WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Tuesday Hour Two 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.159 So, kadie, have you or any of your female friends 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:05.720 been engaging in this man or bear meme that were 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:06.840 like a month behind on. 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:07.720 Yes or no? 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:10.479 Big eye roll, huge eye roll. Okay, I'll set it 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:12.760 up here and then you can you can get into it. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.239 Eye roll followed by the headshake of disgust. 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:20.079 This is the dumbest thing that's hit the Internet in 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:20.560 a while. 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:21.600 But go ahead, jam. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.880 Well, we're wait behind, and I apologize if you're like, 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:28.400 that's that's so yesterday's news, because from what I understand, 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:30.680 this has been the hot topic for quite a few weeks. 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:35.120 But we're old and slow. So it's a very simple question. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.280 If you're a woman hiking alone in the woods, would 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:39.960 you rather encounter an unknown man or an unknown bear? 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.080 Would you rather encounter a strange a dude you don't know, 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.400 or a bear? And depending on which social media venue 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.839 you're on, but it ranges from well over majority on 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.720 all of them, two thirds to eighty five percent of 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.520 the women say absolutely bear, Absolutely bear, I'd rather run 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.400 into a bear than a do out in the woods alone. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:02.240 First of all, what. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:03.800 If you of your friends thought, And then I'll get 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:08.360 into some of the higher level sociology commentary around it. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.840 I have not brought this up to my circle of 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.479 friends because the ones that would know about it are 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.160 going to be the ones that would say bear. This 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.040 is the dumbest thing on the planet. I don't know 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.160 why you would want to encounter a bear. I don't 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:27.160 have you not heard of male toxicity? Oh kid, do 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.480 you know a break? Really, you would rather encounter a 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.200 wild bear while you're out on a hike than passing 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:35.440 some dude you don't know. 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:36.560 That's where we are. 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.920 That is where we are, and I think we actually 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.920 are there. Obviously there would be a certain amount of 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:47.320 jerkin with people or pollsters. It's not really a pole, 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.640 just a question posted on TikTok or whatever. But people 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:52.600 kind of get a kick out of saying bear. But 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.520 the fact that people get a kick out of saying bear, 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.360 I find troubling that you just you like this idea 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.600 that men are so awful and dangerous that I'd. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:04.520 Rather be eaten by a bear. 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.200 Like a lot of the most common sort of comment 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:08.960 is if a bear eats me, at least it's going 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.160 to be quick and easy a man. All the horrible 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.600 things a man might do to me, Oh, be much 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.320 worse than being eaten by a bear. Is kind of 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.160 the common theme among the eighty percent of women who 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:18.800 feel that way. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.480 My concern is that this might erode bear awareness, but 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:23.640 that's just me. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.960 Just let all of the women who said bear encounter 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:27.480 a bear. 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:29.440 That'll be great. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.079 I have had a couple reactions in the last few years, though, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:38.040 where women in recoiled in horror from the most casual 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.600 like approach your conversation. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:42.919 That didn't used to happen. 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.960 I feel like I don't know what's being taught to 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.880 young women about how afraid you should be of men 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:51.240 in public or what. 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.200 But you look like a serial killer. That's most of them. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.120 But I've always looked like a serial killer, and I 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:57.320 didn't always get this reaction. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.480 Yeah, Joe, just all part one of my answer. Part 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.880 two is this. This is the Internet. The Internet is 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:06.880 doing this, the TikTok algorithms, the Instagram algorithms. Anytime you 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.000 go on this bear man thing has been all over 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.679 the place, and it is it's the This is the 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.480 dumbest comparison. I'm my blood pressure is going up if 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.079 you can't tell the fact that this is like the 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.960 main it was trending on every social media outlet you 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.560 can imagine, and the top videos that you clicked on 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.639 were all women talking about how they would much rather 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.200 encounter a bear, and then firing off all the lists 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.399 of reasons why they wouldn't want to encounter a man, 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.160 which is stupid. And then you get all the kids 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:37.880 that echo that. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.280 I think, yeah, h. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:47.240 Just the whole framework where you're you're answering one question 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.080 with an answer that's meant to express who you are 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.600 and what you're concerned about and how you believe in 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.680 toxic masculinity and all. I just if you want to 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:01.200 say something, say something. Yeah, I don't know. Just this 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.320 annoys me. It's it's another example of if you're going 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.520 to be accepted as an as a progressive, you've got 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.600 to hate the United States. You've got to be self hating, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.119 especially if you're white people. That's like your uh, that's 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.960 your bona fide. Can you use that in singular? I 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:17.280 don't know. 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.920 That's how you prove that you're worthy of respect. 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.680 Self hatred and look, I get it as the father 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.040 of a couple of daughters that you know there's there's 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:28.960 some risk. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.200 In encountering a man in the wild. But it's just 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.680 a silly question. A bear's a freaking wild piece. 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.400 This seems like a good opportunity for me to express 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.120 my disapproval of toxic masculinity. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:42.000 That's all this is. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.400 Of course, you got to flip it around for men hiking, 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.560 Do you want to encounter a cougar or a cougar? Okay, 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.320 your choice of cogar cougar. I'll not go with the 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.240 cougar over the cougar any day. I'll tell you that 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.560 as dumb as as this, as this texture, I've literally 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.000 been chased and nearly attacked by a man in the woods. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.480 The later caught him and arrested him, but it's still 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:03.920 rather run into a man than a bear. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.080 Yes, your experienced hiker. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.000 I used to hike every single day, and I have 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.800 passed hundreds, if not thousands, of random men in the woods. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.360 And I can tell you if that number had been 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.320 hundreds of thousands of bears, I probably wouldn't be you're 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:20.440 talking to you right now. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.039 Yeah, got a lot of texts on this for decades, 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:28.520 the leftist feminized men that strong men are toxic, et cetera, 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.480 et cetera. Now women complain there are no strong men 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.520 available to hook up with. We've got a lot of 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.359 that theme. Hey, there's no wonder nobody's having kids. I 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.039 was thinking about somebody we used to work with around here, 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.080 talking about why he was still single and didn't date much. 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.400 Just the whole women he encountered look at men like 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:50.640 they're all rapists. Like that, that's your starting point and 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:55.200 you have to convince otherwise. Another aspect of this that 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.520 bothers me is that whether you're a parent, or a 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.359 teacher or even a in some situations, people tend to 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.400 they react to they live up to your expectations of them. 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.200 And if we are constantly giving the message, sending the 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.280 message to young men that men are dangerous, violent and 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:19.040 misogynist beasts, then the young man has the option of 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:23.080 either A being that or B being some sort of 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:28.520 weird reaction to that extra effeminate passive, you know, making 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.600 sure they're not right. And you know, I just it's unhealthy. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.320 Me go ahead, Katie, Oh, I'm just thinking from a 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.680 woman's standpoint too. It also says something about our growing 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.040 women's security. Because I'm secure enough in myself, like if 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.920 I'm out, I'm situationally aware and all of those things. 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.560 So I think that if I were to encounter the 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.919 bad man on the trail, I would be able to 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.240 know at least how to start to protect myself and 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.159 handle it. We just have a bunch of really weak, 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.360 scared women right now, too, well. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.560 We it's the same thing that has been going on 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.080 for decade's now around child abduction. We've got to quit 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.400 acting like every child gets abducted, every woman gets raped. 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.680 These are extraordinary instances. That's why they make the news 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:10.400 the way they do. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:18.080 They're not common, right, what's the exceptionality bias or rarity bias? 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.080 The point is, uh, And you're probably familiar with this, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.280 but it's worth keeping in mind that things make the 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.640 news because they're rare, and then everybody sees them and 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.960 becomes convinced they're common. Yeah, it's the very rarest of 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:34.000 things that you hear about the most. Because man goes 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.960 to work without incident, Hug's wife, who he loves afterward, 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.440 is not gonna make the news. Yeah, and that happens 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.600 millions and millions of times every single day. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.600 If you're lost in the woods and he encountered a man, 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.320 ninety nine percent of the time, maybe more the guy's 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.440 gonna say, yeah, yeah, you go that way, and that'll 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:49.680 be the. 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.600 End of it, right yep, encounterbear, You're gonna wet your pants. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:54.120 It's scary. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:55.960 I had a guy get a coyote away from me 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.960 one time on a hike. He didn't know him for anything. There, 0:07:58.040 --> 0:07:58.800 you go help me out. 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.320 It didn't. This meme didn't start with a woman in 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.320 the woods. It started with would you rather have your 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.720 child wandering the woods and come across a bear or 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.840 a man? In that case, definitely a man. I mean, 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.040 are you kidding me? That's just idiotic. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:11.680 Yeah. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.920 But again, that is the the knee jerk need of 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.680 the progressive is to hate men, hate white people, hate 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.360 the United States, whatever, self hatred. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.240 I've got another great example of that coming up. I 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.200 have one more text on this, and this is the 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.440 good closing text. Bear a man on a hiking trail. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.120 How did you know it was a man if you 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.160 haven't confirmed his self identities, his pronoms, et cetera. 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.160 The idea that you just assumed it was a man. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:37.720 Bad on you, boy. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:39.840 What if it's a man that identifies as. 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.760 A bear, then you're yeah, wait a mood? Yeah, guy 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.320 in a bear suit. I don't even know what you do. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.520 Would you say bear or would you say what a 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:56.040 bears do in the woods? Yeah? A person who ases 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.480 in the woods like a birthing person or you know 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:05.720 what I'm saying. Yeah, come up with some elaborate woke term. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.000 Joe jackasses a woods sen beast. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:14.199 Yes, ignore them completely and DEI programs where they exist immediately. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:19.320 Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty show. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.800 Everyone that's using swipe to text most likely millennial, possibly 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:30.000 gen z piping fast and accurately with two thumbs again, 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.160 probably mid twenties, mid thirties. Even you will kind of 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:37.920 stay at this thumb tapping age until probably about i'd 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.280 say fifties. Then you're going to start adding in your 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.640 your index finger unnecessarily. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.319 Aged sixty five plus is where. 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.400 You start doing the one finger tap, holding with your 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:48.760 left hand or your right hand. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.440 You're getting up there when you're doing that. I just 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:52.599 don't think that's true. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.960 I think the one hand or two hands depends on 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.080 the size of your phone, because I've had the smaller 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.560 phone where I can reach everything with my thumb, and 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:01.880 then I've had the bigger phone where I got to 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:02.640 use both thumbs. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:03.960 Yeah, I see young people. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.960 I've sat next to lots of young people on planes 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.240 or whatever, and they're they're using both thumbs. Go, they 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:09.320 can go faster than me. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.160 Definitely. My youngest who enjoys teasing me. At one point, 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:19.080 I'm voice texting and she says, oh, that is so boomer. Really, 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.079 I'm like, honey, it's saving me time. 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.160 Really, So young people don't voice text almost exclusively voice text. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:26.120 Yeah, I don't. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.360 I've not had that substantiated by like a committee of 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:30.120 youthful people. 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.800 But she's, you know, she probably knows. But that's interesting 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.360 to me that they don't voice text. 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.920 They see it as faster to use your thumbs, Katie 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.480 or cooler. Voice texting when not in. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.240 The car or through your Apple Watch is a little 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:46.000 it's boomer. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.680 Huh. It's a little little boomer if you're among people, 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:50.400 is that what you mean? 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:52.880 Yeah, I mean if you're standing in a group of 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:54.520 people when you pull out your phone and you start 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.320 firing off a text, you know, text to voice. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.679 Yeah, oh you I don't care if I'm a boomer. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:02.600 I'm not. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.880 Actually I'm a gen z. But as gen X said, 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:07.880 but as a friend, I'm not gen Z a gen X, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.840 but as a friend said to me, but you present Boomer, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:16.440 I do a fair enough Okay anyway, a different consumer issue. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:25.480 I found this so interesting. Taylor Swift among she is, yes, skinny, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.760 blondeheaded dating a football guy. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:28.840 Yes, Taylor Swift. 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.840 She is a talented songstress, no doubt, whether you're like 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.120 your music or not, there's no denying that people really 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:40.000 dig her tunes. But she is also an absolutely savage 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.680 and effective capitalist in ways that I think are underappreciated 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.000 because everybody's busy swooning over her legs and her concerts. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.199 I've got a friend who's in the concert business. I 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.920 can't get too specific, but he's pointed out to me 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:57.120 that she is a voracious capitalist. She one tour, your 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.240 place in line to buy tickets was determined by how 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.400 much merchandise you bought. You spend one hundred bucks on 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:09.000 merch you're like fourth in line, you spend three hundred 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.560 bucks on merch step right up by your concert ticket. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.160 Well, then that whole selling tickets to just being the 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.200 parking lot like my niece did, making lots of money 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:21.000 off of that parking lot tickets, or opening the t 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.200 shirt shops and everything like they did in San Francisco 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.400 three days before the concert, and having lines around the 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:30.600 block right now. Yeah, and a lot of the talk 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.880 of hey man, they're selling owed in the sixties and 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.360 seventies was idiotic, As Pete Townsend to the who once 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.960 put it, and I thought this was pretty persuasive. He said, no, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.240 if I let Chevy use my song for their trucks 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.000 for six months, that allows me to finance all these 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:47.599 projects I want to do that are not going to 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.959 make any money, but I really enjoy. Well, that's so 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.520 perfectly that if you need to make that reason, I 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.040 don't care if your reason is I want to buy 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.960 a yacht. Who freaking cares is my song? The weight 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.960 with Warbler can do whatever she wants with her songs. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:05.160 Back to the Wayfish Warbler herself. So, oh, that's right, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:11.400 the whole selling out thing. She has so much money 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:16.160 and employs so many people. It's just interesting to see 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:21.840 that she is obviously as motivated as the guy who 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.400 you know came up as Steve Jobs was with Apple 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.160 to build a giant conglomerate. Because she doesn't need the money. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.640 I mean, it's not even close. But for instance, she 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:33.840 her new Albumney. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.880 Yes, that is true, she does not need the money. 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.920 But so why would she? For instance, her new album 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:45.880 is called Midnights. She has put out six different funky 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:53.520 like colored vinyl albums, discs, records. She puts out these 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:57.760 collectiable vinyl additions in a bunch of weird, funky colors, 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:59.880 and people are buying all of them. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.920 Do so a physical album? Do people have record players? 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:05.000 All these people? 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:05.120 Oh? 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.320 Yeah, a lot of people don't. How would I know? 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:08.400 I haven't ask them. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.400 But there's the collectibles. You hang them on your wall 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.800 or they actually spin them. That's an interesting question. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.760 But this one dude who's and he's a dude who's 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.600 a big Taylor Swift fan, has spent about one thousand 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.920 dollars in the process of buying all six of the 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:28.920 different colored vinyls. Although streaming remains the dominant musical format, 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.800 physical media has been a growing niche where the industry 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.840 can cater to so called super fans who express their 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.160 dedication by shelling out big bucks for collectible versions of 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.560 new releases, sometimes in multiple quantities. 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.080 A lot of your K pop bands are like this too. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.160 They have elaborate CD packages offering often featuring goodies like 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.960 postcards and photo booklets, which helped the boy band repeatedly 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:51.800 go to number one. 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:53.840 Taylor Swift has put. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:59.000 Out special edition like CD packages, even cassettes with bonus tracks. 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.360 Certain deluxe editions sold through her website have trinkets like 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:08.440 Magnet's photo cards and engraved bookmarks, and my favorite, Swift's 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.920 site offered a limited run of autographed LPs for fifty dollars, 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.880 and then she had one special edition thing which featured 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.560 entries from her journal or her diary or something like 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:22.520 that that the completest fan would have to collect. So 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.320 you weren't here the day we talked about the leggy 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:29.160 La La Lauer and her making the Billionaire List for 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:35.240 the first time. She is so the billionaire entertainers. She 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.240 just made the list this year. There are fourteen billionaire entertainers. 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:44.479 She's the only one on there, including jay Z, Rihanna, 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.520 a bunch of different people. She's the only one on 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.000 there that's made the money primarily offer music. The other 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:54.560 ones have makeup or jay Z's got tequila or whatever. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.040 He's got brand, He's got some sort of boost. She's 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.480 the only one that has done a music but she's 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.160 found a whole bunch of different avenues. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.240 For the music avenue of it, we'll write music and 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:06.680 music adjacent like merch. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:08.920 But yeah, but I understand the distinction. 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.320 T shirts is closer to your music than you got 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:13.240 a booze now. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.120 Oh, one hundred percent. Yeah, especially because you can't make 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.720 money on the music. Really, in the world of streaming, 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.360 artists make nothing. You got to sell tickets and merch. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:27.360 As I've heard said many times, you want to support 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:28.200 an artist by merch. 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.080 And the blonde Bellower is only thirty four. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:36.880 She's got along apparently, Apparently your trove of these phrases 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:38.160 is unending. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:39.640 She's got a long way to go. 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.880 She could end up with many, many billions of dollars. 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:51.240 I can't go on with this discussion. It's funny. I've 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:52.600 wanted to bring this up for a while. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:17:00.400 The real crisis in America's government schools, and I don't 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.680 want to be the cliched. Everything is going to hell 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:03.480 all the time. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.000 Person like, that's what I am, because that's my brand, 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:12.240 because we already have one of them. No, but I 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.520 was thinking about it, and it goes back to our 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.600 discussion of the natural state of things. Is chaos and 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:24.439 poverty and violence. And if you have a civilization, the 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:31.440 challenge of preserving that civilization never ends. And everything isn't 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:36.160 necessarily going to hell, but everything will go to hell 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:37.840 if you don't stop it. 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.320 Going to hell needs to be maintained. 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:45.119 Yes, in short, So, anyway, I think one of the 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.399 things in another principle before we get into specific so 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:52.240 you've quoted George will As saying one of the essential, 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.640 you know, elements of being a conservative is you have 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.160 to deal with reality, recognize what is right. You can't 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:05.560 be a utopian, unicorn riding wisher of fond wishes and 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:06.960 call yourself a conservative. 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:08.960 It's just it doesn't fit. 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.760 So anyway, I think we have an enormous crisis with 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:18.800 America's government schools right now. I don't think there's any 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.600 doubt of that. I think it would be a four 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:27.600 alarm panic going on in America right now if it 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.679 were not for two things. Number One, a lot of 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.520 parents think schools are still what they went to, what 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.320 they grew up with, and the distraction of the golden 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.879 Bachelor and the golden Bachelor. And there are three things 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.600 now that I think about it, and the other one 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:49.400 is that there are some schools. It's actually four things, 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.879 including the Golden Bachelor. There are some schools that are 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.280 still doing a good job. They're fighting hard, they're in 0:18:55.320 --> 0:19:00.720 conservative areas, the teachers and administrators are not fully so 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.160 people think our schools seem to be fine, and maybe 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:08.600 they are. But the fourth thing, obviously, is that the 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.160 dominant media do not talk about this much at all 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.480 because it's extremely uncomfortable for them because they are progressive, 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.919 they are woke, they are pro union, and. 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.159 The heavyweights had their kids in private schools, so they 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:22.919 wouldn't know anyway. 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.679 That's a good point. That is a good point in 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.919 the middle eights too, anyway. So a couple of exhibits 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:33.040 in the prosecution of America's government schools. One that you've 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.440 probably heard similar fare before, but this is a bit 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.960 of an update. Between two thousand, year two thousand and 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:44.960 the year twenty twenty two, the number of students in 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.879 Marcus schools rose by five percent. 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:49.600 Five percent. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:56.200 The number of teachers rose by ten percent, which is interesting. Yeah, 0:19:56.359 --> 0:20:01.400 the number of principles and assistant principles rose by forty percent. 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:06.800 Whoa what who had their kid in school in the 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.080 year two thousand thought, you know, this is going well, 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.080 it'd be a lot better though if we had like 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:12.760 eight more principles. 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:14.840 Who the hell ought that right? 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.560 And then again, keeping in mind that the increase in 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.320 students is five percent, the increase in administrative staff is 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:23.800 ninety five percent. 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.280 There you go, Samans with universities. Yeah. 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:28.800 Now, some we've talked about this in the past, and 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:33.120 some folks have said, yeah, the uh the government mandates 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:38.480 on schools is so cumbersome. Now the federal and state mandates. 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.040 You have to have compliance staff, Oh my god, that 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:47.120