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I brought my party together so much they 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.360 teamed up and kicked me out. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.679 Wait a minute, maybe I hate it here too, not Jill. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.800 I know it's awful, but I can't go back to 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.520 mar A Lago Joe, because Elon is there. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:29.400 And he will not leave. It's like, what about Bob. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.800 He's walking around in his bathing suit showing. 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.199 Me videos and rockets and monkeys with computers in their heads. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:44.360 This guy's crangef That guy's Trump is so good. I 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.560 thought I really liked the Saturday Alive. I thought it 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.760 was pretty good. It was just an equal opportunity making 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.360 fun of the whole thing. And I also liked During 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:56.240 the News because I like stupid sketch comedy and having 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.080 Peanut the Squirrel's widow on. I thought I didn't see 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.320 that yet. Oh man, Sarah Sherman has peen at the 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.160 squirrel's widow. So you or what were you just talking about? 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:09.120 You were talking about what. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.480 How race has been deemphasized in a big hurry in 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.560 American politics. I mean, it'd still be an emphasis because 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.720 it's semi useful, but it's all about class and all 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.280 about economic aspiration. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.840 Really yeah, So a couple of things on that. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:28.400 Peter Thield, the billionaire interesting dude, you know who he is, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.720 tweeted out over the weekend that Trump's win exploded the 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.519 lie of identity politics. If you believe that people cannot 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.760 listen to reason and it's all subject to these sub 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.920 rational factors like your race, or your gender, or your 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.919 sexisting or your sexual orientation or something like this, then 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.639 nobody would ever be able to change their mind. You 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.480 exploded the lie of identity politics with this election, I hope. So, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.000 I don't know. They're almost, well, not almost almost always 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:57.239 always it's always overstated after every election of my life, 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.840 every presidential election, of how things have changed permanently in 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.600 some way. But this has got to be a nod 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.639 toward the right direction. I thought it was interesting. Ian 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.040 Bremmer tweeted this out, and I think it factors in. Also, 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:13.720 globalism has been an abject failure. Benefiting a small group 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.160 of all leads to the expense of broader populations across 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:20.040 the West. Yeah, it varies from country to country, but 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.760 that's certainly the way it feels to the average person. 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.680 So you're being you know, taught this whole Tom Friedman, 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.399 the world is flat hidden, this great for everybody thing, 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.640 But that's certainly not what it feels and looks like. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:39.040 Well, right, yeah, and it's. 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.720 A complicated set of interactions. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:43.520 But yeah, if the manufacturing jobs can be done more 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.520 cheaply over there, and you become the paper shuffling people 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.560 because you're really good at shuffling paper, dealing with data whatever. Well, 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.320 those jobs don't be nearly as much. And as the 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.960 well arising tide lifts all ships, well it runs the 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.320 guys running the ships mostly it rises their you know, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:03.600 financial well being. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.360 And Ian Bremer said, and it's true. Citizens and democracies 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.600 all around the world are punishing the proponents of globalism. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.160 The United States is not unique, explaining you know why 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.560 people abandon some of their race politics for just uh, 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.040 you know, my own pocketbook. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.040 Yeah, And it's a delicate balance if you go very 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.599 far and all down the road of uh, industrial planning 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.440 and government control and that sort of thing. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:29.960 It's it's a miserable failure. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:34.040 But to completely ignore the question of a your people's 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.760 standard living and be your national security. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:38.720 But here's an honest here's an honest. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.120 Question, because we're relying on China for our pharmaceuticals and 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.000 commuter chips or or whatever is an idiotic thing to do. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:48.440 Here's a question about you're talking about college graduates having 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:52.960 so much bigger chunk of the national wealth, and it's 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.920 always been true, but that you made way more money 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.400 with the college education than without, But they have a 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.640 bigger chunk now than they ever had be So I 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:06.520 don't quite understand this because so much real life evidence 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.520 around is that a college degree is worth less than 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.360 it's ever been before. They're learning lesson they've ever been before. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.520 Are these stats just lagging indicators? They're paying more anyway, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:15.880 go ahead? 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:17.560 But are they Yeah, but they're paying way more but 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:18.120 getting less. 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.280 So are these all these stats on the Wall Street 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.679 Journal article over the weekend, how an Ivy League degree 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.120 helps you hurts you more than helps you now? But 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.080 so are all these stats about income and wealth lagging indicators. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.040 It's just it's gonna all this is going to catch up. 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.600 To those numbers at some point because like I'm yes, 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.040 I'm not super big on pushing my kids to go 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.680 to college in the way that I I got started 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.440 the whole college fund, like a lot of parents as 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.880 soon as they were born, with just the assumption of 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:46.160 course they're going to go to college. 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:47.599 Over my dead body would they not. 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.960 But now now I'm like, why would you go to 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.360 college unless you have these specific things you want need 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.560 to learn to do whatever it is you want to 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.039 do in the world. But again, these all the stats 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:03.320 out there showed on average, person with a college education 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.400 makes a lot more money than person who doesn't have it. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:06.039 Yeah. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.160 I think part of that is that the when was 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.760 it that the boom in number of people getting college 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.720 educations really took off? 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.080 I don't know, but. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.040 The people who were at the earlier edge of that 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.000 are now in their fifties and sixties and in many 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:30.360 cases in their peak earning years, oh, peak wealth accumulation years. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.040 Let's take another snapshot in thirty years, when you know 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.919 a large number of college graduates will be in a 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.479 world where a lot of people are college graduates, and 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.640 they'll have taken useless degrees where they didn't learn anything. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.120 Yeah, that's a definite example of how it could be 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.160 way a lagging an indicator, because if you're going to 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.200 go with lifetime earnings, well obviously people have to be 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.120 you know, sixty to come up with the in their 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:58.480 sixties to come up with lifetime earnings that late. So yeah, yeah, 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.680 way lagging into There's just no way that's still going 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:07.880 to be true. I don't think they make significantly more 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.560 money with a college education than without. 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:14.040 It just can't be, particularly given how rapidly everything changes 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:18.680 now economical they technically technologically, I mean, so a quick 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.040 thought for you, and then getting back to the piece 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.520 in the Wall Street Journal about how it's less and 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.200 less about race, thank god, and more and more about 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:32.200 policy and opportunity. I was a kid in the nineteen seventies, 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:39.120 mostly you know, late teens in the eighties, but the 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.000 three and I was a weird little kid. Not a 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:46.120 surprise we got Time magazine. We're not like any Newsweek perverts. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.960 We were a magazine fan. Good Lord, I walk into 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.680 somebody's else they got Newsweek. What else goes on here 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.480 that I find? Devil worship, animal sacrifice, God knows anyway. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.280 But we would get Time magazine every week, and I 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:01.200 would read it cover to cover every unless there was 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.920 some particularly dry thing that I just couldn't get through. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:09.600 But I remember three news stories from the seventies distinctly now. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:18.320 One Vietnam unavoidable, two Watergate, watching that unfold, and three Inflation. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.160 I remember the whip inflation now, buttons I remember it 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.280 being the major story in Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.280 which we got at least on Sundays. As I recall 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.000 all about inflation, asking my parents what is inflation. They 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.760 would try to explain it to me. And we've talked 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.719 since about what the mortgage rates were when they were 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.680 trying to crush inflation by raising interest rates so high 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.679 that mortgages were sixteen seventeen eighteen percent a year eighteen 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:46.520 percent mortgage? 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.640 Can you believe that like putting your house on your 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:49.240 credit card? 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.120 But getting back to the piece in the journal, then 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:56.439 I'll bring it all together, as is my style. They 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:00.640 quote Chicago and Alfredo Ramirez, who voted for or Brock 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:05.160 twice Hillary in twenty sixteen. Last two elections, He's back Trump. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:09.480 He said economic concerns, not race, largely drove his vote 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.800 this time. He and his wife are raising three kids 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.720 on his twenty five thousand dollars a year job at 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:19.240 Target WHOA. He remembers the economy being better before the pandemic, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.679 when eggs and everything else cost less. Trump has done 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:24.559 more for the American people, he says, as post to 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.559 the Democrats, they are only caring about themselves. He also 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.120 said being Latino didn't affect his vote. Quote, it really 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.160 doesn't matter as long as we are out here fighting 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.920 for our freedom. And the reason I brought up the 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.880 stories I remembered as a kid. In particular in inflation, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:43.880 particularly inflation is if inflation is high, as I've said 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.600 many times, nothing else matters. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.680 And they mentioned where is that? I thought I was 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:53.520 pretty well written. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.080 They mentioned that all sorts of alleged experts were in 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.959 all sorts of media there is at times tried to 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:02.000 use statistics. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.520 He said, this is a college guy. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:11.240 Uh explained down to the decimal point to argue that 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.480 inflation wasn't really hurting people and that voters' concerns about 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:21.920 immigration were unfounded. Explain that to mister Ramirez. Explain that 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:26.160 to the black construction worker Aaron Waters, who we talked 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:26.800 about before. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:28.439 What a load of crap. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.720 You're not scared at the grocery store when you see 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.640 the bill and think how the hell am I going 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:39.320 to pay my rent? 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:40.440 You think you are? 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.760 And I keep reading that wages have actually caught up 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.800 to inflation. Do you know anybody here saying I've got 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.400 such a giant race since a pre pandemic, I'm making 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:50.280 twenty percent more. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.920 There's no way you're gotta be making almost thirty percent more. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:54.199 There's just now like. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.880 Average out including a hedge fund guys. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:57.199 I don't know. 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:58.880 I don't know. I don't know how you twist the 0:10:58.920 --> 0:10:59.760 statistics to get that. 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.640 But I don't think I know a single person who 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.440 would say that that was true for them. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.560 Yeah, I know, I know, and I've seen it in 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.880 a couple of publications, so including the Wall Street Journal, 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:13.560 which surprised me. But everybody they talked to in this story, 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.160 every single damn one of them, talks about the economy 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:22.920 and their job and inflation. That's what it takes to 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.559 take the gasoline out of the engine of it's all 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:27.360 about race. 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.400 Halle freaking Loujah. 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.760 One more kind of economics thing I came across that 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.760 I thought was interesting from the Wall Street Journal. What 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.640 does HUDD have to show for trillions of dollars a 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:43.480 taxpayer money housing and urban development with this quote in there? 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.520 Add it all up, and since nineteen sixty five, the 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:52.000 US has spent four trillion dollars, but it has not 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.680 increased home ownership as a percentage, making homes more affordable, 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:59.320 or reducing rents adjusted for inflation. Nothing at a range 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:00.840 were trillion. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:06.240 Dollars Tomorrow during the show, I want to go down 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:10.360 a checklist of this learned person knows all about the 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.120 federal deocracy and how it works and how to reform it, 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.439 and all going through a checklist of the various departments 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.640 and how expendable they are. You know, I don't know 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.559 if Elon and VvE can pull off what they're promising. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.880 Boy, they could do a lot of it. I just 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.800 saw this headline. I might have to find the audio. 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.400 CNN Morning Crew cracks up at RFK on Trump plane 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.040 being forced to eat poison in hostage video. That's the 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.720 picture if you haven't seen it, of them all eating McDonald's. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.880 He got on Trump's plane, he got Trump and Elon 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.880 Trump Junior, Mike Johnson's there and RFK Junior with a 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.960 big mac in his hand kind of looking like I 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.120 guess I gotta do this. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.280 He absolutely looks like a guy who's nodding on the Joe. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:02.840 It must have. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.319 Happened so fast, like he didn't have time to think 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:06.760 through do I want to be a part of this 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.680 or not, which I've had happen to me before. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:24.400 Jack Armstrong and Joe Armstrong and Getty Show. See Armstrong 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:25.200 and Getty Show. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.760 So I'm a big Jerry Lewis fan. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:33.439 His heyday was in the fifties and sixties. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:35.199 He was as big a. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:39.800 Deal in the movie industry as practically anybody has ever been. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.959 A comedian, did comic films, and I loved a lot 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.680 of his funny movies when I was a kid. But 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.000 I don't know if I'd ever heard about this. I 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.200 didn't know about it. So I came across this tweet. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.160 Oh my god, Martin Scorsese has made a documentary about 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:58.080 Jerry Lewis's The Day the Clown Cried, the movie Lewis 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.920 made about the Holocaust, that is literally the most famous, 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:05.440 notorious unseen film ever made. Piqued my curiosity. I didn't 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.200 know anything about it. I read up on it, and 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.600 I'm about to explain the plot to you and everything 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:11.000 like that. 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:15.800 It starred Jerry Lewis. He made it way back in 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:16.079 the day. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:20.360 It's an unfinished and unreleased nineteen seventy two Swedish French 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.440 drama film. It's a drama directed by and starring Jerry 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:28.280 Lewis as the Clown, based on a screenplay. The film 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.880 was met with controversy regarding its premise and content, which 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.000 features a circus clown who's imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:38.280 It has never been seen. Lewis repeatedly insistent that The 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.960 Day the Clown Cried would never be released, but later 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.120 donated an incomplete copy to the Library of Congress in 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.800 twenty fifteen under the stipulation that it was not to 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.440 be made available between June before June of twenty twenty four, 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.320 which was just a couple months ago. I've never heard 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.400 a word about this me neither wait till I read 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.760 the plot. But listen to this if you want an 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.520 idea of how good it is or isn't. Harry Sheer 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.640 lott of you, I feel like comedy know who he is. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.280 He saw a rough cut of the film in nineteen 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.680 seventy nine. This is what Harry Sheer said. With most 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.320 of these kinds of things, you find the anticipation or 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.080 the concept is better than the thing itself. But seeing 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.160 this film was really aspiring, and that you were rarely 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.760 in the presence of a perfect object. This was a 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:26.080 perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong. It's pathos 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.440 and its comedy are so wildly misplaced that you could not, 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.520 in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:33.920 on what it already is. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.280 Oh my god, that's all you can say. Wow. 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:43.360 So it's so unspeakably horrible or inappropriate, I think, right. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:43.960 Yeah. 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.480 So the basic plot in the Time I've Got Left 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:51.400 is Jerry Lewis is a clown in Nazi Germany. He 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.000 gets fired from the circus. He's down and out. He 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.520 gets overheard making fun of Hitler in a bar and 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.400 gets thrown into prison. Then he ends up in a 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:06.280 concentration camp. He decides to try to entertain little Jewish children, 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.840 him and another guy. He gets beaten for it regularly, 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.360 but thinks it's his duty to try to entertain these 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.280 little kids who are probably going to their deaths. His 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.440 buddy is beaten to death in front of the children. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.480 This isn't drama, not a comedy. His buddy is beaten 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.160 to death in front of the children. I don't even 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:25.200 know if I want to go to the end of 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:25.600 the plot. 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:26.400 It's too dark. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.440 But it ends up with him dead and kids dead 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:33.160 and everything. I mean, just as bad as you can imagine. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.640 I mean, it's got like the ultimate saddest of sad endings. 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:41.120 The kids too. Oh yeah, it's the Holocaust. Yeah, it 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:41.840 ends with him. 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:43.720 It ends with him holding the hand of a little 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.920 girl as they go to their death in the gas 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.240 chamber and he is forced to lead them in there. 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.680 It's just, it's just I don't know what to think 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:52.960 of it. 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.320 But the fact that Martin Scorsese's making a documentary about it, 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:57.640 I find very intriguing. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:16:59.760 Yeah. 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.080 I find this intriguing on a lot of levels, including 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.600 I can see what Jerry was going for. 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.120 Weeen what was the Oscar Winter Life is Beautiful? 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.479 Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, similar sort of thing, and I 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:12.480 loved that movie. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:14.479 Right, There are a number of great works of art 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.600 about trying to find joy or keep humanity alive in 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.080 one way or another during the Holocaust. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.320 But why did Jerry Lewis not want it released until 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:22.440 long after he was dead. 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.159 I've read directors talk about how you can have a 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.680 great idea, great script, great cast, and it just doesn't work. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:35.639 But Harry Sheer calling it perfect perfect. The Armstrong and 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.200 Getty Show, Yeah, more Jack your Shoe podcasts and Our 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:49.520 Hot Lakes the Armstrong and Getty Show. So it's funny. 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:51.399 I've wanted to bring this up for a while. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:56.200 The real crisis in America's government schools, and I don't 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.520 want to be the cliched everything is going to hell 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:02.600 all the time. Person, that's what I am, because that's 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:04.160 my brand, because we already. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:04.440 Have one of them. 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.120 No, but I was thinking about it, and it goes 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.919 back to our discussion of the natural state of things 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:17.320 is chaos and poverty and violence, and if you have 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:24.080 a civilization, the challenge of preserving that civilization never ends. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:29.560 And everything isn't necessarily going to hell, but everything will 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.280 go to hell if you don't stop it. 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.760 Going to hell needs to be maintained. 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.879 Yes, in short, so, anyway, I think one of the things, 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.400 in another principle before we get into specific said, you've 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:46.760 quoted George will As saying one of the essential, you know, 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.440 elements of being a conservative is you have to deal 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:54.520 with reality, recognize what is right. You can't be a utopian, 0:18:54.960 --> 0:19:00.440 unicorn riding wisher of fond wishes and call yourself a concernervative. 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:02.400 It's just it doesn't fit. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.199 So anyway, I think we have an enormous crisis with 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.920 America's government schools right now. 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:11.879 I don't think there's any doubt of that. 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:17.840 I think it would be a four alarm panic going 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.679 on in America right now if it were not for 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.320 two things. Number One, a lot of parents think schools 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.920 are still what they went to, what they grew up with. 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:31.160 And the distraction of the Golden Bachelor and the Golden Bachelor. 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.880 And there are three things now that I think about it, 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:40.240 And the other one is that there are some schools. 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.679 It's actually four things, including the Golden Bachelor. There are 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.920 some schools that are still doing a good job. They're 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.600 fighting hard, they're in conservative areas, the teachers and administrators 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.600 are not fully woke, so people think our schools seem 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:58.200 to be fine, and maybe they are. But the fourth thing, obviously, 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:03.399 is that the dominant media do not talk about this 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.560 much at all because it's extremely uncomfortable for them because 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.399 they are progressive, they are woke, they are pro. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:14.520 Union, and the heavyweights had their kids in private schools, 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:15.439 so they wouldn't know anyway. 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.240 That's a good point. That is a good point in 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:19.959 the middleweights too. Anyway. 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.520 So a couple of exhibits in the prosecution of America's 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.359 government schools. One that you've probably heard similar fare before, 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:30.840 but this is a bit of an update. Between two thousand, 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:35.520 year two thousand and the year twenty twenty two, the 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:40.040 number of students in Marca's schools rose by five percent, 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:45.600 five percent. The number of teachers rose by ten percent, 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:50.919 which is interesting. Yeah, the number of principles and assistant 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.919 principles rose by forty percent. 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:55.560 Whoa what? 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.720 Who had their kid in school in the year two 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.600 thousand thought, you know, this is going well, it'd. 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:03.880 Be a lot better though if we had like eight 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:05.280 more principles. 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.359 Yes, I know, who the hell fought that? Right? 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.119 And then again, keeping in mind that the increase in 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.840 students is five percent, the increase in administrative staff is 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:16.320 ninety five percent. 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:18.800 There you go, Samans with universities. Yeah. 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.359 Now, some we've talked about this in the past, and 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:25.640 some folks have said, yeah, the uh the government mandates 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:31.000 on schools is so cumbersome. Now the federal and state mandates. 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:34.560 You have to have compliance staff, oh my god, that 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:39.640 spend their whole days issuing reports and filling out forms 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.159