Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec - THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 124 — The Great Tattoo Debate? Save Spirit Airlines? British Smoking Ban?
Aired: 2026-04-25
Duration: 01:18:56


=== Philly Food Wars (10:13) ===

[00:00:02]  If they want to get you, they'll get you.
[00:00:04]  DNSA specifically targets the communications of everyone.
[00:00:09]  They're collecting your communications.
[00:00:21]  Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard to another edition of Thought Crime Thursday.
[00:00:27]  We've got a banner episode today, a proper panel, if you will.
[00:00:33]  While checking, and I see, by the way, for those on the audio only side, I'd like to let you know that Mr. Corvette is in full compliance with Thought Crime rules and regulations today.
[00:00:45]  FoZ.
[00:00:46]  Does not have a jacket.
[00:00:48]  Wait, did FoZ have to do that right before we went on air?
[00:00:50]  No.
[00:00:51]  Are you serious right now?
[00:00:53]  No.
[00:00:53]  This sounds unconvincing.
[00:00:54]  So, no, here's the deal.
[00:00:56]  I was booked to do Will Cain's show.
[00:00:58]  It got pushed because Trump went long or whatever.
[00:01:01]  But I had to, you know, you have to wear the thing.
[00:01:02]  Here it comes, folks.
[00:01:03]  Here it comes.
[00:01:03]  You have to wear the thing the shirt and the tie and the jet.
[00:01:08]  Well, listen, some people have, you know, some of us have real jobs here, you know?
[00:01:11]  Dang.
[00:01:13]  Dang.
[00:01:14]  How's the turtle, Jack?
[00:01:17]  Still dead.
[00:01:18]  Yeah, it's definitely dead.
[00:01:19]  Too bad.
[00:01:19]  It's definitely dead.
[00:01:20]  Still dead.
[00:01:21]  Yeah, we had a dead turtle at the house.
[00:01:23]  I said, oh, look, there's the SPLC's rotting carcass.
[00:01:26]  Right there.
[00:01:28]  I wish that was more true.
[00:01:29]  You know, the SPLC has like $800 million endowment.
[00:01:33]  Yeah.
[00:01:34]  That's like reserved for universities.
[00:01:36]  You could keep a lot of dead turtles alive for a long time.
[00:01:39]  Well, so we have to, you can't actually bring turtles back to life.
[00:01:42]  But, but to regards, got Andrew, got, we've got Black Pill Bolshevik Blake.
[00:01:50]  So Blake.
[00:01:51]  We have Russ.
[00:01:52]  Do we have anyone else today?
[00:01:53]  You know, in theory, Tyler will come in, but you know how Tyler is.
[00:01:57]  He's often distracted.
[00:01:58]  He's got to serve in the Spice Wars.
[00:02:00]  We can't afford to lose the Spice Wars.
[00:02:03]  The Spice must flow.
[00:02:04]  Yeah, the Spice has got to flow.
[00:02:05]  And if that means we lose Tyler for one or two or five episodes at a time, so be it.
[00:02:11]  But we hope we'll get here because we have three episodes.
[00:02:13]  Something very, very important to update everyone on.
[00:02:17]  So important that we have to get in.
[00:02:19]  Somebody went to Wawa, I believe, for the very first time this week.
[00:02:26]  That's not true.
[00:02:27]  No, I have explained this to you before.
[00:02:32]  Multiple times, I think, in the last week.
[00:02:33]  Russ is loud.
[00:02:35]  I've gone to Wawa many times.
[00:02:37]  Usually when I'm in D.C., because it's like, you know, conveniently on store corners.
[00:02:42]  Nope.
[00:02:43]  Because it's a gas station, isn't it?
[00:02:45]  It's basically a gas station.
[00:02:47]  I don't.
[00:02:48]  Candidly, it's a lot like DC doesn't sell gas, so that's just a lie.
[00:02:51]  But it's kind of.
[00:02:52]  What he's saying is it's kind of the same thing.
[00:02:54]  Yeah, it's like a quick trip, right?
[00:02:55]  Yeah, it's a quick trip.
[00:02:56]  No.
[00:02:56]  It's a.
[00:02:57]  No.
[00:02:57]  I mean, it's better.
[00:02:58]  Even I know this isn't true.
[00:03:01]  Quick trip is for people who don't like taste and flavor.
[00:03:05]  Hey, you know what?
[00:03:06]  Quick trip is where I get my coffee, so leave me alone.
[00:03:10]  They have Black Rifle?
[00:03:11]  Yeah, no.
[00:03:11]  I mean, no, I understand.
[00:03:13]  I mean, that's one of the reasons that.
[00:03:15]  I never wanted to move to the Toes area because there's no Wawa.
[00:03:19]  Well, I like Wawa, Jack.
[00:03:22]  I do like it.
[00:03:23]  And they have a great sandwich selection.
[00:03:27]  What'd you get?
[00:03:29]  I mean, I think I got like a turkey something or other, but I don't know.
[00:03:32]  I was in and out.
[00:03:33]  What'd you get?
[00:03:33]  You got turkey hoagie or turkey quesadilla?
[00:03:37]  I got the hoagie.
[00:03:37]  As a proper red state American, I prefer Sheets.
[00:03:41]  Uh oh.
[00:03:42]  Sheets and Wawa are from the same state, Blake.
[00:03:45]  I know.
[00:03:45]  And.
[00:03:46]  I'm from the red part of the state as opposed to the blue lib part of the state is Sheets.
[00:03:52]  So are you saying Wawa is blue coated?
[00:03:54]  Yes, Wawa is Philly coated.
[00:03:58]  Sheets is heroic American countryside coated.
[00:04:01]  Wow.
[00:04:01]  This is a big dividing line.
[00:04:02]  It sounds like Sheets is heritage Americans and Wawa is import Americans.
[00:04:08]  Yeah.
[00:04:08]  No, they're not really married.
[00:04:09]  So not even close.
[00:04:12]  I just don't have an affinity for trumped up gas stations.
[00:04:15]  Well, this is my whole thing.
[00:04:16]  Question, she's never been to Wawa, so like you know, yeah, Bucky's is probably more the red coated, yeah.
[00:04:26]  But Bucky's, they're just different geographic locations.
[00:04:28]  I don't think you could make a Bucky's is also a different category of thing, like Bucky's is more like a truck stop.
[00:04:34]  I think, I think the chat needs to inform us what is better, Sheets, Bucky's, or Wawa?
[00:04:40]  By the way, I bet more people know Wawa just because I think there's more Wawa's.
[00:04:44]  I'm pretty sure there's more Sheets.
[00:04:50]  Yeah, Wawa and Sheets are pretty.
[00:04:52]  They go toe to toe these days.
[00:04:53]  All right, Jack, why don't you educate me?
[00:04:55]  Why do you like Wawa so much?
[00:04:59]  Because I like quality.
[00:05:01]  I like taste.
[00:05:02]  Because I believe in Maha and real food, which Sheets is not.
[00:05:06]  Wait, you think Wawa is Mama?
[00:05:08]  Maha?
[00:05:09]  Wait, Mama?
[00:05:11]  Mama?
[00:05:12]  So, wait, you think Wawa is Mama and not Woo Woo?
[00:05:17]  Compared to Sheets, absolutely.
[00:05:18]  Woo Woo.
[00:05:19]  Yeah, that's Blake's thing.
[00:05:20]  Blake thinks Maha is Woo Woo.
[00:05:22]  It's a bunch of Woo Woo.
[00:05:23]  That's why I don't go for the wah wah.
[00:05:26]  That was the Atlantics story about the Maha movement during the campaign.
[00:05:31]  It was like woo woo.
[00:05:31]  Yeah.
[00:05:33]  Right?
[00:05:33]  Oh, yeah.
[00:05:35]  Yeah, let's see.
[00:05:35]  What's the word?
[00:05:38]  It's good quality food.
[00:05:39]  It's Philadelphia based, obviously.
[00:05:41]  Okay, there it is.
[00:05:44]  That's the real reason.
[00:05:45]  That's the real reason.
[00:05:46]  Which means loose.
[00:05:48]  No, he likes it because it's in Philly, where, as you said, we have these import Americans who took over a Heritage America city, where Heritage America still thrives.
[00:05:56]  Philadelphia was found in the country 250 years ago this year.
[00:06:01]  So I fly into Philly last weekend because I had to go to an event.
[00:06:04]  And so.
[00:06:06]  I made the comment to Jack.
[00:06:07]  I was like, I haven't been to Philly in, I mean, ages.
[00:06:10]  It's been a long time since I've been to Philly.
[00:06:13]  And Jack instantly, the first thing he goes, Wawa, gotta go to Wawa.
[00:06:17]  I was like, do you go to Wawa?
[00:06:18]  Yeah.
[00:06:19]  So he's like asking me about the event and trying to get some, like, what's the lay of the land?
[00:06:24]  Who are some of the key figures out there?
[00:06:25]  And I was like, but did you go to Wawa?
[00:06:27]  Like, I just, I just want to know if you went to Wawa, Andrew.
[00:06:29]  And he's like, he's like, yeah, no, get there.
[00:06:31]  I'm like, and I wouldn't stop, like, I wouldn't answer any of his questions until he confirmed to me that he was on his way to Wawa.
[00:06:37]  Yeah, it was pretty funny.
[00:06:39]  Jack is not even sponsored by Walt.
[00:06:41]  So you were in Philly for the first time in eternity.
[00:06:43]  Did you go to.
[00:06:45]  No, I did nothing cool.
[00:06:47]  You did nothing cool?
[00:06:47]  I flew in on a red eye.
[00:06:50]  I woke up.
[00:06:51]  I went to bed as soon as I got to the hotel at like 5 30 in the morning.
[00:06:55]  I woke up.
[00:06:57]  I ended up having to deal with some work stuff that popped up, wrote my speech, drove to the event in Lancaster, which I say right.
[00:07:03]  That is correct.
[00:07:04]  The person who was in it.
[00:07:06]  Did the event, drove home, went to bed, woke up, hit the airplane.
[00:07:11]  I did.
[00:07:12]  I was trying to get, I wanted to go downtown to be honest.
[00:07:14]  I wanted to drive around downtown.
[00:07:15]  So, have you never been to Pat's or Gino's?
[00:07:17]  I have.
[00:07:18]  I've been to both.
[00:07:19]  Okay, you've been to both.
[00:07:19]  Yeah, that was on my original trip to Philly.
[00:07:21]  Actually, the time that I went to Philly before this time was when I went to Pat's and Gino's.
[00:07:26]  Okay.
[00:07:26]  Where they come together in little triangles.
[00:07:28]  Which did you prefer?
[00:07:29]  Yeah.
[00:07:30]  I can't actually recall.
[00:07:33]  Yeah, I really can't.
[00:07:33]  I think I was, when I went to Pat's and Gino's, I think I was like 19.
[00:07:37]  And so, I can't remember which one I, I thought they were good.
[00:07:42]  But I didn't think either was extraordinary.
[00:07:44]  Being evasive, Jack.
[00:07:45]  Jack, what do you think?
[00:07:46]  What are the lowest ones?
[00:07:47]  The difference comes down to what you prefer.
[00:07:49]  Gino's is like a cleaner bun and a very much made to order, whereas Pat's, they soak the buns into grease and it's just dripping with flavor and fat and steak gooeyness.
[00:08:08]  And so if you like that better, then you'll like a Pat's better.
[00:08:11]  If you like that soggy bun situation, if you want the cleaner, but like, so I prefer.
[00:08:16]  Generally prefer Pat's, whereas my wife generally prefers Geno's because she likes that cleaner bun.
[00:08:22]  Geno's also the one that they had the stunt where you had to speak American to order a sandwich properly.
[00:08:27]  Yeah, so Joey Vento was the former owner, he passed away of Geno's back 20 years ago now, man.
[00:08:34]  That was 2006 when he put this up that said, This is America, put up a sign that said, This is America when ordering speak English.
[00:08:40]  That was Geno's.
[00:08:44]  They wouldn't do that now, though.
[00:08:45]  Based.
[00:08:46]  I mean, they might.
[00:08:47]  I think they kept it on a long time.
[00:08:48]  They might have taken it down in 2020 or something.
[00:08:51]  I don't know.
[00:08:51]  They may have taken it down after years.
[00:08:53]  We used to have a country.
[00:08:53]  Oh, it's worse.
[00:08:54]  The sign was quietly removed shortly before the 2016 Democrat National Convention to avoid offending the Democrats.
[00:09:02]  Which is, in fact, that is, I believe, when I actually went to Pat's and Gina's.
[00:09:05]  No, wait, no.
[00:09:06]  I went to Pat's and Gina's because I was in Philly to cover the White Privilege Conference in 2016.
[00:09:10]  Oh, jeez.
[00:09:11]  True story.
[00:09:13]  You know what's been really nasty?
[00:09:14]  Yeah, I think my dad was really the move like after you go to a concert or something.
[00:09:18]  So, like all throughout high school or college, like you go to a concert, you know, then you hit up Pats and Geno's because everything else is closed, but they'd be open late night.
[00:09:28]  So, you just go down there, you get a steak, drive home, good times.
[00:09:32]  And it was safe enough back when I was in high school and college that my parents would let me go down there with, and come on, this is pre cell phone era.
[00:09:39]  So, without a cell phone, they're like, yeah, have the car, go to the concert, go to Pats and Geno's, come home, be fine.
[00:09:45]  All right.
[00:09:46]  So to get back to our original topic here, which is the Wawa versus Sheet State.
[00:09:51]  So we have Wawa.
[00:09:53]  It's theoretically this top gas station chain, but we all know it's not really competitive with Bucky's.
[00:10:00]  And that raises the question Has Wawa secretly been receiving payments from the Southern Poverty Law Center to make it competitive with Bucky's so that we can pretend that there is a viable gas station?

=== Safe Trips Gone Wrong (13:54) ===

[00:10:16]  On the East Coast?
[00:10:17]  I think we need to ask these questions now.
[00:10:19]  Has the PLC been funneling money?
[00:10:21]  Hey, we have cheaper gas than you, Arizona guys, do.
[00:10:24]  It's true.
[00:10:24]  You know why?
[00:10:25]  Because we're in a gas desert in the West, because theoretically, California should be supplying better gas, but they don't.
[00:10:33]  So getting supplies to Arizona is a bit of a.
[00:10:36]  Also, who cares?
[00:10:37]  Arizona is just like we flow with wealth.
[00:10:39]  So we can just afford more gas.
[00:10:40]  Almost like God didn't intend for people to live in deserts.
[00:10:43]  God's right.
[00:10:44]  Although I will tell you, so fun fact, gosh, we're bouncing all over the place.
[00:10:47]  Sorry, audience.
[00:10:48]  But hey, check this out.
[00:10:49]  So, there are a series of canals throughout the valley in Phoenix.
[00:10:53]  Turns out these canals were first used like 1,500 years ago by the Native Americans.
[00:11:00]  They have been functional.
[00:11:02]  They charted out the exact, like, perfect route for the water to flow with gravity.
[00:11:08]  And so we still use the exact same route as they did originally.
[00:11:11]  What happened to those people?
[00:11:12]  They got wiped out by the settlers.
[00:11:14]  Oh, so they're all dead.
[00:11:15]  All right.
[00:11:15]  Well, that's an ominous sign.
[00:11:17]  But anyway, Phoenix actually has a water source coming from two directions, basically.
[00:11:23]  Down into the valley, and it flows throughout the valley.
[00:11:25]  People have been here for a long time.
[00:11:26]  As I will note, Phoenix is a fake desert.
[00:11:29]  It rains all the time here.
[00:11:32]  Blake is the one person in Phoenix who thinks the problem with Phoenix is that it rains too much.
[00:11:36]  It's too wet.
[00:11:36]  It rains too much.
[00:11:37]  And it's too cold.
[00:11:37]  It rains all the time.
[00:11:38]  It's too cold and it rains all the time here.
[00:11:40]  This is a fake desert.
[00:11:41]  And in fact, in real life, if you check the science, it is the wettest desert in the world.
[00:11:48]  What?
[00:11:48]  It is.
[00:11:49]  Let me ask you this.
[00:11:50]  This is the West Desert.
[00:11:51]  In order to be a desert, you have to get less than 10 inches of rain a year, right?
[00:11:55]  I don't know what the exact amount is, but whatever it is, we are right at that dividing line.
[00:11:59]  It does.
[00:11:59]  They could move it a little bit and we just be one of those semi arid plains or whatever.
[00:12:04]  Maybe climate change will save us.
[00:12:05]  Yeah.
[00:12:06]  All right.
[00:12:06]  So I'm keeping in mind.
[00:12:08]  But we have to get on the SPLC.
[00:12:09]  Wait, wait.
[00:12:10]  Before we do this, though, Andrew, when you were on the East Coast, when you were in beautiful Pennsylvania, you did not see a desert climate, did you?
[00:12:18]  No.
[00:12:19]  You saw what a real springtime looks like.
[00:12:21]  I saw Lyme disease.
[00:12:24]  I saw if I hike through this forest, I'm going to get Lyme disease.
[00:12:27]  Yeah, that's Connecticut.
[00:12:31]  My fiance can attest to that.
[00:12:32]  Yeah, that's what I saw, Jack.
[00:12:34]  I saw, man, how brave and just amazing were the founding generations that pioneered through those forests and made settlements and established America.
[00:12:47]  Philadelphia is where we originally noticed the phenomenon of everyone being zombified on.
[00:12:52]  On fentanyl, right?
[00:12:53]  I think the original fentanyl.
[00:12:54]  Oh, yeah, that's Philadelphia.
[00:12:56]  That's what I think.
[00:12:58]  So, that area is called Kensington and it's called the KNA Corner.
[00:13:03]  So, Kensington and Allegheny in Philly.
[00:13:05]  So, what's interesting is that, though, so it's, yeah, where all the fentanyl zombies are.
[00:13:09]  It's underneath the Market Frankfurt L right now.
[00:13:12]  And what's interesting is that that same area, Blake, I'm sure you would find this interesting, used to be run by a group called the KNA Gang.
[00:13:20]  And the KNA Gang was basically the Irish Mafia of Philadelphia.
[00:13:23]  And let me tell you something.
[00:13:24]  Something even up through the 80s, up through the 1990s, you could still go down to KA and you could take your family shopping there on a Sunday.
[00:13:32]  You could go out with your friends, you it was perfectly safe and perfectly fine when it was run by the Irish Mafia.
[00:13:39]  However, when they cleaned that up and decided to let the fentanyl zombies run in through, we now have a new name for that area and it is called Kensington Beach.
[00:13:48]  Do you guys know why it's called Kensington Beach?
[00:13:50]  So everybody's laying out on the sidewalk, it's called Kensington Beach because everyone's laying out on the sidewalk, strung out like you're on the beach.
[00:13:58]  And like they're sunning themselves down.
[00:13:59]  This is true though.
[00:14:00]  This is true.
[00:14:00]  Dying of fentanyl.
[00:14:01]  What you're talking about is a true phenomenon.
[00:14:03]  Because in Boston, I remember when I was in Boston, there's an area that was controlled by the Italian mafia.
[00:14:09]  Everybody kind of still knew it.
[00:14:10]  I don't know if it still is.
[00:14:12]  But it was the safest part of Boston, like the urban core of Boston.
[00:14:17]  It's the Methodome Mile.
[00:14:19]  Because the Italian mafia ran it.
[00:14:22]  Hey, do you guys know what the name for the neighborhood is where all the fentanyl zombies are in Phoenix?
[00:14:27]  Because if you do, you should tell me because I don't have an easy shorthand, druggy neighborhood in Phoenix.
[00:14:38]  I think in Boston it's called Mass and Cass, aka the Methadone Mile.
[00:14:43]  Hold on, we have some really good SPLC memes, and the team's like, we need to abandon that topic.
[00:14:49]  No, these SPLC memes have to be shown.
[00:14:52]  Blake.
[00:14:52]  Well, yeah, so I don't know what you're saying.
[00:14:54]  The SPLC has funded.
[00:14:56]  It turns out the big plot twist this week is the SPLC has been funding.
[00:15:00]  Various disreputable organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of America and the city of Philadelphia and Wawa and all of these things, various sinister entities.
[00:15:13]  But it turns out they finally got caught.
[00:15:15]  So they've got a pile of $800 million and it turns out they've been paying people on the far right better than the actual far right pays its own people.
[00:15:23]  And they finally got caught.
[00:15:25]  And we have a lot of great stuff.
[00:15:27]  Let's see.
[00:15:28]  What do you guys think is the funniest one?
[00:15:30]  He needed to rank these by like.
[00:15:31]  Funniness otherwise.
[00:15:33]  Well, so before we get into the means, just to make sure everyone, you know, because some people like this is the, for some people, this is actually their only source of news all week I've heard because people are straight up like, I only listen to Thought Crime.
[00:15:44]  I actually just, somebody told me the exact same thing this week, Jack.
[00:15:48]  Yeah, so fair enough.
[00:15:49]  Yeah, yeah, no, I'm serious.
[00:15:50]  Like, I have people tell me that.
[00:15:51]  So this has come up where the SPLC, which was basically like the, the, or like, they were like the racism clearinghouse.
[00:15:58]  Like, we determine whether or not people are racist or not.
[00:16:01]  Like, that's how they reported themselves.
[00:16:03]  And that, and they've been cited by, Everyone, literally everyone from CBS to CNN to the Department of Justice to the FBI, like all the way up and down courts have cited them.
[00:16:15]  PayPal would censor you and Venmo would debank you if you were listed by the SPLC.
[00:16:22]  Amazon would delist you.
[00:16:24]  Wikipedia on Charlie Kirk's page still cites the SPLC.
[00:16:29]  I checked that this week.
[00:16:30]  And so over and over and over, they are seen as this like reputable clearinghouse of quote unquote, we determine who the extremists are.
[00:16:37]  And they were indicted this week for fraud because it turns out that they were raising a ton of money in direct mail campaigns and scare tactics to raise money.
[00:16:46]  And they were actually funding extremist organizations to then go around and scare their donors and say, oh my gosh, look at all these extremist groups and look at all these events and look at all this racism that's on the rise.
[00:16:57]  But it turns out it was on the rise because they were paying for it in the first place.
[00:17:02]  And they got indicted and there's egg all over their face.
[00:17:05]  And it's really, really funny.
[00:17:06]  And Blake, to your point, the memes have been absolute fire.
[00:17:12]  The memes have been like probably the best part of my week, honestly.
[00:17:16]  Like, we probably just go through them all.
[00:17:19]  Number one, I think number one is just them announcing the indictment.
[00:17:23]  Oh, number two, there you go.
[00:17:25]  Oh man, you guys are reading out the SPLC, finding out the SPLC has been paying people to promote white supremacy.
[00:17:36]  You guys are getting paid, so true, so true.
[00:17:41]  Hey man, some of us do it for love of the game.
[00:17:43]  Yeah, I was gonna say.
[00:17:49]  Honestly, just like psychological.
[00:17:51]  It's like just some kind of Hitler.
[00:17:54]  What is this?
[00:17:55]  This is from some little kid is marching, is goose stepping and doing the Hitler salute after the SPLC says it's $75.
[00:18:04]  This is the great Clayton Bigsby bit from the Chappelle show years ago, the Black White Supremacist.
[00:18:09]  How the last SPLC meeting went.
[00:18:15]  This is good.
[00:18:16]  Yeah, he takes the hood off and he's like, I don't know.
[00:18:20]  We should have had that with the sound.
[00:18:22]  I don't know.
[00:18:22]  Some of the sound on that episode might not be great.
[00:18:25]  Oh, here's Sabrina Carpenter.
[00:18:27]  My woke aunt learning her SPLC donations were funding the KKK.
[00:18:34]  I don't like it.
[00:18:36]  Yeah, I was going to say, please.
[00:18:37]  I don't like it.
[00:18:37]  I don't like it.
[00:18:38]  It is funny.
[00:18:39]  Jokes aside, what does this say?
[00:18:41]  Heading into my new job at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
[00:18:44]  That's good.
[00:18:44]  I love it.
[00:18:46]  All right.
[00:18:48]  Wait.
[00:18:49]  Okay, here we go.
[00:18:50]  SPLC employee waking up this morning realizing they were funding the very thing they were fighting, quote unquote.
[00:18:57]  Are we the baddies now?
[00:18:58]  Are we the baddies?
[00:19:02]  Okay.
[00:19:02]  Oh dear, the Elmo one.
[00:19:04]  Well, what if Elmo is paid $270,000 by the SPLC to say it?
[00:19:10]  Can Elmo say it then?
[00:19:13]  Terrible.
[00:19:14]  And that is two black kids on a bench.
[00:19:17]  That's terrible.
[00:19:18]  Well, I suppose.
[00:19:19]  The thing is, you can make jokes, but that probably happened because we see in the indictment that someone who was involved in planning the Unite the Right rally was making, allegedly, far right posts under the oversight of the SPLC.
[00:19:31]  So the SPLC very well may have told someone, say it to blend in, kid.
[00:19:36]  Say it.
[00:19:38]  The number of N words in the world possibly went up because of the SPLC's money.
[00:19:42]  That's probably the most succinct, best put way I've heard it said.
[00:19:48]  There have been more N words uttered in the world because of the SPLC.
[00:19:52]  They're paying for it all.
[00:19:53]  They're funding it.
[00:19:53]  That's really funny.
[00:19:54]  They're funding N Words.
[00:19:56]  The $800 million N Word Fund.
[00:19:58]  Why did you say Obama?
[00:20:00]  With that being said, they're never going to, you know.
[00:20:05]  They're never going to care.
[00:20:06]  You have to understand how the liberal mind works.
[00:20:08]  They're never actually going to believe you or care.
[00:20:11]  They're just going to say the SPLC is on my side and you're not.
[00:20:14]  Well, don't we?
[00:20:14]  Hey, do we have their explanation for why they.
[00:20:18]  If we don't have that clip, they gave this terrible.
[00:20:21]  We were firebombed 40 years ago, so we needed to do this.
[00:20:26]  I was like, okay.
[00:20:28]  Okay, this one's funny because it's, you know, hi, mom, why are we so rich?
[00:20:32]  And your daddy was a.
[00:20:35]  Who did contract work for the SPLC?
[00:20:37]  I mean, they paid really well.
[00:20:38]  One of the guys got paid a million dollars by them.
[00:20:42]  Over a million dollars.
[00:20:46]  This was great.
[00:20:48]  From the movie Rocky, a little Philly action there, Blake.
[00:20:51]  There you go.
[00:20:52]  I don't see any wah wah.
[00:20:52]  I don't see any logging into Blue Sky to tell the lefties they've been funding the KKK.
[00:20:56]  And they're all running after him.
[00:20:59]  Well, what is funny is.
[00:21:00]  It's true.
[00:21:00]  Find them all lined up.
[00:21:01]  This will probably increase the SPLC's donations because the left is naturally going to be reactive in that way.
[00:21:06]  And they're going to say, screw you, I'm going to donate to the SPLC.
[00:21:08]  Because I love it.
[00:21:09]  And the funny thing about it, I don't even know if I hate it that much.
[00:21:12]  I would love to destroy the SPLC, but the constellation if we fail to do this and it becomes bigger than ever, the SPLC is kind of a money sink for the left.
[00:21:21]  Like it is a thing that gets a ton of money so that they can have a website up with an annoying hate map.
[00:21:27]  And they used to be more dangerous because they were teaching people at the FBI, they were embedded in a lot of things.
[00:21:32]  But now at this point, the right has learned the SPLC is a scam.
[00:21:36]  We're not listening to the crap they say.
[00:21:38]  They don't have the institutional power they used to do, but they still get tons of money.
[00:21:42]  And if you're going to give a left wing org $500 million, I'd be a lot more worried if that $500 million was going to the ACLU, if it was going to some lawfare org.
[00:21:52]  And instead, it's going to the SPLC so they can have their gold plated front door on their poverty palace in Montgomery.
[00:21:59]  Let's do the Seinfeld one with sound.
[00:22:02]  The caption says, Reviewing my speech written by the SPLC for the Hotties for Hitler rally after they paid me $50,000.
[00:22:10]  That's a great scene from.
[00:22:12]  Play it.
[00:22:14]  And the Jews steal our money through their Zionist occupied government and use the black man to bring drugs into our oppressed white minority communities.
[00:22:30]  SPLC is paying for it, folks.
[00:22:32]  Brought to you in part by the SPLC.
[00:22:35]  Base Seinfeld.
[00:22:37]  Do we have any more?
[00:22:38]  Dang, we have so many.
[00:22:40]  We have unlimited amounts.
[00:22:41]  We have so many of these.
[00:22:42]  We can move on to another.
[00:22:44]  And I've definitely been texting like everyone in my contacts list.
[00:22:47]  Wait, where?
[00:22:49]  I like the.
[00:22:49]  Hold on, the Star Wars one.
[00:22:50]  Which one's that?
[00:22:52]  Yeah.
[00:22:52]  Oh, that was already up.
[00:22:55]  SPLC, I'm working on hate crimes.
[00:22:57]  Like stopping them.
[00:22:59]  Right?
[00:23:00]  Stopping them, right?
[00:23:01]  Yeah, that was pretty funny.
[00:23:03]  Then there's the American History X one.
[00:23:06]  Which one?
[00:23:06]  That one?
[00:23:08]  Oh, man.
[00:23:08]  That one's bad.
[00:23:09]  Edward Norton?
[00:23:10]  That one's bad.
[00:23:11]  No, no, no.
[00:23:12]  You're thinking of the like the X rated one or the R rated one, if you will.
[00:23:16]  I was just thinking about the normal one where he goes from like normal.
[00:23:19]  That actor's name is Ed Norton.
[00:23:22]  Yeah, his face changes.
[00:23:23]  Yeah.
[00:23:24]  Yeah.
[00:23:24]  Okay, we don't have that one.
[00:23:25]  Oh, well.
[00:23:27]  Show the Kash Patel one, 21.
[00:23:29]  Kash Patel whipping off the KKK hood to reveal Obama all along.
[00:23:36]  Obama.
[00:23:39]  Play it again.
[00:23:40]  Nice.
[00:23:41]  Obama.
[00:23:43]  Why is there an N in that?
[00:23:44]  Obama?
[00:23:45]  What is the Colbert one?
[00:23:47]  18?
[00:23:50]  Oh, he did that.
[00:23:51]  He did it too.
[00:23:52]  Oh, man.
[00:23:53]  I can't believe Stephen Colbert did that.
[00:23:55]  Stephen Colbert did the Elon.
[00:23:56]  Oh, my goodness.
[00:23:57]  He went full Elon Musk there.
[00:23:58]  Stephen Colbert trying to do that.
[00:24:00]  I think we have to get credit where it's due, though, because I've said this a couple other places, I'll say here too that Fox News has been great on this.
[00:24:08]  Fox News has been all over this story.

=== Fox News Takes Aim (02:12) ===

[00:24:10]  They've covered it.
[00:24:13]  I know, Andrew, they had you on.
[00:24:14]  They've been covering it in daytime.
[00:24:16]  I mean, they've just been all over the story.
[00:24:18]  They really have.
[00:24:19]  Yeah, well, you know what's funny?
[00:24:20]  So I get booked to do the Fox thing with Jesse about it, and I look at the dates of when they put Turning Point and Charlie on the hate map, and it was late May of 2025.
[00:24:36]  So that's the fifth month of the year.
[00:24:38]  You go to September, it was less than four months.
[00:24:42]  Less than four months.
[00:24:44]  So he gets put on a hate map.
[00:24:45]  Four months later, he gets killed by an assassin who says some hate can't be negotiated out.
[00:24:51]  It was Memorial Day to Labor Day, basically.
[00:24:53]  Yeah.
[00:24:54]  So, I mean, if you kind of like, we like to laugh at the SPLC, but their influence is tremendous.
[00:25:02]  Not only are they, you know, successful in ginning up a lot of money, by the way, after Charlottesville, their donations almost tripled in one year.
[00:25:11]  So, talk about a great ROI on investment, return on investment.
[00:25:16]  They funded one of the leaders of that rally, right?
[00:25:18]  $270,000.
[00:25:20]  But they have the, we talked about the statue.
[00:25:22]  Heat map that they have.
[00:25:23]  A lot of people were tearing down the statues that the SBLC told them they should tear down.
[00:25:27]  And then you could even trace the presidency of Joe Biden.
[00:25:32]  The reason he ran is because he said Charlottesville, because he said that these white supremacists were taking over the country or something, which is bizarre, especially as the white population is dropping dramatically.
[00:25:43]  Which, by the way, one of the leaders of the SBLC had famously a poster on the back of his wall during an interview that tracked the.
[00:25:52]  Decrease of the white percentage of the population in America.
[00:25:55]  That one is so deranged that that's real.
[00:25:57]  Yeah, it's real.
[00:25:58]  So, anyways, you could laugh at them.
[00:26:01]  They are a former husk, a hollowed out husk of their former selves, but it's like they're not solid enough.
[00:26:06]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:26:07]  And they still got $800 million and they still inform the FBI.
[00:26:11]  They still work with the DOJ.
[00:26:12]  At least they did during Biden years.
[00:26:13]  You know, if this lawsuit succeeds, by the way, because they're claiming they fundraised using fraudulent means, it would allow the federal government to seize the money.

=== Spirit Airlines Chaos (09:47) ===

[00:26:23]  Ooh, good.
[00:26:23]  That'll help pay for some of the money.
[00:26:24]  It's a strategy they've gone for.
[00:26:26]  The left had tried to do the same thing to the NRA.
[00:26:28]  They were going to seize all of the NRA's money and basically give it to anti gun groups.
[00:26:33]  They failed to do so, but they came close.
[00:26:35]  Yeah, I mean, I just think the SBLC is a really despicable organization.
[00:26:39]  And it really does put a target on your back if you get put on their infamous heat map.
[00:26:44]  So I hope that to the extent, you know, more than the money, more than anything, it's kind of like I hope that whatever power that is is broken, is shattered, that they are discredited to the point that they can't.
[00:26:55]  Influence at least as many people.
[00:26:57]  I'm sure there's going to be some people that still believe it, but that's really the goal is that they lose the power to target and put conservatives on their hit list.
[00:27:07]  Destroy the SPLC.
[00:27:09]  100%.
[00:27:09]  Now, if we're going to destroy the SPLC, there's another institution that has a lot of infamy in American life that is in peril right now and also has a demographic relation.
[00:27:25]  And that, of course, is Spirit Airlines.
[00:27:30]  Spirit Airlines isn't paying you too much.
[00:27:32]  Do you need to use the bathroom?
[00:27:33]  I don't know.
[00:27:34]  I've never used it.
[00:27:34]  They charge you for toys?
[00:27:35]  I'll admit, I don't know that I've ever.
[00:27:38]  I've flown it once.
[00:27:38]  I'm not sure that I've ever crapped on an airplane.
[00:27:41]  I don't know.
[00:27:41]  It just seems like something they would do.
[00:27:43]  But Spirit Airlines is like the Ryanair of America, right?
[00:27:46]  Essentially.
[00:27:47]  I flew it once, but it was like if you bring a backpack.
[00:27:49]  No, no, no.
[00:27:50]  Ryanair is way better than Spirit.
[00:27:51]  Way, way better than Spirit.
[00:27:53]  Ryanair is more ruthless.
[00:27:54]  Ryanair is like.
[00:27:56]  They're also ruthless.
[00:27:58]  You can get a super stripped down thing and you can fly somewhere for like $30.
[00:28:02]  Yeah.
[00:28:03]  Spirit Air doesn't go that extreme.
[00:28:05]  Spirit Air was just a front.
[00:28:07]  It was just not as good of a model.
[00:28:09]  I remember when I lived in Europe in college for a semester at college.
[00:28:13]  You know, I flew Ryanair everywhere basically.
[00:28:15]  Yeah, right.
[00:28:15]  No, Ryanair was the only way I got around.
[00:28:16]  I flew Ryanair last fall, but no, Spirit is around.
[00:28:18]  I've flown Spirit multiple times, and truthfully, I've never really had a bad experience with it.
[00:28:22]  The main bad experience is if you use it to fly to DC, you fly into Baltimore.
[00:28:26]  But anyway, Spirit Airlines is, they're having a rough time right now.
[00:28:30]  As you guys may have heard, gas prices have risen around the world due to, you know, macroeconomic effects that can be unpredictable.
[00:28:37]  And that has placed budget airlines like Spirit in peril, but racing to the rescue is.
[00:28:43]  The Trump administration, which is offering $500 million to bail out Spirit Airlines, which it says something about our federal government that a $500 million bailout for a company barely makes you blink.
[00:28:55]  We probably spend $500 million to buy some screw that we use and like bail it out.
[00:28:59]  Why would you rush in to bail out something as horrendous and culturally problematic as Spirit Airlines?
[00:29:07]  Is Spirit Airlines culturally problematic?
[00:29:09]  Do you just have a problem with the color yellow?
[00:29:11]  Do you have a problem with the other color that's on that plane, Andrew?
[00:29:14]  I think it's.
[00:29:15]  Bad for air travel and the culture of air travel.
[00:29:19]  It's like the carnival cruise line of airlines.
[00:29:25]  You may have a point.
[00:29:27]  You probably go on there and they're playing.
[00:29:29]  I don't know.
[00:29:29]  So, this is.
[00:29:30]  Sorry, they either play country music, which you hate, or they're playing rap.
[00:29:33]  Luckily, there's noise canceling headphones that you can use to block out the passengers of Spirit Airlines have enough social grace to do.
[00:29:42]  Yeah, but I can use noise canceling headphones.
[00:29:44]  So, what I will say is Are you defending Spirit Airlines here?
[00:29:49]  I am showing for Spirit Airlines.
[00:29:50]  I will say this.
[00:29:51]  I will say this.
[00:29:52]  A funny thing that applies a lot to air travel.
[00:29:56]  Compared to other industries, it's like a lot of people seem genuinely angry that people who aren't rich are able to fly on planes.
[00:30:03]  Because if you check flight prices from the 1970s to the 1980s, it used to be a lot more expensive to fly, and far fewer people had ever done it.
[00:30:12]  I remember I only flew a handful of times before I was in high school.
[00:30:17]  It was pretty common to meet people who'd never flown on a plane in their entire lives.
[00:30:21]  It's a lot cheaper to fly now, it's a lot more accessible.
[00:30:24]  And one of the reasons is things like Spirit Airlines.
[00:30:26]  Now, Frontier is good.
[00:30:28]  Frontier is good?
[00:30:29]  I've flown Frontier.
[00:30:30]  I'll never ride a Frontier again for what they did to us.
[00:30:32]  I've flown Spirit.
[00:30:33]  So I just Googled what is the cheapest airline?
[00:30:36]  So Frontier and Spirit Airlines are generally the cheapest airlines for domestic users.
[00:30:40]  I have a problem with Frontier, not because of their service.
[00:30:43]  My main problem with Frontier is when I'm searching for a flight somewhere, it'll always be gummed up by suggesting, well, actually, the cheapest option is if you get on this Frontier plane, fly to Denver, and then wait 17 hours to take a follow up flight to another place.
[00:30:56]  And that's annoying.
[00:30:57]  You can usually go to the airport.
[00:30:58]  You can select it out, but I have to go and do that.
[00:31:01]  Yeah, which we're clicking.
[00:31:04]  We had a really bad experience in Frontier once where we were flying back from Orlando.
[00:31:10]  And I think it was like one of the seat backs was down there at one point.
[00:31:13]  And this was when our youngest was still a baby and they had oversold the flight or overbooked or whatever.
[00:31:20]  And we're standing there at the door, like when they say, like, line up if you have kids or whatever.
[00:31:25]  So we're standing there at the door with the baby and they say, oh, you can't get on.
[00:31:29]  We oversold.
[00:31:29]  I'm like, we have a baby, like, we have children.
[00:31:32]  And they just wouldn't let us on the flight.
[00:31:35]  We were there plenty of time and all the rest of it.
[00:31:36]  It was ice cold.
[00:31:37]  It was ice cold.
[00:31:39]  So I had to rent a car to drive home, basically.
[00:31:43]  I'll just drive all the way back up 95 from Florida because Frontier wouldn't let us on with a baby.
[00:31:50]  So I'm never going to forget that.
[00:31:51]  Yeah, no, I flew.
[00:31:53]  Last time I flew Frontier, one of the windows had tape around it.
[00:31:56]  And I was like, this feels.
[00:31:58]  Like a potential weak spot in the why is there a tape around this?
[00:32:02]  It held, everything was fine.
[00:32:04]  There was that, yeah.
[00:32:06]  As a man, I have that male experience of sometimes wanting to go and read historic plane disasters.
[00:32:10]  There was a flight from Hawaii once where they had a vulnerable window and they had an explosive decompression, and it literally did just it ejected like two rows of seats, and those people died, and then no one else died, and they successfully landed, but it just sucked a few seats out, and that was the end of them.
[00:32:27]  Could have been you, Andrew.
[00:32:28]  I was like.
[00:32:29]  But you missed out.
[00:32:29]  That would have probably been a peak experience, Andrew.
[00:32:32]  You have to admit.
[00:32:33]  You would have died, but it would have been really exciting before you died.
[00:32:35]  I would have lasted.
[00:32:36]  I would have enjoyed it for not enjoying it.
[00:32:38]  I would have been terrified.
[00:32:39]  I'm not a good flyer, as it is, by the way.
[00:32:41]  Yeah, my fiance is not a good flyer either.
[00:32:43]  I'm a bad flyer.
[00:32:45]  I get through it.
[00:32:46]  I get through it, but yeah, that's the thing.
[00:32:48]  So actually, that's why I took the red eye to Philly, because at least I slept through two thirds of the flight, which was pretty good for me.
[00:32:56]  I can't sleep on most flights, but red eyes, I'm just so tired that I'm like, okay.
[00:32:59]  Caboose has a hot take.
[00:32:59]  He says flying should be a luxury.
[00:33:01]  He The prole masses should not be allowed to fly in the sky.
[00:33:05]  Why do you got to be like Hassan Piker?
[00:33:07]  Yeah, they're being these elitists here.
[00:33:09]  I think people should have access to air travel.
[00:33:11]  I think the ability to travel to distant places at a cheap price is good.
[00:33:16]  It's exactly why America is getting overrun with flights.
[00:33:18]  And it's good that we have affordable options like Spirit Airlines, which you can choose to not fly on.
[00:33:25]  I also find it weird when people get angry.
[00:33:26]  They say, Spirit's bad, so it should go broke.
[00:33:30]  Just fly on Delta if you want a nicer plane.
[00:33:33]  We're missing the whole big point.
[00:33:34]  Part of the problem with your argument is that you think it's you think that the federal government should come in and bail out a failing airline.
[00:33:40]  Yeah, why is he going out of business?
[00:33:44]  Yeah, why is he going out of business?
[00:33:45]  Good question, Blake.
[00:33:47]  I would ideally not bail out any companies, but me too.
[00:33:50]  You know, we bailed out Silicon Valley Bank because we disagreed with yes, and we bailed out uh, you know, we're bailing out a lot of companies, yeah, and we're gonna bail out all of them, government motors, 500 million.
[00:34:02]  Remember, remember, we used to call uh, GM government motors after the bailout in 2000.
[00:34:07]  I mean, why would you bail out Spirit?
[00:34:09]  It's a terrible brand.
[00:34:11]  It's a terrible paint job.
[00:34:12]  It's bad service.
[00:34:13]  Let Frontier pick up the stuff.
[00:34:15]  Yeah, let another airline buy up the assets.
[00:34:17]  It'll be fine.
[00:34:18]  Like, that's, yeah.
[00:34:19]  Yeah.
[00:34:20]  But what if, hold on, hold on.
[00:34:23]  If we're going to nationalize Spirit, what if we could say, I don't know, put Stephen Miller in charge of it and turn it into a deportation plane?
[00:34:32]  What if the federal government bought up all the planes for the $500 million, pennies on the dollar, and used them as deportation planes?
[00:34:39]  That's a cool idea.
[00:34:40]  This is great.
[00:34:41]  Or if they bailed them out, if they bailed them out, and part of the deal was they had to supply flights for that.
[00:34:46]  That was a good idea.
[00:34:48]  Or what if we spent the $500 million and used it as a bribe?
[00:34:51]  To have Ryanair expand into America.
[00:34:54]  Ooh.
[00:34:55]  Yeah, why don't we have Ryanair?
[00:34:56]  I guess there's like regulations and stuff.
[00:34:58]  Maybe regulations.
[00:34:59]  I think also probably average flight distance in the US is longer.
[00:35:02]  In Europe, they can have all those profitable things where you hop from London to Paris for like 25 minutes.
[00:35:07]  Yeah, I feel like the whole game with Ryanair when you're in Europe is you just like, you get on, you Google, like, because they tell you you could get a cheap deal.
[00:35:14]  They actually, you don't have to go hunting for it.
[00:35:17]  They show you what you can get a hot deal on.
[00:35:19]  You're like, I wasn't planning on going to Frankfurt today.
[00:35:21]  But why?
[00:35:23]  Yeah, when I was flying to Frankfurt, my cousin joined the convent.
[00:35:25]  It's like an hour and a half outside of Frankfurt.
[00:35:26]  When my cousin joined the convent, we flew from Naples to Palermo, and it was.
[00:35:31]  Just because, right?
[00:35:31]  It was, well, it was part of the trip, but we'll get it, but it was $25.
[00:35:35]  Yeah, so I agree.
[00:35:38]  I think that's really fun.
[00:35:39]  That's a fun part about Europe that we can't really match, but it's probably to your point.
[00:35:44]  Like the distance between worthwhile airports is pretty far.
[00:35:48]  The one thing with Ryanair, though, in Europe is that you have to really look at the airport you're flying into and then Google the travel.
[00:35:53]  Because, like, it'll tell you you can go to London, but it's like.
[00:35:56]  What is it?
[00:35:56]  Gatwick.
[00:35:57]  There's one other one.
[00:35:58]  There's London.
[00:36:00]  Oh, yeah.
[00:36:00]  There's Gatwick and Luton.
[00:36:02]  Is it Luton?
[00:36:03]  I thought it was like London Hanstead or so.
[00:36:06]  So I'll have to look up the other one.
[00:36:08]  Heathrow is the main one.
[00:36:09]  Heathrow is the main one, but they don't fly into Heathrow.

=== European Travel Costs (13:26) ===

[00:36:10]  That's my point.
[00:36:11]  I know what he's saying.
[00:36:12]  There's like these, like Rhino uses like the other ones.
[00:36:14]  Gatwick.
[00:36:15]  London, Gatwick.
[00:36:16]  London, Gatwick.
[00:36:16]  So it'll, oh, and Stanstead.
[00:36:18]  Yeah.
[00:36:18]  London, Stanstead, Luton.
[00:36:19]  Yeah, you're right.
[00:36:20]  So the Stanstead and Gatwick are like really far out.
[00:36:24]  So you're flying to London.
[00:36:26]  Well, Heathrow is kind of far out too.
[00:36:27]  Because I was studying in Spain.
[00:36:28]  And so I would go on to like the Seville airport.
[00:36:31]  I would try, you know, take a train up there.
[00:36:33]  And then it would be like, where can I go?
[00:36:35]  And it would oftentimes London would be one of the options because it's a major area.
[00:36:38]  But then you go to Gatwick or Stansted and you're like three hours outside of London.
[00:36:43]  Somehow that's how they get away with it.
[00:36:46]  So speaking of London, we could go to the next topic if we want.
[00:36:49]  All right, let's do that.
[00:36:51]  Or we could dwell on the spirit question.
[00:36:53]  Are we going to banning flags?
[00:36:55]  Oh, it's not flags.
[00:36:57]  Yeah, we're talking about something else.
[00:36:58]  So, the British government, in its great wisdom, is banning fags for those born after the year 2008.
[00:37:07]  Cigarettes, everybody.
[00:37:08]  Yes, yes, indeed, yes.
[00:37:09]  We should explain that.
[00:37:11]  So, in British slang, that word does refer to cigarettes.
[00:37:14]  Bundles of sticks?
[00:37:15]  The British government kind of came out of nowhere, I think.
[00:37:19]  And in Britain, what they are doing is they are banning smoking.
[00:37:23]  But they're not just banning it for everyone in true boomer fashion.
[00:37:27]  Sorry to all you boomers out there, but this is definitely a boomer move if I ever saw one.
[00:37:31]  They are allowing older people to continue smoking, but anyone born 2009 or onwards, they'll have a steadily escalating ban.
[00:37:39]  Basically, if you're becoming an adult right now, you can never ever buy a cigarette.
[00:37:46]  And they're going to raise the minimum age for buying them by one year every year.
[00:37:50]  I never thought about this.
[00:37:51]  So, like, at some point, you know, if you're like a 60 year old, you'd be like, give me a pack of smokes, and they'll be like, Nope.
[00:37:58]  It's 61 and over only.
[00:38:00]  Yeah.
[00:38:01]  Do you think they'll, they'll still be like some random places to sell.
[00:38:04]  But this doesn't, this doesn't account for like shoulder tapping, right?
[00:38:07]  At least in the short term, right?
[00:38:08]  Like, hey, you're a year older than me.
[00:38:11]  You were born in 2008, so you go ahead and give me the pass.
[00:38:14]  This is Britain.
[00:38:15]  So Britain's really authoritarian.
[00:38:17]  So they're the kind of country that would, in this future you envision, probably do things like I'm really distracted because they're showing Yu Gi Oh.
[00:38:25]  I'm really distracted.
[00:38:27]  We have a TV set up here and it's showing an episode of Yu Gi Oh for some reason.
[00:38:30]  Sorry.
[00:38:31]  Total loss of train of thought.
[00:38:32]  Britain is an authoritarian enough country that what Britain would do is they will have a network of cameras everywhere, which they already have, just total panopticon, and they will use AI to detect you if you are engaging in that behavior of having someone buy the cigarettes for you,
[00:38:49]  give them to you, and then they will send in their hijab wearing Gestapo police to kick in your door and say that you didn't have a license for those cigarettes and they're going to pay, they're going to fine you 50 pounds, which, because Britain is an impoverished country, poorer than Mississippi.
[00:39:03]  Would be like 70% of the world.
[00:39:04]  That's the real news the fact that the UK, if it was our 51st state, would be the poorest state in the Union.
[00:39:09]  By a mile, too.
[00:39:10]  Like, not even close.
[00:39:11]  That's wild.
[00:39:12]  It's incredible.
[00:39:13]  And they're like, we treat them like a proper country.
[00:39:15]  They polled the British and they thought, the British people thought they would be the seventh richest state.
[00:39:19]  They're completely full of it.
[00:39:20]  They're Dolulu.
[00:39:21]  Dolulu.
[00:39:22]  But is that with GDP per capita or is that with purchasing power?
[00:39:28]  I can't imagine purchasing power in the UK is any better where you can pay $4,000 for a, like, what, 500 square foot flat?
[00:39:35]  Let's see what, let's see.
[00:39:38]  I'm just saying.
[00:39:38]  Let's compare apples to apples.
[00:39:42]  Britain would be the poorest state in the U.S. Mississippi governor responds with a vicious one liner.
[00:39:47]  I have to imagine purchasing power parity just makes things worse for Britain.
[00:39:50]  You go to Britain and it's like eight pounds for a sandwich, which would be $13 here, basically.
[00:39:57]  Oh, yeah, for sure we'd be in the top 10, maybe top five on a good date.
[00:40:00]  Nah, 51st.
[00:40:02]  Compare Mississippi to Britain.
[00:40:04]  In Mississippi, I bet you could buy a 4,000 square foot house for.
[00:40:09]  450K.
[00:40:10]  This is funny.
[00:40:11]  So, Governor Tate Reeves, the one liner, I want to put this up on the screen for people.
[00:40:19]  Yeah, you're right.
[00:40:19]  It's actually still over with purchasing power.
[00:40:21]  He goes, As we say in Mississippi.
[00:40:25]  Yeah.
[00:40:27]  So, the governor's reply to this guy goes, If the UK joined the U.S. as the 51st state, we'd be the poorest state in the entire union.
[00:40:33]  Mississippi, which is portrayed as swamp dwelling hillbillies in majority of international media, is above us.
[00:40:38]  I don't think people grasp how far we've fallen in real terms.
[00:40:40]  So, Tate Reeves goes, As we say in Mississippi, bless your heart.
[00:40:45]  Or as you say in the UK, assalamu alaikum.
[00:40:48]  Yep.
[00:40:49]  Yeah, but you know what, though?
[00:40:51]  I'm going to push back a little bit on that because GDP in general isn't a good measure of median household income.
[00:41:02]  It's like a measure of a bucket of all companies and all things in your economy.
[00:41:07]  So just because the GDP is doing well, it's like the stock market is going up.
[00:41:12]  So that means that everybody's got money in their pocket, but it's not true because you're averaging in.
[00:41:17]  Corporate earnings along with individual families and individual family earnings.
[00:41:21]  That's why GDP just in general isn't the best measure for something like this.
[00:41:26]  I'd want to look at median household income, a couple other different things before we actually crap on them.
[00:41:33]  Well, it is what it is.
[00:41:35]  And I do think that it's one measure.
[00:41:38]  I agree.
[00:41:40]  For example, I lived in Spain in college.
[00:41:42]  I already brought this up for a semester, a little bit longer.
[00:41:44]  It was like, I think, seven, eight months.
[00:41:47]  And I think it was 19%.
[00:41:49]  They called it estat en paro.
[00:41:51]  Which just meant unemployed, like living off the dole.
[00:41:54]  And I would say the quality of life, even for the people that were not working in the south of Spain, it was like a hugely high unemployment rate.
[00:42:02]  But the quality of life was still pretty high.
[00:42:06]  They complained about it, they were upset about it, but they all got by and they just sat at their bars and drank and smoked cigarettes and walked around, hung out in the plazas.
[00:42:15]  It's a life.
[00:42:17]  It's not like they were.
[00:42:19]  It's a decaying life.
[00:42:20]  It's a decaying life.
[00:42:20]  Especially the money runs.
[00:42:23]  The boomer supremacy in Europe is actually way more extreme than in the US.
[00:42:27]  Well, now they're going to be able to support it.
[00:42:29]  Okay, hold on.
[00:42:29]  Without alienating some of our audience, explain what you mean by boomer supremacy.
[00:42:33]  As in, so everything revolving around the priorities of pensioners to the exclusion of pensioners, what they would call retirees, much more extreme.
[00:42:41]  Like in France, the average, it's gotten so bad where the average retiree's pension from the government is actually above the average income of working people.
[00:42:50]  No, pay.
[00:42:52]  Which is not how it is.
[00:42:53]  In the US, wealthy people have good net worths, but.
[00:42:55]  Your Social Security payment is not above the median income of the United States.
[00:42:59]  That actually is the case in France.
[00:43:00]  Is this why Europe is allowing what's happening in 1948?
[00:43:06]  Number 48.
[00:43:07]  Play it.
[00:43:09]  Oh, they must be still loading it.
[00:43:11]  Let me know when you have it.
[00:43:13]  This is important.
[00:43:16]  Oh, not loaded.
[00:43:18]  I saw it in the chat.
[00:43:18]  Usually, when they say it, it's loaded.
[00:43:21]  So, there's been a big thing online because, okay, so you just said that in France, the average pensioner is making more than the average medium income in France.
[00:43:33]  And part of that is birth rate.
[00:43:34]  So, maybe this is why they are allowing what's happening in 48.
[00:43:38]  To transpire.
[00:43:39]  Because they're backfilling the.
[00:43:42]  Oh, it broke.
[00:43:44]  Oh, well.
[00:43:44]  But anyway.
[00:43:46]  But what's funny is that is the justification.
[00:43:49]  The justification for it is, oh, we need all these people to pay our pensions, which are out of control.
[00:43:53]  But it doesn't work because actually a lot of these people just don't work and they are themselves just making the system worse and worse.
[00:44:00]  But Britain has a very funny one.
[00:44:02]  In Britain, they have a thing called the triple lock.
[00:44:04]  And it is politically impossible to ever change the triple lock.
[00:44:08]  Have you ever heard of this?
[00:44:09]  Yeah, I have.
[00:44:09]  Yeah.
[00:44:10]  I don't remember exactly how it works.
[00:44:11]  So the triple lock is by law in Britain, they have to raise the amount of pension that's paid out to a person each year.
[00:44:17]  And it has to go by either the rate of inflation as they calculate it, some sort of, I believe, the average wage in the country is basically one of three things.
[00:44:30]  Actually, I should just check what it is.
[00:44:31]  The triple lock.
[00:44:34]  It is one of the measures, it's either inflation, average earnings, based on the average earnings in the country, or 2.5%, whichever is.
[00:44:42]  Basically, produces the highest increase.
[00:44:45]  And so, even if there's no inflation, even if there's no increase in cost of living, even if they're in a recession, basically, you still get a 2.5% increase.
[00:44:54]  But if it's above 2.5% in terms of inflation, it'll go up to that one.
[00:44:58]  This guarantees, it is a mathematical certainty, it is a mathematical law of the universe.
[00:45:02]  This will eventually cause them to go broke.
[00:45:04]  So, can't get rid of it.
[00:45:05]  Yeah.
[00:45:05]  So, you know what's interesting?
[00:45:06]  And that's crazy that I didn't know that they'd worked.
[00:45:09]  I mean, especially with their zero growth that they have over there.
[00:45:11]  But I remember.
[00:45:13]  I don't know why this keeps coming up today, but I remember I was traveling when I was living in Spain.
[00:45:17]  We were in Portugal and we went to get some food and we're sitting at this cafe and this homeless Brit, he was homeless, but he had been living in Portugal because it was warmer, I guess.
[00:45:28]  He was homeless.
[00:45:29]  His clothes were all tattered and he was sitting there and he was having a beer at like, I don't know, 10 a.m.
[00:45:35]  And we somehow get into this conversation with this guy, and he was over the moon because he said, Tomorrow is the day that I qualify for my British pension, and I won't have to live this way anymore.
[00:45:47]  And I was like, So, how long has it been since you lived in England?
[00:45:50]  He's like, Oh, about 18 years.
[00:45:51]  So, the guy hadn't been paying into the system for 18 years, but he was going to get locked into his British pension, even though he's living in Portugal as a homeless guy.
[00:45:57]  If you look at the rhetoric in Britain and similar countries, it's genuinely depressing.
[00:46:02]  Like, the national ideology of Britain, like their defining reason to exist as a country, If you even listen to their actual government ministers, it is basically we don't have America's health care system.
[00:46:13]  I'm not even making this up.
[00:46:14]  Gordon Brown, their prime minister, once suggested we should have a national day like other countries do because they don't have an independence day or anything.
[00:46:21]  What should we use?
[00:46:22]  And his idea was, how about the day where we set up the NHS?
[00:46:26]  Our defining existence of the country is we have a public health care system.
[00:46:30]  And then, yeah, their pension system, everything revolves around this.
[00:46:33]  It's very, it truly is, it's anti achievement, it's anti greatness.
[00:46:38]  It's very much a, I want to.
[00:46:40]  Maximize the amount I can sponge off of the government.
[00:46:44]  You sound like you're just like very pro social murder by capitalists.
[00:46:48]  Perhaps.
[00:46:48]  Pigs.
[00:46:49]  I mean, when Britain was doing a lot of social murder, they were achieving a lot of other things.
[00:46:53]  Social murder.
[00:46:54]  Social murder.
[00:46:55]  Speaking of social murder, let's talk about that real quick.
[00:46:57]  Maybe, but how do we actually feel?
[00:47:00]  No, definitely, actually.
[00:47:01]  Because Andrew just brought it up.
[00:47:03]  I did.
[00:47:03]  It's crazy.
[00:47:04]  No, I totally.
[00:47:05]  It's Frederick Engels from the 1800s, and Hassan Piker's sitting there.
[00:47:10]  He just read a book for the first time or something, and he starts.
[00:47:13]  You know, waxing poetic with the New York Times, who just nods along like, oh, social murder.
[00:47:17]  Yeah, Luigi Maggioni.
[00:47:19]  Cool.
[00:47:19]  Really sick stuff.
[00:47:21]  But go ahead.
[00:47:22]  Go ahead.
[00:47:23]  We riffed on it this morning.
[00:47:25]  So it's your turn, Jack.
[00:47:27]  No, I mean, it just goes to show you, right?
[00:47:29]  That these guys, the same way you saw how these guys reacted when Charlie was shot, it's the same way that they're up there talking about how, oh, well, you know, actually this guy deserved it.
[00:47:42]  And I can understand why, because he committed social murder.
[00:47:45]  We're talking about social.
[00:47:46]  So, Assam Piker was up there justifying the murder of the United Health CEO, Brian Thompson, because he was saying that the refusal to fund the health care or health needs of the people of the service claims, et cetera, amounted to something called social murder.
[00:48:08]  And because he had committed social murder, again, without any trial or evidence or anything, it was okay then and justified for Luigi Magione.
[00:48:18]  To shoot him in the street.
[00:48:20]  And we already know, by the way, and Blake, you might be more up on this than me, but I believe a number of the charges have been dropped from Luigi Magione, right?
[00:48:30]  I haven't followed it.
[00:48:31]  Well, they can't get the death penalty on him anymore.
[00:48:34]  Yeah, I don't think they dropped charges already.
[00:48:35]  Yeah, it just can't be death penalty, federal or state.
[00:48:39]  Right, which is, I mean, it's crazy.
[00:48:41]  They're already losing multiple levels of charges on this guy because he, again, did this in a blue district and the blue judges are just totally okay with it.
[00:48:52]  And they've got a ton of supporters running around.
[00:48:55]  And remember, they were selling the Luigi merchandise.
[00:48:58]  There was a Luigi musical, which I believe debuted in San Francisco and is now coming to New York City.
[00:49:03]  Taylor Renz talked about how he was dreamy and she was in his fan club and all the rest of this.
[00:49:09]  And so it just remains to be seen.
[00:49:11]  These Bolsheviks will kill us all.
[00:49:14]  They are very happy about it.
[00:49:15]  That's why I've talked about, oh, the infighting.
[00:49:18]  Oh, everyone wants to play this infighting game.
[00:49:20]  And it's like, no, these guys literally want to kill us.
[00:49:25]  They already murdered the guy who used to co host this show.
[00:49:28]  And they will go to the New York Times and talk about social murder and how it was a good thing.
[00:49:33]  And they'll keep going.
[00:49:34]  They will keep going and they will not stop going until they've been stopped.

=== Tattoos Beyond Tradition (15:12) ===

[00:49:37]  Yeah.
[00:49:38]  And it comes from Engels, who was the collaborator for Karl Marx.
[00:49:41]  So that's just Hassan Piker saying, Yeah, I'm a communist.
[00:49:44]  And by the way, the communists killed, you know, over 100 million people in the 20th century doing stuff like this.
[00:49:49]  So if we needed anything else to show that he was a communist.
[00:49:54]  Totally.
[00:49:56]  They will rationalize any type of like violence if they think it's, you know, if they've got a moral framework upon which, you know, however shaky or feeble or dumb, they will.
[00:50:07]  They will commit murder based upon that moral framework.
[00:50:10]  That's why we need Jesus.
[00:50:11]  Dear Lord.
[00:50:12]  All right, tattoos.
[00:50:14]  Oh, boy.
[00:50:14]  All right.
[00:50:15]  Because I looked at Russ.
[00:50:16]  All of a sudden, Russ got into the talk, and I was like, okay, we got to get him.
[00:50:18]  He's getting the shakes because he's got.
[00:50:19]  We have to get.
[00:50:20]  So we did promise.
[00:50:21]  I'm getting these.
[00:50:22]  Russ, put your arms up.
[00:50:23]  Oh, my God.
[00:50:25]  There's a secondary.
[00:50:26]  So this all blew up because there's a background news story.
[00:50:28]  Pete Davidson, who I'm told is a famous person.
[00:50:31]  He's younger than me.
[00:50:33]  He is a comedian who dates hot women.
[00:50:36]  Is he funny?
[00:50:37]  Like, is he.
[00:50:38]  He's a comedian.
[00:50:38]  He's an SNL.
[00:50:39]  A lot of comedians, though.
[00:50:41]  No, so here's the thing I remember having the same exact conversation with my wife and a bunch of her friends, and they do not think he's attractive, to be fair, but their whole thing was he's got a thing, he's got something.
[00:50:55]  That's fair.
[00:50:56]  I guess.
[00:50:57]  That's the thing.
[00:50:58]  Anyway, Pete Davidson is a comedian, just like Dave Smith, I guess.
[00:51:03]  And then, anyway, he's a comedian and he had a gazillion tattoos, over 200, I believe.
[00:51:09]  But recently, he has been getting them all lasered off to the extent it's possible.
[00:51:14]  It's pretty tough to fully remove stuff to the extent he has.
[00:51:17]  He's not 100% anti tattoo, he actually has a tattoo along his ear that's his daughter's name.
[00:51:24]  He also still has chest tattoos that are for his dad.
[00:51:26]  Yeah, but he's pretty radically cut them back.
[00:51:30]  It looks like he maybe got rid of his notorious RBG tattoo that he seems to have, I'm seeing in this picture.
[00:51:35]  I guess he got a Ruth Bader Ginsburg tattoo.
[00:51:38]  They're all disappearing.
[00:51:39]  And so this prompted a bigger debate, which is are the tattoos bad or not?
[00:51:45]  Should people be getting them?
[00:51:47]  All right, but there's so many good tattoos.
[00:51:49]  Russ before tattoos, 36.
[00:51:53]  No.
[00:51:53]  I don't know why I put myself in this.
[00:51:55]  Russ is our tattoo acolyte.
[00:51:56]  Russ is a wacky.
[00:51:57]  Are they total tattoos bad?
[00:51:58]  I have 20.
[00:51:59]  You have 20.
[00:52:01]  Who is that for?
[00:52:02]  That's me.
[00:52:03]  Wait, hold on.
[00:52:04]  Go to that other one.
[00:52:06]  That's you?
[00:52:07]  Yes.
[00:52:07]  So that's 2017 me.
[00:52:10]  What?
[00:52:11]  Yeah.
[00:52:11]  Wow.
[00:52:12]  So I am 20.
[00:52:12]  Where are you?
[00:52:13]  Hollister's shit.
[00:52:14]  21, 22.
[00:52:14]  I love that.
[00:52:15]  Dude, okay.
[00:52:16]  So hilariously enough about this.
[00:52:18]  This was my beanie stage where I used to have it on the back of my head to keep my hair up.
[00:52:24]  And that was also when I put it before I dropped it.
[00:52:26]  Can you guys see Russ now and that picture?
[00:52:29]  Can we do it side by side and do that?
[00:52:31]  Holy cow, Russ.
[00:52:33]  Because I've never seen your chin.
[00:52:34]  I mean, before that.
[00:52:35]  Yeah.
[00:52:36]  Neither have I. Can we just enlarge it?
[00:52:39]  Yeah, side to side.
[00:52:40]  The podcast is going to really miss out on this.
[00:52:42]  We recommend.
[00:52:43]  Yeah, I'm sorry, podcast.
[00:52:44]  This is like, you just got to watch it.
[00:52:46]  Oh, gosh.
[00:52:48]  Don't look at me.
[00:52:50]  Yeah, I don't know why.
[00:52:51]  I think we've messed up the studio.
[00:52:56]  Russ is.
[00:52:57]  Yeah, so this was all before.
[00:52:58]  So, hilariously enough, when I got into college, I started trying to grow facial hair.
[00:53:04]  The only thing I could grow was a goatee.
[00:53:06]  So, for a long way, yeah.
[00:53:08]  So, for like four years, all I had was a gun.
[00:53:11]  You gotta teach Blake how to do that.
[00:53:12]  And then, and then that's when I started growing out the hair, I started growing out the beard.
[00:53:17]  I mean, you're a good looking kid.
[00:53:18]  And then I started adding tattoos.
[00:53:21]  Actually, the first tattoo I got was right after I graduated high school.
[00:53:25]  Okay.
[00:53:25]  What was that?
[00:53:26]  There it is.
[00:53:27]  There it is.
[00:53:28]  Look straight ahead.
[00:53:29]  Russ, make that face.
[00:53:32]  Oh, yeah, that's my normal smile.
[00:53:34]  What was the first tattoo?
[00:53:36]  It was on my wrist.
[00:53:37]  I've covered it up since then, but it said relax.
[00:53:41]  Oh.
[00:53:41]  So you're anti relaxing now?
[00:53:43]  No, it was mainly because my parents used it against me.
[00:53:46]  Ooh.
[00:53:47]  You only have 20?
[00:53:49]  I only have 20.
[00:53:49]  I feel like we're getting a message here, which is you got a tattoo that you later came to regret.
[00:53:56]  You got like multiple letters.
[00:53:58]  Yeah, so I consider those as ones.
[00:54:00]  So I consider them as like, so I have lived free, died well.
[00:54:08]  I count live free and I count the words as one tattoo.
[00:54:13]  All right.
[00:54:14]  And then don't go gentle.
[00:54:17]  And then I got more hands.
[00:54:18]  I just finished this hand finally.
[00:54:20]  So the hands got to hurt though because the bones are tight, close to the.
[00:54:24]  Honestly, the thing that hurt the most was getting closer to the palm.
[00:54:27]  Oh, interesting.
[00:54:29]  That's what hurt though.
[00:54:29]  There's one of our staff that had a tattoo on the ribcage.
[00:54:32]  Ribcage is close to high.
[00:54:34]  I asked that a lot now.
[00:54:36]  I said, I said, did you regret that one?
[00:54:38]  And the answer was yes because the ribcage it hurt.
[00:54:40]  Yeah.
[00:54:41]  So was that a girl?
[00:54:42]  I would rather just.
[00:54:44]  Yeah, I mean, so yes.
[00:54:47]  We don't need to go decent to the point.
[00:54:48]  So, first of all, the number of people with tattoos has gone up.
[00:54:52]  We're getting very close to the point where a majority of people under 40 are going to have a tattoo.
[00:54:57]  The majority of women under 40 already have one.
[00:55:02]  In fact, it's like 56% for women under 30 have at least one tattoo.
[00:55:05]  So you are now actually the rebel if you don't have one.
[00:55:09]  But hold on.
[00:55:10]  This is kind of like.
[00:55:12]  Is the Greerhead Pledge.
[00:55:13]  No, but I'm and by the way, I have zero tattoos, but I will tell you that some girls have I guess you would say more tasteful, right?
[00:55:21]  What, what, and apologies to anybody in the audience that has this, but like where I get kind of like it's the tattoos like on the back of the calf, like a huge one on the back of a calf or on the thigh.
[00:55:32]  I think this is eliding the point.
[00:55:33]  What Andrew's getting at is that girls don't know how to get tattoos, and girls always have like bad tattoos.
[00:55:41]  It looks like when you have like a toddler with a little stamp toy and it's just like bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep.
[00:55:48]  There's a style.
[00:55:49]  That's kind of called a style.
[00:55:51]  Like subtle, thoughtful.
[00:55:52]  I know the girls at Tanzania just look like that with a toddler with the baby stamp and just like stamping all over in random places that don't look aesthetic and it looks terrible.
[00:56:01]  Yeah, it's definitely placement is a key thing.
[00:56:05]  You know what's interesting is that the tramp stamp became a thing, but there must have been a time before the tramp stamp became like a cliche cultural thing where dudes were getting them in the small of their backs too.
[00:56:19]  There's some dudes walking around with tramp stamps.
[00:56:21]  There's got to be.
[00:56:22]  Because Andrew O'Donnell's just passed before he goes out.
[00:56:24]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:56:25]  I mean, I'm just.
[00:56:27]  My point of view, so let's remind people what the Greerhead Pledge was, because we debated this back when.
[00:56:32]  We debated this with Charlie almost three years ago now.
[00:56:35]  The Greerhead Pledge is from a guy, Scott Greer.
[00:56:37]  He's a blogger on Substack, writer.
[00:56:39]  He's in some other magazines.
[00:56:40]  I think he gets.
[00:56:41]  He's in the American Conservatives sometimes.
[00:56:43]  But he calls it the Greerhead Pledge, because his fans are called Greerheads.
[00:56:46]  And it's four things to sort of fight against the.
[00:56:50]  Cultural and aesthetic decay of America in modern times.
[00:56:54]  The third worlding of America.
[00:56:55]  The third worlding of America.
[00:56:56]  And the four planks of it are you take it as a pledge.
[00:56:59]  So I will not smoke weed.
[00:57:01]  I will not watch a Marvel movie.
[00:57:03]  I will not listen to rap music.
[00:57:05]  And then this is the newest point because it used to be I will not watch the NFL, I believe, but that was a little too extreme.
[00:57:12]  And he said that the NFL did have good aspects.
[00:57:14]  Like there's bad stuff in the NFL, but it's not a huge corrupting influence.
[00:57:19]  So he replaced it with I will not get a tattoo.
[00:57:22]  And.
[00:57:24]  He has a pretty good argument for it, which is basically that tattoos are spreading beyond the traditional groups and beyond the acceptable parts of the body.
[00:57:34]  Once upon a time, only bikers and ex cons had tattoos.
[00:57:38]  Now you see them on baristas and on sales managers.
[00:57:41]  It used to be only men got tattoos.
[00:57:43]  Now a majority of women under 40 have tats.
[00:57:45]  People used to cover up their tattoos when they were out in public, and only prison gang members would show off full body tats all over the place.
[00:57:53]  Now you see face, neck tattoos all over the place out in the street.
[00:57:57]  And tattoos, this is Scott's writing this.
[00:57:59]  Tattoos have turned into an epidemic of ugliness.
[00:58:03]  Publicly visible tattoos symbolize the vulgarization that is eating away at our civilization, and they tarnish the appearance of a person bearing one.
[00:58:13]  And that is why the pledge is I will not get a tattoo.
[00:58:17]  Russ, your response.
[00:58:20]  I guess I'm responsible for the degradation of society.
[00:58:23]  The vulgarization he says Imagine a world without weed, without rap, without Marvel movies, and without tattoos.
[00:58:30]  It's the world we want, and taking a step towards that world begins with the individual.
[00:58:35]  It's true.
[00:58:36]  I do actually believe in that last sentence.
[00:58:38]  But then I know people like Russ, and I'm like, well, it's all right that he has them.
[00:58:42]  I mean, that's how I feel.
[00:58:43]  Because I have a personal.
[00:58:45]  I'm not anti Russ, but I think Russ, I think you would be better without tattoos.
[00:58:49]  I'm just going to be frank.
[00:58:50]  So, actually, one of the reasons that I've wanted tattoos since I saw tattoos, since I don't even remember the first movie that I watched that had somebody with a tattoo.
[00:59:01]  But I remember being young and wanting tattoos.
[00:59:05]  And it was funny.
[00:59:07]  And when I finally did get the eagle and then this heart, it was one of those.
[00:59:16]  That's like a human heart pumping blood.
[00:59:20]  It has so many swords going.
[00:59:22]  I got Aragorn.
[00:59:23]  I got Narsil.
[00:59:23]  Q.
[00:59:27]  They don't know Lord of the Rings.
[00:59:28]  So I got.
[00:59:28]  Yeah, there it is.
[00:59:32]  So I got Narsil through the sword, and there's a lock.
[00:59:36]  There's a keyhole.
[00:59:39]  And it actually just kind of describes a lot of my personal journey.
[00:59:43]  A lot of.
[00:59:44]  Most of my tattoos, especially on this arm, are kind of my.
[00:59:52]  Value set almost or something.
[00:59:54]  It's.
[00:59:55]  It's my story.
[00:59:56]  It's kind of where my journey has led.
[00:59:59]  And it's also, I mean, this clock is Matthew talks about the sparrows when Jesus is like, look at the sparrows.
[01:00:11]  I take care of them.
[01:00:13]  They have nothing to worry.
[01:00:15]  And that's being somebody who's had anxiety and that kind of stuff.
[01:00:20]  That was a very big scripture for me.
[01:00:21]  All right.
[01:00:22]  Well, yeah.
[01:00:24]  Jack, do you judge people with tattoos?
[01:00:27]  Are you a Greer head when it comes to the pledge?
[01:00:31]  I don't judge people.
[01:00:32]  You're a great tattoo.
[01:00:34]  You can't do that.
[01:00:34]  As much as I used to.
[01:00:38]  Yeah, I think I'm the only guy who's ever gone through the Navy without having a drink or getting a tattoo.
[01:00:44]  So I've definitely seen a lot of it.
[01:00:47]  I mean, yeah, again, like sailors, bikers, that was kind of like what tattoos were for in the past.
[01:00:54]  You know, I'm generally of the view, though, that like, It's, I mean, I just don't think they're aesthetic, right?
[01:01:03]  I never have.
[01:01:04]  I think, you know, why do you, why put a bumper sticker on a Ferrari?
[01:01:07]  You know what I'm saying?
[01:01:08]  Like, if you want to, you want to.
[01:01:10]  Are you the Ferrari in this instance?
[01:01:13]  So, wait, it's just true.
[01:01:15]  Like, if you see, here's what I'm going to say.
[01:01:16]  Here's what I'm going to say right now.
[01:01:17]  All right.
[01:01:17]  All right.
[01:01:18]  I see my beautiful wife.
[01:01:19]  I see Tanya Tay.
[01:01:20]  And I, and I think she's absolutely gorgeous.
[01:01:22]  She's perfect.
[01:01:23]  And I think, like, what would a tattoo do to that appearance?
[01:01:29]  And it's like, it would ruin it for me because it's like, She looks gorgeous.
[01:01:32]  I will say, like, when you want there, you know, there are models and such who have tattoos, but when they want them to look maximally hot, they are airbrushing out those tattoos.
[01:01:42]  Yeah, every time.
[01:01:43]  What about Pete Heg Seth?
[01:01:46]  Yes.
[01:01:49]  Yes.
[01:01:50]  Base.
[01:01:50]  37.
[01:01:52]  Yes.
[01:01:52]  There it is.
[01:01:52]  Base.
[01:01:53]  It's just photos.
[01:01:54]  I'll take a little weird one.
[01:01:55]  Base.
[01:01:55]  Well, because he's got the chest.
[01:01:57]  Well, his face is bigger than that.
[01:01:58]  I'll be frank.
[01:02:00]  I don't like it.
[01:02:00]  I think.
[01:02:01]  I will put it this way.
[01:02:03]  There's a reason there's never been a U.S. president with a visible tattoo.
[01:02:07]  There's a reason there's never been a king of England with a visible tattoo.
[01:02:10]  At least.
[01:02:12]  Blake, would you rather have a girl who's been with 10 guys or has 10 tattoos?
[01:02:17]  Well, I think there's going to be a correlation there.
[01:02:19]  But no, That is the perception.
[01:02:34]  100%.
[01:02:35]  Okay, but go with his hypothetical.
[01:02:37]  I mean, he's making a fairly good point.
[01:02:39]  10 tattoos, zero men, 10 men, zero tattoos.
[01:02:45]  You got to pick one or the other.
[01:02:46]  I mean, probably the zero men one, but again, in real life, they correlate.
[01:02:50]  Not always.
[01:02:51]  And the point is, they both lower attractiveness, which is why we're making the comparison.
[01:02:55]  That is true.
[01:02:56]  That is true.
[01:03:00]  I think I also would notice, I also note that it's kind of interesting how you know when it comes to, you know, when it comes to iconography, when it comes to tattoos, suddenly everybody loves the Catholic iconography when they want to get tattoos, I mean fair, but I'm also, I like, I like the Crusades.
[01:03:20]  What would Protestant iconography, the famous, like Crusades yes yeah, I know they're Catholic someone gets yeah, I get all the.
[01:03:28]  I'm just saying they're like all the based, All the bait, like St. Michael, the Archangel, the group of people.
[01:03:34]  Yeah, because it's also based in history, though.
[01:03:38]  I will just note there is an explicit good icon in the Bible saying don't get tattooed.
[01:03:42]  It is.
[01:03:43]  It's good art.
[01:03:44]  100%.
[01:03:45]  That gets back to the point of like one of the greatest things that the Catholic Church produced throughout the Middle Ages was the iconography and the art.
[01:03:57]  And that's where we gained as a society, we gained a lot of our value.
[01:04:02]  So are you trying to tell me that the Protestants couldn't have done the The Sistine Chapel.
[01:04:06]  Actually, as a Protestant, I agree.
[01:04:08]  I don't think they could have.
[01:04:09]  Where's the Protestant Sistine Chapel?
[01:04:11]  I don't think they could.
[01:04:11]  Where's the Catholic Sistine Chapel since the Sistine Chapel?
[01:04:14]  But that's fine too.
[01:04:15]  Oh, yeah.
[01:04:15]  It's a gratifamilias.
[01:04:16]  It's right there in Rome.
[01:04:18]  There's lots of stuff.
[01:04:19]  All I'm saying is Barcelona.
[01:04:21]  If Catholic churches can have iconography and can have art on the ceilings, I can have art and iconography on my body.
[01:04:33]  Okay, go to the Bible verse.
[01:04:35]  All right, let's get it.
[01:04:36]  We've got, let's see, what is it?
[01:04:38]  Bible.
[01:04:39]  It's tattooing.
[01:04:40]  Isn't it like Orthodox Jewish cemeteries?
[01:04:42]  It's Leviticus 19 28.
[01:04:44]  Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourself.

=== Religious Tattoo Rules (13:17) ===

[01:04:49]  I am the Lord.
[01:04:50]  Wait, hold on.
[01:04:53]  What is the first part?
[01:04:56]  Do not cut your bodies for the dead.
[01:04:57]  I think that would be maybe a method of mourning, is like you'd make yourself bleed.
[01:05:01]  But it says that or put tattoo marks upon yourself.
[01:05:05]  It doesn't say just do the former.
[01:05:06]  It doesn't say that and.
[01:05:07]  It says, Don't do that or tattoos.
[01:05:09]  So is it saying don't get tattoos of the dead or is it saying don't get tattoos at all?
[01:05:14]  It just says, do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves.
[01:05:20]  And at the least, I will note Orthodox Jews, known for their pretty rigid adherence to these Old Testament laws, do not allow tattoos.
[01:05:28]  I think you can't even be buried in a Jewish cemetery if you have them.
[01:05:31]  Orthodox Jews also don't believe that Jesus is the Messiah.
[01:05:34]  Did you know Isaiah 44 5?
[01:05:35]  That's true, they do not.
[01:05:37]  It says, one will say, I am the Lord's, and another will write, Even brand or tattoo upon his hand, I am the Lord's.
[01:05:45]  Let's see.
[01:05:49]  The thing about Leviticus.
[01:05:50]  Isaiah 49, it says God has a picture of you tattooed on the palm of his hand.
[01:05:54]  The thing about Leviticus is that it doesn't say that God's not allowed to tattoo.
[01:05:58]  It says, You are God.
[01:05:59]  God's allowed to do whatever He wants.
[01:06:01]  Yeah, God can do a lot of things.
[01:06:02]  God can say He's God.
[01:06:03]  You can't say you're God.
[01:06:04]  So, but we were talking about if this was ceremonial laws.
[01:06:07]  There are different categories of laws.
[01:06:10]  Some.
[01:06:10]  Oh, here we go.
[01:06:11]  Oh, what?
[01:06:12]  Uh oh, yeah.
[01:06:13]  This is getting deep into the biblical exegesis.
[01:06:16]  I'm just saying, there are categories.
[01:06:18]  Some are legal.
[01:06:19]  Some are spiritual.
[01:06:22]  Some are ceremonial.
[01:06:23]  Some have to do with civil governance, right?
[01:06:26]  So, depending on the type of law that we're talking about, they may or may not have application to.
[01:06:33]  Matthew 5 17 says, Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets.
[01:06:37]  I have not come to abolish them.
[01:06:39]  I have come to fulfill them.
[01:06:40]  So, Jesus is the fulfillment of Old Testament law, which.
[01:06:44]  Amen.
[01:06:45]  Covenantal theology, baby.
[01:06:47]  Which then negates.
[01:06:48]  The need for the Levitical laws and being that they were ceremonial, being also that if we look back at the time period of the Israelites, they were dealing with a nation of the Canaanites that was extremely pagan.
[01:07:05]  And so they were doing blood sacrifices, they were doing blood rituals.
[01:07:10]  Yeah, overtly pagan.
[01:07:12]  They were overtly pagan.
[01:07:15]  And so that obviously, God was writing a law to the Israelites who had just come out of Egypt, who Didn't have a set framework because, again, this is a body of people that just spent how many centuries being slaves and being under the oppression of the Egyptians?
[01:07:35]  So they come out of that.
[01:07:37]  They don't have any idea or any ideology of what their society is supposed to be.
[01:07:44]  I'm checking the whole chapter from Leviticus that the tattoo line comes from.
[01:07:50]  And I feel like the immediate follow up verse right after that, do not put tattoo marks on yourselves.
[01:07:56]  Might be related.
[01:07:57]  It says, Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.
[01:08:05]  This is what Guru was trying to get at, but he just didn't say it as succinctly.
[01:08:08]  Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary.
[01:08:12]  I am the Lord.
[01:08:13]  You know what?
[01:08:13]  Speaking of Egypt, though, that actually reminds me of something that one cool group that does have tattoos is the Coptic Christians in Egypt.
[01:08:22]  So, Coptic Christians, particularly, I think, when they're kind of young, I don't know how old exactly.
[01:08:28]  But they will get a cross tattooed right on the inside, and they all have it.
[01:08:32]  And even though they live in Muslim areas where the Muslims have been, like, I mean, as you can imagine, just horrific in terms of persecution and slaughter of the Christians, that Coptic Christians in Egypt and across the Middle East will get that cross tattoo.
[01:08:48]  So I'm like, can't be against that.
[01:08:50]  Like, that's pretty based.
[01:08:51]  Well, I mean, listen, I'll just say I don't have a moral obligation for it because I do think it was a ceremonial law that I would chalk that tattoo thing up to.
[01:09:01]  I don't think it's a moral law.
[01:09:02]  And I would say that there is, you need to guard against legalism.
[01:09:07]  I don't like tattoos personally in most situations because I find them to be aesthetically displeasing.
[01:09:12]  When I meet Russ, who's sort of like the whole MO fits, I have zero problem with it.
[01:09:19]  I can tolerate them.
[01:09:20]  I find it fun to bring that up, but I don't know if I would consider it.
[01:09:23]  Immoral necessarily, but my main thing is, yeah, I kind of go with Scott's sense that I think it's generally ugly to have tattoos everywhere.
[01:09:31]  I think a lot of people end up getting tattoos they regret.
[01:09:34]  I think they get tattoos that age badly.
[01:09:36]  I think it goes, I think in general, I think women are just more attractive without tattoos.
[01:09:42]  And so, to the extent it's good to be attractive, it's good to be beautiful.
[01:09:46]  I want to know what the chat says.
[01:09:47]  Does the chat like tattoos?
[01:09:49]  It's divided.
[01:09:50]  It is very divided.
[01:09:51]  It is very divided.
[01:09:52]  What I will say, can I tell you a story about?
[01:09:55]  Real quick, just on Tiny Tay again.
[01:09:57]  So, having no tattoos was a big no for me back when I was single.
[01:10:06]  And it was like no tats, no smoking.
[01:10:09]  And I was okay with, I didn't drink, but I was okay with a little bit of drinking.
[01:10:16]  But I prefer a non drinker, but I was just in today's day and age, you can't get everything, right?
[01:10:23]  So, even though I did.
[01:10:25]  Um, so when I first met Tanya, it was winter, and so you know, like you're wearing long clothes and everything, and so you didn't, it was January, so I didn't know if she had any tats anywhere.
[01:10:37]  So this is back, this is what uh 11 years ago now, January of 2015.
[01:10:43]  So I'm like digging through her Facebook looking for like okay, let's let's go on a tattoo hunt, let's check it out, let's see do we have any tats over here, over here, over here, over here, and then there was this one picture that she had like on her leg and on her calf, she had one of those big, like I think it was like a jaguar.
[01:11:00]  Like one of those jaguar things.
[01:11:02]  And, but I couldn't tell if it was one of the, like a real tattoo or one of those like henna tattoos.
[01:11:06]  What's a tattoo?
[01:11:07]  So it's still winter.
[01:11:08]  Okay.
[01:11:09]  You know, like, like a panther.
[01:11:11]  You know what I mean?
[01:11:11]  Like it's that very common symbol that you always see where it's like the heads at the bottom and the tails going up.
[01:11:17]  Oh, like the full body.
[01:11:18]  Yeah, the full body.
[01:11:19]  Yeah, exactly.
[01:11:20]  Yeah.
[01:11:22]  So I think like it's second or third date after I see this.
[01:11:25]  I'm just sitting there.
[01:11:26]  I'm like, so, you know, I was thinking about getting a tattoo.
[01:11:31]  What about you?
[01:11:31]  Do you have any of those?
[01:11:32]  You have any of those?
[01:11:33]  Any of those tattoos?
[01:11:34]  I mean, she goes, Oh no.
[01:11:35]  I know, right?
[01:11:37]  And then she's like, Oh no, I don't have one.
[01:11:40]  I was like, Really?
[01:11:40]  You never got one on your leg?
[01:11:43]  Maybe when you're at the beach or something?
[01:11:45]  No, no.
[01:11:46]  And she goes, Oh yeah, well, I know one time that I was down at the shore and she got, that's what we say in Philly.
[01:11:53]  And she said, I got one of those henna tattoos inside.
[01:11:57]  I'm like, Yes, yes, yes, just henna.
[01:11:59]  Will you marry me?
[01:12:00]  Yeah, if she had had a tattoo, I would have stopped talking to her.
[01:12:03]  Here's what I will say, just straight up.
[01:12:05]  Yeah.
[01:12:06]  Okay.
[01:12:06]  Here's what I will say about having tattoos and about my kind of journey through getting tattoos.
[01:12:14]  One, I think you need to have your brain fully developed.
[01:12:20]  You were 21 when you got it.
[01:12:22]  Yeah.
[01:12:23]  True.
[01:12:23]  But I had thought about tattoos a lot.
[01:12:27]  So here's the thing.
[01:12:27]  Before your brain was developed.
[01:12:29]  Yeah, before your brain was developed.
[01:12:30]  So I mean, heroin addicts don't have heroin a lot.
[01:12:32]  So I got one tattoo.
[01:12:35]  My parents were like, hey, anymore.
[01:12:39]  And you're cut off.
[01:12:41]  No kids.
[01:12:41]  They were like, while you're in college, anything, you're cut off.
[01:12:47]  I said, okay, sounds good.
[01:12:49]  I didn't get any tattoos through college.
[01:12:52]  And then when I got out of college, because I was on my own, I was making my own money, I was doing my own stuff, that's when I started getting tattoos.
[01:13:00]  So I had planned out this sleeve.
[01:13:06]  Throughout all of college, and then also, systematically, as I started getting tattoos, I started to make sure that that was something I wanted to get.
[01:13:16]  And so, then I can, and then that's when I continued to do it.
[01:13:19]  So, I didn't get tattoos because I graduated in 2020, so I didn't get tattoos until 2020.
[01:13:27]  I mean, this is all really well and good, Russ, but and I'm getting more.
[01:13:31]  So, sounds like a whole bunch of cope.
[01:13:32]  No, I'm just kidding.
[01:13:34]  I like that's what these have.
[01:13:36]  Wait, are your tattoos just arms or do you have like chest, back?
[01:13:39]  So I've got two behind my neck.
[01:13:42]  Yeah, yeah, you're right.
[01:13:42]  I've got this one on my neck.
[01:13:44]  I got one behind my ear.
[01:13:45]  I've got the arms.
[01:13:47]  I have one on my chest and then I have another full sleeve planned and a back piece on it.
[01:13:53]  Are you going to get the full sleeve where it's like?
[01:13:55]  Yeah, then it's one sleeve.
[01:13:57]  Like Machine Gun Kelly 41.
[01:13:59]  Oh, gosh.
[01:14:00]  Oh, no, I'm not blacking out.
[01:14:04]  I'm not doing blackout work.
[01:14:05]  That's for dang sure.
[01:14:06]  That's crazy.
[01:14:08]  So, my brother.
[01:14:09]  So, he was covered in tattoos, and then on top of it, did the blackout.
[01:14:13]  Yeah.
[01:14:14]  Yeah.
[01:14:15]  So, my brother's got two tattoos on his back one that he got in Philly, and then the other one, kind of interesting, he got done in Jerusalem when we were there.
[01:14:24]  And they have this place where you go, and it's basically they say that they have all of these, you know, like tracings of tattoos that they claim are from like thousands of years ago.
[01:14:37]  Oh, yes.
[01:14:38]  The Jerusalem place.
[01:14:39]  I want to go there.
[01:14:40]  Yeah.
[01:14:40]  Yeah.
[01:14:40]  It's like a famous place.
[01:14:41]  We're going to have it on top of my head.
[01:14:43]  And he got basically a crusader tattoo on his back in Jerusalem in the same place that supposedly, again, caveat, caveat, et cetera, that a lot of the actual crusaders got tattoos.
[01:14:57]  Well, that's really cool.
[01:14:58]  That's really cool and all, but it's not as cool as this back tattoo, SOP 40.
[01:15:07]  It's so good.
[01:15:08]  It's so good.
[01:15:10]  This just gets that as.
[01:15:11]  As admirable as that is, you're going to go back to the grim pledge.
[01:15:14]  It's still going to age badly.
[01:15:15]  And I'm going to end with a piece of honest advice.
[01:15:18]  I would just note for any ladies out there who are listening, all five of you, in a survey, I believe it was from Britain, I think 37% of men said their number one turnoff from women was tattoos.
[01:15:28]  And I 100% believe that.
[01:15:30]  I think.
[01:15:31]  My two, my turnoffs, yeah, again, tattoos, smoking, and drinking.
[01:15:36]  Just not into it.
[01:15:37]  Yeah, me and my wife, we don't have any.
[01:15:38]  So what can I say?
[01:15:41]  I didn't do it out of like, I did not get a tattoo out of some sort of, you know, value set, really.
[01:15:47]  It was just sort of, I think it was just an instinct.
[01:15:50]  But I'm glad I have the Greer Pledge now.
[01:15:52]  Just structured it.
[01:15:53]  And you know what?
[01:15:54]  At the end of the day, one of my biggest supporters every time I get a tattoo is Erica.
[01:15:58]  So, well, maybe, but I will say, what's that?
[01:16:05]  I'm just saying that Charlie had no tattoos.
[01:16:07]  Charlie had no tattoos.
[01:16:08]  He was a bit of a tattoo basher.
[01:16:09]  I think there is like, She also understands how I feel.
[01:16:12]  Yeah, but there's also sort of like a thing where if you're going to be a person that has a tattoo and you're a good guy like you, I'm not going to give you a hard time about it.
[01:16:22]  But I think there's the micro and the macro, right?
[01:16:26]  The macro is we have preferences on the macro.
[01:16:30]  I also don't want to see the degradation of culture, and it is kind of uglification of culture.
[01:16:35]  Go to the DMV, go to Disneyland where everybody's wearing shorts.
[01:16:39]  You're going to see all those like.
[01:16:40]  Parents that should know better with all their kids and they got tattoos all their.
[01:16:44]  I think that's what gets at you'll see people say, like, this is more classic.
[01:16:47]  It's totally out of control.
[01:16:48]  When people say, like, a certain tattoo is classic, they usually just mean it's less visible.
[01:16:52]  And I think that's getting at the truth of it in most cases, which is they don't look great for the most part.
[01:16:59]  Well, these things probably do go in trends, though, right?
[01:17:01]  They do, which is also, I mean, that's definitely, especially a reason, I'll be frank, women should avoid them.
[01:17:06]  Is they're more vulnerable to fads and trends.
[01:17:09]  And it's a way of.
[01:17:10]  Crystallizing and making largely indelible a trend you will probably think is lamentable.
[01:17:16]  We had one of our comments in the live chat say, apparently in 2016, every other chick was getting an Ohana tattoo because Ohana means family.
[01:17:23]  Ohana.
[01:17:23]  And in what language?
[01:17:26]  Hawaiian.
[01:17:26]  Disney.
[01:17:27]  Hawaiian, I believe.
[01:17:28]  I think it's in Lilo and Stitch.
[01:17:29]  I think it's in Lilo and Stitch.
[01:17:31]  Was it like a.
[01:17:34]  Yeah, okay.
[01:17:34]  Moana, the movie community.
[01:17:36]  Yeah, you get all these things that are just a very transient fad, except now they're.
[01:17:42]  Emblazoned on your body for all time and you'll be explaining them to people when you're 76 years old and going into you know, a nursing home.
[01:17:51]  To be fair my, when I started looking at tattoos, I was looking at like, like old, like bikers in the 70s.
[01:17:58]  I was looking at you know all of the that kind of stuff.
[01:18:01]  So that's where, that's where the thought process you pass, you're fine, we accept you for who you are.

=== Permanent Body Art (00:49) ===

[01:18:07]  It's great.
[01:18:07]  Uh jan, we just accept you more.
[01:18:12]  We would just like you more if you were Wait, no, I'm just kidding.
[01:18:14]  So, wait, last.
[01:18:15]  I'm trying to think of any of these, I think.
[01:18:18]  Tom Hardy?
[01:18:19]  Show 39.
[01:18:20]  I feel like he would have maybe been a guy that I.
[01:18:25]  Yes, sir.
[01:18:26]  I don't know.
[01:18:27]  Yes, sir.
[01:18:28]  Not into it.
[01:18:29]  Not feeling it.
[01:18:30]  But I just watched.
[01:18:31]  Hold on.
[01:18:32]  I just watched Mob Land with Tom Hardy.
[01:18:35]  Oh, so good.
[01:18:36]  Pretty hardcore film.
[01:18:37]  So, it's not for young people.
[01:18:38]  Tom Hardy is hardcore.
[01:18:40]  Or he plays hardcore characters.
[01:18:41]  He's really good.
[01:18:42]  That's for sure.
[01:18:42]  All right, Jack, take us away, my friend.
[01:18:45]  Ladies and gentlemen, as always, go out there and commit more thought crime.