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Victor Davis Hansen says Maga isn't a
revolution it is a counterrevolution
Vance says we need shared values and
Trump says religion is what will bring
us all together and as a non-believer I
think he actually might be right cash
Patel got confirmed Adam Schiff started
pricing flights to non-extradition
countries and lawyers are salivating
over all the possible lawfare Elon
becomes meme Kobe gets a statue grock
three makes light work of Game Dev and
Jeff Bezos asks the world who the next
James Bond is going to be drew the
revolution will indeed be televised cuz
here we is and it's all happening it's
happening it's happening can we all just
get along man I don't understand what
all the beef is you know we're all here
together same country saying it the beef
the beef is easy enough to lay out but
uh our boy Vance talking to Europe
talking about the need for some shared
values um want people to hear this clip
but also want them to contextualize it
with inside America as well I think the
following statements ring true I beist
jump into it make Latin America great
again and so in essence I think uh your
message was very well received by many
of those conservative leaders across uh
the globe uh but what does this mean
with the US now that you know in giving
that speech what does this mean with the
US's relationship with Europe well look
obviously we're going to continue to
have important alliances with Europe but
I really do think the strength of those
alliances is going to depend on whether
we take our Societies in the right
direction think about this Germany's
entire defense is subsidized by the
American taxpayer there are thousands
upon thousands of American troops in
Germany today do you think that the
American taxpayer is going to stand for
that if you get thrown in jail in
Germany for posting a mean tweet of
course they're not right so so so the
point that I try to make to our European
friends and I I think that there are
friends I believe that I know president
Trump does is that friendship is is
based on shared values you do not have
shared values if you're jailing people
for saying we should close down our
border you don't have shared values if
you cancel elections because you don't
like the result and that happened in
Romania you don't have you do not have
shared values if you're so afraid of
your own people that you silence them
and shut them up so let's have shared
values let's defend def democracy let's
have free expression not just in the
United States but all over the Western
world that is the path to strong
alliances in
Europe ooo we we are uh witnessing
before our very eyes the changing of the
world order where we've had this
incredible um stability is probably the
right way to think about it for 70ish
years and now all of a sudden we're
beginning to realign we're telling
people you're going to have to pay your
fair share in terms of the NATO um fees
you're going to have to start
considering what we think about your
policies if you want us to be a part of
your defense and I don't know what way
people are going to bounce given that we
are the strongest military on planet
Earth with some potential exceptions for
China uh given that we are the strongest
economy with some potential exceptions
for China uh I think that we're going to
have a lot of pull but it's going to be
very interesting to see because I don't
think that Europe is just going to go
okay you want us to do it your way we'll
do it your way it's not going to play
out like that uh sovereignty is a big
thing this is why I think that the whole
Canada's 51st state thing is not as um
simple as Trump wants it to be I think
there would be even if it would be
better for them I think people are going
to push back wildly because they see
themselves as Canadian the Germans see
themselves as German and people want to
do things the way that they want to do
things and if we're now going to make
that contingent uh if we're going to say
hey we're not going to keep supplying
you with the aid that we've been supp
Ling with you because uh I'm not sure
that we continue to share values it
could get very weird so uh it would be
very interesting to see what Europe's
response is to Vance and it's
interesting to see Trump continue to
position Vance as the one to put forward
these International policies and say the
hard things uh he made quite the stir
when he gave the speech on ai ai needs
to be about Innovation before safety uh
he didn't say those exact words but that
was certainly the way that it was read
by the Europeans and I think honestly it
was a fair way to read it um and so
putting him out there having him again
clearly messaging to International
allies that this is a new world order
yeah and I'm starting to see a Common
Thread where it's obvious that they are
now adding an aster to all the funds and
the money that we're giving out it used
to be America got it so everybody else
can get it and we just want democracy
and freedom around the world but now
it's like okay what are you actually
doing what are you actually it's almost
like we're doing a international audit
just as much as we're doing an internal
Doge audit for sure I many of the things
that they're focused on at doge is where
is all this money going so much of the
money was going abroad I think for sure
I was really shocked by the percentage
of money that was going out of the
country and for all the things uh that
it was listed for was really sort of
mind-bending now I completely understand
that a lot of the things that it stated
that it's for is not actually what it's
for and that I'm sure a very distressing
amount of this stuff is for covert
operations things that we think allow us
to destabilize a government to get
access to whatever it is that we want
access to uh is probably more true than
just taking things at face value but
still when you're doing the kind of
deficit spending that we're doing uh the
idea of just really beginning to taper
that stuff off I think
is it it isn't going to be only good I
want to be very um cleare eyed about
that but when you've got the kind of
problems that we have at home created by
the need to print money because of the
deficit spending I think it makes a lot
of sense to start with things that are
going to other countries but for anybody
paying attention there are consequences
to taking a more protectionist
standpoint so this will not be a free
lunch we'll see and it's interesting
because Trump spoke at the National
Prayer Breakfast and he said something
similar in a different way I want to tie
these two together let's hear what Trump
said great great group of
people if we if we could ever come
together it would be un pause it for a
second th that was the quote that really
um got me on this I think it is it is so
true that dividing uh an enemy is
exactly how you defeat them if you can
get them battling against each other you
just take them off the chessboard and
the fact that America has been so
increasingly divided for basically since
the end of the Cold War we just haven't
had that gravitational Center that held
us together and we have really started
going apart but hearing Trump who is is
he is a divisive figure in that people
respond so negatively to him it doesn't
matter whether I think he should be as
divisive as he is he is divisive and he
may simply represent something that's
already there yes for sure
but hearing him extend that Olive Branch
and I've heard him say this a lot and
maybe this time because he has such a a
different tone in his voice voice
because he's at the prayer breakfast it
really hit me but he's so right if we
could find a new gravitational Center as
a nation to bring the two sides together
that can say okay look we're arguing
over what we think the best way forward
is but we all agree on what the best way
forward or sorry we all agree on where
we're trying to get to um man that would
be really really incredible I talk a lot
about the need for the tension between
the two sides there's an evolutionary
reason that you have people on the left
High compassion you have people on the
right personal responsibility you need
the tension between those those are both
evolutionarily extremely valuable for
getting a lot of people to
cooperate and I think that whether it
was the new atheist movement or whatever
there was a throw the baby out with the
bathwater moment where we said and this
is this is me saying it because I
understand a lot of people really
believe it is literally true I'm not one
of them but in saying that religion
isn't literally true and therefore it's
a joke and it's a waste we need to get
rid of it that we didn't realize that we
were trying to build a model of the
universe and saying throw out gravity
and now all of a sudden everything flies
apart and you're like oh [ __ ] this
doesn't hold together and we we need a
gravitational Center and I cannot think
of one other than what you brilliantly
suggested off camera which was an alien
invasion uh which hey full Independence
Day having having a common enemy will
work uh barring that uh or the asteroid
impact that is potentially in our future
uh religion really does strike me as the
thing that's tried and true now no one
hears the irony of that more than I
because few things have divided people
more and caused more death and suffering
than the fact that people can't agree on
religion uh but if we could have a more
modern slightly secular version of
religion being able to see it as this
high functioning way of passing values
forward uh and not to get lost in the
maneuver that caused so many um lives
over the years about splitting hairs
like with Catholicism versus Protestants
I mean it it really does get crazy um
but it really could function if we can
sort of smooth the edges off of like the
things that people disagree about with
religion but when you have a
non-believer going yeah yeah yeah like
that really might be the answer that
might be the thing that's going to bring
people together um there's something
interesting there so anyway he he keeps
going but I just wanted to touch on that
unbelievable
may not happen but uh it should and
maybe it will from the earliest days of
our Republic faith in God has always
been the ultimate source of the strength
that beats SEC so what was really
interesting historically is that uh you
had people like Thomas Jefferson who did
not believe in the same way created his
own Bible uh I don't know it well enough
to know what the parts were that he cut
out I'll let somebody uh pop off in in
the com comments about that but um it's
a really interesting idea that is
hearkening back to where we started
which was not everybody saw it the same
way they knew that they had to have a
separation of church and state which I
think is very smart I do not want to be
in a theocracy that is for sure um but
they understood that the shared values
that we had as those early Americans was
based on the idea of one nation under
God though I think technically that ends
up coming a little bit later but maybe
I'm wrong about that
anyway you can have this general idea of
um every life is sacred and that there
are certain things that are granted to
us by the Creator and once we have that
idea that gives authority to the ideas
right so you look at the um Declaration
of Independence and it calls that out
these are inalienable rights that are
given to us by our creator okay cool you
don't even have to outline who the
Creator is it's just this sense of yeah
we all share that idea that there is a
sacredness to the individual which I
don't think people understand how much
America is based on the idea of the
sacredness the the quite literal
Holiness of the individual now with
somebody that grew up in that who really
has em bibed that and believes in the
sacredness of the individual um I really
want people need something to Anchor
that around and if it's going to be God
fine like as long as we're not in a
theocracy whatever I just want people to
really believe in the
sacredness of the individual that
property rights matter like so many
things unfold once you believe that each
individual is the right as um Jordan
Peterson talks about the right level of
analysis is the individual individual
responsibility uh a government that
serves the individuals versus a more
collectivist look at it where now any
one person doesn't matter this is all
just about the the good of the whole
um if we can get people to anchor on
that ideal if we can get people to say
this is a value and the center or the
authority that holds it together is this
religious conviction I'm fine as long as
we have that at the core and I don't see
a replacement for it if somebody does
I'm very open because again I'm a
non-believer you're never going to hear
me suddenly being like no I really do
I've accepted Jesus Christ in My Heart
by all means play this clip if I ever do
um but I recognize that we need
something yeah I'm going to try hard not
to preach in this moment but it's one of
those things that I think religion has
perversed the idea of God in a lot of
different ways where God himself never
established a religion God himself so
that's read your own Bible um I think
the thing that helped the country
specifically by having a shared belief
in God it wasn't because it taught
everybody how to think or it wasn't that
it taught everybody who was right and
who was wrong but it at least gave us a
a unified Playbook we had a unified set
of Standards we had a unified set of
things that were like if we live our
lives this way this is how we are going
to prosper and that's at its Core
Essence what the relationship with God
is supposed to be it's how do I live my
life in the best way possible and to
help the people around me and if you
come to a new country you're literally
Trail brazing that's how it was supposed
to be now yes the Bible is used to
justify slavery and yes there was a
whole Massacre to establish the US so
I'm not saying that these people came
were religious Elliots or anything like
that but the fact that now they can tell
their children hey be nice be kind to
your neighbor the Golden Rule do on to
others as you want to do on yourself
that's a Bible verse the you know don't
um there there's all these standard
euphemisms and and and moral kind of
sayings that are just so ingrained in
our society that are rooted in this
religious standard that was the Baseline
for our thought so I think now what
happened is when everybody got their own
truth everybody then got their own facts
and now we have two people arguing about
something and they're not even in the
same universe we're not even talking
about the same set of Standards set of
facts set of ideas it's almost like if a
fish is arguing about a bird living
standards and it's like yes I'm sure the
bird is going to say air is the most
important thing but the fish is also
going to say yeah I have air but I need
to be wet but the birds not and they're
going to be arguing for days until
they're both blew in the face but
they're not thinking about the same
thing they're not in the same space they
don't have that same shared ecosystem
and I think that's the one thing that
America as a whole is missing because
America itself as the idea there's too
many chinks in armor there's too many
cracks there's too many things
historically that they told us was one
thing and it was really the other thing
even the story of the pilgrims when we
were growing up oh the Indians and the
pilgrims they shared uh a turkey and
they put it on the table the fact that
they're even called Indians when they're
Native Americans and Christopher
Columbus just went the wrong way and he
landed here he like oh all y'all Indians
now like that was problematic in and of
itself you know what I mean and it's all
these things that with social media and
Technology we're starting to uncover all
these hidden facts that were never
communicated it makes us stop believing
in the things that you told us to
believe in what's what's interesting to
me is the reason that we can live in a
world where there is no agreed upon
truth is because actual truth is so
difficult to pin down so much of what we
think of as truth is simply
interpretation
truth is physics so that's why I think
the idea of you you need some authority
to base like do this because XYZ
Authority now if we could build
something on top of physics great I'd be
all for it but the reality is a we don't
understand physics all the way we have
not reached a unifying theory of the
Universe um but even if we did that
simply explains the physical experience
that you're having it explains why your
blood uh pumps the way that it does it
explains chemistry it explains all of
the biological processes all of that it
explains why plants grow or don't how
the Sun Works how it keeps us warm how
it transfers energy like it would
explain all of that but it's still not
going to explain the Human Experience it
is not going to explain the way that we
have evolved over Evolution to interpret
our surroundings to come up with a story
that allows us to put in hierarchy the
very complicated world and say oh only
pay attention to these things uh you
need some authority to ground all of
those things on but once you understand
that you're not going to be able to
ground it on quote unquote truth because
it simply is the human brain finding a
way to um put in hierarchy all of the
things that it understands and believes
about the world so that you can move
forward because there is not a necessary
uh right or wrong answer you don't have
to go beyond the trolley problem to
realize how quick when you're trying to
ground morality in quote unquote truth
or facts very quickly it just becomes
what people believe you ought to do in a
given circumstances and the physics of
that situation is if you pull the lever
then the train goes one way or it goes
the other and it's going to hit again
physics whatever is sitting on the track
but there is no uh good bad right wrong
on those without some Authority at the
center to say this is the thing you
should believe and this is why you
should believe it religion is like the
ultimate because I'm the parent and I
said so truly and if I'm right that the
reason that religion has um lasted as
long as it has is because it has a high
degree of utility and that you can look
at religions as being at least in the
time and space that it was hyper useful
for it allowed people to survive better
it gave them a mechanism by which they
could meet a stranger and say oh we
believe in the same God therefore we're
going to cooperate with each other and
that is something that no other species
has you don't have this um imaginary
mental map that allows you to cooperate
uh across space across time across um
knowing the person or not knowing the
person and so it it is one of the things
that has allowed humans to be as
successful as we
are but the the idea of authority that
is the full thing I think people need to
take way what I am grasping at is what
is the authority upon which we're going
to base morality I talk a lot about we
need we need to identify and state very
clearly where are we trying to end up
what is the end state that we want to
get to everything else is just what's
going to be the most effective and
efficient way to get there and we are
going to debate that until the end of
time but you have to have something to
ground that final Vision in to say this
isn't Tom speaking this is the Lord
speaking and now now all of a sudden
it's like oh because God said so and
this is exactly why we make Gods out of
men because you you need to grant them
some sort of authority to anchor on
and I'm trying to uh preempt what I
think people will push back on it is
recognizing that the vast majority of
what we think of as true and false is
human interpretation that that is the
enemy that we're up against you're not
actually dealing in physics the only
thing that is objectively true that
whether you believe in it or not it
doesn't matter like money if you stop
believing in it it stops
working it it doesn't care what you
think about it think about a meme coin
uh sorry God does God very much cares
about what you think about it because if
you stop believing it stops working
money stops working all of those
figments of our imagination stop working
but gravity doesn't stop working gravity
doesn't care whether you believe in it
or not physics don't care whether you
believe in it or not um so going back to
the trolley which for people that don't
know the trolley problem it's it's
usually some variation of there's five
people on one side and there's one
person on another uh if the train were
barreling towards the five people would
you be willing to pull the lever to get
it to go kill only the one person and
you suddenly realize oh damn like what
am I making this decision on and then
what if it's five murderers versus one
person what if it's uh one normal person
what if it's uh five um old people
versus one infant like how do you start
going oh my God like I don't know how to
make these moral decisions that is when
you have lost anything with an authority
that gives you the answer to those most
difficult questions and so
um when people say like we can architect
all of this on the back of just what is
objectively
true that that is a fundamental misread
of what you believe as if you simply
believe what is true people don't
believe what is true they they have made
a choice over time
about it's usually invisible but they
they have made a choice about what to
believe is true versus like oh this is
grounded in physics and so because that
breaks down because physics is never
going to answer the trolley problem and
The Human Experience is effectively the
trolley problem over and over and over
and over and over and over and over uh
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always going to exist but I think that's
what's um happening in this current
moment and Victor Davis Hansen kind of
breaks down before you play this I um
okay so the reason that what you're
about to watch matters so much is you've
got the left and the right racing away
from each other each side thinks that
they are right because I want to I want
people to listen to this in the context
of what we have just been talking about
that you're you're um when you interpret
this moment as a very consequential
moment where you have people racing away
from each other because they do not have
shared values um you can begin to
understand why the left thinks what's
happening right now is a revolution that
MAA is a revolution uh and you get when
you hear him talk you're going to
understand why the right thinks what we
just went through was the revolution now
what I'm saying is neither of them are
right there there is no objective right
here the left is saying this is how the
world ought to be and the right is
saying this is how the world ought to be
and I'm saying without something that
has authority to Anchor everybody you're
you're going to just keep racing apart
this all goes back to nii and his whole
thing I mean he I forget when he was
alive but I think late 1800s early 1900s
uh he prognosticated we killed God and
we will never be able to wash the blood
off of our hands or God is dead and will
never be able to wash blood off our
hands whatever the exact quote is and he
was able to see like what's going to
happen over time as we lose that
anchoring Authority all right with all
of that in your head watch Victor Davis
Hansen and they call it the Maga
Revolution it's not a revolution it is a
counterrevolution there's a big
difference this is a restoration let's
use the word Trump restoration we don't
know really we don't really appreciate
what we've been through with eight years
of the Obama Revolution and the
four-year more radical third term of
Obama using are employing the waxing
Effigy Of Joe Biden a
revolution uh that we've experienced was
a cultural economic political social
Evolution it was very similar to
the French Revolution under the robes
Pierre Brothers we should remember what
they tried to do they changed the days
of the week they rame things they tore
down statues they went after the church
does this sound familiar this revolution
that we've experience everything was up
for sale everything was negotiable we
invented a third gender and rammed it
down people's throats we tore down
statutes we said 1776 was no longer the
foundational day it was
1619 we Chang the very mechanism that we
vote we went from 70% of the electorate
voting on Election Day to 70% of the
electorate not doing that either through
mailin or early voting that was a
radical change that had no discussion it
was done by theat it was incredible we
we went we looked at girl Sports and we
destroyed it we said that
transgendered biological males that were
now transgendered females could compete
they won over 600 medals they took away
from hardworking female athletes we had
drag shows among young children it was
an effort to change the entire
Constitution all right you can stop it
there um so my bias is on the table I
totally agree with Victor Davis Hansen I
think he's one of the great uh thinkers
and really understands the world through
the lens of real politique for sure
uh but my whole point is that what is he
anchoring his belief system on what am I
anchoring my belief system on it isn't
empirical fact so it is simply me saying
that that's what I think is the right
way to get to human thriving where
you're going to get as many people as
possible uh in a good place by um
respecting the sovereignty of the
individual by recognizing the individual
as Sacred by understanding that that's
the right level of analysis when you
think about uh is this working or not
working going all the way down to the
individual um but I fully recognize that
that is a set of beliefs that I have
come to adopt over time based on me
running a bunch of experience exp it is
uh not me saying oh I have hard facts on
my side and so that's why as you when
you have one side that's like no you're
the counterrevolution and the other side
saying no you're the counterrevolution
you get this kind of Madness and so
there's going to need to be something
and um again I think the the only answer
that's on the table and I am super open
if somebody has a better answer but the
only thing I see is
religion I feel like at this point we're
just going to have to wait and see I
think the pendulum is going to keep
swinging until we find that thing to
ground us and I don't see that happening
in the next four years it's just going
to be more of the left is the asteroid
only three years wrew come on now I
watched the whole video with Neil
degrass Tyson uh and uh it it could be
the thing we got what 3.1% chance of
getting struck by an asteroid but it
isn't going to wipe out Humanity
everybody so says Neil degrass Tyson we
shall see yeah moving on this one scares
me cash Patel scares um but uh Adam
shiff and him have a beef and I did not
realize that hard beef let's check in on
them and see what's going on I'm doing
this cuz we're short for time okay fair
this is someone we cannot trust this is
someone who lacks the character to do
this job someone who lacks the Integrity
to do this job we know that our
Republican colleagues know that the only
qualification cash Patel has to be FBI
director is that when everyone else in
the first Trump Administration said no I
won't do that that crosses moral ethical
and legal lines cash Patel said sign me
up in the first Trump Administration as
we are seeing in the second you rise to
the level of your sick aancy and no one
is a bigger or more dangerous siant than
cash
Patel this political hack does not
deserve to be in this
building he can't do the job he won't
protect the public he will misuse the
resources of the Bureau he will
weaponize it against the president's
political opponents rather than the
protecting the safety the public safety
of the American people Adam Schiff is
the worst criminal in Congress in the
last 250 years and what Brit broke that
we're going to talk about right now is
um Adam Schiff met with a whistleblower
Adam Schiff went to the podium day after
day after day saying I know nothing
about this we're not going to discuss it
we're going to protect it and then he
Adam Schiff LED the prosecution of the
impeachment trial in this is this
another example of Just Right versus
left they're both arguing about the tea
and not the actual thing or do you think
that they some the the thing to zoom in
on here is law fair and I really really
really worry that all we're going to see
is all the law fair that was happening
to Trump which seems patently obvious to
be law fair even if uh you've got a
president that has done things that are
Criminal
look at the way that they handled um
Nixon you say it's not good for the
country to go after this guy we need to
look forward now the conundrum that I
think that we're in is you're going to
see law fair go from the left over to
the right and now they're just going to
go after the left as hard or that's
certainly the opportunity before Trump
and so if he does that you are it's it
becomes gang violence and it's just like
you got one of mine so I'm going to get
one of yours now the hard thing to deal
with here is what do you do when you
have people that are doing criminal
activity you can't just turn a blind eye
and if it's getting so rampant
that you're now having a government that
is collapsing under the weight of its
own corruption because you're never
going to get to zero corruption so I'm
really worried that people are going to
instead of saying look I'm going to hold
in terms of looking backwards I'm going
to hold a really high bar for me to
pursue somebody like they will have to
have done something so insane that uh
you know we're going to go after them
take January 6th um if you didn't show
up with a weapon we're not going to
pursue you okay cool even if you believe
this really was an attempted coup of the
government we're because of partisan
bias we are not going to pursue anybody
that didn't bring a weapon or anybody
that didn't actively assault a police
officer okay cool at least you're saying
this is a really high bar even though
you're like mortified to your core that
people tried to storm the capital
that it strikes me as the only way
forward that somebody somewhere has to
turn a cheek and say yes I was wronged
and yes that's egregious and yes by the
letter of the law we could go after them
but the reality is there's a reason that
there's a difference between the letter
of the law and the spirit of the law the
spirit of the law is we want to make a
stable country that allows people to
thrive as individuals that's the spirit
of the law everything that we put on the
books is to try to do that to make a
place where the individual can Thrive
that uh we're protecting everyone's
ability to have a shot at thriving okay
so it is uh a collective notion in that
sense it's not like if one person's
winning all is well but you want to make
sure that you have this even playing
field where you're minimizing corruption
as much as humanly possible you're
giving everybody a chance to get
educated and really do something great
that the government more or less stays
out of people's way and the only time
that they step in is to make sure that
the playing field is not becoming
corrupt okay if that's the spirit of
what we're trying to create then it's
like if you're over indexing on the
letter of the law to go in and bludgeon
people and say you know we're going to
give these people crazy sentences uh
because it's politically advantageous
for us to do so dude at some point
somebody has to have like some [ __ ]
honor and integrity and say I'm GNA take
it on the chin and Trump is poised to do
that they tried to kill me there were
two assassination attempts on my life
literally got shot in the ear but I'm
not going to it I'm not going to pursue
them I don't know if he has the ability
to avoid that I don't know if he's going
to be able to um say look cash I get it
lot of rhetoric up to this it's not the
right play let's focus on moving forward
because we do like if there's been a ton
of corruption you don't just shrug it
off and be like well it would be bad for
uh you know be a bad look for the
country so we're just going to let it
get as crazy as it wants but you say
look this is a dawn of a new era I'm not
worried about looking backwards I'm only
thinking about looking forwards now if
people start doing crazy [ __ ] we are
going to address it we're going to have
transparency we're going to draw this
stuff into the light and we are not
going to take this [ __ ] sitting down
uh the mechanisms of the government with
the checks and balances are exactly what
they're meant to be and Trump has
thankfully said the right things about
if uh anything an EO or whatever that I
put forward if the court strike it down
cool I'm G to listen to that I'm going
to appeal I'm going to continue to fight
but I'm going to use the actual
mechanisms but godamn it if he just ends
up doing doing the same lawfare against
the left that was done to him that's
really [ __ ] terrible race to the
bottom a race to the bottom very well
said all right I got some quick hits
Let's Do It um Donald Trump is funny man
he just announced that Kobe Bryant will
get a statue in the National Garden of
American Heroes love this idea I think
it's going to be amazing it's just
interesting that I'm going to see how
people try to spin it as a bad thing but
I feel like Trump knows how to get the
small wins that make that will last
longer than he does but it's one of
those like funny interesting I'm not
tracking say say the quiet part out loud
what do you mean that this for for for
Trump to be the one to put the Kobe
Bryant statue up it's going to make
people feel like conflicted cuz people
love Kobe wait wait can can I say what I
think you're saying yeah uh this is a
biscuit to the black community and
they're going to be so excited by this
little thing that he's offering them
that they're going to forgive bigger
injustices not even the second half of
that statement I feel like it's Kobe's
bigger than basketball Kobe's bigger
than the black community whereas like he
is a staple in La like Los Angeles shut
down for a day when Kobe like like like
killed so it's one of those things that
like he meant so much to so many people
and for Donald Trump to be the one to
then sit like hey let me recognize that
it's a odd to it's it's a notion to a
community that I don't think would
overlap with it like NBA players aren't
checking for Trump maybe they are and
I'm just still in 2016 but it's just
it's a very kind of I didn't I didn't
see that that on my bingo card in 2025
but you're excited about it I'm happy
for Kobe to be recognized forever are
you happy for all of us Americans to
celebrate Kobe Bryant yes okay word but
there is something lingering in there
that I'm not sure uh I don't remember
who it was and God I'm very upset with
myself that I did not pull this clip uh
there was a clip of so Trump was doing
something it was the announcement of the
statues in the garden and uh he brought
somebody up on stage uh I I
unfortunately don't know who this was um
African-American and he was like Trump
is the greatest president ever and I was
like holy [ __ ] like to have a a imagine
that in 2016 like people would have lost
their ever loving Minds now are you
excited that the black community is
getting behind Trump and whatever
percentage they are or you're like no
[ __ ] that think I don't think the black
community is getting behind Trump I
think should
they I don't think the black community
should get behind any political
candidate because America hasn't cared
about the black community as a political
class um but that's another that's
another conversation it is but don't you
just think it's a numbers thing they
only care about who's going to get them
elected no it's it's you don't like that
morally or you disagree with it
factually I disagree with it factually
okay give me the
facts Tom I'm now you making me fra
though we don't have time for this okay
it's it's a it's a limited voting class
yes yes it's a limited voting class we
got there's a the demographics have
shifted the the focus on the black
community is no longer as important to
the Democrats as it once was so now that
they have a new class of people whether
it's lgbtq whether it's the uh Hispanic
population whether it's the immigration
the people that are allowed to stay
after with Trump's uh new uh EOS I don't
know how many people of them will stay
but they have now shifted and they lost
uh their political power so now I think
the black community is kind of
political uh homeless because while some
people are going to the right the right
has still much very classic right
Republican racist rrick that some black
Americans are not willing to forgive or
lick past and then on the left side they
just feel like they've been left whereas
Trump can coming in in the first 100
days give high fives to every community
and everybody that helped him including
the black community with this nod and
meanwhile Joe Biden Barack Obama and
some of these other people that were in
office weren't able to do nearly enough
specifically for the black community as
they were once
promised so here's my take uh thank you
for that um I would say the right thing
for any Community to do is say it
doesn't [ __ ] matter what was
happening in the past I don't even care
if Trump failed you in term one is he
going to do good [ __ ] for you right now
and are the things that he's doing
beneficial for as many people as humanly
possible is it creating the soil in
which all individual Americans can
Thrive if answer yes do more if answer
no do less um so personally I love to
see because I believe that on balance
because Jesus Christ am I looking
sideways at Trump on a lot of things
that he doesn't says uh but on balance I
think that they're headed in the right
direction to create the soil in which
the most individuals are going to be
able to thrive so I love seeing people
get behind him no matter where they're
from I loved seeing more people in the
black community Hispanic Community
moving over to Trump uh because again I
believe as of right now today on balance
that he's doing more things that are
going to create that soil driving the
deficits down big win for me um
releasing files and creating
transparency in the government big win
for me I know that Elon is not popular
right now but the getting the greatest
capital allocator of our time to help
turn the government around like that's a
big win man we all know my inflation
rant but it's like imagine for a second
that I really believe what I'm saying
and that that is a theft from people
that stops them from getting ahead and
we're actually going to stop doing it um
so anyway I would love for um people to
look at that and if it's positive for
your community to celebrate it and be
stoked uh I look at it though if I'm
honest this exact moment this is a bit
of a right turn but Booker T Washington
wasn't in there now boy do I expect to
get lit up for this belief uh or at
least I would have in
2012 the story of Booker T Washington me
is so [ __ ] inspiring like it's crazy
he wanted to build build a school not
take a building over that already
existed he wanted to build a school and
so he made everybody learn how to make
their own [ __ ] bricks they became the
highest quality brick maker in the
region such that everybody started
buying from them because they were like
godamn like how do you guys make such
high quality [ __ ] it still stands to
this [ __ ]
day anyway uh r a biography on him was
absolutely blown away so I was very sad
I literally was scanning through the
list to see if he was going to be on it
so do you think so Kobe Bryant shouldn't
be the win should Kobe is my hero that
guy is so [ __ ] legit I just wish
there was at least one more and look you
have to draw the line somewhere I just
have a particular fascination with his
approach to the world his approach to
the world is I mean ironically because
this is something I got from Kobe with
boozed on block dunks but that you can
get so good at something people can't
stop you that even if people hate you
and they want to see everyone who looks
like you dead you can actually make the
[ __ ] bricks so that you can build the
school that do that that is such the
embodiment of like my whole life
ethos yeah I don't know what else have
you read a miseducation of NE W WB
divorce that's interesting uh booger T
and web were the Malcolm X and Martin
Luther King of their times so they they
were polarizing in their own ways
different like backgrounds but I'm
curious to see how e DB de boy there's
so many letters there what is it web the
Boyce web de Boyce uh did he were they
contemporaries yes um did they I don't
know if they were actually friends I
don't know what their personal
relationship was but they were always
you were either Camp of this or Camp of
that got it so their rhetoric didn't
necessarily align no but they I secretly
believe they respected each other I
think they respected each other yeah
prence even Martin Luther King yeah you
respect each other um especially in
public um moving on grock 3 uh is making
video games God we're almost out of time
um this is crazy okay so uh Elon I hit
you up in the comments bro this is
incredible I love this but for real game
development so first of all Gro can code
in C++ which is unfuckingbelievable
so I hit grock 3 up and said hey can you
I I'm a game developer in Unreal Engine
can you code for Unreal Engine it's like
yes I can I can write in C++ which is
the primary language uh I can do C++
that's good for blueprints which is how
most people interface with Unreal Engine
I was like holy [ __ ] so we'll see how
quickly we can move on that but what
Elon is saying is all we have to do is
upres the visuals of the game he is
wrong about that uh as somebody who's
been in the trenches of game development
for the last three years I will just
tell you right now that there are very
minute changes that make a huge
difference in the satisfaction that you
feel as a player when playing it this is
awesome this is a huge step forward just
Elon I beseech you as a game developer
please you've got to think about
developer controls as you build this out
shout out to Runway ml which by the way
one of the people on the runway ml team
used to work for me uh [ __ ] crazy
what a small world uh shout out to not
Ian Sans on Twitter
um that if if he gives the controls that
like Runway ml is going out of their way
to give people the ability to control
the camera and all that stuff if he does
that in game development so you can make
minor tweaks minor tweaks minor tweaks
or even feed it like this is how I want
uh grock 3 give me the 3D model I'm
going to do one little animation to show
you exactly how I want the head to turn
and now replicate that because game
development is often uh little movements
over and over and over and over and over
and over and over and I think that
that's a good thing I don't think you
want to constantly be just guessing what
the next frame would be which clearly
it's outputting code so that's not just
what they're doing but um man you've got
to give developers that level of control
so they can go in and make these minor
tweaks so that you can create something
truly original because if AI only
outputs like generic things that are the
amalgamation of I'm giving you code
based on what most things would look
like that I know
historically everything will just sort
of become this sort of gray blob but if
you allow me to go in and make little
tweaks little tweaks little tweaks then
I can be the Quinton Tarantino of film
making where I surprise you and I do
something nobody else has done that many
people think oh my God this is terrible
but it's so unique and such a clear
voice that like the people that are
going to be into it are going to be way
into it so Elon this is my uh my prayer
to your team please guys please that
would be so incredible as a Game Dev I
just would be eternally in your debt
nice last but not least Amazon took over
the rights of James Bond not just the
film but they now get to pick the new
person who's your guy I don't know that
I have a guy if you put a gun to my head
I'd go with Idris Elba just as like a
default because he's so cool but I don't
remember how old he is and it's possible
that he would be a bad pick because you
want to think about you want to get 10
to 12 years out of any bond and so he
might be in his mid to late 40s uh and
so probably not the play you want
somebody that's like 31 32 which is why
Eunice's vote for James McAvoy gets a
hard pass for me uh I want to see
somebody that's like in the aggressive
Prime of their male life the the whole
fantasy of James Bond is that he's swaer
than you he's got access to more gadgets
than you he gets laid he gets the kills
like it's it's the ultimate male power
fantasy of very intellectual very good
with the ladies and very good with the
gun and so you could she also called for
a Timothy shalam Bond oh he's so
physically frail Timothy sham I love you
the most as an actor you're [ __ ]
unbelievable but I want some Timothy
after that sham might be it cuz you know
how it you want him to ro up no cuz you
know Robert Patterson they made him like
emo Batman and he like it was a new
perspective of like Batman instead of
being this brooding aggressive character
emo Bond I feel like this could be like
how Bond became Bond so this is like so
out of touch with culture no like this
is like this was Bond before he gets his
first heartbreak and then he's like now
I'm grizzled and then in bond two he
comes back roided up and now I'm just
killing people so you got you start to
see like his art oh people would hate
the first Bond so much it'll be like a
it will have to be a three film series
cuz you can't the first one weak emo
bond to begin heartbreak yeah maybe
[ __ ] up a mission somebody's mom gets
killed or something yeah maybe if you'll
let me he gets like a a neuro implant in
his brain no losing you there but I like
it he comes back in the next one he's
jacked faster than everybody yeah now
he's back to being him but I feel like
we need to see just like when Batman
Begins dark KN amazing you need you need
you didn't like Batman Begins at all I
mean the grand scheme of Batman movies
it's not in the top five but it was good
I love Christopher Nolan he could do no
wrong in my eyes dude well Christopher
Nolan I love you but if I could ask you
to just dumb things down a little bit
your [ __ ] is hard to [ __ ] follow and
so in what was the time one where F all
the time iten how dare you drew what was
the one where he's playing [ __ ]
backwards ten come on there's no you
followed the whole [ __ ] thing I love
tenant I didn't say did you love it I
said could you track the [ __ ]
narrative watch that thing like three or
four times could you track The Narrative
Drew I'm going to put you in a lie
detector could you track The Narrative
I'm going be honest my take on tenant is
I I hate that this is the the black uh
episode today my my take on tenant is
that this is the first time he has a
black protagonist and he doesn't have a
name interesting so I had more beef with
that than the time thing okay all right
I guess give me up to give me I'm G lose
my job I'm gonna lose your job I'm
joking I'm joking so
Christopher Nolan if I could just PSA
really fast come on brother you got to
like really just a smidge come back to
planet Earth I get it your brain is Big
we just want to see some blow damn like
I want to be able to follow the
narrative so I'm not just watching it
because it looks cool I actually want to
be invested in the stakes of that [ __ ]
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