The Greatest Fight Night Ever + An Iran Deal, At Last

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Good to see it, Blake. 00:01:29 Speaker 4: How you doing. 00:01:29 Speaker 3: Oh it's a great I definitely can't stay away today where you know, we have massive important news and we have massive fun news. 00:01:38 Speaker 5: This is this is the theme today is no bad vibes. Everything is honestly looking great and you know it's funny. We have Rich Bears coming on the show about in a half hour mark. And he was basically like, I'm so excited. I'm like, Rich, are you gonna be blackpill? 00:01:55 Speaker 4: Rich? Dave's like absolutely no, are you kidding me? Like this is amazing. 00:01:58 Speaker 5: You know, by the way, you watched the UFC Freedom two fifty at the White House last night. I want to hear from you. Send us your emails Freedom At Charliekirk dot com. Blake is gonna be monitoring the inbox like usual. But I just thought it was tremendous. I mean, I know we've got this Iran deal. President Trump is meeting with Emmanuel Macron as we speak, as a bilateral meeting as part of the G seven. So he gets done with this incredible UFC event that was just so beautiful and so well done, and the production value was incredible. 00:02:28 Speaker 4: Yeah, you could see the video. 00:02:29 Speaker 5: Right there and you know, get the fighters coming out of the White House, that's their walk up, and I mean it was just amazing. And then he gets on a plane and flies to Europe for the G seven. So it's just, you know, tremendous the energy that that octagenarian he's officially eighty years old. Now it was his birthday on Saturday, so happy birthday, mister Trump, President Trump. But the whole thing was just tremendous. 00:02:52 Speaker 4: Look at that. 00:02:53 Speaker 5: It's just stunning in the Eagle right there. And then Blake on top of everything, fight with Justin Gaechie to win the final fat fight. 00:03:05 Speaker 3: It was perfect, the perfect. 00:03:07 Speaker 5: So so this guy you see in the b roll right now, if you're watching, this guy had just ko knocked out the last three opponents he'd been he'd fought against. 00:03:16 Speaker 4: And these were not schlubs. 00:03:17 Speaker 5: These are like the top guys ever in the lightweight division of UFC. And you know, this guy so fast you can see him. He's like he's like a pit bull. And and he he really did body shot justin Gaigie a couple of times. Really heard him said he hurt his liver real bad and but Geegee put him in the hospital. 00:03:37 Speaker 4: He had an ocular. This ocular bone got broke in the fight. Yeah, go ahead. 00:03:41 Speaker 3: It was my friend who is a big UFC fan, first of all, going in. He was telling me, Okay, this has been a fun night. Now we get to watch gais Gee get destroyed. He he was not hyped up on him at all. He said, this is a very imbalanced fight. He he was predicting a big walkover. And this guy was about a decade older than his opponent. He's near retirement. But he's an American patriot from very near us. He's from a small mining town here in Arizona. And he got this massive upset over this incredible I think he was previously undefeated. Yeah, and then he delivered his big speech celebrating America, and it was one of those perfect instances. We joke sometimes that President Trump has this almost magical luck that events often a line in his ways. And you could not have scripted all of that better for the White House event. A patriotic upset victory in the final fight by a great American patriot who then delivers a big speech, and then the Marine Corps band starts blasting the stars and stripes forever. It was incredible to watch, and big picture, it was so remarkable. We've gotten I saw a great post that pointed out the Left would only use the White House for these staged events. You know, they'd lighted up Rainbow and they'd have trans people read sad poems there, and they'd say, that's the only legitimate use of the White House image. And no, we put on this big, popular event with thousands of people. It was a ton of fun, and we should be able to have a fun event at the White House because the White House belongs to the American people, and the American people we do love fun. 00:05:20 Speaker 4: Yeah, we do. And it was a lot of fun. Yeah. 00:05:22 Speaker 5: And and the images from last night, I mean everything is iconic. Here's Justin Gatchee's message after his UFC victory. By the way, he was a six to one underdog, and I just love it. It is just so perfect. 00:05:36 Speaker 4: Twenty eight. 00:05:37 Speaker 3: Hey, I'm from America. 00:05:39 Speaker 4: Two hundred and fifty years. 00:05:40 Speaker 6: You know, we were way bigger than six to one dolls. 00:05:42 Speaker 3: And look at. 00:05:43 Speaker 7: Uscribing now to all the current, former and future military service members, thank you so much, Thank you so much, all the first responders, the police officers, firefighters. 00:05:55 Speaker 6: Please EMTs. You guys have no idea how good And for as long as I'm able to, I will use my name to make money and support you guys. First and foremost, thank you and all glory Gode. I played so much for this opportunity to do something legendary, and I know that was absolutely legendary because I cannot even believe it. 00:06:19 Speaker 4: Wow years ago, Yeah, we. 00:06:24 Speaker 3: Were bigger dogs then. I loved that. I loved every aspect of it, and it was it was a very fun watch. 00:06:32 Speaker 5: And here's the thing, Blake to all the haters, to all the black pillars, to all the nihilists, to all the like burn it down people. Look at that the Delta formation flying over this like seventy million dollar production at the White House. You have staff Sergeant Hannah Davis singing you soprano the whole time, and you had the ellipse was filled with eighty thousand more people for a giant watch party just outside beyond the White House, and so the visuals were just incredible. But this is what we just want to remind you is that you do not fight because you know you're gonna win. Justin Gatgee did not fight that fight because he knew he was gonna win. He was a six to one underdog, and he pulled it off. We don't fight because we know we're gonna win. We fight because it's the right thing to do. We fight because we need to keep going. You do not give up on your team just because they're down. You do not give up on your team just because they are down. If the Dodger team right now, which is in first place, god bless him, But if they were in last place after winning two World Series, would you give up on them? 00:07:37 Speaker 4: Would you walk out on the team? 00:07:39 Speaker 5: No? 00:07:40 Speaker 4: You fight to make the team better. 00:07:41 Speaker 5: Would Doc Roberts, the manager of the Dodgers, would he be in his right to just abandon the effort to give up? 00:07:49 Speaker 1: No. 00:07:51 Speaker 5: So listen, I don't know what's gonna happen in the midterms. I don't know what's gonna happen in twenty twenty eight. All I know is that last night was a beautiful, beautiful reminder that we live in the greatest country in the history of the world. I'm proud to be an American and I'm proud of this country. I'm proud of this administration. I'm proud that they're getting peace deals signed. MoU's signed for peace in Iran. I just was sitting on a briefing call Blake about the peace deal. I just I just put a tweet out about it. There was a lot of positive momentum. Gas prices are already coming down. You're gonna see that straight of horn moose open more and more in the next two weeks, and then by four weeks, if everything keeps progressing the way we hope it is, then things are going to be basically back to normal. And so there's a lot of good momentum. And I'm just I'm just over the moon and I'm grateful that President Trump. He's eighty years old and he got on a plane Blake right after this and headed all the way to He's hanging out with Macron right now. Like what eighty year old does that. I don't know one, but but we have one as president. 00:08:53 Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's it just it again. Everything aligns so so well. Uh, because this administration, this movement we're in it embraces trying new things, trying big things, doing what hasn't been attempted before. And it's by daring those things that you get beautiful results. And sometimes sometimes it's just something fun like what we saw last night. We we got a great patriotic visual, the kind of celebration our country deserves to have for its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. We got the great contrast with you saw during the Cold open that that that pathetic culture. We'll play a clip on their tambourines or whatever. 00:09:36 Speaker 4: We'll play a clip. 00:09:37 Speaker 7: Oh you fascist, you're bow you fascist? 00:09:42 Speaker 4: Boundu hai lara, you are fascist. 00:09:47 Speaker 3: Let me put you straight. When you come for the rest. 00:09:50 Speaker 1: Of us, we'll fight you at the gate and you will lose. 00:09:54 Speaker 4: You fascist. 00:09:55 Speaker 8: Bawlu. 00:09:57 Speaker 5: Well, that was not UFC Freedom two fifty. That was an aged and decrepit, bitter old woman formerly known as Bette Midler, uh trying. I don't know what she was attempting to do there, but. 00:10:11 Speaker 3: Whatever it was, it was powerfully uncool. I am I am grateful to them for putting on that concert. It made every single aspect of yesterday better that we could cut over to that for funny clips throughout the night. It was amazing. 00:10:25 Speaker 5: Uh, it was, And I want to give a shout out to Staff Sergeant Hannah Davis. This goal was just next level, like there was so many just seeing the military band there. 00:10:35 Speaker 4: It was. 00:10:36 Speaker 5: I just loved it so much and she was excellent. So I'm gonna play. Uh, I'm gonna give her a shout out here. It's top twenty two. 00:10:56 Speaker 4: Oh my sands, I am taking this live view. Yes, it's awesome. 00:11:05 Speaker 8: Who is amazing. 00:11:12 Speaker 4: We're wearing times I find feel class. 00:11:15 Speaker 3: I kind of feel not alone. 00:11:17 Speaker 4: For once in the poof. 00:11:21 Speaker 5: I mean there's Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier's commentary over the top of it. I mean, it was just it was a magical, magical night, and I actually was kind of bummed they did it on a Sunday, but I guess President Trump's birthday was on the Saturday and there's some other things going on. 00:11:35 Speaker 4: But I loved it. I loved it. 00:11:36 Speaker 5: I thought I was going to be so distracted by work, but it was all it was all show prep, blake, and I got we have to play this one. 00:11:43 Speaker 4: I'm telling you with Justin. 00:11:44 Speaker 5: When I say Justin Gatchee put on the performance of his life and beat the heck out of basically the most dominant lightweight. Like, listen to this, Dana White tells what happened to him twenty five. 00:11:56 Speaker 9: Yeah, Alien's in the hospital. 00:11:57 Speaker 10: He's he's busted up. 00:12:00 Speaker 9: No, I'm not a doctor, but his eye looked like he probably has broken orbital. I don't know that that's not a fact, but I'm just assuming. And my plans for him are to go home and rest and recover and take his time. And you know, tonight was a I was then, I was a rough night for him. 00:12:20 Speaker 3: Did you see was that Gai Chee next to him there? Yeah, the guy looks practically untouched by comparison. 00:12:25 Speaker 4: Well, the thing was. 00:12:26 Speaker 5: The hardest shots that Geichie took and play that b roll of them fighting if you guys can't. The hardest shots that Geichie took were to the liver. He said that he's like, man, he pounded my liver. The guy is shorter than Geigee, so we would come up and uppercut him with these body shots, especially in round two. So Geigie almost got tapped, he. 00:12:46 Speaker 3: Almost got taken out. He I thought he was going to lose that fight, and you could tell he was just he was playing for the clock. He knew, I just have to survive this round and I can come back in the next one. It was It was a true come back. It was a masterclass of strategy. It was we mean no exaggeration when we say this is actually one of the greatest sports moments in American history because an American underdog won a big upset with good strategy and good planning and good preparation. 00:13:16 Speaker 5: It just and in spirit and and I had no business beating that guy. 00:13:21 Speaker 4: That's That's how I'd like. 00:13:23 Speaker 5: And the fact that Dana White and you know, put him at the top of the card for such a monumental fight in moment in our country for two fifty and he pulled it off. 00:13:36 Speaker 4: It just it doesn't get. 00:13:37 Speaker 3: Much so great. And I want to just I want to pause. If you guys missed the Cold Open, h I just want to say Charlie was a was a UFC fan. He really loved the It really captures that they know that combination of of hard work and intensity and self confidence. And he loved the spectacle of it. He was friends with Dana White, and he was incredibly excited for this and it could not have gone any better than I know. 00:14:03 Speaker 5: He would have been hoping, well, and let's go ahead and play the c K because he was planning on attending this one, which kind of breaks my heart, but he would have had such a great time. 00:14:12 Speaker 4: Forty nine Politics doesn't have to be boring. 00:14:15 Speaker 3: You know, we're gonna have Fight Night next July fourth on the White House lawing. I mean there's something to be said for that. 00:14:21 Speaker 1: Oh, there's something to be said for it. Look, I don't ask for a lot of favors of the White House ever, so often I'll ask for something no no, no, no, no no. I'm asking for front row seats. I don't think maybe second row I'll go with. I'll say, hey, guys, of all the different things I want to be at this UFC fight, I'm gonna bring my wife. I'm gonna kind of call him whatever favor I have to be there because UFC Fight Night on the White House lawn to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth birthday World Cup tickets. That doesn't mean anything. Fight Night, That's where I'm calling in the figure. 00:14:49 Speaker 5: You know, it's hilarious, Blake, I hadn't seen this clip yet. The team just loaded it up. Is that President Trump is meeting with Emmanuel Macron and actually a French fighter, Sira Gone won the heavyweight bout. Uh and it was I think it was the interim title fight. 00:15:04 Speaker 9: Uh. 00:15:04 Speaker 4: And he's in he's meeting with the French president. 00:15:07 Speaker 5: Talking about UFC last night Top fifty one, Matthew, So. 00:15:11 Speaker 11: I wanted to congratulate the president last night. Cyril Gunn won the fight against a great fighter supposed to be unbeenable, and that was said, Cyril is from France. 00:15:27 Speaker 10: Did you watch the light? 00:15:28 Speaker 8: Yeah? 00:15:29 Speaker 3: Right, but it was a great fight. 00:15:32 Speaker 8: It was a great as the way that was. 00:15:38 Speaker 3: Danny points out using using UFC fights for diplomacy is a peek Donald Trump thing. 00:15:43 Speaker 4: This is actually really right, It is actually real. 00:15:46 Speaker 5: So Dana White signed a deal with the State Department and Marco Rubio. They did a whole like signing together where they're now using UFC as for international diplomacy. 00:15:55 Speaker 4: It's actually official. 00:15:56 Speaker 5: So this is happening now, which is hilarious because Dana White said there's there's no way that he's gonna do another event at the White House. 00:16:03 Speaker 4: He can't afford it. 00:16:04 Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure that they took this was a last leader, you know, like he was just He's like, I'll play the clip twenty six. 00:16:11 Speaker 10: You don't think there's a chance. 00:16:12 Speaker 4: The President says, that was good, Let's do it again next year. 00:16:16 Speaker 9: There. I can't afford it. There's no way we can do this again. This was I'll never do this fear again, and we'll never do this again. 00:16:24 Speaker 4: I love Dana White. 00:16:25 Speaker 3: He said that, but he said seventy million dollars. I don't know. Maybe people will get mad at me, but I feel the stuff we blow stupid money on that gets absolutely no value add whatsoever. I would say, like, Congress, could we kick in twenty five million dollars to put that up on the fourth of July series every year every year? I'd get more out of that than a lot of things. 00:16:45 Speaker 4: No, I totally agree. 00:16:46 Speaker 5: I mean, I think the way that President Trump has been having to do a lot of these these kind of pet projects that he knows the Dems are gonna lose their brains about, is he's having to force private money or donations and things like that. And in this case, I think Dana whit I just kind of ponied up right and he was like, don't worry, mister president. We got this, and sure they could. They can handle it. Do we have enough time for this, Yeah, let's go ahead and play cut twenty three. 00:17:10 Speaker 3: Politics is a big part of this. 00:17:11 Speaker 12: You know. UFC's audience is sixty eight percent mail, and most of it's underage fifty four. It just so happens that men under age fifty four or underage fifty are a key target demographic for Republicans in this election. Trump won men by a dozen or so against Kamala Harris, but the only one young men by about one and they tend to vote infrequently in midterm elections. So Democrats can mock this all they want, but the UFC audience is the audience that the president needs to reach for Republicans. 00:17:37 Speaker 5: Well, we young We actually won young men, but that's fine. His facts are fake facts. If you're struggling with cravings, bloating, and stubborn weight gain, your gut health is probably playing a bigger role than you think. 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All right, without further ado, We're gonna welcome in the great Rich Barris uh Rich. 00:19:46 Speaker 4: You know. 00:19:47 Speaker 5: We were talking about it, and I think this was the like we were texting and I was like, hey, how good is today and you were actually legitimately on my wavelength and you were like, this is amazing peace, peace deals getting signed in the Middle East. And I said this peace in the Middle East, but absolute violence on the White House lawn. It was it was just a perfect night last night. 00:20:09 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is and look credit where credits do? 00:20:13 Speaker 13: I mean, get the vice But for people who don't know, you got the vice president and the president breaking their bots on birthdays and anniversaries, and you know, I mean I think that should be. I know that, you know, they ran for the job and they signed up for the job. But I just want people to understand how much effort got put into this deal and how much work goes into it, and then of course they have this celebration going on at the same time. Andrew, look for people who've been criticizing and I don't could jump too far ahead here, but for people who been criticizing and I've been very critical of. 00:20:40 Speaker 3: This, this is a good day. This is a this is a this is a win. 00:20:45 Speaker 13: Take let's take the w Let's move forward. Uh, let's focus on November and other things. Uh, he could actually have pulled off something here that everyone's been claiming they. 00:20:54 Speaker 3: Want to have pulled off. 00:20:55 Speaker 13: Right, if the goal was to prevent aaran from building nuclear weapons developing newular weapons, then that that has never been so close. That goal has never been so close to being achieved as it is right now. 00:21:08 Speaker 3: So what are we complaining about. 00:21:10 Speaker 5: Yeah, and I want to get to iron in just a second. I totally agree. But look at this clip here. So this was from the fan fest, which was at the Ellipse, so just adjacent to the White House fight area. But there was eighty thousand people there, and I want you to look at the demographics of that crowd. It is all young men, rich, all men at least under fifty four, is what we're told. But like all young men, there's like twenties and thirties, okay, tens and tens of thousands of them cheering on these fights. How important is getting our mojo back with young men rich? 00:21:49 Speaker 3: This is so crucial. 00:21:51 Speaker 13: I mean we spoke a little bit about this last week because you know, shameless plug of the book here. I mean, that's what burn it Down was all about. The book that Joshua Laac, my co author, and I rowed. It's on pre order now, it'll be out in September. We have to win these men. I'm listening to Brad Todd on CNN in the last segment. He was exactly correct, and I understand the argument that younger men tend to not. 00:22:15 Speaker 3: Vote that much. Well, guess what guys. 00:22:17 Speaker 13: Age demographics, Age buckets do not stay the same with the same groups of people as time moves on. Those younger men are our coalition for the next thirty plus years, and they're going to participate more as they get older. We can't lose them. We have to add to newer ranks as they age into the electorate as well, and we have to start to change the dynamic that these people don't vote in midterms. We have to change the midterm electorate otherwise we'll be at the disadvantage that Democrats used to be in. If you go back and you look around like twenty ten and twenty fourteen, when Republicans would have good midterms. The idea that we could carry a midterm by pandering to boomers is not only wrong, but it's disastrous. Automatically incorrect, that's number one, But it's disastrous for the future of the party. The roadmap that the party must follow if they want to remain politically viable, as especially the silent gen which is almost gone completely phases out, and then Boomer there's Boomer one, Boomer two. Boomer one served in the war. They didn't dodge the draft because of their birthday Boomer two did and they went on to become the professional class in this country. They built the professional class in this country. Guess what, They're more democratic. So the sixty five plus will become a much it already has, but it will become a much more competitive age bucket. 00:23:35 Speaker 3: We have got to. 00:23:36 Speaker 13: Bring these people in from Gen X and down and young men, especially under fifty, and that they if we please them, they will vote guys. 00:23:44 Speaker 4: It's that simple. 00:23:45 Speaker 3: So Rich, I think with events unfolding right now in the Middle East and at home, we actually have a perfect I want to poke at your understanding as a polster because last night's UFC event it was pandering two young men, catering to young men and their interests, but also it is will be frank, it's a superficial event. It's not about affordability or national policy. It's it's a fun circus, a very fun circus. And then in the Middle East we have significant progress on an issue where we know we've talked to young people. Young people did not like the conflict with Iran and they wanted it to end. So how much impact do each of these things have. Does a really fun circus event does that get young men excited, engaged, make them pay more attention, maybe feel more like voting if they're generally in Trump's direction, Or should we not look at it too much that way? And how does it compare to significant progress on a real material issue that they do voice opinions on. But it's also maybe not something that they're watching on TV regularly. I think it was. 00:24:50 Speaker 13: And that's a great question because I don't want to overstate it, but I think we should look at it as a great affirmation. 00:24:56 Speaker 3: Right. 00:24:56 Speaker 13: It was like a one to two punch between what the col suffered last year between the Epstein thing and onto Iran was like a one two punch. Well, this was a nice little one two shot back in the right direction of something they want to see. And we shouldn't say this is the end all, be all and be done with it, but it's a great opportunity. This is something we can build on, and this is something we can use to pivot and try to circle, you know, turn turn, you know, turn back in the direction that they want us to turn back on. 00:25:23 Speaker 3: You know. 00:25:23 Speaker 13: I would also add that I never underestimate these circuses, right, because even I mean, this is not just American history. 00:25:31 Speaker 3: It's human history. What did Caesar do? 00:25:33 Speaker 13: And then Caesar's who followed him when they wanted to be popular and rich? 00:25:38 Speaker 5: Yeah, rich rich, This is okay, it works. Here's here's here's my basic here's my basic understanding of the political landscape. People are pissed. It's like nothing you can do is good enough. This felt like it was important, It felt legitimately important because the vibes have been off, the vibes have been bad. Everybody's feeling like angsty. It's like, you can't, you know, put anything on social media without like half everybody getting pissed off for no good reason. This kind of stuff, the bredon circus is stuff. To your point, like Caesar and all this stuff, it is important. We have to come together, we have to rally around and and you know, by the way, it makes all the like Natesayers and the Black Pillars and the Doomers look just pathetic. When he got met Middler up there trying to counter program Hassan Piker, You got Miss Rachel. By the way, don't let your kids watch Miss Rachel. She's a total radical and a kook. But the point is they look terrible, They look awful in this and actually the people that love their country. You got Joe Rogan, Daniel Cormier, You've got Justin Gatge who won the fight, so proud to be American. That stuff leads, It leads, and guess what young men will follow, because we we will follow a warrior. 00:26:52 Speaker 3: I think you're right, Andrew. And you know you mentioned the Caesars did this. If you look at and we have the will of Caesar Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome. And in his will he lists his big accomplishments and it includes material things. I built aqueducts, I built find temples to the gods in the city. And also one time I organized this fake naval battle on a lake outside of town and it was awesome and everyone loved it. So he has both of those things. And I think you're so right that, Andrew. Politics is so it's visual, it's vibes based. A lot of it is how do we feel that we're doing. And one of the big strengths that President Trump, that President Trump brings to politics is his kind of that harmony of the heart and the head, that harmony of does he make you feel like America's a winner? Does it feel like things are awesome, and he cares about the policy stuff. He does get the deliver, he does deliver the goods on the border on DEI, but he doesn't do it in this stiff way where you're hiding away and you're letting the left dominate the culture. He's going out there and saying, actually, this is the culture. Look at this awesome stuff. We're gonna have you watch it because it's going to make you feel proud to be an American. And I think this is a great powerful symbol of that. 00:28:02 Speaker 5: I'm I'm gonna play two clips here because I think both are illuminating, all right, and one is getting a lot of pushback. I can't believe he said this at the White House. Whatever young men think about if you're a young man on the internet and you how you would interpret this, it's not twenty one. 00:28:18 Speaker 3: Mochelle Obama is a man. 00:28:22 Speaker 12: Am I right? 00:28:23 Speaker 3: America? 00:28:27 Speaker 4: I mean, okay, I'm not endorsing. I'm just saying. 00:28:31 Speaker 3: Democracy is the right to say that. Michelle Lama is the man. 00:28:36 Speaker 5: Did say dumb man, dumb man. But yeah, like, I mean that was I found that hilarious. And here's Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier just having way too much fun after the bout fifty two. 00:28:48 Speaker 6: Believe that a little kid from Leafya, Louisiana is at the White House. I never, in my wildest dream would have imagined that this would be an opportunity that would happen in my lifetime. 00:28:56 Speaker 4: And to do it with my brothers is so tremendous. So I love vibes, Rich vibes thirty seconds. 00:29:08 Speaker 13: This is what I wanted to say, and I said it last week, and I think the President delivered exactly what I was what I was talking about. We needed a W in this country. Uh, the vibe that you were just talking about was not only not what we wanted, but it was just getting stale. That it was like that every day we needed something to feel good and we needed a W. And the fact that and when I said that, I was only talking about this event specifically, not a deal, and he delivered two ws in one day that could make people feel good. It's a I really do believe this is something that we can build on. 00:29:40 Speaker 3: I do we paired a spectacle with a real win with attention, Yes, and I think that can be a huge win if this deal sticks. 00:29:49 Speaker 5: I so rich I look at what happened yesterday, these two things, it's sort of a brain reset, especially for young men. It's like a it's a and I'm telling you so much is vibes like I saw more patriotism and more proud America like post on social media last night than I'd seen in months. It was just it was like oozing out of everybody. Let's talk about this though. What did the reset need to happen? I wanted to have you on the show last week when that Maggie Habram and Jonathan Swan piece came out, which I still don't know where who their sources are. I mean, their sources are apparently impeccable because and maybe yeah, maybe people are alleging there might be a transcript from the situation room which or recording or something that sort of that part of side Rich we go back to the Epstein. I couldn't help but think back, you know, I remember Student Action somewhit with Charlie and we were talking about it a lot, and we felt like it was botched. Right, I think even the admin would admit the rollout was botched, and the coms on it was botched. And by the way, there's some people trying to say that. I was saying there's no there there in terms of anything with Epstein. Blake will attest that's not actually what I think at all. I think there's a lot more there there then maybe Blake thinks. But I meant there is mostly what I think. Yeah, that's what Blake thinks. I think there's there there, and I'm pretty sure I could prove it. But anyways, the point is rich I was saying, no, they're there in terms of the president, I mean JD And that piece was quoted in saying, hey, there's some embarrassing stuff whatever, like doesn't matter, get it out, Like President Trump isn't implicated in that way. 00:31:21 Speaker 4: So that was my point. I'll never forget that visual. 00:31:25 Speaker 5: You said it was like a graph, It was like Epstein approval rating drops. Tell me about that, and can we repair this with young men? 00:31:32 Speaker 13: I've been saying this for a while that you know, some people we said there was an anger before, but in truth, I think it was more like a disappointment. And people tend to project, even especially men, project their disappointment as anger, and we misinterpret it. I think there's a lot that can be repaired. Why and let me just before you even getting back to that specific issue, because if we appreciate why so many of these young men voted for President Trump and Vice President Vance, then you'll understand it better. And they really did view them as their last chance, like they are their best hope of repairing what they see as a declining superpower that has squandered their inheritance, you know. So the generations before them had a much better shot at the American dream that they feel that they have now. 00:32:16 Speaker 3: And I believe that they're right. 00:32:17 Speaker 13: And I think Donald Trump has a grace with voters that no other person I've ever pulled, or I've ever seen or studied in politics, has ever been afforded. So if the President moved in the direction that they wanted him to move back into, I think overwhelming majority of them would forgive and forget and move forward because they know what the alternative. 00:32:40 Speaker 3: Is, you know. So that's that part of it. 00:32:44 Speaker 13: The other part with how that Epstein, I'm not getting into how it specifically was rolled out, but I think what people missed at that point is that and the Vice president was right. When you take this in concert with what I'm saying, Trump has faced far worse, you know, So the rolling out of just dumping it all out there was the right call because the. 00:33:01 Speaker 3: President would have weathered it. He would have weathered it. 00:33:03 Speaker 13: It's always you know, then we say this from the Nixon years and I don't think that there's a crime there for the president, but they always say, you know that the cover up is worse than the actual crime, even if there is no crime, and people are just going to make stupid allegations that you committed one based on something they may or may not really understand in an email release. They that still means nothing compared to them perceiving that you're trying to cover it up. And that was always the danger there. And what happened during the Epstein, you know, the botch handling of it, is that first that younger voter group started to break off, and actually women were first. The eighteen to twenty nine women probably dislike this the most for obvious reasons. Actually, if we go back and look makes sense, right, women would be a little bit more sensitive to this. And in truth, like the millennial men and the gen Z men hung on longer than they did, but it just was a lot, It was a lot for them to stomach, and I think it. 00:33:57 Speaker 3: Was more than just the Epstein thing. 00:33:59 Speaker 13: You could see it on that graft that you're talking about, and by the way, that graph is on Big Doubt of Pole guys, if people want to go check it out, you could see it by event Trump's approve rating by event. It really was the oh wait a minute, what's going on here with that? You know, with the Epstein thing. You're not trying to cover this up? 00:34:13 Speaker 3: Are you? Then? 00:34:14 Speaker 13: Pivoting from that into Iran and away from the domestic served as kind of like. 00:34:19 Speaker 5: It was a psychic break, Rich. It was a psychic break for a lot of people. It really was. And that's what I'm saying. We got to repair it. These kind of things. 00:34:27 Speaker 3: It is. 00:34:28 Speaker 4: Yeah, that is good. That is good. I gotta I gotta throw this up. 00:34:31 Speaker 5: Actually, I saw a Jack just sent me this, so I'm gonna give post so some credit here. Throw this this up, Rich, I want to get your take on it. The fact that Mark Zuckerberg is at the White House, UFC Freedom two fifty and Meta is a sponsor are indicators that Republicans will win the midterms. He goes where the wind blows and has access to more data than anyone from Facebook. Ig his dad is telling him it's good to be a Republican in twenty twenty six. I'm sure you have some notes, but it's a fascinating tweet. Your reaction, Rich Bears, Listen, I have. 00:35:01 Speaker 13: Never felt that midterm losses because you're the incumbent party is inevitable, like we have just come to accept. The reason why I've been so critical is because I vehemently. 00:35:12 Speaker 3: Reject that premise. 00:35:13 Speaker 13: That is a modern phenomenon. If you study American politics the way that I have and others have, you know, cephology in general, that is a modern phenomenon, which I have argued in a thesis I believe is the result of the system being captured by interests the way it hadn't been in the past. Now, we've always had interest groups, long history of that. But it's basically every party rolls in promising something they can't deliver on the level that they promise it. So Americans just wildly gyrate back and forth, hoping to punish the people who didn't deliver, and they go between these alternatives. And it wasn't always like that. We've had one party rule in this country for thirty year periods. I mean, so that is what I anticipate. So we could be down nine right now, Andrew, and I don't care. If we do the right thing and we course correct, we can break history. 00:36:00 Speaker 4: History is meant to be meant. 00:36:02 Speaker 3: And we just did that because we just had big events. So everyone can pay attention and they can immediately pivot that too. Wasn't that event cool? By the way, we're getting peace in the Middle East. 00:36:13 Speaker 5: And by the way, gas is getting below eighty dollars a barrel right now. 00:36:18 Speaker 4: That's huge. 00:36:19 Speaker 3: Eighty bucks. 00:36:20 Speaker 4: Brother, it's great. 00:36:22 Speaker 5: Let's get it lower. Rich Bears. You're the man, and you've been right a lot, rich Bears. God bless you, Miche. 00:36:27 Speaker 3: I appreciate that, brother, appreciate that. 00:36:29 Speaker 5: Take care, guys, gentlemen, let's get real for a second. 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And I just want to say, I like some of the other guys in this race, but John Strand has been faithful, he's been courageous, he's been loyal, and I just you know, you see people's character over time, and I've had a front row seat to see John's character over a long stretch of time, and I've always just been impressed with how sincere, how hard working he's been. And so I'm excited to have him on the show right now. And that is John Strand, running for Florida's nineteenth. 00:38:43 Speaker 4: Welcome to the show. 00:38:44 Speaker 14: John, amazing to be with both of you guys. Andrew Blake, thank you. It's amazing and I'm excited to be here. 00:38:50 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:38:50 Speaker 5: Man, Well, Turning Point Action has endorsed John's candidacy here in Florida nineteenth. 00:38:55 Speaker 4: John tell us, you know, I first met you. 00:38:59 Speaker 5: During COD and I remember seeing how just passionate and how much work and energy you were putting into just really grassroots stuff. So John, tell us about your journey from COVID activists and you know, medical freedom, autonomy, and then to JA six, which is a big, huge part of your story and what happened to you. 00:39:21 Speaker 14: Absolutely, we've all been through so much in the last six seven years of this period. 00:39:26 Speaker 10: And my journey has been extraordinary. 00:39:28 Speaker 14: There's a book on the screen behind me that's coming out in about a week that tells the full story. But before COVID and any of that, I was just pursuing the American dream with a lot of grit and gusto as an up and coming actor and talent. 00:39:40 Speaker 10: In the media space and entertainment world. 00:39:43 Speaker 14: I really had a heart actually for trying to bring Christian values into the culture wars and into the entertainment field. But then COVID came crashing down around all of us, and really because of the Judeo Christian values and the good family upbringing that I had, I was able to have just the and a wisdom and intuition to see immediately that these were fraudulent schemes, both the COVID tyranny and also the bal And Marxism in the Summer of Love. So I began speaking out against that quite early, which basically burned down my chances of having a career in Hollywood that was the wrong team, and that led me to start and organize the Beverly Hills Freedom Rally in California at the time, which was so vibrant. 00:40:22 Speaker 10: I never could have imagined the success. 00:40:24 Speaker 14: President Trump actually tweeted to celebrate that rally, bringing tens of thousands of people into LA during the what became the stolen election. But because of that freedom Rally, I became the creative director at America's Frontline Doctors and Goldcare dot Com. 00:40:36 Speaker 10: That's how I got to meet you, Andrew and. 00:40:37 Speaker 14: Charlie and a lot of folks that really started taking it seriously that we have to fight to save our country and save freedom as we see tyranny in real time happening through these COVID mechanisms and the Marxist takeover of our culture and those sorts of things. 00:40:52 Speaker 5: Well, and then you got obviously a big part of your stories January sixth, and yes you you were a J sixer. Tell us what you did that day, and then tell us how the weaponized DOJ came after you and really, I mean tried to ruin your life, John. 00:41:09 Speaker 14: They sure did so. Johnstrand dot Com slash J six will take you to a video that you can see every minute of my time in the Capitol Building, which was just over forty five minutes, but we fast forward it so it only takes thirteen minutes to watch. The point is, I don't hide or cut things out. 00:41:24 Speaker 10: You watch the whole. 00:41:25 Speaker 14: Experience and you have it narrated to understand what was happening while it was there. But essentially, as you all know, the twenty twenty election was rigged, fraudulent, highly entrustworthy, and there were people in the government legitimately trying to challenge that and ask for a forensic audit to prove to the American people what the truth was, and the fact that that was railroaded over was just a travesty for all of us, but doctor Gold and myself for America's frontline doctors. We were scheduled to be in DC as part of a two week speaking to our in the East Coast, so we were traveling all over the country. DC was just one of those dates for us, and on January fifth we spoke without any issue. On January sixth, we tried to do our speech and it went sideways, as we all know. But in the course of that process with j six, they splintered my front door with a battering ram twelve days after the event, and with no warning, disappeared me in jail for four days without a phone call. When I got out, I was facing a twenty year fellony and four other charges. And then they offered me the equivalent of a get out of jail nearly free card, a single misdemeanor plea deal. So if I just played along with the Washington DC program and signed their false confession, I could go home and all that be wiped away. But I refused that because Andrew there is never a right time to do the wrong thing, and it was a simple test for me, in a simple choice between a lie and the truth, and between doing what I know is right and relying on God to take care of me, or betraying my fellow Americans by taking that easy way out. 00:42:48 Speaker 10: I refused to do it. 00:42:49 Speaker 14: That took me through an incredible process of going to trial where I knew I would be fraudulently convicted. But because I didn't take that plea from prison, we were granted sert at the Supreme Court, and I vindicated by the United States Supreme Court at the same ruling that vindicated President Trump. I was one of only two men released six months before President Trump was back in office. And ever since then, God has really put it in my heart to do what I can in my in my way, to you know, take back the nation and step back to the front lines. And now we're getting into this space of running for office, which I never would have imagined doing. But God has done so many extraordinary things in our country and in my life, and there's a moment of incredible opportunity. This is not just the midterms. It is the final countdown to decide as a generation and as a nation, if we are going to engage with our government. Twenty twenty six is our generations seventeen seventy six. 00:43:41 Speaker 10: I really believe that. 00:43:44 Speaker 5: Well said John, and what they did to you as a total travesty. I mean, you were completely non violent. You were you you know, I'm reminded of this Kristen Welker President Trump interview and you probably saw the clip where she said, yeah, there's no evidence of that, and he's like they got to escort. I mean your experience that day, right, John, was like basically you were just inside. I'm pretty certain you wouldn't sort of justify being in that, but probably nobody should have been. But the whole craziness of that day and like there it did seem like people were getting let in, you know, and escorted around. Is that was that your experience that day to yeah? 00:44:22 Speaker 14: Absolutely, absolutely No, No one's trying to say that on any given day you just waltz into the capital without going through a metal detector and a security process, et cetera. So we're not trying to make disingenuous arguments about that. But January six is a very complicated event with a lot of things going on, and specifically people talk about trespassing and that concept well, an inherent part of trespassing. In fact, the statute I was charged with is entering and remaining. 00:44:48 Speaker 4: Well. 00:44:48 Speaker 14: Entering means that you entered where you knew you shouldn't be, and that requires clear signage and advisement of the public. So they're claiming that the whole plaza was a restricted area. 00:44:58 Speaker 10: I mean, that's nonsense. 00:44:59 Speaker 14: That's literally the public square of our capitol building and people eat lunch there every day. So being there where we were scheduled to have a speech on the grounds there not only wasn't illegal, I mean it was insane to suggest that anyone had the expectation that they shouldn't be on the plaza. Now, how do we get to the steps into the door? You know, the video I mentioned explains all of that. Of course, there's a lot of corrupt elements in making that happen. 00:45:20 Speaker 5: John, we're running out of time here. I think you're just a tremendous man. I think you have character. I think you have grit and courage. I know you will fight and do the right thing. I know that you'll stand up for the conservative movement and the grassroots and the base voters that are going to put you there. Tell people how they can get behind your campaign. 00:45:38 Speaker 4: What do you need right. 00:45:38 Speaker 14: Now, you guys, it's very simple. We are the outsider, independent, anti establishment, anti corruption candidates. Every other person in this race has millions of dollars. So we need you to go to Johnstrand dot com. We need you to donate anything and everything that you possibly can. And here's why we're going to send a message to President Trump and his administration that we need the Trump endorsement because we will win this race. We will get a patriot in Congress En Byron Seat. It's existential for this nation. Get behind us now and we will win. That's my promise to you, Johnstrand dot Com. God bless you, God blessed Charlie Kirk and this whole Turning Point family for the incredible work you're doing. 00:46:14 Speaker 10: I will always have your back. 00:46:17 Speaker 5: Well, we have your back too, John, And like I said, I like some of the other guys in this race, but you are the Turning Point Action endorsed candidate, and we're proud of you. 00:46:24 Speaker 4: We know that you are going to do a great job. We have your back, brother. 00:46:28 Speaker 14: Amen, God bless you, and keep fighting to save this amazing country. 00:46:31 Speaker 10: God bless the United States. 00:46:32 Speaker 4: God bless you, God bless America. Amen. All right, Blake. 00:46:37 Speaker 5: Remember when the Japanese purged our timelines on the on the Twitter purge. 00:46:43 Speaker 3: They flooded it. It was amazing. Thanks to Elon Musk, we have the auto translate and we discovered so many Japanese people. They come to America. They love America, they love country music, they love barbecue, they love they love how much space we have converted to Japan. And it's great because I know you're setting this up. Thanks to the World Cup. We've always had Europeans and foreigners come to America, but they always go to New York City, La maybe Miami, maybe Vegas, and like that's it. Or they'll go to a national park that is very heavily trafficked and they'll just see that park, so Yellowstone Grand Canyon, and they get a very limited view of America. And if they're in a big city, they see, oh you're in La Okay, you see homeless encampments, you see garbage everywhere. You don't interact a ton with Americans. But thanks to the World Cup, we are getting Americans do something, or we're getting Europeans and other guests who do something they rarely do. They are road tripping across real America. 00:47:45 Speaker 4: Yes, exactly. 00:47:46 Speaker 5: Well, and by the way, speaking of the Japanese, they were so there was a jap I think Japan versus the Netherlands World Cup group group stage match, and there's video of the Japanese with bags like picking up trash. 00:47:58 Speaker 3: They clean up after themselves. 00:48:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I am. 00:48:01 Speaker 5: I've been very loud and proud about an immigration moratorium. I believe we need any We need one. We've had too much over the last forty fifty years. But I will take Japanese. If the Japanese want to immigrate here, I will take them along with the South African farmers. Okay, that's that's where I'm at. Great people they are. Okay, so let's play some let's play some of this this. Uh, these videos though, of Europeans discovering real America. 00:48:26 Speaker 4: It's not twenty nine. 00:48:28 Speaker 3: His neighborhoods look exactly the same as every movie you've ever seen. The American flags. 00:48:33 Speaker 4: People have got race flags up. This old couple just walk past me and they go, good morning. 00:48:41 Speaker 2: What the hell you got to talk to each other? 00:48:42 Speaker 15: Here? 00:48:45 Speaker 6: Like this is a high school stadium. 00:48:49 Speaker 13: What look at the amount of seats in this place? 00:48:53 Speaker 1: Just incredible, absolutely incredible. 00:48:57 Speaker 4: There really is like no other. 00:49:00 Speaker 1: I honestly think unless you, unless you. 00:49:03 Speaker 12: Live in America, unless you or unless you visit here, you can't really comprehend how nice these areas are. 00:49:12 Speaker 4: That one, all of them. 00:49:14 Speaker 8: They're so beautiful. Everybody's so friendly, Southern hospitality. 00:49:17 Speaker 4: Everything for you. Isn't that great? 00:49:20 Speaker 3: Ah, it's so great. I think we just have another montage. Let's do the second one. Let's let's do it. Let's do it clip thirty. 00:49:29 Speaker 4: I can go for these a thousand times. 00:49:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, but you won't drink a thousand cups. 00:49:35 Speaker 2: I've got a lorry and it's free. 00:49:38 Speaker 4: You've paid free. 00:49:38 Speaker 8: You been it once, bro, slow down and in America, it is so amazing. Seriously, Americans, what have you done to me? I need to come back. 00:49:53 Speaker 3: Ah, it's great. 00:49:54 Speaker 4: These are those are so good. 00:49:56 Speaker 3: I have a feeling that they're better than anything we could say. Go ahead, Blake, Yeah, yeah, it's amazing. I want to set up this specific one. There's a character you guys should all follow him. He's on X. He goes by Freddy. His full name here is Freddie la seven. He's a soccer fan. Came with two of his friends and they're planning to go to several World Cup games, and they're road tripping across the South and he's basically become a celebrity at this point because people are hyped up. This guy's showing up. He's going to the college football stadiums, he's marveling at them. He's discovering our giant gas station. So actually, that's a great one for us to play. I believe this is Freddy or someone like him. Discovering BUCkies Clip thirty two. 00:50:39 Speaker 1: Take this out. 00:50:40 Speaker 4: It's cold BUCkies and it's this. 00:50:43 Speaker 15: Big ding ding ding ding and still this big and oh just no, just no trash, no one begging, no one doing drugs, no one's stealing, no one's breaking into my truck. 00:50:55 Speaker 9: Look at this. 00:50:58 Speaker 3: Huge. 00:50:59 Speaker 15: You know, when they say everything's big in America. 00:51:03 Speaker 4: They weren't lying. That's actually a South African guy. 00:51:06 Speaker 3: But yes, same, yeah, And that's getting at what I said though, that no one's breaking your truck yet, So you'd have to worry about that in South Africa. But you do also have to worry about that if he was just visiting La, which so many people do. Oh, go to La, go to the Walk of Fame. Yeah, you're gonna see garbage, you're gonna see homeless people. It's not gonna be America's best look. But you go to a BUCkies, which we have these outside a dozen cities in the South, and you go there, it's gigantic. There's a huge amount of bounty, it's affordable, the bathrooms are immaculately clean, the workers are cheerful, they're well paid. And that is when I went to a BUCkies for the first time. That made me feel great about America. I thought, we can beat China, we can beat anyone. 00:51:52 Speaker 5: This is the greatest country and made you white Bill, Yes, its you, and it was. Here's some some some visitors enjoying country music on the radio thirty one. 00:52:05 Speaker 1: I've mean driving five minutes now and I'll call him, wipe this mile off my legs. I'm driving a round truck in America. 00:52:11 Speaker 7: Look, I'm saying this is country music on the radio. 00:52:17 Speaker 4: I'm telling it. Who in a ra trap in America? 00:52:24 Speaker 3: Right? 00:52:24 Speaker 13: For Rado? 00:52:28 Speaker 3: That was definitely not country music. But I think that might have been a doubover. 00:52:32 Speaker 4: That was a track over the top. But he's driving a truck going to uh Go. 00:52:36 Speaker 5: I think he said he's going to Hooters, which is, you know, not necessarily America's best look either, but it's it's it's uniquely American, I will say. 00:52:44 Speaker 3: And that Freddie guy he found a he found a bass pro shop and he was marveling at that. And he's like, they have a shooting range inside the store. They're they're selling everything, and we're very happy because the truth is Americans, we don't hate europ We find you're up disappointing, and we love America and we love showing it to other people. 00:53:07 Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so here. This is all like part of our segment with Rich Barris before uh Blake. It is a This is all like a psychic repair of a psychic break. Like the vibes are good. You've got sports, the Knicks are winning, which people love, You've got World Cup, things are looking good. Good conversation is about respect. It's how we create a space where people are able to share their ideas and be heard. Charlie knew that Turning Point still knows that, and TikTok has always strived to build the kind of place that thrives on respectful connection, where curiosity fuels connection and we can share what's on our minds and learn from each other. When ideas meet respect, good things happen. 00:53:49 Speaker 4: On TikTok. 00:53:50 Speaker 5: You can find a mechanic explaining the why behind a problem most of us wouldn't even know how to name, or a father sharing a lifetime of knowledge with his viewers. Viewers who listen discuss and then they were bond. TikTok turns connection into community through small acts of understanding. You can feel it in the comments and the thank you from a stranger halfway across the world. TikTok is a place where respect opens the door for discussion, and discussion helps us build something real. Mark Halprin two WAYTV, and so much more. Gosh, Mark, you're a busy guy, Mark, so we normally get very serious with you here, but we just have to. I have to keep going on this segment because I love it so much. These Europeans are visiting America and they're like discovering that they've been lied to by the European media. 00:54:40 Speaker 4: And the Internet. It's actually an amazing place. 00:54:43 Speaker 5: It's a bunch of Scotland fan saying take me home Country Roads fifty eight. 00:55:07 Speaker 4: I love you. Can hear their accent and contree roads. Mark, you were about to say something I. 00:55:12 Speaker 2: Was gonna say. 00:55:12 Speaker 16: I was under the impression of this segment was entirely about the Knicks. It's really all I'm interested in talking about. 00:55:16 Speaker 2: But I'll make an exception. 00:55:18 Speaker 16: Can I tell you my favorite American cultural imperialism story? 00:55:22 Speaker 4: Yes? 00:55:22 Speaker 16: Oh yes, I mean, you know, our cultural imperism is just crazy, right, Hollywood movies and rock music and just social media right everything. So the first time I went to Canada. I was in the gym, and I was watching the equivalent of like the evening National Evening newscast. And that day Regis and Kathy Lee had announced that they were going to do a week of their shows in Canada, and it was the lead story on the evening News. And I thought, imagine if the Canadian equivalent of Regis and Kathy and Kelly, we're doing a week of shows from like Hilton head Imagine, imagine that probably wouldn't even be covered in Hilton Head, let alone the lead story. 00:55:58 Speaker 2: On the National News. People love us, they love our culture, they love. 00:56:03 Speaker 16: I knew, I know this went too far when I read in one of the many stories you're referring to, someone said, oh my god, I thought They're fast food was so horrible. But I came here in Ada Burger King, Hamburger, Oh my goodness, it's so much better now. 00:56:17 Speaker 2: I like Burger King just fine. But it's gone too far when they're lauding. 00:56:20 Speaker 16: Our the quality of our fast food purpose as some sign of the superiority of American culture. 00:56:25 Speaker 3: Well maybe a little bit. 00:56:27 Speaker 5: Yeah, I will tell you though, there was a there's a there's all this has going viral, by the way, all over it's a beautiful timeline purge. And there was a gal I think she must have been English. She was eating in and out for the first time and she was literally, you know, almost hyperventilating that it was so good and the animal style fries so that I will in and out. 00:56:46 Speaker 16: In and out, I get this is burger King, I objected, in and out. Of course, yes, America is that. 00:56:51 Speaker 5: Its finest exactly so, so this is we were talking about Freddie, who's actually I think German Blake. 00:56:57 Speaker 4: He's this is what's so funny about this. These are the videos that are going viral. 00:57:02 Speaker 5: It's simply him driving down like some two lane highway and it's beautiful. But he's listening to Ella Langley. He discovers Ella Langley and this goes viral. Cut fifty seven. Fine, apparently that's worth you know, that's worth it. 00:57:32 Speaker 4: He goes. 00:57:33 Speaker 5: The best discovery of our road trip has been a musician called Ella Langley. We had never heard of her before, but after hearing her on pretty much every country radio station, we've become big fans. She's basically the soundtrack of our This is what I'm saying, America is great. This is a great place, and it's I see it through their eyes and it makes me appreciate it in a new way again. 00:57:52 Speaker 4: Markin Yeah. I mean the. 00:57:57 Speaker 2: Part of it is just the image, right. They just love America. 00:58:00 Speaker 16: You could go to any country in Africa or Asia and sell t shirts that say USA. People will buy them, or pictures of Patrick Huing. They'll buy anything that associated with America. But it's not just the brand. It's it's the quality. Right. It's like Apple products, the break People pay a premium for the brand, but Apple products are great, except for the iPad. iPods don't always work, but everything else fantastic. Our stuff's great. Nobody can match our our country music. There's nothing in the world as good as our country. 00:58:28 Speaker 3: Stuff we take for granted, stuff we take for granted. I saw they're marveling at those wacky coke mixing machines where you can get a thousand different flavors. Objected, and I asked someone, my friends are reform. Do you guys not have these? And then I say, I have never seen one of those in my entire life. And we think about Sometimes will go abroad to another country and say, oh, Japan's amazing. They're you know, the train's always on time. Europe's amazing. They have more varieties of beer and it's cheaper or something. But in America we just don't even think of that. Oh we have the most amazing soda machine ever and you can get infinite refills. No one else has. 00:59:03 Speaker 2: That'll tell you. 00:59:04 Speaker 16: I'll tell you two other things we have, or three other things we have that really most places don't have. 00:59:09 Speaker 2: One is it's just a big place, not just the countries. 00:59:11 Speaker 16: The roads are really wide, right, there's a lot of parks, a lot of big stuff. 00:59:17 Speaker 2: Number one. 00:59:17 Speaker 16: Number two, people here are really friendly, and I know, you know, there's kind of sometimes an image that they're not like in New York. 00:59:23 Speaker 2: People in New York are so friendly. 00:59:24 Speaker 16: It's just a it's a friendly place. It's not like France or Belgium, where people are a little bit unfriendly. And then lastly, although although there's this impression that were jingoistic and isolationists, and those are well earned and somewhat accurate, we're interested in other people like we like having them here. Their country is like Japan and France, where they don't really care about the tourists. They don't want them there, We want the tours here. We're like, yeah, enjoy America. Welcome, Welcome in everybody, because yeah, you should enjoy this greatest country in the world. And if you came here for some game you call football that's really soccer, that's fine. We're just happy to host you here. You didn't realize. I was like thetoke ful analystair. 01:00:03 Speaker 3: Yea, we know, Eric, great guy. Go ahead, yeah, throw your video up. It's just it's the Freddy thing. I want to if you you you introduced me to Freddy, So I'm trying to give you your do here. Blake, Uh he goes the BUCkies, he goes, he goes. We found another surreal place on our way. I know some people will say I'm too positive about everything I see, but this place was crazy. They had a shooting range in the store that was a shout out to your earlier reference. And and you go into outdoor World, the bass Bro Barow Shop, and you're like, this is this is actually legitimately Americana. We have stores big enough to have their own climate sustainly. But Mark, you're you're analyst. You've been watching this a long time. So we were asking an earlier guest Rich Farris about this, but you might have thoughts as well. Is there an impact to this, this this vibe shift feeling like, do you think it actually matters that we're having this big love fest on America thanks to the World Cup? It seems like the UFC fight was also, yeah, pretty successful. People feel high on America. Do you think that has an impact on the national vibe? 01:01:06 Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think it's a negative thing. 01:01:09 Speaker 16: But but this is just a a an in real life manifestation of what happens every day all over the world. You know, there's obviously a lot of covers in the media first about you know, Canadians and Europeans didn't. 01:01:22 Speaker 2: Like George W. 01:01:23 Speaker 16: Bush and now they're like, they really don't like Trump. But through it all, they love America. And I think, I look, I'm from the Barack Obama school that a lot of your audience will not like. 01:01:33 Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think it's helpful for. 01:01:35 Speaker 16: Us or right for us to our rant saying we're the greatest country in the history of the world. 01:01:39 Speaker 2: I think this is off putting. But we are, well, we are. But I think it's off putting to say we are in so many ways. 01:01:44 Speaker 16: We are just going on our freedom and our liberty. We are the greatest country in the history of the world. But this cultural imperialism where it's like Madonna is you know, just you know, we have we have literally a million like rock artists who not literally not literally figurely so many who are like so big overseas, like you know, you guys can name one cake pop band, right, just we are culturally imperialists, and I think that there's something off about that, Like Japanese culture should be a lot bigger in the United States. Their food is better than ours, their architecture, their clothes, it's all better. 01:02:17 Speaker 2: Than ours, honestly. 01:02:19 Speaker 16: But American cultural imperialism is one of the strongest forces in the world, and it's been reinforced by social media. So the two things you cite, World Cup and the fight last night, like these these are manifestations of what it has existed for decades, which is people around the world they just love American culture, but love our high culture and especially our low culture. 01:02:39 Speaker 5: Yeah, especially our low culture, I would say, and I low I take issue with that that word. Actually, it's it's the real people, it's the it's the grassroots. It's the it's the it's. 01:02:49 Speaker 2: America in a bad way, exactly just available to all. 01:02:52 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly so. 01:02:54 Speaker 5: But but I think what Blake is getting at is, you know, you go on social media for the last however many months, and there's just a tinge of negativity, of cynicism. Not even a tinge, it's kind of like right in the face. It just feels like last night on X for example, it was just loud and proud patriotism for the first time that I've seen in a while. And you know, there was a lot of an analyst looking at the crowd at the Ellipse. 01:03:20 Speaker 4: It was all young men. 01:03:22 Speaker 5: And UFC is a powerful vehicle for this can this psychic break that started with Epstein, that started with Midnight Hammer, that started again the latest Darron strikes. Now that we're looking at peace, now that we've got this like two fifty celebration World Cup, it just feels like the vibes are shifting in a good way and that could impact. 01:03:41 Speaker 16: Sorry now, fah sorry, prove it. Sorry what time will tell us? They say in the news business. 01:03:49 Speaker 2: I just don't think so. I mean, I hope you're right, but I don't think so. 01:03:55 Speaker 4: I disagree completely, Yes, yes, exactly. 01:04:00 Speaker 5: You know what, just for that, Mark, Mark, just for that, I'm gonna pull up that clip of you on you on Colbert in twenty sixteen. This was a great The whole thing with you on the Colbert Show was amazing. Actually, people should go back and watch it. So but this particular clip was so good. I laughed so hard when I found it. Because Colbert is losing it, and because Trump is surprising, everybody's defying the odds that New York Times had their dial remember it was a like ninety nine percent for Hillary and then over the night. So like the Colbert's losing it, you're on with I forget the other gentleman's name, but from the circus to showtime, the circus whatever, and you're trying to make sense of this, and he's asking for some hope, some good tidings, something to hold his you know, hang on, to hang his hat on, and you just dashed his hopes. 01:04:48 Speaker 4: It was an amazing moment. 01:04:50 Speaker 1: Cut sixty is is there is there a comparable moment in American political history that that you can pull. 01:04:58 Speaker 16: Out outside of the Civil War, World War two, and including nine to eleven. 01:05:03 Speaker 2: This may be the most cataclysmic event the country's ever seen. 01:05:07 Speaker 5: Well, yeah, you guys, cataclysmic was an interesting word choice. I do agree, though, tectonic shift a shift happened that night. 01:05:22 Speaker 16: Just just to be clear, sometimes people in MAGA say, oh, how dare you say it would be horrible? 01:05:27 Speaker 2: That's not what cataclysmic means. It means a fundamental change, and I stand by it. I stand by it. 01:05:32 Speaker 16: I think it really affected the country more than nine to eleven. It's tragic that that was. I had a can I can I lapse into story mode? 01:05:39 Speaker 4: Yeah, at that time. 01:05:40 Speaker 2: I had a unique night. 01:05:42 Speaker 16: On election night because I started at the Clinton headquarters and because of the way media assignments work, or not headquarters, but victory party at the Javit Center, because the way media assignment's working, because of the extraordinary security for presidential candidate. I don't know that anybody else was both in in all these places. In the Clinton victory party, the Clinton hotel, which she never left because she never went to a victory party, the Trump victory. 01:06:10 Speaker 2: Event, and on. 01:06:13 Speaker 16: And also I was on Cobert, so I was going all around Manhattan, whereas most people you know, were in one location. 01:06:18 Speaker 2: Because of security and assignments. 01:06:20 Speaker 16: And uh, so I went from Colbert to the Clinton hotel and then to the Trump victory party. And because I knew Secret Service and I knew Trump folks, they got me in even though the building was locked down at that point. And uh, it was just an incredible night to go from the Clinton place where they thought they were gonna win until they realized they weren't. 01:06:39 Speaker 3: Uh. 01:06:40 Speaker 16: And then and then the the the extreme emotion, positive emotion at the Trump thing was. It was an incredible night. I wish I'd taken better notes. I have a lot of notes, but I should have. I should have just had a GoPro on for the whole. 01:06:51 Speaker 4: Yeah, you you were witnessed to history. You really were. 01:06:54 Speaker 5: And uh, I mean I'll never forget that night. I was in Los Angeles at the time, and I was I think my particular precinct. I looked it up afterwards. It was something like sixteen percent of people that I lived around voted for Trump that night. 01:07:07 Speaker 9: Many. 01:07:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was in the real red area of LA but higher. 01:07:11 Speaker 3: Than mine, higher than mine. I think mine was nine percent. 01:07:14 Speaker 4: Oh, you're in DC. 01:07:15 Speaker 3: I was, well, I was in DC living voting, but I was actually also in New York for election night. I was at still it was still Facebook at the time, their New York campus. They were having streams and stuff on it. So I was there with The Daily Caller and then we went to the Hillary victory party as people were leaving it, and I to this day I have some interviews on my phone with some of those people. They were having a bad night. Yeah, and it was I'll never forget it. 01:07:41 Speaker 5: I were like, they were like Cobert, Yeah, exactly, you guys, he'd brought out the old fashions. 01:07:47 Speaker 4: I mean it was really he was really up against it that night. Mark. 01:07:52 Speaker 5: I want to turn our attention in the last four minutes we have here to the Iran deal. I can't tell you speaking, I can't tell you enough speaking to you students at turning point, how much they want this war to be done with. And this is why I sort of fundamentally disagree with your earlier take. I think the vibes are basically how the country is getting run now. It's basically like how elections go as like vibes. And if the vibes are good, if gas is cheap, if there's progress being made, if we're not focusing abroad that could really have fundamental electoral consequence. Tell us about the Iran deal, though, and what you think is really going on here and is how significant do you think this ultimately could be. 01:08:33 Speaker 2: I'm not against vibes as part of election analysis at all. I think vibes is a super important thing. 01:08:39 Speaker 16: It's too soon to say whether this is gonna be good all the way through November or sooner. 01:08:46 Speaker 2: As voters start to think about it, they're going to vote for. 01:08:48 Speaker 16: It almost certainly will bring down the price of gas. I've got a theory, a working theory here, and nothing I've seen today I hope I woke up with the theory and nothing I've seen today has moved me off of it. I think what Trump realized is the economic pressure was not going to work before the midterms. That they had miscalculated whether Iran would give in because they couldn't sell oil robustly and because they were having overcapacity and they could they risk ruining their oil infrastructure. I think they realized they were about ten months off in their prediction about that, and so that meant there's no economic pressure that will break their back before the midterms. He had to bring down gas prices before then, So get them to agree to open the straight, drop the blockade, drop Iron's threats against ships, lower gas prices, and then negotiate past the midterms. Even though they claimed sixty days between Israel fighting with Hezbelah, between Irani and it recalcitrants and the difficulty of negotiating something like this. I think the negotiations will go past the midterms. That means gas prices will stay low, there won't be any more kinetic activity of any significance beyond Israel and Hezela, and that then he can figure it out after the midterms when the pressure is somewhat off, to make sure that the war doesn't start back up. And maybe at that point he does start the worl or back up, or maybe at that point he strikes a deal with Iron that he wouldn't risk striking now for fear of demoralizing the neocons. 01:10:06 Speaker 4: So I was on this call this morning. 01:10:08 Speaker 5: It was a sort of on background call with senior American officials that were involved in the negotiations. 01:10:14 Speaker 4: Were you on that same call, Mark. 01:10:16 Speaker 2: I was on a different call with I believe the same officials. 01:10:18 Speaker 5: All right, So, well, this was officials anyways, they said, interestingly enough, the nuclear aspect of the deal has been the easiest, one of the easier parts rather of the negotiations, because they basically realized that US intelligence is so adept that they can't start the nuclear program again and without US knowing. And secondly, they need our help to get the dust out anyways, right, so technically the expertise the resources to do that. So the point is, I think actually the most interesting part of this deal you referenced it is Israel Hesbola. You see, Mark Levin is very skeptical of this deal, and some other of the hardliners tell it in one minute left break down that aspect of it. 01:11:02 Speaker 16: For US, Well, you're not gonna get hez blood to stop attacking. 01:11:05 Speaker 2: Israel or Israel from responding. That's just not gonna happen. 01:11:08 Speaker 16: So any if the deal is predicated on a sustained ceasefire between those entities, forget it. And of course Israel would be delighted to scuttle the US Iran deal by having conflict with Iran HEZBLA for them, that's. 01:11:22 Speaker 2: A two firm. 01:11:23 Speaker 16: So I think I think it's the United's the reason you see the President, criticizing that Yahoo is to say to the Iranians, can't I can't control the guy. He's not my guy anymore. He's doing what he wants to do. So I think the question is going to be in Iran's court when the United States says we can't stop him, and they say, you guys got to stop Hesbelah, Iran's gonna say, I'm nomenomena. I think I think it's it's either going to be everything or nothing. Either Ron's gonna accept the fact that they'll continue to be conflict between Israel and HEZBLA, or they'll scuttle the deal over it, and that's gonna be up to Tehran. 01:11:53 Speaker 2: For the most part. 01:11:54 Speaker 4: I think that's good analysis. 01:11:56 Speaker 5: Mark Halprin, editor in chief of Two Way TV and next Up with Megan Kelly. 01:12:00 Speaker 4: Check out both of those, Mark, I appreciate you so much, Thanks guys the time. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com.