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I'm taking us in today, which is unusual because Jack is in transit.
He's been in Davos covering the World Economic Forum.
Jack, can you hear us?
Yeah, I'm actually here in studio.
Oh, he made it back.
He did.
Holy cow, he made it.
See, this was a big question we had.
Was Jack going to make it?
Can you guys not see me?
Like, I'm literally on a camera.
No, I can't.
We have this technology.
They came to me, Jack, which I thought was clue for, you know, Jack's not with us.
I'm really sad we didn't have Jack on phone, though, because we actually whipped up a calling graphic for him.
Yeah, we had his claim at events photo and we fed it through the Chad filter on Snapchat.
We just see it anyways.
And oh, yeah, do we have that loaded up?
We should load it up anyway because it's great.
You're going to make you look awesome, Jack.
I just want you to know.
We had to make me.
Throw that up as soon as you can.
There we are.
There we are.
That's the Greenland GigaChat, right?
Chad?
Greenland Giga Chat.
I thought you said you guys were going to put a filter on this.
Where's the filter?
That's just a normal.
You know how many people after your post asked me if you were in Greenland?
Like, I got so many questions.
You had to have got asked like a million times.
No, so actually, wait a minute.
I got to send you guys, I have to send this in the chat because, so I literally, people are like, wait, how are you back in studio?
So I flew from Davos all the way back.
I'm back in studio right now.
But check this out.
I flew over Greenland today and I actually got to like see parts of Greenland.
So, oh yeah, I met that's Caroline Levitt and Sonny Joey Nelson right outside, like literally right outside the president.
And that's, you know, with the Alps in the background there.
And that's, that's the entrance to the World Economic Forum.
Davos is kind of a dump, by the way.
It's like one of the worst cities in the world, just in terms of a city.
Like you'd never want to go there for tourism.
I suppose the skiing is like okay, but it's not even really good for like what makes it so bad.
It can't even be that big.
It's only a few thousand people, right?
What's the equivalent?
No, it's not big.
It's literally, it's a dump.
And I remember when I went there four years ago, when I got detained when I was there with Turning Point and we called into the Charlie Kirk show, I remember saying the same thing.
Like everyone thinks Davos is some like high-end luxury town.
And no, it's not.
It's like super dumpy.
It's like really nothing to write home about.
Again, the view is amazing.
There's no question about that.
It's the Alps.
It's literally one of the most gorgeous places in the world.
Of course, no question.
But the city itself, it's run down.
It's kind of dingy.
There aren't really any like luxury hotels.
There's like one out.
You have to drive where, so like where Trump was staying was all the way outside of town just because that's the only place you could go to get something like halfway decent.
So what's the equivalent in America of Davos?
Oh gosh.
Equivalent.
Burlington.
Oh, man.
See, if I were to say that, see, now I'm going to like, now I'm going to offend somebody.
It's basically like, okay.
All right.
Put it this way.
Picture this.
Beach resort.
All right.
But now, beach resort in New Jersey.
Yeah, I've seen this.
It's the equivalent of going to Seattle.
I've seen this.
I'm not going to say anything because I feel like the hatred, the amount of hatred that I would get.
What's that one sound?
Do you not say that?
By the way, I don't mean Jersey Shore towns because there's some decent beach towns like Cape May, for example.
Tyler, I know you're a fan.
You cannot trash Jersey Shore anything.
You will have to be able to do that.
Avalon is very nice.
We're actually going to be talking about Atlantic City in an upcoming segment.
Myrtle Beach is like, I love, no, it's MAGA country.
I will tell you.
Oh, wait, wait, Ocean.
Justice Smarlette wants nothing to do with Myrtle Beach.
That's a great example.
Which one?
Just awful.
Just like Ocean City, Maryland.
Just terrible.
Just absolutely terrible.
It's like a carnival cruise of beach towns.
Is it like Atlantic City, maybe?
You could say?
It's like Atlantic City now, basically.
I mean, as compared to like, growing up, we used to always go to Atlantic City.
So I remember Atlantic City when it was in its heyday.
When I was a kid, we stayed actually one night at the Trump Taj Mahal because my dad had this conference in town, and I remember bringing Masega Genesis.
I was all excited so I could play Sonic in the hotel room.
But yes, we actually stayed at the Trump.
And it was like, the whole town was just incredible.
And it ain't like that no more.
It's so run down.
And like half the clientele are like our Chinese.
Excuse me.
You know, they have these huge Chinese sections all over the Atlantic City casinos.
I forget why I was there, you know, a couple of years ago.
And I was like, this whole town is just trash.
Because basically, like, FanDuel came in and, you know, all Pennsylvania opened up gambling and table games and slots.
So it just, it didn't really have the allure, right?
I think we did a segment on this a couple shows ago.
We were talking about how, you know, gambling used to be sort of this thing where it was like only Vegas or only AC.
And now it's like, you just do it everywhere.
Hey, don't forget about Renee.
What is it?
It's like the biggest biggest industry right now, fastest growing industry or something.
I think it's really bad.
It's a really bad development that we have gambling all over the country.
Blake probably has some stats on hand for it, but it's just at least it was isolated and you could get away from it and people with real bad problems could they had to go out of their way in order to indulge those problems.
Footage Of Greenland00:02:24
And now it's just everywhere and it's ruining a lot of young men's lives.
It's very sad.
Very sad state of it.
But I'm setting in this footage because I actually, I don't think I've ever actually seen Greenland before.
And I saw Greenland.
There it is.
Here we go.
We'll send it over.
So we'll have them pull it up.
It was gorgeous.
The mountains were really cool to see.
When people don't, people don't realize, by the way, that there's a funny climate change thing you can talk about because people are like, well, it's all ice.
Why is it all ice?
Yes, but because when the Vikings found it, it was so green that you could actually, like, there were parts of southern Greenland.
They found it, what it was like 900 AD, basically, Leif Erickson and all.
So you could see that.
We're sneezing over here.
Sorry, Jay.
Yeah, sorry about that.
No, no, I mean, I don't think it was quite like that.
I think they named it Greenland because it was a scam and they wanted to get people to move there from Iceland.
That's what I sound better.
No, you could actually farm.
You can look it up.
You could, you could.
It was.
You could farm there.
But it wasn't great.
They had farming.
They had sheep.
They had all that up right up until about the 1400s.
And then there was what's called the Little Ice Age came about.
It just wiped that all out.
Well, and then recently the sea lanes have opened back up around the ice sheet.
So it is kind of an admission that there has been ice that's melting.
Is that you?
This is you?
Yeah, this is my footage.
It's sideways for some reason.
But yeah, that's me filming that out of the plane today, looking at Greenland right there.
Surveying my, so I announced my candidacy for I want to be the first governor of Greenland.
I've got the map there on the back of the chair for as proof.
And so I'm announcing my candidacy for the governor of Greenland.
I would make an excellent governor of Greenland.
I know all about protecting borders.
And look, these are going to be new borders that need to be protected from who?
Somalian pirates and Somalian scammers.
Under my administration, I will make sure that not one Somali scammer sets foot on any foot of snow, not even one foot of snow, will be graced by a Somalian scammer's foot.
Dinks vs. Henrys00:08:52
That is my promise to the great people of Greenland.
I would vote for you, Jack.
I would, there you go.
I would vote for you.
Absolutely.
Shall we get into it?
Yes.
All right.
We have a very important topic that we need to jump into immediately.
And it's one that I can know Charlie would have loved a lot.
And I'm very sad we can't hear how he would react to this because we need to talk about the dinks and the Henrys.
Okay, define our terms.
All right.
So a dink.
A dink is dual income, no kids.
It describes a large number of annoying upper middle class professionals on the East and sometimes West Coast.
Lots of gays.
Lots of gays.
Lots of gay men with straight women.
Just lots of interesting.
The first place I ever heard dink was when I lived in China, actually.
That was a huge thing in China when I was there.
Oh, I thought you were making fun of their language.
Okay, keep going.
Oh, and then, so lots of dinks.
No, no, no.
And even in the Fairly Odd Parents, if your kids ever watch that or something, the next door neighbors that his dad is envious of are called the Dinklebergs, and they don't have kids and they always have more stuff than his family.
That's probably referenced.
Anyway, Dinks.
And then we're talking about Henry's.
Wasn't the Dinks also the name of the neighbors in Doug?
Remember Doug?
I think you're right, actually.
It is the Dinks.
Oh, they might have been.
Man, that's like ancient history.
Wait, the Dinks?
Doug fell out.
And if they don't have kids, I've never even heard of that.
Someone looked into that.
Someone looked at that.
And then we have Henry's Gen Zer is.
So we have Henrys, which means high earner, not rich yet.
And that is a term.
We have all these fun acronyms, and they're coming from another acronym, the fire community.
Do you guys know about FIRE?
So FIRE is financially independent, retire early.
It's people whose lives revolve around trying to save money as much as possible so they can quit their jobs instead of the normal go work till you're 65 or work forever or whatever.
Charlie, as we know, was not a fan of the concept of retirement.
They want to retire ASAP.
They want to try to hoard money, retire at 35, and then live off of whatever they've saved from that point on, either through passive income or just not spending money.
And it leads to a lot of very entertaining content.
And so this one, this one went viral.
This was on Reddit.
They're all congregating on a Reddit.
Not a good sign.
We need to talk about this.
Oh, we easily could.
But we need to talk about this thread that happened the other day.
And it was on the Henry Finance subreddit.
But they have a whole subreddit.
Oh, they do.
Oh, they have many subreddits.
And so the Henry Finance thread is, how do Henrys afford to start a family in New York City?
So let's just read it here.
Happy 2026.
We are a 37-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman, dink couple in New York City interested in starting a family, but feel we don't have any good options for how to proceed.
I'm interested in what other Henrys think about starting a family in a VH Coal vehicle.
I don't know.
Very high cost of living city while staying on the fire track or maybe giving up on fire to have kids.
Any advice would be appreciated.
So this is a family.
Giving up or delaying.
They're worried.
They're worried that they might just have to give up on kids or give up on financial independence because it's just too expensive.
Can we guess what their income is that makes them concerned that they can't save any money while having kids in New York?
Well, I know the answer already.
Well, does anyone else not see it?
Do you have a guess, Tyler?
Hmm, I don't have a guess.
All right.
Well, the answer is they make over $900,000.
Guacamole.
So person one is a senior something in big tech.
He makes $420,000.
The second person is an associate at a D-tier investment bank, not a prestigious investment bank, lower tier.
Only makes $340,000.
Basically starvation wages.
He described his wife as being part of a D-tier.
Well, he only says person one and person two.
I'm just sexistly assuming.
I thought she was D-tier.
And maybe, you know, I could make a lot of jokes here, but I won't.
Anyway, so with some other investments they have, they make over $920,000 a year.
But their reliable income is only $700,000.
Some of that is not, it's a little more tenuous.
So $700,000 a year.
And so he's thinking, how can we afford a family?
And he lays out their expenses to make it clear how much it would be a struggle to add a child to this.
So they have $113,000 in non-discretionary spending.
This is $97,000 a year on rent, $7,000 on groceries, $6,000 on bills, and $2,000 on riding the New York subway.
Wait, how much?
$2,000 on transit, he says.
And then they have $173,000 in discretionary spending.
This is their optional spending.
Let's lay it out here.
We have $32,000 a year on dining out.
We have $20,000 a year on entertainment.
We have $12,000 a year on personal care.
We have $42,000 a year on shopping.
And we have, wait for it, $66,000 a year on travel.
And I read that and all I could think of is I think I could travel full time and I could not spend $66,000 a year.
Like I don't think that that does not match my daily spend while traveling.
Blake would just sleep on like sidewalks and things like that.
No, you could just stay in like a cheap Airbnb.
These things are not expensive.
Or like hostels.
When I was broke and traveling in college, I stayed at hostels.
Even going to, like, when I was in Italy in October, my friend and I were booking rooms like only one night in advance and it was like under 100 euros a night.
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Yeah.
No, I mean, listen, I find this interesting.
Actually, the most interesting part about their question is they are wondering if they should abandon FHIR, which again, to find the acronym, it's Henry High Income.
Oh, FHIR's financial independence retire early.
Retire early.
So their whole value prop is based around this idea, I want to quit my job as early as possible and just retire.
So they are willing to even ask the question of whether or not they should have kids because this will screw up their fire plans.
Yes.
So there's obviously an entire fire community that's highly developed, that's highly ideological, and this is what their big impediment is.
Did we look at any of the answers?
Yeah.
I just, it's funny and striking to me because I've never even asked this question before.
Like, I've never even wondered, should I have kids or not have kids because I want to retire?
Yeah, it's a huge value decay.
And I mean, I guess I don't have kids yet.
But it's fundamentally insane to me that you would reject kids for that reason.
But it is, that is the way values have evolved where people, they just prioritize these retirement plans.
Even the idea of like the kind of retire early as your main goal in life.
I understand why people do that.
It does point towards people who have jobs that they feel don't give them any meaning and they really hate doing them.
And that can be a product of work itself.
Like a lot of office jobs are terrible.
But Charlie, as we said, Charlie really believed that retirement should not be something you aspire to.
You might not always have the same role.
Like once you get old, maybe you should step away from running a big organization and focus on philanthropy or community engagement.
Take a job at your church and dial things back.
Teaching.
Javier from Rav Espanol00:06:37
I think retirees should all teach.
I think we're screwing up everything in America.
We should have people that have done something and they're on the precipice of retiring.
We should be encouraging them and facilitating them to be.
A lot of people do do that.
I know.
Lawyers and stuff.
They've stepped away and they've become a lot of people, especially at community college level, a lot of community college professors are that way.
My mom, we should do that more at high school.
Substitute teaching at high school level.
And I was like, which to me sounds terrible.
But, I mean, there you go.
By the way, this is, so what I thought of instantly, and Angelo actually flagged this for me.
Jack, do you know idiocracy?
Have you ever heard of that?
In the movie?
Yeah.
Okay.
So you do.
Yeah, I like money.
So, Faz, you flagged this for me.
Finally, I just told them that I could talk to plants, and the plants told me that they didn't want Brondo.
They wanted water.
See, I've never seen the movie, so I'm not even a good...
We actually have a clip from it.
No, that's right.
That's what I'm segueing to.
My first thought was, this is really insulting because Mexicans live like four families to an apartment.
They'll just completely, you know, have eight kids each and live in like.
No, you're Mexican, aren't you?
I'm quarter Mexican.
It's true.
Oh, yeah, that can't.
I rarely say that.
You were soliciting that.
Wait, Andrew, in all seriousness, when I was in Davos, they had Javier from Rav Español.
So you guys know that Rap Español is kicking off now?
And then Javier was like, Javier was like, Jack, you have to learn some Spanish.
And I was like, well, on Thought Crime, you know, over on Charlie Kirk's show, we got the Mexican co-host.
So, you know, who does speak some, he's pretty handy with it with the Español.
We've taken America.
I don't know.
I don't know Mexico.
I don't know how to speak Mexican.
We've taken Andrew down to the border and he's negotiating peace deals with cartel to cartel.
See, Andrew gets, Andrew, Andrew always goes so hard on the border because deep down he's kind of like conflicted.
He's self-flowing.
He's like, hey, maybe just a few camacros.
Come on.
It's okay.
Just a couple.
Just one or two.
Ninis and AI told me that a literal translation would be la voze de la América Real.
A real America's voice.
You always have to check Andrew's loyalty to America.
I'm just saying.
He's a pass.
I passed it.
I passed the totem, right?
Who won the Battle of the Alamo.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
No, but I'm just saying you have to say make sure that it's that it's in good standing.
Oh man, you know what's funny?
I am like Ciampor Ciento Americano.
Like I'm 100%.
I mean I am about as American as it comes.
Because even my Mexican family compensating my Mexican family, he didn't even admit that we were Mexican and we had to go like do 23andMe to figure it out.
Anyways, he was my grandpa that was 100% Mexican was racist against Mexican.
Another good test besides the Alamo thing is just like how much do you relate to British history as like your ancestors?
I was actually in a discussion with some Brits because I'm much more German heritage than British Isles, but like I care much more about the Anglo English history.
I love to read about English Civil War, the Kings, all of that.
And I don't know nearly as much German history.
What happened in 1066?
That's easy.
Ask me what happened to me any other year.
Come on.
That's Blake's sign.
He doesn't know.
No, no, it's the Battle of Hastings.
Everybody knows about that.
I am a daughter.
You want me to go on about this?
I have to try idiocracy, this case study.
This is the difference between Henry's and Dinks and like Mexicans, which I will claim proudly.
426.
Having kids is such an important decision.
British waiting for the right time.
It's not something you want to rush into, obviously.
No way.
I'm pregnant again.
I got too many damn kids.
Thought you was on the peel or some.
Hell no.
Must have been thinking of Britney.
Brittany?
No, hey.
There's no way we could have a child now.
Not with the market.
And only make a million dollars a year.
That just wouldn't make any sense.
Come on over here, b****.
He knows about you.
Yeah, well, there must be something he likes over here.
You mean nothing to me, baby?
It wasn't me.
It wasn't me.
Well, we finally decided to have children, and I'm not pointing fingers, but it's not going well.
And this is helping.
I'm just saying that before I have in Vitro, maybe you should be willing to.
It's always me, right?
Well, it's not my sperm count.
Yeah!
I'm gonna fall yo!
That's my boy!
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But I have some eggs frozen, so just as soon as the right guy comes along, you know it will for generations.
Although few seem to notice, but it's getting back that is my hardy Mexican people know how to procreate it.
You know, the funny thing is, if you sneeze on a Mexican girl, they can get pregnant.
One of my friends, who has been a New Yorker of upper, you know, upper middle class professional status, argued that $32,000 a year on Dining Out was a reasonable amount.
Was it reasonable?
Yeah, yeah.
But it was high, but like not absurd.
And we were doing the math on this.
So two people, $16,000 a year.
That's like, you know, a mere $300 a person if you're going on a date night once a week.
Monopoly Tokens and Property Taxes00:15:54
Or it could be reasonable.
And we could have that to $150 a person.
But then you're racking up $150 per person on other stuff throughout the week.
So like a $30 meal five other times a week.
They're traveling a lot.
They are.
I will.
And that seems to count separately from dining out.
I was going to say, does that?
I will tell you, I mean, people who are in, especially the city, in like drinking culture and things like that, there have been people that have said that, I mean, they save like 20 grand a year and just like just by stopping drinking.
No, it's genuinely a lot like going out.
It's a real part of drinks when you go out.
It's 20 bucks plus.
It's a real part of like the millennial malaise, the Gen Z malaise, where they say they can never get ahead.
They're always behind.
And I do think some of it is.
It's very easy to slip into spending too much money on that sort of thing.
And you can hear them talk and they'll just say, like, oh, I'm already behind on student loans or something.
And so $50 on this once a week, it just feels meaningless.
Yet it does really add up.
It's interesting that people, I think, that are middle-income earners, right?
They're sort of middle of the road.
They do feel entitled to a lifestyle that is much higher than them, which is previous generations wouldn't necessarily feel entitled to that.
What about Gen Z?
Are you guys just as bad as those Delaneys?
No, they spend so much.
Really?
Especially Gen Z girls, like spend an insane amount on going out.
Yeah.
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No, it's, I mean, but you think about it today, like, I mean, prices over the during Biden inflation went up significantly.
Like, even going to dinner now, like, you go to dinner.
It's fascinating.
And this, and this is, it's, I, and I think that there's actually an undercurrent of inflating some of these prices that that's intentional to suppress family growth.
I really do.
Because, like, people go out.
I'm just going to tell you, like, you go out and you're a 20-something-year-old and you're getting ready to have a family, and you go out and it's like you and your girlfriend, you and your wife, and you spend like $200 on a dinner.
Like, there's nothing that's more mentally destructive, I think, for a guy.
Yeah, but you kind of insinuated that it was intentional to like stop family formation.
But yeah, I actually think the mental health expensive it is to go out and eat, it does block.
That's why the market's changed, right?
Like, what?
BNPL.
Well, you know what, though?
I can do that.
The market's changed.
Like, the market's not directed at families.
That's what I'm saying.
Restaurants are directed, not like attracting big families.
Like they did.
Like, America in the 80s and 90s, even were like, hey, bring your whole family to McDonald's.
Play places and all those things.
That's what I'm saying.
Bring your whole family back.
Back to Pizza Hut.
That's what I'm saying.
Pizza Hut.
Back to Pizza Hut.
Yeah.
I mean, all of that was McDonald's play places, McDonald's playplace nationalism, Pizza Hut nationalism, restaurants that actually have a children's section.
Long John Spizzler.
There's lobsters.
There's intentionality.
There's intentionality in all these mega corporations that are owned by Vain capital and all these different groups that now do not direct towards families.
Now they're directing towards small groups.
I think we're in car sizes.
Tyler, do you remember when they started forcing everyone to like they were trying to get everyone to buy those like tiny cars?
They were like, oh, it's it's only got two seats and it's it's all you need really for getting around the big city.
It's only got two seats and like no trunks.
Yeah, the yaris.
Remember it's like get in my yaris.
Yes, my yachts, man.
Mayan.
Because the men who drove so far only had two seats and zero balls.
Anyways, yeah.
And it was like, no, I remember, no, I had that exact same thought that Tyler was just mentioning when they introduced those things.
I don't even know what year that was, maybe like 2005.
I remember thinking, like, how can you have a family if you have one of these?
Yeah.
Like, this doesn't make any sense.
I think Blake's right.
Like Johnson of LBs.
I think we have it.
Oh, they don't want people to have family.
No, no, we have it reversed.
No, I think it's reversed.
Have you studied Agenda 21?
I don't think Agenda 21.
No, I'm totally with Tyler now.
We stopped having kids and they adapted to the market.
He was just in Davos.
Because I had the same thought.
No, I had the exact same thought about the cars.
I had the exact same thought.
And tiny houses.
No, the market required.
Yeah, the tiny house.
Like, who is pushing this?
And then, and now, like, the YouTube algorithm just serves everything to you that they want.
And that's that's what Trump talked about at Davos, right?
Because when he went up to Davos and was talking about the um, when you know, certain people got to be in the room, um, that he was, you know, talking about home ownership.
And he was that, he was doing that to repudiate the whole you will own nothing and you'll be happy.
He's like, I want young people to own a home.
I want young people to be homeowners.
We are going to make that happen in the United States.
And I personally, like, like, you know, not that I'm one of, I'm not going to give President United States notes, but I would have loved to see another line in there.
Like, and you know something?
It's ownership and owning things and building things that actually give you meaning and it's meaning that gives you happiness.
Not you'll own nothing.
We have a very important development.
Dinks aren't happy.
Dinks are not happy.
Yeah, dinks are miserable.
It's not, it's not good news.
We have a very important breakthrough.
Someone has pointed out Engels Nest has pointed out that Andrew has a jacket on and thought crime is a no-jacket zone.
He's breaking off.
Wait, hold on.
Totally take it off.
He's been doing it for like two weeks now.
It's cold here.
Oh, no.
Hold on.
This is called self-policing.
I'm sorry it's not as Mexico.
I love it.
I only wear a jacket because Charlie wore a jacket.
Charlie didn't wear a jacket on this.
It's so cool.
Don't ask me a former studio.
Ask him for God to make you a stronger man.
Like, where'd your blanket go from the other day?
I don't know.
He's wearing a polka dot.
This isn't a pretty gay list.
Did someone get Andrew a snuggie?
Yeah.
That was a pretty game.
Didn't MG walk.
I'm actually in my airplane space eater.
And people aren't dressing right on airplanes anymore.
That's a whole leather thing.
Yeah, that's it.
We'll have to do that another week.
What it's appropriate to wear on airplanes.
This is what I wore on the airplane.
We want to get to another topic before I think we can agree the dinks are out of control.
This will be, we should keep hitting that in the week.
I just think it's so fascinating.
And I think there's something really deep there that we're missing about the fact that the more money you have, the way you approach child rearing and begetting children and procreation, like it's really, really depressing, actually.
Because you don't need that much money to have children.
You can actually do it.
You can actually do it.
But white middle class dinks and this sort of thing, it doesn't even have to be white middle class, but the expectation is that your lifestyle has to be so high.
And then you get to the end of your life.
You spend all that money.
You probably didn't fire.
Retire early.
Anyways, you probably had to work longer and you don't remember any of it.
You don't remember those stupid little trips.
Did you do it the ZLO?
No, this is an example.
Actually, I actually have a way to explain this.
This is an example of Pearl Drift.
Blake, I think, did we do an episode about Pearl Drift?
We did.
I think we did.
Yeah.
So Froldrift is this idea that certain things kind of like come up from the proletariat class, like the working class, and then they go up, but then like the upper classes like maybe mess around with it for a little bit, but eventually eschew it and go back to traditional ways.
So you're right, Andrew, to say that it's the Henry's, right?
This is like upper middle class.
But if you get to the actual rich, they don't live like this.
No, they're having babies at all.
They're actually very conservative, like totally in the way they live.
Well, by the way, that's why we've seen live.
Yeah, that's why we've seen.
Sorry to cut you off, Jack.
I didn't mean to talk over you.
But that's why when you get to the really, really rich people, they're having a ton of kids.
Like they're forced four babies per couple.
Elon, who, you know, surprised.
I didn't, by the way, I didn't know Elon was going to be at Davos.
I definitely.
I was like, I would have stayed.
Like, somebody could have told me, but I was talking to Curmu recently, and he pointed out, I think, children among, well, so just in general, children has, at least, I think among white Americans at least, average number of children is no longer dysgenic, as it were.
Like, it's no longer, it's now an upward tilt.
You have more kids the higher you earn overall on average.
But I think there's still the trough.
Like upper income, like upper middle class income is still really bad.
They're the ones these Henry people are actually probably earning too much to account for it, but they're most common is people earning like $300,000.
And they're like, I can't afford more than one.
Well, there is a middle class trap in our tax code.
Like for real, you can make $300,000 to $500,000.
You're at the max of the tax bracket.
You can never get ahead.
You can never get because what ends up happening, it's a both and I will say, you end up spending more, but then you're getting tax more.
And so you're actually never really able to make traction and get up to that to that.
Well, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Since we're talking about making money and we're talking about building up into different tax codes.
Let's go.
So I like that.
This was a topic.
This came up because we were debating whether Greenland sale would happen.
And Jack said, of course, Greenland's for sale.
He says it's like Monopoly.
Everything's always for sale.
Oh, I thought we were saying that.
You don't have to do that.
Oh, sorry.
No, we got to get this.
We'll have to do that another week.
Sorry.
You're just admitting that you suck at Monopoly.
Yes.
Everything's for sale.
Always.
Yes, everything's for sale.
Although, I guess maybe it wasn't for sale enough because pockets were for sale.
You can buy one of them.
No, no, no, that's just phase one.
No, no, no.
Phase one is you get the deed, then you build the bases.
But once he builds four bases, then he can build the megacity.
Yeah, well, I mean, so as it happens, since we made the monopoly comparison, Jack, I actually have the Monopoly board here.
And if you look at the green, I told you we were going to talk about it later.
If you have the green lands on the Monopoly board, okay.
Okay, well, if you look at a Monopoly board.
Oh, yeah, we can't see it.
You guys have the other.
Oh, wow.
If you look at a Monopoly board, there are three green properties.
They're the ones next to Park Place and Boardwalk.
Oh, yeah, North Carolina.
Pennsylvania.
That's one of the newborns.
And Pacific Avenue.
Which they're not well named because Greenland's in the city.
You know why I never liked those ones?
It's because it was like 200, wasn't it like 200 a house on those?
Something like that.
They're not nearly as good as blue.
Yeah, and then blue.
No way.
You know why the names are like that, though, right?
Atlantic City.
Yeah, so all the names are based on streets in Atlantic City.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
And it's very funny.
Like the whole thing is based on some Georgist plot to argue that we need a land tax and everything.
Is it really?
Yes, it is.
It was called the landlord's game.
And the entire point was that making like that, if you had landlords who could just charge money on things, then it will like drive everyone to poverty and bankruptcy and no one can get ahead.
Oh, wow.
To loop back to that property tax debate we had the other day.
Yeah, because there's only a zero-sum game.
It's a winner-take-all.
Exactly.
But we did want to hit it, so I guess we have a few different monopoly.
Keep in mind, it came out in the 1930s.
I was looking here.
I was looking at the tokens that come in this game.
And you know what's missing from the sets we all had growing up?
They don't have the iron anymore, which the iron is definitely.
I remember the iron.
Yeah, I now remember being anyone's favorite.
It's like the steam iron.
It was the OG iron.
Yeah, you know, it was like iron.
It was just like an iron, just a weight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
I mean, it's not like a electric irons we have now.
Yeah.
You had to put it on the top of the wood stove or whatever.
So the tokens we have in this version.
What do you mean, we?
I don't iron.
The tokens we have in this version, we have the top hat.
We have something called a wife.
We have the top hat.
We have.
She's Eastern European.
It's different, Jake.
We have a little kind of terrier dog, like the, I think it was a Yorkshire Terrier.
Yorkshire Terrier.
Yeah, I don't know.
Is that in the original?
Yep.
All right.
At least everything I've ever played.
Every Monopoly board I've ever played.
I don't remember the dog ever.
I do.
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So I went kind of like down the rabbit hole in this too, because my seven-year-old is like really in a Monopoly right now.
We got Phil Leopoly and we're like playing that too.
But apparently, a lot of the original, original tokens in Monopoly are not the ones that a lot of people grew up with.
So we went out and we didn't have an actual Monopoly game.
So I was like, let me just go get a regular one.
So they sell a modern Monopoly now.
And you can also get, though, the 80s Monopoly.
And the 80s Monopoly is the one that's based on like, this is the game that you remember when you were a kid that had all of those things that you were just mentioning.
But if you go back to the original originals, the tokens are like completely different.
Yeah, I'm looking at what I remember from, yeah, the one growing up.
And I think some of these were at least around by the 50s.
It's like after World War II, you had a pretty good run of like similar tokens.
So we have the thimble.
The thimble has been around for, yeah.
It's interesting they have this one.
The reason they did this was the original, original Monopoly did not have tokens, and they would basically like pick items in your home.
And so people would use buttons or thimbles because they would have sewing kits at home.
We have the race car.
That's a classic one.
That does date to the 30s.
So you got to keep the racer.
Do you know it was the Great Depression?
We have the Yorkshire Terrier.
It took off.
So thimbles were like, but I think these are all new.
I don't remember these.
I've got it.
I don't remember these from the version I had growing up.
We have the money bag.
I think this was added in the late 90s.
I've never seen that.
It's like a sack of money.
It kind of looks like a baked potato and true.
I've never seen that one.
I don't think so.
And then these I have no memory.
House Rules & Parking Expansions00:07:12
Do you want to know the original?
Hold on, hold on.
Let's go through the tokens.
And then we have, I don't remember any of these.
We have a rubber ducky.
Yeah.
We have a pooty cat.
We just have like a house cat.
Yeah, that's the brand new one.
You just, the one I just got has a cup of colour.
And then we have a penguin.
I definitely don't remember a penguin.
No.
These are all new.
Yeah.
So, Blake.
So, Blake, is that the one that has the new rules where they actually warn about house rules?
They warn you about this.
Oh, let's take a look.
Because, so, Tyler, you were telling me you were like really big on house rules, right?
Yeah.
Oh, yes, it does.
It says your game are rules.
House rules could be making your monopoly game longer.
Never put cash in the middle of the board.
You don't get a bonus for landing on free parking.
Always auction when someone doesn't want to buy the property they've landed on, and never loan money to other players or make deals not to charge each other rent.
And so it's so funny because it is true.
It's like people have that they'll say, I don't want to play Monopoly.
It takes too long.
And then they make rules that make the game longer.
Yeah, no, free parking.
This is stupid.
You cannot do free.
You cannot put money in the board.
I will not play Monopoly with somebody that plays with money.
But you know what's sickening, Jack?
This is truly sickening.
So they have this warning on Monopoly, but they have a sinister agenda because while we were buying this Monopoly set at Target, I saw they had for sale next to it expansions for Monopoly.
Oh, yeah, yeah, everybody knows expansions.
And one of them is called the free parking expansion.
And it's just a, we included actual pieces and such to make the getting money when you land on free parking thing a reality, except they supercharged it.
Like you can basically win the lottery when you get on it, or you can get a total and there's one where you can properties.
There's one where you can buy, there's one where you can buy everything.
Like you could buy go, you could buy the jail, you can buy like the tax, like all the different.
And then the last one is a jail because that sounds really cool.
They have a jail expansion, and apparently in that one, you can like go to jail, but you can get corruption tokens while in jail and then use these to not pay rent.
Or even you land on somebody's to make them pay you rent because you're like extorting them.
So guess what the first game pieces were?
First game pieces?
Yeah.
Iron.
An iron?
Okay.
A thimble.
A thimble.
That's what everyone.
A shoe.
Oh, I remember the shoe.
A shoe and a top hat.
And get this one.
Two that I did not know of.
A cannon.
Ooh.
Oh, yeah, the cannon.
I remember.
And a battleship.
Oh, yeah.
I bet it's like that was in 1935.
By 1936, they had a rocking horse, a purse, a lantern, and it just varied in 1936.
1937, they brought the dog in.
And so that lasted until after World War II.
And so then they had the battleship, the boot or shoe, cannon, horse, and rider, iron, race car, Scotty dog.
I think that's the Scotty dog, right?
Oh, yeah, there was a horse.
Thimble, top hat, wheelbarrow.
Wheelbarrow.
A guy on a horse that like the horse is like up on its hind legs, right?
I don't remember that.
I feel like there's like it has a platform.
So they added the penguin, the T-Rex.
There's a T-Rex one, a rubber duck, and a penguin.
They added that in 2017.
So they started getting super FG during 2020.
I guess we're just lucky.
Like in 2020, we didn't get a Monopoly that has the protest fist, an analytical ring a BLM flag.
But this is interesting because this must have been what men were interested in.
The horse and rider, a battleship, a cannon, and a top hat.
And women, it was iron, thimble, I guess.
I don't know.
And Scotty dog.
Yeah, like that.
That's kind of interesting.
And I wonder if the reason they use those was that maybe those were common in other board games at the time or that people would use little model toys.
Sack of money.
Sack of money.
Sack of money we have here.
Fan poll added an 11th token in 1999, and that was the sack of money.
I don't remember, though, the sack of money at any point.
I don't remember.
Let me, can I see it?
The sack of money.
So here's the thing, right?
The problem with these, with the house rules, is that people don't understand that when you inject more money into the system, that inflates everything.
And you're essentially creating a money printer rather than actually let the economy stay at the level of equilibrium that it would.
This is why it naturally would.
This is why people don't understand inflation.
It's just like in the real world, people don't get that because you've been playing Monopoly wrong your entire lives.
You fools, stop the house rules.
Guys, we have to take a pledge right now.
Yes.
I'm going to pledge.
I pledge I will no longer ever use the house rules in Monopoly.
You might do the expansions, but I will never, ever do the house rules again.
Yeah, do not play, do not play by house rules.
You mean you got to stick to the original rules, is what you're saying.
Actually, we sometimes kind of like that expansion pack, that jail expansion.
Blake, is that the one that's $10 with black tickets?
Blake, is that the one where they also talk about the speed version?
There is a speed version.
So if you download the game, they actually, so it's nice on the app game, which I play on the airplane all the time against all of the hard CPUs.
You can go through and pick house rules and do a bunch of different stuff that's on there, or you can do a sped up version, which forces every.
You could do it so you can go to auction on every single one and so it just like slams through.
Or you can force everybody to buy uh, every single time.
And and you can skip ahead too where there's a different dice.
Where do you do you double?
When you land on go, do you double the payout?
No no, that's a very basic one.
I've always you have a double on go and i've always with money yeah, i've always played money in the middle and then you get it.
If you land on free parking and then if you land on go, you get double.
That's how it's sickening.
That's how true, absolutely sickening.
I'm just saying it teaches you so many important economic things, like the reason everyone's going bankrupt, everyone's going bankrupt renting is because you can't add any new properties to the board.
What do you need to build new housing?
What if, what if?
The reason we have so many socialists is they literally think in terms of monopoly economics, where one person wins it all, you don't get anything and you can just make up the new rules for the house.
Baseball vs. NFL Strategies00:15:55
I don't know, this is the Indian music.
Oh, the Mamdani.
Okay gosh, you guys.
Oh yeah, you know, speaking of one person winning at all.
Should we?
Can we hit this tonight?
Let's, let's hit the salary.
We need to bully Andrew while he's here.
No, i'm gonna bully you.
That's the whole point.
For those of you who don't follow professional sports, there's 30, there's 29 teams in Major league baseball that are competing, and then there's also the LOS Angeles Dodgers, who just have a giant pile of the Phillies, the METS, the Yankees, the BLUE JAYS no no, no one.
There used to be rich teams and then like poor, smaller market teams.
Now there's just the Dodgers, and I discovered today the Dodgers have a rigged system where they don't Have to pay their TV revenue into the general pot because they went bankrupt in 2010 and they got this rigged deal where they get to keep more of their TV money.
Frank McCourt had to sell the company.
Yes, they bankrupted the team and so the MLB gave them a special sweetheart deal in court.
They had a $4 billion deal paid out over 20 years.
So they basically get an extra $60 million a year in TV money that other teams don't get.
$60 million.
I mean, it's come on, whatever.
That's more than I think the payroll of my team.
No, that's one contract for the Dodgers every year.
Yeah, exactly.
And so that's like, what?
Where did I just get Kyle?
What's Kyle Tucker?
I got to be honest with you.
Usually you don't fall into this trap, but like, it's a lot of cope coming from you right now.
Yeah, because I'm stuck being a Minnesota Twins fan, and they will not ever be.
They should have abandoned the Minnesota Twins.
No, I will not.
That's insane.
The George Floyd team.
Like, come on.
I mean, Minnesota's, it is pretty bad.
They're sub-right.
That hasn't been good since you had Kirby Puckett.
No, they were okay when they had Joe Mauer.
A few years ago, they had a decent team.
They had the most home runs of any team.
They're also in the worst division all of baseball by a mile.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's true, too.
But I'm trying to think who else has succeeded in that division.
It's been the Indians for the last five, six years.
Yeah, I do not acknowledge the name change.
Here's the thing.
So you had the Royals.
The Royals won, right?
Baseball is different than NBA.
It's even different than the NFL.
NFL is probably the in-between sport.
But you can have the best payroll in baseball and still lose.
And candidly, last World Series was amazing because the Blue Jays were playing better than the Dodgers.
If you watch that whole series back, the Blue Jays were the better team.
They looked better.
Their bats were sharper.
The Dodgers truly found grit and determination.
It was a miraculous finish.
The year before, they destroyed the Yankees.
I mean, it was a five-game.
Well, and the Brewers had like the best record in baseball by like five or six games easily.
And they were 23rd out of 30 teams.
I looked it up.
In total payroll, 23rd.
And they had the best record over everybody by at least five or six games.
And then the Dodgers swept them.
And then I'll say, I think I was looking this up the other day.
So the Dodgers, was it like 2013 when they got sold?
Is that right?
I think it was earlier than.
I think it was earlier.
It was like 2010.
Yeah.
2010, 2011.
When Frank O'Morrick was Christian owner.
But then the big story was that they signed a TV deal.
Right.
That's what Blake's talking about.
So there was a whole series, like, couple of seasons where you had to have, I forget, maybe it was Comcast or something.
That's kind of like where all the money really built up.
Yeah, probably.
They've signed that deal.
But then, I mean, candidly, it's been about a 15, 16-year run of the Guggenheim group just really running that team well.
So they have a good farm system.
They trade aggressively.
They're better at analytics.
They are better at player development.
So what they'll do is they, you know, they got like a guy like Max Muncie, who was a washout with A's, and then they redeveloped him.
And he's a really important batter for them, but he's not that highly paid.
They raise guys up like Bellinger is now on the Yankees.
He was a farm system product.
They have Will Smith.
He was a farm system product.
So yeah, they go out and get a lot of international guys.
They're willing to spend money for years, though.
Remember when they lost to the Trash Dros in 2017?
They went.
Doesn't the Trash Dros were treating?
Yeah.
They didn't go out and get anybody.
So finally, in 2017, after that World Series loss, they started spending money.
And then they won a World Series doing that.
They won the, I believe, well, they won 2020 during the COVID year.
Look, we don't need to narrate every single thing the Dodgers have done.
They won after they spent money on Mookie Betts.
So then they spent money on Freeman.
And then they spent money on Shohei.
And now they're spending a lot of time.
No, they have money on James.
They spent not, they have intentionally not spent money on the business.
And they're going to pay more.
It's not going to be illegal.
Here's my last question.
They pay more in luxury tax than many teams do in their total payroll.
And they still make more money.
The Dodgers should go to jail.
Every person involved, the Shohei contract should go to jail.
President Trump should come out and say, no more foreigners are allowed to play baseball.
They are such crappy losers.
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Here's what I'll say: it is good for you.
Let me finish my statement because that's going to get clipped.
Wait, no more foreigners are allowed to come to America and play baseball with a structured deal like that.
He was already in America.
We should tax them more.
I know we should tax them more, but we shouldn't have American corporations subjecting poor young men like Shohei Otani to slavery for years like that.
He's going to get paid.
Oh, yeah.
He's going to get paid 30 years from now.
Yeah, when he's all washed out, he's going to get paid.
45 years from now.
Here's what I'll say.
He's going to be still collecting his paycheck.
Jack, you know this.
Philly could spend big.
They have spent big.
They actually stole some of our players.
Yeah, exactly.
So here's the other thing I'll say.
It's good for baseball to have a villain.
Just because they won two in a row, everybody's like all butt hurt about it.
Sorry, get over it.
It's really hard to win one.
It's extraordinarily hard to win two.
It was a miracle this year.
So super defensive about year three, a three-peat is almost impossible.
If it happens, you guys can complain.
That's what really hardsmise of the farm system.
So here's what's going to happen, though.
Here's why, here's my, this is the, like, the conspiracy theory is that the NFL is helping the NFL is helping LA to get to the Super Bowl because they want LA to have a World Series and a Super Bowl because they're trying to turn LA into like the new sports town.
And they really, so like, they just, obviously, like, they've had Dodgers for a while and now, boom, they want to get, they want to give them, they've got two, all of a sudden, right?
You know, just in the last couple of years, they've picked up, they've gone from no team, NFL teams to two teams.
So now they need, because they got, what, the SoFi Stadium.
So now what do they need?
They need a Super Bowl.
And when you look, I don't know what I'm just saying, man.
When you look at some of the call, the play calling in the, you know, the last, the last couple playoff games, it's kind of interesting.
Kind of interesting.
They already got a Super Bowl.
What are you talking about?
The Rams won.
When did they win?
Like two years ago, three years ago?
With McVay and Stafford.
And Stafford.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, they want to build up the Super Bowls.
Yeah, all right.
So they want them to win more Super Bowls.
No, I don't.
There's not any conspiracies of this sort outside the NBA.
The NBA isn't for the money.
They're a bigger market.
They don't want Seattle.
They don't want Denver.
Well, that's not true, though.
That's why the Royals won a win.
No, the NFL.
This is the thing.
Guys, this is why you need a salary cap.
The NFL actually figured it out where by making the teams pretty comparable, they realized, oh, we're big enough, we can make a team in any city a huge deal.
Kansas City is not a major market to play.
Yeah, but the NFL did not even make that comparable.
Like you have organizations, like the Jets are terrible.
Yeah, no matter what.
In the NFL, the only thing that matters.
In the NFL, the only thing that matters is how competent your organization is.
And the only place you can really spend extra, I guess, is how much you spend on your coach because that's not subject to a cap.
But it's actually quite strict.
You need a lot of skill to build a team in the NFL.
And MLB.
The MLB was just no, the Oakland A's were exactly like Moneyball was the exact ball.
The Oakland A's aren't even Moneyball anymore, and they're not even in Oakland anymore.
In fact, they're not anywhere in Sacramento right now.
There's some compelling.
I didn't pull it up before the show.
I literally just flew 4,400 miles to get here for the episode today, but there's some pretty compelling articles out there about how the lineups of how certain players get played at certain times to help with the betting, to help cover spreads and stuff like that.
And they get played and get benched and all that.
And it just lines up in such a way where it's like, is that really just coincidental?
Or is it just a matter of time?
You're talking about the NFL?
Yeah, NFL.
Nah, no, the NFL, like, well, we'll definitely have games as well.
There's no way anyone could be corrupt.
The NFL is against the rule.
The NFL is not going to rig its Super Bowl because if they would do that, there's a million other things that they would have rigged.
Hold on.
I just want to make a point.
Baseball is not the NFL.
It's had an attention issue, right?
People are tuning out of baseball.
It's too slow, too long, whatever.
Too easy to buy a championship.
Having a villain to root against.
I don't know what the exact metrics were, but I heard that this World Series was the most watched World Series in basically over a decade.
Massive.
Yes, it was massive.
The ratings were they counting, though, like everything from Japan and all that?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
There's metrics on Japan because a third of Japan watched or half of Japan watched.
But no, no, it was something like 27.5 million were watching game six and seven.
It was big, big ratings for MLB.
It is good for the game for everybody to hate the Dodgers and bring it on.
I mean, seven games.
By the way, I will say this: a seven-game World Series, I would take that.
No, that was great.
I watched it.
Yeah, over.
Even with teams I don't care about.
I feel like I'm Donald Trump, and you guys are all the European sniveling brats who are like, oh, we could defend ourselves.
And look at Kansas City can play anyway.
But you know what?
I'm like, I have bigger questions.
I do see, though, I'm being attacked in the chat right now, and I need to defend something.
My integrity here.
People are saying I'm saying that about the NFL because the Eagles lost.
No, no, no.
Which the Eagles lost because they ran four verts on fourth down.
The Eagles lost because the play calling on the offensive from the former offensive coordinator was retarded.
That's why the Eagles lost.
Jack is saying they lost because they got the call.
Man, there's a lot.
There's a lot of coaches.
No, no, no.
They deserve to lose.
Absolutely.
There's a lot of coach.
There are other games like that interception that was not.
I'm sorry.
There's no interceptions on the ground.
Like, this is not rugby.
You don't get to do that.
Oh, that was crazy.
Wait, was that the Elf?
I thought that was the Bills game.
No, that was not the Eagles game.
That's what I'm saying.
The stuff I'm talking about is not the Eagles.
Like, the Eagles, that was a loss.
That interception didn't bear.
That was garbage.
But if you're the NFL, you'd want Josh Allen to win that game.
Exactly.
And then they fire McDonald's.
The NFL hates Josh Allen.
Why do they hate Josh Allen?
No, they don't.
They love any good quarterbacks.
They've hated him forever.
Well, the Broncos ended up winning, and Bonex broke his ankle, so they're playing with a backup quarterback anyway.
So for Raiders, Jenny says she wanted the Broadband game.
Woo.
Because he broke his legs.
Just interrupted us to cheer the Packers.
Yes.
What happened to the Packers last year?
The Packers were defeated because they are.
Because the Bears beat them, and then the Bears almost had a comeback, and they lost to the Rams, the quarterback is in the Rams.
See the Rams.
You see?
You see what I'm saying?
Why was this a very lame theory?
What they have is we should just have the NFL.
I'm sorry, we're going to talk about baseball.
Everybody says this.
I'm not the guy who came up with this.
We started talking about baseball, but we started talking about the NFL anyway because the NFL is more exciting, and the NFL is more exciting because it has a strict salary cap.
That is not exciting.
And if they had a strict salary, it would have been more exciting.
The fashion would have more exciting because he's remote.
It's harder for him to chime in here.
What's up, Jack?
Oh, no, I was just going to say, speaking of the NFL, and I know we're getting to showtime here.
There's a game that they play at the end of the NFL season that's coming up.
You guys remember what that game's called?
It's like the one game where you win the big tall medals.
The dish kind of looking on the stand.
It's like a queer celebration of something.
So, well, we've got to read this Rumble rant that's in here, but I think there's, oh, it's called the Super Bowl.
That's right, the Super Starbow jet lag.
The Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl.
And I heard they're going to be having a halftime show with this queer named Bad Bunny.
And, well, Blake, do you want to read it since you always read it?
Yeah, yeah, we'll read this.
It's from Sandra Gabhart.
He's gay.
Did you guys see this exclusive Bunny, Bad Bunny?
No, he's a queer icon.
NFL's addressing down how the boundary-pushing Bad Bunny plans to use Super Bowl halftime show outfit to honor queer icons on radar online.
I assume that's just who published it.
Well, listen, the NFL is going to play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
I mean, it's not a stupid thing.
I seem to remember that there's someone, someone else is doing another event right around the same time as that.
It is genuine.
But this is exactly what we're doing.
Do you remember what that group is called?
We have stories to tell from this whole thing.
We'll probably after.
That's right.
We are.
I forgot about that.
We are, actually.
We have stories to tell about this whole thing.
The NFL is a beast, man.
It's crazy.
I told you, dude, I was told we have drama related to a big game.
No, I'm just saying.
Nobody wants to go up against the NFL.
The game that is large.
That's what Jack is getting at.
I told you.
It's more true than you realize.
I told you, man.
I was like, they're not going to like this.
They're not going to like the name half-oh, man.
Wow.
That is going to be a fun story.
No wonder we haven't heard as much.
Wait, are you?
Wait, Andrew, are you telling me that there's pressure on people to not get involved with the turning point halftime show, to not perform, to not be to not host, to not be the venue?
Are you saying that?
Is that possible?
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Could it be an organization that has a...
Where's the Zoom?
What the?
We did these.
We did the thumbnail looks the other day.
That's what I was trying to do.
Is there an organization that has a large number of monopoly money bag tokens?
A lot of influence to this.
That being said, I don't know, Jack.
Maybe.
Maybe we'll talk about it later.
Since we are being vague, I do want to say at least for the benefit of the audience that, yes, there is going to be a all-American halftime show, and it's going to be amazing.
And you guys are going to love it.
That's it.
It's true.
No announcements, but I can tell you you guys are going to love it.
It's going to be great.
And the team's doing a great job with it.
And more announcements coming.
And they've done a great job with it, despite some of the things that Jack was alluding to.
It's going to be fun.
It's going to be fun.
It's going to be really fun.
It's going to be fun.
And it's going to be fun to watch the reaction.
Again, there's going to be just a lot of hatred and vitriol that's thrown at it.
And I'm really excited for that.
But like you said, people are going to be very upset.
You see the stuff from Baldurunny, like using it as an he just wants to put his thumb in the eye of the country, of traditional anything, of America, of whatever.
Jack, take us home, buddy.
Ladies and gentlemen, don't be bad bunny.
Don't be an anti-American.
Instead, go out there and commit more thought crime.