WEBVTT - Parenting in a Crazy World with Karol Markowicz 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.200 So this is a fun one because we have my 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.520 friend Carol Marcowitz, my fellow Floridia And one of the 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.600 beautiful things about having moved down to Florida is a 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.720 lot of conservatives moved down to Florida. A lot of 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.680 conservatives in the media have moved down to Florida. So 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:16.119 I've been able to get to know a lot of 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.759 really cool people down here and and kind of form, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.920 you know, this group of fellow Republican media types, and 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.000 Carol is one of them. We become really good friends. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:26.880 She's so smart. You have to read her columns in 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.040 the New York Post. She also writes for Fox News 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:32.520 as well. You see her on TV quite a bit. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.959 And she really stood so strong during COVID because she's 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.879 a mother of three and she saw what was happening 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.720 to her kids in New York City schools, and she said, 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.040 you know what, I've had enough. I'm tired of the masking. 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.199 I'm tired of the treatment of kids, you know, not 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.400 allowing kids to be able to go into schools. And 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.640 so she really spoke out a lot about it, wrote 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.720 a lot of columns when on TV talking about really 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.280 trying to draw attention to the fact that what was 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.440 happening to kids there and so many other places around 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.840 the country is wrong. That was really why she ended 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.360 up moving her family, her and her husband and her 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:08.240 three kids to Florida, of seeking normalcy for her kids, 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.840 just seeking a different environment. So she she writes a 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.000 lot about that as well. So we're going to get 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.119 into a whole host of issues talking about that move, 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.399 sort of what seems like this war and children that's 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.199 happening in the country, why the left seems to hate 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.640 the idea of marriage so much, the idea of having 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.600 children so much. She she recently wrote a column about 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:32.120 these climate zealots that are encouraging people not to have kids. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:33.840 So we're going to get into that. Also some of 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.840 the cultural rot that is happening in the country. She 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.800 immigrated here, her family immigrated here from the Soviet Union, 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.760 So also talking about from her perspective, are we still 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.840 free as a country. So much to get into, and 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.280 also just fun for me to have a friend, a 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.120 friend I deeply respect and love on the show as well, 0:01:51.240 --> 0:02:09.720 So tune in Carol mark Witz Co marc O. Wits 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.600 awesome to have you on. We're friends and You're awesome 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.360 and one of the beautiful things about living in Florida 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.720 is the fact that we become friends and that we've 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.000 met high Lisa, thank you so much for having me. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.760 And yes, I'm becoming friends with Lisa Booth right up 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.640 there for like the top things to happen to me 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.040 in the last year. Oh, that wouldn't that be hilarious? 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:42.640 If I was like, we're friends? Are wet? I would 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.480 be really sad. I'm like, yeah, we're such good friends 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:50.880 and You're like, no, we are legitimately friends. You are 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.160 one of my favorite people and really a highlight of 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.720 the last year. Seriously, Well, I feel the same about you, 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.640 and we are so lucky to be Floridians. But I 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.639 know the move here was a big one for you 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.000 because you grew up in Brooklyn, so you are like 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.720 a New York or through and through. Talk a little 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.680 bit about the decision making behind that and why you 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.000 decided to pull the trigger. Yeah, so it's really for 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.480 my kids. We have three kids, and I think all 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.920 the time that like, if we didn't have kids, maybe 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.480 we would have just struggled through living in New York. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.720 We thought that New York was in a really bad 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.440 state because of COVID because of quote restrictions, not because 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.880 of COVID the virus, because of the stupid ways that 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.040 they reacted to the virus. And it was a really 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.600 hard place to live. Um, I didn't see that my 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.360 kids lives were going to become more normal in the future. 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.320 And I feel like, even though, for example, they dropped 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.440 masking in schools, it's still the case. I still hear 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.560 from people all the time in New York whose I 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.080 haven't been inside my child's classroom. Meanwhile, we got here 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.280 in January, and I was in my kids classroom like 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.240 a few weeks later, and it was such a shock 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.840 to my system because I had forgotten that this is 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.160 normal life is like you go to your kids classroom, 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.400 you read the Kids with the Kids of book. Um, 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.800 that's unheard of in so many places around the country still, 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.240 and in places like New York. So we got out 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.760 to save our kids childhoods and to give them a 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.080 normal life. I'm glad you differentiated between saying no, it 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.120 wasn't COVID, it was the policies, because you've got all 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.240 these people, you really, Carol, You've got all these people 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:24.880 in charge, and they're like, oh yeah, COVID did this 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.280 to you, and it's like, no, you did you know? 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.360 It's like no, no, it was you. And I think 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.520 there's also a distinction in New York um between like 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.520 the people who stayed in twenty like the people who 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.440 got out like March, who were afraid of the virus. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.280 That wasn't us. We were not the people that got 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.279 out in because we were afraid of virus. We got out. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.560 You know, it took until two to make a permanent move, 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.720 but we actually did. Like a Florida testeron in one 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.880 where we lived in an area called Palm Beach Gardens, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.960 which I had never even heard of before. We literally 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.400 looked up like best public schools in Florida that were 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.440 open at the time and the New York schools were not, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.200 and moved her kids down for five months to give 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:09.159 them again some sense of normalcy. Um. So, you know, 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.880 we were the ones who got out because the restrictions 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.000 did not end, not because of the sirens at night, 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.919 or because we were afraid, or because we lived in 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.240 a small space or any of those reasons that people 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.000 left early on in the pandemic. What kind of impact 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.080 has moving to Florida had on your kids. Oh yeah, 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.719 they're like blossoming. I mean, it's really amazing to watch. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.599 And it was hard, you know. I don't like to 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.359 give people the illusion that, oh, it was so super easy. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.200 We just moved and everybody was thrilled. No, my older 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.120 two really struggled with it because they were, you know, 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.120 already had kind of their lives established in Brooklyn. My 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.680 older one, my daughter, she was already like leaving the 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.119 house and going to the Prospect Park and like getting 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.680 dumplings with her friends and like just living like a 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.080 preteen existence where she had a lot of freedom and 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.520 she had a group of friends. And my middle son 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.080 also had made you know, he ever had close friends 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.640 and he didn't want to leave them. Um. My youngest 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.360 was like Florida man since day one he got here. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.760 Everybody plays all the sports. He plays all the sports. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.919 You couldn't be happier. But it took a while for 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.640 the older two to adjust. And so it really was 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.880 a few months in that we started to see a 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.599 real change in them and how happy they are and 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.560 how normal their lives aren't, how how much less I 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.919 have to worry about so many things. I mean, I 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.200 still worry, like don't get me wrong. I don't think 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.320 like Florida has no wokeness in their schools, but they 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.159 have so much less And it's like so many things 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.120 that you know, Governor de Santis has implemented in schools 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.440 has helped so much where I don't have to be 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.120 concerned that my first raider is going to have gender 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:46.800 ideology pushed on him. And so small better changes have 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.520 made such a difference. And I was losing sleep. I 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.680 really was in New York about what kind of childhood 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.000 my friends my kids were going to have and moving 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.279 them to Florida. I sleep so much better well, And 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.840 it's like we're so lucky because Florida just it still 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.000 seems normal, right, like in a time where like the 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.080 rest of the country seems to be on fire and 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.040 there's chaos and you know, crazy way of thinking. It's 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.960 just like it's just a place of normalcy. Yeah. The 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.600 normalcy is like something it's impossible to describe to people 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.400 who just have not had it. And I was one 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.880 of those people who had really never had normal life before, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.960 Like I mean something silly, but like we moved, um, 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.080 so we got the Florida and we rented and then 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.760 we bought um and then we finally moved in in August, 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.440 and like neighbors on both sides of us have brought 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.560 us over food. I mean, that has never happened to 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.600 me in New York City. I mean, you know, I 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.600 always said New Yorkers were great and they were really 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.160 good people, and it wasn't like I you know, I 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.000 I never thought New Yorkers were bad. But it's kind 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:49.000 of a complete different thing here where your neighbors will 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.200 greet you with, you know, muffins when you move into 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.880 the neighborhood that that has never happened before. And you 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.120 look at what's happened to children during all this, particularly 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.120 COVID children are really bad, brunt of a lot of 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.120 it in terms of being not able to go to schools, 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:08.040 having to force mass, missing those development milestones, falling behind 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:12.080 in school, like forcing vaccines on them. And then you know, 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.600 I know you've recently written about some climate zealas who 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.280 are encouraging people not to have children. It almost seems 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.920 like kids are under attack in America. Why is that? 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.760 That's absolutely right, and I think we need to be 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.720 so on guard for that because that is what's happening. Um, 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.600 and I don't say this lightly. I really I've looked 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.840 into this so much and it's it really is a 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:38.840 targeting of children and family that is unprecedented in this country. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.239 And I think we need to take a really seriously. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.920 I mean the climate column that you mentioned, these climate 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.120 zealots are saying, don't have too many kids because they're 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.520 bad for the environment. And meanwhile, you know they're taking 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.599 vacations on airplanes. You know that they're air conditioning in 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.079 their house. You know they're probably flying private for all 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.880 we know. Um And then they're being their lives and 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.280 they're saying to us, you know, don't have kids. Well, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:06.800 you know, why don't you limit the way that you're 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:10.440 living instead of limiting how many people we make? And 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.400 when when they say that, it's always they always have children. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.120 It's always like they themselves have one child and they've 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.400 decided that's the right amount and you shouldn't have anymore. UM. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.480 So I see all of this as one thing, as 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.480 an attack on just the idea of family and on 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.480 American children. I know you had recently tweeted about your 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.000 son wanting to do a YouTube channel teaching other kids 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.400 about history, which is so sweet. And innocent, um. But like, 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.440 we do live in this weird social media age, so 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.360 how hard is it to navigate that as a parent 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.480 and you have just this this age that we live in. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.040 So it's funny because my my daughter, I'm much less 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.439 worried about her, even though she's the pre teen um 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.440 and she's the one that I think, you know, I 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.640 should be worried about with social media, but she's got 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.360 such a good head on her shoulders, and I really 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.560 just don't see. She's not that interested in social media. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.800 She kind sees it as something like us old stud um, 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.760 So so right right there, she's not that interested. But 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.720 the middle son um, the one that you mentioned, he's 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.040 really into history and he's nine years old. He doesn't 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:16.080 have an outlet for it, so he hasn't met other 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.199 kids who are like I want to talk about Napoleon, 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.520 and I feel for him, and he's like the Internet 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.440 it's right there, and I can meet all these people 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.800 and I could, I could have these conversations with other kids. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.760 And it's scary because I want it for him. I 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.440 want to give him this outlet, but I know I 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.880 know the damage this causes. So it has been a 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.760 point of you know, contention in our house where we 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:39.920 haven't let him do it. We haven't let him start 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.880 this YouTube channel. He keeps saying like, oh, it'll just 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.200 be my voice, it won't be you know, a no 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.680 video or anything like that, not his real name or 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.360 anything like that. Um. But still I haven't been able 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.120 to let him pull the trigger on it because I 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.360 know what's out there, right, I know the kind of 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.480 hateful comments that um I get or other people get, 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.839 and I don't want my nine year old exposed to that. 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.480 So it's been it's been a balancing act. Do you 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.800 want to let them use the internet that that let 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.280 them kind of like discover a whole new world, but 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.480 also want to tap them from it? You know. Part 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.200 of it is like, oh that's so sweet, you know, 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.719 it's it's challenging. Uh, you know. But what's weird though, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.200 is there really is you know, we kind of talked 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.400 about the war on on kids, but really like this 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.680 war on marriage, this war on family. Why do you 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.080 why is the left so opposed to marriage and and 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.160 and children and having a family. I really think it's 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.320 a it's a sense of control. So you know, I 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.600 was born in the Soviet Union, and one of the 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.920 things you weren't allowed to have obviously in the Soviet 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.280 Union was religion. And it's it's because if you have 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.040 something else that you turn to, if you have your 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.120 family that you turn to, this it can't be first. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:50.000 And I know it sounds crazy, but it's not crazy 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.439 like that. There is an authoritarian streak through the left 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.040 where they want you to focus on the state and 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.160 they want you to belong to the state. So I 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.400 really do think that the family and children and shoul 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:07.120 appear with that because you know, a good you know 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.000 subject will not have anything above the state. And that's 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.920 what you know to talitarianism mean nothing above state. And 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.720 you can't be that if you're a mother, and you 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.840 can't be that if you're married, because you put other 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.880 people first. So I really believe that's why I think 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:28.839 that the people who have um you know, families or 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:33.079 relationships are harder to control, and all of that is 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.640 a way of limiting how many people we associate with 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:42.040 outside of the prescribed state, you know, apparatus and Carol, 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:43.640 I don't want to have kids and I'm not married. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.720 I'm very hard to control, so you can you imagine 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:50.079 me with children and got oh, I know, got to 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.960 help us all, you know. But also I you know, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.760 I am. I am on the lookout for a good 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.320 match for Lisa Booth because I think you're phenomenal all 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.400 and I would love to see married with children. I 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.079 think you're going to be an incredible wife and an 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.720 amazing mother. I need to find a very patient man. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:11.840 So you know, we're taking application guys. So you know, 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.199 you talked about you know, I know your your family. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:18.880 You guys celebrate when you immigrated here to the United States. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.240 You're a mirror versity where we're trying to find ever 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.480 ever written down. What's the date, Oh, July July, America, 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.440 very yeah, julyne that's right. And looking at sort of 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.319 where we are now with what happened during COVID. Also 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.440 what we're learning with the Twitter files about this sort 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.560 of collusion between government and big tech to silence UH 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.280 speech in America, Like how you know, having your perspective 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.360 of having come here, how free are we as a country? 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.880 So remem for a few years ago where that story broke, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.640 how the i r S was, you know, how the 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.439 government was using the I r S to target conservative 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.840 groups that they don't like, that was such a moment 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.319 in my Russian community, and I see Russian, but it's 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.200 actually just it's all the ex Soviet republics, I know, 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:08.760 you they just Russian anymore, Like you know, most my 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.280 community were probably from Ukraine or Belarus or you know, 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.679 Kazakhstan or any of the ex Soviet republics. Um. So 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:20.000 my community heard that story and they were like, well, obviously, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.280 obviously they're using the i rs to target people they 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.360 don't like. That makes so much sense. That's clearly what's 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:31.920 happening here. And so it seems so um obvious to them. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.800 And yet like Americans are, you know, very upset about it, 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.280 the obviously conservative Americans more so than anybody else. And 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.040 they were shocked at that kind of behavior. And it's like, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.600 how much less shocked are we today? How much less 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.880 shocked are we that the FBI was paying Twitter to 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.520 be able to kind of operate however they wanted to. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:59.920 And it's sad and it's really scary to watch America 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.760 go down this path. I still think we are the 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.680 greatest hope for the world. I really do. I think 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.560 there's nowhere else even comparable. And whenever I think about 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.240 whenever anybody says America's over or America's you know, just 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.760 forget it, it's done. I always think, like, there's nowhere 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.880 else to go. So we have to fight these people here. 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.360 We have to fight for this country here, and we 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.720 have to win, because again, there's no Plan B. There's 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.120 no other country where we can be like, oh, there, 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.160 they will treat us fairly, and they will you know, 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.280 be somewhere that we can live. There's nowhere else for 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:37.160 us to go. List so we gotta fight for it here, Carol. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.120 I was reading this story and we covered it when 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.880 I was on Fox over the weekend of the students 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.880 at this private university who are occupying a campus building 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.160 demanding that they're given all a's, And it just kind 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.360 of speaks to this broader, you know, cultural rot that 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.400 we're facing in the country, like this lack of consequences, 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.520 this desire to have everything for free, just you know, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.800 just this broader cultural rod that I think we're all 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.960 feeling as Americans right now. How do we fix that? 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.680 So it has to start at home. I I can't 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.800 imagine my children demanding an A for something that the 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.320 ay didn't deserve. I cannot picture that at all, UM, 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:18.520 but you know it is again back to Florida. I 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.720 have seen a difference in the way kids are treated 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.960 in Florida in schools, and they are saying New York UM. 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.960 Like something simple like my daughter was chosen last year 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:34.160 to take algebra in seventh grade, which is rare, and 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.800 she was presented with this invitation in the middle of class, 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.640 her and a couple of other kids, and I just 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:42.520 feel like in New York it would have been like, well, 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.320 it would be sent quietly to the parents, so nobody's 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.760 feelings got hurt and you kind of have to start 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:51.840 that that feeling of like not succeeding and that being 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.800 okay early. I think kids need to understand that if 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.760 you work hard, you will succeed at these things, and 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.480 if you don't, then you won't UM, and that not 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.720 everybody wins, and not everybody wins all the time at everything. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.720 So I love the idea, and maybe this exists in 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.159 other places. I only have Florida, New York to compare 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.000 it to UM, but I love the idea of kids 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:18.119 kind of seeing who UM win a prize in class, 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.479 or who has succeeded in you know, math or in 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.359 science or something like that, and and wins kind of 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:28.600 recognition for that, because that will lead to understanding and 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.399 being accepting of the fact that not everybody wins in 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.280 this participation trophy era that we are going through needs 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.440 to end and we need to move on to um 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.280 rewarding actual success by stormber. Like when I was learning 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.800 to ride a bike, my grandfather who has now passed, 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:46.720 taught me. And he's like a World War two guy, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.760 like navy, you know, toughest nails, grew up poor, pulled 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.560 himself up from the bootstraps type type guy. And I 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.879 fell off and was like profusely bleeding, and he like 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.160 made me get on the bike and continue to learn. 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:58.960 How do you know he was just like suck it up, 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.000 like or what I mean, Like, I feel like we 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.480 need a little bit more of that of just you know, 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.560 suck it up. Butter Cup, Yeah, you don't have to 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.200 get over it and you have to move on. Resiliency 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.880 is so important. Um I think that, you know, kids 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:14.919 are not taught how to be resilient or how to 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.440 receive bad news or bad information. I just feel like 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:22.119 they collapse when they do, and that is so damaging. 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.840 It's just we're raising a generation that can't handle anything 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.600 negative happening to them. And it's just there's so many 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.800 memes and jokes about this, where you know, a Generation 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:33.760 Z person will say that they like took to their 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.880 bed after they got criticized at work, like a little bit. 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.240 We can't live like that. We can't let this go on. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.680 Like resiliency is so important and teaching kids resilience has 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.399 to be at a top priority for us as a culture. Well, 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:46.919 you know what, I worry we're gonna end up with 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.359 surgeons who don't really know how to perform surgery or 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.359 you know, and like pilots that don't know how to 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.560 fly and eat, you know what I mean? Because yeah, 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.560 but the but they fit like the hiring standards right, 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.440 like they needed a woman, so they got a woman 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.040 and now you know, hopefully she knows what she's doing, 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.480 but maybe she doesn't. Why should have really cashed in 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:07.919 when being a woman was like all the rage, you 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:09.720 know what I mean? Well, now it's like we can't 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.280 even define it. So you know, like now that that 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.639 should kind of sale, but they way like during the 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:16.760 meat too stuff, I should have just really been like 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:18.760 I am a woman hearing me or give me an opportunity, 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.760 you know what I mean, Like that was the time 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:26.000 to strike. And yeahs Now, women are the worst, like 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.600 if we even defined them. Right now, we're in this 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:32.720 like chaotic place where they can't even tell us what 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.560 a woman is or what a man is. It's very bizarre. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:39.800 It's amazing. I mean, since woman obviously the rock bottom wars, 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.240 everybody else is like second wars to that. Yeah, so 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:47.080 I'm definitely on the bottom, you know, of no no respect. 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.919 First of all, how awesome as governor to Santa Yeah, 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.440 he's pretty good, that guy. Huh, Like, I've never lived 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:58.760 anywhere that I was proud of my leadership before. Um. Yeah, 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.560 it's been amazing watch in him in action. Um, it's 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.520 I'm proud of my governor. I'm proud of the state 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:10.360 that he has steered and the work that he has done. 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.320 And I you know, I feel very thankful, very very 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.040 thankful to live in such a sane place because of him. Well, 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:20.240 he's also just brave and bold, which at a time 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.160 of cowardice, you know, like why you know, we look 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:27.080 at Republicans, especially on Capitol Hill, constantly selling out their base, 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:31.480 selling out conservative why do you think Republicans, even more 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.240 than the left sometimes seems to be, you know, full 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.560 of a lot of cowards. What a good question. Um So, 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:39.280