WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Friday Hour Four 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:14.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.840 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe. 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:26.000 Gatty, Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty Strong and. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:35.080 Came across a fantastic think piece by a fellow by 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.760 the name of Tom Klingenstein about DEI in the United 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:43.600 States Military. And I've heard various folks, including some of served, 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.920 talk about how it's hurt readiness, and I believed it, 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.239 but I've never heard it fleshed out this well. And 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.559 I wish we had hours and hours, because I'd love 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.000 to read the whole thing and discuss it with you. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:57.240 But his point that is. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.480 Quite eloquently made, and we'll post it at Armstrong and 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.960 Getty dot under hotlinks, is that. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:03.520 Well. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.680 He writes, the military is often perceived by well meaning 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.640 Americans as the last holdout in the progressive march through 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.919 the institutions. In reality, however, it was among the first 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:17.120 American institutions to formally embrace the radical logic of group quotas. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.600 And he talks about the difference between civilian society and 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:27.880 milliate military society in its values, in its training, in 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:32.000 its social norms, and why they're so important, and how 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:39.640 DEI is utterly incompatible with the cultural norms that have 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:44.319 underpinned every military in the history of time, discipline, sacrificing 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:49.320 oneself to the unit, everyone being the same, your only identity, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.440 as I'm a member of this unit. It's very, very 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.120 well written, and it's made me all the more dedicated 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:58.680 to stamping out this radical ideology wherever it happens. I 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.520 was encouraged to see again editorial in New York and 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:06.280 The New York Times pointed out by fabulous frequent correspondent 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.320 Paulo DEI is not working on college campuses. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.080 We need a new approach. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:15.720 It's by a couple of academics from Stanford Law and 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:20.560 Stanford University, and they write it in a way that 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:28.399 is they are lefties approaching lefties. So it's fairly gentle 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:35.160 about how the DEI programs that exist on campuses are 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.120 not quite what they purport to be and don't really 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.440 achieve what they've said they should achieve, pointing out the 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.919 rampant anti Semitism on all of these enlightened campuses. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:49.680 And again it's it's very well written and I'd love 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.200 to go into more detail. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.000 On it, and anti Asian bias, which we'll get to 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:54.600 in a second. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.480 Oh yeah, yeah, And we could certainly get into the 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.000 report that just came out from Columbia University about how 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:04.119 miserable failure Dei has been in rooting out anti Semitism there, 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.639 and he gets into the I'm sorry, these two academics 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.360 get into the rigidity of these programs and how and again, 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.679 this is not a revelation to us at all. They 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:21.240 don't seem to actually be about diversity, equity and inclusion, 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:25.320 whatever those things mean. They seem to be rigidly enforcing 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.000 a particular point of view, and they seem to just 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.920 want to see the power at the universities. Well, welcome 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.640 to enlightenment, my friend. But what was interesting was, and 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.720 this is what Paolo, the service Paolo provided, which I 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.880 appreciate very much, he says, more interesting than the article 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.440 are the generally pretty solidly left New York Times reader's comments. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.680 If you view the reader's picks, meaning the comments on 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.200 the story that got the most thumbs up and that 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.200 sort of thing, you'll see that they are all critical 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:59.320 of Dei, and they run from as a white male 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.720 is perfectly can be even helpful to ask me to 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.600 examine my values and beliefs for racism and sexism. But 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.560 it's not fine to assign me the category of a 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.080 pressor based solely on my race or gender. 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:10.560 Blah blah blah. How about this one. 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.360 As a black immigrant from Africa, the idea that groups 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.479 are inherently oppressed based on skin color is shocking to me. 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.920 All races and genders have issues because we're all human beings. 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.800 I've received far more discrimination in Africa on the basis 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.360 of my tribe than I have from any white person. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.600 And he goes down that line for a while. As 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.520 a staunch liberal and white minority, ally, the only thing 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.800 that's ever made me consider voting Republican is having to 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.080 write diversity statements for a university job. It's a blatant 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.400 tool of discrimination and everyone knows it. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:40.160 Wow. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.279 A couple one more quick one. As a professor at 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.040 a university, I agree for students to succeed in the university, 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.640 they must feel that they belong. For a minority student 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.600 from a public school and a class full of white kids, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:59.800 it's tough to feel like you belong's. Uh, this guy, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.200 As you finally get to the point, Oh, it's that 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:08.479 socializing with peers, involvement in student groups, for participating with 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.359 a broad array of people is what breaks down those barriers. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.040 Not being set into camps and set against each other. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.040 That's the opposite of what works. 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.760 So, as I've said many times, this is not the 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.200 beginning of the end of this neo Marxist garbage. It's 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.960 the end of the beginning. People are starting to realize, Wow, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.960 this isn't about diversity or equity, which is communism or 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.560 inclusion at all. They just want to take control of 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:38.160 things by cowing us into silence, by calling us racists on. 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.799 The racial breakdown at colleges. Maybe you saw this headline. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:44.520 I saw the initial headline over the weekend after Supreme 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:50.520 Court ruling against affirmative action. Black acceptance to MIT drops 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.760 ten percentage points, and they presented it only that way. 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.520 I think it was The New York Times had it, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:58.600 and obviously it's supposed to be a. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:05:59.560 Horror that happened. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.640 Sich Lowry actually wrote in The New York Post yesterday 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:04.560 digging into it. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:05.200 A little more. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.920 A spike in Asian Americans who were admitted to MIT, 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.640 who you can only assume were not getting in even 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.960 though they deserved it before because of affirmative actions. 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:18.120 So the whole numbers on that. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.920 So MIT is the first top level college to release 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.600 their numbers on this. We're going to be hearing more 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.560 about these in the fall, I assume from Harvard, Yale, 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.200 whoever else. But MIT released its first post affirmative action 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.599 admissions number for the incoming class since the Supreme Court 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.960 ruled the affirmative action in these universities is wrong, and 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.240 the percentage of Asian American students increased from forty to 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:45.240 forty seven percent the first year are the first opportunity 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.520 to have, you know, merit based admissions. Black students dropped 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.120 from fifteen to five, Hispanic students from sixteen to eleven, 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.920 White stayed roughly the same, and as Rich Lowry rights, 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:00.119 either the MIT admissions office has been somehow infiltrated by 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.080 racists who want to exclude as many black and Hispanic 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:07.040 students as possible while boosting Asian Americans for some reason, 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:12.200 or they were working to keep out meritorious Asian American 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.440 applicants all these years, people that deserve to be in 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.320 the school and weren't allowed in because they weren't the 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:19.080 right race. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.560 What could be more racist than that. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.200 Well, and to take a step back to I think 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.680 the greater and more important issue is now that we 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:33.280 haven't papered over the difference is in achievement by shoving 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.120 kids in who probably can't make it at MIT, because 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.920 there's a huge incidence of that the kids who are 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.280 elevated beyond their level of achievement and stuck into these colleges, 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.120 they fail at unbelievable levels. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:45.840 You're not going to read that in the mainstream media, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:46.720 but it's true. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:52.480 Instead of papering over the question of okay, why is 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:58.560 a disproportionately small percentage of black students able to qualify 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:03.040 for MIT start before they're even in school. Let's talk 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.960 about kindergarten. Let's look at first grade through eighth grade. 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:07.720 Let's talk about middle school and high school and the 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.520 rest of it. Let's address causes as opposed to these 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:17.200 affirmative action at the end programs that enable a people 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.480 who are profiting from this, the teachers' unions and don't 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.880 want to solve the problems, and b society that's uncomfortable 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:28.440 talking about it. Why do black kids underachieve if you 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.480 don't paper over the process at the end, you're forced 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.640 to reckon with the problem at the beginning. And that's 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.600 why I like these problems as somebody who's not trying 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.840 to take over universities through my DEI critical thinking or 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.800 I'm not critical thinking, critical theory, neo Marxism. 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.960 I actually care about little black kids. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.080 So a doke researchers expecting similar results in other Ivy 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.440 League schools this fall a big increase for Asian American students, 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.679 white students staying about flat, and then a substantial drop 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.000 in Black and Hispanic admissions. Rich Lowry points out here 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.240 it's the same experience California had when the state passed 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.920 the anti Affirmative Action proposition in two thousand and nine, 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.679 I mean two o nine. Back in ninety six, Asian 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.400 Americans went from thirty seven percent of freshmen at UC 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:25.320 Berkeley to forty three percent. White students dropped ten points. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.920 So you can't claim it's white supremacy or white power 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.480 structure or something like that. The number of white kids 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.240 getting into Berkeley dropped from thirty percent to twenty percent. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.600 And this is my favorite part of it. There isn't 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:42.400 some giant factory somewhere that's manufacturing generic Asian Americans either, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.760 who all have the same backgrounds and attitudes. The category 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.920 of Asian American includes people from countries that hate each 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.160 other and always have people from countries that have little 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.720 to do with one another. For instance, China, India, the 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.480 Philippines whatever, They. 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.920 Got nothing to do with each other. Some cases hate 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.680 each other and always have hated each other. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.480 They've killed each other by the hundreds of thousands in 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.679 brutal ways. It's not like some monolithic group like you 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.600 claim white people are, who are trying to take over something. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.800 Well, and you've got to drop your preconceptions too about 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.559 elite universities and such. I tell you what, here at 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.800 Joe's second tier university, you're gonna learn a hell of 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.679 a lot. You're gonna drink some beer and get laid. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.760 It's gonna be great at the superachiever universities will be 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:28.719 for superachievers. 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:29.600 And that's fine. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:33.120 And I remind you of the fact that generally speaking, 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.800 A students work for B students at companies owned by 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:36.400 C students. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.520 As the old saying goes, Yeah. 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.600 I'm glad you mentioned that, because Rich Lowry did end 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.080 with as for students who would have been admitted under 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.679 the old racialized system. It's not like they'll have no future. 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.200 If they end up at a good state school somewhere, you'll 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.360 be absolutely perfectly fine. If you're good to ed her off. 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.720 Probably yeah, very good chance you will be better off. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.720 But the idea that your life is ruined or something 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:04.120 like that's insane. Took us a long time to get here. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:10.200 These affirmative action programs exist in large measure to prevent 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:16.800 us from considering the uncomfortable and difficult questions of black underachievement. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.359 I believe that to my bone. That's really interesting. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.840 The Armstrong and Getty Show, Yea or Jack or Shoe 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:29.920 podcasts and our hot links. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.360 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:39.040 Oh here's how money actually works. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:47.080 Seven dollars beautiful? Are you about to say something? 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:47.240 No? 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.680 Okay, So we're gonna do the one on one class 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.680 first and then two to one class. If this first 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.760 part is too obvious for some of you, Congratulations on 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.360 understanding the basics of economics, which is a fairly rare 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:03.320 thing in today's world, which is highly discouraging. But first 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.920 of all, they're talking about who's this writer. I like 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:07.560 to ta give credit because this is really well written. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.640 Matthew Hennessy in the Wall Street Journal is talking about 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.560 the fellows in Oasis, the British rock band which is 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:14.440 getting back together. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.160 Wonderwall. He gets back, he. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.120 Gets into some of the backstory, the Gallagher brothers who 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.400 can't stand each other and can't get along, but they're 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.520 the indispensable members of the band Oasis. Last month the 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.400 Boys Buried the Hatchet announced series twenty twenty five concerts. 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.319 Delirious Fans were young and relatively poor during the band's 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.800 heyday are now older and relatively rich. They have the 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.480 willingness and ability to pay to see Oasis and concert. 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.439 Economically speaking, that's called demand, but demand is only one 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.200 side of the economic story. 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:43.960 Morning Glory for the moment. 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.439 At least, the Oasis reunion is limited to a handful 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.680 of shows, and the Wembley Stadium is large. It's not 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.720 infinitely so, and there's no guarantee the brothers will remain 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.120 on speaking terms beyond next summer. Fans understand that this 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.480 may be their last chance to see the battling Gallagher 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:58.840 lads together on stage. 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.240 Supply is limited now. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.440 Introductory economics tell us that when supply is tight and 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.240 demand is high prices rise to an equilibrium, which is 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.800 exactly what happened. Then he talks about dynamic pricing and 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.440 how the tickets are significantly more expensive than they seem 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.360 to be when initially announced. Some accuse the greedy brothers 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.000 of ripping off their loyal fans. Many more aimed their 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.320 furia ticket Master, the American ticket Sales BMTH, owned by 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:26.440 Live Nation Entertainment. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.480 The fur revealed terrible. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.440 Probably not going to argue me out of my anger 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.280 at ticket ticket Master in general, but go. 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:38.120 On, Oh the fees, the fees that creep up onto 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.600 your bill at the end. Yes, that's a different topic 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.960 and an interesting you're electronic sending me of the ticket 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:48.120 cost forty dollars what? Yeah, anyway, putting that aside, because 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.080 this is just a question of the price of the tickets. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.600 The furor revealed a terrible ignorance, even among the highly educated, 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.080 of what prices are and how they work. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.760 I would argue to the journalists that know these. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.560 Are people opposing is being outraged, they're not actually outraged. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.959 Like the very Prime Minister of Britain, kir Starmer, told 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.080 the House Commons that he found it depressing to hear 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.600 of the oasis price hikes, he promised a commission to 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:19.000 investigate what he called extortionate price resalers whatever. Culture Secretary 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.720 Lisa Nandy told the Bebe that quote, vastly inflated prices 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.960 would exclude ordinary fans. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:29.600 They have a culture secretary, Yeah, why do you need 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.080 that secretary of culture? And there should be some sort 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:37.440 of government intervention in that some things are more expensive 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:38.000 than others. 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:42.960 What, yeah, bollocks in economic terms a concert ticket. And 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.440 this is the really important part. This is the econ 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.240 one to one stuff that if you don't understand it, 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.840 you don't get anything about economics. A concert ticket is 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.200 no different from a book, a bottle of wine, or 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.880 a house. It has no inherent value, only the price 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.640 a buyer is willing to pay and a seller is 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:03.360 willing to accept. The market clearing price of anything is 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:07.320 where demand meet supply. The correct and fair price is 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.240 whatever the market will bear. No buyer has a right 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.640 to a low price, just as no seller has a 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.400 right to a high price. Then they point out the 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.720 obvious oasis could be nice guys and sellar tickets for 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.480 five bucks, but scalpers would snatch them all up. And 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.440 resell them for much much more. What good would it 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.360 do for Oasis, for the ordinary fan or anybody to 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.640 allow third party resellers to capture all that value. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:35.920 Well, that's what Yeah, that's what people don't understand about sports, 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.680 guitar players, whatever, actors and actresses. Somebody's going to get 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.920 that money because there's a demand for it. So if 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:49.200 it's not George Clooney or Shoheyo Tani or the Gallagher brothers, 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.200 then the company that puts on the show or the game, 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:54.960 or the network or whatever, they get the money. But 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.800 somebody is getting the money. It's just the way it works, right. 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.800 A couple more quick tidbits of music industry guru explained 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.160 that the acts hide behind Ticketmaster. They want them to 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:07.200 take the flack. 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:08.640 All this stuff. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.560 That's pretty good, that's probably true. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.440 Yeah it's not good for your image, but Ticketmaster takes 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.920 all the flack. And he also writes, here's the dirty 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.400 little secret. Ticketmaster does nothing that the band does not 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.400 agree to. So anyway, I thought that was a good 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.720 little instructional on if there's demand and little supply, the 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.240 prices are going to go up, and it should. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:30.280 And you know what's gonna happen. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.200 The gallery good boys are going to put down their 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.680 fists and open up their calendars and say, you know, 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.360 I'm a lot to play half a dozen more shows, 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.440 are you? And supply will increase in the prices will. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.480 I was drunk in the backseat of an suv that 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:47.520 could go. I have one thousand, five hundred stories that 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.560 start that way, but in this particular one enter my seat. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.240 I was drunk in the back of the suv on 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.000 the way to an Oasis concert Charlotte, North Carolina, in 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.720 nineteen ninety five when we heard on the radio that 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.800 they'd cancel the concert because the two brothers had gotten 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.120 a fistfight backstage. 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.120 So I still have not seen them. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:13.119 Wow, Wow, Yeah, that legend not overblown. No, that reminds 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.959 me when they were like in their sixties, the Davis brothers. 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:19.680 It looks like Davies, but it's pronounced Davis of the Kinks. Actually, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.600 we're continuing to come to blows and scream at each 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.280 other backstage in their sixties trying to tour. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:29.840 Wow, get some counseling for us or something. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:41.120 Let it go Armstrong, the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:46.439 It's funny. 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.320 I've wanted to bring this up for a while, the 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:56.320 real crisis in America's government schools. And I don't want 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.639 to be the cliched everything is going to hell all 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.639 the time person like me, that's what I am, because 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.840 that's my brand, because we already have one of them. No, 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.959 but I was thinking about it, and it goes back 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.800 to our discussion of the natural state of things is 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:19.240 chaos and poverty and violence, and if you have a civilization, 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:26.400 the challenge of preserving that civilization never ends. And everything 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:31.359 isn't necessarily going to hell, but everything will go to 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.240 hell if you don't stop it. Going to hell needs 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:40.520 to be maintained. Yes, in short, So anyway, I think 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.280 one of the things in another principle before we get 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.160 in the specifics you've quoted George will As saying, one 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.560 of the essential, you know, elements of being a conservative 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.160 is you have to deal with reality, recognize what is right. 0:18:54.240 --> 0:19:00.399 You can't be a utopian, unicorn riding wisher of fond 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.720 wishes and call yourself a conservative. 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.200 It's just it doesn't fit. So anyway, I. 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:11.600 Think we have an enormous crisis with America's government schools 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:12.160 right now. 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.080 I don't think there's any doubt of that. 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:21.040 I think it would be a four alarm panic going 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.879 on in America right now if it were not for 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.480 two things. Number One, a lot of parents think schools 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.200 are still what they went to, what they grew up with. 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.360 And the distraction of the Golden Bachelor and the Golden Bachelor. 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.080 And there are three things now that I think about it, 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:43.440 And the other one is that there are some schools. 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.879 It's actually four things, including the Golden Bachelor. There are 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.120 some schools that are still doing a good job. They're 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.800 fighting hard, they're in conservative areas, the teachers and administrators 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:55.840 are not fully woke. 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.600 So people think our schools seem to be fine, and 0:19:58.640 --> 0:19:59.240 maybe they are. 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:05.280 But the fourth thing, obviously, is that the dominant media 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.840 do not talk about this much at all because it's 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.880 extremely uncomfortable for them because they are progressive, they are woke, 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:15.639 they are pro union, and. 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:17.879 The heavyweights have their kids in private schools, so they 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:18.639 wouldn't know anyway. 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.439 That's a good point. That is a good point in 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.320 the middleweights too, anyway. So a couple of exhibits in 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:29.119 the prosecution of America's government schools, one that you've probably 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:31.320 heard similar fare before, But this is a bit of 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:35.800 an update. Between two thousand, year two thousand and the 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:41.200 year twenty twenty two, the number of students in Marca's 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.639 schools rose by five percent. 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:48.800 Five percent. The number of teachers rose by ten percent, 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:50.800 which is interesting. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:55.960 Yeah, the number of principles and assistant principles rose by 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:57.160 forty percent. 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:02.560 Whoa what? Who had their kid in school in the 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:04.600 year two thousand thought, you know, this is going. 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:06.720 Well, it'd be a lot better though if we had 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:08.479 like eight more principles. 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:09.879 Who the hell thought that? 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:10.560 Right? 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.320 And then again, keeping in mind that the increase in 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:18.040 students is five percent, the increase in administrative staff is 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:19.520 ninety five percent. 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:22.000 There you go, Samons with universities. Yeah. 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.560 Now, some we've talked about this in the past, and 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:28.880 some folks have said, yeah, the uh, the government mandates 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:34.240 on schools is so cumbersome now, the federal and state mandates. 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:37.800 You have to have compliance staff, oh my god, that 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:42.840 spend their whole days issuing reports and filling out forms 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:45.359 that say you've conformed to all of the demands of 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:46.560 the centralized government. 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.240 There are so many forms. So I have been through 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:51.800 a lot of this and super nice people I'm not 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:53.200 complaining about any of these people. 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:55.720 But I was one meeting. 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:57.880 That had like fifteen people in it about my son, 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:01.359 and they kept using the word rubric. Well, this, this 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:03.359 fits the rubric, and it doesn't fit the rubric. And 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:05.720 we've looked at the rubric. Everything I get said. I 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:09.000 I think I said out loud. I think I cannot 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.240 hear the word rubric another time. Just we gotta I 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:14.960 don't even know what that is. We gotta stop singing. 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:15.320 The word rubric. 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:19.400 Please, if we do nothing else here, to refrain from 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:20.080 singing rubric. 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:23.720