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Speaker 1: episode of The Buck Sexton Show. Very pleased to have
Speaker 1: joining us for this deep dive into all things that
Speaker 1: matter our friend Carol Markowitz of The New York Post,
Speaker 1: also co author of a fantastic book that all of
Speaker 1: you should be checking out, Stolen Youth, and a refugee
Speaker 1: from New York City to Florida, she helped lead the charge. Carol,
Speaker 1: great to have you on the program. Hi, Block, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for having me. I feel like we could
Speaker 1: start with your book, if that's all right, just because
Speaker 1: right now there are some areas where I want to
Speaker 1: get conservatives to be paying a lot more attention and
Speaker 1: the indoctrination. I'm doing research right now that's going to
Speaker 1: be comparing the brainwashing of totalitarian regimes to what democrats
Speaker 1: are doing. Like, I'm actually very deep into this. I'm
Speaker 1: looking very closely at parallels and things. But that's the
Speaker 1: first chapter of the book. Tell me about Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it compares totalitarian regimes to what the left is doing
Speaker 1: in America. Right now, and it particularly compares where the
Speaker 1: totalitarian regimes of the past have always tried to sever
Speaker 1: the connection between parent and child in order to get
Speaker 1: the child well indoctrinated and to get the parent kind
Speaker 1: of removed from the whole process. As you know, I
Speaker 1: was born in the Soviet Union. This is really personal
Speaker 1: to me, and I it is a history of my
Speaker 1: family that I've heard about my whole life that that
Speaker 1: was always part of it. The removal of the child
Speaker 1: from the parents was very important, and that's how you
Speaker 1: got them. Yeah. I remember actually reading in the New
Speaker 1: York Times. It was a New York Times sort of
Speaker 1: throwback to their assessments back in the early eighties of
Speaker 1: universal childcare in the Soviet Union. And then there were
Speaker 1: people this is not something that anybody would talk about anymore,
Speaker 1: of course, but there were American liberals who are like, hey,
Speaker 1: look at the great universal childcare the Soviets had, and
Speaker 1: it was a very important part of the Soviet machine
Speaker 1: because they wanted people to well, they wanted men and
Speaker 1: women to be able to go do these factory jobs
Speaker 1: or bureaucrats or whatever it was that they were doing.
Speaker 1: So they just plopped all the kids in to train
Speaker 1: them that this horrific system that they were all in
Speaker 1: was great, and the parents got to make, you know,
Speaker 1: really poorly functioning widgets all day at the factory. So
Speaker 1: it's funny because you know, my parents, whenever they would
Speaker 1: read these kinds of stories, would be like, I would
Speaker 1: love to see one of these people who like these,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, my parents didn't say this, but
Speaker 1: I'm saying it now, like the quinoa eating you know,
Speaker 1: five dollars coffee every morning at least you know, thirty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars preschool plus parents, see what this Soviet childcare
Speaker 1: looked like, and the people that took care of your
Speaker 1: children and what they did all day, and the food
Speaker 1: that they ate, and all of that, just the setting,
Speaker 1: the grim, gray, unhappy setting that these kids were in.
Speaker 1: My parents are always like, I'd love to see any
Speaker 1: of these proponents of the system actually send their kids
Speaker 1: to something that looked like this. And yet here we
Speaker 1: are now, I think seeing more than ever that the
Speaker 1: progression goes from why are you guys making I've really
Speaker 1: noticed this a lot more in the last few years
Speaker 1: than ever before. Why are you making such a big
Speaker 1: deal out of this? This is what the left and
Speaker 1: this is the you know, the Democratic Corps will say
Speaker 1: whenever we start to recognize something, and certainly when it
Speaker 1: comes to teaching kids things in school, and you know,
Speaker 1: meaning whether whether it's CRT or really aggressive radical gender
Speaker 1: theory stuff, or even the drag queen performances for small
Speaker 1: children with full grown men with like you know, their
Speaker 1: backsides bouncing around in the faces of small children. At first,
Speaker 1: it's why are you making such a big deal out
Speaker 1: of this? And then eventually when they do it enough,
Speaker 1: then they just start to say, yeah, this is what
Speaker 1: we do now, this is really important to us. Right.
Speaker 1: It's also the this isn't happening, it's good that this
Speaker 1: is happening. Like switch, it always starts with what are
Speaker 1: you guys talking about? This is totally not happening. Nobody's
Speaker 1: trying to take away your gas stove. And then you know,
Speaker 1: Kathy Hokel in New York, it's the other her budget,
Speaker 1: and it phases out the gas stove. Suddenly it's good
Speaker 1: that this is happening. It's good for the environment, it's
Speaker 1: good for your air, you can breathe better, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And they do this on so many different levels, and
Speaker 1: constantly there's so much gaslighting. And I have to say that,
Speaker 1: like my whole life, I've had times where people have
Speaker 1: asked me, like, doesn't this moment feel very Soviet too?
Speaker 1: And it was like the nineties and the Clinton years
Speaker 1: and whatever, and it didn't, it really didn't. But this
Speaker 1: moment does. And it's creepy and so just so the
Speaker 1: walls seemed to be closing in on our society where
Speaker 1: there's only you can only say certain things, and you
Speaker 1: can only say them a certain way, and conformity is
Speaker 1: so important, and the Left is just making our society
Speaker 1: ever more conformist. And it is very reminiscent of the
Speaker 1: stories that my family told very well. This is why
Speaker 1: with COVID, it has re oriented my whole framework for
Speaker 1: American politics. You know, before that, I felt like the
Speaker 1: Cavanaugh moment was a very important political shift that many
Speaker 1: of us experienced. I know, it's just one Supreme Court seat,
Speaker 1: one Supreme Court nomination. I was eye open, but it
Speaker 1: was opening because you had the entire Democrat machine. I
Speaker 1: call it the apparatus, right Soviet you know, apparatchicks, right,
Speaker 1: the apparatus, but the apparatus of the Democrat Party so
Speaker 1: obviously went along with the most absurd smears and lies
Speaker 1: about whether you like as jurisprudence or not. A good
Speaker 1: and honorable guy who just didn't represent what their needs
Speaker 1: of power, didn't represent what would give them power, and
Speaker 1: so they just decided to destroy him and feel good.
Speaker 1: And Kamala Harris was a part of it. I mean,
Speaker 1: Corey Booker was a part of it. There are people
Speaker 1: who are still held in high esteem by the Democrats.
Speaker 1: What they did was horrific beyond words. I also think
Speaker 1: with COVID, what we saw was now and now I
Speaker 1: worried that they would do anything to destroy you know,
Speaker 1: your your neighbor, or you or your family member if
Speaker 1: it meant that they could have more power. That's what
Speaker 1: Kavanaugh showed us. But then with with with COVID, it
Speaker 1: was they'll believe any lies, go along with them, either
Speaker 1: propagate them themselves, or be subservient to them in the
Speaker 1: cause of the collective. That felt very That felt very
Speaker 1: Soviet to me. That felt like something that I didn't
Speaker 1: expect to see in America. All the COVID madness that
Speaker 1: you and I've talked about so much. So we have
Speaker 1: a COVID chapter in the book, and you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: And there were moments like, if Donald Trump wants schools
Speaker 1: to open, then the Democrats don't want schools to open,
Speaker 1: and the Democrats were against public schools. I mean, when
Speaker 1: did that happen? How did that shift happen? And it
Speaker 1: was only despite him, And it's wild to look back
Speaker 1: at this now and see that their special interest group,
Speaker 1: allies and the teachers' unions got them to support closing
Speaker 1: down public schools while private schools stayed open. It was
Speaker 1: just mind boggling to look back at this and see
Speaker 1: that this actually happened. So, yeah, I agree. I agree
Speaker 1: that it's they'll do anything in the pursuit of power,
Speaker 1: anything to indoctrinate these kids. And I don't see a
Speaker 1: bottom here. Yeah, I was gonna ask you, do you
Speaker 1: think do you believe that a lot of the people
Speaker 1: Randy Winegarden perfect example, Does she actually believe it when
Speaker 1: she says that she's doing things for the benefit of children? You,
Speaker 1: I mean, you and I agree she's not. But does
Speaker 1: she think does she think she is? Or is it
Speaker 1: all just a con a lie, an abuse, propaganda meant
Speaker 1: in the pursuit of power for the left and for
Speaker 1: the collectivists. So it's hard to say, especially with her.
Speaker 1: She's sort of George Costanza. A lie is not a
Speaker 1: lie if you believe it kind of situation because she
Speaker 1: now says that she was for opening schools, and once
Speaker 1: you say that, once you say that, you're Randy Winegarden
Speaker 1: and you wanted to open schools all along. She says
Speaker 1: that she's been wanting to open schools since April twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: and you believe this, really believe this. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: sociopathic behavior. She did not want schools to open school
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty, but it's important to remember she did
Speaker 1: not want schools to open school year twenty twenty one either.
Speaker 1: She wanted them closed for the second school year. And
Speaker 1: you know, thank god for Ronda Santis and Florida leading
Speaker 1: the way on opening schools because the rest of the
Speaker 1: country might be locked down for that year as well.
Speaker 1: They would have just not had an example to look
Speaker 1: to and been like, well, this is how it works,
Speaker 1: this is how schools open and kids get to go
Speaker 1: back to school. And we don't have to listen to
Speaker 1: Mandy Weingarten. I want to ask you about the CNN
Speaker 1: syndrome in a second, Carol, But first I do have
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Speaker 1: before I get into the CNN the CNN Effect, Carol
Speaker 1: carry my new wife, which we'll talk more about this
Speaker 1: very exciting, just got married. She saw me today and
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about this. She saw me and
Speaker 1: she's like, you need to change and I would like
Speaker 1: why she said, because it looks like Zelenski is walking
Speaker 1: around our apartment wearing a kind of olive green T
Speaker 1: shirt right now. And I started walking and then like
Speaker 1: this morning we're having coffee together. I was like, come on,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, like I need to fight against
Speaker 1: the Rashians And I was sorry. She was like, now
Speaker 1: you're really freaking me out right, like you get like
Speaker 1: a Zelenski thing going. But oh, come on, that's pretty close.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, he's very long, he's down here,
Speaker 1: and he has like this very gruff anyway, I don't
Speaker 1: see you actually former Soviet you under you know, like
Speaker 1: the the intricacies of the accent. Um. I guess my
Speaker 1: Fauci and my Zelenski probably sound a little too much alike.
Speaker 1: But yeah, now if you wear an olive like drab
Speaker 1: T shirt anywhere, um, you you're apparently channeling channeling Zelenski. Okay,
Speaker 1: so the CNN the CNN effect. Um. Also, wait before
Speaker 1: I get to that, what do you think about these
Speaker 1: wedding bands that are made of So I have a
Speaker 1: you know, the platinum wedding ring that i'll wear now
Speaker 1: when I go out, and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: I guess I like these just the sort of rubber
Speaker 1: silicone ring that you wear. It's a symbol. It's just
Speaker 1: more comfortable on your hand. But she's like, you've never
Speaker 1: heard its great? I just do you know you young
Speaker 1: people today? I don't know what you're up to, okay,
Speaker 1: because well, you know, if if I were to go,
Speaker 1: let's say, if I was to go whale on my
Speaker 1: pecks at the gym, which could definitely use some some
Speaker 1: whaling these days. Uh, if you're wearing like an actual
Speaker 1: gold or silver or platinum ring. You know, it can
Speaker 1: get scuffed up, and it can get kind of you
Speaker 1: know it, you know, clinks against the metal, whereas with
Speaker 1: this you can go lift. But then she's like, well,
Speaker 1: are you just gonna wear it for the gym only,
Speaker 1: or you're gonna wear it all the time? And this
Speaker 1: is kind of you know. Look, I didn't even wear
Speaker 1: a tie at my wedding, So I'm just increasingly approaching
Speaker 1: this functional comfort for everything in life. I think functional
Speaker 1: comfort is essential. Uh, and I for you know, so
Speaker 1: I'm waging a one man war against the necktie. I
Speaker 1: will tell everybody's suits are not suits for men. I
Speaker 1: have custom made suits, only a couple of them, but
Speaker 1: not comfortable. They're not as comfortable as other things that
Speaker 1: I can just wear. And I think you're right on ties.
Speaker 1: My husband is overties. Also, we were just talking about
Speaker 1: my daughter's having a bottom, so soon none of none
Speaker 1: of the men and my family are wearing a tie.
Speaker 1: Some fun history for everybody listening. The tie is a
Speaker 1: holdover from the court of Louis the fourteenth, who hired
Speaker 1: a core of mercenaries from Croatia. They were called the cravati,
Speaker 1: and one way that they would distinguish themselves. This is
Speaker 1: when battlefield distinguishing was much more important than battlefield camouflage,
Speaker 1: which also is why you had, for example, the lands
Speaker 1: Connects of Germany who had very brightly colored colored clothing
Speaker 1: and that became in a battle. Imagine somebody with bright
Speaker 1: orange and red and green. And they would also wear
Speaker 1: a very prominent cod piece, which there's a whole Freudian
Speaker 1: aspect to that, I guess. But the but back to
Speaker 1: Louis the fourteenth The lands Connects, by the way, saved
Speaker 1: first Siege of Vienna. Talk about that another time. You know,
Speaker 1: Christendom was about to get overrun by the four forces
Speaker 1: of the Ottoman Empire. But you go to fourteenth cent
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Louis the fourteenth and uh, he hired the
Speaker 1: cravati to be in the service of the French military,
Speaker 1: and they wore a brightly colored cloth around their neck,
Speaker 1: which came to be known as a cravat or the
Speaker 1: French cravat the necktie. And so now hundreds of years later,
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to have some you know, some portrait device
Speaker 1: around my neck. On a hot day down in Florida,
Speaker 1: because people says, it's just ridiculous, It's just ridiculous. No,
Speaker 1: that's right, thank you. I like that you think this
Speaker 1: is because people are like, oh, they're they're horrified of this.
Speaker 1: I think I think the cutter clothing and looking good
Speaker 1: and all that is, you know, it is a good thing, right,
Speaker 1: people should try. But I also think that another one,
Speaker 1: another one, Carol, women who were telling me all the time,
Speaker 1: tie you know, another one. No, no, but this is
Speaker 1: for the ladies out there that we're the super hainful
Speaker 1: shoes and they're walking out. I'm like, look right there,
Speaker 1: you see this is crazy to me. You know, I
Speaker 1: used to be a single man. I would go on
Speaker 1: dates and I would I would be told, oh, we're
Speaker 1: let's get a drinking around the corner. It's two blocks
Speaker 1: away in New York City. And it's like, you know, oh, well,
Speaker 1: can we get an uber. I'm like, no, it's two
Speaker 1: blocks away, we're gonna get a car. They go, oh,
Speaker 1: but these shoes they got, like the the lubotan you know,
Speaker 1: the red soles or whatever you like, the uncomfortable shoes.
Speaker 1: I love high heels. I'm all about it. And it's
Speaker 1: funny because I like love posting when I when we
Speaker 1: go you know, if you've seen me do this, when
Speaker 1: we go out we get a picture, I'm always like,
Speaker 1: get the shoes in the picture, and that's you know,
Speaker 1: it makes a better picture. But also I love my shoes.
Speaker 1: Turns out there's this like creepy subset online of like
Speaker 1: men who look for like women's feet. Unfortunate very that
Speaker 1: I can't be showing off my shoes as often. But
Speaker 1: you know, I like the nice shoes and they're not
Speaker 1: always going to be comfortable, and some of them I
Speaker 1: refer to as sitting shoes. Sometimes I wear a sitting
Speaker 1: shoe special events, you know, you can do your ring
Speaker 1: and your no necktie. You can stay away from the
Speaker 1: I sound like I sound like a bum. And the
Speaker 1: more I look by the way back of my self
Speaker 1: the Carol, then I'm like, wow, this really does look
Speaker 1: like a Zelenski T shirt. I gotta change this up
Speaker 1: a little bit. Um okay, fair, fair enough. Next time,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wear a shirt with a collar, because that
Speaker 1: that's somehow, that's somehow fair. I also love telling people
Speaker 1: all the time about not that I'm some fat I
Speaker 1: love history. I'm not a fashion guy. But all of
Speaker 1: the different fashion trends that actually come to us from
Speaker 1: the military is is that in itself And there probably
Speaker 1: is a book about this, but somebody should write it.
Speaker 1: You know, people walk around in trench coats, like, what
Speaker 1: are they cold? A trench coat? Well gee, you know,
Speaker 1: but I mean there's so much more than that. I
Speaker 1: mean even the British in khaki and where does Madras
Speaker 1: come from? And all these different things it's all tied
Speaker 1: into remains very hip with the kids. Oh yeah, well,
Speaker 1: of course camouflage is very much, you know, a fashion trend,
Speaker 1: but there's so much of it. Um anyway, I don't
Speaker 1: want to turn this into a hole. I do have
Speaker 1: a fun one for you, so you ready for this one,
Speaker 1: and then I promise we'll stop talking fashion. But you're
Speaker 1: like a very fashionable lady. Whenever I go out, there's
Speaker 1: like there's a group of us that goes out in
Speaker 1: South Florida together. We all hang out and Carol and
Speaker 1: there will be a big squad of of conservative media people.
Speaker 1: You know, one, everybody loves Carol and two you know
Speaker 1: she's just you know, she she's got some she's got
Speaker 1: some some fashion sets. You know. The rest of us
Speaker 1: were a little uh you know, you know, I'm dressed
Speaker 1: like I'm a little I'm a little Zelenski want to
Speaker 1: be over here. Um yeah, but you're a wife. She
Speaker 1: dressed his real day. Oh she's amazing. Yeah she knows.
Speaker 1: Whether that's why you two sit together and you look
Speaker 1: at the peasants across the table, you know, the guys
Speaker 1: that we're all out, you know, you know, because you know,
Speaker 1: you know who rocks the comfortable stuff. Your husband. I
Speaker 1: gotta say, he likes to look. He likes to be
Speaker 1: a comfortable guy too. Where to get I've never seen
Speaker 1: him in the necktie. Does he do the necktie? Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: he does not do. Next side, That's what I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: You and him. He does not care. We have we
Speaker 1: have solidarity. So the tricorn hat, though, you know, we
Speaker 1: always think if someone puts on a tricorn hat, they think, oh,
Speaker 1: like George Washington, the American Revolution, you know, the So
Speaker 1: it's fascinate because people think it's the most American of things,
Speaker 1: and in a sense it is. But the tricorn hat
Speaker 1: actually comes to us because of Spanish mercenaries fighting in
Speaker 1: Flanders modern day Belgium. And they had this wide Spanish
Speaker 1: hat that would get in the way when they were
Speaker 1: doing maneuvers with their muskets, and so they began to
Speaker 1: flip up the brim on both sides so that when
Speaker 1: they were on parade ground and moving their rifle around,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't actually knock the hat off their head. And
Speaker 1: then that became a style, and the British were fighting
Speaker 1: against them, saw this and realized that makes sense. They
Speaker 1: started the tricorn hat, which we obviously got from the
Speaker 1: British in the first place, and that is now as
Speaker 1: American is apple pie, except it comes from Spanish mercenaries.
Speaker 1: So history loving nine year old, I think this is
Speaker 1: the only one he'll ever want to listen to. But
Speaker 1: I imagine he'll give you at least one. Well, actually, act,
Speaker 1: surely that's not what happened. This is what happened, because
Speaker 1: that's oh nice, that's fine, that's fair. I will say,
Speaker 1: if he wants their nerd nerd out, you got to
Speaker 1: give him the buck. Sex didn't show shields high where
Speaker 1: we do the real Dracula. The history of lad Drakul
Speaker 1: from the sixteenth century. Fascinating guy, fascinating period of history.
Speaker 1: I did the Siege of Malta, the Fall of Constantinople.
Speaker 1: I sit around doing these things, which is probably why
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, I'll send them to you your if
Speaker 1: your son really loves history, they're very he would love
Speaker 1: to talk about it, listen to it. He's like questioning
Speaker 1: these history competitions. Yeah, I'll send it to him and
Speaker 1: and then he can send his critique and you can.
Speaker 1: You can give it to me gently so that I,
Speaker 1: you know, afterwards, won't feel sad about myself. But I
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Speaker 1: so I'd mentioned this, I'd promoted this the CNT effect.
Speaker 1: Here's what I say it is as somebody who had
Speaker 1: previously worked, I used to be able to have conversations
Speaker 1: with liberals about things that I disagreed with them on
Speaker 1: and I still would be willing to do that, by
Speaker 1: the way, and I've I've I've co hosted shows with
Speaker 1: left wing people with self described you know, Marxist um,
Speaker 1: I've hoped, I saw, so I'm fine with that. I
Speaker 1: feel though that now, even still in the era of Biden,
Speaker 1: it is very hard to have a conversation. And this
Speaker 1: is why I say it's a CNN effect, because anytime
Speaker 1: he turned on CNN, it was Trump. There was something
Speaker 1: Trump related. You know, if if if there if an
Speaker 1: asteroid hit the hit the Earth and and you know,
Speaker 1: there was like a barn caught on fire in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. It was like Trump fails to prevent asteroid.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just it was a psychosis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that psychosis, to me, has continued, like even though
Speaker 1: he's not president anymore. I try to talk to a
Speaker 1: Democrat about anything and it reverts to Trump right away.
Speaker 1: It's I do think it's like a mental illness aunt
Speaker 1: of mental illness, parton can't speak. There's some problem. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I think they were deeply damaged by Donald Trump winning.
Speaker 1: I mean, you were in New York the day after
Speaker 1: he won the election in twenty sixteen, right. Do you
Speaker 1: remember anything about that day? Oh? Yeah, the day it
Speaker 1: was there. There were two days I was in New
Speaker 1: York City that reminded me of the day after Hurricane
Speaker 1: Sandy hit and Donald Trump's election. Felt. I wasn't there
Speaker 1: for nine to eleven. I was in college. But the
Speaker 1: day after Hurricane Sandy and the day after Trump won,
Speaker 1: the field, the energy on the streets exactly the same.
Speaker 1: Just shock shock. It was a rainy day. People were
Speaker 1: walking around as if like a meteor had hit and
Speaker 1: it was Donald Trump's fault. It was really just amazing
Speaker 1: to watch it. It was like their lives had ended.
Speaker 1: And at the time, I really not that I didn't
Speaker 1: want Trump to win. I preferred him over Hillary Clinton,
Speaker 1: but I really didn't like him, and I thought that
Speaker 1: he was going to be a terrible president. And I
Speaker 1: just you know, but I was like, all right, well,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, on, what are you gonna do? That's you know,
Speaker 1: that's good whatever. And people were just stunned, and I
Speaker 1: don't think that they ever got over it. I think
Speaker 1: that they just were traumatized by it. They expected to
Speaker 1: win in such a way that that shock when you
Speaker 1: don't win something that you thought you were going to win.
Speaker 1: It didn't go away. They it lasted years for them.
Speaker 1: It's interesting that you call it the CNN effect because
Speaker 1: I feel like CNN has you mentioned that you can't
Speaker 1: talk to liberals anymore, and then it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: but CNN used to have shows where liberals and conservatives
Speaker 1: talk to each other, right, and they can't do that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but they can't do that anymore, partially because of wokeness.
Speaker 1: Wokeness says you cannot engage conservatives in honest conversation, and
Speaker 1: that's also what they're doing. They're shutting down the honest
Speaker 1: conversation that you're saying, but Trump, but Trump, And that
Speaker 1: makes us finding common grounds so much harder because they
Speaker 1: only have this one thing that they go to and
Speaker 1: you end up having to defend Trump and everything he's
Speaker 1: ever done. Yeah. I think that it has become a
Speaker 1: it is a form of a psychosis. Uh, it's some
Speaker 1: there's something about the circuitry of liberal brains now where
Speaker 1: it look. It's obviously in the case with everybody, but
Speaker 1: it's enough of a situation, or it's common enough that
Speaker 1: I think it is a dominant I think it is
Speaker 1: the majority of the Democrats that I try to engage
Speaker 1: within any capacity. Now, if I say, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe we shouldn't be teaching queer theory in an
Speaker 1: African American studies program in Florida, which you know, that
Speaker 1: just came up and they ended up reverting and not
Speaker 1: having that in the curriculum, people will say to me, oh,
Speaker 1: so you know, you just think that like what Trump
Speaker 1: says about CRT and like where are we doing? Like, well,
Speaker 1: how do we? And And that's why I get worried, Carol,
Speaker 1: because when you see, you know, mass movements like bankruptcy,
Speaker 1: like so many things, it happened suddenly, it happened slowly,
Speaker 1: then suddenly right it's it's grows over time. And I've
Speaker 1: seen a mass movement inside of America where people who
Speaker 1: think of themselves as very discerning, very intelligent, and very
Speaker 1: good people actually who are who are leftists, who are democrats, liberals, progressives,
Speaker 1: whatever they want to call themselves. I call them commies.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean that, you know, in a nice way,
Speaker 1: but they will go along with things now that it's
Speaker 1: not possible for a human being who is capable of
Speaker 1: independent thought to go along with And this this has
Speaker 1: become commonplace. Yeah, you're absolutely right. And are you talking
Speaker 1: about people like in on Twitter or are these people
Speaker 1: in your everyday life? Both? Both? Yeah, because I find
Speaker 1: that the people in my everyday life, even the people
Speaker 1: on the left, are way more troubled by where the
Speaker 1: left is going, even if they are themselves pretty far left,
Speaker 1: even if really they are, there are so many ways
Speaker 1: that they are on the left. And then suddenly there
Speaker 1: are a woman's study degree. What does it really mean
Speaker 1: when we don't know what a woman is right and
Speaker 1: and they're challenged by it. They don't know how to
Speaker 1: handle it, they don't know what to say, and they
Speaker 1: don't have the easy line that the somebody online you know,
Speaker 1: on the internet has, where like everyone who doesn't agree
Speaker 1: with them as a turf, you know, right, you know, intellectually,
Speaker 1: I do think it's interesting that it's not a problem
Speaker 1: for a person who is of the right probably speaking
Speaker 1: to break with the right on some ague. Yeah whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, score room, I don't I don't care. Oh,
Speaker 1: the Republican Party says, you know, I don't care. I
Speaker 1: think this. I think they're wrong. On the following. Every
Speaker 1: single conservative I know has a number of issues where
Speaker 1: you know, they break with the base or they don't
Speaker 1: like you know, whether it's they don't like the you know,
Speaker 1: globalist Paul Ryan Republicans, or they do and you know whatever,
Speaker 1: there are these areas where they'll just have this, have
Speaker 1: this separation. And I do think though that the left
Speaker 1: very much like a cult or a totalitary in a
Speaker 1: totalitarian state. There's constant fear of saying the imperfect thing
Speaker 1: that will get them in trouble with their own side.
Speaker 1: Right and on generations, by the way, that's more prominent,
Speaker 1: I think than anywhere else. Well, the whole thing is
Speaker 1: with cancel culture is that a lot of it was
Speaker 1: left on left. It wasn't necessarily the left coming for conservatives.
Speaker 1: I mean it is in some ways like you have
Speaker 1: to bake the cake stories, you know, out of Colorado.
Speaker 1: So they do target sort of you know, non leftists,
Speaker 1: but for the most part it was like you wrote
Speaker 1: something that I don't like, and if you're on the left,
Speaker 1: you end up apologizing. And then it's like when you
Speaker 1: get into that spiral where it's never going to be enough.
Speaker 1: Remember that book Dirt. This This woman wrote this book
Speaker 1: that was a really celebrated American Dirt, very celebrated book,
Speaker 1: but then it turned out that she wrote about Mexican
Speaker 1: drug smugglers and she herself was not a Mexican, so
Speaker 1: she had to apologize, and I think they ended up
Speaker 1: actually not having any public relations for the book at all,
Speaker 1: because you know, she had obviously committed the worst sin
Speaker 1: in history writing about a culture that it was not
Speaker 1: her own. But how a conservative writer handled that, They'd
Speaker 1: be like, okay, and I so what, Yeah, I did
Speaker 1: that and I'll do it again. And we don't really
Speaker 1: care as much about their targeting. But once you bend
Speaker 1: to them at all, you're going to keep bending all
Speaker 1: the time. That's what we've seen up to this point.
Speaker 1: And obviously the progression is always request for tolerance and
Speaker 1: then push for uh, you know, a push for acceptance
Speaker 1: and then demands for celebration. Right, That's it just it
Speaker 1: always is on the same progression progressives, where at first
Speaker 1: it's just let's just all be cool to each other,
Speaker 1: right and that. And that's one of the things that
Speaker 1: frustrates me so much about the approach of the left
Speaker 1: is that I think on pronouns, for example, and people
Speaker 1: say this is small. It is not small. The same way,
Speaker 1: it's not small to switch from illegal alien to illegal
Speaker 1: immigrant to undocumented because you know, now at this point
Speaker 1: it's like, well, let's just give them documents, like what
Speaker 1: do we need immigration for? Right? I mean, the whole
Speaker 1: process is undermined by the language itself, the concession of
Speaker 1: I'm going to use someone's preferred pronouns. They have used
Speaker 1: the desire of people on the right to be polite
Speaker 1: and to be conned in order to get compliance on
Speaker 1: that issue, for example, and then people get very confused
Speaker 1: because they go, hold on a second, why does it
Speaker 1: feel like we're losing this argument? On the other side
Speaker 1: is crazy because you're conceding the argument. I mean, every
Speaker 1: time I see a story about a transgender individual in
Speaker 1: the Daily Mail and even sometimes on Foxnews dot Com,
Speaker 1: it referred to what he is a she. So it's
Speaker 1: interesting because I think my feeling would have been, in general,
Speaker 1: use somebody's preferred pronoun But obviously I'm not using they,
Speaker 1: and I'm not using anything invented, and I'm not using
Speaker 1: any of the new ones. But You're absolutely right where
Speaker 1: it's never enough. It's never like okay, I'll use your
Speaker 1: preferred pronoun Well, now I need you to use the
Speaker 1: one that I just came up with today. And I'm
Speaker 1: no longer the pronoun that you thought I was yesterday,
Speaker 1: and now I'm something new and now I'm plural and
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's never it never ends. And the thing
Speaker 1: is that it's not just people on the right that
Speaker 1: know this. It's just the people on the left are
Speaker 1: terrified to be canceled and speak, you know, speak out
Speaker 1: and have their jobs targeted. And in some ways they
Speaker 1: deserve it, right like they let this happen to their side,
Speaker 1: but it is still sort of hard to watch people
Speaker 1: not be able to speak. I want to ask you
Speaker 1: about some lessons from the uh, the married world, Carol,
Speaker 1: now that I have entered these ranks. And also I
Speaker 1: want to tell I want to get us into some
Speaker 1: uh maybe some hot water by talking about what the kids,
Speaker 1: and I mean the youth, you know, the young people
Speaker 1: today need to know about relationships and truth and society
Speaker 1: and all the right because now that I'm married guy,
Speaker 1: now I feel like I can lecture everybody and everything
Speaker 1: just be like, hey, hold on, this is you know
Speaker 1: when it comes to the young ones, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, the young bloods out there that think that
Speaker 1: you know, just all a big party. Oh no, I'm
Speaker 1: here to tell them about other things. But I also
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Speaker 1: you know. Now there's a great it's unit. Nate Bargatzy,
Speaker 1: the comedian, God, my favorite. I like to brave about
Speaker 1: him all the time. He's such a fan. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: a fan too. It's so nice to it's funny because
Speaker 1: I just it's amazing to see that a brand. The
Speaker 1: same way today, there are people whose brands in journalism
Speaker 1: is that they actually do journalism, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like they're not actually a propagandist or a partisan activist
Speaker 1: for one side of the other. They just they'll they'll
Speaker 1: tell the stories that need to be told, and they
Speaker 1: don't really care. And look, they're not perfect, but they're
Speaker 1: that's that's a fair assessment of what their approach to
Speaker 1: their work is. Nate Bargatzi is just a comedian. He's
Speaker 1: actually just trying to tell jokes that make people laugh
Speaker 1: that anyone can laugh at that are funny. I think
Speaker 1: he does a great job. But he does this thing
Speaker 1: that you might not have noticed yet about him, but
Speaker 1: you hopefully will down the road. All of his specials
Speaker 1: are super kid friendly, no cursing, no like actually anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really like My twelve year old daughter loves him. We
Speaker 1: watch like his clips all the time. Watched all three specials.
Speaker 1: He's just family friendly. It's so weird to be hilarious
Speaker 1: and family friendly. Yeah, he does such a such a
Speaker 1: good job. But he has a thing where when you're
Speaker 1: forty one or four, forty three, you're like, do you
Speaker 1: see the re member? You're forty three and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I can hang out with the twenty somethings, you know,
Speaker 1: But like when you're see some guys forty five, you're like,
Speaker 1: whoa old man? Like get out of here, you know,
Speaker 1: because your your whole perception changes. Now now that I'm married,
Speaker 1: I turn around and everybody out there under forty in single,
Speaker 1: single world, I just I just want to, you know,
Speaker 1: shake my walker or my my walking stick, my cane
Speaker 1: in their face. You know, y'all get off my lawn
Speaker 1: and say, you know, what, what are all you kids
Speaker 1: doing out there with the crazy h the messaging and
Speaker 1: and the look. I'll say, what they're teaching women? In
Speaker 1: society today about how to conduct their private lives is
Speaker 1: I think is super destructive. It's super destructive at a
Speaker 1: civilizational I think that it's something that needs to really
Speaker 1: be dealt with in a serious way as part of
Speaker 1: an urgent conversation. I think that basically to be a
Speaker 1: Democrat or a leftist feminist woman in America today is
Speaker 1: to put yourself on an almost certain path to misery.
Speaker 1: That is my basic contention. Yeah, I have to agree
Speaker 1: with you. I think that women are allied to more
Speaker 1: than anyone else in terms of relationships, and I think
Speaker 1: that they're taught to not ask for what they want,
Speaker 1: the idea that they can just date around and not
Speaker 1: care about it. Women are different than men. And what's
Speaker 1: interesting to me is that you know it comes from
Speaker 1: the left, this whole idea of like, why would you
Speaker 1: want to get married, You want to pursue your career.
Speaker 1: I've never met a woman, and I think you and
Speaker 1: I maybe even disagreed on this one, but I've never
Speaker 1: met a woman who actually pursued a career over a man.
Speaker 1: I know that there are women who pursued a career
Speaker 1: and didn't get married. That happens, but there's plenty of
Speaker 1: women who didn't or a career and didn't get married.
Speaker 1: I've never met a woman who was on a good
Speaker 1: career path who didn't also want to get married. But
Speaker 1: it just they tell them that it doesn't matter that
Speaker 1: you can be strong and amazing alone and you don't
Speaker 1: need a man. What do you need a man for?
Speaker 1: You could open your own jars. And it's just the
Speaker 1: wrong message. And they teach that relationships are lame and
Speaker 1: boring and only you know, the worst people want to
Speaker 1: be in them. You want to be single and free.
Speaker 1: And then when a woman realizes that that's all a lie,
Speaker 1: a lot of times it's too late. Here's my contention.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we've talked about this. I think
Speaker 1: the show Sex in the City, as clever and entertaining
Speaker 1: as it was, is it's almost as though the Commies
Speaker 1: were trying to come up with a way to infiltrate
Speaker 1: American culture and society, to destroy, to destroy male female
Speaker 1: relationships from within, you know, to just have the whole
Speaker 1: thing implode on itself. To me, that show is a
Speaker 1: very entertaining, fifthy roadmap to misery for you know, as
Speaker 1: somebody who lived in New York basically his whole life
Speaker 1: till I moved to Florida. I just saw it. I
Speaker 1: saw it all over the place, and I would see
Speaker 1: these women money go ahead. Yeah. My counter to that
Speaker 1: would be that eventually all of them got married and
Speaker 1: settled down. The lie in that show is that it's
Speaker 1: so easy to find a right the right person as
Speaker 1: a woman when you're in your late thirties late forties
Speaker 1: in that show, and that it's just you know, your Samantha,
Speaker 1: and you're a high powered PR executive and you marry
Speaker 1: like the hottest man anybody's ever seen, and that he's
Speaker 1: gonna just be super all about you even though you're
Speaker 1: in your fifties and he's in his twenties, and that's
Speaker 1: going to make sense that generally does not happen. So
Speaker 1: that's the kind of lies that that show told. I
Speaker 1: think that. But the thing is that they all did
Speaker 1: eventually kind of settle down into relationships, and that's ultimately
Speaker 1: what they wanted. Well, you know, I guess not to
Speaker 1: get too into this because it's like, why do I
Speaker 1: know so much about this show? I mean, main character
Speaker 1: never really does right as we know. Then, then the
Speaker 1: movies were made and not that I saw the movies,
Speaker 1: but you know, she ends up. She kind of does
Speaker 1: and she kind of doesn't. But just the the chasing
Speaker 1: of these career first lives that they have and and
Speaker 1: the one character who doesn't really uh you know, the
Speaker 1: burnette I can't really remember um Amery can't remember her name,
Speaker 1: but anyway, her whole thing, and not like why does
Speaker 1: Buck still think about Sex in the City. It was
Speaker 1: very popular in HBO when I was, you know, high
Speaker 1: school age. Everybody was watching it. I mean it was
Speaker 1: a show that Beverly Hills nine two and HBO, I mean,
Speaker 1: or Sex and the City and HBO. I mean, these
Speaker 1: were the shows that everybody was watching. And I see
Speaker 1: all these women. I mean, I remember when I graduated
Speaker 1: from Amherst and there were all these women who were
Speaker 1: rushing off to go work at Goldman Sachs and you know,
Speaker 1: from my class. I remember thinking to myself, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a guy. If I want to spend my twenties,
Speaker 1: and I went to the CIA and you know, then
Speaker 1: did some other kind of crazy stuff, but that was
Speaker 1: my choice. But if I if I was going to
Speaker 1: spend my twenties, um making a lot of money, which
Speaker 1: is what people going to invest in banking for. This
Speaker 1: may be a shock and not so much anymore, but this,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty years ago, is what people were doing.
Speaker 1: I would assume that I'm mortgaging my twenties at some level,
Speaker 1: like I'm just gonna burn out as much as i can,
Speaker 1: get as much worked on, get as far as I can,
Speaker 1: and make as much money as I can, and develop
Speaker 1: as much prestige from the competency that I have as
Speaker 1: I can. So then at thirty or thirty five, or
Speaker 1: even forty or even forty five, I can turn around
Speaker 1: and have my choice of mates. And I just feel
Speaker 1: like no one ever stopped to tell the women who
Speaker 1: showed up at Golden Sacks or and not just any
Speaker 1: big firm or corporate law whatever, at any of these places. Hey,
Speaker 1: you're twenty three or twenty four. If you do this
Speaker 1: for the next ten years and this is really your focus,
Speaker 1: your life choices are changed forever. Just understand that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So here's another way that the left destroys the path
Speaker 1: to women. If you are one of these women and
Speaker 1: you go into this high powered, high energy and high
Speaker 1: earning environment, it would be great to meet a man there,
Speaker 1: except men now can't hit on you in the workplace
Speaker 1: because there they'd be sexual predators, and you're not allowed
Speaker 1: to date at work, and there's all these issues around that.
Speaker 1: But meeting somebody at work used to make a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. And if you wanted to meet somebody who
Speaker 1: was a go get or a Goldman Sax, there's really
Speaker 1: not a better place to meet them than at Goldman Sax.
Speaker 1: So it's again, the left is destroying the idea of
Speaker 1: relationships for these women when that's ultimately what they're going
Speaker 1: to want. And I do see a rise in a
Speaker 1: willingness among conservatives in general now to speak with much
Speaker 1: more forcefulness about about gender roles and about what's going
Speaker 1: to make for a long term, happy plan. And you
Speaker 1: know what society, right, there's everyone. Look, there's always going
Speaker 1: to be somebody who just wants to travel the world
Speaker 1: and write books. And that's fine. It's not that people
Speaker 1: shouldn't have freedom and choice male, female or whatever, but
Speaker 1: it's what does society offer as a path that should
Speaker 1: be replicated in as great as great a frequency as
Speaker 1: possible to create the most happy, productive and stable society possible. Right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, every policy is going to have exceptions.
Speaker 1: Everything in the macro, when you break it down to
Speaker 1: an individual level, is going to have musications that are different.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Where people say, well, do you think priests
Speaker 1: are throwing their lives away or you know whatever, because
Speaker 1: obviously they don't marry, it's no. Obviously there are people
Speaker 1: that don't need to go down this pathway. But the
Speaker 1: other pathway that they're told about, which is just and
Speaker 1: it's for women, I'll tell you it's for guys too.
Speaker 1: It's not good. You know. I think that telling people
Speaker 1: to spend their twenties partying, drinking, and having sex with
Speaker 1: as many women as they possibly can, which is what
Speaker 1: socially successful males are basically told to do, not necessarily
Speaker 1: as many as possible. But you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of that that goes on that's not actually helpful for
Speaker 1: and for those individuals. I think later on and people say, oh,
Speaker 1: you know again, I've been married for two days and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I'm an expert and everything. But
Speaker 1: I've known this stuff. I've known this stuff for a
Speaker 1: long time. I'm coming up on fourteen years, so I
Speaker 1: can definitely play the expert here. Yeah, men, are lied
Speaker 1: to also, But again, like you said, the man's window
Speaker 1: is just wider, and that's the only reason that the
Speaker 1: men get away with it more than the women do.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of men who have been destroyed by that
Speaker 1: culture and who find themselves alone and maybe want to
Speaker 1: get married but don't know how to connect, and they
Speaker 1: spent their twenties just messing around with random girls, and
Speaker 1: it is harder for them to find the right person
Speaker 1: for themselves. So one of the other ways that the
Speaker 1: left tells women that they have to like certain things
Speaker 1: and they can't like other things, and they just don't
Speaker 1: think that men get the same message That show madmen.
Speaker 1: You know about the ad executives on Madison Avenue in
Speaker 1: the sixties, there was the character played by John Hamm
Speaker 1: and he was like this hard drinking, chain smoking, you know, womanizing,
Speaker 1: just jerk, And all these liberal magazines would write these
Speaker 1: like tehehe pieces about how attracted they were to the
Speaker 1: character Don Draper and how they knew that they weren't
Speaker 1: supposed to be. But men don't really have that, you
Speaker 1: you know, you don't really have the like I'm attracted
Speaker 1: to the cocktail Wagers, but I feel so bad about it.
Speaker 1: But the left makes women feel bad about what they're
Speaker 1: attracted to, and that's crazy. What you're attracted to is
Speaker 1: what you're attracted to. And the fact that you know
Speaker 1: Don Draper did it for so many women is a
Speaker 1: sign that they liked a more powerful guy and that
Speaker 1: you weren't supposed to like him, and you knew you
Speaker 1: weren't supposed to like him. Is what the left and
Speaker 1: force is here. So you used to live in Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: so you know plenty of people on the left, and
Speaker 1: you're cool, so you have cool left wing friends. Did
Speaker 1: any of your cool left wing female friends, to your knowledge,
Speaker 1: actually think that a guy that was interested in them
Speaker 1: romantically who described himself as a male feminist was doing
Speaker 1: himself any favors. I think the ones that I knew
Speaker 1: knew that any male feminist was likely just China get
Speaker 1: in their pants. But you know, I know that there's
Speaker 1: a wider world where the male feminist does enjoy some
Speaker 1: you know, perks of being a male feminist. I also
Speaker 1: I lived on a commune in Scotland where everybody was
Speaker 1: a male feminist. And yeah, the ones who could successfully
Speaker 1: argue their case and make it seem like they weren't
Speaker 1: just after one thing did quite well with the ladies.
Speaker 1: It's just stunning, stunning the scams that people could pull off.
Speaker 1: Do you think that there's a room or a necessity
Speaker 1: even for the right and for the Republican Party to
Speaker 1: really start to articulate a family and you know, traditional
Speaker 1: family values agenda again, I feel like it fell off.
Speaker 1: I used to hear about this all the time in
Speaker 1: the nineties. Oh you know that, you know, traditional family.
Speaker 1: Various people talk about Philish Laughley and how she defeated
Speaker 1: the Eagle Rights amament, and there was all this discussion
Speaker 1: of you know, you know, focus on the family, support
Speaker 1: the family. It fell off, and it does feel like
Speaker 1: now the left and the Democrat Party is just at
Speaker 1: its core run by a lot of unhappy you know,
Speaker 1: cat ladies with blue hair and nose rings, right, And
Speaker 1: I think there should be but it has to be
Speaker 1: done in a cooler way. I mean, social media just
Speaker 1: changed everything. So now the left has on social media,
Speaker 1: like you know, polyamory is very popular on social media,
Speaker 1: and you have these couples like arguing on social media.
Speaker 1: How you know, monogamy is so out and it's so
Speaker 1: outdated and it's like, do you think you're the first
Speaker 1: people to try this? Like, do you think that throughout
Speaker 1: civilizations they haven't considered the idea of being with multiple partners?
Speaker 1: You're not that unique, and yet you think that you
Speaker 1: come up with this new idea that's going to work
Speaker 1: for only you and nobody else, you know, throughout history,
Speaker 1: And the fact is it never works. And that's why
Speaker 1: people settle onto monogamy. It's not because we don't have
Speaker 1: the imagination to consider having multiple partners, is because it's
Speaker 1: always a fail. And so I think the right should
Speaker 1: target this kind of messaging and show relationships as being
Speaker 1: a positive thing. If relationships are always a downer, I
Speaker 1: can see why the marriage rate is decreasing, but you know,
Speaker 1: even beyond just the marriage rate, which is a problem,
Speaker 1: and then the birth rate, you know, declining is a
Speaker 1: giant problem. People are having fewer relationships, they're having fewer friendships.
Speaker 1: All of this is very bad for our society and
Speaker 1: it needs to be turned around, and it has to
Speaker 1: be turned around in a smart way, and social media
Speaker 1: really should be utilized in this pursuit. Do you think
Speaker 1: I think it's Professor Scott Galloway at Nyu who you know,
Speaker 1: spits fire about Trump and says a lot of things
Speaker 1: I think about the right in general that are are
Speaker 1: not intelligent and not well thought out. But he does
Speaker 1: say some things on social broader social issues you know,
Speaker 1: think I'm talking about. By the way, he's started to
Speaker 1: pick up a lot of team. He's been on Bill
Speaker 1: Maher recently. He's there tiktoks and things like that with him. Um,
Speaker 1: but he talks about what he calls uh por Porsche polygamy,
Speaker 1: and he says that in the world of dating apps,
Speaker 1: which you know, everyone's always walking around coming up with
Speaker 1: their story for how they met their person that is
Speaker 1: not we met on a dating app. It's kind of
Speaker 1: funny right when you realize right now, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's gone to the point where, um, if you're not
Speaker 1: on dating apps, actually you're almost not in the dating
Speaker 1: pool if you're a single person, because it's there's just
Speaker 1: such a there's been such a change, and people don't
Speaker 1: go to nightclubs anymore the same way, you know, because
Speaker 1: it works and because this is but you also work,
Speaker 1: they're not allowed to meet at work anymore, which oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not. You're oh no, you're you're definitely it's very suspect.
Speaker 1: I mean I I, for example, I've never dated anybody
Speaker 1: at a company, never mind like a direct report or
Speaker 1: anything like that. I've never dated anybody at a company
Speaker 1: where I have been an employee, with the exception of
Speaker 1: the CIA. But like that's you know, like that's like
Speaker 1: going to a that that's enormous. And you know, there's
Speaker 1: you want to think about the CIA is if you
Speaker 1: don't want to see the person you're dating to the
Speaker 1: CIA again, you never will because you know who knows
Speaker 1: whether to be said next. But in a you know,
Speaker 1: even there there were very kind of strict rules about
Speaker 1: about reporting requirements and things like that if you had
Speaker 1: a relationship internally, you know, in the same office or
Speaker 1: anything like that. I just think that you have this
Speaker 1: situation where women are being and maybe now this is
Speaker 1: getting a more contentious territory. Women are being trained to
Speaker 1: think like men in their dating selection. And you see
Speaker 1: that so Zi Gallery talks about porship, progresivism, sorry portship
Speaker 1: polygamy where he says that eighty percent of the women
Speaker 1: have an interest in only twenty percent of the men.
Speaker 1: Basically that you have this and and that women are
Speaker 1: instead of choosing for things that require more of a relationship.
Speaker 1: Basis to understand, I know the flip side of this
Speaker 1: women's but men are so superficial, which brings us to
Speaker 1: the Yes, men are more superficial about women's appearance than women.
Speaker 1: That this is the way it has been in all
Speaker 1: of human history until now. But you have all these
Speaker 1: women who are saying I won't get a guy who's
Speaker 1: under six foot two, and I you know, and I
Speaker 1: want a guy with a six pack, and I want
Speaker 1: a guy with like lots of tattoos all over his
Speaker 1: arms and these sorts of things, And that this is
Speaker 1: creating a society where thirty percent of men, I think
Speaker 1: he said this is again from Scott Gallery, thirty percent
Speaker 1: of men under thirty haven't had a sexual relationship in
Speaker 1: the last year. That's main blowing, right, And are the women,
Speaker 1: I mean, are the women having sexual relationships because if
Speaker 1: it seems like the eighty percent can't be just sleeping
Speaker 1: with the twenty percent, right, So you know, it's it's funny.
Speaker 1: You're right, men do go for looks more than you
Speaker 1: know women do or have. Maybe that's changing now, but
Speaker 1: women used to go for security and I don't think
Speaker 1: that was a bad thing. I don't think, you know,
Speaker 1: women choosing partners who are not going to be bad
Speaker 1: toa is a bad thing. I don't know. I really
Speaker 1: don't understand the concept that I see a lot on
Speaker 1: social media now where the woman only wants the guy
Speaker 1: who doesn't want her, And that makes no sense to me.
Speaker 1: That's like, I can't imagine liking somebody who does not
Speaker 1: like me. That just does not compute at all. And
Speaker 1: that's like what's happening now that they're being kind of
Speaker 1: trained to like the ones who will never like them back.
Speaker 1: I also think that there's this again, there's this desire
Speaker 1: to treat men and women as though the same, whether
Speaker 1: it's in sports now and all this stuff, that there's
Speaker 1: this same enforced sameness that does not exist. Men and
Speaker 1: women process sexual relationships differently emotionally. I don't know. People say, oh,
Speaker 1: I know women that could you know they can sleep
Speaker 1: with a hundred guys, and it's a no, Actually, it
Speaker 1: really is just not true. And they can tell themselves
Speaker 1: this as much as they want, But the psychological toll
Speaker 1: on women of conducting themselves this way, and I've seen
Speaker 1: it from plenty of women that I know, and plenty
Speaker 1: women I know who never get in the number. It
Speaker 1: would be stunning, I think, to the people in the
Speaker 1: rest of the country. The number of really good looking,
Speaker 1: really interesting and compelling in a whole range of ways
Speaker 1: women in New York City thirty five to forty five
Speaker 1: that are not married, we'll probably never get married, and
Speaker 1: we'll probably never have children. I think would blow the
Speaker 1: minds of people who don't live in you know, DC
Speaker 1: or LA or you know San Francisco. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that big cities have the worst problem of telling women
Speaker 1: what they should be interested in and what they should
Speaker 1: be looking for, and how that really doesn't fit in
Speaker 1: with what women are and what we actually feel and
Speaker 1: all those other things. You're right, we're not the same.
Speaker 1: I don't know why we need to be the same.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be like a man. You guys
Speaker 1: are just not that great. Yeah, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: we kind of smell sometimes. Yeah, we all we got
Speaker 1: we all got manned thighs. You know which we're not.
Speaker 1: You know, women and women were constructed for for beauty
Speaker 1: and aesthetics and and you know the you know, you're
Speaker 1: all aphrodites. You know you're all God's gift and creating
Speaker 1: the next generation. And guys, you know we can dress.
Speaker 1: We can dress like Zelenski when we don't even mean to,
Speaker 1: and things like that can happen. We already married anymore.
Speaker 1: That's right. Um, I didn't say that allowed today. So
Speaker 1: everybody should go get Carol's book, which you should get
Speaker 1: on Amazona where you get fine books, Stolen Youth and
Speaker 1: coming out March seventh. And also New York Post commist
Speaker 1: Carol Markowitz and also one of the people that helped
Speaker 1: convince me to move to Florida. So thank you for that,
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming. We're really happy to have you.
Speaker 1: I thank you in the acknowledgements of the book. I
Speaker 1: thank the Florida Crew. Oh nice, I'm very I'm very
Speaker 1: honored to get an acknowledgement as part of the Florida Crew.
Speaker 1: So we're going to save America and Carol is one
Speaker 1: of the key people in that process. Carol, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for being with this Sharon's Wisdom. We'll have
Speaker 1: you back soon. Thanks so much. U