WEBVTT - Wiles's Wild Interview + The Millennial “Lost Generation” 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:04.680 My name is Charlie Kirk. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.520 I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.520 fighting for the future of our republic. My call is 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.360 to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.840 important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:19.720 end up miserable. 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:21.680 But if the most important. 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:25.160 Thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful. College is 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.280 a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.600 to college. You should get married as young as possible 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:31.760 and have as many kids as possible. Go start at 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:34.160 turning point you would say college chapter. 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Andrew Colvett 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.720 in today joined by Blake Neff in the other seat. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.440 We got lots to get to today. We're gonna be 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.080 joined by Mark Halprin in the second half of this hour. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.560 Help us make sense of some of the Susie Wiles. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.800 Yeah, that just came out out of nowhere, out of 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.120 faces some hype for but this was just sort of 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.479 there it is, dropped it and surprised everybody this morning. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.160 Lots of interesting quotes, I think it's safe to say so. 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.360 There's lots of speculation about what this means. Is she 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.080 on her way out? Is did they think this was 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.680 a book interview? Lots of fascinating stuff. Obviously, this is 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.800 Amfest Week, So America Fest is coming to Phoenix the eighteenth, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.360 nineteen twenty and twenty first right at the Phoenix Convention Center. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.080 All the biggest names, all the biggest speakers. It's going 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.480 to be a wild couple days. I was hoping I 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.320 was gonna get a out of sleep last night, Blake, 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.000 and for some reason, like I woke up at four 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.680 and I tried to go back to sleep. Whoops, didn't happen. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.519 So that's not a good sign for Amfest week and 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.400 Fest week. You need to have all your energy all 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.600 your sleep, your hydration, well nourished, all the. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.880 Maybe maybe you could pull a pull a Charlie and 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.919 have one of those like min Yeah, yeah, day he 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.959 got into a high performance. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.480 He was he was a ferrari of a human being. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.600 So there's that. Uh. And then we're gonna have Yile 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:36.880 Exstein to reflect on the Hanukkah massacre in Bondai Beach, Australia, 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.080 which is still a tragedy we need to make sense of. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.280 And then we're gonna have Kurt Schlickter. We're gonna have 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.880 a gun discussion. We're also gonna talk about should we 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.720 nuke the filibuster. Mark wyn Mullen made some big news 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.920 yesterday by just basically coming out in favor of it. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.800 A gun discussion and a nuke discussion. Yes, lots of 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:57.440 weapons and yeah, and there's also this compact article we've 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.400 got to find some pass w went viral. Yes, yes, 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.760 very compact magazine. It's called the Lost Generation one eighty four. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:05.880 If you want to throw it up, it'll be a 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:07.480 little teas. I don't think we're ready to get into 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.440 it just yet, but one eighty four. So it's the 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.680 it's gonna call it the Lost Generation. It's all about 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.760 how there's basically been a whole group of millennials that 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:16.840 are about forty. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.200 If you are a millennial, if you are a young 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.960 white millennial male, you've basically gone through, let's just say it, 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.760 a modern day quasi Jim Crow in industry after industry 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.440 where you were systematically excluded and they all got screwed. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.880 Y are some of the people those are? I mean, 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.119 I guess gen z is who Charlie cared about the most. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.240 But so many of the people who were saying are 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.000 disasters who haven't married, haven't settled down. There are these 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.960 people who just spent their entire twenty five to forty range. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.320 They got hit by the Great Recession, and then just 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.360 let's just say it systematic discrimination in American life. 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.960 Yeah, I mean, I mean, I guess we're getting into it. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:53.560 I guess we are. We are getting into it. I mean, 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.280 we are gonna bring HOL'USI wild, Yeah, we're talking about 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.920 Whiles with him. But but I mean, listen, it's if 0:03:59.920 --> 0:04:02.280 you're turning i'd say, priabe between if you're between the 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.160 ages like thirty five and forty five, this probably could 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:09.520 have affected you, right, And if you're thirty thirty, thirty 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.880 to forty five, you know, And we rage against the 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.000 marriage rates, we rage against the low fertility rates. Let 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.039 we rage against the fact that home ownership has the 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.120 average meeting new home buyer is at like forty years old. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.360 We talk about all these ills, but what is really 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.000 driving down the average. It's these commissars of wokeness that 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:30.560 came in right around. 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.520 That's actually not who the article blames. It's not the 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.680 commissars of wokeness necessarily. All right, this is the interesting thing. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.960 So just so you guys, I think it's connected. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:40.400 So you can look this all up again. It's the 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.240 Lost Generation. It's a very long article on Compact magazine. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.640 This was a huge number of personalities on X we're 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.839 discussing this. It's gonna be one of the most read articles. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:49.920 Of the year. 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.839 On the right, Jacobs by Jacob Savage, who is a 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.640 writer based in Los Angeles, and he tells his own story. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.359 He was trying to become a TV or film writer 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.200 in Los Angeles, which that's long been a job. A 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.480 ton of young white guys get did you want to 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:06.360 go there trying to be a writer? 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.320 I was trying to be a right, you have no 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.039 idea how like internalized all of this was exactly exactly. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:13.919 So that's a job a ton of I mean, you know, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:14.840 artsy young men. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.960 They want to be a lot of them want to 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.039 be journalists, some of them want to be film writers, 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:20.600 some of them want to go into academia. And it's 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.599 really focused on those art you know, the industry. 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.080 Is what's interesting though, as somebody to live this a 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:29.440 little bit, it wasn't really artsy young men. It's really analytical, 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.680 sharp minded. That's the people that are driven to go 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.840 into the writing and producing fields. They're there. If they 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.720 were in a different city, they would have been you know, engineers. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.039 I'm not kidding. It's like the same thing. It's the 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.600 same profile. These are like wells get hit. So it's 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.560 pro focusing on especially those slightly more creative fields or academia. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:54.760 It's a creative journalism, arts, creativity, and how around twenty 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.960 fourteen you start getting the woke bubble, which is, you know, 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.000 you need more diversity in all things. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.520 You need to have more women, women of color, people 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:04.040 of color. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.000 It's the line they had. It reminds us of things 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.280 that were viral a decade ago. That people have forgotten. 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.800 Like there was a thing called Oscar's so White. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.400 It was a hashtag. We still have hashtag campaigns. Before 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:18.320 they bought X he got rid of the hashtags. They 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:19.920 got Chris Rock to host the Oscars. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.400 Yeah, and Oscars so white was just everyone nominated for 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.800 the acting the major acting categories was white that year. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:26.919 Okay. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.000 And so suddenly there was just this demand you need 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.120 to have diversity. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:33.000 And what it points out. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:37.080 Again and again is the boomers and Gen xers. There's 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.520 all these older, older white men who actually are already 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.919 established in fields, and they just froze it in amber. 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.839 And so what it became was they would just have 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.360 everyone beneath them would be used to hit those diversity metrics. 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.600 So it's not, oh, we're going to increase diversity by 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.440 making fifteen percent of the established people leave and replace them. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.480 It's we're going to just categorically elimin eight young white 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.880 men from the pipeline. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:08.000 For all of these jobs. And that's exactly it turns 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:08.840 out exactly. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.240 What it looks like, all of these people who are 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.600 wanted to go into these fields, they just could not 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.240 get jobs in them at all. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.120 And you really think what. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.840 Sort of impact that has to be on one psychology, 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:20.720 which I know people who have gone through that. 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:25.080 I can absolutely say, very certainly, I experienced just this. 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.040 I experienced just this when I was living in LA 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.440 where just it was common just to say, oh, well, 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.440 too bad, you're you're a white guy. Like you know, 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.040 it would this would be a lot easier if you 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:38.880 if you had something we could throw out there, like 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:40.720 are you gay? I'm not even kidding they say that, 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:41.800 they mentioned being gay. 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.480 They always will have something need, they'll be something, they'll 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:45.120 have like some. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.680 American Indian ancestry. They pulled the Live Warren and I 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.560 was I was literally like, no, I'm a white heterosexual Christian. Yeah, 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:52.960 and they're like sorry, good luck. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.000 And then the number is in here. It's worth reading 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.679 just for all of the numbers. In twenty eleven, fourteen 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.600 years ago, white men were forty eight percent of low 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.680 level TV writers. In twenty twenty four, thirteen years later, 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.560 they were eleven point nine percent. 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:11.239 That's dramatic. In let's see, editorial staff went from fifty 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.560 three percent white and eight or fifty three percent male 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.239 and eighty nine percent white in twenty thirteen to thirty 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:21.320 six six percent male and sixty six percent white tenure. 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.800 Track faculty at Harvard thirty nine percent white men in 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:27.600 the humanities to eighteen percent. And when that means is 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.800 if you're dropping that much and you're not cutting off 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.480 the people who are in early, it's that it's a 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.640 total cut off at the bottom. Yeah, and so you 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.800 just took a group white men. There's still about twenty 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.840 five percent of young American adults a little bit more 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.080 even twenty five to thirty percent. And let's be frank 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:50.000 they're a pretty talented thirty percent. They're more likely to 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.520 complete college, more likely to develop a lot of skills 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.520 than some other groups that have been favored in America 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.240 the last decade. And yet they're just treated as practical 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.800 untouchables in a huge number of fields. And it's bad 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.920 for them. It's totally derailed their lives because if you 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:10.079 were subject of this discrimination for the past five years, 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.439 ten years, that ruins your career. That's the period where 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.720 you need to get off the ground and you're just 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.160 stuck in entry level stuff. And on top of that, 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.840 it fried American meritocracy. But why are TV shows so bad? 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.800 Maybe because they didn't hire good writers to do it. 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.640 Why is z academia so roden because they hired only 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.800 people who filled a racial checkbox instead of the best scholars. 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:31.240 Over and over they do that. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:35.560 And I'm sure our viewers are listeners, they may have 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.600 lived this themselves. Or if you're a parent, you may 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.760 have seen your son struggle through this because he couldn't 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.880 get a foot in the door anywhere and it wasn't 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:44.959 really his fault. 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.640 Yeah, I And not to mention we talk about student 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:52.760 loans pushing off family formation or whatever, right buying a home. Well, 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.000 if you can't even get into the job market, if 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.000 you can't start the career to get up to the 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.200 rungs of power to earn more money, then that's why 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.440 marriage rates are going to collapse. That's why fertility rates 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.480 are going to collapse. I'm sorry, but white men still 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.880 make up a huge portion of the of the country. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.480 The line they're using lost generation Anthony one of our listeners' emails, 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.960 he says, I am a millennial and we're often called 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:18.000 a lost generation. 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There's this real 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.320 sense of compared to a lot of drugs, marijuana, whether 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.199 you support leading it or not, there's this big Charlie 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.400 would talk about this, it's a drug that sort of 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.480 dulls the ambitions, dulls the mind. There is, for a 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.760 good reason, a strong association with between being a really 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.600 heavy marijuana user and just being kind of a loser. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.440 Yeah. I mean, I'll never forget. When I was going 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.400 back to my LA days, I remember I met this 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.120 one guy, believe it or not, he was a worship leader, 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.480 Oh wow, and he was an avid marijuana user. But 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.400 he was like, if I don't use it, I will 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:32.040 get massively depressed. And he would he acknowledged I he has, 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.120 he had an addiction, he had a problem. I just thought, 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.520 why would you ever want to be stuck on something 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.960 that has so much mastery over you? You know, and 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.959 and anyways, But a couple of things that we need 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.520 to sort of establish here. If you are find yourself 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.600 of a certain generation and you and you still think, 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.040 you know, weed's fine, It's not the worst thing. Modern 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.480 weed is not at all what like you know, the 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.160 hippie era weed. It's stronger stuff, stronger, way more potent, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.400 way more potent. Uh So let's do it this way. Actually, 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.640 I'm going to give Trump some credit here, h This 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.880 is Trump on fentanyl, and he is a thousand percent 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.960 spot on play cut one sixty five. 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.520 Today, I'm taking one more step to protect Americans from 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:20.120 the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country with 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.880 this historic executive order I will sign today. We're formerly 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:28.640 classedifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.360 what it is. No bomb does what this is doing. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.920 Two hundred to three hundred thousand people die every year 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:42.000 that we know. So we're formally classifying fentanyl as a 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.199 weapon of mass destruction. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.640 Weapon I mean listen, it's a funny classification. It's a 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.400 funny classification, but candidly, you know, and we used to 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.200 talk about this with Charlie all the time. The drug 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.840 epidemic kills more people than Ukraine, or kills more Americans 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.800 than you know, basically anything. I'm just thinking about how 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:02.600 that classification. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.599 I have to imagine that means if you're transporting like 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.960 fentonal ingredients, they can just throw you in prison for. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.800 Life or bomb your boat. 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:09.240 Yeah. 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.880 Yeah, you know, attempting to make weapons and mass destruction 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:13.400 is a super duper federal. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.520 Yeah. But here's here's the other side of the drug 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.720 news today, which is interesting. We have so much drug news. 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:21.400 Uh. 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:26.400 CNN says that President Trump is considering, uh well, changing 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.680 the classification of weed. I think is the right way 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.400 to say it. Some are saying legalize marijuana. I'm not. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.960 I'm not sure exactly he said. He said himself, he's considering. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:35.840 He was asked in the Oval Office for He says, 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.840 we're considering it, and it would be a reclassification from 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.080 Schedule one, I believe to Schedule three. Right, Schedule one 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.440 is sort of the most restricted, most controlled drugs. The 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:50.800 other stuff on it. Uh, there's stuff like heroin, meth 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:57.440 those are schedule one drugs. Schedule three in comparison is ketamine, steroids, testosterone, what. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.720 You would say, ketamine, it's on the list in the 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:01.160 hill in the hills are We'll get to that. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.160 Indeed, but Charlie thought a lot about this, and it 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.840 was one of the controversial things he said at least 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.120 once multiple times. I think that this is one of 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.840 his positions that got him the most pushback on campus, 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.640 more than his abortion views, which is he just he 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.080 opposed legalizing weed. A lot of young people I really 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.640 like it, but I think I do. At the same time, 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.440 I think the tide is shifting a bit. I think 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.080 we probably reached peak marijuana enthusiasm. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:29.400 We had that win in Florida. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:29.920 Yeah. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.320 Maybe let's let's play the clip here on two. His 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:33.120 is from CNN. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.040 The President could use in fact against his Democratic opposition 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.760 and say, hey, you know what, Democrats have talked the talk, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.320 but I'm actually gonna walk the walk when it comes 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:43.800 to legalizing marijuana. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.560 Okay, So what are the prediction markets saying about the chances? 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:46.720 Then? 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:46.880 Here? 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.440 Yeah, okay, so what's the chance that this actually happens? 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.200 I think there's a pretty gosh darn good chance it's 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.080 gonna happen at least the corner of the prediction markets. 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.640 So the chance that the US reschedule is marijuana before 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:56.520 the end of Trump's term. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.920 Look at this, eighty eight percent know it's funny because 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.080 you see seventy two percent of young people approve of it. 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.520 Maybe they do, but I just I hope it changes 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.640 because you can smell it here in Phoenix. You can 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.320 smell it a ton if you're in DC. It's really disgusting. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.240 It's a big driver of making public places feel dirtier. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.480 It's a much more rank smell than even cigarette smoke 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.080 was in the past. I think Charlie had very good 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:27.080 reason to dislike it. Yeah, so I'm hoping people they 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:28.080 don't reclassify it. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.080 We have a clip from Charlie that I wish we 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.760 could have got to, but it's I listen, I think 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.040 I think the prediction markets are probably right. Yeah, Trump 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.920 seeing a political opportunity, But listen, sometimes we disagree with 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.960 the president. I remember Charlie was actually asked by our 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:44.760 next guest, Mark Alburn, what do you disagree with on 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.440 the president? And he said weed yeah, so you know it. Listen, 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.240 we still disagree. I think it's a loser drug. I 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.640 get it why people try and bend their rationale to 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.880 make it something less than that. I'm telling you modern weed, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.080 especially when you take it young, could really cause mental illness. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.560 It's a drug you could argue legalize it if you're 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.680 after thirty or something because it really cooks a developing 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:08.159 Yes it. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.080 Does, and so do not take it lightly. We're also 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.200 going to have a debate on weed. 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Who are 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.200 you to say that if an adult wants to just 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.960 be able to get high, they should not be able 0:18:59.000 --> 0:18:59.560 to get high. 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:01.600 It sounds good. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:06.720 That is an oversimplification of the society we are living in. Firstly, 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:11.480 in legalized states, the perception of marijuana's harm among teenagers 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.600 fell by over twenty percent in ten years from the 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:19.160 Monitoring Monitoring the Future survey, making early initiation more likely. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.040 How about traffic deaths. 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:25.439 After Colorado legalized, marijuana related traffic fatalities road rose one 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.520 hundred and fifty one percent between twenty thirteen and twenty twenty. 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.000 Let's do one ninety four as well. 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.880