Feb. 14, 2026 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 115 — Immortal AI Actors? Relooted Artifacts? Kill the Christians?
THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 115 celebrates TPUSA’s record-breaking All-American Halftime Show—top U.S. live stream, second globally—mocking Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance as "mumble rap" and politically charged, while praising Kid Rock and Gabby Barrett’s family-friendly, revenue-free spectacle. They claim Nielsen undercounts viewership, argue country music’s exclusion reflects anti-American bias, and tie success to backlash against mainstream media’s perceived disrespect of patriotism and conservative values. The episode ends with a call to "commit more thoughtcrime," framing the show as a triumph for traditionalist culture over globalist entertainment. [Automatically generated summary]
From the age of fake brother If they want to get you they'll get you DNSA specifically targets the communications of everyone They're collecting your communications Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this week's edition of Thought Crime Thursday.
Here we are.
We're back Hugely successful all-American halftime show TPUSA number one US live stream of all time number two worldwide live stream on YouTube of all time and it's it's you have to just be humbled by God's grace.
You have to go with Jesus lead you have to you have to follow the lead I should say of our Lord and it's it's it's amazing.
It's been incredible to see we talked about it last week and obviously we're going to get into it this week now, you know, kind of the aftermath, the incredible outpouring of support.
This thing broke containment.
Absolutely broke containment.
And I believe we have Blake and Mikey here today.
What's up, guys?
How we doing?
We're doing lovely.
Tyler's supposed to be here, but he's doing that thing where he like flies in late.
He'll probably have some just kind of a t-shirt.
So that's fun.
Mikey, you weren't here last week.
So I want to get your take on this.
You know, why was it that the All-American halftime show went as big as it did?
I think part of it was that families could confidently have their children sit in the living room and watch something knowing confidently that booty cheeks or debauchery wouldn't be on the screen and that they wouldn't have to say, kids, go in the other room.
This is not good.
Close your eyes, plug your ears.
And it was a breath of fresh air.
One, it was just exciting.
It celebrated America.
But also, it uplifted values and it uplifted Christ and it uplifted the fact that a lot of people have that Bible that's on the shelf that needs a little bit of dusting off.
But Jack, I thought you did a great job introing it.
The artist did amazing.
It was just overall such a massive success.
I just remember watching it and I was like, oh man, I just wish that we had this one thing.
And then, you know, one minute later, it happens.
You're like, this is so great.
But how about when Kid Rock jumps out from the stage?
That intro was one of the greatest.
So as cool as that was, by the way, and I saw you tweeting up a storm about that when we were there on the set and I heard that he had like the jump spring for that, like the trapdoor.
I was like, so can I test that?
Like, you know, got to make sure that it's perfectly safe for Mr. Rock.
So if you guys, if you guys need someone to test, maybe, and they looked at me like, they're like, no, Jack, you cannot.
I was like, we already said I couldn't play with the fireball.
So, you know, come on, guys.
They really should have.
Do they always call him Mr. Rock like that?
Like, Mr. Kid?
Has he like legally changed his name?
Usually, usually you hear Bob or like Mr. Richie.
Okay.
All right.
It'd be funny if he got, you know, like an honorary doctorate and they're like, Dr. Rock.
Dr. Rock.
Dr. Rock.
That'll be his next iteration.
But Blake, you know, such a great.
It's funny you mentioned that real quick that Tanya said, my wife Tanya said the same thing, Tanya Tay, that she said for the first time, here we are watching this Robert Halftime show and I don't have to have like my thumb hovering over the remote, you know, having to click off because something is there that we don't want to see.
And she was like, it was like good, clean, fun.
And actually, funny enough, she didn't actually like ask me for many spoilers in terms of any of that stuff.
I think she just kind of trusted if it's TPUSA, it's going to be good to go.
That's so great.
That's so great.
So I've heard so much feedback from different people with that exact same thing.
They just knew that it was TPUSA, so they knew it would be fine for their kids, which I just think is so cool.
But Blake, do you have like a kid rock impersonation with when he's in your rock voice?
No, I don't.
I can't.
I'm not your Saxon.
My Saxon voice.
I mean, if I want to be this.
If I want to be like a British Chavita.
Blake, what would it sound like if Sebastian Bach was singing Ball with the Ball?
Yeah.
Can you please?
You're really, you're imposing a lot of when he does my name.
The problem, among other things, is I don't know the words to Bawit Deba.
Oh, dude.
That was so literally the words I was.
I've never heard of Bawit Deba.
Yeah.
I had never heard of Bawit Deba until this halftime show came upon us.
That is my level of detachment.
Have you lived on planet Earth?
Come on.
Like in the last couple decades?
No.
It's literally a magic song.
Look, I am music-wise, as far as I'm concerned, music ended in the year 1991 in that one-week gap between when Guns N' Roses, Use Your Illusion came out and then Nevermind by Nirvana.
And after that, there was kind of no more music.
I grew up thinking I just didn't like music.
True story, I just didn't like music because I didn't like anything that was on the radio.
I didn't like any of these rap people.
I didn't like this new metal.
I didn't like this hip-hop.
And that's like all that was, or this alt rock.
Never mind ghastly things like Radiohead.
I was a very bad white person.
And then as I aged into middle school, I discovered, wait, there were these musical albums and songs that were released prior to my birth.
And they are the true music of my people, the Midwestern white guy.
And so I listened to my Midwestern white guy music and occasionally my imported British heavy metal music.
And, you know, we have our alternative halftimes.
And I'm very happy we put it on.
And a lot of people liked it.
But as I've repeatedly said, it's a bunch of acts that have never crossed my playlist in my life.
It's same here.
That didn't stop me from loving it.
But then, but then, okay, so that being said, what is your sense then of why was it that this took off and just put up the incredible numbers that it did?
Well, let's be true.
Let's be real.
There was a significant push factor going on from the NFL where they allowed Jay-Z to dominate the halftime show.
And he came out and he says, we're going to pick the Spanish-only guy who hates America to do the halftime show.
And then he comes out and he says, I hate America.
I'm going to crap on the American flag.
You have four months to learn to speak Spanish.
And then I'm going to, and then the actual show starts.
And I don't know if you guys have seen it.
It's something that would be inflicted on Gitmo detainees, I'm sure, where it's this baffling thing.
He just kind of babbles in Spanish.
You don't know what he's doing.
And apparently it was really terrible if you were a fan at the stadium.
They got so addicted to the cinema of it being on air.
So if you were in the lower bowl of Levi's Stadium, everyone just didn't know what was going on.
And it's amazing, too, to see this aspect of it where the people who are trying to give positive reviews.
And it's stuff like in that skit they're doing, someone is like asleep on two chairs and someone's like, oh, someone asleep on two chairs.
Bad bunny totally gets the Hispanic experience, which is this very real thing.
Everyone going.
This was going viral.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
This is so Latino.
This is Latino culture.
And it's like, okay.
In Latino culture, we have this, we have this tradition.
Call it dinner and you eat with other people in your family, because in our culture, every day, food is important.
My favorite is Jack we're texting about.
This is like like the actual the.
The translation of his song is I. There's this guy.
His video went viral.
Wait, do we have the English one?
Do we have the guy who, oh my gosh, do we have it literally?
Tanya Tay Was has been playing that like 10 times a day since that came out.
So we've done we we, we have to pull it now.
We've done a horrible job of show prep, as usual, but it's like when you actually hear it in yeah English, it's like that's what he said, like it wasn't even that because, like there's good Spanish music out there right, like J-lo performed before and like Shakira performed Hold on, hold on.
There's good Spanish music and it's yeah, you know yeah, it's great, it's great.
Imagine if they played this at the Super Bowl.
That's kind of what they're trying to.
Have you ever seen what they used to?
Have you ever seen what they used to?
Uh, what they used to do at the Super Bowl?
Like I think literally the first Super Bowl halftime show was a straight up marching band just doing like that was what they had at the Packers chiefs first one was acceptable.
Yeah, I think it's literally like my auntie asked me how many girlfriends I had and it's like I can't let me see if I.
Yeah Muchas, No Dias, many girlfriends.
So he just keeps singing about how many girlfriends he has.
As yeah, it's like I have a girlfriend one week and then I have a different one the next week, and then we have these brainless guys and you have a like you know, the Never Trump, the Never Trump, like Cock CON Congress.
Like those guys they're doing these comments and they're trying to say, among other things, this is a very like pro, this is like a traditional values pro family halftime show.
And they just don't know the lyrics to the songs at all, because no one does and no, but i'm, but i'm like, i'm making a criticism of it from from a musical perspective.
Right, like not even beyond the lyrics, beyond the obvious, like open borders globalism display, all of like the ridiculous.
Like oh, we sleep on chairs, sometimes at weddings, when we're kids like you, you mean like literally all kids um would do, but no it's, it's like it's not catchy, there's no hooks, there's no chorus.
Like i'm not gonna sit here and say that like I listened to Shakira, but like people could probably name a couple Shakira songs they could probably hung hum a chorus.
You know Mikey, of course, you know, is actually a big might.
People don't know this about Mikey Mccoy, he has a giant Shakira tattoo all the way across his back.
Um, that he received in Tijuana.
You know we can't show it on air because again, family show but um, you know, it's something that he's really proud of and he likes to talk about.
Shakira did the Waka Waka song for the South Africa World Cup.
Yeah yeah yeah I, I know that song.
It is a song i've listened to.
I think it's kind of funny that they got Shakira to make their like Crypto Africa, but everybody at least knows who Shakira is, You know, I didn't know that she was the Waka Waka singer until now.
Here's the thing: I brought this up on Piers Morgan this week because we got into it, and he was all he was doing this whole like, well, you guys just did that because he's Hispanic and blah, blah, blah.
And I was like, And I was like, actually, no, people got mad at him because he was disrespecting the American people because he politicized things and I can prove this.
And he was like, okay, prove it.
I said, all right.
Is this, I was like, okay, is this the first time that Bad Bunny has performed at a Super Bowl?
And everyone on the panel was like, eh.
I said, no, it's not the first time.
It's the second time he's performed at the Super Bowl.
Everybody forgets that when Shakira performed back in 2020, the guy who got up on stage to rap with her during the one Spanish song was actually Bad Bunny.
And you know what?
There was no like backlash.
There was no controversy about it because he just stuck to music and nobody really cared.
But obviously, that was before this big push to politicize him and politicize everything.
And before he was being disrespectful to Americans, and so he didn't get the headlines.
He's an attention seeker.
That's what all of this was about.
So no, it isn't about his music or his language.
You know, I mean, a little bit about the language, but that's different.
It was because of the disrespect.
But again, like Ricky Martin sang in Spanish and nobody cared because Ricky Martin's actually a good singer.
So yeah.
I don't know any Ricky Martin songs.
By the way, Zuzu's Pedals donated $2 and says they should have chosen Tito Puente for decent Latino music.
I don't know who that has.
I have no idea what that is.
Maybe it's Tito Puente's amazing.
What are you talking about?
He did the song when Mr. Burns died.
I don't know who TT Puente is.
I don't know.
Jack, I had a similar scenario happen where people were like, why are you guys doing this?
And I was like, look, I could make an argument that he's anti-American.
You know, he wants a bunch of foreigners in our country.
Yada, yada, yada.
You know, dresses up like a transvestite in his music videos and anti-President Trump, all these things.
But ultimately, and I said this, there was like 20 people there.
I said, ultimately, let me ask you guys a question, open-ended to everybody in this room.
Can you name me one Bad Bunny song?
Just one, that's your favorite.
And if you can, can you also name just one portion of the lyrics that you can sing?
And not a single person in the room who is arguing against me could do that.
I said, so maybe I can sing it.
I can do.
Hey, okay.
Okay.
But that's the whole thing.
Maybe we just did it because that's how people hear the song.
Yeah.
Maybe people don't know who he is and they're pretending they do.
I'm like, it's just funny because I feel like, you know, people are like, oh, like, obviously I was like, you know, introing the halftime show for TPSA and then like had the tweets about it last year.
But I was like, I was like, I feel like I actually know more about Bad Bunny than like the average person in this too, because I would be pointing out that the reason I knew about him before it wasn't the Shakira thing.
I had no idea.
I had to look that up.
But then I had, I, I, um, I knew that he was, they inserted him as this, the caddy, like the sidekick character with this huge subplot in Happy Gilmore 2.
And so when they did that, I was like, who's this random like Spanish character that they're adding?
Like, why is he there instead of, you know, like the actual cast of Happy Gilmore 1 and they're giving him all the screen time and like, why is Netflix doing this?
And then I found out it was Bad Bunny.
It's like, oh, so that's, you know, another corporate addition where there's trying to just like jam him, you know, into the whole thing.
It was so ridiculous.
I think we have that clip.
Shakira's Pardon and Beyond00:04:53
I think is it loaded, guys?
It is not loaded.
We're all dying to see this.
I really want to see because I actually saw it, but I didn't listen to it.
I was kind of sorry.
I'm kidding you.
I'm not even joking that Tanya Tay has played this over and over.
She thinks it's the funniest thing that she's ever heard.
We'll be sitting because she was playing it, and I was like, Oh, yeah, that's really funny.
She was like, No, but you have to listen to it.
I'm like, No, I actually heard it this morning.
No, but you have to listen to it now.
And then, and then I walked away and I was like doing something in the other room.
And I just hear, I just hear it coming from her.
It's like, she's just playing it over.
It's loaded.
It's racking up.
All right, we've got it.
We've got it.
All right.
Play 520.
The English version?
Hey, so my anti-SB, why I got so many girlfriends?
Hey, a lot of girlfriends today I got one and tomorrow got another one.
But I never marry on my anti-SB, why I got so many girlfriends.
Hey, a lot of girlfriends.
Today I got one and tomorrow got another one.
Man, I think I want to take them all to the VIP, to the VIP.
Hey, well, they can be my anti- and we're going to take a selfie and say cheese.
They smile if they already been with me in the VIP and the VIP.
Hey, when they can be my anti-selfie and say cheese.
They can't smile the ones that forget about me.
Man, I like the Gabriella and the Patricios and the Nicola and that's Obia's.
My girl and Kendra got her name with Maria and my first love of her name was Talia.
This is just so low quality mute.
Like any TikToker who makes music could make something just like that.
Like, how is this any different from like a SoundCloud mumble wrapper?
That's exactly what it is.
It literally is.
I like it.
One of the tweets I saw during the Super Bowl was: if I was running for president of a Latin country, my platform would be to bring Latin music a second drum beat.
Dang.
Dang.
And you know, I thought that was just a funny joke.
And then I looked it up, Latin drum beat.
And there's literally a Wikipedia article for the drum beat that they use in like all Latin American music.
It's called the Tracio.
And it's this sound thing, like kind of a kick, kick, snare kind of nice.
That's all bad bunnies.
I mean, it's kind of true.
I got to say, it's just, it's just legit.
I'm just going to, you want real thought, crap, guys.
Look at this incredible comment.
When Jack introduced the All-American halftime show, he looks so good.
Peak American and Masculinity.
Thank you, MK Brand28.
Wow.
I completely agree.
Wow, that's crazy.
I didn't know Jack had a second account on Rumble.
No, I'm not even signed in.
I was literally just signing into the chat.
And then they were also saying Wakanda is iconic.
And also that Shakira got in trouble for tax evasion.
No, pardon Shapira.
Shapira.
Pardon Shakira.
Pardon her.
Pardon her.
Pardon Shakira.
This is Shakira alone.
Yes.
This is good.
We need to.
JD needs to run on this.
This is his one campaign, what he's running on.
And I'm a one-issue voter.
Pardon Shakira.
Really?
She's not American.
She's Colombian.
You can still get pardoned.
She can still get pardoned if she was evading U.S. taxes.
She can still get imprisoned for invading U.S. not pardoning Maduro, though.
You know what?
I'm going to, you know, that's going to be the big issue with it because they talk about like Marco Rubio or someone challenging JD.
Like, what if it just turns into the Shakira battle?
And like, one says death penalty for Shakira and the other says pardon Shakira.
And as a supporter of Western civilization's music, I think I would have to go with the death penalty for Shakira.
Oh, wait, Zuzu's pedals is saying the tax evasion was in Spain.
So it wasn't even a bad thing.
Oh, Spain has no legal right to anybody.
Yeah.
No, yeah, no, never mind.
Okay.
We should pardon her then.
Pardon her.
President Trump should pardon her for Spanish.
Shakira Lips.
So is she not allowed to step foot in Spain or she's arrested?
I'm not sure.
Well, they just legalized all the five, what, 500,000 illegal aliens in Spain.
So, you know, I guess you can just commit whatever crime you want.
Guys, they got us another excellent clip of the halftime show.
This is every time Bad Bunny says in the halftime show.
Let's play it.
21 For those watching on
20 Minutes Of Halftime Show00:14:18
podcast later.
That was 51 ois over the course of that 20 minutes.
That's actually impressive because I think he was only on stage for like 14 minutes or something.
Yeah, that's a lot of that.
So 51 divided by 14.
That's almost four oceans a minute.
Because they had to bring the whole set into the stadium during the half.
So, you know, for every Super Bowl halftime, you have to set up because you can't play during the game, right?
So you can't set up during the game because the game's being played.
So that setup and breakdown time goes into how long your performance is, where obviously we didn't have that issue because we were not in the middle of a football game.
And so I think ours was probably twice as long as theirs, give or take, or maybe a little bit.
I think they were like 14 minutes and we were like 22 minutes.
So not quite twice as long, but getting there.
And next year, I mean, gosh, the sky is the limit for next year.
I've had people pitching like, you know, you guys could do an hour.
You guys could do an entire day.
And like the finale is the halftime show.
I mean, it's kind of crazy.
But, you know, the, because you have to understand, we had like we had three months, but it wasn't even really three months because we had Amfest in the middle and then we had Christmas and New Year's.
And so it was really more like two months, you know, of time other than just reaching out to venues, casting that wide net.
And look, we, we talked about this a little bit when I was on with Andrew, you know, before on Thought Crime, but we had a lot of pressure against us from, you know, elements of the industry, elements of,
you know, different, different, I think probably money and sponsors that were, you know, probably thinking, hey, if we support someone or work with someone who's going to be going up against the NFL, then that's like putting a black mark on us.
So that's why for me, I just, I'm so grateful to all the musicians that came out and took the chance.
And, you know, Kid Rock as well for, you know, bringing his incredible star power, Branley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, Gabby Barrett, who's, you know, I think really become the breakout star of all this fellow Pennsylvanian, like myself, by the way.
And, oh, by the way, one of the controversies that, and Blake, I'm sure you've seen this and as well as the number of like the, there's like the ratings controversy, but the lip sync controversy.
Have you guys seen that?
They're accusing him of lip syncing.
Yeah, I saw that.
Not true.
Not true, guys.
I'm telling you, I was right there.
And I have footage from the set.
And I guess we have like master footage too that we could probably see if they really wanted us to go to that level, which is crazy.
He's not lip syncing.
It was a sync issue on the stream.
It was literally, we had so many people watching that it just, it was like, you know, just a glitch on the stream where everything was out of sync, the video and audio.
Which is, and also it's like, at least he can still, and as a result, it means he can still perform.
Unlike, have you ever heard Bad Bunny when his auto-tune chester went out?
And he just.
Is that true?
I saw that one going around, but I didn't know if that was.
That was a real incident.
Grock said it was real.
And I've gotten lazy to the point where I fallen victim to another fake.
I mean, maybe it's fake, but I choose to believe it anyway.
That should be a thought crime topic.
How about my thoughts?
All of this is taught in AI stuff.
I'm ready for my thought crime.
Like, there are not even, not even just like Sweden itself, but like there are probably, I would say, specific provinces of Sweden that have produced more good music than all of Latin America.
And specific, probably specific parts, probably specific cities.
Let's say specific cities in the UK.
Like Liverpool has produced more great music for humanity than every single city from Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego.
Can you name all of that?
People are saying we need the All-American pregame show for 2027 as well as the All-American halftime show.
We might even have to have like an All-American festival or something.
I don't know.
The All-American Music Festival.
Ooh.
I like this.
This is a good idea.
You guys have some good ideas.
That was, no, we were, I was actually on with Tim Poole last night on his show, and he was saying, guys, you could do it like with numbers like that, you could put on an entire day-long festival.
And here was his idea, which was really good, because one of the issues that we would have then, if we were doing the live festival that way, is we would also have that same issue of setup and breakdown between bands.
But his idea was two stages, right?
You do two stages, one, you know, one like stage A, stage B.
And then, you know, stage A has a band, they play, whatever, blah, blah, blah.
Then they go to breakdown and a band kicks off on stage B.
So throughout the day, you could have it switching back and forth.
And then there's no, it's, you know, it's just seamless.
I like this.
I like this idea.
So let's get, if you guys are in the chat, especially super chat, you know, who would you like to see?
One thing though, you know, ask us who'd you like to see it for next year, but at the same time, and email 1776 at humanevents.com or freedom of charliekirk.com about who you'd like to see.
But I will say though, that this was definitely a crash course, I think, for, and a learning curve for a lot of us, that it's not even up to the artist sometimes regarding songs, regarding the rights, regarding like things they can do, people they can play with.
There's so many contracts, there's so many labels, there's so many just different like layers of complexity to whether or not you can perform one of these things.
Like we lost the X live stream just a couple of hours before we went live.
And, you know, I think though, in a sense, that that was actually kind of maybe a godsend.
Like that was actually maybe part of God's plan because when we tweeted out that we lost X, that drove more people to YouTube and Rumble.
And perhaps we wouldn't have hit the record if that hadn't happened.
You never know, right?
Do we have Tyler?
Do we have a lot of time?
Yeah, we have Tyler.
Tyler has shown up.
We were discussing.
I gave my highest time.
We're still talking the halftime show.
And we were talking, here's the highlights so far.
Bad Bunny, about, he averages about four a minute during his Super Bowl show.
I'm not trying to be like Charlie Kirk here because Charlie would totally do this.
He'd be like, what is this?
Yeah, what is it?
He would have leaned like, wait a minute.
I legitimately went back and was watching it and I was like, this is a very bad performance.
I don't know.
It's no question why people in the stands weren't moving at all.
And I know we have to be careful, you know, exactly how we talk about this, but like any, and it's, it reminded me a few years ago, I was watching it because like old school halftime shows were like, it was like Janet Jackson, someone big, like middle of the stage, like everybody's into it.
Everything gets dark.
I just was watching this whole thing.
It was like, it was like bright lights, you know, because it was the sun hadn't gone down and it was just weird and awkward and like nobody was feeling it.
Nope.
And they just have to be honest about it.
You know, it's like no one was feeling it.
Nobody was feeling it.
And that's what I was nervous about was our all-American halftime show.
When we flipped over, I was worried that it would look like less less production quality than like a multi, like tens of millions of dollars that they spend on normal halftime stuff.
And it's like, no, ours actually looked way better.
Yes.
Ours looked more like a real halftime show.
Big time.
So that's what everybody was saying was like everybody like felt it felt normal.
It wasn't just that it felt American.
It felt normal.
Normal.
Like what it's supposed to be.
Yeah.
We actually have some B-roll of this.
Can we play clip 280, guys?
And I think this will back up what Tyler's saying.
So this is Amanda Vance, and she's watching our halftime show while at the actual halftime show at the actual supervisory.
And she's moving more than everybody else around.
She's moving more.
And look at all the people around her.
And there's so many videos like this where it's going viral that people were just standing around totally disconnected.
And like, you can't even really see the show either.
Like, Tyler, so this speaks to what you're saying that the people in the stands couldn't even tell what was going on down there because it just looks like this weird thicket of grasses.
It looked like when the Velociraptors come out during Jurassic Park and you just see like the grass moving.
Like, I don't know.
Like, that's it.
And I, I have a piece of me that's like, I, I kind of appreciate a little bit hood rap music every once in a while.
Like I've, like, I've, you know, again, I've been around for, I have friends that like, that's like their music preference of choice.
It's not mine.
I was like, I have some black friends.
It's like, I've had a lot of fun.
It's cool.
I've had a few, you know, friends.
And so, like, I can appreciate when music's good, right?
Like, and it's a little bit too, this legitimately was not good.
No.
It's like, I can't, it made me feel so much better.
I was like, oh, this was really justified what we did here.
Tyler, Tyler's saying, I enjoy a little hood rap music every once in a while.
It reminds me of the post Jack you put up the other day with you and James at Keith.
You're like, God forbid a couple white boys get a little groove.
God forbid.
God forbid a couple of white boys get a little emotion.
We could play that if we want because we went to Hispanic Prosperity Gala.
Yeah, and we had a great time.
And there was a singer, Nacho, from Venezuela.
He was phenomenal and he was playing live and he's got like, you know, millions and millions of fans around the world.
And it's like, this is music that has a beat.
It's catchy.
It's got a hook to it.
It's got a chorus.
He's like an actually talented singer.
He's not a mumble rapper.
I mean, I just don't understand where people get around there saying mumbling is something that you want when it comes to music.
Whereas what this was, and yeah, Tyler, like, I guess the issue now is that they make these halftime shows.
They did this last year as well, where they make it for the TV audience only and they don't care about the audience that's actually there.
So the people in the stands are like, yeah, it's dumb because it's not the spectacle that you would expect.
It's more like a TV show or like a music video kind of shoot.
It's just not the big Super Bowl halftime spectacle that I think people are used to.
You know, like a stage, dancers, fireworks.
I'm very, I'm upset.
And I could be totally wrong about this.
I could be misremembering, but this is how I felt.
I felt like the halftime show that was during the big game was always geared towards my parents.
Yeah.
When I was growing up, like it was always geared towards my parents.
And now I'm a parent and it's not geared towards me.
It's geared towards international, international, like globalism.
And non-American.
He was globalist.
Like non-American, truly.
And again, Puerto Rico is American.
Okay.
Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican.
He doesn't seem to think so.
Yeah.
Here's a thought problem.
Puerto Rico was America.
Why did they have their flag next to the American flag at that show?
Here's the point.
Puerto Rico is not a state, so it's not America.
So that's just number one.
Number two is that the words in his songs are talking about women from lots of different countries.
He's using, he's appropriating his sub-American culture as Puerto Rican to try to hook up with all these other South American and Central American women.
It's in the words.
It's right there in the words.
He's a colonization hooker-upper.
That's right.
He's colonizing.
Wait, guys, Puerto Rican.
I'm here to hear the translation.
I think we might have to go and play the translation for Tyler again just so that he knows what he's actually commenting on.
I think we have to hit it again.
It's high-quality music.
All right.
Play it again.
The English version?
Hey, so my NTSB, why I got so many girlfriends?
Hey, a lot of girlfriends today I got one and somebody else.
I actually watched this video over and over.
My NTSB.
This video is so much better than that video.
I can get on board that this guy would have performed in English.
I know.
I actually think people would have checked them out for the VR.
People in the stands.
You know what would have been funny?
It would have been funny to put this guy.
Our alternate halftime show should have been this guy.
Yeah.
We can't move over next year.
Wait, wait, wait.
Can you imagine?
Wait, wait, wait.
We have an all-American halftime show, and then we have an Americanized version of their halftime show, and then their halftime show.
And then next year, if they get some really awful, like one of those rappers who just raps about all the felonies he does, we do a version that's the same beat, but he's rapping about all the community stuff.
Yeah, like community stores on the call.
Yeah, I roll into the club.
I help out the homeless guys there.
Yeah, I go on the freeway and clean up trash.
I drive a Toyota Avalon.
It's a responsible middle-class co-op.
I get my oil changed every 3,000 lines.
Coffee and donuts at the library.
No drag queens.
Jeez.
So good.
Yeah, I got five kids.
Oh, with my wife.
Oh, and one woman.
But that's the old Chris Rock bit where he's like, he's like, I ain't never been to prison, to prison, to prison.
He's like, you're not supposed to go to prison.
He's like, I take care of my kids.
You're supposed to take care of your kids.
Like, why do you want credit for stuff you're supposed to do?
That's back when Chris Rock was actually in the middle of the day.
We got another donut from Zuzu's Pedals 5 this time.
Thank you very much, Zuzu.
Remember when Whitney Houston sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl back when it was patriotic?
9/11 And National Anthems00:02:46
No, I don't because I believe I was zero years old when that happened.
But it is a great video.
It's a great national anthem.
And yes, that is, that's actually like iconic.
It's iconic.
It's about when I feel the Super Bowl probably peace.
But guys, Charlie Pooth did okay.
He did, he did good.
He did a great job.
Again, nobody, this is the sad part.
Nobody's talking about that.
He crushed the national anthem.
He did.
He did.
Yeah.
Yeah, he did.
Like, that's where America should be centering on, right?
He's like, okay, maybe a guy, probably not a conservative, not, you know, whatever, right?
But crushes the national anthem.
Wait, you weren't alive in 1991?
How old are you?
Oh, I was alive.
I was zero years old.
Oh, you were.
I was negative.
Negative years.
Yeah, I was definitely alive.
Jack and I. Were you even born when like 9-11 happened?
No.
Oh, my gosh.
I will never see anyone.
I'm not a 10 weeks after.
I will never see anyone born after 9-11 as an adult.
Like, even when I'm 70 and there are like 60-year-olds post-9-11, they will still be children to me.
Yeah, my friend growing up.
Just summarily reject it.
My friend growing up was born on 9-11.
Oh, wow.
Oh, my God.
So you're saying there's a connection.
Yeah.
Yeah, really suspicious.
There's thousands of days he could have been born on, and he was born on that day, huh?
It's not really weird, right?
Yeah, it's weird.
I don't like it.
I've never heard a story of somebody that was supposed to go to work that day, though, there that they were giving birth.
I've never heard that story.
Yeah.
I've heard a lot of stories.
People that didn't go to work, but giving birth that day.
It's weird.
They didn't happen to give birth in like ward seven of that hospital, did they?
Oh, gosh.
No, the weirdest 9-11 story I know, not weirdest, but just like, I think most, in a sense, unique, is I knew a guy who was in a motorcycle accident like the day before on 9-10, 2011, or excuse me, 2001, and I'm thinking 11.
And so he was in like a medical coma on 9-11.
And then he wakes up on 9-12 and is like, hey, so did I miss anything?
And everyone's like, and they had to go to him and tell him.
And like, he didn't believe anyone, obviously.
And then they show him the footage and he was like, there's no way, dude.
But it was so weird because like he didn't have that emotional response to it because everyone else had gone through the trauma of that day and not knowing whether or not something else like people, everybody thought there was going to be more attacks, right?
Turning Point USA Event00:15:08
Everybody thought there was going to be more going on.
Whereas he's just walking around seeing flags everywhere, like sort of confused about how that happened.
It's kind of wild.
Very, very like 28 days later.
Like the whole world changes and you wake up.
Bizarre.
All right.
What's our next topic here?
Alrighty.
Well, we have a few options we could talk.
I really like.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Do you want to get Tyler's take on next year?
No, no, no.
I think Tyler's getting exhausted and we have to make sure we hit it.
Do you want to talk more about it?
I already said what we want to do.
Next year, we go twice as three times, four times harder.
Way more awareness.
I think you get a much bigger audience.
I think it continues to grow.
Like, there's nothing here that says you should slow down.
No.
Everything, everything here says pedals of the metal, make it bigger, make it better.
The logo's great.
The branding was great.
Everything worked.
Everything was great.
Everything was great.
Like, you have to do this bigger and better, and you have to scare everybody.
And then, because if you do it in enough advance now, now, I mean, again, like advertisers and things like that are really going to be, you know, twisting the screws here.
So, yeah.
I'll just say, Tyler, I don't know if you caught, I know we chatted a little bit, but if you go back and watch when I did Tim Cast last night, I mean, he was just couldn't be more praiseworthy.
And he was like, just all in, just all in.
And I've heard from a lot of people, you know, who are, you know, other hosts of shows and different things where people are, people are just honestly shocked.
Just absolutely shocked that it was record-breaking viewing where can I pump up Turning Point USA too?
Again, I'm on the Turning Point action side.
Please do.
Turning Point USA.
This was a Turning Point USA event.
I got a lot of credit for doing nothing other than just helping organize years worth of Turning Point, but I did nothing with this.
This was our entire team at Turning Point USA.
The entire team at Turning Point USA, Lauren Tonsich's team, the events, Marina.
We just had a baby days before.
She had a baby in the middle of this.
I guess we're talking about publicly now.
Is that true that she named her baby All-American Halftime Show, Minas?
Kid Rock.
No, Kid Rock.
It was Kid Rock.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're a little confused.
She named it Mr. Kid Rock.
They were like, was one word or two?
Oh, I thought it was Benito.
Kid Rock.
Two first names, and she was like, yeah, you get a private.
I thought it was Benito.
Baby Benito.
Oh, wait, I got it.
No, I remember now.
The full name was Kid Rock All-American Halftime Show, Minas.
I thought it was Benito Antonio.
Whatever Bad Bunny's full name.
Maybe we're just not remembering.
No, but all of the good people.
But here's the point I was getting around to making.
Turning Point USA could have probably raised and charged millions and millions of dollars to do a bunch of ads, sponsorships, all that stuff, and intentionally did not do that.
This was a, this was a, did not make any kind of revenue.
They did not turn this into a revenue thing when it was very clear that this could be easily be a revenue thing.
Because that wasn't what the purpose was.
The purpose of this was to live up to the expectations, things that Charlie, Jack, you had, you had verbalized this very well, things that Charlie had said that really bothered him, that he would want to see done, and make it really cleanly just about that.
Just about giving Americans alternative.
In the first place, that's what I was thinking of.
So I applied.
It's like I could hear Charlie in my head just going off just the way he had all the years prior.
And, you know, we had joked about maybe doing something like this.
And I just kind of typed it up and tweet went the way it went.
And then we talked about it on the show.
And that went pretty on this show right here on Thought Crime.
And that went super viral too.
But here's the point is that people looked at this and went like, you guys would be crazy not to monetize this or do things or raise money for Turning Point.
That would go back to the 501c3 to help operations and do all that.
But this was so much bigger than that.
Yes.
Culturally.
And so for anybody that's like looks at this and goes, oh, you know, Turning Point's trying to just raise money all the time.
It's like, no, guys, like the biggest thing that we have.
There was no lower third with the QR code and all that.
This was cleanly just give Americans an alternative and prove a point.
And they did that.
The entire team did that.
I thought that was really classy.
I thought that was really important that nobody felt like they were being, nobody looked at this as like, oh, well, this is just another play.
And I saw a few people that a lot of haters that were like, these people that are like, oh, well, I didn't follow bad buddy, but I don't watch that either.
Although, Tyler, you did have an idea and perhaps we should still do it of doing like maybe like a t-shirt or something, like make it like a concert shirt that people could get a TPUSA shirt where it's got like the, you know, the bands, the acts on the front, and then on the back, it's got like that, you know, like it's like a classic t-shirt, like a list of everyone who performed.
And you could have like, I, you know, the All-American halftime show and then put the year.
And then every year we could do a new shirt.
Yeah.
I still think we need a shirt that says, I switched the channel on whatever last Sunday was.
Put that on the back.
I switched the channel or whatever.
Yeah.
No, boomers would love that.
Boomers would definitely love it.
Boomers would love a shirt.
They would wear a t-shirt to Home Depot that was like, I switched the channel.
And then like, like walking around, you know, with like, when you got it, Tyler, don't you mean A true man doesn't get a car light bulbs in one arm, you're gonna drop them, and like you're getting like packs of screws in another hand, and you got like a two random two by four, and you're like trying to keep your pants up, and you're walking around home.
I don't think our guys have trouble with their pants fitting.
No, no, no, you watch Home Depot, there's no man gets ready and goes to Home Depot and remembers to put on a belt.
Watch, just watch.
I do the same, I know, because I'm a dad.
This is what happens, and you're like walking around, you got your arms full, and then guys are just high-fiving each other because like, I love your shirt every time.
Go wear a turning point.
Go wear a turning point shirt to Home Depot on any given Saturday.
You will get high fives all over that store.
We got another message from Zuzu.
She says that many songs sang in the All-American Halftime show went top 10 on iTunes.
That could be part of it.
You just like you make it the symbolic thing.
Every song that's performed, just make it one through 10 on iTunes or on Spotify or whatever app they'll be listening to music on by that time.
Anyways, yeah, I love hearing them too.
Because by the way, and this is something that, okay, I do have like, so there was, there's this argument that keeps getting made about like the ratings and all the rest.
And everyone's always like, oh, well, you guys didn't beat the Super Bowl.
Like, we never said we were going to beat the Super Bowl.
We said we were going to do something that would, that would rival, that would take a chunk away, et cetera, which we did, obviously.
But then when you look at all of those sort of ephemeral cases of, okay, well, what are other data points we can look at to see what the impact was?
And again, it's Kid Rock on the top of the U.S. charts.
Gabby Barrett, who was right there, like number four, number five, a couple of songs up because she was such a breakout star in terms of this.
By the way, 25 years old, married at 19, three kids already.
I mean, like, that's the Charlie Kirk.
That's all American.
That is the Charlie Kirk motto.
Get married, have kids, be successful.
She's doing it.
What an incredible star.
Great person to work with, like super down to earth.
Like, like, literally one of the nicest people I've ever met.
Not like the diva that, you know, people seem to think that like all musician, you know, musical acts are going to be.
And, but then the way the Nielsen ratings get cut get computed, that's like, I feel like, Tyler, I kind of feel like they're, you know, it's, they're doing this apples to oranges thing because our streaming numbers are based off of devices.
So the number of TVs, the number of screens, the number of accounts, whatever.
But Nielsen, they don't do households.
They do the household number and then they multiply it by three, right?
Did you guys know this?
Yeah, it's it's I've seen everything from 2.4 to 3.4.
Yeah.
Great.
So like rightfully said, like, I think that's true, though, because you know, most people don't watch the Super Bowl alone.
You're probably going to be in a room with like a number of people.
So you average that out and you say, like, okay, we'll take some multiple and call it, okay, it's three.
So if you had 50 million households, they'll say it was 150 million, right?
Just to use that.
But they don't do that to our numbers, right?
For our numbers, it's only one goes by device.
So they'll say, oh, well, you had 25 million.
Like, well, if we used your metric, then wouldn't it be 75 million?
Right.
Or if we had 30 million, would it be 90 million?
Because we don't do that with our numbers.
I'm like, that's, and I just don't think that's true.
I mean, here's the reality.
I watched it, I was in a room with like 30 people.
Here's the reality.
The numbers are much bigger than what people were trying to report it as, right?
Because when you actually start calculating the number of views with that metric, because I have friends that are in the marketing world that have put on these types of events that have done ads on the big game days.
Yeah.
And He told me specifically because he's funded these entire big ads that the conservative estimates of 2.4 multiplier in views.
Realistically, it's probably closer to like three to four person.
So, I mean, we're talking, I mean, we're talking, if that's the case, we're talking that there's a real possibility that this production took like literally half the viewership.
We, I mean, it totally broke containment.
It's crazy.
It really did.
And that's, that's how you know God was involved.
That's how you know it's, it's God because it's not us.
This was being brought up the biggest events outside of the big game, like the biggest events like that are on TV, like, you know, Dancing with the Stars and American Idol and all those things.
Those things get like five, six, seven million views.
Like, we're talking like this was probably like five to eight times bigger than that as a brand, as an outside organization with no capitalization from the major media networks.
Like, that's insane, guys.
Like, it just doesn't happen.
So, anyways, we could talk about it.
We made Brown House, by the way.
Like, there were no like quickly.
Yeah, with the same, with the same team that we used to do the events.
It wasn't like some, we had some like extra director coming in or like anything like that.
Like, literally, same team.
I saw people, somebody called me.
I won't say who it was, but they're an important person.
And they're like, after watching what the Turning Point team was able to do with Charlie's Memorial, which was like, you have to believe that that was God's hand just making that successful because it was so huge and so many people and it was so hard to do so quickly and everybody was so emotional during that time.
But like watching everybody pull together and do this thing then too, people are like, wow, this is actually like a very scary unit here that we're up against.
And what scares people even more is when they start realizing the funny part is, it's like, I can understand now why there's conspiracy theories that think that we have all this support from like places that we don't, because it almost is, it doesn't make sense how capable this team is.
Does that make sense?
Like, so I actually have a soft spark.
People were saying that it was botted.
And I'm like, okay, if that's botted traffic, then you guys do it, right?
You guys, you guys just go buy a bunch of bots and run a live stream and see if you get number one U.S. live stream of all time.
Go right ahead.
The most powerful company in this world is getting botted.
Yeah, I can promise you something.
I can promise you, the most powerful company in this world is not thrilled about Turning Point USA having the number one streamed event ever in American history.
I just, I'm going to promise you, they did not see that coming.
And that's the whole funny part about this whole thing.
This is a sneak attack.
This whole thing, if they would have had more time, they would have figured out how to stop us.
I'm telling you.
This is a company just five years ago that was kicking all of us off the internet.
They didn't see it coming.
They didn't see it coming at all.
This company was kicking us all off the internet and demonetizing every single one of us.
Yep.
And like by name, sending lobbyists into Washington, D.C. to work with their tech friends to debank us.
I mean, I'm telling you, this is literally, these are not anyone's friends here at Turning Point USA.
No.
And kudos to, and by the way, shout out, of course, to the Rumble team as well for just being there, being so supportive.
Chris Provlofsky, he and I were chatting like right before it went live and talking about how he was going to see it.
And then I did a little bit of the RAV pre-show and I was just looking at the Rumble numbers.
And that was sort of the first indication that I had.
I was like, wait a minute, this isn't just big.
This is This is way beyond anything that even we were projecting.
Well, to your point here, at least officially, I will say though that, and Andrew's not here, but he and I had like a phone call that morning and we were like, could you imagine if we get to like, we were like, could you imagine if we get to 10 million?
Wow, that'd be crazy.
To your point with Chris, and again, kudos to Rumble.
If it wasn't for Rumble, we may not be here today for those numbers to exist.
Yeah, no, you see what I'm saying?
Like, like Rumble was the, Rumble was a huge portion of what made a lot of this possible.
And it's not just that, that one provider.
There's all these other providers that were out there, all of the major mainstream networks.
Rumble helped reset everything because they had competition.
Rumble is massive now.
And if they don't compete, then Rumble gets all of that business today.
That was even before Elon got X.
That was even before Elon came in for X. Chris was there first.
Yeah, it was all Chris.
It was Rumble.
It was the entire team at Rumble.
So we're very, very grateful because Rumble is the unsung hero in most of Americans being able to consume even middle of the road content now because Rumble exists.
Yep.
Perfect Storm of Country Music00:04:05
It's just such a perfect storm.
That's the phrase that I keep just rattling through my head.
It was just, it was just the perfect storm between all the years of pent up demand just for, which by the way, country music, in and of itself, it is the most listened to genre of music in the country.
It is the most purchased genre of music.
It is the, it gets the most attendance.
If you go state by state, it is the number one genre in America.
And yet for 30 years, there has not been a headliner of country music at the Super Bowl.
For 23 years, there's not been a single country artist in Shania Twain.
Rock music as well has been completely shunted off for 16 years.
I looked up a bunch of this stuff.
And it's like, you guys are just cutting off this massive market, demographic market, which is, you know, very, very, obviously the same demographics of people who watch the NFL.
And in many cases, are the people who vote for Donald Trump?
Well, what's so offensive about all that, like they like exploited Hank Williams Jr. for years with his theme, the Monday Night Football theme song.
So every football theme song that's existed for like Sunday night football and Monday night football has always been country.
Like this is what's so offensive about this, this entire thing.
And again, I'm not even a country guy.
I love family members.
I don't think, but I'm not even a country guy, but I will come to the defense of country.
They've exploited for marketing purposes, right?
Country music and country music listeners for football.
And then when it comes to halftime to promote some kind of value system, they will never go to country.
And you have to ask.
I mean, that's clearly an agenda, right?
It's like they're using when they have the eyeballs to try to push a narrative or a specific type of culture to American citizens.
But then when they need to actually sell something, what do they go to?
Hank Williams Jr. and Shania Twain.
Drag like some drag some boomer artifact out from the 60s.
Yeah.
You know, like let's get another who song that we use to market CSI episodes.
It was, and then Hank, after Hank Williams, then they, they, I mean, it's everybody, everyone, when everyone thinks of Monday Night Football, you think of Hank Williams, Williams Jr.
Well, did you hear, so don't forget they canceled Hank Williams Jr.
And I was, so I was on Hannibal this week, and he told me the backstory that Hank Williams Jr. Was listening to Glenn Beck.
That's how he found out he got canceled.
They didn't even call him.
Like the NFL didn't even reach out to him directly.
And he was listening to Glenn.
And he had these, and this is the story that Glenn told me that he had these 10 Monday Night Football guitars, like acoustic guitars in his house.
And he got so mad and so upset at the way that they treated him that he smashed them.
He was just grabbing them and smashing them and smashing them and smashing them.
And he finally came to the very last one and he stopped himself and he said, I'm not going to smash this.
I'm going to give it to Glenn Beck.
And that way, at least one of them, and he has it in like that museum that Glenn has.
And I said, wait a minute.
So he doesn't have any of the, he doesn't have a single one in his house anymore.
Not a single one in his possession.
He's like, I'm cutting them out like a cancer.
This is wild.
Wow.
But that's the anger that led to the pent-up demand.
That's the anger of Middle America.
That's the anger of the average American who just wants to be able to turn on something that isn't disrespecting them for being an American, for liking his country, for caring about Jesus Christ, for saluting the red, white, and blue that so many people have been crapped on for years just because, oh, you know, you're some redneck American.
And it's like, no, actually, that's like a huge, massive chunk of this country.
Anger Leading to Demand00:04:39
And you know what?
That anger, I think, turned and God used all of that to turn it into something positive, which led to, and we haven't really talked about that much yet, but the like Kid Rock sharing the gospel and his own salvation story, which is just crazy when you think of like the kid rock when we first met him to who he is today.
All right.
Well, we have a lot of ideas for next year, and I'm sure we'll keep getting a lot.
I think no topic in the last four months or so has inspired more emails than just the idea of this, yeah, of the halftime show.
Like, and over time, too, we got a huge wave when the idea first came out, when it was announced, but then just every single day, people would come in with new ideas.
They had a lot of acts they liked.
And then, you know, when we had that silent period every day, it was like a drumbeat.
Like, what's the information?
Where do we watch it?
And then another wave.
And then a ton of people emailed during the show, immediately after it.
It is a topic that arouses a lot of passion.
People love to go on apps and watch people play music.
What can we say?
Especially if it likes America, and if the alternative is a guy going, Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi!
I got girlfriends!
Oi!
Is that bad, Bunny?
What was that?
It kind of sounded like Jack doing a bad bunny impression, to be honest.
No, that was the English guy.
Oh, really?
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, wait.
That was Ruben Gallego.
That's my auntie.
She asked me why some of the girlfriends did Ruben Gallego.
That was Ruben Gallego.
Did an excellent job at the halftime show.
Ruben Gallego was over there like he was tweeting all about it the entire time.
It's like, oh, man, I can't wait to see you.
He speaks to my culture.
Nobody has ever like speaks to my culture.
It's like Ruben, you're Mexican.
The way my culture does.
Ruben, you're Mexican.
You're not Puerto Rican.
Like every day.
Somebody telling Ruben he's not Puerto Rican.
Okay.
What's next?
No, we have to have a heart out now.
We've got to bail.
Oh, we can't go reloading.
No, no, got to bail.
Dang, man.
Tragedy has set upon us.
You guys got really wired in that.
I told you we had to get to the others, but we'll have to push this next week, maybe.
We'll see.
It is.
I think it legitimately was just look that halftime show, the genesis of that was in many ways thought crime because this is where we would talk about halftime shows with Charlie.
This is where we would hash things out.
This is where, you know, we really kind of came up with the genesis that led to the show.
And you look at it, number one U.S. stream on YouTube of all time.
However, number two worldwide, wait, just real quick before we go, did you guys, did anyone see what was the actual number one worldwide?
It was some like Indian space landing, wasn't it?
Yeah.
So it was when India landed a lunar probe on the moon.
And so, so, so hold on, guys.
I've got this figured out.
I've got this figured out.
So, if next year, if we want to beat it, I already know what the venue is.
Call up Elon Musk.
We're going to do it on the moon.
And then we're going to invite Modi there.
So, you know, whatever portion of the 1.8 billion in the subcontinent are going to watch.
Tune in.
This is how we do it.
This is how we do it.
That would be amazing.
I want to get Elon's dream is to be doing stuff on Mars.
So we got to do Mars stuff.
Halftime show on Mars on the market.
The moon is on the way.
Okay.
Wait, can we play that Indian music again?
We can do it on Mars.
We can do it as we close out.
We can do it as we close out.
No, no, we got to close out on VIP.
We got to close out on VIP.
Good to see one.
Modi on Mars.
Oh, my gosh.
That could be a great.
I could keep going.
But, but unfortunately, unfortunately, that is all the time we have for the criminality, the cognitive criminality on this Thursday.
So to everyone out there, thank you.
Thank you to God.
Thank you to Jesus.
Thank you to the Holy Spirit.
We continue to be humbled by God's grace.
And I hope Charlie was up there looking down saying, guys, did good.
So ladies and gentlemen, as always, go out there and commit more thought Crime.