1 00:00:17,039 --> 00:00:20,480 We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Dashinsky, 2 00:00:20,519 --> 00:00:23,039 culture editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show 3 00:00:23,039 --> 00:00:26,760 at radio at the Federalist dot com, follow us on exit fdr ls T, 4 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,320 make sure subscribe wherever you download your podcasts, and to the premium version 5 00:00:30,359 --> 00:00:34,479 of the Federalist dot com as well. I'm joined today by friend of the 6 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,039 show, Christopher Bedford. Seeing that fellow, I would common sense society. 7 00:00:38,039 --> 00:00:41,119 How you doing, Chris, I'm excellent. I heard you've been offline most 8 00:00:41,119 --> 00:00:43,920 of the week, which sounds I hear. It's nice when you're outline. 9 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,399 I've not been paying attention, okay, and it's been great. The water's 10 00:00:48,439 --> 00:00:50,799 warm over there. Yeah, the grass is really greeting, right. A 11 00:00:50,799 --> 00:00:54,640 bunch of errands in a deep clean in my house. Mm hmm. It's 12 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,439 stricken great. Even turned off my cell phone for a little while. That 13 00:00:57,479 --> 00:01:00,399 seems dangerous. It's awesome. Well, here's the deal that when you turn 14 00:01:00,479 --> 00:01:04,040 off your cell phone, you generally want to be with your wife. When 15 00:01:04,079 --> 00:01:08,640 you do, it's like about her. Yeah, not a good idea. 16 00:01:08,799 --> 00:01:12,400 No, you don't need to know you want to be reachable. She made 17 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,319 me put read receipts back on. Oh, I've never turned those on. 18 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,239 That's an invasion of my privacy. I've always thought so too, but she 19 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:25,280 explains to me that she gets irrationally angry assuming that I've read things that I 20 00:01:25,359 --> 00:01:27,239 haven't and I'm ignoring her, so she wants to know. So no, 21 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:32,480 whether or not I've read, and actually I've turned them back on under duress, 22 00:01:32,599 --> 00:01:34,640 mainly bec not because of her because other people. I don't really want 23 00:01:36,599 --> 00:01:38,280 people that close up in my business knowing like what I've read or when I'm 24 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:42,040 typing or whatever. But it actually has gotten me out of a lot of 25 00:01:42,079 --> 00:01:48,920 trouble. Have you seen those videos of there's sort of these viral tiktoks of 26 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,480 women, young women in particular, and I'm thinking of one very specific one, 27 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,840 but there was another one that went viral recently as well, basically saying 28 00:01:57,439 --> 00:02:04,680 they're almost crying years on TikTok about how difficult work is and how burned out 29 00:02:04,719 --> 00:02:08,599 they are. I believe that they were made for it. So it's a 30 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,360 really harsh reality in the mono world. So let me tell you how I 31 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,360 interpreted that. Chris saying women weren't made for work but now I know you 32 00:02:15,479 --> 00:02:23,560 meant gen z. My first impression was air conditioning. They hate it. 33 00:02:23,039 --> 00:02:28,560 Well, we can't even get started on that because it would be I would 34 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,000 get too angry at you. I know I would. But the videos are 35 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,599 actually really sad, and there's been some like very online discourse about conservatives kind 36 00:02:36,599 --> 00:02:40,439 of piling on these young women. But Chris, actually that's why. Well, 37 00:02:40,719 --> 00:02:45,800 because they sound like whiny, you know, snowflakes, and the cliche 38 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:49,879 context that we looked at millennials, for sure we got something. I mean 39 00:02:50,759 --> 00:02:55,439 it sounds entitled like I actually understand the criticism. But there have been so 40 00:02:55,479 --> 00:03:00,599 many technological changes. This is your conversation about phones. Maybe think about this. 41 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,840 I feel like this is one of my hottest takes. Within ten years 42 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:09,280 we will have a four day work week because phones are work and we need 43 00:03:09,319 --> 00:03:14,400 phones for personal basically survival at this point, to know where your wife is, 44 00:03:14,439 --> 00:03:16,639 to know where your kids are, to know all of the like. 45 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:22,479 The phone has been completely integrated into your personal life in ways that are now 46 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,120 that it would be like getting rid of cars, which they also want to 47 00:03:24,159 --> 00:03:28,840 do, but it's the connective tissue for so many elements of modern life. 48 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,439 You know, Chris Moody only has a landline. That's incredible, it's insan 49 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,680 he's living the dream. But see, here's the thing. Is a reporter. 50 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,879 He was integrated doing a Matt Drudge podcast right now. Where in the 51 00:03:38,879 --> 00:03:43,039 world is Matt Drudge type farm in San Diego? Right Sometimes theys some stuff 52 00:03:43,039 --> 00:03:46,639 for the Washington Post, teaches journalism out and I think West Virginia you would 53 00:03:46,639 --> 00:03:50,840 have worked with him at the Daily Caller. Yeah. We. I don't 54 00:03:50,879 --> 00:03:53,039 know if I ever actually worked with him at the Daily Caller at the same 55 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:54,680 time, because he was there for like the first nine months or something and 56 00:03:54,719 --> 00:03:59,120 I was there shortly after that. But we're all ran in the same circles. 57 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,840 So he right, the Dudge podcast is really interesting. But he's also 58 00:04:02,919 --> 00:04:08,240 someone who could be grandfathered in right to that system who grew up with the 59 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,479 landline, knows what a landline is, and people born, you know, 60 00:04:11,479 --> 00:04:15,400 twenty thirty years after Chris Moody don't even really have that option. I guess 61 00:04:15,439 --> 00:04:17,759 you could like try to learn what a landline is and do that, but 62 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:23,720 yeah, I mean it will be like a luxury installation later on, as 63 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,120 opposed to coming free with your internet so if you were twenty or thirty years 64 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,040 down the road, all of your friends are using text message, all of 65 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,720 your friends are using Snapchat, Instagram, and so you would have to basically 66 00:04:32,759 --> 00:04:41,759 completely extricate yourself from the normal like social technology, social fabric. And you 67 00:04:41,759 --> 00:04:44,319 know, this isn't a be in the world, not of the world thing. 68 00:04:44,439 --> 00:04:47,360 It's it's the practical kind of way that we communicate with one another, 69 00:04:47,959 --> 00:04:54,839 and that would be virtually impossible for people twenty thirty years younger. That's what 70 00:04:54,879 --> 00:04:58,519 I'm saying with It's very difficult. So this is what you have to be 71 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:03,160 the boss in order to. Like Lindsey Graham doesn't use email, my boss 72 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:08,000 isn't used slack or anything like that. But slack is terrible. That is 73 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,800 terrible. Yeah, it's something that you force on people who work for you. 74 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:12,680 But if you're in charge, you don't have to do it. I'm 75 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,439 not doing that. But so anyway, this is why I'm saying the dunking 76 00:05:15,519 --> 00:05:19,920 one people. I really do think we'll have a four day work week because 77 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,920 a technology makes it so easy to be disconnected from a physical office, but 78 00:05:24,959 --> 00:05:29,399 also because we are all I think starting to open our eyes up to how 79 00:05:30,399 --> 00:05:35,000 exhausting, the extra time you spend on nights, early mornings and weekends, 80 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:39,839 even if you have Like I always use the example like even if you are, 81 00:05:40,959 --> 00:05:45,879 you know, a teenager working at burger king, you when you have 82 00:05:45,959 --> 00:05:48,480 your phone on you for personal reasons because you know you your parents need to 83 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,160 know who you are, You're texting your friends. Whatever. The possibility that 84 00:05:51,199 --> 00:05:56,000 someone's going to call out of work and ask you to pick up a shift 85 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,879 the next day when your phone is with you, that's a psychological reality that 86 00:05:59,879 --> 00:06:03,519 you are still tethered to work in a really real way. It'll be hard. 87 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:08,279 Like I feel bad for I haven't watched these TikTok videos, but I 88 00:06:08,319 --> 00:06:15,279 get it. In the ten years or so of me employing the recent college 89 00:06:15,319 --> 00:06:18,879 graduates of The Daily Caller, I saw a lot of people who really just 90 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:24,920 weren't built before the workplace. Like they did well in school, especially young 91 00:06:24,959 --> 00:06:27,519 women, Like they did really well in school. They kind of knew what 92 00:06:27,519 --> 00:06:29,839 they had to do. They got high moxers. Why so many of them 93 00:06:29,879 --> 00:06:32,839 got hired. They interviewed well. They but when they got to like a 94 00:06:32,879 --> 00:06:38,399 work environment where you had to kind of make your own way, like get 95 00:06:38,439 --> 00:06:43,160 yelled at you know, a lot of demands on your time, text messages 96 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,399 at six thirty in the morning about headlines coming in, your editor calling you 97 00:06:46,439 --> 00:06:51,079 at night after Some people the guys, really you got no choice, like 98 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,839 you got to go to work or you're a bum. But there was definitely 99 00:06:54,879 --> 00:06:57,319 some people there, and I just thought like, oh man, what a 100 00:06:57,399 --> 00:07:00,439 miserable life. You forced it on yourself, got under Christendom and gotten married. 101 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,959 See, I think these are like this is you're so unhappy and by 102 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,040 the way, you'll never be a great reporter. I think that's true of 103 00:07:08,079 --> 00:07:09,759 some of the guys. But by the way, I could tell that to 104 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,720 the guys. Yeah, when guys stunk, I tell them then. And 105 00:07:12,759 --> 00:07:16,279 they were early on. And there's a one of our friends who's done very 106 00:07:16,279 --> 00:07:21,480 well on heel communications was an intern at the Daily Callar and I don't remember 107 00:07:21,519 --> 00:07:25,319 saying this is early on in my career, before I got in trouble for 108 00:07:25,399 --> 00:07:29,199 like being honest with female employees and telling them when they sucked. I said, 109 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:30,800 hey, you know, there's a lot of things you can do with 110 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:36,360 journalism. It's probably not it partially because of spelling. You have to be 111 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,879 able to do that. I have no recollection of this interaction. But she 112 00:07:39,879 --> 00:07:42,519 says, yeah, that had a pretty profound impact on me, and I 113 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:47,040 left journalism and she ended up being extremely successful on Capitol Hill. But which 114 00:07:47,079 --> 00:07:50,920 is a position that doesn't require spelling because Congressman can spell, nobody has to 115 00:07:50,959 --> 00:07:54,959 spell. So but anyway, that like forced this on them. But how 116 00:07:54,959 --> 00:07:57,199 can we get to a Forday work week? Like right now you've got people, 117 00:07:57,279 --> 00:08:00,399 you got mass layoffs in journalism. I just think these are two different 118 00:08:00,439 --> 00:08:05,040 things, and so I think there is absolutely a sense of fragility and entitlement. 119 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:13,560 I do also think there's that that exists separately from the psychological toll that 120 00:08:13,839 --> 00:08:22,160 the intertwinement of personal and professional technology. I think that's a much more sympathetic 121 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,079 reason that we'll be moving in those directions. And I think the fact that 122 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,040 there are legitimate criticisms of the work ethic of younger people, including our own 123 00:08:28,079 --> 00:08:33,000 generation, which didn't have to go fight in World Wars and had it pretty 124 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:37,639 good, and that's always going to create just differences, generational differences. You 125 00:08:37,639 --> 00:08:41,080 and I have seen this. I mean, it's going to be it's cold 126 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:43,720 right now, but it'll be in the mid fifties high fifties. Later today, 127 00:08:45,519 --> 00:08:50,039 you could swing down to Union Market, which is an overpriced place for 128 00:08:50,159 --> 00:08:52,720 buying fancy local meats and great fish. Like it's all very good food, 129 00:08:52,720 --> 00:09:00,240 but very expensive, and it'll be filled with young people working from home or 130 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:03,519 not. They're actually drinking with their friends, but their laptops are open. 131 00:09:03,759 --> 00:09:07,440 They are giving neither their attention to their job nor to their friends, but 132 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:13,720 they are imbobing. You know, fine, I just with all these layoffs 133 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:18,679 happening, Okay, journalism is being particularly hard hit layoffs across the board. 134 00:09:20,279 --> 00:09:24,519 LA Times, you know, rest in peace, and so I actually really 135 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:30,919 like the LA Times. So many people are bad and deserve to lose their 136 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,320 jobs, but this is not the time to be like, you know, 137 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:39,559 my phone makes me sad, even though it does, it really does. 138 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,840 Mental illness. Uh, my phone is making me mentally ill, and I 139 00:09:43,879 --> 00:09:46,840 want to work less, like because there's there's just a hungry person who's going 140 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:50,600 to take your job, and a computer that's going to take your job, 141 00:09:50,639 --> 00:09:52,960 and AI algorithm is going to take your job. Like now, if you 142 00:09:54,039 --> 00:09:58,000 want to survive, you're going to need to compete with AI. Need to 143 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,679 compete with foreign You're gonna need to compete with your colleagues and you not you, 144 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,639 but like you know, the Royal. You may want to work four 145 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:11,000 days a week and feel like you deserve it, and maybe you do. 146 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,440 But what does someone who's gonna work six days a week and they're going to 147 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,879 take your job? Well, I think if you're working a four day week, 148 00:10:16,879 --> 00:10:18,759 you're still working six days a week. That's all I mean is that 149 00:10:18,879 --> 00:10:24,440 it'll be more formalized that people work Monday through Thursday and then are kind of 150 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:28,200 halfway on, halfway off Friday through Sunday, because that's basically what we do 151 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,159 now anyway, not us, but I mean there's a lot. That's a 152 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:33,840 lot of what white collar jobs are now. I took a big luxury when 153 00:10:33,879 --> 00:10:35,639 I left to be an editor in chief to be to join the Federals. 154 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,480 A few years ago, I said I wasn't working on Sundays. This shocked 155 00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:45,679 Ben the way he didn't understand that journalism though well on journalism, and he 156 00:10:45,759 --> 00:10:48,679 also has this, uh, this kind of romantic attachment to the Sunday shows 157 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,480 that no one watches. I don't know anyone who watches that. He does 158 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,240 loves them. We have to do Sunday shows I'm like, no, no, 159 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:00,919 we don't need Chris on the Sunday. I don't that COVID happened right 160 00:11:00,919 --> 00:11:05,559 after, so like the whole environment changed anyways. But it would take a 161 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:11,639 specific phone call from Sean or Molly or at the time Ben saying can you 162 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:16,200 write this piece for me to work on a Sunday. And that was a 163 00:11:16,279 --> 00:11:18,440 luxury that was not afforded to me as editor when I was boss at the 164 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,919 Daylight Color. You work it every day. Journalism, Yeah, journalism is 165 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:24,600 different than a lot of other And it's not that there are a lot of 166 00:11:24,639 --> 00:11:28,240 other careers that require work on Saturdays and Sundays too, so but yeah, 167 00:11:28,279 --> 00:11:31,039 it takes me a pizza delivery driver. And remember that the radio would always 168 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:35,480 be talking on Thursday and Fridays like are you getting ready for the weekend? 169 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,840 And I was like why, that's when people ordered the most pizza. Yeah, 170 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,080 it was like the weekend I work. And I was a bartender and 171 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,000 a bouncer, Like I worked weekends. You had the Sunday brunch shift and 172 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,360 before I was in charge of the caller. Yeah, I worked the Sunday 173 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:56,960 brunch shifts and Saturday nights sometimes, so weekends are a luxury? Does our 174 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,639 border have turnstiles? And of it ropes? The Watchdot on Wall Street podcast 175 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,799 with Chris Markowski. Every day Chris helps unpack the connection between politics and the 176 00:12:05,799 --> 00:12:09,720 economy and how it affects your wallet. Some Republicans are chouting a bill with 177 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:15,720 a limit of five thousand migrants per day. That's still one point eight million 178 00:12:15,759 --> 00:12:18,639 per year. An amusement park doesn't let more people in when it hits capacity. 179 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,440 Whether it's happening in DC or down on Wall Street, it's affecting you 180 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:24,799 financially. Be informed. Check out the Watchdot on Wall Street podcast with Chris 181 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:31,840 Markowski on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's interesting 182 00:12:31,879 --> 00:12:37,279 because in the last week or so, we've learned that Congress is utterly incapable 183 00:12:37,279 --> 00:12:43,480 of addressing any problem, and the executive branch is capable of They're going to 184 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:50,399 extend the extend because oh my gosh, okay, this happened just yesterday. 185 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:58,159 So we're taping this on Thursday Wednesday, as the House Speaker Mike Johnson is 186 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:03,559 being pressured to pass the Ukraine funding bill, Israel Taiwan. It's ninety what 187 00:13:03,639 --> 00:13:07,519 is it? Ninety five billion? Dollars. Sixty billion dollars goes to Ukraine. 188 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,879 They ended up passing it without any border control measures because in the Senate, 189 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,360 Yes, in the Senate, because and now it's over to the House. 190 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:22,279 Because Mitch McConnell set James Langford up to be a useful idiot who would 191 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,000 create an untenable deal that would crash and burn. They knew it would crash 192 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,480 and burn. Everyone except for James Langford, this is my theory, knew 193 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:35,159 Chuck Schumer, Mitch itself. They knew, and Mitch set him up. 194 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:41,759 Mitch that they knew mayor for life, probably not senator for life at this 195 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:46,600 point, but they knew that this deal would not be acceptable to Conservatives. 196 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:50,279 And James Langford, I think, is one of the few people who thought 197 00:13:50,279 --> 00:13:54,320 he could convince others to take up this bill. You go nobody. I 198 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,440 don't think Mitch McConnell thought seriously for a moment that he had enough Republican senators 199 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:03,200 to I don't think Chuck Schumer did either. No, I really Thinkruck James 200 00:14:03,279 --> 00:14:05,759 Lanker is the only one. And I think Chuck Schumer knew that he didn't 201 00:14:05,759 --> 00:14:09,399 have to sell this to just the stems. In the squad. Yeah, 202 00:14:09,399 --> 00:14:13,200 because he never could have Like there wasn't there were enough provisions in there that 203 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,799 would have pissed off the squad that really does like want to replace America with 204 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,279 Guatemala. They wouldn't have allowed it. And he didn't even have to worry 205 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:24,120 for a second about defending any aspect of it. He just got to go 206 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:28,639 out there. Republicans are not serious about border security exactly, and Mitch mcconald 207 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,519 let him do it because Mitch mcconald just wants to pass Ukraine funding. And 208 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,399 now the pressures on Mike Johnson. I mean he's also got like apple sauce 209 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,960 brains at this point. Right, Well that's fair, but still is the 210 00:14:39,639 --> 00:14:46,039 part of his brain that's lucid is all about Ukraine. What is strange? 211 00:14:46,399 --> 00:14:50,600 It's like did you It's like Rosebud, you know, people just trying to 212 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:54,200 figure out, like what is what is the last you know, spark that's 213 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,879 going to exist in your mind. It's mind that's really done a lot of 214 00:14:56,919 --> 00:15:03,039 things too. It is like Rosebud Ukraine, yes, and well so, 215 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:09,360 but this is what's kind of remarkable is they can't get this. They can't 216 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,559 do a single thing about the border the White House. When the White House 217 00:15:13,639 --> 00:15:18,519 was tasked with security in the border in a non electioneer twenty twenty three, 218 00:15:18,879 --> 00:15:24,279 they created an app that just funneled people into legal pathways and even then the 219 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:30,240 border will of course, because of that, the border became overwhelmed and overwhelmed, 220 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:35,840 and the optics were, like the levels of incompetence are staggering. I 221 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,960 think that's a deep quote, but like it's incredible. We cannot do things 222 00:15:39,159 --> 00:15:43,399 as a country anymore. And to the crying, everything's broken. And think 223 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:50,000 of the challenges that we were just talking about with like AI, with technology 224 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:56,039 completely dramatically upending the daily lives of your average American. We can't even secure 225 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:00,120 the freaking border. We can't do that. We can't even pass like this 226 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:03,840 is maybe a hot take for a conservative, but like there has to be 227 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:08,120 like we can give some money to Ukraine, maybe not sixty billion dollars, 228 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,159 but we can't even do that because we can't even fund security on our own 229 00:16:12,159 --> 00:16:15,919 border. We can't even pass asylum laws for security or board. We can't 230 00:16:15,919 --> 00:16:18,519 even convince the President of the United States, who also has Apple sauce brain, 231 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,879 that there should be something done to secure the border seriously, and that 232 00:16:22,919 --> 00:16:30,480 it should be done with some competence and some statesmanship and some like just courage. 233 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:36,440 We cannot function. We cannot function. Yeah, it's looking pretty rough. 234 00:16:36,519 --> 00:16:40,200 And then they leaked this what is the I don't know, I people 235 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,600 were paying attention yesterday, but the Russian the Russian space guided missiles. Yes, 236 00:16:44,679 --> 00:16:48,039 so if you've heard about that, it seems pretty clear to both of 237 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,240 us. I think we agree on this. That was an intentional leak to 238 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:56,919 put pressure on Mike Johnson to kill FISA reform section seven oh two reform and 239 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,440 to pass the Ukraine bill, or just to delay it. And now Mike 240 00:17:00,559 --> 00:17:07,240 Lee's out there pointing out that simply delaying Pfizer reform will kicking the can will 241 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:15,039 mean that it's the intelligence apparatus still has all of these incredible powers on constitutional 242 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:18,720 collection. Yes, yeah, exactly, which I mean, I'm sure we 243 00:17:18,759 --> 00:17:22,279 can trust some of the American intelligence services with having an even and fair hand 244 00:17:23,759 --> 00:17:29,640 with Donald Trump and his campaign. PISER reform is mainstream and bipartisan. So 245 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:33,519 there's serious people Democrats and Republicans that want reform to section in seven to zero 246 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:37,759 two because it's extra constitutional obviously, so We've seen so many egregious abuses of 247 00:17:37,799 --> 00:17:42,079 it to people on the right and the left that this is a mainstream Republican 248 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,200 and Democratic position in the same in a different way, by the way, 249 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:49,359 from that border bill. That border bill was not a mainstream position whatsoever except 250 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:55,480 for on the far left. That was Mitch McConnell and James Langford basically putting 251 00:17:55,599 --> 00:18:00,359 the stamp of bipartisanship on something that was acceptable to the far left. New 252 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,480 York Times had a chart a couple of weeks ago. I don't know if 253 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,839 you saw this that showed where both parties voters had gone on immigration over the 254 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,400 last like fifteen or so years, and it showed Republicans basically staying the same 255 00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:18,519 and Democrats getting dramatically more favorable to high levels of immigration. And that does 256 00:18:18,559 --> 00:18:22,000 everything, And that's exactly the border bill was engineered to please. Was that 257 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:29,000 flank of the Democratic Party. Not even moderate Democrats if you went through a 258 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:32,440 year after that bill would be happy with what it did to the border. 259 00:18:33,279 --> 00:18:37,039 It's a disaster, amasty bill. An it was the open border deal. 260 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:41,279 Yeah, yeah, so this is like all this is to say our ability 261 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:45,519 to function as a country. I don't think any of We don't need to 262 00:18:45,559 --> 00:18:48,839 convince anybody of this, but wait till more airplane doors start ripping off. 263 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:55,160 Yeah, seriously, and with all of the tax payer money that that company 264 00:18:55,279 --> 00:19:00,839 gets again, it just feels like everything is falling apart. And who stayed 265 00:19:00,839 --> 00:19:06,200 with us a few weeks ago, who works with the America's nuclear arsenal and 266 00:19:06,279 --> 00:19:11,279 a lot of that is kind of just maintaining things. And I just and 267 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,400 uh, my wife was asking him about some of the missile treaties that we 268 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,480 have and like the testing treaties, because she asked about testing and he was 269 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,279 like, well, we don't really test. We do like computer programs, 270 00:19:21,839 --> 00:19:23,519 because where like we signed all these treats if we don't test anymore? Yeah, 271 00:19:25,279 --> 00:19:27,839 And I asked them straight up, is there even anyone alive who could 272 00:19:27,839 --> 00:19:30,119 build one of these weapons? Again? Yeah, it's like not really, 273 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:34,960 they're all gone. Like the skills we kind of forget this stuff, but 274 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:44,799 like the skills necessary to build our nuclear arsenal are dying or already dead. 275 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,799 It's been decades now. And it's kind of like when you look out at 276 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,720 the art, the public art and civic art and architecture and the sculptures and 277 00:19:53,759 --> 00:19:59,960 the things that they're going to maybe put down Statuary Row and Richmond. We're 278 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:06,400 we can't even maintain our beautiful structures, and we struggle to maintain our technologies 279 00:20:06,559 --> 00:20:10,839 forget about build new ones. And we like to look back with this this 280 00:20:11,039 --> 00:20:12,920 kind of scorn, like, oh, look at these Look at the Europeans. 281 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:18,839 How do you lose knowledge? We have the Internet, we're producing we're 282 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:23,400 producing more bits of information every year than we're produced in the first thousands of 283 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:29,200 years of history combined. But we're losing it very quickly. We're losing that 284 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:33,000 actual know how and we take it off for granted, and it's We talked 285 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,160 a lot about this on the show last year when Baby Formula started to disappear, 286 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:42,000 and about how many cracks there actually are in the system, how how 287 00:20:42,039 --> 00:20:45,839 much incompetence there is, how much laziness there is, how much just complete 288 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,799 lack of knowledge. How many people just kind of move forward within the constrains 289 00:20:49,839 --> 00:20:55,519 of a bureaucratic system, pushing their button and pulling their lever, but don't 290 00:20:55,519 --> 00:21:00,039 actually couldn't actually build the buttons or the levers. You know, there's a 291 00:21:00,039 --> 00:21:06,200 piece and compact yesterday that I was reading about how collapse happens very suddenly, 292 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,000 and it was talking about just to kind of use the example of the ancient 293 00:21:10,039 --> 00:21:15,960 regime in France and how what is central and controlling and dominant force and just 294 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,880 a steady hand. In Europe it had been for so long and then a 295 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,759 fight over taxes like quickly devolved and before you knew it, it was just 296 00:21:22,839 --> 00:21:27,920 mass bloodshed and murder and radicalism all across Europe. Is a very destabilizing thing 297 00:21:29,319 --> 00:21:37,440 happened very suddenly, and they were drying the connection to the relative peace and 298 00:21:37,599 --> 00:21:41,680 harmony that it kind of existed broadly in the Middle East, particularly around Israel 299 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:47,000 for years, and just a lot of people who had interest in the stable 300 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,880 order. And then this October seven attack, and before you know it, 301 00:21:51,599 --> 00:21:56,559 shipping is shut down and wars coming up between Iran and the United States, 302 00:21:56,599 --> 00:22:00,599 and deterrence is dead, and no one really exactly is what to do, 303 00:22:00,799 --> 00:22:07,920 and Blinken's out there throwing another press conference while Israel goes into another Hamas read 304 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,519 out to root them out of there, and the America is saying stop, 305 00:22:11,599 --> 00:22:15,000 stop, stop, and no one's stopping, and Hutieser firing rockets and prices 306 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,440 are rising, and it's like, these are the kind of things that just 307 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:23,960 spin out of control very quickly, and you don't quite understand them until you 308 00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:29,200 read the history books. Not unlike the defenestration of Prague in the Thirty Years 309 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:34,920 War, no one knew had started. You was watching you make your way 310 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:40,440 through sentence, and suddenly I saw your eyes burst and knew what was coming 311 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:45,759 immediately. You know, It's it's kind of an impossible hypothetical. I've always 312 00:22:45,839 --> 00:22:51,160 felt that we're more like Rome in the sense that our decline would be gradual. 313 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:56,359 But again, with in a nuclear age, can decline be gradual or 314 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,519 doesn't? I mean, yeah, it's harder to For everything moves much more 315 00:23:00,599 --> 00:23:03,279 quickly than it did in the Roman days. It does, it does at 316 00:23:03,279 --> 00:23:08,559 the same time, even gradual, even Rome's gradual declient is marked by certain 317 00:23:08,599 --> 00:23:14,960 eras of extreme street violence and things you can point to. And it's well 318 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,720 that murder may have taken like fifty years to be avenged, but holy smokes 319 00:23:18,759 --> 00:23:23,480 like the complete breakdown and peaceable politics and uh right, But you don't necessarily 320 00:23:23,519 --> 00:23:26,160 know you're in it until you know the end of the story. Oh I 321 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,000 know I'm in it. I'm positive we're in it. No, I mean, 322 00:23:30,039 --> 00:23:34,240 you don't know if you're in the last chapter until it's been written. 323 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:37,720 That's sure, you could be halfway through. I just right. Don't get 324 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,799 those libs who are like, I don't want to have kids because of Global 325 00:23:40,839 --> 00:23:45,480 Wan. First of all, fine, good, but I can't wait to 326 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,960 have kids and I know that we're in the collapse of civilization, like I 327 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,519 want more. So that's funny. It's funny because I wash gosh, because 328 00:23:53,519 --> 00:23:56,799 I was just going to ask you if you saw the RFK Junior commercial during 329 00:23:56,799 --> 00:24:00,000 the Super Bowl. Loved it? Yes, And it's so embarrassing that he 330 00:24:00,039 --> 00:24:04,519 had to apologize to his family for that because I saw two of his cousins 331 00:24:04,519 --> 00:24:11,440 who were attacking him. Why would you attack Why would you attack your own 332 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,559 cousin even if you hate him and disagree with him, Like I can't stand 333 00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:18,000 those people who go on TV like Barack Obama's like African brother. That was 334 00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:21,880 at least kind of funny because Obama was in the middle of my late brother's 335 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,599 keeper. Alik Obama is those same I think that's his daughter. No, 336 00:24:25,599 --> 00:24:30,799 No, that's the he was in the middle of during my brother's keeper. 337 00:24:30,839 --> 00:24:34,440 Campaign, and his like African brother was like hey, which was funny, 338 00:24:34,559 --> 00:24:38,720 but like the Trump's sister who goes out there and attacks him, it's just 339 00:24:38,759 --> 00:24:42,799 like super embarrassing. Oh his sister. The judge had privately said something to 340 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:47,440 his niece Mary Trump. The niece is Mary is the one who's always out 341 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,599 there. Yeah, h yapping away on him. Malik Obama, I was 342 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:56,839 right, it's so unseemly too, U. I really liked. I was 343 00:24:56,839 --> 00:25:04,680 involved in an internet altercation with Deblasio's team that ended very poorly because Buckley Carlson, 344 00:25:04,839 --> 00:25:10,000 the great brother of Tucker, he thought he was blind. He didn't 345 00:25:10,039 --> 00:25:15,599 realize that he was copying the staff, and he said something like really offensive, 346 00:25:15,559 --> 00:25:19,559 Like I was in I played football on rugby and was in a fraternity 347 00:25:19,599 --> 00:25:22,960 and I've never heard this kind of level that just like comes naturally to boarding 348 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:30,119 school kids of griminess. Never in the locker room. I never heard that. 349 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,640 But he actually sent it to the staff and Tucker was obviously called upon 350 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,759 and he was in this like driving around in cars interview a few days later 351 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,039 to answer to it, and he just turned the interview and said, what 352 00:25:42,039 --> 00:25:44,960 do you what do you want me to do? You asking me to condemn 353 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,400 my brother? Is that? And he put the guy on the defensive, 354 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,680 like is that of this questions going, I'm gonna condemn my brother, Get 355 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,880 out of here. He didn't go out there and say, like what Buckley 356 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:59,319 said was awesome. I'm glad that happened at all. So I just I 357 00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:02,640 really like that attitude and things. No, I agree with that. I 358 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,960 don't understand these Kennedy cousins are out there, like how dare you misappropriate? 359 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,960 Like what your scumbag John F. Kennedy had some scummy things to him, 360 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,039 some weird things too. Yeah they all have they all did. Yeah they 361 00:26:14,039 --> 00:26:15,880 had a bad dad. Yes, they did have a bad dad. And 362 00:26:17,559 --> 00:26:22,160 he had to RFK Junior basically had to distance himself from the ad because it 363 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,119 was he still was at the top of his twel it is he can't coordinate 364 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,119 with the superback, so that was his rationale whatever. But the reason I 365 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,720 asked that is because on the kid's point, Mary and Williamson, who recently 366 00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:37,160 dropped out, I think she did. I asked her this. I was 367 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,440 waiting to vote for her. I well asked her this on Federalist Radio Hour 368 00:26:41,519 --> 00:26:45,000 because I had heard her mention it before about how many when she was going 369 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,000 around in Iowa and New Hampshire, and I think this was in the twenty 370 00:26:48,039 --> 00:26:52,359 twenty election, how many young people put up their hands and said that they 371 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:56,160 didn't want to have kids because of the climate and the state of the country. 372 00:26:56,319 --> 00:27:00,480 And to her that was like a profoundly sad reaction that absolutely nobody was 373 00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:04,160 addressing. And again this gets to our point about how we are incapable and 374 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,400 we can't even see. We're so blind to the things that are right in 375 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,119 front of our faces. And the RFK Junior ad, which I thought was 376 00:27:11,559 --> 00:27:15,480 just excellent and from a political standpoint, not even talking about a moral standpoint, 377 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:25,519 but politically tapping into that nostalgia and the American fashionability, iconic imagery of 378 00:27:25,559 --> 00:27:27,960 the Kennedy family. I think it's really powerful. But I also think he's 379 00:27:29,039 --> 00:27:33,720 one of the few people that on the left that is not blind to write 380 00:27:33,799 --> 00:27:36,240 what's right in front of his face. And if you can do that, 381 00:27:36,279 --> 00:27:40,720 you know, Maria doesn't have the Kennedy name and the cloud that comes with 382 00:27:40,759 --> 00:27:48,039 that to something disagreeing, But she doesn't have that one guy's like, hey, 383 00:27:48,079 --> 00:27:49,640 the medical establisher's lying to us. You know, other person's like, 384 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,720 there's healing power in crystals, and I'm at the first one, but I'm 385 00:27:53,759 --> 00:27:57,400 not yet at the second one yet. But I mean the post of the 386 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:02,079 medical establishment is link was, which is so you know, he might. 387 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,519 I actually think some of his stuff is pretty out there on the medical establishment. 388 00:28:06,559 --> 00:28:10,039 But yeah, a little bit, a little bit. But all that 389 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:17,359 is to say, when you package a resonant or let's say, a cocktail 390 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:22,799 of resonant observations about the world around us that nobody else is saying with that 391 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,480 sort of brand is extremely powerful. So that's a four day work week. 392 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:32,480 And I think R K Junior is going to really uh hurt Biden these Trumps. 393 00:28:32,759 --> 00:28:36,240 I think he hears Biden more than he hears Trump. That's another hot 394 00:28:36,279 --> 00:28:41,000 take. I don't think so. Yeah, I think when Trump, if 395 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,720 I was Trump booking at Arizona, which is like filled with people who think 396 00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:52,160 the crystals can heal, you disagree because Arizona, the Arizona populism is not 397 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,480 going to be favorable to r F. K. Junior's big government populism. 398 00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:59,559 And I think the more of a threat our FK Junior becomes electorally to both 399 00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:03,279 Biden Trump. Trump is going to have a very powerful argument to make against 400 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,759 R. F. K. Junior about how he is basically a statist on 401 00:29:06,839 --> 00:29:10,440 so many of these questions and that this one's saying, this is my hot 402 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,440 take, four day work week, and Trump is going to have some really 403 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:18,200 potent lines of attack against O R F K Junior that will hurt Biden a 404 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:22,440 status who will destroy the medical establishment. Well, that's the contradiction here, 405 00:29:22,519 --> 00:29:25,880 that's a contradiction. I might go volunteer. You're going to be that that 406 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,440 does sound like you? That does Massachusetts cut Order sixty six? And what's 407 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:37,359 that? It means kill the Jedi the Star Wars triop. My wife is 408 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,680 making me watch the prequels to show our kid, and I haven't watched them 409 00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:44,759 in a long time. You probably hate them. Yeah. I watched the 410 00:29:44,759 --> 00:29:48,279 first run twenty five years ago, Pantos twelve when it came out in theaters. 411 00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:51,279 And this was at a stage in my life when I was getting like 412 00:29:51,359 --> 00:29:53,039 kind of like teased a lot in the bus, like reading Star Wars books, 413 00:29:53,039 --> 00:29:56,599 and it turned out all the bullies were right, so it was the 414 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:57,920 super lame. Yeah, because I watched that movie. He was like Wow, 415 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,799 this is awful. And I didn't even go to see the next two 416 00:30:02,799 --> 00:30:04,680 in the theaters. It just broke. It snapped me from a kid who 417 00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:07,559 like had Star Wars T shirts and Star Wars books and Star Wars action figures 418 00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:14,519 to a normal kid. So this is actually a fun piece of trivia about 419 00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:19,000 me. And I don't like Star Wars at all anymore perfectly, I still 420 00:30:19,079 --> 00:30:22,519 I respect people who love Star Wars. I think there's you know, good 421 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,160 arguments in favor of Star Wars. I just don't watch a lot of Star 422 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,359 Wars. Hasn't had ready good movies for a while. Yeah, Road One, 423 00:30:29,559 --> 00:30:33,720 great solo sleeper. My boyfriend loves to walk around in a Han Solo 424 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,839 T shirt in the summer. Well, men shouldn't wear T shirts. They're 425 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,000 at the beach. You yeah, you're in favor of Callers. But the 426 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:49,599 trivia is I won. I opened it back of Doritos in the year two 427 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,119 thousand or two thousand and one, whenever Phantom Menace came out, and I 428 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,480 won eight No, No No twenty five years ago. Well whatever, I 429 00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:02,839 won the Phantom Menace, like data, sweet Mistay. I was on my 430 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:08,359 front porch and I opened a back I got like this like huge package of 431 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:14,440 Phantom Menace things like a backpack and all kinds of other so I don't know, 432 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,839 put it in a time capsule to sell it to losers in twenty four 433 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,920 I actually don't know where it is, but yes, I wanted to Reado's 434 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:25,480 Phantom Menace sweepstake when I was like seven years old. Oh, I know 435 00:31:25,519 --> 00:31:27,599 we have to go, but I'll conclude with this. I said something on 436 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:33,839 Twitter about the twenty fifth anniversary of Star Wars and like that wasn't a mean 437 00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:37,680 person who responded like did the math, Like you're thirty seven, that's you're 438 00:31:37,759 --> 00:31:45,640 like in your fifties. No, that's pretty pathetic, you know. On 439 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,680 a final note, this is a really weird thought. But you're gonna hate 440 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:56,799 this. You're really gonna hate this. Taylor Swift makes a lot of people 441 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,559 very happy. And I have come to I've had such a roller coaster, 442 00:32:02,039 --> 00:32:07,640 had one of those in cell knee jerk reactions to seeing like a hot chick 443 00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:09,519 marrying a Super Bowl guy. Did okay, so this is this was gonna 444 00:32:09,519 --> 00:32:16,920 say, like sounds good. So as someone who's like person who's roughly her 445 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:22,640 age from the middle of the country, which she she's like thirty two something 446 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:27,039 like that, so she might be a little than that now, but anyway 447 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,160 kind of grew up with her. Like on a similar timeline, loved Taylor 448 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:36,039 Schwetbom. She first came out, she felt like the perfect American success story. 449 00:32:36,119 --> 00:32:38,799 And then in some very sad ways she continued that that arc of being 450 00:32:38,839 --> 00:32:44,680 a perfect American success story of moving to a city and becoming a brain dead 451 00:32:44,759 --> 00:32:49,880 sort of millennial liberal. What that's the problem is that, like she's obviously 452 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,880 a very smart person, but so many smart especially millennial women who moved to 453 00:32:54,039 --> 00:32:59,519 the big city. I think that the intellectual are brain Washington to think of 454 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:05,279 the intellectual thing to do is to become a conformist like millennial girl boss, 455 00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:08,400 and that's she had that era. But she makes a lot of people happy. 456 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:13,480 Like her concerts just were massively successful really the course of the summer, 457 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,799 for no political reasons, but just because people thought the experience was fun and 458 00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:19,200 they liked the music, and they weren't even thinking about politics when they were 459 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,680 there for the most part. And now she had that wonderful moment after the 460 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,079 super Bowl with Travis Kelcey and I was rooting against the Chiefs the whole time, 461 00:33:25,079 --> 00:33:30,359 because I've been so annoyed, like many people with the NFL announcers obsessions 462 00:33:30,359 --> 00:33:32,599 with Taylor Swift and it gets annoying. But I don't know, I'm just 463 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:37,559 kind of shocked to see such a big cultural moment that's not gay. That's 464 00:33:37,559 --> 00:33:40,200 what I was going to say, Well, what do you mean by that? 465 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,480 I mean the basically all the things that are being forced on us in 466 00:33:44,519 --> 00:33:46,680 all these different field good stories these days, Like you turn on TV, 467 00:33:46,799 --> 00:33:52,680 it's like the best croissant made in France by this Nigerian guy, or like 468 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,079 the number one romance and like New Year's Eve kiss is like two dudes, 469 00:33:55,240 --> 00:34:01,240 you mean it's an LGBT identity policy all just weird, weird identity politics and 470 00:34:01,559 --> 00:34:07,119 like tax on kind of normal traditional things. And that's that's where I see 471 00:34:07,159 --> 00:34:14,519 everywhere, which she mary the pop stars like yeah, that's like nineteen ninety 472 00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:19,840 eight, which she has. She's like been an engine of that like identity 473 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,039 politics, obsession. Fact, I have had no concept of what Tailor Swift 474 00:34:23,039 --> 00:34:25,199 thinks about anything. You should go read my piece about her. You need 475 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:30,519 to calm down. Music videos one of the highest traffic pieces that I've written. 476 00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:32,000 I had no idea that people were gonna it was people are gonna respond 477 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,159 to it, but I think it They didn't like it, No, they 478 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:38,880 did like it, but well, at least it resonated with a good drink 479 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,880 of peel. A lot of people hated it, obviously, But anyway, 480 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:45,480 all I'm saying is I was also thinking about how that Christmas movie, The 481 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,559 Holdovers. There was a great Most McCarthy Christmas movie. There was a great 482 00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:52,519 Eddie Murphy Christmas movie. All of this stuff came out. The Super Bowl 483 00:34:52,519 --> 00:34:58,000 ads weren't super woke. If we need to reassure listeners and to end on 484 00:34:58,199 --> 00:35:05,400 a dose of optimism, it does feel like cultural normacy exists in levels. 485 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,199 It wasn't just a few years ago. Nature might be healing, might be 486 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:13,159 and we don't know because the last chapter hasn't been written. It's just scabbing. 487 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,000 All were made. Yeah, it might be. There's no like. 488 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,679 All the advances are made. So they don't need to They don't need to 489 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,000 force us indoctrination. They don't need to repeat over and over again. Men 490 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:29,079 are women, women are men like they used to because SWIFTI is just repeat 491 00:35:29,119 --> 00:35:34,519 it for them. Well, let's you ruined, you stamp, you stomped 492 00:35:34,519 --> 00:35:40,400 all over my moment, your brief moment of OPTIMISMY wake up. Just trying 493 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:46,599 to leave everyone with a gift is just like stopped on it and through the 494 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:52,159 fire. It was a good super Bowl, its TV all right. Well. 495 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,880 Christopher Bedford, Senior Fellow over at the Common Sense Society, thanks for 496 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,679 joining us. Glad to be here. You've been listening to another edition of 497 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,239 the Federalist Radio Hour and Magicians Gape will be back soon with more. Until 498 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:10,440 then, be the lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray.