WEBVTT - The Stakes Are So Low 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Ketty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:24.240 Arm Strong, and Getty and He Armstrong and Yetty. New 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.560 York and now plans last week to eventually become the 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.360 first city in the country to provide free, universal childcare. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.519 It's quite a leap. Oh wow, it's quite. 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.040 A leap for a city that only recently discovered trash cans. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:45.880 Listen to the crowd, cheer the idea of universal free childcare. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:54.720 Yes, let the government raise your child. Yay. Wow, you idiots. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.279 I think most of them think free is an actual thing. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.800 But anyway, not to get distracted on that. We came 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.360 up with a brilliant idea during our local news segment 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:10.320 in which I was talking about having been in downtown Sacramento, California, 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:12.960 over the weekend and the number of homeless tents are 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:18.959 drug addict tents, street people absolutely all over the place. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.720 I mean, it's stunning, and I don't see this anywhere else. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.200 It no longer is like this in San Francisco. I 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:25.600 didn't see this one. I was New Orleans. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:26.160 I didn't see this. 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:30.760 Lots of places, well, I was vacationing around incredible downtown 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.679 middle of the day, nice day tents, flipping everywhere. 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:34.880 Anyway, here's our idea. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.800 You're debating Gavin Newsom, whether it's for the nomination or 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.000 for he gets the nomination, and you're debating for president. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.560 You don't answer any questions and no debate. This is 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:45.160 what I think you do. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.240 You do that thing where you can wear a whole 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.360 bunch of T shirts like your waddle out there with 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.520 your arms sticking straight out, because you got like thirty 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.480 T shirts on Okay, and every time they go to you, 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.040 your T shirts have pictures of squalor in various places 0:01:58.080 --> 0:01:59.160 around California. 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.400 So here's a pick of like Jay and. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.360 Ninth Street would work in Sacramento, all the tents, and 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.440 then you just wear that and then you take off 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:10.079 one of your T shirt. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:11.960 Underneath it is another T shirt. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.520 This is, you know, a baker's field with a picture 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.000 of a right next to the city hall, a tent 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.120 encampment of drug addicts, and you just keep taking off 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.360 the T shirts. Over the hour and a half debate, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.200 more and more pictures of squalor around California. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:29.160 Yeah, people doing the fentanyl hang in the Malibu or 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.880 Venice Beach or whatever. Yeah, the junkie camps that have 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.239 polluted San Diego. 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.480 Yeah, that'd be such a great stunt and he would 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:37.720 get so much attention. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.880 Yeah, just point to your T shirt and then peel 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:45.560 off another one. I don't think they allow props and debates, 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:46.799 but I love the idea. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.840 As a prop. It's my shirt what I'm not allowed 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.720 to wear clothes exactly. Yeah. I like the idea of 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:55.840 a tear off like the Hulk. It'd be more drunk. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.000 Oh yeah, Katie, there you go, stole points end the 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:00.000 Hulk there at the end of his life. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.640 I've struggled to pull apart as tear away jersey at 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:03.440 the convention. 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:05.840 So would I? Who am I to criticize? 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:11.400 So we've been discussing a fair amount how women, particularly 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:16.600 young women, are absolutely miserable and angry and depressed and 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:21.800 anxious and suicidal and marching in the streets over bizarre 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:26.840 causes and gobbling drugs to stay sane and all that 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:27.480 sort of thing. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:28.799 And oh, I. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.440 Got to get to that story about anxious pet owners 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.480 are making their dogs anxious and then having to put 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:35.440 them on medicine. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.160 Oh my gosh, so we got this. 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.080 Well, and then we shared with the other pole the 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:47.280 other day that the number of young white women who 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:51.560 believe that violence and lawlessness to oppose ice, for instance, 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:57.200 is justified is quadruple quintuple ten times any other ethnic 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.600 group or any other subset of the population. I mean, 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.920 college educated young white women are by far the most 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.920 radical leftist group in America. And we've been talking about 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.560 why that might be a couple of thoughts. Number one 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.880 from a correspondent, m in San Jose says getting tougher. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.680 She thinks we're in a Maga type bubble because we 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.920 don't listen to women. You're only hearing male perspectives. Let 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.000 me clue you into the reason why liberal women are 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:29.080 so unhappy. Men's inability to adapt to changing societal norms 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.040 and are increasing awareness of the role of the patriarchy 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.240 in our lives. I will pause, Will you finish your 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.200 eye rolling in deep sigh? Hopefully you will let me 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.520 explain men are failing to adapt to the new roles 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.080 everyone is playing in society. Seventy percent of all households 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.440 have two people working, yet women's do still do the 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.039 lion's share of childcare and domestic work. You know the 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.760 statistics about higher education, women are out pacing men significantly. Therefore, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.040 more women are becoming the breadwinner. Can you imagine how 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.440 it is exciting to be both the breadwinner and responsible 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:57.479 for the heavy lifting at home? 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:58.080 Oh? Joy? 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.320 And she takes a shot at Christian nonsense. I'llah, Charlie 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:03.880 Kirk submitting to your husband, et cetera. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:10.080 I I am sure it exists, but in my orbit 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.840 of not a small number of people in my life, 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:17.520 I haven't known a single mom was the breadwinner and 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.240 did most of the parenting at home. I don't know 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.919 what you're acting like that's the norm and that's what 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:24.960 we're rebelling against. 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.600 Well, and it's I'm sure it happens, but I've never 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:27.840 known you. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.599 I've known families where the woman was a breadwinner and 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.480 dad stayed home with the kid or worked a lesser 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.680 job and had more. But I've never known the I'm 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.919 the breadwinner and I do the bulk of the taking 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.680 care of the kids. You're acting like you're presenting that 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.880 as that's the norm now and how unfair it is. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.120 And just as a woman reacting to this. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.000 The first just part of that that you read screams, 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:50.520 I'm a victim. 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:55.200 Yes, yeah, I would agree. The other thing is, and 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.120 I would actually like to talk to this lady about this. 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.240 She is very, very critical of modern men. A couple 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:04.839 of things. Number one, the assumption that the changing roles 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:10.440 in society and the new American society. I would argue 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.000 to you that a lot of that is the result 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.520 of the radical left getting their way for a very 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:21.080 long time, especially in academia and the media, and forcing 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.920 us out of as a society things that work in 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.200 favor of things that a sound good or b advanced 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.560 Neo Marxism. You are trying to tear apart the family. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.040 That is one of the avowed goals of Marxism, always 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:41.760 has been. And then the second thing is that your side, 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:47.520 your progressive side, has been demonizing young boys now for generations, 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.599 drugging them if they can't sit still and act like 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:55.200 little girls in classes, lecturing them about toxic masculinity, and 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:59.560 especially white boys, telling them that they are the personification. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:03.080 Of evil in the world. And then you say, and they. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.160 Suck because they act all beaten down and they're not 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.240 doing there what they ought to be doing. 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.280 Yeah, well, that's a mystery. Anyway, I lost the thread. 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.160 What was the beginning though? What's her premise that that's 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:16.520 why men are upset? 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:21.000 No, women are? Women are unhappy because men suck? 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.760 Essentially, so okay, So the explanation for women being crazy 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:30.040 is that men are so awful because women make make 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:31.720 the money and take care of the kids. 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.320 Yes, hard to get all that to fit together. Right 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.880 here is commentator Britt Hughes. Michael is thirty five and 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.880 thirty six. Let's play thirty five first. She sets up 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:43.960 her monologue by playing these clips. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.720 Don't come on my page and say that people should 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.280 be in this country legal, don't do it? 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:51.120 Sure? 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.960 Because she was queer? Are we great? Yet? Are we 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:56.440 a great? 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:56.720 God? 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:57.040 Dree? 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.920 Is this one great? It's a long montage. 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.000 I'd like to hear the whole thing of lefty women 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:09.800 just screaming into the camera, unhinged and angry about the 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.040 politics of our nation and the shooting in Minneapolis because 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:17.239 she was queer. And then Britt Hughes, who is a woman, 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.160 is explaining something we've actually talked about before, and I 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:21.120 think it's undeniable. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:22.480 But the literal Michael. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.600 A lot of people are wondering right now, how in 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.880 the world. A person's brain ends up like this because 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.600 this is not how healthy, happy people act. Let me 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.319 explain liberal women are what happens when the natural female 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.920 instinct to nurture and defend and care for gets misdirected 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.080 away from families and children and misapplied to whatever the 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.600 liberal cause of the week is. See, women have an 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.720 innate instinct to support and emotionally connect to vulnerable people. 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.640 We are designed to be mama bears, and in the 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.040 absence of a stable and healthy home and family, a 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.160 woman will find a place to put all of that. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.880 The natural instinct to sacrifice yourself for your children gets 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.120 misapplied in all the wrong directions. You want to know 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.360 why so many liberal women are out there playing hero 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.200 for criminal aliens and gender confused perverts and cultures that 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.320 hate them. It's because they believe they have identified groups 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.640 of people who need them when no one else does. 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.080 We destroyed the family, and we handed a generation of 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.000 women a bunch of feminist lies and progressive slop in 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.880 its place, and this is the natural result. 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:29.079 They've found someone they believe needs them because nobody else does. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.640 WHOA WHOA nailed it. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:41.320 Yeah, that that level of hysteria. Like what I've been 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.560 talking about people flipping me off in my cyber truck. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.840 It's not just that they flip me off. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:51.480 They're like, oh, they're like, oh my god, they're so 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:52.800 much like they're in rage. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.679 It's like, that's weird. How do you get that worked 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.360 up about something like that? Now? 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.400 You know, an innocent person in your eyes, being killed 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.600 is more valid as something to get worked up about. 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.360 But even then, the like, yeah, but taking me along 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.280 the road to spitting anger that somebody drives a tesla? Yeah, 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.880 how often do you get can't control your emotions angry 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.040 over something most people. 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:25.120 Ever in your life? Yeah, once a decade. I don't know. Yeah, Yeah, 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:25.880 it's troubling. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:26.280 You know. 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:26.760 It's funny. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.000 I was kind of daydreaming during that clip because I've 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:34.800 heard in a couple of times I think it might 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.640 be useful for everybody to spend a couple of minutes 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:46.920 thinking in detail about your life and the things you do, 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.960 from the importance of the mundane through the day, and 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.319 how did they come to be, What are the main 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:59.280 influences on how you spend your time and the decisions 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:04.520 you make. For almost all of human history, it was 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:10.280 your your family, your community, your religion period. You know, 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.560 maybe you know stuff like the Constitution or you know 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.000 that would enter into it. Now I would argue it 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:23.160 is tech companies, corporations, and just people who are profiting 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:23.640 from you. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.120 Yeah, what what are your core beliefs? 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.360 If you can't immediately answer that question, your core beliefs 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.400 are I flipped through social. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:33.640 Media to be entertained. 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:39.439 Or I'm blown by the winds of you know, various 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:43.600 causes which are all scams and or corporate greed. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.960 Well, I've been sloppy about this lately, so I know 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.720 something about it. I think the problem is the algorithms 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.320 figure out your core beliefs and then convince you that 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.680 your core beliefs are under attack. And if your core 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.520 beliefs are about to be lost and under attack, you 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.400 know that can get an emotional reaction out of you. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.240 And the reason I know about this is, for the 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.560 first time ever Twitter, I've only ever really used as 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.640 a news source, and I have some people I follow 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.840 and then if there's a particular story m I go to. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.560 But lately, like in the last week or so, I 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.880 open it up and I just look at the stuff 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.760 that it feeds you, which is my algorithm, so it 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.240 knows what my tendencies are, my needs are, and it 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.680 makes you crazy. I can tell that I feel more 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.880 on edge in the last week than I did prior 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.160 because it's feeding me these stuff Like there was one 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.439 yesterday of a guy with an American flag that showed 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:40.800 up to some protest about something, and then the liberal 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.840 nut job started screaming his face with a bullhorn, and 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.520 so he moved his American flag over here to get 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.240 away from the bullhorn, and they came up and put 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.079 it in his ear again, and he kept moving and 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:51.920 kept moving, and then eventually he punched him, and then 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.120 he got attacked by all the liberal crazies and that 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.319 gets an emotional reaction out of you, and the algorithm 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.360 knows that that's going to poke me. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.080 And there's all kinds of that sort of stuff. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.080 Well, combine that, I gotta quit look in that the 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:06.800 feed the algorithm gives me. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:07.560 Yes. 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.760 True, But what amplifies that times ten is that we 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:16.080 no longer identify ourselves as I'm a mother, I'm a father, 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.640 I'm a Christian, I'm a member of the JCS, I'm ah. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.959 Blah blah blah blah, blah. Your politics are your identity, 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.560 and so those people are attacking your very being, not 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.040 just your beliefs. I tell you what, it is an 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:33.360 recipe for psychosis, and what do we have psychosis? Yeah? 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.040 I think most people are too. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.319 Many people's reaction to like that video I saw is 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.400 oh my god, it's so bad. I need to look 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.480 into this more. I need to look at more of 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.679 this stuff so I know how awful it is as 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.520 supposed to. I looked at it, thought I gotta quit 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.360 look at just the general algorithm feed and go back 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:49.760 to just looking at my news sites. 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.840 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. What are the categories? And 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.440 then we'll take a break real quick. Michael for you 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.920 or following? Stick with follow? 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.720 Yeah, don't go with the four of you. They're here 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.920 to make you crazy, and they're doing a good job. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.240 They really are. Oh it's troubling. More on the way stair, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:15.040 barm strong and yetty. So what are your pronouns? 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:16.800 My pronouns? 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.280 Well, I hope that's pretty clear. Yeah, I don't make assumptions. 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.520 You could identify as a sunflower. You know, I've been 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:24.440 told I look like one. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.920 I use them, you know, I've always been curious why 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.880 they am. 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.400 Because there's just one of you and those are plural pronoles. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.479 Just never really understood the hoopla pronouns. 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:37.360 My name's Ainsley, and I just can't really come up 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.080 with a reason why you would address me. 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.240 In third person in a conversation that I'm a part of. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.800 So if you I'm probably not there, so I wouldn't 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.160 really know what pronouns you were using anyways, So why. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.200 Did it matter? Just froll like the beach who and 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.160 says that you know. I think it's because I use 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:52.480 coconutl as a moisturizer. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.800 So that's from land Man, which I haven't watched with 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.000 Billy Bob Thornton about the way industry and everything like that. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.320 A lot of people seem to really like it. 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.640 Now, when you hear a conversation like that, I'm working 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.320 up to a point here, do you think do you 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.080 feel like they're pushing the trains issue on it or 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.160 is it just supposed to be a funny conversation about 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:14.760 the whole thing. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.400 I think it's a funny conversation about the reality that 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.600 we have to deal with that sort of conversation. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.840 The reason I bring that up is I watched about 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.040 two thirds of the movie, one battle after another. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.400 Yesterday afternoon, it's on HBO Max. 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.440 It won Best Picture at Golden Globes, got the most nominations, 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.400 and a couple other records and everything like that. And 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.240 I've heard from a variety of quarters, including some people 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.080 that I really really like, we're really smart about how 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.160 woke it is and unsufferable. And they had to walk 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.360 out of the theater, and I was like, Okay. I 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.400 went into it with, oh, i'll see. I hate hearing 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.400 this ahead of time. It would have never crossed my 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.240 mind to have any political problems with this movie if 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:54.880 I hadn't been told ahead of time. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.040 It's it's just well, I'll read. 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.640 The main critic of The New York Times was an 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:04.040 epic screwball adventure teeming with aspiring action set pieces. That's 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.160 a pretty good description an epic screwball comedy. Every character 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.960 in the thing, from top to bottom. I don't think 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:13.920 of my characters in terms of left and right when 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.920 I watch movies like I don't immediately think about where's 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.720 this character fit on the political scale, So I wouldn't 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:20.440 think about it. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:25.800 But everybody was absurd. Everybody was over the top incompetent nuts. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:26.520 It's just. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.160 I feel bad for you if you watch movies and 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.560 all you can think of is how does this fit 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.080 into politics? I just I don't get it. I really don't. 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.080 I'll have to watch it and make my own judgment. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:40.360 I haven't seen it. 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:48.280 So the radical protesters are incompetent and ridiculous and dumb. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.200 I mean, if I was gonna make an argument, I'd 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:55.240 make an argument that was portraying revolutionaries is incompetent and dumb. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.760 If I wanted to make that argument again. 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.680 It reminds me of don't look up where everybody is 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.200 portray yes, indishly right wingers and left wingers. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.840 Yes, yes, and with the same star Leonardo Dicapiro, who's 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.560 a ridiculous revolutionary who can't figure out the pronoun thing 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.160 and get on the right side of it and everything. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.080 But people just don't have a sense of humor when 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:15.359 they feel like they're in a war. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:20.160 I guess apparently, yeah, Armstrong and Getty, So. 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.480 It's gonna be I just wanted to be ahead of 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.880 this conversation because I think the movie One Battle after 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.000 Another is gonna be a big national conversation when it 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:27.920 gets to Oscar time. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:29.480 It's gonna be It's gonna be a thing. 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.720 And you either think it's Paul Thomas Anderson, who I'm 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.800 a big fan of. I couldn't like the oil drilling movie. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:39.720 Why can't I think of it? 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.040 Oh? Blood, there will be blood. I can't. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.600 I couldn't like There will be Blood or other movies 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:48.600 he's made more. 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:49.360 I just love them. 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.600 And I saw this movie as just, I don't know, 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.080 a farce really, and some of you see it as 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:54.600 so political. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.480 I said my piece on that, and I'll shut up bath. 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.040 To me, it's like watching pulp fiction and saying they're 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:02.800 trying to glorify drug use. They were, all right, that's 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.840 not what I took away from it. But here's what 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.040 somebody this will represent the rest of you who didn't 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.120 agree with me. I went to watch one Battle after 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.600 another on Tuesday. There were only fifteen people in the theater, 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.840 which is interesting. All the awards it's won, and it's 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.879 got ninety four percent on Rotten Tomatoes with fans. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.680 But anyway, but it's also streaming. I think it's both. Yeah, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.720 in theaters asters I watched it on HBO Max. Not 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:26.720 relevant to the discussion, but that is interesting. 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:28.760 There were only fifteen people in the theater, and after 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.040 thirty minutes I walked out. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:31.639 I was the last one to walk out of an 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:32.280 empty theater. 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.520 I asked the theater employee about it, and she told 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:36.040 me that at least half of the people who bought 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:37.359 tickets don't make it one hour. 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:38.879 I don't know if I believe this or that. 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.360 Wow, I thought it was one of the more entertaining 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:42.719 movies I've ever watched. 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.240 The pace. It's just it's crazy. 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.600 The first half hour is nothing but liberals, freedom fighters good, 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:52.239 portraying them as good. 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:53.720 I guess is what this person means. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.800 Military Ice Republicans bad, and it's okay to bomb their 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:00.359 offices and headquarters. It's hilariously shows a handful of freedom 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.960 fighters take over an ICE facility that's run by dozens 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.840 of ICE agents. They all look like skinheads. My curious 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.440 curiosity got the better of me. I had to look 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.600 up what was going on. All the critics raved about it, 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:12.760 and it was a box office flop. That is what 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.600 happens when you crap on half the population. So that's 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.520 the take some of you have on this movie. That 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:18.800 is not what I took away from it. 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:21.879 Oh, I wish i'd seen it. I will judge what, 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:22.960 I will judge harshly. 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.960 Man In the pace of it, Paul Thomas Anderson apparently 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.600 realizes that the TikTok generation has not got time for 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:30.119 things to unfold slowly. 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.560 Well, what about that commentary though, that is that a 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:35.960 description of the first half hour? 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:37.960 Did they say her hour? Is that accurate? 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:38.879 Uh? 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:43.040 The part of it depicts freedom fighters good and no. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:48.080 They come off as completely nuts and inept and it's 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.080 and so are the people on the other side are 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:52.600 nuts and up to and unless you are going into 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.000