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Private Property and Oppression
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| Today on the Charlie Kirk show and ask me anything episode. | |
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| We have a question here. | |
| Charlie, I keep on being told by my teacher that we are a systemically racist country. | |
| How do you suggest or recommend I respond to that? | |
| Well, that is consistent with what the ingrate Elon Omar consistently says, where she says we need to dismantle the whole system of oppression wherever we find it. | |
| Now, Elon Omar, being a beneficiary of the very country that she now wants to dismantle, again, of people that I have probably the most frustration with and disgust with, Elon Omar would be near the top. | |
| Her entire life, she lives a life of luxury and convenience, thanks to the nation that she now wants to dismantle that she calls oppressed. | |
| Elon Omar is just parroting postmodern, post-structuralist, quite honestly, Marxist talking points that really came into focus 1912, 1916 with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, one of America's worst presidents. | |
| Here's Elon Omar, Cut 61, saying we need to dismantle the whole system of oppression wherever we find it. | |
| Honestly, this should be the reason she's kicked off committees in addition to her anti-Jew bigotry. | |
| Play Cut 61. | |
| As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality. | |
| So we cannot stop at the criminal justice system. | |
| We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it. | |
| The whole system of oppression. | |
| What does she mean by that? | |
| She means private property rights. | |
| If there was to be a single issue where the American left and conservatives disagree the most, it would be the issue of private property. | |
| And that's not an insignificant issue. | |
| Unfortunately, that issue becomes far too abstract because it seems as if, oh, that's just an economic. | |
| No, that's a moral difference. | |
| In the original draft of the United States Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Independence for the United States, I should say, it was life, liberty, and property. | |
| When John Locke wrote about the need to own property, it was a moral argument that the government, the state, does not have the right to what you have earned, to what you have labored for. | |
| It also does not have the right to your thoughts, the right to your consciousness, the right to your developments, the right to your creation. | |
| When Elon Omar says that she wants to dismantle the system of oppression, it comes from a Rassoian, excuse me, Marxist view that private property itself is inherently evil. | |
| That the ability to accumulate property, to trade, to barter, to take risk, is in itself flawed. | |
| This is one of the great divides in America. | |
| You cannot have liberty without robust private property rights. | |
| One of the great differences between the third world and mob democracy, and we are not fans of democracy on this program because we actually explain what democracy is. | |
| Democracy always ends up in dictatorship, always. | |
| It's inevitable. | |
| We are, of course, supporters of constitutional government and representative government, which sometimes gets mislabeled as democracy. | |
| But in the third world, one of the things that they do not have is private property rights. | |
| The government, the mafia, the cartel, someone richer or stronger than you can come along and take what you have earned. | |
| If you talk to people who live in the third world or you ever visit the third world, they live in constant fear that somebody more powerful than them can come and take what they treasure. | |
| What America set up and established was a system of courts that recognized that you can keep what you earn. | |
| That is a hedge against tyranny. | |
| That means that a state or local government just can't come in and take your farm. | |
| They can't come and take your business. | |
| They can't come and take your car. | |
| They can't come and take your savings. | |
| This then protects and gives you a sense of comfort to then take risk, to invest, and it creates economic stability. | |
| A society that is constantly afraid that someone is going to confiscate or take away your stuff, there's never going to be any investment. | |
| There's never going to be any reason to take a risk. | |
| How can you possibly have entrepreneurs? | |
| How can you have economic development? | |
| How can you have the improvement of products if people don't think that their risk will be protected if successful? | |
| The modern American left does not believe in the moral basis for private property. | |
| They think that if you accumulate wealth or that if you have wealth or not even wealth because that gets misrepresented as yachts and private planes, nothing wrong with all that stuff. | |
| But let's just say if you accumulate anything of value that might then be traded to be liquidated into currency and then bartered, if you have anything of value, if you believe that value can disappear because of somebody more powerful than you or somebody evil, then you don't have a society. | |
| So when Elon Omar is talking about dismantling the system of oppression, what she's really getting at is the central cord. | |
| It is the central organizing principle of a constitutional republic, private property rights. | |
| This is exactly why environmentalism is so insidious. | |
| The environmentalist movement at its core is about destroying private property rights. | |
| It's just another means to a desired end. | |
| Environmentalism of numerous fossil fuels, limiting how much you can travel, limiting how much you can drive, limiting the type of home you own, limiting how your business operates. | |
| ESG is private property manipulation and confiscation by a separate name. | |
| Now, when I talk about private property, it is an understandably wonky topic. | |
| People's eyes roll over. | |
| Okay, yeah, private property, how does that impact me? | |
| And most of those people don't own anything. | |
| They're mostly young and they're in college, so it doesn't really necessarily resonate with them. | |
| But I could say the idea of private property does also get into your private thoughts. | |
| Are you able to monetize and own? | |
| Are you even able to express your own opinions? | |
| It comes back to autonomy, agency, sovereignty, and individual free will. | |
| If you believe that we are free beings, which of course I do believe, then you have to believe in private property. | |
| If you do not believe in free will, which has been really illuminating to me, how many people on the secular left and in scientific communities do not believe in free will? | |
| It's a dominant view in American scientific postmodern communities that it's just all cause and effect, that everything is just cause and effect playing out. | |
| You really don't have your own agency. | |
| And this is preposterous, obviously. | |
| And it's actually could be disproven. | |
| It was recently disproven by a disproven. | |
| I can't remember. | |
| I'll find the study. | |
| It's brilliant in a level of science that is quite honestly beyond my comprehension. | |
| But you know that you're a free being. | |
| Obviously, the entire, I mean, this is why as America becomes more secular, we become more insane. | |
| The whole Bible is based on this idea that you are a free being with agency and freedom of will and freedom of movement. | |
| And therefore, if you are able to have agency, then you must have some sort of system that establishes a reward system, otherwise known as incentives, for properly using that agency for good, not for evil. | |
| Email us freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| When Elon Omar talks about dismantling the systems of oppression, that's what she means. | |
| Your question was more about systemic racism and stuff. | |
| We're going to get into that throughout the hour, but I did want to focus on private property. | |
| I don't think we talk about it enough. | |
| It is critical. | |
| It is instrumental. | |
| It is necessary to a free society. | |
| You cannot have a free society. | |
| You cannot have a flourishing society if you do not have an independent court system, an independent judiciary that is able to protect your stuff from powerful people. | |
| Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here. | |
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The Missouri Compromise Debate
00:07:32
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| There is this new app. | |
| It's not even an app. | |
| It's a platform, ChatGPT, which is a chat bot launched by OpenAI in November of 2022. | |
| It's built on top of OpenAI's GPT-3 family of large language models. | |
| If you have not played around with it, I encourage you guys to do that so you can really grasp how things are changing in front of you. | |
| As I showed on the program yesterday, you can open up, I mean, I bought an app equivalent. | |
| You have to pay for the service. | |
| It uses the technology Chat GPT as the back, but there's no waiting line because you just pay like 20 bucks or something to do it. | |
| And so you just say, write a poem about Tom Brady retiring, because we are going to talk about that in the next segment. | |
| And so then it will take a little second and then we'll write a poem. | |
| It's unique and it basically, quote unquote, has a mind of its own. | |
| Yeah, I mean, essentially, it does and should creep you out. | |
| So, right now, the machine is writing a poem. | |
| Tom Brady, the greatest of all time, his career was a thing of sublime. | |
| He won six Super Bowls at the Pats. | |
| His legacy will never collapse. | |
| He was the leader of the team. | |
| His skill and talent were supreme. | |
| He was the GOAT. | |
| No one could deny. | |
| His greatness will never die. | |
| He was the master of the game. | |
| His skill and talent were to blame. | |
| He was the king of the field. | |
| His greatness will never yield. | |
| Tom Brady, the greatest of all time, his career was a thing of sublime. | |
| He'll remember forever. | |
| His legacy will live on forever. | |
| So that's just a short poem that the machine automatically generated when I asked it just something randomly. | |
| You could do it about almost any book, any topic. | |
| It'll happen basically instantaneously. | |
| So the obvious is that, okay, this is going to displace a ton of jobs. | |
| Copywriters, people that mindlessly stare at their screen and angrily type for the New York Times. | |
| Sorry, you're going to be out of a job because you could easily be replaced because what you do is mindless anyway. | |
| And this is actually probably even more mindful than you. | |
| It is programmed by super woke people, which is very interesting. | |
| So almost all their answers tilt in a very left-wing direction, right? | |
| So you can ask about why conservatives don't have free speech, and it will talk about it eloquently. | |
| You know, you could talk about why Biden is the best president ever, but if you say anything conservative, it says we don't do that, which is interesting, but in some ways is a comforting kind of job insurance policy for those of us in the right-wing world. | |
| So look, the cons are very obvious. | |
| Let's go through the cons of what this technology is. | |
| I think it's going to destroy homework as we know it. | |
| Kids are not going to really write essays anymore. | |
| They're already not. | |
| Cheating is widespread, and most parents have no idea how to even deal with it and they don't address it. | |
| It will obviously dehumanize us if we don't seize the technology and make the technology work for us. | |
| There might be this new kind of movement of no longer needing to work. | |
| It could make people more lazy and slothful. | |
| It could make people no longer willing to think because now I could literally just open it up. | |
| And let's say I was a freshman in college right now and it's five minutes before deadline. | |
| Okay, write an essay. | |
| How about this? | |
| Write an essay about anything random, about the Missouri compromise. | |
| And so put that down, give it 20 or 30 seconds. | |
| I'll just take a sip of tea, whatever. | |
| And then within five minutes for deadline, I'll have a fully written essay copywritten and grammatically precise at about a sophomore level of high school that will do all the work for me. | |
| Who needs to go to college when a machine can do it for you? | |
| By the way, this is already happening in a lot of college classes. | |
| Kids are no longer engaging at all. | |
| Parents have no idea that this is actually occurring. | |
| That's not a good thing. | |
| Okay. | |
| This is bad. | |
| The fact that I can literally have a college-level written essay by just tapping a little bit into an app, I don't think it's good. | |
| And so, yeah, right now, it's writing an entire essay in front of my very eyes about the Missouri compromise. | |
| Now, some people say that professors can prove that it was artificial intelligence. | |
| Most people that I trust say that the professors cannot prove that it was AI. | |
| And so, if you're in college right now and you basically want to cheat, there is a you never have to work again. | |
| You could just get whatever grades mean nothing. | |
| They haven't meant anything for quite a while, but now they really don't need it. | |
| By the way, it's still writing. | |
| It's just going to write probably 10 paragraphs about the Missouri Compromise that in five minutes you could submit it for a grade. | |
| Now, where it gets to be creepy and where it gets to be really concerning is that we're training the chat GPT system as we use it. | |
| It's crowd-sourced evolution. | |
| Just like Tesla's autopilot system, Tesla will release an imperfect autopilot system at first, but it learns. | |
| So, as it does this essay in front of me right now, it's doing the Missouri Compromise essay right now. | |
| I'm going to give it feedback and it will then improve over a period of time. | |
| And so, it doesn't take, you don't have to be that into the technology to speculate where this is heading, which is, is this the end of creative work? | |
| Is this the end of speaking creatively? | |
| Is this the end of writing? | |
| Is this the end of painting for sure? | |
| Anyone who draws, anyone who paints, you're done, right? | |
| It does better art than most art I've seen. | |
| The art is fabulous, and it does it within seconds. | |
| So, homework is over. | |
| School is over as we know it. | |
| 2022 is history. | |
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| How will you make it better than last year? | |
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| This is interesting. | |
| Don says, Charlie, AI might be able to write and do some fantastic things. | |
| However, creativity isn't one of them when it comes to creative writing, in my opinion. | |
| I write fiction as a hobby. | |
| I know that my writing comes from within. | |
| I don't follow any rules or guidelines. | |
| The story writes itself. | |
| I'm just a scribe. | |
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AI, Machines, and the Soul
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| It's this nuisance that makes the difference. | |
| Now, Don, I understand that, but if the technology continues to progress and the technology is able to, for example, upload 3 million different fiction books and read it within a minute and then see patterns of what is most popular, | |
| language combinations, diction, syntax, vocab, and then regurgitate it, it will crowdsource its own evolution and it will learn how to write fiction. | |
| You see, this is what's different than other technologies: is that people say, well, Charlie, it's no different than the wheel or the steam engine. | |
| Well, this is one that will constantly improve. | |
| And eventually, some people, it might say you might achieve singularity, which is self-awareness or sentience. | |
| That remains to be seen. | |
| Okay, so I wrote yesterday because I was thinking deeply about this, the pros and cons of AI in my very sophisticated notepad. | |
| I love notepads. | |
| You guys should use them. | |
| So the pros, I went through the cons, obviously, dehumanize us. | |
| Because I said it can't all be negative, right? | |
| I mean, the obvious ones are, I mean, the obvious positives: okay, you have a lot more free time. | |
| You don't have to waste your time doing things you don't want to do. | |
| That medical breakthroughs are definitely a positive, right? | |
| You could identify cancer more easily. | |
| You'll be able to get people better treatment. | |
| Imagine a machine that could look at a million mammograms that could do 500,000 cancer screenings and immediately detect patterns based on bone density, lipid counts, blood cell, look at blood work, and then be able to map out projections of what kind of treatments might be best. | |
| This pattern recognition, right? | |
| Which otherwise, you know, experienced doctors who are in the field for 40 or 50 years have a gut instinct. | |
| They kind of know what it is. | |
| The machine doesn't have to have a gut instinct. | |
| They can have pattern recognition. | |
| You input a million different issues with a disease, and they say, all of a sudden, wow, okay, obviously this drug, this treatment, this protocol has worked for these people. | |
| It can massively improve medical outcomes. | |
| That's not hyperbole. | |
| That's not hyperbole, that is a potential positive from this type of technology. | |
| Also, from traffic grids to stock picking. | |
| Again, that is more of an area where I think we're willing to see some improvements because I think we're tired and really upset with the amount of people that die from autoimmune diseases and die from cancer and die from previously undetected tumors. | |
| We're having potentially a piece of technology that can then look at these patterns and then detect them, I think, is really positive. | |
| Okay, so the negatives, let me go through them again, right? | |
| We very well might not be in control. | |
| It's technology very soon. | |
| That is not a new concept. | |
| Just watch Terminator. | |
| Okay. | |
| They built an entire movie series around Cyberdyne systems in Terminator. | |
| Matrix has the similar thing. | |
| Ex-Machina is a very similar type of genre. | |
| Oblivion is a similar type of genre with Tom Cruise. | |
| It's been played out in Hollywood. | |
| And Brave New World is to a lesser extent with Aldous Huxley. | |
| So obviously, there's a chance that we're no longer in control. | |
| What guarantees do we have from the very same people that have been wrong about everything? | |
| The elites that lied about the vaccine, lied about the virus, lied about masks, lied about lockdowns, are somehow going to be able to assure us the technology will not take care of us. | |
| That's a problem. | |
| Number two, this will disincentivize creative production. | |
| Potentially, there's an inverse to that, right? | |
| Where some people might say, what's the point in even painting? | |
| What's the point in writing a poem? | |
| What's the point in writing a song if the machine is just better than us all the time? | |
| I'm going to challenge that one because I actually think that one might not be totally correct. | |
| Okay. | |
| People could no longer feel wanted or needed because of mass job displacement, right? | |
| If you're going to get rid of 30 million jobs, which I think is a fair assumption, 30 million jobs are going to disappear. | |
| What are people going to do with their free time? | |
| And they say, oh, they're going to write poetry. | |
| Well, why write poetry if the machine writes poetry for me? | |
| Well, you can go for a walk in the park. | |
| Okay, well, that might be good. | |
| It will definitely open up free time, but there's going to be a huge existential crisis that happens because of this because people that otherwise were working and found value in work are not going to really know what to do all day long. | |
| Number three is that this, so here's the other negatives. | |
| Before I get to the positives, this is going to make the argument for Marxism and communism a lot easier. | |
| They're going to try to create a technocratic Marxist Star Trek type society. | |
| The machines can do all the work for us. | |
| We should get rid of currency. | |
| We should get rid of private property. | |
| Everything is shared, plug into the Borg. | |
| And it is inherently totalitarian, by the way, because if the machine says it, it must be smarter than you. | |
| Disconnection from human interaction, when I can have a conversation and relationship with people like in the movie Her. | |
| They will say that we all need shared ownership of artificial intelligence and the AIs will then be designed for the woke. | |
| It very well could become a woke super weapon, which kind of goes through some of the other negatives. | |
| The bias, the people that are writing the code here are all left-wing activists, like all of them. | |
| What's to hold it accountable? | |
| The same people that run our college campuses are going to run our artificial intelligence machines. | |
| That should give you no comfort. | |
| Security and privacy, it'll infect every part of your life and obviously job displacement. | |
| Okay, that's all the negatives, right? | |
| And so we can keep on going through that one by one and kind of go through that. | |
| But are there any positives? | |
| Well, the medical one's obviously a positive. | |
| So here's the promise I made to myself yesterday on the airplane from Phoenix to Arizona. | |
| As I went through the positives, is I am going to make a commitment to become the best possible human being I can be until a machine beats me. | |
| So it's a challenge, right? | |
| Which is, if you accept this as an intellectual arms race and a creative arms race, which I personally am going to, I'm going to say game on. | |
| I'm probably going to lose, but I'm going to do my darndest and I'm going to do my best to try to do the very to flourish the best a human being can for our species up against the machine. | |
| Said differently, it's going to push me to be the best version of myself. | |
| If there is now a machine that can write an essay, I have to then ask myself, what do I have to bring to the table? | |
| Maybe I could write a better essay than that. | |
| Maybe, well, of course, beyond having a soul, right, which is a very important thing. | |
| It's like, let's not forget we have souls, okay? | |
| That you're just not cause and effect, that it's not just all material, that you have a soul, very important. | |
| And actually, as another positive of all this, maybe this can spark a massive religious revival of you are not just consciousness, that your humanity is more than matter and consciousness, that there is a part of your being that a machine will never have. | |
| Maybe that will be a positive out of this. | |
| That'd be kind of cool. | |
| And there's also, again, I do not, one of the things that drives me nuts about the left is this, it's also very Hegelian, is this assuredness of inevitability. | |
| That sounds duplicative. | |
| Is that they're so confident in the inevitable unfolding of things. | |
| There is no guarantee, by the way, this technology continues to go at the pace of exponential improvement. | |
| It could flatline. | |
| Investment could taper. | |
| It could end up being kind of like a parlor trick. | |
| Like, yeah, write a poem for me. | |
| Like, okay, yeah, great, whatever. | |
| But can it write a symphony similar to Beethoven? | |
| Can it have human-like interactions? | |
| Does it have any sort of moral compass? | |
| Of course not, right? | |
| So it's very possible that this just kind of lives and dies as a parlor trick and creates a lot of problems for teachers and for homework. | |
| Possible, the people I've talked to in the last 24 hours in the coding software space are not that worried about it. | |
| They say this technology has a long way to go. | |
| They think it's not that impressive. | |
| This has been around for quite a while. | |
| So for example, if you use Gmail and it has suggested responses to your emails at the bottom, you ever see that? | |
| That's a form of artificial intelligence. | |
| Google Maps saying that there's a faster route, that's artificial intelligence. | |
| So in some ways, we're already living around this technology. | |
| It's just super creepy when you ask it to write an original poem or song. | |
| And I share that feeling of creepiness, by the way. | |
| Like that's not something I've encountered before. | |
| And then we're allowing to have AI improve itself. | |
| And so maybe the machine gets better. | |
| Will we ever be able to catch up with it or will we stay ahead of it? | |
| I don't know. | |
| But it certainly also does this. | |
| Here's the other positive, is that it's going to keep us on our toes to fulfill Genesis 126 and 127. | |
| What is a human being? | |
| I've asked that question my entire career. | |
| What is a human being? | |
| And if you cannot answer that question, you do not have, I think, a properly oriented worldview. | |
| This is going to force that question into the sphere. | |
| If you are just, again, cause and effect, Darwinian evolution, a bunch of cells, but maybe you are made in the image of your creator. | |
| Maybe you're a bearer of that image. | |
| Maybe you have a soul. | |
| And so it's going to force me to be even sharper and better. | |
| It's going to push me to be the best version of myself. | |
| That's my commitment. | |
| By the way, other people are not going to make this commitment. | |
| There's a very cynical take to this, right? | |
| Oh, what's the point in living? | |
| Yeah, sure, of course. | |
| Okay, fine. | |
| I'm making these promises before the machines take over. | |
| Okay. | |
| I encourage you to do the same. | |
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Tom Brady vs. Belichick
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| It might not be as bad as we think it is. | |
| It very well could be. | |
| Joe Allen thinks it will be. | |
| I probably think it will be. | |
| But it also might not, it might plateau. | |
| It might not improve the way you think it will. | |
| And it will definitely improve the speed of mundane tasks. | |
| And if it improves the way it should, millions of lives will be saved through medical improvements. | |
| That is for sure. | |
| The biggest impediment to medical advancement is the lack of widespread data and transparent information to be able to get people the information they need for the treatment they deserve. | |
| Sven from Santa Barbara has a question. | |
| Charlie, what do you think of Tom Brady? | |
| Is he the greatest of all time? | |
| So there's some questions that honestly don't even need to be debated. | |
| But amazingly, this guy who gets paid to spew nonsense on television, what's his name? | |
| Never heard of him before. | |
| Mike Francesca. | |
| I'd never heard of him. | |
| Says no. | |
| I mean, Tom Brady's overrated. | |
| Play cut 112. | |
| Tom Brady made himself great. | |
| He wasn't great. | |
| He wasn't great in college. | |
| He lost his job, which is what fueled him his whole life. | |
| He's the most competitive person anybody's ever met. | |
| And he worked harder than anybody ever to be this good. | |
| He made himself this good. | |
| He didn't start out that way. | |
| He was drafted late. | |
| He had a terrible body. | |
| It took him time to do it. | |
| He's not the best regular season quarterback I've ever seen. | |
| Peyton Manning was. | |
| He's not the best Super Bowl quarterback who ever lived. | |
| Joe Montana is. | |
| What he is, though, is the guy who played the longest and he won the most games. | |
| He won the most Super Bowls. | |
| So he will be remembered because nobody's going to play 23 years and nobody's probably ever going to have a chance to win that many Super Bowls. | |
| It's almost impossible to do. | |
| He was in the right place with the right coach and he was that competitive. | |
| So is he the greatest of all time or not, Mike? | |
| It's right place, right time means absolutely nothing. | |
| Okay. | |
| So basically his argument is that he's a system quarterback. | |
| I mean, not only does Brady have the most career passing touchdowns, most career passing yards, most career completions, most career wins as a starting quarterback, most seasons with 4,000 or more passing yards, but he also has won the most Super Bowls. | |
| Seven. | |
| Is it really seven? | |
| That's so hard to believe. | |
| Seven Super Bowls. | |
| The first football game I ever remember watching as a human being was Tom Brady versus the greatest show on turf. | |
| Kurt Warner, Marshall Falk, and then the St. Louis Rams against the New England Patriots. | |
| If I remember correctly, Blake can look it up. | |
| That was one of the great upsets in Super Bowl history. | |
| I think the greatest show on turf was like eight or nine point favorites, which is unusual in a Super Bowl. | |
| If I remember correctly, that is the 2001 Super Bowl. | |
| You could fact-check me on that. | |
| Is that right? | |
| The 2001 Super Bowl, Marshall Falk, and I love Kurt Warner, by the way. | |
| I'm a huge Kurt Warner fan. | |
| This is not an anti-Kurt Warner segment. | |
| It was the 2001. | |
| Go find the line on that game. | |
| It was a huge surprise. | |
| And Tom Brady, I think Adam Vinatieri kicked the game in the field. | |
| Oh, it was the 2001 season, 2002 Super Bowl. | |
| Okay, anyway. | |
| Tom Brady was the greatest ever to live, period. | |
| And by the way, you want a real hot take? | |
| Francesca, whatever this guy's name is, Eli Manning did not deserve to win those Super Bowls. | |
| He barely won those Super Bowls. | |
| Okay. | |
| You want to talk about a 14-point upset? | |
| I was right. | |
| Yeah, it was a 14-point line. | |
| Eli Manning, nice guy, very average television commentator. | |
| By the way, why is everyone crapping on Tony Romo? | |
| He's awesome. | |
| I love Tony Romo. | |
| He's amazing. | |
| He's like the best commentator out there. | |
| I don't know. | |
| All this anti-Tony Romo stuff is not good. | |
| Eli Manning, average cable commentator. | |
| Peyton's actually really good. | |
| Peyton's terrific. | |
| Eli's average. | |
| Eli's a game manager, okay? | |
| Peyton, fabulous. | |
| I'll never say a negative word about Peyton, but you want to, Francesca, who's a New York bias guy, obviously. | |
| You want to talk about someone who is overrated? | |
| Eli Manning was overrated. | |
| Right place, right time. | |
| Michael Jordan being the greatest basketball player of all time, and Tom Brady being the greatest football player of all time. | |
| It's no question. | |
| And here's why. | |
| Tom Brady was seven and three in Super Bowls, two of which were questionable, one of which was incredibly questionable, okay? | |
| I'm talking about the helmet catch, fourth and eight. | |
| I think that was the undefeated season, too, when Tom Brady was going for the undefeated. | |
| He would have been like 19-0 or something, right? | |
| It's not even close. | |
| Pressure shows the man, is what Aristotle says. | |
| Pressure shows you who you're dealing with. | |
| And Tom Brady, under the greatest pressure, time and time again, would deliver. | |
| Most comeback victories. | |
| Remember the Falcons come back 28-3? | |
| Poor Falcons fans. | |
| Brady came back after an ACL tear and played 13 more seasons, retired, came out of retirement, moved from the Patriots and won another Super Bowl at the Buccaneers. | |
| Yeah, what about that, Francesca? | |
| He's a game manager, really. | |
| What were the Buccaneers doing before Tom Brady showed up? | |
| It was 20 years after Chucky was coach, John Gruden, and they were in the NFL desert. | |
| Brady comes and brings them back to excellence. | |
| That's the mark of the greatest of all time if you can win in a completely different market. | |
| It's all because of Belichick, really. | |
| He basically became coach and quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and won a Super Bowl. | |
| Thanks so much for listening, everybody. | |
| Email me your thoughts as always freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| Thank you so much for listening, and God bless. | |
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