WEBVTT - The Karol Markowicz Show: I'm Not Hiding and an Interview with Kyle Smith 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.880 Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.559 It's not a great time for Jews. After the slaughter 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.320 in Israel on October seventh, every Jew hater in the 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.160 world decided now is the time to let us all 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:17.200 know how they feel. Spare me the talk of a 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.520 free Palestine. Anyone who cares about the Palestinians would not 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.320 let them continue in their delusion that they could someday 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.640 get rid of Israel. And let's be real, all Jews, 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:30.760 if they just continue pushing, that's just not going to happen. 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.640 And if you're listening and you care about the Palestinian cause, 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.320 you should let them know. But look, this is not 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.440 a monologue about Israel, because this isn't a political show. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.320 It's about being a Jew in America, because this is 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.040 a show about life, and that's my life right now. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:52.640 Jews are scared. In response to being scared, there's a 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:57.000 trend online where Jews posts this image that says, would 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.800 you hide me, and non Jews are posting I would. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.600 I understand why people are doing it. It's comforting to 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.200 know that people stand with you. I get it, I 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.880 really do, but I don't like it. I don't like 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.000 it because, first of all, I'm not hiding. I'm not 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.560 saying I don't have a plan B in case things 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.280 go left. We do, of course we do, but that 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.680 plan involves getting to my friend's house. Shout out to John, 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:28.120 who has the most guns and AMMO of anyone. I'm 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.080 not cowering in your attic. I don't want to be 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.840 in a perpetual victim state. I'm a free person in 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.640 the free world. I'm not hiding. The Jews of the 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.400 early nineteen forties in Europe were not armed, but I am. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.840 If this moment has been an eye opener for you, 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.800 whether or not you're Jewish, get armed. If you live 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.440 somewhere you can't be armed, and you're posting memes about 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.680 people hiding you, you have to move. Living in this 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.720 kind of fear is no way to live. The truth 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.000 is that people are drawn to strength, not weakness, and 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.400 our weakness will not endear people to our cause. It 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.120 will have the opposite effect of people joining with the 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.000 strong to harm us. We're seeing that happen. Get strong 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:18.000 and fast. But the other reason I don't like this 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.640 campaign is not about the Jewish part. It's about the 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:24.920 America part. If a Jewish family is hiding in your house, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:29.000 America has probably fallen. That's a bigger problem than whose 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.240 attic I'm in. I'm talking to the wider west here. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.760 I appreciate your agreement to hide us, But how about 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.240 we join together so that nobody needs to be hid, 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.600 or do the hiding and defend what we have. How 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.040 About I will never let it reach the point where 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:50.800 my attic would ever even be in use. We're in 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.760 a pivotal moment right now where we can see where 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.920 these bad ideas have led us. If you're seeing college 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.320 kids marching around and chanting for genocide, supporting peopleeople who 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.519 would put their head on a pike, that didn't begin 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.959 this morning. Our schools are giant factor, but also parents 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.519 who have let their kids hate America and believe we're 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:15.560 just not that good. Our ideals have built civilization, but 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.320 we've surrendered so much to people who want to destroy 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.119 that civilization. We've let them take control of our schools, 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.760 and they've produced kids who have largely been lied to 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.080 about what the world is like. I mean, have you 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.760 seen the whole turkeys for Thanksgiving? I mean queers for Palestine? 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.200 We mock them, sure, but they're a glaring sign telling 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.560 us that there's something big we need to fix, and 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.240 there's something wrong with society that we need to make 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.560 better before it's too late. We're not going to get 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:49.040 there by being offered attic space. These people believe that 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.320 they'll have freedom to be themselves in Gaza, and many 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.560 people believe they don't have these freedoms in America. How 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.520 warped is that? Where did it come from to have 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:03.680 such insane backwards ideas that are fully entertained. Free people 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.840 need to be strong and fight for Western values, for 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:11.360 American values specifically, and they need to challenge those who 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.280 would crush those values in pursuit of something else. If 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.880 you're motivated to tell your Jewish friends that you stand 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.400 with them, thank you. We appreciate it. We do. It's 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:25.760 been horrible, and non Jews reaching out to say they 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.800 have our back really has been a bright spot. But 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.320 the actual best thing we can all do is defend 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.440 what we've built in America, the greatest country in the 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.440 history of the world, where we can all be safe 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.800 in this nation we've made. Tell your kids the truth 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.960 about how lucky they are to live in this country, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.760 how blessed they are, and let's defend this place not 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.359 just for the Jews, but for all of us. Coming 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.279 up next an interview with Kyle Smith. Join us after 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:57.000 the break. Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Marcowitch Show. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:01.119 I'm the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton podcast network on iHeartRadio. 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.839 My guest today is Kyle Smith, film critic for Wall 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.760 Street Journal and theater critic for New Critarion and a 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:12.800 longtime friend of mine. Kyle, Hi, thanks for being here, Hi, Carol, 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.000 how are you doing good? 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:15.680 So? 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:17.919 You like a lot of things that I don't like, 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.240 and that's sort of been a theme in our friendship. 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.720 You like fruity drinks, you like going to the movies. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.559 I don't like any of that. I super rarely actually 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.320 enjoy a movie. So I wanted to ask you what 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.120 percentage of movies as a film critic would you say 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:33.640 that you like? 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:37.400 Well? 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.520 I try to correct for that by only seeing like 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.200 the top hundred or so movies, only reviewing like the 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:47.080 top hunderds out, but even those, about forty percent of them? 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.240 I guess forty percent. Hi, I think I like like 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:51.080 five percent. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:55.520 Maybe, Yeah, I sort of feel like I'm a consumer advocate, like, 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.840 it's my job to steer you away from movies that 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:59.960 are a complete waste of time and money, particularly time. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.680 I'm right and right, you know. The wayst example is 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.680 this Scarcezi movie, which I think is terrible. 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.000 Killers of the Flower Moon, universally praised because it's supposedly 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.200 shows the dark side of American history. To me, three 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.360 and a half hours of brutality, it's very monotonous. It's 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.359 like the same musical score is kind of going for 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.400 three and a half hours. Indians getting killed, Indians getting tricked, 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.480 Indians getting poisoned, Indians getting defrauded. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:28.719 It's so dispiriting to watch. I can't believe anyone actually 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:29.839 enjoys this movie. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.400 So would you say that, I'm like, at my low 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.040 percentage of movies I enjoy, and I really like I try. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:41.120 I'm a happy, optimistic person. I go into movies being like, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.760 I am going to love this, and I'm inevitably like, 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.800 oh that was awful, awful, awful, awful. So am I 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.040 just watching the wrong things? Or are movies generally bad? 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:53.920 Yeah? I think most of them are bad. 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.520 The problem is that movies are kind of the top 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.159 of the pyramid for sure. It's like the thing everyone 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.680 wants to do. Taylor Swift, right, she's the biggest pop 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.360 star on earth, and she wants to make movies. Everybody 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.240 wants to make movies. If you're a novelist, want to 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.680 make movies. You're in TV, you want to make movies. Uh, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.200 you know, Daily Wire is getting into movies. But you know, 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:20.080 there's there's so much action in the movie space that 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.520 you know, too many of them are just not great ideas. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.640 And uh, one one bad influence I think is we 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.680 have the tech companies Netflix, Apple and Amazon are just flooding, 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:38.520 absolutely flooding Hollywood with money to to invite filmmakers, very 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.760 often prestige filmmakers to make movies that are just not 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.320 very good. The studios wouldn't have made because they would say, well, 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.160 the script isn't good, it's not gonna make any money, 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.600 it's not gonna win the Oscar. No, make sure it's this. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:48.200 You know. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.520 I saw this Netflix movie The Killer yesterday, David Fincher, 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:53.120 very highly claimed director. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.120 It's just a terrible script. It shouldn't have been made. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.520 But Netflix was like, David Fincher wants to make a 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.400 movie with us Okay, here's a check. Right. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.920 So you're a film critic, but you've also been a 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.000 culture columnist, politics. You write about a lot of different stuff. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:11.520 I think you've written on some really controversial stuff over 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.720 the years, like I remember the anti waiter column that 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.240 got you banned from New York City restaurants, and then 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.800 the women don't Understand Goodfella's column, which you know I 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.840 personally took offense to. But I still like you. Any regrets, 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.040 any thing that you would not write again? 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.400 No, to me, everything I write is obviously true, and 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.400 everything is obviously wrong. You have to have a lot 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.920 of confidence in being a writer. You almost have to 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:39.440 be arrogant, don't you think to be a writer? 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:40.679 Almost? Almost? 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:41.359 Yeah? 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:42.240 Right? 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:43.240 And you must have listened to me. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.400 And I'm the one who's on the page five of 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.600 this newspaper and you're not. So my opinion matter is 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.440 more than yours does. So I guess I'm sufficiently arrogant 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.760 enough to think that I have confidence and whatever I'm saying. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.840 So you you stand by it all. It's yeah, okay, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.280 that's bold. I mean, are you back in New York 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.280 City restaurants or still using an alias? 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.720 I was never banned. I've never stopped going to restaurants. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.079 All I needed was make fun of unctuous waiters who 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.320 you know, you know how they are, it's particularly true, 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.880 and you're like, they get down on their haunches and like, Hi, 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:18.120 my name is Jason. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.720 Have you ever been to this restaurant before. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.000 I'm thinking I'm pretty sure I ordered food and you 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.199 have some you know, minimum wage person to bring it 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.120 to me, and I won't see you again till it's 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:28.600 time to pay a check. Yeah, I know how this 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.960 restaurant works, probably right right, you know, it's pretty easy 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:32.800 to make fun of waiters. 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:34.480 But you know I wrote this comment. 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:40.000 Every waiter waitress in the world wrote in to tell 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.080 me how horrible it was that one of the big 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.560 things that problem was. One of the big things they 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.880 had a problem with was I referred to them as servants, 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.680 and he said, no, we're not servants with servers, big 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.079 different servers, not servants. Still tell us servants or servers, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.360 and I mean one lady wrote in to tell me, 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.520 I'm a nurse and in an r room and if 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.280 I see you, I mean, I will let you die 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:02.040 rather than. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.240 I'm sure she's got you know, a very healthy life 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:08.040 to put. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:12.480 Various body uh uh things into my food if they saw. 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.800 Me coming, right, So you, I mean, and so you 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.560 got some pushback, but you're you kind of shrugged it off. 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.040 Anything worse than that. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.080 Well, you must get pushed back all the time. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.800 Oh yeah, but I don't. But I'm a nice person 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.320 who does not criticize waiters. So I was just I 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:33.000 was wondering, how well, but they deserve it. 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.679 They deserve I think Jason is not very dangerous. That 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.079 could be wrong. Maybe it's been poisoning. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.600 I have a friend actually who had this line where 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.680 she said, when the waiter comes over and says like, 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.520 have you been to this restaurant before? And starts explaining 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.640 the menu, She's like, no, but I have been two 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.200 restaurants before, and I feel like it's going to go 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.240 you know similar, right? 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:57.160 Is that what you do here? 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.120 But like the top is usually smaller plates, and as 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:02.800 you get you know, lower in the menu, it's the 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.320 bigger plates. So it might get confusing for you. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:07.880 Oh well, I think I can handle that. Okay. 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.880 So you once had a column. I actually couldn't find 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.400 it as I was looking for it, but it was 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.120 about how much you love what you do. And I 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.400 think you call people who aren't writers, like, you know, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.800 new suckers or something. I was trying to find it. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.040 So you love being a writer, and obviously that the 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.679 suckers was jokingly. Do you feel like you've made it? 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:29.960 Oh? 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.920 Yeah, definitely. I mean continuing where I came from. I'm 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.599 basically a blue collar shmow. I should be like a carpenter, 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.680 you know, a plumber or something, you know, truck driver. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.079 My brother puts roofs on houses. That's the kind of 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:43.040 thing I was made for. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.640 I should have wound up doing that, but I would 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:46.480 have been terrible at it. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:47.679 Like I'm really bad at building. 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.760 I'm building out those like heat, furniture and stuff, and 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.360 I always build it wrong. I put the thing on back. Yeah, 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.240 I would have been a terrible blue collar worker. But 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.640 I somehow walked into being able to sell words for 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:57.040 a living. 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:58.080 How great is that? 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.839 I can just say, awesome, there's more to me money, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.760 and but they come to me and offered to buy 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:04.520 my words. 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.120 It's just amazing. It's just such a scam. It feels 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:07.880 like a grift. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.000 I'm very grateful for, you know, not having to get 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.880 my hands dirty and I have to work on my feet. 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:14.360 My dad worked on his feet. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.160 Six days a week. He was a dog groomer. He 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.760 sometimes worked even on Sunday. He worked literally every Saturday. 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:21.280 My entire childhood. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.959 And he was on his feet the whole time. He's 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.760 doing manual labor. And it was in the basement of 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.160 our house and it was really hot down there in 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:32.720 the summer, so he was kind of boiling hot dogs everywhere, 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:36.360 dog hair everywhere. Just a miserable job. And that's the 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.439 kind of thing I could easily have fallen into. That's 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.079 what he was made for. That's who my people are. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.680 As the first person in my family to go to college. 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.520 Wow, I didn't know that. It's amazing. And you were 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.040 also in the military. 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.720 Right, yeah, that was the pay for college. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:56.920 Yeah, so yeah, I signed up for what I was ORFTC, 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.440 and then I wound up going on active duty in 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.920 Germany and I made to Saudi Arabia for the Gulf War. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:03.120 How was it. 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.080 Boring? But also interesting? 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.560 War in general is very interesting and strategically, but the 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.760 day to day reality of being in a personnel service 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:19.559 company thirty miles and back is just kind of like you, 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.600 you know, a military is like a snake, right, there's 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.480 a deadly head and then there's a long long tail. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.880 That's probably that long tail that kind of doesn't. So 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.559 it's basically just getting through every day, you know, getting 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.840 meals and delivering mail and stuff like that. That's yeah, keeping records, 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:38.600 that's that's what we did. So it wasn't particularly exciting 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:39.880 on a day to day level. 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.360 Do you consider that you're living a public life, like, 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:44.439 do you get recognized? 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:46.960 Not really, No, I'm not really on TV that much 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:47.480 unlike you. 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:49.880 Well, I mean, now you're going to be recognized all 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.240 over the place after this, you know. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.320 As you know, I wasn't aware until five minutes ago 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:55.640 that we're going to do video here. 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:56.640 I thought it was just a phone call. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.360 Here we are doing the video. It's going to be 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.199 everywhere and people are going to stop you in the 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.040 street and say, hey, you're that Kyle Smith. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.560 Is any be famous that I picture? 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.600 Like? I know Maggie Harman pretty well to me. She's 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.080 famous enough that might actually be annoying. Maybe you're not 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:12.440 that famous where it's annoying you. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:13.000 Yeah, I'm not. 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.320 I'm in I love my level of fame. If I 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.800 could keep it at this level. I definitely would because 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.160 the only people who recognize me like me. I'm not 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.160 big enough for paters or I mean I have had 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.040 a lot of hate. I had, you know, a note 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.080 left on my door in Brooklyn. I mean, I've definitely 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.960 had that. But I on the street or like in public, 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.920 I've never had somebody be like, you know, I know 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.800 who you are, and I'm going to like try to 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.960 do something to you. The people who recognize me recognize 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.640 me because they've seen me on a you know, a 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.080 podcast that they watch or Fox or any number of places, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.200 or they read the Post that's a big one. Ever 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.720 since moving to South Florida, I've discovered that everybody reads 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.280 a Post in South Florida. It is the official newspaper, 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:03.120 so I can recognize a lot from there. But yeah, 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:04.960 I like this level of fame. I think it's like 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:06.840 I wouldn't want to be. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.040 More famous, right, but there's probably a time when only 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.040 conservatives knew who Sean Head he was, and then he 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:13.840 kind of weaked. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.000 Out and he got right right, So like, you know, 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.000 I'm going to try to keep it right here and 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.720 not like I don't know, being famous without a lot 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.120 of money coming with It makes no sense to me. 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.120 It never made sense to me, like fame for the 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.640 hell of it, like influencers and all of that. It 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.240 just it seems like hell to me. Like to be 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.840 famous and not make a lot of money from it. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:36.720 Just I don't get it. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.400 I was reading Matthew Perry's memoir, very interesting book, and 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.920 there's the point in the book where he's just about 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.160 to audition for Friends. The only reason he got the 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.120 audition for Friends was because his friend Craig Burgo turned 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:49.520 it down. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:51.640 Oh, really jewish. 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.440 Sitcoms, and you picked the other one. 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.000 They were really good friends at the time, and everyone's 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.320 trying Craig Burgo, you know, take this opportunity. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:15:59.480 What was the one that he picked? 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:01.440 The show that the lasted duct six weeks? 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.520 I think it also called like just Friends or my 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.640 other Friends, you know, have friends at the title, I 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.600 believe totally forgotten show that it's on. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:10.400 I believe ABC. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.000 Right before he did this audition, Matthew Perry prayed to God. 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.360 He said, please, God, you can do whatever you want 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.320 to me, but just make me famous. That was a 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.320 curse because he was he's been an addict. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:29.040 Yeah, thirty years. I feel like, I'm going to teach 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.480 my kids at being famous is not good and that 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.560 they should not strive for it. Of course, my middle 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.240 son already has a YouTube channel and he really wants 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.040 it to blow up. So yeah, it's it's already a 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.640 hard road to teach the kids. Are your kids into that. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:47.680 No, not at the moment. Now. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.840 They're both kind of more shy than uh, you know, 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.080 eager to perform in public, So I think that's good. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:17:00.520 Yeah. So a question that I ask all of my guests, 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.200 and you know it's an easy one, but what do 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.560 you think is our largest cultural or societal problem in America? 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:06.840 And do you think it's solvable. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:09.800 It's kind of a trap because when you answer that question, 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.320 you automatically sound really grouchy. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.480 But it's okay, I am grouchy. 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.440 You sound really grouchy all the time. I think it's 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:20.000 fine to be funny. Oh you're funny, funny, groucy for sure. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.720 To me, the biggest problem we have is everyone wants 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.800 something for nothing. We have lost track of this idea 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:29.879 that if you want to get something, you've got to 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.040 pay for it one way or another. It goes all 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.239 the way up and down the line it starts at 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.640 the bottom level. You've seen this TikTok video where there's 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.120 this twenty four year old women in a car and 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:42.679 she says, I'm going to my service job and I 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.199 hate it in marketing. I have a marketing degree. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.320 Damn it. I should be making one hundred and fifty 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.240 to two hundred per a year. I'm twenty four years old. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:50.560 I have no. 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.520 Experience except my work at Starbucks or whatever. No, you 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.960 don't start one hundred. 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:58.800 And fifty thousand dollars a year. Why do people think 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.720 that that that you get to start rich? 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.600 And on the other end, we have the Paul Krugman's 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.120 of the World, World's Leading Calmness, the World's Smartest Man, 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.000 Nobel Prize winner telling us debt doesn't matter because it's 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.000 money we owe ourselves, so we can spend as much 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.359 as we want on the social safety net, which is 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.919 always fraying and tattered. No matter how many trillions of 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.680 dollars are spending on welfare and everything else. We're just 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.880 spend as much money as we want. It doesn't matter. 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.760 That doesn't matter, if you know, don't worry debt and deficit. 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.000 And now we're going to a point we're gonna have 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.320 I think trillion dollar payments just for interest. Now, that's 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.760 that's milestone, trillion dollars worth of interest in. 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:43.000 My personal favorite of the Paul Krugman nonsense right now 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.960 is when he puts up the charts that show that 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.600 there's no inflation if you take out like food and 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.320 housing and cars and like you know, all the things 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:55.480 that you buy those if you just remove those things, wah, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:59.960 no inflation at all. But yeah, I've seen those videos 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.719 where the young people are expecting to make six figures 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.040 out of college. There was one a few days ago 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.480 that was, like, I work nine to five and I 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.640 live in New York and I have to commute for 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.960 like an hour, and I have never worked nine to five. 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.879 I didn't even like at my very first job out 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.560 of college was nine to six. I have no concept 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.199 of nine to five. That's amazing, Like, you're so lucky. 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:28.399