1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:00,680 Speaker 1: Michael. 2 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 2: They just broke ground for a huge data center outside 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,879 Speaker 2: of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and there's another data center going in 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 2: plans up being cast for Wyoming. 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,119 Speaker 3: So we're going to be having. 6 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 2: Data centers all around us. 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 4: It won't it'll be different, but it won't be different 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 4: really than most of you are probably too too young 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 4: to remember the old Mountain Bell buildings. Every once while 10 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 4: you'd drive along and you'd find this nondescript, windowless brick 11 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 4: building and but for maybe, just maybe there might be 12 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 4: a Mountain Bell sign somewhere on the side of the building. 13 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 4: You'd have no idea what it was, and it was 14 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 4: a kind of like a data center for Mountain Bell. 15 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 3: So we're going to have all of these big ones, 16 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 3: small ones, large ones. Everything. 17 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 4: I read through the text just last night and again 18 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 4: this morning, and I don't want to rehash and re 19 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 4: litigate all of the story that I did yesterday about 20 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 4: data centers. But if you're concerned about rising power costs 21 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 4: because of data centers, then when you find out that 22 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 4: one of these is going in, you need to go 23 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 4: to your local utility, your public utility commission. You need 24 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 4: to go to the city council who's got to prove 25 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 4: the zoning or whatever it might be, you know, for 26 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 4: that particular center and cause a stink that says they're 27 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 4: going to pay the power charges for that center. And 28 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 4: if there's a if there's some sort of delta between 29 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 4: what you know, a residential or a normal business charge is, 30 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 4: and then for someone that's a high consumer, make sure 31 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 4: that they can't pass that on to you, that they 32 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 4: have to absorb that, or you know, maybe it's time 33 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 4: to a you know, increased generation power. I really believe 34 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 4: that we're moving into a world where, regardless of evs 35 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 4: or anything else, that. 36 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 3: Energy. 37 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 4: This is why I spend so much time talking about energy. 38 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 4: We can't do anything in this country that is domestic 39 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 4: or national security rated, national security related. 40 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 3: That does not involve energy. 41 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 4: And at this point we ought to recognize if I 42 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 4: forget because I just don't pay attention to those kinds 43 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 4: of details, whether it was Google or Meta, but whoever 44 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 4: it was, maybe it was Microsoft that was reopening Three 45 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 4: Mile Island. 46 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 3: Good for them, and I want them to do that. 47 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 4: If for no other reason to show all the numb 48 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 4: nuts out there that, you know, watch some movie about 49 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 4: Karen what's her name uh, and you know the you 50 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 4: know nuclear power killed or that, No it didn't. In fact, 51 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 4: if you look at three Mile Island, it was totally 52 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 4: self contained, and you know it was Chernobyl. Yes, Chernobyl 53 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 4: was bad. Do you know why Chernobyl was bad? If 54 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 4: you've ever spent any time in Russia, like I have, 55 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 4: you know that the Russians really, because it's a communist country, 56 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 4: they don't care about safety. They don't care about they 57 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 4: I mean, we may go overboard in terms of OSHA regulations, 58 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 4: but they think OSHA is like some sort of soup 59 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 4: you might get, Oh, it's a new kind of borch. 60 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 3: We get ocean. Well, it's order some ocean, so there's 61 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 3: some borch. 62 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 4: They don't care about people's lives, safety or anything else. 63 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 4: So when they build something like Chernobyl, they don't have 64 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 4: the redundancy safeguards that we would have in this country. 65 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 4: So we're one extreme, they're the other extreme. So good grief. 66 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 4: I just we're gonna need as much reliable baseline power 67 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 4: as possible because everything data centers AI, which will improve 68 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 4: our lives. Now, you know, I thought about AI last 69 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 4: night because I saw they had taken Don Rickles of 70 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 4: all people. Now, I admit it's funny. Don't get me wrong. 71 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 4: I admit this as funny. But someone had taken some 72 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:27,840 Speaker 4: artificial intelligence platform and they had taken a scene of 73 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 4: Don Rickles. It looked like he was probably sitting on 74 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 4: the couch of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and 75 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 4: they had redone it, except he was making jokes about 76 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 4: things occurring today. Now, I admit I watched it. I 77 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 4: found it humorous, but I also found I guess because 78 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 4: of someone who actually watched Don Rickles when he was 79 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 4: probably on the Johnny Carson Show, which makes me a dinosaur. 80 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 4: I actually found it funny. I did not why I 81 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 4: found the jokes funny that he was telling about things 82 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 4: going on today. It just wasn't the same. And it 83 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 4: wasn't the same because I knew it was fake. It's 84 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 4: like knowing that you buy you know, you go to 85 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 4: New York, You go to New York. Because I was 86 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 4: teasing my granddaughter about why do you want to go 87 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 4: into the real store to buy a purse? Wait, look 88 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 4: right here on the street. I could buy you one 89 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 4: right here for you know, we could haggle. This guy 90 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 4: he's probably selling it for sixty five dollars. I could 91 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 4: probably get it for twenty bucks. Just wave a twenty 92 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 4: dollars bill and peered, I'm. 93 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 3: Gonna walk off. Oh no, no, no, no, zir. 94 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 4: Come back, come back. You know twenty five? Will you 95 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 4: take twenty five? I'll do twenty five. It's just not 96 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 4: the real thing. And I think we live in an 97 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 4: age where we want genuine, real articles, genuine real people 98 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 4: like you know we I suppose iHeart don't ever tell 99 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 4: him this. They could probably we just clone my voice 100 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 4: and Dragon's voice and just plug our voices into AI. 101 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:08,919 Speaker 4: Somebody could just write a script and just play it. 102 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: Well, cloning my voice right now is not going to 103 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 1: do so much good. 104 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 4: You know, you sound like you should probably just stay 105 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 4: back there and not come near me today, because. 106 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 3: I feel really good today. 107 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: You're a hugger, Come on, can you hug? Give me 108 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: a hug? 109 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 3: By the way, do you get a hug yesterday? No? 110 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 3: I did not, Oh I did. I gotta hug you. 111 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 3: I get a hug. 112 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: I don't even think I got a handshake. But the 113 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: way I sounded the past couple of days, nobody went 114 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 1: to near you. It's understandable. 115 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 3: So they at the other end of the table and 116 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 3: you were yeah. 117 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: It was across it. Yeah, exactly did. 118 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 4: They did they talk to you, like from a different 119 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 4: room to like did you sit in one room and 120 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 4: they sent another. 121 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 3: Room and you got it right on the conference call and. 122 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: They yeah, you know the prison you know, write the 123 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 1: prison thing and you pick up the phone. 124 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 4: People should know if they actually have one of these 125 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 4: in the building where you know, when when man has 126 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 4: to talk to you know, the pleabs, you know, the scum, 127 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 4: what we go down to a room and we pick up. 128 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: The phone exactly exactly. 129 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 4: And of course part of that is because they know 130 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 4: that we're all all armed and dangerous and they don't 131 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 4: want to be there, so they keep us behind blexiglass 132 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 4: to talk to us anyway, the data centers. It's it's 133 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 4: why I get so pissed off about Excel Excel Energy, 134 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 4: that's our provider. When I look at, you know, all 135 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 4: of the wind turbines, I get all the crap on 136 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 4: email about would you like to pay extra because you 137 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 4: could buy wind energy. Wait a minute, you want me 138 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 4: to pay extra for something that's fungible. So when when 139 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 4: wind energy or when wind creates electricity, when those turbines 140 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 4: create electricity, or when solar converts to electricity, and that 141 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 4: goes into the let's just say it goes into a substation, 142 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 4: you know, depending on where it goes to a generation 143 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 4: plan or whatever, but it goes there. Is is it colored? 144 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 4: Is that electricity red? And the and the solar energy 145 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 4: is yellow and the natural gas energy is black? 146 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 3: Because it's evil. I want to buy some red energy. 147 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 4: I want to buy some yellow energy so that you know, 148 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 4: when I get the spark at the plug in the house, 149 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 4: I can see, oh look look, honey, look look at 150 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 4: the spark. It's red. It's wind energy. No, it's all fungible. 151 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 4: It turns into the same. So I get these stupid 152 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 4: emails from Excel that says, hey, if you want to 153 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 4: go clean, you can buy wind energy. 154 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: Even even better. Doesn't doesn't your phone tell you that 155 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: you can prioritize green energy for charging? You're an Apple guy. 156 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: Doesn't it do that? 157 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 3: I don't think, so I killed it. 158 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: I think there's a setting in the iPhone that you 159 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: can prioritize green energy G when charging. 160 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 4: So how would it pray? How would it know what? 161 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 4: So I to charge my phone? Now I don't use 162 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 4: one of those like the one that's broken in here. 163 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 1: The uh the mag safe. 164 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 3: The chargers. 165 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I just plugged mine into a to 166 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 4: a a c uh USB USBC. But how would the 167 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 4: phone know where it's electricity? Which is my point? The electricity. 168 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 4: Electricity is electricity, regardless of the source. I when I'm 169 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 4: gonna I'm gonna have to make a quick trip to 170 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 4: see my mom. And then I got to make a 171 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 4: quick trip one weekend to see uh my other granddaughter. Oh, 172 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 4: and I gotta make and I was looking at I 173 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 4: forgot I gotta go to my grandson's graduation. 174 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:52,319 Speaker 3: So I'm looking. 175 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 4: I'm looking on United, just kind of generally looking at 176 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 4: flight times and stuff. And United now offers that again, 177 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 4: I can I can pay extra, I can pay extra 178 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 4: to offset my carbon footprint. No, I'm not gonna do that. 179 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 4: I'm looking for the cheapest possible fare I can find, 180 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 4: and I'm not gonna pay you extra. And then I 181 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 4: went onto whatever it is, you know, Google dot flights 182 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 4: dot com or flights dot Google dot com, just so 183 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 4: I can see a larger array of schedules, and they 184 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 4: actually put a little green leaf on certain All I 185 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 4: could tell was I don't think it has anything to 186 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:36,079 Speaker 4: do with a particular airline. It may have it has 187 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 4: to do with a particular aircraft. So it might be American, 188 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 4: it might be United, it might be Southwest, it might 189 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 4: be whatever. But they'll have a little green leaf. And 190 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 4: I thought, what's that? Do I get it like marijuana? 191 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 4: Do I get free marijuana if I if I book 192 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 4: that flight. No, it's that it has a lower carbon 193 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 4: footprint that particular flight does than any other flight. 194 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 3: Well, okay, so I'm not gonna do that. 195 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: Support dot Apple dot com use clean energy charging on 196 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: your iPhone with iOS sixteen point one and later, your 197 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: iPhone can try to reduce your carbon footprint by selectively 198 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: charging when lower carbon emissions electricity is available. There's a 199 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: setting in the phones that will supposedly use. 200 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,319 Speaker 4: Now I have to go find that because I'd like 201 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 4: to figure out just okay, explain to me, Apple, how 202 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 4: do you know that's true. I've got you tied to 203 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 4: a nuclear power plant. I've got you tied to a 204 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 4: wind turbine in my backyard. We used to call them windmills. 205 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: Go to Settings, Privacy and Security, Location Services, system Services 206 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: and make sure these system customization is on and there 207 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: is a clean energy charging. 208 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 4: Tab that you can switch on. The virtue signaling will 209 00:11:55,240 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 4: never end yep, it will never end. Well, everybody make 210 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 4: fun of Dragon today. Don't have any sympathy for him 211 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 4: because my dumbass showed up because you're dumbat you're like, 212 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 4: you're like me the day I showed up and tried 213 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 4: to do with the Michael Brown men and could even 214 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 4: barely get that out, and so they had to scramble 215 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 4: to get somebody in here cow which shocking to me 216 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 4: that it was Caldera, because you know, it was like, 217 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 4: you know, five forty five in the morning, and Caldera 218 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 4: doesn't even know that that time exists on the clock. 219 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 4: Through uh. Last week, Politico reported on in you surely 220 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 4: you've heard of this, a twenty nine hundred page document dump, 221 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 4: there was a bunch of chats that were found among 222 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 4: young Republican leaders across several states. They had they had 223 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 4: group chats going on. It turned up shocking use of 224 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 4: in words, rape jokes, kind of gleeful gas chamber language. 225 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 3: And it does, it does, and it is bad. 226 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,839 Speaker 4: I want to give you I'm going to justify it, 227 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 4: but I want to have a little different perspective about it. 228 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 4: One perspective that I would say is different is Jay Jones, 229 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 4: the guy running for the Attorney General in Virginia, talked 230 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 4: about it with a colleague in the Virginia Assembly, their 231 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 4: pullet bureau, about how he wanted to kill the then 232 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 4: Speaker of the House, and she was like, no, surely 233 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 4: you're kiddy. You know you shouldn't say things like this, 234 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 4: and he retorted something to the fact, No, I'm really serious. 235 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 4: In fact, I think I should kill his children. And 236 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 4: she was like, no, you need to take this, you 237 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 4: need to stop this. You shouldn't be doing this, and 238 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 4: he said, no, no, no, I'm serious. I'd like to kill 239 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 4: his children because until they suffer real pain, they're not 240 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 4: going to change. And he stood buy it. Now, if 241 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 4: if he were applying for a job in a district 242 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 4: attorney's office, or he was applying for a deputy or 243 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,079 Speaker 4: an assistant attorney general's job in the office of the 244 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,959 Speaker 4: Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and that was 245 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,199 Speaker 4: part of the background check, he would fail the background check. 246 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 4: Yet he is running to be the attorney general and 247 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 4: there are no Democrats, including what's her name, Mikey somebody 248 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 4: that's running for governor that refuse to denounce or demand 249 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 4: that he withdraw from the race. They're just trying to 250 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 4: ignore it. Tim Caine has come out and said Senator 251 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 4: Tim Kane has said something to the effect, oh, I 252 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 4: know Jay Jones, I know Jaden. This is not the 253 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 4: Jay Jones I know, and you know he's not really 254 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 4: serious about it. They they will rally around the most despicable, 255 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 4: horrible things that people say and defend them. Republicans. On 256 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 4: the other hand, when this treasure trove of these chats 257 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 4: among these gen zers and gen xers or whatever they 258 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 4: are turned up using in words and rape jokes, in 259 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 4: gas chamber jokes, they were promptly condemned and they were 260 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 4: removed from their positions. That's the difference between us and them. 261 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 4: The young Republicans aren't alone. There was a subsequent political 262 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 4: story that exposed some racial animus in a chat by 263 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 4: paul Ingracia. 264 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 3: Oh, Michael, who's pulling Grossia. 265 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 4: That's Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Special Council. 266 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 4: In fact, I think the off this, I think it 267 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 4: may have it slightly incorrect. I know it's the Office 268 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 4: of Special Counsel but it may actually be the Office 269 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 4: of Special Council for Ethics in the Department of Justice. 270 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 4: And then on the other side of the aisle, you've 271 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 4: got Graham Platner. He's a leftist, populist Democrat. He's a 272 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 4: former marine. He's running for the Senate on the Democrat ticket, 273 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 4: and they're trying to ask Susan Collins up in Maine. 274 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 4: He's been exposed for having and I looked it up. 275 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 4: I even went to the Book of Knowledge Wikipedia to 276 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 4: see what they would say about this symbol. It's an 277 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 4: SS tattoo that he has on his chest. And he's 278 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 4: also been found making obnoxious comments on Reddit about a 279 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 4: decade ago. Blacks don't tip rural whites are racist and 280 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 4: stupid and oh, in fact, I've traveled through rural white 281 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 4: America and found out that indeed they are white, and 282 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 4: they are racist and they are stupid. Part of me 283 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 4: wants to take this stuff less seriously, and part of 284 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 4: me wants to recognize that people say stupid things. Hell's 285 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 4: bells go back over almost twenty years now at radio. 286 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 4: I bet I've said some really stupid things, not necessarily 287 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,080 Speaker 4: on purpose and not racist, but I've said some stupid things. 288 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 4: The suggestion is horrifying to the olds like me, or 289 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 4: millennial readers for that matter, millennial listeners, But we don't 290 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 4: live in the Civil Rights era or the Jim Crow South, 291 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,360 Speaker 4: or even within their recent memory, whose traumas and reconstructions 292 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 4: created the language like the language regime that most of 293 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 4: us are now confined to. And I'm not making any 294 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 4: sort of advocacy argument that we ought to start talking 295 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 4: like this out in public. I'm just trying to be 296 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,959 Speaker 4: realistic about what goes on in some of these chats. 297 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,120 Speaker 4: We have a legacy of slavery and segregation, but America's 298 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 4: racial demographics, our multi ethnic makeup, have also been explosively evolving. 299 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 4: Zoomer's alphas are growing up in a world that's unrecognizable 300 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 4: from the one in which our sensibilities were formed. First, 301 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 4: let me just state the obvious. The young Republicans are 302 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 4: edgelording and joking. 303 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 3: Yes. Does that justify it? No? 304 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 4: But let's recognize what they're doing first. 305 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 5: Mike, regarding sending you a talk back from a hospital, 306 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 5: I wish I had known. I was in the hospital 307 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 5: last Thursday morning, getting ready for colonosculd be listening to 308 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 5: your show on the iPad, and the nurse made me 309 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 5: turn it off, saying it would conflict with the fecal 310 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 5: cleansing procedure I'd just gone through in the previous twenty 311 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 5: four hours. 312 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, levent you said you're in the hospital. I thought 313 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 4: really horrible things. You know, my mind went to a 314 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 4: different place. 315 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: Like celebrated a little. 316 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a little let's just say that. My heart 317 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 4: kind of skipped a beat of joy, and then I 318 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 4: knew it was at some point it was going to 319 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:59,400 Speaker 4: be something about, you know, either I put you there 320 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 4: or whatever. 321 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 3: But that's that. That was pretty good. 322 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 4: By the way, could could you send us the uh, 323 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 4: the little video of what they found so because I'd 324 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 4: actually like to see your brain. 325 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 3: I'd like to see your brain. 326 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 4: You know that engineer's brains are in their butt somewhere 327 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 4: they're not whether they're not where they're supposed to be. 328 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: Speaking of butts, you got to check out one of 329 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: my stories over there. Oh really, I don't know if 330 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 1: you want to touch them since I touched those papers. 331 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: But there's a there's a there's a butt story over there. 332 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 4: Butt breathing yep, Okay, we'll do that in a minute. Okay, 333 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 4: you're welcome. Make you happy, well do butt breathing in 334 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 4: a moment. 335 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 3: Let's get back to the chats. 336 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 4: I don't know which is worse, butt breathing or these 337 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 4: chats that talk about you know, the N word and 338 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 4: gas chambers. And we got a Semit candidate that's got 339 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 4: a an S S tat to in his chest by 340 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 4: the way, he's tried to cover it up, like what 341 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 4: you cover it up with? How good grief? Go back, 342 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 4: go back to the obvious. The young Republicans and those 343 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 4: chats really are joking now it is it appropriate? No, 344 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 4: it's probably not, but common sense employed by anybody who's 345 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 4: ever been in a group chat knows that this is 346 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 4: deliberately provocative, anti woke signaling chats make dumb jokes. Every 347 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 4: single one of us would be condemned if the contents 348 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 4: of our phones were made public by a hostile media outlet. 349 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 3: I know exactly how that works. 350 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 4: My emails and my text messages were collected by a 351 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 4: Democrat congressman from Louisiana and turned over to the New 352 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,439 Speaker 4: York Times, and they took several of them out of 353 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 4: context and talked about what a horrible individual of what 354 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 4: I was because I was making jokes in the middle 355 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 4: of the one of the largest natural disasters in American history. 356 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 4: And as I've said a bazillion times, I've learned that 357 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 4: humor is one of the best things to use. And 358 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 4: when you're managing people who are under stress, it humanizes people. 359 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:25,360 Speaker 4: It tells people, Hey, listen, I know you're under stress. 360 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 4: Here's a little joke. Here's something we can laugh about. 361 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 4: Get back to work. Ask your doctor if you've had surgery. 362 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 4: Let's you know, let's go to the engineer that lives 363 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,120 Speaker 4: off the runway at the end of Newark. He goes 364 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 4: in last Thursday to get a colonoscopy. First of all, 365 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 4: he's lying about everything. So he didn't go anywhere near 366 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 4: a hospital because well, I can't go that direction. But anyway, 367 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 4: he didn't go anywhere near a hospital. But if he did, 368 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 4: and they know he's an engineer and they're doing a 369 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 4: colonoscoby on him, and particularly if they know him at all, 370 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 4: once they give him the propofol and he's out cold, 371 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 4: and they're sticking the camera up his butt, they're making 372 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 4: jokes about him. They're making jokes. There's not a doctor 373 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 4: in the world that during a surgery, even life saving 374 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,679 Speaker 4: surgeries aren't cracking jokes at one point or another. To 375 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:23,679 Speaker 4: humanize and to keep people focused on Remember, we're human beings, 376 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 4: and we know we're doing serious stuff here, but let's 377 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 4: remind ourselves that we are human. 378 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 1: Almost sounds like what we do here on this show. 379 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,159 Speaker 4: It is kind of what we do on this show. 380 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 4: We mix up really serious stuff with things like whatever 381 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 4: the hell this is? 382 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 3: Science is not a big win? And butt breathing? 383 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,479 Speaker 4: What butt breathing? Butt breathing? I mean, there's a phrase 384 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,160 Speaker 4: for the day. Just put on the podcast butt breathing. 385 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 3: That's the title. You got it right there. 386 00:22:54,520 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 4: It's it's unfortunate that repressive language policing and use Steve 387 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 4: hammering about race for the past two deak three decades 388 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 4: have given rise to this problem. But here's here's where 389 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 4: we are. I've seen this play out in schools in 390 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:19,439 Speaker 4: work to distressing effect. For a person that is and 391 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 4: has been and believes in liberal codes of speech, I 392 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 4: believe in free speech. And again, if you want to 393 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 4: be a bigot and use the in word, you know what, 394 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 4: have at it, because now I'll know you're a bigot. 395 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 4: I'll know that you're a horrible individual. There was a time, 396 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 4: guess what, There was a time when the use of 397 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:58,239 Speaker 4: the in word in my own family. My grandfather, my 398 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 4: maternal grandfather, was a kind gentleman, but grew up in 399 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 4: that era. He was a World War One veteran. He 400 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 4: used the in word incessantly, and of course, you know, 401 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,439 Speaker 4: my poor mom and my dad both had to, you know, 402 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 4: remind me and my siblings that that was an awful 403 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 4: word and we don't use that word. And that's just 404 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 4: the way that granddad speaks. And you know, we can't 405 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:34,640 Speaker 4: change him, but we don't use that word. I didn't 406 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,919 Speaker 4: think less of my grandfather. I recognized that he was 407 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:45,199 Speaker 4: a bigot. He was a human being that happened to 408 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 4: be a bigot. There's a there's a story about Brooklyn 409 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 4: Private School where these two kids attend. They were taught 410 00:24:55,280 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 4: anti racism, social justice, focused every year, every single year, 411 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 4: on slavery and black history. This friend of mine, whose 412 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,640 Speaker 4: kids go to that school, point out that the effort 413 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 4: was to create history, a hysterical focus on not e 414 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 4: race talk among the school's little boy population, and to 415 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 4: resurrect antique slurs like monkey or watermelon eater, for blacks. 416 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 4: They would use rice eater for raisin for Asians. I mean, 417 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 4: we don't say those things in public, but little kids 418 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 4: would make those jokes. 419 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,360 Speaker 3: I condemn that. That's awful. 420 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 4: But when you focus, focus, focus, focus on race, kids 421 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 4: that want to do something that they know is probably ooh, 422 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 4: let's do something that's light, that's going to be you know, 423 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,679 Speaker 4: slightly wrong or e'x. You know, we're going to do 424 00:25:58,760 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 4: something that's. 425 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 3: All over the edge. 426 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 4: Here, you're almost like you're teaching them to do that 427 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 4: by focusing, focusing, and focusing on race, so that that's 428 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 4: their way of being rebellious, you know, by middle school standards. 429 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,120 Speaker 4: The number of slurs that have been found in these 430 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 4: almost three thousand pages of chat documentation they have been 431 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,200 Speaker 4: turned over to Politigo. How many are actually I would 432 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 4: consider to be racial slurs two hundred and fifty one 433 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 4: out of three thousand. Well, that's pretty low. It's not 434 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 4: to justify it, it's just to give you some perspective 435 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 4: about it. 436 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 3: Now. 437 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 4: On the surface, it might seem less forgivable in adults, 438 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 4: but a closer look at the dynamic complicates that picture. 439 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 4: The private school had little class diversity but was highly 440 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 4: racially diverse, and my friend's son and the children around 441 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 4: him played basketball and city playgrounds. They took fashion cues 442 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,679 Speaker 4: from the young black guys who worked in the Delhi 443 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 4: next door. They hung out with racially diverse kids from 444 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 4: all over the Brooklyn area. And while they were being 445 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 4: subjected to relentless narrative of racial animus and remedial propriety 446 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 4: at school, the cultural around them was giving them a 447 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 4: different message. For one thing, that wasn't actually much meaningful 448 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 4: difference or racism between the white kids on one hand, 449 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 4: and the mixed race white Asian, the Wasians, the private 450 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 4: school kids, or the half black side of scientists on 451 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 4: the other hand. All hailed from similar class backgrounds. So 452 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 4: how does the kid account for that, given that it's 453 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 4: only forbidden to say so, you surely can't ask questions 454 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:48,399 Speaker 4: in the designated form of class discussion. As for the 455 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 4: legendary in word at school, the word is grounds for expulsion. 456 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 4: Yet then they're in a school where they're told you 457 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 4: cannot use that or we will expel you. Yet then 458 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 4: they go out on the street and in the culture 459 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 4: they hear their friends, their black friends, using the word 460 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:18,959 Speaker 4: incessantly and as a kid. They admire that because they 461 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,919 Speaker 4: see that as rebellion. It was almost an honor, It 462 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:28,119 Speaker 4: was almost an honorific. That leads to a confusing state 463 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 4: of affairs where the N word became everyday's biggest entertainment 464 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 4: and the hottest sensation for certain types of little kids. 465 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 4: The good kind, I would suggest, who thinks for himself 466 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 4: and whose masculinity has not been completely crushed by, you know, 467 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 4: the nurse ratchet types who lord over much of these kids' 468 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 4: lives in these private schools. They will talk about who 469 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 4: used the word, who didn't use the word, who whispered 470 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 4: it to himself in the bathroom. 471 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 3: Was the r harder? And so on. We've created this. 472 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 4: And again I'm not suggesting by any means that we 473 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 4: ought to bring that word back into our every day vernacular. 474 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 4: But think about children and how we teach them and 475 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 4: know and into schools and in our homes we say, oh. 476 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 3: This is a horrible, horrible word, don't use it. 477 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 4: And then they step out of the home, they step 478 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 4: out into the culture, and they find that word everywhere. 479 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 4: It's got to be pretty confusing to the kids. 480 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 6: One of my I too say stupid things. But the 481 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 6: one thing I don't do is write it down and 482 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 6: send it to people, or post it on the Internet 483 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 6: or on social media where it lives forever. 484 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 4: There is that, but I think the larger, the larger 485 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 4: perspective I want to take you away. I want you 486 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 4: to take away from this from this topic is think 487 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 4: about what we're doing to language, particularly when it comes 488 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 4: to racist language, whether it's you know, the Nazis and 489 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 4: ss or it's blacks or Asians or any other minority group, 490 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 4: where we're inculcating all of these kids in schools about 491 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 4: how horrible these words are and that you can even 492 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 4: be expelled for using some of these words. And then 493 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 4: they walk outside the walls of the classroom and they 494 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 4: hear their words everywhere, so they're getting mixed signals. So 495 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 4: then when they grow up and they go they go 496 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 4: to work in Congress and they're in a chat group. 497 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 4: Of course, you and I know that the Internet lives forever, 498 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 4: and we know that that's subject to being discovered in 499 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 4: a lawsuit or by accident or whatever, but they continue 500 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 4: those conversations. And my theory is they do it as 501 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 4: a sort of revolt. They do it as a sort 502 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 4: of showing that you know what, We're not going to 503 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 4: be constrained by this because we're being told one thing 504 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 4: by these people in authority. Yet out here in the culture, 505 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 4: the people that everybody looks up to, whether they're rappers 506 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 4: or anybody else, uses those words and they make millions 507 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 4: of dollars from using those words. So we're putting conflicting 508 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 4: things in their heads. So then when they use things 509 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 4: like that in a chat, people like you and me 510 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 4: are going, oh, but wait, why should we be shocked 511 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 4: by this. It's like telling the kid don't touch that, 512 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 4: or you can't watch that, or you can't do this, 513 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 4: you can't do that, And what do the kids naturally 514 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 4: want to do, because it's natural for the child to 515 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 4: then say, ah, yeah, I'll mom says I can do this, 516 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 4: I watch me. I'm when mom's not watching, I'm gonna 517 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 4: go do that. It's insane and it just happens to 518 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 4: be language. And then the reaction is different. Those on 519 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 4: the conservative side, we actually condemn those on our side 520 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,720 Speaker 4: of the political spectrum. 521 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 3: Who do those horrible things, and. 522 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 4: On the Democrat the Marxist side, they're like, no, man, 523 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 4: it's fine, nothing to see here. 524 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 3: Move along.