did he live for 200 years? Why did Fartass live for... Did you know that there's a... Jesus, do you know John Tyler? What? Steven Tyler. Oh yeah, yeah. What's he doing? He's a president. He was a president. What's the guy who's alive doing? I don't know. He's fucking blacked out. Ich sage Guy, du sagst Fox. Guy. Fox. Guy. Fox. Nice.
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Ja, ich denke, es wäre gut, ich denke, ich denke, es würde ihre Egos ein bisschen in Ordnung halten.
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Lauren's whole mic is fucked for now, right now. I was telling you this... Oh, Jack's on his phone. Are we not waiting for Lauren? Okay, sorry. What were you looking at? I could see it in the reflection of your glasses. You hadn't even opened an app yet. You just got out your phone. That's straight disrespect.
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Hot, itchy and attracts pests? That's how I like my women.
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I like them hot, I like them itchy and I like them attracted. I like when they attract pests. I like when they attract pets. Pets. Pets. Pets. One time when I was in 8th grade, I'll put the video right here. Ich war in der 7. Klasse und ich habe nie Basketball-Spiele gespielt. Ich war ein Arsch.
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Und in der State-Tournament, wir haben unsere Beine von Bishop England geklappt, ziemlich furchtbar, also sie waren unser großer Rival. Und wir haben sie ein paar Wochen vorher festgemacht. Und mein Trainer war so, okay, Will, komm rein. Es war einfach das Ende des Spiels, gib mir ein paar Minuten. Es war eine Saison-Endung-Tournament, also ich werde ein paar Minuten vor der Saison-Endung.
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Und ich gehe rein und erinnere mich, dass ich meine Basketballschuhe nicht angezogen habe. Weil ich nie gespielt habe, also dachte ich nicht, meine Basketballschuhe anzunehmen. Also gehe ich da raus. Hattest du Löffel? Nein, ich hatte nur Sneakers. Es war okay. Ich habe sofort verdammt gegessen. Guck, da ist ein Video davon. Geh online.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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Basketballschuhe sind griffig und du trägst sie nie draußen. Geh auf YouTube.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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Google crazy compilation prank. No, Google DanellenTube. Okay, yeah, go to that channel. Don't watch the Nobleboro movie.
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Oh, this is Danellen. You're wearing that hat right now. How recently have you been posting on this? This was a happy 70th birthday for my aunt that I compiled. Wait, no, this is DanellenTube Plus.
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You gotta pay extra. No, no, just click the first, yeah. And then go to that and scroll down. Scroll down. Scroll down. Is that you, Will? Oh my god. Oh my god. Yeah, that's me singing away in a manger. You can click it if you want. Keep going. Remember Laura. Keep going. Keep going. Yeah, yeah. Look at the Will D. Basketball. This is when I finally got in. I'm one of those on the top.
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That tiny ass one on the top. I just ate shit. Damn! How good was your team? That kid just nailed a three. I think that was Nick DiBona. He was a bit of a stud. Yeah, that's... That one? I already fell, though. You missed it. Oh, man. I almost had that board.
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Ich war so traurig. Ich bin froh, dass die traditionelle Janelle, Sportteams zu tragen, die ihr nicht Fan seid, lebendig und gut war. Er war, glaube ich. Nein, er war eigentlich ein Yankees-Fan, also das macht keinen Sinn. Okay, sollen wir es aufrufen? Ja. Aufrufen! Das war lustig. Deine Ohren sehen gleich aus. Meine Ohren sehen gleich aus? Ja. Weißt du, wie meine Ohren sehen?
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That is really funny to just be like weathering the storm on the homepage until someone gives up. How many chords are there, Lore? There's actually a hundred chords. Okay, it doesn't matter. I'll tell you my story. Okay. We did a softball game last night. Yep. We lost. Yeah, look at your little Africa-shaped scar. Yeah, I fucked my knees up on the last hour of the game. Got the out though.
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What are you doing? Are you on drugs? You are a fucking madman.
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It was yesterday. There we go. Yeah, I was right. Did I tell you that Ava humiliated me the other day? Eva hat mich verletzt. Meine Freundin Eva hat mich verletzt. All right, we have a beautiful episode for you guys today.
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We're going to hear your pitches, followed by our pitches, followed by everyone's favorite segment, Teach Me Something, followed by This Guy Rocks, This Guy Rocks, This Guy Rocks Today, followed by British Pubs That Don't Exist, And then we're gonna do... I'm just gonna be funny, like we all hated one of them. Someone else is making us do this. Followed by Instagram captions that don't exist.
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Let's hear some pitchy witchy witches. Also, Lauren is saying that she's been running low on pitches, so if you guys are out there and you got one... Send them over to L-Dog at the Playdate Instagram Playdate.pod. Her and Edwin Diaz both. Guys, give us a follow on Instagram and send us a comment on our most recent post. Comment. Skorp. Comment. Comment. Comment, Lorenz. Comment.
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Wenn du gesagt hast, du willst nicht mehr Leute folgen, hast du zu viele Leute. Oder kommentiere. Ich habe das gleiche Problem.
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Die grüne ist noch in deinen Fingern. Es ist überall, ich kann es nicht rausnehmen. Ich muss auf der Bühne in Pittsburgh sein, wie der Smurf von Blue Man Smurf Group. Cool.
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Episode 93. This is the big one. The big kahuna episode. Did I ever tell you my big kahuna story? No. Is it good? It's fucking awesome. Das ist echt toll. Wir waren in Dana Point, als ich ein Kind war. DP. DP. Wir waren in DP. Und, weißt du, ich kam aus Main. Ich war gespannt, dass ich ein paar große Kali-Wäsche sehe. Ja. Und es gab keine. Wir saßen im Ozean. Es waren nur kleine, kleine Wäsche.
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I miss you all the time. Nope. Remember when Flan was Hitler? Yeah, we got our ass. No one believed me, though.
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ever had a really awkward family vacation after your brother cheated during katan introducing the way you the way you said yep was like don't i know yeah no my mom's the cheater actually your mom cheats she's sneaky she doesn't cheat but she will push she will do sneaky you gotta keep an eye on her
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Made a good play at second. Sorry, tell me your story. No, it was that Edge came. Our boss Edge came. Filled in because we needed a guy. And he sent a picture to his girlfriend. Are they not married? No. So he sent a picture to... Living in sin.
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Wir hatten eine Wingspan-Nacht in Chester vor ein paar Wochen. Und wir hatten zu viele Leute, also konnte Jerry nicht spielen. Also war er einfach so, wie... übersehen und sehen, wie sich alle bewegen. Und es war so hilfreich. Weil das ist ein Spiel, wo es so... Es ist so verwirrend, dass wenn du nicht aufmerksam bist, dann könnte jemand dich verletzen und sich helfen.
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Auch wenn sie es nicht versuchen. Also es ist so... I would love that. A guy you can hire and he'll, maybe he could like, you know, grab you drinks too and stuff. Yeah. Like grab you hats. Yeah. If it gets too sunny.
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Yeah. Yeah, I like that a lot. I love that a lot. Thank you, Adeline.
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What? I went four. I still gotta break my Wingspan V-Card. I know. It's epic. I haven't played in a while, though. I've been busy. I'm excited to get through the next few weeks.
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Pittsburgh. And then I go to Colorado. Pittsburgh. Wait, Lauren, whose vacation is cooler? I like Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is cool. You like it more than skiing in Colorado? Yeah, that's a crazy pick. I would pick his way.
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Well, I'm going to Charleston when he's going to that. So I think those are both cool. But Pittsburgh, I am not particularly stoked about. Oh, I'm going to Florida the week after.
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I don't know that's true. They don't do it. It's not ladylike. Oh, ich erinnere mich an... Ich erinnere mich an einen jungen Bucke. Ich versuche zu antworten, welcher meiner Freunde es gemacht hat. Hey, Mädchen. Lauren, sag was, stopp ihn. Oh, nein, es ist nichts.
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Glaubst du, dass sie das macht? Und dann so, das wäre toll, wenn sie es macht. Du bist jetzt ein Pervert. Oh, nein, er ist wieder ein Pervert. Es ist wie Januar wieder. Erinnerst du dich, als du für einen Monat gruselig warst?
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Unplug it. Sorry, so he sent a picture to his... He sent a picture to his partner and she, who works in the emergency room. She works in the hospital. Send a picture of your knees. Nein, nein, nein, nur ein Bild von ihm und Rick, der einer der älteren, größeren Leute auf unserem Team ist. Das sind die beiden. Er hat einfach Rick in den Körper geslampt, für irgendeinen Grund.
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porny january do i ever man uh all right what is the worst oh my camera app was open oh my camera dude sometimes i after i'm after i'm done having some alone time i'll check all my social medias to make sure i didn't actually accidentally post a story of myself doing it yeah
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I knew a girl that she went to send someone a nude on Snapchat and put it on her Snapchat story and went to bed. And it was there all night. I'm so glad to finally say that. What's her full name and address? What's the worst? What is the worst part about reality dating shows? That Emily Binder is not on them. There's not enough what? There's not enough what there?
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There's not enough chance for something awful and life-changing to happen. Like a big mistake. Okay. I sort of follow. Drumroll, please. Introducing Cousin Island. 25 sexy singles, hot sexy singles. Here's the twist. Each of them are paired up with their distant cousin that they don't know is their distant cousin. And if you accidentally hook up with your distant cousin, you're off the island.
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That's hilarious. How distant? Is it legal? Yeah, man, it's legal.
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It's not like you can do whatever you want, you just can't tie the knot. If you went to the courthouse, they'd be like, nope. But I think you could do second or third cousin. You would love White Lotus. Oh, bangen sie sich? Ich habe das noch nie gesehen.
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Ich habe das noch nie gesehen. Ich habe das noch nie gesehen. Do you think about that every time you hook up with someone?
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Yeah, this is someone's cousin. Someone's aunt would hate this. Or someone's a grandson. That's actually all I can think about every time. Yeah, I hate when I'm hooking up with a guy. I'm like, this is someone's grandson. You think they're going to let us have grandsons? Yeah. You know how like the Hitlers... I don't know if I'll ever find a wife, but if I do, I think they'd let us.
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The Hitlers didn't reproduce because they wanted to put an end to it. Good for them. Hitler! Pitch me, Willy. Hitler. Okay, what's... What's the worst part about a hat?
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Jack left. He's putting on deodorant in the middle of the recording. Stinky. Ja, stinky. Denkst du immer an all die Dinge, die wir nicht mehr kaufen müssen, weil sie nur im Auto sind? Okay, das Schlimmste ist, dass es manchmal die Sonne komplett blockiert. Manchmal willst du noch ein bisschen Licht rein, du willst es einfach nicht, dass es so hell oder so heiß ist. Was ist da los?
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Warum ist das ein Körper-Slam? Er ist einer der älteren, größeren Leute auf unserem Team. Ja, weil das ist der ganze Punkt seines Textes. Das ist nicht eine Entschuldigung, ohne dass du es denkst, wenn du ein Problem mit dem Älteren und Größeren hast. Come on. Why are you up and about so much right now? Und sein Partner, der aktiv am Werk ist, hat das als, oh mein Gott, etwas ist passiert.
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Ich kann niemanden hören, der mich gerade hört.
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Ihr macht beide nur andere unabhängige Arbeiten, während ich rede. Was bedeutet das? Es gibt nicht genug Sonne auf deinen Augen? Der beste Fall ist, wenn es ein bisschen überlappend ist und der Sonne durchkommt. Und es ist noch brennend. Kommst du durch deinen Hat? Nein, nein, nein, nur generell. Okay. Das ist der Cloud-Hat. Es simuliert den Effekt eines Clouds, der sich über dich befindet.
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Du kannst dich noch aufschauen, du hast nicht den Brim in der Richtung. Es schadet nicht komplett deinen Gesicht. Es ist wie ein Licht, das es ein bisschen dämmt. Es bildet einen kleinen Cloud über deinem Kopf. Und dann macht es es einfach schön und schön. Lauren just took her hair down and it was like in Stick It. Have you ever seen Stick It? Yeah. They're gymnasts.
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Sorry not to derail your pitch. I'll come back to this.
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I don't give a fuck. She's like part of this BMX bike gang. And you're like, oh, that's a cool guy doing all these tricks. And then she takes her hood down and shakes out her head. And you're like, oh, it was a girl the whole time.
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You look like a guy. You were wearing a tomboy outfit and you had your hair up. And then now you took it down and it was like, oh, Lauren's a girl. I forgot Lauren's a girl. Oh, you look like a dude. I forgot Lauren's a girl. Is what he's saying. Willi, ich liebe das. Es ist wie in Mario Kart. Ja. Die Flasche, die die Flasche umdreht. Ja, ja, ja. Kann ich kurz trinken?
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2,279% of your daily... It's gonna have me firing on all cylinders. I tried it the other night after a couple Guinnesses. I woke up the next morning, I felt... Viel besser, als ich es normalerweise fühle. Lass uns das so sagen. Du spielst schon Geld auf Trinken, richtig? Richtig. Warum nicht ein paar extra Dollar sparen und nicht scheißen am nächsten Tag? Wir haben alle Sachen zu tun.
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Es ist großartig für Gebäude, Bachelor-Partys, aber auch für deine nächste Nacht, wenn du trinkst. Das ist das Beste. Du würdest denken, dass es in dieses Ding kommt und du musst dich damit umdrehen. Zwei von den Kapseln kommen in dieses kleine Ding. Steck das in deinen Koffer. You're ready for a night out. When you feel like you're buzzing a little bit, take two of these bad boys.
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You're going to be chilling the next morning. Go order some now at trylastcall.com slash playdate for 25% off your first order. Pop it before, during or after you drink and you will feel better the next day. And there is nothing like getting some hours back on your Sunday. Agreed. I've always said that. So every time you drink, you should be taking last call. Let's get back into the episode.
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I'll take it. Crispy? I don't think you're a Lauren. I think you're like a Blake.
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Crispy. Crispy. Maybe like Jordan. What would mine be? I love all these, Will.
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I'm trying to think. Crisp. You are such a Jack.
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Jeder sagt immer Frozone, wenn ich das sage. Ich verstehe es nicht. Leute haben mich nur bei meinem ersten und letzten Namen genannt, was seltsam war. Wirklich? Ich war Danellen für die meiste meiner jungen Leben, weil es immer so viele Willen gibt.
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You can call me... They call me JK, but I'm not kidding. Come on. Come on. Everyone say it with me. Teach me something. You guys ever heard about Olivier Levasseur? He was a ruthless French pirate who was terrorizing the seas around the 1700s. His go-to was they would attack merchant ships. Merchantships. Okay. Okay. Okay. Dochabo, which was carrying the Bishop of Gao. Wait, hold up.
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Nachos in Oregon, Dochabo got heisted? I was supposed to be on that ship. Which was carrying the Bishop of Goa or Gao along with a massive, massive fortune in gold, diamonds, jewelry and religious artifacts. That is the most important part, religious artifacts, including the legendary flaming cross of Goa or Gao.
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Wir müssen in den Krankenhaus gehen. Also ist sie verrückt und ruft ihn an. Er antwortet nicht, weil wir spielen. Dann ruft sie Rick an. Sie beginnt mich zu rufen. Und sie hat uns acht genannt und war verrückt und total verrückt. Wie habe ich das verpasst? Ich denke, das ist völlig ihr schlecht. Yeah, I kind of agree. You wouldn't be like, oh, we're coming to the emergency room.
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Ein enormes Gold- und Diamanten-gekratztes Kreuz, so schwer, dass es drei Männer benötigt hat, es zu tragen. Kannst du dir das vorstellen? Ja, ich bin ziemlich sicher, dass das ein Plot von Outer Banks Season 3 ist. Oh, wirklich? Nein, ich denke, es ist basiert auf diesem. Oh, okay. Ja, ja, ja. Diese einzige Runde hat Levasur, einer der reichsten Piraten in der Geschichte, gemacht. Ja.
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Jetzt gehen wir vorwärts zum Ende seines Lebens. Fassen wir zurück zu 1730. Levasur wurde von den Franzosen gefangen und verurteilt. Ja. As he was about to be hanged in reunion, he did something legendary. He threw a, you'll love this, will you? He threw a cryptic 17-line cipher into the crowd and shouted, find my treasure, he who may understand it. Then, boom, executed.
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To this day, no one has fully cracked the cipher and Levasur's treasure is Potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars has never been found. Treasure hunters have been searching the Seychelles, which is an island off of the eastern coast of Africa. Also where my good friend Alex Grove is doing his honeymoon after his wedding. So that'll be very fun. With the eastern, like Madagascar?
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Yeah, but like way higher. It's like off the top. Right. The northeast. Some believe it is buried beneath rock carvings filled with secret symbols, but the true location remains a mystery. Isn't that insane? Somewhere out there, there's this thing that would retire everyone in your family for the rest of their lives. And then some. You'd be one of the richest people in the world.
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We should find it. It's out there. It's out there somewhere. Or he fucking threw it off the side of his boat. Wait, can you look up Outer Banks Cross? I'm almost positive that that must be based on this. Or Season 2, I guess. Yeah, it is Google. Hit enter. Is that it? Oh, that's like... One of my favorite things about you is how confused you get. Click the third one of the people also ask.
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Es ist fiktiv. Es muss auf diese Sache basiert sein. Ich glaube, es ist natürlich alles noch gemacht. Das ist direkt auf deinem Alley, Mann. Krypte, Cyphers, Treffern. Ich liebe das. Jesus. Ich werde nicht schauen, weil es ziemlich weit weg ist. Seychelles. Seychelles. Es ist, als ob Alex es auf seinem Geburtstag gefunden hätte. Ja, cool. Er ist Alex. Warte.
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Sein Freund geht da für seinen Geburtstag. Es ist Harpers Bruder.
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Maybe 15 seconds ago. Oh, oh, oh. Where is he going?
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S-E-Y-C-H-E-L-L-E-S. Sarah Cameron, if you listen to this pod. I always liked the way I memorized where Seychelles was. Their flag looks like all these things going out. To me, that feels like the middle of the ocean. It's way out there. Oh, cool.
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Guck dir die Zentralafrikanische Republik-Flagge an. Ich hatte das in meinem Zimmer, als ich ein Kind war. Das ist verrückt. Wir hatten eine Flagge. Es gab einen Militärverlust-Store. Wir würden alle Flagge kaufen. Wir würden Militär-Uniformen kaufen und dann die Karten des Filmtheaters verkaufen. Really? Yeah, it was awesome. You know you can do that? Also people buy you stuff.
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I've always wondered, you know what Delta is like? We are now welcoming our current or past veterans. They don't check their fucking military ID. No, that's another total life hack. Whenever they ask military excellence, you just pretend like you are.
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Not the military part, but Chester just used to board first. He would be boarding group nine. Really? They don't check. I'm just terrified. I would never do the military one or the families with babies. I don't think it's shitty because it's like the only people who are screwing over are the first class people.
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I should text my girlfriend and not call instead of calling 911. Yeah. You ever been in an ambulance? No. Lauren?
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I used another perk of being a Diamond Medallion member is I have all sorts of upgrade certificates and me and my lady are flying first class now with two upgrade certificates. Very nice. Winter Park, Florida.
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Ja, wenn du dich mit Säkulanten kennst, sind sie sehr einfach zu kümmern. Seine rotteten, wurden komplett weiß und starben.
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Wir gehen zu den Layla-Bagels. Wir gehen zu dieser Blätter-Store. Es ist großartig. Ich mag Layla-Bagels. Layla-Bagels sind großartig. Was sagst du, Lauren?
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Layla? Nein, Layla ist delizioso. Überragend. Ich würde sagen, ich würde mit dir verabschieden, ihre Frühstück-Sandwiches könnten ein bisschen Arbeit benötigen. Oh.
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Ihr Bagel mit der Schmier... Du musst nicht so viel Geld auf einen Bagel investieren. Es gibt drei... Warum sagst du mir nicht, wo ich mein Geld investiere? Es gibt drei Bagel-Store, die sich teilen. Sie sind in einer Reihe. Es gibt nichts, was sie separiert. Warum ist das der heißeste Bagel-Store? Right next to Layla is another Bagel-Place. There is always a line out the door.
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And then the one next to that is a bakery that sells bagels. It's the Bagel Mile. It's a Santa Monica destination. Dude, huge Saturday plans. We're running the Bagel Mile. We're doing the Bagel Mile.
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Yeah, we're doing a bagel marathon. Oh, I had, you know what, I had a really good breakfast. I had new, maybe favorite breakfast sandwiches. They have them at the window. Oh, I love the window. So good. I haven't been there yet. Me and Kenward went to the window one time. The burgers. It was fucking killer. You should have been there. Alright, I gotta teach me something. Teach me something.
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No, I told you this. I was blind for an afternoon. Oh, yeah. I hit my head on concrete. Als ich ein Kind war, spielte ich Fußball im Wohnzimmer mit meinem Bruder Scott. Hatten sie dir das gesagt? Und dann habe ich mich auf den Fußballtisch geschlagen. Und es hat meinen Mund geöffnet, damit es sich öffnen konnte. Oh, Alter. Aber wir leben so nahe.
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Come on, really. Come on. Come on. You know about the Christchurch Seagull Pit?
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In 2011 there was an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. And the PWC office there was pretty affected by it. Obviously I know what it is, but for uneducated people like Lauren, what is the PWC? Price, Waterhouse, Cooper. Das ist eine der vier großen. Price, Waterhouse, Cooper? Ja. Sie haben einen Tag, um den Namen zu bekommen? Ich glaube, es waren drei Leute.
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Price, Waterhouse, und dann hat Cooper einen normalen Nachnamen, also haben sie ihn zuerst genommen. Warum bist du so traurig? Warum bist du so traurig?
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Fuck that guy. Ich sage, du würdest das nicht einem Jungen sagen. Was für Tattoos hat er?
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You should go, hey, Mike, do you think that those tattoos look cool or have you always been a stupid idiot? That would be good.
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I made like a nice play to get that out at second and then he was like, foot was off the bag, it just wasn't.
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And the other team were being such dicks. You should go, Mike, no matter how much you fake it, we all know how sad you are. Ich meine, wir haben ihn letztes Jahr in der Champions League gewonnen, also wir haben den letzten Lächeln. Hey, Mike, wenn du da drüben liest, schalte diesen Podcast auf. Es ist nicht für Bitches wie dich. Pussy. Danke Gott, jemand hat unsere Beine. Fuck that guy.
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anyway so the after the earthquake the building gets demolished and torn down and it's just like the foundation there it's just like a pit of like cement and over time it starts to fill with water and then starts to become inhabited with seagulls And so it becomes this pit full of seagulls, which are like protected.
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So then they couldn't do anything about it, because now it basically turned into a seagull habitat. And so now it's been there for almost 15 years now. It's listed as like a tourist destination on Google. And it's just a pit of seagulls that they can't really fuck with. Yes. Do you want to know how to fix it? Hit me. Crumbs. Just leave them away. You gotta build it quick. You gotta build it quick.
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You guys ever catch seagulls when you're a kid? Es ist wie ein Seagull-Wasteland. Seagull-Wasteland.
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Seagull-Wasteland. Nein, aber ich kannte Leute, die Triebe über einen Blanket hielten. Und wenn sie gelandet sind, schließen sie den Blanket und fangen sie an. Ich denke, ich habe dir erzählt, wie mein Vater das mal gemacht hat. Sie haben versucht, einen Seagull zu fangen. Sie haben einen String in einem Lasso-Loop gelegt. Oh ja, und es hat funktioniert.
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Und dann haben sie es gejagt, und sie haben tatsächlich den Seagull am Bein gefangen, und sie waren so, fuck, wir wissen jetzt nicht, was wir tun. Also hatten sie so einen Spul, und dann haben sie es ausgeschnitten, und es ist so, dass sie einen Teil davon verletzt haben. Sie haben wahrscheinlich den Böden verletzt, ehrlich gesagt. Es waren so acht. Wir haben einen B auf einem String gelegt.
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Jetzt erinnere ich mich, dass du mir das erzählt hast. Ja, wir sind zum Krankenhaus gegangen. Das war ein bisschen wie ein BA. Ich hatte einen permanenten Retainer, als ich ein Kind war, auf meinem Boden. Ich habe nur diese jetzt, aber ich hatte den, der auf den Rückseiten von den Möhren aufgeräumt war, richtig? Ja.
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Oh yeah, yeah. Alright. This guy rocks. This guy rocks.
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This guy rocks. Rock him all day and rock him around. Oh, actually. I haven't gotten a good rock around in a while. Oh, I haven't gotten my rock self in forever. Jack.
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Did you see that DM? No, I didn't. It was like a girl standing. It was like looking through her legs. Like her back is to you. And it was looking through her legs and there were these two little tassels hanging down. Lauren, pause this immediately. And I mean immediately. Oh, ich liebe diesen Kerl. Ist das Falcon?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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Er ist gerade heute auf meinem Tisch gekommen. Wahrscheinlich bin ich der Letzte auf dem Show. Aber dieser Kerl ist so lustig.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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It feels like, obviously this is a bit, but it's such a good character. It's like he's holding on to the back of a train and barely connecting the dots. Ending with, I'm not 100% sure about anything. He kind of reminds me, it feels like he'd be like Angus' little brother. Yeah, I think he is. I asked Angus, I said, have you seen this guy? He said, yeah, he's pretty funny.
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Which is a big compliment. Do you just follow him? I follow him. Ich glaube, er ist auch Musiker. Ich habe ihn auf Instagram gefolgt und er rappte alles. Das war unerwartet. Tommy Noble. Warte, Lauren, klick den dritten.
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Das klingt, als ob er aus der Zeit weggegangen wäre. Das ist lustig. Das ist großartig. Ja, ich mag ihn. Das ist großartig. Dieser Kerl ist großartig. Dieser Kerl ist großartig.
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kebab fever destroyed my relationship
Und du konntest es so und so öffnen, indem du es mit deiner Nase öffnest, und es schlägt wieder runter. Meine Mutter war immer so, hey, mach das nicht. Das ist schlecht. Und dann habe ich es immer gemacht. Und eines Tages habe ich den Metall geworfen. So it was stuck up halfway through my mouth and I couldn't close my mouth. But it was night time.
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Ja. Ja, ich habe das verstanden. Wer haben wir hier? Oh Gott. Das ist LukeTheDuke2024 und er macht diese Viral-Sketchen mit seiner Frau.
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But watch it one more time. That'll make sense.
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Does he like dub in his voice after? Unclear. Like and subscribe, dude. Yeah, can you like it? Like it, Lauren. Like it. Do you like him? Alright, fantastic stuff.
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Mike? from softball no but sort of oh is that the kind of tats he has yeah mike you're a fucking loser he reminds me of the dad in or no no no the uncle in christmas vacation hey mike check you're talking about uh you know what i'm talking about i know the uncle does he look like that Not at all. Couldn't look less like him. This guy.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think so. Cousin Eddie. Ganga-Luki.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
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Ganga-Luki. He's like, hey, Chevy Chase, I'm your brother. Ganga-Luki. Ganga-Luki.
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Isn't Chevy Chase like a not a good guy? Yeah, he's apparently a total dick. I cannot wait to get famed stuff to be dick. Yeah, I know. This podcast blows up, we're going to be dicks. We're going to be mean to servers. I'm going to start being meaner to Lauren.
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Oh, Alter. Ja. Ich kann es nicht sagen, aber... Beschreib es einfach. Wir waren zu Abend und eine ungenommene Person hat etwas zurückgegeben, was ich noch nie gesehen hätte. Wenn du... So lange wie mein Essen nicht auf Feuer oder Pfeife ist, ich sage nichts, sie hat es zurückgegeben.
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send it back again jesus and then uh i made a comment that was basically like you know they're gonna like spit in your food and they acted like i was crazy for uh for telling them that they should not do that all right should we do british pubs that don't exist bps come on all right tee it up willy these are british pubs that don't exist the stick and poke the sea and sail The Unfillable Chalice.
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And the whole thing about orthodontists is they don't work at night. So I had to think quickly. And I had my sister pull it out with a pair of rusty pliers. Are those just regular pliers for you? Well, we didn't have a non-pair of rusty ones. Get it? Rusty pliers.
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Yeah, kinda. Grey Wolf's Corner. Nice. The Bronze Bosom. Fox's Retreat. The Rusty Key. The Hollow Tree. The Round Flask. The River's Edge. I think that's all. Drinkenshire.
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Barry's Bottom Barry Bonds Barry Bonds Barry Bonds The Home Run King The Home Run King Barry's Bottom Barry Bonds, The Home Run King So stupid My buddy's so stupid Dude, oh my god, you're gonna love my buddy He's so dumb Oh my god, ask him anything He literally doesn't know where he is You're gonna love him, dude Oh, du, du wirst es lieben, Lawrence. Du wirst dich so verwirren.
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So lang. So lustig. Aber er ist so lustig.
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Wir haben das mit ihm das ganze Wochenende gemacht. So gut. Strider ist einer von diesen Leuten, dass wenn du zu viel Zeit verpasst... Er ist so liebenswert, dass du ihn sein willst. Ja. Also kannst du ihn nicht verpassen. Wenn du ein Wochenende mit ihm verpasst, wirst du weg. trying your hardest to be him. We were talking about betting spreads. He was like, oh, dude, you're gonna love my buddy.
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He bets spreads that are so low. Dude, the overrun in this game is so low, dude. He bets the smallest spreads. Oh my god, dude, you're gonna love him. Alright, should we do Instagram captions? Yep. Alright, these are the hottest Instagram captions of 2025. POV, I'm really close to figuring out your social security number. Here before viral. I picked all these outfits with almost no help.
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Guess I just turned the clout game up a notch. If I got some head for the table, would you guys have some? All dump, no pump. Nice. Stop talking, I'm trying to picture you naked. A stranger airdropped me all of these photos. Alle panikieren. Wir sind aus Bacon. Zuerst. Ich mag das. Wer the fuck ist WildenEllen? Wo du deinen Namen nimmst. Ich mag das.
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Niemand weiß, dass ich gestern über meinen spanischen Lehrer träumen musste. Is the bacon the one you would come up with for the other one? Originally it was going to be like those millennial quotes where it was like, keep coming, keep coming, more cream cheese on that bagel. Everyone panicked. We are out of bacon. Bacon! Bacon!
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Dude, you are gonna love this show. It's so long. You're gonna love this episode. I was so tired.
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You're gonna love slides. They go so fast.
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Oh yeah, Lauren had two hits that both landed in the outfield.
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You have a problem, right? It's like ruining all your relationships. No, it'll be okay.
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You know, like the amount you drink, like it all concerns us. And then we all, like when you leave, it honestly makes us feel better about our drinking habits because we're like, well, at least it's not as bad as Lauren's. Mm-hmm. You have like a real problem in like the way that you... Honestly, the way I will say, I want her to drink more if she keeps playing like that. I know.
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The way you drink though, it's... Ich mag es, dass dieses Podcast alles leidenschaftlich und lustig ist. Aber manchmal ist es einfach schwer, wenn dein Freund vor deinen Augen verschwindet. Weil manchmal, wenn du trinkst, hast du dieses Alter Ego, wo du ein Monster bist.
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She's your only friend I like. Shit. Kidding. Love Mia too. Will and I followed each other on Instagram.
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Und es erinnert mich darauf, wie fragil das Leben ist, wo du einen deiner besten Freunde sehen kannst, und sie sind nicht mehr erkennbar, weil du so viel trinkst. Ich weiß nicht. Es ist so, dass wir so viel über dich kümmern. Und ich hasse es einfach, dass du alles wegschiebst für nur die Bottle. Sorry, ich war total ausgerüstet. Kannst du das noch einmal sagen?
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Die Antwort auf alle deine Probleme. Ich denke, die Art, wie du es trinkst, sieht es fast aus, als würde es ein Scroll mit der Antwort auf alle deine Probleme am Ende jedes Bier sein. Und es ist so... Oh, it's not at the bottom of that one. Let's start a new one. I wish we could tell you you're enough as you are and you don't need to be drinking to the excess and scaring all of us.
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I want to support you, but I don't want to feed into it. If I'm hanging out with you and you're drinking this much and I'm not saying anything, then I'm enabling you. I feel like you're going to die. What about my weed habits? Oh, nein, du bist so verrückt. Du musst mehr Steine bekommen. Oh mein Gott, ich liebe es, wenn du weg bist. All right, whose personality are we stealing?
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It was so clear. Lauren sent out those photos because all four of us posted. Posted at the same time. And Jake too.
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Because I miss Easter when I was little. I'm going to steal Bodi Millers personality because I'm going to be freaking flying down the slopes. Bodi.
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Are you a ringtone? No, I have to accept a co-post from Ben and Jim.
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Oh, Falcon followed me back. Let's go. Crow post. Yeah, I am going to steal Bodi Millers personality because I'm going to be flying down the slopes. And Lauren, to answer your question, I can do both, but I'm better at skiing.
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I like everything about her until she points out something about my elbows and then I wish she wasn't around.
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Weenus maxing. Are we weenus maxing later? Yeah. Alright, thanks guys for listening. We'll see you next week. I love you. Play that theme music, girl.
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I don't think you guys made it. I realized I wasn't following Scott. I don't think you followed. You hate him. I love Scott.
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Have a great rest of your Wednesday. Have a great rest of your week. And we will see you guys bright and early on Monday. Comment. LORK! LORK!
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Ich hätte gewusst, dass ich es gemacht hätte. Er hat Flan gefolgt. Das ist wahrscheinlich toll. Er versucht, meine Freundin zu folgen. Folgt nicht meine Freundin. Wenn jemand meine Freundin folgt, werde ich verletzt. Ich habe Flan in einer Bilder gestern getaggt. Sie hat jetzt viele Follower-Rechte. Warum hast du die Fotos von ihr gepostet, wo du ihr Gesicht nicht sehen kannst, als das erste?
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Sie ist der nächste, das ist sie und du.
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Gorgina's a jewelry store. I went to high school with a guy named Gorgino. No, it was Giorgio. Gorgino. Giorgio. Giorgio. I went to high school with a ton of different people. Joe's Mom texted a picture of, she's a high school principal. We'll put the picture right here. But it's some kid, some snot-nosed fucking kid. She will tell these stories about how shitty these high school kids are.
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Bleep out her last name so we don't. Frankl. Aber sie hat ein Bild, ihr allererster Bild, wo sie heute ein Bild schickt, ein fucking Schnitzel-Nasen-Punk hat einen Chart für das Bad gemacht. Und es ist, äh, der Prompter ist, warum, warum bist du hier? Und die Optionen sind Vaping, Scheiße. Warte, lass mich schauen. Warte, warte, warte. Klatsch, Lauren. Einen Sekunden.
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Cool. Also habe ich an den Ozean geschrien, dass ich die große Kahuna wollte. Und dann wurde ich verbrannt durch eine Acht-Fuß-Wave, eine Minute später. Also hat es funktioniert. Es hat funktioniert, aber ich dachte, ich würde sterben. Oh, I saw a video of a guy drowning today. Nice. Yeah, he got saved though.
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Okay, so I'm glad you asked. I'm glad you asked. One second, I'll tell you the story. I'll tell you the follow-up story to that. It says jerk off, vape, shit. And jerk off has a hundred tally marks and then someone drew like a very accurate Peter Griffin at the bottom. That's kind of fun.
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People jacking off? Yeah, man. I was gonna say, I don't know.
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I never did it, but I knew a kid named... There was a Spanish bathroom. It was like a secret. They call it a baño. Our middle school was really old, so there was all this stuff in there from like the... Oh, I'm not a poor kid. He's wearing like tattered clothes and covered in dust.
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Walked in on him laying down on the floor with his shirt pulled up over behind his head and his pants around his ankles going absolutely bananas on himself. What? Muy malo.
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Yeah, we gotta get that guy who jacked off in middle school on the pod.
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Oh, we should get the poor kid on the pod. So what was it like being poor and also having to see Jack Jacket? I think we should get the two of them at the same time. Alright, let's talk about something else. Lauren, I learned this about girls. Will you tell me if this is something that you do?
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Apparently girls have car closets where they, clothes that they're not gonna wear immediately go in a bin and in the back of their car. Pardon?
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Wait, wait, wait. Do you use your trunk of your car as storage?
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A bag... Das ist so, wie Flan es sagt. Das ist so, wie Lauren es sagt. Sie ist aus Minnesota. Eine große. Eine große.
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Was ich dachte, war ein bisschen seltsam.
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That's pretty good. It was a good video. What is drowning? When does swimming turn to drowning? When you stop breathing. Oh, interesting. Ich denke, wenn du unter Wasser schwimmst, ist es eine Verabschiedung. Ja, es ist eine Verabschiedung. Ich bin wirklich schlecht am Schwimmen. Wirklich? Schrecklich.
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Warum nehmt ihr es nicht einfach in euren Haus? Ja.
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Es klingt wie ein Spiel von Pick-up-Bricks. Ich musste Softball und Hey-Dudes letzten Abend spielen. Nicht unabhängig von meinem Knie-Schmerzen. Will war grün gestern. Ich war blau. Ich war turkisch. Aber ich musste zum Spiel gehen. Ich habe hier eine Atmung genommen, aber ich habe nicht alles ausgemacht. Ich habe hier eine Atmung genommen, aber ich habe nicht alles ausgemacht.
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Wir haben hier Atmung? Du warst wirklich blau. Oh, im Rückwärtssaal. Ich war Teal. Ich war Teal gestern. Ich ging in den... Willi filmte diesen Sketch, wo er grün war und ich ging in. Teal. Teal. Und er blendete sich in die Wand, aber ich musste ihm eine Frage über heute's Episode fragen. Und so kam ich rein und warte für den Direktor, um mir zu sagen, dass es okay war, ihm eine Frage zu fragen.
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Und ich blickte ihn in die Runde und es war Will und eine Frau, die ich nicht erkenne, Chester und eine andere Person. Und Will ist einfach perfekt in die Wand geblendet und ich war so... Are you okay drafting like these things tomorrow? And he was like, yeah, cool. It was also one of these people like actors. They don't know like what I do.
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So they were like, are we good with British pubs tomorrow? And I was like, yeah, British pubs is good. Cool. Um, um, how have those, how's that?
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Gut, das ist der einzige, den ich mitgebracht habe. Ich hoffe, es sind vier von ihnen.
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Und dann... Dieser hier hat mich überrascht. Kannst du mir die Idee erklären, oder willst du es nicht spoilern? Ich will es nicht spoilern, aber es wird in einem Monat kommen. Aber ja, ich bin gespannt. Ich bin ein bisschen nervös, weil es vier sind. Wir machen diese neuen Serien, also sind alle vier im gleichen Stil. Und sie kommen in vier consecutive Wochen.
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Also wenn es nicht die erste Zeit fängt. Ja, wenn die Leute sagen, dass dieser Format schreckt, dann ist es so, dass sie sich für drei mehr machen.
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Ich denke, sie werden kürzer trenden. Das war die Idee mit AFTV, dass sie diese acht Episoden-Saison machen. Aber Anfang dieses Jahres hat die Firma gesagt, wir müssen eine jede Woche erstellen. Und um das hinzuzufügen, werden sie die acht Episoden-Saison machen und dann zwei vier Episoden-Serien, um die Grenze zwischen den Saisons zu brechen.
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Und ich habe einen von ihnen mit Chester geschrieben, was großartig ist. Aber, ja, es ist entweder so, dass die Leute sagen, oh, das erste Mal, wenn die Leute den Format nicht lieben, ist es so, aufhören, sich dran zu machen, oder es ist so, dass sie es lieben und dann wird es am Ende ausgelöst. Also, wir werden sehen. Ich denke, vier ist das Perfekte. Oder jeder liebt sie alle.
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Oder jeder liebt sie alle. Das wäre der beste Fall für Ontario. Und ich bin nur in der letzten, was kinderlich gut ist, weil ich nicht unbedingt meine Arbeiten vertraue. Ich mag schreiben mehr als Arbeiten, also würde ich eher die Variablen isolieren. Ich denke, du bist ein fantastischer Schauspieler. Danke, Jack. Hast du... Oh, he threw up.
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Did you just throw up your chicken and banana? He just threw up an enchilada? He just threw up an enchilada? He didn't even eat that. He threw up something he never ate. A virgin puke. My buddy throws up foods he never even ate. He's the best. Worst magician of all time. And for my next trick, they have to be with him for 24 hours to ensure that nothing goes in.
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He didn't even come close to eating that. Wait, what if you... We should do magic tricks that don't exist, but it's like you eat all the ingredients, then you throw it up and it comes out. Throw up a full quesadilla. That would be awesome. Will an audience member please give me their tortilla? Pull it out of a guy's jacket pocket.
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Twisted Tea is a refreshing hard iced tea made with real brewed tea and 5% alcohol. Tastes like real iced tea because it's made with real brewed tea. Real brewed tea with a kick, let me add. 5% ABV. Full of flavor. Refreshing. Personally, I like the half and half flavor.
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I don't know if I can say what me and my buddies call it, but a half and half twisted tea, I will stand by this, is probably the greatest way to start any day unless you gotta work hard. oder so etwas, dann mach es nicht. Aber wenn du noch etwas zu tun hast, Crack open it. I like to put it over ice. You ever do that? Oh, absolutely, dude. This weather, we're getting into this exact season.
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Es gab einen Punkt, weil ich nie, niemand hat mir jemals erzählt, wie man schwimmen kann. Als du in Lankester, Pennsylvania geboren bist. Es gab keine Pools. Oh, was? Oh, that's pretty embarrassing. Yeah, it was like me and a bunch of little kids. Oh, do they throw you in the, you know, they throw babies in the pool, so they come back up and like.
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It is twee season. I got the twitch. The twee itch. Forget the pre-season, it's the twee season. Oh, come on, girl. Come on, girl. Guys, keep it twisted with twisted tea. I got a twisted tea story for you. In college, me and all my friends would put on National Treasure Book of Secrets and we would play Natural Treasure Book of Tweakrets. Love that. And it's a thing that we came up with.
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That sounds awesome. It is awesome. I love that game. Guys, head down to your local liquor store, grocery store, freaking pharmacy, whatever you want. Get yourself a twisted tea. Hell yeah. Guys, head down to your local liquor store, grocery store, wherever you buy your tweeze. And get yourself a pack. I like the variety pack, because here's why. Mix it up. Mix it up.
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when we were at uh yeah i i you know i ordered you actually a bigger bowl right but i lost it i lost will and i actually chipped in on we bought all the ingredients for guacamole but we bought it way too early and it spoiled we ate them that's that's understandable and i bought you a hat and mia i bought you and mia one of those two-person hats for when you go out you guys go out together where it's connected so you never lose each other and you look great
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My parents used to just spit on me and kick me. And say, bet it hurts now, fucker. I'm just kidding. They never did that. And my dad's going to listen to this podcast and be like, what the hell?
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Yeah, it would take me so long to explain. It's like a movie for shorter guys.
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It's like a movie with a guy with a tiny shaft, I guess.
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You ever know about when Tim Donnellan executed the triple carry? No.
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I found a grinder of weed on my brother's nightstand. I had no idea what it was. And I, like, looked at this thing when I was going to bed.
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Now you're all listening up to my wankster rap. You might try to say that it is crap, but you know it's not. In fact, it's hot. If you think that's not the word, you're really absurd. It was him and Jimmy Wallace just spitting bars.
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When I was eight, I was reading scholar novels. Reading scripture.
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I don't think so, and I don't think people out on the Venice boardwalk think so. I like to walk there, big, long strides with my four-inch inseam Chubby's original stretch shorts, and the ladies love it even more.
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I'm done. Did you hear I saw Gone Girl?
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Is it a prank call? My dad recently moved around a ton of dirt on our land in our town. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, I guess. We live near gas lines, so tell them to do the gas lines. We've got to move all the dirt back to where it was and get that out of there or something. His name is Joshua. Hi. Hi, is this Mr. No, no, no.
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That's like one of my best friends from college.
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Pediatrics. Permanent division. He moved a bunch of dirt on our land.
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Oh, my balls. Is my name Michael?
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Hi, is this Mr. Yes. Hi, my name is Mike. I'm with the permitting division of the building department here in Chapel Hill. Did you recently move a bunch of dirt around on your property?
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Yeah. We just got some reports. We're just worried about interference with gas lines. We just can't have big piles of dirt being moved around too much.
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So you said it's about a 10-foot cliff?
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Well, we might need to come in and take a few inches off that then, because that feels a little bit steep for a cliff now.
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Okay, we got plenty of dirt if we could bring more dirt.
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Perfect. Yeah, we can... Yeah, I will see what we can do. Yeah, we got a little bit of a dirt shortage, but we are working on it. So I will see what we can do and get some guys out there.
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Yes, sir. Right behind the property.
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Michael. Yeah, my name is Michael. Okay. My last name... It's Featherstone, F-E-A-T-H-E-R-S-T-O-N-E. Okay.
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Isn't that fucking insane? I don't remember it.
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Oh, my God. I have to... Sign documents. Oh.
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V-U-T-S-R-Q-P-O. See, I would have no idea if you were being right. Yeah, I have no idea.
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It's kind of funny that my buddy Trent and I are like, what the hell? That's us.
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Oh, you have an actual... Yeah, one of my good friends from college is named Trent, and he's insane at skiing. Cool. It's also a really nice guy, more importantly.
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It's not all about his slopes for you to remember me.
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Okay. Ready? Now we're going to listen to Lauren. New segment where we pay attention.
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He's like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, and looked at me and nodded. And I looked down and I was like, I'm on my own.
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Yeah, even that might be too many letters. And also, Miniclip has Commando and 8-Ball Pool, which is probably too much.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
well how often were you walking around ponds like almost every day in college there was a pond that was on my way to classes for when i lived off camp anyway so i'd put my thing like this or sometimes i use the backpack strap anyway so this would be little speakers that are built into right here in your shirt you connect your shirt via bluetooth and you can play music at a small obviously listen if you're inside or in the library you
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
You can't do it because people will hear it.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
But we could do one with the morsel idea.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
Show me Roddy White number. This would be a snipe.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
Having speaker head? I have a question. She gave me that speaker head. She gave me that speaker head. I said she didn't connect. I have a question. Is Starry just Sierra Mist? Yes. Cool.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
And they, we would play, I was with some Americans and they would like play drinking games every night. Like we'd play like King's Cup and stuff, but I wasn't drinking. So I would just drink Pepsi for all the drinking games. How old were you? Like 14. Yeah.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
No, I didn't really go. Not until my last year. Then I would go.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
No. We'll play it. We'll play it right here. Just Google Will Van Allen Rube. Put Will Van Allen at the beginning of that Google. No, just put Will Van Allen at the beginning. I bet they have a news article that comes up.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
I think Sam wants another beer. Yeah, just one more.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
Then it pulled a string that had this whole, like, lever on it that triggered the garage door button.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
Yeah, thank you for having us. Did you have a good time?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
What? Where is that? Is that near enough?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
Lauren, you got it ready? We're going to play the game.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
All right, I slack-minded Brian. This guy might not rock. I won't lie. This guy might not rock.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
This is baseball player wore this sock a month.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
No, it didn't cross my mind until just now. Oh... Well, that was a room clearer. Oh.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
Yeah. Yeah. I didn't click on this.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
He's going to knock it out of the park. Don't worry. It's Willie D. All right, Willie.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
You're drinking an accelerator. That's what I'm saying. I'm on that. I drank one right when I woke up.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
Good night, mate. I had a lovely time with you. Which one's New Zealand?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
I'm tired of the kangaroos in my house.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
Why am I? I'm going to take her to the rooftop, show her all the beautiful sights and whatnot.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
I sound like fucking Tom Hardy in Peaky Blinders.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
Oh, okay, this week. Fucking personality.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
All right, my fucking personality is fucking Blake from Birmingham. I hate that. What, I sound like fucking Alfie from Peaky Blinders.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
Dude, Hanano was crazy that night. Someone got a chair thrown at his head. Oh, what? Did you guys see all this shit? It was when I went to go to the bathroom. You guys were sitting outside. There was this guy that was going.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
Partook in some tripling this weekend.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
we built the biggest rube goldberg machine
It was awesome. It was awesome. It was fantastic.