Kevin
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48 Hours
False Identity
I've made it clear from the beginning that I believe a term in prison is appropriate in this case. It seems to me this is this man's third felony conviction. For that fact alone, he ought to go to prison.
48 Hours
False Identity
He was just a tenant at my mom's house here, and he worked for my mom at Schlotzky's restaurant.
48 Hours
False Identity
Very much so, because I know his books were all there and he always seemed to be studying very diligently.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
They said, you failed this polygraph test and we know that you killed her.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
They turned from, we're your friend, we're trying to find out who did this, to we know you did it.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
She was his partner forever. I knew I was going to marry her. There wasn't a question about it to me. How'd you know? I don't know. I didn't see it any other way.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
We went over to Noah's apartment at around 6.15. She hadn't answered my phone all day. My mom was with me. We drove there together. We pulled up to the apartment. We saw that her car was out front and her lights were on. Came around the side of the apartment to the back door. I just grabbed the door, tried to pull it open as hard as I could, and then we went inside.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
At first I was scared and nervous because it's the police and they have a lot of power. They have the power to put someone in jail for the rest of their life if they want to. Well, that is kind of where this was heading.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
At that point, Yeah, it did. And then I thought, no, I didn't do this. They're not going to put me in jail for something that I didn't do.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
No. Again, I was still under the impression that I had nothing to hide. Why do I need a lawyer?
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
And I just started yelling Kevin's name, and I yelled for him to come out. I said, you can get up and leave. You don't, you know, just come on out of there.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
I was as loud as I could be. And I said, I don't understand what's going on. All he's tried to do is help. That's all we've done is try to help.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
What was it like for you to go to the funeral under those conditions? I put it out of my head. And I said, I don't care what these people think.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
Nothing at that point mattered to me. Why? Because I was hollow inside. All I could think about were the times that she and I spent together and that I'd never get to spend another time with her like that ever again.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
At that moment, I felt more alone than I'd ever had in my entire life. This was a staged crime scene. I was straddling her body, trying to find some way to save her life. At one point, I even tried to give her mouth to mouth.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
People were telling me, they're saying the boyfriend did it. That's what was going around.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
I remember my dad called me and he said, I wish I had some good news, but I don't. And I could tell he was pretty upset. And he said, they want you at the police station at 10. I said, okay.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
That's when it really hit me that I could possibly go to jail. There were no guarantees that I had my life. My life would be in the hands of 12 people.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
If I shut the lights out and tried to lay in bed, the thoughts would haunt me.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
Now, he waited for the jury's verdict. I had a lot of dreams, and it was like Nona was right there next to me. And then I'd wake up, and there would be nobody there.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
When they go into deliberation, anything can happen. And there are no guarantees.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
The bailiff came out and said we got a verdict. What did that feel like? Well, my heart started beating very, very fast. The judge asked the foreman if they had reached a verdict, and she said yes. And they handed a slip of paper across, and then he read it.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
Not guilty. It felt like 10,000 pounds had been lifted off my shoulders.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
I mean, it was a horrible thing that happened in a horrible situation. But at that point, I was just happy that I was a free man. and that people would stop saying the things about me that they'd said, and people would stop judging my family and me. Is Kevin innocent or is he not guilty, if you know what I mean?
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
I made a promise to Kevin when he was in jail and sitting at the cemetery. with my hand on Nona's gravestone. I have promised both of those kids that I would keep looking and searching until we found the person who did this.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
Hopefully it will eliminate all doubt that I was the person that did this, and we can bring the person to justice. that did do it. And just last month.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
Our goal is to know the truth. And I felt very strongly that this young woman deserved that from the people who loved her.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
I think that a lot of people's minds have been changed since the arrest. And if there is a conviction, then I think I wouldn't have to change anybody else's mind.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
If I didn't say her looks, I would probably be lying. Because that's a big part of it, you know, when you're young. And her personality, too.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
It did help her self-esteem a lot. How could you tell? Just the way she acted. And, I mean, when people would tell her, you know, that she was beautiful, it would just make her happy.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
He gave her confidence and supported and cheered her on in her struggles.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
She just told me one night over the phone. She was upset and I said, why? And then there was a pause and she said, because my dad sexually abused me when I was six.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
I didn't like the fact that I had to be away from her. You stayed in touch pretty, text message? Yeah, we talked on the phone every day. I really look forward to going back home on the weekends.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
That's when Kevin and his mother raced to Nona's apartment. My level of concern had raised significantly.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
It was rather dim inside, but all I was focusing on was getting the door open. So when did you first see her? Ryan touched me on the arm and he was just looking straight forward and he said, dude, there she is. Then Kevin forced open the sliding glass door. I ran inside and I turned her over.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
And Kevin was on the floor next to her, hovering over her. My eyes just kind of scanned down her body. And her socks were on her feet. But otherwise, she was naked.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
It never really hit me that my girlfriend was a beauty queen. She was just Nona to me.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
I felt around kind of on the back of her head and her hair was matted. It was a little sticky, I guess. There was still some wet blood on the carpet. I was straddling her body at the waist and I was touching her face. and talking to her and just trying to get some sort of response from her.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
We dated throughout our senior year of high school and our freshman year of college. And then I moved to Fayetteville, and we continued to see each other on the weekends.
48 Hours
Beauty Queen Betrayal
When Nona and Kevin were together, I always just saw him as a different person, just a little bit kinder and sweeter and gentle because that's the way he always was with her.
48 Hours
The Ivy League Murder
What's up, everyone? Welcome to another episode of Fitness with Kevin. I'm Kevin. It still doesn't feel real. You know, like, it still doesn't feel real.
48 Hours
The Ivy League Murder
US Marshals are leading a nationwide manhunt this morning for the man charged in the murder of a Yale grad student. You give me a real sense of the pressure.
48 Hours
The Grad Student Murder
I was dreaming that Kevin would have a few beautiful children after getting married. This beautiful and joyful dream is destroyed. I am left alone by myself. I will never see Kevin smile again.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
Why were the women so crucial? It shows what he's capable of. He'd done it almost exactly the same in the past. It's his modus operandi. It's strong proof.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
He wore a bandana 24 hours a day. He had bandanas in his bedroom. He had bandanas in his truck. The bandana in Lori's mouth was the one I believe he was wearing that day.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
She identified him perfectly. She even identified his shirt he was wearing.
48 Hours
Facing a Monster
Lori was in the box that day, and he was taking her to dump her in the canal, where she was later found.
48 Hours
The Boy Across the Street
And I kept walking and realized that's a person and figured I needed to go get some help.
48 Hours
The Boy Across the Street
And we got up to her, and it was a young lady that was laying on the ground, and she was still alive. She was unconscious, but there was a big pool of blood around her head.
48 Hours
The Boy Across the Street
Her arms were twisted in a way that I never thought the human body could twist. Do you remember her face? I just remember the blood.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Today's stories include a new trailer for The Last of Us Season 2. Horizon Zero Dawn's TV show is now going to be a movie. And Helldivers 2 is going to be a movie. We'll have all this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. What's up, and welcome back to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Tuesday, January 7th, 2025. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Geddes.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Because there's the big thing that happens at the beginning of the game, and then there is kind of the reset point, and everything's kind of told out of sequence, and I feel like there's a potential that this doesn't do that. That this is a bit more... sequential with flashbacks.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Caitlin Dever, though.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Lies in the vibes. Like, seeing these actors as Ellie and Abby, I'm like, yeah, I want to see the scenes from the game with them. Like, that's going to be brutal as hell.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I mean, yeah, because I feel like, you know, the first... What sound does a zebra and barbed wire make, Greg? The changes from the game to the show, like the spores, right? That's a big thing. So I feel like they're going to need to...
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
figure out how to adapt some of the core scenes into the deal with that, whether it's, um, uh, her and Dina having their moment or, um, later in the game with, I forget the character's name, but, uh, the one that.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Is it Mel?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
No, no, no, no, no, no. The, the one where she like chases her down when she like really kills her or whatever.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Where she realizes you're the one, whatever, like they'll come up with a way or they just reintroduce spores, right? Like for, because, um, Seattle was the,
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
starting point right of it all of the the whole thing i don't remember that as part of the cannon the whole deal that's why the rat king was there i thought that they were all just piled in there so long and close together they grew into each other again i don't remember that well i'm pretty sure that was it in fact there was some word they used for it but you call i mean ground zero right epicenter i was ground zero just for seattle okay okay well
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Murder-suicide? Yeah. Holy shit. Okay, Kev, yeah, let's look through this real quick.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
That's what you gotta do.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah, the sound effect. Great use of that.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Well, I think he might even be a big part of season two, right? Like, I'm sorry, a bigger part than he was in the game.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Well, I mean, the game he was so underutilized. It's going to be cool having him. The last dance.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
What the fuck is happening in our world?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Alright, that's cool. Team Hacker says the Nora scene is like way after the big scene, so it's weird. Yeah, I'm so fascinated with how they're going to play this all out. And it's a shorter season too, if I remember correctly.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
What's up, Kev? Lead pipe. There we go.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Should have played the game, Kev. CJ splits on Super Chats in and saying the lead character from The Last of Us will kill the lead from Intergalactic. Nora is the lead from Intergalactic. Oh, yeah, you're right. She also is one of the main characters in The Chilling Tales of Sabrina, which Gia's been watching. And I saw her. I'm like, hey, she's in the new Naughty Dog game.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
DJ Kendo, Super Chat, saying, are you more excited for Pedro Pascal to return as Joel or to see him as Reed Richards in Fantastic Four First Steps? I mean, I'm going Fantastic Four. I'm so hyped on that movie. My other thing, too, is I wonder how much Joel we're getting in this, which is, I mean, just like for players of the game, kind of wild, you know? 100%, yeah.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
But, yeah, it's... Do you all think it's episode one?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
We have seven episodes.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Calvin Perez says, I think the penultimate episode or final ep of this season is a fully Abby flashback ep. It pulls the rug out just before you get the next season and sets the viewer on the path to compassion.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
There'll be many thing pieces.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah. April, baby. Let's go. Thank you for joining us.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Thank you, Greg. Story number two. Horizon Zero Dawn film has been confirmed.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Ring the bells. Sony has announced a new movie adaptation of Horizon Zero Dawn. The collaboration between PlayStation Studios and Columbia Pictures was announced during Sony's CES 2025 press conference. Columbia Pictures produced the successful 2022 Uncharted movie.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Speaking on stage at CES, the head of PlayStation Productions said that Columbia Pictures and PlayStation Productions are at the early stages of developing a film adaptation of the award-winning Horizon Zero Dawn. Just imagine, Aloy's beloved origin story set in a vibrant far-future world filled with the giant machines brought to you for the first time on the big screen.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
This makes a lot more sense than a TV show.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I think it'll work obviously you can't adapt every single story beat but I think that you can montage a couple things and get through where you need to get for the main beats like Horizon does have such an interesting world and it's so visually pretty and cool and like I mean call it whatever you want there's nothing fucking cooler than robot dinosaurs 1000% and a main character whose main weapon is bow and arrows like in like techie bow and arrows they can switch out with different elements and like she's basically I mean in a movie she can be basically Hawkeye
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
right like but way like yeah i think that there's uh there's a lot a lot that can hit there so yeah this i think is good news overall um for because i was pretty worried about the the tv show for horizon uh whereas like last of us on hbo with the cast that it has with the creators behind it and all that i'm like all right cool i have full faith in this horizon on amazon it was like i don't know things started falling was it netflix either way started falling apart yeah i think
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
God of War was Amazon. So we'll see when that gets turned into a movie. I think it will.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah. Because that makes so much sense as well. God of War as a movie like trilogy.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I hate that shit. Like I hate that auto battle is a thing. Either do or don't. You know what I mean? I feel you. If you're going to let me auto battle against a computer to get these stupid ass fucking cards and make it this like tedious, just let the auto battle just like let me know the results. Dude, honestly.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Oh, my God, everybody. Jay Miranda says, who's your fan casting for Kratos?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Michael Cera.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Story number three.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
No, I mean, I love that you're just in the WWE world.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah, I mean, well, because it makes sense because they're larger than life in Kratos' eyes. No, I mean, I feel like. Or Christopher Judge. That's my problem. Christopher Judge, the voice is just so, like, that's what I want from Kratos, period. So it's like, yeah, just give it to him. Yeah. Fair enough. Also, he's dope as hell. Story number three, Sony announces Helldivers 2 film in production.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
This comes from Wesley Ian Poole at IGN. Sony smash hit PlayStation Studios video game Helldivers 2 is being adapted into a film. The Helldivers 2 movie is a collaboration between Sony Productions and Sony Pictures. No other details were offered.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Speaking on stage at CES, the head of PlayStation Productions said, looking ahead as to what might come next, I'm excited to announce we're working with Sony Pictures on developing a film adaptation of our amazingly popular PlayStation game, Helldivers 2.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
And I think they're going to do it well. And what's just wild about this is it was a year ago that this game came out. Yep. And wowed the world. Not even. And here we are getting a movie announced and it's like an exciting thing. I feel like they're going to pull this off. It does remind me though. Well, let's get the story number. Do you have anything more to say about this?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Well, I have two things.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah, fast forward. Fast forward. Like, give me something. That's a really good point. What are we gaining here? You know? That's a really good point. Give me the option to slow it down and see what they're doing, I guess. Because the sucky thing is I can't even turn my screen off. I know.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Dude, that is... I'm going to call Gary Whitta. I'm going to call him now. And I just want to see what he... What do you have to say? Let's do it. I don't want to put pressure on him anyway because, you know, work stuff gets in the way. Also, Demon Hacker in the chat was saying, like, why is Tim acting like there wasn't a Helldivers 1? Y'all acted like there wasn't a Helldivers 1.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Sure. I'm calling him now.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Gary Witta, you're live on Kind of Funny Games Daily. How are you?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I love Gary so much.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Hey, Gary, you're live on Kind of Funny Games Daily. How are you? I'm good. What's going on? I don't know if you saw the news, but Sony has announced a Helldivers 2 movie is in production. I did see that, yes. What are your thoughts on this? I'm not really in a position to talk about it. Love that. I love that. Love to hear that. I appreciate that.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Me and Bless, we're rooting for you in any way possible. I wanted to see your thoughts on it as an idea, but hey, you know what? Say no more, fam.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Bye. No, what?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Oh, wait. I'll call him back, Kevin. I'll call him back.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I'm calling him back.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Sorry. Kevin wants to know if you want to get Wongs for lunch. I can't today. I have a dental appointment. Okay.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Bye, Gary. What a nice man. I fucking love him. If this happens, can you imagine?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I hope he gets it. Oh, man. I hope this all works out. Story number four. Ghost of Tsushima anime coming exclusively to Crunchyroll in 2027. This one, again, comes from Wesley and Pool at IGN. A Ghost of Tsushima anime is in the works and set to launch exclusively on the Sony-owned Crunchyroll in 2027. We've been talking a lot about this with all of the... I forget the name of it. Kuro...
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Kuriyama?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Katakawa, thank you very much. How, you know, there's this big, like, anime push of, like, who's gonna own all of the anime, and Sony's really making some moves here. But anyway, they own Crunchyroll. The new series, the first anime adaptation of a PlayStation Studios game, is not only based generally on Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima, but specifically...
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Blessings fan favorite, Legends co-op multiplayer portion. It's produced in collaboration with Aniplex, the studio behind the likes of Demon Slayer, Komitsu no Yaba, Solo Leveling, and Sword Art Online. And it's directed by Takanobu Mizuno with Jen Urobuchi, Nitro Plus, on story composition and animation by Kamikaze Duga.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Sony Music will serve as the strategic music and soundtrack partner for the series. The Ghost of Tsushima anime will offer fans an exciting new way to experience the game in an anime style that will be bold and groundbreaking, said the president of Crunchyroll. Bless. You love Legends.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
My biggest problem with the game is how long some of this stuff takes and like how many promo cards they put out that are like behind this thing of just luck of, Hey, you got to do this dumb computer battle 50 freaking times, hopefully getting the card. And every day you can only do five of the battles. And it's just like, it's so tedious.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah, it seems like they have the right tone, the right team. So I feel like they could pull this off. I feel like so far they've been doing a pretty good job of putting these things out. One of the things I wanted to bring up that I don't remember if we actually talked about post-Game Awards, but I'm shocked that we didn't get a Twisted Metal Season 2 announcement at Game Awards.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
That was one of my lock predictions. And I remember I had the whole...
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
conspiracy theory board trying to link back to anthony backy's instagram uh but yeah so i i wonder when that's going to come but that did very well for them so i'm if that could do well i feel like this with this team like they can cook they can get something going here ghost of yotei is this year yeah obviously you've only have we've only had one trailer so we don't know much about it i have to assume that ghost of tsushima legends probably wouldn't launch with yotei or ghost of yotei legends whatever they call it but
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Totally. The chat's asking about Twisted Metal 2 and Anthony Mackie. He announced that Season 2 was happening at the last Game Awards, but we're at the time now where the show's done. Production is done, so we're just waiting for the release date. I expected we were going to get either a clip with the release date or something like that.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
And once I miss one of them or two of them, I'm like, well, I'm never going to have the full collection. So it means less to me, but yeah. I gotta catch them all, Wes.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
season two is done yeah oh i didn't know that i mean i went through it all on the predictions episode but don't worry about it you know what i mean but no i imagine that show was coming very very very soon so um it's just interesting we don't know yet um story number five call of duty's massive development budgets revealed it costs 700 million dollars for black ops cold war this comes from steven totillo at game file
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
The budgets for big video games are among the most closely guarded secrets in the gaming industry. So it's surprising that late last month, an Activision executive spelled out the development costs for three of the games in the company's best-selling Call of Duty franchise.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
In a court filing reviewed by GameFile that has not been previously reported, Patrick Kelly, Activision's current head of creative on the Call of Duty franchise, said that three Call of Duty games released between 2015 and 2020 cost between $450 and $700 million to make.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
The disclosed totals are the highest development cost ever reported by a major video game company and top just about any that have ever leaked or been estimated by analysts. By comparison, a poorly redacted court filing in 2023 from Sony pegged the development cost of the company's marquee 2020 game Last of Us 2 at around $220 million. That number was considered huge when it leaked.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Here are the Call of Duty development costs from Kelly's filing, which GameFile has reviewed. Black Ops 3 from 2015. Treyarch developed the game over three years with a creative team of hundreds of people and invested over $450 million in development costs over the game's life cycle. Kelly also discloses it sold 43 million copies. Modern Warfare 2019.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Infinity Ward developed the game over several years and has spent over $640 million in development costs throughout the game's life cycle. 41 million copies sold. Black Ops Cold War 2020. Treyarch and Raven Software took years to create the game with a team of hundreds of creatives. They ultimately spent over $700 million in development costs over the game's life cycle. 30 million copies sold.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
That is not good. The above breakdown is based on a declaration from Kelly filed to a court in California on December 23rd. It's part of Activision's response to a lawsuit filed against the company last May regarding the 2022 school shooting at Rob Elementary in Texas.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
The suit, which filed in May 2024, partially blames the massacre on Meta's Instagram and Activision's Call of Duty, saying the company's platforms and content influenced a teenager to commit the mass shooting that killed 19 students and two adults. The three games for which Kelly cites budgets are among those that the survivors say the school shooter avidly played.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Kelly's declaration addresses some details of the lawsuit, but isn't explicitly a response. It functions as an explanation of what Call of Duty is and how it operates so that Activision's lawyers can reference it. Last May, Activision expressed sympathy for the survivors, but denied any connection between gaming and gun violence.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Game File will have more on the state of that lawsuit in an upcoming article. Kelly's budget figures for Call of Duty are extraordinary, but they should be considered with some perspective and some caveats, given how numbers like this tend to make it into the public view.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
It does not include marketing costs.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
god damn then that then i'm just utterly like i've that fucking blows me away if that's the case then yeah and i mean you know we gotta take it into the modern time so what's that mean for uh call of duty modern warfare 4 that just came out is that the one that just came out modern warfare 4 no i don't know wait what was the black ops six yes i was like i don't think that's close
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah, but Kev's asking what's up with this. What are they getting from us here?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I just remember the logo just being, something was weird about it and it was the six thing. It was no games ever had six in the title. But I just remember back when they had the four and it was like the four lines instead of the IV. It's like what the fuck are we doing here? So yeah, in my head about stupid decisions. But thinking about what would that game have cost?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I mean, a lot of money, right? Because I mean, you got to imagine somewhere between conservatively 400 and 700 million dollars. And then now there's the game pass of it all. So you're not even necessarily getting all the sales. Have we gotten sales yet on Call of Duty? Oh, I don't know. I don't. We should look into this. I want to know because like that's we need to know.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Because, yeah, that number is, I mean, well, it's wild because... See, that was Black Ops 4.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
But, like, yeah, 41 million sold versus 30 million sold, like... Yikes. I mean... It's crazy. Again, yesterday we were talking a lot about Grand Theft Auto and the $3 billion that it's potentially going to make in a year. I saw someone in the chat, and I don't know if this is confirmed, but Grand Theft Auto 5 saying that it cost $150 million to make. Grand Theft Auto 5?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Different time, whatever, but obviously, is it that different of a time? With 2015, two years after GTA 5 came out, Black Ops 3 cost $450 million? Yeah. Three times as much as Grand Theft Auto V?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Corey Cudney says he just reread the article. It doesn't actually say anything about whether or not it includes marketing.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I'm joined today by Blessing Adeoye Jr.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I mean, whatever, either way, even if there is like some, I don't know if it'd be artificial, but like if there's any way you can rationalize putting this number in a legal document like this, it's like there's some reality to it. Yeah. That's crazy.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Video game. Story number six. Black PlayStation Portal, DualSense Edge, and Pulse accessories are announced. Hell yeah. This comes from Tom Ivan at VGC. Sony's announced a new Midnight Black line. Launching next month, it includes the Portal, DualSense Edge, Pulse Elite, Wireless Headphones, and Pulse Explorer. Wireless earbuds.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
It'll be released on February 20th, 2025, with pre-orders starting January 16th at 10 a.m. Eastern. What's this do for you? work of art. I mean, like, I have my look, so, like, I feel like they personally nailed it for me with just the white and black normal DualSense, but I'm so happy this exists, because it looks very nice.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
But Kevin, isn't that just everything we love? Like you, it's great, except when it doesn't work. Google Home, it's great, except when it doesn't work.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
When it works. When it works.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
It's infuriating. Infuriating blast that the portal can't just have Bluetooth. It's crazy.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
It should be both options. Give me both fucking options. You heathens. I love the black though, but it's so sexy. Oh my God. It's sexy. The dual sense, normal midnight black that I think Greg has on his desk. I look at all this. I'm like, damn, that thing is nice. And now offering an edge. I feel like that's just perfect.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Like this is how I like, I like a Sony that is willing to just like put out these collections and just be like, Hey, we know you want it in all the accessories. And I continue to think it's an important thing to bring up. The Portal being focused on this much. Yeah. They are releasing it in a new colorway.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
That shows this thing is selling, not just in white, not just in PlayStation 40th Anniversary Edition, 30th Anniversary Edition, 30th Anniversary Edition. But also, here's black. That's good news for the success of the Portal.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah, man. Everything should look like a PlayStation 2. New Virtua Fighter project. It's a pre-development concept video. You see this shit, Bless?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yes. This comes from Sal Romano at Gamatsu. Publisher Sega and developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have released a 35-second pre-development concept video of its new Virtua Fighter project announced at Game Awards 2024. The video is noted as in-engine footage created before development began and not actual gameplay. actual gameplay and characters may differ from what's shown.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
And by that, I mean, yeah, of course.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Look at how fluid the animations are of this fight.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
How you doing, Bless?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Uh, we news for you from IGN. Sony has revealed its movie adaptation of beloved PlayStation horror game until dawn will feature a new story and cast of characters separate from the original games. I feel like that's probably the right move.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
New story.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I wonder if it's going to be like in the universe of, or if it's just going to be, Hey, here's just like a separate alternate take. And so it can take parts of the story and like, or like vibes of it.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I feel like that's probably the best move.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
It was a four-star Charizard, though.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
That has to happen. New Game Pass games for January have been announced on Game Pass Standard. You get Lightyear Frontier, My Time at Sandrock, Robin Hood, Sherwood Builders and Rolling Hills. Listen. Those are four sets of words. You're not looking forward to Game of the Year, Robin Hood, Sherwood Builders? Surely you're going to say My Time at Sandrock.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Cool. For Game Pass Ultimate, you get UFC 5 and Diablo on PC on January 14th. From Eurogamer, Suicide Squad killed the Justice League developer Rocksteady, has quietly suffered another round of layoffs, this time just before the end of 2024. Hate to see it.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
From Bloomberg via Noble, we got former Annapurna Interactive staff who resigned last year are taking over Private Division's portfolio, including Tales of the Shire, the upcoming Game Freak Game, Project Bloom, and Kerbal Space Program series. From Eurogamer via Noble, Citizen Sleeper creator Damian Martin has said that Citizen Sleeper 2 will be the last game in the series.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
He'll be focusing on a Citizen Sleeper tabletop game after Citizen Sleeper 2's launch later this month. And then from NVIDIA, we'll talk more about this tomorrow on the Gamescast. I'm very excited. Gamers will soon be able to play titles from their Steam library at GeForce RTX quality with the launch of a native GeForce Now app on the Steam Deck. Bless. Yeah. We're talking 4K60 HDR with RTX.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
That's it.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
They spoke English back then, right? Oh, my God, everybody. Let's look at some super chats. CJ Splits on says, Tim, when do you think Resident Evil 9 will be revealed this year?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
That's a great question. That's only seven generations. I don't know. I think it'll be during a state of play or a PlayStation showcase of some sort, whether it's a showcase or a state of play. That's where I think Resident Evil 9 will be revealed.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Garrett says, Tim, love the new look. Looking forward to any NASCAR races or future Joe Rogan episodes. Glad to see everyone doing well after the weekend. Much love to see. Much love to everyone at Kind of Funny. God, it's hard to read right now. Honestly, Bless, I just laughed so hard at that that I looked up and I looked into the light. Now I have that staring into the sun thing.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I wouldn't have known either. I wouldn't have known, dude.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I don't like that at all. We got... A brown spot says day one of asking for creatures commandos in review. The DCU has started. Why won't Tim respect it? I'm going to be completely honest with you. And this happened on content to some extent. I wanted to do that. And Greg said, no. So I was like, are you sure? He's like, no, no, no. It starts with Superman.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I know it starts with this, but it starts with Superman. I'm like, okay. And so I made a bunch of plans that did not include it. Hmm. And now we have a full fucking calendar because somebody's like, oh, we got to do Alien in review, which I think starts next week and I'm very excited about. But anyway, I just want to let you know, this isn't on me. This isn't on me.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
The estimated birth of Christ?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
You asked me what planet Gamora was sacrificed on, and I got you.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Let's see. We got... Street Shadow says Sony's going all in on Horizon because it sells really well. Back in April 2023, it had sold near $25 million, and Forbidden West sold $8 million. Oh, yeah. Dude. Huge. Huge selling thing. And also, yeah, there's just so much there. Like, the LEGO sets... Like, they made LEGO sets out of this, and it sells.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Like, it's not the highest selling thing ever, but it's like they've got something with Horizon.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
You can watch the shows, which is really, really cool because you get to see this whole studio. You get to see the gym. You get to see the smoke machines when they go off. It's a great time. You get to see the B-roll. That's probably the most important part. But great stuff all around. And that beautiful face. Look at that. Look at it. There you go. All of that together.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
So that's very exciting here. Uh, new Mateo says the good rule of thumb for the real cost of the games. You take the development costs and double it for marketing. So 7 million would be 1.5 billion. Um, that danger debt danger. Daddy D says missed most of the 12 hours stream due to work. Just want to say congrats on 10 years and love you all. You genuinely make my days better. Here's to 10 more.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Thank you. Thank you so much. Uh, prof plays game says, who the fuck is J Cole?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Just look for J. Cole. And honestly, just listen. Yeah, just listen. Just listen, man.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
ChocolateFox9 says, first off, congrats on 10 years. Glad y'all are back. Y'all are a huge part of my drives to and from work, plus my gaming grind. So thank you for the daily games, Cass, and all you do. Thank you for listening to us. We really, really appreciate it. I'm loving all the love over the last couple days. How nice has it been, right?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Such a nice swell. I was talking to Gia last night, and she's like, how are you doing? I'm like, dude, I'm on cloud fucking nine. Things are just good right now. I love that. Aaron Lime says reactions to Chris Dring doing a Q&A on install base and saying Game Pass cuts in the game sales by about 80% on average. Very interested to look into that because I am not surprised.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
And these are numbers that we should know. Yeah. I want to look into that. Holy shit. Here we go. This isn't a super chat, but I have to ask. Okay. Because I don't fucking know. Hella drove says someone asked blessing what am and PM stands for.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Morning. I don't know. I don't know. Nobody fucking knows. Kevin, you don't know that.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
We're so fucked, man. Not because we don't know this shit, but because people were stupid when they came up with it.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Look at the gym and the wall and the face.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
The Call of Duder says Black Ops Cold War was developed during COVID and had a studio shakeup. It was initially being developed by Sledgehammer, but they got booted off of it and Treyarch had to come in and help Raven play it into development. That stuff could have inflated the budget a bit.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah. and then Kabob says on Tsushima Legends blessings correct except for it being told years later you can find the storyteller throughout the single player game Iki Island also has a side quest you complete by having Jin hear the end of the storyteller's tale i.e.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Hold on. We got a couple more Super Jets I want to get to real quick. Luke Aggie says, Bless, you're talking about the Mongolian Empire in the 1200s. I have a one-to-one experience that proves you can charm someone by telling them all about the Mongolian Empire midterm you just aced.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I wish they would just integrate my Pokemon Go experience into my map experience. You know what I mean?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yep. Nvidia GeForce. And then DJ Kento writes in and saying, speaking of AI podcast, did anyone at Kind of Funny listen to their Spotify wrapped AI podcast? That was terrifying. The pauses, the breaths, ums and ahs to pause. Terrifyingly real. I didn't.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
But was it us?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah, that's what they're saying. It's like for the podcast rap.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
That's weird.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I wasn't listening. Everybody, that's been kind of funny games daily. Thanks for hanging out with us. We're about to do an amazing games cast with Roger predicting things and us judging him. It's going to be so much fun. That's why I feel history, Kevin. Until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I don't know that we will.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Do no harm.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
We're not far from an AI just being able to sit here. I'll be talking to them. I wouldn't know the difference. You would not know the difference.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Very scary. We're cool. Kind of cool in some ways. More scary. More scary. We're an 11-person business all about live talk shows. Today, after Games Daily, you'll get Gamescast, which is going to be a very fun one, everybody.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
This is an episode that has evolved a little bit, but what it is now, and you'll have to watch it to see the shenanigans that ensue, Roger Pokorny has predicted one prediction for every month of 2025, and he's going to let us know what they are, and we are going to judge him.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Every month. He's the one.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
He's been talking to John Google. He's been talking to John Google. Yeah, so he has a bunch of video game predictions for every month of 2025. We are going to judge him and decide whether we think that he is on or off. The stream after that will be an exclusive. Freedom Wars Remastered. Greg and Mike jumping back into the war.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
We have eight stories today.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
We're starting with a big one. Yesterday, today, tomorrow, the next couple days, CES is happening. But last night, Sony had one of their presentations. They talked about a whole bunch of shit that we're going to get to in today's show. We're also going to do a Gamescast episode tomorrow talking about a bunch of gaming stuff going down at CES. And that's going to be me and Andy.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Going to be a good time. But Sony yesterday showed the first trailer. Or the first substantial trailer.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I guess so. Yeah. I believe so. You know what? We've seen quite a bit, actually. Yeah. It wasn't a full-ass trailer, but we got like a 30-second... I think technically they called it a teaser. Okay, okay. Well, are they calling this a trailer? Yes. Okay, here we... No, they're not. Well, I guess, yeah, it's just called Last of Us Season 2. It's just a thing. Well, whatever.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I'm calling it a trailer. There's footage of Last of Us 2. We have not seen this. We waited to watch with you. It's a minute and eight seconds. So, okay. Okay. I'll call it a teaser. We'll call it a teaser trailer. Well, let's get teased.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Greg Miller's coming in.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
You want to react with this, Greg? Yes, he does. Yes, he does. What mic does he have?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
There's a grogginess that I'm feeling that I haven't had for the last couple... I've been good. I've been fresh. I feel like I... Because I've been working on my big editing project for the wedding, that means that there's been many nights over the last week and a half that I've been staying up. That and also all the kind of funny day stuff. I was up until like 3, 4 a.m. most nights.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I'm very teased. Now, we're about to get a, hopefully, potential, fingers crossed, banger couple months. March, Daredevil Born Again. April and or season two. And then this as well. That's crazy.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
There's that. That's two years. It's always weird watching this. Obviously, this is going to be great. But like this type of teaser trailer is one of my least favorite words. Here's just a bunch of stuff.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Yeah. So I feel like here's what we're going to do here. Kev, before you even bring that up, is there do you have the spoilers, bro?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
image that we can use uh you want it on this screen right yes all right give me one second let me look for it see if we have it so we'll talk about this non-spoiler for a little bit and then we'll get into spoilers because i feel like this is very difficult to talk it's difficult to talk about this game without i mean i even know last two spoilers this whole thing i was gonna go you know yeah there's somebody here who's just watching for the first time exactly i love last of us season two they put out that's great they come like oh my god that short guy in the middle so funny
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
We're going spoilers here, everybody. Yes, let's go spoilers now. Do you guys have anything to say spoiler free?
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
Oh, my God. Okay, we're going into spoilers here, everybody.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
It's going to be a good time. Can't wait. Yeah.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
And then I would wake up later than I've been waking up. Because yeah, these days I'm waking up 6.30, 7, something like that. But I was waking up like... If I could, 10.30, fuck it. I'm getting out of bed, baby. I'm going to lay in that thing as long as I can.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I mean, I imagine that that's a flashback to...
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I like that a lot. So what's really cool to me about this is, like Bless was saying, you can look at it and you can really pinpoint all the different scenes. She's about to fight her dead dad. I loved Last of Us 1, the show, and I know some people a little bit more. It was exactly the same.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I thought they did a great job with it. I thought it was absolutely fucking phenomenal. But what I'm excited about is Last of Us 2. I'm a lot less familiar with it. I played it through it once. Whereas Last of Us 1, I feel like we've played through multiple times. Then we saw the show. I feel like the whole story and the bits and even a lot with the Seraphites and stuff, I'm a little hazier on.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
So I'm excited to kind of be reminded and see what changes they make. But looking at this teaser, very much a teaser, it does immediately, especially with where they start here, make me think, What is this season going to be? Because we know that they're going to break down into break the game into multiple seasons here.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
And I wonder with the whole points and crux of the game being that turning point of the reveal of, hey, this person you've been going after the entire time. that we should actually have some empathy for her and give her her perspective.
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The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.07.25
I feel like that doesn't necessarily work in TV show form, especially for general audiences that are watching this on HBO for when you're not going to be able to just continue it right away, like having that season break that I imagine at best is next year, but I think that that is incredibly lofty. Like, I wonder... I wonder what sequence they're going to tell the story in.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
$80?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm so sorry.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
There we go.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Bye.
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Fable Has Been Delayed to 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.25.25
Paris' entire fantasy critic we're talking about right now.
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Fable Has Been Delayed to 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.25.25
Oh, you're saying in America.
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Fable Has Been Delayed to 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.25.25
No, babe.
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Fable Has Been Delayed to 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.25.25
Yeah, exactly.
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Fable Has Been Delayed to 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.25.25
This is why Greg Miller should be here. Dr. Freeze. Er sieht aus wie ein Doktor!
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Fable Has Been Delayed to 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.25.25
Something tells me that Kevin's pressing a button right now and it's not turning off the music.
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Fable Has Been Delayed to 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.25.25
Oh, there we go. That feels good.
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Fable Has Been Delayed to 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.25.25
I thought it was a Y.
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Fable Has Been Delayed to 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.25.25
That's sexy erotius.
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Fable Has Been Delayed to 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.25.25
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
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Fable Has Been Delayed to 2026 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.25.25
I was like, okay, well, now I got to say something.
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PlayStation Forms New First-Party Studio - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.18.25
Greg, if you let me take that box home, I'll fit it with lights, some weight so it doesn't flip over like that. Maybe a smoke thing. Kevin, you got my permission. Oh, great.
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PlayStation Forms New First-Party Studio - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.18.25
There's so many buttons, guys.
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PlayStation Forms New First-Party Studio - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.18.25
It is nice TV.
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Xbox Won't Have Exclusives Going Forward? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.17.24
Yeah.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
Like, I don't think this is just a... They definitely added rocks, too, in the left side.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
Yeah.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
You could.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
Throw a banana in there.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
That's your thing.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
I was going to ask, are you writing off as much as you can with game-related stuff for the Twitch thing? No. If you have any PlayStation subscription. Because I usually get stuff through here. Yeah, no, I know. But if you bought a new computer, write that shit off.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
It is a breakfast burrito. Hash browns, egg, sausage.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
Happy Donuts.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
They do a lot. They got a big old menu.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
Unless you have like Bless does the Twitch streaming, which is like a side business thing.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
sure sure sure sure but i think i even i was even talking when i was then maybe but i don't make enough money like i don't make enough money to be writing stuff off off of the twitch streaming thing is the thing right like your business could be losing money and that might be like and that's the thing i'm saying no but i'm saying if it's losing money you can write off a lot of stuff oh i see but i'm not buying that's the thing is i'm not there's not really anything i buy a gym membership you know and then write it off be like it's got to stay fit for the for the twitch streams
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
It was a crazy-ass Games Daily the other day. Why are you guys so out of focus? I don't understand.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
He's looking through cloudy blood.
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
Five items on the Roper Report! A baker's dozen! Yay! Kevin, why sad, Kev? Kevin, why sad?
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Report: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Releases Next Week - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.15.25
No, I'm not done yet. No, I just thought, too much excitement, you know, I gotta bring it down. How much of the burrito have you eaten? Like 90% of it.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Do you think we get to fly a spaceship at any point?
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Do we dogfight?
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Wait, that'd be really good. Just talk to me about that beforehand. I can have that set up. Four screens.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Four people playing at the same time.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
It's great.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
He just doesn't feel pain. His body deteriorates as it goes.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Oh, God, it's bad. It's bad, Greg. But don't worry, it'll get better eventually. Just let's wait four years from now.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Ned was so good, too, every time he was on.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
I have absolutely no memory of this.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Do you have any answers?
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Yeah, we might be busy.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Where you can build everything, you know?
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Brick by brick, Tim. Brick by brick, Tim.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Tell him.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Yeah, but I was just saying it in a fun way.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Tai Chi.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
He did. He went and bought one afterwards.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
It was only because I was so aggressive the entire time. Sure, I can imagine. Tim, it was such a douchey move. Such a douchey move.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
In fact, I thought about throwing my shoe at him multiple times. And if there weren't company policies against violence.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
By God, I would have hit him with the shoe.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
You've got to know when to pull up.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Oh, my God. There were a couple of moments. We've got two badges. We're working on a third. Everyone's like, oh, three's scary. So we're scared.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
I mean, I think we're ready. The thing is, we just got a machoke? Machop. Machop. We got a machop, and we're grinding him a little bit.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
But I think we're going to get here. I think we got there. I think we're getting there.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Did anyone watch the movie Heretic?
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
Was it good? I...
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
It's on Amazon or something now.
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Naughty Dog Reveals New Intergalactic Details! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.11.25
No, I mean, I am too, but now it's exciting that it's free.
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The Last of Us Season 2 Reviews Are In! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.08.25
You all got Nintendo up there. Fucking Moosa. We're all part of the problem. We're all part of the problem here. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. No. Let's fucking go. Kevin, is this real? Let's fucking go. Oh, my God, it's real. It's real. Y'all are hilarious up there. Oh, man. Literally, it's the logo.
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The Last of Us Season 2 Reviews Are In! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.08.25
When did he start putting the banana guy on the wall? I love this. That's good. That's really good.
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The Last of Us Season 2 Reviews Are In! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.08.25
It's so wet. It's so wet. I spit water everywhere.
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The Last of Us Season 2 Reviews Are In! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.08.25
$600?
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The Last of Us Season 2 Reviews Are In! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.08.25
What do you want me to say? That ain't Mario. Also, I just spent 30 minutes bitching about how I think this is stupid and Nintendo shouldn't do it.
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The Last of Us Season 2 Reviews Are In! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.08.25
Yeah.
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The Last of Us Season 2 Reviews Are In! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.08.25
What if Mario's the final boss of this game?
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The Last of Us Season 2 Reviews Are In! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.08.25
God dang, dude.
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The Last of Us Season 2 Reviews Are In! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.08.25
What's up with you right now?
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
Yeah.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
Why did we change? We pressed the wrong button. Because you said red light. Oh. That would be fun. This guy.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
100%.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
Oh, shit.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
Yep.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
Would it be like that Pear app that they always... I was going to say Social Club. Click Clack is kind of good.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
He takes a step, I take a step. What about when he's on a motorcycle?
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
Well, you get shark cards or whatever it is.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
What the fuck?
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
Roger, if I order a stopwatch, will you maintain it? Sure. Every time he's walking? No, you're not going to. I can tell. Yeah.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
My other question, which I'd like an answer for, I know you didn't answer, is when, like, if he gets a motorcycle... What are you doing? We'll still walk. No, no, we'll still walk. Okay.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
Mike, I think 10 hours or 22 hours. 10 or 20. That's a wide margin. It is. But if he makes it past 10, he's making it to 22. I like that.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
We're going to plug this thing. Sorry, man. Another question for Roger is do you have any of the lubricant that you're supposed to use? Whoa.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
Bring it, because there's a chance it's going to dry out completely. That's a great call. Because it's not made to go that long, right? That's a great call. At the very least, you can lube it up and keep it going. What are we talking about here? What are we talking about?
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
But we can also ask him for his lube just in case, too.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
Hi, Jason. Hi, Jason.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
Hey.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
Ring the bells. Yes, baby.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Live Reactions - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.06.25
You and me, bro.
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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 Reaction - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.04.25
Greg, we did sit with him and tell him we would like him to be your replacement. If I'm being totally honest with you.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Isn't it funny how the people we love the most are often the hardest to shop for? Luckily, there's one gift that everyone on your list is sure to enjoy. An Aura Digital Picture Frame. Aura Frames make it incredibly easy to share unlimited photos and videos directly from your phone to the frame.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
When you give an Aura Frame as a gift, you can personalize it and preload it with a thoughtful message and photos using the Aura App. making it an ideal present for long-distance loved ones. I have one at my desk, I sent one to my mom, and I'm sending this bad boy to my dad for Christmas.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Seriously, uploading photos via the app is so easy and such a nice way to share Ben's childhood with my parents, even though we're in San Francisco and they're in Chicago. Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Oh, there's a circle in there. You get a globe. I don't know, the eyes ain't as good as they used to be. You get the jumbo steelbook display case, the great circle globe with hidden storage, the all-maker relic replica with the digital game code on it. A new adventure journal, I call that.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Oh, es war kein größeres Steelbook, es war ein dickes Steelbook.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Okay, hier geht's.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Wie kannst du das machen? Hier ist dieses Ding. Ich weiß nicht, was das ist. Hier ist dieses Stück Braille.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Es öffnet sich! Das Glöckchen öffnet sich!
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Es öffnet sich. Es hat eine Hinge.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Es ist ein Unboxing von Greg Miller.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Es ist das Flugzeug, also kannst du es so machen wie in dem Ding.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Wie weiß ich, wie ich es auflatschen kann?
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
It says, for your next adventure. For Marion. Just blank pages.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Sometimes they would do that thing where they branded all Indiana Jones. I'm glad it's there. I'm keeping that.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Okay.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Du weißt, für den Rekord, alle, Entschuldigung. Ja, es sagt, erstens, öffne deinen Globen. Ja, es sagte nicht, rippe es apart.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Step number two to access the globe's hidden storage, attach the plane magnet to the correct point of interest and trigger the opening mechanism. Well, what can I say, everybody? I've watched a million Indiana Jones, I've played the Uncharted thing, and I'm just like, why wouldn't you just tear the shit open? And that's what I did. Nice try. Great circle. You couldn't stop Greg Miller.
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From Software Currently Isn’t Considering Elden Ring 2 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.03.24
Now we got an Audrey, too. Hello, Seymour. I love that.
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We Played Assassin’s Creed Shadows (Our Impressions) - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.23.25
Well, that's not right.
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We Played Assassin’s Creed Shadows (Our Impressions) - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.23.25
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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We Played Assassin’s Creed Shadows (Our Impressions) - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.23.25
100%.
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We Played Assassin’s Creed Shadows (Our Impressions) - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.23.25
That doesn't work from this angle.
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
Thank you.
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
No, the turtles are using guns.
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
So, I purposely delayed it just half a second because I think it's funny to be off. Didn't expect it to not be working.
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
Andy, do you want to go grab one of the wireless mics?
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
Is the theater good or not, Nick?
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
Literally anyone else. We were here. I was here. You could have asked me. I would have been like, no, it's a shit theater. It's small.
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
I yelled it does.
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
Well, I had to yell because I was on the other side of the room. If I talked. I hate you so much. What?
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
As a punishment, does she also have to power the vacuum? As in like, there's a hose that she's like...
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
The coffee she has to put her hand and press it down.
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
I'm a little embarrassed with myself. Kevin, what do you got? I mean, you guys, you didn't think that they had, like, it was a bunny because they're moved. You know, they run around a lot. So I think it was, like, one of those things where it's a track inside, and they move, and that powers them up. Fair enough. That's what I always assume.
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
You know what I mean? But Greg, that's why I was saying you make her the vacuum. It's not going to be a strong vacuum, but she's going to suffer. You know what I mean? The coffee maker, she has to press down on the hot water.
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
Yeah, with the hot water.
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
That's the point. I'm not trying to punish. Why are you going to have to?
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
If you make it too comfortable, they're never going to leave.
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
Just so you know, when that does happen, it's never good for me, Tim. I gotta run over there, unplug it, and it just keeps going and going.
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Predicting Next Week’s Pokemon Presents! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.20.25
What's the name of this trailer that I'm looking for?
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Has Been Delayed AGAIN - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.09.25
I think he's just waiting for you to pause.
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Has Been Delayed AGAIN - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.09.25
We call that a teaser for the content. Go watch the stream yesterday. That's not what we said. No one said that. Let's all remember, bless poops naked. That's true.
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Has Been Delayed AGAIN - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.09.25
I shouldn't?
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Has Been Delayed AGAIN - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.09.25
You've been like, why is he so drunk? That's probably how you would met him.
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Has Been Delayed AGAIN - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.09.25
I mean, what do you want to treat yourself? He said when he's coming home sometimes. He starts taking his clothes off. Yeah, like up the stairs.
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Has Been Delayed AGAIN - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.09.25
Boo!
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
What?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Do it, dude.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Andy, before you go too deep into what you're saying, I want to just for a moment bring up the 13-month calendar again because I think this is my opportunity. God, it's such a low-res image.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
I don't know why it's so low-res.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
When I clicked, how nice that looks.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
It was great audio content. I had no idea you could do that. You could right-click it?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Really?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Whatever. It doesn't seem like it. You want one more month, Andy. We can do it if we just commit to the 13 month. It would still be the same amount of days, so we would be in the 13 month.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
So this is New Wave Toys. And they've sent me a bunch of them. And they're really cool. Oh, those are little tiny baby ones. Yeah, these are 1-6 scale. But they're awesome. Like, the quality is so... They're beautiful devices. Anyways, I just wanted to show them off. Because they're so cool and great.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
But it would feel better.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Did he get a discounted price?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Oh, this wasn't like he was just like, I went to Costco and I bought a bottle.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
I mean, he's making some solid points.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
The movie's disappointing.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Yeah, you know what I mean? In what way? Story?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Guys, the gears are grinding, all right? You know, it's weird to not work for two and a half months and then come back.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
I said, no, wait. Because I went early. It was seven. And I looked and I was like, no. Because usually I start the countdown. I start five when it actually says six. You know what I mean? Five. As I was saying five, it was seven. And I was like, oh, it's too early.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
And by the time I had corrected, we were at five.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
And we played the gorilla.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Wait, really?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
I think it's optional to do it, you know?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Wasn't this year's like... Holy shit! Jesus Christ. Wasn't this year's like six weeks?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Mike, are we golfing? I thought you booked it already. What are you afraid of?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Get over here, Mike.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
What was the big thing that he did in Fortnite?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Can you show me what the emote looks like?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Can we get a what? I said, should we get a talking stick?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
I miss him. Me too. I miss him a lot. I'm sorry. We didn't mean it.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
God, that was such an awful story. You've got to go back. That was such an awful story. I don't know if it's been clipped out, but Tim, it was just a terrible story.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Cool Greg has a connection to the Earth right now.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
He also looks wildly concerned. You good?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
You felt a lot there?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Fuck, that's scary.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
No, no, we're fine.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
But I mean, those first, like, 50 feet next to the beach, probably not great.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
100%.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
But it's not. Go to that.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. These things are insane. You think something that hangs on the wall is going to be cheap?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Suction power, Andy.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
What did it do?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Hmm.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
It got cancelled.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Good. It's just me and Barrett do things differently. Like I have a button where everything's automatic and he's got a button where it just plays the intro and I hit his button instead of my button.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
It means arch in Spanish.
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Andy, do you get their shape?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Can you send it to me?
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What's On Your Gaming Backlog? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.05.24
Oh, that's what you... Sorry.
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Xbox Consoles Raise Price, Games Move Up To $80 This Holiday - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.01.25
No, you want lucid dreams.
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Xbox Consoles Raise Price, Games Move Up To $80 This Holiday - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.01.25
Can you hear me now?
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Xbox Consoles Raise Price, Games Move Up To $80 This Holiday - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.01.25
The button is just not working.
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Xbox Consoles Raise Price, Games Move Up To $80 This Holiday - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.01.25
Thank you to our- Can I just say really quick, that was the mean blessing has ever- He was in a character that I- Yeah, I like it.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
1000%.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Yeah.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
100%.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Gary, can you move your mic over?
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Yeah, a little bit to your right. Further. A little further. Like there? A little further.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Yeah.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Oh, because I'm doing this. Look at that.
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Spider-Man 2 PC Problems, Bloodborne 60 FPS Takedown - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.31.25
Look at that.
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Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth’s REDEMPTION! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.21.25
Are you trying to kill us? Why are you doing this every week? Why are you doing this to us? Why are you looking at me? I assume it was you. You should not assume that.
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Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth’s REDEMPTION! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.21.25
This was Kevin? Kevin, are you trying to kill us? I don't do it every week.
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Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth’s REDEMPTION! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.21.25
But then if you do it every two weeks and then Andy does it every two weeks and we're giving it every week.
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Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth’s REDEMPTION! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.21.25
03.04.25.
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Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth’s REDEMPTION! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.21.25
Cool.
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Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth’s REDEMPTION! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.21.25
He's like,
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Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth’s REDEMPTION! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.21.25
Bigger than.
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Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth’s REDEMPTION! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.21.25
Five seconds. I'm going to be honest. We can't.
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Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth’s REDEMPTION! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.21.25
I mean, I can leave it on. It's just... No, it's fine. It's fine.
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Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth’s REDEMPTION! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 02.21.25
It's cool.
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Is Metaphor Refantazio The REAL Game of The Year? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.20.24
Okay.
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Is Metaphor Refantazio The REAL Game of The Year? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.20.24
Christ.
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Is Metaphor Refantazio The REAL Game of The Year? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.20.24
Okay. Well, I'm glad you like it. I'm glad you're having fun with it.
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Is Metaphor Refantazio The REAL Game of The Year? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.20.24
No way. They published Deathspank?
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Is Metaphor Refantazio The REAL Game of The Year? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.20.24
It should be on the graphic, too.
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Is Metaphor Refantazio The REAL Game of The Year? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.20.24
Because it's an adjective that's described. But people read it, they know. You know what I mean?
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Is Metaphor Refantazio The REAL Game of The Year? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.20.24
100%.
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Is Metaphor Refantazio The REAL Game of The Year? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.20.24
Mm-hmm.
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Is Metaphor Refantazio The REAL Game of The Year? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.20.24
Roger shit. Fuck.
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Is Metaphor Refantazio The REAL Game of The Year? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.20.24
2025.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
It said soccer and puzzles.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
Do you think there'll be a subscription service?
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
Yeah, exactly.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
I know. That's what they do up there. That's their word. That's their word. That's their word. But like if I say I'm a bad guy to him. Yeah, we can't take that. That's theirs. There's so many.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
Wait, did you actually ask him to do it?
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
After yesterday, he asked you like a million times to do it. Yeah, but I was busy. He said no.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
Man.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
So I can play soccer. That was the darkest I've ever seen. Plus, I'm like, well, he doesn't know how to say no.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
Yeah.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
100%.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
Yeah, but he doesn't respond to text. So you're going to have to ask him in person. Oh, I'm going to ask him in person.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
I'm trying to figure it out. I don't hear it in my headphones. Let me go to the other room and like, cause it could be the, is it YouTube or is it Twitch? Chad, let me know. Are you on YouTube and the issue with the mic? Mike is fine. Says Twitch. So maybe it's YouTube.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
Why?
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
No.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
No, he's making that up.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
That's super cool.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
Five stories today.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
I actually think it was like just the morning before that.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
I don't know. But like, I was really happy. And then I discovered blueprints.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
Wait, wait, wait. Where's the link? Because it's not on assets. On the top of the page.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
You're going to bring me into a meeting room and be like, hey, look, I know this is a fun place, but people are all talking about how much you're playing. You know what I mean?
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
I don't know. My first solo run felt pretty good.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
Sorry, yeah. Yeah, I didn't hear you.
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include DLC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.11.25
God, I remember I was like, hey, so have you seen any good cases for your portal? And you're like, what the fuck would you need to take it outside for?
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Indiana Jones and The Great Circle Gets Incredible Reviews - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.06.24
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Indiana Jones and The Great Circle Gets Incredible Reviews - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.06.24
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Indiana Jones and The Great Circle Gets Incredible Reviews - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.06.24
Tim, it was a really lit demo, actually. I encouraged you to check it out. One big battle sequence going from the front lines all the way through storming to the gates and then taking on Lu Bu. Pooh. I didn't know Lubu had it like that, but now I'm aware of it. I downloaded it. It just was taking too long to download to actually play, but I got it downloaded, so maybe this weekend.
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Indiana Jones and The Great Circle Gets Incredible Reviews - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.06.24
Tim, it's really fun because, like, you know me, I'm an old school, like, PS2 target demo Dynasty Warriors kid, and to see what they've done over the years, how big the battlefields are, how many people are on it, and then the kind of mix of combat. They're adding a little more souls-like parrying into this. There's a lot of combat going on, tagging in other people, doing their crazy moves.
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Indiana Jones and The Great Circle Gets Incredible Reviews - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.06.24
I had this lady with a hula hoop with a bunch of blades on the hula hoops. It was sick. Hell yeah, everybody.
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Indiana Jones and The Great Circle Gets Incredible Reviews - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.06.24
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Jack Smith Report Blocked & Congestion Toll Avoidance | Afternoon Update | 1.7.25
We don't have to shut TikTok down. It just has to change ownership to abide by American laws as deemed by the order of Congress.
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Jack Smith Report Blocked & Congestion Toll Avoidance | Afternoon Update | 1.7.25
This company is living in a dreamland thinking the Supreme Court of the United States is going to uphold spyware against its American people. Ain't going to happen. And then you've got this timing situation.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
Yeah, I experienced firsthand why they chose to move the ceremony indoors. It was absolutely frigid. I am still thawing out. I met folks from around the country, and world for that matter, who had come to D.C. to celebrate, and they certainly got their chance.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
The entire city felt like a giant Trump party, and because the ceremony was not on the National Mall, impromptu viewing parties formed all across the city all day long. When Trump gave his inaugural address after taking the oath of office, he struck an optimistic but defiant tone, saying the golden age of America was about to begin.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
Along with presenting that extremely optimistic view of the country's future under his administration, Trump also did not shy away from a key theme of his campaign, widespread government corruption. He vowed to immediately begin taking action to rip it out root and stem.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
And we should note that Trump supporters say the timing of that declaration could not be more appropriate, as the now former president, Joe Biden, issued a series of extremely controversial preemptive pardons in his literal final hour in office. Those included open-ended pardons for five members of his immediate family.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
Also among those pardons before any charges have been brought were Dr. Anthony Fauci, former U.S. Army General Mark Milley, and members of the J6 committee, including Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. There was a lot of blowback over those, but even more so over Biden's decision to pardon his own brother James and his wife, his sister Valerie and her husband, and his brother Francis.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
This all comes, of course, amid a number of allegations against the Bidens for corruption, as well as fears on the left that Trump will pursue charges.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
Right. A lot of anticipation about how he would handle the January 6 pardons. And Trump did not disappoint his base in his first moves on this. He announced to the crowd at the Capital One Arena that he was about to sign some of his initial pardons of what he called the J6 hostages and teased a lot more to come.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
As we reported, the Biden administration slapped over 1,400 people with charges and convicted more than 900. Trump has so far already signed pardons for all but a handful. He's commuted those final sentences and will do, quote, further research on them. So we'll be tracking how he handles those cases going forward. Right. And one final note before we go.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Age of America’ Begins | 1.21.25
Another memorable moment from the day came during the swearing in when the music in the venue malfunctioned right as Carrie Underwood was supposed to sing America the Beautiful. After a long, awkward moment of confusion, Underwood stepped up with a beautiful acapella rendition and the crowd joined in.
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Trump Tweaks Tariffs & Revives Iran Nuclear Talks | 4.15.25
Quite the partnership on display there. Kevin, thanks for reporting. Absolutely.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
The one which is profoundly the case and has been for the last two generations is a proper understanding of freedom. From the understanding of freedom that most Americans understood at our founding, they would say that freedom is the right to do what we ought. which confers a moral obligation to community, a moral obligation to other.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
In other words, not to be overly academic in this explanation, what it leads to is a civil society that is healthy, a civil society that has institutions like schools and professional associations, eventually media, obviously, all of which mitigate the differences that Americans have.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
What has happened, however, over the last two generations is a redefinition of freedom, which is unhealthy, which is the freedom to do whatever the heck we want. eliminating that and coming to refocus on freedom as what we ought to do gets us to aspire to something greater as Americans. And for some Americans who may not be overtly religious, that's simply the American dream, which is excellent.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
But for others of us who are explicitly religious and acknowledge and respect the religious pluralism in our country, it really does create a healthier country because ultimately what you're doing is minimizing the role of government, particularly in government doing things that we as individuals, as families, as communities should be doing instead.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
with a zealous, ironclad commitment to religious liberty as exemplified in the law. And let's just be really blunt here. The ideology that has run roughshod over religious liberty is the radical left. We don't have an example in modern American history of those of us on the political right attacking the religious liberty of anyone.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
In fact, the conservative justices on the Supreme Court have been just as zealous in protecting that of non-Christians as they are of Christians. So I have 100% confidence that that will continue to be the case for those of us who are politically conservative.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
But the second thing is, and in a lot of ways, it is the very thing that allows our lawmakers, our policymakers to keep this focus on religious liberty, that if we focus on living out whatever our religious tenets are, and not just in our individual lives, but very importantly, in our communities, that might be mass attendance for serious Catholics, it may be church attendance for people of other faith, that ultimately what's going to happen is that even people who don't go to church,
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
who would say, you know, I'm not explicitly religious benefit because the institutions in society allow us to air these differences. And ultimately, the pluralism that has been present in the United States since our founding will reflourish. And it's going to be something that benefits everyone in society and really helps to sustain freedoms and rights across the board.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
That's right, and there's an irony there, right? At the very least, a strong correlation between two things. One, the attack on religious liberty, which, for example, we saw under the Biden and Obama administrations, and the decline in religiosity of Americans, broadly defined. So in other words, to the very heart of your point,
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
If we either, because we are religious people, revitalize the practice of our beliefs, or if we're not religious, at least acknowledge that according to religious liberty and the pluralism of the country, that is the right of other Americans to do as they see fit. That actually is going to prevent the overreach of government in abrogating those religious liberty freedoms.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
Both in my career as a public policy leader and also as an American history professor, I've never encountered a more egregious misunderstanding about any important part of the United States than the separation of church and state.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
In fact, the whole reason for that, the long jurisprudence on this until the 20th century, the long custom, was that separation of church and state meant that you kept the state out of running the church's business.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
And what's happened, as we have seen the political ascendance of the radical left, which, of course, aims at undermining religious institutions, is the complete 180 degree turn toward a misunderstanding in which we're saying there can't be any religion even expressed publicly. We're not even talking about in laws or in policymaking.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
But I, as the president of Heritage, according to this misthinking, shouldn't even talk about religion publicly. in public.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
That's the logical consequence of this terrible misunderstanding, and so to your question, I think ultimately what's happening because of the presence of still strong religious institutions and religious leaders of all backgrounds, Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, and others, is a revitalization of this.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
In other words, it's getting back to a proper understanding that if you don't have healthy religion in this country, government, And politics will become your religion. And we've lived through, over the last generation, the bad fruit that that reaps.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
Yeah, the bad news, and it is bad news, but thankfully now good news story. The bad news is that under the Biden administration, the FACE Act was used to run roughshod over the right of pro-lifers to just be present peacefully at a safe distance outside abortion clinics. We're not talking about a protest.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
We're talking about, for example, my friend Mark Houck of Pennsylvania standing outside peacefully in an abortion clinic, not obstructing the people wanting to go in. I mean, that was their legal right we made. disagree with, but that's their legal right, certainly, to go in and out. And the local law enforcement and then the FBI using the FACE Act to arrest Mark.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
Yeah, my pleasure. Thanks for having me.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
And ultimately, for someone not familiar with that story, the short version of the story is that all the charges were dropped. I mean, this was just totally baseless. It is one of the most egregious examples of the Biden Department of Justice clearly identifying pro-lifers using the FACE Act.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
Our legal experts at Heritage, including Roger Severino, who's the expert on the FACE Act, said there's, in modern history, never been a greater violation of religious freedom there.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
But the good news is not just because Donald Trump is president of the United States and is not using the FACE Act for those purposes, but more importantly, Americans have the ideology of common sense that whatever you think about abortion, you shouldn't be using that particular piece of legislation for that purpose. There is a right to free speech, including outside abortion clinics.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
There's a zero percent chance that will happen because of two things. Number one, the political right in modern American history has never had that as a goal. We simply want to have a level playing field, which simply means we honor our religious liberty laws and jurisprudence. But the second reason is With Donald Trump as president, J.D.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
Vance as vice president, these are men who might happen to know personally who have no interest in that. And so the chatter from the radical left and some of their associated media outlets that that's what the objective is, is not 50% wrong. It's not 20% wrong. It is 100% wrong. There's literally a 0% chance that will happen.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
Well, in two ways. There are many, but two primary ways. The first is to use the bully pulpit of the presidency for that matter of being a congressional leader. So for Speaker Johnson, Leader Thune, who of course are also great men, to talk about the plight of Christians in particular in the Middle East. We have seen over the last generation that
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
the near elimination of Christians in most Middle Eastern countries. In fact, as I point out in a recent op-ed, the only country where we've seen an increase in the Christian population is in Israel. And there's a reason for that, because the Israeli government protects religious liberty.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
But so that bully pulpit, just identifying this, speaking to the American people and allies around the world about this, actually for Christians on the ground, some of whom I'm in touch with directly, is a real benefit.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
Well, 100%. We wouldn't have the United States without Christianity, which is not to say that we ought to be dismissive toward the wonderful and unique religious pluralism we have in the United States, to put a fine point on that. Obviously, people of other faiths, particularly those who are Jewish, were also vital to the American founding and they're vital to the United States today.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
But the second thing is we have to make sure that the different parts of the administration, an apparatus like USAID, which thankfully is dying a well-deserved death, that through the State Department that we're actually supporting religious liberty, not a particular faith, I want to be clear.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
but religious liberty, the natural right of any individual to practice their religion in any government or any nation. And we haven't been doing that. In fact, we've been doing the opposite under USAID, using billions of dollars of American taxpayers' money to actively undermine the plight of Christians in those countries. Thankfully, that's come to an end.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
Africa is the real hope there, not just socially and culturally, which of course are far upstream of politics. There's a real revitalization and expansion of Christian communities throughout Africa. There are exceptions like Nigeria.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
But the second thing is, and we know this in heritage because of all the meetings we have with ambassadors and heads of state, there's a real growth in Africa or move toward a Western understanding of protecting religious liberty. And so what I see in Africa is, And the convergence of those two trends is something that probably will expand beyond their continent.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
I mean, the best case scenario here would be that European leaders, most of whom are actually hostile to their Christian foundations, might be reminded by African friends of what their cultural inheritance is. I'm actually really optimistic about this, especially with all the great work that the Trump administration is doing.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
Two things. One is a friend among older generations, particularly baby boomers away from Roman Catholicism, And then secondly, to underscore the point you make, overwhelming trend among a little bit of my generation, Generation X, but especially millennials and younger generations toward not just Roman Catholic churches, but those diocese and Catholic parishes that have
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
broad sense of this term, conservative liturgy. I'm not talking about conservative politics. I'm talking about traditional liturgy. We see this anecdotally as a family in the Diocese of Arlington and the daily masses I attended in Washington, D.C., but the macro-level trends in studies done by various institutions are also very clear.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
I want to say that even for someone who is not Roman Catholic, this ought to be seen as being a real sign Because ultimately, what younger Americans are saying, whether they're entering the Catholic Church or the Orthodox Church, the Protestant Church, maybe returning to their family tradition of Judaism, is they're looking for belonging. They're looking for meaning.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
And for us at Heritage, as a non-sectarian institution, of course, which also honors the religious practices of all of our friends and colleagues, this is really hopeful for the future of America, because it's going to make the federal government a lot less important.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
My pleasure. Thanks for having me.
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Faith and Freedom: Reclaiming America's Christian Roots | 4.20.25
But the worldview that created the ideology, the philosophy, which undergirded the founding of the United States was explicitly Christian. And I think revitalizing that in the 21st century is essential as we revitalize most of the institutions in the United States.
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Trump Meets Zelensky & ICE Ride-Along | 4.28.25
America wants our land, our resources, our water. our country. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us.
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Pope Francis Tributes & “King of Kings” Box Office | Afternoon Update | 4.21.25
During President Trump's first term, he sat down with the Pope at the Vatican in 2017. Trump responded to the Pope's death early Monday, saying, May God bless him and all who loved him.
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Pope Francis Tributes & “King of Kings” Box Office | Afternoon Update | 4.21.25
Cardinal Kevin Farrell of the Apostolic Chamber announced the Pope's death early Monday, stating that at 7.35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father.
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Pope Francis Tributes & “King of Kings” Box Office | Afternoon Update | 4.21.25
Stating that his entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and of his church, the Cardinal praised Francis as a man who taught us to live the values of the gospel with fidelity, courage, and universal love, especially in favor of the poorest and most marginalized. Francis, who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was elected in March 2013 after Pope Benedict XVI resigned.
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Pope Francis Tributes & “King of Kings” Box Office | Afternoon Update | 4.21.25
He was the first Latin American pope, and his papacy often adopted progressive tones but also upheld the church's conservative doctrines on abortion, gay marriage, and gender ideology. Despite his criticisms of the Trump administration for its immigration policy, one of the last people the Pope met was Vice President J.D. Vance, who visited him the day before his passing on Easter.
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China Escalates Trade War & Trump SCOTUS Victories | 4.14.25
Right now, 130 countries have responded and we're negotiating with them. The small business owner has experienced over the last few weeks the start of a process that's settling down really quite quickly.
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China Escalates Trade War & Trump SCOTUS Victories | 4.14.25
This is a landmark victory for the rule of law. And this is what we've been arguing on behalf of President Trump from day one. These are enemies of our state, of our country, and they should be deported. And what the judge ruled was going forward, From this day forward, all those planes that are gone are there. Those people are staying. So there are a lot of reasons why Americans are safer.
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China Escalates Trade War & Trump SCOTUS Victories | 4.14.25
From this point forward, the hearing will be held. It's a habeas hearing in the court of confinement, which means in Texas. So it will be a much faster hearing. And these people will be deported.
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CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
The death toll and property damage continues to rise in Los Angeles as wildfires rage on nearly a week after they started.
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CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
How contained are the fires now and why do some fear they may get worse in the coming days?
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CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
The Biden administration on Friday shielded hundreds of thousands of immigrants from deportation just days before President Biden will leave office.
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CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
And as the Supreme Court considers the issue of so-called gender-affirming care, a new documentary from TPUSA and The Daily Wire exposes its harsh reality.
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CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
Here with more is Daily Wire culture reporter, Megan Basham. So Megan, we've seen a rapid sea change when it comes to public opinion about transgenderism, particularly as it relates to children. Only a couple of years ago, it was an expanding field within the medical establishment. But since then, 25 states have moved to outlaw these practices and we're actually well behind Europe in that regard.
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CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
Several countries, including the UK most recently, have banned the use of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria. Why is the sentiment shifting now?
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CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
Now, 20 years ago, there was virtually no parents transitioning their kids. How did this happen so fast, and what was driving it?
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CA Wildfires Fuel Tensions & DHS Blocks Deportations | 1.13.25
Megan, thanks for reporting. Anytime.
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New Years Terror Fallout & U.S. Treasury Hacked | 1.3.25
We also discovered through the coroner's office that the individual had sustained a gunshot wound to the head prior to the detonation of the vehicle. One of the handguns was found at his feet inside of the vehicle.
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New Years Terror Fallout & U.S. Treasury Hacked | 1.3.25
Obviously, in how we're trying to identify him, and I'm feeling comfortable to give you this information, there's a tremendous amount of substantial evidence to include he rented the Toro vehicle.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
The FBI is a rotten institution, thankfully, with many great men and women in rank and file roles. But for too long, the FBI has been too independent of any real overview by either the president or the attorney general or Congress, which would be appropriate. Congress has largely just abdicated its responsibility to do so.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
We believe at Heritage that the best way to reform the FBI is to go into the legal code that created it, select all, delete, and start from scratch. We believe there's, to be clear, a very proper role for a federal bureau of investigation. We think that in its current constitution and structure, it is so unreformable that that would be the best way to actually fix it.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
Because of politics, it's most likely that reform will have to come from a very vigorous director, but also real vigor from the president and from the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate. They've got to play ball when it comes to reforming that agency. It's rotten. It is used to persecute Americans.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
There are probably people in our respective organizations, The Daily Wire and Heritage. I happen to know factually that's the case, at least for some of us at Heritage. The FBI was on the brink of persecuting. They've done so with the former president. I wouldn't like that at all if it were someone on the political left. This is something that ought to transcend politics.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And it's very important to sum up here as the president prosecutes this political case against the FBI, that as much as he could make it personal that he explained as he did during the campaign, the reform is about the ordinary American and making sure the FBI works for us rather than against us.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I hope to see a real discipline about what the policy priorities are. Obviously, those don't have to run in such a linear fashion, but to some extent, being excellent in communication about what those priorities are and why is the first step. The second step, I would argue, at Heritage is to completely close the border.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And I think President Trump, keep in mind his first appointment was a border czar, our Heritage fellow, Tom Homan, who taught me several years ago as we started working together on border security, is that it isn't just about closing the border, but about interior enforcement.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And that's where Americans in the interior of the country, obviously a majority of Americans, believe that their interests have been forgotten on that issue.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
Not only is it important to do that for its inherent purposes, it's also important to do that to prove to the American people that Trump meant it, that he's going to spend political capital to do so, including deportations of millions of people. And then that gives you the political will to move on to point two.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And I think point two is largely going to be focused on the economy, ranging from very important deregulatory efforts to policies of the Treasury Secretary to re-upping the Trump tax cuts. All of those are very important in step two, and Americans will feel the benefits of that relatively early. And then, as I speculate, John, The third step is sort of up in the air.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
Bottom line is the top lesson Democrats should be talking about right now is that when you govern like radical leftists and attempt to run to the center very late in the campaign, that does not work. Sometimes it works for Democrats to govern on the radical left, but they, over many, a long period of months, will move to the center and it works.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
There are a lot of possibilities, but I think I would recommend, as a friend to the president and vice president-elect, that they pick some example of the reform that they will be doing throughout the government. Maybe it comes from the work at government efficiency that Elon and Vivek will be doing. Maybe they decide they're going to focus on the Department of Education.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And my point is spend a lot of time, a disproportionate amount of media time, explaining to the American people what this is about. Why they're doing it, how they're going about it, that they're treating federal employees well as they're doing so, sort of the human level that Americans pay attention to, which is good, and then go do it.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And I actually think that that gives them an expanded popular will to move on to step four, whatever that may be. The pressures in D.C. will be such that they're going to try to push all of those together so that only one of those things can happen.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
It's really important that the president and his team, who thus far just look terrific to us at Heritage, be very disciplined in how they go about that and when.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
In this case, their record prevented that from happening. And the more the vice president tried to present herself as someone in the center, there were two problems that she had. Number one, enough of the American people realized that was a lie.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And number two, it actually underscored this persistent concern that they had about her and have about a lot of politicians, especially on the left, which is that they're inauthentic. And so they try to run an inauthentic campaign against whatever you think about Donald Trump, the most authentic man in politics. Right.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And so the lesson that they should be drawing, Democrats should be drawing is either run as radical leftists and convince the American people that they are with you, which they are not.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
or which is what I would recommend they do, be a center left party, be less ridiculous about abortion, be less ridiculous about the power of the state in our lives, be less ridiculous about basically your whole program. But I'm just telling you now, at least spending the daytime many days in Washington, D.C., those aren't the conversations they're having.
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And they've actually pushed out very thoughtful folks like Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut. I think I disagree with Senator Murphy on everything, but he had this very thoughtful analysis on X several days ago. And those conversations just are not happening. It's bad for the Democrats, but good for those of us who believe that this commences a generation-long era of conservative policy reform.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I will describe it two ways, and I will, in the second way, acknowledge your point about principles, maybe even versus pragmatism. But the first, and I think arguably more important way, is that the Republican Party is once again a working class, multi-ethnic coalition. And of course, it includes middle class and high net worth people, too.
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But the reason I say once again is not even to harken back to Reagan or sometime 100 years ago, but to its very roots. You know that I'm a historian and the very roots of the Republican Party, particularly when Abraham Lincoln ran in 1860, certainly had something to do in that election with anti-slavery.
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But even more important than that in that election was the sense that the Republican Party stood for the American worker. what Abraham Lincoln termed free labor ideology. It was his way of saying sort of working class, blue collar, middle class, and so on. And that's the most important thing that the Republican Party has become. But it's also important to acknowledge that there is a tension.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
between principles, which we, by definition, don't have the power to change, at least in a social sense, but in a political sense, Trump and his campaign put an emphasis on pragmatism, that we're going to water down, they are going to water down, the party's position on abortion. They have stopped fighting on marriage.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And there are questions about what Trump will do as president regarding using the federal government and the administrative state for certain aims that may in fact be very good, but those are going to, this is going to be sort of a tense conversation with other conservatives who are very Trump aligned. I'm not saying that all of that is bad. I'm just saying that there's a tension there.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And I think one of the goals that we have, certainly at Heritage and I think across the movement, is to reconcile those, not just for politics.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
That's almost the least of my concerns, although it's a concern, but more importantly for the long run to make sure that the Republican Party, as it has been my entire lifetime, best represents the principles that Americans believe are upstream of those political considerations.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
That's not only a thoughtful, but a very valid position to have.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And for example, in the months following the Dobbs decision, as Heritage and other pro-life organizations were trying to figure out what do we do at the federal level regarding further restrictions on abortion, I was surprised, although as a friend, when a couple of members of Congress, I'll leave them anonymous because I don't know if their positions on this were ever stated, but really thoughtful stalwart conservatives, men you would never say are squishes on this issue, said,
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This is not a federal issue. Heritage's position is that there ought to at least be some mild parameters put on abortion at the federal level. And if you go that step, then it's difficult to say then everything else is for the states. But to the heart of your question, yes, it's a valid and consistent Republican position to say the states are going to handle that.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
The caveat that I would issue on that and that Heritage will be talking about is as it relates to morality, the Republican Party has also always said that that's something that needs to happen at the federal level. Hmm.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I use second American Revolution for two purposes. The first is I'm a historian of the American Revolution. And while I can tell you a lot about military battles, the most important part of the American Revolution was the building and rebuilding of institutions that put into place American associational life, our daily life, the founding principles.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
And so when I talk about the Second American Revolution in a historic sense, I'm not talking about military battles or violence of any kind. In fact, quite the opposite. The whole point of referencing that is to talk about how peaceful the most important part of the American Revolution was, which went on for many decades. But the second is...
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And it's fascinating to me, just in the weeks following the election, we have seen President-elect Trump and a lot of his advisors talk about this re-founding of America. And I think what they're getting at is the same thing that I talk about in the book, which is that the worst part of America today, the most challenging part of America today, isn't our political discourse.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
It isn't some terrible policies. It's that for two generations, our institutions have deteriorated. And they've deteriorated because they have stopped cultivating a sense of self-governance in Americans. They've stopped cultivating a sense of truth for that matter. And that goes directly to your point about this presidential campaign being one that I think came down on the issue of common sense.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
In fact, the Trump-Vance campaign could have, as early as August, just run campaign ads that said, just trust what you see with your own eyes. Boys are boys. Girls are girls. And you can go on and on and on. Or the economy. Trust what you're paying at the grocery store as being a problem. But that's connected to the Second American Revolution idea because...
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
Just briefly, permit me to play historian for one moment. In the 1760s and early 1770s, British colonial officials in the then colonies were telling American colonists, oh, no, it's not a problem that you have to go get a stamp which cost you a couple of pence. That's not a problem. That's not the empire imposing our will on you. And they scratched their heads and said, no. The heck it isn't.
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Of course it is. This isn't uniquely American, but that just skepticism we have about elites, whether it's in the 1770s or in the 2020s, is natural to us. And it is glorious to see it being reanimated right now.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I name names in the book. I talk about the New York Times, which I think is largely a den of liars. But they're really in microcosm, which is a perfect example of the legacy media writ large. And part of a common sense presidential campaign is more Americans realizing they should stop getting their news from places like that. There are many others, especially in Washington.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
but also name an organization that I'm not only fond of, but as I write about in the book, was instrumental in my overcoming some difficulties in my family when I was growing up in Louisiana, and that's the Boy Scouts of America. I'm a very proud Eagle Scout. I would not be the person I am without the leadership and virtue lessons I learned from Boy Scouts of America.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
Therefore, it was one of the great... civic tragedies when the Boy Scouts of America, of all organizations, decided to go down the path of the woke mind virus. And now it's not even called the Boy Scouts of America. Nothing against girls, obviously. I'm a dad of three girls. But this is also a war on men, which is against common sense. So they just need to go away. They're not salvageable.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
The New York Times is not salvageable. But the institutions or the category of institutions I really hone in on are K-12 schools and universities. I love public schools, but the system as it's currently structured and funded must be totally reformed.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I hope that they're salvageable because this promise that we make to American schoolchildren that regardless of where they come from and how much money their family has or doesn't have, that we're going to give them the opportunity for the best education in the world. The public school system isn't delivering on that. And also universities.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I was at Ivy League College recently as part of the book tour. I was grateful to be there. It was a mixed audience ideologically of students on the left and the right. By the way, all of them were not only respectful, but just wonderfully engaging intellectually. Good to hear. But I went to the hotel room after that and I called my wife and I told her, she said, this is shocking.
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Do you think there's any hope? And my answer to her question is my answer to your question, which is no. Because the administrators at places like that are cowards. They're not bad people. They just suffer from cowardice.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
So until there is some factor within those institutions or external to those institutions, which might be federal policy, they're just going to wither on the vine, even though they are blessed with very significant endowments.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
There is no policy arena I am more optimistic about than education reform. And almost all of that optimism comes from what states have decided to do. Oklahoma is a great example. The leadership of Governor Stitt there, Superintendent Ryan Walters, Heritage has helped them as we've helped other state officials develop not just an improved vehicle for funding education,
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
universal school choice or close to it, but very importantly, also the content of this. So for a long time, some of your audience may not know this, conservatives only focused on that, the delivery vehicle, the structure of how we do this, vouchers, education savings accounts as they now are.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
But I realized a few years ago, along with many other conservative education reformers, is that we have to also play in the curriculum game. Because if all you're doing is making it easier for children to have access to really bad content, then you're not helping the situation. So I'm hopeful about that. I'm hopeful about what has happened in Florida. And I'm also hopeful that those examples
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
in the aggregate as the new administration comes in and the new secretary of education and her team, which will likely be a very good team come in, will give them wind in their sails to at the very least get the federal government out of the way of those state-based reforms. That's like hitting a single in a baseball game.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
A double or a triple that would score a couple of runs would be eliminating some of the education programs. The Grand Slam would be eliminating the department entirely for the purpose of improving education in this country. We believe at Heritage there is a strong correlation between the 45-year history of the U.S. Department of Education and declining educational attainment.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
That's the kind of thing that would be one of the great policy victories of the Trump administration.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
I think that it's as likely as it's ever been. It is probably a jump ball. And I think if it does happen, obviously it must include legislation. Heritage is very clear about that. And that legislation is likely because of politics, but maybe also because of good old-fashioned prudence.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
to include an incremental approach to this in much the same way that as I was coming of age as a college student conservative during the Clinton presidency, credit to him and the House and Senate conservatives for passing welfare reform. That's the model. The problem was it only went one step. because of politics.
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Trump’s Second Term: A New Dawn for Conservatives | 12.27.24
We need the Secretary of Education and the President and Vice President to articulate what 10 years down the road looks like, and to have benchmarks, and to constantly message to the American people, this reform, this reform of the U.S. Department of Education is the most important thing we're going to do as a people as we celebrate our 250th birthday.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas, everyone!
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
It's awful. It's awful. It's so bad. But it's like, how does that get passed on?
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
Yes. Interesting. Interesting. Goes back to the clip.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
Hey, Kels. We're on the pod. I love you. Okay. Well, speaking of taking phone calls, we got to not go anywhere.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
No, this is fake. Y'all are being fooled right now. This isn't real. You want to see real magic?
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
Like the disciples. One for every disciple. One for every tribe. Yeah.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
You did it! You did it! Hip hip! Hooray! Hip hip! Hooray! Hip hip! Hooray!
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
Hey, I have a gun. I have a gun. I'm not afraid of you. I'll let you leave if you leave now. Hey, friends of mine that are really buff, I'll be back to work out later and do jiu-jitsu. But I got to go grab my gun real quick. Officers are looking here. Don't worry. How many of you are there? Oh, there's 50 of you?
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
I'm almost 30 seconds away. Are you okay?
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
The guy's just sitting with his toes hanging out.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
How'd you find my dogs? How'd you do it?
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
How'd you find them dogs?
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
What? How are they so... They're marching.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
Goopsy Daisy.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
Golly, can you hear the applause, Josh? Can you hear the Grammy nominations, Josh? We've never done anything that good. Never in the world has anything ever been recorded that sounds that pleasant. That was so good. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. This is our gift to you. This is a Christmas miracle that we didn't even practice at, and it came out perfect.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
That was really good.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
All those young people in Asia, Lil.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
And I would think on Christmas, Lil, we would want to be supportive of all, but especially the youth in Asia. Yeah. Yeah. Andrew gets it. Yeah.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
That's not even a word. What did you call me? What did you call the youth in Asia?
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
I mean, Anthony, I'm glad you're here. But golly, I'm a little shaken. I don't even know if we can continue. I mean, I guess you heard it here first.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
Not only does Lily not support the euthanasia, she thinks they need to know more that they don't know anything, and that she thinks this little six-year-old who's dying, his last wish was for you to answer first, and you just gave him attitude on Christmas.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
Jeremy, we're so sorry. That's disgusting.
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121 - The Drones Have Been Here Before, Telepathy, and New Nuclear Tech
It is. I hate this. Christmas is ruined. Christmas is canceled as far as I'm concerned. Look at it. You're making the youth. Outside of Asia. Sick. Do a stomach. Okay. Well, you guys are here first. Welcome to the show.
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You've Been Marooned | Survivor 48
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The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Yeah, it's great to be here, Charlie. Big fan and also big fan of the Hillsdale courses. I got to tell you, it's really good advice for folks to take those courses. It's way better than just sitting and watching some random TV show at night. The bottom line is that the president has been talking for a long time about
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
about how unjust our trade deals have been and how bad for American ordinary folks, ordinary workers they are. I'll give you an example that there are huge tariffs on Harley-Davidson's like everywhere because it's a famous American product. And the European tariff on Harley-Davidson, they hate American output so much that they actually have a tariff on Harley-Davidson's
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
motorcycles, even if Harley-Davidson makes the motorcycle in Europe. Can you imagine? And so our trade deals are filled with things like this that are just unjust. And what President Trump showed in the last administration, where I was honored to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, is that when you make better trade deals, then it helps blue-collar wages skyrocket.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And so after basically 16 years of the previous four presidential terms, Real wages in the U.S. declined. In the first three years of the Trump administration, real wages went up for the typical family by $6,500. And the reason was that we put America first. We put America workers first. And so what he's doing now is he's doubling down on that strategy, and he's doing it in Trump time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And as you've – actually, I have an update, which is today I just – we've just got two more actually written requests for a trade deal with our trading partners that are way better for American workers. So we're up to 20 written requests and I think 36 negotiations. And U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer – is meeting with 14 trade ministers between now and tomorrow.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And so what's happened is that President Trump, with his tariffs, has put everybody on notice that, look, you got to be nice to American workers, respectful of our trade. And if you come to the table and do that, then we'll make a deal with you. And the deals are moving forward at breakneck speed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Yeah, LNG is definitely part of the negotiations. It's interesting because I know how studious you are that you picked up on that. But one of the things that we're putting on the table in these negotiations is that we could agree to something called an offtake agreement.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And so the idea would be that right now, if you're Japan, you're kind of like hostage to whoever's going to sell you LNG and oil. And if we can successfully expand pipelines in Alaska, then we can fund those pipelines basically with commitments to sell the stuff to Japan because we have enough of it in the U.S. And that's really, really good for Japan.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And it makes them so happy to not have to be dependent on oil and natural gas from other sources or even to have some insurance against the volatility of the price of oil in free markets. That's so valuable to them that they're coming to the table with the best trade deal you ever saw. And I have one other thing to say about the trade deal, which is just – it shows the way President Trump thinks.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Charlie, which I know you know it very well, is that if you think about it, we just have a sort of an agreement in principle with India that was announced by J.D. Vance, the vice president. Yes, huge. And you would say, why India?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Well, it turns out that if you look at the history of non-tariff barriers and not letting them – not letting us sell stuff in there and all that, that probably the worst actor on earth was – What was India like historically over the last 30 or 40 years, you could argue that the worst actor on trade was India.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And and so why did President Trump say, OK, our first agreement on principle has to be with India? Because he wants to show that he can make a deal even with the hardest people to make a deal with. And if he could do that, that all the other deals should just fall into place.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Oh, yeah, sure. And the thing is, the way I like to think about it is that the mainstream media and then, you know, there are a lot of very partisan Wall Street houses like go read like what Goldman Sachs says about the economy every time Donald Trump is running for office or he is president. And they just downgraded the U.S. growth this year to 0.5 percent.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
which is just impossible to be that low. But the point is that what happens in the mainstream media, and sometimes this moves markets for the short term, is that they seem to always expect the worst of Donald Trump. But from anyone with experience knows that you should expect that he's got a plan and he's going to deliver the best for the American worker.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And that as that happens, that markets are going to celebrate because it's the golden age in America again. But what happens is that when we're making changes... Then the media is filled with stories that basically characterize him as, you know, not having a plan. And, you know, just whatever the worst thing you could imagine about Donald Trump is what they cover every day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
But then the best thing you could think happens. And it's over and over again. So why did we get $6,500 increase in wages, real wages, for people right before COVID in the first three years of the Trump administration after 16 years of nothing? under Obama and Bush, well, the answer is he delivered on his promises. He had a plan that was great for the American worker.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And so people should sooner or later learn that you're not going to get the worst that you could imagine out of Donald Trump. You're going to get the best.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Yeah, so the big, beautiful bill negotiations are led by Secretary Bessa to myself as part of the big six. The other four are the majority leader, the Speaker of the House, the Chairman of the Finance Committee and Ways and Means Committee. And we've been meeting regularly through all the stuff, all the news that you read about day in and day out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
We've got a massive amount of staff and leadership meeting all the time to make sure that the big, beautiful bill gets into the end zone by, say, June. And I can tell you that the talks and the writing of the language is so advanced right now. that pretty much the train is leaving the station next week in the house.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And so there's been historically fast progress on the largest tax bill ever that also has a heck of a lot of smart spending cuts as well. And so if you think about it, trade is about 14% of the economy, not trade or domestic stuff is about 86% of the economy and, And we're about to give like an incredible vitamin shot to 86% of the economy. And nobody's even really talking about it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Oh, well, I'd say that the language is already being finalized next week. And so the House expects that it's going to have a bill passed maybe the next three or four weeks. But the point is that you're going to see the bill. You're going to actually be able to start to talk about it in the news. You're going to start to see the bills next week, yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Right. Well, the president has said that he thinks that there might be an argument for a higher marginal tax rate on people who are extraordinarily wealthy, but he doesn't think that now is the right time for that. And I think that it's also the case that if one did try to do that, it might be pretty heavy lift the hill. But the main theme
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
really, is that we're reducing taxes on ordinary Americans, not cutting taxes for the wealthy. That's not the theme of President Trump's tax cuts. And so on the corporate side, he's creating even bigger incentives for people to build factories in the U.S., to create blue-collar jobs in the U.S. That's what he's doing on the corporate side. And on the individual side, he's
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
highlighted things like no taxes on tips, no taxes on Social Security, and so on. And those are his main priorities. I could say that on the individual side, the new tax cuts are going to be, I think, even more impactful than what we saw last time. Again, and those tax cuts were amazing. But if you think about it,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Right now, for example, if you're a person who just retired and you're getting your Social Security and you decide your Social Security benefit isn't as high as you would like and you want to go back to work, then when you go back to work and you earn a dollar, they take away 50 cents of your Social Security benefit. Think about it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
So the highest taxed people on earth are the people who decide, hey, I need to get a little more money than my Social Security, so I need to go back to work. And that Social Security taxes 50 cents on the dollar before, and then the other taxes on top of it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And so President Trump recognizes there are a lot of people out there who would like to participate more in society, would like to work more, but are discouraged from doing so because of the very, very high tax rates. And that's the real main priority of this bill for us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Yeah, I could just say that as an individual, I 100% agree with you, although I guess government salaries being what they are, I'm not sure I'll be in the top tax bracket this year now that I'm after the White House. But the bottom line is that there are a lot of people who think that balancing the budget is important, and it really, really is.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And one of the interesting things is that I know a lot of people are disappointed in the spending cuts that Congress is talking about. They wish that they would be larger. But one of the things that we have a plan for that hasn't, again, been discussed a lot is that, you know, the Doge savings are real. The Doge savings are real.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
And what we could do throughout the year is that when we aggregate the Doge savings into something called a rescission package, that we can send a bill up to Capitol Hill saying, and they can pass it without it being exposed to filibuster.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
So it's the same rules that allow you to pass something with a simple majority apply to the rescissions that we can send back because of all the great work that Elon's doing. And so when you look at the big, beautiful bill and think, well, I really love the tax side. I wish the spending cuts were bigger. Just be aware that for the rest of the year, regularly, we're going to be rescinding
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
the wasteful spending of the past because of all the great work that Elon's been doing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Of course. It's a pleasure to be here, John.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why "Disparate Impact" Must Die ft. Kevin Hasset
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ask Charlie Anything 209: Keeping TikTok Legal? Winning Political Debates? AI Lawyers?
Yeah, it was specifically that TikTok question. I didn't know if this had come up today, but there is a clip that you might want to play, and you probably already know about this. All the terms and conditions that are embedded in the app that we all agree to when we download TikTok are quite concerning. I understand your reasoning behind wanting to keep it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ask Charlie Anything 209: Keeping TikTok Legal? Winning Political Debates? AI Lawyers?
I think it's a great platform, but there's a lot of privacy concerns. And there's a video... with Joe Rogan, you could probably pull it up on YouTube, where he goes into a rabbit hole of TikTok terms and conditions. A lot of privacy concerns there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So, for example, if you ask DeepSeek to tell you what happened at Tiananmen Square or to say something mean about Xi Jinping, the leader of China, it won't do it. And I would not be surprised if in the coming weeks and months, we do see lawmakers in the US saying, wait a minute, we passed a law to ban TikTok. Why are we not also passing a law to ban DeepSeek?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So I think that's one potential outcome here, but there's a key difference, which is that TikTok is not open source software. You cannot download TikTok and create your own version of it. And so already the DeepSeek platform models have been downloaded and recreated all over the world by lots and lots of different people and companies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I think what the DeepSeek story suggests is that it is going to be quite challenging to contain the spread of powerful AI without some big moves.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So there are people in the American tech scene who are calling this deep-seek moment the Sputnik moment for the AI race, because just as the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union kicked off the 20th century space race and created profound fear and anxiety among Western nations about whether they were behind, their biggest political adversary when it came to technology.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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A lot of people are looking at this moment with DeepSeek as kicking off a new era in the AI race where we really want to stay ahead of China. And there are people who say that having a lead in AI, if you are the United States, even if it's just a lead of a couple months or a couple years over your political adversaries is very important. And that may be true.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But people who study AI, people who look at this industry closely, who are paying attention to the trends in AI, believed that these models would become cheaper and cheaper over time as well as becoming more powerful over time. So this really fits neatly with a lot of what people had been predicting for years.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Now, they might not have predicted that this sort of moment would happen from a Chinese AI company. They might not have predicted exactly what the breakthroughs would be that allowed for the models to get cheaper. But this is in keeping with the overall trend in AI that we have seen over the past few years, which is that the models keep getting better and they keep getting more efficient.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Goes to number one on the App Store charts. It vaults ahead of ChatGPT and all these better known apps.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, so that is what happened here, but just maybe a little faster than people had expected. But I think the larger point is that these systems are now improving so rapidly and in so many places all at once that I think it is only a matter of time before nearly everyone in the world has access to very powerful AI models.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And I just think that world looks a lot different than the one we live in today.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And the more notable thing, the thing that really caused the American AI industry to start to panic was how cheaply this model appeared to have been built.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So we think that this model cost DeepSeek about $5.5 million to train. Now, that might sound like a lot of money, but it's really not compared to what many of the American AI companies are spending. Meta said that it was spending $65 billion.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Microsoft says it plans to spend about $80 billion. Microsoft said it was spending $80 billion.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And OpenAI had just announced this giant partnership where they were planning to spend up to half a trillion over the next four years. As much as half a trillion dollars to build the infrastructure for AI. Whoa. Yeah, it's wild.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And on top of that, DeepSeek says that they built their model without access to the latest and greatest American AI chips, which up until now were thought to be necessary to build the most powerful models.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And so investors start saying, wait a minute, if it only costs $5.5 million to train a leading-edge AI model, then... What the heck are all these American companies doing spending hundreds of millions of dollars or even billions of dollars to train roughly equivalent models?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And so the stocks of many of the American tech companies start to fall.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And so after all of this, people in the American tech industry start asking questions like, who is DeepSeq? And how are they getting these incredible models with so little money spent on them?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So it depends who you ask, because there are a couple kind of overlapping panics that are starting to happen around this time. Of course, again, there's the investor panic. I mean, imagine if you had your whole portfolio invested in American AI companies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
It would be like if you just bought like a very high-end sports car, like a Lamborghini, and you had been driving it around and were so proud of how fast it could accelerate and how well it handled. And then like some random guy shows up with like a soapbox car made of balsa wood, and it can go just as fast as your car. You'd be like, what the heck?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Why did I just spend all this money on this Lamborghini?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yes. And then, of course, there's the geopolitical freakout because DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company. And there has been this race happening between primarily the U.S. and China for years about AI and AI supremacy. Who was going to be able to build the most powerful AI models before the other one? And that is a very important question for things like assessing the future of military conflict.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If one country's AI is way better than another country's AI, they might have an advantage. In fact, the U.S. has banned the export of the most powerful AI chips to China for exactly this reason, to try to... sort of hobble the Chinese AI companies to keep them from catching up when it comes to building the bleeding edge models that could become very important.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So instead, DeepSeq had to kind of make do with these like Kirkland signature chips that are, you know, pretty good, but they're not the best. And so that combined with the amount of money spent really made people say, how do they pull this thing off?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
Yeah, so there are a lot of people who are skeptical of what DeepSeek has claimed. In particular, the cost of the model, $5.5 million might not be the real figure. It doesn't include all of the research and the engineer salaries and things that went into that, so that the real cost is probably significantly higher than that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But there are questions about, you know, did they smuggle in very powerful chips that would have actually allowed them to build a model this good? Hmm. You know, is there something going on? Is the Chinese government funneling money to them and not telling us about it? So there are lots of theories.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But then as time wears on and people who are experts in this stuff start digging through the details, they're coming to the conclusion that, well, yeah, Maybe the cost is a little higher than DeepSea claims. Maybe they have a few more chips than they're telling us about. But in general, this seems like they actually just did build a really good model using some very clever engineering techniques.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So because DeepSeq did not have access, we don't think, to the most powerful chips that American companies are using... they had to kind of get clever about becoming more efficient with their model. I won't bore you with the technical details.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It includes terms like mixture of experts, architecture, but basically they were able to use some clever tricks to squeeze the most power out of the chips that they did have.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, I mean, there's this saying in the tech industry that constraints inspire creativity. And that is definitely true here. DeepSeq did not have access to the best American AI chips. They did not have the largest budget or the most sophisticated team, but they were really scrappy and smart. They had a lot of really good young engineers and they were able to pull this off.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So what the AI companies in America are saying in response to this market panic is, look, we've still got to build these big, expensive supercomputers to stay at the forefront of AI, to have the best models. And if we take the techniques that DeepSeq has now shown are possible, these efficiency gains, We could have them too.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Think about how powerful our models would be if we put a billion dollars into the same kind of model that DeepSeek was able to make for much less. So that is what the American AI companies are saying. But I think there are real questions among investors about whether the scale of investment that they have been planning is really necessary.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I think it threw into question this fundamental assumption that only the big dogs could play in AI. You had to be Microsoft or Amazon or Google if you wanted a chance to build the state-of-the-art AI models.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And I think what the Deep Seek story suggested is that there may be a whole other world of competitors out there trying to stay close to the frontier and that they might not have to have the resources of one of the world's largest corporations to do it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So the freakout really started in earnest with a Chinese AI company called DeepSeek. And DeepSeek had released a new AI model. You know, models are released all the time. Generally, they don't make international news. But this model was different in a few ways.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
But there was one other piece of this that I think really suggests that the AI race has entered a new phase, which is that DeepSeek did something that a lot of American companies have been hesitant to do, which is that they released their AI models as open source software, meaning that anyone on the internet can download and use, can make their own versions of, can adapt, can tweak.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It is software that can be reused and remixed and improved upon. by anyone. And so when DeepSeek released its models this way, they really sent a message to the world that says, we are serious here about competing. And we're so serious that we're going to give away our models for free so that anyone who wants to can make them better.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And so all of a sudden, it just flipped the entire AI race onto its head and really sent it into a new gear.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So it's a complicated question to answer because there are ways in which it is probably good and ways in which it is probably bad. The case that this is a good thing is that in general, when you make things cheaper, they can be accessible to more people. I mean, remember, DeepSeek is not just free to use in the app or on the website.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It was also released as open source software, meaning that anyone with an Internet connection can download it and install it on their own computers or maybe tweak it to serve their own purposes. So if you are a person who wants to use AI, maybe you have a small business or maybe you just want to use this to help you grow. write letters or emails. Maybe you're a student who wants to use this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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You can now access a very powerful model for free. Maybe you are a developer or a startup who wants to build your own AI tools. Well, now you have this deep seek model that you can kind of take off the shelf as open source software and build your own version of it or run it on your own hardware.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And so the people that I talk to in the tech industry who are at startups or smaller companies are very excited about this. This is a great development for them. And it also means that if you are a person who worries that all the AI power is going to go to a few huge companies, then the democratization of AI through open source models like DeepSeek probably makes you feel optimistic.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Favorite Word: Tariffs
So that is the positive case for this. But there are also a lot of people who are really worried about what DeepSeek has done. I think the DeepSeek moment has really sparked a lot of new fears about how quickly this whole field of AI is progressing. I mean, just in the last few years,
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The leading AI models have gone from maybe being as smart as the average high school student to as smart as a college student to now being able to complete a lot of tasks that would have taken a PhD to complete. So these models are just getting much better very quickly. And a lot of folks in the AI community are just nervous about that. They say things like, well, maybe we're going to get...
The Charlie Kirk Show
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an AI that is as smart as the smartest humans in just a few years. And we don't really have a playbook for dealing with technology that is more intelligent than us. And so there are people who worry about these sort of runaway AI scenarios where you get super intelligent AIs that can sort of take control or maybe even harm humans.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But even if you're not a believer in that kind of superhuman intelligence risk, There are just a lot of questions about whether we as a society are ready for advanced AI. Are we ready for the possibility that it could eliminate jobs? Are we ready for the possibility that it could really lead to a proliferation of misinformation or propaganda or even automated cyber attacks and things like that?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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One of them was that it just appeared to be a really good model, like better than the leading Chinese models at the time and on par or close to on par with the leading American models.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So all of that is swirling around the conversation about DeepSeek because we have just accelerated the AI race again. And now it is not just American companies competing with each other over who is in the lead of that race. China has also stepped in. And there's a lot of fear and anxiety about what happens if we fall behind.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, it may well be, because if you're a person who believes that TikTok is a national security threat, there's nothing about DeepSeek that is less of a threat, right? It is a Chinese company. It is subject to all the same laws and censorship guidelines as other Chinese software companies are.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
No, you know, and some of the founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin was probably the first to write about immigration. He does this in 1751 in his observations. His real concern was that he had tried to form, this was an extra legal militia. It was a military association because the Pennsylvania Quakers in the assembly wouldn't raise money for defense.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And so he appeals to all of these different ethnicities in Pennsylvania to unite for the defense of life, liberty, and property. It was a veritable social contract.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
It was extra legal, and the idea was that they would protect themselves, all these different groups, the middling artisans of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, against threats from the French and pirates in the Delaware as well as on the frontier.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And what he saw was, is that many of those, the Germans who had come over, they'd migrated en masse to the colonies, had not participated in this effort, even though he tried to woo them into it. And so in 1751, he'd made this effort in 1747. In 1751, he starts railing against the German immigrants. And he says, why are we bringing in all of these German migrants?
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
He says, rather, what's going to happen? They don't learn our language. They don't have our habits. They don't appreciate our laws. and that instead of anglifying them, they're going to Germanize us. And so he stresses this idea of assimilation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
Now, he would change his views on the Germans and the Scotch-Irish over time, but one thing that he stressed, and this was adopted by the other founders, somebody like Thomas Jefferson as well, was the idea of unity. How is it that affection binds a people together to command the kind of sacrifices that are necessary to preserve a people?
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
So when we talk about a people, we say Americans, it means we're presupposing that that entity exists and that it has something in common. And that meant that the foremost, if you read Franklin or Thomas Jefferson, what they really look to is to try to get your own citizens to have more kids.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
So that was immigration awareness number one, was we actually don't want to bring in lots and lots of immigrants because of certain threats that they pose, although we do admit immigrants. But it wasn't a nation of immigrants. That's a much later teaching that I think you can trace to the 1920s. The idea of a nation of immigrants really takes off in the 1950s.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
Thomas Jefferson and Franklin, they both really questioned whether we should bring over many of the old world European immigrants. And so I think that's a second point. First, you have the idea of a common mind. What binds us together as a people? And the second was the kind of character. What are the manners and the habits of the people that are coming over?
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And what kind of institutions will they endorse if they're allowed to vote in our political system? Is it the case that they're going to bring over some of the bad policies and habits that they had left and that they had fled from? So that was a second major important point. It's also the case that if we're going to be honest, the founders' warning to us would be that diversity undermines unity.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And that's why if you get to the first Naturalization Act of 1790, and this is just truth, it may offend us today, but the founders said only free whites could become citizens. And the reason for that wasn't just you have ideas of inequality, natural inequality.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
But even Franklin in the 1760s, he looks, he goes, he visits the Negro school and he says, well, I've changed my mind about these black children. It seems like they can learn just like white children. But even then, he says, I hope that will discourage migration.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And the reason that Franklin and Jefferson, Jefferson as well, took this position and notes on the state of Virginia was they didn't think you could have Republican freedoms if you had a population that was torn apart by faction. And so this becomes, of course, this guides immigration policy, who can become a citizen all the way until
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
all the way until the 14th Amendment and the New Naturalization Act of 1870. And that's when white Americans say, particularly the radical Republicans, they could see that the attempt on the part of the Southerners was to reintroduce slavery through a loophole in the 13th Amendment.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And so in the 14th Amendment, they recognized natural-born citizenship for the freedmen, as well as they changed naturalization policy. And so you have whites and blacks can become citizens. This did not include other races. This did not include Asians for purposes of migration, nor did it include Indians for That status would change for Indians under public law in the 1920s. What and why?
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
Why did they do this? Well, I think it was those three basic points. One was how do you have a common mind? The idea of a common citizenry, so you have a country for its citizens. Second, how do we bring over immigrants who are going to share some of our common values? This is one of the reasons why the laborers did not want a large number of Chinese immigrants at the end of the 19th century.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
They were very much afraid that they would bring over a kind of paternalistic view of the ends of government. That's also why many of the Irish posed such a problem. You know, 75% of the Germans, they migrated off to the countryside, but about 75% of the Irish settled down in major cities.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And the claim was is they brought much of their paternalistic or view of government that focused on patronage. And, of course, every time you have mass migration, it increases crime. It also increases the inflation. entitlements program or the welfare programs of the localities and the states, and of course today, the federal government. And so from 1880 to 1920, we do see a change.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
We see the admittance of new groups. And I think that for us, and we can look at the last two waves of immigration, this poses a kind of challenge. And that is in the founding period, they thought diversity undermined the kind of order necessary for Republican freedoms. We have a diverse regime, right? That's what we know.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And I think the challenge to us is, is how do we maintain this sense of unity so that we can protect those Republican freedoms and freedom under the law? And so I can go to the last two waves in law. You have 1880 to 1920. These were largely Southeastern Europeans. And that created all kinds of problems, the attempt to assimilate them into the body politic.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
It was also the case that they introduced new institutions to try to manage the migrants. What we look at is the family courts today. If you read Roscoe Pound, this was the dean of Harvard Law, he's writing about the family courts. And he says these are introduced to manage all of these Southeastern Europeans who are coming over here who don't know our ways.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And so in the family court, you don't have due process rights. You have maxims of equity that guide all the rulings of the judge. If you don't follow them, you're in contempt of court. So what happened after the 1920s was two laws passed, 1921 and 1924, and they introduced a national origins quota, and this would have basically froze out those who could migrate to the United States.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
70% of all migrants would come from just three countries, Northwestern European countries. But the real effect of that immigration law of 1924 was it stopped immigration generally. So the percentage of foreign born in 1920 was about 14%. When you get to 1960, it's about four or 5%.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And what that meant was all Americans just had more kids, Americans of all different races, because there was a prioritization on those who were natural born citizens. The 1965 Immigration Act, as we all know, changed much of that. And one of the great dangers that it introduced was this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
At every period of mass migration, whether you talk about the Irish in the 1840s or the migrations from southeastern Europe, 1880 to 1920, that you had a period of assimilation that followed these waves. What's happened since 1965 is an ever increasing number of migrants. And it poses that great threat to us that I think the founders warned about.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And that is how do we maintain some kind of a unified. Yeah, go ahead.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
No. in the terms that we use it today. What kind of diversity was valuable? Well, if you read Madison in Federalist 10, he talks about diversity of talents and property. Yeah, that's valuable. But if you get to the end of Federalist 10, he warns about a lack of any common sense of the whole. And so there's a mean that has to be achieved.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And then obviously, again, the founders did not think we could have a racially diverse body politic that would also secure Republican freedoms. And that's why in the Naturalization Act, again, one of the first acts passed by Congress in 1790, only free whites could become citizens. They were afraid. And this is why, you know, James Madison was president of the American Colonization Society.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
So anytime, you know, I have an establishment Republican, they look at me and they say, well, Madison loved diversity. And you say, he was president of an organization whose end was to ship blacks back to Africa. That's the kind of diversity the American founders thought possible with regard to race. Now, again, we don't agree with that anymore, but I think it remains a challenge to us.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And who was around in 2020 that didn't see this appeal to tribalism flare back up? And I think this is where Trump has been excellent in trying to appeal to the things that unify us as Americans.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
No, I think it's kind of absurd that those who wrote, ratified the 14th Amendment would have thought that it applied to the children of illegals, even when the Supreme Court weighed in to establish those who were born on U.S. soil were U.S. citizens, that it was for a migrant worker who was here legally. So no, I don't think it applies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
Obviously, in the 14th Amendment, you've got that clause that talks about those who are not subject to a foreign jurisdiction. And all those who are illegal immigrants would apply that they would be classified under that clause. So the Supreme Court's never ruled on that. We can see a case like Plyler v. Doe.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
They've talked about certain rights of the children of illegal immigrants to education in the United States. But Supreme Court's never actually ruled on that question, whether birthright citizenship applies to those who are here illegally. Not legally, those who are here to work, but those who are here illegally.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
Well, you know, Madison, he defines faction in Federalist 10. He says any time that there is an individual or a group whose ends would deprive other citizens of their rights, that's a faction. So he's in favor of interest groups. But the real caution that I think the founders give us with regard to faction of ethnicity, race, those kinds of things,
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
is you begin to see yourself as a member of a certain insular tribe. That's why they were cautious about some of these religious groups. You know, Roman Catholics, Jews, they were less than, you know, maybe a percent of the population. So Federalist II talks about all the things that would unite a people.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And that would be a common language, common customs, common religion, common ethnicity migrating from the same parts of Europe. So that was their idea as to what would help root a people that would help to maintain the affection that would preserve the common and the common good. I think what we've seen, and this is particularly since, and we see two, really two movements of this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
The first one begins in the 1920s. That's where you have certain thinkers who begin to argue that they ought to be able to maintain their group identity as well as be citizens of the United States. The argument there is America is nothing but an idea. That really begins, as best as I can tell, in the 1920s.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And so you have Alain Locke talking about the new Negro and blacks being able to retain their own identity. You have the same thing for Jews in the 1920s, talking about how all these groups, they ought not to have to assimilate, but rather America is just a mere idea. It has no common ethical principles. And of course, they extend that to religion and all these other things.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
The danger with that is, in that kind of mentality, is that once you begin to import more and more groups, they keep their tribal identities, and there's no longer a pressure to assimilate.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And by the time you get to the late 60s, then the problem is, is that in the interpretation of what, you know, the 64 Civil Rights Act, whether you agree with it in relation to the government, federal government, to private business or not, that what had been a colorblind act, at least in its intentions, was interpreted in a very lawless way to begin to recognize different groups.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And you have to understand, this is why the founders revolted, that they revolted against the British Empire, because in the British Empire, you were accorded certain privileges and duties, not based upon equal citizenship, but based upon your overlapping assigned group identities.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
And that's what we see beginning to happen in the 1970s through the EEOC, Title VI and Title VII, as well as even in Title IX, that in a very lawless way, we begin to manage and balance these different groups that only have their own interest in mind.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Did The Founders Think About Immigration?
You can see this, by the way, with some of the insular minorities who, when they talk about Donald Trump, will say something like, well, what have you done for my people? I think that's the dangerous part, is you only think about the good of your people.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Yeah, so, okay, so I have this dilemma that I have. So my ex-wife, whom I've been estranged for for about four years, Um, she like, um, she has reached out through her cousins that, uh, she's, she has a stage four cancer and she would like to reconnect with me and my son.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Okay. Um, I have primary custody. In fact, she has, She does have supervised visitation rights, but she hasn't used that in quite a while. In fact, she and I live on the opposite sides of the country. And all of a sudden, I hear from one of her cousins, whom I still talk to to this day, that she's really sick and she would like to reconnect. So you don't believe her, do you?
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Well, I mean, she said and did a lot of things, like, which made me divorce her.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Not substance, but she's done a lot of things recently.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Um, he was about one, he was like physically, physically, uh, speaking like he was only one and a half when he last saw her. Okay. The thing is like after that, like we split off, like she didn't even, she didn't even, um, do the visitations anymore. She moved to another state and we just didn't get in touch ever since. Okay.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
No, like my son doesn't even remember her.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Like he kind of says like, I mean, there are situations like, I mean, where's my mom? And I'm like, and I, and I tell her, well, she's away or yeah. I mean, that's the rule. I mean, I can't tell her, tell, I can't tell him right now she's dead, you know, because that's not true.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Yeah. The thing is, she didn't have any drug or substance the last time I met her. The thing is, we had a very acrimonious split. Um, where basically like, and this is back in, this is in California where I got everything.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
Like you mean contact her directly or like, or I don't know because she has, she has, like you said, hit stuff, shades, shady stuff, uh, and, and lied. Sure. Like she has a history of that. So for me, yeah. Go ahead. For you. What? For me, like, I don't know how to like, I don't know how to like validate or verify.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
is there a way that I can, I don't know, like hire a PI to kind of like verify.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
I haven't, man, I haven't seen her. I haven't seen her in, in, in years. And yeah, And like, there's a reason where I, there's a reason why I, like I left her and I ghosted her and I great. And like, I grace, I grace don't or whatever that's called.
The Dr. John Delony Show
My Wife Had an Affair Because She Doesn’t Find Me Attractive
After that, she became very vicious. She became very toxic. She tried to do everything in her power to try to get primary custody. Basically sued me for abuse, both emotional and physical. Was it all lies?
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Business Scaling Workshop Live Q&A | Ep 827
Hey, Alex. Kevin with Asset Protection Planners. I set up Asset Protection Trust to people in lawsuits. Sweet.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Business Scaling Workshop Live Q&A | Ep 827
And we do 11 million in revenue. Awesome. And I'd like to be at 25. Okay. And I think two things. One, they add the pay-per-click cost through the roof, eating up a lot of the profit. And two, finding people who really can sell and understand legal concepts. Yeah.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Business Scaling Workshop Live Q&A | Ep 827
Currently, it's the ad costs that are going through the roof.
The Game with Alex Hormozi
Business Scaling Workshop Live Q&A | Ep 827
True. Like webinars, things like that. Mm-hmm. Okay, cool.
The Glenn Beck Program
Bud Light Insider Reveals What Led to Dylan Mulvaney Controversy | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
Hi.
The Glenn Beck Program
Bud Light Insider Reveals What Led to Dylan Mulvaney Controversy | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
Thank you for taking my call. A couple of things. First of all, sorry, I've got a hoarse throat here. That's alright. My initial thought on how this has affected me already is with my telephone numbers and directions. I used to know every telephone number, nearly every telephone number off the top of my head.
The Glenn Beck Program
Bud Light Insider Reveals What Led to Dylan Mulvaney Controversy | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
When I started using my own business and I just started using the phone all the time, I don't know any numbers anymore. And to get directions, you know, you punch it into your GPS. And now, you know, it's like, well, we go to a place that we've never been before and I can't find my way around. So, those are things that became real for me immediately.
The Glenn Beck Program
Bud Light Insider Reveals What Led to Dylan Mulvaney Controversy | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
Yeah, the other thing is I read, after you interviewed Ray Kurzweil years ago, I bought The Singularity is Near. And I got about a third of the way through the book. And I basically got to the point where you're at today in your discussions. And I put it down and I haven't picked it up since because I just couldn't fathom what's coming. I'm 70 years old and it's a different world.
The Glenn Beck Program
Bud Light Insider Reveals What Led to Dylan Mulvaney Controversy | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
And I love technology. I use it every day. But that was a little too much for me to try to comprehend.
The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
Thank you for taking my call. A couple of things. Zuerst einmal, sorry, ich habe hier einen hübschen Hals. Das ist okay. Mein erster Gedanke daran, wie mich das bereits beeinflusst hat, war mit meinen Telefonnummern und Richtungen. Ich wusste alle Telefonnummern, fast alle Telefonnummern, auf der Spitze meines Herzens. Genau.
The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
Als ich angefangen habe, Telefon zu nutzen, ich habe mein eigenes Geschäft, und ich habe die Telefonnummern immer wieder benutzt, weiß ich keine Nummern mehr. And to get directions, you punch it into your GPS and now it's like, well, we go to a place that we've never been before and I can't find my way around. Das sind Dinge, die für mich sofort real geworden sind.
The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
Ja, das andere ist, ich habe nachdem du Ray Kurzweil vor Jahren interviewt hast, ich habe die Singularität, die nahe ist, gekauft. Und ich habe etwa ein Drittel des Wegs durch das Buch gegangen. Und ich habe basically to the point where you're at today in your discussion. And I put it down and I haven't picked it up since because I just couldn't fathom what's coming.
The Glenn Beck Program
Best of the Program | Guest: Anson Frericks | 2/20/25
I'm 70 years old and it's a different world. And I love technology. I use it every day. But that was a little too much for me to try to comprehend.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Hi, so I just had some questions trying to figure out how to get us out of debt here. I mean, we are drowning. I've got some charge-offs, some credit cards. I've got some rental properties. A couple years ago, it kind of took a turn. We were doing well. A couple years ago, it took a turn. We have seven kids under our roof right now. My wife's sister had lost two of her children.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
We ended up having to adopt them, bring them in. So it's been, since it's kind of just financially been straining us, as you know, grocery prices going up and all that. So we've got some hard decisions to make. I've got some rental properties, got three duplexes. I owe about $268,000 on them. I could probably sell them around $360,000 to $390,000. And then I've got another house.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
It's a rental property. I could probably sell it around $80,000. So I'm just trying to decide whether I should stick with the rental property. You sell the vehicles.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Total debt would be about $520,000. That doesn't include any mortgages? Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, that does include all the mortgages and credit cards. So, I mean, consumer debt, you're looking at probably around $40,000.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Yeah, so I've got two vehicle loans. I've got my truck and then my wife's SUV. Okay. Then my wife's SUV, we pretty well got to stick to it because it's the biggest one we got for transportation for the kids.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
We're not so yearly income. We're not making a whole lot. I know we're bringing in about probably after the insurance and taxes and payments are made. Probably around $4,000 a year, so it's not really much.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Okay, so the one issue with that is we've got my wife's parents living there right now. We're kind of trading them for babysitting. My wife's not working because the babysitting is kind of so high right now, so it just doesn't make sense for her to be able to work. Okay. So we're kind of, we're letting them stay there. They're not in great of health. I know my wife's dad had cancer.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
He recovered from that, but he's not able to work. They can't afford anywhere. So we're just kind of like, what are we going to do with them? So yeah, it's just, it's very stressful.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
One of the duplexes. Yeah, probably. That would probably basically just, that would, yeah, pretty close to pay them off if I sold the other two.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
I mean, we're pretty well underwater. The truck's about $42,000. It's probably worth about $30,000. My wife's car, we owe $27,000. It's probably worth about $16,000 or $17,000.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Yeah, so, yes, there is. Oh, okay. And I've got a student loan. I went to school to be a cop, and of course they don't pay very well. What's the household income? Really just my income right now. We're at $63,000 a year.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Well, they do, but we're in a mess right now where... Everywhere she goes, it's just been a nightmare because all the appointments and stuff. Mom can't take them everywhere, so she plans on going back into it. But, yeah, we're trying to find something. She's wanting to go to school and do all that. Like I said, we don't know if school should hold off.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
She should just go back to full-time really quick.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Between me and her both, we're right about $20,000 in credit cards.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Student loan, it's not very much. It's almost $2,000. Okay. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
So, yeah, we would get about, well, we could sell for $80,000 by $0.60 on one of the rental houses.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
Yeah, so this is my second problem. So on my other house I've got right now, we got solar, and we do not know a whole lot about solar.
The Ramsey Show
Big Dreams Require Big Sacrifices
What do you owe on the solar? Yes. The solar is at $60,000 right now. Oh, my goodness.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Kevin, don't fight me on this one. That's a whopping $12,000 a year. Let's up it a little bit.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
They're certainly sentimental value. I mean, if I'm paying $1,700 a month for this house, and just also looking at trends of kids moving back in with their parents and everything, I could probably, in 10 or 15 years, I could probably afford for my son to live here temporarily.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
you know, to get his life set up whenever he graduates from college or my other two kids, you know, and it could just be sort of the house that we have that lets the kids roll through. I also think it's a great investment like this area that we're in now is just exploding and has become very popular.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
And so I feel like if we were to sell right now, we would be leaving money on the table because it's just going up in value so, so, so much.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
She wants to move into this. I mean, our life is in this other neighborhood. All of our friends are in the other neighborhood. It don't matter. All of our kids' friends are in the other neighborhood.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my call. This fall, my wife and I will be coming into a significant amount of money. It'll be like probably a million after taxes.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
What's going on? And so I want to be smart about it. My wife and I kind of disagree about this. So she wants to move. There's an area of our city that She really wants to move into. It's incredibly expensive. I know what you're talking about.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Yeah, so our neighborhood doesn't have very many kids, and our oldest has no one his age. So that's a big portion of why we want to move. How old is he? We owe about $182,000 on our house.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
My wife, she's a rock star. And so she's moving a book of business to a different institution. And that's one of her, that's one of her incentives. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Okay, so we owe about 182 on our house. We bought it for 265. What's it worth? It's now probably worth about 700 on the low end, I would say. It does need a renovation. We bought it when we had nothing. It was kind of an up-and-coming neighborhood, and it has just exploded. So our mortgage right now is about 1,700. I could rent it as is probably for about 2,700. I wouldn't do that. Keep rolling.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
OK, so and basically that's that's kind of what I want to know is, is I kind of want to keep the house because I think it'll be it'd be a great rental. I also just love the house. I love the neighborhood.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Yeah. So, so then that's, so the next house, the houses in this neighborhood go for like 1.5. Okay. So, so, you know, we could rent it, we could sell it. If we rent it, we could, we would need to do some renovations like kitchen, bathroom, our current house. But, and so. Well, I don't think you can have your. Should we take the million and put it all towards the other home? Should we take.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
$100,000 or $200,000 and put it towards renovations for this property and put $800,000 on the other home?
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Yeah. From a math perspective, it makes sense.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Okay, so I do have a car. So we have about 20,000 left on a car. I'll pay that tomorrow. I'll pay it off tomorrow. So that's done. After I pay the 20,000 left on my car, our emergency fund will be down to about 27,000. It should be about 115. For six months? For six months, yeah.
The Ramsey Show
Make Money Choices Today That You Won’t Regret Tomorrow
Our income is currently about $350. Let's go.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Self-Limitations Keep You From Building Wealth
So, um, so Dave, I am in step baby step five. Um, uh, I currently am renting, but I'm planning on building, building a house for my family soon. Um, so the main question is, um, so I know my fam, I know my parents, uh, retirement plan. I know they're. net worth, their house and everything. And after having calculated everything for them, they're barely going to scrape by.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Self-Limitations Keep You From Building Wealth
So I'm wondering, should I go towards like baby step six or take a much more active role in my parents' retirement?
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Self-Limitations Keep You From Building Wealth
Are you doing this for them? So we had a financial conversation and And they told me everything, and I actually did this calculation for them because I'm – I got that part.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Self-Limitations Keep You From Building Wealth
They didn't actively say – they didn't ask me actively, but it's just me seeing their situation, and I just feel like – they're just not thriving. You know, they're barely going to survive.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Self-Limitations Keep You From Building Wealth
Yeah, my dad, he's hitting the retirement age soon. Yep.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Self-Limitations Keep You From Building Wealth
And I don't even need the money. My mother is a retired nurse, so she has somewhat of a pension coming.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Self-Limitations Keep You From Building Wealth
Their current house worth is $600,000, but they paid that off.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Self-Limitations Keep You From Building Wealth
Yeah, so my dad, he's, yeah, so the thing is, like, I mean, I agree that if you can work, you can work. But my mother, she had to retire early due to health issues. My father, he's completely healthy, but recently he's developed like a heart condition and he had to get his valve replaced.
The Ramsey Show
Don’t Let Self-Limitations Keep You From Building Wealth
Yeah, I definitely don't have $5 million. You don't even own a house. And so, no, you're not.
The Ramsey Show
What Are You Willing To Give Up for Financial Freedom?
Hi, this is Kevin. So I have a question about what to do for the future. I'm 18. I make around an average of $14,000 a month doing home improvement sales. And right now I'm saving about 96% of what I make and putting it between S and P 500 and some other, um, funds just to pull cash out of really easily. I want to retire by the time I'm 26.
The Ramsey Show
What Are You Willing To Give Up for Financial Freedom?
I want to have the ability to retire, maybe not stop working, but I want to have the ability through dividends and rent from, uh, my renters. to retire. How would you best position myself to get to that position by 26?
The Ramsey Show
What Are You Willing To Give Up for Financial Freedom?
I want to make $12,000 a month from properties and dividends. I'm not sure the exact amount I'll need, but I do know that I'll need quite a few properties and quite a bit of cash in my accounts in order to make that income.
The Ramsey Show
What Are You Willing To Give Up for Financial Freedom?
I don't want to pull the money out. I just want to let it sit and give me money.
The Ramsey Show
What Are You Willing To Give Up for Financial Freedom?
Well, when I was 14, I really... I was watching a bunch of financial shows, including yours, and I realized what I really wanted was to have the ability to say F you to anyone when I reach 26, and I want to be able to have a drip. I like that.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Yeah, hey, thank you guys for taking my call. My question is... I pull a large sum of money out of my retirement investments to build a home. I'll give you a little back story. My wife and I are both over 59 1⁄2. She's retired, draws a pension of about $42,000 a year. I make about $142,000 of my salary. And we have got... About $1.85 million in investments.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Some pre-tax, Roth, and then some non-retirement investment accounts. And in that $1.85, there's roughly $200,000 in cash. What I'm hoping to do is try to pull some money out of my retirement investments to fund the house, but not cripple myself in retirement.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
I need about $750,000 for the purchase for the construction of the home. So part of that would be funded by the $200,000 in cash, still leaving us with a fully funded emergency fund. And then the balance we would pull out of them, most of it as we could out of the Roth, and then the balance would have to come out of the pre-tax accounts.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
We own our current home. We have no debt. We want to tear the house down to the property that we're on because it's the values in the land, not in the dwelling, and sort of build our dream home.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
That's correct. Yeah, so we're going to just tear down what we currently reside in, move out, and then build a home here.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Yeah, it'll be $750,000 is what the contract price will be, and we'll figure probably 10% for contingency money. So, you know, somewhere $825,000 to $850,000 we're thinking. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Yeah, we feel pretty good about that. We figure we'll have somewhere between 850 to 900K left in retirement investments. And then, you know, given the rate of return, you know, banking at 10%, hopefully for averaging the We feel like we'd be very comfortable.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
We hadn't anticipated pulling any kind of money towards, pulling Social Security money until we get full retirement age or even 70 if it permits. We don't feel pretty comfortable. Actually, we don't have any debt.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
It makes me nervous tapping into retirement funds.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Thank you for taking my call.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
So... I'm in $650,000 in debt, and that includes mortgage, personal loans, auto loans.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
The mortgage, I owe about $477,000. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Cars is about $62,000. For two cars? For two cars.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Keep going. Credit cards. Just me. I haven't done... My wife hasn't taken hers or broke hers down yet. But my cards are about... Oh, geez. I would say $25,000. Okay. Personal loans?
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Personal loans, small business, I would say $25,000.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
And then the rest in small loans like a firm and stuff like that.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
I haven't broken that down yet, but it's pretty much the rest of my debt.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
I'm guessing about $25,000. Mostly credit cards? Credit cards and personal.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
We had a little girl seven months ago. Oh, wow. That'll do it.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
She's stressed to the moon and back.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Where are you at emotionally?
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
I have a hard time connecting emotions to it. That's probably why I'm in this mess.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
Well, me and my wife work for my family business, and we work 40 hours a week. Well, I do. She stays at home with our little girl most of the time. But I want to work more, but I feel like I'm— a little selfish for wanting to work a lot more than 40 hours and not being home.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
We collect salaries. She works from home on her computer.
The Ramsey Show
If You Want to Build Wealth, Stop Acting Like Everyone Else
There's about $30,000 in the house, which I feel like is all fees for putting it on the market anyways.