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I recommend to 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.000 my family, friends and viewers. 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.200 All right, welcome back our two of The Charlie Kirk Show, 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:16.000 and I am extraordinarily excited about our next guest, and 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.280 I'll tell you why, because he is a dear friend 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.480 and he has not been back on the show since 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:25.160 we lost Charlie, and he at various points in this 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.120 show's history, has been a regular. He even joined us 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.119 into trot and play that clip, and that of course 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:35.880 is Kine from Citizen Free Press. Very excited to have 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.000 you back on the show, my friend. Welcome back to 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:38.840 the Charlie Kirk Show. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.920 Yeah, happy to be here. Andrew. I checked, you know 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:47.360 on the zoom infight for this interview. It was February thirteenth. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:48.600 That was the last time you were on. 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:50.600 Yeah, that was the last time I owned so you 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.120 and I talked obviously February March April. I remember we 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.920 dm back and forth. But I was just as you know, 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:01.240 I got pissed off about deficits about the right in 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.800 the big Beautiful Bill, and I was having a battle 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:08.960 with besstt and and russ Vote and you know, and 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.000 so I just was negative. Man. All I would have 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.400 had to say was negative stuff about how there wasn't 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.600 enough there weren't enough spending cuts. So I just I 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.440 ducked out of the the media scene for six months 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:19.799 or so. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.520 Yeah, you know, that's interesting, and Blake will remember this 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.760 as well. We kind of went through our own journey, 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.119 and Charlie went through his own journey with the Big 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.240 Beautiful Bill, and I think it really turned for him 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.520 when we had Stephen Miller on the show. It was 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.000 an extended conversation like thirty thirty five minutes, and it 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:41.880 went viral, you know, kind of explaining the nuances of 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.040 the bill, why Steven Miller was in supportive. Obviously, he's 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.400 part of the administration, so you've got to assume that 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.040 he's you know, going to say supporting things. But it 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.760 was actually an incredibly compelling moment, and I remember that 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.200 that clip went viral and really helped galvanize a lot 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.920 of the basis support for that bill. But listen, we 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.160 understand everybody wanted less spending. We all want less spending, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.000 we do, But go ahead, kid. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.840 Yeah, well yeah, I was gonna say I understood Besson's 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.000 point the whole time, and I even tried to promote it, 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:11.960 you know, I was giving them a fair shake. And 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.720 what he was saying was basically this, you know, three hundred, 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.680 I think the spending cut number, you know, for the 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.960 first year was one hundred and fifty six billion. And 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.919 his point was, look, if we cut three hundred billion 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.919 or three fifty or four hundred billion out of discretionary, 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:31.000 it's actually gonna take a one percent slice out of GDP. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.440 And that's what he was worried about. He was saying, 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.760 give them four years, they're gonna get this right. He 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.840 was talking all about measuring it as a percentage of GDP. 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.360 So he's like, we're at seven percent. Now give us 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.680 four years, we'll get it into the threes. We'll get 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.880 it down to, you know, to where the annual deficit 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.000 is just three and a half percent of GDP. And 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.240 I understood his point, and I and that's what Stephen 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.880 Miller was talking about. I was just you know, as 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.360 I've told you privately, right, I right. The whole reason 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.720 I'm into politics that I got radicalized back in nineteen 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.360 eighty seven when I was working looking at CNN, was 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.480 was the national debt and that's when it crossed like 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.280 a trillion and a half or two trillion. So I 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.440 just you know, it's I have a stick up my 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.600 butt about the debt and deficit. And that's you know, 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.760 figured somehow I got this large audience after eight years, right, 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.640 and I might as well use it. And so I 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.040 used it to just kind of drive the point that 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.960 Senator Johnson and a few others were really making about cuts. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.560 But anyway, I'm over it. I was never against the bill, 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.520 and I made that clear on the final day that 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:30.600 I fully supported it. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:31.480 Uh. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.279 Anyway, whatever, And I don't want to. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:34.760 Get that's admirable. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.360 That's admirable because we do we do need people to 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.599 care about that. We can't forget about it because people 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.680 it's the thing everyone in the country loves to just 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.400 push under the rug. But the rug is getting it's 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.400 getting very elevated at this point. 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:48.360 Uh. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.320 But we wanted to have you on King because what 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.280 Charlie loved talking to you about so. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:55.920 Much was you. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.839 You have those links out there. You see what people 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.680 are clicking on, what they care about. You are incredibly 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.920 good vibes reader, as it were, And we've had a 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.560 lot of discussion this last fall about what are the 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.479 vibes on the right? Are they feeling optimistic or are 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.800 feeling downbeat? How quickly can one change can change from 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.479 the one to the other. So the floor is yours. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.120 All that question well, here's what I would say quickly. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.880 I would say, you know what, the base is fine there, 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.000 maybe scared Again. I'm gonna make the distinction between the 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.719 Twitter base and the base that never goes on Twitter 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.320 unless they're on a link, you know, from CFP people 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.600 who don't have Twitter accounts. So again the scared part, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.240 why is that? Well, it's always it's always the same 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.080 thing that we get our butts kicked in these special elections, 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:42.960 in these off your elections, And Charlie and I would 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.200 go through that. He would be like, chill out, Kane, 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.320 it's gonna be okay. We're gonna get turnout, you know, 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.760 in twenty twenty four and not if you were. I 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.520 mean you remember we lost what thirteenth straight of those 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:56.560 special elect or Democrats overperformed in thirteenth straight. So anyway, 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:57.800 they're scared because of that. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.200 And I'm gonna play a clip from this was your 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.960 first public appearance with Charlie and I in Detroit at 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.680 our People's Convention last year. Let's go ahead and play 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:07.560 one peven. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.279 If we do not expand our base with new voter 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.080 registration and high turnout, we are not going to win. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.520 And the higher turnout the higher. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.760 Likelihood that we are going to wines and Democrats know this, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.240 and so we need to engage in every legal way 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.000 we possibly can to make it too big to rig 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.240 and Kane, if our elections were actually honest and secure, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:28.800 what would the result end up being. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.120 I want people to understand what Turning Point Action Turning 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.719 Point USA has been doing over the last six months 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.599 regarding chasing the vote. All right, what Andrew just talked 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.239 about the low propensity voters. 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.799 We've got to get out and register. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.640 At all, you know, play by the rules. We don't 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:45.280 like these rules. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.719 We don't think that absentee balance are the way to 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.080 go for the future, but as long as they're part 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.040 of the system, we have to use that. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.880 It's a good memory. Kin, if you can hear me. 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:57.720 I'm not sure if you're if you're with us, or 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.240 if we're reconnecting you, but the actually you and I 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.279 reconnected recently, and I was telling you I've gotten a 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.800 bunch of emails at Freedom at Charliekirk dot com saying 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:07.919 where's Citizen Free Press, where's Kane? 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:08.440 Where is he? 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.360 I'm now looking through some of our emails. In fact, 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.880 I think I was even we were inspired to reach 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.600 out to him again because we had we had an 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.080 email from Samantha just a few a week ago. Hey, 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.240 Blake and Andrew, has anyone checked in with Citizen Kane? 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.400 Is he doing okay? And I said, yes, we still 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.160 talk to him. He's doing well, but we actually need 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:27.960 to get him on the show. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:28.400 All right. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.280 Well, so this is this is a good time to 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.080 bring up the updates in Indiana. I cannot tell you 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:37.000 how many emails I've gotten or text from reporters about Indiana. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.680 So we announced this last week. We had a rally 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:44.200 there at the state House in Indiana. And there is 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.280 a big, big fight that is brewing right now and 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.600 it's going to come to a head probably this week 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.960 where they are going to vote on the new maps 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.600 in Indiana. So are we going to have a completely 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.440 red state, all Republican congressional districts redrawn. There's a certain 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.520 percentage of the senators in that state that have not 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.480 indicated which way they are going to vote. There is 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.480 a strong possibility. And the reason this is pertinent to 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.320 Kin obviously is that's his home state. He's a big 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:18.480 Indiana Hoosier, and so they are going to reconvene Monday 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.680 afternoon to begin consideration of House Built ten thirty two, 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.600 and the redesign would likely eliminate Indiana's two Democratic held 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.960 congressional districts to create a nine zero Republican map ahead 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:30.760 of twenty twenty six. 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:32.120 It's a huge, huge deal. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.280 The House approved the redistricting bill as expected, on a 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.760 vote fifty seven to forty one. Twelve Republicans joined all 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:43.839 Democrats in opposition, but Senate President pro Tem Roderick Bray 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.640 has warned that there are not enough votes to move 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.119 that idea forward. And so what's happening in the background 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.400 here is that groups like Turning Point Action and others, 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.400 there's a big coalition that is building informaty for me. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:01.040 We are going to have congressional level spending going after 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.040 to primary these senators in Indiana to get them more 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.080 in alignment with their base voters. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:08.240 The base voters in. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:13.600 Indiana want this new map, Cain, I've transitioned since you've 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:18.040 been gone to this new redistricting map. There is a huge, 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:19.920 huge push going on right now. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.040 How do people feel about redistricting Indiana and across the country. 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.200 They're incredibly pissed off. In Indiana that the Indiana Senate 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.719 is blowing all this smoke. As you've probably mentioned, the 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.840 vote was fifty seven to forty one in the House, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.480 Indiana House, just on Friday, right, and that was with 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.560 ten or eleven Democrats or Republicans defecting and voting with Democrats. 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.040 There's going to be hell to pay if the Indiana 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.760 Senate doesn't approve this thing. In that political article, they 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.560 say that Mike Johnson's been making phone calls and don't 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.240 bet on this outcome yet. 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There is going to 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.320 be hell to pay. And I talk about this. I 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.960 talked about this last week. Blake will remember that when 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.040 you have a solidly read state that gets kind of out, 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.120 it's it's left out on an island of its own. 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.360 We're not focusing on it during a presidential year because 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.520 it's not a swing state. What happens is these incumbent 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.280 political parties and machines are able to keep existing. They 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.240 kind of just hide in the shadows, and you get 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:24.120 this misalignment between the base voters that are consuming content 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.040 at a citizen free press that are consuming content on 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.599 the show, they get misaligned with the base, voters and 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.560 the political class. And that's what you're having in Indiana 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.079 where you have these weak, squishy senators that are standing 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.199 in the way of what the base wants and there 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:39.320 will be held to pay. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:40.199 Kaine. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.800 Yeah, and you had and as an Indiana resident, you 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.120 had no idea this is going on, right, there's never 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.360 a test, there's how do you know that these people 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.440 are this way, that they're this squishy, that they're going 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.440 to react this way to a simple redistricting. So it 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.280 caught you know it. I think it's surprised the voters. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.480 And look, I'm sure you mentioned it. You know, Indiana 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.080 is a big pro Trump state. It's we've been plus 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.080 twenty or so for the last two elections. I mean 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.880 we sent we sent Evan by packing again, you know 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.440 when he thought he could waltz back in for a 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.920 Senate seat. So anyway, this is a strong Trump state 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.720 and it's it's shocking that the you know that so 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.800 many of the state senators are this out of touch. Again, 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.840 as I sort of said before we went to break, 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.440 you know, calls have been made, there's been pressure that 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.440 has been applied this weekend. So you know, I'm watching 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.640 it by the hour on local TV. So we're gonna 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.120 see how the Senate, how this sort of plays out. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.560 I think we have a chance, you know, to eliminate 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.040 and last thing I'll say before throwing it back. One 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.400 of the two Democrat seats is held by Andre Carson. 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.040 He's done nothing in his life except serve under his mom. 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:45.959 His mom, I forget her name, but she was a 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.600 congresswoman from Indianapolis for fifty years. She died like in 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.640 her eighties or nineties in the last I don't know, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.679 let's say ten fifteen years ago. And our son has 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.920 just swooped into the into that seat, so be wonderful 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.479 to get him out of Congress. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.440 I gotta ask you can what about this this Indiana 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:05.960 state Senator Michael Bohachek that says he will oppose redistricting 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:07.839 because Trump said the R word. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.080 Yeah, that guy got pissed off, right, they got Trump 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.200 said retard in a true social post. And this guy 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.240 got offended because he has a son, I believe, who 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.000 has autism or some learning disability. And I understand that 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.160 on a personal level, but that's not what your job is. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.000 His job isn't to sort of protect his family. His 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.200 job is to do the right thing for the state 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.280 of Indiana. And so you know, to me, that's completely ridiculous. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.600 Well, he's gonna be on our list here. And you 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.120 know he by the way, he recently pleaded guilty, apparently 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:41.199 to driving while intoxicated. He was three times Indiana's legal limit, 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:46.400 So there's some inconsistencies in his background. Cane, give us 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.520 an update on your traffic. How's things going at Citizen 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:50.080 Free Press. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.839 Yeah, yeah, Well, here's an interesting peek into how media works. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.480 When your side wins, traffic goes down. When your side loses, 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.680 traffic goes up. So when Biden won twenty twenty the 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.120 last four years, people are freaked out. They're checking noos. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.640 They're checking my site eight times a day. Now I 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.440 get the same number of people every day, but they 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.560 check about five times. But that, in all honesty, part 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.960 of that is probably due to my slacking, as you know, 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.320 because you read the side every day the last six months. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:18.960 You know, for the first time in nine years, I 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.000 decided not to work sixteen eighteen hours a day and 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.680 I work twelve to fourteen so there's fewer up There 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.120 have been fewer updates, but Traffick's still find I'm doing 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.680 twelve million pages a day. It's about six and a 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.400 half million people per month come on their own to 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.760 the homepage. So that's two percent of the populatation. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.440 Well done, massive powerhouse at System Free Press, Caine. It 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.760 feels like we're getting like the old vibes back. I'm 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.960 not kidding. I was telling the team when I walked 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.000 into the studio today, I was like, man, I feel 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.400 the vibe shift. There's like a I don't know what 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.080 it is. Maybe it's just in my head, but having 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.240 you back on feels really, really good. I hope you 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.920 will not be a stranger Kane, and that you will 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.560 come back more often because we need to keep the 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.880 base focused, and that's what you and Charlie did. What's 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.320 with you and me and Charlie and Blake keep the 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:09.200 base focus on those on the main things like Hey, redistricting, 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.400 that's a huge fight that's happening this week. You got 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.400 to contact your senators. By the way, if you want 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:18.760 to get involved. Tpaction dot Com Forward slash Act Indiana, 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:20.840 we might I think we have that ur from last week. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.360 You guys can find out we should put it up 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.440 on the lower banner. You can send letters to everybody 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.600 Act Indiana tpaction dot com Ford slash act Indiana. We 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.480 gotta put the pressure on these guys. But Ken, I 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.840 have to bring this topic up. It's Charlie loved college football, 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.440 so we keep talking about it because we are in 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:42.440 the playoff bracket period and I have to I can't 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.080 believe that we're sitting in a situation where Indiana is 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.040 the number one team. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:49.760 Where did this come from? 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:50.360 Uh? 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:52.880 I have no idea, and you knew this would be 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.800 a topic I could talk about. I've been going to 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.720 games since I was six years old. The football stadium 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.920 is a mile from my house that I grew up in, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.200 and I rolled around on those stupid hills and rolled 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.720 around in that stadium. So for fifty some years I've 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.960 been a fan. And in what fifteen coaches all average, 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.880 all fail. You get one guy. One guy brings in 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:18.000 his this philosophy that I've never heard before. Every play 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.200 has a life of its own, you know, independent of 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.960 the play before he brings it in, and they go 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.720 what We went eleven and zero last year until we 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.600 lost to Ohio State. And then, you know, anyway, it's unbelievable. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.520 I did not expect to win the game. In Indy. 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.560 The Town's on fire were ranked number one for the 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:40.200 first time in history. You know, I don't. I can't 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.640 even believe it's happening. I still, you know, I had to. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.640 We lost thirty straight years to Ohio State, as you know, 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.120 and I want people to know. You know, when Andrew 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.880 talks about football, he was an All States safety in Nevada. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:54.560 In high school. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.040 He could have played college safety for a bunch of schools, 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.120 so he knows football better than I do. But this 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.320 is insane. And it was insane that Indiana went to 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.920 Oregon and won. And I thought of our dear brother 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.760 Charlie then, and you know how much he loved University 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.320 of Oregon football. And it's just it's also bittersweet, but 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.919 it's exciting. And and what the heck? Where you know 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:16.400 we're ranked number one? How about that? 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.879 How about that you beat the Ohio State buck guys 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.320 in danny On, our team was in tears, but they're 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.359 still right number two. You might get a rematch here, Hey, Blake, 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:30.520 you're the Catholic here, notre Dame was left out, which 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:34.879 is a big scandal across college football. I'm sorry, do 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:35.280 you care? 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:37.520 I am angry. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.560 I'm angry that Notre Dame is throwing a temper tantrum. 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:44.160 And so one they turned down the Catholics Versus Mormon ball, 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.320 but they also turned down specifically it is the pop 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.600 Tart Bowl, in which they literally sacrifice the pop tart, 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.000 They lower the mascot into the giant toaster oven, and 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.920 then they consume the mascot. Yes, and I think that's 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.560 probably the best modern tr we have in college football. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.160 And they're they're pooping on it. I think they're being 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:05.520 kind of babies, to be honest. 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:07.040 They're in a tantrum cane. 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:11.640 Yes, they are from from the state. First off, Blake 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.120 is one hundred percent correct about the pop tart thing. 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.720 It's this hilarious meme thing they do at this ball. 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.720 I've seen it the last few years. But yeah, they're 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:22.440 throwing a fit. 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:22.560 You. 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.320 They had the ESPN reporter on scene yesterday and she 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.919 said people were walking the players were walking out with 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.320 their heads down. They feel like that. They called it 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:30.879 a forest. 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:31.120 Right. 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.880 The whole deal, for people who don't know, is suddenly 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.760 Miami jumped BYU in the rankings, so they were comparing 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.919 Miami dead on with Notre Dame, and they decided in 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:44.000 that comparison that Miami gets the bid because Miami beat 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:45.959 them in the first or second game of the season, 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.240 head to head. So and that had pissed off Notre 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.640 Dame fans because in the preceding, you know, college football 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.680 puts out the committee puts out rankings once a week 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.800 separate from AP and the coaches poll, and Notre Dame 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.200