1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Welcome to Voices of the Left. It's one more thing. 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 2: I'm one more thing. My wife is asking me, thinking chicken, breast, spinach, 3 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 2: salad and bread for dinner? 4 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: Good? Yeah, that's fine. I'm gonna give her the thumbs up. 5 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 2: Here. 6 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: Sounds like a nice balanced meal. We're both trying to 7 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: lose weight. 8 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 3: Have you ever responded with leaf? 9 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 4: No? 10 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 3: Are you kidding? Is this a joke decked? 11 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 5: Eh? 12 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 1: No, I have not. 13 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 2: So we have a number of pieces of audio here 14 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 2: that happened to be the Voices of the Left that 15 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 2: we couldn't squeeze into the radio show for the last 16 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 2: couple of days, so we thought we'd do them here. 17 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 2: I'm trying to decide what order is best. Let's start 18 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 2: with famous actor, beloved actor Jeff Daniels. 19 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: It's a big lebowski, right, yeah. 20 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 2: He's an avowed left. Now that's Jeff Bridges. Yeah, it's funny. 21 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:06,559 Speaker 2: I've had a mental block with Bridges and Daniels since 22 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 2: the eighties. 23 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 3: Interesting. Jeff Daniels is the other half of Dumb and Dumbers. 24 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,839 Speaker 2: Yeah right. He also played Jtar of many fine films. 25 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he also played George Washington in that movie 26 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 3: where he was great. 27 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, gifted actor. But he's why don't 28 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 2: we go just go ahead and play Michael fifteen. 29 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 6: I still think about Kamala and how I think she 30 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 6: would have been a good choice. I don't care what 31 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 6: they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did. 32 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 6: Liz Cheney would have been Secretary of State. Yeah, Teama rivals. 33 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 6: Doris Kerns, a good one, wrote the book about it. 34 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: Less. 35 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 6: What Lincoln did surrounded himself with the people who would 36 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 6: disagree with him, not the people who would, you know, 37 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 6: take a knee and go Yeah, more, tariffs are more. 38 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 6: It's the madness of King George and If and just 39 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 6: the deterioration of the Republican Party. I mean, look, I'm 40 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 6: just an actor. 41 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: What do I know? 42 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 6: Yes, but when Mitch started Stack in the Courts twenty 43 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 6: five years ago, I said it on your show. Once 44 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 6: it's they can see it coming, the new America that 45 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 6: is diverse and treats everyone with equality and respect and dignity, 46 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 6: what you know, kind of like Jesus did. Jesus and 47 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 6: Lincoln we're ready for given good and the Mitch and 48 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 6: Company could see it coming. They were going to be 49 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 6: the minority, so they just started and then here we 50 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 6: are and now you got it. 51 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 3: What a powerful metaphor. Wow, self hating white male, like 52 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 3: so many liberals are that what he actually believes that 53 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 3: that the politics are driven by Okay. 54 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so much there. I will just focus on 55 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:58,679 Speaker 2: the fact that Abraham Lincoln was one of the towering 56 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 2: intellects of his time or any other Kamala Harris is 57 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 2: a half wit, Jeff, I would suggest, I mean, she 58 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 2: might assemble a team of rivals, but they would be 59 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 2: rival dopes. 60 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 3: Well, he had the right answer at one point. 61 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:15,079 Speaker 1: What do I know? 62 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,399 Speaker 3: I'm just an actor. Why is anybody asking you? Why 63 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 3: is Nicole Wallace asking you? Why is anybody listening to it? 64 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 2: That is just one of the voices of the left 65 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 2: we're featuring today. This is a Mom Donnie supporter answering 66 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,519 Speaker 2: questions on the streets of New York sixteen. 67 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 5: Michael also has socialism work. 68 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 3: That you want to emulate Vietnam. 69 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 6: You think New York City if it. 70 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 7: Was more like Vietnam, is it actually a communist country? 71 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 5: I would say Vietnam China. See, New York is a 72 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 5: very dense city. Therefore, we have to look at Asia, 73 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,119 Speaker 5: who is doing better at density than we are here. 74 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 5: These roads are horrible, the train's not that great here. 75 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 5: All of those things are so much better in most 76 00:03:58,720 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 5: Asian countries. 77 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 2: It's funny she goes with Vietnam and China completely ignoring 78 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 2: free market or capitalist if you prefer Japan free market, 79 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 2: Singapore free market, South Korea. 80 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: And his luck with you. 81 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 3: And aside about Vietnam. One of the kids that I 82 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 3: picked up from scout camp is from Vietnam. His mom's 83 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 3: from Vietnam. Very interesting woman genius had a perfect on 84 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 3: her SAT scores, which she said was demanded of everyone 85 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 3: in the special school. She went to, Wow, and then 86 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 3: went to some special things. 87 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 2: I spelled my name correctly on mine, I mean one 88 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 2: hundred percent correctly. 89 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,119 Speaker 3: Then she went to some special school for the super 90 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 3: brilliant in China where all the super smart people would 91 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 3: get sent from Vietnam, where people would regularly kill themselves 92 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 3: because the pressure was so great. Anyway, Wow, that's not 93 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 3: what I meant to talk about. Her son got in 94 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 3: my truck. He said, you know what I like about 95 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 3: when we're in Vietnam, because he's in Vietnam, like capt 96 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 3: you don't have to wear seat belts there. They have 97 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 3: no seat belt laws. That's interesting. We talked about freedom 98 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 3: and government making you do stuff and whatever. 99 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 2: The communist regime of Vietnam let you make your own 100 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 2: decisions about seat belts. 101 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 3: I didn't know Vietnam was a communist country currently. Oh yeah, 102 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 3: I didn't know that. 103 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, you remember the whole Vietnam War thing. 104 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 3: I'm familiar with that. I didn't know it still was. 105 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: You know, like a lot of. 106 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 2: Quote unquote communist regimes right now, and China was a 107 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 2: great example of this, like a dozen years ago especially, 108 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,119 Speaker 2: But they've mixed in a fair amount of free market 109 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 2: capitalism because you need it. And every regime is a hybrid. 110 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 2: Forget political theory. In the real world, everything's a hybrid. 111 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 2: But okay, moving along, another voice of the left. This 112 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 2: woman's name is Sharia Smith or Sharia. She was on 113 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 2: CNN as a I believe if she's an employee of 114 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 2: the Department of Education, was moaning about the layoffs there 115 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 2: and how unjustified they were. 116 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: I would recommend you listen. 117 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 2: In particular, it's twenty six Michael for her justification of 118 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 2: the important work they do. 119 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 4: First one is disappointment. I'm a lawyer by trade and 120 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 4: live for Supreme Court decisions at least to have reasoning, 121 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 4: so you know, to have the six justices just allow 122 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 4: this to happen without even explaining their decision as extremely disappointing. 123 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 4: Then I go into anger, anger since the beginning of 124 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 4: this administration by the misrepresentation about what we actually do. 125 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 4: There's so many statements about returning education to the States. 126 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 4: But well, if I was a teacher, education curriculum, teacher 127 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 4: quality testing has always been with the States. What our 128 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 4: department does and did was fund school districts, fund colleges, 129 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 4: fund schools, and fund American citizens who are pursuing their education. 130 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 4: And it is extremely anger inducing that this misrepresentation of 131 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 4: what we do and how important our work is is 132 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,679 Speaker 4: perpetuating and is not being corrected even by the highest 133 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 4: court of our land. And then. 134 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 2: Well, and she goes on at some length there her 135 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 2: entire defense of the Department of Education is that it 136 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:37,239 Speaker 2: doles out funding that comes through the state from the states, 137 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 2: federal government keeps their cut, gives some of it back 138 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 2: with enormous strings attached. That's your defense, that's my prosecution. 139 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 2: Did she say she is an attorney, you can't my 140 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 2: prosecution can't. 141 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: Be your defense. 142 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 3: That's not the way it works. Before we wrap this up, 143 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 3: I got another story about those wacky Asians. Another one 144 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 3: of the kids I picked up from the boy Scout 145 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 3: camp is three Asian kids and my son. All of 146 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 3: his friends are at camp are Alasian kids. And the 147 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 3: one kid kept winning at this card game they were 148 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 3: playing because he was counting cards. He's a mass genius. 149 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 3: He's like many grades ahead in the math that he takes. 150 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 3: Oh wow, And he said he can't help it. It's 151 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 3: just like the way brain work. He just watches the 152 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 3: game and he knows how many queens have already gone 153 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 3: out or whatever. He just knows it in his head. Yeah, 154 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 3: It's like, isn't that interesting? 155 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 1: Yeah? 156 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 3: Man, a way different brains work. 157 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 1: Have you listened to? 158 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 2: And I've got a podcast I want to listen to. 159 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 2: But this new premise that I think is coming from 160 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 2: the left, that the very concept of genius is a 161 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 2: right wing plot to convince us of something or other, 162 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 2: and I haven't really dug into it reminds me of 163 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 2: that idiotic Gladwell book that said there's nothing about talent, 164 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 2: you just have to spend ten thousand hours or whatever 165 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 2: it was. I've got to listen to that because it 166 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 2: just stretch me as looney tunes. That kid was born 167 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 2: with a brain that works very differently than mine does. 168 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, obviously. 169 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,719 Speaker 1: I mean it's just why can people not accept. 170 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 2: That I don't know or people that I accepted it 171 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 2: a long damn time ago. I'm just not that good 172 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 2: at some things, including some I wish I was really 173 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:26,839 Speaker 2: good at. 174 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: But that's okay, that's what life is. 175 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 3: Well, It's like, yeah, I tried to pick up Spanish once. 176 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 3: I took a class for like two weeks and thought 177 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 3: that I can't do this. I'm just not built for 178 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 3: picking up languages or you know. You know some people 179 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 3: have no eight languages. It's because their brain works in 180 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 3: a different way for language than mine. Man, did I 181 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 3: try hard to get good at German? I tried so hard. 182 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 2: That was part of my whole life plan was to 183 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 2: learn German, go to law school and do business between 184 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 2: Germany and the US and blah blah blah. And then 185 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 2: I realized, I'm trying as hard as I can at this, 186 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 2: and I suck at learning a new language as a 187 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 2: young adult. 188 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: So I thought, man, that's not happening. 189 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 2: But I don't think it was in cities plot against me, 190 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 2: that some people were great in that class. 191 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll have to look into that, all right. 192 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: One final bit of audio. 193 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 2: It is humor number fourteen Michael Enjoy. 194 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 7: She calls America evil from her iPhone while sipping Starbucks 195 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 7: on an airplane with Wi Fi while watching TV. She 196 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 7: drinks oat milk because regular milk makes her feel colonial. 197 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 7: She got eight COVID shots, still caught it and blamed 198 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 7: the unvaccinated waiter. She has a Ukraine flag in her biome. 199 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 7: She thinks Ukraine is a clothing brand. She says black 200 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 7: lives matter, but still clutches her bag in certain neighborhoods. 201 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 7: She used to be vegan, Now she's carnivore, depends on 202 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:04,199 Speaker 7: who she's dating. She thinks all cops are bad, then 203 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 7: called the cops because someone wasn't wearing a mask. She 204 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 7: says she's a feminist until she needs a jar opened. 205 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 7: She says trust the science, but thinks there's more than 206 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 7: two genders. She got the booster, then posted a selfie 207 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 7: with doing my part while spreading COVID in Tulum, she 208 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 7: drinks ayahuasca for trauma she invented last year. She says 209 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 7: she hates capitalism but charges four hundred and ninety nine 210 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 7: dollars for zoom breath work. She posts about toxic masculinity 211 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 7: from her ex's apartment. She is the most conformist woman 212 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 7: in the world. 213 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 2: I don't always drink, but when I do, it's from 214 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 2: an organic coconut with a biodegradable straw. 215 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:54,319 Speaker 3: Stay obedient, my. 216 00:11:54,320 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: Friends, I love it. That was the voice's of the left. 217 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 3: Reminds me of I heard a blast yesterday of what 218 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 3: was wrong with how NPR got so off track. The 219 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 3: problem with NPR, they said, is they think everybody listening 220 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,359 Speaker 3: lives in Vermont and is pulling into a used bookstore 221 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 3: parking lot in a super ruing. 222 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 5: You know what I don't like about PBS is that 223 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 5: they always assume I need a tote bag. 224 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 6: I don't need a tote bag. 225 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 3: I got plenty of Well, I guess that's it.