Jonathan Kieperman (Lomez)
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard May 2025
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So it's actually, in my view, incumbent on people in positions of prominence who can look at these questions soberly, who can evaluate the evidence and make frank statements about the explanations for these disparities. All right, let's take a quick break.
Yeah, I do. I actually think it's going to be a full-scale vibe shift. Full-scale, like Reagan-era level or bigger? Yeah, I do think it very well could be Reagan-era level. Now, I was alive, but I was too young to sort of remember what the Reagan era was like. You are absorbing his charisma sort of from the cradle.
But, you know, I've watched enough John Hughes movies, okay, to sort of understand how that expresses itself in popular culture. And I think we're going to have precisely the same kind of vibe shift that infiltrates these mainstream sort of media forms. Here's an example.
You know, I sit around with my family every once in a while and we watch American Idol and Carrie Underwood, who sang at the inauguration, is one of the judges on American Idol. Right. Just the mere fact that this massive pop star who has one of the biggest platforms in pop music is simultaneously affiliating herself with the Trump administration is enough to suggest that.
that there is something meaningful and enduring and sort of broad about this vibe shift. You also have, I believe it's Larry Ellison's son who just bought Paramount Pictures. He is a kind of conservative. You know, they're gonna be doing these sort of
top gun esque films that sort of really embrace a kind of patriotic zeal I guess you could say now I warned at the beginning that it would be a mistake for conservatives to simply adopt a kind of nostalgia and sort of sentimental patriotism so. I don't hope that that is all there is, but that's a perfect place for that kind of ethos and aesthetic to exist in these like big blockbuster movies.
And I suspect they will. People are certainly exhausted by wokeness. So it's not just that the right and this sort of right coded art is ascendant. It's as much to do with the fact that like Snow White, this new Snow White release is is very unpopular. People don't want this stuff anymore. And so there's going to be a natural opening for newer, more, let's just say, vitalist kind of art.
Yeah. What do you recommend? This is good. You put this question. I'm not going to hide the ball from the audience. You put this question to me earlier this morning. Why I wanted I wanted a good answer. Right. You know, when you ask it suddenly, they're like, oh, the God.
I'm not going to say The Godfather, although I did have difficulty sort of spontaneously coming up with a good answer. What one book sort of encapsulates what I'm trying to accomplish with this? So the thing I've thought long and hard about and what I saw when I was a lecturer at UCI, there's been this kind of severing of a sort of. Continuity between the past and the present.
And I think it's an intentional severing. And these kids like they just they're not well read. They don't really know anything. I mean, I spent half my classes just teaching like Wikipedia tier history just so we can have enough context to have the conversation about the actual stuff we're talking about. So one thing that I would definitely I think is much needed is to.
Re-establish a kind of continuity, sort of a literary, intellectual, cultural continuity with the past. So the book I would choose for this is Moby Dick. And it's a very obvious cliche choice, but it's a thing that kind of everybody from all ages, if you're an American, this is a book you just should know.
I think Moby Dick is sort of essentially American and in particular represents a kind of East Coast American founding. And it's this, you know, man against nature and God. And there's also the sort of chaos of. the plurality of the, you know, the cast, okay? And it's very American in that way. It's sort of this industrious, pluralistic, you know, almost democracy on the boat.
So it's also transcendence through conquest, okay, which is a very American idea. And then my counterpoint to that, which I think is a nice coda, is No Country for Old Men would be the movie. Moby Dick is conquest, and it's the Atlantic,
And now Cormac McCarthy and No Country for Old Men, the film in particular, the Coen brothers film is the border, the terminus of the West, the border with Mexico, the sort of it's also late epic. It's it's the exhaustion of American conquest. And there's this force at the center of the book, this inscrutable, mysterious, supernatural force It's not in Moby Dick. It's the thing they're chasing.
It's the whale in No Country for Old Men. It's evil. It's chasing them. That has come right to now fate is coming to exact its payback for what America has become. So it's America at the end, at this moment of civilizational exhaustion. And it's precisely this. this point that we need to escape out of.
And this is my hope for the future is how do we take the sort of metaphysics of no country for old men and create some kind of rebirth to our national identity, our national character, our sort of inner primordial being and find that life force that it can once again extend beyond these borders.
The Charlie Kirk Show · Defunding the Globalist American Empire + The Fall of Bud Light · 5 Feb 2025
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Charlie, the easy answer there is no, at least not in its current form. It's great to be here, by the way. But this question of USAID and what we've seen over the last week since Marco Rubio at the State Department has taken control and tried to make transparent some of the funding schemes going on there has really got me and I think a lot of people really heated because it's very clear that
that what USAID is doing is the exact opposite of what is in the interest of the United States and the American people. And USAID really is a kind of perfect microcosm of both the stupidity and the malice
of the unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats who run our State Department and use our tax dollars, the money that we make and that should be helping our people and supporting our interests, instead goes to spreading this international ideology
What we might just call international wokeism for the benefit of their own pockets and of their own interests, which again are entirely divorced from the interests of the American people. So, you know, I'm really glad that this is now out there, that this is a discussion we're having and what was previously so opaque. about some of this funding and this waste is now open for everyone to see.
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