April 6, 2024 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 38 — Operation: Nebraska? Is Women's Basketball Legit? Euthanasia For The Young?
In this week’s ThoughtCrime, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, Tyler Bowyer, and Blake Neff discuss many important questions, including:-Will Nebraska do what's needed to win the 2024 election?-Will AI songs replace all musical artists?-Should young people be allowed to euthanize themselves for depression?THOUGHTCRIME streams LIVE exclusively on Rumble, every Thursday night at 8pm ET.Go to https://friends.rumble.cloud to sign up today!Support the Show.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to tonight's edition of Thought Crime.
We've got an extra spicy episode for you tonight.
So spicy.
Charlie's not here yet.
So spicy.
Charlie is not here.
Charlie is off conducting struggle sessions.
But of course, when I say conducting struggle sessions, I don't mean he's the one on struggle sessions.
I mean, he's the one putting people on struggle sessions.
More on that later.
But we've got a lot To get into tonight, and for now, Blake and Tyler are here.
What's up, Blackpill Blake?
Oh, we're just going to be Blackpilling everyone all night, and also Whitepilling everyone.
But, you know, most news is bad news.
We should all despair and accept our inevitable demise.
We're going to be Blackpilling all the Media Matters guys that are listening here today.
Wait, no, no, no, Tyler, you're not Blackpill, you're Whitepill.
Welcome to Media Matters.
You're not Blackpill at all.
Tyler's like Mr. New York Times now.
You're like Mr. New York Times now.
He's Tealpill Tyler.
New York Times Tyler.
New York Times did a massive, what's up with this, did a massive spread on Tyler this week and he's like up leading, you know, conducting the forces.
Can you explain yourself, sir?
Yeah, I mean, it was a bad picture of me, but whatever.
It's fine.
I'll take it.
There's no good pictures of you.
Yo, real quick, where was your hair in that picture?
Like, you're not like Blake, who just doesn't have hair to begin with, but you have, like, generally longer hair.
And, like, you were-- It was like this.
Yeah, it was like-- You were Blake-in.
It was like this, and, like, I was wearing this, uh, uh, shirt that was probably a little bit-- a little bit too tight.
So ignore that part if you see the New York Times article.
But I think all in all, it was pretty good highlighting the work that we're doing right now on getting ballot chasers into the field in Arizona.
And this is what's freaking out.
What's ballot chasing?
What does that mean?
Yeah, and this is really critical.
We've had this discussion about early voting, why early voting matters.
Who should early vote?
The big thing that Turning Point Action is really focused on is getting more ballots in the ballot box.
Real quick, while we do this, bring up my screen here.
We have this hot bod visible here.
Terrible.
Now all of our viewers are blind.
Terrible.
That's how it is.
Horrible.
No, it's not fair.
See, Blake, I was trying to spare Tyler the indignity of the photo, but no.
The New York Times did the New York Times thing and they wanted to put a not great photo up, but that's fine.
That's okay.
Because the message of early voting and early balloting is out there.
The message of early voting is if you vote early, you don't have to stand in line with anyone and you don't need to maybe stand next to Tyler Bowyer.
Or like what happened in Wisconsin this week on Election Day, where there's a blizzard.
What happened in Wisconsin on Election Day, Tyler?
There was a blizzard, and on Election Day, this week, on Tuesday, And that's always a problem.
But our big focus is we want to get out early votes, particularly with low propensity voters.
So a big question that people have talked about a lot.
Well, I like to vote on Election Day.
Do I need to change?
The simple answer is no, as long as you vote.
What I always like to emphasize for this is, if you plan to vote early and you forget, you can still vote on election day.
Yes.
But if you want to vote on election day and then you forget, you get sick, you have a family emergency, a blizzard hits, any number of things that can go wrong.
You have a work emergency.
You have to go out of town.
You can't go back in time and vote early.
And I think in the big picture, it is correct.
We are right to be suspicious of mail-in ballots.
Where I think a lot of people go astray is, I don't think the problem with mail-in ballots, to be honest, is that they'll see your envelope and steal it and change the vote.
And if they have the capacity to do that, they can probably do a lot of other fraud on election day.
We don't have time to get into all the reasons why people are suspicious of early voting.
However, the most frank and honest argument against everybody early voting is that The Democrats will just fund more chasing to outperform us if we give them a number to hit, right?
That's that just makes sense, right?
Like if you're in a basketball game, which we'll get into, right?
If if you're Caitlin Clark, right?
And you're hitting a bunch of threes early in the game, they're going to know how much they have to make that up.
And so they're going to change their game plan for that.
That makes sense, right?
That is just a fundamental... But they're going to do that anyway.
They're going to do that anyway.
And so the only answer to that, even in that case, is still, you still have to do it, right?
More votes.
Right, because it puts you basically in this prisoner's dilemma of, well, if I don't do it and they don't do it, then I'm okay.
But if I don't do it and they do it, then I'm screwed.
But I have no leverage over them not doing it, so I must do it as well.
And that's it.
That's actually it.
So, you know, you can put up the Punnett Square of that or whatever, but we distilled this earlier, you know, and we've been doing the slogan, vote early, win early.
Just vote early, win early.
That's it.
That's just it.
Well, and you just said something which is really important, which is leverage.
If you throw the kitchen sink at the left, even for those that are the most cynical about the entire process and after seeing the last few elections, with a lot of problems, a lot of rules changed, to be honest, a lot of these places.
If you throw the kitchen sink at the left, you're more likely to make them have to rethink their game plan, and you're gonna have to make them work harder to win.
Let me give another good reason to do it.
Everyone who votes, you've probably had the annoying experience of getting contacted by people asking you if you've voted or making sure you've cast your ballot.
They're doing this because they have a list of people who have voted.
That is updated.
That's public information.
And they're gonna nag you all the way because they have to, you know, turn out, get your vote out.
If you vote...
They'll stop doing that, most of them will.
And that not only makes it less annoying for you, that means every second that we spend nagging a person to vote who was gonna vote anyway is sort of a waste of time, a waste of effort for us.
Whereas, let's say hypothetically, everyone who's a 100% voter voted, you know, at the very first day of early voting.
Then all your resources, all your effort are spent on marginal votes, people who might not be voting.
And on election day, when we have vans and we're like, let's do turnout, we're not driving anyone to the polls who was gonna vote anyway.
We're only driving those people we tracked down who are favorable to us, but our marginal voters often don't vote.
It's just statistical analysis, right?
Which is, you get more out of the things that you expect least, right?
So if you're able to have something happen That is not likely to happen.
It makes it harder for your opponent to be able to strategize against it, but that's worth more to you.
A one-for-one early vote than a later vote doesn't buy you a whole lot.
It buys you some confidence, but it doesn't buy you anything new.
What the left has figured out, and this is the layman's way of explaining it, is that All of these independents who are becoming, honestly, more conservative.
Millennials are becoming more conservative.
Independents right now, like Trump is polling, I think, 10, 15 points ahead in some of these polls with independents.
They can cancel out all those votes if they can make sure that some left-wing lunatic who never votes, they can turn out that person's ballot.
And so our side has to look at this and go, we just got to turn out A right-wing low-preventivity vote to cancel out the left-wing vote that they're chasing, to cancel out the independent that they're chasing.
Does that make sense?
For our side, we've got to do this work to match.
It's not everything.
There's still a number of things that we have to keep an eye on.
There's a ton of manipulation happening.
But by throwing the kitchen sink, like Jack said, you are creating a new layer of leverage that allows us to win.
And it's really critical.
And that's worth-- - And speaking of-- - Even if we have to have photos of. - That's worth every awful photo that they put on the front page of the New York Times. - That's 10,000 more votes. - So speaking of throwing the kitchen sink, it's almost like, oh, I don't know. - I'm wearing Nebraska.
- Throwing threes, if you will.
Oh, well, actually we're gonna get to that later.
We're gonna get to... Charlie just walked in.
Oh, is someone here?
Yes, we've got... Charlie has arrived.
He's arrived with his hat and everything.
Charlie was held up because he had to get a hat.
He was actually removing husks off corn.
That's right.
I have become a corn husker.
How does the hat look, everybody?
It is a beautiful thing to be holding.
Can we get it?
Can we tighten the hat a little?
I can't see.
Oh, there it is.
Yeah, got it.
Yeah, we got to get a tight shot on that.
It's my Nebraska Cornhusker hat.
Yes, we're all in on the Cornhusker gambit, man.
We have a lot of new listeners from Nebraska this week.
I think that our downloads have really increased in the great state of Nebraska.
Yeah, there it is.
You know they won a national title.
You gotta check me.
1970, 1971, 1984, and then 1995 and 1997.
I'm very positive that one of those championships... 70, 71, 4, 5, 7.
And they won a Rose Bowl.
I want to say 84 and then 1995 and 1997.
I'm very positive that one of those championships.
Am I right, Blake?
70, 71, four, five, seven, yep.
And they won a Rose Bowl.
Yeah, I said, yeah, 84, right?
94. 94.
No, I thought there was one.
There's five of them.
They have an unclaimed national title in 82 and 83.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
Is that the one where they did the Fumble Rooskie in the Orange Bowl?
And then they lost to Miami.
Yeah.
Well, the unclaimed one, I think, is because there was two separate bowls because they didn't have a playoff back then and they were multiple undefeated teams.
Don't we just love how college football makes perfect sense?
Not back then.
It still doesn't make sense.
Just like college football doesn't make perfect sense, though, for anyone who's not following the intense, the big story this week in politics, That's right.
Our show basically set off a volcano, and now we're getting write-ups in the Washington Post.
Oh, everywhere.
At ABC News.
The Guardian.
Just London people noticing this.
Yes.
So, wait, wait, wait.
You guys launched this, and, like, I was, like, you were doing this on Charlie's show, and then all of a sudden, like, I'm getting ready for my show, and I get blown up, and everybody's like, what's all the Nebraska?
I'm like, the Nebraska?
What's everybody talking about in Nebraska?
Walk me through how you numbskulls launched this.
You set the entire state of Nebraska on fire on a Tuesday.
So here's the truth.
I remember a couple thought crimes ago.
I came in, I asked Tyler about it, and you're like, yeah, I don't know.
It's kind of dead.
And at the time, it kind of was.
No, it is dead.
It was dead.
It was dead.
I was like, OK.
This is an effort that was kicked up an early year ago.
Let's say someone does no idea what we're talking about.
Well, I've done this like 15 times this week, but Nebraska does their electoral votes based by congressional district, so Omaha's become liberal throughout the years, so Joe Biden is almost guaranteed to get an extra electoral vote in the state of Nebraska, because they don't go winner-take-all like 48 other states do.
Maine does something similar.
And so, anyway, that's the context.
It could be changed by the legislature.
So then, we're prepping for the show.
On Tuesday.
It was during the show, Ethan.
Yes.
We were just laying out on the show, we were talking about RFK's impact on the race and how the polls are close.
And what I did is I went to RealClearPolitics and I looked at the latest polls for each of the battleground states.
And I just pasted it and it showed Trump up in most of the states and then a few were tied.
And I think in Wisconsin, Biden was ahead.
And I said, if Biden wins all the states here that he's up or tied, he wins 270.
270 to 268.
And then this is what I threw in.
I said, or it could be a 269 tie and go to the House if Nebraska gets off its butt and changes its law where they give Democrats a free electoral vote.
That is true.
And then Charlie's party says, wait, tweet that.
And so I go and I look it up and so we whip out, we pump out a tweet and put it online and we're just looking at it and there's a bill that's in the legislature that's all Stalled out for some reason.
And a lot of work went into getting the bill there, and it just kind of stalled out.
No momentum, nothing.
And they've had four years to do this!
Well, this has been discussed for numerous cycles.
No, there's a greater context in Nebraska.
Nebraska has been a fairly moderate state from a Republican standpoint, so they haven't wanted to touch this in a while.
Now, the more conservative state party leadership has said, this is the most obvious thing that we should be doing, and they've been talking about this non-stop for the last three years.
And so the conservative state party leadership that's there now, we've been working with and having Eric Underwood on quite a bit on the show, talking with him quite a bit.
Now Charlie's now best friends with Eric on text with everything, so.
I'm in the weeds here.
In the weeds.
So it's just kind of, it was like perfect timing, it was a perfect storm.
And so we do this thing, we do a segment.
So I had this whole show mapped out, and the show was, we were gonna do three reasons why the Democrats are not doing well, right?
And all of a sudden, I do a segment on the Nebraska thing, and the audience is loving it.
So then I do another five minutes on the Nebraska thing, and it turns into 10 minutes.
And it turns into like 20 minutes.
And the whole show ends up being about Nebraska.
And we sent out a tweet being like, hey, you know, Governor Pillen, do you want to do something about this?
And he came out five hours later, was like, I support this.
Then President Trump comes out is I support this.
This thing just comes to life out of nowhere and it can be done.
I mean, and I want to, I want to emphasize how important this is because just so many people don't seem to fully realize this.
So let's bring up my computer screen here.
Uh, so this is 270 to win.com.
So this is 270towin.com.
So named because we all know we have the electoral college.
So named because we all know we have the Electoral College.
You need 270 electoral votes to win.
You need 270 electoral votes to win.
Keep it up, please.
Keep, keep it up, please.
And so this is the map that we had if we maintain what we had in 2016 or 2020.
Uh, and so this is the map that we had, if we maintain what we had in, uh, 2016 or 2020.
And so there's been some changes to the values because we had a census.
And so there's been some changes to the values because we had a census.
So, for example, Montana's worth four now.
So for example, Montana's worth four.
Now it was worth three Texas is 40 instead of 38, stuff like that.
It was worth three.
Texas is 40 instead of 38.
Stuff like that.
And so this was the map as it was then.
And so this was the map as it was then.
So let's say we take back Georgia.
We take back Arizona.
We're still down here.
Now let's say we take Nevada where Trump is polling ahead right now.
This is the key.
Those are the three states that we are polling consistently ahead in.
Rust Belt State, sometimes we're ahead, sometimes we're down.
It's close.
Those three states were consistently ahead.
If you look up here, if those are the three we switch, Democrats 270, Republicans 260.
That's because there's this one vote in Nebraska that went for Biden in 2020, and if it goes that way again, they'll have it.
Now, if we make this not the case, if we made it so Nebraska was winner-take-all, it's 269-269.
And if it's a tie, it goes to the House of Representatives.
Each state House delegation gets one vote.
You do ballots until someone wins.
With the current House setup, that would be a Republican win, and even if we lose the House, odds are quite good it would still be a Republican win, because California's got a million Democrats, but there's still only one vote.
That's right.
Well, and there's two keys here that you have to be focused on.
One is that if Nebraska does this, Not only does it change potentially the outcome of the worst case scenario on Election Day, but it changes how the Democrats have to campaign, right?
Because if Nebraska does this, it makes Nevada more important to Republicans, right?
And I'm not saying this, we love our, we love Seagal, Chada, we love Mike, we love all our people, Jim.
In most scenarios right now, Nevada is just not a tipping point.
Not useless, not worth it.
It either means we fall just short or we're already spilling over.
Nevada's not a populated state.
It's not a highly populated state.
like a nice to have thing that is, it's something where Republicans will, you know, put up some effort, but it's not usually crucial.
Well, there's two things here, right?
So remember, there's not, Nevada's not a populated state.
It's not a highly populated state.
It's smaller than all the other swing states.
And then the second part is you have Maine too, which is really Right.
So if Nebraska does this, what this does is it forces the Democrats to have to win Maine as a total.
They have to spend money in Maine that they don't want to spend.
That already they could potentially lose because Trump's so popular in Maine, too.
That's one.
Two is Nevada, where they have all the workers, everything with all the unions.
But now they're going to have to spend exorbitant amounts of money when Republicans don't care about Nevada, because now all of a sudden Republicans are going to go, you know what?
Nevada is a lot easier to win for us than Wisconsin.
So maybe we'll go all in on Nevada.
Or all in on Nevada and Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin, and it screws up everything for the Democrats.
This is the reason why Nebraska matters so much to this conversation, and we know it.
If you don't do this in Nevada, not only could you potentially lose by one electoral college vote, because they'll put everything into Maine, and I don't have the faith that the Republican Party can survive World War III in Maine, too.
Well the thing about Maine, yeah, I mean, if they were to try to respond and change their rules in Maine, there's like a ballot signature.
So I checked into this.
So this is the amazing thing.
So this is how this could get really exciting really quick.
So let's say we get Nebraska, don't even get us into the procedural issues we're running into, we'll elaborate on this.
I don't even know if that's worth talking about.
It's more fun to talk about this.
We'll do that on the show tomorrow.
We'll assume we motivate these people and we get this passed.
Here's the essence.
If they want to get it done, they can get it done.
That's it.
Period.
- Period. - So if they wanted enough, they'd get this done. - And currently we don't know how badly they want it. - The obvious retaliation, if we get this out of Nebraska, is that in Maine, that's controlled by Democrats right now, they would introduce, same thing, they would get rid of their non-winner-take-all system, and so we'd have all 50 states winner-take-all, they would cancel out.
But here's the fun part.
Both of these states, both Maine and Nebraska, allow voters to collect signatures to challenge a law passed by the legislature and say, we need to have the public vote on this.
A lot of states have this.
And in both of them, what you can do is, if you gather enough signatures, you can delay the implementation of the law until it's been approved by voters.
You can just pause it and say, this law doesn't take effect.
But I checked the exact amounts.
In Maine, you need to get a number of signatures equal to 10% of the vote in the last gubernatorial election.
So I think in Maine that would work out to about 68,000 votes.
I think they had about 600-some thousand votes.
They have an off-year election cycle.
So 10% of the votes in the gubernatorial election to delay the law.
That's an easier threshold to hit, and that would be what we'd want to do because we're trying to keep an electoral vote.
In Nebraska, you need 10% of all registered voters, which is a much bigger pool of people.
It's probably about twice as big, I would guess.
And for them to be able to delay the implementation.
So we could conceivably have it where we would be able to, even if they both pass this law, we could have ours be going into effect consistently, whereas theirs would get delayed one election cycle.
And by the way, our Maine people have said this is never going to happen.
Because even the Republicans in Maine want to keep it.
Democrats in Maine, it's a historical thing, they want to keep it.
So I still think that, and I'm just thinking about that person who's in, you know, listening out there that's like, okay, this all sounds interesting and very exciting, but so what?
You know, Nebraska, Maine.
We're not talking about major states here, we're talking about one vote here, one vote there.
Why does one electoral college vote in Nebraska matter so much?
I mean, the 1877 presidential election with Rutherford B. Hayes was decided by one electoral vote.
Yeah, and as we said, if we had those three states, flip.
It's 270-268 right now, versus 269-269 if we have this.
And if we assume Republicans can win a House election, which is not a sure thing, but more than 50% chance.
We're basically looking at whether we do this or not might be the difference in whether we win the 2024 election or just because of how it affects the map.
Flipping that one electoral vote is literally like winning one additional state.
Just there.
Yes.
Get Omaha, it's like we won a free extra state in this election.
And what it does too, it shifts your entire strategy.
So it creates what we were calling this earlier, the Sun Belt Strategy.
So you pick up Nevada, now you've got Nevada, boom, which has been trending our way because of this Hispanic swing that we're seeing.
I'm not saying that I feel safe about Nevada.
And we can fix this.
We can fix this if we all want to.
It's as simple as that.
Now, Donald Trump and the Republicans can get to 269, 269 just with the Sun Belt and not even any of the Rust Belt states.
So that's not about Democrats.
I mean, the swing Rust Belt states.
So the Democrats have to defend every single one of them.
And all Trump has to do is win one.
Can I?
Can I add this real quick?
Huge.
The reason why this matters so much, too, on top of that, and we've repeated this again, the blue wall versus the Sun Belt strategy for our side.
Our side is not as prepared, right?
The left has had a coordinated strategy to reinstate the blue wall because of this knowledge that they're... So they're planning on competing for CD2 because they want that congressional vote.
It's an easy thing for them, right?
Because we can't leave this off the map, too.
That congressional vote is an easy... I mean, we have a really tight Narrow Congress right now.
CD2 in Nebraska is winnable for them.
So they're already putting in resources there.
So we're just giving them free reign to spend 10 million plus dollars, but this jives perfectly with their blue wall strategy.
That's why they're freaking out at the level they are.
Do we have some tape, too?
I want to play.
It throws absolute chaos into their strategy.
So this is the power of our program and the power of all of what we're doing here.
Because, look, you could tell if we were on to something based on their reaction.
If we do this and all of a sudden it was met with, oh, who cares?
Okay, then it's a nice thing.
No, no, no.
All of a sudden they woke up the next morning on MSNBC.
The next morning.
I don't know what we have up on screen there.
We have like a picture-in-picture there or something.
They wanted me to have the map up, sorry.
Okay, let me try to find this piece of tape here.
Okay, it is cut one.
This is, it takes away Biden's best path to victory.
It's that simple.
Play cut 59.
So, Jim, it is never too early to talk about 270, the magic number.
And there's some developments... Let's talk about the map.
Yeah, let's talk about the map for a second, because there's a little buzzing about Nebraska right now.
The governor there has thrown his support behind an effort that would no longer allocate the electoral votes by congressional district.
Because right now, it's five votes there.
Republicans get four, and President Biden and Democrats get the one from Omaha.
That's right.
If that changes, and we don't know that it will, the state legislature is going to look at it, but if that changes, that takes away Biden's best path to win.
Because if you get, if he wins Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, but loses the other swing states and no longer picks up the one in Nebraska, 269, that leads playbook this morning.
The alarm among Democrats that this is possible.
It's not just possible.
I'm not going to get into any inside baseball.
Number one, I'd bore you to death.
Number two, it's changing real time.
Number three, I'm not going to divulge any strategy because that's not the way you win.
Let me just tell you the essence.
I just tweeted this out.
After over six hours of calls and texts with countless people in Nebraska over the last 48 hours, here is the takeaway.
If lawmakers want to get it done, it can be done.
There is a very clear path to make Nebraska winner take all.
If it doesn't happen, it's because there wasn't enough will to win.
It's that simple.
I've gone through every parliamentarian argument you could imagine.
Right, Blake?
Let's not reveal any of the stuff we... We won't reveal the strategy, but I want to emphasize... I just want to get to the... We're not calling for anything...
Let's just be clear, we're not calling for anything even remotely to what the Democrats did in 2020 where they contorted election law to do goofy stuff, right?
We're talking about like letter of the law, by the book.
It might require a couple extra hours of work.
This is totally doable.
We're talking nothing more extreme than what Republicans did to get Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.
Yes, let me just emphasize, I went deep into this stuff today and I walked away with, there's a clear path.
Can I just say something?
It's laughable on MSNBC they're talking about, oh my gosh, they're trying to change rules in an election year.
Guys, we are literally Many, many moons out here from the election, first off.
This doesn't even fall within the Supreme Court-initiated rule, which is really within the months before the election.
But let's just rewind back to 2020, when Democrats were trying to force everyone to vote by mail within the last few weeks before the election, and all the courts in all these different states had to strike it down.
And the ruling question is the one almost every state follows.
Exactly.
It's not like It'd be one thing if we were trying to go to a state that currently was winner-take-all and make them go.
That would be novel.
That would at least be like doing dangerous stuff with the system.
It'd be legal, but dangerous.
Like in Nevada.
If we tried to do that in Nevada right now.
Right, which we don't even have the political power to do that.
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I want to emphasize this point because I think that the will to win has been the takeaway.
I hope it's there.
I know it's there with the Nebraska grassroots.
I know it's there with the people of Nebraska.
I know it's there with the governor and the senator.
And I want to make sure it's there with the lawmakers, I pray.
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So I just want to this is you know this is hard for me to explain because I've been I mean texting like crazy and I I Explained somebody called me.
They said Charlie.
What do you mean that some of them don't have the will to win?
Who wants to take that I'll take it I mean, I've been talking with the Nebraska GOP guys for some time and you know, we have Fanshawe that's there and Eric But I mean, look, they described it really well.
And we had some of this problem in Arizona where we had a very establishment Republican held state for many years that didn't want to rock the boat.
They didn't want to do things that would ultimately long term benefit the Republican Party.
Because even though they had a trifecta in their state and all the political capital in the world to expend and everything else, it was more about just being liked with lobbyists and being liked with people who are, you know, very establishment governors who are doing these deals in the background with Democrats and everything else.
And that's what you have going on.
We all know that.
That's the uniparty stuff that we talk about that drives people crazy.
And to be fair, Donald Trump is the art of the deal guy.
So there's deals and then there's defending America.
There's deals and then there's defending the Republican Party and making sure your state is in good hands for another generation.
And I think part of the issue is that people are now seen through this very particular lens that's been brought up with this issue is that, oh, my gosh, these people in Nebraska who claim to be Republicans.
Americans are not focused on saving the country.
And this is like the part that, you know, we don't have to get into this, but what if we lose 270 to 268?
What if we lose by one electoral college vote?
What does that mean?
Well, you know, we've got a really great couple of Supreme Court justices that are conservative who are probably not going to be able to last another four years, and we can't expect that.
Or they might even pass in office because they're too old, right?
That means that we could lose the Supreme Court if we have another four years of Joe Biden.
They could add two more states in D.C. and Puerto Rico.
They could pack the Supreme Court.
They could do all these different things that we will legitimately lose the country for an entire generation, all because of potentially one electoral college vote.
Even if that's a .0001% chance, you have to act.
And so again, the will has to be there when you have the vision of like, well, what's the worst that could possibly happen?
And how realistic, what's the likelihood it could happen?
This is not a like, oh, well, this is a crazy thing.
has seen is something that people, political scientists, have been looking at for many years.
This is a real possibility.
And what's also a real possibility is what the Dems will do if they get total control of the country.
It is, uh, it's very eye-opening.
But look, here's the thing.
This thing was dead.
We've already seen a lot of these lawmakers that were against it flip.
So this thing could be flipped even more.
And It just takes the will.
You know, some people say, oh, you know, we've tried our best, and hold on.
No, no, no, no.
There is so much that could be done.
And we'll just leave it at that.
Well, I'll say this, Charlie.
Can you imagine if you were a legislator in Nebraska?
And by the way, like Charlie said, there's so many people stepping up to do the right thing.
Finally, the 11th hour, whatever.
There's a perfect storm that's kind of happened with this week, and we were kind of laughing about it earlier, but it really couldn't have happened a month ago.
And it may not have happened at all had Trump not become the nominee as early as he did.
But we won't get into all those different things.
But can you imagine if they do nothing, and that 1%, 5% chance... If we lose by one electoral vote after we could have fixed this, I think it's not just possible.
The polling shows that's probable.
It's the polling?
I don't want to say it's probable in the sense that it's over 50%.
It might be the most likely single outcome of this election right now.
Yes, I totally agree.
The most likely outcome based on all publicly available polling is this, and let's talk about why.
The Rust Belt has declining populations with loose voting laws that are tilting with Democrat governments.
And the Rust Belt was taken by surprise in 2016, and they have a huge infrastructure.
The Sun Belt, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, have increasing populations of right-wingers moving to their states.
We have revitalized state parties, and we have the ballot chasing in Arizona, and Nevada is out for revenge.
So the Sun Belt is different than the Rust Belt, so holy moly, you run the math, it just so happens you're catching lightning in a bottle.
And another reason is, polls indicate Hispanics are moving to the right, and we're catching all those in the Sun Belt.
There's very few of those in the Rust Belt, comparatively.
Very few.
And so you have Nevada, you have Arizona, Texas, which won't be a problem, Georgia, which I think is going to course correct, and so it's, Blake, I want you to emphasize again, based on data, it's the most likely outcome right now.
Exactly.
We're not saying this will happen.
We're not saying this happens a majority of the time.
But if you imagine we run this election... Like probability scenarios.
Let's run the election 10,000 times.
The scenario where Trump flips Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and no other states is probably the one that will appear the most often.
And then, in that scenario, right now, with Nevada as it is, we lose.
Joe Biden's president.
And if you change that to Nebraska, if we change Nebraska to the system we want, Trump basically wins.
Trump would win!
And here's the thing, if you get to 269 tie, the president has enough tails that the House would be Republican.
So meaning that that new House would not be, even if it's a Democrat House, it would be close enough.
I think it's a pre-existing one.
No, it's not.
It's the current one.
It's the current because the House goes before.
It flips over January 3rd.
The House is seeded.
The House is seeded.
Oh, it's the new house that counts it?
Because here's what happens.
And they do it immediately.
I thought there was an argument over this.
So, well, on January 6th of the 2025.
Ah, he said it!
Well, it's just the date that it's going to happen on, right?
It's the first Tuesday, whatever.
Ah, he's going to say it again.
Okay, well, let's see.
Is it actually that date?
Let me see.
I thought the congressional members get seated after.
- Okay, it's actually January 8th, I think this year.
But because I think it's-- - Boo! - I think Congress begins on January 3rd.
No, I know, I'm looking at the calendar.
So, January 3rd, whatever date it is where they count the votes, they're gonna bring it in, and whoever oversees it, which will be Kamala Harris at the time, will say, okay, we have a deadlocked tie at 269, and we'll know this going into it.
Unless there's faithless electors, which we have to, you know, think about, which... That could happen.
That could happen, that's a thing, right?
So 269, 269, and all of a sudden the House will then convene into little pockets, And at that point, I still think the President of the Senate, Kamala Harris, is overseeing the procedure.
I don't think it's a Speaker Johnson thing.
But the House is the new House at that point.
The House votes by delegation.
Yeah, it's the new House.
It's not the old House.
So whatever we do at the House, so to give you an idea, Harriet Hageman from Wyoming would have the same amount of vote as the entire California delegation.
55 members.
And that just makes so much chaos.
Anyone who's from one of those one-person states, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont on the other side, Delaware, Rhode Island, I think lost theirs.
But I think that if every red state- Alaska's a Democrat now.
We have to flip that back.
Oh, that's interesting.
Well, so if you look at the numbers, because you break down the numbers, we would still be fine even with Alaska being it.
Is that right?
I think it's 26-24.
We'd win with the current House.
So then, it gets really fun, the Senate selects the Vice President.
And the Democrats have that, and it's individual senators.
For now, but hold on.
If Trump were to get to a 269 tie, it's reasonable to think that we'll win West Virginia, and we'll probably either win Maryland, Ohio, or Montana.
Hogan is up like eight points in Maryland.
He's raising a lot of establishment money.
Would Hogan want Trump's VP?
Hogan could be the kind of guy.
I can just see so much chaos stuff.
Imagine you have, imagine the Democrats worry about, and you have like one faithless elector.
Because they're saying that they outlawed faithless electors.
I don't know if that's true, though.
But not every state's done it.
Not every state has done it.
So imagine we have one faithless elector for vice president.
Just go with this hypothetical.
A guy willing to go to jail for this.
One person does a faithless vote for vice president.
You pick from the top three under the 12th Amendment for both offices, and if you have no president chosen, the vice president presides.
Yeah, but we would know that ahead of time, because the Electoral College meets in December, and then the electoral votes are brought.
They do, but the Congress doesn't vote until that point.
No, that's right.
So we would know ahead of time.
We would know.
So let's say someone does this, where they throw out a gambit, and they do one faithless vote for vice president for someone, making them eligible to be picked in the Senate.
And then you have Democrats and Republicans collude to have this person chosen as Vice President, and then someone deadlocks the President vote?
The President vote happens first, I think.
I think the President vote happens first.
I think the President vote happens first.
Well, Kamala Harris would decide.
She's the President of the Senate.
I think they could possibly deadlock it.
So Kamala Harris would preside over her own potential appointment as Vice President?
Let's go wilder.
What if someone does it for president itself?
Because you need the majority.
So let's say it was 269-269.
You could have a Biden vote, vote for someone else, and it wouldn't guarantee a Trump win.
And then you have a third candidate.
Let's say someone goes, I pick Mitt Romney for president.
Do you guys see how important Nebraska is right now?
I pick Mitt Romney for president, and then suddenly now delegations can vote for him.
But that's only if it's the top three votes.
Exactly.
But if you have one faithless elector, No, it has to be the top three vote-getters.
Top three vote-getters.
So we only have two vote-getters normally.
I think it's more likely that you'd have a faithless elector for Kennedy.
Maybe.
So then, combine all that together, what does it mean?
It means that if we flip the Senate, We could end up getting our VP of choice.
The House, I don't think that they would defect on Trump.
The House is more conservative.
I don't think they would.
They're more accountable to primaries, because it's every two years.
So I think the House would stay pretty strong.
Yeah, there's no way.
The Senate, the Senate cuts deals, man.
Like, now if Shahey wins in Montana, and flips that tester seat, and Justice will vote fine, because he likes Trump and they're buddies.
You get to 51 votes is the Senate.
You get to decide the Vice President of the United States?
But I can't remember how it works, because the split states would vote against each other, so those... You mean in the House?
No, it's for the VP vote.
What do you mean, the split?
Oh, for the Senate.
No, I think every senator gets a vote.
Every senator gets a vote.
It's not every state.
So they don't do it by delegation for the VP.
I don't think it's possible, because you have split states, right?
Is that correct, Blake?
Well, think about it.
It's not by delegation for the Senate.
So think about a state like Maine, where you have Susan Collins.
Oh yeah, the Senators vote individually.
That's what I thought.
Only the House votes.
The House votes collectively as each state.
Okay, that's what I thought.
So, people are saying, well, what does all this mean?
Nebraska.
Nebraska.
That's it.
And Maine, too.
They're coming for you next.
If this thing happens in Nebraska... They won't.
We'll put up a fight.
That's what I'm saying.
If this thing happens in Nebraska, where we get it back to winner take all, that's fantastic.
But you have to know in Maine, if you live in Maine, too, World War III is happening in your backyard.
So let me just, again, I want to just close with this, and then we'll get to the other topics.
Tuesday, we're going to Nebraska, which I think our event is now more important than we could have ever have imagined.
It's huge.
If you live nearby, please attend.
We need the people.
Yeah, we want to max out attendance.
Uh, it's in Omaha at the Lord of Hosts Church.
We're doing it at a church.
It is Nebraska, after all.
Uh, so, um, and it's at 7 p.m.
We've invited the governor.
We've invited the legislatures.
Uh, legislators, I should say.
Um, I've tweeted out the information.
You guys can check it out at tpaction.com slash rally.
Bring a friend.
We want a huge turnout.
That's tpaction.com slash rally.
Um, Lord of Hosts Church in Omaha, Nebraska, this coming Tuesday.
You're in Dance City, Sioux Falls.
You're in driving range.
Yes, however, happy to have our out-of-state friends.
We want this to be Nebraska-centric.
You're right, Jack, but we really want to send a message of... CD2.
Yeah, we want to get the most Nebraskans in a room possible.
Now, this cause is so important that someone... Can I tell you the link real quick?
tpaction.com slash rally tpaction.com slash rally tpaction.com slash rally Go register right now.
This cause is so important that we already got someone to make a musical pitch for what needs to happen.
Is that right?
It's true.
So let's play... Oliver Anthony wrote a song about it?
Basically, let's play 105... It's like his younger brother actually.
In the heartland of America, where the sun sets on the plains, there's a state called Nebraska, where a change is long overdue.
We've been splitting our votes, torn apart by our choice, but it's time to come together and let our voices rejoice.
No more dividing lines, no more electoral divide.
We need a winner-take-all for the good of our pride.
Every vote should count, every voice should be heard.
Let's unite as one, let's spread the word.
Do this in like 15 seconds.
Unbelievable.
Can someone pay for this?
- It's unbelievable.
- Switch to winner take all.
And let democracy have a say.
- Someone pay for this. - From Omaha to Lincoln, Carnie to Scottsbluff, let's make a change for the better.
It's time to switch it up.
- I'm not making it up.
So the plot twist here, we did that.
There's a new AI machine that can make songs about a minute long.
Don't say the name.
I won't say it.
I won't say it because it'll shut it down.
Can I ask you a question?
I'm not kidding.
The Omaha to Lincoln, Kearney to Scottsbluff, the AI came up with that.
Can I and what how long did it take?
Oh, it takes like 20 seconds.
Can we get a rap version together that?
Says that we're gonna eject Nebraska from the Union if they don't do Listen to me right now if we lose by one electoral college, but let's just stay positive.
It's it's it's gonna happen.
I'm not not positive I'm just a country song if If there will be no country left in this, then we go country in our country.
Let's make sure they know that.
We need you guys.
We need Nebraska to do the right thing.
The Democrats will ban country music.
They will.
Charlie might too, but he's not running for president.
That's a separate issue.
This is why AI should get on the rap for, you know, if what happens if...
That song is... I gotta play that on the show tomorrow.
Oh yeah, well we've got it.
We've got it ready to go.
Alright, let's get to other topics here and start to commit some thought crimes.
Alrighty, for sure, for sure.
Okay, time for a thought crime topic.
Is women's basketball a real sport, Charlie?
I'll say, I was a skeptic of Caitlin Clark.
I'm a big basketball fan.
I was like, what is all this hype?
What is all this nonsense?
Because I thought it was an op.
And I am a very, very strict creator.
She can ball, man.
She's very, very good.
Now, is she good against men?
Probably not.
No, I'm saying if she had to compete against other college men.
But there's a difference between men and women.
She's really talented.
And impressive under pressure.
Like, the amount of pressure... Here's what I respect about her.
She's selling on arenas.
She's, like, Player of the Year.
She lost the national title last year.
She's Midwestern work ethic.
She's, like, works her tail off.
They have ads that they're running non-stop for her.
And she still performs at a high elite level.
I have respect for her, man.
I think she's great.
It was in the Elite 8 game against LSU on Monday night.
Yeah, LSU, they're a bunch of bums.
12.3 million people watched on ESPN.
Wow.
That is more than all but one game in the NBA Finals last year, and it's more than the final game of the World Series.
Yeah, and just so you guys understand, Kaitlyn Clark shoots 44% from the field.
That's unbelievable.
Alright?
That's also like, Blake, that's also like 50 times more people than watched all of the RNC debates combined.
- That's true.
So I was like, okay, what is this op?
Like, what are they pushing?
All I see is they're pushing, they're pushing this like wholesome, like really sweet, hardworking Midwesterner that is really good at basketball.
I actually think for once there's an op where there isn't an agenda. - And it's kind of funny. - And I'm kind of like supportive of it. - It's kind of funny because you kind of think of like really aggressively pushing women's sports, maybe a little bit, you know, left wing coded.
Yes, but the places that like women's sports the most are actually often sort of Conservative rural Midwestern states that's where it's really taken off like here's a crazy fact like Nebraska in Nebraska, for example they fill up I think Nebraska's women's volleyball team is They can fill up like a 60,000-person arena to watch them.
They filled up the entire Husker Stadium for the largest volleyball event.
They broke the Guinness World Book.
It was like 111,000 people.
What's kind of great is it actually is a perfect pairing because a lot of places They're not going to consistently compete in men's basketball where there's established powers, but if you really want to, you can carve out and be a consistent title contender in volleyball, in badminton, in some of these secondary sports.
That's pretty neat, I suppose.
No, I just, I hope she wins the national title.
I know nothing about her politics or any of that.
But I just, she is someone that, under pressure, you average 32 points a game, and you shoot 46% from the field, with a lot of people thinking that you're going to choke.
It's pretty, I mean.
People are complaining that there have been not, like, thought crimes this episode, so I'm just gonna do a drive-by on everyone.
Basketball is a lame sport.
Okay, what, how, how could you say such a, what do you mean, what's your definition of lame?
Okay, first of all, first of all, one, one, yes, too much sporing.
So you like soccer?
No, I like, you know what would make basketball perfect?
Is it a higher rim?
No, if you made them all play on ice and you turned the ball into like a rubber object It sounds like someone who can't play basketball.
I can't, of course I can't play basketball.
Okay, that's why you don't like basketball.
Well, yeah, but that's the thing.
Something like 20% of people who are seven foot tall or more play in the NBA.
That means NBA is like just a height check as opposed to a skill check.
I have had more blood, sweat, and tears drawn.
I played a lot of sports.
I grew up playing every sport like a lot of American kids.
You play soccer, you play baseball, you play basketball.
I was the worst at basketball.
The worst!
I played other sports better.
I wasn't that great at some other sports.
I played lacrosse, I played everything.
I've had the most fond memories, straight-up American memories, with my dad playing in front of our house on the hoop, with my son playing horse.
I've got more fights with kids at school playing and all that.
We got into this argument.
There's no more American sport because it started here in America and it's now international.
Invented by a Canadian.
A Canadian-American.
Whoa, whoa, no.
No, it was not invented by a Canadian.
Basketball is the most American sport.
Wait, Naismith was a Canadian?
Allegedly, he was a professor.
No, Naismith was in Kansas.
He was a Canadian-American.
Let's see, where was he born?
He was born in Almonte, province of Canada.
But he invented it in Canada.
But it was on the American continent, Blake.
Oh, on the American continent, okay.
Didn't Naismith invent it in Kansas?
I believe he invented it in Springfield, Massachusetts.
But he was said to have ties to Kansas.
He was found in the Kansas basketball program.
He's their only head coach with a losing record.
Even though he's the one that invented basketball?
Yes, he has a losing record as Kansas basketball coach.
But here's my argument, is that basketball is not actually a modern game.
Those are just modern rules to a very ancient game.
And you can find ancient, and Blake, you and I were chatting about this the other day, off air, like ancient Mesoamerican ball game, which includes
A court, which includes a giant ring and a ball that is thrown into the ring that have been around for like thousands of years, and the Mayans used to play this game, and we have pretty strong evidence, by the way, and the courts are still there, you can go visit them when you visit these things, Chichen Itza, it's all there, and we have pretty strong evidence that rituals were also part of the competitions, and human sacrifice at one point was part of the games as well.
I would support basketball a lot more if the losing team, or the winning team, we're actually not sure with those ancient Mayan ball games.
It's actually not clear which side, like, they do the lacrosse.
The gods, if you... I would support basketball more if we did that.
But no, here's the problem with basketball.
One, they score too much.
Like, if you watch ESPN highlights... NBA, yes, but not in college basketball.
In a football game, the most exciting play might be in the first quarter because there's an amazing deep pass or an interception or a kickoff return.
In basketball, if you watch the highlights, it's always just like, oh, and then he does a sick dunk and it's worth the same amount as any other dunk.
Because you have no respect for the beauty of the game.
No, I don't.
You have no respect for the little parts of basketball, from crossing somebody out, or a beautiful cut, or a steal.
All it leads is to a 2 or 3 point score.
But it doesn't matter.
There's too much scoring, it's too low stakes.
So you must be a massive soccer or golf fan.
I don't like soccer either, because soccer goes too far the other way, where a 0-0 tie is too common.
The best sport is football.
I agree, but football is better.
Because in football they score, you know, 5-8 times a game.
Football is like the closest thing we have to a simulation of war, where it's like pure, brutal contact, but also a lot of strategy and a lot of planning.
Warfare like you know in the interesting way boys like to read about Basketball is war in the sense like you're two tribes from New Guinea who are like you send your five big men We send our big men and they like just fight and then one of them win.
No, that's not that exciting.
You're tall doesn't mean you win No, it's not true.
Okay name another short basketball player.
Steve Nash wasn't that short.
Steph Curry is not tall I'm taller than Steph Curry.
Yeah, Steve Nash was like 6'6", 6'1".
Rajon Rondo, Kyrie Irving.
And that's on the program, he's like actually 6'1".
I'm probably taller than Michael Jordan.
I don't think, isn't he 6'6"?
He's like 6'6".
I think he's like a roundabout 6'3".
Now he's like 6'3".
Yeah, 6'6" officially.
LeBron is 6'9".
You don't need to be 7' tall, but the number of Muggsy Bogues' in the world is pretty small.
They might have even kept his career going so he could be in Space Jam.
It's definitely changed in the recent years.
But I will say this is that and this is really important.
Another important point.
I like basketball because if you watch entire seasons, it's right in between football.
So the one thing I hate about football I hate is it's like one shot.
It's like one loss elimination during the playoffs.
most cases and you have such few games that it's you're not actually it's kind of like a it's a little bit more of a Russian roulette season that's exactly what's so beautiful about it you never want to miss an NFL game or a college game no baseball is too much stakes baseball is annoying because basketball they literally have to pass rules to stop teams from just sitting their players because they the regular season matters so little and NBA I think is awful, unless it's the playoffs.
College basketball is legitimately a beautiful sport in the month of March.
College basketball now is all messed up because we have the transfer portal and you get drafted after one season.
No one's at their school for more than a year.
So?
It's lame!
That's lame!
You think that if you go to a school and a coach leaves it should just be a death sentence for you?
Well, I just think it should be- I think- Oh sorry, you're stuck at- Well, I think it's lame that we have this fiction that these people represent their schools as student athletes- No, but hold on a second- When they're just mercenaries who show up for work- - The SEC player of the year is a guy by the name of Dalton Connect.
He was an average player at Northern Colorado, average.
And all of a sudden he popped up to like six foot six, worked his tail off, transfers to Tennessee, SEC player, has a chance to go to the NBA.
If he's at Northern Colorado, the other guy, the guy that played for Oakland, he's at Hillsdale, D2, transfers to Oakland, crushes like 18 threes against Kentucky.
- Okay. - I think the transfer portal's great for kids that want to be-- - Do you think it's going to be great if we eventually You know, now we can pay players where we have a guy.
He starts D2, then he goes to a lower D1 and then someone offers him 300k to play for us next year at.
let's say Alabama, goes to Alabama, then he does even better and he stays for a senior.
Someone pays him a million dollars to play at Duke and he's a different school every single year.
That's silly.
Why is it?
Hold on.
Why are we having taxpayer-funded institutions do this?
Let's look at what the old model You know what it was?
The best players left after one year, and John Calipari would just recruit the best guys and they'd leave, rinse and repeat.
Now you have to build a roster, you have transfers that can come in as a junior, it's much more into player development.
I would make an argument that the Portal is better for basketball than football.
Football, I agree.
Football, it's a disaster.
It's like a mess right now.
Football is outrageous.
I think basketball is actually incredible.
You're just more upset about football because you're a bigger football fan, and so you realize cosmically how stupid this is.
If it results in Oregon winning a national title, it's a great thing.
If not, burn it down.
Go Big Red. - Someone says I'm a monster truck kind of guy, and they're kind of right, monster trucks are cool.
This is a crazy story out of the Netherlands.
This is from the New York Post.
A physically healthy 28 year old Dutch woman has decided to legally end her life due to struggles-- - Has she done it yet?
Not yet, I believe.
Well, if she's listening, don't do this.
She struggles with crippling depression, autism, and borderline personality disorder, she says.
She says she's in love with her boyfriend and her two cats.
40-year-old boyfriend.
40-year-old boyfriend, two cats, no kids.
I have a real question.
Has someone checked her vitamin D level?
I mean, Netherlands doesn't get a lot of sun, and low vitamin D levels leads to higher depression.
I mean, has someone scanned her brain to see if she had a traumatic brain injury?
She says doctors told her, quote, there's nothing more we can do for you, it's never gonna get any better.
That is such BS.
First of all, conventional doctors sometimes aren't the solution.
There's 500 different ways.
By the way, I'm not a huge fan of it, but there's amazing data to show that ketamine can really help depression.
A lot of people like ketamine treatment that can be done intravenously.
I hate this attitude.
Just give up at age 28 because you're depressed?
What I really wonder is, Can you imagine how much of a drag this woman must be?
No, no, but let's talk about, you know, look.
I can just say to the doctors, just like, look, woman, you're still complaining.
It's probably never going to get any better.
And now they have, now they have this legal out where they can just say, have you considered the suicide pod?
That was my point, which is, it's the psychiatrist that should be put in pri- like, who is this person that just gives up on their patient?
Why don't you just kill yourself?
Like, you're annoying me.
This is- genu- to flip to being entirely serious, this is why I think euthanasia has a huge problem with it.
We have- our normal li- That's not how you spell it, guys.
Can we fix that?
No, it is- cause it's young people.
Oh.
It's a play on words.
It's also a megadeath album.
It's a play on words.
Uh, and, anyway.
It's, uh, Oh man, you lost my train of thought.
No, we're creating, uh, death as a valuable treatment for people.
They're doing this in Canada, we're doing this where, okay, we've gone from, you are a sick person that we desire to help, to sort of, you're a, you know, it's like a maintenance ticket we've received, like, make the problem go away.
And then you can do that by curing them, or just, you know, shuffle them into the suicide pod.
So I don't know what I hate more, the fact that she's doing this, or the warm media reaction to it.
I mean, if you read these headlines, News 18, 28-year-old Dutch woman to legally end her life in May.
This is her story.
So wait a second.
In May?
Why are you waiting?
I mean, you want like a whole media cycle before you do this?
This is so perverse.
This is so twisted.
So many Instagram followers for this.
By the way, the Netherlands just legalized euthanasia in 2001.
I think they were the first ones to do it.
This is all Dr. Kovorkian stuff.
And for a doctor to say there's nothing I can do for you, resign.
Have you tried every treatment under the sun?
Or have you just tried SSRIs and benzodiazepines and Prozac or Zoloft?
And by the way, Jack, we know this, right?
If you have meaningful relationships, regular diet and exercise improvements, increase your vitamin D levels, in fact, that stuff has been proven to be more effective than antidepressants, yet this doctor's just giving up on her.
Yep.
Charlie, you and I were chatting about this the other day.
Charlie's big on the vitamin D stuff.
I went for a vitamin D IV just last week and, you know, found a place that was right near us.
I pulled up the price.
I was like, oh, that's actually a lot better than it.
See, this really got big during COVID and the price was pretty high.
And a lot of it's become more normalized.
A lot of it comes down.
I don't drink.
There's a lot of people who do these for hangovers and different things like that.
But it's just so easy.
And this is not something that any doctor is ever going to suggest you go for.
They'll never recommend nutraceuticals.
Go exercise.
Go spend more time outside.
Go take some nutrition.
Go take your vitamins.
You'll never hear that.
Why?
Because part of it is because they get paid more based on the amount of prescriptions they write.
But the other part of it is that, and Charlie, you know about this as well, that they're not trained.
To do anything else.
They're only trained a certain way in the medical schools.
Uh, to teach to the medicine.
Yes, I mean, and they go straight to the literature, and they say the literature shows SSRIs, benzos, and if that doesn't work, with a little bit of maybe therapy, why don't you just kill yourself?
How defeatist?
This is so twisted.
It is.
It's really, and every single warning sign of how the slippery slope could happen if you do this has all come true.
So, it starts off with, this will only be for old people who are terminally ill.
Yes!
And then it becomes, oh, young people who are ill.
And then it says, oh, well, some people are just suffering mentally a lot.
And then eventually you start getting into, do we really need to ask their permission for it?
Every single horror case you can heard of, you've heard of, has already happened in the Netherlands.
We've had cases where they've done it to kids.
We've had cases where they've done it without actually asking their permission, including ones where they just think, you know, the patient, we really think the patient would have wanted this, but it would have really troubled them to ask.
You take people who already have a god complex, which is medical professionals, and you've literally said- Well, you know what MD stands for?
Yeah.
Minor deity.
Yeah.
You know what the joke they say is?
The difference between surgeons and God?
The surgeons charge a lot of money.
God doesn't go around thinking he's a surgeon.
That's exactly right.
Well, there's a bigger play here, too, which is, again, we saw all of the documentation when Agenda 21 came out many, many years ago about lowering populations.
We see what's happening in Europe.
European populations have significantly declined.
And you just have to expect that, like, euthanasia has always been this, like, dream of the left and those that want to limit population growth.
It's remarkable.
And if they'll do that to their own population in the Netherlands, guess what they'll do to you?
But, like, who are these people that all of a sudden... So you read the article, she says, I want to die without any music sitting on my couch.
Who are the people that just show up Hey, we're here from the euthanasia department for the, you know, government of Netherlands.
How are you today?
Like, what sort of greeting do you give when you're like, hey, um, oh yes, we're about to murder you.
How's it going?
Get in the pod, please.
Or like, let's take your blood pressure.
Like, why would you have to take your blood pressure?
You're about to kill him!
Like what what what is like what what do you do?
Why did they sterilize the needles?
Yeah I mean like exactly what how sick you must be.
Yes.
Like what by the way you this would torment you I would think if you're like a professional euthanasia person and you go to people's homes you just murder them for a living.
Oh yeah, today I did five, you know, heart-stopping IVs.
It was a great day at work, honey.
It's horrible.
You know what would be crazy?
If you showed up in a costume or something and you were like, you're pretending to be something else.
Oh, I'm here just to, uh, here to check the meter.
And you, you know, you go in, you go, ah, I just tricked you!
and then popped in with the syringe or something.
You're like, "Oh yes, it was me.
Today's the day." Because that way it's like you're not doing it yourself.
That way it gives people like a way out and they could say, "Oh, well, you know, I'm not doing it because I don't know what day." This is insane.
Like, it's so insane to even, that we even have conversations.
Like, it sounds like a Saturday Night Live sketch.
Or like a really weird Monty Python sketch.
This is crazy.
There's a former, a former Dutch Prime Minister, uh, Dries van, uh, I can't pronounce this.
Whatever.
It all sounds like you're vomiting.
Uh, so this Dutch Prime Minister and his wife, uh, just a month ago, or two months ago, early February, uh, they did euthanasia together.
They just timed it, they're like, oh, let's just die together, and then they just both took their pill and died.
What is this cult of death?
Charlie Brown, I mean, I've been through, you know, putting a dog down.
Which is an awful experience.
It is horrible.
Yes, it is like, I don't wish that upon anybody.
It sticks with you.
Yes!
Like, I would rather my dog just died naturally.
100%.
Without me being there.
That was like one of the worst things ever.
But people, they say like, oh no, it's so much better for your dog.
It sticks with you.
It doesn't uplift you.
It makes you feel awful.
I agree.
People thought that a swan, like this beautiful experience.
I say, you're a sick human being if you thought it's beautiful to kill your dog.
It is horrible.
And they do that.
They come in and they sit next to you and you watch your dog die and you'll never forget it.
And I just can't imagine, like you said, I can't imagine doing that with another human being.
No, I think we should.
For a living.
But first of all, we should hope that this girl changes her mind, okay?
You don't have to go through with it, young lady, just because there's all these articles.
You can change your mind, okay?
Number two, shame on the Netherlands for allowing this.
Like, I don't want to hear that modernity is this, like, wonderful thing if we're allowing, like, widespread euthanasia of otherwise healthy 28-year-olds.
She doesn't have a tumor.
You know, what an insult to the people that are fighting, like, stage four cancer right now.
Like, right now, there are millions of people on the planet that have, like, really bad diagnoses that have to fight with pain, and she's like, I have depression, I'm just gonna murder myself.
Why do you have to have the clinic do it?
And I just think of how this empowers so many bad people, because think about toxic families, where you'll have people pressuring someone to off themselves, because they want their money, or they just want them out of the way, and there's just, there's so many ways You can just have bad people exploit this to get rid of people that they don't care for.
And doctors, of course, exercise whatever God complex they want.
And it just feels very twisted.
How would you know?
In some situations.
In this case, it doesn't even seem to be illegal.
It just seems to be that the person has to consent to it.
And if they're consenting to it for the wrong reasons, I don't know that anyone can decide that.
Well, maybe they let doctors do it because they apparently just think these doctors are gods.
But just a reminder, National Suicide Prevention Hotline is 1-800-273-8255 or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org if you need help.
So reach out.
Yeah.
Is there a final topic?
Our final topic is, you think we were going to make just one AI song about Nebraska?
Charlie, we have a very special song that we want to play.
Let's play song 101.
Yes!
You had to do it in country.
Yes!
to be heard.
Charlie Kirk's his name spread.
Yes.
You had to do it in country.
Yes.
Hilariously, I could see us playing this in like the house music before AMFEST.
We will.
We will.
I'm sending it to Lauren already.
Marty's sending it to Lauren.
You gotta send it to Lauren.
We'll practice it next week.
Extravert the best.
I want the live bands playing.
It does make you wonder how many of the songs the last 10 years were written using some form of AI.
Because this is like, this sounds like the noise that most country music is.
Right?
I mean, it's like indecipherable.
I mean, most artists don't even write their own music anymore.
If I sent this to you and I said, oh, I hired some band music, would you have any idea?
No.
No way.
No.
It's almost done.
By the way, when I did this, I think literally all I wrote was an upbeat country song about Charlie Kirk and Turning Point.
That's it.
That's all I wrote.
I didn't.
So here's what's amazing, too, about it.
It generates the lyrics.
And I didn't write anything about, like, youth organization or freedom or conservatism or any of that stuff.
It went in all by itself and I guess scoured the interwebs.
It's so creepy, right?
You think it's creepy?
Scoured the interwebs to find everything about Charlie Kirk and put this all together with backing vocals and a drum track and all of it in a style that I asked for and it did this in less than two minutes.
Now, can I say the amazing part?
This is the first time I've seen AI and been like, okay, this is indistinguishable from magic.
What if it would have grabbed, like, the entire Media Matters RSS feed?
I'm surprised it didn't!
What if we were to use AI to fuel a drive towards early vote?
Oh, wait!
Play 103.
Yes!
I hate this.
I hate this more than New York Times picture.
I'm rockin' it.
I hate this more than a New York Times pitch.
I'm rocking.
Like an anthem?
I'm going to drop.
This makes me feel like my daughters watch the absolute junk of Netflix that has filled in songs like this.
Now I'm realizing every song that they have in these stupid cartoons is all AI generated.
That's all they do.
Pretty much.
This is like that bar.
You can go in and add your own lyrics.
You can generate lyrics or you can actually have it sing your lyrics however you want.
I just want to be clear.
Just in case anyone couldn't tell, that was a song about our friend Tyler here.
The opening verse was, Tyler Boyer's the hero in our town.
And then it ends, Tyler's voice guides us, our spirits never compromised.
Alright guys, till next week.
Wait, we're not gonna play Black Pill Blake?
Oh, we gotta play it.
No, we gotta play Black Pill Blake!
Get out of it, because I made a song all for my best friend, Blake Shevick.
Oh, it's a rap.
Of course they made it a rattle. - Wait, this is incredible.
I can't see the wind.
in two minutes.
Two minutes.
You got to get to the chorus.
Here we go.
Here we go.
No sugar, no sweets.
There are nearly 5,000 people that are wanting to-- You're going to be at the Turning Point gym tomorrow.
We could probably make this go really high up on the charts.
My words cut deep like a blade.
They're violent.
How funny would that be if we just AI-generated something every week and got it to be number one and just destroyed the charts?
Musicians are screwed voice actors are screwed.
Yep.
Lawyers are screwed.
That's what that's what I'm saying.
This is going to be like the great replacement of a generation, but for like the knowledge economy.
The music industry's done.
Musicians are screwed.
Voice actors are screwed.
Yep.
Lawyers are screwed.
That's what I'm saying.
We can just break the rankings every week and we just do an AI generated that we just forced.
The only people who are protected are right-wing pundits because AI is not allowed to.
I know.
It's against their ethics.
And we're the only ones who are allowed to say the things that we say.
I I have the greatest job protection of any person out there.
