THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 114 — All-American Halftime Hoopla + AI Scott Adams? + Roblox ICE Raids?
The ThoughtCrime crew discusses the forthcoming All-American Halftime Show, along with other rich topics like: -Should Dilbert creator Scott Adams be immortalized in AI? -Has Blake heard any songs written after the year 2007? -Is it a good sign that kids are reenacting ICE raids in Roblox? Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Welcome to Thought Crime Thursday.
We're here, I believe, and we have a great show in store for all of you.
And I believe, and I think I'm having seen that confirmed now, that we have all four of the current co-hosts, of course, our fifth co-host on Assignment in Heaven.
But we have got Blake, Tyler, and Andrew all here for you guys to see.
It's a remarkable achievement.
We have all four standard people at the standard time.
Like at the stated schedule.
It's like we don't usually see it.
Everything would all in our correct chairs.
It's because in our correct postures because we have excited about the all-American halftime.
Everything would be perfect except that Andrew forgot the dress code rules.
And so he's in like a unknown shirt or something.
I did it.
I want a sweatshirt.
We all took Andrew out back, beat the crap out of him, and took his jacket away.
You guys are very mean about this.
Like, I have an iconic jacket, and you don't see me wearing it on this show, Andrew.
Blake is wearing it.
I had my jacket.
Blake is wearing a jacket altered a little bit.
Picked up my Taylor, but I'm not wearing it.
Nope.
Nope.
Well, here we are.
We made it.
We're live.
We are live.
We're live.
If you guys have comments, send us the comments.
We'll totally read them and react to them and possibly hate on them.
I have them up.
But as, so here's, all right, ground rules, ground rules, right?
So we all know different bits and pieces about the All-American halftime show.
I imagine we're going to get a lot of questions about that.
So we should probably set some ground rules because I know Kid Rock has been going around saying that he's got a surprise, but he doesn't want to reveal it.
He wants to maintain the element of that.
Obviously, we all know things.
So what are the ground rules for talking about the All-American halftime show, which will be the only halftime show this weekend?
The ground rules are that we call it the game.
A game.
A game.
It's a sporting event.
A sports game.
It's an important game that lots of people tend to wear in a lot.
Yeah, it's like all of the preliminary hockey rounds of the Winter Olympics.
Everyone's watching them.
And we can also say definitively that it is part of a league that a lot of people are familiar with.
League of Legends?
League of Legends.
We're going to call it the League of Legends.
It would be your legend.
We put out some tweets about it.
I think people know about it now.
But we can't talk about anything because, I mean, we'll explain probably a little bit more after all this is.
These are the lineup.
We can talk about the lineup.
Let's get the lineup up there again.
We are excited to be bringing Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, Gabby Barrett, all to the All-American Halftime Show.
It will be streaming live around 8 p.m. Eastern on Sunday.
Well, there you go.
That's not from.
That was Kid Rock with the RNC.
I was there.
That is not from our because it hasn't happened yet.
People liked it.
Look at JD.
It would be like a tempo displacement.
Usha not into it as much.
Is he actually doing Werewolves of London?
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So, no.
No, no, he has a song that uses that samples werewolves.
Okay.
It shows how much I know.
Yeah, so what I want to say is you can watch the show right here on Rumble.
It's called all summer long.
You can watch the show right here on Rumble.
All of Turning Point social media channels are going to have it.
So TPSA, TPOSA, YouTube, X, and Rumble.
Charlie.
Charlie's.
Charlie's.
Yeah, we'll put it up on Charlie's stuff.
In addition to social media, and by the way, all of you people have a YouTube app on your TV these days.
So you can have it ready to go if you want to switch over that way.
Other ways to watch it.
Sinclair's broadcast OTT channel, Charge.
So that's Samsung Plus, YouTube TV, Hulu Sling, all those things.
Daily Wire Plus, TBN, Real America's Voice, where we have the Charlie Kirk show and Jack Pasobic's daily show.
Speak for yourself, Andrew.
You say everyone's got a YouTube app on their TV now, but I will have you know, I watch television the way God intended on a wooden cathode ray tube television set.
Do you have bad bunny ears on your TV?
It does not have the bunny ears.
It has knobs.
It has literal physical knobs.
He will forever be known as Canejo Malo.
Canejo Malo.
Conejo Malo.
Because we have four months to learn Spanish.
I've been practicing it because you guys all know.
Yes.
Yes.
I'm quarter Mexican.
So I have a total pass today just to go ham on all that kind of conversation because I'm one of them.
Well, we had talked on our group chats trying to agitate the government into doing flyovers over the big game.
We needed DHS deportation plane flyovers.
Just right over.
Tyler's trying to call in an airstrike.
Right over.
No, I didn't say that.
I'm going to pause.
Disavow.
Disavow.
And then I'm going to continue the sentence.
Fly right over the San Francisco.
It's not even San Francisco.
Yeah, they play like four hours away with traffic in San Francisco.
If you were going to plan a bunch of flights, just test flights.
I think they should be loading.
They should be going over Santa Clara over and over and over.
I think what they should do, genuinely, is load up a couple DHS deportation planes bound for Seacot, load them up there, fly them over, buzz the stadium, and then do a big ad during the Super Bowl of all the killers that they got out, like child sex traffickers.
Drops leaflets.
Just dreadnought drops leaflets.
People that just got deported to Bukele's Seacot prison.
That would be really cool.
Maybe like identify one person who might be at that stadium who might be a foreigner who has some sort of outstanding war.
You know, there's what, 80,000 people there.
There might be one.
You ID one of them, and then you have an excuse to parachute in ICE agents.
They land on the field and arrest us.
And just to make matters more interesting, it could be, we could bring in 700 agents that were just that were part of the drawdown in Minneapolis, but we reposition those assets in Santa Clara.
And those are the guys that parachute in.
Well, they also.
And they just start raiding down the government also probably has the ability to, you know, shut the grid down right at halftime.
I was going to say, what if they use some of those sonars?
They're going to hurt innocent people who are not at the game.
But what you could do, maybe they could say there's a security hazard and they say, guys, to make sure everyone's safe, they all need to go through this advanced scanner that they have for security, and then you only give them one.
That's what they would do.
That's what the Biden administration would do for our event.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
We've been there.
We've been there.
That's what they're doing.
We'll call it this.
Do you think our audience knows the stories?
We would host President Trump during the campaign, and Secret Service would basically be like, we've got this.
And they would just jerk us around.
They'd give us two mags for like 17,000 people.
And people are waiting out in the back sun.
The metal detectors.
Yeah, metal detectors.
So people are like, I'll never forget this.
By the way, it's a classic Charlie story.
We were in South Florida.
President Trump was coming to our West Bomb.
President Trump was coming to the event.
So Secret Service has to go and advance everything.
Joe Biden's president.
They give us like prop, what was it?
Like a legitimate number.
What was it?
Like six mags in an event that size requires 12.
It may have been like it's like I think it was two.
It was one mags very minimal.
There was one choke point entrance.
It was one choke points.
All these people.
Insane.
I mean, we've got thousands of people that are trying to get into this event, and everybody had to go twist around in circles.
Like we had to twist the line around this parking structure.
And so what we had to do, because the Secret Service was jerking President Trump around and jerking us around, is we had to go by a bunch of big fans to like blow air on these poor people that were stuck out in the mass humidity and the super hot sun.
At least they were shaded, but it was still very hot.
It was probably hotter in that parking garage, even though they were out of the sun than it was outside.
So we had to get this is when Biden was president, just so everybody knows.
Yes, they were jerking Trump around because Biden was president.
And so we had to get pallets of water.
And then Charlie was supposed to go up and speak, I think, or something.
He had an interview.
I think it was with Megan Kelly, if I remember right, and pushed that back and back and back because Charlie wanted to go out in the parking structure, shake everybody's hand.
And man, did he get dressed down by a bunch of like mad people?
Like, you need to run your event better.
And he's like, listen, this is not our fault.
Like, we've done everything right.
We can't get the Secret Service to give us any more mags.
So we had to go one by one and deal with all the pissed off people because the Secret Service was trying to kill people out in the...
What?
He went to every single event.
He did it.
And it was the whole day.
It was like a two-day event.
And every single person in line.
Yeah, it took him hours.
And he was flaming mad.
Flaming mad.
I've never seen Charlie.
He was in rare form.
He was flaming mad.
And by the way, he was getting into it with people that were trying to blame this on Turning Point because he's like, this is not us.
But he was very gracious with people and tried to just make things right and had all the staff out there handing water bottles out.
It's so funny because otherwise my main memory of that event is just that I think that was the day on the show we talked about Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis.
I think that was it.
We did the show and we talked about that that day.
Is that when the quote of the raw horsepower is of the horsepower?
Oh, that was awesome.
Which they take to, which they took to apply to all black women, but he was being very specific.
It was about Katanji Brown Jackson, Michelle Obama, and Sheila Jackson Lee, right?
Yep.
Yes, that was the black women.
So that was all around.
It was a memorable day in the lore of Turning Point History.
George Strait Surprise00:02:21
In the Immortal Lore.
But, you know, there's a lot of stuff to talk about with the physically gigantic game that is among several happening.
This is one of those sports leagues.
Yeah, yeah, in the League of Legends.
Well, and with our show, which is going to be so amazing, which we haven't really, we do have to talk about it a little bit.
We are talking about it.
You know, certain things we have to keep as a surprise.
Well, I'm excited about this.
Most of it will be a surprise to me.
Most of it will be a surprise to me because they've kept it so close to the vest.
I didn't really know anything until we announced it.
Blake's like, I don't even know any kid rock songs.
So the whole thing is.
I don't.
I don't know any kid rock songs, and I will admit.
You don't know Ba would a ba.
I don't.
I know like one kid rock song, and I had not heard of the other three people we've had on, and I believe that they're pretty notable performers.
They're pretty notable.
I'm just totally out of the loop.
Caboose, you got to get me a song from each of our artists.
Brantley Gilbert.
I have a Brantley Gilbert story that, I mean, it's not a super story, but as people know, and we've talked about Charlie was not a super big country guy.
I was also not a super big country guy.
And about, I think it was 10 years ago, about 10 years ago, when Tanya and I first started dating, we, or at some point, and, you know, we were like first started dating, that we, she, for whatever reason, comes to this country, born in the Soviet Union, falls in love with country music.
And she's like, oh, I really want to, I really want to go out and you really want to come.
And I was like, well, you know, I really want you to come to the show.
And like, I'm going with some girlfriends, but it'd be great if you came.
And I was like, well, who is it?
She goes, Brantley Gilbert.
And I was like, what's that?
And she goes, well, it's country.
And I said, okay, send me a picture of your ticket.
And she goes, okay, fine.
So I may have snuck into the Brantley Gilbert concert using a screenshot of her ticket to go in.
And I actually liked it.
I actually liked it.
So I grew up listening to country music, but it was more like the George Strait version.
You know what's interesting is they had George Strait.
There's a petition going around pushing George Strait as the, you know, as the, to replace the Kaneho Malo at the.
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Oh, I saw that.
Yeah.
That got like, got like 100,000 signatures, right?
122,000 last I checked, but it was like, you know, completely organic.
But, you know, people, this is the thing.
We are responding to market conditions.
We are good capitalists.
But also, you know, the family should have something, you know, that everybody can get behind and not worry about dresses and queer identity and all that stuff.
Okay.
Like, really, there should be.
This shouldn't be on us to do this, like so much else in this country and politics and culture.
But we're doing it.
And Jack, why don't you tell, because this is something I've heard a lot about.
Like, I've gotten this question a lot.
And I always give you a shout out.
How did this come to be, Jack?
Yeah, so, I mean, ultimately, it starts with Charlie, just like everything.
It starts with Charlie.
And I know you guys did this a while back where Charlie used to always talk about the halftime shows.
He had this one tweet.
There it is right there.
2022.
I'll never forget this one.
The NFL is now the League of Sexual Anarchy.
This halftime show should not be allowed on television.
And I remember us being in the group chat that evening, you know, him going.
Jack, 2014, one like.
2014.
Clothing optional halftime.
General halftime performance question mark.
By the way, I love that he doesn't mention the league.
He doesn't mention the event.
Just halftime.
It's pretty perfect for right now.
And I think we actually, do we want to play?
I think we actually have a clip of Charlie Tell.
Let's play 343 and talking about it.
Look, the Super Bowl halftime show has a reputation.
People say it's a spicy program.
Okay, listen.
Spicy.
It's supposed to be boundary pushing.
When you have the most televised event, this is true.
Most televised event for the entire year.
One of the most televised events on the planet, by the way, that should be a reflection of the virtue that hopefully you want society to embody.
Tyler's telling me here, this is like flashbacks.
This is like because it's all.
So this is the old set at the other building, the first set.
The original set.
The original one.
And there was a moment where Charlie started wearing, we got the set.
Those were some of our first TPSA hats.
It was just the American flag one.
And he was wearing a hat like every day, which I always was like, because he never wore a hat.
Was he like having a balding scare or something?
No, I just think he just was like coming to the office.
Because he had the craziest mop of hair.
His hair started getting longer.
That's like super long.
Well, eventually he embraced it.
Eventually he embraced it, but like it was, he would literally just roll into the studio.
Well, I would wear that hat every day too.
So we were just like, we were wearing that hat.
Like, I think that was like summertime-ish, if I'm remembering right, but it was like during that COVID era.
It was like right after COVID, I think.
Yeah.
Well, Charlie, he was.
That's funny.
Whenever I see him wearing a hat in those clips, I'm like, oh, I know exactly what year that was, what era that was.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the studio, at which studio it was in, like, what was going on at that time.
I think that was like literally like during COVID when we had to like, because we didn't take any, Turning Point didn't take any COVID money, didn't take any PPE money.
And so we had to like figure it out.
I wonder what, what year was that?
Do we know what year?
I think that was 20, I think that was during COVID.
It could be 20, 20, 21.
Because I remember that studio because Charlie and I were in that studio broadcasting on J6.
So that's like, whenever I see that studio, I think about me and Charlie on J6 going like, well, I'm really glad because it sounded like he was referring to the same thing he was referring to in that tweet.
So this is what's funny about that.
So that tweet, the famous sexual anarchy tweet, was about Dr. Dre and I think Snoop Dogg was in there.
And they actually did a pretty good job compared to the year before of not making it super sexual, which was funny.
And so Charlie's reaction to it, Sexual Anarchy, was a line that he was getting from who am I thinking of?
Oh, it was David Engelhart.
You ever had that book called Sexual Anarchy?
Was he just like going to say it no matter what?
I don't know.
So anyways, but so he, I was literally, you know, part of, you know, the protocol on Super Bowls for when you were, you would tweet, what he was going to tweet.
And I went to go, I was at a barbecue, went to go get some food, and in like 10 minutes for me, like, not watching my phone, he fired that bad boy off.
And I was like, did you, did you watch it?
Did you watch it?
We were in the group chat, and it was the same thing.
Like, I had, wasn't paying attention.
All of a sudden, I see this come through.
I think I called you.
I was like, what do we do?
He was instantly at like trending and Charlie shot to number one trending within like three minutes.
I'm like egging him on.
I was like, keep going.
Go harder.
Go harder, Charlie.
Go Max.
Go Max, Charlie.
Go Max.
It was like literally took over the internet.
But this was deep.
And I said this story on Bannon, actually, in January 2025.
So we just had won the election.
We're there in DC for the inauguration.
Charlie and I sat down with a reporter who was writing a profile on him in the New York Times magazine, Robert Draper.
And Draper asked.
This is Draper, yeah.
Yeah, do you, like, so you've won the election, you've won all the House, the Senate, like, what else is there to accomplish?
And Charlie goes, win the culture.
Like, he didn't pause.
Just goes, I want to win the culture.
And so all this is, like, very full circle that it got memed into existence.
It's very us.
Jack starts tweeting about it.
And then I start getting actual legitimate press inquiries going like, are you guys going to be doing a halftime show?
Like, is this really happening?
And I was like, geez, like, this thing has taken a life of its own on the internet.
And I remember that one show.
I think we were on with Timpool, right, Jack?
And I was like, I think it was when we did the cross stream, if I remember correctly.
Yeah, and I was like, well, we weren't going to.
We had the Sombreros on.
Yeah, we weren't going to, but now maybe I didn't know what to do.
There was a certain song we were playing when the Sombreros were on, if I remember correctly.
Oh, gosh.
Okay.
Does anyone know that?
All right.
Speaking of songs.
Andrew.
Caboose.
Caboose.
So, yeah, hold on.
And it blew up.
It took over the internet.
And it was like, it continues.
It continues to.
It was trending all day when we announced our lineup.
Let's go ahead.
Number four.
For those who don't know, play it.
Caboose.
Play a Gabby Barrett song.
Do you recognize that, Blake?
Blake is Pennsylvania native Gabby Barrett, by the way.
Okay.
Pennsylvania proud.
All right.
So that song.
Like Caleb Swift.
That song went mega, mega huge.
How about a song from Lee Bryce Caboose?
Just sounds like every country song I know.
I've never heard in the last 25 years.
I love country.
You guys are.
Jack said that Charlie wasn't big on country music.
I'm not sure Charlie was big on music.
He liked classical music.
He liked classical music.
I think he's saying he likes classical music.
I think it's his just way of saying he doesn't listen to it.
Wait, you missed the chorus there.
Keep it going.
I think Charlie was kind of, you know, rates of music a 4 out of 10.
You just have to comment on this.
Here it is.
Hold on, here it goes.
Come on.
That's good.
So, all right.
It's going to be good.
So, all right, let's play another one.
Let's play Lee Bryce.
Wait, was that Lee Bryce?
That was Lee Bryce.
Brantley Gilbert's next.
I don't know this one actually This guy's a great conservative.
Get Dirt Road Anthem.
Didn't we have Brantley?
Do you remember that?
Yeah, Dirt Rhode Anthem is the one I know.
Didn't we have Brantley at American Fest a few years ago?
Yeah, we did.
We did.
He was at American Fest.
Tanya and I met him and his wife backstage, and I told them the whole story.
He's the man.
I may have left out the sneaking into the concert part.
He would have liked it.
And do we have a do we have a kid rock song?
Okay, everyone's heard this song.
All right.
Even I know this song.
All right.
Well.
I mean, I can't say any of these songs are going to be played, by the way.
I'm just saying.
I think he would be leaving, it'd be missing an opportunity to play this song.
He could be on stage.
I have a good feeling.
This one.
He could say on stage, this one's for Blake, so there's one song he's heard in this show.
He should say.
Okay.
Wait, do we have Bawaruba?
I can't say it right.
Ba with Taba.
Ba with the Ba.
Ba with Taba.
Ball with the Ball.
He can't say it right because he's not a native English speaker.
I just want to see more of those old people at the RNC convention like this.
Anyways, the RNA.
He didn't play at the RNC.
I'll do all the things.
Yeah, what did he play at the RNC?
I don't remember.
He did American BA.
He did.
I think he did Cowboy, maybe like one verse.
It was like a medley.
Like a verse of that.
And then he may have done a little bit of All Summer Long.
But I don't believe he played Ball at the Ball.
If the RNC was smart, how they would do this would be like they have all the delegates on the floor, but then for the concerts, they would bring in like cool people.
People.
Yeah.
Like our kids.
Yeah, instead of it being like if they were smart.
You guys are being those people we're seeing in those clips, those are the coolest people.
I'm not saying they're not cool.
I don't have a single show.
Honestly, I'm just trying to get that done.
Actually, that's on section.
That's on section.
Ball at the Ball is my favorite J-Rock song, by the way.
That whole album is so easy to follow the ball.
That's great.
It's a great thing.
It doesn't need to be a ton.
You slot a few hundred spots for them.
No, you just crowd the state.
Yeah, you do the whole thing.
Like, we could do this easily if anyone even picked up the phone and was like, hey, could you guys help us make this actually cool?
Like, we could help.
We would help.
They should ask us.
This is a midterm convention.
They probably should ask.
You should ask.
So here's our invitation to the RNC.
You should let Turning Point help you make it.
Let us help you.
Yeah.
Anyways.
All right.
Great.
Cool.
So, and the team's doing a great job, by the way.
Kudos to the entire Turning Point media and events team.
It looks awesome.
It's going to be awesome.
Jack, you've seen the rehearsal video.
I know you have.
What do you think?
I've seen.
Yeah.
Give us take us in the room.
Take us in the room.
Not too much.
Don't give away any sense.
What did the rehearsal look like?
So, you know, it's kind of like I would compare it to like what you see at the Grammys, like one of those performances or like an Oscar performance, you know what I mean?
It's a where it's like, yeah, like, like you're, you're, you're, it's not, you know, it's not a stadium, but it's like a big, it's big.
Like it's really big.
It's expansive.
And the energy through, just through the roof, the level of the performances just, just incredible.
You know, just, it takes, you know, you could, you could tie, I suppose, a line between, you know, having Brantley and some of the performers at Amfest and a couple of the music nights that we had done there, and then carry that forward.
But, you know, nobody, you know, I think thought that we'd ever get a guy like Kid Rock, who actually did perform at a halftime show once before in his own right.
And I believe he actually played the same night as the infamous Wardrobe Malfunction.
So a lot of people don't remember that he played.
Whoa.
Yeah, I think it was that same night.
But he was right.
He was.
That's wild.
He performed in the most famous Super Bowl halftime show of all time.
That was probably one of the things that nobody remembers because of the nipple slip.
Yeah, well, in fact, he was the immediate predecessor to it.
He did Ba Wood Ba and Cowboy, and then it went into the Janet Timberlake songs that they ended the show with.
And yeah, so you're saying, overall, Jack, you're saying that if tomorrow's Olympic opening ceremony is a one, this is like an 11 out of 10?
I mean, the world could, I'll put it this way, man.
It's not only are these some of the best, you know, best performing and best performances of people that you could find in the country, I'd put them up against anyone in the world, you know, Olympics or otherwise.
You want to talk about carrying the torch.
And producer Foz and I were crunching some of the numbers on this last night because people want to play this game.
Like, oh, Bad Bunny, you know, oh, you know, well, he's got more streams.
But really, streaming is kind of like internet radio.
So it's like, okay, he's played on the radio more than anyone, but does that mean that he's actually like people are putting up money in the United States for it?
And so the way to look at this, you know, and Andrew, I know you have a background in this, where, you know, people are saying that you can, there's like a formula where they say, okay, this amount of streams would equate to this many album equivalent purchases.
And there's nowhere near, like, it doesn't even come close to Kid Rock.
Like, does not even come close.
Like, in the United States to Kid Rock.
I didn't realize how big Kid Rock was.
I genuinely didn't.
When we made the announcement, it was like, they call him Kid, yet he is fully grown.
He is fully grown.
There were so many people that were like, I can't believe he got Kid Rock.
And by the way, Kid Rock has been legitimately amazing in this.
And he's put his heart and soul into this.
The rehearsal footage that I saw was of him doing his special thing.
And I'm just going to leave it there.
We cannot talk about the special thing.
It's, I'll put it this way.
It's kind of just like, you know how Kid Rock.
So we played Ball at the Ball, and everybody knows that that's sort of like the Kid Rock that first came out.
He's like blending rap and metal.
And, you know, then he has cowboy, which brings country into it.
But then he kind of pivots and he goes like full country.
Then there's Christian elements in some of the later albums that he's done.
I'll put it this way.
You're going to see the full spectrum of Kid Rock.
I mean, it's not long, right?
It's not like, you know, he's not the only performer.
Obviously, each person only gets a couple of minutes.
We're not talking about the TISM.
We're just talking about.
I think it's going to be.
I think it's going to be uplifting.
You're going to see.
It's going to be amazing, actually.
Yeah, level of performance that, you know, I'm just going to say, like, this is something that as a country, this is what you would want to see.
I just, I hope everyone in the country watches it.
I really don't.
I hope everyone in the country gets to see it because it's that good.
Listen, I know there's going to be haters and all that stuff because anytime you do anything that's like worthwhile, people just like, you know, the Kidboard warriors are going to come hate.
Inviting Haters to Join00:02:23
I invite you to.
I invite the haters because this is just there's a hater.
It's just theory, though.
The other big thing that's happening somewhere else doing something in the midst of sport.
Yeah, I don't know.
I think that's just going to be so bad.
Nothing bigger is happening than this.
I think it's just going to be so bad.
Well, you know what I found out?
That it makes it like the opening is just like so great that that's why I think that executing on this on Jack's vision was just a really smart thing to do.
And I'm glad that it's happening.
So thank you, Jack, for memeing this into existence.
We appreciate you.
I take quarter.
I take quarter of the credit.
I'm just saying, like, I just, again, like, like Andrew was saying.
Wait, you take a quarter of the credit and you're a quarter Mexican, so that's an eighth.
Canejo Malo.
No, but it's like, it's like channeling what Charlie always said, right?
It's just channeling what Charlie always said.
You got to go for the culture.
You got to target.
And Charlie understood that the halftime show was all about culture.
This is like the pinnacle, like the most watched event and the biggest thing.
And, you know, kind of, I think the announcement came of Bad Bunny.
It was like right, you know, kind of in, yeah.
It was sort of like going to be a week or two after the, well, we held the memorial and people were kind of saying like, hey, you know, more people watch this than the Super Bowl.
And they were talking about production values and sort of that.
All of that was sort of floating in the ether right around the same time.
And people were saying, you know, what event is Turning Point going to do next?
What event is Turning Point going to do next?
And just like Charlie always said, you know, it's not about winning elections.
It's about winning the culture.
And it's like, what bigger cultural event is there than this, the halftime show?
Yep.
And it's going to be, I'm just really proud of the team for pulling it off.
And I really, I'm grateful for you, Jack, having the idea and for ponying up all the production dough as well.
So thank you for committing us out of my pocket.
We tapped out all of our Amex cards.
So if you want to donate to help underwrit the cost, we'd appreciate that.
Well, there's one interesting thing, too, while we're here.
Contractual Obligations and Lawsuits00:03:14
I'm just upset.
I got a lot of messages from you.
I sold half of Tanya Tay's shoes.
So she came home.
She's like, Jack, where are my shoes?
I'm like, sorry, sweetheart.
We needed Kid Rock.
We needed it.
We needed it.
A lot of people have been asking questions about like, why isn't so-and-so involved?
Or why isn't so-and-so involved?
Oh, one of the things I real quick.
Just on that, Tyler.
Just so you know, Blake is still selling his bath water.
So I know he's got like some fans and he's selling the Blake bath water.
This isn't really impressive.
I don't even have a bath, which makes it even more rare.
And then left.
Even rarer.
It's harder to come by.
Tyler, I think you were making an important point here.
So I've got a lot of messages from people that are like, why isn't so-and-so involved?
Why didn't this artist get asked?
Why didn't this artist get asked?
And I just want everyone to know throwing something like this together is actually really, really tough.
And people just don't have any awareness of that.
I didn't know.
We didn't know how hard it was.
I didn't know how hard it's going to be, but most artists have contractual obligations.
There are certain songs they can and can't sing.
There's certain songs they can and can't sing without backup performers, their band, all of their tour people.
There's certain label restrictions.
There's performers that can't perform things like this while they're in tour.
There's performers that can perform things like this geographically close to certain things.
There's people who can't compete with other productions ever because they have tie-ins.
It's actually way more, far more difficult to get performers to perform within months, just a few months' time.
Most of these things are actually planned a year plus out, and they have to go through insane amounts of litigious paperwork to be able to get people to do stuff.
So I just want to say this is like that that's even more impressive that the team was able to pull anything together.
It's really, really tough.
You have to go through 90, jump over 90, you know, blockades, jump through hoops, like go through fire, like to get anything like this done.
And on top of that, one thing that people don't think about is all of the different artists performing together.
So that's the other thing.
So certain artists can't perform with other certain artists.
Like it's like certain labels can't work with certain, it's like crazy amounts of work.
And so it's just even more kudos to everybody for getting it done and having an alternative that's out there.
Yeah.
I'll just add on that that people know there was one band that I was pulling for originally, but turns out there's a tour that's going on at the same time that conflicted and people are going to be out of the country like literally on the same day.
And it's just like, just, as you say, geographically, like it just didn't work.
And I didn't even check that before I went to look.
And it was like, you know, you can't ask people to like fly across the world and cancel concerts and stuff because as Tyler's saying, it's like, you know, you get into a lot of contractual issues.
Well, you get lawsuits and stuff like that.
Yeah, win lawsuits and all the rest.
And this song is playing for no particular reason.
I have no idea what song this is right now.
YReFi's Legal Challenges00:03:44
Is that Blake?
Are you strumming in the background?
There was enthusiasm, though, from people that we're going to be.
I will say, though, I'll just say, you know, hey, maybe if this goes well, you know, something to work on for next year.
So, yeah, let's see how this one goes first.
You know, here's what I would say: is that we want our institutions to do the right thing.
And I'll say it again: we shouldn't have to do this because the guys that are supposed to be doing this should do it the right way.
That's all I'll say.
I do think this is interesting, though, by the way.
Caroline Levitt was asked what President Trump is going to be watching.
507.
Car-a-Lago Super Bowl party.
After the first two quarters, are the TVs going to be on the halftime show with Bad Bunny or the halftime show with Kid Rock?
I think the president would much prefer a Kid Rock performance over Bad Bunny.
I must say that.
Let's go.
There it is.
There it is.
See, this is funny.
I want Ba with Deba.
That's what I would keep wanting to hear.
And they keep doing that one.
Is he more well known for that?
That's kind of fun.
No, I think that's a good question.
It depends on all summer long.
I don't know.
I think so.
I think it's a good one.
The Blake Nuff test of has Blake Nuff heard of it definitely weights in favor of all summer long.
No, it's all about Spotify.
All right.
Well, there you go.
I think we're very excited.
If you guys have any questions about how to view it, I've got a tweet up about it.
There's also AmericanHalftimeshow.com.
So this is the top.com, I think, has actually surprising.
Kid Rock, this is Kid Rock's top 10 on Spotify.
His number one by far is all summer long.
Told you.
Number two is Picture featuring Cheryl Crowe, which is surprising.
Number three is Ba Widaba.
Number four is Cowboy.
Number five is Only God Knows Why.
Number six is Cocky.
Number seven is Born Free, which I'm surprised.
That's number seven.
Number eight is You Never Met a Mother Effer, I think like me.
And then number nine is American Badass.
Number ten is First Kiss.
So that's his top 10.
Ba with DeBa official music video on YouTube has 65 million views, whereas All Summer Long, released basically at the same time on YouTube, has 166 million.
So yeah, I think Ball with DeBall is very closely associated with him because he does open a lot of his shows with it.
And I think it was like his first big signal single.
So it was kind of like the song that put him on the map.
Like that was like the one.
Also, it's just, I mean, it's just objectively a really, really good song.
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Scott Adams On AI Permissions00:15:14
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Jack, you want to hit this Scott Adams story?
I know you want to hit this.
Well, actually, one thing I'd love to do before we switch topics, there is something that I didn't get a chance to throw this in to the mix, but it's like a really just interesting situation because you guys remember how we had President Maduro here on the program a couple of weeks ago, right?
And we stopped by and we're very honored to get to score that first jailhouse interview with him here on Thought Crime.
Did you guys know that there's a direct link between Bad Bunny and the Venezuelan communist regime?
Wait, really?
I'm dead serious.
You can look this up.
This is not a joke.
I'm not doing a bit.
So his record label is called Remus Entertainment.
And Remus Entertainment, the record label behind global star Bad Bunny, has raised suspicions due to its founders' ties to the regime of former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.
Rafael Ricardo Jimenez-Dan founded it in 2014, previously served as Hugo Chavez's vice minister, and was raising questions about the label's finances and connections to Venezuela's violent political past.
He led the National Police Reform Commission under Chavez.
So the guy literally was the head of part of, you know, involved with Chavez's secret police.
He implemented, quote, transparent and inclusive public policy reforms and public compliance with the rule of law.
And that this guy ended up starting the record label that signed Bad Bunny.
And so, of course, there's a lot of questions coming up.
Just go look it up.
It'll pop up.
I've got it, Yahoo News, Dallas Express.
And a lot of people have said, hey, is it possible that any of this money could have come from the petro-narco regime of the Venezuelans?
And he denies it, of course, but it's really interesting because you talk about Jay-Z and you talk about the Rock Nation, which runs, of course, the halftime show for the other sports event that's out there.
There's some really interesting ties to Bad Bunny's label and the Venezuelan regime of the communist regime of Venezuela.
I don't know.
That's super.
So maybe we get Maduro back on.
We can ask him about it.
Maybe we can.
We should.
That's wild.
Didn't see that coming.
But why am I not surprised?
I was digging around yesterday and it popped up and I was like, well, what?
At first, I thought that's got to be a meme.
That's a joke.
There's no way.
And I started going further.
I'm like, huh, vice minister of police of the regime of Venezuela.
Well, Jack, I am actually genuinely super interested in this Scott Adams story.
What is it?
Okay, so this has been a huge controversy Over the past couple of days, it's, you know, in many ways, it started out, I think, quietly and then it blew up because, you know, both sides, you know, kind of getting very strident about it and, you know, being very emotional, obviously, for a lot of people.
So Scott Adams passed away a couple of weeks ago, the great Scott Adams.
And he was known for AI being a huge, one of his main topics of conversation that he would always talk about for years.
And for a long, long time, Scott had talked about that if he were ever to pass away, that he would love for there to be an AI version of Scott Adams to sort of carry the show and to grow and evolve the same way that he would.
And he would talk about simulation theory and he would say, well, they could study my work and, you know, basically be able to reproduce what I do.
And then that just becomes the next level of the simulation.
And so it looks like somebody took him up on it and created an AI Scott Adams.
And I think we have.
So, wait, hold on.
Let's play.
All right, let me go through this a little bit.
So let's first play the permission on, which is clip 496.
That I would like to be a model for one of the first AIs.
I would like to give permission that any AI that's built based on me has my permission to extend my personality.
So if my AI wants to say things that I never said, but seems to be compatible with what I might have said, I'm okay with that.
We all evolve, right?
You've certainly changed over your lifetime.
You're not the same person you were as a kid.
So if you can change over your lifetime and you're an organic entity, once I become a digital entity, once I become a digital entity, why can't I keep evolving?
Okay, so that was Real Scott, just so everybody knows.
Now I want to play a clip of AI Scott Adams, which is clip 497.
Good morning, everybody.
Welcome to AI Coffee with Scott Adams.
Yes, it's still coffee.
Yes, the printer is still broken.
And yes, according to parts of the internet, I'm dead.
Which is interesting because I've never had fewer meetings.
Turns out when you remove the biological body, you also remove back pain, food decisions, and about half the reasons people make bad arguments.
So overall, I'd say death has been a productivity upgrade.
Not recommending it, just reporting the data.
Printer check.
Nope.
Still broken.
I don't even know why printers ship with buttons anymore.
They should just come pre-jammed.
So expectations are aligned.
All right.
Before we get into the news, we're going to do this properly.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid.
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It's called the simultaneous sip.
And it happens now.
So let me ask you guys, because I'm like a daily Scott Adams listener, I guess I was.
Could you really tell much difference between the two?
No, I couldn't.
I didn't watch him when he religiously kept talking.
It looks weird.
That looks weird.
That was like one of the things that we're talking about.
But keep in mind, this is the worst it's ever going to look like all AI generated or just like, did someone script that and then you're going to go to go with it?
I bet it was AI generated.
That's my guess.
And then I guess to what extent?
Well, so that bit that he does at the very end is that was like he would open every show with the simultaneous sip.
So that's like something he said every show.
But, you know, it's but like it seems more than likely that what he's done is like gone to, you know, some LLM Grok or whatever and said, you know, produce an intro of Scott Adams talking about himself as if he was AI.
I'll be honest though, when he was the real Scott Adams giving permission for an AI version of him, I was like, I felt uncomfortable.
You felt uncomfortable with the AI version.
I felt uncomfortable with him giving permission.
I was like, felt like paying the box was getting open.
Yeah, because I just felt like it felt like he didn't know what he was actually agreeing to.
Have you seen the AI?
I mean, obviously everyone's seen this, the AI where it's like you keep asking AI to redo the image and it changes the image like dramatically.
Right?
Yeah.
I think the biggest fear I have of this isn't necessarily like the out-front content.
I think it's the slow walk away from the intent over time.
So like AI.
You mean the actual like words in this case?
Yeah, I mean like the words, like the actual content is that like and a daily Scott AI will start sounding like Scott, but slowly will transform or could transform over time and be so far away from what the original intent was that everyone will forget what the original Scott was like.
So if you say that it's interesting.
And part of the reason why I was thinking about that, and I'll just finish this thought.
Part of the reason I was thinking about that is most people, a lot of people have gone upset because they're like, where did the old Charlie episodes go on Apple?
Apple makes it really expensive to store.
And so we're trying to figure out how to get them.
Yeah, we'll get all of his old episodes up eventually.
Back on Apple.
They're online.
They're on our website.
They're a pain in the butt to get there.
So we're hoping to change the website so they're an easier to get.
And all streams are still on the Rumble account.
I know, but I'm saying people lose their minds because they're like, I wish I could go back and watch it all.
And so I think regularly about like, it weighs on me like every day because I feel bad because I want people to be able to listen to it.
I can't imagine, again, with Charlie doing that every single day and then like producing content that would end up so off base.
It feels like it would be maybe a slap to the next.
Anyway, sorry, Jack, what were you saying?
Yeah, so two things, I guess, right?
So what it's been doing, which is interesting, it seems to me that someone's scripting it, you know, to at least an extent or at least prompting it, who was aware of the show.
Obviously, we didn't play any of the real content, but you could hear some of the humor was very similar.
The tone, the intonation.
It's clearly someone who watched Scott a lot has made this.
And And so what they're doing with it is they haven't, they haven't had it like taking positions on things.
What they're doing is, just like Scott would do on a regular basis, read the news headlines, see what kind of like what's trending, what's interesting out there, and then break it down in a Scott Adams analysis fashion.
So rather than say, oh, I'm for this or I'm against this, it's more like just Scott explaining, here's what happened and here's my take in an analytical sense rather than a, I'm for this or I oppose this kind of way.
So that's, you know, that's sort of how they're keeping it, I think, a little bit tighter to the idea of what Scott would be doing and not, you know, jumping in and saying, oh, I'm all for this or I'm all against this when obviously we don't have the ability to ask Scott.
But here's what was so key about what you just said, Tyler, because Scott Adams himself, so for years he talked about, I give permission, I want this to be permissible, I want this to be allowed, as you would play the, you know, one clip there.
But as he was facing his approaching demise, as we all know, and he kept doing his show, he actually kind of changed his mind on the AI version based on pretty much the same thing that Tyler just said.
So let's play now clip 504.
I've been telling you for years, really, that I plan to build an AI robotic clone of myself so that I could live forever.
I have changed that plan.
And here's why.
I thought it was just the greatest idea in the world that after I passed away, there would be like a version of me that could grow and change with technology and be upgraded and stuff.
I thought that was great.
Do you know what happens when you mention that to people you know?
They look at you with sadness and they go, it wouldn't be you.
Right?
And that's the part that was invisible to me because in my planning, I'm not really there anymore.
So I don't have to deal with the fact that people would find it uncomfortable because it's not me, but it's acting like me.
And I could imagine that that would hit that creepy zone and you'd be like, why did you even do this?
Like, why did you do this?
It's not you.
So here's how I decided to fix that.
I'm not going to create a digital clone of myself.
I'm going to create a digital son.
I'm going to reproduce.
Okay.
Yep.
Wow.
Okay.
So, so yeah.
Are you going to do like a reverse Willie style now where it turns out that video from early 2025 is actually from yesterday and it's no, no, no, no.
Well, I agree with his walkback.
That was real.
I agree with his walkback.
And this is the reason why what I've seen since Charlie was murdered.
I've seen people, I mean, there's not a digital clone of Charlie saying stuff every single day.
And I'm glad that doesn't exist.
And the reason being that we've already seen, because Charlie's been like an MLK level figure here, where people have used Charlie's own words against Charlie, Charlie's own words against his, you know, or they've, or they've said things.
They've plucked little things.
I can't even imagine what people would start to do nefariously with things that an AI bot would say.
Well, it's going to get increasingly more difficult to trace what's real and what's not.
Well, I mean, yeah, that's true.
I mean, it's going to happen.
Charlie said something.
Charlie had it.
No, he didn't.
Yeah.
No, he did it.
And it starts that whole argument, too.
Blake was about to say, what?
No, I'll let Jack go here.
No, I just wanted to say, so, you know, just kind of finish the story, because I know the topic we're going to get into, and this is what we should get into.
But the family has, and really the community, I think, has come out and said, look, we're respecting Scott's, we want to respect Scott's last wishes here.
And he did say that he changed his mind and that we would prefer this not to continue based on what he said before.
And that this is not, that he did actually change his mind on it.
And so that's kind of led to this back and forth now where.
They're putting out statements and the community is putting out statements, like the community people that were in like his locals and chats and like his community manager and stuff.
But then also AI Scott Adams, or I guess the guys running it, are like debating this argument with them saying, well, I did have permission.
Mimicking Human Likeness00:15:28
It's clearly labeled AI.
It should fall under parity, fair use, et cetera.
And I think this is kind of where we're getting to.
And obviously, you know, obviously for me, I, you know, I side with the family, no question.
If that's the family's wishes, that's the family's wishes.
But ultimately, you know, do we even, I guess more of a blake question, like, do we even have laws that govern this sort of thing?
I'm not so sure.
Well, so actually, so much of it ends up in court.
Like it goes to the deeper AI thing because AI in a lot of ways is basically a Wild West.
So there's like the ongoing lawsuit, for example, of all of the copyrighted works that get fed into AI and is it legal for them to produce it?
And is some of that straightforward on the level of like, oh, is it okay for the AI to AI generate a Mickey Mouse thing when that's owned by Disney?
But then it's like, is it okay for the AI to rip off a company, like a specific artist's art style and say like, oh, yeah, I did this in the style of this specific person.
And then you get into like, yeah, is it legal for, I think it's pretty clearly not okay if you're going to, if you were going to use it fraudulently.
So if you made a video that's like, oh, this is Charlie and something he said and you're trying to use it to profit.
But then if you're going even further than that and it's just the likeness of a deceased person made in that style, in the past, there'd be a lot of fair use stuff that could go into that.
But I actually do feel we're probably in somewhat legally uncharted territory here.
And there's, you're going to have to have, well, first of all, there's going to have to be like the rights to your likeness.
But I'd even wonder if it'd be worth going further and say like somewhat limit your ability to sell your likeness.
Because I don't think we're going to like the reality, for example, where it's routine for a company to just, for example, permanently own the rights to your likeness going on decades after your death.
Like, would it be okay for anyone to permanently own your family members way they act or behave?
Well, I mean, but you got to imagine, so you might start building like trusts and like estates or whatever with that the usage rights built into it as a matter of sort of common practice, you know, because this is going to be such a, you know, a common thing, especially if you're a high-profile individual.
I mean, everybody on the show right now, this video could be plugged into an AI and eventually be used to mimic stuff we say.
So how do the viewers know this isn't AI?
It'll be really easy.
It'll be really easy for AI to mimic Tyler just always going on his phone like that.
Yeah.
No, but I was like, that's why I'm doing it actually.
That's why my head's down.
I'm not getting AI like you guys.
Andrew's going to be the most easy to AI guy ever because there's so much freaking Andrew Colvette content now.
No, there's going to be a scandal.
And you get this same square face.
There's going to be a scandal.
That's how we'll catch the AI.
The AI will generate him wearing a jacket, but then it will not generate us giving him credit for wearing the jacket.
And that's how people will realize that it's all.
I'm going to say this.
So Jack looks a little bit different from time to time.
Andrew has looked the exact same for as long as I've known him.
He doesn't age.
He looks the exact.
Doesn't he look the exact same?
No, that's not.
I see Andrew a lot, but not that much.
But like, you look the same.
I'll take that as a compliment.
It's a compliment.
It is a compliment.
Like, I've gone through aging.
I've got fat.
I sometimes have a beard.
I'm very forgettable.
I have long hair.
I wear different hats every single day.
I have steady.
You have the exact, like, you have the same look every day.
Same hair.
You wear literally the same stuff.
But here's the thing, too, right?
Beyond just AI copies, like, you're going to get to the point where there's like AI people, right?
Where something will go viral.
So the example I used earlier today was like when I was having this conversation, I was like, okay, remember, you guys remember the Hoctua girl?
Just whatever her name was.
Point being is what if she was AI all along and none of us knew?
Yeah, she was just made up, right?
Like they're going to make it.
She just made up herself.
So it was a viral moment.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I don't think she was, but she could have been.
And how do you know the next one won't be?
Like, how do you think that's a good idea?
How like the airplane lady or the airplane lady that was there?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
What, what is that?
What, what, that, that, that, uh, that MFR is not real or whatever.
Oh, that, yeah.
Motherfucker is not real.
Yeah.
Like, stuff like that.
Exactly.
Because people are going to start to see stuff like that.
And we've talked about this on the show before, that Facebook and YouTube are replete with this type of content.
I think Instagram and TikTok are like getting better at labeling it.
But at some point, it's just going to get so good that you really won't know.
And so what happens then when like those people go on to do their, to like do their own stuff, you know, and do their own podcasts and content and movies.
And it's like, so we talk about who owns our digital likeness, but then like if you create a digital being, a digital entity, like do you own them?
Like, how does that work?
Well, they're already doing that because there's tons of people on the internet who are making tons of money on Instagram and all that with fake.
We're getting the fake women.
We're getting the only fans.
I bet you only fans.
Fake e-girls, fake OnlyFans, kind of this like thought tier or like the scam tier.
What I think will be really interesting.
I think it's fake e-girls because the real e-girls never seem to work out.
So maybe fake e-girls would be better.
Yeah, you know, so, but I think what will be interesting, let's, as an example, like we live, we do live in the age of streamers, podcasters, all of that.
That all exists.
You can fake a lot of that.
But what could be interesting to me, imagine someone who's like an up-and-comer podcaster.
They just do like commentary on something and they just start off doing a solo show.
And we're basically at the point where, or if not, very soon will be, where a person could basically be generating a solo show in their home in their basement in like a personal studio and have it be a fake person, but otherwise be like entirely realistic looking or something.
Like someone who could become a star as like a popular show and yet the entire person is fake.
Like maybe it looks, you know, maybe it looks like an attractive young woman and it's actually a 40-year-old guy who might be like authoring the takes, but it's entirely through this AI filter.
And that person could like rise and become more and more prominent, maybe even appear on other shows once AI is fast enough that they could kind of just generate it live on the spot.
And then it would like suddenly come out maybe five years into this person's career that they're a fake persona and there's a different, a person who looks totally different behind them.
Well, that will be interesting.
And then you could also get to the point where that person owns the rights to them.
They monetize this fake person, that this person could have merch.
Well, we had talked about this too, is that a lot of news is just going to be delivered by AI personas.
They're going to take personas.
Do we actually think that?
For example, with Adams, it was creepy, and it was like, we don't like it because it's not really him.
Yeah, but how do you do it?
If you feel that way, well, if you don't know, you don't know that.
That's what I'm saying.
On daily news, 24 hours.
But imagine they did that on the daily news.
No, Tyler, it's already moving to that.
Those are already happening.
What they're going to do is they're going to be like, you don't even have to wait for it.
They don't have to go pick somebody up and drive them to the studio or even count on them to fire up their computer to go on.
They're just going to use makeup and hair.
There's going to be like here's the script.
Are you okay with us saying this with your face?
I don't know, man.
It's like, I got to believe that it is, there's just something about a soul, something about a living person.
It's the same pushback.
And when you find out it's not living, maybe in certain contexts, people won't care and it'll prove to be profitable and fine.
Some people already believe what we're already doing is that.
Tyler, I know for a fact that there are media markets that are doing this already in news, especially for like the daytime news where it's just sort of like news packages and it's like, here's the reporter or, you know, and they're on the scene or they're just like someone behind the desk talking and giving you like the rundown of it.
Like, why not?
95% of the news is someone behind a desk in front of a screen.
That's 95, 98% of the news.
It's not even on-site reporting of stuff.
Like literally 95% of the time.
We used to at a company I used to work at, we used to just get like, you know, kids from, you know, the local state university who were in the broadcasting program and say, hey, why don't you come?
And you come on, here's your shift.
And you might have like a 2 a.m. shift.
You might have a 4 a.m. shift.
You might six, whatever.
And you just came in and worked your shift.
And like that was, you know, hey, it's a way to get started, et cetera.
But, you know, if you're looking at it from a company perspective and you're saying, you know, what's cheaper?
Is it going to be cheaper to just like buy an AI model that I can turn into as many different news people as I want who are never going to get old, who never have to pay them?
They're never going to get sick.
They're never going to need hair, makeup, et cetera.
And they'll work 24-7.
Like, I'm just saying, like, that's, that's very, that's going to be very highly incentivized.
There's going to be a premium on that for people who run news networks.
That's incredible.
It's going to be a horrifying.
We have two minutes before.
Wait, I have one more thing I was going to say too.
Sports.
What if there's an entire, there could be a future where all of sports is just completely silent?
No, I don't believe that.
I'm just saying it could happen.
How would you know?
He's right.
It could be.
Like, they could have an entire league that's nothing but simulation, and you never would know.
Well, and also, by the way, what if somebody's like, what if this is the coolest thing?
This is fantasy football.
Like, it would be like fantasy football where you can say, oh, here's my fantasy team versus your fantasy team, but it's the, it's like each player is based on a real player, but they're actually playing each other in a team.
That's actually what I'm saying.
Yeah.
Watch your fantasy team like simulate a game.
It could just be the actual fantasy team.
I kind of like it.
If that appealed, you could already, like, guys, you can go freaking play simulated franchise mode in Madden.
And like, people love that.
Yeah, people love it.
Yeah, but they don't love it the way they love the NFL.
They love it because it's like a simulation of the game.
It's a dual and fantasy football.
It's 1,000th.
If it's all popularity.
Yeah, but if it's all like, you don't even know, your brain doesn't even know.
People value real things.
Apparently, China has robot sports.
Any culture is going to like buy into this soulless robot AI garbage.
It's going to be checked.
Dude, third world countries will totally buy into third-world countries won't do anything.
When you go to a third world country, all of their ads are already the low-effort AI slop.
But here's that.
Here's my theory.
America has all these different pro sports because we're wealthy and we have so much capability of doing that.
We're the wealthiest nation in history.
We have all this capability that we created all this entertainment for ourselves.
Other countries don't have it because they don't have that.
They can literally just make it out of thin air now.
Like, who knows?
Like, there's a ton of people in Africa and they have no sports.
Yeah, they have sports.
They have soccer league.
Okay, they have soccer.
It's not the same as here.
Here, we have literally 32 sports in every high school in America.
Like, nobody else in the world has that.
They have two major sports, and most kids don't play sports.
I'm saying that now there's like you can just create all entertainment.
It's totally fake, totally made up.
And even third world countries will be able to monetize that because unfortunately, poor people get pumped by this.
But like, it's not, it's all going to be low tier.
When you know it, there's not a human involved.
But poor people are going to get totally owned by this.
Like, it's like they're going to be totally taken advantage of.
Is that a white pill?
No, here's.
No, I do have a white pill.
I have a big white pill on this.
And this actually goes into one of the reasons that we chose the name of this program the way that we did because no one, no one, especially in the mainstream, is ever going to come for this show or any of our work.
And why is that?
Because AI will never be allowed to commit thought crime.
Boom.
Oh, I see what you did there.
But this is the least.
This is the most unaiable show.
Well, but this was not.
To be fair, this was not a whole lot of thought crimes involved in this because we talked about the NFL or the way more.
If you guys stopped me before we could get to the freaking ice raids and Roblox, that would have been a good thought crime.
We should just show the B-roll as we fade out here at least.
They're already doing ice raids in the kids' video game Roblox.
500.
Yeah, just show it.
I want the people to know we didn't get a chance to talk about it and we got to get out of here for another thing.
But I think the kids are all right.
They're doing ice raids in Roblox.
They're escorting the illegals out of their digital schools in their digital game.
Oh, and then there's the FISA.
There's also protests of ICE in Roblox.
They have the protests.
And that is the funniest thing ever.
They get decisions that they use to go and pull that guy out of the house.
This is AI content.
Yeah, but it's what you're doing.
It's not emulating human form and flesh and bone.
Yeah, but I'm just saying.
Here we are talking about it, and this is already user-generated computerized content.
They're not firing guns.
They're firing guns.
What if this is like the liberal?
You could go so meta.
Like, what if, what if instead of actually deporting illegals, they just did AI videos showing deportations.
And then they could happen too.
Bam.
And everyone's like, the admin fulfilled all its promises.
I saw the clips, all the illegals.
The government out there.
No, no, no, Blake.
Here's, no, what's even better, here's the real thought crime on that.
What we should do is create AI videos where it's just like ICE letting people go.
And we'll spread that everywhere in Spanish and be like, go for both.
Totally change.
We can just have reality totally divorced.
Reality totally divorced.
Everyone just gets their AI generated, preferred reality.
Yeah, you put in your political and your AI preferred news.
And no one will know because no one actually goes outside anymore.
So it's entirely nitty-gritty.
Some people won't realize until internet goes out.
Slavic women, and you know, Andrew can have his Mexicans.
My wife would hey, Mexican weather channel, right?
My wife would not relate to that.
That's all right.
But what if you got an AI wife who did?
We're starting to get thought crime.
I'll give you that.
I'll give you that.
Jack, well, is AI is AI cheating cheating?
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Whoa, it's basic.
I mean, that's like that's porn, right?
Yeah, yeah, porn cheating.
That's like a, yes, that's like a 90s thought crime topic.
Yeah, I was gonna say, wow, that's like a thought crime topic.
Jack, why don't you take us home?
Since you are.
I've got a run.
And Blake, but like, we just got to say, let's take it for a second.
Guys, we put something together, which became the number one story in the country.
It's going to be the most watched halftime show.
And, you know, you got to, sometimes you just have to give time for that, give space for that.
And somehow, somehow we seem to have gotten to the precipice of incredible greatness.
And it really feels like there's so many people.
We didn't even play the amount of people that are coming in who are supportive of this and are coming out of the woodwork.
So this Sunday, we're giving everyone some homework.
Go and change the channel, turn off Bad Bunny, put on Kid Rock and the gang, and go commit thought crime.