1 00:00:11,697 --> 00:00:14,977 Speaker 1: You're listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure 2 00:00:14,977 --> 00:00:17,977 Speaker 1: you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 3 00:00:18,017 --> 00:00:19,737 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. 4 00:00:20,137 --> 00:00:22,457 Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to the Buck Brief. On this episode, 5 00:00:22,537 --> 00:00:25,177 Speaker 2: Inez Stepman is with us. She is a senior policy 6 00:00:25,217 --> 00:00:28,297 Speaker 2: analyst at the Independent Women's Forum, does some great writing 7 00:00:28,657 --> 00:00:30,137 Speaker 2: and it's been a friend of mine in this business 8 00:00:30,177 --> 00:00:32,657 Speaker 2: for like a decade. Now, isn't that what we're getting old? 9 00:00:32,697 --> 00:00:34,297 Speaker 1: He is? You know, they realize That's what I was 10 00:00:34,377 --> 00:00:34,817 Speaker 1: gonna say. 11 00:00:34,817 --> 00:00:36,417 Speaker 3: That's a reminder of how old we are. 12 00:00:36,257 --> 00:00:38,057 Speaker 2: May be able to measure our friendship and how many 13 00:00:38,097 --> 00:00:42,017 Speaker 2: decades we have been hanging out. So let's start with 14 00:00:42,017 --> 00:00:43,737 Speaker 2: with this I wanted to get into and just to 15 00:00:43,737 --> 00:00:45,737 Speaker 2: give folks a sense of where we're gonna go. Uh 16 00:00:46,257 --> 00:00:50,377 Speaker 2: some DC school numbers about how many people are you know, 17 00:00:50,457 --> 00:00:53,137 Speaker 2: absent truant, but really are they even going to school 18 00:00:53,137 --> 00:00:56,457 Speaker 2: at all? That's really interesting to me. Mark Cuban thinking 19 00:00:56,937 --> 00:00:59,457 Speaker 2: that he should just keep on. It's like a kid 20 00:00:59,497 --> 00:01:02,017 Speaker 2: burning his hand on the stove. But Mark Cuban with 21 00:01:02,137 --> 00:01:05,057 Speaker 2: DEI is like burn it again, burn it again. Like 22 00:01:05,097 --> 00:01:07,217 Speaker 2: he just seems to love doing this online, like he 23 00:01:07,297 --> 00:01:09,897 Speaker 2: loves the pain. But we'll we'll get into that. But 24 00:01:10,537 --> 00:01:12,417 Speaker 2: I just think this is fascinating. You are a New Yorker. 25 00:01:13,617 --> 00:01:14,137 Speaker 2: You live there. 26 00:01:14,137 --> 00:01:15,817 Speaker 1: Now, it's funny I used to be in New Yorker. 27 00:01:15,897 --> 00:01:17,697 Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's very generous of you, given 28 00:01:17,737 --> 00:01:21,057 Speaker 3: I know that you're you're an original New Yorkers. I 29 00:01:21,057 --> 00:01:23,417 Speaker 3: don't know, after three years, can I call myself a New. 30 00:01:23,737 --> 00:01:24,977 Speaker 1: Yorkers who were born and raised there. 31 00:01:25,017 --> 00:01:26,577 Speaker 2: It's a little bit like the way that Japanese feel 32 00:01:26,617 --> 00:01:29,377 Speaker 2: about citizenship, Like we're very slow to call somebody else 33 00:01:29,417 --> 00:01:31,417 Speaker 2: a New Yorker, Like we don't really give it out. 34 00:01:31,977 --> 00:01:35,657 Speaker 2: But no, you because you love the city and you 35 00:01:35,697 --> 00:01:38,337 Speaker 2: are staying, and you are conservative, but you are staying, 36 00:01:38,497 --> 00:01:41,617 Speaker 2: and so is Jared, your husband. He You guys are 37 00:01:41,617 --> 00:01:42,977 Speaker 2: in it right, You're in it to win it. 38 00:01:43,017 --> 00:01:43,337 Speaker 1: Okay. 39 00:01:44,137 --> 00:01:50,017 Speaker 2: You live across from a migrant encampment in New York City. 40 00:01:50,897 --> 00:01:52,977 Speaker 2: Tell me all about this because I actually haven't been 41 00:01:52,977 --> 00:01:54,977 Speaker 2: there to see this phase of the city. I was 42 00:01:54,977 --> 00:01:57,777 Speaker 2: there through the COVID madness. Now live in Florida. What 43 00:01:57,897 --> 00:01:59,577 Speaker 2: are we seeing with the migrant situation? 44 00:02:00,697 --> 00:02:04,137 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's bad, and it's visibly so and 45 00:02:04,257 --> 00:02:07,697 Speaker 3: getting worse, which I mean we can talk about. I 46 00:02:07,737 --> 00:02:12,617 Speaker 3: think the single most uh and successful political gambit probably 47 00:02:12,737 --> 00:02:16,417 Speaker 3: the last thirty years has been dysantis an abbot sending 48 00:02:16,457 --> 00:02:20,177 Speaker 3: bus loads of migrants to Blue Havens because it has 49 00:02:20,257 --> 00:02:23,297 Speaker 3: truly made it a national problem. And of course there's 50 00:02:23,377 --> 00:02:26,697 Speaker 3: the obvious hypocrisy in a bunch of New Yorkers waking 51 00:02:26,777 --> 00:02:29,497 Speaker 3: up to the fact that this is actually a problem, 52 00:02:29,697 --> 00:02:32,137 Speaker 3: you know, after they've been calling Hidalgo, Texas who's dealing 53 00:02:32,177 --> 00:02:34,657 Speaker 3: which is dealing with a much worse problem over decades, 54 00:02:35,937 --> 00:02:38,617 Speaker 3: and they've been basically called racists for their trouble for 55 00:02:38,737 --> 00:02:41,657 Speaker 3: complaining about it, right, But nevertheless, I think it's been 56 00:02:41,737 --> 00:02:44,257 Speaker 3: really effective. I do see a lot of people complaining 57 00:02:44,297 --> 00:02:46,057 Speaker 3: about it. I see people, you know, it's one of 58 00:02:46,057 --> 00:02:49,217 Speaker 3: those things you just can't ignore. It's also impossible to 59 00:02:49,257 --> 00:02:52,617 Speaker 3: ignore the makeup of who's coming here. These are young 60 00:02:52,657 --> 00:02:55,857 Speaker 3: men from eighteen to their mid twenties, and they're just 61 00:02:55,897 --> 00:03:01,897 Speaker 3: hanging out in packs. It's definitely like I get very 62 00:03:01,897 --> 00:03:05,297 Speaker 3: interesting notifications. I have a app that tracks like neighborhood 63 00:03:05,297 --> 00:03:08,257 Speaker 3: crime and get I get really interesting notifications like three 64 00:03:08,377 --> 00:03:14,097 Speaker 3: hundred men in a brawl. Oh, that doesn't happen without. 65 00:03:13,857 --> 00:03:16,417 Speaker 2: I mean, unless it's unless it's happening at Thermopoli a 66 00:03:16,457 --> 00:03:18,177 Speaker 2: long time ago. That's concerning. 67 00:03:18,297 --> 00:03:22,217 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's it's a different dynamic than 68 00:03:22,257 --> 00:03:25,697 Speaker 3: the domestic problems with crime, which are also an issue. 69 00:03:26,137 --> 00:03:28,617 Speaker 3: But now there's a lot of uh, there's a lot 70 00:03:28,617 --> 00:03:31,377 Speaker 3: of chatter around. Some of these guys are forming gangs, 71 00:03:31,417 --> 00:03:33,737 Speaker 3: and they're just forming like kind of snatching gangs, so 72 00:03:34,337 --> 00:03:37,337 Speaker 3: walking around the street, grab a bag, grab a phone. 73 00:03:37,417 --> 00:03:41,057 Speaker 3: They're speeding away on on mopeds. But it's organized. It's 74 00:03:41,057 --> 00:03:43,497 Speaker 3: not a sort of random, it's it's organized, and they're 75 00:03:43,657 --> 00:03:47,097 Speaker 3: repeated offenders over and over again, and and a lot 76 00:03:47,137 --> 00:03:50,497 Speaker 3: of people are now it's it's self perpetuating because the 77 00:03:50,537 --> 00:03:53,497 Speaker 3: sanctuary city policies and the generous benefits in New York 78 00:03:54,177 --> 00:03:57,697 Speaker 3: are an attraction. So now Abbott and DeSantis don't have 79 00:03:57,737 --> 00:04:00,337 Speaker 3: to do bus loads. They can. The people are saying 80 00:04:00,337 --> 00:04:02,377 Speaker 3: at the border, you now the it's about hotel Manhattan. 81 00:04:02,537 --> 00:04:06,057 Speaker 3: So that's that's uh, that's that's what's going on, and 82 00:04:06,737 --> 00:04:08,817 Speaker 3: it is really putting us straight on the city. It's 83 00:04:08,857 --> 00:04:13,537 Speaker 3: it's anyway, it really it's a different experience actually living 84 00:04:13,617 --> 00:04:15,737 Speaker 3: next door to it. I lived in San Diego for 85 00:04:15,817 --> 00:04:17,737 Speaker 3: quite some time, and that's the closest I've come to 86 00:04:17,817 --> 00:04:19,737 Speaker 3: seeing this. But it was much less out of control 87 00:04:19,977 --> 00:04:21,737 Speaker 3: when I was living in San Diego. Even though there 88 00:04:21,737 --> 00:04:26,017 Speaker 3: were a lot of illegal crossings, the number and again 89 00:04:26,057 --> 00:04:30,737 Speaker 3: the demographic profile of people coming here is like the 90 00:04:30,737 --> 00:04:32,417 Speaker 3: only thing I have to compare it to is, as 91 00:04:32,417 --> 00:04:34,817 Speaker 3: I was telling you off air, as East Jerusalem. It 92 00:04:34,897 --> 00:04:39,697 Speaker 3: feels very very foreign. You feel nervous as a woman 93 00:04:39,737 --> 00:04:43,817 Speaker 3: alone walking by. It's just packs of young men hanging 94 00:04:43,857 --> 00:04:48,297 Speaker 3: out all day doing drugs, drinking, like getting into fights. 95 00:04:49,217 --> 00:04:51,457 Speaker 2: And what is the city plan for this? You know, 96 00:04:52,057 --> 00:04:56,617 Speaker 2: it seems like this is combustible. It's clearly a quality 97 00:04:56,617 --> 00:04:59,737 Speaker 2: of life issue. It's a safety issue, it's a law issue. 98 00:04:59,777 --> 00:05:01,697 Speaker 2: I mean, I can good on the whole list. What 99 00:05:01,777 --> 00:05:06,857 Speaker 2: is Eric Adam saying about this or anyway. 100 00:05:04,657 --> 00:05:08,137 Speaker 3: He's been kind of vocal about it. I've been kind 101 00:05:08,137 --> 00:05:10,977 Speaker 3: of surprised. I mean, obviously my standards are very very low, 102 00:05:11,897 --> 00:05:14,657 Speaker 3: given that he is a Democrat, but he's been kind 103 00:05:14,657 --> 00:05:18,657 Speaker 3: of a burn the Biden administration side. I mean, unfortunately, 104 00:05:18,657 --> 00:05:21,457 Speaker 3: the democratic resolution for all this right, the thing that 105 00:05:21,457 --> 00:05:23,217 Speaker 3: everyone will agree to at the end of the day 106 00:05:23,257 --> 00:05:25,177 Speaker 3: within that party is we just need to throw more 107 00:05:25,217 --> 00:05:27,857 Speaker 3: money at this right. So Eric Adams is complaining about 108 00:05:27,897 --> 00:05:32,097 Speaker 3: the strain on resources, which again is something that border 109 00:05:32,177 --> 00:05:36,497 Speaker 3: states have been dealing with for decades, but is a 110 00:05:36,577 --> 00:05:39,257 Speaker 3: very real problem. I mean, we had the headline go 111 00:05:39,417 --> 00:05:42,337 Speaker 3: viral from the New York Post just I think a 112 00:05:42,337 --> 00:05:46,017 Speaker 3: few weeks ago where they once again shut down schools 113 00:05:46,657 --> 00:05:49,817 Speaker 3: went to virtual schooling in a school in New York, 114 00:05:49,897 --> 00:05:53,457 Speaker 3: this time not because of a virus and not because 115 00:05:53,737 --> 00:05:56,097 Speaker 3: of teacher strikes which has happened in which have happened 116 00:05:56,097 --> 00:06:00,257 Speaker 3: in other states, but because they needed the space to 117 00:06:00,297 --> 00:06:03,497 Speaker 3: put migrants in. So they send everybody's kits to virtual learning. 118 00:06:04,217 --> 00:06:07,017 Speaker 3: Those kinds of really direct trade offs are I think 119 00:06:07,097 --> 00:06:09,417 Speaker 3: what is shifting. That's why I say it's very successful 120 00:06:10,337 --> 00:06:13,297 Speaker 3: gambit in a way. I do think that changes people's 121 00:06:13,297 --> 00:06:16,457 Speaker 3: minds and people forget that there was a seventeen point 122 00:06:16,497 --> 00:06:20,657 Speaker 3: swing in New York I think largely over the crime issue, 123 00:06:20,697 --> 00:06:23,577 Speaker 3: and now I would add migration into that general crime 124 00:06:23,617 --> 00:06:25,897 Speaker 3: and quality of life. People are not happy with it. 125 00:06:25,937 --> 00:06:29,097 Speaker 3: They actually are changing how they vote. Obviously, it's a 126 00:06:29,097 --> 00:06:31,137 Speaker 3: super blue state and so it didn't go over the top. 127 00:06:31,177 --> 00:06:35,857 Speaker 3: For the governor. But seventeen points is a big swing 128 00:06:36,177 --> 00:06:38,897 Speaker 3: of people basically switching their votes from Ray. 129 00:06:38,937 --> 00:06:42,337 Speaker 2: It's encouraging, but I just I any person who tells 130 00:06:42,377 --> 00:06:44,257 Speaker 2: me they think given what New York City when I 131 00:06:44,297 --> 00:06:46,377 Speaker 2: was living there, right, so I was experiencing it too. 132 00:06:47,217 --> 00:06:49,577 Speaker 2: I have disdain for people who voted for Kathy Hockel. 133 00:06:49,657 --> 00:06:52,657 Speaker 2: I mean true, truly, I think their judgment is impaired 134 00:06:52,697 --> 00:06:54,497 Speaker 2: and they're not very bright, Like I don't really even 135 00:06:54,617 --> 00:06:57,377 Speaker 2: care what their issues are. If you see what was 136 00:06:57,417 --> 00:06:59,857 Speaker 2: going on in New York. I know she's the governor. 137 00:06:59,857 --> 00:07:02,017 Speaker 2: It's not New York City per se, but New York 138 00:07:02,057 --> 00:07:05,137 Speaker 2: City is the political center of gravity for the entire state. 139 00:07:05,257 --> 00:07:07,777 Speaker 2: It's obviously a huge part of the overall budget. There 140 00:07:07,817 --> 00:07:10,257 Speaker 2: are enormous implications for New York City based upon what 141 00:07:10,297 --> 00:07:13,057 Speaker 2: goes on in Albany and from the governor's office. And 142 00:07:13,137 --> 00:07:15,537 Speaker 2: to put that, and you know, she was so involved 143 00:07:15,537 --> 00:07:18,617 Speaker 2: with the COVID situation in the worst possible ways to 144 00:07:18,657 --> 00:07:22,577 Speaker 2: put that, imbecile Kathy hocal in power for a full term. 145 00:07:22,697 --> 00:07:24,577 Speaker 1: To me, it's just inexcusable. It's just malpractice. 146 00:07:24,617 --> 00:07:26,937 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean, she's the worst for sure, 147 00:07:28,897 --> 00:07:32,057 Speaker 3: she's the worst. 148 00:07:32,417 --> 00:07:34,937 Speaker 1: No, I mean I think I did you feel safe 149 00:07:34,977 --> 00:07:36,097 Speaker 1: on the subway? Can I ask you that? 150 00:07:36,097 --> 00:07:38,617 Speaker 2: Because you know they did that whole National Guard thing recently. 151 00:07:38,617 --> 00:07:39,857 Speaker 2: As a whole I was going to bring. 152 00:07:39,857 --> 00:07:42,137 Speaker 3: Up is that, you know, the left basically because they 153 00:07:42,217 --> 00:07:44,937 Speaker 3: refuse to put career criminals in prison and want to 154 00:07:44,937 --> 00:07:46,337 Speaker 3: put the rest of us in prison, like we can 155 00:07:46,377 --> 00:07:49,337 Speaker 3: all live in prison, so they can try to accommodate 156 00:07:49,417 --> 00:07:54,377 Speaker 3: for the consequences of not putting people in prison. Yeah. No, 157 00:07:54,417 --> 00:07:56,417 Speaker 3: I mean I definitely feel more and safe than I 158 00:07:56,457 --> 00:07:58,937 Speaker 3: did a few years ago, and for sure more than 159 00:07:59,217 --> 00:08:03,777 Speaker 3: pre pandemic like twenty nineteen. On the subway, I mean 160 00:08:03,817 --> 00:08:07,577 Speaker 3: it still is okay, it just depends, right, you have 161 00:08:07,617 --> 00:08:10,057 Speaker 3: to be a lot more alert. I definitely switched cars. 162 00:08:11,297 --> 00:08:14,817 Speaker 3: That is the biggest problem is the enclosed space of 163 00:08:14,857 --> 00:08:17,737 Speaker 3: the subway, and that actually is less of a crime 164 00:08:17,777 --> 00:08:20,617 Speaker 3: problem and more of a problem of the people being 165 00:08:20,697 --> 00:08:25,137 Speaker 3: unwilling to uh put away people who are insane, like 166 00:08:25,217 --> 00:08:26,337 Speaker 3: drug addicted and insane. 167 00:08:26,377 --> 00:08:30,897 Speaker 2: Yeah, the gang very commitment, right, it's not about a 168 00:08:30,897 --> 00:08:33,817 Speaker 2: gang banger with you know, an uzy on the subway. 169 00:08:33,857 --> 00:08:35,457 Speaker 2: I know they're doing this whole gun it's about a 170 00:08:35,537 --> 00:08:37,897 Speaker 2: lunatic who's going to throw an old lady in front 171 00:08:37,937 --> 00:08:40,417 Speaker 2: of a train for no reason, who's been arrested fifty times. Right, 172 00:08:40,457 --> 00:08:43,377 Speaker 2: That's what the dynamic that I can just read about. 173 00:08:43,577 --> 00:08:45,297 Speaker 2: But I remember it happening when I was there. I 174 00:08:45,337 --> 00:08:46,897 Speaker 2: saw stuff on the New York City Subway. I was 175 00:08:46,897 --> 00:08:48,977 Speaker 2: born and raised there, and I was there in the nineties, 176 00:08:49,177 --> 00:08:50,737 Speaker 2: and I remember it as a kid when it was 177 00:08:50,777 --> 00:08:53,537 Speaker 2: actually at its most dangerous by the numbers. But I've 178 00:08:53,537 --> 00:08:55,377 Speaker 2: seen stuff on the New York City Subway in the 179 00:08:55,457 --> 00:08:57,577 Speaker 2: in most recent years that I had never seen before. 180 00:08:57,617 --> 00:08:59,457 Speaker 2: I mean, gross stuff that I won't talk about on 181 00:08:59,817 --> 00:09:01,977 Speaker 2: this show right now. But I saw guys doing things 182 00:09:01,977 --> 00:09:03,897 Speaker 2: that I was like, things are not going well. All right, 183 00:09:04,137 --> 00:09:08,857 Speaker 2: let's talk speaking of cities, DC and the school situation there. 184 00:09:08,897 --> 00:09:11,897 Speaker 2: We'll get to that a second. But if you look around, 185 00:09:11,897 --> 00:09:15,857 Speaker 2: the world is obviously a volatile place, and markets can 186 00:09:15,937 --> 00:09:18,457 Speaker 2: change very quickly, and currencies can be in a whole 187 00:09:18,497 --> 00:09:22,897 Speaker 2: lot of hurt depending on what the government's doing with 188 00:09:22,937 --> 00:09:25,897 Speaker 2: inflation and what national spending looks like. 189 00:09:26,217 --> 00:09:26,977 Speaker 1: So what can you do. 190 00:09:27,217 --> 00:09:29,897 Speaker 2: I think it's time, if you haven't already, to look 191 00:09:29,897 --> 00:09:32,697 Speaker 2: at gold. 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This has gotten some 212 00:10:31,097 --> 00:10:35,377 Speaker 2: attention recently. DC public school system have a sixty percent 213 00:10:35,737 --> 00:10:39,497 Speaker 2: chronic absenteeism problem. What is going on here. 214 00:10:42,297 --> 00:10:45,297 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, we lost track of hundreds of 215 00:10:45,337 --> 00:10:48,617 Speaker 3: thousands of students. And by lost track, I mean we 216 00:10:48,737 --> 00:10:50,817 Speaker 3: have no idea what happened to them. They were in 217 00:10:50,857 --> 00:10:52,977 Speaker 3: school before the pandemic. They ought to have been in 218 00:10:52,977 --> 00:10:55,497 Speaker 3: school after the pandemic, and we have no idea what 219 00:10:55,577 --> 00:11:00,137 Speaker 3: happened to them. That it was bad before this truncy 220 00:11:00,177 --> 00:11:04,297 Speaker 3: problem in DC. I mean, DC is a city with 221 00:11:04,417 --> 00:11:07,737 Speaker 3: a lot of problems that precede the education system, and 222 00:11:07,737 --> 00:11:11,377 Speaker 3: then the education system despite being these single most well 223 00:11:11,417 --> 00:11:14,337 Speaker 3: funded system in the United States. A lot of the 224 00:11:14,417 --> 00:11:17,897 Speaker 3: estimates now per pupil are over thirty five thousand dollars 225 00:11:17,897 --> 00:11:21,337 Speaker 3: per student. So please do not let anyone ever tell 226 00:11:21,377 --> 00:11:24,377 Speaker 3: you that the Washington DC schools are underfunded. I mean 227 00:11:24,657 --> 00:11:27,657 Speaker 3: they are paying higher tuition than many private schools. We 228 00:11:27,697 --> 00:11:32,737 Speaker 3: are all paying for that actually because it's federal. So 229 00:11:32,777 --> 00:11:35,017 Speaker 3: I mean, this is a school system that was turning 230 00:11:35,497 --> 00:11:39,577 Speaker 3: out bottom of the barrel results for decades, got a 231 00:11:39,577 --> 00:11:43,097 Speaker 3: little bit of an improvement because of a relatively free 232 00:11:43,177 --> 00:11:47,057 Speaker 3: charter law in the district, but nevertheless, I mean, this 233 00:11:47,097 --> 00:11:49,617 Speaker 3: is a system that has had problems for a long 234 00:11:49,697 --> 00:11:54,857 Speaker 3: long time, and the pandemic just estimated it because a 235 00:11:54,897 --> 00:11:58,417 Speaker 3: lot of kids stop going to school functionally. It turns 236 00:11:58,417 --> 00:12:03,657 Speaker 3: out that a laptop is not a acceptable substitute. And 237 00:12:03,697 --> 00:12:05,377 Speaker 3: if you put kids on laptops for two and a 238 00:12:05,417 --> 00:12:08,497 Speaker 3: half years, a lot of them don't come back to school. 239 00:12:08,777 --> 00:12:11,257 Speaker 3: And we're finally seeing, I mean, it is enraging to 240 00:12:11,257 --> 00:12:14,057 Speaker 3: see like the New York Times and elsewhere finally start 241 00:12:14,097 --> 00:12:18,857 Speaker 3: to acknowledge the absolute devastation to so many millions of 242 00:12:18,937 --> 00:12:23,137 Speaker 3: children's educations that happened. I mean, this was there is 243 00:12:23,257 --> 00:12:26,297 Speaker 3: no excuse. There was no excuse even in like May 244 00:12:26,697 --> 00:12:29,377 Speaker 3: June of twenty twenty for shutting the schools. And that's 245 00:12:29,737 --> 00:12:32,777 Speaker 3: even if you were on the more cautious side of 246 00:12:33,337 --> 00:12:36,297 Speaker 3: the spectrum when it comes to like the virus itself, 247 00:12:36,337 --> 00:12:39,337 Speaker 3: it became clear pretty early on that children are not 248 00:12:39,377 --> 00:12:43,017 Speaker 3: getting seriously affected by this. And then just as a 249 00:12:43,057 --> 00:12:48,737 Speaker 3: matter of prioritizing, you know, societal functions, right, if you 250 00:12:48,777 --> 00:12:51,577 Speaker 3: have casinos open and schools closed, that that's a matter 251 00:12:51,617 --> 00:12:56,257 Speaker 3: of priorities. And unfortunately the fact that schools stayed closed 252 00:12:56,297 --> 00:12:58,257 Speaker 3: for so long had so much more to do with 253 00:12:58,337 --> 00:13:02,697 Speaker 3: teachers union's political power than it did with any analysis 254 00:13:02,817 --> 00:13:05,537 Speaker 3: of any kind of risk analysis with the terms of 255 00:13:05,537 --> 00:13:09,497 Speaker 3: the virus, any kind of you know, seriousness with in 256 00:13:09,577 --> 00:13:13,097 Speaker 3: terms of prioritizing what activities for society are actually important. 257 00:13:13,457 --> 00:13:15,577 Speaker 3: And we were told that, oh, it'll be fine, like 258 00:13:15,617 --> 00:13:17,577 Speaker 3: it'll be fine, that we just shoved all these kids 259 00:13:18,057 --> 00:13:22,417 Speaker 3: into like unmonitored virtual learning for years at a time, 260 00:13:22,497 --> 00:13:27,617 Speaker 3: and now, finally, when it almost doesn't matter, we're getting 261 00:13:27,657 --> 00:13:29,537 Speaker 3: those kinds of admissions from the New York Times, which 262 00:13:29,537 --> 00:13:31,177 Speaker 3: always likes to print all the news that's fit to 263 00:13:31,177 --> 00:13:32,017 Speaker 3: print three years ago. 264 00:13:32,297 --> 00:13:35,017 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, where does just forever? 265 00:13:35,057 --> 00:13:38,457 Speaker 2: I always think this is such an interesting point about 266 00:13:38,457 --> 00:13:40,457 Speaker 2: how much money is being spent, because I know the 267 00:13:41,457 --> 00:13:45,057 Speaker 2: reflexive response you're supposed to have to any problem the 268 00:13:45,057 --> 00:13:46,977 Speaker 2: school system is well, they need more money. And if 269 00:13:47,017 --> 00:13:49,497 Speaker 2: you listen to Randy Winegarden, who I think is an 270 00:13:49,737 --> 00:13:51,577 Speaker 2: I think is an evil person. I mean, I actually 271 00:13:51,657 --> 00:13:54,097 Speaker 2: think that what she does is really destructive and dishonest, 272 00:13:54,417 --> 00:13:56,617 Speaker 2: and that she hides behind the needs of children in 273 00:13:56,737 --> 00:13:57,217 Speaker 2: order to. 274 00:13:57,257 --> 00:14:02,017 Speaker 1: Help lazy socialist adults is pretty grotesque. That's just my view. 275 00:14:02,777 --> 00:14:05,057 Speaker 2: What she did during COVID is unforgivable. She's almost as 276 00:14:05,097 --> 00:14:08,857 Speaker 2: bad as Fauci. Where does all the money go right. 277 00:14:08,897 --> 00:14:11,217 Speaker 2: They always say we need more money. Thirty five thousand 278 00:14:11,257 --> 00:14:15,177 Speaker 2: dollars a person in DC, a pupil in DC. Where 279 00:14:15,177 --> 00:14:15,777 Speaker 2: does the money go. 280 00:14:17,497 --> 00:14:20,697 Speaker 3: It's a really good question, and the answer is largely 281 00:14:20,777 --> 00:14:23,697 Speaker 3: to things that have nothing to do with the classroom. 282 00:14:23,977 --> 00:14:27,057 Speaker 3: In some states, the it's so bad that, for example, 283 00:14:27,137 --> 00:14:32,657 Speaker 3: in Illinois, for every additional dollar that's spent on education, 284 00:14:33,097 --> 00:14:36,937 Speaker 3: generally only eleven cents is making it to anything having 285 00:14:37,017 --> 00:14:39,177 Speaker 3: to do with the classroom. That's the salary of the teacher, 286 00:14:39,257 --> 00:14:42,337 Speaker 3: paying for the building supplies, blah blah blah. So, like 287 00:14:42,817 --> 00:14:46,017 Speaker 3: you know, almost ninety percent of the money is going 288 00:14:46,057 --> 00:14:48,777 Speaker 3: outside of that system. So what's it being spent on. Well, 289 00:14:48,817 --> 00:14:52,937 Speaker 3: it's being spent on a massive administrative hiring spree. We 290 00:14:53,057 --> 00:14:55,777 Speaker 3: now have the smallest proportion of teaching staff to non 291 00:14:55,777 --> 00:14:58,057 Speaker 3: teaching staff that we've had since the nineteen fifties. That's 292 00:14:58,097 --> 00:15:01,017 Speaker 3: the number that's been going down over time, or rather 293 00:15:01,097 --> 00:15:04,857 Speaker 3: going up. That we have more administrators every year visa 294 00:15:04,937 --> 00:15:08,897 Speaker 3: the teaching positions, and this makes it really hard to 295 00:15:08,937 --> 00:15:11,057 Speaker 3: talk about how much money we actually spend in the 296 00:15:11,137 --> 00:15:13,577 Speaker 3: United States on education. We are a top two or 297 00:15:13,617 --> 00:15:16,377 Speaker 3: three country per pupil, depending how you count all these funds. 298 00:15:18,017 --> 00:15:22,137 Speaker 3: Our problem is not money. We are very very generous. 299 00:15:22,657 --> 00:15:26,057 Speaker 3: The American people have been generous for decades, pulling out 300 00:15:26,097 --> 00:15:28,017 Speaker 3: more and more money and in taxes going to the 301 00:15:28,137 --> 00:15:30,697 Speaker 3: education system in America. The problem is the structure of 302 00:15:30,737 --> 00:15:32,737 Speaker 3: the education system and what that money is spent on. 303 00:15:33,057 --> 00:15:35,097 Speaker 3: But it's really really difficult to convince people of that 304 00:15:35,137 --> 00:15:38,177 Speaker 3: because on the ground they see shortages, right because this 305 00:15:38,337 --> 00:15:41,857 Speaker 3: money is so misspent. They'll go to their first grader's 306 00:15:41,857 --> 00:15:44,137 Speaker 3: classroom and there isn't enough money for supplies, and the 307 00:15:44,137 --> 00:15:46,297 Speaker 3: teacher is paying out of her own salary for you 308 00:15:46,337 --> 00:15:49,617 Speaker 3: know whatever, like for equipment for the classroom, and they 309 00:15:49,657 --> 00:15:51,817 Speaker 3: see that and they're like, well, obviously we're not spending 310 00:15:51,897 --> 00:15:54,697 Speaker 3: enough money. But that's not the problem. The problem is 311 00:15:55,577 --> 00:15:58,577 Speaker 3: that people like Randy Winegarden are setting the priorities of 312 00:15:58,617 --> 00:16:00,577 Speaker 3: where the district spends money and what they spend money on. 313 00:16:00,737 --> 00:16:05,097 Speaker 3: Are adding more administrative staff, like massive pensions for all 314 00:16:05,097 --> 00:16:09,057 Speaker 3: those administrative staff, and then all kinds of like tech 315 00:16:09,457 --> 00:16:12,497 Speaker 3: buy in. I mean, there's a lot of just incredible 316 00:16:12,497 --> 00:16:14,577 Speaker 3: waste in the system. And that's before you get to 317 00:16:14,897 --> 00:16:17,897 Speaker 3: what they're actually teaching and whether or not it's worthwhile. 318 00:16:17,937 --> 00:16:19,697 Speaker 3: And whether they're teaching kids how to read, or whether 319 00:16:19,697 --> 00:16:22,257 Speaker 3: they're teaching them to be little anti racist, you know, 320 00:16:22,297 --> 00:16:27,337 Speaker 3: cultural revolutionaries. But all of that is not a matter 321 00:16:27,377 --> 00:16:30,417 Speaker 3: of not being enough money. And in fact, you know, 322 00:16:30,417 --> 00:16:33,017 Speaker 3: I think it's long past time that we take that 323 00:16:33,097 --> 00:16:34,737 Speaker 3: money and give it to parents. I mean, I know 324 00:16:34,737 --> 00:16:36,977 Speaker 3: you're a big proponent of school choice. I am as well. 325 00:16:37,977 --> 00:16:40,657 Speaker 3: It's only a matter of fairness. Imagine what parents could 326 00:16:40,657 --> 00:16:43,177 Speaker 3: do with thirty five thousand dollars per child per year 327 00:16:43,337 --> 00:16:46,217 Speaker 3: in terms of their children's education. I guarantee you they'll 328 00:16:46,217 --> 00:16:47,737 Speaker 3: do a better job than Randy Winegarten. 329 00:16:48,217 --> 00:16:51,537 Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems very straightforward, but obviously the Democrat Party 330 00:16:51,537 --> 00:16:55,497 Speaker 2: and the teachers' unions are a symbiotic organism. We'll come 331 00:16:55,537 --> 00:16:59,297 Speaker 2: back and talk about Mark Cuban and Dei here in 332 00:16:59,417 --> 00:17:01,377 Speaker 2: just a second. But you know, on this podcast, we 333 00:17:01,497 --> 00:17:04,137 Speaker 2: try to cut through the noise and the nonsense, the 334 00:17:04,217 --> 00:17:08,217 Speaker 2: ulterior motives out there. And that's also what my colleague 335 00:17:08,257 --> 00:17:11,377 Speaker 2: Mark Chaykin does for the stock market. Mark worked on 336 00:17:11,377 --> 00:17:14,217 Speaker 2: the stock market for fifty years. Across those decades, he 337 00:17:14,297 --> 00:17:16,897 Speaker 2: invented three new indices for the NASDAK and has predicted 338 00:17:16,937 --> 00:17:19,177 Speaker 2: some of the biggest market shifts of the past decade, 339 00:17:19,417 --> 00:17:22,537 Speaker 2: including the recent mania and AI stocks. Mark says the 340 00:17:22,577 --> 00:17:24,377 Speaker 2: majority of Americans are about to miss out on a 341 00:17:24,417 --> 00:17:27,537 Speaker 2: critical turning point in this AI frenzy. He's calling this 342 00:17:27,657 --> 00:17:30,537 Speaker 2: a new dawn for US stocks, and Mark predicts dozens 343 00:17:30,537 --> 00:17:33,177 Speaker 2: of specific companies will be impacted in just the next 344 00:17:33,257 --> 00:17:35,257 Speaker 2: ninety days. That's why Mark has agreed to share one 345 00:17:35,297 --> 00:17:37,457 Speaker 2: of his favorite AI stocks to buy now with you. 346 00:17:37,857 --> 00:17:40,017 Speaker 2: He put everything you need to know in a new presentation, 347 00:17:40,377 --> 00:17:44,617 Speaker 2: Go to twenty twenty four aistock dot com. That's twenty 348 00:17:44,737 --> 00:17:50,417 Speaker 2: twenty four aistock dot com twenty twenty four aistock dot 349 00:17:50,457 --> 00:17:53,617 Speaker 2: com paid for by Shakin Analytics. So Mark Cuban is 350 00:17:53,617 --> 00:17:56,377 Speaker 2: a rich guy who owns the Dallas Mavericks. He's worth 351 00:17:56,417 --> 00:17:59,857 Speaker 2: billions of dollars. He's on shark Tank. He made a 352 00:17:59,897 --> 00:18:03,097 Speaker 2: lot of money really selling a company that was effectively well, 353 00:18:03,137 --> 00:18:05,017 Speaker 2: not worthless after he sold it, but worth a whole 354 00:18:05,057 --> 00:18:06,217 Speaker 2: hell of a lot less than what he sold it 355 00:18:06,257 --> 00:18:11,657 Speaker 2: for was at Broadcast dot Com. Right, But he's weighing 356 00:18:11,657 --> 00:18:14,777 Speaker 2: into the DEI debate a lot and not looking very 357 00:18:14,777 --> 00:18:17,377 Speaker 2: smart when he does it. What is Mark Cuban doing. 358 00:18:20,057 --> 00:18:23,137 Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, he doesn't seem to be able to 359 00:18:23,177 --> 00:18:25,937 Speaker 3: get out from under certain premises of what he thinks 360 00:18:26,337 --> 00:18:31,737 Speaker 3: DEI means, these kind of nice sounding platitudes about wanting 361 00:18:31,737 --> 00:18:34,577 Speaker 3: to treat people equally, in valuing diversity and so on, 362 00:18:35,057 --> 00:18:38,097 Speaker 3: and he just keeps looping back into those platitudes when 363 00:18:38,097 --> 00:18:40,737 Speaker 3: people like Chris Ruffo show him that, in fact, that's 364 00:18:40,777 --> 00:18:42,737 Speaker 3: not what it means, and shows a bunch of you know, 365 00:18:42,777 --> 00:18:47,497 Speaker 3: examples and documents by actually, this is about declaring any 366 00:18:47,537 --> 00:18:52,897 Speaker 3: disparities inherently illegitimate and trying to equalize outcomes between different 367 00:18:52,977 --> 00:18:56,097 Speaker 3: different racial groups, between the sexes, because when you say 368 00:18:56,097 --> 00:18:58,457 Speaker 3: it like that, it sounds insane, right, especially, I mean, 369 00:18:58,497 --> 00:19:01,537 Speaker 3: I think sex is one of the easiest grounds on 370 00:19:01,577 --> 00:19:04,017 Speaker 3: which you say. I mean, it is a sort of 371 00:19:04,177 --> 00:19:07,337 Speaker 3: it's an insane premise for anybody who's actually lived in 372 00:19:07,377 --> 00:19:10,377 Speaker 3: the world and met women and met men who assume 373 00:19:10,697 --> 00:19:13,897 Speaker 3: that outcomes between them in all ways would be fifty 374 00:19:13,937 --> 00:19:17,577 Speaker 3: to fifty. That is the kind of premise that if 375 00:19:17,577 --> 00:19:20,657 Speaker 3: you go in you can only achieve through tyranny. It's 376 00:19:20,697 --> 00:19:23,217 Speaker 3: just not going to happen any other way, because men 377 00:19:23,257 --> 00:19:27,777 Speaker 3: and women have radically different interests, they live radically different lives, 378 00:19:27,777 --> 00:19:30,377 Speaker 3: they have different responsibilities. All of these things I guess 379 00:19:30,457 --> 00:19:34,537 Speaker 3: are are now crime think. But it's an obvious sort 380 00:19:34,537 --> 00:19:36,377 Speaker 3: of You don't you don't even to know much about 381 00:19:36,417 --> 00:19:38,817 Speaker 3: the DEI apparatus, You don't need to know all the 382 00:19:38,817 --> 00:19:41,657 Speaker 3: theory to say this is an absurd goal. It's an 383 00:19:41,657 --> 00:19:44,057 Speaker 3: absurd goal to say that men and women's outcomes should 384 00:19:44,057 --> 00:19:44,937 Speaker 3: be identical. Right. 385 00:19:46,057 --> 00:19:48,617 Speaker 2: I'm fond of pointing out for everyone he knows that 386 00:19:49,217 --> 00:19:51,537 Speaker 2: if you really believe in disparate impact, someone has to 387 00:19:51,617 --> 00:19:53,977 Speaker 2: explain what do we do about the fact that ninety 388 00:19:54,017 --> 00:19:58,417 Speaker 2: percent of homicide inmates are men. I'm pretty sure it's 389 00:19:58,417 --> 00:19:59,777 Speaker 2: because the member one it's killing. 390 00:19:59,577 --> 00:20:03,937 Speaker 3: People impact, right, which I've actually had people online try 391 00:20:04,017 --> 00:20:07,297 Speaker 3: to explain to me that actually women are just as 392 00:20:07,377 --> 00:20:10,737 Speaker 3: violent as men. Wow, it's funny from like the red 393 00:20:10,737 --> 00:20:13,297 Speaker 3: pill side of the internet. They're like, actually, there's this 394 00:20:13,417 --> 00:20:17,577 Speaker 3: mass underreporting of abuse, like physical abuse by women. I mean, 395 00:20:17,617 --> 00:20:19,657 Speaker 3: it might be underreported because men are ashamed, but like, 396 00:20:19,737 --> 00:20:22,937 Speaker 3: the reason that there's a disparity is because one is 397 00:20:22,977 --> 00:20:25,737 Speaker 3: stronger and more violent than the other. One is unable to, 398 00:20:25,937 --> 00:20:28,337 Speaker 3: like women effectuate violence and sneak your ways. 399 00:20:28,337 --> 00:20:32,297 Speaker 2: Anyways, I've never been on a date with a women 400 00:20:32,377 --> 00:20:33,777 Speaker 2: with a woman who could beat me up in my 401 00:20:33,897 --> 00:20:34,337 Speaker 2: entire life. 402 00:20:34,417 --> 00:20:37,097 Speaker 1: Not well, so you know this is pretty straightforward stuff. 403 00:20:38,217 --> 00:20:41,297 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I really do think like generations of sort 404 00:20:41,337 --> 00:20:47,737 Speaker 3: of feminist action movies with female heroes has genuinely made 405 00:20:47,777 --> 00:20:50,257 Speaker 3: a lot of people, because we don't live very physical lives, 406 00:20:50,297 --> 00:20:53,497 Speaker 3: a lot of us anymore, made people delusional about the 407 00:20:53,537 --> 00:20:57,297 Speaker 3: strength difference between men and women. It's not like, for example, height, 408 00:20:57,337 --> 00:20:59,377 Speaker 3: where like, yeah, men are generally taller than women, but 409 00:20:59,377 --> 00:21:01,537 Speaker 3: there's a lot of overlap. You you know, go out 410 00:21:01,577 --> 00:21:03,657 Speaker 3: of the house any given day, you'll see a woman 411 00:21:03,697 --> 00:21:06,297 Speaker 3: who's taller than you know, a man walking around. Right, 412 00:21:07,497 --> 00:21:09,457 Speaker 3: that's not how strength is. It's not that much of 413 00:21:09,497 --> 00:21:12,697 Speaker 3: an overlap, a very very tiny overlap between the strongest 414 00:21:12,737 --> 00:21:14,737 Speaker 3: women and the weakest men. I mean, there there is 415 00:21:14,817 --> 00:21:18,577 Speaker 3: just an enormous physical difference in terms of upper body strength, 416 00:21:18,617 --> 00:21:22,097 Speaker 3: in terms of speed, even something like reaction time. Right, 417 00:21:22,377 --> 00:21:26,297 Speaker 3: It's just enormous enormous differences. But but Mark cuban is 418 00:21:26,297 --> 00:21:29,337 Speaker 3: is kind of doesn't want to accept that the premise 419 00:21:29,497 --> 00:21:33,577 Speaker 3: of all of these structures is that radical premise of perfect, 420 00:21:34,737 --> 00:21:38,297 Speaker 3: perfect parody between different groups, because when you say it outright, 421 00:21:38,777 --> 00:21:43,377 Speaker 3: people immediately know that that's absurd. Whereas when you couched 422 00:21:43,377 --> 00:21:46,257 Speaker 3: in the layers about equity and that dumb little graphic 423 00:21:46,297 --> 00:21:49,177 Speaker 3: that's always going around with the people watching the baseball game, right, 424 00:21:49,217 --> 00:21:51,617 Speaker 3: it's just about giving, you know, giving somebody a boost 425 00:21:51,657 --> 00:21:54,657 Speaker 3: who hasn't had, you know, the same opportunities. But no, 426 00:21:54,857 --> 00:21:57,577 Speaker 3: no two people will ever have the exact same opportunities. 427 00:21:57,617 --> 00:21:59,977 Speaker 3: No two people will have the same family background, the 428 00:21:59,977 --> 00:22:04,297 Speaker 3: same genetic endowment, the same you know, just just sheer chance. 429 00:22:04,377 --> 00:22:07,137 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure that Mark Cuban, in his business endeavors, 430 00:22:07,177 --> 00:22:10,297 Speaker 3: had access to opportunities that other people did not just 431 00:22:10,297 --> 00:22:14,097 Speaker 3: by virtue of not being Mark Cuban. That kind of 432 00:22:14,177 --> 00:22:20,937 Speaker 3: radical egalitarian premise is more absurd the more plain plainly 433 00:22:20,977 --> 00:22:23,617 Speaker 3: it's laid out. But Mark Cuban doesn't want to accept that. 434 00:22:23,697 --> 00:22:25,937 Speaker 3: In many ways, could. 435 00:22:25,857 --> 00:22:29,417 Speaker 1: Mark Cuban spell a galitarian? I'm just kidding. You don't 436 00:22:29,417 --> 00:22:31,897 Speaker 1: have to answer that the question out there. 437 00:22:31,977 --> 00:22:34,217 Speaker 2: He's a billionaire and I'm not so he knows something. 438 00:22:34,457 --> 00:22:37,617 Speaker 2: He knows, you know, right place, right time in his 439 00:22:37,817 --> 00:22:40,737 Speaker 2: stepman Everybody Independent Women's Forum you're on Twitter, right, You're 440 00:22:40,737 --> 00:22:41,377 Speaker 2: on all the good things. 441 00:22:41,417 --> 00:22:42,377 Speaker 1: People can follow you there. 442 00:22:42,697 --> 00:22:45,457 Speaker 3: Yep, yep, you can follow me. It's at Inez Felcher there. 443 00:22:45,697 --> 00:22:47,737 Speaker 2: And her husband has a great book, by the way, 444 00:22:47,777 --> 00:22:49,297 Speaker 2: which I think you can if you're watching on the 445 00:22:49,297 --> 00:22:53,217 Speaker 2: YouTube The War on History by Jared Stepman. Jared's a 446 00:22:53,217 --> 00:22:56,257 Speaker 2: great guy, buddy of said, buddy of ours. He's your husband, 447 00:22:56,297 --> 00:22:58,217 Speaker 2: so I think it's safe to assume that he's your buddy. 448 00:22:58,217 --> 00:23:01,657 Speaker 2: But he's not in mind too. Yeah, but yes, you 449 00:23:01,697 --> 00:23:04,657 Speaker 2: can check out Jared's book and enes. Thanks for hanging out. 450 00:23:04,657 --> 00:23:05,137 Speaker 1: Good to see you. 451 00:23:06,017 --> 00:23:07,617 Speaker 3: It's great to see you. Thanks for having me.